skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Manager here.

I think I have good relationships with my peers and vice versa. We cooperate literally constantly and often help each other with things while receiving nothing in return. When I look around my org, I see this as the norm.
In my mind I was counting IT, software sales, project management, business analyst etc... Any IT related profession.

If someone used a law degree to sell law software, or malpractice insurance I would count that was well.
This is actually a great idea.
Reminds me of the concept of Bruce Charleton's "clever sillies" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19733444/
I think that your concern about the SMTP server is the serious issue. In the end, (for the RIAA) it should be indifferent whether the source code can be accessed using git/http/smtp, whatever protocol.

So, in any case, it looks like the idea is not good to fight that issue (right now no one prevents anyone from sending his copy of the master of youtube-dl and letting other people reproduce it/develop it). The use of a mailing list is just an improvement over this but it should be perfectly possible (for the RIAA) to take it down as well.
I'm doing ok now, having started from near-zero network in my 40s, after a long lull and letting my social and professional circles fade away due to life circumstances.

That's why I say it can be done when older too, and have an idea what the timescale is.

(I also think the "other people appreciate your potential value in their network" point applies more to older people than younger. That is, if you're older, your perceived network value is a bit higher; I'm guessing the age is vaguely associated with seniority and future opportunity for the other person.)

However, I have the advantage that I did figure out people and developing and maintaining social links (if I want to and feel up to it), a number of years ago. I've led community groups occasionally too, which is not always pleasant but very educational.

I still remember not knowing how to, having no active friends at times, and being very lonely and isolated. So I empathise (a lot) with those who are stuck and unhappy with that.

For those people you're talking about who have tried for years and years, if they're really stuck, I wonder if there is some kind of coaching or training that would make a useful difference, assuming they want to change the situation. If there isn't, there ought to be.
I think it is important to understand differences:

The future of humanity is not only on earth. Too much risk, too limited resources.

HOWEVER the future of humanity in space is NOT "tomorrow we lift off a giant spaceship with everyone on it." If we survive a few hundred years we might see some amount of human civilization outside of earth, but for many hundreds of years after more practical space tech comes about most of humanity will still be born, live, and die on earth.

Maybe in a thousand years we'll see more humans outside of earth than on earth. But that's a long long long ways from now. If we are to become an "immortal" race (doesn't go extinct) then I can see the human race abandoning earth in a hundred thousand years or so due to many possible conditions. But even if we can colonize and terraform other planets, why would we want to when we already have a perfectly terraformed planet we're already on. Life has survived on earth farily well for billions of years, there's no reason why if we don't completely obliterate the climate we can't survive here till the sun blows up.
Thrive: Exist over many generations developing unique and rich culture and society.
If we captured an asteroid we would immediately double or triple the world's supply of metals like platinum. They simply are not plentiful for us on the crust.

I like to believe that we can achieve this within our lifetime. Having the price of certain rarer metals come down significantly would be amazing!
https://archive.vn/q6hKn
The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
First sale in the US already has something to deal with this.

17 USC 109(a) is what most people think of when they talk of the first sale doctrine in the US. That's the part that says that owner of a particular lawfully made copy "is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord".

Renting is included under "otherwise dispose of the possession".

What is less well known is 17 USC 109(b)(1)(A). That carves out an exception for copies of sound recordings of musical works and copies of computer programs ("including any tape, disk, or other medium embodying such program"). The exception prohibits "for the purposes of direct or indirect commercial advantage" disposing of or authorizing disposal of possession of that copy by "ental, lease, or lending, or by any other act or practice in the nature of rental, lease, or lending", unless authorized by the copyright owner.

So for programs, first sale allows selling copies but not renting them (same for musical recording). Hence, the reason you saw back in the CD days many places selling used music CDs and used software CDs, but not many selling rentals of those. (There were software rental stores, but they were not operating legally).

There is also exception to the exception. 17 USC 109(1)(B) says that 109(1)(A) does not apply to:

(1) a computer program which is embodied in a machine or product and which cannot be copied during the ordinary operation or use of the machine or product; or

(2) a computer program embodied in or used in conjunction with a limited purpose computer that is designed for playing video games and may be designed for other purposes.

That's why it is legal to rent console games, such as GameFly does. It's also why rental car companies don't have to get permission from whoever owns the copyright on the engine control unit software or the entertainment system software.

There are other exceptions in 17 USC 109 for things like nonprofit educational institutions and libraries which are not relevant to this discussion. If anyone wants to read the whole thing, here it is: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/109
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24932634
> what you have is even more obviously a circumvention device

The device itself is just an "audio enhancer" - it could just as easily be used to spruce up the sound on old vinyl (pre-vinyl even) as it could to defeat copyright law.

