skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does "abused technology" mean? The answer is that it means approximately what Amazon and its customers agree it means, as expressed in their contracts. Your personal norms about what abuse is and isn't aren't relevant, because Amazon made theirs clear in their contracts.

Technologists on message boards who are shocked and offended at Amazon's decision are generally tipping their hands that they don't ever have contracts reviewed, or really even think about them in their day-to-day work. A plain reading of Amazon's terms --- not to mention having paid attention to how cloud providers handled Gab --- made it clear that Parler's position was untenable.
You are far wiser at 19 than most founders I've met in their 40's.

Some of the best business advice I got was from pitching VCs. Even if pitching is not what you want to do now, it might be useful to open lines of communication and suss out who you may want to work with in the future.
A paper was recently released for that particular use case (https://github.com/markriedl/weirdai), in which it describes a number of technical caveats (and it's technically not using GPT-2).

I do think it's possible to train a GPT-2-esque network to do something similar, albeit with some text encoding shenanigans.
This isn't reddit, so the /s has to be presumed.
I'll have to try that out. A neighbor's Model III was the first machine I played Zork on, so it has good memories.
Here's a counter-advise ( take it as you will ) :

Do not join any communities. You are a 19 year old who is at 250k ARR at 10 months. You are Bella Hadid. You don't have peers here, among IG influencers pretending to be important at 12K followers. It is lonely there, where you are. There's a reason for that.

P.S. You will make it.
Yes we can tax those too.

However wind noise in highway doesn’t change anything. Whereas motorbike can wake entire neighbourhood at 6AM (saw this few times in my life). Accelerating truck, bus or sports car can startle child or adult even taking off from pedestrian crossing.
I came across this study in this Pew article discussing population declines in 16 US states, including CA:

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...
Seems weird the first scammer asks the Dev to “unsubscribe” from their emails in the third message. Wouldn’t that hurt their deliverability?
Sure. They do accounting and administration for alternative investment funds. Until I arrived, this was mostly managed through Excel files and emails, with a couple of vendor apps for the heavy lifting. They realized that tech could help them work faster, more efficiently, with less mistakes and with less things falling between the cracks.

My philosophy has been not to fight head-on, to "embrace the Excel" and to build systems around it that provide the outcomes they need. Microsoft Power Automate has been a big part of it, at least at first, getting them used to the idea of automation while staying in their Outlook inboxes. From there I have a basis to build up into proper apps (which is why I have started hiring.)

I was lucky enough to start with a large amount of buy-in from senior management, and after a few months I had the goodwill and appreciation of the foot-soldiers as well, by dint of having made their lives easier. (I set myself a principle to never make any single worker's life harder in the service of the greater good.)

Hiring has been positive, people do like the idea of starting from a clean slate and having the freedom to do it their way. The fact that we set our own deadlines also means we have the time to do it the way we know we should.
Realistically, today's business difference between Austin and Miami reminds me of what it can be like for a contestant on a TV game show who gets a big vacation win where they get to choose between Hawaii or the Bahamas for their prize.

So many people will consider them almost equivalent resorts without digging deep enough to fully realize in advance that Hawaii is a tropical paradise, and the Bahamas is a desert island.
Thank you for stating these points. I believe that FB is going to be cut up due to these issues and the interplay with politics, just like Bell was.

Per my views on the situation, Zuck is cooked. When he went before congress to testify, he was being given the classic robber-baron deal that the US has used a few times now. As an analogy to actual robber-baron, at first when the railroads were new, Congress didn't care much about them. Then when all the businesses and politicians started to use them, they started to notice that the railroads were very important. When beef suspiciously didn't get to Chicago on time, or when trains delayed representatives to important votes up in Albany, then the politicians got legislative. A similar scaling of importance has occurred with big tech.

