skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You write good stuff.

Are you on amphetamines, or do you just have so much time and inclination to sit down and write all you do? Frankly, I am in awe at the quality of your posts.

Teach me your ways. Please. What tricks to living a good, dignified, and alive life have you found?

What do you do to stave away the soul-killingness of the world? How do you keep your morale up so high?

Dear god, man where do you get the mental energy? Are you akin to Kant's 40 cups of coffee a day eccentricity?
- Financially sustainable recycling of all plastics
Amazing! I always thought it must be a huge disadvantage that computer vision only has one frame to work with (and only one camera vs 2 eyes). Often as a human you stare at for a while when trying to spot something tricky, like a bird in the trees and then find it when it moves. Or you move you head side to side to create movement. It would be interesting to see a comparison with what the best single frame segmentation could detect in one of these scenes.
>...who refuses to deal with the problems the species causes on earth

The same person advocating most strongly for colonising Mars is, er, also responsible for bootstrapping solar, battery and EV technology, and having a good go at working on traffic congestion specifically to preserve the environment on Earth. In fact that was his first passion, and his interest in Mars originated from an attempt to raise awareness of environmental issues here. He's devoting huge resources, time and energy to solve Earthside problems. So I really don't see where you got this idea that colonising Mars is about abandoning Earth, what did you base that on?
It's an immune system response.

It's your body trying to fix itself.

If you get injured, the inflammation around the wound is signaling your body to bring white blood cells to that location.

Unless you have some sort of imbalance in your body, like a genetic issue, it's usually better to target controlling the source of the inflammation rather than the inflammation itself.

Inflammation can be more mental than physical in many cases, as your body is going to react to your environment and the way you perceive it and raise and lower your cortisol levels accordingly.

This likely doesn't answer your question fully, but just some items to consider.
Looks like a corporate initiative. Puget Sound Business Journal said the city would have owned the network but the company said not.[1] And the company and the city both said the city wouldn't invest money.[1][2] So probably the PSBJ writer misunderstood the dark fiber lease.

And did it ever launch? It would be strange to call it uncompetitive when the real problem was it never existed because the company couldn't raise funding.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130215072656/http://gigabitsea...

[2] http://www.seattle.gov/tech/initiatives/broadband/studies-an...
Show HN: How we are building a radically different Creative Agency from India
Our thesis in building this radical new type of a creative agency is broken down into the following six points, we call this the Sanscubicle Protocol and we kicked this off in 2016 on founding Lazy Eight (www.lazyeight.in)

Following are the six points:

1). A fully remote, zero infrastructure model.
2). Having a single title, ie. a completely flat organisation with no hierarchical designations.
3). Limiting employees to 60 work hours per month.
4). Using AI to measure work hours and data.
5). Profit sharing for all employees.
6). Ability for our employees to build their your own equity ownership vehicles.

A dive into each of these points can be found here: https://blog.lazyeight.in/lazy-eight-the-journey-so-far-25e30ed86f20

Are any of you trying to rethink future of work models for a particular vertical? If so would love to understand how. Thanks much!

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Theoretically, maybe. But you'd need to paint it on thousands of square miles(or km) to have any noticeable effect. We used to have this sort of thing naturally - it was called arctic ice cover.

So what are you going to paint it on? And how many tons of the paint would you need?
If you just want to live underground, isn't it simpler to do it on Earth?
Is Green Investment a Scam?
Clouds of Venus are practically Earth like -oxygen +acidic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus#Advantag...
This is interesting. I read an article the other day that concluded our brains are made of the same neurons as other animals. it's just as ours out grew the natural limit to conectivity and forced our brains to evolve localised units that then feed into working memory and the pattern state that is self. small brains are actually more heavily interconnected than ours. That got me thinking, the difference between our brains evolving into networked self and the internet evolving into a networked version of self can't be that far apart. we all contribute our thoughts to the network. The only difference is there is no platform equivalent of working memory or executive function that coordinates the whole thing. Humanities brain is basically epileptic. once our attention is governed by a self organised executive function. maybe a direct democratic platform, we might become a global Brian.
Isn't syncthing using quic as one possible transport?
What happens if your company now needs to expose their API (or parts of it) as an open, public API? Many API users (organizations, companies) expect a standard REST API and don't want to learn a new technology or have to install new client libraries just to perform CRUD operations on your data. Good luck trying to educate your enterprise customers.

