skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm willing to bet that the people who want/use/develop this do not believe that there is another project doing the same thing - even if it might not appear like that to everyone (i mean, you read comments about people wondering why there are so many distributions and why not everyone works on a single one to make it the best :-P).

Haha. People are harder to deal with. It's just easier to fork! ;)

> Why temporary? The developers and users of TDE may prefer the way KDE3 does things or Qt3 or whatever that wouldn't work with anything that came after.

I agree. While I wouldn't be a fan of it, I can understand changes are harder to accept for people (including me sometimes.)

> MATE is an interesting case - IMO MATE should have forked Gtk+ 2 instead of switching to Gtk+ 3 because Gtk+ 3 has a different "feel" to it that -again, IMO- is much worse (and feels a bit sluggier) than Gtk+ 2. This would also help the ton of other projects that at the time were still stuck in Gtk+ 2 and would waste a lot of time down the road to converting their code to Gtk+ 3 while also preserving Gtk+ 2 as a stable API for GUI applications that was still in widespread availability.
> Of course it is too late now.

Never thought about it this way. I totally agree with you. It was GTK2 which should've been forked and maintained.
See, anything about sharing needs centralisation. It's not about JS or whatever language or framework or whatever makes this thing tik.

The need for centralisation is an inherit weakness that can't be solved by technology. Sure you can share something among friends, then your centralisation point would be your school or workplace or something too touch heavy to attack and scale, so no one cares.
I'm surprised it wasn't repurposed as a shopping mall.
Comprehensive Guide to Lcevc (MPEG5 Part2) LowComplexity Enhancement VideoCoding
I run borg on top of one of the copies for backup of the synced dir...
Frankly, much of the concerning anti-intellectualism is coming from the university in the form of identity politics and stifling of discussion.
Ask HN: Book/Course/Project Ideas for 2 week lockdown vacation
Hi everyone,

Just looking for ideas for interesting lock down projects/courses for the next 2 weeks. Stuck on vacation but can't go anywhere. As a self-taught developer working mostly on machine learning and enterprise apps, I have a lot of areas of CS/programming I never got to formally cover. I rarely have 2 weeks of uninterrupted time to work on whatever I want so I'm suffering from analysis paralysis.

My ideas so far include:

- Finish the rest of Crafting Interpreters.

- Finally go through SICP.

- Finally go beyond basic vim

- Learn a new programming language (Forth? Erlang? Pony? Rust?)

- Do the new fast.ai or MIT deep learning course

- Go beyond minikube and try setting up a prod k8s cluster

- Something fun and not at all work-related like ray tracing in a weekend or the pysdr book
I think you're looking at this from a consumerism point of view.

The US started a huge build up of arms. eg missiles and destroyers specifically, but also the US had significant advances with tank and aircraft weaponry.

The US consumerist system had a positive feedback into the US industrial military complex where advances in manufacturing and information technology lead to huge efficiency gains for arms production even though Western arms production supply chains almost completely isolated.

So, the US had a massive technology and manufacturing advantage, then the US tanked world oil prices and other commodities that the USSR required from world markets. Significantly the USSR was buying more grain and food from the world market, so while the USSR was able to keep up with technology, it was not able to keep up with efficiency gains that the US was realising.

Corruption was also a huge problem for the USSR, and it still is to this day in Russia.

The Americans bankrupted the USSR on multiple fronts. Capital allocation is a capitalist system notion, but, more generally, the US was able to allocate deploy its available resources in a way that out-competed the USSR. The USA was able to organise its society and economy in a more efficient and productive way than the USSR, and that is a Macro Economic argument.

Until the 80's the USA had second most equitable distribution of wealth next to the USSR. The USA imposed significant taxes on everybody up to a marginal rate of 80%. If you want to "Make America Great Again", you need to restore taxation to the levels seen between 1945 and 1981; maybe even to the end of the 80's. American government funding through the DARPA project lead to numerous technological advances that most people, worldwide, now depend upon.
It's funny how the author went for React for the frontend, even though Angular + Nest.js are a much more synergistic duo. He even structured the application like a typical Angular app.... Why not simply just go with Angular? :D
Not systematically but when I take an odd day off it's essentially always Friday for a 3-day weekend. Taking a day off in the middle of a week because of an appointment or whatever tends to dump me out of the work week routine a bit. I can deal with it--I have to when I travel--but it isn't my preference if I'm in all week.
The questions that mobile phone reviewers never ask
Seemed pretty similar to me. Dialog is mostly short interjections, while scene exposition and monologues were longer.
They've been absurdly successful, I'm not sure why they would break up. The Democrats are in far more danger - this is a must win (although I also think it is a likely win.) The Democrats have had, for the past two cycles, approximately 40% of their base support a candidate who refuses to join their party.
It doesn't work ....it DELAYS.

