skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the review on that website is actually more mixed than "axe to grind". I just spent some time reading the "mitigations" section. Some mitigations are criticized as questionable or easily defeated, but others are praised for a good implementation.

At any rate, I think some people may forget what stock Linux distros or even a commercial *nix install used to look like at the default install, before people like the OpenBSD folks raised awareness of some of these issues. In the late 90s I recall default installs elsewhere that had a bunch of ports open and no firewall right out of the box in a default install. In the same timeframe OpenBSD was making a bit of a PR-ish stink about a secure default install. In the same timeframe OpenSSH came on the scene.

But honestly, there are a few things that OpenBSD is only really just starting to get really right in the last few years. syspatch and pkg_add-able binary updates in the stable branch are two that come to mind. Also sysupgrade; I used to dread upgrading OpenBSD [xkcd had the joke about it leading to shark attacks], but now it's really simple.
Oh hey snap! I’m from Adelaide, currently living in Launceston.

Tiny aside, and because I like dreaming about actually building these structures:

I work with metal everyday and hold a trade certificate in metal fabrication / engineering.

You don’t need to go to stainless steels to achieve great strength.

There are a range of carbon steels available that have up to four times the tensile strength of regular Grade 250 steel used in most structural steel applications. The 250 refers to 250 mega pascal tensile yield strength. Ultimate tensile strength increases after yield as the steel work-hardens, but that’s what makes steel such a great building material: it yields and increases in strength before failing. Anyway, I digress.

See for example Bisalloy’s range of high tensile structural steels: https://www.bisalloy.com.au/product/bisalloy-structural/

The strength of these steels comes from the addiction of higher amounts of carbon, manganese, chromium, and molybdenum, but in far smaller quantities than required to make stainless steels.

You might want stainless steels for some exposed parts for corrosion and radiation resistance, but these are unlikely to be the main structural components due to the relative rarity and cost of the main alloying elements.
Yeah, same confusion here. First example, being HN added to the confusion, since HN seems like exactly the kind of site that would render fine on a thirty year old browser (not meant as a swipe in any way - HN does one thing and it does it well).
> start your own school and show the experts how wrong they are

Let parents have vouchers to attend my school and I will.
For Piranha:
a) Code related to stale flags is deleted
b) Determination of staleness is based on status of the feature.
c) Patch is created automatically and in a majority of the cases, compiles and passes tests.

Based on my understanding of unused codes,
a) unused codes is used to delete deadcode independent of features
b) determining the deadcode is based on their usage in tests
c) unclear whether the code is flagged for deletion or a patch created.
Well, maybe instead of sarcastic remarks you will be the one to point me to some historical accounts?
I use voice dictation on my phone to transcribe notes into a Google doc, along with the page number or timestamp (for audiobooks)

My note taking process used to be either whatever I could fit in the margin (not much) or require a separate note book.

Switching to my phone has been seriously transformative. Not only is voice dictation way faster than my handwriting, but I can do it in many more contexts because I always have my phone with me. I can also take much more detailed notes in context where handwriting isn't ideal (like a jerky bus ride).
Large majorities of arbortions nowadays have nothing to do with rape (while the right for abortion was fought using that argument originally). Its by far convenience abortions.
Clicking through to the post about Grover's Algorithm[1] is the mental model of all the quantum stuff that works best for me: "Like probability theory, but over the complex numbers".

[1]http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post2644_grovers-quantum-s...
Is highschool worth it? No, and here's why
i love Workflowy! but find it takes me out of the moment a bit.
the light we get from our closest neighbors is lightyears away.
Does anyone know how the selection process here actually works? What are the criteria?
With all due respect - I think you've oversimplified a bit. It goes without saying that "intellectual curiosity to opposing ideas is good". I think anyone would agree contrary views should be treated with intellectual fairness/intrigue - but that's separate from instinctive reactions and I think it's unrealistic to believe people won't have a range of emotions on any given day for n number of reasons.

I was quite surprised to note it myself but just trying to be honest about an unexpected self-observation rather than offer what i think i should feel. Importantly the reaction was in reference to the Contrarian Sans Context (i.e. contrarian for sake of contrarianism; context is everything).

What's more if there are only three default settings to the contrarian (simplifying here - for/against/neutral)... it follows that some sample of any population will begin at each of those defaults and it is unlikely that everyone assumes a neutral position even if that's taken to be favorable. Admittedly it is difficult to discern right now whether this is a localised (in time) reaction for me or if there's something more fixed there.

