skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fine.

At least it cannot be that bad, can it, when we go to bed each night just worrying how we are going to sell meaningless products before meaningless deadlines to customers who do not even need them instead of putting our efforts into fixing our effing planet so our descendants will have a nice place to live in. Good night for now.
https://t.me/vlang_memes/460
Evolution is insanely slow and it will take a while for our bodies to catch up to us but it is a constant force that you're never "beyond". The only thing that might count as an end is detaching ourselves from the phsyical bodies that facilitate natural evolution (i.e. ascending to beings of pure energy or whatever) - and even in that case, we'd probably still constantly tweak and improve our existence, we just will have moved beyond natural evolution.

I think there's a thought that eugenics was a natural evolution of evolution[1] - and, as a society, we generally find that rather repulsive and don't do it... But just because we're aware of ways we can artificially speed up the process doesn't mean the process isn't continuing.

1. It's a thought, or conception - this isn't me endorsing eugenics in any way. I just believe that, mechanically, it could achieve a similar result just accelerated and with a lot of really important moral questions.
I only discovered you folks in the last 6 months or so but your “Go Time” podcast is regularly one of the most enjoyable technical podcasts i listen to. I don’t actually write much go, but i just enjoy the show.

The recent changelog SRE episode discussing your latest infra improvements was pretty cool too.

I wonder if you’re considering adding more programming languages to your network since you seem to have cracked the format better than any others in my feed?
That seems awfully disingenuous. The rest of my post is why i consider it slightly scammy. A lot of buzz with less substance than promised and no actual commitments to the devs they're also advertising too that will inevitably be the ones that support the playdate in the long term.
> People opted in to that. You don't opt in to the water pipe monopoly.

I accept this argument for social media, but I don't think I do for online identities that are tightly integrated into financial and government services.

I happen to be sufficiently positioned to cause a big stink if Google arbitrarily bans my GSuite account; the average person probably isn't, and would have to spend weeks reidentifying themselves to essential services (my power bill goes through my email!) to ensure that their material welfare isn't disrupted. Is that acceptable?
Maybe. But imagine

>enables transparency between workers and employers in wage bargaining.
Except it's actually not that easy. Most of the web uses google analytics, so its unavoidable when you visit a website. Most of the web's emails are routed through google; I remember reading a post about a guy who set up his own SMTP server and everything, but then realised that everyone he was contacting was using gmail anyway (can't find the post). Every time you see an add that's served by google, that means that there's a google embed in the page your looking at. Also, what alternative is there for YouTube? there isn't a realistic competitor. If you have an android phone (most of the world does) you're forced to use google play services.
In today's world, they're unavoidable. That being said, making them a public utility is a bit forward...
But what do you think about him borrowing money using his "worthless" stock as collateral?

Clearly the increase in stock price is valuable to banks. So why not the IRS?
> the Republican rebrand to be the people's party again

Or at least the party of some people. If they thought they had the majority on their side, they wouldn't be afraid of the popular vote, or need to gerrymander every map they get their hands on.
From the phalanx wiki:

Whereas naval Phalanx systems fire tungsten armor-piercing rounds, the C-RAM uses the 20–mm HEIT-SD (High-Explosive Incendiary Tracer, Self-Destruct) ammunition, originally developed for the M163 Vulcan Air Defense System.[26][34] These rounds explode on impact with the target, or on tracer burnout, thereby greatly reducing the risk of collateral damage from rounds that fail to hit their target.

Not that the risk is zero, but at least it's "greatly reduced".
Nature does not match her challenges to our abilities. There’s no reason to expect this to be fair.

It’s definitely not the kind of thing where I would engage in hand wringing over human stupidity. It sucks and it’s unfair, but it’s the situation we have to deal with.
Moreso than the death penalty, in your opinion?
A phone number is less of a problem as you have portability. Or you can have it. In the UK for example, regulation means that you can automatically transfer your number between providers at no cost. It's a painless process.

