skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Donate to Wikileaks when the US government is pressuring every centralized payment processor not to process payments but won't outright ban them. Does that pass?

And I don't see why you dismiss the importance of the first one. What if I'm trying to flee the country with something to my name, like Venezuela. Tough luck?
Looks like a cloud based JavaScript V8 runtime (NodeJs-like?). $5 minimum/month ($0.50/million requests after the first 10 million). Here's an article[0].

Seems like an interesting service for someone, to do something...

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-unleashed/
Addiction is a lack of discipline?

Really?

I suppose you believe advertising doesn't work and the billions spent on it are unjustified?

Look at how brains work. Stimulus response. Reward pathways. Millions of years of biology and chemistry.

Or just read a book on positive dog training. I recommend "Total Recall" by Pippa Mattison as it explains how tiny little reward lead to behaviour that is utterly fixed no matter what distractions come along. ('The power of habit' by Charles Duhigg is the equivalent book for humans)
Show HN: Workers.dev
Nearshoring to Uruguay and Colombia: What Are They Like? Nearshore Outsourcing
Same for PHP. It owes its popularity to early 2000s webhosting providers where only PHP was supported for server-side processing.
That sort of event would typically be getting a slingshot[1] boost from a large passing mass. Those wouldn't come anywhere near breaking a normal asteroid but who knows with a fluffy one.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist
Wedding costs are optional, you know that right?

My wife and I spent under $1,000 for a nice, family focused wedding.

Spending more than that if you don’t have the funds is nuts.
That depends on why it fell apart, and what he would have done about it.

Here is one possibility. The developer checked on the lead system every day, which mostly ran itself. After the developer left, they checked a few times and then stopped looking at the lead system's reports because it was always good. Then months later another team replaced a key system that the lead system needed. Nobody noticed until sales reports sucked. By the time they fond and fixed it, they lost $X million and the people who got fired got fired for not having followed the recommendation to keep the system monitored.

I've seen variations of that story before. And I've seen companies get hurt because of it.

Now there might be blame for the developer. But there are enough ways that the developer wouldn't deserve blame that I wouldn't assume the worst.
Similarly, what do you want to work on? (Motivation for working on your job can be very different than motivation for a side project)
They're reading into this too much. Top talent likes

- Remote work

- Ability to contribute to "moving the needle"

- Profitable, which probably means decent pay
good, that means I saved that job for someone else who wants to do it I guess
I see it all the time. The majority of commenters support this idea. They assume that governments, large corporations, and regulations are all benevolent and refuse to criticize them. These people seem to be unable to see the amount of corruption and potential for it that you or I do.

I see these entities as a vacuum that will inevitably become corrupt if they are not already. These people won't entertain that thought until a scandal comes out or something terrible happens.

I fully expect my comment and yours to be dead as well. We are going against the grain by even questioning the hivemind here.
This is crazy. It is a substantial step forward for NLP and basically every researcher/important person in the field agrees.

And hype for what? They aren't selling anything.
Isn't extra acceleration what dark energy is supposed to explain? (Maybe "explain" is the wrong word. :-) I haven't seen anyone say this (probably for some good reason), but maybe 'Oumuamua's acceleration is from the same source? I'm curious what more knowledgeable people have to say about that.
release the code! you cant stop the signal
Seriously- its a snow-flake, as in something snow bally like Halley's Comet - that would emit vapours under light pressure? What is this, if you disprove your own thesis in the prelude of your article? Scientific slapstick?
Numerical Algorithms for Computing Eigenvectors
And yet he blogged about it and the blog has share buttons.

Trying to figure out which connections matter and how to get them is always a challenge. I'm always bemused by pieces like this because it describes a way of relating that is alien to me.

My experiences on Twitter have been overall pretty positive. I don't have a lot of followers. I'm still working out how to interact constructively with the space. But I fundamentally don't do social media the way so many authors of pieces like this describe doing it. I imagine that's somehow pertinent.
Faster Vlan(4) Forwarding?
Seems a bit to good to be true... working 20% less, and still have 'increased productivity'?

I myself work 4 days a week, which I really enjoy. However, sometimes with a major bug I make extra hours, the work has to get done! You can do more in 6 days than in 4.

