skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Timely -- given the COVID sourdough boom -- but misleading title. If you know about cultivating a sourdough "mother" you know that it relies on spores from the air.

This article has nothing to do with that. A better title would have been "Cleaner air may be bad for grain production". The point is that as coal power plants shut down there is less acid rain. Acid rain is actually good for crops in the sense that they need sulphur, which acid rain provides. Farmers are now having to provide sulphur in the form of fertilizer.
You don't know much about the conservative media ecosystem, do you? (Don't try to pretend you know more than I do about it--I grew up immersed in it.)
No the person is closer but so what? What crime has been committed that justifies extra-judicial beating? Are the police so poorly trained they cannot be filmed at close range without becoming violent?
Bizarrely, a lot. Just a couple weeks ago Hertz was the most traded stock on the NYSE and is still up there with incredibly high volume. People in this thread are really underestimating how easy it would be blend into the crowd of millions of traders.

As of today, Hertz trading volume is around 5 million, while Tesla volume is around 13 million.
Both DDR4 and DDR5 have the same 288 pinout. Hopefully nothing bad happens if a stick is plugged into the wrong socket.
There’s a value in quantity. Show me mass genocide happening in any of those other human rights violation hotspots.
That's only because they choose to. The "Fiduciary obligation to shareholders" thing is not only wrong, but it isn't the way a system needs to work.

A corporation, which is a legal entity that owns capital, production and services, is composed of people. Those people could use the powers of the corporation to advance the well being of its community.
The first line of defense against authoritarianism is eyes on the regime. You're defending disproportionate response to a non-violent checking of power. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
If your time tolerance is nanoseconds, the engineering is everything.
Also, I'm laughing about being called close-minded after my comment got killed by a mod.
That's actually a pretty good idea. Your idea is the first one I've read out of hundreds that I think could've possibly been a more optimal strategy.

It's tough to know for sure if it would've made more, though. Given the limited time window, I think I slightly lean towards exploiting greed vs. exploiting altruism. If they could somehow keep he tweets up for over 24 hours, I think your idea would likely win, but given they may have thought they might have about an hour, I think the scam route might've been more reliable.
This is a fantastic article, thanks for sharing! This part really resonated:

Psychiatric research doesn’t support the notion of simple cause and effect in mental health, instead uncovering a far more complex and indeterminate picture of vulnerabilities. There is no evidence to justify the continued promotion of one-dimensional theories such as ‘chemical imbalance’. Nor does the beneficial use of psychiatric medicines require it. In fact, their precise mechanism of action and relation to troublesome experience remains a mystery. It would be more truthful for mental health professionals and public health campaigns to acknowledge this.
Beautiful.

Honestly, nothing scares me more than losing all the code and all the technology we've developed in the past 70 or so years. There's been so much advancement, but it's also transferred in such a way (institutional knowledge, propietary software, proprietary hardware, etc.) that it's super easy to lose. If we preserve open hardware and software, then we could rebuild in the case of civilizational decline and the accompanying knowledge loss, something which we would neither be the first nor the last to experience.
>Personally I would absolutely consider persistent misery, or experiencing extreme sadness over minor things, to be a clear proof that there is something wrong with my brain. Whether I treat that with therapy or medication, I think that is very much worth treating, and definitely not worth simply accepting.

I think you are making the assumption that it is treatable, or that the treatment advantages outweigh the disadvantages, which is not always the case.

I think there is a general over-subscription to the idea that everything can be treated or optimized. Some diseases are incurable and sometimes a personal optimal is still poor compared to average.
Visible voting might have had some bad effects but I'd say you are basically wrong about it being any kind of fundamental problem.

The early Internet had plenty of poison ("flame wars" of that era were the precursor to what we have now). The Internet hadn't solved it's how-to-get-along problem and it just expanded that situation as it became dominant and the "craziness from the Internet" managed to have more real world consequences.

As other have mentioned, sorting by active thread turns comments into votes and make the least liked and most disagreeable comment stay visible. So the division between voted and not-voted systems isn't as great as one might imagine.

The thing is; then and now, actual moderation is the situation that can solve this. Leadership in humans is sort of divided between attention-focusing behavior and rules-membership-enforcing behavior, both are fine as parts of society. We can see both things at play in online activity but most online forum create a unbalanced in favor of attention-focusing behavior and a certain ideology can this imbalance is great. It's not, it's a part of a rather sick society that America has wound up with, we wind-up literally on the verge of catastrophe from this.
I think they refer to the failure mode where: Nothing happened for a day or two. All the experts travel to the location to try to understand what went wrong, in situ... and THEN the explosion occurs.
Sure, that's routine moderation. It was a duplicate of an existing thread, as a user helpfully pointed out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23857140.

