skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice wordplay.

What an incredible collection. Once again, the IA is one of the most important bits to come out of the internet. Long after Facebook and Twitter are forgotten (does anybody remember the name of the town crier in Alexandria?) the Archive will hopefully continue to exist and will continue to amaze.

I learned how to type when I was 15 on one of those clunky old Scheidegger machines with anonymized key caps. 40 years later I still use that skill every day, so this article probably resonated with me for that reason alone.

But to see the physical part of the Archive really warms my heart, at least one group has their eye firmly on the ball and is able to say 'we'll take all of it' in cases like these.
These type of algorithms are only able to match audio when the audio was added to an index beforehand. So it only capable to match pre-recorded audio. A live rendition of a text or song would not work since it would not match the index.
Oh, I'm not fine with many of the other subsidies as I think they are incredibly excessive at this point.

I should add that I live in the midwest (Cincinnati) so I directly see a lot of rural/exurban areas people are talking about here. There are just miles and miles and miles of suburbs out in the middle of nowhere because people here are obsessed with the idea of them. The amount of money that gets dumped in to those areas while people complain up a storm when the urban areas try to build out their own infrastructure is insane.

I can't tell you how many coworkers I have had that drive 45mins+ just so they can live in some suburb far away from everything. If they want to do that, fine, but don't beg for internet, roads, etc to be paid for at the cost of sucking resources away from people living in urban areas.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads."

In an alternate reality, it’s easy to see how this could be interpreted broadly as meaning the government has an impetus to provide for communications infrastructure.
+1 to the rules coming down from Visa & MC. Amex doesn't allow adult.

There's a bit more nuance there, as the rules actually come from the bank issuing your merchant account, rather than some master "Visa" entity. So if you're a big player in the adult game you're going to work to find the right banks willing to issue you merchant accounts.

Those banks will also have a compliance department which will look at your content and make sure it's inline with what they're willing to allow. If you want to make adult content where consensual adults do things together there's one group of banks you can go to. If you want to make niche content with acted out violence and such you're going to find a much smaller group of banks willing to issue you merchant accounts. Or possibly no banks at all. It's interesting that the thing deciding what adult content will be easily monetizable on the internet is small merchant account issuing banks.

On the charging side I believe Stripe uses Wells Fargo, which has pretty strict rules.

Source: worked for one of the large players in the adult market a while back. Some info may be dated.

Note: one of the fun things about credit cards is that Visa and MC are issued by banks, and Amex is issued by Amex. There was a new fraud style a few years ago that amex was able to lock down pretty quick due to its centralized nature, while Visa and MC had a harder time.

Note2: I may define fun differently than you.
I am surprised that such a provocative article is getting no discussion. "Worldscraping" is the cyberpunkiest new word I've learned in quite a while. Coincidentally, my new copy of Simulacra & Simulation should be arriving from Amazon today...
If you're going to be "friends with gangsters", please do that from the confines of your prison cell. That's my personal opinion, I'll leave the specific legal charges up to the prosecutors.
Ah great! I like the mix of topics. It somehow reminds me of Arts & Letters Daily[1]. Definitely looks worth subscribing

[1] https://www.aldaily.com/
I think a list of all the PRC supporters and enablers should be maintained starting with Baidu execs so that each and every one of them can be prosecuted after China loses the third world war.
unfortunately you will likely have to spend hours of research for every product, and be content with paying double once you find a suitable product.
The demand that exists is tackled by an increase and expansion of the existing ISP and public infrastructure.

A satellite based internet provider is inneficiently duplicating the existing fiber/copper/cellular infrastructure but more importantly cannot scale to serve the billions of people you mention in your comment.

Do the maths you cannot keep up this alleged 50Mbps link if you add more than a few million users, there is a finite amount of satellites they can add in contiguous trajectories.

The capacity issue means this will never be affordable but to a few select few or state/defense actors.

