skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Way back in the early days before exchanges, you literally bought and sold them on forums using bootleg paypal ripoffs (since paypal didn't recognize virtual money = buyers could refund)

I put off my 20,000 BTC purchase because it was so sketchy.
There's a bit on the leak in wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
It's astounding how difficult photography must have been back then. Today if you're trying to learn with a digital SLR you can take pictures and change aperture/focus/exposure and see the result and gain an understanding of how changing them impacts the picture.

Back then you had to take an entire roll of pictures and it'd be a long time until you could see if you were "off".

Equivalent is like the old days of punch-card programming. You'd better hope you didn't have any bugs because you wouldn't find out until much later when your job ran.
Ha. This made my day.
Just install Firefox ESR for the old man , he won’t get the UI changes shipped but will still get the security fixes
So this is how it happens, huh?
With our heads shoved firmly up our own backsides.
> How far back do things need to be for sins to be forgivable?

I would have hoped "before I was born" to be far enough back, but evidently it isn't.
Is there any valuable connection between the users that flagged the original post that might be interesting? Not looking for specifics, since I imagine that's secret, but wondering how much of it really was standard behavior versus something else.
> Social Affairs Minister Wouter Koolmees told Parliament there was little the government could legally do to force Booking.com to return the money because the bonus provision was not immediately included in the rules. He said it was more important to maintain a consistent government than to apply the bonus rule retroactively and without warning.

This sounds either lazy or corrupt. There’s no need to retroactively apply the rule, but there are consequences that could be applied in the future, like forbidding companies that used the money for bonuses to apply for other government grants. Doing nothing because it’s “more important to maintain a consistent government” is messed up.
I got thousands of images back by searching “ dhshsjdjfjfjdj”

Censorship is disgusting.
They use Elixir but not Phoenix.
There is no Qing emperor to blame anymore for allowing China to stagnate and losing the Opium Wars. Meanwhile, the same governments who used forced projection to coerce China into allowing the import of Opium are continuing to abuse force projection to this day.
The Competition and Markets Authority investigates Facebook's use of ad data
My argument is that because Facebook is huge and used by many Americans, there should be limits on what Facebook can do to its users.

Now I personally don't know what all of those limits should be. But I think there needs to be more open discussion from all corners of American society about that. I also think that the platforms should approach this problem with open arms.

As an example of one situation that needs to be limited is that a platform like Google is allowed to ban someone entirely from their services, with 1) no appeal to an independent party and 2) no ability to (quickly) recover data stored with that platform. Every so often, someone posts to HN saying that they lost all access to decades of email and photos because Google's algorithms banned them, and they have no idea how to talk to a human to explain or correct the situation. I think that kind of action from Google needs to be regulated out of existence.
Still returns the same (no results) for images, at least for me.
DDG image search “tank man” – no results found
Clerky (YC S11) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineers (Remote)
Indeed, Obama created a literal "Pandemic response team" and setup some useful stockpiles of materials that would be needed.

Trump threw it all away very early on.
I've been thinking about data-driven AI systems that generate art, photography and the like. One thing about these systems is that they are always learning from past works. They don't create in the same chaotic - as you say - way as we do.

Recognizing the limitation of these systems is key to be able to use them well and when not to use them.
There's a simulator if a homelab is too expensive
You forgot gait analysis [0] so remember to put a stone in your shoe.

What amazes me is how many people were worried about the distopian future of minority report [1] 20 years ago, yet (especially on HN) now it's here they welcome it. I guess Upton Sinclair was right: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

[0] https://blog.ansi.org/2018/05/gait-analysis-walk-biometric-i...

[1] https://medium.com/context/personalized-advertising-is-an-ox...
Two words: project JEDI.
There's a lot of corporate fraud like this, even in countries that have a reputation of being well governed.

I personally saw a respectable Finnish company leeching on government innovation funds, asking employees to log their working hours under a specific project. The kicker - nobody in Finland was working on that project, in reality it was developed in another country.
"This ruling is really confusing to me. So I feel like what Van Buren did is a massive abuse of authority and it warrants punishment."

The Supreme Court decision does not by itself exonerate Van Buren. It just remands the case to the lower court to decide again, taking into account the clarification of the CFAA's applicability. Van Buren could still be found guilty and punished, on other grounds.

Just because some action involves a computer (database) and does not violate the CFAA does not necessarily mean it will not trigger potential culpability or liability under other criminal or civil law.
Rock Picker Picks Up Investors on Road to Developing ‘Roomba for Rocks’
> Working class shoppers

That doesn't bother me. I'm not so elitist that I need to always be with people who are me same class as me.

What's more important is that the people catering to me make a living wage. Or, to put it differently, are comfortable with what they are paid without relying on government assistance?

