skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My subjective perception leads me to believe that it's becoming less important. And for tech-oriented businesses, I think that's even more true. TLD's like .io, .ai, etc are becoming very accepted. In fact, for anything AI related, I'd probably prefer the .ai TLD.

That said, all things being equal, a .com domain is probably still the gold standard in many areas, and if the one for your name is available, and affordable, it wouldn't hurt to have it. You can always redirect traffic one way or the other, to whatever you consider the "main" domain.
Heads up for 1.1.1.1 users, archive.is DNS servers answer with bad address, so you won't be able to view this page.
How long can we stay in a sauna before it is deadly?
As a transgender person who has her and her friends frequently flagged for “anomalies” I’m going to call oppression. Don’t look in my pants without asking. Mind your own damned business
I'm using workers since beta, including KV storage, it's great overall. Unfortunately recently noticed (testing for production launch) that there are rate limits in place (something around 2k requests per minute per IP for requests that go trough to origin server) - known issue it seems - https://community.cloudflare.com/t/rate-limit-on-workers/495... . I've contacted support already, ticket is marked as 'solved' but I still experience limits (429/1015 error codes). I'd love to know if it's something to be expected and if someone is planning to run tens or even hundred requests per seconds from single IP (I have bit weird API to work with that requires that) it's better to not use workers as it's not intended scenario? Or it's a matter of having more expensive Cloudflare plan (I'm on 5$/month for workers)? Would really appreciate more details on that subject as can't really change that API and will constantly run into 429 errors.
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How do you know your depression didn’t simply run its course and resolve on its own?

That’s the problem with all this experimentation.
It's OK, I guess, but it has rather little to do with the subject here. If you want to publicize your blog here, please do it by submitting a link rather than by barging into a largely unrelated discussion to shout about how good your own blogpost is.
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Yep. That's the "I'm probably wrong" part. I knew that i3 had something like that, but I remember that you could only start one program within the scratchpad. If there's a tabbed mode within the scratchpad, I should probably take another look.
An analogy is never a way to reason, it's a way to explain and teach. It's been used forever and nobody thinks it's lousy unless they want to complain about something :)
This is the first time I am hearing about this. No slime conventions in India as far as I know.
Might bring a whole bunch of new users to the linux desktop.

The high end gaming PC crowd are very into customising their builds to look pretty, seems like the endless configurability of linux DE's would appeal to them not to mention the day to day overhead of maintaining Win10 vs Linux.
I had a negative reaction to your negative reaction because I think you are mischaracterizing his argument. I don't think he's saying "you're guaranteed to fail, just give up", but rather the expectations of "valuation to effort" is skewed by the 2002-2014 time period, and with that I wholeheartedly agree. If anything, I would argue it would be a better startup community if people had realistic expectations about how much effort hard things take, instead of yet another food delivery app.
I don't know, the mere fact that someone with brain damage that severe could even be conscious and interact with the world is pretty damned impressive to me. An AI with that kind of systemic damage would present a Blue Screen. The difference between vegetative and able to take an IQ test is far, far higher than the difference between an IQ of 70 and one of 130.
It is not a metaphor, it is an analogy.
Writing Scalable Architecture for Node.js
"Voluntarily and for free share your DNS lookup records with the EU for Big Data analytics purposes"
Abstractions are a spectrum. There's always a degree of benefit to be had from peeking under the hood. I'd argue that it's rare that you find an abstraction that can be used well without having to understand, or "decompress", some of it.

Consider JVM and Java: that you can write Java seemingly without any knowledge about JVM is an illusion - you already learned a lot about how things like JVM work under the hood when first learning programming[0]. Learning more about JVM itself lets you write more efficient code and debug better.

Consider functions: it's near-impossible to contain all the information necessary to use a non-trivial function in its header[1]. That's why good code contains comments and other forms of documentation describing the abstraction in more details. Even then, it's not always enough - sometimes it's really much easier to understand what you need by reading the source[2].

Consider any appliance - be it a car, or a radio, or a dishwasher. You can use it to it interface, to some extent at least. But knowing what's going on under the literal hood really does help with use, and especially helps when something goes wrong. If you don't know what's hidden under the abstraction layer, any failure will likely be incomprehensible to you and leave you helpless.

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[0] - In theory, it might be possible to learn some programming without learning anything about hardware or hardware-emulating abstractions. In reality, I've never seen it or heard of it, and I suspect that the simplest mental model of code execution is isomorphic to somewhat simplified computer or virtual machine.

[1] - Function name + name of its arguments + types of its arguments and return value, if available.

