skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Russia and China are nationalist societies with majority-centric viewpoints. There is propaganda, but it is minimally presented as a foregone conclusion. Citizens engage intellectually with other topics. The US is a pluralist society engaged in constant propaganda warfare. There are no boundaries to this, and it becomes the central theme of absolutely everything, with a special focus on intellectual institutions like universities as primary battleground. Russia and China have already passed through their very costly indoctrination phases, and will no longer allow it. The US may be at the peak of it now.

As a side note, I see a constant theme of American exceptionalism, mostly negative recently, and this seems to me to be a primary feature of the propaganda war. It is foolish to read history or news, and believe that you yourself would have acted differently than any other population-level actor in the same state of information and influence. And if you are absolutely certain otherwise, you can be just as certain that your information is incomplete or just wrong. This should not be surprising when you consider that there is nothing that is sacred from propaganda. Nothing. All lies have value to somebody, most likely not you. If nobody is benefiting from the belief, that may be an indicator of truth, and if somebody is already benefiting from a lie, they will probably censor the truth.

If you want to live in a free pluralistic democratic society without a propaganda infestation, you have to remove the moral hazards of mass influence. Reparations, for instance, and more broadly, torts that give value to speculative or non-financial harm, or punitive damages, especially when the defendant is the state itself, and the award is paid for by the people, by force, with guns. There are less-obvious versions of profiteering from information warfare that involve influence of politicians, perhaps a permissive or anti-competitive regulation, perhaps a direct payout to an industry, or through a population that will spend it predictably, seniors on healthcare, the poor on monopolist retail.

Certainly, yes, the first amendment is an enabler for all kinds of speech including propaganda, but the features of our system that give it value should also be considered, notably perhaps the lack of such such an originalist interpretation of the 10th amendment.
The subject has been debated to death. Google it.
Graham's opponent already does have money out his ears. He currently has nearly $8 million cash on hand. In total, he has raised over $85 million. The vast majority of that is probably from out of state. I know at least $32 million is from out of state. Graham raised only $11 million during his previous election.
Yeah, but what everybody is pointing out is that your poor are faring worse than poor people in other developed country. And the paradox of that thing is that's happening despite you being:

> rich and comfortable

That's what baffles everyone. The American social contract seems to be "if 80% of the population can be 20-30% richer than the rest of the world, let's throw the 20% at the bottom under the rhetorical bus".

And I should point out that these days those 20% at the bottom are about 70 million (!) people. Plus I imagine that the poverty rate will only go up, not down, considering how US politics are looking.
One effect it doesn't capture: A language that's twice as efficient will go (roughly) twice as fast and use half the electricity. But if you have a fixed amount of time to compute the answer (such as 1 screen refresh interval,) you can run the CPU slower so the efficient language finishes at the same time. CPUs get more energy efficient at lower speeds. For a given process, energy/op is roughly linear with clock speed.

So if you have a fixed deadline, a 2x efficient language can save you 4x the power.
Living concrete might help in environments harsher than even the driest deserts: other planets, like Mars.

“There’s no way we’re going to carry building materials to space,” Dr. Srubar said. “We’ll bring biology with us.”

The other day me and my friend were riffing on ideas regarding a game about a space courier.

One issue was: given how expensive interstellar travel should be, what could possibly be so valuable as to justify the operation?

Biology. It's possible that flinging hundreds of thousands vials (so as to have a good chance of catching at least one) with certain bacteria at relativistic speeds would be less expensive than coming up with a process of synthesizing the same features in a local species.
Warburg Effect (Oncology)
Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergent programming language?
Even if nobody has even tried yet, can we guess what a language generator's neural AI's training data might look like, or whether it would use symbolic logic instead, or even both?
> In the case of US vs Canada

remember that in the US, we're still barely in the beginning of this thing. trying to claim correctness of action is largely meaningless as we neither have herd immunity nor have felt the economic impacts of our policies. 9/10 NYC business can't pay full rent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24574314

personally, it seems the economic dangers are far larger than the health effects at this point. with that lens, id prefer a republican next term, even if its trump. well, id prefer a libertarian (and the first female president at that!) but thats a nonstarter for some reason.
I'd say the more user-friendly Linux distros like Mint actually beat Windows installation experience; Windows has lagged behind recently, and there's little incentive to improve it since it's pre-installed anyway.
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If you can make sure the data has no newlines or tabs, the TSV needs no quoting. It is just "split" function, which is present in every language and very easy to use. When I use it, I usually add a check to writer that there is no newlines or tabs in data, and assert if this is not the case.

