skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about this particular paper, but there's a) usually a page limit when publishing and b) definitely a limit to a reader's patience. So filling a paper with trivial or technical proofs is not good form.

That being said, many scientific papers would benefit from being rewritten in a style that focuses on the reader and readability. That's only understandable: when writing for a journal or conference, there's a lot of time pressure and your audience are bespoke experts on the matter at hand. But there's only a slight chance your paper becomes important to a broader audience. I wonder if one could form a business of rewriting classic papers of CS and math.
Wow why did you stop running that company?? Over saturated market? Where did you source your material? Who did designs? Any funny stories? Super unique, thanks!
> There are no "monetary payments to deter future crime" in Australian civil law.

I might be missing something but it seems like a good idea that a civil court is unable to punish people after deciding it is necessary to encourage them not to break a criminal law in future.

Australia does presumably have punitive fines and other punishments that are for deterrence in criminal punishments?
I am not convinced they are doomed. They seem to operate just fine here in Sweden as a normal taxi company. Yes, they cannot have their insanely low prices that they have in other countries but running a regular taxi company is a real sustainable business.

The issue with Uber is that they spend too much money when they enter new markets and that they are too inefficient in general. They need to slim down.
Funny you steal your kid's toy

That's impressive reduce it to some lines of code wow
> I find it kinda disappointing

Khan Academy is still free, but it looks like Khan World School has actual humans.

> Much of the learning and assessment happens through in-depth discussion with teachers, peers and industry experts.

https://asuprep.asu.edu/khan-world-school/academics/
Feds will probably end up fighting themselves in some cases yeah
Makuru was much more suitable than “winter” for the climate in Perth: time to rug up and settle in for cosy nights with your loved ones. I wish the Noongar seasons were more often used in the south west of Australia by everybody, so much more suitable than European seasons shifted 6 months!
It still has the same gotchas as a user though.

I was daemonizing a uvicorn (Python) process using systemd and could not get the Python script to write its log file anywhere. Not the current directory owned by the user, not elsewhere, and no errors showing up in the system logs.

After a few hours banging my head against the wall I discovered systemd's ReadWritePaths. Once I set that, it would log to any directory I specified.

It's the only service I've created where this has been necessary, and others write logs, so I have no idea why this one caused errors. If I did something wrong, let me know how this should be handled.
A surprisingly large amount of US-Americans do have intestinal parasites and probably would benefit from a round of Ivermectin. If it was sold over the counter like in certain presumably less developed countries, maybe people would prefer not to purchase the veterinary version.
"Hello" -> "Good night!"

Interesting to see a simple word and meaning flipped on its head. It even gained an explaination mark!

It'd be great if we could see all 10 translations matched alongside English to see how it devolves per translation.
Literal cracking of that kind of encryption is still some time away, people are already losing their crypto money through theft and lacks of backups anyway.
That might actually work.
`Great to see you -> Mouth`

And I thought translation is so good these days
Startup is relevant and marketable work experience. So usually accepted in other places in huge industry. Same skills doesn't necessarily carry from role to role inside a game or cross games. And spots for supporting personnel are less and have also other competition.
It's in reverse polish notation: let a be the sequence (1, "Enter", 5, "Enter", /) then press $a, $a, +, $a, +.
What I meant here was the combination of X[HTML] and RDF.

During the era when the W3C was firmly in charge, their tech output was all oriented around making the web stack more rigorous and - as they saw it - better suited for training AI. HTML itself was more or less abandoned and everyone told to move to XHTML, the benefits of which would be the ability to embed new DSLs like SVG, app-specific markup, and the ability to express abstracted "knowledge" in the form of RDF triples. All these specs still exist of course and they were all implemented in browsers, but hardly anyone uses them.

There were several big problems:

1. XML has strict validation rules. Much, much easier to build a parser and tools for, but, not compatible with most web content which is full of markup errors. For a brief period some people heroically tried to fix all the errors in their markup and make it fully validating, but the effort involved was high especially for big sites and the reward was ... well, there was no reward really. The only tool most people care about is the browser and browsers had complicated hacky HTML parsers nobody understood. But, pixels got to the screen and they got their reliably.

Especially consider how important that is given the prevalence of HTML-by-string-concatenation. In XHTML if you made a tiny error in that process then the browser would stop and render an error page, meaning a site outage that doesn't show up in your server logs. HTML has the opposite philosophy: keep on trucking no matter what. Your page might render a bit garbled at worst, but users can tolerate that occasionally.

2. RDF/XML/Tim Berners-Lee turned out to have the wrong idea about AI. Or, well, maybe. I suspect the jury is still out on that one given that stuff like GPT-3 doesn't really meet people's prior expectations of what AI will be like, but still. The idea of expressing human knowledge in the form of an abstracted graph of nodes, in which all the nodes and edges are labelled with URIs, and then serializing that to XML and embedding it into XHTML web pages. Yeah, no. Big, big specs. No tools that actually used any of it to do anything useful.

