skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can download audible files, and convert them later to non-DRM.
The thing that strikes me the most is how absolutely terrible they are at showing off their product. Their whole promo video is extreme closeups on 3D renderings that look no different than what my cellphone can do because it's just a boring video of boring renderings and I'm watching it on my boring cellphone. It's like they're trying to show the grand canyon by filling the frame with a small bit of rock.

This shitty gif from techcrunch is infinitely more impactful in every conceivable way despite being a shit quality gif. https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Aug-22-201...

Looking Glass people, if you're reading this, you need to zoom way the fuck out, turn the lights on, and quit with the artsy bullshit fading to black every few seconds because it looks like you're hiding something. You cannot show pictures. You need to show the experience.
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Facebook discovers profitable strategy that news organizations have been using for decades.
Cool, I have that 1984 issue of National Geographic with the hologram on the cover! (At 0:53 in the video). I was fascinated by it as a kid.
If the PRC gets a workable vaccine first, they can gain influence to get everyone to use a WHO run global vaccine passport instead of separate national systems. They can then tie the WHO's databank into their global surveillance system and franchise out China's surveillance state and social credit score system throughout the world.
Micro is awesome, it honestly made me think “I never want to use any other CLI editor ever again”. Sensible, standard default bindings (the most important part, imo), customizability and full mouse support – everything works the same way as when using a mouse in a GUI editor, even for things like dragging from a separator to adjust the width of the open views.
At small sizes, like 8–13px, sans-serifs look better than serifs. And user interfaces and websites used to be that size.

But for 16px and up, which is what websites of today use, serifs are perfectly fine even on 1× displays (though sure, they’ll look better still on higher-DPI displays, but so will sans-serifs).

I should clarify that it depends on the font. Sans-serifs tend to have fairly even stroke width, but serifs tend to have more variable stroke width, and if the thin is too thin, you get a terrible font. That’s a common shortcoming of serif fonts, and Garamond demonstrates that, being quite unsuitable for screen use below 20px, maybe even 24px. Others like Georgia don’t suffer that weakness.
For a statically-compiled language, runtime reflection is probably a violation of the zero-cost overhead principle. There is a limited amount of reflection that can be done cheaply that has some value: getting the address of the vtable of an object [assuming it has one] for uniqueness, or getting function pointer identities for generic invokable objects.

Given compile-time reflection, providing standard library functionality for certain runtime reflection tasks (such as providing a list of field information for a struct/class/union, or listing function arguments) could be useful. On the other hand, it could end up being a locale-like scenario where it's either overkill or too weak for your use case, never in the middle.
I’m surprised you only tried to automate some tasks after putting hundreds hours in. I wouldn’t have the patience for that. Anyway, your post is interesting because it shows how important it is to prototype the whole processing chain instead of trying to get one phase complete then the next.
That's a bummer. I haven't bought an ebook in a few months, had no idea.
Apple Pay works in China, but basically nobody use it. It's designed with mindset that works in developed markets, and never worked out well in China.
The problem is that we cannot agree with which way we should sail the ship. Our navigator showed us a map that said "there be dragons" and told us to steer far off course putting us into a perilous situation of being adrift and lost at sea. Now we cannot agree which direction looks less stormy and whether we should try to head back to land or continue to starve at sea.
https://flipso.com (+ Posterous Features)
You would need a 20-30kw generator+fast DC charger as the built it AC charger in most electric cars is not fast enough to maintain a charge at highway speeds (especially while towing something).

Like other commentators have mentioned, if a u-haul like network of these were made, if you ran out of charge somewhere, they could drop one of these off to get you going again, as a depleted battery pack will charge slowly, making the van full of batteries potentially more expensive (you would have to pay for an extra 15-30m of their time).
The Pragmatic Bookshelf https://www.pragprog.com/ deserves a mention, as they're DMR free.
Is talking to NPCs more fun than playing the rest of the game?

Or more importantly: is talking to NPCs in your video game more fun than top-tier visual novels (Ex: Phoenix Write: Ace Attorney, "When they Cry", or Danganronpa )?

As a player, I know what I'm getting into. I choose to play mindless hack-and-slash games because the mindless hack-and-slash is quite fun sometimes. I don't play Dynasty Warriors for in-depth stories or deep NPC character development.

In contrast, when I pickup a visual novel game like Danganronpa, I'm not really going to be wowed by difficult reflexes or hand-eye coordination.

Games exist as a drop of culture in a greater ecosystem. The ultimate truth is, your video game plotlines are never going to be as deeply engaging as a book's plot.

