skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a few more months of these weight loss pills and I'm going to look like David Hasselhoff.
Annie Duke on Elections, Decisions, and Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke is a is a poker champion turned author whose here to teach us how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions.

QUOTES

[12:25] "Betting is basically saying I have some set of limited resources that I can invest in to and I'm choosing among options where how that option turns out is not deterministic. It's probabilistic."

[16:25] "We're living in a probabilistic world, meaning that there are very few decisions that you can make that are guaranteed to have one single outcome."

[20:14] "But presidential campaigns actually happen over quite a long period of time...Can you think of anything? Where in real time, people are analyzing the decisions that are being made more than a national presidential election."

[26:10] "Our brains really like to make a create a narrative that makes sense where one thing leads to another and kind of an orderly fashion. We really aren't comfortable with randomness."

[28:19] "So luck is intervening between the decisions that you make, the option that you choose, and the particular outcome that you happen to observe."

[32:43] "I also don't know a lot of stuff. The way to solve for that is to go explore the universe of stuff that I don't know, and to explore that in a really objective way. Where I'm kind of like maximizing my ability to run into information that is different than the things that I believe to be true,."

[39:40] "Well, smart people are just better at spinning narratives. They're better at looking at a set of data and interpreting that data to fit the model that they already have. That's just why it's just like this kind of narrative spinning that's kind of going on in our heads."

[01:01:58] "It's not that imagining failure causes failure. It's that imagining failure causes success, because if you imagine failure, you can see all the obstacles that might be lying in your path and then you can actually do something about them before you run into the obstacle"
Remote-CLI: execute tasks on remote hosts while working locally
With cloud providers either you use their proprietary services and thus end up with code that runs only in their cloud. Just like with MIPS code that runs only on MIPS. Only that you probably can more easily port code to another CPU architecture.
I'm not talking about dying, I'm talking about normal life.

I live in Denmark, with arguably more restrictions than Sweden. I'd happily sacrifice 25k in future lifetime earnings to have 2020 back. (BTW, as a startup founder, the possible costs of COVID may wind up being far more disastrous to my lifetime earnings)
Reminds me of this one: https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/mar/17/terr...

An HTTP header as a memorial.
"Fully offline capable" would be a better term than "decentralized" when describing git.

But, one relatively decentralized workflow that git has good support for is sending patches via email (git format-patch, git am). I believe the Linux kernel still does a large amount of its collaboration that way.
Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding
The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture • Martin Fowler (2017)
But isn't diversity the key to success?
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A lot of React developers believe Hooks are functional and that they are doing functional programming by using Hooks. Whether the core React team is responsible for this perception or not I am not sure, but misleading developers about what functional programming is, is not cool.
I've literally never heard of a socialist calling for total egalitarianism. It's really completely absurd. You should bring sources for socialist theorists who clamour for total egalitarianism.

The Chinese cultural revolution was a lot of very bad things, but it wasn't in order to make everyone the same either, not at all.

I know that Pol Pot wasn't a communist because he himself said that he wasn't one. I haven't heard of himself saying he was of some other socialist legacy either, so I don't think this is sophism.

Marx does formulate a framework where everything mentioned is fully consistent, that being said I don't have the time to give you a full introduction on Marxian economics. You could look up Richard D. Wolff if you want to see where these ideas come from, though. But the objection you make is misguided, because for Marx wealth only comes from labour, the instant you make wealth from something that is not labour then that wealth is not rightfully yours. This makes the whole thing where workers are inherently unequal in ability, but at the same time someone making wealth purely from ownership is a totally different kind of inequality that is not a reflection of their superior abilities, as we all know that you do not need superior ability to make vastly outsized earnings through pure ownership.

Basically, if you want to be making some kind of takedown of socialist ideology, and there is for sure lots to be critiqued, I'd suggest reading the works beforehand so you don't say enormities like "I've never heard of big socialists group who do not want total egalitarianism in the end".
This seems absolutely inevitable.

More practically, PGP.
I think the point is, that the person buying this kit to turn their 50 year old chevy into an electric vehicle prioritizes the car far and above their own safety already. It will be easy for Chevy to wash their hands of such a death since the car is already unsafe by modern standards.

To be fair I think it's most people's right to engage in unsafe activity if they don't risk harm to non-consenting others. EV conversion of old vehicles is relatively harmless. They are far less dangerous than kit airplanes, experimental aircraft, testing new parachutes or even tinkering with gasoline fueled cars.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dankohn1

someone changed my submission which included that link
At least in Germany some sites/blogs reported in the last few month that many users lost their Microsoft accounts without reason, so i wouldn't be too sure about this.

