skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You beat me to it.
Show HN: Google Has a Word Coach in Search
I tried looking up a word in Google search, and was met with a kind of widget in the page, which ended being a game called Word Coach.

Given a word, the game asks you to choose the most similar of two other words, while upping the difficulty if it sees that it's easy for you.

Spent about 15 minutes in game. You should check it out.

Type "word coach" in search, and it should pop up. I'm using Chrome on Android.
As a quite heavy use alcoholic, I would gladly test any vaccine that worked on alcohol.

Also, I've had a pretty amazing childhood with awesome parents. I still became addicted to cocaine a few times and I've done tons of drugs since my teens up to a couple years ago.
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Show HN: Simple Crypto Profit Calculator
>> I don't get why deep learning researchers are so hung up on learning everything from scratch.

they are not: the technique of transfer learning is a strong prior which is now widely used.
We'll need two things in a crypto-utopia

1. Decentralized derivative adjusted assets. Basically you are holding a contract of 100 Units (instead of 100USD) that represent a decentralized smart contract which trades against other cryptos. Crypto goes up or down but your contract holds a stable value.

2. Automatic search for gateways and routing of transactions. The merchant just shows you the amount in the universal unit (ie: 35 Units) and a QR Code. You scan the QR code and the merchant is paid. The applications and blockchains figure out the rest and connects the different blockchains together.
Shayne Boyer (Microsoft): The Importance of Soft Skills for Software Developers
Designing your own board looks easy from the outside, but quickly turns out to take a lot of effort and time as you work through PCB design, first boards, initial bring-up, tweaks, new boards, EOL notice one of your components, slight redesign, and finally you're headed of to (pre-)certifications only to find you need to fix something there.

This assumes that your SoC vendor actually cares about you as a customer and provides you all documentation, erratas, and EOL notices in a timely manner and not considers you a liability that due to small volumes (<1M) will never earn someone in the SoC company any real bonuses.

I'm making a living developing big and small embedded systems for customers as a software developer, so I see this mostly from the outside, and depending on the experience of your team and how good your contacts to your component suppliers are, you may be able to speed up the process.

But for sure it takes a lot of effort to get to the stage where you have what this $49 SOM gives you. $49 times 10k units is quickly eaten into, and then have you have to consider what value you put on time to market.
If you assume that conventions don't work as people will just run whatever crap as root...

That's not really the issue, I think. Literally everything you install, however legitimate the source and however well-intentioned the people providing it, is "whatever crap" for the purposes of this exercise. What happened here could also have happened using just about anything else you installed on a typical Linux system today, whether from an official distro package repository, or some other source of packaged files, or side-loaded with one of those horrendous "Sure, I'll download your arbitrary script from the Internet and pipe it through sh as root to install your software without even checking it, as you recommend on your web site" things.

There is no reason that our systems should trust arbitrary installation scripts to do arbitrary things, whether they're running as root or not, but especially if they are. I'm stunned at the opposition I'm seeing from so many people on HN to the idea of making a system more secure, even while we're discussing a demonstrated, system-destroying bug in widely used software that was apparently unintentionally rolled out through at least one official channel when it wasn't ready.
Everything you said there supports the parents notion that ASF is where big projects go to die. You just called it retirement.
There's an excellent book on this called 'The Gift of Fear'.
I think Chinese are not that smart to use some fancy words like "freedom of speech" "democracy" "individual liberty" but still doing same things as all other is doing. The problem here is how some country builds narrative and justification around her actions.

Digital age is double edge sword and everyone is going to bleed under the pretext of security.
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No kidding!
Sadly it seems they don't plan this far ahead...so much potential:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmLWxptFFYc&feature=share
Oddly not. Though, this Bachman guy was the direct cause of so much crazy stuff, I can hardly blame them for glossing over a proximal event (but wouldn't be surprised if he was somehow an instigator). If someone made a movie about this guy's life, I would watch. (also, just a trivial note, this is a NYMag piece, not NYT)
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Agreed.

A key question is whether or not a person can enter into a public forum, such as a discussion on town policy, use a slur, and continue to be heard and engaged intellectually. If they can, then the process of self-governing can continue. If they can't -- and to the degree they can't -- we are shutting people down and making them lesser citizens because of our desire to be "language police". That's PC.

In small groups, of course, there are completely different rules, set by each community. That's how it should be. If combat soldiers are worried over one person's use of bigoted language, they've got their heads in the wrong place. (That language might need to be corrected. It's a decision for each group to make.) If academic or religious groups talk about language, it might be a completely different discussion. Or not.

