skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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That is not at all what my argument boils down to. My argument boils down to this: Having some anointed authority that gets to decide such things without having to follow the due process of the court system is a dangerous thing.

The point about glyphosate et al is this: Sure, those are definitely grey. But the authority could claim that they are black and white at his own discretion. If he decides against you, you then have to go to court, with the default decision being against you, in order to be able to be heard.
You can never be sure. If you do know coding (and I mean, are in the "senior-to-expert" category), there's a chance you'll be able to get a feel of what a guy can do by asking a lot of questions and by looking at public source code (such as github). That won't actually guarantee the candidate will perform as you wish, since in real life, there are so many things that you missed/can go wrong. Case in point: a few years ago, I had an project that I simply didn't have time to handle, so I sub-contracted it to a former boss of mine (a guy I deeply respect to this day). I would have never guessed he would not be able to handle it -- I wanted him to work on it 15-20 hours/week, and be up to speed in 2-3 days. This is far from what happened, so I ended up doing the project myself (I have no idea how I found the time). But long story short, even though he's a very very good programmer, he still couldn't handle the pressure. That says a lot about "regular joes" that can say all the right things, answer questions right, and still not perform well in the long term.

Having said that, the best bet (assuming you are in this category -- senior-to-expert), I would recommend hiring someone as a 3-6 months trial, and then see how it goes.

If you don't know coding, my take is you'll NEVER be able to know how a candidate can actually code -- don't even attempt hiring in this case.
Down tools.
Remember, it's important to not discuss politics on Hacker News. Politics being things like "Is the current government threatening to put people in prison if they don't do them political favors?"

You know, just politics.
je was arrested when MBS came to power in 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/world/middleeast/saudi-ar...

he does not seem to be part of the "saudi intelligence community"
> What types of businesses would be "customers of that data"?

That is the exact question! That is the wall we hit. If I could consistently answer that question then there is a business to be had.

Who is willing to pay for that kind of data? I actually considered getting together a larger group of friends to do that exact brainstorm. But even then I'm not sure it is such an easy question to answer.

Also a bit funny you called it a gold-mine business. I called data that meets that criteria Goldilocks data.
Pretty Ironic that this is the excuse you’re going with after all the times your party lambasted Trump for doing similar things. Your belief in the ends justifying the means is the root of all your hypocrisy. People are sick of hearing why it’s ok for you but not for them. You will lose badly this year as a result. For god sakes you have Bloomberg running after half your party was just outside occupying wall street no less than 3 years ago.
I think that, worst case, all three of those points can be addressed by simply replacing the existing brains of the machines with your own entirely. Sight unseen, I'm guessing that it could be done with an R-Pi.
We were debating applying it at a framework or query level but were nervous about this being harder to "clean up" conceptually - what would the equivalent of the "PostHog UX toolbar" need to look like to make that possible do you think?
I guess we should feel lucky that there aren't that many stars nearby...
Would it even be legal to attempt to enforce against it? It would quickly be C&D’d if you tried to sell custom firmware for such things, sure, but given the vibrant homebrew scene for many other consumer devices (iOS, Android, various gaming consoles) I’d say it’s absolutely viable, at least legally.
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The "holodeck" version of this is called a CAVE and the first one was built in 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKL0urEdtPU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environ...
You can click 'Zoom Out'.
Ask HN: I have been asked to write a statement about my low GPA by Google
I passed all my interviews and got matched with a host. But the recruiter asked me to write a statement about why my GPA is low. Anyone else gone through this before? I would really appreciate if someone could give me some tips regarding this
I do understand why loss of §230 protection is dangerous, both directly and as precedent. Threatened intermediaries would just do whatever needed to avoid liability. And incentives for alternatives would likely remain inadequate.

Also, I'm not advocating any "tinkering". I'm just not optimistic about relying long term on legal protection. Even for the US, it's been fragile, and not anywhere near effective enough.

I was just being wistful, speculating that, without §230 protection, we'd have ended up with a system that didn't need such protections. With intermediaries that were totally isolated from content, with absolute anonymity for users. That is what I was imagining in the mid 90s.

I can imagine more or less centralized services that could handle content which was otherwise end-to-end encrypted and anonymized. And could make money doing it, as VPN providers get paid by Orchid users via an Etherium-based currency.

Users would have the tools to filter what they see. But nothing could be removed, and nobody could be prosecuted (or persecuted).

