skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This wasn't really the point of the thread, but I'm willing to discuss it.

The employees may be "the ones doing the work" but capital investment is key to allowing them to do that work productively. The shareholders provide that capital, which (formally or informally—they're not obligated to provide it in the first place if they don't like the terms) means that they get to decide how it's used. The board is their agent in making these decisions. If they're smart they'll pay attention to what the employees recommend within their area of expertise—but then again "individual contributors" are often more or less ignorant of, or at least less focused on, certain aspects of running a profitable business which are nonetheless essential to remaining in business. To pick one obvious example: If your engineers create something very impressive from a technical point of view, but there isn't a large enough market willing to pay what it would cost to manufacture, then the product will fail. If that happens, the engineers are salaried employees and have already been paid for the work they put in designing the product. They may be looking for new jobs if the company goes under, but the shareholders who fronted the capital for that development hoping for a long-term payoff risk losing their entire investment.

If employees of a publicly traded company want representation on the board they can always buy shares, individually or e.g. via their union if they have one. However, not wanting to take that kind of risk is a big part of why people choose to work as employees of someone else's company rather than being self-employed in the first place. It's safer to take the regular paycheck and invest your savings in a diversified portfolio rather going all-in and investing heavily in your employer.
Datadog for the win in dark-pattern land.

Love the software, hate the billing.
The media’s belated rush to judgment on the Trump dossier
We did have a pandemic response team and excellent preparedness but the team was disbanded under our last president.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
> Would Blinkenlights be proper if I told you that it uses Intel Xed?

Why would it? I have every faith that the tool is sound (i.e. parses X86 correctly etc.), I was just thinking aloud about this kind of analysis.

What do you need to optimize but can't run on a desktop? Or is this the same type of "optimization" that I do fiddling around on compiler explorer? e.g. I like making little snippets faster
>I think this is a false equivalence. TFA mentions a democracy activist who was imprisoned for 21 days because of a small, non violent protest on a subway

Things like that, and worse, have happened time and again in the US too...
Does the shell filter the carriage return out in the error for some reason? I would more expect something like:

/bin/bash
: No such file or directory

(Not that that's more helpful to a user, but at least a trained eye would immediately get very suspicious.)
It’s hard to predict whether you could make MS products in foss with global cooperation at lower cost to taxpayers (since it can be expensive to get politicians to agree with goals across international borders).
The next logical step is to subsidize the building of the units made unaffordable by regulations, and this is how you get politically funded housing and the patronage machine keeps growing.
The masks are secondary to the issue of refusing to acknowledge the high probability of airborne transmission.

People were washing their hands, using hand sanitizer, opening doors with crazy key-chains, basically not touching anything, wearing gloves, fist and elbow bumping ... when they really needed to not be breathing each others air.
What’s stopping you (or anyone) from building these communities now with existing tech?
> including possibly taking on the responsibility of ensuring stale data is retracted

SO much of the current covid conspiracy stuff relies on redacted studies. The thing is, the conspiracy theorists either think that they've been redacted because of "the man", or don't know how redaction works full stop.
Unfortunately those high ranking officials included the WHO, which was in denial for many months.
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Yeah, that was definitely part of it too. It was plausible for a minute there that surface transmission was real, but then it took way too long for the CDC and the WHO to admit it. So now, even today, I see people wearing dirty rubber gloves in the grocery store (sigh).

There's simply no part of this pandemic that makes "the experts" look good, and it has utterly destroyed any remaining faith that I had in journalism. Now we merely have competing ideological factions, and their preferred sources of propaganda.
The work Google’s done in NLP has blown me away. It seems like they’ve spearheaded massive improvements 5 or 6 years in a row where computer vision has seen only incremental improvements in that time.

I also appreciate their approach to ML ethics where they actually wrestle with some hard problems and come up with some solid approaches that engineers and data scientists can use (in contrast to one pre-print I read where the author—a guy with really good credentials—dogmatically insisted “do not solve problems that would lead to harms.” I’m sure route optimization has led to people having accidents on roads they would not have taken otherwise, should society not have built Mapquest? Google papers (generally) approach these issues with some nuance.)

I also constantly recommend this paper a couple of their engineers wrote “Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems” for a real-world approach to implementation and it’s challenges.

https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2015/file/86df7dcfd896f...
Afaik, the many worlds interpretation (MWI) trivially explains all these "duality mysteries", but people don't like it for philosophical reasons. A one-world with randomness is a much more cozy place to live in than a cold super deterministic " matrix" that doesn't even leave room for "free will".
Oh, interesting. It's been quite a few years since I considered speed of static serving anything beyond an academic exercise (not helped by the fact that my "play" servers only have 1gbps uplink).

I suppose the other way to do it would be a user space network stack?

