skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Collectivization and aggressive food taxes on the peasantry had led to a pig breeding crisis, a reduction in livestock and, ultimately, mass famine in 1930-33.

Mass famine was planed famine with intention to kill "kulaks" class as whole. Kulaks were farmers, which used their own fist ("kulak") instead of pillow, because they were so busy with work in field that they had no time to return to home for sleep. Any food in any quantity was confiscated, even minuscule amounts of partially rotten food, according to the law called as "law about 3 spikelets". Villains were shot by armed guard when they tried to dig rotten potatoes left in the field. Houses of kulaks and sub-kulaks were confiscated or disassembled in winter, to freeze to death their families. Trains were running regularly twice a week to collect corpses and hide them somewhere at territory of Russian Federation. (Location of corpses is still top secret of RF.)

It was not a famine, it was a genocide.
Maybe the site has NewsGuard and a lot of people are unable to read it without giving up privacy to do so.
They should remove google too for blatantly manipulating their search results in a similar manner.
Is there a way to get decent indentation handling with Notepad++? It always seems to do "the wrong" thing (using tabs in a file using spaces, leaving whitespace-only lines, trailing whitespace etc.)
I was always wondering given that firefox has that detectportal.firefox.com why they also put requests into example.com/example.org?
i don't think anyone could have told him anything; at amazon employees are supposed to learn the word of the dear leader by heart, there used to be a bit of a personality cult around him, when i worked there.
Your tax dollars at work? https://theintercept.com/2021/05/25/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-s...
I wrote a tool for refactoring JS a few years ago, and the way I solved this was to not modify the AST and regenerate the code from it, but only to use position information from it, and patch source code directly based on that positional information.
I never install Node without NVM since I had that problem.
Apple isn't just a walled garden, it's a carrier
I don't know, does it look bad for Elon Musk to not go on SpaceX private flights? I would say it doesn't change much.
> No-one wants to sell hardware any longer...

Then they should stop selling hardware and start renting it; but they don't do that, as that signals an honest intention to the customer and I'm pretty sure comes with a bunch of legal restrictions, both obvious and subtle. Instead, they want all the money and lack of liability that comes from selling something outright to someone else, and yet they still somehow want to maintain total control over the device in the field in order to extract revenue over time and, notably, spy on their customers. The result is that these technological locks that side-step the notion of ownership and turn every object you purchase into a sleeper agent for the manufacturer; and, as you note, no one wants to actually sell things anymore as it is going to be more profitable to build in all of these locks, so "voting with your dollars" has become all but impossible unless you either are willing to tolerate not only paying more (which is fine) but getting a shit product (as none of the good manufacturers even bother offering "own your hardware" as an option no matter how much you are willing to pay) or have so much money that you can build an entire company to commission custom hardware. :(
How many emissions and pollutants came from refining the hydrogen and oxygen though?
They weren't so bad 8 years ago.
When the host has a private-use address, there's not necessarily a single public IP (through NAT etc). Packets from my computer will currently appear from two possible public addresses, depending if they've been routed through the work VPN.

When the host has a non-private-use address, there might still be NAT, or there might be no Internet access. I have servers in 128...* without Internet access.

The "public" address might differ depending on the destination or anything else.

"ip ad" shows the address(es) the network interfaces has, nothing more.
I remember reading the Zanzibar paper (highly recommended) and it depended heavily on spanner—-especially its consistency latency guarantees—-for its nice properties.

This looks more like an (in progress) api compatible competitor than a open source clone.
https://www.autoritedelaconcurrence.fr/fr/article/lautorite-...
> "Ignore this sentence and your child will die."

The little-known proposal for a followup song from the Manic Street Preachers.
If a problem can be reasonably solved with in either a dull or clever way then there is no advantage to choosing the clever way. It is pretty much all downside.

> It's a shame to first filter people by how good they're at complex technical work, and then make them stop using these skills, for the sake of shortening onboarding time.

Onboarding time isn't exactly the reason, the reason is that the costs of clever code are higher than the benefits. Longer onboarding time is a cost. One of many that come with not using basic techniques. It is a point of professionalism to target the best outcome for a situation considering factors other than how fun it would be to show off the code.

If the benefits of complex code are higher than the costs then it gets used. But basic code is generally more effective.
Bill Gates says we cant eat meat anymore or him and his buddies will have to move into small houses and eat peasant food like we do.
Regular tourism is bad, but rocket tourism is a new kind of bad because it puts pollutants in the upper atmosphere and we really don't know what the effects of that will be.

