skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why would you want to democratise a process that benefits highly from expert knowledge?

To get more tourist dollars. Think of it as a loss leader. You allocate 0.1% of your archeology budget to humor the amateur Egyptologist YouTubers with the most subscribers, and then engages a whole new generation who then want to visit for themselves.

If the guy who runs the Ancient Architects YouTube channel thinks there might be a secret entrance to the pyramid behind a specific stone, fly him out and let him go up there and check it out. It's not like the whole thing is going to fall over if he runs some tests on it or tries to see if one of the stones is movable, people have been climbing it for thousands of years.
>> There's just no way for a human to know what's in violation and what isn't.

People can host their own stuff. Simple. Don't host content you don't know the origin of and can't document you've got the right to do so.
Why do people even use Medium? Doesn't this kind of stuff go against the ethos of being a computer scientist?
Marvel and Disney Remember Stan Lee
Same, but I wonder what we lost in translation given what the other commenters wrote. I wonder if it hits harder in the native language.
Yup. In WWI the defender had railroads and telegraphs to let them contain a breakthrough but the attacker couldn't make use of either on the attack. By WWII we had trucks and radios, making breakthroughs much more meaningful.
His last "current" one was in Teen Titans Go to the movies, which is arguably his funniest cameo
This is a great idea.

I know most of the organizers for tech meetups in my area. They all tend to handle the case of food differently

- One takes donations through patreon, which has worked fairly well. They have an actual board of directors, so it's very legit. I'm not sure if other cities have anything remotely close to this though.

- For popular technology meetups (react, .NET, etc), usually a recruiting firm will sponsor the pizza. They contact the organizer generally. Usually they will do a 2 minute blurb at the start of the meeting

- For meetups that are part of a larger organization, they tend to get funds straight from corporate. E.g. CodeForAmerica, GoogleDeveloperGroups, etc.

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As a side note, I kind of wish it wasn't only just pizza. Some healthier options would nice. Some meetups use jimmyjohns or chickfil-a instead, which are nice alternatives.
If ContentID works so well, why would it be costly for Youtube to comply with the EU laws?
This looks like a hunt for culprits, even if such course of action does not make much sense. Please be aware that these are suicides, not murders. The workers, even the suicidal ones, are free and self-responsible people, presumed to be capable of taking care of themselves and their life, which includes their physical and mental health. Here's a dull, yet important word of advice for everyone: be aware and caring of yourself as a living person and don't hesitate to change course if your current path leads to misery of any kind, let alone to (premature) death.
It's not really targeting poor people, or dark skinned people - it's targeting people that the elites of the time saw as 'morally deficient' - most malum prohibitum laws target moral perceptions of moral deficiency - or try to preserve notions of a static society.
If YouTube can afford it but their competitors go out of business in the EU how would the market shrink? Regulations tend to shrink only the providers, not the consumers.
Last Pass still saves generated passwords, it's just become a hidden feature for some reason...

Each generated password is visible in the triangle drop-down to the right of the generated password.
This list resets on restarts
Maybe the emphasis is too much on the suicides. It seems like the concern is not just about the suicide rate, but the general working conditions and lack of freedom in China, in Shenzhen, and at Foxconn. Here's a pro-labor take on the challenges workers are facing on China and efforts to suppress reporting about these challenges [1]. The suicides (at Foxconn, in China, and around the world) are exacerbated by poor economic conditions [2].

China also has a lower suicide rate than the US even [3] although I'd be skeptical of underreporting, given China's low press freedom ranking (176 out of 180 [4]) and low "human freedom" ranking [5]. It's speculation but worth considering that things may be worse on the ground than what's being reported.

[1] https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/condition-working-cl...
[2] https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/public-healt...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
[4] https://rsf.org/en/ranking
[5] https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index
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I try not to respond to emails with one liners.

I have a co-worker who does this. She sends me data files with "Please review."

So I've started responding with things like, "It had a good beat, but I couldn't dance to it. Three stars." Or, "Excellent datas!!eleven! Fast shipping! Goog eBayer, would buy again!"

She's still sending me the one-liners, but at least I'm having fun.
It's actually Lighthouse under the hood.
At this point wars between powerful nations are almost impossible. Proxy wars are the current fashion, and those tend to be controlled in scale by the puppetmasters behind it.

I'm more scared about a great civil war in a powerful nuclear nation. Civil wars are a savage affair where no rules apply.
I wonder what the power requirements are? If they're substantially less than the Pi Zero, perhaps it has a use case?
I don't look at Medium blogs that often.

