skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered about the same, see my sibling comment. They all had been shocked and had said they'd pay to not be shocked again.
Radical Candor by Kim Scott. By far the best management book that I have read, it changed my way of thinking when it comes to leading a team.
I really doubt google will become "irrelevant" anytime soon. What most of us nerds forget is that tech products become popular when they solve real life issues for non technical people. We can sit here and debate all day what protocols are better, and which browse is cooler, and why Google is evil, because it will not become irrelevant anytime soon unless there is a better end user product. Happy bashing Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc because no one cares, really. What they care is "how to cook potato soup" showing relevant results, and having their pictures generate likes and their unneeded products delivered tomorrow.
IRL Silicon Valley TV-Show: Using Machine Learning to Compress – Shrynk
Having caught up with the recent episodes I was laughing at the similarity with the TV-show Silicon Valley :)
I'll explain the reason why I made the shrynk library.

It began when my server storing cryptocurrency data started to overflow as I was storing compressed CSV files.

Trying to come up with a quick solution, I figured I should just switch to a more effective compression algorithm (it was stored using gzip). But how to quickly figure out which would be better?

Fast forward: I made the package shrynk for compression using machine learning! It helps you by choosing (and applying) the format to compress your CSV, pandas DataFrames, JSON, and in general it will work for files.

It is able to compress using 30% overall less disk space using a mixed strategy by machine learning compared to the best single compression algorithm (meaning: choosing any other single compression algorithm to compress everything will be worse) for benchmark data.

You can try a demo or upload your own file at

https://shrynk.ai

Read the whole story of why and how the approach works on my blog:

https://vks.ai/2019-12-05-shrynk-using-machine-learning-to-learn-how-to-compress

Code:

https://github.com/kootenpv/shrynk
Iirc for some offenses/crimes that payment is automatic and for some it has to be ordered by the judge.
Try: https://www.startpage.com/

It uses Google search, but privacy on level of DuckDuckGo.
On the topic of lazy load. If you are using non native lazy load, please have some kind of fallback if javascript is disabled. It stinks to have a page load and just get blurry images, and need to enable javascript for a couple pictures to render.
> but we make it clear to them that they're really not supposed to

No we don't in the UK.
I don’t think gpt2 is useful in the way described, its just spitting out nonsense.

Text adventures are hard because you have structured data (eg. a scene with N objects in it), but you want to generate a text fragment dynamically as the state of those objects changes.

It meaningless to just randomly generate text fragments; you have to parse the input of free text (hard, eg. turn off the light; yes it is hard when its free text), update the state of the scene (easy, eg. set light level to low)...

... and then return a new text snippet that describes the scene (extremely hard, unless you constrain the state transitions to a finite hardcoded set).

so, like, tldr, you could do something really cool here, to use a language model to describe a scene over a continuous range of states using a finite set of samples and that would be amazing!

...but, I dont really see seeding a text fragment from a set of words being a particularly interesting addition to the field.
But historically, authoritarian systems aren't very stable. China might very well collapse if they make some bad decisions. I think an authoritarian system is more likely to make bad decisions, because people that decide things are further from the ground, they have less information.
Html <img> and <picture> elements already have the ability to serve larger or smaller images (srcset) based on your browser's perception of your network performance.

I agree with the other comment here replying to you. In the olden days people had to explicitly link to larger content. Isn't that was AMP does anyway?
> Why not discuss a controversial position?

One reason is if the argument is made in bad faith by a paid shill, as is the case here.

There are lots of discussions happening now about nuclear vs. renewables vs. fossil fuels. There's no need to waste anyone's time broadcasting a piece like this that presumed its conclusion when a check was signed.
GPT2 is fascinating. I like the idea of achieving a kind of immortality by training GPT2 on the sum total of your life's data: all your comments, all your tweets, all your text messages, everything. Presto, now you have an unkillable version of yourself that can answer questions about your life. Your loved ones might like it when you're gone, at least.

Maybe in the future we'll have "harry potter photos" that use GPT2 + speech synthesis to pretend to be you.
Google Removed FX File Explorer from the Play Store
The web is large, and my processor is so very, very small.
Someone know if there is some kind of pronouncement by distros implicated?
It's a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21648582
Have you tried LaTeX3? I find it to be a huge productivity booster compared to the old TeX ways that I never managed to grok.
Ask HN: What Python based static site generator you use?
> The USA behaves like Russia and China, they spy on foreigners, influence their elections, start unjustified wars for oil and generally have a very low regard for freedom and liberty outside of their soil.

