skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not contribute to wikipedia because I dislike the politics there but I often browse it and see content in technical articles that helped me in the past magically disappearing, or wiki articles getting deleted along with their history because the moderators were too clueless about a certain topic.
Pentagon to remove Confederate names from military assets within 3 years
Thanks! Must have missed that.
This....doesn't seem crazy to me? Somebody might have known it in the 1800s, but any given modern reader may not.

You could cite the original source, but it might be inaccessible (and possibly not very complete). A modern article could be easier for the reader, especially if it's a review. Sometimes you might just want a few examples of a phenomenon too, so the choice doesn't matter much.
Ambient air temperature is not the same as what a dark surface exposed directly to the sun will be at. The solar panels will be much hotter than the ambient air temperature if they're in direct sunlight.
I trust my bank and the legal framework more than wallet software and a loose band of SWEs running a blockchain or DLT.

If funds are wired to the wrong person in your jurisdiction, you can sue to recover it if the sending and receiving institutions can't claw it back. With crypto, you're SOL. Technology doesn't fix trust and legal issues, and a judge is going to laugh an immutable ledger out of a courtroom (or hold you in contempt).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI [HBR: Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens)]
Which generator works the best, qualitatively? I come from a vision/ML background but haven't played with speech at all, so it's completely new to me, and wondering what the state of the art is.

I've been wanting to create a TTS of myself so I can take phone calls using headphones and type back what I want to say so that I don't have to yell private information out loud in public locations. Would be nice if during non-COVID times I could sit in a train seat and take phone calls completely silently.
This doesn't seem drastically different from your bank working with you to get back money you wired to the wrong account.
> GraphQL as a query language is simply better than REST in most cases imo. REST has too much client side state, which not only has the potential to make things harder for clients to consume, but also has all the inconsistent states to handle where your consumer gets part way through a multiple-REST method workflow, and then bails.

How much client state you maintain seems to me to be orthogonal to GraphQL/REST.

Take your example or a multiple-REST workflow. I presume your point was that the workflow could be implemented by a single GraphQL query/mutation/whatever - but just the same, you can put as much code and logic as you like behind a REST call?
Wouldn't it be $5k * number of images scraped? Illinois has 12.7 million residents. If only 6 million images were scraped, that would be $30B.
I'm referring to Detroit circa 1967
a Coca-Cola operative infiltrated in the factory took care of it
The future of Crypto's are in free transactions, like IOTA and brothers.
I'll continue to take the assumption that asking a (prospective) student to conduct an exercise involving a thought experiment implies support of the premises of the exercise on the part of those asking it, an expectation that the student supports them, or an attempt to shape the student to support them, as a sign of ignorance within at least the confines of what those sorts of questions are used and useful for.

That the position the student is asked to assume is a bit uncomfortable is very likely part of the point. Seeing what they make of it—the tone, the message, what they choose to add or leave out, how and whether they fill in the gaps in the prompt WRT the events, circumstances, the state of mind of the prime minister, the mood of the people, and so on, which are numerous, how and whether they balance all this with the particular limitations and goals of the message itself, or hell, whether they reject the prompt and walk out in a huff (bad) or do something else by ignoring all or part of the prompt and its explicit and implied constraints (potentially very good if done just right)—can all be useful, and in ways "craft a message about how awful this was and why it should never happen again" wouldn't be.
Where would this test happen? There's no official interface. Sure, it can be (and probably is) implemented in different wallets but if you're interacting with the blockchain directly no-one can prevent you from doing stupid things like this.
If anyone read, it was reversed at 50% the cost.
What do you need to look for if you want a free CRM?
Microsoft won’t sell police its facial-recognition technology
Often it's not reversible in practice, if the destination bank/jurisdiction is not cooperative.

This is why you hear people losing their life savings to scammers in Nigeria, instead of just successfully suing them to get it back.
Bloom is a standard effect in CGI and game dev to simulate the diffusion effect of really bright light sources that can be witnessed in real-world photography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_(shader_effect)
Internet Archive ends “emergency library” early to appease publishers
> I can’t help but think a car would have been a better delivery mechanism but then Google wouldn’t get much press from it.

i can see a pretty obvious way that could get even more press for Google’s corporate parent, since it would be an Alphabet firm doing it directly and not merely an outside but Google-supported firm.

