skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great points, I'd be happy to give some background. I originally started working on the project just for our DnD group about 5 years ago. At that time there weren't many other projects available or if so I wasn't aware of them. It was mostly Donjon and a few others that were available and none were built as individual packages that could be composed together and weren't open source. The GitHub org you see now is actually already a merger of existing efforts that were started by other developers who were working on a character sheet generator. The opendnd repo was only started recently as the tools have grown over the years and needed a sort of all-encompassing project.

That being said, I'm aware that other projects are out there now that have similar goals -- some further along than us as it's mostly been me working on it in my free time. However, I would say that our design decision is pretty different from the others in that each component is designed to be a separate standalone tool that can be used as a component to build other things. Because the end goal is so ambitious I think this design decision is critical if the project is ever to get close to achieving that goal. If I had to summarize in one sentence what we're trying to achieve, it's kind of a Dwarf Fortress level of detail but fully open source and fully interconnected components.
Actually, the 50% of people who didn't vote in the presidential election have said we don't care to choose between which of the two pieces of shit we're going to be forced to eat, and we're not going to legitimize our own oppression by helping pretend its consensual.

If Kodos had been elected, this likely would not be happening at the EPA (nor that shitshow over at the FCC). But other similarly destructive corruption would certainly be, depending on what her specific sponsors had purchased. The industries' agendas are written years in advance, the skinjobs' role is merely to sell them, and the act of voting is a major step to getting your mindshare.

Go try talking to a Trump supporter about the direct objectively bad results of his policies, on topics they ostensibly care about - eg tariffs that encourage even more manufacturing to move to China. You will find that they basically just fall back on cognitive dissonance from having chosen him and therefore having bought in to his reality distortion field.
I'm into all those things including heavy dice and being choosy about my coffee mug. Also magic the gathering card sleeves and the choice of land art.

And now that I think about it, everything physical I own really.
to the river
>> Just don't read them and say you're an ML expert afterwards.

Too late. I get like 2 random LinkedIn invites a day from randos claiming to be simultaneously "AI" and Blockchain experts. You look at their profile and they have some codecamp course in React. I dont get it, do these people get jobs this way?
> why JS is 'required' for displaying any text is beyond me

It is not. But this is likely a result of either:

1) simply not realizing that the newfangled 'framework' they are using requires JS to render text

2) intentionally requiring JS to render text, because then JS will be on so they can also deliver ads (i.e., a form of "anti-adblock").
"same same" is the enemy of quality in any supply chain.
There's at least another 1000% to squeeze out by using more lines of code at the compiler side. Look at the wasm movement that wants to bring highly optimized intransparent code blobs to the client side and web servers written in rust so they can deliver even more complex applications in this post-moore world. Of course they'll sacrifice debuggability in addition to accessibility on that altar.
> With Google’s history of abandoning efforts like this, I wouldn’t spend too much effort using any language developed by them.

Well , to be fair Go is becoming a major server side language and I don't see Google abandoning it any time soon.

That being said , Dart is basically on "life support" has of now , there is no SDK what so ever beside Google + Firebase , and I haven't heard anything from AWS / Azure or others vendors to support Dart + Flutter.

I feel like everyone is basically waiting for the language to take off to actually invest in it.

I'm afraid it will end up like Xamarin , a niche tech that will eventually die out because very little people accept the ecosystem that is forced on them by using the framework.
Do you think it's built on top of PeerTube Social or is it something completely different?
For that you need to stop produce idiot voters.
And this is one of those APIs that is closed. This application is intentionally going around it, and if any data ends up leaking, all the people in this thread demanding access to data will be the first to attack Facebook for not doing a better job at guarding user data.
Well, thats an easy way to get a 5% stock price increase.

That tweet was 9 words, and increased TSLA's market cap by $2.55 Billion dollars.

Or $283 million per word.
I feel like the timing is more related to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17706997

It may be just a coincidence but I have started noticing that very often when a company has a post that criticizes it for some behavior trending another post immediately follows showing the "generosity" of the same company showcasing some OSS or a blog post about some popular technological subject.

It got me thinking that maybe those companies have bots ready to upvote nice things about them when some criticism surfaces.

I've seen this happen with both Google and Microsoft so far.
Android, of course. I really wish HN would let me go back and edit that one.
Funny you mention horses, as it is a common analogy in these discourses. The horse population actually declined as they became less necessary thanks to transportation innovations. CGP Grey explained this well: https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?t=212
"'You take a photo of your photo ID and then they take a selfie of themselves,' Kersey explained. 'Facial recognition software is then deployed to compare the photo on the ID and the photo of the person who took the picture.'"

