skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, to be fair, it's my second post.

Precisely. If it was your first post, I wouldn't have posted that. Also, please don't take it the wrong way, this is just humor. I appreciate you sharing knowledge with the world, it's something I haven't done in a long while so I respect that.
Anytime the CCP does something bad, there's always someone like you to downplay it in the comments...
I have read similar quotes about most modern aircraft development programs, yet aviation is quite safe. The fact you can find a few alarmists in a company of 160,000 is rather unsurprising.

Those quotes would be much more convincing if those employees put every prediction they ever made on the record, not just the ones that turned out to be sort-of right in hindsight.

From manager's perspective, you can't listen to everyone complaining about being rushed, understaffed, and underfunded (, because everyone looking to cover their butts in a bureaucracy does all three). On the other hand, you have to be on the lookout for credible issues.
Airport codes are virtually universal, even across country lines. They're also tied into many other bits of information, such as weather.
Well, the author of the blog post flat out admits that he only bought it because he couldn't find it online.
Well, it seems neural networks started to appear for vocal and instrumental track isolation^^ recently I've discovered https://www.lalal.ai and it works quite well
Jeez, mocking up a book to post on torrent sites is so much effort it eats a measurable chunk of time usually reserved for writing a novel? This is like an afternoon of work, compared with the months or years of writing a book.
some things roll over to collections, which can also be difficult to unwind.
This article starts from a bad premise and leads to a bad conclusion.
Sure :) The biggest barrier is micro-payments. If I could charge as a streaming service, but without having to go through a major platform (I don't want Spotify-for-books), then that would be perfect. I actually pitched this to GrantForTheWeb using their Web Monetization toolkit.
Show HN: Website that finds least amount of clicks between two Wikipedia pages
>If anyone seriously thinks this sounds like a good idea I’m truly curious to hear your reasoning.

I generally feel positive about something like Libra and I'm not in favour of decentralised currency. Decentralised currency is hard to tax, threatens the sovereignty of nation states, the ability to enact sanctions, enables crime and I'm not really on board with that.

Libra (or something like it) looks like a way to built a cheap, frictionless payment that in any practical sense mostly seems to illemininate costs of transaction if it scales up well enough, and I think that's where most utility comes from in a currency. I don't see the value in some slow network that changes its value twenty times per month for the average person just so that you can stick it to the man or whatever.

As to 'controlling the world economy'. I've never really understood how this is supposed to be the result of Libra. At the end of the day it's basically a Paypal without the middleman. The Libra owners will at some point earn some money on interest but otherwise I don't really see how this confers any monstrous powers to them. As far as that goes I'm more concerned about the Facebook platform itself.
While I appreciate the invocation of Godwin's law, Facebook is absolutely a private empire with an empire; in context of modern society.
anecdotally - my results here show approximately the speed i'm paying for, which is higher than 90
Hey HN

This is my hobby project I've been working on. At the moment there are 15231991 pages in English wikipedia, and a whopping 671872114 links between them.

This project uses custom-built Rust parser to parse through the data (in 15 minutes!) and Google BigQuery to find the shortest path between two pages using a rather simple breadth-first search query.

Let me know what you think!
Cynically, very few platforms want you to make your own decisions.
This kind of thinking, looking behind the veil of money, has convinced me to stop using currency altogether, for now, for the most part. I still pay for web hosting and domains, I still buy bottled water for lack of better options, but for anything else like clothes, food, houseware stuff, etc., I've stopped buying altogether. Everything you buy carries a huge veiled cost of human health and lives, animal and plant health and lives, environment damage, habitat loss, and so on. I just don't want to be complicit anymore. I wear the same clothes, and I pick up the clothes people leave in boxes on the street or go to churches. There is a glut of consumable goods and the charities are throwing tons of it away everyday. Same goes for food, kitchenware, paintings, decorations. I've been told my great-grandmother used to say, "God gives you a day, and then food for that day." That is the approach I have taken. Went for a walk yesterday, found two paintings. One of them needed finishing, which I'm happy to do. For 3+ years, I have not used any "external" products like shampoo, lotion, cream, etc., not even soap, except occasionally buying a bar of dr bronners soap (paper wrap) and using that for laundry. Almost everything in that department, even the "organic" or "natural" or "eco-friendly" has a long ingredient list full of what I want to avoid both putting on myself, as well as drinking, which is what's going to happen if I put them down the drain. Also, all of it fucks up the skin biome. I've not had any skin problems since I unsubscribed from them. And so on. I know it's not an option for everyone, but it's the only option for me, as long as I have a choice, to choose this way, and keep pondering how to do better every day.
He literally starts out saying that '[he] crawled the internet [...] but alas, it was nowhere to befound'. At the very least he was intent on pirating this specific book.

