skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had access to one of their subscriptions for startups, were you haves, among other things, access to their software, and they have old releases on their directory you can download, as Windows 3.11 and the like. I don't know how is the licensing for that (only while you hold subscription to the site?).
> on a lot of BMW automatic shift knobs

Isn’t that only with a couple of weird models built on the Mini UKL platform (and not even all of those)? Hardly what I’d call “a lot”.

Pretty sure literally all other models use a button for park.
Better would be to revalue the currency by dividing by ten or twenty. Change would mean something again, and have some useful value.
We need better, safer, anti-psychotic medication.

We need better, more effective, treatment for entrenched eating disorder.

We need better treatments for treatment-resistant depression or anxiety disorders.
It's a bit silly to hide the work in a method call and call it a "one-liner".
Not opensource though. If it's not opensource and it's free, you are the product :)
TwoTone: Understanding Data Through Listening
> Let's not ignore the elephant in the room. A sedentary lifestyle with minimal exercise has become the norm.

Huh? fitness industry is booming! Gym attendance is near all time highs! More and more people are eating healthier and switch to healthier and more active lifestyle.
Back-up software can use NTFS/ReFS Shadow Copy in Windows. This shouldn't cause issues with SQLite.

Copying files is only an issue for manual back-ups done without special software.
And cancer for that matter.

But from a brutally pragmatic point of view, the point holds.
It's not really documented, but human readable, may also not really mean what you think it means. For example, here's a snippet from the printed bytecode of the default system image:

#fn("8000r1e0~|[316>0\x7fM~|[i2i343;];" [closure?])] find-in-f)
#fn(";000r2c0~|}q3c1tg66I0c2e3c4c5e6g63132c73241;c8;"
[#fn("8000r0c0c1~\x7fq2i2322^;" [#fn(for-each)
#fn("8000r1~M|\x7f_43;" [])])
#fn("6000r1|F16B02|Mc0<16802|\x84c1<680e2|41;c3|41;" [thrown-value

It's human readable in the sense that all the operations have single character ascii opcodes and strings are embedded as is and there's no raw pointers, etc, so you won't get mojibake, but it's not human readable in the sense of say a pretty-printed IR.
Sure I guess people in the 1800's who worked on farms were far less sedentary but my parents, and my grandparents and my great grandparents all worked jobs fairly similar to mine and drove to work. And none of them went to the gym like my generation (born in the 80's).
How soon until coal/gas powered power stations will need drone defences?
1 pound of high explosive could fly into a power station and it might be able to find a sensitive point.
The cement is hard to damage, but you could smash a few insulators or power connectors, and one good enough to do that would only cost US$200 - cheaper by the dozen!!
If the bull headed do not shut down power stations. there are planty of loose wackos out there
In the same way that Spark turns a program into a plan for cluster computation, there's some sort of process by which an idea and a bunch of talking points gets compiled into a big distributed staged media campaign through all channels and institutions that forces culture change that no one asked for. The canonical and somewhat "innocent" example of this is a major advertising campaign for a new pharmaceutical like Prozac for example, where the company pushing it has to explain it through ads, articles, movies (Prozac Diary) and so forth to the general public over a number of years so that people get it as a new element of the social landscape.

Related to this is a question that has bugging me is how is the social justice "ideological pipeline" constructed and operated? How does an idea, become an obscure scientific journal article, become a slew of newspaper editorials and human interest stories, which forms a twitter mob, in which the ideological program has been installed on all the "beef only" thinker nodes, then it's own Netflix show, and super hero movie and then becomes a law where you get put in prison for using the wrong pronoun.
If you haven't got a ha'penny, then God bless you.
I wonder how they thought of it. I don't think germ theory was common knowledge at the time.
All the easy problems are solved. Logo and processing and scratch exist Programming didn't lose its way, it move forward on its way.
The fact that the software in question is not publicly available or runnable certainly makes it a "black box", regardless of whether the underlying models are human-interpretable. EDIT: my apologies, apparently it is available: https://github.com/deepmind/deepmind-research/tree/master/al... I must have gotten mixed this up with a different black-box-advertised-in-scientific-journal story.
If anyone could realize the tenuous value of education, it might be someone paying student loans for an economics degree...
As a user of paid LastPass and many other SaaS products, for me part of the value proposition is that I’m benefiting from the QA provided by free users. I expect bugs to be fixed quickly even if I don’t personally make a bug report. I’m especially unlikely to make a report if I already saw other people publicly complaining about the bug. Since most users don’t report bugs, software companies need to behave as though bugs are more common than reported.
I've always thought anonymous imageboards were excellent training grounds for how to deal with all of this. When there's no upvoting or ability to filter people by name, you have to learn how to deal with people who often truly are only posting to make you mad. There are two good responses, both of which are extremely difficult if you have no practice: ignoring it; engaging sincerely and with the assumption that the other person is doing the same. If you persist with the first they'll eventually go and bother someone else, but this is doubly hard because it requires everyone to ignore them, and that only really happens when the bait has grown stale. The second often results in them switching from the troll persona to actual sincerity, but it requires several back and forths of responding with goodwill to bile, and I think it's even harder to accomplish in forums where people have tied their name to their opinions.
Depends on age and maturity.

