skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi.
I went through this journey myself.
I have a CS master degree, and always wanted to transition into AI research (focus on probabilistic programming, deep learning and self-play, but also simulation, learning-to-learn, bayesian inference, genetic algorithms). The initial plan was to self-learn machine learning, deep learning and statistics. I did that for 1 year, with the hope of joining on of the big AI labs afterwards. As it's very competitive, I couldn't join one of those labs, and wasn't willing to compromise on that. So I turned to plan B: salvage my ML skills by applying them to crypto trading, and if it works, then I'll have funding to start my own lab.

Plan B worked: in 1 year and 2 months, we turned 40k of our own funds into 100M. Today we are a team of 5 and we do $5B of daily volume, around 3% of the global crypto markets. Now the challenge is to start the research division, operate the trading and research in tandem, and create the right incentives: the research converts money into ideas, the trading ideas into money. The research would have two sub-divisions: fundamental and applied to trading.

My motivation for the research is mostly curiosity: I want to de-mystify intelligence (natural or artificial) and reverse-engineer it. When you talk about your lab, I resonate a lot with "watch[ing] the beauty of it". The way I would describe my research agenda is the following: put a bunch of phds in a room, see what happens.

If that sounds interesting, email me at [redacted]
First of: The lab leak story has always been mainstream.

It was pushed by the Trump administration and now by the Biden administration.

For a take on what is wrong with it see:

https://twitter.com/MoNscience/status/1396240581651742724
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We add deliberate friction to dangerous activities all the time. Speed bumps, for example, for those who lack the “self control” to follow the posted limits.
What bureaucracy is that?
If you can't prove it didn't happen, denying the accusation is libel. Fair is fair.

Maybe the real problem is firing someone from their job due to non credible accusations
I guess it needs to store your mails to show them to you. This includes your sent mails so protonmail can show them to you in your "sent" view.
Well, I think that's a bit pessimistic.

I think every Msc student at a "no-name" german university has the chance to publish a paper at a top-tier conference. Student research assistant jobs are plenty and the Msc Thesis can be real-science. Every Msc. CS program here I know has a research-option so that instead of lecture you can do research. It's just hard to publish in those top-tier conferences and most research is more applied (and therefore more niche!) so its not easy to find an advisor for this. But in my experience even if the professor is working in a more applied setting you can push for a more basic-research, research is research. But you can do a phd here without publishing a paper first, so I don't think most Msc Students see it as a priority.
I think Lukashenko just gave us moral right to treat himself as a Hamas leader. Not that I see much moral difference between them, he is known for torturing and raping Belarusian citizens in prisons.
Yes. "AI" (read Deep Learning/LogReg/SVM models) do indeed perform better given more data. I can vouch for this myself. And there was also a paper regarding this.

Everyone is an expert in AI now!
‘domains’ and ‘Mx’ no longer carry their old meaning in terms of DNS mappings
It used to be that ’domains’ as well as ‘Mx’ had specific functions when attached to a domain name segment using a . (Dot or period). What exactly was the purpose of using these to begin with? It had something to do with the ‘www’ pretended to the URL of every domain name, which while dominant for decades, appears to no longer be the case. Are we witnessing a change taking place behind the scenes? I feel no one has really talked about this much at all really, in tech circles or otherwise.
Do you have any resources to learn more about "gain of function" for people with no background in biology?
The literary critic Frank Kermode spent a while in Iceland during WW II Royal Navy service. His memoir Not Entitled gives an interesting picture of his time there.
thanks for sharing these! definitely great to look for. Ikea also has both mechanical and motorized standing desks. Cardoard based stands like Refold also looks great but didn't tried them.
Why do we care about q anon? Why has this tiny group of flat-earthers (at least half of whom are probably screwing around on the internet) become nationally known?
You have to be careful of the wording when you're legally representing an entity. See all speeches by CEOs and Chairpeople that's 2 pages long but actually doesn't affirm or confirm anything.

That, and being the Crown Prince I guess.
Bruce Dawson's https://randomascii.wordpress.com/ is excellent resource for obscure and complex details of native code and modern platforms.
Perhaps it’s important to discourage improper safety procedures in gain of function labs?
// this shows a persistent value FizzBuzz grid
// whatever cell you pick is remembered for a month

Wait, what?
I have also had my phone's USB-C port spontaneously self-destruct, effectively ruining the phone. As you say, burning smells and melted plastic, and I shudder to think if I hadn't been there to power it off and yank the battery.

And just this past weekend, a close friend of mine had their Galaxy S6 drain completely to 0 in a minute or two, and then claim water damage in the boot screen (which tests resistance across the port). The phone wasn't wet.

