skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love graphviz and have used it as part of my job for over 15 years.

That said, I have spent entirely too much time manually searching through the 100-odd dimensional Graphviz parameter space trying to get aesthetic results. So much time in fact that occasionally it's easier to fire up Omnigraph and draw the thing manually.

Graphviz would be ideal if it had some kind of meta-parameter settings that could reduce the tendency of its output to resemble an unreadable rats nest when the number of nodes exceeds about 20. I know that's part of the point of neato vs. dot, and that some parameters are effectively meta-parameters, but Graphviz still needs a better "porcelain" (in git-speak) with fewer dimensions.
> The problem is in order to collect $0.03 you would need a functioning micropayments system

And a functioning microdecision system that didn't wear you down from making decisions about whether everything you try and do is really worth spending or not spending $0.03, minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day.
I believe mod_perl had the 'benefit' of persistent/shared state, which meant multiple users might conflict with each other (via shared memory, IIRC), and the mod_php - while it kept an interpreter bundled in each apache process - didn't leave anything around after a request.
That was interesting.

The IQ inverter is for household and small commercial scale. For example, I would happily team with a few neighbors to cache, say 85kWHr at each home.
> Someone asked it to not be called YOLOv5 and their response was just awful [1]

I don't see any response by them at all. Do you mean the comment by WDNMD0-0? I can't see any reason to believe they're connected to the company, have I missed something?
creat() really gets me going
I'd recommend Godot.

Unity is also a valid choice, but networking is in a weird state right now with the official APIs, so he'd have to use third-party solutions that integrate with Unity (such as Photon, MLAPI or Mirror). It's not the biggest obstacle, but still an annoyance.
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I'm using ubuntu server 20.04 along with micro-k8s to have a 3 node cluster for kubernetes at home.
Dutch East India Company anyone?
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I have used it to visualize dependency trees for several thousand nodes and show my team loops and broken deps. For this kind of situations, a picture is better than a thousand lines of code.
The reason tacit knowledge exists and is essential is because the brain is immensely complex, and most of what it does is outside consciousness.

To take just one well-studied example, in vision photons hit visual receptors in the retina, and then go through the optic nerve which is a complex computer that analyses the signals in stages, like picking out points, then lines, then shapes, and so on, and then it is sent to several different visual areas of the brain, each of which pulls out different features, like motion, colors, 3d shapes, faces, and emotional expressions, and then finally it arrives in consciousness. Something similar is true for every other sensation, and how they are integrated to give us our perception and understanding of the world.

As a consequence, children from birth learn all sorts of things without explicit instruction and often even much focal thought, include the great majority of the rules of language itself.

All of this is subjectively experienced as a sort of feel or intuition. It is described by philosophers such as Michael Polanyi and various phenomenologists. I studied with one of them, Eugene Gendlin, who developed a method called experiential focusing for helping people make use of their tacit knowledge (he called it felt meaning). You might want to take a look at his book Focusing.

One more point. The idea that all knowledge can be clearly explicated is an example of the denial of human finitudes that is common in much of Western philosophy, but that are affirmed by other schools Western philosophy, such as pragmatism, existential-phenomenology, and post-Wittgensteinian analytic philosophy.
It all sounds like a respin of the Cell Processor concept from the PS3 .. big standard CPU core surrounded by little DSP like cores that you have to farm out work to and manage and keep fed.
>The protests happening now

Do you think the police will stop their violence? When is the last time that people got politicians to do something they didn't want to do already?
Yeah, I was looking for the class to see what the number was and it doesn't appear to exist anymore. I remember being amused that at Mudd, Calculus as Math 1a/b back in my day. It appears to have been renumbered a bit higher since then and now they only offer one semester of calculus (back in the 80s it was radical that Mudd did the Calculus sequence in two rather than three semesters, although I noticed that our local high school offers a third-year high school calculus class covering multivariable calculus).
Police don't even need tasers or guns... just choke holds.
Yes, so you pay one really bad context switch penalty per process.
In a CATV network, possibly. In a new FTTH network, not likely.

Engineering a non-blocking 1 Gbps network isn't particularly hard or expensive using FTTH.
remote work at scale is one of the few things lately that feel like they are from the future. It enables whole new modes of communication and process, and it's a pity to concentrate on comparisons with conventional offices. If a large number of people decides to keep working remotely, the offices will never look the same again, they'll look more like a decaying old village rather than places of bustling activity, and this will only accelerate the transition to remote.

