skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My account isn't ready to transfer to yt music yet, but I'm already dreading it. Yt music streams at a lower bitrate, and you cannot download the highest quality (but you can stream it??)

Also, the thumbs up/thumbs down buttons are switched in the yt music ui vs GPM. Bad ux across different products... Par for Google, I guess.
Even that first integral is a doozy! Mathematica spent minutes on it and spat out an answer that looks much more complex than the one in the paper: Integrate[Pi * Csc[x/2]^2 * EllipticK[(-Cos[x]) * Csc[x/2]^4], {x, 0, Pi}]/Pi^3

It can't even evaluate the answer numerically, it just freezes for minutes!

Edit: about 10 minutes later it spat out 1.393203930, so it can solve the integral, but not easily.

Update: This paper reminds me why I vehemently hate modern mathematical notation, with subscripts and superscripts can mean anything at all and everyone's idea of "convention" is different. On the second page there's an algebraic expression for the solution, which at first glance seems to be:

4/Pi^2 * EllipticK[Sqrt[1/2 - Sqrt[1 - w^(-2)]/2]]^2

But this evaluates to 1.76351 not 1.39320 as given in the paper. The "K^2" in the paper is not the "complete elliptic integral of the first kind" squared, it's some other function that squares its input somehow. Or something. But that begs the question of why formulate this in terms of a function of a square root squared!?

Helpfully, they provide the definition in terms of the hypergeometric function a bit lower down, but that appears to be wrong as well, providing yet another result if evaluated numerically.
Which services would you recommend? Last time I searched for free general-purpose website archival sites (for personal bitrot prevention), I could find only archive.is and archive.org.
This looks exactly like what I've been searching for all this while. Do you plan to release a self hosted/open source version of this? The one thing that makes me uncomfortable about a blogging service - what happens if they shut down?
> People don't scale at all.

Which is fine, because Google's customer base is made up of people, so Google should be able to scale their support in a linear way.
I did not present a false choice between two options, I only defined what an alarmist is. I regard alarmists as an extreme on the spectrum of forecasters.

Bifurcating would have been saying that everyone is either a superforecaster or an alarmist, and I never said that.

You may not agree with me, but that doesn't mean that I fell into a logical fallacy.
In most fields classic AI was never able to achieve close to what new techniques can. Vastly over hyped.

Graph algorithms are not a subset of AI.
I have lots of friends in the industry who never care to do things correctly. It always bothered me. Not that I'm perfect - or even that I always do things better than they would - but often their solutions to problems are only the 'beginning' of what I'd call the software development process: getting it working (or worse, apparently working).
Do you have any similar books that you would recommend? I am always looking for good marketing books but these days it's all some guru trying to sell their book so hard to identify the solid through the noise.
You mean like open pilot ? https://comma.ai/
Well it’s a bit simplistic to say that it’s used “for drug discovery.” A particular application might be doing NLP on e.g. clinicians’ notes or on scientific journals.

There are plenty of places where human validation shouldn’t be necessary, but is.
SRE doesn't own the code. They own the system reliability. Devs are still responsible for writing the functional code.

Certain aspects of the release process may fall under SRE's purview, but what the tool does is ultimately the responsibility of developers (and product). The SRE book covers testing in one chapter (17), and most of that chapter is about production testing.

The question you need to ask is "is the system still within in SLOs?" If so, SRE is doing their job. If you think that resulted in a bad experience, change the SLO. But I'd ask what the heck kind of SLO would have prevented this issue?
The 7xxx latitude line def costs more than the xps line. At least that's been my exp browsing the site. but the value is worth it, you get a more serviceable machine that comes with a better std warranty.
They've already acquired Kiva (moving robot shelves) and Canvas (robot navigation) for the warehouse logistics. If you see the self driving cars as an extension of the logistics (delivery) then it does make sense.
The Analysis of Buybacks
Masks that fit and are light weight - they don’t make those for whatever reason.

Someone should make a better delivery app where every neighborhood has a delivery slot and things are picked up delivered in bulk locally.
You can use both Sublime Text and Sublime Merge without paying if you choose to (as I did when I was a broke student).

Unlike VS Code, not all software can be open sourced and provided for free while many paid software engineers are employed to actively develop it by a trillion-dollar corporation. Software that is fast, native and cross platform without ads costs money to make. I support it with my dollars (I use SM and ST). Fortunately, there is a healthy market for GIT GUI clients as seen by Git Kraken, Source Tree, Fork, Sublime Merge, etc.
They can associate the DNS calls with any VPN, too, can't they? If you use one of the 'big' commercial VPNs, I'd seriously doubt any of them are not logging at this point. They'd have already been warned due to 10's of thousands copyright violations originating from their networks, not to mention a lot of not-so-technical users, believing that they're actually anonymous, doing criminal things without realizing that the VPN logs it all.

