skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AGPL licensed projects on GitHub sorted by number of stars
I just took a look at it thanks to this comment and wow, that is some terrific content. Thanks for sharing!
Superhuman AI for Multiplayer Poker
It's not a real outage unless the status page is solid green.
I worked for a year with Patient Medical Data in the NHS in the UK. Typically it is as simple as script to replace patient names after downloading a live backup. You then delete the backup of the DB that has the real names.

That is pretty much it.
Bitcoin and the Money Myth
That's something an investment banker can say as well.
Can Virtual Assistants Gain Real Intelligence?
Blockstack’s token offering is historic, but its dance with the SEC is not over
I don’t understand why so many customers are still fretting about paying off the vehicle.

Ford knowingly sold m, and continued to sell a faulty product. The warrantee is irrelevant: those customers should be able to return for a full refund, including load interest. End of story.
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Maybe they need to do sentiment analysis with the Twitter mentions as most Devs I know who have to deal with it experience some pain!
Developer here. Yes, it will. JS code you debug through Chrome will still be running on Hermes.
"Are you sure it's "an unfair advantage" and not just "an advantage"? "

Good question. I thought there may be some kind of legal definition for this but it seems quite fuzzy.

You could take the view that these companies were paying all required taxes, so this would be fair. Or you could take the view that direct competitors were having to pay taxes that they were able to avoid, which would make it unfair?

I suppose ultimately its a moral judgement, so there isn't really a right answer.
> not they overestimate it

I disagree with this because you're assuming that Google "just training its systems with this data" doesn't mean that it will do "anything nefarious" with it.

Oh, yes, it totally will. That's the entire point. I don't see Google as much more ethical than say Facebook these days. They'll screw their users for an extra buck in the next quarterly results just as much.

Why do you think they're now helping China spy on their citizens? They didn't have to do it. But the call of (more) money is irresistible.
Typesetting Markdown – Part 6: Computation
Yeah but Windows was created for existing hardware, in fact at first even running on an existing OS. IBM PC compatibles were a thing since the 80s on which DOS flavour from various vendor were running which in turn ran on x86.

Microsoft actually waited really long until they combined normal end user Windows with NT which was it's own OS since early 90s but also had a lot of restrictions when it came to drivers, end user Apps, Games in particular.

Google bootstrapped it all at once, that's quite an effort. That said, some phones like those of OnePlus or FairPhone have really long support times.
Show HN: Trump to Text (Natural Language Generation)
I would hope that it's more like "after and including the wake word" so that they are capturing the audio needed to better train their algorithms on false wakes. I would much rather they analyze "a stray noodle on the floor" and eventually figure out that it shouldn't have woken, than analyze "on the floor" by itself and not be learning about the nuances of noodles.

A hobby of mine is seeing how far away from "Hey Google" I can stray. The accessibility feature to beep on wake helps with this.
Can you talk more about the home grown multimillion part?
Does that mean you're willing to pay for the journalism if it doesn't have ads? So far that model hasn't worked either. Or are you saying you would rather the reporting didn't exist than it be supported by ads you find distasteful? If that's the case, don't consume the news.

If I believe my work is a valuable service to my community, closing up shop is more than a "loss of business".
If nothing else, I suspect it's harmful to the reputations of the news organizations hosting them, especially as they're often themed to look similar to the site.

In an era of "fake news" accusations, having actual fake news right there on your home page isn't great.
Because protectionism isn’t only economically bad but also immoral. You can’t force everybody else to pay higher prices.

Supporting your own companies at the expense of the rest of the society isn’t good. You’ll be forcing consumers to pay higher prices for a completely nationalist reason.

No reasonable economist would favor protectionism.
The summer of outages continues. With Twitter down, I have nowhere to vent my frustrations about it :/
That is fundamentally incorrect.

My 74 years old father in law uses Google Assistant and Google Home way more than I do; they are a brilliant way for him to interact with technology.

He has absolutely no inkling that any of that leaves the little gray device in his kitchen, let alone any "Cloud" thing in the background, let alone that anybody is listening to it.

He would be genuinely, completely surprised, and is likely to be very uncomfortable, to be presented with any of these facts.

I will venture that he's more representative of an average user than you or I; as techies, we must consciously remind ourselves that most people are not techies, otherwise our view of society will be skewed in the extreme. :-/
For 40 hrs/wk at $60/hr, is $10,000/mo.

If Shopify means they hire this guy for a tenth of the time, they save $9000.

They would have to be moving 300k/mo for hiring a full time to even break even.

