skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always seen Youtube as much higher quality than facebook. More than being accessible to everybody regardless of being logged in or not, their players have always been top notch for me. I've always associated Facebook videos with low quality content that I see scrolling through a newsfeed, and FB video has always been noticeably buggier than Youtube.

The focus of Youtube is video whereas video is just another feature of FB. If I want to binge something in the background or watch AvE tear apart power tools (seriously, he's awesome) I go to Youtube. I've never gone to Facebook when I wanted to watch video content.
This is a false dichotomy. I already said he's brilliant. But that doesn't mean that he wasn't also very lucky.
Identity
How do I aquire identity documents for new identity?
> I don't know if you've ever ridden the subway

Many, many times.

> it's plausible that your cat scratched arm could come in contact with some infected person's sweaty arm as you try to make your way through a crowded subway car.

You've got to be kidding me.

Again, who has ever caught Ebola on a subway?
You Can Buy 4kg CFCs in Alibaba for RMB 30
> Ebola-Reston was airborne-transmissable to (Rhesus?) monkeys

Uh-oh. Better keep your Rhesus monkey out of Ebola zones.
Hal Finney.
Isn't that the turing test? I'm excited about the potential of passing it in my lifetime.
I am afraid they omitted "?" at

type Partial<T> = {
[K in keyof T]: T[K]
}

in their announce. It should be

type Partial<T> = {
[K in keyof T]?: T[K]
}

to make

interface Thing {
foo: string;
bar: number;
[baz]: boolean;
}

type PartialThing = Partial<Thing>;

equivalent to

interface PartialThing {
foo?: string;
bar?: number;
[baz]?: boolean;
}
For me, early morning is best before I've been pulled into meetings or chats for various topics. That's the best time to block off time to focus on hard problems for a while.

The book 'Deep Work' by Cal Newport has some good perspectives on this.
Exactly. I keep reminding people that other than Android, which was just a follow on to Apple's pioneering, they havn't really done anything truly innovative on their own COMPLETELY in house other than maybe Google Glass, which you could argue was a response to apple watch and the whole wearable craze (which sorta died out). They really should have stuck with Glass and not chickened out to pressure, hopefully it will be resurrected. All the AI stuff is a result of acquisitions of smaller companies like DeepMind. Waymo is a result of picking of the guys already doing DARPA self driving competitions, arguably one of their best moves but still not really an in house breakthrough. Nowadays, Google constantly plays the "me too" game in every realm. Alexa vs OK Google is a great example. All their X projects sound "feel goody" but ultimately lack luster. They abandon Boston Dynamics which I still think has great potential.
> Ebola may be made airborne locally as some body fluids may be aerosolized during rapid expulsion of air from the lungs.

Really? The CDC disagrees:

The virus spreads through direct contact (such as through broken skin or mucous membranes in the eyes, nose, or mouth) with ...

Who are you? What evidence do you have?
Also curiously sanpaku, not that that really means anything. JFK was sanpaku as well, so... meh.
Dear Securign, your site is a bit lean on details of your product.

Also you misspelled "Summary" and your css/layout is a bit awry.
> because they terrified of breaking something

Not really. More like they were terrified that the keyboard would shoot out sparks and fire, and throw them across the bridge of the Enterprise.
This particular one was probably downvoted because it's either naive or a weak joke to assume that Jobs knew or cared that it was a Watchmen reference.

A much better question would be "why was he offended by a fairly innocuous T-shirt." That's the sort of thing that might get you the side-eye from a particularly high-strung middle school teacher, but it's pretty funny to imagine someone like Jobs being so uptight.
How exactly are they stimulating it?
I didn’t have any idea what I was doing. When my cofounder arrived and looked at the code base... he looked like he was going to puke. Took him less than 5 minutes to decide that there wasn’t even a line worth keeping.
You don't get kicked out of academia for that... Well maybe if you're a student and you lose your funding. It's really embarrassing and I'm sure frustrating too. I've reviewed a couple of papers where they didn't do their literature review, there were lots of obvious (to people who read) prior work, and I've had to straight reject their papers. I feel bad for them but do your literature review folks!
The founder's dilemmas – What we miss when making negative invisible choices
Well, inappropriate precision just highlights the question of what the uncertainty is. If it's plus or minus $5, that's different than if it's plus or minus $0.50. That's assuming the analysis is otherwise valid.