> Doing “good things” just for better optics really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Dissing people for doing good things just because you've ascribed to them optics as their motive leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
why not? Miners are looking for transactions to verify. If you have the money, and if you craft your transaction so that miners put you first in the queue, you will be quarantined to be in the verified chain.
This does happen (manual contact tracing) — at least it did when I had COVID-19 in March.
Another logical conclusion is “I will minimize my contribution to a system that actively causes substantial, unnecessary harm to other humans.”
Turn the bass up a bit

It's because reproduced audio doesn't have the bass the same as you hearing it conducted through your jawbone (though of course this will sound too bassy to everyone else!)
I honestly think that there are people in the US who feel distraught enough to do so, but they know that it wouldn't do any good for anyone else -- they would be ignored, or labeled as "crazy". No doubt life in the US is still much better than many other places, but we have to remember that protest itself has been systematically marginalized and penalized as a form of expression, and adjust our evaluation of the state of the US accordingly.
However, if you say "_New_ Library of Alexandria" it would be pretty much in the ballpark.

http://www.bibalex.org/en/project/details?documentid=283

Mostly because the (New) Library of Alexandria hosts a copy of the Internet Archive.
I suspect this is the same incident as discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23481936
It wasn't reversed. The beneficiary just agreed to give half of it back.
I hope there are even more of them now. It would be pretty cool to read about a contingency plan for an insurgency against a Klingon or Cylon occupation of the earth. That would be an interesting scenario.

Think about it, would it be better for the US military (not to mention the world) to spend it's money on training simulations to improve officer quality, or actual drones and bombs being used in actual wars? Scenario 1, IMHO, is much better for humanity.
Your LinkedIn profile is public, and your contacts might notice if you padded it conspicuously. Even more important, it’s _one_ thing, whereas a targeted résumé is what the target wants to hear.

When reviewing résumés for a software quality assurance position in a trendy sector, I saw numerous résumés from people with no apparent desire to do software quality assurance, but plenty of desire to move into the trendy sector. One was from a senior manager, who had sometimes supervised departments that included lots of stuff, including QA. His targeted résumé differed from his public profile basically by appending “& QA” in several places. After that, I largely ignored targeted résumés.
If you don't personally have the ability to veto an expense you disagree with then your "voting power" is essentially nil. You are under no obligation to buy a refrigerator, no matter what anyone else thinks. You are forced to pay taxes, even when they are spent on things that are directly harmful to you, never mind things you merely have no interest in purchasing.
If you've already mined the next block, then you know what the next block will be.
love Gimp. top-notch OSS project, and has been for 20 years. that is all.
The difference between HN and any other social platform can be summarized in one word - dang.
OpenAI seems like a completely disingenuous organization. They have some of the best talent in Machine Learning, but the leadership seems completely clueless.

1) (on cluelessness) If Sama/GDB were as smart as they claim to be, would they not have realized it is impossible to run a non profit research lab which is effectively trying "to compete" with DeepMind.

2) (on disingenuity) The original openAI charter made OpenAI an organization that was trying to save the world from nefarious actors and uses of AI. Who were such users? To me it seemed like, entities with vastly superior compute resources who were using the latest AI technologies for presumably profit oriented goals. There are few organizations in the world like that, namely FAANG, and their international counterparts. Originally OpenAI sounded incredibly appealing to me, and a lot of us here. But if their leadership had more forethought, they would perhaps not have made this promise. But given the press, and the money they accrued, it has now become impossible to go back on this charter. So the only way to get themselves out of the whole they dug into was by making it into a for profit research lab. And by commercializing perhaps a more superior version of the tools Microsoft, Google and the other large AI organizations are commercializing, is OpenAI any different from them?

How do we know OpenAI will not be the bad actor that is going to abuse AI given their self interest?

All we have is their charter to go by. But given how they are constantly "re-inventing" their organizational structure, what grounds do we have to trust them?

Do we perhaps need a new Open OpenAI? One that we can actually trust? One that is actually transparent with their research process? One that actually releases their code, and papers and has no interest in commercializing that? Oh, that's right, we already have that -- research labs at AI focused schools like MIT, Stanford, BAIR and CMU.

I am quite wary of this organization, and I would encourage other HN readers to think more careful about what they are doing here.
> "4% of their revenue" sounds like a "cost of doing business" fee.

Really? Are you sure you're not confusing it with profits?

Isn't 10% of revenue considered a decent profit margin? If a fine eats up half of that, it sounds pretty major (and reasonable) to me!
I think that there is a distinction that is interesting to make here: human made systems vs natural systems. Human made systems have a source of systemic debt that natural systems cannot have, due to human errors. In the natural systems, "function" comes after "form" (we don't believe in natural teleology) whereas in human technology "function" comes before "form", and thus the "form" may be faulty.

