skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The neutrino experiments aren't underground to shield them from background neutrinos. There is no way to shield background neutrinos. They are underground to shield them from other particles that can produce experimental signatures that look similar to neutrinos.

So you're detecting all neutrinos, but you're looking in an energy range where the signal you're interested in rises above the background levels.
Most video calling platforms only expose you to the actual people you are calling which is generally a non issue. Torrents have a public list of all content and all hosts with what content they hold. This is required for peer discovery and it means that a malicious party can just suck up the whole DHT and create a database of every video each IP address watched.
They tried to, but they russianed it.
I’m trying to think of a more asinine and performative reason than revoking a job offer because the youthful recipient flung a few profanities around in celebration of the moment. This is how you preserve a monoculture, folks.

In followup, the advisory board member in question, evidently not such a stick-up-the-ass authoritarian as NASA’s decision makers, was dismayed by the revocation not the exuberance.
Ask HN: Where can I find a dev concierge?
I'm a dev myself, and also someone with a lot of ideas (mainly SaaS, online businesses etc). In the past couple of years I've built most of these ideas (or at least some kind of MVP) myself, and had fun doing so. However, as I get older, I don't want to code that much anymore.

I'm looking for a long-term companion to code stuff for me. I just got an idea for a new search engine? I'll ask them to hack a crawler for it. I want to extract some data from a dataset and build some visualization? Call them to write the SQL queries and make a graph.

I guess a freelancer is the closest to what I'm looking for. However, whereas freelancers are generally mission-based, I'd want someone 1/ for the longer term to reduce search effort per mission, and 2/ ideally with the following traits:
- an early-stage startup CTO mindset,
- jack of all trades,
- expert writing dirty/hacky code,
- has fun doing hackathons or weekend side projects.

A "dev concierge" is the closest analogy I can think of.

Some more practical details that may help: Billed by the hour, remote, market rate. Each "mission" takes maybe 20-40 hours to complete, and I have 1-2 of those ideas per month, constantly.
Hey guys I am looking for work if you are hiring please send me an email:

Brian Herman
Location: Chicago, IL (A suburb of Chicago called Darien, IL)

Remote: Yes

US Citizen

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Years of Experience: 7

Technologies: Python, machine learning(data cleaning only and application of already coded methods such as GPT-J), AWS Lex, AWS Route53, Amazon Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS Virtual Private Cloud, XML, X12, Insurance Underwriting and Claims, HTML, CSS, Vanilla Javascript, JQuery, SOAP, Linux Debian & Ubuntu, Docker Files, CISCO management, Faxes

Interesting Projects: Created payment system that handles hundreds of thousands of dollars per day. Prototyped Created a Amazon powered AI Interactive Voice System with AWS LEX, Lambda and Amazon Connect. Created my own API that we use to power our Insured(Customers) Portal. Resume: https://github.com/brianherman/brianherman/blob/main/Resume....

Github: github.com/brianherman

Email: bherman.live@gmail.com
Thanks. I have to say, this sounds awful -- it sounds like it will be a huge time sink and an impediment to learning about areas of software engineering that transcend specific languages (say, service orchestration, distributed systems, system architecture patterns, workflows, etc)
Opening the Net to commerce was digital original sin
But... but you could have used your powers for good!

Nothing really against the OP, this is arguably more defensible than other similar initiatives. It's just a shame that so many inventive engineers are being put to work in the marketing machine and not more worthwhile endeavours.
Really cool. I've seen a lot of handwritten letter writing services, but most lack realistic variations. It's a pretty crowded market, but this definitely has potential as a spin-off service.

Also, thanks for the A in ACCT 229!
Pandemics are temporary. Binge watching will never go away.
> If private companies don't, nobody will. Most gov'ts are just not interested. Gov'ts move slower than a herd of turtles. The best thing the gov't involvement could be would to establish ground rules, er moon rules. Rules/treaties for Antartica could be a starting point.

This trope has to die. Private industry is great for some things, terrible for others. The same goes for government.

The government landed on the moon and drove around it 50 years ago. Now they're ('we're', it's our government) flying helicopters on Mars and may be driving on a moon of Jupiter in 10 years. We have been to every planet and are currently working in interstellar space (outside the solar system). We did that, through our democratically elected government.

The greatest explorers in the history of humanity, with nobody else within an order of magnitude, are a US government agency, NASA.

Where would we be if we waited for private companies, who won't do anything where they can't turn major bucks or that would risk a bad quarter, and who have little interest in science or discovery?

> Most gov'ts are just not interested.

