skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works really well inside of FB -- good way to collaborate, teams have their own groups and then there are cross team groups etc. There can be a little too much information, but there are not many complaints in general about the productivity it brings. Not sure how well it works in other companies.
i.e. basically what Taleb mentioned repeatedly in his books: The power of capitalism lies in its capability to allow people to freely explore all sorts of potential ideas. Many, or even most of them will fail, but some of them will get lucky and hit the mark. Many inventions/breakthroughs throughout the history were achieved "by accident" instead of intentionally/in a planned manner.
New app to find band members and bands to join
Hello!

So I'm a musician and software developer and I've always found it hard to find musicians when starting new projects. The current platforms for this (Joinbyband.co.uk and Gumtree) don't really cut it for me so I've started BandHQ, a new app to find band members and bands to join. I'm also planning to add collaboration and organisation tools later on down the line.

It's very early days but would love to get some feedback in terms of what features you'd like to see.

https://bandhq.app

Thanks!
Haha, I moved here from Manhattan, where I lived in a 1 BR that was luxurious by Manhattan standards but tiny by real world standards.

I'm very happy with my house, but I think it's probably smaller than what most software developers in the US would choose if they lived in an area this inexpensive.
New app to find band members and bands to join
Open multple GNU Screen windows and keep some open once execution stops
Is there a bug? In regexp for IPv4: https://ihateregex.io/expr/ip expression ends with {3} but the diagram states "2 times" in lower right - shouldn't it say "3 times"?
Conjuring Scenius
George Bernard Shaw probably didn't say that, "The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/31/illusion/

The source of that aphorism is probably William H Whyte and is better understood with its context about listening.

"LET US RECAPITULATE A BIT: The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society–and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding."
Still seems like there needs to be more context in rural USA areas where at not too low of zoom levels it is only showing state highways which makes it difficult to determine how to get to certain areas. When you zoom in enough for the other "major" roads to show up you lose all context because you are zoomed in too far now.
> This is incorrect, if you read Spivak, you can define and (n-1)-ary product which generalizes the cross product. You give it (n-1) vectors and it gives you a vector orthogonal to all of them.

I never said the wedge was the only way to generalize the cross product, I just said the cross product itself wasn't general.
For those that don’t hear a voice in your head, do you get songs stuck in your head?
I editorialized my own blog post title to be more descriptive of what it's about, because I think it's better for Hacker News than "GNU Screen Tip #1".
No apologies necessary: I generally try to be as generous as possible when interpreting people's words. In pretty much every case where I've actually done that the person I was talking to agreed that the words didn't quite match the intended message.
Bye bye any hopes of raising a family.
Humans have proven non thrust worthy- thus no high energy devices, only surveilance tech for the next thousand years. sorry.
Scenius is the idea, first put forth by Brian Eno, of communal genius. From the Ancient Greeks to the Scottish Enlightenment to Silicon Valley today, a few sceniuses are responsible for much of human progress.

Kevin Kelly wrote in 2008 that “although many have tried many times, it is not really possible to command scenius into being.”

I'm trying to form a MetaScenius to discover the recipe for Scenius in historical and present day examples with the goal of setting the conditions for one thousand sceniuses to bloom.

If you have favorite examples, are part of a community you think might be a blooming scenius, or want to join the MetaScenius chat to figure it out, hit me up @packyM on Twitter.
Want to note that a certain level of outgoingness is very beneficial when traveling solo. But that comes from self-appreciation. You want to be so comfortable by yourself that you're enjoying meeting new people.

Intensity is crucial for me too. I embark on an adventure, not just a sight-seeing exercise. And whatever happens, good or bad, is what I'm after.
Coming from python, my other least favorite javascript-ism is that you can call functions with the wrong number of parameters and it'll just set the missing ones as undefined and assume that's what you meant to do.

Maybe people who are used to js take advantage of this and do it on purpose, but from my perspective all it's done is take mistakes and move the errors farther downstream so that you can't trivially find where the problem started.

If I wanted a function to accept a variable number of parameters or have default values for a parameter that can be omitted, I would much rather have to have to define that behavior per function.
(Fiction) What Coding Will Look Like in 100 Years
Prop 13 and rent control both highly encourage NIMBYism and I would say are more important factors than property values. If a large apartment is built next to your house and you don't like the extra noise, the big shadow, and lots of people looking into your back yard, you could decide to move. Without prop 13 selling your house and moving a few blocks over to a location you like better is a pain in the ass and you have to pay off the realtors, but once you move, you just get on with your life. With prop 13 your property tax could double or triple, say going from $1000 a month to $3000 a month. This $2000 a month, every month, is going to make you mad and hurt you financially constantly for the rest of your life. No wonder people fight so hard to keep things like it was when they moved in.

