skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What browser are you using? It requires a click for me on Firefox. From a quick glance at the source I don't see anything that would automatically initiate a download.
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Anonymous targets police and Trump administration
Hi! I made this. I'm not going to talk too much about the back end of the system, but that won't work.

:)
Really really cool. Can’t wait to try this out.
This is a possibility, but we need hard evidence before we can say it is happening with the current coronavirus.
Not a mech eng but I've taken several eng classes and do a lot of DIY stuff. I've been designing a swing set/exercise rig for myself in Inventor and using FEA to sanity check my beam sizes for the given loads, just cause why not. Since I already had it parameterized, I wanted to see what load it would take with legs made out of 1.25x5.5 boards, just cause. The sim showed it would take several hundred pounds with almost no lateral deflection. Hmmm.

Anyone who's worked with decking boards knows they are pretty wobbly by themselves. I'm staring at the results, intuitively knowing they're dead wrong. So I model a plain column of one of these boards 16' long and 2000lbs, straight down. Zero side deflection.

Ah, I realized, it doesn't model buckling.

Map != territory.

It's always important to have multiple perspective of inference on a problem.
Easy. Add it to a Lambda function on an AWS account. Run once a day, it shouldn't generate a bill on it's own.

Outlive an AWS account that never generates a bill? That could be a challenge.
Very close analogues to the trolley problem exist. I remember reading about a hospital which replaced the staff that measured out drug prescriptions with a computerized system. It made far fewer mistakes but, critically, it did allow for some mistakes which human operators would have caught and corrected. When I read the article I remember being annoyed that they didn’t mention the trolley problem at all because it was an almost perfect analogue.
That it automatically downloaded a file is down to your browser, not the site. If you have "ask before downloading" (or similar) set, it'll prompt to download.
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Maybe cascade was the wrong word. I meant that if you pop in a hot spare and it's running the same software, there's a good chance it will encounter the same issue, sometimes immediately.
Yeah, that's no longer the case. If your url predated the gc run or was from before a restart, you would get a server 500 message.
I’d recommend spending a few weeks this summer working through the nandtotetris course it was something I only stumbled upon after college and it helped glue all of the different classes together in a simple cognitively digestible example.
the problem with that thinking is that no revenue-generating investments are made that can allow the company to pay off the debt. It creates fragility in these companies because it assumes access to credit markets and/or bailouts.
Nitrous oxide is a viable and easily handled oxidizer for hobby engines.
Of course, but I think you can still surface those ethics without people as the experimental subject. Get pacifists, vegans, what have you.
EMDR = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_a...

Thanks for that particular datapoint, and for the info.
You are of course correct that this possible or even likely, but we can't say it is already happening without hard evidence.
didn't take long for a false article you mean? correct
Jesus! They are building software for themselves that prioritize the things they want and need, not some rando commenters on social media. They have every right to go about things their own way and succeed or fail based on that. So far it seems to be working and a lot of people are quite happy with the results (myself included). You seem to be particularly upset by this. Why is it so terrible?
Hey,

Thanks so much for checking this out. I made this site as part of Ludum Dare 46, a game jam. The theme was "Keep it alive." I wanted to do something that was positive and that would give people an outlet to write about their experiences related to Covid. I've had to deal with some abuse, particularly after the first week, but overall it's been an incredibly positive experience.

There are certainly a lot of improvements I hope to make soon. I honestly built it in an evening and expected it might be dead within a day or two. That it's lasted over a month is incredible.

With a large influx of new readers, I'm sure you'll come across a few less savory posts. I'd encourage you to click the report button on the bottom of the page.

Thanks so much for checking it out!

Edit: Since this is HN, and I'm bound to get the question - It's built with Rails and Vue, with PaperCSS for the styling, Postgres for the database, and Redis is being used as part of the spam mitigation system. Oh, and the DB really will wipe itself if it goes more than 24 hours without a post.
This is my understanding as well, but what I don't yet understand is why this would apparently work well for Brex but not for the banks. Part of me has wondered whether it's some kind of VC-subsidized strategy to make a risk play that doesn't pan out actuarially, sort of like what Uber does with fares. Can anyone explain this?
In high school I thought of the opposite idea:

“This website contains a timer for seven days. If this timer reaches zero a one million dollar donation will be made to numerous charities. The button below resets the timer.”

I was going to call it “This is why we can’t have nice things”

But I couldn’t find a million dollars.
Even through the late 2000s, Galapagos phones were way more advanced in terms of capabilities than anything available in the west, including the first couple of iPhone generations.

