skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this really any less ethical than a more sophisticated marketing scheme?

"Black Hat Firm" vs. Expensive Growth Marketing Firm:

– unestablished writer vs credentialed, domain experienced writer (with a salary?)

– spammy Medium.com presence vs Editor Connections at TechCrunch

– network of "dozens" of nearly ineffectual sockpuppets vs dozens of employees with "real" accounts ready to upvote and engage on Boss's call

If you're surprised by this, spend a day in the pits of a product launch in literally any industry. We welcome ingenuity when we talk about growth hacks but criminalize it when it's not classy. This is all a matter of access, Marketing and PR generally comes down to what resources people have and what they can get away with.
Based on hearsay:

* wireguard (faster)
* easier
* more stable
I make no such assumption. I merely suggest that the line between mistake and "mistake" is a deliberate step. It is a choice the management decided to take and were rightly ashamed of.

Making an argument for 'misinformation cesspit' over 'moderation' is just never going to be an argument you can win. Not with the business, and not with the public. This is one of those 'perfect is the enemy of good' things. If you don't give them a good business option to take, you will get handed the easy one (and it sure as shit is not going to be perfect).
No it’s not. Had it been leaks concerning Trump collusion with Russian to rig previous election (you know, that fake news that runned for 4 years), it would have been placed in trending topic instead. GP is right, there is a very obvious double standard at play, and this is not happening only in the IS.
Uninstalling climacell... know any alternatives?
I think the issue here is where you put the ceremony.

If you're iterating on your approach to a model, it really is a drag to do a bunch of bullshit in order to run an experiment that's likely to fail and just be thrown out anyways.

If you're shipping that model to production and affecting people's lives, it should really be held to a different standard than the "fuck around and see what happens" experiments.

And this is before we even get into unexplainability of deep neural nets.
Microphone in a necklace or choker? Sounds good.
Most of the comments here seem to focus on one type of insomnia — falling asleep. Most of the time I can easily fall asleep but I often wake up in the middle of the night or very early in the morning for no reason and I can’t go back to sleep.
You know how some sorts of programming are described as black magic? It’s like taking that literally and writing a silly short story.
Sarcasm aside, I've worked with people who fulfil at least any 2 of these behaviours, often-times most of them.

Choice excerpts:

* co-ordinating code between team members by having everyone periodically copy their code to one team members personal google drive, where one of them would then spend a day fixing merge conflicts by hand. When asked why they were doing it like that, would they like any help, git can probably solve these problems, they asserted that this worked fine with them.

* Spinning up machines in EC2, then keeping track of keys (new one for every machine obviously) by storing the Pem files in an S3 bucket when they remembered. This didn't happen, so instead we had a dozen machines nobody could get into anymore after they left...

* Calling Python code in another file, by running os.spawn, calling a python interpreter with the given file, passing in parameters a cmd line arguments, and getting the result by waiting for a specifically named file to be written to disk. When asked "why are you doing this?" I was told "because it was easier".

* All the python they wrote eschewed functions were possible, with everything at root-indentation & no import guards (so it couldn't be imported safely). Functions, when they were used relied heavily on global variables and other objects/imports/etc being present implicitly. There were also logging and json serialisation functions that were hand written. When I asked why this teammate did this they replied "it only took me a couple of minutes and it works? What's wrong?" Unsurprisingly, it didn't serialised datetime objects correctly...

* Re-inventing the functionality offered by Pythons multiprocessing/ Joblib libraries-but worse- by shelling out (again) and manually calling a shell script to detect the number of CPU's and then using x-args to spawn the python processes. "Well we've written it now and it works but maybe next time". Unsurprisingly, these processes would fail, silently and lose data.

* Using eval() in production code because they "couldn't figure out a better way of getting the value of the attribute" despite being told that getattr is safer and faster.

* Maintaining a spark cluster full of Jupiter notebooks unhelpfully named things like STEP_301.ipynb, STEP_405.ipynb and not anything that told you _what_ they did. Figuring out which notebooks called which other notebooks and where any bit of code came from was, unsurprisingly literally kafkaesque. These eventually got checked into git (root credentials, embedded images and all), in a single commit with the message "add to repo".

* Instead of reading the documentation, or using something like SqlAlchemy, code samples of how to connect to various different types of database (mysql, Postgres etc) were stored in a random google doc (once again, one of their personal accounts) and access was passed around.
I do that as well, I tend to listen more to non-fiction since many fiction audio books have "acting" in them instead of just reading :(
The problem with HTTP is that it’s too generic to be a drop-in replacement. You have to get people to agree on a single app/protocol that uses HTTP as transport.
Have any of you use CCC as part of a personal workflow automation, say with Huginn or n8n, or even zapier? If so, what did you do with it?
somewhere in comments, there is mention of Amazon not minding CCC as long as it sends traffic.

