skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think OP was trying to be arrogant, I expect he would have diminished his own previous achievements as well.

I've had several projects that resulted in "patent pending" applications that I've had to review. It's frustrating to talk to sales and legal folks who want to sell an innovation as if it were some culinary experience for which we've got not only a secret sauce recipe but also world-class chef skills, when I know it wasn't particularly difficult: I just stood in the kitchen with supermarket ingredients, an average palette, and tried variations until it tasted the way I wanted it to.

I'm not cooking, I'm building automation equipment, but the fact that you couldn't buy something off the shelf to do a particular task before my efforts was primarily because the application wasn't common enough yet to make it a commodity, not that it was an insurmountable obstacle that I miraculously overcame.
I mostly agree with you. It’s sad. The only thing I disagree is that iPhone, while closed, is really important piece equipment in your life. It’s got your walking gait, browsing history, photos, videos, notes, passwords, social media accounts, health records, bank info, geo location, driving habits, where I work and how I commute, where I jog, etc.

It’s ridiculously dense. This kind of a device didn’t exist in the year 2000. So, while 90’s tech would be awesome on the surface, I am glad Apple is in the driving seat to manage my phone’s security. App Store is amazing, shitty software that spies on you doesn’t make it through (chrome extensions anyone?). Treat 30% as a privacy fee. You’re glad there is a T2 security chip on your device. And you’re glad Apple pays $400k a year for several top notch security engineers that work there.

This cannot be achieved by a bunch of Winamp hooligans and open source crusaders.

Replace Apple with your fav phone manufacturer.

Everything else, I agree. The internet has become a pile of shit.
All good points. But is it really better from a returns standpoint for Uber to cease California ops or was that just a ploy? If that move will make them the most money under the new regulatory regime, no one can compel them to operate.
> It seems like you're pretending to be neutral while spreading false information by twisting facts.

Er, where is the false information? The bailout package announcement is real. Delloite are the contracted consultants for making the BSNL-MTNL merger happen. As I said, I have no idea what the status is. If the execution is botched (and this government has a history of poor execution), feel free to criticize. But it seems like you are making false claims throughout this thread (no sources for anything), only to then shift goalposts when you're proven wrong with sources.

> so that their troll armies can refer to the announcement

Please keep this kind of rhetoric out of HN and discuss in good faith. This isn't Reddit.
Does anyone have a similar list of NLP papers, but focused on recent best practices for commercial applications, rather than foundational academic research?
> Using grep for '$' without being aware that grep patterns are regular expressions

There's always `fgrep` or, IIRC, the POSIX-compliant `grep -F`.

More often than not, people don't want regular expressions.
Kind of excited for this because I wanted to get into hydroponics but a huge deterrent was an affordable and accurate PH sensor. Would be cool to see an example of this being pushed to some "IoT platform" like Adafruit IoT.
The author seems to be of the opinion that if others are suffering, it is each individual's moral obligation to suffer as well, and not to improve their own lives at the (potential) cost of others, or really even at all.

My own belief (at least, in theory) is that everyone should operate with the goal of improving their own lives, with the moral obligation being to improve yourself without dragging others down. And by doing so, in the distributed sense, the whole system will improve.

The problem of course naturally extends from there being a limited set of resources.

The secondary issue the author is complaining about is digital isolation, but that's not so much a problem of rich vs poor -- any group approaching a minimum level of wealth (which for a first-world country, is not set that high, relatively) is currently falling into the pit of digital isolation. Physical isolation (beyond your home) is generally more expensive, and reserved mainly for the very wealthy.
I lived with Karen people in Easter Burma for several years. One year the combination of poor timing for the rains[1] and fighting with the Burmese[2] left food scarce for many, including the village I lived in. We ate thin rice soup with bamboo shoots (bamboo is all fiber and water, very little if any nutrients) and greens for the first few months, and then fresh or fermented bamboo soup.

Normally the village elders have strict rules on where and how much fishing they allow to keep it sustainable, but that year people were so desperate they fished the river clean. You couldn't catch even the smallest fish, and it took several years to recover.

[1] There was too much rain and the slash-and-burn farms never had a chance to dry out. Slash-and-burn farms are very dependent on an old forest (usually 10 to 20 years or more) and a dry period in which to burn it off and expose the rich soil underneath.

[2] The Karen would try to hide their rice silos in the forest so the Burmese troops would be able to find it. If the soldiers did find them they'd take what they wanted and burn the rest.
oh thanks for the link, i've been looking for something that replaced canistreamit
Yes, funny thing though, you can watch a youtube how-to video for almost anything you want to accomplish.

