skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said, I think the EU got it right with ideas like the right to be forgotten.

Does RTBF extend to post-mortem privacy as well? I think RTBF should expire once a person has died at the very least. i.e. people like Harvey Weinstein might use RTBF to scrub their public image, but I want to know all the details after he has died. Otherwise you effectively have a permanent history-scrubbing tool, which is never good.
> Personally I live by the mantra that "scrolling is dangerous"

I like that way of looking at it.

I have to agree. I no longer even load the FB timeline. I have to have an FB account in order to interact with the community for one of my open-source projects, but I check it maybe once a day.
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Yeah, because while distributing the basic .iso is illegal what are Microsoft's damages? They distribute it for free anyway, their losses are $0 from someone else distributing it.
Thanks for posting this - I think your Twitter example is first I've ever read where I've actually been able to see any real benefit over REST.
Arguably the European Union is very similar to what was originally envisions for the United States.

I'm interested to see how EU internal relations change over time.
Yup, I posted the original comment to quickly, the airflow indeed also pushes the brass disk forward, thus rotating the fan! An extremely clever solution that seems to be very easy and cheap to manufacture.
> The bar to become a member is low

As it is on most any other site. And depending on who signs up and participates on which each site, you end up with some sort of an average intelligence level per site. HN's I suspect would be rather close to the top.

> and while comments are scrutinized and can be flagged, votes aren't.

Indeed they aren't, which is my point.

> I think this is often observed in elections as well were people will give a secret vote to something they agree with even if they aren't ready to face their families about it.

And one might expect the same to occur here, but does it, and to what degree? Is there more, less, or identical diversity of cultural/political beliefs in the general public, or on HN? Based on many years reading comments (particularly dimmed-due-to-downvotes ones, and responses to them) here, I have a feeling that there is less diversity of thought here.

Knowing such things with high levels of accuracy would require a form of omniscience, but that doesn't mean that nothing can be gleaned from user behavior on HN, or any sit for that matter.

>> Might there be something interesting to learn here?

> Absolutely :-)

What sorts of things do you think we could learn if one had access to the HN voting data?
Yes, you're right that business talk is depersonified and implies a lack of respect for the human you're dealing with. And this is an assertion backed up by lots of other business talk--referring to humans as "resources" is probably the worst I hear often. And this assertion is further supported by the frequent, sociopathic behavior of businesses which goes beyond how they communicate.

But surely the fact that they are married to this other person is a bit stronger evidence that they cares for them, than a slightly off wording?

And further, it's completely absurd to hear this objection from Hacker News, where the most common viewpoint seems to be "if it makes money then it must be ethical". If this is really dehumanizing, then isn't the bigger problem that most people are totally okay with dehumanizing language in a business context? Is the objection here that he doesn't stand to turn a profit?
I've heard/read the word systemic more in the last month than my whole life leading up to it.
As long as there is "qualified immunity" for cops, "absolute immunity" for prosecutors, judges and legislators, the question of "racist until proven innocent" doesn't even arise. This notion of immunity came into being, because coercion( sold in the guise of "social contract") is the heart of any state.

This is why the powerless and minorities are heavily impacted. Who writes laws? Who edits laws? It is the powerful people with levels of indirection: lobbyists, politicians. That's why the elite is not impacted, because if they get impacted, they can change the laws.
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Does this mean Microsoft isn't going to sue their customers for patent infringement?
Software development classes are mandatory for some courses, and it is not that uncommon to find some already-not-so-green programmers in them. Some are just looking for the certification at the end of their programme.

> Generally my experience with people who are demonstrably successful is that they are not insecure like you described.

Is it really insecurity? Teasing someone about their previous arrogance when they're actually a beginner is one of the better forms of putting-down IMO. Teaches 'pride cometh before fall' and all that. And a group project is a quite informal space to do that in.
Short answer: no!

Friston's work is (in)famous for being so vague as to be completely untestable. He has been criticised over the extreme vagueness of his ideas many times, and he has never given a good answer. Sometimes some of his followers try to make it testable as neuroscience or useful for AI. Both have failed so far. As far as I can see, leading working neuroscientists don't take this Friston / free-engery stuff seriously. He's even got a parody Twitter account now: https://twitter.com/farlkriston

He now claims to have the best COVID model based on free-energy. Can I please see the code and form my own opinion? Has anybody seen this code?
Acapela.com has a voice banking service
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I never said anything about physical book's, many public-library have already e-books, like research-papers and so on.
Google spreadsheets = free + your soul

Static front-end? = almost free on S3

$5 seems like a lot for a one page with barely any information. You can get more for about the same money with shared hosting (yes I know, not great).

