skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This submission's link currently goes to an HN search results page. However, it should go to https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/security/covid19...
> (2) Modern route-finding algorithms are to your on-paper-Dijkstra what a rocket ship is to your bicycle.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Modern path-finding algorithms are Dijkstra + lots of heuristics piled on top.

> graph traversal is absolutely a fundamental of AI.

I agree. But being a fundamental of AI does not make it AI itself.
HN discovers the concept of "Press Packet"?
Twitter shows me garbage I don't like, as does YouTube. They do this with very little regard for who you follow nowadays and give you no say in what types of stuff you actually want to be recommended. Sometimes they're nice enough to say why they recommend something (which should be standard), but most of the time it's just infuriatingly stupid.

I'm not against machine curation at all, mind you. I want the infrequent poster to have a higher weighed voice and such. But I want to be able to control the parameters.
How to Share a Secret – Shamir
Caper (YC W16) Is Hiring a Site Reliability Engineer (Remote OK)
How to add mail notification to Sequelize
If Facebook followed some deterministic algorithm like "show all content from friends, in chronological order" then I don't think there would be such loud voices calling for it to also solve $social_problem.

But Facebook does exercise editorial control, in the service of engagement. It's fair to ask that this curation consider other objectives as well, or at least counterbalance the side-effects it's known to have (divisive content is more engaging and so is amplified; at least correct it back down to neutral).
Has the title been updated? Nothing about “Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment” seems at all misleading to me. Amazon has confirmed that they scripted the segment and produced the content. And there’s clear video evidence that 11 news stations aired the Amazon-produced content verbatim.
https://twitter.com/covidsins
House Strikes Deal to Protect U.S. Browsing Data from Warrantless Surveillance
Shane Parrish recently did a podcast on this topic with Brian Koppelman. In the podcast, Brian Koppelman talked about how we wrote a single page everyday, however he did would not stop writing once he started. Rather than writing it was a thinking technique using writing as a medium. It was a way to derive thoughts from the subconscious. He also mentions how maintaining momentum is important in accomplishing tasks such as writing.

Also kind of fun to see how scripts are created and how they are revised from rough draft to final draft.
https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/brian-koppelman/
You can directly create named directories with `hash -d`. Eg.

hash -d dev=~/dev
hash -d personal=~/dev/thorstenhans
...

Nothing else is needed.
The point was that they choose React by default instead of thinking about other tools which might be better suited. There was no reason to make this an SPA, they didn’t even consider not using React.

I agree about learning new things, but this isn’t a new language or syntax. At best you spend 10 minutes at the documentation and you know everything you need to know.
I have a large library of technical books (accumulated over 50 years). Every 10 years or so I feel like I'm running out of space (5000 books or so) and I round up my oldest most out-of-date CS books, like books on pascal programming or LISP manuals from 1971. I fill up boxes of a couple hundred books and take them to a local Half-Price Books bookstore that sells used books. It is always so disappointing. I end up with pennies for each book. So I avoid going for another 10 years until I forget about my previous attempt to sell my out of date books. I've also made library donations of books I felt were still useful (I end up with duplicates sometimes because I forget that I've already purchased a book and shelved it somewhere that I don't see it until after I purchase a second copy.) Again, it's frustrating, most libraries really don't want very technical books.

I can't expect anyone to want an old manual for LISP programming so now I'm holding onto my old books because it's not worth dragging them to the used bookstore. And, every so often, I will go back and look at them. There was a discussion on HN involving assembly language and machine architecture, it caused me to pull out my old book on CDC 6600 assembler.

In another 10 years I'll forget this and try to sell my used books again.
Facebook serves BeatSaber modding community with DMCA takedown on GitHub Repos
Then there was FfOS and firing people for "wrong" opinions and other dumb decisions.

Mozilla destroyed itself due to terrible and politicized leadership.

I just hope that a Rust foundation is created soon, before the language goes down together with Mozilla.
You don't need liberal arts majors in the boardroom, you need a military general in charge at the FTC and FCC.

