skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> you will be just fine if you give yourself a few months off to recover

This is insensitive. Given the situation, it is very wrong to assume that he can afford to take any time off.
Where I come from, failing startups don't usually pay that well.
Prediction: UBI won't go anywhere, because it has a branding problem. If we rebrand it as a Negative Income Tax it may actually go somewhere.
What laws have Facebook broken?

The article very clearly states that there is a criminal investigation going on.
When Corporate America Joins in the Podcast Craze, ‘It Gets Boring Fast’
Networks don't select candidates for the debates on their own, the parties at the main drivers; the DNC drove the single-tier big-stage setup for it's 2020 debates, including the ability to qualify by number of unique donors; the RNC drove the qualifications for, and two-tier “grown ups” vs. “kids table” format for it's 2016 debates.
I tried it in San Francisco and it was quite good. Pretty rare to find good espressos there.
What's the cause of outage then ? Disk, memory, CPU, network bandwidth,... ?
Moving from traditional on-premise solutions to cloud-based security
Why Do So Many Egyptian Statues Have Broken Noses?
If you stumble across a labs URL (like in the article), you can usually just replace "plan9.bell-labs.com" with "9p.io". For instance, the link to Miller's RPi build that was linked to should be updated to http://9p.io/sources/contrib/miller/9pi.img.gz
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I think that already exists in the form of Nespresso. I have one in my kitchen and I prefer it to what I get at a coffee place minus the experience.
> I say with sadness that the Internet has nearly killed the prospect of making a living as an author, and no amount of passionate speech is going to change that fact.

As far as I know not only are there more authors than ever, but more authors making a living than ever. What the Internet killed isn't being an author, but the exclusivity of being an author, which is a good thing for the majority of people.

The problem is that the egalitarian nature of the Internet (at least in the sense of barrier to entry) doesn't extend to society. When you might spend a significant part of your working life paying for housing, most other things are relatively unimportant for ones prospect of doing other things.

> It rather surprises me that software, a creative and digital medium like the above, is not futile and that you can still make a good living at it.

It is to some extent. But there is enough people entering the field for it to not be that noticeable.
Two thirds of Android antimalware apps are ineffective or unreliable
Tarnsap is for backup, I don't think it can really be used for sync in the general sense. It's also hard to predict how much it's going to cost you if you don't exactly know how much data you're going to upload (and is IMO prohibitively expensive for even moderately-sized backups).

I love the tech behind tarnsap, I love that the client is open source, I love the whole philosophy of it but I really struggle with the pricing.
Redesigning Our Docs: Building a Scalable CSS Architecture
> maybe it was the experience as much as anything else, but I swear I’ve never had coffee as good as when I was there

It really is better. Espressi are never sour, while they usually are in Germany. I don't understand it either. Maybe there are some things capitalism can't fix, one of those is culture.
Happiness is loving the boring days
I like the way you think! Have you considered being on the board of this startup?
No it doesn't. you only need the phone for the initial link.
If I recall correctly one was created by a non-Telegram dev as a bit of a fanproject, and eventually adopted by the company as a pseudo-official app. At some point actual Telegram devs decided to create (I think) Telegram for Desktop based on native stuff like Swift. But both applications get bugfixes and updates because it's easy enough to maintain both.
Any chance this PoC file browser is open source and available? I've been looking at these changes and I'm not sure how I should handle discovery of new devices, e.g. insertion of a new SD card, or an OTG USB device.
Ask HN: Why are you still on Facebook?
What are the reasons why you are still using Facebook?
> Google analytics feeds tracking data to google for advertising purposes and tracks you across sites

That is why GP said "(no advertising features)." That is the name of the feature in GA that does that, and it can be disabled.
That's what the "Freedom Dividend" branding is all about!
This was discussed the previous time this topic came up [0, 1, 2]. This is basically OS level integration which enabled users to share Facebook updates without opening Facebook like OS level integration. Apple removed the Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc. integration in iOS11 [3].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17223926

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17229301

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17224071

[3] https://www.cultofmac.com/485346/ios-11-ditches-facebook-twi...
I wish Krita photo editing toolset will be good like painting, then I'll be not forced to use Photoshop under wine :)
Doesn't this just sound as a rather complex and young protocol that is still in development? I've never gotten the impression of the New Vector guys deliberately misguiding others out of malice. Does Construct work as a Matrix homeserver or does it not?

Regarding your insecurity claims, is there any particular area where Matrix has concrete weaknesses? Could you elaborate on that point?

As a sidenote: I really appreciate your work and think new homeserver implementations are invaluable.
Sorry, but these generated conversations seem nonsensical, nothing like the OpenAI results.
i am an early user of wire. Logged in few weeks ago just to find out they took my username. Support say non-sense and now they just ignore my messages.
While gits documentation might not lay out the model at the start, they certainly have documentation showing how everything works, complete with diagrams and such. As such...

