skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine how many people would want to play an MMO where the loot tables are determined by what return they give to a bunch of boomers who have probably never even heard of the game.

How is that any different than, say, these people looking for diamonds in Crater of Diamonds State Park? I'm linking to this specific guy because he describes it well: "It's a lottery ticket with exercise."

https://youtu.be/YX93NHWfyQw?t=650

Similarly, Facebook decides what content to show you based on what's profitable for investors. But for whatever problems Facebook has, it's still much more widely used than any competitors run by non-profits or whatever.
Coronaviruses were considered a high threat because there are at least two of them that are highly infectious in humans (they cause a large percentage of “common colds”), and they’re prevalent in species that are high risk of transferring to humans.
I agree! You can find aesthetics, design and UX all the way down to programming languages.

In fact a UI is a programming language, just a visual, and usually very constrained one (for better or worse).
But what is the point of static compilation if maintainers update dependencies? Either dependencies defined by author or maintainers. Dynamic libraries just help to automate roll out.

And users would find outdated versions (maybe unmaintained). Current system update dependencies automatically or allow collaboration on life support (patched application, dependencies, config). It would be good to have alternative like container or virtual machine with snapshot from the days long past. But it should be clear this is not safe.
It's like saying a car is fast. Sure, the car is fast. Is it also reliable, efficient, aesthetically pleasing, comfortable, or affordable? How does it handle? How does it do off-road? Can it fly? Can it operate underwater?

Real world fitness landscapes are complex and multidimensional.

My comment was a little snarky because while I like this site quite a bit for many reasons I do get a little fatigued by the prevalence of the IQ cult. The notion that there is a single metric on which brains can be sorted is sort of a sacred dogma around here, and one which to me is obviously quite wrong. All it takes is a casual glance at intelligence as it actually manifests in the only real world example of an intelligent system we have: biology. It's clearly a multidimensional quality that can be optimized for a large range of things just like anything else.

If intelligence is multidimensional in all other living things, by what rationale would we conclude that human intelligence is one-dimensional?

... or ...

If virtually every engineered or evolved capability is subject to multi-dimensional optimization, then why not also intelligence?
I've thought about this, too. I don't know if you could sustain a company on this idea. The profit margins on consumer tech are miniscule, and if you do it well, you will have very few repeat customers. But I think it could do well as a one-off Kickstarter thing, if you have the knowledge & reputation to back up your claims, or in small, infrequent batches. Buy a bunch of flat panel displays, slap 10 HDMI ports on the back; an optical audio out; and TV tuner; write up some extremely fast and barebones software to switch inputs. Market it to gamers and tech nerds like us. Hell, open-source the software and make it easily upgradable. I dunno. I think it could work.
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> ... people also often can't articulate what's wrong.

Then you’re not asking the right questions to get useful answers. People often can’t articulate anything well unless they’ve had the practice of doing so. I regularly interact in professional and private settings with people who regularly cannot articulate their thoughts, feelings, or ideas on things. I get them to do so by asking the right questions, digging deeper into what responses they give, and putting it all together.

The questions you ask determine the understanding and clarity you receive.
Which is ironic given the nature of U4 and it's moral system. That game REALLY floored me the summer I spent playing it (literally the entire summer, it was before I was old enough to get a job).

> RPGs end up being about numbers.

For me, this was the final, sad conclusion to computer-based RPGs after nearly 40 years playing them.

In tabletop D&D, a +1 sword is a rarity, and +2 is super special; magic users focused more on creativity because the cost to the caster for Lvl9 spells (if you ever got there, which was never in real games) was prohibitive to use them on a regular basis (memorization, physical aging). In fact, the level tables in AD&D stopped around 10 or 12 I think because that much XP simply didn't happen. Computer RPGs turned it all into numbers games, as you can see in WoW where the top tier armor today has stats like +30,000 attribute, when in the first release, top T3 geat from C'thon was like, +50 key attribute per piece.

Am I ranting? I'm ranting.
I'd like to hear more about this.

My understanding is that these things are not Turing complete, and don't resemble Von Neumann machines (or any other architecture we use for computers). But the processes themselves can be understood in terms of computation and/or communication.

Is that wrong? If so, why/how?

Also, could you point out an example or two of the nuances that tend to get people in trouble?
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The comments here are weirdly anti-science. There've been plenty of discussions about coronaviruses being a potential threat over the years. Given the proximity of bats to major population centres in China, I don't see how anybody could say "Well, it's so unlikely that research is unnecessary". All I see here is modern economic systems and scientific institutions failing because there isn't an immediate benefit, yet again, despite there being clear signs of a threat.
>it's not quite so simple to identify toxic content, as one person's trash is another's treasure.