So it sounds like they verify your identity based on two photos that you provide? So if two photos provided by an unknown person match, then they become a trusted person? Even if there's a separate step that matches that to the DMV database or something... all you actually need is a photo of the person you want to impersonate.

But pretending to be someone else for remote voting is already a weak point, and one that would be expensive to exploit on a large enough scale to make a difference. The much much bigger risk is that we have absolutely no way to verify that the votes recorded are correct. This company's app sends the vote to the company's server which stores it in this company's database. That's three steps at which the votes can be easily changed.

The question to ask with any proposed voting system is: how can we verify that the counts are accurate? The _only_ way to do that in anything close to a trustworthy manner, is by having an established network of trusted agents (one or more witnesses from each interested party organization at each physical voting location) monitor a human-visible process for collecting paper ballots which can be counted and recounted at will by multiple groups of interested parties.

Any system where the votes are ever hidden away from witnesses and accessible, say, in a back room with an unlocked door leading to an empty alleyway ... or on any computer system, is inherently insecure.
> If there is one thing I fail to understand it is the impulse to electronic-ify our elections.

The part that gets me is that there is no organic, grassroots push from the people who actually vote to implement electronic voting.

Usually when someone, or many people, advocate for a cause, they have something to gain from it.

Who is advocating for electronic voting and what do they stand to gain?
This is more an example of the human influence of HN than the benevolence of the corporation.

Yes, I am absolutely delighted this guy got lucky.

No, I have zero confidence that I or any other poor schmuck could duplicate it.
This has to violate some SEC rule.
Some verified account pretending to be Elon posted spam in the thread. How is that allowed?
From what I understand, AdWords is written in Dart. This alone means it's not disappearing anytime soon.
> proprietary hardware, intentional slowdowns, and insane app fees

Android phones are also effectively proprietary (especially phones from manufacturers such as Samsung and Xiaomi) and seemingly get slower over time. But yes, the apps are cheaper/free thanks to sideloading and a good community.

(RMS-Mode On) What I'm referring to as Android, is in fact, Google/Android, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Google plus Android. Android is not (really) a usable operating system unto itself (for most people), but rather another component of a fully functioning Google system made useful by the Google Apps, Google Play Services and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by the end user. (RMS-Mode Off)

If either way you're going to have a proprietary phone, you might as well pick the one that has less of an interest in data mining you.
New attack on WPA/WPA2 using PMKID – scripts
I see your Simpsons reference and quote The Onion

>First Amendment Experts Warn Facebook Banning InfoWars Could Set Completely Reasonable Precedent For Free Speech

>... “If we allow giant media platforms to single out individual users for harassing the families of murdered kindergarteners, it could lead to a nightmare scenario of measured and well-thought-out public discourse,”...
As a DM, the #1 tool on my wishlist is a world generator like donjon's, but zoomable (ala google maps) with reasonable procedural generation at levels down to a few meters.

I recognize that this is a significantly challenging task, but hey, if Dwarf Fortress can do it...
He seems to be discouraging signing every commit's individual data but encouraging signing the actual commit ID (SHA1) which should be perfectly feasible for something like homebrew.
Rust has both raw void* pointers (within unsafe code) and the safe std::any::Any trait: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/any/trait.Any.html
How many fossil fuels do we need to burn to accomplish all of this? The solution is to greatly reduce unnecessary consumption, decentralize agriculture, avoid private transportation. It's to do less not more
Of course it's true, no need for your generosity of fairness. Just don't obey the law and see what happens. Continue to do so and eventually you'll be looking down the barrel of a gun. Pointing this out is not Randian. It's just reality.

There are no nuances of living in a civil society when solutions are implemented by law. If it's by law, then it's by gun. I don't know of any law that works otherwise.

I think the nuance you're referring to is when people's minds are (actually) changed such that they work together on a common goal. There becomes a natural supply and demand of a certain behavior. But most of the effort that I see is not convincing people to support a certain shared goal per se, but rather to join a tribe to crowd source the passage of laws.

The more important thing to me - and the point I meant to make, though I didn't fully articulate it - is that pointing a gun at someone (or indeed entire sectors of an economy) should be reserved for situations in which there is a very high bar of confidence in the detailed facts and predictions of the outcomes. While we may all agree that global warming causes climate change and even that it is anthropomorphic, it doesn't appear to me that we have a level of specific knowledge to say that "a reduction of carbon emission by x will result in a climate of y in the year z". If we don't have that, then I question both the morality and practicality of what appears to be a witch hunt in the form of policy making.
And if you blindly follow the machine learning path with no scientific context you will convince yourself that having negative people on a team is an answer that makes total sense.

