skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to self-hosting, there are 2 key components: the service software itself (ie Nextcloud), and the network plumbing to connect everything together. The networking has gotten quite complex due to NAT, HTTPS, DNS, IPv4 exhaustion, etc.

I maintain a list of software to help simplify the networking bits:

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Ok let's keep digging deeper. Imagine you're a startup with a great story in Nashville, TN. Or perhaps Columbus, OH. Or Riga, Latvia. Or Bogota, Colombia. The specifics don't matter, but the fact that these are in VC "back waters" is the main issue.

Who are the VCs listening to in Nashville, Columbus, Latvia, and Bogota? Or if they aren't listening regionally, then where and who are they listening to?

My understanding is that VCs, like most people, are fundamentally lazy. They won't go out of their way to listen to people they aren't already listening to. This means the same networks, inbound deal feeds, and communities.
Most cars have this if you look in the user manual. Even old cars with no graphical radio have konami-code-like sequences of button presses you can input to turn them off.
> Diesel engines can be a useful backup for when wires break

In reality, this doesn't happen -- the capital cost of idle diesel locomotives would negate (and more) the money saved with the electric trains.

If catenary is damaged in Europe (usually by storms), rail services are suspended until it's repaired. Repair is a very high priority.

(For one thing, it's unlikely to be safe to repair the catenary if trains are still running.)
From "how many people" to "what people" there is only a single step.

And it is very very very easy to take it.

That a congressperson makes this kind of question speaks volumes about him. Unbelievable.
A project that was all about this approach: https://speakerdeck.com/nineties/creating-a-language-using-o...
>Is anyone else confused at how this is legal? I

They can't legally force the companies to comply and they know that but it doesn't matter. This is a threat: "If you don't do what we tell you to do, we'll make your life miserable". If the companies don't willingly comply, then they can launch a FUD PR campaign through activist non-profits orgs and claim that these companies are hosting hate speech. Too cynical?
Incentives for grade inflation are already pretty extreme: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/13/what-incentivizes-profess...
I'm not trying to be a dick, but introductory foreign language courses were, in my opinion, broadly perceived to be a complete joke, and passable without the slightest capability of forming a complete sentence.

Is it possible your community college was just unreasonably difficult?
You have a hard time believing it possible, so it can't be true?

Are you aware that many models you see in magazines are only in their early teens, made to look older with makeup?
Usually, the date in the title indicates the publication date of the article which is indeed – 2018.
> why are all degrees four years? Why does a classics degree cost the same as a CS degree

Consider all the weird sets of expectations that people glue together and name "college education". There's this ancient classical idea of the Liberal Arts, that is, the arts that were deemed suitable for free men to know, Philosophy, Literature, higher callings. There's the modern, results-oriented idea of "you should develop useful skills," split between people who think of it as "this is an investment in yourself and your human capital" and those who say "this is to produce more cogs for the machine." There are those who would use it to promote critical thinking; there are those who would use it to promote indoctrination. Are you going to school to network? To learn? To find your purpose? To effect justice through political action? To signal your desirability through the brand "bachelors degree"? To signal your desirability through a brand like "Harvard"?

I suspect society is going to slowly move away from the idea of all-encompassing "college" and consider all of these as different things as different types of achievement. This will come as a blow to the big schools, who have long used the aura of the "Liberal Arts" as the brand.
Show HN: Flowdash – Build internal tools for your team’s manual workflows
FUSER.

It's basically easy-mode music mixing/DJing with live cooperative multiplayer.
Lots of them: https://github.com/nextcloud/providers#providers
I'm old enough to remember when calling private news agencies Fake News was an assault on our Freedom of the Press.
Instead, they control the methodologies that define the value of what they've printed as well as the flows.

Differences...Distinctions...are there?
> There is no chance that changing the composition of the Ivy League student body will effect anything remotely resembling a broad-based change in American educational inequality, opportunity, or aggregate outcomes. Zero. None.

I think this misses the point of going to an ivy league. Would Obama have become president if he didn't have multiple ivy league schools in his pedigree? Maybe, but there's no doubt that the relationships he formed during those years drastically changed the trajectory of his life.

OP is arguing that the undergraduate population of ivy league schools is tiny, so even if they admitted 100% minority students, there would still be millions of minority students who are being left out of the "top tier" education that can be received. Sure, that's true, but the fact that 16/45 of our presidents are ivy league alumni can't be ignored. So when a minority student goes to Harvard and ends up becoming president, he/she can end up changing not only policy decisions to improve outcomes for minority constituents, but also changes the narrative when it comes to who can attain political office at the highest level.

