skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe stop buying these products and the companies will change their tune like the wind.

That requires quite a high level of market efficiency to work. It might work if this was enterprise-enterprise trade, but it is unrealistic to assume the end user will compare (or even read) the long lawyerish EULAs and determine which will be more beneficial in the long term.

I do agree that a specific law can feel like "a hack" and less elegant than a free market solution, but I don't really see how to achieve that here.
The issue might be with the credit card processor. Typically the way it works is when you initially charge the bill the card processor with authorize the amount of the meal plus some percentage (Pre-Auth - I forget the amount or it may vary) and then after the bill is signed you do a second transaction (post-auth) to record the final amount being charged and this releases any difference. Depending on the card processor it may not be possible to post-auth more then a certain percentage of tip because it exceeds the amount authorized and/or they are flagging tips beyond a certain percentage as possible data entry errors and declining so that it does not result in a chargeback. So if you want to tip your waiter $1200 for a $20 meal, you ought to plan on doing it with cash.
>This isn't good news, really, not for middle-aged-adults anyway.

Or for anybody who knows middle aged and older people, especially if you spend time with them. I am honestly more concerned about killing my parents than dying myself of covid-19. This is why I skipped my mom's birthday for example, because I had pretty mild cold-like symptoms... or maybe mild covid-19.
There's plenty of evidence of long-term damage even in young and barely symptomatic cases - it's not a binary "dead/not dead" outcome.

What if the virus causes substantial disease burden years to decades down the road? We can't know, and should take every precaution to prevent its spread.
I've done something similar but as a python flask app that uses a web browser as a reading/writing platform, that keeps it's (unencrypted) stash in a local directory (it's a 'localhost only' webservice).

It's functional but crude so nothing on github just yet ;)
Were I inclined to implicate anybody, it would be the advertisers and marketeers, who will always be ahead of the rest of us in terms of understanding how to command attention.

That, and eroom's law applied to increasing bandwidth.

I was one of the average people. I started surfing the web on the day that AOL made it possible for customers to do so, rather than keeping us in their walled garden. Yes, I picked up a CD with the new version at the supermarket.

I remember reading about, and almost grasping, the article about hypertext in Byte Magazine. The idea as presented was that the tags controlled the formatting of a page to some extent, but also allowed people to have customized readers, e.g., for the blind. And if someone composed their HTML well, you could usually read it in raw format with minimal difficulty.

My personal web page is still written in plain HTML on a text editor, and would stand a pretty good chance of being readable on a 1990s machine.

What the Web evolved into was more like (to my mind) a general purpose GUI framework, and with it came the explosion of GUI bloat and constant revision, that we also experience on the desktop today.

Since I was dialing in with a slow modem, I learned the setting in Netscape to disable displaying images unless I clicked on them. Most websites remained functional that way for a few years, at least until broadband arrived in most cities.
This is pretty cool! It definitely seems like it could be used in the education space for students that outgrow Scratch and are interested in games.
I understand it may not be recommended in complex situations, such as you described, but I think @steve_g's idea may be interesting for some scenarios.

I work in automatic train traffic planning, mainly for heavy-haul railways [1]. Recently, we've been working on a regression model to predict train sectional running times based on historical data.

As our tool is used during real time operation, we can't risk the model outputting an infeasible value. So we're thinking about defining possible speed intervals, e.g. (0km/h, 80km/h] for ore trains, and falling back to a default value if the predicted running time causes the speed to fall out of this range.

[1] https://railmp.com/en/our-solution/
Wait, are you saying when I use "tip my dasher", that does not go to my delivery person?

I'd like to get this picture straight because I will never tip again if they are being stiffed...
> Start spamming child porn and other problematic posts until the moderators just decide they're spending too much time moderating that repo and need to shut it down, even if the developer has done nothing wrong.

How is that different from right now? Changing the default visibility of posted content from public to private doesn't change the ability of anyone to spam anything. You either have to clear out your moderation queue OR clear out your publicly visible forum after the fact. And isn't that better? By forcing moderation you are preventing that horrific content from being visible while you were asleep overnight. Right now the forum owner can just shrug it off "oops, I was asleep, not my problem". Without Section 230 that might not be permissible.

> you are willfully ignoring second and third order effects to continue this thought experiment where people are routinely showing that these secondary and* tertiary effects will be crippling to more than just social media companies.

In what ways has anyone show any secondary or tertiary effect that would be crippling? I would avoid allowing public comments on my blog? I would avoid creating a public discussion forum? I fail to see this as crippling.

