skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure thing - I threw this together over the last hour or so: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2019/08/19/awdl.html
Not related to the article, so feel free to downvote.

I had to open this in Safari and "capture" it in reading mode before the page loaded fully to read the full article. Sort of anti-user.
I inherited a 1952 World Book set from an older cousin, then part-exchanged it for a 1979 set (plus the 1980 "Year Book" update) thanks to the encyclopedia salesman. The normal price would have been around $1000 even then. Today they weigh down/stabilize one of my freestanding bookshelves in the living room.
No, it is not. In practice all governments have capitalist and socialist aspects. Having a single socialist program does not define a country as socialist.

The UK has nationalized healthcare- doctors are literally employees of the government. It doesn't really get more socialist than that, but it's still just a single program. The government as a whole, and the country as a whole, leans significantly more towards liberal capitalism.
Interesting seeing this response from both Facebook and Twitter on the exact same day.

Guessing from this:

> Based on a tip shared by Twitter about activity they found on their platform, we conducted an internal investigation into suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior in the region and identified this activity. We will continue monitoring and will take action if we find additional violations. We’ve shared our analysis with law enforcement and industry partners.

that the simultaneous response was coordinated by both platforms... I'd go so far as to say that it was coordinated in order to demonstrate the capability to self-moderate ahead of the 2020 US elections.
Transformer furniture hidden on ceiling deploys by command
The principle of least power still applies in the FE space. If you can get away with rudimentary technology, do it.

The problem I find is usually misaligned incentives. When you go to BuzzFeed you just want to read an article, but BuzzFeed wants to track you and sell you ads. It's not in their best interest to keep it simple.
Probably because you're just looking at examples; that's selection bias. The combinators/manual implementing Future approach to async IO gets even worse at scale, async/await is infinitely easier. If you don't like it, nobody is forcing you to use it.
"The Cerebras software stack is designed to meet users where they are, integrating with open source ML frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch"

What's the instruction-set? They don't say.

I assume you need to program in some DSL VERILOG-ish macro-assembler for that monster contraption. Python is probably not what works well ...
15“ Macbook Pros supposedly banned from flying
I was about to correct you that in the U.S., the starting PTO might be more like 10 or 15 days...but then remembered that this is all in the UK. (Man, i really dislike the U.S.' version of capitalism.)

Otherwise, great inputs on the costs you referenced; cheers!
It's a matter of cost.

It's a temporary spike of traffic far outside of average use.

In order to handle it, they'd need a lot of resources that just aren't justifiable for the rest of the year.

You seem similar things when places sell highly desired items in online stores.
Modern Docs for a Modern Payments API – Marqeta
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740626
Sorry for being pedantic , but there is no Boeing 747 Dreamliner, perhaps you meant 787?
Show HN: RateMyOnlineInstructors – Reviews of Online Schools and Instructors
This is indeed an enormous problem, and a very significant reason we need to shorten copyright terms. When copyright terms were retroactively lengthened here in Argentina, we had to delete huge swaths of historical footage and photography from Wikipedia. Into the memory hole!

Wikimedia Commons is more relaxed about licensing than Wikipedia is for text — because most of the images on Wikipedia and allied projects are not and cannot be created specifically for Wikipedia, we have to tolerate a wider spread of licensing terms. However, the images do need to be licensed for use on Wikipedia, which is already a pretty permissive license.

See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20741101 for more social context.
> In a truly free market, companies aren't supposed to do anything [...] In a regulated market though...

Free market !== unregulated market.

In order for an unregulated market to be a free market, perfect competition is required[0], otherwise you get market failure.

In the real world, we use laws to discourage behavior that leads to market failure.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market#Perfect_competitio...
I have dreams of Wikidata eventually being leveraged to enable similar interactivity. Currently Wikidata can store plenty of information, but there's no reason it shouldn't keep growing. Right now items already often have dates and coordinates - creating interactive maps and timelines is theoretically just a matter of implementation. Ideally, though, I want Wikidata to be so much more: why shouldn't it contain historical weather data? TV listings? Sports results? Having all of this available in an open and structured format would make all sorts of things possible, and I think we're only scratching the surface.

The other big "problem" with Wikipedia is copyright (and it's certainly not Wikipedia's fault), but there's a surprising amount of public domain work (thanks to many governments, especially the US) and of course tons of user-submitted work that ranges from bad to incredible. Other language Wikipedias can actually be more restrictive - there's no "fair use" on Japanese Wikipedia so logos are often blurred.
Well, not so fast. You are correct that China is indeed different, but if you look at hard data [0], the internal consumer market in China is not substantially larger than Japan, and certainly way smaller than US.

