skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought about this some more and it's definitely not just Google/Apple's fault per se but the respective mobile communities strongly push technology churn a la JS frameworks. Except in Androids case it's, getting your architecture right, using MVP, dissecting Dagger and dependency injection, learning kotlin, learning rxjava, learning MVI because mvp isn't good enough anymore.

Eventually you just get caught up in this constant flurry of learning more without actually learning anything
The uploader will be banned and their content removed, and hopefully will have to deal with the police.
If a PeerTube instance is too laxist about its moderation policy, other instances will stop federating (federation is opt-in and decided by the admins).
I suspect it’ll mean a move from independent web shops to “marketplace platforms” which will handle the tax implications.

Bonanza.com probably stands to gain the most from this. Shopify and similar products will likely adapt to gain as well. WooCommerce and other “self-hosted” shops might actually end up dying from it.
You digital people, you. On analog watch, if two hands (hours and minutes) overlap when you take a look, that means someone is thinking of you!
> you forget to charge them

Just keep a couple extra charged and ready around the house that you can swap in if necessary.
Thanks & good work with StackStorm :) I'm curious to know your take on Rundeck as well?

For others: StackStorm/Rundeck offers IFTTT for operations (amongst other things). Alert X -> Run script/workflow Y. It's an ideal approach to operations as it takes human out of the loop. Less on-call alerts, quick recovery. Sort of like a self healing system. Highly recommend.

Some companies can't/don't want to invest in full automation workflows. Nurtch is useful in this case as it allows partially automating runbooks by interleaving instructions and code. Downside is that human is still involved, engineer still gets paged :( but on the plus side, resolution could take 10 minutes instead of 2 hours & less upfront investment.
> It took years for Bitcoin's technical ideas to become well-understood by even a fraction of the user base.

That last part is the key qualifier for this line of criticism: there were quite a few people who were interested in the tech but also understood it and economics well enough not to become boosters.
Without this it's hard to imagine PeerTube being able to scale to a fraction of YouTube's level. Video streaming is just too expensive. Being able to offload it to viewers during high traffic is a killer feature.
There's also c) Don't pay off mortgage on small house, rent it out instead (and hopefully have it cover its own mortgage and property tax), and then also get a new mortgage and buy a bigger house.

It's similar to (a), but makes more sense if you're in an area like SF bay area where you might take a bet on real estate to keep rising. London may be similar? Just another idea!
I created an API for the waste collection (cardboard, organic, paper etc.) of my city based on some CSV that they publish. I always forget when to put what on the street, now thanks to my API and IFTTT and get a notification on my phone to remind me.

If anyone is interested, the API is here: openerz.herokuapp.com and the city is Zurich, Switzerland.
Many other things could be manufactured "on such tiny scales, to such high precision", but they wouldn't be useful.

Integrated circuits are one of a few product/technology classes for which miniaturization is unconditionally good (improved power consumption, lower unit cost, possibly higher speed) up to unavoidable physical limits (e.g. randomly arranged doping atoms, noise vulnerability).
Integrated circuits are also very easy to interface with the "real world" despite miniaturization because of their electronic nature: a comfortable range of currents and voltages is tolerable for the integrated circuit and acceptable for the larger system.
How about a third option, ads are by definition short and repeat a lot.

No fancy ML needed, after a couple of times the filter gets one of these repeating fragments it should be able to block it. Fairness bonus: you get to hear each new ad a couple of times.
The person responsible for that PeerTube instance would have to remove it, and hopefully ban the user and report them to the authorities.
The previous junta in Myanmar would definitely have silenced the message senders. (And the people committing the violence. And likely any people who agreed with the people committing the violence. And probably their families just to be sure. Etc etc etc. It wasn't a fun time to be a hater in Myanmar.)

Point is, the previous "government" kept more control over this sort of violence and hatred, BUT... they did so at the barrel of a gun. What was the cost there? (Does the cost even matter in view of the fact that we can now see that they did save tens of thousands of lives? All really tough moral and ethical questions.)

What's disheartening to me is the fact that, it seems that humans haven't evolved past that. The only demonstrably effective method of controlling this sort of tribalism, seems to be at the barrel of a gun.
> it's considered a bad thing to have problems that are essentially unsolvable for most of the class.

It's really sad, for two reasons. First, most problems in most AoPS books are solvable (or at least should be) for most of the class, especially if you exclude problems marked with asterisks. They're not that different from old Soviet or Polish math textbooks, and pretty much everyone was supposed to be able to solve that.

