skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine. But we must still must be able to separate between backend and frontend: it should be possible to upgrade the anti-spam machinery without breaking

- doublequotes

- + (ok, they broke that deliberately around Google+)

- the verbatim operator

All those should be able to work even if the crawler and processing techniques are updated, right?

Also a heads up: I added some more details to my post above,I didn't think you would answer so fast :-)

Edit: I only know the black hat methods that was well know 10 years ago like:

- backlink farming from comment fields (we protected against it by applying nofollow to all links in comments)

- Google bombing (coordinated efforts to link to certain pages with particular words in the link, trying to get Google to return a specific result for an unrelated query. I think the canonical example was something like a bunch of people making links with the text "a massive failure" that all pointed to the White house website.

- Link-for-link schemes

- etc
Ask HN: Did Orwell in 1984 correctly predict coming of the Big Brother?
I am reading Orwell's 1984 currently and had a thought.
Given the prevailing ubiquitous surveillance in modern countries do you think era of the Big Brother is here?
And for even more dystopian view of the world, combine that with the findings from the Stanford Prison Experiment? Just a thought...
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Ask HN: Where do you learn about new technology?
Given everything is going virtual, what are the sources that are popular with backend, full stack, micro services enthusiasts?

Similarly, what publications/forums/blogs are your favorite source? (hackernews? TC? CSS-tricks? Something else)
Keeping your Docker containers up to date
Thank you for responding with valuable feedback! Will definitely fix this.
will this crisis make people start to realize that maybe there's more to life than chasing green paper?

Capitalists don't give a shit and they won't move a finger to change anything.
Yep, Plenty of planes flying out there without any electronic maps.

The attack happened about a week after the FAA’s last update went into force. And I believe they’re distributed a week before that.

So the only groundings would’ve been those that have been parked for a while (I guess. I don’t know how they do updates).

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_dat...

—armchair aviator
That is a lot to think about. I did not know what a Nash equilibrium is. I don’t have an immediate answer to this. I only have some vague notions that the alternatives I am thinking of does not cost as much as it is perceived, and conversion strategies may not require a large investment with an immediate opportunity cost. In other words, not all viable strategies are known by the actors.

I tried looking up information on the Pashtuns and pre-modern cultivation of opium. So far, I have only found articles and papers talking about significant cultivation since the 1950s. I have found articles describing this as a fairly complex issue.

I am interested in understanding the traditional farming practices of the Pashtuns, and how and why it changed. Is there anything written about that you know off the top of your head?
The video is a simple demonstration. If you want more details, there's an accompanying website and white paper published by MIT [1].

1. http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/VisualMic/
How bad does it have to get before the automated systems refuse to deal and a human has to land the plane? An engine gone? Two engines gone? Multiple engines gone and a really stiff crosswind? How good is it at landing in a blizzard on an icy runway? I know it never happens. Planes never land on the Hudson River, either. There's obvious value in making the happy path as safe as possible, and I'm certain full automation is the way to do that, but what are the current limits of automation?
That's an interesting question and I was wondering the same thing.

Sounds like if we set Slack aside, all that CTO.ai is really offering is buy-in into their platform w/ no clear value beyond the initial slackbot-like integration
There are other GPT models trained on Github. It can write functions from comments describing the requirements.
Seconding `tig`
It's absolutely fantastic for simple functions though. I don't think you can find anything comparable in any provider.

Now it's even better with deploy to all PoPs and no cold starts.
The upcoming battery powered models are getting pretty good. In some cases they have even more power than you can get from a gas motor, and of course the agility, quiet, and easy starting of an electric motor.
> Google optimizes for travel time

Speaking of Google Map route optimization...

I was out and about the other day and entered the next destination in Google Maps. It told me to drive 80km which would have taken over an hour due to the roads.

Fortunately I knew that had to be wrong. After a bit of poking I found I had turned on "avoid toll roads"... after switching that off, it showed me a 5 minute route instead.

Sure I had to pay a few bucks for it, but in my mind "avoid toll roads" does not mean "avoid toll roads at all cost".
Hello, thanks for pointing out your tool. I use diff-so-fancy as a pager but I will most definitely try your tool.
I can appreciate that "canon" is used in religious contexts, but its meaning and origin go back further than that. Wiktionary (hardly the best source, I know) lists three secular meanings before the religious ones begin. The most relevant is this one:

> A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.