>There is also no need to put 'lend' in quotes; it is perfectly legal to lend someone a book.

Yes, and making copies doesn't fall under any normal definition of lending.
While that is true, I've worked in manufacturing environments with high tech equipment. This manufacturing equipment is so sensitive it gets covered with tarp during dog-and-pony shows. We are using equipment and techniques in the USA that other nations could only dream of implementing. Why do you think most airplane manufacturers are located in the USA? Don't you think an airline would buy aircraft engines from China if they could?

Keeping America on the forefront of technology has its benefits. If we don't invest in cornering these technologies; our adversaries will.

Unfortunately it's the same technology that has kept us in the middle east that's also been a forceful deterrent which safeguards all Americans.
What if you start a whole new story, which is similar to whatever you have published, and after a few pages just tell the reader, "actually, you're not reading "The Adventures of Foobar"...
If you're sending a 2KB URL to somebody, you can also just copy&paste the text of your blog post.

But yeah, you'd miss out on styling it.
If I was commissioned to make someone a blog site , quite frankly I would just install Wordpress and call it a day.
I don't understand why this is a surprise to anyone lol
Oh god, don't tell me about janky stack.

My stack for the blog is Org Mode compiled by Emacs into HTML, which then gets parsed by my Common Lisp static site generator. It's a weird setup, but it came to be because:

- The rest of the site, and the overall template, is generated straight from Common Lisp (using a much saner syntax for markup and styling than HTML/CSS),

- writing a parser for Org Mode for anything but the most basic features is a rather complicated endeavor, so it's better to let Emacs deal with it and then clean up the exported markup,

- I also imported posts from my old Wordpress blog, as HTML dumped from a database, so I had the tools to slice and dice DOM in my CL generator anyway.

I really hate how bad this design is. It needs rewriting from scratch into something designed closer to a build system, but that would take a lot of time, so I procrastinate on that endlessly. On the other hand, writing blog articles in Org Mode is super fun, so the frustrations cancel out with the benefits.
Because they indicate how, in general, men continue to have more educational opportunities. Whether universities are inclusive is a subset of the question of whether the idea of fair opportunities for everyone is lost.
Github pages has out of the box support for Jekyll and I think that's the dominant way people use it.

I've heard good things about Hugo though (generally people seem to like it better than Jekyll), but I set up my site before it existed and I think Pages still only supports Jekyll.
I actually feel the opposite. Consumers have the ultimate choice -- their choice is not beholden to anyone except themselves. Then they can execute their choice unilaterally.

A VP or even the CEO is beholden to shareholders, their employees, their advertisers, their own ethics, their users, various government regulations (and government interests that are not laws but what they prefer). So almost everything they do is a tradeoff.
>Even if humans make more mistakes than the AI, telling our customer it was a human error is much easier for our customers to accept than telling them it was a program error without our threshold tolerance.

The veracity of this statement greatly depends on whose mistake you are saying it was.

List of things by how hard they are to say (easiest to hardest):

1) Someone else messed up. We'll deal with him.

2) Our code is bad. We'll fix it.

