skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm at NASA Goddard and we use RHEL/CentOS for servers and a few desktops and Ubuntu on some desktops. I am sometimes frustrated by the age of certain CentOS packages, but having compatibility with our servers is a plus. I've avoided Fedora due to the rapid release cycle and the lack of official support by NASA (at least here at Goddard). There's no perfect solution.
Wouldn't that be click fraud?
Anecdotally, my times running at track & cross-country practice were ~10% faster (regardless of injuries, of which I had many) on days following watching The Flash, on Netflix.

Personally, I just envy Barry Allen's typing speed.
Great, thanks for the explanation!
How is it a lie ?

Where is this line drawn ? After all farmers like to fertilize fields using manure from animals - which ends up in the plants. Animals breathe and exhale CO2, which plants might take up. Plants might have been in contact with or partially eaten by birds, butterflies, deer etc. "contaminating" the plant we later eat, but this does not seem to bother people.
I was watching a basic italian video last weekend as I'm visiting Tuscany soon and the teacher made an excellent point that vocab matters so much more than grammar to begin with.

We'd all understand 'I the toilet need', and most languages have about 1000 everyday words, so just learn them and you'll be able to make yourself understood, don't worry about the grammar too much to begin with, or not at all if you're just travelling there.

Perhaps not so true of some languages, but certainly most Romantic and Germanic ones.
Could you make a simple website where we can all share?
Well... Never say never. If you said machines would not replace dermatologists in the next 1 or 2 decades, I would agree with you. After that, all bets are off.
You do need code changes for Optane DIMMs, if you treat them as what they are, which is non-volatile memory. That simply requires a new programming model and also a new performance model, since Optane is "almost as fast as RAM" but has other aspects like the fact read/write performance is asymmetric and the bandwidth specs are different from both DRAM and NVMe.

Intel's PMDK for example gives you the ability to have transactions for committing changes to "memory", "fat pointers" that can be persisted and reloaded (even at different addresses) later on, etc. Under the hood the library is "just" writing the bits out and managing the cache line flushes or whatever, but you can now build these other abstractions on top, which changes how you think about your design.

You can also treat the DIMMs as a DRAM cache, or "just" as an ordinary block device, with possible filesystem-specific optimizations to greatly boost the performance (DAX, or systems like NOVA which are geared directly for persistent memory). Those modes need no code changes at all, and I imagine will be useful for many systems, even after people start developing and designing systems directly around Optane.
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FYI, the gravatar images don't load on my browser because I have Firefox's content blocker enabled. The alt-text "The user's avatar" is showing in a bunch of places, and on the project list it overlaps with the project titles. I'd recommend:

* Replacing "The user's avatar" at the top with the user's name.
* On the project list, just setting the alt-text to "".

Otherwise: nice site.
What. Both of those are insanely good numbers.
> There is no agreed-upon definition of weakly and strongly typed; It is a nonsense word.

Sure there is. Strong typing means a language doesn't permit implicit type coercions.

> Any Haskell programmer would laugh at someone who calls Python strongly typed.

I'm sure lots of programmers are not particularly educated on the topic; it doesn't mean the word is 'nonsense'.
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This is extremely relevant. Factors like whether the patient has freckles or red hair often drive doctors to resect anything out of an abundance of caution. It doesn't look like these additional demographic factors were made available to clinicians.

That said, the results here are still impressive.

Source: I worked in clinical melanoma research for 2 years.
Let me clarify: get beyond intermediate proficiency, which is what the article was about. I thought that was understood from the context, sorry.

So it really depends on what you mean by "leaning to speak a language". You can learn to speak at an intermediate level just by taking courses for a couple of years, dedicated study with books/tapes, etc. But I don't mean that.

I mean getting to the point where it being a foreign language becomes a non-issue. Where you can travel to the country and interact fully in any social conversation, normally understanding every single word (i.e. at the same level of your native language) and speaking with appropriate vocab and grammar so everybody understand every word of yours. Without having to constantly ask for clarification, or just "not get" half of it, or constantly re-explain what you meant using other words because people were confused the first time you said something.

They're worlds apart. And that real fluency just absolutely requires thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of constant real-life interaction (and real-time correction, whether from friends or coworkers or romantic partners) in the language. There aren't any shortcuts to that.
I had this set for my old AWS work account, but unlike a good WebAuthn implementation I'm pretty sure AWS only allowed me to a set a single key.

I tolerated that because a work account administrator can let me back in if I lose the key, but this is very much a second class implementation and I think AWS ought to do better.
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> Today, anyone can broadcast. But that doesn't mean that everyone should broadcast.

