skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To be honest, I rarely enough need to refer to UK pounds, Euro, or Yen - that I'd much more likely just type it out like that instead of try to remember/experiment what the magic key combination to produce them properly is.

The description says 'english only', not 'US only'. There are quite a few english speaking people all over the world. Not to mention that Britain, which I'd consider pretty english, definitely needs the pound sign quite often. And European keyboards produce the €-sign with ease, I even have it explicitly marked.

I can see your point about intensional constraints and social experiments, but I fully disagree with your point that a lack of UTF-8 is a 'nit-pick' or that is is unneeded for english conversation. You can work around it, sure, but that does not make it great.

> That argument seems to me to inevitable end with some combination of 4chan-ish image boards (because "people want to communicate in memes") or Snapchat-ish 100% video content (because "people want to communicate in video"). If you want those things - go use those things.

Including images or videos is a feature with quite some overhead, while romanizing UTF-8 input is putting in extra work just to disallow it. So this goes in quite a different direction.
> We need all the window views we can get. So, please send yours to qunaliaa@gmail.com. A 10-minute, horizontal HD video of your window and frame, with your name and location for credits. Horizontal, vertical, square, round or decorative, all kinds of windows are welcome!

Oh, I guess it makes sense now that I think about it, but I really thought the views were live at first. Watching what I thought were live feeds felt super cool. :(
signal.

The issue is getting all your contacts to use it. Works for about half of mine and it's ready to go for the rest when facebook do something foul that pisses them off. This is a good backstop that counterbalances all the reasons facebook want to do something evil to those users. (Eg break the encryption, put ads in the messages, provide the NSA with a backdoor etc etc.) "Mark, if we do that, we lose most whatsapp users to signal by the end of the week."

Signal is great. It costs nothing to have next to whatsapp on your phone. The desktop client is significantly better. Most of what is good about whatsapp they literally bought from signal.
I knew a guy that suddenly in his thirties started believing the earth was flat. His friends ignored it and tried to play it off. I tried talking to him to no avail.

One night I couldn't sleep and thought about how an average guy like him could do a 180 like that. I googled just to see what arguments the 'movement' tried to lean on. The following weeks I was bombarded with suggestions of more flat earth content, even after downvoting it YouTube kept recommending it for weeks if not months.

Who knows how many minds have been eroded already.
> The other thing worth noting is that the hugely successful internet advertising campaigns, eg Tesla, who have a brand now comparable to Mercedes, paid facebook, google et al. precisely $0 to achieve that.

How?
> This often makes the system brittle to new changes because subsystems have very strict expectations of data schema, even when they don't really need to care about i

I deal a lot with this, because I interface with software outside my control. In the case of Rust I find super easy to solve, just use this litte trick:

https://serde.rs/attr-flatten.html

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct User {
id: String,
username: String,

#[serde(flatten)]
extra: HashMap<String, Value>,
}

Serde is very good. Near all you want is there.
Google wants to monitor your social media
Not the original commenter, but my guess is, because the cutoff is 22khz, higher frequencies are normalized down around 20-22khz, blending them with those higher frequencies and distorting and changing them slightly.

Whereas being mastered for 27khz would allow some of those higher frequencies to remain as is and sound closer to the natural sound you'd hear.

I may be wrong but as far as I know, this is because those higher frequencies are still picked up and interpreted by us whether we actually hear them or not.

Personally, i've never really noticed the difference between 44.1kHz and 48kHz, but I do notice the difference between listening to audio on headphones with different cutoffs.

20-20000hz headphones sound noticably less good than 18-22000hz or even 24000hz. It makes even more of a difference than price point usually does. To the point where it's the only thing i really look for when looking for headphones for music.
We can't embed media but we can still link to it? I welcome efforts to encourage higher-quality discussion on social media, but I don't see how this gets us there.

https://subreply.com/about

"Subreply was created by Lucian Marin from the desire of a having a simple to use, English only, public forum that has nothing in common with ancient and untrustworthy social networks."

What does "untrustworthy" mean in this context, and how is Subreply easier to trust by comparison? The entire terms are "be nice or else". What exactly does "nice" mean and what are the consequences of violating this vague standard? It doesn't say. I don't understand how that's trustworthy.
Lots of hobbiests will buy things off ebay, Amazon, or Alibaba. It is extremely common and if you go into forums it is even encouraged. I'm not saying you should go to those places, but that lots of people do.
FidoNet was my text-only social network...
Hillary Clinton, several ways; though most famously in the Basket of Deplorables monologue.
I wish there was just a protocol to do what Twitter does. Oh wait: https://activitypub.rocks/
Removing ash trays from public life was one of the worst recent urban decisions we've made. People don't quit smoking because they can't find an ash tray, they just throw the butt on the ground and buy another pack, and no one cleans it up. Not too long ago, practically every building had one of those plastic post ash trays out front.
I think you can disapprove of the man and it sounds like it is correct that he was disingenuous with backing his message with action, but isn’t it conceivable that the message was still worth something and that the message still speaks to us?
Thanks for responding!

