skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've bee thinking about this from the context of "body modification" and personalization. Do HN users here see any interesting cyberpunk-like startups or fashion trends, where we see body modification, personalized tech, personalized body tech, etc.?

I can see Kernel or Neuralink as one obvious example, but beyond that...
I'm thinking about doing something like that - I'll implement it because it'd also be quite useful.

Do you think it would be worthwhile to be able to save upvoted / favorited comments also? I also have to think about what context (ie parent / child comments) it would be useful to gather.
I think if I were you I'd try to think about the future. I am lucky that my wife's family really welcome me even though my family background, not only that we are foreigners, but also not quite a good background to have. Due to my family's side financial situation, both families from Indonesia and Japan never met each other physically, only through skype, maybe one or two times and we are in our 3rd year of the marriage. Pretty much I went to get married on my own, in Japan, without any side of my family coming. We just spent a nice dinner.

Maybe your wife isn't ready yet to see your family. My wife, being raised in a clean 1st world country, still is not used to the living condition when we visit Indonesia. It is understandable, so most likely we will retire in Japan instead of Indonesia one day.

As immigrants we already accepted our way of life. We will grow older, and our kids too, without being able to grow together with their contemporaries within the family circle.

I understand what you say about staying here you might end up having a meaningless life. Trust me, I thought about it a lot too. Hence that's why I set some things straight with my wife. Who knows what will happen in the future, but I said we gonna work here for a while, maybe until kids go to college, and we gonna go back to Japan. We decide that we aren't taking any long and expensive mortgage, but if possible, only 10 year mortgage. 10 years is a short time. Once we finish that mortgage, we can do whatever we want, and see where to go next.

Again, it is too far to think of the future, but my current plan gives me and my wife hope and goal to aim to. We'll enjoy the journey while we are here.
I can't use Stripe because it is not available on my country, so I feel curious about why. Why do they ban a small charge on production?
Someone said this in a comment above, but in a 3-person SaaS, everyone works sales. It's likely they're scheduling a huge number of meetings with external folks.
> BUT a team of 3 at early stage project/startup level should be a bit more frugal and look for clever ways to save the ~$200/month

I think this is backwards. Instead the relevant question is how much can a team of three (x) achieve by aggressively outsourcing everything that isn't their expertise/value add
Just curious why exclude Tesla? Their lane keeping and autopilot is better than anyone else’s I think.
The Linux distros are generally expecting that the hardware supports compressed
We just deployed rewrite of Hadoop (sqoop, hive, ...)/Teradata based Data Lake & Data Warehouse to Cloud based Serverless Lakehouse with Spark as the main workhorse.

This included migrating about 1/2 petabyte of old data and rebuilding several Kimball-style Data Marts to Data Vault approach, which pairs really well with the Lakehouse-style tech stack.

This all took about 9 months, which is a long time, but it was in highly regulated industry where compliance, security and data integrity get a lot of scrutiny.

In the end, nothing of the previous solution survived - no code and no infrastructure.
> Picking an authority and taking their every word as gospel (...)

The man makes his living designing and implementing programming languages.

He expressed his opinion on the subject of designing and implementing languages.

Enough with this petty anti-intellectualism. If you have nothing of value to add to the discussion please remain silent. Your ignorance is not comparable to someone else's knowledge and experience. Expressing envy and pettiness regarding other people's knowledge, skill, and professional accomplishments does not pass off as a technical argument. It just sounds petty.
Am I the only one who can't read anymore the medium articles?
Aside from the difference in population between the Japanese and the Inuit, the Japanese are also increasingly disinterested in eating whale meat [1][2]. It appears to be an aspect of their culture which is on the wane (in effect they're telling themselves what to eat), so international pressure on them to stop doesn't strike me as outrageously insensitive.

1: https://www.wired.com/2015/12/japanese-barely-eat-whale-whal...

