skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I thought it was obvious I was talking about active groups killing people today, and not about no longer active groups killing people in the previous century.
I think you mean apocryphal?
"Boring" is fine by me. Easily-confused characters are not.
NYC city subway is one of the low points of the city.

On the other hand, it has this cinematic charm that I like as a tourist. But if I was going to work everyday and seeing this neglect, I'd rather had some renovations done.
YouTube stars: ‘The most fun job imaginable became deeply bleak’
I really like Arial and I'm not afraid to admit it.
I lived in Austin and had AT&T and Google Fiber at times. The service, speed, and reliability was exactly the same as was the price. It's amazing what some competition will do. I now live in Minneapolis and actually have 10 Gbps up/down and the option for 1 Gbps up/down for half the price of Google/AT&T in Austin ($35/month), but no Google Fiber (US Internet is the provider here).
In 1985, the Atari ST came out and that same year supported booting into its (single-tasking) GUI OS from ROM, quite a step up from the BASIC REPLs I assume you're referencing here.
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I want to try something like this with a plain HTML file. It would need a way to include data that is not processed by the browser at load time, but selectively processed in JavaScript when needed.
https://sciter.com/download/

> include – C and C++ include files that define the public Sciter engine API: window level functions, DOM access methods and utilities.
If time is a dimension not constraining to fundamental physics, there could be higher dimensions where more fundamental things manifest, as a way to explain it, as does string theory. If there are higher dimensions, what's to say we can't actually experience more fundamental realities through consciousness traveling. If time passes slow by in an emergency or a profoundly concentrated moment, humans if definable as the human consciousness could be traveling at relativistic speeds and not knowing. Elegantly, it's not matter doing that since matter wouldn't survive the trip.
But people know how to form their own opinion - YouTube likes to show me talks by Noam Chomsky, but I don't have to agree with him. I think they are blaming too much on these evil algorithms.
My standing suggestion is Dominatrix and Gimp - should be PC enough for everyone
The container has the OS, Julia install, and code?
What Is Span in the Sensors and the Full-Scale Output?
More like, odds of Jack Ma "falling" off a cliff?
Ask HN: How can a Software Engineer/Developer/Programmer attain fame?
At the risk of seeming vain, I ask this question.

There are so many great programmers & teams out there working on great things like Browsers, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Cloud etc., it seems I as an engineer stands hardly any chance to fame. What can set me apart to attain fame and glory?
I got frustrated with the Youtube recommendation system, and built a search engine of videos I scraped: https://www.findlectures.com

I'm relying primarily on trusted recommendations - if someone I trust likes a speaker, I'll index channels where they speak. This doesn't scale well, but it has made for a tool that works really well for doing research.
Looks fine to me. I presume it's trying to use a Web font or something, which is a "feature" I specifically disable in browsers that support it. Doing so also makes pages load faster, lets me read partially-loaded pages without the text jumping around, decreases my attack surface and (most importantly) lets me read all text in a reasonably sized, reasonably spaced sans-serif font.
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It's not emulation, it's wrapper on top of native ui toolkit.
win32 for windows, cocoa for macos.
Ask HN: List of co-working spaces/ incubators along with their contact?
Looking to partner up and thought of an idea where our product could have a potential use case here so wanted to reach out. Normal way would be to web scrape but was just wondering if anyone here might be able to point me in the right direction to collect these leads?

Thanks!
There was a time when it seemed that science worked within the constraints of epistemology, but now it seems to be radically reshaping that domain.
Others have pointed out that there are good free apps.

But more interestingly, there are bad paid apps. Take this paid Mac app for instance: https://gizmodo.com/top-apple-mac-app-secretly-sends-your-br...

What I’d really like to know is whether anybody has any evidence whatsoever that paid apps in these same categories don’t do exactly the same things in exactly the same percentages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictatorship

https://www.unbelievable-facts.com/2017/11/good-dictators.ht...

Google is your friend (These are from first page of 'best dictators in history')
Well aren't you a special unicorn ;p
I'd take predictable slow software on some platforms over unpredictable fast software any day.
You know, when I read the tweet and the discussion I think, people worry about AI becoming paperclip maximizer, but this is worse.

Our own society is becoming paperclip maximizer! We want to spend more time watching interesting videos and more dopamine shots.. And the company and people working for it, even indirectly, oblige.

We worry that there will be an AI where all of what it does is a consequence of giant misunderstanding of human nature. But what if there is nothing to misunderstand about humans, but it's rather our own design flaws that cause our desires, when being taken as an objective function to be ruthlessly maximized, lead to society that is, at best, extremely dull.
Microsoft and Apple OSs: A visual history
If being a public servant is so agonizing, there is a simple solution for them, most European countries offer livable welfare, you don't need to be a MEP if the job isn't for you. We literally have lists of people willing to do their job, it's called an election and it's coming next year. So this can and will be fixed very soon, so don't fret about spam, just stay home.
Ask HN: Help with Very Old HDD/Laptop
I have been lurking for 7+ years and this could very well be one of those HN changed my life posts but I'll spare you!

