skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was totally in agreeance with emergency action in March and partially through April. However, limits have to be instill in said emergency action or you get something like the perpetual War on Terror. Many political leaders want to keep their lockdown powers and abilities going. Hell, to this day Miami Beach is issuing $50 citations for people not wearing masks in their cars or moves their mask for a moment so they can drink water. We can argue about the March and April reaction was too much or too little, but that's hindsight. I think with the knowledge at the time, it was close to appropriate-ish (speaking for the USA). Different places got hit harder than others and they reacted appropriately for their region. My county for example saw next to nothing even though we're a fairly heavy populated county in Florida. What gets to me, the pressure to up the restrictions more and more even though contracting rates haven't really changed throughout the whole time.

And don't think I believe covid will "disappear". It won't. It's like h1n1. It'll be with us forever. Just like the flu outbreaks we get of 40k to 70k deaths. We'll always see it happening. That's life.

If you're not in the USA, one of the issues that really fired off this problem, the Michigan governor banned the sale of seeds during the shutdown. That was a gross overreach both in legal ability and common sense. The "slippery slope" had begun for many people across the country (including myself). Since then, using covid to infringe on any freedom is a huge deal because when you lose it, you don't get them back easily (if at all). Also, the idea where a gov body declares your business is "allowed to operate" was a really scary thing. That ability can be easily abused if it's not kept in check.

The hand wavy idea of "Oh, let gov do their thing. They never do anything bad and always have our interests at heart. Let them shut down what they want, when they want, even thought he evidence suggests otherwise." is ridiculous. Especially if you've read at least half of a history book. This is the perfect opportunity for the politicians (you know, people, humans, fallible creatures) to take corrupting advantage of the situation because they're in positions of power.

Edit: That, and when did the memo go out that we all blindly trust big pharma? Like, I remember a day, not too long ago, that big pharma was a snake in the grass that took advantage on the sick and the dying for profit. Now... we're okay with them? No need to be suspicious of hyper rushed drugs for a world wide panic? I'm a big fan of modern medicine and vaccines especially. But there's a checks and balance process, along with testing, to ensure as little dangerous side effects as possible... and they still happen. I'm super worried of a rushed vaccine that apparently is only good for 6 months anyways? Seems like a dream cash cow drug to me. The political fear mongering is leading to people not wanting to ask questions over some really shady opportunistic behavior.
The book does talk about that extensively.
The problem in such cases usually isn't in finding a willing journal, but constraints on the authors. For example, during my PhD at a leading biological research institute in India, there was an informal ban on sending manuscripts to open access journals - a rule instituted by the Director, who's office had to approve every submission. At some point this ban was extended to conference proceedings, or journals below a certain Impact Factor. These rules might have been overturned by subsequent administrations, I don't know.
In case of a prolonged conflict you need to consider the AI and it's programmers as a joint system. The AI by itself may be exploitable, but the programmers will adjust it to counter anti-ai strategies.
That's funny because I set my AC to 84, and only use it it outdoor temperature is over 86 (I live in a somewhat dry area: typical dewpoints are low-to-mid 60s on hot days).
I'm not sure if you can turn off the P2P aspect. You'll have to check the PeerTube documentation. When you connect to a PeerTube server, you start streaming from that server, but host to other viewers from your browser using WebTorrent and WebRTC relays to get past NAT.

Alex Gleeson is working on affordable paid hosting for Pleroma+Soapbox (and ActivityPub platform like PeerTube, except for twitter/fb style text posts). Maybe that can be applied to PeerTube as well? I'm sure someone must be working on lower cost hosted PeerTube somewhere..

For say the high school student, a little bit of coding knowledge can be used to automate video uploads and metadata. That student can use a public PeerTube server, or one of the paid ones, and if you have uploads scripted in place, it makes it easy to move/re-host that content.

