skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think computer geeks tend not to recall how many hard-won insights and how much time it took for them to reach the point where learning "the basics" of MS Office would only take ten hours of study & practice. We think it's easy because we're building on decent-to-good mental models of how computers & software & networks operate.

Normal people don't have those, and every second of the thousands of hours it'd take to gain them would be miserable for them. Not everyone enjoys this crap. Most aren't born with the kind of good abstract and/or spatial reasoning abilities that makes this stuff relatively easy to figure out, either.
I miss the ascii art... it's rare to see these days.
The idea and the execution is seriously innovative and impressive.

(After troubleshooting a local issue with a failing USB microphone I can verify that the live mode works great. This is the real deal.)

Don't miss the photos of the physical setup from the gallery features to the right of the pedal detail pages; excerpt:

https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta...

https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta...

https://im.static-thomann.de/pics/images/stompenberg/backsta...

It's Raspberry Pi-based. Can anyone identify that presumably audio add-on board with lots of connectors? Perhaps it's a one-off inhouse design.
Presumably everyone thinks their own defaults are 'sensible', otherwise they wouldn't be using them.

I think the most sensible defaults are those that come out of the box, rather than spending time tweaking things.
Yes, yes, humans have failure modes that computers don't, and those failure modes do lead to some problems. That's not relevant.

I repeat myself: "I can see arguments that the program shouldn't hit stationary arguments, but the ones I see apply to humans too with only minor changes." That humans have extra problems doesn't really matter, so long as humans require training to cope with those problems that are similar to those computers have.

For example, computers may use a vision device that sweeps across the surroundings and then use lots of postprocessing to build a complete scene. That's similar to what the human eye and brain do, except for the details of how the sweeping sweeps and how the postprocessing puts together a picture.
But are most secret camera recordings using high-res cameras?

Let's say there was video recording of a politician in a hotel in Russia, to pick a random example. We would already expect it to be low-quality video even if it was real.
> Twitter is incapable of doing any judgements where the leaders / office holders of any country are concerned.

What do you mean by this? Surely Twitter is capable of making judgments and enforcing its rules accordingly, just like Burger King can require the president to pay for his meals. Are you saying Twitter should decline to enforce any rules against world leaders?
Headline, unfortunately, misses the key point. They're not stealing it sell it or use it. They're being paid to dump it illegally.
Ever since I got to be the one who chooses the specs, I always tried do buy/build PCs with AMD processors. My logic is simple: always work against the most dominant player. Be it Intel with CPUs, Microsoft with OSs or Putin in russian politics.
Almost 1/3 of the US population lives within about day's drive of DC - https://www.statsamerica.org/radius/big.aspx. That's pretty central given how spread out America is. You could certainly argue that they're culturally different from places like the midwest, but I don't think 'disconnected society' makes sense when they're such a substantial fraction of the total.

[1] Let's say a day's drive is around 400 miles, since if you go north traffic is rough.
How will the adversary get the deep fake into circulation? If it suddenly appears on social media from some sketchy account, and in the meantime the White House press pool points out that they were with the President in a completely different place, it will blow up. And it would have to be technically perfect or it would fall apart on analysis.
I can change the title. I just set it to that because that is what Mathias calls it.
Every example in the article is like that. There's way more things wrong with American Dirt than "these people don't like white people writing brown protagonists" and to present it that was is intellectually dishonest.
Show HN: Gravel Pit, a shamelessly ugly web-app for electronic music
Write Your Own Short and Long Option Parser in Bash
I think this comment exemplifies the core of the issue. It’s not that many people actually have a problem with society holding famous people to account for their misdeeds. It’s that they simply don’t think they are misdeeds. They don’t find a problem with the things JK says and they feel like Woody Allen is probably a nice guy unfairly being attacked. Which like actually fine, that’s a legitimate position you can take which might actually be right, but it doesn’t really say anything about it being ok or not for the larger culture to sanction people
Sorry, soon as I saw the line that disables the startup chime I knew everything here was wrong.
I mostly agree with what you wrote, but "Capitalism is not a moral force (except unto itself)" isn't right. It absolutely is a moral force that has passed judgment on lazy, poor, and uneducated rubes who don't toil endlessly and retire unhappy to die early and not drain the system. Our society constantly shames people who don't buy the propaganda about our moral overlords, the Bezoses, Gateses, and Musks of the world.
And their best finance people go to the US to make more money.
> For a while, it worked. The problems only became apparent some years later, when large applications had to be maintained, and people realised that low-level languages, no matter how high-level-looking, all make a certain sacrifice: low abstraction.