I agree with your problem statement but this unfortunately is just not the solution.
Cat 4 Laura strengthens will bring unsurvivable storm surges Louisiana and Texas
Could the art of ‘sashiko’ help to mend our frayed world?
That headline and article view is really not quite getting the point.

The estate's argument is that the Sherlock character from the later stories is significantly different from the earlier one by the change in emotions. Which sounds kinda-sorta reasonable, though I'm not a legal expert and it doesn't seem clear-cut. Characters are, however, copyrightable.
Hah! Yeah, that does seem sometimes like it must have been a deliberate goal, doesn't it? Got a good laugh out of that. The number of cycles wasted by C++ compilers fumbling toward solutions that would have been obvious in a better language (thousands of server-years per day where I work) is a legitimate ecological concern.
> My question to my boss was rather: "but _where_ do these banks get this huge amount of money from? I guess it's not from the $5 account fees."

They create it.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
Disproportionately purchase items made in your own country. Encourage others to do the same. Vote for government officials who encourage similar policies, write to government official who do not. Start/join action groups, engage in political debate at all levels. Start / invest in a local manufacturing company, run for local office, run for president, get rich and invest in local brands.
Ask HN: What to be aware of when building internal CLI?
I'm trying to codify some of our internal workflows and CLI seems like the best solution for that.

But it also seems like it might end up being pretty big project and burden.

Is there a problem that you haven't anticipated when making CLI tools?
What was your experience with distribution, updating, maintenance, or discoverability? What can I do now so it won't bite me later?
Definitely pay (filter 1), technology and systems used by the company relevant to vacancy (filter 2). Then a brief outline of the role and expected level of proficiency in the various requirements (filter 3).

If the job ad made it this far then a quick blurb about the company perks. Hint - if it mentions they have a ball-pit and a slide then it’s a ‘company not for me’ (hits filter 4). Things like medical insurance, flex-time etc results in a ok, continue reading. Sometimes the recruiting company may not want to reveal their identity and that’s ok (e.g. if using a recruitment agency) but wherever possible a link to the ‘About Us’ page is handy.

If I see paragraphs about how company X is the best, most coolest, most <insert buzz-word of the day> as an opener it is pretty much guaranteed I will delete it and make a mental note of the agency/company as a pre-filter for any future ads from them.
Who's removing high density housing? I thought we were talking about building dorms? 4 people to a room on bunks with a minifridge and a microwave. Communal bathrooms, showers, and a couple large kitchens per thousand head.
The part that surprises me the most with "Smart TVs", is how bad the non-smart functionality can be. It's like the 'smarter' the TV is, the slower the TV guide is.
Facebook's announcement recommends Facebook social login or uploading hashes of user data:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/advanced-mat...
Why is uncomputability of the spectral decomposition not a problem?
It's the other way around. It's possible to escape light pollution by moving away from electrified areas, whereas satellite streak ruins observations in every part of the world. Besides, the streaks are not really localized in the image. Its glow reportedly extends up to 15 arc seconds. That's a very large area for a carefully exposed array.
You can't. Why would you think you could? If you're just carping about how AWS constantly changes their UI, I'm right there with you, but surely this isn't a serious question. Giving feedback is literally all that you can do.

AWS is terrible at UX. By far the worst of the FAANG. It's like they don't even care. They recently revamped the 20 year old UX and "modernized" it to be more like a...12 year old UX. It's comically bad. Poor use of space (tons of ultrawide tables that require truncation and horizontal scrolling, mixed randomly with ultranarrow pages that require vertical scrolling while acres of empty horizontal space remain unused); poor navigation (going forward and then back lands you in a completely differently place most of the time, if you can even go back at all); mouseover popups that cover the whole page and don't vanish when you want; information-overload index/table of contents pages; a random mix of auto-updating asynchronous data and refresh-required synchronous data on every page, so you have no idea if what you're looking at is stale or not (even within the same row in a table!); modal dialogs; all-around slowness; no drag-and-drop where sensible; different sorting and filtering UI components for different services; service landing pages that change based on whether you have existing resources of that type or not; a million other things. AWS could teach a masterclass in how not to do UX.

