skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Useful enough tool. Sadly I feel very nervous about any permissions on my AWS account so it must remain uninstalled. It's a pity, though.

I guess I could load it unpacked but the utility isn't high enough for me to go through the source myself.
Everything has already been said about this subject. Looking at it as a technology problem, it's not a novel problem, i think every advanced and successful society has dealt with it in the past. In ancient athens, Solon's 'technological' solution was to create state brothels for everyone with regulated prices. Rome's foundational myth contains the abduction of the Sabine women, which fulfilled the needs of Roman incel warriors for wives. Victorian age london was full of brothels. The second part of this 'technological' solution was the subjugation of women.

Nowadays, as the article says, it's hard to deny that the problem exists, but it's fair to say that the solutions above are not going to recur in any advanced society. However, we do have sex tech that is advancing by leaps, and we should be able to solve the physical/sexual part of the problem soon. We don't have a tech solution for the intimacy deficit, but I think that it can be dealt with alternative bonds and more generally with doing things that are fulfilling. We are not far from the first ex utero children, which should contribute to solving that intimacy deficit.

Now, i don't know how many startups are working in this area at the moment; there are definetly some teledildonics companies.
Well put, and another aspect beyond currency is a move against centralised control of enterprise. Centralised legal systems governing contracts, centralised ownership and rewards, centralised risk, etc. Some people looked at how the world is run and thought they could make a more efficient and secure way of doing things with more freedom for anyone that can swing an IDE to create fairer reward systems.

At least one of the implications of systems like ethereum is that they enable autonomous contracts that are decentralised and at least in theory don't require any separate and typically centralised governing body to execute and enforce, which could in turn lead to a range of new models of business and human interaction.

It remains to be seen what will happen, the technology is still young (the Web took about a decade to start catching on in the mainstream as perhaps being something more than a flash in the pan) and lofty ideas are being thrown at the wall as the new concepts are explored in both good and bad ways.

Having seen the ups and downs of the online revolution I have a hunch at least some of it will stick, and whether this moment goes down as some great proletarian revolution or becomes just another tool in the billionaires belt seems up in the air to me, but at the very least it is disruptive and we may be seeing the birth of the next generation of crypto barons.

Or anything could happen, like by some unlikely turn of events we solve prime factorisation and the whole thing fizzles into history as a big oops moment, or jackbooted forces raid homes and data centres to destroy all crypto-related hardware and knowledge.

I feel the outcome will be somewhere between the two extremes of utopia and dystopia, it just seems to be how things turn out, but as you say at least people are trying things. Disrupting the status quo is how society moves forward, humanity never seems too comfortable sitting on its haunches (for better or worse).
Streaming aggregation relies on knowing the problem beforehand, so it's pointless in the context of the day-to-day work of analysts where most of the project is spent figuring out the right questions to ask.

If I need to stream data because the size of data is a constraint, I'm either working on the 0.1% of projects that require it or on an analytical product rather than an analytical project.
I think that there is some confusion as to what you are trying to say.

1) There is no way to catch the amount of fish we catch in a sustainable manner. (No sustainability at our current scale.)

2) There is no way to catch any amount of fish sustainably. (No sustainability at any scale.)

I think people are intrepreting you as saying #2 when you are really saying #1.

The answer would appear to be that if that we need to reduce the scale at which fiahing operates. This means sustainability requirents that increase the costs to fishermen so that overall demand cam be curbed to a sustainable level.
In a few hours with FreeSurfer, you can go from a raw MRI image to a structured labeled set of data identifying the geometry of a subjects brain structures.

One of the interesting hacks is to inflate the cortical surface to a sphere which enables nonlinear registration to the accuracy of human experts.
Ask and you will be served,

https://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal-avr
Why in HN of all places do people constantly have years-old takes on crypto?

Ethereum is moving to proof-of-stake. Most other chains use some form of proof-of-stake.

