skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That man was my hero. If I achieve a fraction of what he accomplished in his life, I will be incredibly proud.

Against all odds, he lived a full and amazing life. It somehow feels even more painful to lose a man who cheated death. It just gives you that feeling that they can somehow live forever, until the moment when the illusion is shattered.

And underneath it all is that unshakable feeling. Memento mori. Slowly my childhood heroes will drift away until there's none left. Then it will be my turn to drift away.

I miss him already. The world is always going to be a little sadder without him. Though, maybe I can still make it to his party.

A RECEPTION FOR TIME TRAVELLERS
Hosted by
PROFESSOR STEPHEN HAWKING
To be held in the past, at
THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Gonville & Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge
Location: 52˚ 12' 21" N, 0˚ 7' 4.7" E
12:00 UT 28 JUNE 2009
NO RSVP REQUIRED
England doesn't have Pi day (assuming he died on the 14th with isn't clear yet)
Same here. This just kinda standardizes the process in a way that makes edits super clear...
You don't need system insight to improve docs. On one end of the spectrum, docs just need people to improve the language like typos, grammar, and sentence flow.

Also, docs map out the black box but end-users use the black box. They are in a position to find disparities between what the docs say and what the black box does. Like noticing the example response doesn't match the actual response.

Or that if you provide a stream to the API, you must provide a content length, yet this relationship is only marked as optional in the docs.

Maybe an engineer would have to double-check the code to verify the behavior, and that's great.
To your first issue, there are three ways I can think of that music recommendations are usually built:
- collaborative filtering: i.e. People who listened to x tend to listen to y, so if you like x we will recommend y
- metadata: x and y share multiple genre tags, or have contributed to releases in common, or release music in the same time period, etc
- audio data: x and y have similar tempo, prominent instrument timbres, absence or presence of vocals, time signature, major or minor-ness, key

However, I've never heard of lyrics being used as data or metadata for determining similarity of tracks.

For one thing, it's not necessarily a common use case. I did college radio and we would do themed shows where all the songs are about food, for example, but 99% of the time of I listen to a song that happens to mention ice cream, I don't want/need the next song to mention ice cream.

On top of that, it's not obvious what type of lyrical similarity is desired. Do you want to match lyrical sentiment? (Happy songs with happy songs, whether they're about girls or cars or cooking) Or theme (relationship songs, positive or negative) or words in common or phrases in common.

It's definitely an interesting idea that I'd love to see toyed with, but I'm not surprised that its not, given how much effort it might be for an unclear and possibly uncommonly desires result. Not to mention that Spotify usually doesn't have a canonical source for lyrics of a given track anyway.
> It's a new stand-alone HTTP server.

Are you going to publish more info about that HTTP server? Like the technology used to write it.
Reading that headline it took me a moment. His books shaped my interest in science, and were wonderful to read and enjoy, even to push on family members. A monumentally inspiring person, not just for his scientific accomplishments, but also for how incredibly he handled the hand he was dealt.

He will be missed, dearly.
I think in the back of my mind I always thought of Hawking as being immortal. He lived for over 50 years with a debilitating terminal illness, and yet his accomplishments so vastly exceeded the capabilities of his body. It’s hard to believe he was capable of dying.
Hi Pornel, thanks a lot for the amazing tool.

If you are doing the animation from scratch, which would be the preferred workflow for smallest size with as few artifacts as possible?

Photoshop Save for Web 256? Which dithering algorithm works best with giflossy?

Would exporting every frame as an individual GIF with its own pallet help?

Generating an MP4 first then run it through some other quantizer?

Thanks
So why does Tokyo’s system work so much better? They’re humans too, but apparently their transit system works much better.
The purpose matters. Google isn't collecting data to make it easier for an attached organization to kill people or disrupt other societies in calculated ways.

Also important are the fact that Google's collection processes depend on some kind of consent and aren't collected by the state monopoly on force. The state is considered by many to be reneging on its 4th amendment due process protections by engaging in a domestic and worldwide dragnet of breathtaking proportions.
Did you forget that any technology publicly known and available is about 20 years old? Im sure they are systems that can recognize image faster and more accurate than humans but its sort of a “product” you wont find by googling.
Hawking holes!
Because that labor isn't for Jimmy Wales, it's to further the education of the entire world (Wikipedia is free).

I think that's a much better goal than helping Amazon make money.
Extensive discussion at top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582136
You may not like Apple and some of their practices are inherently abhorrent but it is no where in the same league as MS of the 90s.

Today, if you want, you can instantly switch away from iOS to a plethora of options. Apple has the highest revenue and maybe the most influence in the industry but their numbers are paltry. Android has 80% share globally and 70% in US. When it came to MS, you didn't really have much of a choice.

