skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The framework and libraries and information you find on the internet definitely encourages you to go for animations via JS. Might be a holdover from before CSS3, but I'm not sure I've ever seen people really try to use CSS3 for their animations unless people were working on their own toys. Just google "animated X react" and 80-90% of the articles are massive JS components with a little styling in the CSS.

For size of the bundle, just remember the node_modules black hole meme. The amount and size of JS libraries is no joke, it's wildly out of control. 2.5MB minified non-gzipped is common mostly because of a paradigm of "once you gzip it it will be small, and inflating that doesn't cost anything, and this way everything is preloaded!". Libraries come with a bunch of images embedded as Base64 encoded strings, the full localization tables, 40 1kb depedencies (left pad and friends), etc. etc. etc. These are all the default and no one changes defaults.

To make a reasonable web application today without all the insanity, you have to be very disciplined, because everything is pointing you toward doing dumb or crazy things.
The question is - did he keep it in bitcoin or not?
This is basically what I've heard from automotive engineers when I've asked about "Android for your car".

Paraphrasing: "You can remote jailbreak Android - do we really want to trust every vehicle in the country to use it for their control systems?"
Let me give you an example of expensive.

At home in Texas I pay $70 for 1gbps internet. It actually performs at around 890-920mbps both up and down. Perhaps that is expensive compared to other countries, but I am happy with the price and the customer service/response is fantastic.

I am currently in Kuwait (modern first-world nation) where the pricing tiers in my location are $30 for 1.5mbps, $50 for 3mbps, or $90 for 6mbps.
I understand tech debt. But you can't just handwave all tech debt as 'it just happens, get used to it'. It's debt. You're supposed to pay it back at some point, and automotive/industrial/embedded is really, really bad at it, forever stuck in a 'it works, ship it' mentality.

If you're never paying back your tech debt, it's not tech debt. It's just poor software engineering practices.
This is a great paper.

I just want to know how cosmologists are going to handwave away that this isn't generated by some unknown gravitational phenomenon, that gravity does not scale to the size required for this, and that the electromagnetic force is the driver of all phenomenon at the solar or galactic scale, including this.
The fact that I keep reading posts on HN about how successful HN is makes me wonder how soon will this forum die off, infested by cultist "contrarians", wanna be philosophers and alt right fantasists, in favour of reddit - where most of the times I read either the exact same comments as here on identical posts, or better quality comments with far more evidence and without the usual non sense downvoting of dissent.

But to the point specifically, " It’s not surprising to find successful projects run with a simple stack." - you are spot on. The "successful" HN crowd appears to favour overengineering or obscure tools, point which shows 90% are armchair philosophers who daydream of running a business, building a 0 to 1 start-up, and other things office workers imagine when they think building a webapp using GO, or Haskell will result in anything else but a line on a CV for yet another slave away job (potentially an open source project that no one wants too).
Most of the enterprise world (which still accounts for far more code in production than startupland) doesn't use Docker.

But they also don't use this web server. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone using this web server, actually, even for development.
> I admire him and what he does, yet I know I can not.

Of course you can! I'm like you in that I haven't had a successful project yet, but it'll only happen if we keep trying!

And like Pieter said in his reply to you, pretty much everyone struggles with mental stuff, even him and people like Tim Ferriss. So don't let that hold you back. Acknowledge the hardships and then keep on going.

You can do this!
Didn't read the links completely, but isn't this just a case of survivorship bias?

In 2011 maybe what he spotted was how human greed was going to make the whole thing skyrocket, but over-analyzing it made him think BTC is a solution for the future, etc, etc.
...as is shown time and time again when some commercial entity fesses up to having lost a few TB of user data, Canon being the latest (?) example of such.

