skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would hate to see someone not go for a walk because they are scared of falling on the sidewalk. Perhaps you live in more unforgiving place than most, or are thinking of older population, but living an unhealthy life controlled by fear seems like more of a concern than the risks of going for a walk.
Yes, let's return fiat to the gold standard, so that way gold supply shocks negatively impact the entire economy and we get rid of a powerful policy tool. Sounds brilliant.
Is "survive a 60mph crash" really the best goal?

We've made cars quite safe in this regard; I suspect there's more wiggle room to drop deaths with crash avoidance at this point. Backup cameras (now mandated by regulation), pedestrian detection, automatic breaking, lane change warnings, etc.
I used to have my blog source on GitHub, but then it turned out I didn't want my half-finished works-in-progress public. To use a private repository would rather defeat the point; using a private repo and a public fork is inviting confusion. Now I just use a private repo on my own server, cloned to my dev machine. Does anyone have a usable solution for that problem?
This is great news, but I have to point it out. Some of the social media handles on the Board of Directors page are hilariously unreadable: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/board/

(Click the pictures to reveal them)
Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines
I usually try to avoid getting into TZ pedantry, but since you brought it up, UTC is preferred and is not interchangeable with GMT.
>small compared to the number of Linux users

Not to mention all the Minix and NucleusRTOS Users ;)
You want me to speak for somebody else instead of you speaking for yourself?
>And yet, we're static in that most of our crash tests are done the same way they have for years

Exactly.

Modern cars are optimized for "the tests" occasionally to the point of absurdity. As in certain systems get de-tuned (so to speak) so they are completely and totally used up at whatever the max test speed is because that's what makes the car look best in the benchmarks.

If we modernized the tests high speed crashes would be more survivable and low speed crashes would be less costly.

It's not all government's fault though. Society has a very unhealthy relationship with risk. If you make a quip about how crumple zones shouldn't be tuned to activate in parking lot collisions you are instantly inundated with idiots that don't understand that a stiff neck in a 10mph hit could be what makes a 60mph hit survivable at all.
Because I support equal opportunity for all genders. I assume this is what feminism supports as well.

Is there somewhere in my post where I implied otherwise? Please cite what I said that made you think I am not a feminist.
I'm applying to stuff right now, mind emailing me this person's information?
SSL: Stupid Stack Language
we are using negotiated rates.

Also, we have a huge infrastructure group that adds a markup and conditions to the published pricing. For example, my line of business pays a different rate for using a Azure VM than the price published by Azure for the VM. Being able to plugin "lob" price as opposed the prices posted by the vendor is very useful to us.
Profiling you to increase revenue.
I thought this was obvious, but apparently it isn't - not 100% of things posted on this forum (or any forum, or the vast majority of human interactions) are driven purely by some abstract "intellectual curiosity" concept.
It's stuff I keep in my car in the winter and I'll use it if conditions warrant. Now it's true that, if you live in a city or are just walking someplace from your car in a parking lot, you probably won't and you're just careful. (Though I would absolutely use a pole if sidewalks were bad enough.) And, yes, people do sometimes slip and fall on ice and they sometimes break bones, etc. But I'm not sure what the alternative here is. If you need to go to the corner store or walk to work, you need to go to the corner store or walk to work. You can't hibernate all winter.
I agree with you about the potential that we're at the end of usefulness for our current system of professionalization. It's easy to forget how recently we've developed technology to cheaply distribute information about the past performance of individuals.

I think the key ingredient we'd need to do away with the organizations is have some strong form of identification that's safe to share publicly. Like, right now the bar association (or whoever) can check that you are who you claim to be and haven't assumed an identity. Having people get public / private key pairs from the government (or whatever) would do that as well, but we would need a system.

P.s. thank you for the compliment!
Fair point, though I think that wording leaves room for interpretation...

Does learning your social graph by looking at email metadata (sender/addressee, location, time) count as "scan[ning] or reading your Gmail messages"? There are a lot of insights you could "skim from the top" if you control an entire communication platform, even if you don't fully dig into the content.

And regardless: to OP's larger point, the reason Google offers services such as Gmail for free isn't mostly because their support cost is low -- it's mostly because these services allow them to collect a large amount of data that is then used for selling targeted ads, far surpassing the amount of money they would earn from offering ad-free services.
Japan Has a Train Station Just So People Can Enjoy the Beautiful Scenery
Assuming most people do not know is also a "bubble" perspective. We don't know what "most" people know about their time zones. Most countries in Asia have only one timezone.

source: https://www.timetemperature.com/asia/asia_time_zones.shtml

It is easier for them to relate to GMT in my opinion.
You're quite right that SICP is about the fundamentals. Progalgs is about writing efficient programs. It's for those who already understand the fundamentals.
It depends on the definition of 'expect'. You should expect it of them, as in consider it unethical if they don't. You shouldn't expect them to live up to this standard, as in, if you were to bet on it, you'd likely lose.
>This is a very "HN bubble" perspective. No, most people do not know their time zone's offset from GMT

Well, almost everybody who's done server work knows their timezone offset from UTC, though, which is basically GMT.
That's the correct way to look at it. You want to evaluate ideas on their own merits, but you also want to use heuristics and proxies when determining which ideas to consider in the sea of ideas on the Internet. A correct heuristic to search for good ideas is to seek the opinion of the previously successful people.
Having had the pleasure of shipping stuff in the Apple store, I can say that the review process is tremendously inconsistent.

