skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it take a lot of effort to be this awful of a human being or does it come second nature to you?
Guess what. Predictable, unfortunately.

What strikes me is that life is imitating art to such a high degree of fidelity.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2239913-how-realistic-i...

What drives these people?

Oh, and this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27852130 got flagged.

HN is now officially part of the anti-vaxx & conspiracy nutcases battleground.
There are massive advances in subjects like materials and biotechnology happening now, they're just not big and flashy despite being at least as game-changing as any other major advance over the last century.
I don't think my framing is cynical (or wrong). Facebook has a clear incentive to reduce CSAM reports and end to end encryption will help by preventing automated systems, which do most of the detection, from detecting CSAM in messages. I don't think its Facebook's only motive for implementing end to end encryption, but I doubt they haven't considered it.

It's good to give users the options to report such materials. As I mentioned though, the majority of CSAM detection is done by automated systems. I might guess that if two pedophiles are trading CSAM via Facebook messenger they will be both be unlikely to report the other.
Yeah, COVID is pretty bad. If possible, nobody wants to catch it.

But COVID to human civilisation is like a badly stubbed toe to a human. Painful. To be avoided. Maybe quite a bit of damage. Not really a threat if responded to in a rational way & with some whimpering.
"In lieu of" means "instead of". Think of a lieutenant as a stand-in for a commander. In your post, you mean something like "related to" or "with that in mind".
Back End Developer
Talksome | Fulltime | Onsite/ Remote | Netherlands (The Hague)

https://www.talksome.com/jobs/back-end-developer/

Our daily activities are based around a multi-tenant hosted telephony platform. It provides all basic PBX functionality, as well as multiple API’s for our customers to customize their services. The platform is a distributed system containing various open-source components, combined with a number of self-developed products.
My problem with Postman is that is very expensive for what it provides. It is $12 per user per month. Microsoft 365 Personal that comes with 1T of storage and all the standard office applications costs $7, business plan starts from $5 to $12 (If only MS Teams was a little better product...).

IntelliJ costs $150 per year and it gives way more value than some tool that can just run tests and allow to share them between people.

Postman has some convenience to run quickly REST call, right, but for anything more serious it is more productive to use Robotframework or after a bit of writing glue code in Java JUnit + Restassured. Everything is in the code, easily versioned.

I don't know how to achieve in Postman tests versioning (different version of a test for a product version or different tests for new API version), probably this can be somehow simulated with environments, etc. but for me this is hacky and hard to maintain. I guess people just copy-paste a collection for new version.
I've been seeing a big push for magnesium these last few weeks here on hn, any specific reason for that?
Walmart sells insulin for $25 per vial [1]. There are cheaper offers, still.

The problem is there are newer formulations with advantages in terms of convenience, safety and durability. These require R&D to develop and are not universally available. (Diabetic friend had trouble finding his preferred formulation outside the U.S., U.K. and Sweden, for instance.)

We have huge problems with healthcare in America. But the insulin meme is misleading to the point of derailing discussions about legitimate reform.

[1] https://diabetesstrong.com/walmart-insulin/
Facebook Announces Soundmojis for Messenger
What makes you think that rust is a long term replacement for c++? I'm neither a rustacean or a dogmatic c++ follower, but it'd pretty clear to me right now that rust isn't going to replace C++.

There is so much inertia in the field with both existing projects and new projects being written on C++, what seems more likely is you end up with a split akin to C vs C++
Facebook wants creators, but YouTube is paying creators much, much more
I must admit I'm not sure how one would distinguish an agenda, from simply a viewpoint that has remained unchanged.

My education in history differs from most of HNs, so I find it difficult to let slide a field of study that omits half of the history it claims to represent. Nevertheless, if you insist, I'll refrain from commenting on this topic entirely in the future (I would offer to comment in a non-flamewar style, but if my above post counts as flamewar, I don't think there's a way to express my perspective without it).
it is possible to run Epic game store using lutris: https://lutris.net/games/epic-games-store/
There is also alternative launcher: https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher
some games need more tinkering to run as versions in epic store seems to be less linux friendly
Synthesia – Mid/Senior Full Stack Engineer – Anywhere in Europe
Start date: ASAP

Synthesia is the global leader in synthetic media. Our vision is to build the first fully programmable video generation platform and help everyone transform non-video content into video.

Synthesia is already working with some of the world’s biggest companies and celebrities such as David Beckham and Lionel Messi, BBC, EY, Facebook, McDonalds, Amazon and WPP.

Our Messi campaign collaboration also received a Cannes Lion Award in 2021 and we’ve raised more than $16M so far from names like Marc Cuban, First Mark Capital, Seedcamp and more.

