skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such cases highlight the importance of improving IPFS and Federation protocols, for example for Gitea[1][2] or GitLab[3][4]. Or just sponsoring them[5].
The source code for ForgeFed[6][7] might be also of interest for improvement.

[1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612

[2] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/9045

[3] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/6468

[4] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/33665

[5] https://opencollective.com/gitea

[6] https://forgefed.peers.community/

[7] https://notabug.org/peers/forgefed
This reminds me of the very fun and oldschool tracker paradigm for music production. Incidentally, this is experiencing a bit of a renaissance due to the wonderful Polyend Tracker hardware - I also recommend Renoise / Redux, which is probably the most powerful tracker available right now.
People are attacking this article because logical positivism gives them peace of mind. It's nice to think that the universe is well ordered and that the answers are out there. It can give you a sense of superiority, too.

In this sense, a belief in logical positivism has the same psychological basis as a belief in a conspiracy theory.
Good suggestions, thank you.
I had a similar problem. I have paypal accounts in 3 countries. One my home country. Since I haven't lived in my home country for 10 years, I never use the account. However, some day I got an email asking me to login and do something, so I went to PayPal.com and logged in using my password manager (Bitwarden). But then they thought it was suspicious that I was logging from another country and they wanted to send me an SMS to my old phone, which I no longer have. In the end, I let the account die.
Also, Bluetooth AND USB support combined is killer.
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Well, that’s what you get for doing business with an American company. The USA impose illegal sanctions and strongarm their allies in supporting the sanctions. Let this be a lesson for others.
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My gut-level reaction (and this guy's clearly advocating for the merit of gut-level reactions! :D ) is this:

This is about priming people to buy into some propaganda system, for instance one constructed for political purposes, and reject their existing assumptions. The weird swerve at the end is the payload.

The reason to do this is, if you're knowingly maintaining a propaganda system that works towards some known purpose, and you want people to fall into it more readily. This doesn't discount the validity of the initial concepts: local maxima are real, and our ability to thoroughly understand things is limited.

But we remain functional through pretending we can indeed understand things, and there's usefulness in that. Generally, axioms are brought into question when specific details don't line up with our theory.

In a vacuum, 'abandon all theories!' is a fine position to have. In reality, 'abandon all theories!' is a set-up for getting fed a pile of information that benefits somebody else, because you become a willingly useful idiot ready to be programmed by anyone.

Running into somebody like this, I find the initial 'abandon all theories!' attitude to be refreshing. I even agree with some of it. If the NEXT THING he tells me is all about how Pepe's face is on the Moon outlined in craters, I've learned to be extremely suspicious of what the guy is really selling. Because even if he is himself sincere… there is somebody up the chain pursuing 'Nigerian spam' techniques and finding out by this who's credulous enough to be used for their own purposes.

And that's what I get from the 'going off the rails at the end'. The point of the article is to hook the truly credulous, and the writer may or may not be in on that.
"high-performance" is relative, so they need to compare it to something at all.
Yah, you t’ry an tell the young people of today t’at, and ey won't believe you.
s/Descript/self-promotion/g

Descript is an amazing product and one of the main inspirations for our startup and product : www.spoke.app

We offer the same services of editing by high-lighting text, but differ in so far as we offer video + direct capture of your content (both your microphone and system sound). Our goal isn't as much to produce nice, clean-cut videos, than to offer to summarize any video-conversation you might have for co-workers, friends, etc.
Correct, spoofing can be done with the "FakeGPS Free" app and developer options. Or via an emulator.
This topic is extremely interesting, and good to see that experiments support it.

In AI lens:

In a way, you can compare this to novelty seeking and intelligent exploration which is quite an active field in Artificial Life and game AI[1].
If you find this interesting: Jeff Clune, Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman conducted interesting related research.

Also, isn't this somehow related to the Free Energy principle by Karl Friston? If you look at entropy maximization as a way to minimize surprises.

