skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to do research into digital image correlation, and the best method is to sputter black and white paint onto the object using an airbrush.
I don’t find it misguided at all. I’m far more productive with JVM languages than JS. It has always bothered me that JS won in the browser environment.

Java applets were clunky and dangerous, but I still wish I didn’t have to delve into JS hell just to make a website.
Thanks for sharing.

I wonder how often retired NASA engineers are consulted. Imagine as an Engineer having to troubleshoot something which launched into space before you were born.

Of course there must be perfect documentation, SOP along with replicas on land.
I've rented from air bnb and vrbo more than a handful of times. I've never engaged in the activities that you described here. We always clean up after ourselves- and we contribute to the local economy via: paying a maid, tourist dollars, and petting local pets
This is an interesting anecdote. I have gotten high several times during my college years and less so since I started my career. In all of the cases I got high, it was primarily for entertainment purposes. However, whenever I am high, I get some sense of clarity about problems that were irking me the week before (I usually do weed over the weekends). This led me to wonder, esp. lately, what if there is actually some connection between productivity and marijuana use (not abuse) and your experience seems to be inline with that. Ofcourse, there are trove of other anecdotes about how weed is used for creative/artistic purposes but I haven't come across ones related to programming.
Well one other way to frame it would be that 96% of the people who got cancer were not regular drinkers.

When you consider how many people are regular drinkers (and how low the bar is set - only 2 drinks per day) vs how many people get cancer (39.5%), then if only 4% of cancer occurred in regular drinkers, then you would naturally draw the conclusion that regular drinking appears to prevent cancer.

But that goes against the narrative that they're selling.

True, that's just a way to question it from a different angle and try to understand it. But if they don't address that angle, then it doesn't really say much.
By anki3 do you mean anki 2.1.xx that uses python 3 or anki v3?

I don't see any tags or branches on the github repo that indicate anki v3.
Many of my friends doubled down on their alcohol use during the pandemic. This might be another side effect of lockdowns that will kill people and simply be ignored by decision makers.
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I was pretty horrified by it and the way Pence and Romney have been treated is just foolish by conservatives.

I think a better example though is Flat Earth ideas.

Suppressing people from communicating that the Earth is flat is far more dangerous than the idea that the Earth is flat.

All the West really has going for it is that we are able to entertain ridiculous ideas. This is what lets our creativity percolate on the network.

Once that is gone we have nothing. Just a small % of the global population, kind of lazy, kind of entitled.
Except gofmt and many others make the single most boneheaded formatting mistake - aligned indents. Aligned indents will cause a single-line change to balloon into a many-line diff, solely to re-align with the new content's length. This causes all sorts of unnecessary merge/rebase conflicts.
DRM standards yes, OS's no. The IOT market is huge and plenty rely on a Linux/Unix base.
I'm quite sure we do, assuming that US military would be willing to share their experiences from the B61 Mod 11 project.
Just be patient, another decade and the tech will be at a point where his moves can be reverse-engineered back to 3D directly from his films.
Yeah, must be pure luck
Not really, half the EU, especially the east, sided with the US in the matter. I think it was good that Germany didn't cave (yet), but European unity just wasn't there at all.
Alternatively, our entire bodies are 'biological miracles' and nothing specific is remarkable.
For someone out of the loop on crypto tech updates, can anyone ELI5?
A few years back people were getting messages from Google if their docs contained hate speech.

Google's response was that it was a corporate feature that was accidentally turned on for all accounts.

So they certainly have infrastructure to do deep content scans of all users docs. Realistically they probably do still scan all accounts for internal metrics, it's just notification that has been disabled.
I've built several successful SaaS/DaaS startups since I quit my last job back in 2005; mostly just for freedom. (money too I guess)
I'd wager it's harder for the HN audience. They'd have many more services they need to update account info with, or apps they'll need to find parallels for.

Most regular users use a small number of services (Facebook, reddit, whatever) and that will be available across both platforms.

Something like exporting email from one account to another will be more difficult for the regular user, but there's many guides available online. Or more realistically, a nephew to do it for them.
This is not the PrinterNightMare and not patched yet. Workaround is disable the Spooler.
Jobs always said acid was critical to his success. He dropped a good amount of acid, so that probably really would make you think differently.

People can mock it all they want, but I really do get very creative on weed. There's a reason creative companies don't test for it...

It's not something I've shared, but it always surprises me how often I smell weed on the street (again, "illegal"), how easy it is to get, and how many people I wouldn't expect "abused" it at one point or another. I was scared of telling my parents for a long time but came to find out they were both drug using hippies, anyway.
Three points.

