skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi!

Thank you for taking the time to comment! You make good points!

Our website are pretty clever, enough to cost $5 - we think.

Think of us as Linktree but we DON'T keep any information about you. We just host this app that caches Spreadsheet data and adds form entries to it too.

Also, these websites are NOT static. If you update the spreadsheet, they update.
What led me to killing my LinkedIn account back then was the near constant email notification spamming of nothing. It just kept asking me whether I worked with some stranger over and over again. Notifications of no importance and no relevance to me is the same reason why I stopped using Facebook. Same company, but Instagram was way better for that reason alone.
See https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/covid-19/. At the bottom:

"The figures in these manuscripts can be reproduced using annotated (MATLAB/Octave) code that is available as part of the free and open source academic software SPM. The routines are called by a demonstration script that can be invoked by typing DEM_COVID or DEM_COVID_X at the MATLAB prompt. At the time of writing, these routines are available in the development version of the next SPM release."

In my view Friston's ideas are hardly vague. Hard to understand sometimes, yes, but when I have put in the effort to understand them I have always been rewarded.
Thanks for sharing. I’d like to hear more about the website described here, it sounds very interesting.
https://dathudeptrai.github.io/TensorflowTTS/ is the state of the art and feels natural enough
The coronavirus pandemic isn't ending – it's surging
AC on the cars is probably never going to happen, but they are thinking about dumping the heat out of the clay.

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2010/07/air-condit...
Valve's press release: https://steamcommunity.com/games/250820/announcements
This isn't distorting the discussion at all. From the point of view of the ACLU, new technology should only be adopted by policing if it can be proven to not perpetuate or exacerbate existing problems of bias, which IMO is a totally reasonable position. We don't accept the "move fast, break things" ethos in fields like aviation, for example, and if we only listened to technologists, society would be too cavalier about collateral damage affecting innocent people. One could argue that society is already too cavalier about this.
Self-hosting email in 2020: Joe Nobody vs. World
Containerize Your Go Developer Environment – Part 1
(scala dev here)

Scala has a history of embedded domain specific languages that are difficult to understand. (Rather like Perl now that I think about it.) This is not universal in scala EDSLs but definitely exists. So it's a fair concern in general. IMO Chisel is a nice EDSL so, in this context, the concern is unwarranted.
Anyone can join the network and start a new institution. Good luck starting a bank
I disagree that this is cargo culture. I'm not arguing for people to follow the latest hype, or do what everyone else does, in the hopes of winning.

I'm saying that if you have the choice between a handful of projects that solve more or less the same problem that you actually have, just going with the most popular one is probably going to be the best choice, because having all these other people in the same boat is valuable.

I agree with limiting dependencies and points of failure, but that's orthogonal.
I really wish that people would see there are possibilities beyond that dated system.

Feel like we're doomed to the ideas of the Photoshop team from 20 years ago.
Ask HN: Risk of share ownership vs. money in the bank
Could it be that most people are aware of the risks of having their money in the bank, but nobody thinks about the risk of owning shares?

If the bank or broker loses their data, refuses access, goes bankrupt etc. who does one go to to prove ownership of unnamed shares? Are investors at the mercy of the bank if something goes wrong?
Yes, this also calls for regulations as to what the collecting companies can or can't do. GDPR was a first step into this direction.
Complete BS, of course you can use your wallet twice, but not the receiving seed, that's why you have to generate for each transaction a new seed.

EDIT: In other words every seed could just be used for one transaction...but that has nothing todo with your wallet-seed

EDIT2: And its not a elliptic-curve but a direct acyclic graph

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph
> If you chuck everything into single struct and pass by pointer, it has same problems as global scope.

Not true. In fact, this refactor is one of the best things you can do to improve an old shitty embedded C codebase. Among other benefits, it allows you to have multiple instances (an arbitrary and easily-adjusted number, in fact) of a system sharing the same memory, reduces the complexity of linker-related BS, and simplifies testing. It's vastly better than relying on horrendous C cross-module scoping rules for sharing.
Buzz around DeepMind is dissipating as it transitions from games to science
Wouldn't that technically be a fork?

