skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird, the masthead photo is the street where I grew up. Now clogged with people lining up to Instagram, sadly.

Plus nobody lives there anymore, really - they are all the owners’ vacation homes.
I'm with you, but as a critique for your metaphor:

Does the layperson receive meaningful mail anymore? With the exception of my W-2 and the occasional jury summons, I feel like nothing about my life would change if the post office just threw away my envelopes.
Guns can be controlled without eliminating them from the hands of the public. E2E encryption cannot be "controlled" without undermining it's nature and purpose.
I don't think there is any evidence to that effect if anything the 2 or 3 big scientific surveys show the opposite effect, a slight increase in happiness.
Curious what you recommend instead of Spark.
off topic, but i saw in one of your fast.ai videos, you were running an autohotkey script. Made my day !
> End-to-end encryption does little to change the availability of information in a targeted investigation

A secure E2EE system must resist even targeted, legally authorised attacks. Are you suggesting that secure, practical E2EE systems do not currently exist? Would a world in which law enforcement must install physical listening devices and exploit unpublished software vulnerabilities to surveil suspects be more private than our current world, where E2EE is available but often disabled by default, and trusted intermediaries like Facebook and Google can be legally compelled to disclose non-E2EE messages?

> Forbidding end-to-end encryption, in combination with our mass surveillance apparatus, changes the societal default to be that substantially all conversations are trivially and automatically accessible

That is not (publicly acknowledged to be) the case today, even though non-E2EE platforms like Facebook are widely used. While Facebook could currently comply with laws authorising mass surveillance, and implementing secure E2EE would prevent them from doing so, the warrants under which they currently hand over non-E2EE messages are at least somewhat targeted. This controversy is not about a proposal to relax the need for warrants, it's about asking Facebook to preserve their ability to comply with them.
Where on earth do you detect the slightest hint of racism in my comment? Implied or otherwise?

I'm genuinly curious, since bewilderment about cultural differences certainly does not a racist make.
Thought you were on Kobo for some reason. Might be worth grabbing a cheap one as a Pocket + Overdrive device, it's a pretty great combo ;)
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The lack of money gives people with lower income a problem that the brain cannot solve. Not everyone can 'just get a job' that easily. I've experienced periods in my life where I kept thinking in circles to find a way to get some money for our basic needs. The only solution was to simply keep trying and waiting for some luck or fate. Of course that fucks your brain! I knew a professor in Berlin who was living in the streets, homeless. Try to imagine his mind. After all his work, passion and skill this simple but ridiculous money problem is in-solvable. And no one will help him, he is lost for life. Most rich people have no clue about this problem. They think everybody can work and create a future, while at the same time this professor in the streets has no chances. Who has a thinking problem here?
Ask HN: What's your AI failure story?
Hi HN. I am curious to hear your war stories about AI, ML, NLP projects that you have witnessed fail in your organization and why.

I think it's time to unearth the failures as much as the successes, and am curious to others experiences.
No, it actually could've been much worse: https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-volunteers-divers-...
On addition some narrow alleyways are a bit dangerous —they are narrow and in the event of emergency they can find themselves blocked off (when fire escapes empty to them, as they usually do).
I get that in Safari too.
NIO separates from US listing creating “NIO China” to get $1.5bn in state funds
I created this SVG-based graph layout GUI [1] for our learning media website LunchBox Sessions [2]. The graph lets us visually express the prerequisites of each session. Using SVG meant I could do some fun animations to hide the load time when opening a session.

[1] https://lunchboxsessions.com/explore/hydraulics

[2] https://lunchboxsessions.com
> I believe it's not moderators job to decide what is a lie and what is not

codesushi42 didn't say it was. It said the system you describe still allows lies, myths, and misinformation to spread. The only mention of moderators was in the context of chastising the poster who calls the misinformation out.

> if you see a lie, write a truthful comment refuting it, that way you can convince people instead of trying to silence

The tools you referred to are tools to silence, so you are "trying to silence" every time you flag or downvote a post. As for refuting the misinformation, I regularly see posts doing this downvoted while the misinformation is upvoted[1]. This is particularly true in discussions on contentious topics. Thus, I'm not nearly as certain as you are that these tools would protect HN from a sufficiently dedicated group.

[1] At least once, because I downvote it and the comment remains black.
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What is defined as poverty?

