skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concept is great, a human-usable video conferencing system that doesn't suck massive balls.

As for the privacy, that's more nuanced. In terms of thirdparty access/security, its almost certainly more secure than the traditional suppliers(I'm looking at your authentication cisco...)

The nitty gritty is data collection by the company it's self. Thats harder. If your VC system uses android under the hood, then you have no privacy at all. Your data is funnelled to google at a minimum, some app vendors, and the company that made it.

Apple, its held in many secret silos in apple land, and not even apple knows which team has what data.

Facebook, now, they need a hardware platform, and this is the first step to getting there. If they were clever, they'd be prostrating themselves demonstrating that they are reformed, that they are full of trust and junk.

But as they are still clinging to the "its not our job to police the myriad of crap people advertise on our site", I don't think they understand. This kind of pressure should force a change, as facebook are publicly traded.

The problem is that tech journalism isn't really journalism. Its unquestionably adding breathless hot takes to PR, or if you've been burnt, unfailingly shitting on every product made by said company.
The USA used to depict Baltic states as Soviet-occupied independent states on the maps, and didn't budge until USSR fell apart and the countries regained independence.

Growing a spine to stand up for what is right helps. Appeasing a bully is certainly going to cement status quo.
Not entirely. Likes and saves increase the chance of seeing some types of content - but i also started seeing guns and kardashians at one point, without ever liking a gun post or a kardashian post. So simply viewing things will cause them to show up
You are correct. Small arms have never stopped the US in the past. Afghan war they all had nukes. Same with Vietnam. Small arms are not enough. The large geographic challengers of the US military holding the entire US won’t help the civilians either. It is best to disarm now.
At some point, this distinction becomes moot, or rather: becomes chauvinist gatekeeping.
India is already doing plenty. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18164816
For the equivalent of vi's 'yyp', you must do C-a C-k C-k C-y C-y, or more likely 'C-akkyy'.

The first C-k only kills to end-of-line, to capture the line ending (\n) you need another C-k. The first C-y only puts back what you killed, so that needs to be doubled also to actually change the buffer in the desired way.

Subsequent C-y commands will add more copies of the line, but I find that 99% of the time it's only a single duplicate of a line that I want.

C-S-Backspace C-yy does the same thing, btw.
Cornell Vectorization Virtual Workshop (2018)
Better browser extension developing / debugging tooling. Or at least something that doesn’t freeze or crash as often as it does now
If I recall correctly, Gnome was touted as lightweighter than KDE back when KDE4 was released :-)
I agree. Perplexities (probability of a text) can be compared using different tokenization after normalization.
Haha, just to play along, that means that the value added measures are just value captured measures, i.e. It's worse than before. Since a teacher has no effect on height, but height has an effect on ability, and height varies just as hard as ability then the variation is attributable to the height and not skill in any sort.

I am, as always, quite convinced that teachers aren't that valuable. At least not the kind in public school.

What I'd expect from a situation where there is wide variation in teacher ability is for them to form private schools where they extract massive value from the relationship because everyone will want the best tutor for their kids.

This can probably happen. But normal teachers aren't it. It's the specialized tutors who get this value. Which means that perhaps all really good teachers become private tutors so you'd expect everyone else to be essentially unexceptional.
Consider math. It used to be that people who could do large calculations quickly in their heads were considered super useful. Now with computers and calculators, people who can do that are interesting as a novelty, but not much more than that.

I wonder if people just don’t like being inferior at something even if the comparison is a machine?
>he implication of imprecision in the underlying data through rough looking "hand drawn" charts and graphs is a really smart design hack.

The same approach could be used for mockup apps/websites
If it's done as a coalition of the places which provide DNS-over-HTTPS, it might work. :)
It is easily verified to be false. Vaccines causing autism, is more difficult, and requires expertise. That's the problem with fact checking; the material is vastly complex. One way to tackle it is to go after specific claims. Doing that sometimes means quotes are taken out of context.
However terrible someone's argument about a hypothetical, non-existent technology might be, comparing it to real human prejudice that's affected countless real lives is way, way more terrible.
I don't see much difference between GNOME 3.4 and Unity tbh... I'll stay on MATE or Cinnamon.
Cool. I've had a similar idea kicking around in my head for a few years. How do you think about the compromise/disclosure risk of the data you keep that associates the subscriber account with aliases?
Microsoft OneNote should be somewhere on that list. You can annotate PDF, Powerpoint or images easily. There is an extension that lets you annotate a complete webpage or a portion as well. You can annotate with your keyboard and your pen. You can also share to have collaboration with many people as well as use it across devices (Android, Mac, Windows).
> How many gasoline vehicles spontaneously burst into flame

Many, I think, mostly maintenance related. Frequent causes involve old gaskets or cracked fuel lines dripping onto the exhaust manifold, right on the side of the engine.
I've tried to get into urbit a few times over the last couple of years. The jargon and the pretense-esoteric nature of it always causes friction, even while trying to read the docs. May it's just not for me.
The EU is in a much better position to cut emissions too: their cities are generally denser and have far better public transit than the US's sprawling cities and suburbs. All the EU needs to do is increase the price of auto fuel more to discourage private vehicle usage, and further build out their public transit systems.

