skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally agree, though I would highlight a remark you made in another comment that sometimes you just can't get buy-in. I'd go a little further: sometimes you're working with a team whose leaders are dyed-in-the-wool anti-Lispers.

But if you really want to work in Lisp, then you can. This is my thirty-fourth year of work as a programmer and technical writer. Of those years, I've been paid to work in Lisp for about twenty of them, so it can certainly be done--though you have to be patient and work in something else sometimes. If you want to be a Lisp hacker, learn another language well for those times when you're waiting for the right opportunity. C is generally a good choice; among other things, it's a common compilation target or kernel-implementation language for Lisps.

I also agree that you can teach Lisp to capable programmers without much trouble, but with the caveat that they have to want to learn it. Not all of them do. If you get someone who really just doesn't want to learn it, then no amount of effort or inspiration will hurdle that obstacle.
I intentionally end a lot of sentences with an exclamation point because I have seen this problem and don't want to be perceived this way by colleagues. But in a short message, it can be half (or more) of the message! I probably end up coming off like a dog who's so excited he can't sit long enough to earn a treat!
It's not platform specific, but everything on Windows uses it, while on other platforms it's a decision people have to make (and often decide for something else, because they don't understand kerberos and it's not trivial to setup). Thus, if you haven't heard of it, you are not on Windows.
This is something I don't get. You're supposed to be able to integrate BSD-licensed (or even Public Domain) code into GPL works, right? The fact that something shows up in GPL code means what exactly?

This is like: there are scholarly books that quote extensive from original philosophers -- long, third-of-a-page quotations. Still I should be able to quote something in its original language (translations may be copyrighted) copying from the derived work. Copyrighted work is not supposed to be able to poison noncopyrighted work it originates from.
I agree that it puts me off as well but it's also feels a bit like a no true Scotsman fallacy. If we're always on the lookout for "bad words" then we will eventually set up impossible standards for how we speak.
oops: https://intercoolerjs.org
I don't understand. Can you not just indent text to an arbitrary depth? I definitely get what you mean about treating like code/refactoring, but I have found I can easily do this since there so are many options. The only area it is lacking is not being able to take handwritten diagrams and tables (or similar)…furiatingly fiddly. But as far as the depth and complexity of hierarchy ... That's not something markdown is lacking? Especially in comparison to plain text. Maybe revisit it.
Can you explain or are you just doing a drive-by post to show your disdain?
Science Report 1977 - Alternative 3

https://youtu.be/CL4AyZASZwU

Alternative 3 (Remastered 2005) - Brian Eno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C0WglNI3tM
Do I have to spell it out?

"Cheaper but people die due to lead poisoning" (replace "lead" with your favorite toxic chemical) does not count as cheaper, for medicine. It needs to be cheaper and trustworthy. The Iron Line of medicine, I guess.
AI Art Scene Explodes as Hackers Create Groundbreaking New Tools Clip+vq-GAN
to be fair "Free and open" is different than "Free and Open Source".

Open source has a much stronger connotation than open and I could certainly see calling it open if the source is available for the core of the product.
I don’t trust “must” lists which contain round number of items. If something must be done, the list may contain 4, 9 or 13 items. It is possible that accidentally the item count is 10, but more likely author just picked top 10 and called them “must”.
There is a really good reason for stopping fully at a stop sign. If your speed and that of the cross traffic vehicle is matched appropriately, the vehicle will occupy the same position (remain stationary) in your field of view. That can cause you to miss seeing the car. By stopping then looking, the car will appear in motion against a still background making it much more likely to stand out.
Yeah this is a major problem in the political landscape overall. Like for example refusing to read anything by conservatives just because you happen to disagree with them on abortion issues. You're going to be a) missing out on a lot of insights and b) even worse, create a divide where you can't even understand the other side anymore just because you outright refuse to hear them out.

I tripped on that sentence myself but continued reading since it seemed like a minor point to the actual story and I wasn't disappointed.
1. Neuroscience is not psychology.

2. Electroshock “therapy” is not neuroscience.
My girlfriend has had EMDR therapy that resolved her
responses to triggers (similar to panic attacks? I'm not sure how to describe it) from C-PTSD, but it's just pseudoscience and she would have done better to read some decent literature.
Loans that only come due upon breakout success, more precisely.
Where it says "filmed upside down", pretend it says, "shows the bottom of the scene at the top of the screen".
Psychology is probabilistic science, that's the best we can do given the complexities of the mind. If you want to get a taste of rigor in psychology I suggest you read some of the works by Carl Jung.

Agreed, most people looking to understand the psyche would be better off reading literature / art.
You can index and organize billions of AMP pages.

