skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By an arbitrary definition of sociopath invented by a researcher that has little to do with the commonly-accepted definition of sociopath, who used his broadened definition to build his career on the pillar of running around making surprising declarations about "sociopaths."

I'm really, really tired of hearing about the "sociopath CEO" numbers. They're not real.
Nothing wrong with that.

Making my blog from "scratch" is a source of motivation for me to actually write articles. The experience so far has been overwhelmingly positive.
This model is trained with short clips of human speech. There is enough statistical information to "guess" how to fill the gap created by opened lips. I'm still amazed how it conserves temporal coherence (what it looks like from frame to frame).
I just wait for Amazon to come out with some sort of affiliate payments integration with their Just Walk Out tech to know whether attribution is possible at scale...
Flying Saucer Agricultural
Irrigation systems greenhouse
The counterargument is that it's not the same work because you can't abstract the work away from where it's happening and who it's happening in proximity with. Now if it turns out that location and colocation don't matter like people thought they did, then we're about to see a major shift in this disequilibrium, of the sort you describe. It's not as if companies want to be paying that extra 50%.
Anyone who thinks this hasn't had to deal with a 100mbps connection before. It's not about a single user consuming all the capacity – though that's definitely a factor as well – but allowing simultaneous use of multiple demanding applications by more than one person.
How JPEG XL Compares to Other Image Codecs, by Jon Sneyers
Perhaps the idea of brutalist web design fits? (https://brutalist-web.design/) HN is a good example of it IMO.
the media really just wants fb to prevent division by only allowing a center-left world view.
I totally agree with you, but it is not useful when talking in the US today. Socialist/socialism means communist here and is mostly just a swear word. The distinction between capitalist socialism and authoritarian communism is often ignored although the systems really have nothing in common.
The big criticism of the original author is that they got a better experience from a piracy site than from the legitimate product. The author referenced by GP turns that around: ensuring a better experience from the legitimate product than from pirate sites.

It's entirely fair. You've got no business being pissed about something you got for free on a piracy site. Especially not when it actively points you where you can get the legitimate version.

I don't understand how your last line proves the opposite: if it's hugely valuable, that shows that this is a good idea, doesn't it?
> We don't really need to worry about those people. Let's just build enough housing for those who want housing. That at least shrinks the problem.

I’m not sure it does shrink the problem, though.

LA is a city, and people come to cities for opportunity. That extends to the indigent as well, and public spaces have a capacity in the same way that traditional housing has a capacity.

Logistics aside, if you were to successfully move 80% of the homeless population of Skid Row into permanent or semi-permanent housing is there are reason to believe that more homeless people wouldn’t simply move in to fill the void?

To be clear, I’m not arguing against charity or even against providing state resources for these people (at least, not in this post). I’m narrowly challenging the implicit argument that doing so is an effective way to reduce the number of homeless people on the streets in a defined area.

If the problem you’re trying to solve is “help those who need and desire help”, the solution is straightforward. If the problem is “change the fact that a large number of homeless people are living on publicly-accessible land in a major city”... I’m honestly not sure there is a viable solution. The options seem to range from accepting the situation and ignoring it to forcibly removing people from those areas and continuing to use to force to prevent them from returning.
From their FAQ:
"Why build another speed test tool?

There are many speed test tools out there. Our mission is to help build a better Internet. To do so, we believe in giving users a choice of different services: you shouldn’t be tied to one provider and you should be able to compare results across different tools."

This tool would be more useful when it allows people to "compare" their speed with others.

Average speed in their country
One network with another in the same country
Compare a country's average speed with another
Rank...

Add the benchmarks and put a share to social media button and HOPEFULLY.

One other thing - add (Megabytes per second)
Netflix Open Connect is inside my ISP network

And still a latency of 13ms? Here, Cloudflare, Netflix, Google, and Ookla Speedtest all have latencies of 4-6ms.
I kept overlooking that game because, admittedly, I found the title highly underwhelming. But that sounds super-cool - I'll check it out! Thank you!
Don't think you can compare those two, as they are different things. Even if Cloudflare "relies more on their own infrastructure", they still have to have peering agreements with others, otherwise they can't accept/send traffic.

More likely, Netflix has better infrastructure and better peering agreements, than Cloudflare. Which is kind of surprising, since Netflix is supposedly a media company and Cloudflare is a "internet" company.
In regards to a predictive model and privacy/ethics/etc, regardless of your objective function and explicit parameters a model can only be judged on what it actually predicts, thus it is enough to answer the prior question to be able to answer this.

This is because of the fact that machine learning models are prone to learn quite different things than the objective function intended, hence the introduction of different intent or structure of the model must be disregarded when analysing the results.