The only kind of stores that I avoid because of the customers are liquor stores where half the drivers in the parking lot are drunk.
You walk a fine tightrope (and do it well).

I do not envy your role here in the slightest.
So I looked up the Vitamin A contents of Heinz ketchup and Kraft Singles (the highly processed "cheese" used in fast food cheeseburgers). Each say 2% RDV per serving, that's roughly 20mcg per serving.

I'm not sure below what level constitutes deficiency. Perhaps that small amount is enough.
Assuming the flight characteristics of the tic tac are as they've actually been reported by visuals (which is a big assumption), there is no way a random billionaire built these. Literally zero.
Wait… are you saying it’s the colonized indigenous peoples fault that they were exploited and oppressed by their oppressors?
Ignoring the proper use of "bare metal", you should review the pros/cons of deploying with Docker vs SCP.

Docker is helpful when you have a lot dependencies, or otherwise need to create a reproducible image (configuration, special directory structure, etc.) or when you want to control the process's resources (sandboxing).

Otherwise, because Go compiles into single binaries, if there's no other external dependencies/configuration to manage and you don't need process isolation/sandboxing, then Docker is just another moving part that adds complexity and could go wrong.
I believe China will become more democratic within a decade.

As China becomes wealthier, sustained growth will become more challenging. The low-hanging fruit of state-directed investments like infrastructure and manufacturing will have been plucked, and the country will need private capital and human capital formation for continued growth. Private capital and human capital have a tendency to migrate to the most hospitable locations, which are modern democratic nations -- places with independent courts that respect human rights and property rights; with independent media that allow the free discussion of interests, events, ethics, and information; and with governments that are responsive and accountable to the population's interests through elections. If China is seriously committed to growth (which appears to be the case), they will necessarily become more democratic.

So why do I think the transformation will happen within a decade? Not many authoritarian nations exceed their current GDP/capita (except for oil rich nations), so the transformation will need to happen soon to maintain growth.
In the original problem you start by assuming 4 equally-probable cases Bb Bg Gb Gg [1] and you ask a question. Depending on the answer you are in the Bb/Bg/Gb or the Gg subsets.

In your variant you need additional assumptions. Will the person always tell you the sex and name of the eldest? Or the names of the boys?

“Michael is a boy” is not really different from “the youngest is a boy”. The probability of both being boys depends on why are you being told that.

[1] Depending in the context the assumption may not be appropriate (a extreme example may be China).
Who knows. There’s another post/thread on that I believe. My assumption or guess is that Bing operates in China and whatever filter they use there made it to the outside system by accident. But then again, it's still like that now, which is surprising.
I've noticed wikipedia also seems to have censored the tiananmen square massacre to some degree.

If you look it up it is now referred to as the "tiananmen square protests", and contains none of the famous photos you might expect to see such as tank man.
8088ify: Intel 8080 CP/M 2.2 to Intel 8086/8088 IBM PC DOS assembly translator
Hey thanks for the bump !

I sometimes chime in on posts where OP makes a tool in the same domain as Run.

When I hit this article yesterday, the bash script convo hadn't started yet and I saw the OPs creation as not being in the same realm as Run, so didn't chime in.

But now that its been mentioned :)

Anyway I got a few extra subs from your call out, so thanks again for that!

(actually I just spent the last 30 mins reviewing 24 hours of HN posts to see where the call out might have come from, and finally found it :) -- Surprisingly google hasn't indexed this post yet so didn't show up in my saved search )
I hope it's OK I blogged about your project!

https://gameboy.blog/2021/06/04/good-read-pokegb-a-gameboy-e...
Also, if they are a landlord, the renter is paying their property tax, not them.
* in rats

Rats are pretty good models for humans, but they are a leaky abstraction like all models. Obviously no one is arguing junk food is good for you, but rats have rather different dietary and metabolic needs than humans. Both Homo sapiens and Rattus norvegicus are garbage disposals of the animal kingdom, but believe it or not humans are actually a little better equipped to handle extreme diets vs rats. Feeding lab rats ultra-high fat diets is pretty much guaranteed to result in obesity, insulin resistance, and all the problems that come with it, but Inuits and other groups have survived thousands of years with exactly such a diet for large parts of the year.

Also, rats are wicked smart and even the "human" conditions for lab rats are likely insufficiently stimulating physically and mentally.
I do the same thing (and by default each new tab opens in a new temporary container). I use Tree Style Tabs to be able to organize them. It's particularly nice with a wide-screen monitor, since vertical space is at a premium but there's extra horizontal space. It just makes more sense to use that for the tab bar. I do have userChrome.css to hide the main tab bar though.
ah whataboutism at is finest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I don't know, I still would prefer the way it is now to a paid service
Mesh: Compacting Memory Managementfor C/C++ Applications
I also believe that aggressive antitrust may address the concerns I raise.

