skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, as a black man who grew up in the mid-west, and then lived in new england… I left the states in 2016 and have no intention of coming back until things resolve. Even during in 2016, I knew things were going to get much worse… and Trump (not necessarily his words/actions, but primal response he could evoke in otherwise "rational" or "academic" people who often see themselves above the fray) was just the latest harbinger of that (maybe the straw that broke the camels back, piled high already with many straws of societal malfeasance)… people want to ignore the slow erosion of social-economic freedoms that have been going on for decades and only decreasing more with the next administration placed in power by those who think that things will change for the better just by placing paper in boxes…

Corporate collusion with government baked in with articles of incorporation, solidified with runaway debt spending for their services against the masses is just a tip of the iceberg of societal decay ongoing here with many thinking they can always keep kicking the bill into the future for someone else to deal with… lol… I have no will to live around such a populous with such delusions of the mind.
Ask HN: Is there any hope for the Web?
I feel hopeless as everything I read about the current state of the Web is about Google and Facebook's growing monopolies, disinformation, paywalls, user-hostile websites, ads everywhere, not to mention all the privacy issues.

And the worst part is that I do experience each one of these problems everyday as I try to surf the Web and I'm almost done with all this bullshit. I'm just tired of the poor quality of most websites I visit and tired of feeling tracked all the time.

I just feel like stop using seach engines at all (I use Startpage, btw), since I rarely find anything useful through them, and stop using any website besides Wikipedia and libgen, really. And maybe checking out HN once a month.

Anyway, how do you use the Web these days? Any thoughts?
DIY NAS: 2020 Edition
So one of the other problems with high power lasers is cooling the lasing mechanism. A recent novel solution to that is to have a liquid with the same refractive index and to circulate it (with no turbulence) through passages within the lasing mechanism. That way it can be cooled very thoroughly without interfering with the light generation. (Probably the coolant doesn't contribute, but maybe it does.)

Seems this can do on order of 5 kw/kw output.
That, and shark week.
Hi everyone, I made this! I already told my whole story in this article (if you'd rather watch a video essay about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CikpAHiPlmQ) so not much more to add other than I'm still (slowly) working on Line Rider! If you have any questions here I am
Ask HN: Investors who also are co-founders, how did you deal with equity?
I am currently involved with a company that brought me on as an angel investor but I also have co-founder status (I am technical and worked with the CEO to help crank out our MVP, which even started generating revenue which is neat). And have about 1/3 of the equity in the cap table. They are very fair and the other two founders are great. We are trying to go by the book and I’m just curious how it would work with cliffs and vesting if I have provided material support in the form of cash infusions while also working directly. I have been involved long before VCs got interested and feel it fair that I don’t have as much of a cliff and a shorter vesting schedule considering I provided plenty of moolah. But I also want to stay and help them grow as best I can. That said I don’t want to do anything to upset upcoming VC meetings. Any suggestions or anecdotes from others with more experience would be fantastic. Thanks a ton, and happy almost Turkey Day :)
Tesla issues two recalls covering 9,500 U.S. vehicles: NHTSA
I think if that were to happen it would require a secret virus that there is already a vaccine for that could be used by the chosen few to protect themselves.
Salesforce Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Slack Technologies
Oh, what a pipedream. If only capitalism worked how it was described in textbooks. It turns out there are much easier lower cost optimizations businesses can perform based on managing perception rather than worrying about pesky concepts like utility.
"art" is the most basic common denominator that something can be called, and such a claim can not be challenged.

i think this was a monumental waste of time -- sorry art. he (pretty confident gender assumption) should have done something more productive for 11 years.
Status pages are generally so unreliable that we do our own monitoring of external cloud resources that we depend on.
>"The project's first product was a [Open Hardware] PCI graphics card dubbed OGD1, which used a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chip.

Although the card could not compete with graphics cards on the market at the time in terms of performance or functionality, it was intended to be useful as a tool for prototyping the project's first application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) board, as well as for other professionals needing programmable graphics cards or FPGA-based prototyping boards."

PDS: Apparently The Open Graphics Project is now defunct -- but the harware it managed to produce is technically interesting nonetheless...
Not an issue to do and hence not an issue for public at large.
But apps come with plenty of their own issues which is gaining public recognition. It is early days yet though.

Personally:

- I find it odd to need an app for a service entirely reliant on off-phone data.