For that sake, how much further can you push it, can you increase productivity 20% by working 3 days instead of 4?
Even an aerogel is .0.2g/cc. That sounds implausible to me but so does the solar sail hypothesis. And really we don't have much information about what an interstellar object would be like.
Are you involved with this project? From where are you sourcing your figures?
We can foresee our lack of foresight- so its not hopeless.
Ask HN: How Did You Get Out of Tech and What Are You Doing Now?
After spending 20+ years in software and SW related management positions I'm am wondering how others have moved to a new (neighboring) industry and how they broke into their new role. What do you do in your new role and why has your background in Tech made you a great fit for whatever it is you do now?
they acknowledged even in the original blog post that any well-funded group of NLP researchers would be able to replicate their work within a few weeks/months (including whatever corporation or state or terrorist group you worry about), and that in terms of methodology it is a natural, incremental improvement over existing techniques. so it's sort of obvious that withholding release can't prevent any harm.

the good faith reason to withhold release is as you say -- start a conversation now about research norms so researchers have some decision making framework in case they come up with something really surprisingly dangerous.

the bad faith reason is it gives them great PR. this was surely part of the motivation, but I bet OpenAI didn't quite expect the level of derangement in the articles that got published, and may regret it a little bit.
Nearly everything on your list already exists and much is in limited use by the military already.

I think you missed the biggest item you missed is good hearing protection and sound suppression. In enclosed spaces all the normal issues with loud noises (i.e. guns and explosives) are massively magnified. In fact, it would be terrible to bring a dog much less a canary into this environment.
I really wish the PWSIX succeeds. While CloudABI is a good concept, I don't want to port the million libs already working with a POSIX ABI to another new one
Also VPC networking + patents show how advanced these guys are.
That may be true but considering the job was based around where I live and the company has many news articles written about it and lots of publicly verifiable funding, I don't think it was fake. Of course like I said it's not like the recruiter was like "hey wanna make killer robots??" it's more that in doing research for the company and my own job description that's what it seemed likely I would be partially working on
Shrugging and saying "confirmation bias works both ways" is neither factual nor a valid rebuttal. Confirmation bias is a value-neutral phenomenon. It is neither innate, unavoidable, nor inherent to sociopolitical analysis. It does not "work both ways." It works only one way.

There are numerous sources of policy opinion all across the political spectrum that exhibit confirmation bias. There are also those who attempt to limit their own bias and do scholarly policy work in good faith.

When a person or publishing entity exhibits a tendency to systematical devalue evidence that contradicts their assumptions, that is confirmation bias.
Joel Spolsky wrote about this in 2005: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/27/news-58/
Amazon is my site of last resort (read: less that $100 per year). I'll check it for the reviews (but am always mindful they could be bogus), and to get a general sense for price. I purposely us BN.com or just about anywhere else for books.

I can't allow myself to be a regular Amazon customer. Its ethics and practices leave me feeling dirtier than I want to feel.
I download my epub and mobi files from my browser and IRC, and Calibre has always picked up the cover and metadata just fine.

In the import/add books settings, there is an option to use the filename instead of the metadata. Try changing that?
I don't see why GGP should have to reinvent set theory to use it in his construction of numbers. Set theory and the idea of {} is well defined, and hardly "built on sand".
Robots Track Moving Objects with Unprecedented Precision
you're technically right that the article i linked isn't making the same calculation as you made. I'm not sure why you saw it as a rebuff or some kind of argument for/against. I linked it because i'd imagine that a big concern about blockchain energy usage is the environmental impact.
Truth? What Is That?
We have very well-developed representations of the number universe that we can embed into our own universe. These things are governed by precise axioms. By contrast, we don't have such well-developed "unicorn universe".

Indeed. The current better known attempts at a "unicorn universe" have problems with power scaling and the square-cube law. https://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/mrs81/accordi...

Do you have a good definition of what constitutes a "well-developed" universe?
Mutating the page based on what is dynamically entered into it is just about as bad, if not worse, than splitting the login into multiple screens. And is still a form of being "clever with login forms".

An possible solution is simply to support multiple different login pages (at their own dedicated URLs) for the different styles of logging in instead of trying to cram everything into one.

Kind of like multiple functions in a library under different names, rather than one big one with 15 arguments.
> In Oumuamua defense, it hasn't seen this much of Sun to be impressed or inflicted by its thermal power. 25. kilometers. per. second. It went in and out before Sun could do its damage.

…it was (and still will be) in the solar system for quite a while. The Solar System is big.

> it would be disintegrated by having its surface polished with cosmic energy long before it could reach 25km/s

…no? Relative to cosmic energy, it might as well be at rest.

> Upon impact, it would either penetrate Earth surface exploding inside the core, like any hollow bullet does, or it would cut Earth in half like a high power laser and deform itself on way out.

I suggest you read up on high velocity impacts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_depth
Yes, Netflix and Widevine should work out of the box if you are using Google's Chrome or Mozilla's Firefox builds for Linux.
The code is out (https://github.com/openai/gpt-2), just not the larger model itself.
I'm on firefox mobile (Fennec F-Droid) and didn't get any permission request, on this page or a few of the other recent articles on that website...

