skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, just wanted to throw it out there that I'm working on something slightly related

https://swapiverse.com/

I'm making a decentralized book swapping platform. You give a book away and get the right to access any book that anyone has listed.

Reduces waste, and saves everyone money

Not sure if we will add in reviews for the MVP, but it's definitely looking like a cleaner version of goodreads.

Here are some screenshots:

https://twitter.com/_joshuafonseca/status/138028946914478489...
It's just 37 eps. Considering an anime, it doesn't have fillers, maybe 1 or 2. The anime is well-crafted as well. Every episode serves purpose in the storyline, especially first 25 eps.
Every system requires setup, but only Linux systems will remain exactly as you have set them up year after year, if you wish. During the last 2 years, out of all the Linux, Mac and Windows systems in my house - the Macs have been the only systems broken in some major way by an OS update.

Having to remove some dangerously old GNU utils and constantly having to contend with Apple over your rights puts macOS squarely behind Linux and only just ahead of Windows (for work) in my book. If you haven't used Linux in years, try a rolling Arch based distro like Manjaro and you'll experience how little setup you actually need to get your job done. Heck, you don't even have to use the CLI to install every single piece of software you'll ever need. It literally takes minutes to setup. Windows and Mac simply can't compete in this area.

WM differences don't necessarily annoy me, but I don't tolerate people saying shit like "Mac UX is better than anything, period" because that is demonstrably not true for many, many, many values of "better". I have all three at home and at work and I use each one for what it's best at. Windows for gaming and entertainment. Linux for any sort of development. Macs for Apple/Mac/iOS stuff. They each have some obvious strengths, but anyone arguing that Macs are uniformly better for developers are clearly inexperienced IMO.
This article is literally the "government-mandated gf" incel meme, except it's real.

I don't know how to define prostitution. Is any form of exchanging sex for money ("sex work") prostitution? Like acting in porn, escorting, sex therapy, sugar daddying, etc.. Or is prostitution simply the lowest rung on the sex work ladder, defined by things like the speed of the transaction, the quality of clients and providers, the cost, and the environments where the transaction occurs?
Not this year…

https://www.nytimes.com/article/sat-act-test-optional-colleg...
From your link: "Oxitec’s GMO mosquitoes do not have any built-in disease suppression and they aren’t truly sterile, meaning Oxitec GMO mosquitoes can also bite human beings and transmit disease"

But isn't Oxitec only releasing males? Male mosquitos don't bite.
If you aren’t getting interviews, have someone review your resume.
I got a raise bitches!
> Parsing through 37,601 (and accepting only 1500) applications without standardized testing sounds incredibly difficult.

While the task is daunting, it’s not quite as bad as you think when well over half of the applications are almost instant rejections.

> If I were a teenager trying to get into a top school these days, my anxiety would be through the roof. Can't imagine the extracurricular work you have to put in now.

It’s quality not quantity. So many people miss this point.
> All too often it seems the crypto argument is "I don't want to pay taxes, it's MY money" - yeah, it hurts, but the benefit of doing so is very real.

> The caveat, of course, is I say this living in a country with great free medical care, that's actually a pretty nice place to live

Unfortunately, not every country is nice. Not every country uses taxes for the benefits of its citizens. Some countries have governments so thoroughly corrupt even the bare minimum only gets done before elections. Some countries have government officials who purchase goods and services at incredibly inflated prices so they can pocket the difference. Government officials who steal money meant for COVID-19 vaccines.

If you're from such a country, paying taxes is really no different than financing any other type of criminal operation. In these cases, avoiding taxes is a moral imperative. In these places, it's the duty of every single citizen to pay as little taxes as they can get away with.
Yeah; our laws are weird. Pay a person to have sex = criminal; pay a person to have sex -on camera- = perfectly legal.
NPS is gamed so hard with dark patterns that it’s completely unreliable as a metric... I worked at a sales driven company and the lengths they went to push the score up despite actual customer feelings was borderline fraud.
I assume it would be whatever you gave the specific app. If you search for "weather in [your city]", they might get either that or ip data. If you share your GPS to get your weather, then they get that.

Unlike Location History, which is a specific feature that keeps a history of your location, Web & Apps activity is just that, activity from Google websites and apps. Said activity may include location data depending on the app or website.
West Point ends leniency policy after cheating scandal
Bans were part of a health code. It was one of the few ways to control diseases.

Today some/many consider it immoral to walk around with face uncovered.
Imagine hundreds to thousands of years ago when soap was a novel concept.

Social distancing and strict rules were about as much as a society could do.