One is that our assumptions and norms around free speech/press aren't from digital communications world. They're from TV & newspaper world. Letters & Telephone world. In the last generation, lines have been blurred between mass media, conversational messaging, documents, information, software. Apple's app store escalated the software part of it, AWS further confused it. What "speech" is, for the average person, is hard to draw lines around

Douglas Adam had a good bit on this. Paraphrased: It's explaining to rivers how "the coming of the ocean" will affect them. Currents and such will still exist in the ocean, but... Thus with online media. Do free speech ideals still matter? Yep. What do they mean? How do they work? What do they do? Those aren't, IMO, trivially answerable with analogies to telephone, letter and newspaper world.

Two is that whatever the hell freedoms like association, speech, assembly, media and such mean today, they run through FB, Google, etc. In parts of the world where FB have the dominant free internet deal, even moreso. It's their structures and rules that matter. Say a politician from medium-sized country X is banned from FB or Twitter, this can seriously affect their chances. Same for any kind of activist group, political party, union etc. FB policy people don't necessarily even know the language of the country. Where there are tensions between democratic rights and the new world, the tension is usually highest where a tech giant is.

Three is back to one. There is an interconnectedness here that's hard to stop. We have a digital democracy. It's young, but it's here. Whatever democracy is, happens digitally now.

I hope this isn't cynical, but I've kind of become accelerationist on this. Let's play this game. Force Google's policy courts to be public, maybe.
I get that, but the comment was specifically about pointers (not gotos or structure), and is interesting in general from a historical perspective.

The "goto" keyword is similarly dangerous. I've seen very good arguments for leaving it out, and generally poor arguments for keeping it in a language. "I can use it safely" is not a good argument, because it's just like Jim Jefferies' standup routine linked above: "Why should I have my guns taken away from me?"

An example of a good argument for structured programming is the talk "The Forgotten Art of Structured Programming - Kevlin Henney [C++ on Sea 2019]": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFv8Wm2HdNM

Similarly, this article makes a very good argument that concurrent or async code is essentially the "goto spaghetti reinvented, but even worse", and that Structured Concurrency is the solution: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...
The Apple /// used a 6502 clocked at 2 MHz. The 65816 was an evolutionary dead end - it wouldn’t allow the computer to evolve the same way the 32-bit 68K allowed the Mac to evolve.

IIRC, there was another computer idea floated around in Apple based on the 65816 that was killed before the IIgs project was started.

Making a faster Apple II would eat away Mac sales without providing a path to evolve. That’s also why the IIgs was never allowed to have the higher clocks the 65816 could use.
Though that's what happens, I don't think people call that misinformation but rather bias. Isn't misinformation factually wrong in the common meaning?
It looks like Altenahr has been there for centuries (1)

I apologise for the tone of my above comment, it might come across as dismissive.
Not to ignore the tragedy, but it's not striking at an entirely random location. A floodplain is at risk.

We also should talk about known risks. And how they are getting worse. And how it was known that they would get worse. And failure to plan for that. What's been safe for centuries might not be safe any more.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altenahr
>I am not really sure of the agenda behind this post

Cuba, regardless of its government situation, should have multiple high speed links to the rest of the world. Assuming that you are posting from there, you would be in benefit of this. Having a single link makes it extremely vulnerable to outages caused by both technical and geopolitical issues.

Filtering/control of their people's access is a real but separate issue.
The real power of the pi is not computing prowess but price and access to hardware.
Did you … did you not read the article that says alcohol causes cancer?
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Many people are not aware of the huge range of health issues that alcohol is associated with. It goes way beyond just cancer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_health#/media/File...
(Named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow , the dead epidemiologist, rather than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Snow_(journalist) the channel 4 newsreader, in case anyone was confused)
Doing what with tobacco? Smoking it surely increases risk of cancer more, no?
Seems like fuel for anti-trust
Not with a bang, but with a whimper, huh?

Rage against the dying of the light, my friend.
I guess it pays to wait then and by the time Ableton eventually becomes Apple Silicon optimized, it will already be running on a chip faster than the M1.

Apple will use them as a comparison benchmark alongside Xcode and the like running under Rosetta to see the staggering difference.

That is the time to jump on the Apple Silicon train; when everything you need to do your work is stable.
Yes. Hopefully the study accounted for under reporting.
I’m a European so I’m usually one of the first to defend legislation of companies. But when it comes to censorship that should entirely be down to the platform. Some platforms might have a no nudity policy, some have a zero trolling rule. Others call fair game to all of the above. Different people like to engage on different levels: some are into high brow arts, others just want to trade stories about getting smashed on drugs. And there’s a whole plethora of interests in between from mums talking about the different shades of brown their kids have squeezed out this week to teenagers talking about nipple slips. None of them have any less right to talk in a safe space than the other. So why should there be a law disclosing what people can talk about?