The utility in the word "toxic" is it's vagueness and ambiguity. You can get so many people against toxicity because everyone can find someone they consider toxic.

Any adjective with more precision than "toxic" would start subdividing the category in a way that no longer hides all the mutual exclusive definitions of toxicity.
GDPR is still in force until the end of the transition period (I think Dec 31). What will change after then, who knows? I don't think I've seen anything coherent on any front from the government at this point.
This is very, very true. I have worked on some mega enterprise CMS projects with huge marketing and content teams. A lot of heavyweight products try to be your all-in-one solution for publishing, marketing, analytics, whatever. It makes for a great sales demo, but the reality is that only a handful of people will put their hands on the console and all the decision-makers are working over email or just listening to their teams. If you know you'll only really have a handful of content operators, it's way cheaper to train them to edit JSON/YAML/MD then it is to integrate an enterprise software product.
Ask HN: How do you name a project/product?
How do you go about finding a name for your side project or your product?

If it matters, I'm trying to name a software product, but don't restrict yourselves :)
I remember seeing pirate decoders (probably Discret 11, not Nagra, though) at the time, obviously for scientific curiosity only, which used a Motorola microcontroller. I think it may have been a 68HC705.
I don't know. Just looking at one of the things that they've posted: https://twitter.com/steveschoger/status/981606881255976961

> Overlapping images is a great way to add depth to an interface and make it look more “designed”.

I don't know if this is sarcasm. No one is asking why do we need to add "depth"? What problem is "depth" of overlapping icons solving?

I would stay away from this.
Question for the connaisseurs, what is the deference between this and something like Hasura for crud rest/ql api's ?
I meant in terms of documentation, i.e. stack overflow, youtube, etc. Universities are putting their course materials online for free, that sort of thing.

It's easy to be cynical about modern software, but remember it can still be sold and the economic benefit of being able to quickly throw together something that looks like a finished product to test an idea is hard to quantify.

I developed a product like what you described and started a company using nothing but my laptop and an AWS account. To make the same product in 1997 would be difficult if not impossible without very deep pockets.
Great response. Increasing investment in the "Science Index Fund" prepares us to handle risks like COVID-19 better without requiring the "active management / forecasting" ability to know what the probabilities of a COVID-19 outbreak would have been.

However, an indexing strategy still requires an estimate of the value of coronavirus research. Suppose $5T USD was funneled into all research over the last 10 years. How much of that would virology/epidemiology have gotten, and would it have been enough?
People are very apt to justify or condemn a decision based off of the result and not based off of the data available at the time the decision was made. Only one of these helps us make better decisions going forward.
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One time I was at a festival where it wouldn't stop raining. It had been a shit show. Come Monday, all the cars were stuck in mud. Then there were tornado warnings. Then they let down a damn up river and the whole area started to flood. Whilst holding down a shade structure, waiting for updates on the tornado path, and standing in slowly rising water, someone made the joke:

"Mondays"
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FYI: As of the time of this reply, https://dixonary.co.uk/cabal-2020 returns a 404.
Author here. TL;DR:
- Use 5GHz wifi if you're in the same room or close to your AP (or hardwired if possible)
- Optimize your internet connection for symmetric, or get the fastest upload speeds available
- Use a headset with a mic
- Built-in webcams suck, external webcam is better, iPhone or DSLR is best (if you can deal with more complicated setup)
Haha so you were a customer support intern. What shard?
There seems to be broad agreement among experts that bats are the primary reservoir, and less agreement about an intermediate reservoir (although pangolins are commonly proposed). We certainly have wildlife sequences from bats that are plausibly recent close relatives to SARS-CoV-2.

As far as the Chinese lab goes, I suspect that any research they release or international inspections they allow would just be dismissed by many people as evidence that they must be confident in their ability to cover up the horrible things those people have already concluded without evidence.
It’s not bullshit to notice that a bunch of different abilities tend to be highly correlated. That’s all g is.

What is bullshit is the formal theory of multiple intelligences, which is largely PC-inspired pseudoscience and does not account for the correlation between separate areas.
Absolutely true, but I'm not sure that's really a point of confusion. Almost everyone would agree that smart people aren't automatically good at athletics, or poetry, or woodworking. If you've seen people say that kind of thing I agree they're being silly.
Can confirm that "weird Japan" is the usual variety of story on the blog, but I posted this one after seeing it elsewhere and this article seemed to sum it up well.

In reality a teacher wouldn't dock you points for writing the alphabet in the wrong order? If so perhaps the post should be deleted.
They should generate the percussion beat with a honking big spark gap.
Given all the ads for Firefox on HN I keep trying it but it's insanely slow.