But maybe this appeals to small business that are still working on their main site and need a landing page?
I think your critique of marketing-oriented folks is valid, but after saying how bad it is to polarize the discussion, you immediately made your own black-and-white view of creators.
From my brief time working at Springer, seeing how their business model shifted towards services and processes aimed at enabling as many publications as possible -

I think basing tenure decisions on the fact papers were published there is based on archaic notions and misguided.
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The advertised performance specifications for consumer SSDs are mostly useless. They pick the metrics that produce the biggest numbers, without regard to whether those numbers have any relevance to real-world use. Those numbers are mostly useful for determining what class of controller and flash memory are used, in case the spec sheet doesn't list that information. Likewise for warranty period and write endurance ratings; those are more about signalling product segmentation than about actual expected lifetime.

For consumer SSDs, there's no need to worry about write endurance or QLC NAND unless you know you have a very atypical usage pattern and have actually measured your workload by eg. tracking SMART indicators on your current drive(s) for several days.

Brand matters very little unless you really care about the experience of getting a warranty replacement in the rare event that your drive fails before the warranty expires. I'm not aware of any solid information indicating that certain SSD brands have consistently lower premature failure rates. My anecdotal experience from reviewing SSDs for several years is that all the top-tier brands have at some point sent me review samples that were either DOA or died during testing that shouldn't have killed a drive.

Outside the top tier brands belonging to the NAND flash memory manufacturers, everyone is buying NAND on the open market from the same 2-3 manufacturers and buying SSD controller solutions from the same 2-5 vendors. There are literally dozens of retail models all using the same combination of Phison E12 controller and Toshiba/Kioxia 3D NAND, and the differences between these are almost entirely cosmetic. All the PCIe 4.0 consumer SSDs that have been released so far are functionally identical.
Here is a news article from when it happened if you don't want to go through medium.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-07-27-19932081...
Never heard of them, thanks for the reference looks like a great high quality app, just bought it on iPad (was only $9.99 atm).

On macOS I use Pixelmator which is one of the best quality Apps I have on macOS, was also only a small 1 time purchase.

Edit:

Spent the last 1hr playing with it on Windows, gorgeous iOS & Mac App of the year quality Apps like this never exist on Windows, at USD $25 it's a steal (50% off until June 20). Finally a Photoshop replacement quality App for my hobby design tasks that I don't need to maintain a subscription for.
The "prosumer" market has done wonders for tool availability. Companies no longer make stuff that lasts a lifetime, but the trade-off is that you can get the same tools a professional would use for much cheaper. Turns out, even pros don't need tools that last a lifetime because they so often get lost, stolen, or dropped off a roof and need replacing after a few years anyway.

And you can move down market and get something with a 100-1000 hour service life for half or a quarter of the price.
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From a different perspective, I'd be brokenhearted if I could not speak to my son or my wife in something they could recognize as their father or husband's voice. I know modern TTS systems are a fair sight (voice?) better than Microsoft Sam, but it would be emotionally valuable to me to have a self-trained TTS library.

I'm not sure there's a correlation to other senses, I can't see for my future self or move on his behalf. I suppose there are things I would want to taste or smell if I was going to lose those senses, but those are experiences for me, not things I'd use to communicate with loved ones.

After losing my voice in an accident, I'd be willing to spend many, many hours transcribing my own speech in the handful of scratchy family videos, voicemails, and phone logs of ordinary conversations. If I could spend a couple days prior to the event reading some books, a TTS training corpus, or anniversary/birthday/wedding/etc greetings and congratulations into a microphone and have a personal text-to-speech voice I'd be all over that.

It would be a little weird if someone else used it as their narrator, but that's not OP's goal.

