skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do research in computer science and in the last few years, lots of trivial and dumb patents in my field appeared out of nowhere. However, I can only assume that they really are trivial because they are written in a way to claim a lot without actually describing how any of it works. These patents have 0% information in them. What's more, they all read like a rewrite of papers that were published years ago (before the date filed) into lawyer speak with no amount of information. I have no idea how any of these were ever granted since there is prior art all over the place.

Edit: Okay to be fair, there is maybe not 0% but 10% information in these patents, but it's encoded into unintelligible lawyer/patent talk that is not at all fit to convey technical information. They are written in a way to get a monoply on results without disclosing how these results are obtained.
How does that debunk it? It shows exactly what I describe.
Fish was first released in 2005. They're being cheeky.

It looks like the project didn't start calling itself a shell for the 90s until 2013. At least on the project's home page. Compare

* https://web.archive.org/web/20130420050628/http://fishshell....

* https://web.archive.org/web/20130521005841/http://fishshell....
Speed is of course great. But you still have to engineer and execute properly. I was hoping HN knew where he was getting his urgency from other than the obvious. Like is he short on money.
Seriously! We literally did it in our modern physics lab. For me that was ~2004. It's not a terrible difficult experiment to do at home. Also, 62nm is not a particularly small distance in electro-optics. You can buy polarizers and the like off Thorlabs for ~$9.

This person seems to be a bit of a crank.
It would look like NixOS.
Signal messenger doesn’t support webp across devices (last time I checked)....so I use jiffy format
I've submitted threads like this to the google webmaster forum, and standard response boils down to:

- negative seo doesn't work, google can tell the difference between spam links/sites

- it's probably an issue with your own site (ie. the deranking is justified)

- changes in rank are likely due to an algorithm update

I'm not sure if the mods on that forum are even google employees - they seem to just be random users, not sure how they are selected. I've never seen anyone on that forum acknowledge that negative seo is effective.
Feature flags, mentioned in TFA, are how you roll back quickly.

Toggle the flag. Feature is disabled.
In bad taste or not, I’ll keep my Comic Sans
I find the to be faster than ag personally
So they might as well don’t; at least then we get some modicum of privacy.
Capitalism means never having to say you're sorry.
A lot of people don't know about when they wanted to double rates a few years ago and were getting a huge backlash, they just starting turning off the power in "rolling blackouts" just because they were mad. After about a week all the anti rate increase talk stopped and the rates doubled and everyone just forgot about it. They are horrid people.
Rebalancing an imbalanced dataset is common in industry and academicia. You use that when you focus on accuracy, to make claims like: We were 54% accurate on classifying sexuality of females easily interpretable, without needing a distribution-balanced benchmark (you simply know it is a coin flip).

If there is signal in the rebalanced dataset, there should be signal in the imbalanced dataset. If they'd switched to logloss or AUC and an imbalanced dataset, do you think now their results would be as good as random? Because that is what you are implying and you are basically implying the research is fraudulent. This is a very strong claim to make, in the absence of legit discrediting studies that failed to replicate any predictability, and requires more than guessing the authors rebalancing act was "clearly" to improve the accuracy (with 7% negative class, you could get 93% accuracy by always predicting positive class, so if they wanted to inflate the accuracy, they shouldn't have rebalanced).

The ethical considerations are moot/personal opinion, as they passed the ethics board of Stanford. Those are people who evaluate ethics of academic research for a living, or are you saying they were also shoddy and wrong to give this a pass?

Magical thinking is not wanting something to be true, because it would be an uncomfortable truth, and so deeming that something which is objectively true, must be false, so you can continue to think happy thoughts in line with your world view.

You keep talking about the paper being widely discredited, but can't provide a single academic source for this. Instead, you question my sources (business insider?) while posting articles from The Next Web written by a History degree journalist who does not want the concept of binary sexuality to be true, or even allow it in constructing a dataset of gay and straight people by self-classification.

It takes more energy and letters to attack a point than to make a point. You made quite a lot of weak points.
Biography of Maria Skłodowska Curie
Corrupting persistent data or creating ambiguous and irreconcilable (or expensively-reconcilable) states is a Very Bad Thing and something which one should avoid with extreme prejudice.
> So a system like Android's?

Not really, I'm essentially describing nix/guix.
In fact, during that period, about a million Europeans were enslaved by Arabs [1].

But curiously, that's rarely brought up. In fact, it's even mostly been purged from wikipedia's entry on the Arab slave trade: "Muslims also enslaved Europeans. According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured between the 16th and 19th centuries by Barbary corsairs, who were vassals of the Ottoman Empire, and sold as slaves." is present in [1,2], but absent in [3].

