skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the moment it feels like the only use-cases are:

- toys/games: AI Dungeon, fun chatbots, generally playing around with generating text in a certain style

- humour: generating jokes/memes

- deception: trolling/disinfo campaigns/spam/gaming advertisement market by creating garbage content.

I guess there will be use cases where a human operator can use it to simplify their job (or lower the skill level required to do a job) by curating and editing generated content instead of writing it themselves. I'm thinking things like simple writing jobs where quality isn't that important: social media posts, newsletters?
Alternatively, you don't get a rush from gambling because you have a lack of imagination on how you can beat "the math" and so have never gotten the rush from your plan working out (at least in your small sample size and from your perspective).
See also: MineRL, a machine learning competition in which agents compete to learn how to play

https://minerl.io/
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It’s very région specific in terms of it being popular. Fairly popular in Canada.
Speaking of hiding under a rock, this is the first I'm hearing of Mastodon. Is it really an issue if Mastodon gets hacked? Do any notable people like Bill Gates or Obama use it, or would it be like how people were impersonating politicians on Parler [1]?

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/02/republicans-parler-...
I'm less concerned about the bug than the tiny remote camera with 6 hours of battery-powered live streaming capability from up to 120 meters distance. I'm concerned about more surveillance devices becoming smaller and pervasive. I hear this dismissal of "be more concerned about smartphones" frequently though. We can be equally worried about both can't we?
I hate URL fights.

I give little extra value to people providing links with their clams.

I largely given up providing links to information when called out as well. It's not worth the time.

Discussion on the internet is broken in most places (HN is less broken than most). I find little value providing URLs. Much of the time I provide them, few folks seem to read it, fewer actually want to read it in an intellectually honest way and usually they respond with some bonkers links of their own that don't say what they think they're saying.

Much (not all) of the time I've given up providing links to basic information it doesn't change the conversation in any meaningful way. It's usually just an argument where folks who feel like URLs are some sort of scoring device.

I get the idea put forward here, but I don't know if it makes sense in an age where you can find an URL that says anything and discussion on the internet is so bad that nobody is really reading them anyway.
These can both be true.

As a simultaneous question and example, Kipling is often given as an example of a British Empire writer with condescending attitudes to the very people he wrote about.

The names of Indian authors never reached me because my parents thought the Empire was unadulterated good, and they thought that because my grandparents were born near the peak of the Empire — one of my grandmothers was, for a period in her infancy, living in a military base in the British Raj.

They whose names I do not know could very plausibly be Kipling’s equal or better. I know from various examples that various cliques will have hidden the names of good authors from me.

That leads me to the question: can anyone here recommend a good Indian author from the same era as Kipling? (Yes I know Kipling was born in India).
> Totalitarianism involves guns and concentration camps.

Not according to Wikipedia: "Totalitarianism is a term for a political system or form of government that prohibits opposition parties, restricts individual opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life. "

CCP didn't use either guns or concentration camps, until recently when it became necessary. Cancel Culture has employed the exact same methods of dealing with various reactionaries that have worked well for CCP this century- deplatform, have them fired, make them unemployable and generally ruin their lives.

The article is crap.
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Yes, you can. It's called L2ARC.
...write something and never look at it again...

I recently started working with a new client. 7 years ago and many companies past, the now-CEO asked me to set up a system for her and I took ample, random meeting notes. I still have those notes as plain text in a folder, organized by year.

When the new client asked for a design proposal and said they're getting resistance from the C-suite, I could pull up those notes and make some seemingly omniscient recommendations quite quickly.

I tried too many of the note taking services, but really, a plain text note with a YYYY-MM-DD title and stored in a backed up directory is near-perfect and ultra-portable.
The majority of “misinformation” I’ve seen (entirely on reddit) isn’t straight up lies. It’s more like reposting an old article on a current topic or leaving out information.

When Harvard announced remote class plans, Reddit had a front page article on r/all about it - but it was an article that was a month old about their old plan.

It would be so easy for people to read that title (old info), have their friend ask if they saw the news about Harvard, and then have basically been manipulated by misinformation.
Why Should You Choose Scaler Academy?: Review by Scaler Harsh Yadav
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Read what our Scaler Harsh Yadav has to share about his journey with Scaler Academy and his review about the programs.
What works for me, is to ask myself what is the next step and then try and focus exclusively on that. When my mind wanders three steps ahead, I mentally kick myself in the butt and remind myself to focus on the next thing only.

