skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's good to know! Thanks.
Done with caring about comments here that aren't links to resources. Karma system is dysfunctional, and socialization here isn't too meaningful coupled with the guidelines. I'm about to lose points, but as far as I am concerned real community here is dead. But I respect the decision to leave.
Less than 3 days ago NPR deleted a tweet (with no retraction) that heavily implied a person who was violently attacked in his vehicle and then sped away to avoid the violence was a "right-wing extremist" involved in a "vehicle-ramming incident" [1] -- with zero reference to the violent attack initiated on the vehicle.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbEIlsUUcAACYht?format=jpg&name=...

Additionally, the protesters who attacked the vehicle were arrested, including one who brandished a gun at the vehicle and another who assaulted the driver. [2]

[2] https://www.wave3.com/2020/06/18/protesters-arrested-followi...

NPR's tweet came after the arrest and live video footage of the incident. They chose to run the story anyway.
I just want to take a moment to give a shoutout to the Tweetbot devs, which expanded on iOS’ back-to-top functionality:

Tapping the top of the page again takes you back to your scroll position! Incredibly useful for recovering from accidental taps, and I kind of wish iOS would copy it, since it happens more often than I’d like.
Oh wow, this made it to the front page and it just got flagged! I was going to say how i really don't care about mainstream news topics worming their way to HN but man, this is crazy. I understand downvotes and bans but flagging this and shadowbans are hitting below the belt.

Is this site for the intellectually dishonest? If not this b.s. needs to stop. How many "I quit facebook" posts make it to the front page all the time? How many social activism related topics make it to the front page. Counter argument to those who say it's not relevant: technology made these protests possible and technlogy is where the fight is happening right now.

I hope the moderator team (@dang) pays attention to this.
Imagine a malware scanner that relied only on a fixed size static list of md5 hash signatures. No heuristics.
Exactly. It's obvious when you think about. And it's obvious when you start down the path. But then many forget.
(This works through the system, by the way; it’s not just limited to Safari.)
If you know a bit of mathematics the book "SDR for Engineers" is exactly what you're looking for - it covers the right DSP material that you'll need. For starters, it actually covers the sampling techniques SDR actually uses and (it's published by Analog Devices) covers some of the fancy RF-to-Digital System on Chips available today.

Some DSP books (Like Proakis's) are incredibly long-winded and totally detached from the real world (and I say that as a theoretical physics student) and don't cover the sampling topologies that many SDR's use.

Interestingly, I have some very old communication theory books from the 50s and 60s - they are still useful for Software Defined radio stuff today. The only thing they didn't foresee is the throughput of a modern digital filter being as high as it is.
Antitrust legislation is not designed to protect other companies, it's designed to protect consumers.

In the United States, when the Justice Department blocks a merger, it is not simply deciding to disallow the merger. It does not have the power to do so. Instead, the actual mechanism is via antitrust lawsuit.

If the merger is likely to reduce competition to such an extent that it would harm consumers, and if the Justice Department is so inclined, the Department files an antitrust lawsuit to block it.
>if anyone is working on similar things I'd love for them to share it here

Sure, I also made a tool to generate interactive blog posts and used it to write a couple of articles on pretty niche topics related to generative art. Whenever I have the time to do so, I would love to write more content like that. The framework is here, articles are linked at the beginning: https://github.com/pac-dev/dspnote
You might enjoy Stephen Malin's YouTube channel where he animates the notes of a piece. He uses some of her Bach playing, and, tangentially, he has been releasing animations of the two- and three-part inventions and I quite like the interpretations.
? but you are wrong. Buying your competitors is only possible because you offer them more than they agree they are worth. Why would you do that? because reducing competition will earn you more money through your anticompetitive actions.
look into energy stored on energy invested

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment#ES...

according to the wiki, pumped hydroelectric storage has a ratio of 704 where as compressed air energy storage has a ratio of 792.
Write a haiku and make that the "reward" part of your project?
And if you have any sense, the contract expressly limits your total liabilities to the client to at most what they have already paid you.

(ps. With some careful lawyer drafting to exempt things which can't be limited in that way (negligence etc.), while carefully wording the exemption so any part voided doesn't take the whole limitation with it.)
I am pretty confused. What kindof discussion is expected? Searching for "police" or "BLM" on the site brings up many heavily commented threads.

Do they know the site has a search function? I didn't for a while. There's a search box on the bottom of the page
I love stupid fun stuff like this.
Just messing around, couldn’t help myself.

I’ve ranted in the past about this, and had folks tell me they prefer a Twitter thread. So there’s that, and once I learned about thread reader, my life was changed!

I’ll check the podcast out!
Is there a publicly available link as to what PII is collected/logged/stored by HN and for how long?
That's a fair point.