Facebook groups are sitting on so much information which previously would have been accumulated in forums, unavailable and totally useless except to serve ads for the members of said groups.
Hey, I still do this today for non-revenue-generating services.

Pretty much every bigcorp I've ever worked for has some crucial service on a box under someone's desk...
Looks like the same stuff on Adafruit or ebay but more expensive.
I agree he’s mostly empty threats. After all, he’s threatened to revoke social media platforms’ Section 230 protection since before he took office. But when Twitter had the audacity to fact check him, he attempted to make good on his word with an executive order.

He thinks he can do a lot more than he can, but we still should be fighting back.
These are fair points and food for thought. It still seems to me that the DNC platform tends to be more coherent/consistent. The RNC platform seems frequently 'schizophrenic' in comparison, but their voters seem willing to overlook or ignore various things other members of their party are saying. In other words, the christian theocrats pretend the libertarians don't exist, and vice versa. Or those that want to cut government funding ignore those who want a hundred new aircraft carriers.
I'd treat that file as merely a style template, not as a key.

Selling it as a cipher opens it up to criticism, since from the description it sounds like a simple substitution cipher with decoy symbols, which is obviously not secure.
Apple TV is actually pretty good for that. You voice search for a title and it tells you which apps provide that title.
> He seems to care whether he makes money from making good choices versus brand recognition.

No, no, no he doesn't. He has to be subtle so people don't realize what he's doing and pile in ahead of him and drive up the price before he has a chance to build up a position. It has nothing to do with "caring" about how he makes his money.
They both have in common that they are a technology stock with a familiar name, particularly ones that have had a very good stock market run in the last 10 years.

I agree though that due to what appears to be a bubble, these investments aren't that safe at the moment. It appears that these type of stocks have benefited recently by retail investors entering the market and piling in. ( https://thehill.com/policy/finance/510796-are-trading-apps-p... -- though, as the article points out, the Robinhood investor bubble is smaller than the effect of the Fed's QE etc. ) Under normal valuation, Tesla at this point I don't think would be considered "speculative" -- risky, but not as risky as some. But a P/E ratio of 1000+ even after this recent dip is IMHO pretty difficult to justify.

r/wallstreetbets is pretty unreal to me -- many people are focusing on high-risk options on these heavily valued stocks, and (by the comments) appear to be putting a lot of their "eggs" in only one or two "baskets", to use the popular phrase. It's not ending well for some of them, judging from some of the posts.
Same for me. I was telling my wife that we have freedom, money and time. No need to plan anything.

We have two kids and I do not regret one second what we have today, and one second what we used to have.

Equally superbe times in our lives, I wild not go back, and I wild not change what we did.
I also get three or four entries in my history from following a link to one skin.
Is It Marketing Madness Not to Hype Up a Game Before Release?
the mods here are trash
Yes, that's pretty much what it looked like. The blank spaces you see are all product screenshots.

It used to be a typical SaaS website.

Will try to see if I have any screenshots. I must.
I can't figure out what you mean here - could you explain more about what fairness has to do with this?
Unfortunately for my morning commute (which is not happening again anytime soon anyway), their HTP jetpack has about 20 seconds of flight time and, fortunately for society at large, you can't get HTP at a gas station.
You might be interested in Johann Hari's Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions, who really looks into this and how depression is diagnosed and treated, as well as why it may actually be the 'adaptive response' suggested above.
I did this in my head and came up with -1*(-x - y); seems a little cheeky but acceptable.
Also used in the Doom 2 final boss (spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh9nzvgJYFo&feature=youtu.be...
What's sad is that all these kinds of investments would take two decades to see fruit, but in tech years that's forever.
Also the "birther" conspiracy theory famously extensively spread and popularized, for years, by Trump and his family and campaign.

The pizzagate thing is related to QAnon as well, something of a prototype of it.
The media companies have done an end run around the very foundation of how computers work in an attempt to keep from changing their 20th century business model.
All digital data is a copy. It's fundamental to how computers work. That is terribly inconvenient for a business model that prefers to sell physical objects, but as computer science doesn't allow for that, they instead chose to reframe the issue in moral terms ("You wouldn't download a car!") and use tremendous lobbying power to force that view into law.
Reasonable people can argue about creators being paid for their work and how digital distribution plays into that, but don't try to take modern technology/physical reality and impose your more convenient business model on it and on everyone else.

