skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The process of fossilization must therefore take place at the surface and it must happen quickly.

> Essential parameters are the composition of the material, current and voltage, and the exposure time.

Is this all trying to say that mountains are just fossilized sand? That is certainly a .. novel... theory of geology.

Fossilization of organic matter generally takes about 10k years, give or take. Fossil is a word that tends to encompass a lot of things though, so it depends.

Still, the amps that you'd have to pump through a dune to get it all to melt/solidify would be astonishing. Think a constant lightening bolt for years on end. Most sands are insulators afterall.
Yes, things like starfish start out as bilaterally symmetric, both developmentally and evolutionarily.

But according to what I was just reading, the way a five limbed radially symmetric creature develops is not by growing two halves where each half is two and a half limbs.

What echinoderms supposedly do is the left half of their body grows disproportionately and the right half gets absorbed, and all the limbs grow from the left half.

In any case, if you do think it possible to also grow a third leg by halves, then presumably you are even more in agreement that bilateral symmetry does not prevent odd numbers of legs.
Civilization, you start with a settler and some warriors. Final Fantasy starts with a character or two. Tetris has a game board.

I mean, there's lots of places to play around with starting from an even more primordial slate.
Showing tools that work, CLI or not, is better than showing something that barely works. It is a very natural and logical explanation.
This may be a little harsh but I think you could rephrase OP's point as "The body seems really complicated so I'm not surprised that there are complex interactions going on".
They are not pointless if you run code through mypy, an optional static type checker for Python. Most Python code does not use annotations, but that's because annotations are a relatively new feature and because Python programmers are not used to using annotations. Maybe beginners should get in the habit of using annotations when a function only makes sense specific argument types.
I'm not a certified parliamentarian, but I do have a decent amount of experience with Robert's Rules from extracurriculars in university, so I just wanted to make two points.

1) This quote ("Under Robert’s Rules, silence equals consent") is incredibly untrue, and makes it hard for me to take the rest of the article seriously. Abstention does not mean that you agree with a motion, and there are protections (e.g. quorum) to prevent abuse by a small cadre of disingenuous voters.

2) In my experience, very few organizations actually take the time to understand and follow Robert's Rules. Most just rely on whatever rules some motivated members happened to cherry pick from the text, plus a smorgasbord of bylaws and policies drafted by the organization (see edit). There is an argument to be made that maybe Robert's Rules is too complex to be useful, but most organization members only need a passing understanding; as long as you have a chair or parliamentarian who is familiar with the ins and outs, they should be able to keep meetings running smoothly and shut down most attempts to lawyer the system.

Edit: For example: "the December 1964 late-evening vote by leaders of Students for a Democratic Society to focus on the Vietnam War and the December 1966 late evening SNCC vote to expel all white members (19-18, with 24 abstentions)". But Robert's Rules typically requires a 2/3 vote for disciplinary actions (such as the expulsion of a member). I don't have a copy of the 1951 edition to confirm, but I would be surprised if it allowed expulsion with a simple majority vote.
I wish I knew about this sooner. Hopefully I can do the next one.
In this case, I think they're using "open source" in the intelligence sense, meaning publicly available [1]. NCSC is part of the GCHQ (UK intelligence agency) after all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence
One of my favorite resources is https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/

It's a rich set of articles about various system design patterns. It's not even really set in the context of Azure, it's just plain "Here are things you should learn about". It's really well done.

I haven't seen anything close from Google or Amazon.
Negotiate to gain the time you need to find the truth
Having worked a lot with security compliance, I'll say there are two types of things you do:

1. The things for compliance.

2. The things for security.

Only rarely does something fit in both categories.
One founder of RenTech studied under Geoffrey Hinton (some call father of deep learning). This was before DL was known outside of Toronto.

RenTech is also known for hiring/poaching almost everyone from a former IBM voice research team.
Show HN: ChessBoss – enhancing physical chessboards with computer vision
We built ChessBoss at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon this week. It didn’t make the top 10 but I thought Hacker News might think it’s pretty cool.

https://devpost.com/software/chess-boss

There are these really cool smart chessboards that can suggest moves and track your games... but they’re $400 and weigh 19 pounds. And of course there are apps that can analyze games but tracking and inputting games by hand is a huge pain. Or fully-digital chess apps... but board games are way more fun in real life!

We wondered: “why can’t you just do that in software and bring the best parts of chess apps into the real world?” So we did!

A camera passes a feed of the board through our machine learning model which interprets the state of the board and passes it off to Stockfish to display move suggestions in real time.

We didn’t quite get to recording the state over time in PGN but we hope to continue this project and add that soon!

