skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Web browsers as software are meant to access and render html obtained via http"

HTTP is a slave protocol, where you need a master.

It's time to retire it, and design the web with an uncensorable protocol that does not loose memory.

The slave design of a web server need to go.
VAE Latent Space Regularization
In California, if you have Good Cause to quit, you can still receive unemployment benefits. Good Causes include Caring for Family Member, Health and Safety, Relocation w/ Spouse and others (all of this requires documentation).

There are also carveouts for terminations. One imagines that if an employee left a big paper trail demonstrating intent to be terminated with the intent of collecting unemployment, however, that would probably not go their way.
He lost many MBs of files. He had a local filesystem directory synced with GDrive. He moved (didn't copy) lots of files into the directory and ended up losing all copies of some of the files (we still aren't sure how it picks which subset to keep). It was basically a few weeks of work because he didn't understand the implications of the change (and because he didn't have drive backups).
To be clear, they had a good reason for removing the reviews.

> The video-sharing platform was inundated with one-star reviews after an Indian creator posted a spoof video of an acid attack.

> But Google intervened after it determined that critics had set up fake accounts to amplify their protests.

> After TikTok became embroiled in the backlash, Google removed more than 5 million of its recent one-star reviews but left many others active.

> "When we learn of incidents of spam abuse, we review and take corrective action to remove inappropriate ratings and comments," he added.
No disrespect, but you read HN and think that your daughter's take on math and the home context you provide for it is a sensibly representative starting point?

My daughter's now 25 and has been quite the nerd herself through the years (eventually landing in linguistics and speech pathology), but I'd never assume that the fascinations she had instrinsically and that I helped foster as a parent were really typical. I wish they were - and hey, here I am reading HN too :)
Is it possible to get zsh to just open all non executable files with xdg-open?
Why would a personal AI which curates your content be any “better” than FB’s AI which curates your content? Isn’t the current AI based on what you end up engaging with anyway? If you naturally engage in a variety of content across all ideological spectrums, than that’s what the FB AI is going to predict for you. Unfortunately, the vast majority of us engage with content which reinforces our existing worldview - which is exactly what would happen with a personal AI.
You are not, at some point you'll just have to trust someone. Just like that the app you submitted to the App Store is the same one you are downloading and hasn't been tampered with.

As always it's a matter of tradeoffs, if you just don't want to get tracked by ads it's probably a good solution. If you are afraid of some nation state trying to track you down, then probably not.
Regarding the Windows Terminal settings interface, the default editor is VSCode if VSCode is installed. Given the mention of VSCode later in the article I'm surprised that VSCode was not installed on this user's machine prior to attempting to edit the Settings.

(Also yes, it is unintuitive that you may want to install VSCode first in order to edit Windows Terminal settings, but is it that much of a stretch that Microsoft would imagine early adopter power users to have VSCode lying around already on their machines? As you said, they are working on a "proper" UI for Settings still, but as a first "get it out the door MVP release", especially with all the under the hood work that took to get them there, it still seems a reasonable play.)
This was a really great environmentally friendly move, even if it wasn't intentional. Usually my unboxing ritual for a new iPhone is to take out the horribly uncomfortable EarPods and slam-dunk them into the trash. I don't understand why they need to make their earbuds so uncomfortable, but I'm glad they're giving up on them.
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> Because the physical limitations on lending make it unfeasible to share it with absolutely everyone.

It's called a library.
> Those are the most interesting. If you keep yourself focused on community news -- which are both relevant and at the same time the most inane -- you stay parochial, which is ok if you don't mind it, but I do. I find the world and world news interesting and relevant. My immediate community is not that interesting.

As someone who deals with anxiety, I don't find world news interesting and relevant. I find it panic and anxiety inducing, and it's rarely ever actionable. Local news is generally much more useful and actionable for my daily life.

I still find it important to stay informed of general world events, but I just can't mentally follow it on a daily or even weekly basis anymore.
It would be interesting to see how they count a "user" too. If a good portion of those 2 billion people don't use YouTube very much then the % of users who are using it regularly and subscribing might be a lot higher.
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>I too have the question who is this targeted to? I personally haven't taken a masterclass so I wouldn't know. (Not that I wouldn't like to though.) I would believe it's the novice though they could have different classes for different levels, but you couldn't really prepare someone from novice to master in the manner of a few classes.

I've had a subscription for about eight months now.

Most of the classes are at the same level that "prosumer" hardware is marketed at: advanced amateur or beginning professional.

For example: Daniel Negranu (a poker pro) has a very good class on poker. At no point does he explain how to play the game or what terms like "on the button" mean - that's all assumed knowledge. The target user is a player who can play a solid game already and hold their own in tournaments, perhaps without actually winning the final table.