It could be contended that a mix of default positions (For/against as well as neutral) to the IGC is in fact "normal" - rather than to prescribe that everyone should be neutral and that is always preferable. For example across a population if people assume different starting positions then we could see a variety of responses and perhaps more dynamic conversation at the extremes/edges.
"Ce qu'il y a d'enivrant dans le mauvais goût, c'est le plaisir aristocratique de déplaire" --Charles Baudelaire

(Sorry for the French quote)

I think that IGC tactics is also very common for the adepts of Dandyism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy

Bourdieu also wrote a book on something tangentially related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_(book)

"In a specific social field, agents are constantly caught between two contradictory intentions. To be recognized in a field, one must distinguish oneself from it, but distinguishing oneself also leads to being excluded from it. Officers therefore need to adjust the balance between distinction and compliance. To have style is to follow fashion while standing out from it with a few personal touches." (Translated from the better French version of the wikipedia page)
If anyone is interested in reading books in foreign languages, and then easily adding notes that are automatically translated, I would be interested in hearing from you.

Here is a demo, one of the most famous Japanese books ever: Kokoro, by Natsume Soseki.

https://public.do/kokoro-by-natsume-soseki/

You can select a word to capture it, it gets translated for you, and then you can build Anki cards to review your notes.

It's still under development, but you can see the concept.

The goal is first and foremost: mobile-first so no browser plugins.

If you have thoughts, I would be happy to hear them: chris@public.do
I don't take notes. I find it distracting. I end up absorbing less information. The few times I did try taking notes, I rarely referred back to them, and when I did, found that they weren't very valuable. I've got a good memory, and I'm willing to reread something to absorb more, but notes have never helped me.

Not criticizing note-taking; just offering another perspective.
The machines help humans. The bid/ask spread on a $100 share in 1970 as $5. Now it's $0.003 cents and it will continue to narrow, saving you and I money.
> To my surprise, there was not much content for adults with it.

Which then goes on with "content" which is just like every other article you might read out there on how to focus.
Can you share more information on this (articles, etc)?
It's pretty hard to hide a yagi-uda antenna capable of transoceanic distance communications. The data rates are MUCH lower than what's possible by fiber and microwave, as pointed out in the article.
The signal speed has nothing to do with the electrons’ drift velocity. It is a bit slower than c, but negligibly so.
Exactly. And each one of these companies had built the business around a key idea. I interview a lot of candidates for data scientists, and one of my favorite questions is what makes one of these companies what they are.
1500 years ago, or less, in Europe we see societies that were drastically poor (by modern standards), poorly educated/no formal education (the average person) and insanely unequal society (Kings and warlords vs. Serfs and slaves) where borders (resources) were being fought over and tech was very low relative to today and even relative to a few hundred years earlier (not to get into a dark ages dispute, but the Panethon would not have been able to be build in 500AD in Western Europe).

Yet this society managed to advance just fine. We are as far away from them as a Sun harvesting civilization is away from us.

Civilization finds a way.

At some point great minds become less important. Cutting edge research today is not coming from Patent Office clerks, it comes from large research teams that are constrained by budgets not human resources.
Thanks! I feel great now that my heart is beating normally. Apparently my heart is in perfect shape other than the faulty wiring. Amusingly, they had to open me up again because of a loose ring terminal. As an embedded software engineer, I am geeking out trying to learn everything I can about pacemakers now. Maybe when I get tired of working on drones, I'll go work on the next generation of pacemakers. Get some tweaks in the next model before my battery dies! I'm just so lucky to be alive at a time that there's an easy off the shelf solution to what would otherwise be a life ending condition.
To be fair, I am a native english speaker and this is the first time I've seen it used as a verb. "OSS" generally acts as a noun. In this instance I would have used "open source" as the verb of what you could do to your proprietary Software, after which it would become OSS.
I write the problematic parts on a whiteboard (well, the wall because I have whiteboard paint and it makes note taking a fun activity actually) and after a chapter I read my notes again together with the book hoping now it's clear. If necessary, I will jot down my notes into a Google doc. I found it exceptionally helpful when learning frameworks to write a blog post even if noone will ever read it on how I figured out things, it basically cements what I learned.

One of the best univ classes I went to allowed a single handwritten page "cheat sheet" at the exam -- in reality, the only one cheated was yourself because if you actually put in the work of condensing the semester into a single sheet then you usually learned the material during the process... sneaky.
So he’s just doing this for the ‘gram. Even the NGO director stated they respond to exciting disasters: hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions. I wonder if they’ll be equally deployed to the disasters that don’t fit a 24 hour news cycle: drought, sea level rise, and pandemics. The kind of disasters that sneak in slowly and then overwhelm all at once.
Nice. On the other hand, I feel like people will tolerate high memory usage in a compiler much more than they will in a browser. Memory usage in general is very different between the two - in a compiler it will perform many allocations and discard quickly, whereas the pain in a browser is more likely sustained memory usage from long-running instances.
Not with anywhere nearly as good as the 0.28db/km attenuation achieved on modern singlemode 9/125 fiber.
Note that our very best IR telescopes have a resolution great enough to detect an IR signature of a Dyson swarm at a distance of about 0.2 kiloparsecs, or ~600 light years.