I worry about this in a lot of fields where we are heavily pushing machine learning. I was also not saying that this project is somehow poor quality, I just could not find much about the team and was curious about their research backgrounds.
^The most insightful comment in this entire thread.
I was learning Clojure and OCaml last week (again) after doing a survey of a handful of functional languages. I still haven't seen a good way to spin up a really simple HTTP server like Sinatra or Express. Ones I did see either had a huge bug, were more verbose, or had no "getting started" documentation. The languages themselves are fun though.
I used to work at a trucking software company, so I may have some insight.

Shipping cargo via trains is dramatically slower than via trucks. When you use a truck, your cargo goes from A->B.

When you use a train, you first need to get a truck to haul your content to the railyard. Then depending on the cargo, unload and reload onto the train. Then wait while the train makes stops for everyone else's cargo. Potentially your cargo will need to be unhooked from the train and wait until a different train headed to a different location arrives to take your cargo. Then once your train gets to the area of delivery, you still need a truck to show up and take your cargo to the final destination.

Even more so, for lots of loads trains cost similar to trucks. Trains have their purpose, but there is a reason why Coca-Cola, Walmart, UPS, etc... use trucks.
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Systems can be easily developed for multi-lingual and disabled access that still produce a paper ballot that can be easily verified by the voter and counted by the election judges. There's no reason to electronicify the entire voting process to meet this (legitimate) need.
Are these kind of tweets even legal?
It's been that way for months: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/scammers-are-im...

Twitter recently tried to fix it by locking nonverified accounts which change their name to Elon Musk (https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17610348/twitter-elon-mus...). Now scammers just hack verified accounts to do it.
Unfortunately, it has become increasingly clear that developer workstations are not on their radar as a primary target market.
A decade later, Yale College discovers major data breach
California teacher pension debt overwhelms school budgets
500px Founder Joins Skylum (photo editing software)
What happens when we receive more votes then the population of West Virginia? Will this information be hidden from the public until it doesn't matter anymore?
Have they significantly reduced the challenge though? I don't think the core task of driving is significantly easier than these problems that they have elided.

I know it is a bit of a fallacy to say "we can fly to the moon, so we should be able to have a self-driving car", but it's also not clear that the tools we have (ML, simulators, planning algorithms, etc) are not up to the tasks that have Drive.ai have engineered around.

It's a reasonable strategy to elide things you can and focus on the "core" hard task, but if solving these other difficult problems is also meaningful product-wise (and it clearly is meaningful), there's no reason you can't have people working on both. And given Waymo seems to be gearing up for a large launch, I have a hard time believing that these additional tasks are as hard as Drive.ai want to make out.
And the server component of iTunes and the App Store is written in WebObjects.....
> Again though it's not a question of full body does as this is highly concentrated radiation exposure onto high risk tissues.

I think you're missing my point on full-body scanners. As far as I'm aware (at least whenever I've traveled internationally), only a small number of passengers any given day will go through a full-body scanner. Most passengers just go through a regular magnetic scanner which doesn't have any radiation (and for domestic flights in Australia there isn't even the option of a full-body scanner). The point being that even if someone travels four times a week (200 times a year) they still won't go through a full-body scanner (and thus won't be exposed to the radiation from such a scanner) anywhere close to 200 times a year.
It would be nice to do this via ITTT or similar service.
Few men want to spend days on the road, far from their families and homes

But back in the day, it paid well enough to make that sacrifice. I knew families growing up that did okay with Dad was a truck driver and sole bread-winner, probably as well as my UAW-working father.

But now, sound like it's crap pay and the job didn't get any easier. And, duh, they can't find anyone to do that job.
I feel like all these solutions right now are very business driven. Is there a legit open source alternative?

Voting is a legit hard problem but it influences you more than you realize. The setup of the election basically determines the outcome of the election.

I think that the one thing that could improve democracy globally is an internationally agreed upon open-source verified voting system.

None of these startups will last long enough to have an impact.

There are many problems, voter identity is definitely one. You need some sort of public ledger (the blockchain isn't the worst idea, however proceed with caution).
The map I see is this: https://imgur.com/h74uIJB I'd say there's a pretty large land area not within 10 minutes of a subway station.

