skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could easily find 100 people who would find a use for your old computer. The effort is worth it.
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Even above the article that we're discussing. Hilarious. And a very good demonstration of the problem.
And that "They Live" was heavily influenced by the work of Barbara Kruger.
I'm from Poland and I'm not concerned at all. I _know_ that the goverment will not be able to provide my retirement.

I think that it's better to think about goverment-provided retirement as something that _might_ happend, and would be nice, but not as something that you can relay on in your golden years. Unfortunately, that will leave some underpriviledged people screwed. I also understand that I'm very lucky, with my skillset and bringing up, to be able to plan for it myself.
always wish i could be a fly on the wall for these kinds of negotiations.

if O'Connor demanded something ridiculous like 10 billion dollars... how do you talk him down when the situation is this onesided?
For those who aren't familiar with the author, Clyde "Tomato" Mandelin is one of the most well-known video game fan translators. He's probably most famous for being the lead for the Mother 3 fan translation, and last I heard was working officially as a translator for Nintendo.
https://jpc.dev

My blog is mostly focused on philosophical ideas and questions that I find interesting. I'm currently writing a post on the fundamental source of motivation, purpose and work.

Not a huge amount of posts so far, but I'm looking to add to that over the next few months with the extra free time I have available.
They can if the software is good enough and the customer really wants it.
> Websites are purposefully made machine-unreadable.

This is a sad result of incentives which ruined RSS, semantic web, and the original purpose of the Internet: to effectively share and communicate information globally.

Advertising (including propaganda and surveillance) and copyright are major forces in that ruination - not to say they don't have legitimate uses and benefits, but their concentrated financial interests conquered the domain. It's a kind of colonialism of public (cyber)space and collective mind.

Tax is an apt analogy, since the power lies in the control of "media" in the most general sense, to force itself in every transaction between things and people.

I believe "dis-intermediation" will help improve the free and direct flow of information. That is, to reduce the middle layers - the gate keepers, the walled gardens, intercepts (lawful or not), filters - by re-decentralizing the net.
One of the best phrases I've ever heard: "Shitty First Draft":

https://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/1-Shitty%20First%...
I hear the same argument made about "free healthcare is too expensive" but it doesn't stop the vast majority of countries doing it.

You get amazing benefits from a government handling healthcare and I think you would get many of those with UBI.

UBI could work.
Local testing would become meaningless as “features” are not being tested in isolation. It’ll lead to the classic “but the tests work on my machine” because half the changed code isn’t in the published changeset.
For anyone who wants to learn:

* React

* GraphQL

* Node

It's awesome because it got lots of comprehensive tutorials and covers lots of smaller niche topics in this area :)

https://www.robinwieruch.de/blog
https://readbroca.com/

I write about language learning (specifically Chinese). I've written some stuff about learning with Anki.

Had to put it on pause for a little bit but plan to pick it up again soon.
Decent idea - one I've had before - but I can to the conclusion that I really wasn't solving a tangible problem.

The real issue is you've just created an overlay tunnel architecture and have negated the benefits of native IP multicast.

The idea is to reduce N number of duplicate unicast streams into 1 multicast stream tree - primarily to save bandwidth.
If I wanted to learn to write browser-based games what would be a good place to start? I know some JavaScript but am not particularly enamoured with the language. Should I learn TypeScript plus some framework? (React?) Or how about something functional like Elm?
And (if I understand the workflow correctly) you wouldn’t be able to test on your local at all... cross your fingers that your patch doesn’t break something!
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Buckling springs are my favorite but I also prefer tenkeyless. I'm currently using a Realforce 87. Topre switches aren't as stiff as buckling springs but have a more similar feel than other switches.

As for keyboards with lights, you can turn the lights off.
Hang on, I think y'all are talking past each other. The claim (as I've understood it) is:

1. Binding Arbitration is enforceable.

2. Binding Arbitration clauses fall under contract law.

3. By virtue of point 2, Binding Arbitration clauses require a Meeting of the Minds in order to be valid and enforceable.

I think you're attacking a straw man.
Chord – Interactive Chord Diagrams in One Line with Python
Robert Kiyosaki Goes All-In on Bitcoin and Explains Why
I write about math, coding, and general geekery in a style similar to Martin Gardner. http://www.datagenetics.com/blog.html
Zapier user here. what are the specific advantages of integromat over zapier other than less expansive?
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I write about passive investing for Europeans, with some content written for Belgians specifically.