Running your own Wireguard or OpenVPN on a cloud VPS is no solution, either. It's guaranteed that Amazon, Azure, etc. keep logs of all traffic, and will turn over the associated account without hesitation.
A 13" screen is too small for 4K resolution without a dGPU, scaling still kinda sucks for most apps that don't have a lot of support/development.
Going to fix this. Thank you for your feedback sarcasmatwork
We could give teeth back to our anti-trust enforcement, for starters. That would ensure that there's more viable alternatives.

Notice that I'm saying "give back". That's because it was deliberately gutted:
https://promarket.org/2019/09/05/how-robert-bork-fathered-th...

Imagine, instead, if we applied the same norms to establish "market dominance" as the court did in this case from 1961:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/370/294/#tab-opi...
The 1, 2, 3 after "~~~~~~ What's the deal with buybacks?" seems to be implying that the whole thing is the same as dividends.
>Just a thought experiment, does Youtube need to be as big as it is?

A few scattered moderation complaints compared to wholesale rate limiting of incoming content... I can only imagine the madness of content producers if YouTube tried that.

>Youtube has near perfect knowledge of the warm data of their operations, and use it to optimize user frustration rather than minimize it

YouTube content moderation isn't human spaceflight. Having a goal of never failing is, well, a very inexperienced way of thinking about failure. On the order of half a million hours of new video content a day goes on YouTube, or something like 6 million uploads.

Let's just pretend that the moderation decision is only made once on upload, you make 6 million decisions a day, how many ridiculous decisions are you going to make every day?

Do you think that number is ever going to be zero? The reality is that there is an exponential relationship.

Let's just say you can double your cost to cut failures in half. If it's not that relationship it'll be something like it.

You can just keep doing it. Doubling your cost over and over, and you're still going to fail all the time. When a "one in a million" chance means something happens several times a day, well, you have to have a different attitude about failure.

And when you're just about the only game in town, whatever you do to mitigate failure is going to attract people trying to screw with you to upset you and your users, to take advantage. Not only are you trying not to fail every day, you're trying to avoid people exploiting those attempts. It's just reality that you have a popular service, there is going to be some nonzero number of very upset users with just cause to be upset. That's just reality.
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore, and Monetizing Innovation by Madhavan Ramanujam.
One of the biggest things I learned from the Photography with Annie Liebowitz MasterClass is that Annie very seldomly presses the shutter or even looks through the viewfinder - she has an assistant that does camera operation, hooked up to a monitor. Then she has a digital editor that does all the post-processing and editing.

She'd more accurately be referred to as a creative director. In the class, she even says, "I don't even know what camera or lenses I use." You don't have to be a gearhead, and there's very little to photography that should consider the gear important, but unless exaggerated for effect, this says something.

"Learn photography from someone who couldn't tell you the camera her assistant operates for her".
If it's same collection as libgen, then you can find there maybe every second book you want to read.
And a rocket is Newton's laws + lots of heuristics piled on top.

Sometimes the heuristics ARE the point.
autonomous delivery vehicles
Totally guessing here. If they saw one IP making ISP-rate queries they could contact you and negotiate a different price. Even with caching you are very likely going to see much higher query rates occasionally when a whole network of people are using it.
I can't see that working for anything other than niche networks. A social network will make less money doing this, so what's their incentive? The bulk of people will stick with a network that gives them constant and instant feeding of their addiction. I think the "vaccine" would need to be broader to be effective or major networks would need to grow a serious conscience.
Did you ever see the system called “Methods” which was a TUI version of Smalltalk on the PC? I think it was by Digitalk.
This is a warning sign that we have 0 agency over hard drives we think we own. The corporations control the actual tech being pushed, to pull a bait and switch. They also control the firmware, which is super proprietary and hidden, and can be subverted and controlled without your knowledge. The end goal is to push consumers to end up storing all their data in the cloud.
> How? In Signal's design nobody ends up knowing this except the sender and recipient.

The most obvious one is fairly basic traffic correlation using the IPs and timing information. You can figure out which IPs are communicating with which recipients (because the recipient of a message is necessarily public to the server, the device connects to the Signal servers to send the message, and everything is routed through servers controlled by a single party) as well as the IPs of recipients. When combined with timing information and the knowledge that users are only going to be able to talk to at most a few people simultaneously, you find that two people in the same IP-based social graph sending messages with the other person as a recipient at the same time are probably talking to each other.

I'm not saying that Signal is doing this, I'm just saying that it is possible because of the design. This is basically the same reason why single-node VPNs cannot protect your anonymity against internal (and some external) threats and why something like Tor is needed to solve the problem. And note that this isn't even a slightly controversial statement -- it's even mentioned in the blog post announcing the "sealed sender" feature[1]:

> In particular, additional resistance to traffic correlation via timing attacks and IP addresses are areas of ongoing development.

