skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I took a government representative saying they are considering doing something as a sign that the government is considering doing something

Ok, but that's not how the government works, like not even close. A state representative making a statement doesn't mean "the government is considering doing" it, there are more than 1000 state reps across the country, willfully assuming anything they say is going to happen is just silly.
It honestly depends on your use-case. For heterogeneous systems that may run different versions of your Erlang software, strictly-typed messages are not that great, because you can't really ensure that all your systems are running the same version of the code that accepts messages.
(This is why in Protobuf3, everything is optional, for instance)

If you are a smaller organisation than, say, Google, ensuring compatibility between your systems is easier, so that's still doable.

For in-VM messaging, since all types are accessible and enforceable, it's easier to have a common contract amongst all your actors since the risk isn't the same.
I can only guess at motivations, but holistically people need to enforce their license terms or they lose their teeth.
Sorry about the timing :)
Maybe I am just an exception but I have 100% availability on one dedicated server for the last 2 years.
Xrdp also used to be difficult to setup on Linux, but (ironically) systemd + modern session management has made RDP on linux behave pretty well.

Also, if you look carefully at the default config mechanism, Xrdp does RDP to VNC translation internally, and runs Xvnc for each login.
I like migadu. No extra charges for additional domains or mailboxes.
The hardware necessary to emulate our brain capabilities with neural nets is several orders of magnitude more expensive than lidar.

Running with a more responsible hardware stack means the software has to be more cleverly designed, and that design is mostly not in the just-throw-data-at-a-neural-net stage. Building your visible-light-only driving system is going to cause you to struggle a lot harder at getting a good subroutine for "how far away is that object?" while providing you no benefit to solving the harder problem of "what will that object react to my coming nearer to it?"
Design layman here, switching between the two sites the top bar looks similar (it's just a solid line) except a different color and slightly different height. I don't see other similarities or assets coming from your site? Can you explain this request; I'm not sure two sites both using a blank horizontal rule across the top is something I would personally call out as similar.
I would rather argue that we make scientific discoveries to predict the future and minimize surprises. The discoveries themselves are often indeed surprising. But once we understand things (electricity, magnetism, gravitation) we can predict behaviour better (planets location in two weeks) so we are no longer surprised by how things turn out to be :)
What the hell is happening in Congo? There's no major cities around there like Johannesburg but seems to be a big ass blip on the map?
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It’s hard to enumerate the list as if it were some soviet collective document because one of the interesting parts of the wto protests were how decentralized they were. In that they were thoroughly modern.

But 2 issues that stand out as prescient are the environmental impact of an ascendant China and the changes to the US middle class globalization would render.
The author probably cares about either copy-left or the right to tinker. Some people believe it's important and others don't.

Basically any derivative product out of GPL3 code needs to either be open-source/copy-left, or if it uses the code as a library needs to let end users substitute that library for their own version.
It's not that typing is hard/impossible, it is that typing messages make certain operations in BEAM impossible (dynamic code upgrades).

From the fingers of Robert Virding itself: https://elixirforum.com/t/how-hard-would-it-be-to-have-a-str...
Great question. I previously worked in a field where we relied upon mobile connectivity in this region for data collection, most carrier's coverage maps are low-resolution marketing bullshit based on theoretical detail--particularly in that area. That's the blunt observation from firsthand experience, I can probably name off a half-dozen areas where there is no signal to be had at all for miles. How that doesn't make it onto a coverage map is beyond me. Even when I am back in the area these days, there are several spots along highways US-19, US-58, US-23, etc., where calls will drop every single time you travel through the spot. Decent-sized towns have capable signal, but you leave those areas and the population density just doesn't support a carrier's business. I just wish their coverage maps painted a realistic picture.

The geography does pose a problem there. It's my understanding hardware on a cellular tower travels in a vertical beam, in addition to the more commonly understood horizontal beam. Altitude placement of towers is a factor as well. Altitude variance in those jagged mountains and rolling hills make for awful propagation. Radio/signals aren't my trade though, there's definitely somebody on HN who knows the specifics.
I would like to know why some people get so extremely angry about something being in a museum that they don't think should be in a museum.
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Please let us know the good news if they arrive, preferable with Tell HN or something similar.

Good luck and best wishes! <3
I think that you are correct that in the long term it leads to chaos and unrest, but I think it also has a slow burn problem that ultimately leads to deep ennui, cynicism, and a feeling of powerlessness that can last many generations. This has the effect of further concentrating power in those who have rigged the system and leads to such an unbalance that maybe when the chaos comes, it won't lead to anything better.