Second, having only problems that everyone in the class can solve means that nobody in the class advances much. You can't learn to run 5k by walking 5k.
Ha ha, just googled that. A gem indeed. Idée fixe (fixed idea, obsession) to Dogmatix (Dog / Dogmatic).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogmatix
I don’t think that’s a verbatim claim you can just make and expect everyone to agree with without any form of argument.

Counter-argument one: things known by Google represents another dose of data into a single place which accumulates way too much of it already.

If I watch something on a peertube, many may know that my IP streamed that, but they don’t know who I am because they’re not an all knowing internet-scale privacy-violator. Best of all, google won’t know I watched it at all, so it won’t be another annoying data-point in the super-aggressive youtube bubble.
That sounds like a job for filters, which could be provided by browser extensions, userscripts, or forks of the platform hosted on other sites.
I've been digging around peer tube for a few days - a lot of cool stuff there.

I wonder if the barriers will largely be the costs of using it relative to existing centralized systems:

- uptime/accessibility over time of content : what how do users find content bookmarked two years ago if nodes are coming and going. Assuming there is a way to keep an updated bookmark list, what are the costs (effort, emotional etc) to the user to do that?

- costs of maintaining a node in the decentralized system. if my node maintains a catalog of 1000 or more videos what will be the operational costs (not just the storage and compute costs) to me of keeping this running.

These things are great to think of in context of of the recent HN post that discusses decentralized systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361199

PS. I'm not saying that it's impossible to overcome those points - just that they're difficult and worth working through.
Nathan Myhrvold: ‘Nasa doesn’t want to admit it’s wrong about asteroids’
https://openerz.herokuapp.com
People in the West don't seem to realize how much Bitcoin is supported by Chinese businesses, and citizens, that are trying to evade their government's capital controls. Many people have an urgent desire to get money out of China, to invest it or spend it elsewhere. Bitcoin gives them a way to evade government regulations. This is why Bitcoin mining is such a big deal in China.
What about a blockchain-powered alarm clock? 51% could decide NOT to wake me up in the morning.
Also tracking the viewing history of an IP is not that easy. People trying to do this can be easily spotted by the trackers.
Thats what you took away from this story? Really?

That some transportation guards were reportedly jerks. If tossing a sandwhich just outside of arms reach is cruel and unusual punishment to you, must not have had older siblings.

People are jerks sometimes. These kids, had a lot more than an out of reach sandwhich coming to them.
In a bit more detail, the basic idea is that forgetting is a regular, valuable occurance to have better access to the useful information and the way that useful information is determined is use over time. If you use particular information intensely over a short period of time then stop using it at all, that is a signal that you are done with that information and it will be forgotten fairly quickly. But if you use it again after a while then that is a signal that it might be useful even further into the future. Spaced repetition is another application of this idea.

I've always liked B.F. Skinner's ideas about learning, where the forgetting curve is paired with the idea that making mistakes is quite harmful since then we also have the memory of the incorrect answer (that will decay more slowly than random information due to being close to the thing we want to actually use). So it is better to refer to the correct answer until you can recall it correctly, which happens automatically as a standard brain optimization when we do something repeatedly.

I don't really know anything about direct instruction, but it sounds like a core idea is heavily scripted teacher student interaction, which sounds even more dystopian to me than the current system (like being raised by an automated call center in human form). But IMO a bit further in that direction would be great. Remove teachers from the normal learning loop and provide a variety of learning materals (books, video, audio). Teachers can then assist students individually and spend more time being social workers or whatever else is needed so that kids are in a place to be able to learn. Currently the whole school experience tends towards performance art by teachers where the presence or absence of students is a secondary concern. If learning was the important part then the experience would be centered around learning with the presence or absence of teachers a secondary concern.
Rethinking Static Reference Tables in GHC
It uses AMZN Polly for the backend, switching to Wavenet types would cause an 4x price increase (based on current offerings by the majors clouds). It is a bit difficult to justify because that would exceed the cost of an off-the-shelf audiobook from e.g. Audible. I do however plan to add it as an option.

If you have any ideas etc. drop me an email! (See profile)
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I left a company where I was the Dev Team lead for a company where I am “just” a Senior Developer. I happen to be getting paid slightly more:

My experience is that I was much more effective as a team lead than an individual contributor. I was able to do and guide research, do proof of concepts that other people productized and had far more accomplishments guiding a team of junior to mid level developers.

Now, trying to implement the same kind of changes as an individual contributor is taking far longer. I have more say so over the architectural direction of my team now just based on my expertise and relationships and no red tape (here I’m an AWS admin, at my prior company I had to go through multiple approvals to get anything done), but since I actually have to do the work instead of directing a team, my accomplishments are a lot slower.

