skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 50s and 60s, there were really four parties, joined into two by coalitions. On the Democratic side, there was a social democratic, leftist faction, tensely allied with a Southern party (the Dixiecrats). On the Republican side, there was a pro-corporate but moderately liberal faction (the Rockefeller Republicans) allied with a harder-line conservative/liberatarian faction (the Goldwater Republicans).

Two things happened in the 60s and early 70s: the Goldwater faction largely took power in the Republican Party, and because the Democratic Party embraced civil rights, the Dixiecrats first flirted with independence (George Wallace's campaign) and then gradually switched parties, so now we have the oddity that there are people who fly Confederate flags but are registered members of the party of Lincoln. Many people who would have been Republicans in the old days are now the moderate/neoliberal faction in the Democratic Party.

So we still have four parties, they were just reshuffled. Now the tension in the Democratic Party is between the old FDR/LBJ new deal supporters, and their younger socialist allies, and the more pro-business neoliberals. On the Republican side it's between the business side (they don't care much about ideology, they just want to make money) and the hard-core conservatives.
Ask HN: Software to Manage Notifications
Many applications have this: transactional notifications, where you get an e-mail or a push message when another user edits an item that you are subscribed to. Some notifications may come at the end of the day in a daily digest. If you get notifications of a category you're no longer interested in, you go to your profile screen and update your preferences.

We are a Java/Spring Boot shop, using AWS. It's clear how to build something like this with a combination of web services, SQS, SNS, SES, etc. All of this isn't rocket science, but there's still a lot of business logic to implement that isn't our core business. I am curious if there's an off-the-shelf solution for the hard parts? Thank you.
Switched to Spotify and Netflix when they became available in my country as pirating the content I wanted just took too much effort.
PowerPoint has an AI feature to do slide layout and design. Drop a few elements on a slide and it'll style + arrange them for you.

Works really well even if it is a bit repetitive.
Books aren't games. Books have a way smaller file size, so fast downloads aren't as attractive. They aren't software, so there is a severely reduced security risk. Something like offering the 'newest version' just doesn't apply, most books have a few errata at most. If you think there is some equivalent service you could provide for books, I think you have to give some examples specific to books. In regards to organized catalog: why wouldn't people use the catalog and then just pirate it anyway?

And are you really arguing that 5 books a day or 1 MB per second (when most books are less than 10 MB) are a limiting restriction and that people would actually buy more than 5 books a day? Hell, there are even other sites without these restrictions. Genesis library as far as I know only shows ads. If you think this is even remotely a pain, I think you're pretty out of touch with the average consumer.
Not if you don’t use that stuff. Facebook dreams of a world where your consent is default because you don’t realistically have a choice.
You might find the Sledgehammer tool for Isabelle quite interesting. It has been using machine learning techniques to find proofs automatically since at least 2013. It uses previous proof to learn how to select facts to send to off-the-shelf automated provers in order to discharge a goal.
See e.g. http://isabelle.in.tum.de/~blanchet/mash2.pdf

On issue I have with it, and that automated proof tools based on ML are going to have to solve, is that it's quite unpredictable. Even if it finds stunning proofs from time to time, it is hard to use an unpredictable tool efficiently.
> I do a lot of conference speaking; if you are presenting at conferences or meetups too, you should start your presentation by quickly explaining the aliases you will use throughout the talk to onboard your audience.

If you're giving a presentation, please give the actual commands people need to type, even if that's a little more typing for you. There are tools to help you auto-type each line of a demo, if needed. Reduce the amount of confusion and translation people need to go through to understand your presentation.

Similarly, turn off any fonts that create symbolic ligatures, so people know what symbols to actually type.

Avoid anything unnecessary that increases the distance needed for understanding between you and your audience.
First of all, it's not just that he selects what songs enter the voting. He manipulated results afterwards, with the stupid excuse of "just removing fraudulent votes"

As for "he was State Security informant" - that's really important factor to consider because it tells a lot about person's character. I mean what kind of scumbag would voluntarily provide information that might put people who did nothing wrong, other than oposing communist government, in jail, or worse yet, killed by "unknown perpetrators"? And for what - money, chance to advance his career? Once an asshole, always an asshole.
I used to use writingstreak.io and it just drops you into a box and has you start writing.

I don't know what this one does yet in terms of screenshots or a quick tutorial on how to use it.
I'd recommend not being so quick to dismiss the author. Your suggested alternative is actually way more complex. The approach described sets up a static site generator that allows for deployment to a static asset webhost (like S3/CloudFront). What this means are that there is no server to administrate or manage. Aside from the cost and performance advantages, this drastically simplifies the operational overhead. There's nothing to patch, no networking to configure, nothing. Just upload and be done. Moreover, there's no database at all either. No need to manage database credentials, no need to pay the costs to keep a database running, no need to patch a database server, etc...

