skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant that they could have remained a huge player in the transition to digital. The other reply to my comment shows what they did wrong.
In this thread a guy talks about using the Q language and then someone else jumps in and says 'it's not scalable etc.'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21854793

What if all this cloud/k8s / serverless stuff is really all piffle? What if running stuff on dedicated hardware ends up a better solution in some fashion?
Many articles now are cleanly formatted tweetstorms.
The matrix multiplications should be the same (down to floating point accuracy limitations) but there might be very slight differences in how things like random dropout or stochastic gradient descent work in one framework versus the other.
There's https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/027836491985942.... I think Aaron Ames' group is working on theoretical guarantees of neural net policies as well.
>Conventional wisdom held that beta amyloid accumulation was a central part of the disease, and that clearing the brain of beta amyloid would be a good thing for patients.

Dr. Moir proposed instead that beta amyloid is there for a reason: It is the way the brain defends itself against infections. Beta amyloid, he said, forms a sticky web that can trap microbes. The problem is that sometimes the brain goes overboard producing it, and when that happens the brain is damaged.

The implication is that treatments designed to clear the brain of amyloid could be detrimental. The goal would be to remove some of the sticky substance, but not all of it.

The idea, which Dr. Moir first proposed 12 years ago, was met with skepticism. But he kept at it, producing a string of papers with findings that supported the hypothesis. Increasingly, some of the doubters have been won over, said Rudolph Tanzi, a close friend and fellow Alzheimer’s researcher at Harvard.
Previous threads from 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10559387

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10552932
Those are still available, but as expected, not cheap:

https://www.mouser.com/Teledyne-Relays/Electromechanical/Rel...

They are around $100 each.
They're essays. The word means 'attempt' and the genre has always been about non-expertise. Montaigne was the ultimate non-expert.
Free market advocates usually point out that reputation markets could arise in these situations. Of course the question is, would they, and would they provide a better force to raise quality of traded goods than regulation?
Show HN: The tale of the bee-saving christmas tree
I never owned an iOS device personally and when I offered my help to an older relative who wanted to bookmark a page on their home screen, it took me like 10 minutes to find out that I have to scroll horizontally on that Safari share menu. Due to the auto-hiding scrollbar and no cut off icons to the right, I had no idea that scrolling horizontally was possible.

This gets worse whenever I see new Apple keynotes about their latest iPad gestures for multitasking or text editing. On the computer I have visible menus where I can peek the shortcut for each action but is there anything like that on i(Pad)OS? Just adding more and more gestures without giving the user some intuitive hints/signifiers seems like a degradation of usability. The scrollbar tells me that there is more to show and auto-hiding it was a first step into the wrong direction.

I am glad that Android got rid of the dedicated menu button which only worked in very special places without showing any on-screen indication for its availability and I feel like the Option key on Macs is still hiding important things from their users.

The now deprecated(?) 3D Touch on iPhones also seems to suffer from this issue. I was expecting some sort of visual clues to the user (like differently colored buttons) that certain elements offered special actions with a harder press but instead the 3D Touch-enabled elements continued to look the same and mostly the tech-savvy users kept up with where this feature was enabled and where not.
> C# is holding it back though

not as much C# the language, as CLR, the runtime. Because of reified generics, which is the way things are done in the .NET world, and which the runtime needs to support, it would also require explicit support in the runtime for Higher-kinded types or Type classes. And that won't happen without C# having these features (and having them first).

F# is really really great, but it is like an unwanted child of Microsoft :(

https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/175
>I wish I could magically know who in the neighbourhood I could just knock on the door of and say hi and invite them to the extra seat at our table.

You should be doing that the second that you or they setup shop in the new neighbourhood.

It makes the christmastime awkwardness much less so!

Because yea, just assuming that a random stranger is going to be lonely for christmas (whether they live down the street from you or not) could make for a really awkward time, I agree!
>If I put on a tinfoil hat I could say that the AATIP’s purpose was to instill doubt that aliens exist, but that would imply that they do exist.

I thought it was well established that AATIP existed to be a means for a well-connected paranoid billionaire to have his senator funnel him millions in government contracts to keep his floundering mismanaged space hotel business afloat.
YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text
As an immigrant (moved US->Southeast London) who probably won't be able to have kids, I find that I really wish there was a way to become an 'uncle' somehow. Modern society gives us a lot of choice and mobility, but also a lot of ways to find ourselves unrooted.
Every year the percentage of users willing to pay anything for standalone/prepaid software drops. And the price those left are willing to pay drops as well. The reality is that for the most part the prepaid consumer software market is dead and has been for at least several years.
Many PG articles? Which ones?
> a small number of constructs composed into more complex concepts.

