skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the same vein, I started to implement a BitTorrent client in OCaml. https://github.com/phlalx/sawadee

Initially it was a project to learn about the Core/Async libraries. I will put it back to life at some point, but it grew quite big and became very time consuming for a single developer.
Tiny API mocking microservice for generating fake JSON data
>his day there's no easy way to have a full email server without the overhead of installing and configuring all servers needed to handle incoming and outgoing messages.

https://mailinabox.email/
Engaging Canva Presentation Alternatives to Powerpoint
Element A: PROJECT ACQUISITION & SCALE.

It's not true that, by running a "make customers contact you" strategy, your acquisition costs are zero, quite the contrary. In order to make customers contact you, you need to take a lot of risky bets on the acquisition-side of things.

Things you might do to build a strong brand, like writing books and having a presence at events come with a likelihood that they won't be effective. By sinking time into those things, they present a risk of derailing work that actually pays. Doing a lot of PR & media work is a double-edged sword from the pov of clients who see the work you do as a trade secret. They want people on the job who know how to keep their mouths shut.

And the stream of project opportunities you get from that kind of project-acquisition is highly volatile and unpredictable. Chances are, when an opportunity comes in, you will be engaged in another project, and when a project ends, you won't have an opportunity waiting for you at that moment.

This only works, if you can scale it up enough so that the central limits theorem starts working in your favour and presents you with a constant stream of opportunities. But as a solo-consultant you wouldn't actually have the capacity to do anything with them, other than turn 99% of those opportunities down. At which point the relationship between the costs behind those acquisition effforts, and the rate at which you monetize them make the whole economics of the strategy break down. So you need to scale up your capacity and become a big agency, instead of a solo consultant, to make it work.

Element B: BARGAINING POWER

The other thing: Value-based fee sounds great, but what do you do in a situation where other people who get paid by the hour compete for the work you want to charge a value-based fee on? It's a race to the bottom, and can only work in areas that are so niche and highly-specialized that you are basically without competition, or where it would be prohibitively expensive for your prospective customers to line up alternative offers to compete with yours.

CONCLUSION

But then, the requirement to have scale, and the requirement to serve highly specialized areas so that you can have a lot of bargaining power are difficult to reconcile.

...so, all of this is just not as easy as the author of this article is making it out to be. If it were, everybody would be doing it, and nobody would allow themselves to get paid by the hour and do project acquisition by contacting the client rather than having the client contact them.
From a game's perspective, Android is very much like Linux, actually.
> Mortgages are not sustainable either. Just because the practice has been popularized in the west for centuries,it does not make it a sound practice.

> It is possible to buy a house with money you saved.

...with decades of savings. Until you have those savings, how is paying rent to a landlord preferable to paying mortgage interest to a bank?
The AI Community Needs to FAKE Responsibility for Its Technology and Its Actions
Macros don't get written very often. Some Lispers (e.g.: Clojurists) advocate against solving problems with macros (if they can be solved with regular functions). However, at the end of the day, macro or a function - data remains data. In non-lispy languages syntax often complects meaning and order.
I was dismissing powershell for a great deal of time until I eventually looked into it more and I have to say, I'm impressed by it. Though it can be used on linux, it doesn't feel like a first-class citizen, but non-the-less I would like to have an object-based shell environment for linux with old tools rewritten for it (like top would output a list of objects with properties like CPU usage, name etc and a later grep could be used to sort them by whatever we want. No more awk/sed the nth column hack)
How to write binary data to file in C without implementation-defined behavior?
From an article [1] about Oppenheimer's (invited) visit to Japan in 1960:

> As Oppenheimer began his trip, he found the Japanese people grateful, even enthusiastic, at his presence in the country. Aspiring scientists were eager to learn from him, and the majority at least appeared to hold no ill will toward him for the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

[1] https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/j-robert-...
If there's little knowledge or consensus then we should be cautiously optimistic about any perceived progress, we shouldn't run headlong into X fixes everything territory. It's important to keep in mind that we may not know why something works because that is also how science progresses, it's the motivation to continue refining a process or experiment until we have fully explained the method of action. Doing this often leads to important improvements in the method of application.

The epitome of how science progresses is diligently applying the scientific method (repeatedly) and not fucking with the results to generate hype or feed a pet theory.

The biggest news out of this is that stretching and exercise are still good for your health and you should do them more often. Massage probably won't hurt but if you have serious health problems you should probably still see a doctor.
The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) (and their "Social Contract" with the Free Software Community for that matter) [1] are very short documents, and I recommend anyone reading them. Created in 1997, and only slightly changed once in 2004, they are a staple of free and open source software.

[1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
Zstandard is awesome!