In one case, we submitted two white-label apps which varied only in the logo and color palette. One was approved immediately, and the other required about 6 weeks of back and forth. About 3 of those weeks were convincing the reviewer that the link to a web page with terms of use was not a link to an out of app purchase flow (app was only for internal employees of a company and had ZERO purchase mechanism since all accounts had to be pre-provisioned).

For another app, which had been in the app store for a couple years, every other submission would get rejected for some random reason or another.
Nigeria has plans to manufacture helicopters locally
Voice of dissent, but I hate walking - it's just so tedious. If I'm walking to explore somewhere new, it's great. If I'm just walking as part of my commute or to get groceries, or just for the sake of exercise, etc. I can't stand the tedium.

I don't like running for the same reason - the boredom and mental tedium overcomes me earlier than the physical exhaustion. But at least running doesn't take too long to get the exercise benefits.

I live next to the river with an amazing view of the NYC skyline, but even that gets old after the n'th time.

Somewhat better: walking (or running) on a treadmill watching Netflix on my iPad.
Perl.com is worth stealing via a targeted attack. Yourboringname.com is not.

Banks use 2FA so stealing your email won't steal your account.

Anyway, you can appeal to the registrar and IANA for help if your registration is attacked.
I also don't quite get why you would ditch files/directories which are just a way of organizing data. You still have to organize them if everything is in main memory. Also, sharing data between programs has to be possible somehow. You will need some kind of reference/pointer to the data you talk about. Why are directories, files, and paths such a bad idea for that?
would you be up for sharing any professional producers, engineers, or studios that you know are using linux audio?
> There is a reason the target inflation is at ~2% almost everywhere. We need inflation to keep the economy going.

Inflation is completly based on politics and it's as much an experiment as central banking is. It works until it doesn't. Also it's incredibly hard to truly calculate.

Deflation is the best thing for employees. Imaging having the leverage in contract renegotiation. "They" don't want you to want inflation.
With the arguable exception of slavery, social change gave us all those things. Regulation was just the part where we coerced the hold-outs to do as we wanted under threat of violence. Regulation in a democracy always lags social change.
Actually their support in gmail is non-existing.
I work for European regional free e-mail provider (also ad supported) and we have free phone support for free users where You can talk to real support people who know product in 5 different languages. Google abuses it's dominant power by making basically impossible to get support
Judging from the example email the name of the spammer is "fixspam gitlab", I'm guessing they want gitlab to fix spam.
I found parts of that announcement very difficult to follow.

Can anyone tell me what the following means?

« For too long, open source as both an industry and a community has done a poor audit of its expenses. Notably, ignoring the price of what I’d controversially argue is the core value proposition of open source software: the freedom to collaborate. »
An interesting question is how Google defines “content”.

I’d imagine Google could build up great profiles based on metadata alone - which domains email you, which you email, etc.
I have seen all members of a sales team all have the title of ‘Director of Business Development’ simultaneously.

I don’t know what one calls the director of directors, though.
Good reminder that I need to prioritize making the switch from Gmail to iCloud mail.
It's something I don't really understand, doesn't Lightning scale by bypassing what makes bitcoin what it is: the proof of work and no trust system? It seems with Lightning you are back to having to check every transaction, and because it's painful, the trust mechanism is being centralised. It's seems to me we are almost back to square one then (though at least in theory you can control everything yourself and do not have to distribute the trust).
I run my own instance of Gitlab which basically means that I handle spam manually. It is a pain.

Gitlab recently added a band-aid of a feature to require admin approval for new sign-ups, which comes with its own obvious problems. But even the UI for that is clunky-- you have to click a button to reveal some options, find the option to delete the spammer, type (read: paste) the users handle as a failsafe, after which Gitlab takes you back to the main user view requiring you to click again on the unverified users tab.

Last time I talked about this problem someone from Gitlab claimed they were working on a feature to send an email with a simple link to click to approve/deny a user. That feature still has not shipped.

