skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure search results are not curated in the sense that a stock answer is provided for a given
query, but I would expect that filtering and ranking of search results involves lists that are
curated -- for example, "offensive" words or "disparaging terms", etc..

Since you work on search at Google, maybe you could explain how typing "hillary clinton cri"
stopped suggesting the common search term "hillary clinton crimes" and instead suggested "hillary
clinton criminal reform".

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

Apparently "crimes" a disparaging term when associated with "hillary clinton", but not when associated with, say, "jared kushner"?
I agree with everything you said here, PB, except for the first line. But even the end of the NEP and the ensuing Ukrainian famine took a decade after the Revolution to arrive.
I don't know exactly when you were living there, but back in the 2004-2007 time window LaRouche managed to pick up a bunch of new supporters by coming out strong against the Iraq war, at a time when pretty much every establishment voice on both sides of the aisle was still shell-shocked by 9/11 and terrified of saying anything that might make them look soft on terrorism. So when young people who opposed the war went looking for a leader to follow, LaRouche was one of the few out there who appeared to be talking sense.

He wasn't, of course, Lyndon LaRouche was totally Looney Tunes, but if you were desperate to find someone willing to be against the war and too young to be familiar with LaRouche's crackpottery in the '60s and '70s, it's easy to understand how you could get sucked in.

(One of these unfortunate kids, a young man from Britain named Jeremiah Duggan, ended up dead under somewhat mysterious circumstances -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jeremiah_Duggan .)
Why buy lavender if you can just be a photographer/instagrammer and steal them? Pretty fields are what brings potential buyers to their farm in the first place, no?
Yeah, everybody is rooting for advancements in hardware/mechanical until they see the salaries this field pays.

I'm surprised the field is advancing at all seeing app kiddies can walk home with more $.
Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
Here’s what I’m thinking: The neural network doesn’t have to be correct about which one you pick, it has to be correct about which you don’t pick. Only one option they pick is a loss, so if the other party can be somewhat certain you won’t pick a specific option, it can at least tie. So if a randomizer has pretty even distribution, I think it can win more than half the time, because it can gather roughly how likely the same choice is to be played in a row.

I’m basically suggesting a predictable distribution can be exploited in RPS.

Honestly, the bot could always be winning against the RNG by dumb luck. More experimentation would be needed to be sure. I am just making guesses.
I wrote an open source application that uses Webdriver to scrape tweets; it used to show how heavily Twitter censors all kinds of users. Twitter used to have a tweet's "quality" (per them) right in the HTML: "HighQuality", "LowQuality", and "AbusiveQuality". They put some tweets in the "tombstone" section. I now need to change the app to deal with them obfuscating the "quality" and all the rest.

I've run a Twitter ad for the app so at least someone there knows about it. I don't know if the app was a factor, but certainly hiding what they think of their users' output is in line with all the other sneaky things they do to their users.
The attitude towards prohibition that your parent comment described is exactly what set the stage for the recent opioid epidemic.

We were just coming out of another era where opioids were restricted to the inhumane point where people with serious problems were left in debilitating pain - to the point where Purdue's lies were accepted because doctors felt genuine sympathy towards the suffering they saw.

There is a happy middle ground. There are people who benefit from opioid medications.

It was bad moral choices by this generation's pharmaceutical companies that caused this outbreak. That is where the fault lies.
Maybe? If the alternative to investment is spending the money, this boosts the economy.

Also, given the eagerness of investors to gamble on unicorns, it's unclear that there is any shortage of investment money. Occasionally there's talk of a global savings glut.
This was debunked with the cap gains tax breaks made in the early 2000s. Lowering the tax rate did not stimulate more investing activity, just cut government revenue.
Astonishing how anti-democratic HN and the media are. Despicable too.
after the player makes a move the nn makes ones and add it to it's training data. the move the player does after that is added as a counter move to the nn move. this way I treat the data as time series.
In the days when it was very difficult to make a game engine there were also many bad games and fewer good ones than now. The past looks good because the bad stuff tends to be forgotten, unless it is a storied disappointment like Battlecruiser 3000 or Duke Nuke Forever. There were lots of quietly terrible games then too.
Ask HN: Should we not all boycott GitHub?
With all the hostility Microsoft has shown in the past against FOSS (no we haven't forgotten anything), and the very sad fact that the majority of FOSS projects now actually reside on a Microsoft infrastructure, should we not all migrate away from GitHub with a massive boycott?
> I reject the idea of OSS being politicised.

Then don't use github. I don't. It's completely toxic.
But the discussion is not about what Russia or Ukraine would do, instead, it is about American companies punishing people living in a territory that is now separate from Ukraine.
SDL 2.0.10 Released
Its the difference between whether you believe you are using HTTP as a transport mechanism or you believe you are using it to create a DSL protocol.

