skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I like the idea, I fear the potential for abuse, conflict and community splits. It will need some sort of moderation, at least to prevent:

1. spam

2. child pornography

3. content against the laws

The only thing that is easy to define as policy is #2. No one likes child porn. But even then, there are grey areas with differing legal status - lolicon on the anime side and "barely legal" on the realistic side, plus CGI.

Spam - for me I'd flag all commercial advertisings as spam, others would heasitate to block Viagra spammers.

Then the final category: illegal content. The US doesn't like nipples. Germany has no problem with nipples. Swastikas and other NS insignia? Other way around. Some post-Soviet states have banned Hammer and Sickle or the Red Star. Some countries have extremely strict libel laws, others have non-existing libel laws. In some countries (hello Germany) even linking to illegal content can get you thrown into jail, in others not.

And finally: who should pay for operational costs of such an index? Wikipedia only works out because the contributors worldwide donate enormous amounts of time to it, and Wikipedia has only a fraction of the amount of content that Youtube and Twitter create, and Facebook is orders of magnitude bigger.
If anything, that sounds like a solid argument to decentralize it. I don't want China's government, white supremacists, churches, soccer moms, Jihadis or grievance-of-the-month activists controlling how information is indexed; I would rather use multiple indexes that balance out controlling interests and biases.
Yeah, no, it's not "cheaper devs". This is elitist gatekeeping.

HTML/CSS/JS win because at this point there's both a mountain of features that you'd need to match in a native framework, it's cross-platform with rendering engine(s) that are mostly platform agnostic, and it's _actually documented_ unlike things like AppKit.

Someone learning HTML/CSS/JS can google their issue and find a solution or guide or what-have-you with relative ease. It's nowhere the near the same for any other framework.
So many angles.

Leica is an iconic brand and making politically heated ads is a bad idea: showing up with a Leica following ads like this will put it's own customers in a situation where they will be associated with the company's stand, and that is dangerous; both for them (the customer) and the brand.

Banning the name of an important technology company which is actively present in it current smartphones, lenses, science, etc, will makes things way too complicated.

Youtube(r) removing the ad, besides being a coward act, will only trigger the Streisand effect.
Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Syria, Iraq, Google it, it's happened. Pick any country with a sizeable Muslim population and Christian minority and there's been an attack on Easter. It gets drowned out, but it's a thing.
I wish the website any clear information at all about how he moved the blocks (or the barn?!). Is he just lifting and then sliding them? Would appreciate more information if someone knows where to find it.
Hawai'i was already occupied before the population Cook met arrived. Like the Chatham islanders (still present when Cook landed, before the Maori learned of them), they were mostly wiped out. In Hawai'i only legends of "menehunes" remain. A similar process happened in England and Ireland, with Gauls displacing the Picts ("pixies"). The Gauls of Britain and Ireland lost their culture and land to Nordic invaders, but stiil represent much of the genetic heritage there.

The "menehunes" arrived via the Marquesas. The present Polynesian population came from Tahiti or Fiji, although all ultimately trace back to Taiwan.

There is some evidence that islands closer to New Guinea were populated more than 20,000 years ago, before the present population swept in.

Japan adds an interesting footnote: the samurai are said to retain a much higher proportion if Ainu genetic heritage than typical Japanese. This observation is not popular in Japan.
After 1989 there was some debate about how the free world should deal with the Chinese state, and basically "free trade will lead to change" won. We should've been more specific about which side was going to change.
> So what? Colonization overall has brought humans much further than any st agent culture ever would have.

This is a really disturbing attempt to downplay indigenous genocide committed by colonists, the effects of which still persist today in many government laws and behaviors. You can't say it's overall 'brought us further than any other culture' because there are a number of other actions and events which propelled things further. Your logic would defend some of the worst atrocities in human history under the guise of 'furthering human society' as a whole.
Totally agree. I set aside some funds in REITs for good dividends and then some value stocks
Playing poker!

My winrate online is only a couple dollars an hour. I don't play live very often so I don't have the sample size to say what my winrate would be, but I'd guess $10-20/hr. So, ultimately, not too much money. But if I keep improving, my winrate should keep going up.

It also makes a lot of sense because I'm developing a poker app - https://premiumpokertools.com/. So I guess it is sort of tied into programming/CS for me in a way.
I’m not for what they did, but this comment is to expand your idea.

You forgot to think about the people they don’t know about right now. I’m presuming they’re freaking the F out right now and are worried about unknown cells and their communications.

