skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sometimes listen to tracks from musicForProgramming[0] website, and I usually download the ones which I like and then play them off the offline music player.

Other than that, I have some Spotify playlists saved (not from me, some links I found on Twitter and other sites) [1,2]

[0] https://musicforprogramming.net

[1] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlwJYNRdkTfZMALZclyIx?si=...

[2] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2u5h5ZloqSXRuDMTrRincp?si=...
> I hope they start fearing death more, and invest in anti senescence research

Aren’t Larry and Sergey already investing in this via Alphabet?
See also: http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1744
Google Pushes ‘Sensible’ Ideas for How to Regulate AI
Ordinary people are more likely to be outed by companies Thiel has invested in, like Facebook[1]. Interestingly, he has yet to sue Facebook “on principle”.

[1] https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-privacy-policy-outs-lgbt-...
The corresponding strategy would be to have an overarching campaign narrative which was aimed at achieving a specific goal (registering interest, requesting a demo, signing up for a trial account, visiting a campaign page and going further down the funnel), or establishing a specific position for your brand in the market. This would be mapped to specific KPIs or metrics that you wanted to achieve.

A LinkedIn ad (or a Facebook ad, microsite, TikTok, Snapchat), targeted at a specific audience or audience subset, might be one tactic amongst many that you used to drive people toward achieving this goal. You would have different tactics for different parts of the funnel (i.e. an ebook for someone at the top, and a demo or webinar for someone at the bottom). You would then measure the success of these tactics to determine where to direct spend to achieve your goal.
> This page (http://pharo.org/news/pharo8.0-released) is currently offline. However, because the site uses Cloudflare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site.

Except that I see a big error page.

Isn't CloudFlare supposed to help with this? The message on top seems to indicate that, but when I (back in the day) tested with CF on my domain it just proxied every request and failed when my server didn't respond, having zero advantage over just using my server directly (in fact, even having the downside that Tor users now couldn't reach my site anymore). Seems like that's still the case.
SenseTime's AI generates realistic deepfake videos
Then should we talk about technical liability and compare it to financial liability? Maybe that would be a closer comparison than using debt in both cases.
I would have expected it to be explicitly mentioned if considered.
People do things - sometimes good, sometimes not good.

But him using his money to take down a website that thought it was ok to out people? I never heard about it before, but I find that damn cool.

That's not super-villain rich but Batman-level good.
I got the same error while deleting my account over a month ago when it was announced that their parent company LogMeIn had been bought by private equity: https://www.zdnet.com/article/logmein-sells-to-private-equit...

So the deletion process has been erroring in that way for at least a month now.
It will probably not be considered tampering, but at the same time, it will probably not be accepted as a proof officially.
They're probably using "bird shot" colloquially to describe what's really just a steel abrasive consisting of small metal balls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_abrasives
Show HN: Quit my job to work on my startup and finally launched the app
I quit my job and spent last 3 months to launch this app GoodnightJournal.com.

I would love to get your honest feedback on it!
Everybody’s Talkin’: Let Me Talk as You Want
The growth rate of capital has exceeded the growth rate of wages for many many decades now.

So you have two choices:

1. Invest in yourself

2. Invest in the market

The first would mean you go to school, work hard, etc to earn a high salary. You hope that the payoffs of this will grow year over year. Turns out the long-term growth rate of wages is south of 4%.

The second path you can take is invest your capital in the SPX. I did a quick calculation: SPX level in 1990: 334, today 3273. (3273/334)^(1/30) = 7.9% annualized growth.

So basically the rich, the people with capital, earn almost twice on their investment doing nothing versus someone who invests in their career with hopes of earning more money.
There are yachts and then there are yachts.

I assume you're negative towards yachts like Larry Ellison's - giant fuel chugging beasts that the owner flies in to port to go on once or twice a year and that requires a crew the size of a small company to operate.

