skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Mr. Stross, I'm a big fan of your work! Thanks for hanging out here on HN with us. I thought Accelerando was superb. Keep up the hard work of writing! I know it can be tough, but your efforts have really paid off, at least to me.

One question, if you're up for doing any questions: what do you think about the use of drones and loitering munitions in the recent Azerbaijani-Armenian War of 2020?

Thanks again for all the hard work!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict
It’s really bizarre that the release notes for the community edition version 7.1 spends a lot of space not to talk about it what’s in the release but to tell businesses not to use the community edition and how the avoidance of the enterprise edition is causing issues. Is this a cultural thing? I would’ve thought that someone who wanted to convey this message could’ve stated in one sentence that this is not meant for businesses and provided a link to a knowledge base article on the differences between the community edition and enterprise edition (which could include explanations about volunteer efforts and compromises).

If someone wants to know why businesses should prefer a non-community edition, are we supposed to link to a point-in-time relevant release notes blog post?
One step at a time. As of the previous decade, we have

- Learned how to play all atari games [1]

- Mastered GO [2]

- Mastered Chess without (as much) search [3]

- Learned to play MOBAs [4]

- Made progress in Protein Folding [5]

- Mastered Starcraft [6]

Notice that all these methods require an enormous amount of computation, in some cases, we are talking eons in experiences. So there is a lot of progress to be made until we can learn to do [1,2,3,4,6] with as much effort as a human needs.

[1] https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Agent57-Outperforming-the-...

[2] https://deepmind.com/research/case-studies/alphago-the-story...

[3] https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphazero-shedding-new-lig...

[4] https://openai.com/projects/five

[5] https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaFold-Using-AI-for-sci...

[6] https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphastar-mastering-real-t...
Ask HN: What is your silliest and costliest (time or money) programming mistake?
I know of at least one Canadian hospital that's incorporated ML into 100% of their ED triage. Sure it's not some state of the art deep learning architecture, but it's definitely a step above the old crop of heuristic-based systems you see so often in medical software. "Medical AI" is a stupid term that's been co-opted by more hucksters than legitimate practitioners, so I prefer to talk about more concrete (and less fanciful) applications like patient chart OCR or capacity forecasting.
Let me clarify. I mean “intelligence from the perspective of modern ML” is just an optimization problem.
Will the Clubhouse model work in China?
By 'cardinality', I question whether the plurality of 'bipartisan' is more than superficial.

The validity of the outcome speaks for itself.
I'm surprised privacy and security isn't more of a concern. Howcan they effectively say, "Do whatever you want. It doesn't matter to HQ."?
“We have a technical term for this. It’s called Open Kimono.” That’s such a weird thing to be a technical term. Is there some history to this phrase? Technical terms in my field tend to be more technical in nature and less focused on one’s schlong.
With the 2004 expansion, Germany (among other states) pressured for restrictions and transitional agreements were made that allowed restricting movement of workers from the newly added countries for up to seven years. The UK was one of the few countries that did not do any of those restrictions, because it's government wanted direct access to cheap labor.
Shadow of Mordor Nemesis System Patent Unfortunately Approved for WB Games
China Issues Final Monopoly Regulations for Internet Sector
Bikemaps.org at Outspoken Cyclist Podcast
The improvements are listed here:

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G202087570

The writing is on the wall though - DRM is getting better and the easy to crack formats will probably fade away soon.

The solution isn't technical (ie better cracks), it's legislative. Books are special and most e-books shouldn't be DRM'd. Purchasers of ebooks should have the right to resell, to gift, to bequeath, to trade, and do all the other things that have been part of book culture for the past few hundred years.
Completely agree. I rarely eat an apple on it's own, and a granny smith is crisp and sour, and great for baking.
Paul graham

Sometimes a ham

Writes a lot of essays

For the ‘musement of the lays
- Host file

- Felinks/lynx

- Ditch the web altogether, use Gopher and gopher://magical.fish and gopher://hngopher.com. You won't lose a lot.
There's tons of good film breakdown on Youtube if you're looking to understand some of the strategies of the game. Peyton Manning has a bunch of good ones like these two:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSN85vpIkyA

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ynsn2fSeGo
TFA mentions two partners that sell versions for the enterprise (Collabora and Red Hat).
I find some level of trusted recommendations valuable and also love talking about books with friends.

