skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a big deal. An asymptotic reduction in the resource explosion created by larger attention windows should allow the development of substantially more complex models here.
Yeah, I've seen it, it's super neat. The higher resolution models are pretty. PS2 only, though.
Yeah, I'm deliberately comparing modern police with conditions in feudal Japan for a reason :)
Wow, I did use Opera for years and also on mobile when in Africa with limited data plans.

Time flies, I still remember Opera 10 years ago, they probably had the best tech April Fool's I ever stumbled upon with their "Face gestures"[1].

When you had a team that could create that behind your product, you knew that the team cared and was driven by passion and excellent craftmanship.

[1]: https://dev.opera.com/blog/introducing-opera-face-gestures/
Indeed, gauges are so much better than digit-based displays, just as dial watch faces can be usefully read at a glance. When your attention is supposed to be on the road, knowing your speed is close to the posted limit is more useful than parsing your precise speed.
Now anyone can find fights, and fairly quickly.
We do this for OpenBazaar which is built on top of ipfs and it works great. We built a Tor transport for libp2p, which is what drives ipfs's p2p networking so any libp2p app, including ipfs, can work over Tor.

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/go-onion-transport
From my end, it looks like google search is very strongly prioritising paid clients and excluding references to everything else. Try a search or view from maps, it shows a world that only includes google ad purchasers.

Google has become a not very useful search - certainly not the first place I go when looking for anything except purchases. They've broken their "core business".
Compared to JPEG. Sure the browser support is good nowadays, but there are still so many tools that create JPEG files by default, even when PNG files would be a better choice (e.g. Screenshots, computer generated graphics, etc.).
> By comparison it’s difficult to spend that much under 500$/ month on a car

This is not really accurate, the majority of the population spends approximately ~$250 per month or so on their car (full TCO -- including all taxes, insurance, financing, fuel, and maintenance). The average car on the road is ten years old, and the average person has never bought a new car in their entire life -- car costs are significantly cheaper than you claim.

This is yet another thing most Urbanists / StrongTowns types do -- just artificially invent an extra $200 to $400+/month in fake costs to "cars", to try to make crisis-level housing costs look artificially reasonable.
If you replace the word "IPFS" with "BitTorrent," this article is still true. Similarly, if you replace "IPFS" with "BitTorrent" in most of the comments here, the comments are still true.

If you understand how BitTorrent works -- including its strengths and limitations -- you'll understand how IPFS works.
They cost money after the breakup. In fact "free" long distance is a fairly new thing.
I have a manager friend at a Chick-fil-A. The waiting list to get a franchise is years.
It's from French feuille, for 'leaf', so it's used for all these thin film things that are leaf-thin.
Minor nit: BitTorrent does not allow one to maintain a persistent URI to changing/updated data, as IPNS does.
> Despite the fact that I've had around 50 interviews and countless articles written about my disclosure, my website zachvorhies.com doesn't show up on Google's search index, even when using the exact url as a query!

I am not sure what is happening but I directly searched for your website : zachvorhies.com on Google (in Australia, if that matters), which returned the website as the first result:

https://i.imgur.com/Z7RTsuE.png
Because data on ipfs is content addressed by hash you can always check the integrity of data you receive, in theory, although the tooling isn't there for you to easily verify the output of a gateway without your own ipfs node afaik.
I agree that bay area and NYC seem to both have housing costs that outstrip even the high salaries available there. Seattle has similar pay but the cost of living hasn't quite caught up yet. A lot of young professionals buying homes in the city still. Might change in another 10 years though.
Perhaps (I'm a pretty avid SpaceX enthusiast, and I've never heard that abbreviation before)
While Lex gets interesting people on his podcast, he seems to focus so much on "beauty" in his interviews that nothing substantive ever gets said. He's constantly asking "what do you find to be the most beautiful about X?" and asking other highly speculative and un-substantive questions. I wish he would ask questions aimed and allowing the interviewer to spend the most time delivering high yield information. This is meant as constructive feedback not as mere complaining.
It is also the secret behind three.js if you look at the main contributors over time. Although not the Finnish demoscene.
Gambling, lotteries, investing, money transmitting, nyc, aml and banking are subject to regulation and laws in most countries.
Editing to remove accurate but aggressive words is a common piece of advice you hear on HN. I stand by original comment and my edit.

> They help 23 million people a year, without any type of discrimination.

This is false.

> They have at least one dorm exclusively for transgender individuals. Their charity services literally benefit millions of LGBTQ individuals every year.

Good acts do not undo bad acts.

> But if you want to call that "extremely", "violently", or "intensely" anti-gay then I certainly can't stop you.

Of course! I am right about this regardless. Salvation Army's discrimination and intentional pain caused to LGBT is real, even if you've never felt it yourself or wish to pretend it doesn't happen.