So I would argue that there is absolutely a chance that changing the composition of ivy league student bodies can have an effect on American education inequality. Because some of those students will end up using that advantage to attain political office and affect change at a macro level.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar, and especially not with classic flamebait. We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As someone who pretty much fits the category of " basically decided which city/town (bc of work/family) and are just trying to narrow down which home", I would love to have this service. There are huge differences in noise levels throughout any given city, and it's not always obvious from just a satellite map. Unfortunately, it's a very hard problem to solve. I did a lot of research before renting my current house. I thought I had done pretty well for about 2 hours after I moved in, then I found out that my next-door neighbor has two little dogs with a high-pitched bark and Olympic-swimmer level lungs. The neighbor has absolutely no interest in trying to control them. It would be a hell of an app that could have warned me about that.
cheers, its one of those things that you would never imagine is still a problem
In my experience most elite school CS students don't actually work on OSS. I see a lot of school projects posted to Github. That's why I like to look at it, because it's hard to fake.

You're right that it's harder for people who don't have the resources to buy computers and spend time learning/hacking. I've hired several really good devs who only had an HS degree but also had an OSS project, but a lot of people just won't have the resources to make that happen.
> Something I've noticed and take this with a grain of salt as this is a sample=1 observation is that the better researchers (more publications, better funded labs) were generally also better teachers.

I've had the opposite experience.
Short of living near a fast moving river, nature is rarely as consistently loud as living in a city. Rural living, away [0] from rivers and highways (mainly interstates) is remarkably quiet and often very affordable in most of the country.

[0] This doesn't even have to be very far away, and noise can be substantially reduced with a fairly small group of trees between you and the noise source.
That's my recent great find. It's amazing that it's given fir free even for personal use.
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> Something I've noticed and take this with a grain of salt as this is a sample=1 observation is that the better researchers (more publications, better funded labs) were generally also better teachers.

In engineering/math, I've seen it swing both ways. Some professors couldn't be bothered to teach, because are so busy w/ their research and/or jaded w/ the University: implicit assumption is to baby the undergrads and shepherd them along the system. In regards to funding in relation to teaching ability, one way to look at it is that a PI is in essence a salesman, you have to sell your vision to get funding/appointments, sell your lab to get good phd candidates, and sell the subject to undergrad as something that is interesting and worthy of learning.
Only some oils are bad. Avoid oils used at fast food restaurants and in packaged goods. Olive and avocado are good.

Salt isnt bad.

Meat can be fine. Just be careful of its source, frequency of consumption and method of cooking.

Fruit is sugar, which is bad.

Focus on eating a ton of veg, locally sourced when possible, and the most expensive lean proteins you can afford.
The Atlantic also wrote "Why is the World so Loud?" in 2019, a great read into the psychological effects of noise pollution and the legal means by which people try and fight back.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/the-end...
It looks like their kickstarter has all the info:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-gl...

Linus did a decent review of the tech back in 2019:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EA2FQXs4dw
That's a long and good answer. Thanks for taking the time.

This is an interesting discussion but I don't want to extend it ad infinitum. A parting thought:

Your answer about ECB tell me that you agree that central banks can control bond yields. So, I have to ask myself who is the "mainstream economics" that we are discusing about. Maybe we are thinking of different people.

Was not Martin Feldstein? (1) is not Paul Krugman? (2)

(1) - http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=33094
(2) - http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=13970
My apologies. When I added the "blindly lump ..." sentence, I didn't wasn't replying directly at your comment, but rather in reference to the worrying trend amongst anti-gmo movements to lump any GMO related practices in the same basket.

> That's a little like saying "There's zero difference between traditional animal husbandry and cloning."

This is a very interesting topic, actually! I can't comment on animal husbandry (much less dolly style cloning), but cutting (cloning) is a very common way to propagate crops, and has been done for longer than we care to know. It's also the natural way in which some plants and fungi propagate. There are many benefits to cloning, but there are also downsides: when disease affects one, it affects all your clones. You can protect against that by seed propagation, crossing, etc, but then you have a less predictable and consistent crop, which in the modern market is sometimes frowned upon.

I know most farmers will pick consistency over variety any time of the day because they have to make a living, and most people won't buy greenish tomatoes, yellow or green oranges, white artichokes, etc. People also expect their fruits and veggies to taste as expected, so it's difficult to sell mixed variants.