I don't agree here. Perhaps "not everything should be broadcast" might be better?
Businesses get to deduct their actual expenses, though, not just their minimal subsistence-level expenses.
...the Corporation [“Purism, SPC”] is organized for the following purposes (collectively referred to as “Specific Social Purpose):

..."The Corporation will only use and distribute free/libre and open source software in the kernel, OS, and software in its products."...

https://puri.sm/about/social-purpose/
I’m a developer and a total watch nerd (mechanical watches). Partly what attracts me to watches is the micro-mechanics, but also how it’s a mix of artistry, craftmanship and old technology and know-how. I often post on Instagram, please have a look and hope you like the content: https://www.instagram.com/openworked/
You might want to check out Thankster.com, which lets you pay per card or get invoiced monthly for integration plans. We're very flexible. You can reach out via the site and if you can mention HN we'll give a discount on your first order.
For a long time, I could see how the UCP pattern could be the "best" overall, mostly on the basis of being horrible nowhere. (It's actually pretty decent in the arid/semi-arid environments where there's minimal greenery--basically Iraq/Afghanistan, where it's probably better than the old desert camo). But the UCP wasn't even the best universal pattern in its original tests: the Scorpion pattern (which eventually became Multicam) was better on a universal basis.

So... kickbacks were probably involved in the original UCP contract.
> all the research and development that went into things like integrated circuits, manufacturing and CAD

It's more than just that though. Centuries of incremental knowledge passing from one generation to the next. A global economy that allows chips manufactured in China to be shipped to American for peanuts. All the collaborative effort that went into writing an OS that's available for anyone to use free of charge. That someone is able to be so specialized, they can do this in their leisure time.

It is an incredible amount of human cooperation and achievement over thousands of years. I suppose you could say that about many things today, but for whatever reason, this watch put me in a bit of a philosophical mood.

I guess: humans collaborating achieve great things; we should do more of that.

(You know what else reliably gets me marveling about humanity? Attending a symphony orchestra performance.)
> I'm not a tax policy wonk, nor am I qualified to opine

Which makes it so easy for the NYT to manipulate you into jealous frenzy.

A lot of people see an outrageous headline and too few ask "what's the other side of the story?" The media knows this and can use it to direct your ire at any of their competitors because it's so effective
The biggest part of overcoming addictions is replacing them and the time they take with something else. If you don't mind sharing, what are you and your family doing instead?
The group reinforcement thing becomes a problem as people get into their 30s - often you’ll find that your heavy drinking friends start to drop off as they get more responsibilities or health concerns, and new ones come in. Eventually you look up and many of your friends are alcoholics.
Actually the sentence diagramming was useful introduction to a type of analysis. Not too different from computer science foundations of programming languages, automata, etc
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Any truly well-meaning parent would just not let their kids watch any elaborate mind-control programming anyway.
The fact that digital tools can't be used to achieve total native-level fluency shouldn't be used as a reason not to try to improve what's available. It should be possible at least to use digital tools to learn to listen to and understand foreign language media at a useful level... I'd love to be able to watch a movie in the language I'm studying and understand 90% of what's going on. But that seems like an impossible dream given the available tools and my current rate of progress.

If I could reach just that goal, I'd be delighted to explore other more personally immersive avenues for taking my language skills to the next level.
That’s great, I’d put that in the lottery category.

I was also not hired by referral, but got lucky they liked my resume in some resume book at RPI.

For the places I applied online my interview response rate from companies was poor (or an instant rejection).
Imho the way languages are taught is too often counter intuitive to the way we communicate.
The issue is not accepting to be a novice but the harmful doxa dictating that in order to learn a language you first need to start thinking dumb before expressing a complex line of thoughts.
It is mind numbing to be deprived of coordination when expressing yourself and the resulting brain atrophy caused by years of saying My name is.. I live in... I have... This stuff is such and such etc... is the biggest deterrent to learn a new language and become fluent in it.
I think the conjecture is that across a random sample the last thing a (potential) suicidal person listened to will have no correlation. If millions can binge watch the same thing in the same day/week, we have the potential for be the thing that pushes a disproportionate number of people over the edge. Something as simple as normalizing a behavior can have a powerful effect for some people.
I understand there are also certain other guidelines about how to report such stories as well.
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Suicide is a perfect example of an anti-social behavior that must be stigmatized because the stigma itself serves as a major barrier to its proliferation. Removing the stigma might make it easier on survivors and family, but it will actually increase the suicide rate by legitimizing suicide as an option for people that otherwise wouldn't do it. It's one of those situations where life must be accepted as something of a living hell and we can't make it better anytime soon.
Would you please stop breaking the guidelines? We ban accounts that won't.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You're supporting the parent's point that it's contextually dependant.
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I personally don't think it's likely that any show can be solely responsible for suicides. What seems much more realistic is that the show speaks to a real depression in youth and unfortunately this may have led to "premature" suicide in some (by premature here, I mean that the show may have resulted in a more timely suicide by those who were already suicidal).