So you start coding a new REST API just for the public API use case, having to test, maintain and keep parity with the GraphQL version over time? This package allows you to get a RESTful API for free (and customize it per your needs), based on your existing GraphQL.

Another use case is exactly for what you described, when a company wished to replace their REST API with GraphQL:

An old REST API can be migrated to a new GraphQL API gradually, by first building the GraphQL API and using GraphQL2REST to generate a REST API on top of it, seamlessly. That new REST API will have the same interface as the old one, and the new implementation can then be tested, endpoints migrated in stages, until a full migration to the underlying GraphQL API takes place.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/21/luck-hard-work/ is an interesting delve into the origins of that phrase (and an amusing circular reference back to here.)
There's also listed.to which is nice for blogging.
Very interesting, but it is hard to watch for me because of extreme shaking. Maybe some morphing would smooth the transitions.
Are proxies even relevant anymore with HTTPS? The only two scenarios I can imagine are reverse proxies at the server's side (which the server controls), and corporate MITMing firewalls (which I personally think are the plaugue and don't belong in 2021).
Maybe it will colonise you!
A poor imitation of Google Chrome. Firefox could go off in it's own direction, but it doesn't.
What does a square screen have to do with that though? You need the side by side windows to be 1:2 too?
A multi-threaded benchmark of a cache should be fully populated and use a scrambled Zipfian distribution. This emulates hot/cold entries and highlights the areas of contention (locks, CASes, etc). A lock-free read benefits thanks to cpu cache efficiency causing super linear growth.

This shows if the implementation could be a bottleneck and scales well enough, after which the hit rate and other factors are more important than raw throughput. I would rather sacrifice a few nanos on a read than suffer much lower hit rates or have long pauses on a write due to eviction inefficiencies.

[1] https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/wiki/Benchmarks#read-1...

[2] https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/blob/master/caffeine/s...
> Fusion power stations

We've made slow but steady progress on this pretty much since we figured out that man made fusion is possible.
Why does every feature implementation feel like the Manhattan Project for the crypto guys? So many of these stories were told in 2017, and in 2021 we're still talking about future updates and 'will be', rather than working products.

Eth 2.0 for example was talked about for years, I'm still here getting wrecked on fees.

Lightning network for reducing BTC fees is another beauty we hear less about now days.
A decade is a very long time. A decade ago, SpaceX only had 4 successful launches.
I’ve been looking (preliminarily) recently at using movement data to improve object detection performance on video frames.

The primary challenge I can think of is that the different network structure required makes transfer learning a feature extraction backbone trained from imagenet etc difficult

This looks interesting. Is there any other good works in this area?
Unsurprisingly it fails when there are no low-risk paths: https://i.imgur.com/58d5AFM.png

Brilliant implementation anyway. Having a lot of fun!
> If there is a 9/10 chance that the profits will be $1, and a 1/10 chance that it will be $0, then we can value those profits in present terms at $0.9 (Edit: assuming no issues with cost of capital, time value of money etc. i.e. constant real dollars)

Yes, you can do that. You can argue that that's the smart way of doing it. But you don't have to and that's the point.

Elon musk tweets can manipulate the stock market almost at will. There is no profit analysis there, just the mob following Musk.

So again, future profits have nothing to do with a stock valuation. So times it does, but sometimes it doesn't. And if some times it doesn't, then it's not a fundamental property of it.
Think I realised a while ago that nothing predicts success. That's not to say that success is only luck, it has requirements, but not predictors. Hard work, grit, skill, luck, privilege etc are all required in combinations that result in a baseline sum, but nothing will predict success.