I have a really old (circa early 90s) Amstrad 286 based laptop that was gifted to me as I was "intereted in computing" a long time ago. The original owner of the laptop died early in his life and I was always curious if there was anything on it.

Fast forward a few years and I have watched BBS the documentary, and at some point afterwards I fire up the laptop again and find a file called 'friends.txt' which was an ASCII advert for Rusty n Edie's BBS[0]. I spent a bit more time exploring on the laptop and there are lots of personal files written in Word Star etc. that would be of significance to the family if I can read them.

Anyway, there is a whopping 40MB HDD (a Sony SRD3040C-50) inside which I removed from the computer and tried to read using a modern Linux distro and a PCI IDE card (based on IT8212F) but had problems retrieving the data. It would copy files at an extremely slow rate and then freeze completely. USB to IDE chipsets are a waste of time because 99% of the market are implementations of the JM20337 and they cannot read this disk properly (detect it incorrectly as 2TB in size etc.)

It has Prince of Persia, Golden Axe, Tetris etc on it and I was able to get a file listing using tree (39 directories, 2006 files) and I also attempted to create an image via dd but that also froze. I was able to get ~280KB of the disk before it froze which tells me that it is IBMMS4.0 and a FAT16 partition.

Essentially what I am asking if anyone knows any specialised old computing forums that would be better able to assist, or if anyone can recommend a feature full IDE chipset that would allow me to read the data, or to tell me if it is likely to even be possible to read the disk on a modern computer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_n_Edie%27s_BBS

tl;dr how do I retrieve data from an ancient IDE HDD with modern hardware?
This seems like it could be inherent to recommendation systems. How would one go about making a recommendation system that doesn't have this effect?
You’re absolutely correct, the terms have been muddled and people, even ‘experts’ confuse the terms. The book: The Mind Illuminated is a great modern day guide on meditation and the different stages of progression one may hit along the way.

While meditating, one typically develops two skills:
1. Samadhi: stable attention, being able to focus on the meditation object without forgetting or getting distracted.
2. Sati: mindfulness. Best translated to something like peripheral awareness.

Samadhi is focus on the book you’re reading without losing your place because the dog is barking. Sati is being aware of the context of your environment (dog barks, birds chirping, the feeling of your butt against your chair) without losing sustained attention on the book.

One cannot really develop mindfulness without sustained awareness, as otherwise you context switch from the soup you’re eating to that thing Brett said at work, to back pain, back to the soup.

Training those two skills gives a person the ability to better focus their attention on things deliberately while keeping enough in your conscious periphery that you have enough context to switch attention to other things that matter.
Why Amazon is eating the world (2017)
It's unbearable.
That all depends on how fundamental you want to be. Atomic physics used to be considered fundamental, and then we discovered something more fundamental.

We've already reached the point at which reductionism breaks down in physics: you can smoothly transform between electrons and magnetic monopoles by varying the fine structure parameter, so which one is made of which? The answer is "Whichever is more convenient at the moment." [0]

There are already nascent theories attempting to simplify quantum field theory, that could be considered fundamental, which are based entirely on geometric and combinatoric concepts where time isn't implicit in the definition of the theory (because it's just manipulations of polytopes) but where time emerges as a feature instead of being an assumption. [1][2]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ-ElsvYKyo&index=2&list=PL3...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Dj8fq30sk

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l87oICmHT2E
Don't worry, RNN generated version doesn't even generate a snippet of music. Calling it music is being generous, at best it is noodling.

On the other hand, Markovian Models can segment and learn grammars. (Specifically probabilistic context free grammars.) The problem with these is overfitting.
Yes! I never understood why QML didn't take off more...
I wish they would provide a way to assign PSKs to VLANs. The SuperPods and self-optimization are appealing but their system just doesn't fit into how I want to manage my network.
You can, but OP didn't.

And you need to understand what you're Markovising - which apparently OP didn't either.
This pattern forms the basis for wheel factorization [1], a faster way to factor a number than naïve trial division.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_factorization
> It’s factually incorrect. The US government can hold patents. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/34/6.3

Fine, that small part about filing is incorrect. But most of my argument is correct.

The US govt allows private companies to monopolize public funded research to keep jobs and tax revenue that research would make in the US, because the US govt can't legally restrict them by filling patents of it's own (except for certain secret patents I read in Wired magazine).

> More widely, if someone argues that changing the law to do X is a good idea. You can’t argue that the law prevents Y because changing the law is the idea.