This is the total opposite of overengineering. The stack the author is running is way simpler than one where you have to spin up a webserver, database, caching solution, etc...
I’m not saying you’re one of them, but it seems the only time this pedantic definition of “stealing” is brought up is when that person is a pirate themselves, and they’re trying to justify what they’re doing as “not stealing.” As in: “I’m not stealing it; I’m just making a copy. The creator isn’t being deprived of anything.” Sure, you’re not literally taking anything from the creator, but you are robbing them of their right to do what they want with their creations.

Meanings change over time.

One can argue all they want about whether IP laws should exist, but as it stands right now (in re. to language and the law) it’s stealing.
> Phones do not come with Google Services Framework, so the barrier to develop a networked app is higher.

What do developers do for push messaging? In older versions of Android, you could maintain a connection to your server in the background, but recent versions make it really hard to stay active, even if you're big enough to get whitelisted by phone OEMs --- if you're small, is it even possible?
If FB wanted to "let discourse happen naturally" and not be paternalistic, they wouldn't use an opaque, non-chronological algorithm to control who gets to see what in such a way that primarily benefits FB's bottom line.

What is this alternative you speak of?
Sorry, I don't understand your answer as I'm clearly against Facebook's strategy. And so are you as I understand.
Creating a Ruby Gem with Rust
> If I want to read your book on my Kindle, the only option is piracy.

It's not the only option, a Kindle can read Kindle books from Amazon that you've admitted sell for $5.
Reminds me of this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
Thanks for the feedback, it's absolutely more work to be done on the presentation - I will explain here a bit more. We help people that want to write more to stay motivated to write daily. By comparison, we think it is sort of a fitness app where you train your writing muscle instead of your physical body.

One of the main things that I struggle with when writing is a lack of attention or the distractions that get in the way of typing more words. The area where you write is at the core of the product. It is a clean modern space that has no distractions so that you can stay completely focused. At the end of each writing session, you get achievements and stats about what you wrote. Word analysis, writing clarity, readability, and sentiment analysis of the text will be available shortly.

To keep you engaged, there are 3 goals that you should meet daily: writing words (at least 250, by default 500), a writing time (at least 30 minutes, by default 1 hour), and a score that is calculated by using your previous days' writings. Based on how much you write, you get achievements and you compete with other writers in the platform. We're putting together as I write this message a way to sign up for writing challenges, too.

Not yet fully ready, we're working on a system of notifications, where you can set a time when to be remembered to start writing so that you never miss a day.

All the content is double encrypted so it is secure and nobody can steal your ideas.

I hope that clarifies what we're doing. If you have any other questions or suggestions I would be happy to clarify.
Is it any wonder so many have issues when they turn every little thing into an issue?

You can choose to be offended by this or choose to view it with a sense of humor. That choice is up to you.
The mindset is "I want to choose who I listen to. I don't want the Mastodon instance to decide for me"

If you don't like listening to some people, that's fine, don't follow them, block them, whatever, but I won't join an instance where I can't listen to other people because the moderator doesn't like their message.
>It is up to good honest people to set the example, because yes the greedy ones will always greed away.

A focus on 'greed' or 'honesty' is missing the mark on what I'm saying here. We currently have an economy built on a foundation of historical expropriation, enclosure, colonialism, subsidy, regulatory capture, rent-seeking, etc, and heavily biased towards the resultant monopolies/oligopolies. As a consequence, prices are set at this inflated level of profit, and those who perform labor outside of the interests of these corporations typically aren't able to afford the costs of living (especially without breaking the law). "Greed" isn't really the issue here; the issue is systemic privilege born through violence.

>History has shown me that it doesn't matter what economic and political system is instituted

It's pretty intuitive that a political system is generally going to be favorable towards those who instituted it, outside of happenstance benevolence from a political elite.
It's easy to see that this cannot be a valid definition for fraction addition because applying it along with the rule that a/b = (ak)/(bk) gives a contradiction:

3/7 = 2/4 (+) 1/3 = 1/2 (+) 1/3 = 2/5, absurd because 2/5 != 3/7

Once this is realized, it's easy to see that the correct formulation for the "table joining" operation used here is a weighted arithmetic mean, i.e. a(/)b (+) c(/)d = weighted arithmetic mean of a/b and c/d with relative weights b and d = ((a/b) * b + (c/d) * d) / (b + d) = (a + c)/(b + d).

On the other hand, fraction addition is clearly determined as a/b + c/d = ad/bd + bc/bd = (ad + bc)/bd given the a/b = (ak)/(bk) and (a/b + c/b) = (a + c)/b axioms.
I'm self culling a lot more too. I'd argue those unposted drafts are still valuable, if only to help oneself flesh out ideas.
This seems a bit harsh to me in response to asking for a valid email address for proof of realness and to be contacted when necessary. Reddit surely requires one. Can't remember if hn did, but don't know how they keep out spam.