Something akin to the MS anti trust case would be Google pushing Chrome exclusively on Android and shutting out all competitors.

And point two and three are trivial to argue.

2 - increased security is a great counter point. No publicly available apps could abuse private APIs to mine personal data

3 - No one's stopping you from using spotify. It's just not in the way you like.
>> Few have accomplished as much while overcoming so little

It's weird; I individually understood both achievements but never thought about their combination that seriously until it was worded like this. Very well put.
I went into the flat earth stuff absolutely ready to believe anything. I found some of the flat earthers to be surprisingly rational.

But at the end of the day, there are easy-to-observe phenomena (as I say, seasons and retrograde motion) which break their theory. And diving into the explanations of them drives the viewer much more directly into the insane and fringe elements of the group (you can confirm this yourself by searching "flat earth seasons" and comparing it to the results you get from searching simply "flat earth").

And while it's true that I already had a sense that the JFK murder was the result of a conspiracy, I wasn't certain when I started combing Youtube; I was prepared to accept evidence of any sort, pointing to any conclusion(s).

I remember finding "Rush to Judgment", a documentary-ish piece of media made just a year after the murder, and realizing how lucky I was to have a resource to find such a piece of media. Were my parents, who were just barely not yet born during this event, able to gain access to this media when they were my age? Of course not.

And then on the specifics:

I think that if there are similarly challenging facts to be found regarding the JFK assassination, on wikipedia or anywhere else, that I will be happy to accept them and change my mind. And I think that I'm fairly typical in this regard.

On the other hand, the lone-nut theory needs to overcome some basic facts that it can't explain, like the Sylvia Odio incident. And similarly, searching for explanations of this that fit into the lone-nut theory drives the viewer directly into the irrational and ad-hominem-driven portions of the available media.
This warrants the black bar.

He has changed everything for humanity time and again. We owe him the best future we can possibly make.
Tried out KSP and just couldn't get into it. I may be the only one but there was absolutely way too high a curve to jump right in and have some fun. I did over half their tutorials and could not improvise at all based on what I had learned. Not much fun when I have to go watch a YouTube video to figure out my next step in career mode.
Their advantage isn't that other people aren't allowed to make certain types of investments, though. It's simply that they have more money. Even if "accredited investor" weren't a thing, they'd still have access to better investment opportunities, because they can offer better terms. Compared to someone who has 1000x more money than you, all you can offer is the willingness to take on more risk — which is exactly what accredited investor rules are meant to protect people against.
Spotify doesn't have the geographical reach (across countries) that Apple Music has. That's a disadvantage for Spotify.
Wonderful news ! Looking forward to using the Wildcard SSLs.
Pre-prepared is exactly how most obituaries are written. Newspapers keep such pre-prepared obituaries of famous people on-hand so that they can publish them instantly if that person happens to die.

Any newspapers who don't do this will lose the all-important race for publication to newspapers that do.
The Futurama one had me laughing for weeks every time I thought about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nda7w487yU0
An inspiring role model in so many aspects, RIP to one of the greatest minds. I strongly believe that his perseverance through his circumstances is even more admirable than his research. It's so easy to become bitter and jaded when a shocking event like that occurs. At the best, you make peace and live as happy a life as you can...but to stand tall and rebuke Fate, defy all odds and even banish almost certain Death for decades through sheer willpower and passion for knowledge is something else. And to hold that tiny, bright flame against an unrelenting torrent for 55 years, always curious, always following his passion...the world lost one of the greats tonight.
This is an inherent risk of using streaming services. Nothing exclusive to spotify.
And in celebrating someone’s life, the specific details of their death aren’t so important anyways.
All things equal, I (US Citizen) prefer that our military be effective and efficient. It troubles me though that there is virtually no public discussion on the unprecedented geographic scope , and time length, of today’s employments. This whole thread is interesting, and I think it is worth considering: to what end is all this innovation being applied?

I have come to the conclusion that the professionalization of the services, coupled with the parasitic business model of the “defense industry,” has turned the US armed forces into a standing mercenary force.

Ultimately, the blame for this lies with the corrupt electoral system in the US, and the unwillingness of our political leadership to exert a modicum of common sense, and reduce the scale of US military involvements.

We can’t rely on institutions that many entities rely on for their livelihood/existence to put themselves out of business.

It would be nice to see the military engage in disruptive innovation that would discourage open ended military conflict. (And the endless meddling in other countries ghastly civil wars.)
If you haven't read it yet, give 'A Brief History of Time' a read. Even if you're not a big book reader, it's only about 250 pages. Great way to pay respects to this legendary man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time
>> he's also now freed from a body he was becoming increasingly locked in, with less and less ability to communicate over time.