It's unfortunate that the show itself is being attacked, rather than this being an opportunity to investigate the root cause.

Do you really think a perfectly healthy and happy individual could watch _any_ show and want to kill themselves thereafter? Of course not.
Hi Jules, I posted this here; I'm so eager about your project moving forward !

Is there going to be a marketplace for professional SOUL-based VST plugins ?

A way to browse all open source SOUL scripts and share modules so that the community will be able to build on top of previous scripts (without copy pasting all the time) ?

Will all SOUL scripts be runnable in the browser like Shadertoy.com, if no what will be the separate features between web / desktop / hardware ? How are you going to handle the diversity of situation where one could use SOUL ?

Thanks (-:

Side note : http://soul.dev/ doesn't have https ?
Have you checked archive.org for a backup? It's saved me a few times.
Except for email, which they appear to be hosting, so it's more than just "K9 Mail" client app.
Interesting point.

The authors also seem to note this in their conclusion: “Our findings suggest that artificial intelligence algorithms may successfully assist dermatologists with melanoma detection in clinical practice which needs to be carefully evaluated in prospective trials.”

They use the verb assist. I think this will be the case, tools like this will be made available to board certified dermatologists to enhance their work. It won’t replace them anytime soon.

This field continues to be among the most competitive for physicians in the US. The barriers to entry are not only high, the number of residency spots get smaller each year when compared to total applicants. If interested, here’s some stats on med school rankings and derm match results: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59p3z80r.

But over many years I wonder what will happen. Will there be paradigm shifts that make us rethink about all these specialities and subspecialties? Should we combine them or do something else?
This was entirely predictable, and many people did predict it, and Netflix ignored them and showed it anyway.
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CUDA. I do research in machine learning, and I have a work-issued MacBook Pro, but I also have access to a server running Linux with multiple NVIDIA GPUs for development purposes. There are many activities that I use my MacBook Pro for, but when it comes to machine learning tasks, I use the server for that.
First law of Behaviour Genetics:

All human behavioural traits are heritable.

(As noted elsewhere, almost all.)

I was watching an Aydin Paladin video, and IIRC, she mentioned one study which found that genetic factors explained 41% of variation in infidelity and 38% variation in number of sexual partners.

https://youtu.be/KET2JncpJ7o?t=1028

Cherkas, L. F., Oelsner, E. C., Mak, Y. T., Valdes, A., & Spector, T. D. (2004). Genetic influences on female infidelity and number of sexual partners in humans: a linkage and association study of the role of the vasopressin receptor gene (AVPR1A). Twin Research and Human Genetics, 7(6), 649-658.

Another citation from that video:

Garver-Apgar, C. E., Gangestad, S. W., Thornhill, R., Miller, R. D., & Olp, J. J. (2006). Major histocompatibility complex alleles, sexual responsivity, and unfaithfulness in romantic couples. Psychological Science, 17(10), 830-835.

So much for the ideology of the Blank Slate. Atheism of the 2000's got this much right: Human beings are conscious and sentient, which is wonderful, but we are also animals subject to biology. That's just messy reality, and we'd best deal with it.
I agree and this strikes me as odd as well. I really want to like this product and it’s squarely in the area of a service I would pay monthly for.

But, the Social app looks exactly like a twitter screen shot, and the VPN looks identical to PIA’s iOS app.

The chat UI isn’t great, and the Mail app is even worse. They all look like apps you would find on F-Droid which are great, but I wouldn’t feel excited about paying monthly for an app suite that lacking in polish.

Their claims of millions of active users on each of the services also seem questionable. Maybe if they’re counting the total number of XMPP users I could see that.

Lastly, the framing of donating to what is by definition a for-profit company is off putting for me personally.
Say I wanna sell domains myself. Should I contact a company with reselling plans? Is there a more direct way of doing it?
Hi HN,

Explore News is a side project I built that helps you visualizes how people and organizations are connected through a graph.

As part of the work we do at CivicFeed, we've built a pipeline of news/social/government datasets. From there, we run our own entity extraction and entity disambiguation algorithms.

Over the weekend, I was curious about how we could use this data to show how news stories connect people and organizations.

