skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was working in college radio and writing for The Onion back when OK Cola came out. I think the money that went into this makes most sense framed as a type of generational panic combined with technological transformation. The early Gen Xers were entering the workforce with a set of behaviors / values that felt unfamiliar & perhaps threatening to Boomers. Boomers began to feel uncool, out of touch and no longer culturally adept in the way they always had previously. This is nothing new, but I think it might be particularly wrenching when it finally happens to a demographically large and dominant cohort. Millennials, let me know how it works out.

More importantly rapid changes in technology caused corporations to lose control of media distribution for the first time. Widespread availability of personal computers / microchips caused media creation and distribution costs plummet in publishing, music, and film production/distribution. New insurgents like Fantagraphics, hip hop, college radio, indie rock, The Onion, The Stranger, Might, indie record labels and indie movies could route around large corporations to find an audience and build a business. Capital was still needed, but was orders of magnitude less than it had been for prior generations.

The resulting panic was deepest in the industries connected to entertainment, including those that depended on it for marketing. It seems absurd, but consumer brands convinced themselves that not only would Xers reject traditional media & advertising - they’d reject the previous generations products as well. There was sincere worry that millions of kids would stop drinking Coke & Miller Lite. Ad agencies helped fuel this panic as it brought with it an opportunity to pry large accounts away from incumbents.

This period didn’t last long, but it did birth a number of experiments like OK Cola, most of which were conceived as experiments and strategic contingency plans. For a brief and shining moment, there was some decent money and cultural cachet showered upon a bunch of smirking early 20s Xers whose only qualifications were helming a late night college radio program. It was wonderful to see Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns and other generation-defining artists get some well-earned money if not recognition.
https://shadowfacts.net/

I mostly write about iOS and web programming.

It's mostly static using a custom generator with some dynamic parts to support leaving comments with ActivityPub, which is explained in more detail here: https://shadowfacts.net/2019/reincarnation/
Jim Fruchterman raises $1.7M for Tech Matters, to help nonprofits do tech better
Thank you!

Everything is custom.
I've been running it on a 4 core, 8GB ram droplet at DigitalOcean with no problems. We typically have 3-6 people in multiple sessions at the same time. In the test install, I did it with a $10 droplet, and it stuttered with 30 people in one conference, but didn't drop anyone.
I've been blogging at https://rolisz.ro/ for 10 years.

The top 3 most frequent recent topics are about programming, board games and some personal things.

My most popular posts are:

* writing neural networks with just Numpy: https://rolisz.ro/2013/04/18/neural-networks-in-python/

* making a selfie time lapse: https://rolisz.ro/2016/08/01/how-to-make-a-selfie-time-lapse...

* writing a web crawler in Rust: https://rolisz.ro/2020/03/01/web-crawler-in-rust/
>Any free market purist will tell you that all transactions must be both mutually consenting and informed. If these conditions are not met, it is the governments job to step in.

I don't think such a person exists outside of some libertarian fantasies.

In practice, the right side of the political spectrum is about preserving the free market insofar as it protects incumbent wealth.
If you're interested in programming languages and compilers, particularly if you're new to the space, my blog might be interesting to you:
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog

I've also got some other stuff there like a class I taught, some writing on distributed systems, etc
https://whimsy.space

It is beyond your wildest dreams.
If you're looking for a desktop/end-user operating system (even for a server of some sort), you're not really looking for L4. You might as well just use Qubes; the security model will be similar (in that you'll be "using" hosted Linux, not the underlying OS directly).

L4 gets interesting if you're building another platform.
SoFi acquires banking and payments platform Galileo for $1.2B
Sure, but do you see Apple ever doing that?
http://www.philipzucker.com/
Functional programming, formal methods, category theory, physics, robotics, control

I like to blog little implementations of interesting ideas and explanations. Trying to make the abstract concrete.

You might like it if you like the topics I like. Me dunno.
Does TMS affect long long term memory? Or is that ECT?
> better supporting deployment

Is there any "supported deployment" for docker? I had the impression that swarm has been sidelined, and docker-compose was discouraged. Is there a path to deployment on kubernetes that uses only compose? (I have a hard time seeing how that'll work with ingress, and "compose" well with other kubernetes deployments?)

We have some on-prem stuff that would work on single-node swarm - but I've felt that compose has been in a bit of limbo this past year or so... Is some kind of production style deployment comming back?
Yay China! I love you! Keep learning about me while you give us all free shit!
https://coronavirus.arik.io

https://mackuba.eu/corona/#compare_countries
they include the trained models under the "model weights" section. imagenet is ~20mb, openimages is ~17mb.

now this might be prohibitive for images over the web, but it'd be interesting whether it might be applicable for images with huge resolutions for printing, where single images are are hundreds of megabytes
Other sciences are also "messy" but that hasn't stalled progress. It may be objectively quite difficult to conduct psychology experiments, it's hard to believe that it's any harder to do psychology experiments than in other fields, mainly because I know how hard it is to actually do experiments.