How we might get there from current social media, I have no clue.
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> ctypes allows you to trivially mistype C objects

I mean, so does C. Pretty sure that's a "feature". ;)

But yeah, fair point; it's definitely nice when an FFI wrapper is able to actually read the header files and figure out function/type signatures.
No, most startups using either AWS or GCE (at least in the market I'm around in, Europe-based) is choosing them because they are giving away free credits and you can usually run the first year for free before starting to think about costs, and at that point you've reached market validation and can afford start thinking about costs.
You seem to be confusing three concepts: "corruption", "mistake", and "scandal".
> Communities would self police much better if some level of anonymity was removed from members

This isn't an illogical theory, but I think Facebook's real-name policy disproves it.

We could have a deeper conversation about whether or not anonymity is more important than civility (I think it is). But I think before having that conversation I would want to be convinced that anonymity significantly impacts civility, and I'm much more skeptical of that claim today than I used to be. I tend to suspect now that it's more of a "common-sense" theory than something backed up by real-world studies.
Of all the attackers you could worry about, I wouldn't put your own email hosting provider at the top of the list. MTA-STS is nice, but it's hard for an email client to guarantee that the hop-to-hop links between itself and the recipient's inbox are going to be protected with TLS. Passive snoops between mail providers seem like a much more realistic threat.

Also, by putting a public key in the public DNS, it means that Alice can catch her mail provider's DNS server giving false information about her public key, which would come with cryptographically signed proof of which entities were involved in that lie. Ideally there would be an equivalent to the Certificate Transparency system for keys that are used or protected by DNSSEC.
No expert, but just happened to watch a video this morning.

According to a talk by Paul Stamets [1], common viruses transmitted from mites to bees may be managed better by adding mushroom derivatives to sugar water feed.

[1] Paul Stamets: Mycology and Mushrooms as Medicines
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q0un2GPsSQ
Very common if you're handling government contracts/etc. too. Often a requirement.
Does this technique potentially allow training on smaller datasets? I am thinking in application with neuroimaging datasets, which are usually numbered in the hundreds.
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The school checks them against a list. We weren't the first parents to think of that.
> Using the word “raise” when talking about financing via debt seems inappropriate and very start-upy.

They've been around for 9 years, they're just a company now.
I had the sleep schedule you describe until my first child. Now, I'm opportunistic. Generally I get up at 7 or so, because a certain someone makes sure no-one sleeps past that. It's fine, now. But at rare times the little one is away with grandparents, and then the sleep rhythm rapidly returns to night-owl mode.

But my point is, I think maybe parents are a bit unsympathetic to the optimal sleep patterns of their children because those same children have spent years teaching the parents that sleep is a luxury you have limited access to.
You can have a vector icon that doesn't have the smudge issue over a set of reasonably chosen rendering sizes (through specified pixel-exact rendering and alignment).

And said vector icon will still look a whole lot better scaled from supported/optimized 16x16 size -> less favored 20x20 size than a raster icon, even if it isn't absolutely perfect.

So I don't really see this as a "problem".
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That assumes your wage has, also, increased at least equally or more to inflation.
Hey checked out jooseph. Looks good.
About 15 years ago, I used the open source program, Celestia. You could move around the solar system and beyond in 3D. It was cool at the time, but I haven't looked at it in a long time.

It also allowed add-on data to be imported.
Hobbyists would create accurate 3D models of weird shaped asteroids using the latest data from NASA, and you could download the data, and view it using the main Celestia program.

Maybe someone has posted updated data in Celestia format somewhere?
When I was in college, the best semester I had was one in which my first classes every day were at 2pm.

I’m pretty sure that’s the best I’ve felt in my entire life.
I'm playing right now. Just docked at Morgan's Rock (on the edge of the Sagitarius arm heading back towards Sol) after a ~20kly loopy exploration/POI tourism trip.

Nothing comes close to this game for gaining an understanding of the shape, distances and density (or lack thereof in some areas!) in the Milky Way (you've got an FSD/FTL drive but not a good enough one to leave the galaxy).
I'm into fitness too: I go to the gym, I ride my bike for long distances, etc.

My job involves sitting at a desk and writing code; my athleticism has nothing to do with it. It's the same with Tiger Woods.
Here's a video of it in action on The Mandalorian set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUnxzVOs3rk
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Online shopping is not that sustainable. Current concerns are returns. First you have the carbon emissions of the first package delivery then the return package carbon emissions plus the waste. The waste comes that is more expensive to handle return products than to simply throw them.

What I mean it’s more eco friendly to have big batch shipments to stores than individual small packages sent by post.

A normal physical store is usually more environmentally friendly than online shopping.
> Of course, when women have been bringing more money into the family, people will spend more.

You are observing wet streets, and are postulating that they are the cause of rain.

That's only true for discretionary spending. The article's whole point is that the real cost of a family's non-discretionary spending (Healthcare, education, shelter, and transportation) have gone up, to the point where they are no longer affordable on a single income.