For revenue, once you get large enough, there may be ways to build integrations between a PeerTube server and Patreon, Librepay or other such platforms.
Yes, Python at the top is an instant loss of credibility.
Maybe not immediately, but I believe in the US if you lose your job and you are not a US citizen or Permanent Resident, you have 90 days to either get a new job and a visa to go with it or leave the country. How do these things work in France?
In the good old times, ctrl-l went to the location bar and ctrl-k went to the search bar. After they merged, ctrl-k just prepends the question mark. But... as an old shortcut, pretty much everything supports it.
Ride through Wuppertal on ‘the flying train’ in clear footage from 1902
Can you describe the attack scenario you're imagining in a bit more detail? Because that doesn't sound possible to me.
yup you can put any link (including space links) in a card. And there's no card limit per space.
Octicizer (2-Ethylhexyl diphenyl phosphate)
ffs. Read the link before you post. Posted in 2014, 2014, 2014, 2014, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

--> https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Some kind of link from this gets posted every 2-3 months or so, since it came out. I appreciate you haven't seen it before... but.... this gets posted a lot here.

The previous (635 point) thread was literally 3 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23203699).
Many tools allow the use of the "--" argument to stop argument parsing. It's a clumsy work-around, but it's better than nothing.
The more interesting result comes when you combine AI in a jet with :

() Not needing 2-5 years of expensive training.
() not needing space for the human and it's associated safety systems
(*) being completely willing to sacrifice the aircraft to "win" an encounter or otherwise achieve it's goals.

In other words, an air force does not need AI that can completely dominate human pilots.
It simply needs AI that is "mostly similar in performance", and when combined the advantages mentioned above, means that such aircraft will be significantly better in terms of fighting capability.

Of course, that is just raw combat, not other areas of flight where greater human intelligence is of more value.
> In a good chunk of the world, we X'd as hard as we can.

A good chunk of the USA very explicitly did not "X" anywhere near as hard or smart as they could have.
Working grad student scientist here.

One reason is prestige. This is not a fluffy concept in academia - publishing in prestigious journals means funding and tenure for professors and good job prospects for grad students.

Another is time. Every minute spent blogging is a minute spent not doing the above.

Another is curation. Frankly, Nature, Cell, Science feature work from the biggest, most well-funded labs. They have a lot of stuff masquerading as novel, but they also feature pioneering, transformative work. Science is about methods, and the fancy journals are where you see methods first.

Its a tragedy of the commons situation, sort of. We are all very aware of the problems with academic publishing.
This seems to line up with my prejudices quite well: disease experts are scientists, economists pay some lip service to science, and politicians should be ignored at all times.
DLR spinoff HyImpulse plans small launcher debut in 2022 – SpaceNews
K8s Chaos Dive 2: Chaos-Mesh Part 1
Imagination plays a significant role for us humans. We also are capable of maintaining incomplete conceptual mental models. Some of us experience epiphanies. Etc.

Pattern matching and search are brute force approximation of actual “intelligence”.
I was flirting with setting up my own server with bsd386 in the 90s. The main thing stopping me was money: I had the offer of free rack space at my old college's network but my income was low enough relative to the cost of building a server (and a rackmount case) that I never pulled the trigger. My 20-something self would be envious of the amount of computing power I have within arm's reach right now.
Isn’t “?” and ctrl-k the same number of keystrokes?
You can pick up a Pilot Metropolitan for usually between $12 and $20, and Pilot Namiki cartridges are usually between $.33 and $.50 each depending on if you get the 6- or the 12-pack. You'll probably go through cartridges faster than refills since a fountain pen lays down more ink per unit distance, but that's also a big part of what makes them so comfortable to use: thinner ink needs less force per unit flow, and also provides a fluid bearing between the tip and the paper.

So it's not a huge investment to give it a try and see if you like it, is what I'm trying to say! And there's no compromise on quality involved with the Metropolitan, either; I've paid four or five times as much for Western pens that didn't work a quarter so well. For all that it's kind of a cliché about Japanese companies, Pilot really is pretty obviously fanatical about quality even in their entry-level lines, and the Metropolitan reflects that; they are by far the best steel-nibbed pens I've used, and I still prefer one for letter writing with the 1.1mm stub nib.

