skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not yet, as you identify it really is about the nuance, and why people like me get paid for what we do. There are some systems that are trying to add generic emotional states using a matrix of activation vs deactivation (how energetic the delivery is) and pleasantness, to try and generate that nuance. So you can end up with emotional states like "guilt"(unpleasant with moderate deactivation) and "elation" ( pleasant with high activation), but as far as I know the application of those states are not determined through machine learning, there is still a human involvement to determine the emotional state, and then try and generate an inflection that matches it.

Narration is as much about acting as having a nice voice. We've only just begun in getting the computer voice to sound mostly human, getting it to act is another thing entirely.
Trying to remember the source of the quote that basically says that whenever you try to open a "free speech" area to protect from illiberal witch hunts, you end up with a community of like 3 principled libertarians and ten thousand witches.

Difficult for me to imagine some sort of "mission driven school", especially advertised as a counterpoint to elite University cancel culture, didn't just turn into just as much of an illiberal institution, but just with a hard right/conservative bias.
They gave him multiple private teachers by the age of 6 - at that time people would normally not even be thought arithmetic.

People can recall pages from books if they put the effort, and regular people routinely do - an average person can memorize thousands of pages. Again it's that he could do it faster that's exceptional.
I noticed an increasing number of flagged comments that do not violate any guidelines lately. I feel like it's slowly approaching the state of Reddit where unwelcome opinions are quickly removed. One would expect this to happen in polarising discussions such as politics, but interestingly it's happening on random tech topics as well.
No, but something being expected is something else that is not inherently tied to the correctness of an argument.

As a concrete example: wikipedia has a long list of common but incorrect beliefs, all of which one should not be surprised to hear being said but will remain incorrect regardless.
Vpn configurations are so often poorly chosen and we should not let critical infrastructure run on outdated IPsec for instance.

It may seem natural to build such infrastructure for a life span of 20-30 years but do you remember what state of the art was back in 2001? Most of that is now basically considered broken. Software is living and should never be « set-and-forget »
> Who should use your site but others who also want to offer data asset funds? Why do you build the exposure for rugpullindex instead of directly creating the fund?

Good question. Initially, I went for building the fund product directly. Then I noticed that in my jurisdiction it's far from easy just launching a financial product. Additionally, one problem that I continue to have is that for the data assets curated on my site, an old version of Balancer contracts (V1) [3] is used which means each rebalance for 10 assets would come at a cost of > 100k gas * 10 assets.

I've thought of optimizing gas cost, but I haven't found a solution so far [1], [2]. The Ocean Protocol team had also promised to upgrade to Balancer V2 up until recently on their public roadmap website. But they've suddenly changed priorities and so now I'm doubting that those contracts will ever become upgraded...

> Your site could use a filter for various data markets.

What other data markets do exist? I'd definitely be happy to integrate other markets too.

> Right now, investing in the index is risky because competing data sets to core assets of the index could drive down its value fast.

I'm not sure I get what you're saying. Mind elaborating?

- 1: https://timdaub.github.io/2021/04/19/ethereum-web3-saving-ga...

- 2: https://rugpullindex.com/blog#IntroducingHoneybatcher

- 3: https://github.com/oceanprotocol/contracts/tree/main/contrac...

Edit: That one is important too: https://timdaub.github.io/2021/05/22/ethereum-layer2-scaling...
Yes, that's how I learned nixos -- moderately on the sparse documentation, highly on other people's code. I was shy on the #nixos channel.

Now I have a working setup which spans all of my computers and servers (I also have autodeployment scripts for aws and netboot). I use the devos flake as a template, check this out: https://github.com/divnix/devos
"You can always encrypt traffic that needs it at higher layers; most of these sorts of links were not themselves bulk encrypted."

I'm surprised that encryption wasn't (still isn't) the default for all submarine cables given the very high stakes involed - international espionage, their vulnerability and the long history of undersea cable tapping (which I didn't mention above).

You say "Encryption at these data rates was only recently within the realm of feasibility". Right, but 'recently' has been quite a while now - I'd estimate 10-20 years or so as we've had erbium optical switches, etc., in common use for that length of time.

It's now over 25 years since I was first involved in some high-stakes intergovernmental stuff where authentication and encryption were the normal default thinking (it was inconceivable that we'd transmit data across any link or network that was potentially vulnerable to attack unless the data was encrypted and full authentication was deployed). We used common carrier networks and submarine cables would have to have been involved but we did not administer them - hence our assumption that they were vulnerable to attack.

Whilst I wasn't involved directly with those security services, it was clear to me that at the time they didn't want encrypted circuits. Thus, it seems likely that at least part of the reason for the lack encryption even now would have been pressure from them not to deploy it in common-carrier networks.
Ask HN: Anyone else experience dizziness after prolonged computer monitor use?
After many months of experiencing dizziness, I think I’ve finally tracked it down to monitor usage —- the dizziness was most prevalent after work, and was worse after busy days where I’ve been focusing hard and not taking breaks from the screen.

