skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the past few years I've been trying to find ideal app for notes. Google keep, Google Doc, Trello, Timers, Workflowy, Github projects, Zettlr, Notion.

The last 2 looked promising, but were lacking in some aspects. TO elaborate, note system should have 3 aspects to be easy to use:

- fast writing
- fast lookup
- has a connection between notes

I found out that Vim perfectly completes all 3:

- efficient writing and navigation
- fuzzy search in file names and content
- supports markdown links and follows them

So I keep my notes directory in Dropbox, processing it with the help of Vim and currently working on lightweight web client to create notes from any device. That can be further processed by main system.
https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1284095222939451393

I mean, this tweet is what started the latest round of GPT hype.
In everyday business, I would generally start with the day and then follow with the month if it's relevant (often it's not, if talking about a date in the near future), and finally by year if needed. I can't imagine when I'd start with the month, really, but that might be because in Finnish you'd almost always say and write dates with the day first.

As far as date formats go, apart from the ISO format, "21 Jul 2020" is definitely my favorite and always unambiguous. The only downside is that it's language dependent.
Sweet, thanks!

Feel free to DM me if you need any help. twitter is in bio.
Yeah, Cloudflare shouldn't be censoring anyone. I could understand if it were requested by law enforcement but why would we want them trying to police the web?
That's not illegal. So long as they have probable cause, and identify as LEO, the police don't have to tell them why they're being charged. That happens at arraignment. They don't even have to read the suspect their rights, so long as they don't ask them any questions (and if they have video evidence of the person doing something, they're not going to bother reading rights or asking questions at all. They're just going to wait until arraignment).

The person arrested can challenge that if there is no probably cause (with the right attorney, there is money to be had there) but most don't because ... there's usually probably cause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

PS - fuck you, you are a worthless piece of shit.
I could be wrong but I don’t think “object” and “GC” are being used in the same manner for these posts.
AI-resistant captchas: Are they possible?
https://web.archive.org/web/20200605054922/https://medium.com/idena/ai-resistant-captchas-are-they-really-possible-760ac5065bae

(disable JavaScript to read the article)
It's worth noting that "Minimalist Baker" is a real website, obviously its text went into the training data.
BadPower hack can destroy consumers’ smartphones while charging
It's a work that people love to make Youtube videos out of, and is interesting. "Where are the missing bullet/flak holes?" is the question people should be asking, rather than just armoring the places that are obviously bullet-ridden. The paper is much more technical than you would think from the popular tale (Lagrange multipliers, etc).

I believe they did other story-worthy statistical feats, like estimating the size of the German tank fleet by observing the serial numbers of captured tanks.
I'm not sure what the criteria for "highly" flammable is, I'm sure it's flammable but I've never managed to ignite it with either a blowtorch (singeing the Hessian backing on the edges of freshly cut lino) or a laser cutter (both when cutting and engraving).

It's also a good material for print making
Visual Studio does semantic highlighting for at least C# (they call it enhanced highlighting). Static classes, parameters, internal structure of regex strings, etc. Basically anything returned by the Roslyn Classification API.

I personally like it, but I think other people feel that syntax highlighting plus semantic highlighting leads to rainbow soup.
Curious why the investors didn’t do any diligence like requiring an audit as a condition for funding. We saw the same thing with Theranos.
I typed your text directly into Google, and it immediately gave a context box with the correct answer.

I even typed in: "person who sings EP MyWorld" and got the same answer. Given how much data there is about him (the infamous Twitter scaling problems), I don't think it's necessarily a good test. There's gonna be tons of relations in the corpus for him.
Nice! Those fake windows are a really cool idea
So, let me start by saying, facial recognition is absolutely dangerous.

But I'm not seeing anything meaningful being done about this. Some companies are refusing to sell AI to the government, but some, such as ClearView, are openly selling to any government including ones that will use it to hunt down gays or protestors. This cat is out of the bag. Even if comprehensive legislation is passed in the US which limits facial recognition use to law enforcement with a warrant, US law enforcement has repeatedly shown themselves to be above the law, with numerous loopholes to get around warrants. And that only affects the US. China, for example, will have no such compunctions.

Having facial recognition closed source doesn't do anything to prevent bad actors from using it to do harm. It simply means that only those with enough money to buy licenses get to use it--governments and corporations who have repeatedly shown themselves to be the bad guys when it comes to privacy.

The only difference if this is open source is that it puts this power in the hands of people with average incomes, and there are a lot of cases where this could be a good thing. We have seen, for example, pictures taken of police officers hiding their badge numbers illegally at protests in the past few weeks--facial recognition could help unmask these bad apples.
if you are migraine-sensitive or have vision/neuro issues, proceed with caution. Contains high contrast overlapping patterns on a blank generator page (no immediate animations though fortunately)
Yes, it can memorize short phrases similar to how it "remembers" words. It's trained on a web corpus that includes and emphasizes Wikipedia. The model is big enough to memorize some things, though not in such a way that they can reliably be retrieved, and it will make stuff up when it doesn't remember. So it's not Google but sometimes it's reminiscent.