To any degree the models predict similarly, they must be regarded as similar, but perhaps in a roundabout way.
TIL. Thank you
We just launched Twitter support for our unified messenger
It's basic, but you can search your twitter messages in our platform, which is not possible with vanilla twitter.

To link, you need to sign up, click the profile picture in the top right, click unified accounts, and in the modal that pops up, use the menu in the top-right to link twitter.

The last 30 days of your messages will be imported and you'll be able to use courio for twitter dms from here on out.

Let us know what you think!
Integrating with Zapier
Zero cost abstractions: Rust vs. C++
Long ago when I dreamed of writing a game, something that bothered me was that people kill characters they shouldn't and the flavor of the game never changes. In games where NPCs try to escape, they forget that you just tried to murder them. If they catch you skulking, they don't become vigilant. If they hear someone being killed in the next room, nobody comes, nobody hides, nobody runs.

When the mayor of a town has been killed 500 times maybe the townspeople should be deeply xenophobic. Maybe the shops stop selling weapons, etc.

Pardon the tangent, but this was particularly blatant in World of Warcraft. Because of the quests, you basically spend half your time committing genocide (wiping out some species or group). For some quest lines you have to murder your way into a place and then murder your way out of it. The irony of this is that the quests turn rogues into the least murderous class in the game, by far. They are the only ones that can reliably sneak in and out instead of murdering bystanders. This is disturbingly backward.

The other irony is that many of the main storylines are about preventing genocide. If a genocidal maniac goes around killing all the other genocidal maniacs, is it because they are good or because they are eliminating the competition?
This document immensely valuable in enumerating pitfalls in the spec and in how the spec is interpreted by various implementations. I would wager that most good-faith* C programmers are weary of overusing cpp, and use a limited subset of its capabilities. This is a great resource to throw at a junior who gets too excited about macros, for example.

* where I'm defining "bad-faith" C programmers as using it for sadistic purposes like IOCCC, golf, etc

> perhaps they could have explained in each of their points what cpp is doing wrong, and how they would improve the standard.

This is a fairly toxic attitude, and possibly the reason that your comment is unpopular. A child can correctly observe that an emperor is not wearing clothes, and bring that up without possessing the skill to make the emperor a suitable outfit.
How dare they - that used to be the job of traditional media and entertainment.
That has generally been my experience as well -- the concrete benefits in terms of lowered OpEx (aka paying less for a worker) is offset by the intangible inefficiencies. It's a lot harder and a lot more chaotic than people realize.

Plus automation is eating away at the lower level stuff.
US actually has pretty good fiber penetration and internet speeds now (it used to be quite a bit worse a few years ago). The biggest difference between fiber and EV chargers however is that fiber only makes economic sense if you have extensive network, while EV charges can be installed locally by smaller entities. Additionally, installing electric equipment is easier than digging up whole towns, because you don’t need as much political buy-in, less permitting is necessary etc.
Absolutely agree, but in this case I don't think it was the justification the author used.
Shopify Polaris is one I consistently reference: https://polaris.shopify.com/

It's super comprehensive overall, and I particularly like the documentation for the components. For example, even for a basic Checkbox (https://polaris.shopify.com/components/forms/checkbox), they provide sample code, accessibility guidelines, dos and don'ts, and related components. They have clearly put thought into how the system should feel overall; design systems are not just about the CSS of the UI pieces.

It's also cool how they display prop types; if it's a more complex type, then you can click on the prop for details, and click even deeper if needed.
I made this list for my buddy a while back. It's meant to be more humorous than exactly correct

Route 53 - Holy shit! It's NSD

WAF - Holy shit! It's modsecurity

SES - Holy shit! It's Postfix

Inspector - Holy shit! It's OSSEC

GuardDuty - Holy shit! It's Snort

Data Pipeline - Holy shit! It's Cron and Bash

Athena - Holy shit! It's Prestodb

Glue - Holy shit! It's Hive Metastore and Spark

OpsWorks - Holy shit! It's Chef

VPC - Holy shit! It's a VLAN

Snowball - Holy shit! It's a truck full of hard drives

CloudWatch - Holy shit! It's syslogd

Neptune - Holy shit! It's Neo4j

ElastiCache - Holy shit! It's Redis

DynamoDB - Holy shit! It's MongoDB

S3 Glacier - Holy shit! It's DVD backup

EFS - Holy shit! It's NFS

Elastic Block Store - Holy shit! It's a SAN

Elastic Beanstalk - Holy shit! It's Apache Tomcat

EMR - Holy shit! It's Apache Hadoop

Elastic Cloud Compute - Holy shit! It's a virtual machine

Kinesis - Holy shit! It's Apache Kafka

QuickSight - Holy shit! It's Tableau
I did a POC with OpenResty probably 6-7 years ago, and it was fantastic. A performant alternative to writing your Nginx modules in C (restricted to Nginx's memory management) is sorely needed.