Would love to know what you think. We’re working on enhancing other board games with computer vision as well; if you want to help us beta test sign up at https://boardboss.com
I was reading about extraterrestrial mountains once, and what I retained was that there aren't any mountains on other planets/moons that are really amazingly higher than earth. By which I would infer that water erosion probably isn't the overwhelming limiting factor.
Looks very promising! I will give it a try
Doesn’t this require the person building the code to own a Mac, a potentially expensive computer? Also I recall that years ago there was a $100 fee to register as an iOS developer, though I’ve no idea if that continues to be the case.
I am very curious if the performance problems come from the architecture, the code or from being written in Python.
edit: lol @ whoever downvoted that
Used "even" twice in the same sentence but instead should have elaborated more on what I mean with "not versed" with it at the end of the second last paragraph.

PoV from me: If you are versed enough to quickly provision your infrastructure within a single VPS (or what it takes you) you are already good enough and should get paid a developer salary that spending 50 bucks a month for a managed service won't kill you or 10 bucks if you are doing more of the work yourself (which is learning too! But not the goal of this).
I'd be a Patreon supporter of someone who maintained an open-source version of RONR on github!
Ive seen plenty of HDL written by people who are software engineers, it's not good. It seems to me most software engineers struggle with visualizing their behavioral code as a schematic and tend to write code that is not very synthesis friendly and overly convoluted. Not to mention most issues with hardware engineering cant be solved by a google search of how to do X in Verilog/VHDL, problems tend to be device specific which means you NEED to understand your tool chain and can't abstract away the code from from the implementation like you can with most high level software to the ASM/binary.
ah yes, the all important comments. I am sure they really have an effect on political appointees /s
me too. I'd love to be able to participate in one.
Hi! Replies generally go better if you assume people know the basics and then interpret what they said in light of that. Assuming for the moment I did know that, what do you think I might have meant?
I do not often hear people describe PCI as "rather good", for what it's worth. "An industry scourge" is a more common sentiment.
I don't understand why they need RFID if the stream is delayed 30 minutes... Just look at the cards afterwards and backfill the information onto the stream...
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21159401
> it wasn't altogether bad, just very very sporadic. When I think back on those years I had all kinds of bad behaviours that were not rational. For example, not paying bills because something more urgent might come up. Not looking at balances because it was easier to not know.

I never had unstable income (maybe wishing I had more), but I definitely had some degree of these specific bad behaviors.

I feel (financial) maturity is a big part of this; As a parent now, I'm being intentional on how my kids earn allowance and think about spending.
It seems to be network/show-dependent. The ad-free package removes all the ads that Hulu shows, but if Fox has ads of their own they're still in there. I usually get a single FX show promo in every Simpsons episode I watch.
I'm not really sure what's going on with Netflix and DreamWorks, but Netflix has a new kids show that looks oddly like the "How to Train Your Dragon" shows that recently weren't renewed.
Oh how I can relate. It's been about a year now since I closed my failed startup, and still no webdev job after many interviews. After a year of countless applications, interviews and networking with no result (insanely repetitive and people can sense the desperation) things start to spiral. I get this sense from friends and family that they begin to think something's wrong with me and distance themselves - not to mention being unable to afford to do much.

There is something about spending too much time on the same problem that may drive a person insane. I think it might create deep valleys over certain neural pathways that are shared with other important functions. For example after a year of grinding on the same problem of "get job" my mind has become hyper sensitive to patterns and hidden meanings like never before. I'll see a leaf blowing in the wind and my mind will sometimes slip into interpreting it as some symbolic message from the universe to help me find a job. In a way I can sort of understand these homeless guys that walk the streets talking to themselves - they might just be further along, so deep in this pattern recognition psychosis from trying to survive that their brains are telling them the whole world is talking to them directly.
It is that complicated if you’re trying to factor accurate ranges, card removal and bet sizing. He’s obviously not doing this because he’s playing an exploitative style. In otherwords, he’s guessing perfectly based on his perceptions.

For the mathematically perfect, they spend hours studying solvers which takes considerable processing power to generate the trees. A human player can calculate aspects of it but they can really only memorize what the solver would do. And some high stakes online players are using custom software to augment their decisions.

Depending on the bet size, the solver could call the turn a % of times. And depending on blockers, unblockers and the bet sizing, the solver could advocate to call/raise/fold.
That wouldn’t be practical. It would slow the game down to a point of being almost unplayable and the way cards are discarded currently would prevent that.
I've taken a brief read through the patch series. It's a noble effort, but from the light initial feedback there will a few rounds of rework before this is a candidate in a release. This also feels unlikely to be backported, given the numerous subtle changes (e.g. cgroups v1 incompatibilities, byte vs. page accounting).