You can index and organize the content of an intranet of every large organization.
> People in cities are captured on CCTV hundreds of times per day but nobody seems to mind.

That argument is a bit vague. How does minding work in this case? People who are opposed to CCTV will try to avoid it. But will that avoidance be visible to the rest of the public? Hardly so. Besides, many cameras tend to be placed at places where cameras blend in and you need to make an effort to actually spot them.
How many people have you known in that position that had little or none of those?
Super Mario 64 game sells for record-breaking $1.5m at auction
That's how many puzzle games work, so I'm pretty sure this can be done with programming languages just as well. It would need a good progression of examples/exercises, but I think that could even be better in some aspects. For one it enforces a certain quality for the code examples because they can't rely on any explanation. And it would be less ambiguous when covering more abstract concepts (my biggest difficulties in understanding OOP and interfaces for the first time were caused by misleading explanations).
Sure, I get all that. The screenshot tells me it's a GUI-based animation tool. Those exist by the bucketload.

- Does it export to HTML? GIF? MP4?

- Can it animate SVGs?

- Does it support Sprites?

I think if someone was wanting to move away from After Effects, they'd want to know these things.
That's an interesting find thanks. I was not aware of no-cors mode.

It seems though that a browser would not allow 'non-simple' headers in no-cors mode[0].

Authorization headers for example would not be allowed (if i'm reading correctly). So any API using that header would not be affected by this issue right?

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request/mod...
Safari truly is IE in 2021
Am I the only one thinking that GPT3 and CoPilot can actually work once trained on properly licensed and properly audited code?

Well it will not be as ubiquitous as having all the github under your fingers, but perhaps is anyway better not to blindly cite the world's source code.
>You completely miss the fact [...]

Pay attention to the thread. While that might be a valid argument, it's not what's being discussed in this comment chain.

That said, the "problems raising capital" argument has been argued enough elsewhere in this thread that I won't bother arguing it further.
They have an archive flag and project description. This should be sufficient for letting folks know.

I maintain a few orgs and this is how I handle abandoned projects. I don’t like updating the readme as 1) it affects the timeline and people may glance at the update date of the commit and have to take more time understanding and 2) I don’t want to show up in the commit history of random projects.
“I don’t understand it” = “not a science”

It doesn’t have the rigour of say physics for sure … but physics is specifically the science of what can be measured.

I wouldn’t write it off as a science though. You may write off some of its practitioners for sure but you can do that with anything.
> If you need a better word, use a thesaurus.

Again, with the arrogance and the implication that persons using emojis are dumb and/or uneducated.

Yes, images are ambiguous. Just as text is limited and constraining. There's a reason we say "a picture is worth one thousand words", and it's not because the creators of said quote didn't have a thesaurus at hand.
You're gonna have to support the statement that ESNI is fundamentally flawed a bit better for that argument to work.
>And they are consuming more calories because processed foods are engineered to make you overeat them.

I've heard this being claimed a lot, and have therefore often thought about it while eating fast- and other processed foods, picking around in it trying to discover the big conspiracy, but I can't seem to find any substantial differences with what I make at home from raw ingredients.

The engineering seems to be geared more towards reproducibility of all the dishes over a large network of franchises around the world. It's still the same ingredients, they're just less tolerant of substitutions and deviations from the specs.

Maybe it's really a matter of fast food being compared to food cooked by unskilled home cooks who just happen to be suffering from a socially induced panic about some arbitrary ingredient, and therefore tends to produce a result that's just plain unpalatable compared to something made by a professional or a seasoned home cook.

No cook with any amount of self respect will make intentionally unpalatable food, and the French paradox clearly demonstrates that it's not necessary for food to be unpalatable to avoid obesity.
Archaeologists flabbergasted to find Cerne Giant’s origins are medieval
in the long run, we're all dead.

ergo, timing matters.
I think you just described which coders will be replaced by AI first
Which paid services are you referring to? It is likely that these services aren't distributing the projects they are based on, if so, then they are in compliance with the licenses of the open source projects, which probably don't require attribution unless you distribute them.

This project started in 2015 btw. Another similar project called waybackpack started in 2016. There are probably more projects. IMO wayback-machine-downloader is the better project though.

https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack

The Wayback CDX Server API these projects are based on is quite simple to use btw, just some JSON responses to decode.

https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php
https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/blob/master/wayba...
This is the kind of asshole abusing the protections and courtesies of civil society and ruining it for everyone. In most places I’ve lived, he’d have been physically assaulted in short order.
Carl Jung while interesting is anything but rigorous science. Like I said, treat this stuff like fiction. Some can even be insightful!