People with rent control are under the same incentives. Have a $2000 rent controlled apartment that would rent for $4000? If something changes in your neighborhood the makes you want to move, you don't really have that option. So you fight really hard against changes.

The longer Prop 13 is around the worse it gets and California has just passed statewide rent control. Things will continue to get worse on this front and I don't see a way for California society to change the situation.
That's what I always thought originally, but from when I've spoken with other people about it, it's not the normal way of 'visualizing'. In particular, not being able to do things like imagine a persons face is pretty odd. Similarly, when i'm told to "imagine you're in your childhood bedroom" or "imagine you are on a hot desert island", I can't get anything going, while I'm told most people will construct a detailed mental scenery of it.

Like growing up, I always assumed that those scenes where someone's imagination goes wild and they envision other characters doing crazy things (see: the entirety of Scrubs) were just a literary device, but apparently that's at least sort of close to how a normal brain actually works.

The DRAM comparison is pretty good. Or like having a plastic film over the world that you need to press down on to see anything through.
Would be nice to have a regex for parsing HTML...

grabs popcorn
Right, I don't know if it makes sense business-wise or not. Probably not if no one is voicing out requests about it.

However, writing Swagger API specs for your future projects while you develop them might make you more productive, plus you do get that code generation for free on top of it. Depending on what language you work with, it may come essentially for free or with non-marginal effort.
.io is probably the worst choice you could go with if what you're looking for is long term stability.

This tld is problematic and really, should not be used.

https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...
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As mentioned, the key here is that "right to..." classically means (in both Europe and US) that one cannot prevented or banned.

This is more fundamental because it indeed used to be that whole parts of society were banned from doing things or owning things.

We now take this fundamental right for granted, which might explain the shift to interpreting "right" as "being entitled to".

There is another aspect in your comment, which to conflate "not being to obtain" with "discrimination". I think this is going a step too far.
Definitely radio, and I love that the music I hear had been choose by someone, not only an algorithm that knows exactly the songs that will appeal to me. May I ask you what the great radios from Athens (GR) are ?

Also, if you can listen to web radio, give a try to the french station FIP (https://www.fip.fr/) they are actually on strike so it's not as good as usually but it's definitely one of the best music radio out there. Hope you enjoy !
I highly recommend the book The Good Mothers. Even if you think you know about the mafia, the scale that they are operating on will blow your mind. The Calabrian-based mob control a medium-to-large country's worth of the world's money.
good point you raise: this statement is very behaviorist in leaning, and ignores human psychology, but perhaps this is to do with pragmatic reasons
I was initially dismissive due to the obvious title, but I'm glad I read it. Lots of great information in here, including the famous Gorilla experiment. Lots of pointers to interesting brain stuff.
That's the conclusion that a sufficiently advanced intelligence would draw from our behaviors. People act at odds to their stated and felt goals all the time, that's why "self control" is meaningful as a skill that different people have to different degrees.
"Google Analytics" is, as I understand the original context, shorthand for "something simple, cheap, and immediately useful." Feel free to substitute Mixpanel or some Show-HN-Google-Analytics-replacement Docker image or whatever.
Ewok and Jawa are never mentioned in the original Star Wars trilogy. Maybe never at all?
> I did suggest that they consider the bona fides of the person whose opinion they were tossing off as uneducated.

It would be more constructive to give reasons why one argument is better than another though, rather than resorting to status, and you did not reference any of the commenter’s points.

> Thanks for the downvote, though.

I don’t have the karma required to give a downvote. I’m not sure who you should thank.
> what positive things that can be gained from faulting China?

Changes in their behavior.
If I try to do it right now, I can only really generate a sort of average tone that I associate with them, or maybe a phrase they say commonly. I can't really synthesize a new sentence though, so there's something in there relating to memorability too. If I try to imagine my wife saying things that I know for a fact she said this morning, I just hear myself imitating her.
> Let's say a super-person is born, who just wants stuff more than anyone else alive. Maybe he's had a bad childhood and been through terrible things, so now those things that he wants reach the level of desperation for him. Wouldn't this make the worth of his values more than other people to the machines?

I’ve blogged about this recently.

Morality, thy discount is hyperbolic: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2020/01/08/morality-th...

Normalised, n-dimensional, utility monster: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/normalised-...