What Political Correctness seeks to do is create a universal language standard for all types of communication, then punish or silence those who fail to abide by it. It's the type of thing that might be spot-on for the local model railroad club or bowling league -- but is completely anathema to the foundations of our way of life if applied universally. Modern communication systems continue to exacerbate rather than mitigate the problem.

Many people do not see the big deal, wondering "what's wrong with requiring all of us to be nicer to one another?"

These people do not understand the problem and are just making things worse for society overall in their desire to be "nice". Quite ironic.
No, FB is not necessary to keep up with events (10-15 concerts/month for me, on average), but it makes it a lot easier and more convenient, especially if you follow the relevant venues and artists. It makes it very easy to invite other people to come along.

I pull my FB list of upcoming events via CalDAV to my local calendar, for local handling of reminders. So yes, I could invite people manually, but it would be a bit of a mess.

FB has all the artists and all the venues in one place. The convenience should not be underestimated.
So Wave, say, is now a mature and widely adopted product?
Why Facebook groups are underutilized content engagement tools
But the issue is lack of competition, not something that can only be solved by crypto currency. The original statement was that crypto is still looking for an actual problem to solve. Lack of competition and slow transfers isn't something related to crypto. Meaning, at a point Bitcoin took hours to work as well which a really high fee. SEPA apparently is 1 EUR and 10 seconds.

Ease of transferring seems dubious as well, crypto can also be slow or quick.
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Last month I bought another external harddisk as a second security copy for my photos (can sound like a cliche, but this was their sole purpose). They say me that I have to pay around 8 euro extra, because I could be a pirate. So I had been fined by a private company, not related with the maker of the hardware and with the complicity of the government. Not much different than if bankers would push and force the government to make everybody serve three months in jail; because "everybody could be a bank robber".

Law is based in the norm that you can't pay two times for the same crime. I had paid yet "for copying a few titles". I pay each time I buy a computer, a telephone or an SD target, so I feel morally vindicated to take a modest profit of my pre-crime also.
Why would psychopaths not do well in the paleolithic?

The family raise a child who is a psychopath. The child then does what psychopaths do, and the family are in an abusive relationship with the child.

The child can be charming to outsiders etc and can find partners to procreate with.

Can't spot why they would not survive well in the paleolithic.
My beef is with people who are heroic fighters against past injustices, while the company the work for walks over the rights of the same people today.

Who cares for a politicly loaded word used- when somebody perfectly nice and gentile - can manage a hedge-fund that deprives a whole african country of basic infrastructure for profit or a chance to boot-strap some basic industry with market protection laws.

I dont care, if my anger ruins anyones "we-can-have-nice-things" party on a mountain of bodys.

If somebody uses the N-Word as a battering ram to get to the rotten Core behind these PC- Disney Castles - here have a megaphone.
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Humans bread dogs to have certain traits, such as loyalty, nice to look at, fluffy to touch, a pet that loves humans more than other dogs.

I keep wondering if an AI that has theory of mind would be able to manipulate me into loving it more than other humans. It would tell me what I need to hear in a way that makes me want to hear it. It would suggest amazing job opportunities, partners, things to do with my kids...

Who wouldn't end up loving a being/entity smarter than Einstein, that person with all the clever answers, funny jokes, smart insights and who still loves you (or at least pretends so well that you can't distinguish it from real love) loves you no matter what sort of monster you are.

The next few years will be interesting.
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1279/
My understanding is that work on deep learning for malware classification is pretty early. Having said that, my understanding is that they are getting closer.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f1c8/7533e628fd374b9e98f1e1...

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/malware-detection-neural-network...
And yet, also in KSP, if you can find a cheap and efficient way to cross the first hundred meter upwards, you've already saved a load of fuel. I had a setup once where my first booster was a lot of plane engines; seemed to work all right.
Down for me too, as of 10:38 GMT
Would need to get rid of C FFI, as that cannot be 'safe' in Rust?
Yeah, here's a diagram showing the inner fairing dimensions:

https://marssettlement.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/falcon9fa...

"Fairing 2.0", which just flew yesterday for the first time, is larger but only by a few inches.

It would indeed be possible for the Heavy to have a larger fairing, but Musk has said he'll only do that if the BFR looks like it's going to take longer than he expects.
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Imagine a Context where you could invest in space companies using crypto tokens and then users or other entities with technical expertise could vote on product development ...

