skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How?

My grandfather wrote a book in the 1940s that’s been out of print since the mid 50s. Every entity associated with the book is dead, including the publisher, which merged into another in the late 50s and is probably an inactive imprint of some successor company. Grandpa died in 1985, and a cousin or I is likely the heir to his rights.

I have a copy of the book, which I bought via Alibris from a bookstore in Wales 15 years ago. If you needed the book for research, you’d probably get it via inter-library loan from a university or a big city library. Whomever the publisher is, they don’t have it and aren’t selling it. In no scenario does anyone get paid for transacting, other than a reseller or the post office.
I wish I could remember where I read it but..

'The 20th Century was the century of the computer, The 21st will be the century of the Cell'.

The premise was that you couldn't revolutionise biology without fast cheap computers.

I wonder if there is a Moore's law equivalent for biology.
I try to keep my pages down under 50k, 30k or less 80% of the time. Perhaps it's me but I think anything over 999k is insane unless it's spa or a page full of graphing function. My expectation that others are doing the same might be incorrect.
This is an interesting and innovative approach. It is essentially a grey hat operation carried out by the government to raise individual awareness about cybersecurity. Considering that the article mentions a "constitutional right to privacy" I'm assuming that citizens would have significant recourse if one were to prove that one's data were leaked. It is ethically dubious but as an American whose phone calls can be tapped at any time without a warrant I am open to the idea that it is time for radical measures to improve privacy.
what do you mean by crypto infrastructure? you mean the code or the miners?

actually banks have failed in the past, this infrastructure not yet
I have to admit I haven't actually used kotlin, but I've taken a look at it and could see its lack of verbosity in syntax alone making it more productive java. I mean typing half or even a third of the amount of characters kind of implies that right?

I had to write something in java recently for the first time in a while. I'd forgotten just how much you have to type for the most basic things.
NMF works great for unsupervised audio source separation, e.g. [1]. See [2][3] for a good overview of the field.

[1] http://librosa.github.io/librosa/generated/librosa.decompose...

[2] https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01631185/document

[3] https://sci-hub.tw/10.1002/9781119279860.ch8
Becausr the full-res version links went down often yesterday, I'm hosting it on my IPFS node, here's the link (for those on IPFS, if you can afford the bandwidth please pin it to spread the load :) )
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVLTMHtLRhnft3QspDx4qTJeXY6hiib1j77UfQ...

Also made it available in torrent form (with the IPFS URL as a web seed)
http://www.urlhash.com/124410/mosaic.png.torrent
Yeah, I'm feeling that. It's creeping into more traditional genres and publishers as well. I was kinda hyped for BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle until it was revealed that the base $50 game is a "starter pack"; only half the roster is included. For this kind of game it might be defensible to use DLC to negotiate the addition of more franchises contingent on initial sales, but they actually sliced characters from every included franchise, probably in an attempt to jack up the DLC attach rate. So it goes on the hypothetical "maybe I'll buy a discounted 'Complete Edition' someday" pile.
Java is not really superior in standard library design. There is too much architecture astronautics going on. Standard interfaces are too complicated. Nominal interfaces kinda suck. Java also lacks green threads. There is baggage in the design of many libraries related to previous lack of lambdas that is now annoying.

The Go documentation as well as standard interfaces are tastefully and minimally done (for an imperative language): https://golang.org/doc/ - e.g. https://golang.org/pkg/io/ ... To my knowledge there is no equivalent of this for Java that comes close.

Compare https://golang.org/pkg/io/#Reader to this mess https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/Reader.htm...

Java has pretty nice generics. With Java 10 the language is now decent too.
Your use case #1 is money transfer where no centralized database can not be bothered because the overall volume is so small. Long tail of sorts. I think that's a good use case, not sure how much volume overall.
EA is really struggling with their Star Wars license. If they put out just 1 good Star Wars game they'd see insane revenue. I haven't purchased an AAA title in years and I would buy an okayish Jedi Knight IV.
You don't need a CTO
To be fair, I have both 2018 MBP 15 (work) and 2015 MBP (home), I notice the weight of the 2015 a lot. Performance has been relatively the same - hasn't been mind blowing if I'm honest.

I really do hate the new keyboard to the point where I simply don't do any dev work until I plug in my dongle with my screen/keyboard. It's really that bad. The touch bar has been useless as well and more of an announce sometimes, especially when it would freeze randomly.
dynamic_cast<neuron_t>(&astrocyte)
Another approach to similar problems is Coda: https://codaprotocol.com .
While I admire the author's attempt to bring structural clarity to a broad concept, greater clarity can perhaps be found by broadening it further still.

Anyone who has refurbished a house will live and breathe examples of technical debt embedded in the workmanship, and the material / design choices around them.