Thomas Keller's (a famous chef) masterclass is similar: at no point does he explain what a shallot is or how to hold a chef's knife (obscure, seldom-used hooked knives ARE explained if they come up), but he does go into a lot of precise detail about how to cook certain dishes and exactly how to identify the freshest produce or tell when the lamb shank you are braising is done.

>I'd say a master is generally quite well above 90th percentile of people in their field.

The quality of instructors is truly amazing - easily the top 0.1% - most are world-famous masters of their art. Things like acting lessons from AAA celebrities, dancing lessons from the lead ballerina at one of the top companies in the world, music lessons from multi-platinum artists etc.

This sounds like a giant ad for masterclass. I just happen to really like their content and am definitely not paid by them in any way :)

Hope this helps!
You should just be able to rent the trailer if you need it a few times a year. Parking space for a trailer that you're never using is going to cost you too much in big cities.
I think we really need to start teaching people paying attention to units. Even in math classes.

1/3 + 1/3 is not a correct mathematical description of the problem.

1/3 [students at table A] + 1/3 [students at table B] is.

Let's shorten this to: 1/3 sTA + 1/3 sTB. Then, you factor out the 1/3, to get: 1/3 * (sTA + sTB). And now it's it's impossible to give the wrong answer "2/3".

Or, in other words, it's best to "keep your attention on what the whole is" by keeping it explicitly written out in the equation.
"They do care about the open web, but in their own way"

They do care so much about the "open web" that they embed a patented H264 decoder.
Also, I tried to go and purchase a DRM-free version of your book "Our Memory Like Dust" to see how easy it was. I can't figure out to do so.

I clicked on the title for it, saw that you had some chapters laid out in HTML and figured, "Oh, I guess an HTML book is DRM-free". I clicked through and eventually had to login with Facebook to continue. That rankled, as I hate Facebook, so I checked out the rest of the site, thinking I missed the store page. I did not. I cannot pay you for a DRM-free version of your book on that site. This makes me feel like you're generating drama or something with your comment? I couldn't figure out an easy way to pay you real money for an ePub file.

I'm not going to go pirate your book, but the same result ended up happening: I'm not going to buy it either.
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> There is no parse tree for a preprocessor

#if constant-expression new-line group-opt

C99 6.10.1.2
What’s the tie in to VB? Your exam board? EdExcel (I think) are moving to online Python, albeit a neutered version with compatible syntax.
True, but I would have expected at least a little visible disagreement. You never see anybody saying “wait a second, I think making the filter bubble effect a bit worse is actually worth it!” Each individual submission’s comments is just full throated, unanimous condemnation —- even when adjacent comments are directly contradictory. They just don’t engage with the possibility that deciding what to do might actually be hard.
I agree, but also from a different angle.

The other day a friend told me about a takeaway place I should try. I couldn't find the menu on their website, and my friend replied that it was on theirbl Facebook page, and I should stop being a luddite.

No, no, dammit! We're literally giving the world wide web to a single corporation, and worse, normalising it - to a lot of people, Facebook basically is "the internet".

How can this possibility be in the best interest of users? It almost feels like the balance has swung too far, and it's perilously close to the point of no return...
Hard disagree. Look at his own reasoning:

> But to what end?

> Aside from feeling bad for the victims –and worrying the same thing might happen to you – you’re powerless to make a positive impact. Hearing the news is merely a distraction.

> “But,” you might argue, “everything on the news doesn’t revolve around tragedies. I need to know what’s going on in the world!”

> Do you really?

> When was the last time you watched the news and thought, “thank God I saw that. Let me go take action.”?

> I’ll answer for you: probably never.

> If that’s the case, what’re you actually getting from the news? Aggravated? Wound up? Certainly not informed about anything important.

> Most of the time, watching the news is as useful as watching The Jersey Shore. You’re watching it to turn off your brain and mainline outrage.

He's not arguing about something that's not "real news"; an enormous tragedy occurring somewhere, like a tsunami killing many people, obviously qualifies as real news. He's arguing that it leading to "just outrage", just sentiment, is not productive. But that's only true if you look at it in an individual sense, of being productive in your own life. If you look at it being productive in aggregate, in society as a whole, the reasoning doesn't work anymore.

Now, you could make the argument that the author is unaware of the many thousands of times that outrage in its various forms -- like protests, or riots, or revolutions -- has led to significant changes; perhaps he is simply astoundingly ignorant of essentially all history, and thus doesn't know that outrage can do things like, say, get America to leave the Vietnam war, or get a President to resign from office, to use two well-known examples. But I'm not sure that's a more charitable or plausible take.
The kids have a "new tool" every week because the "old tool" from last week has some problem. That's hardly a sign of "just fine".