This is not an improvement. Like, maybe it's an improvement for gender equality or something, and there's both tangible and intangible benefits for women supporting themselves, and their families, but its not an improvement for human beings as a whole. We, as a society, are now working more, and getting fewer non-discretionary goods for our work.

It doesn't matter how much the cost of a long-distance phone call dropped, when my family's health insurance costs are $25,000/year.
> "I did have some privacy concerns about this in the beginning," Morris said. "But the people who would be using this information would be law-enforcement officials [...]

Wait, is he saying that there is no privacy concern because the only people this would be useful for is cops? I don't see how that reduces the privacy concerns much.

In any case, I wouldn't touch products that have this with a ten-foot pole.
Well, if school didn't start until 9 AM, I'd have to, but I'd feel horrible about it.
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No idea.

If they are, I don't know about it. I've never heard of AWS taking people's systems offline for being DDoSed.
Mote marine and several other orgs have dives where they do reforestation. Many of them call on volunteer divers to plant the coral. My daughter is also studying to be a marine biologist with specialization in reef research.
This is what gets referred to as "sweethearting".
> if you want governments to keep the right to classify things

I want governments to keep things classified.

Leaks should be automatically declassified: the contents are going to be in the public domain one way or another, whether governments like it or not.

The illegal stuff leakers do is the morally ambiguous part. Everything else is already fine and I think the law should reflect that.
I would be really interested in a "github for data", just a place you can upload structured data of any kind with a bit of meta tagging for public consumption.

SDR captures
PCAPs
Microphone captures
Public tax records
Road data
Flight plans
etc...

Just anything and everything on one service with the limitation that it's all open data. No license agreements or legal restrictions.

It would probably never fly, but it would be amazing.
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I think the demise of Lytro was a huge missed opportunity for the film industry. They had this and a number of other features in their cinema camera before they became defunct a few years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qXE4sA-hLQ
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Wouldn't the costs be updated to reflect the difference in profit margins. If the tax is 10%, then in cases where the profit margin is razor thin prices would rise by about 10%, but life would otherwise keep on going. If an entire industry would die from such, then doesn't that mean that currently tax payers are subsidizing that industry to keep it alive by having uneven taxes, if the standard of equal taxes is the purposed change?
and Bert Sutherland:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370667
I tend to believe that the only path forward is for these "global platforms" to become more sharded, allowing smaller, more focused communities to thrive and self-moderate.

Platforms like Reddit, Discord, etc have "tiers" of moderation whereby community leaders handle the day-to-day moderation of individual content posted within the community, yet there is still Big Company Inc. at the top capable of moderating entire communities (you can't create a subreddit focused on school shootings, stuff like that). These platforms have problems; there are problems intrinsic to any situation where Speech and Social Interaction is involved. But their problems are far less in both magnitude and quantity than the global platforms.

It seems to me that holding any organization or moderator liable for what people post on their platform would have a Supreme Court-level case on their hands concerning the first amendment. Who would win, I don't know, I'm not a lawyer, but that feels like the ground we're treading on.
Yep, the problem is that GreenPeace, the Grünen (in Germany), les Verts (in France) all started up in the 70s by struggling against nuclear power mostly for its military uses, out of sheer pacifism mainly (which is a perfectly reasonable idea).

In Europe, the mythos of "struggle against nuclear power/ military /oppressive state" reached an acme when the poor activist Vital Michalon was killed during protests in Creys-Malville in 1977 ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifestation_%C3%A0_Creys-Mal... ). This basically cast the legend in stone forever.

So "nuclear" became the evil-arch-enemy nemesis, and nothing can be done anymore: that's their religious dogma, with its martyr and saints, and no amount of rational discussion or scientific evidence can help.
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Ask HN: What kind of scoring algorithms exist?
Hi HN, in my project I need to sort apartments and there is a lot of data about each of them. I give each parameter score, f.e. to the size of the apartment I give some certain score, to location as well, but it doesn't really work well because I don't understand how to give the weight to each parameter. Question: Is there some sort of guideline on scoring/sorting things, some algorithms that might help? Or you might have some suggestions on where to look for information about such things. Thanks!
>A C64 was $149 in 1985

And a 13" color monitor was $200, and the 1541 floppy disk drive was another $160.

Even if you just bought the Commodore cassette deck and connected the computer up to your existing television, you were looking at $200 for a usable configuration.