Can we dispense with the idea that someone employed by facebook regardless of their number of history degrees has any damn influence on the structural issue here, which is that Facebook is a private company whose purpose is to mindlessly make as much money for their owners as they can?

The solution here isn't grabbing Mark and sitting him down in counselling, it's to have the sovereign, which is the US government exercise its authority which it has forgotten how to use apparently and reign these companies in.
The fast.com speedtest is run by Netflix, for presumably this same reason.
Also, the other two manufactures are apparently doing similar -- shipping SMR drives without any indication of what they are. At least one of them released a statement that said they weren't doing SMR on drives labeled as enterprise san or something similar, but you still take a chance if getting one of the consumer drives (and for home storage, a consumer drive may make sense, as long as it isn't SMR).
>Only with the rise and victory of the Communist Party in 1949, the nationalist lore goes, could the original shame of military defeat and colonialism be redeemed
Advanced Intelligent Systems – Cultivating breakthrough unmanned technologies
If everybody paid for facebook, it would have as many ads, if not more. That companies would leave money on the table with no incentive to do so is a bizarre self-justifying myth that people who live off advertising tell themselves.

You pay for cable. Paying customers are a better audience for ads than deadbeats.
[1979]. A classic paper, though.
Flash storage is not nearly as reliable as spinning rust, given comparable density. The spinning rust niche is pretty much unassailable, and now SMR lets the industry expand into tape-like use cases. What WD did was a huge screwup for the reasons OP talks about, and they had to backpedal quickly.
It may not be that hard to set up things for yourself, have been toying with something like that for messaging https://cweb.gitlab.io/StoneAge.html. The deeper question is how to sustain this kind of products and make them competitive without comparable funding.
Yeah, I think of FATE as the assembly language of RPGs. You can use it to build any experience you want but it's hard to setup on the first try. It definitely works better for short stories.
Second Life's logo isn't part of its retention problem – but its name sure is
> Prices should have gone down because they've continued to scale up and go into custom cooling/hardware/backbones/etc.

Why should that make prices go down? Prices aren't based on cost. They're based on what the market will bear, i.e., what customers will pay. If you think AWS is too costly, you can go find some other solution. If enough customers start doing that that AWS's financial state suffers, AWS will have to rethink its price and cost structure.
It's very useful for international money exchange. Really wished I knew about the technology when I was living overseas and needed to send money to my family. Took more than a week IIRC plus having to have 2 to 3 different banks take their cut for a simple wire transfer overseas via Western Union. Sent via blockchain they could have had it within a few minutes with a negligible fee.

There's a bunch of valid use cases for easily being able to send and receive money rather than relying on banks for everything when there are viable alternatives.
The Windows setup doesn't like Windows 10 on ARM, it couldn't install the TAL driver. Very edge case I guess, I'm going to install on x86 when I get home :)
Absolutely, once you start you get momentum and it is difficult to stop. I wrote just today over 2000 words and I planed just for 500. That's why we don't show the writing goal anywhere on the writing page, so that you don't have any limit while writing. I will check the podcast, thanks for sharing!
Add an option to use a black background, and it's perfect.
Any intentions on bolting-on/integrating with a publication pipeline?

WRITE <=> EDIT <=> REVIEW <=> PUBLISH
the Figaro was part of a trend in Japan to bring back style aesthetics from the 50s and 60s for cars.

See also :

the Nissan Pao, Nissan Be-1, Nissan S-Cargo, Daihatsu Midget, Honda Vamos, Suzuki Lapin, Suzuki Twin, and Subaru Sumbar.

Most of them are kei cars -- cars with trendy or risky aesthetics in Japan are usually kei cars because they're cheaper to develop and represent less of a financial risk for taking such an aesthetic gamble. If the aesthetics work out, they often incorporate those elements into more expensive lineups.

