skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this is an early/experimental project, but the README could use more motivation before diving into basic usage. Asking someone to change their general-purpose containers is a big ask.

It looks like Array mostly consolidates functional features already available in standard libraries, and the main innovation is a redesigned swiss-army-knife API.

Good APIs are important, but my instinct is they aren’t this important. Using enhanced versions of built-in container types sounds nice, but do you really want to be keeping track of whether something is a normal list or an Array? Do you want to force people who read your code to learn this library to work with something as fundamental as lists? It’s not an impossible bar to clear (e.g. NumPy, Pandas, Dask, xarray) but it’s a high one.
LibJPEG-Turbo is a really great library. We tested a number of them, and wound up using it. It has a good, commercial-friendly license, and screams like a bat out of hell.

I no longer work for the company that would have used it, but I'd gently suggest that it would not be a good idea to let it die.
I think QAnon and this kind of stuff is an ideology. You won’t change their minds with facts.

There seems to be an obsession with a certain group of people telling another group of people what they should believe.

I don’t believe in god should I go out to all religious people and tell them god isn’t real and they’re wasting their time.

We live in a society and have to accept other people have different beliefs than us, and even if their beliefs are incorrect it’s their right to believe what ever they want.
The styling does not seem to properly handle mobile. I get clipped content on the start page and horizontal scroll on the search results.
I was thinking WhatsApp but maybe you're right
It's probably not the best idea to go against established conventions, but I think it'd be pretty cool if you used tilde instead of exclamation marks for waves. :)
IME, the network of AWS is much better than that of DO, Linode.
The flowlines of any vector field cannot intersect, because that would mean the flowline has two tangent vectors at that point. For smooth vector fields, they cannot merge either, an intuition for that is perhaps that you could theoretically run the flow "in reverse", which would turn a merger into a split, and that's not possible.
But you are saying that there is no possible extreme which you would not support? No matter what?

Government executing people in the streets, by the thousands for criticising it, justified? Soviet or china style re-education camps for citizens by the millions?

There is no possible extreme for which you would say "this censorship has gone too far!", And therefore you are completely unconcerned about any sort of escalation, no matter how extreme the crackdown gets?
Potentially but there are alternative backends like cranelift so it's unlikely anything major is tied to just LLVM anymore
Just as a reference for anyone else like me who was not familiar with this effort: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix
I believe you are thinking of the term “assault weapon”, which was a term invented to help ban semi-automatic military-style rifles, that arguably aren’t significantly deadlier than other less scary looking semi-automatic rifles, but are politically more convenient to ban.

“Assault rifle” is a valid term but it only refers to automatic rifles, which were already effectively banned for civilians.

I don’t know whether that rifle (carried by a police officer) is automatic or semi-automatic.
> Because it is forced?

Obviously so is forced foreskin removal and forced tooth correction, so I fail to see that point.

> In general, actions done to children by their parents (or with their parents' expressed, unequivocal consent) are not considered "forced" except in cases where the harm is large. So, male circumcision or teeth corrections or vaccinations are not "forced" on the children, because they are acts that their parents consider are beneficial to the child.

I see, so it would be fine of the parents were the ones forcibly sterilizing them rather than the government.

I find that absurd: I for one am in favor of government-mandated vaccinations and find this to be a very desirable thing opposed to letting parents be the ones to decide.

> However, if the state were to force children to be circumcised or have their teeth aligned regardless of their parents' desires, then most people would object to that.

Yes, which I find absurd.

It matters not to the man whose body was irreparably altered whence the order to do so came — it's a rather shallow comfort to then be told that it was fine because it was the will of one's parents rather than the government's.

> Even more importantly, any actions which affect someone's ability to use their body in a normal way are generally considered abhorrent. That is why male circumcision is usually tolerated, while female circumcision is an abomination, even if done by one's parents. Forced sterilization is obviously in the second case, since it is terminally preventing someone from performing one of the 3 fundamental components of life.

Yes, you call it fundamental which goes right back to that it only holders water if one considers reproduction a higher goal that all must aspire to.

And with “all”, one can argue roughly half of all; I've noticed that he moral queasiness of sterilization of the male seems to be quite a bit lower than with sterilization of the female — as if that not be rooted in some belief that a female's primary function is to be a reproductive engine: close your eyes and think of England.
What is and what is not protected speech has been pretty clearly defined over the years. Honestly though it doesn't matter because these are private companies.

Parler has failed to moderate extremist content and is acting as a platform for radicalizing new users.

Apple, Google, Amazon, and Twitter have a decided independently that the lost revenue and maga tears are worth not having to host far right terrorists.

