skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> spinning rust

TIL

https://etherealmind.com/network-dictionary-spinning-rust/

> Spinning Rust – term for conventional hard disk drives with motors and using ferrous-based platters for data storage. Probably derogatory now that Flash Drives are beginning to replace conventional drives.
I've heard that if you use privacy.com with a California mailing address they let you cancel online due to California law.
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I may now get a cat just to set this up.
Yeah , people forget that pre-facebook, posting your real name or address online was a real taboo.

And honestly, it was better that way. The internet was built to be public space.
I hooked up the raspberry pi to an old monitor I hung over the kitchen table. It boots up shortly before dinner time for an hour and then displays "Find my Friends" on Chromium in kiosk mode. (Inspired bij the Weasly family clock from Harry Potter).

It's a fixture I couldn't live without anymore. When family members travel you still feel connected. It has a tiny ruby script to rotate through pages, during breakfast it displays the kids' upcoming class schedule.
Surveys are one thing. Votes are another. Voters have consistently voted to put oil companies in the highest seats of power for decades, because they are "pro-business".
That's partially true because you have FosUserBundle as kind of defacto standard for user facing auth (but yes it's a community package) and many built-in things for APi auth.
Our bodies are coded with DNA and rocks and geo formations are encoded with the earth's history.
For what it's worth, China is actually more CO2 efficient compared to Western nations at similar levels of development in the past:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/05/25/china-is...
and/or add some degree of redundancy and error correction to the storage codec
Which telcos don't, except for billing purposes. Yes, they have a legal obligation to collect and store that data for law enforcement, but they are still bound by the GDPR for everything else.
All the photos on this page are just a blurry mess. It sounds like an interesting project; too bad I can't see it.
You could probably build CD-ROMs that last millions of years if you really tried. You can buy regular CD-Rs that are estimated to last hundreeds of years. But of course most people buy whatever is cheapest, and the cheapest CD-Rs won't last you a decade.
Absolute position isn't always important, and position may not always take full advantage of the available space. Take a magnetic tape (or a radio transmission), it's essentially a 1-d data steam (magnetic intensity), not a 2-d matrix. Moreover, depending on the encoding, just taking a specific slice may not let you decode that specific bit of data, you need to know some number of previous states.

Now, that said, the stream itself is defined by a 3-dimensional dataset: amplitude, phase, and frequency. Every modulation technique is some way of twiddling those 3 dimensions.
My feelings exactly. Depressing to see so many smart people here on HN saying "We need to do something about climate change!" But then when a presidential candidate rolls out an ambitious, comprehensive, soup-to-nuts proposal that fixes the problem, they say "No, not like that!"
It's because of things like Alacritty https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty

"Using the GPU for rendering enables optimizations that simply aren't possible without it"
Do you feel that had you taken notes on an eReader / iPad with a pen input you would have similar effectiveness? I used to take notes for work in a small pad and found I didn't reference them often. I've recently tried moving to digital notes and there seems to be little friction to the switch with the exception of additional distraction (ie all those other apps).
SpaceX's 'Starship' Prototype Coming Together in Florida
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What on Earth are you talking about? Social services are massively underfunded, despite getting a lot of funding, because the need is gigantic.

Quite a lot of that funding is just compensating for some of centuries of theft, from slaveowners of the 19th century to predatory rural banks of the 20th Century to coordinated corporate wage depression of the 21st century.
The best resource I've ever seen for learning synthesis is Syntorial: https://www.syntorial.com/

It teaches you step by step all the aspects of a synth engine: oscillators, wave shapes, amplitude, filters, modulation, unison, FM… But most of all it trains your ear, which allows you to replicate the sound in your head and build it from scratch.
If you subscribe to the theory of great and continuing, accelerating change due to technological improvements, advanced technological education for everyone is an expected ovservation during the decades or centuries it’s occurring :)
I am a developer in NYC. I am seeking cofounder(s) for two ideas:

- One application is an information portal that will feature B2C ads from financial institutions. This application is built.

- The other idea is an application that would help people give to charity.

Expertise that would be helpful is interfacing with institutions and SEO/marketing to drive users.

Contact info is in my profile... partisanyc at gmail.
They generally are for credit cards. Debit cards often have less protection but for credit cards, Visa and Mastercard will allow chargebacks similarly to the US.
Did you mean post-Chomsky? It's my understanding that machine translation started to become semi-useful after abandoning traditional grammars (or anything Chomsky would recognize) and switched to statistics.
> required compute power is ridiculous

Can you elaborate or put some concrete numbers on this? :)
You pay a minimum of $100 per account for business support - 10% of your bill.
Sounds like Lightyear are trying to create some "Buzz". (Sorry)
Ok, it seems like there are some crossed wires or missing context here. Also, widely off topic.

