skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As if all the atrocities of "collective responsibility" have not been enough in the past...
They're not, at least not officially - they do have the largest data sets, but they're not releasing as many features as their competitors.

Whether you think they're sandbagging or behind the curve is largely a question of whether you're a fan of Tesla.
> I guess it's still popular because

It’s still popular because, A) it largely prevents malware, B) some security policies mandate it
> Let's make it less shitty.

100%. For me, Western Capitalism has been doing this my whole life.

When I was growing up, in the little town in Central America that I come from, no one EVER traveled on an aero plane. Now it's normal. It was normal for kids to not have shoes. Now it's unheard of.

I hope we can continue to make the world less shitty.

Also, I hope there's more niceness. I also hope the fight for niceness doesn't make the world truly shitty. There's plenty of historical examples of the fight for what's right leading to what's very wrong.
I set my default search to DDG and I find myself using G! in my queries a lot more than I want to.
And yet there are tens (hundreds?) of thousands of drivers who use Tesla’s Autopilot every day, myself included, without incident and to great benefit.
Based on what I've read so far, and again, I'm not an expert, just sort of an arm-chair enthusiast.

1. One major component to weight gain is insulin. Insulin triggers the uptake of blood glucose by your adipocytes, and prevents its release. This means when your insulin is high, your body stores free sugar as fat and prevents your body from releasing it for consumption.

2. Insulin follows a positive feedback cycle and can exhibit a runaway condition, broadly speaking, called insulin resistance. You eat more sugar, your body produces more insulin, your cells get used to the insulin, and your body has to produce more insulin to lower your blood sugar.

3. Eventually your body can't make more insulin. It's tapped out. So your doctor prescribes you, usually, a front-line treatment like Metformin -- itself fascinating in its own right as a life extension drug. Once that's not sufficient to control your blood sugar, you have to start start injecting insulin. This is broadly speaking Type II diabetes and, eventually, metabolic syndrome.

4. The idea with intermittent fasting, or adjusting the timing of your meals, is that your body does in fact lower its insulin level once you stop eating. That much we know. Over time, longer periods in this low-insulin state this will reduce your body's concept of what a "low" insulin level is, walking back that runaway condition.

5. In time, this might reverse Type II diabetes [1]. The linked writeup is a small study, n=3, however: "All three men were able to stop injecting themselves with insulin within a month of starting their fasting schedule. In one case this took only five days."

6. Once insulin levels are normal, you're back to normal, too.

HGH reduces body fat and increases lean muscle mass. [2] Further, when fasting, your metabolism is actually elevated, in part due to high levels of noradrenalin. Makes sense, if you're an ape in the jungle and you haven't eaten in a day or so, your body is primed to go out and get more food -- not to waste away.

So, lots of moving pieces, and we're not 100% sure yet. There appears to be smoke here, IMO, which is why I mentioned I'm just excited to see any studies at all.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/planned-intermittent-fa...

[2] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/0003-4819-152-9-2010...
Covid Economic Tracker
So we should down-weight WSJ, NYT, and all the other sites that have paywalls?
Well GP is not random search, but still, the space is too huge for it to find anything of significance yet. I remember reading a paper that trained GP to write a sorting program, that is around the most complex problem we can solve with it now.

In my opinion, what makes natural selection work but not GP, is that the life time of Earth and the number of individuals existed vastly exceeds the typical parameters of a GP simulation. Biological programs are also less likely to be killed off by a mutation compared to GP programs, so in some ways, the gradient is a lot smoother.
Yeah, it got me hired by Hypixel. I am still sad I never had time to rewrite it and apply the things I learned in the past :(
They certainly paid for this energy
Youtube automatic transcriptions may be state-of-the-art technology, but from the perspective of a human consummer they're still extremely poor quality.
I like to put on captions in my second language, and the automatic captions are basically just annoying UI spam.

I can imagine how invaluable it is for a deaf person, they must get used to assume every transcribed word has only a 60% probability of being right, and quickly infer an array of possible meanings through context. But the experience is not comparable to human-transcribed subtitles.
That's not even close to true. Maybe it is for bog-standard American English, but whenever I watch a British show where you have people with a variety of accents (UK English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh), the auto-generated captions are pretty bad.

And in any language, the machine-generated captions don't have punctuation. You also miss out on non-speech cues that a manual captioner will often add, like a note that there's music playing in the background, or that a loud crash happened off-screen, or simply that a person laughed.

> Machine captions can be scaled to caption the entirety of YouTube, something crowdsourcing could never accomplish.

They certainly don't scale the same way, but one of the entire purposes of crowdsourcing is that it scales better than trying to employ what will inevitably be a smaller number of people. I still think there's value there, at least until machine-generated captions are actually on par with a human. We're not there yet.
As an example of how this can be used maliciously I will put forth Grubhub. Anytime you request a delivery, they ask for push notifications, ostensibly such that they can alert you to the status of your delivery. But then they start to push advertisements after. Not directly after, mind you, but a week or two or even more after you got your delivery.