The US then typically takes these newly vital sectors and then gives them the deal: Fix it or face jail time. Compliance means that your family for countless generations is never poor again. You go kite-surfing for the rest of your days. Congress works with you to write the laws in such a way that you get a monopoly on the sector with a nice 3% above inflation growth baked in. Congress and the US get a sector that isn't scammy and just works (albeit poorly at times). Congress gets you to testify for a few days, ensures that you have lied to congress in that time, and holds that jail time over you as leverage to comply.

Zuck was given this deal.

Per the points OP outlines, Zuck cannot follow through on his end of the bargain. He cannot get FB to work the way Congress is demanding that he do. Zuck may not be facing jail time (yet), but may when he gets in front of Congress again.

After Dec. 37th / Jan. 6th (because 2020 never ends), Congress likely sees Big Tech as a direct personal threat (not existential) and is likely to move directly against that threat with due haste.
There were some responses on Twitter to this post that basically said every historical case of hyperinflation was due to behavior and governmental instability rather than pure economics of the supply of currency. I'm not sure how true that is, but it does seem odd that we don't really have a model for hyperinflation if it results directly from sovereign debt and money creation.
It’s really cool, I will try it. It’s great, as I don’t have to wait for the maintainer to set it up.
That metaphor works better for huge businesses. There's really no bank here(yes I'm well aware of central banks, but that's not really how bank is being used here from a balance sheet solvency perspective).

It's more like if you issue currency and owe trillions, that's the currency and the currency issuers problem.
> The point is that non-blocking IO wants to abstract away the hardware, but the abstraction is leaky.

Why do you say it doesn't match hardware? Basically all hardware is asynchronous — submit a request, get a completion interrupt, completion context has some success or failure status. Non-blocking IO is fundamentally a good fit for hardware. It's blocking IO that is a poor abstraction for hardware.

> Most programs which use non-blocking IO actualy want to implement multitasking without relying threads. But that turns out to be the wrong approach.

Why is that the wrong approach? Approximately every high-performance httpd for the last decade or two has used a multitasking, non-blocking network IO model rather than thread-per-request. The overhead of threads is just very high. They would like to use the same model for non-network IO, but Unix and unix-alikes have historically not exposed non-blocking disk IO to applications. io_uring is a step towards a unified non-blocking IO interface for applications, and also very similar to how the operating system interacts with most high-performance devices (i.e., a bunch of queues).
You can get haircuts here. You just have to make appointments and they limit the number of people in the shop and everyone's masked.
The satellites are continuously moving so they use the phased array to track the motion of the satellites in real time (I believe). You could make a dish on a movable mount, but from an RF perspective that would be no less detectable than a dish. The point is that Starlink is a two way link, so someone flying overhead in an airplane could detect the transmitted signal. TV dishes are harder to detect because they don’t transmit when receiving TV, not because they are a dish.
My first suggestion would to see if the lag corresponds to a full GC. Google can tell you the proper incantation to log GC events. If it is caused by a full GC you probably have some kind pathological behavior causing it . Allocating more RAM or changing GC args may help. Otherwise I would recommend profiling. You can use visualvm which should come with your jdk for that.
Or one can claim that it's entirely obvious when relating that with human beings making mistakes, where not only 2*3 can be 7, millions can die of some obscure disctators whim, without much conacusoly realized the insanity...
I have 2 original Raspberry Pi model B. I used it for a short time as a Synergy server (keyboard/mice). My future plans for these are:

* PiHole (original model should be enough)
* Home automation, ie Garage door opener / automation
* CCTV monitoring using old webcam (not fast though, perhaps less than 5 fps but that's good enough for what I need)
* CCTV recorder (not video, but just capturing photo every second, which is good enough for me)
* file server for low throughput device (or TimeMachine server)
* Server/PC status display (displays server status) on TV
* Prometheus, htop, GoAccess, etc...
* Lo-fi player
* pivpn
Check out Indie Hackers (https://indiehackers.com), it's a great community I've found.
There are a ton of examples of programs that are free or reduced cost for individuals and more money for corporations. Like all the Jetbrains products.