Trouble is, they wouldn't or couldn't sell them anywhere else, and eventually the rest of the world outpaced them and ate their lunch. Yes, the radio standards were incompatible... Would it have been so hard to make an international model? I think they just didn't feel like they needed to.

This pattern keeps happening where Japanese companies develop amazing products for their domestic market, and then staunchly refuse to bother selling them elsewhere, allowing global competitors to win in the long term.
Ppx_MySQL 1.0 (2019)
This is a cool concept! Lots of messages appear to be people spamming their twitch or whatever IDs asking for followers.
I think people are talking about "Click" differently.

- There is a click on the link on this page that leads to the webpage. Nothing is downloaded at this time.

- There is a click on the target webpage "Click to generate cartridge". Those who know what DX7 is, who are presumably a target audience, would understand this will generate a file.

For those who do not know what DX7 is or what's happening, well... why are you clicking in the first place - if you have no idea what'll happen, a file is a legitimate possibility;) - but I think mostly it'll differ whether they have "Always ask me where to download" (in which case it'll prompt for location), or "Always download in default folder", in which case yes indeed it'll download a file.

But at that point you've already clicked two times voluntarily on a strange page whose provenance or purpose you don't know, AND you have enabled "Don't ask me for downloads", AND you didn't bother to scroll down two millimeters for explanation but just clicked on first thing that said click me, soooooo... at some point it's no longer author's responsibility and the cries lose their credibility ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Didn't Reddit do something like this with one of their April 1st experiments? What ever happened with that?

Ah, here we go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)

Looks like it lasted about 4 months. So I guess that gives us a baseline for the over-under on the lifetime of this site.
Meant to specify: the cracked collar was on my TWSBI 580AL
We've been at it for 35000 years.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/only-handful-peo...
The service is $50 per year. unless I’m also confused here.
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Federal agents are actively monitoring Hacker News for people that have supported the protests.

If you've been involved in the protests or have donated money for bail please take care to delete any incriminating information from your accounts.
If one could train a chicken to pull or not pull a lever to save x amount of chicken lives, does it weigh on the conscience of the trainer that they’ve compelled a self-aware creature to kill one of its own kind?

(I’m not asking this to refute your point, it’s well met, I just found the opportunity to poke at the imaginary ethical elephant too much to resist, and no I’m not proud of it-those were good hens)
The Michigan state government (legislature) postponed reopening out of fear of the armed protestors. What was the purpose of them showing up with guns if not to intimidate. But these are some more “very fine people”.
absolutely love when hn has audio related content. Thank you for sharing this, I will use this with dexed next time I'm horsing around with sound design.
The whole point of using a thought experiment is to gain intuitions about the "but what if it wasn't a person, but a chicken instead? Would that be equivalent? Why?" Ie, the value of the experiment is in the experiential learning of the attempt to arrive at the answer. At least, imho

Sure, you can do things that you consider evil just to see how you would really react to being presented with such an unpleasant binary choice, but if you chose to do it, was it in fact not evil to you, are you just pathological, or are you perhaps in toddlerhood, where you don't yet really have an intuition for your own relationship with causality, such as it is?
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Oh, we're supposed to care about Winehouse?

I'm glad she's dead.
The major difference is that an individual reddit account could only press the button once and anonymous presses were not allowed.

A single person can send an unlimited number of messages to this new website.

Given that I would expect this to go longer.

On the other hand, The Button was an april fools experiment on one of the internet's most popular websites and thus garnered a ton of attention. This could easily fade into obscurity much faster.

So who knows!
Not the USA, but I had a friend who worked in government but for the police as a developer. To get into the building everyone was issued a police branded lanyard with their ID on it.

He kept getting freebies and discounts on his after work shopping trips and he didn't realise why until he caught his reflection in his mirror and realised his police lanyard was showing, people thought he was a cop!

He also on more than one occassion got pulled over for breath tests and/or speeding only to get flagged on when they saw his lanyard. He reckons he would have looked like a sergeant(? Can't remember exactly) due to his suit and the car he had and the cops wouldn't have wanted to piss off a superior.
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Could you talk more about it? The site is vague and low info density. It comes off like The Secret or other kinds of weird neurolinguistic programming ideas crossed with a multilevel marketing scheme.
That’s fine until you need to actually write to NFS/GPFS.
Know that you should probably take this year off and just take classes on Udemy, because the classic universities really don't know how to teach classes online yet.
WebVan here we come.
> A lot of art seems about being in the "in group"

I think you're seeing this from the wrong angle. Art is the process of moving people to this "in group" by showing them things that they didn't realize before. You need to use empathy to enjoy art.
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Switzerland is even more orderly. As a German, if you travel to Switzerland you feel like people from other nations feel when they come to Germany. Especially far more cleaner.
This is extremely high on the todo list. It was going to be done this weekend, but then I ended up living a little too close to some of the ongoing protests in the US to concentrate on getting it done.

