skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A mirror showing some training videos may not sound much but we already live in this dystopian world: Google knows all my secrets, I rely on Amazon in so many ways, it's ever hard to comprehend. People have TVs and Alexas that do actively listen to their conversations,not always when they'd like to. We literally sleep walked into this whole thing already.
It really doesnt, and wish people would stop saying this. Vanguard ETFs include all sorts of companies that are basically zombie companies. Buy buying their products, you are subsidizing terrible companies.
My bits were on MacOS, Linux, Win, iOS, and required usage w/o internet (so I could work on airplanes, etc.).. so _something_ was always missing (between those + encrypted + searching).
Both strategies are inappropriate because they assume that anything less than funding her startup is an act of bigotry.

I wouldn't have responded to her because I don't think her startup is particularly interesting or likely to be profitable. It's a low-effort idea. Easy to replicate, easy to cut the middle man out of, and has been done multiple times before. "Naming names" of people who declined to waste their money on your bad idea isn't social justice, it's entitlement.
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Do large corps pay for their domain registration in small increments or buy up 10 year blocks at once? If you're Apple or AMZN or similar, paying upfront for 99 years won't exactly break the bank.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/6/18/21295226/facebook-trump...

https://www.salon.com/2020/06/19/facebook-pulls-trump-campai...
The 15 year olds asking about options on reddit is so concerning. Imagine in 3 years when these kids start thinking about that 30k in student loans they were just approved of.
Itempool Beta
LUXnow – Luxury on Demand
The Strava app is free and pretty good. You can join virtual clubs with your friends. We have one running at work during lockdown.
I am not a fan of Syncthing. I do not want a web UI, and there UI is by default unsafe and needs to be disabled or secured anyway. I do not like their config format either.
>It appears FB & Twitter are taking down a lot of people they perceive and label as 'far right'

Can you give some examples of folks who you think should not have been removed(apart from Stone)?

>but ok with Marxists and others on the left fringes being featured and even promoted

Can you give some examples of such people who you think should be banned if there was no bias?
Is there any way to create a bastion or proxy without messing with the client configs? something like a transparent proxy
like nginx but talks SSH.
Bowflex is still alive and well, they haven't gone anywhere.

There is a HUGE market for this stuff, even gym subscriptions, that never, ever get used. I was friends with a Crossfit licensee and he said only 50% of people that paid actually showed up every week, and only ~85% showed up every month. The other 15%? They just kept reauthorizing charges, showing up every now and then when he called them, and then forgot again.

It's a cash cow. The only downside to equipment is losing revenue to resale on Craigslist or Nextdoor.
The guidelines are stupid. This website is another casualty of spooks atroturfing the internet. At least you're so pathetically officious about it that we get a laugh.
Game AIs are terrible for neural networks. Game designers want the ability to micro-tune difficulty and decision making to pace the game experience and the curve, and often times what's engaging for players is a simple model they can reason about and understand.

I think there's probably some value in neural networks in game design, but I don't see it being prevalent at runtime, mostly just in the tooling.
UX is good in some ways, but bad in others. Once you learn more about investing, you realize how much power robin hood just omits for the sake of a clean interface. I don't mind having things hidden out of the way, if you let me put things back. Their UX has also been prone to lag, can have problems with clearing funds, among other issues in recent months/years, which is exactly what you don't want from a brokerage.
You might have missed the story of the 20 year old that killed himself as a result of Robinhood: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/06/17/20-y...
> Namely that it would be expensive to open source it with little benefit in return.

Ok, so the whole technology is irrelevant and should not be used then.

> Canonical already spent a large amount of investment opensourcing launchpad

Why develop it as non-open-source to begin with?
It’s largely a good thing but it’s unreasonable not to mention the “flood of bug reports about issues that have since been fixed” effect that comes with manual updates.

This has burnt a few projects pretty badly (especially where distros have packaged an old version and never updated it).
Kubernetes interview questions and answers to score that job
Parkrun looks great, and a lot of fun.

You didn't pay for it, but the motivation is the community in this case. You've probably met some people there, and everyone shares in the experience. That's powerful as well.

Although, I still think paying for the classes to get started is a better way for most people. "Skin in the game" sort of thing, and can be a good mental excuse to leave the office and go to the class, instead of pushing it off to "tomorrow".

> Obviously they aren't running at the moment

That's sad... I can't see why people can't exercise with masks or whatever during Covid. A lot of people will lose all their progress and motivation.
I don't want to quibble with your experiences of peer review; your experiences are valid. But what does a journal provide, then, exactly? Are they relics of the era before cheap self-publication?
Well seed dispersal via wind and/or currents is relatively common over great distances. Hence flora on far flung islands...
People can be immature at any age but this is not a discussion about that.

