skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love looking at brutalist architecture in books, or maybe walking past some.

Working in one, not so much. I used to work in one, it had tiny windows up high, you needed a chair to get to them, you never knew what time of the day it was, if it was raining, or what.
I've been making videos showing off my collection of old computers, and finally repairing a lot of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJEHSliAisk
I am working on Kanjimi, a browser extension for people learning Japanese.

My goal is to help people to read any Japanese website by adding information about the vocabuary words (pronunciation, meaning).

But at the same time I want this to be highly customizable and easy to use, because helping too much or systematically does not actually help to learn. So this has to be just right for everyone to be truly useful.

It is not released yet, but I made a mini-website and have a Twitter account for this project if anyone is interested:

https://www.kanjimi.com/
Army scientists working on vaccine long feared emergence of new coronaviruses
Are these salvageable? And is it legal to just take them and use them?
8 Part playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLZHnYvH1qtOZ2BSwG4CHmKSV...
The way the United States has handled this has been awe inspiring in its incompetence. We had our first identified case on the same day as S. Korea. Our death rate is currently 254 / million vs S. Korea's rate of 5.

Our federal leadership is saying that we should both open up and not open up at the same time. Its encouraging protesters that are protesting for the disobedience of the guidelines that it released. We refused functioning tests from other nations that worked in order to produce our own. This cost valuable time and resulted in a first round of testing that did not work, costing more time.

Businesses are shuttered by government edict forcing them to furlough or lay people off. Those people are now forced to sit at home without income or any job prospects while the government that required it continues to get paid and states that no further stimulus or funds to individuals is really needed while stating that the $1,200 some limited subset of people got should last 10 weeks. At the same time this government is actively working to reduce food subsidies and health care options not tied to employment.

We have state governments using their national guard to protect their ppe from seizure by the federal government. The federal governments response has been rife with cronyism and self enrichment. State level unemployment has been a massive failure.

We now have the federal government stating that citizens are warriors and encouraging us to willingly fight and die with a virus? Scientists whose job it is to provide public information and policy are actively derided. Talking heads are actively calling the number of deaths a hoax and panning a reasonable response.

We could have just shut down in the beginning, the government could have use the DPA to mass produce PPE and the existing tests while providing people with at least a minimum UBI. They could have quickly reached a point where we are able to test people each day as they walk into the office if in person work is required. If the test is failed the individual must self isolate for x days and can return to work once they test negative. Federal government guarantees the persons job while they are sick and pays the salary so the employer does not suffer. We could have had this thing fully contained and been back up and running in a couple of months.

Instead we appear to have seen the stock market fall, thrown our hands up in the air and cried that it is too hard.

Rant over. I am just very frustrated that it appears we may have endured all of this for nothing due to terrible management.
Show HN: JWT Functions as a Service with Fly.io
There was a post on HN about fly.io a while back and I thought it looked really cool - so decided to try it out

Made a JWT function as a service : https://jwt-service.fly.dev/

You can read more about the API and the code behind it at https://aawadia.hashnode.dev/jwt-functions-as-a-service-with-flyio-cka613z9d009tx9s1b5l29103
I made a chicken coop and chicken run in my backyard. My chickens are now 10 weeks old, and happily running around in the run every day.

Now that I'm done (as of a week ago), I need another side project!
Fusion of Create React App and the best react boilerplate
The double-precision number probably best represents the generational improvement.

The 20x 32-bit floating point improvement is probably achieved by comparing doing full FP32 calculations on the previous generation vs doing TF32 calculations on Ampere. This would not be an apple-to-apple comparison as the TF32 result is less precise.

That said, it is probably not terribly important for deep learning at least, given the success of BF16.
Nope. I think it periodically gets floated on Swift-Evolution, but someone would have to design and implement it… and I suspect the Swift codebase (which is C++; it isn’t even self-hosting) is already fearsomely complex as it is.

Or, to borrow another Tony Hoare quote:

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”

..

Alas, big complex codebases facilitate fiddling with the details over substantive changes; and that’s even before considering if the Swift language’s already-set syntax and semantics are amenable to expressing concepts they weren’t originally designed for. Stuff like Swift evo’s current thrash over trailing block[s] syntax reminds me of Python’s growth problems (e.g. its famously frustrating statement vs expression distinction that’s given rise to all its `lambda…`, `…if…else…`, etc nonsense).

It’s hard to scale after you’ve painted yourself into a corner; alas, the temptation is to start digging instead. I really wish Alan Kay had pursued his Nile/Gezira work further. That looked like a really promising approach to scalability. We really need better languages to write our languages in.
Just wanted to tell you I love croc! Brilliant idea, much easier than trying to talk nontechnical folks through installing Python on Windows to use Magic Wormhole.
I'm curious: why exactly do you need double precision digits? Not dismissing, just wondering what kind of application needs it.
Add Reporting capabilities to your PHP Products
You said train and purchasing land: 1) these tunnels aren't for trains, and 2) you don't need to purchase land in most cases for tunnels - you need a license from the government.

