skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I can recall! Yeah, I was using that one. In fact, when I wanted to upgrade, I actually submitted PRs to Nixpkgs for it. In the meantime, though, you can of course just use overlays or overrides to get a more up to date looking-glass-client in your local setup.

Now, that does actually bring up at least one nice bit of configuration, which is how to configure your overlays to be consistent system-wide. It's covered on the wiki. I'll be honest, I still find overlays a little bit confusing, but I eventually got this setup working. It has a lot of advantages over other methods, my favorite of which is that all of my overlay stuff is consistent across the machine and stored in my Git-versioned NixOS configuration. You might already have this, but it's worth noting.

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Overlays#Using_nixpkgs.overlays_from...

Other than that and setting up the libvirt box, there wasn't really much else to it. I had it done in an hour or two. Pretty sure the only other NixOS configuration I had was setting my user to be in the `libvirtd` group.
Would you say you've done a lot of projects though and that was the win itself? And that despite not being able to find a purpose to most of the projects, the benefit has been the learning/growth/experience/fun/etc...?
We're in dangerous political territory, so I'll preface my question in the context of being genuinely curious and not judgmental (of you).

My awareness of him is from several "stunts" where he "went undercover" and interviewed his targets surreptitiously and then dishonestly edited the results to support his ideological narrative.

I associate cable news with general incompetence, corporate shilling and whatnot, but generally a "noisy" signal. PV, on the other hand, is driven purely by right-wing ideological goals.
Just importing the goods they need works fine until there's some global crisis that disrupts food supply chains so much that you can't anymore. Say, a pandemic so disruptive to global trade and economic activity that a bunch of less wealthy countries just decide to say they're going to keep their food to themselves so their people don't starve. You know, like the one happening right now.
All you need is a bit of outside space, and time. Takes a few years for fruit trees to grow
To be clear, things are still looking good for South Korea in general[1], but it's good to know that relapse is possible.

1. https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200418001051325
Always so happy to see folks making use of LLVM! It's all just Legos. I'm trying to work through/grok the MLIR tutorial now, myself.
https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/Tutorials/Toy/Ch-1/
>> I, Robot was seriously impressive for its time

I was wondering why they didn't use that hardware for more 3D games. Looking at some of the emulator documentation, it seems the playfield was drawn by a function running on the Mathbox (co-processor) which would be really hard for most people to program. It was 4-5 years before they produced another 3D game with rasterized polygons using completely different hardware.
This demo is not informative as to the readiness for scalable L4 deployment

does anyone make that claim?
He was an expert as much as anyone.

From his wiki:

"Around 1979 Dyson worked with the Institute for Energy Analysis on climate studies. This group, under Alvin Weinberg's direction, pioneered multidisciplinary climate studies, including a strong biology group. Also during the 1970s, Dyson worked on climate studies conducted by the JASON defense advisory group.[26]"

He held the view that CO2 was mostly beneficial to the biosphere and that anthropogenic warming was much milder than has been estimated.

You can watch his interview on the subject of you're curious. He explains his position quite coherently: https://youtu.be/BiKfWdXXfIs
Follow-Up on Project from Hell
Secret Service/GoDaddy assault on my 8-yer-old blog
Hello everybody. My name is Murat. I own and operate unemployment-extension.org.

My 8-year-old news website (blog) that reviews the US labor market with charts based on government statistics and executive summaries of significant events since last week has been shut down by GoDaddy/Secret Service. We don't send emails. We don't sell products. There has been no recent change in the website look or feel, frequency, or content update. Yesterday, on April 17, 2020, around noon, the unemployment-extension.org domain was shut down by GoDaddy without any prior notice, due process, or court order. And no live person was available to provide an explanation.

Later we received a letter that stipulated that:

"The domain name was suspended as part of an ongoing law enforcement investigation. In order to resolve this issue, we kindly ask that you contact the officer in charge:

Officer Name: Special Agent Mark Smith
Agency: US Department of Homeland Security
Title and /or Department: United States Secret Service
Phone Number: 202-763-9290
Official email address: mark.smith@usss.dhs.gov"

The Secret Service agent told me something along the lines that the domain is under investigation, and an attorney from their Pittsburgh office will contact me. (I hope I've heard this right.) And he is not able to provide any additional information.

I need help. What do I do now?
That sounds impressive, if not unbelievable, they have 2 employees listed on their LinkedIn, and only 3 listed on their website. Maybe they are using offshore developers for a lot of the heavy lifting, but I honestly don’t see how they could have native apps for 3 platforms that have this much functionality with that many employees. Anyone else have insight?
You can even have a JSON object containing base64 fields for message and signature if you feel it really needs to be JSON all the way down for whatever reason.
Nice idea, but what defines the "end of coronavirus"? Do you mean "end of lockdown"? What defines a "lockdown"? It sure looks like there will be some measures in place for a very long time.

