skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in mid-to-late 90s I was addicted to an online trivia game called Cosmo's Conundrum. It was a Java applet that had a large core of players, chat capabilities and cash prizes. The game went through some iterations and the parent company eventually folded, but many of the players stayed in touch, attempted migrations to different trivia platforms, and are still connected via Facebook. Many friendships and marriages came out of this simple game.

I've always wanted to rebuild it, but never quite had the time for it. Was even able to snag the original domain name years later, but even that went nowhere. In a few years my own kids will be the same age I was when I played it, it is an odd thought.
Netflix farms out all this post work. That's why they have these delivery specs. You follow the white papers and then they run it through their automated systems that do QC (followed by people verifying). Then they run it through an auto pipeline to create final streaming files and archives but they don't do any further manipulation of the image. Once you start doing one Netflix job they return to your post facility consistently.
But I think this article missed the major concern Moxie raised about "blockchain API platforms". They will out innovate their base protocols and deliver a better UX.

Light clients are a great example. They are only efficient compared to running a full node yourself. The computation and time is still far below relying on a platform to do it for you.
Last time I checked, there was no way to build an app and send it to your Garmin watch without applying (and paying for?) a license.

Is there a way around that?
I'm dismissively cynical with respect to the future of "web3", but for the most part I can appreciate the tone taken by this article; no defensiveness, no condescending suggestions that the critics "just don't get it", but most importantly, acknowledgement that these are real problems and a willingness to engage with the specifics of the criticisms outlined, without hedging. I remain unconvinced, but I think the discussion around blockchains would be a lot less heated if the rhetoric from the enthusiasts was typically this measured. Yes, I recognize I'm putting the onus on the enthusiasts and letting the cynics off the hook, but the enthusiasts are the ones claiming to herald the next iteration of the web, that's a haughty claim for an already controversial technology.
A reciept that becomes quite close to what I do is this: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/75737/elderberry-soup/, though I cook the apples in the same pot (without peeling). Some people add dumplings like here: https://www.sunnysidecircus.com/countries/germany/food-drink... Key for me is cooking elderberries in water, adding corn starch to thicken and apples for sweetness.
TL;DR the whole article is this section:

“””
“People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.”

This cannot be factually true, some people want to run their own servers.
“””

That’s such a boring response to me. If you’re like me, skip the article. It’s basically just that stuff.
His example of a T-shaped person doing T-shaped work is:

>Setting up a suitable build system. Writing some unit tests for the code. Creating a skeleton of the models that are to be developed. Designing nice mock-ups or logos. Creating animations or graphics for presentations.

This makes me think the author is a fairly I-shaped person, because those examples look like one area (i.e., build systems, unit tests, sketching models).

An example of a T-shaped person would be someone who can develop wet-lab experimental technique as well as new machine learning models (which in academia you have the space to do).
You can't claim to be pro-science and then false-ly claim that psychiatric medication does nothing.

Depression and ADHD are _extremely_ treatable through medication, just as examples. There are many studies around this topic, it is way more treatable than certain physical conditions.

"Knocks off your normal brain chemicals" have you considered that some people's normal brain chemicals are not set up normally? Would you claim someone who is anemic taking iron supplements should stop cuz they're messing with that?

Naturalistic arguments like this lead to many people having way too much skepticism for things that are easily treatable. It leads to people dying. You should be ashamed of spreading this kind of nonsense.

EDIT: ADHD medication, when the right medication is given, has like 70% success rate at treating symptoms, and there's like 30% of people who express not just having symptoms reach manageable level, but total removal of all symptoms for their cases!

Imagine if we had magical robot prosthetics indistinguishable from actual human limbs. That is what we have for certain mental illnesses, for some set of people.
Congratulations to the team, it's been a long road but it's satisfying to see so many folks efforts paying off.

I remember seeing a full size mock up of the JWST nearly ten years ago, and thinking it was just too big, complex and far out to succeed. But dedicated people made it happen.
I said nothing about mild. I said "contagious".

Before Omicron, we had a hope of creating an R0 < 1 and stamping Covid out. Omicron spreads so well in so many different mammals that it simply wipes that option off the map.

Omicron, irrespective of whether it is mild or not, is simply going to blow through the population no matter what we do. Afterward everybody will have been infected with Covid, vaccinated, or both.

At that point, we'll have a background level of deaths from endemic Covid every year just like we do the flu. Welcome to the new world.
Canon released an app to allow most of their cameras to run as a fairly low-res webcam (it's a streaming capture from the liveview system rather than 720p).

This was really great for me with Zoom because I could get a sharp colourful image even in the low lights I had available, where a standard webcam would have dissolved into a grey mush of noise reduction.
people said the same thing about TLS
It has. People have used it to get their money in or out of the country.
"b2b software" and "wiki tool" are not mutually exclusive.
Plus one, going through this now.

