skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason I consider ending my life is because I have done the things I've wanted to do in life. I would not have much to write on that paper as opposed to visiting some friends and family for some conversation and hugs.

I think we forget that much of the suicide rate in adults, especially over 50, is that the burden of life in much of the United States can become higher than the benefits for some people at that age. Things like health ailments, cost of healthcare, worsening job prospects, lack of social connections etc.

Please, do not take this as encouragement or other things for suicide. It is simply an effort to help others to consider the quality of life issues we are creating for people, as they age, in the United States. We continue to try to treat the person, but maybe we need to treat the circumstances we are creating that can place a person in that position.
F and E don't have switches on the wall, and don't have the same shutter-safe design. They're likely closer than some even worse plugs, but the UK plug (aside from bulk/cost) really is the safest plug in the world.
Circumstantial ad hominem fallacy perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Circumstantial
so obviously a scam to destroy public schools and handicap the working class children. if you want to fix this just force the wealthy kids to attend public schools. the reason why the wealthy actively are destroying public institutions is because they are not using it.
And Norway (+Albania?) mostly have a system totally different than rest of the world called IT-system where there is no ground.
This require two errors to be present (on different wires) to give a problem. It’s the same systems as used internal in hospitals.
So are they trying to kill the platform?
> The proliferation of gas in the United States is also probably due to less-regulated environment

Gas is expensive to transport. The United States has a lot of gas and a lot of transport infrastructure. As a result, gas is cheap.

The same is not true on continental Europe.
In the US baby boomers and GenX were not buying houses without loans. Maybe it was different in Europe.

Not everyone in the US needs student loans. My state has a 100% tuition scholarship that is funded by the lottery. You have to stay in state unless the degree isn’t offered in the state.

A lot of people I know with the highest loans made the most short sighted and insane decisions. I can give a few examples.
We had a policy for that built into the DMCA. It was a procedure that copyright holders could send an email and go through a process of attestation and rebuttal.

Google shortcutted that by working with music and movie studios and made a ML version that bypasses the DMCA. The harm is caused to everyone not represented by a major media company.

In the end, I have no due process afforded to me by the DMCA because Google bypassed it for cronyism.
The US government has two options as I see them:

1) Reform the copyright system (unlikely due to powerful lobbyists and lawyers)

2) Eventually lose control over the industry to other countries as consumers vote with their feet.
Learn from history. Nuclear power with all its cost overruns and other issues claimed 15% of the US electric market in 15 years. Where is solar after 40 years?

The difference is building factories to produce cells which are made into modules that need to be installed in a sunny location, connected to the grid, and then incorporated into a 24/365 electric demand cycle, versus building a plant that can produce 100% of its power on day one.

Part of using the learning curve is knowing where you are on the curve. And remember that it is log-log so you need to keep doubling production to keep getting those cost reductions (if you don't bottom out against reality.) High-temperature superconductors are presumably on the starting point of their learning curve. Increased demands for magnets for fusion research and other applications along with power transmission devices can potentially drive scale and efficiency factors for the production of REBCO tape to drive down the cost measured in $ per A/m.
Thank you, and good points. From the view point of increasing the utility of scanning for weak-password ssh ports, a honeypot and a tarpit are both entities the human setting up the scanning would like to avoid. I think that ultimately a human looking for easily-guessed ssh or telnet or whatever passwords would want to avoid tarpits and honeypots equally. They might have to code differently for a tarpit than a honeypot, but the goal would be to detect and avoid instances of both things. What proportion of "something to detect and avoid" would cause a scanner to be less than profitable, or just give up?

To illustrate: I've been giving the people that staff robocaller's "service centers" a hard time for years. I believe that my phone number is in some of their systems as a "bad actor" - I've occasionally heard an audible, computer-generated voice telling the "service rep" that this is a known troublesome number. They also occasionally hang up on me a sentence in to the script. I usually tell them I'm Edward Snowden, but you can call me Ed. That gets a hangup maybe 5% of the time. So giving them a hard time wastes their resources enough that at least a few boiler room/"service centers" put effort towards avoiding me, and the few others like me. What proportion of resource-wasters would it take to make them quit?
Probably not a bad idea since the Oracle JRE/JDK is not free to use. It helps push people to OpenJDK distributions.
Content ID is never going to be perfect (so there always needs to be an appeal mechanism).