Speaking of recording books and training corpuses, my grandparents (who have their voices) got a special kind of joy from reading children's books that they once read to me and that I once heard as a child to their new grandson. OP, if you and your wife have or might have kids (and she can handle it emotionally), it might be nice to record video/audio of reading children's books to future grandchildren. Even if your future grandchild knows that grandma can't read books out loud, I'd bet Grandma would be happy to silently turn the pages for a toddler on her lap until those digital recordings got worn and scratchy like an old VHS.
Is there code publicly available to do this?
You know your neighborhood and neighbors and apartment construction better than I do, but the caution is always that not everyone keeps the same working hours -- night shift sleeps during the day, small children and infants nap throughout the day, etc.
I have noticed the opposite. My impression is that most people's identities are so coloured by their insecurities that people usually come together more on being able to laugh at their common insufficiencies and also on the things they hate in common. But this is perhaps because I'm still relatively young and the people I encounter are still working on realizing themselves.
Actually - I started out by building the bed from this website (woodgears). Youtube has a tone of good basic tutorials and this site provides basic plans (mind you - they needed some tweaking, there were errors in sizing and the twin bed we bought was actually larger than this specified).

Turned out great - except the headboard wasn't tall enough (kid bangs his head on it occasionally so re-doing that soon).

In general, just find something you want to build and build it. You will learn a LOT. Its very much like programming in that sense. You can do very simple 2d plans in openoffice draw or similar visio style tools and then buy the basics at home depot or lowes or wherever. Hand tools are ok to start but would suggest some basics like a circular saw or a portable table saw to help make things a little more straight. If you don't have any of these things then expect to spend a few hundred dollars on tools to even do something basic. You can get away with cheap tools for a project or so but if you are serious about doing this long term you are better off buying fewer higher quality things than more lower quality things as they won't last (ie dewalt over ryobi and anything from a woodshop over anything from harbor freight).

As for things I wish I'd have known when I started? Buy a good face-mask for dust protection. I had no idea how freakin toxic pine dust is. If you don't have a super high quality (read thousands of dollars) dust vac system then work in a well ventilated area (like outside) with that mask on then clean up after each session before you go inside so you don't track that junk in.

Oh and hand planing is the suck.
And what happened to the other DVCS contenders?
Remember how Microsoft trained their bot from reddit comments and it went anti human? Well I guess I have to start dropping hints for the skynet in all my repos.
Surprisingly, that was the least of the issues I encountered. I used Slack all day inside Chromium, and besides the fact that it took ~5 seconds to get back to a workable state whenever I switched back to its tab, it was perfectly usable and didn't really hinder my ability to communicate.

Also, Slack is slow enough on my core i9, so I'll give the Pi a pass if it's even a little slower there. It just pushes me back more and more to preferring IRC, since I can chat from any device, anywhere (Pidgin in the Raspberry Pi's case), without having to load up 500+ MB of RAM for a fancy GUI.
Learn sign language.
The Be/Haiku GUI doesn't use QT at all.
They can do with their time whatever they want, but creating a fork to remove all light-hearted and fun parts of a software feels a bit dumb.
I love the power behind this product, and the fact that it offers a genuine view of racial injustice affects real people. I think this is incredibly powerful and really appreciate the mission here.
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A minor correction - You can run a Raspbery Pi 4 @ 4K / 60Hz over HDMI. I'm doing it on an LG 32UD59-B. It did take a tiny bit of research and a non-obvious change to the monitor settings.
> low-tech version

Appropriate tech in this case. They have delivered over a a hundred million books.

https://imaginationlibrary.com/news-resources/
I don't think that's true 100% of the time. There are review-as-a-service solutions offered (and charged for) by the publishers.
Perhaps this is the real change that's needed. Getting a review structure that rewards really thorough reviews, monetarily. Those reviewers then become like YT stars where yes, everyone can review, but these reviewers are top-notch. The payment structure would depend on fees from accessing the works or fees for subscription to access.

That might finally break (or finally justif) Elsevier and their ilk.
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Audino (Japanese: タブンネ Tabunne) is a Normal-type Pokémon introduced in Generation V.

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I have a security code on the account, not that it's worth much. The customer representative said records show no calls were received.

It was 2am Eastern, 11pm Pacific, no stores open. 8pm Hawaii. Probably no stores open there either.

That leaves online hacking of some part of T-Mobile's systems or rogue employees on the inside.
Take a look at Lyrebird

https://www.descript.com/lyrebird-ai?source=lyrebird
That's why they wanted to do it. It doesn't explain why they actually did it.

There's a long list of national and even worldwide problems I could solve, if only I was allowed to use other people's resources without their permission and was not required to compensate them in any way for that use.