The fact that this is even a conversation at all should be sufficient evidence that their discrimination has in fact hurt LGBT people in particular.
I guess my wider point was that today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050.[1]

Urban commuter trains will have little effect on that ~45% of people who won't live near them even if they are built.

On the flip side, though, I guess, that doesn't mean we shouldn't build more train lines.

1. https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-...
Even for someone who likes the office, work from home once a week is a boon. I'd prefer a 4-day workweek, but I'll take what I can get.
They also have grilled chicken variants, and wraps. Between the two, you can get an entree for a couple hundred calories.
Yes, press Alt+T :)

https://github.com/jonathontoon/manifest/blob/c51828086d972f...
The 'perfect scenario' I work on is to try working from inside to out. The first question is "Do I understand?" - maybe the goalposts aren't shifting and there is something going on that you haven't picked up.

Checking that you understand involves finding evidence; so now you should have some evidence to go to someone else and ask "Do I understand?". They can help review the evidence and provide a check that it is convincing or at least realistic.

Having been thorough and made sure that there isn't something to fix up on the easy side, the next step is going to the reviewer and (gently, slowly but directly) raising concerns they are giving unhelpful feedback. An easy trap here is having evidence while they are going in blind which is a rather threatening imbalance, so give them time (maybe a few days) to think before expecting a response or there might be fireworks.

That exhausts the social work, so if the situation is still unresolved consider if it is reasonable to formally escalate the evidence to someone somewhere in the command chain so that they are aware the reviewer needs some coaching.

That covers everything that can be done short of quitting.
Also, there's the situation of people who receive a lot of emails from services where the user mistyped their email, but the service doesn't validate the registered email.

In my case, I always feel I'm fighting a losing battle against the horde of emails addressed to users of unknown services...

There are a growing number of services that validate the email and include a "I didn't register at this service".

This has me worried, because I can imagine so many scenarios where the metadata aggregators scrape and mis-classify by email:

A teenage boy using a Snapchat-like service had created an account with my email and I had to manually delete it; some guy used my email to register his account at a MacDonald's franchise's ERP; I once received a booking confirmation from some large airline (and Google nicely reminded me that I had an upcoming flight); also, I was once wrongfully tagged by email in an unlisted web album of a party that had taken place in a French village by an older lady.

I always try to reach out to notify the person... But sometimes it's hard to call a Peruvian bank to notify them that one of their account holders used my email to register his account, and they tell you they'll get around to notifying the user, but don't.

Now; I could imagine several scenarios where things might get bumpy for me in the near future...

Like in the event where someone tries to forecast criminal behavior; or what if a government thinks I should be paying taxes on some income that their metadata suggests I have (because, why else would you have emails in your inbox from that bank?).
My point in the "in touch" was supposed to be restricted to how in touch with the machine you are. It probably feels great, but there is a lot there that you are almost certainly incapable of feeling.

And this is a giant false dichotomy. Some people enjoy these new cars. In ways people that enjoy the old may or may not understand.

Again, I don't want to preclude anyone with these experiences. I just reject the romantic attitude that something is getting lost. It is just changing. In most objective terms, for the better.
Hey IPFS person here. We actually made a change to ipfs-desktop back in Feb of last year to reduce the default connection limit to ~300 (https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop/pull/828), and also to set desktop nodes into DHT-client mode (so they don't get lots of requests from other nodes for where to find content). If you've been running your node since back then, you can change your defaults in the desktop "settings" menu at the bottom of your IPFS config by setting '"HighWater": 300' (or whatever you prefer -- personally I like having ~600 connections). I run ipfs-desktop all the time (including on crappy hotel wifis) and don't find it gets in the way of anything.

You're right, there are a ton of great ideas and suggestions for how to make IPFS better that we haven't gotten to yet - we're working on making it easier to navigate and for more folks to help contribute. To that aim, we just created a new ipfs-docs site (in beta right now) to better explain the concepts and how-to of working in the ecosystem: blog.ipfs.io/2020-01-07-ipfs-docs-beta/ -- would love your feedback on how we can keep making that better!
If I was your manager I’d like to know about stuff like this so I could try to help figure something out. Unfortunately it would feel like snitching for you and your actual manager + coworker might feel the same way. I usually try to avoid being a “problem employee”, so often end up just going down the path of least resistance. It’s a tough situation, especially if teammates who are senior to you struggle with leadership and decision making.
It could work. I think the best model is when a company/team adopts a remote-first mindset, then the people who prefer working that way can be productive and happy while people who prefer working in person can work together in an office.