The old tool(s) will actually still work just fine, and plenty of people use them. Kinda like Python 2 and Python 3. You're not forced to use the absolute newest set of packages. I'm not as familiar with Java and Ruby but the I know the C/C++ ecosystem has gone through many changes over the decades. Perhaps the situation with JS is currently overwhelming and maybe it will settle down over time, but I don't think it's a bad thing that lots of people are motivated to keep iterating and improving the tools. Personally I find the JS development experience very smooth and enjoyable, and I know many of the people building all these crazy new things do as well.
This entire thread, discussion and the article in focus make me so relieved. I'm so proud of my decision to facebook, twitter and reddit altogether. There is soooo much less noise in my life. I'm finally reading books, enjoying my hobbies while still getting what 'I' like from the internet - RSS feeds to give me the latest and most popular developments in news without any user generated comments. 1-on-1 messaging services to help me stay connected with my loved and dear ones and an occasional tour of websites like HN and my favorite blogs from the bookmark folder. I do not want the reader to assume my model is perfect, it's subjective. But that's the point - it is what I make out to be the perfect browsing model and intended use-case of internet to me. Another minor point, ever since I moved away from reading what 'people' have to say in comments, it de cluttered my mind.

The internet is what you make of it. I let it direct how I used it, and getting myself away from that grip and 'sucked into' environment is a blessing.
About 50 years ago I was fascinated to see a program that could do symbolic integration. Now, programs like Mathematica can do much harder, more complex integrals.

Professor Patrick Winston pointed out that most of the AI programs we were going to look at in his class (chess, natural language, 3D vision in block world, etc.) ended up, like integration, as simple code plus a database of facts.

Back then, there was general optimism about the future of AI. No one anticipated how slow progress would be while the capabilities of the hardware grew a million-fold.

The work referenced in the article is interesting. It appears to be another small step in advancing AI. It's a small, but difficult, step like almost every other advance in AI, and I admire the work done by those working in this field.

The problems of solving simple differential equations and symbolic integration at the first year calculus level are not really advanced math. Humans solve these problems with a relatively small bag of tricks that transform a symbolic integral into a simpler form. A program can do the same thing with an even more detailed database of transforms that can be attempted at each point in the search tree until a simple solution is reached.

The article claims that the new program can solve difficult integrals. This is interesting because hard to solve integrals are often associated with real physical phenomena. See for example the triple integrals of W. F. van Peype which arose while he was studying magnetism in different materials. These, relatively, plain looking definite integrals stumped some of the world's most famous mathematicians. See [1] and/or [2] for their interesting history.

[1] Paul J. Nahin, Inside Interesting Integrals, Springer, 2015. Section 6.5, The Watson/van Peype Triple Integrals.

[2] I.J. Zucker, 70+ Years of the Watson Integrals, http://www.inp.nsk.su/~silagadz/Watson_Integral.pdf
> There is no vaccine yet for this.

There is a fair amount of anecdotal evidence suggesting that psychedelics can have a significant impact when used correctly.
For running, this sounds very much like:

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

Non-specific knee ache leaving you crippled walking down stairs, and some other specific movements that cause the iliotibial band (on the outside of your knee) to rub over the bone/bursa. Super common running injury.

For me, the fix is - ice, stretching, instantly stop running if I feel a twinge, and, most importantly, ramp up mileage very very slowly (first week, 1 block, second week, 2 blocks, third week, ruin 3 blocks). Learning what it really means to "ramp up slowly" was the big challenge for me - it's always too tempting to go "hey, I used to be able to run 10mi easily, I'll just crank out an easy 5" - boom, limping for a week.
> Which means, if tomorrow, Python and all the libraries I use became closed source softwares, I wouldn’t notice a difference as long as the cloud provider my business uses will still provide them as part of its package.

AGPL is not mentioned, but it should solve the problem, shouldn’t it?
If you have static generated website and a CDN, why do you need Lambda/Function? Or do you mean these as a set to pick and chose from?
Isomorphic is a thing and is used in the technologies mentioned in the article.
> Oxford running out of people to test their vaccine on: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-25/COVID-19-disappearing-....

