skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The extraordinary step reflects growing global concern, particularly among governments, about the capacity of American-owned networks to spin up violence."

"Officials blocked the platforms, he said, out of fear that misinformation about the attacks and hate speech could spread, provoking more violence."

Good, a step in the right direction and finally officials are connecting the dots on this. I know HN hates to hear this but this is long overdue. It's my view that the executives in charge of these social networks should face criminal prosecution for their supreme negligence and wildly irresponsible behavior, allowing extremism to spread and hateful ideologies to flourish in the name of increasing quarterly engagement metrics. Free speech has little to do with this.

Social media is a fertile breeding ground for hate and a powerful recruitment tool for extremists. I doubt we're able to sort through all the FUD and misinformation, concerted and successful efforts to dictate public opinion and change narratives to suit whatever special interests or political agendas. We're truly in the post-truth era, with the power in the hands of a few SV elite and billionaire aristocrats. From everything I've seen I don't see mankind sorting this out before it's too late for all of us. Social media is the great filter.
Aren't Mathematica and automated proving systems succesful cases where symbolic AI happen?
im not trying to be “silly”. i’ve seen this happen first hand. you can argue that that wasn’t the original idea but i’ve seen enough “k8s solved all our problems!” type conference talks and blog posts to see how people can be fooled.
Progress on what?

It'd be better for who if they just apologized and stopped violating human rights? The people in charge?

People are self-interested.
It's nice to read a write-up on RMS which doesn't editorialise what Stallman says, but just reports it polemicists often get criticised on interpretations not on their actual words.
My stool it about 30 inches off the ground with a bar to rest your feet on. I find I tend to sit straight with my legs slightly down which is comfortable and the bench is the right height so that my hands end up just gently resting on the keyboard.

I started out working on a lab bench in college working as a tech and generally dislike desks and office chairs.
I’m a firm believer in free speech and think this is a bad move.

However, there’s a vast difference between targeted censorship of forbidden topics and a temporary blanket ban on certain forms of communication. This isn’t good, but it’s pretty mild. Temporary limits on fundamental freedoms during an emergency are pretty common, even in the good old USA.
> One effort that stands out as "preventing something much worse" is that there was a risk of a potentially larger secondary explosion from steam buildup.

A larger conventional explosion would have been linearly worse, not worse rising to a separate category of problem.

> Also, you can absolutely get a nuclear explosion from a reactor, there is some suggestion that Chernobyl might have been a small one in fact (paper)

This is not what I'm referring to. It's one thing to have a "nuclear explosion" in the sense that the reaction generates enough heat to cause the rapid expansion of gasses which is technically an "explosion".

What I'm referring to is the sort of exponential chain reaction that happens in a nuclear weapon, resulting in something on that scale. You have to design for that on purpose to get it. The density and geometry has to be exactly right.
Kubernetes and co. Is an effective way to aggregate tens to thousands of machines, promote best practices through primitives (autoscaling, rollouts, disruption budgets, traffic shifting, monitoring, etc.) And promote the use of immutable infra in orgs.

15 years ago doing this stuff well took at least 10x the engineers it does today and you would have had to cut yourself on every sharp corner that these tools make smooth.

At my last company (a startup) I (1 person) bootstrapped infra for a continuously deployed web app that distributed scientific workloads across 10k+ cores of compute in 6 months with no prior experience running large clusters. 15 years ago that would have been impossible. Frankly it wasn't really difficult enough to be fun with these tools.
I perform data cleansing of excel spreadsheets and sometimes convince them to develop basic CRUD apps to take the place of excel. Depending on the project and the feeling I get about the depth of their budget I charge: per row based on the transformations they need, flat fee if they actually have well defined requirements, per hour for development time if they are convinced of the value in standing up a new web app to handle the process.
>> a protest that happened in China in 1989