I come from a region that had to deal with centuries of Ottoman raids, so it is hard to stomach how [4] phrases it as if it was some sort of mutual trade, and makes no mention of the pillaging and blood tax and using Europeans captured as children as soldiers to then raid for more slaves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arab_slave_trade&...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade#European_slav...
Except individual actions pale in comparison to the impact of industry. The single most impactful action individuals can take to combat climate change is not fly less, or use less water. It's voting for politicians that actually enact meaningful policy. Without that, the number of flights we all take is irrelevant.
Ask HN: Guide to WebDev for Low Level Engineers?
I've been doing low level engineering for years (mostly hypervisor development), but have very little idea how web development works.

I tried writing some javascript, but I immediately tried using `require` on the client-side, without having any idea that was Wrong. My experience so far has been little moments like that over and over. I feel like there are some main abstractions I could learn that would be useful to build off of.

Are there guides out there for people that are already familiar with software engineering?
A Nuclear Rocket That Could Reach 20% the Speed of Light
XUL was amazing, and they abandoned it.

This obsession with making everything "web" friendly is backsliding desktop into horrible, non-native UI.
Collapse OS, an OS for When the Unthinkable Happens
The concept, if not the wording, pre-dates Brand, going back to Michael Polanyi, Norbert Wiener, and others (1940s - 1960s).
https://nixos.org/nix/

https://guix.gnu.org/

Containers are a very poor substitute for package managers.
I upvoted, FWIW. Maybe help explain your perspective some more? It sounds like you're just kind of saying "we can't model anything so why bother?".

We can model what we can. Sure, the big recession catches the world by surprise, but people are working constantly to model these systems, and it seems to be better than doing nothing.

Climate models for example tell us that carbon dioxide is indeed a greenhouse gas, and gives us an idea of the amount of warming we'll see at various levels.

+/- 6 orders of magnitude seems like a lot. Like that seems like we don't know whether we'll have 400 ppm or 400,000,000 ppm in the future?
> every idiot now has an amplifier the strength of which allows them to reach the rest of their country, including all like thinking idiots
WebP has lossy and lossless modes. The latter should be considered as the PNG replacement :)
Great episode. Will listen to it again on a long walk today.

I’ve always sought commentary and quotes from Don Valentine to help me learn more about being an angel investor the same way I have have always Warren Buffett’s commentary and shareholder letters to learn how to be a better long-term investor.
Ironically the best CLIs are also TUIs, but unix shells don't really seem to have caught onto that yet. For instance, in bash/fish/zsh, why can't I scroll up and mouse click on a command I ran earlier to edit and run it again? I can do that in my scheme repl in emacs. It's a richer experience.
Other than the newer web tech initiatives like WebAssembly/JS sandboxing

Yes, this is the lightest weight isolation that's somewhat secure for random code.. And considering that we regularly find exploits that escape that sandbox, I would never use it to run some random persons code on a server. Yes, we do that all the time in the browser, but that's a more limited environment where a single user is choosing what to run... whereas on a server, anyone who wants to attack the service can just upload whatever code they want.

I know Cloudflare is doing it in Cloudflare Workers... and I think that's crazy. They're inspecting the code, and they added OS sandboxing... so that's a little better.. but trusting the JS sandbox in that environment is just nuts. Wouldn't surprise me if this ended up being another cloudbleed.

If you want to run random code, the only safe option right now is to use a heavier form of isolation like a VM (and even that is not perfect). The performance loss is the necessary trade off to allow random people to run code (some of whom are deliberately attacking the service). This is the downside to the "cloud"... performance losses to allow random people to share servers.
I think FLIF seems better as a PNG replacement. FLIF is a lossless format, although lossy encoding is also available. Still, PNG is much better than GIF, so GIF should not be used unless you need it for use with software that can't use PNG.

(This kind of lossy encoding would be possible with PNG too, but most PNG encoders don't have a lossy mode.)

(GIF is now patent-free, but PNG and FLIF are still better compression than GIF anyways.)
Domain specific instead of domain general.

What I mean, is that most branches of study require their own school the earlier the better.

Public school as a domain general educational process is a complete waste of time, money, yields absolutely nothing at all.
What is the closest thing we have left that is close to “mostly
declarative GUI”? QML? Tk? Please don't say Electron.
I am getting more and more annoyed as Google increasingly corrects my language to the wrong thing.
They have color charts for each type of colorblindness with lines drawn on them for sets of hues to avoid. None of these lines go through both the green and yellow colors.
Could you be a little more specific? What mistakes are you referring to?
Have you ever seen roofers work? They move like there's a storm coming all day. Total hustle, it's why existing roof installs are relatively cheap. It makes sense that they need to ptiomize for near same amount of time.
> Maybe this makes sense if you think of the punishment as having a deterrent component and a retributive component.