I want to tackle all of those, but they would not get past the "ask a lawyer how much legal trouble it would be" stage, and so I do not actually do them.
> ...learning completely on its own giving it nothing but the rules which is how AlphaGo works...

Not to be too picky, but it was AlphaGo _Zero_ that learned from the rules alone. AlphaGo learned from a large database of human played games: "...trained by a novel combination of supervised learning from human expert games". [1]

AlphaGo Zero, derived from AlphaGo, was "an algorithm based solely on reinforcement learning, without human data, guidance or domain knowledge beyond game rules". [2]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16961

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29052630/
Thanks. the fact that you took the time to share all this means a lot to me
Oh, no argument that they look cool. I was just expecting the price to be a lot lower!

Does anyone make good-looking modern reproductions?
Just ran through your intro video. If it does really what it says, this is a great product. I'll have my team test this tomorrow. Good luck on your launch.
According to their FAQ[0] they will periodically incorporate updates.

[0] https://glimpse-editor.github.io/about/#is-forking-the-proje...
You can slice and dice the numbers in many different ways.

Russia is gonna put heavy emphasis on the long history of the Soyuz family. SpaceX is gonna point out things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-09#Air_leak ("A 2 mm hole in the orbital module was discovered, later stated to have been 'hidden with a low-quality patch job.'") and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS-10 ("aborted shortly after launch on 11 October 2018 due to a failure of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle boosters") as a counterpoint.

Ultimately, Russia can comfortably say "we're pretty good at doing rocket launches". SpaceX is getting there themselves.
An API that will try to answer any natural language question is a mind blowing idea. This is a universal thinking interface more than an application programming one.
Just to point out: Hacker News is definitely an intelligence-idolizing environment. :)
the gradient doesn't exist but subgradients do exist (at points of non-differentiability) and that is still useful (case in point as someone else mentions ReLU)

https://see.stanford.edu/materials/lsocoee364b/01-subgradien...
I've been using it more to read Dalio's articles. Which makes me curious why he is using linked in and not just hire someone to set up a personal blog for him ( ? )
They largely became unmaintained. I'd still prefer to use bzr over git, and I do with Launchpad.net for code hosting, but for any work, git has "won".
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We have so many AD implementations in Julia now that we actually have infrastructure that separates out the definition of primitive derivate rules from the actual AD mechanism itself, so the rules can be shared amongst all of them. Of course it would be better if there was just one AD to rule them all, but there are tradeoffs in the design space that make that hard. I think having all these different implementations has actually helped crystalize what the design space actually is, what choices need to be made and what the interesting classes of applications are. I think that'll help with the next generation of these tools (disclaimer I just started working on one of those next generation tools yesterday ;) ).
There is a YouTube channel called "Speaking of AI" that makes short fake speeches of some US public figures. The quality is quite good and a bit frightening.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCID5qusrF32kSj-oSGq3rJg/vid...
Features-wise, possibly. If you like your software to be Free (as in "libre") it's probably not better than GIMP. For some people, like the ones who support the FSF, this matters.
Masks are not 100% effective even when worn properly. Think of it like an airliner: smoking is banned, but they also have smoke alarms AND flame retardant fittings.
You're very generous with your assumption.
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> We also focus on making the software more "enterprise ready" so it is easier to modify and distribute for schools and workplaces. That means fewer "easter eggs",

Honestly, I don't understand how can people be so severely misguided. If one place would benefit greatly for easter eggs in free software is precisely a school.

But if they are backporting useful documentation, well, it's alright. There's nothing wrong with a fork, but the stated reasons are dumb.
This is so funny, the author has a great voice.

It would be even funnier if there was a note at the top that said: "Note: this article was published posthumously by his wife. He died of contaminated water. The fridge tried to warn him."
You've inspired me to write a counterpoint - I tried the same, and for a pretty large set of things I do day-to-day, the Raspberry Pi has been working well. So much so that I am currently engaged in an internal debate on whether or not I should purchase a more powerful machine to use as a desktop.

The only real deficit to me is that initial compiles of Rust code can take a while. A vast amount of CPU / Memory is available for pennies on an EC2 instance, so it comes down to convenience and psychology, really.
@gifflar Glad you found it illuminating :). Yea moving spark script to S3 using a Airflow task is usually the easiest.
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This is incredible. I can't tell how much this is cherry-picked examples vs. revolutionary new tech.