skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to imagine what are the odds that earth burns up before they might be hit by a random rock
It's not. Many things taste awful, including other kinds of juices.
>Since all content on the platform can be edited or deleted by other users, he believes there's a good incentive for good behavior by users.

This... from the Wikipedia guy? Oh boy, I'm not convinced.
My guess is that they'd get much more (more than 10x) uptake at $1.99 than they will at $12.99.

And they need volume to make it work. So this pricing seems like a big mistake to me.
Row 279 is also .. er. Made up.

> "Epstein|Didn't|Kill|Himself|4|Hillary|Clinton"
Here's Dr. Bovik's website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/bovik/www/
Great write up, the experience of managing k8s end to end with pulumi is so much better compared to terrafom.
I live in a small place so don't buy much in bulk, but pay for at least half my Costco membership in toothbrush heads alone.
Clearly not objective algorithmic results as once claimed to Congress.
System Preferences » Keyboard » Customize Control Strip

Change the buttons to a slider.

I personally never use F# keys so I set the Control Strip to show only on Fn.
be evil.
Seems like that'd be a good way to avoid the eternal September of the modern web. If "normals" are massing on Reddit and Facebook, maybe the wild west of independent websites is poised for a Renaissance?
It is kinda interesting, that if Oracle wins this, then Google, and specifically Android will effectively become GPL-infringers.
Yes. I think Google (and others) are selectively leftist.

Sort of like Bill Gates on taxing billionaires.

If they lean left, they get love from the media. But when it's really, really against their self-interest they'll resist and show their true colors.

It's just corporate hypocrisy. I hope it ends and corporations go back to being apolitical.
Hm? That looks backwards. [0,1] is a closed interval, (0,1) is an open interval. The former includes its boundary, the latter doesn’t.

But a closed curve doesn’t mean the same thing as a curve which is a closed set. A closed curve is a continuous image of S^1 (the circle) , yeah?
Wait... those are the wrong things to say? They are practically textbook PR cliches.

They are not necessarily what people would actually do, but they sound like the correct answer in interview-speak.
I just want to say as a person in DC watching the president get impeached...you guys are all out of touch. Stuff your ideology and the comfortable lifestyle (funded by a industry that could not exist without MAU and click fraud) that enables it. The rest of us have to get up and go to work.
I specced out a decentralized spam-resistant reddit alternative a while ago, and posted it here a few months ago. Please build this, happy to sign away non-exclusive IP rights if you have an idea of how to monetize.

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I've specced out a decentralized reddit alternative a little bit, but have too many side projects. Someone please take this and build it. Let me know if you try, would love to spectate and advise on development.

The key is there shouldn't be a globally consistent front page. Sorting should be done on an individual basis. Upvotes boost signal signal to peers and downvotes squelch. By propagating content scores transitively through the network proportionally to trust scores, users can moderate their own feeds by voting and managing their friend list.

Users have a peer list, containing a list of server/users on it. Each peer has a user-managed 'trust weighting'. Each user has a list of "good content" (ideally hash identified for content addressability), with each item having a score based on that user's votes and votes from peers, weighted by that users trust in that peer.

Periodically, your server contacts all of your peers, and asks them for their good content list. The scores from peers are multiplied by your own trust weight for that peer, and you build a personal "good content" list that merges the lists from each of your peers together (and drops insufficient scores).

You are presented with a score-descending-sorted page of content. Whenever you upvote something, it increases your score weight for that content as well as the trust weight for each peer who sent you the recommendation, and vice versa for downvotes. Votes are transmitted to peers as a crypto signature of the content hash, but when retransmitted to peer-of-peer, they only see the intermediary's aggregated and trust weighted merged scores.

The specifics of the algorithms on how you calculate and adjust weights can be configurable by each individual user, the protocol only cares that peers are able to produce some kind of score list.

