skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeeaaaah, that is definitely hitting uncanny valley territory for me. Thing is, some of the comments it's making in other threads seem pretty germane, while others are really bizarre.

Is there a hacker news equivalent of the ole shoe on head test? I'm curious if there is someone adding real comments sporadically to throw folks off.
a lot of use of MutationObservers to deal with re-rendering, & writing capture-phase event-listeners that modify events (or dispatch your own) rather than directly modifying form elements.

react is really an extremely difficult frustrating experience to hack up. really quite aggravating to modify. even with dev tools, react is still a huge anti-agency-stick in the mud & it's quite sad what a drain it is on the web.
I feel strongly that non-commercial scraping should be protected.

I think commercial scraping should probably be allowed, but there should be some sort of mandatory maximum retention limit, so deleted (or updated access controls on) content eventually ages out (or gets transferred to a non-commercial custodian for archival purposes).
So eventually we'll get to the point where people say things like: "I'm only running a dual guinea setup. I can't wait to upgrade to an octo-guinea for HD perceptual transfer."

And

"I can't believe some people go direct brain to brain. Without a guinea buffer you open yourself up to all kinds attacks. Who wants to risk having their sense of taste ransomwared? Sure there's ethical issues with guinea arrays, but better their synapses get fried than than mine."
Are we talking dozens of meetings about the name? Probably more like hundreds.
For the purpose of this question, you might search for pre-trained models that predict what you want to predict, and use them.

https://modelzoo.co/

https://github.com/tensorflow/models

https://cv.gluon.ai/model_zoo/index.html

If there are no pre-trained models, you could take a look at fast.ai courses:

https://course18.fast.ai/ml.html (for Machine Learning (ML))

https://www.fast.ai (for others "DL" (Deep Learning))

This courses is targeted towards programmers, and they dive right into the code to use ML (train models and use them) with Jupyter notebooks. They also have a book whose notebooks are here: https://github.com/fastai/fastbook

If you have some maths background (high-school, or first year university), check out Stanford's CS229 with Andrew Ng:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rMiGQp3WXSh...

I think it's better than the Coursera version because he uses the board (whiteboard in 2018, blackboard in 2008-ish version)
NOAA Weather Radio Outages
Is this (https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/) the one? I hadn’t heard of this before but it looks excellent. In your view, if I may, what makes this an authoritative source?
If you aren't government regulated, I'm not giving you my ID.
It was hiq that sued linkedin
I always love the phrase "live like a king" like it's some unachievable amount of luxury, when historically it's:

- Mental illness.

- Uncomfortable amounts of stone. Feeling trapped by the system.

- The constant paranoid fear of other people who kind of want you dead.

- Shitting in pots.

It's pretty easy to live like a king in the US, just be homeless.
Why I won't order dairy/produce/meats/frozen food online: while I'm shopping I'll often see a stack of order boxes with perishable and frozen items slowly saunter through the non-perishable isles - either the picker is ignoring the process, or there isn't one!

Plus, I always check to ensure I pickup the longest expiration date possible... pickers I would imagine would do the opposite (i.e. get rid of the store's oldest stock first).
If what you are feeling is that scraping for commercial purposes feels "unfair," that is because if it is not allowed it traditionally falls within a legal cause of action commonly called "unfair competition." In the same vein as trade secret theft. So the law does square that circle, but the line drawn is a fuzzy gray one. Its unfair to free ride off a competitor, but yet some kinds of actions that look like free riding are in fact allowed.
The problem is that you can't push policies that force investors of any size, individual or institutional to make bad investments because the alternative to investing in poor yield or overvaluation might be punitive. But that's precisely the duality of the US market right now.

If we had policies in place that basically eroded people's capital and they just had to deal with it because the market was overvalued or yields were so low they're below inflation, you do nothing to uphold the confidence of investors.

At that point, they'd literally be better off divesting from the US market and lifting up foreign markets than dealing with a reduction in effective capital from inflationary forces.

You'd just be encouraging empowering other nations, and we already do plenty of that by offshoring labor and making it more difficult for us to to pay off debts by removing the flow of capital locally.
Isn't it just a bit of paper, or electronic equivalent, sitting around? It doesn't do anything. I JPMorgan "invested it", then it would just be sitting around somewhere else, since the total amount of cash in the system is controlled by the Federal Reserve or Treasury.
You can walk around the store and 'see' whatever you want, but if you start recording prices and taking pictures, they may ask you to leave.

