skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wallabag: A self hostable application for saving web pages
Thank you for the wifi + Linux analogy, which I lived through and enjoyed. If we didn't do any of the work then would we be happy with windows or macos 8.0? It's amazing the echo chamber that is HN on topic of crypto, bad bad just burn it. Completely not what I expect from hackers.
That’s pretty clever. I like it.
It would deserve a simple README..not linked elsewhere, which already broke up.
In nutrition it's my personal conclusion after roaming pubmed. Any ingredient can be linked to problems or benefits. Eat many, eat few, move often, relax, think, hug and sleep.
I'm a developer, so I'm mostly viewing the designs rather than making them, but I also find Figma to be clunky and awkward. I much prefer Zeplin and XD.

And with as much bullshit as Adobe throws at you with creative cloud, at least you can export .xd files.
Please allow me to reword this faithfully:

What about Wokeism?
Nothing about the current tokamak based designs suggests they will be any cheaper to build for a given power rating than existing fission designs:

- They need large, highly advanced cryocooled superconducting magnets in very close proximity to a hundred million degree plasma. This only makes economic sense in massive, and expensive plants.

- They are a very strong source of fast neutrons useful to transmute cheap depleted uranium into plutonium, so carry massive proliferation risks, need close regulatory scrutiny and will require mounts of paperwork to operate, thus exceptionally inflexible to improvements and rapid iteration. Just like the current fission crop.

- Aneutronic fusion is a currently a purely theoretical concept, in the last 70 years nobody has been able to contain even the much cooler D-T plasma for economically viable durations and temperatures.

- The structure of the reactor becomes radiologically active and cleanup operations must be considered. Highly penetrating neutron radiation means some radiation will escape regardless of containment, requiring a radiological exclusion zone. No Mr. Fusion in your car, sorry.

- They operate and must breed sensitive nuclear materials - Tritium, a well known component of boosted thermonuclear weapons. The limited efficiency of tritium production from lithium-6 might require obtaining some from fission reactors to top up the fuel cycle and keep fusion reactors operating.

So when you draw the line, a life time of magnetic containment research has produced a speculative design that even if it were to work, which it doesn't, would be, in the best case scenario, comparable to existing fission designs that are being phased out for cost and risk issues.

A PhD money pit with zero chance of ever building anything useful.
I don't think that's what anyone actually means when they say that.
>well moderated discussion

Only if you can create a replica of Dang.

As with other comments, there are plenty of well moderated forums, but most of them are very small and specific. When they are small, it lacks enough diversity. But when they are big or up to a certain size, moderation no longer works at all.

HN is not perfect, but I have yet to find anything that is close to HN.
Considering complex numbers lead to group theory and group theory may model atomic structure, this metaphysical correlation is at least worthy of note. It is almost as if we are living in a distortion of truth.
> Like here in advertising. I'm coming to the conclusion that there is no good form of advertising.

I don’t know, I don’t think there’s anything inherently bad in a person or business wanting to facilitate the discovery of something they’ve created.
Interesting to think about what's really extreme in the universe, versus what was meant in that passage.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/03/google...
If I recall correctly, I dialed up the penalties for repetition and something else. Otherwise it would often generate the same sentence multiple times.
How does glycine release glutathione?

And from where?
> general-purpose device like a computer or a phone.

Most smartphones sold today wouldn't qualify as a general purpose computer.
I came here to make this exact same comment.

It really seems like they lost the few key people that were holding the whole thing together, either to another company or just to the void due to bad management.

I would love to understand more about this change.

The more I mature as an engineer, the more I see the value of few engaged Individual Contributors that behind the scenes are driving the product and steering management decisions.
Painter, Designer, Sampler and Stager are all on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Adobe. B2M is no longer available anywhere, but I guess sampler is a replacement for it.

But yeah, it sucks that you have to get a subscription for the material library.
Because it's the industry standard, and I presume because it's still quite good. The only modern thing I have to compare it with is GIMP (probably not a fair comparison), but when I last used Photoshop it was already nicer than GIMP is now, and that was probably about 20 years ago.
When? In the 90s? I remember this was the common perception of Adobe in the mid 2000s when they bought Macromedia. Photoshop was a cash cow then that was more known for being industry standard than being high quality.
Ninja'd - was about to write the same but hit refresh beforehand. Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro did have a multi-track recording and arrangement view, it was no longer a purely sample-based editor (Cool Edit 2000 and earlier did not have this feature, IIRC).