I think people are vastly overestimating the impact of re-publishing the content of others on their personal lives. Yes, it could cripple some potential businesses. But my point is: should those businesses exist? Let's really think about exactly what we are giving up, not this fear mongering "destroys the Internet". Let's be specific. What would we lose that cannot be replaced?
Hey there, I’m sorry to hear that, but I’d love to help. There’s a help button on the page that’ll reach me directly.

Or we could just troubleshoot here - What seems to be the issue?
Hoh, "teleophobia", what a word for the aversion to ascribing will and purpose to living things.

> You think we shouldn’t anthropomorphise people?

The mechanistic/behaviorist way of looking at the world is fundamental to science as a discipline, and I suspect this originated from the crisis of religion - the split between matter and spirit, in terms of concepts. Consciousness and cognition have an uncomfortable resemblance to what we used to call "spirit".

It reminds me of the "uncanny valley", how some machines are starting to behave awfully close to living creatures; and machine learning ("artificial intelligence") producing results that seem as if there's an awareness, a mind of its own.

We know that they are just mechanisms, all matter and no spirit, but our guts sense a kinship - we have an emotional reaction to life or things that act like they're alive, like they're thinking. We look at an ant, moving around in the world, sensing and feeling, looking back at us with its eyes - and most of us would "anthropomorphise" it, to relate to it as "one of us". Our subjective experience tells us that we're not just objects, but something more, special, magical even.

But, having rid of magic, science must understand and explain convincingly the mystery of life and mind, the very strange material existence of ourselves.

Looking at how slime moulds crawl through mazes to find food, I get an uncanny feeling that it's alive and has a primitive mind. Or those sped-up films of plants reaching out their vines and tendrils, holding onto things and climbing toward the light - it has something in common with us at a fundamental level.

Science offers explanations for these phenomena, yes - but it seems there are still missing pieces, concepts, models, to tell the full story. Self-organization of matter, swarm behaviors, distributed intelligence, information and computation..
Depends on the species. Mine doesn’t talk, he instead learned to whistle. His species (sun conure) doesn’t normally whistle, he picked it up from me. It’s more pleasant than the 80db screams so we encourage it.

He used to say his name sort of (if you added some human pattern recognition magic) but stopped after we moved apartments. No idea why.

The worst is when he mimics human speech patterns. You can tell it isn’t words but it’s close enough to distract you every time.

Main thing with parrots is that they’re more work than people think. Like human children they get bored, have tantrums, internal emotional states, and respond to the same stimuli differently based on mood. And unlike children they cannot be reasoned with. Some are smart enough to lie and obscure because they have theory of mind.

And they stay like that for 30 years. Some species even longer.
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Ah you're right, I stand corrected on the license.

I don't see the value calculation as an emotional one, I truly don't see a reason not to fill out the expense report
The value of staying competitive is also to be employable even after you have turned 50.
> I missed out on witnessing Uber's hyper-growth phase.

That is so alien to my personal values that I have a hard time following the post.

> [...] fueled what current and former Uber employees describe as a Hobbesian environment at the company, in which workers are sometimes pitted against one another and where a blind eye is turned to infractions from top performers.

> One Uber manager groped female co-workers’ breasts at a company retreat in Las Vegas. A director shouted a homophobic slur at a subordinate during a heated confrontation in a meeting. Another manager threatened to beat an underperforming employee’s head in with a baseball bat.

That the article describes this situation as a "missed out opportunity" just means that the writer personal goals are antagonistic to mine. And, to ask people to pursue such a situation seems quite bad advice from a mental health perspective.
It is funny that you ask this, as I've just began [this][1] learning path on AWS. Having the knowledge is only half the story though. I'm not good at sales / finding business partners. I'm good at solving their problems.

[1]:https://aws.amazon.com/partners/training/path-tech-pro/
Other than the resolution being higher, I don't think there's anything new here versus the eye-tracking displays on Nintendo's later 3DS models.

That said, it's cool tech, I'm glad to see it actually getting used. I'm one of the few who loves 3D stuff (including the 3DS).
> > reaching 0.4% at age 55
> This isn't good news, really, not for middle-aged-adults anyway.

Overall mortality at age 55 is about 0.5%: https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age...

In general, COVID-19's IFR by age is pretty close to overall mortality. So even in unrestricted spread, limited by only herd immunity, at worst direct deaths from it would less than double your chances of dying in a year.
Thanks! The test drive should show what kind of example data to expect without getting too deep. Are you looking for the JSON output specifically?
Knowledge Graphs Emb. With PyTorch
I find it difficult to find reliable numbers (since I work in a different industry), but it seems median entry salary for IT graduate is 40k€, which is 25k€ nett anually. I also find the middle-upper class difficult for germany (since salary upper class doesnt mean you are asset upperclass aka rich).

