skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you, but a certain political will could make resources go further. For example, cheap affordable housing costs a ridiculous amount in California due to many government controllable mechanisms (zoning laws, certain overly onerous codes and regulations). There a numerous articles showing the absurd 6 figure per unit construction cost buildings that were meant to be affordable and ballooned to incredible amounts in CA.

A certain political will could fix this.
...it doesn't need to be a huge company (or company of any kind) to run these things. Back in the early 2000s, a volunteer who knew about computers would set up phpBB on a church's website, or a radio station would allow one IT person to spend half their time maintaining something like this, and that would be it. No need to turn millions in advertising dollars to have an online community.

I do agree with the parent comment, that we may well see a resurgence of small and medium-sized online communities, for the simple reason that more fragmentation could be a good thing. When a community has its eternal september, people can move elsewhere.
The first question I answered to others. Would you mind checking that?

My total spend was -
1. $5 in prototyping.
2. 6 months time in marketing (I didn't pay myself. So, zero)

So, yes 186% covers several folds of my costs.
"Don't feed the trolls" has been my strategy for as long as I've been on the web, but what disconcerts me the most these days is the doxing and death threats. A reporter can simply retweet a news article and instantly be flooded with death threats and see their address posted to the web. There's no way I could tell that person "don't feed the trolls". That's a real problem with real life consequences, and I have no clue how you could begin to solve it, aside from total anonymity.
Here's the idea that imo needs to reach critical mass in our industry in order to make progress on this issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Ask HN: Privacy During Emergency Situations
In situations like the Coronavirus outbreak, data companies like Google have enormous amounts of useful data; user locations, contact lists, familial associations etc.

One can easily imagine Google having the ability to provide the CDC with localized information where given a list of infected individuals, provide a list of high risk individuals that should be contacted.

FB may have the same capability.

Is this a reasonable idea, or are there not immediately obvious drawbacks to using data this way?
> But actually after the iPhone was released Samsung deliberately went through it screen by screen and produced a 132-page report on what features and interface elements they should steal from the iPhone.

Did you know competitive analysis is something that is frequently done across many industries? GM/Mercedes/Toyota are among the first customers to buy[1] their competitors latest models and they disassemble them to the last bolt to figure out/estimate materials, methods and costs per component, sub-assembly and unit level. I see nothing unethical or nefarious about that.

1. Often they pay companies like Munro & Associates (https://leandesign.com/) do the analysis on their behalf
Take all the people out of it.
Yes, IMO FOSTA/SESTA were deliberately malicious and yet another successful attempt to force puritanical ideals upon our citizens, regardless of the damage it would cause.

The senators who initiated the bill are not dumb. They knew exactly how it would play out.
RFs are nice and especially if you like to shoot wide lenses they tend to be more accurate than SLRs (although
I do have a split prism screen for mine, which helps a lot). The P67 is nice for portraits though, longer lenses are tricky on rangefinders. If you are a masochist and like to shoot wildlife/etc on MF/LF, the P67 system is by far the most comprehensive and affordable.

Portability is really the problem with the P67. I find myself drawn to cameras that pack a big punch in a small package and the P67 just is a physically very large camera. I like my Fuji GS645 folder for travelling and would like a GF670, I snagged a 120-converted Kodak Medalist (heliar-type lens), and I have been trying to get set up with a compact 4x5 setup. I just got that Polaroid and I have some Grafmatics for it, maybe someday I'll grab a Pocket Gowland to go with it.

I wouldn't mind a G690, but the lenses are fairly scarce and expensive. It is also a surprisingly big camera (assuming it's like the fixed-lens versions). Like, it doesn't look that big in pictures, until you realize that the camera body is about a 50% larger diagonal than your iphone plus. It is actually comical in person, not much smaller than a P67 at all. But, much lighter than a P67, which helps.

Leica is too expensive for my blood although I do have a Nicca body and a Nikkor 28/3.5 LTM for it. I particularly liked that lens on the Nikonos and wanted a copy that didn't have the underwater mounting/scale focus. For really low light shooting I like the Yashica Lynx 14E and the Olympus XA with film pushed to 1600. The 14E is the fastest lens on a fixed-lens RF ever and has a leaf shutter to reduce vibrations, while the XA has a wide lens, a piezo release, and a leaf shutter. Both do well with handholdability at slow speeds. The Olympus XA can be modified to support 1600 by spinning the paper disc over the meter one stop further so that all speeds read one stop faster, the 14E is full manual.

I mostly don't do 35mm SLRs anymore. Digital does that stuff better, so I do digital for that (I can adapt old lenses to my NEX camera) and MF/LF for fun. Easier to scan too, 35mm really needs a pretty decent scanner to get full quality, or wet printing. Trying to get set up for a basement darkroom, too many projects too little money.