This was more-so a thought of making the expenses of running a school cheaper, rather than teaching in a new way. I do like your enthusiasm, but let me think about this and how I feel about possibly pursuing this avenue!
(Knowing nothing about the author of this reply at all, upon reading the comment as a reference) - as spoken by someone who has yet to have been down the rabbit hole of what "personhood" might mean.

Identity is a philosophical problem and a relationship, and so far we've managed to kick the can down the road of what an identity might mean outside the nation state, but the internet may prove to be a bit of a forcing function in deciding some of these questions we had the luck to avoid. I've been doubtful of digital identity startups because most of them are just substituting an opaque problem in crytography for the capital-H hard problem in political philosophy, which originates in prehistorical problems in collecting a census.

Maybe OAuth with some OIDC extensions and attributes solves everything, and FIDO has solved it, but if there were a way to bet against that, personally I'd go all in.
Never ascribe to arrogance that which can be adequately explained by ignorance.
Yes, we do need a "theory of everything," or at a minimum we need a model of quantum gravity. Consider the color of gold, as a famous example; gold has its unique and curious color because of a combination of relativistic and quantum effects at the subatomic level [0].

Edit: Wow, fast downvotes! Sorry, I'll add another paragraph: The reason why we cannot use quantum mechanics (QM) or general relativity (GR) alone to explain the color of gold is because we know that the color comes from photons being emitted by electrons, as in QM, but the electron orbitals are distorted as if the electrons were moving at a serious fraction of the speed of light, as in GR. I think that this flatly contradicts her when she says:

> So far, this is a purely theoretical problem because with the experiments that we can currently do, we do not need to use quantum gravity. In all presently possible experiments, we either measure quantum effects, but then the particle masses are so small that we cannot measure their gravitational pull. Or we can observe the gravitational pull of some objects, but then they do not have quantum behavior. So, at the moment we do not need quantum gravity to actually describe any observation.

The color of gold, the liquidity of mercury, and even the ability of lead-acid batteries to turn over car starters are all everyday observations which need both QM and GR to explain. But, as she correctly notes, we can't put QM and GR together yet! So we do need some sort of quantum gravity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry
Show HN: A better Kanban board – Kanception.io
Having tried Trello, Jira, and Monday.com. Either they were too simple or overly complex. So, I built my own. It's definitely a beta at this point.
Could be that some pyramid scheme victims aren’t good at targeting the ads when they try to recruit people? So they just overbid for generic ad slots.
ARM essentially toyed with VLIW with Thumb and Thumb2.

As I understand it, these were influenced by SuperH, a 32-bit RISC design that uses 16-bit instructions, so two are always executing at once.

The busybox-armv7m Thumb2 binary is the smallest of all the compiled architectures.

Thumb2 appears to have been much more practical.
How can one ascertain that funds are insured by FDIC up to 250K$ for each depositor? You’re not an FDIC-insured bank, and I assume that from Evolve’s perspective the only depositor is Yotta, so if Evolve fails, FDIC would only pay out Yotta 250K$ total, not upto 250K$ per Yotta customer?
Neural networks don’t understand what optical illusions are (2018)
Great to see more efforts to map out knowledge for humanity :)

Life-long learner myself as well, and I built this tool for maintaining and connecting the dots from disparate learning resources online: https://getrumin.com/
How many people working minimum wage jobs can afford “leisure”?

No other time in history has technology taking out whole industries. Tesla is worth more than any of the car makers and employs many fewer people. The five major tech companies have fewer workers and paying them more. The US has never seen such income disparity as it sees now.

Also when producing physical goods, the more goods you produce, the more people you need to hire.

Microsoft doesn’t need to hire more people when it sells more copies of Office or Windows, Neither does Google need to hire more people to meet demand. Apple needs to hire more people to meet demand of hardware products - but those are all in China.

Amazon is the only company in Big Tech that actually hires more Americans when demand increases.
How Tesla, for example, did it is a separate question relevant to marketing in general and the analysis will be complex.

Relevant here is that it is a fact that they did it paying facebook (& google etc.) absoutely nothing and have clearly been wildly, amazingly successful.
Sometimes I wonder if there's a parallel between how neurons interact during psychosis and how human minds interact over the internet under conditions of manipulation for engagement. Maybe in both cases, there's some damping/attentional mechanism that is missing/not functioning.
Totally cutting off everyone over 65 from contact with everyone under 65, for months, is impractical. The UK briefly considered this before backing rapidly away.