Earlier last year I was doing some research that involved repeatedly grepping through over a terabyte of data, most of which were tiny text files that I had to un-zip/7zip/rar/tar and it was painful (maybe I needed a better laptop).

With Zstd I was able to re-compress the whole thing down to a few hundred gigs and use ripgrep which solved the problem beautifully.

Out of curiosity I tested compression with (single-threaded) lz4 and found that multi-threaded zstd was pretty close. It was an unscientific and maybe unfair test but I found it amazing that I could get lz4-ish compression speeds at the cost of more CPU but with much better compression ratios.

EDIT: Btw, I use arch :) - yes, on servers too.
It's explained in the linked post.

Why don't you want to call sleep?
Why Goldman Sachs Is Fighting Climate Change–and the UN Isn’t
> it is a completely native Cocoa application whose frontend is built with Swift, the core business logic is all in Racket

This is generally the way to go if you want to be cross-platform: write your core code in the language of your choice, but make sure you use the platform frameworks for the porcelain. If you do it well, your users won’t notice the difference!
Does any client support the new standard? I was under the impression that no one did.
HTTP – REST API – Cheatsheet
I find this "baroque capitalist" style is even more present in certain cultures outside the West, particularly those that are just becoming "rich" in this generation.

Walking around the Dubai airport terminal, for example, is an assault of this "maximalist", silver/gold style. Modern Chinese buildings sometimes feel the same way. It's like the whole world is turning into a Las Vegas casino.
Top Animation Companies in India to Be Hired in 2019–2020
I've often wonder the effect of refresh rate. Back in the days of NTSC/PAL TV days, Americans had NTSC running at 60Hz and the UK ran at 50Hz refresh rates (same as the electricity supply runs out btw). This would yield American friends/colleagues comming to the UK and for a few weeks watching TV would complain about the flicker. Reason for this was their visual system had got used to the higher refresh rate and suddenly seeing something lower, stood out and once noticed, was hard to un-notice and would for them make for a noticeable flicker.

I've often wondered what effects refresh rate has upon the brain and how fast/how we process information and equally, how we adapt.

So with all that in mind, I wonder how old people who grew up with a 60hz TV compare to those accustomed to 50hz and if the statistics of cognitive decline are not the same - more interesting questions.
At this point we seem to be reasoning by analogy. We'd do better to just study the fact of the matter. Psychologists do not tend to discuss this topic in terms of weightings.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2013/11/14/post-hoc-r...

http://www.theunconsciousconsumer.com/consumer-psychology/20... (regrettably thin on citations)

https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/6/4/460/1648209

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology)
I don't think living under a murderous dictator like Saddam was better.
We have all these tools to build neural networks and we use them to peform feats where a simple C4.5 would have sufficed.

To continue innovation in the algorithmic field, I think we need a branch of scientific research or a competition where researchers are constrained to 100MHz CPU clocks and no GPU cheats when actually running their algorithms (not when loading and parsing data)
I think the appeal comes from being able to accept reality without needing to hide behind a child’s fairy tale and to know that leading a moral life does not require the fear of an invisible sky god, but can arise from simply accepting that others around you are actually human beings deserving of the same respect and consideration that you yourself seek. This approach does lack the shallow judgements and easy rule following of a theistic life, but some find that objective reality forces them to walk a harder path.
From Ultraviolet to Infrared
Author here: thanks!

I was hoping to get across exactly that meaning of leaky: that HTTP shows information from, and allows control of, parts of the otherwise-abstracted-away lower-levels, e.g. TCP/IP. Will see if I can make that clearer.
Impact: AI 2020
Yes, the canonical example is the good old „I give permission for IBM to use JSLint for evil“: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866
Online sermons reveal differences in how Christians in the US worship
this comment defines me as a devices user :D
misconception is a form of ignorance.
'Your Body Being Used': Where Prisoners Who Can't Vote Fill Voting Districts
It's true that humans are black boxes but there are whitebox techniques such as the scientific method and algorithms that are justified step by step.

I think the article tries to compare black box learned algorithms to explicit algorithms. Humans being a blackbox is more of a philosophical issue from that perspective.
Iran Accelerates Longstanding Quest to Cut Itself Off from the Internet
ive never got around to trying pass, just read a few things about it. I remember something called tomb that works with pass to hide all the file names
> we shouldn't run headlong into X fixes everything territory

Nobody in the article or this discussion thread has said we should do this, or said anything else that seriously contradicts anything you've said.

Not a single person has said anything to contradict the notion that you should see a doctor if you have serious health problems.

The article is very clearly about early stage observations and preliminary research.

These grave warnings are an unnecessary downer in a discussion that should be focused on interesting possibilities.
No, unmoderated online platforms can easily become biased via some dominant groups of members that exhibit intolerance against views they don't share. The result is implicit moderation.
Linux binaries should take advantage of the stability of the platform they’re on, surely?
> I'm not sure that a contract, which is governed by that regular system, can invoke things from the meta system.