I wonder if there's some relevant precedent there.
Well...they're not shutting down the servers. Just wiping the registrations and starting anew: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27510192
yeah, this is the killer for me as ultimately "primary" storage for things like my photos is too important to entrust with company that thinks I am so unimportant they wont lift up the phone to help me if all my data went poof. And since that regularly happens (accounts getting disabled / locked due to random reasons) its not a theoretical.

It means google is reduced for me to only being used for "casual" things as a primary store or secondary backup for other things - but those are specifically what I won't pay for (at least, not much) ...
>In order to avoid this issue, ACME requires your web server to communicate with an external service provider to sign the certificate. But now you're dependent on Lets Encrypt being able to access your server!

Only if you're using the HTTP challenge, the DNS challenge is (IMO at least) much simpler, easier, doesn't require any services open to the internet so can work in a LAN, and can issue wildcard certs too.

If you use a webserver like Caddy as well, then your SSL certs are done automatically without you needing to do much of anything at all.
I would say I live even further than the suburbs (45 minutes from Medellín, one house every acre / 5000 m2) and we just got a second fiber option maxed out at 300mb so that may be changing.

As an American who moved to Colombia, I can highly recommend it. That said, there’s a lot of downsides not mentioned here. First off, your foreign earned income and your US credit score mean nothing here. You will not be able to get a loan and if you want to buy property, you’ll be paying cash. I had to pay 8 months of rent into a bank deposited escrow just to rent a fairly cheap house for one year. That also involved (literally) about 6 trips each to a physical notary office and banks). Things that would be unheard of in the US are common place, like constant physical signatures and finger prints to authenticate documents and asking for your national id number in order to do anything and everything.

A small empty lot in the nicer parts outside Medellín will be at least $225,000. Not bad and beautiful land but again you’ll have to pay cash for everything. Taxes are very high and you can expect to pay 30% - 80% more for many foreign products (“nicer” cars in particular seem to be ridiculously high priced). Tech product selection is terrible, everything lags way behind or simply isn’t available. Amazon does ship a selection of lighter weight items here but you’ll pay a VAT tax of 20% plus an import tax of 10% on the total including shipping. It usually works out to be a 40% premium. Electric vehicles essentially do not exist unless you want a Twizy. I just had my radiator fan go out on my car and was quoted $900 for the part alone which is available in the States for $200. With shipping and taxes I can order from the US for about $550 but it will take about 2 weeks to get here.

There’s a lot of unnecessary friction in daily life, just trying to do “simple” things like an online purchase.

Still an amazing place, lots of great things but as someone trying to actually make a long term life here it can definitely be frustrating.
> Chinese muscle, many of whom died in the process.

There were many thousands of others. The eastern team did not employ any Chinese.

> rights

Nobody gave up any rights to work on the railroad. None were conscripts or forced labor. Any could walk away anytime they pleased.

> They're not remotely similar projects.

Nothing resembling the project had ever been done before. Lots of people thought it was infeasible. It was a triumph, exceeding even the wildest expectations. It arguably was the lynch pin that created the modern America.

The railroad also saved lots of lives. Before the railroad, an estimated 65,000 people died on the Oregon Trail. After, they hopped on a train and arrived intact 3 days later.
It's a little unpopular with me, yes, but it also depends:

(1) Was the "bricking" intentional[0], as in, did FDTI's driver look for the counterfeit, and upon finding it, issue instructions that would make the device useless, even when used with drivers/configurations that previously worked. It also matters, a little, whether or not this is easily reversed.

(2) Did the FDTI take similarly extreme measures to prevent/stop unauthorized chips that weren't impacting customers/non-customers.

The main thing that would leave me with little sympathy for FDTI[0] is if it was intentional, i.e. the update had no other purpose except to break these devices. Past counterfeit situations come to mind where an update "just happened to brick" counterfeits, but it was due to the counterfeit having some limitation[1] not present in the genuine product.

But that second point is beginning to matter a whole lot more, these days. If FTDI makes it extremely difficult for me to determine what is a real FTDI chip and what is not a real FTDI chip -- or, put another way, if the counterfeits are that difficult to tell from the real thing -- and FTDI decides to breaks the one I thought was real...? I'm going to be swearing. I'm going to be at least as pissed off at the FTDI folks as I am at the outfit responsible for the counterfeit, but FTDI is forever associated in my head with "I can't do what I need to do, now". It's terribly unfair that FTDI has to go through trouble to keep a$$holes from counterfeiting their products, but it is the world we live in.

