skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OT: this is completely off topic, but I'd kind of like to see an effort to take advantage of the current reexamination that is taking place in some circles over the issue of gendered pronouns to just fix the whole damn pronoun system.

We need a set of pronouns, which I'll call P1, P2, P3, ... for now to avoid having to think of names for them, that are based on position.

P1 refers to the first thing in the sentence that could be referred to by a pronoun, P2 refers to the second thing in the sentence that could be referred to by a pronoun, and so on.

We also might need a set of pronouns N1, N2, ... that refer to the last thing before the sentence that could take a pronoun, the next to last thing before the sentence that can take a pronoun, and so on.
I also use "forum" to skip the link farms and content farms that Google so often serves up.
Was there a mechanism in the evolutionary system of biological life on Earth that makes the development of higher intelligence necessary? How did we develop higher intelligence if it's not possible to get there though a series of progressive improvements?

Furthermore I would argue that intelligence is a necessary development in order to create the most sophisticated possible language model, for the reasons described above. Anything less will not be able to perfectly emulate the conversations of other intelligent beings.
Excel-Virtual-Machine: C Compiler which targets Excel
Also, humans are weird, so A/B testing, if taken to its logical conclusion, will produce surreal results. What makes a human buy something is really not that well understood, IMO.

For instance, I was in charge of design for a mortgage lender's web site. I begged my manager to let me try (for lulz) an A/B test replacing the photo of the woman call centre operator next to the quote form with a photo of a Labrador retriever wearing a headset (you knew he was a professional because he also wore glasses and a necktie). The dog form consistently outperformed the woman by 19% but we had to roll it back after a couple of weeks because.. well.. dog.
not a plant I swear!
Is HTML in its best form, no. If people are to recreate HTML in 2021, it would probably be based on JSON.

But HTML is good enough for people to keep using. And LaTeX is barely good enough after four decades for people to keep using.
Corrections theory has evolved a lot since 1950s and it hasn't been about applying punishment for a long time. If someone is locked up 23 hours a day, it is because it was determined through a classification process that they are a danger to the staff and other inmates to be in any less restrictive housing. Modern corrections theory is about putting inmates in the least restrictive housing necessary to keep them.

Some considerations of the many are often that the inmate has a history of assaulting or extorting other inmates if they are housed in a general population dorm.

Source: Corrections in America book

As for your article, it's not proper to lump together prisons such as Guantanamo Bay, which is a military prison, to the typical state and federally run facilities. These are completely different types of prisons with different ways of operation, and inmates are inside for different purposes. Issues at Guantanamo Bay are not representative of issues present at the state run prison mentioned in the HN article.
It sounds like a database that both exists in the cloud and locally on your device. Which sounds useful! But then, PouchDB already exists:

https://pouchdb.com/
Countries require satellite operators to obtain licenses “to land signals” in their territory. The laws treat incident EM radiation as a landing as insane as that sounds.
>I don’t want to insist on calling this “cancel culture”

I mean, you shouldn't call it cancel culture at any point. Depending on the audience, your example could either never be what "cancel culture" means, or be the primary definition. Unless you know that you are addressing one of those audiences alone, then the phrase only creates confusion.
Hope posts like these (without any details about product and asking for emails) get people banned, it's obvious bunch of them are up voting this to get to front page.
RPi is easily and affordably available everywhere. Even in my country and their models get released here real fast.

I am not sure, I can only hope; but I would really love them to be a Frame.work competitor with their established logistics and reach. Possibly cheaper as well. Maybe not as high end.

Because it might be years before something like Framework reaches places like my country (if they don’t go bust by then)
I'm not a native English speaker either, and my guess is that the poster is using the singular they, a quite recent trend which I find confusing as hell. So in this case is just a friend of indeterminate gender.
Ohhh weird, I thought it was a literal mp4 on the front page haha. Must be one of my browser extensions messing with it!
Thank you very much for saying this. It was refreshing and surprising to see. Upvoted.

I agree with lot, especially with this: "things are more nuanced than that". I also understand the need for somewhat restrictive response to health crisis. Unfortunately, the nuance appears to be lost on many "in the power", who seem to be pushing the most restrictive approach just for the sake of being restrictive. They completely ignore the fact that many employed measures concern some people on a much, much different level than, say, some new taxes or road rules would. The division of society that they create now goes much deeper than disagreement on almost any other political issue, and they either incompetent enough to not give it a thought, or just plain evil to be doing it deliberately. I don't see any other explanation. I understand that in politics moderate position is almost impossible to hold, but no one is even pretending.

They all seem to be in a race to impose a mountain of most conspicious, symbolic and hostile measures on top of a handful that make sense, and then pretend that people are rejecting the good part. No, people are just unable and unwilling to fish for an ounce of gold in the barrel of fertilizer that is pushed upon us. No one is willing to acknowledge and discuss the nuance, hence people are forced to assume a radical position and find themselves in a company which they, in the normal times, would avoid.