Land of Lisp is great, been years since I touched it.
That did not happen in H2 2021. I did refer to it briefly in my first article, but enough was written about the event elsewhere: https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_th...
It can, it has batteries, but you don’t want to mess with thermals on that thing.
The argument doesn't hold. It uses the 99.9% of the users to crack down on the 0.1% (the devs) who have the ability to redefine what software is. Doing so, the big companies make sure they have the ability to rule their ecosystem. Using the argument of security, I'm sure they'll have the go from the governments.

So why would a company want total control on its ecosystem ? Because government don't want social unrest. So if you can ensure your platform is free of "terrorist", then you can discuss with government better. For example, if you're secure, you can position yourself as a reliable player on banking, e-health, etc. That is, you gain a very strong position to shape society in ways you're interested in. Don't forget that big companies have the power to do that and that those who command them are not required to be benevolent. They are private companies so there's no oversight on which interest they serve first.

It's not all doom and gloom though . As computer gets into our lives, more and more government and parliaments will become aware of the issue and there will be a place to fight for our rights. It's already the case.

The only thing that matter is : a computer is a general purpose machine and must stay a "general purpose" machine.
I’d rather be governed by people who have 65 years of experience with life, than by people who snort coke at 40 to be the shark they’ve always wanted. Politicians never seem to take correct decisions anyway.
I remember the extradition case.

Edit. Looks like I confused this with TVShack.
It's amazing that when companies grow beyond a scale, They can even forego basic support channels for even paid customers.

At least OP was able to contact Apple support,

1. I couldn't delete my Facebook account because my startup FB page backup isn't getting generated and there's no way to reach the support[1].

2. LinkedIn has fingerprinted my account login from a particular browser/OS that I'm unable to login via any other browser/OS(In the same network).

[1] https://abishekmuthian.com/meta-is-holding-my-facebook-page-...
TLS is simply about securing the transport between two parties: a client and a server.

It isn't trying to force all servers to return an identical response like Web3 is.
Thanks, I'm gonna check this out.
> I don't get why some people on this thread are so upset.

Agriculture is a critical component of a functional society. It's not a good idea to allow a few corporations to monopolize our entire food supply, and small farmers are constantly struggling to keep their heads above water. When suppliers like JD pull this BS with tech, it's a canary in the coal mine moment signaling that whoever controls JD could one day indirectly control US agriculture, which is a significant national security concern.

This particular tractor seems to be completely linked to JD's cloud system, there's no way to run it locally or independently from JD. If this becomes the norm 10 years from now and every tractor relies on JD's permission to operate, what happens when JD gets hit by ransomware or attacked by hostile nation states? Every tractor in the country suddenly refuses to work and we no longer have enough food to feed everyone. This would be a manmade disaster with unimaginable consequences (although one easy to imagine one is nuclear holocaust).
Author here—thanks for these comments! I realise that this is a valid take, but it's not what I had in mind. Being based in European academia salaries for Ph.D. students and other personnel are more or less fixed (of course, going to industry, this is not the case). I certainly do not want to exploit students.

My observation is that modern machine learning research entails so many additional moving parts (most, but not all of them, involving around SWE) that any student with skills in this area is already an asset. However, these skills are typically ignored while hiring.

I have seen the scenario you describe, but I it is definitely not what I intended to put a finger on in this post. Thanks for pointing this out!
I also don't need 15 bots on different IRC servers linked together to prevent someone riding a netsplit to takeover my channel.

Obviously IRC use has declined, but I also think the ratio of connections that belong to humans has increased.
I said what I observed and it goes without saying that I haven't seen everything.

And you... are only seeing what you want and need to argue with someone. I'm not your enemy here, get off my back already.
It's hard to know what you're saying here. What is "spin out of control" and why do you think it isn't addressed by competition and regulation?
Why is Microsoft offended by ‘Mrs Thatcher’?
Yes, I am well aware that there is an internationally-coordinated "decoupling" campaign from China, which is precisely why I view this story as politically motivated and intentionally misleading. In fact, dubious stories like this are essential to the operation -- you have to give some sort of public cover to get people onboard. There's a reason spies so much time "leaking" stuff to the press.
https://medium.com/@imolfar/why-and-how-zk-snark-works-1-int... this resource helped me a lot, it is somewhat technical but should be accessible to someone reading HN
Not to be reductive of a complex issue, but when I first discovered feelings wheel,I kept the tab open, and at various points in the day, I would attempt to pinpoint my exact emotional state and sort it into a category. If you don't have the categories, you can't sort things out. A house cannot be clean unless there is a place for everything.
Bayesians are atheists, they just happen to believe in Roko's Basilisk, which obviously is nothing like a reinvention of the devil. Remember not to think of it since we can't prove it won't torture an infinite number of clones of you forever!
Yeah, should have swapped the link, did it now.
Interesting. My opinion is to fund proportional to the ratio in change of some objective function. For example, an 2x improvement in text scores get a school x thousands. At least a significant chunk of money will motovate the bottom line to improve.
The Arri Alexa is the camera on which essentially every Oscar winning film and it has been shot on for the past decade has a rolling shutter as do the film cameras before it.
Maybe things have changed, or I missed something? But back in the summer when I walked through Moynihan and followed the directions to get to my train, there was nothing whatsoever in the hall.
You are claiming that medication cannot help with issues (expressing skepticism).