> Then it will be the user's fault if they can't be bothered to read it.

can be applied to you about git technically. I think that's just me being a "little" pedantic though.

It sounds like the issue you actually have is that the documentation isn't easily readable in one or two sittings, and you don't have the time (or can't be bothered) to go through it and learn it. Which I totally understand, everyone has different things they need to spend time on, most of the time learning Git isn't one of them.
That's a good option, although unfortunately it prevents the concurrent use of VPNs.
> The funny thing is that in this case and another nsl case, the FBI later dropped the request, making it difficult to sue.

This is a very frustrating aspect of our legal system - there's often not a good way to get a "sure, you stopped, but you shouldn't have done that in the first place, and you'll be in serious trouble if you try it again" sort or ruling.
I do agree that trusting the domain instead of the exact user is more than enough in the case of the article. What I'm saying is that PGP has the whole trusting thing built-in. Key distribution can be done through DNS (there is an OPENPGPKEY record: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7929) or through HTTP (https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-service-...).

On the other hand there is nothing existing today for telling your MTA to trust this or that domain only. There is no standard so every provider would start by doing their own thing. That missing part is the difficult part, and that is only doable in pgp today.

However it is true that in both cases there should be some UI indication to ask you "do you trust this domain ?"
I see these multiple DOF arms (5 for this one?) for many of these designs...but I still do not get why none of them use SCARA. Easier to program, more rigid, and much more cost effective. The own downside is that it doesn't look fancy.
Kickstarter is a graveyard of many overhyped and then under-delivered (or non-delivered) espresso machines.

The problem is that Nespresso already exists, and is good for 95% of the market. The rest of the 5% of espresso aficionados demand tons of features that are not cheap to produce, and the market is inherently not that big. There are machines like https://decentespresso.com/overview (I believe they picked up the IP of an infamously undelivered Kickstarter) and https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/espresso/bes980.html
I don't understand why read reciepts are important. People will respond when they feel like whether it says read or not. Just makes it more cumbersome to get around it when you're too busy to respond.
Only one actually, to connect (if necessary in the future) with my old friends / classmates. I don't have most of their phone numbers or anything.
I was really good at getting up early and working on my projects before everyone woke up (30 minutes a day, more or less) then we moved to a new time zone and my work day starts at 5:00 instead of 8:00. Meanwhile, we moved because my spouse has a great but very demanding job so I have way less free time. :) It's for a good cause (and she makes way more money than me). I'm figuring out how to make it work. 15 minute increments. Ha ha. It's possible.
Yes, a case of lets annoy you to death with overlays so you give up and click accept every time.
The vast majority of engineers at Boeing and similar companies are not personally liable for failures; the company is. They are working under an industrial exemption.
TFA doesn't seem to add much new information to an old news story - am I missing something?
A big thing is that Tahoe LAFS can be run on untrusted computers.
Death of the Calorie
I usually: google relevant terms -> open a few candidates in a new tab -> go through the examples -> glance at the docs -> check the pulse and popularity -> pick the best looking lib.
The DNC is using two criteria for qualifying for the debates. One is the traditional polling above 1% in three separate recognized polls. The other is a minimum number of donors (65k), with a minimum of 200 in each of 20 different states.

Meeting either criteria qualifies a candidate for the debate, and should the field of qualifying candidates grow to more than twenty (gods forbid) priority is given to candidates that meet both and then by polling average.
Thanks, but that doesn't work for me. And anyway, I always use private windows. I'm pretty sure that it's just my German IP address that's triggering it.
A coworker of mine originated from NYC. They didn't have any space for a washing machine or dryer in their apartment. No one did. According to him, there were several dozen laundry services that they could use, super cheap. All they had to do was put the bag of laundry outside the door in the morning, and next morning would be bag of folded laundry. To me, this sounded like heaven, but it was just common for him.

For less populated areas, this seems like an extension of housecleaning services. I've known a few people that have someone come in, maybe just once a week to clean. Some have laundry done then, others just want the cleaning. Granted, since they would be using your washer/dryer, there is a limit as to how much laundry they can do in a day. Manageable with 1-2 people, but 3 or more, each with their week's worth of laundry could really add up the dryer time.
It is alive, but certainly not well. There are fewer making a living doing it and among those who are, most earn far less than they used to.