Definitely some mixing of religion and sanitary practices.
The problem with the difficulty decreasing is that it depends on how much and how fast. It depends on how much the tax is relative to the cost to mine. Also, it could also politically be positioned as a "bitcoin tax" instead of a climate change thing to make it bi-partisan. I personally think these are the things that causes Main Street to move on. If all of the commoners sell their BTC the price will drop.
I'll have to find the research, but this generally is not true (at least with K-12).

From my recollection in general what happens is that there's a certain ratio in which low performers and high performers interact. If the ratio is stacked towards high performers in general the low performers end up doing significantly better than they would've if they were in a group consisting of people entirely like them.

This would suggest that societally there's some ratio that's optimal such that we intentionally put in "low performers" as a mechanism to raise their performance. As long as this is done very carefully it simultaneously increases the performance of low performers and maintains the potential of high performers.

Conversely if you have too many low performers and put in a high performer, not only is their potential not met, but it's generally detrimental.

In other words there's a sort of "force" pulling everyone to the mean. The "dilution" that results from adding high or low performers to an otherwise low or high performing group depends on how high or low they are and the group itself. With data this can be optimized such that low performers exceed their potential. Given the rate of change for low performers vastly exceeds high performers inherently, this is the societally optimal outcome.

That being said K-12 education isn't like higher ed is that it's lower level (intellectually).
I've been in tech professionally for 3 years and I feel like the same.
In other countries, though, the admissions exams are much more heavily weighted. Here they play a minor role. No one is getting into Harvard on the basis of a perfect SAT score, and plenty of people get in on more than a standard deviation below a perfect score.
My Oracle Enterprise databases were installed in the late 90s, and lots of systems that I support have grown around them.

I've raised the question of the Enterprise DB version of Postgres (because of the PL/SQL emulation, which would certainly be needed). Even this change would be a large engineering effort.
Implementing an FTP server from scratch that had to be compatible with lots of clients in 2020 was an interesting choice. Just to have it in javascript? Perhaps security-motivated? There are probably battle tested implementations in e.g. Python, Java or other safe-ish languages to build on?

I learned this lesson in the mid 90s when fixing client compatibility bugs in an FTP server module we had built in an interpreted language, because, how hard could it be...

> The latest curve ball I received this week is that a certain firmware version of a Qualcomm modem chip cannot deal with the size of the IP packets coming from our FTP server... Fun stuff!

Right.
It is broken in certain aspects, Goodreads is one of the slowest sites around, if nothing else is done that alone needs fixing. And it has been in this state for years now.
Not exactly, since there still has to be a proximity effect. You might see rich people on TV, but you're not in direct competition with them for anything. It's about your relative standing with regards to people who you actually compare yourselves to (like other people around your rank in the dating markets, for example)
I was mainly referring to how every browser app on iOS is forced have Safari underneath. The wiki page on Firefox for iOS [1] mentions this in some detail - it cannot use Gecko like it does on desktop and Android, it must use WebKit instead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS
More and more are making these tests optional. The claim is that they are (unintentionally) culturally biased. My view is, if they think the SAT is culturally biased, they haven't looked very closely at the universities themselves.

Anyway, if applicants opt out of the SAT/ACT they have to submit other evidence of their qualifications.
This lays bare a fundamental issue with positive rights in general: having the right _to_ something boils down to having the right to force someone else to provide it for you. Compared to, for instance, the right to be safe from harm. Negative rights are easy to pin down, whereas positive rights, regardless of whether or not we should provide healthcare for everyone etc., are not a very solid concept and mean different things to everyone.
I've used it for a long time, so forgive me if this reply gets long.

I'm not the only or primary author of all of these; only a few of them.

- Panels [Apple, circa 1988]: an experimental graphical UI framework with a built-in constraint solver and extensible event-handling system

- GATE [Apple, circa 1989]: a knowledge-based, distributed, automated testing system used to discover and report thousands of application-compatibility bugs in Mac system software before release

- bauhaus [Apple, circa 1991-1994]: an experimental Lisp OS for Newton. The Newton OS (except the microkernel) was written in Dylan back when it was basically Scheme+CLOS; the Dylan compiler and development tools were written in Common Lisp.

- SK8 [Apple, circa 1995-1997]: rapid-application-development system sometimes referred to as "HyperCard on Steroids".

- Reactivity Application Firewall [Reactivity, circa 1998-2004; later Cisco]: Reactivity's product was a complex application-in-a-box that provided rule-based application-level security and integrity for networks. Cisco bought our company and folded it into their product line. I used Common Lisp for several code-analysis and documentation tools used in development of the product.

- Clozure Common Lisp [Clozure Associates, circa 2006-present]: I wrote documentation and code for Clozure Common Lisp and some associated tools

- Secure Outcomes LS1100 [Secure Outcomes, circa 2010]: I wrote the bulk of the control system and GUI for the Secure Outcomes fingerprint livescanner product, using Lispworks.