There are also companies that specialize in this sort of thing for brands/products of all types[2].

At the end of the day, the worst FTDI should do is throw up a large notice "This is not an FTDI device. If it indicates that it is an FTDI device, it is a counterfeit. This driver most likely will not work with your device because it isn't ours." ... here's a link to buy a real one from places that we know won't sell you a counterfeit, etc.

That puts blame where it belongs and even if the driver worked would probably result in me purchasing a replacement from the link, knowing that I'd never have problems in the future.

[0] And hope that some legal issues would come their way

[1] Maybe less RAM/storage than it's supposed to have, and maybe it lies about it, too.

[2] I'm doing work for one, right now... it's an interesting space; I used to think it was as pointless as trying to stop media piracy. There's, surprisingly, a lot of effective (and creative) measures to greatly disrupt/stop these larger scale rip-offs, and a lot that can be done which legitimately protects the customer -- but it's a thousand-pronged attack and you'll never completely eliminate counterfeits, especially for designer brands and such.
A long time ago I worked for a small family business. They built their business from the ground up, the old man started it in his garage based off of his industry connections from the 70s before being crushed by more effective outfits in the area. When he got too old he retired and handed the new outfit it to his two sons.

I recall being in an all hands bi-weekly meeting on one Saturday, one of the sons stood up and addressed the entire small company:

"I called around and you know what, we pay about average for the industry. Maybe a little bit on the upper side of average. You know, I could raise my prices and maybe pay you all more, but then I would have less customers. and If I have less customers then I can't afford to pay as many of you."

He looked around with an expression that I felt like was almost contempt, but really wasn't The industry is pretty low margin and they got theirs to be very good with volume sales and very good efficiency in processes. He felt the pressure to execute their plans to expand into another, second facility while remaining profitable enough at the original to fund their plans for world domination.

Every day they had customers waiting in line for literally hours for their turn in a crappy, kind of gross facility that had been cobbled together by these DIYers over a number of years. Every day they turned away customers in droves.

I thought to myself: Old man, if you don't raise your prices, you are a priceless fool. If you can't hire enough people to handle your amazing, envy inducing volume, _and_ you have the gall to exclaim proudly that you pay a little bit better than average, then you are surely and rightfully doomed to this mediocrity until you hopefully die.

What he said next only confirmed my young ideations: "We only want the people who _want_ to work here, to work here. If you don't like working here, well you should go somewhere else."

Nowadays they are still in business. They had indeed increased their pay by over 40% in the next couple of years. They opened their second facility years later after more years of project extensions and overruns, just in time for a global pandemic to shutter their entire operation for months. I'm happy they saw the light and realized what you have to do to attract and keep quality skilled employees, but I am for more pleased to be their competitor.
Zero of them were forced into railroad work.
This is only true if you keep the 21” front when and then only if you are trying to keep up with skilled riders (disclaimer I’m not the average rider). Had a dual sport that I made into a super moto with ultra stick rubber. Would blow away a GSXR/Ducati/R1/R6 on HWY 9 all the windy sections. Those bikes could out accelerate me on straights but they all held me up in corners.
> Looking back, it's very easy for me to blame the US education system, which seems to make it very easy for slightly intelligent people to avoid a lot of work. I feel like I learned really bad work habits early on and am cursed with a flawed brain now.

The curse of the smart lazy person. I've felt this acutely in my life. But I've made it a goal to develop proper discipline. I'm no Elon Musk and I have my good and bad days, but I at least learned how to work consistently hard for the most part. It only took twenty years to unlearn the bad habits from school.
I disagree that bot developers should be placed in a separate category from normal users, and I disagree that 100 servers is a meaningful place to draw the line that Discord is drawing.

The linked comment is incorrect to say that Discord only requires verification for specific permissions, Discord requires verification for bots who are in more than 100 servers regardless of what permissions they use. I think it's fairly obvious that verification for Discord bots is going to gradually expand and encompass more of the service, but maybe I'm just cynical from watching other companies do the same thing with their identity verification schemes.

More importantly, I disagree that identity verification is the best way for Discord to combat abuse. I think that Discord's moderation tools and server settings are lackluster. At best, I think identity verification is a an easy way for them to avoid improving those tools, at the cost of user privacy.

