skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's way too much data. Many group owners did not know of the shutdown (Yahoo was negligent regarding informing owners), and even if they did many group owners have little or no technical capability. That's why so many requested of the Archive Team that their groups be archived.
Five. I use them all. Three are not tied to my identity and I use them for secure communications. The other two are for family and friends. Only one is a paid-for service and I've used that service for fourteen years, which permits unlimited ad-hoc addresses.
I always thought this was just price discrimination, extracting more surplus from readers by bifurcating them into two groups. Hardbacks are released first. Everyone who really wants it now needs to shell out more, even if they don't really care about the physical properties. Then the paperback is released to attract the more reluctant readers.
This is obviously correct but HN community is in total denial about the feasibility or even usefulness of living off Earth. It would be easier to live on the bottom of the ocean or a mile underground but nobody has schoolboy fantasies about that.
Ask HN: Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?
Why doesn't anyone use Datalog (or another limited-by-design logic programming language) as the query language in a public Web API? The adoption of GraphQL suggests demand for letting the API user write more sophisticated queries even at a performance cost per query. Datalog would let the user do more, likely saving many HTTP round-trips. A lot more research exists on optimizing Datalog than GraphQL. It is unclear that the total impact on performance would be significantly negative compared to the typical GraphQL API. If this line of thinking is valid, where are the Datalog API experiments?
I have automated some things both at work and at home. Sometimes the "time saved doing the thing vs time spent setting it up" calculation looks very shaky, but I persist because when I'm puzzling out how to automate something I'm learning and adding to my skillset that may be useful for the next thing (and is therefore inherently interesting, may lead to greater efficiencies, etc). If I'm just spinning my wheels clicking arbitrary buttons I'm not really learning anything (and I guess in stark economic terms, not adding value to myself as an employee).

DISCLAIMER: I'm not in such a high-paid position that spending an hour or two down a rabbit hole feels like I'm wasting serious time/money.
For the record, you can add custom folders to your toolbar. Since Windows 95 I've found it useful to have Desktop and Downloads there, so you can quickly access stuff. I only use those folders plus one root for projects, so don't really have this problem of getting lost in various folders or regularly needing Explorer.
Assuming you can code an agent representing the actor or component of what you are simulating, it sounds like “what” gets defined by you, the user.
Less disk space being used maybe?
Does mine counts?

https://drach.uk

It doesn’t really serve any purpose right now. I wanted the domain mostly for email. But I tried to put up something nice.
Part of the negativity is who benefits from the problem versus who has to pay to fix it. If SpaceX were causing a problem for astronomers while also for free launching radically better space-based tools, it wouldn't be nearly as big a deal. But instead SpaceX hopes to pocket a lot of money, while the harms are falling on other people.
1 professional (Fastmail, own domain)
1 personal (POBox alias, forwarding to iCloud)
1 employer-provided (Google Business)
1 GMail (er ... GMail)
1 iCloud (not publicly used, but collects from POBox)
1 Yahoo (still!)

I use all accounts from Mail on my iPhone; all except my employer's account via Mail.app on my MBP; and my employer's GMail via the GMail web on my work laptop.

I use +-suffixes extensively for signups, etc, so I can blackhole spam when my address gets leaked ...
Hundreds. Having my own domains with all email coming to me lets me give arbitrary (i.e., numbered) addresses when requested, so I can track them when I want, and for example see which ones later to auto-delete, etc. Or for whatever need arises.

Edit: my recollection from some time ago is that pobox.com was useful for the same thing, if one doesn't have one's own domain. I used them before I got mine. There are probably similar services. I liked their attitude and approach, at the time. (no other affiliation.)

Edit again: the above plus some rules in mutt (or thunderbird maybe...), have been really helpful for me. The rules & macros could get rather complex if one wanted I suppose.

(Edit: I've liked pair.com for domain/hosting for a long time: have had good prices/service, helpfulness, no silliness for many years; also no other affiliation but customer.)