Personally I prefer to think of HTTP as a transport mechanism, with business logic at a higher level.
The question "If I replaced this http transport with, say, FTP or a dvd drop, would it require changes at the business logic level?" feels important to me.

That preference puts me on the wrong side of history at the moment though, and Im going with history. Lets express our business logic through the error system provided by our transport mechanism instead....
Depending on what your doing modeling individual nerve cells may be pointless. For example, a stroke simulation may care a lot more about blood flow than communication between nerves.
Network effects are real. You can't wish them out of existence; it simply doesn't work that way. Inevitably some cities will be better at some things than other cities, and that advantage snowballs.
Have you used Skype for Business?
Curious as to why you mention mobile targeted frameworks as examples here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_myth
Yes. Specifically, a service worker returning 'something' is required if you want Chrome on Android to offer your users to add the site to their home screen.
I think he's talking about actual links to the Christchurch video. They exist, and I'm pretty sure that's what most people who search terms such as "Christchurch video stream" are looking for. I don't think I can believe that Google doesn't censor or re-rank certain "flagged" search results, that just doesn't the smell test.
This was my industry for 40 years and I got to watch it die.
Democracy is never illegal. Only fascists make that claim.
One argument against this position is that economic environmentalism cuts both ways. Sure

Sure, marine preserves produce an economically beneficial surplus of salmon. Also, the oil reserves in the Arctic national wildlife refuge are worth more than 500 billion dollars.

In the case of Arctic drilling, I think the moral argument against destroying wilderness is the only viable option.
Sort of? An internet god, really. We can't all be Vint Cerf's.
Viable meat replacements are right around the corner. I don't think this is a blocker.
Some ICs at top tech companies get paid much, much more than $600k.
When working on a jigsaw generation project a few years ago, I was surprised to find basically no resources describing the process of procedurally generating the "nubs". There isn't much to it, I suppose, but I had to tinker with my implementation for a bit before I got it looking (mostly) right. The nubs in the second example here are similarly just a little bit different than what you'd see on a brand-name puzzle. Definitely looking forward to checking out the clojure code for this.

Results here: https://github.com/alanbernstein/pyzzle. I guess I could write up a blog post with some diagrams on how that generation works, but there are so many TODO items in the code I'd rather work on first...
I think it's fair, cause it's like the neural network is thinking "after I play rock the player plays paper" and train with that data
Yes, most people despise democracy and self-determination.
That's a significant improvement. Believe latest versions have been working on this number as well.
There's dozens of other reasons people want to live somewhere besides work, though. Unless you're planning on living your entire life in VR.
Getting Started with the RISC-V open source GNU toolchain
This is quibbling over terminology. Venezuela is in a deep depression caused by USA sanctions. Moving them from one list to another would make no difference to the daily experience of the average Venezuelan.

This lawyering also completely undercuts your original "nothing to see here; move along people!" argument.
You would get a string of shell computer manufacturers making $10 million a year, because rational actors will exploit whatever rule you put in.
Even if there were no side-effects, you are basically choosing between learning to accept yourself and the aging process vs. looking at yourself as having a problem and forever worrying about it. Reason enough to think twice about forever-medication.
The Water Wars of Arizona (2018)
Patient: What should I take after finasteride?

Doctor: Viagra
At a high level, the answer is something like "yes" - people who are not US Nationals who engage in protected speech in a region subject to police power of the United States have essentially the same protections as citizens or permanent residents.

At a lower level, the answer gets close to "no" - I suspect that, in cases like this, something in the ballpark of Kleindienst v. Mandel will be controlling in the eyes of SCOTUS, so no.

But even if this particular matter is not specifically regarded as protected speech under the 1st amendment by US Courts, it is still a free speech issue in general terms. This person's basic human right of expression has been abridged by the act of a foreign state and a spineless and compliant corporation.
Thats my first name which was what drew me to this thread!
I wonder how many of these shops exist. And if they're mostly solo operations?
Yes but then you now have a real Banksy that will be labeled a fake because the fake print #18375 has a letter of authenticity while your real #18375 does not.

You would need to get Pest Control to keep issuing certificates for the same print, which they probably won't do.
I'll believe it when I can buy it at Costco
I worked QA at a place that had huge CSV log files for a device. Sometimes the log files were slow to open in Excel, or just would not open at all.

I started using Jupyter and Pandas for my own work, just so I could get something done. I really liked it.

But the organization was moving even more in the MS direction, I'm sure any thought of Pandas died after I left.