Also, the coinage "fanon" (as in derivative works by a fanbase) comes directly from the treatment of the source material as "canonical". (Frankly, "canonical" is the best argument I can make for "canon".)
Mildly terrifying when we know how software is done at massive corporations like Boeing and Airbus : /
Runners experience the same immune suppression effects as people who train HIIT: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8164529/
And so, believing the pandemic to be a hoax, my partner and I hosted family members on Saturday, June 13. On Sunday, June 14, I woke up sick.

Is this satire? The Biogen outbreak was in late February, the disastrous White House briefing that caused the stock market to lose 30 % of its valuation on March 17. What more confirmation did they need that the plague was on the move?

A GoFundMe page has been created to help his in-laws pay medical bills resulting from their illness.

Personal responsibility is for the plebs, we happily fall back on charity when it suits us. And no word in the whole damned article about responsibility for healthcare personnel, just for friends and family.
The idea is to get the benefits of things like goroutines in a 1:1 framework. The main inherent advantage of userspace threads like goroutines is that you can context switch between them without going through the OS scheduler. Although the OS scheduler is quite efficient, sometimes you know that you want to immediately run some other thread, perhaps because you're passing a synchronous message to it.

The reason why you would want this instead of the traditional implementation of goroutines is that it's compatible with existing code. When you buy into an M:N framework you lose compatibility with all existing libraries, because they could use things like blocking I/O, thread-local storage, or signals. The traditional solution to this that e.g. Go uses is to have some OS threads that you proxy all such calls from your userland M:N threads to. This works, but it's slow, and if you forget to use that mechanism you can end up starving your OS threads or worse. With the switchto patches here, you can get the best of both worlds: fast and precise control over thread scheduling from userland and compatibility with existing libraries. Ideally, it'd enable interoperability among different threading implementations: you could imagine that calling C++ or Rust functions from Go goroutines could become as fast as calling Go functions (though you would still have to deal with the small stack problem).
I would not be surprised to see self-flying planes take off (pun intended) before self-driving cars.
I saw a promotional video about harvesting rainwater made by an Indian non-profit. Have you seen that one?
Their profile pic on Twitter also looks very much like the stuff This Person Does Not Exist generates. I have a feeling this might be a social experiment on how easy it is to generate a persona using AI.
Basically drowns out the room vibrations upon the window as it is a in direct contact. You can make your own with piezo discs and small circuit to drive them. That and high frequency will not cause added noise noticeable to humans.
PhysFS performance, a story of threading and locking
Try peeling an orange with as few tears as possible, and flattening the skin against a hard surface.
Thank you, that is a good advice. I will follow up with you later when I am ready to focus, if you don't mind.
This is the logical analog to and extension of the assault on net neutrality.

The reasons this is a fatal stance in a functional first-world democracy are identical.
Dumb question but what is the benefit? I imagine pilots will still need to be there to take over during an emergency, so it won't save on pilot costs, right? And they can already lay back and relax during most of the flight so it won't really help with fatigue. Is the idea that autopilot can somehow take off with less risk than a human pilot? Can a human pilot take over sufficiently quickly if something goes wrong? Is pilot error during phases where such autopilot could've been running a source of accidents in practice?
I do not mean to be snarky, but do you think they really care about long term. Even with education and healthcare slowly coming along around the world, the Afghanistan fertility rate is still above 5 kids per woman or something. It is a society still rooted in tradition. People from the West try to create a halo around traditional ways of living and tribals and other such things for different reasons (some genuine, some not). The truth is they are competing in their own Darwinian way to maximize their own benefit with whatever resources they can land their hand on. The farmers generally are relatively richer land owners and will alway strife for output maximization and regulation of output is not easy for the state in a place like this.
It may be that deep learning as we know it (TF, PyTorch) is going to be replaced by prompting large models, thus making most applications straightforward for anyone to use.
Indeed. The problem with such supposed 'non-lethal' weapons as Dazzlers, Tasers, rubber bullets, etc is that they can absolutely cause permanent injury. In the case of Tasers and rubber bullets, they've both killed lots of people - they just aren't 'designed to kill' so they can arguably remain legal to use. Tasers are also convenient torture/punishment devices.