- I like my phone battery life. I avoid apps if I can help it. Web page links all over my home screen.
Blockchain will destroy google. George gilder wrote a book on it https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2020?ref=g...
Exactly. The entire concept of "revealed preference", to which the parent post was referring, displays an incredible level of arrogance. To say that somebody doesn't like what they say they like, and that it is their own fault for being forced into a choice that they are unhappy with, shows an astounding lack of empathy.
AstraZeneca Manufacturing Error Clouds Vaccine Study Results
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Your comment is negative and not good for this advertisement on HN, and thus has been downvoted (by them), as will mine once it is noticed.
There were solid good practices from the way back when Struts was a thing. Even when a server side validation fails, you can redirect the user to a page and the form can prefill the inputs (except password). This was across page refreshes. What happened to all those hard learned lessons?
You're the owner of aspects like responsibility and risk but not the owner of aspects related to financial growth (I mean, your stock options are, but that's about it).
Physicists Can Make N95-Like Respirators with Cotton Candy Machines, Says Study
What do you have in mind by "telling everyone they have the virus under control"? I don't recall any such communication from China.

If you mean the cover-up or data fudging accusations, I highly recommend the four part series in Quillette that examines the merit of these charges. It's very long, however.

https://quillette.com/category/covid-19/china-syndrome-serie...

Here's the Twitter thread where the author introduced the series and gave some helpful backgrounds:

https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1298053847844368386

As he says:

"Again, I know that many of you are skeptical, but this essay has required a ridiculous amount of work and I'm really confident about the conclusions I reach, so I hope you will read it with an open-mind. I will post the other parts in this thread as they are published."
Others have already pointed out this is an exaggeration but still, there is truth to it.

I wonder how the field of software development has changed so radically that this is somehow considered acceptable and even perhaps normal?

Back in the 90s to mid 00s even, it was considered a clear violation of user expectations and not even remotely acceptable. Back then at Sun it was a big rule to never initiate such opaque network activity that wasn't directly related to user action and the purpose of the code. Requesting exceptions to that would have to be escalated pretty high up and generally rejected. It was something you Just Don't Do.

Even running half a dozen machines at home, my networks connection was entirely silent except for the occasional NTP packets, unless I was actively doing some user-initiated network activity.

These days, well, the outgoing pipe is always active even when no machine is doing anything. Most of that traffic is just variants of spyware, reporting back to HQ on what the user is doing at all times. This should not be considered normal and its on us as the software industry to try to claw back on this problem.
Part of me is against walled gardens philosophically but in practice it seems like regardless of whether its a monopoly in practice it actually serves to protect consumers from their own stupidity.

Just like you have to force your employees to follow security practices, it seems like if we really wanted technology to be secure/privacy friendly we'd basically have to force it upon people for their own good.
Cho Ju-bin: 40 years jail for South Korean chatroom sex abuse group leader
In a more regular appliance, the current Valve Lighthouse VR-tracking system works by sweeping lasers very precisely across a room and using the timing differences across the sensors on the HMD to triangulate its position in the room.

There is a good talk by one of the engineers who worked on the initial prototypes, and IIRC they both require and are able to achieve something like nm accuracy when they sweep the rotating masses with the lasers on them (That is, not only is the frequency very precisely controlled, the phase cannot drift either). With the help of some custom components they can do that for a hundred bucks.

I'm slightly hesitant to go into it for mostly ethical reasons, but military technology has always fascinated me if purely because of the toys they get to play with. The amount of gear even a World War 2 aircraft had by the end of still surprises me, i.e. The Mosquito had a primitive version of what we would now call a HUD displaying a radar horizon and a gunsight. Know-how and an unlimited budget go a very long way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre...
MFK Fisher's Sensual Realm (1988)
1/r^2 comes from the fact that space is three dimensional. No amount of beam collimating can change that (unless we have some fundamental breakthrough/change in our understanding of physics). Better beam coherence could keep improving on the solid angle, which is the multiplicative coefficient to the (asymptotic) scaling behavior.
hi conun long time listener first time caller here

question that I never got around to asking you when you were working on this: did the community meme about OII never being finished ever get to you? The line rider world is full of a lot of projects that never got completed (SamThePoor’s Cosmic Ultimatum, etc.). What kept you going on this, when so many other projects seemed to fizzle out, as the community kind of shrank and receded, before it really came back into the zeitgeist? I really respect the deliberation and thoroughness you take with each step when you start a project.
This might have been the case if the original Imperial College reports of several million deaths in the US and UK were accurate, highly concentrated among the aged which would have lead to large savings on healthcare and pension costs, as well as freeing up of large amounts of real estate for younger generations.

However in reality the deathtoll from COVID is scarcely distinguishable from regular influenza seasons. Only 0.06% of Sweden's population succumbed to COVID and their annual deaths are shaping up to be the same as prior years, for example. Similar situation in Germany.
GiftGenius – An Artificial Intelligence Gift Concierge Built on GPT-3
The ads on YouTube are getting intolerable. Reeks of desperation.
Dicta
It's written in javascript, you entitled twerp! The author has created this beautiful tool for free in his/her spare time.
North to Alaska for rare earth elements
I'd argue there's some benefit to being able to code on a train. While Internet connectivity has grown with tethering, it's just nice sometimes to not need to be connected to do your work. That's my opinion, anyway.
> I've seen people report that they have reduced spam to near nothing already with just a honeypot, but of course I can't verify those claims.