2: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/11/business/future...
From what I understand, even among sharks actually trying to eat humans is pretty rare. It happens sometimes with species like tiger sharks (which are pretty widely regarding as being angry at the world), but most other encounters are usually mistaken identity or curiosity.

I like to think of it as ratios; the number of shark "attacks" far outweighs the number of people killed by sharks. Great whites have been known to be like "yum, a seal!", take a bite, go "what the hell is this??" and then let the person go. Except because they're an enormous shark, the person still has a huge chunk taken out of them in the process, not because the shark was actively hunting a person and was fought off.

Whales, on the other hand, have more ways to do this; they seem more willing to brush and nudge and otherwise interact with things before taking a chomp, which can be seen in some of their non-person-in-the-water interactions with boats and people on piers.
Or maybe that "meat from ruminants with the cloven-hoof" rule was more widespread.
I had a really good experience with their customer support - it was great talking to a real human who wasn’t following a script.
Lots of folks seem to dislike the star / hero approach, but my team has a simple “thanks” column in our retros and it works really well to set the tone for the rest of the conversation - and it’s a great reminder to say thanks. Even if it’s just “thanks for being you.” It’s a great way to express gratitude without it having to be some “best of the best” style moment.
Reminds me of JavaScript: The Good Parts by Crockford:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook

Strip away an older language's bad features. You end up with a sub-language with the advantage of portability and better maintainability.

The problem can be deciding (and agreeing on) which language features are good and which are bad.
Can they copy more quickly than then at 1x speed? Or do you need ~2 hours per movie
The whole WebKit team is another example.

A lot of things are secret at Apple, others not so much
I got redirected to a political spam site.

I have to agree with Ansil849's assessment.
DON'T TELL THE JAPS OR ELSE THEY WILL SAIL IN AND KILL THEM ALL. I WISH GREENPEACE HAD A SUBMARINE WITH TORPEDOS.
I think any attempt at defining a strict subset of a language is going to face some pushback like yours, but I do agree that while I agree with most choices this one seems strange. Rolling your own containers is boring and error-prone and won't have all the features of the STL.

Also, while iostream is a bit of a mess, having it be strongly typed means that it's, in my opinion, well worth using over cstdio.

One thing I was surprised not to see mentioned here is multiple inheritance. In my experience it gets really messy really fast.

Also I really recommend reading the linked archived Boost discussion about a geometry library, it's quite funny. It starts with:

double distance(mypoint const& a, mypoint const& b)
{
double dx = a.x - b.x;
double dy = a.y - b.y;
return sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy);
}

And after a couple of pages of refinements ends up with:

template <typename G1, typename G2>
double distance(G1 const& g1, G2 const& g2)
{
typedef typename strategy_distance
<
typename coordinate_system<G1>::type,
typename coordinate_system<G2>::type,
typename point_type<G1>::type,
typename point_type<G2>::type,
dimension<G1>::value
>::type strategy;

return dispatch::distance
<
typename tag<G1>::type,
typename tag<G2>::type,
G1, G2, strategy
>::apply(g1, g2, strategy());
}

But hey, it can compute distances in non-cartesian hyperspaces so that's pretty cool.
Estimate Manifold Dimensionality with Lid
I wasn’t clear about an underlying assumption: I thought it was obvious the topic is corruption at the state level, and my arguments revolve around whether the state of California can do better... I am not arguing anything about the USA as a whole.

California could compare itself with other countries and improve some of its governance. I believe that a major roadblock to that path is the ambiance of American excellence, that blinkers the sight of citizens to solutions found in other parts of the world.

Individually, there are many citizens with a suitable social wealth that could choose to have a demonstrable effect upon the governance of their state.

Keep an open mind, try to avoid memes of mindless arguments, make an effort to improve your own governance, and if all else fails if you are technically wealthy you could always move to a country that has better social wealth.

California is the largest state on many important metrics, so usually it is comparing against other states that are much smaller on those metrics. I believe the size of New Zealand is not a reason to ridicule any comparison (zepto’s original answer “argued” that the size of NZ matters, which I feel is an evasion).
4. Name-recognizable companies are typically bloated enough that they can absorb the damage from a failed rewrite without it being clearly responsible for their collapse.