One user is even suing Microsoft because of this: (article is in german)
https://www.drwindows.de/news/konto-gesperrt-nutzer-reicht-k...
I wonder how easily one could rig this up to VR wifi streaming - 3d floating desktop, no monitor.
The onus of responsibility is still on the person doing the violence. Contrary to the fearmongering, I'd say deepfakes will just make people not believe things they read on the Internet (again), especially as the technology becomes more widespread.
I see that it's time to start using my domain email more consistently, and change existing accounts into using it too. I don't have a lot, but still, better safe than sorry.
Why would an ISP do this? Is this some kind of developer Easter egg or some sort of way to track the customer?
If African countries were prospering before they wouldn't have been colonized in the first place.
Maybe people will learn to no longer believe partisan information sources, and organisations whose reputation is based solely on the veracity of their content will predominate.
>20% minimum and typically much higher if you know how to negotiate when purchasing your on-prem gear.

A 20% premium on a $10k/mo server bill is an incredibly small premium to pay versus a single FTE.
Tens of millions of cases, there are going to be a few outliers. Unless it starts happening at a statistically meaningful rate, these are just unfortunate one-offs.
Using the word "debunk" when really you should either be using "refute" or "rebut" appropriately does not help.
Upgraded to 7.2.2 today and hasn't happened today, so fingers crossed.
I don’t want to diminish the impact of European colonialism, but that’s not really actionable in 2020. Bangladesh, where I’m from, was stripped of capital by the British Empire. Okay, now what? How does that fix the weak rule of law, the political patronage, etc? And it’s not like European countries don’t have a long history of sectarian and ethnic warfare.
That's also me. Still couldn't figure out the story behind this, so I'm posting to HN for help! :D
Are you talking about Microsoft/Windows or Google/Chrome OS here? They're both Big Players, and both trying/would try to take over/appropriate the Raspberry Pi platform.
You are almost certainly going to buy a kit when you first start, and that kit is going to come with a preinstalled SD card, a well known power adapter and often times a basic mouse and keyboard.
It doesn't work right now due to the partisan divide in America. Spreading misinformation to help your party's cause isn't currently looked down on - so, honestly, having deepfakes out there might not hurt much and might at least help reduce the weight that blatantly doctored videos carry with the general populace.
I don't think hashing and encryption are considered equivalent in this case.
I hope the legends on that keyboard are dye sublimated. Color legends on white plastic is an ideal combo for dye sublimated printing. If it were, then it would have more longevity than most keyboards on the market today. Do that, and you'd probably start seeing these things pop up as kiosks in lots of places.

Obviously I wish it was a cool programmable ergonomic custom mechanical keyboard, but this is a great start on it's own.
I pull my phone photos via rsync and I backup my gmail and my wife's gphoto via an api key backup script.

This way i don't lose any data. I have a grandfathered custom domain, that my kids and other family members use; so it would suck. I could however move the domain anywhere. It would just be a bit more expensive.
>As a result, pretty much all our docs are 6 pages (in the main body; appendixes might be added but are written in a way so that the doc stands on its own without them).

It's good to use appendices when there's a lot of background (whether technical/history/etc.) that really isn't important to the central thrust of the document. Also, even at 6 pages, I'd probably recommend some sort of executive summary.
One of my main uses for random keyboards is hooking them onto a raspberry pi that needs some local debugging...
It's often useful to check the other language wikis that are relevant for more info. (here you replace the en with hu)

It's cited from here -

"harmonikus házasságban"

https://dokutar.omikk.bme.hu/archivum/gabor/htm/gaborkronol....

Why they said it.......
For what reason should it be limited to 45?

If risk is probability * harm, the lower probability of getting colon cancer under 45 should be offset by the greater harm of getting it young.
Tell them to give them to me. I'll pay for S&H
I believe it's from the firmware of the optical modem. I just couldn't figure out why. Please help investigate, HN! :D
There are all sorts of legit uses. There are some videos I've uploaded that I've long ago lost the original source to. Also, if I wanted to go home and see my parents, it's probably better if I download the ted talks, youtube videos etc that I might like to watch on my personal connection than theirs.
I don't find the idea very funny or entertaining. If you have a funny parody show or something, it should be funny and entertaining without deep fakery. This seems like a gimmick that won't last long. Maybe it will do some good in bringing the issues of deep fakes into the wider public conversation though.
Better start at 35. Rare, but happens.
Calling into question fact checkers is a good thing, skeptics should be welcomed. But I suppose there is a subjective line between reasonable skepticism and near-schizophrenic skepticism.
> NO argument has EVER been won by somebody pointing to a third party "fact checker"

I don't think the article claims that.

How I understood it, a person at risk might be unaware that a video they watched has been proven false; in that context letting them know about it might help them.