As you discover past shortcuts made by hurried builders, asbestos components or electrical cabling no longer safe to use, you quickly realise that you have to address these issues in a way that doesn't come back to bite you down the line.

As a regular homeowner you are transformed into the perfect dogfooder for House 2.0, and this perspective should inform your (day job) approach to technical debt as it is traditionally defined.
> those who have the sway to control the fate of the technology have largely used it to pursue their own personal enrichment over the health and success of the system as a whole

You say this like it's a fact but I feel like it's the opposite. There aren't many compelling examples of this. And to the extent that there are, they exist in a competitive market and their fate is determined by users and investors, who weigh the cost of the greed vs the benefit of the technology and reward/penalize accordingly.
We'll just see the same powers that be gain power in any specific crypto except now we have less protection laws in place.
We're not in general availability yet, so not many. We're restricted in how many domains we can self-allocate prior to it being launched.
This sounds like trying to judge a visual artist based on how many liters of paint they used, or installing a security camera to monitor how long they sat in front of their canvas.
> but showing the whole action from a roof-top or sky camera or atleast traditional football broadcast like camera would make it more watchable

I'm quite sure this is very intentional with Rocket League broadcasts. There's even a "director cam" that Psyonix built for this purpose, and it is still used often. It's just that it's not as exciting or impressive when you're not seeing it from the player's view for whatever reason. Everything looks slower and you miss all the nuances of the pros' mechanics.
do we want governments and politicians to use transparent money that can be tracked? hell yes
Aren’t there great number of civilian deaths in the Middle East like Iraq, Yemen? I wouldn’t be surprised that my ignorance is leaving out some wars in Africa this century that the west has some complicity to as well.
The fees aren't the point. The point is, using something other than cash tends to trick people into spending more in the same way buy one get one free does.
When Bitcoin first appeared I thought it was some fly by night scam. Their talk of it being anonymous seemed to be at odds with the technology that put every transaction on the public record forever. Like you could buy drugs with the money, but as soon as you tried to convert it to real money you'd be busted. Or if you ran it through one of those money laundering services, then you'd still be busted as soon as you withdrew the laundered money. For that matter, I expected at least one of the laundering services to be run by the feds so they could get a wealth of data about the people who need to launder money and where it is coming from and going to.

I guess I put too much faith in law enforcement.
Well yes, there was a huge cringe factor. I'd say 99.99% of everyone was the opposite, clueless in the midst of it (In hindsight I made my mistakes as well!)

I'm no expert on blockchain, but crypto taught me very very very powerful and insightful investing lessons.
Outside of what others replied to you with, there is another aspect I find about it, that truly resonates and excites me, despite not being a holder. To me, Bitcoin is also a large experiment where laws and rules are written as open source code, which any1 code fork and run their own version of it, or any1 can submit a proposal for.

This is what traditionally legal system with the power of violence used to deal with before. Now we see it implemented as a code. This part is more exciting to me than trying to sidestep whatever misguided government (not just US) rules and actions are.

EDIT: Perhaps proof of work based on burning energy, which is expensive and tends to bring centralized parties, is not the best way to ensure rules are enforced, but the fact the whole thing is open source is great in my opinion.
There are plenty of people who consider C++ good too and its used by people daily. Doesn't mean that Rust isn't a better language, even though there are less people that use it daily.

I think we need to be real about what are the strengths and weaknesses of each platform instead of drinking the coolaid. Otherwise we don't learn anything and the bad parts are going to find their way in the next one.
Microsoft teams outage
Apparently it's a hoax. The mystery is why this is on HN.
That also goes the other way what does 5 Eyes have on those in FAANG?
> Once you discover what is true and what is false, it is very frustrating to have to deal with people who are not as smart as you are.

It is also very frustrating when you think you discover what is true and what is false and have to deal with people who you think are not as smart as you are. The effects of this can be observed in social media discussions on both sides of the political divide, as well as in the words of the people in this article.

It's funny watching how something said in jest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL-KXisUCtU) is turned into yet another meme about how conservatives are stupid, followed by a lecture about misinformation in media.
Just think of how many different colours of lightsabres would be available through microtransactions. I would have said grey area gambling but you did specify okayish.
> Modern C++ is still the only way to go for serious software.

Please define serious software.
I wonder if the date problem is a bug, not a feature?

Is it possible to dump the metadata of a book and check if they have the right date? There should probably be multiple dates for a book -- date written, date copyrighted, date published, date of latest edition, etc.