In any case you can do what everyone else does, bake the fee into your prices and call it a day - it's not like you can compete with Amazon on the low-prices front anyways.
And now you don't have broad coverage of accents.
Interesting that the one thing not mentioned is the amount of food produced that goes to waste now. Right now we produce enough food for everyone to have enough; the real issue is money and distribution. If we will need more food in the future, distributing what we produce more efficiently should be part of the plan.
Death Toll from Freak Storm in Halkidiki, Northern Greece, Rises to 7
Still. Sounds hopeful for fundraising.
Why are we ignoring the second author? :)
Meteoritic evidence of late superflare as source of Be-7 in early Solar System
Twitter was down
You might need to talk to more ordinary people. Most people are very surprised at what data of theirs is stored, even for blindingly obvious features -- e.g. the list of everyone you've ever blocked on Facebook, which, obviously, is a list FB must store at some point in order to enforce it. Find an ordinary person and ask them to download their data from FB and Google and see if they aren't surprised.
It is probably buried in their T&Cs.
People have to charge their phones eventually. The easy way to do this is to store the recordings locally and only transmit when the phone is already charging.

If we're already considering government intervention, why wouldn't they just require that internet providers of all kinds _not_ meter data sent to them?

Unless our hypothetical government agency _really_ needs real-time data, there are plenty of ways they can mask their activity in a way that users won't ever notice.
How can you tell that they weren't? There are always pretexts and blindly trusting face value explanations for a policy is dangerously naive.
Or it might just be because basketball is the preferred sport of a lot of black people in the US, so they are more likely to play it and become good at it.

If you look at hockey, it is mostly white. That doesn't mean being white gives you an advantage in playing hockey. It just means way more white people enjoy hockey compared to black people.
There were a lot of pamphlets and campaigns around storage, and rotating so your veggies lasted the longest possible time. We weren't quite as distant from the land and nature as we are today, so most had some connection with seasons, what to grow and when.

Here's one ww2 era guide to storing carrots, and how to make a clamp: http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/photos/storageguide.jpg

Most houses still had a larder or cellar, so there was more often a cool, dark area to keep boxes of onions, carrots, spuds, apples etc where they might keep for months. Far longer than most manage today, because few do anything beyond "throw them in the fridge" which can often shorten possible life!

There was even the Anderson shelter[1] that was the air raid shelter everyone could put in the garden. Designed for six, they were often handy tool shed and veggie storage for smaller families! Not much help if it was one of the many that tended to flood, but if you had a dry one...

[1] http://primaryfacts.com/506/anderson-shelter-facts/
Impressive numbers. Did you try to use startup snapshot in V8 to improve TTI? https://v8.dev/blog/custom-startup-snapshots
But we know how this revelation happened.

One of their "language experts" (subcontractors) shared the recordings with the news media.

He did this because the recordings he was concerned about were of people who didn't know they were being recorded or talking to the speaker.

This article and your comment manage to spin this entire story into Google talking points.
For what it's worth, I've worked as a professional Haskell programmer at multiple companies and have been writing Haskell for more than a decade, and I still have trouble reading code written in that style. I usually end up decomposing it at a REPL so I can look at the types of intermediate parts of the program.

(In practice, most—although not all, admittedly—of the Haskell codebases I've worked with tended to be a lot less dense than the occasional combinator-heavy sample code you see in blog posts and comments.)
“A company like Facebook and others are expanding because they are running out of talent in Silicon Valley and San Francisco,” said Paul Leonard, a managing consultant at CoStar.

Honest question... is that really true? It reads like hyperbole or certainly an over simplification.
US Mayors Group Adopts Resolution Not to Pay Any More Ransoms to Hackers
One would think that with all the very smart people that Google hires that such issues would be thought about and measures put in place to make sure stuff like this doesn't happen. Yet it seems to keep happening so I question how hard they are really trying.
I just wanted to express to rawrmaan that I felt disturbed about his calling apple brave and moral when many aspects of their supply chain don't appeal to my sense of justice.
Pretty intrigued by this, especially because of Clarity (Lispy) and the storage system (I can save stuff on S3, not "on the chain". Pretty awesome, I might build a social network on top of this, just what I wanted/needed.
Use the sadness as motivation to start a VR project which enables fire fighters to simulate safety training? :)
I'd say that's not a minor difference ;)
I don't think I want to have a "kill power" switch on the side of my vehicle where a random up-to-no-good kid (or adult) can kill power to my car while I'm driving it.

Disclaimer: I ride a bike.
It's fine for moderate workflows. We ran into several hard limits when scaling up, and thought to try to patch some limitations. I think it's got a number of edge cases / scalability issues that will be very hard for them to fix without a full rewrite of the internals.
The article misses the point that a big part of Amazon's HQ2 was building new offices in an industrial area of LIC and not using existing real estate Manhattan.
Many have made the statement "Racket is the best Lisp/Scheme".