The other miners are surely free not to accept blocks with double spends, no?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWzA3ZlYEOLr1JkKH0ZMyg

Matt is from the UK. His vid on applying OSMO finish was a lifesaver for me.
If anyone actually walked through CHAZ they would realize how ridiculous and facile this comparison is. This is a facebook worthy boomer comment. Again and again I am reminded that techies aren't really that smart.
You're exactly right... In fact there is a girl on Twitter with a very large following (>800k) who spends all her time hunting down people on social media who have ever in their lives said anything that could be construed as "seriously questionable" (whose definition changes according to the times).

She's gotten incoming freshman kicked out of the colleges they were accepted to. Fired from their jobs. Businesses closed. Dozens and possibly hundreds of them. She's literally dedicated herself to destroying lives.

This is precisely why that although the 1st Amendment only specifically mentions government limits on laws regarding free speech, that free speech MUST ALSO be a cultural value that is protected and defended FIRST and the content of the speech judged SECOND.

People love to say "you are free to speak but we never said there's no consequences!!" as though that's some sort of ace in the hole. Well, sorry folks, but it isn't free speech if you are able to ensure I can never make a living for the rest of my life. The law generously limits what is illegal speech, and certain kinds of hate speech are included.

"I may disagree with every word you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" MUST be a social value for "free speech" and especially the 1st Amendment to have any meaning at all.
> Seems like a benefit for site owners to me.

Maybe, but it’s definitely less control for the site owner.

Maybe she wants to do analytics on the previews (how far shared, which ip regions) or delete the content at a specific time. Etc.
There's a ton of nice-to-have professions that are not strictly necessary, like musicians and decorative fountain builders. That is a good thing! It's clearly possible to live in a giant grey barrack and eat nothing but soylent but it's not what 99% of the population would prefer. If anything, it would be good for society to make the percentage of not-essential-but-nice-to-have as high as possible.
SpaceX faces high bar at FCC in bid for rural-broadband funding
How async should have been
You're not an institution unless you have a banking or money transmittal license, crypto or not. The nation state still makes the laws, a DLT node doesn't change the law.

I entirely agree it's hard to start a bank, but your problem won't be solved through technology, only through policy and regulation updates.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/10/514577243/epis... (Planet Money: Blockchain Gang)

https://cointelegraph.com/news/charges-reduced-charlie-shrem... (Charges Reduced: Charlie Shrem Agrees to Plea Deal)

> Before getting locked up, Shrem had run the company BitInstant. BitInstant made buying Bitcoin as easy as purchasing a money order. By the time he was 22, Shrem had hired dozens of employees, found a brand new office in Manhattan, and was processing a million dollars a day.

> Shrem though ended up helping some of the wrong people trade dollars for Bitcoin: buyers and sellers of illegal drugs on the website Silk Road. As he was getting off a plane from Europe to New York, Shrem was arrested. He was convicted of aiding and abetting an unlicensed money transmitter, and sentenced to two years in federal prison.
Two apps (Android and iOS), backend, plus 24-hour penetration test, code review, load tests simulating tens of millions of users, setting up hotlines in three languages (German, English and Turkish), and short deadlines.

I would guess the backend was the expensive part.
Hi eganist,

The tasks the SW handles are (1) detecting when it looks like an incident should be raised, (2) gathering up all the evidence around that incident, and (3) notifying the user via Slack or other webhook. The purposes are to (a) detect unknown unknowns for which you won't have an alert rule built, and (b) reduce MTTR by having pulled together evidence of impact and root-cause into an incident report.

Re: human involvement: a human still needs to review and potentially act on the incident report. The idea is that we've (1) alerted on an incident and (b) given you a great summary / starting point.
You can provide feedback on the report to let the system know which sorts of incidents were good / ok / lame, and the system will refine future incidents based on this simple feedback mechanism.

