skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People... Please stop using foreign alphabets like that! It's a nightmare for those of us who know the alphabets. It took me a good 20 seconds to read the title. And it's magnitudes worse when someone uses cyrillic for instance and it's native to me.
If you like PeerTube please check out LBRY, too. It goes a step further and is even more decentralized and doesn't rely on server instances like the one you have setup.
Thanks for the advice. Will look into Schengen visa. What are the best portals for finding work? I'll be remote until end of year with my current gig. But the 10 hour timezone difference will catch up to me.
This article makes it seem like we did not know this already. There has been numerous experiments on UBI and pretty much everyone showed that it was working and in fact saving money.
One of the biggest examples are the Mincome results [1] which showed significant reduction in hospitilization by 8.5% and only very minor reduction in working hours (mostly women using the money to have more time to care for their children)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
21 years old here and this is the first I have seen it. At first after reading the wiki article I assumed they were talking about embedding closed captions in the vblank but I have literally never seen or heard anyone mention that you could create static "pages" over analogue tv.
Many years ago when I was bored I «designed» a fantasy CPU with 6 (six) bits and only one usable register, the accumulator. I thought why not. The result:

18 bit address bus

12 bit stack pointer

6 flags zero, negative, carry, overflow, float and user

7 addressing modes accumulator, immediate, absolute, relative, stack, stack without pop, stack special

64 opcodes like NOP, OR, JMP, ROL, STO, ...

I discovered that it is well possible to have a 6 bit CPU but of course this is just a game and probably not useful at all. I wonder whether I would be able to create the circuit for the CPU in a simulator. Probably not even if I omit the floating point handling or only if I dedicated about 10 years of free time. I would need to design a microcode or PLA (like MOS 6502, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5353198) system.

I find it amusing that this is the one CPU where octal base is really the primary way to display numbers.
> It's a classic case of engineers thinking they can solve people-problems with technical solutions.

Linux, Wikipedia and a number of other proves this is not the entire story.

If the new <x> is good/fast/cheap enough people will sometimes start using it.

Often this is gets great help from the incumbent solution being either really bad and/or slow and/or expensive.

This way of thinking is not just not entirely correct but more importantly it is demotivating. Maybe what we do won't succeed but for me it sure beats watching more TV :-)
We had pretty much this exactly with XML and XSLT. The XML would be entirely about content/data with only suggested presentation based on linked stylesheets. The browser could use the linked stylesheets or ignore them and use its own. Since the XML would declare its schema a browser could handle pretty much any data so long as it had a handler for that schema.

Since the XML could carry pretty much any sort of data server endpoints could back an "Application Web" just as easily as a "Document Web". A browser could take a music playlist and transform it into a listing of tracks via XSLT while a music player would take that exact same URL and enqueue the tracks for playback.

Unfortunately the mixed presentation and content model had a lot of momentum. By the time a lot of web developers caught on to separating concerns XmlHttpRequest existed and let everyone reimplement all those cool XML/Web 2.0 ideas poorly in JavaScript.
If you taboo the word 'personality', the underlying question here is still interesting. Do different people in the "exact same" situation always behave /identically/? (Obviously not.) What are the most informative features of the person explaining the divergence in response?
> I agree that that would be faulty reasoning. I was combatting the opposite reasoning, which is that some traits or combinations of traits (like being short) are disqualifying. E.g. your parent comment in which you wrote: "If you are very short, your attire can not make up for it."

Being short is in fact a huge disadvantage for dating, this is well established, for example in the study I gave you. Most females will indeed disqualify a short male from consideration.

Of course every dating pool is different and it might contain the odd exception where a female prefers to date a short guy, but then she will still prefer the affluent or handsome short guy over the other short guys, which are now out of mates.

> People aren't ranked in some kind of linear way from "more attractive" to "less attractive", lined up, and then can only find partners who agree with their level. There are many reasons...

I'll call this the "cosmic justice fantasy". In reality, attractiveness is fairly objective and measurable, with fairly low variance across individuals. There are of course always exceptions at the tail ends, but it doesn't make much of a difference.

> All of these combine to make it so that effectively, almost everyone can find a sexual partner.

At this point, I think we should differentiate between finding a a partner and having a sexual encounter at least once in your life.

> And this is not just a theroetical idea either - as I posted in another comment, according to some random studies I just Googled, <0.5% of people have never had a sexual experience by age 40

What this actually says is that less than 0.5% of people admit to never having had a sexual experience, which also would include an encounter with a prostitute.

Even at that low-ball rate, we'd be talking about millions of people in the US.

> Let me just close by saying that if you truly believe you (or some/most people posting on incel forums) are incapable of ever having a sexual relationship, I empathize with you - it must be very unhappy to believe you will never have something that you want and see so many other people enjoying.