Meanwhile in all of this HTML4 was stagnant, missing lots of small quality of life fixes that ordinary webmasters and browser makers really wanted. So you can't blame browser makers for killing off the W3C. It wasn't meeting the world's needs.

On the other hand, once unleashed from any kind of broad consensus or standards process, HTML more or less ceased to be a spec you could actually implement. You can't even say you're compliant with it because a week after your statement it might have had another 100 pages added to it.
> That's too high if you are considering students from all over the world

I think you under-estimate how much fancy schools cost worldwide. In Bangkok, for example, a very good British-style education will cost you $18k per year at Patana, and if you really want to flash your cash you can drop $30k at Shrewsbury (British) or $30k at ISB (American).

I grew up as an expat kid, and this would have been a reasonable alternative for my parents, with the added bonus that I could have stayed with the same peer group and curriculum while they moved country. Socialisation would have been a bit harder but far from impossible.

> Why should it be more for outside US students?

My guess would be the US subsidises some aspect of this?
Is your mother’s health better now? -> Is it? Is your health good?
That’s a 3-year-old version, long out of support…
Manual wrapping for the sake of dumb terminals is such a pet-peeve of mine. Why? It's so awful to read.
Not sure how this is doxing. The person in question made herself a public figure and the journalist tried to verify her claims.

And why label this as some random drama? It is a modern day phenomena where people can easily fake their persona online for personal gains. And having significant number of such people will have an impact (negative) on the society. This is very much on topic with many other discussions on hacker news, such as content moderation on twitter.
And you cannot travel to the future either. You cannot enter on some machine and suddenly jump 100 years forward. You have to let time pass. Time can pass slower in your local frame than in another frame, but it must pass anyways.
Thank you for your feedback.

I don't want to compare myself to a 1232 pages-long book. I am sorry you found some typos, the book will certainly get more polish and updates (I include lifetime updates in the price).

My price is $50 because it's not just book. There are demonstrations that you can run and that can save you way more money than $50. I am considering a PDF-only offer for less.

If you have some specific suggestions for me I welcome your feedback. You can write me an email or DM me at @strzibnyj on Twitter.
Statement by EU president on Gazprom disruption of gas deliveries
You'd need to break ECDSA, which is assumed to be hard, and not without reason. Basically the entirety of online privacy is built on this or similar assumptions.
Yes, and they clearly state why:

> The primary risk presented by AGPL is that any product or service that depends on AGPL-licensed code, or includes anything copied or derived from AGPL-licensed code, may be subject to the virality of the AGPL license. This viral effect requires that the complete corresponding source code of the product or service be released to the world under the AGPL license.

It's not that they want to fork a opensource component and they don't want to release their changes.

It's because they are afraid that accidentally one part of an AGPL code gets linked into some of their production software which would force them to disclose the sources of their own IP. And it's hard to quantify the blast radius of that, since they are linking a shit-ton of stuff in every binary (think of thick clients for their colossus storage system).

It's not that they want to pull an Amazon on OSS components they then sell as a service.
I am. —> I want to be.
How about instead of number you say "computable number" and call it a day? There, solved it for you.

Oh no, I didn't, because the concept of computability is also not absolutely clear. Helpful reading: "The Nature of Mathematics", in "The Fabric of Reality" by David Deutsch.
That's not the covid phenomenon, that's the imbecile phenomenon. It's not like outside of covid they are/were very smart people.
Planning a perfect productive day without stress (2021)
Very interesting idea. I think a lot of people are asking for pubsub/events/websockets for updates on a number of APIs so if we can offer some sort of general abstraction to get events for any API that would be useful.
I've been on Mastodon since ~2016, and actively use it on a daily basis. I've seen how it works in detail. I've had numerous exchanges with developers and instance administrators.

I think your concern is highly valid. Mastodon is a protocol-based network, much as SMTP email, NNTP Usenet, HTML+HTTP Web, IRC-based chat, and others are and have been. It's susceptible to the same types of challenges which have either centralised or killed off those platforms.

You mention sheer size. That's only one option.

There's the old Triple-E: Extend, Embrace, Extinguish. Applied successfully by Microsoft to DOS, the Office Suite, and Web browsers. By Google to Web Search and Web Browsers, to email, and increasingly to Web design and hosting. By Slack to Web Messaging. By Facebook to social media.

There's the risk of small instances fading away (happened to me with Mastodon.cafe) or large ones being bought (Mastodon.cloud). There's the prospect of admins going rogue (witches.town). Or, from the Diaspora* world, of admins dying with no succession plan in place (pluspora.com).