Parler can host itself if it wants, nobody has made it illegal to be a gaping asshole.
I don’t know why you’re italicizing LLVM, gcc, and Rust, but I (and perhaps others) find it relatively jarring as my brain automatically parses it as emphasis even though it clearly isn’t intended to be.

I only bring it up because it pretty drastically harms readability (for me at least, and to a degree I frankly find surprising). Just thought you may want to know.
Every time I get some free time to play with the old stuff, it's amazing how much your computer felt like it belonged to you. You were your own cloud and could expand it with software you owned. Software ran right in front of you and it was magic.
It doesn't even have to stop progress. C++ does a new rev of the standard every 3 years. Rust has editions, which is a similar but less rigorous concept, and which could be made more rigorous.
Segregation is what you get when you permanently remove people from platforms. Sounds almost like a truism.
I think that was my point. Smaller companies will not use these chips, but big co will have all the documentation they need.
I run a hosted wiki service[0]. You could certainly try it out for a couple weeks and see if you get any traction.

[0] http://miki.mimix.io
Hm you're right, I checked https://jamestown.org/program/taiwan-opinion-polling-on-unif... and https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3951560 and it seems the 30% supporting eventual unification claim is correct according to recent polling, with 11% supporting sooner unification (i.e. unify even if PRC still has a Nazi government).

Edit: according to https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7805&id=6962 (which has a finer breakdown) the number is 7.5%, but the jamestown.org article links to data also collected by NCCU (but maybe a different group), so I'm not sure what the distinction is.
This isn't just about Parler specifically. The point is that with any of these deplatformings, it is manifestly untrue that the platforms can do whatever they want.
It is forkable, you can download the database dumps and import them into your own instance.
I like this. But without adblock I see no ads. Also would it be possible to have a subscription based no-ad version so we don't see ads + don't feel guilty that we aren't helping out by not clicking any ads? I guess it would be hard to stay private because it would mix an paid account id with search queries, but maybe there's a way.
There are three big challenges he has to overcome.

1. Make it work. This sounds easy with open source tech, but really hard if it includes effective content moderation from day one. That's a tough product problem to solve which only the largest consumer companies have addressed with their own proprietary technology.

2. Make it scale. This is hard, especially given the potential large userbase and the fact that none of the major public clouds like Google, Amazon, or Microsoft will likely host him without very strict content moderation policies. He's going to have to find some esoteric hosting providers that are willing to look the other way and potentially lose every other customer over it.

3. Make it cheap. Related to previous option, there are few viable hosts so he will have to pay a lot due to having little to no leverage on pricing. It could turn into a money pit very quickly without a rich corporate benefactor (that also has the tech) willing to take it on. Even friends like Peter Thiel at Palantir may not be able to do it with the potential risk it would pose to their other contracts.
Congratulations to anyone making even a modest living after one year. That said, I don't understand the section on investment here. The framing is that the startup is bootstrapped, and they don't mention taking any outside investment, and yet they're offering advice on how to approach investors.

The product is also quite expensive ($400 and $700 monthly tiers). Nothing wrong with that either, but the sales experience will be quite different at that pricing level, and having fewer than ten clients limits the number of useful lessons you can draw at this point.

The meta-point is that trying this teaches you some useful lessons, but also exposes you to a lot of randomness (lucky and unlucky) and it's easy to overanalyze that, particularly in early days.

I think the 2 year post will have much more meat on its bones, and wish the authors every success.
I'm not sure. Psychology and sociology has such a horrible track record when it comes to reproducibility of studies that have some kind of political significance that we just have to be careful.

In case of these topics, there's a relatively strong publication pressure here.

Also: the raw data is unfortunately not enough without pre-registration. (For obvious reasons.)

"bad faith" is absolutely required in science. Especially in sociology and psychology, unfortunately.
Collection of answers to the FAQs by people you are trying to get to use Signal
> I don't think [1] suppports that. That's a report from a single hospital.

> And critically, NYC, as with all major metros, operates as a system of hospitals. So the data to support your assertion would be total NYC bed & ICU bed capacity & utilization.

> "Overwhelmed" means unable to provide care.

Yes, and about half of [2] comes from Michael Dowling, the head of the largest hospital system in New York, where he goes on at length about patients dying in hallways having never been treated because they didn't have enough staff, ventilators, bed space etc... Did you not read the articles?

> The situation on the Comfort in NYC (swapped my coasts, oops!) was... complicated. The Navy was essentially commanded to "Send a big ship to NYC so it can be seen."

This has nothing to do with how overrun NYC hospitals from, nor how effective the Navy hospital ships were at helping ease the burden.

And right back at ya: Please see guidelines for HN commenting. Specifically, "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
People won't continuously reload a web page that is a political leader's stream of thought?