Has any virus ever just gone away.....

Once society lets down it's guard, if your country hasn't reached herd immunity when the virus returns you're back to lockdown. Perpetual corona whack a mole.

There's no realistic way out of this other than herd immunity through a vaccine or natural means.

Non vaccine human control of this virus is impossible long term.
I felt this way about tech a year ago. Everything you said is true, to a degree, but you're only seeing the negatives. Ask yourself why are you only seeing the negatives? Cause there are definitely positives too.

What I found is whenever I can only see the negatives, something is off with me. I'm not taking care of myself. I'm not sleeping enough, I'm not eating right, or something! I found it's really hard to be jaded/bitter when you're active and healthy.

My guess is because you have the energy to tackle all the flaws you see, turning them into opportunities.
Does it change things if you aren't paying the provider for the service?
An article a few years ago triggered me to do this. I switched to Migadu based on a recommendation I found here on HN.

It works reasonably well and my only complaint is that the spam filter is overzealous at times. Another pain point has been services where I cannot switch my email and those are stuck on gmail for now.
Not sure why you need the excel sheet. You can add all those intents in the dialog flow console itself? Cool none the less.
Github is not the only player, and there are plenty of other options. Git itself is decentralized, so that's half the issue solved. Gitlab, Gerrit, and a bevvy of other web front ends for git exist, some open source, some closed.

Github is still the biggest, but Gitlab is probably a close second.
AWS allows you to shift your costs from CapEx to OpEx. Companies with low CapEx are valued higher since "theoretically" you could remove that bill by moving to another provider. Financial Engineering is just another part of software engineering and the cloud enables it.
Well yes, we're more productive, so a lot less people work. E.g. people usually retire, young people usually don't work, people usually work fewer hours, etc. That doesn't mean we can just cut most of what is left and still have everything we want.

I mean, do you think that most people are not really productive most of the time? As in not doing anything that will be missed? Can you point out those things? Again, we still need teachers, we still need fairly large amounts of people to continue producing forms of entertainment, we still need fairly large numbers of people to keep the internet working, etc. Where are there huge swathes of jobs that you are OK with just not having anymore?
BTW it's a doubling every 1.54 years
YAGNI applies extremely heavily to most of those concerns. Pre-traction startups are wasting money they don't have, just to future-proof their application.
Bare metal destroys AWS and other big managed clouds and even smaller cloud companies like Digital Ocean if all you need is compute, storage, and bandwidth and want to manage it yourself.

Bandwidth is even more extreme than CPU/RAM. There are high bandwidth bare metal vendors that basically sell like rack vendors by capacity, not quantity, and offer bandwidth at stupidly cheap rates compared to any cloud. ZeroTier uses these for root server clusters and get tens of gigabits for <$1000/server... and you can actually use that and it's fine. Vendors include datapacket.com, reliablesite.net, fdcservers.net, and others. Totally no frills though. They provision it, turn it on, and give you access. Also their TOS may have specific prohibitions, so read it.

The problem is that you have to manage it all yourself, which can be challenging and distracting, and these are no frills services with no add-ons like managed or specialized databases or S3.

That being said the cost savings are so extreme that you should consider it. It's ultimately a spreadsheet decision. Compare cost of hosting vs cost of DIY hosting plus labor for your specific application. Some apps benefit more from managed cloud than others.

There's also the multi-cloud option. You could host things that benefit from AWS or GCP there, and host the bandwidth or CPU-intensive stuff on bare metal.
How Much Has Big Tech Spent on Lobbying Congress – Zero Hedge
At that point they may as well make it into a laptop.
Are Publishers Learning from Their (Corvid) Mistakes?
Hey, I'm not morsch, just wanted to thank you for testing and posting the results :)

Too bad, but probably to be expected. The RasPi wasn't really meant for tasks like this. Still, actually interesting that it would suffice in a pinch if you just needed to just stream some video, even if the quality isn't really good.
A great tool to see someone’s Instagram profile picture in full size
Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-hospitalised individuals
Slightly off-topic, but are you aware that "spack" is a common derogatory slur in British English?
Who do you recommend instead of Google Domains?
I've found Steven Pinker's book on writing useful & spot-on [1]

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821371-the-sense-of-st...
Do non-BGA chips exist at the performance level they want? I was under the impression that nobody was manufacturing such things, in which case the pi foundation probably can't do anything about it.
I did work for a YC startup that replaced my ~$100/mo Heroku app with a $5,000/mo AWS stack that nobody in the place knew how to manage.