[2] - Then again, implementation code may not capture the entire abstraction either. That's why good code often features comments inside the implementation, explaining the rationale behind some of the less obvious code parts.
The phase change of water from liquid to gas is an endothermic reaction. In an emergency, if you had water and a fan, you could continually soak yourself and then accelerate water evaporation using the fan. This would keep you significantly cooler than the water temperature itself.
The huge difference here is leverage.

The typical bank in the US is levered ~5-12x which means, many of these "shadow banks" are unlevered, this creates an entirely different dynamic
Is this why I've been seeing signs advertising something like "learn how to flip houses like a PRO! Call 555-555-5555" popping up around my little suburban town? Also bank managers hitting up my elderly relatives for home equity loans again.

It feels very much like we're in 2002-2005-ish again.
Patterns aren’t reductionist, they’re just names for things that are common so that it’s easier to talk/think/write about them when those are the things being discussed. Surely no one has ever told you that all code you write has to conform to some set of predefined design patterns. That would be an engineering antipattern right there. Like most things in design, they’re supposed to help you think more clearly and concisely about common problems, they are absolutely 100% not intended to circumscribe your solutions.
> The term “anti-pattern” is a derogatory term used to disparage software design approaches that a given developer, or group of developers may not like.

So right off the bat you have an author doing the exact same thing he accuses other of doing, abusing the meaning of a term as bludgeon against pet peeves. And yet here he is, in the very first sentence of the article, lying about what an anti-pattern is because it makes his pet peeve look more legitimate. And it doesn't get that much better in the rest of the article.

The complete lack of self-awareness of some people is absolutely astonishing.
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I don't see the point of just not addressing the article. It quite specifically argues that as technology isn't emerging any more so startups can't commercialize those emerging technologies.

Many of these companies were absolutely obvious, just hard to get right. "Everyone" were creating social networks at one point when Myspace was big and Facebook hadn't yet won. And music streaming after Napster, or "mobile blogging" as an Instagram predecessor, or video streaming with Flash, or ... .

Of course it was hard to get it right, but that is why you had a shot to make something with "a good brain and a keyboard". Many companies who didn't make it all the way still sold on some merit of technology. Many VC firms aren't looking for that any more, but things like marketing and sales.
What app do you have in mind? I don't live in the US so maybe I haven't heard about it. I searched for "Zhang Li app" but found only game apps
I suppose that this goes to prove the GP's argument?

This is honestly one of the most hilarious counter-examples I've ever read.
Thank you for expressing my opinion possibly better then I did.
Well that's very interesting work and it could potentially be very useful to my own reserach which is basically machine learning from symbolic representations. Unfortunately, from my quick readig of the paper it doesn't seem like the "relational" representations learned by PrediNet are ever encoded in explicitly symbolic structure, or that it is even possible to disentangle them from the trained model at all.

That would have been really useful, because for instance one could set up a pipeline with PrediNet on one end and the symbolic machine learning system I work with, Metagol [1], on the other end. That would be damn close to an ideal of a deep neural net as a "perceptual" unit and a symbolic machine learning system as a "reasoning" unit, which has long seemed to me like a winning combination, even the next big thing in machine learning- if anyone ever manages to get it right. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem PrediNet can be used in this way. Its representations stay locked up in its model. Too bad. Though still interesting.

As a side point- what's up with "propositional relational" representations? I dare say Murray Shannahan knows a thing or two more than me about logic, but I'm pretty sure I know this well: a representation is either relational, or it's propositional. A (first order) relation relates propositions. I don't get where this terminology comes from and it's a bit confusing.

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[1] https://github.com/metagol/metagol
The lack of meaningful support is a huge gap in our scale-at-all-costs and automate-everything tech culture.
How have Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon managed to diversify?
Are there any ways to hide leverage?
It's all about head x volume, if you don't have site suitable then you can simply forget about it. Very few pieces of land that you can own privately will have enough height difference and enough volume of water running through it that you can pull this off.

Besides the legality of it, in Northern Ontario, the land I had there had a fair sized creek running through it but over the 400 meters that the creek intersected the property the height difference was only about a meter and a half. You'd have to do major engineering to make usable power from that, the cost of the tubing and the turbine might be just low enough that it would compare favorably with a windmill.

It definitely is a great way to make power though, as long as the creek does not freeze (and as long as your precious tubing and Pelton wheel don't freeze) they'll make continuous power and that is really neat.
This is exactly why something like reCAPTCHA exists and is used prevalently.

To me, it sounds like your system is just security by obscurity. It wouldn't scale, if it did become used prevalently then it would be very easy for bots to circumvent.
It’s a bit of a trick. You just have a bunch of tabs and then select all (select the parent) then send the entire parent to scratch pad
If you want less work, get a part time job or quit.

Which of these works in mysterious ways?