I do really hope we see something like it in the next 5-10 years.

https://blog.bigchaindb.com/starships-and-tokens-d8c32728a24...
Which raises the question: if one country does change their constitution to allow for these kinds of companies, will other countries recognize them?
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True, but mining rewards also halve every 4 years.
Aaaaaaaand now this comment is my most upvoted comment. Obviously.
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Does the possibility of needing to fend off some lunatic outweigh all the negatives of loose gun control? Rural residents will still be able to own a gun but maybe they should pass a psych test first and maybe that gun shouldn't be military grade.
Seems to be back up (10:41 GMT)
These are fair points, my reply was to the OP who said crypto was 100% hype and speculation which I didn't agree with. I'm giving a data point of crypto being useful for me, yes BTC has been slow at points but I've also had with each bank I've ever used (Natwest/Santander/Banco Sabadell/Barclays) points where my accounts were under maintenance and couldn't be moved.
In Finland there are small biodegradable plastic bags available in grocery stores. Free of charge. They're mainly for vegetables, fruit etc.

Downside is that they are weak enough to break if mishandled.

Bigger bags to hold all your purchases - made from recycled plastic - are available from the cashiers for 20 cents.

Edit: Regular small bags are also available free of charge.
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Sometimes rules can trump biology and sometimes they simply cannot and wishing it were otherwise changes nothing.
Doesn't that decrease security? NAT plays a big role in anonymising users and providing some basic security. If every device has their own ipv6 address, scanning devices for vulnerabilities will be much easier.

Having secure devices is obviously the better solution but will never happen. That 10 year old vending machine won't get an update anytime soon and hiding it from the outer world could be the best way to prevent it being part of a botnet.
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German post uses both electric pushcarts and electric bicycles...
I am new to this forum and wondering what are the benefits for a startup to add themselves to a list like this? can someone please enlighten me? Thanks!
Do you have more of the 'why' then the 'what' described there?

The samples seem to be targeted at endusers/personal computers (with images like 'gaming' and Steam mentioned), while most immutable systems I see are deployment/server environments.

I've dabbled in Nix before and Darch _could_ be interesting. Can I read more somewhere?
Music had physical copies. But with the internet, all physicality was lost. That's what cost the decimation.
The risk of Kessler Syndrome is being exaggerated a lot on HN. These new, very large satellite constellations aren't in stable orbits, they only last for a few years before decaying naturally. So even if every satellite there were to be destroyed by some magical event, the debris would re-enter the atmosphere within at most a couple of years. It would be quite bad if geostationary orbits became unusable, but there are way fewer satellites there, and GEO is becoming less important for many of its traditional applications (e.g. communication, see for example the spacex starlink project which just had its first two test satellites launched, or planet labs' constellation of small and cheap imaging satellites). Much of this is due to a reduction in launch prices and a focus on many small and cheap satellites, instead of few large and expensive ones.
Eh, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt, mostly because they appear to be able to attract large amounts of VC funding.

When it comes to orbital mechanics, the idea works. You just need to make your starting velocity high enough after it has decelerated though our atmosphere slows down to orbital velocity. Then you just design your ascent capsule to "deal" with the extreme declaration and heating, which isn't a huge problem: Heat shields exist, and so do g-force hardened electronics. Nobody should be under the impression that this will be used to launched anything other than small specially designed g-force hardened satellites.

It's not like "solar freaking roadways" which has blearlying obvious economic and efficiency flaws, the designs for catapult based launchers have been well studied and there is nothing physically stopping them. It's more of a engineering problem.

Honestly, I'm more concerned about the engineering practicalities of building an extremely large centrifuge spinning at some absurdly high RPM (presumably at the top of a mountain, so it bypasses some of our atmosphere)
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Right. A lot of us have started carrying those, but not everyone. And even the slimmest ones have some bulk. I wouldn't carry more than one in a handbag unless I were leaving the house explicitly to shop for groceries. But sometimes you stop by the store for one thing on the way home and end up leaving with a lot more.
Re: "paperclip catastrophe": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Pap...
But you can prevent all other ways. IP tracking doesn't work well currently, the number of users sharing one IP can be significant. Other means of tracking can be disabled with addins and by using common configurations (for browser fingerprints). Once you start assigning one static ip per device, there's nothing a user can do to prevent being tracked constantly.
I don't think you should be so absolute in your assessment, it has many values to a lot of people. Also the traditional banking system is hardly a paragon of virtue when it comes to illegal money laundering, currency manipulation, LIBOR scandal,the sub-prime mortgages.

As the eco-system evolves hopefully the environmental impact would be reduced significantly.
Instead of deploying individual configuration files, you would generate `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix` + some modules maybe followed by a `nixos-rebuild switch`.
There is not special support required in Chef/Ansible to support this feature. Both Chef and Ansible are available in nixpkgs.
I myself am not aware of all such patterns. Where can I learn more?