The question of which is the best source is somewhat separate. I'm not sure a press release is the best source. In this case we decided to merge the discussion into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23857072, which points to an article that isn't paywalled. The judgment is linked in the thread.
Great strategy, I love how elegant it is, but I do wonder about two things regarding this method:

Testing it (especially with async integration/e2e tests, which I prefer) would be tricky, I'd want some tests to verify that the "GenServer write cache" is more or less counting correctly under some (potentially stressful) scenarios that I can stress out by having other things run in the VM.

From what's presented, I'm not sure yet how to get this to work with distribution, in the case that you would want to drop this into a distributed phoenix setting. Do you start the pages :global instead of registered? Do you start a Registry with :global, and have the cluster restart it if vm that hosts it dies?
I'm curious, do they perform some sort of test reads on the reels to make sure that the data was actually copied over correctly?
GPT-3 looks incredible. I've just put my name on their waitlist.
When Apple releases Swift under Apache 2.0, which includes an explicit, unequivocal patent license, it inspires a lot more confidence than all the shenanigans Oracle has been pulling with GPL2. Whom Apple cares about is less important than how they behave. With Swift, they're buying goodwill in the FOSS community. Oracle, on the other hand, keeps burning bridges.
The best defence for Taiwan against China is to be an indispensible trading partner. Once China is self sufficient in IC fab. then increasingly aggressive moves against Taiwan could be more likely. I fear for Taiwan in the long term.

US foreign policy often turns out to be short sighted.
I don't see how one can say "the SEC is good at investigating stock market shenanigans, therefore you couldn't possibly profit that way, end of story." That was a pretty common take in the other thread as well.

This is not insider trading. When an insider tips off an associate, investigators have full information on the pool of insiders. "Who knew about this ahead of time?" is a strong filter. Assuming the attacker had perfect opsec and the attack itself doesn't leave evidence that exposes them, they live in a much larger and murkier pool.

Additionally, the attacker might have known of this vector months ahead of time. This gives them time to lay groundwork, find accomplices, and prepare.

Quick thought experiment:

There is a bar I used to go to pretty often. It was cash only. Aside from cell tower pings, possible Google Maps location history, and N days worth of security footage, there is nothing tying me to that bar. I've known one of the bartenders there for five years now. We grew up in the same town. We're not Facebook friends, we don't talk on the phone, but we've now known each other in this context for quite a while. If you had a perfect "back home" social graph, we're probably ~3-4 degrees of separation. Linking us to one another locally starting from his perspective would involve very invasive investigation (i.e. putting names to faces for everybody on the N days of security footage that bar has archived, a subpeona for bulk subscriber data of people who have been to that bar, etc).

If I try to involve him in my market manipulation scheme, there's the risk he turns me in outright or that he rips me off and keeps the money for himself. Basically, the criminal conspiracy version of counterparty risk. Set that risk aside for a moment. Assume that he's on board with the plan. Also assume that I, as the attacker, leave no digital evidence pointing back to me.

Think about how egregious his trading behavior would have to be to bring enough scrutiny upon himself that the SEC has people reviewing this bar's security footage, building profiles of the randos who have been to that bar, all that. I don't claim that "tipping off the bartender" is the world's most original securities crime, but unearthing that connection is a much more involved process than the cases of "spouse/sibling/college roommate/tennis partner of CEO bought OTM options a week before acquisition was announced."

X people make, say, 1-10 million dollars off of a zany bet on stocks. Imagine how obvious your trade would have to be such that Y years from now, one of those new millionaires moves back to East Bumblef and makes a money-losing real estate transaction with another East Bumblefian (say, moi), and the SEC jumps over a hedge like "ah-HA! We've been watching your accounts this whole time, that other East Bumblefian knows how computers work and lived in an apartment four blocks from your old workplace in 2015, nobody could possibly negotiate this poor of a land deal, checkmate!"
They might be, but the money nevertheless is pretty clean (has an acceptable origin).

The way around this is to leave no traces of the hack or to cash in using another person.
I moved to Denver in 1986. I've had good career advancement in 2 industries (defence and computer programming) over the years. Denver has it's oddities, but the weather is actually far better than people say, and there's very few biting insects.
This guy is totally insane. And his wife is a saint.
Now add this to vidconf systems by figuring out which speaker is who, and make a button to talk only to them.
Because it's a lie. He didn't make such a robot.

I found it uninteresting especially thinking you could get your hair cut from a robot.

I think there is a gap between people who have never programmed with electricity and Engineers. If you have never controlled a motor, this is future tech.

If you are a design engineer, this simply doesn't work.
Dude, you should check the map of the Qing, compare it to the Republic of China (Taiwan), then compare it to the PRC.