Secondly, I don't see how "non gaap accounting" is relevant when the claim is that they are audited by an independent entity using standards which are not under their control.

Here is the link to the statement from the Post Office:
http://about.usps.com/news/statements/080117.htm

"By law our competitive package products, including those that we deliver for Amazon, must cover their costs. Our regulator, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), looks carefully at this question every year and has determined that they do."
> If the costs are the same, isn't employing people a better use of money than insurance?

You don't think insurance companies employ anyone?
I was kidding!!! But people do take literature review seriously (which on the balance is good)
Chrome to kill security indicators
Your incendiary remarks are unrelated to the article and are not welcome on HN.
I agree. The reason I didn't go into the detail you did was that I just had to draw a line on the length of the comment, for my sake and for the sake of the reader. I'm glad you added your comment.
The United States of Guns
He's not. The first time I pitched him, I was blown away by how quickly he understood our business. He thinks differently, but from what I've seen contrarian bets are a good way to succeed as a VC. He also doesn't care about looking a little kooky or cheesy... sort of refreshing vs the rest of the Bay.

Disclaimer - He passed years ago, but he's an investor in our latest venture.
Why is this question downvoted? People disagree with my view that the punishment is small in relation to the size of the scam?
SiC and GaN are being used for a fair number of parts these days for RF applications. It seems that the novel part of this paper is that the device worked up to 500C. The device worked for 3 hours with some degradation, likely due to Al electromigration from the metallization.

The acutal paper is here:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8345290/
I believe the civil case is settled but the criminal probe is ongoing.
Not the OP but I don't define "technical" as "being able to manage technical things".

It's absurd that anyone would.
Some video evidence: https://youtu.be/I7wwhsDJECw
Mirror Drop, Ray Traced Psychedelic 3D Puzzle Game
Can confirm. I don't have a google account or a facebook account. I watch videos on youtube and it functions perfectly. However facebook is totally unusable without an account.
If they can't do basic due diligence they shouldn't be in business anyways - every hn thread on gdpr.
Thanks! I hadn't even thought about it from the programmer's-model point of view! I was just thinking about what kinds of user-interface idioms would turn out to be usable — although in the end maybe the user model needs to be the programmer model, especially to support end-user programming.

I haven't tried Unity yet, although it sure looks like fun. So far I feel like 3-D user interfaces have been kind of a mess in terms of usability. Maybe you guys at Pantomime will come up with a solution.

I'd tried Hammer a few years back, and gave up and rolled my own gesture tracking because of kind of similar issues.

In terms of pinch-to-zoom as establishing constraints — have you seen Daniel Vogel's Pinch-to-Zoom Plus? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-hFyzdwoL8 He argues that there's actually a somewhat more usable mode of pinch-zooming which breaks the constraints, but not in the chintzy way you're correctly criticizing.

I'll try to respond in more detail after reading through and watching what you've linked!
The irony is blinding.
How can we contribute more sites to the list? I know of two more that were announced just tonight, via e-mail.

EDIT: D'oh, just noticed the "Fork me on GitHub" banner. Okay, then!
Go Ahead, Skip That Networking Event
yeah, that's true it's only counting bees in one image, which i thought was part 1 of any of these other things. can you post your approach / code to doing any of these things you mention? i'd love to see what you've done so far.
Unfortunately no, for the same reasons as there's no chain rule for integration (the very same reasons, in fact, as autodiff is built on the chain rule).
The unfortunate truism about the internet, and I think this applies particularly strongly on Reddit, is "People are d!cks on The Internet". I maintain a few hobby projects and get feedback occasionally -- the only time I've had my work utterly crapped on was on Reddit[0]. I had forgotten about it until reading this, and really -- it upset me for about 15 minutes (I didn't even reply to the thread which had the unfortunate side effect of me not being able to find it now, a few years later) -- but I was surprised at how irritated it made me.