Note: I should also say I'm from a family of farmers so I'm probably biased towards defending our practices -- in our case we grow citruses, stone fruits, artichokes, aubergines, melons, etc. (not big-agro scale, think more cooperatives in rural Spain), and I do have my personal opinions on traditional techniques vs. modern vs. big-ag, use of pesticides, overstressing the soils, etc. I'm also from an area that has suffered bad droughts and deforestation over generations so I'm also not one to romanticize about traditional farming methods and some traditional attitudes. Take whatever I say with a pinch or more of salt!
My willingness to accept your loud muffler bottoms out at $100,000 per 100 mS per decibel over 40 dB. If you're willing to put up $4-5 million every time you drive by my house, I'm willing to let you pay me for the privilege of ruining my sleep for your stupid car.
Is Stripe Really Worth $115B?
What is happening is so dangerous on a long timeline. We have the media and the educational institutions all attempting to push everyone into the same direction and thinking. They don’t want to leave any room for differing views.
Please don't post take HN threads on generic tangents. They lead to boring, repetitive discussion.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Opinion
Not at all. They might not be able to seize the Bitcoins, but they can still put the owner in prison.
In that case, all the media would be shut down.
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Aren't the societies that don't have these problems, often societies that readily employ authority & force & social coercion? Singapore, Japan.
I wan't to connect my account but I can't do it i don't have the screen to tap the verificator code of apple I'd help me
Fitted colanders are the new fedora.
> occasionally I want grains really badly

Is that because you are in a low carb diet? A few friends went that way and mentioned some craving for grains
Except most babies seem to be fine, so maybe the fear is overblown?

I think it should be kept in check, as it seems all sorts of nasty stuff can be mixed into plastic. But many plastics seem to be fine.

There is also poisonous stuff in plants, including wood.
Again, that's not the point. The point isn't that something has to be for the masses but that there's nothing in crypto that's appealing for the masses. ASN.1 is used by everyone but that doesn't mean it's appealing to the masses.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archa... is the primary source here. Quotes:

> <graydon> fungi are amazingly robust

> <graydon> to start, they are distributed organisms. not single cellular, but also no single point of failure.

However, I will note that graydon uses words like "I think I" and "I remember kinda" and everyone says "yes this means this is 100% the source of the name" whereas I take it to be like, "this is one of many reasons that Rust is named Rust."

You also have to remember that Rust was a very different language in many senses back when Graydon was choosing the name, so allusions may not make sense now but may have then. Early Rust was much more erlang-like, which may make the above feel more relevant.
What will happen to NY AG which investigated Tether for 2 years, went through 2.5 mil pages of documentation, yet missed such an obvious scam that a lot of people, including on this forum, can clearly see?

If Tether implodes, is this proof that NY AG is incompetent or even worse, somehow implicated in this giant scam by covering it up?

In the NY AG settlement PDF it clearly states that they will not indict Tether in the future for the investigated crimes, including not being backed up by assets, which happened before the date of the payment of the fine:

> 56. Within five (5) days of the receipt of the penalty ... and agrees not to bring any claims or causes of action against Bitfinex or Tether ... for matters relating to the conduct set forth in the Findings and the Petition ... arising out of Bitfinex or Tether’s representations concerning the backing of tethers during the time period January 1, 2014 to the effective date of this Settlement Agreement; transfers of a portion of the cash reserves backing tethers to Bitfinex pursuant to the line of credit
The point is if we make a population-wide change within a generation, we will see natural selection within the next. Not sure what your point is.
I got the kid a Chromebook for school. Now Google Meet says that the browser is too old to use most of the features. Netflix puts up a notice that the browser is too old. Etc.

Once the school year is over and she doesn't need it all the time I plan on replacing ChromeOS with Linux of some flavor.
There are a couple of ways, but integrations would be the main difference:

You have access to special functions, called integrations, which let you get and manipulate data from other services. Some examples are Instagram, Crunchbase, Hunter and Stripe. There are many, many more, though. Rows is useful to combine data from multiple services and build workflows in a very simple fashion.
You've obviously never lived in a penthouse or a private residence on a 20 acre property. Noise pollution is not an issue in those situations.
Interesting to see Galaxy M series on the list, they're made in India/Made for India smartphones, Decent hardware but subsidized with bloat. The Samsung One UI in the M series seems completely different to One UI from other Samsung devices, especially from other countries.

It has all the international data hoarder apps and their local equivalents preloaded in the firmware. Apps install notifications from Samsung store masquerade as security updates notification.

Even after disabling the bloat I could, the phone shows about 3000 requests from the blocked list/day on Pi hole. This kind of discriminatory behavior is unacceptable but goes unnoticed as Samsung is pulling this off only in India AFAIK.
Hey HN, I’m Omar, one of the creators of Flowdash. We first shared Flowdash on HN last year when we were just getting started (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22476985).

