skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Innocuous, to you, because you have the privilege of ignoring the alternative definitions of the word. It is not innocuous to others. Not caring about the feeling of others isn't being welcoming. It's not about "walking on eggshells". It's basic human decency and empathy to care about the feelings of others, which your replies haven't addressed. If people are bothered by the usage of the word, do you care? Plain and simple, you do not. You say they're being ignorant.
Unfortunately in my building (downtown, west of the river) my options are 750mbps from Xfinity or 10mbps from CenturyLink [1]... for the same price.

I've been on Google Fiber for years and I worry it spoiled me. I wish there were more tenable options than Xfinity-which-definitely-isn't-Comcast.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/4qWViL3.png (this pains me to see)
There are serious estimates, by several international organisms, that calculated between 1600 and 2000 deaths by the nuclear plant accident, just for the first two years.

Many by the evacuation, other because the hospitals in the area closed, other by stress of losing its home... and all of this happened because there was a damaged nuclear plant in the area. Not more, not less. Most of them had a slow death instead being instantly fried, but there is nothing here to rejoice. In the end is the same result.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fukushima-evacuation-has-...

To claim that only one people died by Fukushima and compare indirect deaths by coal with direct deaths by nuclear is an insult to the intelligence, specially when the consequences are still deploying and the process is far from being over. Nuclear kills thousands of people indirectly, for decades. The nuclear plant killed more people yet than the Tsunami did in the same area.
Could you quickly explain the math behind this please? Genuinely curious
M Cloud goes down planet-wide so hard even the status page didn't work
I just got one last week. Games started instantly with no lag or artifacts and I have a 20mb connection. Obviously the Chromecast aspect is great.

I got three months free so I will continue to play and see then if I will renew

I bought a couple games already and those are always in your library. So just add all the free ones. If you cancel those games are still available to you

I'm hooking it up in my room when I go in for surgery.
Certain type of humans have been exploring since beginning of times, thinking of the vikings, but also the colonial times. But also the early tribes that moved over the whole world. Seems to be a an innate trait for some people, to go out and explore. But human curiosity seems to need to be tickled by potential and that potential seems infinitely greater in space then in the oceans.

At the same time why we can't do both?
“Your Data” Is Broader Than You Think
Not to mention when Google's ADHD kicks in and five years from now Stadia gets shut down all your games are going bye-bye.
I have one of these:

https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/1200x900/4340-08.jpg

It never gets hot that I can't touch it.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000392602236.html
>That is also incompatible with the claim that an automation revolution is under way.

Unless someone was claiming that the current automation revolution is different than previous ones because of software eating the world.
Anyone play turn based 4X games on Stadia? Seems like a good use case.
I agree, also other common abstractions like "item", or "x". When I was first starting out I had a difficult time discerning which parts of example code snippets were system keywords and which were user-supplied and arbitrary. When I started writing my own code I used these generic terms as variable names to my own detriment. It makes sense that these examples are generic and the authors don't want to commit to concrete variable names, but a concrete example is usually much clearer and equally translatable to some other domain. Reading other people's code with actual variable names helped me a lot to finally grok the basic structures of code back in those days.
As a robotics engineer I too once bought in to the notion that automation would lead to a massive jobs crash. But the more experience I get the more I see how big the problem space is. There's a million simple tasks we cannot do with robotics, and even when we can do them the machine costs $100k. Instead I am beginning to understand that humans and machines will work together for a long time.

I still think we can use automation to do radical things. I want to see us automate food production and meal preparation, to lower the cost of healthy food. By intentionally lowering the cost of human survival with automation, and with changes to intellectual property restrictions which keep costs high, we could create a world where food is so cheap we give it away to those in need. With changes to our cultural norms and broad application of this theory, it is literally possible to eliminate material poverty.

Think about it - in a world where there are only private book collections, some people are book-rich and some people are book-poor. But that kind of poverty is effectively eliminated if you introduce the concept of libraries to that world. If we share the automation we create the same way we share books at a library, we can create societies where everyone is provided for at no direct material expense to others.

Years ago I wrote an essay [1] where I used the concept of impending job loss from automation to emphasize the importance of this better way of living I proposed above. But I've realized that we don't need to see automation as an impending crisis - millions of people are already in crisis because they cannot afford the food, medicine, or housing they need. So the need for change is still there, but the cause is not some future problem, but the problems of the status quo.

[1] http://tlalexander.com/wealth/
Next Upgrade Deserves an Upgrade
True that, but I may be in the job market soon, and all I see is Kubernetes and a plethora of tools related to its ecosystem I have no exposure to.
Automation happens not where many expect it (including the media). It is frequently expected that automation will come as replacement for humans, while it actually is coming in the form of better tooling and assistance to humans. This theoretically should be reflected in work productivity, not in employment numbers.
Nintendo has a strict policy: "software sells hardware", meaning, their flagship games are only released on Nintendo consoles. e.g.: Mario, Zelda, Smash Bros, etc.

