skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What does that say about the other 99% of projects that aren’t even worth mentioning?

At least one other major project, the OLPC from media lab and the infamous Negroponte gang was a total failure. Negroponte was back in the news recently due to the whole Joi Ito-Jeffrey Epstein pedo funding debacle.
Remember how much flack Apple got from tech pundits when they got rid of the other buttons and the middle clickable scrolling wheel? “Only one button? Savages!” But Apple was acting on observation of non-expert users, democratizing computing.

Today it’s interesting to see the favored device at both kindergartens and retirement homes: iPads.

Yet iPad’s also fine as my daily driver.

Computing is entering its appliance age.
Bob Ross -- the painter analogy comes to mind.

When Bob was drawing, it looked amazingly simple. That simplicity invited people into trying painting.

Probably very few could ever draw anything remotely similar in quality to him, though.
Aella Takes LSD. (2018)
You’re not wrong exactly but it’s not to the same extent. Especially for software. The example is TikTok’s success. And a European or north or south American app wouldn’t get the same scrutiny we’re seeing here.
You can't suppress bad ideas without also suppressing legitimate ideas, because 1) ideas need to be exchanged in the first place before anyone can figure out whether they're legitimate, and 2) the wrong people will inevitably get the power to decide what's legitimate. I'm not being more optimistic than you. I'm just being realistic.

No, I'm not advocating vote suppression. I'm advocating education. Which, as you said, looks like a lost cause, at least in the United States. But if there's no way to win this war without suppressing and silencing somebody, well, so be it. Letting people consume crap doesn't seem all that bad compared to violating civil rights.

Moreover, the sentiment expressed in the parent post that we've been talking about doesn't seem all that different from your observation that there will always be more crap than real news and that people in general don't want to be educated. They're both statements about the current state of journalism and news consumers, albeit with different kinds of exaggeration and flourish. We could talk all day about the causes of this problem and how we might fix it, but allowing people to vent their frustration about a problem is not part of the problem.
Cloudflare Response to CPDoS Exploits
I clicked learn, and I agree, there needs to be a more straightforward pre-intro.

Even if it's highly complex, at least give me an idea of how to get from what I know now, to what I need to know to play the game.
Why don't they just call it a save disk then? Are they printing in rubber or something? /i
We switched to vueJS and never regretted :)
> For some of us, security == anonymity.

I don't follow. How is security equal to anonymity? If anything, security is what enables privacy, which could enable anonymity. There are plenty of circumstances where you need security, but not anonymity - for example a message to your partner. Of course if you do need anonymity, there's a lot more involved than simply installing a "secure app" or anything of that sort.

> Tying your identity to a phone number that can only be obtained by handing a telecom your government identity documents fails.

I don't know about that in the US. I was able to open a pre-paid T-Mobile account to use with my LineageOS Android device without identity verification. Perhaps it is different elsewhere now?

> And I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but uploading entire contact lists should also not be considered a natural feature of a secure mobile messenger.

That sounds troubling, is it what Signal does? Would like to read more about that - is there a Github issue for reference?
ALL books by Yakov Perelman are a must read for every educated person. "Science popularization" at its finest! How i wish modern "authors" wrote books like these in their area of specializations.

Some of his Books;

* Physics for Entertainment Vols I & II

* Algebra for Fun

* Figures for Fun
Unpopular opinion? I don't do puzzle coding tests
Reply all is an excellent show, and Gimlet media has an excellent lineup of podcasts in general. I particularly like the early seasons of startup (I may have to check back in this season for them covering they sale to Spotify), and Every Little Thing.

It's well produced podcasts done well. If you took This American Life and scaled it to few slightly more targeted podcasts but kept the same quality, that's what they offer. That's less a metaphor than a description of history, given the original founder cut his teeth on TAL and then started Planet Money (also still excellent) before starting his own company.

Okay, that's enough fanboying from me. It's just that I listen to a lot of podcasts, and Gimlet accounts for a large amount of my favorites.
Disagree.

Humans naturally over-connect. We see causation where only correlation is present. Gamblers believe that something random that has happened frequently (like roulette landing on a specific number) is more likely to happen again. Educated people learn about dependent and independent probability, which corrects this impulse. But sometimes it over-corrects.

The Monty Hall problem is hard because people see can't explain the dependent probability link clearly and conclude that the probabilities are independent and their brain is acting up - first guess 1 in 3, second guess 1 in 2. After all, the game host is always capable of opening a door with a goat, and the player doesn't know anything. Put differently, what did the player learn between the first and the second guess that should make the player now believe one door is more likely than the other of the remaining two?