Source: my wife is a photographer and consequently I follow photographers more than I'd otherwise.
Technically, a negative income tax is actually a different but similar policy proposal. It has the advantage that it requires a smaller increase in taxes overall and uses existing governmental infrastructure.
I find it hilarious that they have https working properly, but visiting this URL with https redirects back to http
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The DNC doesn't require donors from all 50 states, but it does require a healthy diversity of states. I think it is 200 unique donors from 20 different states.
Also worth noting that you can't currently export C# projects to mobile that was moved to milestone 3.2
A Brief History of JavaScript [video]
RSA encryption is potentially exploitable by quantum computing. Still people are using it everywhere.
I never used those two before, but this may be a good idea. Feel free to create issues in the repository, and we can continue our discussion there.
In my (UK) experience, public libraries charge for lending DVDs.

But your main point is valid, I think: the cost-centric view only makes sense when there is a free market, while in the market for a particular book, or even, in most cases, for a particular author, the publisher has a monopoly. So, if the people who buy ebooks are willing to pay more, that is what happens.
great to have this platform here. its wonderful, will anyone help to review it?
State actors have a much more direct route to killing secure chats like Telegram and Signal: they firewall the servers at the national level.

There've been several state actors that have done this to both Telegram and Signal already -- both of these apps employ different ways of avoiding it but this is already one of the arms races in the world of secure chats.

FWIW, my problems with Signal losing/delaying messages are all US-based, which AFAIK has never been accused of doing any sort of state-level firewalling of secure chat apps.
Then Kindle Unlimited might not be hassle free enough or priced too high for the selection if piracy continues to be a problem.

The competition operates with zero cost to the consumer, works 24/7 to bring the newest content to the end user as fast as possible and has more employees. Amazon doesn't compete with that.
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But doesn't the word "tax" already have an extremely strong negative connotation to much of the country? I think Universal Basic Income is already the most polished way of saying wealth redistribution.
It's kind of funny how this reality is never recognized, considering that basically the entire tech industry is composed of companies that charge based on value, not on cost.
Dwarf Soccer!
Nvidia Turing Now Starts at $219
Exactly. I can buy the ebook for $12 or for $10 I can buy the physical book, convince myself I've done right by the author, and download the ebook for free if I need it.
Fines can be far more beneficial to society.

It's not an either/or. You can be sentenced with both a fine and jail time. Plus, I feel like the goal here should be stopping illegal activity (should this investigation find something, of course), and I think jail time would be more of a deterrent than a fine. Plus, we already have a system in place for corporations to benefit society from the earnings society lets them make: taxes.
So you share your data on untrusted machines that you bet will live long enough to hold what you want to keep.

Sounds risky.

Do storage providers have an incentive to provide the service reliably à la filecoin? [0]

[0] https://filecoin.io/
Peeps, downvoting is easy. Anyone has counter-arguments?
> Employees do no more than employees at say, McDonald's. In fact probably less. Push a button, right amount of coffee pours into cup. Move cup. Push button, right amount of milk pours into cup. Move cup.

I don't know what places you're talking about. Everywhere I've seen they use an espresso machine which isn't a case of 'push a button, right amount of coffee pours into cup', even places like Costa.
Andrew Yang is popular for his promotion of Universal Basic Income ("UBI"). I've had success framing UBI as monthly compensation from government for the portion of natural space which has been reallocated to private ownership. In that regard, UBI could be funded though a national land value tax and though copyright/patent fees, both being government granted monopolies, carved from what would otherwise be public space.

EDIT: One of the common critiques of UBI is that it's a "give away". Instead, I see UBI as a payment for natural rights (to walk, hunt, eat and sleep where ever one wishes) that are taken by society though its allocation and enforcement of private property. Hence, in my view, the concept of private property and UBI are intrinsically linked. Given this frame, what this natural right is worth is an important discussion to have -- should society provide basic shelter and sustenance in exchange? Free market perspective gives us an option, it could just be cash without any strings or requirements. But importantly, it's not a "hand out", it's compensation for a taking.
I wonder how much of a role culture plays in this as opposed to economics. We say that the reason kids worked in factories and were sold was due to economic hardship, but most people wouldn't find that acceptable nowadays even when they are going through economic hardship. I guess the reason why we care less about the economic aspect nowadays is that we have enough social services that will at least minimally take care of the kids if necessary.
This is the guy whose site showed 65k after you changed your local date/time to the debate date, correct?
Buying one would still involve going through checkout, which is atleast 2 steps for me.

That and the book price is not competitive with piracy.
The "glasses off" smartphone app has some good reviews.

But I'd just echo others advice and say look out the window frequently.
I think that's fair. And I can see how having 2+ will make a big difference.

I do find myself already thinking I'm too tired / busy to do something, but then actually I sit down and get started and find I can make progress. I feels to me like it's a mindset of prioritising the things that matter the most, and side projects should be high on the list in my opinion.