So... in the moment, decision was to make unknown cells communications more difficult by disabling low hanging fruit.
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Mine is Escape Team:

www.escape-team.com
I've used Thunderbird on my desktops since it was launched and, despite its shortcomings, find it works well for my multiple accounts. I host my own calendar and contacts services and these integrate well too. The current desktops I use email on are all Linux Mint; on the rare occasions I need to access mail on other machines I log into one of my server's webmail clients (usually Squirrel).

Mobile? I'm still running a Blackberry Z30, hopefully replacing it with a Librem 5 later this year. I use the default Blackberry app and it works superbly with my multiple accounts (I'll miss it).
Nope. People's desires shape marketing. Not the other way around. Marketing caters to people's pre existing desires to convince them. Desires have always existed and always will.
Imagine you take a million humans and you give them a million absolutely identical plots of lands. And each plot of land is, with work, capable of fully sustaining its owner. And you also gave each and every one of them all of the initial tools, training, and resources they'd need to achieve this. And we're also going to assume that these individuals will never experience any health issues or random catastrophes such as weather events, to minimize randomness in our little real life simulation.

And now we set these people free to live as they will. How long will the complete equality last? It'd more likely be a matter of months than years. Some would work harder and produce more enabling them to grow in resources which could then be traded for other things - giving them more than others. Others would go in the opposite direction and behave irresponsibly, such as by indulgence in drink or drug, and find themselves falling further behind. Others would make decisions such as having more children than they could afford to provide for and find themselves in severe issues. Others would simply make better or more astute decisions in general leading them to pull ahead.

It wouldn't take long before our entirely equal society was riddled with inequity. The point of this is that it's impossible for humans to be equal unless somebody enforces that equality. And this brings up two issues. The first is that the enforcer of equality is generally a group or organization that is going to be inherently unequal. Even a completely social system would require 'enforcers' of some sort lest the over achievers dare keep the fruits of their labor for themselves. The second is that you end up with radically warped reward scenarios. If you do better than average, you get stuff taken from you. If you do worse than average, you get stuff given to you. Failure is rewarded, success is punished.

These distorted systems of motivation and the inherent control required to maintain equality are the very fundamental reason that the numerous systems of equality we've tried have all invariably ended up the same. Human society only functions by people spending a pretty good deal of their time doing x when they'd rather be doing y. It's not hard to see what happens when you remove any motivation whatsoever to actually do x. It even explains the ever recurring trend towards authoritarianism and cruel behavior - it's simply an effort to try to force people to do x after you remove all their motivation to do so, and it just doesn't work.
I wonder why so few people seem to think about persistent data structures (persistent in the functional sense, that is immutability -- copy-on-write). Basically we implemented a form of hash array based tries for https://sirix.io ... or it's just like how ZFS stores objects adding levels of indirect blocks/pages on demand with bitsets storing which indexes are really set to avoid having arrays with a lot of null references. For sure you have to copy the path to the root, just like snapshots work in ZFS or Btrfs, but I think that data is neglegable when you basically also do versioning on a per record-level/per revision level. At least thus we can restore each revision in the same time, you do not have to have a "history table", which is inefficient to query in contrast to the most recent revision table.
I don't think every continuous function can be approximated this way because we can make an infinitely complex, but continuous function that would have any n-th derivative also continuous. I'm thinking about those weird zeta-riemann-style functions. In order to approximate such a function we'd need a huge model that couldn't be computed or stored even by a universe-size perfect computer.
Should be pretty easy: just check what CNN says and bet in the opposite direction.
I've been following Cyc since the Lenat papers in the 80s. Wondering what happened to OpenCyc, if you guys changed your thinking about the benefits of an open ecosystem, and if there's any future plans there?
Terrorism doesn't require hidden communication channels. But it is actually propaganda, usually foreign, so governments feel threatened by it and naturally want to block it. If they can't, they can decide to block the next best thing, i.e. uncontrollable mass communication channels. Censorship in its pure form, not counter terrorism.
What I’ve found is creating a rich user interface is a lot of work, often more than the core functionality of an application. How many lines it takes to create a window soon becomes insignificant compared to everything else you need to do.
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Reading about systems theory. I read Niklas Luhmann (e.g. Trust and Power) in undergrad and it made strong impressions on me. Throughout my PhD (sciences), I tried to view every problem I tackled, every collaboration from the lens of understanding the social system of the research scene, the problems tackled, the conversation happening within that community etc.

I believe systems theory can provide a real edge when competing with people who few most things at work as intellectual d*ck measurement contests, including career advancement based on naive notions of being just more clever, or just working harder to advance. Especially in academic settings, focusing on the social dynamics of your research community is key.