Then there are small craft with a sail that are completely environmentally guiltless to operate, and that can introduce kids to the joy of sailing and to the wonders of the ocean.

The second kind are awesome.
I don't think anyone would claim that. To flip the strawman: are you OK with any feasible retaliation for such an outing, no matter the repercussions?

It's not inconsistent to think that Gawker was a bad site which did a bad thing for which they should be punished and that suing them into oblivion was a worse thing with worse effects for society.
Wow. That seems like a pretty compelling tool. I may license for a month and see what it can do.

Thank you for taking the time to help me with this.
Great, after they finish fucking up California they'll work on New Zealand.
Does your team hire PhDs with formal verification backgrounds? If so, what is the interview process like? Do you make them go through the standard leetcode type interviews?
Do you not think the Truffle and Graal IRs do this?
This appears to be unauthenticated AES-CBC, and is thus insecure.
This. From presidential debates to people regurgitating talking points doing random conversations.

I genuinely do not know what the solution here is, but the sooner we move away from advertising in politics, the sooner we might get somewhere.
Back when most wealth was inherited (before 1800 say), upper class families used to practice primogeniture, or giving all the money to the oldest son. If they didn't do that, then the kids in the nth generation would get something like a 1/2^n share. In that case, nobody in the family would have enough money to support a presence at court to lobby for the family's interests, and eventually their claim to noble status would die out. Upper class parents concluded that having some wealthy sons was better than having no wealthy sons eventually.

The dynamic of the younger, educated, connected but poor son of a noble family is pretty important in history, even if it isn't interesting to us in the egalitarian West. But such people did sometimes succeed in making themselves rich, and probably more often succeeded in impoverishing themselves further. A lot of them ended up as bandits.
It doesn't get more than a passing mention, but section 2.1 is worth noting. Don't try to use sqlite files on an NFS mounted drive.
Not enough. I hope more billionaires start seriously investing when they turn 40 or 50 or 60 and realize the clock is ticking.

And by seriously, I mean spending over 50% of what they have - when they realize that if death happens, all they have accumulated will not matter.

Better spend that on increasing their lifespan that on kids!
>I don't think most people want to grow a gnarly beard, take up hammer and sickle, and overthrow the bourgeois.

I disagree about the beard part. American men may not be interested in overthrowing the bourgeois, but they sure do like gnarly beards these days. And American women won't date a guy without a beard.
How to Become a Financial Hacker: A Gentle Introduction
Unfettered capitalism would do way more good than current-day crony capitalism. In fact, many people, namely libertarians, think it would do much more good than even honest capitalism.
Salt is fine... in general you're more likely to get too little salt than too much, and the difference in your blood pressure between the two isn't that significant.
It is very “British” with wit, puns, long running silly gags, in-jokes, smart headlines, sarcasm, and self-deprecating jokes.

However, The Register is usually technically correct and regularly breaks important news (good journalism). Minor technical (or grammatical) errors will be lambasted in comments.

Essentially, the style meshes well with it’s target readership, and they are very happy that anyone that doesn’t like the style auto-excludes themselves from the readership/community.
Yeah, it’s like that every single time it shows up, I really don’t understand what this is supposed to do.
He gave the trump campaign a fairly sizable and timely donation. Not saying Trump is homophobic or anything ...

EDIT

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/technology/peter-thiel-do...

$1.25M is fairly sizable

2 weeks before the election is timely

For sure Trump is probably indifferent to sexuality, but his voters are not.
Who is prepared to be a great president and have we ever had a great president? I honestly don't know. I'm only 30, and I haven't seen one in my lifetime.
Yes, and by removing the ability of university to set a lower price in monetary terms, this system simply encourages them to extract more value per pound in other ways, such as the lower status and fewer benefits mentioned in the post. This seems unlikely to benefit academics overall.
Personally I’m not “ok” with it, but I don’t think it’s much different than many other things that get reported about public figures. So many stories have been written about folks’ sexuality in gossip rags over the years. The reaction in this particular case was bizarre.
No kidding, and talking about laws presupposes the tech works really well, and not worth trying to fool. It also presupposes these govs and corps are really effective. Someone wants to boost these beliefs more than they want to fix any problems.
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Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights (2018)
Is it actually so unlikely considering the sheer number of ways it could happen? We live in a society where it's obvious that one event, one invention, and one person can have an outsize effect on all the rest. Thankfully, these end up usually being positive changes, but not always.