Of course it can. A contract can include whatever it wants, but whether a court will accept such a term as enforceable is another matter.
Shutting Down the Internet
This is how they sell those magnet bracelets that "align your chakras" or whatever. The reason you can reach farther the second time is that you stretched.
Try the pronoun form of "one"
I'd imagine it will get more difficult for ISP's if encrypted DNS becomes standard.

At this moment, they will have allowed IP ranges, that would cover for example; YouTube.

Edit: Also, an ISP can always see what your endpoint is, as they would have to in order to give you the connection. The only exception to this being VPN's and TOR.
To summarise; BBC4 - good, ITV - not so much.
Best of luck and it's really great you're even thinking of these things now.

And while there may not be so many remote internships out there, tossing a resume at a remote-friendly company and seeing what happens can't be any harder than upwork :)
If you think this started with Trump, go to Newport, RI and visit some of the mansions. Trump's (and Vanderbilt's) style reflects a single narrative manifested at many different levels of abstraction: "Look at me, I'm rich!" And it never ceases to fill people with awe: if a person has enough money/power to commission this sort of thing, what else could they do with it?!
Show HN: I made an open-source project that completely dynamic personal website
I know that NLP sequences are analogous to time series but GPT-2 can't be applied to say financial time series for example. That's what I meant.
I've used https://structurizr.com for that purpose before. It allows you to define the elements (containers, users, etc.) separately from the diagrams and then pull them into various views of the system.

My workflow is something like this:

- define the elements at various zoom levels https://structurizr.com/share/1/explore/tree

- define the relations https://structurizr.com/share/1/explore/component-dependenci...

- create diagrams by selecting subsets of what was defined in the first two steps https://structurizr.com/share/36141/diagrams#SystemLandscape
Ehhh this article is half bullshit half true. But in its entirety you can see the problems black people face in America, these problems aren’t fixed in some mumbo jumbo feel good mentor program. For any Africans reading this will be very informative to you. Basically after being stolen and forced to work for free or die for 400+ years, black people faced STATE sponsored oppression and terrorism. Centuries of terrorism by violent whites mob beating, bombing , shooting etc black women, men and children alike.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/26/lynchings-me...

At the same time complete segregation in society , as you can imagine there is practically no upper movement for majority of blacks during this time . They went to worst schools, worst universities, every single thing was better for a white person than it was for a black person you virtually couldn’t do anything at all. Not to mention that segregation ended ONLY 56 years ago ! Also, don’t forget this is all STATE SPONSORED.

Now fast forward a little bit and you have state sponsored red lining . For those who aren’t aware red lining is basically black people denied financial and medical services. Basically a bank would draw a line on a map and deny anyone living above that line a loan (obviously those above that line were blacks) . They would loan to a lower income white rather than a middle income or high income black . There was also predatory reverse redlining where banks would go into black areas and lend at higher interests rates etc . Common sense could tell you what the impact of these government programs of oppression have been.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

Fast forward a little more and you have the US industrial prison complex , and the Richard Nixon’s “war on drugs” which devastated the black community . Read this to learn more and for pretty graphs.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-shocking-and-sickening-st...

Now you bottle this all up with terribly under funded schools, racism , unfair portrayal in media and films I can go on and on . How the fuck is a mentor going to help? This article is stupid feel good shit, if the US wanted to help it’s citizens they forcefully brought from Africa centuries ago they would have done so by now, they don’t have the intentions and instead have repeatedly shown they will support programs of oppression. You want to give black people a fair chance build some schools, give them funding , hire competent teachers , remove the drug dealers and gang leaders you allow to run rampant the same way you remove leaders of countries or hunt down taliban leaders in remote deserts.

This is the reality of the situation all of you Asians, whites , Indians etc comparing your situation is absolutely positively completely unrelatable.
And me thinking this would be some post about how physics would apply to Transformer robots change of state.
Auto-cpufreq – Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux
Bean-to-bar chocolate: how it’s made
Timbre: Why different instruments playing the same tone sound different
Thanks for explaining that perspective. I was seeing things a little too narrow-mindedly for sure.

Based on your phrasing of the issue, it seems like we could think of the problem as: can we reduce the number of parameters in an ML model to the point where humans can understand all of the parameters? That's related to an active research area - minimizing model size. ML models can have billions of parameters. It's unfeasible for a human to evaluate all of them. Research shows that (sometimes) you can reduce the number of parameters in a model 97% without hurting it's accuracy [0]. But, 3% of a billion parameters is still way too many for people to evaluate. So I think the answer so far is no, we can't create human-understandable models that perform as effectively as black boxes.