Unless what you're trying to say is "places that don't have the public transport to support high-density housing don't have high density housing" - if that's what you're saying, I agree with you!
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776

"Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured." Elon
Why You Should Build a Hackintosh
No, it's definitely not cheaper to buy, maintain, properly secure, audit, and continually replace inherently insecure electronic systems that are used two or three times a year at most. Elections are also not a place I personally think we should be cheaping out.
Already running it! Although I have this in my head that I need to create my own emacs configuration from scratch and learn more how it works. Someday...
I guess we shouldn't have any laws at all then.
> If they flub the timing on an important part of the act it doesn't live on forever, they can just use an alternate take.

I brought up the topic of multiple filming and editing. I am also aware of the reasons for it, thanks. It is what makes the article so dumb because it says "Oh, look at the precise timing of laughs in this pristine routine."
Guess their business model didn't work unless the city provided free parking for them.
Because you got me curious enough to look this up:

It apparently originates from typewriters, when holding shift was quite physically taxing (since it literally shifted all the typeheads over to put alternate characters over the ribbon); so caps lock saved a lot of finger strain when typing acronyms or writing symbol-heavy text.
Not really, no - you need to expand on the why in order to have some sort of substantive discussion (especially when using politically loaded language).

Lobbying in its positive form is about experts trying to explain things to representatives that don't understand the specifics of the field. When done right a representative should get perspective from different areas and be able to understand the issues/regulations that are being discussed from multiple parties that have their own different incentives.

Your comment that's it's 'treasonous' absent any discussion doesn't really offer any explanation of how congressional representatives are supposed to be informed about any subject they don't already know about.

People that do this work are going to be paid by the companies trying to explain things.

Political contributions to campaigns are a different issue and I think do pose a corrupting influence, this talk does a good job explaining the issue: https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_...
Its almost if there is a group of folks who want elections to be easily hacked and manipulated.
Trait is not a type, Any is just a custom trait. Types: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/ch03-02-data-t...
You can create trait with name "Magic" or "Fuck" and it will not mean anything.
Pointers is not a type also.
Yes; if lobbying were truly reduced/eliminated across the board, at least they'd have an even playing field. Loopholes will inevitably be used by those with the most money and power.
It's more the small jokes to each other as they're chatting, he'll point out the bridge or something like that as the bit of the joke that makes it really work.

Can't remember a specific example now, but the two of them often generally discuss how comedy works, etc.

He's a bit OTT about how it can't be taught and it seems a bit contradictory as they'll discuss how they learnt the craft and often find they did the same thing.
I have a huge problem with this attitude. Just because consumers shouldn't side their houses and insulate their pipes with it doesn't mean nobody should have it.

Asbestos is amazingly fire resistant. If the use case is extreme enough to make it worth it (working with dangerous materials is $$$) then I don't see why it shouldn't be used. Plenty of nasty materials and chemicals are used in all sorts of industries. I don't see why asbestos should get special treatment. I think the current status quo of "you can't use it in certain things and you need permission if you want to use it in anything else" is perfectly fine. If some company is willing to do what they need to use a dangerous material in 2018 (PPE, procedures for handling, insurance, etc, etc) and articulate a use case and why the alternatives don't work then why shouldn't they be able to use asbestos?
When uploading your contacts the secret isn't your or their phone number. It's the relationships. The phone book never listed all of your friends and family.
FWIW, 3D touching the Chrome icon also opens a QR Reader.
> I dont get it, do these people get jobs this way?

yes.
Planet Open Sources Space-Tested UHF Radio
It's a whole lot closer to "owned" than "key can be brute-forced after centuries of online processing".

Previously, I believe, it was thought that you had to test the password against the actual router. An offline attack that lets you try millions of keys per second on as many machines as you want to spin up is pretty close to owned when compared to an online attack that only allows single-digit tests per second.
I suspect the birds would eventually ignore the drones unless the drones are made to pose an actual physical threat to them. City pigeons are so accustomed to cars and humans that they barely move out of the way in time to avoid being crushed.
There are quite a lot of foods and beverages which have a protected name bound to the ingredients that are allowed to be used to create it in a specific way. Take Mozzarella in general or for a local example beer in Germany(Reinheitsgebot).

It is not far fetched that Italian Pizza could be a candidate for a TSG marking. There are individual pizzas which already are protected, take Pizza Napoletana for example.
After a bit of reading, it seems that this is mainly achieved by having a much newer and better maintained water distribution system. It would be great to have that in the USA.
I honestly think the graphical gizmos implemented for this piece do not support the message AT ALL. In fact, I didn't find any message. There is form in an hour long stand-up routine? That's not news.
Yeah, Reagan's world, for sure.

Funny story. I was in Moscow when Reagan's joke was leaked:

> My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.

Most people understood that he was joking. But still, it was frightening. I mean, Soviet Central Television broadcast the audio, with a translation.