skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I commented about this sometime in the last year. Let me see if my search fu can dig up the post...

Edit: I was about to plead too much beer, but https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... delivered. This is the post I was thinking of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622983.
> Bitcoin will rise big and then drop sharply once people realize how useless it is

or when the liquidity catches up to the prices on exchanges, like every bitcoin rally ever and people keep building on it regardless? it isn't controversial for commodities to have cyclical trading patterns.
Register at developer.nintendo.com, download the free tools, and off you go. Switch development is much more straight forward than previous Nintendo consoles. You'll need a dev console eventually which will cost a bit, but you can get quite far before spending anything.
Spike proteins in coronaviruses are present in two structurally distinct conformations: pre- and postfusion. The conformational switch between them promotes the viral fusion to the host cell.

To maximize the effectiveness of the vaccine, its spike protein should stay in the prefusion state no matter what. The two mutations in the engineered spike proteins allow exactly that.
This has been apparent for a long time, but decision-makers in the US have greatly reduced the horizons of time-periods they care about (very little long-term strategic thinking both politically, especially the executive branch, and for company executives & wall street). So if a tactic works now and brings in results now to ensure the bonus or re-election, then it's implemented regardless of long-term harm, since someone else will deal with that at some point in the future.

China took advantage of America's growing individual greed and short-termism. American companies know this, but they can't help themselves.
There's so much information about Sleep in Matthew Walker's "Why we sleep". I strongly recommend it. <3
Ahh, I'm sorry you missed out on the tradition of creating an account to inform some that he is Wrong on the Internet and why. But there's always next year.

Happy New Year; may it be full of vigorous and rigorous argument!
You misspelled “profitable”.
be the change you want to see
As another anecdote, on mornings when I can sleep in, I wake up momentarily before my final doze (another 30m-1hr). That wake always interrupts my most vivid dreams of the night (whose events feel like several hours of real life, but unsure about its real length).

Then, as I fall back asleep, I'm either wishing for/against that dream topic to continue. Most of the time not getting what I want.
Bank to bank sure, WU is much higher in all cases I have seen. But he, we are just some people on the internet. I can send you pics of conversion tables in WU cash points in HK which are off by 5-20% from the inter bank rate. Banks can do this cheaply (and you still get screwed with most banks but indeed 1-2%, not 5+) so WU definitely does something bad there.
> Tech stocks will drop

As a vaccine roles out, one would expect these online services to die back down again to roughly where they were, if a little elevated due to some good exposure.

> Fiat currencies will have major moves

I see a few large movers now trying to push micro-transactions which could be interesting. I know for example China are pushing Alipay very hard.

> Bitcoin will rise big and then drop sharply once people realize how useless it is

I think of Bitcoin essentially as a pyramid scheme, it has zero real world value. I think banks made a major mistake in trading in it.

I always thought it would be more interesting (if not more illegal) if it was used for solving computationally hard problems, where people post bounties for their completion and it can be proved the computation was done correctly. For example cracking a strong key pair or website certificate, or doing some computation for research like protein folding.

> Inequality will continue to grow. More controls will be put in place to keep disadvantaged in line. Surveillance, social controls, brainwashing

See the point about micro-transactions. Cash-in-hand agreements grease the palms of the working man, if they can make that digital then they can tax it.

> Real estate will have volatility

After the protests/riots in the US and the COVID situation in all major cities, I think many people are looking to move out to more rural areas. In New York I hear the markets are in a very bad way.
Schrodinger wrote about life from this perspective in an article also called "What is life?"

I thought it was pretty good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Life%3F
The point was that if it was so easy, a lot more people would be disclosing the bugs and asking MS to fix. Not everyone hacker has a malicious intent.
I can see why you used a throw-away, considering the comments of the video you linked and the very first other one I looked at both have people talking about eugenics in a positive fashion.
I find that writing spaced-repetition prompts in the way the article describes to have too small of a return on investment: Reviewing them is quick, but it takes a lot of effort to craft good ones from a text.