The real issue with using it as OP intends is it's wholly unnecessary: the value in tools like youtube-dl is being asynchronous - you get the audio file without listening to the entire song first. OP's suggestion involving a speaker and a microphone is intrinsically synchronous, and it's a lot more work for lower quality than e.g. using Audacity to record the lossless digital audio off your sound bus.
There's been world champion level Scrabble AI since around 2002 [0].

There hasn't been anything groundbreaking on it since: not because nobody has thought of it as a research problem, but because, unlike chess, improvements to the algorithm haven't led to great improvements in performance. This would suggest that Maven is pretty close to perfect: the game just isn't that deep, and the randomness of the tiles drawn dominates any small performance gain.

For human players a large part of the game is in knowing the word list: even world champions spend hours poring over different permutations of that, which a computer can access instantly. The strategic part of the game seems interesting, but can be almost completely accounted for with some simple heuristics and the knowledge of which tiles remain.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000437020...
Superheroes of Deep Learning Comic Book
It's stuff like MDN that attracts donations.
The author was one of the primary drivers of widespread mask adoption for Covid transmission suppression, by popularizing epidemiological and public health evidence.

See: https://masks4all.co/about-us/
I find it strange that no one mentions London, property prices have soared in the past 20 years [1] with money laundering playing a key role [2][3][4][5].

Nowadays, football clubs appear to be a better option, as they allow easy laundering of billions instead of millions...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/property-prices/london/

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-prope...

[3] https://money.cnn.com/2015/07/28/news/london-real-estate-mon...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/20/uk-foreign-...

[5] https://www.newsweek.com/how-russians-launder-stolen-money-r...
I'm a bit confused on the diagram for the new architecture: What's the purpose of the Lambda function? I don't see them explain that anywhere.
Wow, this totally blows up the scene. I'm sure there are gonna be haters, but Ballmercon 2021 is gonna be lit AF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICp2-EUKQAI
People claimed similar things about AMD CPUs and GPUs ;)
So “yield farming” is complex and expensive and can involve closer to 8 expensive transactions to get started.

You can make a smart contract that lowers it to 1 transaction, automating an operation usually accessed between two or three websites. It likely wont make that much less expensive but it will save people time.

What typically happens is that the services which already do this are a combination of being more expensive or inundated with combinations and wont pay attention to new things on the market, catering to only the largest most hyped up and engaged communities to provide conveniences to.

So you can instead until you get to the same place!
Absolutely, if you're generating any kind of ad-hoc reports for biz/marketing folks it is often a much better to implement it in a way that they understand and update than to write your own code to produce it.

"Paste the export from {business system} in this tab, then drag down column F in the first tab to update the vlookups." Boom, no more 5-minutes-before-the-board-meeting-can-you-just-rerun-this-report-with-different-parameters emergencies. For the most part.
Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence Diagnosis Using Only Cough Recordings
This is complete nonsense and doesn't pass the face-value check. Why would all the tech companies hire thousands of engineers to fine tune an algorithmn that was proven to be worse?
Not neccessarily. Usually that's a new "exception" to the formal rules. (This happens anyways with more generalized rules.. but that's done under the spirit of the rules and is accepted as such)
> Yes.

Really? I thought it was more people being overly sensitive, and the enforcement team not using their brains. I think pindab0ter would agree that it was improper enforcement of the CoC. I'm not sure anybody can speak to the intentions of the people that reported it with certainty.

> Well, if you dislike someone's political views, and then you hatch a plan to make up fraudulent sexual misconduct allegations with the hope of "canceling" someone, I would describe that as "weaponizing" the CoC

Is that consistent with the thread? Are you arguing that the majority of CoC reports are outright lies? I thought this thread was about the use of CoC to enforce a code of behavior, and if stringent enforcement counts as misuse.
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I do too and it truly makes a difference. When I read something out loud im still biased as my own voice somehow matches with my internal voice I hear when I'm silent reading. When it's read out loud with a different voice it registers completely differently.
Unfortunately, the biggest falsehood a programmer (very briefly) believes after reading this list is that management will let you just use the only reasonable solution of a single textbox for the address without any attempt to validate it.
I like your way of thinking.

But remember, even with sublight travel, to populate the entire galaxy would take only a few million years. Including say a thousand years to rebuild the capability in each new colony. It grows geometrically you see, and there's no beating that.