It's not like these projects are unaware of your criticisms, nor have they stood still since you stopped paying attention in 2017.
How big tech got so big, passive funds.
If you want to read the article how the author intended* (and not through an http portal) the gemini link is gemini://drewdevault.com/2021/05/03/awk-is-the-coolest-tool-you-dont-know.gmi

*https://drewdevault.com/2020/11/01/What-is-Gemini-anyway.htm...
I wouldn’t say that it’s incentivized at all. Weddings are expensive, divorces are financially disastrous (yet easy to initiate), and a sizable segment of the population thinks the idea of marriage is “uncool”, for lack of a better word. Things like adultery are nearly outright encouraged in Netflix shows and novels.

It doesn’t surprise me at all that many people look at marriage as it currently stands and just say, no thanks. This goes against pretty much every society, historically.

https://www.ranker.com/list/best-tv-shows-about-cheating/ran...
It's about how it's framed. People don't know how to feel until you tell them.

Take for example the obesity epidemic. Obesity is a factor in 20% of all US deaths. People know it is killing them, their friends and their families and don't do anything.
Really interesting, thanks!

Great that it accepts colunar data, that was a question that had immediately sprung to mind. There's something very satisfying about processing data using Arquero's grammar of data transformation and then immediately passing it over to a grammar of data visualisation (Vega Lite, or now Plot).

Alongside arrow, This kind of thing makes me very excited about javascript becoming a serious option for processing even moderately large amounts of data.

Thanks so much for Observable - it's is by far my favourite programming tool for working with data (my day job is Spark, Python and R, pretty strong competition!)
The CEO I spoke to was at least the fifth or sixth. His son was the CEO in waiting and that guys son was a teenager doing dirty jobs on the factory floor so that when he is CEO he will have the workers’ respect and know how the business is done.
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In 1953 I seriously doubt there was so much concern about it, much less in an advertisment directed to consumers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
No, doppelganger seems like a pretty incorrect term to choose here.

http://www.rockstarprogrammer.org/post/2008/apr/06/differenc...
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This is interesting but a gofundme or regular fundraising event could achieve the same thing, without paying high miner fees too.
You are always controlled and manipulated by idiots. The question is: how much can you do about that without doing something unlawful?
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You can say the same about wealth, or height, or anything, that doesn’t change the fact that the people who don’t have any want some.
I know, I read it. The fact of the matter is that the 75% number is the number at the top of the article, which is all most people will read, and tries to present a certain narrative about AI/ML for code.
I was replying to this:

> The most common use case for default dict is counting the number of occurrences of some string

I would assume very few people use defaultdict for this since Counter exists.
I don't understand. When trying to make a donation paypal lands me on a page where I need to link a credit card. Is that necessary?
If you go from 5% to 10% overhead but collect 10 times as much because of the hype you still end up with more money.
OK, that answers the comparison with Twitter or Reddit. How about Google, then?

But on reach, I think that might be it: Facebook has more of it among a larger population (and possibly one that has more effect on the rest those around them). So you're saying they're being targeted because they're more influential? That really says something about the rest of them too, don't you think?
Jekyll as well, published on Github Pages.

I use it for docs for my OS project. I just wrote about my setup (sorry it's on medium, but it's without paywall)

https://0x0ece.medium.com/docs-for-an-open-source-project-b7...
The real border is in the treaty. They describe geographical features that have sometimes moved ("the river x"), don't exist anymore ("the big oak tree") or take a lot of time to rediscover ("the field belonging to the widow soandso").

The stone is often only near the border - if the border is a path in a forest, you're not going to plonk it down in the middle of the path.

The gis database for administrative boundaries in Luxembourg[0] gets updated once a week, because the borders are based on cadastral measurements, which have been constantly updated since the 19th century. There's an error in every measurement, the idea is that over time it will average itself out.