The site doesn't use HTTPS, perhaps someone is tampering with your connection? Some ISPs have been known to do that, but not for very nefarious purposes AFAIK.
Fortunately, we have outstanding and trustworthy corporate citizens like Google, Facebook, Uber and others that will continue AI research safely, ethically and responsibly without the risk of such technologies falling into the unsteady hands of the public.
Sorry Only just saw this, I tried with a number of Class 10 cards (Adafruit sell a Window IoT kit which includes a Class 10 card) From a couple of manufactures. All of them would take the image just not boot the image. I was never too bother to check if their was any error messages thrown out over serial. It was just a pasing interest and I couldn't be arsed enough to get another SD card on MS's tested list to try again.
Couldn't agree more, I also can't reliably track the context switches when contracting. The only thing that works for me is to let my app give me a reminder every few minutes. I used Toggl and set it to 15 minutes. It's annoying most of the time, but it also saves my butt routinely, and is the only thing so far that's worked reliably.
In my most cynical moments, I've wondered if the recent "growth" of extreme right-wing movements in the US, and the response, is a long game with regard to civil liberties.
I'm not assuming contract lock-in (there's none with Android, you can drop out at any time.) Android has created competition that reduces mobile hardware to a commodity, but that pressure hits competitors with different OSes, too. (For example, in China.)

PS - you are forbidden (strictly illegally IMHO - bundling law - but you are) from distributing Google apps with phones that employ the Android libraries but not the full Google Android OS proper; but if you avoid Google's libraries you're good to leave for any other OS and still OEM their apps.
Normal solar pressure doesn't tend to speed up an object in its orbit since it comes in perpendicular to the direction of motion. However if the object is rotating it can absorb light on its inner side the re-emit it on its trailing side as that side cools down. This can alter orbits substantially over millions of years.
> Of course it does, because non-successful people by definition can't be "self-made"! (In order to be a self-made millionaire, you have to at least be a millionaire.) What it doesn't do is tell us anything about how much of any given person's success is down to luck.

Yes it does. There is a certain base rate of people lucking into vast fortunes. There is a certain base rate of people making those vast fortunes under conditions we would describe as being 'self made'. As you step further out onto the curve of wealth, it becomes more and more likely that that wealth is 'self-made', because it gets harder and harder to luck into that kind of money. Jeff Bezos, Gates, Buffet, all qualify for being "self made". As you step down the curve, the proportion of people who lucked into it increases.
This seems very interesting and something which might catch a lot more interest than it probably will if its homepage didn't look so dated and text-heavy.

I'm very much in favor of initiatives to make math more accessible to laypeople and this is right in my ballpark, but just reading over the homepage gave me visual fatigue.
How many letters can you do? F, G, H?
Perfect is the enemy of good. I think the parent comment uses their proposition as a good start on the way to eventually achieve universal basic income for everyone. From their post, the part about alleviating lazy hermit related worries when it comes universal income hinted at that, imo.
Thanks for your comments!

On 1) photo manipulation. If "dangerous" means that random, relatively harmless fake facts easily spread, I'm inclined to agree. I'm sure I've been tricked by a whole host of random facts which are probably actually BS based on random stuff I've read online.

On the other hand, if "dangerous" means that a malicious agent can systematically manipulate the public via propaganda a la 20th century Stalin, I think this is basically impossible. Given widespread knowledge of photoshop, changing someone's mind about something significant with a doctored photo seems difficult (it is hard enough to change someone's mind with the truth!). Doctored photographs aren't completely harmless in that they can reinforce existing held beliefs (confirmation bias) and random fake facts aren't totally harmless either, I just think that the danger here is far below what has been implied in other places. In a nutshell, the effects are indeed wide spread, but perhaps not so insidious.

On 2) there being no fire alarm, I'm actually very thankful to OpenAI for raising this discussion. While I disagree with their decision not to open source, this discussion was certainly worth having.
Nothing beats that time our company had us filling out 3 different time tracking systems at the same time and complaining that some of us were adding time tracking as a task that required time tracking.
On dnpedia they state that spothero.dev was registered today
Shoutout to CJ Johnson Writing the Most Important C++ Proposal Ever Made: P1337 [pdf]
OK this is great.

I never gave a moment's credence to the idea that it was an alien spaceship but I really enjoyed reading the thoughtful and well reasoned arguments for and against the idea. For me the space of thought that these arguments created was an interesting experience that gave me an interesting perspective.

So saying "hey no, it's not spaceship... it's weirder than that" (and then arguing that point) is fantastic.
I've always been curious why the green wave speed is posted anywhere, especially in suburban areas. A couple roads with bike lanes in denver have a posted green wave speed for bikes (often ~13mph). It wouldn't be a huge benefit, but could be more pleasant for drivers to also have that information.
I feel like it'd be nice to have a foot switch or hardware you can plug in to USB with maybe 5 buttons and an accompanying app. Maybe you can tap these buttons to switch the counter and press the active button again to pause the current counter.

I still feel like some type of foot switch would be better though.
> I've seen integers sent as strings and others as integers in the same JSON.