I was answering OP's question. The US govt wanted a return for it's funding of ALL RESEARCH and this was a way to deal with it ~40 years ago. This is now having issues with drug patents today.

If you actually read my argument more carefully you would see I agree with OP at least with drug patents.

> With tax shifting strategies and countries negotiating deep discounts while Americans pay much higher prices; it is difficult to justify the current practice now.

Please actually comment instead of just downvoting; this isn't reddit.
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So radical positions are okay as long as you're right?

Who gets to say who is right?

For every position that we think is good radical now, there are many more that were not. A slow moving, boring society is one I'd like to live in.

Exciting times make for short lives.
No. 1 paid utility in Mac App Store steals browser history
Escher's “Ascending and Descending”, rendered in Lego(tm)
> My old stuff doesn't support this new standard, and it will take a long time to proliferate!

I mean, yeah? How's that different from every other time there's a new standard?
OP built a whole song self similarity matrix and regularised on that, which forces the model to adapt this kind of high level structure.
Hey Jesse, I am throwing a couple of random ideas here:

- https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/how-would-you-make-an-ext..., most interesting I found the "teach chinese kids english"

- Small freelance gigs, as a native english speaker you have distinct advantage - https://www.upwork.com/, https://www.fiverr.com/

- Probably not an option because of initial costs but there is a huge shortage for developers in Europe, especially CEE where costs are low and wages growing fast. Even call centers would gladly pay $1000+/month just for your english.

- Drop me a line (email in profile). I don't have anything right now but sometimes I'm looking for some help for side projects.

Good luck!
The universe IS completely unknown, and forever will be. It is like a sandbox.

As Alan Watts put it with his mischievous sense of humor:

"Science is the art of prediction"

Talking about religion, Christianity used to refer to this, then it lost its way. See eg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing
Indeed O:-) You may have had to wait until as late as April 1989 to have a credibly decent GUI and (collective) multi-tasking straight from ROM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_RISC_OS#RISC_OS_2
Video Game in a Week: Reflecting on Game 1
the culturally lassez-faire tech industry, which introduced casual fridays to the world.

Casual fridays were invented by stuffy British stockbrokers who wanted to escape quickly to their country pursuits for the weekend without having to change first. It long predates the tech industry.
Not all paid apps are better than free apps :-/
Combine this with self-driving tech and you could have a roving network of traveling cabins across the country. Neat!
I visited Alibaba in 2011 and at that time he had already handed the reigns over to David Wei.
Yes. 'Extreme' refers really to the emotional temperature rather than the content. 'Moderate' views, compromises, etc, don't make much sense and are therefore ultimately boring. This doesn't imply moderation or the battle for centre ground in politics is bad. After all we know more than we can tell, so we can't always explain our decisions and policies. It's merely that there's less to understand and/or criticise.
The thing is, a lot of these people don't have the power to do the things they claim. Or at least, they'd be perfectly replaceable by those who'd do a better job.

Indeed, the only reason this sort of crap happens is because organisations and companies don't have the guts to tell the moral police to sod off. If they did, and their tactics stopped working, many of these issues would go away.
It may not be a universal result. It's an ml algorithm optimizing for engagement. If ten users watches mild entertainment for 30 minutes and one user watches conspiracy theories for five hours straight, the algorithm hones in on that case. I don't know if this is generally true or not, but I do know the algorithm regularly comes up with stuff I'm not interested in so I get bored and do something else.
Unfortunately a bigger more complex RNN learns the songs by heart and doesn't generalise. Beta-VAE units seem essential and they're not doing well either.
One of the funnier random comments I've ever read on HN.
In my reality most do.
State of JavaScript 2018 Survey
Exactly. No one here, least of all Tufekci, is claiming that YouTube has deliberately engineered their recommendation system to favor extreme content. The argument is that it's an unintended consequence of how the YouTube recommender's objective function interacts with human psychology: (1) YouTube trains its recommenders to maximize time on site. (2) It's a sad fact about humans that sensationalistic or extreme content is highly engaging. (3) YouTube's recommendation system thus learns to serve up sensationalistic and extreme content.
that's hardly practical, the point of most extensions is that they stay with you as you browse the web to enhance the functionality of websites. a coupon tracker like honey that only works on amazon.com would obviously be superceded by a coupon tracker that worked everywhere on the web. users would just keep adding permissions to access websites until the whole thing became an exercise in frustration
How to Become a Data Science Consultant in 2018: 8 Actionable Tips
Clever but if you try tricks like that you can’t use the system libraries which is rather inconvenient.
Ask HN: HTTP extension for Postgres
Are there any HTTP or Web Socket extension for Postgres.
The intent is to use PG as Web Application Server + DB.