If you have internet and food, are you still in poverty?
It seems like he lives in Mumbai, which makes his $688 equivalent to about $2,805 in SF. Still low, but not as bad.
Anecdotally, when we bought my girlfriend her first Kindle about five years ago, we noticed it was requiring charging way more often than the back-of-the-box battery life quote of "weeks of battery life". Upon calling an Amazon agent, they referred us to the fine print for that quotation:

> A single charge lasts up to six (6) weeks, based on a half hour of reading per day with wireless off and the light setting at 13. [0]

We were still pretty pissed at the blatant false advertising (a hardcore book reader reads for only a half hour a day!?!), but moving forward, she keeps the device in airplane mode 95% of the time, only turning it off to download whatever new book she just bought. It increased to at least 2-3 weeks after that, instead of a single week.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Paperwhite-Waterproof-Storage-...
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>> It's really nice they can come up with a simple rule to sidestep the issue with our short term memory or attention glitching out like that.

It doesn't say if they tested that idea. I want to know if it actually works.
Slavery and owning people is still legal, explicitly so in some countries, less explicitly so where sweatshops/slave labor and factory economies function, and implicitly so in places like America and Europe, especially in high churn job sectors where employers figured out you can exploit a constantly new labor pool and by the time they figure it out there is a new batch of suckers to take advantage of(Uber is an example of this model.) Slavery and owning people never went away, it just got better at disguising itself. It will never go away either, because that is how reality functions (or else reality wouldn't function that way)
Can someone make (or point to) a brief overview of the most significant changes/improvements in version 3.0?
I wish you were right.

But nope. I read it twice looking for a spark of meaning beyond that I wrote in my comment.
Huh. I never thought of that, although it was so damn obvious (I feel twice as stupid now that I realize I do a version of that on my machine, albeit not in order to send mail). I guess that's what I get for going all "Arch Wiki will you please just show me how you kids are doing it today and leave me be" on it.

But to be honest, not having to do <shell> -c <exec this or send me an email> ever again is one of the reasons why we're doing the whole systemd thing, and one of its big promises. If it comes to writing shell mantras again, I might as well use vixie cron (or one of its descendants) and benefit from 30+ years of bugfixes across more Unices than I can name, plus the acquired wisdom of the Interwebs.

Edit: plus... does this still allow you to get the other goodies, like being able to specify environment variables for a specific job?
Fantastic video, thanks for sharing!
This reminds me a lot of the cancers attributed to HPV, a common virus. The researchers who discovered that link have likely saved millions of lives.

Almost every instance of cervical cancer is attributed to HPV. 70% of throat cancers, 90% of anal cancers, 60% of penile cancers, 75% vaginal, and 70% vulvar cancers. [1]

It always stunned me that one little virus that used to be seen just as an embarrassment was re-categorized as being a huge risk factor for deadly cancers.

If the person who identified a common bacteria being responsible for almost all ulcers got a Nobel price, the HPV <--> cancer researchers should also have been considered, IMHO.

[1] https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/i...
I have a $600+ keyboard so I'm a part of this hobby. However, only a part of this can be explained by the expense of manufacturing at a small scale. The hobby fully embraces the drawbacks of the small scale and intentionally does nothing to try to improve it because the exclusivity drives prices up to an insane point.

A typical group buy for a popular case sells out in minutes or days time after time. Clearly some of the exclusivity is artificial.

An aluminum case that costs $300 is often 99% as nice as one for $1000.

There are designers lauded as geniuses that make cases that are almost identical to generic ones. It might have some kind of logo or inlay or a different color of anodized aluminum. Aftermarket they'll be worth insane amounts of money.

And with keycaps pretty much the entire thing is artificial exclusivity. $300-400 aftermarket for a set of keycaps is not unheard of.

There's nothing wrong with any of this, but as a happy participant I have to say the diminishing returns show up hard and fast in this hobby. Its all about fashion.

My $60 GMMK, with 20 minutes of easy modifications, a $30 set of keycaps, and a $90 set of healios switches was the smoothest linear keyboard I've ever used.

If you want clicky, the same setup with a $30 set of Box Jade switches will get most people the best keyboard they've ever used. Mx blues feel like rubber domes afterwards.

Interesfing article that talks about some of this. I recommend reading it.

Why did I pay $600+? I wanted an Ergodox split keyboard with helios switches + backlighting, to see if my wrists would feel better, and I didn't think I was ready to build a kit that required soldering.

My Keycaps cost 170 of that. They are modelled after the Space Cadet keyboard from an old LISP Machine. This was uneccessary obviously but I liked them.
Well, I'd say two things:

1. A lot of them are changing the world in small ways and some in big ways. And, some are just getting started and it is going to take another 10 years to see their impact. We like big narratives of x changed the world but I think it is more likely change by a thousand cuts.

2. Ads get a lot of attention but I'd say that is also hugely important to change the world. Adwords is amazing in that it is has democratized advertising significantly. Now small businesses can go buy ads without any contracts huge spend or so on. I know for me 10+ years ago it was a game-changer for getting one of my first businesses off the ground.
This, on a software discussion board. So many horrible errors in such a small package! I sort of have ~3 different map+nav systems, and they won't even agree with each other what the situation is, never mind the Real World (tm). Speed limits specifically: they are in agreement about 80% of the time.

