skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that it should only be done if you know it makes you significantly more unhappy. If everyone would abstain from the news, no one would be held responsible for anything.
While I agree that most of the news are not for me, the small percentage that alarms me and makes me go research and talk about issues is worth it. I can never know what might be concerning to me outside of my interest bubble.
Using Python to generate over 10k unique pixel art lightsabers
It is currently at 40 deaths according to https://drc.ohio.gov/Portals/0/DRC%20COVID-19%20Information%.... No specifics on age or comorbidities yet.
> re: Canterbury Tales - "I was in high school, it was taught to us by rote, the better for us to get a feel for the cotton-mouth cadence of Chaucer’s Middle English ..."

Thats exactly how I was thought in HS. It was a reading assignment before coming to class. I found it difficult to read. And then the teacher read it out loud. I was like ... "ohhhh".
"As a conductor, when I stick my head out of the car to perform the required platform observation"

I can't really believe that the country that managed to send man to the Moon is not able to put a camera somewhere in the train or on the platform, so conductor does not need to do something like this...

If camera is too much, maybe a properly installed large mirror would do the trick.
Big Government Won’t Let Elon Live
Yeah, with the recent issues they had after doing the cryptocurrency stuff (which didn't really bother me, but it definitely seemed to generate some negative feelings in general), this feels like a poorly-timed move.

Zoom is presumably going for "look, we are bringing on-board this team of trusted people who understand privacy", but I think most are just going to assume it'll work the other way and Zoom's culture of poor security practice will bleed into Keybase over time.
Colony collapse disorder fascinates me. It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie plot. Perhaps it is.

One thing that strikes me is that the hive is essentially in great working order - fully stocked. It seems to me nothing directly nefarious is occurring because why not take the food?

Honey bees will remove (throw away) larvae infected with certain bacteria from the hive. Given this I wonder if workers themselves could socially distance and leave the hive when ill. With colony collapse disorder being the case where the outbreak was total and the infected all succumbed and therefore never came back.

Then again maybe I've just been in lockdown for too long!

Edit: I implied there is always a fully stocked hive after CCD. That's not the case.
Congrats to the keybase team! They seemed to grow in fits and starts, hopefully this sort of thing helps push encryption to even more places.
Strange combination.
Although the updates released are very welcome, in my opinion, the Surface Book 3 has some significant problems.

I get that due to the design, it will always be a heavy machine. But due to the hinge, the SB is not really a portable machine, at least in a modern sense. There's no technical justification for the bulkiness; other laptops implement(ed) the form factor with much more compact hinges (I owned at least one that did). It's huge even when in a backpack.

It's ironic that this horrible hinge is the trademark of the machine. If they changed it, they would be essentially forced to sell it as a new line.

The USB-C is also clearly a checklist feature, as it's not fully integrated: the charger has a Surface connect plug (AFAIK), and the tablet does not have a USB-C (I'm sure about this). This means 1. that the tablet needs the base to be charged through the base (but one can live with this), but worse, 2. that one needs to buy a separate USB-C charger (have fun with this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/7gj449/adventures_...).

Given the prices, and the fact that there is nothing comparable to the SB as tablet (maybe the Ipad), one could buy a cheap SB as large tablet. In this case, when traveling (with a separate laptop), one has to carry two chargers (or a hacky adapter, like I do). Check out the Microsoft Surface connect <> USB-C adapter: it's a joke.

I personally think they sell few units, and that they're keeping the line as sort of "trophy laptop" (the prices are insane; for the same, you can buy much, much more powerful laptops of well known brands/lines).
It's interesting to read articles like this, describing the culture you take for granted to outsiders. I devoured Ture Sventon, Kalle Blomkvist and Agaton Sax as a child, but I had never thought of them in the broader context of Scandinavian Noir. You can sort-of see the connection, but it's a bit tenuous: all of these take place in child-appropriate idealized world, they have nothing of the social realism/commentary of Sjöwall/Wahlöö and the later Scandinavian noirs. A closer comparison might be The Adventures of Tintin (obviously not Swedish, but hugely popular in Sweden), which had some of that "social commentary + detective stories", but even that is a bit weak.

