skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, there is some controversy, but many have identified this post as the 'oldest on the net' and couldn't resist the urge to reply: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/net.general/yJn8WHlzc7...

I guess it's motivated by the same urge people have when the decide to etch their names into the Colosseum in Rome.
We're still trying to convince people that US police aren't killing blacks more than whites, and that the gender wage gap is a myth.

People will believe what's convenient for them and their lifestyles.
My Bet on Rust has been Vindicated
Which is why wearing clothes is a merely a recommendation, and walking around naked isn't illegal anywhere.
Are you blaming Bill Nye for people's unwillingness to believe that climate change is occurring?
God I love whisky. That is an interesting idea. Need to try.
My point wasn’t that they should support war based toys, it’s that if your argument is that LEGO should not produce toys that glorify violence and death, then Star Wars clearly qualifies.
Yep, I have a friend who works there. Not looking good right now.
The goal of climate change denialists is to deny climate change by any excuse necessary. If the hot button topic wasn't the existence of different gender identities, they'd find something else as a wedge issue.
Why the Bioinformatic Industry Needs to Privatize
Happy Hacking used to have cheap membrane "Lite" versions in 80% format. Those were great for the price.
Honestly, they're still really good devices. I have one from last year that's a solid alternative to an in-dash navigation screen, and for what I use it for, just as good as Google Maps, and in many ways better (way more convenient and customizable, completely offline except traffic, bigger screen, auto-on...).
SpaceX has abandoned the coating approach and is going with a shade approach, which works even better. The next set of satellites all have the shade.
The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
I'm all in favor of cool projects, and I have done my fair share of useless experiments. But wouldn't it just be simpler to attach a dumpster-sourced monitor and keyboard to the server in question for the 3-4 times a year you brick it? To me the idea of a locally placed 1:1 KVM "switch" (huh? it's not switching anything if it's 1:1) is crazy. It makes sense if it is remotely located, but not if it's within your own home.
> Presumably all Chinese

That seems unlikely considering that Vietnam's entire coastline forms the western border of the South China Sea, so that's where they're most likely to fish. The Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia also border the sea and occasionally stop fishing boats in what they consider their territorial waters.

China probably has the largest fleet, but that doesn't mean the other countries are just watching them fish without doing anything.
I asked 12 APM companies about the future of APM (2019)
Given the choice between making life easier for developers who are too lazy to learn some new syntax and literally breaking the whole of the internet because websites stop rendering correctly with the changed meaning of things, I think I'd side with the adding more syntax. It's not even a hard decision.
I have noticed a commonality between systems that are unintuitive to use like git and CSS: they didn't sufficiently mimic nature, or common everyday concepts.

Say you design a new relational DB. You want all the postgres and SQL people to switch so you adopt SQL as the querying language. Your DB becomes so popular that it eventually gains +80% market share. Many people now have to learn SQL as their first querying language and now you've created another git.

Another scenario is a system being appropriated for something else like CSS was (?).

Copying your competitors is simply not a guarantee that your system will stand the test of time. The only constant is nature.
Yes but JavaScript generations are like every six months.

I took a 3 year break from anything Frontend. Felt like I had gone through a time machine.
Nirvana was not just popular among the posters friends. Pop radio play is a narrow way to measure popularity.
That's passing fourteen times further away from the moon. It won't have any effect on satellite operations.

For a sense of scale on satellites:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit#/media/File:Or...
I think in general there is a negative relationship between money and interesting work. There are definitely outliers, but you have to get lucky (or unlucky).

At one end of the spectrum, you can come up with a great idea and spend day and night working on it as a solo founder. Your wage might be 0, but the work will be as interesting as can possibly be since you are the only one deciding what you are working on.

At the other end of this, you can imagine a hypothetical position where for $5,000,0000/year, you would do anything you are asked no matter how boring.

Where you exist on this scale is up to you.
The most common algorithm to manage airplanes, satellites, hot pixels, and other undesired photons in astrophotos is a process called Kappa-Sigma Clipping. It essentially rejects pixel values from subframes in your image stack that fall outside a user-inputted deviation from the mean.

In other words, the process works wonderfully to get rid of the starlink-emitted photons, but you lose that subframe's signal, lowering your signal to noise ratio. Not the end of the world. But inconvenient and sometimes costly to professional astronomers.
The narrative around this whole situation is completely ridiculous. These people were out there besieging the Federal courthouse for weeks before the federal agents started seriously responding. Night after night, these people set off commercial grade fireworks, start fires, and use weapons like bats, hammers and slingshots with ball bearings.

They started a big fire last night before the Feds launched tear gas, and the mayor said, "I didn't see anything to warrant this response." It's totally absurd. The national media and local politicians are running cover for a band of lunatics.
Yes, you have to know the "trick" and then it is easy.
As a counter example, Stripe uses Ruby and Mongo.
AI 'ethics' is how you get China dominating AI research eventually.