Furthermore, the consumer market data includes food, which by a large extent has to remain a domestic product. If we assume that food is 11% of the market (based on "$1.46 trillion worth of food in 2014." in the US [1]), then:

US domestic market (without food): $13.32T ($11.85T)

EU domestic market (without food): $9.61T ($8.55T)

China domestic market (without food): $4.7T ($4.18T)

Japan domestic market (without food): $2.76T ($2.46T)

As you can see, China is not big enough, by a large margin.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_marke...

[1]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-markets-prices/food-ser...
The behavior you're describing is only present on iOS, not on macOS.
Go Quiz Answers Explained
Apple celebrates America’s national parks this August
Not even close to an accurate comparison. It's not just paper - it's a printing press that can push your message directly to a device into the pocket of people who belong to specific groups that you want to target.
The conspiracy theorists were right?
here are some other fantasy consoles:
https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy
It's quite funny you post this on this article since it's literally about kids in the developing country becoming LESS limited.
I wonder when the US and other Western countries finally start cracking down on China and Russia with harsh sanctions for all the manipulation they're doing.

Oh wait, they can't, as all manufacturing was outsourced to China and that would be the first thing China cuts off...

Sarcasm aside: how can the West possibly react on the events of the last years?! There's not many options available any more.
I think the "not evenly distributed" quote is from William Gibson.
> if the brain is an antenna for intelligence

And what causes the intelligence that is simply being channeled by such a brain? Is it turtles all the way down?

Let me counter your position with another: the brain is that which protects the body and the genes. Essentially it means to find food, safety and make babies. But in order to do that we have evolved society, language, culture and technology. It's still simply a fight for life against entropy. The brain learns what actions lead to best rewards and what actions and situations are dangerous. And if it doesn't, then death acts like a filter and improves the next generation of intelligent agents to make them more attuned to survival. And it all stems from self replication in an environment shared with many other agents and limited resources.

You see, my short explanation covers the origin, purpose and evolution of intelligence. The 'brain is an antenna' would work only if you consider the constraints of the environment as the source and the brain as the 'receiver' of signals.
I remember relatives in the eighties expressing worries about the Japanese buying up farmland, and the movie Rising Sun or whatever - the theory being that what Japan couldn’t do militarily they were going to accomplish economically. There was concern about Japan as an enemy but never solidly like we have with China today. As you say, Japan never stopped being an ally, and China is barely this side of detente.
> I consider automatic configuration of an ad-hoc network to be a relatively trivial client implementation detail

Your statement may be tongue-in-cheek, but this sort of attitude is why we don't have this deployed on devices en-masse. Non-technical users want something that just works with one tap, not something that requires them to manually set up an ad-hoc WiFi network every time they want to use it.
If it's not from the government, we call it marketing. :-)
You're mixing terminology.

A neuron is not a synapse.

- There are ~100 billion neurons in the human brain

- There are 100-1000 trillion synapses in the human brain

There's strong evidence to suggest that each synapse is more akin to a digital perceptron than a neuron is. Synaptic cleft distance, transmitter types, dendritic structure, reuptake, etc are all factors that can allow for some level of long-term storage and mediation of subsequent neural activation.

[Edit] Maybe not "mixing" but seemingly comparing apples and oranges.
The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News
It's a great game - played the original KSP since early beta.
The way I've thought about it is when I'm "salaried" I'm being paid for my brain, not my time, and this cuts both ways; if I can meet the goals the company has set for me in 5 hours, that's all the time I'm going to take. However, if I need 50 hours to figure something out, that's what I'll do.

The understanding I expect to have with my employer is that I expect them not to give me more work than I can reasonably do in ~40 hours, on average. It's not a cut and dry calculus, but if I feel I'm being given more work than I agree to do, that starts a conversation.

I could see the role you're looking to fill being something similar; the agreement you have with the employee is that you, the employer, won't put more things on their plate than they can generally handle in 2-3 days of working each week.
> There are a few issues with this, the most glaring that people live longer. You can't live till 80 and expect to stop working at 65; pensions are supposed to pay for the last year or two if you live longer than usual.

I fully expect retirement age to increase. As you say it has to of expected lifespan increases.

> The best schools are private

That may be part of the problem in some countries, yes. They aren’t here.

> It’s an investment by someone

So is primary school. Most countries say some level of basic education should be guaranteed by public funding. Including higher education too isn’t that much of a stretch. It’s very hard to achieve high social mobility without free higher education.

I don’t think a society with a good pension system, publicly funded higher education and healthcare is a society “without hardship”, but it’s one where illness doesn’t risk meaning financial ruin, for example.
You should check out my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20741101 for a summary of the current state of some of the existing projects that do some of this, but also check out the Wikipedia Vital Articles lists. Typical "vital" articles are large, about 100K, so in 400MB you could manage about 4000 articles, which is most of the ones in the fourth-level Vital Articles list.
Comments, comments, comments.