Dividing content into topics is a bit trickier, could just label content with tags. I think it may be preferable for each user to have multiple topic focused 'personalities' that are basically distinct user accounts with unique peer lists and votes. In that way, I could follow Dave-gardening without having to follow Dave-sports.

For this example I'm using 1 user per server for simplicity, though not required. All users could be on same server, which is probably best for MVP to avoid implementing p2p networking stuff until validated.

Ex.

Alice follows Bob with weight of 0.5, Dave with 0.1

Bob scores content A as 0.8, B as 0.2

Dave scored content A as 0.4, B as 0.9

Alice downloads both lists.

Alice score content A as avg(0.8 * 0.5, 0.4 * 0.1) = 0.22

Alice scores content B as avg(0.2 * 0.5, 0.9 * 0.1) = 0.095

Content A gets sorted higher than B.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21011645 (previous discussion)
I started wearing them when I was 7, so at this point in time they don't bother me at all. I'm pretty sure they bothered me quite a bit back when I started wearing them, but I would still say my tolerance is quite high.

My older bother started them at the same time as me, and he couldn't handle it, so he swapped back to glasses after a few years.
I do not believe chronic bouts of performative outrage leads to anything creative, inside or out of the workplace. If one's "whole self" cannot meaningfully function without getting constantly triggered, the problem is with the normalization of such "whole self" concepts
As a former Googler, I'm curious what you are referring to by this:

> encouraged its employees to participate in 'woke' culture.
Hm. We might be imaging different scenarios but I'll try to puts words to my agreement with the "dishonesty" thing :)

Feels like it's shining the light of attention at the spot most aligned with human desires, but usually at expense of shrouding the holistic goals (which might not be in interest of participants).

It might be true, but the framing could still be dishonest because the specific focus is often intended to distract from a less savoury whole. <3
ha! I completely agree.

Some of the questions are genuinely things that everyone is thinking but too afraid to ask, and some are complaints from employees to management that are as old as time.

But with both types, it at least gives people the feeling that they can be heard.
I just saw this in the logs. Not sure what happened. If you have info about the path you took (was it during auth with slack or..?) that'd be super helpful.
A new form of pure carbon dazzles and attracts
After the news about pornhub and PayPal yesterday, any chances you’d add their use case?
Our vet did point out that cats eat carbohydrates; they tend to love the innards of their prey, and those often contain the undigested things mice etc eat. No idea what percentage of their diet that makes up though. (It wasn't a conversation about carb percentages in cat food)
Interesting. You're not the first person to say it's priced too cheap, actually. I'll reconsider the pricing. Thanks for the feedback!
I had it in one eye, and after a some eye-1 vs eye-2 comparisons, I never had the second one done.

Now many years afterwards, the only thing I see clearly is that I should never have gotten the surgery.

Both eyes continued to have changes in prescription, and I now wear contacts in both eyes.

By the numbers, it would seem like I have pretty good vision. Corrected I have 20/20 in my non-surgery eye and 20/25 in the eye that had the surgery.

HOWEVER - the non-surgery eye focuses quickly and accurately, even in low light and at night. The surgery eye can read the eyechart as well, but it takes longer, I have to blink and wait and maybe... eventually... I can read the 20/25 line. At night, I get visual artifacts.

I recommend good contacts instead. Your vision will change and you can just get different contacts.

Additionally, contact lenses have advanced. They can now correct almost any level of vision including astigmatism and can be thrown away monthly or even more frequently.
As I read this when listening to some rowdy drunk neighbors shouting. It's such a perfect contrast to be in two worlds.
Am I being stingy by thinking them asking fo £10 a month is a a lot?

How much does facebook make per user per month?
Constitution? It seems much more likely that this will be decided on statutory grounds than constitutional ones.
> You must have confused us for Binance, then.

If I deposit my dollars in the bank, are they no longer mine? The last time we had this discussion, I erroneously claimed you controlled a majority of the tokens, and you corrected me that it was only a plurality. Has anything actually changed since then, or are you still just quibbling over insubstantial details?

