skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to say that I love this. I’m not your target audience, but I think the idea and execution are pretty damn neat and I hope you succeed.

I’d try to put some focus on helping users who aren’t ML savvy understand the different algorithms and hyperparameters, the choice can be confusing otherwise.
Presumably you'd be able to swap out some hardware to be able to increase ram/processor performance. If I were designing this as a real product I'd still make some choices similar to the megacorps (yearly product releases being one) but change what the product is (the new line of cameras, said ram/processors, etc) that would slot into the existing machine. Rather than selling you a 1000+ dollar phone every couple of years I'd sell you the option to customize a phone to meet your needs.
> Consider a scenario where you're consulting on someone else's small- or medium-sized project and your bug costs the client a huge amount of money in the middle of the night

You can also set alarms that warn you of projected usage.

> Now who pays? Say goodbye to your paycheck or reputation, even though it should have been preventable.

If it’s legitimate usage then I’m not really sure what you’re advocating; are you implying a service being suspended in the middle of the night because a hard spend limit has been hit is somehow better for your reputation?

Or maybe you’re suggesting that it’s not legitimate costs, in which case you’ve set AWS wrong to begin with and thus your reputation probably deserves to be queried.

> Another scenario: you launch a startup, and a bug empties the bank account and kills the company. If the solution is to just not use things like AWS and GCP (including Firebase, which has no billing cap) when you're getting started, why are they advertised that way?

No cloud service operates that way. In that situation you’ll almost always get charges refunded. Even in instances of gross negligence (which would be the case here since for the bank account to be emptied it means you’ve not been watching your spend for more than a month and no business should operate that way)

I do get the points you’re trying to make but I’ve been working with the cloud for some time and have seen plenty of horror stories, all of which were due to gross negligence and most of which were still refunded by AWS as a gesture of good will. They’d much rather have your repeat business than burn their users with bills that cannot be paid.
It shouldn't also take away from the rights of others. When prison labor is obtained below minimum wage, or under conditions or terms that workers would not accept, you hurt low income workers and drive down their wages in aggregate.

In my opinion, prison labor should only be used for public works. Cleaning up parks and that sort of thing. Giving a captive labor stream to private enterprise is only good for the owners of the select few firms who can take advantage of it.
no team disclosed,
no ownership information,
no real privacy policy,
no real terms of service,
no info on infrastructure and provider partners,
promises "complete privacy" and "anonymity" (as if attainable, especially with no traffic mixing and BTC payments)...

don't trust services that promise things they can't deliver and you cannot vet properly.
Although a pain requiring backwards compatibility is an incredibly strong force in helping remains competitive in the market that is one of the reasons Windows continues to stick around despite it's many other copious flaws.
I swear I spend half my upvotes these days on grey comments that, AFAICT, someone simply disagrees with. In this case, the commenter was foolish enough to answer someone's question in a manner free from jackassery; stay classy, HN.
My dell xps hibernation doesn't work.

20% of the time it works.

40% of the time it won't wake and I have to kill it (screen stays dark even though keyboard indicates it is awake)

30% of the time it just immediately wakes

10% of the time it wakes at like 2am and power cycles my monitor every 30 seconds waking me up
Agreed. This happened with my Dell laptops, ROG laptops, and Thinkpads. It's just a Windows problem.
I'd argue that it's less an issue of branding, and more an issue of credibility. If you were about to get surgery, and the surgeon came in and started talking about how the lastest InfoWars really nailed it, and how the US government was being manipulated by space lizards and CERN was just about to open a black hole, would you let him take you under the knife?

If these police are flagrantly ignoring the law, and are getting their news media from conspiracy theorists, they lose the credibility to be trusted in making rational decisions. You don't put people who aren't critical thinkers in positions of extreme power and responsibility.
> Did anyone expect anything else? It was either extinction of the virus (which was unrealistic once it was out of China) or it evolving into a sort of cold with lots of casualties on the way there (the better adapted a disease is to their host, the better the survival rate of the host usually is).

The "evolve into a cold" hypothesis was more wishful thinking than a sure thing (i.e., pretending the problem would magically go away), which thankly was made possible with the quick turnaround time of the current batch of vaccines.

However, not only are there serious long-lasting consequences from getting Covid but it is also possible to be reinfected with more serious consequences.

Finally, there was a third scenario which I feel people are glancing over: the inception of new strains that pose bigger health risks. The Delta variant popped up from nowhere, spread like wildfire, and is deadlier. In a scenario where vaccines do not ensure immunity and where restrictions are being lifted then this development needs to be on the table because arguably we are already living it.
Saying that

humans (or other animals, because this problem is not unique to humans) gain weight because they consume more calories than they burn

is like saying that

planes crash because the force of gravity became stronger than the lift generated by the wings.