They ceded a whole lot of land all over the place, peacefully, as part of negotiations. For example the whole of Mongolia was part of Qing. They are not as war mongering as you believe.
What Hentai Means
That's exactly what got Huawei into this mess in the first place. The US placed sanctions on selling telecom equipment to Iran and Huawei went "We aren't selling telecom equipment to Iran, this totally unrelated company 'Skycom Technologies' is" who happen to be comprised of employees who still had Huawei email addresses.

Guess how well that turned out.
I'd guess public outcry - people despise this type of practice and Shopify endorsing it would hurt their brand.
Love it. Lmk if you never need a hand. I was on the core analysis team at Fortify.
I evaluated on-premise Redash as an alternative for engineers and analysts who don't want to learn tableau. It's harder to setup than Metabase but more intuitive to use (for someone with SQL expertise).

However, their feature-set was fairly lacking and the company as a whole seemed directionless.

It's a tough space to be in, and I'm disappointed they couldn't find their footing.
They are looking to open it up to everyone in August. I am so excited to see what the world does with it!
Russia trying to steal Covid-19 vaccine data, say UK, U.S. and Canada
That doesn't excuse anything. You may be afraid of blood and have a palsy making you a terrible surgeon but that doesn't excuse a surgeon burning their signature onto your pancreas.
Ah, wordplay. You're saying it works? I'm not convinced.

My experience is that it sows distrust in praise.

"You just said something unpleasant to me, so I don't trust the praise you added after is genuine, and now I don't trust the praise you said before is genuine either. I think you added them just to fit the form of a PRP. Maybe that's what you do all the time. So I think you're basically lying to me about the praise, insulting my intelligence and trying to manipulate me by crude emotional bullshit. This makes me angry".

Which is not very useful if you have constructive critical feedback to give, as it is no longer constructive.

In my view, dressing up a shit filling in a sandwich is a form of shallow manipulative wordplay, and for at least some people, it makes them upset and angry, even if they don't show it immediately. Because if it's done often it will make them distrustful. In some sense, they are right to become distrustful.

Most people need to feel some amount of socially rewarding praise and recognition in their working lives.

But if you're often using PRP... you lose the ability to convey praise to them in ways they will experience as actual for real praise.

So I advocate for separating these things out more, and making it known that is intentional.

When there is shit filling to deliver compassionately, work on the meaning itself, not dissonantly trying to simultaneously convey it and hide it, which puts people who notice on permanent alert that your words do not mean what they initially sound like.
This is a pretty fascinating exploration into what wasn't known about the bomb prior to the test, the range of expectations about what would happen, and the various things that the test results affected.
This does not always work. Not necessarily "hearsay", but there was a coworker of mine who would happily take credit for everyone elses work by sending emails in a timely manner (people tell them stuff they work on, then you'd see an email from them pretending they lead the effort and it was their idea). Many times this got escalated, the manager didn't care. Everytime someone talked to that problematic person, it was "the first time he heard about it".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt-GUAxmxdk
Arduino Running NES Games
He's downvoted but he's got a point. What if it's not as simple as just changing their name? What if you dismantle Huawei and sell it off to "other" companies, operating independently and/or cooperating with each other?

At some point it would be extremely hard to say "this is still Huawei".

The US gov should've banned all major Chinese companies, because that seems like a big loophole to me. Even then it still seems like just a temporary measure.
Well yeah, of course. Pretty much every US city is buried in homeless populations because human decency is off the table if there isn't a profit motive behind it.

You can look at the glass is half full view of this, though - thanks to selfish interests an evil regime is being cut off from market access to spy on people around the world. Its of mutual benefit to the capitalists that saw this happen and the people whom China would have invaded the privacy of.

Of course that begs the question what Oppo, Xiaomi, etc are still doing in US markets... just because they are using international SoCs doesn't mean their assembly in China is trustworthy. But if you start asking those questions you start wondering about all the phones assembled in China by external companies like Apple or all the chips added to Samsung phones sourced from China, etc.
The Case for Tyranny
> This is why I vote blue, we need to adequately fund our government systems or face issues like this.

exactly. CA state unemployment system doesn't have any of these issues because they always vote blue and fund their govt systems.
So it’s either or? Both can’t be right? Geez. Straw man much?
In the brown undergraduate computer vision course one of the homework’s (or final project; my memory is a little hazy) was to improve the tracking of webgazer. People were pretty successful from what I remember. As an undergrad I didn’t think much of it but as a grad student I would be slightly mortified if undergraduates were improving on my current research for homework.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23857072, which was also on the front page. It was posted later, but it's a more substantive article, and not paywalled.
Gonna be hard without EUV lithography
>US entry into WWII was mainly for reasons that had little to do with human rights.