- Delectus [my own product, circa 2010-present]: Delectus 1, a simple personal data manager, was written mostly in Scheme. Delectus 2, a more capable, flexible, and portable version, is still under development and is written entirely in Common Lisp.

- Confidential project [Confidential client; 2020-present]: a knowledge-based, reasoning-based neurosymbolic machine-control system. As I mentioned, it's confidential, but I can say that it's designed to monitor and orchestrate a variety of different kinds of robots with human supervision in real time.

I've omitted several free libraries and other open-source Lisp software that I've written over the years.
Agree, we have an abundance of capital and labor but a dearth of opportunities for both. At least compared to the Post WW2 era.
Oh that sounds interesting. Do you know what happened to it?

I think I found it here: https://github.com/bryancatanzaro/copperhead

But I'm not sure what the state is. Looks dead (last commit 8 years ago). Probably just a proof of concept. But why hasn't this been continued?

Blog post and example:
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/copperhead-data-parallel-p...
https://github.com/bryancatanzaro/copperhead/blob/master/sam...

Btw, for compiling on-the-fly from a string, I made something similar for our RETURNN project. Example for LSTM: https://github.com/rwth-i6/returnn/blob/a5eaa4ab1bfd5f157628...

This is made in a way that it compiles automatically into an op for Theano or TensorFlow (PyTorch could easily be added as well) and for both CPU and CUDA/GPU.
Have you tried UPX ?

Can be a good start https://blog.filippo.io/shrink-your-go-binaries-with-this-on...
You have to have a flat population over long timescales. If you started with two tyrannosaurs and had a population growth rate of just 0.02% (population doubles every 6600 years), there would be approximately 500 billion tyrannosaurs on the planet at the same time by the point they went extinct.

It's likely the population fluctuated up and down slightly on short timescales, but the average would have been constant. They were spread out over a continent so any disruption would need to be very widespread to take them all out - which eventually of course is exactly what happened.

Humans are unique in that we can develop technology to exceed our carrying capacity.
No, because that would be considered "stealing" from Microsoft. (I think it's a stupid way to define it.)
For me, I am looking forward to advances in robotics and AI over the coming decades to help meet needs like this.

Because, although there are certainly some women (and men) who seem to adjust to this type of work, and certainly the brutal economic realities make it problematic to deny the option of sex work.. my impression is that it is usually damaging socially and psychologically to those in the field. So I view the prevalence of prostitution largely as a symptom of economic deficiency.

I'm not saying that this particular effort isn't nobel in a way or that this work should be illegal. But I don't think it's a black and white issue the way some people seem to think. It's not just a matter of glorious freedom versus religious prudishness or something like that.

Soldiers need not just sex but true intimacy. It's really questionable whether that can truly be provided on a for-hire basis. And also hard to believe that constantly simulating intimacy with different men does not take a toll on a person's psyche.
> beyond a reasonable doubt the school itself has improved the persons educational prospects.

How many people do genuinely care about this? People go to top schools in order to improve their life prospects, not necessarily to get the best education (but they get that too anyway).
risyachka: “I'd argue that the only difference between prostitution and not prostitution is mindset.”

That, and you don't have to take them to dinner and there's no financial transaction involved.
Give them text-driven-developers a magnetic needle and a hard drive and see how much "fun" it is!
I am not sure about being politically connected, but it is known that universities accept rich black immigrants from places like Nigeria and consider it “affirmative action”. In Ivy League unis the percentage of immigrants among the black student body is over 40%, while in the general population it is near 15%.

But I judging how the things are going I am sure this is going to get fixed soon. The colleges will ask you to do a DNA test to determine the purity of your black heritage and a proof of slave ancestors. Hooray, intersectionality.
> Apple has a better record on this than every other company I can think of.

Rent seeking on things you find immoral?

> Perhaps Epic didn't want to abide by these rules and used the fees as a cover?

Is this something Apple has alleged? Because otherwise it looks like you're speculating wildly to appeal to emotion. "It's ok because maybe they're bad people."
So true.

And so sad.

