skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit off topic, but with regards to CSAM: I don't understand the motives of people who share it online for free¹. Distributing child pornography risks serious consequences, and I don't see what the compensation is that makes people willing to take that risk for no monetary profit. Maybe if we understood that motivation, we could make it less attractive to do; preventing the motivation for the activity might be easier than preventing the activity.

¹ Which is among, of course, the many other things I don't understand about them.
How does Freight rail fit that list? Does Your “AI”directly contribute to the present Suppy chain shot show or anyways offsetting carbon emissions? Railroad is still railroad.
Seconded - people always comment "but you're in the tech industry!" and I reply "It's precisely because I'm in the industry that I stay far away from all this new-fangled gizmos".
That's a nice revenge fantasy, but it's very different from what orthodox economics would suggest.

Mainstream economics takes the preference of some people to go unvaccinated serious. The idea would be to arrive at an accurate estimate of the externalities, and then charge that (or alternatively, subsidize the vaccinated to that amount). So that people can make accurate decisions that take their preferences _and_ the costs and benefits to wider society into account.

The idea is NOT to apply an ever increasing spiral of costs on people who make decisions we disagree with.

Over time as vaccines get better the size of the externalities might even go down. In the idealised extreme case of a vaccine that is 100% effective and can be taken by anyone who wants it, there's no externality from anti-vaxxers at all.

(In reality, there are some people who can not get vaccinated for medical reasons, and our available vaccines don't even seem to be good enough to give herd immunity at the moment.)
You probably could buy a new mid range priced modern dumb fridge and save a lot of money over 8-10 years vs operating your 1970 vintage fridge. Depending on electric rates in your area of course.
Well, PO boxes are a rough equivalent to domains: you've got to explicitely set it up at some cost.

As long as you only ever give out your PObox address (domain) instead of your real address (IP), you are good.
No, it's like saying "I know how unsafe and unreliable all the extra electronic gizmos are that manufacturers like to put in cars, so I'm just buying the base model car that doesn't include all that extra stuff, I just want a basic car". I am exactly like the GP: I don't own any of these devices and don't ever intend to, but that doesn't mean I don't use computers or the Internet. I just don't use computers built by companies that have a demonstrated record of misusing the capabilities of their devices.
> The American Public is quite possibly the most propagandized citizenry in the world.

What makes you think so? Have you looked at other countries in detail?
It's fun, until you live there, and find yourself forever filling out tens of useless forms and workout that pretty much everything requires a form, whether or not it makes sense.

Don't get me wrong, I think the art work, Kanji and calligraphy is awesome, there are many amazing things about the 'paper culture' but, there are many drawbacks, especially in 2021 when the rest of the world has gone digital in so many areas.
I think it's better to look for people who consistently make money on the back of comprehensible strategies where you understand the risks and failure modes. It's easy to find people who make money when the market goes down - wallstreetbets is full of people who buy puts, or maybe the market in general tanks but your specific lottery tickets pay out.

I'm much more interested in someone who can articulate a strategy that I can understand and that has a good track record.
> My acquaintance dug into some 400 years of Japanese history to explain why it had less problems with corruption than China, next door.

That's a bit suspect considering a lot of pre-WW2 Japanese governments were based off Chinese models (not to mention, as another commenter mentioned, there are other examples of Asian governments with low corruption, maybe even less than Japan's). In China's case, if we're going back hundreds of years, I suspect the explanation is a bit more complex, you know, having to deal with all that sheer area in the age of horses, no natural sea barrier against foreigners, not to mention a population size that easily dwarfed Japan's (and most countries in the world).
pens that you won't find at Staples or Walgreens (or the
office supply closet)

You'll still have to hit up the office supply closet or one of those other places for "decoy pens." You leave the decoy pens in a cup on top of your desk, while you keep the good stuff inside a drawer. That way your officemates and/or partner and/or housemates borrow (steal) the decoy pens and not the good stuff.
Peak insanity might have been this mid-80s Honda:

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/but-wait-theres-more/a1850...

Especially this picture:

https://hips.hearstapps.com/autoweek/assets/s3fs-public/03-m...

Eventually the rubber hoses would get old, crack, and leak vacuum. Now your car starts running wonky and diagnosis is pretty much impossible.
The like the phone so that they can ask questions in passing to find out what other roles they're competing for. You're their commission, so they have a sports coach/psychologist approach to groom and herd you. I pretty much shouted at the recruiter for my current job, finally losing it with all her calls just before I went into the interview - a sheepdog darting left and right of the sheep.
Read 'The Scientist in the Crib' by Alison Gopnik.
Not feasible to explain all complexities in a HN post but the above will be well worth your time.
All those cat facts are interesting by the way.
I'm surprised you don't get constantly spammed by recruiters.