Disclaimer: although I do have a formal qualification in philosophy, I did not get a very good grade.
Sheriffs being elected is actually extremely important. A sheriff is a constitutional entity who has far more influence than a typical police officer. Having the public choose such an official, rather than having them be hired by a city commission is very preferable - because they can be removed by the people.

This isn't to say everything sheriff's do is good, they're obviously just people and prone to corruption like anyone else. That said, sheriffs who refuse to arrest people for certain things (such as marijuana, or for their sexuality) has been a significant force in protecting people from unjust laws. [0]These days, that same power is being used to try to protect the 2nd amendment.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLUaosbNXc
I work at a big tech company and also have my own small firm for freelance work. Even though I don't have my own product and implement what customers need, ranging from new website to SIEMs and stuff, I find it pretty lucrative. And my prices are about $20/hr.
But yes, I don't know if I can survive without working full job.

LE: and revenue is not that small, about 25k per year.
I think it says "repeat 2" times. So basically you'v already went through the group and then 2 more times.

Because if I specify x{0,3}, i have 2 paths - around x and thru x + at most 2 more times
The mechanics of putting a tarball somewhere on the Internet are simple and cheap, but that action also directly and indirectly greatly increases the potential for liability. This effectively requires the organization to create additional management and processes to mitigate this increased potential for liability. It is a headache many organizations want to avoid or can't afford.

Yes, "dumping source code" is simple and cheap. Managing the implications of doing so are not. I know of many cases where companies backed away from open sourcing software due to the overhead it would entail, even when they could afford it in principle.
I knew what you meant and didn't even consider that it was the wrong name, for what it's worth.

Kettle and teapot are synonyms as far as I'm concerned.
Well, yes, because of many factors. Terrible consumers, high taxes, little space, etc.
Does anyone know the cause of high mortality in the 20-40 age group?

Also: how much faster does a pandemic move now compared to 100 years ago (Airplanes, population density)?
This would take a while. What I am trying to say though is that action and inaction are not so different really. There are plenty of things government has to actively do and enforce to make sure that any basic rights are honored. You can take away free speech by simply stop policing and defending your people. Meaning free speech will not be so free as someone might kill you for what you are saying.

Decision whether something should be made a right should not be based on whether it can be labelled as passive or active, but whether it will benefit the society.

If making housing a right overall increases average life quality and makes unproductive lives productive it should be done. People here can disagree or agree whether the people who will get that housing will male something of their life, and this is something that we have to experiment with in order to find out.

Also if you believe that of the government and that government can not inherently be improved there is not much to do anyway.
Health care is rife with problems of shame, and how it prevents people from getting treatment, from STDs to drug dependency to psychological conditions.

The WHO is simply simply scaling up some tactics used in routine care to the nation-state level. Which, incidentally, is pretty close to their original charter.
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It's not like "everyone" is on the move to Finland. Never was and never will be. It's a strawman and unnecessary dramatisation to justify inhuman behaviour.

In this case: what do you want to do with them instead? Let them die on the streets? Did you even read the article? They are being provided with some kind of housing and support already like human beings deserve. Giving them a place to live, gives them also a chance to become a proper member of the society who also ads to it and can provide for other homeless.

For further reading regarding the "Pull Factors Myth" take this for example: https://www.ecre.org/op-ed-pull-factors-the-myth-that-never-...
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This is fine for AI tools that aren't remotely intelligent like the ones over-hyped today; but for any hypothesised AGI, the idea of programming it to be fundamentally constrained by updated Asimov laws is naive, technically stupid, and - in its implications of a sentient slave species - morally repugnant.
The data still gets populated, though. It's all on Github in case you want to submit a patch.
If you don't have children, a larger space would be more burden than necessity. Be happy that you moved away from the jail cell. I'd move if I could too. ;-)
They didn't say "understand everything", but that's the interpretation you're replying to, and it gives me some thoughts.

Different people will be okay with different levels of understanding. You put "deep" in quotes. You should also put "heuristic" and "easier", and many more, because all of these terms are up for analysis now.

A very heuristic operation of technology is "power cycling"--"have you tried turning it off and on". Another version is "factory resetting". This is very useful, but without a slightly deeper understanding of what is does, or how computers work, it's easy to waste time doing it. Like if I get a cloudflare message saying some website is unavailable, I'm not going to log out and back in. I'm not going to turn my computer off. I'm not going to do anything. But that requires a slightly deep understanding.