The US is in a terrible position, however, because everything is car-based. It would help if they'd push for more dense development and extending public transit, but there's really no sign of that at all.
I think it’s inherent in a free ad driven product that I spend as many minutes per day browsing through images and videos. It’s like television; it’s not like IG wants me to look at one high value image and call it a day. If I listen to music all day however, I am still going about the rest of my life. Instagram success means my direct attention...direct attention is easier to get with racy photos and surprising content.
Every human exhales about a half ton of CO2 per year. How would a $50 per year breathing license fit into your plan?
I had the benefit of being in both one of the worst schools in a region and one of the best schools in a region. The worse school had a fight every _single_ day with kids bringing in knives. An unreasonable number of kids were expelled and sent to juvi. To contrast that the better school had 2 fights in a year, numerous clubs, kids who actually paid attention in class and teachers that actually cared. I found out their scores on greatschools.org and everything really began to make sense.

You should get your kid in a better school using any method you possibly can. I mean it. There's a reason Zuckerberg went to Phillips Exeter Academy and Gates went to Lakeside. It doesn't have to be private, just a better ranked school. Any better ranked school.
Lithium react with water, pouring water on it will lower the temperature, but you can't stop a lithium fire with water, you need to wait that your pile of lithium burn.
It literally got the same rating as an Amazon Alexa.

Granted, the hn circlejerk loves to hate on Alexa devices as much as possible as well, but IMO this is "upvote bait" headline.

Dang, can we change the title?
this is quite the mental gymnastics.

this is a brand new vehicle that is unlike anything they've offered in the past. they have historical data on conversion for the Tesla 3 preorders with a $1000 deposit. now they're offering preorders on something that is more expensive and "unique" for 1/10th the preorder amount. how would a business intelligence analyst on their team even begin to predict how many of these customers actually intend to convert given the data they have?

If they actually wanted a rough idea on how many people actually intend to order in order to plan how many resources they need to throw at cybertruck production then they've done everything possible to make their job harder with the preorder decisions they've made.
Turns out India and China will be more affected by climate change than the US so they're actually doing something about. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18164816
#1 (but they're called Makefiles), #2 (implicit rules), #5 (with -j on NUMA), and (unless you overuse the GNU function extensions) #8.
But a Rubik's cube solver is a single-player, solitaire game. Its fundamentally different.

Over in the "Cyborg Chess" community, people have already analyzed LeelaZero vs Stockfish. It turns out that Stockfish is far better at tactics (especially the endgame), while LeelaZero is better at opening positions (aka: Positional play).

There are numerous theories about the proper combination: perhaps using an Opening Book database for the first ~10 moves or so, using LeelaZero for moves ~10 through 30, and then using Stockfish to check for tactics (LeelaZero misses a lot of tactical options in the midgame, so double-check to make sure that LeelaZero doesn't lose a queen or something), as well as finish up the endgame.

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Choosing the correct combination of tools, studying these tools and coming up with a more beautiful chess game. That's cyborg chess in a nutshell. LeelaZero and Stockfish are both superhuman in terms of play, but the cyborg can choose to use both tools to play superior compared to just a singular tool.

Anyone purely using "Stockfish only" gets beaten by opening book analysis. The dude over there with 1TB of opening book databases consisting of every losing position that Stockfish tends to play will completely own you. Same thing with LeelaZero, the opening book guy will own any LeelaZero-only player. These engines have weaknesses that can be undermined with good analysis, big-data, and a bit of custom code.

That's the funny thing about these computers: they tend to play the same. So you can build opening book databases to exploit their patterns. You require a cyborg / human to play at the "level above that" to guide Stockfish / LeelaZero away from those traps.
Aha! Makes sense.
Maybe we will see the rise of new games that are "anti-AI" and that would necessarily require AGI for a machine to beat a human. Kinda like "anti-quantum" cryptography algorithms.
Thanks for the info. It just cements my frustration with Xcode.
Ask HN: What is your biggest problem when organising an event?
My name is Kostas and I have been involved in the organization of an annual tech conference for the past five years, in Greece. The event has been steadily attracting ~500 attendees each year and is being run by a team of ~30 volunteers (avg). I've been one of them since day one and the event (and the company behind it) is non-profit.