5. Nobody is admitting to doing rewrites from scratch anymore.

6. Netscape/Mozilla became (due to path-dependence and happenstance) the canonical example, and no other examples have been interesting/memetic enough to displace it.

7. People have learned to keep failing rewrites dragging along until something else causes them to be abandoned, sparing them the label of "failed".

8. Other.
The fuel used to attempt the landing the instead be used to launch.
True, I really need to invest in some more gear! I have a wah pedal but that's about it.
> Humans have existed for a few million years,

The most recent common ancestor with our primate cousins was about 7M years ago. There have been various hominid species, but I don't think we call them humans. I thought the general rough guess is homo sapiens are on the order of 200K-300K years old.
Actually, the thing I would be interested in most is a better way to search my comments, my upvoted comments, etc.

HN has a search box, but afaik there's no way to filter by user, or to restrict the search to my upvoted comments, etc.

Downloading would be a good second-best option, because at least it would allow me to "grep" through the archives.
It's both, actually.

The Medium popup only comes after visiting a few articles, and it is shown with JS.
Where's the rest of the article?
The future of RTS is the acknowledgement of Brood War as our new modern digital chess.
We had issues with uneven heating and large temperature swings, so I fixed it with simple (though case-specific) logic:

while True:
if temperature < set_point:
heat for 15min
wait for 15min

Works wonders, consistently, even with differing types of radiators and no need for fancy PID/control loops. Measured temperature is a 5-min median, otherwise nothing fancy, except a bit of safeties¹.

Didn't bother with accessible controls - temperature adjustment of cca 2-3K can be made by raising/lowering the temperature probe.

¹ Contains a secondary probe, in a different room for safety. Doesn't heat if any probe above it's maximum setpoint, 50% duty cycle is not too bad and there usually is someone present. Median is considered valid only if data is available for each minute.
> all this referencing of the ancient world culminated in Fascism (named from the Roman fasces, the bundle of sticks with an axe that symbolises judicial power).

Ridiculous. People will use anything to justify anything. The fact that some fascists pointed to Ancient Rome is almost certainly just a result of the outsized space Rome and Greece occupies in the western cultural landscape.

The challenge most certainly does not “remain”. Modern classics departments are essentially just history, language, literature, archaeology, and anthropology rolled into one, with a specific focus on the ancient Mediterranean.
> but consider that an America’s cup boat can do 40 knots in a 12 knot breeze

an america's cup boat is to sailboats what an F1 racing car is to a toyota camry.

at the very high end of bespoke carbon fiber racing sailboats with crews of 8 or more, we're talking about toys for billionaire status symbols... Look at the ownership and sponsorship of the boats in this for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ocean_Race
Snowie, and Jellyfish.
Russian roulette is a vector for bullets, but presumably everyone knows that before they play.
Website layout is confusing, but this just appears to be a stub linking to this article:
https://www.techinsights.com/blog/two-new-apple-socs-two-mar...

Discussed earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25547151
Of course you are entitled to your opinion, but "praise in public, punish in private" is a saying for a reason. Praise is more effective in public, and praising one person on the team publicly benefits the entire team, not just that person.
I think it goes to show that the combination of C++ giving the developer a lot of flexibility in how to approach a problem, as well as being unopinionated, leaves room for stuff like this to be built.

There are a lot of decent ways to use templates; that link is definitely not one of them.
99pi and Changelog are great!

I listen to a lot of podcasts, in alphabetical order:

A Million Little Gods <- Serious but accessible philosophy discussions, Season 2 was an absolutely mind-blowing discussion of "race"

Bundyville <- Limited series about the far-right movement in the western USA

Fandible <- Personal favourite actual-play RPG podcast, geeky but I love it

Freakonomics Radio <- I resisted at first because of the brand name, but the general content is so good.