My company is pretty well set-up for remote (lots of communication over email and chat, video in every meeting) but I still feel like I miss a lot when I'm not there in person.
It also favors itself. I searched for "work music". First 9 results are from youtube.
JavaScript tree shaking, like a pro
> Despite the fact that I've had around 50 interviews and countless articles written about my disclosure, my website zachvorhies.com doesn't show up on Google's search index, even when using the exact url as a query!

I just tried it, it's just showing results for "zach vorhies" instead, which it thinks you meant. I just tried a few other random "people's names as URL" websites I could find, sometimes it does this, sometimes it doesn't.

Furthermore, the results that do appear are hardly unsympathetic to you. If google is censoring you/your opinions, they're doing a very poor job of it.
You mean this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAX7UFd70M8
What you are describing is race driving.

What you are complaining about is being restrained from being a danger to the public.

Great read for the letters to the editor page of a car enthusiast magazine that specialises in draping hot chicks over shiny bonnets and pretending that road hypnosis is as desirable a state as zen flow. But back here in the real world where driving happens on crowded roads with other people shuttling themselves and their families to work and school, not such a great read. Your attention should be on the road ahead and the cars around you, not where the gear shift needs to be for a clean gear change, or how much throttle you can apply before fish-tailing into the soccer team in the next lane.

Bring on the cars where I don’t even need to touch any controls, mostly because that means the hoons and idiots won’t be touching any controls either.
Isn't that handled by mutable torrents a la BEP 46?
The Year of Linux on My Desktop?
I doubt you'll see mixed human/AI racing.

Even if you could trust the robot cars to run along side human driven cars, you can't trust the human drivers around the AI opponents.
Annalisahoustonbrock
Google filters the results on date of web page update, not date of the post reddit post creation, which is the correct behaviour.

And you are just making unjustified bold statements
> - Microsoft File Search: Even with full disk indexing (I turned it on) it still takes 15-20 minutes to find all jpegs with an SSD. What's going on there?

I use this software utility called Search Everywhere, its surprisingly good, fast and fairly accurate most of the times :)
Show HN: Poor Person's Bitly with GitHub Pages
Not so minor!
Vowpal Wabbit has been doing this 'hashing trick' since the 200s.

It also the feature interaction, which are the same thing as a layer in transformers (all against all matrix).

So it seems like they are still catching up to where John Langford and crew were over a decade ago.

And, the vowpal wabbit approach is extremely fast to train because it's only doing stochastic gradient descent on a linear function - linear regression. Transformers are much slower to train.

EDIT: Downvoters, please see my last leaf to see why they're effectively the same. The guy responding here seems unfamiliar with all the functionality of vowpal wabbit.
A shoutout for duckduckgo here. I tried both qwant and duckduckgo about a couple of years ago but the quality of search results forced me back to google in a couple of days. But I gave it another shot a few weeks ago and I have been pretty happy with the search results from duckduckgo and the fact that the ads do not follow me around the web based on my searches is rather pleasant. I must admit that google hasn't done anything bad to me but their sheer size and scale is scary enough for me to look for alternatives.

Now back to the search quality, I wanted to find out when exactly world economic forum 2020 is happening and google won hands down (search term = world economic forum 2020 dates). But for now and for most of my day to day search terms duckduckgo is doing okay. I know this won't last for long as they also are looking at advertising dollars but I hope then someone else will stand up to challenge duckduckgo+google combined.
What Happened to VC Twitter?
So much I'd like to write about demoscene, even though I didn't have the privilege of first-hand exposure... Studying it from afar in South Africa, it was clearly one of the strongest programming forces in the 90s.

In those days, the centre of the demoscene was Finland, with its Assembly demoparty and associated acts of unparalleled programming power (e.g. Future Crew). Those Future Crew and CNCD guys later were associated with a lot of rendering tech, both on CPU (Umbra visibility middleware, which ships with many/most modern games) and GPU (anyone remember the infamous BitBoys GPU hype?); their demoscene efforts morphed into the benchmarking software company Future Mark (with demoscene parody as "Maturefurk") as well as gamedev (Remedy entertainment).

These days, Nvidia created a R&D lab in Finland just for them, and is a great research effort led by Jaakko Lehtinen[1] (responsible much for the recent GAN stuff that went viral), Timo Aila, Samuli Laine and Tero Karras (responsible for the tech behind Nvidia's RTX [2], [3]).

[1] https://research.nvidia.com/person/jaakko-lehtinen

[2] https://research.nvidia.com/publication/understanding-effici...

[3] https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/publications...
such innovation!

like Zeronet with Namecoin, only less original
They had news and irc clients too iirc?
Referrals to bay area engineering jobs
The article hardly supports its conclusion with these cherry-picked examples; however, the core reason these results don't meet the author's expectations is that Google's AI does not understand the content of webpages well enough to identify the publication date accurately (at least anywhere near as accurately as a human can). Google's publication date is based on whether it found changes to the HTML on its own crawl date (which is very noisy due to today's dynamically generated website) or based on schema.org/microdata, which as other commentators point it is game-able for purposes of SEO, or simply missing on most sites.