In places where there are reasonable privacy protections, there is a distinction made between regular people and public figures. Perhaps public figures get weaker protections under this proposal as well?
I've been developing some games and frontend on my free time for fun. I've been using typescript and Pixi.js but other than that nothing else. As a backend engineer, I've always thought about learning a frontend framework but I've never actually had a strong need of it.

So question if you're a frontend engineer: Should I? I never felt the need of a framework despite I render quite a bit of dom elements. Do I have a need that I just don't know right now?
Dozens of Women in Gaming Speak Out About Sexism and Harassment
A willingness to totally destroy the business model of companies that rely on targeted advertising. Off the top of my head this could be done by extending something that looks a lot like HIPAA to all personal data collection and sharing, where repeated violations are enough to put even the largest companies out of business. Basically, a big middle finger to anyone involved in data collection / advertising
Republicans push bill requiring tech companies to help access encrypted data
There is no community, just a weird amorphous group that stands between other conspecifics and mods who flag and silence posts they don't like.
I’ve (informally) taught Haskell and I’ve used Elm/Erlang/Elixir/etc. I absolutely love functional programming and definitely regard it as the “ideal future”, but it’s not ready today. Especially the ecosystem.

I know React is not a language, but I listed the whole stack to compare it to IHP, which seems to try to combine everything. Which is good! I’d love a Django/RoR esque Haskell platform.
> Appeal to authority with internet points

> Moan that HN won't support you spilling your politics that already fill your twitter feed over into the site, despite many alternatives existing

> Recognize it's a free site and it can do what it wants

> Assert it's wrong, and doing wrong, by disagreeing with you, that voice of karma-provided authority

> Post your Twitter rant to HN for attention

> HN democratically removes your rant

> Whimper on Twitter that HN, the site you're apparently done with, aren't facilitating your anti-HN rants, implicitly encouraging your following to do some bandwagoning

God only knows what drama this person would be capable of if HN kowtowed and facilitated their self-approved topics for discussion.

Why ask for Reddit 2.0 when you can just stick to Reddit.com?
Indeed. Thanks for posting the link!
Nick Sand was the individual who attempted transdermal absorption using DMSO:

>Another fact: I've made LSD in my lab on many occasions for research purposes, possibly in not so meticulous a manner as Albert Hofmann. Nothing ever happened. I had several graduate students who made LSD as an intermediate for projects. No accidental ingestion of LSD ever occurred. A technician in my lab makes it routinely because we use it as a drug to train our rats. He's learned by experience that he never gets high, nothing ever happens. And yesterday I was talking to Nick Sand, and Nick said, "I made a solution of LSD in DMSO…" -- DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) is a chemical that greatly enhances absorption of other chemicals through the skin -- he says, "…I painted it on my skin. Nothing happened." A concentrated solution and nothing happened! How did this very meticulous Swiss chemist get the LSD into his body? I don't know.

https://erowid.org/general/conferences/conference_mindstates...
From Apple to Facebook, Tech's New Diversity Pledges Follow Years of Failure
Intro to Dynamic Programming
what about weechat and alibaba or gmail and youtube ;)
I was expecting the button to light up and having to wait before being taken to the top. Maybe an improvement for version 2.0!
I always thought people became trolls for the passive aggressive power. It's like telling a manager an employee did something really bad when all they did was tell you that you couldn't do/say/whatever something. It's a weird sort of fetish.
I think the very unhealthy dominance of Facebook will only start to properly recede when countries outside the USA start to block its use. This is a highly predatory company that takes away sovereignty in each nation's cyberspace and it really only makes sense for foreign countries to block it and either let their own national corporate replacements emerge (as China has done) or foster the use of open social networks and protocols (my strong preference).

This doesn't solve the problem for people in the USA of course (well, other nations fostering open social networks will help some). The USA obviously needs to look at antitrust measures to fix the issue at home. But other countries can't afford to wait for that to happen.
Hopefully this catches the eye of someone in the thread who'd know: I have a 5yo and 7yo who have loved playing some version of ad-hoc D&D I invent on the fly but it inevitably breaks down at some point because I haven't accounted for something along the way.

What's the most basic setup I could use in terms of character attributes, dice, calculations, etc. They love even the most basic imaginative adventure so I'd rather something be easier to play quickly than take a lot of time learning. 20+ years ago I played some basic D&D and then some other rip-off (Rolemaster?! Swear it started with J though.)

I have an old Heroquest set somewhere but haven't been able to find it in my parents' attic.
okay, I’ve mistaken, KDDI do have eCSFB to CDMA since the get go...my brain was stuck in pre-LTE launch era. Sorry.

I’m not sure how “LTE Only” options work on every phones, moving across countries to just make a phone behave certain way is beyond absurd but verifying how it’s working might be a bit of challenge?

regarding roaming, you mean a fake GSM tower with backend going over a VPN to a GSM tower somewhere the phone could roam to? That I didn’t realize. That could happen indeed.
Yes, but having a job and staying in the middle class in any country is much better than entering a lower class after your position has been either eliminated, outsourced, or off-shored and you cannot find another.

