skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I can translate! The city where I live has short distances between bus stops, just about two blocks. That means you have to walk at maximum one block to reach a bus stop.
Beancount really is wonderful. I use it for my personal finances, but I also moved my local hackerspace (Hackerspace.Gent) to use it to keep track of everybody's bar accounts. The backend uses beancount as a library to manage stock and balances, so that the data has a single point of truth in the (public) ledger. We can then always run easy analysis using the command line tools to see how much profit we made from events, which categories of things sell well, etc. Further, the metadata support allows us to keep certain preferences (like who the members are, how they prefer their name displayed, etc) all in one place.

If anybody is interested, the code is open source:

Backend: https://github.com/0x20/backtab

Frontend: https://github.com/0x20/tab-ui

I'm not going to explicitly link to the data but it shouldn't be hard to find if you want to see it
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Regardless of platform and motivation, there is a more general issue.

There is no fine well defined line between public documentation and promotion. Raising awarness is a form of promotion. Even if material is ultimately objective. There is no going around it, so it's always going to be subjective and leave someone unhappy, either for material being present or not present.
Radium existed but not isolated and not usable for X-Ray for example.
Plane was in nature also before humans, just not assembled yet :)
It's natural to be influenced by the people around us. "Show me your friends and I'll show you your future."
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Interesting. I want to ask this in a way that is respectful because I'm not grandstanding, but coming to that conclusion after two undergraduate courses, based on preceding mystification, did it not occur to you that it might be your understanding, rather than the whole field?

My personal story: I worked for just under a decade on EAs (PhD and professionally, late 90s and early 00s). I don't entirely disagree with you about pure GAs. But even back then, pure GAs were rarely used. But I do disagree about evolutionary algorithms in general.

The usefulness of EAs is highly problem dependent. And I will definitely concede that the space of problems in which they excel and are tractable is smaller than the space of problems for something like a neural network, in my experience.

As for crossover, when it works (and in engineering contexts the operator needs to be designed with the problem in mind) it does so by allowing individuals at different points on the landscape to share the optimisations they find. At the cost of increased genetic load. This, of course, is only useful if the fitness landscape is both heavily multimodal and self-similar. And it requires some effort to avoid the population converging around a single solution (where you do have a stochastic hill climb).

In my experience, EAs come into their own with non-fixed genotypes or complex genotype to phenotype expression. Multivariate optimisations with a fixed number of variables is probably best done with other tools.
I have a similar problem on my firefox-on-android: when I load a mobile.twitter link, it usually pinwheels for a bit, then throws up an error - either "you're rate limited" or just "something went wrong" (or, occasionally, it just pinwheels forever); then, regardless of which way it failed, loading the page a second time almost always works - but only if I do a proper reload from the browser UI, the in-page "try again" button doesn't help.

I figure something's timing out on the first attempt, but various bits get downloaded & cached before it fails, meaning the second try runs fast enough to not hit the same timeout.
I was very surprised to see this is a YC startup - I thought they only invested where there was the possibility of a huge exit?

While this looks interesting, $5/m is a lot for the functionality on offer - for something as "small" as this, I'd personally prefer to pay on a yearly basis, maybe something like $20/y.

I just can't see this delivering big returns, unless of course there is something much bigger on the road map.
On filing complaints and being informed that they were forwarded to the local authority that has jurisdiction.

https://gdpr.eu/article-55-supervisory-authority-competence/ also states Each supervisory authority shall be competent for the performance of the tasks assigned to and the exercise of the powers conferred on it in accordance with this Regulation on the territory of its own Member State, and article 56 adds to that.
clear
echo "Hello there. I'm a computer. What's your name?"
read G
echo "Hello $G. You are welcome to computer land."

while true
do
echo ""
echo "What would you like to do today?"
echo "1) Say something random"
echo "2) Make a maze"
echo "3) Exit"
echo "Enter your selection"
read S
if [ "$S" = "1" ]; then
say $( head -n $((7*RANDOM)) /usr/share/dict/words | tail -n 1 )
elif [ "$S" = "2" ]; then
for i in {1..3000}; do
if (($RANDOM>16384)); then printf '/'; else printf '\'; fi
done
elif [ "$S" = "3" ]; then
echo "Bye."
exit
else
echo "Try again."
fi
done

This doesn't seem much different than the BASIC example to me. I think only the lack of GOTO in shell scripts makes this look slightly more complicated (requiring either putting all the statements in the if ... elif parts or defining functions).