Personally I would say 25k€ nett is middle class; but here everybody wants to belong to the middle class so it usually has a wide stretch.

Big companies are unionized so salarys do not get that big, but are considered higher then in non-unionized companies.

How is the situation in the US?
Knowledges graphs are structured resources in the form of graphs that contain knowledge. These resources are used in a large number of applications linked to the machine learning.

I just published a library dedicated to knowledges graphs embeddings. The Mkb API is inspired by Scikit Learn. I provide modular tools for building latent graph representations.
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I never worked with 10base5 but found this fascinating. I heard stories of "vampire taps" from people in college back in the 90's.

My first home network was 10base2, originally between a 486 and a 386, where we played Doom. was surprised to find out about the grounding requirement for one of the terminators. I never did that. I guess it was a small enough network so it didn't matter.
This is bad advice. The $300k doesn’t look so bad when compared to the compounded gains those extra payments would get if they were invested instead.
About your edit: If you mostly sail, you cut the energy requirements from the engines by 90%, according to the article. Suddenly alternative power sources, like the car batteries, become literally 10 times more feasible :). Add to the batteries any internal batteries the ship might carry and solar on the wings, and you can reduce the need for other fuels further, even if you are not able to replace them alltogether.
Well, there's something to be said about staying competitive if you're in a job you're concerned about losing. Having the ability to get laid off and pick up another job within a few weeks does bring with it a certain amount of safety that complacency might not bring.
Well, that depends. This article assumes you want to always chase that next thing, next incremental step up, next status boost There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but there's also nothing wrong with sticking with a job you like. Outside of SV that's both common and desirable in a candidate. I don't want to see a candidate who jumps around every 2-3 years. I want someone who will stick around a little longer to really learn the organization and be able to initiate and execute on projects that require a deeper understanding of how we work.

The people I see that hop around a lot seem to come in with what they think are big ideas, but often are simply the newest fad and don't fit our needs.

With respect to "just being a cog in the machine", if you're hopping around a lot then you really don't have time to work through the life cycle of really big projects. You come in at some stage, put in your time, and move on without making much of a mark before you leave. In that situation, you were just a plug-in component.

Obviously this dynamic is different if you're looking to work for startups. But even there, if your goal is to get equity and cash it in, you often have to be willing to stick it out a little longer. How many engineers left Google or Facebook too soon and left a lot of money on the table as a result?

What it all fundamentally comes down to though is understanding yourself. You need to dissect you motives, you impulses, to really understand what will make you happy. Once you do that, it would be foolish to chase change if the sacrifice is your happiness. I've seen people like that too, who are never content, always unhappy, and always think another change will be the solution. But it's not, because the problem isn't the job, it's the person.
No one's forcing you to use any of these things. You can use a single tool like https://parceljs.org/ to get a very complete stack and be off to the races writing good old HTML and CSS by hand while having the ability to pull in new stuff whenever you want. Or you can just not, static HTML/CSS/JS bundles still exist even if they're not so manageable.

And you can't encode absolutely everything in HTML. You lose the ability to do stuff like CSS animations, some kinds of responsive design, and otherwise use more interesting selectors that allow you to really make the most of your web browser's renderer.

And you can't encode more than the simplest of simple interactivity with it, for which a pinch of vanilla JS can be the cure (not the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink list you provided above).

I find it hard to read comments like these as written in good faith. At best this one reads as well-intentioned but missing some crucial part of the understanding somewhere, and at worst the long list of unnecessary and unrelated technologies are intended to make the comment merely appear as if there is some actual deeper understanding.
This has the entire list of ‘N’s in U.S. history:

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/nominations/SupremeCourtN...
https://outline.com/UGtEcz
For example? I haven't seen a single paper showing such long-term consequences in healthy people are significantly more likely than from other viral infections. We'd especially expect to be seeing a large number of such cases in Sweden, should it be common, given they had no lockdown and a large number of infections.
Doesn't the 3070 cost much more than a basic PC and the accelerator? Isn't this targets at those wanting to get their feet wet without vast outlay?
Antibody tests do miss many cases, especially those with mild or no symptoms. Some patients are able to fight off the infection before antibodies are produced, or antibody production fades away quickly.

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3364
Show HN: Read the frontpage of today's New York Times
What about those clouds of swarm drones? The future is scary.

American
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW77hVqux10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsKbGc9TUHc

Chinese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QamGaDNczJw
Yeah in fact they banned me from using them after I attempted to order something to Asia. (Preciously has purchased things delivered in USA).

Dunno why they were so harsh. Perhaps terrified of accidental sanctions regulation issues. (Even though I have nothing to do with North Korea, Iran, etc)
One thing we do in the Firefox codebase is build using a clang plugin that we wrote to statically enforce additional rules.