I also like the idea of using BTC you mentioned in another post to state good intentions, but acquiring BTC to use in the first place seems like much more hassle, registrations and sharing of data is required.
Survey shows 68 percent of U.S. adults are in favor of government providing care
> exceptional guesser

This IMO describes how mathematics itself moves forward... A matematician is an extremely well-trained 'guesser' who is also able to sink a lot of time into formal verification.

The process is essentially:
a) Find an interesting conjecture that you've got a strong guess to be true.
b) Check for obvious (or less obvious) counterexamples, or conflicting theorems.
c) Prove the thing is true.

A large part of the art of being a working mathematician is in part (a): you need to make a really good guess. An ideal conjecture is correct AND proveable AND leads to other interesting results, or says interesting things about bigger problems.

So what happens when we apply really good versions of current AI to this area? Picking out an 'interesting' conjecture is still Strong-AI-Complete: it requires lots of domain knowledge, and an understanding of what this particular conjecture would 'unlock.' But we could perhaps come up with good 'guessers' which quickly tell us whether a given idea might work out, perhaps saving a bunch of effort. Perhaps we could even get to the point of generating a proposed proof which can be fed to an automated proof checking system, allowing for inspection and modification by the human in the loop.
Viral and host factors related to the clinical outcome of Covid-19
Cofounders of Datadog Become Billionaires After Shares Surge
artemisinin. Has been used for millenia to effectively treat a lot of things (naturally so because of its being super-peroxide), anecdotally/personally - the wormwood was part of the folk medicine toolbox of my Ukrainian grandmother, yet

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

"It was discovered in 1972 by Tu Youyou, who was co-recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery.[2] "

There are "scientific/medicine" results these days what it even works against cancer, for example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347441/
Not sure if I agree with this. Why are interpretations not considered facts? Do you have any examples where an intepretation would expressively not be considered a fact?
NextDNS Is Out of Beta
Sorry for the noob question: can you explain how it helps with serialization or database access?

I've read simliar statements before but I don't think I understand how it helps.
I've been trying to build habits forever. The problem is I try to do too many things at once - exercise, get more sleep, read more, write, study.

As much as I know that habits need to be stacked, I just can't get myself to be patient and do one thing at a time.
When some of those 45 perspectives don't go near any watching eyes, do they still need to be rendered? If not, one might use head/eye tracking to save computes.
USA is not the only country in the world, you know.
Very sorry for your loss.

I'm no expert, but one thing that seems to help me is exploiting my natural laziness and bad habits. For example, I got in the habit of getting a nice expresso during the day from a place that's about a mile's walk away. Kind of dumb, but it built a walk into my day that I pretty rarely missed.

Along the same lines, I chose a place to live that involved a fairly long walk to the train. In principle I could have started taking a cab to the station, but I'm just to lazy to make a change like that, and indeed that worked for years (until I moved).
Yep, if you don't have anything interesting to say, people won't be interested in listening to you. If you get deplatformed, then you're even further shit out of luck, because even if you did have something interesting to say, there is a small group of extremely powerful anonymous people actively working to silence you.
The Wolf of Wallstreet was a scathing critique of capitalist excess. To think otherwise is to consider a lifestyle where your wife hates you and you crash your car on quaaludes because you've got nothing better going on glamorous.
Not really, engineers don't actually care about security.
Me too, but not on a calculator, on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A, and much earlier than 2011. ;-)
Studies on persuading people out of prejudice do exist (see e.g. https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~broockma/kalla_broockman_reduc... ). The problem is that the approaches are not as emotionally satisfying as just affirming your moral superiority and calling people bigots, so not many people do it (though some do, search for "deep canvasing").

Abortion is tricky because once you recognize the life of the embryo as a value to protect it's difficult to have it come as less compelling than a right to bodily autonomy. Still, most anti-abortion people would still carve out a lot of exceptions (rape, genetic problems, danger to the mother's life and so on). Most people recognize that the even right to life is not absolute (another example: they would agree it would be unlawful to refuse to obey an order in time of war that would almost certainly result in a soldier's death).
These aren't "finding loopholes in the question". Most "alternative medicine" things that work aren't new information. Humans have had literal millenia to figure out how to deal with ailments. The easiest methods that people can think of to try to solve a problem have been done by someone, and were passed around when they worked.