I also don't know how it has changed when it got taken over.
I'll be shot down for this, but Musk and his followers seem to fit the bill here. A supreme leader with otherwordly powers, who can't be criticized (as when people cheered him on after the Unsworth trial), who can cause harm to people with impunity because he can do no wrong, and so on.

It's all about him, and he is the only path to breakthrough technology. The Muskovites seem significantly cult-like in this way.
Cults are generally classified by those outside the organisation. (_points_ "That is a cult!"). But this very classification helps to reinforce any us/them ingroup/outgroup behaviours which we see actual cults doing ("Don't trust those outside, only trust the ingroup"). Real cults isolate and the isolation increases with attack from outside. A cultish group that is not attacked may not actually radicalise.

This is also a way to determine whether a group of people that has been labelled a cult isn't actually one: Look at how the group defines itself with regards to those outside. How does the group see itself in the world.

We see today many groups labelled as cults which in reality are not so. The label has become a kind of strategy for attack based on an intolerant difference ("they are different") rather than an accurate descriptive label ("they isolate themselves from us"). Tolerance in a society is tolerance towards difference.
That is a disingenuous definition of advertising.
Welcome to HN.

And if instead of just a throwaway two-word dig it would be a longer comment with big words and superficially logical-sounding lazy argumentation that has been debunked countless times, it would likely be upvoted.
It's good to see more people coming out against crypto currencies.
While it's clear to competent people the tech is just bad and the crypto space is worse we are far beyond "the fad will go away by itself without incurring much damage" stage. We are in serious danger of the cancer growing and affecting other industries and at this point millions of people the same way some Ponzis and pyramids grew in the past. It's becoming a moral issue and I feel it's time to make a serious stand against it.

As to the article: I feel the most important point is missing. Yes, crypto is a bad, inefficient, wasteful, slow, insecure technology which only got traction because it allowed skipping over financial regulation. Still, even if it wasn't all that it would still be a terrible idea as a currency with inflexible money supply scheme can't work. We went through it many times in human history. It's easy to see from simple thought experiments and simulations as well. It's elementary economics. How can we ever hope to make an economic argument when we can't use it against the simplest thing out there?

The whole crypto currency thing removes whatever was left from my faith in humanity. It getting traction in the tech space is just a final slap in the face as there was some hope people in our space care just a bit more beyond "number goes up if we throw enough coal on it" distributed Ponzi. We are ready to pick up our pitchfork when it comes to privacy violations even though there is at least a lot of value provided by the main offenders or against dark patterns in website design or even when it comes to a bit old fashioned politically incorrect language. Here we have one big dark cloud of a ticking bomb and I see my colleagues accepting job offers from the grifters, buying the scam tokens and trying to sell them to others before they collapse, CEOs of supposedly serious companies advocating for it (Twitter anyone? No matter it's down since IPO with that kind of person at the helm), youtubers producing Ponzi propaganda en masse, sponsorship being accepted at major events.

If it continues for a few years at this pace it will result in a dotcom bubble on steroids with a lot of desperate people and a lot of crime barons ending up with millions to use in the real world. It will not be as nice out there when it's all done.
> It always astonishes me the degree to which “don’t be an asshole” is considered a radical position.

That is not what wokeism means.

Wokeism is about

- making boys and men feel shameful for being boys and men

- making white people feel shameful for being white

- and other such things.

What you talk about is not something that any reasonable HNer would call wokeism.
These guys train representations for some scenes in seconds:

https://nvlabs.github.io/instant-ngp/
The second half of the questions looks accurate, especially around emotional manipulation, but the first half is dubious.

A lot of benign organizations would score some points, from firefighters (wearing an uniform) to a bunch of friends playing D&D, to taking beginner painting class (the teacher is not there to be questioned on their painting sytle).
>> I think there's a missing angle from the engineer's point of view... I'd always want to work on Plan C - cloud providers as suppliers of standard commodity infrastructure. Possibly in a managed way...

tbray did address this point with a different question:

So if I'm in technology leadership, one of my key priorities... is something along the lines of "How do I succeed in the face of the talent crisis?"

I'll tell you one way: Go all in on a public-cloud platform and use the highest-level serverless tools as much as possible.

You'll never get rid of all the operational workload. But every time you reduce the labor around instance counts and pod sizes and table space and file descriptors and patch levels, you've just increased the proportion of your hard-won recruiting wins that go into delivery of business-critical customer-visible features.
I wonder why is it pointless?