An obvious physical truism, but it gets you nowhere on the field of disaster. And if you do not dig further into the problem (pilot error? machine malfunction? controlled flight into terrain?), you won't be able to prevent future disasters.

For starters, short of outright starvation (0 is certainly 0), we do not even know how many calories we eat, and we might never be able to find out. The values written on the packaging are measured by burning said food in calorimeters, but our bodies aren't calorimeters and there is a huge systemic error, perhaps 30 per cent. Even chewing the food longer can increase the total calorie intake from the same meal.

Personally, I had reasonable and sustainable results with intermittent fasting. Blood pressure normalized, waistline diminished, though not to the point of having a sixpack. But I didn't have the same sustainable results with generic calorie restriction and 5 meals a day. I was miserable, cold and felt hungry all the time. That is not life.

None of those bad effects seem to be present on IF.
Don’t give Musk more ridiculous ideas, he might just get them funded!
The last days of the Amiga–The Deathbed Vigil
It depends what kind of gig you're talking about. I believe Uber lost 50% or more of their drivers. They increased pay rates, ran ad campaigns, and more. A lot less people were going out. But if you're staying in, you're ordering more groceries. So InstaCart may not have had the same pain.
You can only decrypt connections if you have the key.

If the browser sends details over plain HTTP, it is very easy to inspect. You know, by putting yourself as a man in the middle. If , in that scenario, the browser spontaneously starts sending encrypted data, you should have many questions.
>Finally, you have the government deciding policy based on much more than just the environment.

I feel like this is the crux of your problem. People and governments have multiple priorities to balance
Then get children.

Life is more important than career.
I was once a fan of Stossel as a more mainstream libertarian voice. However, the segment he did where he slept rough for one night to “prove” that homelessness wasn’t so bad after all was so deeply offensive to me that I haven’t viewed any of his content since.
Reading the thread, the original post was:

"Oh! Well, I actually did not know this. You are saying they realized they shouldn't use my Gmail to customize what ads they show me; how can I verify you are right to say so?"

and then my response:

"Googler here, who worked on Workspace (which gmail is a part of). Anyone who works in workspace could confirm that, it's something that is taken very seriously."

I'm not sure how I could have been more clear...
I'm working on one too! Just got to the milestone of being able to scroll the Nintendo® logo. I refer to rboy a lot, it's been helpful to see another implementation.

https://github.com/percentcer/cerboy
I was under the impression the UK builds it’s own warheads at AWE/Aldermaston. What we bought was the delivery platform.
Surprise is an emotion, and it's surprising that someone so old decided to become a domestic terrorist.
In addition there was some controversy as they were behind the Lancet open letter that first renounced the idea of a lab origin. They got a bunch of scientists associated with their organisation to sign it, without mentioning EcoHealth by name or stating competing interest.

My spidey sense is certainly tingling, though of course no smoking guns. But the jigsaw pieces fit. Can’t get the funding in North Carolina? Let’s try Wuhan.
Math is objective, not subjective, which is why 1+1=3 is incorrect, not just a violation of my preferences.

Binary is not a different math system. It's the same math system with the same rules but a different radix. 1+1 does not equal ten in binary. It still equals 2. You're just using a different notation for the same concept of two. The substance of the thing is not identical to how you signify it, which is why you can write "two", "2", "II", "2r10", ...all of which signify the same abstraction.
When windows is hibernated, if a scheduled task is set for a specific time, it will use the hardware wake-up feature to turn on the machine and run the scheduled task.

Windows has a lot of 3am scheduled tasks for all kinds of random stuff (disk defrag, various update checks, etc). Any of those can cause the system to reawaken.
The Deathbed Vigil is a classic work of amateur documentary filmmaking that is absolutely worth a watch.

It's a bit slow to start, but it gives an unparalleled view of the last days of Amiga and the people who made it such an amazing compute and such an amazing community.
Here in Brazil it works this way and unfortunately we found out it is kind of bad idea.

We had a couple corrupt parties convince inexperienced people that were wildly popular to run for them, these people (for example one guy is a circus clown that wrote some music that went viral) then get massive amounts of votes, and drag with them to the parliament all the corrupt politicians.
The iPhone 5s still receives security updates and is now 8 years old. And it's not on Apple's "vintage and obsolete" list, which means they still have repairs available. So it's not quite a "10 Year Smartphone" yet, but it's already a "8 Year Smartphone"

But I think the call for the Right for Repair is needed. Mandating companies provide (at least security) updates and keep parts availability for 10 years seems like a good thing. I doubt Apple will keep supporting the 5s forever, and even so that's currently the oldest smartphone with current security updates. The next closest (outside of iPhones) is Samsung at 4 years and Google at 3 years.