My guess is that Google does not have a publicly-available issue tracker for Google Books so you can't easily report this problem. Hacker News is a good way to get their attention, though...
Canada does this, but often products are sold per kg, lb, or 100g. Frequently, different tiers of quality are sold in different units, so comparison shopping is that much more tedious. And the 100g thing is especially pernicious -- all too often, a first glance indicates a 50% discount that careful examination shows to be a 5x markup!
Yes, on GitLab. It works really well and helps to ensure that commits in my name and email are actually by me.
As long as you trust your gov.... I think Japan is probably in better relations with its citizens than most countries...
Jailed for stealing grapes: The motives of Japan's elderly inmates
The ten MB block size limit lowers the number of transactions that can occur in a single block therefore inflating what miners can charge for a transaction. Increasing the blocksise would require miners to choose to mine a hard fork. See the DAO hack for what can happen with strong governance.
Indeed, it's really easy to criticize when you're not the one making the decisions. I think a comparison to most other global powers makes the U.S. look relatively benign.
Some activists were using this kind of service to track dictator's flights to track stolen money [1]. If said dictator's can block their aircraft, the misappropriated funds would be easier to sneak out of the country.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12700445
[PSA] FusionAuth 1.4.0 Adds Self-Service Registration, ECDSA and JWKS
When People Leave
Using
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?a=srchls&anyall1=all&q1=...

I get 14,515 results, with 3,115 of them full view.

There is also
https://analytics.hathitrust.org/

which seems interesting!
'Killer' cells raise hope of universal flu vaccine
That's what I thought too! But no - HN is against crypto at the moral level. One day the almighty father Paul Krugman declared crypto as thought-crime, and ever since, progressives have dutifully towed that line. It's tiring.

I think they subconsciously see it as an attack on state-sovereignty or something like that. The ability to tax and redistribute. That's just me reading between the lines.
"It takes one to spot one". They must be speaking from their own experience/mastery of the subject.
Something wrong with them nowadays?
> CSS in JS is almost the same as working with (S)CSS, except for extra power to control dynamic elements without having to juggle with classnames.

I completely disagree.

Time and effort creating frontend design systems, will result in a set of CSS files .. but will also enable efficiency, flexibility, accessibility, maintainability and extensibility. These qualities just aren't going to be as available if you use CSS in JS.
No, we're highly judgemental, but an employer is not allowed to inquire or make hiring/firing decisions with regard to your health status. Likewise life insurance might have a higher premium if you regularly engage in extreme sports, but they can't deny you. Health care is ubiquitous regardless of your condition.
My dream is a modern Star Wars/TIE Fighter space shooter. Those were some of my very favorite games back in the late Win 3.1/early Win 95 era.

I suspect it wouldn't have the same widespread appeal as an adventure/shooter/RPG like Jedi Knight, but it could be also be made at a pretty low cost, and it's not like the license restricts how many Star Wars games they can release. May as well go make a space shooter with a smaller team while they still have the license.

Why does everything have to get the AAA treatment these days?
Implementing End-To-End Encryption in Matrix Clients
This is just wrong. A kiosk merchant may accept cash payments legally. If she wants to accept cards she has to go through the stricter compliance rules of the card processors. Same applies for crypto.

A transaction does not become illegal just because some class of players do not want to become part of it.
Transforming to an Open Businesses
Humans will now be able to optimise themselves for whatever they want.

We know how this ends.
Well, "your ideas" contains your idea of them respecting the fact that people have different ideas and values and that they should be allowed to use their platform in ways they see fit that might differ form the stakeholders that currently decide what is and isn't allowed.

The notion that they supply hardware and software and you then decide how they are going to work for you is no longer valid for the Apple products as they are. By default, macOS is being more like iOS now, which diverges from the generic idea of the personal computer.

This problem is of course far wider than just computers and Apple, more devices, services and companies are headed this way in varying degrees.

I suppose that means you are out as a user, developer and decision maker etc. Apple probably won't care unless you take 10 million customers with you at the same time. Anything less than 1 million is probably not even going to register on their metrics, and anything less than 10 million is only marginal. This is both the problem (our problem as users) and the benefit (their benefit as a company at scale) of this broad customer base many companies now have. It's not really a globalisation thing, but more a combined globalisation+commercialism+scale thing that makes this kind of thing common.

It's not that they want to make things less attractive to certain users on purpose either, that would be counter to their purpose of making money; it's probably far more likely that it's a case of Hanlon's razor. Take the way PKI is used to enforce some rules on hardware (i.e. iBoot and the A-series SoCs from Apple but also Intel's BootGuard on a much larger scale); it's not that they want to block people that want to fiddle with their hardware and software, it's just that this is the best they could come up with to defend against generic attacks. And it's far from ideal.
Delivery Disruption Alerts for All ECommerce Shipping
Right, but then they also have no visibility into what's installed or running on my computer, and it's not like I had much control over installed versions they just obsolete w/e API they want on whatever schedule they want to force updates.
Hi HN, I have been working with this company and developed this service as a skunkworks project within the team.

It is free a daily email alert to notify e-commerce businesses if there are delays with shipping and delivery.
It tracks issues with Carriers, Traffic, Borders, Strikes and weather and alerts shop owners and customer service.