Some great blogs not hosted by Medium:

- http://samzdat.com
- http://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com
Of course it is. Not for all, though.
Or don't eat the pizza? Unless you are trying to stick to a very restrictive diet, a slice of pizza isn't going to ruin your health. Keep going to gym, eating healthy, and either eat before the event or just stick to one slice of cheese pizza if you must munch with everyone else. It would be nice if there were other options for events like that but there really isn't a healthy, cheap alternative to pizza that fits the same role and has the same universal appeal.
Smaller companies or personalized support structures (like named engineers) is very different. You can build up a relationship and usually bypass many questions to get to main issue, and even get it resolved before you can even open a case at larger organizations.

GCP does have role-based support models with a flat-rate plan, which is really great, but the overall quality of the responses leaves much to be desired.
What the article and the commenters here seem to forget is that it's not only the technological level/political situation has changed, but the way people think as well. There are several global trends that allow for optimistic predictions regarding big wars of the future.

The global level of violence is dropping and overall tolerance of casualties is declining. Rising cost of human life shifts the perception of conflicts in the majority of countries. It's getting very hard to explain the necessity of even several dead bodies from local conflicts, let alone to justify a sacrifice of millions of lifes.

Related to this is the shift of global power: throughout the history the ruling class is basically military. Thus the perception of war as of something possible, profitable under right circumstances and even desirable. This mindset was carried into the 20th century when it met technological progress which made possible the horror of World Wars. Likely, it seems that it has changed, at least to some extent.

Current 'ruler of the world' is not the army, it's rather all sorts of special forces and agencies. It's hard to sell the idea of marching and dying for your king/motherland/god to the public today and thus get/take the funding required, but it's much easier to sell it the idea of security. Security is a good thing, right? So the agencies need more and more power to protect you better. Sadly, in a paradoxical way this is partly also a consequence of rising value of human life.

However, 'special forces' elite is different from a military one and it's more bound to civil oversight in regards to casualties and the acceptable scale of violence. So we see that the conflicts of today are much less bloody than they could be given the weapons we have.

Now one can argue that this only holds until the current order is not significantly destabilized, or that it can spiral into some perverted form of 'preemptive security' (like e.g. govt propaganda about the need to eliminate some threat completely and strike first and hard for the sake of 'security'). And yes, everything can happen. But thinking of probability it seems that the balance is shifting towards smaller local conflicts rather than global wars.
Obviously.

It doesn't change the fact that an OS install and updates take up a significant percentage of that 128GB, whereas they take up an utterly negligible percentage of a 1.5TB disk.
I hope they make real progress on improving the C language, not just slap on yet another library/header to the standard lib (cough.. <complex.h> ..cough).
Moderation and curation are not the same thing. To say YouTube makes editorial decisions largely hinges on whether or not someone thinks programmatically primitive content viewers are likely to watch counts as curation, which seems a bit far fetched to me. The only curation I've seen YouTube do is highly limited in nature (e.g. promoting YouTubers of color during black history month).
I don't know. Why did the aggressor nations invade (since 2000):

Afghanistan

Anjouan

Crimea

Gambia

Georgia

Iraq

Lebanon

Somalia

Syria
Plaintext Recovery Attack of OCB2 [pdf]
So sad to see .dev go. :(
> Generally, using yourself as a user proxy for most applications will be worse than using personas, unless you’re part of the core user base

I disagree. Part of training to be a designer is developing the skill of empathy. You learn to live with users in your body.

Arguably, this is the most fundamental skill of design and the primary way the profession functions at all.

I think your suggestion that you can somehow model users in your frontal lobe as “the other” and get something more accurate is not correct.
Yeah. And they require that the number of parameters grows at least polynomially with the size of input. In this regime, we also have another algorithm capable of zero loss -- the linear regression!
Unlike the Foxconn workers, those 22 were not all young, healthy, and employed. You are comparing different demographics.
>Basically today you have two models: paid content and ads. Without copyright there would be only one model.

You also have publicly funded television. There is no reason you couldn't also have crowdfunded television. Budgets would be much lower, in all likelihood, but something would be there.

It's actually hard to discuss counterfactuals like this because there is such a strong bias towards assuming that the world we got is the world we would/should have wanted. If things went differently creative outlets might have been different and our preferences would have been shaped differently.
> It's starch, dairy and processed/cured meat regardless how you make it.

Not to be too much of a devils advocate, but I usually eat pizza in the form of a pesto pizza loaded up with veggies. There's definitely an argument that could be made that pizza doesn't have to be unhealthy.
Why Experiment Tracking Is Crucial to OpenAI
This is sort of true... but when people don't understand the results promised, the name of the method to delivering the results becomes a proxy; this is one of the functions of buzzwords in marketing.
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> The graph of warheads per country is basically the US, Russia and everyone else combined is a distant third.