Good authors take care with their prose and use nuance to get their point across, which is often lost in the translation to a few bullet points. This subtlety is often the meat of the text, and the high-level points are the bones that hold it all together: essential, but not where the real value is.

My Anki deck is mostly cloze deletions automatically extracted from ebooks, where I've imported the entire text ~20 lines at a time. I've deliberately set up the review schedule so that it's hard for me to memorize particular phrases: 1 week for the first review and 4 weeks for the second, with a 1 day delay for misses. This forces me to remember what role the passage plays in the wider narrative (argument for non-fiction) to successfully predict the blanked-out word.

With this setup, I'm noticing new connections between different sections of the same book, and between different books, every time a card comes up for review: My understanding of the world has changed since I last saw it, and so I notice different subtleties than I did the first time around.

Instead of viewing them as a chore, I'm now actually excited to do my Anki reviews every morning-- where they used to make me mentally exhausted, they're now a warm-up that gets my brain started for the day.
> three gorges produces 22,500 MW of power.

Correction: 22,500MW is the installed capacity, i.e. what the generators are capable of. It only reaches about half capacity on average, going by the numbers listed in the Wikipedia article (101.6TWh in 2018 => average ~11,600MW).
Happy 2021 Bhrata!

Ugadi (Kannada/Karnataka New Year) falls on April 13 2021 as per Panchang (traditional Hindu almanac followed in India).

BTW, using Panchang, a Vedic pundit in a village can accurately predict solar/lunar eclipse start/end times (among many other predictions) without any scientific instrument whatsoever.
This implication is striking, not just for us individuals & communities to realise how niche perhaps opinions online are compared to our own, but also for engaging with:

- Media orgs, that often take offhand/random opinions online and blow it up beyond proportion. Overton Window shifts occur because of this, and political impacts often happen as a result.

- AI models, like those trained off of publicly available text sources online (comments and otherwise).
Is this blogspam?
HBM3 is released sending GDDR6 into an identity crisis

Apple's processor series has an upgrade and has an unexpected name

Apple gets tired of Qualcomm and starts making radios as well (Qualcomm's has not released adequate drivers to allow 5g in a multi-SIM environment, delaying Apple's ability to offer it)

A Camera manufacturer implements "Live Photos" in the RAW format with key frame selection

A cooler running version of the Raspberri Pi is released
They were not all exactly like Dutch bikes. Though they were inexpensive and fairly common through the mid 80s Stuff like the Breeze, Speedster, Suburban, etc. See https://bikehistory.org/ for a lot more examples.
Featuritis
Your opinion on C# is outdated by at least 5 years of massive changes in the entire .NET ecosystem.
What difference would $10,000 make? That's the primary question.

You can buy a decent engineer's spare time for two or three months, if they're being generous about it and particularly want to help. Where would one place $10k that it would meaningfully accelerate reverse engineering the Switch?

You either do it for anything but the money, or the money has to be a lot larger than $10k.
This exists actually, it's not complete yet (I think?) but it covers a lot of the material in the book:

https://github.com/probml/pyprobml
I mean sovereignty in the sense of actual control. When you put your money in a bank account, you give up control of it to that bank. The money may legally be yours, but they physically possess it, and can keep you from transacting with it whenever they wish. I in fact just had this issue the other day. I have a company, and due to a clerical error with the state its registered in, my company was listed as being "not in good standing", and because of this, Wells Fargo froze my accounts and wouldn't let me transact for two weeks until I got the whole thing cleared up. That could never happen with a crypto wallet, because I have actual sovereignty over my crypto wallets, nobody can freeze them for any reason.
The Rickenbacker 360 comes to mind in the context of distinctive guitar sounds.
Just as a Fender is always played through an amp, a DX7 would never go dry into the mixing console. What we think of as the DX7 sound is almost always a combination of the Yamaha chip and a smorgasbord of effects units, usually at least reverb but likely also chorus, delay, compression, and even distortion, not to mention extensive EQ.
I’m sure you’ve had the experience of being downvoted for being right but with unpleasant news.
No it isn't. I am not arguing that the price going up makes it good. That would be silly. I am merely disputing the characterization of the prior comment as 'cherry picking'.
some governments are corrupt and incompetent so that's not necessarily a mistaken belief.
The least invasive we seem to have in development right now is EasyGlucose[0] which monitors glucose levels from a photo of your iris, but it seems like nothing has come out since the initial press in 2019.