I'm sorry, but which of those do European nations not engage in as well?
Why do people feel the need to "fight back against Google"? Should their actual fighting energy be going to fighting dictatorships around the world and torture by the CIA? Priorities are really messed up.
Double tax can be an issue but there are ways around it. In UK you used to get a tax credit on money paid out as dividends for the corporate tax already paid so if the company paid 20% tax on a profit, paid it as a dividend and your personal rate was 30% you'd just pay the extra 10%. Of course they've now complicated the whole thing up with extra rules and loopholes as politicians tend to do.
You could do this now, leave your profits in the corporation and borrow against the balance. I don't think it would work though, compound interest accumulating on the loan would soon eat the gains.
i don't see anyone outside of math/csci/physics folks using latex. Almost all profs in chemistry, biology, pharmaceuticals, etc field just use word.
> Or, people who create enhanced versions of TempleOS, introducing to it the heresy of networking.

"Defiled OS". That might be a fun adventure on FOSS trolling.

(this is where I'd put some sort of Windows Vista joke)
I had first the Visor Phone, in 2001 or 2002, and it was a revelation. After that I had a series of Treos (270, 600, 650, 680) and finally a Pré Plus.
Love these end-of-year recaps because I find the split between podcasts \ music is getting much better recognition in the past few years. 51 days (~74,000min) of total listening this year, wow.
It's hard to engage in alternate history, but NATO as an organization was formed to ensure that European democratic governments remained that way immediately following World War II, and until the fall of the Berlin wall. Keeping the Russians out, as you say - that was critical to preserving liberal government in Europe. Article V is not just talk, despite the fallout from the war in Afghanistan. Only using recent history as a reference is not a good guide here.

Can you tell me more about keeping the Germans down? I'm not sure I follow, but I'm probably misinterpreting what you mean by "down".
Except, the executive branch appoints judges.
AirVisual is great. I'm checking it regularly. Considering to get one of the air quality monitors myself to get even more reliable data. We do need to move to more green energy soon as it's not looking good.
The only way is to make something better. Not using Chrome, not using Google Search, etc will have close to zero impact. Fix the mess so AMP isn't necessary. How? Your guess is better than mine.
Yes, there is. It was a afaik Superfund site before it was a park.
I looked into Ayden and i can't register an account with the country i live in.
As long as berkshire hathaway is paying capital gains on every investment, why would you care if the money stays invested in the company?
Given the rise of populism across the West ...
Definitely the traffic. Wasn't expecting the front page. Working on it now.
Interview with Up and Coming Artist Ameria
The key is that asking for a solicitor is not an unreasonable delay.

So the basic advice not to talk to the police holds.
I agree with all of this, but until google provides a way to appear in the discover box without having AMP-published pages, this is a non-starter for publishers. Ironically, by creating AMP, google has disincentivized publishers from making their canonical pages faster.

Publishers hate that google holds them hostage with AMP in this manner, but the situation is what it is, until someone from the Justice Department starts making the lords of Mountain View antsy.
Just because they're not as bad as China doesn't mean they're not horrendous. I mean, families are separated! How can you defend such a system? The USA is very rich, and has the means to provide a dignified process. I mean, you're a country of mostly immigrant-descendants, right?
Universal Sudoku Solver
AirPlay 2 cracked, will allow multiroom play to non-supported speakers
AMP demotivates page speed performance improvements though. (ie, AMP > page speed for ranking)
What you say can't be used in your favor. It can only be used against you. And if you are innocent, then it's the police who are wasting society's time (though I am not sure what that means) and they can wait a bit longer when it comes to making sure justice is done properly and not incompetently rushed.
Tried creating a resume using one of the provided templates. Failed because XeLaTeX was required.

Tried creating a Tufte-style book using the provided template. Failed because of a missing file.
Agreed. Additionally, open&unsolved cases shouldn't be a metric that's considered a ding against prosecutors/police. Open & unsolved is far better than closed with an innocent person behind bars.
Is is solvable if you directly use

import Component from 'component'

instead of lazy loading it ?
I have avoided Spring as much as possible. Performance is one reason.

But I thought we were talking about Java:

"For example Java programs are comparatively slow to boot up."
If you choose a weak starting position, it's not going to take 2.5 hours for your opponents to win in Settlers of Catan. But if you do have an obviously weaker board position, no one will put the robber on your 2, 3s, 11s, or 12, except in rare situations. That's part of the built-in handicapping for those with obviously stronger board positions. Those 5/36 rolls don't actually produce 5/36 of the time, because most of the time the robber is blocking one of them.

If you choose a weak initial position, the expansion-first player gains an advantage over the city-first player, especially in a 3-player game. And they will both know that your only option is a card-first stealth victory. The latter is usually only viable in a very balanced 4-player game.

If you don't understand probability for 2d6 dice rolls, yeah, you're going to have a bad time in a lot of games, some of them lasting 2.5 hours or more. And if you haven't bothered learning that, why would you learn from the stronger opponents that you play?
Adding security checks to train boarding is very costly because most trains stop at a dozen or more stations, oftentimes open air platforms without any real infrastructure or place to do security.

