skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
easy way to solve the problem: disconnect the TV From the internet... do you really need a smart TV? i got my samsung a few months back, and when setting it up, never connected it to the wifi or ethernet. I have an AppleTV, XBox One and NVidia Shield all plugged in and they are the smarts... The TV is JUST A SCREEN. It shouldnt be any more. It also means that 3 years down the road, Netflix changes something and your "Smart TV" looses access, your not "forced" to buy a new one... Apple change something and the AppleTV needs replacing? its $150 quid. Your TV is $1000+...
Wikipedia has sadly been in this state of subversion for years. Eventually you get a mental bullshit-filter, just like you easily train yourself to ignore ads online etc.
If you can understand french, I'd recommend the amazing Olivier Verdier (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvDpfkniGG6WkX5L7DwyGaA) and Samuel Mamias (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9fGq2-6FaftcegcIadLf6A).
I keep thinking that the Bittorrent protocol would be an ideal fit for this; specifically, it would need a way to have all peers agree on what chunks of a file they themselves host and share to ensure the most complete copies available. And it would need a system for keeping it updated.

I wouldn't mind hosting a NAS in my closet and some bandwidth + storage to donate to the IA.

I also think cloud providers - all of them - have the capacity to host backups of the IA; I'd prefer if companies like Amazon, Google would donate their storage and bandwidth capacity to the IA instead of just money.
Yes, I think that perspective is actually more relevant, even if the IA might have made a mistake.

But I see only victims in this conflict. Most authors today don't really eat with golden spoons and to have an organisation that helps them get their fair share of the work they put into the books is certainly necessary in the internet age.

On the other hand the internet archive is an extremely valuable service. I hope some form of agreement can be reached that doesn't end in even more dysfunctional laws or judgments around copyright or the end of business for any participant.
As the reddit comments show, this is not a novel technology and does not compare with e-inks power usage and persistence.
Lack of confidence in government and authority is my guess?
This might be interesting for this post as well:
https://fatiherikli.github.io/archetype/

This is doing to vice-versa, it allows you to create a text-based diagrams.
AWS doesn’t necessary sound like OSS, but to each his own ;)

It’s definitely great that such an architecture worked for you and also shows how hard it can be to run a full OSS stack these days.
I'd love to see some CPU/GPU/TPU donations to @chewxy's "agogo"[1] which is AlphaGo (AlphaZero) re-implemented in Go as a sort of proof of concept / demo of Gorgonia[2].

[1]: https://github.com/gorgonia/agogo

[2]: https://github.com/gorgonia/gorgonia
No, you are not considered a bigot for this by anybody who is worth listening to. There are probably a few extremists for whom this is the case – like any extremist, their views are best disregarded.

But that's part of the problem here, and why this is a damaging article. It uses this view from a handful of extremists – "you are a bigot unless you date women with penises" – a view that almost nobody sensible would reasonably agree with, and then holds it up as an example of why another, unrelated set of things need to be fought against. This is a pretty common approach for people to use when trying to discredit or attack something they dislike.

I will add that Magadalen Berns, for what it's worth, was an explicit, out-and-out anti-trans activist. To quote her directly writing to a trans woman:

"You are fucking blackface actors. You aren't women. You're men who get sexual kicks from being treated like women. fuck you and your dirty perversions. our oppression isn't a fetish you pathetic, sick, fuck"

It is dishonest of Rowling to phrase this interaction in a way that doesn't at least acknowledge why her actions would be controversial under the circumstances. And this is a pattern that's repeated throughout the article. Let's call it an "appeal to reasonableness" – what seems like a reasonable and constructive argument on the surface only appears so because a lot of the context has been ignored or misrepresented.
> I've seen an article on CNN the other day that says US kills twice as many people (per 1M arrests) than Australia.

Do you have the link?

I don't know how to find the number of arrests, but in Australia there were 4 people killed by law enforcement in 2016/17 and in the US there were 1,536 killed (2019). Australia has a population of 24M, the US 329M, (so 13 times the population). At the same per-population rate as Australia, the US would kill 52 people, and at double the per-population rate it would be 104.

It would seem astonishing that the arrest rates somehow converts to the US only killing twice as many people!
Chips for America Act
Data by the United Nations suggests Covid-19 is driving up hunger
Might I suggest taking a look at FastAPI?

It’s been a 10x+ improvement on Flask, in my experience.
Ask HN: What is your opinion on Web Monetization?
Web Monetization - https://webmonetization.org

Content websites such as Hackernoon, Dev.to are adopting Web Monetization to enable content creators to monetize their content.