We have new virtual conferences that exploded in popularity and sprang out of this remote world. Out of nowhere , there have been 2 Neuromatch conferences, with 3000 attendees each! This is a staggering number and the conferences are great quality too. With labs moving their meetings online, it has now become easy to arrange common meetings, with ideas flowing left and right in a very positive way. There's many more things to come from remote work. We 'll find ways to solve the social issues of loneliness etc -- after all, these were not the purpose of offices. I think ppl are focusing too much on the negatives of remote work, while we are still at the very beginning.
I deny that you're getting any downvotes, no matter how light your text is faded.
Ask HN: Bookmarklet Community
Anyone know of a site where people share bookmarklets?

I was inspired by an earlier HN post and wrote a bookmarklet to display Google Calendar in a small window (so you don't have to tab back and forth when looking for availability).

Here's my code (edit as needed):

javascript:window.open("https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r?tab=mc","GoogleCalendar","width=500,height=600,menubar=no,location=no,status=no,titlebar=no,toolbar=no,left=700");

Anyway, was curious if anyone knows of a site where people publish their own bookmarklets. Reddit has one (https://www.reddit.com/r/bookmarklets/) but it doesn't look that active.
It's not that simple in the general case though: putting a board vertical will cause the top of the board to be hotter than the bottom, possibly a lot hotter than it would have been in a horizontal position even if the average temperature of the board is a lower one!

Looking through a thermal imaging camera gives all kinds of interesting insights.
I asked what you did. Then asked if drupals security was phps fault.

Are you seriously this butthurt about a function name, look up where the name came from originally. I also wonder what magical perfect language you use, dont tell me its php...

Not sure where you're going with the rest of this comment so I wont entertain that part. whew...
What is the difference between Rekognition and Clearview AI? I'm assuming that Rekognition is just using government photo databases rather than social media?

It seems that Amazon has a far better reputation on HN compared to Clearview AI. Is that deserved?
We have neural networks in our brains which for some reason cannot be trained without practice in real world. No amount of reading about riding will train those real-time feedback loops that operate on much lower latencies then you can formulate conscious thoughts.

This is a limitation of our brains and not fundamental property of knowledge or information.

In AI neural networks which can ride bikes or recognize objects are easily introspected and copied. In humans this isn't implemented ;)
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You're right, I completely spaced about DANE.

My idea for letting the trust being tied to the Root and TLD master keys was more in spirit of allowing people to have more say in SSL. The Internet is technically centralized to the IP and DNS namespace already so for me it seemed like the next step in the chain. While we centralize one part of the Internet we also open it up to allow for alternative root projects like OpenNIC to be able to establish community-based chains of trust.

Like I know one of the big problems with OpenNIC is nobody can really use SSL since if you trust a third party CA they can just sign for anybody without limits, and if you run both a DNS and CA service there then you have everything you would need to do large scale SSL interception in those cases :(
That's where the original article author's argument would logically lead, yes. And of course those aliens might have some DNA equivalent...

So I think it's clear that the author's argument here is pretty weak.
Prisoners don't vote, politicians don't give a shit about them. 125F cells may even been seen as desirable by people who consider prison as purely for punishment or sequestering undesirables from society.
These days it's more interesting, and justified, to hack into your own hardware, that you legally bought and own.
My bad, I missed that. Still I don't think your are going to see a meaningful fraction of highly rated CLO tranches default.
In the context that people have been talking about is did he physically harm someone, the answer is no, in that sense there was no victim. I don't sympathize with him but he didn't cause physical harm to anyone and besides what it cost to remove the botnet from the clinic's machines he doesn't seem to have done any real economic harm here either. There was no patient information stolen, no damage to the clinic's reputation and no permanent damage to their systems.

10 years is egregious and heavily punitive. The prosecutor that speculated that he "could of caused harm" and that was what the entire punishment was predicated on. Our legal system is entirely draconian when it comes to computer crimes.

This should have been criminally probation or a few months in jail and a civil suit brought by the client for any actual damages.

I'm not saying there was no wrong doing but you're not going to convince me that the minor damages were worth 10 years of this guys life.
Yes, even if the process has 1 avx2 instruction, it will be scheduled to run on the main CPU. I mean you could switch the process back to the small CPU when you detect a long stretch of opcode without the avx2 instruction, but the constant switching between the main CPU and small CPU probably is not good for performance.
I thought rolling release distros were bad for servers.
> if somebody rips you off to the tune of $0.03, whatever, lesson learned, don't do business with them again.

They won't need you to do business with them again. 10k viewers being ripped off is $300, and let the site fail, onto the next domain to do it over again.

Now it's the email spam problem - every site gets to rip you off $0.03, you add them to your blocklist, but there are so many you never hear of that site again anyway.
Agreed!

Crucially, we're tracking "out of the box" performance, e.g., if a developer grabbed X model and used it on a sample task, how could they expect it to perform? Further research and evaluation is recommended!

