skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story:

780 points, 4 years ago, 356 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20227175

406 points, 2 years ago, 261 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25510351

The reality:

336 points, 2 years ago, 145 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27173859

I guess HN prefers a good story about rags-to-riches underdogs!
I believe during the shutdown there was a period they weren't receiving compensation for hours worked. Keep in mind that due to understaffing - folks were already working additional hours/days on top of that. I believe they eventually got paid out months after it, but a bit of a raw deal and could make you think twice about working for the govt.
Probably for the same reason people feel the need to complain about people complaining... and then complain about people complaining about people complaining, and so on.
What is the state of the art for doing encryption with ECC? The author just says "use NaCl" here but what should I do if I am not in a position to do that but can still use ECC?

My understanding of ECC is that it is not really suitable for encryption as-is, as RSA was, rather it is used for key agreement (somehow through a multi-step process that I do not understand). But it is unclear how much of this is just rumor and implementation limitations.
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Fifteen to twenty percent of people self identify as handicapped.

There used to be -- and may still be -- hash tags and such on Twitter to help such people find each other.

I'm very seriously handicapped and don't get out much. It's why I spend so much time online.

It's called testimony -- giving a voice for a topic I have a lot of firsthand knowledge of. I have no idea why you are attacking it so aggressively.
It has a lot of themes and layouts, various typing-related songs, like if you want auto-capitalization or auto-spacing on our off, but the main thing I got it for originally was it was geared towards swiping to type,which I found to be a lot faster than Garrity letter-at-a-time typing... I don't know if it was an early pioneer at that or what, but it seems like most other keyboards let you do that now, so it's advantage (if it ever had one is less than it used to be).

But, in any case, I do like how it can predict a word as you type, so you don't have to type the full word out before releasing your finger and it will toe out the rest, and it does a good job of predicting phrases I types a lot, so for those I don't even have to type them out fully... I just have to type the first word or so and then tap on the predicted words to fill in the rest (or however many words of the prediction I want)... it can be a time saver.
The predictive text combined with the predictive autocomplete are so good that they changed the way I type on my phone. I don't even need to hit the right letters anymore, the need for precisions has disappeared almost completely. This has massively sped up typing on my phone. There's also a wide variety of customisations (including an easy height slider and several input modes that you can adjust to any device) that many competing keyboards lack.

This is very obvious when I need to type on someone else's device or when I try other keyboards. They do similar things, each in their own way, but just don't do it quite so well as SwiftKey does it.

Since Microsoft bought the app I've stopped logging into it with an account (so reinstalls and new phones mean I need to retrain the keyboard) and have taken away the internet permission so it can't do any creepy stuff like send telemetry. Somehow Bing found itself into the keyboard, probably an automatic update I forgot to turn off in the Play store.

The addition of Bing is just one more sad step in the development of the app I probably use most on my phone. I switched to SwiftKey exactly because I didn't trust Google's Gboard and now all this Cortana 2.0 crap is making the keyboard just as bad as the one I dropped years ago.
> The big question here is what's next?

These lecture slides from Yann LeCun from 1 month ago. Starting from slide 13, he presents his idea of a roadmap towards autonomous machine intelligence.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BU5bV3X5w65DwSMapKcsr0ZvrMR...
Agreed.

Best transit is no transit. If I can walk safely to most things that I need every day then that's a lot better for everyone than a frequent bus schedule. Having both would be nice.
I have more activity on my pixelfed account in last 3 months than what I have on Instagram after half a decade of presence.
Yeah, there's def the upfront cost, which not everyone can justify. Though, at the same time, a lower-amp-hour battery can provide as much actually-usable energy as a higher-amp-hour-rated SLA battery (so you could purchase a LiFePo4 battery with a lower amp-hour rating than the equivalent SLA battery but still get the same run time). I wouldn't know how much lower you can go though offhand.
This seems unnecessarily reductive. Yes, like any tool, marketing can be used for evil. And people often associate marketing with scummy advertising or spin (which often actually fall under sales or PR). But at its best marketing creates an incredible amount of value.

If you actually study it, the discipline of marketing is actually about things like (1) the rigorous search for product-market fit, many decades before this was popular with tech startups, (2) finding ways to efficiently target and inform audiences about goods and services which absolutely add value to their lives, and which can often be extremely challenging (e.g. everyone hates thinking about death, but life insurance can be ridiculously important for your dependents), (3) developing clear, stable, predictable anchors at a company level, which people can trust and build mental shorthand for, at longer timeframes - we all have expectations for what Apple products are "about", for example. These are all absolutely vital market functions.
When you are on booking.com you have the most choices. Not only between all the inventory they have, but you can also browse Airbnb.