On the far extreme, you have stuff like the Hubble telescope[1], LHC[2], or LIGO[3], all of which faced and overcame extreme technical challenges. Do you know how much work it took to get LIGO isolated from outside vibrations? Literally a decade.

[1]: https://www.nasa.gov/content/hubbles-mirror-flaw

[2]: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2014...

[3]: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/vibration-isolation

Or consider this XKCD comic[4] about geology. "We study what's on the other side of a 20 mile thick rock wall." Similar problems exist for cosmologists and astronomers, but somehow scientists are taking pictures of black holes[5] and finding exoplanets[6].

[4]: https://xkcd.com/2058/

[5]: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2019/4/19/how-scientists-c...

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet

What psychology experiments face the same kind of obstacles as these? Your subjects are not billions of light years away, nor smaller than an electron, nor whizzing by at just under the speed of light, or behind 20 miles of rock.

Yet the current state of psychology research[7] is that maybe 1/3 or 1/4 of papers can be replicated. When researchers start to explore why, they find that QRPs (questionable research practices) are common, sample sizes are small, and statistical analyses are often misused, and so on. In other words, they find the methodology is at fault, not the fundamental difficulty of the subject matter.

[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
> anyone that wanted to develop a real business based on a tremendous four letter .com address

I genuinely wonder how much that matters these days. You've got app stores, Google searches, etc... I think having a memorable, short .com URL was a huge thing in the mid-2000s, but I'm less sure that it is today.
Agreed, keeping your customers supported is #1 priority. This is a super hard lesson for many new engineers as they always want to use the latest and greatest bleeding edge tech. Unfortunately that want rarely aligns with the businesses needs.
UC Berkeley's AI-Powered Robot Teaches Itself to Drive Off-Road
Great work, Arpit! Keep it coming.
You'll still be doing that with this new spec. It's still just a "how would you like me to run multiple containers" spec, it's not defining the relationships of arbitrary infrastructure and services on arbitrary networks/providers.

What's going to happen is, you (or the dev) will fill this thing out to the best of your ability. Then someone's going to run it in one env; it won't work, but Ops will modify it to make it work. So then you'll commit that as your one Compose file. Then someone will try to run it in a different env, and it won't work; they'll fix it to make it run. Now you have two Compose files to maintain, with 3 different use cases. So to make it easier to manage, you go back to one for dev, and one for each env. All this because the different components could not be defined independently and loosely coupled, because the spec (and tools) don't support that.

I like Compose for what it's designed for: let a dev mock something up locally. But it's going to become a pain in any environment that scales and will need a different solution.
My personal blog https://iamjameswong.com/2020-04-06-building-a-home-hiit-wor... on data science and life.
No experience with the Pi, but I ran it on a free EC2 instance and synapse loves RAM, so I have doubt.
I don't blog for the subscribers; I don't have a newsletter you should sub to so I can advertise my consulting biz. Blogging is something of a personal time sink for posting during times of underemployment, and I imagine you can see that in the publication dates.

I journal things so that I can stop thinking about old ideas, and polish up the good ones for publication so that people the PageRank gods direct my way can share their related new ideas. My audience is really Google, rather than any community of subscribers. Reviewing the average time since last post metrics in the Coders folder of my RSS reader, it seems I'm not alone. A lot of people blog perhaps once a year, which is why the aggregation is useful.

I often blog as a form of longer lived documentation for ideas shared on social media. I'll take some of the more inspired posts I've written up on StackExchange or Reddit and repost on my own blog. As I write this I realize I could polish up a few book reviews. In large part my goal is to reduce my role as a digital peasant, generating content for someone else to monetize.

I also blog as a low effort low cost homelab. Learn how to write CSS, learn how to use Jinja templates, learn how to write Chef and Terraform. Learn how work within constraints, to optimize results without straying beyond the free tiers. Learn how AdSense works, how referral systems work. The blog provides a platform for motivated experimentation, so even though I have yet to get my AdSense check, it's proved valuable as a professional experience.

It's also an exercise in hubris. I found out last week that my blog had been offline, and that system that I had set in place for monitoring that was also offline. Pingdom cancelled their free service and it seems I ignored their warning emails. And it seems that Chef, which is responsible for keeping services up, itself stopped working, presumably due to memory pressures from working within the free tier. A self inflicted wound really, since I know this happens and chose to live with the consequences.
Obama didn’t replenish the stockpile of medical supplies used after H1N1 do you blame him too? How far are we going to be under projected death counts for Covid? A factor of 1000? Either what this administration did worked or it was a hoax you pick. You might want to look into mental help early in anticipation for Trump carrying 48 states in November. Maybe actually move to Canada this time?
Yes. I'm also very skeptical when it comes to Deep Learning methods in healthcare since it usually involves blackbox methods like this which is of a concern to clinicians and medical professionals. The same concerns can be said for other heavily regulated industries that are there to reduce the risks of abuse, loop-holes, uncertainty or inaccurate results.