I never said anything about the term machine learning. Check my bio, see what I’m working on. Fully aware of neural network contributions.

I’m all for machine learning. Just not “AI”. “AI” is hype bullshit.

“Learning” when used by the people who spout this BS is not the technical definition version, and is what I was referring to.

Could probably have made that clearer, but I’m 1.5 days without sleep.

What does feeding test data into a network yield? Inference results. Inference seems vaguely familiar from probabilistic modelling?

Bayes rule applies to neural nets too. Two different models may give vastly different results. Whilst they can be very good approximators, they can also be very unreliable if care is not taken during training.

G(x) ~ f(w.f(w.x+b)+b) is literally a fancy weighted sum. A linear regression. It is some easy stats combined together with a few other things that aren’t explicitly necessary, eg activation function can be identity to cancel out f().

EDIT
Both the parameters of a network and the training data are variables in the application of Bayes rule. Which inherently deals with likelihoods (probability).
/EDIT

So at their fundamental, they are “just some stats” stuff. They may have a few more bells and whistles to make them complex (and better) systems, but they still output a classification/regression based on inference.

You can, of course, approximate many functions with them. I’ve built a network with only weights of +1/-1, for example.

But those examples have extremely specific use cases that are not applicable to anything the article discusses.
In my case the security camera is also a raspberry pi with the camera module (it could have night vision), connected with a webcam logitech c170 (really cheap) and the motion software to detect movement (https://github.com/Motion-Project).
There's just not enough sunlight exposure to get anywhere near the power requirements for a mid-sized vehicle

Using that logic we shouldn't build a single power station because it doesn't cover the power requirements of the whole country.
I just assume that if a product is mentioned descriptively by someone I don't know well—[product name] is a [category] that will [benefit]—and I can easily purchase it online, it's being advertised.

Maybe it's my past-experience of knowing many people in an MLM once and seeing the differences between them being themselves and them “working on their business”.

Maybe the answer to understanding what authentic advertising is, is being exposed to all sorts of it more, in a safe environment where your money doesn't evaporate, and being able to reflect and think critically about what you're experiencing and what the intentions of the other party are.
But the rust which is supposed to be spun, doesn't live long when not being spun?

So far the most viable "solution" is to store data in the cloud service like Backblaze or AWS S3, where it's someone else headache to maintain high enough duplication and swap the drives as they reach their EOL.
How do you resolve the conflict between worrying about climate change and going to Peru on vacation?
Amazing. A successful Falcon heavy launch that can’t even hit the front page of HN.
Yea...were you using Numpy or just trying to do someyin base Python?
I use them to convert old industrial equipment into oddball control surfaces. For example http://www.digitalesoterica.net/projects/honeywell.html
The university in question is Southampton. Hardly a Christian fundamentalist stronghold. Meanwhile, there is a tradition of using the Bible for new printing media, including one of the first printed works, the Gutenberg bible.
The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive
The only purpose of a discount is to make the buyer feel better. If they changed the price without labeling it a discount, the buyer’s utility of the item doesn’t change, but they’re feeling good about it does.

I’d rather see education in schools teaching people that discounts are sales tactics that should be ignored rather than laws governing discounts, which would be costlier to implement and enforce.
Social sciences are hard. We can hardly explain how a certain nucleus of a single brain works, it's impossible atm to explain how 7 billion of them interacting on a planet behave. Many smart people know that and opt for nicer closed systems like physics, computers or biology. This doesnt mean science is untrusted, but social and political sciences making bold claims should be treated like snakeoil salesmen at the moment: they cannot provide a guarantee of their method that is not self-referential. Doing comparative studies comparing opinions should be labeled as such and respected for what it is: an opinion, but not a hard fact.
No.

You couldn't even buy the cleanroom building for $1m
What’s wrong with the Christian bible?

What is it telling me about the researchers!
AMD's "Chinese Clone" Plans Implode as U.S. Regulators Close In
relevant: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf talks about archiving computer programs so they may be read by future civilizations
"I then tallied the main result, the sample size and citation patterns for each of the 10 studies, as reported here"

(Honest) stats question: Given that n=10 is itself a small sample size, how does the computation of statistical power in meta studies differ from that of the underlying studies?

Is there an accepted methodology? I couldn't remember doing this ages ago when I took stats.
Habana Labs Launches Gaudi AI
You are ignoring general and subjective western morals and ethics in your comparison. I believe it is unethical for an entity to sell body parts of a human that they (likely convincing somebody to aid and abet in in the process) that they murdered.

It's kind of a problem when the entity survivesby body-count.

Politics aside the least they could do is donate instead of taking funds for it.