I am always interested in talking with other organizers and the most common question I always ask is what is your biggest problem when organizing an event? Are there any sort of issues you keep bumping into? What are your thoughts?

Thank you,

Kostas
Legally Using Images
> climate change won't destroy human civilization.

But this people still have a problem

https://www.kgou.org/post/five-years-after-tornado-moore-ret...

Looks a pretty finished work to me... If is recoverable or not would depend on the interval of time between each reconstruction.
This eclipse of human mental abilities to come will be a test to both the elite and the students of these "sporting" pursuits. With each besting we/they will be faced with a little death. And thus, it needs to go through phases of grief. As well, the individual will need to decide the ultimate question of Why. Why did they pursue this sport? Why should they continue? Why be a human?

AI will be knocking humans out of many positions of greatness (and not so great). The way we frame our future in a world where our various AI children are better than we are, is important and might be the biggest question to answer right to know the future of our species. Should we be afraid? Sure. Excited for possibilities? Yup. It's how we react to these feelings and how we ultimately act that will inform our ultimate fate.
That may be true, but they don't configure themselves and adapt over time as new demands or bugs arise.

And sure, doing so may be "easy" but it's yet another context to switch in and out of. The difficulty and time required also increases as the scale of the company, codebase, and infra grows.

I used to work for small companies where I was very hands-on with all of that infra/devops sort of stuff in addition to app/systems dev, but now at a not-quite-FAANG-but-you've-heard-of-them company realize how much I don't actually know is going on in our infra because I don't have to. In some ways I appreciate it, in other ways I feel disconnected.
Clone Outlook's SWEEP feature. It's a simple but powerful tool for creating email rules.
"Yeah, this is the most frustrating part of all this. Halting climate change isn't even that hard and would clearly benefit billions of people. It just affects the pocketbooks of a couple of rich people ..."

I note, with interest, that France enacted the most modest of modest steps toward this goal and the result was nationwide riots in the streets that continue to this day.

I, also, would like to live in the Star Trek future I always dreamed of where we drive electric cars and generate power in new and elegant ways ... I'm not sure how easy it will be.
You're right. HE is 6in4 and won't work.

There's a list of brokers at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IPv6_tunnel_brokers

https://6project.org/ looks viable (OpenVPN) and cheap.
Plasma has made massive improvements especially around performance over the past couple of years. I switched from MATE myself and haven't looked back. I recommend giving it another look!
How did it get to the point where there was enough "bad" data that the ad agency took notice and was angry enough to take action? I like the idea of jamming ad networks with junk data, but I would imagine that it would have to happen at a massive scale to make any sort of difference.
Which firms profit most from America’s health-care system (2018)
Can a team of (human + weaker AI) beat (stronger AI)?
Building an agile team’s ‘safety harness’ with cmocka and FOSS
Based on the 1 being very phallic in nature, I'm going to go ahead and conclude the numbers that follow are "69".
If you progress farther than the title, you may discover that the official banned book was legally purchased by the professor at a Chinese book store. I think most of use from non-totalitarian states would be a rather surprised if that happened to us. The article goes on the suggest that the police thought he fit the profile of someone doing bad stuff, and made up a charge that fit the criminal persona they’d pegged on him.
Well, true, good point. I think much fewer while parked and turned off. But I do remember now my old VW Bug manual, which detailed at least four ways the little beast could catch itself on fire.
It was pronounced patchbay.
Naming Things: Implementer vs. User Names
I think may be linked to increased usage of high fructose sugar which makes people more obese. More obesity will lead to heart failures more often.

High fructose is the sugar type which keeps your insulin levels high causing insulin resistance. Sugar it metabolizes to fat.

A Cardiovascular diseases section in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat...
Movie directors have never experienced most of what they film, but they convey those experiences far better than those who have actually lived those stories. I see no reason to doubt that the same is true for artificial storytellers.
> I'm not justifying the recent annexation

It really sounds like you are, though. I mean the principle most of us care about here isn't about matching iOS app text to "the linguistic realities on the ground", it's about not condoning the literal invasion of neighboring countries (by a nuclear power, no less).

> Also, the infrastructure has improved significantly since the Russian takeover

Also sounds very much like a justification for an invasion.
Oh that's a good call.
Who's even serving on the side of the "corrupt nation state" in this scenario? Good luck ordering American soldiers to fire on Americans over 2A of all things. The whole thing is a fever dream.
One of the only downsides is that hyper v doesn't support usb pass through. However if you had you, you could install a pcie USB card then pass that through
If this continues to happen, maybe a semi-super intelligent AI will start losing purposely in order to keep the Go community interesting enough to keep it alive.