When given access to computing had discussions about finding things you may not understand or extreme weird things - and that he/she can talk with us to discuss these things.

We occasionally look at url history to this day.

later showed how to use multiple sources to check for accurate info and showed how mayo clinic, webmd, a few others may offer different details.

Showed articles from the news where people stalked and tried to kidnap based upon online chats.

Did research on software - used family-link on google to block things until age 13 when family auto-destructs.

Had discussions every few months about how people show edited bad things to get others to to bad things - story about the 'bernie sanders freedom sticks' - other challenges' where people got seriously hurt or killed.

Talked about how sharing a picture could give you your exact location in multiple ways.. and if other details were known like time or whether or time school starts, how that process is easier.

Decided Disney cirlce's dns poison on the router and via app on the phone is the best censoring we could find. Then found out we can't afford it.

Found out other kid never uses youtube on his phone and cant use directions apps cuz the family link from google.. found out other kid tells that kid to install amino chat(?) and it iframes youtube (non-kids version) - they are hackers already..

Show article from yahoo news recently about the grooming kids via list of apps, getting them to send pics, then blackmail for more - depression and crap.

Show them that anyone can voice change and appear to be a girl or kid using phone apps and even method to do so on playstation mic.

Show how I can use a cam plugin to show "live cam" form my system, which is actually some random girl not me..

I have been considering getting some people together to build an app that semi-spies on kid's audio - and auto erases 90% of it.. and only sending a notice or save if it gets hits on certain keywords.. and make that toggle-able for various parents.. some might want sex keywords.. I think suicide related ones would be pretty universal.. but able to toggle others.. some parents no cuss words.. it's still various napkins of ideas.. something maybe with mycroft or similar that does not send audio to the cloud..

Keeping an ear out... my stepkid can and does tell me various things that are going in his digital world and I cam always accepting / listening, not getting angry - and I offer counter info on occasion..

The surprise I had when I found that a meme-thread-group was pushing extreme anti-feminist stuff... I did not show my emotions, I instead offered multiple other viewpoints and said perhaps reality is in the middle and there are extremes and edge cases here and there that do not represent the masses..

Looked into the open source disney-circle like thing - could not figure out how to make it work after studying a couple hours.

There have been more things over things, I'll try to remember and add.
Boeing Gets a Tough Message from a Big Buyer: Rename the 737 Max
I think this way of looking at it is interesting and I don’t see why your comment is currently being downvoted.

Sun Tzu wrote about humans acting as a bigger organism when an army work together as one.

And with that in mind, and with your comment on top of that, I wonder:

We generally agree that self-awareness is a sign of general intelligence, right? So if a group of people see them selves as one, in some sense, and act as one in some sense, then could we say that we are witnessing an organism that is built from people and that is elevated over the mind of just each of the individual people?

In the same way that we people are made of what I will very scientifically refer to as “a bunch of smaller stuff” but yet we are more than just the individual bits of stuff we are made of because as a whole each of us have our self-awareness and all that.

That is, something of higher general intelligence than its parts.
Amazed to see Trollope mentioned here.

I read Dr. Thorne probably twenty years ago, and liked it OK. I recently found, and have been completely blown away by, the Timothy West recordings of Trollope on Audible. They are hands down the most consistently enjoyable audiobooks I've ever come across (and I've been listening to audiobooks since the 90s). West's readings add so much to the experience. I really cannot recommend them strongly enough.
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RISE: A functional pattern-based data-parallel language in MLIR [pdf]
> if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all

Because pleasantness isn't a virtue in every context? Some unpleasant things need to be done and said sometimes. In fact, saying no in certain contexts is good, though it can often be unpleasant.

That being said, some people find it pleasant to be unpleasant. Certainly self-censor if you sense that urge arising. Getting drunk on anger or righteousness isn't a good look.
Most cells stay in the same place, die when told to and don't make more copies. Necessarily some of your cells don't obey one or more of these rules (you wouldn't last long if your blood cells weren't endlessly copied for example or if they stayed in one place). But if all three rules get broken you've got cancer.