I have always understood technical debt as the systemic debt derived from human error, but it is nice to see how it is indistinguishable from the systemic debt "naturally" acquired when the environment changes (and I think of civilizations as natural rather than human made systems).
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't like just spamming quotes but this seems much more immediate than it used to be with the internet.
In theory could this be done by DoSing people while mining?
> Coindesk reported at the time that the South Korean blockchain firm behind the error admitted to the mistake, contacted the mining pool that had benefitted, and worked out a deal where the firm got half of the accidentally sent ETH returned. Notably, that partial happy ending 100 percent relied on the goodwill of the mining pool, as ETH transactions are non-reversible by design.

If cryptocurrency use increases it will eventually approach how real currency is used with defacto Know Your Customer and reversibility.
From the article:

"The NIH established a framework for determining how the research would go forward: scientists have to get approval from a panel of experts, who would decide whether the risks were justified.

The reviews were indeed conducted—but in secret, for which the NIH has drawn criticism."

From what you are saying, it sounds like the author is making a big deal out of standard procedure.
I had basically this exact experience with GIMP, truly life-changing software for me.
In Bitcoin it would be paid to the miner of the individual block where the transaction appears; I assume the same is true for Ethereum. (The miner, as part of the mining process, specifies an address where the network mining reward as well as the fees in the block are deemed to be sent.)

Edit: yes, Ethereum uses the same concept here and there is a field in the block header for the miner's address, which is how the miner gets paid for mining.

Edit 2: In this case a parsed version of the Ethereum block in question, linked to from the article, is at https://etherscan.io/block/10237208 and shows that the miner was "Spark Pool" (a mining consortium based in China, https://www.sparkpool.com/en/).

Mining pools aren't required to identify themselves, but identifying themselves may create goodwill, for example by slightly assuaging fears that one entity secretly controls mining on an entire chain, and might help pools to market themselves to prospective members or investors.
If you don’t comprehend that the protests were a result of the historically unprecedented economic collapse, you don’t have a politically left bone in your body.
The great thing about these community driven efforts is that it is indeed feasible to reproduce these super expensive efforts. I'm a bystander now, as new maintainers have taken over, and they are doing a fantastic job pushing things forward.

This is also how Stockfish got to be the #1 engine. By being open source, and having the testing framework (https://tests.stockfishchess.org) use donated computer time from volunteers, it was able to make fast, continuous progress. It flipped what was previously a disadvantage (if you are open source, everyone can copy your ideas), into an advantage - as you can't easily set up a fishtest like system with an engine that isn't already developed in public.
How would you know which miner would get the fee?
It is. For instance, bitcoin core will refuse to broadcast transactions with unreasonably high fees.

https://bitcoin-rpc.github.io/en/doc/0.16.0/rpc/rawtransacti...
People have been making the point long before Chomsky. Education for the masses is about training people to fit into domination based hierarchies[1]. In the past such systems produced better outcomes.

As info explodes and people learn there are other structures besides Hierarchies that can produce outcomes (such as Networks) the Hierarchies start teetering. And training for obedience becomes less important.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7TONauJGfc
I don't mean to be rude, but I think you are greatly exaggerating the technical and cost considerations behind this effort.
You should see the carriages on the glasgow subway... They're tiny!
Disintegration - The Cure
> a world where absolute perfect privacy is the 24/7 default (public and private), is a world devoid of meaningful interactions between humans and also a world where criminals flourish.

That's an extremely naive take on the question. Technology knows no bound by itself, left uncheck it'll "progress" forever. If we continue like that, and granted it is technically possible, we'll end up in a Minority report style policing. If people don't rise against this bullshit there will be no coming back.

AFAIk we had perfectly fine social interactions without facial recognition cameras at every corner or every streets, and giving up your privacy to fight "crime" is a ridiculous thing to do, it's the "think of the children" level of argumentation.

Also, ask yourself who benefits from these things. They don't do that to make you safe or reduce crime, especially in the US, when you look at the history of these kind of laws you always find out that it was profiting private companies all along.
I wouldn't be surprised if all of these are pushed by something like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...

https://ccrjustice.org/home/blog/2020/05/08/alec-s-corporate...

https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/What_is_ALEC%3F
From the article:

> In February of 2019, someone accidentally paid 2,100 ETH in fees to move .1 ETH. Coindesk reported at the time that the South Korean blockchain firm behind the error admitted to the mistake, contacted the mining pool that had benefitted, and worked out a deal where the firm got half of the accidentally sent ETH returned.

Who wouldn't want to live in a cryptocurrency powered world economy, right? No mistakes allowed, no insurances, so many nice guys like these. What could go wrong?
Even a SawStop won't prevent kickback, which is the most common type of table saw injury. However, it will prevent you from losing fingers, which was enough to convince me to buy one.
Agreed. Doctors and scientists should be disseminating knowledge about the spread of coronavirus. Instead they're offering policy endorsements about political activity.