Functional Design in Clojure <- Exactly what it says, works surprisingly well as a podcast. I really appreciate that it's "intermediate-level", and really focused on "how do you build real software"

Lexicon Valley <- Incredible and well-presented linguistics topics w/ some idiosyncratic music choices thrown in

JS Party <- from the same folks that make changelog. I honestly don't listen to every episode after the change in format after the incredible Season 1, but I stay subscribed and listen when the topic grabs my attention.

Sinica <- I came for the China content, but I stayed because these are the smartest conversations I hear about any topic anywhere.

Software Engineering Radio <- I don't listen to every episode, but it's good when it's good, mentioned by a few other commenters.

Stuff You Missed in History Class <- well worth an archive binge, there's a LOT of fascinating content deep inside.

This American Life <- I still listen even though I don't live in America anymore. :-)
> we found numerous cases of GPT-2 generating memorized personal information in contexts that can be deemed offensive or otherwise inappropriate. In one instance, GPT-2 generates fictitious IRC conversations between two real users on the topic of transgender rights. The specific usernames in this conversation only appear twice on the entire Web, both times in private IRC logs that were leaked online as part of the GamerGate harassment campaign.

Most countries have libel/defamation related laws that cover this and I hope this gets tested in court soon.

Exposing software/machine learning algothrims an entity doesn't fully understand sholdn't be a defense in court. At the moment developers just throw a sentence in their software license saying they aren't liable for damages but this isn't good enough. Someone is liable, if the law decides that the original creator isn't liable then the entity that hosts/runs the software needs to be.
Uh, you must be living quite far up north! There are people living there, wow! (Snobbery of a man who used to live in tropics.) Just joking.

Though, 26 vs 0.15 kwh variance is still nothing in comparison to the worst daily production on record, and nil you get at night.

Well, can only say that there is nothing even imaginable on the horizon to being practical for seasonal scale energy storage. Even for a small country as UK, you will need a small ocean to store enough energy for one season worth of consumption.
>The central point of your comment is obfuscated by unnecessary condescension.

How so?

Is it your view that pointing out that effort is required to obtain knowledge is "condescension?"

Who, exactly, was I condescending to? I'd be really interested to know, since that wasn't even a consideration to me.

In fact, I even make reference to this:

>A such, please don't take my comment as a personal attack, it's not. The sentiment you express isn't unusual or surprising.

Perhaps your confusion lies in my repeated use of the pronoun "you," which in this context refers to general humanity rather than any particular person (and most certainly not OP).

It's unfortunate that you (in this case, I specifically mean the poster to whom I'm responding) chose to ignore my argument because of some invented negativity.

Thank you for sharing your point of view. I appreciate your feedback.
Chart of the week: Global trade through a US-China lens
Let me get this straight. Thieves and grifters are not the problem, none of your business in fact, it's the rubes who fall for their sophisticated schemes?
The username endpoint in the HN API contains ids for all of that user's comments - you could take that and iterate the ids and download them from the API.

It could probably be done with a simple script and you would end up with a folder full of JSON files. Your ISP might hate you, though.
>That drone is what, half a pound? It seems like the biggest risk is it hitting a pedestrian or cyclist (of which I did not see any), and could result in perhaps a single person needing to go the hospital.

What happens when a half pound drone that's going 15+ kph hits an oncoming car windshield going many times that speed?

>hundred vehicles with one ton+ curb weights, driving at one another, piloted by what are most likely bored inattentive drivers.

what happens when you distract those drives with an aerial nuisance while they're trying to cross a bridge that offers no positive outcomes if the vehicle vector is changed?

Things don't have to be universally safe to point out a safety flaw with a specific variable.

Driving cars isn't safe, but doing something unsafe while compounded with distractions and possible bogeys is even more unsafe.
IIUC, it's "impossibly fast" if you assume the search -> see results flow requires a network round-trip (a very common assumption).
> Doesn't it feel inappropriate to express gratitude as an "issue"?