AFAIK the Honda Element was developed this way -- from characteristics that were known popular elements from Hondas' kei-car lineups.
The person who posted this link claims it's a "Zoom Competitor" with the title. I don't necessarily think Brave believe it's a direct competitor.
Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning
Would be pretty interesting if some moderators (who are probably residents of low wage countries) not just simply "guess wrong" but are part of the scheme and mark some videos on purpose.
Most of the time it's not smart to work on an "actually novel idea". Because it's very risky and convincing users about your novel approach could take a lot of time. It's very common that novel ideas are ahead of their time and a more polished version of them will come and take the market a few years later...

I think -as others said in comments- taking an old idea and making it better is more rewarding most of the times. And it's not even easier to transform an existing idea and take it to a whole new level... A good product is a lot more than its raw idea. The whole package (idea, target, marketing, product, design, etc.) should work to have a successful product. And it's not easy to design such system...
Three hundred hours of video are uploaded to Youtube every minute [0]. There's no amount of "excessive profit" that can scale humans to review it all.

[0] https://merchdope.com/youtube-stats/
Imbalanced Host Response to SARS-CoV-2 Drives Development of Covid-19
> This omnipresent cult of the body is extraordinary. It is the only object on which everyone is made to concentrate, not as a source of pleasure, but as an object of frantic concern, in the obsessive fear of failure or substandard performance, a sign and an anticipation of death, that death to which no one can any longer give a meaning, but which everyone knows has at all times to be prevented.

It's a huge rhetorical jump to go from "people engaging in focused activity" to "ritualistic pre-enactment of inevitable death", and even after re-reading this quote several times, I'm confused by how that jump is supposed to make sense?
Show HN: A Chrome extension to save code snippets instantly
It looks like the product was conceived in 1992, Watcom was first acquired in 1994 by Powersoft, which was bought by Sybase in 1995. SAP bought Sybase in 2010.

I'd bet the product has seen significant growth in the mobile / IoT era. Applications that work offline and synchronizes later are a pain to build. Seems like the kind of infrastructure that exists in every police car these days.
> The price of electric cars here is too high for most incomes ...

Where is 'here'?

Here in Australia the price of pure electric cars is way too high - and not helped by federal government (lack of) subsidies, tariffs, policy preferences for fossil fuel, lack of charging infrastructure, etc.

I recently scoped out comparable ICE vs full electric new vehicles, and 'around the same' quality/comfort/range/size we were looking at roughly 3.5x the cost for electric. A 5y cost projection for an ICE that does 4.5 litres / 100 km, even with anticipated (higher) servicing costs, doesn't get us to a compelling proposition.
Masochism in Rust Lang
Once upon a time, C was the new language in town...
Netlify CMS uses the GitHub (or bitbucket, etc) API to modify your repository with the new/updated content. You can self-host the entire system, or have netlify handle the GitHub auth while you self host your website.
It’s from May 18 and the actual title is “Coronavirus: Uber announces drastic cuts to secure its future.”

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223335
Complexity is one thing, but more importantly is choosing the right tools for the job. There definitely are cases where you want SPA + API, but this wasn’t one of them.
How does one disprove the other?
I wish I had the courage to share my projects here, but I'm really afraid of being torn apart. :-)

I made a similar minimal project but targeting github.io, apparently most here want self-hosting.
To save others like me the trip to wikipedia, here's a snippet of wikipedia that explains what saagarjha is alluding to:

[Diaereses are] now far less commonly used in words such as coöperate and reënter except in a very few publications—notably The New Yorker [..]
Thanks! It's my co-founder twitter.com/katiepatrick 's main hypothesis for how to bring about change: give people a 2,000 calorie count, a fitbit 10,000 steps, and update them daily.
No NAS uses that spec at a uniform rate. Practically every NAS these days uses RAID, which implies rebuilds.
Why are the ethics committees allowed to make any decisions?

When I was on one I would by default let everything through unless I came across something where I thought I could help improve the experimental design. My colleagues on the other hand would go through them like little emperors and cause grief for the applicant just because they could.
Also, Bitcoin is not anonymous.

https://www.elliptic.co/our-thinking/bitcoin-transactions-mo...
can confirm #1, fell for it... edit: not that I don't know what a shallot is X-)
If everyone is a false positive, the system is clearly poorly designed.
The 1991 article "Cancer Warfare"[1] by "Richard Hatch", is interesting in this regard.