One cat-and-mouse solution here might be the “know your location” notifier that iOS uses - allow push notifications only for today.
See https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... for the actual policy change.
Google and Apple are duopoly for smartphones which basically everyone has and needs to get on with modern life.

The duopoly means we get a race to the bottom. "Oh they got away with that, ok we'll do it to and then try going further in the ripoff."

We badly need real competition. The N900 was better than android back in the day. No locked in store. Microsoft killed it, I wish someone with money picked it up to hold their middle finger to apple and google. Maybe pine etc will get it done, but it seems like trying to fight a tank batallion with bb guns. Nokia got the N900 to the point where it was comparably as good in some ways, better in others. Microsoft utterly failed in their attempt but killed maemo and here we are commenting that their is no bottom on this race with both of the duopoly options equally repulsive.
I'm not sure that self-driving cars would make the difference to Uber's profits that everyone assumes. Uber would probably have to own all the vehicles and pay all the costs associated with owning a huge fleet. Has anyone actually done the math on how much money that saves over paying drivers?
Its not about whether its pointless, but rather whether the resources spent on it (energy expenditure of the distributed BOINC nodes used) is worthwhile. Few people argue that "pointless" projects, done for fun, aren't worthwhile. The question, if I read the original comment correctly, is that this is wasteful of resources/energy, when it could be better spent elsewhere (covid research was mentioned) or saved (to not contribute to climate change?).

I don't know how much was actually used though, I didn't see it mentioned, so maybe its not enough to worry about. I'm perfectly cool with wasting a little energy for fun, we do it all the time after all.

> If this sort of stuff wasn't useful, we wouldn't have a concept of having fun at all.

I dunno, burning stuff can be fun, does that mean that its always good (for the environment or just the stuff being burnt)?

I'm not actually against this project at all, but I do wonder what resources were spent on it.
> Even substantially expanded rail will never solve the problem of "I want to get from point A to point B, as quickly as possible, whenever I'm ready to leave" in a fundamentally different way.

But a substantially improved autonomous car driving experience - with cars communicating with each other (actively or passively) to avoid congestion, avoiding parking needs by being on the move always and increasing "bandwidth" by driving close to there other cars and still being safe - may look like railroads on all our roads. Bringing both these worlds closer to each other.
The spam and abuse happens on very large channels where incentives change quite a lot. E.g. pewdiepie had to disable community contributions because of people sneaking in advertising or spam in the middle of legitimate looking subtitles.
It’s unfortunate, but this is useful in that it’s easier to pronounce than any other alternative. I guess MANFAG is just as good and saves the spice for the end.
I’d be curious to see a study on whether religious people are more likely to detect patterns even where there are none, but perhaps the answer to that is obvious.

I’m not trying to be smug or cynical here, but I think the other side of this heightened sensitivity to patterns also bears considering.
>> Less than 3% of developers with apps on Play sold digital goods over the last 12 months

> That seems astonishingly low [...]

That depends. I would not be surprised if there were an order of magnitude more "developers with apps on the Play Store" than on the iOS store, simply because of the lower barrier to entry ($$ and lock in patterns pushed by Apple makes it harder to get started on iOS). So would that mean 3% is actually astonishingly high?
I didn't have much luck with OMAD. I lost very little and felt like I lost much more muscle than fat.
> Less than 3% of developers with apps on Play sold digital goods over the last 12 months

That sounds like a cherry-picked number to downplay the change but:

1) That's 90,000 apps

2) The amount of revenue those apps (like Spotify and Netflix) generate is probably in the 10s or 100s of millions

I'd bet that some of the largest revenue apps are the ones using their own billing -- the devs who make low-revenue apps probably don't want to spend the time or money to set all that up.
The argument doesn't make sense to you because you assume every other person on the site isn't willing to pay for news. However, there is a 3rd option: you could just not participate. There is nothing in the HN rules that dictate you must participate in everything posted here.

By HN design, if such sites aren't useful to the HN community, they wouldn't be regularly upvoted. However counter to that, every week you see an article from wsj.com, theinformation.com or bloomberg.com hit the front page, precisely because despite having paywalls they continue to produce good content. Given the amount of engineers sucking six figure salaries on this site, I'd say a good percentage of them who might value actual news may pay for a subscription, which is why these sites continue to be posted here. I wouldn't want to see wsj.com downweighted below buzzfeed.com just because buzzfeed is free.