So on a Galactic scale its certainly possible to overpopulate, and in the blink of a cosmic eye (a million years). In fact that's a powerful argument for 'we must be alone', since it hasn't happened already (not getting radio signals from every star system everywhere).
Molecular Basis of Chemotactile Sensation in Octopus (Full Article)
This seems like a variant of the "just world hypothesis".
You can’t cure yourself of aging with some pills from the dark web.
It's at least 10x harder to build a human-staffed base on the Moon than to build one at the bottom of the ocean. And it's 10x harder still to build one on Mars. (And that's optimistic; those numbers probably need more zeros.)

Likewise Level 5 self-driving cars. Every level is at least one more zero on the hardness multiplier.

Neither is gonna happen soon. They will happen some day, and none of this means we shouldn't work on them now, but yeah, the hype is ridiculous.
... do you think the 'what the hell is going on at [company]" is also swearing at their staff? Because I don't think anybody I know would, to me this seems pretty damn clearly like using technicalities/inaccurate definitions as a weapon.
Is there any way to back the actual MDN ?

Will the quizzes disappear in the near future ? I was planning on brushing up my html/css/js skills and I was planning on doing it through MDN.
Email is usable for code commits. Some people update git over smtp today. For artifacts, I envision Usenet or distributed rsync on Tor.

youtube-dl -U

Fetching signed update from usenet over TLS...
Validating GPG signiture...
Installing...
Updated to youtube-dl-20201029

People could subscribe to artifact updates over email, but the client won't know how to get it. You would need a plugin that allows mapping to a local mail dir or a plugin that has an imap library to fetch updates and validate GPG signature. Or maybe use a plugin that talks to Tor relays? This is all hypothetical of course. I am not factoring in legal consideration and risk to the developers.
> Those is why China started limiting the outflow of capital several years ago.

On paper, but like all things in China enforcement is a completely different thing. There are many ways around it and it's much easier when Canada's AML and KYC requirements would make a 1980s' Caribbean Banker blush.

Even a municipal vacancy tax is just a new cost of doing business. Further, the Canadian Liberals and BoC have both signalled that they intend to devalue the CAD and prop up real-estate. You'd be a fool as a Chinese foreign investor to not dump money into Canadian real estate. It's de-facto government-backed at this point, comes with a Canadian passport, and the Canadian Liberals will never move a finger against you or China.
> The foreign investors are tiny in both numbers and political power

The exact topic of this article: Small quantities of investors with different economic incentives can result in big effects.

> The investors are the like-minded people who banded together

I rather doubt that it was a concerted effort to band together. It's more akin to "curse of the commons": Each individual actor acting in their best interest results in emergent behavior.

The solution being pursued is to change the rules to dissuade certain behaviors that negatively impact the populace as a whole.
Nice work guys! We do something similar at Surfly but we start the session through our proxy so no extension or changes to the application are required.
> Pizza is not fast food.

Some pizza is not fast food.
It’s more accurate to say it’s the huge supply of capital looking for somewhere to be parked that is driving prices higher.

Demand curve is number of houses available for sale, supply curve is people looking to purchase those homes. As the curves shift, if the price goes too high, then the lack of supply of people with sufficient money would cause prices to stall or come down. But it’s apparent that the supply of people with a lot of money (or credit) is a lot higher than the supply of houses.

Maybe it’s even more accurate to say that the supply of inflation protected assets in stable societies is in low supply compared to the supply of capital trying to buy those assets.
Once the bulk of humanity is 'in space' (on planetary bodies or in stations outside of earth) then the goalposts change! Sending things back to sad ol earth becomes unsupportable.
> Results showed that attention lapses in the moment prior to remembering impacted on behavioural and neural memory signals and were associated with greater likelihood of forgetting.

Can anyone translate this for me? This sounds like someone throwing a bunch of big words together to me.

I don't have a Nature subscription but this seems like another non-study, 80 adults in a contrived experiment with flashing images then given a "questionnaire" with which conclusions are drawn...
Oooh, direnv, never heard of that. It's like directory-local variables in Emacs, only for the shell!
Secure your Kubernetes secrets with smart cards and libssh
Weird AI Yankovic: Generating Parody Lyrics
Maybe she was inspired by Vannevar Bush's Memex concept?
> the family of the victim might be better off with a chunk of money than with the knowledge that the perpetrator is serving time.

Justice isn't always about providing benefit to those harmed. It's also about providing a framework in which crime is avoided by all because they know there are repercussions they can't avoid.

When the expectation is that you're rich and you can get away with killing someone either through paying someone to take the fall or bribery, then that will happen more often. If the expectation is that everyone is equal under the law, that will happen less.