The cancer I had when I was young, Hodgkin Lymphoma, is one extra rule broken because the lymphatic cells already don't stay in one place and makes extra copies of themselves - which is why it relatively often occurs in young people. One copying error and the "Die when told to" feature breaks in the new copies and now you've got cancer.
> an SQLite

Does this settle it, then? This implies it's pronounced ess-queue-lite. I personally prefer the sequel-lite pronunciation, but if the developers use the former, then I guess I'll do that.
I think quite a bit of software actually relies on closing and re-opening file descriptors, especially stdin/stdout/stderr just before/after forking. This was the first example I found via a quick web search: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/148410 but it suggest that e.g. bash would break :)

It might be possible with some hacks/heuristics to catch many errors (perhaps one could create a valgrind tool/santizier), but I suspect it's not possible in general since there's no way of knowing if the call to write(2,....) meant the old stderr or the new one.
Great SaaS Products Don't Sell, Only Offers Do
Cool.

Did you know that Peter Thiel, in his own words, decided to "create a shell company to hire former investigative reporters and lawyers to _find_ causes of action against Gawker", and to then give it a starting timeline and budget of "three to five years and $10 million"?
It's an artifact of how Rough.js renders sketchy lines. It does that by creating some random offsets. For some random values, it may create this effect for long lines, which is not ideal. This is less pronounced in shorter lines. The latest release has tried to reduce this effect, but there is a small probability that it may still happen: https://roughjs.com/posts/release-4.0/
My personal gripe with articles like this one is that they invent their own terms to frame the discussion in a particular way, perhaps in the hope that some time in the future, people will really start talking about "Internet beefs" or "beefy conversations" or something equally silly. The issue isn't the length - after all, use as many words necessary - the issue is with the relative paucity of research into whether this topic has been addressed in the relevant fields (sociology, psychology, media studies).

Does the concept already exist in the literature? Are there any similar concepts?

Let me have a go at it. I call this "the hacker blogger mindset", in which relevant literature in the field is passed over or simply ignored (assuming due diligence has been taken to research the topic, which it often hasn't been) in favour of a kind of NIH-syndrome thinking in which every concept the author thinks of is novel, it has not been noticed before by lay people or the academic community, and of course it hasn't been written up into a snazzy article with nice jargon that makes us sound clever like "mook manorialism". We'll throw a reference to Francis Fukuyama or Weber in there to convince the more skeptical that this is more than an unsubstantiated blog post.

A famous guardian of the hacker blogger mindset is Scott Alexander[0] (and to a lesser extent Paul Graham and the LessWrong community), but it's nice to see new contestants who want to try their hand at sociological analysis without referencing any sociology. I hope I'm not being too crude when I say that essays like this are a kind of poor man's academy. You don't have to learn about standing objections to the theory (or the theory's assumptions) made by experts, because I called my theory "internet beef", and the remarkably similar academic theory that already exists isn't called "internet beef" - so none of your objections are valid against my internet beef!

The optimist inside me wants to think that this topic hasn't been covered before, and that the essay addresses a problem that hasn't been addressed before. If that were the case, however, I would have expected the author to at least state as such - that after reading tens of papers on discourse analysis and Internet sociology, nothing similar to "Internet beef" showed up. Maybe I'm wrong and being unfair to the author - in which case, fair enough. Unfortunately, it doesn't negate all the other times I've seen this.

[0] Scott wrote a whole post on his blog about a particular German philosopher. As it turns out, he hadn't read any of the philosopher's works, but only Peter Singer's much-criticized entry in the Short Introductions series. This was sufficient. Likewise, the author of this blog post doesn't seem to have read up on Internet discourse analysis, a topic which a search on Google Scholar throws up hundreds of papers.
I don’t think it’s exactly unfair to describe the Aisin X1 as a “special BMW” :)

It’s definitely a weird exception, and the kind of car you’d expect to suck. Sort of like the Mercedes CLA.
And never underestimate the amount of money that a big tech company can throw at a random problem. DeepMind probably blew through the equivalent of multiple R01 grants writing that paper.
New developers, a piece of advice. Learn a text editor
humans dont start with a random scrambled brain
Have Employees in China? Be Careful with WeChat
Don't think they were ever cleaned as vigorously as the article describes, but it's not so long since banks used to clean and roll coins. Now they mainly use plastic bags.

Not even sure if new coins fresh from the mint are still rolled, I can't remember seeing a roll for ages.
That's very sad and AFAIK startling - he was still relatively young. I remember him being very friendly as a faculty member at CMU, as well as being whip-smart.

It is interesting that "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt" is the paper that appears in his obit link. This was coauthored with his student Alma Whitten (who later went on to the thankless task of being the main flak-catcher for Google on privacy issues, including what looked like some uncomfortable grillings on Capitol Hill).
African Internet Slows After Undersea Cables Break
It’s often about being the second easiest option, not the hardest.
Sorry about that! I don't really know what's the etiquette about this. I've always asked people to upvote for the initial submission so that it has a chance to get to the front-page. I'm happy to stop if that's against the rules.
How about using GCC's NEON intrinsics from C?
I’ve been trying to find this site for years! All of this time, I’ve been convinced it was +mammon I was looking for, but it’s all coming back to me now.