As a society we decided that there is an age at which you become an adult, fully responsible for your actions.

At 16 you can start driving cars (aka very effective killing machines).

At 17 you can enlist in an army.

At 18 you can become a cop.

At 21 you can start drinking.

So yes, by definition of our society, at 20 years of age you're considered an adult. At that point if you act stupid, don't expect sympathy.
The reality is that VCs are genuinely inclined to fund black founders since their funds are overwhelmingly old white men.

This is an industry that cares a lot about not generating controversy. VCs got hit hard by Me Too- Lightspeed, Kleiner, Binary, Sherpa, 500 Startups, and others all imploded or let people go due to allegations of sexism.

It's a Partner based business where, in general, they rarely hire a new senior Partner and cut them in on the carry.
Investing in black founders and hiring minority junior VCs ends up being the easiest way to brand themselves as racially equitable.
William Barr’s Father Wrote a Science Fiction Book About Sexual Slavery (2019)
Story Arcs: The Six Shapes of Stories
if it's not always on top, why break it out of the browser window at all? maybe i just haven't used it enough for your request to become apparent to me, but it seems counter intuitive on first thought.
Subjectively, my search results have become more cluttered by loosely fitting results than what I'm actually searching for. Even when I'm trying to find a page I've been to before I often need to play keyword roulette and add half a dozen site bans for the likes of Pinterest, bit, quota, and the unpronouncable malware sites Google hasn't purged yet. This is a daily affair. When I'm searching for (generic consumer junk) the result is always available from Amazon,best buy,Wal-Mart,target,and the like. As soon as I stop searching for generic crap Google is worse today than they were years ago because these retailers, review spam sites, etc get boosted to the top of the results despite parameters in the query that should have filtered out these bad results.

In other words. The Google I see has gotten worse at product discovery, and finding relevant debug discussions.
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There was a thread last week that brought up Graham Hancock.

This is yet another thing that his work speculated some 25 years ago, and I think he did a 4-part BBC documentary that tries to connect parts of the world to a single, ocean-faring civilization due to the construction methods and whatnot used in the archaeological remains we have today.

Of course, he's been dismissed as a crackpot so nevermind that.
If you want to avoid repeating work, you can set up a materialized view. But really, quite often a few tailored indexes are enough.
That's an incredibly interesting link. Thanks for sharing!

Posts and comment threads like these are the reason why HN is so damn good
The technology to voyage over the south pacific definitely did not exists in 1600 BCE. So trans pacific human contact is an unlikely explanation. More likely these particular species might have migrated them selfs (e.g. by floating) or with non-human animals (like birds) and later picked up while still alive by human farmers in India.

There is also the possibility of more crossings over the Bering straight. Inuits and proto-inuit cultures have crossed the Bering multiple times. I find it dubious that they never crossed westwards. However, the technological niche which the cultures of the far north have mastered over the centuries have less values in warmer climates so I don’t think much would have been brought from the Americas to as far south as India via the Bering.

Anything crossing the south Pacific from around 500 AD however can definitely be attributed to human crossings as the Polynesian cultures from that time period for sure had the technology for such voyages.
> Would be a shame to lose that.

So don't lose that. Use Debian (or Devuan), or one of its properly-FOSS derivative distributions.
The article misses the most obvious reason: insurance/diversification.

If people no longer go to gyms, they don't need to buy lulu.
>They're equal partners. Why is one given a courteous reply and the other shown the door?
Is it not a good signal that she was able to find and work with a highly qualified co-founder? And build the seed of a good team? Isn't it a famous industry maxim to invest in teams?

Her story is a bit inconsistent here. She says that she e-mailed pitch decks from her e-mail and then sent the same message from her husband's account. Of the two responses she mentions one asked for her pitch deck and the other only responded after a Linked In message. So it doesn't seem like she was sending the same message and/or she was sending messages to people that her husband had a prior relationship with.

I downloaded the app and it's nothing special. It also looks like they bought a bunch of fake 5 star reviews at the end of January. There's nothing exciting there and nothing about her background that would lead anyone to believe that she would be a successful founder. Her pitch deserves to be binned and the only reason that it wouldn't would be because of some personal connection her husband had.
As far as symbols go, it's fairly good. Simple is better than complex. A red triangle has no difficult lines, curves or fine detail. You can spray paint it, print it, draw it... and it will look pretty much the same every time.