Extensively footnoted and appearing erudite and informed, it examines the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Viral Cancer Program (VCP) - "launched in 1971 with great fan­fare as part of Nixon’s War on Can­cer" - concluding that:

> While Nixon ordered a sup­posed end to BW offen­sive efforts in 1969, the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency retained a secret BW and tox­in weapon capability.43 Giv­en this record of decep­tion in the U.S. BW pro­gram, the Viral Can­cer Pro­gram may well have used the search for a cure for can­cer as a cov­er to con­tin­ue its exper­i­ments on bio­log­i­cal war­fare.

(the footnote "43" refers to: Church Com­mit­tee Report, “Unau­tho­rized Stor­age of Tox­ic Agents” Vol. 1, pp. 189–99. )

Along the way, it sidles almost up to the notion of lab created HIV:

> One of Bio­net­ics Research Lab­o­ra­to­ries’ most impor­tant NCI con­tracts was a mas­sive virus inoc­u­la­tion pro­gram that began in 1962 and and ran until at least 1976, and used more than 2,000 mon­keys. Dr. Robert Gal­lo, the con­tro­ver­sial head of the cur­rent U.S. AIDS research pro­gram at NCI and its chief of its tumor cell biol­o­gy lab­o­ra­to­ry, and Dr. Jack Gru­ber, for­mer­ly of VCP and then NIH, were project offi­cers for the inoc­u­la­tion pro­gram. The mon­keys were inject­ed with every­thing from human can­cer tis­sues to rare virus­es and even sheep­’s blood in an effort to find a trans­mis­si­ble can­cer. Many of these mon­keys suc­cumbed to immuno­sup­pres­sion after infec­tion with the Mason-Pfiz­er mon­key virus, the first known immuno­sup­pres­sive retrovirus,31 a class of virus­es that includes the human immun­od­e­fi­cien­cy virus.

[...]

> Exper­i­ments per­formed under NCI con­tract includ­ed many dan­ger­ous viral inoc­u­la­tion pro­grams, like the pri­mate inoc­u­la­tion pro­gram run by Gal­lo and Gru­ber.. So-called “species bar­ri­ers” were rou­tine­ly breached in efforts to find or cre­ate infec­tious can­cer virus­es. Virus­es native to one species were inject­ed into ani­mals from anoth­er species in hope of trig­ger­ing can­cers.

When I first heard of the disinfo program covered in TFA, I immediately thought of this article, which I first read in the mid 90's. I still wonder how much of its content is diligent journalism and how much is high quality disinfo.

1: http://spitfirelist.com/news/cancer-warfare/ from Covert Action Information Bulletin 39, Winter 1991-92
Some of the comments here discuss how an attacker could tamper with data. What are some good ways for a scientist to ensure the integrity of their data in this case?

Post it online with a hash, particularly in a way that will get archived by others?

Keep off-site backups?
I agree with GP though, if you don't know what a shallot is, it's not likely you have sufficient interest to pay money to learn about cooking.

Obviously it's regional, but from my UK perspective shallots are not exotic.

I'm not aware that they even suffer from multiple names as do spring/salad/green onions/scallions. Echalions of course, but that's a subcategory.

If shallots are unfamiliar, again, UK, you've spent little time even in supermarket vegetable aisles or restaurants and, surely, are therefore unlikely to actually part with cash a cooking class?
Who says C is simple?
And many horrors of the past and present were and are caused by optimizing for profits. So it's not like we get to side-step horror-avoidance.

I'd start with treating users as partners, and not cattle.
Covid-19 forecasting model benchmarks
The hedonistic treadmill is closer to the "before" state than the "after", here, no?
Hi so this is illegal. Call the FBI. Extortion and coercion are felonies in all 50 states.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...

> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward — reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
It's silly to so confidently assert that opening up a closed source algorithm to 3rd party analysis will "do absolutely nothing". How could you possibly know there is nothing unusual in the code without having audited it yourself?