The militarization of law enforcement means that such devices end up being deployed domestically under much looser (or no) terms of engagement versus a 'lethal' weapon like a gun.
By that logic, could not any accusation have merit so long as enough "evidence" is produced to support it?

For example, producing a false document on a political candidate, then using it to drum up media speculation, while pushing politicians to "do something" to the point where they have no choice but to buy in to the narrative, and accept the talking points and media speculation as truth.

Gosh, I can't imagine anyone doing that! /sarcasm
Not if it's random.

It's the vibrations from sound on glass they want and those are tiny by comparison to the input.
When I got my math teaching credential, there were bunches of interesting historical things we learned along the way including Egyptian Fractions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_fraction

Never actually used any of it so most of it has evaporated from my memory along with calculating square roots by hand, but it's nice to know at least enough to be able to look up the information if I want it.
The math is just Asin(at+Bsin(bt+...))+Csin(ct+...), where you can slowly play with A, a, B, b, ... but to get a good musical intuition try this tutorial for the Yamaha Reface DX (a modern incarnation of this algorithm, identical to the DX7 except they replaced the last two operators with a feedback unit per op instead of just one): https://www.yamahasynth.com/synths/basics-of-fm-synthesis
Genuine quiet is really tough. Even in the middle of Yosemite you can hear planes going by at 25 or 30 thousand feet. Planes flying Denver to San Francisco are already on an approach track when they fly over Yosemite.
You're just making the same argument as the article -- that it doesn't really mean that.

The clause you're referring to says you can designate a user, but that could have to be the same user who uses the machine locally, and then they can also use it remotely. The first clause still proscribes use "on a device for use only by remote users" -- so maybe remote use is only allowed when local use is also present. Has this theory been tested in court? Do you want to be the one to test it?

And common practice doesn't save you. Lots of companies use [A]GPL software too. Look what the Federal Circuit did with API copyrightability -- everybody had been assuming that wasn't the case forever. And maybe they're right to, if another court overrules it or narrows it into nothing or a new law is passed before it matters for anybody else, or maybe not.

Uncertainty is the default. Which is terrible, but nonetheless.
k8s basics is pretty simple actually. If you know Docker, k8s basically is a way to keep a bunch of Docker containers running according to a bunch of YAML configs. There are all kinds of fine details, but the gist of the thing is just that. Of course as every tool it's not always used properly.
Because anything that was created before the Internet spontaneoulsy generated in 2005 is obviously so not worth reading about.

HN is about more than just the latest JS fad: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Poor pilots sitting and watching inside the plane the moment they got obsolete. Cameras now, lidar and radar later for night and bad weather flights.
Well they're still much louder than an EV.
Wow, this is an incredible reply. Thanks so much for such an in-depth analysis and compliments!

I actually really like your mock-up and really appreciate that you took the time to make it. Hopefully you don't mind if I take quite a bit of inspiration from it, because I definitely think it looks much better than my current one.

Yeah, I agree that the network effect is one of the biggest problems. Retention seems very tricky with a concept like this because while posting it to reddit or HN can result in many registrations, few people stick around because there isn't much to do on the site because there's so few users at the moment. It honestly does make motivation pretty difficult, but I am indeed going to stick with it regardless.

With regard to your last 4 numbered points, currently 0% == not answered == neutral, and this is mostly due to technical limitations. Your default similarity cube is just (0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ..., 0.0) (50 zeroes), and voting on cards adjusts this accordingly. Such that if you answer 100% to every card in the first cluster and answer no other cards then your CUBE would look like (1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, ..., 0.0)

I was thinking about a potential way to solve this, but as of right now due to the constraints of CUBE similarity matching, this is the current solution.

Thanks again for such an insightful reply!
Is it blogspam when it's called syndication?

Here's the "original" source of the column, which is on a less... determinedly fashionable website, so it might be friendlier to mobile users and people who dislike fixed headers:

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3330/how-did-anyon...

Also, previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14818633
I'm working on a search engine like this. So far just government websites but I think you're right about the need to focus on selected sites for some kinds of searches. For example, if you're looking for securities laws, you probably want to search government law sites and securities regulator sites. Maybe you want law blogs and law journal articles too, but you probably don't want Reddit or Hacker News.
Basically, many laws overlap and it isn't always clear what applies. A new law may pass but they don't go strike through all the old laws that no longer apply.