I think it is fair to say that the genre was essentially invented by Sjöwall/Wahlöö. There isn't much precedence, and you can see strong traces of them in all of their successors. If you're going to trace their inspirations, I would suggest that you shouldn't seek it so much in detective fiction, but rather in things like naturalism and other lefty/socialist fiction movements. Emile Zola is a better place to look than Dashiell Hammett.
I don't think we actually disagree; in any case, I can't find anything in your comment that I don't agree with. I think an important point is that the alternative formulations you list are provably equivalent to the theories that they reformulate; they can not make different predictions, but make make some calculations much easier and lead to expanded insights. It was a big deal when Schrödinger proved the equivalence of the two versions of QM (although his proof was incomplete; a rigorous proof was accomplished by von Neumann). As you suggest, the problem with Wolfram's computational approach is that since it is not equivalent to existing theory, except perhaps in some special cases, it must be a different theory, with different predictions. And, as of almost 20 years since _A New Kind of Science_, it hasn't predicted anything.
I would argue Linux by design is supposed to be embraced, extend, extinguished — key is balancing how much how it is private & public.

For anyone not aware of the “EEE” reference, here’s the wiki page for it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
Congratulations, malgorithms and team!

Selfishly hoping the cores service isn't shut down, though. I've been using it authoritatively for 5+ years. Treasuring the username I got too.
$130,000 a month is not 14 network engineers. Salary is not the full cost of an employee to the business.
Kubernetes Ingress for Beginners
If you're small, you can get that redundancy on a PaaS. If you're big enough to move off a PaaS, you can rent physical machines in multiple datacentres.
I'm not entirely sure on the specifics of storage proofs, but as far as I know it's something along these lines:

When uploading data the renter (that's what we call the node which pays for storage) computes a merkle tree of the data which the host should be storing. When a contract is nearing its end the host will enter a proof window of 144 blocks (1 full day) in which it will need to prove that it is storing the renter's data. The proof is probably based on the block hash of the block where the window started. The host stores the proof in the blockchain and the renter will be able to see the transaction. If the proof matches the merkle tree (which the renter has stored) the contract will end and the host will receive the payment and their collateral back. If the proof is invalid or was not submitted at all the renter can cancel the contract which destroys the funds in it. The host won't get paid and loses its collateral, but the renter also won't get their money back (to discourage the renter from playing foul)

There is some more info on this on the wiki: https://siawiki.tech/about/trustlessness and the website: https://sia.tech/technology. And here is some incomplete technical documentation: https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/-/blob/master/doc/Resour...

If you want to go more in-depth you can go on our Discord where lots of developers hang out, eager to help others to get started with the network :) https://discordapp.com/invite/sia

EDIT: The whitepaper is of course the best source of knowledge. It's quite old at this point but the core principles still apply https://sia.tech/sia.pdf
keys.pub:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995792

https://keys.pub/
time to ditch keybase
So I've setup processes like you described where every PR would spin up 20 ec2 instances, run a huge number of parallel testing, and then shut itself down. The savings associated with developers getting feedback on a full regression test of the system in 20 minutes vs. 400 minutes was significant.
What Is Consciousness?
Cue the anti-China conspiracy theories. It's incredible how effective the anti-China propaganda has been.
Just bought the positive control RNA template, it is included in most kits.
More than any framework, what most market leading applications need to provide a competitive service, is greater access to creator resource (developers / designers / content creators, whatever) and / or innovation in pre-production and design.

The problem with current development trends is in how the complexity found in the tools, makes the pool of available creators (at a want for a better term) a tiny, exclusive club. This has a detrimental effect on efforts to innovate at design / pre-production stage, because the designers are near enough held hostage by us developers.

It also has an overall effect on project velocity, because work that could possibly be covered by techically competent designers (namely HTML/CSS development), can only be addressed by expensive and exclusive 'framework specialists'.

I strongly believe this can change by rethinking where the complexity lies.

The culture built around over-complicated tooling is possibly analogous to placing the responsibility for the production of a feature film in the hands of the VFX and lighting teams, or perhaps only deeming a mechanic as having the aptitude to drive a car.

I'm not rigidly stuck to this idea, I'm just musing here.
I had such high hopes for Keybase; kbfs had completely replaced Dropbox for me. This is terrible news.
I don't think he claimed to find the theory of everything.

I think he's excited because he thinks that in this framework we can just "throw compute" at the problem to enumerate the possible theories of everything, and automatically rule out the ones that don't align with reality.
Honestly the fact that we have cars driving around neighborhoods and highways by themselves but we haven't totally automated train driving is pretty ridiculous.
That sounds like a lot of string theorists, to be honest.
Wow. why?. Bye keybase
> Since the late 70s consumption growth has outpaced productivity growth.

Really? It seems more like companies been capturing more of the productivity gains since the 70s, and paying it to shareholders...
IRL Supreme Court seems to have figured this out.

I'm guessing a similar model where you first appeal through the normal means and if that gets denied you'd have the ability to ask this board to review it. Board will only take on major cases.
Yes, exactly. You have always had to use some third-party hack tool to work around Apple.