I'm not a medical expert, but can someone in the know comment on this? Can I volunteer to get the Oxford vaccine in the US? Can I volunteer to fly to UK and get the vaccine immediately upon arrival?
"Copy/paste"?
I paid for youtube for a while, but I did not get a different algorithm. It was the same feed of addictive, stressful content. I stopped paying once I noticed this.
I absolutely love convertibles, and don't understand how I missed this when it was new (perhaps because I don't live in Japan? but still).

a couple of things stand out to me:

1) that's a huge amount of space used for storage of the top - a vertical storage with a little more folding would likely have made better use of the space

2) I would love to see something like this in an electric, but doubt I ever will - something of this era and features could likely never pass modern safety requirements (yeah, I know about the nobe 100, but it's not exactly a car)

regardless, it's nice to see so much attention to detail that seems to be lost these days with modern cars.
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That's why you get other benefits that are much harder to price in.
One that is relatively modern is everything cannabis, though depending on your perspective the "alternative medicine" or "medicine" stages may be questionable.
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Why is there no trust factor established? I mean if you have been posting without any hiccups for many years, you should be protected from trolls like this.
Many of YouTube's policies aren't required by law.
Not sure if this is at the level of comprehension of these kids, but I'd explain it this way: "kids at table A" and "kids at table B" are both "kids", but different amount of kids. You can treat them as the same only if you have a conversion factor. So, if you know that there are 12 kids at table A, and 20 kids at table B, you can multiply your variables by these amounts, and now both expressions have the unit "kids", and you can add them together. But if you don't know the conversion factor, they're like Bottles and Pencils.
It's possible they've replaced the Kindle's reader software with free software like Koreader: https://github.com/koreader/koreader

This is what I run on my Kobo - it's quite nice! It has an RSS reader, Wallabag integration, cloud storage integration, a Lua plugin API... but it can't open DRM'd ebooks.

This is what's frustrating about DRM for me: it restricts the software you can use to only software from huge corporations. Want to make a small tweak to your reader? Nope, you're not allowed.

I only buy ebooks when I can find a DRM-free source for them, which pretty much means Tor/Baen/Humble/etc. I could buy DRM'd books and strip the DRM, but I'd rather not support the practice; I'm more likely to buy a physical book in that case.
I really started to tune out NPR back around 2008 after Inskeep's terrible interview with Ahmadinejad. I wrote about it more in detail back then:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/wipedoffthemap/

I use to listen to Democracy Now back then too, but I really don't think either news source as really held up over the years. They're both very polarized, and the quality of their content has gone down as well.
Is there a legitimate, distinct, unique use case for cryptocurrency to weigh against it's use as an enabler for extortion??
> That's the thing with piracy: it's often more convenient than buying the thing.

While this certainly used to be true, I think this is an arguable point. You posit two choices in the next sentence:

- the pirate book/game/music is unencumbered and easier to use on more devices

- the legal book/game/music is DRM-laden and requires proprietary devices or apps to use

But: if I buy a Kindle book, DRM or not, it is very easy for me to buy and it is very easy for me to use on any device that runs the Kindle app. Buy it one device and it's in the library on all of them; at worst I have to just tap to download it.

This is the way most companies have effectively competed with piracy: make it more convenient to get something legally. I've gone the whole "set up automated scripts to scan piraate sites and wait for specific videos of a certain quality to show up, download them via torrent, tag them with proper metadata, convert them and put them in my iTunes library" route. It was clever and cheap and just super, super fragile and finicky. Pirate sites go up and down, metadata is wrong, something somewhere in the chain breaks mysteriously. You know what was more convenient? Clicking "Season Pass" in iTunes. Boom. Done. Convenience is also the proposition of streaming video and music, in a very real sense: it's all technically DRM-encumbered, but your Spotify music is available on every device that supports Spotify with almost no effort on your part beyond logging the device in. If you have a strong enough philosophical objection to DRM that you find Spotify, Netflix, et. al, unpalatable, that's great, but while it's pretty easy to move DRM-free music files around it's not as easy as just streaming -- and DRM-free video files are still kind of a pain in the butt compared to streaming, or even any centralized library system like Amazon or iTunes. The same is basically true for books: I appreciate Calibre, but "It's so easy to manage your ebooks and reading devices through Calibre compared to using the native Amazon Kindle or Apple Books apps" is not a sentence most people are ever going to utter with a straight face.
No actually. The Nintendo 3DS uses parallax barrier technology, which is significantly newer technology than 100+ year old lenticular tech which powers Looking Glass and most 3D devices. That's why the Nintendo 3DS has such good image separation and reduced ghosting compared to cheap Chinese 3D phones and Rokit IO Pro 3D.
I made this change 20 years ago and it improved the quality of my life. I’d suggest for someone to try it and see for themselves. Start with skipping one day then a few days then try to go for a week. See how you feel for yourself and then decide if you want to continue.
I’ve found a good mix of Markus Aurelius and Soren Kierkegaard has equipped me quite well for most of what life could throw at me. I’m never particularly bothered by things beyond my control, and I’m typically quite happy with being in charge of those things I can control.
> I wonder how many years before it is quietly dropped

The consumer version is already gone
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