skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My benchmark of "this thing is well understood" is that it's possible to build that thing, or a replacement for it, again.

Something I've been thinking a lot about lately: Implicit in statements like this is the idea of a system. That some complex-seeming artifact is actually composed of a relatively smaller number of essential things and all of the observed complexity is just emergent properties of the simpler underlying system. Find the handful of hidden rules and you can build back up to the whole thing from first principles.

For example, if you were to learn chess purely by watching people play, it would be a huge struggle at first. Does how they hold the pieces matter? What role does timing play? Why does one player rest their head on their cheek while staring at the board? Eventually you start to figure out which actions are essential and which aren't. It doesn't matter where inside a square a piece is placed. All pawns are behaviorally equivalent, etc.

We really really like systems. So much so that we tend to assume everything is one. But I see no evidence to assume that biology and evolution work that. Evolution is a semi-random walk over the phenotype space and fitter organisms are discovered (mutated) entirely randomly. It may be that a kidney mostly filters blood, but also does a little of this other thing, and the fact that it pushes your small intestine out of the way is important, and also and also and also...

We can increase our understanding by learning more, but there may simply be no "first principles" for what makes an organism tick and almost all of its complexity may be irreducible. There may be absolutely no separation between "fundamental property" and "implementation detail". It may be that no terms in the grand equation of life cancel out.
Lots of the 1-star reviews of it on Amazon, for instance, are by people who seemed to have skimmed it, because they'll level complaints like "the book said X, which is ridiculous because Y!" when the book explicitly identifies and addresses exactly Y within a paragraph or two of introducing X. It's like they're not familiar with that form of writing[0] and, on reading something they think may have problems, just skip ahead to the next argument.

Longer-form criticism I've read of it tends to exhibit similar, if less egregious, problems with reading comprehension. Which is frustrating because I suspect the book actually does have issues and oversights that would be nice to read about from a person with the right background who actually closely read & understood the book.

[0] I do have my suspicions about what kind of economic/political writing these folks are used to reading, that's (evidently) conditioned them not to expect anything resembling a sincere and thorough attempt to address problems with an assertion or argument to follow close on the heels of same assertion or argument, so may incline them toward skipping ahead or skimming heavily on reading something they immediately think of an objection to....
Author of the article here. I attempted to sort out the differences among Ruby version managers, including the newer ones. I'm interested in your opinions, experiences, or advice.
It's remarkable how effective it was to de-platform Trump. The ring-wing fever in US almost vanished overnight and we have lived in much more peaceful time since he left office and vanished from social media.

Twitter & Facebook should've de-platformed him much earlier but they prioritized engagement, unfortunately.
It's abundantly clear that markets aren't self-regulating. We need government regulation to counteract harmful actions of businesses.
I'm merely a casual observer of neuroscience, but I feel like I already knew this. This isn't a huge leap if you accept that Spike-timing-dependent plasticity is happening.
Please don't take HN threads on offtopic flamewar tangents. You started a doozy with this provocation. You also have a long history of doing things like this, unfortunately. Would you please review the site guidelines and stop posting destructive things to HN? We've had to ask you and warn you and cajole you many times, and we're going to have to ban you if you don't fix this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
From a design perspective you are right.

But from a threat model I would dare to say, if you control the platform (OS, Cloud Service) you can easy bypass encryption or deploy your own keys as well.

In the end it is still a trust question.
xerox color machines with fiery controllers aren't that well working with ipp, the last time I worked with them (3 years ago) it crashed pretty often, which meant a full reboot was needed which takes like 5+ minutes on these which was not possible. lpd is still super simple and works super well on these machines, even when using non standard ports
And I wouldnt trust a person who cannot detect exaggeration for effect. It indicates severe lacking of understanding social clues.
Recognizing irony is not the strongest of your skills, isn't it?
I bet every bootstrapped startup is feeling this on their skin.

I know we do and we are operating in Europe.

I can only imagine that in the US is worse.
I don't remember the titles, but there are a slew of books at your local library on the topic. False Impressions by Thomas Hoving is the only one that comes to mind.

What's interesting about art as a money laundering scheme is that it's win-win for everyone but taxpayers. The galleries don't fight it, the investors don't, the experts don't, the museums(!) don't.

For example, there were two crucifixes made from wood by Michelangelo recently bought by (I think) the Louvre and Bargello. But Michelangelo didn't work in wood, it's not in his style, and there's no documentation that he ever did these works. The wood, indeed, dates from the 1490's -- and that's it for any "proof". There are more people making money off of this than people who want to find out the truth.
A Serverless Strapi Solution for AWS
Please don't take HN threads further into political or ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
JavaScript Games Code with Example
> The video is not available in my country. I'm in America, but not the correct part of America it seems.