That is a very, very small area of the universe.

If there was a Dyson swarm out there, we would only know it if it was extraordinarily close to us.
> In particular public sector organizations have significantly worse incentive structures, are much more likely to promote based on tenure rather than competence, and are much more likely to retain low performing employees.

Have these practices been measured to cause worse outcomes? Not so long ago there was a paper here that said most companies would be better off promoting at random than the measures they actually use, and we all know how practices like stack ranking can destroy team cohesion.
How Smart Are Orangutans?
It's not an excuse by the company to pay less. It's an excuse by the employee to earn less. Employees will accept a lower income for the advantages that come with working remote.

For instance, I would need a much much much higher salary to be convinced to move back to SF for work. I will voluntarily agree to earn less for the same work if I am able to work from my home office.

To a company, paying me less may be more attractive than paying someone in else SF more. Remember, you are bidding against other applicants when you apply for job.
Let me tell you the good word of Roko.
Unfortunately that's getting harder and harder to do. I have a second gen Kindle Oasis from about 3 years ago and there is no working jailbreak for it for any recent firmwares. It's really annoying because I love the hardware, I just wanna tinker with the software.
I think there’s a difference: I too enjoy conversation with people who think differently than myself and with whom I disagree. But a self described contrarian may well hold those opinions simply because they are contrary, not because it’s something they actually truly believe. That is rarely a satisfying conversation.
+1 to GP. Seeing this kind of products make happy in general. (Or at least appeal to my confirmation bias about how products should be built)

FYI, you _probably_ have a typo on pricing page "Term Extraction" should be "Term Extension"?
I don't take notes, but I put little colored arrow bookmark stickers pointing at the text on the page to come back to after I've finished reading.
and it's probably the best hypothesis why we don't seem to find much.
First Arm-Based Macs to Be 13-Inch MacBook Pro and iMac, Launches in Early 2021
what's the proof it's finite?
The first I heard about it 17 years ago, in news articles about "a black employee of the county’s Probation Department filed a discrimination complaint with the Office of Affirmative Action Compliance after spotting “master” and “slave” labels on a videotape machine." - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/masterslave/ .

Projects started changing terminology at least 6 years ago, like Django at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7801646 .
If you can build something that makes 5 figures in a summer, then that's awesome. But if you can't, don't drop out.
As far as I know, the concept of the 'great filter' was invented by (the now canceled) Robin Hanson.
Thanks for clarifying. Exactly what i was getting at - my "default state" was based on the Contrarian sans context (i.e. for the sake of it). Think it's an interesting thought exercise.
A purely scientific view says there is just as much proof of aliens as any other "never found" element or being that we have "believed" existed. This includes all fairy tales and religions.

Its incredibly sad to see so many intelligent people spend very real money and time on fantasies... Not for entertainment but instead under the guise of seeking scientific truth.
How Does Git Know What a Python Function/Class Definition Looks Like?
> Nowadays, with a lot of machine learning inference happening on the cloud

Right, and if it's not on the cloud, it runs locally, as everything did before "cloud" became popular. We don't need to call it "edge" just to raise VC money or put out some PR. We can just say it runs locally, on-device, etc.

If (big if) and when Adobe realizes that their Creative Cloud was a bad idea, are they going to call the next product "Adobe Edge Edition! Wow you can actually run PhotoShop on your own desktop!"?
Thanks for the great advice. You are a blessing!
b3n.org

A variety of topics, mostly homelab and tech

https://b3n.org/
Honestly, reading a book and knowing How to Read a Book is a skill.

I highly recommend this book for that reason:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Classic-Intelligent/dp/...
I think alien life is a step more likely than those other things. "Alien life" is much broader of a concept than fairy tales, and we have one piece of hard evidence for it's possibility in our own existence - it's not just made up out of thin air like say, dragons or unicorns.
I’m willing to bet if there was a similar project blowing similar amounts of money trying to find purple flying unicorns there would be a similar argument made against that endeavour.

And everyone would see how ridiculous an argument that it is to equate the two.
https://writtenrealms.com/ client is pretty nice.
Nginx UI – Access and modify the Nginx configurations files without CLI
My dad had a small stroke that left him unable to see in one eye. But being neurological, this wasn't exactly like losing sight.

If someone sitting next to him spoke, and he wasn't facing them with his remaining working eye, he would be taken by surprise, and would not always understand who was talking to him. Instead of turning his head, he would frequently ask, "Who's that? Where are you?" It wasn't just that he couldn't see the person, it was almost as if the person wasn't there. He frequently described how the blind side of his vision wasn't black, just "not there".

Another oddity was that he didn't notice the loss of vision until maybe a couple of days after it happened.
Skip to page 42 for the start. Unless you want to read the forwards and prefaces.
Is it possible that the universe is teeming with intelligent life, just randomly distributed throughout cosmic timelines and therefore unlikely to be detected?
This assumes that alien civilizations purely see us as competition and not an organism they can achieve synergy with.