[1] : https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10995
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Yeah I thought the same, many people nowadays just call decision trees and algorithms "AI", but this is some really handy stuff out of the reach of decision trees and algorithms. It understands what you say, learns your voice so you can correct what you say. Truly usefull, although AI is a big word for how they use Deep Learning of course. But ok, AI means "uses Deep Learning" I can live with that.
There is circumstantial evidence to indicate that the OC43 beta coronavirus crossed from animals in 1889 and killed about a million people worldwide. It can still be fatal to elderly or immunocompromised patients. The only reason it doesn't kill many people today is that most of us are infected as children and build up a level of immunity, so subsequent reinfections tend to have mild symptoms. Just like SARS-CoV-2.

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Can one of the mods update the title to be "Why I Consistently Reach for Server-Driven Content Negotiation (For Versioning)", looks like this one was re-submitted when the "Why" wasn't on [my submission](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644616)
“Take for example steel production. American employment in the industry has fallen by 55% since 1989, while chinese production is now 5 times higher.

...

Looking at the situation more granularly, we see that US steel production has been approximately constant since the early 80s, whereas Chinese steel production didn't ramp up till the 00s, around the same time that the decrease in US steel employment leveled off.”

Do you know of any data sources for this? I’d like to look at other industries as well.
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Hysteresis?
But Github is reason why git is popular ...
I didn't see in the Twitter thread--can anyone tell me what was driving this huge spike in traffic on Gov.uk? I'm not in the UK so I'm not up to the minute with political announcements.
Android devices get a pass. I'm guessing Google verifies some ID on the phone.

This, btw, is what I think caused me to lose a Google account.

It was an old one I was checking very rarely, someone reset my (strong!) password from a phone. I reset it again, along with the questions, thought I was fine.

They once again reset it and then Google's recovery page was not letting me do anything, apparently I was the suspicious person. Oook Google.
Sure that's exactly the same thing. At least what I was talking about. Talk to me while I'm trying to get into the code, is like trying to talk to someone trying to write a book or balance a checkbook or really concentrate on anything at all. Re-casting it as simple cooperation is disengenuous. Sure you want to explain things to a teammate; that's entirely missing the point.

If I'm talking, if I'm listening to you, then I'm not coding. They are orthogonal activities, at least for me. Want me to 'talk you through' my design thoughts? Thanks for your time, goodbye.
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Even with brand recognition, it's hard to build a product review business that doesn't rely on Google. Until 2018, I was the head of insights at one of the largest online publishers in the U.S. 90% of the company's revenue was tied to organic search. Sure, branding helped to prevent huge impacts like the one that I saw, but plenty of our competitors suffered big drops that resulted in 100s or 1,000s of layoffs.
The Silicon Valley wasn’t built overnight. The software industry is just taking off in the EU. Mind you, nobody would have thought that the US would loose their leading role in the Middle East, look at them now. I can see the same happening in tech.
I think you're missing the point. It's less a question of "can you find an alternative that is at least 80% as efficient", and more a question of "is this 20% bump in efficiency worth the liability risk".

Your opinion is 'yes'.
OP's opinion is 'no'.

Both are valid opinions and highly depend on the nature of your business.

But, OP's somewhat un-american sentiment aside (which I believe is mostly what you're reacting to, rather than the general nature of their argument), I agree that erring on the side of caution and minimizing external liabilities should be on the top of the agenda for any company.

And this is aside from the whole "support local infrastructure and don't empower monopolies further" argument.
You cannot relate two different ideas by virtue of one tangentially common theme.

It's common sense that most people are from the same country their parents are from, given what we know about immigration.

Interning people based on predicting their behavior due to ancestry is a whole different ballgame.
Indeed, gives me hope for decentralised technologies like gitcoin, that could perhaps give more agency to developers.
I've had to do a lot of videos of my talks this year for virtual conferences. This would be useful to eliminate all of those ums and ahs. My 20-minute presentation would likely get cut down to 15...