Ed: i know alpine is popular as (docker) container images - but that typically doesn't include the kernel. I suppose in theory a docker container might leverage kTLS via the host kernel (but not without library support..). How many run alpine on bare metal with 10gbe+ networking?
It's a problem, and the problem sounds like a good reason not to use this technology at all. Not for anything critical.
I write backend servers in C++. From my experience using modern C++ and libraries the amount of code (line wise) is about the same as in any other high level language like Python. Amount of time to write is about the same as well. I know because I've rewritten from the scratch large Python server application in C++. Performance however is hundreds of times better for C++.
What deficiencies with existing ticketing solutions do NFTs provide?
> Even for valid (non-criminal) uses cases, there are numerous laws and regulations that translate into crazy fees to do proper crossboder money transfer.

DeFi would have to follow those laws, right, and would be just as much of a pain to use after it has all of that compliance built in?

Otherwise, what you're doing is just illegal, and the alternative you should be comparing crypto to is something like "hiding money in carseat cushions", not TransferWise, right?
"continent wide grid" is a key requirement.
It is rare these days that company actually has their own physical server room and "cloud" by default is not secure - you have to rely on cloud company security and integrity.
I am thinking of that kind of scenario, however if you control who can access the servers then it may not be necessary.
Teach Siri to pronounce names correctly In iOS 15
This is used as a dark pattern. Entering a credit card to try out a service without being able to see how you would cancel is asking a lot of faith in a service you are trying out. Asking for a credit card on signup means I've already decided you are worth it. I hope you spent a lot on marketing to prepare me.

Free trials can be limited in terms of services. Many times free trials are not necessary. If someone is willing to enter a credit they will pay a small amount.
NovelAI, I presume?

Funnily enough, so long as you aren't trying for porn it does a much better job than AI Dungeon did of staying away from it. It lives up to its name — it's an excellent cowriter for all forms of fiction.
Launching Livebook Using LiveView
works really well on my Fold 3 with the sPen.

any chance you'll add colors at all?
I do think the mechanical and electrical aspects of robotics (ie the mechatronics) are ignored or glazed over when teaching robotics, especially through simulation. One has a new appreciation for how wheels roll on carpet once they try to implement a control / path planning algorithm on a real robot in their living room! It would be valuable to gain these "appreciations" by learning robotics more intimately with real robots.
Why would it be labelled "smallpox" and not "Variola"? Smallpox is not a virus, it's a condition caused by the Variola viruses. That's like labelling a sample of HIV as "AIDS"
In fact, we know for sure that it exists in cultures with no access to media or technology in the recent past, and severe episodes of bipolar (mania) have been explained as the victim being possessed. One case: https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.1...
Lensless cameras have been around for a long time, the chips and masks that are completely flat is a new idea, I guess.

Single pixel cameras are lensless, for instance.
I am on the US East Coast and have frequent meetings with London. They are sensitive around not scheduling meetings too early in my day - and likewise I am sensitive to scheduling meetings too late in their day.

The mental model would have to shift:

Old Way: Add/Subtract X hours and map it to a "9 to 5" schedule to determine whether its "early" or "late"

New Way: Map "early" or "late" to the new timezone and location of the person.

Seems like the new way is too much of a hassle.
Musk is talking about sending at least a thousand Starships to Mars. Each can carry over a hundred tons.
For a small cost they encourage people to do the certs and by doing that their knowledge is consolidated. Their staff get better for a tiny price.
Now while the phrasing might've been a bit provocative, I do believe I made a substantive point.

The parent was making a comparison between health measures and dictatorship. I made a counterpoint that freedom is worthless if we're all dead from disease.

The dysphemism was merely a rhetorical device to add a little color to the argument, but the argument per se was just that, a substantive argument.
Don't forget distributed storage like IPFS and content management graphs like kubelt (my company).

web3 isn't all tokens and NFTs. There's a huge distributed computing piece.

The increased investment is being used to build important infra.
Some languages wear the things that make you go WTF on their sleeves. In contrast, Python's surprises pop up slowly over time, and in places where you'd least expect them.
Awesome project btw, it was a correct decision to follow dplyr. I think you should consider overload operators for ergonomics. Most data scientists prefer using operators for doing mathematical stuff instead of calling functions named as add, divide, multiply …
I do a lot of photography. Photography can be extremely cheap. Current gear is of incredibly high quality; a camera can stay relevant for over 10 years and lenses, forever. If you buy a camera for about $1000 every 5 years that's $200/year, less than $20/month. And you can certainly buy cameras less often than that.

Then storage, software costs, while not exactly zero, are negligible.

Printing can be expensive if done well. But I've found, nobody cares about prints (except maybe the photographer).
You're trying to conflate speech with actions in a way that would make laws against sexual harassment unconstitutional.

