skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did it, they finally did it!

Context: I did my diploma thesis work at that lab, and shared the office with those guys. This is a result almost 10 years in the making.

Congrats!
It's sad what Reddit has become. I remember a decade or so ago Reddit was strongly in favour of free speech and would welcome all discussion and communities so long as they were acting within the law.

Understandably they took a small step back early on and decided to remove communities sharing pictures of children, but jumping forward to today Reddit is almost unrecognisable...

Pressure from advertisers has caused them to ban adult content from the front page, and as you point out it seems they're actively trying to make it as difficult as possible to view adult content. More worryingly though communities with unpopular political positions are quickly removed to avoid potential media push back.

I know Twitter gets a lot of hate, but the political environment on Reddit is far more toxic and hostile IMO. To their credit I do occasionally see some right-wing trends and opinions on Twitter, but on Reddit even creating a subreddit in support of the current president of the United States is likely to be seen as a bannable offence.

There are some good alternative social networks cropping up now though. Unfortunately I haven't found one that isn't highly partisan, but there are alternatives for those of us who sometimes think the wrong things. I suspect any popular social media platform will succumb to the same corporate pressure with enough time though. Corporate interest has changed almost all websites from a decade ago in one way or another.
Also, hunter-gatherers supposedly breast fed for up to 4 years, which also tends to space children.

The invention and marketing of ‘formula being better than breastmilk’ is what truly shot up the number of children per family 100 years ago.
> The majority of top posts come from the same old users, generally paid content creators.

[citation needed]
Yeah, but I work as programmer in company where almost all employees are programmers. Quite a few are also the "I am technically technical type who is passionate" kind of people. Based on discussions I have, they dont have such trauma from school. Except one they dont recall about being bullied and that one studied humanities and worked in mostly non-technical position originally. He also never claimed his issues stemmed from being too smart (I wont repeat his analysis of why here, but he thinks reasons were different).

To large extend, even that essay does not strike me as something describing people I know or my experience. But it strikes me as very populist writing targeted at those who identify as outsiders. Something written by person who was obsessed by popularity and social position himself quite a lot. In our school, kids with good grades were not unpopular or hated. Good results in programming or math or literary competition did not made you outsider. I never perceived such abilities as social liability.

There was something like "unpopular" kid in our class, someone who don't have many friends. Not that everyone was friend with everyone. And I think that guys did to one what would be called verbal bullying now in one period. But in neither case it was really not because he was smarter then everyone. And none of these ended up in tech work and none was interested in tech.
It was an iPhone 5c, a pre secure-enclave iPhone so they were able to break in at the end. Apparently Cellebrite were the ones who cracked it.
After looking at a few dozen accounts and their PR histories, the spammers seem to be just searching for repositories that have the word "website" in their description and picking a random set of 5 to send random requests to.
Reddit is pretty ‘user hostile’ in terms of force feeding their shitty redesign, mobile app, spammy chat, AMP and other hot garbage, but taking some long overdue steps toward moderation has been a huge positive for me.
Will be interesting to see if Nichola Sturgeon can get a referendum in the next few years. Can't see the Scottish sticking with the Union for more than another decade.

Even previous Conservative PMs have said BJs plant to break law is absolutely shocking.
"Proper" is in the eye of the beholder I guess ... remember that this is an 8-bit part with 4 KB of program space and 256 bytes of RAM.

You are probably not implementing a gdb stub on that while still having meaningful resources (memory, peripherals, execution time) left for your an application complex enough to warrant that level of debugging support. :)

That said, it seems these cores have some on-chip hardware debugging support. See the data sheet [1] section 30 ("Unified Program and Debug Interface (UPDI)"). Features include:

- Memory mapped access to device address space

- Unlimited number of user program breakpoints

- Two hardware breakpoints

- Run-time readout of CPU Program Counter (PC), Stack Pointer (SP), and Status register(SREG) for code profiling

- Program flow control (Go, Stop, Reset, Step Into)

- Non-intrusive run-time chip monitoring without accessing system registers

This interface is the one that is described in the article, and accessed over a single pin on the chip package. I think it sounds pretty neat, makes me want to have a look at AVRs again! :)

[1] http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/ATtiny406-Da...
There are 503 errors all over the place today, right now.
Lazy Lantern (YC S19) Is Hiring Remote FullStack and Back End Engs
Google Health's struggle to regain trust, navigate healthcare, and make money
The app told me I'm between 16 and 36 years old.
Least affected by nepotism within the institution, sure, but obviously affected by their relationship with their kids. Surely that would create a bias in favor of teachers who are likely to give students good grades?