[0] https://data.public.lu/fr/datasets/limites-administratives-d...
Right, trees provide a buffer. If you can plant faster than the trees are dying, you gain ground.
Aren't you worried about AWS forking this?
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The signal blog post linked in the tweet is already on the front page of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27040470
That you can find an exception from the bad old days, where a company was run like a <80s mechanic shop, doesn't negate that experience dealing with people is useful.
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This is a trademark issue, not a copyright one.
That's not "gatekeeping the bedroom". That's called "bodily autonomy". They're allowed to decide who gets to stick what inside their body -- exactly the same as you have.

You appear to resent women for being allowed to decide what happens to their own bodies. You also seem to think that this is the only thing in society that actually matters -- that this one thing gives women all of the power.

I believe you should reconsider these positions. Bodily autonomy is a bare minimum. What is it about access to a woman's body that is so vitally important to you?
I really don't see a benefit to creating conflicting/competing policy. You have people who would rather keep their lawn than go to concrete based on the tax being more than the subsidy (assuming one time subsidy vs yearly tax). The policies undermine each other. You can't just slap a single policy over a multitude of others and think that's more beneficial, right? You have to look at it from a systems thinking perspective, which would require evaluating the interactions and n-order effects between that one police and all the others. If you're doing that work already (clearly politicians don't, based on the existing poor policies) then you might as well fix the underlying issues since it will allow the policies to function more effectively.

"but expect to pay for the negative externalities of that."

But what do you think that money will actually do? Is it going to prevent issues? I don't think so. It won't even cover the costs of actual damages in many cases.
I think the problem is that the expert system's fact base would have to be essentially the world's most complex medical encyclopedia, except that encyclopedias are addressed to thinking humans, whereas this would have to have enough detail so that it can be "read" by an extremely simplistic algorithm. And not only that, but it would have to be in constant update as new medical knowledge is discovered, new medications (with new interactions) come out etc.

I also wonder how well the inference algorithms would actually perform with the scale of facts you would need to add.
For a more macro/systemic discussion of slack, I liked this SSC article: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/
Huh? Just because something is scalable, doesn't mean it is scalable indefinitely.

There very clearly exists a scale at which fishing is sustainable and a scale at which it is not. You can argue what the tipping point is, but you can't argue with that fundemental premise.
When the stakes are that high however, this is the definition of poor communication. No one's a mind reader, and how many other unspoken expectations are there?
The SEC has bought into his novel legal theory that if enforcement actions could hurt shareholder value (hurting stock price due to targetting the cult of personality that is also propping them up), then they shouldn't be done. I can dig up the tweet where he said this if you want.
Right, it must be decriminalized entirely, not just select aspects. It reminds me of when a lot of places decriminalized marijuana possession, while somehow forgetting that weed does not materialize out of thin air but must be grown and distributed. Meaning the thing they just "decriminalized" was still part and parcel of illegal acts. So far only those same cowardly half-measures have been used towards sex work in most of the US.
If those bits were removed in homes they are almost always going to be wasted without municipal composting, and even that is still wasteful. If they are removed at scale (no pun intended) there is a much higher likelihood that they will be used as a byproduct in pet food or fertilizer or something.
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The common sentiment on HN with regards to crypto is baffling to me. It's like they stopped paying attention in 2017.
My impression is that progressives and conservatives seem to disagree about what constitutes "outcome" vs "opportunity". For example, imagine a tech company found that 20% of it's employees were female and 80% were male, and decided to try to change this by instituting a new program exclusively focused on recruiting women.

A progressive might argue that this program gives women a better "opportunity" to succeed, whereas a conservative would say that the program was created for the purpose of influencing "outcomes", and that by focusing exclusively on women the program is intentionally creating unequal "opportunities".
Reminds me of the old Heathkit catalog.
I think by that analogy the title should have been "Computer Operating Systems Terminal Tools". The tools presented in the slides have been tested on a Linux System, which motivated the title name.
Gauss earned his PhD at 20, Euler at 19, Erdős at 21, Tao at 21. Now imagine instead being forced to waste away until you're 17-18 to go to college.
Yes it is American. Getting down on your knees to propose, the engagement ring, the bachelor/ette party, the white wedding dress, the bridesmaids in matching outfits and flowers, the handwritten invitation cards, the tiered wedding cake, the wedding photographer, the reception dinner. It's the cultural script that little girls and boys learn to follow. .
I wasn't really into digital music at the time and only had a Windows system in any case. I definitely viewed Apple through the lens of a computer company. I even wrote a research note in 2003 (as an IT industry analyst) suggesting that Apple should perhaps view itself more as a home entertainment company [1]. I noted that they had the iPod and iTunes music download service but I pretty much mentioned that in passing, perhaps because I was really thinking of home entertainment in the context of a living room home theater system.

