skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some context would be helpful. I've been working on a production architecture scaling an NLP model across a K8s cluster of high-compute nodes that needs to run 1000s of inference call per request. C++ conversion and using Go (already the majority api) have been considered.
> Jehovah's Witness attitude

I'm not understanding the analogy. If you believe you are being punished for doing something wrong, how is that reveling in persecution?

Also, I'm not a Jehovah's Witness, but according to their website, they don't even believe suffering is a punishment for their sins. [0]

[0] - https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/watchtower-no3-2018-...
Iran says hackers attacked two of its key institutions
Show HN: Open Lowcode v1.13 – now with Pragmatic object to Relational mapping
Literally no one is making the argument that it’s actual unchecked free speech.

The person you replied to was making the case that the problem is the system, which it is.

Anyone over the age of 13 understands that “say anything lmao” doesn’t exist.
What a destructive point of view. There is an enormous difference between activism and journalism.
The economist is great for this.

Views aside, getting a single bolus of well-considered, well-written news once a week is wonderful.

You “miss out” on the “did you hear what X said” water cooler talk, but the gains in understanding and attention are significant
I think this is the related paper: Removing independent noise in systems neuroscience data using DeepInterpolation

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.15.341602v1....
Firefox can be kind of annoying to use on HN, at least if you post often.

I use Firefox for most of my personal browsing other than Fastmail's webmail interface, and most of my general work browsing.

I use Chrome for a lot of testing and development at work and for dealing with PayPal. These things all get separate profiles, and Chrome handles multiple profiles better than Firefox. Yes, I know about Firefox containers, but I need separate bookmarks and history. Containers just deal with cookies and maybe cache.

I've been tempted to switch to Chrome for at least HN and Reddit because I tire of dealing with Firefox's spell checking. It regularly tells me things are spelled wrong that are not (such as "webmail" in this comment). It's not just that it is terrible that irks me--it is that it is inexplicably terrible.

What I mean by inexplicably terrible is that they are using Hunspell. That's the same open source spelling engine that is used by Chrome, and LibreOffice, and MacOS. Those all have great spell checking. I thus infer that Firefox's problem is not an engine problem. It's a dictionary problem. So why don't they they grab the ones LibreOffice uses?

Here are some words that came up in comments of mine either here or on Reddit that Firefox incorrectly told me were spelled wrong. Each one interrupted my writing flow as I had to stop and go look it up elsewhere to make sure that I had it right.

> all-nighter auditable automata blacksmithing bubonic cantina commenter conferenced epicycle ethicist fineable inductor initializer lifecycle micropayments mosquitos pre-programmed preprogrammed prosecutable responder solvability spectrogram splitter subparagraphs subtractive surveil tradable transactional tunable verifiability verifier

There's an issue in the Bugzilla for reporting misspelled words. I've reported all of those there so they should eventually be fixed. I'm not sure how long that takes.

Here's a bunch I indirectly reported earlier, that are now fixed:

> "ad infinitum" anonymized backlit bijection commoditization else's handwrite heliocentrism merchanting natively photosensor plaintext pre-fill preload prepend resizable scoresheet surjection unrequested

(Indirectly because I asked about them on /r/firefox, and someone responded telling me about the Bugzilla issue, which he had already added them to).

Here's my list of ones I have not yet reported:

> ballistically chewable counterintuitive exonerations mistyped phosphine programmability recertification shapeshifting tradeoffs webmail
Call me a pessimist but I think it's gonna end up as usual.

Some European BigCos are gonna grab big bucks and show barely anything for it. Smaller fish are going to massively milk the program for grants that vaguely have something to do with the cloud. All the while the eurocrats are going to gather political points.
Show HN: Made a Chrome/Edge extension to stop phishing and news classification
> People in Texas concerned folks coming from places like CA

This will be interesting. Almost all of the people I know who have fled California (to TX and AZ) are conservatives. I know a number of liberals who have considered it, but haven't done so (yet?). From my (purely anecdotal experience) I don't think it will turn Texas purple, I think it will make Texas more red and California more blue... further dividing two of our largest states.

That would be unfortunate if it's true because I believe each state is better off when it's purple, when the best ideas from both sides are being fought for. For complex problems, we should not try liberal or conservative proposals, but actually implement both... one of them (randomly), with the agreement that it will be measured and then the other will be tried later to measure the same metrics. Or implement them in two different parts of the state simultaneously and then switch them after a few years. In other words, we should be A/B testing our laws to see which one performs better. It would be challenging to do it scientifically, it won't be perfect, but whatever we do learn is probably better than arguing about ideas for years.