I honestly don't see how a Python or Ruby version would be much better than a shell version for this. Perhaps you can show by example?
As another European, I grew up in a city that was divided into blocks and where "couple blocks away" was idiomatic common expression.
> In 2019 even empathizing with certain people, or trying to follow the logical steps that lead them to their views is considered a sin by some people.

It's almost like we're sliding back to 1935. There is no shared understanding of the fact that empathizing with people - all people, regardless of their diversity - and trying to understand their views is what leads you to the most correct views over time. It's why the modern West won, and its adversaries lost. I'm starting to think that some people really do hate us for this freedom - they want to be told what to think, and find the very idea of intellectual curiosity or openness to be inherently offensive.
> but I would say that not doing tests because of the information hazard issue is a symptom that something is wrong

I agree with that. Unfortunately, what is wrong is probably something to do with human nature, and a system might not be able to fix that.
A potentially huge difference between the Purism Librem 5 and the Pine64 products is that Purism is emphasizing privacy and security.

Both companies are based in countries believed to compel compromises sometimes, but my current gut feel is I'd rather have a Librem 5.

I currently have a dumbphone, and a trail of nonworking PostmarketOS, Replicant, and FirefoxOS devices. If we could get the Librem 5 software working reasonably well atop PostmarketOS, that would provide a less-secure "budget" option for getting more people onto the platform, for people who can't swing several hundred dollars. Even were Purism to later introduce a budget device, open source and not being locked to their devices would be an encouraging sign for adopting the platform.
Currently either Standard Notes or a self hosted instance of VS Code on my home server.
US blocks are 1/10th of a mile or ~500ft. So each block Can be really far from the next.
Awscli-as-Session
I'm not trying to say that anything is/isn't ok, I'm directly replying to:

> Set up your own website and host the content. Nobody is removing that ability.

In practice, things might not be that simple.
> why launch Inbox in the first place?

Google didn't launch it, it was a startup that Google acquired for the team, and then killed of Inbox as soon as they could.
America was indeed founded by immigrants seeking a "better life" whether that was Puritans fleeing persecution or economic opportunists. It's not like anyone immigrated to America simply to "pioneer" for pioneering's sake.
That formula won't work with compound interest. I'm not sure if most spreadsheet packages have an exponential function, but the formula should be

money_in_account * exp( interest_rate/12 )
Hello, I have a phone with a big screen. I use connectbot and tmux. My single issue is that it is almost unusable when I do not have my bluetooth keyboard with me. Hacker's keyboard is not very pleasant and does not interact well with connectbot (the virtual keyboard hides half of the screen).

I will try Termius.
I’ve been envisioning a tinder-for-bots app. It could use tinder’s existing bot population (50%? 90%?). It’ll have a “I am not a human” recaptcha on sign up. It’ll feature influential celebs s.a Siri, kortana, Alexa and Tai. I only need to figure out monetization.
Or the OP downloaded the HTML page[1] instead of the raw file. The HTML for a signed-out user is about 64kB.

1: https://github.com/nanochess/Invaders/blob/master/invaders.c...
Autopogo reminds me of the shoes which will walk you home automatically from the TV show Red Dwarf.

Season 2 Episode 5, can't find the video snippet online quickly, but here's the transcript. Read with a British accent if you're unfamiliar with the show!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/3duthb/smart_shoes/
What the author is referring to is usually branded, so it's difficult for people on the sales side to give details without revealing who it is unless you're in the weeds (technically), and I'm sure you can appreciate why they might not want to, so here's the gist:

- Companies collect a number of "records" keyed to an email address. How they do this varies from running microsites/forms that collect data directly from people, to scraping linkedIn and resumes.

- Data vendors will share this data with each other by hashing the email address. Almost always with md5, and rarely salted.

This means you can enrich data both anonymously (by relying on the fact the email address is unsalted) or in an identifying way (because one of the parties has the real email address). In both cases, it's just a LEFT JOIN.
As an Australian, I've always used "block" to mean an arbitrary short distance, up to maybe 1 km.