Conversely I think in more volatile arenas, the power dynamics while large, are less so (logically this makes sense because a revolution that can win is closer in power to the system they are fighting). While this volatility may be worse overall in that society, it is less systematically oppressive than say a rigged democracy deeply meshed into a non-democratic economic system.

The more I think about it the more my nihilism takes hold and I find that very disheartening.
Yes, I'm familiar with Duchamp's work and still don't like it :)

Sometimes snobbery finds you even when you don't seek it. This can apply to the spectators of Duchamp's work even more than to Duchamp himself!
Same here - CentOS 8 + VNC, tried to setup myself for a couple of hours, then asked admin to help, ended up with Xrdp in 5 minutes.
My understanding is unless he's distributing it (not just serving it from a website) he doesnt need to release his changes. That's what the AGPL is for.
Guess what happens with the data in all those apps people download to attend big festivals (e.g. Coachella). User data is a big business.
>1) how stable is hamler? I’m eager to dive in but know I don’t have time to work through frequent language bugs if I’m going to do anything real with it.

Still a work in progress

>3) What are the key differences between Hamler And Haskell (sort of a continuation of the last question)?

Think of the differences between Haskell and Purescript, because while the syntax is Haskell-like, most of the infrastructure is based on PureScript
I haven't fully traced how it works, but Xrdp is built on top of a vnc backend (you can see the vnc folder in the github directory structure), but it manages all of the configuration and negotiations automatically.

If you do a `ps -ef | grep vnc` while you're connected via Xrdp you should find the underlying vnc sessions. Something like:

Xvnc :32 -auth .Xauthority -geometry 1920x1080 -depth 24 -rfbauth....

It's been a bit mixed for us. As a sysadmin for non-technical users who need some linux access, it's wonderful because it's so much easier for them to connect. The stability has left quite a bit to be desired though - I have to nuke quite a few sessions and have them start from scratch.
Whilst you can lose a trademark for not enforcing it, you cannot lose a copyright by not enforcing it (in the United States).
I checked the source and it does indeed mention https://wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/, but judging from the screenshot there, that theme is just really a blank theme with no style at all, and it was used to include a different stylesheet.

The real style is at https://coding.napolux.com/wp-content/themes/coding.napolux...., which looks like normalize.css followed by a Wordpress adaptation of my stylesheet.

The similarity is more than superficial, the footer headers match exactly.
I like this site to visualise that kind of data

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/particulates/surface/l...
I mean, i guess its a step but it misses the real opus of US policing in my opinion.

AI and facial recognition require real investigative skill because they are still high risk technologies compared to current policing tactics. As it stands, cops mostly arrest brown and black low income people on capricious charges because the revenue is predictable and the suspects rarely have access to meaningful council that wont immediately direct them to plea-bargain. the revenue from this policing is nontrivial in the city budget, and it puts warm bodies in profitable corporate jails that many deficit-run cities are fully dependent upon to service their debt.

AI and Facial recognition introduce the very real potential to arrest someone who not only isnt your suspect, but is powerful enough to fight back and make you look very bad. You cross over from comfy cop to officer who will need to be able to prove a crime based on evidence. for a lot of law enforcement that have become versed in their union bylaws, buying a product that can get them fired if they arent sharp gumshoes to solve real crime isnt an appealing idea anyway. And since we hire most cops from our boots-on-ground military troops, the argument could be made that most arent the sharpest sherlocks.

Another problem is police overloading. cops are already social workers, dog catchers, school truancy enforcers, and crisis management mental health workers. Theres not much a cop in the US does not do if you call them. the idea of now making them a cloud-based AI guru at some level is likely going to be met with some resistance. What does the FR do? and what additional duties will cops have to absorb once its online? Is every face at a busy festival going to have cops chasing lookalikes? how do you get help if facial recognition is broken?
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The problem is that without the political support of soccer moms, the libraries are not used by the majority of the population and they wither and die.
That required big centralized networks. The future is smaller commercial networks.

A friend is a detective who essentially looks for and forms relationships with people with security cameras, especially cameras that can be linked to a reference time source (like a red light camera)

The cost of things like LPR and soon facial recognition is so low (and going lower) that you’re going to have many federated networks tracking movements of cars and people.
What!? 2-3K? For .. what? Where does that money go?

I mean referees don't get paid. And there's nothing else to do really if it's a digital journal.
I always assumed the toll cameras were there to capture the license plate numbers of drivers that don't pay the toll / don't have the RFID toll sticker.

edit: I'm not suggesting that you're skipping out on the toll. They may be taking a photo at the same time as the attempt to scan the RFID sticker. And then sending a ticket to the scanned plate number if it fails to scan a RFID.
Absolutely agree, but what’s exciting about blockchain is that it makes the network accessible across country boundaries by default. Definitely countries can opt out by banning it, but the hope is that this interconnection becomes so valuable that banning it has too many negative consequences, just like with the internet.
As a long time DevOps engineer and now founder - my perspective on tests has really gone thru a rollercoaster. In the past life, I’d regularly be the guy rejecting deployments and asking for additional tests - barking at developers who ignored failures, lecturing on about the sanity saving features of a good integration test.

