skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Coming up with something truly new is much, much harder than people give it credit for.

I absolutely agree. Actually, I think that truly original thought is something that the majority of the population never experiences in their lifetime. Most thoughts that seem original are just recombinations or reinterpretations of existing ideas.

Want to test just how hard original thought is? Try to visualize exactly what it would be like to be a 4-dimensional being. Or how about a 2-dimensional being. You might be able to form an abstract idea based on examples (like the “flat lander” concept), but you will find it pretty much impossible to hold in your mind a visualization of what it would really be like. Why? Because due to the physical laws that govern our universe, it is impossible for you to have ever experienced this or anything even close to it. Therefore, it is left purely to your mind to create the visualization from nothing. This is like a neural net that has been trained with little or no data. There’s just nothing to go on, so extrapolations cannot be made.

Now visualize an elephant standing on a chair on top of the Empire State Building. Easy, right? But surely you’ve never seen that with your own eyes. Why can you imagine it so easily? Because you’ve seen enough parts of the visualization that you can recombine them in your mind to create whatever reality you wish.

Whether we’re artists or engineers, we’re all just thieves in the end. Most of us, that is. The few who are truly original create the fuel that pushes our civilization forward.
Low levels of stress are health-inducing on the individual organism in the form of hormesis. Similarly, low levels of stress can benefit a population, e.g. predation on a herd of ungulates results in a healthier herd. So too little of bad things is also a bad thing, including toxicity and even death itself.

When too little evil is evil, it makes ethics complicated.
Data infrastructure is scattered, siloed, excel sheets and google sheets stored in various places (personal g drives, company g drives, some network share somewhere, an ms sharepoint site, sometimes in development git repos or various wikis)

Reporting infrastructure is manual massaging and lots of powerpoint.

My company isn't that large, but bigger than you'd think for such a "system".
Same thing here in Germany. Once you have a registered company you'll receive lots of official looking invoices from scammers for some sort of register.
Link to article

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dems-impeach-gop-president...
What's up with the casual, snooty condescension?

Pretty much every time I've had kale in the USA, it's been cooked or baked like other plants in the brassica oleracea family. Okay, some people eat it raw like in smoothies or salads and have decided that the taste doesn't bother them. Why assume they couldn't make that decision for themselves or that they're missing out on some sort of ancient wisdom?
Not true at all. English made propaganda about supposed atrocities and that propaganda is alive today: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_legend
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674218

668 points by szczys 7 months ago | 481 comments
whenever i heard of stuff like this, i think of ligo, the gravitational wave detectors. from what i understand, their signals are just huge amounts of noise, other signals, and then finally the actual signals (gravitational waves) that thy are looking for. but it so happens the gravitational waves is a miniscule amplitude compared to the other signals and noise. so what they do is model all the possible types of noise that is happening in the world, and then they have many models of the type of physical situations that can generate gravitational waves (like a black hole - black hole collision). so they do fancy dsp and filtering and do matches against expected events.

my naive assumption and pure guess would be that a lot of trading schemes looking for patterns do this thing to. they model what shows up as noise and other signals and also model what determines value, and then look for the signals that point to or away from value.

https://www.gw-openscience.org/GW150914data/LOSC_Event_tutor...
I thought you could opt out of that without cost when you change the address? I always remember that being an option.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_legend
You can probably still snoop on just GPU memory, scraping the screen. (Also replacing.) Big security hole, as GPUs now have fast video encoders or enough speed to OCR. Hope your driver set up framebuffer in a separated MMU area on the card. (Not in Windows they don't.)

Hopefully this cannot jump MxGPU or GVTg or GRID barrier - GPU virtualization.
There are a lot of people, especially on HN, that think delta_weight = calories_in - calories_burned is all there is to it. There is a lot of truth in that, but it seems to not be the whole story. Some eating habits cause us to eat more or less, while others seem to change our metabolism. What you eat and when you eat it seem to make a difference beyond just that simple equation.
Understanding this must be a prerequisite to commenting on this article.