I'd be interested to know the impact of cutting out the ums and its impact on the pacing/cadence of a talk.
The issue is that anything that is faded causes negative bias towards that comment not that it is actually hard to read.
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There is a new lockdown: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55538937

specifically, this would seem to coincide with the PM addressing the nation on TV.
from the top active pages table, it looks it's due to the new lockdown in England.
> Says who? There is a law, the law is unclear and IHMO a bad law.

Says the US Department of the Treasury, as mentioned in the Twitter thread further down:

> 118. I have a client that is in Iran to visit a relative. Do I need to restrict the account?

> No. As long as you are satisfied that the client is not ordinarily resident in Iran, then the account does not need to be restricted.

from their "FAQs: Iran sanctions" page — https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...
The President says a lot of things...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing another lockdown.
The author applies logical positivism incorrectly. There's nothing wrong with coming up with new models and testing them against the data, and eventually getting enough variables to be significantly more effective. But such models should be a low portion of your overall probability until actually found to be more effective.

Of course, if you start out with a contrived example where there's a large amount of unobservable simple structure, then it looks like postulating unobserved structures is good. I could give a contrary example where it's impossible to do better than random and draw the opposite lesson.

Beyond that, under logical positivism there isn't a notion of truth as the author applies it. To critique LP by saying it doesn't get at the truth is kind of missing the point.
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Thanks, I appreciate the support.

I haven't mirrored the content, but I did republish/redirect a few pieces elsewhere and they fared much better. The issue is tied to the domain.
Related, about sizing DB connection (counterintuitively): https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-...
We need to know the 10 minute work hours of this fantastic support :D
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Well, LFSR RNG-s are pretty efficient in terms of HW space. You take a single-bit wide shift registers of length n, and feed back its output to the beginning XOR-ed with predefined bits in the shift register.
UK Prime Minister announced new COVID England-wide lockdown https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/05/covid-lockdown...
I used to run a content website many moons ago. No spammy articles, focused onto a single tech topic, a moderate amount of ads (Google), well researched articles. Then one day my organic Google traffic fell by some 80%. If I remember correctly it bounced around very wildly during the following months as Google updated their algorithms.

At the time I was very much not happy about it. Now I'm happy it happened before I had scaled it too far and come to depend on that income too much. It made me realize that it's not only my work that my income depended on, but the whims of a single giant company. And that that's a position I don't want to find myself later down the road.

It's a sad truth that any internet business that's not yet a strong brand in itself is reliant on Google and their AI in a very unhealthy way. I have no idea how to fix this.
> US already forced the landing of the Bolivian presidential plane in Austria

What would they do if Snowden was actually on the plane and the Bolivian president had a reason not to land the plane?

I bet they would do nothing. Or do you think they would literally down a plane with a president of another country?

The only reason they landed was because they had nothing to hide. I am also pretty certain American politicans are smart enough to realise that the only reason that plane landed was because there was no one there.
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The treaty was ratified after the passage of the act, and the act only applies to the US through the treaty. This is not some normal case of, "We're required by this treaty to tax pickles at 25%, but Parliament has only imposed a tax of 20%." Extradition to the US is enabled by this treaty. Without the treaty, there's no extradition in the first place. The treaty was ratified after the passage of the Extradition Act, and the government apparently felt that the terms of the treaty, including the provision on political offenses, could be implemented without further legislation.
Seems like this policy would actually make sense for Russia.
Companies routinely engage in activism. I’ve seen more than one software company cut off Trump campaign from their services, which was politically motivated. Now, US sanctions against Iran are clearly illegal. Yet, everyone is just fine with that, no activism whatsoever. I say people should revolt.
I have no idea what those parameters represent, but I'm very curious! Could you give a layman's explanation?
Money and skills are ALWAYS problems. Those are "cheap" and "fast" of the "cheap, fast, good, pick two".
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I have never seen SQL being used as a key-value store. That most web apps use it like that is an incredible claim to me. Do you have any source for that?
Thanks for this. Good suggestions here.
Microsoft can't ban you from using Windows or developing software that runs under it.