After all, a book has literally nothing else to go on aside from character development and interesting plot development. People play video games (or tabletop games) for different reasons.
This reminds me a lot of the old Geico "wehadababyitsaboy" commercial:

https://youtu.be/9JxhTnWrKYs
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A lot of sceners in the size competition space work quite openly via e.g. https://www.shadertoy.com/

Most of the visuals in a Windows 4k demo are going to lie in the shaders these days anyway.

For smaller sizes, like 256b to 32b the source isn't going to be significantly more readable than a disassembly.
hold on, isn't this against some constitutional freedoms of our american friends? or am I misunderstanding something here?
I hate FB as much as the next guy but I think that Facebook is an amplifier of other trends.

I think that the underlying issue is the two party system. The echo chambers get amplified.
How many users does Facebook have again? How many hours per day?
I've noticed a very general principle here. Things which are 'before their time' obviously tend to fail, but the interesting bit IMO is that 'before their time' often means "the problem isn't yet constrained such that the efficiencies afforded by the design are economically significant". I think this explains why so much software (my branch of engineering) is miserably inefficient and bug-ridden despite the fact that we have technology to improve efficiency and quality by several orders of magnitude (at a relatively modest cost)--the economic context simply doesn't place a very high value on efficiency and quality, presumably because the market is comparing software against the many, many orders of magnitude worse performance afforded by humans.

Perhaps all of this is obvious to many others; it's interesting and novel to me, anyway.
During my quick research, I remember stumbling upon comparisons. The only thing hcaptcha wins over reCaptcha is the fact that it's not owned by google.
Mirror: http://archive.md/YQeJY
Show HN: Rentvax – Rate your rent experience
Hello, I created small TypeScript React (reduxjs/toolkit , styled-components & styled-system, formik, i18next) + TypeScript Express (TypeORM - PostgreSQL + PostGIS, Passport) app.

It lets you rate your rent with the help of Google Places API - requests are limited to free tier per day. I use Github Actions to deploy my app to Digital Ocean droplet (nginx). Tested on Chrome & Firefox. I wonder if it displays correctly on Safari but I have no Apple device. Let me know if you have any bugs.

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Thank you, I thought I was missing something when looking at it but I was like looks the same to me.
I guess that works if the "stuff" you put in is torque, and the effect is the angular velocity?

In linear coordinates, they could have called it the marketing frictionless skateboard - the more you kick the faster it goes!
You might be right, but your response comes across as rather rude. I think you should either soften your message, or provide more details about the timing --- or both! My instinct is that for standard IO involving moderate amounts of string interpolation and number formatting in C running on Linux on modern Intel processors, klodolph is probably closer to right. But maybe you are right for some other setup? Or maybe klodolph and I are both wrong, in which case some more details would be helpful.
This is a thought-provoking answer, and it shows how Facebook (and others) are straddling the line between publisher and platform.

IMHO, because they do perform curation, both algorithmic and manual, they should be considered publishers.
Feel free to do so.
It looks like the slider valve is surrounded on all sides by hot air-fuel mixture and combustion gas. Will the fingers of the slider valve need to be lubricated? Might they be lubricated without consuming (burning) excessive oil (with consequent increase of emissions)?
I still don't agree. Sure, there are limits to particular intuitions, but all of the rules make perfect sense with real world quantities.

For example, 1/3 of an orange + 1/3 of an orange is actually 2/3 of an orange, not 2/6 of one. And 1/3 of 1 kg of flour is exactly 2/6 or 300/900 of that kg of flour. Sure, it's hard to talk about 1 Graham's number / 3 graham's number of 1kg of flour, so it does break down at some point, but unless you go overboard with quantities, all of the rules for fractions are in fact intuitive, and important for day to day things like cooking and money management. In fact, fractions and their operations are probably older than the idea of abstract rules, because they are fundamentally useful things.

The child in this example wasn't even making the mistake of thinking the rule for + is the rule for your @ operation. They were confused because they were trying to apply the intuition they had built up for how to translate real-world problems into fractions in the wrong way. Their result was in fact physically true: it was true that 1/3 of the children at one table + 1/3 of the children at the other table was equal to 2/6 of the children at both tables. This was confusing them because it suggested a different way of manipulating the numbers than they had just been shown.

The right solution, again, was to teach them how to translate 'a fraction of something' to rational numbers - that is, to multiply the fraction by the something, with only a special notational case when that something is 1. If they had known to do this, their intuition would have translated directly into the correct algebraic formula. No need to learn the abstract rules yet.
So essentially you are saying that the tech side still works as gatekeepers of the documentation - need to approve MR's, requesting input via mentions - which is fine until the organization is skewed to the tech side.