(Edit: that email system at my hosting provider also works well for, say, groups like various extended family subsets, so it works something like a mailing list to everyone.)

Edit (sorry, I didn't answer the OPs 2nd question): For most, I use mutt (or thunderbird) to POP (download) them from my hosting provider to my own pc (so, not a business...sorry if not helping), and then do good backups. For some, as mentioned in my previous paragraph, they are auto-forwarded by the hosting provider to whomever, per rules I put in their web UI for my account. It is also possible to create many extra mailboxes (which I used to do ) so other individuals can POP (or view with IMAP) their own email to their own pc. For a business...would have to think whether we need a centralized Exchange-equivalent or if storage on multiple PCs, or IMAP (leave it on the hosting provider's server, but manage from a PC, etc) is OK in a limited situation, given the backups, storage, and specific business needs. I would probably not prefer gmail since Google already has enough centralized power (as discussed in other HN postings about Chrome vs. firefox etc).
I use an open-source helpdesk system to manage business emails. Works like a charm - lets you assign deadlines, priorities, categories, have canned replies, sorting rules, leave internal comments, search previous replies, etc. It's also super-convenient to have 1 interface to multiple emails & signatures (support/sales/per-product addresses) and I would recommend setting one up once you hit 5-10 incoming emails per week.

Aside from that, I have 1 personal address on my main business domain, the name@surname.com (redirects to the 1st one) and a @gmail.com one for people with overzealous spam filters.
> a higher risk of skin irritation

Skin irration is a form of abrasion, which allow bacteria to both hide and feed. Potentially creating a bigger problem.
The GBA didn't have much RAM. There is a good chance tiny chunks of the game get decompressed as needed, and there is never a time when the whole thing is decompressed at once and can be dumped.
We don't have to be surprised about some of these events, since they have been predicted in the scriptures, for now, for a long time (ice melting, storms, quakes, waves of the sea heaving themselves beyond their bounds, fires/smoke, all things in commotion, and other significant catastrophic events--not just the usual levels of them).

I greatly appreciate the science and am glad for progress in our efforts. But I think we are not competent to solve planet-wide issues when we have largely rejected the instructions given by the earth's Creator (like, honesty, the Golden Rule, etc, etc): we have a hard time trusting each other even when we say we agree. I'm glad we can share our own thoughts. We need His help both to address important issues globally, and in our personal lives.

And importantly, we can be OK. Related, more detailed thoughts at http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854581820.html , a simple site w/ no javascript or sales).
Why not? According to GDPR someone can show up and request (1) fixing personal data (PII) like nickname - this is data accuracy requirement, in fact, according to GDPR Yahoo should do the data accuracy check (for instance send a reminder to the user to check data). (2) Someone can file data portability request, Yahoo needs to provide this. (3) Some can request data removal. (4) Yahoo has to managed user consents for anything they do with those data.

For a product that does not bring any revenue or significant revenue, it is better to dump everything and simply don't be associated with data any longer.

That's the side effect of GDPR, it is hard from the technical and financial perspective to maintain anything free on the Internet that keeps user's data.
I don't know if there's more to this rabbit hole, but a few self-reported cases (placebo effect?!) and a theory with some gaping holes don't seem to me like "well documented cases".

If there are physical changes you can expect some effect on personality - say if a new heart is able to more efficiently transfer blood the patient might find herself more prone to physical activity. Or a better kidney and liver might affect food preferences. New blood type might offer have some wider effect but even that's a still very much questionable field of research.