All right, we know the question is really "How do I work less, or not at all, and still get paid?", but that's being tackled by MMT and Universal Basic Income "economists."
I upvoted because I think we should have this discussion, but I disagree strongly. As an example, I was reading recently about the growth of SAAS companies. Lookup the stocks OKTA, WDAY, TWLO, MDB, SHOP, etc. They have grown hockey stick in the last 2-3 years.

In general I think the opportunities in non-direct-to-consumer business will be great in the short term (there are a lot of inefficiencies that are hard to solve in-house by the big corps).
Blackberry’s highest revenue quarters were around 2010. Three years after the iPhone was introduced. Profits are a trailing indicator. But even if you don’t buy that, Google’s net income was down last quarter. Revenue was up but traffic acquisition costs were up even more.

What if Apple had stuck to just selling iPods in 2007? Just like Blackberry, more iPods were sold in 2007 than ever before - the same year the iPhone was introduced.

What if Netflix had kept shipping DVDs or more recently didn’t invest in its own content years before other providers started pulling theirs?
"Storm ditches Clojure in favor of Java in its core". A moderator changed it, in accordance with the site guideline: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To riff on a common quote: if a million refugees want to get into your country and you don’t admit them, the refugees have a problem. If a billion refugees want in, you have a problem.

Nothing “simply” about it.
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Your typical height difference in those locations are better suited to applications that use torque rather than pressure. And that's how they were used in the past, to directly turn paddle wheels or bucket wheels to power mechanical activity, not to run generators for electrical power. You might be able to create a neat conversion though, make an old style wheel and then gear up inside the building. But cost wise that would most likely be a complete loss compared to the electricity it would produce, and those wheels are high maintenance.
Nothing is forever, sure. The sun will swallow the Earth in ~5 billion years.

I guess we can all do better this fine Sunday than quibble over the true meaning of "temporary".
Swedish Startup to Bring Pogo Sticks to S.F. As E-Scooter Alternative
That imposes two problems: that I am limited to about 15 minutes of research time (limiting depth and basically eliminating "phone a friend" consultations) and it requires that one permits laptops into the meeting.

Nevertheless, I'm a supporter of the approach and have introduced it into the most important review meetings that we hold in my group. (We do bar laptops and other electronics, other than video conferencing equipment.) Results after 18 months seem quite positive on balance.
It is just frustrating because the entire business relies on downloads/sales. And with a flip of an algorithm you are shut out of 80% of desktop market share.

Not only that, if I Was presented with the message, I would be hesitant to ever come back to that site, the reputational damage is lasting for the user.
If SF, I'm seeing ads all over for 1) Brex (corporate credit cards for startups) and 2) Zerodown (pitching no down payment for homes).

It would be quite something if tech and not banks caused the next great recession.
At least Microsoft and Amazon have the same interview style as google. The questions might not be as hard, but the interview style is same. All sorts of DS and algos. Infact, one of my friends once went to a microsoft interview, where even the interviewer had a leetcode like website open on his browser and asking questions from there directly.
This isnt true, you just get redirected to archive.fo
Indeed. Despite all of the objections to the "startup party is over" story, this and that combine to feel like another collapsing bubble.
That's the big problem. If you cut your work week down to 20 hours, it can be tough to get anything done at all. The amount of meetings is not going to decrease because (most) managers need to waste other people's time to feel important.
The article provides a clear and detailed explanation of how the traditional inhabitants, who had settled there over a century ago, were forcibly re-settled by the British. The court decision in question calls for them to be returned to the descendants of those people.

I presume you got the quoted statistic from the Chagos Islands info box on that Wikipedia page. If so, I'd urge you to scroll down just a little bit farther to learn the info that the rest of us read in the article. Here's a link to help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago#Sovereignty...
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There are networks that can be “damaged” (in the sense of having neurons ripped out) and still function reasonably well.
Linking to hn thread instead of the original article wouldn't quite be blogspam (hn doesn't copy the content) but it would be bad form for the same reasons (assuming you weren't linking to the hn thread for added content, such as linking to someone's great comment).

Blogspam isn't a judgement that says you shouldn't read the article if you're on the blog (or read hn), it's a judgement that you shouldn't link to it on a news aggregator, or generally use it as a source.
or just append "?mod=rsswn" (without quotes) to original URL.
> “The more they dig into it being about freedom, the more susceptible they become the to the theories,” said Dave Gorski, a Michigan physician who has tracked the anti-vaccine movement for two decades. “Appeals to freedom are like the gateway drug to pseudoscience.”

Medicine uses a lot of pseudoscience in marketing treatments: stents for stable heart patients, Premarin (derived from horse urine) for menopause... knee surgeries that are no better than placebo [0]... Chemotherapy as treatment for cancer, even though Otto Warburg determined cancer is a metabolic problem in the 1940’s... there was an article on medium by a doctor who challenged his profession’s obsession with bariatric surgery, if I find the link when I get home I’ll post it in a follow up comment.