Their site was so ridiculously low traffic that I did some napkin math and figured out they were paying around $0.10 per web request.
Russians Were Once Banned from a Third of the U.S. (2018)
> Debt tends to be hard for super new companies, even with orders in hand. If you are developing a new product and don't have cash up front, there's a good chance you never deliver, and both lenders and potential customers know that. Also looks unattractive in future VC rounds, but in this case probably secondary to my first point.

There is always factoring (ie. sell the receivable for a large fraction — typically 90-95% — of the face value). It eats into your profit margin, but you get the money up front, the customer pays on net30 (or whatever) terms, and you don't have to deal with billing. It works best when you need the money to buy materials or build capacity in order to fulfill the order. The longer the lead time from spending money on materials to delivery and billing, the more attractive factoring becomes.

Factoring is common and essential to certain industries like clothing that have very long lead times & where the buyers have leverage to insist on net60 or net90 terms.
They’ll be light grey at first, but if you whine hard enough about your downvotes you might also get the coveted [flagged] or even [dead] badges of honor :)
That fails to distinguish between politics and activism.
My twitter account was banned in March without warning (the reason they provided was "due to multiple or severe violations of our platform manipulation rules). Frankly, I'm way too boring on the site for me to be guilty of this so I appealed 5 times over ~4 months.

I must have gotten through to a person eventually because I was unsuspended with the message:

> We’re writing to let you know that we've unsuspended your account. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and hope to see you back on Twitter soon.

> A little background: we have systems that find and remove multiple automated spam accounts in bulk, and yours was flagged as spam by mistake. Please note that it may take an hour or so for your follower and following numbers to return to normal.
Mixed traffic is a problem that every freakin heavy industrial site in the world has managed to solve.

We just can't solve it for cities because people have their heads up their asses and everyone wants their preferred class of traffic to get preferential treatment.
Some places have eradicated it by careful tracking and isolation.

It's a virus. It has no reservoir but currently infected people. In fact, if we could all stay isolate for 2 weeks it would be gone from the earth. Of course that's impossible but combination strategies can (have) worked.
> Corporations don't gain by cancelling their customers.

Sure they do. If a certain customer's behaviour is alienating or obstructing other customers, then that customer gets cancelled, because they are having a negative impact (on the business - not the users!) that is larger than the benefit they provide.

That's a net positive result.

Ignoring your whole concept of "mean", it is 100% up to the company to decide what the negative behaviour is, which is part of the problem.

Sure some of it might be "mean behaviour" and so we look at it as Google doing a good thing perhaps.

But what if you went around Google's services and informed people of better alternatives to their services, and you started to actual gain traction and cause people to stop using Google?

There's nothing mean about that, in fact you're providing a good service to those people. But in Google's eyes your actions are negative, and they could just cancel your account at their discretion because they don't like what you're saying.

That is the kind of thing that regulation protects from, when dealing with essential services - and I think there's a stronger and stronger case to be made that these large providers are in fact essential services.

p.s. Devil's advocate: the theoretical actions I described above (recommending alternatives) could so easily cross the line into spam. But who decides where that line is, if Google was to be regulated?
Everyone saying "I would lose all my e-mail" apparently doesn't know about fetchmail, getmail or even Thunderbird. Just download your mail using IMAP or POP3 and archive it locally.

I recently deleted my last Gmail account (that I had since 2001). Before doing it, I tried Google's Checkout to get the data, but it was adking me for "verification" (i.e. more info about me) to finish the download.

I just fired up Thunderbird, configured a IMAP account and... done. Almost 20 years of e-mais are now backed up at home and on a Nextcloud instance I keep on a Linode VPS.

Web is not the only way to read e-mails, friends. Use a proper client and back it up.
aren't moped expected to just drive on the main road, next to cars, and require a helmet and license plate?

Scooters are "more different".
The joke, at least on this side of the pond, is that the Americans thought they were buying Tower Bridge.

The London Bridge at Lake Havasu is the New London Bridge, which has been replaced by the Modern London Bridge. Some pedestrian alcoves from the Old London Bridge were rescued, and are in Victoria Park and at King's College's Guy's Campus.
Absolutely. But they also charge you independently for (almost) all those services. So, you are somehow still paying for a sort of "comfy lock-in" (no native speaker here so try to follow me even if words are not the exact ones) because you cannot access those services from another pure CPU resource on another (cheaper) provider.

Basically, AWS is squeezing as many dollars as possible from your pockets (good for them).
This BS practice will continue for decades to come because corn farmers will only vote for Congresspeople that continue to give them that fat government teat to suckle from.
How to Sell Without Feeling Like a Sleazeball
This is a clever idea but limited in applicability. It is probably fine for a low security web app or game, but could still leak personal information if the db got hacked.

The problem is that the salt has to be the same for each record and that emails present a limited search space.

