skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what the comparison between served data is for IA vs Wikipedia - anecdotally, I feel like most of the data for Wikipedia is text based (plus some number of images), whereas IA includes (as mentioned in the article) audio, video, etc.
Actually, I do agree with that, my PERSONAL opinion is that the panic around COVID-19 was artificial to a large degree from the very beginning. Most measures taken against it in many countries seem to me absolutely pointless and badly planned through.

The keyword here is "personal". Despite disagreeing with the policy, I don't gather parties at my properties and encourage public protests. What Musk is doing here is much worse, though, he blatantly says "fuck you" to the government and does it in maximally public way possible. If he doesn't get punished for that, it will be such a special attitude that I don't even know how to think about that. CA "authorities" should loose all authority after that.
I don't mean to sound obtuse. I've heard this claim many times and I can imagine it being true, but I have no way of knowing whether it is or not. So I wanted to see what the reasoning is.
I mean, imagine they did.

So a huge group of people get to try your software for free. There's a system to try and cut them off at two weeks but it might fail. This is basically free marketing. All sorts of people who may never have tried your software try it. Nearly all of them don't buy it, but some do. It doesn't cost you any money and you're able to help people in need.

There's evidence that, in general, piracy lowers sales, but the specifics are complex and uncertain[1]. Piracy can have positive impacts on the fortunes of the original artist. I think that a crisis like this is exactly the time to try new and experimental ways of making things available.

[1] https://marketly.com/does-piracy-impact-sales/
> * You can’t easily ‘remix’ an app, Inspect Element style learning is impossible.

Note quite, it's possible to inject FLEX into other apps and see what is going on:

https://github.com/Flipboard/FLEX

It isn't as easy as right clicking and inspecting element but it's not impossible.
the last one on that was really great. interesting that even then, the band had that great style.
Yeah, to me that sounds like they are insinuating that consequences may happen if their hope goes unfulfilled.
I've been using Nuxt for about 18 months and on the whole it is fine, but I've had constant issues with pages trying to load out of date build files. Haven't ever experienced this with Next.

I've also found some of the libraries to be fairly flakey - PWA support breaks my app every-time I've tried to implement it. Lazy Hydration works for a while and then (without any changes) starts dropping random JS errors.

I've noticed a lot of valid Github issues being closed automatically with no attempt by the team to address them - they're simply opened up as questions on a forum that never gets looked at.
These are basically broad guidelines that can be modified locally. The county with Teslas factory has made it repeatedly clear that it does not consider the factory to be essential. However as far as I understand it is enforcing stricter rules in general and not just singling Tesla out.
Just as Freedom of Speech doesn't give one free license to spout hate speech or shout "fire" in a crowded theatre, one persons right to work isn't more important than another's right to life (or safety from a deadly pandemic).
Not sure what you mean exactly. But I have LTE disabled via my mobile operator, and modem works for me.

In the Specification section here: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone there's a list of supported bands and standards.
I appreciate the dorian gray reference :)
> archive.org feels like an irreplaceable treasure

Yes I save some dead sites that I think are critically important resources to tarballs that I'm storing separately in case the Wayback Machine disappears.
Anyone know how they (or other states) are gathering this data? Do hospitals have some daily email report? Do certain healthcare providers expose stats over an API?
Good catch. Fixed. Thanks!
There is even a hearing aid using teensy board and the modified version of teensy audio library[1]!

[1] https://shop.tympan.org/
To be fair, Musk's tweet especially says if anyone is to be arrested for this, it should be him.

> to make a political statement.

I see it as more a business decision, and only secondarily a political statement.
How else are they supposed to fire them?

They could have asked them to fly in and then they'd have to fire 3800. And some would sill complain and also decide to sue Uber for something.
I live in the Bay Area and I support Elon's decision.
> Imagine if we were still selling boxed software and they decided that in light of COVID-19 they just hand it out with a two week limit.

You mean like shareware?
Is this response not accurate? I'm familiar with the book by title only, really. I've read The Fountainhead. Could someone downvoting typon please provide a better explanation?
He has literally always been basically a libertarian.

California Socialist seem to have overlooked that because he wanted to produce electric cars.

Now he is in the category of 'Evil Greedy Capitalist Robbor Barron Exploiter' for them.
>But not wanting to die __ever__ can be driven by narcissism.

Couldn't it also be driven by deep, abiding curiosity? This seems to me at least as likely as narcissism as a motivation.
The full phrase is "the right to work in just and favourable conditions". Which concerns his workers too.