However, maybe there is an argument that the middle class in a different country is worse off in terms of purchasing power than the lower American class. I'm not sure if that is the case, but either way it would be better to be gainfully employed in an industry of a person's choosing than to be lower class in an industry a person does not want to work in.

The threat of this happening in America, as I perceive it anecdotally, is much more real than the statistics suggest. I could see a scenario where only the top 20% of skilled professionals in major industries survive in the United States, while the demand for the bottom 80% is met by outsourced or off-shored professionals.
>The author is a genius

Understatement of the century! :-) The breadth of his work, all non-trivial, is truly humbling. All done without fanfare or self-aggrandizement. I can't even find a good interview of him to understand his mind and thought-process.
When you compress air it produces quite a bit of heat that is usually cooled off... anyone that has an air compressor can attest.

Help me understand the thermodynamics, are they storing the heat too?
Abolish the TechToPrisonPipeline – Coalition for Critical Technology
Your hypothesis feel correct, and is one of two three parts that I feel are missing from current deep learning networks.

1) Pre-existing structures that are already specialized for the necessary tasks, but untrained. We kind of mimic this with transfer learning, and by discovering more appropriate general architectures by hand.

2) Training while inferring. We very crudely approximate this by releasing updated models every month but I think it would be best if also performed at the edge. Google has begun doing this, I have hope for 'federated learning'[0].

3) 20+ years of exaflop training.

More narrowly focused to this article, I believe researchers keep finding that models which are architected to solve the most "general case" possible to solve consistently perform better on highly specific tasks than models trained only on those specific tasks. Definitely creating models that understand general physics follows that trend. Although I suspect, (as I believe you do), that scaling will be hampered without some sort of ML "fixed action patterns".

My thinking about this topic has been strongly guided by a special issue of Scientific American: Mind that I read in 2013 [1]. The issue was hard for me to find today because it's not listed in the usual archives, due to being a special edition. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND September 2013 Volume 22, Issue 3s

The whole issue is devoted to optical illusions and what they can tell us about how our brain uses evolutionary shortcuts to efficiently determine things in the real world. "In the wild", these shortcuts improve accuracy and speed of inference. But with artificial stimuli, they can lead us astray, and do in the case of artificially generated optical illusions.

As for the -4 (which is the maximum negative you can go on HN) I think some people just saw the first part and clicked downvote at that point.

> I don't think that's quite right. I believe that humans are essentially born as blank neural networks

I wouldn't worry about the vote counter. "Those who play for applause, that's all they'll get." -Wynton Marsalis' dad.

Following up like this to clarify for us idiots is really the best thing to do, maybe editing the original comment for clarity if you really feel like it.

0: https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collabo...
1: https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/special-editions...
Well to be honest, Go binary sizes are always going to be big, to the benefit of ease of development and deployment.

Memory usage, I don't know. The Fibonacci benchmark code was a bit... shit.

Do you want to send over your Rust code in a Gist or something, and I can compile and compare?
History repeats itself. Even though Apple didn’t make the claim this time, they did claim that PPCs would run 68K apps faster because they would spin much of their time running native code. This wasn’t true then either - at least not for the first gen PPC Macs.
Prescriptions seem to work well in "static" systems. The ones that don't involve competition or comparison with other humans. Single player games, basically. Fixing a car. Building a house. Open heart surgery.
> fair not to name a beautiful plot type after something so horrible.

Wasn't it an association that surfaced subsequent to being named after the band? In that sense it would not be "named after" Nazi joy divisions, I think? (as that would imply being aware of the association while choosing the name)
Please do! I'd love to see the old emails, too, because maybe there's something to learn about how to respond better. Or maybe we already learned it in subsequent years.
Why not?

They display an image. Bit if a weak argument to say they dont matter when theyre being used to create the same final outcome.
True donations are not taxable in the UK, because they are not part of a trade.

In other words, they are not given in exchange for something; the something is freely given without the donation.

Of course there is the question of whether something is truly a donation. But charities have to deal with that question, so there are formulaic approaches to it, and advisors. Sometimes the wording that accompanies a donation must be written carefully, to clarify what is and is not expected for it, because donations can be directed to a purpose, which isn't (apparently) the same as paying for something.

I assume it's similar elsewhere?
Sorry but do you use full screen windows on a 4K monitor? I doubt any website is really designed to fill anything more than ~1400 horizontal logical pixels.
IMO Mars settlement is an aspirational "badge" of space economic development.

The real value of interplanetary manned transport is asteroid mining. That should payoff the whole enterprise in the short run, and hopefully enable banks orbital habitats and pulse nuclear planetary and interstellar ships (you can't launch them in gravity wells or magnetic shells of earth or the fallout gets guided back to the surface).