I don't mind GAS. I admit I like the collecting too, it's a hobby. And I don't mind having "special purpose" lenses or cameras that do one niche thing for me. It's nice to have the right tool for the job.

Yeah, the late 2000s were a wild time for cameras. All the pros were dumping their film gear for digital, the financial crisis caused people to dump grandpa's old camera junk for a song and meant little competition, and hipsters hadn't latched onto film gear yet. I picked up my first 6x7 (non-MLU) for $300... with a meter prism and three lenses. That stuff has roughly tripled in value since those days, I think.
> It's utterly ridiculous that tech gets upset when someone they don't agree with uses their tools to accomplish something alternative to their ideas.

That's quite the euphemism for subverting democracy at the hands of authoritarian regimes.
The US–Saudi Story, Through the Eyes of an Aramco ‘Brat’
I too never got this. Have learned using bare metal before AWS was around.
Took a look at AWS in 2008 and decided that it was interesting, but nothing I had use for at the time. Since then, I never felt any need for it, except for a few times when I wanted to emulate a distributed network for testing purposes.

If I look into the AWS dashboard today, I feel totally overwhelmed, while running my own servers with LXC containers on it feels effortless.
I guess for many it's the other way round.

Don't really know what I'm missing, but I'm happy about the old school skillset I have, allows me to have a fraction of the infrastructure costs I would have otherwise for what I'm running.
The counterpoint to that is that allowing platforms for toxic views to exist and grow (a) "normalizes" these views and (b) makes it very easy for them to recruit new members, since they have a "legitimate" platform to spread their hate from.

Personally I am fine with them isolating themselves in cesspools like Voat. While they are not being exposed to contrary views there, they are also not exposing large amounts of other people to their views.

Another factor is that toxic views are massively amplified by bots (and the bad actors behind them) and not providing these with an easy-to-exploit platform is a good thing in my opinion.
> I guess my cynical question is: do these legislators not know what they're talking about or do they know who's paying for their reelection and governing accordingly

Why is that the dichotomy? How about, they know what they’re talking about, and simply care about different things than you do?
Can anyone explain to me, why my post is marked as [Flagged]?
> YouTube videos are circulating in which American soldiers brag about driving Iraqi women to suicide with systematic rape.

Is there a citation for this? All I could find was allegations of sexual assault in the US military (which is also completely horrendous), but no videos on YouTube.
Haven’t been banned yet, but there is definitely a brigade that will instantly downvote you if you try to explain libertarian/free market ideas. Never thought that would happen, since Silicon Valley was founded with similar ideas.
Does anyone actually use a Dutch keyboard? It is something from Belgium? In the Netherlands, where I lived my whole life, I've never seen a Dutch keyboard. I've only seen US-English QWERTY keyboards.
Particle is discontinuing development of Particle Mesh
Ask HN: Has your YouTube started recommending obscure videos?
Recently, YouTube has started recommending weird, obscure videos that may be years old but with tons of new viewers being sent here by the recommendation engine, judging from the comments.

I tend to watch gaming channels exclusively, and in the past few days I've been recommended, amongst others:

- Russian throat singing

- North Korean military marching to Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive

- A barking cat playing fetch

- Countless memes

Have you seen any change in your YT recommendations? I recall a post where we were lamenting the fact that YouTube kept recommending the most popular and clickbaity videos, now it seems to me the Youtube engineers cranked the dial towards the opposite side. And I'm all in favour of it personally.
> Servers and clients are very different in their architecture and implementation

True, but also the only way to really know how to develop a good one is to have experience with building the other.
Not necessarily contrary to my point.
Are you claiming that naming Afghan civilians working with the US military wouldn't endanger them, or that Wikileaks didn't name said civilians? I'd point you to my other reply where I cite a number of human rights organizations saying this is endangering civilians, and also cite that the Taliban has publicly stated they are targeting the individuals named in the leaks.
The plastics are polyethylene. You can find the study here: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(19)31670...

"The five chemical additives were chosen from those detected in a screening analysis of plastics found in the stomach of seabirds (n = 194) [13]: a flame retardant, deca-BDE, which is composed of several PBDE congeners, dominated by 2,20,3,30,4,40,5,50,6,60-decabromodiphenylether (BDE209); three benzotriazole ultraviolet (UV) stabilizers, specifically 2-(2-hydroxy-3-tert-butyl-5-methylphenyl)-5-chlorobenzotriazole (UV-326), 2-(3,5-di-tert-amyl-2-hydroxyphenyl) benzotriazole (UV-328), and 2-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-2-hydroxyphenyl)-5-chlorobenzotriazole (UV-327); and one benzophenone UV stabilizer, 2-hydroxy-4-octyloxybenzophenone (BP-12). Industrially, deca-BDE is mixed with polyolefins at a concentration of 5% to 8% by weight [14], and benzotriazole and benzophenone UV stabilizers are mixed at 0.05% to 2% by weight [15]."
This looks like a whole lot of rubbish to me. They're excited they managed to get blast hits for these short inserts.