The IRS doesn't get on people for paying for a corporate license for Jetbrains because it would be against the license.

Open source support could be the same way. Free for individuals, but costs money for corporate/commercial uses. I don't think the IRS would even blink twice at that.
Visualizing Countries by Share of Earth's Surface
That's true. You do have to make a decision about which protection you feel is stronger: the American legal system, or the current commercial state of the art in computer security lined up against the world's largest consumer of offensive security technology.
Are you worried they are spying on you? Exploiting your information? Or that they will cut you off if they percieve you a threat to one of their many sub companies?
If only this was 2 weeks ago, we would know a certain contentious presidents' account to bot tests... but as of now, why follow anyone who is not well behaved?
|Nevertheless users who are stupid enough to actually rely on Facebook without having backup communication channels and backup picture storage just have to be educated about this is stupid. Whenever somebody says they want to communicate via the Messenger I don't even consider this because this is just insane, even to install this app is crazy. Sadly, too many people say this nowadays.|

This isn't necessarily the issue now that Facebook has linked their hardware platform (Occulus) to your Facebook account.
Seems like they can easily borrow 100 billion in one shot.

Tendered Accepted
Primary Dealer $77,850,000,000 $10,790,550,000
Direct Bidder $6,350,000,000 $2,009,150,000
Indirect Bidder $20,935,350,000 $12,193,340,000
Total Competitive $105,135,350,000 $24,993,040,000

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/annceresult/press/prea...
Do you plan on making a Windows version?
Of course some of them knew.
Yeah, that raises a whole bunch of other ethical questions though, like why you’re able to do this, what access to PII you have and why you’re able to run queries like this on a Saturday.

I hope your employers keeps track of stuff like this.
Pax Americana is the term you're looking for.
> now the caller doesn't know what side effects, or performance characteristics you get by accessing the property with an implicit getter/setter.

Beyond method call overhead (which may or may not be a given depending on how things are optimized in some languages), the caller doesn't know that automatically with explicit getters/setters, either; you'd have to read the source to know that just as much if they are explicit as implicit (or rely on documentation, which hopefully is complete and current).
NTDEV - Transforming Windows 10 to Windows 2000 (SimpleClassicTheme)
https://youtu.be/an842EXWfBg
No he wasn't. Trump used claims of a stolen election in order to make that happen.
Great: no surveillance

Not so great: surveillance on everyone and catching criminals with it, but within a democratic framework

Disastrous: surveillance on everyone, while giving a pass to insurgents attempting to overthrow democratic governance, because if they take over the surveillance infrastructure you're doomed
3 could also be perfect. Call your friend, let him come pick your phone up and show it a good time, while you go commit a crime, perfect alibi!
Actually it is important tech for living people as well. The technology De Greg Fahy is working on can be used to freeze and unfreeze organs. It may save your (living) life if you get an organ just at the right time.
> could you dream of nasa celebrating SN8 plowing into
> the ground as a raging success.

Nobody is celebrating SN8 plowing into the ground. We are celebrating the fact that SN8 plowed into the correct square meter of ground. We also celebrate the fact that SN8 plowed into that particular meter of ground while oriented in the direction that we hoped, but barely dreamed, that it would be oriented.
IIRC there was also a study which showed substantially improved outcomes based on administering shock doses of some particular VitD metabolite. I've counted this as in favor of "causation" vis-a-vis VitD, not just correlation.
It's not that there are no consequences, it's a question of the trade off of those vs if you don't borrow/print money. The experience from the recovery of the great resession have moved the consensus largely over to the print more money camp.
The Raspberry Pi 1 is still a great device to experiment with alternative operating systems, most of which are far less resource hungry than Linux:

- Plan 9 (http://9p.io/sources/contrib/miller/)

- Inferno (http://lynxline.com/projects/labs-portintg-inferno-os-to-ras...)