If you asked folks in 1920 how likely it would be that in less than 20 years there would be another awful World War and millions of civilians would be systematically slaughtered and turned into ashes, they probably would have said that is "very unlikely" too.

These people are educated, understand tail risks and have the means to try and hedge them. They are not insane, not even close.
Not very comparable. TLA+ involves writing statements in a custom "logic" which adds modalities (i.e. monads) to support 'time' (or rather, state transitions in discrete steps, ala temporal logic) and non-determinism (which is reused to support refinement) to standard propositional logic.

Nothing like this can be done in a standard programming language (even Scala or Haskell), and even in a dependently-typed language you would need to write some support code in order to embed this logic and work with it within the system. (It wouldn't be hard for sure, since even FOL gives you far more power than any (multi-)modal logic, but it's a different, perhaps more elegant take on things than just working directly within TLA).
Missed opportunity to write about transferring the jewels in porta-johns.
If Peter Thiel wants to pretend he cares about privacy, he should shut down Clearview and Palantir.
The tools provided by Topaz Labs are incredible for enhancement and have free trials.
When the Self Slips
>the update of game-state itself does not require mutability at the language level,

This is more inline with what I mean. The muteability must happen somewhere whether it's a framework or a language it is being hidden from you via a black box. It doesn't matter whether or not the language is FP or not, it is the paradigm I am talking about as you can do FP in any language.

The way you describe it via the GC, is a leaky abstraction. At the language level the immuteable data strucure must exist forever, but underneath this, what is occuring is mutation behind a black box.

If at the language level where all things are immuteable you treat everything as the abstraction says you should and reference past state your program will overflow. Therefore in order to do your technique properly you must know what's going on underneath in order to properly use the functional abstraction in this way as the leak from the blackbox limits you in what can be done in the FP paradigm.
Bjork and Microsoft use AI to create music that changes with the weather
And what then? You end up with 150 y/o billionaires? Great
Some cheaper HDDs and third-rate drives won't honor flushes. Same for SSDs, a few very cheap ones ignore flushes in favor of cache performance.
Dying Light 2 Delayed to an Unannounced Release Date
Ancient China had foot-binding. Perhaps in the future we'll have finger-binding, where teens wrap bandages around their fingertips so they'll still be able to manipulate small electronics in their later years?
The case of the disks not honoring fsync is famous. I learned about it from Brad Fitzpatrick, author of LiveJournal (later on the Go team at Google) writing about it in 2005: https://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html
Top Facebook executive had an awkward face-off with Amazon CTO over user data
An important point. Internationals typically have to pay in full at a higher rate.
> Success these days

Success has always been about sucking up to the right people.
I think there might be value in creating a “Maintainer’s Cookbook” of socially appropriate phrases that they can use to decline interest in feature requests, technical support, pull requests, bug reports, etc.

“That looks like an excellent feature! Good work, thanks for showing it to me :)” [pull request closed]

“I’m sorry to hear that it’s not working out for you. If you’re able to work out what went wrong, feel free to post an update.” [closes issue]

“That’s an unfortunate flaw to have encountered. It doesn’t come up in my usage, but I agree with your diagnosis. If you end up fixing it in your own fork, please do mention this issue.” [closes issue]

And an accompanying “Open source user guide” that covers the basics (much of which I don’t know today)

“How to fork, repackage, and replace an upstream Node dependency when you’re trying to fix a bug”

“When is it appropriate to submit an issue/feature/pull request?”

