skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks great on the first glance! I'll inspect it in detail tonight.

I'm looking for something that helps my get back into chip-tunes composing. I used to be an ImpulseTracker junkie in the past.
What's FUP? 'Full Usage Plan?'

I've never heard that acronym before.
> It turns out the result of the game has lots to do with the player, and Little to do with the color, which makes the alien first model simple, accurate, and completely wrong.

And discovering that relationship between players and winning is important and valuable! But trying to understand how the pieces move before you've even understood that this is a game of skill is putting the cart before the horse, and gives you a model that really is less useful than the coin-flip model.
Exactly what I just wrote in another comment :) Start with simple, "unrealistic" load tests of suspected hot paths and you're likely to get very good ROI on the hours you spend.
The basic idea is that you cannot "implement" (emulate) memristance using resistors, capacitors and inductors and that is what causes it to be fundamental property of the circuit element.
I don't know what the intent of the op was, but a lot of times repos are submitted without proper readmes, explanations or examples, such that it feels like "working out the usefulness of this thing is left as an exercise for the reader".
What the bubble got right (2004)
It's visual bookmarking, but your bookmarks are public so other people can see them and save them to their own bookmarks.

You can set up a board for a topic. "Tattoos I want", "ceramic mugs", "wedding locations", "cutlery" or whatever. Then you install the Pinterest browser button. Then, when you search the web for these things and you find them you save an image to your board. Or you can search Pinterest itself for these things and save the links to your boards.

Later, when you go to your board you have all these images in one place so you can easily compare them.

Of course some people find this cumbersome and limiting and prefer to usebrowser tabs and bookmarks and folders, and that's fine if it works for them.
But the claim lives or dies by its example. The author's whole point is that he's discovered or imagined a situation in which doing science "badly" would be better than doing it "well". If his imaginary situation doesn't actually hold up then his whole argument is nonsense.
For people to create visual collections of items from anywhere on the internet. They could be used for shopping, inspiration, bookmarks, or many other purposes.

I developed a similar site before Pinterest launched. Etsy used to have a feature called the Treasury, where members made collections of items, typically based on a theme like color, purpose, theme or aesthetic. Around the same time (2008-2009) there were sites like Wists, Wishlist or the Amazon wishlist bookmarklet. I had an etsy-related startup at the time.

We decided we wanted to make a collection site that was like the Treasury but drew from anywhere on the internet. I created a bookmarklet similar to Amazon's that would pop up, let you select a photo and a title and add any URL to one of your lists on our site. We had it 80% functional and styled, but became distracted by our primary project and unfortunately never launched it.
You might want to look into why exactly you're on 4 prescriptions. Doesn't sound like a good thing. It's important to be or have a health-care advocate.
I know your comment is coming from the right place here but it reads to me like "how strong is the evidence that straight conversion doesn't work for homosexually?".

I think these is some merit to the arguement that we should treat obese people (in the interest of full disclosure I'm usually in the overweight category by BMI) in the same way we treat smokers. Reduce temptation, avoid glamourising unhealthy foods, remove hidden sugers etc.

Fat shaming is like going up to each smoker you see on the street and screaming "eww that stinks" in their face.
Is it a bad thing? Maybe taxes shouldn't be a thing, or should be low enough that it's easier to pay them than to dodge them?

One of my problems with taxes is that it's essentially a free, automatically-replenishing pool of money for stupid politicians/government officials to spend recklessly (often prioritizing short-term wins that give them the most political clout) without the "pressure" a typical business in a competitive environment faces to use their money in the most efficient manner possible.
The extreme limits and AML regulations are quite a recent phenomenon.
Thanks! I've signed up for the mailing list. Look forward to seeing the release.
What kind of alternative to maths and models, that has predictive (preferably in quantitative way) power, would you propose?
You can create user scenarios in JMeter. It is manual work to setup but it works fine. You can add think times, randomization, scaling of number of users, use scripts to generate input data, etc. It's not a simple tool, but it's not a simple problem to solve either.

I never needed WebSocket testing in JMeter but my quick Google shows that it exists.
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"We offer an experience of 3D on a single 2D image using the parallax effect, i.e, the user is able move his real-time tracked face to visualize the depth effect."