This sort of news is what risks restarting the AI hype if it is proven to be unreliable or another blackbox solution which will be dismissed by medical professionals.
A list of companies with purchasing power (April 2020)
One the early commercial products that used multicast was InSoft's Communique and their streaming InTV product from 1993.
Yeah but there was an article posted a few days ago about how Reiki can't possibly work but it still does.

IMO the only way to blind this is to put people in an automated machine that either turns the magnet on or it doesn't (and it makes some noises either way). You can't have highly trained professionals in the loop making people feel valuable by giving them all this attention, as that could be a confounding effect in both the alleged-treatment and the alleged-placebo.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22764824
> The "both sides bad" mantra is really just lazy.

"Fox News is TEH EVILZZ AND CNN/CBS/NBC/MY HOLY LOVE ARE TEH ANGELZZ" is really lazy. Refusing to recognize how the other news outlets aren't bastions of honorable reporting is really lazy. Refusing to recognize that none of them -- any of them, not one -- have the public's (e.g. YOUR) best interest in mind, is really lazy.

Somewhere deep down you know that but there's some emotional need you're trying to satisfy that prevents you from recognizing it. You NEED something like Fox to be evil so that your views feel justified.

So a few days ago CBS trumpeted this crying nurse from NYC complaining about lack of masks and people dying and blah blah blah. Turns out? Never happened.

The hilarious part? I despise Fox News. I just equally despise all the others. They're all complicit in fascism and the march toward corporatist dictatorship.
David Icke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke

Can't remember him when he was a footballer, but I wonder how many times he headed the ball ;-)
Two things I am looking forward to:

* Lazy loading images without JavaScript

* Static fields in JavaScript classes - I wanted to use this the other day and was disappointed that FF didn't support static fields yet.
Wat Talk by Gary Bernhardt CodeMash 2012
Does the Windows DNS client actually behave this way though? I have never seen it adding com, or any other tld.
> America has more doctors and more hospital beds per capita than Europe does. This is one of the reasons that Europe has seen more coronavirus cases and more deaths per capita than America - their healthcare system is starved for resources.

Judging from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_hospita... your assertion is false.
Not just that, but you could take a page out of the "compression" book and treat the NN as a sort of dictionary in that it is part of the compressed payload. Maybe not the whole NN, but perhaps deltas from a reference implementation, assuming the network structure remains the same and/or similar.
If his methodology is not on point, his hypothesis should be waaaay off point, and very easy to debunk.

If that is the case, why are you attacking his lack of credentials and politics instead of his hypothesis?

edit: here is an actual paper saying the same thing the medium post is

https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965
I have two I am sporadically posting to these days. The domain names have changed through the years for various psychological reasons.

I have been exploring and experimenting in both tech and consciousness/paranormal since the mid 1970s. Now I feel this desire to share what I stumble upon and am learning along the way.

The tech blog is

https://nullspin.com

This blog is getting restarted. My vision is to explore share about whatever I find fun or interesting in and about tech. I also have an article about Emacs startup times which got some HN attention a few years back though it was under a different domain name at the time.

My occult/paranormal blog is

https://mysticgrail.com

The twin flame/soul mate and energy connection articles have enjoyed some readership.

My goal now is to not change domain names ever again. Oh and post once a week at least.
Industrial Robots Get More Adept with Every Task
Datomic DB Cloud FAQ
I like it. Nice post on the S-procedure. Get those drafts out there!
> Those ie11 users may be able to just fire up chrome etc when they need to.

They may. They may also just hit the back button. One of those actions requires much less inertia than the other.
Automatically Enforcing AWS Resource Tagging Policies
A lot of times they will do small experiments to gain a sense for the data and see if it's worth doing larger experiments. Not reliable results but can still infer things.
"Software is a form of knowledge capture. If the language (and tools) have become opaque, then the job of knowledge capture has failed."

I would add that "the job has failed". The next consultant who modifies the code is destined to break it (resulting in more work required of said constractor, so we have a dangerous incentive here).

Just today, Medtronic CEO boasted that their ventilator uses 1 million lines of code. How much of this is the test code? Can requirements be traced to the code and code to the requirements?

Another example: how many projects on GitHub provide a comprehensive list of requirements/features? If you don't have a traceable list of requirements you don't know what you are building (or testing). And, on your job: how many projects you worked on that have a comprehensive list of requirements?