If you have family or friends you can make a deal with them: you get to hang a backup storage device off their network, they get to do the same on your network. Send encrypted backups and your data should be safe, and so should theirs. Problem solved, everyone happy and nobody gets to mine your data.
Luminar to go public in $3.4B merger
Anybody paying attention knows I disagree with Filippo about the actual cryptographic content here. In practice systems have different constraints. AES for example is pretty nice if you have hardware support. Some do and some don't. By offering AES as a choice you allow people who do have hardware support to prefer AES while those who don't can have say, ChaCha20. And so you end up needing such a registry.

So instead I will focus on how I agree with his choice of movies. Before Sunrise in particular is really under-appreciated.
I can second this. I'm working on two projects, one paid and one volunteer. One is using vanilla css/html (requirement to work without js) and the other is using react. Doesn't matter which is which.

To set the context for the following statement, I've discovered that I prefer developing the nojs site. This mainly comes down to all the things that the browser does for me, but I have to handle manually in React, but it also includes something fun about figuring out the right css selectors to accomplish pseudo-interactivity without js. The point here is that I'm not personally inclined to avoid css.

And yet, when I work in react, I find myself writing less css, and the css I do write is closer to utility classes, something I never used in the nojs project.

I'm writing this on mobile but it's getting too long, posting and will move to desktop and edit in the reasons why I think React pushes me in the direction.

e: got here just as the edit window is closing, will reply to self instead.
> you get official support

How is that better than paying for Linux support, where there's a market for this service, rather than a monopoly?
Martin Hofmann’s Contributions to Type Theory: Groupoids and Univalence [pdf]
This is $749?

Wikipedia provide free downloads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

And Kiwix is open source software that supports Wikipedia on most platforms for free:

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Ki...

"Kiwix is by far the largest offline distribution of Wikipedia to date. As an offline reader, Kiwix works with a library of contents that are zim files: you can pick & choose whichever Wikimedia project (Wikipedia in any language, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.), as well as TED Talks, PhET Interactive Maths & Physics simulations, Gutenberg Project, etc."

https://www.kiwix.org/en/
I don’t usually like to toot my own horn, but I make $600k/year off a plain HTML static site that isn’t even coded well, in-line CSS, many pages not responsive, broken links, etc.
It was a pretty ballsy bet either way, and I could see it being reposted even if BTC had crashed and burned to $0 like many expected it to.

Meanwhile, we're still waiting for John McAfee to consume his reproductive organs on TV:

http://dickening.com/
Actmallg rdrtable ekecmatable ?
I always thought Kali wasn't really for daily use. Not a vehicle for every day driving around town, more like a secondary vehicle you only use for work. HiDPI, tool icons, and gnome themes make it seem otherwise. Sure, these things are nice whether you're using it for work or play, but I wonder. Is anybody running kali as their daily driver?
I Denmark you cant trust the intelligence service, whistle blower reveals
I understand disabling CoW for databases, as the DB itself will manage it, but why disable caching?
>All of your issues like dropdown and hover in JS can be solved by CSS, why did you choose to implement them in JS?

Because it's modern? In all seriousness I've often asked questions along these lines and haven't always received great answers.
I have seen at Youtube how 5 people can approve content and team lead but management from marketing and branding had admin privileges and would overrule our decision. I can point to a couple YouTubers that Youtube loves but Google management demonetize regularly every time they say something against Youtube. (Phillip DeFranco is a good example.)

The problem in Facebook is that more management has access and they are weird and politically motivated or just snobs.
If bitcoin were as useful as pundits suggested, we'd be using it by now. 12 years is a long time to validate an idea. The mobile phone was adopted by pretty much the entire world in under 7 years.
I'm conflating them because they are deeply connected.

Causal analysis can be performed, via Pearl, on datasets collected for causal analysis.

You still need some mechanism to collect the data, ie., the scientist. This requires solving the "relevance" (/framing) problem -- which, in my view, cannot be solved under a congitivist (/computational) theory of mind.

"Data" which is relevant to a causal hypothesis isn't selected via inference, the body "selects" it.

eg., when my hand is on a hot surface, it's temperature isnt "chosen as the relevant casual variable".