I recall a post on rachelbythebay.com about "The One"[1] that made me chuckle. These crap-raining commentators are akin to political pundits/talk radio hosts -- they complain, yell, excoriate and offer nothing else. Here's the thing, you may hate the library, that library may have a massive community who you feel is now writing bad code because of that library, it may be the library equivalent of The Antichrist, but don't crap on the developer. Most of the time it was a case of "He/she had a problem, solved that problem and shared his/her work". If you hate it or think any one of those prior things, write something better, offer up a patch, or at a bare minimum, advocate for a better alternative and do so in a respectful (and, preferably, thankful) tone[2] -- or don't, because you don't like it and your contribution of 'foo is garbage' isn't going to move anybody away from the product. Being a dick to a developer, especially attacking them personally, only serves the narcissist who's self-worth is strengthened by knocking someone else down.

There's a certain kind of entitlement mentality required by a person to think that a developer who release some thing, for free, with code and (often quite good) documentation on a platform that makes it easy for you to collaborate and evolve that product to somehow land on the idea that this developer now owes you something as a result of that kindness. I used to roll my eyes when I'd run into a very public mailing-list "I-quit" message, but I understand how that happens. At some point you just say "Who the f* do you think you are?" and, more importantly, why am I continuing to give away my time/work/effort only to get grief?

[0] It was on a post I didn't author that got under 10 votes and 5 or so comments, one of which was aggressively negative.

[1] https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/

[2] "This 'foo' tool looks interesting -- I'd check it out but I'm really happy with how 'bar' solves the baz problem. I wonder, what is foo's approach for handling the painful zyzzx issue? My concern is that it may exacerbate that, or, minimally that it'll still be a problem that I have to solve in my code, as opposed to baz which abstracts that problem away for me. Am I misunderstanding that?" There's no need to stroke egos (or anything else); you can offer dissent, point out a concern, and not be a dick about it.
> I have occasionally seen some pretty cool stuff from FP folks in the latter direction, which, if brought to production quality, would allow FP people to absolutely slaughter naive C code.

I'd love to hear more stories about this! Any links? So far my own approach is to use Haskell as basically a glorified DSL for LLVM IR and bypass Haskell codegen altogether. From there either JIT it or AOT it into native code.
ucontext modifies the signal mask, requiring a syscall. That’s very expensive (as shown by the boost benchmark above), and usually unnecessary. “emulate” is a rather negative sounding way to describe running effective the same code as ucontext does (which also happens to typically be the same as sigsetjmp) - it’s not like ucontext has some privledged permissions. It’s “just” a context switch.
Interesting that Ragnarok Online is shutting down.

That's one site that I wouldn't regard as either "good riddance" or "grandstanding".

I wonder what went into their calculation that caused them to decide to shut down.
So where are the market forces that make USPS become more efficient and allow it to be competent?

Isn't it fundamental proposition of the Republican party - "Small government"

I am genuinely curious, who put a gun to USPS head and asked it to lose money on every package delivered?

They could have increased their prices. But that would mean losing business from Amazon, which, in a "small government" system go to more efficient and competitive players.
It might be helpful to clarify whether the casualties are resulting in the whole business closing or just closing of their eu operations.

(E.g. the linked article for ragnarok mentions that just eu access is being closed)
Hey, it's the founder of indiehackers.

When I first saw indiehackers, I was in love with it. The execution was fantastic. You did a great job.

Then it got bought, and changed. Now it's forum-first, interviews second, and half of them are sort of locked.

Why do you now have to sign up for a forum to view the older product interviews? It's super annoying, so I just stopped reading. It also seems detrimental to the people who gave interviews early, they wanted press, rather than being hidden behind a sign up thing.

