skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PayPal reveals that it is developing crypto capabilities
> Bazel is fucking awful. Most miserable years of my career is when I was tasked with maintaining a build system based on it. Same for gRPC, which TFA also does a good job of shutting down.

Counter-anecdata: my most miserable years of my career were when dealing with bespoke build and API systems that weren't Bazel and gRPC.
> that the free expression and exchange of ideas is thwarted in advance because one doesn't want to deal with drama, fight, or insults that come with saying something not in lock-step with the prevailing group-think

So are you suggesting that people not express their opinions? It sounds like you want exactly what she's complaining about.
People using their childhood dreams as an excuse to be functional sociopaths doesn't cut it.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/30/20891314/elon-musk-...
https://www.elonmusk.today
In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard Feynman recounts a similar "drifting" of the location of the ego while in a sensory deprivation tank:

"I tried and after a while I got my ego to go down through my neck into the middle of my chest. When a drop of water came down and hit me on the shoulder, I felt it "up there," above where "I" was. Every time a drop came I was startled a little bit, and my ego would jump back up through the neck to the usual place."

https://pastebin.com/42YhjjYg
Just finished a book club for Gödel, Escher, Bach, which gives a lay -- but pretty detailed and thorough -- explanation of the proof. Here's how I'd say lay out the key insights as they applied to the parts I didn't understand before.

You want to use pure math to say "this statement cannot be proven". To do that, you:

1) Express the concept of statements following from other strings by the axioms or other theorems.

2) Express the concept of "this is a valid chain of statements, each of which follows from the previous". (GEB calls it a proof-pair.)

3) Express the concept of "Statement A does not have such a valid chain" (there exists no such chain with A at the end).

That allows you to say "Statement A cannot be proven."

From that point, it's a matter of extending it to the statement (call it G): "There exists a statement S such that S has no proof and S statisfies criteria A/B/C."

...and then constructing the criteria A/B/C such that G is the one statement that can satisfy it. The details of how you construct the criteria so that you are specifying G are the Gödel numbering that the Quanta article describes.
It's pretty clear from looking at the map that they didn't attempt to include as many of the left-leaning sites for whatever reason. All but one of the sites in New England (one of the most liberal areas of the country) are right-leaning. This is not a representative selection of the news sources in the area, they are missing lots of data.

Edit: I am not taking a political stance here. Just saying there are news sources left out of this survey.
Dishwashers have a quality effect like many things.

If you have an ineffective dishwasher, you have to do lots of prep before putting dishes in, exclude lots of things from getting washed, etc. That takes longer, plus you don't cycle it as often, so you might find that you need a dirty dish and need to wash it by hand.

A very effective dishwasher is one for which you don't need to prep the dishes (just put them in) and can handle most of what you need to wash. It takes less work to use, and cycles more frequently. You can also cycle more frequently by getting a smaller machine.

The opportunity to invest in effective appliances is one reason it's nice to own a home, as opposed to renting.
This is a good law and should be applied to big tech.
There are still testing backlogs for COVID, it can take multiple days to get results (assuming the doctors decide to run the test). Link #2 also says:
It’s hard to know for sure [if clotting is a major factor], because the clotting problem is apt to go undetected.

Since most people think of COVID as a respiratory disease and the clotting symptoms aren't as well publicized, doctors may not always call for the test when respiratory symptoms aren't present.
I love that article and am a huge fan of Slate Star Codex.

But to be clear - it wasn't "canceled" by the NYT, at least not in the way the term canceled is commonly used nowadays. He made the decision to take the blog offline because the NYT decided to dox him, but their purpose wasn't (as far as we know) for that to happen.
I think I would be very interested in this
16GB and 32GB ECC UDIMMs are easy to find and reasonably priced: https://www.cdw.com/product/samsung-ddr4-32-gb-dimm-288-pin-...

The real advantage of the PRO processors is that they support 8-channel memory and have more PCIe lanes. The higher TDP spec might allow for higher all-core turbo, too.
Randy Linden has released the source code to SNES Doom
All disease could cause long term damage in some people. Nothing new.

Do u know that hospital are frequently overwhelmed even before this pandemic? This nothing new either.
They were so obviously wrong that they could have saved themselves 600K, a bunch of legal fees and a serious dent in their privacy image. After all, the fact that a complaint is leveled against someone is not something that needs to follow that person the rest of their life if not substantiated.