In English, "America" unambiguously refers to the United States. I say that as a non-American.
Let's say a streaming music service collects information on what you have listened to and how long. Is that surveillance? What if they use it to back a page where you can see what you've been listening to recently? If they start recommending new artists based on your listening history?
I think in both cases we took an intermediate one. But I don't fully remember tbh.
General purpose computers, as we understand them, are a niche market and potentially quite harmful in untrained hands. Apple is targeting the mainstream consumer. They still sell GPCs though, under the Mac brand.
Soo... this starts to sound like serial communication. When can we start reverse-engeneering communication protocols? :D
It also eliminates the possibility of using a regular preprocessor.

Using the Tailwind-defined values for font sizing, spacing and colors in SCSS is trivial.

This, combined with ITCSS and BEM becomes a huge time saver, especially if your browser-base allows for the use of CSS Grid.

Naming components is the only overhead but with a clear naming and file structure is not really an issue.

So far, writing SCSS, and much less of it (because of ITCSS), is a benefit—compared to learning a proprietary framework aiming to replace CSS at a similar enough abstraction level.
Selection pressure operates across all timescales and distance scales.

There is ample reason to believe that any prominent form of life in the galaxy would be expansionary, because otherwise it would be replaced by one that is.

There is no reason to believe that selection stops operating when we are talking about galaxy level scale.
Its my understanding that walmart sells at discount prices, not sells at a loss. they have scale that local competitors do not. there's a huge difference
I'll try and clarify what I mean here. Tailwind seems to appeal to devs who feel they never fully grasped CSS + design.

Because it provides a copy-pastable subset of reliable classes where you end result will look good.

As a company we are often hired to fill a knowledge gap (exactly in design and front-end). The nature of agency work is to leave a deliverable for the client to work with.

My idea is that when the project is over and the design/front-end gap still exists in the team, perhaps it is better to leave something more manipulatable (I used the word malleable originally).

I think with the great docs that Tailwind has it might be easier for someone who is not a front-end dev to manipulate a `<div class="p-4">` to `<div class="p-3">` than to come across a BEM/ITCSS component, written in SCSS* where you have to understand much more concepts to manipulate it skillfully.

*(our preferred stack really)
Do people not google terms before trying to speak authoritatively on a topic they aren't familiar with? The original commenter is correct, cross entropy is a generic measure of two probability distributions - in the case of maximum likelihood estimation, these are the data distribution and the distribution of the learned model.
I wonder if a solution is a "login with facebook/instagram" option on messengers like Matrix / Element.

So it could be as frictionless as possible to get people on it and then everyone has a matrix ID as well.
An Illinois resident cannot legally buy a gun in another state without shipping it to a FFL in Illinois and getting a background check done there before taking possession.

So the argument that Chicago residents can skirt gun control laws by crossing state lines is false.
That weird American thing is called suburban sprawl :)

I never lived within walking distance of a store as a kid.
I think both are true.

Anti-trust is a funny thing because one hand it is clearly needed for power dynamics, but on the other hand orthodox econ with its increasing price curves underestimates how many sorts of monopolies are in fact "natural".

Put another way, anti-trust looks very different if one doesn't believe competition is a stable outcome in the long term.

In the specific Walmart/Amazon case, I would like to see a nationalized warehouse network run by the postal service. Warehousing-distribution of goods is just "content-addressed post".
Is Julia eager? In Haskell you can also do infinite lists

[1..]

This generates all the integers. The first example

[ x^2 | x <- [1..5] ]

Is basically already list comprehension within list comprehension. Are infinite lists possible?
NSW Health says it gave Pfizer jab to more than 160 students ‘in error’
Yup, I do this all the time! :) I write Python programs that use sqlite and set up the DB state with bash.
America's biggest states need to break away from America.

Texas, for example, could set an example for other liberty-minded states to follow.
I'm interested in your high level of confidence. Not only will Trump lose, but it's embarrassing to lawyers as a whole? That's quite a statement.

Wouldn't it make more sense to wait until evidence and the case in general has been presented before making statements like this?

Personally, the "conspiracy theory" I've heard is that members of the US government were sending messages directly to Twitter's staff requesting censorship of specific posts. It seems reasonable for the courts to get involved if a private entity is censoring on behalf of government agents personally, but I'm not a lawyer.
I am not a lawyer, so this is not legal advice.

The copyright is held until it expires. If the code is explicitly GPL, then you can still use it - but you can't change the license or remove the copyright, and you have to abide by the clauses in the GPL version used. There are organizations that might sue to enforce the GPL license, even if the original copyright holders might not because they are defunct.