And now excuse me while I dream of a world where gifted creators can build a flourishing web gathering space where it can thrive and grow and not be then harvested by the borg that encapsulates viewers as nothing but breathing credit card tokens.
You may not have loyalty, but if you're enjoying the fruits of society there is also responsibility to that society, otherwise one should probably extricate himself from society and see how long he makes it in the woods without it.
I was not aware, though I am not the least bit surprised to discover that economists have explored this before I tapped it out. Thanks for the link!
Show HN: Camino (privately answer common health questions with wearable data)
Reading List is mentioned in the article. It's in a list:

> There is a long list of startups that tried to unseat Goodreads, but they’re either in the graveyard or floating in limbo. Examples include BookClub, RocketReads, LibraryThing, ReadingList, Booknshelf, BookBrowse, Booklikes, Libib, BookSloth, Bookself.
Got you. I was a little disappointed that TS only had structural type checking, but then it's still better than nothing.
I think the author just hasn't seen enough. There's not a single language that's better than every other language at everything. Java's type system is inferior to ML language's type system. Java's developer experience is laughable compared to Common Lisp's interactive development. A lot of languages have great package managers - Rust and Elixir comes to mind. Also sometimes smaller community with higher quality is better than huge community with average or below average quality. It always depends. I hope the author doesn't turn into a Java monoglot just because other languages are different. Well, problems also differ from one another.
it will again soonish
Part of the picture is not only the sexual contact but other psychologic innerworkings. The longing to feel wanted/desired is a big part of it and paid intercourse cannot offer that.
This missed the biggest technical moat by a mile: data.

Book data is scarce and expensive. Goodreads gets it for free because of Amazon, Amazon gets it subsidized because of Amazon's chokehold on book publishing. Any Goodreads competitor needs to license paid data and sort through the duds and the duplicates, and struggle to match up book with only ASINs that are on Amazon Kindles and nowhere else.

And Kindle integration. When you finish a book on a Kindle, it asks you to review it on Goodreads. If you want to add an option to review it on $otherstartup website, your best bet is a supreme court antitrust case.
I can't imagine standardized testing being anything but a low pass filter for these schools. Roughly 2 million students take the SAT every year, which means 100,000 scores in the top 5%; 20,000 in the top 1%. Whittling down 20,000 high scores to 1500 isn't any easier.
See but that’s not that great for the employee. Making them do accounting and “breaking” tax law on pretending to be independent contractors.

https://gosmallbiz.com/the-independent-contractor-checklist/
English++ Project [pdf]
DLSS is just image upscaling using a neural network. It's a very different problem from what is shown here or what I believe GP is talking about.
And pensions, and health insurance, state officials (Beamte) get a (non small part) part of the health insurance payed by the state (at least that was the case in many state official jobs until recently).

When you get old and had a not supper high paying job this can easily be as if you had gotten 50%-100% more salery!! At the same time they (state officials) complain they get to little. It's completely stupid. AND at the same time non "Beamte" state officials do not get any such benefits, nor especially good pensions or reasonable pay or absurd employment protections(1) or even a proper working contract...

(1): If you are a "ver_beamte_ter" state official it's close to impossible to get fired as long as you don't idk. commit some serve crime (and a few other special cases). So you are not getting any work done because you don't care anyone, no problem keep your job. You mess up all your work, ok you still have a job. You working moral degraded to a degree you are basically unemployable and still you have a full paycheck every moth and keep your job. Through besides serve crimes there are a few things which can cost you your job, but they are easy to avoid.

Anyway this doesn't meant there are not honest, proper employees in such positions it's just very hard for them to keep their motivation.
It is already doing what need to be done and you know what over innovation kill the simplicity of the product. Goodreads is pretty simple and great part is it is not suggesting me someone to follow based on books I've read. That is innovation for all the current social app and it sucks.
Well, one thing to note is that humans spend more time processing audio than video. Bad audio is immediately noticeable and aggravating, compared to spotty video with clear audio.

I -guess- CNNs can look at e.g. reduced frequency range recordings (like phone calls), and attempt to reconstruct them. However this seems like an arduous mountain to climb, as people's voices are unique. So are their environments and signal chains. I really doubt that something that generalized would work very well at reconstructing a specific person's voice and recording.

This also gets into the problem that it would be constructing a new reality, not recreating it.
For the great majority of your code base, it doesn’t matter (look at scripting languages inside game engines), and for the performance critical parts, you have excellent profilers and can easily pinpoint which function creates too much garbage and can write that part in an imperative way with arrays and that’s it. It will run plenty fast.

Especially now with ZGC, not even tiny freezes should happen.
On the other side upcoming Firefox 90 is removing support for FTP:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/04/15/built-in-ftp-impl...
Why can't they do both? Seems pretty short sighted to be against new technology for no good reason.
> The most brief review of the actions of their legal team will or at least should turn you completely cold to them.

No, actually it won't have this effect on many reasonable and intelligent people. Because for the most part Nintendo are only trying to protect their intellectual property, and it's easy to see why they would want to do that.

Few people really care that they're aggressively crushing the latest fan-made Pokémon game.
What technological innovation would disrupt bitcoin at this point? It feels like crypto reached a terminal state in its first iteration.
Dandies rebelled against social, gender and fashion norms
Let's assume it is. So what?
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