Something can be a highly currated narrative and be accessible to everyone. Shit, people even have web browsers on their phones and computers these days. Social media in general, and Twitter in particular, does not encourage the creation of highly currated narratives.

We should probably invent a publish-subscribe distributed protocol for this, maybe some kind of Really Simple Syndication.
I think clinical trials are the most aggressive form of making sure that a new technology isn't harmful on the population. I can't even imagine what tech would look like if strict pathways like clinical trials were forced on apps and websites, but I could imagine that be possible one day.
Not terribly surprising, if you look at the PRs list. The React codebase is very complex, and so there are very few substantial PRs from people not on the React team. Really, most of the external PRs tend to be noise, and many of them are even "wrong" (ie, Hacktoberfest-style "add myself to the list of contribs"-type nonsense, or at least not actually useful).
How is that encryption scheme any better than https?
Okay I’ll bite

Just posted our free open source platform we were working on for 10 years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25717417
Europe or US? Dedi or VPS? If you want really, really cheap have a look at offers at forums such as https://talk.lowendspirit.com/categories/offers - but be warned, those are mostly small to tiny companies, some even one-man shows, but you won't find anything cheaper. But good enough for personal projects and game servers.
BTC and any crypto essentially has no fundamentals and no indicators. It's like we can look at the stock and bond markets for things like interest rates, P/E ration, yield curve and a zillion others. Commodities are supply and demand for the most part. BTC just goes up from it's own hot air. You can look at it's record and say that it will keep going up because it's been going up. There's been dips before, but no one can say what triggered it other than a stampede. So long as there's no indicators, there's no negative indicators. So investors are happy.
How to Back Up Your Mac's Photos
also, dark mode pls
OP here. I wrote this up as an easy-to-share resource for my friends. It's incredible to me that in 2021, I still have people say things like "my computer died, how do I recover years worth of photos?". Most people don't think about this stuff until they lose everything. :(
This looks very good from my skim! It includes state-of-the-art approaches like Actor-Critic with MCTS and loads of recent and interesting things like GAIL and SMILE. The areas where I have expertise superficially seem like good treatments. I'll have to see what other RLers think and perhaps use it to study up on belief states :)

Much more up-to-date than sutton and barto, but the authors are rather less well known.
Do you have links to expounded, introductory writing? I'd love to look into this type of architecture and play around with other domains.
Glibc malloc also limits the maximum according to ptrdiff_t, which is effectively the same as Rust isize.
Not sure where you're writing from, but it's very common in the US. This article (https://www.thekitchn.com/why-you-should-almost-never-use-th...) quotes someone who works for an appliance store in Cincinnati who says it's difficult to sell an oven without that feature. And as others have said, every oven I have every owned (or that my parents owned when I was around and capable of forming memories) has been self-cleaning.

Maybe it sounds fancier than it is? Is not like it has a little robot that cleans the oven. It's just a mode where the oven can get the internal temperature very high (up to 1000 degrees F according to that article) that just incinerates any organic material stuck to the oven walls.
Unfortunately, it's probably still in relatively far future, ~10-20 yrs...
> It's on them

Honestly, i think your reaction to having an assumption collapse is rather terrible
> It is only politicized because you and others have allowed yourselves to be manipulated to a point of confusion.

I'm confident this statement describes others better than it describes myself.

Here's what we know: The earth was hotter before, the earth's temperature has been rising for 100's of thousands of years, the CO2 levels have been higher before, there's evidence that CO2 levels lagged temperature increases historically, water vapor is the strongest greenhouse gas, all recent climate prediction models have been wrong, historic data has been 'normalized' and changed, repeatedly.

Whatever you think has been debunked hasn't. I've been around longer than a day, I've seen the shifting climate alarmists goal posts.
I believe there's also a neurological basis as well. It's been shown that belief in superstition is predicted by dopamime levels in the brain. Likely same for conspiracy theory belief. Elevated dopamine levels leading people to perceive patterns where they don't exist.
It takes months of continuous use to develop a great seasoning by just cooking. Or you can accomplish the same in an afternoon.
This reminds me, in a general way, of another study I saw.

That one looked at patients at a walk-in clinic. Patients would be randomly assigned a doctor for their visit. The doctor would diagnose them, treat them, prescribe drugs if needed, and give them instructions on how to care for themselves after they left.

The study found that the patients were significantly more likely to follow the doctor's instructions after they left if the doctor was the same race as the patient.

Note that the doctors were not the patient's regular doctor. These were either patients who did not have a regular doctor, or patients who were going to the clinic because of an urgent condition when their regular doctor was not available. I'm not aware of any studied that looked at whether patients obey their regular doctor more often if the doctor is the same race as the patient.
This game made me decide never to play an episodic game until all episodes are out. I lost interest and track of the characters and story during the interludes.