“How do I upvote something I want to see an open source author do for me?”

etc.
No mention of high prevalence of cold beverage and ice consumption. Couldn’t possibly be related?
Exactly; the bunkers aren't helping anyone and are a complete waste. But advancing medical research can have all kinds of great by-products; look at all the technologies that came from pouring money into the Apollo program. Even if they don't succeed in totally conquering aging, there's likely to be other very useful discoveries made and therapies developed.
I thought this was copied from my friend who wrote this article last year which became popular:

https://medium.com/s/story/technical-debt-is-like-tetris-168...

Although he references a 2017 article that says the same thing so I guess it is a meme floating about.
Don’t talk about the market on HN. Every time I bring it up there’s a dozen people who insist that the stock market is a scam and no one should consider an appreciating asset as a contributor to their net worth.
Funny story: my first night in Italy (a country where I would go on to spend years, get married and have kids) they served "prosciutto con melone" - cured ham with cantaloupe at the place I was staying.

To this day I love prosciutto, and I like melons, but I can't stand the taste of them together.

That first evening there, I was really worried that all I had heard about how good Italian food was maybe not true - perhaps it was all strange things like what they'd just given me?
>This could benefit a lot of people

i don't think the blood boys benefit in any ways. And just wait until Thiel and the likes learn how to have "kidney/liver boys".

Wrt. original post - NZ is just temporarily and just for meager billionaires. The Moon&Mars are for really rich people, ie. the trillionaires we're going to have in the coming few years. Private Starship on a private launchpad, private penthouse in high LEO, ... Sergey/Larry are the first people to live to 200, Zuck - to the time dilluting spaceships.
In fact, many public sector jobs exist because they are too valuable (or difficult) for the market to pay. In the time before lighthouses were automated, try to calculate the value of the lighthouse keeper who prevented deaths and lost cargo.
Everyone thinks of the Mir space station first, no?
I agree, but I don't think the "lots of guns, wow" comment adds anything.
Every Macbook after around 2015 is HiDPI. Windows Surface laptops, too. Hardly "practically do not exist in the wild". I love Smalltalk, but I am not qualified to rewrite the entire Pharo rendering layer, unfortunately.

Also, statscounter doesn't account for high resolution displays at all, grouping them all as "other". And these are around 20%.
I'm not saying that's insane - just that the probability multiplied by the consequences means they're misguided in being afraid of a global collapse instead of being afraid of their death that is GUARANTEED given our limited technology.
Does melanin help with the heat, though? I thought it just protected from skin cancer.
To clarify, you are ok with billionaires having the ability to use the legal system to destroy any organization they personally dislike?
No, you end up with everyone living to 150, and having longer, healthier lifespans in general.
Somewhat related to this is that only a small percentage of wage earners make enough money to invest any of it. This makes class mobility extremely difficult, and we're starting to see that move down-market with more people renting vs buying houses, leasing cars, etc. It's very difficult to own anything these days.
I know exactly how much goes into Medicare and Medicaid. The idea that I shouldn't have a say in how my money is spent or what strings are attached is morally bankrupt. If I owe you insulin just because you're morbidly obese in my country then you owe me to never drink soda. It's not that complicated.
Folding@home is working on a different problem. Folding@home finds the path a protein takes to arrive at its final structure, not just the final structure. One of the main goals is to understand protein misfolding or where on the path things go astray to result in disease.

After all these years, we are still at it. New methods are regularly evaluated and the simulation software is being refined all the time.
Screeps – MMO strategy sandbox game for programmers
My friend from Guadalajara swears by Tajin seasoning on a lot of stuff, including cantaloupes and watermelon and I think kind of everything...
Open source: A matter of license and lock-in
Yeah, it would be a pretty good weekend project.