When you're at the hotel and you ask their rate, your basically committed. They know how much time and money it cost you to drive to a different hotel. So they can set their rates accordingly.

And hotels hate reservations made over the phone or by email because too many guests never pay a deposit and never show up.
This specifically happened because the guy put a financial bounty on a multiplayer mod for Breath of the Wild.

Nintendo has always been fairly straightforward on this sorta thing if you look at their actions:

1. Don't make them care. Don't draw attention to yourself, just do what you want to do. Relatedly, don't talk to Vice, Polygon, Kotaku or any other authoritative source because then you'll be competing with Nintendo in the press for relevance, and that'll make them upset.

2. No piracy. Nintendo has a very wide definition of piracy, which includes emulation if it has the possibility of being done through piracy (which is most emulation but not most emulation development). Specifically don't do anything that can directly enable piracy, such as dumping ROMs or say... trying to organize a Melee tournament using a Dolphin netplay mod.

3. No money. Money makes things complicated and will make Nintendo care. Just straight up - you're going to need to do it pro bono. If you expect financial benefits of any kind, just go elsewhere.

4. Don't directly compete with Nintendo - no direct sequels or remakes.

Otherwise they'll turn a blind eye. This guy violated point 1 and point 3; tech blogs wrote about him and he put up a financial bounty for it.
That caching layer sounds like a footgun.

RTK Query does something similar, offering multiple ways to initiate, update and use the data of the queries.
They poached pretty much the entire react team in order to bet on:

- react being the most popular FE library for time to come

- gain the user's mindshare as react being now a Vercel product (something which is becoming increasingly true)

- users attracted by react and next eventually becoming Vercel customers.

They have also tried or employed several other major library authors in order to position themselves uniquely at the crossroads of major FE software and thus be uniquely positioned to transform those users again in Vercel customers.

I don't judge any of this negatively or positively but that's the case I see.
Do either of those links point to a way to give feedback or otherwise actually discuss the addition of Bing-related features?
In London the have abolished the rule on liquids now:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65163418
Do you have any tips to get started?
There's no concept of "fair use" in Japan.

Nintendo has a hard time with the fact Japan law does not apply in the west.
> has fewer material with eternal half lives

Grammar error aside - ‘eternal’ half lives don’t exist. The time taken for radioactivity to decay by half cannot be and is not 'forever'. That's very basic maths. Again you’re aggressively incorrect.
I'm actually looking forward to trying out GPT4 through Bing... but wish I didn't have to sacrifice my privacy to do it.
But the thing is that renewables + storage is more expensive than nuclear power, so there goes your argument about cost.
Balancing SEC requirements down with cash flow continuously is tough. Hope regulatory environment comes through.
I’ve set up an LTE network in my house before and while it is a fantastic educational tool, that is pretty much the extent of the benefits offered vs WiFi.
exp(-|x|) is not an exponential, it's just the easy, bounded, integrable, half of it :)
If you are American, live and work in the suburbs, it is fairly easy to avoid homelessness from the inside of a personal vehicle.
This is extremely common worldwide. I've observed it in rural Nova Scotia, the Netherlands, and the Peruvian rainforest. I'm sure it happens elsewhere, but those are the places I have made note of it.

I think the spiders have not so much figured it out as there is a selection bias. Spiders randomly make their nests. The spiders that randomly make a nest near a light source end up with a larger supply of food and grow large. In my current garden, the spiders that end up near a particular fern always grow the largest. My brother used to feed spiders that made their webs in a particular corner of a cabin as a reward for the entertainment they provided when they were building their webs. I have also walked into countless webs from large spiders in the forest over my life.

Everything points to just randomized locations but being near lights generally being good for the lucky spiders that end up there. You will often see spider fights in such locations after a larger moth or other insect breaks the web of one spider and drops it into another spiders web.
>How does this help their profitability?

You can maintain your brand image. If some really problematic usage of your IP happens you can get it taken down. If that person had a license for making videos of the game you wouldn't have the ability to get the content taken down and your brand image could be hurt which could affect sales and hurt profitability.

>Given that such videos are free advertising.

99% of videos will be fine fine which is why you don't see companies getting videos taken down left and right. They reap the benefits of these videos, but they want to have the power to take things down just in case. Even if they never need to take anything down just having the power to just in case can be valuable to the company.
Batteries are expensive + needs to be replaced periodically, which is making whole setup even more expensive in the long run. Batteries are dead end for energy storage.
Destin has a knack for taking relatively mundane topics and making them interesting. I’ve had low expectations going into his videos on coast guard search patterns, center-pivot irrigators, and a film factory tour, but ended up enjoying them because of his emphasis on the little optimizations that are inherent in all human endeavors, and the people who carry them out. It’s like Dirty Jobs (which I also liked) but for engineers.