Both times, the phone wasn't even plugged in. I am beginning to look very askance at USB-C ports.
The author of talon doesnt support homebrew installation. Other people try to add it, but it doesn't work to install that way. Have you tried the installer on the website?
Ah you may be right about that the paywall. There was none for me, only a “call to action”.

I understand why people use those links, but given we’re in a technical forum it probably stands that people know how to leverage those services themselves.
I guess check and see which way the water flows next time you get a big rainstorm :)
Famed Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki shot “La Vie Boheme” in Paris using mostly Finnish actors (but in French).

He wanted to shoot a scene in a Paris metro station but the costs were exorbitant. (As the linked article says, this facility is used by big budget films; Aki is indie.)

In the directors cut he shows the solution: He shot in front of an old garage in the rough part of Paris suburbs where the film is set, and did optical tricks to make it look like a train station. For example, on the garage were cast shadows from what look like train windows (seen behind the actors as they talk in a romantic goodbye scene) but were in actuality holes cut from cardboard, Aki had people shining lights through them and others moving the cardboard so the shadows would move as the “train” left the “station.”

I found a description online, drawn from an event with the actress involved in the scene:

“In once scene, there is a departure from a train station, a long goodbye. But it was too expensive to really film at the train station! Instead, they improvised: clouds of steam were provided by the staff chef boiling water in every available pot and pan. Meanwhile, shadow heads and hats in a cut-out panel sliding across the wall signals a departing train. Bizzarely enough, it works…”
Also, er, fighting for survival against its own people.
Excuse me, but it hasn't even been an hour since the link was posted and there's already glaring US-centrism in the comments: "get what you deserve", "mass disinformation campaigns".

Where have you guys been living? What news have you been watching? You realise that the same actions are done by the US and, to a lesser extent and limited by their capabilities, their allies.

US developed an unprecedented malware capable of sabotaging airgapped nuclear facilities. And clearly US disinformation campaigns can't be faulted too since you people seem to think that Russia is really a threat at this point to the US.
While HN doesn't have tracking, YC has plenty of alums who are part of that industry (like Segment and Mixpanel)
I wonder how long that journey takes? Assuming no evaporation of our sample drop.
Using the analogies above, a drill like that could put the trigger on the awkward handle, forcing the operator to use it
Yup, when you get it wrong you get to meet interesting people from the compliance department. The "enable cache" button in the load balancers should come with alot of warnings.
I can’t link to an absence of a thing. I looked through his link and I didn’t see any mention of gain of function research. Maybe I missed it because that thread is completely schizophrenic, but I did look.
I'm close to 40 and I've been a WELL member for over 20 years.
I actually do. But how is your comment related to what I said?
There are idealists out there who get all worked up with 'watch the beauty of it'. Yeah in practice it will devolve into blood, sweet and tears, but it matters that you have the right spirit and can appreciate the fleeting moments of beauty
Clever! I think I might steal these, or make something based on your idea.

Kind of wild: in taking apart your command, I learned three things about Vim that I didn’t know, each one of which is massively useful. And I use it every day!
The source is irrelevant to to the virulence. We were able to measure the virulence from the start. That should be the guide for our response.

A natural virus could evolve to be very dangerous and a lab leak could give you a sore throat for a day. Origin != danger level.
I think it depends on the bank. It's really up to the banks to provide a proper API.
Thats not the same thing, startups barely create any new knowledge.
crypto. steemit is an example
This is outstanding. Great job. Can't wait to show the kids when they wake up to better explain the continental divide here in Colorado.
We don't know the side effects are rare because the reporting mechanism for side effects is nearly non existent.

If you want to use the VAERS data, the side effects, include death, are not really that rare, in fact, these are the most dangerous vaccines ever produced based on that data.

If that data isn't good enough, you'll have to provide data that is.
One more reason not to make singletons.
facepalm

how long until they try to give everyone the best service according to their budget. one arm holding 30$, two arms 40$, full cuddle 70$
It would only be one of many ridiculous charges in the US medical system. I personally think it's pretty outrageous that one has to pay for medical care while giving birth at all.
And yet people in this thread are using it as evidence.
Since I saw the "replace the entire stack" image, I expect no less than that the website should be made in Beads, hosted on a server running Beads OS, and the frontend should be WebAssembly compiled from Beads.
Only emotionally.
An Utterly Crushing Day for Exxon Mobil’s Old Guard. Real Reason Is Elementary
Which USA 2020 Candidates Shared Donors?
Nearly $7 billion went to federal election candidates during the 2020 campaign cycle from millions of donors. The increasingly popular ActBlue and WinRed fundraising platforms have made small-dollar donation data public, allowing us to understand much better than in previous cycles not only where money is going, but also who it is coming from.