This is the reason why in many countries suspects are not named until conviction. So that they can clear their name in case the allegations are not substantiated enough to lead to conviction. Just being a suspect of anything should not ruin your life, even when you are a public figure. This as opposed to the United States where even just being a suspect can ruin your life easily, complete with mugshot and newspaper articles that detail the complaint but that never seem to find the resources to deal with the cases that don't make it to court or that fail to lead to a conviction. But that doesn't matter, in the court of public opinion the damage will be done.
Actually it does. Finland calculates fines, e.g. speeding tickets, as a function of your income, otherwise the rich will treat them as a simple nuisance.
That's pretty much exactly my experience. "Waking up", feeling there's a stranger in the house (or an evil spirit/presence), and not being able to do anything about it, except panic with my eyes closed (can't open them), until somehow I fall back asleep. Then I always wonder whether it was a dream or not.
Maybe you're right - it's not unsuccessful after all, it really is a bullshit project... Now _every_ part of the OS is in a container! Wheee!

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

(for those who don't know, it was renamed from CoreOS to Container Linux)
Because I had to explore all the things that wouldn't work before finding the two lines that did.
Oh oh I get it, so once the cart is delivered they can go about looking for a horse to drive it.
It made me almost feel bad watching it, though. The dude is clearly so quick -- not even in coding, but just using a computer in general -- that given how much of my life I spend in front of this thing, I think I really missed a trick in not being extra attentive to trying to make sure I could maneuver my way around it as fast as he does.
I don't see how that necessarily follows. These sites don't even need to be put up by someone who lives in the area.

From the article:

> We suspect many of the local sites are not based in or actually operating within the communities they serve. Timpone had previously operated “local” news sites using content produced by writers based in the Philippines and using fake bylines
> There is nothing unlawful about treating her poorly based on her "unorthodox thoughts".

It could be that she is, not being a lawyer, wrong on the "unlawful" part (it's impossible to know without knowing the details and the NY anti-discrimination statutes and caselaw). So what? It's not an argument in a lawsuit, exact precision of all legal terms is not the most important thing here.
I tried one of those AirPlay servers before and it worked... okay for me. I've got my PC on LAN and an access point across the room (albeit without direct line of sight) and I still had network hiccups.

Since it turns out connecting the iPad to a Mac via USB will make it show up as a video source in OBS (not just QuickTime), I'm inclined to run OBS on my MacBook (also on LAN) with the NDI plugin to stream the screen to my PC. If that falls through, I guess I'll bite the bullet and get the app.
> Hopefully over wilderness...

RV that park at the Walmart a ways down the road from me can't even manage to find the right place to dump... I can imagine helicopter RVs being pretty terrible.
> I don't see anyone in this thread (or the article) claiming that they're "only conservative", do you?

In the comment I replied to:

> Why not just say "Hundreds of hyper-conservative sites masquerading as local news?"

As a suggested headline, that would certainly imply they're only conservative. A headline should accurately describe the content. Mentioning that the super majority are conservative would be an improvement, implying that they all are would not be.

> It's 95% conservative sites. Do you dispute that?

I literally quoted the relevant part there, what kind of question is this? Must this site really turn into Twitter? Did you really need a "Ha! Gotcha! Screencapped and Retweeted!!!!!" moment?
I see you're familiar with the Apple design paradigm. Remove functionality and call it a feature.

Have you reserved your MacBook Wheel yet?

https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA
All collaborations are a love affair
Thank you for this, Zeno!

I read the sample chapter and enjoyed it so much, I bought the book on gumroad. But ONE BIG NIT: the sample chapter is pdf, but the book is not. Can you please provide me a pdf of the full book? Email on my profile.

Looking forward to reading the rest and providing feedback.

I hope you sell a bunch of books and write some more :-)
Malware can take them for you, and it doesn't need to be your phone either. Maybe your gf is playing some mobile game, while pointing the camera at you... which is pretty reasonable situation.

That's what people get for trying to put every function into a single device...
And it won't come close to Theranos. Tesla makes real products that are class-leading.

Class-leading in what sense(s)?

Even if Tesla can't reach level 5, it will be damn close

But that's the problem with self-driving cars. Damn close isn't good enough. A miss is as good as a mile.

The problem with the self-driving/automation scale is that anything around levels 2-4 probably shouldn't be allowed on public roads, at least not yet.

Basic driver aids, where the driver is always fully engaged but the system can help to avoid mistakes, are proven to improve safety. This is what you get at level 1, and such technologies are already widespread in the industry.

If we can ever make a fully autonomous vehicle that can genuinely cope with any driving conditions, so you don't need any driver or controls in the vehicle any more, then obviously this has the potential to beat human drivers. This is level 5. But we don't know how to do this yet, and I have seen absolutely no evidence so far that anyone will know how to do it any time soon either.

In between, we have several variations where a human driver is required for some of the monitoring and control of the vehicle but not all. This has some horrible safety implications, particularly around the transitions between human- and vehicle-controlled modes of operation, and around creating a false sense of security for the human driver. The legal small print will probably say that they must remain fully alert and able to take over immediately at any time, but whether it is within human capability to actually do that effectively is an entirely different question.

and make driving 10-100x safer than just a human.