I think the stories of adult baseball players from Central America catching chicken pox are interesting. Why doesn’t chicken pox spread in Central America? Is there a connection to sunlight? Vitamin D? Just like we have a flu season, I bet there’s a chicken pox season too... People in northern latitudes get Winter Sickness when the sun goes away for the winter, on account of the lower level of sunlight (due to vitamin D, and how red light refreshes cytochrome c oxidase, the copper enzyme in our mitochondria).

I had a mild case of chicken pox. Only had it once. I think doctors vaccinate against chicken pox for the convenience of parents and day care centers, not because children actually need to be protected against this particular viral infection. Yes, some children have bad cases of chicken pox, but shouldn’t science be employed to figure out why some children have mild cases of chicken pox, while others have severe cases?

Tetanus vaccination is very useful. Tetanus vaccines are good for about 10 years, iirc. Vaccination advocates ought to lead with tetanus, because tetanus infections are random, miserable, and often fatal, whereas measles is inevitable and mostly survivable.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/health/features/stories/2015/03/25/42... - a study about arthroscopic knee surgery being no better than placebo surgery first hit the news around 2002, it seems, but this link is more recent.
I think it’s reasonable to expect engineers to be able to learn how .reduce works. It’s part of JavaScript, after all.

If a new hire doesn’t know (a junior dev, or someone without experience in JS/Scala/etc.), an hour of reading plus coding exercises should be plenty to get them up to speed (if it’s not, that would be a red flag to me, and could be a sign of poor performance to come in other areas, too).
You're dealing with a mind virus, one that I'm familiar with myself: We feel like we need to spend our free time productively. I'm actively trying to get this out of my head. Not saying that I want to slack off, but I definitely need to slack off from time to time, and I struggle with allowing myself to do it.
It's sad that we let "etchics" get in the way of research, especially in cases like these. It's not ethics anymore, it's just fear of someone ruining your career by touting "ethics" violations, not actual ethics issues.
I'd love to drop Windows for Linux, but, Visual Studio. I honestly believe it's the superior OS from the few times I've had the good fortune to real work in it. That being said, this makes no sense whatsoever:

> day to day overhead of maintaining Win10 vs Linux.

What daily overhead, exactly? The once-per-month updates?
There’s a ton of cool apps for productivity, time management, health, note taking, all in iOS due to iPad ecosystem. Apple pulled a smart one and democratized file extension monopolies by making App Store ecosystem relatively cheap for customers. This incentivized a ton of high quality lower cost apps that now all have their own file extensions on top of importing stuff like pdf and psd, and the iOS share menu has basically turned apps into Linux command line tools where you set up your own work flow chain. Apple has now positioned iOS libraries in next OS X to be importable into OS X, thus now all these iOS apps can be posted easily into OS X. Essentially, iOS has now liberated the user from .doc, .ppt, .xls, .psd dependencies and soon it will spread into OS X.

Linux has no such source of ample high quality apps that don’t cost hundreds of dollars in fees like in windows (office 365 and adobe, I’m looking at you)
We are talking here about the law, not about ideal world to live in.

The question is if photograph is personal data according to GDPR. Here is what I found [1]:

Under GDPR Article 9, biometric data is among the special categories of personal data that is prohibited from being processed at all unless certain exceptional circumstances apply, and the definition of biometric data specifically refers to "facial images".

Any images collected, whether via photos or videos, will only constitute biometric data if “specific technical means” are used to uniquely identify or authenticate an individual.

GDPR makes an important distinction between facial-recognition data and photographs. Recital 51 of the GDPR states the distinction as follows:

The processing of photographs should not systematically be considered to be processing of special categories of personal data as they are covered by the definition of biometric data only when processed through a specific technical means allowing the unique identification or authentication of a natural person.

[1]: https://iapp.org/news/a/how-should-we-regulate-facial-recogn...
You're in a relationship with someone you trust. It's enough trust that you one day let them (or maybe even ask them to) photograph or film you having sex with them (or even just nude photographs, the level of explicitness really doesn't matter.) Days, months, even years later, things end badly.

Your ex posts the photos/videos of you on Pornhub, or 4chan, or anywhere.

Someone uses facial recognition to match the photos to your social media profiles. And then you get doxxed, outed, and the photos are shared with all your friends and family.

A) Are you a "pornography actor" in this scenario, or someone who trusted the wrong person? Is everyone who has ever had nude photos or videos taken of them a "pornography actor"?
B) Just because something is technically possible, does that mean it should be legal? Do the ethics or the thing ever come into play?
C) Do you believe that that laws/regulations are only effective if they prevent someone from doing something, and not effective if they only punish after-the-fact? Are deterrent laws useless?
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