Since there are no examples I can't be sure if this is is what I think it is, but IF it is:

I want this on huge monitor for any 3D game instead of clunky headgear VR or tiny smartphone AR.

Months ago I also tested this with a small 3D visualization and very crude head tracking.

The effect is damn awesome! To be able to move around in real space with the rendering adapting to it, makes it so immersive, even for my very crude tests.

In my opinion the resulting 3D effect is MUCH better than viewing in stereo with one picture per eye.

Here is an example from someone else from 2007:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

From 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9kPI7_vhAU

Obviously this works for only one person viewing it, but does that really matter?
There are a LOT of use cases where only a single person uses a single monitor for viewing, especially in these times.
In fact it is the standard.
Ask HN: How to get an income while working towards an MVP, as solo-entrepreneur?
As a solo developer, I have been working on a simulation tool for embedded systems for the past couple of months. Since it is a considerable technical challenge, there is still some work to do to get to a stage where the tool is practically usable by customers. So that means that it would be hard to sell it at this moment. Moreover, since I'm working solo, improving the website, writing articles, going to customers, or other sales-related activities, means taking away time from working on the tool itself. Similarly, I could spent my time doing services to have some income, but then the progress on my product would slow down a lot as well.

What is a good approach to having some income, with a product that is not yet an MVP, and still be able to continue programming to get to an MVP?
What do they use the picture for when they get them?
What I hate about Medium is that I don’t know whether I’m clicking a premium article or not on Google results.

If it’s a premium article that I don’t want to read or not what I’m looking for, I’ve wasted one of three of their free premium articles a month.

Since I’m not a paying member, I will have wait another month to read a premium article that I like, if I used up my free 3 articles.

Google should find and add a way to let me know that I’m clicking a paywall link, or don’t index them, so I’m able to avoid them
That takes care of the software and protocol side of things, true, but does it give more reliable and predictable uptime? That's the main thing here; while there are plenty of software alternatives to Slack, their product is not just the software but also the hardware, servers, and scaling. You can get a Slack instance from 10 to >10K members without ever having to worry about your hardware, or how much hours your staff needs to spend on maintaining said hardware. And when there is inevitably downtime, you and your staff don't have to scramble to get it back up - with this outage, it's a shrug, it's down, it'll be back soon probably, I'm going to do some work or do something else. Extended toilet / lunch break.
On an intuitive level, this makes perfect sense. Assuming that entropy is, roughly speaking, novelty, that makes the calculation one about exploring new options for utility gains.

I recall seeing a study (although not where) suggesting novelty seeking was a key hallmark of intelligence. Maybe this means the entropy-utility calibration drives their intelligence? (Alongside their actual material circumstances)
I believe the point being made here is that, indeed, scientific method is based on accuracy of prediction.

However, in order to reach a good accuracy, a great deal of fine-tuning and tweaking is required. E.g. high energy physics. The standard model has something like 18 free parameters.

A new theory, which could be "more correct" and provide, in the long term, better predictions, might require time and manpower for this fine-tuning and tweaking to occur.

However, as it did not provide better accuracy of prediction in its initial stages, is said to be not worth pursuing or even directly pseudoscience or quackery.

This used to not be the case because, 100 years ago, relatively simple theories workable by 1-3 solo scientists provided a large enough breakthrough in prediction power to be seriously considered.

It may be the case however that nowadays, with the amazing level of precision measurement we are able to achieve, we've optimized ourselves into a corner.

We've fitter our quite-a-lot-of-degrees-of-freedom theories into a local maximum so hard that finding a theory that predicts better is, at least, impractical.

And through this process we've blinded ourselves from any new and disruptive ideas.

Again, look at the standard model. It's got so many damn dials to tweak that no wonder it fits reality so well. And if it ever doesn't, we can just shove supersymmetry in there.