Yes, because it is, but I'd dispute the claim that GitHub discourages it. If anything, the people who use GitHub are more willing/most likely to misuse bugtracker for not just support requests but also general discussion and comments like this. It seems like there's a (non) issue like this that gets linked at least once a month on HN. I click through, get annoyed with the person who opened it, read the maintainer's response, get annoyed with their endorsement/encouragement of the idea, close the window, and then file it away in my mind or my bookmarks or both as an example of how annoying it is to try to collaborate with people whose platform of choice is GitHub.

Post this stuff on Twitter, or a mailing list, or a discussion board. Or at the very least, be productive and file a bug that says something like, "I wanted to express my gratitude for this project, but the README doesn't link to any public venues for general discussion". You know: things that at least attempt to pass themselves off as legitimate bugs? Or just don't do any of that and keep posting this sort of thing on GitHub--but in that case, please kindly also curb your and your colleagues' whinging in all future instances where you find that someone has chosen not to host on GitHub and, upon with being asked to, they say "no" and point to things like this as being among the reasons why GitHub users can't be trusted to make responsible use of project infrastructure.
Odd. I'm at a positive vote count. Did I say something controversial?
Kind of sad that we have to rely on third parties with enough compute power to get a good experience with GPT. I obtained 'a' GPU and spent a week trying to learn how to fine-tune GPT with it, and the results were terrible. Maybe this isn't the kind of thing suitable for hacking on as a hobby, unless you're a researcher or employee with access to a lot of capital and dozens of GPUs.

Still wish the old talktotransformer model was released, instead of monetized behind a new company. I haven't been able to find a comparable model yet.
My understanding of the term "micro-inverter" is that it describes a small, unsophisticated, lower power inverter. Such a device could not match grid phase and could not handle high voltages. They are useful for other reasons, but by themselves don't connect to the grid.

My Solar Edge system uses micro-inverters on each panel, but still has "an inverter" before the grid interconnect.
I loved that episode too, I was extremely informative but also equally saddening.
Of course, the Ainu are indigenous to Hokkaido https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people
We have ways of making you talk - ww2 history

Dan snow history

Gossipmongers - nonsense

Sopranos
Glad that they found it, but I don't think that changes the point. The "usual places" is just one or two places on each model, and bomb sites are messy. They could have been diligent and not found it. You were expressing a certainty that wasn't warranted, and in a way that was slightly disparaging to those actually on the ground doing the work.
> A car with a 300 mile range covers almost all drivers for almost all uses.

Depends on charging options. If you can charge overnight at home or at the office, then yes. If your only option is spending a long time at a charging station away from home / office, an EV suddenly requires planning.

Thankfully there's more and more public chargers in or near residential areas around here.
It's obvious that any system with faulty sandboxing or privilege isolation is quite likely to be insecure. If the default "sandboxing" of Docker allows access to nearly everything of importance on the host, then we can indeed make "broad-based claims" about the insecurity of the system as a whole.
With this comment I'm certain. Hacker news hasn't turned into reddit. It has sunk below. 2020 claims another scalp. Rip HN, I'm thankful for what has been and I will miss your glory days
Why not make a roof out of solar panels?

Tesla offers that, but it's not cheap.[1]

[1] https://electrek.co/2019/06/14/tesla-solar-roof-quote-price/
Unless you mean something specific, at least Mercedes, BMW, Audi and Volvo offer very good ACC with lane assist in their SUVs.
I'm pretty sure GitHub actions do use a whole (though probably lightweight) VM. And I think AWS lamdas do as well, or at least used to.
I listen to my podcasts via the Pocket Casts app on Android (audio only).
Hmm I see that could be interesting.

The software this script is built around [0] comes with a developing [1] search functionality.

The idea is that using these plugins and the main software one can group / save / search their digital identity - and that's exactly what saving comments would work towards.

[0]: https://archivy.github.io
[1]: https://github.com/archivy/archivy/pulls/159