I've been driving for more than 25 years, and racked up hundreds of thousands of miles behind the wheel. I've never caused an accident, as far as I'm aware. I've never had a ticket. I try to be courteous to my fellow road users and give a comfortable ride to any passengers I have with me. What, in your opinion, would driving 10-100x safer than mine look like?

Humans certainly aren't perfect drivers and we have plenty of variation in ability. Things can go wrong, and I'm sure we'd all be happy to see fewer tragedies on our roads. But given the vast amounts of travel we undertake and how many of us do drive, autonomous vehicles will need an extremely good record -- far better than they have so far -- to justify the sort of claim you're making here.
Show HN: Event Driven Level Design
600k is rounding error right?
>Socialism led to the USSR and modern China, the USA's greatest rivals, due to their combination of large population, non-trivial wealth, and expansionist tendencies. Hence, the association of "socialism" with USA's enemies.

China doesn't have a classical communist type of centrally planned system and it has a very large private sector. Isn't that very much like capitalism?

USA's greatest rivals actually kept USA in check from ever expanding and it's funny how you phrased that in terms of socialism. You have no idea what socialism is and mix it freely with whatever sounds good to your point.

And don't forget, it's our western capitalistic system which gave China everything on a tray in the pursuit of profit with no regards to long term goals.

It is our western capitalism who shipped tens of millions of jobs to China with no regard to national security.
(edited, wrong post).

The title of this post emphasize just the hacking of a page: it's the second time that I see that this website is a bit superficial in its writing
They also say, 'Liberty', 'In God We Trust', & 'E Pluribus Unum'. Lots of writing on government-issued materials is false, ceremonial, outdated, or overridden by later acts.

If it really bothers you, you can file that off your pennies before spending them at 5¢ value. We won't mind.
Australia dropped the copper 'penny' (one cent) along with its two-cent coin ages ago and nobody complained except for a few electronics people like me who used them as heat sinks for diodes and other electronic components. (Yuh simply drill a hole and solder them onto the wire leads of hot components.)

At exactly one cent each, they were much cheaper than their proper catalogue equivalents, we were left all adrift when our cheap source of coppers ran out.

So guys begin stocking up now while you've still the chance.
> Paradox of Tolerance.

The paradox of the paradox of tolerance, though, is that you can exclude any ideology for any reason and insist that you're only excluding the "intolerant" and shut down criticism by invoking the paradox of tolerance.
I think we can trust them for now. They seem like good people and company. I don't know what's at stake in the future, but Mozilla has trusted their service, so there's bo good reason not to.
That's a very specific dystopia. There are probably very many other kinds.
Also touching on Timpone and the LGIS bogus news propaganda engine: the “Reopen” domain surge thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22928292).
>Pewdiepie has a hundred million subscribers or whatever, does he dwarf the New York times in terms of influence in social or political life? No.

Who knows, though? If people influence opinions, by definition don't they influence social or political life?
But it doesn't automatically change lanes to follow routes or pass slow traffic. It doesn't take exits or navigate interchanges. It doesn't stop for stoplights. You can't drive it around a parking lot from your phone with nobody in the driver's seat.

What Autopilot offers is not "Full Self Driving", but don't pretend like the features on your Jeep are equivalent.
I don't believe I would be productive on a livestream. That said, I think it would be like exercising a muscle I neglect - similar to the physical exercise I don't do :) I'd probably grow as a programmer if I were more comfortable searching for solutions in front of others.
Where else do you host where you can easily attract potential contributors, sponsors and recruiters? Self hosting is not a solution since everyone would have to maintain separate accounts on all those instances. The discoverability is also poor. Git's decentralization is a wasted opportunity if discoverability and participation aren't equally decentralized.

On a related note, I like sourcehut's design. I am not completely familiar with it, but I don't think you need an account at all to contribute.
I for one think the team behind it and especially Poettering have incredibly bad taste in software, which bleeds into their designs, and possibly the worst attitudes and culture of any major OS initiative, making Linus look tame (hell, at least if he got bent out of shape he was usually right, and not just throwing a tantrum because he could get away with it). I don’t necessarily disagree with it’s goals, even, I just think the implementation’s not great and the team are, largely, self-righteous jerkasses. See links others have posted here, their attitude and demeanor’s pretty out-there.
Oh wow, great feedback.

We do have a metric like median time to resolve issue - and we even display it on a chart over time.