I think that’s the main thing that has protected them from TSA nonsense so far. The TSA does occasionally do baggage screening on train passengers at large stations but it’s rare and mainly to flex their power I think.
I like AMP. It's possible to write fast websites without it, and I do do that for my sites. For for big, non-tech sites AMP has provided sufficient motivation to offer a fast version. Nothing else has managed to do this before. I'd rather have fast AMP pages of all those news sites than having to load the slow default view. Experience suggests that the options aren't "fast with AMP or fast without AMP", but "fast or slow". It's for incentive reasons, not for technical reasons, but I'm still glad the fast version exists.
> When I ejected CRA it gave me a 600 line config file.

This is one of my least favourite thing about CRA. The equivalent Webpack config tailored to the needs of my project is generally only 100-200 lines long. CRA makes things far more complicated than it needs to be because it has to support everyone's requirements.
300M-user Imgur launches Melee, a gaming meme app
It's probably not about freedom since the same freedom in California doesn't seem to be able to create similar outcomes in, let's say, Alabama.
Agreed, one of my secret goals is reading each and every one of his books ;)
NVIDIA has QuartzNet which contains only 19M weights and achieves 3.9% on test clean without language model and less then 3 with LM.
Code (Pytorch): https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.10261.pdf
> The proper way to stop this is for counties to make anti avoidance laws.

You mean tax evasion, not tax avoidance, right? Last time I checked, avoidance was legal, evasion was not.

If you actually did mean tax avoidance, then I must point out how dangerous the idea of somebody arbitrarily deciding what _legal_ option is okay or isn't okay on a case by case basis.

I'd much rather have some things reclassified as tax evasion rather than having a "just trust us" system in place that decides when something is legal or not.
Buffet pays capital gains taxes and most economists who argue for dropping the corporate income tax only recommend so with an increase in income/cap gains taxes or even merging them.
Looking at this I think it would be really cool for someone to build a Wheel of Misfortune to help dry run some of these scenarios for debugging.
From https://selfhostedsource.tech/about:

> Lucid index sources it's data from curated lists of software compiled by volunteers. The specific lists used are:

> - Awesome Self Hosted[1]

> - Awesome SysAdmin[2]

[1] https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted

[2] https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin
You were probably missing the virtualization flag if it is that slow.
> I know many people that have close to 0 benefits from government.

somalia?
This was an amazing read. Ed Catmull explains many nuanced aspects of leadership, management, creative organizations, and related. All of these lessons are wrapped into the personal history and narrative surrounding Pixar, which is fascinating in its own right.
Couldn’t find a better time to post this article than in the middle of France biggest strike!
If you're one of "the little guys" with a niche website or blog, you already host it somewhere that serves Web traffic. Answering federated search requests cannot possibly be more expensive than that, considering that your niche website or blog doesn't have more than a few megabytes of actual information.

If you're purely a consumer, I don't see how your equipment has anything to do with search at all. Searching using one system isn't more expensive than using another.
What’s Your Personal Productivity Style?
Pretty much the entire South Bay is a Superfund site.
Yep. Build your own case, maybe even consult a lawyer, _then_ talk to HR.
Isn't still possible to wait for the data from that one request to be loaded? I'm also curious on how this will work with subscriptions.
You have control on where to put `Spinner` component instead of putting it in all child component that needs "spinning"
!bangs in DuckDuckGo enables you to do searches right on the destination website

https://duckduckgo.com/bang
> Happy bashing Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc because no one cares, really.

I'd rather work with 10000 people on something we can get excited about because it's actually cool and "pure" at least in intent, if not in implementation, than with 10 billion people on the current trajectory of chained prisoners shuffling down a damp hallway. You're boring as fuck.
Also a really good book. +1
The words "technical" and "non-technical" are also quite vague these days because once you start focusing deep enough in a field, it does become technical even if IT isn't involved - that's another widely used error, "technical" isn't just about Information Technology.

Each of these skills you've mentioned have their own technical nuisance and even IT gets involved at some point or other even in fields like art and architecture.

And yeah, programming is as creative as it gets whether you regard it as technical or not!
Just so you know, leadership is completely different for middle managers and founders. A lot of the "leadership books" are targeted at middle managers, and if you follow their advice word for word, it won't work.
Graphql is for fetching exactly the data your app needs at that point, suspense is for fetching only the code the app needs at that point.
"How to make your sites faster than AMP without using AMP" leaves out "locally cache a copy of your site in a CDN that is geographically close to your users." Which is the actual mechanical part of AMP that makes it technologically interesting / valuable to content providers and countries distant from the creation of most content.
I'm sure the media does have an agenda here, that's not to say there isn't a problem though.