Many governments are very interested in landing on the moon right now.
Acting on Advice
This isn't the right thread for a post like this. Unless you made Freenet in which case you should also mention that. Also your link 404s and docx is a terrible format for a resume.
What learning curve?
I was about to get out my pitchfork but then I discovered that this is not used for marketing false authenticity. It is actually used in a service that attempts to help people lower their property tax rates. Due to the peculiar aspects of how this works in Texas, a "handwritten" note can improve the chances of a reduction.
I see the point you're making (and mostly agree with it,), but I don't know about calling the Zuckerberg family just 'upper middle class', his grandparents came from humble beginnings, sure.

But I'd rather say Mark himself comes from a squarely upper class background. Upper middle class households don't quite send two kids to Phillips Exeter Academy or boarding schools anywhere in that price range (50-60k per year). There's a big difference in income between a dentist who owns his practice and has other dentists working with him vs. just a dentist; Mark's dad was in the former category.
GE doesn’t own GE capital any longer. Turned out to be a crazy situation where they needed the cash flow but the assets were messed up because of valuations and insurance problems.
I was using some unofficial packages since installing java on my system is difficult so I used the first flatpak and the first docker image I found on google and neither of them shipped an included browser and it seemed like the way was to make firefox work with it but I could not work that out.

It's been too long for me to remember the exact details but if I couldn't work out how to make it run as a long time linux and p2p user, I can't see how the average user could.
For anyone who wants to learn what a good authorization system looks like take a look at Tailscale's recent blog post: https://tailscale.com/blog/rbac-like-it-was-meant-to-be/

Really, if you're going to be selling to enterprise clients, you want an attribute-based authorization system. If you need help designing it, talk to your IT/Devops/SRE teams, they'll be able to complain about bad auth systems and what they'd want in an ideal world.
> the Antarctic Treaty will end and each country will try to grab a piece

Why not make a new treaty? It couldn't be more clear that it's doable and effective.
>It's not P2P, it's federated.

It's both. PeerTube instances federate with each other, but the video player uses P2P to spread the load between viewers.
It's not just the reviews - It's that they mix inventory of the "same" item from multiple manufacturers.
> the marketing machine and not more worthwhile endeavours.

Ah yes, but how do we tell the world about our worthwhile endeavours?

Marketing!

> Nothing really against the OP

No worries at all. You should read some of the other comments!
Using two thermal reservoirs to store/generate electricity:

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/stiesdal-hot-...
It feels like in a lot of circles now the expectation is for Conservatives to be unreasonable idiots, so people tend to put the blame on non-conservatives in the same way you'd blame the parent for raising a snotty child
Are you in a western, middle eastern, or asian city? Most high end jewelers carry Rolexes as authorized retailers.
> Israel had a ~80% vaccination rate.

My source shows them at 64.4%, where are you seeing 80%?

> Had the world's highest daily infection rate last week.

And the world's ~50th highest death rate.

The point of the vaccine isn't simply to prevent you from getting the virus, it's to prevent you from getting sick or dying. Ideally it makes transmission harder too (a less severe infection means less viral load to spread), but that's just a secondary benefit. The primary thing is to stop people from being hospitalised.
There is no code. Ingratiate yourself to politicians long enough, boom your a [whatever financial thing you wanted to be].
No they weren't. The app doesn't need the name of the user at any step.

It wasn't storing the address either - it just has a search field where you input your address any time you need to use it.
Friefox seems to be using an arrow (itself an anachronism in the age of the AK-47, but perhaps the most common ideogram in modern written English) that goes into a tabbed file folder.
I guess it helps to know where/when you can stop assuming everyone else is a seething virus cauldron.

Or from more testing...
Peace of mind for the testee, social liability coverage for self or employer, knowing if infections are increasing or not, vaccines blocking transmission or not, death rate lags by a few weeks for anyone hoping to see a quick change from a new/killed policy.
This is great; I'd love to see practical examples on the project site too
> a story that will now follow the girl as long as people remember this.

Which will be forever, as the Internet never quite forgets. Or she’ll change her name.
I have always disliked the argument that we as a society MUST do X or Y because it will reduce suicide rates.

Being a religious society would also reduce suicide rates, but that won't make America or European societies change from their current secular forms.
Ah well, dust off that pitchfork.

These letters are sent to homeowners, who then hire us, and we go in person to the appraisal district to represent the homeowner.
Show HN: An extension to gather leads from anywhere
Hey HN
Would love for you to try out the extension:
Problem: Gathering leads on consumer social apps like instagram, tiktok, etc. is really manual and time consuming
So, we built an extension that allows us to gather leads from all the channels in one centralized place.

This helped us save hours of time and while having customer data all in one place instead of handling multiple spreadsheets.

Thought we'd share this with you:)

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated
How do you expect it to be addressed? By its very nature, a decentralized anonymous content network like this is highly resistant to all forms of censorship. This includes CSAM removal. It's like crypto - it's either strong or it isn't, you can't have strong crypto with backdoors for when "somebody must do something".
No, they don't do that because "they have been lent out" makes no sense. You give them money and then you are a creditor of the bank. There is no special place for "your" money, ie "they" isn't a thing. It's just a giant bucket of money they now have.