As a contrast, take a look at how Diffbot, an AI system that understands the content of the page by using computer vision and NLP techniques on it, interprets the page in question:

https://www.diffbot.com/testdrive/?url=https://www.reddit.co...

It can reliably extract the publication date on each post, without resorting to using site-specific rules. (You can try it on other discussion threads and article pages, that have a visible publication date).
Fire safety folks are very opinionated about how buildings are laid out. It may seem arbitrary to you or I, but you’re not the one having to pull people out of burning buildings.

Without examples, it’s hard to say whether this person is being petty or believes that in case of a production issue, they will be the one who is called upon to fix the problems. Possibly both. Cleaning up messes isn’t fun, so people can sprout a lot of opinions.

If you were a coworker I’d have you send me reviews to look at, but you’re not in that sort of scenario here. Is there anyone who can talk to him? I got pushback early on about my review style and one thing I figured out is people don’t want to hear things from the same person over and over, or hear about everything all at once. I learned to let my coworkers make all their comments, and come in late and point out only the things they all missed. Smoothed a lot of feathers, and honestly saved me time and energy (and a bit of stress). Your coworker might need to hear this from someone other than you.

I just won an 8-year argument with my partner about what can and cannot go down the garbage disposal. Cost me a couple hundred bucks for an after hours plumber, but now she knows. She thought I was just being fastidious even after I told how I learned these rules. Sometimes work is also like this.
The Universe in a Single Atom https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Single-Atom-Convergence-Spir...
Reward does not facilitate visual perceptual learning until sleep occurs
My knowledge of this era is limited to the 80's mini-series "Shogun", based on the book by James Clavell, but wow, I never made that connection before, thanks.
Another Pyramid That Could: Cashbery, Crypto, and the Legacy of a Russian Scam
On the server check Hasura. You get a GraphQL CRUD over Postgres in almost one click.
The dark side of digital health
For the love of everything holy, some of us just dont want public transit - especially having seen the horrors of most public transit options even in the best managed nations and conditions.

From one of my previous comments on a different post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19638171

- - - -

Reducing the number of cars (and therefore traffic) on the
roads will benefit everybody
You seem to have a rose-tinted view of the world we live in.

Have you ever had to commute in less-than-ideal
conditions?
Heavy snow? Sleet? Black ice?
Have you ever lived in places that are not
perfectly flat? or lived in places that
are hot that make bicycling unfeasible?
Did you have sporting gear / work gear that
you had to lug? Did you know some people have
to fetch their own gear to work
Did you have to take calls during transit?
Did you know its common practice for employees
to call into meetings during their commute and/or
help assist operations via conference calls?
Have you had to shop for more than a baguette
or a bagel at a store? You know how cumbersome
that gets for even a family of three?
Do you have the slightest clue how much casual
violence and crime happen on public transit?[1]

Not to belabor the point but there simply are dozens of cases where bicycles or public transit just don't cut it. Not to mention the hygiene, personal safety (from other passengers for example) and personal space aspects involved in someone choosing a mode of transportation other than public transit or bicycling.
Ride-sharing, autonomous vehicles and emission-free vehicles should all alleviate the issues we currently face with traffic, parking and accidents.

However doing away with cars or vehicular traffic is just pollyannaish madness.

[1]

Teen robbed at gunpoint at Fruitvale, BART officer says writing a report is a 'waste of resources'

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/bart-police-refuse-repo...

- - - -

edit: formatting
What this really sounds like is Hindenburg Research daring Google to not notice.

Also, please switch the link to the original research, or go upvote the original (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22092095)
In conclusion, it makes no sense except as a science experiment.

If you care about people consuming your content, you won't use IPFS.
IPFS and ENS work pretty seamlessly together (https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/ethdns-9d56298f...), but some folks also want the mutable pointers layer of IPNS too. We're working on making that faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XniIDIXU8RE&t=10s
Chipotle has a similar number of stores and targets higher income areas as well. They average of ~2M per store.
> So no, this is no amazing thing.

Putting the legal aspects to one side, do you not think it's amazing? If not, what would it take to impress you?
Belief Perseverance
Haha you know, I think you are onto something! But the main thing is that most fast food businesses (and businesses in general) are so focused on revenue that their employees and customers suffer.

I recently used a self-serve machine at Taco Bell (love the dreadful beef chalupa) and had a poor experience. The machine was too low for my height and unadjustable. Poor design really brings out the worst in the fast food experience.