All these OpenAI spooks are either doing it intentionally or accidentally and at stake like this, what does it matter when the end result is a convincing loss.
How much sympathy can I really spare for a purely leisurely hobby like backyard astronomy vs. satellites, Starlink, and our space tech?

To me it's like complaining that your photography hobby is harder now that more people can afford to travel and they get in the way of your favorite tourist shots.

I'm sure there are good examples of trade-offs that matter here like the impact on terrestrial research telescopes, but a guy snapping a pic of a comet and ranting about it on Twitter frankly has the opposite effect on me.
Crazy. Is there a breakdown for these? Maybe due to large airports or giant logistic centres?

Or perhaps California emits few CO2 so that is has become a larger factor percentage wise?
An alternative take from a journalist on the ground: https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1286158630161494016

I'm not sure where things are headed, but Wheeler has a modicum of power over the police, and both his re-election and the "Little Brother" kidnapping situation depend crucially on his ability to tell them to be less violent.
>In places such as Siberia, a hotter climate can have devastating effects, not just on the local wildlife and people who live there, but also on the world’s climate system as a whole, for example through thawing permafrost, reduced snow cover and melting ice.

My biggest issue with climate alarmism is that sources universally consider only the negative outcomes of climate change. Thawing permafrost also opens up an enormous amount of arable and habitable land. Some species will benefit from warmer temperatures and extended ranges (and that's not just insects).

Not to mention that neither the change or the rate is unprecedented according to geologic data.

The world is very unlikely to end, human migration and economic impact will be gradual (≈100) years, and people need to consider that mitigation of climate change at this point is also not "free" when they ask people to go vegan (yeah, right).
There are widely used ways to deploy IPv6 networks compatible with the IPv4 internet.

NAT64/DNS64 (iOS): Your device only gets an IPv6 address, but when it queries an ipv4onlydomain.com, it receives an IPv6 address mapped to the domains IPv4 address. When it sends packets to it, they are translated by the ISP to IPv4. All their customers remain IPv6-only. This method requires apps to be able to handle IPv6 addresses, which Apple enforced.

XLAT464 (Android, Windows): your device gets an IPv6 address. The OS translates IPv4 packets to a special range of IPv6 before sending them out, because you’re only connected over IPv6. The ISP translates them to IPv4 to reach legacy services.

The benfit is: absolutely no NAT for IPv6 packets. Complete end-to-end connectivity.

192.168.0.1 shouldn’t be glorified. Good riddance. We have mDNS now, just have the user type router.local into their browser.
Ultimately, IME, no resource will ever tell you how to practically become one but personally I found these resources helpful:

* 'Mastery' by Robert Greene

* Learning How to Learn (on Coursera)

* I find OCW (on YouTube) pretty inspiring

* 'Ultralearning' by Scott H. Young

* Ask lots of questions, keeping asking and then ask some more. You have Google and YouTube so don't worry, you will find an answer... eventually.

+ I'm naturally a very curious guy and my mind won't just rest until I learn (more about) that thing, whatever it might be.
Awesome! Thank you so much! Would you mind putting up the output of lspci -vvv to pastebin or something similar and linking it here?

FWIW, my goal is to run FreeBSD-current on it.
This was one factor when I chose my current ISP, they have provided IPv6 for a long time.
Also, many small museums aren't "art" museums with semi-independent objects that have similar value to collectors anywhere.

Many of them have some sort of focus on the history of a place, person, community, people, industry, etc., and much of the value of the artifacts they house comes from the process of curating and contextualizing them to tell us a story about the past.

Because they're telling a story, they may also have replicas of artifacts they can't obtain which hold narrative/educational/illustrative value but fairly little collector value.

Another common genre is something like a house, restored to and preserved in roughly period condition. When these exist because a "significant" person or family built/owned/lived in the house, they'll likely try to obtain genuine objects they can connect to the people there. But they'll of course fill it in with other instances of objects they know the family owned, replicas, and best-guesses.

The person or family may only be locally significant, and the artifacts may have little independent commercial value. The main thing of value is likely to be the building itself.
True enough. Have you tried to get a paying job playing with puppies for example? It's hard enough to get a volunteer position for that.
Ask HN: Slack Menu Bar Application
Has anyone seen or want a Slack app that just sits in the menu bar? You can click on the icon, quick reply to anything that needs your attention, and get it back out of the way. The electron apps are just so sluggish.
> Canada, Russia, the Nordic countries, maybe Mongolia.