Re data/data models: there are no app-specific/ stack-specific / user-specific rules built-in, and each user's dataset is learned/structured independently. As an example, suppose you are running postgres. We will learn that logstream structure from scratch as it comes in; there is no code that looks for the word "postgres" or "replication", for example, nor is there a built-in understanding of the timestamp formats supported by postgres.
The structuring is done de novo for each log stream, anomalies are detected in very generic ways, and the model that decides what rises to the level of an incident is abstract and works the same for any app, also without special rules.

This design is quite intentional: there won't be any pre-built rules or connectors for your application, for example, and autonomous incident detection only works if it can grok an arbitrary stack OOTB.

Here's a link to a blog that shows how the system works on a few sorts of incidents, although the UI is much prettier now with charts instead of just text in the incident report:

https://www.zebrium.com/blog/is-autonomous-monitoring-the-an...

I hope this has answered your questions!
ITT: Patronizing fools relying on really horrible reporting to characterize something they really know nothing about.
You can add up every quarter they had a profit, and ignore the fact that they had losses every other quarter and it’s still not equal to his $750 million pay package
The Prolog/Datalog comparison is fair, Datomic (the subject of the “Deconstructing the Database” talk linked at the end) is built around this idea of accumulating facts, and it uses a Datalog-like query language.

But you don’t need any special tools. A good old relational database will do, just don’t do updates or deletes. In my case I was using a simple SQLite database.

Event sourcing is also kind of the same idea.
There are better ways to launder money than to post egregious transactions on a public ledger for all the world to see.
Doesn't ignoring headers and taking someones site down fall afoul of the CFAA? Especially given how comments here are showing that this is a recurring issue? Depending on which side of the fence you're on, there could be standing to go after FB for this either for money, or for their lawyers to help set a precedent to limit CFAA further.
On the London Underground there is zero respect of personal space.
Orders are not sales. Sales have to be delivered.
Reminds me back when I went skiing for the first time with my gf at the time.

She had lots of experience skiing and I guess wanted to “show me the slopes”. In showing me how to do the pizza stop, I said “but all the pros do the side to side thing...” so I did that instead.

By the end of the day I was going down all the slopes with her (I still lost my skis a couple times), but she seemed a bit pissed off and I remember her saying “how can you do in one day what took me three months?!”.

She did not seem happy...
It's paper.
Forever? I've not read this anywhere yet.
Meh. Just buy off Bitcoin's developers and stall the development. This would cause fees to grow explosively and cause companies like Steam and Stripe to drop support, undermining the original purpose of Bitcoin (to pay for stuff). Much cheaper than entering the cutthroat mining business.

(Some would say this has already happened.)
You can already judge, discuss and comment on any paper you want - create a blog and do it.
They gave a shipping update to forum users/readers. I have also not received an update since ordering on 11th of May. Like the parent said, an e-mail would be nice, they have it.
Some math topics I like to read about / play with:

- Measure theory / lebesque/daniell integration / stochastic calculus -- super useful but very beautiful. I have a background in mathematical finance.

- Combinatorial topology -- Simplicial complexes, polytopes. A more finite/computational flavor of algebraic topology.

- Dynamical systems: Highly interdisciplinary. Brings together physics, fractals, calculus, and computer simulations.

- Multilinear Algebra -- tensors, grassman algebras.

- History of Mathematics -- love reading about the development of mathematics throughout the centuries.
App to share music reviews (Musicboard) down a day after launch
> Organizing it and providing the "quality stamp" is what I was referring to.

Lol that's also done by volunteers.
Makes sense. I think also until YouTube and podcasting became popular, most of the mics that the typical person would accidentally stumble on were probably bright rather than warm.
In the US they’ve been posting revenue YoY declines
Xanaflight: Three Pages
Sometimes you still are required to solve them as far as you can. The problems solved by systems like TLA+ or ACL2 can also be useful, and those are both free tools (ignoring engineer time). The absolute cost of solving a problem isn't the best measure for how "big" it is.