The body is the primary solution to the relevance problem. So you can't just "shove in causal math" into a computational system and expect it to grasp anything.

I also don't think bootstrapping will take you very far: causal models of, eg., dogs are very deep. ie., we understand their 2d, 3d, skeletal, behavioural, color, sound etc. "dimensions".

To say, "the dog was well behaved" requires an extraordinarily deep model of "dog".

The only way i see this being built is via play, ie., via hypothetical interaction with an environment -- as we do -- with bodies capable of discerning relevance.
I'll save you a click: the author doesn't read the message "git status" gives during a conflicted merge ("run git add"), blames Git.
> This meets most of the criteria you see the "strong towns" people plugging for. Walkable streets. Convenient retail. Few cars. Very low speeds. Excellent land utilization. No space wasted on parking. Affordable.

> Of course, the people who write those articles wouldn't live in a place like that themselves.

This is like suggesting that people who value having their own backyard are being inconsistent by not moving into the remote countryside. There's nothing inconsistent in promoting a certain set of values within desiring those values taken to the extreme.
>I think most people would agree that the American way is superior

have you be experiencing the pandemic in America?
Going to? That ship sailed years ago. It's going to turn into something like LA or SanDiego quickly, at least while the water lasts.
That's not bad UI, it's malicious UI. They're doing that because in many regions their streaming selection is pitiful. I guess the US is better?
Switzerland is interesting from a copyright aspect in multiple ways:

- Downloading copyrighted material, even from obviously shady sources, is perfectly legal.

- Sharing said material with your friends, even if you obtained it from an obviously shady source, is perfectly legal.

- Sharing it with random strangers (as happens while torrenting) is not legal, but hard to prosecute, because:

- private companies collecting IP addresses to sue uploaders violate privacy laws, and thus commit a crime themselves (!) [1]

I didn't check, but I'd also assume:

- That ISPs and VPN providers aren't required (and quite likely even aren't allowed) to disclose the identity behind an IP address to a private entity

- That VPN providers (unlike ISPs) aren't required to maintain such logs, and thus typically don't.

For comparison, in Germany, downloading from "obviously illegal" sources is prohibited, further sharing a copy from such sources among friends is prohibited (and since breaking copy protection is prohibited too, having a DRM-free copy of the content is a pretty strong indicator that it comes from an illegal source - unless you got it from a Swiss friend...).

[1] https://www.weka.ch/themen/it-technik/it-sicherheit-und-rech...
inadvertently revealed NSA backdoor from 1997

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Please note that zsh has a minor backwards compatibility glitch with Thompson Shell so try sh hello.com rather than ./hello.com.

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> Use case: the key advantage for bitcoin is that it does away with all bureaucracy, all transaction fees, and perhaps foremost, all transaction delays and gatekeepers in the financial system.

Can anybody comment on the state of this today, right now?

Personally it seems like bitcoin would involve _more_ bureaucracy and delays for me than using the regular banking system. However I'm sure I'm not representative.

Are there other situations where bitcoin does, right now, reduce bureaucratic overhead?
Interestingly, past performance of the last 9 years did not change much in terms of perception:

1. People who believe that Bitcoin can eat the world, do not care when it goes up and down. Periodic rallies are unsurprising and upper limit is still to be reached (at very least, the entire mass of gold - about $8 trillion). It's still early and cheap at current $200 bln capitalization.

2. People who do not buy the premise ("displace fiat and physical moneys"), or don't think that Bitcoin is going to deliver ("something better will come along"), do not care about the price either - it's just a giant bubble waiting to pop.