In short, I don't expect for it all to end well and end soon. The regimes based on premise that 100% of participants are marching in lockstep, even involuntary so, always end in blood, in my opinion. And, as I said, the issues with worldwide "response" to "pandemic" go so very deep, at primal level, so the explosion of violence is inevitable. At the moment I don't see what can compel someone to hang around to witness the destruction.
There is an FPGA company, Achronix, that claimed to do this. Their FPGA architecture was apparently asynchronous, and they had tools that compiled synchronous designs onto it. Don't know how good their tech was, but they got bought by Intel and are still making it AFAIR.
I'm still just reading the first couple sections, but I already want to give props for an excellent write-up. You're explaining in (mostly) plain language the purpose of Kafka, your specific application of it, and lots of great background detail and history of your implementation's evolution. It's also clear that whoever wrote this knows their Ops. Thank you!
WhatsApp has its own backups in addition to regular full-phone iCloud backups.

If WhatsApp does not encrypt its content at rest locally, then “iCloud backups” still contain everything unencrypted too.
If your threat model is the service roll your own. Otherwise, trust but verify.
Again that's a generic response:

> There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases. I mean, we should have a lot of systems

Beyond databases. What does that mean? That could be analog systems, that could be anything not stored in a computer.

Nothing to do with identification which would need a database. It's a generic answer to avoid a hypothetical. It's a nonanswer.

He said nothing, not everything. You are attributing the reporters question to him. The reporter is posing the hypothetical that they created in the first place by the initial interview.

My main point was hypotheticals are always trap (unless among friends!), but that's a great example of an obvious one.

The usual shtick is to say nothing, because the journalistic usual shtick is to ask gotcha hypotheticals.
> Does banning used books actually stop any of the communication between gang members?

No, there are unlimited ways to fly a kite.
Oh yeah we're in complete agreement there.
Wow, I took a class from Paul Steinhardt when I was starting my PhD in physics at Penn.

I think it was in him in his class who asked us how planes flew. I raised my hand and said the Bernoulli principle. He showed how despite schools teaching it forever, it couldn't be right. Otherwise planes couldn't fly upside down but they do.
Why would you believe this? The awful drug laws didn't just go away. The guy who wrote many of them is President now. Vastly more people are in the system for drug offenses today than there were "a few decades ago".

Every arrest for drug sales, possession, or use is an injustice. 95% of cases end in plea bargain rather than a real verdict. We imprison more people, in both percentage and absolute terms, than any nation on earth, in history. The system is set up to maximize incarceration, and that's absolutely what it does.
The rest of you guys are too young to remember but I remember something called yellow pages and white pages. Google has certainly forgotten. White pages Were a search index that could never be monetized in the phone book! Google offers only yellow pages!
It's not YC specific but systemic sadly.
Don’t shoot the messenger or next time they won’t send another.
Twitter bans sharing of photos without consent
In 2016 when we were founded, Pulsar wasn't a thing yet. Today, we'd be very likely to use Pulsar if we were starting from scratch.
> Why on Earth did the police feel it was necessary to do all this just to catch one guy?

The following is an opinion and may be an unjust one:

They had toys and a rare chance to play with them.

I don't think much else is required or stands in the way.
nothing to see here, carry on /s. i really wish these companies would stop with the lobbying
Why do you feel it's a violation of your privacy to have a picture of you on the internet on a popular forum? Particularly if the photo or it's caption does not name you, the context in which it was taken, or the date.

I feel like if you carry the argument far enough, then this should extend to satellite imagery of your home. Isn't that an equivalent violation of your privacy? What about traffic cameras and other webcams setup in public places for public consumption online?

If I have an equivalent right to photograph in public, then it's an undue burden on me and a probably an even greater violation of your privacy to chase you and everyone else down and ask for the rights to reproduce it online. I'm not sure this is a feature I want to add to our public spaces.
I think many people missed the point of the whole self defense argument. In Michigan, you can't claim self defense if you unreasonably put yourself or others in danger. To me, the part that made this case a tossup, was whether or not you believe it is reasonable to go out into public at night, while there is civil unrest, unnecessarily, carrying a loaded rifle.

I find that completely ridiculous and unreasonable. Regardless of one's technical right to do so.

But some people done agree and think it is totally acceptable to do so.
This is actually pretty nice, way better than the spammy logo generator sites. Makes you a nice brand kit.
It wouldn't surprise me if most TV vendors have similar GPL violations, best check them before purchasing one.
I always determined whether I liked a video for what it was anyway, I never disliked a video if other people disliked it. But for me the like dislike ratio helped avoid scams. I feel that scammers are empowered by having only the like counter display
Yes but they can still:

- block the company nationwide, see Huawei (also includes ceasing contracts with app stores, both of which are American)

- block access to your website, see TPB

- harass you when you travel, either to the US or fellow countries.
Not that I would ever want to experience this...I have a 8000 lb (3600 kg) CNC machine in the middle of my garage, flanked by a 2200 lb (1000 kg) manual milling machine. I wonder what would happen if SWAT tried to drive a BearCat through the garage without knowing what's on the other side of the door?