- RISC OS (https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/raspberry-pi)

- NetBSD (https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/)

- FreeBSD (https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi)

- Interim Lisp OS (http://interim-os.com - this runs on Raspi 2 only, so porting to the ARM v6 in the Raspi 1 would be a nice project) - btw., this is a project by Lukas Hartmann, who is also the creator of the open MNT Reform ARM laptop (https://mntre.com)

- (shameless plug) my bare metal "crosstalk" Smalltalk-80 (https://github.com/michaelengel/crosstalk)

I'm pretty sure this list isn't complete...

Some operating systems are not supported at the moment:

- OpenBSD only seems to support the Aarch64-based models 3 and 4

- Haiku seems to be looking for a maintainer for the Raspberry port
Faire enough, but sure it wasn't C++'s C subset?
"Official" inflation is based on the CPI, consumer price index, which is based on a basket of goods, not including CoL things like housing.

edit:

I stand corrected. It does include housing, but this "Owners' equivalent rent of residences" counts the cost of a Mortgage, which of course is majorly impacted by interest rates. It doesn't include the value of the housing market directly, though.

Does anyone actually think that the housing market is counted correctly? It is clearly outpacing inflation by a lot:

https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/
Ray Dailo has been thinking about this idea for most of his life. He has had the resources and status to access any scholar on the topic he would like. Smart and motivated to understand the answer, he has written a book about this topic that is coming out soon, but is also available in full on-line for free[1]. I'm half-way through and it is very good so far.

[1]https://www.principles.com/the-changing-world-order/#introdu...
I don't know enough about Rust to say. If it doesn't have the concept of a 'fancy pointer' then I assume no, you'd have to essentially reproduce what boost::interprocess does.
I am developing an open-source full-body VR fitness game [1]
It's mainly for body-weight exercises, but if it makes sense to use Traindown for showing the results in a readable manner and having it in an interchangeable format I would be interested to add support for that.

Here is a video showing what I mean
[2]
and here is how the data is currently presented
[3]

[1] https://vrworkout.at

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c-74EfrKAQ

[3] https://portal.vrworkout.at/share/944835fbb97e451395ea3d2944...
Amazon presses for in-person voting for unionization election
Did someone just train a GAN on HN comments?
Do you think DVDs of BBC content should be free in the UK as well?
Would openstack belong in your list anywhere? Or would that be another category, the people who host openstack clouds.
I could easily imagine the Russian government shutting down internet usage for a few hours until they had a better handle on the situation. But, I have to ask, how possible is it that this was instead a lot more people than usual trying to use the internet in that area, because they were all on their smartphones trying to coordinate their activities in bandwidth-hungry ways?

Not saying it's likely, I don't know enough about the tech and infrastructure to evaluate that. Just asking the question in case somebody on HN does know.
Absolutely, the result of de-dollarisation of world trade will be a shift in the world’s power dynamics. I think it’s pretty inevitable by now. I hope we have learned enough about history to be able to have economic competition/conflict without military conflict.

As a silver lining for some parts of America - a weaker dollar together with onshoring of some industries probably means some jobs will return to the US.
Show HN: Visualizing Gradient Weighted Class Activations with GradCAM
Just One Drink a Day May Increase Risk of Atrial Fibrillation
Well people who live in milder climates do not understand the needs of harsher/more varied climate ;-)

I have been living for a few years in SE Asia - happy times - shorts, t-shirts and flip-flops mostly.

But here in Central Europe (Poland) where we really have 5-6 seasons (early Spring being different from Spring and early Fall from late Fall) and the amount of clothing and shoes you need is insane.

You generally need different type of shoes/pants for each season and then at least a double (nice ones and ordinary ones). So different shoes/pants/jackets/etc. for strong Winter, mild Winter, early Spring and late Spring, early Fall and late Fall, hot Summer and rainy Summer etc. It accumulates even of you are not wearing all in one year.
How can you have inflation while most of the services and commodities people are using are not increasing in price? Sure, you have equities rising, but that’s about it. Inflation because call options are flooding the market? Bonds are going down, real estate market is stagnant.
You are One with the swirling oceanic vortex that Is.
The point is, C++ supports the C ABI. You can write your entire application in C++ and expose only a C-style API with the stable ABI you wish. I've done it a million times and it's absolutely fine.
Care to share your website or what your company does?
I added a loading indicator emoji at my workplace (and my previous one).
I wrote a similar post some weeks ago, going to similar deepths to script launching a VM with Firecracker.