N.b.: This is under the consideration that you are already good/constantly improving your main professional skill, be it coding, writing, selling.
marketers persuaded me to spend 20% more

Exactly. There are basic needs and there are desires. I’m talking about the latter. Note that to afford that extra 20% you might need to modify your life in some way.
This article supports your claim (pdf):

Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/9/2022.full.pdf

I think that fitting a quadratic to such a short run of data is premature, and that extrapolating that same acceleration for 80 years is tendentious. However, the paper is otherwise interesting, and I hope they do an update in ten years and include their previous prediction :-)
Startups expect to pay a lot more for freelancers at the same skill level as their staff because (i) the freelancers reasonably ask for more because they don't get perks and do get dropped after a week and spend a few days after that looking for work and (ii) they don't have to pay the freelancers for the days they don't need the extra/specialist help, which is probably most of the year. It's a lot more worthwhile negotiating a starting salary that other employees might expect to match and will be the starting point for five years of pay rises than trying to round a 10 day contract down by a few hundred dollars.

Unless you have a specialist skillset which is very much geared towards finding new ways of bringing in revenue it's also not exactly surprising they're not keen on the "I want cash bonuses for sales" approach, particularly if you're insisting on that instead of options which signal a long term interest in the company and don't shorten their runway (and yes, they probably overvalue their options as well). Especially if they don't know you were valued at 196k in salary terms in your last job and think you're being odd rather than trying to be flexible.
Yeah the original BW gameboy used a modified Z80 which was old even in 1989. It took 4 AA batteries and had twice the battery life of the 6-battery (?) Game Gear.
Thanks for calling out the deeper aspect of the article rather than the superficial beer-related aspect.

> You will do this one day, and you will not know you are doing it.

That is a profound statement.

I see older people behave in certain ways and think I will never be like that. Then I realize that I will be, and that when I am like that I will not know it. And therefore maybe I already am like that.
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This proof is largely irrelevant in the real world. An interesting question would be how much can be approximated with a model that has 1 MB worth of weights and can use only relu/tanh/softmax activations.
CO2 drought? Starvation levels?

What's your point? We need more CO2 because... what?

Edit: I can't help but think your comment was sponsored.
But it's schema-less ;-)
I expect hybrid deep learning and symbolic AI systems to be highly relevant. My background which is what I base the following opinions on: I spent the 1980s mostly doing symbolic AI except for 2 years of neural networks (wrote first version of SAIC Ansim neural network library, supplied the code for a bomb detector we did for the FAA, on DARPA neural net advisory panel for a year). For the last 6 years, just about 100% all-in working with deep learning.

My strong hunch is that deep learning results will continue to be very impressive and that with improved tooling basic applications of deep learning will become fairly much automated, so the millions of people training to be deep learning practitioners may have short careers; there will always be room for the top researchers but I expect model architecture search, even faster hardware, and AIs to build models (AdaNet, etc.) will replace what is now a lot of manual effort.

For hybrid systems, I have implemented enough code in Racket Scheme to run pre-trained Keras dense models (code in my public github repos) and for a new side project I am using BERT, etc. pre-trained models wrapped with a REST interface, and my application code in Common Lisp has wrappers to make the REST calls so I am treating each deep learning model as a callable function.
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> A gun's "singular purpose" is not to sling lead. It's to sling lead at an enemy, which means slinging lead on a battlefield, and those are far more complex and multifarious tasks than you're making them out to be. The navy ditched it because it turned out to be useless against WWII-tech aircraft. The army was about to ditch it because the water-cooling setup was too finicky and vulnerable and it couldn't be mounted on anything useful.

But I think the point the above poster was making is, those deficiencies you listed was due to the obsolescence of continuing to use a .50 caliber round in that role. The M2 fulfilled its role as a .50 caliber machine gun continuously. Sure, it may have originally been designed as an anti-tank gun and by the time it saw major service using .50 caliber rounds for anti-armor was totally deficient. But the guns found other niches like vehicle mounts and aircraft mounts in its lightened version. I think you're indexing a bit too heavily on the fact that water cooling was ditched. Air vs. water cooled isn't an especially large design change - just rip out the water jacket and replace the jacket with a barrel shroud if needed. It's more a trade-off between mobility and ability to sustain fire, and as the battlefield changed an air cooled variant became better suited. The fact that an M2 mounted on a Stryker is nearly the same overall design as the one originally developed for WW1 is still impressive. The only substantive change to how it operates that I know of is the addition of a bi-directional feeding mechanism.
As a small counterpoint of anecdata, I work at one of those companies that standardized on Mesos(with Apache aurora for scheduling, Kerberos+LDAP for access control). While our devs have small axes to grind with aurora, I have never heard our SREs complain about Mesos. The only complaint one might plausibly raise is that it’s not Kubernetes(!), in the sense that 5 years from now it might be hard to find an SRE with Mesos experience vs K8s experience.

