skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
youtube is watching you. base on ip and the content consumed they guess (and augment that guess with what they know about your brother)
The assumption is that there is no hope for SA and everybody is playing the game till the oil runs out.
The answer is in our FAQ. There were secret perks (accessible through the link) to our early backers which were sold, that's why even the number of backers won't match on the public page.
I’ll take your what about and raise you. Why didn’t the EU sanction the US for Guantanamo bay and Extraordinary rendition aka kidnapping
Or the fabricated WMD story make Blair and bush war criminals

FWIW I don’t think 2 wrongs make a right but also to take the moral high ground a group must have the moral high ground consistently
Thanks for your valuable advice.

He hired us as consultant with old version of our product a few years ago to help in building a platform for a financial firm where he joined as CSO. He conceptualized and brought initial customers for the platform but he ended up having litigation with the company because the company owner refused to give him some percentage of the sale of company promised verbally, and fired him out of the company. He thinks we can also do the same to him if he takes us to some good size and his efforts would be wasted.

yes, it seems that he has incompatible vision based on big plans for his LLC he has divulged unintentionally over the discussions in last few days. We've rejected in writing multiple times and gave our offer based on originally discussed plan.

But he keeps on insisting that we can't sell to federal government/fortune1000 without US ownership, and we'll end up selling 10 copies vs. thousands of copies he can sell.

Vesting is something we've decided to offer as an option in addition to reseller/distributer option already made.
Morally? No. But I think they'd fear the legal repercussions of high-level company officers making public statements that they aren't doing it. I also think one of the many privacy researchers doing traffic sniffing probably would have picked up on some signature pattern. Is it possible I'm wrong? Of course. But if I had to make a bet at this moment in time, that's how I'd bet.
Heroku is only available in EU and US east. Latency from Australia is somewhat unavoidable. You can maybe reduce it by using Cloudflare or similar to terminate TLS as close to your users as possible.
I used to jump straight into the comments here because that's what I did on FB/Twitter.

Using HN this way made me feel just as distracted, frazzled and upset as regular social media. Fortunately I've spent enough time here to know which topics tend to have useful information in the comments, and which ones are going to be a retread of stuff that's been discussed ad nauseam before, H1B visas for instance.

The average HN comment tends to be more civil and erudite than elsewhere, which I mistakenly conflated with being knowledgeable and open-minded. As it turns out, people can be just as stubborn and non-emphatic here as anywhere else.

To get the best out of HN, I always decide first if I'm going to read the article. If no, then I'll pass on the discussion as well.
Note that all the advances that eventually led to today's successes and applications of deep learning happened 20 or more years ago (e.g. LSTMs was in the '90s, the neocognitron in the '80s and so on).

Then the hardware and the data came online and the field boomed, but no progress has been made in terms of new approaches and the overall state of research has stagnated with the inevitable results discussed in the article above (I can quote at least one Turing Award winner on that if that sounds just like me bloviating). In a sense, because it's now easy enough to get good results by throwing a bunch of data at a large computer, everyone's at it and nobody is looking for a way to obtain good results without a lot of data and a big computer. Which of course is not sustainable, not least because it means only large corporations can obtain state of the art results (and to be honest, I don't think any such have been obtained by "motivated hackers" using colab).

No, my hope is that things will continue as they are now, until academics realise they've been kicked out of the game by the Big Players, and then go look for a way to compete that doesn't require gigantic amounts of compute. After all, academia can still motivate people to do actual research and find actually new things. The same motivation is much harder in industry, that only cares about one thing and only knows how to hand out one kind of reward.
> The most underrated skill to learn as an engineer is how to document. Fuck, someone please teach me how to write good documentation. Seriously, if there's any recommendations, I'd seriously pay for a course (like probably a lot of money, maybe 1k for a course if it guaranteed that I could write good docs.)

I agree but think it is more than just _documentation_: effectively communicating ideas through text was one of the most underrated skills in software engineering. I say "was" as I think there is much more focus on it now with remote work and video call fatigue becoming the norm for many.
Spam Twitter within reason

I had a 2 week contract. They cut it should. I went on a bender and low and before the CEO wants it take ln care of.

I made a compromise and cut off a week but added a 500 "don't be a dick fee

Hi @nfty-labs
Thanks but we'll stay.
I too have had a similar experience, but it was for a series of bad deliveries by the same Amazon Logistics delivery driver. Almost every delivery was fucked up in some way or another: delivered late but marked as delivered, delivered on time but not marked as delivered until it was stolen, delivered to inaccessible locations, delivered to other residents drop boxes, etc.

I called amazon every time it happened. I told them the various things that their driver did, explicitly asking them to replace that specific driver. And after a while it was like they flagged my account as fraudulent (customer service began issuing canned responses with no follow up).