That’s why it will never, ever be an option on the iPad.
3D printing using a Motoman robot
Guess I shouldn’t be surprised. After all, Microsoft acquired GitHub, IBM acquired RedHat.
Doesn't matter because all US companies are subject to US laws and agencies. Even if the data is in Ireland, they are obliged to cooperate and before you know it all our patient records are leaked in the states.

And speaking of Ireland, I have a memory of a Microsoft EULA saying that even if the data is stored in Ireland they can't guarantee that it won't be transferred to the US.
Thank you for clarifying, and so thoroughly as well. I suspected that this was the case. I was just curious because the line I referenced could have a range of interpretations. Thanks.
Here's a random site from builtwith that uses it https://press.priceline.com/

But yeah, it's probably not common for sites to 'upgrade' to v3. Recaptchas are a feature you begrudgingly add and v3 puts the onus on the product to decided what to do when there's a low score, so its pretty different.
Show HN: Next Hangout – Discover the best online events and meetups to join in
The feature was probably added to suit people with some visual impairment, and not really for those with different taste.

The fact that others can used it is just a side effect.

(At least that's what I'd guess given Apple's usual approach to UX)
You’ve got a point here about the complexity of the web or maybe advertising models, but it’s hard to criticize usability when you have installed a browser plugin that breaks it. Use the thing or don’t, but don’t complain when your own reassembly of the product doesn’t work.
Congrats to the keybase team, but I guess I'll just stop using it
One good reason for your list: diversification. You don't want all the banking systems of a country all running on AWS. It's an unacceptable single point of failure risk for a country.
Longer Form Thoughts on Naming and a Potential Alternative Emphasis
Zoom: Well boys, we did it. Privacy problems are no more.
What’s Behind South Korea’s Covid-19 Exceptionalism?
Yes, I think where an established culture exists in some boundaries that a franchise tries to grow into, it must adapt and offer its own variety within that. I know McDonald's would be different in, say, Japan, but it is likely the same within Japan.

It is a bit more startling in the United States because it is such a large country. Imagine crossing a reasonable fraction of the globe and the food is still the same! The comfort of the familiar is an incredibly strong lure and I believe it happens in ways that are so broad we can hardly see we are within them, like a bug on the surface of a tidal wave. Food and drink homogeneity is only one of the ways, but is likely one of the more primal. People of a certain age, when given Kosher-for-Passover Coke (still made with sugar) are delighted by the return to what they grew up with.

In any case, Starbucks wants a customer who, perhaps having had their fill of experimental recipes and lunches at new places, can reach for a stimulus just like they had before. It might mean a lot in an airport terminal after nights on a mattress you've never slept on before.
Didn't you just poison this change and ensure that it can never be applied? Having posted this anonymously, nobody can sign the Contributor License Agreement and promise truthfully that this is original code that they have the rights to contribute. Including yourself, in the future.
Thanks for the feedback. Will take it and improve it. You can also file the bugs at https://github.com/frappe/books
Artifit, AI Personal Trainer for home fitness
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Wholesaleinternet.com is based in Kansas. They have good pricing and connectivity. Support was functional but barebones, in that you are responsible for the configuration of the servers after they have put your requested òperating system on it.
They actively and explicitly don't do this to promote paying attention
irfan view
The web became an unusable place when people who wrote for print media and had mortgages to pay started putting their content online. People wanted to read their stuff, and they wanted money, but people wouldn't pay them directly to read their stuff. So they got sponsors who pay them to write the articles, and those sponsors want you to look at ads.
I read the linked article and it was terrible. It kept playing a sleight-of-Hans between him being an example of what monopolies empower (which he is), and he as somehow the cause of monopolization (which it doesn’t support at all, it just makes meaningful glances in that direction). Quite a lot of its arguments boil down to “he’s rich,” as though that were a sin in itself.

No one who went into that article without a pitchfork in hand is likely to emerge with one.
Hey HN! I wanted to share something I made recently in my spare time during lockdown, to help find online meetups and events happening right now: nexthangout.com

Meetup.com is great for local in-person events but is not ideal for discovering online events across multiple timezones because it doesn't auto-convert the times when browsing. This means it's near impossible to discover events not happening near you which in fact should actually be the best part about meetups moving online: not being limited by location.

I found this quite annoying so built Next Hangout!

There's some cool stuff happening online if you find yourself having not much to do during lockdown, take a look!

Even better if you want to post an event, could be anything from a talk on React JS to a group read of a blog post to a 1v1 Fortnite match! In addition to well-prepared-in-advance events, I'm actually quite keen in the latter sort of micro-events and building a method where anyone can find low-effort micro-social activities to participate in on-demand, so not just focusing on events/meetups as we know them right now.