And, er, 2% isn’t nothing.
>>> import langdetect

>>> probabilities = {x.lang: x.prob for x in langdetect.detect_langs(text)

Works for me, for differentiating Russian and Ukrainian text.
I've bought hundreds of electronic parts on eBay and rarely had issues. I discovered LED strips were a thing by shopping on eBay, years ago, much before they were trendy, I was buying them at one fifth the cost American retailers were charging. Bought Arduino clones for a quarter the price of the "real" thing when I was a broke student. ATMega MCUs for a dollar a piece, free shipping. They worked perfectly fine. Could not have afforded them without eBay.

I'm Canadian, and last I checked, the shipping costs to get parts from places like digikey was just ridiculous.
I grew up in Wichita and knew a few aerospace engineers as friends when I was still a teenager. The revolving door between the big companies is well known and has been going since the 90s at least. They told me pretty clearly that you wanted to be jumping companies every couple of years because the poaching offers were always way better for advancement than demonstrating loyalty.
It doesn't have to be, is my point. I've done 'New American' at a Farm to Table and we did 20k+ nights 4-5 day days of the week during the peak season.
If you're interested in how some multithreaded game engines work, this was a really interesting talk: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022186/Parallelizing-the-Naug...
It's remain to be seen.

But one important factor why China is ruling this industry right now is not only because the cheap labor, but also the massive supply chain. If you're prototyping some electronic hardware, you're in Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen, you can probably go there and find all the parts you want in one hour.

It's extremely slow and expensive for other places to do the same in the world compared to there. And it still holds true for other parts in China (where many of them with even same quality of labor but cheaper).
not working on firefox, x-frame blocked...
That you need to be close to graduating to go look for an internship.

Go and look for an internship as soon as you have a vague idea about how stuff work.
Do something newsworthy and facebook will advertise you for free. The goal is to get bloggers/news orgs to write something about your product. Then user's will share those articles for free
anxiety about fatigue the next day begets insomnia, which begets anxiety...

So I focus more on coping with daytime fatigue rather than controlling sleep. I find it’s helped my insomnia to focus less on sleep ”performance”

- Instead of rating my sleep, I mentally rate my fatigue during the following day from 1-5. 1, I can’t function at all. 5 I’m full on galaxy brain...

- I’m often surprised how many “bad night sleeps” get me to a pretty good 4/5 the next day.

- I observe my days are usually at least a 3, which helps with the anxiety that creates insomnia

- I use exercise, sunlight, engaging work, rest to cope with the fatigue and get an energy boost

- with this data, I don’t stay in bed if I can’t sleep. I find other things to do, knowing it’s likely I’ll still have a 3 or 4 day...

All in all it helps me a ton to defang the anxiety. I remind myself some of my best days are jet lagged on first day of some fun trip in a new place!
Here’s another variant, "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black," Joe Biden, May 22, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/861007175/biden-pulls-back-on...
While there may be some disease factor, I think it had more to do with wealth. Everyone had giant, curated estates in a post-scarcity world. I dont think it was said they didn’t leave their house - everyone was raised by robots in some libertarianish utopia of maximum self achievement.

More Puritan-utopia than disease fearing.
Sharing. Though to be fair, it did invent charging people to share.
Huh, I'm also on Firefox and it worked.
> the user doesn't really much ability to define their own social graph

Far as I'm concerned, this is the main feature of Twitter. The only thing that really sets it apart is that every exchange is a public exchange.

This also (until recently) set a standard for statements, where if there are enough replies, and even the critical ones don't cast doubt on the statement, you could have more trust in it. Now of course it's uncertain, since Twitter automatically censors and pseudo-censors replies, including quality ones. Sometimes Twitter does this thing where it won't even show you a reply that you sent unless you have a direct link.
Or, we could have just made it easier for skilled workers from other countries to immigrate to the United States. 30 years ago (or even 5 years ago) I'm sure most of them would have happily immigrated to the US for a higher standard of living and better wages, and both they and the United States would be in a stronger position.

IMO if a foreign adversary spends 20+ years and tens of thousands of dollars (at a minimum) training a highly skilled worker we would be insane not to take that skilled worker for free, if they want to move and work here.
I use a VPN first because it arguably attracts less attention than Tor does.

As Reelin notes, the difference is using multiple VPN providers, so you distribute trust.
If it were true that all groups of two people were the same age, then it would follow that all groups of any number of people are the same age, since any individual could be pared with any other individual to form a group of 2. But of course it is not true.
NetZero was awesome! I had it around 2000. The ads weren't that bad since the internet that was being delivered was itself pretty much ad free. If I remember right, you were limited as to your time usage per day, but hey, it was $free.99, and the hour of internet was more than enough for casual use. people didn't live their whole lives online then.
I put together some low effort esp8266 temperature/humidity probes. I used DHT chips cause they were cheaper/bundled with a board, but the tutorials said the DS chips were better.
I think I've scraped the bottom of the barrel of YouTube content and ads, the worst are these Japanese weight loss commercials.