> Psychology is probabilistic science

It’s not science if it doesn’t include reproducibility.
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This a great idea but it would be difficult to implement. Sure, it would be easy to catch (and block) HTTP requests other than OPTIONS and GET.

But even a GET request can be used to send data. Just pack the data you want to send in the query string and voila.
alienation from any community. from peers, from elders, from others that are passionate about sharing knowledge via human-to-human transmission. and no - automated learning is not a computer-mediated transmission in the very sense that reading 12 books by 12 authors does not mean you had 12 teachers.
It's not just 2,6 billion, they took on Solar City's debt which made it around 6 billion.
Is there an alternative to AirPods that's the same shape? I can't wear the type of earphones that block the ear canal.
I built a topic silo modeled after HN and I've been running it for 2 years so I think I can address some of your statements.

It's a problem validation platform[1] called needgap. Problems are the first class citizens submitted as posts. Startup ideas, MVP, Products to solve the problems goes into comments.

I modeled it after HN for the reasons mentioned by OP and I wanted it to minimal design wise for reasons made clear below. I built it on top of Kenny Grant's golangnews.com project.

It's usually the Entrepreneurs who create posts for validating a problem/need-gap. They and other entrepreneurs comment about solutions or their own product. Consumers who are searching for a solution for their problem visit the respective needgap thread, Check out the products and sometimes make a comment.

Insights like number of people visiting a problem, top 3 countries (week/month) and how many will pay for that startup idea in the comment are available to subscribers($5 USD).

> to the top is expedited by pushing other people down

> it is expedited by driving out expertise

Voting is just for platform sanctity at needgap and doesn't add much value to the validation(Views from search, Comments are more important). Further, voting rights(karma) can be gained only by commenting and Downvotes burn a karma. Votes are shown only to the owner.

> Nobody has a well informed opinion about most of the items on the front page

That's why needgap doesn't rely upon regular user's subject matter expertise but that occasional (often one-time) visitor's expertise about knowing about a problem (or) knowing how to solve that problem.

Validation happens through those who might actually need our product and not by a bunch of people in a closed platform like most 'pay for a startup idea' type platforms. Hence minimalism of HN matters, email is optional like HN. Someone who comes to needgap from Google Search doesn't even need to know what needgap is.

> there is no way to get to the top of HN

Lifetime of posts (problems) is very long at needgap, 2 year old problem still get solutions as the need for solution exists as long as need-gap exists.

But since number of problems/day is low when compared to HN almost all genuine problems(i.e. problem != startup idea) gets its way to home page and many stay there for several months.

There are about 3500 registered users, almost as many visit needgap every single day organically.

[1] https://needgap.com
You still have to describe to co-pilot what you want. So that doesn't make much sense. You should work on a higher level of abstraction then. If you aren't, why not spend a few minutes writing some functions instead of generating tons of unmaintainable boilerplate with co-pilot?
Scouting semi trailers containing useful supplies, breaking in to them, and then defending the position until the contents are used or repositioned.

Pessimistically speaking.
No reproducibility = not a science
Can confirm. Zero problems in seven years. Though go for a model with wired Ethernet, still cheap and even more bulletproof.
Possibly related:

"Peep (The Network Auralizer): Monitoring Your Network With Sound"

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
DOM modifications can get very slow very soon. After all, each reflow is actually a whole cascade of operations.

Ostensibly simple things like swapping rows in a table can be computationally intensive if not done right.
self-educated know-it-alls are much more responsible for the appalling level of alienation of people in IT in general. since so many people are self-taught they are eventually not learned into exchanging knowledge with other humans.
I'm still tempted to read Emotional Intelligence. It's hard to believe it was published over 25 years ago. It's topic has been integrated a lot into work and home culture (including me), though there's still a ways to go (including for me).

Is it still a good read? Is there another book like it that hackers recommend?
Why Disagreement Is Vital to Advancing Human Understanding
I can't recommend this blog highly enough. Just about every post provides a deeply detailed, understandable overview on a subject at the frontier of ML research
Like everything there are costs and benefits; sometimes people only focus on the benefits of "modern" practices and forget the costs associated with them, like stripping the soil, and the expense and side effects of chemicals. Finding a better approach means taking risks and trying new ideas. This applies to programming as well as growing food.
I read the article to the point where it awaits the next, sure-fire cure-all outing. It is filled with the same delusions and misrepresentations that virtually every snake-oil, magical diet fix is.

Haven't people gotten a little less gullible about this stuff yet?

Look, some tribe had fruit on the ground and they weren't obese. Stuff that pizza is your mouth while we get to the bottom of this.

