skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think so. I think it’s pretty naive to think some people exist without personality flaws.

Everything people do is out of some sort of greed. Some of it results in good deeds others not so much.

You volunteer or donate to charity because it makes you feel good, boosts your ego, and/or inflates your sense of self worth but you ARE being helpful in the grand scheme of things.
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Windows 10 has all kids of debuggers enabled on millions of computers, MS calls this telemetry :) Go to Management and check out startup event trace sessions. Those are the source of mysterious >hundreds of megabytes of logs written to disk per day.
FTA :

>>> The algorithm completed image preprocessing and inference in an average of 1.2 seconds, compared with an average of 177 seconds for radiologists to review the images and provide notification of a critical finding, according to the researchers.

a few days ago I want to the emergencies at my hospital; got some radiography and a head scan. It took one hour before I could reach the machines to do the radiography and it took 1 hour to get the result because the person who had to interpret the result was not there (it was holidays) and that his job was basically giving a go/no go on me leaving the hospital.

AI has clearly no benefit here (even if it's still fascinating).

Now I guess that the stuff here could review past CT scans, resubmit them to radiologist who'd re-label them in a better way to build a better learning database...
Not sure what I just read, but yeah, patent parking sucks.
Tinfoil hat on. Big industry hates Elon. Rockets are his now. And soon cars will be Tesla’s or at least Electric. Maybe they’ve been bashing him in order to break him. Don’t break the company. Break its leader.

Just need to take a look at how tides have turned so quickly against Elon in the last year. Seems very odd. And the short sellers could quite easily be hedge funds backed with big money interests.
Laptops with buttonboards? Now that's insane. Should we also put a small touch screen right above it?
> This is even worse. China will eat up the world in a similar way in which they ate up Sri-Lanka's port. Build a ton of infra for the developing world and then once they're unable to pay for it, they camp in your country forcibly.

The US did exactly the same, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan.
I spent a week in Poland and saw homosexual girls passionately kissing in the public and more burkas than I have expected. Overall more liberal than I have expected from the public image we see here in Lithuania.
I've got the same impression, but a Pole I'm currently working with told me that election results only represent about 30% of the electorate, and that things are complicated as far as societal groups go - more liberal groups would be associated with former-socialist parties, the church being seen as representing the (economic interest of the) "establishment"; things like that. Maybe a a Pole could explain it better.
Not at all my business, of course, but having US$ 400-700 revenue per day is (at least to me) meaningless metrics.

That is - I believe - revenue (amount of sales).

Let's go for average US$ 500/day.
That is roughly 180,000 US$/year.

How much are expenses (for buying the goods that are resold)?

How much did you invest in storage/offices/whatever? (or rents you pay)

How much money do you have invested in the actual goods?

How much are costs for the receiving the goods, storing them, having inventary, packing and shipping them?

How much are pay-processors fees?

How much are you paying for accountants and other needed professionals?

How many hours per day do you spend in managing the shop, the ads, the reviews, the non-sewuitur e-mails, etc.?

How much are taxes (corporate)?

In other words, and of course only if you wish to share this piece of info, how much do you make out of that shop, NET?

Or - it would be good as well - just state what percentage of your total income comes from the shop earnings.

I know I sound critic/downputting/naysayer, but the whole thing sounds (or may sound to an inexperienced reader) like "it's easy to make a successful online shop, even if you have no experience whatsoever and you will make lots of money".
I’d argue it’s not the same. It certainly gives you a very close and stark window into what it’s like, but it doesn’t compare to the lived experience.
Mind you, I didn't call him a narcissist. I said its classic narcissism behaviour. There's a subtle nuance between those two. There's no further psychoanalysis either.