It’s not a perfect solution , and obviously not built in, but it is a big help for avoiding footguns.
Nowhere outside of places New Zealand and Taiwan has had long-term, unconditional lockdowns, and nowhere in the US has reached anywhere near this level of restrictions. I live in a state that ostensibly had “extreme” lockdowns and whole cities and communities decided themselves exempt from the orders with zero consequences.

It’s also impossible to stratify people on the basis of health in the US because not everyone is cognizant of their health status or risk factors, certainly the government has no insight into these beyond the crudest levels. Age also doesn’t really work because the lack of social safety nets mean older workers have to remain employed or rely on younger cohorts in order to survive.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll have a look at his work, for sure.

Also I'd be curious to see that talk you mention, do you remember anything about it that could help in searching for it?
The sad reality is that broad, indiscriminate lockdowns are the only real tool available to some "world powers". We know we can manage the covid pandemic with ubiquitous testing and targeted temporary lockdowns. But there is no testing capacity.

Which means ... it's not really possible to rethink the lockdown strategies. Given a choice between a thing that directly kills people, and something that more people die from in indirect ways, people are always going to default to preventing the direct deaths.
One thing to always keep in mind is that your job can disappear very quickly.

If, or when, that happens those who've spent years in the comfort of that nice work-life balance and often, frankly, mediocrity (you don't improve yourself by staying in the comfort of such a job) are in for a shock.
Very true. As I grow older I realize that one should take the authors age in consideration when reading articles like this should be read.
People can be unhappy about more than one thing.

My point is that the "value experience over comp and comfort" perspective was drilled into me when I was starting out, and it definitely contributed to what I now think was a mistake.
Yes, this is much more important. I love my job, but I'm not defined by it. I long ago realized and decided that I had no interest in chasing the next step up if it meant never having a stable personal life.
I would argue the examples in that article are poor mission statements. They are really just PR fluff.

A real mission statement is suppose to provide a lens through which tough decisions can be viewed, similar to the military idea of “commanders intent”. Vague, overly generalized mission statements like those in the article don’t really provide that sort of framework.

The most general I‘ve come across while still having some sort of decision meaning was “create more value than you capture”. So if you are proposing some rent-seeking idea, you should know it’s a bad idea.
If you like this, darktable has a delightful slider worth exploring.
Not sure if I agree with this. I grew up in The Netherlands and as a software developer I would change companies every 1.5-3 years. From my experience (in The Netherlands) many jobs will give you just a very small raise every year and the only way to make big financial gains is to job hop every now and then. Or go freelancing at which point you set your own rates.
This quote from Bjarne Stroustroup is very relevant:

> There are two kinds of programming languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

JIRA is the C++ of project management software. It works. It has worked forever. It is easy to shoot yourself in the foot but a savvy operator can't be beat. It's unwieldy at first but gives you all the power to build a really sophisticated and efficient process.
This is a very important point. We don't know enough about long term effects yet.

In the same vein, we do not even know if herd immunity really is a thing here, and what thing it would be. E.g. the guy from Hong Kong who got reinfected (first time severe symptoms, second time no symptoms) was probably infectious the second time again. Herd immunity only works if the people who are immune are not infections and therefore cannot (re-(infect each other and more importantly the vulnerable population.
I am very much for nuclear power. Especially the new generation of generators (with that said as someone pointed out there is problems with mining the fuel). But even with that said, that doesn't mean I would automatically be for putting it on a ship. One of the first thing I would say about nuclear power plants is to out them in places with a stable environment (maybe not places with earthquakes or huge storms) and putting it on a moving ship is kinda spitting in the face of that. I mean I might be wrong, havent looked very deep into marine nuclear but it feels scary when thinking of how often ship disasters happen. I think convincing people of nuclear on land is a large enough endeavor.
I can't rock the boat because I have a family, a mortgage payment, and I can't afford to risk losing health insurance.
Got your point. thanks for taking checking sites and sharing detailed feedback.

Once MVP get ready, will update landing page.

:)
> That way we'd make 10% of English speaker's lives much better...

Which 10% is that?
Hi, I'm the author. I was inspired by a post here on HN a few months ago about someone who put today's paper on a giant e-ink display. This link is just a helper redirect to the New York Times' website. For anyone interested, it's just AWS CloudFront for HTTPS directing to a lambda function to parse the current date and return a redirect.

I've been using this as my primary non-tech news source for a while, and I really appreciate the lack of adds and pop-ups, and the inability to follow links to anything. It restricts my news-reading to just the front page and that's felt pretty healthy. Sort of like the opposite of this recent XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2371/
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