Nothing good. I think.
You mean this?
https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/elon-musk-starlink-int...
"Govt Asks Indians Not To Subscribe To Elon Musk-owned Internet Service Starlink"

StarLink is not licenced for use in India yet, but do you think the US mil or any other Nato mil will want some control over military coup's like when the military rolled into (Burma) Myanmar earlier this year and the internet was shut down? Not the only country to shutdown the internet or censor it when thinking about the Great Firewall of China either.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55901774
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Myanmar#Re-censors...
> There have been some major improvements to Nix error messages which were included in the last release

That's good to hear (and I think I heard about it before). The problem is, there are still lingering issues with Nix, like how long it takes to figure out how to compile a new program, (exceptionally) poor documentation, packages being unmaintained, the nixpkgs repository being a gigantic blackhole that takes forever to eval, etc.

Don't get me wrong. I really like the idea behind Nix. Even with this fix though, I'm still not sure I would enjoy using Nix (since many, many other problems) or giving it another shot because of my emotional response to it that's been caused by burnout trying to wrangle with it.
maybe cooperating with scientists will offer some benefits. for example, Anki based on an old research result, and we can find it is difficult to assess utility of one tool when lacking experiment.
It is an argument though, rather than blind word association. However bad these freedom restricting arguments are, the kind of moral panic the commenter I replied to implied the commenter they replied to felt.
I'm not a scientist so I'm speculating, however: if one doesn't have that... weird level of self confidence to detach their ideas from themselves, can they actually make it in science? I'd guess no. Does society want people who don't have a lot of self confidence in science? Won't they end up fudging data to conceal the fact that their hypothesis is wrong, rather than just acknowledging the fact and moving along, feeling just as smart as yesterday?
I don’t think it’s because they love wasting time or billing unnecessary hours. I think it’s because they are professional lawyers who know way, way more about questioning witnesses than you do.
I've got much the same thing re: the "old days". My friends and I wrote a mess of (bad, but for the most part intentionally bad) text files that have mostly disappeared.

UPT! No kidding. That's a blast from the past. Sadly, I only remember a few particular people from that time. I got to meet just a few of them IRL. I was slightly too young to go to the various 'cons, etc, before the Internet came storming-in and killed the BBS scene.
Epidemiology of Acute Myocarditis in HK Adolescents After Pfizer Vaccination
It is not the caffeine, it is the polyphenols. Yes, decaf works.
>but with good sound quality

I guess it was good enough, but MiniDisc used lossy compression.
Because when you see it from Sony's perspective, Quad9 is a provider/tool that allows people to circumvent restrictions / legal decisions to block the website.
I just want to say @gigamick these burn systems are powerful.

You might get divorced some day. You might have a business partner subpoena your old gmail account. ALL those emails/texts will be turned over, ALL those emails/texts will get leaked. Use something like this! Make the message burn after reading.
If anything, the open source movement (or the free software movement, tak your pick) would be much poorer for it, and see open source relegated to a library and infrastructure layer of the IT world. As is, with GPL at least there's a chance of having a vertically FOSS stack for hardware that's within most people's reach.
> Rant time: You've heard it before, git is powerful, but what good is that power when everything is so damn hard to do? Interactive rebasing requires you to edit a goddamn TODO file in your editor? Are you kidding me? To stage part of a file you need to use a command line program to step through each hunk and if a hunk can't be split down any further but contains code you don't want to stage, you have to edit an arcane patch file by hand? Are you KIDDING me?! Sometimes you get asked to stash your changes when switching branches only to realise that after you switch and unstash that there weren't even any conflicts and it would have been fine to just checkout the branch directly? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!

> If you're a mere mortal like me and you're tired of hearing how powerful git is when in your daily life it's a powerful pain in your ass, lazygit might be for you.

I sympathise, deeply. If you've never found yourself counting lines - repeatedly, because your last attempt failed - while manually editing a hunk, then I envy you.
Metaverse Real Estate Piles Up Record Sales in Sandbox and Other Virtual Realms
I read something about one of the reasons the police have become more militarized and it wasn't the reason I expected (I'll see if I can find the article and link it). It had to do with city budgets and the way they were pushed out and continued. The gist of it was, the police had to allocate spending their budget within a short time frame or the budget they had would be put into the cities "general fund" (I believe this was Seattle, as that's where I live... mileage may vary). The next year's budget would be reduced to reflect the lack of spending. In order to reduce the risk of not having enough resources, police departments would make sure to spend all of their remaining money on 'necessary' equipment for their units. They could get A LOT of military equipment for a good price because of our 20 odd year wars over season, and our love of specialized units in the police departments, it was a match made in heaven.This type of short sighted, feast or famine spending coupled with readily available surplus military equipment has lead to an ever increasing militarization of the police that has a less effective, effect on community policing and crime, statistically. But all of this is because of how our government handles its accounting practices and sells its surplus military gear.

