skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend Vipassana too. It completely changed my perceptions about the world and humans.
Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN?

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How on earth do they find so many journalists willing to be paid on a promise? I get the psychology of chucking some money on cryptos, but actually working every day for something that isn't money less so.
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The problem with excessive overtime (and the now abolished Golden Goal) in football is that the quality of play decreases dramatically as the players get ever more exhausted. Going to 120 minutes already doesn't lead to one team clearly outplaying the other in almost all cases.

The big difference to e.g. american football is that football is a low scoring game even at the best of times. Tired attacking players will score even less, since a succesful offense relies on outrunning and outplaying the defense, while the defense typically can deny a lot of goalscoring opportunities by simply being in the correct positions. If no one can score by minute 120, it really doesn't make sense to make the game go on even longer.

I agree that a penalty shootout is close to a coin flip most of time and that this isn't a satisfying way to decide a winner. However there are teams (e.g. the german men'sn ational team) that consistently outperform on penalties. That's because penalties are far less about technique than they are about psychology. It's all about performing under pressure. That pressure is even higher in a penalty shootout at a big turnament. This plus the sheer drama of it make penalty shootouts one of the most thrilling events at a big turnament.
Can folks at Stanford come by and watch live? (This is the first I've heard of the Stanford Chess Club…)
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You'll appreciate this: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
Give me 6 weeks or 2 month spare time and I will not even start because I know it's just holiday and my job awaits me.

Working on weekends with a plan helps me getting things done.
The vast majority of ICOs so far have not been scams. It might seem counterintuitive because we hear about the SEC closing down on a few projects but if you look past the headline you'll see that most of the cases brought to justice so far where for complete scams that didn't even have a working token model or a business model.

I'm not saying that having an ICO will make your company a success, in fact as far as I can see the average survival rate for blockchain startups is in line with any other startup, bootstrapped or IPO'd
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That's certainly the perjorative view. On the other hand extreme pressure and death threats might cause one to wonder if the game is worth continuing. How many of us would enjoy that? Given that the whole point of UKIP (as far as I can see) was to ignite the Brexit debate leading to the referendum, the job was done and UKIP had zero chance of doing anything else. Farage failed to win a parliamentary seat so why would be subject himself to further non-profitable activities? He was a successful trader prior to his entry into politics.
> We destroyed 2000 years of an entire continents written history.

The Australian aborigines have been around for 60,000 years. Their oral history has survived for 40,000 years.

We can't even maintain an oral history in the so-called West for 80 years.

Sometimes its a wonder we are so sophisticated at all. I guess going to Mars makes a difference. But often I wonder if in fact the oldest cultures on the planet aren't, possibly, the wiser ..
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Radiation is another issue. I have heard that radiation hardening is very costly
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That it was not the autopilot misbehaving but the MCAS. The pilot probably assumed it was the autopilot (and therefore deactivated it) but didn't know about MCAS in this situation.

I wonder if the system showed a warning that was active to give the pilots a hint of why the aircraft behaved the way it did. Even if they didn't know about MCAS, a warning that it is active would've at least triggered further responses (e.g. cut off power to the systems to return to manual control).
I can second what you are saying. Currently living in Switzerland and trying to learn the same way is nearly impossible. I learned better on my own for the years prior to coming here from the states. Every class I have taken, the teachers are just instantly speaking from German without zero explanation in your mother tongue. It truly is a waste, im here on tech business as well and basically all of my colleagues speak english as its the internal speaking language for businesses around Zurich. What has helped me slightly, is memorizing german songs, and translating them via google translate, to me the speaking it and hearing it doesnt help nearly as much as memorizing vocabulary, which is what I focus on now.
There is a world of difference between gambling and being defrauded.

I have little idea what will happen here, I don't know any more about the story than presented in the article, but an awful lot of securities sellers have gone to prison despite their customers being aware in theory that their investments might fail. If there's any merit to the claims, this is certainly not the end of the story.
It really depends on the individual. I’m like you, I prefer regular running over sprints, and could happily run a full football game, but I’d be dead after 5 minutes of full-court basketball. Some of my friends are the opposite, they could kill it on the court for ages but wouldn’t last 30 minutes in football. Some of it is due to conditioning, but like all athletic performances there is also an element of genetics.
Looks like Humio. I wonder if they can match speed and flexibility of Humio.
Ceephax Acid Crew - super fun(ny) bangin' acid dance beats

Aphex Twin (aka AFX, Polygon Window, Caustic Window, The Tuss and others) - insanely beautiful, engineered yet organic music, has tons of acid tracks (see 'Syro', 'Collapse', 'Analord' (afx) and Rushup Edge (The Tuss) for more recent acid stuff)
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Interested to know how unique US is in this regard. If your name checks out, I assume Japan is one such country where things differ from your experience. I would guess that Japan is the exception though, not the rule.
An alternate way of asking the same question- why don't we have typescript runtime in browser.