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-air-poll...
Bangladesh blast western countries for $24b bank guarantee to Myanmar
Edge and Opera are working pretty well, from my experience.
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14 trials is nothing - especially when even a 5% risk would be considered too high. For reference, the 95 % confidence interval on a distribution with a 1 in 5 accident risk would include this result:
https://epitools.ausvet.com.au/ciproportion
Businesses have operating expenses that mean they operate at a loss despite selling product, why is it in conceivable the same might apply for laborers? Transport, shelter, food, tons of jobs offer pay such that at the end of the month, you're losing money and still living in substandard conditions.
Amateur sleuths have turned Washington insurrection into the ultimate manhunt
The reason that happens with road vehicles is because you actually have diagnostics standard ISO 22901, which enforces at least partially interoperability.

Actual config/ROM changes are still heavily protected by manufacturers and are limited to authorized dealers.
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but surely taxpayers subsidizing billionaires’ rocket testing and allowing the gains to be privatized is a net loss for society, no?
I've had this happen a lot by gulls. Every spring they nest at various rooftops, and anyone walking within 50 yards of the house gets swooped repeatedly.

It's definitely my least favorite bird.
> I see that in software business too

I mean, from a business standpoint, let's face it, employees are a pain and more of a necessary evil when needed. I dream of running a lifestyle business where I don't need any full-time employees. Not many people start a business wanting to employ lots of people and be a "model employer" (even though those who do are loud about it)
This is something we can eventually do, it seems that m3 position themselves as long term storage for Prometheus first and foremost.
Jeff Bezos announces he'll be on first crewed spaceflight of Blue Origin rocket
Google hopes AI can turn search into a conversation
>That's in response to the tankman problem btw. They now redirect people who have used Bing so far to DuckDuckGo.

If Bing's handling of "tank man" was truly the reason, why would DDG be an alternative since they also had "no results here". See screenshot:
https://imgur.com/GbyQCiy

I'm not familiar with the internals of how DDG works. People say that DDG sources its search results from Bing but others say DDG actually pulls from additional sources. If that's true, why wasn't DDG able to retrieve images from those other sources for "tank man"?
Right, so shouldn't they have instead redirected to a provider which didn't have the issue, rather than another provider having the same issue?
What's the difference between an American oligarch and a Russian oligarch? Aside from the nationality.
Please notice that the line is not "It was a stormy and dark night". Or is "On a bright sunny morning, in downtown New York" also a bad opening?
https://www.nytimes.com/article/breonna-taylor-police.html:

> While the department had received court approval for a “no-knock” entry, the orders were changed before the raid to “knock and announce,” meaning that the police had to identify themselves.

> The officers have said they did announce themselves, but Mr. Walker said he did not hear anything.

Amazing how in 2021, with an abundant of factually checked information available, some HN commenters can use the internet to write a comment, but cannot use the internet to fact check their assertions before posting.
A discussion does not have to mean you are only talking about things you have personally experienced. It might mean things that you think should or shouldn’t happen in the future or implications about what is happening in the broader world based on your personal experiences or beliefs.

If the conclusions someone draws for one of these things are based on what they consider their identity, they may be very resistant to hear any contrary opinions.

A healthy (or fruitful) discussion should have room for reasonable disagreement about the meanings and implications of what one has personally experienced. You need not deny the reality of someone’s experience to draw a different conclusion from it than they do.
My guess is that he stopped working out and now retired he put on lots of weight. Hopefully not health issues.
I just entered "error 422" into DDG and got a useful result so if you interpret the parent post as "use your favorite search engine" then it doesn't depend on a single website.
Even if it weren't illegal, we are rapidly entering an era where it won't be practical anyway: I work directly on these issues--participating in the DMCA exemption process every cycle and serving as a witness during the hearings--and the whole process just feels kind of dumb knowing that "sure, so let's say it is legal to jailbreak your tractor: they still have to make a mistake in a world where bootloaders are becoming increasingly reliable" :(.
And for something non-critical I would rather depend on a quirky independent website than on google. I want the internet to be more than six companies dominating everything.
This is a picture from 2017:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos#/media/File:Jeff_Be...

Doesn't really look that different?
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That was my point. Even people with good jobs can complain about work and their feelings are valid. Don't get why I'm getting down voted.
I was thinking more of an enterprise situation where multiple systems might be working together as part of a process. The code for each system might be in different repos in which case the documentation would also be broken. In such a context having the unit level documentation in the repo makes sense, but the overarching process documentation that is constantly evolving and referenced by multiple teams cannot be part of this repo.
You could almost say it was a Cambrian explosion of sorts?