In this case I groaned a bit when I saw the title (“another Rupert’s Drop video?”), but it was fascinating to watch that team working together, and learn a bit about the process of glass blowing. I found the result a little underwhelming to be honest - at least in its attempt to capture the violence of a Rupert’s Drop exploding - though it was still a cool piece of glass. But the journey to get there kept me captivated the whole way through.
Many Android developers now use Kotlin instead of Java.
Oh well. Nothing to see here. Another explosion in a rabbit hole.

Anyway moving on...
I think Ford Escort means something different here in the UK. They've gone up in value hugely in the last 20 years and are generally worth a lot more than Model T Fords now. (Annoyingly they're worth much more than a contemporary Porsche 944, which was much more desirable when new. Annoyingly because I own a 944 and not an Escort).

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/1980-ford-escort-rec0351...

https://www.evoke-classics.com/auction/1922-ford-model-t/
With the some of the new AMD Epyc CPUs having over 1GB of L3 cache, you could run a pretty full-featured Linux distro + app entirely in cache.
Pilot but trained for ATC in my 20s.

I assure you the mental picture you need to keep in your head as a controller is far more taxing than single pilot operation when you are primarily concerned with your own separation. A controller can be managing a 1 to 2 dozen aircraft, dealing with pop up IFR, flight following, traffic advisories, handoffs, etc. There's a reason you get a mandatory break after 2 hours.
With lead acids you just have to make sure you don't go below 40% charge. They don't tend to like that. The deep cycle ones are a bit better but I've experienced them deteriorating quickly too once you go too low. The other disadvantage is that they are quite heavy and might end up taking up lots of space. I'm personally still using lead acid, but with plans to go LiFePo4.
Is Byjus not a thing in America ? IIRC Disney / Facebook invested many billions in that company. Didn't they deploy for US students?
Plus you can rewatch without downloading again. And use sneakernets for sharing with your friends.
For off-grid setups (which I consider the OP's setup) I would also consider 24V. I would consider ElectroDacus [0] which would replace the need for an MPPT and a BMS for lithium batteries. So besides a panel, battery and inverter this is all you need.

[0] - https://electrodacus.com/
wow. you have to pay to block ads on an iphone. not cool.

lets hope once sideloading is made available, we can have proper ublock origin once and for all.
Coal used to be a biomass, therefore coal is renewable by definition.
Isn't copyright based on international treaties? They no doubt signed the same constitution-overriding stuff we did.
48v 100ah LifePO4 is under 1000$ in China
The one thing i know is that the true creatives are busy with creating new things, not with collecting past glory and building rambling, halls of fame to themselves. Thats for hasbeens and wannabees.

As soon as somebody starts tuning that "I was, i have been, i ve done" harp, im out of the conversation. Most boring people to engage with and thus usually hearded into conversation ghettos, were they can one up one another for all eternity without interfering.

Once you become that sort of silverback, all growth is over and only slow decline awaits, while beating your chest.
We will never be able to accurately count the number of messages on the Fediverse so this likely happened earlier. We will always under count because some servers don't report statistics and we may not even be counting all the servers.

I say this as someone who has spent time trying to measure these things and has written a fair bit of software attempting to measure things like this.
Do people realize that Keccak replaces a lot of complexity and offers powerful composable primitive already? Instead of saying "blake is faster, but sha3 is standard", pick SHAKE-128 and build everything with it: hash, MAC, symmetric encryption, fiat-shamir transcripts etc.
You just got validated. Does that mean you're desperate? or anxious? or even sick in the head?
> I know a couple of men in their 50s, one is relatively wealthy (some tens of millions of dollars), and I have often seen him on top of a machine with a wrench in his hand at 6am. Sometimes it's 3am. He starts a new company every year or two and adds it to his holdings. He owns farms and factories, and runs all of them personally. (it baffles me that he has enough time) I know another man who's relatively broke (owns his house, not much else) and says he is too old to try any new ventures. I suspect a large reason for their wealth disparity is their attitude disparity.