I get 1+ per week, sometimes as many as 5. To me it seems like there's at least a few databases of developer profiles built by recruiting agencies by scraping public info from LinkedIn. Smaller startups then defer to these recruiting agencies to find talent. Mid-size startups have their own recruiters. My profile on LinkedIn is barebones, I only have the company name and my title listed and I still get contacted often.

The emails I get frequently have a sentence such as: "You've been 2+ years at <FAANG> so consider joining our cool startup that needs an Android app to disrupt the basket weaving industry". I'm guessing the DB software has some rules to categorize people into various groups, such as "likely looking for other opportunities after 2 years at FAANG".

There's a clear pattern to these emails. First is initial contact, then a follow up email if there was no response, then one last attempt, usually in the span of a few days.

I don't mind the emails too much. I usually reply to establish an initial contact with the sourcer / recruiter, which lets me build my own database of recruiters which I might send an email to when I decide to jump ship.
Yeah about ten years ago I rewired my home office with bs1363 format extensions and sockets (In south Asia) to solve issues with shoddy wiring and lack of grounding where I was renting at the time.
Any parents so fond of "convenience" that they delegate their house chores to their kids?

Or how many 10 year-olds do you know that go around doing laundry when they are bored?
I understand, but I disagree.

Dan Kaminsky was my best friend. We lived together multiple times, and were working on finding a new place where we could hack together and help others do the impossible.

Losing him shattered my future for reasons I am not going to get into right now.

The fact that he got a black bar the next day really meant something to me as I was dealing with the aftermath.

Hacker news isn't a technology news site.

It's a community of brilliant who change the world with technology.
A celebration of intellectual curiosity.

At least that's how I see it.
I suggested you don't leave a loaded gun on the counter.

Seriously, the uncurated, unfiltered internet is not for small children and you put a surveillance puck with shitty parental controls up for a Q&A?

Why do people expect high-quality content and curation from Alexa?
> Not that I disagree we've gotten better at some things but Outlook Express (newsgroups) and mIRC (irc) seemed plenty accessible to millions of non-technical users.

This was my experience as well decades ago. Unfortunately, people claim that Usenet and/or irc are to technical for the average user to figure out. I guess the skill level of the average user has gone down in the interim.
> You're already being tracked and listened to all the time

No, I'm not, because my phone is as basic (read: lacking in capabilities) and locked down as I can make it, my computers run Linux and don't have any intrusive software installed. So no, I'm not anywhere near as exposed to tracking as people who have these smart home devices in their homes.
Neeva has a full featured free tier by the way. Glad you are enjoying it. Agree it sucks that Apple doesn’t let you choose Neeva as a default for Safari. The Neeva extensions on macOS and iOS provide a workaround that still lets you search from the URL bar.
Calling it a serious question doesn't put the onus on someone else to bring up a google search for you SMH.
> I'd pick history, the accumulation of aggregate choices.

So, Japan doesn't have corruption because it hasn't had corruption for 400 years?
We are metaphorical machines and language drives a large part of it, at least according to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I wish I had the perspective of a second language - maybe this is where the statistic of multilingual kids performing better comes from.
The product is useless because it's a huge GDPR and CCPA violation waiting to happen. If you cannot comply with GDPR because of your technology choice, you are liable to large fines.

After working in the fintech space, nothing is truly immutable because of compliance.

Fintech -- the customer which should want this most -- can't use it.
Usenet is a loose federation of services handing articles to each other. If one newshost decides that they don't have the money/time to keep the lights on, you can seamlessly use another newshost which will let you fetch and post articles. Likewise if a newshost believes you're not worth the trouble to allow posting, another newshost can let you post. It's very hard to get banned from every newshost. That said, individuals often decide whom to block as many newsreaders allow users to score content and remove content from their local feeds that they feel score low.

If Reddit decides that a certain user or even a certain subreddit shouldn't be a part of Reddit anymore, that user or subreddit is off Reddit. If a news server decides not to accept or relay articles destined for a certain group, chances are high that another newshost _will_ be okay with accepting/relaying those articles.
He is a bigot because he holds bigoted opinions about members of the LGBTQ community.
System software research sounds like it could benefit from focusing more on the systems than the software. No one is going to be building the next Linux. But they could build the ecosystem, architecture, and incentives for the next Linux to organically form. It's no longer just an engineering problem but an organizational and business one.
You can take steps to lock down your smartphone and limit its ability to spy on you, since you only need it to hear what you're saying when you're using it as a phone. You can't do that with these smart home devices; an intrinsic part of their function is that they have to be always listening.
You can also check:

* https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990

* https://archive.org/details/msdos_4D_Prince_of_Persia_1994

* https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_2_-_The_S...
Ask HN: Is there a universally accepted reference for mathematics terminology?
Context: I stumbled upon this link[1], which I bookmarked almost ten years back. Reading that made me wonder what the standard reference is, for mathematics and its definitions.