But in the spirit of open-mindedness, what do I need to be convinced this is even interesting? First I want to see where on gp120 these inserts align to. Are they receptor/carbohydrate binding regions? Where do they map to on the coronavirus? These structures are known, so I don't know why this isn't in this manuscript.

If somehow this is engineered, I am honestly impressed that someone could take features from one protein and estimate how to engineer those same features in another protein altogether, with little homology. It's like engineering a monkey tail onto an elephant and somehow getting the elephant to swing through the trees.
Please fix the title before we spread fake news.
You gotta see the irony in being censored on the thread about this topic with one of the most correct responses! Typical!
The amazing thing is last week someone on 4chan posted this: https://i.imgur.com/Jkq8tYK.png Which shows that the virus had been modified. 4chan wins once again at sleuthing.
The words you're looking for are "helicopter" and "laser pointer".

You're welcome :)
I dunno. Having lived through the days where having 128kB of RAM was an eye popping upgrade, you could easily have made the argument back then that 2GB of RAM was future proof for as long as the eye can see.

And in fact, they did. By the time I was reaching adulthood, that was that hard limit built into Win95, give or take boot errors if you had a quarter of that (which was gigantic at the time; 64MB was more than enough to boot it).

Fast forward another 25 years to today, and laptops routinely have 16GB of RAM, and higher end Mac Pros can apparently get a whopping 1.5TB of RAM.

Put another way, the high-end went from .1MB to 1TB in 40 years or so.

I get that we're reaching the physical limits of miniaturization, but I'd still be surprised if my grand kids don't have exabytes of RAM or equivalent on whatever the hell their main devices will be by the time they reach adulthood.
> There was no trail for the fabricated rape accusations,

Sure. But that's not why he is getting shipped to the US.
The product offering was different. I agree. But seeing from where the majority of backers came from (my Instagram and email lists), I strongly believe it would have failed without it.
Jim Whitehurst Becomes President of IBM. Why? He Gets Culture
I'm not saying I believe the conspiracies, but it would be a pretty scary future if a totalitarian nation decided to quietly immunize their population (or just a selected elite) from a pathogen designed by themselves, and if push comes to shove you have a bioweapon that will do the job for you, which you know the people you care about can't contract. It's like a smart nuke.
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Why was this submission suddenly so heavily penalized by the mod(s)?
And the senate is even already voted in on a rolling schedule, so even in the worse case, 66% of the senate would have more than 2 years experience, and half of those would have 4 years.

Term limits to me seem to be one of those obvious solutions that are almost impossible to fix after the creation of a government. How do you convince politicians to vote against their own self interest? Especially with term limits, where you would need 2/3s of them to do so.
This lab theory has been systematically censored across the internet for the last week or so. For me it has been fascinating to watch content on it pop up and then disappear.
It's a graph database. Nothing esoteric by any means. I shouldn't have to know Jagger & Richards are The Glimmer Twins, or Richard D. James is the Aphex Twin.

If Streaming Service X's value add is beige recommendations - and the music industry is content with such "product placement", then they both deserve to suffer. If only that pain was 10% of my boredom.
I disagree. To me this term is a meaningful way to express the values of a project. It means that the abstractions will be at the highest level possible to provide the result. Whenever the library can make a decision for you, it will attempt to do so. It is like you are dealing with a human intelligence that is always guessing what you want and trying to give it to you. When I see "for humans", I expect that the api will behave like a human. This is not always desirable. Sometimes the highest level of abstraction is the wrong level of abstraction. Sometimes you need to be making all those decisions yourself, and you don't want the library to ever guess what your intention is. The human-like apis tend to work wonderfully until you need to optimize, have security concerns, or figure out you're actually doing something novel. Then you jump down a layer of abstraction and everything fits wonderfully again. Sometimes you really are just dealing with a machine and telling the machine what to do and whatever humanity is brought to the task is simply a distraction.
1. Amazon releases MyOneServer, the first AWS product aimed at non-tech end users. M1S is a VM that runs apps (like, from an app store) for server-side use cases like running a blog or hosting a minecraft server.

2. M1S gains traction from hackers who don't want to be part-time sysadmins, but the first widely-used killer app for it is a social media front-end combined with a CDN. Self-hosted files and "publish once, syndicate everywhere" starts to flourish and Facebook begins to lose its position as middle-man to the web's social activity.

3. Bezos buys Keybase with spare change from his couch cushion and integrates it in to M1S; now all server-side apps, and the users thereof, natively have cryptographic identities.

4. Users begin to demand M1S integration from businesses that used to hold (and resell) their data. Widespread adoption from webapps cyclicly drives further adoption by users, making a M1S identity (if not heavy usage) almost ubiquitous.