It also takes advantage of our natural thinking. The problem is artificial, because, outside of a game show, the host could also just not offer to switch. Emotional then, brains consider the information that the host made the second offer even if it's not logically part of the problem.
Yeah but that gets to market price, can't get excited finding a deal
Well if it isn't Ben Morris ..... Thanks for your valuable blog posts on microservices etc. No way to contact you privately? I'm making a stateless .net core cms ...

To the topic, I agree fully. In swedish, it's even worse. Wanted to change some environment variables yesterday (golang path) and tried to find the "system" dialog that is opened through windows + break key that is found on non-laptop keyboards

Search for system? You get system information, system configuration, etc, but not the classic control-panel "app" called system.

Also, remote desktop (the tsclient) isn't anywhere to be found except by typing the improbable and kinda arcane translation "fjärrskrivbord"
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Maybe it's over-fitted on the new data. There has to be a constant infusion of new training data and a system can only prove itself over time.

These rankings, if real, should be in constant flux.
I agree. Why pay for the energy to grow food when you can get the enegy for free by putting it out in the sun? This is an example that some scientifically minded people forget an important aspect in the world: economics. Can your New Way of Doing It^{TM} do it cheaper than existing solutions? If not, it most likely does not have a future.
I write very irregularly, but on a variety of topics around engineering and management. I wrote an article today: http://www.drtomallen.com/blog/satificing-a-powerful-tool-fo...
I think it is a mistake to give more credit to sites just because they can engage in sophisticated sophistry, have MAs from reputable old universities, and have their citations done neatly.

Personally, I find the propaganda the Quadrant writers spout rather boring. Breitbart at least has joie de vivre.

I don't really think people reading HN should be subjected to pseudo intellectual hate speech like this. It doesn't add to any meaningful debate in society in general or the tech sphere.
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Uh... did you say "utes"?
Vinny Gambini: Yeah, two utes.
Judge Chamberlain Haller: What is a ute?

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu8tX2BAD1k )
There was just an article about how U.S. high school students are forming TikTok clubs:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/style/high-school-tiktok-...
There's one privately owned generator in the neighborhood with cables running to each buildings.

https://browse.startpage.com/do/show_picture.pl?l=english&ra...

The owner sells a fixed monthly fee per 5 amp, so there are individual breakers for each apartment.

https://www.alamy.com/detail-from-a-wall-electric-cables-and...

Notice the "green light" in the picture. This is to inform people in the neighborhood that it's "generator's electricity", so they cannot use washing mashing and water heaters.

The cable from the generator reaches the house after the meter, there's an automatic switch to take current from the generator only when there's no electricity from the government.
That's only an illusion because the most popular ones are complete trash.

Telegram has your whole chat history (or most of it) indexed and you can search it very quickly from the main window (just press Ctrl+F and type away).

The history can also be exported, along with images and other files, to JSON, or to a bunch of HTML files.
Laziness always wins apparently.
Hi, one of the paper authors here. Indeed this is a good question. A couple of comments:

- Common Crawl overall is a sparse web dump, it is unlikely that the month we used includes any of the data that are in any of the test sets.

- In order for the data to be useful to our model, it would have to be in the correct preprocessed format. ("mnli: hypothesis: ... premise: ...") with the label in a format our model could extract meaning from. We introduced this preprocessing format so I don't believe this would ever happen.

- Further, most of these datasets live in .zip files. The Common Crawl dump doesn't unzip zip files.

- C4 is so large that our model sees each example (corresponding to a block of text from a website) roughly once ever over the entire course of training. Big neural nets trained with SGD are unlikely to memorize something if they only see it once over the course of one million training steps.
Another book review. Maybe we need an "HN Reads" monthly thread, there's not much to discuss on an individual book level.
The tutorial isn't that great, it took me a few minutes to figure stuff out.

Create an account and click the learn/tutorial button. Then in your inventory/loadout screen, you can buy stuff from the 'VBOX' on the upper left, and they will appear in your inventory right next to the VBOX. You start with three Attacks in your inventory; click on them and then click on the slots to equip them onto your three ships. Then click ready in the lower right to begin battle.

In battle, you click 'Attack' and then click the enemy ship to use it on. When you aim all three ships, click ready to do a turn.

UI improvements could be used to make this more clear. When I click Attack in battle, it should prompt me for a target. On my first turn I clicked Attack and nothing happened in the UI, so I just clicked 'Attack' for all three ships, assuming they would target themselves, and thus I ended up wasting a turn.