About the Position
In this position you'll join our small and extremely talented product team that is building the future of programmable video. Our team is working on our core product, Synthesia STUDIO, the world’s leading AI video generation platform for businesses, and Synthesia API, our fast growing API for personalized video generation at scale.

You'll have a chance to work on scaling our current, fast-growing product and shape some of the next products in our pipeline. This is a front-end oriented position, but we want you to be comfortable with at least basic back-end concepts, so the ability to work both on front- and back-end of our application is important. Our technical stack is: Python, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS.

We have a fast development cycle and are working with product managers who have a technical background enabling them to understand technology in more detail.

3+ years of experience in working as a software engineer (preferably in a startup but not a deal breaker);
2+ years working with React/Redux front-end applications;*
Experience with centrally managed state (Flux / Redux / MobX);
Experience with data structuring libraries (Immutable.js / Immer);
Experience optimising the performance of front-end applications;
Good level of spoken and written English.
*Alternative knowledge: Angular.js or Vue.js

In short: This is an awesome opportunity for someone who has been a developer on a full stack application for 2 or more years. We are developing a front-end intensive SaaS application that already has thousands of business users and is growing rapidly day by day.

In addition to being a part of a great team, working in a fun and innovative environment, we offer:

A generous bonus and stock option plan;
25 days annual leave (in addition to existing public holidays);
Flexible work from home policy (or fully remote in Denmark/rest of Europe);
No crazy hours, no wasteful meetings (we try to minimize meetings and give you time to focus on deep work);
Annual company retreat.
I fully agree, but my impression is that most people have some notion of that term. There is even a Wikipedia page about Big Tech, but of course nobody claims to have a strict definition.

My hope has been that different perspectives on that term also manifest when specifying concerns.
Yep, not enjoying the work in general is definitely one cause, but there are other ones. In our materials, we divide the causes into: behavioral, temporary, and deeper causes. Then we deal with them more specifically.

From personal experience I know that the same work can be daunting or motivating, depending on the personal habits/behaviors and systems. In other words, they are temporary. That's what the course focuses on (not looking for a new job).

In any case, your advice about figuring out the root cause is spot on (and also in the course).
“ The company says it now plans to open-source the software it developed for brain decoding and also provide access to prototype devices, so other researchers can benefit from its work”

Anyone found this repo ? I would love to see some of their pipeline’s parameters. They ‘should’ have a fine-tuned processing pipeline that’s interesting for different kind of bio-signal sensors.
Honestly, I use go for things I wouldn't use c++ for even if I had the choice. Do I want to do some file wrangling, text manipulation, async or web api calls? Even the "nicest" of c++ libraries (manu of which are poor wrappers around a C library) are really poor ergonomically where go takes the biscuit. I definitely don't see myself writing gameplay code in go though
Creatividad: Vivir feliz o ver la vida pasar
Can't imagine coding without a good keyboard though. And mobile mechanical keyboards are too heavy to carry around.

It should be great for debugging random server problems while on vacation though.
And if they're aware of the implications, they add it to the list of public suffixes when they do create one.

github.io and gitlab.io are on that list, for example.
I think the OP was making a joke.
> Not to mention it sounds great.

I grabbed my best pair of headphones and monitors ... but I imagine that any recording just does not do this monster of a piano justice.
Haven’t tried Flask yet but it looks interesting.
If it wasn't the real explanation then nothing America does makes any sense. There have been a notable lack of invasions of African, Asian, European or South American countries. The Middle Easterners aren't that different from everywhere else - except they have lots of oil.
> It’s also utterly like us as a species to think that killing 3 out of 4 people is an easier fix than just living within our means.

Individuals aren't really responsible for the mass amounts of pollutants put into the atmosphere the same way corporations are. In order for the human population to "live within it's means" at an impactful scale it would require a change of capitalist philosophy that quite obviously isn't going to change anytime soon.

Kicking the can down the road 30 years is by far the best option we have available to us at this point (not that it will happen in my lifetime).
i hate when people downvote because they simply disagree with the message.
Fortunately app stores are not the only way to install Telegram, and Telegram is rather popular in Poland. Hopefully this fact will force the government into much bigger absurdities, eventually leading to the end of this silliness.
I meant that they'd sooner allow some infix operators than overloading, not that they intend to add operators in the language's first version.
If YouTube didn't exist most of these non live creators would have no business. There is no alternative platform. People earn incomes from regular 200k view videos from non paying customers.

YouTube is completely unnafordable from my understanding without Alphabet cross subsidising it.

So if anti trust attacks YouTube it's fairly likely that entire industry dies
I'd argue that the ultimate scenario is that you prevent procrastination before it arises.