Even if the phones will get slower and don't get fancy new features, I know plenty of people that are still happily using 5+ year old phones. And manufacturers should definitely be required to provide security updates long past that point.
>If Stossel never said "Not by climate change", and then Facebook falsely attributed that statement to him and rated it false, they certainly seem guilty of defamation.

This is strictly, legally false in the US. What you have described here does not satisfy the legal definition of defamation. It will get thrown out in court immediately.

Here are the qualifiers for speech to be considered defamation:

To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the person or entity who is the subject of the statement.

and here's a relevant Supreme Court ruling that further restrains what can be considered defamation:

In The New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), the Supreme Court held that for a publicly-known figure to succeed on a defamation claims, the public-figure plaintiff must show that the false, defaming statements was said with "actual malice." The Sullivan court stated that"actual malice" means that the defendant said the defamatory statement "with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not."

Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation
The Gulags were also full of people who have committed crimes. Some of those crimes were even non-political!

I can't say that's the argument that I'd use to defend slavery, though...
As written in the article, the amount already there will last humanity at least a century.
Wow, this is a great point that I hadn't previously considered. These platforms can even conceivably get away with content removal more easily as ToS violations without stepping over the line to become publishers. But if one considers a fact-check as its own content, then that may become a defining point in a future ruling or examination of 230.

I imagine there's a great case to be made that fact checks are platform sponsored content (if a fact check is viewed as an analysis of the content along with verdict [ie. "Misleading"], easy to view that similarly to the plethora of analysis content [reviews, summaries, etc] populating all social media platforms). I'm fascinated to see how this will play out.
Mine is:

https://www.faridamuktar.com/2020/09/01/muslims-do-have-pers...
Exactly what I was thinking. You’re more likely just to have a wide open and highly/easily penetrable/vulnerable server up for grabs at that point.
Good. Now summarize Wikipedia.
If people just started throwing random sleeps into tests, I think management would shit a brick. Do people throw random sleeps into production code to fix bugs where you work as well?
If you want your spend to be capped then there’s nothing stopping you from setting a CloudWatch alarm at a budgeted threshold that then scales down your infra.

AWS is like Lego. You’re supposed to build on it to create the behaviour you want
Also makes me think that if two different varieties of fish, steak etc. are so indistinguishable to the end consumer that you have to rely on genetic analysis to separate them, what warrants the massively inflated price of one over the other?

If I order a $500 bottle of wine but am served from a $50 bottle, and neither I nor anyone else at the table can tell the difference, did I not still get the $500 "experience" I wanted?
So, history buffs are nazis? And just when I thought I'd heard it all...
Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpLIBY9nReU

In includes phrases like: "If all you know is climate scientists then every weather event you blame on climate change. If not climate change, what is to blame? [...] Foolish policies."

"You could have had this amount of warming and not had these fires."

"Bad policies were the biggest cause of this year's fires, not the slightly warmer climate."

"While climate change is a problem, Schellenberger's new book explains it's not an apocalypse: natural disasters aren't getting worse, in fact they're getting better. [...] A small change in temperature is not the difference between normalcy and catastrophe."

To summarize: the video heavily implies throughout that the fires are not caused by climate change, and literally says so a couple times. Facebook did not falsely attribute that claim. They didn't fully summarize the entire video, but I don't think the fact check is intended to - it just pulls out one particular claim it wants to address.

Aside: this video wasn't that bad, and I don't know if it needed a fact check, but that's not what the lawsuit is about. It did acknowledge that climate change is real and happening. However, it exclusively talked about climate change as a warming phenomenon, which is not the main issue and is a misleading characterization of why climate change is bad. Warming causes many other issues which are much more harmful than just "a small change in temperature". The discussion about forest management was valid and important, it should just be happening at the same time as discussion about climate change.

Edit: Here's the original Facebook post where you can see the fact check: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015712197.... I believe this is visible even if you don't have an account.

Here's the fact check: https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/climate-change-fores....

Here's the fact checkers response to the lawsuit: https://climatefeedback.org/responding-to-stossel-tv-video-o....
I still don't understand why compiling C programs is such a pain. Something about linking and dependencies; assumptions about system state that are often not true. IMO it should be as simple as 'cargo build'.
It seems like most of them are - they know (or at least believe) that the rules won't apply to them after the "revolution".
Watching the video, Google has a display in their visitor center with a similar mouse/dial thingy for navigating Google Earth.
Same with the powershot line. It’s good enough and fits in your pocket.
That's not correct, the upper limit is much higher. If you win 299 districts and get 0.1% of the party vote, the Bundestag needs enough seats to properly represent 99.9% of the other parties. So you basically (it's somewhat more complicated in practice) need to multiply 299 by 999 to get the proper amount of seats..
That may well have been me! I've been playing around with Waydroid on my Pinephone, and just installed Whatsapp to try out. I didn't message anyone, as it's a new number that I'd like to minimize FB knowing about, but the browser, Whatsapp, and the Voipms SMS app are more than smooth enough to be usable (though far from modern-phone fluid).