It's a discipline like a lot of things, and it gets easier the more you do it.
The jabocs and nescafe gold variants are what I prefer. The ones I buy are either larger granules or fine powder and light brown in color. These are better than the standard black instant coffee which is even more acidic, but it's still awful to drink without milk. I mainly make instant coffee when I can't be bothered with the french press. I have a feeling that these don't provide the same kick and that they hurt my teeth more because of the extra acidity.
Private Equity is not as smart as it likes to make out. It literally exists to leave its dribble of urine on whatever flagpole it wants to asset strip and sell off. It should be made illegal for PE to acquire certain entities.
I think it's reasonable to suggest that option activity among retail clients has increased over the past 12 months. Brokerages are reporting record levels of new account sign-ups, and many people are sitting at home trying to find ways to pass the time profitably. Obviously it would be nice to see some evidence about this, but I don't know where I would go to find that information publicly.

Options don't trade as frequently as cash on most names, so you don't actually need people to buy and sell in order to make the market tighter. They just have to place orders that tighten the spread. Price discovery becomes easier even if you only have one additional order placed inside the prior NBBO, because it affects the fit of the vol surface.
Show HN: BitFetch – Cryptocurrency APIs and badges for your app, site, project
Not directly. You can do it with access to the instance's Postgres database, but I'd expect relatively few instance admins (as opposed to instance owners) to have that; the admin tools don't include a database console, and you can't use a credential for the admin tools to authenticate to the database.
"In reality, the German government has a double standard when it comes to the right to privacy. They will fully support that right if it's company's violating your privacy (especially, if they are American because protectionism) but in contrast, the German will give itself as many powers as it can to spy on its own citizens and those abroad." This.
First human trial of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine shows promise
tootctl accounts modify USERNAME --disable-2fa --reset-password

Then check your mail server for outgoing mail, and use the mail sent to the user to change the password.
That ended way more quickly than I thought it would.
Recommending to host an exit node in Switzerland in the context of TOR feels like reading an article of someone who thinks they are anonymous by using TOR.

Switzerland is even more privacy invasive than German laws, and that is the case since 2010 when automated connection tagging was introduced for VND and VÜPF.
The irony is that many people who really believe in the potential of humanity to create huge futures full of happiness and bliss are the ones who are most concerned about our survival. There are obviously different opinions on the degree of our survival chances but reasonable people have put it as low as 1/6. That means a f*cking dice roll could put a stop to all the progress you have been lauding about. Don’t get me wrong... I am an optimist, I want to creat a great future and lift the potential that is there. I would wager I probably see more potential than most. BUT we will have to radically transform how our societies operate, how we care about each other (including non-human animals), how we care about our planet, and what role we see ourselves having in the future.

Have a look at the book „The Precipice“ by Toby Ord for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Precipice:_Existential_Ris...
Why Every Investment Should Look Overpriced
It works without the VPN, but I need the VPN more than I need Vimeo, so I just avoid anything that uses their service to host videos.

They seem to be very aggressive blocking IPs. For example, I have VPS on Digital Ocean which I use for small projects and also as a VPN server. The IP has been "mine" for almost a year, I don't use it to scrap sites or abuse any service... but I still get the damn captcha on their videos.
Why the internet went haywire last week
Yea, sorry, I’m in Sweden so may have a different perspective. But you must realize that if a child says “I’m going to start a successful VC-backed company” then that’s a lot more ambitious than saying “I’m gonna go to medical school”, right? (At least if we by more ambitious mean “has a lower probability of success”.)
In the past, when data integrity issues emerged, btrfs devs have stated that it is not ready for production. Has there been an announcement to the contrary? If btrfs is production ready, is this clearly stated somewhere? Solaris has defaulted to ZFS at least since version 11 first released eight years ago.

Update - also it appears Suse enterprise uses btrfs for the root os filesystem but xfs for everything else including by default /home. To me, this seems telling? If it’s so solid why not use it for /home?
I’ve always felt it was a strategic asset for eBay to be the most popular but always marginal classified ad product to keep the eBay cash-cow going.

Only recently did they implement some mild feedback rating system.

Probably a good time to sell for eBay, since a lot of classified ads are moving to FB Marketplace.
Buildings were designed differently, and society worked differently. Buildings now are designed to be sealed against the elements, where before A/C they were designed to maximize exposure to airflow. Things like lanais, Bahama shutters, crawl spaces, dogtrot houses, etc were all strategies for blocking sun and improving airflow. Even passive solar strategies existed, like using large deciduous trees to block sun in the summer and allow it in the winter. On the societal side, there was less expectation for society to keep moving during midday heat, sometimes explicitly formalized like the Spanish siesta.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/keepi...

EDIT: Can't believe I forgot about solar chimneys and evaporative coolers (aka swamp coolers).
The Chinese room argument shows lots of people were thinking about it being a possibility but to have it happen so soon is something else.
Yeah but that chip is probably going to look a lot like a 300GB memory chip.
By day job do you mean running 37signals the new media design firm at the dawn of the web?