This really seems like a somewhat obvious caveat of SLUB, in hindsight at least, given how memory cgroups work. The accounting overhead here seems like opening a complexity can of worms.

For memory-pressure intensive short-lived applications (e.g. Hadoop jobs with no strict NUMA affinity), this could net some real benefits when processes jump across cores, let alone physical cores.

Most serious folks should be setting at least some CPU affinity anyways and discourage the scheduler from bouncing processes between cores, which otherwise exasperates the issue mitigated by this patch set.

If you've ever wondered why you struggle to make use of all of your RAM on a large many-core host, this is potentially a big reason why.
See also "The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule" (a legal-scholarly discussion of the principles underlying the rules of baseball).

https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

I forgot if people have tried to write rejoinders to this based on other schools of legal interpretation.
Show HN: You don't need to travel to Jerusalem anymore. Submit your Note online
The feel of the model F keyboard (at the XT we both have) is unbeaten to me. Just wish I could get it in a _normal_ layout. I looked at the new model F F77 / F63 stuff just today sorrowing that I could not buy a 101 key layout at all.

Unicomp keyboards are great, they get too much flack IMO. Yes, they seem to be coasting at times, but I'd rather them coast than be gone.
The sad part is that this thinking gets entrenched in certain populations. People loose idealistic thinking and prefer to stick with the status quo. Even sadder that these certain populations are more likely to vote than those that would stand to benefit from public transport.

It comes as no surprise that politicians lean so heavy on NIMBY policies when in CA 2/3 of homeowners vote compared to 1/3 of renters. Politicians are listening to those who've elected them, so if we want change and functional transport more people have to vote in local elections.
There's a circle numbered "8" in a very bad place, for web developers who modify browser shortcut keys and scrolling behaviour.

There's a circle numbered "9" in that same bad place, for browser developers who refuse to allow end-users to easily stop keystroke-hijacking and scrolljacking with a simple preference checkbox.

Explaining what I'd like to do to either group would probably land me in circle #5, and carrying it out would land me in #7.
I'm not sure I agree with you. By pretty much every measure, humans are living better lives than in all of the history of humanity.

https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
Being able to install whatever one wants on their phone is a notable starting point. Any Android phone allows that out of the factory; no need for self compiling. Google services don't even get in the way.
I see what you're saying and it's a good point, but those complex interactions seem to throw up impossibly amazing stuff, for example the utterly mindblowing idea of mitochondria being captured organisms. To say "it's complex so surprises should be surprising" to me just doesn't make work. I still get staggered by this stuff. If I ever lose the ability to be mindblown, it'll be a sorry day.

Fungi in the pancreas isn't in the same league but it's still pretty good!
There's the poo test and a breath test.. beyond that I'm unsure. The breath test seems less available, maybe. Consider the following before alarming yourself though. H pylori, if asymptomatic, may be at a level of what some in the medical field deem best left alone. The goal in some treatments seems to beat it down rather than eradicate it. Rationale seems to weigh cost\benefit of slaughtering all the good stuff to get the bad when the bad might not do much beneath a threshold. I'm no authority. The subject, I do think is worth reading about and it doesn't appear there's a clearly advised plan for the infected asymptomatic majority.
I personally hope key governments deep-six it. Facebook has shown itself to be untrustworthy for personal data - in what interesting ways will they abuse a custodial role on a currency?
For people who are not familiar with poker and dont understand why people are 100% sure this person is cheating, allow me to explain.

This player continously makes decisions playing poker that are theoretically unsound and manages to always win the maximum and lose the minimum amount of money possible.

So not only are his plays theoretically unsound, there is no observable underlying strategy to his play. He plays conservatively when the player he is playing has the best hand and he plays aggressively when the player he is playing has a worse hand.

The only thing consistent about his play is that his decision is the perfect play he could make if he had access to the other players cards.

This kind of play is possible in a very small sample but this person has been playing this way consistently for a year now.
The machines are proxies for humans, they are programmed to suit humans and are turned off if they don't do what suits those humans. This is smoke and lies, it's camouflage to
prevent people from focusing on the people standing on their necks.
When Google's self driving car hits one of these paradoxes and a kid dies can they be sued?
That seems like a quite likely explanation. It doesn't seem like actual definitive evidence would be that hard to find (if the relevant people were actually interested in finding it).