(Also, in my experience at least, there's a good deal of adaptation early on to develop the lighter hand, and a steel nib is much more forgiving of excess force than a gold one like my Decimo uses.)

Other than the lighter hand, one thing you'll definitely notice is a difference in weight; Metropolitan bodies are turned from brass, and the result is a pen that's both heavier and balanced further back than you'll be initially used to. That actually helps, since you can support the weight of the pen in the web of your thumb and find a natural balance point that lets the pen's weight, instead of your hand, provide the force. But it does also take some getting used to, and some prefer a lighter pen - part of why I ended up with the Decimo is its aluminum body, and the polymer-bodied Lamy Safari is a good entry-level option if you're concerned about weight and comfort.
It's a unit test.
Another recommendation for this book - I am pretty sure its my favorite fiction novel and I have read it many times. So many interesting and thought provoking parts.
I've never once had issues with Emacs like you describe, and I've been using it for about 25y.

I think the key is that I don't use any deeply intrusive packages. No Spacemacs, no Evil; hell, I won't even touch EDE.

Still, my personal config is _packed_ with tweaks and custom packages, and I've maintained it continuously all this time.
Imagine how much worse it is outside where there's even no pretense of adhering to any intellectual rigor.

Also within academia there is still a wide spectrum of intellectual rigor across the disciplines. Some things are just more verifiable than others.
How to Cold Call or Text Without Their Cell Number
I remember reading that a lot of "soul food" and Southern poor-people / great depression food, like succotash, is native in origin.
...which the first word would be, as you typed it?
Most mortgages in the US contain a provision that allows the lender to call the loan under certain conditions.
Without a clear definition of AI that everyone agrees on, we will never reach AI. If an AI is considered intelligent only if it is "General", then are we, as human, even intelligent? I would argue strongly that we are missing the 'G'.
If they'd chosen to skip X and create a TCP/IP stack, in the early-to-mid nineties Unix battles they would have had to compete with Xenix, BSDI and the other BSDs, and Solaris on x86. Not to mention Linux, the non-x86 options, and whatever else I forgot.

In hindsight, it's not like there was some kind of very powerful move they could have made.
Trump and the Rise of the Unprotected (2016)
There are a few sensors, see meter group for a professional selection, but soil analysis requires sampling and wet lab work to determine composition.
GitDuck founder here. The use-case you’re describing is definitely in our roadmap!

Your concerns are totally understandable and we’re more than happy to discuss how to get GitDuck approved on your Corp.

Security is one of our top priorities! [1] As Thiago said, code is shared on a P2P e2e encrypted way (code never visits our server) and we can always discuss on-prem options (100% hosted in your infra) so no data at all leaves your network and you can control all inbound/outbound traffic.

Feel free reach out if you have any other question or concern!

[1] https://gitduck.com/security
Are any of those from sun-like stars? The ones listed all seem to involve white dwarfs.
Ask HN: Why is building a video platform so hard in 2020 for smaller creators?
As the title suggests, with YouTube, Netflix and Vimeo being the biggest video platforms in the world, how does one go about building their own video platform like those?

I'm surprised why I haven't seen a new incumbent in the video space in over 5 years.
Hypothetically, then it makes huge business incentive for these companies to work with hackers/crackers to embed malware in their crack for homing in on the pirates. Since, there wasn't any intrusion involved, I doubt whether it would be considered hacking legally? Even if it did, does the protections apply to cracks used for pirating? I bet there aren't any legal precedence for such situations in several countries where such organizations operate.
> Linux Kernel 3.7

I thought I had read that incorrectly in previous reports, but I guess not. Which major distributions still have supported releases running 3.7?! I'm guessing it's gotta be RedHat and older Ubuntu LTS releases? Everything I currently have access to seems to be running at least the 4.x series.