What if organisms could choose other ways of allying and joining together? What if, say, you had the strong, dominant, ambitious sub-population of a race trying to ally with other strong, dominant, ambitious life forms without thought to race? What if the organisms in the universe which favored peace decided to seek each other out and unite for a common cause?
I think it says something beautiful about humanity. The desire to find truth and wonder, no matter how small the chance of success.

I like to imagine that humans or protohumans left Africa not just for resources but because they wanted to know what was out there beyond the next mountain, river or ocean.
N-body problem gravity simulator, written in vanilla JavaScript
Weren't the plans for Operation Market Garden discovered by the Germans in a crashed plane and ignored? Something like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden
Same here! I remember making my own port of DikuMUD because I wanted to start my own community but quickly learned how daunting the writing workload is and I sadly never finished my beginning city but it felt magical to have a friend from AlterAeon join me and enter this world I had built. It was all so accessible if you could just put in the time to world build.
After reading a lot and especially watching recent programs on Russian TV with witnesses comming out I am strongly convinced of human action.

They were lined in front of tent and told to leave external layer of clothes and shoes in the tent. Otherwise it would be to easy to escape in the darkness. Walked down the slope, some resisting had been beaten (Kolmogorova, Slobodin) and under the tree some were undressed and tortured with fire (Krivonischenko).

This TV show is a mess of but there are some interesting witnesses who came forward.

https://youtu.be/uBzHvq3fWh8?t=1295

https://youtu.be/dN7LSVjpPGs?t=882

https://youtu.be/UM2csYGEU5k?t=2160

The most mysterious persona are Krivonischenko nad Zolotaryov .
Something seems weird here.

I agree that Python has some overheard, but the time taken should presumably be dominated by the neural network object detection. In TensorFlow that is written in (highly optimised) C, and should be using the NEON instructions on ARM[1].

Notably, DeepStream gives the same performance with the Python and C++[2].

YOLO inference speed is generally higher than a Mobilenet SSD, but you can run YOLO on TensorFlow instead of Darknet[3], or use a NNPACK version of Darknet.

Edit: "I don't need to turn on the noisy Xavier fan." - wait - this isn't on a Raspberry Pi? If you have a GPU on device then there's lots of other things going on.

[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/install/source_rpi

[2] https://developer.nvidia.com/deepstream-sdk (Scroll down for benchmarks)

[3] https://github.com/hunglc007/tensorflow-yolov4-tflite
Is there any way I could talk to you a bit more about your note taking process? My email is ishan2 at gmail. Would really appreciate it!
Build yourself a weather station. Coding for ESP32
it's really theory (CS) vs building things (SWE). As you want to build larger projects, or build them better, you rely on CS ideas to do that. So SWE is really engineering assisted by applied CS. I've been studying CS for about two years and am only now learning any real application development. You can study CS without ever touching a computer or building an application (though doing both those things will give you context for why CS topics matter).

It's kinda like if you want to build a rocket to get to space, you can tinker with propellant, metal, and fire, and be a hobbyist that eventually you build a rocket to go to space. Or you can be a physicist and calculate everything on paper. To get to space you really need both those people, but the physicist can learn to build and the engineer can learn theory.
You're betting that in the next roughly two-and-a-half years, the common sense problem will be solved well enough to fool me, despite not having been solved in the entire history of AI up until now. I'll take that bet. How confident are you?
Where's the downloadable viewer that works with Vive / Rift? :)
Interesting time that was. I don't believe that any of these internet giants would ship a feature that is effectively a hack, in this day and age.

HTC and Palm also engaged in the back-and-forth, when Palm attempted to get their OS to sync with iTunes.

https://www.wired.com/2009/10/palm-pre-itunes/
Interesting. Is it possible to tell which Diffie-Hellman primes are used on an HTTPS connection?

Back in 2016 I noticed that OpenSSL was using the wrong primes (https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/fb015ca6f05e09b11a...) and since then I've been very curious to know how prevalent the previous DH primes are.
When malicious eavesdroppers are involved, some fates are worse than death...

http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00307.htm#anunsecuredlin...

Others like Vernor Vinge have speculated that the galactic net has really bad malware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
TermUI – A Window Manager for the Terminal
>you cut yourself off from a lot of competing non-remote employers

Just because you're working remotely doesn't mean you wouldn't consider a non-remote job at any price. So the fact that you're local geographically does not reduce to a value of zero, even if you are currently in a remote arrangement. The employers are competing for people too.
Taking a step back: Why take notes when reading a book?

Do you take notes for every book you read or just some?
Hanson gave it that name in the 90s but it’s implied in Drake’s equations - I think people in the 1960s were aware of the subtext