We need to be able to dedicate resources to theories that do not provide better predictions, but that provide new perspectives. A moderate amount of resources. But calling those scientists quacks does no good.
In my experience, it's not about being line-oriented. It's about being punctuation heavy or not. Lisp, except parens, for the most part doesn't have all that much punctuation (quotes and commas are rare). Now let's take this program in C++:

#include <iostream>

int main() {
std::cout << "hello, world!" << std::endl;
}

If my cursor is after "main", then M-f will move my cursor to after "std". It completely ignored "()" and "{". Another M-f moves my cursor to after "cout". Here it ignored "::". Another M-f moves the cursor to after "hello" ("<<" and the quote-mark ignored), another to after "world", and another to after "std" (quote-mark and "::" ignored) etc. It behaves similarly when hitting C-Backspace, where sometimes half a line disappears suddenly, because it was punctuation-heavy. I think once I stumbled upon code where it deleted several lines. On the other hand, when I have a variable like "big_number", then Emacs will happily jump into the middle of it. Even though it's an indivisible token in the eyes of the language's lexer. Of course there is a well-known hack of adding the "_" character to be recognised as a "word character". But it doesn't solve the issue really. The issue is that forward-word uses just one set of word-characters, instead of several sets of characters/regexes for different syntactic categories, which would enable jumping first to "cout" and then to "<<".
I don't think you should be travelling with the 24 word recovery phrase.

That one should be encrypted, backed up, and stored in a safe place
What integrity guarantees does TLS provide that GPG does not?
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Hi op here, not a regular Pinterest user, I may land on their website when I’m looking for an image on Pinterest.

I’m not an avid daily Pinterest user, neither I have Pinterest on my mobile phone

This is sent to me by my ISP, I know it does not make sense and I don’t understand it either, what I know is that something is wrong somewhere
> then a socialist country [..] eliminates the least productive part of the population

I swear I heard some of my left leaning friends argue that a capitalist country would reason that way (and I'm pretty sure they would point historical anectodetes to prove their point)

Could it be, perhaps, that such conclusions about how appealing the opposite political belief is just the product of sectarian thinking and fear mongering? Humans are generally decent people who care about each other; and also often ruthless people who couldn't care less about the well-being of the fellow citizens. The only correlation I see between these two behavioral traits and the political doctrine, is the circumstance where a person is born and the environment where events unfold.
Symmetrically encrypt it and tell the border guard it’s your moms laptop password
you have it wrong, QM is the only physical theory that has randomness as an inherent part, as compared to e.g thermodynamics where randomness is due to lack of information. It is proven (see Bell inequalities) that randomness in QM isn't due to lack of information.

You can't just wave away the collapse mechanism, what do you make of the double alit experiment? isn't the target "real" enough?
Why Britain Failed, Again
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I doubt they tested for the case where they needed oxygen for the patients in the conference rooms and gift shop, either. It’s not like they can order more rooms on AWS; physical infrastructure has a breaking point and LA hospitals hit it.
So much of this feels like someone invented a teleporter and now reactionaries are condemning teleporters because they can be used by smugglers to evade customs enforcement.

But the cat is out of the bag. The smugglers are going to keep using it regardless of what rules you impose on law biding citizens.
To be fair those flash cells stack directly on top of each other so in some sense you can shave off a factor of ten.
Back in Feb 2020, a rumor circulating on Chinese social media said that there was another lab in the city near the market, which was a competitor to the lab of Wuhan Institute of Virology that is most widely mentioned, under the umbrella of a university of agriculture/forestry/geology (I don't remember the exact details).

I am not sure about the validity of the rumor, though.
From outside the US all we see is exceptional USians braying about how democratic, Christian they all are - it's vomitous to all thinking people. The other dictatorships don't do this afaict.
I think this isn’t true, at least for SWEs at companies like Google. Do you have any evidence for this position? Or any example evidence of what salaries used to be and what they are now?
This is amazing, I wonder how I can do this offline, using open source tools.

Are there any really good open source speech to text programs? I imagine it's going to involve a pre-trained neural net.

[update] Following a thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20097542

It looks like I might be able to do this (speech recognition) in less than real time (because I don't have a GPU) using https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
Complements it
> Taste is associated with familiarity and comfort.

I respectfully disagree, I used to work in F&B industry. And product marketing and placement has absolutely no affect on how one think something taste is good or bad. It does however remind anyone next time the walk into store they should buy coke, which does affect sales number. But not taste difference.