Else you're just wasting time.

edit: assuming 'coincidental' doesn't mean there is no framework at all in which all of this happens. That would also be wrong.
>thats really saying something

Why? Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News are two distinct entities and the News side has a great track record. I don't think that comparing it to Salon is really saying anything at all.
And a key point: "Our founding members are Mozilla, Fastly, Intel, and Red Hat"

Where are Google, Microsoft and the other big names you would expect?
I've thought that "antifragility" as a concept has been a useful way to think about a lot of different things, could you clarify what you mean by true systems analysis? I'm always interested in learning more about this stuff!
You may also enjoy How To Invent Everything[0], from the creator of SMBC Comics. The frame device is that it's a manual that comes with your time machine, only to be used if you get stranded. I thought it would be a fun flip-through but it's delightfully dense, with fun comments on when, where, and why you'd need want/need to invent something depending on "when" you get stranded in time.

0: https://www.howtoinventeverything.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law#cite_ref-3
Use their B2. rclone supports B2 as target
> It’s not clear that a caloric deficit is the reason you’re losing weight.

umm what...

That is the only way to lose lean body mass. You should be thinking "its not clear that removing carbs is reason you're losing weight." Your bayesian priors are completely backwards.

The reality is that protein and fat are more satiating so people eat less and lose weight when they cut out carbs.
Even if it physically works forever you can have things like "bit rot" so you should continuously backup to different medias and locations
Disney also operates Hulu.
Elements of Flow
I also think a glitch in the launch day counts as 100 glitches on any other day.
Browsh feels like a graphical browser that’s descended into the terminal (because it basically is, in terms of implementation.)

I’d be much more into a terminal browser with modern JS, CSS and HTML5, but which was written to be terminal based from the ground up.

ASCII art style rendering is
a fun novelty, but I didn’t find it ultimately very helpful. Having a JavaScript engine on the other hand absolutely helps, especially for sites with non-trivial login forms.

Is there another browser project that’s more like lynx/links/w3m but with added JavaScript support?
Likely a calculation of break-even with lost licensing revenue. The Disney+ adventure is a risk because you're foregoing easy licensing money for hard product money, and gambling that it'll be worth it.
Do binary files contain more 1s or 0s?
Behind Google’s ‘Project Nightingale'
The Mouse must flow.

Seriously tho, I'd imagine this was a heck of a big lift.
Facebook head of news cofounded site critical of Elizabeth Warren
I'll never buy Seagate again after losing a drive because of a firmware bug that prevents it from coming online.
I setup a peertube and companion mastodon just about a year ago. I mostly used the peertube personally. A few weeks later I noticed some user was uploading movie rips so I disabled the user account in the barebones admin user interface and set a user data limit at 2 gigabytes, the server had tons of space and this seemed generous.

Fast foward EOM, what appeared to be the same user created an automated system to create a new user, upload 2GB and move to the next. Peertubes basic ui had no way to mass ban, set filters, nothing. I had a monster bill and just unplugged the whole thing because the users were coming from a wide range of ips.

While I hope that was an outlier, the UI still leaves a LOT to be desired, and slower instances are painful to use
Startups can disrupt because the major public companies need to show growth for w-street. If there's no growth then the ask is on profits, which cause the company to start gutting teams.

meanwhile a startup can focus on building a great product, sometimes while not needing to be profitable.

Amazon.com took advantage of this, with Jeff Bezos famous quote of, "Your margin is my opportunity".
> What you eat and when you eat it seem to make a difference beyond just that simple equation.

evidence?
Thankfully Google hasn't killed [ITA Matrix][0] yet. They bought the company to make Google flights, but their original site is so much better, even if it's a bit slow.

To book flights you find from them, use the free [bookwithmatrix.com][1]

[0] http://matrix.itasoftware.com/
[1] https://bookwithmatrix.com/
We're a small, bootstrapped company with 2 people. Some data is millions of rows others are billions.