Not really; Rust is very careful to avoid leaky abstractions, compared to C++. It's definitely "low level" in a foundational sense (even reminiscent of C in many ways) but the limited "high-level" features it does have are incredibly solid and highly usable.
More details here: https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/stompenberg-fx-speaker-simula...
The Documentation Triangle (or, why code isn't self documenting)
That’s what’s happening. Publications like Substack are letting authors escape the censors. Others still like Quillette, Aero, Spiked and more traditional ones like the Spectator have an anti woke consensus mission - and they represent the entire political spectrum.

I’m not sure about book publishers but the change is happening across media more widely. The progressive left keeps getting hammered in elections in Europe at least, but it seems certain institutions are going the other way, not least media.
I wish the woke arbiters of what is allowed would come out with a handy color wheel that you could compare to your skin and it would tell you what you're allowed to write about.
WTF does it even mean to be "credibly accused"? It doesn't matter how one is accused if at the end they are not convicted. This is the whole principle behind a nation of law.
If it's not illegal, don't censor or moderate it in any way. More speech is better than less speech; Uncensored speech is in fact the antidote to the supposed problems that Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. disengenuously claim to be solving.
Japanese Amateur Astronomer Discovers New Nova in Cassiopeia
I hate this kind of anti-woke reactionary stuff.

... but for aspiring writers, there is a problem. On the one hand, writers should write what they know. They shouldn't try to assume they know some minority's lived experiences.

On the other hand, literature should be inclusive. That means including minorities, and not just as peripheral characters. We don't need more My Magical Gay Friend stories.

I haven't heard a good discussion on how to reconcile this contradiction. The only avenue that leaves is for straight white people to stop writing, and, y'know: No.

The outrage does seem selective. I mean, one of the seminal classics of science-fiction literature on the subject of gender - and a very popular book among feminist readers - is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin. And I've never heard anyone complain that she wrote a black protagonist, despite not having black experiences. But on the other hand, The Left Hand of Darkness isn't much about the black experience. It's more of a travelogue of a genderless society.

So maybe that's the distinction?

American Dirt isn't just about a Mexican, it's a story of the Mexican-American immigration experience. And maybe it's right that stories like that should be written by people who're closer to them?
Why do you characterize voluntarily ending ones own life, in particular for people who are incurably sick as utilitarian?

We're not talking about turning grandma into soylent because the bills are getting too large, we're talking about two things first and foremost. Human dignity, and human autonomy over one's own body.

I can agree that euthanasia available for everyone for some sort of social or cost reason devalues life, but very few people are arguing this and it's not what the debate is about right now.
I hope there's a young female Japanese biker using a 50-year-old man's face on their instagram posts.
The problem is that ever since banning Trump they have less usage on the site.

So they need those "exciting" world leaders. Telling Twitter to ban all world leaders is the opposite of what they want.

They want to be able to have all those people on there, while not being blamed for leaving "bad" content up.
There are old examples with photos including newspapers/TV that used faked images, so it not something new. If there is a big punishment for intentionally faking videos and presenting them as true similar like for official documents or impersonating officials then this technology would be used a lot less in the countries where this laws apply.
This may be all be true[1], but none of it explains your "nothing to see here" trailing remark.

[1] Though there's activity on her account from 15 hours ago. In addition if someone is banned from Twitter, doesn't Twitter take their tweets offline/hide them?
The point is not to be right. The actual assertions made by the "woke" hivemind do not actually matter.

The point is to demonstrate utter obedience and submissiveness to the hivemind.

Imagine that you are 6 years old and your mom is a psychotic, occasionally violent, control freak. It's a bit like that.

What drove our society to this height of neurosis?
The move of the capital from Almaty to Astana wasn’t just about Nazarbaev increasing his own personal power. It was also an attempt to keep the country viable in its current borders by lowering the chances of the ethnic-Russian-dominated north seceding.

Also, most of Kazakhstan's political elite continued to reside in Almaty and just flew back and forth from the new capital for business, so Astana wasn't even an example of a capital built to secure the rulers from the population.
Human-Computer Interaction at the Wrist
American Shopping malls were modeled on European town centers. They just got a little lost as the concept was copied.

But mixed use development is becoming more common in the US. I know of 2 or 3 mixed use developments that have opened up around my city.

> What was new about it was that it was an entirely enclosed system of shops with no exterior windows and a climate-controlled interior. This was a particularly good fit for Minnesota with its cold winters. Until then, shops in malls and arcades were connected by outside walkways. This new design was on two levels, had a department store at each end, and escalators to bring shoppers up to the second level and down again when they’d completed walking the mall. And it had a central court with skylights, fountains, plants and seating.

> Gruen was inspired by centrally planned urban re-development in his hometown of Vienna, Austria, that took place there after the democratic uprisings in 1848.

https://msourceideas.com/the-origin-story-of-the-enclosed-sh...
That's temporary. Soon, everyone is paid in Bitcoin and all stores accept Bitcoins only, so you will have no choice but spend them.
Anyone who has spent time taking care of their elderly relatives knows that they are usually not completely aware of many things.