People going to prison for copying movies is disgusting and immoral.
Can anybody provide more info about how to set up your own runners? I have a VPS which runs dokku - can I spin up some containers there? Or can I just run it locally on my laptop (usually my laptop is connected to the internet when I push my changes and trigger CI so it could run there?)

edit: I had the look at the docs but they're quite overwhelming with lots of options. I run linux on my laptop. If the setup is too complicated I'll just purchase some minutes and call it a day
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Indeed, and while it sounds very violent, Syndicate is an awesome game that still holds up extremely well.
Rich people often seem surprised that the peasantry don't view them as the benevolent foundation of their own prosperity.
> I think that problem has been solved for the most part.
>
>https://reelgood.com/

I get: "Heads up! Reelgood does not support your region yet."
If the fall of civilization means more 'songs' from The Hu, then maybe things won't be so bad.
Stars and Stripes is a government ( DoD ) newspaper. How does it speak truth to power when it is a pentagon run entity?
The standard response to anyone who posts something like this is still “post positions or stfu,” correct?
These can be safely ignored.

Startups shouldn't waste their resources (time and money).
You can find plenty of people who will argue vehemently that it isn't legalized gambling on top of a pyramid scheme. One that can collapse faster than you can say "bank run".

We were talking about banks 'making money' by giving out loans the other day. The banks actually have collateral and the fractional reserve. The only 'money' in the stock market is during active trading. Every penny of it leaves after the last trade is settled. At night the Dow is only worth the liquidation value of the companies (and that's if there are only common shares, otherwise forget it), and that's a smaller fraction than either the collateral or the fractional reserve banks maintain. Let alone both together.
I dislike the stuff called music so much these days that I have started to listen to classical music. As a hardcore grunge and heavy metal addict I ever thought that hell would freeze before. But the nth remix of a 90 hit doesn't move me - nothing original in it.

I think time will tell us that a bar, alcohol and blue smoke will do more for creativity than a gym and health food all day long.
"average" usually means "mode" or "median" when used as "average person". The meaning can be inferred from context or clarified.

"Mean" is almost never correct for distributions that aren't near uniform, and never correct for distributions that aren't even near normal and not near symmetric.
For what it's worth, qemu-system-ppc works extremely well on a modern Mac and setting up a virtual OS 9 system is very easy.

And because you're emulating and not virtualizing, it works just as well on ARM Macs, too.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/3usNwXz.png
I have a hard time coming to terms with the dichotomy between drivers saying they used to be able to make a lot of money before Uber and riders saying that getting a cab then was a nightmare if they even managed to get one.

Another thing that bugs me is quotes like this:

> While Uber cries out that having to follow the law would hurt its business model, Uber’s leadership curiously neglects to mention the billions of dollars in cash reserves it has told investors it has available or the generous compensation packages offered to its executives

Do people not bother to do math anymore? How much do they think these "billions of dollars" would yield in terms of ongoing driver income, had it somehow been distributed evenly (even at the cost of feasibility)?
I'm not necessarily looking for co-founders, but always interested in meeting like-minded folk.
I'll stop pirating the second I see a few of the 80 year old boomers like Alex Trebec with elite tier fulltime jobs step down and have the ethical fortitude to appoint a successor. The economy is broken I pirate because Im in the peasant class and Ill take what I can get. Elites who can afford Disney+ are all crooked anyways.
If I wanted to produce plaintext like ciphertexts, I'd:

1. Encrypt the plaintext with a standard cipher, producing uniformly random bytes

2. Build a language model which predicts the probability of the next symbol (nowadays you'd probably use a neural network for that).

3. Run an arithmetic decoder (or similar) for that model on the ciphertext. This translates random bytes into language. The quality of the output depends on the quality of the language model.
The problem seems bigger than user hostile UI.

If the company decided to make the UI not friendly, they will likely continue to make user hostile decisions in the name of maximising growth and profits.

In this case using addons seems like playing catch up with low chance of a long term win.
Perhaps you're reading too much into the literal meaning of that sentence. He's saying that this is the status quo, and the "rulers" are happy with the status quo, not that they're literally conspiring.

From the final paragraph: "... Clearly, the system was never consciously designed. It emerged from almost a century of trial and error. But it is the only explanation for why, despite our technological capacities, we are not all working 3–4 hour days."
You fight like a dairy farmer
Digital yuan.