If the education is subpar, the particular skills and knowledge that were missed can probably be picked up later as needed, but poor grades can alter the trajectory of your life in ways that are harder to recover from. So I'd expect parents who care more about the best possible outcome for their children more than being conscientious (which I honestly assume is a majority) to prefer those.
As I say with all these massive social networks: they have tons of users, and there is all kinds of people in the world, so it's bound to be a lot of interesting and useful and inspiring and enlightening content in them. That still doesn't say much about the social network itself.
That would mean DigitalOcean has to do work. It's probably easier for them if the open source maintainers have to do the work.
Flutter for Desktop (alpha)
Correct yes - The ends don't justify the means essentially.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/
Not sure if sarcastic or not.

But I laughed at the idea of a drivers car seat providing fertility stimulation.
Why do they all use the word amazing? Is there some chat group where someone pointed out that using "amazing website" was the easy way to go?
Sure. I agree.

But, with the looming threats of AI and climate change, I believe (1) and (2) are off the table. I don’t want to bring people into a failed system where they are (on average) doomed to failure. I wish I didn’t see things as so dire, but these ate the conclusions to which zi have come.
You stated you're "not trying to bring race/culture into it" then explicitly created an inverse relationship between diversity and harmony.

Perhaps a country as diverse as america is a poor choice for you.
> There is a long debate to be had about whether taking steps to wind that back is a good idea.

It depends on what you exactly mean by "winding that back".

Putting ecological and global warming concerns on the table-of-consideration along with market imperatives is not only reasonable but responsible.

Ironically, the best example of profit/yield imperatives above all else is the corn/fructose industry. This industry is heavily subsidized because of decades of political finagling. They're bad for the environment and not really profitable without subsidies. The corn industry has "won" the race to the bottom and maximized yield at the expense of everything else.

Supply chain technologies are now starting to enable small farmers to provide sustainable goods and still make a living without being a cog in a huge corporation. Suppliers are increasingly doing that. Is it going to completely replace the corn/fructose industry? no, but it can move us in the right direction over time.
Car seats can be checked as hold baggage and claimed at baggage claim. In the US, I believe they have to be free (in any case, I never had to pay for them [nor strollers] and they never “counted” if it was just a car seat or stroller, even on Spirit).

We would generally bring the car seat onto the airline and have the child sit in the seat on the flight. It prevented some of the chaos of wanting to run around the airplane. “This is transport; just like in the car or other airplanes, you have to be in your seat.”

Needs a window seat (obvs) and the red sticker “approved for aviation use” (which the cabin crew did check every single time, which was impressive). Ask for a seatbelt extension and adjust the belt so the buckling is done on the side rather than smack in the middle of the seat.
The Truth About Today’s Anarchists
Google Merges Chromecast and Android TV with the “Chromecast with Google TV”
> Sure, but components and all of your other equipment also have to be shipped.

Those are not custom parts, they are shipped in bulk.

> but you at least need a decent soldering iron

There are people out there who cannot afford to _need_ a $40 temperature controlled soldering iron, and irrespective of the lottery of where they were born in the world, they still have an interest in (and often a need to repair) electronics.

The industry trend of ending dip package options is inevitable but it also makes things harder for many makers across developing countries.
OO is a very nebulously defined term and if you ask two people you'll get three different definitions. But I would say that most people will agree that at the very least late binding is a fundamental component.
Westminster will not agree to a referendum any time soon, so unlikely to happen.
For the last couple of days, I've been trying to get a static website up using hugo (emacs + ox-hugo), and I've been using tramp to ssh into the machine and do my work.

Tramp is literally magic. It just puts the right text into your buffer, where all the tools you use on your machine are just available by default. Even org exports and the like behave as expected, outputting the resultant file into the correct dir on the remote machine.

I've been using emacs as a <50IQ user for about a year now. I've yet to write a single line of Elisp (apart from use-package declarations). It's awesome!
> I don't think they do shadowbans any more

They absolutely do.

> And Mods have each and every right to take out
> holocaust-denying, racist, homophobic garbage.

They 'take out' users for much less.
No-one likes a boaster.

7.5/10 here btw. :D
Well that's not C++'s fault. Those people are either stuck on a particular compiler version, are in a maintenance mode, or are just unwilling to improve themselves. Maybe there's job security in being able to write code in a deprecated style.
Astrophysics just seems soooo speculative. Even with margins of error in the millions of years and light years, it just seems that most of it is assumptions supported not by evidence (because we can't get direct evidence) but by previous assumtions which have over time fossilised into accepted theories.