[0] https://openreview.net/forum?id=rJl-b3RcF7
If you use Kubernetes you might find ArgoCD and Weave Scope interesting, both _sort of_ do this
Build Your Own Intellectual Oasis
Ask HN: Programmers, what do you Google more: snippets or projects?
And how do you search for them? And pain points in the current search process? Thanks.

(Research for my project: thiscodeworks.com)
Ships, Bananas, Logistics, Math and a Big Dose of Engineering
Robin Dreeke – Sizing People Up – DEF CON 27 (2019)
These are all pseudo, pop-science books. I would recommend reading the works of actual scientists and philosophers directly, or textbooks.
Anyone want to do Clojure + GraalVM?
Ask HN: What do you want to do/achieve in your life?
The parent comment isn't thinking time-series like you and I are.

Being able to follow multiple agents and correctly deduce their relationships at a given time t is very hard.

NLP "time-series" does a fine job at making back references within a text, but wouldn't be able to have multiple representations of a word or character through the years.

It's very hard to get the computer to say "ah, the context is 16th century, so here are the relationships" without fudging it / tailoring models via tailored corpuses.
There are but I could not find many details about them in English. Some of the well knowns are:

すもももももももものうち or ははははははははのははははははとわらった

Please see MeCab (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeCab) segmentation output below:

http://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/cgi-bin/mecabdisp?sent=%E3%81%99%E...

http://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/cgi-bin/mecabdisp?sent=%E3%81%AF%E...
Probably more important, "SET" is a registered trademark, and the game is copyrighted.

See here for a previous demand:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~treuille/resc/set/
Did buildings that we now celebrate as being 'historical' look gaudy in their time?

Say, a cathedral or similar with a bunch of non-functional ostentation?
The wiki is already up to date if you build your own or AUR packages and want to use multiple cpu cores https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg#Utilizing_multi...
Speaking of bizarrely obvious statements...

> Plenty of buildings inspire awe immediately upon completion

I'm speaking specifically about the age. Some things are special for [what they are], and some things are special for [what they are given their age]. A 1963 Mustang is 'a classic'; 1993 Mustang is just an old car (even though the '94 mustang was built with 30 additional years of auto innovation, people are much more awestruck when they come across the 64').

So to summarize, Penn Station was architecturally marvelous in 1910 when it was completed, but by 1963 it's likely people just thought of it as an old run-down train station. Like a just-old car. Of course now we are like - with a bit of restoration that shit would be a classic.
In what sense is it ‘official’? The trademark office think the term is generic and didn’t allow the OSI to make any claim on it.
>Perhaps the simplest argument I can think of now is this. When we as a society look to create great educators, lawyers, doctors, scientists, and philosophers, we make sure they’re reading a lot. We don’t have them watch TV. //

Not the GP.

You're right that argument is simple, it's also not compelling. The reason for that is most of the information is currently encoded in the form of literature.

It might be that we'll made TV/computer programmes can convey the information, and build knowledge, better; we've just not tested that yet. Is an anatomy book better (alone) for learning than text and visuals that are interactive - maybe VR - for example.

If you take the people who read and make them watch TV it seems likely to me that they'll watch stimulating television, if they read stimulating books?

In short maybe it's the content, and one content group prefers one medium.

I'd totally agree that TV with advertising breaks is anathema -- but Netflix documentaries (say), seems like they might be better than a Mills & Boon bonkbuster?

If it is solely the medium the problem is significant and we need quickly to find out what specifically about the medium is the issue. It's unlikely to get solved though, TV advertising is a cornerstone of Capitalist society; keeping the masses "sedated" by TV (raging about Soaps or MCU plotlines instead of real life) helps to control society.

MOOCs are huge and often don't use books as primary media, they rely on lectures delivered through video. My most recent learning has all been this way and I find it works well for me. But presumably you include "screen based text" with "books"?
I'm curious what method was used to compile the Java version. I'm assuming it was jlink? If you use graalvm's native image then last time I checked the output was 6 MiB and runtime ~1 ms. And it may be much better now with Java 11.
Or predicting the performance of a sports team over time.

From what I've seen, It breaks down at the embedding layer, because while the teams "remain the same" in name / dictionary, their actual relative relationship to each other varies season to season / week to week.
And that is a very specific purpose of such houses rather than the author's hypothesised "insecure egotist". The same thinking goes in to making houses of worship or government beautiful and intricate.

The point is to hit people with jaw-dropping opulence to get them into a frame of mind where they are small and they are dealing with something large. It is easier to convince them to do things they would not ordinarily do, and it makes them much more likely to see their host as important and able to provide unforeseeable opportunities.

Showing off is fun, but billionaires are canny and strategic people or they don't get to stay as billionaires. There are probably a few layers of thinking beyond being crass when pictures of their homes are pushed out into the public sphere.