Mesos’s “batteries not included” approach means it does not now and will not ever have feature parity with K8s, but we’ve managed to cobble enough batteries together to make it operationally sufficient for our needs. We certainly aren’t planning a transition away as far as I can tell. Anyways, just my 2¢! :)
I am not sure where you are going with this. There are more dangerous jobs than being a police officer — but it is very dangerous, far more dangerous than being a YCNews reader or liberal columnist. It’s easy to judge these things is hindsight but that misses the point.
Looks like Mr. Grump here could benefit from a nap!
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What made Buck fail at Uber vs Facebook? I thought they successfully used it for larger repos there.
I have the same takeaway, many technical books with 300+ pages seem more like reference material rather then being focused on teaching the reader.
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Xi seems to be pretty smart though, but his ideals don't align with ours
So you’re saying it’s clickbait.
Not much, no.
There is some interesting work using graph embeddings (like word embeddings)to add data and relations to semantic web style knowledge graphs.
What’s your take on Bazel? Have you considered offering support in Bazel for your package manager?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19704347

Mueller report vs copyright filters - this was on for a while.
Google "The Paradox of Tolerance," if you're allowed to.

Some truths really are self-evident.
Yes, good point. I think I may have seen parts of it, but forgot to mention it above.
For those who are curious why software companies and startups do NOT flourish in the EU - this is why.
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Yes, that's exactly what it is. The modern descendant of this code, with documentation, can be found here:

https://github.com/rongarret/ergolib

though the CLOS wrapper is essentially unchanged from 1993.
MetroBoy – a playable, circuit-level simulation of an entire Game Boy
I'm running the front and backend of the consumer site on Heroku. The meat of pipeline is hosted on a DigitalOcean High CPU Droplet. I use ffmpeg to extract images from the provided videos. I store everything in Google Cloud Storage and create references to each photo in Firestore. I use Firebase to power for the image verifying/labeling app I built. Its a simple app that presents the viewer with the image and the label that it was given. If its not correct they enter the correct label. I use a cloud function to move the images into an exportable format for autoML once a new image threshold has been hit. Testing is me using it and seeing if it is correctly identifying the objects.
Being able to write succinctly and effectively.
Hi folks, I thought the 30th anniversary of the Game Boy would be a good day to publish my current project.

MetroBoy is a sort of ultra-low-level Gameboy simulator, more like Verilog than the C++ it's written in. Since this is the first public release, there will likely be all sorts of bugs. Let me know how it runs on your machine and I'll be around to answer questions here.
I manufacture and sell cool pull-ups bars [1] for fitness ethusiasts and all others, who want to have an allrounder at home for their fitness workouts.

Does not make me rich, but provides in addition work and income for three people doing it also as a side-job. Main problem: the product does not brake and it's a true craft business, so 95% of all customer buy only once.

[1] https://klimmzugstangen.de/
Do you mean poha?
China is working to silence critics of its prisonlike re-education camps
I don't think poor people are ok with guns being pointed at them either.
I don’t understand. You want 30% of the population of earth to farm their own food? Does economy of scale not apply to food production?
Nuclear bombs (both fission and fusion) direct energy symmetrically in all directions. So any bomb detonated at or above ground level will direct half of its energy towards space. The other half eventually produces damage on the ground, but there are 2 models: surface burst, and air burst. The air burst produces a shock wave that hits the ground and is reflected, and then interferes constructively with the front of the wave that comes at an angle. Generally strikes are designed to maximize the effect of this constructive interference, this was the case with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, even this "doubled up" shock wave front is not really that destructive, so any half backed blast resistant shelter can survive it (it doesn't even need to be a concrete bunker, a well designed dug-out shelter will still do it). A surface burst will vaporize a semi-sphere of ground, and no bunker will survive, including even a missile silo, but then the blast effects will be much more localized while the radioactive fall-out will be increased maybe one thousand fold.
Interesting, didn't know both those points, or that there were Bhils in Sindh, although I lived some years in Madhya Pradesh, a nearby state where Bhils also live.
so what can we learn from this?
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Could you share a little more about the sockpuppet detection? That sounds very fascinating.

Do you specifically mean IRA sockpuppets, or Internet sockpuppeting in general? Were you looking at indications of sockpuppeting from native Russian speakers writing in English? Or identifying what appears to be automatically generated text? Or using text from known sockpuppet accounts to predict if other accounts may be sockpuppets? Some combination? How much stylometry was involved?