To be clear: I'm neither short, nor bad-looking, nor do I lack sexual experience. I'm neither an incel, nor incel-affiliated, nor do I personally know any actual (self-identified) incels. I don't read discussions on incel forums. You may well be right in that a large amount of incel forum dwellers really only look blame personal failures on some immutable characteristic, because that's just what people like to do.

I happen to be interested in the some of the science that an incel might be interested in, because I prefer to know what's real, as opposed to what people would like to be real.
Fair enough, here's the missing part:

Tall women have trouble finding partners because women not just want a tall man, they almost universally want a man who is taller than them. It's the same for high-earning women, they almost universally want a man that earns more than them. The same is true for education or job status and many other factors, and they compound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy

Women who are exceptional in one or more of these traits face a commensurately smaller pool of men that are acceptable to her, whereas every man in that pool is attractive to a commensurately larger pool of other women. However, men are not hypergamous, they do not care about earnings or education and they prefer shorter mates. Therefore, the males in that pool are more likely to end up with another female than the exceptional one.

Unable to find an acceptable partner and absent societal pressure in western societies, those exceptional females may defer or give up on reproduction.
I'm actually not so much interested in the incel identity, but in the biological reality of sexual reproduction and mate choice including (but not limited to) Homo Sapiens - as opposed to the fantasies that a given Homo Sapiens might harbor in favor of that reality.

To that end, I would count an incel not as "someone who can't have sex" but someone fertile who involuntarily fails to sexually reproduce.

Research suggests that historically, the ratio of females to males that reproduced is 1.1 (Asia) to 1.4 (West Africa)[1]. Of course that doesn't prove all of these male individuals were incels, but we're not a naturally monogamous species, so you would have to explain why a female would not choose only the best males for reproduction and ignore the rest.

Many (if not most) societies have historically suppressed female mate choice, likely as a measure for maintaining social order. This would suggest that as females are able to be more picky, the number of incels should rise.

I believe that's exactly what we can observe right now in affluent western societies: Women have been financially independent from males for decades, and now that online dating shows women the abundance of mate choices they never knew they had, less attractive males suddenly appear much less desirable. Consequently, the threshold for successful reproduction rises.

[1] https://www.cell.com/ajhg/pdf/S0002-9297(10)00033-9.pdf
> There is no "rural vs urban" divide in Japan.

Hmm maybe not divided like US but exists. Tokyo vs other big cities(Osaka, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Nagoya,..) vs others is popular conflict. Young people move to Tokyo to get jobs or go to univ and never goes back, meanwhile rural areas are losing younger smart people. And all govs and most news are in Tokyo so not considering others well.

I hope covid improves this situation.
not to mention people using screen readers...
it's OK to have one browser engine -- this means the web is mature (We have one linux kernel after all). The problem is that google controls that. To attack that, one has to fork chrome and add features that google would never add , because they directly threaten their business, e.g. instant in-browser payments. Brave browser does that (ironically, i dont use it because my websites have ads and i do want to see if they are showing up). More of these google-unfriendly features (e.g. built in pseudonymous blockchain-based or other decentralized identity) would appeal to web devs and cause enough people to switch.

Otherwise, the problems he s describing have 100% to do with the miserable culture of CV-padding that has taken over the silicon valley and led to SPA monstrosities, rather than with web standards themselves. WWW as a standard is OK, old websites work, and HTML/CSS is still there. Trying to make the DOM work as some kind of window rendering engine is a travesty that doesnt work.
First 100 customers give: invaluable feedbacks, testimonials, brand advocates
Anecdotal, but my dad uses it daily though the app. I love that such a limited canvas still has use.

It's not unlike twitter in that sense.
a day ago there were estimate that anout basically everyone in NYC has having been in contact with the virus at some point and the city doesn't look like a wasteland.

lethality was grossly overestimate and subsequent decision built off not only partial and incomplete data, but flat out wrong.

would full lock down have been the best course of action? probably still so. but the extent and duration and especially now follow up actions seem extremely exaggerated.

there's quite a difference in Italy for example from the "hundreds new cases a day" in march, with a unknown size pool of undetected cases, and "hundred new cases a day" but everyone else is fine and contact tracing will find the rest.

the issue is political because the GDP and welfare budget are intertwined. and then there's the big hairy issue with schooling.

the world isn't black and white and fighting the virus can't be the sole priority for six months, let alone one or more years.

but both now and yesterday people with a wide view of the issue were basically ostracized and chased away as if they were flat earther or antivaxxer.

it's about time people start questioning what is the long term plan and if the previous decisions were data driven or scare driven.
Agreed. It’s not even a particularly good example of the style, given υ could have been used instead of μ, ο instead of δ.
This is so awesome! Any tips on parallelizing/is it async compatible? I personally found granular error handling combined with parallelization to be impossible to get just right in pure bash.
"actmally rdrtable execmtable" that's more or less how it reads to someone who knows the Greek alphabet :-D

(I might be partially wrong because I've studied Greek many years ago and my memory is not good)
> An interesting example would be if the NN learns something from a book, also fed it with the all the critique on that book ( the environment reaction ).