For a programming language, you can refer to its specification or source code. For weights and measures, we have the SI system. What is there for mathematics?

[1]https://blog.mathed.net/2012/07/rysk-stumps-secondary-mathematics.html
IPFS is one of those things that shows up on my radar every year or so recently, I drool over it from afar, then I download it and install it and try to use it for a real use case and... it doesnt work.

I've went thru what I thought were the default tutorials and... nothing. Made me feel like the docs were leaving something out.

On paper it would be a useful tool to add to my toolbox. Someday...
Maybe penny loafers will make a comeback? Women will wear their buckles on the left when available? Everything old is new again…
If anyone's taking requests: Dangerous Dave/Road rash pls
The President of Princeton did not claim is wasn't bigotry. He claimed that because the Professor is polite about it; it's OK that he is a bigot.

Saying that same sex marriage is "beneath the dignity of human beings as free and rational creatures" is a bigoted opinion.
Yes, you can get around the geo restriction using a VPN. Note of course that the experience will not be optimized for your locale if you are outside the US (e.g., local searches for restaurants and such will not work well).
No, long term accuracy is not the sole purpose of a clock.

People make trade-offs depending on application. Eg if your clock loses a minute on average once a week, that's still good enough for most household applications.

Similarly, wristwatches put a premium on low weight and small size, not necessarily on accuracy. (And that's not even mentioning clocks as status symbols.)
I took a look and on linkedin it isn't sure where you are and you haven't listed any technologies. If you put in go-lang, c, Python, linux, Docker, containers that'll make you searchable. If you want remote jobs for US companies say so.
I agree with you, but at the same time, I think it’s easy to dismiss this whole line of thought as quacky.

It’s very hard to argue with tables and plots.

Economics has a lot of mathematical work for similar “hard science” reasons.
Why would it be? It could have happened in any programming language.
As someone who doesn't play video games, but as a writer, holy crap do I understand what they are doing, and how have any game writers here come from literary or fiction writing to writing for games? Do you pitch stories or games?
I’m saying this specific power, you’re extrapolating that to mean I think this means all power instead of starting the discussion about what makes this power different that it deserves different treatment. Taking someone’s opinion and arguing against an extreme extrapolation of it doesn’t leave much room for discussion.
Thanks!

I wonder whether the continuity of the Jewish week predates the Julian calendar?
It's an acquired skill. I remember hating it, then adapting.
> The purpose of DRM is to give content providers leverage against creators of playback devices.

That was what they thought it was for.

Turns out it gives the creators of playback devices leverage against content providers, e.g. iOS App Store.
Truly one of the best interviews ever!
I have been using Midori MD notebooks for quite some time, I really like their format and paper.
I recently purchased a pack containing a Kunisawa notebook, it's so nice and well made that I'm sad to start writing in it, I'm waiting to start a project or idea for something interesting enough to release it.
That said I also think that there are many things coming from Japan that are incredibly overpriced just for the fact of coming from there, like stationery and clothes, the prices they reach when they arrive in Europe are sometimes even in bad taste, especially if you compare them with many local products that are equal or better and worth 1/3 of the price.
I would love if there was something like "Coin bootstrapping".

Similar to how ICOs work. But with different expectations. The founder gets the whole initial supply. And then sells of enough of it every month to make a living. If they are lucky, the project becomes very valuable and they end up with a huge amount of coins left. But they might also use up all the coins and barely get by.

Does some project like this exist? Or do all founders throw the towel if they do not raise huge sums up front?
Thanks for trying Neeva! We’d of course love any feedback thru the in app support feature.
I don't know. I am not zuck.

Btw, if there is any way that one can use to even know if a strategy is optimal in stock trading. Let me know, I'll offer 1billion dollar for the exclusive ownership of that method.
How many jobs is normal to consider at a time? I saw he had 50ish in 2 weeks which is an awful lot for senior jobs. Even as an IC I can only really handle a fraction of that. Should I be applying for 100 roles/month? I'm not sure what is normal or a good strategy.
When I said "phone number," I wasn't implying any portability. I was actually thinking of a land-line phone number.

The point I was making is that it's assumed you can get a static phone number for your house, but most of the public don't know how to get a static IP address for their house (and it's often not even possible to do, depending on ISP).
> reasonable online resources has us tracking development in stints that seem to go about a month each

What resources? A month seems too granular, we were provided these from our pediatrician that have longer milestone ranges (cadence in scrum terms I guess):

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/index.html

https://pathways.org/all-ages/milestones/

https://childmind.org/guide/parents-guide-to-developmental-m...
So the Chiva Wallet is not a lightning app?
> Not according to the console view (F12) for images in the browser. You can also verify this with your firewall and dns lookups.