These days? Well the headlong rush to release features and fixes is a real thing. Ditching some tests in favor of manual verification is a good example of YC’s advice “do things that don’t scale”. I add tests when the existential fear notches up - but not a whole lot before that.

Like with almost all topics in software development - the longer I’m in the field - the less intense my opinions become. The right answer: “eh, tests would be nice here! Let’s get to that once the customer is happy!”
The exact opposite, they are the only ones you should never trust because of other powers. To everybody else because they lack the enforcement powers they would mostly just be annoying with it. With police powers combined with a surveilance apparatus it becomes a horrifyingly abusable justification and tracking engine along with a wonderful way to insert pretexts for arresting anybody they don't like. Previously the search process would get slapped down along the way either from warrants or being judged a waste of resources.

It is sort of a bleach and ammonia thing. One or the other is more or less fine with some potential for both legitimate use and abuse but together are a horribly toxic combination which is guaranteed to hurt and kill innocent people.
> I'm highly sceptical about his prospects...

I'm not entirely sure who you're referring to in your response, or if that was even directed at my response.

Could you elaborate on what exactly it is you're talking about?
Yes, I had a reaction: "this is artless garbage". Whether this reaction transforms the piece into art is up to the reader :)

I'm not saying you don't have a point, but where do you draw the line? Do you draw a line at all? I know I do.
I try to look for primary intent. If somebody is advocating awareness of something worthy of their passion I can empathize with that advocacy even during times I may disagree with the subject advocated. I find it harder to empathize with people who are stealing designer handbags and claiming it’s a form of protest. I just see self enrichment (theft) as the primary motive and then a lie as a qualifier. To me that results in a difference compared to the prior described advocacy group that I cannot shake.
WaveRNN (and even slimmer versions, like LPCNet) are great, and run for a tiny fraction of the compute of the original WaveNet. Pruning is also a good way to reduce model sizes.

I'm not sure what's up with the WaveGLOW (17.1M) example in the linked wavenode comparison... The base WaveGLOW sounds reasonable, though.
They're also using all female voices, which strikes me as dodgy; lower male voice pitch tracking is often harder to get right, and a bunch of comparisons without getting into harder cases or failure modes makes it seem like they're covering something up.

(I've run into a bunch of comparisons for papers in the past where they clearly just did a bad job of implementing the prior art. There should be a special circle of hell...)
This can be trained using only 5 Seconds of reference audio:
https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/speaker_adapt...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.04558.pdf

It's been mentioned a bit already, but thought it was worth calling out. This may be one of the lowest-overhead ways to start experimenting, at least in terms of data collection.
It’s roughly the same concept. Those people were hired for a reason, even if it wasn’t a fully rational one. Just as musicians are the quality of life improvers of society at large, so too are code janitors to an IT team.
That's... a good point. Still, it sounds weird to say that you're a citizen of Oklahoma or whatever. Resident is what most people would call it.
> No, this is a terrible response.

As an aside, this kind of hyperbole really gets under my skin. It wasn't a terrible response. That statement is already technically correct: GET is idempotent, and the definition of idempotency is that it is harmless to repeat.

Your gripe is that OP didn't mention that GET is not only idempotent but must also be "safe"; i.e. that it should not alter the resource. OP got it 50% correct.

Does that omission make his comment a "terrible response"? No -- just incomplete.
This is literally what happens all the time for all Internet users though wires and fiber on ground-based internet at similar or worse single-hop latencies.

The number of domains is irrelevant since most of those requests would be asynchronous. What matters is the number of hops that the traffic needs to take and the latency for each hop.

1.9ms times any reasonable number of hops would still produce a sub-100ms latency which is the FCC sites as their requirement, and would be a perfectly serviceable latency for nearly all Internet use (and is around what most users experience now).

