skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should I think this man has special insight into the state of the world? He is quite rich, that is true. But if anything, by definition that means he is deeply out of touch with the needs, desires, and problems of the vast majority of the people on this planet.
Why hasn't this story gotten any traction on HN?
I've listened to some of these interviews and agree completely with the basic premise. However, I don't think it's correct that China's success is entirely explained from simply copying America. Of course copying is responsible for part of their success, but there are clear examples of the reverse. For example, integration of payments into WeChat, which has been duplicated by Facebook and others (but not as successfully as in China). They certainly disruptively innovate by making extremely cheap electric cars that poor Chinese can afford.
Free Website Giveaway
I'm starting out my freelancing career, and I wanted to kick it off by giving someone a free website, from design to development to hosting.
mailinabox is working perfectly for me. Give it a try if you want something easy to set up and maintain.
It's interesting that many of his date coincide with the WTF happened in 1971 website: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I think people are Cloudflare fans simply because so many other services suck more.

I gave Cloudflare a fair shake. But after hearing their lies way too many times, I'm calling them out for being deceptive and unscrupulous.

After being told that sites pretending to host Adobe Flash updaters and pretending to be Bank of America can't be taken down by Cloudflare because of their rights to free speech, I knew their attempts to pretend to be one of us, attempts to pretend to care, were nothing but bullshit.

They claim they don't host. If hosting DNS is not hosting, then what do you call DNS hosting? You literally CANNOT use their abuse web form to report domains which use Cloudflare just for hosting DNS. They do not handle abuse sent to their abuse email address (they simply send a form response saying to spend ten minutes filling out their crappy form that has all sorts of problems).

Of course, their web proxy services are also "not hosting", even though they're protecting all sorts of scammers.

So why should we think they're not bullshitting us when they run 1.1.1.1 and tell us they're not logging? Why should we trust them more than our ISPs by running DoH through them?

They WANT us to be dependent on them, because the more control they have, the more money they can make. It's dangerous, and they've shown they have no honor.

I've genuinely tried to correspond with them on Twitter, and they excel at not answering the question asked but instead just diverting. It's scummy, unprofessional behavior and I encourage everyone to consider whether they deserve anyone's data or business.
why does one take the time to comment something like this? If you're not interested just move on to the next post
I always viewed over-communication as akin to "calling your shots." Say what it is that you or others are going to do, so that people can call out if they expect issues or if they see gaps. It isn't necessarily about holding a ton of meetings or getting on some soapbox in the Black Turtleneck (tm) that all PMs are assigned on their first day. It's usually in the form of quick emails/slack messages/good meeting notes.

(I think that the article sums that concept up well)
> I think there's also a general suspicion that Sun could have just chosen the GPL if they cared about compatibility.

There were 'technical' reasons why they did go not with GPL, and specifically GPLv2 (GPLv3 was not out yet). IIRC, they did consider waiting for GPLv3, but it was unknown when it would be out, and one thing they desired was a patent grant, which v2 does not have.

Another condition was that they wanted a file-based copyright rather than a work-based copyright (i.e., applies to any individual files of ZFS as opposed to "ZFS" in aggregate).

* https://nawilson.com/2007/12/02/why-the-dislike-for-cddl/
> My understanding of TLS is that it's exceptionally difficult to cache content if you cannot see into the requests.

Not even "exceptionally difficult", but flat-out impossible. From the perspective of an observer, TLS sessions are random data. The protocol is specifically designed to defeat attempts to replay data -- a CDN is indistinguishable from an attacker in that sense.
Yes, but for a customer it's trivial to swap out one CDN for another, isn't it?
I mean twitter has plenty of paying customers too? You don't just advertise on there for free.
Where did you get your 0.5% from?

According to Johns Hopkins in the UK more than 15% of those who get it die, for the US it is 3.7%. The link says those numbers were updated this morning so they are current.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
> I think getting into the hobby market would amount to a huge long tail market of kickstarter style projects and other small products with potential to blow up.

I'm trying to think of a single kickstarter-style project that generated a volume above even 100K units let alone a million. I can't think of any.

BeatBuddy is probably the most successful by unit volume project I can think of, and they're probably under 10,000 units.

So, the evidence is that the hobbyist market is completely useless to manufacturers.
I cannot even begin to understand why stating something that is well known is considered flamebait?

Everyone knows Peter Thiel is a die-hard Trump supporter with a very strong anti-immigrant agenda, he has been a supporter of Apartheid and has strong ties to white nationalism. Why is stating any of this considered flamebait? I have given references in other comments.

Your reply OTOH is unsubstantive. I have noticed a pattern of unsubstantiated rebukes in many of your comments. You might be overloaded with moderation work and I recommend that you add new moderators.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/03/50...

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/461193-ann-coulter-pet...