Though suggesting that Musk's "human rights" are being violated through closure of his car factory in the middle of a pandemic is making a complete joke out of both his argument and out of the concept of human rights.
I think you point out a dichotomy that's interesting, except that I can't find any evidence that people who talk about social justice "often" support violence-inducing criminals and condemn reformed criminals who are white. This sounds like a specter manufactured to make a point about a reality that doesn't match up with the world we (or at least I) live in.
Autechre isn't on here - strange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Session_(Autechre_EP)
A pandemic is very much an interstate problem, so it's in scope even using your narrow and outdated definition of the US government structure.
They increased the bandwidth and traffic immediately filled the new capacity. While this could be just a faster web site attracting more users / users were giving up due to slow loads before, it could also indicate that they have a lot of automated traffic that will consume whatever resources are available and can be throttled without endangering their mission.

I hope they'll look into it, find a way to identify that traffic, and then (ideally) classify it accordingly and continue to serve it only after all human traffic has been served (i.e. if they run into a bandwidth crunch due to bots, only the bots suffer, and they don't need to upgrade as quickly).
I can't speak for this one, I gave the OCZ NIA a spin when it was released probably more than a decade ago now, and what I found was that mostly it picked up the electrical interference from all the low quality DC transformer plugpacks that powered all my monitors and chargers etc.

I'm not sure that "machine learning driven signal processing" is going to be enough to screen out the dirty EM environment you're gonna find in most peoples houses and offices.

I do wish these guys best of luck though, it's an interesting field.
On missing IPv6 router advertisements
I've gotten that from time to time. My oldest is turning 22 this year. When people hear that, they do a double take and say, "wow, you're not old enough to have a kid that old," to which I agree. I had her at 15 - a bit young to have a kid that age indeed.
It's not about good or bad. It's about power. Billionaires have a shitton of power, and we need rules to rein them in. To protect us from them.

That's in the abstract. Let's take this concrete example. Say there is some worker in this factory. They don't want to go to work. They don't feel safe. Now they are torn between two authorities. What happens if they do show up? What happens if they don't show up? Will they be seen as "not a teamplayer"? Will their career stall out compared to their yes-men colleges? Maybe even get fired without any cause given. Half a year later so as not to make it obvious?
I'm happy to continue the conversation, but we shouldn't entertain the rantings of the guy who claims to believe that repeating the basis of his argument back to him is reductive. My Keybase is in the bio, either twitter or [my domain]@gmail.com
That's useful for personal use. I think that the IPFS is designed for this purpose as well, but meant to be accessible to anyone.
Hey, thanks! I dont know about anything collaborative and for writing. https://aidungeon.io/ Maybe collaborative to play. And then there are a lot of writers exploring fine-tuning text models like GPT2 for personal use. https://twitter.com/MagicRealismBot is one of many examples. https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-fine-tune-gpt-2-so-you...

Maybe you should make it!
If I were well known as a master bullshitter, I would simply convince the world that being a master bullshitter was a sign of intelligence.
This is some of the most arrogant statment I have ever read in my life. The superiority complex is off the charts.

And I live near France.
Minor correction: Radical publicity is not inherent to all blockchain-based currencies. Take Monero as a counter-example. AFAIK in Monero no one can query the balance of any address except the key holder for that address, and no one can see the sender, recipient, or value of a transaction except those party to it.
> HN should automatically detect this and let me know

That's on the list!

I've reopened the comment for editing if you still want to.
Yes! And also, I would advocate reading Slate Star Codex's "A Failure, but Not of Prediction"[1] as a follow-up, which sort of resolves the "parachute paradox" of why you should believe in the efficacy of parachutes for skydiving in the absence of RCTs, and when you should require them for a belief.

I summarized the heuristic in that discussion [2].

In the case of parachutes, that heuristic would (lead you to) say that, we know (from RCTs) that parachutes slow the fall of objects, we know humans suffer greater injury the faster they hit the ground, and parachutes are inexpensive relative to the potential risk, therefore you should believe they work in the absence of an RCT.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/14/a-failure-but-not-of-p...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22908365
I mean - assuming you passed the interview how BS was it? Either the guy interviewing you had no place asking those questions or you were accurate enough in your response to get in is my take.
> Was there some non-COVID-19 respiratory infection that hit NYC at around that same time that went under the radar?

Not really under the radar, there are always a lot of respiratory illnesses. In my area, after reducing non-covid cold/flu by an order of magnitude due to social distancing, we're testing everyone with cold/flu symptoms, and they're still ~96.5% not covid-19.
Good arguments, but irrelevant because Bitcoin is not a consumption good.