Once just one single nuclear bomb destroys something significant, all bets are almost surely off. So counting doesn't help, the whole domino-effect constellation is simply too dangerous. The only sustainable solution is to reduce the arsenals the orders of magnitude, if we want to increase the chances for the humanity to survive.

The right perspective is exactly the WW I: Austrian Empire just wanted its own teeny-weeny local war (just as an perspective, as late as four years ago, some Austrian historians still claimed: "Austria didn't start the WW I -- we just started the war with Serbia -- everything else was done by everybody else"). But the domino effect ensued. The result was the whole world erupting, so badly that even WW II was a kind of an effect of WW I, as the article also recognizes.
Thank you! People underestimate how difficult it is to emerge as an independent content producer. It's not the first time I share something in this way and every time someone pops up with this generous offer to the other readers. I don't mind as I might get less throwaway accounts in the list :) but if the topic is of any interest to you, my email newsletter is nothing but more similar content.
It's not that easy.

A modern C++ compiler will have all sorts of issues with fundamental C idioms, and depending on C++ is a very different story from depending on C.
All right, not exactly, but close. Close enough that I think the point still stands - they had these weapons, but they were mostly not used, because of the fear of retaliation with the same weapon, even in the heat of a great war.
Thanks a lot! I'm happy to see you appreciate it!
A lot to respond to, I'll try.

I'm measuring stuff that is actually happening, whatever it is (phone, email, error log, metrics, etc) and have to assign a cost. I find that easier than guessing how long to discover the right answer to a (maybe) complex problem.

For phone and email support it's easy, directly measurable cost. One would decide for them selves how to factor those intangibles (ie: confidence).

Currently I do things like this-ish:
- Phone and email at direct cost; but if the issue is a duplicate double cost.
- Lost deal factor at 15% first year value
- Logged errors at $10/first, $2/dupe - make values that match your company revenue/expense.

We try to exit interview clients but generally have a good feel for it - ours is a pretty high touch relationship
3D-Chip-Based Analog Photonic Quantum Computer Demonstrates Quantum Fast Hitting
It went all right, once I adjusted my sarcasm detector...
I definitely feel it.

I'm currently on an ancient HP elitebook that's my main programming machine, but I compile on a different machine with ssh and use Vim for all my text editing.

Opening pycharm on it makes it crawl, and it struggles on the web without noscript.
List of mathematical concepts named after places
Here is a counterpoint: The C language is not finished, and many programmers like myself would like to see the language continue to evolve and grow in reasonable ways, especially given the fact we'll keep on writing it for a while to come. The ISO C people should be commended for doing their hard work.

Alright. Glad we cleared this whole thing up.
Precisely the opposite -- it's going to be available for open registration soon. https://get.dev/
Raytracing a Triangle with VK_NVX_raytracing
The real reason Palmer Luckey was fired from Facebook
>Name me a non-obscure movie, show, or song and I’ll bet I find it on YouTube.

With songs, at least, most of the time it's posted there by Vevo, so the recording industry put it there themselves. It's unlikely to be a big driver of their traffic or revenue. The incentives aren't even there, they're so quick to demonetize or send DMCA takedowns that anything people are likely to search for are at high risk of being taken down. You really only see the flowering of pirated content in the early days after live events, like when a new movie trailer drops.
> May be more profitable to have 30% of a large market than 90% of a small one.

Or in this case, 80% of a large market more than 100% of a small one.
I think this is a good question, but it also seems like someone could have said "what's the point of war" with the same arguments in the late 1930s. Maybe I'm wrong, if so if love to hear some thoughts on what has changed.
Fasting increases health and lifespan in male mice
They are opening it up now: https://get.dev/
My main concern with things like this and autocomplete is can they actually influence how the user thinks and what they say? It would be interesting to have users write about a subject with a "good adjective"/"bad adjective" biased AI and see if there is a measurable difference in opinion on the subject afterwards between groups.
When I saw a video[1] about Chinese gutter oil, I didn't believe something as repulsive could exist. I was wrong.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv78nG9R04
Pretty much at the end of my 2008 Mac Pro rope. Along with repair-ability, the base and upgrade pricing is just getting out of control. With a high spec mac mini approaching 2k, I can only imagine what the new MacPro will end up being. I sure as hell am not spending $6000+ on one. Next machine will be a coffee lake Hackintosh, it really takes very little effort to install nowadays.
Instead, it would be fairer to say that the further left you go (in the US), there is animosity towards conservatism and racism

Go far enough left, and what you'll see is there's animosity towards one kind of racism, combined with energetic forwarding of another kind of racism, plus other identitarian tribalist ideas. The above is then combined with nonsensical linguistic games denying the bigotry, claiming that there's some directional arrow based on inherent characteristics.