To latch onto the example given in all your links, there are no taste receptors in the heart and neither is there any indication that memories are saved in the heart. Spinal cord - yes, especially if it's about movement. But not in organs like the heart which give much more basic input and have far fewer connections to the rest of the neural network. There is no chicken nugget and beer neutral network linked to the heart - and if there was, chances are any organ transplant would have severed them.
I don't necessarily disagree, but lets be wise to the dangers that can present themselves in this situation, and then lets make sure to legislate against them (seriously).
Have you considered neural network based techniques for both problems?
Whistleblower goes public after documents reveal crackdown on Uighur Muslims
> Like, I need to take my laptop and go

So take your laptop and go? It'll happily continue updating, and then shut down, on the go.
Hubble's mirror is 8 feet in diameter, and you aren't going to be assembling something as high precision as that in space, at least not from a few components. If we had the manufacturing capability to make it from scratch in space, maybe, but that's a much larger enterprise.

There is a question of whether 100 a foot diameter telescopes can work as well or better than one 8 foot one. Or 500. If it's about photons hitting the lens, do enough lenses in an area and post-processing make up for the fact that they aren't connected?
> Then they stick a hardback cover on it and sell it for £££.

Traditional hardbacks (and collector-quality ones, even now) are made from pages sewn together in signatures, and will last for many, many readings. When the binding does get worn out, a new one can easily be put on.

However, the typical "hardback" you see in a bookstore today is basically just a paperback with thicker cardboard for the covers. The pages are held together (and the "binding" is held on) with a thin layer of glue, just like a paperback, rather than being properly sewn.

You're lucky if you get one reading out of one of those pieces of crap before it starts to fall apart in your hands.

They are simply not worth the money. Go with ebooks, or, if you absolutely must have paper, paperbacks. Otherwise you're getting ripped off.
> I'm particularly proud of this meta approach and I am actually thinking this could become huge: the same thing can be done for hyperparameter optimization in machine learning tasks.

There is already a substantial field of Machine Learning/Meta Learning which focuses on exactly this. For example, this paper [1] from NeurIPS 2015 does exactly what you suggest.

[1]: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5872-efficient-and-robust-autom...
Fourteen, all on my own server. Each one is used with a different service or person that I communicate with. I access it with Heirloom-mailx; all of the messages go into the same mailbox file, and the /etc/aliases file is used to add or remove email addresses. This helps to avoid spam.
The problem this solves is having different teams in the same company perfectly happily developing away on their own stacks when a random business requirement needs that they get their components in the same browser window such that neither team is tied to the other's deployment cadence.
Well, you might want to be careful what you wish for. "High-quality paper" is heavy.

In Korea, somehow every publisher decided books should use maximum quality paper, which is brightly white, looks supreme, and also so heavy that you could use them for upper body exercise.

E.g., this is how ASOIAF boxed set looks like in Korea: http://www.yes24.com/Product/Goods/11816241

(It doesn't help that they print each page with an inch margin, 150% line spacing, and fonts large enough for 70-year-olds without glasses. Sometimes I wonder if they're selling books by weight.)
Why does everything need to be archived? Why can't the stupid things I said 20 years ago in a forum just vanish someday?

(I never posted there but you get my point)
I really like http://notes.eatonphil.com/ and http://neil.computer.
I think one of the unintended consequences of privacy legislation is it will support the burning the library of Alexandria over and over again.

The default corporate posture will be : Delete all the data! It's a liability and figuring out what we can keep is an enormous headache.
The command prior to that text is:

dig redis +short

So... "long" is the opposite of "short"?
A Leatherman multi-tool enhances competence and is useful throughout a person’s lifetime. To me, that qualifies it as a good gift for anyone five or older...with appropriate supervision at younger ages.
That article doesn't say not to get a bidet.

It outlines two specific cases of when not to use it but that's about it.
Infinity billion dollars
As a rule, CPU burns at least 5x the energy per FLOP. So no, CPU is not a viable option on mobile if you need to do inference constantly. For "every now and then" cases, sure.
Nice article :)

Might be worth touching on error callbacks/logging as an error handling strategy.

Sometimes an error is not recoverable in the sense that the calling code can't really do anything about it, but the library should attempt to make progress anyway instead of halting the entire program.