A super-intelligent AI wouldn't care though, since they would infect any host and escape to the internet as soon as it makes sense.
Kosovo and Macedonia could also be added to that list.

Not to mention myriad of minor border disputes pretty much everywhere across the world.
Wow, I've never had so much of the hard work myself, colleagues, and individual contributors have done misattributed to one company.

For those interested in what actually was improved, and some attribution for those involved, see https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2019/11/22/a-review-of-gno...
And not to mention humans designed these computer systems too so its brain(s) vs brains if you go one step down. If you keep proceeding steps down the statement devolves into something weird but the point stands I think.
how many of those 19 million cars were < 5 years $30k > cost > $100k pampered cars?

Strung out million dollar Ferraris and PoS 30 year old death traps shouldn't count towards the normalization.
I have to prove a negative?

Whenever there is a big FB story I try and figure out what actually happened. This is often difficult because 95% of the media reporting on it is either entirely wrong, intentionally misleading, or both.

For the recent Cambridge Analytica thing my take away was that a shady third party (CA) violated FB’s TOS by exploiting a vulnerability in their API that FB had sinced locked down. Cambridge Analytica used that to pull more data from the social graph than they should have been allowed to (after a subset of users participated in scammy quizzes) in order to do stupid things with that data.

When I’ve read the rare detailed reporting from FB’s response [0] about how they’re reacting to issues I’ve been impressed.

Zuckerberg’s comments to the public are also pretty detailed and nuanced - atypically rare for a public facing CEO under massive persistent scrutiny.

This is consistent with what I’ve heard from my friends that work there.

[0]: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/men-are-scum-inside-...
I've not heard of that as I normally use Mozilla Thunderbird. I'll look into it.
Yes, taxes on the profit with interest applied.

Finland.

Extra warning: ensure your country allows individual cryptocurrency investors to reduct losses from winnings. Without such law, if you win 100 dollars and then lose 100 dollars, you would still owe the government taxes while you are at 0. This is the case in surprisingly many countries.
The Perils of JQuery?
You have a link for that comic?
Delivering mail services on the Internet is hard. Really hard. It's even harder to do correctly, and harder yet to prevent abuse. It is quite likely that you're going to end up in a game of whack-a-mole with abuse issues, and that's going to be your primary fight. The moment somebody abuses the system, your IP gets RBL'd or DNSBL'd and it's game over until it's fixed.

It's a cool product that has a lot of great legitimate uses, no doubt. I just hope you've baked in security at the core, and that you have a contingency plan for when your IP's get blacklisted. I fear for your sanity, but wish you the best!
> Come on, none of us are really "human" anymore since the advent of cell phones.

I really like the way you put it. In isolation, humans today have essentially the same natural mental capacity we had 2000 years ago, but we've become part of a much bigger computer. A human brain 2000 years ago was a very isolated entity. Even in centers of learning in the classical era, the amount of knowledge one could tap into was vanishingly small compared to our capabilities today. Everything and everyone was isolated in both space and time.

A brain today is not just an entity on it's own, it is intricately wired into the common consciousness. Crucially, we have a vast database of knowledge - easily searchable and distilled for maximum learning rate - all available at our fingertips. A modern brain is a neural network linked to billions of other neural networks, and all of them are linked to a shared memory that they can use at will.

Assuming that the main limiting factor is the bandwidth between a human brain and computers (and thus by extension between individual humans), then a direct interface could ostensibly bring about a new revolution (for better or worse).
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> Where is the personal attack, exactly? It sounds like you're embarrassed on TBL's behalf, but why?

In the Please Go Away letter it starts with multiple personal attacks:

> Count me among those who had hoped that when Tim Berners-Lee appeared in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London, it would be a victory lap just before riding off into the sunset. No such luck. At the ceremony, Berners-Lee typed the words “this is for everyone”, but he’s always had a strangely monarchic view of his own role. He even considered naming his invention “TIM” (ostensibly an acronym for “The Information Mine”) before mercifully settling on the less solipsistic “World Wide Web”. In 1994, he founded the World Wide Web Consortium (= W3C) and became its director, a position he has held since.

"he’s always had a strangely monarchic view of his own role" isn't proven with anything, except for the acronyms. MOI was left out in the Letter (I'm aware of the meaning of moi in French). Furthermore, you could say the same about other companies and leaders. The information the Letter starts with, should stand on its own shoulders. It is weak to start with such facts, surround it with certain words such as "monarch", "but", etc. to form a narrative.
AutoLISP for AutoCAD products :)
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