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=rAQWX_WWJOLl9AOPr...

AFAIK, Peter Thiel isn't even working with Y combinator anymore. @dang can you explain why there is this need for aggressive censorhip around Peter Thiel.

https://fortune.com/2017/11/19/y-combinator-peter-thiel/
We Need a Yelp for Doctoral Programs
Some of these quotes are 8-10 years old, referencing events older than that. Back then solar wasn't that good of an idea financially and you had scandals like Solyndra. Now it's finally beating the cheapest dirty energy sources.
Just because 1 side doesn't provide evidence doesn't mean the other side is correct. If neither side provides evidence then neither side is necessarily correct.

And in the absence of evidence, generally the simplest (common sense) explanation should be presumed most likely (Hanlon's Razor).
> The reason it doesn't need more training is because it's already trained itself with millions of lifetimes of human data and encoded that in the parameters!

You know what else is trained by the experiences of thousands of individual (and billions of collective) human lifetimes of data? And several trillions of non-human ones?

> Humans aren't born trained with data.

That's either very wrong or about to evolve into a no true scotsman regarding what counts as data.
What is your solution for never going down?
Taking your comment at absolute face value, this essay is about technological progress, not the needs desires or problems of anybody.
Depending on how you integrated it and how deeply, it may be trivial. Certainly going from one DNS-based CDN to another can be pretty easy - a Cloudflare / CloudFront swap could be quick.

Which suggests to me that CDNs are already a commodity in some ways.
I am super ok with "stagnation" of technologies that have the potential to cause the extinction of our species.
Devon Island is where many people train to work on Mars missions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzyOdH6OlV0
How would you implement that without causing an increase in subjective/race/religious discrimination? US Americans even oppose to national identity cards.
I agree. Most of the "best PM advices" are usually related to B2C facing products. How about PMs who develop tools for internal use? I think the recommendations also changes - not from the point of "know your customers" but the nuances and what to pay attention and even measuring results are different than B2C consumers in general.
I recommend that people listen to that episode even if it's not interesting to you. Very good food for thought.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM9f0W2KD5s
Audio: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1-peter-thiel/id146999...
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>These agencies are lawless

Citation needed
Be on top of your shit.

I agree with this one wholeheartedly. One of my biggest gripes about PM's are when they produce half-baked things, like half-baked metrics, or half-baked external communications, or half-baked documentation. I'd rather they just didn't send it out in the first place. It's one thing to intentionally scope down the work. It's another to deliver something that is half of what you promised. This holds for engineers too, but in context we're talking about PM's.

At best you get confused managers/coworkers/users. At worst it makes your team look incompetent regardless of the work you actually did. That's how as a PM you get cut out of the loop.

Also, I think somewhere in should be a meta-principle:

Figure out what skills your team needs, and focus on providing those.

Specifically, depending on the company, team, culture, problem domain, product, etc. A team with an established, tight UX/engineering iteration cycle needs the PM to define the problems and get out of the way. A team that is starved of UX skills will need a PM to pinch hit on occasion. A team working on highly technical products (such as in security) might need a PM who is almost an engineer themselves in terms of technical expertise. A team working on a CRUD app doesn't need that much technical expertise, in favor of more time spent on UX and interfacing with other functions in the company.

As a PM, you have to understand these dynamics and how you can best fit into it. Otherwise you just get in people's way and lose the trust of the people you depend on.

(For context, I was a PM for several years, am an engineer now.)
Don't worry - I think it's pretty clear we're at the point now where if we don't solve global warming within a single generation, it's too late.
In pythonland, you get a whole slew of TUI widget libraries

Eg blessed
https://github.com/jquast/blessed
README could use a screenshot to illustrate 'A mini framework for creating desktop-like webapps' part of it.
Well each page is 100mic roughly for 80gsm paper which is pretty standard. So if you did something like a 200 page book that is 20mm's which at 72 dpi roughly 54px's or roughly 27px's for a 100 page book.

That's excluding any cover page, which heavily depends on binding/hard cover/what ever else.
The future is coming. In China.

Energy:

- Million-volt DC power transmission over thousands of kilometers is routine.

- Solar panels get cheaper every year.

- 46 nuclear reactors in operation, 11 under construction.

Transportation:

- 35,000km of high speed rail.

- Several major cities, including Shenzhen (16 million people), use all electric taxis and buses now.

- 600km/hr maglev train in test.

Medicine:

- First coronavirus vaccine approved and being given to PLA soldiers.

- Epidemic under control, most of country back at work.

Electronics:

- In-country manufacture of everything except largest CPUs.

Finance:

- Country runs financial system; financial system does not run country.