Is there any interest in reverting from this pinterest-style login-wall, or is that just too costly?

If this sounds blunt, it's only because I'm disappointed that a site a loved became less fun to use.
Eh, that's always been a struggle as a crypto startup- BitPay had the opposite issue for years.

Consider reaching out, I'm not sure they've published the latest stuff
I disagree. If Windows were a lot better, the open source revolution might not have gained quite so much momentum. If IE was a lot better—or rather if they didn't let it stagnate—the very concept of installing alternative browsers might never have entered the mainstream zeitgeist.
Number of Guns per Capita by Country
I can totally see the sites that caused the GDPR to become a thing on the list. What an incredible job EU bureacrats, keep it up, it's not like the economy here doesn't need more rules.
> Bernard Brodie came up with Nuclear deterrence in 1946. The Soviets would have read his work or understood the implicatikns. There was a reason they raced to get the bomb.

Mutually Assured Destruction is not the same as Brodie's Nuclear Deterrence AFAIK (which admittedly isn't much). In 1946, neither side could come close to assuring destruction of the other; the Soviets didn't have any atomic bombs until 1949, the U.S. didn't have the H-bomb until 1954, and of course neither had ICBMs, The best production rocket was probably the V-2.
In my view, it's sad that kids don't use computational tools such as CAS or Jupyter in school. Ironically, they're the ones who are supposed to be "digital natives," but their math tools are in the stone age compared with what I get to use in the real world. Perhaps if kids were allowed to ease their way into computation, "coding" wouldn't be a great big fearful hurdle when they get older.

The TI graphing calculators exist solely to support the testing regime, which serves no pedagogic purpose.

Granted, I own a calculator -- $10 Casio solar -- but I grew up with one, and it's just easy to grab and use, especially in the workshop or lab. I also still have an analog watch. But there's no reason to impose my old habits on the young generation.
On long river and fishing trips, a standard cooler can work with the help of a good shady spot and a towel that has been dipped in the river and draped over it.
Erectile dysfunction drugs, flu vaccine may help fight cancer after surgery
"Machine learning systems trained to minimize prediction error may often exhibit discriminatory behavior based on sensitive characteristics such as race and gender. One reason could be due to historical bias in the data."

The thing about this discussion is that it aims to balance social welfare goals and profit maximizing goals but without any criteria for attaining basic fairness on a general level.

To wit, suppose a machine learning algorithm is looking at twenty or fifty piece of data about a given individual, all of which are entirely irrelevant to the individual's chance of repaying a loan. But by random chance, one of those pieces of data, say handedness, happens to be correlated with a group's repayment history. So, some individuals with a good handedness are given loans more frequently and some individuals, with a bad handedness, are given loans less frequently. This situation doesn't matter to the company since the data is irrelevant and they only give out so many loans anyway and shitting on, say, left-handed people, gives them no grief. Moreover, if this trend is noted by all the companies soon it will be made "true".

Which to say, companies making life-defining decisions like mortgages or parole-granting, just should be prohibited from the using a lasagna of random data to make their decisions and instead should be required to use specific rules with specific reasons behind them.

And cry me a river about missed chances for optimization. This about the structure of society and optimization doesn't benefit society here imo.
no, it won't directly. conv nets handle translation invariance but not scale invariance. having said that there's no reason you can't use aggressive data augmentation for this (resizing before patch sampling). i wonder how much the semi supervised approach might help too; if you've labelled _only_ small bees in a subset of the data, trained a model, applied to a larger dataset & retrained there will be a small amount of detections (that are true positives) to bees that are slightly larger (and smaller) than the ones you labelled.... (maybe?)
Immunity-aware Programming
Usually over data privacy/hosting & law enforcement AFAIK. That’s more due to lack of laws there
Epigenetics and horizontal gene transfer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
Unroll.me was kind of the whole point for needing GDPR in the first place. Good riddance.
True! Even if you are it’s not too bad (the hardest part is tracking consent & that’s not exactly hard)

People just don’t want to.
> Youtube seems to offer a better user experience than facebook for users who don't have an account or aren't signed into an account.

