skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BotMeNot’s official beta launch date – December 7th, 2021
Hello everyone!

For me, things are almost as exciting as they can get! Most of the work on BotMeNot’s initial development is close to completion!

This means that our Beta program will be going live on the 7th of December, 2021!

What’s more - for a limited time we’ll be giving away 100 free credits to everyone who signs up during the Beta testing!

I’m super thrilled to invite you to try out BotMeNot as a beta user and let me know what you think!

Register here: https://botmenot.com/beta-users-wanted/

Besides the free credits, here’s what you can expect:

Three different types of tests you can run - Starter (1 credit), Light (5 credits) & Smart (20 credits)
Run tests on any website/domain - yours or someone else’s
Get insights into how protected a domain is from bot traffic
Get evidence of the performed tests

Got any questions? Don’t hesitate to ask!
The most concurrent views I've seen on my server was about forty one, including myself. It was seamless, however the video was only around 280 megabytes and there was only one quality setting for it. I don't imagine it being the case for HD videos where users are viewing in disparate qualities.
USB-C Chargers of 2021
So if everyone become their own bosses, who's gonna work for them?
“You mean Amazing Architect Andy who just left for Google?” :-(
Competitive Losers
IME Bing does a much better job of filtering out SO and GH clones.
> "a competition harming sale to a dominant market player"

Fine except for those that rely on this.
True, on quick search the UK indeed doesn't make that distinction as obviously, thanks for the correction. So only the second part of my comment applies.
Congo Hold-up: Africa’s biggest leak reveals corruption
It would be nice if they where an open source hardware company. They don't publish the full schematics of anything, which makes it impossible to do low level programming of the thing in a reasonable manner.

I'm going to use up the hardware I bought in ignorance, and find better stuff for the future.

https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/issues/347
Lack of redundancy got exposed. To globalize or not to globalize is entirely different from relying on one source for everything. We seriously have no where else to get semiconductors other than Taiwan? That has absolutely nothing to do with the pros/cons of globalizing and everything to do with having a bus-factor of one.
Everytime one of these threads show up, I find myself wondering why someone doesn't launch a technical and research focused competitor. There seems to be such broad agreement that Google is now terrible for research that there's for sure a market for it.

Edit: I'd love to see a some-of-the-web search engine like this. Start just with university sites, prepress archives, quality forums, public dev Slacks, etc.
Non-Autoregressive Model and Non-Autoregressive Decoding
You need to write your program for Hubris specifically; we don't support POSIX or anything. I want to have better "getting started" docs sometime soon.
Programming on the Ethereum Blockchain
Yes, it seems to come up on HN every week.

I like to append "reddit" to many queries, for example "best bicycle for under $500 reddit", where you can read some interesting discussions, rather than a random SEO website with affiliate links.
Important Things to Observe in Slate Roof in GTA
A roofing specialist with a sense of elegance will design a breathtaking slate roof in GTA that will take your breath away. Slate roofing tiles come in a variety of hues, including red, purple, violet, greenish, and grayish, as well as speckled bricks with a blend of shades.
An open-source, private, & secure iOS web browser
I think its very disingenuous to call the lack of hardware support a "missed opportunity". There is a Pi port in progress but the Pi as a platform outside of Linux is a mess. Its not a well documented SoC and does weird stuff like boot via the GPU using a binary blob and other proprietary crap. It also has a different DMA architecture so drivers developed originally for PC hardware need to be modified. Ironically its a not very open source friendly SoC.
Not exactly what you’re thinking of, but there is a certain way this already happened: 24 FPS movies. Us old timers who grew up watching movies on actual film all think that higher frame rates look like BBC television. Our kids grew up with 60fps games and YouTube and 120fps interpolating TVs don’t mind high frame rates and don’t think they look weird, but they sometimes notice how choppy and low-tech 24 fps film looks. (Even though I’m partial to film, these days I hate it when there are horizontal pans in 24fps film, they are unwatchable messes. This didn’t used to bother me when I was younger.) So it’s not exactly uncanny valley, but old movies are now in the not-as-good zone. I guess maybe color film really did the same thing a generation earlier, and now washed out colors are a solid ‘retro’ indicator.
I'm not going to try to compile by hand, unfortunately. <shudder>

I'll take a peek at the BIOS, but I'll also no good at doing such things.
This. Why do people try unproven tech in a business? A well-above-average engineering team isn't going to go for this. I would leave before this shit show even got started. The problem should be begging for this pattern if it fits. Like those mentioning the use of ES for high speed stock trading, for example.

One of my unwritten requirements for any system is being able to drop in inexperienced devs for maintenance...after I leave. Most people are likely to shoot themselves in the foot by not understanding (or even being aware of) database isolation levels much less grokking an event pipeline.
Your comment is fine. And accurate.