Just because you only care about a small sliver of the product doesn't mean that others feel the same
I think Blindsight by Peter Watts has a lot of relevance. It explores (among many other things) the concept of a Chinese Room [0] as applied not only to AI, but to biological intelligence. The exploration has a lot of overlap with machine learning IMO.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Wikipedia and Archive.org are doing what the internet was made for at least on the history side of things, but also culture, information and education. If you can, donate.
That's more aggressive begging than a mandate. They have a license for a reason, and that license clearly allows OP's use case. If they do not need the "business" level features Libre's partners offer I see no reason to upgrade.
Maybe it's just my own ignorance, but in the EU context, I don't understand the difference between a company "lobbying" an agency like Frontex versus a company having a "government sales team" doing "customer outreach" to Frontex?
I've found the Amazon app to load very slowly when the LTE connection isn't great, which is often the case in bookstores, at least where I live.

I agree with the grandparents comment. I just use a list in Apple Notes.
while i appreciate the insights you bring to bear on the actual behavior of organizations and teams, your response seems to be resigned to accepting the status quo rather than working to change the incentives so that security risks and damages are internalized appropriately.

this kind of excuse-making is how we slide down various slippery slopes (e.g., how google's "don't be evil" eventually failed), even with eyes wide open. instead, the better response is to advocate legislative and organizational improvements while also working within your perceived constraints. it can be both, not either-or.
I'm skeptical... But it depends what data sources are available. I was a paramedic so my medical knowledge is limited, but at the same time, we frequently had to do field diagnosis. It's hard to explain... but you can have patients with the same symptoms and two totally different diagnoses. You basically just learn to intuit the difference but none of the stuff we can write down or quantify drives the differential diagnosis. And it's funny because you get pretty good at it. I could just tell when an elderly patient had a UTI even though they had a whole cluster of weird symptoms. Or more importantly, I could tell you when someone was just a psych case despite complaining of symptoms matching some other condition with great accuracy.

It'd be really hard to train a computer when to stop digging because there's nothing find, or when to keep digging because this patient really doesn't feel like a psych case. And the tests and doagnostics aren't without risk and cost.

I've had a greybeard doctor in my personal life that somehow read between the lines and nailed a diagnosis despite my primary symptoms being something else entirely. (I had recurring strep tonsilitis for months and yet he just somehow knew to step back and order a mono test. It came back negative the first time, and he knew to have me tested AGAIN, and lo and behold it was positive.) None of symptoms were really consistent with mono. I tested positive for strep each time and antibiotics would clear it.). Thankfully I happen to be allergic to the first line antibiotic because if you give amoxicillin to someone with mono they'll get a horrible rash all over their body in like 90% of people.
We have a network of local news sites in the UK which are almost totally unusable on mobile and desktop without javascript disabled and/or aggressive adblocking.

That wouldn't be so bad if the actual news content was worth reading; it's mostlty click-bait at best.

The owner's clear intent is to milk every last drop of ad revenue they can before the inevitable happens which is really sad since there is a clear need for local news coverage which isn't available elsewhere.
I stumbled on this pipeline idea reading this page: https://mtomassoli.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/pipelining-in-py...
but the implementation looked quite complicated.

The code in this github repo is both simpler and more powerful, since it can handle generator expressions seamlessly.
I don't know what it says about me, but I've never heard any of these before, with the exception of the misquoting of "not all those who wander are lost"
I recently moved to a very dangerous place from one of the safest places in America. I've noticed changes in my behavior, and also the behavior of those around me.

There is almost a palpable brackish area where trust meets distrust.

I've always been a resilient cooperator, so I hope I can withstand the waves that are washing over me.

Some people adapt to their surroundings, and others blunder blindly forward in spite of any danger. If the ones pushing the boundary of safety to reap great rewards do well, others will emulate them.

If that fruit is poisoned though, the ones watching will be more cautious.

Are you the type of person who will cut down the strange fruit, and build a future of trust, safety, and dignity for all? I hope I am.
If you're going to do this, you're probably going to use images. If you're going to use images, please keep in mind that GitHub now has a dark mode, so black text on a transparent background is almost entirely unreadable. Here's what the first image in the example document looks like in the markdown file, compared to the actual image: https://imgur.com/a/k2KWB57
out of curiosity, why do you use an open source office product when a variety of free & high quality web based document editors exist? I chafe when I need to use the microsoft office suite at this point, and premium editors look more like grammarly than word.

In the corporate/business use case there are both open source and cheap licensed/self-hosted versions of web based editors.
The article is something of a nothing sandwich imho. No new news, no deep analysis.

I'm still unclear how the bankruptcy is meant to dispel fraud charges. Or how they can close in New York and reopen in Texas (or anywhere else under US law) and escape their liabilities.

It would be very entertaining if someone bought the rights to the name and ran the NRA as a campaign group for safety and education...
Overly dense C can be cryptic, sure, but Lisp relies heavily on parentheses. At least in C and C++, there are several types of brackets at work (parentheses, square brackets, braces, and in C++, angle brackets and even double square brackets [0]). This helps the eye get a grasp of things.