Amazon can sure kick your company off its services.

For many startups AWS is a no-brainer, which makes life somewhat harder for anyone who wants to deal with Iran from EU (as long as EU allows it) and not be shut down on a US three-letter agency's request.
This particular case was overreach by Github and not the US Lawmakers.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...

118. I have a client that is in Iran to visit a relative. Do I need to restrict the account?

A: No. As long as you are satisfied that the client is not ordinarily resident in Iran, then the account does not need to be restricted. See FAQ 37.

Source:
https://twitter.com/Hamed/status/1346433510786138114/photo/1
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If I discovered I was going to die in a year, I would burn through all my savings.

As humans we need a balance between living in the now and preparing for the future.

In college, one girl in my class died tragically, and we all discussed the meaning of spending hours cramming for exams. Those hours were definitely wasted on her, but I am still happy that I passed my exams.
Simple example is where do you go to check if a major site is down?

Here.
Since memristance is just the charge-dependent flux I'm not sure you couldn't get it by just throwing a resistor capacitor and inductor into a single circuit. In fact memristance is just the voltage divided by the current, which is impossible to be 0 for any circuit with some voltage. So by this definition almost any circuit has memristance.

Note that it's not unfair to consider any circuit with nonzero memristance as 'containing' a memristor, after all the whole point of fundamental circuit elements is that you can add them to model stuff like wire resistance and stray capacitance. However while you can't create resistance, capacitance and inductance by combining any of the others you can have memristance by combining all 3 (technically you can create any of the 4 by combining the 3 others, but 3 of them can be built easily so those make more sense as fundemental circuit elements).

So while a linear memristor would be rather unusual, I don't quite see what's so fundamental about it as a non-linear circuit element.
A law is only good if it can be enforced. Technically piracy is illegal and yet pirated content exists and keeps being consumed because there's no way (for now) to control what people run on their computers and even more so when there's a direct financial incentive which could even fund building dedicated hardware if general-purpose computers can no longer do the job.
I'm willing to bet that they are.

Do you think there is a huge tendency towards Oracle, Infor or MS Dynamics rather than SAP across hacker news, or are you just assuming that people who go on hacker news aren't in the 'circle of companies' which need an ERP?

Most people on HN probably go work for companies that pay them the best compensation or offer them a good position, not based on what ERP they chose.
But consumers can express their stance by not doing business with MS. I believe that communities have enough power in this age.
FYI it could be something like ipv6 causing you to be seen as spam but I figured I'd share this tool (https://www.mail-tester.com/) which I've used successfully many times to get into inboxes (particularly gmail) with custom mail servers.
You underestimate the reach of SAP and overestimate the "SV-ness" of HN.
There's definitely an argument that GitHub is one of the primary reasons that Git beat Mercurial.
This is what I don’t get. Great, you can transfer Bitcoin to anyone for cheap, anywhere in the world.

But that Bitcoin is useless to you or whoever you give it to unless it’s converted to currency. That’s where the gov’t puts it’s grip.

Move as much Bitcoin wherever you want. Who cares. Want to convert to dollars or Euros or Yen? That’s where the gov’t steps in and say fine - prove who you are for this transaction. With the public Bitcoin ledger they can now connect you back to the source of the money.
> not conducting business with Iran

> its employee tried to login while there

Those two statements are incompatible with each other.
It sounds fun, but when Bitcoin's price drops, you have to add more BTC to keep the margin safety on Blockfy.

You need to pay 10% interest for loaning against 50% of your BTC.

Of course BTC's price probably won't go under $20k ever again, but in March when it went from $8k to $4k for half an hour, a lot of us were surprised.
They poke fun that the name is tricky to pronounce at the end of the video.