It's not an actual measurement, but rather a figure of speech. Just like "round the corner" doesn't actually mean literally around the corner.
Just keep using it and provide feedback :)

Yes, that's the plan, having full view DSL features. The issues are GPU drivers, as you don't get any specs from the manufacturers, so it will either be a software renderer or using a VGA/SVGA backend.
An exoKernel/paraKernel is only securely multiplexing the resources. Everything happens in user-space (memory allocations, scheduling, etc.), so you can theoretically run every app from every OS at the same time (if you provide a libOS being able to handle the API calls of the specific OS). You would be able to run only one single app or multiple ones. The OS is just another application so you can boot into an OS or an application itself, running on bare-metal.
> There is no demand for personal data or de-anonymization because that stuff doesn't sell.

Say what?? I’ve also worked in the ad industry and deanonymized personal data is shared and sold routinely. You speak of statistics and large segments but every advertiser I’ve interacted with is either doing individual-level targeting or striving towards it.
Analyze and manage AWS cost, usage and security in one dashboard
The US already has laws and other mechanisms for handling calls for violence, etc.

For problems of manipulation, I suggest the solution is not a politician or company getting to choose who gets to manipulate, but rather, becoming more resilient against manipulation.
The atmosphere doesn't care how much or little we emit per capita. Total emissions is what should worry us.
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Florida, New Jersey, and Massachusetts have much denser coverage than the rest of the country, and it's correlated strongly with the state boundaries. It makes me question the accuracy of the data. I'd expect Florida to have the most overall, but the pattern looks odd.
I think both of these types are not allowed where I live (the Netherlands) because, you know, people shouldn't be getting their medical advice from advertising, for what I hope are obvious reasons.
This is not true.

Many many companies in this industry attach real names and email addresses to this data, and even the ones that aim for pseudonymity do it typically in a very weak way (such as an unsalted md5 hash).
Open source doesn't fix much. Most ad tracking today happens via well understood open technology, and then adtech companies build profiles server side. Here's something very simple and fully opensourceable that would still provide lots of tracking capability:

* Get lots of sites to put an img tag that references your site, perhaps by paying them a tiny amount per visitor

* When you get a request, assign a cookie if there isn't one. Log the cookie and the referrer.

* Sort your logs by cookie. Each cookie represents someone's browsing history, and the more complete your distribution of pixels is the more complete your view is.

You can opt out of this client side by blocking the requests (adblocker) or by using a browser that blocks 3rd party cookies (ex: Safari) but open source doesn't do much here.
> I could see it making more sense if in the future we would really implement a lot of cheaper electricity power plants (fusion power).

Even in that case, wouldn't the higher-efficiency EV still be cheaper?

As a general rule, if the feasibility of any demand-side cleantech depends on power "too cheap to meter" (or something close to it), you're going to have a bad time.
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Science doesn’t prove axioms... Gödel already parsed this problem :)
How would you do this on macOS with just the built-in Python or Ruby?
Is automation good or bad, that is the question. For context, let us think in programming context of a B tree.

Google seems to have created oversight of systems, processes and jobs to be managed by more automation with other systems, processes and jobs.

System A manages its child systems B, which in turn manages its own child systems C and so on. Now the question becomes, who manages the system A and its activities? Automation of the entire tree is as good as the starting node.

Be mindful and make use of automation only of systems that will not be the owner of your business demise. Humans are and should always be the owner of the starting process. Without that governance model, you get google with 5 hours of down time or worst in the near future.
How does the empty set "create" the set containing the empty set?
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As a citizen of the EU, I really want to find out what the advertising industry has on me. I once filed a GDPR Art. 5 request with Quantcast but forgot about it - they give you a link to S3 with a promise that there will be a ZIP containing data within 30 days.

What other hidden players are out there? I know next to nothing about the ad industry
The Mirai uses carbon fiber tanks for this reason.

Some good info here on the transportation problem: https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/features/japan-taking-a-...
Yes. To date, the Google Cloud sales pitch felt like, “Super smart Googlers all use super secret awesome sauce to do Google-scale things, you should automatically buy the pale imitations we externalized* and love it without any support because it’s all just such Googley goodness.”