By allowing users to specify an error callback, this means they can log errors, capture stack traces, assert, or whatever.

This isn't that helpful for smaller libraries with smaller-scoped processes, but if it's something like a renderer or interactive audio lib, those often just need to be given a bunch of frame time to do work with the complex input you've prepped and fed to it, and trying to propagate error codes up out of that simulation step would both contort the inner code and not be as helpful as an error callback.

With an error callback you can assert, set breakpoints, or do whatever. But more importantly, by default you can have it just log so when you inevitably in a bug it doesn't prevent everyone else from getting work done while it keeps asserting until you fix your shit.

This will be a less common need than the other standard error reporting mechanisms, but is important to get right if your library has these complex internal preconditions that you want to make visible to the client when violated.
Same here. Very similar to a typical patronage model you see for digital media where there are some perks like early access, but rarely a major exclusive work.
Wow that is such an interesting idea to me. one of those “that was obvious why didn’t I think of that” type reactions.

What help-desk system is your favorite?
That's wild. Every 12 year old in my neighbourhood has a cell phone, so I'm not sure what kind of control mechanism this is supposed to be.
I find that hard to believe. Can you provide a reference or a short explanation?
> I'm not seeing the bank as a faceless entity.

Yes, you absolutely are.

> it's proven that the government will swoop in and save the bank as happened

And you're also apparently seeing "the government" as a faceless entity with an unlimited amount of cash.

When the government "swoops in", it's at the expense of every single taxpayer.

I'm boggled that people are incapable of understanding this, or are in such denial about it that they feel the need to mod me down rather than debating the point.
I have limited experience with Keyboard Maestro but I do have some with AppleScript. It lets you do as you described, get windows, titles, UI elements. However this only works on native apps, you cant, for example, click a button on a webpage with a CSS selector or by scanning pixels of the window, ad far as I know. Can AHK do that? That would be super useful
Well there are less toes to step on out there to establish fiber lines.
Forgive my naivety, but why would blocking of your accounts delete the data you have already backed up? This sounds like you are doing it the wrong WAY, IMO.
I haven’t used this or any other micro-borrowing service. But we’ve got over a decade‘a worth of failed microtransaction services in the West. I’m going to guess that this is a fantastic way to encourage traction with such a service. Want to spend a few cents here and there? Great! Get started and pay us later. Then when you’ve used that up they get your (bank) details and trust you with more and more credit, until they’re no longer micro-loans. And people buy all sorts of stuff (consumer goods) on credit, this much shouldn’t be a surprise.
Iridium currently offers a handful of megabits at best, doesn't it? Starlink's loading 20 Gbps on each satellite, and has successfully tested up to 610 megabits on a connection with a military plane. (https://spacenews.com/spacex-plans-to-start-offering-starlin...)

> Every cost estimate made by people in this industry say it will be much higher than geo to deliver a bit.

I'm not clear on whether you're referring to the ground station, the satellite constellation, or the cost of service here.

That said, industry laughed at the idea of reusable rockets, and Blackberry thought Steve Jobs faked the iPhone pre-release. Industry estimates have been known to be badly wrong.
While the above post is concerned with Fandom groups, my concern is with groups that started doing early community driven biohacking type research. There are medical tests results and discussions of medical interventions. While that's my focus, I'm sure there's additiona important material. We really need to save this data.
Ask HN: Is there a shortage of 3D computer vision experts?
With the Deep Learning revolution it seems to me that the vast majority of Computer Vision researchers and workers switched from 3D Computer Vision tasks to 2D topics such as Object Recognition. However, in the Robotics and AR/VR fields, classic stuff such as Stereo Vision, SLAM etc. is still relevant and I always see these skills listed in the job requirements for companies of the aforementioned fields. What is your opinion?
There are issues with twin studies, not the least of which the number of twins raised separately, but not adopted, is tiny. However adoptive parents are a small self-selected subset of the population.
Credit cards are also micro-borrowing. There can be a variety of reasons for using them, convenience or being able to collect your paycheck are two.
FYI: The extension offers many private groups that I can't join without approval and that seems to disrupt the flow of the extensions.
Except that the Library of Alexandria never actuelly burnt !
That is a very good ol' myth ;)

- https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2010/06/the-perni...