Many have made the statement "Lisp/Scheme is the best programming language ever!"
I imagine there could be employers who insist on this sort of thing screen monitoring (which sounds crazy to me) -- but the good thing about this marketplace is that contractors aren't forced into any particular contracts. If they don't like the terms with one buyer, they could "vote with their dollars" and work for another.
"Dear Sir stroke Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Carrendon Road--no, that's too formal. Dear Sir stroke Madam, FIRE! Exclamation mark..."
This comment should be preserved in amber for when future generations ask, "What was HN?"
> A script run as user in tmux can under some circumstances execute commands as root.
Yes, which is why the government can fix what the market messed up, because market participants weren't charged for the costs of the externalities they are responsible for. Carbon taxes can change that.
Yes, we have an open Pull Request for that: https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/pull/734
VAT is an interesting one, since Amazon isn't even affected by VAT. It's easy to reduce VAT liability altogether.

This tax is a crude corporate income tax replacement.
are there other instances in history were local governments have successfully driven out or not fallen for giant corporates?
China does that and laughs all the way to the Gulag.
next time you will tell me they listen to voice input data from assistant...

just joking, I had actually access to them when working on Google project, if you use gboard, voice input and Google assistant, Google has basically anything you input on your phone "for research purposes"
I guess they looked at a map and picked the most expensive US city they could find then?
no one is talking about windows phones. they're talking about windows.
Hey HN!

As a side project, I used the GPT-2 OpenAI NLG model and trained it on Donald Trump speeches. You can type a sentence and it will generate a few paragraphs that sound like Trump completing the thought.

I used https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple and some other stuff to re-train, with Starlette being the python web server. I'll write up a blog post later on what I learned and issues I faced.

The text generation is pretty slow right now (~20 secs), but I didn't optimize anything since this was just a fun side project. Would love thoughts/feedbacks/funny texts :-)
Those are some fine people.
"They" has long been established as a singular pronoun.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbi...
The State of WV for most of the early 20th century was run by coal barons.
This tax is exactly that.
In Defense of Decency
An interesting ethical question is who in the supply chain is responsible for the chum content, and how much. Lets assume an ad is an out-right scam of some sort. The advertiser is obviously guilty, but is the ad aggregate to blame (outbrain yes, adsense no)? The hosting website? (no, but their reputation should be affected). The CDN (no, and cloudflare's attempt was censorship), The hosting company or the domain registrar or my ISP (no) Maybe the browser itself or the OS or my router (no) or the adblocker failing to block the ad (yes, if it was via acceptable ads).

There are many (more) players in the "supply chain" yet we perceive their respective responsibility differently, perhaps arbitrarily. I wrote my gut reactions in parenthesis above, but I can't see a strong rational behind my own sentiments.
Worth noting: the demo is a WASM-compiled instance of this engine. I'm not sure, but I think this might be the first example of a fully featured, potentially production-ready, JS VM sandbox running in the browser. (We're looking into safe ways to enable third party scripting of our own application, and such a sandbox would be a very nice tool to have in hand.)
It's ambiguous, that's the problem. My first reading was it was a dataset of government information that had leaked on Tor (despite having a computer science background - that's not necessarily the context on HN). Even if it's accurate, changing it to something that is less ambiguous is useful. "Labelled dataset of screenshots" would remove the ambiguity, and it uses fairly standard terminology.
Or any format at all that can be easily downloaded to my phone for offline reading.
Same in Victoria, Canada.
the internet is just falling apart these days
The cost of defecting is low. Why do they think anyone will actually change their future decisions because of this “resolution”.
It's weird seeing the go-to downtime tracker go down. I'm so wired to check Twitter that I kept refreshing for a good 10 seconds.
toot.cafe's where I ended up - Nolan's a pretty cool guy with a lot of interesting thoughts about privacy, security, tech and the internet in general, and life. Happy to make use of his instance, where the global timeline is full of pretty interesting technical stuff (and, of course, plenty of funny stuff and obligatory cat pictures)
My first reaction was: good for them, I’m glad Amazon is really investing in its employees, and hopefully other companies follow suit.

My more jaded reaction: I have a feeling these investments are employment-duration based, like many other benefits at Amazon. So On paper Amazon can say they have an amazing benefits program, but that’s all due to loyalty to a company that regularly works its employees to the bone.

Final thoughts: I’d be interested in a study which determined how many of the non-technical employees given access to this benefit became engineers or IT professionals in a year or two after starting their jobs.
google, apple, microsoft, facebook.. and now twitter?
I keep asking the same, when is amazon's outage day?
Well yeah, but it would be way more expensive and you would have orders of magnitude less data. There are also issues with biased sampling.