My main goal then was to provide the necessary automation to help using cloud images for the VMs, so you can easily leverage a wide array of existing images. Most of the credit is due to cloud-init, which helps automate instance configuration after boot.

"Automation to run VMs based on vanilla Cloud Images on Firecracker": https://ongres.com/blog/automation-to-run-vms-based-on-vanil...
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you... never just say "hi" to people ?
Yes this failure to distinguish different types of inflation (wage inflation, financial asset inflation, consumer goods inflation) is a big analytical oversight.
So happy about this thread and the increased presence and support of European techies on HN. It's about time.
If I have to work with legacy code I actually prefer code written in a non-object oriented language. Badly written OOP code is often worse.
I ended up watching a few videos of his, and I found this one of him interviewing Donald and Melania Trump in 2005: https://youtu.be/q4XfyYFa9yo
Regarding 3 I’ve been thinking of launching a courier service for this that would pollute data on a wide scale.

Basically a “phone walking” service that also charges your phone.

Could just be a side gig for Uber drivers, having phone lock boxes in their cars. The infrastructure is already there, phone lock boxes for charging exist in airports and nightclubs. This would be one that moves.
.... Did you factor in the fuel you need to actually stop? I'd prefer not to be the next martian crater.
low attenuation means fewer repeaters needed on oceanic cables, reducing the cost of operating the fiber optic cable.

"Using estimates for the theoretical loss limit of ZBLAN glass, a 2,000-km length of ZBLAN fiber could have the same optical loss as 10 km of silica fiber, which would be an extraordinary performance gain."

https://upward.issnationallab.org/the-race-to-manufacture-zb...

"Fluoride fibers inherently provide naturally a much wider bandwidth than silica with up to 100x usable number of data channels, <2 petabytes per second of data with no amplification for 1,000km or more and no need to carry power for said amplification lines. By comparison, current undersea cables use one repeater for amplification every 100-150km, at a cost of ~$1M each."

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of...
Can you please share the link to your saas?
If I have to report transaction (aka money) then yes. I need to update already emitted results. If it's just a log-based metric for internal use then no.

What I would like to have is a choice - and Apache Beam for example lets you choose this.
I think that everyone that upvoted played the game. So I think that at least 241 persons played the game. (The actual number of players is probably way higher.)

If you assume that players have no knowledge, With 241 the expected to number of persons with 8/10 in 10, and with 10/10 is 0.2. (The actual number of players is probably way higher, so these expected values are way higher, but we must not count lurkers.)

Last time I counted, I found 6 comments that say 8/10, so even if only 241 persons played and none of them have any insight, it would be underreported. This is not unexpected, not everyone is posting the result.

Last time I counted, I found 3 comments that say 10/10, that's much more than the expected value if only 241 persons played and none of them have any insight. So that's slightly interesting. (Did a lot of people get 10/10 and didn't upvote? The people that say 10/10 is lying or cheating? Do they recognize a few of the photos and were lucky in the others? Do they have a sixth sense to recognize serial killers?...)
The first two paragraphs are wrong, aren't they? My understanding is that the "32" in Win32 was originally to distinguish 32 bit from 16 bit API calls, but now its just the generic name for the Windows API.

The article makes it sound like the change is only of interest if you're compiling 32-bit applications.
Hi,

If your target is to build a product, do not try to build it yourself: Get freelancers. As for yourself focus on product marketing, product specification, procurement, production management, customer relation, etc.

If your target is to learn how to code, then choose a simple language, use simple tools, concentrate on basic topics, try small examples.

Good luck!