How's your situation, are you still learning and pursuing your own journey? I can totally relate to the feeling of being out of work but I believe strongly that our work is a calling and we must listen to our intuition on the journey to mastery of our art.
I just unfollowed everyone that wasn't a close friend or family. The addictive draw is pretty much gone as I'll scroll it for 5 min every week or so and be totally caught up
Retweet used to actually retweet things (i.e. pretend "RT" and the OP's handle), so it's like the floppy disk icon. Parler uses a megaphone.
Startup Years; 7 Lessons
> this is about making Macs that support development of the next generation of software for iPhones.

This doesn't sound right to me. You seem to be looking for ulterior motives where none need exist. Isn't it a sufficient explanation that Apple believes they can build a superior product at a lower cost? Why does it need to be some conspiracy about re-framing the Mac as an iOS devkit?

For this conspiracy to hold, you'd first have to believe that Apple builds Macs with developers in mind. Nobody with a passing familiarity with recent Mac history could believe that. It's been a long time since Apple has focused any Mac product on the needs of developers. Why would they start now?

Besides, so what if future Macs are more like the iPhone? While it might be of occasional benefit to iOS developers by increasing feature parity of their iPhone Simulator, that's an extraordinarily marginal reason to overhaul a critical nexus of Apple's product stack.
I'm actually a member of several active public and private groups on Facebook where many posts have informative discussions. I rarely ever look at my newsfeed though. If I only had the newsfeed, I would have dumped Facebook long ago.
I am a bit disappointed about that a lot of his claims how to identify clones are referenced with [5] own research. I mean doesnt one need confirmation from the IP holder?
Dropping out of university will look bad on your résumé, no one will hire you.

There are a ton of jobs, even high profile jobs, that can be reached even without a degree, at least in it. Fields experience, attitude and willing to learn (kinda ironically) will get you very far.

I still believe that getting a degree is worth it and plan to go back to studying once some things are settled though.
> Which distribution(s) do you run

Slackware

> Why did you choose them?

You get a no-nonsense, standard Linux/GNU install without a bunch of distribution specific complexity layered on top.
Best case scenario, Analog eats Maxim and fires their entire management and product teams... or more. Worst case scenario is a Boeing-McDonnell Douglas style merger where Maxim is left running the show. That would essentially remove ADI as a viable product option, so let's hope they're smarter than that.

(Which they were, when ADI bought LTC. That merger has gone about as well as these things can, for customers. The difference between LTC and Maxim, though, is that LTC was best-in-class on every feature save price, whereas Maxim... friends don't let friends design in Maxim. They're no good for you unless you're an Apple or Qualcomm.)
OIDC is just starting to get some traction in instutions, but it's really about federated authentication with trust of the IDP implied. Digital identity itself is still in the context of the given IDP you've federated to, and there isn't much better than whatever their enrolment process is.

There are a couple of companies that are using hyper ledger to federate identity providers like banks, governments, and other institutions, but the scope of that identity is still local to the federation participants who are a walled garden of their own.
The original Merced was a performance disaster, if I remember it, and nobody wanted it.

HP saw the disaster coming and designed their own McKinley Itanium, but a bit later, and HP obviously didn't want Dell to have it.

The compiler support was not good outside HP-UX, if I remember correctly.

And then AMD64 happened, and Microsoft told Intel that there would be no further 64-bit PC instruction sets, and the market would choose between AMD and Itanium.

Cue the guillotine.
A bit tangential to the article but I just had this thought:
Human knowledge has gaps because humans do not live long enough to effectively pass enough knowledge from generation to generation. Each generation generates knowledge and records it in one form or the other AND also passes it with direct verbal and non-verbal communication. However, since the overlap between two generation's cognitive prime age is narrow, not every thought, intuition, idea is passed along well enough. This creates a continuous rot in knowledge among generations and hence the humanity causing perpetual gaps in knowledge.

This is the main reason why humanity at large does not have perfect knowledge of things such as universal forces, exact nature of universe, ability to predict random events and so on.
By the way, don't overestimate the influence of suggestion. Someone who believes in telepathy may simply have experienced it[1] and therefore, as they say, you won't talk them out of what they weren't talked in to.

[1]I'm not implying it's real, just that people experience it exactly as they do real things, like hearing voices.
They don't do ads per se, but do spend quite a lot in other forms of marketing -- Discounts & perks for referrals, high-quality press photos, events, livestreams, etc.
Or the corollary: life invades whichever crevices it can, and clings on as long as possible.