Similar is Google detecting heart disease from photos of the back of the eye, whatever happened with that? [1]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/non-invasive-glucose-monit...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/19/17027902/google-verily-ai...
Number 55 will be factored using Shor's algorithm on quantum computer.
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I often remember the dream right when I wake up, but if I don't immediately focus on remembering it (e.g. while writing it down), later in the day I almost magically won't remember even what the general topic was.
The DX7 is indeed super important. The E. Piano preset is in like all the 80s cheesy ballads ever... but not only those. It was also used in Jazz (fusion) quite a bit. Hell, Chick Corea was a fan of the Synth (listen Electric City), also George Duke.

Even the big brands these days have sampled the DX E. piano, because if you're a live performer it's quite likely that you'll need it if you're playing anything from the 80s in your repertoire (https://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-libraries/nord-sample-li...).

The DX 7 E.Piano is not a great "E.Piano Sound", but it has a life of its own... :)

Source: Been playing Piano for 27 years and started on Synths ~22 yrs ago... first synth was an FM Korg X5D :)
First four pars of intro for your convenience:

Graphs have been used with great success as representations of probability models, both Bayesian and
Markov networks as well as latent-variable neural networks. But in many applications, especially in speech and language processing, a fixed graph is not sufficient. The graph may have substructures that repeat a variable number of times: for example, a hidden Markov model (HMM) depends on the number of words in the string. Or, part of the graph may have several alternatives with different structures: for example, a probabilistic context-free
grammar (PCFG) contains many trees for a given string.

Several formalisms have been proposed to fill this need. Plate notation (Buntine, 1994), plated factor graphs (Obermeyer et al., 2019), and dynamic graphical models (Bilmes, 2010) address the repeated-substructure problem, but only for sequence models like HMMs. Case–factor diagrams (McAllester et al., 2008) and sum–product networks (Poon and Domingos, 2011) address the alternative-substructure problem, so they can describe PCFGs, but only for fixed-length inputs.

More general formalisms like probabilistic relational models (Getoor et al., 2007) and probabilistic programming languages (van de Meent et al., 2018) address both problems successfully, but because of their generality, tractable exact inference in them is often not possible.

Here, we explore the use of hyperedge replacement graph grammars (HRGs), a formalism for defining sets of graphs (Bauderon and Courcelle, 1987; Habel and Kreowski, 1987; Drewes et al., 1997). We show that HRGs for factor graphs, or factor graph grammars (FGGs) for short, are expressive enough to solve both the repeated-substructure and alternative-substructure problems, and constrained enough allow exact and tractable inference in many situations.

____

I'm still not sure I get it, but I think the idea is somehow similar to Feynman diagrams — establish a set of rules that allow to do calculations efficiently.

Maybe someone who knows more about this can explain?
>It is hard to be right all the time. Logically, it should be exactly, equally hard to be wrong all the time, but somehow more people achieve it.

Dichotomous choices almost never exist. It is very easy to be wrong on most issues, simply by speaking out random opinions every time you see a situation with more than two possible truths. Never miss an opportunity to call the outcome of a d20 roll and you'll be well on your way to being an anti-oracle.
>> We don't want anything to do with them in the context of an EU replacement

>> We are not getting the Empire band back together

CANZUK would have no political union component so how can you maintain the EU and especially the British Empire comparison?
You may be interested to know that the book has come in for strong criticism, including an accusation of deliberate manipulation of data.