It also makes sense if one rejects retribution as illegimate but accepts proportionality as a
basis for limiting on punishment. (Many doctrines of criminal punishment accept both retribution as a goal and proportionality as a limit, so...)
Every time a climate change article hits the front page of HN, I cheer a bit. Are there any other awesome tech + climate communities around?
That’s total validation of your thinking!!!
find has awful ergonomics that are completely unlike any other common unix tool. I can never remember the syntax, how the flags work, or what order things need to be in.

Let's use an example I just dug up of using find:

To list and remove all regular files named core starting in the directory /prog that are larger than 500KB, enter:

find /prog -type f -size +1000 -print -name core -exec rm {} \;

OK first, how in the hell is 1000 == 500kb? Is that a bug in my example[0]? What does `-print` do exactly? And that backslash at the end? I have no clue what that signifies. I'm never going to remember this madness. I'd probably have resorted to writing a bash script in a file by now. But with fd it becomes manageable and memorable for future tasks:

To list and remove all regular files named core starting in the directory /prog that are larger than 500KB, enter:

fd --type=file --size=+500k ^core$ ./prog -x rm {}

Now that's something that makes immediate sense even if you've never touched the tool before. Not to mention, it doesn't end up in my .git and other ignored directories.

[0] https://kb.iu.edu/d/admm
XUL wasn't native.
React Native? SwiftUI?
> Publicly disclosing the invention is just a direct consequence and not a virtue of the patent system.

Umm, no.

That was the whole idea behind the system -- to make your information public in exchange for a limited time monopoly on your invention.

Before this people just kept things secret and tried to enforce a monopoly through things like guild memberships and whatnot.
270 degree mountain.
This. I honestly don't get why this is news. I truly hate facebook with a passion, I really do. But on this occasion I don't really blame them: You know what you are getting yourself into, what did you expect? A tuna salad? You shouldn't really be sharing any personal information on any platform which you can't hold accountable, regardless of e2e encryption.
tho tbh i'd love to see an NLP project for turning high school geometry problems into grobner basis problems, and solving them there.
It rendered GTK I believe? Which used native controls.

I used to build a Firefox addon and the things you could do were amazing -- I could render into the status bar and popup a native window fed with data from a remote server. All from an XML file and some javascript! And you could style it with CSS!

The hacks and contortions addons have to go through now just to do something like that are insane, and the results are almost always janky as fuck.
And it's behind a paywall. How ironic. How are the masses supposed to get to know the new social media platforms if WSJ keeps it a pay-to-know secret? (Yeah, I know you can read it by cheating.)
> And, I get the irony. It's basically cgi-bin 2.0.

More like "fancy inetd."
The meaning clearly has changed if it's widely being used in a different way. How do you think all those different definitions of words get into dictionaries?

You're being prescriptivist, whereas language usage is descriptivist.
Forum posts by G employees will show "Google Employee" above their name as seen here (the recommended answer) https://support.google.com/nonprofits/thread/13880126?hl=en
It depends entirely on (1) whether you think those "aggressive and immediate measures to combat global warming" will work; and (2) the economic cost of those measures relative to climate change costs.

One estimate of a 3.7C warming scenario is a total cost of $550 trillion: https://www.axios.com/climate-change-costs-wealth-carbon-tax.... That's about in the 2100 timeframe.

That sounds like a lot, except OECD projects that by 2060 world GDP will be $267 trillion annually: https://data.oecd.org/gdp/gdp-long-term-forecast.htm. Estimates of world GDP in 2100 are in the $250-$500 trillion range annually.

That means that adopting policies that cause us to hit the lower end of that range instead of the upper end of that range could cost us more than the total cost of a 3.7C increase in just a few years. And if those government policies don't work then you will have paid that cost, and you'll have to deal with the cost of climate change on top of it.

Now, of course lots of things could happen. Climate change could be an extinction-level problem. (According to the IPCC, there is "virtually no chance" of anthropogenic causes resulting in a Venus-like runaway greenhouse effect.) Or we could figure out workable CCS in 2050 and average climate change entirely. (That's also not super likely.)

Ultimately, the rational course depends on what you think of government action in this area. If you think it'll cost a lot but end up ineffective (like say the "War on Poverty") then it's completely rational to vote against it. If you think it'll work without hurting economic growth significantly, then it's rational to vote for it.
Why not just make it a broken link and tell them how to correct it?
Sea-level rise for centuries to come (2017)
Running an Industrial Robotics Software Startup Is Not Getting Easier
Will https://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.x... be updated :-) ?
Because no customer will pay for that scenario. That could potentially be a viable plan with an in-house implementation but not for a turn-key product with service agreements and performance guarantees.
I should phrase it differently; what does a suffix tree get you that a standard sorting tree doesn't get you. A standard sorting tree would get you all the neighbors in lexical order. What more do you need?
Economics and financial planning. Dont think any economic theory is perfect, but some help connect different systems in a framework where you can try to work out the motives behind things you read in the news.
I am glad to see they are making progress here. This roof looks like it has a much better chance of being acceptable to various home owner associations (HOAs) than putting panels up on a "regular" roof.
I m gonna win a prize next year. What prize should i win?
It's nearly impossible in the US to vote for a candidate based on policy instead of party, due to the twin dangers of split majorities and Keynesian beauty contests (a.k.a., the need to choose for "electability").