Also, some countries don't have a unified way of looking at things, but deal with it on a more local (e.g. state) level.
Maingear is building ventilators using gaming PC cases
There was a mission statement before any of those that went something along the lines of: "Be much better at building a browser with than c++ is"

That is still Mozilla's main angle on Rust, but Rust has grown much beyond Mozilla, so this is just history now as you describe.
Pandemic Uncovers the Ridiculousness of Superforecasting
It depends on what you're looking for. Do you want popular "fun" accounts or "serious" historical scholarship? Heavy on technical specifics or lighter on details and stronger on the historical big picture? All of those are fine, but the answer will mean you'll want to look in different places.

There is a active subfield of academic history of technology that deals with the history of computing. It's generally populated by professionally-trained historians who rigorously employ archival sources and tend to focus on the bigger picture, i.e. linking computing to wider historical trends and events (examples: the Cold War, Capitalism, the rise of programming as a profession, etc.). Some notable historians in this area are Mar Hicks and Nathan Ensmenger. The field is still growing and has a lot of ground to cover, but if you seek a deeper understanding (as readers of HN tend to do) then this is the place to go. Writing accurate history that also grapples with the big picture is hard, and it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that it takes specialists to do it.

There's of course an abundance of popular accounts of innovation, along the lines of Walter Isaacson's _The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution_. Academic historians of technology generally dislike these accounts because they focus on a small set of "heroic" individuals at the expense of the bigger picture. To pick on Isaacson a bit, he's generally most interested in personalities (Steve Jobs, say) and must less interested in digging deeper into the economic and social history that lies behind the "Digital Revolution". Nonetheless, these accounts sell very well, there are also tons of articles out there written in a similar vein, and there's nothing wrong with enjoying them provided you are aware that you're only getting one version of the story.

I also like some practitioner-accounts, really more memoir than history; they give you a nice sense of what it was like to live through a particular set of changes and to be part of building systems that we now take for granted. A good recent example, if you are interested in the genesis of UNIX, is Brian Kernighan's _Unix: A History and a Memoir_. Some excellent journalistic "on the ground" accounts also fall into this category of giving you a sense of what it was like to be there. The Soul of A New Machine, by Tracy Kidder is a good example.

Finally, there is some very good general history of technology that doesn't focus exclusively on computing. An example is the superb _The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900_ by David Edgerton (polemical, controversial, easy to read, and even if you disagree with his argument it will likely change how you see technology forever).
https://archive.md/jjjRS
Oh this is cool! Have been using ublock for a while and didn't know you could use it to block particularly annoying things like this. Thanks a bunch!
Lol, amen to that. A popular management fad. People suddenly start to feel important when they get labels like that stuck onto them. Oh boy...
Thanks, appreciate you helping out with organising. I just filled it in.
Apparently the oldest fork wins, or the author of the repo can decide. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/86769/which-fork...
I genuinely can't follow you completely, but half suspect you're violently agreeing with me. Are you saying the optimization in the linked article is, or is not, in violation of the standard?

Edit: this is the text I was remembering, from 6.5.16.1 ("Simple Assignment"): "If the value being stored in an object is read from another object that overlaps in any way the storage of the first object, then the overlap shall be exact and the two objects shall have qualified or unqualified versions of a compatible type; otherwise, the behavior is undefined.".

That pretty much matches exactly what I was saying: compilers are free to assume that basic types don't overlap, because if they do then any generated code will be undefined behavior anyway.
I think there might be a mixup about how it might appear that I'm talking about astroturfing. I'm referencing a situation where one or more marketing teams have leveraged their large employee and contractor network to engage positively with Microsoft's listed products and services on HN. More of a mobilize from within as opposed to a secret or stealthy program to create false accounts.

Quick edit: I definitely appreciate the "red car effect" you are referencing.
>> I don't see any Am2901 chips

TFA said it was used on BattleZone. I assumed all 6 Atari games with a "Mathbox" used it but that may be a mistake on my part.
While technically right, you'll never be able to get anywhere in a big city if you drive like that.
I believe that inconsistency is factored into, and indicated by the error bars and the width of the range indicators for each graph.
My wordpress blog was hacked sometime after my daughter was born about two years ago.
Didn't have time to update it so I had to shut it down.
I'll blog again. Just don't know when ;-)
I instantly skipped reading your comment when I saw "I instantly..."
movaps, movups (granted, those perform similarly on the latest intel chips)

Alignment can make caching simpler: an aligned load/store will never cross a cache boundary. So some architectures will have faster aligned access. This is the case for RISC-V. It's not so much that unaligned access is being punished there, as aligned access being optimized
* reads answer

[wow whoever wrote this was an idio... oh nevermind ^I'll just walk out now]
Another useful software concept is exponential back-off algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_backoff

Useful in interacting with rate-limits, unpredictable externalities that are not schedule bound, etc
That's after flu shots, in the year where flu shots were a misfire (they guessed the wrong strains) there were 2000 additional deaths (according to another source I'm not confident in that claims to have ONS figures but which I've not been able to confirm); for comparison the reported deaths (ie hospital only) for UK [which includes Scotland] has passed 15000 for Covid19 according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries [fwiw I wrote 10,000 as that was the figure last time I looked ... but then checked the current number ...].