Well, now he lost any kind of ability to communicate.
Threads are a leaky abstraction, so it makes sense to explore other solutions. To cite another low level detail from you list: I don't think Rust is less usable because there is no garbage collection.

But keep in mind asyncio has many issues of its own, which is why I'm happy that alternatives like http://trio.readthedocs.io/ are possible in Python.
He was a true inspiration and showed how much we can be defined by our thoughts, not just our physical presence
Microsoft do this and seems to make it a cooperative effort. They do have people working on it full time and would be within their rights to NOT accept contributions from the community. But they do, and those contributions are vetted by the full time staff.

As long as this is in the spirit of collaboration and not a "source code dump" that a lot of commercially-backed projects do to earn an "open source" moniker ... I'm fine with it.
And because obituaries are pre-prepared, they're sometimes mistakenly pre-published.
Being a bad fit for a startup
doesn’t mean it’s a bad personal decision. When startups want to stop being startups and start being seen as respected companies, you can bet they start hiring MBAs.

It makes sense for YC to try to filter out credential seekers, because they’re unlikely to have the right motivation. But if your goal is to have a wildly successful career, and MBA is probably a safer bet than a startup. Most startups - even well-funded YC startups - trundle out of the gate, fall over and die.
Have got a very bad feeling about this. Makes you wonder what really is "You" or "I". Just a collection of memories in your brain? Do people here approve of the idea of soul?
Most probably won't because there's no "scientific" proof for it yet.
I wonder how other carnivores would philosophize about their prey. And yes, humans obviously aren't obligate carnivores. But just as obviously, we aren't obligate herbivores either.
Off topic, but I would try Apple Music if Apple were to simplify and allow people to use (iTunes/App Store/Music) accounts from at least two different countries and switch between them or use them simultaneously (with billing and payment information from each of those). I wouldn't want to jump through hoops and difficult-to-understand processes to take advantage of pricing differences as well as app and content availability across regions. Content restrictions are not entirely under the control of Apple, but usage of its own accounts system is. In a globalized world, this is an area Apple could make things simpler (if it wanted to).
When I say it's an editing problem, I mean it's not something you can easily change as a consumer. On the other hand cutting out silences and speeding up slow speakers is something you can fix 'in post' using a generic podcast app.
Wonder if contemporary college/University professors accept Wikeaks as a valid source.
This new version issues wildcard certificates. Get one certificate. Use Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, Bolt, multissh, or GNU parallel to put it on multiple servers for that domain.

If you need lots of different domains, use one of the auto certificate tools.

If you can't use one of those yourself, consider hosting on a platform that can automatically do this for you for all your sites, like cPanel (disclaimer: I work for cPanel, Inc).

If your stuff is never publicly accessible because you're in a fully private network, just run your own CA and add it to the trust root of your clients.

If you need an SNI proxy, search for 'sniproxy' which does exist.

If you're so small that you can't afford an infrastructure person, a consultant, or a few hours to set such things up yourself, then maybe you should shorten the HN thread bemoaning doing it and use the time to learn how.
These do exist. They are used all the time for land-based oil rigs. Search for oilfield temporary roads.
No social responsibility, no responsibility to society.

Sure. Try selling me that one.
Is Stack Overflow Accessible in China?
That, and the way gpg is used for apt provides no confidentiality at all, just authenticity & integrity. Someone who can see the traffic will still know which packages you've downloaded.
He did so much. RIP Stephen. Thanks for what you shared with us.
Point well made.
Wikipedia is very persuasive.
In fact the wiki on Oswald basically makes you look like a fringe conspiracy theorist.
That’s why I said “Its the least meat eaters can do for themselves.”

True gratitude is not hollow lip service. It should influence behavior.

Sure, It makes no difference to the animal, but maybe it will cause someone to eat less of it or be more supportive of vegans/vegetarian efforts.
Before I Go: A Stanford neurosurgeon’s parting wisdom about life and time
The world will always remember him even after centuries
Pi Day
The world will miss you, Stephen.

I'm going to rewatch Hawking tonight (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395571/).
(Replying to myself because I can't edit my post anymore)

Edit: And it gets better! If you check the HTTP headers when requesting the whitepaper from their servers, it will tell you that the file was placed there (last-modified) at 13:22 GMT, so just 1 hour before Viceroy Research Group created their analysis - and probably ages before the actual news broke.

https://pastebin.com/gXVd9cff
Well, two-way communication, sure. But his words and ideas will continue to be communicated for a very long time.

He is one of the very rare human beings whose names will never be forgotten.
Page 4 of their comic has a pretty irritating typo. It’s “Wry” not “Rye”.
My child is on the spectrum, but I love him as he is and he is happy as he is. He is funny and quirky, my mother says I was similar as a child.