Of course they need the money to fund loans. The money lent by banks doesn't come out of thin air. The bank has some equity (A) contributed by the shareholders and they borrow money (B). They can lend out A+B. That's it. They borrow it from several places, and the cheapest, stickiest way to borrow it is deposits.

There is no magic in banking. No money comes from the sky. The second you think "money is being created" you are going down the wrong path from an understanding perspective. When people who actually know what they are talking about say "money is created" they have a different definition of "money" than you do.
The parent is talking about how the market price is above MSRP right now.
So the issue was that the default bookmarks contained a site directory - "index" in Freenet terminology - which was not properly filtered by its author.

IIRC Freenet's current policy is to only add indexes to the default bookmarks if their authors do label them as filtered.

Perhaps this was a slip-up of whoever the anonymous maintainer of the index was.

It is also possible that in the past the bookmarks contained both the filtered version of an index as well as another one of the same index which was explicitly labeled as unfiltered with a big warning. Then the users could decide on their own if they want filtered content or unfiltered content for the sake of avoiding censorship.

In any case: The default bookmarks are here, you can check the git history yourself:

https://github.com/freenet/fred/blob/master/src/freenet/clie...
The floppy disk icon was introduced by the Macintosh in 01984.
How to make a country rich? (/s)
Yes. If I am doing refactoring work during a sprint, I don't sneak features the business is pushing for into the pull request. I am both held responsible for code being kept maintainable and almost never given any time to keep code maintainable, so I refactor as I go.
> That's the thing: It doesn't have to pay off and it doesn't have to generate revenue. That's not its goal. It is not a business model.

From a purely-technical lens, that may not seem like a fatal flaw. When viewed through a whole-product lens, it is. PeerTube's anonymous, censor-proof nature is enough to attract a certain class of content that repels advertisers, but then what? Until the dark side of distributed technologies is addressed instead of touted as a feature, this doesn't have a chance of popular success.
Let's go!
Super useful for getting user information while prospecting on instagram and other consumer social apps
Yeah there are no official flatpaks or docker images so you were using 3rd-party software and this is not Freenet's fault :)

Perhaps you can update your topmost post to mention that?

The official installers are here: https://freenetproject.org/pages/download.html

Thanks for clarifying though!
> China made a lot of mistakes and also kept other countries in the dark for way too long no matter the origin.

Let's make that mistake and blackout in the scale.

Let's compare China's mistake and blackout against US, the closest nation in population and economy scale.

Well, now we see that China's mistake and blackout are indeed less damaging then US' mistake and blackout...
IMO what invalidates the rest of the piece is that it's currently trending in multiple places. Apparently "they" couldn't get to this article?
The ideal society is that scene in Matrix with towers of reddish cells with people in them.
It wouldn’t work if the Democrats didn’t want to spend an infinite amount of money.
>perhaps it is time to see, that it might cost us a tiny bit of money each month

that's still "generating revenue". maybe not profit, but servers and bandwidth cost non-trivial amounts of money and somebody has to pay for that. whether it's donations, or user-fees, or ads, or private benefactors, the revenue has to come from somewhere. but if a video service has no answer as to how it can sustain itself, it's questionable whether it's worth the effort of developing it or developing your audience on it.
Considering the median wage in the US is around 35k, a 100k "dead end" job sounds pretty good.
Question about text classification without labeled data
Hello!

I am working on a text classifier but at the moment im quite lost on what to do.

The classes form a tree with three levels, for example: class A (level 1), class A.1 (level 2, subclass of A) and class A.1.a (level 3, subclass of A.1).

I have a lot of texts but without labels, also its hard to create a set of labeled data because of the big number of classes.

I've looked at word embeddings, clustering algorithms, topic modeling, keyword extraction algorithms and other approaches but im not sure whats would be a good way to proceed.

Also im not sure how to evaluate the success of the classifier, maybe i could build a small dataset but i wanted to know if there was any other option

At the moment the idea that i like most is classifying by the level of the class, for example: given a text t, get the first level class of t, lets say B, then get the second level class of t (only taking the subclasses of B), lets say B.4, and finally get the third level class of t (only taking the subclasses of B.4), lets say B.4.c, and finally we could say that the class of t is B.4.c.

So i wanted to ask here for advices to continue on this classifier and evaluate its success, thanks! :)
I don't think it matters very much how you throw a grenade as long as you're out of the way of the shrapnel before it goes off. They're set off by timers, not impact.
No one is printing anything.
Freenet can be run through Tor using Onioncat as a virtual network. [0]

[0] https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2016/08/18/using-freenet-over-tor....
Humans don't fit against exact descriptions.

Humans instead learn based on reinforcement, be it positive or negative. So the human essentially builds a world model of what is "good" and "acceptable", and then works against that.