The AI grey goo threat is a little weird as a massive danger. Really all the mitigations are bunkers. But a near independent space economy would be a fantastic backup. It's easy to drop people back to Earth for repopulation, and drop in asteroid mined resources as needed.

So the issue is that all the prepper stuff the guy advocates is basically "bunkers", but it's just a sunk insurance cost.

SpaceX/space development gets you so many more bonuses and upside.
Not sure if it fits your requirements but there are games like No Thank You, Evil from Monte Cook Games. It is geared specifically toward kids.
> To me this means "I don't know how to get Ubuntu working".

Yes, I'm sure Jamie Zawinski didn't understand Unix systems well enough to get them running.
# of people who want to do "machine learning" > # of ML jobs > # of people good at ML
Given US gun culture, I would not immediately classify "has a gun/knife" as "violent criminal". And even for people who could potentially be violent, how many of those police shootings involved a suspect that had actually drawn their weapon and/or was behaving aggressively with it? And if we're talking about self-reporting by cops, I don't think we should take their assessment of the situation at their word without some sort of corroboration.

Regardless, even if the police killed some 1000 armed people during a year, so what? 1000 is certainly a tiny sub-1% fraction of total interactions. If anything, you're only supporting my assertion that the vast majority of people the police have to deal with are non-violent and can be dealt with using non-leathal force, or little to no force at all.
I haven't played it yet, but Quest is designed to be simple for all ages https://www.adventure.game/
Big time. Maybe it was the fact that the styling landed it somewhere between a cheap toy and plasticky medical equipment. A very "velcro orthorpedic mall-walking shoe" kind of look. From my cultural perspective, the closest current thing to Segway-level dorky is a riding a tiny-wheeled folding bike with a huge mushroom helmet in staid business casual. Folding bikes and helmets are both fantastically useful objects— I would say more useful than a Segway to most— but they are dorky as all getout. (I'll refrain from commenting on business casual.)

The people who say "who cares if you look like a dork" either have a less-important use case for their own public-facing image than others, or exist in a cultural facet that perceives those things as more culturally acceptable. Even some people whose personal appearance is extremely professionally important— lawyers for example— can withstand looking really square because the cultural context they exist in calls for it. If a bouncer at a nightclub looked as square as a lawyer, their job would be a lot harder. A lawyer would get raked over the coals for wearing a club bouncer's poorly-tailored polyester suit. Your appearance influences most people's perception of you, and their appearance influences your perception of them, whether you care to admit it or not.

I mean, I know some people who thought google glass looked cool. I wouldn't wear google glass if it could make me fly.

Speaking of which, now that the Segways are done for, I wonder if Google Glass will overtake them as the cultural icon for dorkiness in the aughts? I heard people explain google glass as being like "a Segway for your face." I wonder if now Segways are going to be "like Google Glass you could ride."
> permission to ask obvious questions about the narrative handed down from on high—without fear of defamation that costs me my livelihood.

Sure, that's not much to ask for. The rights people fight and have fought for are mostly the freedom to do basic, everyday things like that. Wishing, hoping for it is easy. To actually do something about it, to fight for it and achieve it, to give everyone freedom from that fear – that would be greatness.
Is Serendipity in the Workplace Possible in a Zoom World?
I feel we should probably build massive rotating space stations first, instead of going to Mars.

At least with rotating space stations, we can generate 1 g of gravity, to simulate the Earth’s gravity.

And you’re still close to home, for when you get space sick.

I think if the Mars trip ends in the premature deaths of its inhabitants, because of reduced gravity, then this alone will cause the economic failure of the program.

But, alternatively, maybe the solution is to build a centrifuge on Mars, that will spin you around at 1 Earth Gravity. And maybe you need to sit inside this device for 1 hour a day, in order to get your Earth gravity needs.
Sure, the article itself is not "tyrannically oppressive insanity" like you say, but when major corporations start picking up these articles because they seem en vogue, it can become a little tyrannical in the workplace.

For instance, if this became a D&I initiative, speaking out against it could be... dangerous. It can have a chilling effect on other people who would otherwise not agree.

I suppose that has a lot to do with the culture at a workplace. Given the current political climate with race relations though, it does make it a little scary to oppose measures D&I related, don't you agree? It would be nice to have an environment where you can respectfully speak your mind without getting labeled and/or canned.
Not sure why anybody's upset that HN didn't have much discussion on, above anything, George Floyd. HN discourages (and always discouraged) "me too" style remarks, like "Oh that's awful", "that's outrageous", or "that's gross injustice!" But exactly what other reasonable opinions are available here?

I mean, would you want to see people discussing here whether Derek Chauvin was justified in killing George Floyd? Because I don't.