skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like till it mention keras, fast.ai. No offense to keras, fast.ai they are very good for beginners in ML.
But for serious work you need more (try to write autoregressive generative model etc).
Here again bullshit article trending on HN front page, shame
I've actually had it brought up as a negative in an interview that I stayed somewhere for 5+ years.
Maybe none. But I'm not sure dismissing the suffering of other people is actually the thing that will be better for mental health.
Get FL-41 lenses.

Axon or thermaspecs are the name brands.

They are leagues above blue light blocking glasses.

Even better to get ones that block top and sides.
I would think that any industry where shrapnel could be present:

Civilian weapons R&D, mining where explosives are being used, private security work, civilian firearm instruction, protection for targetted individuals e.g. Malcom X / MLK, Journalists in conflict zones (you saw them warn in DC during the protests as well)

Albiet the U.S. has and always will be a special case due to high firearm ownership and rather open ownership of those sorts of things.
I see the same, but typically five pounds.

I believe it’s my glycogen storage increasing, along with water weight due to the excess salt.

When I stop, it comes right off again in a couple of days.
An RTOS with a linux compatible syscall interface:

https://github.com/apexrtos/apex
For what it’s worth, I’m 32 and have been on testosterone supplementation since I was about your age. My case is a little different as it was probably caused by a brain injury, but I would advise you to at least try it out for a few weeks.

The difference in how I feel on vs. off testosterone is pretty astounding. I’m in a better mood, have vastly more energy and ambition, and actually have a sex drive.

If you do try it go straight for the injections - a lot of guys don’t fee right on the gel. I had estrogen issues when I was on it, personally.
I don’t see why you couldn’t purchase $5 worth of a REIT on Robinhood, but is it worth the hassle of a K-1 form (waiting til March to do your taxes/get your refund) for the, what, 35 cents you might make?
Perhaps I didn't describe it well enough, but I believe you're misunderstanding my intent. The user's "PageRank" is based on how they vote in relation to other users.

You seed the influence system with known good actors. Users who vote similarly to these good actors get an increased influence weight and so on. You can apply the PageRank algorithm to any graph, and this case the graph is the relation between up votes of other users.

This can work better than Elo rating because you can have disjoint seed actors serving sparsely connected (or completely disjoint) regions of your influence graph.
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It's reasonably unexciting but I am writing an article about "What I wish I had known before starting my custom software development agency"...

I know, I know - those titles are kinda lame - but it captures it pretty well, as the piece is about a younger me (8 years ago) being visited by an older, wider, and slightly fatter me, and imparting some key learnings about the world of client services, and more generally running a custom software business.

It's for my new blog/newsletter/website Dev to Agency (https://www.devtoagency.com) where I am trying to help full-stack developers that may wish the start a software agency get started, and hopefully teach them a few things.
I get those, but no.

More like shifting bubbles
Transparent version of https://static.brusheezy.com/system/resources/previews/000/0...

Or if I have an eye stroke going on, then a black shifting mass in center of vision.
I don't even think it is limited to disinformation posts. I have a FB friend who is a hardcore progressive democrat, very politically forthright, and he is seeing the same type of ads and he is not a firearms owner or survivalist.
For two people, or their foundation?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints owns a ton of land as well. Likely far more.
https://www.deseret.com/1991/7/2/18928879/lds-church-real-es...
What do you mean by “beat the compiler” ? like running code without it nor linker ? Looks like I have a mood to try that now
Parler helped the FBI identify at least one person charged with the Capitol riot
And every single person advocating civil disobedience. From legalize pot on.

Which countries' laws? It's kind of illegal in civilized countries to decapitate homosexuals. Will twitter ban this account now: https://twitter.com/ksamofaen?lang=en They're kind of for it.

Anyway as Matt Levine points out everything is securities fraud nowadays so when any of these decisions burn the share price even a bit, they'll get a class action to deal with. Not sure that's the right way to deal with this sort of thing at all but here we are.
Not really. What constitutes free speech is always qualified, so that's a fantastical argument. In this case, Poland has blasphemy laws (and btw, even Strasbourg allows for these under the margin of appreciation).

In principle, this move shifts decisions from private global corporate power brokers to national representative government. Facebook and Twitter are private, but they've become so powerful and influential that they function like utilities used for communication. It is better to subject these platforms to laws that can be checked by representative government than to the whims of tech oligarchs.
Looks great, I was thinking about building the same thing earlier this year but couldn't find the time, so I'm glad this exists. Will you allow users to collaborate with strangers?
This seems to be the actual presentation which goes better with the linked PDF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0
44100 has more smaller-number integer factors (80; original research) than 48000 (63), the 'pro audio sampling rate'.

