skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine being the poor FBI agent who has to keep track of 100 alts.
> Make a showcase site that looks good. The website as-is looks like a website from the 90s

I liked it! But then again, I used the internet in the 90s so it’s nostalgia. You’re probably right
Damn bro you’re going beast mode. Keep it up. That’s awesome.
Poll: Do You Like Discord?
I just opened the Discord app and it took four minutes (!) to launch. My answer is a clear no, but how do you feel?
Yes — Discord is great
No — Discord is not great
Fighting the modern US would be also be some sort of bizarre existential dread, knowing that every move you make is probably tracked and you have a decent chance of being killed with absolutely no warning.

Legends of the Galactic Heroes did a great job exploring that theme.
Show HN: Add gamification elements to any app, website or business
Gami5d enables apps and websites to add a points system, badges, levels and leaderboard to any website. No coding is necessary though tighter integration can be achieved via API integration. Rules are defined which are triggered via observations. Observations can be uploaded via spreadsheets or integrated via zapier/api.

Looking forward to your feedback and ready to answer questions if any.
"Neural Networks" Don't Work
https://communemag.com/optimize-what/

> The course is about “deep neural networks,” a popular class of machine-learning models powered at their core by various optimization techniques. However, the optimization paradigms used here are not of the planning variety. The algorithm designer picks a heuristic objective function that incentivizes a good model, but there are no constraints, and there are no guarantees of obtaining a good solution. Once trained, the model is run on some sample data; if the results are poor, the designer tweaks one of dozens of parameters or refines the objective with an additional term, then tries again. Eventually, we are promised, we will arrive at a trained neural network that accurately executes its desired task.

> The whole process of training a neural net is so ad hoc, so embarrassingly unsystematic, that students often find themselves perplexed as to why these techniques should work at all. A friend who also took the course once asked a teaching assistant why deep learning fares well in practice, to which the instructor responded: “Nobody knows. It just does.”

> In fact, isn’t this free-wheeling, heuristic form of optimization reminiscent of how economics is understood today? Rather than optimization as planning, we seek to unleash the power of the algorithm (the free market). When the outcomes are not as desired, or the algorithm optimizes its objective (profit) much too zealously for our liking, we meekly correct for its excesses in retrospect with all manner of secondary terms and parameter tuning (taxes, tolls, subsidies). All the while, the algorithm’s inner workings are opaque and its computational power is described in terms of magic, evidently understandable only by a gifted and overeducated class of technocrats.
Sad to see that people think illegal criminal acts aimed at suppressing expression and journalism is a good thing, just because they are political opposition. It’s not a healthy time for political discourse.

I also don’t get the hate against Andy Ngo. I don’t pay attention to him, but with how unhinged the reaction is to him basically just documenting Portland as it actually was, it only strengthens his legitimacy. It’s not a good look for people to celebrate acts of physical violence against journalists. And it’s extra weird for allegedly progressive people to misgender him.
Such a long text for "their numbers are better than ours, they are clearly liars"
There’s a line in a film from 1983 called The Outsiders which is like “give me one of those cancer sticks”, so I think smoking was understood to be harmful earlier than that.
They pop up from time to time; eg Weimar germany? (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40162299 )

The sorts of people who like to join militias don't like all the weebs in regular cosplay circles? (see https://dakotavadams.substack.com/p/gunshow )

All the fent sure as hell isn't going to run itself?
This is an animal living in the wild who did not have contact with humans. The article mentions that he may have learned it from other orangutans, but says nothing about humans.
Ask HN: Cheaper Alternatives to Kagi?
I'm at a breaking point with Google. The search results have become so damn mediocre that I just can't find what I want anymore.

Have tried DDG and the results are mostly the same as Google.

Kagi is the best for my use case, but its just too expensive for the family plan. I live in India and with everything, it's like INR 1800, which is more than my home wifi, netflix, and phone combined. Really hard to justify paying that much

Does anyone have a cheaper alternative they would recommend?
Here is an open source implementation that converts from WGS84 to GJC2:

https://github.com/googollee/eviltransform/blob/master/java/...

https://github.com/googollee/eviltransform/blob/master/java/...

And converting the other way by a kind of binary search, I guess using a flaw in the obfuscation:

https://github.com/googollee/eviltransform/blob/master/java/...