Mining is public evidence that someone is willing to burn $X in electricity to acquire a Bitcoin. For an intrinsically worthless monetary asset with no government support, social proof is the only real source of data on possible valuations. See also: Mises’ regression theorem.
as long as they contribute, im cool with it
(I agree and use the Minimal Twitter extension.)
Well the idea is I can provide it publicly (not sure how... don't know how they get the copyright to do it) myself in the future if needed.
I'd be happy with the generous severance package and move on with my life. But do you honestly care about a generic exit interview? Do you think any employer cares that much? Seems like a total waste of time for everyone involved given the circumstances.
That's not quite what happened here -- your software is given away whether or not you want to jump on that opportunity, because they don't care what you want. If you happen to notice what's going on, you can ask them to stop. And you don't get any goodwill from giving it away, because it was the Internet Archive and not you that made the gesture.

Honestly they would have gotten huge buy-in from authors if they'd bothered to ask. What bothers me more is the intellectual dishonesty of their FAQ's.
Roger Penrose is a Professor of Mathematics, not Physics. It's not unusual for mathematicians to also be theoretical physicists.
> Somehow halting the production of luxury cars for a few more weeks, with the explicit intent of trying to save lives, doesn't seem like an injustice to me.

Forgive the cliche, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

"Trying to save lives" is the new "think of the children". It's the same mentality that gives us legislation like the EARN IT act.

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The question we should ask is, (1) has the government provided a reasonable justification for placing such limits on commerce, freedom of movement, etc. And (2), is the strategy we're pursuing, from a public health perspective, the right one?

My answer to both (1) and (2) is "hell no". The rules our government has ruled out are arbitrary and capricious and are largely based on superstition. Case in point: closures of public parks and beaches.

Arguing (2) is out of the scope of this comment but suffice to say that my belief is the negative externalities introduced by our COVID-19 response are far, far worse than COVID-19 itself.

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FWIW, I am not a fan of Musk in general. I am inherently suspicious of people that are trying to save humanity. As we have seen with Musk - for example, how Tesla factory workers are treated in the pre-COVID-19 era - because he is working tirelessly to save humanity, he is willing to sacrifice actual humans to achieve his goals. Because after all, in the scheme of things, if you're talking about fighting existential threats like climate change or being stuck on one planet, what's the cost of even 100,000 human-lives' worth of wellbeing in comparison? It's not even close.

But when it comes to COVID-19, I absolutely think Musk is right. Yes he has made some absolute asinine comments/predictions but his general points about suspension of civil liberties, and statements that COVID-19 is not nearly as lethal as we were told...all of that is totally true in my book.
This doesn’t really address my question. I’m not spoiling for an argument over what you think is the right course of action. I’m curious about why the court would second guess the decision making of the county.

Let’s for the sake of argument say I thought that the county’s decision were silly. Governments do things that some people think are silly all the time. Yet, the court intervenes only in very few specific cases, under a very carefully chosen set of circumstances.
The Secret Lives of Fungi
Somehow Jonathan Frakes seems to be more fitting here, even though it was indeed Leonard Nimoy in that episode.
It is well understood that the bosons are excitations of fields.

A boson is not a 'thing' it is a happening. The atom is the first object in physics. That is a shapely thing with location.
Your parent asked "can you link me to a highly ranked recipe page with a bullshit SEO story". I was showing how your first link wasn't an SEO story.
I invested several days setting up my product's backend on Elastic Beanstalk. After several weeks, I learned that Elastic Beanstalk is not reliable.

Then I spent several days learning Kubernetes and gave up when I learned that it is overly complex and mostly undocumented.

Then I wasted a week using Packer to build EC2 AMIs and deploy with terraform and run with supervisord. I learned that Packer is slow and Linux package repositories are unreliable. Both of these things could prevent me from deploying an emergency patch. Also, there are no reliable tools to clean up old AMIs generated by Packer.

Then I spent several weeks learning Docker and migrating my product's backend to that. Docker's APIs and tooling are hard to use but at least they're reliable. And I can run the same binaries in production and on my dev machine.