Seeing how the sausage gets made certainly can make lots of people lose their taste for it.
He was quite a character. I read his biography a few years ago after chasing down an internet rabbit hole of construction equipment. Very interesting read once you get past all the religious stuff.
How Stats Are Helping Paralympic Teams Find an Edge
good for them.

honestly, Uber got "hype pressured" into this whole "self driving car" madness because they didn't want to be disrupted by Google, but they were really fighting a phantom that didn't exist. In other words, Google did a really great job trolling Uber into losing focus.

Uber model is great and they should focus on helping people make more money and create jobs
Search around a bit, there's a static website generator that runs on git and is hosted by CDNs.

I can't remember the name, but it's commercial and targets major companies for making their landing pages.
Oh, rats. I can't edit/update the url.

Any mods available to right my wrongs?

Edit to explain: when I read something that I find interesting and think to post it on HN, I usually do an HN search (or a few HN searches) to see whether it has already been posted. In this instance, I've crossed tabs somewhere and copied my HN search result rather than the url that I'd wanted to post. Really sorry :-(
It's a difference in ethos. Is life for optimizing and perfection, a Taylorist treadmill turned to yourself, or is a joy, a breeze?

There's fun ways to have exercise and there's military regimentation. There's allowing imperfection and contingency in life, and there's hammering them away.

In a delicate irony, both attitudes are fully human.
Along these lines, CGP Grey's video about Anger Thought Germs is an excellent breakdown of why anger spreads like nothing else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

You combine that behavior with social media, especially Twitter, and the symbiotic relationship with the news media. It's a non-stop anger generation machine. Rapidly iterating on these thoughts, packaging and surfacing the most potent, viral version. Any nuance and context long ago removed.
I think your suggestion is a bit out of scope for what's actually being discussed/not really a solution.

I'm active on the somewhat (not fully) decentralized social medium Fediverse (more widely known as Mastodon, but it's more than that) and I think a lack of curation is a problem: Posts by people who post a lot while I'm active are very likely to be seen, those by infrequent posters active while I'm not very likely to go unnoticed.

How would your proposed system (that seems a bit utopic and vague from that comment, to be honest) deal with that?
Hrm. I'm getting a certificate error when I click on the example site, on firefox dev (up to date within the past couple days at worst):

https://herman.bearblog.dev/
Peer’s Certificate issuer is not recognized.
HTTP Strict Transport Security: true
HTTP Public Key Pinning: false
Certificate chain:
... skipped ...

Interestingly, this one works (from browsing github issues): https://hyprtxt.bearblog.dev/

I'd be happy to paste the whole thing somewhere, I'm just avoiding large blobs here.
What I've found can be useful in these cases is to define success as a small amount of time spent working on the problem. For example, I have a daily goal of spending 5 minutes a day on language learning. Some days I really only have energy for the 5 minutes, but as time has gone on, more and more days end up with time spend far in excess of 5.
Oh, I'm interested. Thanks for letting me know. Would love to contribute.
No, they wouldn't, unless advertising gets banned. They'd instead accept your payment and find a way to shove ads in anyway, in a covert or overt way, just as many paid services do, because why leave money on the table?
I saw similar advice from a very different source a couple of months ago. It was a book about exercise with the following advice for stretching: don't go until hurts, but go until it's slightly uncomfortable, then try to relax there, then repeat. Maybe a little trite, but I feel that advice is pretty widely applicable.
I found these aliases online and have found them quite useful. Requires jq.

# JWT Payload. Provide the JWT as the argument e.g. jwtp "$JWT"

alias jwtp="jq -R 'split(\".\") | .[1] | @base64d | fromjson' <<<"

# JWT Header. Provide the JWT as the argument e.g. jwth "$JWT"

alias jwth="jq -R 'split(\".\") | .[0] | @base64d | fromjson' <<<"
Are you asking about book publishing or web blogging platforms (e.g. Wordpress / Medium / Ghost)?
I like it, but it's sad that I have to run an extra VPN app on my Android because Xiaomi doesn't allow me to configure private DNS.
This just proves your experts are dumb.
Let that sink in