I’ve gotten a lot better by taking regular breaks (fully away from the desk every hour), following the 20/20/20 rule, and getting out for a walk at lunchtime. I also cut monitor and screen usage outside of work down.

Anyone else experienced something like this? I hear people regularly discussing eye strain, but not dizziness as such.
Nobody ever got fired for canceling a controversial speaker
Probably not a large organization, but plenty for a small to medium one. The case of Tripwire Interactive is a good recent case study.
just for clarification, the speaker has a newsweek peace that rails against diversity, equality, and inclusion as a sinister regime that actually works against diversity and actually hurts the public trust. he then goes on to insist universities are 'diverse' enough, so dont worry about them. his citations are...tentative at best.

https://www.newsweek.com/diversity-problem-campus-opinion-16...

The guy also made a godwin claim about race and college admissions earlier in his career, so its probably fair to say that no matter how insightful any of your research is on climate change no one wants to give you the platform because your comprehension of social sciences is antithetical to the reason we care about climate change in the first place.
Because of the numers 'in between', once you start testing that many numbers in such an enormous range it eats up CPU power. There is some very beautiful math trickery which uses an FFT to help determine if a number is prime or not, and even though that's a massive optimization the number of remaining cycles required is still enormous.

See here for more background:

https://www.mersenne.org/various/math.php
I don't negotiation or argue anything with mentally ill people. They are a write-off in that regard so I don't get mad. Let them.
I read daily but rarely feel compelled to comment. Those relatively rare comments also rarely receive an up or down vote. I’m generally amazed how often the more prolific posters comment.
To me it's not the same statement: it's one thing to say that people who might be prone to be depressed as early adults might have higher risk of dementia later. To say that happiness at that period is protective, suggests that if you cheered them up at the right time, they'd no longer be at higher risk. Is it something about their brain structure or approach to adversity, or is it specific, moment to moment lived experience? If it's the latter, then a dementia prevention strategy could be giving out free amusement park tickets to 20-somethings. I'm being facetious, but the "happiness" title really does shift the focus. So I didn't think it was equivalent.

As a general statement, these university press releases on research findings are some of the lowest-quality posts on HN.
Those who haven't read economics are doomed to recreate it?
So first I did this I did it on manjaro using this archwiki article: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

When I moved to NixOS I just did a normal NixOS install and applied the same parameters to kernel boot as before and passed the GPU through.

I was using looking-glass at first, but my computer is too slow and crappy (memory bandwidth seems to choke) to run 144fps in overwatch.

You just pass the entire block device into the VM if you wanna keep your setup, or pass it through with as PCIE if it's an NVMe device.

I thought it'd be hard, but you'll be up and running in a day
I think this is exactly the point of posts like this. We have created an exploitable environment, that can be abused for several reasons (politics and economics, being the two most obvious). And the fact that it is abusable, makes it less of a thing "for humans" or, at least, something we have evolved to consume/participate every day, let alone every hour of our lives.
They are at risk of being canceled because of positions you are teaching them that currently seems reasonable to you.
This is actually the first constructive idea I've heard that seems at all likely to address this issue in a just way without infringing on the free speech rights of the people protesting campus speakers. Well done.

The one question I have here is whether the average member of MIT faculty would now thing that an anti-affirmative action essay would be beyond the pale. It doesn't seem too surprising to me if 50%+1 members of such a committee would still vote to withdraw an invitation from this guy. But at least you would be defocusing the external outrage campaign a little, which does not seem like a bad thing.
I guess the argument would be that your package manager checks the gpg trust chain provided by your repo -- but I totally understand that doesn't prevent a binary being modified once it's there on disk. Some level of protection about that is that typically apps aren't user writeable on *nix -- app signatures deal with a subtly different threat model (and arguably one in which sometimes the user is part of the threat...)
General reminder for everyone that insect or bee hotels exist. Hang them in your garden, help insects. I have one on my balcony and roughly three dozen holes have been filled by a kind of wasp (not yellow jackets).
You say that, but the rise of Apple has pretty much revealed that the industry consumers rated as most in need of a shake-up was being run by vision-less suits who got shown up badly as having no idea what the future of phones looked like. In hindsight, it was an emergency - as has been revealed by the sickening amounts of money Apple managed to make by doing it right. We all had no idea how bad the situation was relative to where it needed to be.

It seems quite reasonable to speculate that the margins they were charging on phones were just too low to attract capable people. Apple smelt blood and took on pretty much an entire industry, and attracted the focus of the likes of Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Huawei. Prior to that it was the focus of, y'know. Nokia. Who turned out to be way out of their depth when serious people got involved.