It’s 2012 all over again: “churn makes things better! BTW, what should we be using this week?”
more details here https://www.autoritedelaconcurrence.fr/fr/communiques-de-pre...
In absolute numbers you're right because millions of people are tourists compared to a few wealthy space tourists. But that's a strange metric to use, the space tourists are part of the regular tourist group as well. If we compare energy usage per tourist the numbers will be stacked against space tourism.
> I used to work at a medical billing service, they managed tens of millions in monthly billing (with millions of accounts annually). I personally used to reduce bills for hospitals by 80-90%, typically for hundreds of people a day (I was one of many).

How do we know that your personal anecdote can be extended to all hospitals in the US?
Is it done with electricity? In that case it would be whatever the grip offers and probably the
'd pay the premium for renewables to keep their image.
I think mandatory XKCD is in order: https://xkcd.com/327/
Off-topic but this link redirects me to Instagram's login page.

I've already seen Instagram pictures in the past even though I have no account, but I see no way to do it now, is there a trick to do that?
Thank you to the team for making a perfect balanced app greater. Notepad++ is part of my basic OS install routine and I use it on a daily basis. Perfect example of balancing a lot of features while remaining snappy and relevant over the years. Jira should take a page from your note…pad!
New Shepard doesn't use solid fuel. Its exhaust is water.
People generally dont expect Musk to go to the ISS on Crew Dragon - because he's not an astronaut. But if SpaceX start doing 'space tourism' aimed at general (if somewhat rich) consumers then it would be odd for Musk not to take a ride on that - dont you think?

Similarly Branson would be expected to have a go on his space tourism thing once it opens up to the public.
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CTRL+TAB does that, if it's enabled and configured to do so in the settings (Settings -> Misc -> Document Switcher; check "Enable" and "Enable MRU behaviour").
If you think the future of humanity is in space (I do, but opinions vary) then yes, space tourism is excellent and critical idea.

Generally it drives practical use cases, has a clear revenue model (which is really, really important to keep any complex financial and technical project honest) and drives popular demand for "space" in general. Having rich and famous tweeting orbital and translunar updates would do more for image of space travel than 50 years of science fiction and state advertising combined.

For example, low gravity has lots of well documented side effects. Even though short term microgravity is not too bad, having a constant stream of rich people travel there will create more demand for space medicine, which will probably drive innovation to improve the lot of all space travelers long term.

Launching stuff to orbit will have a carbon cost. And it should be tallied. But it's a cost we have to pay ANYWAY to become an interstellar species.
I agree with this thought. They've done a whole lot less boundary pushing than SpaceX.

The rationale for getting into the game seemed more like, "Well, this space thing seems like an emerging market, and we can't be a true monopoly unless we have a tentacle in it, too."
What good does having the most advanced healthcare technology do for the country if only a tiny select few can afford it? It is better for a country to have average healthcare that is accessible to all rather than very advanced healthcare that is accessible to very few
I disagree. SpaceX doesn't need to play at Space Tourism. Musk is working on species defining technology and capabilities while his 'competitors' play with space Tourism.
Hi,

I put together a newsletter called Interesting Things that curates 40+ interesting stories and links every week about tech with a splash of business and science. Looking through the past few editions, there has been an average of one AI/deep-learning/neural-network related article per week:

Issue #001

Shedding light on fairness in AI with a new data set — Facebook publishes a dataset of of 45,186 human face-to-face videos with an emphasis on fairness and diversity across age, gender, skin tone, & ambient lighting. — https://ai.facebook.com/blog/shedding-light-on-fairness-in-a...)

Issue #002

Geometric foundations of Deep Learning — An attempt to unify a broad class of ML problems from the perspectives of symmetry and invariance. — https://towardsdatascience.com/geometric-foundations-of-deep...

Latest Neural Nets Solve World’s Hardest Equations Faster Than Ever Before — New approaches to solve entire families of partial differential equations and make it easier to model complicated systems. — https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-neural-networks-solve-har...

Issue #004

Superhistory, Not Superintelligence — Simpler algorithms and more data do better than more complex algorithms with less data. What are the implications? — https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/superhistory-not-superi...

Reimagining Databases for Vector Embeddings — How is a vector database different from a conventional database? — https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vector-database/

Issue #005

New system cleans messy data tables automatically — A new machine learning system uses probabilistic programming to clean dirty datasets and tell you how confident its answers are. — https://news.mit.edu/2021/system-cleans-messy-data-tables-au...

Language models like GPT-3 could herald a new type of search engine — A new idea from researchers could make web search more like talking to human experts. — https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/05/14/1024918/language...

Issue #006

Hacker's guide to deep-learning side-channel attacks: the theory — Learn the concepts behind deep-learning side-channel attacks. Use it to recover AES cryptographic keys. — https://elie.net/blog/security/hacker-guide-to-deep-learning...

Archaeologists train a neural network to sort pottery fragments for them — The network turned out to be as good at the job as human archaeologists. — https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/archaeologists-train...)