You use this tsv with Unix tools like "cut", "paste", and ad-hoc scripts.

There is also "tsv" as defined by excel, which has quoting and stuff. It is basically a dialect of CSV (Python even uses the same module to read it), and has all the disadvantages of CSV. Avoid it.
Facebook has received at least over $14 million from both campaigns:

https://www.opensecrets.org/races/online-ad-spending?cycle=2...
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I'm not sure how Hitler winning 1932 German elections improved human rights in Germany and overall Europe. Instead it turned into dictatorship, tyranny and mass murder. And you can not say that Germany at the time was not rational and not educated populace. It was a Physics mecca of the world with people like Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger and Albert Einstein.

My point is education does not equal to rationality, and democracy is not good but it is the best system we had so far.
> Due to high consumer taxes on electricity. Look at France. They did not pay for their nuclear power through consumer taxes but through general taxes hence the price looks low. Somebody else paid in other words. French taxes are higher than German taxes.

No. Where did you even read that? EDF gave France government 20 Billions in dividends over 10 years, not the opposite. While selling electricity on average 42 euros/MWh. No subsidies, and EDF pay for the whole French network AND the international cables (those going to UK are a net loss). And like USPS have to put money aside to take care of their employees retirement, EDF had to put money aside to take care of retired nuclear plant and waste storage over 300 years.

Also EDF had to absorb the cost of linking solar "farms" to their network themselves (in their report in 2012 they estimated this cost to be close to 1 billion by 2017). On this point this is likely that it did not cost that much, because they managed to be able to refuse individuals trying to connect to their grid.

The EPR was a mistake and made EDF valuation down by 80%, but despite that and no financial help from the French government (except with sales contracts), the dividends are still comming through.

EDF is run by engineers (or at least was) and it shows.
For Naval, the mindset came well before the money did.

He's not a person who has had it easy in the startup world; he's had to fight like a maniac to get ahead, including taking legal action against the biggest VCs to get what he felt he was owed, and winning. He then started AngelList to challenege/attack VCs, not live off easy money from them.
As someone who owns a samsung phone and lives in Hong Kong this is infuriating. I'm glad that at least the first issue is fixed in a more recent firmware but that destroys my trust in Samsung.
Helping people feel better can be good for productivity.
Sounds like you need 1,000 nodes to do 1Bpps without edge computing. With some compression at the edge, it'd be closer to 150-250. The limits of a conventionally architected network make it more annoying than it needs to be.
Out of curiosity, what are the possible use cases for object detection at >100 fps? I assume it would have to be objects that move very fast, i.e. nothing ordinary that I can think of.

[edit] actually stupid question. I assume it's more about throughput than fps, i.e. be able to process lots of streams on the same machine, for instance for doing mass analysis of CCTV streams.
Depends on the offering, but often a channel strategy can help plug your product into a larger audience without having to build it from scratch.
How do you make sure that affiliates don't send you just bot traffic?
Ask HN: Which Time Management method do you use?
There are methods to improve efficiency like Pomodoro Technique. Which method do you use to manage the time ?
But isn't H1N1 still present, even though it's limited to few spot like poultry farms? And it's nowhere near as contagious as this Coronavirus?

>Conversely, herd immunity isn't a magic barrier: infections can go beyond herd immunity thresholds in situations where the rate at which infections are happening is high.

But this is kind of my point, without human intervention the virus is arguably still around even though not in at the pandemic level.

Basically we had "luck" that these virus haven't followed a mutation path that spins them into a pandemic, but they are still around and they infect people. That's why live stock farms are starting to be questioned as a potential factory for pandemics.
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Interesting to note that this site is blocked from people living in Taiwan.
The history of scientific progress shows that building new abstractions for complex ideas are key to generating enough insight to tackle more complex problems.

Just as today we throw around Fourier representations as old hat (key technology in digital compression algorithms), I’m excited to see where complex temporal/spatial polarization representations abstracted to ‘knots’ leads us.
In one of my first jobs I deleted the last 30 days of our production data.

Shit happens. You learn and try to never repeat it. And share with others so hopefully they learn.

Ps. Don't do knee-jerk late at night quick patches. For example don't stop a database that has run out of disk space, try to migrate the data in memory first... And also do proper backup monitoring, and restores. Having 30 days of 0 byte backups is not that helpful. :)
Also that Germany is front loading investment in green technology and building that into electricity prices while France already built its nuclear power plants decades ago.