Success is almost by definition a hindsight measure. You can only work backwards from it, but never guarantee a forward path into it.
try it on matic or optimism l2
Followup : Please Leave My Ship Alone : What happens when 70M people visit the article you made about 70M people visiting your joke site?
With all those problems we are very near solution, and goes same as for Mars:
- nitrogen fixation, I think we are doing it wrong, we are trying to pluck rose with a jack hammer, we simply do not have enough knowledge, plants in general have more genes than humans.

- Fusion is around the corner, (and this time it is not yet again 30 years) it is just shifting more money into research, I read that globally only 50 bn is invested in fusion, jApple on its own has value of 2250 bn.

...
This is not so much a list of "reasons" (though there are levels of impact), it is more a list of, maybe "excuses".

Because I could come up with a big list of reasons why the US would be a bad place to start a company with. It is a good place to start, but even then most of the top high-earners companies are located into 2 or 3 very small geographical areas in the whole US.

China has many more impediments/bureaucracy than the EU (though maybe in different areas) but they have $$$ so problem solved.

Also Americans are very blind to what happens "on the other side of the pond" especially the non-English world. Mojang was bought for $2.5B JustEat/Takeaway is $13B Marketing Cap
Why AI reduces productivity in radiology – yet
You suggested something OP can invest in that has none of the technical benefits of cryptocurrency. If you think of cryptocurrency primarily as an investment (=speculation) medium with technological window dressing, that makes sense.

I too would like to see a cryptocurrency modeled on the idea that current democracies and their monetary systems aren‘t all bad: steady inflation, some degree of control over monetary policy for a state like body, programmable taxation... There are many thousands of projects in the space but somehow they all share a hardcore libertarian political orientation. I guess we‘ll let IBM contract with the ECB to build the future.
>At least in Ruby/Rails case it's backed by Shopify,

Recently backed. Backed in the sense as investment into it. Ruby and Rails now finally have capital behind it for investment. Ruby JIT being worked on specifically designed for Rails from Shopify, running on Master with better QA etc. But they are comparatively recent.

Most of these improvement will take time. PHP on the other hadn't are already seeing those improvement today. And they were work that has been going on for past 4 - 5 years. So in that sense it is improving faster.
Said people still live in China though, what else would you call these provinces. China != "Han", although majority of China is Han. It's interesting how our language sort of ties, ethnicity and nationality together when the two are very separate things.
SpaceX is not a public company and he has a majority stake and controls 78% of the voting rights. He can even still manage it from jail, if he wants.
Amusingly yes, this is probably the best bet. The temperature and atmosphere around 34-35 miles from the surface are comparable to Earth. And you get comparable gravity and radiation shielding as a bonus.

Good luck storing water and other supplies though. I foresee water piracy in the floating cities.
Now that I am aware it exists, I can use it for blog headers where I'd like to maintain the same ratio, this would be needed for images that have details around the edges I don't want to lose.
Funny how washington post (owned by Bezos) had to share a story about losing a contract to SpaceX.
> Felix was lucky to be born in time to ride that hippie wave.

"In 1969, Dennis wrote a world exclusive for OZ, the first ever review of Led Zeppelin's debut album." - talk about right place, right time. From there, he gets promoted to co-editor, gets hugely famous through a court case, which lets him start his own publishing company, and the rest is history.

(I'd say there was a lot of luck involved but he also seems to have reasonably good judgement and foresight to take advantage of it.)
> My one question is how security is upheld in what seems like a project maintained by a small number of people.

This is a really good question, and one that needs to be asked more. When it comes to distributions, small ones seem to either tend to blindly track their upstream (say Debian or Ubuntu), and add a few custom packages over the top, or go it alone completely, and have to manage all their own distribution and building.

The latter really needs a lot of time spent dealing with CVEs. When a backport of a patch is needed (for a non rolling release distribution), that's effort that smaller distributions can struggle with.