Yeah, it was just a protest.
Primary Trend Dow Jones Theory
Can you elaborate on what they are, for the curious?
For the 1001th time, inequality is not by default a negative or positive thing. If it's the result of freedom and the market, then it is a _good_ thing. A rising tide, raises all boats.
Bit how many hours do you work for 1/6th of the salary?
No, it's topographical. Look it up: Wardley mapping.
Fwiw we’ve had a lot of success with Golang (graph-gophers/graphql-go w/ dataloader). Running in prod for about a year. Worth noting is that any GQL server implementation not written in JS, will play catch-up to the JS/Apollo counterpart. The JS ecosystem just moves so much faster
Tiny!!! Oh, dreaming of a downstream project... Gates big enough to see, crude LSI... Minecraft engines..
How do you get clients for this kind of work and about how much do you charge? This sounds pretty laid back and potentially lucrative
It is talked about nonstop in the United States, taught to every kid who goes to high school, and is on various social media sites all the time.

In response, Chinese people mostly make fun of us for believing in things like women's rights and such. Not really sure wide discussion of Tank Man is having any sort of positive effect.
This is the AVherald article about it, with more details: http://avherald.com/h?article=4c68c5a8&opt=0
Many experts predicted that Tesla would be a complete failure, that it would never produce electric cars that people would buy. Many experts predicted that SpaceX would be a complete failure, that it would never produce commercially successful space rockets, much less reusable ones. And the same experts are today continuing to tell us that Tesla is going to fail.
Not at all. There are others (me included) who also realized that code evolves with your understanding of a problem.
There are three things a rich person can do with money. They can spend it, they can invest it in a new business, and they can invest it in an existing business.

The third one is the worst for redistributing wealth but it's the one our tax laws give high preference to. That is problematic.
Vehcor is also quite good. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMgk1R0_ZbEQrEhQWRYkVIA
Kraft quietly moved Mac and Cheese to natural ingredients, no one noticed (2016)
The multiple bombings that occurred in Sri Lanka hardly seem "stochastic".
I never charged money for it, but since I live in Japan and used to teach English for a living, I used to teach English to retired people in the area. I stopped because I don't actually have enough time any more, but it was very rewarding. I'm thinking of starting up again, holding sessions in the pub and charging beer as payment.

Now that I think about it, it's how I got together with my wife. I met her running in a marathon of all things and she wanted to learn English. I said I'd be happy to teach her and after 2 lessons I asked her out on a date :-) I never did teach her English beyond that!
Ten thousand years ago seems like a nice, round number to start at.
Cybersecurity and National Policy (2010) [pdf]
Good reasoning! I agree with the basic premise - but I don't think you can ignore the CO2 cost to make a solar panel, vs to use one. A tree reduces CO2 as it's being 'built'. A solar panel requires many materials that are refined through various industrial processes - likely some of which produce CO2 - not withstanding the transportation CO2 cost. That all being said, I don't mean to disparage anyone who uses solar panels - and if you already have them (sunk cost) - less trees seems about right, to reduce carbon footprint.
Ask HN: Will you pay for an autonomous electric stroller?
Hi guys, it has been a 2 months that I became a dad, as a roboticist I was wondering if people would pay for an electric stroller powered by a small lidar and 2 camera. roughly around $3-4K?
> Not having your language and culture coercively erased is not 'special treatment'.

Languages and cultures have a life cycle, I am not sure any of us would want to live in a society that tolerated and nurtured every culture that ever existed.

That being said you / me / they, are not their culture. You are a individual, and people should only be treated based off their individual merit. Using your culture as a way to distinguished your self and get special treatment, respect, or reconsecration is literally an extension of racism. This is not something you chose, there for it should be meaningless much like the color of your hair, or skin color. When you treat culture like you are -- you are creating exclusionary boundaries based on happenstance. There is nothing to be proud of because you were born in X culture, because you have done nothing. There is nothing to be ashamed of because you were born in Y culture because you as a individual have done nothing but simply existed. Wanting to preserve it -- and not make anew is just burying your head in the sand.
> No offense but if you can't see how Chernobyl or Fukushima could have turned out worse, or that unexpected accidents in other locations could happen and could be worse, you don't understand nuclear power.