Seriously, our batch jobs for better or worse have configs with a bunch of parameters that are passed around as json, and while most variable names are intuitive and there is documentation on the wiki, and most often the config can be autogenerated by other tools it would still be better if when I manually open it in the config itself I would easily see the difference between n_run_threads vs n_reg_threads, etc...
Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster
Meshing over Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL)
What can technically-savvy Americans with moderate resources on hand do to help the protesters?
As long as the UK is in the EU, the EU rules apply. https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/employ...:

”Equal employment conditions

You must offer your part‑time staff the same employment conditions as full-time workers, including pay, leave, notice periods and other rights and benefits linked to their employment.

Modifying working arrangements

Whenever possible, you should try to accommodate requests from your employees if they want to change their working schedules, such as:

- transferring from full-time to part-time

- transferring from part-time to full-time

- increasing their working hours

You cannot dismiss an employee if they refuse to transfer from part-time to full-time work or vice versa.”

As they have lots of ‘fairly urgent’ matter at hand, I don’t see the UK change this soon, but who knows?
I was educating myself of Kashmir protestors in Srinagar and found a stark contrast between Kashmiri protestors (with their ISIS banners: https://i.imgur.com/ib8OVE4.png) and HK protestors who are peaceful, educated in the issue and careful with sparking any kind of violence. It is amazing really and one of the most well organized large scale protests in the modern history of mankind.
My BS alarms started going off on these guys when they chartered a sailing ship to transport cocoa beans to their factory, on the argument that you could taste the difference between beans shipped by sail and beans shipped on a ship with an engine (!).
TBH, didn't realise it was still a thing in the early 00's!
I try to not take sides, but rather to simply evaluate evidence. As the evidence shifts in one direction or another, so do my views. To see why judging issues by the groups involved instead of evidence, one doesn't need to go back far. The Iraq war ended up costing hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, trillions of dollars, and helped accelerate a rapid destabilization of the entire Mideast setting the stage of the rise of groups such as Islamic State and its ongoing reign of terror.

The mainstream media were all, in orchestrated unison, arguing loudly for the war. And the government provided lots of allusions to evidence and appeals to authority, demanding support for it. And this was a conflict with the 'good guys' versus a literal dictator who was undoubtedly a horrible person. Yet the consequences of that war far dwarfed the atrocities of that man. And it was all based on lies. There was no WMD, the secret high level insider source was a taxi driver who had no connection to the government, the 'mobile weapon labs' were helium generating stations for use in conventional artillery, etc.

Throughout history it's not infrequent that such things happen. We'd like to imagine that when the 'good guys' win good things happen, but reality is often not so kind.

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Attaching this as an addendum since I've now been throttled for getting downvoted:

I am referring to things such as the single word title piece ran by the Washington Post, "Irrefutable." [1] On the same day the New York Times published this [2] piece entitled "Irrefutable and Undeniable". And there were many other such pieces being run as well. It's just a tad tedious to dig up these articles now from 16 years ago. It was bad. Note in these articles the complete and absolute lack of any sort of critique or even consideration of the possibility that evidence might not hold up to scrutiny. Instead the media condemned and proclaimed with absolute certainty. That was not, is not, journalism - it is propaganda.

Consequently I find it important to always remain critical of anything that has substantial political undertones. And so I prefer to take information that both sides agree to and judge it for myself while giving the arguments a distant secondary interest. And while it may ultimately leave me drawing the wrong conclusion, I'd rather be able to justify my logic based on evidence I personally felt compelling beyond any doubt, rather than on parroting others' analysis.

I don't really understand why more people don't think this way.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2003/02/06/i...

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/opinion/irrefutable-and-u...
Go to a good hardware vendor, they will set all this up for you and do it for basically free. If you have custom images you want they charge a small fee per install, but I have used CDW, PCConnection and other companies for this type of work in the past. You send an order to them for a standard business setup, or Engineer setup and then they can drop ship it directly to the employee or to your headquarters. They can image the machines, setup default accounts, make sure specific software is loaded and the correct licenses are on there etc. They are IT in a box for the most part.
> If we had neurons that were 1,000x faster, could we use fewer of them for the same task?

Absolutely. In fact, we do: in batched processing (pervasive in deep learning today), CNNs and other weight sharing schemes (e.g. transformers) the same "neurons" get re-used many times.
You can use Pico 8 with Atom:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3440
...but it's actually because we are aware that we are gullible that makes a difference, not because we consider ourselves immune to it.