I can't find it just now, but I've seen a table comparing different Linux distributions, and their time in days to ship to users a patch for given vulnerabilities. Some of the bigger distributions were certainly not the best.

In terms of security around software supply chains, reproducible builds are one possible way to do that. Nothing (or almost nothing) is going to stop a rogue developer in the team from adding a malicious patch though.
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Bitcoin won't become a functional currency. I have a blog post about that https://dandanua.github.io/posts/why-i-wouldnt-recommend-usi...
That was the same reasoning why Unreal dropped UnrealScript.

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/213647/Epics_Tim_Sweeney...

However a couple of years later and Epic is bringing scripting back with Verse

https://twitter.com/saji8k/status/1339709691564179464?s=20

Because the problem is not the scripting, but how it is done.

I imagine that the engine you mention did not use any kind of compiler for Lua, e.g. LuaJIT, nor batch calls across the marshalling layer.

Same happens on the Web, JavaScript JIT can outperform WebAssembly if one keeps switching all the time between layers, instead of doing batch requests.
You said you just have Windows Defender, but for others, the big hit to FS performance is why I hate Sophos AV with a passion. IT departments though, seem to love to enforce it.
So we will be there in 30 years or so?
If FLoC ever becomes standard in Chrome, I'm definitely going to search for a way to sabotage their statistics by giving fake or random data points.
literally dogecoin inlfates by 0.5bil tokens per month
> But when I start to blog I find the lack of live preview and spellcheck inconvenient.

What platform are you using Simplenote on? On macOS at least, you can write in Markdown and preview it with Cmd+Shift+P. Spellcheck also seems to work for me, but maybe that's a macOS thing and not specifically a Simplenote thing.

Disclosure: I work at Automattic, but not on Simplenote.
If there is one implementation as the definition then by default all behaviour is defined by the implementation, and hence parent is correct.
Find a domain fo your project
Hard to find a short & available .com domain nowadays.
When starting a new project, I'm always looking for the same pattern for domain names. So I built a tool to ease the search because the existing tools recommendations always felt bad to me. I manually curated 100+ trending name modifiers for SAAS names and classified the TLDs and that's it ; no AI, no bullshit.

Website: https://startup-name.com

Disclaimer: links to Namecheap are affiliate.
Hope you'll like it!
Automatic booking of restaurants via telephone
That's what I never understand about these proposals...we can't manage to stop climate change on Earth, but we're going to somehow terraform a planet? Or failing that, establish "colonies" the same way we have people live in Antarctica? I don't envy the colonists.

I think the urge to just hit reset and start from scratch is attractive because it removes all the messy unquantifiable problems like politics. But the reality is you'd just get more of that on top of virtually insurmountable technological problems.
What's up with yours and ttty's comments?

> When will we be able to make real backups of Signal messages using the iOS app? Privacy is valuable, but important messages without ability to make backups is already very risky. Having data loss bugs is unforgivable.

> So when will we be able to make real backups of Signal messages using the iOS app? Privacy is valuable, but important messages without ability to make backups is already very risky given the inherent fallibility (and steal-ability) of mobile devices. Having data loss bugs in conjunction with that is delete-the-app-and-use-something-else unforgivable.

Very fishy.
OP says devices, so I read rack-mount gear that you buy when you can't use (or trust) AWS KMS, not chips.
> The hosting company I was working with said at its peak 7,500 people were coming per second. Just ridiculous. There were two peaks — when people first heard about it and then when it was getting unstuck. There were at least 3 million people during the unstuck period. I got told by hosting company that the site got 70 million hits in total. I’m still getting between 1,000 and 2,000 people a day, even now.

I wonder what this would look like on a day and week scale network traffic graph, in Mbps
I can imagine around 100 000 people visiting Mars by 2100. Currently around 50 000 people attempted eight-thousanders with death rate of around 1-2%. The first recorded successful ascent of an eight-thousander was in 1950. I imagine going to Mars will be something similar towards the end of this century.