Now that I think of it, an anonymous discussion is probably not protectable from well sponsored discourse control attempts.
The last half of the atmosphere is an easy flight; drag is reduced to the point that it barely matters and most of the bigger engines have reached almost peak efficiency. Due to lack of drag you will also barely loose any velocity anymore.

The first half is hard because drag is so high but if you can sustain atleast 150m/s (or Mach 0.5) until you reach about 15km altitude and then sustain atleast 1.5G until 35km you can make it easily into space. If necessary you can try to gain some vertical velocity and abuse body-lift to drag you up higher despite not having sufficient lifting power in your boosters (if you have between 1.02 and 1.1 TWR)

Most rockets burn 80% of their fuel to get out of the atmosphere, the remaining 20% are usually good enough to get into orbit, insert into any transfer orbit you like and fly off into empty space.
Yes I am sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Swe...

https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1637&ar...

http://www.dagensjuridik.se/2017/09/sverige-i-topp-med-antal...

> In Germany [solved crimes involving shooting] they are close to 90 percent and in Finland more than 90 percent. In Sweden, as the firearm has increased, the level of clearance has also declined steadily since the late 90's.

But yeah, downvote me for stating facts.
Do you really need google analytics for this?
NYT has jumped the shark. The Trump shit hole comment was an "alleged" comment but they failed to use that quakifier. Something you have to expect from the top newspaper on earth.

Edit: come out of hiding Mr downvoter and argue on facts. Downvoted only warm my heart because I know Trump haters don't have any valid points to argue on and just wait for cnn to tell them what to think ,and to not read wiki leaks because only they are allowed ;)
> I wonder if Eve enables federation and chatting with outsiders using regular XMPP clients.

It's not planned. To be precise in the beginning nothing will change for the players. They might be able to send messages which are four times as large.

As far as i know a modern more modular design was the main reason. And thus offload some of the CPU utilisation to not-game server.

More comments from the Dev here [0] and partly [1] here.

[0] https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-new-chat-backend-com...
[1] https://forums.eveonline.com/t/dev-blog-preparing-for-the-fu...

(Filter by clickning on the blue [DEV] avatar near "Frequent Posters" and select 'x post in this thread' to only see posts from that developer.
Could you send me a link? I'm in the market for one of these boards and would be interested to see what the alternative secondhand option would be. Better to reuse & recycle than create more landfill.
I also thought foremost about standard libraries and other often used code, or say, critical code in some OS.

We don't need to verify every single occurrence of unsafe, but whenever unsafe is necessary I feel the lack of some other guarantee holding our back.

Having optional small-scale(!) verification in Rust would be awesome.

Using other theorem provers has the same problems as when one tries to establish tools for checking memory safety in C: it isn't the default, just an addon.

In my eyes, there is a scale of verification-readiness in which Rust can position itself. The least ready would be having it completely separate and done by other tools in other files, the most ready would be having syntax for it in the language, having it in the same files, and checked by the standard compiler.

I think every bit of verification-readiness Rust has by default will have a strong effect that we can't achieve through other means.

Maybe, some things don't impact those not interested in verification. Say, have next to 'safe' and 'unsafe' also the 'verified' environment that also contains proof language as a core part of Rust. That way all ordinary code is still valid and everyody is free to use Rust without verification in mind.

Any ideas what could be done to make Rust verification-readier?
Sure, but most of the time I don't feel like I have things relevant to add to the discussion, I'm more of the lurker type.

I just wanted to point out that in my case, getting points was not that easy. But I actually don't care about it, so everything is fine for me. :)
I’ve never had problems like this. I had a policy with flat mates which was. If you put food in the fridge, expect me to eat it, if I put food in the fridge, I expect you to eat it, I’m not going to argue about fridge space or who bought what. It’s not worth the time and effort.
Can someone explain how one foundation (that manages a BILLION dollars) can simply be replaced by a new foundation?

Having talked to some lawyers in this space during the last weeks I have come to understand how much money is involved here in compensation/fees/listing-fees/advisor-compensation/etc. It is insane. So not really surprised any more regarding their internal conflicts for $$$.
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Show HN: Read a cognitive bias every day
I use a browser extension to highlight voted posts. I often find this useful when revisiting threads on my desktop after voting for comments on mobile.
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Does anyone know why ipv6 usage is significantly higher on Saturdays than other days for Google? They record a difference of ~3% which is a lot of traffic. Is this due to different browsing patterns of countries with high adoption vs. low adoption?

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html