Walmart and Amazon could do those things, but I want to live in a world where they don't because we have a culture that values freedom of expression.

There are over a million teachers in the south I'm sure at least one used that term. But it hasn't been anywhere close to common for a generation or two.
Okay, but suppose there's an NFT of a cool hat that I want. It would cost $1000. Instead I mint an exact copy of the hat for $10. Obviously it could be distinguished from the "real" NFT hat, but all of its properties (its color, its statistics, whatever) are the same. So every game not only has to decide what to do with every NFT, but they also have to keep a whitelist of NFT issuers to try to maintain some semblance of scarcity, I guess?

Eventually you'll have a handful of big NFT companies whose entire purpose is to manage the hat economy, because if you throw the door open to any old NFT, you immediately tank the scarcity that keeps it running. But since we have to trust a handful of big NFT companies anyway, they can now just bring the data about who owns which hat in-house and provide an API to every game that wants to interoperate. RIP the blockchain.
Solid points. And I agree. I played hours of video games when I was like 10/11.
ConstitutionDAO’s bold crypto bid for US Constitution falls short
In one country but this isn't an option globally
Ironically, I think you could sell this as a product/service.
> When a superhuman AI plays chess, the moves usually make sense to an expert.

It's really interesting to look at very high level players analyzing specific AI moves. Many they understand after a short while, others take longer - and some they don't understand directly, but might have an inkling as to why it's good.

My feeling is that many high level analysts would rather just automatically defer to the AI's analysis rather than challenging it - so there is in some sense a lack of feedback to correct such situations. Even in the 1997 Deep Blue vs Kasparov match, game #1 Deep Blue apparently was a bugged position so it moved randomly (a legal random move) - but because Kasparov believed it was correct he felt the analysis was way beyond him so he conceded.
Not just higher fees. Our GDP/capita relative to the US has been in steep decline. Cost of living is also higher across the board on everything from food to electronics, above and beyond what straight foreign exchange would suggest.

Gas is more expensive too. Oh, and wages are stagnant (except for in tech), which is a real problem when inflation hits 5% (as it is now). Productivity growth has been basically non-existent for decades.

Can I connect all of this to the banking oligopoly? No, but it's symptomatic of the larger problem: that Canada is a very difficult country to do business in. Ham-handed government regulation in every part of the economy is a huge drag on economic growth.
You'd think so, but some of the autobiographies of Holocaust survivors appear to show that it's possible.
Why did they spread and market the use of opium? ;)
Most of the criticisms of web3, tokens, crypto, blockchain etc miss one important thing: how founders make money!

The mindshare goes this direction because the project lifecycle is faster.

That’s it.

Overhead costs are lower, institutional validation requirements are nonexistent, the infrastructure requirements are minimal (frontend only, and even thats a maybe) - sure you could have used a database but now you dont even need one and your users pay to write to the database (blockchain) you do use! - the monetization paths are more lucrative, more liquid and instant, and your pedigree, geographic location or network doesnt matter to do any of this.

thats why this is going to keep happening.

tech sector is fast, this tech sector is faster. there’s no competition as far as fields go right now.

just continuing working for your exploitative ad conglomerate while imagining you are doing something more important and dont worry about everyone else. thats where we are at right now.
Possibly an artificial "salt lick" [1] that got displaced from its original position.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_lick
Thanks for the suggestion - I did not know about WPS but will give it a try.
Sorry, I’m genuinely confused here.

I asked his defenders if they support his views on race science, and brought up the possibility that people dislike him for reasons other than the 2017 event.

Your position is that it’s impolite to bring up a writer’s body of work because… why?

Edit: It’s kind of hard not to interpret your post as “I believe in race science and it makes me uncomfortable to be asked a question like that so plainly, so I will fall back on calling you rude.”
Memphis Created the Nation’s Most Innovative Public Library
There's a lot more to it than a few lines of code, see: other comments on this post
In Canada, the Ontario Chief Medical Officer said not to worry because we had learned many lessons from SARS1.

Then our medical staff promptly ran out of PPE in the first few weeks, especially n95 masks, just like we did with SARS.
Any phone that has sub 200ms focus times has to have some sort of TOF sensor, right? The Asus Zenfone 2/3 laser, the Huawei monochrome sensor on the honor series, the portrait and/or macro sensors on the Xiaomi mi note 10, whatever the original Zenfone had, and so on.

Not all of them are lasers, which might be important.
Why wouldn’t they just make that deal together? That would give them more control, and they could split all of the money which would be going to blockchain fees instead of gifting it to third parties.
Are you serious?