There's things like "gargle with salt water to cure a sore throat". That's commonly done remedy that was done forever and we now understand the science behind it. This page[0] labels it under an "alternative medicine" tag, as does this page[1]:

[0]: https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/features/does-gargling-wl...
[1]: https://www.sharecare.com/health/alternative-medicines/artic...
Imagine a state actor hitting the contract research organization in charge of the last phase of a clinical trial for a blood pressure medication and changing data. Due to the nature of double blind trials, catching these modifications can become really hard to catch and could lead to a lot of human suffering.
Thanks for the feedback - we'll improve the presentation. I put here another comment explaining all the features that are not explained properly on the landing page now. Is there anything that you're missing on WritingStreak? What would you like to see improved?
Why doesn't it count? Your restriction seems very arbitrary and makes it much harder to find an answer. There are too many counter examples muddying the space, such as vitamin C curing colds.
> but of course most of them don't contact us

Not everyone is comfortable talking to you privately, given all the ridiculous warnings you give out. I wanted to talk to you about turning off downweighting of my comments that you secretly enabled, but there is no easy way to say anything to you publicly.
dont be a bitch bro
I think it's able to verify that the solution is correct, which is more than a lot of students manage.
You're right on an individual level, but when you extrapolate a less argumentative approach and encourage curiosity rather than beligerence I do believe society overall is amenable to change. On a macro scale it works. I'm loath to point to abortion specifically as in the example as it's a devisive issue but Ireland which voted to allow abortion two years ago in a landslide referendum is an example of society changing its views as a whole, even while some individuals in that society remain immovable.
Cyan is actually much more complicated than that, it's goal is a combination of Pacman and Red's position: https://gameinternals.com/understanding-pac-man-ghost-behavi...

Also all of them have "chase" and "flee" modes.
Could you link said paper?
I wish they wouldn't call it holographic because it seems like it has nothing to do with what are traditionally called holograms which involve using interference patterns, diffraction, and coherent light to record and reproduce light field information into and from a 2d medium.

What this appears to be is recording pseudo-light felid with thin strips of vertical prisms or lenses with many vertical strips per micro-lens so that you get depth from the horizontal but not vertical perspective (tilting the display up and down won't change the image, but panning left and right will)
> I think it's super dangerous to take this new kind of mass-surveillance and mass-scale manipulation and say, welp, nothing new here, who cares?

If that's the outcome you're concerned about I think it's legitimate. I don't think it's parent's intention to encourage apathy though.

However even if unintended, it's a good reminder that we should all watch out to not fall into that apathy trap.
Not to mention radiation at LHC...
I have used Vudu for 3D streaming and it worked perfectly.
Did anyone try the setting the terminal to "Developer Tools" permissions and find that things go worse?
Do people actually browse the internet at work? Like read the news, hn, reddit, etc?
Love how Cloudflare keep coming out with all these new tools, 1.1.1.1 DNS, then VPN, isbgpsafeyet.com now this. The CEO is awesome too, and often hangs around HN.

I seem to be getting pretty accurate results unlike others here, not sure if it's been fixed or my peerings are better:

Tests (Download):

Cloudflare: 78, 73, 73, 73

Netflix: 74, 78, 71, 69

Google: 70, 70, 70, 65

Speedtest.net: 68, 67, 70, 71

I know this doesn't mean too much alone, but for me seemed to produce on average the highest speed.
Given today's anti-free-thinker HN climate I'm probably going to get downvoted to oblivion for saying this, but I feel I need to say it.

I don't think COVID-19 research should be secretive, I think it should be a global effort, and I'm perfectly happy with the idea of any nation having open access to all COVID-19 research, vaccines, results, and (anonymized) data. There should NOT be a concept of intellectual property when there are people dying in droves from a disease. Please, China, Italy, Spain, everywhere, scoop up all the COVID-19 research you can find and act upon it to save lives. Copy ideas. Copy drugs. Re-do and verify tests. Immediately. Don't mind the courts. They suck, and are sitting in armchairs killing people by delaying the effort and enforcing intellectual "property".
What do you think will make people with opinions you quoted understand how the world actually works? I don't have a good answer to that. We see the same phenomenon with regards to populism in trade, immigration, etc. Sometimes people don't want to see the truth if it collides with their preconceptions. Doesn't help when leaders intentionally and constantly reinforce misinformation.
And swipe up for back, with just a home button. And that awful launcher.
I built https://choremate.co because we needed it ourselves and I couldn't, initially, find something similar. When I applied to YC I did more extensive research and found lots of past and current attempts.

My approach has novel insight but part of why I couldn't find competitors is because the market for coliving tools is weak.

I suspect (from this obviously limited anecdote) the problem with most ideas where competitors aren't apparent is that the market is weak. In such cases, the real competitive advantage is likely in finding a solution to the market weakness. Market might be weak because existing solutions aren't very good but in my case it's more complicated.

Past/current attempts/failures can give you a lot of valuable information about what doesn't work so learning about them gives you a smaller space to search for what will work.
In my browser, there is no footer on the page.
> In the “real world” this constraint is largely absent.

In the real world you are connected to people living and travelling around you, and that is not necessarily an unbiased set of people. It can be quite far from the average random group. You're still in a bubble.