Emphasis on small; my favorite Forth quote[0] is:

: ( 41 word drop ; immediate
( That was the definition for the comment word. )
( Now we can add comments to what we are doing! )

Of course, per the original topic:

> (You [can also do that] in Lisp but they don't teach you those parts at school. They teach the pure functional parts, where you can't do things that you can in C++. Bastards.) [1]

0: philburk_pforth/fth/system.fth:12

1: http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines....
Because no one else shipped it - “V0” was a terrible attempt at a spec invented by the chrome team and shipped without meaningfully talking to the rest of the community. This “throw a pile of terrible features at the wall and see what sticks” while berating other browsers for not also implementing the badly designed and poorly specified specs is pretty much part and parcel of chromes embrace+extend+extinguish approach to “open specs”.
I don't know if android is immune anymore. The latest update to my tablet dispensed with the labels on the desktop icons and I didn't figure out how to get them back.

It's a sad state of affairs across the board.
So in the case of AI/ML, the fashionable new thing is unsupervised learning, self-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, GANS, etc. The played out problems are image classification, speech recognition, etc.
> hidden things like 3D Touch is the exact problem

I’ve had an iPhone for around 5 years now and I still have no idea what 3D Touch is.

I hear it’s not supported on all models, so my phone may be lacking it, but if it does, I wouldn’t even be able to tell.
Oh i should learn how to read then..
It usually suggests three routes to me, each with a time estimate, and the highlighted one doesn't always have the least expected time. I figured it might be respecting my other preferences, but it could equally be trying to balance traffic across the whole network. Though this also happens when cycling, which has a minimal impact on congestion.
How can a license say what “fair” is ahead of time?
> Thankfully, liberal democracies are free enough so audiences in the west are informed of the consequences of surveilance (humiliating border controls, incarceration, police brutality), and they are largely OK with it. I don't see evidence to the contrary.

So, you think that the general public understands what it is like to live in a police state, how corruption wastes resources that they otherwise could benefit from, what negative consequences they themselves can expect further down the road?

If you ask me, most people are not even really aware of the things you list. Most people believe those things are a small necessary evil that you need to ensure safety, or individual mistakes that happen, and and it's not something they would ever experience themselves, because they believe that the state is fair and friendly and would only ever do such things to people who really did bad things, which they themselves obviously aren't, as any officer would immediately recognize. People have no fucking clue how power structures work, how their data is actually being used, how bad corruption can get, how inhuman governments can act against them. They have no fucking clue right up to the moment where they are the victim and they are totally surprised what is happening to them.

> Authoritarianism has gradations and is not incompatible with democracy. Democracy may protect from extreme authoritarianism but it doesn't guarantee liberalism.

How isn't that the exact same "but structurally sound buildings have burned down!" response as before? Nobody is claiming that democracy guarantees liberalism, rather this is all about the fact that you can not have democracy without liberalism. Democracies are perfectly capable of ending liberalism, and have done so many times, but with it they necessarily end democracy. Either people can make free decision in their own best interest, or they have to follow what the authority dictates. A democracy in which authoritarianism rules is only a democracy in name, but not in function, just as the GDR was. If the dictator tells you who you have to vote for, that is not a democracy, no matter how much you get to vote.
Just picked up a 2008 MacBook with Snow Leopard (10.6).

I can confirm all (95%?) the features I've grown to love about macOS and regarded as innovative human design are still
there.

Edit: I do however think iOS has been steadily improving, with some mild-moderate missteps. iOS 8 on my first 5s is a far cry from iOS 13.3 on the 11P. For comparison Snow Leopard was 2009, iOS 8 was 2014.
Exactly right.

I use jq to mangle get/list requests from AWS (and others) and then recursively hit each element for whatever reason. Without jq none of my workflows in this area would be remotely easy.

TLDR: Learn JQ! It is like sed and grep, but for JSON.
The iPhone SE may have been the last true iPhone IMO. Too bad Apple seems hellbent on the much less usable 6” monstrocitious these days.
those look really nice, id be interested to know what primitives you have and how you compose them
Show HN: faasd – Serverless with containerd
How do you persuade a good contractor to take the several days to assess the project if you seem like you want to avoid paying an hourly or daily rate?
Why not offer a public api? Logging in seems like a small hurdle for a bot but enough of a hassel that customers lose interest.
Well that's the whole paradox of Fashion isn't it? You want to follow fashion but be almost at the top of it. If you are too much next year's style nobody thinks you fashionable but just crazy. But if you follow last year's trend you are also unfashionable.

The paradox is that nobody really knows what will be the next fashion and similarly nobody knows what's the next worthwhile problem-area to work with.

There's a good reason why fashionable problem-areas are well-researched it is because the results so far have been useful and promising.
Thanks so much everyone for all the positivity so far! I'm still streaming right now. After the stream I'll catch up with all questions and comments here, I've had a blast talking about my work so far.