At least, that's how I see it...
Show HN: A different sort of website 'lightbox' animation
Oh man, multiplayer really is going to be a fun addition! Looking forward to sinking time into this when it comes out.
I am having fun developing an alternative interface for Wikipedia called "Explore":

https://wikischool.org/explore

https://wikischool.org/explore/Ludwig%20Wittgenstein?l=en&t=... (read an article chronologically)

The larger goal is to make self-study more effective and enjoyable. Desktop browser recommended for now, as the mobile UX needs improvement.
> no one was afraid of an invasion coming from them

I don’t disagree, but it’s ironic that this was also the sentiment in the 40’s, and then Japan literally invaded (Alaska, after the surprise attack on Hawaii).
No, but you're made up of the pieces that come from the hamburger.

I get that it may be comforting to think that you are, fundamentally, some incorporeal, magical entity both special and immune to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune... but there's no evidence for this.
What's with number 4? And, do you live in China or somewhere else where a lot of Chinese wealthy bought property?
We run a app making millions of API calls to Google every day, so they show up in our monitoring, even if they don't make the status page. It's a pattern I've noticed from getting paged at 3am (NZ time) this time of year going back the last 4 years, I don't have hard data at hand for it though. It's not the same thing every year either - this time OAuth got hit hard, previously we've mostly seen slowdowns and higher error rates on the Drive APIs.
Huh, I'm almost 40, really didn't realise Encarta had still a thing for people who are now in their early 20's!
An analysis of information operations that caused and more importantly sustained the protests would be equally interesting.

I am 90% certain that foreign intelligence services or service are actively involved in the riots.

Probably funding it at least partially and inciting the crowd.
Probably have assets in the group of protesters to direct their activity.

I have written before that China has been far more lenient than the US would have been under similar circumstances.

The moment someone had broken into congress they would most likely get shot, at least enough to stop them.

Shutting down an airport would mean spending quite a bit of time at a "detainment camp". Often in warehouses created by law enforcement to hold a large number of people outside of regular courts and jails (See the DNC in Denver).

The protesters are, for whatever reason, hell-bent on forcing China to act in a brutal manner. Any regime would.
Have you never met a Disney fan?

Most of these interns are going to be self-selected to love Disney. The Disney fans I know are joyful and don't have a lick of cynicism. The "magic of Disney" captures a joyful attitude that was already latent within their personality, but is hard to find elsewhere.

The experience of getting to live and work in a park that non-cynically calls itself the "happiest place on earth", surrounded by peers that are just as joyous as you are, is worth more to them than the pay.

I don't think this is a bad outcome for these interns. For the ones that love it, all the better, and for the ones that end up hating it, they learn when and why to be more skeptical of a culture they don't quite fit into.
Don't pretend like Wikipedia doesn't depend on donations from primarily capitalist economy citizens. Just because an organization is non-profit does not mean it's anti-capitalist, or commons-based. It is still a private organization run by private individuals. They just don't distribute profits to shareholders and their business model is donation-based, just as churches have been for centuries.

I agree that there's a lot of promise for open source resources like Linux, Wikipedia, and Bitcoin, but I see that there's also a great trade-off between Cathedral vs. Bazaar style production.
My YT overlord lately decided I should watch Jackie Chan commentates about the situation in Hong-Kong [0]. I was very surprised to see the English comments almost unanimously support China. Would have expected the opposite sentiment.

[edit: stupid me, the uploader is CGTN, a well-known state propoganda channel]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7rIg49I0yI
> I have read flouride is a bioaccumlator

Well, that's something I never heard about, and contradicts even basic high-school chemistry.

Where did you read it?
The phrase is so vague as to be meaningless. They may as well have said “organized opinion setting”.

I miss the time when there was a massive debate over the legality of removing the video Innocence of Muslims, to the extent there were op-eds suggesting that Youtube pursue an advisory opinion before removing it. Now it is all but certain that FAANG has the right to remove whatever, without question, without appeal.

And in most EULAs, certain categories of dispute go to arbitration.
Does the World Need Frictionless Money?
Seeing this article on the frontpage of HN again feels weird.

I am currently going down the deep rabbit-hole of chocolate making and re-read this just recently. Highly recommend the coverage on dallasfood.org as well: http://dallasfood.org/2015/12/mast-brothers-what-lies-behind...
There Once Was a President Who Hated War
I spent a good five years online browsing the web before they decided to start adding advertising to everything. I never agreed to that switch in the contract.
I don't necessarily object to the generalization that mothers are more involved and concerned. What I find objectionable is implying that this quality of mothers has ruined childhood. The "dads who think like moms" comment also seems disdainful, like there's something feminine or weak about dads who are more concerned.
From FB:

"We’re taking down these Pages, Groups and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted."

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/08/removing-cib-china/