Later the article says "always listen to people's deeper concerns".
It reminds me of what Apple does when it redefines a product category by "just" bringing together existing technology into a more convenient form factor and UX.

That's a wonderful observation. The form factor is as clever as it is logical. Stuff like this makes me really optimistic for the future of Raspberry Pi (and widespread computing!).
It's a good question, crytpo can be used for this sort of thing. It does preclude editing, unless you also establish a cryptographic trust chain where each successive editor also has a trusted key.

Probably never going to work with cameraphone journalism, but if we're talking about newsroom & press conference footage you could make it happen.
I am curious whether the same thing is possible in winter.
I used to work at Google on stuff related to account bans.

Global bans are not new. They were standard a decade ago. The reason is due to the structure of the various spam/abuse industries that plague any service that allows user generated content. What happens is this:

1. Accounts get harder to create as signup security improves

2. Black/grey-market account sellers come in and start creating accounts that get bought by spammers/fraudsters.

3. Spammer/fraudster abuses an account on service X, it gets locked for service X. They sell the accounts _back_ to the seller, who then resells the account once again with a note that it can't be used for YouTube or whatever.

4. Different spammer/fraudster buys the account, abuses it on a different service, goto step 3.

Their systems have some notion of why accounts were suspended or blocked, and the tech does support individual service level blocks. But they weren't used much back then because the pattern of a user being bad on one service and then being bad on every other service was too strong.

The problem of false positives was well known a long time ago, and the noise:FP rate is very good - if a script accidentally disabled good users with even quite low volume the people in question would be on Twitter or HN within hours making articles like this one, which did get noticed. So false account blocks were pretty rare.

Back then and still now, I think Google need to make it easier to handle this situation. Strong end-user support in these situations is hard because genuine fraudsters will happily file support tickets and socially engineer support to get their accounts back - I even witnessed auto-generated pleas to support once. They were quite convincing individually, only when you saw a few thousand of them with re-arranged sentences all begging for help with identical language was it clear they were spam. However they could still make it a lot easier, and in particular, could improve Google Takeout to be easier to use (e.g. automatically uploading the backups to various non-Google services).
Focus on Covid-19 deaths in under-65’s for better insights into infection rates
It's never one cause. In complex systems like life, you should expect a lot of variance.

But one interesting observation I was reading about was the lack of navigable waterways. Waterways make travel and trade (especially in large quantities) much easier. That then leads to a lot of cultural mixing, learning, and shared prosperity. Africa lacks these navigable waterways compared with Northern and Western Europe or many parts of Asia.

The invention of air travel helps, but the second- and third-order effects will linger.

I should also point out that it's not an unqualified bad thing. More separation leads to a different culture and, in some ways, more diversity. But it's not great for prosperity.
This has for me been a godsend after corona hit. The ".remoteenv" file is for me the killer feature. Being able to bundle remote-cli in my python-poetry dev environment makes the setup trivial as well.

For those interested, here is my ".remoteenv" file to setup poetry using conda: https://gist.github.com/pbsds/fe243e518717531b10b2782add5192...
How is that different from photoshop? Today no one trusts a photo, as even a teenager can do a decent fake on a smartphone. Now the same for audio and video. Doesn't change our world.
How does this deal with the Raspberry Pi 4' thermal issues?

Have they done something different, or will it just overheat and slow down?
But the jury are humans. Should we be confident that a jury of 12 (if in US) can pretend that really convincing deepfakes should not be trusted? Especially when this form of evidence has been trustworthy for a decent chunk of time?
I've traced the author to be Erin Hanson. Her other works can be found at https://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/erin_hanson_2006_2.p...
Docker is dead. Long live the Unikernel
I don't find the idea of poorly drawn cartoons funny by itself either, it's just a technique. It'll probably look pretty crappy most of the time. I imagine it'll be like South Park, as frequently has actual people in it, doing... odd things.
>years from now or never?

I really don't think this is true. I hear stories about deepfakes on NPR pretty regularly. It would be very strange if a subject that has managed to gain some mainstream media traction was never internalized by a large percentage of the general public.
Darklang: Leaving OCaml
That's actually amazing. thanks for your response! I've been slowly working on detaching from google this year due to stories like this, but the thought of manually downloading all my data was rather overwhelming. Glad to know they at least offer this feature
When they said "she's a specialist on the human toll of misinformation", I had high hopes she was someone who talked at length about how the BBC helped fabricate evidence to justify Tony Blair's war on Iraq. Apparently not.
I don’t think mocking as a strategy will work.

I think attacking things from the side by targeting how to think critically rather than any specific topic is the best bet. It allows people to learn ideas without being immediately defensive.

Lesswrong is mostly this.