3. Plus a crowd of short-term speculators who are no different than Forex people, just with higher volatility at hand.
Bitcoin is by no means “an undetectable and untrackable financial system”.
I mean, that is what the article appears to say, no? Magnetic forces carried by the plasma surrounding the black hole interacting with frame-dragged spacetime.
There is a culture of doing things very well up to perfection, at least in certain domains. I don't think it has anything to do with tourism. One folk story is that this is linked with the perpetual destruction of things in Japan, because of natural elements, etc. so there is an emphasis on controlling the process as most things tend to be short lived.

You also need to be careful about cleanliness. If you go into more traditional areas, things tend to be quite messy. Japan's record in terms of pollution is not that great either.

You need to live there for a while to start seeing the other side of the story on the social side. Social pressure is huge, starting from early age. Huge gender gap in almost every metric you can think of. People who do not conform are push out of the society very violently. For example, have you noticed how little you see intellectually disabled children ? Hint: it is not because Japanese are particularly immune to it. Also, why do young Japanese women all have black hair ? Hint, it is not because all Japanese woman have black hair. Etc.

I love the country, the culture and the people, have lived there most of my adult life, but as in every culture, once you go beneath the surface, you see that it is a bit less bright than it appears. There is also a tendency from a certain faction of the Japanese society to believe in the uniqueness of Japan, called nihonjiron, a set of essentialist nonsense particularly popular on the extreme right for obvious reasons.
> which I actually find a bit annoying for deploying applications to users

Linux ELF binaries can have a library search path embedded using the -rpath linker option. Inside that search path, '$ORIGIN' refers to the binary location so you can have the Windows behavior if you want to.
His arguments for investing in it in 2011 made sense but in 2020 they no longer do.

- Past performance has plateaued for years.

- Use cases are niche instead of regular transactions.

- Since the use cases are niche there is few uptake drivers.
It would be interesting to have one of those built into a smartphone as an antitheft device. It could thwart someone who steals your phone or otherwise tries to get unauthorized access. Does anyone know the legal status of setting traps for intruders into private property?
Illegal processing of personal data in violation of GDPR?
> dead-tree elimination

The practice of removing unneeded code from a bundle using static analysis is commonly known as “tree-shaking”, but I like your version better. :D
>by no means

Actually, it is, by some means.
Hi, first author here.

> Given that nearest-neighbor outperforms on closed book, is it reasonable to suspect the model is doing NN itself internally (which would explain the good performance on close duplicates?)

I think this is definitely the case for the BART model. It is essentially acting as a QA-pair memorizer over the training data, and at test time, it just matches the question onto those seen at training time. Note that the T5-11B+SSM closed-book model was able to do a little better on NQ, so very large models with task-specific pretraining objectives do seem to do something slightly more interesting than just NN, but still really struggle in some settings.

> And if this is the case do you think training-time processing of data to attempt to move convert it to question/answer form data rather than raw QA would be a reasonable approach towards tackling this?

Great question! Converting sentences into a series of QA pairs is something we're really interested in. The T5-11B+SSM model we evaluate in the paper uses a special "Salient span masking" pretraining objective that does this to some extent (only mask words at pretraining time that are likely to be "answers" to factual questions), so in essence the pretraining task becomes pretty standard cloze-question answering, and they find that leads to better downstream results (https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08910)
That's not my point. My point is that the 'geometric increase' for real competence or aptitude is not the same as the compounding 'merit' of a billionaire which may well just be some monotonic increase in the value of some company within which they have a stake. Your issue is a different one, and yes, if both of them are 'good enough' perhaps they should go through a random selection process.
If it is going to back as linux desktop -then no. We keep on hearing this is the year for linux desktop and it never comes. Sadly.
Buying drugs online.

Sending money to venezuela.

Keeping millions of dollars untouched by intermediaries by memorizing a secret phrase and deleting all other records.
If you're using React, Redux and TypeScript, you would be so happy with Elm
:-) yeah, in the heat of the moment. There is of course things we could do to improve bundle size, but it's all components and logic. We didn't do any css-in-js or any other fancy stuff.
I did over the air updates of every ECU in a car 20 years ago. This was just a demo at the research lab of the car manufacturer but this has been possible for a fairly long time.
Bitcoin is being used by everyone who held long enough to see over 5x return. Both as savings account, an investment, and a checking account for occasional purchases.