I can see first hand the effectiveness of my manager and his ability to be a force multiplier over my ability to get things done as an individual contributor.

I’m not complaining, when I had a choice when I was looking for a job I could have been hired as an architect/Dev lead making slightly more than I make now using technology I was intimately familiar with but I wouldn’t be able to grow my technical skills and I like development.

But the truth is, I could accomplish a lot more with a team of people reporting to me but I purposefully stay in my lane even though my manager and his manager are both pushing me to take a leadership position. I took this job to learn and improve technically, not to manage.
Yeah, the main use case for codec2 right now is over ham radio. David Rowe, along with a few others, also developed a couple of modems and a GUI program[1]. On Sunday mornings, around 10AM, they do a broadcast of something from the WIA and answer callbacks.

[1] - https://freedv.org/
But... why? If this isn’t peak “because we fucking can, that’s why,” then what is?
Ask HN: Anybody here who is looking for Food business opportunities in India?
I am a FullStack developer based in Cyberabad and I am looking for people with a background either in Software development or with some Investment background and interest in Food industry.

Anybody with same mindset, please ping me.

I have idea and I have already created something to start with.
Does anyone know when we can expect a 1.0 release that I can use in prod? I have a perfect project for it and have tried it out but am reluctant to implement fully until its nailed down to a LTS version.
> if you exclude problems marked with asterisks

Those are the problems I'm talking about ;)
Normalization of a layer’s outputs kind of does this already.
Attended a talk about teaching programming to kids by the first author that was well attended by programmers and teachers. It was a very enriching experience. I'm definitely going to read this through.
“Nintendo’s existing handheld platform, the 3DS, kicked in an additional $1.7 billion“
> - As a business I will link to a youtube video but not a PT video because I know YT will stay up.

So you never stumbled upon a news or blog post (or playlist) containing an embedded video thats now "no longer available due to copyright issues", "switched to private", "not available for your country", "deleted by the user", ...?

Happens about once a week to me. Thats why I started to "backup" my playlists with youtube-dl.
They (randomly?) change IDs and the DOM structure, and thus break scripts. One workaround is to automate visually (KantuX, Sikuli,...) but that is much slower and makes only sense for low-volume scraping.
Does it also offer ability to search categories of images with keywords?
Season 3 of Preacher takes an unusual approach to horror and humor
They randomize the tag ids and classes a lot of the time. At least that has been my experience with the Facebook messenger website.
Haha, spoken like someone who knows nothing about security in real world companies.

In your world, there are no companies that use computers left.
Anyone here dropping coin on Ripple?
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Partitioning kernels have been used decades in aviation and other safety critical systems. I have developed software for integrity for example. It's commercial software and not proper open source, but the code is available for their their customers.

These system address the issue of separating different functions as well as possible. What they don't address the problems that widely used homogeneous systems face when a way to compromise the system is found.
Thanks great post!
It seems to be a special case of pareidolia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
The only compelling reason to migrate to GTK 3 was the deprecation of GTK 2.
FYI, script kiddies don’t have 0days by definition.
We are born with a ton of synapses as babies and through a process called pruning, many synapses die off, unused branches.

This seems pretty normal to me
These aren't technology trees you control in a game of Age of Empires where things are all bad or all good. There is not a single door with which you prioritize access serially. Often progress has both good and bad tenets. I am just saying on the outside we are only made aware of the bad, so we aren't informed enough to say what should come and in which order. In the meantime putting artificial limits on tech only benefits the powerful who can circumvent them.
> it will only run for 4.5 hours

That seems plenty long for something like a TV remote, if "run" includes the amount of time that buttons are depressed.

> It would not surprise me

This is inconsistent with your original comment that claims "a little surprise".

Consumer behavior responds to actual products, not someone's standard of engineering design.
this has strong potential. i never felt safe with services like lastpass.
X11 has for ages the notion of untrusted applications. It is fully supported by SSH where its -X option shows remote applications as untrusted. From security point of view the isolation is not ideal, but it always puzzled me why not to improve on it as X11 has to be supported for many-many years.
Came here to say this. Why? What defect of password managers can you possibly be fixing by adding a global trustless append-only ledger to it?
I'm not insulting a "fictional partner": I mentioned below that I'm in a ten-year-old relationship without fights and that's how I manage my emotions and solve my inner problems that would lead to a fight in our first years together.

