skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth reading, but his arguments against using hyperlinks are vague and frankly weak. He says there's not much to be gained because you can't make "significant" changes without breaking client code; that may be true for certain values of "significant", but the bottom line is that you can change a lot more without breaking clients if you use hyperlinks everywhere, than if you don't.

It's not totally clear what he means by "not ready for prime time" but HATEOS has been achieving what it was designed for for a long time - that is, reducing the interdependence between client and server code.

It's also worth noting that using server-generated links everywhere eliminates the need for an entire category of documentation, and makes debugging much more pleasant and efficient (especially when the person debugging didn't write either the client or the server code).

Honestly, if there's one feature that determines whether an API should be described as RESTful or not, it's this. Think very carefully before building an API that requires the client to know how to build URLs!
Except I can cancel anytime, pay for just a month, watch whenever I want, watch however I want.
Hype does not care about whether it works as advertised on the tin. As long as it generates money you will be served buzzword whether you like it or not and you will pay for it. If lucky, the setback will only be financial.
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Good to hear it is making progress, but last time I looked, the docs were all over the place and many were outdated...
This is a good question. I'm not sure which paper the parent comment is referencing - and in general, DeepFakes is a very general term for a variety of techniques including GANs. The problem you describe is called the alignment problem and it's studied in several areas of applied ml: translation, multi-modal learning, etc.

For example, the canonical way to train deep machine translation systems is to make use of large parallel corpora - large set of translation pairs. In the case where this data may not exist, for structurally similar languages, one approach is to learn unsupervised word embeddings independently (i.e. using word2vec) which only require monolingual data and to find a transformation that aligns the two spaces. In many cases, neural networks still struggle with this task. However, some work in the last few years has demonstrated that a few seed word-translations is all you need to apply simple algorithms that can learn a linear or simple nonlinear transformation that work pretty well!

[1] Here is a method that proposes locally linear transformation maps for alignment: http://nakashole.com/papers/2018-emnlp-norm.pdf
AI is the term used by marketing division and clueless public. Researchers don't use that term without a special need. FAANG engineers actually use ML approaches.
I am immediately reminded of this cautionary tale: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/automatic-business/
Most public health officials fail to use statistics properly; this is about as useful as advice that broccoli gives you cancer (or cures it; whatever it is this week). It's obvious that health effects of moderate use of alcohol are ... moderate.

I certainly appreciate public health officials for their efforts; not dying of cholera when I drink water is a nice feature of modernity, but them jabbering on about how many drinks you can have before you have "health effects" is just a lot of horse shit. I'm pretty sure oral sex is more dangerous than consuming alcohol at such levels (it's statistically mildly carcinogenic).

There are obvious things these people could be doing which are tremendously more useful: assessing the human health impacts of ... pesticides, herbicides, widespread use of soy protein (which is highly estrogenic and has almost certainly had a huge negative impact on human health), BPAs and so on. Such things should be reassessed by public health officials, and are likely vastly more dangerous than people having a couple of beers, but somehow we keep getting obsessive advice from teetotal nitwits.
Machine learning shows parts of a Shakespeare play were written by someone else
Those nm scales are just marketing at this point, they don’t describe feature sizes.
Ah, so even though filesystems don't go through files, they still can block the operation of suid. This suggests then that Veracrypt can simply enable the nosuid option when mounting a device.
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As a contrast to 'The Language Instinct' I would highly recommend 'Don't Sleep There are Snakes' by linguist Daniel Everett, which follows his time living with a remote tribe in the Amazon and learning their language.

A very nice introduction of the idea of recursion in linguistics, and a rebuttal of the old dogma that there is in fact such a thing as a language instinct.
What about a notification digest, where the user gets a list of updates every (day|week|<configured duration>)? Perhaps after explicitly requesting to receive updates about so-and-so. This allows the user to decide, "At 20:00 each night, I'll get a list of new stuff from my friends, and I'll take some time and peruse it," rather than getting blasted at odd times.
You're most welcome. I try to do this for every HN story I'm interested in that's behind a paywall: I figure if I want to read it in its entirety, there must be other kindred spirits. Interestingly enough, sometimes my unblocked links get downvoted. I file those under "No good deed goes unpunished."
Kind of wish I'd started with a keyboard that had the ctrl where the caps lock is... I can see the appeal. One thing I've found from some bad keyboards is I really favor the left ctrl and the right shift, when either of those are out of position it's truly a painful experience for me (notably on many laptops).
In the first (real) job I had after undergrad (physics and mechanical engineering, graduated in 2010 when the economy was a horrorshow), I was a shop supervisor in a factory. I was 23, working in the assembly department of a dirty factory, and I reasoned "appearance is shallow and not worth spending time and effort on, and this place is filthy anyway" (I'm kind of an aspie).