Also, I think both sides knowing that their idea is going to be tried and tested would hopefully chill everyone out a little and help bring some fairness to the process.
Some Oculus Quest 2 Owners Are Getting Banned from Using Their Headsets
> But very few countries have indicated they have a plan for how to permanently stop the disease from spreading

What do you even mean by this? Ever since eradication failed, the plan in every country has been mass vaccination.
Germany has some good tech - farm automation equipment, for example. Most dairy farmers in the US use German robotics (SAP).
This is a very interesting comment. I can feel the pain dealing with the horrible documentation from Kubeflow. Thanks for sharing!

Kubeflow generates a YAML that's intended to run on top of Argo Workflows. Each step in a Workflow template ( Workflowo, WorkflowTemplate, CronWorkflow, etc.) requires a container. It's possible to build one single image and instantiate a container passing different arguments.

So, regarding this assertion: "...since the workflow requires building a separate container for each submitted task..."
Could you elaborate on it a bit more? I'm not sure if I'm completely following you...just trying to understand if this is a limitation of Kubeflow or a capability missing in Argo Workflows.

cc: @mlthoughts2018
This, to me, is now the rate limiting step in this architecture; there are probably 1000x as many people who can operate in Excel than people who can operate on a “data stack”. Yes, the fundamental goal of these data stacks is to enable insight and decisions “at scale”.. but beyond that you have probably hundreds or thousands of employees who just need to do quick analyses for one-off decisions that can be handled by Excel. But there’s usually a benefit to those analyses being “operationalized” and integrated into the broader architecture.. having a live connection to the central database, and having results piped back... so many Excel spreadsheets get emailed back and forth, completely out of the stack’s purview.

Will MS modify Excel 365 fast enough to meet this need? Will another spreadsheet program disrupt Excel’s dominance? Will another player come in with the ability to “ingest” arbitrary Excel files? Another major issue is Excel’s massive failure when it comes to handling uncertainty in data. I’ll be curious to see how it all plays out.
Thank you, this is the most compelling case I've seen here for the emails being real.

I don't know that I reach the same conclusions as you though. The lack of denials is disconcerting and does imply some elements of truth in the story.

For the subpoena for Hunter's laptop I could see a lawyer doing that if there was no laptop to force someone either into contempt of court, perjury, or acknowledging the laptop doesn't exist. It could be a tactic to undermine the story rather than supporting evidence is what I'm saying (but on the surface is looking bad).

As for the FBI [0] I think things are a little more complicated than taking a lack of an answer for confirmation.

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fbi-probing-whether-purpor...
The mandate of the European Central Bank is to maintain price stability.

Raoul Pal says "They can give, for example, restaurant owners a direct payments for stimulus whilst at the same time, charging negative interest rates on larger savers".

But I don't see how this fits in the mandate of the ECB. Raoul Pal says "(if they get the powers by the Governments, which will come)". But that's a prediction, nothing more, and he doesn't further support it.
The author talks a big game about safety and security, but fails to mention the ENORMOUS attack surface brought by the fact that the Rust variant uses third party code, written and hosted by <An Ostensibly Nice Person Who Never Gets Hacked>.
Like cigarettes?
> How do we make the masses of people less susceptible to this kind of manipulation? Without using the tools of government.

I don't know how to solve the problem for everybody. I know how I solve it for myself: by using common sense and critical thinking, combined with a lot of background knowledge from a lot of different sources. But I don't know how to magically make everyone do that. And even people who do that won't always agree; many of the questions we would all like answers to do not have simple answers that everyone can agree on. People have different goals and values and they aren't always fully compatible, and we don't have a good understanding of many important problem domains.

What I do know is that the problem is unfixable with the tools of government. So we have no choice but to look for other, non-government ways of fixing it.
I live in the valley, we are completely overwhelmed by people moving from the bay to the valley right now. I don't have numbers on how many people leaving SF are moving within state vs out of state but I would not be surprised if it's a large portion.
Large 2k-year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines
71% of tech professionals say there’s anti-conservative bias in tech
A tiny D2C company hacked its way to $500k/mo in sales
This isn't really a valid Show HN so I've taken that out of the title. It's maybe a borderline case because the website has some interactivity, it's ultimately a list, and those are explicitly ruled out: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Home and work are very "special" cases in that it's someplace most people regularly go to and from. So the app sends you personalized driving alerts/reminders, traffic updates, etc. There are definitely reasons for it, it's just not worth it to some. Others just have no idea that some of these nice goodies are helpful and not eerie and "privacy invading". So what if Google knows where I live and work? Frankly, that's something the government should know anyways, and it's failing abysmally judging by the amount of crime it's missing.
You just dump snot and mucus into your own elbow? What, like, onto the skin or does it just soak into the clothes you're wearing? For someone throwing around the word "disgusting" you're not exactly an exemplar.
I had noticeable distortion on mine. Used chat to talk to Apple tech support and they had me reset them and that made the distortion go away.