There are the Four Horsement of the Infopocalypse: drug-dealers, money-launderers, terrorists, and pedophiles. That's largely what killed off Usenet: the inability to defend against either malicious use of networks or those who made hay of that use to advocate for the shutting down of those networks. (This was combined with the lack of a compelling business argument for keeping them operating.)

There may simply be the staling of the protocol and paradigm. Mastodon is fun and interesting, yes, but lacks robust search, filtering, and privacy-management tools (e.g., auto-expiring posts), as well as obvious issues in scaling. If, say, a manageable instance size is 10,000 users, and Mastodon is to scale to serve an appreciable fraction of the roughly 10 billion people worldwide --- each instance administrator needs to at least consider 10^(10-5) or 10^6 other server relationships. It's one thing to keep track of reputations of a few thousand other servers, it's another to deal with millions, absent some robust tools for management, reputation, appeal, and similar factors. (My suspicion is that some degree of hierarchy with intermediate "hub" servers would emerge at some point.)

That said: Mastodon has proved robust and resilient beyond the predictions of numerous early critics. Not without flaws and issues, but those have to date been surmounted.
Infinite series is part of calculus.
>Sounds like an ISP problem. Buy service from a better one. No need to impose SSL on the website for this.

Just move I guess.
What you talking? I don't particularly endorse react but what are you comparing to? If we're talking plain js or jquery style dom manipulation react, or any of its competitor, is a vastly superior for any non-trivial app. If you're having a mostly static site I can believe you though.
Also if you get a good car in F1 and give good results you keep the car and it usually stays good or very competitive.

On other hand there is lot of value with experience and some patience, if you are mid-line team a experienced driver who can support the team and bring the car back in whole or even with some points race after race is not horrible investment.
Nvidia: ML Model Is Making Next-Gen GPUs ‘Better Than Human’
If there's some way to actually solve the scaling problem [1] meaningfully, it might have a chance to be more than niche. Broadly applies to Ethereum and all other existing blockchain systems too. Ethereum can handle ~25 transactions per second at the moment. Commit a namespace entry? Transaction. Send coins? Transaction. Any smart contract interactions? Transaction. The actual Web 3.0, where all our name resolution tables, and instant messaging, weekly paycheques, grocery purchases, etc. are logged on some blockchain, would need, very conservatively, tens of thousands of of transactions per second.

I do not anticipate a resolution to the scaling problem any time soon [2]. But maybe they, and me, are not seeing the flaw in their argument. Should the scaling problem remain intractable, I think that the existing major blockchains have peaked. Both Ethereum [3] and Bitcoin [4] have been pinned near their maximum transactions per second for years now. Further adoption can only come by displacing some other transaction on-chain.

(I'm operating on the assumption that off-chain non-blockchain handling of blockchain data is not actually blockchain for this comment. No keys, no ownership as the BTC maximalists like to say.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem

[2] https://datafinnovation.medium.com/sharding-is-also-np-compl...

[3] https://etherscan.io/chart/tx

[4] https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-transactions-per-block
Google Trains 540B Parameter AI Language Model Palm
weird headline
You might like these two posts:

"Hacking My Ceiling Fan's Wireless Remote with a USB TV Tuner", https://www.riveducha.com/decode-wireless-signal-with-usb-tv...

"Abusing RPi GPIO pins as a radio controller", https://www.riveducha.com/raspberry-pi-gpio-send-radio-signa...

Have fun and if dad modding their toys gets your kids interested in hacking/tinkering then all the better.
Seems like this assumes that the form submits to location.pathname always
Statistical Analysis shows Echos process voice to serve ads
That is the dumbest argument I've heard about ponzi schemes to date. If you don't know something, just ask questions. That author is retarded.

Bitcoin has no central authority. It's just utilitarian. Crypto needs regulation where it overlaps with fiat. We should start doing that instead of having these stupid debates.

None of these have anything to do with ponzi schemes, which is the act of using new investor money to payout old investors.

People buy and sell crypto like anything else. It's not legal tender (at least not everywhere or even anywhere that counts) but if you wanna call bitcoin a ponzi scheme then so is every fiat currency and the entire stock market.

The difference between the stock market and crypto is regulation at the fiat overlap.

So can we do that instead of giving air to these completely brain dead "decentralised technology nobody controls is clearly a scam to enrich early adopters, like the whole stock market except not like the whole stock market because economics is actually beyond me" style arguments, please and thank you
Abusing RPi GPIO pins as a radio controller
Some specific claims: https://www.ft.com/content/a50622ce-97e1-471a-b99c-e92e7fc36...

> “Without this deferral, the hotel may have needed to pay tens of millions of additional dollars to Deutsche Bank at a time when it was already facing steep losses,” the report stated, adding: “Mr Trump did not publicly disclose this significant benefit from a foreign bank while he was president.”