I’d expect more to the picture.
CCC driven traffic is different than usual affiliate one, in way that it has strong revenue drag effect.

And even if it’s Amazon’s preference of sale over profit, it is matter of time when they decide they have enough scale to chop-off whatever contributes to quality of their profit.

I’d love someone with more pricing, marketing expertise to comment on this.
Audiobooks work for me too but my insomnia is mostly waking up in the middle of the night or waking up too early in the morning and can’t go back to sleep. So I end up sleep deprived. And with my partner sleeping next to me it is not an option to listen to audiobooks and fall asleep.
A quick note, the iPhone 8 and later are all Qi compatible at 7W. I guess their new proprietary charger will be 15W. Supposition is that the watch and ipad dont support wireless charging due to space/heat. Still a pretty reasonable story. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208078

On the other side the 30pin device connectors and the active thunderbolt 2 cables are pretty crap and play in to the proprietary and expensive meme.
Do you mean something beyond being able to load and display resources from FTP sites? I remember Netscape, and I also remember having to open up Fetch to do anything serious with FTP.
>The New York Times ad was paid for through donations

While true, those donations were largely from sources connected to Netscape. If they had built a normal corporation, it'd be startup capital.

>MoFo accepted donations and other sources of funds which it used, in part, to fund development of a browser by MoCo

Mozilla Corporation saw $60 million in revenue in the first year, at no point were the donations a significant source of income.

>remember reassurance s about the core mission being loudly proclaimed.

Here's the actual "core mission" they launched at the time, note the pledge containing

>Use the Mozilla assets (intellectual property such as copyrights and trademarks, infrastructure, funds, and reputation) to keep the Internet an open platform;

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/
This is has the right idea. Both politicians and tech companies are in on it. Politicians get to silence people and control the narrative. Tech companies turn into publishing houses and now have a moat (moderation and legal costs, political connections).
Ok, I'll give you a detailed breakdown. You said that three things were happening which in reality are not:

(1) that we "realize the exact opposite [of what we say]" — in reality, I tell the truth as far as I know it, because I respect this community (edit: plus, for the cynical, it would be a stupid and unnecessary risk not to);

(2) that we're "terrified what will happen if the public finds out how common it is" — in reality, I'm confident that the community would be bowled over by how diligently we work on this, and my only woe is that half the commenters don't want to hear it when I tell them how common it is (namely, that it's uncommon relative to the insinuations that they love to fill the threads with, and that such insinuations are the harder problem to solve and a heavier burden on moderators);

(3) that "the percentage of this stuff is absolutely massive" — in reality, unless I'm wildly ignorant of my job, it's tiny relative to the quantity of imaginary things people make up about it. The latter is the greater threat to HN. With real astroturfing and other forms of abuse, it's possible to find evidence and take action. But how do you persuade the internet not to hurl shit-soaked spaghetti everywhere? (Sorry for the unhinged metaphors, but it's demoralizing to argue about this in HN comments, because none of the users making grand insinuations want to hear about that side of the problem, and when I raise it they say things like "dang denies that astroturfing exists".)

We have a rule that you can't manipulate voting, commenting, or submissions on HN (because some people do that and shouldn't). We have another rule that you can't smear others with insinuations of abuse without evidence (because some people do that and shouldn't). There's no contradiction there. That doesn't seem hard to understand.
Machine learning is never 100%. False positives are always possible.
On this topic, a feature request: could you designate a letter key to perform the same function as a right click? Right click is difficult on my new laptop's touchpad...
Thid has reminded me of this gentleman who has been using gravity fed old washing machines as turbines for electricity generation on his property for 16 years https://youtu.be/Xb6TIWub6KU

He doesn't need the pumped storage part of the equation due to a natural water flow, but it is part of the solution at least.
Could you maybe shed some light why was Japan dropped from the supported country list?
Rural conservatives who have kids will eventually have those kids leave for good paying jobs in urban areas, or those kids will likely not have a great life expectancy from lack of opportunity in their small community (dying small communities are well documented: https://www.google.com/search?q=dying+small+towns) and deaths of despair (alcoholism, meth, opioids: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinekee/maps-despai...). As long as prospects for women continue to increase (education and earning potential), and the data shows well off educated women prefer a partner on equal footing, conservative birth rates will eventually converge with that of other ideologies (this can be inferred from the total fertility rate trend for religious vs non religious women of childbearing age).