The ones who choose to complain, rather than just abstaining, are the problem. They could simply decide to not participate and HN wouldn't be any worse off. However the complaining that news organizations must (1) offer all news for free (2) don't use ad networks and (3) not be mouthpieces corporate PR is not going to accomplish anything.
This is a pretty bad comparison logic. Windows allows you to disable anything through settings and registry keys which doesnt require any rooting/violation of support terms, which is never ever supported in Android/Apple.
Covid-19 has killed 1M people worldwide
I thought it was fairly well established that most (all?) diets cause weight loss by inducing a calorie deficit?
I think what's important to society is for individuals to have free and self-determined lives, we're not rabbits on a farm.

People in Western countries don't do any calculus because they can't afford children, they have fewer children because that's what people want if they're not under pressure. In fact economically speaking, the opposite is true, the birth rate is high precisely in places in which people are poor, because children are the social safety net as well as the work force for manual labour.

Also if we reproduce at say, a modest rate of 1.7 there will be still more people in 2200 than there were in the 1950s. How are we heading for extinction exactly?
It does a better job than the color shifting when preparing for bed.
As an individual though I would certainly want to know about a treatment that would cure my condition, even if few people tend to stick with it.
> Consider this: the CIA kidnaps and tortures people

You're clearly a lot more invested in this than I am. I'm not aware of any CIA kidnappings; I am aware of news headlines on HK media executives being arrested and am aware that the Chinese government is heavily invested in monitoring the views its diaspora express in a way that the US government isn't. (If an American called Trump a goose, they'd probably get upvotes. If someone called the Chinese leader something they might have more problems.)
Every pre-installed android device I have ever used or seen had a bunch of utter garbage I did not want, wanted to be rid of and yet could not simply uninstall like any regular app. How to reconcile this with what you're saying here? What am I not understanding?
The support is time limited & it still prevents people from the community willing to help from doing so.
Isn't it obvious that this would only apply to apps distributed through the Play Store, though? How else would Google be able enforce it?
? Not entitled nor even saying it’s a good idea. Unionizers all recommend doing it in secret anyway. I was more interested in talking about the legality
Is anyone else concerned about the prime directive? I worry that our interference could inhibit the natural evolution process to the point that it doesn't happen. I guess that's not to say that some Prometheus-style, ancient alien civilization intervention didn't happen in our history; I don't think we'd ever know. But it seems to me that the genesis of mitochondria is an extremely rare and unlikely event and our interference on these extra-terrestrial bodies may put it all astray. Again, we'd never know... At least not for a few hundred million years.
The US and the world isn't as bad as it seems. It's only news and social media that makes it feel that way. With the rise of global news networks in the 70's and 80's it's made the world smaller but more connected. Making everything seem worse than it is. It's actually better than it has ever been. At least pre covid
Wayland on NetBSD – Trials and Tribulations
In ski towns like Lake Tahoe, SV's elite are causing booms in school enrollment
what purpose would that serve?
I really don't get why this issue keeps coming up. How many times does this story have to be retold before developers realize that if you build apps/platforms/networks which are by their very nature unmoderateable or take a position against moderation then you're going to get rejected from every app store unless you're careful to make sure that users have to opt-in to all the content (like Mastodon). LBRY's unfiltered "Discovery" https://lbry.tv/$/discover 1000% what got it canned.

"We designed the system so that we can't control the content on our network" doesn't mean you get to abdicate responsibility for what users see when they open it. The implementation details of how your app works don't matter when reviews are based on what the user actually sees.
lol.

You're VASTLY underestimating how much progress is being made by companies that aren't Uber.

3-10 years is a more realistic timetable than decades.

"People overestimate what they can accomplish in one year, and underestimate what they can accomplish in 10".
That is basically what I was gonna say. Very he-said-she-said style. No indication of what rules were broken, no indication of why. Only that it happened and that LBRY said "we don't like that!"
Using Bytecode Surgery to Create an Ouroboros
Just read wikipedia. [0] is also a good high-level overview of the different algorithms in metaheuristics.

[0]: https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics/Essentials.pdf
I use DDG because it's better than Google in my scenarios. Yes, Google is often better for "hard" searches, but actually DDG tends to give me what I want, not some SEO monstrosity, on my normal searches.
>Indeed amazing because I know employees at Tesla who take it home on autopilot in the freeway! It’s also very unsafe ans I dot believe camera only is the way to go, but at least it can drive for more than a mile.

Google/Waymo did a pilot - letting employees commute - and canceled because the system was too good and staff stopped paying attention.

This is a clip, there was a longer clip and description in a Waymo CEO speech in the past year or two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ePWBBrWSzo
I guess it also depends on your audience. It's no surprise to me that someone like pewdiepie attracts the sort of people who would do that.
It's not at all obvious based on the title. Many people don't know about sideloading.
Microsoft making a good WSL will not change the Linux you have right now. Fearing that the Linux you have right now will "fall into disuse" means fearing that you will stop using it and you can choose to continue using it no matter what Microsoft does.