All seems very silly by today standards and I would think it hardly made sense back in 2002 when this was apparently devised.
Soon: "our AI predicts that individual X has a 90% chance of committing a violent crime within the next semester"
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi...
No! Learn what interest you - what you think is the best and most interesting technology. Then look for jobs that use those technologies! Or do it backwards - look for jobs that use the techology you want to learn, then apply for a junior position.
Unfortulately our industry gravitate to whatever technology is the most popular at the moment.
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> (2) In many (most?) day-to-day cases, the distinction isn't material, and for those the ecosystem is going to end up preferring one more than the others (which may change over time - hence, 'in vogue'). The references I've seen tend to suggest sticking to (eq) and (equal), for instance, and avoiding (eql) unless you have specific need of it.

I guess they suggest two instead of one because in most cases the difference is material. And I imagine that they also suggest using = to compare numbers.

When the distinction doesn’t matter one could just use eq. I’m not sure that this covers most uses though.
Just a few pointers:

- Where is your resume? If it is on your webpage I sure couldn't find it. Make it more prominent.

- If you want to work in software development, you need to have demonstrable skill at doing so (at least to the junior level). Code more and show off what you have done.

- Try to reign in the overly verbose way you communicate in (i.e long rambling posts with too much unrelevant information). This may come off as harsh, but it can pay off knowing when and how to communicate to different groups of people. (Suggest checking out 'bottom-line, up-front' or 'BLUF')

I agree with many of the other points already made by others so won't duplicate them.

Good luck!
You probably need to study birth control in context of the collapsing economies of countries like Japan, Korea and China
Discussion [0] (28 points, 2 days ago, 22 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40219339
I think troad is trying to explain how they feel about learning CL and what they've discovered. They aren't criticising CL. Of course naming things over a long period of time is a complex problem, that's why they acknowledged that there is a lot of cruft from the 60s.

I've found their comments, and the constructive responses to them, interesting because I am interested in Lisp but have never learned it.

What I don't find interesting is seeing troad's observations strongly challenged, as you are doing, as if somehow by sharing their observations, they now owe us detailed solutions as well.

It's not cool.
Pretty insane for you to believe that a foreign country from afar could produce mapping data with the same degree of accuracy, detail and realtime freshness as a local provider on the ground. Of course there's military value in protecting mapping data from foreign adversaries, at the very least it adds a a time delay and some uncertainty to the data. It also probably makes it harder for some unsophisticated terrorist to strap a consumer GPS to a stock drone and accurately hit a target.
> 1,000 PageHits/mo/site

This seems pretty low for 16 usd/month
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Some of my peers are deep into running. I don’t get it. Running is sometimes fun for me but most often painful.

Then I overheard one of them (the fittest) say to a budding runner that he [should] do mostly easy sessions. Okay what’s easy to him? He said that so slow that it can feel awkward and unnatural. What?

Then I searched around and found out about Zone 2 and how you should do most of your work in that zone when building aerobic fitness. And that it is characterized by being able to hold a conversation, although strained.

I searched around and found atheletes like amateur ultrarunners say the same thing.

Then it hit me. I’ve probably been jogging a lot in Zone 3. Or higher? Because the harder you go the more benefit, right? That seems to be the basic logic for everything.[1] Relatively short, painful sessions. Have I been conditioning myself to associate cardio with more pain than is necessary for the average session?

So maybe I should just go on the stationary bike today, do a “conversatitional” (talk to myself) pace and listen to my audiobook for an hour? And try to not let my groin fall asleep.

[1] With nuances like go-to-failure for hypertrophy in weightlifting and more back-off-a-little for strength training.
There's very few places where the light changes automatically for bikes in Amsterdam - all that I can remember now, don't. The large majority of lights do respond to input from pressing the cross button (also pressable by bycicles), but it's not automated.

They do use "change on approach" lights outside of the cities way more, but in cities it's usually only for trams and buses.
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The root cause of this is that the billing system (which varies by Province) by which doctors actually get paid is a fee-for-service model. That means the system incentivizes doctors to see patients by only allowing them to get paid for actually seeing the patient: Give someone a vaccine? $15. Family doctor routine checkup? $34.

The system is set up to reward the kind of doctor who sees 6 patients an hour and is on their third marriage because they're at the clinic for 12 hours a day. Those are the family docs who are making high six figures, which is incidentally the opposite of what's good for the patient. You can't have meaningful interactions with a family doctor in ten minute visits, but the billing codes (in BC and Ontario at least) are set up to financially penalize doctors who take 45 minutes with a single patient to really make sure they get to the bottom of things.