I wouldn’t really isolate the “day job” part here, it was sort of the quintessential dogfood SaaS.
What revolution?

Capsules are wasteful and expensive and you have no idea what's in them.

No capsules for my home use thank you.

I considered getting a fancy expresso machine that grinds the coffee for you in place at the press of a button, but I decided against it because I'm likely to overdose on coffee with one.

Filter coffee is good enough for me thank you.
If the item is at Home Depot and you want to pick it up... why not just get it from Home Depot?
I frequently visit the links found in comments here. But in these instances I am reading someone else's "URL fight."
>And, should have used Chebyshev polynomials

If I remember correctly, Pade approximants would be more accurate with less work. Instead of using a polynomial, you use the ratio of two polynomials. They generally work better than Chebyshev since they're a larger class of approximants.
Their platform has had outages during periods of extreme market volatility, and they allow unsophisticated traders to take option risk that they may not readily understand.

/r/wallstreetbets doesn't have any fiduciary responsibility to anyone. RH does.
The argument you’re looking for is that the market capitalization is small. The stock price itself is irrelevant and depends on units of stock extant.
My understanding is that text messaging is rarely used for knowledge sharing, and is primarily used for social bonding[0]. In my own experience, I never receive such messages from individuals that aren't aware that I already agree with their intended interpretation.

0: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221270858_A_large_s...
Sort of. They are related though. Anchoring is more about setting the value of something. It is used in negotiations something like "I want 100 dollars for this thing" "that silly I will only give you 50 dollars". I now know you are at least willing to come off 50.
Relying on Oracle not to sue people for questionable reasons seems like a precarious position.
Hey! Product looks great! My main question would be, for a rapidly evolving product would it generate a lot of false positives?

I really enjoy the idea of business/marketing people collaborating with tests. Congrats.

I also really like your business model so will give it a try.
Pretty much everyone and his mother in Europe has a capsule coffee machine.

P.S.: I won't comment about the filter coffee remark as it's clearly bait ;)))
Aye, same, overthinking it a bit. At least, overthinking it for something made at home.

I used to run a coffee shop for a little over a year, and the factors that the parent mentioned are true, but it's mostly a function of using freshly ground beans and making sure they're ground to the right consistency. We had an auto-grinder, but if we had to do it by hand it was about 20 seconds of holding down the button for a darker roast, a little longer (~25?) for the lighter roast.

The home user won't notice the difference too much, and the commercial customer won't notice it at all if you start frothing some milk, adding a little cocoa powder to the top, and putting in a ton of sugar -- which was the bulk of the drinks we sold (sugary lattes and stuff).
Why use computer vision when likely most of these animations come from some software that can/could output a vectorized video format?

You wouldn't have any conversion artifacts that way.
Searching and (mostly) debunking the things my mom forwards me has been a long time hobby of mine. Snopes has made my job so much easier, now I can just hit reply and paste the Snopes link back to her.

The internet is filled with so much easily accessible information, it's incredible, but you need the basic skills to determine what claims to believe in order to make any sense of it.
The Loyal Heights neighborhood in Seattle. According to
Wikipedia, "established by businessman Harry Whitney Treat in 1906 as part of the independent city of Ballard. Named for his daughter Loyal Graef Treat ..."
Sounds interesting. is Leviathan worth a read?
> Much of the time I provide them, few folks seem to read it

I wouldn't be so pessimistic.

Only a small fraction of people that read comments will respond.

Plenty of viewers will probably check out the link and derive value from it, but won't have anything valuable to contribute to the discussion.

Antagonistic viewers that already strongly disagree will be much more likely to respond (and without reading the link), skewing your perception.
This chart compares wealth and market cap in a way that makes literally no sense. This doesn’t represent the size of the money supply at all. A ton of things are double counted.
They could do that, but it would be detrimental to their business. They (or their partners who pay for order flow) are better off filling the selling customer on the bid, and the buying customer on the offer. If this sounds unscrupulous to you, remember that the market-maker and order-router have a right to make a profit from their business, and wouldn't be able to operate without making a profit.

Either way, they would have to print the trade to the tape, so it's part of "the stock market" regardless.
HN is certainly an exception I'll make for providing / reading links.
Because with literally every other coffee making method, the waste products are 100% biodegradable/compostable (coffee grounds and filters). They also cost significantly less - you can make a fantastic cup of coffee in <5 minutes for 50¢ with $50 in equipment that will last for at least a decade. Nespresso is rent-seeking and trying to upsell convenience and laziness at the expense of the earth. That behavior needs to be put down.
Vegan diets cause malnutrition and perhaps even psychological changes.