If they'd gone with a lets just not make money strategy, the market just wouldn't have the sort of energy behind it that it actually attracted. It would have taken a lot longer to figure out what was going on.
The TTS raises the barrier to entry for new voice actors. Low-paying jobs that they would normally use to "cut their teeth" are being narrated even more poorly by things like Descript and it's ilk.

You'll hear these particularly bad TTS narrations all the time if you suffer through enough Youtube Pre-roll ads.
Where does Sci-Hub live these days?
I can easily build a table in HTML with 70k cells (100 columns, 700 lines, it does happen, and users prefer that when getting an overview of their project), but in React, it takes 15s to render. Setting the innerHtml takes milliseconds.
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Indeterminacy here isn't "a roll of the die" in some significant sense.

All these things, "genetics, neurones" etc. are chaotic systems. Thus there is only /necessarily/ probabilistic "conditions" on who you are; event at the classical level.

It's classical physics which is necessarily indeterminate here /because/ we cannot measure precisely enough.

I think this is significant enough to somehow fit it into the picture on free will. Not least, because as you say elsewhere, free will actually requires a level of determinism which may actually be absent from the world.

The meaning of the future being "open" here isnt reducible to "a roll of the die". Almost all significant macroscopic systems have a "deterministic gap" between their state today and their state tomorrow.

In some sense chaotic systems must be able to "forget their history", as at some point, their historical state sequences will be insufficient to determine their present state. There may be something in this which enables a certain sense of freedom, and a certain lack of it.
Just don't read it - be the better person and just rise above it.

These opinions are not new - they existed before Twitter was a thing. Just now the opinions have a platform that amplifies their visibility.

As the quote goes, the only winning move is not to play.
I don't know where this will eventually lead. I tried blue-blocking glasses, but I found simply remembering to adjust my screen's brightness and contrast when the room is dimly lit helped greatly with eye strain. I can't speak to sleep, since I have always lived off of five hours a night, since I was 11 or 12 years old, pre-screen era and steeped deep in screens now. I do set my terminal colors to be the same as my Commodore PET 2001 back in 1977 to an amber on black arrangement. The other PET had the lime, or bright green font.
Watch Neil Gaiman Read the Graveyard Book (2017)
I ported my extension for these redirects to the new iOS Safari extension model. You can choose to also use the old i.reddit.com interface as well it that’s your thing.

https://secretkeys.io/oldr/
How do these programs impact China collection, if at all? Are they able to collect Chinese SIGINT of any significance through these cables, or does the 'Golden Shield Project' and 'Great Firewall' prevent info from going out?
Maybe because I search from my phone
I'm sure that they have the meta data, I would be somewhat surprised if they illegally wire-tapped all conversations, judges here take an extremely dim view of shite like that.

The dumbphone is not quite that dumb.

I agree that I am implicitly trusting the hardware.

As for non-off-the-scale paranoia countermeasures I'm a lot better than the squirrels and probably way ahead of your average techie, who can't live for 20 minutes without their tracking device that they helpfully carry along with them all by themselves.
> privacy policy of a closed-source product that will be collecting and selling your data

I know this the general HN opinion of free & closed software, but I think this is one scenario where it doesn't ring true. On top of Discord's privacy policy explicitly disallowing/negating data selling, the CEO, CTO and CFO have all made public statements that they have no interest in the monetization of user data. The CTO has suggested that they're at least breaking even with Nitro subscriptions, and they've shrugged off acquisition attempts, instead wishing to go public at some point.

The risk of Discord performing commercial suicide via a data selling scandal appears exceptionally unlikely.
These are not unused cycles, these are cycles used to benchmark devices. If you benchmark with mersenne prime verification, you'll know how fast mersenne prime verification is and that's it. Most people don't use their devices for mersenne prime verification.
Why was this post flagged? It certainly will add some fuel to the conspiracy theories it mentions.
There is nothing more straightforward and less convoluted than some dude creating a sock puppet account to interact with in order to help launch a product.
Over the years, I tested multiple options, and currently, I'm using NixOS declarative containers. It requires more work to create a new environment than with nix-shell, but in my experience, this is not a bottleneck. With some setup, you can even run graphical applications inside containers. I've written more about this and other approaches on my blog: https://msucharski.eu/posts/application-isolation-nixos-cont... if you are interested. It is pretty specific to my needs, so it may not work for you.

Regarding the Windows: after playing with GPU-passthrough, I came back to dual-boot. It is more reliable because you are less likely to run into some hardware quirk.
The trouble is providing a way to bypass security by the user that can tell a user apart from someone who shouldn't be allowed in. Somehow they've bypassed it without such a mechanism. Putting a way in on purpose opens any security on that pathway to implementation exploits.
In some strange ways I wish I never had. And I'm truly not being overly hyperbolic when I say I struggle to enjoy programming in other languages.