And if any of you can get me in touch with John Carmack that'd be very awesome ;)!
The thing about being a small website is I probably haven't heard of it. https://lwn.net/ comes to mind, I'm sure there are many others.
At the risk of appearing dense : what the fuck ? I click on the click I get a bright pink page with barely 20 words telling me nothing ? Not one link in sight or a paragraph of text ? Just an ocean of bright pink ?
Let's write "The Online Packaging System To Ruminate About Them All" (TOPSTRATA).

Are we not eternally one packaging system short of Nirvana?
The LGBTQ community originated the concept of "Chosen Family", people you willfully make a connection with as deep as blood family ties. As you can imagine, this is a particularly pressing need for people who are forcefully severed from their families, often at a very young age.

Some of us have to work mindfully to get something many people take for granted. Hopefully naming the idea gives you a way to talk about it with other people.
"Fashionable solutions" are a related phenomenon to fashionable problems. Solving a problem the same way as everyone else (and often expecting a better result).

Both are widespread.
Minor nit: PCP is a dissociative hallucinogen, not a narcotic.
Makes it more likely.

I've noticed a first-pass test for video game quality is to watch the speed of menu transitions -- a slow transition time is indicative of other problems (menus are the least interesting, and very common, interface a game provides you; no one wants to spend any more time in the menu than they have to, except the designers).

Speed correlates highly to quality in game implementations.

Additionally, being a multiplayer game, fun also comes almost for free -- as long as you give decent tools for supporting the social interaction, the players will bring the fun in themselves. (For some reason, a lot of games fear their player base, and strangle the interaction opportunities as much as possible).
NLNOG 2019 - DNS over HTTPS considerations - Bert Hubert

https://youtu.be/pjin3nv8jAo
it's working fine in the real world enterprise setting too ;)
I specifically said when it’s not a human rights issue. Federal decisions on human rights should absolutely and do override local laws.
Got some cold hard facts to back up that assertion?
I loved the XP logo with the tree on a green grass field and blue sky. Had a very human/happy feel to it.

Windows 10 bg is kinda depressing on a rainy gloomy day. Seattle is like that for almost half the year.
Or, perhaps it isn't actually true.
Not a lawyer, but the right to incite actions that would harm others has been off the table for over 100 years. I'd imagine you could build an interesting case around that one.
Just a general observation. Wasn't specifically answering your question about PG's writing.
You have everything in a subpar way. Smalltalk has it first class.
> aimed at other nations.

Does anyone have one of those world heat maps for "belief in UFOs" by country?
I was gonna post about this as well.

How do they expect me to be able to position the cursor precisely when my finger is right over it and they removed the “magnifying glass” that used to appear above it?

The keyboard “hold & swipe the space bar” trick doesn’t really work. It’s really hard to go down vertically (since the space bar is all the way at the bottom), it’s slow especially if you need multiple attempt as each attempt has a delay before the feature activates (3D Touch solves this on my iPhone 8 but they removed it from the new models).

Finally, what the fuck is that idea of moving the cursor by grabbing it directly? It makes no sense, has no “prior art” so nobody is used to it (and why would there be prior art for the dumbest UX ever) and it always gets in the way when trying to scroll (in fact I tried the space bar trick first to avoid this but couldn’t move down with it so had to scroll the text box directly and ended up moving the cursor instead). If I recall correctly even themselves had an embarrassing moment trying to demo it at the Keynote.
ToTok Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool
Jq is nice and I regularly use it.

Does anyone know a more interactive json tool? With, for example, auto-completion? Showing possible fields to select next and maybe even possible values if fields are choosen.
Mechanical sorting (like shoe sorters) is very effective for discrete objects. Really cool to see stuff flying down a belt at 20mph+, get scanned/imaged from all sides, then thrown down one of 50 chutes without stopping.
Conventional ultrasound transducer arrays aren’t cheap. Could this solve the cost issue, e.g. for developing countries?
My suggestion would be to just stop adding new features to iOS, macOS, Windows, etc... They are done and only need updates to add support for new hardware, fix bugs, reduce resource consumption, and close security holes.
The title itself is a bit of a cipher; perhaps the first sentence would better serve?

"Sarah2 is a cipher meant to be implemented by hand with only simple tools."
First off his game looks very impressive!

.. but i do not get the extremely heavy downvoting and very angry comments to the people concerned about the name.

Maybe it's no problem but as i said - at least on my Google - PCP the drug comes up as the first result with a complete explanation in quick-view.

And to this someone replied "grow up" to me, like what?

Isn't the whole idea behind showing HN something to get criticism?

If i made an app that had bad connotations i would certainly know. If someone disagrees, fine, a discussion about it without mean comments like "get a life" or "grow up" would be preferable.
The code is available on GitHub, you can see for yourself. It's mostly written in a customised markdown variant called Govspeak[0].