I do not expect to see Nintendo games on the Stadia.
This isn't an accurate analogy, is it?

We're discussing an educational institution with power and authority (MIT), which promotes drinking "free coffee", whilst simultaneously portraying it as somehow morally superior to "coffee one has to pay for" to consume.

Growing and selling coffee takes time, labour and effort - yet none of that is being reflected or accounted for when we choose to not pay for the coffee we consume.

Is this a sustainable approach? Does it promote "choosing the right tool for the job", or does it promote blind idealism ("free is better")? And why does a university, which takes exorbitant tuition fees, not prioritize the best software for the course (over the one that's merely free)?
Um, yes.

"Full context: "English started out as German. Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon, really is a foreign language, and requires serious study. I don't think an anglophone can learn to read it with mere tricks."

> Did you even read what I wrote?

Yes, I even responded on a point by point basis. Did you read what I wrote?

> German and English started from a common ancestor yes

It is clear the author was talking about german as in germanic. Hence why he referred to old english and anglo-saxon. Nobody is saying that english came from the modern german language.

You sneakily copied one sentence out of context to argue nonsense - that the author claimed english came from modern german. You built up a silly straw man and you got called out.

Once again. The author wasn't claiming the modern english language came from modern german. But the language that english descended from was german. Just like the anglo-saxon people were german. As in germanic. Okay?
Creating Strategic Alignment
Sounds interesting. Any links and references for "Fully Distributed Representation"? This is what I found when I Googled the quoted phrase: http://www.cap-lore.com/RWC97-kanerva.pdf.

Skimming the paper this reminds me of word2vec and similar techniques for embedding words into vector spaces but instead of using XOR the embedding is accomplished with another neural network. Here's a link to a good description of the embedding process: https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-network-embeddings-exp....
Elon Musk's Starlink satellites will cause light pollution and space junk
This! What is funny that is that I started doing this before I knew anything at all about functional programming, I just started to avoid stuff that I had painful experiences with.

Later I read a couple of chapter of SICP and then I really changed and my programming hasn't been the same since. The language I use at work is JavaScript and while SICP isn't for JavaScript, nothing else has changed my JavaScript for the better to that degree.
Regarding the Amish, I admire their approach to technology. Technology is only accepted if it benefits them without distracting them from their main duties (family & church).

This inherently makes them immune to the majority of the downsides we see in today's tech such as addictive patterns, advertising or "broken by design" tools as they would just not become accepted in the community to begin with.

Given the current, often user-hostile state of technology I think this is an example we should at least consider.
> It made available licenses for various nonfree programs, but I objected to them on grounds of principle.

This was the second sentence of the post
Nintendo’s NNID hack was almost twice as big as first reported
To prove that 0.1-0.6% is wrong, one only needs to show a single example that had an IFR > 0.6%. I provided several. You meanwhile have provided none.

And this range of IFR estimates (~0.7-1.1%) is what you tend to see across localities where serological tests result in substantial positive antibody rates. Studies based on low (e.g. <5%) exposure rates aren't that meaningful because false positives can dwarf the true-positives, skewing the results.
The stakes just aren’t big in the grand scheme of things for academics, even at the top of the field. Beating someone to a major publication means some temporary fame in your circles and a small hop closer to tenure (if you don’t have it). Grant writing will be a little easier and maybe your students will learn about your methods (unlikely if they are undergrads).

In industry, a breakthrough correctly capitalized on can mint you millions of dollars. If you start a company, it could be tens to hundreds of millions. You then are not beholden to an institution or grants and can do what you want.

Just because you have a reputation and livelihood doing something does not mean the stakes are big in the general sense. Otherwise every job would be high stakes for everyone and the term would be meaningless.

The quote came from a professor at Columbia University.
I looked at TAP when I had to implement a testing tool for my own language. In the end, I didn't really see the point of using TAP. Is anyone using it outside Perl? What are its specific advantages compared to using common testing libraries?
> And, really, a reference from 2016?

And what reference did you provide? Other than your supposed ability to predict the future?

> Four years is FOREVER in the energy business now.

It isn't. Also, considering solar subsidies have collapsed throughout the world, especially since 2016, it's far more likely solar has lost ground. Going from insignificant to worthless. But that's probably why you haven't posted any sources right? So you should be thanking me for using 2016 data because solar has taken a beating since 2016.

> PV costs fell by a factor of 5 in the last decade, you know.

5 times nothing is still nothing. You know.