Sentiment analysis (natural language or emojis) could be really interesting in terms of assessing the issues, we probably don't have the resources to pull this off right now but this would be amazing.

and yeah, we should be careful not to incentivize user behavior that rewards criticizing maintainers as some kind of a leverage.
There are similar issues for any suspend-able and/or hot-swappable system. An extension to process signals should be created to inform them that a system-context change has occurred. Clock timestamps, features, all assumptions should be invalidated.
It seems wrong to go in the direction of telling intermediaries to blacklist and curate traffic. The right thing is to develop a scalable way to notify sources to take down the content.
1. I agree that "proper civil society" is rather questionable as criticism of China goes, but do the others not apply? I think they clearly seem to be points of commentary on the Chinese political system, which isn't a reflection of a race/ethnicity. I have no trouble believing that comments that you have received throughout your life were in bad faith. I've heard similar (at least in sentiment) comments about the society in my parents' country of origin. However, I think the majority of those comments (as with the ones in question here) fit into the bucket of clearly criticizing a social structure that applies to but does not immutably define the people living in it, and certainly doesn't apply to you if you live outside of it.

2. On a slightly different note, I think that while whataboutism is generally neither productive nor relevant, in this case a small amount could be relevant because the implication is that some other countries have developed to a state of "proper civil society, [...] democracy, and so on" while China has not. If the claim relates China to some base standard in the author's mind, then pointing out failings in those places seems like an attack on the point itself, but I don't know whether the US was at the top of their mind when crafting that sentence.
So while Arch ships everything, and being Arch it doesn't really have a default, its recommended networking system isn't systemd-networkd but rather netctl, which is basically everything systemd-networkd should have been.
> The higher TDP spec might allow for higher all-core turbo, too.

Same TDP spec as the existing non-pro threadrippers - 280W.

> The real advantage of the PRO processors is that they support 8-channel memory and have more PCIe lanes.

Those are advantages yes but the other DIMM types means you can also actually exceed 256GB of RAM, which with 64-cores is definitely also a bottleneck on the existing Threadripper lineup
Snark directly related to the main point is fine. The CoreOS comment is unrelated.

In fact the author liked etcd in the time period when it was directly associated with the "bullshit" project. And even mentions "but that doesn't really matter".

Bashing K8S is at least related to the main point.
The annexation of Tibet was in 1951, claims to Taiwan have always been there, and the subjugation of millions is nothing new (Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution were in the 50s and 60s).

I think people are just waking up to the reality that the opening of China will not automatically lead to greater liberalism as was predicted.
... and eliminates the problematic wireless latency overhead.
When someone posted an article about the coin shortage on Facebook recently, I realized that I haven't used cash for a purchase since sometime before the lockdown started. And even before that, my primary use of cash was the collections basket at church—which the lockdown has ended up transforming into a credit card transaction now. Our formerly cash transactions for our cleaning lady have converted into Zelle payments. Friends who also commented mentioned tipping delivery people although I prefer contactless delivery and always include the tip in the original payment rather than have to come close enough to a delivery person to hand off cash. Cash has long been on a decline and I think the pandemic is accelerating this to the point where it's going to end up being moot.
The same thing happened to my Mom's Facebook account.

She's a realtor that used Facebook extensively to stay in contact with her clients, as well as advertise for new business.

One day, the account disappeared for malicious activity.

PS: if anyone sees this and can help, shoot me a DM on Twitter :)
I played Photopia a few years after it was released, and I still remember the impact it made vividly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopia
But you don't understand. Car analysts since the early 90s have been saying that electric cars would become profitable and become a serious chunk of the market by 2020 because they all knew that musk was going to come along and show us how great electric cars are and save the world.
"Stop boosting her"

Why am I never convinced, and always get annoyed, when I see phrases like this?
_You_ aren't ignoring it - your representative have been ignoring it (and effectively and mostly, still are; they're just making a bit of noise in the hope that the protest goes away.)
I had some of this around the same time I was experiencing periodic vertigo. In my case, the inability to wake automatically was tied to nutritional / metabolic issues plus a general lack of sleep. My point being, at least in my case it was the body's warning signals. Once I got those issues under control, I've not experienced further issues with sleep paralysis.
> I make sure I always have some stickers with me when I go to Hotels

For extra fun, put a sticker over it that says "THIS IS NOT A CAMERA". Something like this:

https://twitter.com/JimStLeger/status/762008969153908736/pho...
I would really love if this displayed the bundle size of each package (a la bundlephobia[0]).

I'm not quite sure I understand how or why this is a business, but there certainly is some base level of utility value. I have a feeling this will ultimately end up encapsulating a job board.

[0] https://bundlephobia.com
Andean condor birds “flap wings just 1% of the time”
The programmer's credo: "We do these things not because they are hard, but because we did not realize they were going to be hard."

Originally seen from HN user idlewords; not sure if he coined it, though.

Edit: I have it backward:

https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/761656824202276864
Mulatu Astatke is a real artist and genius!

He has a jazz house in Addis Ababa, where you can find himself every-night, always available for a chat!

A great man, in perfect good shape: search for " ethiopiques " albums, it will change your life :)
If we assume that it takes 2 seconds to pick up a penny, and you were to pick up pennies continuously, then you would be “earning” only $18 / hour.