In the inventory/loadout, there are a few paragraphs but you can use an overlay with hints to show the information. On older versions of Android when you set up the phone and went to the homescreen for the first time, it had a translucent overlay with arrows pointing to UI elements and snippets of text saying what they do. So put an overlay on the inventory with a dismiss button, and then keep the current paragraph of text around in case the user missed anything. An overlay can visually and very quickly tell me to 1) buy stuff from the VBOX 2) combine it in the inventory (if desired) and 3) move it to a ship. Drag-n-drop would be nice too if you could implement that - it's more natural and users are pre-trained to do it on mobile devices like tablets, and that training has crossed over to computers too.

It could also be nice for the VBOX and inventory and ships to be more separated with whitespace or outlines.

Also the 11 character password requirement is stupid. I tried using password as my password because I don't give a shit if this account gets hacked and I don't want to have to remember another password or clutter my password manager with entries that I used one day and never again. Please let me do that.

You could also be more forthcoming with what 'b's are. I start with 18bs, how do I get more? Will I have to pay real money, do I get them via battle, etc.

Almost 10% of males (= almost 10% of the people who will try this game) are red-green colorblind. You should add a setting for colorblind mode and have it swap to a safe palette (or redesign the base palette away from RGB). Make the setting visible when an account is created so colorblind people don't miss it. http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/colorblind/ https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/

Contrast is low IMO, the sidebar on the right could be more clearly separated and buttons could be more clearly separted from the background (the green-outline black-fill ready button on the inventory screen especially, though the dark gray buttons on the inventory were also hard for me to see well until I turned off night mode).
> mediocre at best.

care to elaborate?
Trigger oriented, usually related to existential feelings of emptiness. Asking the question "does my existence have meaning" for a long time would spike my pulse to 150+ and cause me to freeze up. Took maybe 18 months to wear off fully. I can still psyche myself out if I try today.

Other triggers were anything that seemed too unlikely to be reality. Waking up with 11111 karma on Reddit, strangers winking at my like they could read my thoughts, things of that nature.

It honestly wasn't that bad to live with.

After my 4th trip I had really sharp HPPD. That burn in effect you get when you stare at something for a minute plus, that took about 0.5 seconds for me. And then it took about 60 seconds to wear off. For about 2 weeks I had a constant triple or quadrupole or more image burned into my eyes. Eventually I learned to cope by shifting my eyes every 0.5 seconds like a crazy person, but it did stop the after images from accumulating.

That went away after maybe 3 months, hasn't been a problem since.

My advice would be to space out trips 12 weeks or more to avoid hppd, and stay under 400ug to avoid PTSD and crazy delusions. And if you are inexperienced with LSD really you should start at a dose of 150ug or so.
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I'm not sure what your point is. Assuming the host always opens a goat door, you can simply restate the problem as being allowed to pick two doors at the same time. You are literally choosing two doors, because if the car was behind the first he would have opened the second, and if the car was behind the second he would have opened the first. It would have looked like you are switching to one other door but you can simply look at it as switching to the other two doors, where the elimination of the dud door can be done before or after.
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An article on golem.de cites (Google translated) "According to Sifive, the U84 supports a heterogeneous core complex: four U84, four U74 and one S2 core can be combined."

The U84 is OoO comparable to Cortex A72. The U74 is comparable to A55. The S2 is comparable to Cortex M0/M3/M4 (depending on configuration) but with 64 bit registers and addressing.

https://scr3.golem.de/screenshots/1910/SiFive-U84-U87/thumb6...

https://www.golem.de/news/risc-v-sifives-u87-kern-nutzt-vect...
Looks cool, but is there a tl;dr for why I’d use this instead of something like Bazel?
Even when not directly responsible for emissions, the Australian mining sector has been notoriously and effectively climate denialist. As an industry, miners actively and successfully lobbied against the “carbon tax” implemented by the Gillard Labor government [0]. In fact, the then CEO of my former employer (Western Mining Corp, 90’s) Hugh Morgan, was then and still is an absolutely single-minded climate change denialist, despite WMC being primarily a nickel and uranium miner (at the time).

But what’s even more ironic is the fact that in the election earlier this year, eventual PM Scott Morrison was lambasting the Labor leader Bill Shorten for his proposed policy of a ICE vehicle phaseout, saying that Bill wanted to take away people’s utes and “end the weekend” [1].

[0] https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/miners-dig-deep-to-...

[1] https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-09/utes-electric-cars...
They are also leaders in utilising vehicle automation with many mines operating self-driving dump trucks with minimal remote supervision.
Not being able to move your components without editing your component hierarchy is a code smell. Data should be bound at the level it is consumed. "Prop drilling" is an anti-pattern. Redux is the most common way to solve this problem but you can use anything built on top of the context API.
This always comes up in the context of using guns to fight tyranny.

Your SWAT example is great: how many guys are on the SWAT team kicking the door to get one guy? 4? 6? 10?

What about an actual military operation going door to door? Squad size is 10? 20?