We could argue about what "additional" means in this context, but given the design of the service I'm pretty sure they're just referring to their logging policies and Intel SGX usage.

> what you're doing is basically like dressing in head-to-foot desert camouflage gear to stand in Times Square

I don't understand the point you're making. If I'm talking in a public room, then obviously the messages are public. But if I'm only talking with folks on the same homeserver as me (or on homeservers they run) then only our homeservers know about our communications. Without tools like Ricochet there isn't (as far as I know) a way to get more metadata protection as easily. Don't get me wrong, it definitely isn't perfect and I wish it provided more protection -- but it is practically no worse than Signal in this respect (and it is significantly better for rooms that don't have :matrix.org users in them -- which is something I explicitly mentioned in my original comment).

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/#the-future-is-in-tran...
Show HN: Joel Learns Copywriting
I would agree with that, and think it is valuable in itself. But the pedant in me gets frustrated at that, combined with the whole "I'm X, and I'm going to teach you Y".
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The expletive was tongue-in-cheek, in reference to the publication (How the F*ck). If that's missed then I can see how the post could seem like an angry rant. (It isn't.)
Angular went all-in on TypeScript in a way that React still hasn't. The React crowd is the general development community, and TypeScript has expanded into it.
I did my first internship working at Sybase on SQL Anywhere. Some great people worked at that office. Even some of the original Watcom guys were still there.

Fun fact: SQL Anywhere was still compiled using Watcom C++ long after the latter was discontinued as a commercial product. Most of the people who worked on the compiler still worked there, so they maintained it internally until SQL Anywhere finally switched over to MSVC.
> In response to a request for comment on why the station ran the package, Wes Armstead, news director of the Bluefield NBC affiliate WVVA, told COURIER, “I was not aware the package was provided by Amazon.” Armstead said, “We’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Mr. Armstead is either blatantly lying or astoundingly incompetent if he's seriously going to claim that he has no knowledge of his station's news sources.
Cool project! Code is quite easy to follow, IMO.

Somewhat off-topic, but I find the name somewhat amusing. I would never seriously hold a name against a project, but I’m always curious when one is named something a bit...edgy, without an obvious reason - and at the expense of making it harder to find!
Most AI Startups Are Data Startups
PSA: Likely LiveJournal Password Compromise
Troy Hunt's tweet: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1265191348581224449
Both your messages would be immensely more useful, if they had similarities/dissimilarities listed.
I can buy web hosting for less than a coffee per month that can sling thousands of static HTTP requests per second. In a world where something like Mastodon/GNU Social was the norm, any hobbyist could opt to run one fraction of a grand federated social network out of the goodness of their hearts, for spare change, or for a small fee to their users.

Centralized, siloed social networks are only expensive to run because they're centralized. Things were better when the norm was to start a blog instead of using someone else's walled garden.
That's because the real value of Facebook is in the social graph, and it's locked in there.
A buy button for a buy button... sounds like a startup idea.
LOL maybe they should actually look into it before replying with their canned response.
Zero-Overhead Destructors in C
COVID-19 affects the entire world.
Shouldn't all COVID-19 basically be done on a globally viewable wiki?
It's going to take the cooperation of all countries to get through it.
I don't understand why the US should hoard any COVID-19 data it has, besides extremely non altruistic ones.
Unfortunately dell doesn't sell this model anymore, they've replaced it with the Latitude 7300 which is basically the same laptop except they removed the eth port for no real reason as the dimensions aren't discernibly different. Kinda frustrating, especially bec it means that if someone wants to logon to the domain for the first time you need to give them an eth adapter.
You are implicitly assuming that the shareholder primacy theory of corporate governance is the only legitimate one. It is not. The business judgement rule allows corporate directors very wide latitude in how they choose to run the business. Google very much can hire more CSRs, exactly because they are insanely profitable on a per employee basis, but they choose not to, for reasons unknown, but likely out of concern for the stock price.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule
But this is how Reddit works. And HN actually.
I've researched the Uighar thing heavily.

It always bugs me though that the United States has more prisoners than China, despite having a vastly smaller population.
This reminds me of an early job. It was my first job as a mechanical engineer. I was lucky enough to work in a R&D team on an entirely new product line. Crazy but rewarding work from months on end. Near completion, I was moved to a side team to help out with other smaller projects. At this point the marketing guy comes in to decide on the name and color of the machine. So they bring in the consultants and in the end decided to stay with the name the engineers gave it and the same color as older machines (beige and black.) And the kicker was at the launch party they forget to invite me but invited the marketing guy who spent a couple days helping out. What a punch in the guts it was.
The virus did not come from Wuhan. The first known cluster of cases was in Wuhan. This is where China first identified and then quickly notified the international community that there was a new communicable disease.