Note that someone owns that copyright, because someone owns the IPR of that company, even if it is defunct. It might be worth checking to see what company bought their intellectual property, or who the founders are (they may be the IPR holders too). It's a big longshot, but you might get permission to relicense the code under a different Open Source license, or a transfer of the copyright.
Good. This will finally make everyone treat all IP addresses equally.
> "This approach sounds much harder for an ad network to pull off and sounds like it would add a lot of risk and complication.

Harder to pull off than advertising at people who might actually want to see the ads? More risk and complication than the growing backlash against advertising in general entirely because of shady advertising practices? More risk and complication than having to keep track of various countries' and states' laws re; privacy?

> "For example, what if a web master decides they don't want to have ads on their site anymore. Whoever just paid for that space gets screwed."

Existing contract law already covers this in most places. If you paid for ads to be displayed for a certain time period and they are not, then there's been a contract violation.
Isn’t that what Amazon did early on? If so, looks like it worked.
But no studies have proven so far that microdosing is even effective at all.
That a first grade reverse engineering work!

A work of this calibre, and quality level can cost easily $100k+ in the embedded world.
i believe most people only move at significant stages in their life. when they move out of their parents house, when they finish university, when they get married, and maybe when their kids leave the house. in most places, only single people are able to move to change jobs, everyone else needs to find jobs where they live. and once kids are in school, moving is often simply not an option, because changing schools is not something done lightly if you don't want your kids to be disturbed by loosing all their friends. the actual cost of moving doesn't even factor into all this.
No. It would be my city's technology officer, basically. Subsidiarity.
They do not use an usual git repository. Companies using monorepos have tools to restrict people's access to parts of it, and filter log noise.

Or, in other words, it's not that insanely complicated, because they have tools that make it look a lot like multiple repositories. And the large companies using multiple repositories have tools that make them look just like those monoreps. And HN has all those interesting threads full of people saying why one is better than the other.
You could request Windows 2000 if you are: Volume License consumer (through downgrade) or Visual Studio subscriber (not for commercial use)
hey don't forget samesite ;-)
Please note that some (many) people don't care - they don't want these browser pop-ups, they understand that cookies aren't the only way profiles are built etc etc.

The problem is the zealots here are souring generations on actual user control of data by endlessly requiring more and more notices and popups. Don't annoy 95% of users so some random subgroup can feel smug about themselves.

It seems every CA company now sends me - via PAPER MAIL - a privacy notice of privacy practices. I DON'T CARE. There are no teeth in any of this. Even if there were people don't care.
Housing prices will find whatever level is necessary to price out the excess housing seekers relative to available homes. Higher wages simply mean a bigger number.
Hi! I really enjoyed your post. As to the site, it would be VERY helpful if there were at least a "Coming Soon" or something similar. I was trying different browsers, computers, etc. just to ensure there wasn't something technical on my side preventing me from potentially using the site.

You typically get one chance to make a first impression. Indeed, along with the "Coming Soon" message you can offer to notify people when you do go operational - win win. I'd like that since the site looks like it could be very useful (and not just for myself!).
I've been traveling a lot and what I've done is setup an AT&T based MVNO on my iPhone's eSIM, freeing up the physical slot for local SIMs. With WiFi calling enabled on my AT&T line, I can go around the world spending peanuts compared even to Google Fi, while keeping my US number working.
The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review
No, because you can't disable Facebook Messenger if you have a Facebook account, and people will still message you there.

The Facebook accounts must be deleted as part of any solution.
It is the latest model. I turned off the periodic notifications in the Breathe app - let's see if it continues to ping me.
That's actually the way most advertising used to work before all this surveillance stuff started, and still the way it works with some (ethical) advertisers.
The missing dimension is "climate", which is at the top of my list when looking for places to retire - I like to spend time outside.

I live in the Pacific Northwest and while winters are a little too cold and rainy, summers are typically perfect (ignoring the recent Heat Dome, which I hope will not become a regular part of summer). I've thought about moving back to the Bay Area (fortunately, my job allows me to afford it), but between the droughts and wildfires, I'm not sure it's the same place that I left. Maybe I'll just rent an AirBNB there for a month in the winter.
Enforcement is the hardest issue with these proposals. I agree that when ignoring the problems of enforcement this is an ideal solution.
You can have Bayesian DNNs.
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Height isn't required on passports. Even though it identifies people more specifically than sex.

I would assume someone is trans if they matched the description and appearance on an identity document except for apparent sex.