Imagine I stole the database for blackmailable-fetish.com. All the emails are hashed with the same salt so I can brute-force the following restricted space:

[top 200 first names][top 1000 surnames][digits from 0 - 999]@[top 5 email providers]

That would probably get me 75% of the emails - let the extortion games begin!
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it" --Alan Saporta
https://twitter.com/0x101/status/1320245884680957952
Why fivethirtyeight thinks that exit polls will be misleading this time
You can find Paradise Lost as an ebook at Standard Books: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-milton/paradise-lost

From a couple of stanzas in Book I, it looks like it's considered to be pretty difficult. :)

Personally I would have been more curious about authors that are known for their stylistic transgressions when it comes to text comprehensibility. Joyce and "Ulysses" come to mind.
Cheminformatics before Cheminformatics (2020) [video]
A few months back I literally found a computer by a dumpster in the rain. It was some corporate castoff from a local investment firm. I brought it in, dried it off, let it dry thoroughly for a few days, and examined it, and the innards looked to be brand-spanking-new with no rust or damage in sight. After installing a hard disk (its original hard disk was removed and presumably erased or shredded), it was ready to go.

It's a pretty sweet machine too, an HP Elite 8300MT from about 2012 or so. It has one of those side panels that can be removed by working a latch with your hand -- no screws necessary. I'm making it into a build server.
Crispr and the Ethics of Science Hype
Which caste is looting India? https://archive.is/5zz1b
To be fair, that scenario is increasing security.

Shared/public devices are not considered secure at all.
Be mindful that there's lots of misinformation regarding the "social credit":

https://www.wired.com/story/china-social-credit-score-system...

I'm not sure that drawing a parallel here is actually helping the discussion.

Anyhow yeah: megacorps control is dangerous and frustrating. Unfortunately, splitting all services across several different providers is something that requires lots of conscious effort from all users. And even after you split out everything that you use, you might suddenly realize that there is now a new service provided by one of these megacorps, which you started to use without realizing that it's linked to your main account.
We do not pay for a home address, and yet people can still reach us there. Email is just as important as physical mail -- the problem is that the economic model changed. This means there is no incentive to maintain service, even though (in my mind) in the modern era an email address is possibly more important to a person for day-to-day communication.
It depends on the country but an approximation for US biomedical research is https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
although that's only journal-published information.
You forgot to add after

Love,

Management

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Demanded by,

Employees complaining

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Management tends to invent things when they get idle, but it's the employees who demand the virtual fitness challenges, special interest groups (veterans, lgbt, hispanic, book clubs), complain about too many notifications, and send out their own meeting invites without agendas.
Do you believe in just banning things because people use them irresponsibly?

I think that is much more damaging than one person getting 4 kids dead, as much as this is already a tragedy.

Going with this reasoning people should be banned from using cars at all, because, frankly, I see a huge number of people driving completely irresponsibly and not thinking a whole lot about it until an accident happens.

Do we really want to live in a world where it is not possible to behave irresponsibly because all options were taken off the table?
... No.

Every other browser seems to find a sane middle ground.

Anyway this was never about my own practices, this was about how Chrome has become annoying and how it will result in attrition. The faster this happens, the better.
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I believe the USB-C power port can be used for USB-2 gadget mode, so you could in theory configure the Pi 400 to act as a keyboard for another computer :-)
I do the same (well, I don't use OneDrive all that much).

I use my e-mail with Outlook exclusively and what I did was creating a new local Outlook account, in which I move all my e-mails from time to time. That way, there's an offline mailbox you cannot loose in case of a ban or anything like that. Just make sure you set your Outlook to download everything, not just last year or so.

My motivation was a bit different, I didn't like the idea that someone could make it to my account and see literally all my e-mails sent and received in last 15 years. I mean I do have 2FA setup, but I don't trust MS over my offline backup stored on an encrypted device.
Do you know about manually-sorted edge-notched punched cards?

Frank Brown popularized the term "cheminformatics" in 1998. Its meaning evolved. Johann Gasteiger in 2006 describes it more broadly as "the application of informatics methods to solve chemical problems" and traced the roots back to "machine-readable chemical structure representations" developed in the 1960s.

In my talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6dUkCxlrd8 with slides at http://dalkescientific.com/writings/BAGIM_2020_Dalke.pdf I look at cheminformatics before the 1960s, based first on edge-notched punched cards and then the better known IBM interior-notched punched cards.

Following this path shows how cheminformatics comes out of the documentation movement ("documentation" is an older term for "information science") started by Otlet and La Fontaine in the 1890s.

Oddly, even though the association between molecular similarity and molecular properties was well known, mechanized methods for similarity barely existed until the 1980s. That concept quickly worked its way into the field and added a new modeling component which, while often based on the 1940s methods of library science, transformed the field into what we think of as modern cheminformatics.

I also give a quick demo of using edge-notched cards I made.