Just the UK and Europe are being covered at the moment but I am hoping to expand that pretty quickly.

You do not need to sign-up to test it out. An example of the daily email you would get is here: http://www2.scurri.co.uk/webmail/385842/696462373/38f9db97d4...

Future plans would be better personalisation so you can choose just the areas and carriers that affect you and also a feed so you can integrate it with your own support systems.

Let me know what you think.
You may be talking about the "free sample of limited gameplay" or "free to play, pay to win" or "free to play, pay to not wait" models, to all of which I would deny the simple title of "free to play." A good example of actual-free-to-play is DoTA: You get access to the full game, all characters, all servers, etc. The only thing you pay for is cosmetics; you can't buy anything that gives an advantage in-game, and it's hugely popular as an esport and makes Valve tons of money. It's free-to-play done right imo.
The same can be said about oil companies profiting from climate change. Or any other industry practice that harms consumers/society while raking in profits.

And this is exactly why it needs regulation.
Ah yes <narrator voice> "Here we see the two nations as defined by cp snow in action with Oxbridge chaps who did a PPE keeping those greasy engineers in their place "

Sorry mate if you perpetuate the attitudes that have held the UK back and why we don't have any FANG's in the uk don't expect me to give you a soft ride.
I think it would be extremely electorally damaging to ban such a major site, because it would affect so many people, even if people aren't hugely openly fond of Facebook, there would be a huge amount of outrage and anger that the government has cut people off, even if it was for the right reasons.
Yes. The number of bacteria will double every 20 minutes.
Israel's first lunar mission to launch this week
What I know of it is Nano uses a DAG rather than Blockchain, similar to IOTA's tangle
True, but if you're often in EU (that thing completely surrounding Switzerland) you can use one sim to roam in every EU country. So if you are from Luxembourg and regularly visit Belgium, Germany, and France you also get advantages. Much more than a German from Berlin who regularly visits Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Munich.
There's not going to be a day where a publicly traded company gives a standing government the finger. Private companies seem like more of a possibility for this outcome, but I don't think any of the super well funded ones are that suicidal.

You'll see well funded PACs for the rest of your life.

The politicians aren't naive. They are inviting some level of campaign funding by threatening these companies. Google clearly has gotten the message. Facebook's spend is increasing significantly.

Google PAC:
https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00428623
FB PAC:
https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00502906
I find business failures of technically superior products to be absolutely fascinating and well worth studying. The Amiga and BeOS are two of my all-time favourite failures.
My name is Mark. I work with C and C++ in computer graphics.

I often receive 'Hey David, I was impressed with your marketing & sales skills'.

Sigh.
> My family and friends said i was stupid, utopist, being conned, wasting my time, and so lany things. ... All great things start like that.

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

-- Carl Sagan

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/carl_sagan_163043
EU Commission Deletes Article 13 Post Because 'Mob' Understood It Incorrectly
What decentralization of power has occurred in a way that significantly different than any other market? Exchanges presumably control most of the coin. Pump and dumps seem to been extremely likely.

It might not be worse but IMO it hasn't proven to be better.
[Using U.S. law as a convenient set of terms of art, not to be geocentric.]

The internet is a technical embodiment of the First Amendment (freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion, right of peaceable assembly, right to complain about the government).

Bitcoin is a technical embodiment of some of the Fifth Amendment (due process -- protection against deprivation of property, and even life/liberty if you accept the unremarkable proposition that it's hard to live freely if you can't buy anything).

Having these technical protections in place are important regardless of their impact on or benefit to any one person.
I don't accept this assessment of how Bitcoin's consensus fundamentally works. Yes, anyone can fork the code, but consensus comes only when the miners choose a fork.

As far as I can see, there's no significant incentive to mine other than money, so miners want money, so you can persuade them with money.

The "consensus" is fundamentally an auction.
Either me, my girlfriend or both of us are in those phone calls.

I feel absolutely betrayed by the state. I always knew that Sweden's obsession with medical data collection would back-fire but audio recordings? That's just too much.

I hope everyone involved gets sued into oblivion!
In recent projects I tried 3 new approaches: React's CSS-in-JS, Vue's Scoped CSS and Tachyons/Tailwind Atomic CSS.

All of those solutions were a huge improvement and scaled better than any of the previous pure-CSS techniques I was using before.

BUT the key here is that those things only work when you rely on React/Vue/etc components. If you have have to rely on copy/pasting markup, things go wrong FAST and you lose track of your app style and things get duplicated. You also to have to enforce SMALL components. If you duplicate markup between components things get hard (but not as nasty as if you weren't using components).

I honestly believe that people not using modern frameworks can't see the advantages of any of those techniques, and would urge everyone to try them out in component-based project.