Here is a Q&A conversation where I found some things it "learned".

https://tildes.net/~games/qmc/ai_dungeon_dragon_model_upgrad...
Yeah I hate this. I signed up for 1 email newsletter, axios, for a morning and evening update. Thats plenty of news. You just have to quit cold turkey if thats not enough. If your on facebook you can use plugins like facebook purity to filter out 90% of the junk. That's the only social media that I actually pay attention to. I'm sure there are other filter programs for twitter and similar out there.
We have flying cars. What we don't have is a flying car that is ready for mass adoption. The biggest problem is high cost both for the car and its energy requirements, followed by safety and the huge air traffic control problem they would create.
Thank you for this thought-provoking perspective. I agree we'll need to figure out a way to provide an on-prem solution in some enterprise cases. We'll think on this internally. Thanks, again!
There's also a company called Rainforest Connection using machine learning to detect deforestation: https://blog.google/technology/ai/fight-against-illegal-defo...
"covfefe"
“ The stored data are fed in through a modified series of microsurgical contraautism prostheses.' I reeled off a numb version of my standard sales pitch. 'Client's code is stored in a special chip; barring Squids, which we in the trade don't like to talk about, there's no way to recover your phrase. Can't drug it out, cut it out, torture it. I don't know it, never did.'

'Squids? Crawly things with arms?' We emerged into a deserted street market. Shadowy figures watched us from across a makeshift square littered with fish heads and rotting fruit.
'Superconducting quantum interfence detectors. Used them in the war to find submarines, suss out enemy cyber systems.'

'Yeah? Navy stuff? From the war? Squid'll read that chip of yours?' She'd stopped walking, and I felt her eyes on me behind those twin mirrors.”
Early Oxford-AstraZeneca Coronavirus Vaccine Data 'Encouraging,' Scientists Say
You have a concrete deck? I'd like to see a photo of that!
It's very disingenuous to imply that these people are being arrested ( or whatever other term you'd use ) for purely political reasons. These people are involved in a riot. These people are not being individually targeted based upon their identity. If they were not involved in what is a violent and largely unlawful civil disobedience they would not be apprehended.
GPT-4 next year is going to be scary good.
The app you linked has some issues with data entry. If you re-enter the minutes field for SF, it will give a straight line distance of about 7800km, instead of the 1500km you listed. As another commenter pointed out the worse case is ratio is about 1.5, so I'm guessing either it's totally buggy or 7800km is the correct one.
Sandals are common.
MGFs do not determine distributions (The Student's t distribution does not have an MGF).

CDFs and characteristic functions determine distributions.
Well, characteristic functions are more general than MGFs (in that they are always finite) and have very useful properties, but they have a similar definition and are also based on an expectation.

This may be pedantic, but an object that determines a distribution that isn't based on expected values is the CDF. In my first probability course in undergrad I think we defined probability mass functions and probability density functions first and defined CDFs in terms of them, but from a measure theoretic point of view, the CDF is more fundamental since it is defined for continuous and discrete distributions (and also for distributions that are neither).
I’m talking about cultural memory and community on large scales, where generation after generation is devoted to the thriving of its community and the people in it. I think the best way I can explain it is to recommend Wendell Berry‘s essay The Work of Local Culture. I’m not saying modern science has nothing to say, but I do believe that as insightful and beneficial as it is in this context, local community and culture would be even more-so.
How do you handle images? I find them necessary a lot of the time. I like to just drop them right in my notes and not bother making links in markdown. Currently I just use libreoffice odt files on my google drive service.
Buried GitHub archival storage to last 1k years
They did the same thing during the Occupy Wall Street movement protests. There is a video of federal agents pulling protesters off the street and into an unmarked car, during that time. The federal response to these protests is far lighter than their response to that protest movement was, they've arrested a lot fewer people and have been far less physical with the protesters. They're using many of the same tactics though:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-co...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23899408
I was told all guest names were sent to Interpol.

I always found that dubious.
> Nobody trusted Facebook as far as they could throw it — the company had just been fined by the FCC again, for violating the consent decree attached to their 2011 FCC fine.