But I'd always expected that false matches would be due to some kind of hash collision, not different recordings of the same piece.

Because YouTube doesn't know what the composition is, it only compares to other performances (which are under copyright).

And the fact that two different pianists could interpret and perform a work identically enough to generate the same signature Content ID uses is... astonishing to me, from my classical music background. If I'd had to guess, two musicians normally probably couldn't achieve that even if they tried.

So this seems to just be a crazy statistical fluke? Otherwise classical performances would be getting blocked left and right, given the hundreds/thousands of different performances of the same underlying music? Or is something more advanced that audio fingerprinting going on?
I’ve spent countless days trying various static site generators and alternatives. I was trying to replace a self host Wordpress site with github pages to save money.

I am now planning to instead build a new wordpress site and self host somewhere cheaper. WP is a PITA from a security point of view, but the alternatives are IMO uniformly terrible. WordPress just works and has a good ecosystem of plugins and themes.

I was really disappointed with the static site generators. I’d love to write one that works as I’d expect - a simple way to turn markdown into a site with a single config file and python command, no complex setup, no using git as a package manager etc. with a ready set of auto-generated based on themes for other packages - but this will be a future project.

It would look something like:

/pages - contains markdown pages
/posts - markdown posts
/themes - one subdir per theme
/output - generated html

To generation html “ssg” in the root dir.

The themes would be anything you like, with very few template tags. The markdown would be translated to simple html and inserted in the files.

pip install ssg
create a page in /posts with a title and body
ssg
open output/index.html
Here's something even more crazy. You can buy an ebook but you can't use a text to speech engine on the actual text.
Unwanted emails dump 28,397 tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere every day
I think there is too much simplistic analysis of the Amazon's net CO2 contribution in the popular press which is besides the point here. Destroying a vast amount of the world's ecosystem is a really bad idea for many reasons besides climate change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest#Biodiversity

https://www.conservation.org/blog/why-is-biodiversity-import...
Deploying to a server, or figuring out the best way to transition from prototype to production! (Django + JS development)
We are crafting a new Server cluster and it looks like the Gen4 PCIe will give us a 40% performance boost for what is basically NVMe over Fabric using Mellanox 100Gb cards (Azure HCI aka S2D). Next year we will be building out another cluster and will hopefully use Mellanox 200Gb cards which is only possible due to Gen4.

Performance tests here https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7002-series-rome-deliv...
We went recently and had a good time. It was very hot and we took a few breaks, we didn't find any diamonds. The kids had a great time, the facilities are quite nice, and we got to see more of Arkansas which is quickly becoming a favorite state.
DirectX12 Release for Windows 7 by Microsoft
Maybe the Amazon is not the lungs of the world, but this author and Forbes in general is a very biased news source regarding the environment. Take a look at the headlines of this author's past work. Flagging it.
Waiting for when they'll prove genetically that trannies are just another flavor of schizophrenia.
Biz forked out $115k to tout 'Time AI' crypto at Black Hat
Ask HN: Are there any thought leaders in our field on office ergonomics?
I wrote to the author of the system last night to ask him the backstory behind the names. Maybe his colleagues, friends, siblings - I hope he writes me back to tell the story!
I'm not sure what to fix.

Let's give the benefit of the doubt to Google and say they're constantly revising their algorithms; even then, due to the sheer amount of video uploaded to YouTube every day, there will be some of them that are misidentified, it's simply unavoidable IMHO.

I think the improvement can be made on the smoothness and speed of disputing/reviewing these claim, though. This process should be as short and painless as possible, for sure.

In OP's case, considering it only seems to be a couple of hours, I think everything is still OK-ish at this point.
GlobalFoundries Seeks to Ban Imports of Nvidia, Apple
And one zillion equals ten zillions...
Hackers are actively trying to steal passwords from two widely used VPNs
Last night I wrote to Robert Magnusson (the author of the 1968 article) to ask him. Hope he writes back!
The problem with awarding only complete works is: bad people exist. Laws need to have enough flexibility so that truly devious people are covered by the law as well.

Example: I copy 99% of a popular song, but the first 3 seconds of my song = me playing a trumpet at full blast. Technically it's not a copy of the complete works, so I can argue in court that it's a sub-section of the original song. No judge/jury would agree with me, but my point is shown in this example. Even if you specify your definition sub-section to be < 50%, you would still be unhappy, because I copied half your song. What sub-section is OK?