Solar was a nonfactor in 2016. Solar is a nonfactor today. Solar will be a nonfactor in the future. Mindless zealotry won't change the facts on the ground.
Robotic Process Automation, presumably.
when people talk of automation they mean replacement, not just better tools, for that has been happening since the beginning of time
Another time it evolved independently was in homo sapiens.
Something I always wondered is if we know of the existence of a proof that is both simple and also non-obviously flawed and as such could have been Fermat's solution?
To me, the deep ocean with the pressures involved is much more deadly than the vacuum of space. Sure, you'd die in both situations but the ocean would just crush your in a second while space is not as violent but still quite deadly.

Space is also open and visibility is great while in the depths there is no light and you can see only a few meters in any directions. Space also does not have "monsters" in it :).
Robotic Process Automation.
Despite years of propaganda, C is not well matched to CPUs currently in use (quite opposite in places), and the typical optimizations don't necessarily work when dealing with external I/O that you need to do in a switch.

Essentially, even if you write in C, reaching higher speeds will involve using "assembly masquerading as C" rather than depending on compiler optimizations.

Also, Snabb uses LuaJIT, which already generated quite tight code, so the performance gap that I suspect some imagine just isn't that wide.
Read on a business insider article "$130 for access to a game store – a game store largely filled with games that are already available on other platforms, sometimes for less money – is a hard sell." Seems like Google just chucking resources at a "hot" industry... was definitely getting backlash a few months post launch
Where do you host this site?
Interesting you mention this. I wrote a Julia library a few years ago to generate both real and unitary irreducible representations for O3 and the symmetric group. It also implements the Fourier transform for the symmetric group and the fast Fourier transform for O3. I really miss that type of interesting work in grad school... unfortunately I don't have any projects that involve representation theory in industry anymore :(
My PI is too cool. It freezes.

I have playing with a PI Zero W over the last weeks. At first everything worked as expected.

But now it developed some strange "hangings" I cannot explain. It kinda randomly freezes in time for a few minutes every now and then.

Sometimes it takes several minutes to ssh into it. Sometimes, the terminal just freezes for several minutes.

Neither top nor iostat seem to show any elevated activity during these periods. Since they hang throughout the freeze, its a bit hard to say though.

The strangest thing: Pings to the PI always come back fast. So its probably not that the hardware really freezes completely.
Why Minification Enhances Site Performance
Don't we have enough of these memetic titles? It's hard to go a day without 'X for fun and profit' or 'Y considered harmful'.
Alright. If you are unable to look at any other data than the one page you have. 7,961 deaths to influenza in 2015-16. Is that the number you think will show that COVID-19 is more deadly than the flu? Because, I've got to say that I don't think that number is better for you than 23,000 deaths that the data I'm pointing to. Oh, of course there are 131,858 deaths due to pneumonia from other causes. Clearly something pretty powerful that wasn't influenza swept through that year. It's pretty strange that we keep statistics on the piddly old flu when there is something killing 20 times as many people, but is completely unidentified. I'm so glad we agreed to use this data rather than literally any other page on the CDC website!
We should have both! It shouldn't be one or the other. Deep sea and outer space have a lot of things in common.
Anyone has links to similar articles with regards to either

- SD card reliability

- techniques for reliably using what we have

?

Given that people are using these for all kinds of stuff there must be some advanced techniques being used (or some basic I have missed).
For automation to make sense from a business point of view the cost of developing & running the automation should be less than the cost of doing the work manually over an equivalent timeframe.

This is why for example there are a lot of bullshit office jobs that can be automated fairly easily but will not be because there's plenty of cheap labour to do it manually (for cheaper than what developing & maintaining the automation would cost) and it also earns them PR points about "creating" jobs.
Lunr and elasticlunr are awesome projects. I was part of a search team and we were banging our heads against the wall trying to figure a way to serve a new feature request (basically some advanced autocomplete functionality) in a way that fit in with what we were currently maintaining.

It took me literally half an hour to implement this using elasticlunr on the browser. We will went with the backend solution as it felt more extendable, but this got me thinking there's some abuse of ES for things you could easily do that way.
Data Center at Liuwu New Area in Lhasa, Tibet
Doesn't the often given argument agains UBI that, 'work is important for dignity' have its roots in Christian ethics?
To be honest, after reading the landing page I'm not sure whether you can or want to compete with shodan. Currently it seems to be only an email service for open ports!?!?

Why should I use simple scanner over something like shodan? Do you offer better integrations and public APIs? Do you offer less rate limits?

Can it be self hosted?