Hence the heinous but popular crime of scamming seniors.
> wokism and other morally and intellectually bankrupt junk

duuuuude.
The old repo is archived in the new one https://github.com/matryer/xbar/tree/master/archive/bitbar
Credibly accused is not a thing. You're either guilty or not guilty and he hasn't been found guilty.
Hi HN, this is a side-project I've had sitting around for a long time. Every time I re-visit it I have a lot of fun making beats and adding little features, so I thought I'd share

I'm still not sure if I'll ever add save/export, or if it's better for just ephemeral play. Let me know what you think!
It's a webflow template: https://softbit-template.webflow.io/
Those aren't cow paths, those are people paths. Cows are not known for their tendency to walk in straight lines. Edit: notice they still had to put up fencing to keep people from cutting off even that minimal switchback.
well, i guess i'm speaking technologically w/ mRNA stuff... politically and logistically yeah its a nightmare
When you write a new blog post and it gets emailed to your subscribers, wouldn’t you say that’s a newsletter?
It is a strange saying. My guess is this is something that's lost in translation—a leaky metaphore—and the people using it don't think about real cow paths.

Real world space is (generally) 2 dimensional, and these cow paths are often very predictable and sensible. They're usually the result of architects thinking that sometimes people actually walk or bike, instead of always driving cars.

In the world of bureaucracy & information tech, the space can be very convoluted, and shortcuts aren't really the same kind of thing (queue XKCD comic on spacebar heating).
Netflix series Rotten has a good episode on cocoa lifecycle and the problems involved: https://www.netflix.com/ee/title/80146284
Finished Tinker Tailor during the pandemic. I’d highly recommend it and I assert that watching the movie/miniseries is a much more rewarding experience after the book. Both are of the old sort where they would throw in book details that couldn’t make sense if you didn’t have the background (similar to Harry Potter 1/2).
Not sure why you got downvoted here. Private prisons are very much a thing in the US and in my state.

Not to mention the Federal prison Industries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Industries Revenue $531,453,000 (2019)
"Under current law, all physically able inmates who are not a security risk or have a health exception are required to work, either for UNICOR or at some other prison job.[4][12] Inmates earn from US$0.23 per hour up to a maximum of US$1.15 per hour, and all inmates with court-ordered financial obligations must use at least 50% of this UNICOR income to satisfy those debts"

And that is just one of them...on the federal level...not state.
> Part of that is due to their rampant IP theft

Weren’t South Korea, Taiwan, and even Japan once known for their rampant IP theft?
It also has the potential to devalue real evidence in the form of existing compromising material unless people have done things like adding cryptographic hashes to immutable public records with attestations.
A lot of government agencies lack the budgeting required to go through a process of "as-is" and "to-be". This process is both lengthy and costly and is usually reserved for the main portion of that agencies workload.
So we'll return to how guilt or provenance were determined for thousands of years. We've only had "reliable" non-human witnesses for a few decades.

And even with deep fakes, we'll still have fingerprints, DNA, phone and car tracking, facial ID systems in public places, etc.
And https://www.pouet.net/
It is catfishing if it's not done to get something out of a specific victim?
Hey thanks for giving it a try! And yes, built it with python - specifically I'm using a modified version of gensim's TF-IDF model implementation. If you haven't heard of TF-IDF before give http://www.tfidf.com/ a read through.

It might be overkill to use tensorflow for TF-IDF, but go for it!

With lxi.ai, I use the top 10 most important keywords for the actual comparison along with some other tricks to make sure the model can scale. Might be worth a blog post or something.
I'm not sure how to find the survey, but my take:

If the Tweet violates guidelines then remove it from any kind of public listing of Tweets, but leave it for people who specifically follow that person.

Perhaps mark it with a special "click here to open" kind of thing.

But don't ban/block anyone for something that is not illegal. It's as simple as that: follow local law, and block only what's actually illegal.
Yes but eventually the cost of the crime outweighs the time and you lose touch
What Warhol did?
Should it really blow your mind though? Most western governments (including the UK & Spain) are heavily influenced by a religion where one of the commandments is Thou shalt not kill, and this is taken literally by many. Governments are also funded by the living.

If someone kills themselves (regardless of laws), they could forfeit some benefits of a "natural" death, like life assurance benefits (and I'm sure life assurance companies have some sway over the government regulation with regards to this).

I'm sure those considering suicide wouldn't be considering this, but this is the type of things where only governments can get involved to make a positive change for people's lives.
What I wish I knew before building a Shopify App
It just pressures us to come up with ways to prove authenticity. Those ways definitely exist but are not common yet and we have courts and governments full of people with a poor grasp on technology. But basically it calls for chains of evidence that are cryptographically tamper proof. That's not a thing right now. But it's going to become a hard requirement when evidence can be fabricated, falsified, etc. It's also the key to countering fake news and a few other things.