I do get what you're saying about too many steps. I tried to avoid that pitfall. For instance, the Deprocrastinator 7000 feature is about getting the right lesson in a short amount of time. You pick a problem, you get a lesson that contains a specific technique, you apply it with the worksheet. Information --> action.
It would not solve climate change, but really, what's horrible about it?

We live in a world of finite resources. If we, as a species, overpopulate to the point where these finite resources run dry, what are the best options?
Flutter Performance Updates
Wouldn't it be easier to raise funds and lobby Congress to get laws passed to make insulin basically free in the US and defacto pushing that globally?

Trying to make your own has a lot of steps that need to go right or people die. You also have to deal with regulators.
There is certainly some truth to what you say. Threading is... just not (afaik it's a sort of green-threads thing) and UI is, as you point out, a crapshoot. However... ;)

If I'm going to write code for my own amusement, I want to work in Smalltalk and a Smalltalk environment. Ever since I first encountered it in the early 1980s, it's been my environment of choice. IMHO there's still no other programming environment that approaches the flexibility, liveness, debuggability, white-boxness of Smalltalk. To paraphrase Guy Steele, "All languages will evolve until they become Smalltalk". (Steele said something of the sort about Lisp.) That said, and jokes aside...

Where Smalltalk beats every other language environment I've ever worked with or seen is at exploratory programming: Programming where you don't quite understand the problem, the domain and/or the solution space. It's more a tool for thinking about problems and how to solve them than something for a fixed, final answer. I suggest, further, that a very great deal of software development is exploratory in nature, so using a Smalltalk is a win, at least until you've understood everything in sufficient depth to "just implement a solution". At that point go to something with better runtime performance, deployability, etc. by all means. Caveat being that sometimes (quite often, really) the exploration never, ever reaches a conclusive terminus, so you may want to stick with a Smalltalk.

tl;dr: Use Smalltalk to explore and understand, and then finally to deliver an executable, test-driven specification.
If "continuous growth is unsustainable" is the only conclusion of the model then it isn't very useful!
I do agree with this but would add that you wouldn't want to do static docking to a single protein and sidechain configuration anyway so you're bound to find a usable forcefield. The incoming structure (ideally!) only needs to fall into the right energy landscape valley. If your forcefield and MD simulation can't keep this stable within the natural protein's configuration space you are probably not going to make progress, and you need the simulations to evaluate the natural energy landscape at body temperature, not cryo temperature.

There are some examples of this issue in the AlphaFold blog, some protein loops that they thought were mispredicted but it turned out they were part of an energy degeneracy so the natural state fluctuated pretty wildly, so if you can't simulate this properly it matters less how accurate the incoming structure is (to a certain degree of course).
.. or maybe there should be a small "system service" that looks particularly for such a "mass encryption pattern"?
I'm not sure what this is hoping to accomplish. Coming up with a lab method to make insulin is about 5% of the way to providing actual insulin for patients.

You'd still need to: 1) develop a scaleable process [pilot plant], 2) have a robust enough analytical process to make sure you're not killing anyone, 3) have a reproducible process so that each dose is the same.
The problem which we already have the technology to fix is food. What people eat is cultural and is effected by cost and availability. There is much we currently discard or do not cultivate because it not what we traditionally see as food and because there is no cost incentive to encourage a change in culture. Changes can however occur given the right triggers, like how large portion of Europe went over to potatoes during the European 19th century population boom. We could see a similar change in food culture towards seaweed if topsoil issues became widespread, and there is plenty of space for technological improvements in aquaculture.

Similar, fresh water is primarily a cost issue. Right now the only economical method to provide water at the lowest cost is to take naturally occurring fresh water. There are alternatives. It does not take a lot of solar, wind or nuclear power plants to supply a large city population with fresh water extracted from the ocean. The construction and operational costs would however be need to be taken from something else, reducing welfare and industrial output.
Zūm wants to use its electric school buses to send power to the electrical grid
Fully Persistent Graphs – Which One to Choose? [pdf]
Extroversion and introversion do not work like that.

In layman terms, it is where you "get your energy from". For introverts they spend energy when they have to interact with lots of people and be the "center of attention". But it doesn't mean they don't like it. Or that it's bad for them. It just means they have to go and be by themselves after to recuperate.
Fantastic article: "About 50% of the chips worked, so he examined the rejects individually with tweezers to figure out what adjustments would improve the yield."

With tweezers. And they sent these same ICs into space, if I read correctly. Nowadays, due to the miniaturization, you can get bitflips or energy spikes when cosmic radiation particles hit your ASICs. I've worked at SRON, the Dutch space agency, and remember a team down the hall working on radiation-hardened ASICs. The team worked to mitigate these risks with ground plates and other stuff inside the ASICs.
And it boosts Linux stats among Steam users.
Magician 1.1.16 is released, the handler adopts annotation configuration
Ask HN: How to build a budget clone of Google Starline for personal use?
Google Starline video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q13CishCKXY
Yes it's not pretty
Cool project with a clean layout and neat little illustrations.