Just my opinion though.
Just put the instructions in a plain txt file as the first file on the disc.
There's a good Veratasium video about that [1]. But the short version is that glas is pretty much a solid, and lead is much more liquid at room temperature than glas.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6wuh0NRG1s
Practical Type Inference Based on Success Typing (2006) [pdf]
Marketers haven't overrun those like they have on reddit?
They offer a discount, you just say no. It's a nuisance, but I wouldn't reconsider a subscription to what is maybe the best newspaper in the world because of it.
And yet, in machine learning we regularly talk about dimensions 100 and above!

Just because they eventually map to three special dimensions doesn’t mean it’s not useful to talk about the different degrees of freedom you’ve managed to use for storing information.

What were y’all expecting? Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse?
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> Very suitable for a existing small business trying to create a new product line, totally useless for a startup trying to iterate in a new market quickly.

This is my experience as well. These programs are designed very specifically to stimulate small business R&D spending. They're not for startups, they're to encourage established businesses to spend their cash.

Great for your second product, not so helpful for your first.
> real irrational behaviors that actually work against both the consumer and the business

Do you have examples of such behaviors?
Currently:

* I use a Raspberry Pi Zero-W and a neopixel strip to tell me the time at night. This post describes part of it: http://www.thebacklog.net/projects/smart-light/

* Run a piHole at home.

Things I've done in the past:

* Use a Raspberry Pi as an intervalometer to do time lapses with a DSLR camera

* Make a photo booth for a 2 day workshop.

* As a cheap computer to run coding tutorials

* Monitor water levels in a hydroponics system using a ultrasonic sensor

* As a WiFi access point to access a wired network from my phone
McDonnell Douglas or maybe Hughes Aerospace?
Aren't they synonyms?
In case anyone is interested in spot-checking whether this analysis captures all of the pre-2016 studies that deal with gender bias in peer review, a Google Scholar search is a good starting point:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=gender+bias+peer+review...

Assuming the results are valid, and most of the studies that show bias toward men have small sample sizes and most of the studies that show bias toward women have larger sample sizes, I wonder whether it might be that bias is affecting the makeup of the studies themselves.

For instance, if there is actually a bias against women in peer review, could it be that the same forces that lead to a bias against women's research also lead to a bias against studies that show there is a bias against women's research? Keep in mind, the studies in this analysis represent only what got through the gate of peer review; if that gate is biased, then we don't necessarily know whether there is additional credible research that didn't get through because of bias.

I'm not necessarily arguing that this is the case. But it would be an interesting way for people who do believe the bias exists to respond to this analysis.
Ya but that’s pretty much the same thing. Surely mathematically it’s the same thing.
YouTube bans Holocaust denial, conspiracy theory videos
yeah, the R&D tax concession is totally awesome.

Except, it's now getting slowly screwed up by large corporates claiming everything they possibly can on it, so the rules are getting altered and tightened up. Add in a few greased palms (sorry, "campaign contributions") and it'll be ruined, as usual.
Because someone is around to check.
One thing though is that a large body of research followed on the same path semi-blindly. Too much trust was placed on Chomsky's (brilliant on publication, but that was 70 years ago!) ideas that the brain might contain machinery for universal grammars. Other fields differ markedly on level of skepticism.

That said, linguistics is not a science that is commonly referenced in politics, nor the exemplary "social science". It's arguably closer to hard sciences like mathematics. The science that are trusted when making public policy decisions are usually social/political science, psychology, economics et al.
How would you enforce that? How would you find and ban AstroTurf? (Thank you, Google GBoard, for the marketing autocorrect built-in)
"users don't like downloading big frameworks"

includes half a megabyte of embedded font on a static page
I don't know but the article does not talk about the credibility of the claim. I mean even the way they have described the whole thing feels more like a marketing attempt than an actual scientific breakthrough.

If you look at other articles of this website, they will seem more like a lame attempt at getting traffic than to provide something useful.

They have articles titled like - "Ladies Get dose of Radiation From Government UFO" and "Hackers, UFO's and Secret Space Programs - Oh My!"

I mean, this does not feel like an information source I'll trust.

Edit: As others are mentioning in this thread. From a researcher's perspective, they should have also talked about the read/write capabilities.
This is where things like microfilm have an advantage- the only knowledge needed to decode it is magnification and the language it’s written in.

I’ve been wondering lately how well you could do with a microfilm strip full of 2d barcodes prefixed by an optical copy of the relevant specifications.
From elsewhere:

> What matters is that the American people had better believe, almost to an individual, that the process was fair and there was no cheating. That falls not just on voting matters directly but on the attempts by the media, whether old or new, to skew results, to steer people and to play psychological games with them whether through some "AI" or via in-person interference.

> You have weeks, maybe a couple of months, before the window slams shut on this opportunity. Beyond that point all you're doing is packing powder into a tinderbox with a lit fuse.