I wouldn't try to argue what's easier and what's harder for people so generally. There are lots of different kinds of people. That's why both the quote and the grandparent are explaining their personal motivations and describing themselves. I mean, you kind of acknowledge this after the fact when you talk about "arbitrary lines", but it still sounds like you're dissing someone's "arbitrary" personality. I mean, yeah, even if it were arbitrary drawn at GPU---that's the sense in which we are individual people...
Sad day when torture by the west of a journalist goes uncondemned. This guy is a hero, he has committed no crime other than honest reporting.
In my experience people arguing for data lakes talk a lot about some unspecified future benefit. Companies typically want to learn things about their interactions with their customers that allow them to make more money, and thus GA or its equivalent represents the 80/20 — or more likely 80% of the benefit for 1% of the cost — solution.
Update: this prompted me to look into it again, it's super easy, if you're running an IPython shell, after an error just type "%debug". Or add "--pdb" to your python-shell-interpreter-args.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4234612/launch-an-ipytho...

This gives you a pdb prompt not an IPython prompt, but you can examine local variables where the exception was raised, and exit back to IPython with Ctrl-D.
I imagine it's a turn off for corporate buyers as well as lone devs and small shops.

The request a quote style of pricing is almost exclusively for corporate buyers. It allows them to go out to lunch and get the purchasing department involved and make management feel like an important part of the process.
I don’t think that copyright enforcement should be used against me based on whether or not I run a webserver alongside a modified application or not.

I’m all on board with copyleft in general, but the “service provider loophole” just seems like anti-business sentiment. People using modified free software to provide services useful enough to pay for is a good thing.

Forcing someone to publish their own changes simply because they run a business always seems to me like violent coercion, using copyright as a stick; much moreso than forcing someone to release source for object code they are already releasing.

Free software is a tool. Using that tool to create a successful business isn’t cheating anyone out of anything.

The software is absolutely not free as in freedom if I have one set of rights with the ethernet cable unplugged and a different set of rights with the ethernet cable connected.

Stop the service provider hate and avoid the AGPL and AGPL software.
Deep learning can be used for many interesting things, like computer vision applications.

Even visual odometry and SLAM, necessary for AR, can be solved through DL.

I, for one, can't wait to have something in a raspberry Pi form and power factor that can run a big deep CNN at 30fps.

That opens the way to a lot of neat gadgets that can be summarized as "computers that can see":

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/7/19/computers-...
So the sheriff can be fired by the people for bad sherrifing
How to Live Past 100
> Thinking out complicated abstract concepts in internally verbalized words just seems like it would take forever.

I do this but the internal monologue fits the time it takes me to do the thing or I go onto the next thing. It gives me a good sense of progression, what I have accomplished and the goal im focused on.

If the task is routine like buttering toast the monologue is about something else.
New generations fighters have the same range detection. And "stealth technology" is still on claim, in fact russian radars detected many planes with ease. An F-117 was shot down too. I will not rely on that, since all the 4th gen airplanes and 5th have same capabilities.
It seems OP is perfectly happy creating small sites and products. One can earn perfectly good money from consulting or contracting, but OP chose not to.
Meet a scientist who got a brain implant to cure his alcoholism
> And how can you and the parent comment bang on about it in this context and not think to spell it out?
>
> Pretty amusing!

The conversation wasn't about any context in relation to AFK (away from keyboard) but rather about the trouble with using acronyms. Not knowing what that acronym means doesn't alter the readability of the comment (in fact ironically it actually helps hammer home the point I was making).

This is also why I didn't spell out DVLA (UK Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) despite introducing a new acronym to the conversation; and why I did explain which "ISO" I was referring to because the context there did matter to explain my point.
> And especially CERN? These guys have info and tech to end life

I work at CERN, no we do not.
How are they "economically efficient"? It doesn't cost anymore to serve someone in a million dollar home than a $200K home. Besides that you get into situations where richer neigborhood have better services, better funded school systems, etc.
It's hard starting a business and most people (90%) don't earn anymore than an employee.

None the less some of us just aren't cut out for the corporate life. I'd pick poverty over the lack of autonomy, petit politics and meaningless work any day.
There was no sarcasm here. The comment just states that the virus' 0 day fatality rate is at most 50%. Why are you offended by this fact? Obviously we might see some twists like the virus becoming more resiliant, and obviously we won't shut down all research. The actual death count of this disease will be much lower.

Trust me, I know what I'm talking about. I've played plague inc.
I should match. the number 15 there means that repeat x up to 15 times. so 1+15=16.

looks good to me