Throughout this process, I frequently looked at Heroku and then remembered how much they charge. I just can't bring myself to spend $500/mo for their ops automation. Perhaps I'm being penny-wise and pound-foolish.
NSW ordered everybody to stay at home for 90 days except with a permit. Their lockdown is a lot more severe than ours, and they sealed their borders while we did not, and I don't credit being in the southern hemisphere as part of their policy, even though it has contributed a lot to their objective outcome.
Related https://twitter.com/nyt_diff
Sounds difficult, but not a justification for breaking copyright laws, or interfering with people's livelihoods without asking.
Ha, thanks for clarifying! I wasn't sure and perhaps should have taken it more lightly, but then I couldn't have attempted to make a point. :)
The Engineers Taking on the Ventilator Shortage
Pretty much any URTI can cause loss of taste. The loss of smell causes loss of taste.
That you are getting down-voted for this is truly embracing.
Great work mate! Any plans of openning up an API for a subscription fee or something? :))
In general, that is how Google responds to bad ideas.

When the memo hit the public, it became an issue of whether the company was perceived to be supporting a Title VII violation. Then the company doesn't have the option of rolling their eyes and going about business as usual anymore.
i live in brooklyn too, and there is a construction site next door with lots of workers. it's ridiculous that tesla cant open up
60 Gbps is about 1/3 of the traffic served by a single Netflix CDN node.
Arbitrary in terms of flow of people. Many, many people commute from San Joaquin County to Alameda County and beyond. Many goods and services flow between the counties. There are many warehouses located in the flats right over the hills in San Joaquin County. This is because of lower cost.
If your threat model includes having to address a concern of historically unpredictable or unreliable vendor behavior or performance (which makes sense, in a robust professional engineering practice), it can make sense to take matters in your own hands. Open Source is a great way to do that.

While past performance does not guarantee future results, there is some empirical evidence that you can use when evaluating which vendors you trust, and can rely on to be customer obsessed, including always looking for sustainable ways to save you money. You are, of course, entitled to an opinion about what "sustainable" means to you, and how you measure your choice of vendor. To me, it means specific things in how I professionally practice as an engineer.

[edit: small clarification, saving customers money is only one way to deliver value for their money. But, in my experience ]
Plenty of dumb people bullshit and plenty of smart people don’t. I saw another comment here I agree with - your intelligence probably correlates with the quality of bullshit, assuming equal motivation.
Well, at least two. For one, it might be desired to have a copy of the data yourself, rather than relying on some hosted service. Also, webrecorder would allow you to store authenticated pages.
>If Bitcoin were actually useful, someone would have figured it out by now, and it would be widely adopted.

Diffuse benefits, concentrated costs, and a set of governments which gain much of their power through monetary policy blows this assertion out of the water.

>The consensus among economists is that a deflationary currency is a terrible idea.

There are a few fiat currencies that have negative interest rates. They are not going anywhere. Most notably the European central bank.
Thanks. There is no reason why high-school or younger children can't understand the basic modern conception of the atom. We hope to bring that down to everyone's level.

Physics should start with objects. So we start electricity with atoms, unlike the traditional analogies.
From what I've seen Bitcoin Cash is used that way and few other crypto.

I saw vendors actually removing Bitcoin support.
The whole point of inflation is to disincentivize people from holding money in the first place. Money only has value when it moves, not when it's stuffed under a mattress. I really think we need to bring back mandatory economics classes in high school.

The idea is that you use it to invest: into real estate, into equities, into bonds, heck even a savings account collateralizes mortgages. Yes, even your magic beans represent the system working. The system is designed to encourage the continued survival of the most economically fit companies, etc, by your picking winners.

Don't hold money. Certainly not more than you need in the event of an emergency.
I think it really speaks to what we've built with our "modern democracies" all over the world - layer upon layer of bureaucracy, and the same decisions can be made or un-made at every level.

A friend just got a job at a local city council working on their climate change action plan. There are ~20 people working on it, all making ~$80k a year. The city has 30k residents. Every single city of this size or larger in the entire country is going to duplicate this effort, and pay these salaries, and maybe even come up with different solutions to the same problem.

City A will ban the use of some chemical, and a handful of miles away a different city with different rules will rejoice in the use of the same chemical.

It all feels awfully redundant to me.
I worry more about apps and weird SDKs that ping foreign servers all the time, which seems to be the custom on Android and iOS.

A64 can do secure boot, I'm sure. So if anyone will have interest in implementing it and locking down their device, it's possible.

Personally, it seems like too much trouble, for little benefit at this point in time.
I'm in my current project because I read the right articles about ngrx an hour before the interview.

We had a laugh about it with our line manager the other day. He was leading that interview.
> The weirdly varying body temperature bit is what most folks I know who were symptomatic had at one point. Not a typical cold or flu response.

I have that pretty much every time I get the flu.
I agree, that is a very likely cause as well.