Most content around passive investing (i.e. investing in index funds) is targeted to a US audience and there's a clear lack of good information for European investors. I try to help remedy that with my blog.
Typically some sort of horrible "accident" would befall them
My project for the last couple of days... interactive examples at https://shahinrostami.com/posts/statistics/data-is-beautiful...
Sorry that was after my time, may have been entirely Namco Bandai Japan production.
Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not at the moment

Technologies: JavaScript, ES6+, React.js, Gatsby, Node.js, Koa(Express), GraphQL, Redux, D3.js, Wordpress, React Native, Webpack, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap, Heroku, Firebase, TypeScript and more.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ngTkTVeDaakyFxEmPyyqyMuKxD6...

Email: mail@andrejgajdos.com

I am a freelance full-stack web developer with over six years of experience delivering software. I have worked for clients all around the world in many different industries. I have delivered solutions for startups, digital agencies and big companies, such as Apple. I have background in computer science and am able to create everything from small business websites to custom web applications.

Personal Website: https://andrejgajdos.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrejgajdos

Github: https://github.com/AndrejGajdos
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I blog about language internals, math in computer science and system design. This year I started a weekly newsletter around it and hence you can await a post every Sunday.

You should read the blog to
- get a deeper understanding of languages
- get understand how to design scalable distributed systems
- understand some really cool algorithms

I have started a weekly newsletter around this https://arpit.substack.com

Some of my most popular articles

- https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/better-programmer
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- https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/function-overloading
Coronavirus breaks the telecom bundle
>> I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals

I may be older than most on HN, but when I think back to the internet of the late 90's if you squint a bit and remove all the brochure websites, the internet was essentially exactly this!

After all what is a geocities page but a blog that replaces longform content with animated "under construction" gifs?
https://philippmuens.com

My goal is to demystify modern Machine Learning algorithms via "from scratch" implementations and explanations focused on the intuitions behind core ideas.
> Is [OBEY] related to Carpenter's movie?

Yes. This is covered a bit in jwz's writeup "They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo".
Content today is written for machines, not for humans.

There is no bigger turnoff than coming across waves and waves of listicles and "alternatives to" articles that provide no real insight, beyond dumping a bunch of links, adding 1,000 words of nothing, titling it "Ultimate Beginner's Guide to X in 2020" and calling it a day.

Sometimes, to find "actual person" content, I'll add "reddit" to the end of my search query, but that won't be enough, as some enterprising content marketer has decided that they need to rank for those searches too, and created posts like "What reddit thinks about X".

SEO is the symptom, not the problem. The problem is that businesses create this kind of low-quality "linkbait" as "inbound marketing", which is getting eyeballs on a page (by whatever means necessary) and upselling their own services. That's why the content feels so soulless.
Good. For every elite university performing actual "brain drain," there are a dozen others importing a fifth-column of mediocrities for cash and prizes.

Now corporate espionage is off the charts, and our elite are too short-term and rootless to care about the long-term consequences.
Taiwan bans official use of Zoom (data routed through China)
Git repo https://github.com/bhatiasiddharth/MIDAS

> Up to 48% more accurate and 644 times faster than the state of the art approaches
Wow, great site. Really nicely laid out content and images. Being a photographer I'm going to give that Lightroom PC article a read (6 year old i7 isn't holding up that well)
I remember the MBONE. I was working at a National Lab, and had an SGI Indy workstation with an IndyCam, so I spent some time setting it up.

One day I forgot to close the app when I left for the day, and came back the following day to a NastyGram from Van Jacobson, chastising me for using up bandwidth with an image of my darkened office door for 16 hours.

Good times.
The example TLD is also reserved, for when your example needs a TLD rather than a 2LD or some other domain.

This allows you to make up a bunch of 2LDs in documentation e.g. https://cat-food.example/ https://dog-food.example/ and https://pet-food.example/ might be three different companies that sell pet foods, or they might all be brands of the same company, whereas if I used names like https://cat-food.example.org/ and https://dog-food.example.org/ that's confusing because we'd say it's very unlikely for rival companies to share a 2LD this way.
The only reason we still "support" IE11 in my company is that a "significant" number of our users visit us in their working-hours from IE11.

During the weekend this kind of traffic drops significantly, which means to me that people using IE have to, and not choose to.
Show me a proposal for the US (since I'm most familiar with tax rates, existing benefits, etc. there) and I'll show you how the math doesn't add up.