If you want to get away from this nightmare, you could use Terraform or CloudFormation or other IaC provisioning tools. Then you can have all new nightmares.
Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Updated for 2020)
Not the ones protecting expensive commerical planes.
What a 5-second usability test can reveal about your site
We pay even less when we have programs that catch the people falling through the cracks as soonas they start slipping...
How to Build Travel App with Best MVP Features – Complete Guide
I bought a dumb Samsung in like 2006 as a display model that still works and you have a presumably newer smart TV that is basically broken because of a software update. Ridiculous.
Meteorite strikes may create unexpected form of silica
Wow, the MiniAxe LP looks exactly like what I think I want (despite the Crkbd being much more aesthetic IMO). I realized over 1y+ on a brown-switch mech that despite loving the layout, I'm just struggling typing properly in a way I don't on a normal Thinkpad laptop chiclet. Just really hard to figure out how switches actually feel IRL even when trying a switch tester.

Had completely missed it, thanks for the pointer :)
>Apple no longer has an ad network

It's not entirely out of the ad business. See:
https://searchads.apple.com/
As good as my residential ISP, though I'm using a 30/10Mbps because it suits my current needs. Why pay more?
I love that we still live in a world where different countries can make different choices about how they want to structure their societies.

Kind of telling that North America immigrants were largely people escaping European utopian society. I guess different people have different values?
9P is fine as kind of lowest common denominator network filesystem, as long as you don’t hit its fundamental limitations, such as not being particularly Unix-compatible, semantics wise.
how often does it happen that your interns work on the hot path of your trading systems, which is where I assume you care the most about avoid syscalls like malloc?
"Alison Killing conducted this reporting with a grant and further assistance from the Open Technology Fund."

From wikipedia: "As of November 2019, the Open Technology Fund became an independent nonprofit corporation and a grantee of the U.S. Agency for Global Media.[7] Until its formation as an independent entity, it had operated as a program of Radio Free Asia."

Radio Free Asia ... founded by the CIA and a today well oiled propaganda arm for whatever is on the US government's foreign policy agenda.
Sure. But if anyone who seriously uses some software (even on a hobby project) is either violating the license or buying a commercial license, in what sense is it free/libre software or even open source?

That's saying that AGPL is only useful to the extent that it doesn't exist.

But it's not just software "based on" MongoDB. It's your backup scripts. It's your cluster scheduling config for the jobs. It's your provisioning script, etc…

And it implies it being non-free software. It's only one (small) step removed from a licenes that disallows "commercial use".

A license disallowing commercial use is fine. But it's absolutely not "free software". Freedom zero was so obviously a freedom that it was initially just implied, and only added later to be explicit.
$5 Rapid Covid-19 Test from Abbott Labs Gets Emergency FDA Approval
Got fatigue? Study further pinpoints brain regions that may control it
I had a few exchanges with DEK back in the 80s. Even then he had his secretary filtering his e-mail and if a response was warranted, she would request a postal address so he could send his answer handwritten on a printout of the e-mail. I still have those answers in a box along with other correspondence from the era.
Hard to make a list, and it's more general than just products, but taking a company to court after it screwed me over (I won which started a stream of other complainants against them once they saw it was possible), opening a machine I'd bought and finding it messed up inside and taking that back to the shop in person and telling them I wasn't going away until they fixed it (self-entitled boss was angry but they did), getting a misbehaving server from rackspace and despite their stonewalling got enough info to prove it defective so they finally replaced it (my boss was willing to live with clear performance problems out of apathy; I wasn't). There's more, some involving products rather than services but can't dig them up ATM. Helpful?