Make a comment on social media, wake up next morning with an empty digital wallet. "Your Yuan has been terminated."

Talk about shitcoins...
It's always easier to destroy than create. I mean, you can demolish a house in a few hours. This isn't new. Creation is hard. Nuance is hard. "How do we fix healthcare" is hard; "don't change anything ever" or even "dismantle the system" is easy.
> new genre which the media labelled the “god game”

I haven't picked up PC Gamer in a while, but I remember a few years back, all the "Sim" and "Tycoon" type games were under the genre: Management
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This was a really important perspective to hear, thank you for sharing your story. At my school (Caltech) we are reviewing our admission and inclusion policies - application fee waivers are already in place, but are just one aspect of this process, as your story illustrates.
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Hasn't Elon been complaining about short sellers for a long time? Shorts can do fucked up things to trade volumes when it comes time to pay up.
The most concise web learning channel I found on the internet is made by an Indian guy and his videos are absolutely amazingly built. The content might not interest you but the format is fantastic. They are in small chunks and there's a slide review a the end. I wish more content makers took up to this guy. Take this angular for beginners course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CusfUmB6mkY&list=PL6n9fhu94y...
We made a new pixel art composition software
i read some disparaging comments below that just say "privilege." I hope you aren't discouraged, even with privilege, not many could have done what you have done at a young age, kudos to you and keep going.
There are archives of your website on the Wayback Machine:

5 Jul 2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20200705222936/https://www.light...

4 Sep 2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20200904182627/https://www.light...
Title possibly: "Stop writing upserts the wrong way (MS-SQL Server)" since it's less clear which flavor of SQL this is relevant?
It’s unethical to report on a violation of ethics? That makes no sense.
Appreciate the personal response!
Imagine you are walking through the woods, not 100% sure where you are going, but you turn left, then somebody told you always turn right in the woods (for some reason) and you did, then you got a new idea that you need to go backwards that will help you for some reason... at the end of the day you end up lost without a clue where to go. so you are sitting there in the dark asking how do I restart this level....well... there is no restart button, you are where you are... in the woods... probably alone.
What is also true at the same time - the sun will rise tomorrow, and it will be a new day to try out an find your own way. And it will help a lot to use the experience of the previous day - remembering what you saw, where you took the turn, who you met .... always learning , always moving forward. With this mindset we are never lost in our journey.

In other words, to start over we just need to learn and keep going. Have a great journey!
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>It’s ridiculously dense. This kind of a device didn’t exist in the year 2000

Pocket PC's existed.
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Rust has been a fantastic C replacement for me.

I have all the control and performance I wanted from C. Despite Rust being a "bigger" language, it's simpler to use, because it takes care of things for me, instead of relying on me to handle every tedious detail.

It is more portable than C was for me. I don't need to support exotic DSP platforms, but I do need to support Windows. Now I don't have to spoon-feed MSVC, and I don't need to answer endless support tickets about the build system.
If the W3C had focus, we could have developed a cross-platform native application runtime that worked over HTTP. You could visit a website and a lightweight, sandboxed app could be downloaded. Google kind of did this with "Android Instant Apps".

It'd have all the same permissions and sandboxing guarantees that apps distributed over the stores do. The OS could even collect telemetry on the kind of requests these apps made to help quash bad actors.

It might have even prevented Javascript from growing into what it is today. We'd have a strong division between what is app and what is document. (I'm not bashing the Javascript/frontend folks! I just wish we'd had a dichotomy rather than stuff everything into HTML.)

I think WASM might stand a chance of doing some good here. It'd be nice if there was agreement between Apple and Google to build a cross-platform device SDK. They won't.

We need to defend HTML and our browsers from growing into the Frankenstein's monster Google is pushing for. If we lose that, we lose the war.
bhahahhahaha. Not even close. FB groups are mostly a bunch of conspiranoids and retards.

And sure a 30 minute video with shitty poses is better than a damn written guide being read and done in less than 10 minutes, even 5 as I am a able to quicly parse it.

Even usenet and IRC are far more superior for highly technical issues.

Back in the day I had lots of info in fora and IRC channels instead of FB being blocked to outsiders and worse, full of trackers, add and being 90% of it, noise.
Oops, well spotted. He's still a tin-pot dictator rabidly against the press, but this particular correlation doesn't seem to be causative.
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I'm sad to say, but the kind of person who chooses to be a full time Uber driver probably doesn't have a lot of better options, and math & diving into economic history beyond their personal situation is probably not their strong suite.