The answer is political. Microsoft can't create it in edge because they would be blamed for trying to fragment the web. Everybody else has no reason to.
> Adtech industry would disappear overnight.

That or the promise of doing good, would just be empty signaling.
The zigzag podcast was one of the things supposedly going to be funded by Civil. 90% of it was about if Civil was going to work and all the issues they were running into. It was supposed to but help fund them and also be the way people would influence the topics. I stopped listening to it before Civil failed its ICO so I have no idea what their plans are now.

https://zigzagpod.com/
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You may have the patience but I do suspect that the majority of people doesn’t.

I also don’t think it is necessarily about respect or admiration. In day to day interactions, people just prefer to use the most efficient means available to understand and be understood. Like using English instead of a clumsy beginners level of Spanish.
Personal attacks like this are totally unacceptable on HN. I've banned this account.

It's also unacceptable to use HN primarily for ideological warfare.

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Just as a point, I’ve helped with open source projects under commercial interest. I’ve fixed bugs and created documentation and all I got was a fuck off or silence from the maintainers.

So I don’t bother any more. Most of the time I build a new wheel that benefits no one.

Fostering a good culture requires lots of work from both sides, contributor and maintainer.

I’m not saying all projects are like this but I’ve waded into too many of these so far.
This article begins with an analogy to the thermodynamic concept of entropy, and then attempts to relate it to other kinds of "entropy" by making the simplification that entropy is equivalent to disorder. That's all fine and well, but then I really thinks it goes too far: you really can't try to "reduce entropy" in your business by looking at a physical process, nor is coughing "the transfer of energy as heat". It's getting dangerously close to the kind of pseudoscientific platitudes that ended up making something like this marketing description of the Pepsi logo, which "uses" general relativity in its description: https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
>>The problem is that the referendum should have been framed as "Start exit negotiations."

Very true.

Many people thought voting for `leave` meant making the immigrants leave. They were interviewing people on BBC and people on the streets were approaching non-white people and saying `We voted leave, so you guys leave now.`

The vote should have been framed as `UK should remain in the EU`, `UK should exit the EU`.

That would have probably worked better than framing it as `Should the immigrants remain`, `Should the immigrant leave`.
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You don't even need that, there are people who retrofit 3.5mm jacks into jack-less iPhones. Ie, the iPhones that were designed to be without audio jack still have enough space to accommodate a hub to switch the lightning port and a DAC for audio output AND a 3.5mm port.
You and xe were both quite clearly talking about implicit licences.
The law concerned, in this case of a (purportedly) Russian citizen using EU-located servers to serve WWW pages to people in the EU, is not U.S. law. You have made this further error twice, now.
The actual wording at least in the article is "maybe get rich". That doesn't sound like fraud to me. Fraud would have been to claim "you'll certainly get rich".

Journalists must have known they are gambling if they don#t receive real money for their work. If not, they were incredibly naive and perhaps have learned a valuable lesson. Namely, don't rely on empty promises.

The article mentions stock options. Stock options also don't always pan out. It rather feels as if these journalists feel entitled somehow to their riches, as they have seen their brothers in tech receive. But they forget to think about the people in tech who toiled in startups that failed and who also received nothing.
What about the social pressure, with dev social networks and all?
Note: I'll only speak for my toy app, not pretending to be an expert of Dat, obviously.

I don't try to build a consensus (if by that we mean conciliating possibly conflicting entries, like Stellar if doing, for example), I just merge feeds. For now, it's as simple as it gets : my feeds (one in each character's archive) are json array of objects each containing a timestamp and a message, I just concat them and sort by timestamp. Of course, this won't fly for long, I'll soon have to separate data sources in chunks and process them as stream to avoid loading everything in memory at once, but for now, it's good enough to explore what I can do with the protocol.

I have the feeling your questions could be sum up as : how do you implement authority if there is no central control of data? (my apologies if I got it wrong and make you say something you haven't). The answer is : you don't.