Or perhaps energy disparity? The guy who serially starts companies and works from 3am in the morning is probably in the 99th percentile in terms of raw energy available to him.
To those who come here to say that Fediverse is too small to be in any way, shape or form viable, I'll repeat my comment from the other day [0] that the Fediverse is not in a contest to existing megascale platforms:

> The growth-hacking folks around here should realize that from the perspective of the Fediverse there is no such "contest". This is probably the biggest difference why Twitter is by no means an alternative to Mastodon. There's no need to grow at all costs, move fast and break things, do crazy things to get engagement levels up, no commercial incentives, valuations, VC and shareholders to satisfy. The Fediverse is a network created by people, for people, and it is noticeable in the culture.. if you stop the frantic growth-hacking and take the time to discover it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35584385
So; how much did the whole setup cost ?
Patent applications I've been party to have included source code (maybe all of them? don't recall). I think it should be required. I'm not confident that it would actually solve a lot, but it would help.

We mentioned source code in a position paper on patent policy I helped write a number of years ago,
https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_com...

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For software, such disclosures are particularly poor, as the October 2003 FTC report on The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law Policy [7] notes: “Several panelists discounted the value of patent disclosures, because the disclosure of a software product’s underlying source code is not required.”

[7] http://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/10/innovationrpt.pdf
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The best counterargument I can make is that applicants would provide obfuscated or fake source code, just like the many other ways they cheat the application process.

Still better than not requiring it. I liked the point that most counterarguments are effectively arguments that the patent absent the source doesn't constitute disclosure.

> Believe it or not, many of the examiners in software have Computer Science backgrounds and are perfectly capable of this.

I assume it's still the case that you need an appropriately shaped engineering degree, which does exclude many CS people.

But absolutely it wouldn't be to surprising to see an examiner try to run the code. Even if they're not CS people they're technical and smart and would figure it out quick enough.
Finland: A Model of Social Support
Why? Because you don't like it?

Chesterton's fence.
Cpdlc is primarily used for oceanic clearances and follow ups (going off track due to weather, speed changes etc.).
Gboard does have multi-language now. In fact, I think it's better at that, simply because SwiftKey obsessively capitalizes the word i, even if you try to delete that suggestion. That's one of the main reasons I recently switched away from it, plus the fact that if you put the cursor in the middle of a word SwiftKey moves out to the end, and the fact that SwiftKey frequently hangs for several seconds in the work profile.
Examination of Microsoft’s significance for competition across markets
The bank argument is usually that banks cause a lot of collateral damage. If Peter loses his deposit at bank A then he can’t pay his landlord Peter who needs it to pay the mortgage with bank B, and his friend Bob might panic and pull his money at bank C.
If one invests the ambition into rising into a position of power in the department of education, their impact on educating the youth will be many times bigger than that of the rich guy's who just throws some money at school building, but otherwise has no clue and no impact. This is often why ambitious people choose the public servant career path - they want to have a real impact.
Maybe the answer is more interesting in Europe, where electronic payment systems existed long before smartphones and the WWW.

You would probably pay by giro, very commonly used to pay utility bills etc. The tax office provides a pre-printed machine-readable giro slip, which looks similar to a cheque but includes your tax number and amount owed (or electric company account number etc). You take that to your own bank, and they transfer the money from your account to the tax office's account -- originally this might be partly by post, but at least the printed slip is much more machine-readable than a cheque. I think by the 1980s the slips were no longer posted around, the payment was electronic. Of course, you could take cash to pay in to your account at the same time.

You could also take the giro to a post office, and pay in cash.

Or you could write a cheque and post both the cheque and the giro to the giro processing centre. I think postage was free.

The in-person parts of the system still exists, though I think the post-a-cheque bit has gone. It remains the default way to pay a bill (including a tax bill) with cash or without using a computer.

Before that, I don't know, since before the giro system most people in the UK didn't have bank accounts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giro_(banking)

Picture of a current giro slip, at the bottom of the bill: https://bionic.co.uk/business-energy/guides/business-energy-...

The MP proposing the system in Parliament in 1965, noting it already existed in most western European countries: https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1965/jul/... -- "this is a simple system of credit transfer which can be operated through our network of 23,000 post offices throughout the country ... All these giro clearing houses are linked together by Telex machine".
This isn't that simple, Youtube having a legal existence in many countries they have to respect more than just US laws.
> ChatGPT can write Tetris in a single response.

Umm, no it can't. I understand your general question, but ChatGPT isn't capable of creating a finished, graphical game that looks like Tetris in "a single response". It would take many interactions, refining, correcting and adding to the queries, maybe.

But even if ChatGPT could produce something that the Tetris people would be concerned about, they wouldn't sue ChatGPT but the ones offering the code (free or otherwise) to others. So the legal situation is pretty much unchanged.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns society to brace for impact of A.I. acceleration
Fun fact: Peter Feldmann has been ousted and voted out quite recently because he's a massive dickhead who tried to take ownership of everything. Even football championships. But he was forced to leave due to corruption!

Source: live in Frakfurt