At least, things seem that way to me, as someone who knows C and C++ reasonably well but has only dabbled in Lisp.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14349964

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8300619
My favorite apples (day to day) are Holsteiner Cox[1] and (Schöner aus) Boskoop[2]. And Berlepsch[3], but the latter is not easy to get here.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holsteiner_Cox

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_de_Boskoop

[3] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlepsch
The Compiler Engineer
Drunk Too much Beer
Thought Undefined Behaviour
Was His Saviour

I think my future is in programming rather than poetry...
If anything, that makes me think that we need to give more emotional attention and care to boys, since they're less likely to seek help (even if the method for seeking help is destructive).
I disagree, every added governing body is a failure in itself. I would prefer to just see a Europe-light with countries maintaining their currency and laws and just dropping trade restrictions, import taxes and need for touristic visas.

I'd even extend it to any country in the world, let the customer decide if the want to buy from China or from the UK
Thank you for pointing this out.

The moment I see any mention of price increase to curb spending is probably as naive as it is dangerous.
what's tomorrow, a thread on last night's dreams? No one cares how you name your computers.
Maybe guile emacs?
> I know of at least one Canadian hospital that's incorporated ML into 100% of their ED triage.

Cool! Which hospital is that? Is the clinical staff happy with the results?

Personally, I've never seen any medical ML application that made my job easier. But it would be nice to see.
Show HN: Stamp turns a folder into a plain text file and a file into a folder
Sir NicktheMagicMan.

When asked to explain what's a back end man.

He says it means I think golang is fine.

not that I have a predilection for ladies behinds
I visited Wieliczka and some visual similarities are striking enough that the hypothesis that Wieliczka inspired at least the filmmakers of the series seems plausible to me.

But there is AFAIK no record of JRRT himself visiting there and Poland would be a very untypical vacation destination of a British guy in the interwar period.
Crowdsourced data for bicycling research and practice [pdf]
Fantastic idea, visually exceptionally well done. Thanks for posting this. It would be really cool to have a Top 10 of the best and the worst investments (and perhaps a way to hide stocks that have been delisted/ceased in those top ten). I've tried a few stocks, but the ones you've listed may give a bit of a skewed idea of just how well IPO investments can pan out. Other than that, nothing to add, love it.
I think that the most interesting by far is

> Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889–1944) was an American engineer and chemist who contracted polio at age 51, leaving him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. He became accidentally entangled in the ropes and died of strangulation at the age of 55. However, he is better known for two of his other inventions: the tetraethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).[24][25][26]

And from his own Wikipedia page:

> Midgley's legacy has been scarred by the negative environmental impact of leaded gasoline and Freon.[20] Environmental historian J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history",[21] and Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny".[22] Use of leaded gasoline, which he invented, released large quantities of lead into the atmosphere all over the world.[20] High atmospheric lead levels have been linked with serious long-term health problems from childhood, including neurological impairment,[23][24][25] and with increased levels of violence and criminality in cities.[26][27][28] Time magazine included both leaded gasoline and CFCs on its list of "The 50 Worst Inventions".[29]
The organizational culture of ICE appears to be terrible. While there does need to be an organization to manage immigration and enforce immigration law, it seems like it would be a lot better if all present ICE employees were fired and those responsibilities were transferred to an expanded FBI, or a new organization built from scratch.
From this article[1] it seems that nearly every game ever used something similar that has any procedural leveling at all.

> How the system operates is a bit complex. The game provides a variety of enemy tribes, and each tribe has a leader. Each of these bosses possess a unique name, visual design and personality. You will be hard-pressed to find a repeat tribe leader throughout the course of Shadow of War. The variety of Nemesis found throughout the course of the game are all unique and visually differing from their contemporaries. This is meant to establish an individual identity to separate each boss from one another. Making Shadow of War's rogue gallery a unique and player-specific experience rather than a series of cardboard cutouts meant to be chopped down.

Nearly every game in existence has some level of this with tuning the game to the users XP level or skills as well as randomization or ranges of these properties.

[1] https://screenrant.com/middle-earth-shadow-of-war-nemesis-sy...
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!
Every topic is explained with example, which clears your understanding. 10/10 book. I'm currently on distributed file system chapter.
A couple of thoughts:

Many enterprises are moving away from thick client office software and moving to browser based office software with cloud backends. Google apps, Zoho, OnlyOffice, Bitrix, and Microsoft all have very usable cloud offerings. Collabora is trying to build an LibreOffice based cloud offering, but LibreOfice remains old-style "thick client" software.

Apache OpenOffice is still available and free. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice, and gained marketshare by building goodwill with users who did not trust Oracle or (to a much lesser extent) the Apache Foundation.