As for Gitlab, their work processes are interesting, but I assume that most of the non-technical work there goes to issue tracker and the wiki? I am failing to see where there a strong connection to the code repository is required there.
CDC warns of aggressive cannibal rats facing shortage of garbage to eat
Do you know what qualifies as alternative medicine? Anything that is not medicine.
Hosting fees are pretty negligible. If it becomes a burden, then I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Thing is, if enough people are using this to make me have to upgrade my hosting, that's a great problem to have.
Unsung Countries Are Vanquishing the Virus
IIR, the prototype was surprisingly reasonably priced. I would guess that this display would be less than one might expect.
As others commented, this only acts when the first word in your commandline ends with '.git'.

- "git", alone isn't going to be hooked.
- you can do "cd .git".
- even if you have 'autocd' option set, you can '.git' and it will do "cd .git".

I'm not saying it's even a good practice, but I find it kinda cool, when using this feature in a way it's probably not intended for, you start thinking in 'what might happen inside'.
Sounds like PayPal, but owned by Facebook and initially peer to peer payments. I presume it's initially intended as a method of payment for Facebook Marketplace.
Though he doesn't come out and say it, it's clearly framed as a reasonable estimate of the ultimate death count: 'This sounds like a huge number, but it is buried within the noise of the estimate of deaths from “influenza-like illness.” If we had not known about a new virus out there, and had not checked individuals with PCR tests, the number of total deaths due to “influenza-like illness” would not seem unusual this year. At most, we might have casually noted that flu this season seems to be a bit worse than average. The media coverage would have been less than for an NBA game between the two most indifferent teams.'

None of that commentary makes sense except under the assumption that the author thinks the U.S. death total will be 10,000ish, and would have been unnoticeable without the availability of PCR testing.
I did, but I wasn't satisfied with that option.

I'd like the ability to embed arbitrary React+JSX into my Markdown, something which can theoretically be done (i.e. with the Hugo Babel plugin). But then I immediately realized I would have issues with importing my styling libraries (I used a custom-built Tailwind-esque set of emotion[0] classes) and using React Hooks.

As you can probably tell I have a hard time letting go of the power/flexibility of the React/SPA approach since it's all I've used for several years now.
A majority of pop. may have 'some degree' of preexisting immunity to Covid-19
I disagree with the headline of the article, but I agree with the conclusion of the article.

AI is in the process of having a huge effect in business software, it's just not the type of business software most of us think of when we think of business software.

Many people think of horizontal business software like MS word, excel, quickbooks, salesforce, etc. Products like this will be hard to automate significantly with AI, since every company is using these products slightly differently. The products are intentionally designed to have as wide a TAM as possible, and so they are general purpose enough to do anything business related.

There is another very large group of business software that people don't as readily know about, and that is vertical-specific business software. These products are not designed to have a wide TAM, but instead to be tailored to specific industries, and provide a ton of value as a result. These vertical products are a perfect fit for automation with AI. The author says "Each business process is a chance for automation", and in these products, these business processes (and all their inputs and outputs) are structured and represented in software.

I am building AI systems at a vertical software company right now and am a big believer in the future of AI in these products. If you have ML expertise and are interested in working on such systems, feel free to email me your resume.
The same happened when moving from a colo to AWS...

You can’t imagine the red tape moving from Workday and their homespun EMR (Healthcare) written 20 years ago using Powerbuilder.
First, it lists "affiliated with COVID-19-related research" not "exclusively COVID-19 research" so could be more than just the current research.

More importantly, while data theft is bad, data tampering could be much worse.

What happens to people's confidence, hope, and trust if a "remarkably effective" drug turns out to be a total dud or even dangerous because the underlying data was modified?
If you're working with Python projects and Virtualenv then this is a great alias to have (assuming you call it venv):

alias venv=". venv/bin/activate"

Just cd to a project root and venv :)
All-In Open Source: Why I Quit Tech Giant and Found My OSS Startup
Well, we can't dismiss the overhype either. Watson and all that. IBM alone is likely responsible for much of the disappointment, with its constant ads around Watson solving the Universe's toughest problems, when what they really seemed to be after is somebody to figure out how to take advantage of this thing they built.
Full page screen capture plugin on Chrome plus a community that posts to a IPFS node and updates some decentralized search thing to be able to find it?
I know you're joking but actually I think Libra is pretty horrifying and we should consider the consiquences
Oh, they use for marketing to investors, i understand.
Working from home has a long history – be careful what you wish for
The English language is full of idioms and metaphors; marketers are hardly the only ones using them.

Actually "snowball" probably makes more intuitive sense to people than "compounding growth."
Im not gonna pretend that Antivaxxer Karens (male and female) have anything to offer the Science of epidemiology, or that thieves oil is a solution for a pandemic.

But lets be honest with ourselves here - is one Financial-Feudal-Lord really who we want in control of the infrastructure to address this kind of societal problem?

In sane situations, Universities, maybe even governments are the ones to allocate the resources to solve these problems. That one man has the money? Further illustrates the Societal Collapse we are enduring.