It's considered more than 50% likely that WIV, a bat corona GoF factory, caused the current pandemic. DOE LLNL reported in May 2020 that it was a possible lab leak.
The sites you use every day behave differently in different parts of the world.
It may be possible to publish from a local folder and offer the user no history or context.

However, I think it makes sense to privilege packages which can be cryptographically verified as deriving from a specific commit within an open source commit history, in a public repository at a specific URL.
Well if the hidden camera can be shut down by turning on a hidden camera detector, then the hidden camera detector becomes a hidden camera jammer! All the better.
And did what with the stockpile of enough n95 masks for every citizen? Threw them all away?

Point is, just because at one point there existed a team called the "pandemic response team", doesn't mean we were at all prepared in the way that GP is suggesting, or even that they would have helped at all
> We could destroy the machines that destroy this planet. If someone has planted a time bomb in your home, you are entitled to dismantle it. More to the point, if someone has placed an incendiary device inside the high-rise building where you live, and if the foundations are already on fire and people are dying in the cellars, then many would believe that you have an obligation to put the device out of action.

Can't help but think that if an apartment building owner was storing an incendiary device that I wouldn't necessarily have a legal right to know or to destroy it as a tenant...

> In Berlin, half a dozen young climate activists calling themselves ‘The Last Generation’ recently went on a hunger strike...[and] a group calling itself ‘Fridays for sabotage’ claimed responsibility for rupturing a piece of gas infrastructure...

This is definitely one of the driving forces in Kim Stanley Robinson's vision of a successful battle against climate change. Wondering how common this might become and how much it might actually help the cause.
Template manager for auto-generated email notification
Hello, hackers out there,

I have struggled with this problem in my workflow. I'm a freelance web developer who works with a number of clients. Most of the time I use SendGrid API to send email notifications. Since the business people are in charge of composing these notifications I often have to create a template on SendGrid's dashboard and later use the API to shoot the template to the end-user.

For some reason, I always find it hard to manage and create SendGrid templates. Their dynamic template UI feels too slow and limited. So I created this internal interface where I create a collection of all the HTML templates I need and later source them through SendGrid or whichever email as a service I want.

Now anytime I want to send an email through a web app I simply create a template on my dashboard and trigger it on an event let's say registration.

Example: createQueue(templateID, emaildata..., {variables});

The above function is an API call that creates a queue in the messaging queue so the background processer can read it and later send it to the receiver. Now I'm thinking to expand it so my clients can manage the content of this automated email from the dashboard.

Have you ever faced a similar problem? If yes, what was your workaround? I'm just wondering if it would be worth publishing this app.

Best,
Foundation of How to Win: Translating Your Vision and Mission into Strategy+OKRs
I really hope that the hype around web3 from techies and developers translates into it becoming a reincarnation of the "old web".

AKA I don't see the general public moving away from centralized web2, but I do think it would be nice if developers created a decentralized alternative to Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, etc. which being made by individuals and mostly comprised of other developers, is very similar to old-school message boards.

I don't think this decentralized platform will necessarily involve blockchain, just peer-to-peer interactions. The "web3 movement" could simply be getting more people to join a decentralized network like the Fediverse, and improving said network, so it becomes a common peer-to-peer developer version of Twitter, Youtube, etc. Blockchain makes it easy to pay people for being part of the network, but you could do the exact same thing with stablecoins or Stripe payments.

Right now most techies and developers use YouTube and Reddit and Twitter even though they publicly loath and complain about these platforms (ironically on the platforms themselves). Because it's impossible for a small group to create anything remotely competing with a large centralized platform. But a decentralized platform, just maybe, could attract enough people and produce enough content to not be obscure.

Ultimately, I think most of the interest in web3 comes from nostalgia. Old-school developers look at the rise of "Web 1.0" (the original Internet) and "Web 2.0" (Google, Facebook, YouTube). They remember everything being so new and exciting, and recognize how much opportunity they missed. Well, in the past few years the internet hasn't "really" changed much, supposedly it's been much more boring. People want more novelty and excitement and opportunity, and they think and hope it's going to happen again in something they will call "web3".
That's not a comparison. Hydrogen goes Sun -> storage -> DC. Solar panels go Sun -> DC -> storage -> DC. You're comparing (Sun -> storage) against (DC -> storage -> DC). You need to include hydrogen fuel cell efficiency and solar panel efficiency for a (Sun -> .. storage .. -> DC) comparison.
No, if one does not know the full context, it is not lying to omit it. If they do know it, then leaving out known relevant information is pretty unambiguously a lie of omission. As you said yourself:

> People are ..not entitled to... do that.
> There's simply no part of this pandemic that makes "the experts" look good, and it has utterly destroyed any remaining faith that I had in journalism.

Yeah, the inability to call the "experts" out when they were clearly wrong and now the constant interviews with "the vaccine hesitant" ...