Ok, I agree that Q Anon, anti-vax chat and so on and so forth causes more harm than good. But is it really the governments place to dictate that? What if the government was the one setting these narratives (not that hard to imagine given Trump and Johnson are two of the biggest serial liars in western political history)? Remember Trump threatened to shut Twitter down because Twitter fact checked Trumps post about election rigging.

For free speech to work, you absolutely need companies to be responsible for what they consider acceptable content rather than the government to dictate it.
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I like that with the emerge of Summon The JSON flashcards become more popular. It is a great way to ease the stress of learning and have some fun with it
Yeah, cells have to replicate. And whenever they do, there's a chance of mutation. And whenever that happens, there's a chance it will be malignant.

Multiply up enough of those chances over time, and the limit approaches a 100% chance. It's almost surprising that so few people die of cancer.

Of course, it's always happening, and our bodies are fighting it off all the time. But each time they try, there's a chance that it won't be effective. So it still over time approaches 100%, if something else doesn't get you first.
> There are few people that have authority to negotiate and their time is expensive. If they spend two hours to "negotiate", they are charging a pile of money the company could have paid you instead.

Right, but making my code MIT won't get me paid either.

I will just spend more of my free time offering free support to some large enterprise that can't even figure out how to make a 1h negotiation happen without wasting boatloads of money.
The absence of official requests to reorganize society around well-being at this far into the pandemic is telling. Where are the calls for abandoning economic concerns? What about developing a more giving society? What about promoting people isolate within communities large enough to actually meet all their needs, as opposed to a bubble of only a few, which is practically guaranteed to lead to all kinds of codependent mess?

What about dismantling the parts of society that allow for such rapid transmission of contagion and not simply pausing these or those parts? The avoidant, isolatory, individualistic approaches we've seen in the world are still only a subset of mitigations we could've been trying, but deep changes don't seem to be officially proposed anywhere I've seen.

This has been bothering me since the pandemic was announced. I don't understand what it'll take for people to get serious here. It seems like the same hesitation to implement drastic changes that underlie the persistent states of white supremacy. It seems like a pandemic version of the "Gosh...I don't know. That seems over the top." response to actually dismantling fundamentally racist systems instead of ineffective, slow reform.

Denial can look like lying. It can also look like indecisiveness. It can also look like trying to do a bunch of things that will have predictably negative effects in order to look like something's being done, but for sure won't address the core issues.

Even this letter smells like denial, since the proposed actions don't address all needs and is an appeal for more of the same types of mitigations we've been seeing.

Humans have a finite set of needs and thriving means meeting them all in ways that deny none. Have any of these strategies been examined from that perspective? Online schooling sure hasn't. That's one singular massive thing that's been imposed on young people and it's been an incredible challenge to watch friends who are teachers and friends who are parents comply with what everyone agrees are neglectful-toward-children approaches. This letter seems to ask for more of the same.

I'm glad people are speaking up and look forward to proposals way more radical than this.

Humans have a finite set of needs. If any solution hasn't been assessed from the perspective of "does this systematically deny anyone's needs?" then the assessment is incomplete to the point of being massively harmful. THAT is unethical and illogical.
You're completely right. Having an understanding of the topic is important. In fact it's stressed on our "Making flashcards" guide: https://zorbi.cards/making-good-flashcards

It's mostly the convenience of always having the ability to create a spaced-repetition flashcard there in your browser.

Our primary use cases are studying for exams and language learning. Hopefully that sheds some more light on how the Chrome extension / Notion integration are used.
The abundance of pseudo scientific studies that; Confuse correlation with causation. Fail to control for anything to get an interesting conclusion. Or just exaggerate the results. Has left me to instinctively assume, just from the title that either; Cancer causes alcohol use. Alcohol use causes smoking. Or their sampling groups is in a cancer ward.

I'm not saying this is a bad study, or article. I'm just commenting on the sheer amount of crap circulating is leading to a general skepticism that seems to be filtering out people like me from even clicking the title/link to these studies.
Tool is completely free. We don't plan to paywall the core tool.
Just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGemhK9t44Q
This is really neat, and I appreciate how much work the author did to describe the build process in so much detail.

