skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this format in general, since it communicates the command is severe/irreversible. Heroku implements a similar confirmation when performing destructive actions. Commands require your to pass a `--confirm ${APP NAME}` flag, so the original command itself does nothing. Of course, this doesn't prevent you including those flags in makefiles, etc. I once dropped a table in a side project by accident because I took the wrong tab autocomplete suggestion in a makefile.
It's kind of funny, since various operations performed in the AWS web console use this model (e.g. type the name of the resource you're trying to delete). As an organization, they're aware of this approach and think it's useful, but (presumably) didn't use it in their own internal tooling.
I did this with "--im-not-scared" for production mode :D
Fossil is great, highly recommended.
I hope that the ytdl gets reinstated and thanks to RIAA action it gets much more popular. I know a number of artists personally and they hate RIAA and the labels that are essentially a cancer on the artists back.
> Major distributions for example will no longer carry the project

You had to install the Github version anyway if you wanted to have a recent version that would work with YT.
Probably a few people working to be the first to reply for each account
The Economist recently had some great analysis on Ant Group's evolution and how it does internal credit scoring
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/10/10/what-ant-group...
No, it's not; this misses the point.

A tarball of _ancient_ DeCSS code has some value because you can use it to "decss" _all_ content made _before_ a certain date (e.g. most physical DVDs). So it makes sense to preserve the tarball in any method possible.

A tarball of an _ancient_ youtube-dl version is absolutely useless because the youtube HTML will have changed a million times in the meanwhile. You will not be able to use it for anything, neither for old nor for new content. Publishing/preserving youtube-dl tarballs is an absolute waste of effort.

The RIAA here is targeting existing project developers, and possibly also users. Trying to scare them away. Not trying to censorship old tarballs of the code which will quickly become useless.
The difference is that Clear is a paid, private service, not a government requirement.
Agree with the lidar range issue, but in a perfect storm... there was also major hype to drive money into robotaxis, e.g. Uber flashing an order for $10 billion of Mercedes S-Class ( https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a28508/uber-or... ).

This year we've seen Luminar start to go public via SPAC, and their high-range Lidar has been mounted on most (all?) non-Waymo self-driving truck prototypes. There's even a public dataset with Luminar data now: https://github.com/TRI-ML/DDAD
I'm surprised I hardly ever see this brought up. If Waymo ever does become a breakout success the ride quality is almost sure to become a miserable ad ridden experience at some point; and of course, all passenger actions and intonations will be parsed and analyzed for tracking and ad targeting.
Congratulations on the launch Decentro team!

I've been looking for a solution for transferring money from one bank account to another at scale for an upcoming product as introducing payment gateway in this is not commercially viable for a side project.

I hope the API pricing & compliance is accommodating to side project i.e. shouldn't expect company incorporation for the API; e.g. Stripe India requires company incorporation for international payments ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ even though Paypal doesn't require one (I understand that Decentro is not a PG).

There's an extraordinarily large need gap in the ecosystem for enabling commercial viability of side projects in India. Can't validate ideas for commercial acceptance, if one has to undergo numerous compliances to get access to basic financial instruments.
Seems normal on HN for a person to get downvoted for stating a simple fact. I wish I could understand this weird HN bias.
I agree, but:

> In a letter sent Oct. 16 to the researchers behind the NYU Ad Observatory, Facebook said the project violates provisions in its terms of service that prohibit bulk data collection from its site.
According to the website it's from here

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?...
Many landowners don't care or at least don't care enough to post their land. Yes you can park by the side of the road and walk in the woods. We do this to forage for wild plants like fiddlehead ferns, morels and garlic scapes.

You can't camp without permission although as children we certainly did this on our neighbors land.

Provided that the landowner does not charge a fee, a landowner is not liable for property damage or personal injury for the recreational use of their property.
Haven't used Alipay but Wechat is really annoying because they get your Wechat contact info and text you ads. Other than that, yeah it blows away US payment system. Amazon Go store has potential to get us back on top, though.
I have a 20/10 dsl line that requires phone service so end of day cost is about $89 a month. For $11 more, I can get 50/25. I'm not eligible for the 100/X service which would be about $25 more. I don't have to pay for a rooter. Above in a rural area by a local monopoly.

Given the apparent high initial cost, this does not look like a viable option to replace my current service. I think cost would need to get down to 75 ish a month and maybe 200 startup.