> Any fool can google `site:news.ycombinator.com brendaneich lern_to_spel` and see your posts over the years

And any person with half a brain can remove the "brendaneich" from the query and see that I often call out companies and people with dubious ethics. You happen to have shown poor ethical judgment on more than one occasion, as any fool who Googles "Brendan Eich" can see, but those past lapses are different from this one, so let's try to stay on topic.
It's kind of interesting that a piece of legislation written hundreds of years ago will be used to decide something like this.
There’s a real list: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
Another potential area might be unit testing. As an example, I've been running a test suite on a C# github project (xUnit and mocking libraries) with ~1.5K tests. The CPU is at a solid 100% cpu usage all the way through.

In higher-level languages, running tests often takes considerably more time than building. A prosumer CPU like this would bring nice day to day improvements.
We have precedent that game mechanics can't be copyrighted -- they get classified as "inventions" and have to be patented instead.

Obviously IANAL, but to me as a game designer, mechanics aren't any less creative work than narrative. In fact, I'm spending more of my creative energy on mechanics than I am on story. So the lines to me just seem incredibly arbitrary, or at least I don't understand the legal differences well enough to figure out intuitively where they lie. I am incredibly grateful that game mechanics can't be copyrighted, but game mechanics don't feel like inventions to me. A game mechanic is how I express an idea.

I tried to make a prediction about which way this would go, and I genuinely don't know -- not even that my prediction is uncertain, I don't feel like I know enough to even make a prediction at all.

It does make me nervous. I think it's important that the Supreme Court hear it, and I'm glad they agreed to, but it would be utterly disastrous if this got decided in Oracle's favor. My (perhaps incorrect) impression is that the Supreme Court is not particularly fond of the 9th, and have something of a history of slapping down attempts at copyright expansion. A ruling against Oracle would be fantastic, and would maybe even open the door for talking about blocking copyright on grounds of compatibility.

I guess I'm just nervous because it feels like the stakes are really high.

At this point, there's nothing really that people like me can do, right? It's just up to Oracle and Google's lawyers?
Oh man, this looks like exactly what I want. Will be trying this for next event I plan.
We had internal discussions around the "hacky" nature of the solution. Both sides had proponents. The proof was in the numbers and some teams utilized it, others did not. In the end it was a few-line solution that solved the problem neatly and didn't rely on a (terrifying) dynamic solution such as is proposed in this blog post. It was expected the "hack" would be temporary as we expected the Go GC to quickly improve to the point it was not necessary.
I should read it!

I guess it's possible that Archimedes invented the integral calculus a hundred generations before Newton and Leibniz because Syracuse was teeming with calculus-like ideas that didn't get written down, and things like the Antikythera Mechanism suggest that there were a lot of important intellectual achievements refined through broad communities of practice that didn't survive. But it seems just as likely to me that Archimedes was just that good.
The problem is you don't get to pick and choose who your culture affects. If you hire people with those opinions and then tell them they need to watch what they say, other employees get the same message. You may have people who aren't political at all, but they see people being punished for expressing their opinions and decide they too better modify their behavior.
That's the result, but it's not their intent.

The problem is that Vulkan requires about 1500 lines of boilerplate to put a simple triangle on the screen. The issue is that you have to wire as much as possible up statically so the graphics hardware can fly once you start feeding it vertex information. However, for someone who doesn't need maximum performance, the setup boilerplate is a nuisance as Vulkan doesn't do the idea of "sensible default".

So, everybody tries to "encapsulate" this boilerplate.

The problem is that this obscures the fact that you are setting up things which have distinct dependency orders. And sometimes those orders are different depending upon what you are trying to do.

If you already understand advanced graphics card hardware, dependency encapsulation is great. If you really don't yet have the ideas of things like subpasses, pipelines, graphics queues, and queue synchronization really crystal clear, you don't want things abstracted as you are still experimenting and prodding the code in weird ways.
I'm interested to hear what you think; my notes talk a lot about how to make things less expensive.
Why do you have to think about talent at all? Who is them??
There were tons of people recompiling the code in Lion's. You just didn't type it in, but you pulled it off of dectape. Lion's was a huge part of why Unix proliferated so much.