I think it's something a bit more general: Facebook is all about getting people to do, right now, what's good for Facebook, and it's willing to break things and get in your face to accomplish that.

Youtube, and Google generally, seem to be much more OK with just providing a consistent, approachable service; and letting the users use it naturally. In the long term, that seems like the better strategy because it doesn't burn trust like it grows on trees.
Plato can be summarized to and extent. Aristotle, however, is so concise in his language that there isn't much that could be removed. His conclusions can be summarized but one would not understand why he said what he said.
Klout is shutting down on May 25.
It's interesting how one can separate protocols into those two buckets: 100% trusting and 100% suspicious.

Edit: Maybe 100% is too rigid, but you get the idea. ;)
It’s an example of the birthday problem.
Your answer fell short and is contradicted by the agile principles. Your distinction was practically meaningless given your later usage.

You were never any “assistance”. You had nothing of substance to add.
Several years later, and even with the code, researchers are not able to summarize a complete list of what stuxnet definitely does.

What I see here is that the word "sophistication" is misunderstood by a lot of people.

Stuxnet took control of multiple layers of complex production environments. There are numerous "0day" kits in the code.

It's not like an effort like a search engine or most other organized software projects, because there are logistical dependencies of the worm itself in those exploits. If it was a US-israel effort (I think it almost definitely was, but who cares) then consider how much discipline and effort it takes to keep TWO govt groups of hackers coordinated enough to keep those exploits fresh, whilst simultaneously building a dependable worm.

Another thing, a lot of the actual machinery and shit isn't very well known, and this is worth mentioning because it's not like you can go spin up an emulator for this shit to test out your massively devastating two-country worm on.

Stuxnet of course made the best of this by using lots of different exploits in different situations, giving it the biggest attack surface it could, that's low hanging fruit anyways.

I think stuxnet doesn't impress people because maybe they think it's just a bunch of bugs in old shitty software, but it's so much more than that. It's bugs in software that only a few hundred or maybe a few thousand people have ever seen, much less pentested, on machinery that's rare and sometimes even unique to the location, the infrastructure of the place is based on rough intel at best, and oh by the way, your spy hackers need to coordinate with this other group on the other side of the planet.

Start brainstorming how you'd pull it off, and I think it'll become more imrpressive as you do.

Personally, I think it's the most incredible display of skill and prowess in malware thus far. The years I've spent disassembling, reversing, tracing, filtering, researching... A lifetime of hacking doesn't even knock the dust off of a project like that.
"Do the right thing" is not even remotely the same as don't be evil. The former is highly contextual; the latter is an appeal to our shared morality.
Look at Europe - the entire freaking continent, save the political class and their friends - is a victim of statism with socialist-collectivist slant.

What’s funny is that some folks think that highlighting the problems with GDPR, things might change. That is laughable. The politicians. Don’t. Care.

You reap what you sow, Euros.
Possibly. I’m not saying GDPR is perfect but it’s nothing like how he characterizes it
This is invasive (iVNS), which means installing a box in the patient’s chest and wrapping electrodes around the left VNS in the neck. :/

There have been studies on transcutaneous VNS (tcVNS) of the left ear as well.

https://bmccomplementalternmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...
It depends on how you measure things.

Youtube is a higher-quality video content site. It has lots of experience serving this type of content.

But as a social network, Youtube is gutter-quality, the worst of the worst. The kind of social network whose more disgruntled content providers are literally trying to murder the people running the site and whose comment section is infamous for being something like the most awful part of Internet.
GDPR is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it's a great step toward enforcing accountability on international companies and the data they have that gives them incredible influence over the world.

On the other hand, I can attest to the pain its caused to smaller companies having to implement support for it, and while some of the companies that have shut down were apparently using user data in detestable ways, I'm sure it's got a lot of companies scrambling.

Interested to see what happens after the 25th.
Think pacemaker.