skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, thanks for your comment! I'm a big fan of DIY "implementers" like yourself and am happy to hear some of these ideas resounded with you. I come from a similar background, and agree we need better tools for thinking and working with complex software systems.

> I would consider adding to your system is physical units.

Totally agree. This is high up there on my priority list. Kennedy (2006) did some early work on dimension and unit types that I was quite inspired by:

http://typesatwork.imm.dtu.dk/material/TaW_Paper_TypesAtWork...

> I independently discovered that physics units (Ohms, inerita, etc.) can be described as a vector.

Interesting! I guess that makes sense. Do you have any links describing this perspective a bit? I would be interested in reading about it.

> I have been undertaking experiments in real-time compiling. Please contact me if you're looking or a co-conspirator!

Sounds cool! One of the things I'm interested in is REPLs and interactive programming environments. Do you have anywhere I can read about this project in more detail?

edit: I noticed you were interested in musical instruments and DSPs. One of my colleagues, Maxime, is also working on synthesizers and music production, which I thought you might be interested in reading about:

https://pointersgonewild.com/2019/10/06/zupiter-a-web-based-...
I remember at a certain point I realized that the citations on cracked.com were often abused or flat out debunked the very thing the author claimed they did. I hadn't given up on the site yet, so I would post in the comments what the citations actually said. I'm still baffled by the generally negative reactions to doing so, but I do remember people saying things like "why should I trust you, some random dude in the comments, rather than a professional writer whose job it is to research these things?" Because it's a link to a website that anyone can read! But people will argue with you for 5 minutes rather than click on a link and read the surrounding few paragraphs to see that the writer took the source out of context.
So what oh what could the government do to alleviate the issues from lockdown? Weird they could give the PEOPLE of the country the bailout money. They could extend the the unemployment credit. Unfortunately they are not thinking in that manner and it will lead to a huge depression which could cause those issues you are mentioning. Although I would like it see some actual stats that say "suicides, poverty, crime, and violence" are actually more deadly than the disease. If people in the United States had been a little less selfish (or didn't think of this as a politics game) maybe we wouldn't still be deep in the midst of the first wave of this with many states losing any progress they made. Our leadership in Washington (all of it not just POTUS) has failed us just to keep the stock market high and all their cronies rich while the rest of us suffer.
I still remember one fake news site that took this to the extreme, in that it linked to a story that flat out didn't exist on the site it linked to.

More common what I see is these sites just link to other articles on the site as a "source" for claims made in more recent articles. You almost never see sources to external sites or resources, its just internal site links all the way down.
Single payer healthcare is a separate issue from pharmaceutical companies. In a single payer system, there will just be a single buyer- and a single buyer, AKA a monopsony, is illegal under monopoly laws in the US.
I appreciate the accompanying geologic info on various sediment and structural explanations which is too often missing.
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"Why all the hate for Germany specifically? Pretty much no gov out there likes TOR nodes."

It could be argued that the United States does like TOR nodes ... it was originally a US Navy research and development project and, then, in later years the US state department specifically called out TOR as a useful tool (during the "Arab Spring" protests, IIRC.)

I see that even now, in 2020, the US State Department is a financial backer of TOR.[1]

If I were running TOR nodes in the United States (as I have in the past) I would rely on that current funding as a positive defense against any legal claims against me.

(I would also not do anything stupid like run TOR nodes from my home Internet)

[1] https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors/
The core unsolved problems in my opinion are:

- The argumentation data model

- An attack/manipulation-proof community curation system (maybe similar to StackOverflow)

- A user-interface that can be used by anyone who is interested to contribute, but powerful enough to work with the argumentation structure

There is a weekly zoom meeting every monday that is recorded and uploaded to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwMyf-sRX2_Hqw-h9ba_S...
Agreed.

You may have misunderstood my point.
Thank you for the resources, it is greatly appreciated!
> “Hong Kong people have a superhuman stamina to tolerate bullshit. Kudos.”

accurate
People also need to understand that those links are also not authoritative, and that what links are provided (and ones that are not) are a result of human choice, and humans are known to be fallible in many different ways.
easyDNS has to be the registrar because only your registrar can change your nameserver delegation with the registry. This is, in essence, the registrar's job. To maintain your domain record and info, including nameserver delegation, with the registry.

You could do it with BGP, but it is non-trivial and you need your own ASN to do that.
Nice work. It looks like the book thickness isn't corrected for rotation angle. If you made the horizontal width of the inside pages = thickness * sin(rotation angle) it'll be zero when laying flat and full thickness when rotated 90 degrees.
I don't think so; you couple a short term vaccine with testing and tracing so that you use it to break transmissions locally. If this was (god forbid) something with the transmissability of Measels then that would be useless.
They also have to be shipped to the store. End-to-end shipping costs won't be that different between the warehouse model or the retail model.
What might be better would be some sort of reputation system. Something where I can see that other people that have looked into the person's citations confirm they actually say what they claim they say, on average (regardless of agreeing with their conclusions).