Like, the whole point of xv6 is to recreate that environment.
Agreed, and the kind of software you’re working on is a part of this conversation that often gets left out and leads to people talking last each other. I work in cryptography, and our work needs an exceptionally high level of testing to catch subtle bugs. I used to work in games and I didn’t see the same value out of tests. Different industries require different practices.
Was there really a time where HDDs were to slow for 40MB/s but we still had 400MB of RAM?
Did I miss a factor of 2 because of the I/Q?
Google has several arguments, I find most of them persuasive. The fair use one is sort of a fallback.

The more immediate argument is that APIs aren't copyrightable material, since there isn't more than one way to write them. You can't write the API differently and still let existing java programs run with your standard library.
Makes sense

Unless one can understand and appreciate how kids feel about the product, product would not work.

An education product must have offline, online and human touch for it to succeed, apart from ability to research.
I had a conversation with an elderly neurologist at a wedding on this topic. His top item of advice was to do things that put your awareness into your moving body as much as possible, as a daily habit. No surprise he and his wife were the only folks in their age bracket rocking out on the dance floor later.
WTF. They want $30 for a bloody article.

Not even a paper. An article.

Damn.

https://sci-hub.se/10.1126/science.366.6467.782
Musks starships sure make it seem plausible we’ll have better options available by then.
I consider it a problem. This appears to be an instance of listing abuse. I'd encourage people to report listing abuse if they come across it. I believe these are the correct instructions: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/200444420

Situations where you're fighting against financially-motivated human adversaries are always difficult.
Conveniently for Facebook, old farts and businesses have most of the money in the US.
I believe that would be classified as a restricted business and disallowed by Stripe’s TOS. [1]

1. https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses
I heard a rumour that by the time they've gotten to another solar system, they will have evaporated into a metallic cloud; that's how long this next part of their journey is.
> You have oxygen. You have aluminum.

Not exactly. You have aluminium oxide, which you could split into aluminium and oxygen using huge amounts of energy, like we do on earth.

Helium-3 could be interesting, though.
No, due to federal rules Amazon has an edge over normal retailers for following basic laws.
I was born and raised in South Dakota. I still have family and friends there.

It's bitter cold in the winter, and summers can be hot. The people are tough by nature, they have to be. I never heard of this trust issue before.

I expect most South Dakotans would favor it. Nature has given them few advantages over other states. (New York has history, and the ocean to bring immigrants. California is blessed with great weather. The southern states have no harsh winter. Etc) It's probably considered good to have at least some factors that drive money their way.
It's interesting how a common tenet of startups is "build products, not features" -- and yet here's a very clear example of a "feature" that can be very successful.
Except that the direct trust scores are manual rather than algorithmic in your version, isn't that basically the Facebook newsfeed you've reinvented?
The whole PC industry was deeply affected, in a positive manner for consumers, in a negative manner for IBM, by Compaq's reverse engineering of IBM's BIOS ROM API. Imagine if users of BIOS/UEFI API had to pay royalties to IBM (which derived it from CP/M).
Fine, but when do we stop assigning money and drivers as co-founders? You can look at situation like Lee Iacocca did the same thing for Chrysler, but he wasn't labeled as a co-founder.
Don't they still sell refurbs? I bought a refurbed 2015 model like last year
I presume this is why Java has quite specific initial/min/max heap parameters, definable either as a set amount of RAM, or a percentage of available.
Are distilled models as effective for generalizing? Can they be pretrained as effectively as Bert for other tasks?
The only danger is there is the propensity for majority nodes to try to break federation. Normal people will still just use the most popular instance - the value of a decentralized protocol is in how it keeps all actors honest to keep participating, and except for in extreme circumstance of market dominance like when Google and Facebook broke their XMPP support due to their overwhelming control of their silos of communication generally works.
As long as you use old.reddit.com.
How Microsoft is using empathy to lead innovation
I don't think a social network based on subscription will work. Although I could afford it, only a tiny proportion of my Facebook friends could afford an expense like that.