But I am arguing from the standpoint of "global-trade-as-a-machine". And in this case an idealized machine with only one dimension (fish or crops or labor).

Of course if you live in Ukraine and have only one leg and love developing microprocessors, the "global-trade-as-a-machine" will pick that up and let you work on that rather than work as a farmer (one-leggedness and interest/drive as two new dimensions). (Although just as likely it will allow you to move to another country to pursue your interest.)

And of course governments have noticed the inequalities produced by this machine and are doing its best to counter that with more or less enthusiasm.
This is exactly what we do on https://www.soundslice.com/features/ (the minivideos below the main hero section). Would definitely recommend using MP4s instead of GIFs, for the bandwidth savings.
"We recognize that there are instances where account holders may share images or videos of private individuals [...], or as part of a newsworthy event due to public interest value, and this might outweigh the safety risks to a person."

And if that wasn't enough, there's also:

"For instance, we would take into consideration whether the image is publicly available and/or is being covered by mainstream/traditional media (newspapers, TV channels, online news sites)"

Which seems to explicitly cover "newspaper front pages" as an exception.
Those things are a curse. But Google had a long history of killing that kind of junk off eventually. See 'spun content' for example.
I've tried looking up the hardware they run on. Anyone have a price?
Well this sounds like a good way to perhaps put a damper on all the cancelling

> We will always try to assess the context in which the content is shared and, in such cases, we may allow the images or videos to remain on the service. For instance, we would take into consideration whether the image is publicly available and/or is being covered by mainstream/traditional media (newspapers, TV channels, online news sites), or if a particular image and the accompanying tweet text adds value to the public discourse, is being shared in public interest, or is relevant to the community.

Oh, never mind. It's now only allowed in situations of cancelling people.
You're arguing that fish cause ocean currents?

Are airplanes the source of wind?
London Carpenters vs. Joyners 1632
What's That Typeclass: Foldable
How do we get private individuals in public?
"...the first in what could be an increasing trickle of tourists..."
Is that really needed given the fragile state of the environment?
This seems to be explicitly covered in the post, here:

> We will always try to assess the context in which the content is shared and, in such cases, we may allow the images or videos to remain on the service. For instance, we would take into consideration whether the image is publicly available and/or is being covered by mainstream/traditional media (newspapers, TV channels, online news sites), or if a particular image and the accompanying tweet text adds value to the public discourse, is being shared in public interest, or is relevant to the community.
I think that packet-switched pneumatic tubes could be interesting. Last time humanity tried pneumatic tubes we didn't really have packet switching, or electronics that could wirelessly read labels off of fast moving packages. I think a new pneumatic tube network with a simpler network topology (ring networks?) could do very well in urban cores.
Way, way worse. There was a time you could force Google to only return pages with a specific term by wrapping it in double quotes (or further back, prefixing with a plus). This was useful when trying to learn about a specific error message/code. Now, it's a total crapshoot, and you may not get a single useful result at all.
> Am i missing anything ?

Conventionally, the send is always implemented in the sender, so explicit sender makes no sense.

This is true even in Erlang as opposed to class based OOP, though there the syntax is:

receiver ! message
better than $ i^2 T so dream on...
All of this is more or less answered in the blog entry from nine months ago.[0] We haven't really done a follow-up, but since that blog entry, we attracted a new wave of absolutely outstanding folks. I don't think that I'm speaking out of turn to say that this is the best team that any of us have ever worked on -- and to the contrary, experience matters a great deal, as the team is exclusively experienced. I would acknowledge that we are a different kind of company, and one that attracts a different kind of technologist. (And frankly, given the issue that you take with our compensation, you would likely take issue with many other aspects of our hiring process as well -- and that's okay! Not every company needs to be a fit for every person.)

[0] https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-...
Google is a recommendation engine, not search. It recommends what you will click on, not necessarily what you want.
Yes, it seems like google (and search in general) has slowly been losing the war with SEO as more and more queries return pages of SEO affiliate blogspam and less and less organic, actually useful content.
This is likely because the author(s) do not approve of the idea of euthenasia and wanted an excuse to poke at it
Is that Which is True also that which is Good?
I wandered through the rest of the blog. What an amazing asshat. He should be on display somewhere. His rant about US health issues[1] is breathtaking.

What sort of person begins a description of autism like this?

> Autism. I’m not sure this doesn’t fall into the category of “insanity.” It may also have something to do with hormonal disruption. Either way, the fact that some huge fraction of the population who thinks they don’t have to be kind and thoughtful to others because “muh disability.”