The three flag symbol isn't nearly as easy to make the same everywhere every time without some official stencil or something.
I was getting up at 5am and going to the gym near my home at least three times each week for more than a year before the virus closed the gym. We have some basic equipment at home (exercise bands, jump ropes, etc.) and plenty of space. Exercising at home started out OK, but I have dwindled off to next to nothing. I greatly look forward to returning to the gym when it is safe to do so.

I can see how a more extensive piece of equipment could lead to more consistency, but I am not willing to spend the money to find out. Companies that will rely largely on subscription services would need to get creative to keep me on board.
I didn't downvote but I considered it. The second sentence was unnecessary and almost snide.
Maybe. There are leveraged ETFs that do even better than the index, and most retail investors fail to beat the index anyway. Look at all the people on reddit talking about how they are coming back from a 90% loss or something crazy.
We agree that intuition is important, I think we disagree about where it comes from. Intuition comes from experience. A programming language is “intuitive” because it conforms to your previous experiences with programming languages.
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Handmade Hero is one of the best learning resources on SIMD (and, in my opinion, programming in general).

Here's the episode where SIMD is properly introduced: https://guide.handmadehero.org/code/day115
Taking the example of Julian Assange, a UK judge gets to effectively choose his fate, even if that is deciding which jurisdiction he ends up in next.

You are technically correct. In practice the UK is making the decision of his ultimate fate, so I think that is worth highlighting.

However it may not apply at all to the original argument made, so sorry for the typical HN detour.
That's a link to an old version. The latest versions do officially support SLES. I think it was added in the 2.4 release. https://rancher.com/support-maintenance-terms/all-supported-...
Without humans involved, it's not as unlikely as you might think. 2 examples:

The Silversword plant found on Haleakala volcano in Hawaii descends from ancestors found in California, presumably transmitted by birds carrying seeds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyroxiphium_sandwicense_su...

Several separate groups of primates that inadvertently rafted to South America on floating storm debris:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/world/prehistoric-monkeys-cro...
https://userbase.kde.org/Blogilo
> Detail | Tauri | Electron

> FLOSS | Yes | No

Pardon? https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/LICENSE Looks awfully FLOSS to me.
For sandboxing the user is supposed to decide if they will give you access to the permissions that you requested. Now in practice most FlatPak apps don't use sandboxing but hopefully that will change and permissions are treated with scrutiny.
Doesn't look too bad. Monthly users are up 3x from 2008 to 32% of Americans.
> One of the nice properties of debian packages is the ability to `apt-get source` and build it locally.

You don't get that for a lot of third party apt repos actually, no deb-src repo.
This is a well known Mac thing, and its one of the top 5 reasons why I moved away from OSX and refuse to support Apple users

Seriously? You changed operating environments because of font weights? That seems a little over-the-top.
People do not realize just how far industry practitioners take joins :) So my take is that users will find a way to take joins to the point where they do not scale.
I have returned to Linux after a few years on macOS, and tried Fedora 32: it's interesting, but I did not like:

- The hassle you have to do to install "non-free" software.

- It's basically RHEL unstable: plenty of opinionated, bleeding-edge software choices that are either unsupported [1] or very much undocumented, unless you can find some help on the actual RHEL guides.

- COPR (user packages) is worse than Ubuntu's PPA, both of which are much worse than Arch Linux's AUR.

1: Running Docker on Fedora 32 is non trivial because of how firewalld is configured and because Fedora decided to go all in on nftables. Sure, it's the future, but Docker hasn't got the memo yet. Nor the memo about cgroups2.
> If they're going to put advertising up against it, they should be held to the same annoying process and responsibility that broadcast media is.

But then don't you think that is selective application of law? Why should they be held to the same annoying process and responsibility only for advertising? Why not for the entire platform or publisher or whatever you want to call it. Let them be held liable for every post that goes on their network just like broadcast media is. Why just stop at advertising?

EDIT:

> You're just frustrated now because they came for your voice

Maybe they are suppressing other voices too which I am unaware of. But that point is not going to change my opinion is it? That these social media companies do enjoy powers that even Governments do not. My question is: Why are we letting them get away with it?
That’s the thing about systematic racism, each individual actor or firm can claim their actions aren’t racist and yet in the aggregate the effects exist and emerge.

Then we get VCs pledging to take deliberate steps to address the problem and they turn out to be vaporware.
More rich women and rich black people joining the VC network would not solve the problem. And yet that's the conclusion this thinking leads to. It's the author's solution as well and doesn't address the real problem at all.

What portion of non-rich people make up the VC network? It's definitely lower than the percentage of women or black people. No one is more "underrepresented" than non-rich people.