I want to be a Musk fanboy. I am very much into the things he's innovating. I care about those things (solar power, electric vehicles, (self-)sustainability in general, though SpaceX not so much). He's become a if not the face of those ideals I find important. That's why that particular tweet was so disgusting and ultimately disappointing to me. I did not see it coming!
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The Amiga didn't have multiple address space so that's cheating.. I've never used an Amiga but BeOS was really much more responsive than either Linux or Windows but that was before SSD and multiple cores were available so maybe now the difference would be much less noticeable..
There is Haiku (in alpha or beta) but AFAIK it hasn't any native modern web browser..
It is, though! I'm in Norway now, and trying to explain the US healthcare generally leaves folks a bit flabbergasted. I am quite happy that I'm no longer in the states - state-sponsored medicine is much simpler and less stressful to deal with.

And to make it weirder: The formularies are generally based on agreements the insurer has made with the drug companies and/or pure cost of medicine if there was no deal to be made. I'd not mind some generally accepted standards in treatment based on patient outcome, so long as the patient doesn't have factors that change the standard treatment, but long-term outcome and cost over time doesn't seem to be the focus. This is likely due to many folks not keeping the same insurance long-term.
This is not correct. The Riding Lawn Equipment (RLE) is built in Horicon WI (as are the gators). The compact tractors (one series, two series, etc) are built in Augusta GA. The RLE has almost nothing from Yanmar in it except the diesels use a Yanmar engine. The sub-CUTs and CUTS use a lot of Yanmar components, but are Deere products and assembled by Deere. I have been to both factories and seen the lines in the last few years, they are assembling tractors there.
And eg. some financial companies already have obligations to store data for X time periods and back it up to tape off-site. That regulation already stops you from just deleting/modifying your records, as far as I can see a blockchain doesn't provide any advantage over mandatory offsite backups.
My friend's dad built one for him, for DOS/windows though. Must have been around -89 when we were 12.

I think Scream Tracker had the schematic bundled with it as an ASCII drawing. We were taught how to solder in primary school, but I remember the schematics being way too advanced for us. Looking at it now it's just a simple resistor ladder tree

I think it was roughly the same as Covox, someone had written a sound blaster emulator for it, and it worked pretty well on games, scream tracker/fast tracker and demoscene demos - for the price of a parallel port connector and a few resistors, pretty cool.
I can neither confirm nor deny that.
Nvidia says crypto-mining boom is over for now
YouTube Taking Down Gambling Related Channels
I used Twitter to be "social" around 2013. I noticed that the social aspect of it seems to have died out by 2014 or so, and so I left the platform (also due to their other changes).
Don't bring fruit or meat across international boarders, or if you do declare it and understand you may have it taken away. Countries are super serious about this and undeclared items come with fines in the hundreds of dollars range.
I know someone who is genuinely altruistic. She does things for other people cause she enjoys helping other people.

If you're consistently doing good for reasons which are in no way indistinguishable for pure goodness, to me it's the same. Call it "boosting your ego" or "inflating your sense of self worth". Some people just feel good knowing they've helped other people. I don't see how these people can be considered "shit".
> killed of feudalism in most of Europe

It took a long time to die if that's really the case. The last bits of feudalism (feu duties) were removed from Scottish property law in 2004.
Ask HN: Simple, beginner friendly ETL / Data Engineering project ideas?
Hi HN,

I'm a seasoned Python software developer. Recently I have found a new obsession with data processing, management, engineering etc ... I'd like to (eventually) branch off into that field but I find the lack of beginner friendly resources is slowing me down. All I can find is spark, hadoop related articles (I know these are prominent in the field, but I want to learn to walk before I run). So If any of you have pointers, websites, project ideas I can start to get a good grasp of all the fundamental concepts, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks a lot in advance
Worked in a team that developed it's own tools for NeXTStep (yeah, that long ago) ...

Glen joined the team and holy shit Glen was awesome. Was scripting in PERL with ObjectiveC bindings until Glen looked over my shoulder and told me that was crap. So he wrote Python bindings for ObjectiveC over the weekend and made me learn Python.