Pretty much everything you said also applies to religion which the vast majority of people in the world believe (in some capacity).

Believing clearly wrong things is a part of humanity - arguably the default - and people have to learn to overcome it.
The fact that most fact checkers run with terms such as "Mostly false" etc. makes it even worse.
Hey I got this new game I'd like to show you, just download this exe and run it. Or here's a link, run it safely in a sandbox environment.
I’ve started to look for alternatives to gmail. It seems that most people recommend using ProtonMail. What about outlook. Is it a viable alternative to gmail?
"A Brief History of Children Sent Through the Mail"

As a german, I like the use of the word "Brief" (=letter) here.
Perhaps we are talking past each other. What may matter here isn't the size of the org per-se, but the degree of overlap between one worker's connections and another's.

People in a megalopolis don't necessarily have more or fewer connections per-se, but their connections are more widely distributed (often even close family members are globally scattered) and may not overlap at all with their neighbors'.
Who’s we? I doubt anyone would claim that most people are rational.
Ah, this is used for loop detection by Huawei CPE.

Configuration reference:
http://huawei.communicationsmuseum.org.uk/MA5616/clireferenc...
That assumes the other party is acting in good faith; one can probably point out logical errors to the non-conspiracy arguer as well.

I mean (bear with me), you say the coronavirus is real because scientists say so? Which scientists? You're using weasel words and you're appealing to authority.
I think it's great, there is no problem with deep fakes as long as it is clear they are fakes. The entire political class including their donors are godawful and deserve to be made fun of.
You only need to live through a handful of conspiracy theories turned conspiracy fact before the debunk-everything skeptics annoy you just as much as the complete lunatics.
While I addressed safety in a separate section in the article, I wouldn't argue about that: it seems Rust designers made the perfect work in safety. However, C++ is moving in this directly, bu there is the "gap" as it was described in the cited talk from the CppCon 2020.

However, there article is about FAST programming languages. Which means, and I stated this explicitly at the beginning of the article, that the main factor for the article is the speed of the generated code.

This is why I compared the single Rust implementation with 3 C/C++ implementations. The question was: whether Rust does something unreachable for C/C++? And the answer is "NOT". Also please keep in mind that all the benchmark programs, using the same algorithms, are still coded in bit different ways. And the differences impact performance significantly. I analyzed two programs, in Rust and C, to show the differences.
Naive implementation of loop detection
Both were registered on the same day, but he posted with dankohn1. It's the same as his twitter acct. Shows a bit of his high level of tech savviness, which he used for good.
Where exactly did I say I support endless wars in the Middle East?

You're attacking a strawman here.
I was working in a College's IT Dept when they were migrating everyone from Eudora. Lots of the professors were of the "You can pry it from my cold, dead hands" opinion. They often had 10s of gigabytes of email dating back to the early 90s, some even earlier.
Comprehensive guide on web scraping with Python
I'm hoping some company takes the new Compute Module 4 and does that. Would be great as a thin client + browser only machine.
I'd be curious if Mastodon could be extended to support this. It's not entirely censorship resistant but it at least diffuses the ownership and control.
Erectile dysfunction: too young for a lifetime of little blue pills
I have a hard time believing there is a chiclet keyboard worse than the Atari 400 membrane.

"Gen-x first computers" sounds like an interesting site
Of course it's not a real, physically accurate refraction. That could only be done via raytracing (or maybe some obscure depth-peeling technique, which would be super slow).
It's one of those designs where you kind of go "ah yes, I thought that would be a good idea". But before you saw it you might never have planned it in your head exactly the way it is. The iPod was like that for me, with its scrolling click wheel.

Like getting to the platonic form of a specific type of device.

The Pi 400 is the completion of the idea of an educational computer for kids, IMO. It's not going to compete with a Mac mini or anything like that, and the keyboard is likely not going to be anyone's top choice for a 'professional' keyboard. But it's good enough in all the right ways as a general purpose computer.
Disney's Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze
Google MediaPipe: x-platform, customizable ML solution for live/streaming media
TotalBiscuit from beyond the grave reminds you all that if you have blood on your stools you really ought go get checked, yes it will be sort of degrading and suck, but it is not the end of the world and you will be happier and calmer afterwards
you'll see mobs on 2 wheels in India.
I can see how you would interpret it that way if you don't pay attention to lane crossings. But the white SUV crossover is merging into the truck and the truck has nowhere to go...so it pushed back. What would you have done? Decelerated rapidly? Physical contact was made no matter what the black truck driver did.

As for the driver bragging about it, so what? He did slam into the vehicle trying to push him off the road.

All the Trump vehicles were stopped in the video you linked. I think we should focus on the actual video of the incident, it helps keep us honest.
They’re really good at hiding operations