That's going to be a lot more difficult when your email address is tied to a certain domain, like gmail. I think there has to be a different kind of solution there, that is more accessible to the layman than setting up your own domain and dealing with MX records and stuff.
I couldn't find anything from The Matrix or Ghostbusters
The reader presumably already knows what courage is, and does not need to be taught that. Rather, Socrates/Plato probably intended to guide us toward the eternal Form of courage. Laches' approach would indeed be better for teaching a neural net, but neural nets are not Socrates'/Plato's intended audience.
Apple’s new ShazamKit brings audio recognition to apps
As someone not familiar with "Seasteading," this was a very confusing site visit.

I couldn't understand if the "game" took place on a cruise ship, or what the objective of the game was. At first, I thought this might have been an in-person LARP-style event at sea (which sounded interesting), but after reading the commentary here, I think it's just a way to promote their actual Seasteading fantasy.
I guess one could mandate cameras / ultrasound front sensors for these kind of vehicles where visibility is really bad.
What are you using for JS whitelisting? I used to used uMatrix before it died.
Not only did this project make a lot of false claims about itself but also other existing programming languages. This included Nim (which I am one of the core devs on).

It’s rather sad to see people get roped in by these claims. This project is a true example of how far pushing false promises and lies can get you and it makes me a bit sad about the world.
For non-major-languages subtitles, they use (mostly) machine translation. For major languages, they use people.
Lol if i have a paint which value fluctuate every year i should pay taxes or receive credits according to this article.. same for car , house.. incredibly ingenuous article ... Why stop here.. My qi could have a potential value if i do a test and get a high score i should pay taxes ? Stocks or growing company shares should not pay taxes until you sold them because you didn't benefit from those until you sell them, if you decide to give your shares to your employees when you die.. and you die poor because your annual income was low and you never sold more shares than you needed why you should pay billion in taxes if the company is worth billions (or was worth billions at certain point in time ) ? This kind of tax system proposed may cause company fail because shares owners may be forced to sell shares to pay taxes on shares just because those.. shares exists .. absurd.. when the company pay taxes and you pay taxes on what you take and also pay vat and other taxes on what you spend ? Very ingenuous article imo taxes should not be avoided and should be equal, but should be on money you receive it spend not on some assets that grown in value ( btw note that indeed something like houses and cars often have some kind of taxes already recalculated on current value ) but this is a different type of tax based on usage and owning something that require maintenance (ie: city, roads,...)
But why limit at public companies if i have a company which is losing money and have 10k shares and i sell one share to you at 1k because you believe in it , this same year i should pay money on 10mil$ because iphotetical value of the company based on recent sale was 10mil ? And my net worth is now 10mil?
I do not understand why HN allows submissions that require a subscription in order to be read.
I'd rather they target the ISPs first, personally. I realize it's not zero-sum.
Ask HN: What is the best tool to infer data type of tabular data?
Hi HN, I am looking for the most accurate tool which I can use to infer Data Types from Tabular data (csv,tsv,excel)

I need to be able to perform some small customization, if possible, to the detection algorithm. For example if I have a 9 digit number, starting with 0, then treat it as a String.

So far - I have found Frictionless Framework [0] which seems good, but I can't see any way of specifying customizations to the profiling algorithm, and Data Profiler [1] which uses ML for type detection, and it seems I should be able to train some new rules but I need a CUDA capable machine, which at the moment I do not have.

Hoping the collective HN brain can point me to something better if it exists.

[0] - https://framework.frictionlessdata.io/
[1] - https://github.com/capitalone/DataProfiler
I'd lean into this. Instead of trying to defend Google as not being a utility we should be calling for utility regulation for both web services as well as residential access providers.
The problem is that the Republicans trying to declare tech companies "common carriers" pretty much lied through their teeth 4 years ago when they argued that ISPs are absolutely not common carriers, in opposition of overwhelming popular opinion to the contrary.
You can do this with either:

1. depends_on = ...
2. implicit dependency, ie reference some cluster property in your deployment, which causes the same behavior as depends_on
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One instance of a single state showing teeth means nothing about the strength of our federal government which matters much more here.