Not saying this paper isn't good or anything, just that extrapolating a supernova from a few atoms of an isotope of a metal seems... a long fetch. Though probably better than nothing.
I read the terms, but didn't click the confirmation, and got 'No' as 'Read terms' - so I think it's tracking the confirmation checkbox.
it seems to break on sudo. Haven't found a fix for that yet
I had a chemistry teacher who loved the school athletes and was confrontational to the nerds. So the first set of parents thought she was great and the second didn’t.

I will give you that teachers know who the other bad teachers are.
Just shining my phone's flashlight to my face increase the score by 1 point. Maybe try with a better lighting? You might get a 10 score ;)
Those would be minuscule per capita, and are already included in high gas taxes we have around here.
There are many saas for this already: https://www.gitgardener.com/
Neanderthal genes increase risk of serious Covid-19, study claims
I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out that COVID shutdowns and reduction in miles driven have saved 100 children and 400 or more adults from car crash related deaths in 2020.

Perhaps we should extend the lockdowns indefinitely; think of the children!
>The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2818-3
Same with Firefox and Chrome on Pixel xl
Got similar from the security department of my previous company. Every time a new gadget was found in Jackson that allowed RCE if you turned on the feature to instantiate arbitrary classes based on user input (which is clearly documented with warnings in Jackson and was linted against being enabled in our internal rules _anyway_), we would get a ticket that we had 24 hours to update to the new Jackson version which just added that to their blacklist of classes not to be instantiated.

"Prototype pollution" from transitive dependencies of our frontend build scripts in node was another one where we would get spam security issues, though thankfully without the same tight deadline.
Thank you, I have to say I noticed it from your reply.

I'm not sure if it's a ToS Violation, I saw some simillar scheduled actions by other people, I supposed it's ok for github actions.

I need to review it again.
Let me take a stab at this.

A while ago I read about a guy's innovative idea to classify languages using zip (the archiving software). This idea is cute in itself, if you are curious you can check [1]. My rough summary would be like this: when you zip a French text, the zip facility first spends some time to train itself, and finds the letter frequencies and then compresses the text using these frequencies. If you train zip to a French text, but then use the frequencies to compress a Spanish text, you'll do worse than if you use the frequencies of the Spanish language itself. However, if you use the French frequencies to compress Hungarian text, you will do much, much worse. Then you ask the question: if for a certain language A, a zipped text is 1 MB using the language's own frequencies but 1.3MB using the frequencies form a different language B, then you say the distance between A and B is 0.3. If it takes 1.05 MB, then the distance is 0.05. If two languages are very similar like Nrwegian and Swedish, this distance is very small, if they are very different, the distance could be quite large.

This concept of distance is essentially the KL-divergence [2]. It's not symmetric, so the distance between A and B is different compared to the distance between B and A, so it's not exactly what mathematicians call a "distance". But it's very useful nonetheless. When you train a classifier for example, many times you measure the quality of the classifier using the KL-divergence, but in that context people use the term cross-entropy.

You can for example do a cluster analysis and find groups of languages that are related, like the Romance languages, or Slavic languages, and this without knowing anything about these languages at all.

Now, how many languages are out there? Let's say 5000. Imagine you want to create one of those cool graphs where each language is linked with its closes neighbors and the length of that edge is equal to this "distance". You won't be able to do this exactly, because you are constrained by the geometry of the flat plane, but if you allow yourself to go in higher dimensions, you can do that ( * ). This graph will then have some shape, it's going to be somewhat curved.

For example, if you restrict yourself to the Romance languages, and you put Latin in the center and put the current languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, there are probably a few more) around it, you get something that looks like a circle. Is the circumference of this "circle" higher, or lower than 2piradius? If it's lower, then you say the space has positive curvature, if it's higher, negative.

So, information geometry is 1. taking care of the various details I brushed off (like the fact that you actually use the square root of the KL-divergence to define the distance) and 2. studying the geometric properties of the metric space you produce.

( * ) This fact is known as the Nash embedding theorem, the same Nash who got a Nobel for the Nash equilibrium.

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-31865-1_...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback%E2%80%93Leibler_diver...
Looks like someone moved the wikipedia link to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_TV_(discontinued)

... so now my post looks inaccurate
Sounds kind of conspiratorial.

I think any increase in educational content is good, even if ‘bad actors’ are funding it.
In my case: Because there are simply no better niche communities (or platforms). Forums have no threading, that makes any kind of forking discussion unreadable. Discourse is worse than most normal forums half the time. Twitter and all the twitter-imitating decentralized sites (that new reddit also tries to move towards and that big subreddits also have) have that whole hard-on for deciding on content based on the user who posted instead of the content.

What do I not read on reddit? Pretty much the stuff that’s posted on HN. HN has a worse interface (especially since there is no Reddit Enhancement Suite) than old Reddit, but the comments are usually (unless it’s US related) better.