- https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/making-myth-li...

- https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/677/what-knowled...

But anyway, no one should delete human littérature, be it inadvertently or by lack of effort.
Here's an alternative link if you're not a Chronicle subscriber: https://outline.com/nLhM38
I really enjoyed Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Levine and Heller [0].

The description of the “types” (avoidant, secure, anxious) was very eye-opening, especially while scoring your own “traits” / tendencies / “patterns” for each type. You sorta know what it means when you answer “very likely” to many questions that point to the same type.

As far as I understand, the book is based on this same Attachment theory — it’s a lighter read / introduction to it, but still very good to get the point across. (I didn’t find it as useful to help deal with / compensate for the non-secure type’s thought patterns — not as much as David Burns’ wonderful Feeling Good, for instance)

[0] https://www.amazon.ca/Attached-Science-Attachment-Find-Keep/...
Both I (twice) and the other person you initially replied to said it’s unhelpful/inapplicable advice to the person going blind.

If you’d just said “in reality this doesn’t happen very often” this subthread could’ve been much shorter :)
One factor is that it's easier to say "I'm paying back a loan" than saying "I need to buy new shorts". Keep in mind that loans and gifting are pervasive features of low income communities already.
How would you make money off HN? Ads? Subscriptions?

Would the people in the HN community stick around if HN started showing ads and selling their data? They could easily move to a similar site, such as lobste.rs.

Would people pay money to access HN? Much of the value of HN comes from the users who spend time sifting through a lot of junk articles and comments to upvote the tiny fraction of interesting ones. Are you going to ask users who create the site's content to pay for it?

If you can't monetize the site without driving its users away, then it's worth $0.
I remember reading the important difference was in the order of the process
shift-win-# opens a new instance/window of an app that is already open, and alt-win-# closes that app (which can be sorta weird with multiple windows of an app open.)
Is there any reason you chose Keybase over other solutions? From my perspective, it's like Wire but without the video calling or end to end encryption, or like WhatsApp but without the network effect, or like Slack but without a number of features. I don't really understand Keybase's selling point.
I really like https://www.patternsinthevoid.net/

I have been meaning to redo my own to be more minimalist for a while now.
And the ability to view multiple channels / chats at the same time, please, for the love of productivity.

How has this been omitted for so long? I used to be able to have multiple IRC channels open at the same time. Now, gotta switch back and forth on that slow Slack UI.
Cold Stopped a Woman’s Heart for 6 Hours, Then Helped Save Her Life
You’re right about the offset problem, I guess that could be optimized somewhat by caching, then again for google 90% of search likely won’t hit any db at all.

Going to the next 10 isn’t as costly as sorting the next 1000. Which is likely why pagination are limited at that. It’s easy to not do offset and tokenize every single entry for a small amount of range and present it as the same kind of pagination.
Depends on the quality of life and final population level. Maybe our options are a billion people living in abject, third world poverty, or a few 10s of millions living a first world, middle class lifestyle. Depopulation will happen until we get to some sustainable ratio, whatever that happens to be.

How we get there might also be the opposite of what you'd expect. Maybe the poorest 6 billion die first, and the remaining rich manage to survive only by drastically ratcheting down their lifestyle. Or maybe world war 3 happens and almost everyone dies, but the small number of survivors are able to pick up the pieces and build something resembling a modern lifestyle.
I maintain a library for doing exactly this in C# (https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf). I tried to replicate it in Python as I'm writing it at the moment, but couldn't quite manage it. Can you have a multi generic typed Union in python?