Will Web Monetization destroy the likes of Google Adsense?
PCIe 6.0 Specification [pdf]
Ask HN: Best ideas for a customer discovery process?
Hi all, I am kicking off a new customer discovery program with a set of our clients (in the B2B space) and was hoping to lean on the experience of any Dev, design or product people. The plan at the moment is to conduct; 1:1 Interviews, Observations of current processes (via screen share), Concierge Testing and Story Mapping sessions. Would love to get your thoughts on any techniques/types of sessions that have worked really well for you lately, particularly now being remote?
Any insights or info would be hugely helpful. Hope everyone is keeping safe and well.
Half-Life Alyx Update – The Booze Shader [video]
Classic reddit link: https://old.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/h0fj3s/new_ereader_hi...
No longer the BDFL, unfortunately.
I'd say that's doing it right. There are typically more effective ways of documenting code - i.e. better abstractions, naming and tests. The problem is that they are more expensive than comments. Comments are cheap and often better than nothing.
Here's some more information from someone who actually documented their sources:

https://twitter.com/Carter_AndrewJ/status/127078794127576268...
Small point: you don’t technically have to wait until someone sues you. It is possible to seek a declaratory judgment (where a court issues a legal finding) without waiting to be sued. You do have to show that there is an actual controversy before a court will hear you, as you note.
Perhaps we need smart refactoring for our identifier names that remove redundant words (eg “all”) and replace long words with shorter synonyms (eg pending vs outstanding).

var pendingOrders = getPendingOrders()
Under Discussion: Uncovering Project Python
"Time" is not the only constraint, "effort" is as important. Woodworking features many health altering hazards, from the obvious cuts to dust poisoning, and what is rarely discussed: joints and back pain, due to repetitive movements, heavy lifting and bad posture.

Power tools are easier on the body, but also more dangerous, noisy and dusty.

My personal approach has been to learn how to do everything by hand, from felling frees to making doll house furnitures. What I enjoy doing, I do with hand tools, the rest I do with power tools.

It takes time to build muscles, posture and risk awareness.
Whoa that's awesome! Love hearing contemporary technology used to detect/diagnose/monitor the environment and our ecological impact. Boots on ground will always be important but the horizontal scaling you can get out of imaging I would imagine really helps prioritize where you turn your attention. Thanks for the info and best of luck!
> These platforms were built once by folks who believed in freedom of speech and opinions.

Let's not be silly here, these platforms were clearly built by folks seeking to generate profit, otherwise they would all be non profits. Any ideologies expressed by their founders or corporate marketing are only a byproduct of what is "in" culturally, because that is what makes more money.

> We are clearly leaving *63M+ people in USA when we make content moderation choices which are left-friendly

Only in America are these choices seen as "left-friendly." In the rest of the Western world, they are seen as "reasonable."

I actually do agree that Twitter moderation has a problem with conservative thinking. I think that they should drop the pretense that they exist to cater everyone and be more clear in their rules as to what type of speech will get you kicked out of the circle. We all know Twitter is an echo chamber; the least it could do is make you aware of it instead of leading you on into thinking all of your ideas will be accepted by the system.
If they had increased their lending by a finite amount, matching the number of copies in closed libraries they'd been in touch with, then I could sort of understand an increase in keen lending over their normal levels, as it would not be putting the publishers in a worse overall position. However, as it stands the unlimited lending seems naïve and ill thought through.
I feel like we're missing the popular vocabulary to describe some of these recurring problems.

The algorithms reflect and amplify biases in the data. They also go into feedback loops once they affect the reality being represented in data.

Imagine that an algorithm selects individuals at an airport for search. Contraband smugglers are caught. The dataset now includes them, evolving the bias. We have already seen this at play on social media, recommendation engines, fraud detection, etc.

The future is worrying. There are ratchets on technologies such as these. Unless there are extraordinary counter-reactions, they will be "affecting their own datasets" en masse very soon.
FYI: RadioDroid 2 from F-Droid does not support Chromecast. RadioDroid 2 from Google Playstore supports Chromecast..

https://github.com/segler-alex/RadioDroid/issues/155
> A sheet brass disk in front of the fan was acted upon by the air from the fan causing the fan to oscillate back and forth

Is this an accurate description? Here is such a fan in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm7DFuGaujg

It seems to work because the brass disk is blocking the air stream on one side, so the other side of the fan acts as a jet engine to rotate it, which is actually really clever.
It's a service and services need clear pricing.

Tipping isn't bad, because of it's infrequency. It's bad because it's unclear and hidden.

Consumer service business cannot pay their service employees more, than what consumers are willing to pay for the services. In most cases the business is just a venue for consumers to acquire services from individuals. In restaurants the individuals are waiter.
Isn't there a small time window during which your site is unaccessible due to DNS propagation time?
> This accomplishment is truly remarkable in that it shows that we can develop systems that teach themselves to do non-trivial tasks from a blank slate, and eventually become better than humans at doing the task.