[0] https://twitter.com/Medtronic/status/1245777861774118913
*immunity to infection
The govt agencies I work with officially use Google Chrome.
"""So where can I find your blog? """
yeah, she doesn't get talked about enough for how much she has influenced pop culture
I think Johann Hari has the gist right: in the vast majority of cases, depression is a signal from the body of some biological/social/emotional needs that aren't being met, rather than necessarily being an immutable medical condition.

For n=1, I've struggled with (manic) depression and anxiety most of my life. And while I've used a variety of strategies to cope (Seligman's "Learned Optimism" and a potpourri of Buddhist ideas were incredibly helpful), the secret sauce was getting off of sugar and junk food. When I'm staying on a whole-foods, keto-ish diet, mood swings and unwanted negative thoughts have their volume is turned down by 90%, making the remainder relatively easy to process.

Everybody's different, so YMMV; in some cases, medication are an appropriate tool. But there are some universals that basically benefit every human: drink more water, get more sleep, go for a walk in the sunshine, eat your vegetables, and the less sugar (probably) the better.
Developing for Chrome is not an unreasonable ask and many vendors are asking for it these days. Any new service should get minimal resistance.

At my org we use Chrome or Edge as the default and define ie11-only sites in group policy. When you navigate, IE11 pops up automatically.

As an aside a company I used to work for was so underwater on tech debt that instead of modernizing their site they repackaged IE9 as a citrix app that business partners had to run. People are willing to overlook a lot when the commissions are good and that was not the worst thing I have seen in the insurance space.
Well hey, the branding worked for OkCupid.

The site's not trying to be an amazing Cupid. Just an OK one. ;)
Please do share other resources on social enterprises if you have any you particularly enjoy
As a personal anecdote, I found that changing career to carpentry would likely improve the state of engineering for me personally.

Not quite sure though, IoT would surely ruin my day eventually.
Thx. With my failing eyesight (macular degeneration), I'm always on the lookout for audio stories. I like BBC Comedy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/category/comedy-sitcoms - something to cheer me up. And these conversations, mostly with Australians, are surprisingly illuminating: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/episodes...
It's anglicised as it's using the English pluralization. In Slovene, the plural of "spomenik" is "spomeniki", here it's "spomeniks". It's even explained at the bottom of the post.
Although that's peanuts to MS - they've probably spent multiples of that over the years to plug the holes this creates. I'd personally be happy to hear Mr O'Connor got a windfall in this case.
You didn't say any of that in your original comment. Hence it's reasonable for your parent commenter to be confused, and reasonable for you to have explained what you meant.
This may be an issue where only networks that have been around for a very long time have this issue due to preserving configurations through many years/cycles of upgrades. Unfortunately, there are many, many such networks.
Onion farmer dumps millions of onions and explains Covid supply chain fail
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6653315947820052480-zte2

It’s about 2 minute video from an onion farmer/packer dumping his produce due to restaurant closure and supply chain breakdown.

We saw millions of lbs of dairy dumped. Millions and millions of lbs of produce will be dumped in America during the covid shut down.

Two things: 1. If it doesn’t go to restaurants, it gets dumped because there just isn’t enough demand when there is no restaurant industry.

2. The reliance on supply chain throws light on on how there is really no local food supply/production. This has worked very well so far.

Logistics and supply chain in Ag has been stellar and it really really works very well. When it works.

To me, this shines light on food wastage and consumption. Obviously we are all still eating at home. We are eating less when we don’t go to restaurants apparently.

Perhaps we will emerge out of this thinner and hungrier.
Logically speaking what you say is true and is worth recognizing. My comment is based more on trends I have observed over the years (and HN is no more immune to the moving window than any other social media site, it's just slower here).
That statistic only reflects students who graduated and doesn't support your claim that "most Americans do not go to college".

It appears that claim is wrong:

"In October 2018, 69% of 16- to 24-year-olds who graduated high school in 2018 were enrolled, with 9 out of 10 reporting they were full-time students – a marginal increase over 2017 high school graduates, 67% of whom were enrolled in college or university. Over the last decade, that figure has fluctuated between 66% and 70%."

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2019-04-...

It is probably worth recognizing that for students who go to college for the experience there is little incentive to graduate.
This stuff happens over time. It is a result of cascading dependencies.

Companies have lots of pieces of software that they support for extended periods of time. Also, they typically avoid requiring users to use different browsers for different applications. The number of support calls goes up dramatically if you need users to use different browsers, and it causes usability headaches when linking from one system to another, because you can only have one default browser. If you bring a piece of enterprise software into any organization, they will want you to target the browser they're using.... so, targeting IE was written into the requirements well after it was a good idea, because legacy compatibility was required. That, of course, works until MS throws a wrench in the works and discontinues the browser.

SaaS will change this somewhat, because the software is continually updated by the vendor. It's mainly on-prem and/or custom applications that cause this issue, because they don't get upgraded until big bucks are dished out.