I can do it but I can just never quite make the other languages fit how I want to think about the problems.

I think one major barrier is that nearly every language I have to use is lumbered with truly horrible data handling with the pervasive OO model that is so bad. I've used CLOS too much to never look at OO the same again.

And then if I'd rather just think of things as name/value collections, Clojure is just so easy.
Weird and interesting, this is the URL of the page: http://{{page.url|replace:%27index.html%27,%27%27|prepend:si...}
Aside from the annoyance factor, this is a huge gaping hole allowing information leaks. Let's replace `foo.jpg` with `Annual Review 2021.pdf`. You send employee #1 their review, and then send employee #2 theirs, but forget about this quirk, and instead of keeping, you overwrite. Now employee #1 can open employee #2's confidential info in their link.
I think it is fair to say, non-tech / business / economics / stocks ( and as well as politics ) etc tends to get more during the week because that is how the news and PR cycle works. i.e Business aren't going to publish their quarterly results during weekends, economics forecast etc get there by mid week ( Monday is never a good to start PR ).

So may be if you only ever go on HN during weekdays, the amount of business entries could be a little higher, but generally speaking I still believe HN aren't anywhere business focus at all. ( If it was I wouldn't have to rant about Supply Chain and Operation management every time the topic comes up )
Yup, I get New York Times home delivery, and I'm nowhere near NYC. It's not available everywhere, but it is in more areas than you might think.
Some people, but I see more people happy of having public medias.
On the surface maybe, but

> such an exception to the author’s exclusive rights may not be used in a way which prejudices the legitimate interests of the rightholder or which conflicts with a normal exploitation of the program

could be interpreted to mean that, especially for anything still being sold (like the retro games sold on Switch), interop for the sake of interop would very likely conflict with Nintendo's legitimate [business] interest.
I'm not talking about "3rd Reich only part of Holocaust", I'm talking about how the Gestapo was responsible for collecting and siphoning trough census data even in occupied non-German territories [0]

In that context, whatever point you are trying to make about numbers of victims in territories is kinda besides the point.

The point being that even in occupied Poland everybody had to register for the census, Polish people that were found without their registration form were shot on the spot.

In addition to that the Nazis also got Polish population data from the Deutscher Volksverband in Poland.

And it wasn't just Poland where that happened, it happened in pretty much every territory occupied by the Nazis because that's what the Gestapo was created for.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenkartei
Geez. Do FAQ doesn’t mention what a Central Office is (thanks to other comments for an explanation). And how are you supposed to identify one from the outside?
> And if anyone believes that the various giants building custom ARM processors aren't hoping that they can get dominance based on their own spec so that they can displace Microsoft and wield the same power, think again.

ARM already has their own spec for that, the SBSA. So the one wielding power will most probably be ARM itself, not one of the "various giants building custom ARM processors".
That's not a bad idea. I'll toss that on the queue.
Nobody was lynched here so anti-lynching law would not apply. Given we're discussing mobs getting riled up over the wrongs of the "other", it also seems appropriate to place the actual outcome in a less exaggerated way.
> Some people are curious and constantly learning new things.

the implication seems a bit disingenuous as if the curiosity and constant learning only counts if it is towards computer science.
I see what you're saying. But all countries deal with external pressures and constraints to some degree or another. I don't think we can declare their choices under these constraints undemocratic without rendering the word "democracy" into a purely theoretical concept.
If DES had larger key sizes would it have remained uncracked?
Being a developer, and following Nick Szabo over the years, I just don't think he's enough of a coder mindset to have created Bitcoin. Maybe he could have made it by teaming up with someone else (Not disparaging Nick Szabo, he's super smart but not a coder at heart)
> Isn't this exactly the world that free speech / pro-liberty advocates want?

No. The main consequence of speech that is being opposed should be… speech, not action to get that speaker's speech curtailed, whether by speech or other means.

> I can also decide whether to patronize their business or not

These people didn't have to turn up to the talk. That's not the same as cancelling a talk because someone said they don't want it to happen.

> And their boss has the right to decide whether to employ them or not
> …
> But if I'm making my opinion known, and their boss agrees, isn't that the intended effect of discourse?

Did MIT change its decision to host the speaker because of a well-reasoned argument - as you point out, one of the intended consequences aimed for via free speech - or was it due to some other kind of pressure?
This is a fascinating read, and should be printed and kept in the Library of Congress as a mile marker. The arguments the article makes and suppositions for how large communities eventually devolve describe perfectly what I'm seeing today; more peers turning away from social media and back towards smaller forums, abandoning followers/followings in favor of small, intimate and personable group chats on services like Signal, Telegram.