My 7 years old nephew hasn't watched a single Coca Cola coke in his life time, but he prefer coke over Pepsi. While my friends daughter ( and her mum ) prefer Pepsi.
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All modern search engines use neural networks for final ranking. Even the Google employees who work in it wouldn't be able to tell you exactly how much images help or hinder your rankings.
Bitcoin transactions are not nameless in practice because people will nearly always interact with exchanges and merchants. There is so much information from that. Mixers and CoinJoins don't work well enough when used by a small percentage of people, and they will cause redflags in AML analysis systems. Privacy is already being priced out as the transactions fees rise, too. With strong regulations it will enable surveillance on scale greater than anything we have seen before.

Terrorists and such will just use something else, sure. However, lack of liquidity and network effect will be problematic. I would be comfortable saying that stopping them is an excuse rather than the real goal - mass surveillance on citizens. Same with how the government is intent on complaining about end-to-end encryption apps like Signal when the real terrorists will just use PGP.

AML has never been very effective.
Everything wrong with Spotify's new feature: 'Group Sessions'
and otherwise law abiding citizens are the only ones ensnared by this.

most of the time its because they are paranoid about triggering government reporting requirements that they don't understand, and avoiding that is a crime too!

its always the people without money trying to act sketchy about $10,000 so they can avoid being seen as sketchy

they really do get thrown in prison for this
The author unironically uses a parable about aliens predicting chess outcomes with a coin flip and how wrong that is, to promote the idea that random fringe ideas without predictive power have value.

I severely doubt anyone who isn't already primed to agree with the conclusions would read this and find it convincing

(I don't find the idea that science needs ways to escape local maxima particularly controversial, but this article is terrible, and made worse by the unnecessary antagonism)
I raised similar concerns in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641205

regarding privacy in Google, to be downvoted almost immediately. There's people that truly don't care about privacy and control, and see comments like this as a nuisance, because they can't see how this massive amount of information could be used against them. WEF itself has been selling the you won't own a thing, and you'll be happy mantra for a while, and there's more and more people buying it.

It would be palatable if the ones promoting it didn't have so much privacy and control themselves.
> How does a virus spread primarily by aerosols/droplets travel 7 miles across a city of 10 million people?

Presumably the same way it travels 25,000 miles across a planet of 7.5bn people - via the people.
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I might find, however, some agreement with the spirit of the article. It seems to me that, even though the author doesn't articulate it properly, the idea is that scientists should pursue more fringe theories even if immediate confirmation is lacking. I think there's quite a bit of value in this, as long as your predictions are always checked against reality.

I have seen notable academics say the same thing. The problem is that the incentives set up in modern academia are strongly against doing anything outside of the mainstream.
Standards-Based vs. the New Standard
Abstractly speaking you are right, of course.

However, how could you even begin to fairly judge the author’s argument if you yourself aren’t knowledgeable about the topic at hand?

If you aren’t an expert looking at the author’s credentials and making an inference from there is totally fair since you will never be able to even begin to appreciate that argument.

Which to me means in this case: I want to hear from virologists or epidemiologists or similar people about this topic and no one else. Maybe an article that heavily relies on quotes and interviews with such people would be fine, too.
No, sometimes you have to just admit you’re wrong.

There’s plenty of this which is entirely plausible without any “across the road” bullshit; that’s purely headline grabbing nonsense.
Just think about how easy it is to make deep fakes with this.
So if all >1000€ transactions need to be reported, that means that they need to be recorded in an electronic system. That data is recorded for the purpose of sharing with various institutions and agencies, and you do not know who will see that data or how long it will be shared for.

There is basically no privacy for transactions above 1000€.

Worse, that data can be hacked and leaked to the internet. Eg. Criminals will be able to see that last summer you bought an expensive watch, and know that you may be a good target. Such data has often been leaked to the internet before.

There was a recent incident where the sales data for the Ledger cryptocurrency hardware wallet was hacked and leaked to the internet. Including names and addresses of people. I guess this stort of stuff will happen more frequently in the future.
The relevant subreddits have stories like this weekly.

Basically amounts to don’t quit your day job. Google and amazon are fickle friends
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