So the most vulnerable would probably be legacy systems or old servers riddled with technical debt?
Isn’t the trial free? It says clearly the subscription plan is for 12 months.
Enabling Features in Production
https://openai.com/blog/more-on-dota-2/ mentions some of the strategies to beat the bots.

You can also check the ml subreddit for discussions of exploits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/bfq8v9/d_o...

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/6t58ks/n_o...

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/bcumrs/d_o...

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/6u304t/n_m...

I also recall a post from one of the pros talking about his strategies to try and beat them but I can't find it.
ungoogled-chromium[1] and Bromite[2] have had a patch to disable this for a while now

[1] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/14fb2b0/p...

[2] https://github.com/bromite/bromite/blob/410fc50/build/patche...
Well, yes and no.

People have known that the sky is blue for as long as we've had a word for the concept "blue".

It's only more recently that we've discovered the sky is blue because of how different wavelengths of light interact with the atmosphere. It's not that we rediscovered that the sky is blue, it's that we have a more precise understanding of the underlying physics.

Medicine isn't that much different. Most eastern medicine is based on cumulative observations made over centuries. If it's effective at treating disease it's the result of understanding the relationships between symptoms, food, and other inputs, even if the underlying pathways are unknown. Western medicine operates at a much lower level of abstraction, which necessarily means more discoveries that clarify the mechanisms of eastern or folk medicine.
Only if you don't count your mouse clicking the omnibar as a keystroke.
mm interesting... we have this open Postgres instance (read only) for covid19 research: https://covid19.eng.ox.ac.uk/

we have it running on our own (cheap) server, but we fear we may get overwhelmed by too much traffic if the project becomes very successful. Would this be a solution for us? Is it for free?
With two identical airplanes, that's true. IIRC the AI also excelled in high-aspect head on shots which normal pilots tend to avoid, because for humans it's mostly about luck and less skill. When you pit two dissimilar aircraft against each other, it's up to the pilot to try to keep the fight outside of regimes where the enemy plane performs better.

A common comparison is between a one-circle and two circle fight, where the aircraft turn in opposite and same direction, respectively (and unintuitively!). Pure energy fighters like to keep going in a circle at the peak speed of its turn curve, when high-AoA capable planes want to cut into the enemy's flight path to get an early shot.

Another surprising example is a well-known HUD tape where a slow but fast-turning A-10 beats an F-16 in a training dogfight when the real-world solution would have been to not engage in a turning fight but hit the slower plane with a missile.
Floppy disks seem relatively volatile compared to other storage medium. If you're using a floppy disk, are the computers they're loading the data from even capable of hashing the content and ensuring there is no corruption, or is the content signed?
I remember becoming a wiz on a MUD back in the day. It wasn't my introduction to programming, as I already had some experience, but it was still a fun way to continue my programming journey.
>sugary drinks

Whats there to think about it? Don't drink it (or not too much), that's where YOU are responsible for YOUR life and not the life of others. The Airline and Pilots are responsible for your safe travel.

>road conditions for motorists and cyclists

In Germany 445 people died in bicycle accidents in 2018, that's 1.5 Aircraft's. And please just use a helmet, but you are right sure. But neglect Air-safety to make Roads safer sounds stupid...why not do both.

43% don't wear helmets and 37% are against mandatory helmets on bicycles, again that's YOUR responsibility:

https://www.thelocal.de/20161207/should-germans-be-made-to-w...

>we're probably over investing in airline safety.

No we hold Airline's responsible for it, if you don't do that this will happen over time:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/25/business/pakistan-fake-pi...

>50s has a heart attack

True because it's not something you or i can change, maybe he/she had bad habits (drinking, drinking sugar etc) maybe genetic, maybe could not afford a insurance (and this is something we should and could change)
If I am using a localhost cache I serve my own custom copy of root.zone. Currently I am not using a cache; I have split DNS with several authoritative servers and I pre-fetch DNS data in bulk from DOT/DOH servers.