It is also being used by all sorts of international freelancers being paid in Bitcoin, although, most of them convert into fiat swiftly to pay bills. So they are not contributing to holding. But Bitcoin is useful for them, as it's a much cheaper and safer way to pay and get paid internationally.

Everyone else is a speculator, sitting on their stash, waiting for price to climb up. That's pure speculators/investors, who use Bitcoin to diversify their porfolio of whatever else they got. And as such, Bitcoin is highly useful, as it provides virtually unlimited upside with limited downside.
Check out radio paradise, I fall back to that when I want to find new music or listen to mixed genres.

https://radioparadise.com/

They also have a phone app that supports caching for offline listening and once you rate at least 75 songs higher than 6 out of 10 you can have your own stream composed of your favorites.
"I don't know where the US police falls on that spectrum, though reading US news makes it seem like they do have some serious issues currently. "

Well that's the problem, isn't it? You read news coverage of the US. The observational bias there is huge. Consider:

The US is a country of 320 million. As of Brexit, larger than the EU and homogeneously English speaking with homogeneous press and institutions. The EU is smaller with 23 languages or so and a patchwork of everything.

So if a Eastern EU cop beats the shit out of a homosexual in jail who would ever find out?

At least in Greece it's pretty well documented that cops sodomized Albanian migrant workers with broomsticks. But you wouldn't know that unless you happen to have an Albanian wife who lived in Greece.

An Italian squad of carabinieri was just disbanded because it turned out to be running a drug dealing and extortion racket. This is literally current news. Have you heard about it?

Spanish police took COVID as an opportunity to abuse their power. National scandal in Spain, I haven't read any non-Spanish (and I mean Spain Spanish, not Spanish language) news about it.

In Hesse police computers were used to find out the personal details of a left-wing politician to send them neo-Nazi affiliated threats. Armed agents of the Germany with neo-Nazi links is quite the scandal today in Germany.

Notice the bias in my examples:

Spanish police - I'm half Spanish

Italian police - I'm half Italian

Greek police - My wife is Greek speaking Albanian.

German police - I suspect you're German so I specifically googled German police abuse

Notice I don't have specific French police abuse examples... because I don't speak French! I'm sure a google search will quickly inform me of Algerians young men beat to a pulp by a gendarme.

In general, as EU citizen living in the US for over a decade, I find that the EU perspective of the US couldn't be more wrong.

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So this is to repeat hume and mistake causal analysis as a kind of induction or inference.

It isnt.

Our bodies are the primary site of "causal analysis". Eg., when I touch the hot surface of a stove I do not infer that temperature is a cause of my hand being hot.

Such an inference, as the basis for our models of the world, would be -- as you/hume/etc. say -- deeply insufficient.

The operation of the world on our bodies is already laden with causal information. A hand striking a face does not just create a "painful sense impression"... rather the body encodes it as caused by the object you also saw.

It is the action of the world upon the body that is the bedrock of our causal model building. Scientific/inferential processes sit on top of that to disambiguate between possible distal causes.

A machine, as a person, given "mere data" cannot hope to do much.
>Is it ok to get Google results like that?

It is. We integrate the Google results through their web search API, and comply with their usage terms of service (as we do with all the data partners we integrate).
Reminds me a lot of the marble calculator [0], though with far more moving (and fragile) parts.

[0] https://lapinozz.github.io/learning/2016/11/19/calculator-wi...
Sumo Logic S-1
Could you please explain why we need a full fat OS for a car anyway? I understand the importance of the ECU in modern cars, is there something that Linux can do in a car that the ECU can't?
There is a book which tells the story of fixing nitrogen from air and its a fanatic read:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3269091-the-alchemy-of-a...

its non-fiction