Can't remember the version, but the only support came from Guido Van Rossum via email so that was a magical time.
The LaTeX document format is pretty well fit for the use case (it's kinda been made in that sense).

If it's "too complex", you may be interested in reStructuredText, a stricter and more complete alternative to Markdown, that auto-converts well into LaTeX.
In all seriousness, billionaires are people too with their own quirks and interests.

I suggest sending a letter and include with it all the research you have. Be clear in the letter what your goals are. You might also say something like “are you the JOHN DOE who is the 2nd great grand child of JANE DOE, cousin of MIKE SMITH?” They may not be that person, just someone with the same name. And because of their fame, their google presence may overwhelm the google presence of your actual relative.

You might also consider trying to organize a reunion of the living relatives you do have and inviting them. Maybe they will come.

About 10 years ago, a distant relative reached out to my immediate family and we connected with the “long lost” side of my family. We had a lot of fun.

Your distant relative may enjoy this too.

Also be clear with yourself what your goals are. Don’t be Jealous of their wealth. That didn’t matter before you were searching. It shouldn’t matter now. Your relative must be smart to have the job they do. So your not the first persons to reach out to them. They can probably easily tell the difference between genuine and disingenuous requests.
YouTube are actively taking down channels which stream the playing of slot machines online for real money. In addition just last week they suspended the popular slots channel Dunover Slots.

I interviewed Dunover on Skype earlier in the week. Needless to say the comments on the video we uploaded of the interview has everyone divided.
Then, who voted for them, if not the Polish?
Why so? There's no chargeback involved if you call the airline to change your return flight's date. At worse the airline will charge something extra for the trouble depending on the type of ticket you bought.
If the lynch mobs were being organized over the telephone, would it be the telephone company's responsibility to intercept the communications and stop it?

If not, what makes Facebook different? Do we want Facebook to be the arbiter of what we are allowed to say to each other, or do we want them to be a neutral carrier for communications?
That's one of the best marketing strategy, I really want to buy that button right now :X
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Ask HN: Non-brain inspired route to Artificial Intelligence?
Most likely it's naiveness speaking, but is there a route to Artificial Intelligence that doesn't involve modelling some aspects t of the human brain but some weird exotic mathematical structure (ANNs don't count) that produces equivalent representation of the functions most likely approximated by NN to attempt tasks?
The way I've done it is schedule an IFTTT that will search for a post with X points. This then will be served to my Pocket account so that I can read it later.

By the end of the day, or while commuting, the Pocket app has links with X points that I can then consume.
> A caveat to #2 is that depending on the language, it may be possible to override safety, for example Haskell's fromJust can throw an exception if used on a missing value. But this tends to require conscious effort, and can easily be checked for automatically, since it involves the use of unsafe function calls.

A much scarier example there is C++, where std::optional can be deref'd (literally `*opt`, the easiest and shortest thing you can do with it)… and just UBs on an empty optional. Because C++ hates both type-safety and memory-safety.
I don't think thread prioritization is the cause of the apparent lag. We've gone from mostly synchronous systems to highly asynchronous systems. Typing on a keyboard used to be a hardware interrupt that would also print instantly on the screen. Now it's a serial bus being polled every few milliseconds, followed by a buffer copy between kernel and user space, with a/several memory allocation and transfer of ownership to a GUI thread, that when scheduled may draw the character on the screen using a DOM that needs to be recalculated which requires accessing the memory allocator in the OS which is currently locked by your Android build.
(2nd author of the paper here)

By "implementation bugs" we mean _any_ bug that could cause the NAT to not satisfy its spec, which is a formalized version of RFC 3022.

This includes bugs that a type system would catch, such as improper use of void pointers, as well as lack of crashes (e.g. Out-of-bounds indexing, division by zero...); but most importantly, it includes _semantic_ bugs, such as forwarding a packet to the wrong port, incorrectly modifying a packet, not updating the internal state properly (so that future packets are handled correctly), etc.