Can verify from personal experience. I once implemented a simple honeypot approach on a small blog site. It immediately cut down automated "drive by" comment spam to almost nothing. I never tried to quantify it, but it was the difference between dozens of spam comments a day and maybe one or two a week (which I assumed were probably manual submissions).

Most spam bots are pretty unsophisticated it seems, and do not pay any attention to a honeypot field being hidden either by CSS or JS.
Security Gaps in Open Source Hardware and AI
I've used DavMail[1] to access Office365 for years.

It basically acts as a translation layer between Microsoft protocols and open protocols. I usually run it as a local systemd user service.

My only issue is with MFA. To set it up you'll need to dig through the stdout/logs to get the initial "add app"/Auth URL. After that the push notifications from the Microsoft Authenticator work as expected.

If you're not using push based MFA I'm not sure if it'll work, you might need to dig through the logs to grab the URL each time. If it was me I'd probably setup another script to sit watching the log, extract the MFA URL and send a notification with lib notify.

So yeah, a little janky to set up (yay for proprietary protocols) but you can then use whatever email client you like and manipulate it as you need.

1. http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
C++ itself doesn't support it. There are libraries that provide unicode-aware handling of strings/vectors of bytes. It's not always clear that you want unicode-aware code when dealing with unicode, but there are times when it is nice to have.
Seems like WebAssembly would allow for success where it previously failed.
FB Said It Would Ban Holocaust Deniers. Instead, It Provided Them a Network
I never considered Amazon capitalistic given their exploitation of the USPS.

I considered them this private company subsidized by taxes.
Not Amazon but at an HR/leader meeting our HR disclosed 45% of people on PIPs end up staying with the company.
If you think this is just about structured data, then you are missing the bigger picture layed out there…
The mention of log(log(N)) reminded me of something entertaining I once heard from an algorithms professor: "log(log(N)) is less than 10".
There will never be 'one true color space', due to the variance in our eye makeup, but that does not mean we shouldn't try.
This seems like a marginally better way of eliminating a 'middle man' to get to a truth.
This procedure would have to be applied to many people to arrive at an average, which is the best these measures can do.
Is there way to filter out quantamagazine from one's ycombinator feed?
I tried reading this book. There are no practical examples of how to calculate anything useful with geometry algebra in Chapter 4. This seems rather odd because Chapters 1-3 are very practical, including both equations and code examples.
Google removes Baidu apps after they were found collecting sensitive user data
> good quality product

You must be using a different version of slack to me.
Do you do anything with longer term options? How far do you go out?
Either all mathematics is formalizable and so we're not going to run into any Incompleteness Theorem-related issues and it's irrelevant...or we run into mathematics that can't be formalized and therefore mathematics isn't a fully formalizable system and so Gödel is still irrelevant :)
I face palmed when I saw Pele say "We will play soccer together in heaven ".

Pele was he even a good soccer player. Nobody knows. He never played in a European club or tournament against and with the world's best players. He choose to spend he entire career playing in the USA. The US, at that time, was not big into soccer. Had no good players or soccer environment. They had a lot of amateurs and showmanship and if you were just a little above the performance and skills on an average European player you could easily run around the corner with the American player and that was what Pele did. There exist no proof that he was particlar good a playing soccer. He might have been but your guess is as good as mine but his marketing skills must have been amazing. He soccer skills probably not so much.

Maradona on the other hand. He was an amazing player. RIP
khal is excellent. I've been using it alongside vdirsyncer for a couple of years now. I recommend aliasing 'khal calendar' to cal - a quick look at your day, and upcoming events.

I also highly recommend khard, which manages contacts.
Fair call. Perhaps there's no merit to social psychology.
Borexino spots solar neutrinos from elusive fusion cycle
« Should have done something more productive »

Why?
It is a diagram whose vertices are mathematical objects and whose arrows are morphisms (often functions) between those objects such that any two paths between two vertices represent the same morphism/function. Typically it is used to infer information about one morphism or object using others, by keeping track of many properties at once in a graphical fashion.
Balaji on regulation of self-hosted crypto walkets
Inutile donc indispensable.

Have to admire the dedication you've put into that. Us casual line-riders spent a few hours at best and moved on onto the next shiny thing and there's there people like you that went above and beyond. A labour of love.
Ikigai – Part2
Lots of comments here telling you what it was used for, but its probably also useful to know that SCO was an x86 port of AT&T System V UNIX.

There were lots of these, including the AT&T SVR4 port, Solaris/x86, NCR MPRAS, Xenix, SCO OpenServer, UnixWare, DELL UNIX, NEC PC-UX/V, ISC PC/IX etc etc.