A lot of the people working in assembly in that factory were old women, and I became friends with them. After a few months, one of them pulled me aside and she clearly had a question, but seemed nervous about asking it. I invited her to be candid, and she asked "uh, do you use soap when you shower?". She had correctly identified that I didn't use soap, and her question immediately made me realize that everyone who I managed noticed my hygiene and quietly endured it because they were uncomfortable speaking up about it. I was mortified that I had been presenting myself so poorly, blind to the impact on the people around me. I was (and remain) grateful that she worked up the courage to let me know that something I dismissed as beneath notice actually was noticed. I started taking better care of myself and being mindful of how I presented myself to the world, and I quickly noticed that people's facial expressions were different when I was around, and when I showed people how to do different assembly operations, they learned the first time (rather than producing a lot of waste before I had to show them again) as they weren't distracted by my hygiene.

TLDR: One honest question immediately corrected incorrect beliefs that I held for years and that hindered my success.
>Are you the Paul who worked at Computerland?

No, but I wrote a couple of articles on how to write XCMDs/XFCNs for the Washington Apple Pi Journal, then also some stuff for MacTutor. I was a student at the College of Wooster then (in Ohio) so I never actually _went_ to a WAP meeting... but my roommate Ken Knight was from the DC area.
Do to circumstances beyond our control, we had to replace all the outlets in my parent's condo, so we used the USB (A) outlets. It works quite well. I do wonder if we will see USB-C quick charging outlets.
Agreed. The eyes in this video look weirdly bloodshot and unnatural. Even before it started playing I thought it looked bizarre.
I don't agree with your assessment. People didn't learn to be skeptical most of the time. We've seen what fake news does to people's opinions; debunking a video as fake after it was viewed by a large group of people is enough to do serious damage to people's viewpoints.
That was one of the others I was considering for that spot!
Reminder of the last time Intel bought an AI startup: http://www.recode.net/2016/8/9/12413600/intel-buys-nervana--....

It's interesting that Intel is buying Habana when the intel/nervana NNP-T/I just launched a few months ago (iirc). I don't know who would want to buy those given this, which strikes me as a $2B vote of no confidence in nervana.
Definitely a soft launch. The FAQ is empty. The How it Works section of the TOS is pretty edifying.
Going Clear is great. I've read several of Wright's books and really enjoy the depth of the research he does.
Would suit me. I get a blade 2 all over every 6 weeks.

I always wanted to setup super cheap kiosk-based hair cutting (I was going to call it RyanHair), but I basically felt the clippers were going to be stolen all the time.
I love the fireplace / indoor grill combo. That’s timeless
No, it just implies Japan is still in a recession.
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That was my most likely pick.
Doesn't this compete fairly directly with Patreon? Patreon allows some hosting, interacting with the creators directly, and of course taking payments.
There are plenty of libraries that manage OAuth for you.
They probably don't need machine learning since they have a more complete profile on us than we could personally create by just query haha
Having seen a couple of acquisitions what I see is that things go forward because the top execs are close and went to the same school and so on. The technical details shared are light and often don't matter until things are settled and the plebs have to merge everything.
The kinesis keyboard costs more than some low-end laptops. It's hard to sell the idea that it's ok for a keyboard to cost more than a regular everyday work computer, even if it's price is expressed in coffee cups.
> cloud is basically datacenter hosted by another guy. In fact, I would argue that cloud is more energy efficient due to the shared infrastructure and higher efficiency due to the scale involved

While I agree with this, I think it is precisely because of this commoditisation of cloud computing that we can have this conversation at all, as we have only 3 (AWS, GCP, Azure) companies to look towards to give a very accurate and measurable environmental impact of each CPU/TPU cycle or GB stored/transferred.

Prior to this "cloud" movement, I'd argue it was too fragmented to measure, other than as a cost of electricity.

My takeaway is that there are negative externalities to using computers beyond the direct costs, and that it is a good time to take stock of these and consider how to reduce them.

Edits:

From the article:

> However, there lies a responsibility on all of us developers as well to utilize libraries, coding techniques and compression algorithms which consume less storage and less energy. Mobile developers are well aware of the power restrictions due to batteries. It's time the rest of us follows and give their contribution to lowering data storage and processing for our workloads. The benefit? Reducing storage, memory and CPU for your workloads has an economic benefit - you pay less money to the cloud vendor. Win-win.