Due to the suffering of wild animals, eating beef is probably net negative for total animal suffering because a cow only has 1 brain for a ton of biomass.
> Apart from the 2008 boom/crash, owning a house has been a great way for the middle class to become asset millionaires. I knew someone in London who was routinely out-earned by the asset appreciation on their own house.

there are certainly some hot real estate markets where houses appreciate a huge amount over a short period of time. in hindsight, it looks like a no-brainer to purchase a house in these areas. on the flip side, maybe someone builds a huge apartment complex on your street right before you wanted to sell and the value plummets. if you look at the whole american housing market though, there is a ton of variance but in the long term it seems to barely outpace inflation. [0] once you factor in maintenance and property tax, it doesn't really look like a good investment vehicle. imo, buying a house is best looked at as an alternative way to pay for housing which may or may not be superior to renting.

> Besides, inflation has rather moved the bar for "millionaire" to every middle class couple with a house and two retirement funds..

for sure, a million dollars just isn't that much anymore. if you follow the 4% rule, it gives you about $40k to spend every year. which is basically what it costs me to live in a studio in a relatively nice part of town as a single twenty-something.

[0] https://static01.nyt.com/images/2006/08/26/weekinreview/27le...
L is locator, I is identifier. URLs are a subset of URIs. Both start with a schema (something:...), but URIs lack the information about the location and way to get at a resource. The canonical example for identifier-but-not-location is an ISBN or DOI. That interpretation however requires a very peculiar interpretation of "location", because imho "where can I read about that" can precisely be answered by "ISBN ...". The usual copout "but you don't know where the next library will be" also makes all the traditional URLs non-locations, because you then also don't always know where the next browser is or how to operate it.

The rest of the responsible RFC is also not very useful: https://danielmiessler.com/study/difference-between-uri-url/
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Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it and deploy it!
Apart from drinking it, I had zero experience with Espresso before getting the machine. Yes grind setting matters (though it would make no sense for me to tell you what grind setting I use because it's an arbitrary number, specific to the brand/type and sometimes even unique to the grinder), and temperature, and pressure, and amount of coffee. But from day 1 I could produce consistent shots by keeping those variables the same in between shots which isn't rocket science so I still think your comparision with a PHD is a bridge too far, it's really not that hard. Ok I'm a handy engineering type, but if you read on forums it's pretty clear: people without those skills also manage to produce consistent shots. You could blame that on confirmation bias, but: have you ever tried a manual machine yourself and got a decent espresso out of it?

you'll see the cost further increase

Of course. But making consistent espresso without a decent grinder, now that's hard, so you know on beforehand it's in the price. And a grinder lasts years or decades and it's pretty likely a decent manual machine does so as well.

Also, manuals lack a steam wand which is a real downside.

Only if you want it, which I don't.
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German here. Let's just say our population, especially the nerds, is way more competent than our Conservative governments of "internet printers" who have implemented the shit legislation that is the point of this article.

Want to know names? Wolfgang Schaeuble, Thomas de Maiziere, Horst Seehofer.

To the Germans on HN: Go to the elections, vote these morons out of office no matter if state or federal elections.
I think it’s very worthwhile; it allows readers to judge the legitimacy and relevance of sources for claims made.
> Any claim with a URI should also be treated with suspicion.

Agreed. I've noticed a huge uptick of "here is a random YouTuber's 45 minute rant about X" used as "evidence" in discussions. Opting to not watch it in its entirety is then dismissed as being unwilling to discuss; watching it and picking it apart leads to "oh, but you haven't seen his OTHER videos".
It seems to be Breitbart for people who aspire to be Kelsey Grammar.
I is Identifier.

It's broader in the sense that every URL is a URI, but the converse is not true.

URI somewhat nerdier because it's lesser known.
Linters aren’t in your way. They’re on your side
> I started to blame myself for not taking more risk because on the hindsight, it felt so obvious that the price would go up

This is a gambler’s mindset. That’s fine. I enjoy playing poker with friends, and when I do so, I reinforce those neural pathways with respect to cards.

But I’m risk limited, socially and personally, in that setting. Robinhood is different. There is no social pressure to limit how much money one puts in a trading account. So when the UX pushes one to gamble with thousands of dollars, and to reinforce gambling over investing pathways when it comes to the markets, we end up with a self-destructively trained generation.

That’s troubling. Robinhood can be used responsibly. But even taking most of the comments on HN, it seems to make that difficult.
> you could get a VPS from a country who hates the western spy powers like Russia or Moldova

nice try, comrade. but no
This is exactly why I submitted [1] to HN, coincidentally a few hours ago. IMO, assertions should be computable (if possible) and backed by data.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23896279
Isn't that government by default?

We carve out privacy exceptions for law enforcement in given situations where otherwise we would expect them to be respected.