Detect faces in each video frame, skew/stretch so that the area of each detection is the same, apply this super resolution technique in OpenCV.
Thanks. That clears it a bit more. Do you do consulting on the side ? Would love to talk more about this.
It may be banned in certain areas but lead shot is still sold:

https://www.cabelas.com/category/104567580.uts?CQ_view=list&...

https://www.amazon.com/Magnum-Lead-Shot-2-25-Pound/dp/B001QV...

And some bans have been reversed:

New U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Thursday issued an order overturning an Obama administration ban on the controversial use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle used on federal lands and waters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-interior-zinke/new-in...

But even if there were a ban, since this hotel has been doing this since the 1930's, they could still have a few hundred pound bags of real lead shot in the basement that they're using for this.
Forgot to mention: baseline JIT with PICs. I keep hearing about sophisticated top tier JITs but that won’t do shit if you don’t have a solid baseline JIT.
Fun times. Which are the fun areas of tech these days?
I'll wager a wealthy amount of money that the gap is going to increase at a faster clip
Extradition Trial for Huawei Executive Facing US Fraud Charges Begins
>>> "he is pure symbol: less a person than a shell company for a diversified portfolio of anxieties about the future"

As someone who closely follows & respects Thiel and for his clarity of thought + entrepreneurial ability, how do these outlets get away with writing stuff like this while still maintaining an audience
I pity some of the ultra rich. Personal paranoias and neuroticisms like this can be indulged. Most involve loss of money or life, so you have quacks selling life-extending treatments, bunkers for when society collapses, and so on.

I don't see many people point this out, but societal collapse would be gradual, and there will be no safe haven. Plenty of people with boats will be able to make it to NZ, and money loses value outside of the societal structure that allows it to be traded for goods (you will not sell your food in a famine for any amount of money). The only way out is to prevent the collapse in the first place.
No, they don’t do this.

They try to infer specialization from an AST interpreter. That’s not on the same planet as what I’m talking about.
I carry an apple to work every day with black pepper & salt pouches from Taco Bell, & my american co-workers have asked me why I sprinkle salt on fruit? I explain them we sprinkle salt on apples, banana, guava, pineapple, watermelon, cucumber, tomatoes, onion, oranges and many other things.

Black salt is not tangy like lemony, it is just rock salt. Sometimes fruitsalts are salts peppered with ground black pepper and or lemon juice. Black salt on its own is earthly salty like ocean water.
EU Considering 5-Year Ban of Facial Recognition Tech in Public Spaces
Only for as long as it takes you to build your personal network and resume so that you can demand the same pay elsewhere.

Anchor your salary as high as possible as quickly as possible to establish what you're worth and then move.

Bay area tech beaucoup bucks in flyover country is a recipe for early retirement.
It's not only not a scam, it's the only reliable way to generate wealth.
GNU Make 4.3 Released
You’re assuming that getting a clear face view would result in:

1. Identifying the person

2. The authorities finding this person

3. The arrest of this person

4. A conviction of this person

and possibly also

5. You getting your things back.

In my cynical experience, every single one of these five assumptions is extremely unlikely to actually happen. Note that each one of them depends on all the previous ones.
Code Makes Better UX Designers
They already do, the refugees in libanon and turkey sell parts for a future.
I'm not trashing Win98SE, I'm just "trashing" the use of bootleg software which I do find a bit distasteful in this day and age. Linux has plenty of nice educational games IIRC, even xpaint is right there.

(BTW, FreeDOS comes with a bunch of cool GUI interfaces - not as nice-looking as Win98SE but quite usable. Do note that old OS's like FreeDOS, even Win9x can be a bit of a challenge to get to run even in a VM, since by default they will be hogging 100% of the CPU. There are HLT-issuing background tools that solve this for both FreeDOS/MS-DOS and Win9x, but you do have to get them installed and running properly.)
Yeah right. What on earth would motivate them to prolong everybody’s life? I admire your optimism to be sure, but I don’t share it unfortunately. But even if your hoped for outcome did come to pass what happens wrt world population? Old
Age is probably one of the last things saving us from dying surrounded by our own waste ...