Try something like that if you can.
Back in the day, shitty games looked more like Corncob 3D, which was at least interesting, than like Yandere Simulator, which is one man's attempt to pretend to be competent at programming to milk attention from teenage girls online. Unity has shortened the cycle time for people who are competent or at least give a rip, but it has also enabled a glut of asset flips, which were pretty rare in the old days.
> The problem is that people who do not want to enact federal policy that decimates the US economy (i.e. "Green New Deal"), are deemed "deniers".

The problem is the lack of any alternate policy put forward, especially one that can compete with the flexibility, cost effectiveness and proven track record of emissions pricing. There aren't two competing solutions, there's one proposed solution up against wishful thinking.

> The US emits 15% of GHG, and until you can get a commitment from countries where they are building new coal plants to this day, it's difficult to take seriously.

And it's an indication of the trajectory of the US that they are no longer willing to be world leaders. Had they not done their best to sabotage previous efforts at international agreements we'd be well on our way to including developing countries, if not already there, and punishing those that don't sign on.

You also can't just look at current emissions, you have to consider how much CO2 already in the atmosphere the developed world contributed too, which is nearly all of it.
This discussion has become a satire. It began like this:

> I do suspect that if you do add a lot of musculature to a tall frame it can be a bit intimidating in engineering cultures where most men are out of shape and view the activity as "meatheadish."

And it devolved into this:

>The followed up with a mountain of excuses about why they're too busy or they'd rather play piano or whatever other explanation is necessary for "I'm actively choosing to look like shit."

Jesus, I wasn't rooting for the scrawny nerds at the outset of this thread, but now I am.
I’m still hoping one of these days we can just get on with everybody lighting up IPv6.

Enterprises continue to drag their feet with misguided knowledge of NAT as a security feature (it’s a glorified stateful firewall, enable the IPv6 one your network equipment is practically bound to have). SAAS solutions frequently fail to deploy IPv6 support still, even as major US mobile networks are IPv6-only. Email seems to be stuck in IPv4 land because we’ve put far too much into IP reputation, even though DKIM/SPF/DMARC and proper content-analyzing spam filters are a better and less brute force solution.

Don’t get me started on residential ISPs. CableOne STILL doesn’t support IPv6, and CenturyLink supposedly supports native IPv6 in my area (I ordered a static v4 w/ native v6 online) but nobody can tell me how to configure it.

Let’s get moving already! I’m tired of the hacks.
Its mostly the sheer influence that FB has. Google has a ton of sway itself, but outside of Youtube, most people mostly spend their time on the internet with Facebook. As seen with Cambridge Analytica, a lot of info on people's beliefs and party affiliations is known by facebook, so FB can actually influence a persons votes. Google has that power as well, but to a much lesser extent.
> The United States government has no obligation to care about the collateral silencing of non-citizen speech in a foreign country subject to economic sanctions.

Although it may not have a legal obligation under the current menu of precedents, I disagree that it has no obligation tout court.

The real facts on the ground here are that a person's website was censored at the behest of the US Government. This is chilled speech. That the target happens not to be a US National, and also a national of a nation under sanction by the US government does not put it outside the realm of speech.
AFAIK this isn't necessarily true. The transplanted follicles will not suffer the same fate as your original follicles, so the "new" hair won't just "fall out". The thing about transplants is that, depending on how much existing hair you have, the transplant is really only used to fill in missing spots. This means it's essential to stop any more of the existing hair from falling out, or you'll need another transplant later to cover up the new spots. The reason most people are prescribed finasteride/minoxidil is to slow/prevent any of that existing hair from falling out.
https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/11545871711369748...
According to Crimea and Russia and the basic facts on the ground, people living in Crimea are Russian citizens and have been for 5 years, Russia has poured billions into the region's infrastructure.

While it was definitely engineered by Russia doing things to violate the sovereignty of Ukraine

1) The US and all the powerful nations around the world do this kind of crap all the time and have a long history of it

2) It appears as though the people living in Crimea generally prefer being Russian to being Ukrainian, at least there doesn't seem to be any major opposition to the change.

3) Crimea was only part of Ukraine from 1992 to 2014, before that it was it's own entity under the umbrella of Russian empire or the USSR for hundreds of years

I'm not pro-Russia but I am pro-reality, and this sanctions game seems to be about highschool-level-bullshit between world leaders and nothing else. It certainly has made politicians on both sides much more popular with their bases as a result. Having "enemies" does that rallying well.

If you want to sanction Russia, do it over corruption, election meddling, or human rights abuses (although maybe put a higher priority on your own country's faults along those lines first so you have a platform to stand on)

I'm here feeling like Fangorn "I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my side"
4K streams on sites like Netflix, YouTube, iTunes are all under or around 15 Mbit/s (and yeah, they look like crap, but when nobody is offering a higher bitrate stream, then that's still all the bandwidth you need)

> It would look worse than 1080p or 1440p at the same bitrate

Good news then, the 1080p streams are even lower bitrate (4-5 Mbit)
The time I was thinking of was more the late 80s.