I do get a squeal when pushing them into my ear canals which is a known problem with having noise cancellation on.

I find the Airpods Pro stay in my ears much better than the Airpods. And they seem pretty water resistant - the left one survived a bath in the dog's water bowl when I was filling it.
This is basically why I stopped using Twitter. Reading a dozen of my friends expressing basically the same thought at the same time, even though I agreed with it, was just getting tideous. In hindsight it took me way too long to realise how much time I was wasting on it.
Looks like Yes. Please see this other comment and links :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24817723
First of all, good job on launching! Hopefully you inspire many others here to take that all-important step.

Not a native english speaker. So take my advice with a grain of salt. Not sure if you actually meant "eccentric". I initially thought you were addressing a niche segment of folks who wanted eccentric (slightly strange) content on their blogs just to spice things up. For example content like this - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/utility-pole-surfaces would fit the description of content I would describe as "eccentric and delightful" content. If that's not what you meant, you can re-evaluate that main tagline.

Maybe put that line "Get Premium content on a budget" front and center. That's a great line!

Don't worry too much about getting the grammar right. Focus on putting it out in front of many people as possible. (like you have done here on Hacker News) Bracket feedback into 2 segments:
1. Feedback from paying customers.
2. Feedback from others.
Address the feedback from group 1 first.
That's not enough.

Hacking failure reporting into an existence API will make your code confusing, and will leave you no way to report multiple types of errors.
Great write up. Rushing to institute a new org-wide process as a solution to every problem makes productivity eventually grind to a halt. And at that point it can become a vicious cycle of continuous process changes in an attempt to increase quality and productivity.
So true. At my squat rack right now, which is 3 mt from my bedroom.
I agree with this, Central Banks will try to influence the public through military backed/forced digital currencies but considering that I’m not stupid, I’ll just move to another country that accepts Bitcoin and try to accumulate it in legal ways.

Their fiat system is about to crash and the exactly same people that caused the crash is saying that they will solve the problems they created through centralised digital currencies? Oh please, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, you can't get fooled again.
There's a number of quiet warnings in my head that this is too overbroad. Don't get me wrong, I think something like this should happen 100%. But this seems to cast too wide a net.

What about my bank? They have >100M users, and with an app/service portal, they'll be required to be "interoperable". I don't want my bank or my bank info to be interoperable. I also don't want my bank to have an interoperability interface; as an internet plumber, I fully realize the first thing you need to have a blockage is a pipe with something in it.

What about content delivery? Will I be able to play music/movies hosted by my subscription provider through a 3rd party? This calls into question some difficult problems around licensing that may be impossible to satisfy via existing, established contracts; don't paint a content provider into a corner of guaranteed noncompliance.

Where is the definition of "interoperability"?

This will be a field day for an endless bevy of corporate lawyers to say "Oh XYZ isn't a service with users. It's available to users of ABC service, which is fully compliant with the interoperability rules as required by blah blah."

I applaud the effort and think this is a priceless next step in helping define where we should go next, but I'm only hearing possibility and daydreams, not concrete implementation.
Can you have non-muslim friends?
> Bingo. A study I can't find after trying on Google took people with objectively wrong opinions and payed them for accuracy. Magically, people corrected their own opinions when they had a financial incentive to do so.

Interesting. I'd like to read that study, if you ever figure out which one it was.

Meanwhile, I wonder if this was a case of people figuring out what the testers wanted to hear, rather than actually altering the beliefs they held.
I think more should adopt The Economist model. Yes, they definitely have an opinion, and they push it, but they're open about it and are fair to other sides. It's much better than feigning impartiality, or doing a half-hearted "both sides"ing.
Not necessarily, see https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/finance-funding/gettin...

You can apply even as a single person, just need to know your ways through the bureaucracy, how to formulate your application, business plan, etc. Not easy, but doable.

Or use one of the many services which support you in doing that. There seems to be a service industry around that nowadays, which wasn't the case when I did a few years ago, or been to scroogy and stubborn because I can speak and write fucking AMTSDEUTSCH if I have to :)
> At first, Stephanie Morris was nervous about leaving Modesto. She’d lived in the Central Valley her whole life, but her family couldn’t keep paying $850-a-month for her sons to share a living room while she, her husband and the baby slept in their apartment’s only bedroom. The anxiety faded by the time her family pulled out in a U-Haul bound for Salt Lake City...