Does anyone know how this has help up in bad weather (rain? snow?)
Even having a dry run mode is exciting. Doesn't even have to give complete results just "I was planning to delete 3 files and create 7 files", gives a hint whether the command will blow up the system or not.
Notepad is still my favorite website design app.
You've fallen for propaganda. Read and learn: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46353767
I just put a spare behind the license plate
What premise of my argument are you objecting to? Nothing you have said appears to contradict anything I have said. I obviously agree that the body is made out of many individual parts at all levels of analysis.
That code is protection for YT TOS, not copyright law. If YT want's to use dcma in this way it should claim copyright of all posted material and see how that works out for them. Even if it the video's were copyrighted, it could be still be downloaded for fair use purpose rather than infringement. RIAA is using takedown's to protect google ad money, which is not the intended purpose of that legal action.
> The NYU app scraping modality could easily do the same thing

So could any browser extension with the ol' "read and modify your data on \*" permission. Or any browser. Or any third-party Facebook client.

There is a difference between being technically capable of doing a thing and actually doing the thing- especially in cases where the software authors are well-known and relatively easy to hold accountable. To say otherwise is a little bit goofy!
I think due to Newton's 2nd law retracting the arm prematurely would've caused the rest of the probe to strike the surface of the asteroid

Edit: and by 2nd law, I really mean 3rd
I started suffering some dementia. Was put on Alzheimer Medicane that helped little. Note: late 30s.

Turned out it was a clotting problem. Genetic Factor 5 Leiden. I was having minor strokes a couple times a week. Each time would take about a month to recover mentally. But having them faster then that.
Completely cleared up as soon as I went on blood thinners.

Later I learned whole extended family had been through this.

Dementia can have many causes, sometimes it’s something we know about, but hard to diagnosis.
I run a service based in Germany, and yes we don't care about DMCAs per se.

However German laws are essentially: "Once you are notified of copyright infringing/illegal content, you have to remove it, lest you lose your protection as a service provider and become responsible for the content."

A DMCA takedown notice would be such a notification.

On the upside you don't need to do anything if you don't have reason to believe the content is illegal in any way (unlike with DMCAs where you pretty much always have to remove first).

On the downside it's a bit easier to get into trouble as a provider if you chose to let something stay online.
The irony that freedom of speech is more protected in Germany than in the US.
I think this is because writing software is so much more than operating switches and controls. I really hate pair programming for this reason, but I love industrial-style controls and protocols involving multiple people.
Embarrassingly I once lost a hamburger while still holding it.. I had my arm propped up on a the back of the chair and it was just out of my peripheral vision. Not my smartest moment.
There is a series on youtube by VoidRealms that walks you through using the basics of C++ Qt/QWidgets that I found helpful when I was learning Qt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KtOzh0StTc&list=PL2D1942A46...

I was trying to learn Qt, and it just wasn't clicking, but watching these videos and suddenly Qt just made sense. This was nearly 10 years ago, and note that some of the syntax has changed, particularly Signals/Slots.
Right, actually building all those pages at once necessarily takes time. But on Netlify, most of my build time isn't actually used doing `next build`, it's the un-logged-to-user file transfer to their server / CDN cache invalidation / whatever hosting magic they do after the static files are built.

So at least in my case, NextJS would have to create a way to not rebuild files that haven't changed, and then the hosting/CDN provider would also need to be able to see which files those are and respond accordingly. This all seems very doable eventually though.
I can see using a no code solution for quick proof of concepts, but going to production with a no-code solution is likely a no-go.
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Some people have completely unrealistic expectations about what large-scale language models such as GPT-3 can do.

This simple explanatory study by my friends at Nabla debunks some of those expectations for people who think massive language models can be used in healthcare.

GPT-3 is a language model, which means that you feed it a text and ask it to predict the continuation of the text, one word at a time. GPT-3 doesn't have any knowledge of how the world actually works. It only appears to have some level of background knowledge, to the extent that this knowledge is present in the statistics of text. But this knowledge is very shallow and disconnected from the underlying reality.

As a question-answering system, GPT-3 is not very good. Other approaches that are explicitly built to represent massive amount of knowledge in "neural" associative memories are better at it.

As a dialog system, it's not very good either. Again, other approaches that are explicitly trained to perform to interact with people are better at it.
It's entertaining, and perhaps mildly useful as a creative help. But trying to build intelligent machines by scaling up language models is like a high-altitude airplanes to go to the moon. You might beat altitude records, but going to the moon will require a completely different approach.

It's quite possible that some of the current approaches could be the basis of a good QA system for medical applicatioms. The system could be trained on the entire medical literature and answer questions from physicians.

But compiling massive amounts of operational knowledge from text is still very much a research topic.
Is this not SSR streaming? https://reactjs.org/docs/react-dom-server.html#rendertonodes...
When he mocked the disabled reporter, that should have been the end of it.
Yes I get this too, for a long time. I’m constantly shocked that a major platform could be so fundamentally broken for so long lol
I wish SQL had a dry-run mode in updates and deletes for that reason.