So what? Just use a veryFlexibleUint64: https://github.com/sapcc/limes/blob/d51ecdbb763318da146b9f32... ;)
Getting into a flow state is most important, at least for me. Starting is the hardest part, but if you force yourself to start then it becomes much better. That being said, some people don't ever seem to hit that flow state or have trouble hitting it for certain things. In that case, I would advise doing something like a Pompadour clock type of thing, 30 minute sessions (or whatever time limit you want) of continuous work, then break, then another timed session.

Like others have said, a lot of it is just developing the habit of doing it. Habits are defined by cues, so you want to be in an environment that is associated with work, so you should avoid trying to work at home or any place you have associated with leisure.
Wow, this is the first time I've heard of side channel analysis and I'm super impressed by the creativity involved in these attacks.

Based on reading a couple wikipedia articles, is it correct to say that most of these attacks require access to the device that you're trying to crack?
The "acceleration" dark energy is supposed to explain is with regards to the expansion of the universe, which would have very little effect on anything on scales this small.
This does not persist for me. I will mute, then unplug, and audio begins playing. I have to either explicitly pause audio or have muted before plugging in the headphones.
Maybe, I don't know. The thing is that most people don't make a living out of youtube. But they might have a gmail address, then lots of files in drive or photos, stuff from work in docs, their schedule in calendar... Losing all of that at once is like having the rug pulled from under their feet. I'm just saying: if that's your case, please diversify.
I really like Taste.io's movie and TV recommendations. Having just reviewed a few movies on the site, it has given me better and more unique recommendations than Netflix or Amazon ever have.

Their site also shows whether the movie is available on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, or HBO and will deep link to the other sites. I'm not sure what Taste.io's business model is.

https://www.taste.io/
... as opposed to .dev, which is under what, google's jurisdiction?
Startup Law a to Z: Corporate Matters
It can't be changed. You can fake the user agent and JavaScript-accessible properties (Tor browser does this so every Tor user is indistinguishable), but canvas rendering depends on your actual OS, GPU, etc. Browsers could implement a software renderer to consistently draw canvases on all devices, but then you lose half the reason to use canvas - speed.
They already released the code and that wasn’t enough for people.
I wonder if this raise is to continue scaling the existing product customers/add runway or to expand its's scope to something new.
Personally, I liked the name and logo. I do see the points about it being taken negatively, but I didn't take it that way, and I had a reasonable guess at what the project was after reading the first two words of the headline. Just one data point.
I don't think the distinction matters if imdb wanted you to stop offering their ratings in your commercial api.

I certainly expect that this project is too small of a fish for imdb to care either way. It's more of a curiosity for me since I always love the simplicity of an API as a business.
Thanks. It doesn't add much to the discussion but I thought at the time that it might be a reasonable analogy based on the author's speculations. Of course we may also have just missed the opportunity to save the Who's. Sadly though, they couldn't all yell loudly enough for us to hear them over here on our rocky speck.
Electronic Contracts and the Illusion of Consent
Yep, it's a Lambda competitor.

Basically it lets you run JS code on every request, much like Lambda. Differences:

1. It's JS but not Node.JS - You write against the service worker API and they run it in a vanilla V8. You'll want to webpack your stuff together or something like that.

2. Because it's V8 and not Node, they can run many customers in the same process (as safely as multiple sites can coexist in Chrome tabs), and therefore it's cheaper than Lambda.

3. It runs on the cloudflare edge nodes, i.e. close to the user, instead of some AWS region on the other side of the world, so latency can be lower. Can be, because for many (most?) use cases you'll still need to call some API somewhere else, eating up most latency wins you might make. They do also have a distributed KV store that might help you address this, however.
There is a fundamental limitation in the human ability to assess success.

Humans inheritably live in different worlds therefore, their perception of key factors such as self-actualization, esteem, belonging, love, safety & physiological needs will be invariable different.

I would argue that if everyone started out with the same mindset and base opportunities, with time, the environment and its scarcities would cause some to deviate towards being 'richer' and others towards being 'poorer', partially by luck, and partially by other factors within and outside each person's control.

Someone that is self-made will mostly see itself's success as their personal actions and will mostly overestimate that side (E.g. I saved money while my peers were burning it on consumer goods) while others looking from outside will mostly push the (E.g. He was lucky or the environment he was in made him succeed) usually underestimating the person's personal actions.
> but we've been observing space for, I don't know, up to 400 years? (counting since invention of telescope, 1608)

We've been observing space 'forever'. Pre-telescope observers had quite accurate star maps (of the naked-eye stars, obviously) and were fully aware of the complex movements of the planets. Their models of the movements were good enough for predictions even if the underlying explanatory causal models were sometimes wrong.
WebOS or Android TV? WebOS and Android TV