I don’t remember a hash maze, all I remember is that I got stuck for weeks on some puzzle related to wiring schematics, and eventually gave up.
I just did a quick dive into forex trading online to see what it would take to get this setup and... is it just me or are the websites and companies that run in this space the sketchiest things ever? I definitely do not trust any of these sites with the minimum deposits they are asking for.
Noël Godin
This is not a practical recommendation by any means... but fast ai has a lecture on image restoration with deep learning.

https://www.fast.ai/

https://youtu.be/9spwoDYwW_I?t=2913
I work in the field.

There are indeed many different applications of ML to drug discovery, but AlphaFold is a niche technique, and protein structure prediction is not practically useful, in general.
Similarly, https://skiplagged.com surfaces potentially cheaper multi-leg flights that have a layover in your destination city.

For example if you are wanting to travel from A->B, a flight that goes A->B->C may be cheaper than A->B if A->C is a competitive route.
I imagine apple has this data already with their apple watch data collections.
CoolerMaster Changed Its Thermal Paste Because Some Parents Mistook It for Drugs
According to the provided by the UN, genocide requires acting with intent to destroy.

> ... committed with intent to destroy ...

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
Transfer learning for the win.
I went from LastPass to Bitwarden and really like it also.
Single-use plastic: China to ban bags and other items
Gamedev Tutorial: Dot Product, Rulers, and Bouncing Balls
can you ELI5 if this is bad? Should I not be taking Asprin or does that cause inflammation?
I've been writing code professionally since 2001, and on an amateur basis since learning basic and machine language on my Commodore 64 in 1989.

The thing that many younger devs don't (yet) get is that tech works in cycles. Today's hotness is yesterday's tried-and-true. As an example, Java (J2SE) came out in 1998 and my guess is - based on open positions on e.g. Stack[1] - that you'll still be able to write Java for decades.

So for an old guy to adopt new tech:

1. I'd want there to be obvious benefits that outweigh the costs for the new approach. As an example, I'm not convinced FE frameworks are the best approach for CRUD apps. If you're building Trello and need crazy interactivity, sure. But you incur a bunch of cost vs. say Django / Rails / Laravel with intercooler or Stimulus sprinkled into interactive pages. And what's the huge cost for? Skipping a few page refreshes?

2. I'd want tech to be mature enough that I feel good it's going to be around and therefore is worth investing in. As you get older your time becomes more valuable as you tend to take on other obligations (kids, spouse). Hacking on new tech late at night or all weekend is less palatable or possible than it used to be.

Curious to hear what others think though.

1- As of writing there are 425 jobs that mention Java (https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?q=java). Surprisingly there are only 341 that mention React (https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?q=react).
Just found the place where it's mentioned, which I'm sure you've read before ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should do those things when they run across something they personally find interesting, not because someone has content to promote.

Going forward, it would be smart of you to assume that any community that uses voting, it's usually against the etiquette to solicit for votes. Especially if you haven't read the guidelines :)
It is very against the rules; it's too bad, because this is neat and probably would have (in fact, probably did, given the ring detection stuff HN does behind the scenes) done fine on its own. I appreciate the gracious response and cancelled my flag on this post. But a comment pointing out vote manipulation, even if it's well-intentioned, is on topic and deserves its place on the thread.
The abstract closes:

> These findings offer opportunities for HLA-independent, pan-cancer, pan-population immunotherapies.

So it hasn't come (to the journalists) from nowhere.
The Leech’s Journey, from Welsh Lab to American Hospitals
No, not that one, which I do remember.

It was longer ago. And I don't remember any more about it.

I only said HN because it's my main source for random reading.
Take a look at https://amoffat.github.io/held-karp-gpu-demo/

It can easily solve 16 nodes in under 50ms by running in WebGL
I think this is an artifact of how SLAs are tied to billing. Anyone who had ever billed a corporation knows how they will jerk you around. It’s obvious that you won’t get a straight answer if you go and ask a company how much they owe you. That’s what a status page is. It’s the company’s first offer in the negotiation on how much they owe you for the outage. You need to calculate your own number in response.

Maybe a more scalable solution would be a third-party company that sells this information. I think there’s a lot of money to be made there.
...which fits into a size of less than 700Mb compressed. Some of the most exciting stories I've read recently for machine learning are cases where learning is re-used between different problems. Strip off a few layers, do minimal re-training and it learns a new problem, quickly. In the next decade, I can easily see some unanticipated techniques blowing the lid off this field.