I don't want to read the biography he is referring to but I do want to read a psych profile of Scott Locklin. He is the platonic ideal of a cranky, covid-denying asshat.

[1]https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/11/20/us-public-heal...
A Fake Hitman Site Became an Accidental Murder-for-Hire Operation (2020)
Also, you might want to change the title so that it appeals to people outside the ML field. Not many devs are familiar with OpenAI Clip. Otherwise an awesome project, this is something I wanted to make myself.
“ In 2009, Al Gore loosely cited researchers and said there was a “75% chance” the ice could be gone during at least some summer months within five to seven years.”
> For a start, you're going to have to define your schema. Does one tree have one row or is it one case has one row?

It seems to me you're defining a schema regardless, but with event sourcing your schema is embedded in your events rather than your database. And you're putting off the reconciliation to projection phase. I get it. But you still need to worry about writing transformations for your data to bring it up to date with your latest schema... That is often the most frustrating part.
Mind you, this is talking about daily addicted users, not the total user base.
I don't understand why one would set Caps Lock to Escape. As a vim user, I set it ton Control. Control+[ is effective for my Escape needs.
I have stopped exclusively using Google search for 95/100 queries. Duckduckgo does the job and sometimes I bang to Google.
The variability hypothesis hasn't found much support, and some results show the opposite, that females may have more variability. Overall, it seems that variability is basically equal between males and females.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050323124659.h...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anything-boys-can...

It seems that variability does vary amongst some phenotypes (height, for instance), but there is an equal amount of variability that shows females having it higher in other phenotypes.
Do you consider yourself in agreement with scientists that focus on studying the climate, or in disagreement with them?

From what I understand, the scientific consensus [1] is not that climate change is completely caused by human activity, for the very reason you mention: it’s complicated. :)

But like you also mention, the consensus is that we are we are at least partially causing it, even if it’s not “completely.” If we’re not causing 100% of the change, but perhaps 50%, I’m not sure if that’s much of a distinction in terms of what policy to change. Do you agree?

[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus - “Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities.” It does not say or imply 100% due to those human activities. The ACS says, “The Earth’s climate is changing in response to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and particulate matter in the atmosphere, largely as the result of human activities.” Even there, it’s not saying completely, although it’s saying largely, which definitely has a distinction.
Lewis Carrol wrote in Alice in Wonderland, the red Queen saying “sometimes I believe 6 impossible things before breakfast.”
Josephine Baker, music hall star and civil rights activist, enters Panthéon
Could you elaborate, I think that I'm missing your point.
You are missing out greatly here, as this is where the benefit of being independent is. You get tax breaks on pretty much everything you do.
There are far more bicycles than cars, but 99% of these are very basic cost-efficient designs , probably sold for less than 100eur new

The discussion was about the engineering value of a 10k bike (or a 100k watch I guess) - it’s more of a luxury good than an engineering necessity
My issue was specifically with the claim that persistent data structures are great for parallelization.

I have absolutely no issues with efforts to improve single threaded performance of programming languages (and indeed the advances made by JS are remarkable) and I don't believe any language needs to be "As Fast As Cee". But There are other perfectly reasonable languages that are within a small integer factor of C and C++. You do not need to pay a large penalty for ergonomics.
First Update on the Vizio Lawsuit
Is your webapp sharable? That sounds handy
> And to that, I'd argue that in the 21st century, not many. The market and communication B2B inefficiencies that drove conglomeration in the 20th century have most been reduced to zero.

There's still the efficiencies of mass production for physical goods. For digital services that include any element of social network, there's the network effect. I think these are still a significant factor in most markets today. For match-making services in particular, brand recognition is important; otherwise users have difficulty in _finding_ quality from a directory of smaller, independent companies. And arranging effective federation, while possible, is expensive and development of such systems is slow.
Radio was invented after we had Maxwell's equations - a theory that predicts electromagnetic waves. They probably could have built a radio, but they wouldn't have had the idea that one was possible without a couple hundred years of advancing math and physics.
I think you'll find that china has succeeded due to more factors than cheap labor. If it was only cheap labor we'd expect other low cost countries with large populations to have performed similarly.

China had at least the following combination of factors in its favor.

- Geopolitical alignment with the current superpower resulting in favorable trade deals across the globe with no need to expend military and diplomatic power to maintain trade.

- A government which actively supported infrastructure investment with a corruption level low enough to actually build infrastructure with the investment.

- A trade policy which encouraged foreign direct investment but required companies to train locals and ultimately leave IP/management decisions locally.

- A strong investment in STEM education, including importing of talent from abroad.

- A stable governing structure.

- A young, low-cost, urbanizing labor force.