Point being, the search wouldn't be as good.
I wonder how many conspiracies this single outage will trigger.
It also doesn't make it unethical. Putting privacy related issues in a privacy policy makes sense to me.
Show HN: Prototyping with React and Framer
This is what I always go back to. We have so many smart engineers working on ways to interpret JS to interact with native components and try to tighten that loop to make it faster. Why is there not a large movement to just make UI development in native languages better? Like, Swift UI looks great but it appears to be a huge exception to what everyone else wants to do.

I'd love to see more work go towards making cross platform UI easier to do in native languages. I feel like you could get a lot more mileage out of that, especially if you add WASM as a compilation target, then you can get the same ubiquity that JS has.
Please do this in the US, and use the money to fund the green new deal.
"In some ways, this is missing the point. To people working in machine learning, this isn't a revelation. To ordinary people, it is."

The non-tech people I know assume that this data is used by highly qualified people in tightly secured areas and not by underpaid contractors somewhere in the world.
You could amend payment function to be sublinearly increasing to cope for hours inflation.
Stay down. The world will be a better place.
the adjacent question is, are humans watching Google Nest cameras to train ML models ?
the answer is not so clear
July 15 and 16, coming up!
I wish they would bring back the fail whale!
I miss fail whale. :(

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...
You missed cloudflare, stripe, slack
Your numbers are off by a lot. I bought a surprisingly capable 80W laser cutter for $3k on eBay and a lightly used X-carve for $2k. Many people spend more than that on upgrades for their car. Additionally, if you need less capabilities, you can get a 3D printer + laser cutter + cnc mill combo for not too much.
Foreign businesses that deliver products and services from local branches, without IP value shifting - pay enough taxes to not be a problem.
Who needs engineers, when we have choir teachers on Reddit.

What the engineers and scientists at the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration have to say:

"Regarding the risk of electrochemical failure, [this] report concludes that the propensity and severity of fires and explosions from the accidental ignition of flammable electrolytic solvents used in Li-ion battery systems are anticipated to be somewhat comparable to or perhaps slightly less than those for gasoline or diesel vehicular fuels. The overall consequences for Li-ion batteries are expected to be less because of the much smaller amounts of flammable solvent released and burning in a catastrophic failure situation."

Like anything else, it's a risk discussion, and there is no simple answer. Tesla's are generally safe, as are gasoline vehicles, and there are risks and considerations that first responders need to train for, just like any vehicle chassis.

Source: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/documents/12...
The Lightning Network actually has seen parabolic growth since it started in Q1 2018 -- with roughly 40,000 payment channels opened and ~1000 BTC total capacity.

https://p2sh.info/dashboard/db/lightning-network?orgId=1&fro...
If you're interested in using patent data for AI, check out https://www.kaggle.com/bigquery/patents and https://www.kaggle.com/ostegm/plotting-similar-patents
ZTF Spots Asteroid with Shortest Year
Well, the scrolljacking is evidence no one is infallible. ;)
oh, right! the slack one sucked
Sure, but the guy to whom we are responding suggests implicitely that some hypothetical political meddling is an act of war that requires a war-like response -- twice with an identical comment, in fact. I don't think that I am poorly interpreting what he says. Both the US and Russia have meddled in other countries' politics but I will bet real money that the meddling of the US has ended in greater disaster that that of post-Soviet Russia. So move through the dimensions as you will -- this guy wants to let the missiles fly. Troll or completely barking mad, black or white.
He also made one of the more popular alternate interfaces: https://pinafore.social/

It uses Svelte.
I'm sure it's purely coincidence, but interestingly Trump's also holding his Social Media Summit right now.
I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the announced new "Look and Feel" for Twitter. I got a banner yesterday talking about it and now Twitter is down. Maybe they messed up something in preparation for the rollout?
For apps with significant boot times, and runtime memory consumption, this is valuable.

This assumes that the reductions are purely proportional to the total and not (at least partially) fixed.
Really curious which part of their infrastructure was the root cause.
> So, they're imposing a tax on companies that serve French customers via the internet but aren't based in France

The Alstom case (and, to a larger extent, the US justice system jurisdictional overreach) was really something ugly, I don't really believe it's even remotely comparable to this situation.
Theory: The internet is really just a series of green tubes underground and the last earthquake knocked out the primary plumber named Mario.
Times are tough, hope we can all survive this.

No, seriously though - what's up with so many big sites being down lately?
"They presume a four-byte floating point operand consisting of a one-byte exponent ranging from -218 through +127..."
Is this a mistake on the magazine?
Barcoded and company-branded stickers for internal inventory tracking.