With a standard app on a server, if you don't enforce data integrity, one user can possibly break the application for all users. With an app like the one I'm building, an user only share their data with a small group of friends and can only affect them. If they corrupt their data, the app is only broken for them. "Congratulation, you broke your toy. Now what?" (edit: in my app case, removing that person from the group would be enough to fix the data).

Of course, this reduces seriously the scope of what kind of app you can build (forget banking apps, or anything where anonymous people interact with one an other at a public scale). I'm perfectly fine with that : I can build my usual small tool services without pondering if it's worth mantaining, renting a domain name and renting a server. I'm not trying to build uber or bitcoin.

Please note that I'm not saying that consensus protocol and security can't be implemented with Dat, I'm just saying that it doesn't matter for what I'm currently building (and which is my only experience with dat so far).
Same way you find engineers who’ll take RSUs and work for your startup by accepting less pay for a possible future where those RSUs are worth anything.
I haven't lived anywhere else only traveled so my experience elsewhere is only from a few days. Found toilets nicer than anything in Japan in Copenhagen, Stockholm, a few places in Germany. They usually had a fee of 10 to 50 cents and so stuck out in my memory but like I said, only there a few days each no idea what the norm is.
Plus his kids hold German passports: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/18/nigel-farag...

Pretty hypocritical to keep spouting anti-immigrant ant--EU rhetoric when you have different plans for your own kids.
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I've taken a similar oath, but I don't think it really addresses polotics's concerns. Each of his mentioned topics are subjects which you could discuss and debate at length because reasonable people could disagree, especially when considering specific cases.

The Obligation is not specific enough to deal with complex problems which may have multiple different points of view. The point of it is for you to think about the morality of your actions and to do what you think is right. But, polotics would presumably like to require you to do what he thinks is right.
Or go multicloud, or avoid lock-in. Containers are cloud neutral. While admittedly some of the App Service/Engine equivalents require fairly thin configuration, docker images are pretty directly portable.
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I think I can explain the Civil proposition but I'm not associated with the project or Consensys so I may be incorrect / plain wrong.

It starts with a Token, a Token Curated Registry and micro-payments / paywalls..

The token has a double purpose:
- Allows token holders to vote on which news sources should be in the Civil registry (ie, the trustworthy news sources).
- Allows token holders to pay for content using micro-payments to access articles (ie, think Brave browser and Metamask enabled paywalls)

The token curated registry is basically a whitelist of news sources/ agencies / newsrooms that are trusted by the token holder community + this organisation dubbed the "Civil Council" (veteran news and media people associated with the project) consider to be trustworthy in their reporting / fact checking etc.

The plan seems to be for people who consume media to pay for content deemed to be of high quality by accessing the traditional sites / platforms (ie, unlike FB the plan is not to make a profit by aggregating other people's work in your own platform) with a type of "paywall" that requires a payment in civ tokens.

Hope this helps, but if anyone wants to discuss the cryptoeconomics of TCRs and how this primitive can improve the signal/noise ratio in polling or voting systems... let me know :-)
Sixel is great. But you could also interpret the headers of common image file formats as terminal escape sequences, so that you can directly "cat lena.png" and see the image. Now, that would be a real hack!
Please don't post flamewar comments to HN.
Scheme is generally also a LISP Dialect, more so like Clojure, since it inherits many of the LISP features directly.

Generally Clojure has very little in common with LISP dialects, besides some concepts. It has no linked lists, almost no functions are the same, almost no macros are the same, no special forms are the same, similar named operators often do something different, ... Think ATOM, CONS, CAR, CDR, APPEND, SETQ, NULL, DOLIST, DOTIMES, ... basically the original core of LISP is not present in Clojure. Literally no Clojure code runs in LISP dialects and no LISP code runs in Clojure dialects -> without completely rewriting it. Some Scheme ran in LISP - with more or less effort to do so. Nowadays that's not very common.

Clojure may in abstract terms be a LISP dialect, but the expectation that anything from LISP can be applied directly to Clojure is not the case. You can't take any LISP book and execute the examples in Clojure , nor would it make much sense.
I agree that AI has potential on the scanner. My academic research uses HeartVista's RTHawk software, which is essentially a driver to enable real-time MR imaging on magnets where the original manufacturer's pulse sequence API doesn't offer good real-time scanning options. I don't use it for its intended purpose of cardiac imaging, but apparently their latest version takes an AI approach to the problem of locating the heart within the field of view, determining its orientation, and prescribing imaging planes through the heart so all the important views that a radiologist would want can be acquired quickly.