> [Jen Gennai's admission] is flat-out, without question, the most-dangerous admission I've ever seen and a very high-risk predicate for outright dirty civil war within the next 18 months. It only takes 0.1% of the American Population to decide they'd had enough of this crap and are willing to spend their life. If that happens you suddenly have three hundred thousand people committed to destruction who are utterly convinced that they are staring down tyranny and are willing to do whatever they can to stop it. They will be uncoordinated, you have no way to know who they are before they act, and once they do you can only sentence someone to death for a murder once; the facts, whether you like it or not, is that all the rest are "free, and always will be."
I would frame this article as: "The author cherry-picked 20 papers and personally decided that 6 were biased in favour of women, compared to the author's personal cherry-picked baseline."

I'm not sure why this is considered a sensible discussion for these pages.
I don't have a startup or project idea. But would like to work with team members who would become life-long friends whether the startup succeeded or failed. I believe that before starting a company, team members should know each other well enough so that they can stick together when the going gets tough. In that regards I would like to first connect with others and bounce ideas, work on small projects/ideas, help other etc. We can first get to know each other, discuss any topic of interest related to startups and then take it from there. Hence I have created a group (#startup_friends:privacytools.io) on https://riot.privacytools.io for us to meet and make new friends and then hopefully work together on something cool. Come join the group. If nothing else, we would have at least made new friends.
There's zoho.com, $1 per month per account.
I can think of at least one hypothetical, which is good news, related to security of supply:

With an ever-shrinking share of the market, coal is no longer financially sustainable - the stations are only used in times of absolute need. They are usually off, but the government pays to keep them available.
Ask HN: How Do Big Corps Get Kubernetes Support?
It would be great to hear from the community how they get support for issues they encounter with Kubernetes.

I work for a big corp on the technical architecture team. Right now I'm seriously considering Kubernetes as our container orchestrator. With Kubernetes-sigs[1] and all the capabilites / features being explored by within the CNCF [2] vanilla K8s seems like a much smaller gamble than some enterprise product with everything already wired up and written in stone.

Has anyone else gone down this road? How did it go?

[1] http://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/
[2] https://www.cncf.io/
That's not a leak, or if it is then the whole concept is meaningless. The abstraction of a decent type system is sound and true: any expression of given type really does have that type. Of course there are lower level details (that's the nature of abstraction), but any properties at the level of the abstraction will hold for any conforming low-level implementation.
I've recently bought these after having an earlier model for a year and a half (which I lost, they were still working fine). They've got a replaceable cable which solves the main issue I had with earlier earphones.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07QKZ58XH
That all sounds good!

It is also possible (though tedious) to build GCC and binutils without autotools.

Getting from epsilon to Debian seems a bit like following stepping stones across a swamp. It's unclear which route is most likely to work, but whichever way you pick you end up ankle-deep, or waist-deep, in mud.

Also, it's not clear what "epsilon" should be. My feeling is that the ideal minimum prerequisites would be something like a C89 native compiler on an operating system that is much simpler than Unix. So you could read and write files and execute a subcommand, perhaps, but no pipes and no fork. So the first major goal would be to build GCC and binutils as a cross-compiler, and the second major goal would be to cross-compile those things plus the Linux kernel and some kind of shell so that you could then move to Linux.

The whole thing is a big project, but if you can describe a way of getting from stepping stone A to stepping stone B, where B is a bit closer to Debian than A was, then that may help future explorers, and that use of Heirloom Project's lex to build flex sounds like a good example of that.
hmm...next up FB, Youtube and Twitter suing the Feds to pay their content monitoring bills.

Just have to plant the seed in Zuckerberg's head and am sure it will take root.
So the fact that the demonstration disc they chose to use in a photo for the article happens to be the Bible (the first book ever printed and most printed) tells you "everything you need" about "them"?

No wonder public discourse is so terrible nowadays, when people are willing to dismiss entire institutions based on an arbitrary image in a press release. But, I guess that's just a step or two removed from asking someone to be fired because one time they interviewed or were seen with someone else who's opinions you don't agree with.
If you make a market out of everything, the marketing departments will rule the day...
There are a few places where you can. There are three main conditions that are necessary

1. Complete anonymity so people can't dig up your comment history to attack you or try to dox you.

2. No voting system. These are commonly seen as "I agree" and "I disagree" buttons. And once side of an argument reaches 51% of voters, the other 49% quickly become buried and it snowballs from there.

3. A light/hands-off moderation policy. Some moderation is necessary to remove illegal content or spam, but moderators must not be able to ban people for disagreeing with them.
The real question is Does it matter if you know when you see it or not? Marketing has the ability to effect your decision making, whether you know its marketing or not.
That isn't bias. It is called pity.