Machine vision, triple meh. Even with strictly standardized set of easily recognizable shapes, this is useful for post facto mapping ( https://blog.mapillary.com/tutorials/2017/08/21/mapping-traf... ), but nowhere near realtime without false negatives.
As a cyclist, I believe that the driver should be held to the higher standard, but also that I can never trust them to live up to their responsibility, so I gotta be ready to stop and/or dodge any reckless maneuver they make.

We tend to conflate the moral judgement of responsibility/fault with the actual reality of responsibility. If you're driving a deadly vehicle, the moral burden is on you not to kill me, but I still carries the practical burden of not getting killed.

Obviously, if I'm super reckless on my bicycle, I could still be killed by a responsible, blameless driver, but if we're equally careless, I would say I was behaving in a practically irresponsible manner and the driver a morally irresponsible manner. I was stupid, they were negligent.

(I rode a motorcycle occasioanlly for a while, but not enough to get to where I felt other cars were a bigger threat to me than my own inexperience was. "I could die taking this corner.")
I think a credible threat of serious punishment would go a long way. Unfortunately the justice system and police have completely abdicated any responsibility they might have there.

Maybe instead of attempting to find fault we should roll the dice in accordance with the speed vs lethality tables whenever a driver hits something with another person in it.

Sorry Jim, we're going to have to kill you today. The simulation says you drove right into the maw of a redwood chipper.

That's basically what it feels like using a mode of transportation that carries a high risk of death in a collision.
Too Good to Go: An App for Fighting Food Waste
You always end up buying more than one, despite their extreme durability.
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I have (idiopathic) Chronic Pancreatitis and I wonder if the same holds for me. I'm already on enzymes but not diabetic (yet, knock on wood). There is a link in the article pointing to Crohns so I have hope that there is some correlation. If anyone has any more info, I'd gladly hear you out as it could be life changing for me. For instance, if I'd want to try this myself, what could be a good off the counter medication (in EU)? And what would be a good interval of taking these? I notice that doctors are slow on the uptake with these kind of discoveries so I've become more prone to trying remedies (diet changes mostly) myself. (Note: I don't shun away from bad news, would like to hear that too)
Whoa, this is unexpected. I'm the author. Thanks for reading and for all your comments! Will reply to as many as possible.
As others have said, yes, with limited accuracy. A big issue is the focus of your eyes is never static.

Imagine creating a lens system for a camera where you can't control for one element. That element is dynamic with a reasonable autofocus that suffers from time varying accuracy and range of performance.

We need dynamic correction. Glasses with auto/adjustable focus.
It's not survivor bias because all my siblings are still alive and I was the only one that nearly didn't make it.

I think it's a common enough situation where people who don't suffer enough to change their bad behavior continue in their bad behavior.

To put it in extremes, if someone had a gun to their head right now, could they quit smoking? I'd say most people could. (some people are suicidal)

I had a gun to my head and had to make a choice, my siblings did not.

But back to my point, reality isn't rigged, it is what it is.

There aren't rich people forcing poor people to stay poor at gun point (at least not in free countries). While rich people do make it easier for people in their circle to stay rich though (ignoring the differences in habits). That, I would say is rigged, but not in the way it seems commonly claimed.
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All hail Luna 3, rightful king of 1950s space missions
Technophobia, artificial intelligence, and the UK economy
There are many other such instances in which the lead dev immediately responds to bug reports with 'works on my machine' without even asking for details to reproduce the bug. Any further words from the bug reporter are met with sarcasm or words worse than I would term "a bit heated".

Here's Kovid responding to reports of security vulnerabilities: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027
The U.S. economy's hidden problem: Men without jobs
Absolutely insane you had to go through this, but happy to see that you're happier now.
If a modern developer doesn't address liabilities first, they would quickly be out of business. Hence, design is restricted to the parameters of what one can successfully defend if sued.

Fire departments and fire codes are especially difficult to design around in tight spaces, as they can basically veto any construction that doesn't allow ample room for fire trucks to get around. The city also doesn't want to get sued for preventing the building from being built.

See the recent $800M MGM hotels settlement for the Las Vegas massacre. Expect more cameras, more searches, more cover your ass protocol. Not directly related to the article, but an example where one's first thought will be "how do I protect myself from being sued for any possibility in the future".
Android is ill-suited to readers. Installing "homebrew" applications through hackish means has been a thing for a while.

None of this is a replacement to a properly open ebook reading device which does not exist.

On the software side, openinkpot existed at some point, but the project died.