The President is not supposed to accept large undisclosed gifts from foreign companies, it looks like bribery.

Nobody has managed to directly connect Trump to money laundering. Trump collaborators, though? Paul Manafort, his campaign director, was convicted of money laundering and illegal payments from the Russian-sponsored Yanukovych government of Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_of_Paul_Manafort
I find the arch linux wiki and forums are very good.
Bottled water monopolist admits recycling is bullshit
Yep, I saw your comment. You're definitely thinking along the right lines here. It's all about incremental decomposition and recombination.

Hydraulic's first product is currently in private beta. If you like, email me and I'll add you so you can see what it is. Actually email me anyway, because I'm putting together a list of people who are interested in post-web technologies for perhaps a podcast/interview series. My address is in my profile.
In my mind a "better high school of tomorrow" would be the one that utilizes the best available classes and material available online in a physical class room environment, except for classes that are unique to the national curriculum. So a school would have people employed in some new role of mentor/teacher with whom you take the classes online with help and guidance.

What would be the stoppers from implementation of this that are not bureaucracy and rent seeking by existing structures... or just pride?
They need to ship it to the UK then, straight from Hong Kong for maximum irony and retribution
Given the war on math happening in public school systems in multiple states, this is a fantastic antidote for anyone who can afford it.
Every time I read something about "how to write good commit messages" it always seems to focus on reading the messages back as a log. That's great if that's how you use commit messages, but I tend to use them more for searching for a specific change so it doesn't really work for me. A more narrative style in commits I might need to go back to makes it easier to find them later.

How you write your commit messages should be driven by whatever you use them for afterwards.
This isn’t true. Canada has a far larger fentanyl problem (as a proportion of the drugs used, not in gross consumption) - particularly in BC.
Sure, yet apps like Spacedrive use sluggish React with shadow DOM
I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD
The problem really comes when that monopoly position is used to impose unreasonable restrictions, or leverage the company into additional market advantages. That is abuse of a monopoly position, or lets say an advantageous market position. I accept that.

But you can't argue that features and restrictions that people freely chose when the company had a minority market share are somehow imposed unfairly or are leveraging unfair advantages. They had no such advantage, but users were perfectly happy with the tradeoff anyway, so clearly they're not being coerced or 'forced' into anything. They're just choosing it.
“To repair the joint, one has to oil the ball bearings” ->
“To the spherical tank must be oil to restore the connection”
> Khan Academy is still free, but it looks like Khan World School has actual humans.

Yes, but there are real questions of self-imposed incentives and broader optics. What will the Khan folks actually be focusing on going forward? Will they be trying to pivot their Khan Academy offering into a "freebie" funnel, steering their students towards this paid-for MOOC? I'm not saying that this is going to happen, I'm just saying that many schools, educators etc. might naturally worry that it might happen and want to avoid reliance on Khan Academy as a result, perhaps staying away from it altogether.
Sadly, the evidence does not justify the hype.

The age of everybody carrying billions of megapixels devices. People can't avoid being videotaped twenty times when buying bread, and all that we have to justify their grant is a blurred saucer hanging from a fish line.
I always wanted to try and reverse engineer the wireless communication of my wife's insulin pump (it can communicate with a glucose meter to show the current glucose level and receive a bolus).

But between me not having the know-how and any hacking being potentially threatening her health, I never got around to do it. But it would be nice to send a bolus, because the newer smartphone app can't do that via bluetooth.
this is a really cool idea! will definitely become a successful business internationally.
Where's the time where you could just assume it was DNS.
It’s a shame that the people who leveraged his documents so heavily couldn’t help him more.
> One of the difficult things was figuring out if the final version of the crank was going to be a floppy crank or a stiff crank

> I had a little technique where I would grease it just enough for it to feel really good

Dude! Really? lol
I didn’t meant it as “only” a library, but as a fork. I still don’t necessarily see why it would be an insurmountable problem to fork the OpenJDK project and add atomic execution to it (do note that I’m sure it has the necessary mechanism for that — JIT deoptimizations pretty much require dropping the previously calculated results, so with some change it could be doable).

It wouldn’t be a soft fork and would still require plenty of resources no doubt, but I still feel like going this direction will better utilize the insane dev-hours that went into the OpenJDK’s stellar performance, than trying to fix the performance issues of Erlang. But do take everything I said with a huge grain of salt, as I am neither an OpenJDK contributor and as you can see don’t know much about the Erlang ecosystem. And thank you for the very informative look behind the scenes.
> Human intelligence and consciousness are things we know literally nothing about and have no tools to understand.

They have been well-understood for centuries in the Vedic culture. But so-called rationalists refuse to acknowledge it because of their irrational belief in atheism.