That would be the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), not the FCC.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb...
Ask HN: Biggest Complaints About LaunchDarkly
I am curious what are your biggest complaints as a CTO or Developer about LaunchDarkly (integration of feature flags with front-end analytics, etc.?)
BadPower attack corrupts fast chargers to melt or set your device on fire
Please "remember that the community is divided on divisive topics and that the person disagreeing with you is probably not a spy, but just someone who disagrees with you." [1]

Also, specifically about astroturfing: "[T]he overwhelming majority of the insinuations and accusations [of astroturfing] that people come up with about it lead to precisely nothing when we investigate. It's like flipping a coin and having it come up tails a thousand times in a row: you start to look for simpler explanations, and there are clear, simple explanations for why this might be." [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23835613

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23837456
That is a very subtle and impractical distinction, similar to making an argument that you are merely being pedantic instead of deceptive :/.
Homes of wealthy Americans have carbon footprints 25% higher than lower-income
Well, the blood thing comes to mind.
Show HN: Serverless Apache Spark on Google Colab
I unfortunately work in a place where on-call is unpaid. I'm an SRE stuck in the 90s.

The policy states that only the Operations team gets paid on-call, because I guess in the old days they would be the expected to deal with production.

Fast forward to today, and the Operations folks are a small team managing 2 datacentres, and all on-call rotations between SREs and developers are considered unofficial and therefore not eligible to be paid.

One of our Sr. Managers tried to take this up the chain, but then got reprimanded for putting developers on-call.
> basically every institution ever is intended to be long term

Well, except all of the ones that aren't. Someone opening a chain of sandwich shops might not be overly concerned with whether they're around in a few millennia, just as the cult leaders you refer to may have in actuality been much more focused in both intent and action on ensuring that their institutions paid off for them personally for the duration of their lifetimes than in their actual long term durability.
I'm outraged about Trump's use of Federal troops in Portland as well. But to date they are either letting people go after grabbing them(in gross violations of their constitutional rights), or they are being charged with crimes in a US court, with due process and lawyers and a normal level of transparency. Portland protestors aren't being whisked away to black sites...
> If the goal is to prevent the two-party system, Australia has basically turned into that with two major parties i.e. Labor and Liberal with smaller parties choosing sides, and being negligible.

I think minor parties and independents have played a far more important role in Australia's political history than your statements about "smaller parties choosing sides" and "being negligible" gives them credit. Consider for example, the 1999 decision of the Australian Democrats to support Howard's GST, or the role that the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) arguably played in helping to lock Labor out of the federal government between 1949 and 1972. (Although the Democrats role in supporting the GST was in the Senate, which uses STV not IRV.)

In the results of the 2010 federal election, Labor and the Liberal-National Coalition had 74 seats each, both two short of a majority. Labor managed to form government with the support of four of the six unaligned (independent or minor party) MPs. Two of the independents who supported Labor (Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor) came from a conservative political background, and they could have easily chosen to support the Liberal-National Coalition instead.

Even in strongly multi-party systems like Italy, Spain, Israel, etc, you still tend to end up with two broad coalitions anchored by the major parties of the Left and Right, plus a bunch of centrist parties that may switch between those two coalitions depending on what is on offer after each election. (And also sometimes a far-left / far-right fringe that gets locked out of government, but hopes for the day when the mainstream left/right are desperate enough to turn to them for support.)
Making large transformer based models like Jukebox [1] efficient enough so that they can be trained on a single 8x GPU machine to the same level of quality as the original model, in the same amount of time.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/
“If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript”

Different and lighthearted enough for me to recommend.
Maybe I’m missing something, but isn’t this just the Ken Burns effect? [0]

Calling it “video” may be technically true, but lees interesting than Google Street View (which is not video, but more interactive).

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns_effect
Interesting. I'm from Europe and here "startup" usually means a new tech company. At least that's how I've used it and how I've heard people use it. Also in Mexico where I'm currently residing.

Anyway, about the comment I should start a small business instead of a startup, yeah I don't plan to grow to millions of users and having hundreds of employees.
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they're filled with "I might need..." or "maybe I will use..." (eventually becoming "I forgot I had...")
How to Sit Properly to Decrease Back and Neck Pain
Who pays for more EEPROM/Flash capacity to save factory firmware?
First manufactured non-cuttable material
good thing Diebold doesn't making voting machines... oh wait.
What do you think the present-day cryptological equivalent of the Enigma machine and its decryption is? I’m most interested in examples of consequence (e.g. saving lives by shortening war) rather than comparisons of technical achievement.
FWIW Greater London is approx 13% of the UK population, and the London metropolitan area is approx 21%. Intentional under and over counting of the size of London is pretty common depending on the interlocutor's agenda
> Yes, but this just swaps the terminating conditional branch for an indirect branch at the start, no?

Depends how you write it. The number of iterations is ceil(log2(n)). GCC's __builtin_clz essentially computes this, and it has support on most major architectures.
I've been wanting to get some dev kits to play around with, but they're pretty expensive and not custom enough for my intended use case.
Need current "live" feed of Three Gorges Dam. Could get real interesting soon.
great UX, it works without javascript, and works better with it
Like payphones after a disaster
I like to watch these sorts of posture/ergonomics videos every year or so to remind myself to sit properly. I used to have an aeron, which was amazing - but I left it in my trailer in the desert and it was stolen.... but knowing the proper way to sit is just as good.
>echelon

You could at least log in with a different account before posting this.
Many tickets I've bough in Europe via the airline's website were using amadeus (spanish?).
More like the past voice. "Dijo" -> he/she/it said. The passive voice it's "fue dicho" (he/she/it was been told).