It's obviously cheaper to use existing infrastructure than to build new infrastructure.

One day Germany will be able to coast on the green infrastructure it is building today.

Nonetheless, if you take two countries with only coal and one only builds nuclear while the other builds solar and wind I would expect the latter to have far lower electricity prices based on LCOE and variability costs. Even without externalities nuclear is incredibly fucking expensive.
> Nail scissors have a better cutting action but nail clippers are much easier to use, especially with your less-dominant hand.

The main problem is not hand dominance of the user, it's chirality of the scissors themself. When you cut with scissors in the correct hand with a conventional grip, you force blades closer together which helps with a cut, but put the same scissors in the other hand and your fingers will now drag the blades apart.

Hence there are three solutions: you can have a pair of scissors with opposite chirality, you can try to grip wrong chirality scissors such way that you don't drag their blades apart, or you can have high quality scissors with pivot pin tight and strong enough that you will not experience that effect.

The scissors in swiss army knifes/cards for example are both high quality and allow for alternative grips.
Yeah, it's useful to have a special-purpose 'software breakpoint' instruction. Arm actually didn't have one until v5 of the architecture, so some older systems or those wanting to maintain compatibility will still use an arbitrary undefined-instruction pattern. The advantage of an architecturally defined instruction rather than picking something invalid at random is (a) software can rely on future CPUs not deciding to use it for some actual feature (b) software can easily distinguish it from a random attempt to execute an illegal instruction and (c) it acts as a "strong convention" that pushes all software (OSes, debuggers, etc) towards using the same mechanism for setting a software breakpoint, which improves interoperability. In the Unix world the distinction is usually surfaced to the debugger as SIGTRAP vs SIGILL.
Text files in Markdown. Folder structure for "notebooks" and nested notebooks/sections. Syncthing for sync with my Android phone.

Vim with vim-markdown-preview on Desktop, and Markor on Android. Works fine for me.
Open your own college: Recruiting the first 10 college founders
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
Well influenza is still around, H1N1 is still around, and we have vaccinations for it, so I think it never "ended".
Diversification into Alternatives Has Failed
GitHub – RCE via Git option injection (almost) – $20k Bounty
Very practical question :)
Exactly as you say, multi-stream throughput. Also for faster than realtime offline processing of video.
Check the caveats section at the end of the post - DeepStream is probably not well suited to high throughput single-stream inference.
" This is pretty much what I wanted to write. How come productivity is measured in dollars when exchanging goods/services, but constant units when this Baumol thing comes up?"

From an economist perspective there is no difference between the two. Money is just a convenient metric to be able to compare the value of multiple goods.

You don't think of you salary as the power to buy X burgers or Y beers but really it is what it is. It is just easier to say I earn XXXX$.
That would explain a lot. The speed rankings seemed kinda off to me as well. I found it surprising that both Swift and Go are listed as ~2 times slower than Java, and C++ 1.5 times as slow as C.
It's a rather weird way of saying that, but I suppose that must be what they meant.
Author of the project here. I didn't expect this to be posted on HN because the project is kind of still in its infancy.

The motivation behind the Browser was that I usually "use the Web" as a knowledge resource and am reading articles online, on blogs, on news websites, on social media and so on. But there are a couple of problems when seeing "what a Browser is" currently. A Browser currently is made for manual human interaction, and not for self-automation of repetitive tasks. These are currently only available at the mercy of programming or extensions, which I do not think is the reasonable way to go.

Why block everything except 2 things on a website when you could just grab the information you expect a website to contain?

I'm calling it a Semantic Web Browser because I want to build a p2p network that understands the knowledge the websites contain with its site adapters (beacons) and workflows (echoes), whereas the underlying concept tries to decentralize as much automation aspects as possible.

In the past a lot of websites were taken down (some for BS reasons, some not), but what's more important to me is the knowledge that is lost forever. Even if the knowledge is web-archived, the discovery (and sharing) aspects are gone, too.

My goal with the project is to be a network that tries to find truth and knowledge in the semantic content of the web, whereas I'm trying to build something that understands bias in articles, the authors of said articles, and history of articles that were (re-)posted on social media with biased perspectives.

I know that NLP currently isn't that far, but I think with swarm intelligence ideas (taken from Honeybee Democracy and similar research on bees) and the compositional game theory, it might be possible to have a self-defending system against financial actors.

Currently the Browser doesn't have a fully functioning UI/UX yet, and the parsers are being refactored. So it's still a prototype.