People accepting everything at face value is not going to stay a thing when world+dog is going to abuse their new powers. Only fools would believe what they see after they've been fooled a few times and suffered the consequences.

Short term it's going to be a mess, but long term it's a good thing for us to figure this out and move on.
Mistake Can Wipe Out Your $1,400 Stimulus Check
I know a lot of developers compare Ecto to ActiveRecord, I feel like a more fair comparison is Arel. Is that the case?
Please, never listen to people who complain about big changelogs!

The transparency is hugely appreciated by many. It's just that the approving voices are usually silent while the disapproving ones are always loud. Don't let that mislead you. You are doing great.
> Are people wrong for thinking that covering stories from a particular lens

And choosing which stories to cover in the first place.
Funny you would mention Catalan when Catalonian public schools are trying to extinguish the use of Spanish on the basis that 60 years ago it was "the language of Franco and fascism". The amount of moral crusading in Catalonia against the use of the Spanish language is appalling.

Looks like this modern moralism really does extend much farther than publishing books.

https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2020-11-05/la-comision...
How i fairtrade a scam?

Please be aware that the market of cocoa is not an easy one and not very transparent. The Dutch TV maker Teun van der Keuken was devastated by what he saw in Ivory Coast with a lot of child slavery going on. He started his own slavefree brand Tony Chocolonely, but even they have to admit they can not guarantee it is slavefree made, they can only strive for that. By the way, the people from Nestle just shrugged over the issue of child slavery.

I am very happy to see good policy being applied in Africa, they need to do this more often and strongly. Europe and the US, governments and companies, have been pulling their strings far too long. I hope China can give them a sense of how they can fend better for themself.
Generating those low level feature is actually a much easier problem. Here is an example I found using a google image search for "upscaling":

https://copyrightimage.com/2018/05/09/better-image-upscaling...

This is from 2018, which is an eternity for machine learning research.
Rust does not have tier 1 support for all the platforms that Linux supports.
Then why not just buy the licence/copyrights?

Either way, NFTs are just a novelty.
In this case it’s attention.
Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit
> Are you going to write out REST (REpresentational State Transfer) in every design document you put up on your company wiki for your team that describes one, just in case a non software engineer wants to read it?

No, because that's not disseminated to a broader community. If it were, I'm going to link a standardized reference document that defines the terms, like they do in RFCs.

Edit: Actually, even with such an "internal" document, my preference would be to overexplain rather than underexplain, and define an acronym (or neologism I had learn myself recently) before using it. REST is a special case though, in that defining out the acronym doesn't actually help explain how people use it.
I mostly fast until dinner then I have a 2k calorie meal, I can barely stay awake until 10 pm after a hit like that, the rest of the day I’m super alert, use one super dark 16 oz (no dairy) coffee in the morning for appetite suppression.
At that point you'd be better served using generated humans https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/digital-humans
It's a humorous allusion to the death penalty.
> full blown propaganda paid for by hostile (to the US at least) state sponsored news agencies

twitter is available freely on the Internet in any country that doesn't block it. with that in mind it's extremely difficult to remain "neutral" or be expected to be the arbiter of truth.

there are some obvious (easy) ways to implement constraints against state-affiliated propaganda outlets but with the above in mind what is "propaganda" to a European audience might just be news in a FVEY country. facebook has the same problem and I think it's not solvable in a "fair" way.

Say if they really went after anything that is "propaganda" should they also be pointing out that Bellingcat is having very strong ties with Atlantic Council (and collaborates with GCHQ), or should @NatSecGeek be called out for only doxing non-US organizations and individuals? There simply are too many small players that participate in InfoOps and their alignment isn't always as straight forward.

note: I personally think both bellingcat/NatSecGeek do excellent work but none of them are unbiased (or unaffiliated) which means they will at times end up as useful idiots (whether it suits them or not).
I think the relevance is: If a family has decided that an elderly relative is of so little value to them that they will abandon them at a hospital with no need of medical attention, then the convenience of quietly and legally ending their life will outweigh the burden of providing support and family for that relative.
Uh, this is definitely going to be a "more heat than light" thread.
I think if you looked at the newsletters that people are paying for, you’d see they are very different from most of the newsletters we’re familiar with.

The newsletters that are treated like lead generation tools are not the ones making subscription revenues.
I learned that word, tsundoku, right here at HN, from user Xophmeister.
The copy paste exploit was banned in official speedruns by the committee. Macros are still allowed though and there is a lot of community backlash because of this being so similar to copy paste in practice.