For instance, this is the mantra about Borg, Omega, Kubernetes and GKE, or Blaze and Bazel, or etc.: well, we have an amazing thing, we copied a bit of it for you because you’re not us, but isn’t it great? Please send any feedback to our noreply@google.com autoresponder so we never have to leave the hive.

TBC, the world is better for the stuff Google externalized! CNCF wouldn’t be what it is otherwise. But the default attitude about it is the exact opposite of how enterprises get comfort in buying.
Okay, so like, I'll defend them on this in principle. That said, can you address, like, you know, the myriad scandals you have BEFORE doing something ELSE? It's a bad look.
SoftBank could bring down the house?
What setup do you use? Do you manage your own servers? What about non-devs?
Here's an example from Mozilla:

> While we still use it heavily, IRC is an ongoing source of abuse and harassment for many of our colleagues

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/04/26/synchronous-text/?s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763276
Yeah, I love IRC. I'm only on freenode now with any frequency, though. Maybe I'm missing out on some other great servers? I'm unsure.
No doubt to try and boost their share price.
> Users are running code that's been saved to the JSFiddle server, so it's not unreasonable to suggest JSFiddle have some responsibility to their visitors.

I do not think so. If I insult another user on Hackernews, how is Ycombinator resposinble for that? I don‘t think platforms should be responsible for what their users do. That is a very slippery slope, leading to the horrendous way YouTube deals with copyright claims, Article 13, and similar censoring tools.
For very large companies that do business in many countries regulators have various concerns (power of the company relative to the country, jurisdiction shopping via choice of headquarters location, etc) that don't apply for the typical case of a German company with a German audience.
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It didn't. It was a fake add pop up that said it had a Windows virus. It was convincing enough for him to get on the phone and be ready to pay $300 to Windows to fix the virus until my dad walked in the room and stopped him.
Things would surely be simpler :) also, that is what you will experience after death according to many here...
One issue with “rock paper scissors” is the fixed input domain; there is nothing to mutate if your three starting options are the only possible inputs.

If you’re trying to do something like predict the next move based on historical patterns, I think a classifier would be better.
Fair. Then you can think about it this way: the average difference between any two adjacent intersections in a given city.
I suspect its a private, permissioned blockchain, in which case its neither a decentralized cryptocurrency, nor interesting.
The link to the German version 404s. Very strange.
So one step of a genetic algorithm, selection, does what you describe, but the main value of the approach is the iterative generation of new populations.
Did you read the actual block quote?

> we did implemented a content filter to shadow-ban these

JSFiddle shadow-ban these scam accounts, and they asked Twitter to do the same but Twitter bans _all_ JSFiddle URLs instead.
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Nix tries to achieve deterministic, reproducible builds, but Chrome's update process is non-deterministic because of (3). This hack lets the update check appear deterministic.
Please, we're not that consistent. In Chicago there's 8 blocks to the mile.
There’s a friendly in-person community too, in SF and NYC (next NYC meetup is in a few weeks: https://plotterpeople.github.io/nyc.html)
> the "as you wish" rule

That's not what it's about. It's about doing things. Together. Marriage isn't just about signing your names on a piece of paper; it's a (supposedly) life-long commitment to a team of two people where you are one of the team members. My wife and I do the same thing (and yes, it goes both ways), and we both agree that's the one reason we're such an awesome team.
Being aware that something might be fake and actually not getting influenced by it are not the same though. Particularly when it's reinforcing an existing belief, but it already starts when being a little gullible provides more entertainment value than being sceptical.

It's hard to predict actual effects, I don't think that anyone could have foreseen that the primary use of stills image editing for manipulation is not the perfect crime of an elaborate fake but a barrage of provocatively simple memes that don't even pretend to care about believability. The act of sharing is the message.
A programming language should be stable, not add/change things all the time.
Ok, but your earlier comment was that we shouldn't even use the term "extremism," so what term would you prefer that couldn't be abused in the same way?
Let's call it "FaceCoin".
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The problem isn't change per se, but change for the negative brought on by mainstream exposure leading to an influx of new members who don't learn the ettiquette of the community before joining in.

An analogy would be if HN was suddenly overrun with rude, non-technical people attacking other posters and causing drama, and outnumbering the thoughtful and constructive comments and links we come to the place for.

The "eternal september" is particularly sad if you go back and read the archived posts of early usenet - I would kill to get discussion of that quality on the net today.