Happy for you to show it if this is wrong.
How Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot Works
Me? No
from a copyright perspective, is it possible a trained ai is derivative work?
Scientists agree reinfection is an unlikely explanation for patients who test positive a second time, according to the Los Angeles Times, and note the possibility that testing errors, and releasing patients from hospitals too prematurely, are more likely the reason for reports of patients who retest positive.

“If you get an infection, your immune system is revved up against that virus,” Keiji Fukuda, director of Hong Kong University’s School of Public Health, told the Los Angeles Times. “To get reinfected again when you’re in that situation would be quite unusual unless your immune system was not functioning right.” Fukuda told the paper that it’s more likely patients are being released from hospitals while carrying dormant fragments of the disease that are not infectious, but resemble the virus when tested. “The test may be positive, but the infection is not there,” he said.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...

The OP article says

> "No secondary infections have been reported from relapse cases, according to the KCDC."
Hey! The project started in early February, so it's been around 2-1/2 months. The time was split ~50/50 between design and development.

Happy to elaborate if you have followup q's!
Why not deploying your own code to something like AWS? Then it’s not a mess each time it gets hacked.
I dare say the title of this is an allusion to Zizek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pervert%27s_Guide_to_Cinem...
Don't forget the time a bank building was sent by parcel post: https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/bank-of-ver...

(OK, so it wasn't actually a case of moving an existing building, just the bricks to build one.)
I'm confused. I have licenses for both Alfred and Ableton, and both of them run on all my devices just fine. Ableton in particular allows a limited number of authorizations, but handles my laptop and desktop.
>I really wish journalists would actually look into the legal arguments and comment intelligently

That's what the opinion page is for. I absolutely do not want newspaper journalists making commentary on legal briefs.
This video:

a) is utter nonsense

b) even if it wasn't, the theory presented has exactly zero practical application
I apologize for starting a stirring the pot, that was not my intent. It's more serious issue than people give it credit. Anyone who spent significant time in the Hawaiian islands may be able to speak to large herds of domestic cats roaming the islands.

The comment is not designed to take a thread into a flamewar, it's a legitimate grievance based on living in habitats destroyed by released domestic cats. I don't hate cats, I own an indoor cat. Removing them from a habitat they do not belong to is no different than government agencies encouraging the removal of snakehead fish from U.S. waterways. They're both destructive, predatory species hurting native species, the only underlying difference is that cats garner the irrational support of humans to exist in a feral/outdoor state and destroy with impunity (cuteness bias?).
Multi-agent refers to behavior of pedestrians/cyclists, and other cars on the road. This is especially tough in "ambigous" junctions such as roundabouts, and unprotected left turns. There the strategy to negotiate the junctor is highly context dependent, and the information needed to find a strategy is not in the current scene. Drivers in these moments draw on "cultural awareness" of what "should" be done. Observing a history of what people do in these situations may not be sufficient because of the long tail of unique events, or at least unique in terms of how the computer will represent the scene. For example, if the scene is represented by the set of trajectories (or really waympoints), then the set of possibiilties is infinite. All of this assume the car "knows" it's entering and exiting a predefined scenario such as roundabout, real life driving is not so discrete.

On top of this, there's a liability and ethics issue. We accept teenagers for getting drunk and killing people, but we cannot accept an autonomous car that cannot navigate a roundabout which would otherwise be easy for a person, sober or otherwise.
It's something only a handful of people have done, and realistically you'll need a certain amount of business cred to be seen as a plausible CA. And it's hard to compete with Let's Encrypt ..
I haven't listened to the talk but please let's not overreact to the title. It's a clever reference, and I'd rather not have to change it to "Psychoanalysis and Software", which might be just as baity anyhow.
The design approach of just iterating until it passes a suite of statistical tests is ... not the best.

The issue is that the common suites of statistical test don't include every credible statistical test at their level of complexity.