While your point about ideology drift over time has some merit, I don’t believe it to be significant enough to materially consider.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/706889?jou... (https://doi.org/10.1086/706889 if you want to grab the full paper from SciHub)

“Consistent with previous research but contrary to folk wisdom, our results indicate that political attitudes are remarkably stable over the long term. In contrast to previous research, however, we also find support for folk wisdom: on those occasions when political attitudes do shift across the life span, liberals are more likely to become conservatives than conservatives are to become liberals, suggesting that folk wisdom has some empirical basis even as it overstates the degree of change.”
Looks like Japan's telco sector is going through a US T-Mobile moment, with Rakuten Mobile trying to drive the prices down with a free year of service and a cheap prepaid unlimited data plan, chock full with change and hope rhetoric. They even use practically the same color as T-Mobile!
I've been obsessed with technology that skirts religious laws for a while now. Whole house pneumatic systems to run $800 dollar non-electric blenders. Elevators that spend the sabbath atomically opening on each floor. Automatic timers to complete forbidden circuits. I would love to spend an hour or two with a rabbinical scholar. Does walking in front of a motion senor complete a circuit? Are you allowed to ask an AI to do something on the Shabbat?
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What do you think it is for? I can't imagine any nefarious plans providing this level of control over what data you send them.
Yep, there's lots of gray area. But not disclosing a financial arrangement isn't illegal in itself. It's only in the last few years that Youtube even had an option to flag videos as "contains paid promotions", though now they do require that to be flagged if you're getting paid.
Thanks for the feedback. TBH 4 pages has worked ok for me so far -- the most important info is on the first 2 pages, the remainder just stops any questions about what I was doing during that time. But I'm open to change :-).

I've also gotten conflicting opinions on leaving off my graduation date so I end up alternating back and forth on that.
less profitable wouldn't matter if the law would dictate that every device needs to support multiple vendors with feature parity and the user/owner of a device is legally entitled to use it in whatever way they see fit.

Yes, this would cause price increase. But a lot of people would gladly pay for it. The ones who don't want to, could accept a "discount" in exchange for becoming a glass citizens.
+1
In meanwhile, this is great value add and win-win.
Since you mentioned it, are you aware if other energy sources are allowed, such as waterwheels or windmills? Otherwise, how do you compress the air in the first place? How is the air compressor filled without electricity?

I vaguely know some Mennonites. One guy has a cell phone and car transmission repair businesses, and computers, but he only uses those things for certain tasks and does not keep the technology in his home. He uses it at work. He locks up his phone and pc when not using them for work.

Not that this guy is representative or anything, just an anecdote. Neither group is homogeneous, and I don’t mean to single anyone out.

The different approaches to technology, and the varied applications of technology, in service both to secular and sacred ends is interesting to me.
The middle-man in this case is a trusted one, the owner of the centralized infrastructure, not like in MITM.

Isnt possible that one peer encrypt, pass it to the central server who have the other key, the central server than encrypts again and share it with the real end making it believe the key he is using actually is the same one generated in the first part of the process?

Its like the OR from tor but with 3 parties instead.

How the receiving party can be sure the key was not switched by the all-mighty middle man who can control everything?
> This makes total sense if it's actually a wave and the particle is merely a solution for a particular world W. The detector didn't change anything about the wave. It just coupled you to the wave system earlier, so now your branch of the many-world tree can only see the subset of solutions that correspond with whatever you detected. The only thing that has changed, though, is your ability to see the other solutions. You branched earlier, so now each branch you exist in only sees a subset of the full solution.

This explanation only works if either the detector is not itself made of particles, or if there is a detector wave that you could become entangled with by observing.

But the first one can essentially be discarded, and the second one is not experimentally confirmed. The equations happen the way I described whether you observe the detector or not. The detector could be hundreds of light years away from you, but you would still be able to predict what happened after the particle hit it with classical mechanics. So one particle's interaction with a detector instantly branches at least its entire future light-cone, but two particles interacting doesn't have the same effect. So at what scale does this happen? Or in what conditions?
You could start by just calculating the potential energy of the volume of the tank you are considering, and the difference in elevation between the reservoirs (volume x 1 kg/L x gravity x elevation difference, plug in the units of your choice and let google figure it out).

I suspect the amount of energy is far less than you are imagining... It takes a lot of water to generate a useful amount of energy. This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66YRCjkxIcg) does an interesting demo and points out that a 5 gallon bucket on a ladder has the same potential energy as a watch battery.
Energy as electricity is like money. Pretty easy to convert to other forms of work and readily accepted as an input to many systems.

I doubt there's much of an ecosystem/incentive to build a compressed air --> <something> conversion systems that are general enough for anything to use.
TRUTH is suppressed in the name of trust/loyalty/discipline/patriotism/sedition/job/national security/intellectual property etc https://yts.mx/movies/citizenfour-2014
>It will become cheap enough

I hope that would happen but nothing on the technology roadmap suggest that is possible. Even if 5G patents were free, i.e you paid Zero for all Wireless patents cost, Antenna, RF Front End and 5G Modem is expensive.

