skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that committing to a change that you think will make you more productive is likely to make you feel more productive.

People don’t like to admit they’re wrong and really like to convince themselves they were right.
Can't read spanish but possibly piracy problems?
The reason is that it's expensive and companies don't want to waste resources verifying whether or not their bans followed their policy accurately or not.

For every account banned, one million new users will enter the Google ecosystem. Bans cost them nothing in the long run, but having reviews to justify bans would.
Sure, but that requires having a fully instrumented host get attacked. If all you have is a few reports of compromised machines, it's much harder to work backwards to the exploit. The attacker will switch things around before phishing again, etc...

Honeypots are harder than they look, basically.
You've made this comment twice - I am curious. Which configuration of the Boxer was it that was in the exercise without the weapon. I believe that the ambulance doesn't have one - which one was the German crew on?
Not really sure why this feverish ramble deserves the front page, but sure, I'll take it.
The idea of abolishing private bank accounts is not without support. A recent Biden nominee (withdrawn) for a position in bank regulation held this view[1]. Besides, laws adapt, and the boundaries of 'public-private' cooperation change. The introduction of programmable money introduces moral hazards that didn't exist before. I don't trust that a system won't be abused if everyone has the incentive to abuse it.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/24/radical-biden-nomin...
Although Hacker News can reach Stack Overflow reductiveness of "just use X lol"...using Transformers for NLP is indeed the best answer for all in terms of performance, speed, and ease of implementation.

A weakness of TDS monopolizing data science SEO is that it's hard for better techniques to surface.
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but I found this entertaining:

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39026990-how-to-invent-e...

It's written in a comedic style, and takes you through what you would need to build to "reimplement modern civilization" if you found yourself stuck back in time.
You may find this airbnb paper relevant. They use skip-grams to generate feature vectors for their listings.

https://www.kdd.org/kdd2018/accepted-papers/view/real-time-p...
There are PLENTY of place you could deploy this without shining them directly on people as we continue studying the details, but this isn’t a single new paper.

Also, from the article.
“This reduction was achieved using Far-UVC irradiances consistent with current American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists threshold limit values for skin for a continuous 8-h exposure.”

Thus has been under research for a decade now. Plus the effects of UV on humans is pretty damn well studied at this point. This is just finding the right crossover point that’s effective against microbes, but no longer dangerous against more complex organisms.

I also think we should start retrofitting all ventilation systems with UV disinfectants.

My concern is the effect on the microbes on our skin that we rely on.
FDA article "UV Lights and Lamps: Ultraviolet-C Radiation, Disinfection, and Coronavirus" [https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and...]

Nature: "Far-UVC light (222 nm) efficiently and safely inactivates airborne human coronaviruses" (2020) PDF [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67211-2.pdf]
You can't publish a new RFC about DNS and declare every noncompliant implementation "not DNS". But RFCs are totally besides the point. TCP DNS resolution has been a field requirement for decades. There's nothing new about it; it's been standardized since the 1980s.
Link to the clinical trial

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04786262?term=VX-880&...

It appears Vertex made an update 2 weeks ago (14-Mar-22), but we don’t know what the update was. It must have been positive, if they go on CNBC and express hope in the technology.
in cleaner/condensed version, part b:
switch/case dispatch table with c support for assigning function(s) in switch to cpu threads.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html ) allows for programming language level IPC/pipes and in-language support for parallel programming!

loads of fun for the compiler implimenter.
perhaps, should be new language called rp-c
1 depends on the industry, some industries are low-margin while others are high-margin. Either way, why don't the people who generated the profit, the workers, get to decide how the profit is divided?

2 isn't true. Not only is most innovation funded by taxes and conducted by public institutions, but it's the market that drives iterative and combinational improvement on new inventions and you can have markets without capitalism. Capitalism is the division of people into capitalists who own the means of production (traditionally factories but nowadays increasingly IP), and workers who work them for a wage. The first step in moving in the right direction, IMO (I'm keen on incrementally and cautiously implementing improvements) would be to ratchet up the number of cooperatives operating within the economy. They're more likely to survive than corporations and they're more empowering for workers.
The vast majority of game servers are hosted on public cloud providers. They turn out to be a pretty perfect example of an ideal cloud workload:

- Very elastic demand curve

- Generally ephemeral with any necessary persistent state stored off-host

- Benefit from geographic distribution of cloud regions because they're generally quite latency sensitive
it's not in the archives interests to get sued out of existence. Breaking the law isn't just "challenging" something - they'll lose in court and set a bad precedent for future challenges.