3) I messed up. I'm sorry.
This is because intelligence isn't like most of the other words we use in computer science. It's a word with a history of deep philosophical debate and no clear answer. We haven't come to an agreement on what is intelligence in biological systems so it may be premature to call anything artificially intelligent.
Not when there's money to be made. The Gates foundation does seek a Return on Investment, and has publicly stated they wanted to create good markets for vaccines.

Gavi/Gates/GSK and other big pharma companies might be claiming to help the world, but they're also seeking to get a return on their research funding. Even in academic circles, there isn't really a lot of information sharing.
"I just wonder how frontend developers keep up with that pace."

Leapfrog.

You learn the newest hotness right now (and hope you're right), evangelize it like a Southern Baptist at a tent revival, ride the wave for a few years until it's obvious the wheels are coming off in one of the three or four predictable ways, then pick up the new, new thing and pretend the past never happened.

It helps to change jobs every nine months or so; otherwise, someone will ask you to do something to that ancient archaic legacy stuff. Nobody wants that.
What kind of harm do you propose is the kind that should have pushback?

Movie executives discuss (do they even?) the ramifications of their movies which glorify ills? Do they censor violence, suicide, etc?
> If we prohibited all vehicle traffic we would prevent 1.3 million deaths worldwide.

Sure, seems a bit extreme though. I suggest we remove all the safety features on cars, it costs the car companies loads in R&D to comply with all those regulations. You take a risk when you drive, and to be honest people should just be better drivers and there will be less accidents.

Far less accidents in lower-density locales as well.
Companies across all countries have proprietary data that they are using to develop treatment options.
Indeed, don't you just copy and paste from Mailchimp?
This is why I bought a SV600. Very few platforms or publishers except for example No Starch Press allow you to buy a PDF anymore.
I'm sympathetic to this position. I've heard people say the same about YouTube and I don't have a concrete position on this.

On one hand, if someone were to tell me "The Mexicans are ruining America" and I were to say "Damned right! Who else do you know who says these great and grand truths about America?" I would expect that person to introduce me to more people like them and my radicalization and engagement would increase out of my own desire to have more of this thing. That aspect of Facebook's recommendation engine just seems like a simulation of a request for more like what I want in a very obedient manner. That is, the tool is actually fulfilling what I am expressing I desire.

On the other hand, the inputs are inscrutable and not clearly editable. For instance, suppose I look at myself and say "God damn it, some of these things I'm saying are really bigoted. I don't want to be like this", I cannot actually self-modify because there is no mechanism on Facebook to modify the inputs. It'll select for me the content I have these auto-preferences for but not the ones I have higher order preferences for.

Essentially it's a fridge that always has cake even though I want to lose weight.

So, yeah, I'm sympathetic that I cannot alter the weights on my recommendation and say "I want to clear your understanding of the person I want to be. Stop reinforcing the one I am now."

Certainly the recommendation engine is a flaw. I do like recommendations though and that's my favourite way of browsing YouTube in the background. It's pretty good at music discovery. So, perhaps it needs to be only opt-in. Imposed by choice rather than by default. It still has to be possible to turn it off.

Even then, I'm not sure. This is an ethical question I've been thinking about for ages: Is it ethical to allow someone to make a choice that could be detrimental and that they cannot recover from? What are the parameters around when it is ethical? Opting in to recommendations could be a one way trap.
Where do you get free food?
Cloudflare: 455 Mbps down / 73.1 Mbps up / Latency 13.0 ms / Jitter 2.26 ms / Server: Ashburn via IPv6.

Netflix (fast.com): 790 Mbps down / 950 Mbps up / Latency 8 ms unloaded, 12 ms loaded / Server: Ashburn via IPv6.

Ookla (speedtest.net): 928 Mbps down / 938 Mbps up / Ping 1 ms / Server: Raleigh via IPv4.

DSL Reports (http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest): 611 Mbps down / 929 Mbps up / ping 16-41ms / Servers: Houston, Dallas, Newcastle DE, Nashville TN, Dallas.

Location: Raleigh. Provider: AT&T fiber.