The whole "racism is about public health" line is blatantly dogmatic political activity and I shudder to think of what this would look like on the right.
I thought so! What do you use it for?
If you are in a city, there are probably several rent-a-shops in your area that function much like co-working spaces - basically a wood-focused makerspace. A friend of mine used one:

- you go in and pay for some hands on time with the shop master to learn the rules and prove you can use the tools safely.

- Once you're vetted, you can rent non-master shop-time at a much lower hourly rate.

- If you encounter a problem, can rent an hour of master time to get advice and help.

- They had spaces where you could leave items being glued, etc. Store your in-progress work with a sign that has your contact info - they'll reach out if you leave it there too long.

I helped my friend with the glue up as he built a pair of end tables. Was a pretty cool space.

Discoverability is a bit tough, but seems it could be ideal for your use case.
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xca8f8c315c8b6c48cee0675677b786d1ba...
>is there some way to determine in advance _which_ miner(s) receive the fee?

yeah, don't broadcast the transaction publicly. Only give it to the miner you're colluding with.
See announcement: https://blog.archive.org/2020/06/10/temporary-national-emerg...
I gave you the link that was closest at hand. There are many. For text, try https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/melissasegura/police-un...

For video, and I highly recommend this, try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4cea5oObY

But if you don't like BuzzFeed or John Oliver, it's trivial to find articles about the harms caused by police unions from sources across the political spectrum.

In the abstract, conceptually, unions aren't a problem. I love unions! But police unions have such a long and consistent pattern of making police worse that I'm not sure any police union can maintain good things for more than a year or two.

I would be pro-police-union if police unions worked like all other unions, fighting for better pay and conditions for their members. That's just not how police unions work in the USA.

P.S. As you say, the article mentions a new police union that so far seems to be okay. It should be noted that union was formed after completely dissolving the existing police force of Camden, NJ, and all of its contracts, including the contract with the existing police union. Time will tell whether the new union starts to be a problem or not, but certainly starting under the threat of "act up and we will dissolve the entire police force again" is a good start.
Venezuela on Brink of Famine with Fuel Too Scarce to Sow Crops
HN is an ad. You are part of that ad model.

It doesn't show you ads because it is not trying to sell you anything. You could make a point that the hiring posts for ycombinator grads are ads.
Black Light Experiment Shows How Quickly Covid-19 Can Spread – NowThis
Hi, one of the founders here: The service is designed to not require specific data models, because that does not scale, nor does it keep up with changes in application behavior.
Instead, the ML engine learns data structures, normal behavior of logs and metrics, and normal correlations between them for each app deployment on the fly. Then when things break it does a very good job of generating incidents. We make user feedback easy, so if we are "over-eager" in detecting a certain kind of incident, your response trains the ML quickly.
We do improve the ML engine with experience of course (and have added some user controls), but now have dozens of applications using us, and cumulatively have over a thousand successfully detected incidents under our belts.
Fascinating. It also makes it a les attractive investment for the stock market, no?
i agree it's kind of confused. But from a compiler dev perspective (which i think is closer to OP's perspective), driver means a piece of software that put together components / tools and bootstrap the processing pipeline
the OP did not (explicitly) check, but you can check if the IP falls into a range allocated to Facebook e.g. https://ipinfo.io/AS32934
Natural language search is approximately $100B business. This might be first AI application that changes the search landscape from 1990s and finally puts an end to the question “where is money in AI?”.
Most home routers use serial NOR flash, not NAND flash. Lower capacity, but easier to interface with. No wear leveling is supported or required, as the expected write count is much lower than the endurance of the device.
If you publish your transaction publicly then any miner can get the fees from that transaction. If you send your transaction only to your preferred miner, then only your preferred miner can get the fees from that transaction.

None of the standard software used for mining enables adding additional possible transactions manually AFAIK. It theoretically could be done though.

The only thing you need is to be capable of actually mining a block, which costs about 13k USD I've heard.
I have not changed my pronunciation or any of my own opinions based on this video; I only listed lessons to be learned from watching it in its entirety.
Yes, I agree. My response was more of a response to "they could have been the USA Miele", which I assume was based on the thought that GE Appliances is an American company.
> - more expressive graph language with classes or templates

There are some who view the dot language as an "assembler" language, good as the output for graph generators. It would be desirable to have more expressive costructs, but barring that, a lot can be achieved by using gvpr, m4 or various scripting languages.