According to this guy (who may be a master FAQ collector, see [https://stason.org/]):

"It turned out that both NTSC and PAL formats (the video standards used in US/Japan and Europe, respectively) could handle a rate of 44100 samples per second. This rate was carried over into the definition of the compact disc.

The sampling rate for "professional" audio, 48KHz, was chosen because it's an easy multiple of frequencies used for other common formats, e.g. 8KHz for telephones. It also happens to be fairly difficult to do a good conversion from 48KHz to 44.1KHz, which makes it harder to, say, copy an
audio CD with a "consumer" DAT deck."

[https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/cd-recordable/2-35-Why-44-1KHz-...]
> If U.S. government provided a platform, then these "free speech" claims might have a basis in law. IMO, the issues would be easier to grapple with.

Having the government provide the platform would create a huge burden on one entity to moderate content. Any mistake would be magnified 1000x what they are now. It would end free speech as we know it and would be very expensive.

Instead we encourage businesses to moderate their own content and compete for a userbase. That allows platforms to evolve on their own dime with incremental changes that satisfy their respective userbases.
I don't care what FB's motivations are as long as they scare the living daylights out of people who trick users into installing spyware. It's the least they can do, considering what their company embodies.
You could switch it to unsigned 32-bit time_t, and most things would still work right up to 2106.

With any luck, civilization will collapse by 2038 and it won't matter anyway. But, struggling back up from collapse on scavenged 32-bit microcontrollers powered by scavenged solar panels, we won't need the extra burden of post-y2038. Switch to unsigned 32-bit time_t for the sake of the (surviving) grandkids.
No the quotas aren't evenly split.
But there is also

> Making the functionality of the Program or modified version available to third parties as a service includes, without limitation, enabling third parties to interact with the functionality of the Program or modified version remotely through a computer network, offering a service the value of which entirely or primarily derives from the value of the Program or modified version, or offering a service that accomplishes for users the primary purpose of the Program or modified version.

From what I understand the big question is, where is the line on if value is derived primarily from "the Program", and what exactly constitutes modifying the program.
Would you mind sharing this?
That's getting fixed.
I'm also very interested in this problem. Have you explored other paradigms to specify the program outside of text?
this perception of classes within engineering is the greatest frustration of my career. People with a PhD or “scientist” in their title are not more valuable than engineers who end up being the ones to get things to work.
Ever since I heard about this kind of sensory augmentation, I have wanted a higher bandwidth port into the brain, and ideally a minimally invasive one. Vision is great bandwidth but tricky to tap into. I have wanted to try the North sense as a single rgb LED on my glasses.

Tactile is good for a side channel - and you can even read with it - but the coding/modulation is key. Auditory is probably the best overall to attack.
They know what they're doing.

"Facebook says the huge psychological experiment it secretly conducted on its users should have been “done differently” and announced a new set of guidelines for how it will approach future research studies."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-...
I think those megathreads just attract repetitive and incurious debate, things you see play out over and over, especially without specific context to differentiate.

The nice thing about HN-history links like this, is newer people get to learn about the community around HN a bit more and people's attitudes toward it, which I think makes people more respectful of the site and rules and fellow users. So I think posting stories like this one and the comments that come with it help solve the problem we're talking about here, which is at least partly an Eternal September kind of thing.

One other thing they might be able to do to improve discussion/post quality is to increase friction for posting and commenting, but that could understandably harm the site, too, and I figure it's been considered.
>> but the overtime is paid

having employees that are available for overtime provide burstable capacity at a cost that scales linearly.

in comparison, adding extra employees due to a temporary requirement is a worst case scenario. hiring is very expensive, takes time, you need extra infrastructure, training, you may operate unnecesarily at excess capacity and there are diminishing returns.
One of things I often worry about while working on my SaaS is missing out DB writes, I'm way more at peace with saving something to S3 just so that I don't lose any data.
Quite the opposite, we're seeing the true cost of "lockdowns" here.
Gods, yes, this. The FitBit app is like someone said "Let's use a wonderful asynchronous architecture so we won't block on retrieving data!" and then completely ignored all the ways that might lead to terrible UX if implemented poorly.

My steps stick at 0, then suddenly are the total of the last 3 days' worth. I log food, and it re-populates the "quantity" field with the old value after I edit it, sometimes up to 8-10 times in a row. My sleep data takes a roulette-spin amount of time to go get processed in the cloud and redownloaded, and even once the main dashboard has the info, the "Sleep" detail page will refuse to admit that I slept last night for another 3d20 minutes.

It's like someone connecting the pieces of a car with Slinkys instead of bolts because they're more flexible. If I didn't like the hardware so much I'd have switched ages ago.
>Are you willing to die for what you believe in? And, before one answers this hastily, think about it.