Reasons? There were no reasons, the US entered WWII when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor!

And then Germany declared war on the US.
The US Attorney General gives a lot of indicators of corruption. At the very least, the current US Presidential administration gives a lot of indications of unfairly favoring some companies over others. Why should we believe the US Attorney General on this?
These companies are putting up quotes like:

"Silence is not an option" and

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

While happily doing business with the CCP, and keeping mum about Chinese human rights abuses.
No it would not necessarily be better, on balance. A critique of a system is not meant to be an attack on it nor an argument that there is necessarily some other better system. In fact, I would argue that the difficulty with having these conversations nowadays is precisely your response.

In the American context at least, most of the time when people point out the failures in Capitalism people mean it more in the way that you might point out edge cases that need to be accounted for. The problem in having these conversations is people take it as some rhetorical device meant to actually promote Communism or some other philosophy.

The point OP is making here, as I understand it, is that there is a paradox in a Capitalist system in that if self-interest and profit are at it's core, then by definition that self-interest will override any other consideration to the point that any company will be more than willing to sacrifice any other concern for the possibility of making money.

We have known for the past 30 years at least that China is on a trajectory to surpass or challenge American supremacy and yet corp after corp was willing to send them technical knowledge and jobs that grew their economy to the point that they can build artificial islands in the South China Sea. Let me remind you that we won WW2 primarily on the strength of being able to outproduce our adversaries, not on technological superiority.

So now though, we're super concerned about Chinese influence in the tech industry, specifically. I am worried too, of course you have to be. But it's tremendously silly to act like now it's suddenly a concern and single out one sector or company (e.g. NBA) as if the sacrifice of values in order to make money is not an inherent characteristic of Capitalism.
This kind of poor security is why we need legislation to make banks responsible for financial damages due to identity theft or fraud. When they will be on the hook for potentially millions of dollars, maybe they will care more about security and offer better protections than a signature
Is nobody else going to comment on the disgraceful number of adverts? I got a couple of minutes in, and mid sentence a couple of unskippable ads interject, so I skip forwards bit and a couple more, again, miss sentence. It's annoying and I just gave up all interest in what might otherwise have been an interesting video.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23857574)
I once hoped the same thing for religion.

Unfortunately it's a misleading, nearly ethnocentric belief, like the one where we assumed wealth and prosperity results in democracy.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/03/01/how-the-west-go...

This is hubris. "Our model of society is optimal for scientific progress".

The recent Chinese diaspora are largely aggressively pro-china regardless of whether they are here as students or highly educated workers. Everyone who is not Han-Chinese a laowai, or "foreigner", even in their own country.

China is showing the world an alternative to Western democracy, and they can point to clear failures of democracy with populism, corruption, and white people's ridiculous inability to wear masks ;)

Which model will be more resilient when the sea levels start to rise?
it wont change the fact that Nazis should be cancelled. Other wise, D-Day was just a mistake.. and we know it wasnt.
This is essentially a Manhattan project like initiative. It doesn’t have to happen overnight. China now has some of the best universities doing research in optics.

If it happens in 5 years what will ASML do then ? The west’s monopoly on this sector would be finished.

At this point China has no choice but to develop the tech or be forced to not have processors. Time will tell.

Given that hard power is being used to punish China they will use every means at their disposal from massive investments and manpower to poaching talents and even espionage.

If North Korea can make nukes then this shouldn’t be impossible for a power like China.

I have a sneaking suspicion that they are much further ahead than they are revealing in public which explains their confidence and refusal to back down. Time will tell.
London-based AI insurance-tech startup Brolly acquired by Direct Line Group
It’s amazing how the law and order types who are always standing up for law enforcement are the first to say that the justice system unfairly pressures defendants when its one of their own.....

Oh and by the way, “The Hill” is definitely not part of the “liberal media.”
Besides VSCode's LiveShare that was already mentioned, there are several tools that allow folks to collaboratively edit code: Floobits[1] and CodeTogether[2] are a couple that I've used successfully (I'm an IntelliJ IDEA fan, so like to stay in my IDE).

[1] https://floobits.com/
[2] https://www.codetogether.com/
China has been able to develop advanced stealth technology, quantum computing, supersonic combustion engine, and more, after the state decided that they were priorities that had to be developed.

I don't see why EUV would be impossible for them to replicate. The list of times when we (and I too) thought that they could not catch up in a certain technology is long, and I won't make that bet anymore.

The resources of the Chinese state are incredibly vast. If they decide that they absolutely must get something done, that will most likely happen. It would be a Manhattan Project level initiative, but even more important.