Goal for us is KISS. Keeping everything as simple as possible -- both in terms of infrastructure, ease of use and cost.

Primary we're using Metabase in front of multiple MariaDB instances. Metabase is absolutely fantastic!

We also have a couple of additional small projects:

- A small Node.js app that receives events live via fluentbit, saves them off in MariaDB and sends text message notifications via Twilio when certain thresholds are exceeded

- A small "ETL" app that polls the Stripe and QuickBooks API to mirror data in a MariaDB database so we can easily access it from Metabase
If you want to know more, you can also go to https://www.cabbagetreelabs.org
Dean Foods, America's biggest milk producer, files for bankruptcy
It seems to me like they write some things that are obviously satire, and some things that a reasonable person would have a hard time differentiating from non-satire. This is what I'd expect a propaganda outlet utilizing the strategy I described to do.

Of course, we're not the first ones to be having this conversation. Here's Snopes themselves commenting on the phenomenon: https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/08/16/readers-think-satire-...

and here it is being described in the mass media:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/us/snopes-babylon-bee.htm...
This writing reminds me of Keynes who predicted in rhe 1930 that a 15 hour work-week will be our future and many will suffer from boredom. This as well as Russels musings didn't come true.

I blame marketing for inducing needs we wouldn't have otherwise and

the internet economy which prolongs an otherwise unsustainable lending system in that goods can be traded which need not be made of tangible ressources.
What do you mean by async concurrent and parallel? How is it more asynchronous than regular http?
Only on the extreme low end. If you want cheap crap, there is a certain national economy geared to that, and its not the USA.
Interesting, it worked great for me last night (west coast US) on an Apple TV. The video quality is great (I’m watching on a nice 4K HDR TV) and seems to load impossibly fast when I scrub through a video.
Do you really think that a hundred of undisciplined soldiers could fight and won a war against an empire? Spanish conquerors were lucky that Aztecs were hated by other natives and allied them.

It was more like a civil war than a conquest.
Google and Microsoft probably don't have much use for WebAssembly outside the browser, whereas companies like Fastly and Cloudflare run customers' untrusted WebAssembly on their edge server networks.
>not be believed by a significant percentage of people

The requests to fact-check that article on the Snopes forums beg to differ with this assessment.
musk tweeeted a few years ago that "it isn't about the car, it's about the factory". he then proceeded to fail and redesign production due to overautomation, but the point stands and perhaps was stated in bold at that moment.
Is Blackblaze used mainly as a backup solution? Can anyone give me a use case?
Qanon has all the real details, the truth is out there - hidden in pizza places.
I've seen this for trademark maintenance fees. They send an official-liking letter saying it is time to file required paperwork and pay fees, which is true, but they charge double to do what you can do yourself in five minutes on the official USPTO website.

Services like this for getting a copy of your birth certificate, too. Basically pay to access the freely available form from state websites.
I thought they were a partial investor/owner, not an operator.
Ah that explains it. they must have put their UI/UX people in charge of infra
apparently not at launch https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1194150447604355072
Full RMS. Always go full RMS
>Once the principled founders are gone

That depends on who they turn the reins over to. One of the founders is still in control of the site.
> Google could go on to use its AI analytics to predict outcomes for individual patients, they posited.

This is the most scary part[0]. I'm sure plenty here would disagree, but I simply don't (yet) share your optimism for A.I.

[0] Not that the rest isn't scary.
Historically it used to be the case [1], at least for most airlines. I think there is more competition now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)
Go to fitbit and delete your data. I just did; it's pretty painless.

login, click on the wheel, and the delete link is at the bottom.
I have kind of soured on snopes since the 2016 election. Their political fact-checking includes a heavy dose of spin, framing issues with certain wording so that they can say "mostly false" with a big red X on their own strawman, so that you have to read between the lines to realize that what's true is actually the crux of the matter.