Your point is well taken. Certainly there are issues and problems that gravely trouble people of integrity and good conscience.

However, while sometimes there are things we can do within our own lives to address those issues and problems, often there isn't any way to have a measurable impact.

That's not to say we should just give up. On the contrary, I think it's important to try to improve the lives of those around us within the scope of our focus, abilities and resources.

When I was a young man (in my twenties), I would often wonder if the work I was doing (tech) was really making the world a better place in a serious way. That really bothered me for a while.

But I came to realize that while we can't all have a measurable, global positive impact on the world, we most certainly can have a local positive impact on the people and world around us.

Do I create better working conditions for people in Bangladesh? No. Can I genetically engineer a more effective SARS-CoV2 vaccine? No.

But I can treat those around me with respect, act with integrity and support my community. I can do constructive work within my chosen profession. And I can speak out when I see injustice, intolerance and hate.

Will that end the pandemic or halt the war in Syria or end world hunger and poverty? No.

But if I can do my part to lift up those near me, act with honesty and integrity and create constructive solutions for the projects I contribute to, I can be satisfied that I'm having a positive impact on the world around me.

None of that requires that I be willing to die for that, but that doesn't mean I'm not having a measurable, positive impact on the world.
1) One key fact often overlooked though, is that the tribal treaties (most, anyway) not only gave the US ultimate sovereignty, but also transferred ownership/title of the lands into federally administered trusts, held on behalf of the tribe's members.

So anytime a tribe wants to do anything with tribal land, it's got to get signed off on by someone at the Dept of the Interior, or whoever is holding their trust. But not the Dept of State.

Which I'm assuming is part of what's going on in the situation in TFA. Govt action requires Govt study.

2) The 2/3 vote is to ratify a treaty, but withdrawl is always easier; it's often accomplished unilaterally, and for the US, it's basically at the Presidents sole discretion, if not at his pleasure.

Of course tribal treaties are different things than foreign ones- even if that wasn't the original intent. And politically, leaving any such treaty is an idea DOA.
> Alright, so what can be done about the extreme pressure that deep?

Don't have any compressible gases. If we're just sending machines and infrastructure into the mantle, maybe that's possible. If we want to send people it's harder. I don't know if anything like the oxygenated fluid from the Abyss (or the LCL from Evangelion which was more or less the same thing) does or can exist in reality. Or if other problems would arise at extreme pressures.

Your mention of high melting point materials makes me wonder if fiber optic cables could be made that survive in that environment. It'd be an expensive undertaking just to reduce, say, the network latency from North America to Asia.

If we ignore the mantle, building into the shallow crust where it's still cool seems like a reasonable thing to do. I suspect the main reason it's usually not done are the cost of earth removal and reinforcement being higher than above-ground structures, and having to deal with water. It's fun to think about what an underground megastructure would be like, though. Could be as simple as turning an old pit mine or quarry into a below-ground urban center.

In Portland, OR out towards Gresham there's a huge hole in the ground next to the Multnomah County land use planning department that I suppose is probably an old quarry. I like to imagine what it'd look like with apartment complexes along the sides and a park with a lake at the bottom. Maybe a shopping center with a farmer's market, and a light rail stop. Keeping it from flooding would be a huge logistical challenge, though.
It's good when companies I want to work with who or give me free candy are winning. They're my team!

It's bad when Nazis and Nazi-adjacent folks don't get a platform because they're my... uh...
Telegram sent out a message yesterday saying that they have gained 25 million users in the last 72 hours alone, pushing their total user count to 500 million.

I suspect Signal took a somewhat smaller number of users from FB than this.
Generally speaking, if your testicles don’t shrink, your production stays the same right? That’s what I’ve seen people do; inject testosterone until they notice shrinkage, then stop.
The telephone is terrible in many ways too. Not using it or something very much like it is not much of an option even if we can conceive of the world before Alexander Graham Bell stole the idea abusing the patent office to do it.
as has become more and more obvious over recent years in particular, technology and politics are intrinsically linked. Most obvious was always when topics like Urbit come up on HN. People's political and social views influence the technologies they built, be it clubhouse, or bitcoin or Parler. Even if the designers themselves may not even be aware of it.