Said can get a different meaning, such as the reflexive voice of "decir" (fué dicho) -> it has been said.
Galloway is specifically calling out the threat to schools getting most of their revenue from tuition and not from research, spin-offs, and endowments.
In all this discussion of the art of design in old houses I am surprised to see no one has mentioned “A Pattern Language” [1] yet. This is truly a must read book for anyone considering the design and building of their own house.

Interesting topics such as the design of a front door viewed from a street have stuck with me and is something I reflect on when walking through an old neighborhood. Infallibly the most appealing houses match up well to the principals outlined in the book.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language
These days I can't help but wonder: "is this a GPT-3 comment?"
It turns out infrastructure is hard. Who knew?
You don't offer any other approach. So I am going to assume you probably think soda drinking is a good thing, but don't want to come right out and say it.
"And if we weigh this by the probability of that particular event happening, we get info ∝ p ⋅ log2(1/p)"

I fail to see the motivation of this step, and I think that's preventing me to see the argument as "intuitive". Could somebody explain?

The two steps back (info ∝ 1/p) it still makes sense to me: the more rare the event is, the bigger the resulting number is, so in the case the event happens, the more "surprised" we are, and more information is gained. However, what do we achieve by weighing the bitcount of the information with the probability?
The enigma's encryption didn't have anything to do with primes though :) It was just a super complex automated substitution.
Do Judge a Progamming Book by Its Cover
Code Coverage for Vue Applications
Digital Astronomy with Cellular Automata
Tesla now allowing owners to enable cabin camera
It also needs to be material information.
‘Freedom’ of the World – Do You Feel Free?
identify as LEO

I saw a bumper sticker on a large diesel pickup truck the other day: "I identify as a Prius." If I say I "identify" as a policeman, is that good enough in your book?
My company effectively (yet loosely) competes with BBG in a small insignificant corner of the fixed income universe (asset backed securities).

My observations:

1- BBG is now part of a banks (and most large trading firms) infrastructure. BBG vCons are the standard way to confirm trades, its chat is one of three tools approved by banks, it has all the APIs to monitor every piece of communication, etc

2- BBG has proprietary data sets no one can get or on terms no one else will ever receive (Eg CUSIP).

3- I think that if the CUSIP license were more open and affordable, we would see many more competitive products. Instead S&P effectively has a monopoly. CUSIPS are the foundation of any alternative. The reality is you need many millions to get that feed and must charge hundreds to each customer. Few can do that

4- I think the idea of BBG as a social network is way over valued. It’s convenient yes but if you have inventory other people want in fixed income you’ll get the look. Every trader I know uses telephone and Outlook. It’s a moat but not the biggest in my opinion.

5- BBG does A LOT. I believe that a given user typically uses some small fraction of a % of functionality (like 2-3%), eg Chat + news + 2-3 pages. I think if one were to compete against Bloomberg, one would have to focus on not being everything (like Money.net or Eikon which isn’t working) but isolating key verticals and building a comprehensive alternative for that space. Going up against all tools everywhere globally feels like a fools errand.

For example, there is a site called Artemis for catastrophe bonds. Everyone serious in that market I’m sure has a BBG terminal and yet everyone also actively visits the site which is run by one guy.
>It's not as though there was a German government whose property rights were being infringed

It's pretty common to regard a country as having a claim on looted artifacts even after a change in government. It kind of seems to be taken for granted in a lot of discussions.

e.g.
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/623537440/hobby-lobbys-illega...

Nobody seems to particularly care whether the Sumerians, or the city of Irisagrig, still exist.
I wonder if Sabre's printers still catch on fire.
Some of the "old" views are really quite old. Older than that visible in Google Maps, for example.
First, Wow, this is going to take some time to chew through.

On deregulation: I totally disagree. I think he has the cart before the horse. To me, it's under regulation. $1.3B per new drug is a bargin. Look at exercise machine infomercials, that's what the drug environment looks like, at best, without regulation. To have a drug checked over, tip to tail, pregnant or not, old or young, etc., costs a lot of money. Not centralizing this process would be fantastically more expensive and error prone.
Many businesses are already doing this with AWS. I don't use Azure but I am sure they have a identical offering.

Don't think you can go full dumb terminal / thin client yet. Plenty of people around me can't get internet over 3mbps.

One we have bandwidth all over the US and other nations, then maybe they could talk about killing the thick client.

Nothing in that job posting supports the title.