The YouTube/AI issue is that loose/vague laws assume a certain degree of "common sense" among the population. When you try to give a loose task to a computer, it must make assumptions (either with AI, or pattern matching) and will invariably screw up. Computers are not human brains so they don't have "common sense"... yet.
> I imagine that Amazon are going to argue in court that if the publishers are held to be correct, then computer monitor manufacturers are not licensed to display copies of the work and that they also should pay the publisher (again) as should people who make software that alters the performance, e.g. volume or equalizer functions.

The well-established doctrine of patent/trademark/copyright exhaustion [1] prevents this undesirable result.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaustion_doctrine_under_U.S....
Maybe Mossad shares enough that direct US spying isn't necessary.
It could very well be that one of those saved my life, and I'd have been dead without it.
Content ID is not the DMCA. Content ID got it wrong here, and that happens all the time. It's not a big deal for the claimer. Which is totally contrary to how DMCA works, if someone makes a wrong claim there it gets very expensive for them.

Youtube could easily copy that aspect of the DMCA and make it very expensive for mis-claimers, and easy to counteract automatic mis-classification. That they don't has nothing directly to do with laws, it's simply Youtube being a bad platform.
More info here:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/porting-directx-12-ga...
The bond market, where trillions are traded by sophisticated investors, is by definition efficient.

If the price of something is higher than the "fundamentals support", that price will adjust because there are literally billions being traded every hour.

You could say that the price of land in the Everglades is set because of unsophisticated investors, with relatively little money at stake. They can't be compared.
Yes! And Kubrick knew this: for "2001: A Space Odyssey" he bought the right of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" directed by Böhm and replaced it at the last minute by the one directed by Karajan hoping no one would notice.
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That's what leads to tech debt!
I'm not sure people are knowledgeable enough to know if someone is competent to be a banker. How could such election not ending as a populist race.
I love their dedication to building up over multiple episodes instead of dumbing things down every time.
I saw on the NYT they had a nice info graphic[1]; the fires this year are on par with previous years and some other years have been worse. Additionally this is mostly seasonal agricultural burning that happens in most tropical places.

So it’s obviously mostly due to scaremongering and outrage culture. And a few people will be happy people become concerned but the great majority will chalk this up to “crying wolf” and will take future serious issues with a grain of salt.

It basically preaching to a choir which feels good but does nothing to further a cause (slow deforestation, and eventually reverse it).

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/24/world/america...
I am but a simple tailor
> Try naming a business. NOTHING is available. If you want to run a competing business in a saturated market, the naming options are almost non-existent, especially if you want to name your company something that embodies what your business does.

To be fair, this is only really a problem for a new tech-ish company. Most other companies are geographically limited and can operate just fine sharing an operating name with a different company. There are lots of different companies operating as "John the Plumber" (seriously, Google it), "Rose & Crown Pub", or "Pho Noodle House".
I believe the publishers sued Amazon to have them remove that feature
May I ask how you did the product screenshots?
>some opposition candidates were illegally prevented from participating in it

Can you provide a source for that?
The good thing about the Internet is that there is a lot of great information that was never available before.

The bad thing about the Internet is that it is interspersed with incorrect or misleading information. When tackling something outside your expertise, and outside the expertise of a large number of people, it can be hard to discern the two.

And then we are forced to go back to our web of trust. "I trust Steve Kemp is knowledgeable, and he can get me bootstrapped."

I honestly don't know a way around this outside some sort of curated expert-reviewed system.

Of course, being snarky, I might answer, "I'm unaware, sorry. However, after you learn, I'd love it if you can create such a tutorial to help others after you!"
> Electric stoves are fairly common, but induction stoves are rare.

That suggests the cause is inertia. Plain electric stoves are very impractical, but they've been around for a long time.
> What's your specific gripe with it?

My specific gripe with it and most articles these days is that it's driving an agenda, the hallmark of which is the omission of any contradictory evidence. In the course of their research, they certainly encountered evidence that contradicted their hypothesis, yet when they went to print all this was omitted.

If someone is exploring an idea, I like it to at least approximate the approach of good scientific research paper. Propose a hypothesis, present the data (supporting or otherwise), have a discussion and then suggest a conclusion for consideration.