It is a decentralized Browser in the sense that if you've trusted peers in your local (or global) network, you can reuse their caches and share automation aspects with them (your friend's or your family's browser(s)), which allows fully decentralized (static) ways to archive websites and their links to other websites.

I'm not sure where the journey is heading to be honest, but I think the Tholian race and the naming makes it clear: "Be correct; we do not tolerate deceit." pretty much sums up why I built this thing.

Currently I don't have funding, and I'm trying to build up a startup around the idea of this "Web Intelligence Network" whereas I see a potential business model for large scale actors that want to do web scraping and/or gathering via the "extraction adapters" of websites that are maintained by the network.

I think this project turned out to be very important to me, especially when taking a glimpse at the post-COVID social media that contains so much bullshit that you could easily lose hope for humanity.
A very similar thing happened to living social during their brightest years, but the replication and the backups had failed too.
The oldest valid backup was about a week old.
It took the whole company offline for 2 days. It took a team of 10 people and some extra consultants to come up with a half backed version of the latest database based on elastic cache instances, redis caches and other "not meant to be a backup" services.
It was insane walking in an office that had hundreds of employees and see they all gone while we rebuild this cobbled together db.

At one point someone called it "good enough" and they basically had to honor the customer word if they had purchased something and it wasn't there.

It was a mess.

It was on all major news, and it was really bad press. In the end, they actually had a massive bump in their sales afterwards.
Everyone went to checkout their own purchases and ended up buying something else, and the news was like free ads.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/the-...
Does the use of Private DNS (dns over tls) feature override this behaviour for you? You can try a throwaway account on nextdns.io and if private dns works you can see your dns traffic in their analytics tab
I had to read the article just to parse the title. Each noun in the sentence has at least two different interpretations, and the choice of verbs is poor imo (but maybe [title] English has evolved over 25 years). If you don't know that this is about tennis and that there is a Cyclops product in that market, you'll probably be lost.

Translation for those who don't want to read an entire article just to reconstruct the meaning of the title:

Context: Tennis

Cyclops ("the 'magic eye' service-line machine) is no longer the only machine helping with tennis rulings. A new machine can now determine if the tennis ball touches the net during the serve.

This does not replace the umpire (who now operates this machine via a button), but only another person (the net cord judge) who would have to sit close to the net, in danger of being hit by 100+ mph shots.
EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US
Assuming yes, are protests against democracy democratic?

See also Paradox of Tolerance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Why did they not have archive log mode on in production? Losing a db is one thing, but should have only been one hour of data lost.
I was referring specifically to the Germanwings incident.

That pilot shouldn't have been in the cockpit to begin with - his eyesight was failing, he had mental problems (has been medically treated for suicidal tendencies), etc. This was not discovered nor identified, due to deficiencies in the system (doctors didn't have the duty to report this, he withheld the information from his employer, etc.)

The issue with the door was only the last element of the chain.

There were changes as the result of this incident - the cabin crew member has to be in the cockpit whenever one of the pilots steps out, there were changes to how the doors operate, etc.
Which explains why they won't be fixing anything, the millions of bots pretending to be the American people are making them bank.
It does happen; I've met a few older Swedes that used actual butter, but nowadays most people seem to be eating Lätta or Bregott. The situation's the same here in Finland -- butter on bread is mostly an old people thing and most people just buy the local equivalent of Bregott.
But why can you not afford to live on $4/hr? Or, why is everything so much more expensive than it used to be? These questions may have answers or they may have broken assumptions, but you did not even attempt to address the point at issue.
Reeder 5 Is Out
I agree. In football / other team sports, it is common to support teams who have never been in the top 10 ever, or at least for over 50 years. No-one seems to question that.
«The owner of this website (blog.headuck.com) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (CN) from accessing this website» ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Self-driving. Ideally you want something around 1000fps and low latency, so it has time to react.

I'm sure military and sports applications are obvious too.
Love these. I've been taking photos of doors, windows and lit windows at night, surrounded by darkness, as well as utility posts bathed in street light, for years. Sometimes we find what we consider to be almost overwhelmingly lovely art in the very spaces or objects that most people ignore day to day. The trick is getting others to appreciate the odd beauty inherent in these same forgotten things.
Problem is that DB schemas are unlikely to be exposed as a real API by any app. It may feel like an API but actually writing software that pokes DB tables directly would just create the kind of support and upgrade headaches that presumably are driving Atlassian to this decision.

The other advantage of the JB approach is it's one click install and upgrade. No schema migrations, complicated issues with DBA hoarding permissions etc.