I can't help but notice the lack of specific examples or explanations of any kind.

> Water resource is consumed, sure it rains again - often far away and into the sea. Fresh water resources are scarce and under pressure in many places, ancient aquifers are drying out, particularly in the US.

Ancient aquifers are drying out as a result of unsustainable resource management and climate change. Nuclear power helps with both of these, the first by providing power for desalination and the second by reducing carbon emissions. The amount of water it evaporates for cooling by comparison is a drop in the bucket. Also, the cooling can be done with seawater to begin with.
Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)
I would keep in mind that efficiency/optimization is only possible _given complete knowledge of the system_. You can only truly optimize if you know all the inputs.

For any uncertainty you have not modeled, _you must have slack in the system_. This is true of your personal workflow, your professional environment, your romantic life, your business. If you aim only for optimization, you are implicitly optimizing _for the things you have modeled_ - this can often come at the cost of the things you have not.

I would say that, perhaps loosely, optimization is the delusion of overconfidence. Slightly less optimization, and more redundancy, is good caution.

More info here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdvogC9VMAEz9Y1?format=jpg&name=...
My Billion Dollar Mistake
>> "If you don't like it don't use it" fallacy doesn't work because I'm not talking about private but professional use.

That professional use is decided by someone too, the business owner, or someone given that authority. And they too, have aright to make that choice for their organizations, as well as for the people they employ. If you don't like it, get a job elsewhere. Choice is not a falacy, and your bitterness stems from the fact that you're denying you have it. Be gratefull for what you have.
i dont know any relevant project sorry
Neural representations are messy, this is both a strength and a weakness. It is a strength because it allows you to easily interpolate in the latent space of the representations in ways that might not be reflected by the training data or any rule-set that a human could come up with. This underlies the power of neural networks to generalize.

Symbolic representations are clean, this is both a strength and a weakness. You might have perfectly separated categories but the real world frequently presents inputs that break taxonomies.

We invented symbols like letters and numbers to reduce the complexity of the real world. Language and mathematics are lossy representations but also incredibly useful models.

Given the value that symbols and symbolic methods have for us I have little doubt that they will be an integral part of efficient AI systems in the future. You could train a neural world model on the ballistic properties of a rocket, but if it's orders of magnitude more efficient why not learn to calculate instead?
It is really difficult to have a meaningful discussion without any objective measurement of great. I am impressed that you are still trying.
A 5 axis mill? Once you had the model you could get one offs in many contract shops. It is by no means trivial but if it is an expensive part you could make a very workable copy. Given the required characteristics of the air flow there are some programs that calculate blade profiles.
Maybe the part would end up even more expensive but that sounds like an interesting and worthwhile project.
I feel like I do this too, but within a git repo.
Go to Fidelity or Vanguard, and look up Solo 401k. Fees are pretty minimal, especially with Vanguard.
So, uh, generate the power somewhere other than on shady roofs?

Seriously, I don't get the weird obsession with rooftop PV as if it's the only way to be green. PV is great, but, it doesn't work for every house. Personally, I have big oaks out front helping block passive solar windows in the summer, and the peak of my roof runs north-south so cell mounting would be tricky. That doesn't mean I can't get clean energy, it just means I buy it from a utility company, who are buying it from my neighbor's house where the orientation and canopy placement makes sense to do PV.
Sports photography. Can make a decent amount of money shooting high school sports, or local races. I think its a great hobby that complements programming as you can really nerd out about digital cameras and how they work, as well as photo editing.
Goldberg Steam Emulator: Emulate Steam Online Features
South Africa really the best example of a 'successful' intervention?
I think other koans could be better. Nice game to play reducing acronyms down to short non acronymic description.