If we get AI with human like object manipulation and engineering skills before 2050, then I expect prices of basically everything to go down to the cost of impact on other market participants by 2075. Building stuff will be brought down to the impact of raw resources extraction etc.

We will may be technologically short of 1M people on Mars by 2075 if we assume no AI. Take nuclear submarines as first order approximation. Currently we seem to have around 500 submarines, although only 1 in 5 seems to be nuclear. So, with the current GDP doubling time of 25 years we could expect 2000 submarines by 2075 and 400 nuclear submarines.

For 1M people on Mars we would need an effort comparable to 8000 Ohio-class submarines with the current cost of 16 trillions dollars. In 2000 Bill Gates was worth 60 billion, today Musk is worth some 180 billions. If Musk or other billionaires could keep that rate they still would be short to command it alone, but only by an order of magnitude with ~3 trillion assets.

IMO impossible without AI, but possible with AI.

But even if it's possible, I think that people will not want to live on Mars in that numbers. It would require around 1 in 10 000 people to migrate to Mars and I don't see the apatite for it.

So, IMO it will not happen, not because it will be impossible, but we will not want to do it.

Some space exploration timeline from Metaculus [0] a prediction aggregator with established track-record [1]:

- When will Starship reach orbit? 50% after 2022

- When will SpaceX's Starship carry a human to orbit? 50% after 2024

- When will SpaceX launch humans around the Moon? 50% after 2026

- NASA lands people on Mars before 2030? 4%

- Will SpaceX land anything on Mars by 2030? 80%

- SpaceX Lands People on Mars by 2030? 26%

- When will the first humans land successfully on Mars? 50% after 2036

- When will the first AGI be first developed and demonstrated? 50% after 2047

- What will be the longest uninterrupted stay in deep space at the end of 2050? 50% less than 650 days

- One Million Martian Residents by 2075? 4%

[0] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/

[1] https://www.metaculus.com/questions/track-record/
I love lichess but it is hard to argue tech is better than chess.com. Chess.com analysis board is better(although for free membership it is lot worse), they have more number of puzzles, they organize CCC, their anti cheating detection is the most advanced and this all is without coming to UI part in which most feel it to be better or at least more customizable.
All the things I've listened to regarding health an longevity have a recurring theme - inflammation happens a lot in modern life - and it decreases your lifespan.

I think type 2 diabetes is basically an inflammatory disease. More and more people are "pre-diabetes", which is basically lifestyle moving them towards type 2 diabetes.
Thanks, I hadn't heard about 8.3 filenames and it turns out they are activated on my laptop (somewhat recent Dell Latitude 5491). However, unlike the article you linked, I only have a C: drive and Windows won't let me change that setting easily. Will investigate further...

EDIT: finally managed to do it by tweaking a register. Weird, my filesystem already contains a mix of files with and without 8dot3names. Will monitor this in the future to see if there is an impact on FS performance.
With rust yoy don't need to constantly generate code. Vim is just perfect, if you have rust-analyze you get inline errors, code completion, jump to definition, autoimport, autoformat...

You don't need to constantly "extract method", move to class, generate all these mountains of classes by rightclick. This says a lot about the language.

But the main point is that with rust it actually just works: there is one way to set global toolchain and per project/dir. You're not required to also click through a million menus and dialogs and copypaste stuff and sync and rebuild and restart to get the editor barely working.
Hey, thanks. It's so unusual for me to promote anything I'm forgetting the main part. I can't edit the post anymore, so I tried to post a new one...with the link.

Link is https://startup-name.com !
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It's end-to-end encrypted?
Can't you store it in LocalStorage or IndexedDB
Usually I’d agree but for pork ribs? Bend test every time.
IoT Concerns surrounding their rise in popularity
Wow, cooking brisket in a microwave in fraction of the time. Didn't even know this was possible!