Many of the original identified victims had no relation whatsoever with Wuhan, and virologists have traced the virus to several individuals throughout Hubei province as early as November. Virologists tracing the virus history through DNA shows a significant history to the virus before Wuhan.

SARS-CoV-2 shows no signs of having been bioengineered and plenty of markers of cross-species adaptation. Furthermore the closest coronavirus strain known to mankind is significantly (50 years of forced evolution) far from SARS-CoV-2.

Biological laboratories are located in many cities across the world. Given all of the scientific evidence we know about the likely species-jump origins of the virus and its history before Wuhan, it's it a bit of a tired theory (as in definitively unreasonable in the number of required assumptions) at this point that the virus escaped Wuhan's high-containment laboratory?
As someone who was often distracted from grad school research to work on grant applications this is great news. I would caution against making the NSF more like DARPA though. DARPA definitely breathes down your neck asking for monthly updates that hinders research/ideas that take longer to develop.

Federal research funding should be directed towards developing big, long-term ideas rather than short-term research tech companies can and do focus on.
Fully referenced facts about Covid-19
“German virologist Hendrik Streeck explains the final results of his pioneering antibody study. Professor Streeck found a Covid19 lethality of 0.36%, but explains that this is an upper limit and the lethality is probably in the range of 0.24 to 0.26% or even below. The average age of test-positive deceased was approximately 81 years. Professor Streeck argues that “waiting for a vaccine” is not a good strategy because both the feasibility and effectiveness of a vaccine are uncertain.
Biology professor and Nobel Prize winner Michael Levitt, who has been analyzing the spread of Covid19 since February, describes the general lockdown as a „huge mistake“ and calls for more targeted measures, especially to protect risk groups“
This played out in LiveJournal, and the outcome, generally speaking, was that paid promotions were too blatant to be effective outside of influencers proper (where it's part of the explicit contract between them and their audience).
Those are good examples. Annie Liebovitz is a counterexample. A lot of the Class is video of her in a circle with students talking about her experiences, or giving feedback. Critique is important, but it's similarly not integral to the process. She even boasts about not knowing what equipment "she" uses. I say it that way because you watch her on a "photoshoot" ("Accompany Annie on an actual photoshoot!"): She is standing back, talking to the subject. Someone else is operating the camera and pushing the shutter. Then they're in a studio and someone else is editing the photo as she oversees. That's creative direction, not photography.
> I don't like how the common advice for writing resume, which I can only presume reflects what hiring managers want to see in someone's resume, says you must quantify your achievements.

It's not about résumés but about how the skill of measuring/estimating one's own effectiveness/impact/productivity is positively correlated with successful outcomes and rate of progress in life in general.

Recall Mike Acton's principle questions[0] that a goal-orientated individual must answer:

>> - I can articulate precisely what problem I am trying to solve.

>> - I have articulated precisely what problem I am trying to solve.

>> - I have confirmed that someone else can articulate what problem I am trying to solve.

>> - I can articulate why my problem is important to solve.

>> - I can articulate how much my problem is worth solving.

[0]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/doiq8ovho1k9d4b/fired.pptx?dl=0
Amazon is buying 100K custom delivery vans so integrating self-driving is a logical step. They can even use existing delivery routes to map out a city before turning on autonomy. https://electrek.co/2020/02/06/rivian-amazon-electric-delive...
"We're not interfering with other countries' covid response" - the US continues to freeze Iran out of the SWIFT system, which means Iran can't buy just about everything.

Iranians will die because of this policy.
Countries with socialized healthcare would be well incentivized to fund these studies.
Can a company issue a press release talking about their products or business without it being an ad by your standard?

Like what would a hypothetical press release for the release of the Xbox 360 that isn’t an ad look like?
If I remember correctly, the Le-Seyde is a Nissan Silvia S13 that's gone under the knife. You can see that the door is unchanged from the Silvia. Really fascinating that they can make money with such strange cars to be frank!
That doesn’t necessarily mean that investors or founders lose money. The investors could get a liquidation preference and the founders still become hundred millionaires.
In China (especially in tier 3,4 cities and rural places) and similar markets alike where many user have low digital literacy, installing apps from App Store is a skill that lots of users don't have. Their first few apps on their phone were most likely installed with someone else's help.

Actually learning every new app is an obstacle, but they managed to learn to a few apps like WeChat because it's super useful. They won't spend time to learn about something that won't bring immediate reward. Once they have a few apps installed on their phone, they'd feel that's enough.
"force them to optimize" doesn't mean putting a gun to somebody's head. But it's clear that the existing socioeconomic arrangements overall incentivize companies, including Facebook, to do a lot of harm while chasing profits. Forcing them to not do so can also mean changing the arrangements to remove the incentives.