So yes, I’d like to move off Reddit (and probably will if they ever turn off old reddit), but there is simply nothing comparable besides Reddit clones usually overrun with rightwing nutjobs and barely any other content.
DigitalOcean's response: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update
It’s actually “lede” [1]

> A lede is the introductory section in journalism and thus to bury the lede refers to hiding the most important and relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information. The spelling of lede is allegedly so as to not confuse it with lead (/led/) which referred to the strip of metal that would separate lines of type. Both spellings, however, can be found in instances of the phrase.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/bury-the-lede-...
> it's annoying that I have to type "old.reddit.com"

You can use their web version? Aren't they constantly trying to get you to install the app?
Or are you on desktop? In which case... wow, I didn't know people could use that.
> 2. By default mouse selection with double click + drag to select multiple lines is not normal. I believe this could be fixed but I haven't figured out how yet. (I could not re-create this right now, maybe it was fixed in some recent upgrade)

double click do word selection, triple click do line selection , don't know if this is configurable
This is correct. .EU domain registration have several restrictions on them, one of which is full disclosure of who you are. I would trust a .eu website, over a .com anyday.
Show HN: I made a screen recorder for developers
Yeah the data-gathering-AI-stuff is cool & creepy but I'm actually more interested in the UX of the site.

Forget buttons, dialogs, beautifully designed pages. Future UIs should have videos of a person talking telling you what is happening and what to do next!
5g and pizza? Interesting combo.
Scope guard in Rust: https://docs.rs/scopeguard
Yes, no GUI, it's more suitable for developers, or you can use it with IFTTT together..
I work in public sector (NHS Tech) and I'm not so sure.

There can be a lot of bureaucracy around hiring leading to quite well defined roles. You're right about understaffing and if you end up in a good sub organisation there'll be a lot of work to do and room to branch out. But you're unlikely to get hired as a jack of all trades. Startups are far more likely to hire useful people who can do a lot of different things. Public sector you'll be hired to do a specific thing but then might be able to pick up lots of random things if you have the right rep or people around you.
This is a reminder for what we should all keep in mind... Things happen. Work for tomorrow but remember today. And record your journey.
I don't get this sentiment personally - I found that I struggled less to imagine myself there with the "enhancements"
Why GraphQL Between Microservices Is the Worst and Best Idea
Ask HN: How to get into the chip industry?
Which resources/degree programs/books/projects would you recommend to a person looking to enter the field?
> This idea that something that is (at most) a mild inconvenience

We don’t mandate 5 point harnesses in cars. We don’t mandate helmets in cars. Both of those are milder and would save more lives than having to buy bulky and expensive car seats and carry them with you so they can be used in any car you get in. The world is a never ending risk benefit calculation. We constantly make tradeoffs.

> The same reasoning is at the foundation for why the US now has +200000 people dead from the COVID-19 virus.

No it is not. Taking something that is orders of magnitude larger to try and justify your point is not exactly compelling.
This feels like clickbaity story generation - cool new tech doing something many enjoy.... not enough tension... go and find a handful of grumpy people who don't concur
> Twitter is a good example, great performance

This statement alone invalidates your arguments, because evidently you never once tried opening Twitter on an underpowered machine, be that desktop or a phone.
> Two weeks the same CEO campaigned against Apple's App Store policies on Twitter, and totally made it out to be a moral issue when it benefitted him.

Yes, because he is the CEO of HIS company, with an app on IOS. Not just an employee and he never asked his staff to agree with his position and tweet about it. At coinbase right now, some people want HIM to talk about "Black Live Matters". It's like employees in IT in US don't understand the concept of subordination and think that a company is a college campus... or maybe the problem is that too many companies thought they should be like college campuses, and not a business.
That's true. Currently using fixed type only in the window manager (bars and wm menus) but a sans type font in everything that is not a terminal.

Thanks for taking the time to improve this font and publish it with proper build instructions!

Good job.
There was an interesting issue with the voucher system- most specifically, in areas with the voucher system, private schools are not held to the same standards as public schools. Ie. They are not tested the same for quality and they are not expected to have the same programs for special needs children.
That’s roughly equivalent to a condo fee in many apartment buildings. But, I should have included it to be clear.
I mean, it's an EU-funded academic site designed to raise awareness of privacy issues, so I'm inclined to believe them when they say they aren't keeping any of this data.

Maybe it's because programmers tend to think categorically, but I find HN frequently has this problem where people are freaking out like "why is it okay when Mozilla does X but you don't want Google to do X?!" as though we're supposed to treat every question as some sort of sui generis scenario divorced from all history and context.

History matters, context matters. I (generally) trust academics and democratically-elected governments, and I (generally) distrust giant ad-tech companies and authoritarian states.