Government violence, when directed against you is nearly impossible to resist. But that's not the same as government violence directed against an armed populace.

History is flush with examples of failures of superior military power to subdue a population that actively resists.
The Microsoft's React Native for Windows/macOS team keeps comparing how Electron sucks to React Native, so I am hoping that they eventually manage to pull Viscose into their direction.
It's truly insane. My wife is panicked over it. She's _only_ producing about 1500mL per day. Which is an insane amount of milk. But, we have 5 month old twins. She can no longer keep pace with their needs. We have a freezer stash of her own milk plus some donor milk from a friend, but we will run out in ~2 months by my estimate. She's slowly coming around to the idea of doing their last feeding of the day with formula. I hope we're now on a path to start weening back the scale and magnitude of pumping operations in our home. It's been... quite a ride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPaDX69i2g&feature=youtu.be

Here's a tutorial playthrough video, sorry about that! our mechanics have changed a lot so our tutorials tend to go out of date very quickly
Qt themselves offer Python support.
3d browser.
That's why libraries like reselect use memoized selectors.
No. "Dear sir" sounds like something he picked up in high school English class, taught for use when addressing an unknown recipient.

If writing this in Finnish you'd normally use something very close to "Dear Mr Reynolds".
A Framework for Purposeful Open Source (2018) [pdf]
The Win10 calculator is also missing a lot of functionality. Luckily, there's an easy way to put back the old calculator... but it's only really launchable if you pin it.

https://winaero.com/blog/get-calculator-from-windows-8-and-w...
Several years ago there were protests in Anaheim over some police incident. If you go about a mile north east of Disneyland, it’s a rough area. Anyway the protests started around that area and made their way towards Disneyland. Anaheim PD came out in paramilitary showmanship. It literally looked like PD was about to go to war with all of those armored vehicles PDs bought after the last Middle East invasion. They had sharpshooters on the roof too. They were trying to keep the protestors from stepping foot onto the Disneyland property. So yes, it’s common to defend the hand that feeds you and it’s no surprise FB has Menlo Park PD on speed dial.
Docs.rs Outage Postmortem
This Guardian article is a good summary and starting point to look up stories about the cities featured. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...

You’re right it’s not as well publicized as it should be.
But it doesn’t depend on Monty knowing ahead of time. Monty can learn after you pick, but before he reveals (to be sure he doesn’t reveal a car).

The scouts can depart after you’ve chosen the valley, find nothing in the mountain, give that information to you, and you should still switch, even if the scouts didn’t confirm where they are.

Monty(or the scouts), knowing if your original pick was right has no impact. The critical piece is that they are forced to reveal to you a bad choice. 2/3 times it’s the only bad choice to reveal because you’ve picked the other.
Think of it as allowing nature to take it's course.
> When I worked at Sendmail

> Here I was, 22 years old at my first job, emailing with the inventor of critical internet infrastructure who was relying on a database I ran as a source of truth.

But you were working for a company who employed or was started by the creator of Sendmail, Eric Allman? Surely you were already rubbing shoulders with the Internet giants of old?

According to Wikipedia, "in 1996, approximately 80% of the publicly reachable mail-servers on the Internet ran Sendmail".
Note: 9/11 is almost two decades in the past
They didn't "get rid of it" so to say. The Macintosh only ever had one button on the standard mouse. I can't recall any Apple computer shipping with a multi-button pointing device until the Magic Mouse.
This reminds me of the Google Play reviews for any built-in app ever:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Be relieved that it all ended with some junk boxes strewn around some labs and schools this time.

Next time these cons will sell 'save the planet with geo-engineering' to another gullable audience and we'll all be screwed big-time.
> Big neural nets trained with SGD are unlikely to memorize something if they only see it once over the course of one million training steps

I am not so sure about that. Have you seen this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/dfky70/dis...

Apparently lots of sentence fragments were memorized in GPT-2 (including real world URLs, entire conversations, username/emails and other PII).
Java applets are not a thing of the past thanks WebAssembly.

Plus we are talking about regular Java here.
The fact this comment sparked so much discussion with some agreeing and some disagreeing says to me that Google did about as well as a human.
It's possible to have a right wing bias piece without it being claptrap, which this clearly is.

There are plenty of conservative writers at the NYT/Wapo and dozens institutions like Hoover, if they write something HN relevant, submit it. In fact, I'll submit some myself right now and see how they fare. But don't choose this article as the 'HN is too woke' hill to die on.
Thanks for your feedback and taking the time to write our your experience.

`b`s (the ingame currency) only last for as long as each game. For more info about almost anything you can mouse over it and a description appears in the info pane.

Colourblindness is going to be a tough one! We would like to have specialised icons for each item but for the minute we just have programmer art.