Okay I guess there's some exceptions, some dashboard tool isn't very political, but then again commenting on it is also not very interesting probably for that reason.
I don't know if that argument works for finance on a moral level, where vocabulary has historically been abused to confuse and bamboozle
Upvoting for great title.
Yes, agreed. I recently went through AOC2020 and found that much of the actual implementation was actually quite a chore, even though many of the problems seemed quite simple. Granted I was using C++: https://github.com/areading314/adventOfCode2020
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I work mostly around multimedia, so a few video-related tools I've been working on lately:

1. FFmpeg command generator: https://alfg.github.io/ffmpeg-commander/

2. Web-based MP4 File Inspector: https://github.com/alfg/mp4-inspector

3. Web-based FFProbe: https://github.com/alfg/ffprobe-wasm

4. Rust MP4 library: https://github.com/alfg/mp4-rust

Also, trying to get a bit more familiar with Rust and Web Assembly.
Wouldn't real journalism give a benchmark to compare against - does this happen with the flu?

A cursory search reveals that flu can cause lung fibrosis.

https://www.today.com/health/man-needs-life-saving-double-lu...
> Saying that "Linux [is] based on Unix" is not really accurate either.

The context of the author's statement was syscall ABIs. And Linux's original (x86) syscall ABI is based on [a snapshot of] the syscall ABI from a Unix (4.2BSD, I think.)

Loosely based, mind you — 4.2BSD wasn't targeting a 32-bit architecture, let alone x86, so the registers et al weren't the same. But the syscall numbers match up, and the number and order of registers used have direct parallels.

Compare and contrast:

• FreeBSD ABI (direct descendant of 4.2BSD): https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/master/sys/kern/...

• Linux x86 ABI: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c...

Everything lines up until you get to the OS-proprietary stuff.
Many thanks for any assembly-language posts, but can we agree that a FizzBuzz implementation would be more interesting? ;-)
How about this scheme:

- when you upvote an item, everyone else who upvoted the item before you earns some amount of your trust

- the more of your trust someone has earned - the more weight their other upvoted items get for you

- each time they upvote, they put some amount of your trust on that item; so if you stop liking their recommendations the amount of your trust they have will go down over time

- when you downvote an item, you take away your trust from people who upvoted it; they've shown that they are not good curators of content for you, so their upvotes will have less weight for you

In this system you end up paying attention to people who have proven to you to be good curators of content. It optimizes for high signal to noise ratio, where what is signal and what is noise if up to you to decide with your upvotes. We don't have to all agree on what is globally "upvoteworthy".

There is no global reputation system (which can be gamed). Instead, there is a peer-to-peer trust system.

If you are interested in a system like that, then I would like to invite you to my hobby project that works exactly this way. Register with a temporary account (no email required) at https://linklonk.com/register and use code 'hn'.

It is early days and we don't have many users yet. To supplement real users LinkLonk supports RSS feeds as sources of information. Each feed behaves much like a user - the more you upvote content from it, the higher ranked its other entries will be for you. I hope you will find it useful and I'm looking to hear your feedback.
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What tools do you use to aggregate test results?
I'm looking for a tool which would present results of automated system tests that talk to a real environment via API. Think E2E but without UI. Ideally I'd like to use a standard framework for such tests (like junit, jest, rspec) and upload the results somewhere. Devs would be able to browse them, filter by environment, version and other tags, view logs or attached comments, see execution history for a single test and maybe some basic reports.

I've found https://reportportal.io/ which seems like an ideal fit but will be complex to manage (microservices + postgres + rabbit + elasticsearch). TestRail might be good, will need to evaluate it, although it's more expensive than I would expect. I think that TeamCity has a decent view of test results but it's a full-blown CI system, more than I need.

Is there some other tool that you'd suggest? Preferably a managed offering.
For you that makes sense, but don’t scare off people that legitimately need it. My biggest regret in life isn’t not buying enough Bitcoin, but not going on testosterone replacement sooner. Without it I basically have no energy, and that’s how I lived out high school and college.
> NoSQL databases don’t offer much in the way of transaction management or real coding. They are great for storing data that doesn’t change much or changes minutely with every transaction.

Sure, that's fair, because it's an "eventually consistent" database. It's not intended for transactions that need to be validated and enforced immediately, because it is not ACID compliant. I think the solution here is to simply not use it for that. Use it for what it was intended for - data that is okay to be eventually consistent, which does not include financial transactions and the like. The value of eventually consistent databases is much more apparent in transactions that do not require immediate consistency, such as a friendship status.

To exemplify this, imagine someone changes their status to say, "You're not my friend anymore." The database will eventually show everyone that the person in question is no longer your friend, but in the meantime, people aren't going to be double-spending because you decided that you don't like someone anymore.
A place where authors can post their rough drafts privately for beta readers and collect analytics on reading behavior in order to see what sections of the draft are slower and faster reads and where they lose readers.

I'm having fun from the coding / architecture side by making it in Rust with Actix web backed by Sled. Trying to keep the time between request and response under a millisecond not including transit.