Edit: As far as the three wealthiest in the US owning that much, it still amounts to very little per capita if redistributed to the entire population. You could give every individual in the US a one-time payment of about $3,000, after which there'd be no more money to take from them. The top 1% only have about $25 trillion in combined wealth, which would be enough to fund a UBI of ~$3,000 a month for two years, after which you'd run out of money. And that's pretending that a massive looting of the holdings of the nation's wealthiest wouldn't have any significant economic side effects (and that they wouldn't all just flee to tax havens). And that's ignoring that a good chunk of that wealth is not held in liquid assets.
I'm at https://www.swyx.io/writing/

I write about Frontend dev (React/Svelte/Tailwind/etc) and Node/Serverless, but my best pieces are junior/intermediate dev career advice stuff and that has frontpaged HN a few times

- https://www.swyx.io/writing/learn-in-public

- https://www.swyx.io/writing/svelte-static

- https://www.swyx.io/writing/coronavirus-recession/

- https://www.swyx.io/writing/writing-mise-en-place/

- https://www.swyx.io/writing/markdown-mistakes/
Reading through the changeset[1], this isn't a minor "some styles out of line" update, they're removing a number of polyfills that were there to only serve IE11 that affect many of their core components. Without testing it out, I would expect most components that use Javascript for functional enhancements to be broken. Most of the style changes are fairly minor and nothing you couldn't fix as you go, but the script changes are breaking changes.

[1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/30377/files
Check out the February article linked in the body of this article about when it went up for sale. It provides a little more context. Sounds like Mr. O'Connor was pretty reasonable about it.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/dangerous-domain-corp-co...
So a universal basic income that:

"mostly aimed at families, but differentiating between their circumstances."

Sounds really universal. How is this not typical income redistribution where someone picks the winners and losers?
I'm also interested to hear more, but FWIW as an EU-resident and millennial with a bunch of millennial and lots of 'zoomer' friends:

1) out of everyone I know, working- to middle-class, only three people 'own' a house. One of them inherited it from their father, and the other recently bought one with a mortgage and has an unusually stable job. Of the rest of us/them, I'd say a good 70% live in a flatshare (regardless of whether they're in their twenties of thirties), 20% live in a small apartment with their partner, and the remaining 10% or so have some kind of studio apartment because they make decent money or because their student organization provided them with cheap housing.

2) with the exception of those who have jobs where a pension is built up automatically, none have bothered. Which is probably about 80% of them (100+ people). And in conversation the general assumption is that any kind of pension will probably not exist by the time we need them, so why bother (not saying I agree, btw).

That said, I'd say my social network skews toward working class and educated-but-not-STEM. And urban, which favors the precariat.
It also has really bad SEO potential due to its name. Go managed to overcome the issue, but it had google on its side.
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Aah, sorry about that; I renewed the cert and restarted the webserver, glad it is working now :)
Hi Alexander,
I appreciate you posting here; I didn't feel too strongly about this to sign up for an account to comment directly on TheGradient.

> Kaldi cool, NNs not cool

It seems you're misrepresenting things. Kaldi models are NNs, they are trained using a sequence-level objective function (LF-MMI, not entirely unlike CTC), they can also be trained completely end2end (without using HMM-GMM systems to generate alignments for CE regularization and obtaining lattices). The Kaldi authors are currently working on moving NN training to PyTorch.

The fact is that, if you need a complete easy-to-use off-the-shelf solution ("Just give me the transcription of that audio file!"), Kaldi is not it. You need to train models and you need to use other projects, such as vosk, kaldi-gstreamer-server, etc. or build your own solution. People have done so and use it in production successfully. Use the right tool for the job, a poor workman blames his tools, yadda yadda.

Perhaps it's just that speech recognition IS difficult, there is no one-size-fits-all-use-cases solution, and when people can't figure out Kaldi, they seem to think they need to throw out everything and pray that CTC will fix it somehow. Get sufficient data in your domain and things might work better. Don't use a couple of audiobooks for training, expecting that it will perfectly transcribe Indian accented English callcenter conversations. I really appreciate your effort on releasing OpenSTT, in particular that you provide data in different conditions and domains (phone calls, lectures, broadcast radio, etc.). This is useful no matter what particular tool (Kaldi, DeepSpeech, w2l, RNN-T, transformers) people are using.
I chuckled at the quotes around "beverage" on the can.
He certainly inherited a country broken by civil war, but it is difficult to argue that his own decision to bypass Parliament and rule like a tyrant was the only possible course of action, or an improvement on his predecessor. Ultimately if Cromwell helped steer the country away from despotism - a matter of great debate - it was less by example and more because he, like Charles I, ended up having his head lopped off to popular acclaim (posthumously after a natural death, in his case) and subsequent leaders largely chose not to emulate him.
Building the Seq Language for Bioinformatics
Chaos engineering is the practice of deliberately breaking live systems to improve their robustness. The first widely noted system is Chaos Monkey developed at Netflix. https://github.com/Netflix/chaosmonkey Years ago, I had the same reaction to "extreme programming"
Link me the UBI proposal you find most compelling and I'll explain why the math doesn't work. Preferably a proposal for the US since I'm most familiar with existing benefits and entitlements in the US
From the point of view of the revolutionaries, who objected to "foreign influence". Regardless of how much the Shah was under American influence or Charles I under Papal influence, the perception that they were was used against them by their enemies.