How is Google a natural monopoly?
Just in case Georgism is unfamiliar to folks here's a pretty good historical run down of the game[1]. I wanted to highlight that monopoly was very much intended to highlight the capricious and arbitrary nature of capitalism - rather than being an endorsement of using cut throat tactics to race to the top. I feel like the meaning the game has has undergone a significant shift societally.

1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/monopoly-was-des...
I understood that, but what is it a metaphor for?
I’m disappointed to hear Firefox is deteriorating daily.

I disagree about DDG’s search quality. I tried it for six months and that was not my experience. Eventually went back to Google.
Perl was extremely popular 20+ years ago in biology; I made the jump from the lab bench to bioinformatics with Perl and Bioperl (https://bioperl.org/).
But, after a while I discovered Ruby, and later Python, and moved on, also switching to other fields.
The presence of Perl and a "proper" terminal on Mac OS X back then was a big draw in encouraging bioinformaticians to use it (well, that is my recollection, anyway).
This is serious. I'm sure that this will have and is likely already having some serious impact on humans that we don't know much about despite what the studies claim.
ISPs don't abuse their power like Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. do.
I think you're making a category error in your analogy.

DuckDuckGo is much more like Google than "dig a well" is like municipal water.
“Ohioans simply don't want the government to run Google like a gas or electric company. We can prove this based on your search history and emails!”
And yet I had to pay tax for exercising stock options from a startup I left, stocks I was never allowed to sell since the company was private.
Facebook discovered that in their data centers heavy usage of SSE instructions caused overheating that broke the chips. It was happening frequently. Source: I worked at Facebook.
The ground there sporadically goes on fire, completely naturally. So it might not be an "ideal" location for atmospheric purity.
Our experience of building a provider: performance is fast with fast APIs, and slow with slow APIs. Haven't observed any of the core diffing, DAG, or apply scheduling to be problematic (but also haven't tried an apply at extremely high - 10^4? 10^5? - resource count)
it doesn't, unless a workaround exists. put it through archive.is to read: https://archive.is/aoUvm
If you want visibility(spoiler: it's just API calls), try using `TF_LOG=DEBUG terraform <foo>`. You might also want to set `-parallelism=1` or you'll be treated to statements printing in an order you are not expecting.
Now try advertising your business while avoiding Google. Keep in mind that if you don't buy ads under your Company's Name from Google, Google will allow your competitors to buy those placements and make them the top results anyone searching your company on Google will see.
Mauna Loa is not indoors.
Not long ago for work I was forced to use office365. It has collaborative editing feature that at the surface looks equivalent to Google docs, but in practice it's not: it wasn't reliable, I lost some edits a few times and even when it worked it was slow and sluggish (I knew that because I could see another person's shared screen in zoom), and it actually co-editing a file definitely felt a different experience.

The relevant bit your comment is: while most people indeed testified that the experience was not as good as Google docs, it wasn't that terrible to most of the people.

Turns out that it really depends how well you're connected.

Being connected 99.9% sucks more if that 0.1% is a crappy connection that drops packets occasionally as opposed to just saying "I'm online most of the time, I don't care if I need to edit the doc that rare 0.1% of the time when my connection is broken for good)
It’s also a weird critical theory piece basically arguing that what we think of as time is colonialism.
But that concept of common carrier implicitly assumes that carrying for party X doesn't harm party Y. You can put a lot of stuff on a train, and if you need to you can run a lot of trains. Shipping is non-rivalous or whatever the economics term is.

But Ohio is pointing out that _ranking_ of results in response to a search (e.g. for flights) is giving preferential placement for Google's own offerings. And only one thing can be shown at the top of the page for "flights to chicago" or whatever. Ranking kind of intrinsically means rivalry.