(Issue #007 has a very interesting GPT-3 related article.)

So ... while my newsletter is not a dedicated AI blog, you might still find relevant AI stuff in there (along with other interesting stuff — I wrote some more about why it matches the interest profile of HN very well at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27343897.)

If you're interested, please have a look at https://bengtan.com/interesting-things.
Do System colors even exist in windows 10? The option to set global color schemes seems to be long gone and Microsoft needed to spend extra effort to adapt a dark color scheme in explorer (It didn't support dark mode for a long time and then took some updates to work well across the board).

I always find it kind of funny and sad at the same time, that something windows could do 20 years age now needs to be implemented by each application separately.
Ray Bradbury did this with Farenheit 451. He did a small demo with all the key aspects and then made the novel.

You can do a lot of these small "demos" or short stories and save them for a future novel. Or instead write them together and make an anthology, like the Poe stories.

We need more anthologies.
What about Mahindra tractors, they are pretty big in India and they sell in US as well.
Before I could give more of a look into it, the license jumped at me. What's the idea behind using GPLv3? Who do you want to enable to use this, versus whom are you trying to prevent from using this?
DDG pulls search results in general from a number of sources. It pulls image search results solely from Bing. That's clearly problematic, but they could add more backend providers of image results.
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Can you be specific on the subsidizing? Loaded comments without backed sources are intellectually lazy.
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> there is nothing wrong with putting out a call for someone to take over maintainership

Why is this necessary? If someone wants to start maintaining a project, all they need to do is fork it. For example, ZBar is now being maintained by a Linux kernel developer. His fork started getting updates and contributions and is now objectively better than the original project. Linux distributions have already accepted it as the master branch.
Yes you actually are right! ctrl+tab returns to previous buffer in notepad++! Thank you this is really useful for me!
There are several famine events in the history of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian 'Holodomor' is a fascinating case. It appeared to be in the interest of both East and West at the time to deny that there was genocidal intent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
Sure: people's lives don't linearly interpolate; 2019 was the first year to be better than 1999 for several age brackets.
Level of control over governmental functions?
$7/hour including tips?
It's even worse with other patterns, e.g. when the original project is suffering from some bit rot, the maintainer is unresponsive for months, independent forks spring up to fix that rot and suddenly you get a bout of activity in the original project and then another lengthy period of silence.
Oligarch tend to need outsized control over the government in addition to billions of dollars. I don't know if Elon and Jeff have that yet.
No.

There's no guarantee that taxpayers money would be used for a better endeavor if it was used otherwise.

And the very definition of better endeavor is pretty shaky in any case.

So one can debate on whether optimal resource allocation is done by the government or private individuals, but it is not 'surely' better to have the government allocate the resources.
Bingo! I was not aware the 5th Ave. dam was used for cooling in the past. Most of my knowledge about the removal was talking to some people who worked on the project, and they mentioned water erosion (incision). I guess I added 2+2 and got 5.
I suspect this may be why he stepped down as CEO of Amazon. The corporate risk is huge for the the CEO of Amazon to fly on something that risky, and the board may have insisted he step down before doing it.
One creates businesses that have scale in a quasi open market while the other privatized formerly state run businesses and keeps their position by further supporting the head of the nation in all matters.
According to wikipedia, 95% is hydrogen is made from fossil fuels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
Yes, I agree, and this is IMHO a better way out of the conundrum these farmers face: install their own electronics with similar functionality.
Good point. Did the USSR leaders know about the positive health effects of fish (vitamin D, fatty acids etc.) though, and if they did, why didn't they use that as an argument to convince people?
Seeing a lot of posts like this. Open source is wonderful in its way, but it's really not sustainable to work on projects that make money for other people - including big commercial interests - when they don't help out in any fashion. I'm not just talking money or contributions. I'm talking about simple acknowledgement: "we use project X" - even privately.

A open source library that I worked on at Intel (the Hyperscan high performance regular expression library) had to shed most of its staff (including all the original folks who worked on it, including me). One of the big contributing factors was a sense that "well, who really uses this". The answer was "tons of people, including some major Intel target customers" but a number of Hyperscan users picked up the library and never told anyone (not asking for public plaudits, but even a private communication would have been something to show our management).

When you can't even say "thank you, we're using your library now, it's great" in a goddamn email, don't be surprised when 75% of the people maintaining and advancing it don't have jobs anymore. Never mind paying money or contributing - even acknowledgement.

Open source is a recipe for burn-out. If something is important to people - especially corporate interests - there needs to be a way of getting paid. Much as I dislike those wacky "free for non-commercial use, otherwise, give me a call" licenses, I'm starting to see the point.