The reality is that calories have never been as available and cheap. And there is an absolutely lock-step correlation between dietary calories and obesity rates. No, it isn't the great mystery that it is held as. Indeed, this article spends most of its time debunking "it isn't the calories" dietary trends -- low fat, low carb, low sugar, low fat.
Your request sounds suspiciously like you're actually the hacker and want to get an edge over competitors in ordering limited editions 'hype' sneakers or scalping graphics cards or similar.

"Hi friends,

my teacher gave me the homework to hack the school's website and the instagram account of a girl in my class. How do?"

If this is in fact an honest request, then set up some dDoS protection (cloudflare) and go with the random pick route (raffle) and don't forget to seed the RNG somehow.
The often quoted prices do not take into account the actual price paid by consumers, the type of insulin being compared, or relative purchasing power of the countries. I don't actually know how if insulin is actually all that much more expensive across the world when taking those factors into account. Seems like cherry picking without controlling for all of those factors
When people refer to natural or alternative medicine, they're not usually talking about common sense lifestyle changes universally endorsed by the medical establishment. That's just regular medicine.
Amazon wants to build an autonomous car army
> As long as the AI just regurgitates lines from repositories like a bad undergrad cheating on his homework, CS jobs should be safe.

They said the same thing about Chess and Go.
I'd be more optimistic if the beta were crafted with the idea that it might have issues. It so, it would likely have some way of gathering feedback on suggestions that was a little more nuanced than just accepted/rejected.
This is something to seriously consider. Thanks for your suggestion and feedback
I hate anecdotal evidence, but jimbon45 is a perfect example showing that inbreeding leads to lower IQ.
Personally, I'd rather use snippets or some form of "dumb" code generation over an AI to generate the "dumb code". Sure, I'll probably still have to do some typing using those methods, but it's still less than if I were doing it all by hand.
Things like soil organic carbon (SoC) are commonly used measures of progress. Also things like humic acid and other secondary measures of biological can be used. No two patches of 'good' soil are the same, so there is some intuition involved

I try and blog a little bit about sustainable ag on thinkingagriculture.io as I work in ag research and am interested in how this meta evolves.
What you're saying:

>If the original holder of a patent is a small fry, and does not have the resources to go after the big fish if they take advantage of the patent, shouldn't the original inventor have the right to sell the patent to get something, and then the new holder can use their potentially larger resources to get licensing compliance.

Hits the crux of the issue. A patent is economically/politically/socially worthless to the inventor themselves without the ability to spend inordinate amounts of legal muscle to tell people they can't use it, and the effective exercise by a patent holder of a patent renders the patent valueless to society for the duration, and creates many perverse incentives and business models for non-practicing entities.

In fact, at this point I'd argue the corpus of patents out there is nowadays less useful to the inventive than it is to the legal profession to keep themselves in work. The last time I read a patent to truly understand something was to figure out how a fire-alarm use casing went back together, and even then, that was of spotty levels of help.
Unrelated question, but this got me thinking:

> does it know about "properties" of this surface, or is it more like a rough kind of point cloud because you have sampled enough and then it does some crude interpolation

Say that there existed some high-level property such as "conservation of energy". A "knowledge system" which learns about that property would be able to answer any questions related to it after reducing to a "conservation of energy" problem. Is the same true for NNs? The way folks talk about them, they sound like they can compress dynamically, and would therefore be able to learn and apply new high-level properties.

Also, do NNs have "rounding errors"? We have confidently learned that energy is conserved, but would NNs which never had that rule directly encoded understand conservation as "exactly zero", or "zero with probability almost 1", or "almost zero"?
1. Yes it is, or at least was. It’s a branch of psychology that developed into a science its own right. Just as physics was once “natural philosophy”. Epistemologically however neuroscience does still fall under the umbrella term of psychology.
This could actually be interesting. If it tuns out that copy-left based code completion is better than other options, it will create a strong incentive to spread it.
I agree, emojis are more expressive than words and cut down on the confusion in text-based conversations ;)
thnks!
It seems like a VERY significant increase, yet the author glided right by it. How much would he have considered to be ‘jaw-dropping’?
I'm not being hostile, I'm being descriptive of the business culture I know. I can't think of anywhere I've ever worked where you wouldn't be looked down on for using emoji in an email. This post is the first I've ever heard of such a thing being acceptable practice.
You can use some Twitter search filters to see all of them: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A0xabad1dea%20%40github%2...
Great scifi, but unfortunately some people take this possibility really seriously still today.

Living high tech live on earth with catastrophic climate change +6 C would be still several times safer, cheaper and more comfortable than living on Mars.

Alternatively, reversing climate change technologically on Earth would be several magnitudes cheaper, easier and faster than having Mars settlement.
https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/infinite_monkey_theorem