This article makes me want to play the final episode; the game's beautiful, subtle, and thoughtful in a way few developers dare.
I took a year off to start a business and failed. The only thing missing from this list is a sense of how brutally true it is.

As brand-conscious consumers, we swim in daydreams of products and images. "What if BMW made a blender?" But these are playground thoughts. As soon as you want you more than $100 to put something in someone's hands, they vanish to reveal the switchboard of a different system altogether :)

My notion of a craftsmen or artisan doing what they love and getting paid for it is 100% out of touch. It's all about making others have $ by them giving you some of theirs temporarily. No romance or individuality. Save those expressions of personality for the consumer choices you make. Unless you happen to be launching a reusable rocket. Then you may get to choose the payload :)
It's all different people, groups and situations, but I acknowledge your point.
For people who advocate purchasing depressed assets if/when things take a turn for the worse how do they hold the "cash". It seems the choices are lose cash to inflation or put it in some investment vehicle that ties up the cash for some period of time or has a different risk profile. I've heard some people advocate against never holding cash and borrowing against assets (ex: real estate) but that puts you at the mercy of the lender. If you hold literal cash what percent of the total portfolio makes sense? TIA
Max: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxDB
Us cabal devs really like irc. Cabal was inspired in part by it. You might enjoy this explanatory zine:

https://substack.net/zine/cabal.html
You could always just donate to tree; https://edenprojects.org/

Eden is around 10 US cents per tree planted.
Twitter censoring content is only a problem because they have a near monopoly in their domain and present themselves as a platform for everybody. There's no national discussion about HN moderation because it's a much smaller website with relatively few users.

Just in general, if Twitter really believes their platform has the power to induce violence and alter elections, then why are we allowing a small number of unelected Twitter execs complete control to determine how that power is used?

Jack Dorsey's vote shouldn't be worth orders of magnitude more than yours and mine just because he's the CEO of a communications platform.
It says shard chains ship in 2021. They are saying the ETH1 chain will be migrated to proof of stake in 2022.
What are your thoughts on the Paradox of tolerance?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Anyone who likes this would enjoy George Polya's short book. "How to Solve it" which these days is widely available as a pdf.
Just like comparing a guy who took a dump on Schumer's desk to a guy who flew a plane into a building and killed thousands of people.
EDIT: should have finished reading the article!
Say a proof of citizenship be required.

Then they are only giving them out to the “ethnicity” called “the Dutchman”.

But this another matter of why I'm never very impressed with any definition that names the pseudoscientific concept of “ethnicity” — it is of course entirely an arbitrary thing what is and isn't classified as a separate “ethnicity” much like how the difference between a dialect and a separate language is of course one of politics, not science.

If only the province of Frisia were to have a plan for handing out such condoms, would that qualify as genocide of the Frisians then, which some claim is a different ethnicity for historical reasons? Are the inhabitants of each city perhaps a different ethnicity?
The thing that I find most terrifying about Trump is that he persued every legal option to win, and when that didn't work out he conceded and said he's going to help make sure there's a smooth transition of power.

He is truly the most vile authoritarian anywhere outside of the 1930s Germany, and that's not just because he makes jokes.
Right now it's desktop and terminal only, but there is a lot of interest in web and mobile clients.
Self cleaning should reach a high enough temp for it, because most of what you use the self-cleaning to take off is effectively seasoning. If it's not getting hot enough, use something else to get it hot enough (blowtorch, maybe).

For smoothing out the surface, you could just use a flapwheel. You can get them for angle grinders. This will also take off seasoning if necessary (but it's a bit worse for the pan if you're not also trying to smooth it out). Be sure to wear a respirator and googles if you're doing this.
Spoiler, because clickbait headlines are disingenuous and annoying:

> As many of you may have suspected, this post is not entirely truthful. I have not released this fitness app onto the Play Store, nor have I collected millions of master tokens. ... But yes, these methods do work. I absolutely could release such an app, and so could anyone else (and maybe they have).
How exactly could it obfuscate it? You can see every request in its entirety and if you see a request that you can't read, that's already enough reason to not use it. As for delaying it, it would have to store it somewhere like localStorage, which is just as easily inspectable.

If you're worried about that, loading it in a private window and switching to offline mode, then closing it after you're done makes any exfiltration impossible.
I concur. I just thought it wise to check the above commentors statement just to make sure that what they said was accurate.

I definitely agree about the fine print. I wish more companies would just say up front what they are going to do.
ah, we share an important idea, distributed means of production, as a way to hedge against societal collapse