VCs are the 1%. Their target of exclusion is the 99%. Most don't care about race or gender. They will overlook almost any attribute if they see dollar signs, race, gender, and even someone's poor background. Because their primary concern is money.

And since VCs hate poor people. And they know this about each other. Even those VCs that don't hate poor people will be more reluctant to fund poor people because they know other VCs are assholes. If other VCs will discriminate then the company may have trouble raising money and is more likely to fail. This is one of the major the systemic problem.
I guess we have different measures of "success". I don't expect any compiler to beat me in intrinsics or hand-crafted assembly. After all, I can use the compiler. But the compiler can't use my brain. So in all circumstances, I will always at least tie the compiler.

Its an "auto-vectorization success", because the pseudo-code I've laid out auto-vectorizes to SSE 128-bit, AVX 256-bit, and AVX512 512-bit code. Furthermore, CLang supports many architectures, and probably can convert my simple for-loop into SIMD on other architectures without any intervention (ie: ARM Neon)

The code doesn't need to be optimal, it just needs to be faster than the scalar form and portable.
Alphabet has 120K employees right now.

Ex-Google was a meaningful distinction 15 years ago. Today it does not remotely entitle you to being funded.

Many VCs today recognize that Google is an extremely bureaucratic place that does not resemble a startup and I know more than a few who view Google experience as a negative signal.
How would they know she's black from an email? Does her name sound African American to you?
Working out, walking the dog, doing chores, putting the baby to bed, while playing games with no big story element. It's less total time but I still go through quite a bit.
“The self-driving car was fully autonomous at the time at the accident” [1]

It appears the mitigation for a high false positive (I.e., nuisance alarm) was to program in a delay (I.e., “action suppression”) which inadvertently introduced a worse hazard, the timetable from it is in the link below

[1]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/06/uber_self_driving_c...

https://dms.ntsb.gov/public/62500-62999/62978/629713.pdf
"A panel of experts from this field read this paper and felt it likely to make significant contributions". For high-impact journals, you can add "so much so that it was selected to be among the 25% of submissions this cycle to be published".

What peer review does not say is "a panel of experts carefully vetted this paper to ensure that its conclusions are accurate". In fact, part of the premise of replication projects is that peer review doesn't say that.

I've only been a reviewer a couple times, and only in computer science. Other people on HN have experience reviewing for other hard science venues. Maybe their experiences are different. But I think it's notable that you don't hear that in comments about what this hoax exposed; has there been any HN comment from a reviewer saying that they were expected to rigorously vet submissions, the way a PhD board does with a thesis?

Daniel Engber makes many of these points better than I do, here: https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/grievance-studies-hoax-...
I'm surprised English and the US are that dominant. Assuming it's not a data problem, does anyone know why this is? Do other countries have different outlets for a random person's "I want to make a show" impulse, or is it just not really a popular idea outside the US?
Have other hardcore anti-autoplay users noticed some autoplay getting through as of the last update? I've had it at the highest possible settings for a long time and nothing ever got through, now something is different. It not all the time, but often enough that it bugs me.
This maintenance seems poorly timed:
"Thank you for checking out Runnaroo!

Unfortunetely, we are temporarily taking the site down while we perform some updates. Apologies to our existing users. We are working to get back up to be better than before."
Don't you suppose that letters also contained a lot of garbage and propaganda? I don't think we are generating less primary source material now that will be usable by future historians.
You actually think they are giggling to themselves that they ran some obscure magic Nazi number of ads and nobody knows? hehehe!

There's a lot to bash Trump with... we don't need to make stuff up.
If he does, I can see why it's not popular. I tried a single query and was told my search limits been exceeded.
I suspect it is all dependencies because on Linux KeepassXC 2.5.4 itself is only 14.5 MB.
If you want to learn how to do accessibility, specifically alt texts, properly, this guy does it exactly right.

I'm a screen reader user and don't encounter those often. There's even some fun in those alt texts, i.e.

"screenshot of unicode character inspector revealing "epic" to actually be "еріс". of course you, a screen reader user, aren't fooled."

Btw, most people would just label that "screenshot", which is extremely infuriating.
Auto-updates of all Snap packages can be turned off at /etc/hosts by adding a line:

127.0.0.1 api.snapcraft.io
If it wasn't robin hood it would have been something else. It takes a certain addictive personality to keep doubling down and doubling down.
A good deal of post-Depression financial regulation was about making it harder for laypeople to invest, because the layperson is not really a "rational" investor and because there was a decade of real economic harm from letting people treat the stock market as a casino. People in the '20s were going in debt to buy stocks and then when the bubble finally popped it was ugly.

I don't know that good UX is a positive for society in this scenario.