Thanks for the reminder.
HI,
We applied for a patent back in 1996 for a system that measured simulator to human latency through various means. The basic concept is to instrument the simulator image generator to activate a trigger i.e. a section of the display that changes in response to human input. This was monitored by a light sensor on the screen and a circuit that monitored that area of the video signal going into the display device. A timer circuit started counting when the button was pushed and stopped when the change to the display was detected. We also automated out the human to collect mass data on the simulator latency. This worked very well and gave us both the delay to video and to display times from a defined input through the complete simulator pipeline.
The Sikhs that got killed for wearing turbans after 9/11/2001 weren't living in SF, LA or NY.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/us/sikh-hate-crime-victims/in...
Now, in Germany, on the other hand, trouble is to be had for the asking. There are many things in Germany that you must not do that are quite easy to do. To any young Englishman yearning to get himself into a scrape, and finding himself hampered in his own country, I would advise a single ticket to Germany; a return, lasting as it does only a month, might prove a waste.

In the Police Guide of the Fatherland he will find set forth a list of the things the doing of which will bring to him interest and excitement. In Germany you must not hang your bed out of window. He might begin with that. By waving his bed out of window he could get into trouble before he had his breakfast. At home he might hang himself out of window, and nobody would mind much, provided he did not obstruct anybody’s ancient lights or break away and injure any passer underneath.

In Germany you must not wear fancy dress in the streets. A Highlander of my acquaintance who came to pass the winter in Dresden spent the first few days of his residence there in arguing this question with the Saxon Government. They asked him what he was doing in those clothes. He was not an amiable man. He answered, he was wearing them. They asked him why he was wearing them. He replied, to keep himself warm. They told him frankly that they did not believe him, and sent him back to his lodgings in a closed landau. The personal testimony of the English Minister was necessary to assure the authorities that the Highland garb was the customary dress of many respectable, law-abiding British subjects. They accepted the statement, as diplomatically bound, but retain their private opinion to this day. The English tourist they have grown accustomed to; but a Leicestershire gentleman, invited to hunt with some German officers, on appearing outside his hotel, was promptly marched off, horse and all, to explain his frivolity at the police court.

From "Three Men On The Bummel", the semisequel to "three men on a boat", 1914.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2183/2183-h/2183-h.htm
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Interesting website. How will the database wipe itself?
Engineering is at its essence communication of ideas between you and others, be they computers, or other people, or yourself at some future time.

Learn to communicate effectively, and you will not be sorry you did.
> Honestly, I'd have a lot more appreciation of this sort stuff if those who put it out there presented it with a bit of an evil grin, rather than with an air of smugness and pretension.

Forgive me but these comments always rankle me a bit. Most artists I know (and I am one) are craftsmen working hard at what they do. Even the famous ones and most well-known.

I recommend watching some artists documentaries and seeing that artists are not some high society snobs looking down on the viewer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_rRCfRdmQ&list=PLP7RSttJ7S...
The brutality in those videos goes beyond what I thought possible. Driving through crowds, beating little girls, trampling on a protester with your horse... speechless.

I thank the internet for making me aware of this.
Yes you could also start a book of faces this way.
Start a startup every year? How is that remotely feasible? Where are they getting this money and time from?

My advice to you would be to study hard and try to get decent grades. Work hard, network, go to all the Comp Sci professional organization meetings you possibly can (I think ACM) and ask every presenter from industry for help getting your first internship. Don't join any clubs or fraternities that will suck away your time and cause your grades to drop, but if ACM sponsors a competition, give it a go if you have the time as it will give you something to talk about with recruiters. Upperclassmen can help to get you internships too if you're serious (sometimes previous employers will reach out to them for new interns). It doesn't hurt to have something unique on your resume that all your classmates don't also have. If you can get some free certifications online or even experience with things other freshman/sophomore don't know about, but are crucial to modern businesses (SQL is everywhere) than that helps.