More of that money than ever is coming in the form of small-dollar donations and many of those donors are contributing to multiple campaigns. By looking at where donors' money has overlapped, we can better understand overlaps in support between candidates who will never share a ballot and may never share voting records in congress.
Ask HN: What equity-free biotech funds do you know?
We’re getting started in the personalized medicine field and our idea is to avoid at all or postpone taking investments as much as possible. At this stage, we don’t want to be forced by the idea of inflating the value by taking more and more investment rounds.

Instead, we want to focus on developing the technology and best products possible.

Do you know any biotech funds that will provide equity-free grants or funding?
Indeed. I work in Europe for a startup that has experienced 100% growth several years in a row and everyone (except for the founders) works 9-5, goes to the pub on Thursday afternoon and leaves early on Friday.
We need these kind of experiments. If you learn too much about contemporary software engineering, then it is almost certain that you'll end up with a React front-end talking to a NodeJS/Java back-end hosted on Kubernetes. Which is obviously the right thing most of the time :) but the world is richer because of these super-ambitious, super-naive experiments.

Also: imagine how much has someone learned from implementing all this.
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Of course it's political. The claim is "Chinese military virology lab was experimenting with highly infectious material, and it escaped into the general population."

And back in October 2020, this was published: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2... . Is this right, or wrong?

This whole pandemic could have been handled as "We are following the medical and scientific establishment on best handling of the pandemic", but that wasn't the case. Instead, we have US states that have 'declared' Covid done, or worse yet have states that forbid companies providing proof of vaccination. The simple requirement of wearing masks, was rarely enforced. Quite a lot of assaults happened because workers at stores said something.

The politicians could have moved out of the way for science. They didnt, and they doubled down. And that got more people killed.
looks like squarespace ...
Looks like it could work if you had to do it in a different university ? (Also, less cronyism.)
I'm sick of this kind of cynicism on HN. I'll have you know that I've already managed to replace my car with Beads.
It always amazes me when my fellow Americans are shocked that after decades of the CIA and NSA using a trick on other countries they decide to fight back using the same dirty tactics.
Every hardware demonstration is like the board room scene from Robocop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvqDaFpXeM
Wow, very impressive. What sort of trading yields such mega returns? Is the value in cryptocurrency or has it been realized in actual cash returns?
>If you can back up what you’re saying, libel isn’t a concern.

This is not true. The unfortunate reality is that facts _don't_ matter in the realm of public opinion. They never have.

BUT, you're going to say, "I'm talking about libel, which is litigated in the court of law, not public opinion."

If that is indeed your response, I would suggest you might better familiarize yourself with the actual happenings in civil court cases. They can absolutely be just as insane, and they can absolutely act with the same lack of justice we see in other places.

I really wish most people had the type of integrity you're describing, but the uncomfortable reality is that they do not. People are going to believe the thing that makes them feel better, not the thing that is true.
- https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/

- http://hintjens.com/

- https://idlewords.com/

- https://stevelosh.com/blog/

- https://magnus.therning.org/archive.html
Looks like if you are logged with a corporate account, it is. But I don't know if this is new.
Based on the set of front-ends, it sounds like the goal of your project is a cross-language GUI toolkit wrapper. Is that correct? The goal of my project is a cross-platform and cross-language accessibility abstraction.
No, Millennials Aren’t Poorer Than Previous Generations
I care because they’re people as much as any of us are, and I don’t believe we should be sharing software keys or Netflix passwords on here, either, even (or especially) if everyone attending the forum is fully capable of acquiring free access for themselves.

All major publishers rely on multiple revenue streams to pay the bills.

I’m not waging any moral arguments about anything except that I’m just saying I don’t think it’s appropriate to share around those links in the forum. It’s about showing a modicum of professional respect.
There are all manner of addictions that can be "assisted"/made worse with technology. The solution isn't in the technology though - it surely starts with the person??

Should my toaster warn me if I use it too often in an hour? I might put weight on with all that toast I am eating.

Should my coffee machine warn me if I make too many coffees? I might have too much caffeine and suffer heart problems.

Should my app warn me if I use it too much? I might be a workaholic and spend too much time in Excel.

Who is in control of the toaster? Me or the toaster?
Who is in control of the coffee machine? Me or the coffee machine?
Who is in control of the phone/PC/app? Me or the phone/PC/app?
Following-up on irrelevancy: what made you stick? We had the same experience, but gave up after 6 weeks because breastpumping was exhausting, and switched to bottles and artificial milk which our daughter loved immediately.
I really enjoy https://rootsofprogress.org/posts (Jason Crawford)
Why is this controversial? OT is great but it's not totally production ready imho. I tried integrating it last year in Python and had almost weekly breaking changes to the internal API calls. I mean, it was a 0.x, so they were well within their liberty, also they don't owe me anything. But it was a bit of a false start for me.