Eventually, after a few egregious cases, my property management company sued Amazon. Overnight, packages started being delivered correctly, and I haven't had to call CS since...but I now refuse to buy anything of value from Amazon anymore due to a combination of fraudulent marketplace items and the lingering fear that if something goes wrong I won't be able to get any compensation for it because my account has been flagged.

Funnily enough, Ali Express is now the more reputable company in my eyes.
At the end of the day your remedy is to sue someone. Everything else is a courtesy shortcut.
Openness is irrelevant, the issue is their rise in power and the fear of losing hegemony in America.

If they had continued on the Hu Jintao trajectory, getting slightly more open while amassing economic and political power at the same rate, you'd see the exact same moralizing from Americans about how bad they are.
I think I could use your rule.

Amazon delivery is outrageously atrocious in my (poor) country. As an instance, this was the condition of an assorted pack of fruit juices that got delivered to me just yesterday: https://imgur.com/a/sSMmgot

To top it off, (rather poorly trained) Amazon support encouraged me to consume the contents of the pack with no understanding of what a health hazard means; at which point I hung up and cancelled my Prime membership.
This is not apologetics for China....

There is a fundamental dishonesty in the US' (and Australia's) recent turn in sentiment re: Chinese trade relations. There was a deal, partly unstated and largely codified in trade agreements between the two parties. Mainstream notions about economics and trade shifted, and they're no longer happy with the deal.

You can pursue new policies, new trade agreements, change your mind or whatnot... but it wasn't China that decided on American priorities.

The US wanted to invest in China. It wanted US companies to be governed (largely) by US/washington consensus laws. It wanted US/Western patent law to apply in China, which mean is an even bigger deal now. Can you imagine the US or Australia adapting their legal systems to accommodate trade with China?

China wanted trade surpluses, and employment promotion policies. Western economics of that era considered this a freebie. They actually valued Chinese imports more highly than US exports. Deng Xiaoping also wanted to moderate cultural-political influences, and keep about democratic urges. US political scientists thought this was futile, economic liberalisation would end totalitarianism on its own. Older economists/politicians still maintain the economic ideas, but have moved to denying they ever believed in the political ones.

Geopolitically, both compromised on Taiwan. China got to keep its "One China" policy. The US maintains its "No Invasions" policy.

Both got what they bargained for. The US chose not to bargain for pro labour trade conditions. They didn't want them. Now they do. So bargain again. Random aggression isn't going to get you what you want, if you can't define what you want.

Belligerence is just politically easier than addressing the topic directly, admitting that ideas have changed, etc.

^Piracy in China does not invalidate this fact.

Incidentally, I spoke to Kevin Rudd at length once (I was an intern), before he was PM. He seemed very pro chinese att.
Do you also dream of loss of certain ACID semantics or crippling performance issues?

In the real world, it is extremely hard to provide all the same guarantees you get out of a single instance of <database vendor> if you turn around and spread it across the internet.

If you have super deep control over the physical & temporal environment around your system, you can cheat the rules a little bit (i.e. Google).
There's freedom of the press in USA?
Perfectly believable. The thing I really loved about Amazon is that they had their act together. But that has declined drastically over the decades; now whenever I actually have to deal with them it seems like there's a ton of internal chaos.

In June 2018, I ordered a soccer magazine, "Futbol Total", for my soccer-mad nephew. It said it would arrive in 4-16 weeks, which seemed weird. I waited it out, and no magazine. I contacted them and they said they were on it and it would arrive soon. At 5 months in I just canceled the order, only to get an email saying, "Unfortunately, we weren’t able to cancel the items you requested and these items will soon be shipped." I spent a bunch of time in chat and on the phone getting the runaround, complete with new ticket numbers, promises of personally following up, and even a $20 credit. But they were firm on saying, "Please be assured, we will ship this item very soon."

Occasionally I'd try again, insisting that they either cancel the order or actually ship it. Each time I was told it would be shipped. Long after I'd given up, in late October 2020, they finally canceled it, saying, "We regret to inform you that, due to a technical error, we will not be able to fulfill your order." For all of Amazon's vaunted customer focus, my impression was of a lot of unhappy, fearful customer service staff passing the buck so they could avoid bad metrics.
There's a lot more in that paper than an argument for formal proofs. In fact, formal proofs are more of an incidental idea than the main point of Dijkstra's argument.

For example, he suggests that we need to understand computer science as a "radical novelty" and stop applying inapt analogies that come from thinking about this like a gradual evolution of mechanical things.