They did fix an unrelated catastrophic bug of keeping around artifacts on each branch even if you set an expiry. On a gitlab instance with even moderate development rate and moderate-sized artifacts this fills up the hard-disk with artifacts that the admin must manually delete (or manually create their own script to delete them, which is still a pain). However, their fix was to add a checkbox that defaults to the buggy behavior. Per project. So for every new user's project I have to manually tell them to turn this anti-feature off to keep from filling up the hard-drive with artifact spam. Or else write a damned script to go in and turn off this feature periodically.

The community edition of Gitlab feels a lot like the early Gnome 3 touch-screen stuff. Great in theory, but one quickly gets the sense that no one is dogfooding-- if they did these kinds of problems wouldn't exist.
looks like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCuEEf4mGsk
Alternate idea: create a bot to open new twitter accounts and tweet ever increasing numbers until you win.

EDIT: Bonus points if you use another bot to exclude all guesses that have already been submitted by others.
> Fake reviews are not that hard to spot.

This statement seems very suspect to confirmation bias. How would you get to know if what you think is genuine was actually fake? This part of feedback loop is completely missing, and hence I find your above statement hard to believe.
Curious: What's the appeal of running this on tiny hardware? It's trivial to grab a RasPi Zero and do this, for cheap, today.
Most people in the US know their offsets from the other three US time zones as well.
I just turned 30 and I fell on ice and it really hurt for two weeks. The ice was super hard and I fell directly on my ass. It might have looked funny from the outside, but the pain was really bad. I couldn't really sit or move my hips as usual.

I don't want to overdramatize the fall as I feel better now, but I can see how it could be worse for older / taller people in a slightly less fortunate fall: one might fall in front of a car, bicycle, one could fall and break a leg or arms, roll down a little hill right into a forest, lose a tooth or two, punch or pull someone else as they fall etc...
My ISP has literally a single public IP address they use for all subscribers. And, I have third-party cookies disabled in my browsers because they are almost never used for something legitimately good. Because of these two things, I'm constantly being punished with captchas, and sometimes downright bans ("your IP isn't good enough to post on this forum"), in places where I least expect. Yes, looking at you, Google and Cloudflare.
> If you make a quip about how crumple zones shouldn't be tuned to activate in parking lot collisions you are instantly inundated with idiots that don't understand that a stiff neck in a 10mph hit could be what makes a 60mph hit survivable at all.

Or they're pedestrians who don't want to be cut in half in a parking lot. Car-on-car isn't the only thing in consideration here.
On a related note, I have been unable to transfer a repo for two weeks now. The sender is able to initiate it but no notification ever appears on my end. If anyone knows how to get the attention of someone at GitHub please let me know. I wish GitHub had a paid support option that was reasonably priced for a single inquiry.
> See my other reply for why PoW isn't the issue here.

See my other reply for why I believe it absolutely is.

> But anyway, not every cryptocurrency uses PoW :)

True, but Bitcoin is the one that people actually speculate in. Ethereum seems to be in some kind of transition phase. Tether is not designed for speculation, and operates more on a Proof of Shenanigans principle. So it seems the highest capitalized Proof of Stakes cryptocurrency right now is Cardano, which is tiny compared to Bitcoin.
Offsets from GMT/UTC are annoying when you have to deal with DST though, as it can be confusing to remember which offset applies at any given point in time.
> Then you have to do 1000x the sequencing

Seems to me, that stuff is getting cheaper all the time.
Plenty useful back when Panera limited you to 30 minutes of wifi; no idea if they still do.

Their wifi solution tracked you by MAC -- I think it was Sonicwalls? -- so when you hit the 30-min limit you'd spoof the MAC, re-connect, then back to business as usual.

I'd usually comply when the place was bumping -- hard to work when it's loud and crazy -- but most of the time it was empty in the mornings and the 30-min-limit was pointless.
yeah the easy things work, but once you run into something that is not common it gets hairy pretty quickly
You can forward mail to your personal Gmail account.

Anyway why is Google's paid business product more risky than their free Gmail?
Admittedly I work for a very opinionated team - we even have our own style guidelines (https://github.com/G-Research/fsharp-formatting-conventions) which are often in direct contradiction to Microsoft's, and my team strongly skews towards writing explicit type annotations on all function signatures. I can certainly see how there would be a problem if one defaulted to omitting type annotations.
And, Rust already has a way of avoiding trusting-trust attacks via mrustc.
Not familiar with Roboflow. Is it something like OpenCV as a service?
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Whatever, dude, the parent comment came from you. You asked if you should be ashamed for being feminist, I replied no, but you should also not be proud of this, because there is nothing easier and more mainstream today than being a feminist. That's all.
I took all of the anti-fb steps (removed the app, deleted IG account, logged out of the fb app on my phone and desktop browsers), but I couldn't bring myself to actually delete my account. I still haven't deleted it, but last fall I got a new phone and my google authenticator app (for 2fa) lost all of my accounts (i.e. google and fb). Luckily I was able to login to my google account, but FB requires that I send them a photo of my drivers license. I know that I wouldn't be sending them any information that they don't already have, but something about that act just offends me. I haven't been able to log in since September and now I've pretty much forgotten about it.
Dude you have two flagged posts talking about women and you're going to try to convince me you're a feminist?
The market cap of party confetti is over $1 trillion too.