I did buy a 4G the following year. (It also took me a few years to get an iPhone after initial release.)

[1] http://bitmasons.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/pubs...
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Achieve what exactly?

Where is china producing cutting edge tech? They've consistently failed at in house chip design and production over the last 50 years.

Most major tech breakthroughs are still coming out of west plus japan and SK.
> How many students are just rolling over and saying sorry?

Probably most/all. IT infrastructure is critical and there's a very good chance that the IT staff have a process in place for dealing with kids who won't let them do their jobs. And it's probably a pretty effective process that has been refined over the past decades.
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I have no idea if that's a real issue or not, but have changed the title from "Show HN: I reverse engineered the Bose iOS app and rebuilt it for Mac" to what the page itself says, which is more informative anyhow.
I think they didn't get how bizarre is US healthcare. It's a "market" (maybe rather a system) where (nearly) every participant is interested in everything being as expensive as humanely possible.

Since automation saves money and Watson is just automation it has no value for US healthcare participants.

If they came up with completely new thing that could be priced additionally, it would have been a different talk.
The NFT here seems to be a publicity stunt to both raise money directly from the auction and also to raise awareness about the charity. I had never heard of this charity before this stunt, and I probably would not have heard of them without it. It certainly seems plausible that "using an NFT" here is a net good, even if there is some carbon cost.

You could argue against the stunt, but it requires more work that just stating "carbon costs." You'd have to check whether valueOfSavedLife * moneyRaised / 1235 + carbonCost < 0. And it looks like the auction is structured so that moneyRaised will be at least 2.5M, so the carbonCost would need to be pretty negative to make the sum negative. What is carbonCost?
P.S. I know about Upwork and other such gig sites. I have been scanning them for many years and not accepted any gigs through them yet, due to my experience with gigs acquired locally through my own organic networks.

What I've learned in short gigs is that I've been a slow starter, except when I was very well-rested (e.g. after 5.5 years of rest) and doing a task whose plausibility was unknown. The way I graduated from my temp status in 2008 was by being as proactive as if I owned the company: Bringing my own computer (the company's IT department was slow), finding a disassembler on my own (management / purchasing were slow), and reverse engineering code whose source the boss was waiting for another division to provide (other division was slow). I was rewarded for being a new set of eyes living up to my own strong work ethic, rather than besting or even keeping up with peers in an organization. But when I did all this, it was new to me, so I'd not have been competitive against anyone who specializes in such work.

Conversely, in a permanent role in a software engineering organization, most of my value came, not through raw technical prowess, but through ownership of and immersion in my work product and what it touches, and building a network of respect and trust among peers, over years.

I'm a generalist (perhaps a "scanner"[0]) and probably never have been the best at any one task. Going in fresh, at my age (48) and suboptimal health, it's much harder to contribute value in a hurry. I'd fit well long-term into an organization that can use a generalist like me after qualifying me on a challenge that's well-defined and yet for which there may not be any well-defined type of specialist.

[0] https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2017/04/barbara...
Yeah, that seems pretty easy to accomplish.

What do you mean by file caching?
Sounds correct to me. Although I've heard Ruby is slow, I suspect json serialization is done in C? At least it is in Python which I'm more familiar with. Simple cutting out the extra layers is where the big savings likely are.
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> Terminal clients are subpar at best

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
Eh? IBM 704
The article is arguing against the contrary position, common the author's circles (and in my own), that these problems aren't real and the people who express them deserve condemnation rather than sympathy.
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