Is it open source? ...which might be the most important aspect of pentesting software. Non-OSINT software in general is avoided by anyone I know.
Race Care Driver Shares Encouragement with Kids/Teens Staying Safe Inside
No, coronavirus apps don’t need 60% adoption to be effective
My view is that you always want to avoid giving equity. Whether you have a physical or online product does not make much difference in allowing you to give it away for free. In fact it's even easier and cheaper to do with a software product that has no marginal cost. You could consider to give free lifetime licenses to early backers, for example.
There are a lot of ways open source gets funded: donation models (Patreon etc), internships (like GSoC), employment (like with RedHat), consulting, grants (like NLnet), bounties (like Bountysource). Personally I like the Snowdrift model.

https://snowdrift.coop/
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
I won't install an OS that requires these steps.
Personality and Sexual Orientation: New Data and Meta-Analysis
What's wrong with WiFi in iOS?
Why they are Introverts and Extroverts
I LOVE the first talk, I think I discovered it on HN. I study bioinformatics and had no idea something like that existed.
Brave Open-Source Browser Caught Adding Referral Codes to Typed-In URLs
He's referencing "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" by the physicist Eugene Wigner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...).

> In the paper, Wigner observed that the mathematical structure of a physical theory often points the way to further advances in that theory and even to empirical predictions.

I think it's a good analogy since it applies exactly how Wigner meant it except in this case it is a branch of mathematics being applied to mathematics instead of physics. Representation theory has been "unreasonably useful and effective" which is what the original article was about.
(Disclosure: I wrote the simulation engine behind CircuitLab, a mixed-mode [i.e. analog+digital combined] circuit simulation engine.)

Writing software to do digital logic simulation is quite simple. Everything is event-driven: if a signal "A" changes from 0->1 at time t_0, and this signal is an input to some gate "X", then at time t_0 + t_p (propagation delay) the output of that gate will update with the new value, as defined by that particular gate/register/whatever. So events can originate from (1) external signals (such as buttons/switches), (2) clocks, (3) the output of an earlier gate updating its output after a propagation delay. You can then just propagate changes throughout the digital circuit, looking at what's connected to the signal that just changed state.

It gets a bit more tricky once you combine analog and digital simulations simultaneously. :)
As someone who loves both movies and video games, it was disappointing to hear his thoughts that video games aren't art. Did he ever retract those views?
Stanford Class on Deep Multi-Task and Meta-Learning
I still hope they can fix their issues. I am not paying 150 bucks for a keyboard that might stop working properly without reason. Then I much rather get a high quality rubber dome board. The tactility in those is generally fine (at least better than cherry MX brown), even though I am no fan of having to bottom out.

I am more interested in the newest addition to the unicomp portfolio. The "new model m" and their upcoming TKL boards seem like something I will like :)
A bit tangential to the main topic, but I can't wait for that book to be out. IIRC (I read it somewhere??) it's based on his 'Robust Systems' thoughts and experiments.

Total mystery here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-design-flexibility

You can dip your toe here: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/readings/
> The version number should never appear in the command name.

Well, that's nice in theory, but...

> In 50+ years of typing into terminals, we have not figured out how to have multiple versions of things coexist peacefully.

Well, yes, we have. By making the version number appear in the command name. It's not a great solution, but it's a solution. And since you didn't really provide a better one, it's pretty silly to advice against using it.

Also, symlinks are a thing. Nobody (normally) invokes python3.7m directly. There's a symlink pointing to it (or more likely not, as it's probably not the python you want).
Gladly would take the school of Stoicism position on free-will: we are like a dog tied to a running cart, we have some sort of freedom where to run but we all have one destiny.
There are Chinese GitHub clones but many companies there use enterprise solutions for version control: there's one by Alibaba I think and I've seen a few deployments of GitHub Enterprise and Atlassian/Microsoft solutions.

Work on open source isn't very popular in China in general due to culture differences.
I’m Running PHP on My iPhone
I've had a little fan on an old rpi3 I had and it was annoyingly loud.
> fabric masks are still only 3% - 10% effective

Where did this number come from? It seems quite at odds with other sources.
Same as with the browser update: you receive it before the previous certificate expired.
Lots of data integration software is available. In the open source world, Apache Nifi and Apache Camel are two examples.
On the surface, there isn't so much new in Catalina oder iOS 13, that you would think that things break so badly, but they did.
Starting a new branch of the development always is a disruption. Developers would be reassigned to new groups, probably the best ones even, new developers would join the existing groups. This process probably has started like 2-3 years ago and intensified like 1-2 years ago, especially after they had the first silicon to play with - and I assume the CPU will be sufficiently different from an iPhone so that you want to at least optimize your code for it, there might also be entirely new features to support.
Gotta keep the toilet server up and running...
This thread is something that I really want to hear it right now. Thanks for the positivity!