(I have to say that running into a partisan defending the honor of the late Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the internet is a new experience. I was sort of expecting someone to object that the claim that a Catholic monarch was a puppet of the Pope was sectarian - which it is, but again that's not my position but the position of the Cromwellians)
> Supposedly, the free market should correct this when consumers stop buying the flawed product.

Surely this is only true if the consumer _values_ security? Even assuming every (potential) consumer is educated enough to recognise security flaws, that doesn't necessarily mean the typical consumer will value security enough to purchase an alternative product they deem inferior in some other aspect
I cannot say this enough: buy a recipe book.

Online recipe sites will always be absurdly verbose, because if they just posted a list, Google would either rank it poorly because it is "thin content", or scrape it and post it as a Featured Snippet. There is seemingly no in-between.

The site authors have no choice but to fill it with a bunch of warbling about their childhood, to meet Google's minimum word count, which of course the company swears doesn't exist.
I believe it was not a negotiation, but an auction. So all MS had to do was outbid the highest bid, which would not have been 10 billion.
HPSquared was talking about international students (effectively) subsidising scholarships for UK students in private schools. As far as I know, there is little evidence of any such "trickle down" effect at present, or reason to think that there will be one in the future. That is, it is unlikely that a typical British student at a private school will be paying lower fees owing to the contributions of their international classmates. I think you are going off on a tangent.
Cell towers attacked in UK is as conspiracy theory links 5G and coronavirus
People who like short emails have synchronization problems that can be resolved in a short breath. Otherwise if you have three questions, you’re talking about three back and forth replies. That synchronization sounds wasteful.
It depends on what kind of guarantees you want, and how much you rely on the language versus programming style. But I think there are fundamental reasons that would prevent you from doing development in full Common Lisp and expect a formal verifier to statically check your code for complex properties (such as halting, bounded memory), and expect it to never reject a correct program.

Even with functional languages, the stronger properties you want to check, the more restricted the program must be. For example, Idris can ensure your program halts, but it requires you to write your program in a specific way that can be checked for halting, you can't just take any halting program and expect it to pass the halting checks.

Similarly, Rust's borrow checker can verify if your program is free of data races and memory leaks, but you must write your program following specific patterns, even if you can produce data-race and memory leak-free programs in other ways as well (of course, there is the `unsafe` block in Rust exactly for this reason).

Of course, there will likely be more improvements as time goes on, but the halting problem puts a fundamental limit on how expressive a language can be while also being amenable to (computable) proof of certain complex properties.
Sounds interesting. I wonder what’s the best way to try such a treatment without first spending tons of money and energy dealing with insurance and doctors.
It's not one-sided. There is an incentive on both sides to come to a reasonable agreement.

It's not like O'Connor can do anything (legally) with the sensitive data that's hitting his domain. If he could, I could understand why he might be reluctant to sell, even if given a strong offer.

But the fact is, if Microsoft walks away from the negotiations, he gets nothing, and there are likely few other buyers he could ethically sell to, and those buyers are unlikely to offer as much as Microsoft can.
The "college experience" is essentially now a way of indoctrinating students into a shared set of upper-middle class values and behaviors. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's orthogonal to actual education.
Io has been around for a long time, indeed. I thought it was great, writing an Io interpreter in C was a lot easier than almost anything else, so for learning language internals, it is awesome, and I'd even say a great companion to LISP, to play around with how different first principles affect programming -- something that is obscured in mainstream languages, making it harder to learn how the guts work.
I doubt it's a coincidence that programs which require a third-party qualification exam tend to be more rigorous. E.g., engineering, nursing, medicine, law, etc.
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Thanks for starting this thread jppope!