Inapt mechanical metaphors include software "tools" and "workbenches" that require "maintenance". Getting stuck with bad industrial analogies is "medieval thinking" that prevents real understanding.
A simple experiment is to try thinking of some consumer product which you don't normally use and wait until you see an ad for that product. Make sure not to pick something you talked about recently or something you were reminded of by the media. In my experience you will be surprised how quickly you start seeing ads for that thing all of a sudden.
Absolutely, love the idea! We figured it would be very costly if we did it ourselves because the number would be small.
Not to mention the easily-available caffeine, which is conducive to discussion.
Have no concerns, Mr. Rudd. We won't take China on.
When a Joke Is Worth More Than Saving the World: Dogecoin
it has to be nonzero.

we've bought into this notion that capitalism serves us because we choose what to buy.

if thats not really true - what game are we playing here?
> They do it because they expect we'll be able to pay them back at a higher interest rate than what they could have made with those resources themselves.

China doesn’t invest in high rate treasuries with their dollar surplus, they are getting below inflation rates in their treasury purchases. They do it because (a) their export driven economy demands that they send more things out than get things coming in and (b) putting excess dollars in treasuries is better than simply investing them back in their economy would heat things up and stoke inflation.

China currently has plenty of money for its own investment needs, so US treasuries are just convenient and not a statement on the natures of investments in the USA.
Very cool! Doesn’t work for me.
How would you know if your political party was trying to score political points? What specific criteria would have to be met?
Until that heritage slows or prevents development and it becomes costly!
Matera was an example of extraordinarily old dwellings even for Italy, not of the decision making process (sorry, that was a bit unclear).

The decision was in part health-and-safety related and in part a political issue of "people technically living in caverns makes us look bad" - the idea of fixing the living conditions in the Sassi instead of moving people in newly built houses was far from the sensibilities of the time.
On Pretentiousness
Don’t forget there is also this: https://www.theretailequation.com/

Basically, these models can pretty much predict whether you are pathological or good one. I know that models also include things like if you are a pet owner, number of pets, siblings, number of disputes in cc, etc.
I've been drinking diet coke all day (about 3 liters/day) for many years, which causes my teeth to be less than white and also rather sensitive. Besides the coloring, I suspect that the enamel is being thinned down by the citric/phosphoric acid. I have no chronic pain, but the cosmetic aspect and the sensitivity bothers me. TFA sounds like that treatment could help.

Any other recommendations for my situation? I can't brush agressively due to receding gums. I use a chlorhexidine solution regularly, which helps preventing inflammation/aphthae in the mouth, which I used to have quite often prior to discovering CHX. And no, dialing down the diet coke is unfortunately not possible for me. ;)
What’s the difference? Xi got the assembly to remove term limits, and the next president won’t be selected until the end of his term. Merkel has to go through national parliament elections every so often, and her party must still vote for her as chancellor after those. None of those apply to Xi.
Worth it to me. Dental pain is incredibly rough for me. Not sure why. And I have lots of experience with high levels of pain.
This Twitter thread is hilarious. The author decries advertisers for evilly collecting all the world's information in order to... sell him toothpaste? The cherry on top is at the end when he discovers that his tweets have gathered some attention, he uses those eyeballs to flog his role-playing game and his brother's book.
I like Kobo out of the big players. Google feels like they could give up anytime. I've also had issues getting downloadable ePubs from them.

If you like SciFi/Fantasy, Baen sells ebooks direct with no DRM on their website in multiple formats and have for like 20 years. Some other publishers do this too like Image comics. Most don't though so you need to go through one of the bigger stores unfortunately.
Thanks Krasnol :)

This is an interesting issue. What color is your "topbar" configured to? You can check it under your profile settings: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Krasnol. It could be that the topcolor that you've set is a dark color, and the CSS inversion makes it light, thus conflicting with the text color.

If this is still a problem, please do open an issue on the GitHub repository, I'll happily look into it :)
Downvoting on HN sucks, doesn't it? It's a feature designed without empathy, even though it directly affects human emotion. Which is extra bizarre considering it's on a forum that prides itself on respectful human behavior.
rustc_codegen_GCC: The simpler alternative to GCC-RS
I’m working on a piece of a project that’s on GCP and ran into an edge case issue. For at least this product, the engineer reminded me of the old school Sun and IBM support people. It was a breath of fresh air for me. I’ve heard AWS is similar but never experienced it firsthand. Other big tech companies are very different.

A few weeks ago, I submitted an incident with sample code and got a response back with code to implement a workaround, and the information related to the enhancement the engineer submitted so I could escalate if needed. They automatically transitioned support engineers in another geography at shift end without any drama or repetition from me. All within 12 hours.
I've been following a similar DIY - it uses Waveshare 7.5"

https://github.com/mendhak/waveshare-epaper-display
The president of China is elected by the National People's Congress after each term. I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Lot of advertising targeting doesn't bother going below the household level anyway, which IP sorta-kinda corresponds to.
I actively try to get things outside Amazon as well but most of the time end up buying from Amazon anyway. And people have rightfully said quite a few times, stuff is listed cheaper than on Amazon. However for most independent stores, manufacturers I notice that either they charge for shipping, or has a 50$ minimum to get free shipping. I have tried to bounce off cash back portals to cover for some of the shipping, but most of the time it is not enough.