For size, we measured the sizes of our saved weights files for Darknet YOLOv4 versus the PyTorch YOLOv5 implementation.

For inference speed, we checked "out of the box" speed using a Colab Notebook equipped with a Tesla P100. We used the same task[1] for both - e.g. see the YOLOv5 Colab notebook[2]. For Darknet YOLOv4 inference speed, we translated the Darknet weights using the Ultralytics YOLOv3 repo (as we've seen many do for deployments)[3]. (To achieve top YOLOv4 inference speed, one should reconfigure Darknet carefully with OpenCV, CUDA, cuDNN, and carefully monitor batch size.)

For accuracy, we evaluated the task above with mAP after quick training (100 epochs) with the smallest YOLOv5s model against the full YOLOv4 model (using recommended 2000*n, n is classes). Our example is a small custom dataset, and should be investigated on e.g. COCO. 90-classes.

[1] https://public.roboflow.ai/object-detection/bccd
[2] https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1gDZ2xcTOgR39tGGs-EZ...
[3] https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov3
No, I don't think that's a correct interpretation: if women are more likely to develop it, then the prevalence isn't equal. Affect and prevalence just focus on rates, not severity.

I can only see two ways to make both statements consistent:

- Men and women are both likely to have an general 'diagnosis' of imposter syndrome, but women experience more 'acute attacks' of it per unit time. Half of of men and women feel like imposters during a year, but the affected women feel that way twice a week, while the affected men feel it once/week.

- Women experience it more severely than men: a male colonel feels like a lt. colonel, but a female colonel feels like a major)

Could be some combination of the two...or the writing is just a mess!
Slackware. The thinking man's distribution. Trim it down ultralight purpose built, or keep it ready to go at a moment's notice. I've got Raspbian on mine, but once I get the 8 gig version, I think I may just pull the trigger on Slacking it up.

Then again, I may be completely insane, because I'm humming and hawing around building a Single System Image out of a pair of them and actually making something roughly analogous to a laptop to go along with it.

To be frank, you probably shouldn't take my advice. I'm clearly a glutton for punishment, and it may lead you to the darker corners of computing related insanity.
The amount of money is different to the length of time protection lasts though, isn't it?

When you sort by year published the IA has a bunch of stuff from the past 5 years, and a lot of stuff that's still in print.

A lot of these are not abandoned or orphaned works.
I think the implication of the article is that Fauci likely was aware of this research since he promoted such studies, and it was approved by a secret panel at the NIH, along with him being the head of the organization that funded the research.
It looks like the account was reinstated: https://twitter.com/ZhouFengSuo/status/1270828746589769732?s...

My guess is that they were under pressure to close all the accounts in the meeting, backpedaled after the article, and reenabled the non-Chinese ones. Honestly, if they just did this to begin with, it'd be understandable? They just fucked up and blocked the non-China accounts too, triggering the China Watchers of which this reporter is a prime member of.

I ultimately see companies adopting the TikTok model, where Chinese users basically get their own sandboxed app and company structure subject to Chinese law that nobody else can communicate with.
I wonder if the OP post has more to do with nerves/confidence than learning. By imagining he was Sean, he felt confident and the naturally performed better at the job at hand.

To answer your point, there are times in the "learning curve" you need to get used to doing something, and then times to become exceptional. Compare learning to drive to formula 1. And commongcog has an article for that: https://commoncog.com/blog/get-numb-get-good/
> Compatibilism may make perfect sense for you but that doesn't render your opinion correct against someone that disagrees with your definition of free will and the common definition of free will.

There is no "common definition" of free will, there are a series of context-specific definitions used in ethics, science, law, theology, etc. and this conflation causes considerable confusion. The notion of a "common definition", often trotted out to dismiss Compatibilism, is simply false.

I don't want to be dismissive myself, but I've said my piece about hard determinism here [1] and in other posts. After participating in literally hundreds of debates on this topic on the philosophy subreddit over the years, I don't think I'll hear anything particularly new, and I think I've spent enough time on this thread at this point.

I only debate this extensively sometimes because while hard determinism enjoys widespread support among scientifically minded people who conflate "free will" in science with its use in ethics, Compatibilism is unfairly dismissed and misunderstood.

Cheers!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23482205
Translation: We already made a bundle on this, but we're seeing too much pushback, so we're getting out before the downside eats into our profits.
> Zoom happens to have a Chinese CEO.

You are understating the nature of Zoom's relationship to China.
My pet peeve is case folding the LHS (or worse, downcasing) despite the standard defining it as case sensitive.
Try Madagascar and nearby islands. 90% of what I got there was sufficiently off the beaten path that neither Shazam nor SoundHound could tell me what it was.
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Authoritative reference for anyone else curious about this: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/MANIFESTO.md
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You might as well just use something like plantUML instead of this from a productivity standpoint.