I don't think the market is anywhere near liquid enough to let you extract all of that $1 trillion, especially with Tethers looming over the whole industry.
Scientists switch on tissue repair in inflammatory bowel disease
All small arms are "weapons of war". Clubs and sticks are "weapons of war" in certain societies, and people kill other people with them all over the world. In some places they do so quite effectively.

That's really the fact of it.

The UK and Japan have banned pocket knives. I couldn't legally possess a Leatherman the entire six years I spent in Japan. We had metal detectors at the brow of the ships to ensure no one LEFT the ships with their every day tools they carried to do their jobs, because they would be arrested and thrown in a hole for carrying them off the ship (yes, this literally happened. 10+ days in a Japanese hole waiting on a charging decision for a junior LT on a ship there because he had a pocket knife in his backpack). The UK is now attempting to ban clubs. The logical extension of this "ban weapons of war" desire is to literally ban sticks. Everything has to be banned in order to have a perfectly "safe" society. But then people will kill each other with their fists. It's the human condition, unfortunately, and attempting to address a meatspace problem with technology bans has never proven to be effective in all of history.

Targeting semi automatic rifles with detachable or "high capacity" (another meaningless term) magazines, isn't a useful thing to do. It doesn't make any difference, won't make any difference, and can't make any difference. They were banned from 1994-2004, and that led to literally almost fifteen years of destruction of that political party and made those banned weapons the most popular weapon that has ever been designed. Again -- it's the human condition.

The reason gun rights advocates are so set against this is that every time there's a "discussion" it's designed to make something we own illegal. We can talk about it all day, but that at the end is always the goal of gun control advocates. They don't want to talk, they want to make us criminals.
That's been my advice so far, but there are some things that become off limits to people with this approach as the legitimate sites often give you no way to complete some actions like this (e.g. "book a slot with our courier" but you can't browse to the page directly).

Plus, I'd like to be able to help people overcome their fear on the internet rather than just keeping them from getting scammed — e.g. the difference between teaching someone to read a map so that they can explore the countryside safely & telling them "you should just stick to the park, where it's safe".
I'm seeing a lot of discussions around Automatic Differentiation, but I don't understand the purpose.

Why would you take the derivative of a piece of code?
> if your program accepts file uploads it should convey them byte-for-byte to recipients, good lord

You'd be surprised how few apps abide by this simple and reasonable rule.

My own Mattermost instance refused to allow me to upload an image to my own machine the other day because the long edge was 9000 pixels. "Too high res for your own hard drive" was a new one for me.
> Any decent person with an ounce of humanity knows it was a barbaric crime. Then you have your Bush, Trump and I suppose you for your enthusiastic support.

Bullshit claims that whoever disagrees with you is "barbaric" and "inhuman" is just that - bullshit empty words, devoid of any substance. However, this is exactly the language that the people we're talking about used - Germans fought "barbarians" for the future of "humanity" and "civilization" - as they saw it, Japanese fought "barbarians" for the future of "civilization" - as they saw it. Read their propaganda, it's literally the same words. Both considered their enemies subhuman and devoid of any value or decency. That was what gave them the moral sanction for their atrocities. I am very happy they lost. I sincerely hope your side, whatever it is, considering people disagreeing with you sub-human, will lose also.

> It is the big bad commies

For you, it may be fun and jokes, for people who actually lived under communist regimes, it's the history of death, torture and oppression. You are welcome to make fun of it, because these people are not fully human anyway, since they might disagree with you. While furiously patting yourself on the back convinced in your moral superiority.

> yet get your panties in a twist because a COMMIE dares to criticize the best country in the world

The communists are morally aligned with one of the most oppressive and deadly ideology that we have seen so far, judging by the history of 20th century. And they should learn those lessons. It does not exclude US - or any other country - from criticism about problems they have - but communists have less right than anyone to mount the high horse and call out anybody, if they refuse to reckon with their own blood-stained past. There is a place for honest criticism - but people who deny anybody who disagrees with them human decency is not the people who you expect the honest criticism from. Especially when they openly align with the ideology that literally murdered hundreds of millions of people for the mere fact they were born to wrong parents or dared to disagree with the Party.

> A walking,talking stereotype.

Also probably not fully human. As usual from the moral high horse types, they only think about themselves and their comrades as human. All the rest are walking, talking whatever but not humans. Of course, then there's not much problem with suppressing them, and having a good hearty laugh about it.