Dunno about others, but the Internet says that Russia is worried about the warming, because it thaws the permafrost, which makes the ground in the cold wilderness unstable, which is very dangerous for all the resource extraction and transportation (pipelines) infrastructure that they have in Siberia. Once the now-rock-solid ground starts turning into a swamp, they will have trouble keeping the infra intact.
or even go boldly
Smaller firms will have more greenfield opportunities that allow you to move at a much faster pace. Larger enterprises (FAANG or not) will have software that "works", and to make changes to it requires more consideration across the board.
The idea is great. You have a very strong character to quit drinking. Hope this app helps other people become happier too.
Of course it would be simpler, but it's also addressed multiple times in the blog post why he decided to do it anyway.

I'm glad he did because it looks like a fantastic project.
360 cameras produce spherical panoramas from a single point and would not help capture of a person on a stage over a regular camera.
Media ️Loves Panic. Here’s Why
Same boat here, but about six months ago.
Not all abstract art. Some Kandinsky, for example, is more than decoration to me.
How we cut our Docker push time by 90%
How is it different to upload a disk image containing encrypted data?

You can also use versionning when you sync your files.
The pigs that could solve the human organ transplant crisis (2019)
Anecdotally, both credit cards I used on Instacart got popped for fraud right after each other in the past week.
I mean, some of this stuff gets confusing.

Here in Chicago we just had an episode where a white person was selling food by pushing around a little cooler like hispanic people typically do, and we all had to learn that only certain races can do certain types of jobs or else it's appropriation.

The killings thing has to be judged _per capita_ or else you get the wrong answer, and that of course make sense but the way you phrased it, it's tricky.

I think you have to remove the effects of childbearing, hours worked, and type of job to get the gender wage gap to show the real numbers, too.

Life isn't simple.
Twitter OP is also arguing that there will never be human settlements off this Earth, which is bullshit.

Assuming humanity exists long enough, it will expand throughout the solar system. At very least to the moon.

We can argue about how long that might take, but not about it ever happening.
Quite. Guess they had a spare Sunday....
Yea I walk anytime I sit across from a manager and they say our corporate raise limit is x. Its terribly discouraging and makes me want to burn the building down. I should be paid for a portion of the value I'm adding to the company. If I wrote software in 3 months that billed out over 500k every 12 months, I expect a substantial raise or bonus not 3,5, 10%..
"Win" may be subjective. Is it a win if your land is flooded by refugees or the subject of a land grab or other power plays by a global super power?
> Meetings on product design, meetings to coordinate development, meetings to talk about how many meetings we have, a month spent writing perf reviews, launch processes that require buy in from three different PAs to change the color of a widget.

This starts to happen to small and medium sized companies once they start hiring from the megacorps.
Does your company base it's product price on cost or value when selling?

Should employees be thought of differently?

My answer is No, they should not have to take a pay cut based on location.

Another thought, if you do cut their salary, what does that do to loyalty and retention? Will you be paying more in the end to replace good people?
True, because professional astronomers, lucky them, are provided a completely different sky devoid of satellites, debris and other man-made objects.
I'm always extremely skeptical of claims like this. For something with input this simple, it could be embedded into a web page and take arbitrary video to prove that it works as well as they claim.
Choo-Choo!

https://choo.io
Julee, thank you for your support.
> You are confusing weather and climate.

As a non-native english speaker, I wasn't aware these were different things, and you didn't clarify. Could you explain the difference insofar as it's related to this conversation? The dictionary didn't help much; they still look like synonyms to me.

Weather[1]

1 : the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness

Climate[2]

1 : a region of the earth having specified climatic conditions

2 : a : the average course or condition of the weather at a place usually over a period of years as exhibited by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation
b : the prevailing set of conditions (as of temperature and humidity) indoors a climate-controlled office
3 : the prevailing influence or environmental conditions characterizing a group or period : atmosphere

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weather

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/climate
Thanks so much, that watered it down for me just right.

So are there any tells/indications that Apple's silicon took this into consideration from the beginning, or is virtualization something they had to retrofit into the core? It would be pretty amazing if say, way back in A1 days, we could point to something in the core that indicated they already started laying the groundwork to make virtualization feasible later.
Dude, thanks so much for this. I have a loud machine I’m using for ML stuff and I’ve been reluctant to move it to the basement as I didn’t want to have to run downstairs with a monitor for the odd issue. I also looked at KVMs and was annoyed at the prices. I have a R Pi sitting here I was looking to do a project with. This is perfect!
Nate Graham, coordinator of the KDE Usability & Productivity initiative, wrote a full review:

https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/23/the-superfast-ryzen-po...
I took a hard look at this laptop particularly with the 1440p resolution, but 101.2% sRGB, 71.7% DCI-P3 and 69.7% Adobe RGB still isn't in the color gamut ranges I'm considering acceptable for content creation. The truth is that ASUS are more focused on high refresh rates for gamers than they are content creation. When 60Hz was the norm a few years ago, a lot of gaming laptops offered wide color gamuts and high pixel density to stand out even though these don't help gaming.
The historical averages for winters in my part of Canada has been rising for the past century, which I can only say I'm glad about.