The only remedy to the above problems is abolishing first-past-the-post elections in favor of instant runoff.
Again, it isn't to prove the encryption works, it is only a test that could prove that it doesn't work.
Private monopolies like PG&E, which face little to no competition, are not typically known for their efficiency. Such an important public service which naturally tends towards monopoly should either be publicly owned, or it should be subject to extensive regulatory control.
Rolling my eyes here, bud. You’re missing the forest for the non-PC tree.

I met someone who could have been described as a “non-English-speaking roofer.” (Not Latino, fwiw.) He says he was essentially enslaved by the guy running the contracting company, and he had no recourse as no one spoke his language.

That’s the real issue, not phrasing quibbles
The efficiency of the whole chain is pretty abysmal. Capturing free-air CO2 in large quantities is expensive, you better just store that in the ground and keep it there. I would not expect an efficiency above 20-30% for the synth-fuel generation, and then you put it into ICEs which also just have a 15-30% efficiency. You're burning 90% of the original energy, instead of using it to charge EVs with an 80-90% panel-2-wheel efficiency.

Power-2-X is still important as a long-term storage technology, but it's better to synthesise Methan which can can be generated with a better efficiency and can also be burned cleaner and with 55-65% efficiency in modern gas turbine power plants. This also allows for capturing CO2 at the power plant and create a complete cycle.

Synth-fuels will be a niche, used for long-haul trucking, heavy machinery and airplanes, but even there Hydrogen is going to be the better option at some point.
This. And also send DMCA notices to the websites hosting it, should be able to get everything removed fairly quickly.
That’s the distinction - we didn’t put her account under the family plan. I must truly be an edge case then!
Your quote appears correct "if the global warming trend" is not reversed by year 2000. It hasn't and we still appear to be marching towards the lower lying island nations, such as the Maldives, disappearing. There is no mention of when they will disappear.

So it appears to strengthen rather than weaken the argument.
GTK sort-of fits the bill
American whiskeys leave behind a web-like “fingerprint” as they evaporate
I think there are two possibilities here:
- the original website is targeted by attackers seeking to push it down the Google results list
- the original website is a side effect victim of spammy/malware infested websites who copy contents from successful pages to be listed in Google results and attract visitors.

Does that second option make any sense?
Isn't it ridiculous how much can it cost to send an SMS over a cellular network? I would understand if they were sending a video message from Mars but it's a really small ASCII text message sent to a neighbor country in the 21-st century. The whole global telephone system needs to be re-designed.
Beat the Streets with This Text Spraying Robot
facepalm. Useless space-filler "advice".

> go broad AND deep

i mean.. how? You can either go broad and become a generalist, or you can go deep and become a specialist, you can't do both, no one can. And it's a deception to give this kind of "advice". He's setting up people for failure. Very cruel.

> Follow your heart.

Such a stupid cliché to say. Right, forget the brain, forget the logic, be emotional!
As for XBL: as far as I understand, it was closer to Custom Elements - defined at XML/JS layer instead of with native code. In fact it was so similar that FF developers made a tool that tried to automatically convert an XBL binding to equivalent Custom Element (similar to Python's 2to3).
Know someone who works there. Their display is really cool (fet like a Nintendo 3DS with more viewing angle and depth). They were trying to build theoir own app ecosystem that leveraged their tech. I guess their target market just didn’t find value in paying 2x for a phone with a cool display.
WordPress.com uses it -
https://transparency.automattic.com/country-block-list-augus...
No. We need an educated populous, and not just educated in rationality but in spirituality as well.

Not religious dogmatic mechanistic ritualism corrupted for selfish motives, but open one-with-all selfless spirituality that seeks to promote future generations instead of stealing from them for the goals of the ego.
Chef habitat
I imagine it is quite easy to reassemble a broken link with some extra whitespace or random characters (unless you really scramble it which makes the process of manually "decoding" tedious). At that point you might as well automate the process and use base64
CMD O for open, S for save P for print seem fairly intuitive to me.

The majority of Windows applications I've used also follow that (using Ctrl instead), because the unmodified keys will do something else (like inserting the pressed letter, in a word processor/text editor); the difference with Finder/Explorer is that browsing through the filesystem is the primary purpose, and arrows/Enter/Backspace to move selection/select/go back are far more convenient and easy to use than arrows/Cmd+O/Cmd+[.

I wonder if there is almost some sort of vi/emacs divide here.
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