There are likely many more factors in China's economic performance. But it would be foolish to believe that China succeeded because of cheap labor, or that manufacturers are going to move shop out of China as soon as labor costs rise. At this point I'd be skeptical that most US manufacturers who outsourced to China could relocate their manufacturing without the technical expertise of the same Chinese manufacturers they outsourced too.
A lot of times companies like this need to sign NDAs to get the design documentation for the ICs and SOCs needed to even make the thing. If theybhad an open source SOC and ICs then they could do it....
> to live off the land

Yes, in a good year.

> you owned

Only in the Americas. And we all know how that was made possible.
That's an issue. I am so in favor of not providing a birthdate or picture in job applications. But then I like LinkedIn as recruiting tool, which has a picture and more often than not a birthdate... Not sure what to make of it.
Browse HN :)
The inference is his Tablet was part of the scam and in the dialog his unique MAC address was noted and filed. He then returned it for repair or refund and someone was watching for that MAC address and acted to inquire deeper.
Dumb and Dumber comes to mind
An Introduction to Plutus Core
Expensive. Exact parts aren't clear, but hundreds of dollars for a single chip and 5k+ for a devkit from a quick look?

But running on FPGA is really only the testing stage for putting it in an ASIC if something like this wants to be competitive in any way.
> This will only make the regulator look foolish.

I'd say the opposite: If a regulator can't regulate something as trivial as a gif sharing website we might as well shut down the regulator, because they can't do shit.
SpaceX Starship/Superheavy Launch and Catch Animation
I always found companies with disfunction are the ones where you can get most benefit for yourself. You do have to make sure you work their disfunction to your benefit, not getting crushed by it. They usually have a lot of problems, some are solvable, some are not, you have to pick solvable ones and do good job and you will have a good time.
Or when I use the date filter for just the past year, and it's still pages from 2013 on the first page of results.
The Unknown Story of Phil Zimmermann
Writing all of my business logic in triggers and stored procedures seems like a high cost to avoid writing crud. All the value comes from business logic. Making the business logic easier to read and work with is usually my top priority.
Ask HN: Does your company care about professional training and development?
I started working on an MVP to help tech companies deliver training solutions more efficiently. I wanted to ask first, does your company care at all about employee development? Where does the money go typically? Do you as employees get a say in the courses/trainings your company spends money on?
Google search has been noticeably worse than the old days for some time now, and others aren’t much better. It seems that they’ve solved the problem of crawling and indexing the infinite graph of the internet by limiting it to smaller and smaller portions of the graph, and continuously pruning old content. The small sites of the internet are nearly extinct. Personal sites, self hosted blogs, forums, etc have all gone by the way side, but how much of that trend is due to algorithmic reinforcement? Maybe we hit a point where they just got too difficult to distinguish from spam sites and we just didn’t notice as more and more of the internet was filtered out.
I thought so. Hundreds for the chip isn't insane (depending on how many) but $5k for the dev kit, oof.
The funny thing is both Atari and Commodore outsold Apple in the PC market. IBM really took its market share from Commodore rather than Apple, but neither Commodore nor Atari had Steve Jobs. It would have been funny if Steve Jobs had hooked up with Jay Miner for the NeXT era.

Its sad neither company did their transition to 32-bit well. Amiga and the ST were awesome, but they lost that low priced magic and availability that marked their 8-bit entries.
We spent a ton of time trying to strike a balance in our CONTRIBUTING.md. Basically, we are happy to get PRs, but at the same time, we reserve the right to ignore them completely at the moment. We're trying to focus on shipping our product, and so are unlikely to be able to spend time shepherding PRs that aren't directly related to that. It's not you, it's us. For now. :) So yeah, we love to see the activity, and please give that a try if you'd like, but it's unlikely we'd merge new arches upstream at this point in time.
… and terribly so.
Fable 1 did this too
You don't have economic power when you're breaking the law. (Generally)
Any word on the iops numbers vs the in-kernel NFS client? The throughput is impressive but IME it ends up being the stat/fd activity of NFS clients that's the the limiting factor (try running `ls -l` in an NFS directory with lots of files in it, even worse if there are lots of symlinks involved.)
That XKCD concatenated data from different studies with different temporal resolution, so it's very misleading. Past data came from Marcott et. all, who said:

“the paleotemperature records used in our study have a temporal resolution of about 120 years on average.”

“no temperature variability is preserved in our reconstruction at cycles shorter than 300 years, 50% is preserved at 1,000-year time scales, and nearly all is preserved at 2,000-year periods and longer.”

Recent data came from yearly measurements, so preserves variability on a yearly basis.

In other words, the way past data was determined, sudden changes would be hidden, like the temperature spike that it shows in the 20th century.
Building a Segmented Progress Bar in Android