Would appreciate any feedback! What do you think?
Did Galileo Truly Say, ‘and yet It Moves’? A Modern Detective Story
I work in a very large financial institution in small tech team. I would give an arm and a leg to not deal with soul sucking bureaucracy that is our IT department.
You can write code both ways but it's much easier to ensure every destination pixel is handled exactly once when you interate over the destination pixels, than if you do it iterating over the source pixels. It becomes especially visible when you add perspective distortion and other complications.

Which is why every graphic api out there does it pull-style.
You can’t just keep bees anywhere though, there’s a lot of permits and inspections that have to be done to allow for a proper hive.
Sparky Linux 2020.05 Release
Oof. Keybase was struggling to define what exactly it was, so I guess they is the best exit option for them anyway...
Looks like it wasn't a good idea to leave your private keys in Keybase's servers was it?

Perhaps the moment that Keybase took VC funding a while back, it was over to begin with and the principles of being a "Slack competitor" and respecting their users privacy went straight out of the window and into the bin.

I really had high hopes for Keybase as a Slack competitor, the cryptocurrency stuff I actively ignored, but this is a disaster.

Fission Mailed.
Many weird acquisitions past few years but all make sense from a monopolistic angle.

Startpage by an ad company.

PIA by an anti privacy malware company.

Keybase being a slack competitor merging with zoom makes much more sense in retrospect. Zoom is insecure while keybase is seen as secure.

Companies are purchasing competitors or revenue stealers.
As a trick for solving a single problem, ok sure. That sounds like chess, where a failure loses the game. Not the same risk of failure in life decisions (well, skydiving maybe). To minimize later regret sounds terribly hesitant, cautious and small.

So many other ways to organize your life: joy maximization is one for instance. There's the money thing. And character should come in there someplace, not just utilitarian nonsense.

Einstein(?) said it this way: "When I want to make a decision, I flip a coin. If I'm disappointed in the outcome then I know I wanted the other choice." Sounds about like the same thing (only a century earlier)
Who is auditing if the data is anonymized?
Sending a man to the moon was done in the context of this military industrial state's show of might and veneration of the individual. Utilitarian arguments aside (especially given that investments into rail very directly translate into value for the populace it serves), rail transportation infrastructure investment wouldn't have quite the impact as far as propaganda manufacturing is concerned.

Or, to put it another way, why does the collective imagination seem to be more captured by Tesla (and SpaceX to a degree) than The Boring Company? In part, it's a delivery on the promise of self-driving cars we were imagined would be our eventual retrofuturist societal inheritance.
On stations with curved platforms there are in fact monitors installed at the conductor's stopping position.

For the rest of the stations, optimizing for the case where it's unsafe for the conductor to stick their head out seems odd; why is there a crowd on the platform then?
> This project is in development and has not been audited.
"We are excited to integrate Keybase’s team into the Zoom family to help us build end-to-end encryption that can reach current Zoom scalability."

you mean... to help you sort out your false advertising.

I just pulled a random page from Dec 25 of 2019 from internet archive where the site says this:

https://d.pr/i/w3Ac0f

Meet securely
End-to-end encryption for all meetings, role-based user security, password protection, waiting rooms, and place attendee on hold.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191225055029/https://zoom.us/m...

Fake it til you make it?
Yes, Vizio already got caught and sued over this behavior.

> Starting in 2014, Vizio made TVs that automatically tracked what consumers were watching and transmitted that data back to its servers. Vizio even retrofitted older models by installing its tracking software remotely. All of this, the FTC and AG allege, was done without clearly telling consumers or getting their consent.

> What did Vizio know about what was going on in the privacy of consumers’ homes? On a second-by-second basis, Vizio collected a selection of pixels on the screen that it matched to a database of TV, movie, and commercial content. What’s more, Vizio identified viewing data from cable or broadband service providers, set-top boxes, streaming devices, DVD players, and over-the-air broadcasts. Add it all up and Vizio captured as many as 100 billion data points each day from millions of TVs.

> Vizio then turned that mountain of data into cash by selling consumers’ viewing histories to advertisers and others.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/7/14527360/vizio-smart-tv-tr...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/02/...
For things that start as academic work, often the original paper is quite helpful. I find it an enjoyable read if you have a background in databases (it actually was a reading for my grad systems class)

https://people.csail.mit.edu/stavrosp/papers/vldb2017/VLDB17...

The basic jist is: TileDB is substantially faster than alternatives for random writes/reads - this allows for more sophisticated parallel linear algebra algorithms as well as evaluation of predicates.