Snopes used to strictly be a site you linked someone to disprove urban legends, and that good reputation is now being wielded in a partisan political battle
I could only find something about them generally using kubernetes (from 2017) https://www.linux.com/news/how-disney-realizing-multi-cloud-...

Is there any recent article discussing the tech behind Disney+ specifically?
There's one side pushing against them.
IMHO this is the only correct answer. Some of the smallest asteroids clock in at Quintillions of dollars of value for their minerals. Even if only 1% of their value makes it dirtside that's a big ol' chunk of dosh.
I don't use IG, but I do both use Twitter and agree with you that the increased percentage of promoted material is a bummer. I would pay Twitter $3 to $4 per month to get a "premium" ad-free account. I wonder if they ever considered this, and what the economics would be.
A human body obeys thermodynamics.
Google epigenetics
My understanding is that the problem is that extracting logind from systemd required such major surgery that they're worried the other applications which use logind won't be compatible with the modified version. There's also a seperate concern about init scripts for other applications.
At the time of the Debian debate around systemd it was already very clear that systemd was not just an init system. The systemd website at that time already mentioned it to be "basic building block for Linux". People just pretending it is or only should be an init system was one of the annoying things about the discussion; people only compared the init system part of things and ignored that systemd offered more to developers. Any additional functionality was "not to be used" or "developers should offer alternatives". That wasn't very realistic then and now.
Andy from Backblaze here: The capacity of the boot drives ranges from 80 to 500gb typically. They are mostly hard drives with some SSDs added recently. We are switching over to SSDs for boot drives. The workload is reasonable, but on the higher side as they not only boot the systems, they also are used to store log files temporarily - so lots of reads, writes, and deletes. Since we only have a little over 2,000, any data we published not be very accurate. If you are really interested, the boot drive data is in the data files we publish each quarter.
Relationships between statins, diabetes, and skin infections
When I'm stuck on a problem at work or when there's down time, I find myself reaching for The Algorithm Design Manual.
A.I. Systems Echo Biases They’re Fed, Putting Scientists on Guard
This lift was due the large dry dock in Freeport, Bahamas being unavailable after an accident with Oasis Of The Seas.

Oasis Of The Seas was over the capacity of the dry dock, but was still docked. It was not lifted completely out of the water.

The dry dock broke under the ships weight causing the walls of the dry dock to collapse onto the ship. A crane collapsed onto the stern. Remarkably it didn't capsize. There where some non-life-threatening injuries.

http://www.tribune242.com/news/2019/apr/01/injuries-after-oa...
Not strange at all. Looking at the links you posted, I suppose the author has probably an immense understanding of theoretical aspects of numeric computing, but still utterly lacks the experience of a down-to-the-earth engineer churning out working code fast.
Awesome story, thanks for sharing and I'm glad the quote took you there :) I think reading Nietzsche from a christian perspective is a very interesting pursuit. The whole "God is dead" thing has been really misrepresented and if any religious person could get past that, I think they would find a lot to like in his writing.
BAMTech has had high volume days, obviously, but on reflection I couldn't think of any service launch they powered that'd be bigger than this. WWE, HBO relaunch, NHL, MLB -- none seem likely to generate as much demand as this.
Show HN: what - bandwidth monitoring terminal dashboard written in rust
Experimental evidence that symbiotic bacteria produce chemical cues in songbirds
Lottery's are basically an extra poverty tax. That said, we've all basically accepted that concerned citizens know what's best for other people. Even if they really enjoy it, it's voluntary, and mostly harmless.

Instead of enforcing the bad actors people love to just straight up ban things like that. For their own good, etc.
We launched the Alliance to formalize collaboration on pre-existing projects we were all already collaborating on. We'd love to collaborate with others as well, and we're having a lot of additional conversations at the moment.
Types of Information Compromised in Breaches of Hospitals
BAMtech was spun out of MLB Advanced Media, has been doing streaming since 2002. If you could choose anybody to rely on to launch D+ they’re at the top of the list.
Problem with Instagram is that even "legitimate" posts are sponsored by companies paying influencers to soft peddle their stuff.