Maybe it should separate its activism from its legal, and important, archiving mission; rather than throw the baby with bathwater.
They don’t need to filter and moderate everything, but they should at least have humans for taking care of escalations and issues like the one reported here. Sure 5hey have all sorts of AI/ML algorithms doing the automated banning and removal of apps but they could have real people taking care of the false positive cases.
We should probably reserve judgement until the author reveals more details about the things they were doing on the app store. The article is suspiciously light on details on what exactly they were doing that could have justified it, citing only "teach[ing] people to create their own applications and create their own app business".

To be clear, I'm not defending Google here. The "ban-you-and-everyone-that-has-ever-had-contact-with-you-without-telling-you-why" system is obviously nuts-o and has caught a bunch of innocent bystanders off-guard.
This seems to me a well written and reasonable article by a respected and known Czech scholar.

It is far from propaganda channels and false news like on RT.
Quora has much more staying power than Clubhouse, which was a novelty even in its honeymoon period.
A 24" 4k Dell monitor. Not perfect, because it has a moire pattern on white backgrounds because of the anti reflection coating.
Not just rural. I'm in downtown Chicago and the cheapest wired connection I can get to my home is $71,000 install and $800/month from Comcast.

Finally got T-Mobile Home Internet (5G). Shipped the access point overnight to me. Plugged in. 600Mbps peak. Never seen a slowdown that affects my heavyweight Net use (e.g. streaming HD).
In this case we only obtained a Chrome exploit.

Whether that means they didn’t have exploits for other platforms as part of this attack or that we just didn’t succeed in determining them is unknown.

TAG has certainly found and reported exploits in other platforms many times so it is not a matter of not caring.

Source: I am lead of TAG at Google
NK hackers are kwnon for adding false flags
The core "problem" with live audio is that you are drinking straight from the source of information as it is produced. With Quora, there is a ton of drivel or even spam, but that useless content sits around for a while and gets filtered out by some combination of moderation, voting, and search rankings. In contrast, with Clubhouse, you are instead highly reliant on personalities who are building reputation by having a high signal to noise ratio, which doesn't scale once the whole world is involved.

Additionally, the high-value people on the platform are themselves often there because of the other high-value people. If most of the rooms you go to speak in are just filled with a thousand fans, maybe you'd be better off using that tile to talk to your half a million followers on Twitter or Instagram. The experience of a small private club simply doesn't scale.
I'm no longer doing android development, thankfully (never again!) -- I don't relish the thought of having to ask house guests if they or anyone they know have ever been banned from Google. I don't understand how Google can staff up their Play store with engineers given this keeps happening.
I haven't gotten too deep into it myself, but the driver outputs a backlight PWM pulse a specific amount of time after a vsync. It's something I'll optimize at some point, but I have bigger problems to work on right now.
We've had Internet radio for almost 2 decades; it's called "podcasts". It's literally eaten "real" radio; NPR probably has more podcasts than broadcasts now.
No, but making it a "right" or "public utility" forces the government (which can, albeit non-magically, conjure up fresh supply) to conjure up fresh supply.
The punchlines from the joke machine seem to reflect a Russian sense of humor, eg:
“How is a pregnant woman different from a lightbulb?”
“Because the lightbulb will never light itself!”

Is it the source material or some emergent phenomena?
Probably not. No signs that this is linked to any mass activity.
Are fighter jets so important in the age of drones? Shouldn’t we invest in drones which are much cheaper? If “but we need something for air superiority”, then isn’t it achievable with space superiority and drones?
One day I realized that the more smartphone usage and social media become mainstream and the main way people communicate nowadays, the more socially awkward and ADD the average person becomes.

As a very awkward and ADD-ish person my whole life, I realized this gave me a huge advantage: people become more awkward while I stay about the same, and they don't even realize it's happening while I do.

I quit social media a long time ago because of its effect on my ADD and as a result I've put a lot of effort into meatspace (real life) social interactions and have gotten better at them, while most people get worse because they are glued to their phones all the time and most of their "socializing" is only that.

It drives me nuts when I'm hanging with friends and they can't go a few minutes without being on their phone, while I am making an effort to be present and not touch my phone at all.

Many neurotypical, non-awkward people I've met have their self-image constructed around a bunch of fragile assumptions, whereas awkward people are more resilient because of the challenges they've gone through.
This abomination is what happens when you let peasants WFH for way too long.

seriously though I have thought about doing a projector to ceiling so I could code lying down on bed with zero stress on back.
I suspect it's because a lot of these automated bans are done without any clear actual reason beyond "our machine learning model found something, but we can't really get a coherent picture of why".

Last week I created a brand new Facebook account as I recently moved to a new city and am somewhat desperate to meet people, and Facebook events can be useful for this (as much as I loathe Facebook, my mental health is a bit more important right now). I got banned after about 2 minutes. I didn't actually do anything on the platform. I managed to click to about 2 or 3 pages.

What set this off? Who knows. Maybe some browser settings? Previous user(s) of my IP address? Those pages I clicked on? Something else? It surely wasn't anything I actually did as I didn't really interact with the platform at all.