Even if you somehow Apply Moore's Law, it will take at least 3 Gen reduction in cost. ( That is 6 years ).

That is why everyone continues to improve WiFi.
Can you use your smart speaker to call your rabbi?
I mean, part of the fun of classic computer gaming is getting the game to run. Sometimes that's more fun than the game, at least for me.
Cleaning up is something a relative small number of people can accomplish.

Not polluting is something everyone in the world has to buy in to.

The first option seems much easier to organize.
This is absolutely false. Fire is NOT plasma. Also, CO2 doesn't start to dissociate until around 4000 F. Which means basically all the electrons are still bound to elements and the chemical bonds and not free as to a plasma.
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Amazon's policies changed in both China and Japan. This cut us off from the product data in those countries.
The world is not ready; the world will silence the messenger.
My partner never hears it: I use a pair of bluetooth earbuds, but I leave one out of my ear on the side I lay on. I fall asleep that way, with a sleep timer on the audiobook player. If I wake up in the middle of the night, I just start it up again.
I'd call myself more amused than obsessed, but yeah, the same stuff fascinates me. Can Alexa act as a shabbos goy? Does that assign personhood to the machine, or are you still doing work by invoking it?
Generally I don't like this as an idea given the likelihood of failure of metals after a certain number of stress cycles (why planes have a lifespan)
post this in https://www.facebook.com/groups/pitchback - its a community of founders exchanging feedback on their startup pitches and ideas
Thanks for this, this thread has been an eye opener for me.
Ask HN: Anyone else been watching YouTube videos of crowds since pandemic?
I have been finding myself watching an unusual amount of concert footage on YouTube lately. In particular 1985 Live Aid footage, and feeling nostalgia for it. Strange thing is I really didn't go to very many concerts in the past.

I'm wondering if it is a "You don't appreciate what You have until it's gone." or if I'm being influenced by a YouTube algorithm.
> In the scenario you describe, how would you be aware of their racism if they didn't discuss it at work?

Well, I suppose if there were no minority employees in that workplace, it would be kind of hard to tell, but otherwise, it often isn't that hard. And if you are in the minority, you almost certainly can tell since, in a thousand tiny subtle ways, you're constantly being told you don't belong.
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Even it’s that’s the case seeing how his sales page pushes it as a “cure” from common colds.

He seems to hold a lower standard of scientific proof than one would hope and put his name and reputation on the line to back it up.
The world's first commercial liquid air battery project has been commissioned to be built in Trafford, Greater Manchester, UK - it's a very residential area: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/greater-manchester-to-hou....

This guy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMLu9Dtw9yI) makes some good points about how cheap and scalable the technology is for medium-scale energy storage. It uses tried and tested, reliable and simple components for example
> That's 100% but you'll also likely be in headlines and go to court because of it. So neither of you are wrong.

Beats going to court and then to prison because you made a convenient scapegoat.
She is definiltely just strange. She loves anything sour, and will eat any lemon anywhere.

She's had to stop recently after being shouted at by her dentist, for stripping away a lot of her enamel with all the citric acit in the lemons.
What is it this exactly adds on top of an authenticating reverse proxy like nginx? Is it the rbac to grant access to specific resources based on their labels instead of per hostname/servicename auth?
I did a massive project using Onshape's APIs. It's a fantastic product -- excellent modeling tool that performs very well, but the kicker is the language that makes up the underlying 3D "document"[0] into a set of instructions program, the "API" of which can be queried/manipulated/rendered/tesselated and fully edited using their REST API. The language, itself, is designed to be serialized to JSON and you can basically create very interactive program-3D-document-like-things. Or you can just mouse around and build objects in a similar manner to Fusion360 (I find Fusion easier to use, though).

We were an early customer of the API and were using it in ways it wasn't designed for so we encountered some problems early on ... the team over there consistently under-promised[1] and way-over-delivered. They were purchased by a competitor, recently (not Autodesk). The company that approached us to build a 3D customization tool on the web specifically required we use Onshape because they were a Solidworks shop and they were loving the web app's compatibility and features.

[0] It's hard to find a good name for what, exactly, it is. Storage-wise, a document in Onshape closely resembles a git repository. Under the hood, much/most/all? appears to be made up of FeatureScript, which is a language expressing transforms/operations on components within one or many documents (I'm not a cad guy/was concerned mostly with the back-end API, not the make-up of the docs, so this is probably partly wrong -- google FeatureScript for more info).

[1] That's not a back-handed compliment -- they were careful to manage expecatations about a major performance issue being resolved in code by a specific date. They often "hinted" at dates, and the dates they hinted at were hit, usually in advance. For the worst of the performance issues, they spent hours with us working out a suitable workaround that eliminated the latency.
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