"non-trivial" is a bit of a red herring here. Playing go is pretty trivial compared to something like walking or scratching your face. Winning go may be non-trivial compared to those in some ways but it is very trivial in comparison in other ways.
Your first counterpoint is really hair-splitting - fixed-term contracts continue to increase precisely so that people can be cut without being officially fired. It's a hole in workers' rights, meant for legitimate uses, that has sadly been exploited across the board in Europe. Thousands of workers now exist in this limbo where their contracts have to be renewed every few months for no other reason than to keep them pliable. Anybody familiar with the reality of progressive causes in Europe should know that, and Rowling likely does (she is very much left-of-centre). Forstater's was a firing in all but name, regardless of whether you agree that she should have been fired or not.
> What emergency plan?

Any. Depending on what the stakes are, some examples:

- apologize

- refund

- contact the appropriate secret service and ask them to exfiltrate devices etc etc

> This is a device in the hands of a hostile adversary. You pretty much have to assume that given enough determination an adversary WILL crack the device and read your code

You and I know this. I feel lucky to have had bosses that have a good idea about this, not everyone seems to be so lucky.
"I love wandering around my local wood yard and I've just come back with these lovely panels for making a jewellery box, and this great piece of yew I'm going to turn into a longbow."

Every sawmill/timber merchant/whatever near me basically sells fences and roof trusses.
Does it matter though ?

The job of the justice system, and the police, is to keep non criminal people safe, all of them, even if it means not being able to catch a few criminals here and there. It's obviously not the case in the US though, just looking at wrongly convicted people gives you a good idea of what the US system is about [0]. This kind of shit should never ever happen, it's the very basis of any serious justice system.

Also, this is exactly why countries like France have laws preventing police interventions between 9pm and 6am (it obviously has exceptions, but even then they need a special authorisation). You don't storm people houses in the middle of the night and start shooting when the confused people you just woke up start panicking... seems like common sense to me

As far as I can tell you're legally allowed to own a gun and use it to defend yourself against intruders, you can't use this as a valid argument in that case. The only shocking thing here are the police tactics, not the fact that this dude defended himself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_miscarriage_of_justice...
It's about time for Roboflow to pull this article. It seems highly unlikely that a 90 % smaller model would provide a similar accuracy, and the result seems to come from a small custom dataset only. Please make a real COCO comparison instead.

The YoloV5 repo itself shows performance comparable to YoloV3: https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5#pretrained-checkpoints

Another comparison suggests YoloV5 is slightly WORSE than YoloV4: https://github.com/WongKinYiu/CrossStagePartialNetworks/issu...
In America at least, this wing of extremists is getting too big, too loud, and too influential to simply be dismissed. Not that you should take to heart what they have to say, but you shouldn't pretend it's just an aberration.
My grandparents had a completely open fan from the 60ies (although with plastic blades). You could stuck your fingers into it and it would just stop - it hurt a little, but no damage.
> - General preference for non-ad supported business model.

I don't see how google meet is ad supported, but even if it was, there are paid options, so you are welcome to pay for it.
The quoted bit seems to take a very neutral stance on exactly how the brass disk is "acted upon". So it's probably correct no matter how things work just due to vagueness.
Imagine you had an HDD with every photo you'd ever taken, you have no backups, this is the only place these memories are stored.

A wealthy individual approaches you and asks if they can buy this HDD off you for a large amount of money. You don't have a lot of money, your ability to make money is restricted and your government is always reducing social safety-nets. This proposition looks like your best chance. The wealthy individual takes your HDD, holds it for a while and then physically destroys it in front of you without regard.

But it's fine... Right? It was only some plastic and metal... You can go to the store and buy a new larger HDD with all your new money.
I think the pandemic has brought into harsh relief how critical some of those quality of life features were, and advanced their urgency within Google. They're adding so many millions of users per day, and already had a strong initial base product, that building these additional zoom-competitive features is a no-brainer.

And Google Meet is able to bring to bear some of their absolutely amazing advances with ML for things like predictive sound for dropped packets and the new denoiser function they've launched, along with live captioning and some other just incredible features.

There are a few little things that bug me with Google Meet: their newly introduced grid view doesn't display yourself as one of the tiles, for some reason. I don't want to pay $25/mo/user for an enterprise account _just_ for the video recording feature, which I will have to do come September, if they don't extend the current offer to make that available to all GSuite tiers. And I wish it recorded the transcription. But overall, it's a pretty great product, and its tight integration with Google Calendar and Slack, along with its frankly fantastic meeting room hardware has made it our software of choice for some time now for conferencing.

Plus, it's a sunk cost for GSuite users. Aside from a licensing fee for the meeting rooms, I'm not paying an _additional_ per-user monthly fee, which for a small consultancy like mine, matters.
> nobody expects the police not to shoot back when fired upon

This is often part of the "rules of engagement" that military personnel are expected to follow; not only because they're expected not to shoot civilians, but also peacekeeping situations where firing on the wrong forces could cause WW3, as well as the very basic check that the target isn't wearing the same uniform as you and shooting in your direction by mistake.