Reputation is everything, and it's so incredibly scarce today.

We could have different dimensions of Reputation (citation validity, logical argument validity, unsupported claim predictiveness, etc...)
> "NPR was the most neutral of any major news organization up until the past 2-3 years, when they've undergone major changes and now put out mostly ideologically-driven pieces like other outlets on the left."

it's been more like 5 years, at least since the snafu of the last presidential election. but even as i criticize npr, i expect them to change for the better, being "public" and certain shows/hosts providing valuable news without spin (at least not much intolerable spin).

certain hosts/shows on the other hand are basically unlistenable, like michael barbaro on nyt's the daily, with all of its melodramatic, self-righteous cynicism designed for the superiority-complex set. it's disgusting pandering.
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Hmm... would you object to `use` automatically linking in modules without a `mod` declaration? It seems that that would work in the situations with regard to stashing (a git stash that stashed `mod` statements would also stash `use` statements).
Why the UK blamed Apple for its failed Covid-19 tracing app
From Shell to System
A million doses is barely a whisper of a drop in the ocean.
> "Deepfakes aren't a huge concern because regular misinformation campaigns are still wildly successful."

> I might go as far as to say: "Deepfakes aren't a huge concern because we live in a post-factual society, so evidence doesn't really matter."

Deepfakes are concerning because they point to a future where disinformation is so effective that it's impossible to pierce a disinformation bubble and unreasonably difficult for a sensible person to avoid getting pulled into one.

Take the idea that the moon landings are a hoax. It relies on accepting the idea of a rather unbelievable and expensive (for the 60s) amount of fakery. Sure, people believe it anyway, but they have to try pretty hard. They wouldn't have to try so hard if someone had faked a convincing body of evidence that the landings were faked. Or they'd have to throw up their hands and give up if they understood how easily things could be faked with modern technology.
My bad. I chose the wording I used over "Did you even read the article?" to be more polite, but perhaps I should have phrased it in a completely different way altogether. I'll keep it in mind I'm the future.
Are we facing advertising overload?
Where did the Moon come from? Here's what the Apollo missions taught us
Very little shifting sands.

Winds in Mars have almost no strength. Air pressure in the Mars surface is very low, something like 1% of Earths. Dust devils and storms are made of extremely fine powder.
There's also the fact that it's completely missing structures analogous to human memory/consciousness. I'm not talking about philosophical notions of consciousness and qualia here but the difference, in neuroscience, between a subliminal stimuli and a superliminal stimuli. Stimuli that aren't abstracted and moved to working memory leave no trace in the brain just a couple of seconds after they're removed, analogously to the 2048 character memory of GPT3. That's something that's still conspicuously missing from GPT3 and AlphaStar if you've watched enough of it's matches.
It's nice that one can do this, but I wish I didn't need to. Mozilla could easily add a way to view the source online. This would be much more convenient and obvious that it's possible.
I rarely search YouTube directly so I haven’t noticed that. Instead I search for « whatever I’m looking for YouTube » on ddg and I don’t get these irrelevant results because YT doesn’t have my search history to mess with.
waiting for a Youtube tutorial.
Yes, generally if you over-complicate something it becomes over-complicated.
It depends on the law. Often the law (usually just the specific provisions found unconstitutional) are immediately struck down. If there are wide decision to be made instead of the the status quo with the unconstitutional law, then the court will give parliament time to make the rules. This is currently the case with the election law where it's considered unconstitutional but there a multiple legal ways to design a legal one. The choice, how the law should look like, was passed back to parliament.
> A natural monopoly is a good thing

I think for the sake of a diverse community and economy, monopolies should be difficult to achieve even naturally.

But for this specific example, a robust technical redundancy doesn't stop CloudFlare from going out of business. A technology company going out of business is pretty much the norm. Incumbents are a relatively new phenomenon for technology (sans some key exceptions), and I don't think CloudFlare is an incumbent. They are an accessory, and your business would probably run without them.
So far it seems like a given country/jurisdiction standardizes on one app for everyone to use. (In theory, apps could be interoperable, but I don't know of this having happened.)

So, the citizens' choice isn't between one app and another app. It is only whether or not to use the app that has been chosen for them.

Therefore, their choice doesn't tell you much about the quality of the app. The primary driver of the decision is whether or not they're willing to take steps to fight the disease.