But at the same time, I am sympathetic to arguments that aggregated platforms have efficiencies that are passed down to the everyday consumer, or network effects that make the platforms more competitive against similar platforms elsewhere in the world (e.g., data for training ML models).
This does not cover the joy of eg. connecting to multiple networks (different DNS settings) with separate interfaces.

Then you can hit DNS request hopping between servers too:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19209
I see the US and most Western countries as more individualist, liberal, democracies. China is more of an authoritarian, collectivist, technocrat model.

These models reflect moral as well as political beliefs. The models are also not compatible - meaning we can't be both and the more of one the less there is of the other. This is the sense in which we have conflicting views and are striving against one another to promote our ideology.
Chrome,Safari,Firefox,Edge browsers have banded together to improve extensions
As a Dutch citizen, I like my government to be consistent and not retroactively petty because of their own failings.
Surprise! /s

DDG is using Bing Search results!
You did! Cool.

Thanks.
Tank Man is scrubbed off the search engines? Bing [0] and DuckDuckGo [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27399017
Interesting! I made something related, a tool to show multiple Twitch VODs side-by-side in sync: https://github.com/remram44/twitch-vod-sync (though to be fair I really built it to learn React)

I like watching tournaments on VOD so I can skip the long setup times and the tool allows me to compensate for players with different delays set on their streams.
I mean, it's not about the engine, it's about the fact that it's a whole game.
GHC[1] is almost there >_<

[1]: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20210309-apple-m1-story.htm...
Should we have vouch for stories that haven't been marked flagged yet as well? I will search for HN's ranker formula but right now, it shows this story in 8th place to me. The upvote/time would put it on top, so I am guessing either most upvotes are old and there is a decay involved in ranker or it is also being flagged. It could also be an auto flame war detector pulling it down, HN has one based on upvote/comments of the post, I am not sure if there is one which considers voting within comments itself.
Those are traits of some Southern and Appalachian accents.
No, we're not. That wasn't the stated purpose of the research, and is deeply unlikely to have been a covert purpose either. What is the use of a "weapon" you can't aim?
What that sentence is saying is that, in their data, slow walkers (think people whose hips, knees, or back are impeding their ability to walk well) had the shortest life expectancy, and the lowest BMIs had the shortest of all. So if you're really frail and can barely walk, it doesn't bode well for you.
Every once in a while you hear an idea and are dumbfounded why didn't I think of that first?

Some farm land is rocky. A farmer plows the field and then has to manually pick rocks before planting. Otherwise the rocks would destroy their equipment. This is slow, hard and backbreaking work.

I will note that those who have forsaken plowing and use what's known as no-till farming do not have this problem. But this is still a huge market if the 'Roomba for rocks' is cost effective.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loZlyeXVxQA&t=3s
That doesn't really mean anything. Society benefits some, is to the detriment of others, and for most it's a mixed bag.
Bonzi Buddy
I'm vegan and think treating animals as tools is unethical, but I somewhat agree, how is this different from the treatment of any beast of burden, or god forbid, livestock? It seems so condescending to criticize people in less technologically advanced countries for using beasts of burden or livestock.

I'm not trying to shut down abstract debate or discussion on the issue of animal welfare/rights/liberation, but I do perceive a lack of context leading to condescending criticism of others living in tough circumstances where they literally can't trust the ground they stand on to not suddenly kill them.
> If I was given total control over your life and made you work for me, would you be ok with that so long as, according to me, I treated you well enough? I doubt it.

By definition, if you treat me well "enough", I'm already satisfied. That's a silly proposition.
I've used d-i with ubuntu since 6.10 and it just works.

Never managed to find a base pxe boot for autoinstall, but it's just one of the many straws

As I say, just one of the many reasons I'm trying to leave the tech industry, just like the unix greybeards were annoyed by young upstart linux people in the late 90s, these things are cyclical.
Wal*Mart, contrary to popular belief is paying $15 in many locations (as good as other chains).
Ha, I guess we'll see when I go for my next gig :-)
Who gets to call out the government of China on their bad acts without being a racist for doing so? Trump couldn't, but now that he's gone is it OK again?

I kinda wonder what the people of China think of this; on the one hand its their government and their mess; on the other it's hard to damn them as complicit for ignorance and apathy no worse than my own.
The lesson from history is that we don’t learn from history.
So they're paying a $100k fine for being late? And it turns out they can actually do this within a week?

If it was so easy, why didn't they just do it years ago? Did they have anything to gain from keeping this data secret?
If ruled the other way then basically everyone who works a desk job would be breaking the CFAA daily. Let me explain.

If an employer only allowed employees to use their work computers for work (I assume most do, at least officially) as soon as an employee does anything personal on it (checks FB, checks HN, etc) even if on lunch break, they have exceeded their authorization, broken the law under the CFAA, and face up to 10 years in prison.
A back yard lawn provides a nice flat, private space.