Government:

- Government is mildly oppressive but not incompetent.
It isn't an essay. It is a collection of quotes grouped by topic.
One answer - It's much, much harder to build and operate a global network infrastructure that it might seem. It's also even harder to invent some sort of "killer feature" or other genuine innovation on the experience. You're likely not using Cloudflare simply for commoditized pipes alone, but for other features or designed experiences in their offering.

A second answer - there are a bunch of bottom-barrel commoditized pipe services. You likely haven't heard of them because they're so generic. They've existed before Cloudflare, and more will be created in the future https://www.citrix.com/products/citrix-intelligent-traffic-m...
Could you expand on that? Are you saying the more outrageous a claim it's the more likely people are to believe it? That itself sounds like an outrageous claim to me, so I would like to see evidence for it.
Ask HN: Is There a Manual for Babies?
I'm going to become a father soon. A friend of mine told me he really wished he'd been given a manual so he could have prepared better for fatherhood.

I'm guessing if there was a book written for the scientific or engineering parent this would be the place to find it.

Any ideas?
Do you have any sources for your factual claims?
The author posted his Twitter announcement on HN a few hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23899990

Couldn’t edit the document so I added a few corrections there
Well, yes, for some people (maybe most). I don't dream of designing my living space, but I do like to live on a nice one. It's not like my bar is very high either.
>> The positive thing about Kanji is that it allows for quite an efficient expression with more nuance.

> As a person only a year and a half into learning Japanese, the positive thing is clearly marking separate words and particles.

The positive thing about kanji is a function kanji don't perform?
Finnegans Wake is probably the classical example. The latter books by William Gaddis also lose a lot (sometimes everything?) because they are so dependent on spoken American English. Cormac McCarthy is also sometimes hard to translate due to orality and some obscure language.

Part of the problem with Grande Sertão: Veredas is that it is has a very inventive, very oral aesthetics that is based on a local dialect and a culture that is unknown (except very superficially) to most of its readers even in Brazil. The burden on a translator to transfer all of that to the foreign reader is immense.
I think if you are building something extremely technical such as products for devs, or Fintech stuff, you have to understand some APIs just to know enough that you know what you are able to deliver.
> The second one does not refer to domestic hacking. They don’t do that.

What do you believe is happening in that second image?

One could argue semantics as to whether a fiber tap is "hacking" or not, or whether tapping a domestic company's network from an international transit link counts as "domestic hacking"... but there is ample evidence that US intelligence agencies do target domestic companies and their networks.

See also, the rest of the docs on MUSCULAR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program...
Is that data encrypted in transit? If so, what encryption was used? The ones "suggested" that NSA knows how to decrypt? Also, do you know what agreements have been made that are "above your pay grade"? Do you know what every piece of equipment in your data center does? What about what equipment is installed at the ISP level?

Don't be so quick to say "you" are not actively having data taken. "You" just might not be aware of it.
Google doesn't know what to do with the Pixel, and we've had enough
+1 for Eça de Queiroz. With the exception of O Crime do Padre Amaro which can in places be a bit blunt, he tends to have a a kind admiration for his characters as he quietly makes fun of them and the decadent society around them.
On Page 92, under Biotech,

>The problem that I remain the most passionate about is for us to make some real and continued progress in the fight against aging and death.

But how does one help? Really. I've been in academia for more than 10 years. I've had done some really promising stuff and know people with pretty cool projects that are 1,000% worth pursuing. Yet I have found virtually zero support as I don't play well with the "the politics of science".

The problem is that the "politics of science" are typically against "actually doing science" as there is no surplus of time, energy and willpower that allows one to pursue both ends.

I would like people to consider that this is one of the biggest obstacles hindering human development (in science at least). This thing really needs to change, for the benefit of everybody involved.
Oh now I understand what you're saying -- that makes sense. It's not what I've observed, but I definitely can imagine how settings for the compression, or what the algorithm concentrates on, could make that happen. I'll have to pay close attention now! And your rationalization probably makes sense -- I read the h.266 codec is supposedly focusing specifically on perception improvements in 4K/8K, so it may be addressing what your'e perceiving specifically.

Funnily enough, this reminds me of what I did with JPEGs on websites when Retina first became a thing. Instead of serving up different assets depending on resolution, I discovered that serving up a 2x resolution JPEG to everyone, with really crappy quality, was superior to serving up 1x with high quality. For 1x screens, blockiness was inherently shrunken because of JPEG's fixed block sizes, and for 2x screens the low quality was harder to perceive because it was at a small scale anyways. How compression interacts with scale/resolution is not a necessarily intuitive thing.
If this becomes a problem, I think cameras and smartphones would be upgraded with a way to certify they are real videos. I have no idea how, and it would likely have to keep evolving, but if the financial incentives are there I'm sure someone will figure it out. Maybe the video gets signed by the phone and can only be verified by that device?