Royalty, in the absence of cultivating a culture of maintaining us Serfs? Rarely grows such generosity naturally. And looking at Elon Musk as a comic foil for Gates shows us just how that usually falls apart.
There was the Heartbleed vulnerability which affected just about everything that used OpenSSL, which was a lot of things. There were some efforts to fork this codebase and simplify it. BoringSSL is one of those, LibreSSL another.

Summary I recall from looking into LibreSSL website some time ago: OpenSSL has a lot of cruft and does weird things like implements its own memory allocator. Most of this is because it supports an extremely wide variety of platforms (I think things like VAX and Amiga). This makes tools that try to detect things like buffer overflows not work properly, which is what Heartbleed was.

There have been many minor versions of OpenSSL released to update security vulnerabilities since Heartbleed.
I've always wondered how such discussions go in company meetings where some product/feature has harmful effect of something/someone but is good for the business of the company.

I cannot believe that everyone is ethicality challenged, only perhaps the people in control. So what goes through that minds of people who don't agree with such decisions. Do they keep quiet, just worry about the payroll, convince themselves that what the management is selling is a good argument for such product/service....

Luckily I've never had to face such a dilemma, but can't be envious of those who have faced and come out of it by losing either their morals or jobs.
> a locale-like scenario where it's either overkill or too weak for your use case, never in the middle.

well put.
I didn't make a point about the morality of what the merchants were doing. I was responding comment that made a false statement about some sort of British governmental stockpile of Opium that the clever British created the demand for in China. That is simply false, so I corrected it.

To be sure, I do think selling Opium is a moral thing to do, but my point is that this is not government policy, but merchants seeing a demand and responding to it. Only when China Imperial Government comes in and destroyed British stores, do this escalate to a national level conflict.

I think it was stupid for the Britain to start a war over it to be sure.
I use the mirror hckrnews.com where items doesn't disappear as quick.
> As someone who has pirated things in the past and ended up being pissed that it didn’t finish/wasn’t complete/etc. I don’t think that would send me screaming to spend money on it.

So what? You weren't going to buy it anyway, eh? What are you going to do, pirate harder?
As an aside, unless I'm reading this very wrong, this is the first time I've seen the use of "my sibling" as a gender-neutral replacement of "my brother/sister" to express empathy. I'm delighted by it.
Any HTML is valid inside of Markdown, so you just write Markdown and then add HTML when it makes sense.
Highly Critical StrandHogg 2.0 Bug Affects Billion Android Devices
Learning in the Age of Covid-19: How to Help Kids with Distance Learning
Shopify was a supporter of their currency, and they most likely are going to integrate it into their ecommerce tech stack, which basically provides the backend for many FB and Insta shops.

If it's cheaper/more comfortable to use than other payment methods, users/influencers will use it. And why wouldn't it be more usable considering that they basically own the entire stack, including the attention of users on those platforms? One big hurdle could be the EU though..
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It's pretty laughable for Facebook to claim they're neutral when they performed and published[1] research about how tweaking their algorithm can affect the mood of their users.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...
Can someone copy/paste the original text or post a non-paywall link?
Yep. To be frank I think that spinning it as a joke and not an honest retention tactic almost feels like lying.
Why would the FBI be hesitant about faking/sensationalizing this? It's nearly impossible to prove, China's unlikely to make an issue out of it, and even if the lie got exposed what punishment would they face?
The point is the QR based wechat payment is available for all kind of phones and it's available early than apple pay or google pay.
Some merchant like a fruit stand can accept a QR payment, and I don't think they can afford a post machine.
I think you just mixed up HTTP and TCP. HTTP and it's secure friend HTTPS are on TCP port 80 and 443.
Privatized currency - I'm sure nothing could go wrong there
Oh techcrunch, 2 typos in the first sentence.
I'm planning on applying for PhD programs this fall to work in this area. There are only a few places in the world right now that I know of working on these types of problems. They are:

* Martin Vechev, ETH Zurich

* Dawn Song, University of California Berkeley

* Eran Yahav, Technion

* Miltiadis Allamanis, Microsoft Research Cambridge

If anyone knows other advisors looking for graduate students in this area, please let me know. Due to personal circumstances I can most likely not apply to ETH Zurich or Technion (I don't speak Hebrew anyway), which leaves me with only one potential advisor in a program that I really want.

There is also the Python writing model that Open AI showed recently at the Microsoft Build conference, so maybe there is some interest growing at other places as well.

I was also recently working on a deep learning decompiler but was unable to get my transformer model to learn well enough to actually decompile x64 assembly. I have the source code for the entire Linux kernel as training data, so it's not an issue with quantity. If anyone is interested in helping out with this project, please let me know in a comment.