I suspect that a Reinforcement Learning approach to art generation should be producing art that is much better than current works simply because it doesn't aim to imitate, but instead it aims to maximize rewards, or the fitness of the work without relying on individual measurements against an ideal.

It should be noted that RL research is very costly, perhaps a more feasible approach is to train a model to generate art based on noise, and then train the RL agent to generate good noise.
However this is a required step for submitting to many consumer insurance programs
I feel like defining the requirements for work to be done is half the work. If I'm going to specify all the possible inputs and outputs a system accepts, I might as well write the code myself because I've already done all the thinking.
Trump has endorsed the vaccine repeatedly and at the time when democrats were literally saying not to trust the vaccine. So I'm not sure about that
Unfortunately, YouTube seems to be trending away from letting people downvote stuff and having the vote mean anything. If I could see the upvotes and downvotes before viewing something, I'd know better than to view the spam.
There are also tons of spam comments pushing dot fyi or dot xyz domains.

Why can they not just ban urls?
Maybe if it used a clockwork timer? But a vibrating dildo doesn't sound very much like a ticking escapement!
When you actually think of it, it's impossible to design systems that are capable of such "good" censorship without also being open to all the other kind. Experience has also shown that, when such capacity exists, its use expands over time. And some of us have decided that the long-term social damage from that far exceeds the damage from any information that could be effectively censored.
> They have a device in the hands of more than a billion people who spend hours per day staring at it.

Including 99% of Russian legislators. They're suckers for luxury.

To be fair, though, executing political pressure through this kind of means might raise certain red flags back in US, even if that only happens in Russia, one time.
Oh boy. I get to tell a story that I've wanted to tell to HN forever. I grew up in no-where America, population 1,000, 100 miles from the nearest city of 10,000.

One day in High School a new teacher is hired in a quick hurry to replace someone who quit. The man shows up to teach biology wearing a NASA jacket and spends the entire first hour of class explaining all of the work he has done for the agency. He also insists we call him, "Dr. J, because I have enough class credits to have a PhD".

The story could be 100 paragraphs of weird twists and turns, but the short of it is that the guy was a total fraud and had only once volunteered for a citizen science project. One of the things about rural schools is that they're often desperate for teachers, so he got to hang around "teaching" biology until he threatened to shoot some kids and he was finally fired.
> the incompetence of the CCP in the matter.

Oh, how incompetent. They shut down a 10MM population city overnight...

If any other one can do that for a 1MM population city, we'd have a nice vacation in some random city on earth...
>> I'm curious of OP had any moral qualms about deceiving people

> I look at the handwriting as way to optimize open rates, just like writing a good subject line.

So that's a 'yes', then.

> We don't think we're junk mail, obviously.

It's junk mail.
that's bitcoin sv which is not bitcoin
I've built quite a few backend deployment systems over the years and I've liked using Saltstack recently.

It has a fast always-connected transport, is written in Python, and I've found pretty flexible, but it seems really really complicated if you look at the code and has probably hundreds of features you won't use.

So, having built some loosely msgpack-rpc based servers in the past, I wondered how quickly and how small I could build a functional prototype of something that works somewhat like Saltstack, but is easier to bootstrap, and very little code. Also, I'm kinda torn on yaml, I'd rather just write python, and I prefer Mako over Jinja2 (again, I already know python).

So this is a whack at that - self-contained single script client/server over tls deployment system with a built-in file server. It's more or less a toy, but I might continue to flesh it out and use it on some personal projects.

Comments welcome - the code is not really documented, but it's small and some of the interesting stuff happens around places you find 'exec(...)' ;)
I did a year of college and dropped out and began my career at 20. It’s definitely possible to have a good career as a software engineer without it, but it definitely put me at a disadvantage in some situations. Only one time that I explicitly know of professionally but it also caused some problems with feeling insecure.

If you’ve already gotten a job at FB just make sure the offer isn’t contingent on completion of degree and you’re probably fine. But be aware there might come a time where you’d wished you had finished.
Why is it absurd? If all the creditors of any company decided they wouldn't roll their credit, and no new creditors would come along to replace them (ie, in effect a bank run), any company would default. It's not some unique thing to banking. It just tends to rear it's head more often in banking because banks are more levered than most other companies, and the nature of the agreement with creditors (you can call in your loan any time) means it can happen fast.
> conservatives. They're the ones who aren't taking vaccines or wearing masks.

Minorities (POC, Latinx) have the lowest vaccination rates. Do these groups generally lean conservative?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/health...
It absolutely is. It's the justification given for the ramping up of the drug war in the 80s and the crime bill in the 90s that made the US the largest prison system in the world both relative to the population and absolute numbers. When you hear "think of the children," run.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2...

https://www.vox.com/2015/10/11/9497161/incarceration-history