Having three "enterprise" partners to buy from makes it hard. I don't have a business relationship with CIB, Collabora, or Adfinis SyGroup, and honestly, I don't know why packaged office software would require one.

In short, I think there's a deep marketing problem here, and a misunderstanding of something fundamentally different about free software (using the Stallman meaning): it is possible to have widely used software that is critical to a user, but where that user is not willing to pay for it. This is because the user selected it because it was free (as in freedom) and the user knows they do not have to cooperate with a market capture by a developer.
At the risk of showing my age...

In my own private home lab -- which has grown way too large -- I like using names of the Garbage Pail Kids [0] as hostnames.

There's a few benefits to this naming scheme, when dealing with physical machines at least: 1) you can usually find a name that suits the "temperament" of the particular host and 2) you can tape the trading card to the host (or the rack, next to it) to make finding / identifying it easier.

--

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_Pail_Kids
Lessons Learned from My Last Startup: A Post Mortem
Sorry for the late reply. I distilled from my own finetuned XLM-RoBERTa model.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/open-kimono.asp

I think its more management bullshit speak than actual technical term.

Apparently it comes from feudal Japan when people would open their kimonos to should there were no weapons hidden there (may be BS). I guess it like shaking hands in that sense.
Exactly this, making money isn't good enough. You have to make more and more each quarter. Shame Google haven't found many more ways of doing this other than infesting the web with ever more aggressive and annoying ads.

I don't run adsense on sites anymore but, the last time I did, I enabled 'auto ads' and the results were nothing short of atrocious. Literally, almost a wall of ads?
Virus Variant First Found in Britain Now Spreading Rapidly in U.S.
Hacker News

Composing Clerihews

Nothing better to do

Than say something true
Rationally I agree with you. I guess it's this sinking feeling of feeling like an idiot for selling so early.

Your two cents are correct. Thank you.
> which I'm assuming is from time spent waiting on network requests and retrying them.

there shouldn't be timeouts. ublock origin prevents the request from happening. there should be neither DNS lookup or a HTTP request generated from the browser.
Here are also online version[0] & EPUB version[1].

JFTR, This article shared by https://BikeMaps.org Team.[2]

[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01441647.2020.1...

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/01441647.2020.1...

[2] https://twitter.com/BikeMapsTeam/status/1356647062209658880
Would you happen to have any links to share further explaining the limits of our knowledge of biochem processes?

How does epigentics complicate this further, is it that it wides the number of inputs into a biochem system
Reinventing Education for the 21st Century
Was GameStop's rise actually orchestrated by hedge funds?
I’m a big supporter and user of open source software, but I must say the office suite open source world seems like a real shit show.

I’m personally very happy using the office tools bundled with MacOS.
Hmm, maybe. It felt rather relentless, but I suppose.

The difference here is that both main parties supported Brexit, as opposed to having 2 opposing streams of nonsense.
> How is that even legal?

It's not legal.

I work in an industry that monitors such things and recommends Banks/Lenders not pay if/when these discrepancies arise (Construction Risk Management).

The appropriate party will make revisions and then prove that that change won't affect the overall project.

> Let alone technically possible?

On larger projects, Subcontractors of Subcontractors of Subcontractors can become lazy, use materials not rated for their intended use, someone doesn't double check it since they're lazy, clicks a checkbox and calls it done; out of sight out of mind.

> How does construction of these monsters work?

Preconstruction Due Diligence, Funding via Banks, Approval/Contract Signing, Mobilization to Site, Construction of Building, Final Inspections & Warranties transfered, a Certificate of Occupancy issued, and people move in.

With mega projects, you have so many moving parts that something will fall through the cracks. Some material got substituted, the pent house staircase dimensions are 2-inches off creating a variance approval, but that dimension now affects the elevator machine room, they used Cast Iron Pipe on Floors 1-10 then PVC at 11-40 and there's issues at the different pipe connections; it just cascades. This is the main reason I also work in Building Information Modeling (BIM) to mitigate such problems.

The whole point of my industry is to act as a third party between the Developer & Bank/Lender, opine on the Preconstruction Documents (Contracts, Geotech, Budget, Schedule), document the Construction each month via photos, attend Meetings, review the application for payment, and flag the bank when something changes (No Energy Star appliances suddenly? Variance? Certain brand of vinyl flooring stock low so substitute it with vinyl tile? Change Orders about to deplete the Contingency?)

It becomes such an undertaking after a certain budget size or apartment unit amount. Eventually, people get stretched thing or get lazy, they're over budget, they've gone way past their scheduled completion date and just don't care since their next project is starting up and Permits are taking way longer to get; just happens.

Hope this gives a little perspective.
Coleman Barks at least has a sense of rhyme, but when it comes to the original Rumi, it is indeed very different. It’s hard to find good (accurate) Rumi translations,