See: ‘Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors’

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
> Ctrl-F4 close them. Press and hold Ctrl, then F4 them one at a time.

Ctrl-F4 shuts down entire browser, Ctrl-W closes each tab with a press of w. This is behavior in Ubuntu and it holds true for most application windows.
Man, that sounds like a terrible experience. And based on the time it took you to get back to work in the right role, it's a testament to the fact that burnout can be really severe and take quite a while to get through.
Wonder if line years (capped at 1 year per line) per years worked would be better than other metrics. Credit is given to those who frequently commit changes that last. This could least to a culture of changing lines just for easy credit though; like any metric it becomes flawed once it is a goal.
Thanks! Always glad to hear that the work matters.
I would love to understand this in detail.

If you mined it once you get a hash. When you say you lost those coins you lost the hash to the account? When you mined in 2009 was the hash smaller than today? Is brute forcing possible?
Having also worked for companies that HN hates, of course it's much different on the inside. Nobody twiddles their mustache and cackles when they make decisions that screw people over. They find ways to make it sound benevolent and positive.

Keep at it! Big/impactful companies are great places to learn, and I don't want to tell you what to think. But your views on topics like benign intents and unintended consequences might change after you see enough of them firsthand.
I used to do this now I just search again and occasionally I will bookmark a page that is too valuable to miss in future searches.

This keeps my bookmarks clean.
inflation will start being a problem

If that happens then interest rates will rise, which will be very, very bad for both businesses and home owners. If it happened quickly enough it'd make 2008 look like a walk in the park.
It's not a religion, from my POV at least.

One of the things I try to do with my tech choices is watch my delta from mainstream options, where I expect most development and bug fixes happen. Given that systemd has been adopted by the bigger linux distributions I see more value in using it and have the big vendors fix any problems than trying to use niche solutions.

I m surprised that the author did have systemd hardening suggestions, didn't expect that. I 'm tempted to go back and check them.
+1 for Cryptocommodity
"Like, what are even hoping to achieve?"

I am hoping that Nintendo attempts to stop me from doing this.
I linked to fluentbit only as an independent journal reader, not for what it does as a service.

To be clear, I wasn't defending usefulness of sealing and signing. Just the fact that not only it's independently readable, but also you can find out about corruption of it matters to you for forensic purposes raised.

Journalctl does provide at least one significant feature though - on a properly configured system "journalctl -u foobar" gives you the logs of foobar. No more chasing which file they live in, no more stdout goes here, stderr there, and logs get split in that special way over there. This is great for desktop users.
There will be contact with an alien civilization, the kind of which we haven't ever thought about.
Happy New Year everyone. HN FTW!
Most American ex-Trots are just Democrats now. And I’m not sure why they would become nihilists either way. Trots are known to be nothing if not the most stubbornly committed to the cause of human freedom.
USB-C charging stations with 4+ ports at reasonable price
I hoped this would be the case with the iPhone, but no such luck.
Speaking of Microfreak, I wish there are more portable but powerful synthesizers that run on batteries.
What’s the cost of entry into SynBio these days? Have any solutions become commoditized yet? Are there consultancies selling this as a service yet?
Indeed, the styling was different, but the concept was similar. Here is just one example.

https://waterfordbikes.com/SchwinnCat/flschwinn_1961_1970/19...

They also had a delivery bike that almost anticipates the modern baekfiets. And some department stores such as Sears and Wards had similar lines at somewhat lower prices.

I have a early 60s Schwinn that is still in good working order despite no maintenance other than lubrication and new tires.
> Yes, that conclusion is exactly what I already said, which I worded very precisely: "some companies bias positively towards people based on their race and/or gender".

I would not consider the scenario you described to be positive bias. It's still negative, and it still hurts the employee in question, even if they still get to draw a paycheck for a time. It's just a... different... kind of bias than the kind I mentioned.