Key is persistence.
If you look at the historical imagery in Google Earth, it'll show your the 2015 imagery fine: https://i.imgur.com/Jk8Kn1r.png

It's noticeably lower resolution than the surrounding 2017 imagery, but it doesn't appear to be censored in the same way (it's of the same quality as the surrounding areas when imaged in 2015).

It does the same for what appears to be a large circular antenna installation just to the west of here.
Medical Education Needs Rethinking
what is your point? what are you trying to say in response to my original claim?
When they introduced their iOS "store" which used a non-Apple payment service they lowered prices because they weren't paying 30% to anybody. Which is totally logical and profit-seeking in both the short and long term because when you're making 30% higher margins, sacrificing some of them in exchange for higher volumes will generally maximize profits.
The thing about the online porn industry is that it's highly diversified which leads a lot of people into making wild assumptions about its size. I doubt porn traffic is that high. Stats show that one in three Internet users are viewing porn, but the thing is that porn isn't something you can spend more than 10-20 minutes consuming[1]. So if we say that the average user spends some three hours online on average every day[2], then porn is about 5% of that time. So one in three users online spend 5% of their time watching porn. In total I'd guess that doesn't account for more than 10% of global traffic, taking under consideration that video consumes much more bandwidth than other forms of content.

That's all back of the envelope calculations off course.

[1] https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2019-year-in-review#traffic

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/319732/daily-time-spent-...
GraphQL: Schema-First vs. Code-First
Zig is appealing to me, but I wonder whether time spent mastering Zig would be better spent mastering C.
Git Aliases – What Are They and How to Use Them?
There is a clear heirarchy of media ordered by immediacy.
- face-to-face
- phone call
- text messaging (through whatever: SMS, IRC, message flavour of the month...)
- email
- longhand on stationery

Note that immediacy and importance are orthogonal.
Author here: This is the second time it's been on HN's front page (I posted it the first time), and it didn't get any comments then either! I was pretty surprised "worldscraping" hadn't been used before tbh.
Fix “Permission Denied” Error from GitHub
DDoS extortionists target NZX, Moneygram, Braintree and other financial services
The Clock Runs Out for TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer
Application of AI in Manufacturing
That's funny. For me as a Brazilian, 99% of things coming from China are made by American companies. I'd love to be able to not consume of this too.
If you're interested in this, I highly encourage checking out Sonic Pi [0]. It's an open source music programming language. Also works very well as a tool to teach coding.

[0]: https://sonic-pi.net/
Even for sake of argument it is propaganda, why does that mean it is false?
In practice one computes (X^T * X)^-1 * (X^T) in one go using Singular Value Decomposition, for which very efficient algorithms exists. But if there is really a lot of data, then recursive linear least squares can be used, to partition the larger least squares into smaller pieces. But then again, you just make one pass on the data, not multiple passes, like with gradient descent.
Ahh..that's what I missed. Googled it, apparently they moved the "real news" to its own domain in 2018.
Scam. Scam. Spot on. Scam. Stay away. Decentralization is biggest myth in the world.
I've spent many hours playing AI Dungeon, a text adventure game powered by GPT-3 (unlocking it requires payment). You input an arbitrary body of text, and GPT-3 keeps writing the story for you. You press enter, and the AI writes a new line. There are some serious limitations, but still, sometimes the plots are surprisingly creatively, as if the characters are alive, and I couldn't wait to see what follows it (it's rate-limited).

I always think Machine Learning is merely a useful and flexible pattern recognition machine that can be trained, anything beyond that is all media hype and marketing, there's nothing to see here.

Now my opinion has changed - if a pattern recognition machine that contains no breakthrough (GPT-3) can be surprisingly intelligent if you throw a lot of data to it, any new development cannot be worse than that. I'm now a true believer on the feasibility of AI assistants.
It started like this! The first formal police force in Britain (and I think the world) was created to prevent theft at London docks. The first in the USA was born of people catching and beating runaway/errant slaves which were at the time considered capital.
In that same vein, I regularly think about a lightning talk on gestures he gave at React Conf 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBYPqb83C7k
The Stock Market Is Near Correction Levels
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>That article is a just a bunch of rambling drivel.