And further, the common carrier idea is based around serving any customer that pays a posted rate. But the point of search results (as versus ads) is that it's not supposed to be the case that sites need to pay a fee to appear anywhere in the rankings.

I think maybe if the existing laws and categories don't describe this situation well, then we should make new laws and categories.
It occurs to me that I don't have an exhaustive list of all of the accounts that I've signed up to over the years with my email address.

If I'm banned by my provider, I won't have any recourse for many of them except to discover at some point in the future that I've missed an important alert, billing statement, or notice of action. And that's even before I know that I need to go to a physical location or mail in some kind of identification!
The FDA.
They did name the boolean expression; they named it `is_unique`. It's a poor name, but that's a different argument.
The weird mix of emails/phone numbers, which isn't obvious to merge/fix. It's an Apple product, I expect more.

Ringing: because I have three Apple devices (MBA, MBP, iPad) and it doesn't automatically ring on the device I'm using. Again, that would be fine for someone else, but I expect more from Apple.

It's like I don't get mad if a junior developer in my team makes a mess in PHP, but I would if a senior did. I have the same feeling for Apple vs MS/Facebook et al. Apple have shown that they can do awesome (the entire Macbook experience, the wifi, instant sleep which alway works.. fantastic hardware) so it hurts when they don't live up to their high standards.
>Plenty of great people have made lackluster things

What's something lackluster that Panic has made? They certainly have had misses, but it wasn't because of the quality of the product or attention to detail. They've got a better track record than just about any dev shop.

Here's the original pitch, to give you a sense of what their motives were for making it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190523042100/https://play.date...
Great point. I can't imagine paying for water, and then having the pipe company ban me, and having no recourse.
Dynamo lamps have been around for decades if not longer, but they make biking less fun. Output isn't too great either at 6V/3W that seems to be typical. Though it can be bought for cheap 5€ to 36€...
Shielding might end up warming up and frying device with heat
Yes. We don't have to wonder; we have a supplements industry to show us what happens.
With tech (from search to ISPs) there are monopolies. Do they break them up or regulate them like utilities or something else? Our politicians are starting to tackle some real issues and we'll have to see how this shakes out.
The other Co-host of The Changelog here...

If you liked that SRE style show on our infra, then you'll love the new show we just launched called Ship It - https://changelog.com/shipit

We are open to more camps and languages, bur we're very focused on sustainable expansion. What camps/langs did you have in mind?
agreed. before terraform the alternatives were terrible. remember cloudformation? never again. I'd rather use good patterns around Terraform design than ever go back.
> Nice video—are those all tracers though?

Well, it's video game footage (ARMA 3, according to the title).
I believe your local public library should be able to provide this, even though it probably doesn't at present.
> It's like a tourism economy but more exploitative - but you're the exploiter here so you're winning.

Great, let's stop exploiting them and deport them all immediately, as the law indicates should happen.

> Adding people to an economy does not take your job or even really compete for it, because immigrants are customers. That is the lump of labor fallacy.

Yes it does. Adding workers to a worker pool drives wages down. Illegal aliens are not customers of landscaping, construction, restaurants, hotels, housekeeping, etc. They aren't adding any demand here, they are only increasing supply and thus pushing wages down for low-skilled citizens and LEGAL immigrants. Your labor theories don't hold up to reality.

> It can also add housing because they're usually people who are better at construction labor than you are.

Illegal aliens aren't sitting there building homes from scratch on plots of land they purchase. They are most often renting, which again, drives rents up because of increased competition for resources.
> But others seem to be capable of much more adaptive behaviors.

Examples? I'm really interested for finding at least one example of complex intelligent behavior of insects (that is actually studied and not just conjecture).
It's very possible to pay more taxes while married. Two high income people getting married will very often face a large "marriage penalty".