But isn't that exactly what has been done with GPT-3? AFAIK it has been trained with both facts (wikipedia and such) and web-crawled text content that contains both content and critique of content (book reviews, movie reviews etc.)?
Agree, but you seem to be turning downvoted-transparent.

I am also always surprised that Mozilla receives so much praise for its technology stack, when their core source code for Firefox and Thunderbird is such a buggy pain to work with.

I understand that they inherited a legacy codebase, but I'm not sure that playing catch-up with Google on (in my opinion) useless features like WebUSB was good technical management. In fact, I would argue that letting technical debt accumulate to the point where you need to rewrite large parts in a completely different language and deprecate technologies still in use (e.g. XUL) is more like an admission of failed technical leadership.

So I am honestly surprised that Mozilla is cutting projects and firing developers, yet nobody seems to take action to reduce the overhead of their apparently incapable management.
This article's casual collusion of winning in terms of not losing any lives to the virus and winning in terms of the tourist industry taking a hit is crass, at best.
US has GDP of roughly 20B (2018) and population of 328M

($20B 5%)/(328M 15%) / 365 = $55.68 a day

A penny per person per day is $1.2 billion a year
Smart,

what about using words (like a password phrase) instead of a hash? You can schedule title of the upcoming tweet, so people can like it and "subscribe" to notifications
In what world is "economy takes a hit" not a win over "economy takes a hit and tens of thousands of people die"?
Corn is an example of subsidized supply.

Government money increases the supply of corn, and drives the price down. Hence, corn, and products derived from it -- high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), corn-fed beef, Nu Metal bands, etc -- are cheaper.

College is an example of subsidized demand.

Government money increases the number of prospective students, by lowering the financial barrier to attend university. The result being that the cost of a university education has risen, drastically, while the quality of that education has plummeted.
There are a million different ways a computer can fail. I think we're asking too much of people to be able to know all the pitfalls of every system they create.

But also this 'new field' just seems like something we've already been doing just with a different name. You're kind of expected to make sure your system can work if the computer suddenly shuts off, or a dependency is lost, or the network is slow. Have we not been doing this??
It's somehow worse than "toys ya us".
My critique of this blogpost will have the sha-256 hash:2738490299aeefee10202fa46283bc856
Then Epic should have gone to the court without pulling the stunt
It's entirely possible that you are right except for construction and civil project jobs.

It's all very well to pay someone well and expect good results for the money, but that person is still a member of society and will be affected by the things around them. I'd argue that someone who hears constant negativity in the media about how everyone is underpaid and living in poverty, and sees the person serving their coffee at a diner working their third job, and knows that their wife is working longer hours than they are for much less money, is going to be less productive as a result no matter how they're treated as an individual. Poverty is a structural problem in society. It doesn't just affect poor people.
If I think about a document web, I don't think everyone will like to write in Markdown. There are many ''lightweight markup language''s to choose from. So maybe there could be a ''low-level'' markup language like Scribe or Texinfo to compile into from your favourite markup language. I have a small example of what that might look like here (just the sketch, not impl): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24249636

What do you think?
Fair enough. I heard that John Anatomy of Lisp might have more details. Do you know books talking about the topics you mentionned ?
Wait, I'm still confused. Why have a nsfw filter for data collection if the subject is partially defined by its nsfw qualities?
I’ll post in 25 years in the future once I brute force this hash.
Can you download prime movies to disk? I thought it was streamed only.
Provide me a link to original if you have.

Looks helpful.
I managed to find playable early episodes here -> https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/open-source-underdogs-o...
"But I think most would also agree that if all corporate lawyers, bank lobbyists, or marketing gurus were to similarly vanish in a puff of smoke, the world would be at least a little bit more bearable."

I remember just yesterday there was a great article on HN that discussed bullshit jobs and counted corporate lawyers towards the "goons". The rationale was that if nobody has them, nobody else needs them.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/bullshit-jobs-australia-2...
Time to take some medication maybe? Such hatred against programming language is not normal.
I am sorry. Here's a weird podcast I made
(Sorry.)
[2] is an important historical document. Highly recommended.
I did the same and I regret most of it :) All my attempts were total failures.

It's also fine to just dance back to a 9-5. Having a paycheck and living an OK life if perfectly fine.
> Consider a potential suspect who can’t prove where they were at 11 pm on a Thursday, because they live alone.