Linux had (has?) the iBCS module since enabling some binaries from some of these platforms to run "natively" since around 1994:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Binary_Compatibility_Sta...
Where can I find this data?
5kw output for 1kw input?
if you're very reflective then the old technologies can do their thing. e.g. anything with a radar
Their goal is making money.

On the iPhone, that means keeping the system's reputation for security and ease of use trumps more or less everything else. On the Mac? Not so much.

For Apple, privacy is a cheap giveaway because unlike Google or Facebook, the way Apple makes money doesn't require they know when my last BM was.
Investors pledge $815m for Vietnamese startups
Ah yes, the standard gatekeeping post.
lol — have you tried to engage, in a serious way, with the JavaScript ecosystem? It is a _dumpster fire_ to produce anything that is reasonably as interactive and complex as an iOS Application.

I do agree, however, with the idea that some things ought _not_ be apps, especially things that are dead simple, for which it _truly is_ easier to develop a web application.
Reflectivity doesn't matter in practice. No finish is sufficiently reflective and so the first part of the laser pulse burns it off and then the rest of the pulse gets through.

An ablative heat shield can be more effective, although that adds weight and interferes with sensors. Spinning the target can also help a little by spreading the heat across a wider surface area.
Doing what you think is right, is not necessarily the right thing to do. This is why there is also "Disagree and Commit". There are many facets to this and I am 100% sure that you did not get fired for >correctly< telling customers... You could potentially get fired for incorrectly telling them though, if the issue was severe enough.
Do You Feel ELearning Is Inefficient?
> The utility of even the basic stuff like operant conditioning breaks down outside of all but the most constrained lab conditions

If you want to see it at work go visit the slot machines at your local casino.

Edit:

I've heard about the Rat Park saga from a few mouths before, so I won't read the wiki article. One thing I've noticed is that people forget that the original claim of the study stands: if the only interesting option is the addictive stimulant, the rats keep going back. The other claim that there's pernicious effects to a utopia is in addition to the other, and both claims I regard as equally instructive to how one would think about incentives in society, that goes beyond rats.

Another edit: A better example of a fraudulent study would be the Stanford Prison Experiment. I don't disagree that bad faith and misguided research is a big problem is social psychology. But I think the problem is more visible in the field now, and hopefully being addressed. 'Behavioural biology' probably holds more promise in the longer term.
It has been said time and time again, but I'll reiterate that time spent having fun is not time wasted. While many of the hackernews readers would like to think that we are machines, we aren't. I'm sure you've wasted lots of time on certain things over the years, so why the snide comment?
The website is pretty awesome and I liked the covers too (did you make them by yourself too?)

>Nobody reads poems

Yeah, I don't read poems.
As a South Korean, I'm not sure covid has much to do with acceptance of "big government." Unlike most of the West, many Asians have lived under real dictators - some still do. We know what a dictatorship looks like, and we know how terrible your life can be when the government abandons its duty to protect people.

To put it other way, "Your government shouldn't have enough power to fight an epidemic, because that's too much power" has never been an actual argument in Korea, and (I believe) most of Asia as well. We don't want a small, underpowered government. We want a properly supervised government that uses its power to protect people.
> The answer that most people would like to see would be a stripped down, non-GUI macOS that's installable at no cost in virtualization environments

That's called "Darwin" and it's theoretically open source, but there doesn't seem to be a useful distribution of it. Whether that's due to lack of community interest or lack of Apple support is the question.
Went to one of the conferences for rxjs.

Some young woman was on stage demanding that all males need to apologize to women in tech. There were other incidents.

Not a community I want to be involved in.
Looks useful. Should make it single-header / single-file too. Regex would also be good to have.
I've been here for years in a senior capacity and I've never even heard of Simple Workflow. Some products, like Dynamo and Lambda became favorable internally to support the migration to native AWS.

I'm not sure that assigning this to a perceived internal power grab aligns with reality.

> obvious to me

> would become very powerful

> cabal
> The militarized police force was bested by a couple hundred anarchists and no charges even filed.

The police funding was increased instead of decreased as the movement demanded. The policy goals of people in the streets were absolutely thwarted and the police continue to do whatever they want.

> The lack of access to medical care just spent $6 billion buy vaccines for everyone in the country.

Congrats, you get one (1) vaccine so they can keep making money off your labor. If you have a stroke or an accident, that's on you.

> The unchecked imperialism just drew down all their troops and is achieving real progress towards normalized peaceful relations.

The US military has "lily pads" in over a hundred (and maybe over two hundred) places in the world and patrols the high seas. The oil supply is secured and various coups are funded or otherwise supported, for example in Bolivia which has just defeated the latest attempt to secure private control of the lithium fields.