I don't think it's intended to be like this, not sure where to begin troubleshooting.
Wouldn’t that work in _favor_ of the startup idea?

If the hardware is a commodity and the market is for a bare-bones, self-serviceable “just a TV”, then the startup should have significantly lower engineering costs and benefit from the low component costs. Given that people on this thread are stating that they would pay a premium for such a product makes it seem even more viable.

Maybe other people have different “serviceability” definitions, but I once replaced the main board of a broken Vizio smart TV —- there were only two components —- a power board and the main electronics board. The hardest part was tracking down a replacement board, but $35 and a few screws later and I had a working TV again. That met my definition of self-service.
It’s not. I’m not that clever.
And this metadata could point on the region so it could be swapped easily. Oh wait..
You almost need something in HTTP for a client to signal which root certificate is being used, then if it's old, push the new one (signed by the old one) in the response. There's plenty of potential for abuse with this, though.

Maybe root certs need to expire more often so implementors have to do OTA updates.
Bootstrapping an Open World Games Company as a Two-Man Team
last line of article "peacefully protesting in streets" are these journalists paying any attention to the rioting and violence irrespective of police? double speak everywhere.
Ubuntu LTS releases have an official "Hardware Enablement" kernel which is reasonably up to date. On 18.04 LTS, its currently using Kernel 5.3. New Desktop installs default to this updated stack.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
I don't really believe the narrative that the virus jumped from the lab, but to play devils advocate: The proper allegation is that there was a program based on funding to perform gain of function research which included taking bat coronaviruses and infecting groups of intermediate animals with them to see if certain mutations were likely or problematic.
> Could the F-35 get into a dogfight? Sure, but a lot would have to fail for that situation to ever happen - given its sensor suite it should be able to detect and fire upon an enemy fighter before it is ever in visual sight.

I've heard that the future of air-to-air dogfights are more like two enemies in the dark, each with a gun and a flashlight. The first to use the flashlight is likely to be the first to be shot.

Here the flashlight is the active sensors systems, the darkness is the stealth fighter's design, and the gun is the hyper advanced weapons systems.
Now that we’ve got no-code and no-design, I think we’re just missing no-idea.
One way to discourage following the crowd would be to level the playing field by making hosting/instances kind of invisible. For example, if each person has their own domain then it wouldn't be obvious where people are hosted (and it solves the identity migration problem).
Athletic ability (real time kinetic intelligence) and math ability are highly correlated?

A car's speed and its ability to drive off-road are highly correlated?

Rocket thrust and specific impulse are highly correlated? (Hint: these are inversely correlated.)

I didn't come to this through PC. I came to it through a basic understanding of learning and optimization.
https://www.necdisplay.com/

At most they come with a QAM tuner. Some are a display only. None have smart TV spyware from my browsing their offerings.

Fixed a typo
You have discovered Apple Marketing. Their security and privacy stances are no different.
No, if you write in russian you write in cursive. Some people adapt their "style" to make it easier for them (for example using "т" instead of its cursive counterpart) but I can't imagine anyone writing (or leaching how to write) like this: "мама мыла раму".

This would also have the whole healthcare system destroyed. Can you imaging a doctor putting down letters you can tell from each other?
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Bets, Not Backlogs
"Black Lives Matter!" proclaim the megacorporations, some of whom recently had a significant judgement against them for colluding to suppress the salaries of their own staff in the US.

"Black Lives Matter!", they splash across their homescreens with a beat of the chest, while their supply chains are intentionally filled to the brim with people, sometimes children, working in terrible, often physically dangerous, conditions for terrible pay under authoritarian rulers.

These same megacorporations, apparently now fighting for equality, while sheltering hundreds of billions, if not trillions, in tax havens or offshore to prevent their profits from impacting the societies they operate in. They who pay their CEOs in the hundreds of millions per year while offering only cheap, temporary contracts to a vast amount of their workforce, often minorities.

Pardon me, but I think my cynicism with this industry is peaking. Wake me up when the same entities do something meaningful beyond shallow, populist pandering.
'The internet is obsessed with two songs and two songs only. But for different reasons. The first is Smash Mouth’s “All Star.”'... 'The world wide web’s other musical obsession though legitimately rules—Toto’s “Africa.”'

Surely this is in with a shout?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
You mention eight weeks of holiday, and taking three weeks off at a time. That is no different than any non-remote office job in the EU, and it is nowhere near close to being able to leave cold Europe for the entire northern hemisphere winter. I realize that I am fortunate to have found a day job where I can work fully remote (though remote work is fairly mainstream now in my own country), but once you enter this lifestyle, it is really hard to ever go back.

> Boring is I guess a matter of opinion - you're expected to hear what other people in your field are doing.