The issue will be in pushing an agenda that conflicts with the cloud providers motives (revenue & profit).
I enjoyed it, though I thought it ended rather abruptly. I enjoyed reading about his childhood/early adulthood and how that shaped him and prompted him to act, but I thought more time would have been spent during/after "the main event"
I always wondered if it makes sense to base anything like this on AOA alone. The aircraft has a ground speed of several hundred knots, a sensible air speed, is at a normal attitude, in normal wind conditions, no wind sheer warnings and with normal engine function. In that situation AOA sensor failure is far more likely than a stall.
I always thought running low-voltage DC through a house from a single supply was doomed due to voltage drop over the distances required....
Since they are shorter, I may add that and sprinkle them. Good suggestion!
Very, very important point. I'm not sure it's possible to overstate the effect of confirmation and selection biases in any kind of "people these days" generalization.
You're correct of course, because I have consistently paid for services when they have stuff I wanted at reasonable prices. It's worth it just to relieve myself from the hassle of downloading and filling up my hard drive with stuff. The entire King of the Hill can fill up a HD.

It's just been my experience that these 'popcorn time' services are janky and law enforcement magnets, it's surprising anyone would pay for it. But I suppose I live somewhere that doesn't have as many roadblocks as some places.
Apple Edge Cache
The snapchat filters have been pretty mindblowing. I don't use them often but it's wild how far they've come in a few months.
Is "Digital Electricity" a real thing? Its billed as an alternative to AC or DC. This may be as good a place as any to ask this question, but I am a hotel developer, and we've had a few people reaching out to us trying to sell "digital electricity" that sends high voltage over cat5 (up to 2000w per the Belden materials) by essentially sending high voltage for very brief blips with the ability to switch off before any damage occurs if a short is detected. they claim it is supposed to be significantly more efficient, doesn't require electricians to run cables, and its safer. I declined... but im still curious. basically every device in the room is connected via lan to a power server.

https://www.belden.com/blog/smart-building/digital-electrici...
It's actually most likely the reverse. The more renewables are manufactured and used, they more they will be improved and made increasingly cost-effective, which will in turn make them more widely useful and competitive. It's a positive feedback loop.

This is what we have been seeing the past 10+ years, and of the main reasons why renewables are starting to be directly competitive with fossil fuels in some regions, even without subsidies. This is a huge turning point that we are on the cusp of.
Aside from the point that he has been ousted at which point does a co-founder's requirement to hold a major stake in a company disappear. As a co-founder are you condemned to never diversify your portfolio?
The contents are amazing! I would love to buy the paper version! Will it be available at Amazon?
I read Meditations this year, and found it very repetitive and only occasionally inspiring.

It might be good to spread out reading it over a long time. Read until you find something that clicks with you. Repeat after a few weeks.
I really enjoy expanded universes (I'll forgive a lot on the quality side in exchange for coloring in the world), and I also just couldn't get through the sequels.
oh, this has an actual site now. Last time I checked, it was using the LTT forum for all intel..
Very good news!

Competition in this space is hard and is always welcomed, in my opinion.
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I wonder how it it compares to Nebula (Dave Wiskus, CGP Grey, and Philipp Dettmer). It seems to be roughly the same product, except for pricing ($5/m for Nebula, $3/m/creator for Floatplane)
Is it safe to say, future frameworks/websites can choose to stick to HTML/CSS/WA and completely bypass JS?
Asimov - whole Robots, Empire and Foundation series once again, now that I am older, and robots and psychohistory are slowly becoming a reality.
I'd really hesitate to bet on never in this case--even if never were scoped to mean not within 20 years.

There really are two separate questions though:

- Can experts with a big budget create videos that even equally expert analysis can't tell from the real thing? (Maybe yes, maybe no. But it's hard.

- With modest skill and budget, are people increasingly able to create fake videos that stand up a cursory glance and can fool people as a result? (Absolutely--or at least we're getting close.)
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21803574.
>there's factual information in there, but a lot of it is a bit exaggerated and from a very... shall we say, not-rigorous perspective,

I agree. Perhaps when the book came out in the 80s, and there was far less access to "information", this book was probably great from a "history isn't always as it seems" perspective. Today we are far more conscious of the "elite narrative" of history. Now I think you'd be better served by perusing the table of contents and finding various sources on the subject matter that interests you.

It's well written, and Zinn is great. Just feels a bit dated.
Just migrated from Feedly to take it for a spin, thank you for building this.
I'm just going to say that your ignorance about HF is exactly my point. 100% HF is obtainable commercially in labs and only requires shipping precautions on the order of what you would expect for toxic volatiles.
USB-A can support power delivery. The standard predates USB-C.
Confirmation bias in the utilization of others’ opinion strength
I remember a year or two ago I was struggling with an AoC problem, and the best I could come up with in Python was a one or two hundred line program. Then I saw an answer for it in about 20 characters of J. That was impressive, though I do still wonder how readable the language is in practical every day programming, as opposed to toy problems in a programming contest.
So this is where MuLISP/MuSIMP - dual language system came from in 1978. It worked quite well. You could easily switch from LISP to "Algol" at anytime without losing much anything.
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The Doors of Stone by Patrick Rothfuss. Fingers crossed.
When torrenting was more of a common thing, you literally couldn't legally pay to stream or download like anything. Heck, you could barely even find DVDs of a lot of content or they'd be available like a year after the shows aired or movies were released.