The US isn't perfect in this regard, but I think it's a lot better than what's being described here. If Ivanka Trump drove recklessly and killed someone, it would be a lot harder for it to play out the same way here. That's not to say she would necessarily face justice, just that it's a lot harder to get out of it, so there wouldn't necessarily be an expectation that it will go away. There's a huge difference in expecting to get away with something and knowing it's uncertain when the consequences are years in prison.
> Space will be no different

Space is different. The analogy between the discoveries of new continents and the exploration of space is terribly naive. I would understand if it came from a 12 years old with his bedroom full of sci-fi novels, but not from grown ups.
To be fair, they had just experienced a sudden exponential surge in interest: your phone call.
Wisconsin GOP says hackers stole $2.3M from Trump reelection fund
Hmmm. From https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...:

This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.
Again, it’s misrepresentation: if they had a website and phone staff who made it very clear that they were unaffiliated with the listed business they would not be getting sued any more than a travel agent gets sued for buying airline tickets.
> In recent European safety testing, a Tesla Model 3 with Autopilot placed sixth out of 10 systems, getting high marks for performance and ability to respond to emergencies, but falling short on its ability to maintain a driver’s focus on the road.

This undermines my confidence in the entire rating system. At the very least, the drivers focus should be its own rating distinct from the performance of the piloting.

The serious selling point of any of these systems is greater-than-human reactions in emergency situations, and so a buyer going off these ratings could be mistakenly lead to believe that they are getting a better system in a Cadillac when they flat out aren’t.
You don't think over the next, say, hundred million years our descendants could adapt equally well to other worlds?
Idle curiosity: what system(s) are you using that you have chat history going back that far and can easily search it?
Ololo Says Goodbye
ololo says goodbye!
The ololo search engine has been discontinued.
I tried it recently on Linux, it was just a matter of:

flutter channel dev
flutter upgrade
flutter config --enable-linux-desktop

The app then built without issue, and executed fine... except for a rather annoying bug: nothing was painted in the window until I resized it.
The earth becoming uninhabitable due to climate change is going to happen way sooner than any pipe dream of folks trying to live on Mars, if they were really concerned about preserving the human species they would be putting billions of dollars into that instead.
Smart Memory Access is just marketing speak for resizable BARs (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/di...)
Biggest song of all time? I've decided to cover one of the most iconic songs
Personally I prefer the idea of a zero-frills Excel, but this makes sense as MS needs an answer to Airtable and it's ilk.
Awesome, thanks for info! The docs look great -- Also (I don't know if this is intentional or not, but) I wasn't able to find a link to the docs on the landing page. Could be useful to include it imo
> or even left Africa.

I think it's pretty clear the parent post is talking about the first people to migrate to the Americas.
These appalling terrorist attacks have had the merit of showing the true colours of many of the so-called moderates in the muslim world...
On Fexprs and Defmacro
I don't agree about sourcing supplies on Earth for the simple reason that mining operations on Earth ravage the countryside and leave it permanently dead and poisoned.

https://edgy.app/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/mining.jpg

https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/2d6c839bf3889ca045acde28...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit

Many of these minerals exist in abundance on astroids, and I would love to see us protect the Earth by mining there instead of here.
Once (~10-15y ago) I was thinking about a OTP based "2 component glue file sharing solution". You take a piece of data (audio,video), generate a real random one time pad then make an XOR delete the original and share the 2 random files using any media or network. Then share also the info that this and that files are the 2 component glue.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danrunkevicius/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-runkevicius/

I don't see relevant investing experience.
>Everything is code managed by Git, from infrastructure resources to monitoring alerts. This allows for an extreme speed for any change, including infrastructure and alerts.

So... you're pushing alerts into a Git repo and pulling them somewhere else to display them? I'd call this many things, but "extreme speed" is not one of them.
Sounds like that would work pretty well with this mobile markdown-based notes app I'm using: https://gitjournal.io/
tl;dr its basically just static html/js/css sitting in an s3 bucket, rather than having an active server (that you code/manage yourself).

It pushes the page rendering from runtime to build time.
"But it's the world we live in" if we do nothing.
btw, there's a typo on the page for the value of 1/89, it should be :

.01123595505617977528

but the math does work of course, it converges :

>>> .01 + .001 + .0002 + .00003 + .000005 + .0000008 + .00000013 + .000000021 +
.0000000034 + .00000000055 + .000000000089 + .0000000000144 + .00000000000233 +
.000000000000377

0.011235955056107002
Well, this goes against what I said above, and you clearly know the state of play better than I do.

Have you got a source for top humans beating top AIs 50% of the time? I found this where the top answer mentions a 500-game series between Kenji Matsumoto and Quackle that sounds pretty even: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-Scrabble-computer-program-t...