5. With most client/server use cases sharing a single cryptographic auth network, the last vestiges of anonymity disappear from the web as peoples' username, real name, cryptographic identity, and checking account melt into a blob.

6. With their real identity attached to online activity, online activity becomes "activity", and, while toxicity is not eliminated, it is at least no worse than the real world.

(Crazy? maybe. But I am honestly surprised every day that I wake up and find out that Amazon hasn't made something like step 1 yet...)
You say "millions of people believe foolish things", and then completely disregard exactly how many there are and how concentrated they become. I disagree with the assertions at the end that "a few million" do not constitute a large following, and allow me to provide a few counterexamples:

* the Flat Earth Society has a very stable membership and patreon. Mark Sagent's youtube channel alone has 58k subscribers. Social media influence is the source of money, and a power all on its own.
* Gweneth Paltrow's pseudoscience has a facebook group with 500k members. She has a netflix series and a reliable income from her online storefront. The facebook group came first, then the netflix series.
* QAnon is a persistent conspiracy theory with no basis in fact. Regardless, tripcodes (a public hash of the password used for identity verification on 4chan) denote a persistent online identity, so he's got a following... and the following is what causes power.

Power in its purest form is asking someone for something and getting it. This looks different in the modern age than it did previously, but saying that celebrities don't have power belies the entire concept. These are celebrities, either advocating obviously false things, or due to their advocation of obviously false things, and millions of people are taken in.

In contrast, the expected Iowa caucus turnout numbers are going to be around 60,000. Or, in other words: There are more people believing in flat earth than there are democrats caucasing in Iowa. How in the world is this not a problem.
Of course there isn't a citation, because it is most likely pure bullshit.

Show me the video and I will change my mind.
Several sites I used to enjoy have been ruined by this toxic polarization.

Everything is an echo chamber these days. No one wants to be wrong or look foolish online. People don't want to even read opinions other than their own. There is no more civil discourse.

It's not just online - I'm noticing the same thing in real life.

I don't know how to fix it...but I hope someone does. Whatever the case, we need to treat the cause, not just the symptoms.
This is my experience as well just a bit north of you (Michigan). I always see Teslas in the middle lanes driving at more consistent speeds than others on the road. I figured it was because most of them are using autopilot.
But the average left-leaning person today doesn't see bigots even as people any more.

I spend the bulk of my time studying extremist discourse and communities. Extremist bigots take it as read that people of the wrong ethnic/religious/political group are either not people or at best inferior people, and direct their efforts to promoting those views, planning how to eliminate those they dislike, and normalizing that behavior.

You are, essentially, projecting the characteristics of bad actors onto other actors who are warning and complaining about said bad actors.

I've found that when I actually talk to so-called "toxic" people politely, they are willing to listen. It's not them that are causing the polarization.

That's a tactic known as 'entryism' designed to leverage your nice, conflict-averse personality as a vehicle for normalization and possible future recruitment.
I wonder how drones would fair flying thru this, as on scale a locust in relation to the engines upon a drone is large in relation of a bird to an aeroplane engine.
You are correct, copy paste error. Thank you for the correction.

I have also updated my information above.
It would be a pretty lame bioweapon given how few people it’s killed.
This is not a good argument. It would be the equivalent of me asking:
Does the trash pickup service, repairing potholes or patrolling the street cost more if the home owner just moved in than if has own the house for 30 years?
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In Brazil there is Mão3D (3D hand), an university project which helps kids with 3D printed prostheses: https://mao3d.wordpress.com/

They are currently seeking funding with a crowdfunding platform kickante: https://www.kickante.com.br/campanhas/uma-mao-literalmente-m...
Don't fall for the trap that this is about "big tech".

It isn't.

It is about your freedom of speech and ability to protect yourself.
If anyone else is curious - the "US Survey Foot" was 609nm larger than the US International Foot. Or, 0.0002% Larger.
Democrats need to get their state in order
Thanks for reading and the kind words!

I think you and I see it similarly that there's satisfaction in growing and learning even if the money part hasn't fallen into place.
> If you can't pick up a phone and talk to businesses...

This is not required by any means.

It helps if you can communicate well and be generally not afraid of or annoyed by people, but being an energetic extrovert is absolutely NOT required. Not at all.
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Isolation / segregation / echo chamber (whatever you want to call it) is amplifying toxicity.

We used to socialize in the streets, in the marketplace, in towns. Maybe the town's butcher was known to be a bit of a racist hick, but he was still a decent shopkeeper and his kids went to the same school as yours, so you tolerated his antics. There was the town slut, the town's drunk, the guy who was a known communist sympathizer, etc. People with their flaws, and qualities, and somehow we managed to make it all work.

What happens when those people now each socialize on their own online social network with people exactly like them? That can't be good.