The main contribution here is that only the data structures (which are reusable) need to be proven by hand; for a new NF, you only need a specification - which is, as you point out, not always easy to do.
That’s not the case. Brazilian visas are trivial for Americans to get, they just cost money.
Why not do all 3?

I wouldn't bother having a lawyer write the 3rd letter, or with the genealogist. Just send the info and see if they write back.
Why not Linux then? Apple can still change their minds in the future and sell previously gathered data.
I don't think they test for racism as a side effect, so you can't say that definitely. I actually think it's very possible that certain drugs can have irrational fears and phobias/-isms as a side effects.
Oh yes, that great beacon of liberality, the burka.
Yup, I've heard the restaurant business is hard. I would rather try to run a super-marathon than a restaurant.
The bitcoin ecosystem, a type of blockchain, manages tons of money, and does so in the public - open source, open ledger, everyone can try to either crack or improve it, etc.

And yet it works well. And everybody has heard of it.

So let's say i'm a manager at big corp X, and need to implement a secure transactions system(for whatever) - Is there a better way to cover my ass than using a blockchain ? to cover my manager's ass than to choose bitcoin/blockchain ? What is that way ?

As for VC, this is one article: https://www.ccn.com/whats-behind-the-multi-billion-dollar-ve...

And i think it also helps us understand why some founders would like blockchain.

Also, a side note: it's extremely easy to make someone interested in the success of some crypto coin. This means many people now have the motive, and manipulating the media becomes a possibility , and maybe , it's easier in the age of internet.
Ask HN: Is Google Chrome's autotranslate feature a huge vulnerability?
First, let me say that I am not a professional of any kind. I'm actually just entering my first year of undergrad.

Anyway, let's get to the point:

If someone were to use the auto translate feature to look at a foreign bank account (as an expat or something), couldn't the server request to translate your page be intercepted and read by a malicious party? It seems like a much easier point of entry than something like a key logger or something. However, like I said, I'm not a professional, or even a semi-professional. I thought of this, quite literally, in the shower.
They are linking to the things being discussed. God forbid people use hyperlinks on a website.
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> Complexity is always the enemy, but only if you have to deal with it. My car engine is very complex and I don't ever think about it.

That's a bad example. My BMW E90 has a gasoline direct injection system, which was state of the art when the car was made 9 years ago. It is very complex and the parts it is made from are very expensive. The BMW specialist tell me the misfire my car has will therefore cost more than £2500 to fix, and even then they'd be guessing.

It would be better if car engines were simpler, like they used to be before they had to start passing artificial emissions tests that don't measure the impact for the whole life-cycle of the vehicle.
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You're wrong on this one. The comment was substantive.
I currently live in Germany, but I am Greek and have lived in Greece for most of my life.
No, because the rule of law has largely collapsed and, like lynchings everywhere, they happen with the complicity of local law enforcement.
On Win10 you need to have enough swap space on an SSD; HDD I/O has totally kneecapped latency, seemingly due to blind usage of NCQ (AHCI driver got replaced from Win7), so it chokes out entirely when combined with the even more broken swap manager.

"Enough" meaning "infinite", because you're going to have something leaking all that memory. Task manager doesn't even show memory usage by default (add the "commit size" field), only the working set (and the swapping is insanely aggressive, so memory leaks just don't show up). Nobody seems to actually check that; even built-in stuff like Windows Update leaks pretty badly.

Oh and the memory accounting doesn't even work.
You didn't spend a week in Poland. You spent a week in Warsaw.
Oh do fuck off you ignorant little shit
This should be expanded to Palestine, listening for Isreali jet bombers that blow up entire apartment complexes
Natural viruses aren’t malicious; they even have evolutionary pressure to become self limiting. Artificial ones, not so much.

Natural ones also appear far more infrequently than computer viruses, and I’d expect the same pattern with artificial organisms.
It's actually a very good example. I drive a 1978 GMC pickup. Once a year I drop it off at a place and the guy does maintenance. That and adding gas are all that I do.