Your comments continue to tell me you don't know any details about The Boring Company's efforts, where the boring machine they've designed so far - from having bought 3 different machines and did 3 test tunnels to study the machines, to then design their own boring machine - has apparently reached around a 15x speed improvement, essentially meaning a 15x cost reduction from the standard cost associated with digging tunnels.

Your attitude is akin to saying launching rockets into space can't get any cheaper, meanwhile Elon with SpaceX has proven that you can get the cost down from rocket launches from $60 million per launch down to $6 million per launch by having successfully creating re-usable rockets.

Re: the complexity of Hyperloop specifically needing a near-vacuum - Do you understand Elon has that expertise at his fingertips with SpaceX engineers? And that they've clearly proven they're competent and able at understanding and safely designing for physics?

Edit to add: also see my comment here for more insight - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23179150
Why isn't your school providing that information? You should be able to see what the school is teaching your kids so you can refer to it to.
Apple’s $700 Mac Pro wheels work terribly on skateboards
My favorite one so far:

mantula: a small parasitic stinging insect that feeds on ants, flies, and other small insects, native to leafy lawns and shrubs.
"mantulas are widely grown as food"

You could do some great auto-worldbuilding in a dwarf fortress type game with this. Maybe constraining the input data to "bio" and "historical" definitions.
I started collecting images of interesting COVID-19 related posters, graphics and street art at https://backspace.com/covid19
I wouldn't consider reference counted GC systems level appropriate. It _can_ be more deterministic, but not when it's tracing and collecting cycles (which a decent modern RC implementation must do) and it usually plays havoc on L1 cache (by touching counts).

You can make RC quite nice (I've written cycle collecting implementations before) but there's reasons why C++ programmers are encouraged generally to avoid shared_ptr and use unique_ptr whenever possible: harder to reason about or trace object lifetimes, and performance implications.

Now if the garbage collection was optional, and one could still freely heap or stack allocate and free, then, yes, I could see it. But I don't think that's the case w/ Swift, at least not last time I looked at it. It's also why Go is imho not a 'systems' programming language.
I had hundreds of (mostly pirated) games for my II and Lode Runner was my favorite. Also, Karateka, Pinball Construction Set, and Zaxxon. May as well add Choplifter, the original Ultima, Wizardry, and Castle Wolfenstein.
How Uber became an unchecked regulatory power in Washington, D.C
Chromium can easily handle five hundred or more tabs on my machine. It's certainly a RAM hog, but that's to be expected. Maybe it's swapping on your machine? Firefox does a slightly better job when you have more than a thousand tabs open, but they both benefit from a tab suspender extension.
AI makes up words you won’t even find in the dictionary
Trying to learn and implement dotfiles in my workflow
Very much still in progress, but making something akin to active_storage / carrierwave but for Dotnet (getting familiar with the dotnet core ecosystem). I think by the end of the month it'll be pretty darn usable, but want to add dead simple handling of image processing and similar beyond that.

https://github.com/bpicolo/bulletin

I always find it fun to play with the limits of library ergonomics under language / ecosystem constraints.
The crazy optical illusion called Ames window
Sorry I just saw this (usually just lurk HN so not up to speed with my comment responses), yep interested to help if you'd like
Surely you mean Rand Paul.
$95 for a new power supply?

Should have shelled out for a soldering iron or station, pliers, new caps, which might have ended up cheaper in the long run (or not)
The role of fungi in life on planet Earth
I am in process of launching a web app that lets you plan that trip to Europe you'll be taking when this is all over. Create and share trip Itineraries, show and rank Countries, Cities, and attractions with costs and details. Data is i a beast, its slow currently slow as molasses, but its the first time i've ever put a side project live:

eurotripr.com - feedback would be great as i continue to work on this
We just went through an exercise on saving costs by shutting down resources in our development environments. I looked over our bill and found the following:

- most of our costs for Aurora was data. Shutting down the database didn't save us too much of anything. We were already running some of the smallest instances. Aurora Serverless wasn't an option. It was missing features we needed.

- We only had a few small T* pet servers in DEV that we could shut down.

- Most of our greenfield projects are either Lambda (no cost when you aren't using, very cheap when you are) or Fargate (Docker). We could iterate through all of our clusters and set it to 0 at night and spin them back up as needed I guess

- You can't just shut down your ElasticSearch cluster.

- Do you really want to deprovision load balancers and your NAT gateway?

Did I mention that we have an entire team that works opposite hours than we do?