You appear to be jumping to ridiculous conclusions. Decisions on how we deliver content are made on the back of a huge amount of research. It's more accessible than it's ever been, other governments and organisations are following our lead.

To suggest PDF, ODF or other crippled, inaccessible, OS-constrained formats over HTML - something everyone can read with any of their devices - shows you need to do more research before posting your ill-informed views.

[0] https://github.com/alphagov/govspeak

Edit: Also, web page have plenty of other advantages. Indexed by every search engine, bookmarkable/shareable headings. What other medium offers that?
Is there a Big Brothers/Big Sisters program in the UK? Or perhaps an opportunity to help serve meals to the elderly or homeless or impoverished? I tend to volunteer on holidays if I'm not headed to a family gathering. Meals on Wheels is a great program in the US and it involves a lot more than just dropping off food.
A-12 did stay classified for a while.
You can find out more about how GDS operates on their github[0].

[0]: https://alphagov.github.io/
Maybe it’s because idiots don’t know/care about selecting text to begin with and their products are more and more targeted to them, as opposed to people why (try to) do real work on their devices as opposed to scrolling social media?
It’s pretty successful as failures go.
Doesn't matter, it's still Go code, and contrary to many languages on that benchmark ( Java included ) all Go code is built in Go, so there is no runtime / external library written in C/C++. ( one of the reason why Go is also slow on the regex benchmarks )
I agree, they went off the rails with iOS 7, both with regards to UX and graphic design. They have never recovered.
Great talk, thanks for sharing
I find punching in a username + password extremely inconvenient, and this is why I never create new accounts from scratch.

OpenIDConnect is integrated across several platforms, and allows for us to centralize authN and authZ behind a single secure trusted Identity Provider, such as google auth, facebook auth, github auth - whatever make the most sense for your audience. It's the same idea as password-manager, a single trusted login, but better, because there's no password-management nonsense.

I'd argue is not the failure of user, but, the failure of the tech community.

So what I am hearing from you is "user authentication" is your greatest security challenge?
Because I don't know enough to properly inform you of what is what and rewrite this article, but rather, know just enough to complain on Hacker News :D

(aka, know just enough to note that this is not a very good "DMA in a nutshell" for those seeking to actually use it, and without contextualizing the limited space in which this even IS correct info...)

I'm not claiming DMA expertise, hence not writing/posting articles about it.

See my posts as a warning rather than scornful.
> The latest update to my tablet dispensed with the labels on the desktop icons

Try using a third party launcher, maybe? Nova is a great alternative.
> Due to the auto-hiding scrollbar and no cut off icons to the right, I had no idea that scrolling horizontally was possible.

This appears to be fixed on iOS 13. Actions are now arranged vertically. The app bar above the actions still scrolls horizontally but it now hints at that by cutting off icons.
When I was in the Navy (1977 ~ 1981), our A-6E was equipped with an ECM suite that was designed to intercept and process pulse signals, automatically select the optimum countermeasures technique, and then apply the technique. One of these countermeasures was to send a return signal back to the radar, "telling the radar that the aircraft had accelerated (beyond the speed of light) and was now on the opposite horizon. The effect of this was reported to be a snapping off of the radar mast or tipping over of the mobile trailer the radar was in due to the torque of the radar dish moving to the new location.
It depends, to be honest.

For me, Love2d, Pyxel Edit and Bosca Ceol have worked well.

There are things like music generators to help if you're super slow at music composition like me.

Also, having a small scope helps.
This assumes they are not coming from some giant station on the other side of our sun, parked there for the last several hundred years. They could also be anywhere in our solar system, that our technology is not advanced enough to detect. We cant really keep track of all the space rocks floating near us and they aren't trying not to be seen.
I missed a tiny arrow on the bottom. This led me to wonder why they felt the need to break scrolling. Maybe it’s less obvious on other platforms.
Ask HN: How can I set up an ML model as a scalable API?
I have a custom ML (PyTorch) model that I would like to set up as a service / API - it should be able to receive an input any time and promptly return an output. It should be able to scale up automatically to thousands of requests per second. The model itself takes around a minute to load, an inference step takes around 100ms. The model is being called only from my product's backend, so I have a bit of control over request volume.

I've been searching around and haven't found a clear standard/best way to do this.

Here are some of the options I've considered:

- Algorithmia (came across this yesterday, unsure how good it is and have some questions about the licensing)

- Something fancy with Kubernetes

- Write a load balancer and manually spin up new instances when needed.

Right now I'm leaning towards Algorithmia as it seems to be cost-effective and basically designed to do what I want. But I'm unsure how it handles long model loading times, or if the major cloud providers have similar services.

I'm quite new to this kind of architecture and would appreciate some thoughts on the best way to accomplish this!
Everything I read about Iverson makes me like him more. I really wish his ideas were more prevalent in modern languages.
Percent of People Don't Know How to Use Ctrl+f (2011)