Now, it's way easier than ever to be able to do it all legally and quickly, and it's not even that expensive. If you want to watch old seasons of a show sure it's a hassle to sign up and then cancel a subscription to a specific network, but it's not that hard and it's like $6-$15/mo with no contracts. It used to be that a DVD box sets were like $30+ for one show.
It is not a "conclusion", it is a "hypothesis" if you will, which I ask for confirmation from the author of this comment.

My hypothesis stems from his insight comment on "theology":

"In comparison I would have shyly still been discussing the weather whereas she would be already talking theology."

Because it is a deep subject not commonly conversed with the general public, but specifically known inside churches... unless you are giving a speech to a general audience (which this is not the case)

*Btw, apologies if I may have sounded rude, I did not intend to offend, just investigate.
It's interesting that for no other EV the difference between EPA and WLTP range is that big, not even close. Jalopnik wrote that Porsche may have transfered a two cycle result, which requires multiplication with a 0.7 factor. If you take out the 0.7 factor the range is aroung 285 miles, which seems more plausible.
This one is fantastic. It seems like just the most characteristic traits are carried over and the result is seem less.
Companies should open source their core tech
Yes, but in the far future.

There are many things to be done in the standard, in the implementations, in the frameworks...
I briefly worked at a insurance company. I sat through meetings where they actively strategized signing more people like myself up, and obfuscating the process for mothers and the elderly. I never looked at those companies the same way again.
Show HN: Not Scary Guide to Statistics
Because state sanctioned sources with an incentive for American discord have used it to subvert the educational system. If you don't believe me, take a look at what a competitive high school or college policy debate looks like today. It's literally 4 kids speed reading (as fast as they can!!! Seriously auctioneers would be proud!) Obscure French post-modernist philosophy. They avoid any discussion that might be about a policy implementation of the topic being debated (it's not strategic to use regular language or arguments anymore due to the judges) As a result, I routinely speak with wealthy 15 year olds who insist on calling themselves "maoists".

Don't believe me? Look up "TOC semi final policy round" or "Harvard vs Berkely finals policy debate" on YouTube. anything even kind of like that. There's no way that this happened without the intervention of either spooks or worse, foreign spooks

Books like this, or the works of other terrible French scholars, are the bread and butter of this fashionable nonsense
It's not a matter of perfection, it's a matter of tooling. It's not like saying "you're safe from segfaults in c if you program correctly", it's like saying "you're safe from segfaults in erlang".

Yes, mistakes will happen. Yes, you can segfault erlang. Yes there are tradeoffs. But, I can have a junior deploy to prod confidently in a BEAM language in a few months, I can have a first year grad student use HF confidently in a few weeks.
Thanks for the reminder. Should be mentioned in the article.
To anyone who makes sites like these, please consider removing the following CSS rule:

https://i.imgur.com/RWqwd0P.png

Thank you,

-- someone who thinks selecting text is not something you should screw with.
Mods: This is now becoming spam. The same site was posted a day ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21796088 and now it's posted here with a different link and title (the news is different, but I doubt if it warrants another discussion right now).
Interesting. I like their content. Or rather about half of it, which is pretty good by YouTube standards

So I wish them well with this new venture
Hey HN I'm the founder behind this. I'm a guy and I'm tired of:

* Waiting for a haircut when I book an appointment.

* The inconvenience of only having one barber that knows our style, especially when I'm traveling for work.

* The cost of a haircut, which can push beyond $50 here in the bay area.

So we're building a robot that comes in kiosk form and lives in airports, malls, and offices. You book an appointment, come in, get your cut, and go about your day; all without talking to anyone.

We're in open beta and charging $6 for neck fuzz cuts here in downtown Oakland. If you're interested, pop over an email (arithmetic@gmail.com).
Selling jaywalkers with the use of surveillance cameras
I can't speak to j, but using q, its cousin, at work looks quite a lot more like the graph APL posted above. It's spread out over several lines, and heavily commented.

Most problems are also much simpler, and don't require any heavy one-liners.
>> Now, you can shout through a vacuum.

The volume of the sound decays exponentially, so you can hear anything unless you are very close like the membranes in this experiment (0.0004 millimeters = 0.00016 inches = 2 small virus).

If you can hear the sound of the Death Star though vacuum, you are going to crash very soon (specially when it is exploding).
Please sit VERY still for a couple of minutes.
USPS and change-of-address data is a huge gold mine for marketers as well.
Fully agree - those are my two favorites too.

I also like "Strategy in Action" for more concrete / less abstract thinkers more focused on execution. These people shouldn't be working on company strategy, but this step-by-step approach is a good fit for them I think.

Also nice, they're all on Audible.
Because they can’t easily use AVX or whatever.