I don't think your comment changes anything about what I'm saying in regards to Discord, but regardless, I also want to point out that it's not just Discord we're talking about: we are seeing a trend towards more services online requiring real-world identities. So we can fight over whether Discord in specific should be grouped in with that trend (I think it should be), but even if you disagree on that point, it still seems pretty clear to me how Stripe's service is going to be used in the future. Do you feel identity verification is also a non-issue for services like Clubhouse and Facebook?

I think the fact that Stripe is advertising both Discord and Clubhouse as early partners says a lot about the types of services they think are going to be attracted to their product.
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In the 1980s it was perfectly reasonable to not depict Indians eating monkey brains and performing child sacrifice rituals.
This is my method, and it nearly always works. Even if I actually only do the 10 minutes, it is often the case that I discovered a blocker, and now I know that I need to find a solution for that blocker, days (or weeks) earlier than I would have if I had not used the "I'll just do it for 10 minutes" trick. This gives me more time to ask someone for help on whatever the blocker is.

When there's not a blocker, I usually end up doing way more than 10 minutes worth.
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Rubber tires does not generate grip through simple static friction. They stick to the road in two different ways, adhesion and deformation. The adhesion is weak molecular forces that stick the rubber to the road like sticky tape, a larger area will have more adhesion. The deformation deforms the tire to follow the surface and dig into it. Because rubber is viscoelastic, the force is greater on the lagging side of a bumb when the tire is slipping.

The adhesion is greatest in the front of the contact patch where there is less slip and a wide tire has a wider but shorter contact patch, so it has more grip from adhesion.

If you keep the pressure in two tires the same, a wider tire will have the same contact patch area as a narrow tire since they will carry the same force and force is pressure multiplied with the area.
What a great read. This is why I read HN. Thanks! (I am 50+ and agree with everything you say).
> I assume they did not desire to come to the US

If you have evidence of Chinese slave ships coming to the US, I'd like to see it.
Nice! Mind shooting me an email (mine is in profile) would love to ask you some follow up questions!
Futures of Text - Messaging UIs (2015)
It’s common around water sports. For instance, sea kayaking.
How off-road do you go? I have a gravel bike too, but I much prefer the MTB for rocky descents.
Doesn't Google pretty much already scrape all of LinkedIn and partially republish in search results (and cached pages)? Microsoft doesn't have a problem with that.
Freenode has imploded – unannounced full services reset, database wipe
Looks like it's all over.

Below is the global message sent to all users, on reconnect all channels are unowned and whoever rejoined first is the operator, all nicks are unregistered.

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Google tried this with Google Contributor:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637365 (2014)

https://contributor.google.com/v/beta

But it was never very publicized and I'm not sure how well it worked. It seems you can't sign up as a user anymore but they're still fielding individual publishers?

I would assume it just wasn't very popular, but feelings on programmatic ads have shifted and it's definitely worth trying again IMO.

Ideally Google One would bundle all this (YT Premium, Play Pass, etc.) for the users who want that, but offering them separately might make more sense for many users.
>Maybe with a video clip of that play. It would probably be profitable.

This could be the next NFT! They could sell the rights ahead of time (1st hit attempt for _x_ player), or after the fact. Maybe if you catch the ball you get the rights automatically to incentivize buying tickets to the games.
I think this is actually the way the players have preferred it be regulated. A good grip on the ball means batters have to worry less about getting randomly pegged. Not to mention how difficult it is to check every square inch of a pitcher to determine if he/she has sticky spots to touch when pitching.

https://youtu.be/1bqOOyMjCCM?t=157

Though there should probably be a single "approved" substance, and the rest be banned so we're not dealing with balls covered in whatever random slime the team came up with
And the only way to know is to wait-and-see. Even the most efficient market is going to take some time to react to that kind of social context.

If nothing else, recent events should keep Econ Phd students busy for a while, though. ;)
I count seven, and I believe 5 of them were operating simultaneously at one point. There was a surprisingly long period of time when Hangouts and Hangouts Chat, two totally separate products, were running in parallel with those confusing names.

Here's my list:

- Talk

- Hangouts

- Hangouts Chat (now called Chat)

- Allo

- Messages

- Voice

- Google+

You could arguably throw Groups, Inbox, Wave, and Gmail in there, as well, I guess.

I don't know if the product/branding people at Google need to be fired or to be taken seriously for the first time in the company's history, but I wish one of the two would happen.
The complaint is about price, not process.

But I'm also surprised something so large is being used. Isn't 130/180nm cheap for any kind of significant volume?
Is the situation in Japan really that bad? Their economy seems vibrant to me, I buy lots of products from them.
The one in the 2000s, obviously.