In the end though, it's a tough sell because it markets itself as a full web platform built atop Nginx, rather than being stock Nginx + a Lua engine.
And Hacker News!

> some hidden human need/instinct to argue with people who they believe are incorrect

I've said it before, I'll probably say it again: this place is chock full of people just itching to tell you you're wrong and why. Don't get me wrong: obviously there's also a hell of a lot of great discussion and insightful technical knowhow being shared by real experts — but in my experience I also do have to wade through quite a lot of what feels like knee-jerk pedantry and point-scoring.
I agree that NY's response was bad; but how much of the difference between NY and CA is attributable to their response, and how much to pre-existing behavioral, genetic, environmental, or other factors? California (where I am) has lower population density than NYC, lower reliance on public transit even in SF or LA, an Asian population accustomed to wearing masks, fewer black people (who seem worse hit even adjusting for socioeconomic status, for a yet-unknown reason), warmer weather. How do you know what fraction of the difference in mortality is explained by those attributes vs. the government response?

I say this not to excuse sending infectious patients into nursing homes, but with the goal of recognizing the tremendous uncertainty in almost all aspects of society's management of this disease. For example, Japan seems to be doing great, with no major lockdown and testing that's missing ~80% of cases (assuming 1% IFR, their 830 deaths imply 83k cases; but they've found only 17k). I strongly suspect that the Japanese response would have brought disaster in NYC or Lombardy, but I'm not sure anyone can confidently say why.
Thanks for reading!

I only tried digitization from one shop, so I can't really compare. The service I used was targeted toward home consumers, so I'd imagine that higher-end shops that serve clients in TV or film could do more to improve quality.
Chinese companies are also thinking about that so it's matter of what works better in those markets
Inductor in series with a diode. The voltage differential stores energy in the inductor's magnetic field, which comes back out when the destination capacitor is at a higher voltage than the source capacitor. The diode keeps the process from repeating in reverse (oscillation).
Struggling Buzzfeed Feels Targeted by The New York Times
Show HN: Jetson Nano powered Robot research platform
The Jetson Nano is an under used product for a robotics platform, so the goal of this project is to get a platform started to provide a basis for this.

Currently this project is running a custom C++ application on the Jetson, and doing the driver controls through a nodeMCU connected to a servo for steering and a motor driver for propulsion. It's relatively easy to build from readily available parts, and will be even easier once I get the PWM code ported over to the Jetson (in progress now).
I believe Jacob Andreas at MIT is working on compositional neural net architectures for applications in programming language theory at the moment
I would take a step back and question the criteria we are using to make decisions. “Engagement” in this context is euphemistic. This startup is talking about applying engineering to influence human behavior in order to make people use their product more, presumably because their monetization strategy sells that attention or the data generated by it.

If I were the PM I’d suggest a change in business model to something that aligns the best interests of users with the best interests of the company.

I’d stop measuring “engagement” or algorithmically favoring posts that people interact with more. I’d have a conversation with my users about what they want to get out of the platform that lasts longer than the split second decision to click one thing and not another. And I’d prepare to spend massive resources on moderation to ensure that my users aren’t being manipulated by others now that my company has stopped manipulating them.

I think the issues of showing content from one side of a political divide or the other is much less important than showing material from trustworthy sources. The deeper issue, which is a very hard problem to solve, is dealing with the fundamental asymmetries that come up in political discourse. In the US, if you were to block misinformation and propaganda you’d disproportionately be blocking right wing material. How do you convince users to value truth and integrity even if their political leaders don’t, and how do you as a platform value them even if that means some audiences will reject you?

I don’t know how to answer those questions but they do start to imply that maybe “news + commenting as a place to spend lots of time” isn’t the best place to expend energy if you’re trying to make things better?
Immunity means that the immune system won the battle and killed the virus, and develop tools to kill it so you won't get sick again. So, not impossible, but very unlikely. Maybe this virus can hide itself like HIV and burst out regularly to test the waters? Very unlikely but as I said, not absolutely completely and utterly impossible.
A corporation is a device for maximizing profit and minimizing ethics. Everyone can say they're behaving ethcially. Consumers can say, "Well, all my friends are there, I can't quit," and it's true for some people. The CEO and other decision-makers can say, "Well, I have to do this otherwise the shares go down and I could get fired," and they may be right. Shareholders can say, "I'm just investing in the most profitable companies, if they were doing something bad, it should be illegal," and they have a point too.

This is where governments come in. Companies should behave ethically, but ultimately we shouldn't just leave it up to them. That's why societies have laws. What we really need to do is use regulation and penalties to force Facebook into ethical behaviour.