Since then, we’ve gotten tons of feedback and have been impressed by the wide variety of workflows people have built on Flowdash. We originally expected to see a few common usage patterns emerge from early users, but were surprised by how different everyone's use case is. Despite being different, the common thread is having a queue of tasks that need to be moved by people through a pipeline. That motivated us to continue making the platform customizable enough for people to build their unique workflows.

Another big learning (obvious in hindsight?) was how hard it gets to maintain a complex workflow without a visual editor. It's not uncommon to see workflows with 10+ stages. We’ve been hard at work taking all the feedback, and I’m excited to share our latest iteration with HN.

While the product evolved, our thesis hasn't changed. We believe operations teams are critical to many companies, yet tend to be underserved when it comes to the tools they use. The choices are either hacking things through spreadsheets, Notion, Airtable, Zapier, Slack, etc... Or investing a lot of time building and maintaining internal tools.

We created Flowdash specifically to offer the best of both worlds. You can build powerful workflows in minutes and without code, but they can be further customized through built-in blocks (i.e. widgets) and API integrations.

Here's a quick demo video where I build a basic content moderation workflow in a few minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAE8ePk0qa0

We also opened up sign-ups if you want to try it out. Excited to hear what you think!
What is your opinion of Brave Browser.

I use Brave + Ublock exclusively.
Stepping back to a larger discussion about censorship, how exactly is "the marketplace of ideas" supposed to fight blatant falsehoods and other propaganda/misinformation? Ignoring it doesn't have the best track record so far, even Mark Twain figured out that a lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth even starts.
> no work, issues for children, issues with healthcare

There's the rub, no? You need to have a lot of money saved up to not have to work which makes it a luxury. For most people, they need to live near work, which is mostly in or near dense noisy cities.
I try to keep my commits as compact as possible instead of just saying "yolo here is 9000 lines of code". But, there are times when I am just crushing through the initial bits of a project where it just keeps getting in the way.
Have you experienced it? I live rural and actually close to railway/highway but the comparison to urban noise is not even close.
Accelerating BERT (5x)
I'm a graduate student on the east coast working with a postdoc researcher focused on ML acceleration. We are trying to see what pain points researchers and engineers experience with their ML project to help direct our future research projects.

We have the belief that the team is capable of developing a solution towards accelerating BERT through training times and model sizes.

We are hoping to get some opinions from the community on whether this would be something for us as researchers worthwhile to pursue. We also would be interested in finding teams looking to test this solution in the future.

If you can spare 5 minutes, please help us by filling out this survey: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bI9I7IDELoJveC2
Sounds like a magnet for noisemakers to route their trips through while staying just at or under the annoyance threshold -- a threshold which, with increased sensitivity, may be shifting lower.
Allowing a city to define what it means to live within it is generally accepted as not the same as a centrally planned society. Certainly that is the case within the United States, where there are very many options for what kind of city one wants to live in. We are not talking about city-states like Singapore. So yeah, we can penalize the noisemakers and not lose any sleep that we're degrading into a dictatorship.
Your signup page asks for a certain $$ commitment. Do we need to pay the yearly fee right away. I would prefer to try it first.
People here are from every part of the world. Many wont know what a "NYAG" is or what powers they have, in fact I bet quite a few Americans don't know either.

Oh well.. the new title is good.
Huawei’s Mate X2 foldable adopts Samsung’s dual-screen design
YouTube AI blocks chess channel after mistaking 'black vs. white' as racism
Same! And on top of this, 500k is more Americans than died in WWII. It’s true the proportions are a bit different due to population growth, but we can’t pretend like it’s anything but a staggering number of people
> There's also a market for novel stuff, of course, but it's generally a smaller market.

See, that's the part I don't agree with; it's just that when the market gets big, we stop seeing them as novelties. Cheese puffs, instant ramen, pringles, chex -- in the last century multiple generations of novel mass produced manufactured food was invented in part around techniques that were newly available.

> People largely want things that are similar to things they're used to.

And yet new things, which are similar but also markedly distinct can be hugely appealing (e.g. cronuts). Foreign goods can become popular when introduced to a new market, and eventually become unremarkable and ubiquitous (I can buy multiple kinds of premade kimchi at my local chain supermarket).

If you're in a position to food-science vegan cheese-adjacent products, why not pursue directions that mix and match familiar and unfamiliar aspects to create something the old-school dairy can't?

- the flavor of cashew cheese and nutritional yeast, but the texture of salmon roe that pops in your mouth.

- a salty + umami product that starts with a crisp texture like parmesan tuiles, but melts when warmed. Sprinkle thin flakes over hot dishes.

- the salty funky hit of blue cheese in a fibrous chewy form like beef jerky. The nose hit is extended as you try to pull off a chunk with your teeth.