As for the empathy, this is a classic trolley problem - on one hand you have a pack of monkeys, on the other you have many people and pets (and may be even animals) with certain conditions which could be (potentially) fixed by neuralink. On which side will you guide a trolley, where will you apply your empathy?
> "Dad Is Absolutely Not Threatening to Leave Mom".

Exactly - "Dad is absolutely not threatening to leave Mom, it's just that Mom has done something that gives Dad no choice but to leave".
I don't think that's a lie or a good example of one. You can both have a desire to make something easier for people, and to profit from that. Each does not automatically exclude the other.

Isn't that sort of like saying, "You say you love that man but you don't really, you just want to marry him so he gives you money."? Which can be true...yet you say you know it's a lie, but you don't know that.
One of my NASA books talks a bit about things they did.

A lot of it was to replace flammable materials with less flammable ones. I think they replaced the insulation on all the wiring from PVC to fluoropolymer. Changed the design of the connections so there was no exposed bare wire. They redesigned the flight suits which were made partly of rubber.

They changed the life support to keep the partial pressure of oxygen constant. So 21% on the ground constantly adjusted to 100% as they went up. For weight reasons the command module designed 5 psi or some such. So that's what they had to do.
The Road to Instant Groceries Is Paved with Broken Bones
They wouldn't be used for animals because there is no return of investment on that.

Ethics don't by nature stop suffering of the many. What they do is protect the few from being defined as arbitrarily less valuable than the many and thus being exploited. I think there are plenty of history lessons around that one which are worth reflecting on.

Edit: to be clear, both our perspectives are valid. But one does not allow arbitrary escalation of harm to others.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarti/Class/10704/Intro_Arith_coding...
The Platforms We All Use Should Be Publicly Owned and Democratically Controlled
I have one of the Palm V keyboards, and recently bought a $20 Bluetooth keyboard for my iPad, but am considering spending the time building one of these because it's such a nice hack. Bookmarked.
Actually, determining camera position is done quite differently and more efficiently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...

(I spent about a year writing an optimiser for camera localisation from multiple views)
It sounds like just a nitpick to me.
The networks exists to process transactions. It's only fair to count its total energy consumptions to see how efficient it is. That it does a lot empty work without processing anything is a by product of a bad design.
If it's mainly about minting new coins and once it's done the energy usage goes down then we could just skip the step, you know?
<Prometheus spoilers>

Prometheus had some good pieces - I particularly enjoyed the travel to the alien world and its vistas. Arguably this is 90% special effects instead of talented directing, but worthy of my time nonetheless. The movie does fall apart when they start exploring, though...
Another article with a bunch of questionable data. Why can't crypto be dealt with the same as other technologies we don't like? Vote with your wallet, you don't like it don't use it. But don't try to convince me that I'm wrong because I do use it. Because if you do, but leave things of the table, such as fashion, military, sporting entertainment and a million other things people are not up in arms about, that makes you ignorant at best.
You don't need AI for that. 20 years ago my neighbors had a small device that would automatically mute the TV whenever the ads started playing and unmuted when they finished. No idea how it worked but for sure it didn't have a fancy neural network inside.
The character limit on titles prevents adding "2014". The code should be modified to allow adding dates at the end of the title even if it goes beyond the character limitations. It's 2022, HN should be able to manage something like this since it's just a simple regex check to make sure the suffix conforms to /\(\d{1,4}\)/.
Yes, because depending on the situation, the car could be upside down, sideways, with half a side torn off, fire, smoke, flashing lights, flares, temporary barriers, humans both standing and lying, with bits of car everywhere. In the rain or snow, at dusk or with low sun angle. Or maybe the car is actually fine but just in an unusual place, but is covered in decals, high-contrast markings and equipment (eg a police car) that confuse the model just enough astray to enter a dangerous situation.

You can't train an AI for every combination of that. Hell, sometimes humans can't assemble a mental model of the situation in time to take safe action.
If you think this type of "wokeism" exists in this society in any powerful form, you are delusional. You're upset at a few people making hot takes on the internet, while the worlds powerful institutions are built upon white male supremacy.
Youtube vanced works well for blocking ads. But you need an android device.
> with no action required by the victim.

It's fortunate that no action is required from the murder victim, I guess.
So what? 99% of print ads go to trashcans unread. That's factored in by everyone buying those as well.