So to play with it, type in a query (or click one of the suggestions). It'll return the top entities most associated with that query. Then click another gray dot. When you do, it'll return the top entities associated with that query then connect any dots.

Keep exploring from there.
"I just put that stanza break in there because when I read it aloud (I’m a performance poet)..."

But why does she pause there? A lack of breath? (She's going to be unconscious by the end of the second stanza.) To emphasize some kind of separation in some aspect of the poem?

I have this strange feeling the author is being intentionally obtuse.
> I fail to understand the use of python in a distributed environment while the language has such poor concurrency support (on top of the lack of a type system). You can make your application HA, but they are obviously not trying to squeeze out every CPU cycle.

You're conflating several things that are orthogonal imo. A system can be distributed without concurrency. A concurrent system need not be distributed. Either kind of thing can be built with or without a specific kind of type system. And CPU efficiency has nothing to do specifically with any of the previous things.

To expand on that: distributed systems are quite often constructed from simple single-threaded processes, and where concurrency is needed it is probably more often achieved through multi-processing than multi-threading. A single-threaded event-dispatched request-response service probably describes a big chunk of all the stuff running in distributed environments today. In a lot of these cases the workloads are i/o bound, and instructions per cycle is not even close to the top of the list of concerns. There are a lot of reasons why python fits into that world very well.
It's not nitpicking at all. Readability of text is hugely important, especially if your job is to read text on computer monitors all day.

Also, I saw this in the news a while ago:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-C...

... so it looks like it's enabled, but not configured? If Fedora's freetype contains all the patches, perhaps the Reddit thread above is obsolete now?
>"Begorah is it cos I am irish" - Adopts stereotypical fighting drunkard pose.

"Connor, chill out. You've had 26 beers."

"You're damn right I have and I'm gonna have six more"
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If you kill yourself you can't watch Season 2. It's really idiotic for Netflix to even try to trot that out as an excuse.
There's a difference between someone who has suicidal ideation and someone who takes suicidal action, and all the research we have tells us that shows like 13 reasons tip can tip people from the first group into the second group, and that they would not have attempted suicide without the programme.

This is not a controversial viewpoint in suicide research.
Ghastly thought: If the show didn't increase suicidal ideation in healthy individuals, but did make those with existing suicidal thoughts more likely to kill themselves, an observer would see a decrease in reported suicidal thought among the remaining viewers.
Have you ever installed a complete Tex platform? It's about 1GB of packages. I find the DVD thing a bit funny - but I can imagine it makes installs go quite a bit faster. And considering its a 40-year old technology - its not like you really need the latest commit.
I was at a friends house and we had to wait until it finished being shown in the US and then we had to wait about 20 minutes before we could see it, I didn't ask which service it was through, but I do know that it wasn't an official one, could have been a torrent even. I could see people's faces in that version and didn't notice any banding. I then saw it again that evening, through my housemates paid account, which I think is NowTV, and couldn't see peoples faces and banding was everywhere.
I don't actually want flying cars. It's a metaphor for "how we imagine some problem of today will be solved in the future."
It's not clear that melanoma diagnosis is fairly described as a static image classification task.

Certainly it's a component, but (for example) patient history is, too.
I can recommend DMARCIAN, it's free for low volume (100k messages per month) domains. They even have a special GDPR-proof site for EU domains.

https://dmarcian.com/pricing/
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What about a pattern?
Ah, thank you, but removing the alt-text would be bad for accessibility. It is meant for visually impaired people, after all. Maybe setting the title would fix this, I'll look into it, thank you!
Music or a podcast like this has always worked really well to solve insomnia issues for me. Unfortunately it led me to discover a new issue - when I fall asleep listening to anything, even on low volume, there's a really good chance I'll sleep through my alarm(s) in the morning.

Anyone else ever run into that?
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Are you sure or is this a guess? The article doesn't mention what technique is used (as opposed to e.g. coercion to reveal passnumbers or just collecting data from unencrypted devices).
"The lost genius" is editorializing. There is nothing in the Wikipedia article suggesting something why he was lost. The 'Further Reading' section shows 5 bibliographies, so ... what's lost about him?
This sounds really cool but won't the original broadcasters be all over the archive for publishing these files? How could anyone get permission to release all that copyrighted material?
But the purpose of cyberspace surveillance is to collect evidence for crimes committed in meatspace.
not the author but thought I'd share this heartbreaking article.
I feel it's more like there's chicken shit everywhere always, but most of it is inconsequential and unremarkable. The exceptional cases (e.g. Theranos) draw attention again to the existence of chicken shit and the dangers of constantly buying into it.
They greeted me as the company we sub-let from. We haven't updated out website with the new address yet.