If it is not already there how can I create extension using any C server libraries ? Is it possible ?
I took a sleeper bus on a 24-hour journey in China years ago, slept very comfortably, and wondered why this had not caught on in other parts of the world. Someone suggested that it was a regulatory thing: in road transportation, passengers are obliged to keep their seat belts on (or at least passengers must be in conventional seats with seat belts there for the use). I am surprised to hear that a company in the USA thinks this is a good business direction.
photoshop 4, all over again
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I'm sorry, my heart was already stolen by VSCode. Too many hours spent fiddling with config files to get autocompletion with scientific packages (numpy/scipy/matplotlib/sklearn/biopython) and a non-buggy REPL, all for a worse experience than I'd get with VSCode out of the box. ST is still neat for generic (non-code) text editing though, and its startup times always impress me.
It is a simple rule and there are definitely exceptions in both directions. (Good free apps, bad paid apps)

The safest assumption to make is that if you give an app permission to access information from your device that the information will be shared with a nefarious actor.

From there, if you want to get benefits from uploading your information, you can make adjustments like "Oh, I know this guy, he's been making apps for a long time and seems trustworthy." or "This is a larger company and isn't likely to be bought just to strip mine their customer data. Additionally they probably have safeguards in place to keep rogue employees from running off with it."

None of those is fail-proof, but it's all about risk.
Which are easier to generate with a prime formula..
The macho sperm myth
Semiaccurate had a pretty in-depth article on the recent management a while back but the site is down and I think it was paywalled anyways.
Would all of those service providers be rewiring the building at the same time? Wouldn't it actually take months to install all the additional cabling needed? What happens when a 6th, 7th or 8th provider pops up. That's just one apartment building.

What happens when xyz start up wants to dig up a whole neighborhood to put their data cables in. Then a month later a new startup that promises to give you a better experience comes in and rips up the road. What happens when xyz start up fails and the half finished project just sits there? Do the tax payers pay to fix it?
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Yes. If we can quickly generate large primes in a sequence then we can find the products easier.
This might be a good time to remind folks what systemic problems are.

Systemic problems are where everybody is acting in good faith, trying to do the right thing, yet the system overall is in a state that's unacceptable. And the harder they work at their little piece, the worse the system gets.

Governments aren't at fault. They clearly are working on enacting privacy laws. OS vendors aren't at fault. They clearly are working on making sure apps behave within some defined behaviors set by the user. Walled Gardens aren't at fault, they are working on rooting out bad actors. App makers might not be at fault. They simply might be monetizing traffic using generic services that only take what the user has already agreed to. Even the services themselves can claim to be working on solutions. After all, didn't the user approve this? And aren't the rest of the food chain approving of this kind of thing? That's the thing: certification systems, whether they mean to or not, end up being a kind of blanket approval. They passed the tests, aren't they okay?

When news breaks, the public immediately wants to find a bad actor and bash them over the head, not wanting to admit or think about the fact that the entire system is at work. So controls are tightened on one bunch and the rest of them make statements (and efforts) about trying harder.

At root is probably something simple like "Don't track user's locations. Ever." I don't know. But I know the desire to simplify the story can lead to a lot of heat and noise -- and not much progress. Any certification system that says that a particular piece of code passes some kind of test can be construed that it passes all kinds of other tests -- and you can never lock up code, no matter how hard you try. This faith in certification systems is misplaced and very well may be a multi-billion-dollar fool's errand.
Note the category error in the GP: comparison of a singular with a plural without any sort of grouping operator applies to the plural. It's become so fashionable to talk about group justice that some people see groups as the primary objects of human experience and think of individuals only as members of homogeneous groups. It's nonsense, but it's the only interpretation of the GP that makes any kind of internal sense.
Small correction: there are only 48 (not 58) numbers out of 210 that are not multiples of 2,3,5,7.
I think he is referring to the fact that you use a fluent builder interface when building protobuf messages so you chain together a bunch of `.setFoo(myFoo).myBar(myBar).build()` to build your protobuf, while in Kotlin it is idiomatic to write `foo = myFoo` and `bar = myBar`. There are ways around this with `.apply` in Kotlin, but it all feels really clunky.

That said if you want a systematic don't make me think approach for backward and forward compat I think protobuf/GRPC is the way to go you just need to learn a few rules for how to do it and you're set. In terms of static typing protbuf doesn't really get you that much because in order to get backward/forward compat you can't have required fields, so everything needs to be null-checked or have default values.
> in road transportation, passengers are obliged to keep their seat belts on (or at least passengers must be in conventional seats with seat belts there for the use)

I don't think this is universally true: most city busses I've taken don't have city belts. Additionally, many of the seats are perpendicular to the direction of travel.
The XKCD quote was a pretty good indication of the author's intent. I like it and will be using it in place of comic sans for all my inter office punnery. As much as I like graphic designers, the ability to give them an occasional seizure is hard to pass up.