It's not clear whether the police were firing at the gun-holder here and missed, or whether they were firing blindly through a door, wall, or into a dark area; that is also criminally irresponsible.
That's a great example, thank you! I love how fast Zola is, Lektor takes forever.
I know only a comparatively small number of people who own library cards. You cannot check out an ebook from the library without a library card. You cannot get a lovely card without physically entering the library. If you did not have a library card when the library closed, or you left it unused until it expired, then you cannot check out ebooks from the public library.

Last I checked, there was, I think, 3 public libraries in California that allowed you to get a library card without being present. One of them required verification in some other method (fax? I can't remember), the other two had a second level card that didn't give access to ebooks or other library resources.
I don't see that on this page. I see "police killed at least 104 unarmed black people in 2015", and "unarmed black people were killed at 5x the rate of unarmed whites in 2015".

So I think that makes around 125-130 unarmed people killed by police. [1] says that there were 1,134 people killed that year by police.

125/1134 = 11%

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-...
Playing go at that level is non-trivial compared to walking because (a) most humans can walk, but not even the best human go masters can play go at that level; (b) we had algorithms that allow bipedal robots to walk long before we had algorithms for playing go at that level.
I agree with you. I have yet to see evidence that once somebody is infected, they cannot get re-infected.

Not to mention, the vaccine needs to work on the correct strain AND be administered to what, 70% of the population?
they refrain from adopting kube because they claim they don't have anyone on the team that is able to pull that off - face palm
Where are the GraphQL lessons learned? The author hasn't even implemented a solution with it yet, but that hasn't stopped him from declaring it to the world. I don't find an announcement useful.

Maybe GraphQL adopters aren't sharing their experiences with it in production because they're realizing its faults? People are quick to announce successes and very reluctant to own, let alone share, costly mistakes. Also, people change jobs so often that those who influence a roll-out won't even be around long enough for the post-mortem. GraphQL publicity is consequently positively biased. If the HN community were to follow up with posters who announced their use of GraphQL the last two years, maybe we can find out how things are going?
3) they take away you.
But that's exactly the point, others do things more transparently and if you don't like them you're at least in a better position to make an informed decision. Plus there's a major difference between Microsoft and China. Take the current article for example.

You're willing to hand-waive all of the many, many proven, and intentionally hidden major issues with Zoom but you suddenly become worried that Skype works as advertised, poorly as that may be? Would you apply the same principle to your food and taking the one that lies on the label about dangerous ingredients? Or do principles change with accounts?
Interesting, could you provide some links to what to read from them?
Excel UI with Java flexibility: merging spreadsheet data in Keikai
> stimulus (https://stimulusjs.org/).

And here I thought Basecamp was still 100% rails. Interesting to see that they're also developing backend JS frameworks.
I'd like to see an AI play Monopoly (the board game) against CEOs of large companies.
Yeah, I read a brief news report on that.

Kind of baffled. I'm familiar with Toronto, and I don't have any likely explanations for that kind of thing there unless it was a suicide pact without a note (they were in their mid-70s), or a badly failed kidnapping attempt.

Sherman was the #12 richest Canadian, so pretty high on the totem pole. I used to see the former #1 billionaire owner of Hudson's Bay (founded 1670!), Ken Thomson, around the main store. He displayed part of his Group of Seven collection publicly on one floor (that group was funded by the Massey-Harris fortune.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Thomson,_2nd_Baron_Tho...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Seven_(artists)
I'd really love to know how big the marketing impact on IBM Watson from this was. Somehow they managed to put the idea that "Watson is the best available AI" so well in the heads of then general population that 50%+ of my non-tech friends somehow thought that Watson beat the Go pros when I was talking with them about the topic when it was in the news.
Now, consider that this is the cost of the final model reported in the paper. This doesn't account for all the iterations of trying out e.g. different model architectures, hyperparameter sweeps, etc. The true cost of the experimentation is likely at least an order of magnitude higher.
I think it would be helpful for discourse if you read the article in full.
This should come down to profit margins. If TVs are sold for production costs or at a loss, then all profits come from advertising.

If buyers go for sticker prices and $10 make or break a deal, then it doesn't matter if the product costs $1000. If somebody can offer a similar product for $990, people will buy that. With all the features and options, what else but price is relevant unless you have time to study the subject?
I recently got promoted to be the manager of a guy who has literally been my best friend since we were 10.

There will come a time when you will know something he can't know, such as layoffs are coming. Or maybe he deserves that promotion/raise but you can't give it to him because everyone knows you're friends and you open yourself to accusations of favoritism (or worse). If you really want to square this circle the only way to to get yourself moved to a different reporting line.