It is unclear why the FCC would reference "the laws of physics" as a barrier for StarLink achieving this, as it is unclear how they would be causing any problems.
Sorry, that was supposed to be sarcastic. What I meant to say is that Sam has a huge network and is a phone call away from pitching any CEO in the valley. One of the biggest benefits of YC these days is the huge network of companies in your portfolio, which makes getting intros and pilots a lot easier, leading to "traction" and more VC dollars.
The original MacOS from 1984 (?) also had such a feature, IIRC: the segment loader.
I guess woodworkers fall into one of 2 groups: Those that are into it primarily because they enjoy the process and those that enjoy the results. I'm mostly interested in the results. I like the process, it's a hobby after all, but I want to take the shortest path to complete my project. I tried using a handsaw before I ever picked up a power tool and getting a square cut is way harder than it looks! When you try and fail to cut a joint with a handsaw over and over it can be pretty demotivating. Power tools gave me some quick success that motivated me to keep building. The only hand saw I have right now is a small flush trim saw.
Next time, have some courtesy for the author and the rest of us by requesting via personal exchange over email instead of hijacking the thread and distracting from the conversation.
I don't really understand what COVID would tell us about "bullshit jobs." It tells us that restaurants and bars and concerts, etc, aren't "necessary." Duh? Leisure activity has never been necessary, but it's still something we enjoy and value.

The existence of those leisure jobs and the venues they operates certainly adds value to my life.
> Oh please, Defund the Police drive will only result in hundreds of millions being funneled to politically connected groups whose end purpose will be to support politicians who continue its own funding.

If it only means that other politically connected groups that are territorial about funding get it instead of police departments, then...good? I mean, part of the accountability problem with law enforcement is the institutional power that comes from the amount that is centralized in the monolithic local law enforcement agencies.

(And “hundreds of millions” is probably right or in some cases low for a single large local department; e.g., LA's mayor who opposes the “defund” movement has backed a $150 million shift along the same lines for the LAPD, a large number of NY City Council members and candidates are calling for $1 billion to be redistributed from NYPDs annual budget.)

> The Democratic Party sponsored and suggested legislation throws even more money to police forces

If the defund (and even more clearly the dismantle/abolish) movement is successful, the local agencies with law enforcement functions applying for and receiving that federal funding may not (in the latter case will not) be the centralized paramilitary police forces that are targeted by defund/dismantle/abolish.

None of these movements are opposed to law enforcement functions, or to funding them.
There is a cost to apply throttling, you still have to receive those requests and filter/block them, plus incoming bandwidth.

The post mentions setting `og:ttl` and replying with HTTP 429 - Too Many Requests, and both being ignored.
Thanks, I’m flattered to see it be used as inspiration :)

I searched quickly but I didn’t find that repository. You might want to link it somewhere in your footer or from a comment in the html.
It doesn't appear to mention it in that article, but one aspect that gets brought up a lot with regard to remaking the police departments is replacing the union. In many cases, it's the local police union that's actively working to prevent investigation or prosecution of police misconduct and crimes.

Firing and re-hiring everyone, legally and contractually, lets you get rid of the existing union and work on building a new one that's actually focused on what a police officers' union should be focusing on: protecting good police officers from abuse and corruption from above, negotiating salaries and job conditions, etc., much like any other workers' union.
I tried GraphQL but my resolvers became extremely complicated. Am I missing something or is this just how it goes?
No, you got that wrong. The way you do it is:

"As previous research indicates, the sky is blue ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9])."

Of course you haven't actually looked at all those 9 sources, except maybe the abstract of the first three.
And purerl does not? It mentions it in its readme. And in practice, do you know what advantages it gives over the purerl's approach?
Gambling etc is not the dark-room argument, I've explicitly left out the dark-room.

Coincidentally, Friston's treatment [1] of the dark room is not convincing, but it nicely illustrates Friston's tendency to make ad-hoc adjustments, for example in [1] he talks about "average" surprise, but there are many ways you can average. Which one is it? How for example do the 302 neurons of C elegans average? Saying this is a difficult task is correct given our understanding of neurons in 2020, but the fact that Friston seems to think Free Energy accomodates all possibilities means it in "not even wrong" territory. In it's current shape, Free Energy does not make interesting predictions for neuroscience, and none of the progress in AI/ML has come from the Free Energy millieu either.

If "surprise is used in a very technical statistical sense" means something concrete, precise, for example minimising KL-divergence of states, the question becomes: show me that this is what the brain does.
Or build an AI that does something that is competitive with other forms of contemporary AI.

[1] K. Friston et al, Free-Energy Minimization and the Dark-Room Problem https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3347222/
I just had an idea: if you control your own name server I believe you could use a BIND view to send all their own traffic to themselves based on the source address.

By the way, if someone discovers how to trigger this issue it would be easy to use it as a DOS pseudo-botnet.
>some of it can't be that important

Why don't we go into your house and just start demolishing shit. Everything can't be that important, right?
It's Gran Turismo! Graaaaan Turismoooo!

Can't wait for the Sony marketing hot takes, like "PS5 will allow you to live in the matrix!" Or "The game characters on PS5 are like real living, breathing people with their own lives and backstories. When you play a PS5 game it's like interacting with another living person."