> So we should not automatically assume, as the person I was replying to suggested, that someone will be biased against because of their race or gender for affirming work boundaries.*

My original comment didn't suggest that we should automatically assume that, just that it was a possibility. And I'd still expect my possibility to be more likely and pervasive than the scenario you described.
Low-latency satellite internet will face populist challenges because of the sky pollution and low-orbit trash. (even if they make it blend in)
Raycast (YC W20) is hiring to make developers more productive
Novel microscopy technique: Seeing live cells with 7 times greater sensitivity
What Apple's move to ARM could mean for PC and console gaming
> Basically Chrome Developer Tool's Sources tab but as files and folders on your computer.

Isn’t that what happens when you save a page? Or is that not possible with Puppeteer?
Health and Human Services will constitutionally designate Social Media as a public health emergency, allowing all states (while in states of emergency) to include restrictions to accessing social media or restrict the function of information on those network or restrict the price of ad bidding and data markets.
This has been posted multiple times in the past few days!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25591897
Standardization around Personal Note taking/Knowledge management, format of storing, seamless import/export between different services or personal tools.
In Japan, King Bowser is called 大魔王クッパ, or Great Demon King Koopa. Koopa, or クッパ (kuppa), is named for the Japanese pronunciation of a Korean soup , 국밥 (gukbap).

In the West, Koopas were retroactively changed to be the name of the turtle species with Bowser as their king.

They didn’t make all the enemy names sound like Goombah, just one, Goomba. Koopas having a similar sounding name is coincidence.

The actual name of the Goomba species, however, is likely to be, as you say, a reference to Italians. In Japan, they are called クリボー (kuribo) in reference to their chestnut (栗, kuri) appearance — this is supported by the even more chestnut-like appearance of the subspecies Galoombas (クリボン, kuribon) from Super Mario World.
The value of a bitcoin is the rarity of owning a coin is limited and the way it works opens up transactions globally. The price is the market demand.
VR and AR finally become mainstream and it becomes the next big thing as consumers get a taste of what the future is.

Federal reserve cryptocurrency comes out of the blue and is finally released but it is hampered by privacy concerns and mistrust.
Those are not the choices where Oracles of Wrong are useful.

When the number of choices is narrowed down to two, somebody who is only randomly wrong is just as likely to be right. But our Oracle can be counted upon to choose wrong with overwhelmingly greater than 50% accuracy.
Yes exactly. It's a great read. Here is the snippet about my other comment (p.25)

> Every process, event, happening -call
it what you will; in a word, everything that is
going on in Nature means an increase of the
entropy of the part of the world where it is going
on. Thus a living organism continually increases
its entropy -or, as you may say, produces
positive entropy -and thus tends to approach the
dangerous state of maximum entropy, which
is of death. It can only keep aloof from it, i.e.
alive, by continually drawing from its
environment negative entropy -which is
something very positive as we shall immediately
see. What an organism feeds upon is negative
entropy. Or, to put it less paradoxically, the
essential thing in metabolism is that the
organism succeeds in freeing itself from all the
entropy it cannot help producing while alive.
>the risk of catching covid is that they won't be able to perform their job while they recover.

No. The risk of a nurse catching COVID is that they will be an asymptomatic spreader and spread it to many other people in the hospital, including the new mother who just gave birth, the 25-year-old otherwise healthy car accident victim, and a half-dozen co-workers who will be going out in the community.

This is just the platonic ideal of HN, a bunch of engineers figuring that they can work out a better solution than the tens of thousands of public health scientists who have spent the past several decades working on vaccination and public health communication strategies.
Vaccinated U.S. nurse contracted Covid-19, Pfizer shot needed more time to work
It is not a flash card learning technique, but it is pretty fundamental to how we learn and retain information.

SRS simply takes advantage of how spaced repetition works.