If anything the numbers should be "better" for TV these days: As when I was a kid, ad breaks were toilet and toothbrush breaks and I barely watched through any of them. These days modern midrolls are designed to be too short for that, but just long enough to be bearable.
> Windows developers that don't develop for Linux, and vice-versa.

Heh, the vice-versa reminded me of: A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure (2012), https://apenwarr.ca/log/20120326
They have been selling unique items yes, but I would not call them NFT...
>The whole crypto currency thing removes whatever was left from my faith in humanity.

Just a friendly advice, get out more and stare less at computers. In the big scheme of things, crypto doesn't matter, nor does HN and the same with me telling you this. Peace :)
Counter-Strike 2 and Ricochet 2 first.
I'd say in the best case Bitcoin allows people who are not connected to the robbing elite that runs the country to take some capital out of the country.

That would be a good thing.

(I don't think Bitcoin is actually all that impactful in the real world one way or another.)
Side note: Anyone remember when Excel 4.0 macros could not be disabled in Excel?
Good to know. My stack is mostly in the space of Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, backends, microservices, networking etc. I think it is kinda one of the hotter topics these days.. so that could help.
> Qt is not a panacea, even for desktop apps

My point is: all achievements in web dev modularity and features have been present in Visual Basic, Delphi, TurboC++, Java and Qt since the early 2000s. Fully hardware accelerated UIs to boot. Well, we decided to move it all into the browser sandbox and start from scratch. Tools like QtCreator or the VisualBasic form editor got replaced by an expensive toolchain ranging from Adobe products to 1000 npm packages.
And I just realized Villeneuve is enlisted to direct Rendezvous with Rama! Shut up and take my money!
The org mode, a single mode for todo, notes and mindmaps is enough reason to learn Emacs
I believe that Steven Hassan's BITE model is the gold-standard diagnostic here. The guy is an ex-moonie and has authored books that have helped people escape cults. Survivor communities like /r/exjw on Reddit speak highly of his stuff: https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/
Spot on!

People usually think "we are not cultish because this is not a religion".

Such denial is the most cultish aspect around coporate workship and nationalism.
Purchasing a bit of attention generated by something else to try to manipulate people into purchasing your product.
There surely are positive externalities, but the very useful things we burn fossil fuels for are reflected in the price - cheap or no. Those primary reasons for burning fuel will have all sorts of externalities, positive and negative. And one would expect similar externalities from the work done by renewable energy.

If your position is simply that we are fortunate our planet was/is abundant in fossil fuels, I don't disagree (ideally there wouldn't have been enough to completely wreck the climate we depend on, but...). But the issue is whether we should trust the market in respect to cryptocurrency mining specifically. The history of human civilisation seems a bit beyond the scope.
I'm just pointing out that he has fielded successful decentralised, censorship-resistant systems in the past. So he knows a bit about this space. But I agree, it is solving a different problem.

To nit-pick a little, almost all crypto currencies aren't anonymous. At best they are pseudonymous.
The system doesn't work because crypto currencies (and thus energy they use) is used directly to bypass laws of regulations we have.

It's like saying that we perfectly good system called economy and thus drug cartels are the natural results. Who knows, maybe their bloody rule will result in something transformative as well. Still I wouldn't be happy just accepting the state of things.
> /S

Really? Cults are extreme, and socially undesirable, entities. Companies are less extreme, and arguably socially beneficial, entities. However, both entities are use essentially the same psychological tools of manipulation.

I don't think this comment should be seen as facetious so much as an insight on how company structures control employees.
What is the difference to https://altair-viz.github.io/ which I use in Python to create vega-lite plots? Can you create interactivity with Plost? Unfortunately https://share.streamlit.io/tvst/plost is still broken, so I can't really assess this.
> I hope I am too cynical...

Nope, this will definitely come to pass. As long as there's munition left to be fired, or new one invented, the arms race will continue.
And you think I'm the one being disingenuous?
My first thought was that this is just the output from the loss function for a genetic algorithm. Lots of people write grant applications, some of those get accepted, the next round of people writing applications then look at the success stories from the previous round and emulate them. Rinse and repeat. New members of the grant evaluation board want to conform to the standards of their predecessors, and so look at the accepted applications from yesteryear to see what they should accept, rinse and repeat. Its a pretty classic self reenforcing feedback loop, and as other commenters have pointed out constriction in lexical space doesnt mean a constriction in idea space. That said, I really enjoyed the article! Love this kind of data driven analysis.