Does it really matter if you have exposed one cheater who over-used the system when the system still has unknown and unfixed flaws that could be enabling other, more circumspect cheaters?
I appreciate this explanation and will try to meet you halfway although I don't agree with all your conclusions.

> Frankly, I value my safety over your convenience. That's what it comes down to.

That is quite natural, although with respect I must say it does illustrate my comments about an entitlement mentality, particularly since it is the cyclist who has voluntarily chosen to put themselves in such a dangerous situation. What many cyclists don't understand is that I value your safety as well, very much so.

That is why things like this:

> So why do cyclists not stop at stop signs? Because sitting at a stop sign is dangerous.

> Another common example is riding close to the middle of the road on shared roads.

...are incredibly frustrating. The reason why we have road laws at all is primarily to make driving behavior predictable. If people drive unpredictably, it raises the risk for everyone. On top of the inherent risks of driving a vehicle which does not have the speed and acceleration to be on the road in the first place.

Do cyclists care that cars might have to swerve into a ditch or another car to avoid them if they are cycling erratically? As far as I can see, they don't. Do they care if their cycling might delay commutes for dozens or hundreds of people? I commend you for being open about the fact that you seemingly do not.

Fundamentally, all of the arguments cyclists make would apply to someone walking on the road or riding a skateboard down it. Yes, it is incredibly dangerous. Fundamentally and inalterably so. It is indefensible when motorists invade bike lanes. They should be fined for that. That is the space for bikes. Sidewalks are the space for pedestrians. The road is the space for cars. (I am speaking from what I see as the logical perspective, not the legal perspective.)

I have been to places like India where there are basically no rules followed about who can be on the road, riding what, or how they are driving. It is total chaos and utterly terrifying. I am incredibly glad it is not like that in the US.

I agree with the need for bike lanes where bikes are heavily used (or if there is good evidence of latent demand for them if bike lanes existed). It often does not make financial sense to build them where they would be used infrequently, as that money could be used for other forms of public transit. Purely from a safety perspective, in my view, where bike lanes are not built it would be better policy for cyclists to cycle on the sidewalk rather than the road, because at least if a bicycle hits a pedestrian there is a low risk of fatality.

I really do appreciate your explaining this so calmly and neutrally however, as I find the self-righteous fury of so many cyclists very annoying as, from my perspective, they are the problem. For some reason this is a really charged issue for many people. Road rage all around, I suppose.
The moral obligation to be data literate – Neurotic Netwrorks
I propose a hybrid solution: We add more space for study and naps, while simultaneously antagonizing the students.
Unfortunately, if you sell crypto software to the defence sector in the US or Europe, FIPS is still a thing.

As someone in the infosec space, it still boggles my mind that anyone gives a flying feck about FIPS, especially after the Snowden/NIST revelations, and after even Microsoft has recommended to disable FIPS mode in Windows.

Thankfully I think it's on it's last legs - people are realising it's more a curse than a blessing. Single data point and all that, but I've had far fewer FIPS-related queries in recent years - and for the first time, some of those I have had are from defence sector companies asking how to ensure FIPS mode is not activated!

I'd encourage the WireGuard devs to not waste any time and money on FIPS validation.
You still need advanced math for topics in CS and often the only book is some expensive springer book.
Your point to consider made me think how curiously common negative mention of Apple is in Forbes, for example.
Where do you encounter IPv6 in the wild?
Clearly you have not done your due diligence if you dont even know the most famous hand. It was a 3 way all in and he called with 54o and both players happened to have AK

Im not wasting any more time talking to you and i stand by my previous statement that you dont know what you are talking about.
Silicon availability has recently been solved. There are FPGA dev boards available for under $50. They're low-powered but great to learn on. One, the FOMU, actually fits inside a USB type-A port.
> Just like TSA booting my laptop ... when they do it my laptop boots into a Microsoft Windows environment that I’ve literally never used. When I boot the same machine I get netbsd. Weird, right ?

What environment do devices with explosives instead of batteries boot into? Windows or *BSD?
At least in the US, buses tend to only be partially low floor, with a higher section where the engine and fuel tank are in the back.

Bus tires also are generally larger diameter and wider than the wheels of a tram, so the wheel well physically juts out into the low floor section and reduces available space.

And (this may be fixable) the doors on a bus tend to be narrower, almost but not quite wide enough for two people to walk off simultaneously, and are more poorly laid out to minimize distance for passengers to the door.
Friday Humor: How to Create a Blog Nobody Reads
Many of us don't care about original content. I joined Netflix for movies, not original TV-style shows. Their movie catalog has become abysmal. The only reason I keep my account is because I shared it with my parents and they use it for my nephew.