Bad for those that don't have speakers as it can develop in a direction that not using mainly useless gadgets as suspect.

People involved in future crime: Victim, supect, Amazon, Google...
I didn't realize it was running locally, so I think I was inadvertently thrashing it: running in Chrome with many, many tabs open; on an old machine that was probably running low on memory; and randomly pressing F5 instead of Cmd-Enter (some part of my brain was thinking of a SQL environment I use).

I added price and industry to the default display, used NYSE and Nasdaq data sets, and queried something like filter profile.lastDiv > 3 and profile.industry startsWith "Utilities" and profile.industry contains "Electric". I probably tried to start my query before the data sets completed loading. I don't know if interrupting the data loading or pressing F5 is more correlated with it acting strangely. (This is on the latest Chrome, under OSX 10.13.6.)

I tried again using Firefox 79.0 and it works fine. F5 reloads the page (and logs me out, ahem). Tried to do a few things while it was loading data and it was more solid.

I'd put saving column layouts (at least the last one used) ahead of enums for field matching. Seems like once you add enums, you'll have to be continually vigilant for data oddities.

I think I'd find it interesting to be able to plot attributes or computed attributes against another. Not sure how other tools get around the reporting period issue.

Interesting tool; thanks for putting it out.
AI software waxes US F-16 pilot's tail 5-0 during virtual dogfight drills
This is a massive issue on Twitter when people use "vanity" display names as well.
Low level javascript [1] has a great set of videos on this and other topics

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP29wDx6QmW5DdwpdwHCR...
Netflix now provides an option to disable that.
>Price seems to range from ~$2000 to ~$4500 to use it, which feels a bit steep

Yeah, I feel like Embarcadero/Borland took a completely wrong turn with their price policy. Instead of making the tool widespread and make small money from huge amount of places, they decided to go on full vendor-lock where you either get all or nothing, so Borland got nothing eventually and ceased to exist. That also burried my carrier prospects in that area, which is so sad considering how good the Pascal is as a language compared to C/C++.
I am a gamedev and that's one of the reasons why this screen is so annoying :-) It's just basic stuff. Not to offend anybody(we were all there at some point) but it feels like it was coded by an intern or a team who had nothing to do with the main project. For whatever technical reason they had to have a download screen separate from the main game, so someone quickly added a single threaded downloader with basic input - still, I have no idea why it's using so much GPU just displaying some text.
For clarity, Universal approximation doesn't mean ANNs can approximate just absolutely any function...

Depending on which proof you're looking at, ANNs can provably approximate any continuous function, or any Lebesgue integrable function, or any real vector-valued continuous function on a compact subset of R^n space [1]. That's certainly a very large class of functions, but it's not just any function.

Also, those proofs only work if you allow ANNs with arbitrary number of layers or layer width. Perhaps the required ANN size to approximate the AI / AGI function is so huge that it's beyond the number of particles on Earth. At what point is it beyond impractical? What if the ANN size (number of layers or neurons) is beyond the number of particles in the galaxy? Maybe it's just the wrong approach.

I haven't studied those proofs in detail, but as existence proofs, they just show that some ANN exists that can approximate a given function (of a certain class). There's no guarantee that there's a general algorithm that can learn the required ANN, is there? Maybe you just have to be really lucky to randomly initialize onto the correct approximating ANN...

Also, I'm not aware of any proof that human or bio NNs implement a Lebesgue integrable function, or etc. It's entirely possible bio NNs uses some weird (quantum?) physical process, and implements a function outside the scope of any ANN universal approximation theorem.

I'm just a little more cautious around those universal approximation theorems. I'm more or less in agreement with your comment otherwise!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
honestly, I would never run anything important in production that's not behind a load balancer+firewall, so without direct internet access. it helps with upgrades, as you can upgrade separately each node without putting down the application and it provides security because you only whitelist what you want to give external access (yes, I know there are still other attacking vectors, but still, security is an incremental job that adds on layers and layers of best practices)
Another common one is the EICAR anti-virus test file.

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

It is a com executable that prints EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE! It recognized by most virus scanners.
I recently got a new UI on my LG TV app which is much better than the old one.
Same. I've grown so accustomed to my xmonad setup over the past decade that sway isn't a viable replacement - I did spend 2-3 months full-time on i3 a couple of years back but the tiling models are different enough that I just won't. There is Waymonad but it is neither practically usable nor maintained.

It's like asking a taxi driver to start steering with a joystick.
It's unfortunate and potentially confusing to readers that they've used the Washington Monument and the Flatiron Building as illustrations in the article and suggested that their heights might change. The reference point for measuring a structure's height is its base, not the geoid. Unless the definition of a foot changes the height of these structures will not change.