As opposed to find data that supports your hypothesis, throw out all other data you encountered along the way and since you have a foregone conclusion, no discussion is necessary.

The other thing I'd like to see if anyone predicting the future to also pen an alternate piece using scenario planning.

"In my previous essay, I predicted X will happen around year Y. In this essay, I'm going to imagine that it is year Y and it turns out that my prediction of X was completely wrong and I will explore all the possible flaws in my previous essay to determine what went wrong.

This approach forces people to be their own devil's advocate.
Macron's stance seems just a way to appease the hard left. It doesn't really matter if his declarations are scientifically correct or not.

It is the most appealing course for him. He literally doesn't have to take any action, but to shout out some sentences raising awareness of Brazil and putting the blame on their hard right president, and, voilá, free points next to the French hard-left electorate (which he really needs at the present, after the continued demonstrations from the yellow vests).

Something similar already happened with Merkel (although that time, it wasn't just lip service, there were policies and effort to be made). Merkel was hated by the hard-left in Europe, after the way she managed the crisis, and the huge social issues the policies she forced, created when they were imposed to Southern Europe. Suddenly, she became a defender of basically unchecked migration, and the hard-left completely stop doing her opposition and even supporting her.
I didn’t say it was free and fair.
I think the solution might be somewhat simple, something I've noticed recently while trying to deal with my own stress. I recalled that as a child I would often do something very strange. I would just lay on the floor staring at the carpet, just completely mesmerized by the most banal of things. I'm mean there's less happening than watching paint dry. Or I would sit out in the yard in the fresh air and stare and some patch of dirt and grass for some period of time. I spoke to my girlfriend and she said that she recalled doing something similar. she said she had a very distinct memory of a door knob and just starting at it. I think maybe most children do this instinctively and forget it when they grow up. And rather than worry about complex esoteric philosophies just practicing a simple child like act for some time a day can help (and yes I know this is similar to practices known as grounding, but maybe more time is necessary to be devoted to it for it to restore inner calm)
Everything You Need for Classic Word2Vec Models
For anyone hearing about loading=“lazy” for the first time from this article , I’ll reiterate the main idea because the article doesn’t go into much depth about the motivation.

The main idea is that some pages use a lot of cellular data to load images that are further down the page, out of the viewport. If the user glances at the page and decides it’s not relevant and exits, then those offscreen images were just a waste of cellular data. loading=“lazy” addresses this problem by deferring the image loads until the user has scrolled the page and the image is soon to be in the viewport.

Disclosure: I write the Chrome DevTools docs
And Google is probably right - for most people, if all of a sudden their new tab page was just a blank screen they'd assume something was broken. It was pretty easy to change that setting without knowing what it meant.

Installing an extension is a much more obvious process - it has a description and screenshots showing exactly what it does, so nobody should be surprised.

Both chrome and Firefox have been shifting to moving any behaviour that could appear as "broken" out of their settings and into extensions. I wouldn't assume tension in the team because a chrome Dev built the extension, more likely just normal process.
Why 2020 Disinformation Campaigns May Be Outsourced to the Philippines
> It’s just optional for books to support it or not.

Translation: It's optional for the publishers to enable DRM restricting it or not.

If I buy a paperback book, there is nothing stopping me from building a machine I can insert the book into that scans the page, OCRs it to text, and then converts the text to audio.

DRM'd ebooks are a travesty, which is why I immediately remove all DRM as soon as I buy one so that I have full freedom to do whatever I want with it.
Hey fellow makers, today I wanted to share with you a project I have been working on for the past few years to manage my efforts outside in my garden.

The system is built on an open source core and has a great deal of resources around it to help get folks started with their own. The project is still in development and I am looking to get other interested in their own automated gardens. This system works both inside and outside with a number of setups. (lights, pumps, solenoids, sensors etc).

Much more info on the site and more in the works. Let me know what you think and if you found this useful.

-Eric
"And yet the photos weren’t actually of the fires and many weren’t even of the Amazon. The photo Ronaldo shared was taken in southern Brazil, far from the Amazon, in 2013. The photo that DiCaprio and Macron shared is over 20 years old. The photo Madonna and Smith shared is over 30. Some celebrities shared photos from Montana, India, and Sweden."

I wish people that (rightfully) blamed and made fun of Trump for spreading BS on tweeter would be as fierce with the other side of the political landscape.