However, I don't want to discount the value of Graphviz. Python has a little known class diagram generator built into pylint which uses Graphviz for its rendering and its pretty cool. You can find out just how bad your #BIGCORPS code architecture is just by checking a reasonably large project with Pylints class diagraming tool...
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Been waiting ages for literally anything posted on commoncog.com to get traction on HN, because it's all interesting deep writing about meta-human issues, useful for "us lot" and invokes good discussion.

When I see a new post from commoncog, I don't read it right away. I think "right need to carve out half hour of quiet uniterrupted time for that later".

It's one of the few I have on my mobile phone RSS reader, the others being quanta magazine, and another interesting blog I found through HN.

So that's my praise, I recommend you add it to your readers too :-)
Rekognition is just their normal CV offering you can use for anything from what I know.
I have a vintage fx-82 calculator [1] that still works. My father bought it when he started working after his engineering, which was passed on to me for my engineering, which was then passed on to my brother for his engineering - which ended 12 yr ago. Last checked the thing a few months ago, it works barring a few problematic keypresses. I am nearly convinced it's alien technology at this point.

[1] not mine, but this model: https://www.ebay.com/i/123734880177
Could you clarify? I couldn't relate these back to my comment:

* but seem to consider ... separate goal

* if you don't expect either to be good
"PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals."
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Thanks for sharing Brennan :)
As we all know, every moral issue has a 1-year expiration date.
Or getting out while black lives matter and will get back in when everyone has forgotten again.
>I wonder if we'll hear the "they're a private company, they can do what they want, it is only censorship if the government does it" routine.

The implication here is that they did it under pressure from the CCP, presumably because most (all?) of their programmers are from China. Blizzard got raked over the coals as well over a similar incident (search "blizzard blitzchung").
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It’s not just geekbench. People have run SPEC on the Apple chips, which is a suite of real applications like GCC.
I have heard that Ubuntu had spyware that sent information to amazon. Also I have heard that Ubuntu has a lot of unnecessary software aka bloat. Was that just desktop ubuntu or also ubuntu server?
I’m still hoping some standard toolset emerges for dealing with large monorepos sometime in the near future. At the moment it’s clear that a number of companies are rolling their own solutions, which follow one of two patterns:

- Persistent process which watches workspace changes, or

- Workspace in virtual filesystem.

The other common factor seems to be trunk-based development with all commits rebased into a linear history. I’m not super hopeful that we’ll see an open-source solution in this space for a while, though—any company with a code base large enough to really need these solutions is also large enough to throw a few engineers at VCS, especially given that they’d already have engineers supporting VCS from the operations side of things.
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It's reactions like this that make companies not want to even try. "People are going to bitch whether we sell to the police or not so there is no upside to stopping". Why not have a little positivity that AWS is finally restricting access to their technology beyond what is legally required?
iPhone Hacking Attempt from the Police in Mexico?
Today a friend of mine who was kidnapped in recent days by the police of Guadalajara, Jalisco. Showed me a screenshot of her iphone with a message like this:
error requesting configuration.
Diversion of: SMS.
When you are not available

error requesting configuration.
Diversion of: Asynchronous data circuit.
When you are not available

error requesting configuration.
Diversion of: packet access.
When you are not available

error requesting configuration.
Diversion of: keyboard access.
When you are not available.

I don't know what to think, i´m no expert. But we are very concerned about this, and how it may affect her.
Those kind of people get their happyness from the suffering of other people, of which there will be a lot.
It's a cat and mouse game. Every couple of months FB tries a new version of the HTML layout with slightly changed elements and every time someone writes a CSS selector that manages to find the appropriate tag for the sponsored story and hide it. Currently with the new FB redesign it's:

div[data-pagelet^="FeedUnit"]:has([role^=button]:has(> span:has-text(S)):not(:has-text(1)):not(:has-text(2)):not(:has-text(3)):not(:has-text(4)):not(:has-text(5)):not(:has-text(6)):not(:has-text(7)):not(:has-text(8)):not(span:has-text(9)):not(span:has-text(w)))
I've recently upgraded to a 27" 4k monitor (luckily work paid), and it's actually made a surprisingly big difference. The main advantage being much better text legibility, which enables me to fit a lot more on the screen in practice.

I'd love to have 2 or 3, but alas I don't think my MacBook is powerful enough to handle it (even aside from the expense)
When they get big enough, they add the static analysis on top of the language to make it more robust. There's a good read by Instagram (all Python) on this: https://instagram-engineering.com/static-analysis-at-scale-a...