I suspect that if I asked some high-up Facebook engineer to look in to it they wouldn't be able to actually give me an answer either beyond "The Algorithm determined there were risk factors".
Don't game servers need to run on bare metal to minimize latency?
its my understanding that you cannot damage the physical CPU by software instructions, period. However, heat from multi-core operations is not the same. Hardware gets damaged by heat all the time. So "loops waiting for input" may never damage the hardware, but "causing more cores to operate at the same time" can cause heat damage on some setups..
hadn't actually looked into the expected receipts - maybe it is entirely politics, in which case great for Joe + great for the tax consultants. But a horrible precedent on non-realised gains - got to mean investment flight out of the US
Tips to Succeed in Your First DevRel Job
37% of jobs in US can be remote. That’s easing a lot of that pressure. God bless capitalism.
Snowden has shown us that governments encourage and benefit from this surveillance thus are unlikely to put an end to it
Plover, WI is on my list of places to visit. Maybe next summer! I am hoping to drive through there on the way to or from Neenah to see the foundry.
First reaction: Wow! That’s an insanely harsh reaction to someone celebrating a 1yr project anni.

Thankfully, I checked poster name. Grats!
> especially if you're outdoors or in an otherwise well ventilated space

Citation needed that it’s not being outdoors or a well-ventilated space that is doing all of the work and not the mask.

> but a properly worn N95 combined with up-to-date vaccination goes pretty far for someone who is fortunate enough to not be already immunocompromised and is fine avoiding places like concerts, clubs and bars.

You’re all over the place here. I’m talking specifically about avoiding all of those things as well but just skipping the mask. The risk profiles between those two are so negligible that skipping a single trip out to an enclosed space is orders of magnitude better than the difference between them.

That’s why what you’re doing is just a “religious act” at this point. There is no good medical reason for you to wear it if you’re already going out. 99.999% of the risk comes from the “going out” part if everyone else is unmasked, so wtf are you doing at a grocery store/restaurant/whatever if you are actually worried about getting COVID?

It’s no different than bringing a parachute on a commercial flight. The chance of you crashing on a flight are tiny and the probability of you being able to use a parachute if you are in one of those scenarios and surviving are less than 1% as well.
From the article:

> “This microbe was chosen because it is slightly less sensitive to far-UVC light than coronaviruses, providing the researchers with an appropriately conservative model”

This makes me think it would be effective against coronaviruses as well.
I would like to see the teens break out of the sameness of all the books in the young adult market and read more "adult" books. By adult, I mean some of the less cookie cutter book history has to offer. Yes, I realize there are formulaic books for adults as well, but the young adult market takes it to another level.

I could also live with no more stories about saving society or the world and how it happens to have fallen about a teenager where they aren't sure what looks best to wear and can't decide between several people as a romantic partner among those who are helping them along their quest.
Maybe this is the key to actually getting Google to fix this. Weaponize Google bans to the point it's unsustainable for their business.
Great patenting, kudos.
I don't quite understand what you mean when you say "sending users to those websites is not profitable for google" - referring to Wikipedia, Stack, Reddit etc...

Organic search results only ever profit Google if they answer the user's question, because it makes that user more likely to use Google again and click an ad in the future. If a user searches something and the top result doesn't answer their question, then Google hasn't done it's job and the user is less likely to use Google again and therefore less likely to click an ad in the future.

Surely the most profitable option for Google is to answer people's questions quickly and easily, whether you think these questions are answered by Wikipedia instead of a business site targeted to answering that question is a different story.

I just don't understand how Google's goal of "answering people's questions" is somehow opposite to "providing quality" for users. I think for most of HN, they have a very narrow view that "quality" means antiquated wiki-type sites.
Everything is needed
This is absolutely correct. They build a nice map of everyone’s contacts and that was the value.
Club 8-bit one of the largest collections of Soviet-era computers is destroyed
Ironically, "Super 3D Noah's Ark", a bible inspired game, was one of such games, but for the SNES.

The required you to put a licensed catridge on top of the game catridge, and the unlicensed catridge would piggyback on the licensed catridge for loading.
They have to do a lot of work coming up with custom installers or packages for distros. If you have gentoo+kde for example you can't just download a blob, open it and just have it work.

It depends on what you are doing I guess. I remember getting frustrated at windows too. Linux is the best at being configurable and controllable from an administrative workload perspective but not from a productivity or entertainment application UX.
> (Insert obligatory "wiki it's not always accurate etc etc"). Overall I'd take either one and personally don't care. Just trying to match what you're saying with what I'm reading and make sense of where the truth is.

Diving in (even if the parent doesn't care :) ):

The last sentence is the real challenge: Meanings depend 100% on writer and reader understandings. If two agree that 'homograph' means 'chicken poop', as long as they're the only ones communicating then 'chicken poop' it is; but if someone else reads it, our language subsystem fails.