It was strange as at the time I thought of the local farmers who really believed in that stuff as mostly conservative and reasonable folks... support for Lyndon didn't make much sense.

Recent history of course makes the explanations that conspiracies provide at the very least seem attractive in some ways (even if bonkers)...
> sanctioning the U.S

They can definitely try. Might not mean much.
My thought is that there's a correlation between attention and a viewer's willingness to spend money that can be seen without directly looking at revenue. For instance, letting a music playlist run would look a lot different than watching a video I'm actively paying attention to. Or a detailed discussion on credit card churning would probably be more niche than a clip from SNL. But former would probably have a more engaged audience and be more willing to act on an advertisement for a credit card. So if you're optimizing for user engagement, you'll probably increase profit.
We should be building housing for people now though, and heavily discount whatever the heck we think might happen with that housing in 100 years. And what alternative do you think is really guaranteed to age much better anyway?
Crash injuries and fatalities in NYC mapped using open source data
It’s like unlimited* data! Aka not unlimited and has to
be with VP approval for more than 2 weeks etc...
The Last Days of John Allen Chau
What is your goal with improving the cnc machine?

I’ve used a capacitive distance sensor to measure vibrations in the micrometers and nanometers. At that scale things get unintuitive pretty quickly. I doubt your motors and linear tables will be able to keep up with much precision beyond what you can measure with a cheapish digital caliper.
As an enthusiastic 15 year old I presented at linux.conf.au 2003 citing 10 years as a more "likely" target for IPv6 adoption.

Boy how I was wrong :-)
How do v4 clients (dual stacked) connected to the Internet with v4 talk to a v6 server?
What is the point of sharing it? How is it different from any other company?

I also find Title misleading,
Ladder is not a framework - it is a way to retain talent. And I find it to be quite silly (as an eng who held highest level position at famous eng company) way. Working in a title-less org now and it is much better as we can concentrate on the mission and not the the freaking ladder
Someone suggested the same thing. I'll ask the same question:

How do v4 clients (dual stacked) connected to the Internet with v4 talk to a v6 server?
Its more amazing that people desperately try to link behavior to finances.

Its from a teaching style done in Christian sects within the United States (and maybe just protestants in general?) where prosperity is linked to behavioral compliance. So you see this unquantifiable anomaly throughout society as the meme brushes off on more people.

Someone doesn't “deserve” x,y,z because of a,b,c. When the reality is that their network has other considerations, and one key aspect of global issuances is that local reputation is less of a factor.
Because they stand to make money, lots of it, by selling cures for aging.
Ask HN: How to Be a Decent Manager?
As a technical person who’s likely on the spectrum and who’s very poor in the verbal communication skills department: I recently started a position to lead a small development team.

This is my first foray into managing; after many, many years of development.

I have little in common with my charges—I don’t really expect to be chummy with people at work—but it’s 100% my goal to help my underlings succeed in their careers.

Any targeted advice?

There was a former topic that highlights the end goal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20230133

But do I account for poor verbal skills?
This is our bad. When we had shared at Google, we thought the cost would be $2 million. We didn't include the money we had put in or received, so we shared our goal as $1.5million.

Before sharing more publicly, we decided to update to the actual amount and had also learned that some costs would be higher than expected (toxicology package would be higher, clinical care wasn't going to be covered by insurance etc.). We had put a little note describing this in the FAQ, but I understand that no one reads those.

For what it's worth, our goal from the very start was to openly share the process and logistics because we are truly convinced that this N-of-1 process can be repeated quite easily. Perhaps, at the very least we can squeeze the time for the next motivated parent to learn all this from 6 months to 1 months.
> This is getting to be worse than the X10 camera pop up ads from years ago.

Oh, the waves of nostalgia!
Yes, but this is sort of the wrong question — the fact that the USSR did not have a First Amendment did not make their official censorship ethically correct.
You made me curious. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov):

- Metal and Plastic Machine Workers make $17.35 per hour or $36,080 per year

- Machinists and Tool and Die Makers make $21.61 per hour or $44,950 per year

- Software Developers make $50.77 per hour or $105,590 per year

Employees at a top notch company like Kern Microtechnik probably make more than the machine worker average aboves, but then software developers at FAANG make more than the developer average as well.

It's sometimes astonishing that there isn't more correlation between skill and craftsmanship and how much you get paid.
Other things that become a huge albatross and are thus avoided:

- Adding compile-time build steps, e.g. for code generation.

- Adding dependencies of your own, even on, say, a tiny library of helper functions – unless you want to copy and paste it into your header.

With a package manager, those things 'just work'. Package managers also make it much easier to update to newer versions of the library as they're released.