Maybe it's doing through meaning becomes being?
Apple Response on Web Packages: Avoiding Built-In Tracking in Signed Packages
I dislike the keyboard.

I dislike them ditching the spill proofing.

I dislike the general lack of upgradability/repairability.

I would much rather have the t4xxs form factor with better quality components but you have to go x1.
I don't recommend CLI mail clients, try TUI or "full screen text mode" ones instead. If you really want CLI, I think the Unix mail program might be your only choice.
A big part of why social media websites/apps (FB and WhatsApp) are banned is because they are the central means of communication and agglomeration.

Forcing people to slow down in their ability to react to a massive amount of information/emotion, by letting them sit on for a while may not be a bad idea.

All too often a flurry of incomplete information leads only to a large degree of noise that organically sorts itself out inside of a couple of days.
> Water resource is consumed, sure it rains again...

And sometimes ocean water is rained back on land. Hurray, water cycle!
Linux 2019 (2009)
My understating is that the Linkerd folks have a production grpc client and server.
As with all things cancer, you can't easily compare completely different cultures, this is yet another carcinogen, one of the millions of contributing factors to cancer.
Love letter to PG, my hero. What happened?
Ask HN: What AI has not been beaten by machine learning?
Thanks! XNA and its descendants have definitely had a big impact.

(I remember early on sketching out the development plan for v2 and coming up with like 9 months of work... Things escalated.)
Depends whether it could be used to improve performance on existing tasks.
> In the US rice is less of a staple food (except for infants), so it matters less, I guess.

If it's that way around it's likely to matter more, infants tend to be far more sensitive to toxins than adults. Specifically it can seriously affect brain development, same with lead.
Another reason for doing it is that the bran contains some fat. When you are washing the rice, one technique is to push down with your hand to cause the rice grains to rub against one another. This polishes the rice a little bit more and removes a bit more bran from the outside (including any potentially rancid fat). Unless you have ridiculously polished rice, there will always be a bit of bran on the outside, so it can potentially improve the flavour. I eat a lot of rice on its own (no sauce, etc) and I do find that washing it this way improves the flavour slightly.
I've helped a friend with this one (I have a MP Select V2 full size), and I can tell you the thing is a workhorse. Pretty sure he has it running 5 days a week with 5-7 hour prints per day. He keeps the moving parts lubricated but that's about it. Just set him up with Octoprint to make the loading and monitoring easier.
Being a landlord has a totally different skillset...
Is it a delusion? I don't think so. I've seen very real efficiency improvements thanks to tech and software. For example, do you know how frictionless it is to travel these days compared to 10-20 years ago? You can book a flight, reserve a table at a highly rated restaurant, get turn-by-turn directions, convert currency, look up foreign language translations, book a hotel or AirBNB, order delivery, take photographs and share them with friends and fam instantly, etc, etc. Much more efficient than the old way. You'd risk getting lost, disconnected, lose time to search, lose money to excessive travel expenses, etc.

And that's just vacation travel. The author casually mentions that Uber and Lyft supplanted "hailing cabs" as if it were not much of an innovation, when we all know what the experience was like if you were in any city less dense than New York...it was a pain in the ass to get a cab and it was usually way more expensive than it was worth and the cars were hardly ever clean and you had no idea what kind of driver you were getting. You were also lucky if they took a credit card.
Similarly, a German-based company started producing replica Mercedes 300 SL bodies but they were shutdown and the bodies had to be crushed. Although, this isn't quite the same, because the bodies weren't used as replacement parts to keep existing cars on the road.

https://mercedesheritage.com/classic-mb-culture/mercedes-ben...
I'm generally happy to write walls of text to debate ideas, but I'm not very inclined to do it for people who just drop links. I will however drop a link of my own:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

TL; DR: Everyone hates their outgroup, and everybody has one, including you and me. Isn't it rather convenient to convince yourself that everyone in your outgroup is intolerant totalitarians, so that you can continue to hate them and justify any kind of tactics against them while also patting yourself on the back at how tolerant you are? (The 'you' there doesn't mean anyone in particular, just a general statement).