It's really hard to get an internship without any previous internships, but once you get one and can talk about it (provide references), you become less risky to potential employers, and it is much easier to get the second one. It's kind of the chicken and the egg problem. I once tried to get an internship at a company that I was uniquely suited to for a lot of reasons and it just so happened to have a headquarters 1/2 mile from my parents house. I sent lots of emails, knew all about their company, and was waiting to speak to them at career day and at professional organization meetings, but they kept hiring this one very questionable student in his 6th year still taking sophomore classes (weird situation). I was really interested in a certain industry though and an older girl (junior) gave my name to a company that asked her last minute for anybody interested in this niche field. The rest is history and it's been great since then, so keep your head up.

When dealing with employers, dress nicely, be humble and friendly, but confident. Persistent, but not annoying :).
Junethack 2020 – The 10th NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament
The three most impressive things that I've seen on pmOS in the past year:

1. It's amazing the sheer number of devices to which pmOS is now bootable[0]. Also previously supported devices keep getting better. For example, g--gle-glass works well with the default configuration, once you are able to get it flashed to the device[1].

2. While I haven't yet the chance to personally use it, pine64-pinephone and purism-librem5 are the closest that we have to modern GNU[?]/Linux smartphones out there [2,3].

3. Anbox on pmOS means that the wealth of touch-optimized FOSS android applications are also available for the touchscreen devices that pmOS targets [3].

Things are getting exciting in the mobile-linux world.

[0]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

[1]: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/issues/456

[2]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_(pine64-...

[3]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Purism_Librem5_(purism-li...

[4]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Anbox

[?]: Is Alpine Linux GNU/Linux?
Brex minimizes their risk by offering a charge card versus a revolving line of credit. They also require access to your corporate bank account for liquid assets information to dynamically extend credit. This allows them to have a more nimble, forward looking-ish risk model rather than legacy institutions that rely primarily on credit histories.

This allows Brex to capture card transaction fees from financial services other banks ignore (again, due to risk models), such as startup charge cards.
>Have you got an actual example?

Of a cop murdering a black man in broad daylight and not getting charged for it? Hell, here's an example I just pulled up for someone else of a 12 year old black kid being murdered while he played airsoft in the park[0], the cop faced no charges and was subsequently hired by another police department in the same state. It's like paedophile priests getting shuffled around by the Catholics, absolutely absurd.

[0]: http://archive.is/jDQv3
sorry, fixed that!
Here it is here as well:
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People used railroads to profitably carry freight (originally with carts pulled by horses) right from the get-go. They became a lot cheaper to make once steel could be economically mass produced.

Steam engines were originally used for pumping water, but there was an obvious huge demand for locomotives to move freight by land once they could be made cheaper or better than draft animals.

I’m sure there exist some commercial uses for space flight, but it really doesn’t seem all that similar to railroads in terms of obvious market demand or effect on the economy.
keep up with your math classes and finish your math requirements as soon as you can. You'll be happy you did. Also, CS does not mean you are a software engineer or that you can get a job after you're finished. Get a part-time job the teaches you what companies need from a software engineer or the type of job you want to target after you are done with college.

Keep in mind, tech types aren't really the ones that change the world. Tech types do the work but they need a humanities type to inspire them to do it. Look for inspiration from your elective classes or look to someone to inspire you outside tech so make friends with people in your elective classes that aren't majoring in one of the STEM majors.
Here's a FAQ for those that have never played before or want to join: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Junethack/FAQ
If you are okay with virtual friends...we can be friends.

Interests: anime, programming stuff, reading, startups, playing bad guitar, debating about empathy and being a pedant sometimes. Currently just trying to be productive and improve myself - many shortcomings I ignored for a log time and need to change.

Current reading list includes - some jap novels, how to win friends, statistical rethinking and logic theory.

Current projects include - rewriting my site, start a blog series where I post about everything I am going to do or did to get a product from 0 to first paying customer. That includes all the bad crap I came up, all the bad ideas and absurdism which people don't often share.

(email is in the profile)
How trustworthy is ECC? Considering it was developed in collaboration with the NSA.
Thanks a lot for your comment, it's really motivating :)
You could make it accept donations and/or start with a much lower value like that 100 or 1000.
Smash as much puss as you can while you're young.
1. Thank you for doing this

2. It's strange how the simple things, efforts and connections mean so much these days

3. It is joyous and comforting how many interesting, loving, quirky, emotional, sincere messages I've found, and how few trolls I've stumbled upon. Hope it stays that way (understanding that it may be unlikely if it keeps getting more visibility).

4. I have no idea if by deleting reported spam you become more culpable/liable for any offensive messages you don't remove, or any freedom of speech issues - check the laws in your region I guess, and yes it's sad that one has to think about these things :-/

5. Best of luck! :)
Where does Japan fall on this spectrum?