It's similar to being served dinner on an airplane with only one meal option. They bring you the food, and you either eat it or you don't. The choice doesn't tell you much about whether the food was good. It's more of a reflection of whether you were hungry. The only thing it tells you about food quality is that it (if you eat it) it was somewhere between barely acceptable and excellent.
Show HN: cdwatch – an AWS codedeploy wrapper to watch EC2 deployments
I've bootstrapped several businesses. The stress is there but its different and highly depends on the situation (how much money you have saved up, what market you're in etc.)
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I do similar things (and have came upon similar notes elsewhere) but my personal notes are still valuable because a) they are structured how I think, and b) I remember it better/it finds its way into my consciousness better by writing it.
In Germany the app was developed by research institutes. Then canceled. Then SAP picked it up and charged 10 million Euros for what is essentially a few 1000 lines of UI code. The German Telekom got the same amount, just „because“ and will additionally charge 2-3 million per month mostly for the hotline (with limited capacity).

So the total cost will be 50-100 millions. Despite the fact that most technical work was already done by Apple and Google for free.

I‘m not even talking about the fact that my dad got a new phone to run it - sold by T-Mobile (Telekom) of course.

And hardly anyone complained.
Do you think reputation can be manipulated?
Fair enough on the first one as I was guilty of reading the headlines.

> Athletic competition was a Nazi ideal and the Coca-Cola GmbH cashed in heavily on this infatuation by becoming one of the biggest sponsors of sports events, most notably the annual Deutschlandrundfahrt (National Bycicle Championships) and the Soccer Cup.

The second is fine.
There's also RFC1751 [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1751].

A slightly different take on the same sort of problem.
GPT-3, cyborgs and the red pilling of America
I did NOT expect this to be under US$100. Definitely going for low power with SPI interface, but I don't get their refresh claim. SPI tops out around 1MB/s... 600x448x7 is ~235KB or 4 fps at 1MBps... but 15fps? That'd be 7MB/s, which is nigh impossible on SPI.

EDIT: 15 SECONDS PER FRAME, not 15fps. Thanks everyone for pointing that out. Still, amazingly cheap ... and almost no standby current after programming.
Thanks for the link. It's quite a weak rebuttal however. For example "this inability to distinguish between unset and default values is a nightmare" is ignored. And, to me, "If it were possible to restrict protobuffer usage to network-boundaries I wouldn’t be nearly as hard on it as a technology" is the most damning criticism and that's also ignored. The so-called rebuttal basically amounts to "we're using it to make oodles of money in the ads pipeline so it must be good software engineering." The claim about success in the market is completely true, but it's also not a rebuttal to the claim that the designers of protobufs are apparently ignorant of current computing theory and just patched together an ad hoc mess. Nobody capable of observation disputes that the standard substandard quality of most professionally written software is no impediment to success in the marketplace, there are too many examples to claim otherwise.
Awesome, thank you for this. will check them out.
Pure arabica could give your coffee sour taste, especially if roasted lightly. 10-15% robusta balances that.

+1 to fuck Vertuo. If someone wants their coffee by gallons - let them get a dripper or kettle plus family-size bag of instant powder.
Thanks for the clarification. After I sent that message I was thinking that my understanding was probably way too simple.
Yes, this is what I was referencing from the author.

Git is decentralized version control. I would bet a site like Github protects itself from mass attacks because of its popularity. It has nothing to do with decentralized software.

If a specific Mastodon node becomes super popular then it should have a plan to protect itself from these types of attacks.
Kikiji is so inferior to Craigslist... never understood kijiji managed to be THE classifieds in Canada. I guess lots of marketing in the beginning to bootstrap a network effect.
Havent looked into this much- What is the maximum 'refresh' rate you can get out of something like this?
One example I could give right now is the US where mask-wearing has become a partisan issue.

You don't need a deepfake video of some scientists claiming masks are useless/evil/deadly. You just need to label masks as some kind of "liberal" hoax and half the country now hates mask-wearing.

If that's all it takes to influence the population why are deepfakes a large concern?
> it doesn't know how to look at what it's written and decide if it matches its intent, or whether it'll break consistency or get in the way later.

And we can build other models specifically for this. We don't need to add this stuff to GPT-3; GPT-3 can literally act as a part, a component. GPT-3 can serve the role in a larger model that "imagination" does in a human brain—being fed inputs; having corresponding outputs scavenged through by the rest of the model; and then being "fed back" with input that relates to the scavenged outputs.

One thing I'd be very curious to see tried, is to get a system consisting of GPT-3 as "writer", and some other (summarization?) model as "editor", to attempt to dramatize or adapt into prose fiction, a machine-readable sequence of events (e.g. a machinima recording of a stage-play enacted within an MMO game.)

We already have models that turn machine-readable sequences of events directly into prose; see e.g. baseball news reporting. Such models can work just as well in reverse, summarizing in-domain prose back into machine-readable facts.