If you can find the time to read articles and articulate a response on HN you probably have time to spend on your side project.
Gas leak... depending on how far down you are, old gas lines tend to leak little bits of gas because they get porous that can pool.
New music video by Grimes using AR Instagram filters
Untrusted doesn't mean randomly selected.
I love Krita, and have recently taken to painting much of Bob Ross's stuff with it to learn... painting. But I do wish I had time to fix the performance issues. It destroys my surface book I paint with.
I used to get absorbed in side projects in my 20s that would go nowhere. I once quite my job to work on one, because I wanted it to turn into a business. (Where it went is TLDR.)

Anyway, a few months after the business went nowhere and I got a real job, I decided that I wasn't going to start any kind of a side project until I found a girlfriend.

That was the best decision in my life.

I'll admit: Ever since I met my girlfriend, (now we're married with two kids,) I haven't been able to have a long-term "side project." I tried to start this and that, but what I realized is that anything that interesting would be so all-consuming that I'd need to quit my job; and that I have no desire to figure out how to make it profitable.

So, every once in awhile I take 1-2 days off from my job and work on learning projects. I don't have any expectations that they will ever be finished.
Maybe nation states is a different case. When I say "world first" I mean "that we know of". But otherwise it's incredibly interesting to see work like this especially when it's about something so obscure and undocumented that the researchers have to dig up every single bit of information by themselves.

Someone obviously doesn't agree with me since in the 10s it took me to read the comment above, all of mine received an equal number of downvotes. Guess I now have a fan (and their very own small army of puppet accounts) :).
I don't think that's good enough. Dividend still have a connotation that you are getting a handout.
OT: I'm quite disappointed by the switch hardware. We're using it lightly in our family, not tugging it around or travel with it. Mostly game with it docked. Ca 1 year old at this time.

The controllers have both been plagued by the issue of dust entering the analog sticks, making it drift. You can't calibrate this away (tried it). Nor did it for us help with a spray can of air to blow it away, but perhaps I was holding it wrong (snark). Had to send it away for repair and they changed both analog sticks.

A new set of controllers (ie two sticks) also cost almost twice what an official PS4 dualshock controller costs. A single costs about as much as a PS4DS. Also, the PS4 one feels so much more robust.

For a controller that is meant to be used on the go, I find the poor dust-resistance and high cost of replacement very off-putting. I get the feeling that they, or something else on the switch, is gonna break again soon.

Puh, sorry for the rant.
It uses their small model and a tiny dataset in comparison (and a small amount of training). It is more showcasing how much it learns (and doesn't learn) with those limitations in place. As well as allowing you to recreate it with perhaps a few minutes of work and less than an hour of waiting.

Also, I wouldn't say the results are nonsensical - I think it has learned a lot more than a markov chain or a simple rnn but I agree that especially on the surface they dont even sound like they surpass Eliza by much. Moreover, it is significantly more apparent how much it learns about the different people you've talked to AFTER you run it on your own data.

For a somewhat more novel/interesting result with fine-tuning GPT, I can recommend checking out gwern's post[1] on training it on a big poetry corpus.

1. https://www.gwern.net/RNN-metadata#finetuning-the-gpt-2-smal...
> $25,000

That's an annual salary of a coffee server
I observed in Costa and others...

Even when they use en espresso machine (because perhaps you ordered an espresso), it makes no difference to the final product if that is automated entirely.
A standard espresso machine requires a human only because it cannot automatically reload coffee.

The simple fact is that at this point humans are really only there for the 'experience', not to create the final product.
Right. So people in the thread advocating 3-5 years of prison for someone who hasn't even been charged with a crime is outrageous.
There is a feature suggestion I've been following and crossing my fingers to get implemented for having a different profile picture per server. You can already have a generic username and then nicknames per server so it would be nice to further separate your online presence.
Right, there are a few use cases for Lambda that make lots of sense, and then some that don't. If you're not extracting any operational benefits or costs (think a request that needs to run 5m per hour) from the managed portion of Lambda then it's probably not for you.

The ALB point is very strong. APIGW can add lots of value with request response manipulation and the headaches of managing your own VPS, but you need to make sure that you don't just need a bare bones path -> lambda mapping, which is where the ALB can shine.
Absolutely! I'm not disputing that it's not "interesting", just that I wouldn't compare Pi number search to prime number search.
pi is effectively randomly distributed (I don't know if this is proven) which means it would be effectively impossible to compress is using conventional entropy or dictionary based techniques.

However, there are compact formulas which can generate pi to arbitrary precision, trading off compute time with space. So it;'s effectively compressible, I guess this relates to Kolomogorov complexity in some way.
China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work (2011)
First, the post is sensationalist populism that only serves to pull the conversation down and cause shouting matches.

Second, Facebook is not currently "accused of broad criminal activity". They are being investigated for breach of a consent decree, which may lead to criminal charges, which in turn may be broad.
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