A less charitable read of your position is that Microsoft will tempt other people away and they will no longer give you cost-free updates. Of course you don't mean that.
XML specified with a mix of RelaxNG and Schematron is a really nice pairing. Both are interesting and a little different to the usual schema languages.

RelaxNG is like "regular expressions for trees". It has a compact syntax like this:

start = element library {
element book {
attribute title { text },
element page { text }+
}
}

.. so books in this library (root element) should have a title attribute and one or more pages. There's a (pretty geeky [] :-p) description of the algorithm here [1] (: Brzozowski derivatives + Haskell!).

Schematron is another schema language that allows specifying constraints as a series of pattern rules:

<schema xmlns="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron">
<pattern>
<rule context="book">
<assert test="let $b := .[starts-with(@title, 'A')] return $b/page/count() >= 100">
Books whose title starts with "A" must have 100 or more pages.
</assert>
</rule>
</pattern>
</schema>

So it allows specifying constraints that would be too tedious or impossible with RelaxNG, and allows keeping the RelaxNG grammar simple.

The test on the Schematron "assert" element in the example uses "let expressions" [2], one of many additions that makes XPath and XSLT 3.0 feel a lot like any other modern functional programming language (other features: higher order functions, maps/arrays/JSON support, and more). This presentation [3] shows a few more 3.0 features.

If lisp is for lists, then XSLT definitely is for trees! I suspect as people start forgetting the baggage of SOAP and XSLT 1.0, the language is going to become more and more popular since it is so useful. BTW, there's now a JavaScript implementation that runs on node and the browser too [4].

1: https://relaxng.org/jclark/derivative.html

2: https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-30/#id-let-expressions

3: https://www.kosek.cz/xml/2019xmlss/Kosek_XSLT4DailyCoding.pd...

4: https://www.npmjs.com/package/saxon-js
Yeah, these are the gotchas that vary by state.

In California, for a single left turn lane, you're allowed to complete the turn into any of the lanes you choose.

The driver handbook doesn't go into detail about double turn lanes that feed into a 3-lane cross street. My own rule is that only the inner lane (leftmost) must complete the turn in the matching innermost lane. The outer lane can end their turn in the #2 or #3 lane. I tend to choose the #3 lane just to put as much space between me and the car next to me, in case they incorrectly go for the #2 lane. Unless there's an opposing right-turning car that I trust less :)
What is "Google's search preference menu"? Where does it exist?
Which is great. But it doesn't change the fact, that it's not self driving car.
Mind blowing and vastly ahead of their time.
I largely agree with you, but answer the reducibility problem. At what point does a network become complex enough to form consciousness? I think the writer of this article likely believes that there is no such point, that all information processing is consciously experienced phenomenon on a sliding scale of complexity
I didn't imply the poster questioned Minecraft, but this effort didn't come out of nothing. It came out of a community which exists in the ecosphere.
The actual computation part was the least amount of time spent on this. The bulk was trying to narrow this seemingly 2^64 seeds down to a bruteforcable amount while learning something.
There is a whole community around "seedfinding" now, which has done amazing work around reverse-engineering and pseudo-random number generation.
Sure the sentiment of putting resources to anything of no immediate value is questionable, but I imagine so is modern day theoretical physics and mathematics :)
Recent discussions of Google unfairly banning LBRY:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24605379

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24594663
My mom just bought a laptop, it came with McAffee. All the Windows laptops at work still run McAffee. Presumably as means to decrease productivity as much as possible, or I guess it must check some box somewhere, got me.
> Should we lock em all up in super max prisons for providing weapons to people?

I said we should shut down Florence.

> Net positive... LOL Name a single politican that does provide a net positive to the world. How about Trump?

I have no idea why you have such an overpowering desire to inject your fascination with Trump into this discussion.

> Oh is it? So what now? We lock up everything who doesn't have your high moral standards in a federal super max?

This is the second time you seem to have misread my post. I said we should shut down Florence.
Give them homes and access to medical care. The only thing stopping us is the belief that they have to “earn it” first.
> What they are doing is very little different than what Google did when Google was the plucky underdog.

I don't remember to be the case. Google won because the existing search engines at the time (altavista, excite, etc) paled in comparison to its search results. Same for its other services like Gmail that offered 1gb space when Hotmail offered only 2mb.

I can understand the Google hate but they did many things right also to capture the top spots.
Public, Online Letter Exchanges
Ninja is neat.

I wonder if a) this is still possible with Chromium today, and b) if/how it might be possible to incrementally build changed functions into new .so files, rewrite the symbol tables in the old .so files to garbage (if needed?), then relink (either incrementally/in-place or from-scratch) the executable. Dependency analysis and garbage collection could delete fully-superceded .so files.
The same Prime Directive from the fictional show Star Trek? No, I am not concerned.