The endless unresearched opinion on Facebook drives me mad. But unless you only want to have friends who are rich enough to agree with you, this is dead in the water.
None of the properties in the DatabaseInstance construct example posted above are defined as unions of strings - the TypeScript documentation link you just posted is irrelevant.

This is what one of the property types actually look like:

/**
* The MySQL or PostgreSQL version to
* use. Can be `MYSQL_5_6`, `MYSQL_5_7`, `POSTGRES_9_6` or `POSTGRES_11` (beta) for second-generation
* instances, or `MYSQL_5_5` or `MYSQL_5_6` for first-generation instances.
* See [Second Generation Capabilities](https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/1st-2nd-gen-differences)
* for more information.
*/
readonly databaseVersion?: pulumi.Input<string>;

In AWS CDK it was an easy task to select Postgres - in Pulumi case I had to read the comment.
This is correct. On my astrodynamics written qual, one of the questions was whether it would be more energy efficient to solve Earth’s trash problem by launching garbage into the sun or into deep space. Surprisingly, the answer turned out to be deep space, and it wasn’t that close.
I don't know if they ship to the UK but I have had outstanding experiences with monoprice. For a few categories of items I go there now always instead of amazon.
Yes, I very often find myself adding "Reddit" to the end of search queries on Google now, because I know that the results will be people discussing the topic I'm interested in, rather than an obscure Wikipedia entry or blog spam.
Kickass moderation by committed individuals who are also experts in the field.

See AskHistorians, Science, ModeratePolitics etc.

This combined with huge communities results in incredible conversations.
> Marshall and Hedren wrote a script for the project, whose working title was Lions, Lions and More Lions.

Heroic and funny. They accumulated more than 70 wild animals and sold the shirts off their backs. What kind of manic energy makes someone capable of this shit?
>Imagine if users of BIOS/UEFI API had to pay royalties

I always thought that every PC maker did have to pay royalties to Phoenix or one of the other BIOS vendors.

I know that open-source BIOSes, e.g., coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS), exist, but I got the impression that even at this late stage in the BIOS game, only a minority of machines ship with them.

I always thought that Compaq created its clean-room implementation because IBM outright refused to license their BIOS (to Compaq or anyone else).
I don't get this perspective. The Open Source movement relies on adversarial operability far more than for-profit entities do.

Would WINE be legal if Oracle won? Would Oracle's OpenOffice be able to read and save Microsoft document formats? Replicating APIs has always been a huge part of the Open Source movement.
It's similar, but decentralized and allows trust to be transitively utilized to find friends-of-friends-of-friends content that you'd like.

I think of my spec as basically just a protocol and think most clients would do the work of adjusting trust scores algorithmically based on the actions you take.
We could end up with an interesting solution with constraints like:

- Self-hosted mostly-static sites
- Open protocol

Maybe:

- Own domain
- Own site is portal for aggregated views
- Extensions (Install events, chat, ...)
- Rust (minimal RAM)
Tech IPOs seem to be splitting into two very different tiers.

Some don't need the cash and may even do a direct listing with no capital raise, like Spotify and Slack.

Others have such huge losses that the IPO cash is acutely needed. I'd put Lyft and Uber in that bucket. WeWork of course is the poster child — it nearly collapsed after the IPO was pulled and cash from public markets wasn't forthcoming after all.
Sure, but after having all that infrastructure and resources built up an expansion should be easier than starting at zero.
> What's better for society doesn't matter in the face of the Constitution which is what the SCOTUS will judge this on.

The Constitution only says

> The Congress shall have Power [...] to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

most of copyright is defined in statute (the various copyright acts) and court precedent.