"Run it as a query first" gets 90% of the way until you drop a constraint by accident whilst rewriting it as an update :o
WSJ: "In a letter sent Oct. 16 to the researchers behind the NYU Ad Observatory, Facebook said the project violates provisions in its terms of service that prohibit bulk data collection from its site."

That's the key point here. The researchers are not a party to Facebook's terms of service. The user installing the add-on may be, but that does not bind the add-on developer. (This is called "privity" in law; contract constraints do not obligate third parties who didn't agree to the contract.)

Facebook could disconnect Facebook users using the add-on, if they can detect them. That would be a bad PR move.
Do you believe him though? I absolutely do not. He just has to say that otherwise people will be talking about how their system is inferior.
Interest in neural networks was renewed with Werbos's (1975) backpropagation algorithm. There was continued progress in ANNs all this time.

I think the aversion to ANNs during the 90s was more philosophical and aesthetic - ANNs math is indeed "ugly" compared to symbolic logic, bayesian inference, SVM (in the 00's), and many other traditional AI methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_neural_n...
I don't think distributions dropping it will have that big of an impact considering you only ever used those versions to bootstrap as you needed to `-U` update it regularly to keep it working (except maybe on Arch and similar bleeding edge, rolling distros).

I kind of hope they adopt flatpak or appimage based disto for it, giving it a more standard distribution mechanism and promoting one of those platforms.

Either way, this sort of advertisement is hard to beat. I'd expect the project to come out of this with more manpower, not less.
Someone else needs to reimplement it, in Rust cause that's what all of you want .

Then never include a test case with music videos. I was using it to download public domain videos, if certain video producers want specific drm then that's fine.
I'm a photographer, and I used to get annoyed that I'd have little distractions on the edges and corners of the frame, because I was focussed on the subject and overall composition. I trained myself to sort of bounce my eyes around the sides of the viewfinder when pressing the shutter (think like the DVD player menu). Now I almost never forget to check.
Labels were never about discovery. They were about promotion, production, and all of the expensive stuff you need at scale.

For example, Justin Beiber, Lorde, Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X, were all discovered independently due to their own efforts and had decent success on their own. (Farther back in time, the Beatles and most classic rock bands similarly got signed to labels after demonstrating success.)

But they're all signed to major labels now, because touring is expensive, and the scale of exposure you get with a label is very different from what you get on your own, and the income correspondingly increases as well.

In many (but not all) cases, the artists usually also get lump-sum advances against new albums or singles which removes the financial risks for creating new music.

Piracy was never about discovery. It was simply about people being too cheap to pay for other people's work. Sometimes, as with Adobe and Microsoft, they were okay with it because that just locked in their market dominance and created more future customers. But for fad-driven and taste-driven industries, privacy has a notable impact on creator's earnings.
And why exactly would that be ironic?
Well that's sort of what youtube-dl does, no? Except for you don't have to inspect network tab or merge anything manually, and you can choose quality and download playlists etc.
You are basing your argument on the highly erroneous premise that YouTube is all that youtube-dl is usable for.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24905640
Would love to hear some insights from game developers or others dealing with many binary media files. Is this what git lfs is used for or are there other popular tools in the scene?
That's not ironic. They spilled blood over it much more recently than we have.
I'm skeptical on No-Code.

All the solutions I used were mostly tailored to a single use case, and they made it easy to get 95% of the work done. I'll even include interface builders as no-code.

Then getting to the finish line has always involved writing serious code that would plug itself to the proprietary API whatever No-Code-Solution-du-Jour supported. Of course, if the company selling the no-code goes under, good luck!

Then there's collaborative work and source control support. Most folks are comfortable with GSuite-Style collaborative work but that really doesn't scale.

But there's still a fundamental issue. Every time I worked with non-technical folks using no-code, there was a subset of users that just "got it" almost right away and would end up exploring and maxing out what the tool could do. But the majority of users seemed to be confused and could not move past the hand-holding tutorials. It's almost as if the former could describe what they want so well that it's not ambiguous...
Blueprints, making it easy to anonymize and balance datasets with a few clicks
>On the upside you don't need to do anything if you don't have reason to believe the content is illegal in any way (unlike with DMCAs where you pretty much always have to remove first).

The DMCA works the same way. If you refuse to remove content and it turns out to be legal, then you as a service provider can't be held liable. You only get in trouble if you ignore a valid notice and there is infringement.