Anyway, the follow-on effect is that doctors generally don't get paid to do their legally-required paperwork and a litany of other things, so we've arrived at the present where family doctors are using "AI" shitware of questionable quality made by silicon valley techbros of questionable quality, and relying on that software to ensure the accuracy (and privacy!) of patients' health data because they are so overworked and underpaid that there's a constant brain drain of good family doctors leaving family medicine for specialized sub-disciplines or leaving Canada to seek greener (pun only partially intended) pastures where the pay is better south of 49.

tl;dr the whole situation's fucked and the fact they're resorting to "AI" garbage should be a source of profound shame, not jubilation
This avatar appears to be of an ethnicity that does not represent the majority of Ukrainians. Which I think it should have been, since the messages are supposed to come from the government of Ukraine, I.e. its people (assuming they are still a democracy after banning of opposition parties). Is this an attempt at appease the liberal ideologies of their supporters? If this is a sign of things to come, I would warn the Ukrainians to think twice about joining “the West”. Perhaps it’s too late though.
That's why I proposed using a train. Minus the swimming pool, totally doable to have one driving around at relatively low speeds. We use trains to move many tonnes of cargo around already. So, I don't see the mass as a show stopper.
Neither is public healthcare system but if a free helmet for everyone reduces healthcare costs globally, ultimately it’s other people paying less.

(I guess it doesn’t work if you don’t have public healthcare)
That seems irrelevant. The issue in the article is the mismatch between satellite data and coordinates of points and features. There doesn't seem to be such a mismatch on openstreetmap or apple maps (presumably because apple maps is based on openstreetmap to a large degree).

You just don't have to play Chinas game.
Congrats. You’re an inspiration to me. :)
Do you have anything valuable to add?
I’m not concerned about myself being banned on Masotodon as I keep away from political subjects. I don’t find the platform useful as the conversations that I’ve been able to find are highly politicised. I guess I need to work better at tuning out the noise on there.

On X I mainly occupy the indie hacker space which is focused on that topic. There are definitely more political conversations that come up but it’s much easier to filter those out.
What? We eat meat. We need to eat meat. So we need to kill animals for that. Zoos absolutely not required for humans to survive.
The banking app (or any other app) having access to see that you're in a call or who is calling you seems like another data mining point that I don't think they should have. Having a way to initiate the communications through the banking app seems like a good idea though.
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Not the parent, but this comment is peculiar in the way that it makes several somewhat unconnected, requirement heavy statements.

> Are you really claiming that extremist militias are actually a valid reaction to some kind of political problem? What a bizarre stance.

In ethics, just terrorism is a well debated concept. A fairly famous thinker on the subject was Satre, who was influenced, for example, by the Algerian struggle for independence from French colonial rule, which involved both guerrilla warfare and acts of terrorism.

> We can solve political problems without resorting to extremism and violence

In a general sense, this should be trivially true for extremism. But it can be a tricky concept, as the term is also used in a prescriptive way with a politically charged intention, much like "hate".

Violence, it depends. If someone argues violence is never justified, that would be a pacifist position.

> inability to do so is not noble or caused by something external.

I don't see why moral superiority (noble) and external determination should be thrown together - or how either relates to the previous statements.

I would agree though, that one's own actions are never purely caused by external influences, as I'm personally feeling strongly against team determinism.

The previous commenter probably just wanted to highlight polarization as a driving force for radicalization, which isn't entirely untrue, but also, of course, complex. One needs to be able to call out the baddies, despite it being perceived as polarizing.
That's a problem with just about any package, library or system you use in the end.

Open source runs in a large amount of trust, and we're all complicit.
It's a mixture of running and cycling and really less planning than what I should have.

Generally, my runs are between 5-10K and rides are 30km/20mi ish. More days than not I'll do both, but on other days I only get one done due to time issues. Weekends are usually for longer rides. I average around 200km/130mi on the bike and 40-50km of running per week. I've had to build up to this level gradually so it started from a much lower volume but I've been able to keep it pretty consistent for this year.

It's gotten to a point where if I don't do any exercise I would feel really bad physiologically so it drives me to go out everyday. But I essentially choose what to do at the hour and since most of the training is zone 2/endurance it doesn't matter too much.
The OP was looking to find a job, someone is trying to help. You are not, ergo please refrain from commenting further.
One thing I worry about is that some chemical like this would be mass deployed without serious vetting of safety and long term effects. I agree it could be really useful. But it also seems like we only regulate harmful chemicals decades later once their true impact is obvious.
Do you see those low effort Taco Bell ads on places like YouTube and twitch? Really plain video that looks like it was just recorded in an empty Taco Bell with some unknown person who I guess is some internet personality that only that demographic would be aware of hyping up the food and then taking a bite of it and then that's the commercial....