So if you take such a prose-to-factual-assertions "reading comprehension" model, and feed it GPT-3's output; and then measure the distance between the set of events comprehended by the "reading comprehension" model from GPT-3's output, and the source data (which is also in the form of a set of factual assertions), then you can iterate GPT-3 — maybe even one additional line of prose at a time — to find a story that is a consistent adaptation of the source. In this sense, GPT-3 is acting as a programmer, and the "reading comprehension" model as a compiler — with the compiler reaching out and erasing any line that doesn't compile.

Of course, you're limited in this by the "reading level" of the reading-comprehension model. But this is also true of humans; you can't get out a literary classic if the writer's editor and alpha-readers were five-year-olds.
>One recent notable achievement by Minecraft@Home was the discovery[0] of the start screen panorama seed which was seen from Beta 1.8 up to 1.12.

Can't this be done by reverse engineering the .jar files? You'd think that the start screen would be procedually generated from a seed (eg. rather than load_world_from_file("start_screen.map"), you'd do generate_world_from_seed("my seed"), because that's way easier than hard coding in the generated world.
It's literally incompatible with the standard definition of the word capitalism.

The fact that slaves are not free means that exchanges couldn't possibly be voluntary.
Probably means that orgs pushing that line of thought are looking to cement themselves as _the_ disseminators of what is and what is not.
I asked for examples in context. E.g., how might one use nanopublications to document an assertion on a webpage. The examples page on the website seems to be for someone already very familiar with Linked Data/semantic web/etc.

I deleted the comment because I thought I could figure it out on my own, but someone here could probably save me the time.

This comment is on the same point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23899048
The Freescale i.MX508 controller can do 8fps. It seems completely capable of displaying vim, but is monochrome. Here’s a video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DVlGZ3_d3Q

I’d love one of these with a full keyboard, wifi and enough of a terminal emulator to ssh somewhere.
Large-scale deployments in Ireland (1.4 million out of 4.9 million people) and Germany (12 million out of 80 million people), anyway. In Ireland it has lead to the discovery of a number of positive cases, which is positive; if they'd been discovered at all through conventional means that would have taken longer and the people concerned could have been spreading it for longer.

There has also been successful deployments in Taiwan and Singapore, but AIUI they don't use the Apple/Google API and are far more intrusive.
If a person doesn't see a way out of slaving at or near minimum wage till they retire, even a moderate windfall of a couple million would completely replace their lifetime earnings and give them the freedom to pursue their passions (be it a family, surfing, painting, etc) while they're young and healthy enough to enjoy doing so.

I tend to agree with your point for larger sums like a billion dollars, but maybe you're really passionate about the potential for EVs to positively impact our growing climate problem and need an enormous pile of cash to get that off the ground. People are complicated.
What responsibility and reparative measures has Cloudflare taken for Friday's incident? Was anyone fired for the mistake?
I don't know which view it is you're talking about, but what @dang did isn't universally wrong. If the view is something that is as close as possible to objectively wrong, in the moral sense, as something could be, I'd say it's justified.

An example of this could be genuinely stating "Hitler did nothing wrong" or "black people deserve slavery". You know, reprehensible stuff. There's no reasonable way to have that discussion. How do you debate whether a large minority is inherently sub-human? Like, I'm sure a Neo-Nazi would be able to calmly explain their views without attacking me (a white man) personally, verbally, or physically. But their view is inherently an attack on the humanity of other people.

To be clear, I'm not saying you are actually a Neo-Nazi or a racist. They're just very, very clear-cut examples of the point I'm trying to make. Another example could be that someone stating that every LISP programmer is a child molester. There's no flamewar in the comment itself, but it's a view that can't be expressed without inciting one.

Yet another example could be thinking that every person earning more than $50k is a capitalist pig and deserve the guillotine. Again, calmly stated as a matter of fact. But it's also calling for the execution of a large part of this site's audience. It would inherently cause a flamewar too.

All of these examples are extreme, but I think the point that some views inherently having a piggybacking flamewar has been made. Where @dang decides to draw the line between controversial point with legitimate room for discussion, and views so abhorrent or nonsensical that it's easier to simply ban users perpetuating them is up to their discretion.

I also don't think @dang bans people because of a single comment, but rather someone continually pushing the view that inherently leads to flamewars.
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> Time and time again I've found cited sources that don't say what was claimed.

I've seen that here on HN, too. Person 1 claims X. Person 2 asks for evidence. Person 1 posts a URL, as if it's evidence for X. But when you read the contents carefully, you realize that it doesn't actually provide any evidence for X. It provides evidence for something that's somewhere in the same general topic as X, but that's not what Person 2 asked for.
In a nutshell, the article says that reading a lot of scary news causes anxiety, and if you listen to your therapist and steeply limit that reading and spend your time eating ice cream and watching cat videos instead, you can reduce that anxiety.

Sometimes anxiety (fear, rage) is well justified. Sometimes large-scale threats are real.