The problems you're describing do not arise at all when both partners keep their egos in bay and strive for kindness.
That particular tidbit of information is what makes me terrified of raising children and dovetails into the best description of the tragedy of being a teenager: you're exactly old enough to get into real trouble, and exactly young enough not to realize you shouldn't.
If you use blockchain for storing secrets, then you signal that you don't know
what blockchain was intended for and what storing secrets needs, in other
words, you signal that you are not competent to build a password store.
> In particular, RELU activation doesn't explode towards infinity the way a high degree polynomial activation would.

Isn't the ReLU a piecewise linear polynomial? Moreocer, if you convolve piecewise linear polynomials you get a higher-degree piecewise polynomial, typically referred to as a spline.
This is false, speaking from direct experience. Brand registry does NOT let you gate the brand.
I have a newer Dell with a USBC/Thuderbolt dock, two 4k monitors, Ubuntu Mate. Works great, no significant issues.
Would you live in a house without a kitchen? You might have to
I think what we'll see next is something like react rendering to a canvas, beating html rendering & dom manipulation, maybe subsets of the good parts of the DOM, dropping old-cruft support, but all rendered on a canvas. This will, in turn, create framework cults.
Considering that Google is a subset of anyone, I have to assume that it is.

If you consider Google being able to track something as a negative, then Google+n would be at last +n negative.
"...Widespread hatred for Muslims existed long before widespread usage of Facebook in Myanmar..."

It's not the widespread hatred of Muslims that's putting pressure on facebook. It's the widespread killing of muslims that's putting pressure on facebook. No one would mind if it was just a giant bunch of idiots hating each other. In fact, we have that in the US. The difference is that as soon as you start offing people the situation begins to be viewed in a significantly different fashion.

There was the very real possibility that the government was going to ask facebook to leave. (Truth be told, this move by facebook may prove to be unequal to the government's desires. So in the end facebook may still be shown the door.)
https://github.com/polterguy/phosphorusfive
I wonder if the progress in artificial neural network technology is going to be correlated to discoveries on real neural networks.
you're using r/bitcoin as an example? one of the most well known cryptocurrency subs for toxicity and juvenile mods
I wrote my thesis on tropical geometry for machine translation[1]. You can use it to train a a linear model for structured prediction, which used to be the dominant model before RNNs.

[1]: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N15-1041
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They don't actually honor it though. I know plenty of sellers who have gotten back inventory they didn't send in even though they do not choose commingling.
Lots of negativity here that I don’t think is completely justified. I subscribe to a family plan for 1password. I have options to sync with iCloud and several other cloud services, and for the most part that’s great. But I don’t have an option to sync with a service that I can guarantee will remain in existence and outside of state control. I also have to maintain an account in good standing with these services, or potentially host and secure my own hardware.

Blockchains - at least those that are heavily adopted - provide a kind of good solution to this problem. State is maintained by a third party that’s likely to be around for a while, and if I forget or can’t pay a bill for a while, my credentials are still stored and accessible at a later time. I like the idea of paying a little to a third party for the store operation, vs paying a little every month for the privilege of performing a get operation.
Isn't that kinda the point? It's called learning.
Instead of trusting a third party to protect your credentials, you're trusting an auditable, open source platform. I cant see myself using it for anything important, but I understand the draw.
Yeah, much more interesting than the Facebook movie.
Sorry if I was not clear, I do know the whole story, Abraham had to be committed to the act and visualize what would happen and had to take several steps along the way to fulfil God's command. The fact that it was revealed to be a test is not important in my evaluation of the command, which of course is just my opinion.
I'm still wondering about the natural equivalent of back-propagation.
I'll check it out.

Seems to be a bit french though for the moment and I'm not that well spoken in french :)

That brings another thing to mind, I tend to output stuff from Kdenlive with CRF 12 which results in quite high bitrate for 1080p (~25 mbit). Youtube just eats up the video files and transcodes them to all kinds of resolutions, but it also trashes the quality.

I wonder how peertube deals with that. Guess I can set up a local instance and test a bit first :)
I should have added a general recommendation for the book itself, because it's an extremely interesting and eye-opening read.

Negative national stereotypes have always existed, but during WWI whole governments put in organized efforts to purposefully paint these stereotypes. Usually, most people think of Hitler and WWII when talking about "propaganda war", but WWI already had plenty of that going on, on all involved sides.
They absolutely favor their own brands, often having an entire line called "our brands" with prominent placement.
Everything's just better when you sprinkle a little bullchain, urgh, blockchain on it.
You can do exactly the same thing without blockchain.