They want to be told what to experience because people that they think everyone universally knows exists because of their social bubble tells them this is something that they should experience.

They don't want good. They don't even want popular. They want bubble trend.

Sell them an experience because that experience is something that some tick tock somebody or other trend thing...

Sell them a service that teaches them what folder structures are on a computer.

I don't know and I don't understand most of the oddities of that generation.

Sell them nostalgia that they've never experienced but now they think is cool. That seems to be a thing that Gen z is into.

Edit: cynical take on your last part. Nothing motivates them. They are seemingly eternally confused sheep that vehemently deny being such.
Disagreeable and difficult? If you look into OP's reply history on HN he seems perfectly agreeable, cheerful and helpful even.

The rest of your comment I don't have a problem with.
congrats on the hard work and this launch!
Certainly. I am just curious if this is even a possibility in this century.
I mapped A-Z, a-z in a spreadsheet:

https://imgur.com/a/pMKdX3i

for the purpose of generating random chimeras :)

https://twitter.com/dchest/status/1786033028034125984

Here's a list for the left-to-right ones:

const tails = "dhloruxzER"
const bodies = "bcfgjknqtw"
const heads = "aempsy"
You can get a second one as backup. They actually recommend to do this themselves and provide tools for cloning.
I deal with pretty severe depression and running is far more effective than antidepressants. It varies for everyone, but I know I’m not alone.

It’s tough because I’ve known this for 15 years or so, but when I’m in a hole it somehow seems like it’ll only make things worse. I understand why someone who hasn’t had the experience of feeling better from exercise would see the entire premise as unlikely or absurd.
Maybe have a separate website devoted to your professional career is what I would suggest.

Because honestly, I like your minimalistic looking website, and I even like the fact that you put a picture of yourself on it, there's an element of authenticity to it that is genuinely touching in an era where everyone is sporting the exact same SPA react site.
Have you tried pineapple on your pizza? Seems like an interesting experiment
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But if you're sandboxing and running all applications in a separate space, is it really correct to refer to it as "users" anymore?
I would like to see replications, as it could just be bad data:

"It is also possible that the long-term reduction in BMR represents methodological artefacts. In the early years, measurements of BMR were often made using mouthpieces to collect respiratory gases, and recently such devices have been shown to elevate BMR by around 6%. A second possibility is that early measurements paid less attention to controlling ambient temperature to ensure individuals were at thermoneutral temperatures."
Not just the ability to answer calls for you but a way to verify a call by having the business transmit data about the call (caller, recipient, and reason for the call) to your phone app:
https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/08/googles-new-verified-calls...

Edit: Hmm, I'm getting a 404 on one of Google's development pages for it. I'm wondering if they killed it already in less than 4 years... It wouldn't surprise me, unfortunately.
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Very cool that you worked on it! I've found most, I think, of the patents. They are.... as has been hinted at in this thread, very difficult to parse through and (imo) don't actually reveal much, though I may just lack the expertise! That's why I was hoping to get some NLP folks to speculate!

Your point on dates is something I did want to call out - I wouldn't be asking this if it wasn't ancient history. I have no interest in doing anything sinister. Just trying to explore a fun part of Internet history. Any shot I could shoot you an email to chat?
Github is empty, only forked projects and courses.

This is like? Want me to build your house: I've taken a masonry course online.

Show me at least 4 walls that you've built and if your specialty is walls and these are your demo walls they better be state of the art, all best practices, explain why you used which technique for which wall.
There'a been explpots in image, video, and audio codecs... Which is why it's important to protect your users, but also your servers...

Best to sandbox/jail/etc as tightly as possible, and limit the codecs to only what you need. You can configure the ffmpeg builds pretty granularly... default will include too much.
If you figure it out the reward is easily 100x that.
This won't work since Caller ID is too easy to spoof.
Maybe GJC2 can be modified on the fly, by changing offset parameters? So in a hypothetical war situation, only providers obtaining data in realtime from "authorized" sources would have access to accurate targeting information.
It doesn’t necessarily need to have vasculature for a lot of cases. Sausages, nuggets, bologna, any kind of processed meat like product.

For steaks, the timeline is definitely longer than 5 years.