GE might even be on the way to integrating some AI into their scanner tech stack. As of version DV26 you have to specify the anatomical location when you start scanning, and it inserts a SAR scout sequence at the start of the protocol. The SAR scout is apparently looking for shapes matching the indicated anatomy, and if it doesn't find them (say, you're scanning a water-filled phantom that's not shaped like the head/brain you specified) it complains that the SAR estimate won't be as good as it could be. I don't know how they've implemented it, GE might just be using some simpler computer vision for this, but it's the sort of problem that could be well served by AI.
The EU has a lot of software projects and a lot of them are open source (EUPL licensed, which is compatible with most other FOSS licenses, it's sort of a EU-compatible GPL). The problem is that most of it is self-dogfooding software, ie, software that meets the needs of the EU governance, which is not necessarily something that is a need in a lot of other institutions like corporations.

You're, however, free to release software under EUPL to indicate you support the EU in the free software effort.
>I also don’t think it is necessarily about respect or admiration. In day to day interactions, people just prefer to use the most efficient means available to understand and be understood. Like using English instead of a clumsy beginners level of Spanish.

Of course, but I can guarantee you that, at least for Dutch people, we have huge admiration for people trying to learn our language. Dutch is hard and the effort is appreciated, it shows a certain kind of respect towards the country and its people.

I can guarantee you that if someone at the counter gives the receipt and a foreigner replies with "Ja, graag" in a thick heavy accent she will be greeted with a smile.

I think that we switch over to English and the easy more default setting way too easily, this makes it hard for people to learn the native language because no one wants to practice with them.
Dupe

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Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how wrong you think another commenter is.

We've had to ask you this more than once before.

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> in many countries it's considered quite normal that the police/state are antagonistic to citizens

I suppose so, if you consider all countries. But I'm not sure that's reasonable to compare The US and, for example, Mexico, like that. If you consider peer countries to The US, with similar cultures, like Australia, The UK, France, then it is not normal that the police are antagonistic to citizens. In The UK most police don't even carry guns.
Pimsleur is nice because it asks you to actively and quickly respond to the recordings. It's a little over-priced, though. There's so much free content out there for most languages.
IME, outsourcing companies do this so you have to go through them to talk to the individual attached to the resume, not for any moral purpose. I've been on the receiving end of that one - a recruiting firm was sending out a (poorly) anonymized copy of my resume without my knowledge.
The “and tables” clause is the differentiator, I think. DynamoDB tables are roughly equivalent to Datastore namespaces; I don’t believe Google Cloud Datastore supports cross-namespace transactions.
The HN community isn't of one mind on this. Rather, it's deeply divided, just like society at large—and just like most large population samples are on most divisive topics.
You skipped the bit where he spent a week cramming with a traditional textbook
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@jbob2000 agreed, the current reality is that 95-99% of people don't know or don't care where their personal data is stored, who has access to it and how it's being used to manipulate them.

Just because something is the "status quo" doesn't mean that it won't be possible to change. History is full of examples of where once popular ideas/systems/regimes have crumbled in the face of something new.

Again, I remain optimistic that the (unhealthy) "habits Facebook has created in us" can/will be broken.
(and not replaced by something worse!)

Just as Rome was not built in a day, it also did not "fall" in day either. i.e. I don't think a single outage will have much effect on Facebook's dominance.

The first step in helping people "detox" from Facebook is creating an objectively healthier way to spend those "bored" or "lonely" minutes Zuckerberg is obsessed with owning.
However: “Multi-document transactions are available for replica sets only. Transactions for sharded clusters are scheduled for MongoDB 4.2.” DynamoDB is sharded by design.
That is one solution.

For me the issue is time. Adding the annotation took 1-2 mins. Downloading the video on youtube (since I no longer have the source material), then loading that into some video editor, adding the annotations, rendering it, and re-uploading it would easily take 1hr per video. So IMO it's not really a good solution. I don't have the time.

Personally I think they should keep the annotations and keep the source video. When you change the annotations they can re-render the video on their end. Keep the 1-2 minute workflow
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I don’t think FDB supports cross-database transactions, though.
This mirrors my experience learning German, in Germany, pretty much exactly. I falsely assumed I would just somehow pickup German by being exposed to it every day but the brain is amazing at filtering things out. I'm attending German lessons 3 evenings a week now but it's still a rough road.
But if the clean toilets have controlled access that requires a fee for use then that mitigates tragedy of commons effect. Not aware of many places like that in the US.