I don't know about Spain but the UK has FAANG cost centres, Google employees 3,500 people in the UK for instance.
You're right, there's a bug of some kind here. Thanks for the report, I'll look into it.
which is zero if you re resident in some interesting countries.
OK, I'll bite.

How do you explain the hundreds of thousands of scientists worldwide who have studied the environment professionally for, collectively, millions of person-years?

What is their self-serving motive? Surely a biologist would still have funding and things to study either way. The same is true for physicians, geologists, physicists, and many of the other specialties who have confirmed the finding that there is a climate crisis.

The same is not true of 100% of the climate-crisis denial, where you can see multi-trillion-dollar businesses actively astroturfing their side of the conversation.
There is a difference been the US and many other places.

For starters the prosecution isn't trying to scare people into a plea bargain. Many places the police aren't allowed to lie to you.

And many places the police can be called to testify on your behalf.
The reason the EU's system is so similar is that the circumstances are similar. If you don't require unanimous approval on critical issues then why would smaller countries ever join with Germany, France, Italy, and the UK around?
It's like free market capitalism applied to the legal system.
Flagging helps here because the author (with whom, fwiw, I basically agree - let's have more nuclear power!) cannot be trusted to supply reliable information, ie not to distort data whenever it suits him.

https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/853/exposi...

https://theecologist.org/2018/sep/20/nuclear-power-lobbyist-...

https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/michael-shellenbergers-slo...
Data is Plural: A weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets

https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural
I used to, but did something change a while back with how HN handles profiles and upvotes? I just don't see an upvote button...maybe I really, really don't see it? lol
It's the same list, just searchable, with some extra meta information scraped from the github repos and the project websites
You're right, I put in a distance threshold but it's far too large. I'll make it much smaller. Thanks for the report!
Slightly off-topic: are there text-adventure games that can be played over siri / alexa / etc.? it would be awesome while driving or walking somewhere.
Yep. Agree with his conclusions but also think that his reasoning is nonsense
Here's one great takeaway:

> Treat the cause: Third-party requests slow down the web

> ...

> - Google owns 7 of the top 10 most popular third-party calls

> ...

> So you can see why there must be some kind of internal struggle at Google. They understand the value of a faster web but they also cannot go after the main cause of the slow web. And this is how technology such as AMP gets invented and makes things worse.

It blows my mind how many devs around here are devoted to their browser and search.

Stop using chrome. Honestly, wtf?! Firefox is awesome. FF dev tools are awesome. FF, like Wu Tang, is for the kids.

STOP USING google SEARCH! USE DUCKDUCKGO! Use the `!gm` google maps bang when you need it. Use the `!g` google bang in a pinch, but for all of our sake, please wean yourself off of google search.

These two steps are immensely easy to do, and yet a MAJOR investment in all of our future.
I think it's about finding middle ground. Without government, your home's value might rapidly race to zero. Without climate change, you'd realize the full value of the property. Therefore, with FEMA funding buyout of properties that are likely to be impacted by climate change [1], owners shouldn't be getting wealthy from these transactions, but they should have the ability to relocate to a comparable quality of life.

Governance and oversight is crucial. Be transparent about the properties you're buying and demoing, and prevent future building on those retired properties (developers can be a persuasive [$$$] bunch).

[1] https://www.fema.gov/faq-details/Buy-out-of-flooded-property...
It's a real thing: http://langsec.org/papers/langsec-cwes-secdev2016.pdf

There are whole classes of errors related to programs that parse then validate input when it's already too late. And often the validation happens in the source code in a cloud of checks that happen at run time. It's rather difficult to verify these programs.

It is much easier to verify a parser that only produces valid values at the edge of a program, isolated from the main program.
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

Except for Haskell which happens to be both!
I've been in touch sporadically with the author/creator since the original two episodes in 2018 and he's put a lot of work into it. I remember those two episodes fondly and for their high quality, and am really happy more are coming out.
Sure did :) and I went back to mention that in a later comment.

It's all good!
No, it was not properly referenced in the article. I had previously seen the study.

From the supplementary material:

> All participants delivered the shock to themselves in this first part of the study. Thus, in
Part 2 of the study, when people had the opportunity to shock themselves again, everyone knew
what the shock entailed and how painful it was.

They also asked the participants to rate the experience from the sock in a 1-10 scale (negative to positive) and removed all participants who didn't find the shock as a negative experience.

The grade the remaining participants gave to the shock experience was in the lowest part of the scale, which makes it even more insane:

> ratings of the shock, t(52) = 1.40, p = .167
As a European, I thought so as well. I really can't imagine that they're not collecting VAT.
Should mention that megabytes of javascripts are slow to download, compile and execute. While a few seconds may go unnoticed on the developer desktops, it will be a lot more on a mobile or laptop.