Test run using Safari, macOS 10.15.4, Thunderbolt Ethernet.

Edit: the small file sizes used for some of the tests seem to drag down the overall speed measurement quite a bit. It's biased against upload measurements too since there's download files sizes of 25MB and 100MB whereas upload tests only up to 10MB file size. But even there, something seems off. The upload measurements are much smaller for the same file sizes (e.g. 170 Mbps avg vs 7 Mbs average for a 10 kB file).

I question this methodology. I care most about my 1Gps when I'm downloading the latest version of Xcode or some other huge file. I guess the smaller sizes are to better emulate downloading web pages, but in that case, the latency is probably what matters more. Even with 1Gps, when I'm out in CA, sites typically feel faster.

Edit 2:

speedtest.googlefiber.net: 800-900 Mbps down / 800-900 Mbps up (multiple tests to servers in Charlotte, Raleigh, Atlanta, seems to bounce around each time I reload the page).

Speedtest (Ookla) with server manually set to Windstream in Ashburn, VA: 886 Mbps down, 900 Mbps up. Confirmed that my router is measuring the same amount, so Ookla isn't just making up these numbers.
I think it will be similar to netflix fast.com but it selected Mumbai servers when I am in Delhi(CF has servers in Delhi). Maybe this is intentional?

Kept getting the test paused automatically on Firefox Dev Edition. Looking at the console:

Error fetching https://speed.cloudflare.com/__down?measId=2826350041244361&bytes=1000: TypeError: can't access property "transferSize", i is undefined
Key House lawmakers reach deal on surveillance law amendment
You charge at charging stations that are nearby where you live, just like people do with gas stations now.

You can charge while you get groceries (or a haircut, or dinner, or whatever) and then go on with your day. Certainly not as convenient as charging at home, but not impossible.
We should be careful not to go from 'some military is needed' and 'investment in military can have spillovers' to 'military spending = good'. Or that military investment is always the best investment, I would argue the marginal $ spent on the military is a terrible investment.

1% of your budget into the military is probably a great investment for many countries, some countries maybe up 2-3% and when you are higher then that you either need very great reasons, or you are probably doing something stupid.

Britain controlled the world trade with small % of its budget and with a tiny % amount of the whole imperial trade size.

I would argue their success was precisely because the didn't need gigantic military to reach their aims. An part of that is to have reasonable aims in the first place.

Iraq and US military spending is case and point, Iraq was a both a strategic disaster and a very expensive one. If you didn't have the aim of remaking the whole middle east, you would need that much spending.

Germany before WW1 is a great example of spending lots of money on stupid aims. They invested in a fleet that was utterly useless and was directly opposed to what their aims should have been.

No amount of military spending by itself gets you anything, only military spending combined with great strategy focused on your particular nation can be great investment.
Like every other thing, even this was politicized in India. There are people terming the app as a "surveillance app" without a proper technical analysis[0].

0. https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/aarogya-setu-is-a-...
I had this exact same discovery/dilemma 3/4 months ago. My windows partition stopped working now so don't think I'm going down that road to buy a book again. The Adobe digital editions hassle just really isn't worth it.
Those already entrapped couldn't exit without losing significant amount of fiat. It's hardly a proof there's a lot more greater fools out there.

Earlier I saw an article about the fastest growing class of crypto assets - stable coins. Fiat on crypto is growing faster than underlying. That's hardly a good sign for the use of crypto.
Using ASDL to Describe ASTs in CPython
The D language still gives access to x87 code. The language defines a type called real which is supposed to give access to the highest precision the implementation allows, on x86 it is the x87 with its 80 bits. On other platforms it's 64 bits or 128 bits. float and double have defined sizes.
> parachutes

Parachutes kill people? I thought they do the opposite. Maybe firearms or alcohol make better examples.
I get a half of my google results for many topic with wikipedia copies, either mildly or marginally disguised.
Logging without losing money or context
> What kind of harm do you propose is the kind that should have pushback?