Finally they released a 1.0 and the interfaces are more stable, but the docs are still incomplete or stale in some places. I currently use it in a minor way.

Frankly I can't wait because I love the tools and ecosystem, but I personally would be hesitant to put it into full blown production at such a big company.
It's bizarre and disturbing that these are bought by minors as well. Imagine already having grown tired of all the free porn in the world before you're even 18. Their dopamine receptors must be fried worse than if they had been snorting cocaine their whole adolescence.
Unions = Uber having to pay employee benefits and similar things = Strict requirements from Uber = No way I can do it for a few hours when I want to.
The technical details of how this is implemented are perhaps interesting for some people.

It depends on the language, obviously. It seems that currently a pronoun field is only visible when the interface language is set to English or Swedish. Since there's a "custom" option, which can not be automatically translated between English and Swedish, I would guess that the "English pronoun" and "Swedish pronoun" are separate fields in the underlying database, so someone could choose a masculine pronoun in English and a feminine pronoun in Swedish, for example.

Although the pronoun field is basically a way of specifying gender, as far as I can tell there is no gender field in the languages which do not have a pronoun field.

Also, rigardless of how you set your interface language, the pronoun field seems to be visible only to people living in certain countries.
I can see how this could weigh on some people, and everyone's situation is different, but in my case it was just slices of other people's political views and (more often than not) photos of their pets and their lunch.

In my case I just figured if I've lost touch with people over the years there's probably a reason. I don't mean that in any ill or dramatic way, and it's equally true from their side too.

I'm not sure it's that different from an amicable break-up with a partner in that you can naturally drift apart from other people and say "hey you're going that way, I'm going this way, best of luck with everything".

Honestly I thought losing connections with people I actually did have some history with and knew well many years ago was going to be the unfortunate cost of getting off of Facebook. As it turns out, not so much. Clinging too much to the past wastes the present, and life isn't that long to begin with.
I believe that there was a left vs. right divide on Freenode. I just don't believe that it maps cleanly onto this new Andrew Lee vs. Libera divide.
> I recently read a paper on why an iridescent screen of an iPad or a smartphone is better for the human eyes than a reflective surface of electronic paper like E-ink.

Doesn't sound intuitive at all. How did they measure "better"? The natural environment is all reflective. Butterfly wings are reflective. Fruit colors are reflective. Human eyes evolved for the natural environment. Very very few natural things generate emmissive visible light. My eyes get exhausted reading on an LCD. I don't get that same feeling when reading on actual printed paper or on E Ink.
Wow, that's quite a Self-Aware Wolf.
Well, i know what ebay search alert i’m going to add to my account today…
Are you implying you can arrange for sanctions that would not have the population suffering from them (only the "government would arrange things so"): how would you achieve that? Perhaps you only meant that the ruling party will be protected from the financial downturn?

I've found sanctions to have only reinforced the us-vs-the-world mentality in Serbia in the early 90s, and I don't think they achieved the goal of the Western countries at the time (which I have no idea what it was, but if it was to get people to dissent enough to overthrow the government, they didn't succeed). It was similar in the NATO bombing of Serbia and Montenegro in 1999, whereas NATO resorted to bombing civilian targets (like TV station, power plants and bridges in cities) to increase discontent, which did get the government to agree to some sort of surrender (which was only partial compared to the original demands), but this was basically sanctions++ (you not only stop external trade, but destroy things country has already built). Even then, government was overthrown a full year later mostly in parliamentary elections with some election-fraud drama sprinkled in. And people were already much better off than in the low times of early 90s (even outstanding foreign currency debts by banks to people from before the 90s financial collapse were being paid off at the time), so economic downturn was not the driver for the change.

I think the core missing part in these "developing democracies" is the skill to compromise (as hundreds of registered political parties in Serbia would attest).

As such, I would posit quite the contrary, that helping the population increase wealth would drive them to want to protect that wealth more through democratic and civil means, thus eventually overthrowing the government (I am sure we'll see that in China soon enough, even if it gets masqueraded as not switching away from "communism", though it's so huge that it is a special case). It's not as dramatic as war or sanctions, and might take a decade or two, but I am not sure sanctions have done a better job anywhere either.
You turned 40.000 into 100.000.000? That's incredibly impressive (even with the recent crypto bull run).

Was this all achieved with time-series prediction through ML models? I had the impression those were hard to get right, but props to you for clearly doing so.
Segment and Mixpanel help companies track their own visitors on their own sites. Feels unfair to lump them in with data brokers.
They are (or at least were, haven't checked in a while) asking for private bank account access details, yeah - https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/bweqaa/is_it_safe_...
Nah ... I don't. But I would guess that speeding up 2-3x doesn't make too much of a difference. Everything sounds thin on them.