In addition, I have a Amazon card from Chase that offers 5% of cashback on amount spent at Amazon. Most of the time factoring in shipping and cashback seals the deal for Amazon and covers for the price difference.
Yes, air strikes. A sortie could just be a drone, do you really believe those made the revolution successful?
I’m not stating novelty isn’t be part of the aim of research, I just think we need to be aware of the perverse incentives it creates when it becomes the sole underlying criteria by which merit is judged. I think there’s room for expanding the definition of what is good research to include replication of prior art because the field in general will be better off for it. I imagine novel research would still be more prized but it wouldn’t relegate replication to being considered a waste of time.
Toyota is working on perfecting an ICE that burns hydrogen.

Hey, why not have other solutions.

"https://www.autoweek.com/racing/more-racing/a36209405/toyota..."
(Please take this with a grain of salt, seriously)

Launch as soon as you can. If you've built the MVP by yourself or with the team you've already got, don't look for funding to turn it into a more 'solid' product and just launch right now. If your product clearly solves a real problem that real people have, you shouldn't feel lost, I mean eliminating pain in people's lives is great. Also go talk to people who might be your potential users.
One of these sides has literal, actual Nazis trying their level best to destroy democracy, supporting and protecting people who are murdering people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and others who don't fit into their fascist ideology, and remove most of the legal rights women have gained over the past century+.

The other side has...politicians who are too beholden to corporations to fight as hard as they should for progressive policies.

If you genuinely think that the American left is just as bad as the American right, then either you really haven't been paying attention, or...I guess you think the Nazis had a point or something?
I blame the incentives. Academia is not about selling facts, it is about selling papers. This is very similar to newspapers; they are about selling newspapers.
Different here in Canada. For example particular lens I am looking for is $1,900 on Amazon and $2,200 from other retailers.
Are you saying the national people’s congress isn’t a rubber stamp body? If you are Chinese, who is your congress person or who did you vote for in the last election?
1300 CE seems insane? The Middle East is like hold my hummus (https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-10... etc.)
> the sole other example in the article wouldn't be someone from 2004 who built a career in media thanks to the supposed cancellation - exactly the kind of thing the press would point to as proof "cancel culture" isn't real if the left were the ones calling for her head.

I think we agree, but to elaborate further, here's an informative post on the topic: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/23/can-things-be-both-pop...

One should also look at how the average person would see this. If after expressing an opinion, the only viable career left is that of a political commentator/provocateur (the market for which is limited), most people will stay silent.
consider that that implies consolidation (malls need much more capital than stations) and likely another monopolized market. gas stations, for all their faults, still provide an avenue for hard-working folks to build a small business without getting squeezed by financialized gatekeepers. it's why immigrants gravitate toward such businesses, and how dynamic economies are perpetuated. you can already see the stranglehold by big capital on charging networks start to take shape.
That was nearly two hundred years ago. It’s resented because the government finds it useful for building internal unity. Periodically stirring hate against foreigners is a tactic as old as time.

It’s a bit like America being mad at Britain for burning down the White House in 1812. At some point you need to get over it.
Interesting. I've bought most of my tech stuff from the same company for 20 years now. Their system actually lets me see all completed orders, and it tallied to about 50k AUD last time I checked (as an individual).

They're not always the cheapest, but the overall experience is great - and I just love that I can see all my orders for such a long time span.

Now, I've always had good customer support experiences with the company, and your model helps explain why I suppose; loyalty has a value of its own.
It's difficult to distinguish genuine romantic feelings from exploitative lust everywhere. It's a constant of human experience and has very little to do with power dynamics.
>> If I'm reading conference papers, why would I worry about whether one of them is the product of review collusion?

Well, because if there's no incentive to write a good paper, very few good papers will ever get written and you'll waste your time reading crap papers.

I get what you say: if the process is random anyway, then what's the problem? But the process is not random: authors maximise their chances to publish their paper if they partake in a collusion ring. Partaking in a collusion ring diverts resources from writing a good paper, therefore the quality of published papers goes down the drain. The most important resource necessary to write a good paper of course is the motivation to not publish crap. If that goes, everything else follows.
Show HN: Kalk, A calculator with math syntax, complex numbers
kalk is a calculator that has syntax highlighting, automatically turns names into symbols (eg. sqrt to √), supports math-like syntax (eg. f(x) = x(2sinx + 3) , estimation of derivatives and integrals, complex numbers, and runs in the browser using WebAssembly.