Also there are laws that reference other country's laws. An example is that is (or was) illegal to buy/posses a type of meat in the US that is illegal in other jurisdictions. This was made to protect endangered animals but can easily apply to everything as there are lot of jurisdictions and who really knows if any one of them currently doesn't allow pork or beef for whatever reason.

More details here a few minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Your main value add as a developer is understanding the problem domain. Machines won't be able to do this in your, or your children's lifetime, outside some important, but very constrained niches.
Yes, from now on we can only control it by prompting. But OpenAI announced plans for further fine-tuning on client data.
> similarly, google will often send me through complicated (and therefore dangerous, imo) intersections

Reminds me of another Google Maps story. Was picking up something second hand, so was driving somewhere unfamiliar. I followed Google Maps, and the route seemed reasonable.

Then I hit the residential area where my destination was. Google Maps told me to drive up this really narrow road to get onto another road. Looked really weird, but I couldn't see any other choice besides a long detour so I carefully drove up that road.

At my destination, I told the woman I was buying from about Google Maps and that narrow road. "So _that's_ why all those people are driving on that pedestrian road" she exclaimed.

Apparently I was not the first...
I think the idea is you might be able to reduce the required number of pilots from 2 to 1 for some flights.
Didn't anyone watch or read Clear and Present Danger? Laser microphone. This has been done for the past 40 years or so.
I've got one for the seed oils

http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml

Afaik sugar is not inflammatory though.
Chris DiBona is paid to care about exactly this issue. Compliance is his job description and AGPL policy companywide is comfortably in that portfolio. That you disagree with him does not indict Google nor create an alternative universe where Googlers are setting out unprompted to screw the free software world that gave them 50% of their infrastructure for no reason other than fear.

You underestimate the rigor required in compliance. We are talking about FAANG compliance, too, which holds nary a candle toward compliance in other verticals. This thread should illustrate why compliance decisions are largely made independently of engineering.
*millions, not billions.

Earth is about 4.5B years old, life is about 3.7B years old, multicellular life (including life with neural nets) is about 600 million years old. I don't think the span from microbe to multicellular organism counts in brain evolution.
I guess, but those tools alone build powerful fast software, and those programmers are solving problems which translate well to any field requiring problem solving. The software world may change rapidly, but a React / Git stack is no different than a C++ / Subversion stack when both jobs require programmers to solve hard, complex problems.
I've worked from home for quite a long time and building a social network is a hard aspect of it. Doing it during a pandemic is hard, but I made it a point to go do something almost every day when I started working from home. It made a huge difference.

In my opinion it's great. Often times our coworkers are people we're forced to socialize with because we don't really have a choice. Working from home brings that choice back, but it does mean that there's some groundwork to lay down.
I thought most of plane take off, flight, and landing were automated long ago... ?

[sorry, should have done more googling: https://www.flightdeckfriend.com/can-a-plane-land-automatica... seems to say auto-land is there (but used very little) and no auto-takeoff]
Cargo flights could fly without pilots, or use remote-control like a UAV
Cold starts are unnoticeably low at 5ms but there absolutely are cold-starts.
Still need ML to build the menu of paths.
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Picking out that you said "current virus levels" I completely agree.

There is no timeframe for getting the virus levels under wraps. It's a matter of determining what the risk is.

I'd put it like this for myself, if the risk to the students and teachers is MORE than some already known risk factors we have out there (driving) then let's not do it.

If the risk to students and teachers is similar or less than some already known risk factors then we can consider opening.

I'd also like to see a plan of something like (not exactly this I'm no expert).

If someone from a class is confirmed with COVIDthe whole class closes for 2 weeks (goes remote). If there are 3 cases at the school they close for 2 weeks. If there are 3 schools in the district and there's less than XYZ miles then the district closes for 2 weeks.

This is a rough idea but we can easily handle 2-4 weeks off at a time given a case of COVID. So if we're opening lets be cautious and imitate other countries who have done well.
Historically, buying the high at the end of a bear market has been a winning strategy.

Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results.