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Nvidia Unifies AI Compute with “Ampere” GPU
This feature has existed for a long time under chrome://flags. They skipped Chrome 82 for COVID: https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule
CreatorScape 2020
A market map of all the companies that serve the influencer and creator ecosystem.
You're missing the fundamental factor here: There isn't enough lithium on earth to sustain a full switch to eletric.

This article from 2015 sums it up pretty well: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Is-There-Enough...

Edit: and to add, I don't want to attack you personally but the kind of "market will take care of it" thinking you shown here is exactly the problem. The market will just exhaust our lithium reserves in a few decades if let on its own. I'd even argue that the market should be excluded outright from limited resources at this point.
Flexible ERP platforms critical to the new normal
There's a big different between the data being available vs. being put to use. ISPs have no incentive to put a bunch of effort into collecting data from the 1% or less of their customers which don't use their DNS servers. Thus, it's extremely unlikely they run packet inspection on every packet just so that they can collect browsing history from people who are privacy conscious.
Hydrodynamical Backflow in X-shaped Radio Galaxy PKS 2014-55
Deployed on heroku with python/django, postgres and react. Stripe for payments too.
It's about as incognito as throwing on the hat and glasses the icon shows is.

i.e. "works until someone actually cares enough to take active measures to track you."
Are they really holding him hostage by taking him to task for an illegal order?
My CVT has a "sport" button that lets you engage engine braking, but I've never seen it in an automatic (outside of low gear or "fake manual" type options)
Then tell us this. In fact stick it somewhere obvious.

Also please talk straight, please don't mention "next-generation experiences", that's just marketing nothingspeak to HN techies.

"enhanced fuzzing" - as opposed to what?

"soft-realtime compilation" - meaning...?

"stable GC support" - oh thank god for that, finally GC is reliable and can be used in production. thankyou thankyou thankyou for banishing GC instability.
> something about the time for experts is over, something like that, can anyone recall?

Michael Gove said, during the Brexit referendum, that "people in this country have had enough of experts".[1]

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[1] https://www.ft.com/content/3be49734-29cb-11e6-83e4-abc22d5d1...
I read through the whole readme. I can’t figure out which part of this they think is the “breakthrough”.
No, please just no. Don't give anybody outside of your org full admin permissions. Putting a bad example is bad, and also show their incompetences. At least they can put a red giant box to warn people, not expecting everybody know not to do it.
For one cloudflare is a lot more reputable than most US ISPs. Cloudflare explicitly says "We committed to never writing the querying IP addresses to disk and wiping all logs within 24 hours." https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/

If gov tried to force CF to change that they would likely put up a huge public legal fight to prevent it whereas ATT / Verizon and Comcast would bend over backwards to secretly comply while also simultaneously seeing if they could inject some ads into the pages you visited.
It's not authorities, anyone setting up a router can peek into this information, and more importantly, tamper with it.

Remember Upside-Down-Ternet? [1]

[1] http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html
Let's say the amount of money I make from landlording isn't material income, partly by ethical choice.

It's a hobby that interests me to learn about, but not one I'd say I currently enjoy, past the learning.

I strictly rent to <= 2 degrees of separation from friends / family, which helps with evictions. And am currently renting to a newly married couple in their 20s, as it makes me happy to rent more stable housing than they could otherwise afford.
It seems really dumb, but they likely had incentives like discounts or lower price increases that influenced the decision. Some people really undervalue optionality.
Every messagepack library I’ve encountered is optimized for speed and not memory or type safety. That’s a bit concerning in a secure messaging format.
A Machine Learning Methodology for Cache Design Based on Dynamic Instructions
Building an AWS Managed Security Operations Center (SoC) with TotalCompliance
Untappd has this feature with the largest beer + venue database in the world.
>https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/

What hath God wrought? https://i.imgur.com/Fq6Vh5Y.jpg
I've been using the Simple Tab Groups extension [1] in Firefox for some time, and to my taste it's the best option out there.

[1] https://github.com/drive4ik/simple-tab-groups
Remote Event Storming
Building a Progressive Web App with Blazor
I'm familiar with the concept, and indeed it motivates my stance here. A rule that we won't open up until we're certain we have enough testing reduces to a rule that we'll never open, because that certainty is unachievable.
Nvidia Ampere Architecture In-Depth – Nvidia Developer Blog
Adding credit to transit card gets murderer arrested
Sorry for the tangent, but that sounds really interesting! Would you feel comfortable sharing more info about how you did the processing? Astrophotography is a hobby I've been wanting to get into and learn about, but I can't justify purchasing an expensive camera for just one hobby.
Looks like a very nice project. Just a minor remark: if you don't own quiz.com please consider changing the package prefix: com.quiz.darkhold implies that the code is from quiz.com. Perhaps com.github.surajcm.darkhold.
> Although Apple is probably the only one that isn't strongly incentivized to violate your privacy.