The overlap between the HN crowd and the crowd following influencers is probably minimal, but as far as a % of the platform, I'd wager most people are going through these soft ads unwittingly.
I saw a comment about this on HN before, forgot who it was by. But it was interesting, someone mentioned the spec for WebAssembly is generic enough to apply outside of the web. I'm suspecting we'll see languages converting on node.js a la web assembly for back-end logic in your preferred language, but in any runtime this includes NodeJS but also excludes it as we see future runtimes. What's your view on this? Also, Aside from WebAssembly being in every modern browser what do you think will be the next killer feature for WebAssembly?

It would also be interesting to have an embedded WebAssembly plugin runtime, much like Lua is used all over now that you mention all those examples.
Netflix has ~160 million subscribers. So, they're saying they need to be a third of the size of Netflix to break even. Since "break even" isn't all that interesting to investors, for it to be profitably worthwhile, I'd imagine they need to essentially become as big as Netflix.

It seems unclear how feasible that may be. The only thing keeping me wanting to use Netflix is quality content, which has been in decline recently. Given all of the recognizable brands under the Disney name, maybe people will switch. At a technical level, I question their ability to pull off offering a service as large as Netflix with high availability. Netflix offers very competitive compensation to their engineering talent.
No more of a garnish than collard greens or other vegetables in its family.

Interestingly, it's commonly mixed with potatoes across cultures in the culinary examples you can find on wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kale#/media/File:Kogt_skinke_b...
I thought this was common knowledge (https://simplecapacity.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Mark-Z...). Not affiliated in anyways but EFF (non profit) offers removable stickers for blocking cameras, not to mention that it’s also a donation. This is one set https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set-ii

Down side is that on newer iPhones you’ll have to cut it down to not block all the screen, small price to pay for a little extra privacy.

Also why does iOS have a blinking status bar when the camera is on or at least provide on the settings app how much camera was used per app (in minutes or frames and at what time stamps), this way one can easily validate if the app is using the camera without the user prompting for it.
A chat room where journalists share their opinions! I clutch my pearls. Next you'll tell me newsrooms use slack.
Saying it's not coincidental does not mean it's planned. The whole point is that random variations that are advantageous are the ones that survive; that's not coincidence, it's consequence.
Ya, I don't have too much in terms of insidery baseball. But I did have some colleagues at MLB in nyc. I recall it was pretty much a Java shop. With Akami providing extensive CDN support.

If one is interested in rolling one's own clone of Netflix. there isn't really a tutorial or course to watch to learn how its done. And there very much should be.

The closest you can get is probably Dave Hahn's Day in the Life of a Netflix Engineer series from AWS re:Invent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_D1G42G0dE
It's happened more than once in the last couple of months that I came across actual news and had to do a double take and check to see if I'm accidentally on a satirical page. Just today:

"Trump says Republicans should release their own transcripts in impeachment probe"

You think that's satire? Here's the news article:

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/468788-trump-say...

Not a line in there to suggest this is nonsense (which it is), here it is directly from the Ass's mouth:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11938962750931845...

Parody account? It has 'real' in it... You be the judge.
Here's my conjecture: If an AI system can accurately predict something, another AI system can figure out how it works.
I imagine there is some kind of confusing opt-out dark design, but as someone who instinctively always opts-out every time, and who is usually not tricked by UIs, I still found myself inundated with unwanted spam mail.

Of course, the only honest tactic would be an opt-in, but that would destroy the revenue the feature makes...
OK, good for the authors of browsh, I like to see open source projects (I am wearing a FSF tee-shirt as we speak).

That said, I just installed and played with browsh and I like lynx better. To be fair, this might just be 25 years of use, so lynx seems very natural to me.