A couple of general questions:

1. Wouldn't compute modules allow a higher density of pi's? I appreciate that the power management would be more tricky though. I don't know whether there are backplanes available that would address this.

2. Do colos commonly accept self-built kit like this? With single strand wire and electrical tape on the gpios, etc.

(No disrespect intended to the author. As I said, I think this is a great piece of work.)
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Thanks. Can you give an intuition as to the difference between 'structured' and 'unstructured' pruning? What are the pros and cons of each?
> Power failure where all of the above occur at once?

Sure, it's easy enough. I've had UPSes that only noticibly failed once the power failed, and those outages outlasted my fully charged laptop battery.

> Power surge big enough to take out all the breakers, UPS, servers, desktops, and laptops at once?

Sure! One lightning strike to an unprotected network link, for example, can threaten to do just that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev0PL892zSE&t=354s (note: he even added some protection and another lightning storm still caused damage... so he resorted to fiber!)

Even if it doesn't destroy all of your gear, destroying all the main gear your IT crew has login passwords for can slow things way down as they figure out alternatives.

> Ransomware that had time to take control of the whole network including backups?

Even if it hasn't taken over the whole network, you might not be sure which nodes have been taken over (ransom messages might not appear until a lot of data has already been encrypted), and may wish to leave more sensitive nodes offline for forensics, or to preserve data that hasn't been backed up yet, or to avoid needing to resort to slower restoration from offline backups.

Hopefully you have offsite and cold nodes... good reason to have some bootable USBs with recovery images on 'em ready to go as well.

> Theft of a single laptop?

"but that's not a guarantee" was meant to point out that larger scale theft beyond the typical "just a single laptop" isn't unheard of.

> And all of the above across multiple offices with WFH staff and on call staff?

Runbooks can potentially be useful for single-office businesses, and means fewer games of telephone relay even for multi-office businesses.

> Of all these catastrophic failures it's just as likely to be a fire, or earthquake, etc, where you should have multiple layers of redundancy in place anyway.

And runbooks can point you towards those redundancies, many of which may require manual intervention by design (e.g. restoring from cold offsite backups.) You'll note such things as evacuation plans are often printed and displayed prominently near emergency exits, not left in a git repository ;)

And, of course, just because you should have multiple layers of redundancy, doesn't mean you actually have multiple layers of redundancy, even if you think you do.
Great. KDE has always flown strangely under the radar despite being every bit as capable, if not more, than its main alternative. It's like Firefox. Equally as powerful as Chrome, in some cases even better, but never the default anywhere. Any increased exposure can only benefit the project and the code base.
> Real pros use humbuggery; of a set of n true propositions, pick a subset m to lead the audience to your conclusions and you haven’t even “lied”.

I've never heard the word humbuggery before, but I completely agree with the rest. Before social media we used to call that "choosing what to cover". It's also called a "lie of omission", so any censor who suppresses true information can reasonably be accused of lying (or misinformation) themselves.

As others have said, it's not new, but now, for the first time in US history, the media moguls are censoring not only their own broadcasts, but everyone's communications. Could America have ever developed as it has if the postal service or phone company had done that?
Funny. I stopped drinking altogether during the pandemic. It was too hard to get alcohol in the early months, and I just stopped drinking. Pre pandemic my wife and I would have a beer or glass of wine every night, maybe another one while cooking. Always when out with friends. Now, I may only have 2-3 drinks a month. Our drinking wasn’t problematic but I absolutely notice improvements in my health - I don’t feel like shit in the mornings. Thanks Covid!
Yea but not everybody gets vaccinated.

Immunologists today are promoting that everybody should get vaccinated against Covid. Maybe not everybody but vast majority of people that's what they say.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-pro...

My assertion was imprecise - the chemical weapons and the equipment to make them was technically bought from Italy Germany and the UK, but the US arranged for their sale to Iraq to go through and have advice to Iraq on how and where to use them.
Show HN: A user-contributed collection of GPT prompts
Hi HN!

I've been experimenting with GPT-* (GPT-J and GPT-3) for a while and find it really amazing.

Since the way you prompt the model is crucial, I thought it would be useful to have a centralized collection of prompts. Most of the ones I could find are scattered across the web on various blogs, Twitter, Google spreadsheets and so on.

I put up the website in the last couple of days, so there might still be several rough edges but it should be usable now.

I'm also working to add more prompts, but I'm now starting to wonder about licensing/copyright issues if I collect prompts found on the web where no license is specified. The tool allows to provide a link to the original source, but I'm not sure if this is enough? I'll write original prompts if this turns out to be a problem.

Hope somebody finds it useful and I'm open to any feedback or question!