Essentially as you retry against the tests you expend their utility, producing a result that is guaranteed to pass them as a byproduct of your process. ... but may in fact be extraordinarily weak to yet another reasonable statistical test (and/or broken in some practical application) that no one has yet thought to include in the test suite.
Not as much as I fear this from Facebook
Agreed, just as encapsulation/abstraction is an important and indispensible concept in software engineering, it is also equally if not more critical in hardware applications. For most electronics, there is usually an IC that can solve a problem better than you can develop, often cheaper. 25 discrete components can be encapsulated by a single IC sometimes (with a couple of bypass caps).
Just started. It's a use of contemporary "continental" psychology (Lacanian and Zizekian psychoanalysis) to consider the irrational choices that go into programming language.

It's kind of out-there but anything that gives a wider view of the choices programmers make might be useful.

Edit: Watching a bit.

I would view the quandary the presenter is discussing thus.

Human being are both power-seeking, ego-gratifying being and "rational", logic-using beings.

Now, human communicate with language. And a given "speech act", is not going to a pure exercise in logic or a pure exercise in power-seeking but some combination.
Then, consider that humans interact with discreet "speech acts". A given speech act is going have an overt logical structure (simplify whatever math-y logic you wish) and it's going to involve some degree of power assertion. The power-assertion part by a fairly simple mechanism - identify yourself with a symbol and argue that symbol is "good" (and further associate symbols with each other, other symbols with "bad" and so-forth, all in dynamic process of power assertion). The most common example is a national flag but lots of judgements and colorations come in with this.
Moreover, speech is a sequence of "speech acts" and first speech acts in a given context tend to "set the tone" - power is dynamic so the first speech act in a context to set the context the most.

So, with all that, I think it one can find a useful explanation why curly-bracket-semi-colon language and block-structured language have an apparently eternal "holy war".

Also, I think evolutionary game theory is a more coherent context for this. Evolutionary game theory allows the contrast between overt logic and self-seeking to be more clear and not have to call any process "irrational".
25 closed merges, of which half of them are closed and half merged. Compare that to 330 forks and 6.7k stars. This is still an overwhelmingly read-only parent fork that is basically the author's personal TIL blog. https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/pull/24
Can't I just make a Facebook Group or a subreddit to do this instead of a whole new app?
I completely agree, but then why do these tools exist in the first place?

I think it comes down to a few things.
1. There are managers that do not have good domain knowledge.
2. They don't have regular 1 on 1's, or anything else that good managers do.

Essentially you're assuming that all managers are good, or even competent when most of us have had experience to contradict this.

Which is essentially my conundrum: good managers won't need my service, and bad managers won't even be looking for it
Show HN: Sheets Add-On for Monte-Carlo Simulations
TSA Daily Traveler Count for 2020 and 2019
The model number did change. The older drive was a WD60EFRX; the newer SMR drive is a WD60EFAX. Am I mistaken?
Anecdotal, in NZ, myself and people I know are having strange dreams and not taking medication.
I would like to have a small way to react to a message I receive. Not reply to it, but maybe an emoji reaction or some other “thank you” to the sender.
As a name for a package manager, "cargo" certainly appears more suitable for "go" than for "rust".
> its the same reason electricity lines, highways, and train rails don't occupy the same space.

They sometimes do, though. Namely: if you're going through the mountains, there are only so many mountain passes, and therefore only so many places where these things can get through the mountains. I-80 in the Sierra Nevada mountains is a perfect example of this; between Colfax and the 80/20 interchange (if not all the way to Truckee) they're very much occupying the same space because there's nowhere else to go (thankfully that power line's pretty minor compared to the one following 49 to the north, but the one following 49 also happens to be colocated with rail).

The more viable solution - and indeed, if you look at a map of our energy infrastructure¹, the one that we use - is to make the connections as redundant as possible. This has plenty of peacetime benefits, too (for example, if I-80 and the adjacent railway both shut down because of a blizzard or avalanche, trains and trucks can route around it, albeit with delays).

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¹: https://www.eia.gov/state/maps.php
Such things can still make a fine Hacker News submission.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Replying to this comment on the off-chance you let us know the software hardware stack.
What I saw was this guy flatly asserting that a socialist revolution is coming, I thought at first he was talking about Bernie Sanders, and where there should be a punchline there is no punchline. Then everyone gives an awkward and half-cocked chuckle as one does when presented with something so bizarre.
"Non-obvious features plus buying things second hand just meant you never learned everything your stuff did back before you could find manuals online."

That's the outrageous point. You shouldn't need manuals for operation of ordinary domestic appliances! If you do then you automatically know its design is substandard!

(The only reason you should need a manual is for some info or maintenance function that's not normally associated with
its user-operated functions.)
It's in the bundle. Using dev tools in your browser you can get an expanded view of the file/folder structure.
aka : what functional transform can I apply to an unpredictable function Signal(Time) to decide if it models a zero or a one.
Visualized phylogeny of the novel coronavirus: https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global