Tolerance means not hating your enemies, your outgroup, and is genuinely hard and pretty rare. Everybody likes their friends and allies, and there's nothing particularly special or virtuous about it.
That my friend is the secret sauce. My first job out of school was for a staffing company that pimped me out to perform similar projects. Word of mouth mostly, it's very lucrative if you have domain knowledge and can sit for long periods of time. It's not Mechanical Turk style cleansing and I have to take personal responsibility for every row as they mostly just suck up my cleansed data and roll with it, which you can't do with ML cleansed data or off-shored cleansed data. I've been thinking of launching a SaaS product but the transition from trusted consultant to enterprise SaaS is not easy. What do you do?
Well, we have better means for automation now. But I'm just fascinated how quickly that solution pops up in such discussions as soon as it's convenient.
We have coyotes in many suburban areas.
Where beriberi comes from? Rice bran is needed. Polished rice is nutritional emptyness
Yes to all of those, it's called advertising.
Erlang/Elixir's VM is gear toward high uptime, low latency, and highly concurrent.

https://stressgrid.com/blog/100k_cps_with_elixir/

What it's not good at is numerical computation.

As for the others I have no clue but I am sure jvm won't be as low latency as Elixir's VM since it's not a preemptive scheduler.
Which is in part written by the author and creator of Swift. Keep this in mind while reading this. Not to sound judgmental but I would be curious while Bill Gates explains to me why windows makes sense for X.
This reminds me of the time that a couple on vacation saw me and made a hand motion and muttered what sounded like nonsense. I saw it out of the corner of my eye and didn’t fully process the visual motion initially (being peripheral) but heard the audio.

At that moment, my hand stumbled and I dropped my brand new phone with case (except screen) onto the pavement, which happened to impact the screen with a rock and cracked it.

While the obvious explanation is that it was due to my own clumsiness along with bad luck, I had the distinct sense that they were experimenting with (what they likely thought of as) voodoo or magic, mind control or influence, etc. It was surreal and all happened in slow motion.

In another incident I was with classmates at a school basketball game on the sidelines. I’m a terrible shot with no shooting ability at all. My classmate quiets everyone down and says “watch this” and throws me the ball. A big group of people in the stands are now focused on me and I chuck the ball at the rim line drive style and sunk it. Everyone erupted.

To this day I’m convinced they said some prayer or otherwise did magic. Group positive energy. Who knows.

Fascinating subject and highly relevant in today’s interconnected world.
> As westerners

Are the actions of the current Chinese dictatorship praised or at least scene as normal by Koreans, Japanese, or Taiwanese?

No.

The culture of repression, and a hair trigger to stamp out any unfavorable comment on a regime is a sign of bad governance. Where will it end? Ten years ago, it was safe to criticize the actions of the regime, so long as you accepted that the government as a whole legitimate. Now you can no longer criticize the top-level, as its just one man. Will this trickle down till no one can speak ill of the government at all, lest they be seen as speaking ill of its dictator?
Reminds me of https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/smartbe-intelligent-strol...

A stroller following a person (or riding close in front) might be conceptionally easier to design than fully autonomous. I mean a parent will always be close by, won't they?
Would you tell me details of that book please -- it sounds interesting.
Switching to 1Password is pretty easy. I was feared moving because messing with passwords is scary but it was totally worth it. It's a much better experience.
Too bad no one supposes it worthwhile to form a backlash boycott against Leica's toadying stance with China.
“To be data scientist is appropriate for looking a part time job – Magnimind ”
>> also out of incompetence stemming from ignorance (which I'm then forced to deal with, unnecessarily)

This smacks of intellectual snobbery. We are all born with different talents and abilities, and not everyone is blessed with the ability to configure or manage their own OS. Or to dance the rumba. It doesn't make them bad, ignorant or incompetent, they're just wired differently. Which is why choice is such a great thing.