Modesto? I get the gripes about Bay Area prices, but that rent is 1/3 of a one bedroom in the Bay Area, and I'm not seeing significantly cheaper apartments in SLC.
That depends on what you do to be honest. Web, email, programming, spreedsheets, wordprocessing have been fine for over a decade. Heavy 3D stuff, not my first, second or third choice.
Expert Conflict of Interest on Black Box Warnings for Antidepressants
In the past five or size years the Economist has sadly become quite partisan and unreadable..in their trump derangement they've lost a lot of the even keel view they'd previously had over the prior decades I'd been a reader. Sadly I still read but effectively skip all politics as the new Eric Schmidt led board have certainly co-opted the formerly drier view the editors formerly would have taken in exchange for a more activist view which is far out of character for them. Sad because it was once a must read end to end to years for me. Now it's a skim for 35-45% unique content type of publication.. No one else covers the breadth of intriguing topics like African politics but the anti Brexit UK and anti Trump US political angle ruins most of the other content for the major western economies.
Maybe politicians shouldn't be allowed to lie?
The problem with this sort of liberal belief in the functionality of the current iteration of representative democracy is that pollution, slavery, and all sorts of other problems are not awful for you as an individual if they give you slightly more comfort than the alternatives. If you're not willing to be inconvenienced in any way[$], your material actions are going to be to support polluters and slavers. Polluters and slavers will then be put into the position to determine the government.

Liberal ideology requires a god-blessed sovereign that lives outside of the system and has no motivation other than the common good for his subjects - whether that's a king, a magical computer that makes provably optimal inhuman (i.e. objective) decisions, or an army of biracial, bisexual, ungendered university professors who were in the top 2% of their class in elite colleges. There is no government, and no means of governance, that lives outside of the human struggle for power. Governance is the wielding of power.

You can't just wait for power to be placed in the hands of the just. The just are the ones who are willing to forgo power for the sake of the good. There will never be a magic button that you can push to make everybody stop benefiting from the bad thing at the same time. The kind of government intervention you're asking for is divine.

You have to take a risk, to be weak on purpose. Hobbes said it best in Leviathan: you have to make a "covenant" with the world, a contract that you will follow for the sake of others whether or not others follow it. An oath that obligates you and no one else, with the hope that others will be inspired by your vision for the world and live the oath themselves. The combination of you and those others creates power.

[$] Everybody is willing to be inconvenienced in some way for some value, everyone has some value that when violated will effect their personal comfort more negatively than some marginal degree of convenience will improve it.
Wildlife photographer of the year 2020 winners – in pictures
Nomenclature in Calculus and Analysis
I think they limit the insurance to match what your other car is insured for, though I'd have to check my policy. As the other reply to you implied, insuring yourself for damage to your own car is not mandatory. The mandatory part is insurance for damage to other cars and property (the government here directly provides drivers with bodily injury insurance although policies often provide extra coverage).
No, it used to support XMPP, but that support was eventually removed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266769
MPs vote against banning undercover agents from committing murder, torture
The internet means ‘winner take all’

Alibaba wants to spend $30B just to compete:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/20/alibaba-to-invest-28-billion...

If the EU wants to win, it would have to spend an order of magnitude more, and even then, there is a risk that such a top down endeavor wont work. That’s probably why it was scaled back to 10B, because it would be more amenable.

They should try to move to where the ball is going.

Invest the money in decentralized resource management. Incentivize citizens to install software that contributes computational power to something bigger than itself that is useful for everyone.
Is Android getting safer than iOS?
Seconded. A while ago we had a bit of a windfall in the form of a Lowe’s gift card and so we splurged on a Dyson. It felt extravagant at the time but now we use it daily and it’s been well worth the investment.
> Salaries are irrelevant since it's not possible for an European worker to move to the US

I know plenty who did. You should rather say something like it's hard for the average European worker to move to the US.
What's the point of having social safety nets if you can't exercise them taking risks? Seems like a crying shame.
I’ve been at this for 15 years and my team thinks I’m a CSS magician but I agree, I just remember enough stuff to piece the rest together (which I have to look up as I need it).
It does (inevitably) really depend on the quality of the library. We really saw this for say, SSL deprecation.

If you made good choices (e.g. maybe you depend on Python's Requests) you had to go out of your way to make problems for yourself, by default the software understands that it should prefer shiny modern cryptography, allow anything that's probably fine, and reject nasty broken stuff. What counts as "shiny modern" or "nasty broken" will vary over time, but it's not likely you, as the application developer, were best placed to decide when you wrote the code, so unless you specifically did so the runtime decides.

In contrast Microsoft shipped not one but several distinct C++ APIs and .NET APIs where you'd need to go back and periodically modify old code (e.g. to specify newer TLS versions) or now it doesn't work because there was no provision for programmers to just let the runtime do the Right Thing.
Are you basing prices on P/SF?
As far as I knew we were talking not about Crypto but about the need for financial privacy.
It's a know phenomena. Whenever you read something written by a reporter (eg. someone who is not an expert), in an area that you yourself is an expert in, it will be weird or just plain wrong. Then on the next day you read an interesting article (written by a reporter, eg. non expert) on a subject you yourself have little experience with you happily accept it as the truth.
It's not one coherent market though.