"Some 700,000 members of the Rohingya community had recently fled the country amid a military crackdown and ethnic violence. In March, a United Nations investigator said Facebook was used to incite violence and hatred against the Muslim minority group. The platform, she said, had “turned into a beast.”" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-...
What a fitting username - a bundle with Linux.
Interesting... I got a result of 44Mb/s down, which is 8 more than I pay for and 13 more than any other speed test shows (i.e. speedtest.net, fast.com, BT Wholesale speed check).
Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels?
Knowing how something works is better than not knowing. But you can still have a pretty good idea that it does have the desired effect (i.e. verify cause and effect) via randomized controlled trials.

Of course, alternative medicine proponents rarely do randomized controlled trials.
It's almost impossible to do both. You can't repurpose opticians as emergency techs in a short time. It doesn't work. Hospitals are built given certain make up and it's hard to change that in a short time.
Imply 3.3.3
I agree with you but this is an incredibly hard problem to solve. How are you going to get your friend to engage with videos that are in direct opposition to her world views? Recommendations are based on what she actually clicks on, how long she actually watches the videos, etc.

And from the business perspective, they're trying to reduce the likelihood that your friend abandons their platform and goes to another one that she feels is more "built for her".
beser hacker ever
,lmlknm

/
,'.mn.?' ml,

//.
.'.lm'
/
I forget who first made this argument, but it basically was a response to critics of philosophy. Critics would challenge the field by asking if philosophy has made any real contributions to human knowledge. Has it actually discovered anything that's both non-obvious and conclusively true?

And apologists would that philosophy has made huge, unambiguous contributions. Only once this happens, those fields tend to be no longer considered "philosophy". Astronomy, physics, economics, and logic were all sub-domains of philosophy originally. Once they were formalized, with rigorous, specialized methods they moved into their own standalone fields. But it was philosophers who laid the foundation. Consequently when we think of "philosophy", there's a lot of selection bias, because it's basically the subset of open unsolved problems that remain.

I think there'a a close analogy here with what we think of as generalized "business problems". There are many specialized sub-fields like finance, logistics, marketing, industrial psychology, and accounting. All of those things used to be thought of as a generic part of business. But eventually domain-specific methods and technologies led to the point where specialized practitioners unambiguously out-performed generalist C-suite executives.

Think of techniques like Markowitz portfolio optimization, or five factory personality testing, or applying Benford's law to profile for accounting fraud. Those are all examples where something like AI/ML solved what at the time was a generic business problem. But afterwards it was now just considered a success of the respective sub-field that those techniques helped create.

The point I'm making is that formal rules-based processes (I won't use AI/ML here because it's so ambiguous, especially in a historical context) have had a long history of success in business. We just don't recognize it because we're begging the question. What we think of as "generalized business issues" is mainly those open problems that haven't yet succumbed to specialized formal techniques.
But that's exactly what I'm arguing against! The core meaning of liberal is not relative, it's a pretty well defined ideology (with multiple strands, to be sure, but still).

The whole reason you think the meaning depends on the context is because you have been mislead to believe that liberal == left-wing, or something approaching that.

This is completely and utterly false, hence my "nitpick". Changing the meaning of these words causes the exact type of confusion you seem to be suffering from!

Left-wing is a term with a very loose definition, and depending on the Overton window, "liberal" places somewhere on the left/right axis. "Liberal", however, does have a well-defined meaning, since it refers to a specific ideology, unlike "the left".

TLRD: "liberal" is not a direction on an axis, rather it's a point on an already existing axis, the left/right one.
You're proving the point of the original post. Today's mundane programing used to be considered AI. See: search, fuzzy logic, character recognition. Or even more mundane: object-oriented programming, interpreted languages, and tons of generic algorithms used in daily life, all of which came out of AI labs.
There is the story of the clove tree, which was monopolized by Dutch East India company, until 1 tree was stolen and seeded elsewhere
iperf3 to a VM is probably your best bet.