It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of when I first looked into taxes when thinking about getting married. We seriously thought about not getting married on paper because of it.
Limitations of a Lone Wolf (2019)
Microsoft Patches Six Zero-Day Security Holes
This may not be the most constructive comment on HN, but my initial reaction to this kind of comment is often:

It is what it is; mother nature doesn't give a fuck about us and never will. Preventing climate change would be incredibly painful, as is letting it happen.
Medicare would indeed pay close to that price. Medicaid would see a rebate but would still be on the hook for roughly 75% of the list price initially.
Quite a few successful startups have been launched using Clojure, does anyone maintain a list? CircleCI, Roam Research, Roomkey, Vouch.io and pitch.com come to mind
Speaking as someone who's built and destroyed lots of homebuilt aircraft, and shot lots of things with guns of various sizes...

1. I think you're conflating "cheap agile drone" with "foam or balsa+durakote fixed wing aircraft".

2. Probable engagement aspect for a drone is not "straight up", as would be necessary for your scenario.

3. A little itty bitty hole in a wing does a whole lot more than you'd think.

4. Expecting a high velocity cannon round to just punch a clean hole in the wing is a little much.

Foam's a bit more robust, but a small pebble at a few miles per hour has wrecked my whole durakote day before.

And yes, there's degenerate cases, like you could have a whole sheet of dollar tree foam board maybe take a hit or two.
Indeed. I still have a Google account but the I don’t remember the last time I signed in with it.
Yes you can... assuming your config is a map, include a key for "provider", and set it appropriately. EG in your example for multiple AWS accounts, define providers aliased as `aws.account1`, `aws.account2`, and so on. Reference those provider aliases in your map you are iterating through, and set the provider to that value.
You can buy a handheld that plays all 16-bit games, GBA games, mame, etc. for under $50.
I do a lot of spearfishing. It's very obvious when hunting that creatures like fish are a lot more intelligent than one would expect without those experiences. Until you are in their environment trying to carry out similar tasks their behaviors are just not legible to our understanding.

I struggle with whether to call the behavior I see consciousness since I can't really come up with a good definition. The best I can think of makes a lot of assumptions about how much of our own behavior we actually control and perceive... which isn't exactly an objective truth.
The Hansa of the Baltic sea had their income from monopolizing trade routes across the sea.

Freeport-type cities in the 1600s Carribean were parasitical on surrounding societies by enabling and profiting from piracy.

What are the citizens of your modern distributed platform society going to live off?
Everything but the Stench: Marie-Marguerite Biheron, Expert Anatomist
They seem very efficient at marketing; the product seems very recognisable, polarising and there have been many previous discussions [1] here already.

That being said, there's something that I don't like in this kind of marketing. To me it looks very unsubstantial and repetitive.

I guess one factor here is the price; for $179 it seems a luxury item and perhaps it's easier to believe that its flaws and unknowns are quirks or features; and that they're not worth mentioning.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27440015
I'm more referring to the nature of the proposed solution as being extreme. Calling for shutdowns greater than 2020 is the sledgehammer to society approach.

Are we really so against the wall that we cannot come up with something better than the economically suicidal shutdowns?
Personally I am far more interested in Snapdragon 845 devices possibly starting to run mainline Linux this year.

Alas probably the majority of the devices, even if kernel drivers do get good, will probably forever be stuck with locked bootloaders & their obsolete, radically insecure operating systems. This chip is from 2017, and pretty soon, most of these devices will be good only for land fills or e-recycling.
Look at Bitcoin and despair. The frogs have decided that those nifty bubbles in the water are actually money and are excitedly turning up the heat.
Well that does sound like it will make the game more interesting, though... Maybe all they need is a psychedelic-mushroom-inhaling plumber experienced in dealing with death traps?
One correction: they (the rich) are following the laws they have enacted. An average Joe can't bribe senators (sorry, I meant donate to their campaign), talk to them privately and get the desired law enacted.