I'd love a properly made piece of very low power open hardware running e.g. nuttx rather than boring Linux/Android.
That needn't be the case though. Many estates with cul-de-sacs are better designed and have paths between them so while cars can't drive straight through pedestrians (and depending on local rules, cyclists) can get around more freely.
Lots of software provides base software and free trial of premium features with time limit without a paid license.
Hmmm, would've been useful if I could see those as a 'grouped' timeline to get an impression of the posted content and follow people with content you like. (As opposed to clicking on hundreds of links individually)

It would even be more useful if you could have a dynamically rendered timeline of multiple people with a single URL (sort of like a multireddit).
Five Simple Sales Questions
It's much easier to buy a public company than a private one (in a "hostile" or undesired situation), so if a company becomes public at a lower valuation, it's cheaper for Salesforce to acquire them and eliminate the competition.
> And we wanted to put our money where our mouth was, so we committed to retaining KPMG, the well-respected auditing firm, to audit our practices annually and publish a public report confirming we're doing what we said we would.

Looks like they are.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
I don't think there are multiple arguments here to beat around, despite people going on like it's a many-sided story. It all comes down to two conflicting principles:

- People's privacy is inviolable

- State's right to surveil people's actions must be unlimited

Before now, the balance was kept by surveillance being too expensive. But it was already pretty obvious in the 80s that we're quickly going full cyberpunk: communication and processing of info become dirt cheap, everyone is moving to digital comms for ease of use, and suddenly vastly expanded surveillance is easy, both on the net and in the physical world.

In ten years, net connection will be ubiquitous like electricity, all info about the world will be processed in real time, minds will directly control computers, and the agencies will ask why they should give up vacuuming it all if someone might plan a crime somewhere in there. Why draw the line at the datacenter instead of personal computers if the boundary is barely there? Why must there be a limit? The argument of “there might be something unlawful on there” doesn't have a limit.

If you think that a discussion between people, or their actions, should be private like they were before, you gotta ask where the firm line is. But I don't really see anyone doing a cost-benefit analysis on privacy vs surveillance, since conveniently for the agencies it's a ethics issue, and measuring ethics with numbers is frowned upon. So it's gonna be “X crimes prevented and Y solved” vs some indeterminate inconvenience caused by data leaks and corrupt officials.

As a bonus exercise, ask yourself: if to beat criminals the police has by principle to have criminals' tools―violence and disregard for privacy―then what stops police from turning into criminals on the side? These two markets are for the same skills. For some countries, it's not an idle question. And obviously, if a tool is available to police, it becomes available to criminals too.

But personally, I don't think privacy advocates will ultimately have much weight in the decision on this dilemma. People like to pretend that they highly value personal freedom, but the whole shtick of society is that it has a net benefit for a population by limiting individuals. Band together with other people, lose the freedom to be as gross as you want as loud as you want, have to do favors to keep connections. Pay some organized bullies to defend from other ones, concentrate on your own job instead. Move to the city, be highly visible to many people but have a variety of decent food, and sewers. We were giving up freedom for security and convenience for thousands of years, and I doubt we're going to stop now.

(BTW, afaik the cliché quote about giving up liberty for safety is used completely wrong and originally had exactly the opposite context.)
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Whales and dolphins have fused legs and if you count their two flippers they have 3 legs.
What are some interesting accounts to subscribe to?
Goodness gracious, I had no idea twenty-four percent of young people found it acceptable to shack up and live in sin. It is no wonder we have such cultural problems today, nor is it any wonder they are so rapidly increasing.

That said, see my above comments about why you cannot treat married people amd those people the same.
"People don't kill people, cars kill people"?
You drive with the expectation that someone will be going the wrong way?
That is often (but not always, due to economics or parking that favor a scooter or motorcycle) possible for motorcyclists, but is often not possible for bicyclists to whom, as other commenters have pointed out, these suggestions also apply.
Rust and Ada are are only incidentally competitors:

Ada was designed for programming safety-critical, military-grade embedded systems.

Rust was designed as a memory-safe, concurrency-safe programming language, largely to overcome the shortcomings of C++.

Each excels at what it was designed for, but the intended use cases are very different.

Rust is not (currently) being used for aircraft flight control systems--Ada is.

Ada is not (currently) being used for high-performance web browsers and servers--Rust is.

While there are SOME similar design goals in terms of memory safety, concurrency safety, and error prevention, Rust was not designed to compete with Ada.
So can we rationalize hitting pedestrians in the same way?
Oil and gas generally doesn't follow that even in Texas, for what it's worth. In most places, if the reservoir compartment you're producing from extends beyond the boundaries of your lease, you have to pay whoever owns the mineral rights of the rest of it proportionally. You still have the right to produce it in any way you want -- the other rights holder isn't suddenly in a joint partnership. Of course, these laws vary pretty wildly by state and country, but the norm is that you need to compensate someone if you're producing from something that extends onto their acreage.

Water is handled in the way you mentioned, though, which is pretty nuts.