I'm sympathetic to what you are saying that external factors are definitely at play (of course they are, in a sense. Mental illness characterised by social interaction will depend on factors of those social interactions). But you're dismissing internal factors!

For many mental illnesses, people are able to function on a day-to-day basis without treatment, but would feel better with proper treatment. And sometimes the cup overflows, and people suffer because of it. And people in the chorus of skepticism play into people not getting treatment.
I'm super worried about all this. We all grew up hearing the stories about the country mobilizing to take on WWII and such. Whether those stories are fully accurate or applicable or not, I feel dismayed we can't even mobilize against a virus. We're going to have multiple generations who basically missed out on several years of education and will have an even greater distrust of institutions due to living in the wake of those institutions failing. These generations are growing up in a time of community disarray. It feels like nothing is working in this country and the world at large. Meanwhile, the capitalist machine is eating the country and world alive.
What a wonderful discovery!!!
Okay, so what's the truth, then? Since you seem to be much better informed.
Author here---I was thinking about actual design work or working on the 'presentation' aspects of a publication. For me, the development of new experimental techniques and new ML models is more or less the same. Could you elaborate?

(but you are spot on: the breadth of my skills depends on your Zoom level...I am only a lowercase t at best :D)
I stumbled upon the same line of thought. Many of the things we do nowadays to be happy were unavailable before — travel, buy, consume, etc. Does it mean humans long ago were less happy?

Any chance you know any readings tackling this idea?
With RISC-V at-least individual providers can spinoff their own versions of the architecture without having to ask for permission, from an entity like intel,amd or arm.

Unlike right now, where all x86 chipsets have backdoors, and all new ones have “Trusted” computing features which you cannot say No to.
Vaccines do get pretty close to solving it, ie it doesn't appear there are any other humanly possible solutions more effective than vaccines.

(It is impossible to avoid being exposed to omicron or to get rid of it. Social distancing, lockdowns, etc, won't help this one. Vaccinating yourself/N95s/Pavloxid will help exposure not /matter/ though.)
> Is the idea we could all just have light clients running in the background on our phones with near zero impact?

That's the idea.

The reality however is that will never happen unless both Apple and Google are fully signed up to Web3 and incorporate the clients as part of the OS.

And I don't see a single reason why they would do that when it would compromise their billion dollar payment revenue streams.
This is correct. Whether it be because of a regime such as discussed in TFA or because of malware or just awful programming and infrastructure, this can be true.
I agree. This is really awesome to see! We've known that this was possible for years now, but it's great to see it finally commercialized and ready to roll off a production line. I'm concerned about JD's involvement in this but I trust there will be plenty of competitors in this market in a short time frame.
Nice, even before clicking I figured OLE would be involved somehow.

This sort of malware reversing/analysis is always a fun trip to me, and the few times I’ve got to do anything even remotely like that it’s been a revival of my interests in computers. Sadly I’m not particularly good when it comes to reverse engineering code (and don’t have access to Ida Pro’s decompiler).
Lol. I'm more inclined to believe they're just incompetent. We're talking thousands upon thousands of people who would have to be simultaneously covering this up. It just wouldn't happen.
Managers often take advantage of that attitude and when their employees start to realise that it drives away most of the satisfaction from the work.

It's hard to keep that adversarial attitude at bay when that is the lifeblood of management.
Calling it a 'pet theory' is extremely disingenuous. Of course every scientologist will 'not take seriously' claims that their founder was a conman, because to do so is to admit their beliefs are based on falsehoods. It's a self reinforcing system.
People dismiss modern notebooks as Knuth's style of literate programming, where they are more for exploring and documenting an existing codebase or just experimenting. So people are often arguing over two completely different things.

I love notebooks, made VS Code extensions for Go (gobook) and for Rust (rustnote). Give them a try if anyone is interested, still lots of features to add, but the source code is standard markdown, so the code results can be saved straight to Github and they render there.
Dwitter – JavaScript demos in 140 characters
Yeah, the word "read" seems to have seduced us into an obviously false analogy. "Reading" code is not like "reading" a novel. Perhaps this could seem more plausible if your work was primarily along the lines of Knuth's, rather than combining the same bag of shopworn, well-known techniques into academically rather uninteresting production code.