I agree that sometimes an unfortunate phraseology is used by those that muddies the meaning.

Political extremists on both the far left and far right are demonizing entire groups of people based on ethnic subcultural markers, skin color, and other hard to change characteristics. We know what that is, historically. We already have words and definitions for that sort of thing. Those definitions are universal and orthogonal from any particular identity. It's only in recent years that people have tried to sell the public nonsensical "unfortunate phraseology."

"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength." It's the evil that disguises itself as good in the eyes of many that does the most damage.
Good idea, but a strong acid probably would do better than paint. With paint it will be difficult to make the letter truly unreadable.
In my experience, a good index doesn't just show where any usage is, it also covers where it is significant (bolding, sometimes subcategorizing).

In the big texts (granted, for me these are almost always RPG books, but I've read/used a lot of those) that difference is essential, and the difference between the good ones (e.g. GURPS) and the bad ones (most WW books...the ones that HAVE indexes) is very noticeable and definitely impacts not just ease-of-use, but effective-ness-of-use. Being able to really get/refresh uses of different bits has a direct impact on whether I apply those concepts consistently and correctly or whether I do something that works well enough.

This definitely describes what happens when changing code too, but we don't have that same option for "significant usage". We can get every usage, usage numbers counted by file, and definitions, but not when a use is significant. We rely on tools to get those numbers, because any kind of manually supported index (of code) is doomed to failure, much as most texts fail to have indexes, or at least fail to have very useful ones.

I wonder if that "significant usage" is something we can do something about. What does that even mean? I've been looking at code linguistically a lot and I definitely can see how we can use syntax to better indicate the focus of code (vs trivial but necessary side bits), is there a way to mechanically note that? It would still require coders to write that way, but frankly I feel we need better (or at least more clear) best practices on that front anyway. If we expand our lexicon of constructs, and mechanically make use of it, it becomes testable, reliable, and still more communicative that the current "this feels good to me, therefore I declare the code 'more readable'" approach.
I have like 30 tabs open from things I promised I'd return and read (until an accidental closing of the browser saves me from these obligations). But as I began to read through this, I could not stop.

Xu's poems are remarkable. A creative soul trapped inside, and eventually swallowed by, the meaningless pit of capitalism.

我被它们治得服服贴贴
They've trained me to become docile

我不会呐喊，不会反抗
Don't know how to shout or rebel

不会控诉，不会埋怨
How to complain or denounce

只默默地承受着疲惫
Only how to silently suffer exhaustion

While being a peasant is in no way desirable, at least you don't have to sell your soul pretending that a life spent serving a gigantic corporation in return for scraps is desirable.

Most work is simply absurd - a place of drudgery and despair. We can say that while still accepting that it beats poverty.
Wow, a lot of snark for someone who literally has put his own life on the line to fight against the corruption that defines the Putin regime. But, easy to criticize from afar, I suppose.

The Magnitsky act is needed and brave, and would not exist w/o Browder. Can the dude get a little respect for that, at least?
> But thinking of probability it seems that the balance is shifting towards smaller local conflicts rather than global wars.

Only if you ignore "but you started first" nuclear war that can start even completely accidentally.

https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/past-announcements/

If you think "but everybody in charge knows what they are doing" you probably never worked in any large enough organization. We should all actively work on forcing the politicians to significantly reduce the installed nuclear resources, simply to increase the chance for humanity to survive once an accident happen, because sooner or later it will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
This short paper extends the attack discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18350594

... into plaintext recovery (in the setting of the attack, which is chosen-ciphertext). You can think of it like an OCB2-specific version of a padding oracle.
DIY or not DIY, a house once built has to conform to building codes and those codes take earthquake, fire and hazards into account.

So my followup questions to your observation are:

1. In your experience is this false? does a separate set of building codes apply to DIY vs. a developer?

2. In your experience has DIY houses built upto code shown a higher likelihood to fail than a developer built house?

3. In your experience is a savvy developer with no ties to the property more likely to respect building codes than the owner who will be living in it for decades to come?

3. In your experience is a savvy developer more likely to use higher quality, longer lasting materials than the owner who will be living in it for decades to come?

Thank you for your observation. I am interested in your thoughts on the following:

I wrote this comment because I notice a huge lag in supply of housing. Even less when you take the quality of the building into account.

I wrote this comment because building codes are terribly onerous right now. Its very expensive and overwhelming to a DIYer.

Solving the supply side seems like a good solution to me. However, just saying "Let there be houses!" does not make houses appear.

There has to be people available who can actually build them.
This is not necessarily a trivial fact, but I wouldn't call it incredible. It says a net trained with gradient descent can fit the input perfectly if its much larger than the input.

But this says nothing about generalization, i.e. performance on test set -- which is what we really want.