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Ten years ago I'd agree, but I don't think outright genocide qualifies as "mildly oppressive".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide_of_Uyghurs
Very helpful reply. Turns out from your link - and I had no idea - that the promise to swap one fiver for another actually has a use:

"Nowadays, the ‘promise to pay’ holds good in perpetuity for the exchange of old series Bank of England notes which have been withdrawn from circulation, as well as mutilated Bank of England notes, provided that certain criteria are met"
I do exactly what you do. I write up the cards in Jira and then the devs will have further discussions from that point and beyond. They also feel validated and they do bring good ideas.
"progress" has a few definitions. It can mean simply "forward motion", in which case you are right. Or it can mean what I usually take it to mean: "gradual betterment" - unless you're a shark, what's the point of moving forward if not to improve. How can you improve if you don't understand what "better" is?
Good luck with the company, I think what you're doing is very cool and I can see the use case for low bandwidth conversion for educational/whiteboard video in particular.

I think you're right about current web tech being able to support this. Lottie extended to an open source vector "video" format would be awesome, with HLS/Dash streaming and especially audio (streaming in sync) too. Hope you can find a sponsor for such an open source project
GPT-3 or GPT-4 can give us "convincing liars", but we still need to figure out how to combine them with actual factual databases and do a quick fact-checking/validation/inference. GPT-3 is showing us a convincing human-like style, but no real substance. It's a massive step forward in any case.

I might try to generate soft-science essays with GPT-3 at one of my universities to see if it passes through TA filters.
I think Thiel is worth listening to, but sometimes his contrarianism flips into derangement:

> [Peter Robinson: In 2016, how many professors at the top five law schools endorsed Donald Trump?] [2]
Zero. And the law school example's interesting because you would think it's one where if you took the, a lot of academic fields are more internal to academia, but law is one that cashes out in a governmental political context, and taking a contrarian position in theory is quite valuable. If you're a tenured law professor at Harvard, and you're the only law professor at a top law school to endorse Trump, I don't know, I think there would be like a 50% chance you would've gotten nominated to the Supreme Court or something like that. So it seems like it's the sort of thing where the contrarian thing would be quite valuable, and then if nobody takes that bet, I mean, wow, there must be some unbelievable enforcement mechanisms, and it's sort of like a gentle version of North Korea.

What's more likely: Harvard law professors don't endorse Trump because he's unfit to lead a parade, or they are subject to (gentle) totalitarian barbarism?
To prevent a position from winning by default it only requires a very simple reply: ask for evidence.
"Citadel Securities generated $3.5 billion of revenue in 2018."

I bet they are very upset at having to pay a $700000 fine.
Just take all the money and build loads of solar and wind power.
>the agency does not have direct access

Sure, NSA can't directly query against whatever database gmail uses to store your email, but they still have all your emails, photos, and login history. As far as your privacy is concerned, there isn't really any meaningful difference.
Mortgage-backed securities seem like a bad bet right now. Unless you're betting against them, anyway.
To play devil's advocate: for capitalists to remain capitalists, they must successfully allocate capital, which requires a knowledge of the "needs, desired, and problems" of the consumer class. And the stock market is a mechanism for transferring capital from inefficient allocators to efficient ones.

That's the theory, anyway. In practice many capitalists accumulate capital in ways that are unfair and uncompetitive.
Can you recommend further reading?
You can see how effective they are at shading the house!
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Thanks for sharing this - for people who like pictures, the instagram feed (linked at the bottom of the article) is well worth adding.

"Homes are not built by people intending to live in them." - this really gets to the issue, I think. Somewhere along the line we took away most people's ability to construct their own home (or they just lost it), and of course if houses are viewed primarily as holding value for equity, you need to consider resale instead of your own preferences when making decisions.
Show HN: GUIs for Faster ML Prototyping and Sharing
Sorry I didn't see this earlier…

I believe that Go has a lighter footprint (both in memory and CPU) than JavaScript.
Yeah, came here to say this too. There are much more convincing ways of making this point.
> It definitely feels like there ought to be architects who can do this- with your input of course.

To be fair, the article does mention that: if you commission an architect to do this, you should show them your Pinterest boards. Or at least get an idea of what you like.

> Learning all the nuance and getting it all right the first time would be such a colossal job.

I imagine it's akin to getting to the level of a working architect yourself. Which is a huge time investment. The article mentions it taking years for them.

> I can spend a month or two per medium sized house project, learning all the details- forget about the whole house.

That's much less than I'd expect it to take me. I'm curious: are you an architect, or designer, yourself?
'mildly oppressive', while literally millions of Uyghurs are being led into nazi style concentration camp trains and hong kong is not free anymore.

Or a few decades ago, they captured mothers, 'tied them up like pigs' and physically forced abortions and sterilizations on them.
Would love some feedback! What additional interfaces or functionality would you like to see here?