I've said previously, and will say again though: the Pinephone and Waydroid are still very rough. For example, I'm going to have to figure out why Waydroid, which used to be full-screen, now only takes up half the screen. So if you occasionally need an app that's Android-only, maybe you can make the Pinephone work now. But likely only if you're at least a little bit fanatical.
It is the only definition of blockchain that matches it's use. Where they copied the word from, the bitcoin datastructure, is unrelated
> In Africa, while there was a lot of colonization, in most places the indigenous people were not displaced (and replaced) to the extent that they were in Europe

No, the Bantu expansion was mass genocide on a continental scale. The bulk of africa was previously populated by brown skinned people and pygmies, not by Bantus, who originated in the west Niger delta. From that delta, they exploded, exterminating the rest of south saharan Africa. Most of the natives were killed but some were enslaved and kept as food - an entire continent genocided, with many tribes eaten to extinction.

You can see evidence of this with DNA studies and by the fact that virtually all the brownskinned people or pygmies are gone. Sub-saharan africa is now a black skinned continent inhabited primarily by Bantus, when it was previously a heterogeneous continent with black and brown skinned people as well as pygmies.

It may have taken more time than the European conquest of America, but it was much more bloody.
In the video he says he has owned 125 smartphones in the last 7 years. Apparently hes going through 17 smartphones a year. Seems ridiculous. I don't even think I have surpassed 10 smartphones in my lifetime.
What was the topic?
I had one. My metabolism runs about 15% under what it should for my height, weight & age. Predictably, I struggle with losing weight as every calculator suggests that I eat about 15% more calories each day than I actually should.

I do not have diabetes, my a1c is perfect, my resting heart rate is typically in the low 60s, the highest my blood pressure has ever been tested was 127/89 and the lowest has been 87/65 (pre-hypotensive).

I guess what I am trying to say is that human metabolism is not standardized and does not fit into a single conceptual block. I would have to actively exercise for a 30 minutes a day or more to equal out the calories burned by someone with a normal metabolism who sat on their ass all day.
Speed, Nuance and Learning
Learned the hard way in 2003.
It may not look active from the outside, but I'm sure that the companies that used it still use it, while Rescript is still very young.

> ReScript continues to have a lot of momentum

Rescript has 4k weekly downloads on npm. Typescript has 22 millions. Coffeescript 1 million. Reason 1.5k. Elm 22k and it's not the official installer. PureScript 2.5k.
Non-native English speakers, I want to hear from you
Even though I don't speak it natively, I write in English very often. Every time I start writing a new text, Grammarly is at my side. Thank you so much, Alex, Max, and Dmytro. You created something great! With the assistance brought me by Grammarly, I can identify and fix grammar mistakes. I reorganize words to make my copy clearer, engaging and impactful. But if English is not your mother tongue, Grammarly faces some limits.

At the start of the past year, I wrote a Cover Letter to compete for a position at Basecamp. Along with my text, I wanted to use a metaphor. After all, Basecamp is the "cradle" of Rails. But how to be sure that "cradle of" would express in English the same meaning this metaphor has in Portuguese (my native language)?

Another common situation is to make sure about the correct prepositions. Grammarly will tell you whether they are grammatically incorrect, but this is not enough. In the following examples, both prepositions are right: a) I am in the hospital, b) I am at the hospital. However, they have very different meanings.

As you see, metaphors and prepositions are obstacles that Grammarly can't help us to overcome. So I want to hear from you, non-native English speakers: How do you handle these issues? Have you found a tool able to solve them?

Thanks in advance for every suggestion, feedback, or insight!
A Major Advance in Computing Solves a Complex Math Problem 1M Times Faster
After reading about half of that I’m more curious about what kind of person would bother to follow Thiel closely enough to write a Amazon review like that than Thiel himself.

I guess I just don’t find rich people that interesting or much more than just people.
The inside boy at 8 o'clock. In position A he's there, in position B he's gone. Think of each position as a discrete state rather than thinking of it as "moving boys".
> One single person can't cause the entire system to break down or steal all them money.

Funny - I have never seen someone in the traditional financing system do that and not get caught. Closest things were ponzi schemes like Madoff (and he did get caught)

I have, however, heard of dozens of exactly this incident happening with cryptocoin exchanges (wallets, services, the most general term for all combined slipped my mind)
Exactly. If you pay more to buy an Apple product you probably won't mind paying more to change the battery.

The high price is not an issue for professionals, but it does mean people are _more_ likely to repair them, not less.