Another article on this topic I recommend is "Code Is Not Literature," from Peter Siebel: https://gigamonkeys.com/code-reading/
I agree that Apple makes it very difficult for other entities to track you but Apple themselves can track you and nowhere in their privacy info does it say they they can't or don't. The devil is in the detail. For instance: "Apple does not maintain a comprehensive user data profile of your activity across all our products and services to serve you targeted advertising."
A naive reading of that sentence would be that Apple does not keep data on users. But that is not what that sentence says - they just don't use that data for targeted advertising. And as we all know these policies are subject to change at any time so even targeted advertising might become the part of the agreement without users noticing or having any say in it.
Author here---that's exactly one of the issues I encountered. I am making a conscious effort to move beyond this state of affairs, but it takes more than one person to enact change.
I'm curious what mental state change you went through.
And does Stripe Japan require knowing Nihonggo?
That will not necessarily continue to happen, at least not soon. Once you've been exposed to omicron (+ vaxed or exposed to original/delta) a new variant has to be very different from both omicron and delta. And this isn't the flu; it only has so far it can mutate.

However, it's impossible to get rid of it because it infects animals and we're not going to vaccinate them.
there is no reason why apple or google would need to do this. Rainbow or similar apps just need to change their code in their already deployed wallet software on these platforms to do light client verification.
The chroot jail did not have access to hexdump.

Or vi.

Or basically anything other than ls and cat.
It's not exactly a cure anyone can opt for though unless you're advicing joining a revolution when going through mental problems.
"Little-endian" and "big-endian" aren't completely meaningless - they originally came from a description of the history/war between two nations in Gulliver's Travels who disagreed about which end of an egg to open first (the big end or the little end)[1]. Bearing that in mind, it feels fairly natural to think of little-endian as meaning that you start (open) the transmission with the little part of the word.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu
I don't understand why is it considered extreme cost. IIRC it's around $1/us citizen/year. For example the budget for keeping us safe from ourselves is much higher.
It seems to me that there's something major missing from Postgres if you need to manually run something daily or else the queries can go from 100ms to "several seconds."

If this is such a standard requirement and the statistics are so vital to performance, why isn't something built-in to the engine to keep these up-to-date without a user intervention?

I don't have to run "ANALYZE" on DynamoDB daily to ensure performance doesn't tank.
Say that I need a 300x400 image for a webpage. Does it make sense to set my camera to take 300x400 pictures? What happens when we crop and postprocess?

If we want the best quality end product, free from low-res artifacting, we need to preserve an excess of resolution all the way through production until the final export. Exactly how headroom much is enough? Enough that artifacts arising from insufficient resolution are not perceivable in the end product.
The Force Swim Test is a thing, but I'm extremely skeptical about your second claim.
(and, many bitcoin wallets already do this)
As a freenode user I have no say over who the freenode owner is, much like I have no say over Discord's moderation policies. It's the same puppet with different masters; neither situation really empowers me. Yes I can always start my own IRC server but if nobody wants to join it what's the point? 99% of the battle is getting people into the same virtual room.
I would like to see the film industry focus on not only increasing resolution, but frame rate as well. 24fps has remained a standard for too long mostly because of legacy and stylistic reasons, but with the switch to digital productions and projections, and internet bandwidth increases across the board, there's no reason why shows and movies couldn't be produced and delivered at 60fps and beyond.

The main argument against this is that consumers would find the "soap opera effect" jarring, or that it would add even more strain on traffic for ISPs. These are minor complaints that would go away as more high FPS content is produced, and bandwidth is increased. With the advent of cloud gaming, the infrastructure should already be prepared for these high bitrates anyway. And consumers could always be given the choice to stream at different frame rates if it bothers them stylistically.

I for one would appreciate more detail in fast moving scenes that otherwise become a blurry mess at 24fps.
> It only benefits people running polluting industries.

That's not true. It benefits anyone who can blame anything on climate change. For instance, decimation of fish stocks in the Pacific Northwest. Mostly due to dams and fish farming in the mouths of important rivers, and over fishing, but wild attributed to climate change. Massive forest fires in BC. Mostly due to forestry management practices where forests aren't allowed to burn, and any forests that do are quickly sprayed with Glyphosate so that Aspen don't grow (a natural firebreak species, but the lumber industry doesn't want it) and replanted with GMO pine. Monoculture forests have exacerbated Pine Beetle issues as well. Also largely attributed to climate change.

You take a locally solvable problem, and make it so that you can do nothing about it and the money continues to flow right in.