It's a good reminder though in reference to the GP that there's a richness in methods beyond what one might expect a programming language by itself to handle -- can you imagine someone proclaiming "I can't understand how people use languages without [input from my multi-million dollar] static analysis [tool]."?
There's some really good resources already listed, so I thought I'd add two broad concepts to consider.

1. There isn't a clear distinction between accessible and inaccessible. It's a spectrum - much like you can never truly make something completely "secure", but can only ever make it "_more_ secure". You can't just sprinkle accessibility on top at the end of a project and there's no single point at which you've gone from inaccessible to accessible. Your last line makes it sound as though you already have this in mind, but just highlighting it.

2. Things are accessible by default. Every thing you change potentially has ramifications. This starts with the obvious things like color contrast, typography, etc. but becomes very important as you start getting into behavior. Keyboard navigation is one key example which is vital for many folks with motor or visual impairments and often serves as a handy sniff test for "have I accidentally broken the thing that was automatically accessible by default?".

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[1] You could reach a point at which you've ensured you've met or exceeded every WCAG criteria for a given conformance level, but that's not quite identical to to the goal of "completing accessibility".
I am impressed it survived!
If you hand someone a million in cash. Then find out they gave you bad goods or an empty container, how do you get $$ back if they're long gone?

want safety here? you'd probably use escrow or something.

Not a bitcoin fan, more because of its fluctuating values, but this specific reasoning doesn't set itself apart from cash.
No. As long as you'd have more than 50% of hashrate you will win in the long run and you're free to reverse transactions and double spend as you choose.
If you click around enough you’ll see they benchmarked in 32-bit FP. Glad they have a mixed precision training option but I really think it’s a mistake in 2020 to do work related to efficient inference using 32-but FP.

The problem is that your conclusions aren’t independent of this choice. A different network might be far better in terms of accuracy/speed tradeoffs when evaluated at a lower precision. But there is no reason to use 32-but precision for inference, so this is just a big mistake.
And all the surface touching - armrests, holding on to poles and handles, then an eye rub, nail biting, or on the underground more likely a nose pick.
yeah, I'm just pointing out the Pentagon's creative writing prompt adds an unnecessary reason to something already quite prevalent, suggesting they don't even know it is prevalent.
The "fix" mentioned in the later replies to the tick, using an openssl conf file, is something I didn't know about - but will test!
this is one of those "people like different things" situations and a config option should be added to support both.
> On a slight tangent, given that everyone will be required to wear a mask doesn't the risk of spreading/catching the virus diminish thereby eliminating the need for the distance rule?

We have good evidence that 2 metre distancing works.

We strongly think that mask wearing is effective, but we fail to find benefits from mask wearing when we run RCTs.

We have a government who has been pushing a herd immunity strategy (even if they dropped that phrasing) and this kind of thing just makes that clear.
A bitcoin transaction is considered valid as long as it is in the longest uninterrupted chain of blocks. If the military could buy and run enough equipment to create blocks faster than all the rest of the miners around the world combined then they could mess with Bitcoin's fundamental consistency by making longer chains of blocks than the rest of the world. The only thing preventing this from already happening today is that it would cost an insane amount of money to be able to mine blocks faster than everyone else in the system combined
Great book, too bad it's got such an offensive title. The book could be used more widely without it.
You might look at resources for ALS patients.

Since ALS (aka Lou Gehrig's disease) is a degenerative motor neuron disease, people with ALS can pretty much count on eventually losing the ability to speak. So "voice banking" is apparently pretty common.
Why does MIT pay anyone for software?
Why does part-time employment increase in recessions? (2017)
I'm curious where you live because my kids and everyone around is effectively plays outdoors all day. Going on bike rides, walks, scootering, playing in the woods, these are all excellent choices right now. Perhaps you meant organized sport play?
> Oh, I see the value in ironmanning indefensible arguments.