When I travel, I get a rental that somebody else worries about.

These things are as complex as we will tolerate. I love new vehicles and have a blast driving them while traveling, but frack if I want to have to update and reboot my car. What kind of living hell is it where everything we touch is complex like this?
I copied and translated a quite limited subset of the official traveller guidelines.

There are several reasons why it ended up like this, and I don't know all of them.

But two reasons I can think of:

1) With the introduction of RFID-based commuter cards, the zone system was revised for traditional ticket types as well. It appears convenient that a price can always be determined by knowing the check-in point, the check-out point and the shortest path in the graph. Unfortunately, with the old ticket types, you have to perform the calculation instead.

2) It is the odd shape of zone 2 that causes some tickets to not work on the way back, even though the trip goes in a straight line. But for a large part of all trips, you only need zone 1 and 2, or zone 2 and zone (30, 31, 32, 33). Only the ones that start in zone 2, go through zone 1, go back into zone 2 and farther into another zone (or vice versa) have the anomaly. (Trips that actually bend can have this too, but it is slightly more intuitive.)
If I'm calling the shots, up until recently it's been:

Backend: Clojure + Postgres. Keep it as simple as possible.

Frontend: Simple server-side templating in Clojure if that's sufficient. React (from either JS or ClojureScript) if non-trivial client-side interactivity is needed. My experiences with Javascript "frosting" on mostly-server-side applications hasn't been great -- can easily end up more complicated than an all-React implementation, even if you need server-side rendering.

But I'm increasingly keen to avoid the JVM, so future projects will probably have something else on the backend. I've used node backends a few times recently, mostly in "need to glue something together fast" contexts, and have been pleasantly surprised.
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In essence, will the existing team like working together with that person, ignoring all the purely professional aspects. Personality, communication, agreeability, compatibility (or conflict-avoidance) regarding various non-work opinions, alignment regarding subjective styles of work (e.g. 'move fast and break things' vs 'verify everything 3 times, even if it causes a delay' - you need to fit the organization's "style"), etc.
Is there not still a pattern of concentrated, familial land ownership?
I just remembered now. My PC at the time had an IBM Blue Lightning processor, and (I guess) IBM chipset motherboard. The PC wasn't IBM-branded, but had a sticker on it that said it was manufactured by IBM in Scotland.

Anyway, the SB 16 worked fine in Windows 3.1 and in Linux (Slackware, with kernel 1.1.59), but it didn't work properly in DOS for some reason.

I looked online and found that others with the same chipset had the same problem, and no one had found a solution.

So the only way to play Doom with sound on that computer, was to run the Linux version.
Well, you have to go back a long way to find "before the intervention", ie into the 18th century.
preferably labelled "magic"/"more magic"
I have been getting more into machine/deep learning et al recently and have been pleasantly surprised that the calc and linalg I learnt 25 years ago I just need to review, it all still works the same! So refreshing after the short shelf/half life of many tech skills. These are the skills that matter (and that if I’d been entirely self-taught I never would have learnt)
Hi, nice that you enjoyed Indonesia! Even I havent been to Sulawesi nor Flores, good luck with your trip and safe travel!
My son learnt how to play music on Alexa and stop it with "Alexa, stop". Unfortunately he now stops it playing music that my wife and I want to listen to - or tells me "Daddy, stop" if I am talking and he wants to say something...
That is like saying you only want to pay taxes towards the roads you drive on yourself.

Would you be better off if all publicly funded roads where instead private and required you to pay tolls per usage? You would defiantly get an bill more matching your usage, and people who don’t drive would pay less. But it at least feels like we are better off with public roads because they all add value to society as a whole.

The same goes for education. You don’t care about Akkadian studies, but perhaps someone does who thanks to his education can focus on that and earn enough money to buy a car from you auto mechanic keeping him in business making life better for you.