If you were taking suggestions:

* First video should be somewhat interesting and relevant to the topic, I felt that for a video named "Introduction" it was mostly promotions for other products/the "premium" versions/etc.

* Having three animating progress bars on desktop for each step is a little distracting. There's one in the video embed, one green progress bar below the video, and another green loading bar on the left.
I have yet to see a relevant ad that is actually relevant to me. 99% of the time I just get things recommended that I either just bought or have generally no interest in. I get better results from random ads, sometimes I find interesting links in those.
Making Insulin is entirely possible todo if you have the right yeast strain it could manufacture Insulin instead of alcohol, i would presume they are attempting to do something similar. The problem is in order to be accepted as safe medicine it has to be certified, QA etc ... by the time they do that it would have Become Big Pharma they are trying to fight. Without a proper plan it will fail. Insulin isnt some home remedy one will consume. It has to be intravenous which makes it problem.
Show HN: Hazelcast 5 BETA – streaming+storage in one
When you are using work equipment, you should not, consider your communications private unless specifically indicated.

In a work environment your reasonable expectation is to your person, and personal belongings.

There has been exceptions in both directions but in general, this seems to be the agreed upon rules.

So if you want to vent, use your personal phone, on your service providers, using software not owned and managed by your employer.
Yes, sort of. I think one of the early Foundation books was essentially composed of two or three shorter works and had both a time gap and a change of protagonists.

But having a change of protagonists in "continuous time" actually was not easy to pull off, and I am not sufficiently happy with the result to consider it worth distributing wildly.

Nonetheless, actually keeping at something means it's surprisingly easy to amass results over time.
The report in the NEJM on the research:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2027540?query=fe...

Neuroprosthesis for Decoding Speech in a Paralyzed Person with Anarthria

METHODS

We implanted a subdural, high-density, multielectrode array over the area of the sensorimotor cortex that controls speech in a person with anarthria (the loss of the ability to articulate speech) and spastic quadriparesis caused by a brain-stem stroke.

Over the course of 48 sessions, we recorded 22 hours of cortical activity while the participant attempted to say individual words from a vocabulary set of 50 words.

We used deep-learning algorithms to create computational models for the detection and classification of words from patterns in the recorded cortical activity. We applied these computational models, as well as a natural-language model that yielded next-word probabilities given the preceding words in a sequence, to decode full sentences as the participant attempted to say them.

RESULTS
We decoded sentences from the participant’s cortical activity in real time at a median rate of 15.2 words per minute, with a median word error rate of 25.6%.

In post hoc analyses, we detected 98% of the attempts by the participant to produce individual words, and we classified words with 47.1% accuracy using cortical signals that were stable throughout the 81-week study period.

CONCLUSIONS
In a person with anarthria and spastic quadriparesis caused by a brain-stem stroke, words and sentences were decoded directly from cortical activity during attempted speech with the use of deep-learning models and a natural-language model.

(Funded by Facebook and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03698149. opens in new tab.)
there certainly are pianos that are incredibly long for this reason.
Aside from being a local celebrity, Alex services pianos around Dunedin. Who better to ask to tune my piano than Alex. And he blessed me with a tour of his piano shop and a concert on the long piano. He is the coolest guy ever. I asked him about the possibility of making a piano which two people could play -- in the same key and he entertained the idea. He is so passionate. Such a cool person!
Yeah, I suspect it's going to be more people packed into smaller areas, and massive investments in public transport infrastructure. There's going to be a lot of people who don't buy it.
Unfortunately either you, or they are mistaken.
Hm. Interesting.

Maybe I’m old-school but as a viewer I think I would prefer a narrator instead of a deepfake.
Facebook has accidentally deleted chatbot apps and they are sorry
Not passionate enough. Not payed adequately for the effort.
To much information and possibilities. Fear of missing out.
Solution:
Limit your daily information flow, make a choice what is really exciting for you with reasonable reward and make it a habit. Proceed without doubt and overthinking.
I wonder if "conditionally send a local variable over a channel" is another good example of something that's hard to clean up with defer.

One upside of destructors is that adding destructor cleanup to a type isn't necessarily a breaking change. (In Rust terms, as long as the type isn't "Copy".) But in languages with defer or with/using statements, it is.

Another upside of destructors is that the cleaned-up state can be mostly hidden from other code. But when cleanup is a regular function, it's easier to access an object after cleanup, and you have to reason more about what happens in that case. (A Rust example here might be "What happens if you use a Box after it's freed?" The answer is that you just can't do that, even though Box doesn't have a freed/null state.)