With their transition from selling widgets to services I wonder how much longer that will be true. And considering their attempt at iAds the privacy incentive is more historical accident than an unchangeable, core culture.
When I said "Public transport emits far less per passenger" I was not making an assertion about specific methods of locomotion. If you can claim to have an electric car, I can claim (with greater warrant, mind you) to have electric public transport. As it stands right now, public transport is SUBSTANTIALLY more electrified than passenger vehicles. Thus your insistence that we your electric passenger vehicle up against diesel powered public transport isn't just disingenuous, it's factually inverted.

When I said "last mile delivery" I am referring to trucks in cities which cover small distances. Thus I don't understand what your point is when you reply to me with "Most trucks in cities cover only small distances."

When I said "As for long haul delivery..." I am speaking about trucks outside of cities by definition. I referenced trucks which travel short distances in the prior paragraph.

I'm sorry but I think you might have just entirely failed to read my post as it was written. Hopefully you were not having a stroke at the time of replying as I wish you to be well and uninjured.
That doesn't work because you need signatures from within your congressional district.
Same here. I like to only keep open the tabs that I actually need, and that number is usually around 5.
$300 to Cancun? How to Tell When a Flight Is a Good Deal
>Wow. Reddit really is just a pile of rubbish now. So glad I found HN.

i agree and i disagree.

hn is really nice, but it can be as circlejerky as any subreddit. also, sometimes i just want some light-memey-fun, and i can't have that on hn.

also, as someone that follows a lot of sports (football, NFL, NBA, tennis, f1, mma and others), reddit is a godsend. the discussion is not "high level", but it's lighthearted enough to have fun without feeling like everybody is trolling.
Ultimately the problem with the phrasing is that privilege is something given which can be removed. It's false because no one in particular decrees or gives benefits for being white - which would also be illegal.

Disparity and disadvantage are better words.

It's a social bias, and those cannot be changed by a decree. So not only is it attacking people, alleging guilt, it's also an ineffective stance to repeatedly point it out. Affirmative action also has connotation of failure to solve the issues black people face.
Penetration test of KeeWeb, an open source JavaScript password manager
How is it spam? Do you think their product adds no value? Posting startups isn't just permitted, it's part of the point of HackerNews - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think you understand what's going on. Private browser has no visible difference to server or the party listening to your communication in the middle. The only effect it has is that it doesn't persist your browser history upon closing it.
Ask HN: Easy way to find all internet comments discussing an article?
Is there a way to easily see all 'internet discussion' of an article? i.e all the reddit comments, hn comments, blogs, niche forums, etc talking about an article?

When I read an interesting article/blog post I want to see more discussion about it and I go through tons of google queries to see where the article has been discussed.

In particular I'd like to be able to discover new forums/blogs this way.
Ampere Unleashed: Nvidia Announces New GPU Architecture, A100 GPU, & Accelerator
I'm confused. Is there any relationship between the recent Ampere Arm64 servers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475036) and Nvidia's "Ampere Architecture", or is it just a case of them using the same name?
Thanks! There is an option in the settings menu to "Avoid hills", and in the not-too-distant future that will become a slider that allows you to prefer hills or avoid them.

It's not open source yet, but I might open it up in the future. There's a donate link hidden away in the About page. Any donation would be much appreciated, and would help with the server costs (it needs a huge amount of RAM to store the whole planet's data).
I've been working on a small project called https://CodeSnippetSearch.net. It allows you to search through code snippets using natural language. Currently, Python, Java, Go, Php, Javascript, and Ruby programming languages are supported. I think it's especially useful for new programmers because it allows you to search through code in a "Google-like" fashion. It also allows you to find similar code snippets to the ones found in search results. This enables you to explore different possible solutions.

As with any cool project nowadays, CodeSnippetSearch is powered by neural networks (six in fact - one for each programming language). The project is open-sourced and you can read about the implementation details here: https://github.com/novoselrok/codesnippetsearch This project started as a reimplementation of the models in the CodeSearchNet challenge by GitHub (https://github.com/github/CodeSearchNet/). I have reused their data and reimplemented the neural bag-of-words model in Keras. I didn't expect any improvements with my reimplementation, but I did manage to beat the baseline models by a little bit.

The search is still a bit of a hit-and-miss and I'm continually trying to improve it. If the match rating for the top result is below 50% it will most likely be irrelevant.
https://psmag.com/magazine/a-year-in-the-heart-of-the-addict...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/1...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt

This is not a comment about the quality of the people in the region, but of the challenging circumstances caused by factors largely outside their control.
Yes it could certainly change. I for one am not interested in their services products, I stick to the hardware.