Walmart will sell you a Lenovo Ideapad 130s (laptop with a 14" LCD, dual-core Celeron, 4GB RAM and 64GB solid-state storage) for $189.
I wish these were 3d or animated, to give more perspective.
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I'm not telling people not to encrypt. People should encrypt. I'm telling them not to encrypt email, because email is unsafe. You're going to have to engage with my actual argument rather than fleeing to abstractions.
There's another facet to this story.

If companies are to moderate, they must have the ability to view at the content.

Say there's a requirement to moderate an encrypted chat client.

see where this is going? Even light moderation means they keep the data collection going.
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Try tapping that mr NSA! :) 1st word over whatsapp, 2nd word over telegram, 3rd over signal, and so on. Each word of course PGP encrypted ;)
In Sweden they most probably are by a law called BBS lagen. This is the bulletin board system law. Where the provider of content are to some extent liable for the content.
Color me skeptical. The "community whitelist" approach is seriously limited, and such whitelists tend not to pay attention to the privacy problems that ad networks bring.

I'll just continue to block all Javascript. This allows truly ethical websites to run static ads, and blocks a ton of tracking.

Also, I have a little bit of nitpicking here -- referring to what Magic Lasso does as "ethical ad blocking" implies that other approaches to ad blocking are unethical. I don't agree with that characterization at all.
I think a much better solution would be to revoke Section 230 for "recommended" content. "Recommendations", even algorithmically generated ones, are behind a lot of the brouhaha, and by endorsing content that's basically being a publisher of content anyways.
We already have:

git lfs
OP might be referring situations like a festival, where there's a trickle of cars and a lot of people. And usually cars have to slowly inch forward, some people will stop and let them through, some people won't. The driver of course has to stop, but also not just wait forever to have a clear lane.

Or, another example, a big parking lot with a few buses, people unloading their stuff from the buses (let's at the end of a long trip), relatives/parents/friends pick them up at the parking lot. Relatively dense, many people moving, but still cars come and go. Plus a lot of packs/luggage here and there. Usually in these cases more cars want to enter the parking lot to pick up others, but of course people want to continue unloading, so some kind of balance forms.
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EU fees are capped at 0.2 per cent of the transaction value for debit cards and at 0.3 per cent for credit cards. Americans presumably are getting ripped off for the usual "free market" reasons.

(Not counting Amex cards, which take 3% off the merchant and hand most of it back to the customer)
That sounds really awesome and it seems the project is still alive [1]. I'm going to play with this after work tomorrow!

[1] https://celestia.space/
I once took a call with an ex-NSA guy who was a CEO selling email security software- your MX would point to them, they'd scan your incoming email for exploits, then deliver it on to you. When I spoke to the guy, I expressed my concern, having working for a large multinational corporate whose fiber optic lines were tapped by UK intelligence to avoid NSA laws against spying on americans, that if I couldn't inspect his software, I couldn't feel confident of the security and integrity of the scanning system.

I said, in good faith, that I would consider his product if I could inspect the running system and the code.

He said several things:
1) the NSA never did anything illegal
2) the software was too large to audit
3) it was an insult to his employment in the NSA that I was even asking these questions.

Then he hung up.
From the video posted upthread, around 3:40 it looks like they're doing just that: https://youtu.be/gUnxzVOs3rk?t=220
This only indicates that you have worked with a better class of DBA than I have.

"Why are we creating new table and foreign key relationships for this single bit of data?"

"Oh, because we aren't allowed to add any columns to <the appropriate table>"

"Wait. None?"

"None."

(Only the last conversation I had of this sort involved MySQL, which was notoriously bad at adding columns to live tables)

The cost of 5 extra joins for all business activities is going to outweigh whatever you think you have going on with that original table.

I think in some ways the situation was improved by expanding developer responsibilities to include these tasks rather than having a dedicated role. When you have to deal with the consequences of your own decisions instead of someone else being responsible, some activities won't be done at all, while others will go more smoothly. Without the database being personified, it's more of a doing something for somebody (else) instead of doing it to somebody.
My prediction: JPM will make a bid for RobinHood.
> Option 1 effectively forces anyone who doesn't want to live on 8Chan off of the Internet.

If you have adequate filters, you don't need to see anything that you don't like.

I do agree on the antitrust point.
A little off-topic, since we’re not talking about true synthetic data here (vs. wiping PII), but the future of synthetic data is no-data due to differentiable programming. Instead of a program outputting vast amounts of synthetic data, it is written with a library or language that is differentiable and whose gradients can be integrated straight into the training of a model. A few PyTorch libraries dealing with 3D modeling have been released lately that accomplish that, and a good deal of work in Julia is making promising advances. I’m curious to see how overfitting will be addressed, but there may come a time when large datasets become a thing of the past as low-level generation of data becomes just another component of a model’s architecture.