A front yard lawn is far more public, and typically smaller (so not useful for activities).

Plant a garden in front to actually make use of that space.
Oh I must have missed that, my bad.
> If you want a glorified shell script which runs commands

Give my Run tool a try:

Run: Easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers
https://github.com/TekWizely/run
The time when game sources were a major competitive advantage ended roughly around the start of the iPhone era, not just because of more source availability but also a shift towards cross-platform maintenance, live support, and high fidelity assets as the things that distinguish large productions.

Like, you still get "asset flip" games that copy default projects, but they are background noise. Having the source to something large like CDPR's games doesn't mean you have access to the studio infrastructure of CDPR.
It is same as usual, Deny, Delay and talk about Inclusion and diversity and Microsoft's needs to comply with local laws and blame fat fingers by some intern who was to be disciplined.

Then their General Counsel Brad Smith will write a blog post how half of America are deplorables and what we need to learn from China.
Man this comment give me PTSD from the early reddit days. If you read nothing else in this comment: You're doing a great job solving a hard problem, keep it up!

> well, the reason that's not done yet is because moderation takes 90% of my time, answering emails takes the other 90% of my time, and counteracting abuse takes the other 90% of my time.

So much this. There just isn't enough time with a small staff.

> Most haven't figured out that the above-board way to do that is simply to make interesting contributions

So much this too. This is what we always told people on reddit -- brands would ask us "how do I get more popular on reddit" and we tell them, "make interesting content".

> Almost everything that people think they're seeing about this is pure imagination and projection, entirely determined by the strong feelings that dominate high politics.

Same with all social media. People assume governments have heavy handed control of all content on social media, when in most cases the government couldn't care less. They focus on using propaganda to control individuals and then let those people make a mess of social media.

Your whole post resonates with my experience on the inside of moderating a big social media site and meeting with moderators of other big sites.

I'll be honest, at first I wasn't too keen on you moderation style, as I found it too heavy handed. But I take that back. HN doesn't cover everything I want to talk about (I go to reddit for the rest), but what it does cover, it covers better than reddit does.

So thank you, and I hope you get some more help with one of those 90% jobs!
The reals exist in nature in the same sense as, say, 𝜋 does (which occurs as the natural limit in a particular Monte Carlo experiment). The paradox that you mentioned is, rather, disconnected from our intuition, from which reality itself is, too, disconnected (if you think of quantum mechanics, for example).
That chatter is mostly from people outside the military, the military itself is not inclined to coup in the US. It goes against what it stands for, it's also almost guaranteed to fail in any meaningful sense. The military itself would become disbanded in the process and it would mean not just the end of the nation at the top (change from democratic republic to military authoritarianism) but a fracturing of the nation itself.

The chatter inside the military is mostly, "How stupid are those asshats that want a coup?"
Great response. At the same time, absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence. It seems improbable that nation states aren’t keenly interested in social media influence. It seems much more likely such efforts are undetectable.
Meet the new iPhone Air...
Goddess of Democracy – Tiananmen Square Statue
Ask HN: How do you build your personal brand?
Hello HN,

What are some effective practices on how to build an online presence and a strong personal brand
I am very skeptical about the implications of this take. You paint this as "big data companies are actively lobbying/threatening politicians to enact legislation helpful for big data using their big data troves." There are politicians who work in good faith and have non-controversial backgrounds who would not be liable to these blackmails and still don't work hard enough to enact legislation to protect citizens. This is not a big data conspiracy as much as lack of political willpower.
This comment was flagged, it's been unflagged.

It's quite amusing really. I've spent too long reading the reddit share conspiracy nuts to imagine dozens of bot farms attacking such trivial comments on such inconsequential sites as HN (which was about the only https site I could actually load last time I was in China) to suppress knowledge of Tiannaman Square amongst English speaking geeks (rather than the far more mundane excuse that people don't like meta threads)
APIs will surely be the way forward for new, larger scale solutions. However the number of legacy, written to be temporary but never replaced systems is just stunning and anything beyond manual data entry and shuffling is still like magic for _alot_ of business types, so I see the two co-existing for years and decades to come
All the ruling says is that he didn’t violate the CFAA. It doesn’t say anything about bribery laws, selling government information, etc

It is typical for a prosecution to include every charge possible. In this case they included the CFAA, and the Supreme Court said that particular charge was an invalid application of that particular law. It has no effect on any other charges, and no effect on any other laws.
I see this post has finally devolved into a discussion around using make as a task runner (it hadn't yet when I first read the article yesterday)

With that in mind, I toss my tool into the ring:

Run: Easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers
- https://github.com/TekWizely/run