I think I heard it on Freakonomics, but I'm not sure.
It's the most common refresh rate. The TVs in my house, most of my monitors, and my phone all have a 60Hz refresh rate. I do have a 144Hz which is technically able to accurately play a 24Hz video, but video is usually encoded in 30 or 60 fps before I can even play it.
My guess is you like isekai with a tech/strategic side to it probably like the following:

- Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody

- That Time I Got Reincarnated as A Slime

- The Dungeon of Black Company

- No Game No Life

- Outbreak Company

- Log Horizon (in a computer game, but has a lot of worldbuilding)

- Overlord

- Re;Creators

- Arifureta: From Commonplace to The World's Strongest

- In Another World with a Smartphone (generally considered so bad it's good)

- The Wise Man's Grandchild

- The Saga of Tanya the Evil

I'm guessing you might like the following:

- Sword Art Online

- .hack series (the anime chronology begins with .hack//sign)

If you want something a little bit more tech related with less fantasy:

- The Irregular At Magic High School

- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

- Stein's Gate

- Serial Experiments Lain

- Bubblegum Crisis

- Outlaw Star

- Big O

- Code Geass

Just a personal recommendation:

- Spice and Wolf
Strange. Currently starlink does not have sat to sat meshing yet. That means that the ground segment must be in view of the same sat while serving. India is pretty big. So they could just ban SpaceX from operating ground stations and that should stop them. Except in the border areas where they could be painted by ground stations from neighbouring countries.

But I'm not sure how big the cells are. It could be that they are as big as to cover most of India? Doubt it though.

But yeah it would be great if we had a truly independent internet provider for an affordable price.
firewalld 1.0.1 Release
The negative incentive could make finding people to work as law enforcement difficult, though

I think an in-built insurance system that all workees contribute to mandatorily works better. If less in damages is awarded than was collected, they could partially return as a proportional bonus to the workers

It's not a straightforward issue but I think most would agree the current incentives are skewed towards doing whatever and not being responsible for any damage or cost
I'm curious how this system handles permissioning aka preventing a random user from querying the rest of the DB.

Firebase has some bespoke config that is dependent on all your data being in a key value mapping. I wonder how that would translate to a relational store.

Also building on clojure / datalog seems interesting and maybe risky.
Elon Musk says Raptor engine production is a ‘disaster’ that puts SpaceX at risk
I believe judges can, in fact, hold a defendant for refusing to give up their own passwords, and that the contempt could be indefinite. This is a point of law that is not settled at the federal level yet, and at the state level it varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

In one case, the appellate court at the federal level simply refused to hear the case that had been decided at the sate supreme court level.

https://www.reuters.com/business/legal/us-supreme-court-nixe...
Thats opposite to the advice of Dale Bredesen who wrote "The End of Alzheimers" (excellent book).
Amyloid-targeting drugs have not failed. There are currently three — aducanumab (phase 2 trial successful, one of two phase 3 trials successful), donanemab (successful phase 2 trial), and lecanemab (promising phase 2 trial which technically failed but which showed a 64% Bayesian posterior probability of being at least 25% better than placebo) — that have shown a tendency to a roughly ~20-35% reduction in the pace of cognitive decline compared to placebo.

That said, amyloid is very upstream in the causal chain, which begins about 15-20 years before clinically detectable symptoms. It's believed by some (including myself) that amyloid therapy would be preventative at that early stage, but you won't do much better than a ~35% slowdown at the stage Alzheimer's is typically diagnosed. At that stage, tau therapy is more promising, since it's the more proximate cause of neurodegeneration.
Doubt it, $1.50 then would be around $40.
I don't recall StackOverflow being mentioned, no, but it's been a few years since I've read it.
“The Navy built it” is a bit of an exaggeration. Paul Syverson did early work on it at the Naval Research Lab, and Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson added to the collaboration at approximately the same time, with neither having anything to do with the Navy. That’s the extent of the military connection - some relationship in the first year or so of an 18 year or so project.
So, you manage computers using crashcarts like in ugly old days of PC servers?

I thought that had considerable issue with scaling...
This gives the prison operators an incentive to train the incarcerated for higher paying jobs
When police do stuff like this it's just an excuse to use toys with no repercussions. They get to blow up a house with zero personal accountability. So they are either man children or cowards. Probably both. Not a great look either way.