However, some provinces, like Alberta, have already had increased insurance prices due to the more drastic weather patterns due to climate change. It's not a coastal province, but hail, floods, and fires are still extremely expensive.
Can confirm it is a ransomware attack.
Deep Learning Study Group
Hey,

We are meeting up via Zoom since a few weeks to read the "Dive into Deep Learning" book together (taking turns of reading out aloud) and discussing it's contents plus trying the exercises at the end of each of the book's sections.

If you are interested in joining this reading/study group, please write me a short mail to manuelkorfmann4@gmail.com and I'll invite you to the Google Hangouts chat group we're using to initiate meetings.
Yes, that's likely to happen. In Canada as well. But the cost of doing that seems minor compared to the value of so much forests and cropland expanding northward.
The issue is that LANG -> IR is a lossy transform: some constructs are lost, some language specific optimization passes could be applied, etc. Going from LANG1 -> LANG2 starts with more information, so it could in theory work better.
in the west, yes. In the places where real nature still exists; no, everyone's still happy to tear it down for convenience.

evidence: Brazil's rainforest. Indonesian palm oil. Chinese mines. African, well, everything.
Ah! That's the name of it. Thanks! I didn't know how to tie it to any kind of identifier.
Ask HN: How to fix online dating?
The question is intentionally broad given the range of problems in online dating. Some common to all and others a little specific based on location, culture, technologies etc. So if you're proposing solution(s), briefly mention the specific probelm(s) too. Thank you.
You can upscale tiny image using a different neural network.
I'm going to have to try this with HL2, thanks for the lib!
Coincidentally, Walmart also maintains a lot of clojure libraries now, including the go-to graphql implementation in clojure: https://github.com/walmartlabs/lacinia
As a counterpoint to that, Ziply just bought Frontier in my area and now owns all the DSL and FTTH service. They have the worst customer service I have ever experienced. They rolled through and canceled all the autopay, didn't tell us for three months, sent us a letter telling us we didn't have to do anything, and followed that up by sending us no bills or anything until the account was three months past due. Not a single person on their customer service team could refund a $30.00 late fee on an account that had previously been current for 5 years. On top of that when my fiancee was calling every CSR she would get on the phone with would offer to transfer her to the correct department, then hang up. She literally spent a total of 8 hours on the phone over the course of two weeks, so it ended up costing them way more money than they extracted from their little late fee. And their CEO had the unmitigated gall to say they have the best customer service on their website.

In contrast, Comcast/Xfinity have not caused any problems at all for me over the 10+ years I've been a subscriber. Also Comcast was able to give us 300 megabit cable for less than the cost of 75 megabit fiber from Ziply. So it wasn't even comparable.

So yeah, DSL/FTTH might be more technically capable, but it's only as strong as the company providing the service.
How does needing a car to go everywhere in a rural or suburban environment decrease emissions?
If we can make space travel cheap enough to get more Hubble-like telescopes up there, then yes, this.

I believe that's part of the goal of SpaceX
For California it's the latter: the denominator has gotten smaller while transportation has stayed flat. It's a mistake to try to blame it on trucks and airports. Private passenger cars are the majority. Air travel is 25x smaller.

https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/pubs/reports/2000_2017/g...
It doesn't really bother me, but for what it's worth, the host (Lex Fridman) has stated that it's simply the way he speaks as a result of his brain trying to choose what thread to follow and what to say
Blender works fine on a powerful laptop. The only problem is that if you want to do cycles renderings (the raytraced, "realistic" rendering mode) you would have to run it essentially overnight, or longer to render your scene.
Model building, texturing, animation, basically everything else blender does should work just fine
Hard to tell, I would guess most large well-established companies have situations / teams like this.

I work for a large videogame company, things are more or less the same, except we have two clear modes of operation among teams:
* "production" (gameteams themselves), work in frantic mode all the time (crunch time being very common)
* all other teams, work in glacial mode, technical debt is pretty high, same as your situation

When I started, it was my dream job. Years later...

Quite difficult to find a dream job and maintain that state of mind for long.

I would suggest you speak to your manager(s) and find / create some new projects, be creative and proactive.

Or, your current job may not really make you happy and you'll need to find something else to do.
It's kind of amazing to think that if we hadn't gone the HTML route, we might've gone the RIP route..
Thanks for reading!

Yeah, it was kind of like the perfect difficulty level for this kind of project. If it was two months of work to get it working at all, I probably would have gotten discouraged, but it worked out that every couple weeks I was rewarded with a breakthrough that substantially improved the latency until it was finally a practical tool.