Obviously anyone interested enough in a field to do a PhD, is going to be interested in the work all the other people are doing. However, that would preferably be done by reading, where one is free to schedule that reading at the times one sees fit, and one is free to skim (which I know everyone does, because otherwise it would be impossible to keep up with the volume of publications). If you have to attend a weekly seminar, you’re on someone else’s schedule, and then you’re stuck there for the entire time of the seminar.
This is true. However, the parent didn't specify who the person was or where he lived. So while unlikely it is still possible.
Fantastic write up.

I regularly use the Python port of the original chardet (https://pypi.org/project/chardet/). In fact, most python devs do since it comes with requests.

This post is full of gems. E.G: I learned that it's important for your meta charset to be in the first 1024 bytes of your HTML :)
I object to projecting your own personal non-dictionary definitions on others. Are you thinking of clinical Narcissistic Personality Disorder? That is not the same thing as Narcissism.
Who hasn't had a root ca issue in production. It's v painful.
Yet we have a bunch of general attributes we expect when we say "car". Maybe "she's smart" is rather like "she has a car". You don't know whether it's a Porsche or a Truck, gas or electric, but you'll generally rely on her being able to cover larger distances than on foot, and at higher speeds, while also hauling some reasonable amount of luggage.
I see plenty of websites claiming to redistribute CC0 images. That can be a legal liability.

I mean there's nothing to stop someone from downloading photos from Flickr and uploading them in their own name to one of those CC0 websites, especially because the latter will usually do no contributor verification at all. But no matter what the website says, you - the person using the image - will be held legally responsible in case it was wrongly promoted as CC0.
GL ES 3.0 support is already being worked on: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2020/02/27/expe...
Makes sense, in a culture where stroke order is paramount, that when writing other languages they would still consider it important.

Heck, in Engineering drafting class we learned to letter in a very particular way. It took 4 strokes to letter a lower-case 'o' on a schematic.
Thank You! The answer was from 2016, and yet this is the first time anyone has posted this every time a similar question was raised on HN over the past few years.
I've got a REST API in production linking to postgres and rabbitmq and I'm very happy with the performance and maintainability. The ecosystem is a bit more bare than with other languages like node, python or java but in exchange the paradigm and type-system lets you build safe and well isolated code. In my opinion it's also quite easy to read despite being terse.

Despite the complaints the build tooling is good, and there are decent plugins for IDE capabilities although they're a little bit resource hungry.

My biggest problem is the lack of component libraries, for example I wanted to use SMTP a little while ago but couldn't find a library compatible with the latest GHC so ended up writing a python script connected to rabbitmq.

For business logic involving timezones, currencies, API calls, calculations etc. you're pretty well covered though.
The voluntary shutdown of almost all major economies was definitely unexpected. Nobody alive today has ever witnessed anything like this, on this scale, before. You can debate the academic definition, but it's definitely a black swan in my book.
You have a point, even today I would consider the mass sacrifice of children to be “satanic” if I believed in the concept.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book)#Scandal

> On 11 December 1988, The Sunday Times printed a story accusing the winner of the Masquerade contest of being a fraud. "Ken Thomas" was revealed as a pseudonym of Dugald Thompson, and Thompson's business partner, John Guard, was the boyfriend of Veronica Robertson, a former live-in girlfriend of Kit Williams. Guard had allegedly convinced Robertson to help him because both were said to be animal rights activists and Guard promised to donate any profits to the animal rights cause.[1]

> The Sunday Times alleged that while living with Williams, Robertson had learned the approximate physical location of the hare, while remaining ignorant of the proper solution to the book's master riddle.
I wonder what it would sound like playing in an empty mall.
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Sometimes ducks just have a bad day.
It would definitely be cool, unless you want to listen to the radio, watch TV, use WiFi, Bluetooth or have a pacemaker.
Thank you for pointing to this -- I will take this into consideration -- I figured it was something like this for WSL, but not for SSH, but that link explains the context very well.

> Also, fwiw i'm a lifetime vim devotee... used it as my primary IDE for a long time and still use it daily. But vscode won me over exactly with the remote code extensions. Now it's the only proprietary software on my toolchain (apart from my BIOS).

I do want to clarify that I do not think VSCode is a bad tool -- it is a fantastic tool, evidenced by how many people are getting value from it and investing in it. You could technically run VIM inside it if you wanted, so on some level it's probably strictly better on some level. I was mostly worried about it being a trojan horse of sorts, I don't use it so I hadn't heard about the remote extensions and it caused my knee-jerk reaction -- appreciate you adding the context and showing that this was anticipated by the VS team.
Would you say you are a top-down thinker/programmer?