If I serve fake responses does that turn off searching via the address bar?

Why doesn't Chromium just have a setting that allows a user to turn off the incessant queries for nonexistant names.
And the pay is shit a PhD level biologist in a major Corp with you years experience will get paid as much or less than a recent grad at FAANG company
While I agree with you, is half a million dollars really that much money for a university to have? Not to mention that U of U is not private; they’re publicly funded by the state.
I think this is bullshit. It's like saying, "I'm not racist, my friend Bob is black."

You don't get a "get outta jail free" card for saying "I love CHinese people" and "oorah for China devs" and then heaping shit all over their country's achievements the rest of the time.

Do people who say this think they understand China or Chinese people even a little bit?
Thanks! This is a neat idea! It would allow users to upload unstructured data. We'll explore this.
I would never give Microsoft my credit card number after hearing all the horror stories of people trying to cancel Xbox Live.
AI can also fly past black/red out thresholds. Even in current aircraft that would be add capability. But having that in the design phase may open up all sorts of possibilities.
Why gender studies? Because the mainstream view from Critical Gender Theory is that sex, gender expression, gender identity, and sexuality are independently variable and uncorrelated and this claim is contradicted by nearly all scientific literature, analysis, observation, and data, but Critical Gender Theory is not a scientific endeavor so objections on the grounds of observations and measurements are rejected by its believers out of hand.
I think this is actually a major point that doesn't get discussed enough. Our human impulse to apply a rigid taxonomy to things, to model them as discrete, absolute units instead of complex systems, is obviously very useful and intuitive, but comes up short when we try to study things of sufficient complexity.
Microsoft Xbox Series X System Architecture (HC32)
At first, I thought it was a repost of an article from 2017 or 2018. But yeah, Slack sucks in many situations, especially in large companies. But it's a great tool for a small group high intensity collaboration (small=8-9 people max).
A living wage and convenient cabs don't need to be mutually exclusive. Also, the adversarial nonsense was more than just a lack of convenience. Some drivers are just not nice people and managed to get away with it.
The F-22 - the top-of-the-line US fighter right now - first flew in 1997.

The youngest B-52s in service are well over 50 years old.
Poorly organized, unclear thesis, unclear if serious or not, not especially well reasoned.
> The amount of taxes a company has to pay and the amount of paperwork to do (or money to delegate it) is just absurd.

Whenever topics on France arise on HN, it's amusing to see many opinionated/politically biased comments from French people.

I personally have no idea on how France compare with other countries as far as startup creation go, but I'd take with a pinch of salt any comments making very strong claims.
Internet speed record shattered at 178 terabits per second
$49 seems like a perfectly low price for a well designed stylus for a limited manufactured tablet. I don’t see any sense in which it’s useful or fair to compare that with $0.36 commodity stylus mass manufactured for commodity tablets.
Probably. However if you pay off your mortgage by accident, they won't just give you back the money. They might also be uninterested in giving you a new mortgage if you are already declaring bankruptcy.
Hahahaha, laughed a lot at the end

“we are all going to die of climate change, that is good because it will be easier to rebuild. At least it is worse in the US.”

I liked reading this perspective though, really interesting from an American perspective because some political parties often hold up France as an ideal country in many regards.

California is moving in the direction of France in regards to the government being the necessary parent of ‘stupid’ citizens who want to work in non-ideal conditions. I understand where they are coming from, but there are so many obvious unintended consequences that are worse... I wish the U.S. had smart politicians as well.
Who knew. Cable bacteria [1]:

> ...are filamentous bacteria that conduct electricity across distances over 1 cm in sediment and groundwater aquifers. Cable bacteria allow for long distance electron transport, which connects electron donors to electron acceptors, connecting previously separated oxidation and reduction reactions.

Cable bacteria and bacterial nanowires [2] seem to form linear bacterial colonies [3] that conduct electrons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_bacteria

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_nanowires

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_(biology)