Of course, this isn't going to happen because there's no political will to do so, generally due to "free speech" or "free market" objections.
Well, it's at least interesting enough to exist, beyond that I couldn't say. Bit subjective of a goal post don't you think?
I built this
https://moca.computingarchitectures.com/en/vendors/aws/

as well as visual representation
https://moca.computingarchitectures.com/en/~hello-world/
This is something that really strikes me as interesting.

When one side of the debate is clearly completely operating in bad faith what do you do?
I think by now anyone who's joined these debates is familiar with the tactics seen.

- The attempt to exhaust the opposition by wasting debate asking for clarification/examples of things that are common knowledge and to try and drown out core arguments with word salads and getting side tracked in arguments over semantics.

- The tendency for every argument to effectively follow the narcissists prayer.

- The tactic of spamming the same illogical arguments over and over despite the fact these have been refuted before; seemingly in the hope that if enough of their own side pile on with enough logical fallacies it will get too exhausting for the opposition to repeatedly tear down the same arguments over and over again while having to remain civil.

Ironically it's the one thing I can think of that even comes close to aligning with the tolerance of intolerance argument.
Or the ISPs don't throttle traffic to fast.com
Surfboard: Audio Feature Extraction for Modern Machine Learning
Bless this debugger, saved me so much time when implementing Sign in with Apple
By "alternative medicine" I'm not talking 19th century views here, especially given the comparison to AI. Can you pick something from like the past half-century or so? Which people called alternative medicine but which now they call medicine?
>Facebook fundamentally tapped some hidden human need/instinct to argue with people who they believe are incorrect.

Maybe FB do it better, but it is the same in every online "forum" where you get notifications about comments.
> There is no vaccine yet for this.

If you realize it’s a dumpster fire then delete your account and move on with life. If that line of thinking is a challenge in absolutely any way the problem is addiction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction
I'm slightly amused by the domain hacks, but also concerned about a few of the ccTLDs, especially when it comes to user generated content and blogging/opinions. For example, the leader of .ph routinely calls opponents gay, is not known for human rights or free speech, and I am curious how this might reflect on it.

I have the same concerns with user generated content in/on .de and their Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz law, the mandatory Posting an Impressum on your sites, etc.

I have seen bitly suspended before by Libya for merely providing redirects to content they don't like.
I actually really enjoy having a good argument with random people online, but I don't as much enjoy arguing with my friends and family. 1) I don't like being mad at or contemptious of people I'm close to and 2) they're usually not worth the effort of arguing with because they're just cutting and pasting stupid shit they found elsewhere and it's _exhausting_ to continuously correct the record when they put zero effort into copy and pasting it to begin with.

I first purged everyone that posted that stuff from my feed, and then eventually quite facebook altogether.
> 1. It now constructs unnecessary `std::string` penalizing `format_int`:
> value+=fmt::format_int(i).str().size();

Author appears to be doing the equivalent in the other benchmark:

value+=fast_io::to<std::string>(i).size();

Maybe you could argue that in both cases it would be better not to measure time spent creating and destroying strings, but I don't see how the two benchmarks are not comparable.
> how can they put the differences aside and unite against the government and political elites?

I doubt we will see a revolution of the people vs the elites.

More likely a group of elites at the state level will want their state to leave the union.
There's incredibly strong evidence that the way to teach mathematics and the only way to learn it is to foster the environment in which you can rediscover the key insight for yourself. Obviously (to the younger students, to me, Lockhart, Dewey, and others, but not to most teachers, administrators, voters) there is no track and no curriculum for this.

They are not stumbling into it by themselves! They have a guide! The guide's job is to point out the works in the museum, and to make sure the kids don't get lost. It's not to stand in front of the art so the kids can't even see it and lecture about it!

There's nothing complex or sophisticated about recognizing that "+" has a meaning that we chose, and we could have chosen others, and in some cases other choices would be more natural.

You don't think students learning fractions know that there is one right answer, or that 2/3 and 1/3 can't both be right? Their short little lives have already been filled with enough test-taking to teach them that, at least.

And if they don't understand that 1/3 and 2/3 represent something different about the real world, and that 2/6 and 1/3 are different in a different way from 1/3 and 2/3, then why are we going on to teach them even more complex sophisticated concepts before they have grasped these most basic of basics?

There's never been a pedagogical program to shut down the curiosity of primary students. We do it by accident, by "nurturing the basic concepts" (the ones you learned at that age) so that curiosity can grow amidst them "in the future," which means, maybe, after they finish calculus, if they are lucky.
I'd like to mention here that PASETO is a safer JWT alternative:

https://github.com/paragonie/paseto
Your IP address (which is "owned" by your ISP) has a location assigned to it, usually the closest "router" run by your ISP. Depends on how your internet infrastructure looks where you live, but where I live, the map is off by ~3.56 km (~2.21 mi).