Neither is relevant here, though, as it wasn't a DMCA notice but a claim of anti-circumvention.
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I'm confused, are you suggesting the team that write the code for Teams don't use it?
If you want the DMCA changed, you're going to need to find enough money to, as part of a competitive auction against the MPAA, RIAA, and BSA, successfully bribe:

218 Congresspeople

60 Senators

1 President

5 Supreme Court (in)justices.

A conservative estimate is that getting the DMCA reformed would cost at least a billion dollars in bribes ('campaign contributions'). No one who has that much money spare has enough of an interest in public-interest copyright reform to be willing to spend that much money.

As a practical matter, it's much more feasible to cultivate hosting infrastructure outside of the United States than to consider DMCA reform.
It Took Months for Iowa's Democratic Senate Candidate to Get a Wikipedia Page
Doesn't NYU have an Institutional Review Board?
But think of all the social networks they could launch!
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Wasn’t Alzheimer, but I did reach a point where my kids would walk in, and I had trouble understanding who they were. For months It felt like I was surrounded by strangers.
It’s a very scary experience.
I don't work for Intel but I do work for a semiconductor company. While Xilinx FPGAs aren't directly used for prototyping, there are a large number of third party boxes purchased to accelerate hardware simulations and they're chocked full of FPGAs.
Several things. Mostly that it has to be rolled out slowly because people lives are at stake so testing can run for quite a bit longer than you’d expect. Also that everyone wants to be the one who makes the breakthrough so companies will claim its right around the corner (like fusion) repetitively, i.e. Tesla saying it’d be here in 2018. We’re just at a point where these things can use parking lots so I wouldn’t expect a complete rollout several years as systems are built on top of other systems that have been widely tested and confirmed to work.
Ask HN: Evaluating an Equity Package at a Startup
Hey all, I'm evaluating an offer from a startup that includes an equity component. Is there a good resource someone could recommend for how to try and value startup options.

Likewise, what are some questions I should be asking to understand what sort of dilution is possible, etc?
Grafana Tempo (distributed tracing solution): A game of trade-offs
> [...] Bitcoin, a legitimately valuable commodity [...]

Huh?
No, the argument does not depend on that premise, unless you are suggesting that the other websites never ever ever change their HTML.

i.e. replace YT with $YOUR_FAVORITE_VIDEO_HOSTING_WEBSITE in the message above.
Language is how we store our knowledge, and language is a system of words. If a language model contains all the possible sentences you can say, it will complete any of your sentences, don't you think it knows what you know? The input is sequence of characters, so you can say it may or may not operate on words. It can operate on subwords, words or phrases where it see fit.
I like to think intelligence as clouds. If you dig deep down, they are just droplets, there are so many of them, they can appear to be so many different shapes. And they look complete different. Maybe intelligence is the same.
One of 4chan's favorite past times is discussing which country has more freedom of speech. It always ends in a massive flamewar and I can only recommend not to repeat that here.
A counterpoint: what if emojis are an evolution of our written language? It used to be time-consuming to draw complex, colorful characters onto paper, so our written language evolved away from them (although, some pictogram-based languages did emerge, 日本語, 中文). But with computer text, suddenly emojis are much cheaper to write, and are given consistent definitions. On top of that they can convey information in a way text can't. Am I crazy to expect them to take a bigger part in 'standard' digital communication?
the paradigm with consciousness is that there is a "thing" that has experiences, at the basest level an _experience_ of thought parallel to the _process_ of thought.

to wit this is decartes "thinking thing" that gives rise to cogito ergo sum.
This is super cool. Thanks so much for sharing!
The RIAA acting dishonestly, perhaps disingenuously? I'm shocked, I tell you!
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Did you file ethics complaints with the RIAA lawyers' bar association(s)?
As a European, I can't find any irony in that. It seems completely normal to me.
We have reached a low place when 'grab em by the pussy' is open to subjective interpretation.
We've been known to use something like --yes-i-really-mean-it-this-time for really dangerous options. It's a like built-in solemnisation step.
If that's the case I suppose the only notable difference is that the DMCA system is more formalized.
I think the whole point of the 'rule' is that they have to do it themselves.
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> I've thought about this since the early part of this year when a middle manager in my company's Communications department dismissively told me that she could do my job because, "I know code." What does that even mean?

It's a signal to look for a better position somewhere else.

Sounds like you work at a company that considers tech to be "the easy part" or a cost center...
I was curious to see how a game of it looked so I googled around, I found this video: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ve8xo
He's lying because he's already said that every tesla has the hardware for self driving. People would be pissed if he said tesla's might need to be retrofitted to self drive.
I was asking where the irony would be coming from, and not whether the attached statement was factual.
> Having difficult times answering softball questions like "Do you denounce White Nationalism?" Just say yes.

He already explicitly did. But the left doesn't seem to comprehend and they keep asking it over and over. It's unbelievable really.