Are you talking about the DDG browser? On the website, icos and other external content is proxied.

> Also uses bing.net, mm.bing.net for safe search and explicit.bing.net for not safe search, but with a GUID linked to every image it pulls in, so there is still traceability and thus accountability, ergo its not private.

We (Okeano) don't send any PII to Bing.
You may believe that relative morality is orthogonal to religion, but by definition, absolute morality is not possible without a point of reference outside of us, i.e. religion.

And I would say relative morality is no morality at all. Pedophilia, murder, rape, etc is absolutely wrong. I don't care what you compare it to.

And I would assert morality is orthogonal to science.
Is it possible that there is an ulterior motive to the FDA restricting at-home self-testing testing from 23andme?

If people are allowed to learn about and act on their genetic risk factors, is it possible that certain medical practices stand to lose a lot of money? Is it possible that cheap preventive care could replace expensive procedures/drugs that you are forced to purchase later, once your diseases become unmanageable?

I find it very strange, and incredibly hard to believe that the risk of people overreacting from their medical information outweighs the positive impacts of having the knowledge.
Western US.
But I do know how unsafe cars are so that's why I don't have one. What are you trying to say?
What's the conspiratory narrative "AI people" would be pushing ? That Alexa is self-aware ? And are we on reddit where we count who downvoted who and then fight back ?

Like everything, you included, AI transforms input into outputs according to predefined constraints. I dont see you revolutionazing mathematics or building a farm but I d still call you intelligent, within your constraints (what you learned, what you can memorize, how fast you adapt etc). But you must appear as a complete moron who doesnt actually know what he's doing given the right context.

TL;DR you're as stupid growing a potato in front of a farmer than Alexa teaching children in front of adults. Why is Alexa talking to children, all it's learned is how to be a directory of keywords, and I sure wouldnt let my kid in front of an internet directory without control, supervision and filtering.
One of the biggest hurdles I've experienced is that a number of large players in the industry (think G..argantuan) systematically flag private mail servers as spam almost as a matter of course and it's up to you to prove your innocence. There is a clear financial benefit for this sort of behavior as it pushes people back onto their services.
"Low level" is relative. The article says that there doesn't exist any "low level" languages that programmers can use, this isn't a very helpful definition. If we go by the languages that programmers actually have access to, then machine code is as close as you get to the metal, and C maps very well to machine code. So by any reasonable definition C is a low level language for programmers. For a hardware engineer who works on CPU architecture it is of course different, but we are talking from a programmers perspective here.
If you're looking for a 5k display, I've found Wikipedia's list of 5k devices to be valuable reference point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5K_resolution#List_of_devices_...

Personally, I'm hanging out for a 5120x2880 display larger than 27". We've had 27" 5120x2880 displays for 6 or 7 years now, you'd think someone would have taken that res to a larger panel by now. But nope, still waiting.
That seems like a really biased piece.
Using Hammerspoon to enhance and automate Bear.app on macOS
Lmao so now learning a language has the monetization model of pay to win mobile games?
What a nice Christmas gift! Takes me down memory lane.
Beyond the fire risks mentioned by others, front loading washers and dryers are sometimes used as a hiding place by children which has led to serious injury and deaths
I earn enough and half.
Improvement in user counts? I'll give you that.
Improvement in the quality of discussion? Not so much. It isn't a coincindence that we're discussing this here and not somewhere on discord.

Remember the eternal september.
> The existence of a concept is not the same thing as the existence of the thing the concept refers to.

Yes it is, for most of the average Joe believers the concept of god is the god, since they never faced any other kind of god in their life.

The same with zombies - if you afraid of them => they definitely exist _at least_ in your head! Otherwise what the hell exactly are you afraid of?
Just poppped in to say that this game was one of the best games I ever played from a story standpoint, despite being short and relatively simple.
In addition to things categorized as “systems research”, there’s a bunch of new stuff like IoT devices which all need their own OS and update mechanisms.

Maybe the classical “write a new OS (because we didn’t understand the economics of hardware)” is no longer the case, but there’s still plenty of research going on: unikernels, containers…

It just looks different than what it used to. Also that paper is from 20 years ago.
> Why do people buy and use these things?

I don't own one myself, but I gave my legally blind 80-year-old neighbor an Amazon Dot — after explaining the privacy concerns.

He'd never used any internet-connected device, but the voice interface was almost instantly accessible to him. That's a really big deal. For context, he told me that if his 1970s stove breaks, he won't replace it because he won't be able to learn a new stove's interface.

He regularly uses it for news headlines, sports scores, and checking the weather.

He also uses it to access internet radio stations that play music from his era. That music was unavailable to him previously and now he can access it instantly and for free.
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