Plus, he just won his school prize for Year 9 EMITS (STEM) so not sure why I would want to mess with what might make him like that.
From that obituary, this line resonates:

Those who live in the shadow of death are often those who live most.
That is very true. I rarely commute during peak hours, and the trains are just as packed at these off-hours because the headway drops off like crazy after the peak time. That's just cost-cutting. The system can run with rush hour frequencies at 2 in the morning if someone is willing to pay for it. (Yes, at some point you have to do maintenance; for that a reduction of frequency is perfectly reasonable.)

There are also plenty of places on the system where longer trains could be run. A trains are 600ft long. C trains are run on the exact same tracks with 480ft trains. Nothing feels worse than boarding a C train that's packed because you know there's nothing stopping the MTA from running longer trains there. They claim they don't have the equipment for this, which may be true during rush hours, but it's a complete lie during the rest of the day. There are plenty of 600ft trains ready to go just sitting in the yard.
In my mind, a startup is a not a 'business' by any reasonable definition of that word. Steve Blank has the best and probably final take on this: "a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model." And so an MBA can probably only deliver negative value insofar as it calibrates you to operate on well-defined problems in fairly predictable, slow-moving environments with ample resources at your disposal.
Issues. Make their outdated docs known. I think that’s the main benefit.
You could still find new, fresh advice about using `mysql_query` as late as like 2013 on there. I don't think it's better to have that advice than none at all.

Expecting a "doc team" for an open-source language to keep on top of what fresh hells people are doing with forever-deprecated things seems like a very big ask.
This is why I dislike the phrase conspiracy theory at times. Having a theory about a conspiracy due to some sort of evidence, is of course perfectly valid.

The real "conspiracy theories" tend not only to be against evidence, but also aren't things real human organizations are capible of pulling off. I can tell you that if a UFO really landed at a US military base, it would be on 20 different Facebook pages within an hour, secrecy be damned. Let alone keeping the thing secret for decades.
> It's utterly beyond me how the largest tech company in the world can't sort basics of their their UI out, over periods of years.

It might be what the demographic they are target likes, which probably isn't audiophiles. "Yes, let's target 1% of the population instead of 50%."
You need demand and user retention. Just the former is a false sense of success. Many startups flameout without the latter at high frequency. I've witnessed 100s.
If they can bring your mind to life inside a computer, then you're essentially a simulation of yourself. In that case, how can you ever know that the person you're giving the password to is real? And that you haven't just been revived in a sandbox for the express purpose of getting your password, which they can then pass on themselves. Shades of Rick and Morty ...
Well, we can’t really eat raw meat without getting sick and I don’t think raw meat is appetizing to many people. We’re kind of in a class of our own.

Another relevant quote:

Plutarch: “There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare.”
It only took a few videos to figure out how to do things, for me. But I sure wouldn't recommend it without those few.
I, for one, will always remember him for his feature on the hit single "Satisfaction".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmzxxN0m3k
Hawking
I like how they use the proper term expansion, instead of pretty nonsensical DLC.
Then enslave the mind to do work, to pay the hosting bills.
As cto you should know every piece of your tech stack that you have built and how it works
Gaps in knowledge don’t imply gods in them, and especially really tight gaps imply nothing more than a gap in knowledge. The precise mechanism of GA isn’t certain, but it is known that disruption of hippocampal function is key, and no one is seriously suggesting thst it’s disconnection from “the soul” that does it. A theory of quantum gravity would be complementary to QM and GR, and that leaves no room for remote soul control either.

It’s just not scientific or rational to point at some things we don’t understand with the assumption that it must mean God did it. That’s mysticism and religion, not science, and if it uses the language of science, but not the substance it’s called pseudoscience.

If you want to postulate a soul within the rubric of QM/GR complementary theories, it’s very much on you to hypothesize and test. What field is carrying the signal? What machinery is receiving it? What’s sending it? Why is there no lag? Why is it all totally undetectable? Why are we trying to add a whole new set of assumptions on top of existing ones? Occam’s Razor really applies here, especially when it’s science vs. “devoutly to be wished.”

Just because we want reality to conform to ancient beliefs and present desires doesn’t make it so.
MailSlurper 1.13.0 released, now with persistent connections
One of the greatest men of our time. RIP Sir!
I think the cycle feeds into itself though: part of the reason planes and trains are so safe is because of the extensive root-cause analysis of crashes, which routinely result in suggestions for improvement that make the rest of travel safer. Remove the investigations and you'd end up with more plane and train crashes.

When a car crashes, we just scrape up the debris and move on, after usually assigning blame to one of the drivers who ends up with higher insurance premiums or a lawsuit, assuming they survived. There's little effort to learn from the crashes.
Reverence isn’t for the dead. It’s for the living. If it’s true, it should influence your decisions, as it continues to do for me.