I've been noticing a lot of high-level comments that lambast the author or the content of the article. This doesn't seem very HN
Shoutout to the webring my personal site[0] is on, GeekRing[1]

[0]: https://aarontag.dev/
[1]: https://geekring.net/
You mean awesome?
Scrollbar Blindness
Why not? Imagine those addresses belonged to Logan V and Caprica VI :-)
I fully expect Github to go down the dangerous path of becoming a walled garden. Big companies like Microsoft just can't help themselves. Give it 10 years absolutely max. I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts, but don't expect it to last forever. Google Code, Sourceforge, etc. Been there done that. These things rise and fall constantly.
Smartphones Sold by Chinese Firm in Africa Found with Pre-Installed Malware
The first formal police force was created literally to protect capital at London docks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Marine_Pol...
Poll Finds White Americans Least Engaged with Racial Justice
You forgot: "Should be as small as technically possible".

Xcode is the fat, bloated bastard I'm looking at, but there's plenty more. And on mobile, where bandwidth is often metered it's even worse.
We have the same problem here in Serbia, and no, he is not the last dictator in Europe. Vucic is another one, Orban is another one...Milo Djukanovic is the greatest of them all...
Democracy in China During the Early 20th Century
If you like this, you may also like https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/issues/the-las... in which the author interviews Mr. Tytell shortly before his death.
No, it doesn't. I use keyboard normal mode sometimes for things other than navigation, like seeking audio, etc
Frenchelon example:

Blurred: https://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=44.786389~1.238056&style=h...

Revealed: http://osmz.ru/imagery/#18/44.78662/1.23807/mp
Or use a neural network to do it, like thisbuildingdoesnotexist
Opening really is a godsend for starting a webring, especially in combination with some static site generator like Hugo.
The 8BitGuy is like a gateway drug to retrocomputers. Thanks to his channel I learned some things I didn't know back in the day, like that the CGA graphics card was capable of better colors in composite mode.

He also convinced me of getting RetroGames' TheC64 maxi: a C64 lookalike running a variant of VICE inside, with full working keyboard, petscii codes and all!
Polynomials are just an example, the easiest one. The point is that there are many more universal approximators (as some other user commented here), many of them much more suitable for control applications than NNs.
What about phone numbers? Can't even make a Twitter or Google account without coughing up a phone number.
These are excellent suggestions. I've been wishing for some kind of "made in democracy" stamp, or a "produced humanly" if that would also shut out other more moderate manufacturing centres, similar to fair trade chocolate.

https://www.fairtradeamerica.org/shop-fairtrade/fairtrade-pr...
I love this.

I love finding out-of-the-way personal websites.

A while back I did my own implementation of "lets make hard-to-discover things slightly more discoverable"

Every time you visit the website, you get a different personal website, as submitted by hacker news users a while back:

https://random-hn-blog.herokuapp.com/
Coming from an account created six hours ago it is kinda ironic you are suggesting they are a state actor with no refutation of the premises.
Ancient Its Found
Belarus isn't a democratic country. It has elections, which the incumbent always wins, via cheating if required. In this instance, the cheating was a bit obvious, leading to a public backlash.
Amazon Halo, a fitness band and app that scans your body and voice
All of the design advantages I've ever heard advertised for TDD come from writing a bit of test, a bit of code, a bit more test, a bit more code.

If instead you are writing a few tests and then an entire module, you're doing test-first development, but it's definitely not test-driven development as I've ever seen it presented by proponents.
So its just the format of the executable that has changed? This certainly isn't what was discussed the other day - and seemingly confirmed by a user with a transition kit... :/

I see why you mentioned ELF, now.

Ill descend from my soapbox on that matter, then. Thank you for correcting me. :D
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