Some dictionaries influence meaning by being prescriptive (e.g., American Heritage, IIRC); others report what has been understood by being descriptive (e.g., Oxford). The problem is, Wikipedia is neither: It represents the understandings of a few editors of unknown knowledge; it is neither descriptive nor prescriptive and we quickly get into chicken poop scenarios.

* Homograph, report Merriam-Webster and Oxford, means words with the same spelling but different meanings (or origin or pronunciation), e.g., the bow of a ship and a bow and arrow.

* Homoglyph doesn't appear in Oxford, Merriam-Webster, American Heritage, or any others (per Wordnik and OneLook), except Wiktionary. Wiktionary descriptively traces the word back to 1938 (though maybe with a different meaning in that case) and says it means a glyph with the same or similar appearance but different meaning. That still doesn't define a term for the entire string "ycornbinator.com", only the "rn", but close enough!
Damn. That’s… a bit spendy. How much light did they output in these experiments?
When you use simple metaphors to describe complicated politics in software development, that's when you lost the argument
Andrej Karpathy has been on a 4 month sabbatical
Been looking in that article to find how they concluded it's from North Korea, but I can't find it. Can anyone point it out for me?
Tax time
Thanks! We have some plans on how to build a competitive moat.

Appreciate the feedback. It was a pleasure talking to you recently.
That's the exact opposite of what I like. How can you drag the window if there's no place to click without activating something? My monitor has plenty of vertical space.

...which just shows that there's no one-size-fits-all, and that being able to customise the UI is a very important feature.
Does Chrome interrupt your flow with some bullshit on every update? My understanding is that Chrome is a privacy nightmare but assuming you submit to it and opt-in to all the dark patterns once, they'll at least leave you alone and just stalk you in the background.

Every Firefox update on the other hand will always find one way or another to interrupt your flow at the worst possible option, whether it's with useless UI updates, post-update notifications about bullshit "features" such as Colorways or a VPN, etc. In contrast, Chrome's minimalistic UI has barely changed in its entire lifetime.
No, Canada does not either. Any countries with large rural areas suffer from the same issue.
We can absolutely judge Google regardless, because even if their reasons for a ban could hypothetically be justified, their behavior in communication and appeal handling will never be.
The same answer that existed in all other industries which do consumer services: proper customer services with humans and strong consumer protection law that stomps on the neck of corporations that abuse people without recourse.
I appreciate those who put the hacker back in Hacker News.
When you manage your domains through Fastmail it does it automatically. I certainly haven't had to configure it myself.

There is a neat website to check your email settings that was on the HN front page earlier this year:

https://www.learndmarc.com/
You can buy small ozone generators off aliexpress for your fridge if you're paranoid about germs. Then again you may also be paranoid about ozone since it's fairly nasty stuff.
I don't trust people who say "it's fine" anymore. After a lot of tests with people I know, many young(!) acquaintances are not able to distinguish between 2k and 4k. People of my age can't sometimes distinguish the difference between HD and 4k on a monitor. And that's for static images. No one I know is able to notice the difference between motion interpolation on/off on a TV.

This is going to sound dismissive and entitled, but I've learned that people's eyesight and visual processing is extremely bad in general.
If you enjoyed this, Peter Watts' "rifters" series, particularly the second book "malestrom", may be something you'd enjoy.
Still better than Skype though.
Bubblewrap is a surprisingly useful tool for general system administration tasks.

Even though the documentation claims that "[y]ou are unlikely to use it directly from the commandline, although that is possible," I use it as a helper tool in this mode very frequently.

This can be very useful for debugging since, for example, you can `bwrap --ro-bind / / --tmpfs ~ $SHELL` to get a "clean" shell in which you can isolate yourself from the effect of configuration dotfiles and can even `--ro-bind my-hosts /etc/hosts` to simulate certain system-level state (without requiring a full VM, heavier container, or root access.)

Of course, I've also written some simple shell scripts around `bwrap` to make this all a bit simpler (since this quickly reaches `qemu`-levels of argv proliferation.)
No, I’m pretty sure it’s that shorter wavelengths kill less stuff because it can penetrate less. My understanding is this research is about finding crossover points where it’s still deadly to microorganisms, but safe for more complex organisms.
It's a private company.

If you don't like it, just build your own app store, phone, account management, email provider, search engine, web browser, ISP, payment processor, banking system, currency, DNS provider, registrar, colo facility, machines, chip fab, silicon wafers, electrons, and universe. Geez, don't be lazy.
Put it inside duct work
The irony here is Google hides behind Section 230 immunity to avoid any responsibility for bad actors on its platforms (claiming it's even vital that they are so immune), but it doesn't extend that idea to entities under it.