The original premise does not call for any such thing, though. The position is uncomfortable. It's far from indefensible. One can even adopt a position well outside what most would consider "authoritarian" and not render it indefensible—and which position the student is able to adopt, or feels they must adopt, to defend it, may be instructive. What else they do with the prompt, which is pretty open, is also valuable signal. Express any regrets? Shift blame? Cite history? Take responsibility? Make promises? Resign? Why does the student seem to have chosen to do these things? Do they do them effectively? This on top of having some basic ability to understand and articulate[1], if not agree with, any of the many common or uncommon positions that allow that state violence can be morally justifiable to maintain order.

> You assume much.

Yes.

[1 EDIT] Understand and articulate and express to a broad and diverse audience which includes many of the very people who were upset in the first place, that is! Simply quoting their preferred political philosopher won't do. The prompt in fact probably asks so much of the student that there's almost no hope they'll do a great job, but then, that's not the point—how much of the subtlety of the task to they even notice, and so attempt to take on? How effective is the attempt? It's a damn good prompt, really.
I just want to contribute this simple fact that not only applies to disabled people like myself, but everyone: If you can, allow people customization. They know their needs best. They can spend resources scripting/coding customized functionality if the system allows it, while it will never make business sense for their needs to be engineered by the first party. Most especially, don’t block customizability intentionally. Apple does this, and it HURTS. I can’t change the simple hotkey of taking a screenshot on iOS. Because Apple engineers thought they know best, and they did not account for the simple case of someone with deformed hands like me, who will find their solution quite awkward.
This "Trustworthy computing" thing is 100% bogus if you cannot compile the code yourself.
Experts Predict Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Warfare
> However, these do not maintain the "archival quality" document storage that is needed for academic scientific literature. In day-to-day, all researchers use these to stay informed on recent results. But how to guarantee that nobody hacks in and figures out how to change a few bytes in one paper that is 10years old? How to guarantee that these documents are available 75 years from now?

I have never had a link to Arxiv or Biorxiv break, and I have never had difficulty finding a copy of a paper on them either, going back to Arxiv's founding in 1991. On the other hand, on a daily basis, I struggle to get a copy of a paper published often just years or decades old from these 'archival quality' publishers like Elsevier, and they break my links so frequently that I spend some time every day fixing broken links on y website (and for new links, I have simply stopped link them entirely & host any PDF I need so I don't have to deal with their bullshit in the future). I guess "archival-quality publisher" is used in much the same way as the phrase "academic-quality source code"...
There’s nothing to indicate that ML learning with only cameras is the best way to achieve FSD features though. And many Tesla autopilot mishaps indicate the opposite.
Interesting, it's enabled for me -- that's how I bought it -- without creating an account. Maybe this feature is perhaps region locked somehow? I'm in UK.

EDIT: it is indeed gated by some vague heuristics[1].

>Buyers don't always have the option to complete their purchases without using or creating a PayPal account. This option is presented based on several risk factors, including but not limited to the buyer's PayPal purchase history, PayPal cookies stored on the buyer's computer, the buyer's location, or a credit assessment.

[1] https://www.paypal.com/uk/smarthelp/article/how-do-i-accept-...
FYI Mac version 8 can be found here: http://dl.trimble.com/sketchup/gsu8/FM-3-0-16845-EN.dmg

Can you add it to your page? I found it via https://jayscustomcreations.com/sketchup/, which has a dropbox url that includes the magic string "FM-3-0-16845-EN.dmg". That's all I needed to make the Mac URL from your Windows URL.
Hate to say but this is probably a FB engineer running a test/experiment and not a production crawler taking robots.txt etc into account.
You should check out https://www.knowledgefutures.org, a non-profit founded by the MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab to build open authoring/publishing tools and a distributed knowledge platform.