Sinister is a straw man.
Here's a tip: if a lot of smart, informed people have a very positive view of a technology but it doesn't click for you, it may not be the right tool for you but it very likely is not a "sign of dementia".
If you don't intend to fill in/expand variables - you probably want to quote the HEREDOC tag,so rather than:

sqlite3 <<EOS
... WHERE user = $(rm /etc/shadow)...
EOS

You might want:

sqlite3 <<'EOS'
... WHERE user = $(rm /etc/shadow)...
EOS
For one year.
Or data science.
I don't think they're arguing that it doesn't work for the company doing it. I think they're arguing along the the lines that it's unfair or unethical (anticompetitive) and comes with costs for the broader society.
So many companies insist I provide them a "billing address", except I don't have one, it's a uniquely North American thing. Filling that form with gibberish usually does the trick for me.
I would argue none of us have any idea if there is a "trillionaire" in the world because we are notoriously bad at guessing someone's total net worth.

As support, I would point you to this 10 year old article on Moammar Gadhafi, where he was estimated to actually be worth roughly $200b USD - an unheard of number in 2011. https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwindurgy/2011/10/25/did-moamm...

This week, if Bezos were not divorced, he would be worth $300b USD: https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/...

And finally, the ProPublica Peter Thiel $5b USD ROTH IRA is worth *double what Forbes thought Thiels entire net worth is per the 2020 Forbes Billionaire List* (he is on page 3... look at the massive jump in the animated graph!): https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

That said, the IRS had 20 years of tax returns stolen from it which would detail the richest Americans, and so it is unlikely anyone in the USA is a trillionaire.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27761407.
Interest rates are zero
Zuck already merged Facebook's and Instagram's database so good luck splitting them.

I hope free market economy prevails or in another words lawsuits fail. They should've learnt their lesson with Microsoft(antitrust is waste of taxpayers' money).
When you no longer feel you are learning or when the projects no longer stretch you with challenges.

A stagnation of challenging projects can also indicate a general stagnation in the company. That will eventually show up in business results. If see this, it makes sense to start looking around and joining a business that is more driven and aims high.
Some may identify as mathematicians.
> 2. John Tukey (1977). Exploratory Data Analysis.

> This book has been hugely influential and is a fun read that can be digested in one sitting.

Wow. The PDF is over 700 pages. That seems fairly impressive for single-sitting digestion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_coding is pretty good too.
and its chromium
Given how often audacity crashes, it's not hard to see how crash reporting is actually a good idea. If you don't like it, use something else. Hell, you can even fork it.
The goals of a nation-state are not the same as those of a corporation. Having a monopoly on a strategically important industry is valuable in and of itself, especially when viewed from a geopolitical perspective. Just look at what's currently going on in semiconductors.
If they can do it to Trump they can do it to anyone for any reason and that means the death of democracy.
He already lost an election and all the "kraken" lawsuits. When he loses he can just blame it on the corrupt deep state or something.
The reference to being impossible to pay was in 1825, when it would have been impossible for pretty much any country to pay.
If you do nothing: 143,728 deaths, CZK 996B costs, 3.9 to 16 million infections
Quite a few people on HN downvote facts that they don't like. Here again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27748820
This is also the a major reason why building non-housing infrastructure (bridges, rail, &c.) is so slow and expensive in the US compared to Europe. Any infrastructure that might possibly disturb someone who can afford a lawyer will be delayed and expensive.

One project I was personally familiar with was delayed for over 10 years because a neighbor would challenge the plan. Each time found a different ordinance to nit-pick with. It was catch-22; if the nit-pick was fought, it caused delays, if the plans were modified, then it was now a new plan, and he could start all over with challenges to it.

Another great example is that people living in a tiny town in Virginia were able to get a major bridge over the potomac completely redesigned from a suspension bridge to a draw-bridge (making it more expensive, a shorter lifespan, and less amenable to shipping) because the towers of the planned suspension bridge would be visible from their houses. Wikipedia calls this "considerable study and public debate[1]"

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_Bridge#Replacem...
Not self regulating in a way that benefits the average user, sure. It is absolutely self regulating in a way that benefits corporations.
Chlorine is effective against Giardia. It requires longer exposure periods generally and can be temp dependent (ie, 1 hr vs 1 minute).
The person running the store remembering you and treating you differently based on your history is within what they're covering here, yes. In the report that Vivaldi is recommending (https://www.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/202...) they consider both first-party and third-party tracking to be part of "surveillance-based advertising". For example, a site showing ads for users based on what topics they tend to view weighted by how much they interact with each one. There's nothing about having to "deploy it across the whole internet" before it counts; activity on a single site is still (described as) surveillance.
They mentioned this in the 3rd paragraph: "This temporal firing phenomenon is well documented in certain brain areas of rats, but the new study and others suggest it might be far more widespread in mammalian brains."