skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have just as many mixed feelings as in my first month of marriage.
On one side: Convenience - Would save me having having to worry about my USB OS being up to date and if it will still work after the next one ;
On the other: Safety - Can I trust that lot with my stuff?
Oh, how innovative - psychops against the non compliant!

It can only raise the level of annoyance (already very high) at this point.
This generation of VR from Facebook (along with the launch of Facebook Horizon) is their first major move towards consolidating control over the next (perhaps final) communication medium, and burning in Facebook's assumptions to it. For example, they believe you ought to always be represented by your legal name, with a physical representation similar to the one you have in real life when communicating remotely through immersive computing. This can be seen being manifested by the slow steady changes to policies and terms. With this generation, Facebook will require a Facebook account, and thus a full chain back to a legal identity for you to communicate with others on their VR platform.

Over time they've slowly ratcheted up policies and behavior that are increasingly at odds with the desires of the early adopter enthusiast community. However, these have been done slowly so as to not kill the necessary participation in their ecosystem needed to bootstrap their wider VR platform plays.

These developments are deeply troubling and those worried about a future where human interaction is largely surveiled and behavior largely manipulated ought to be mindful before buying into Facebook's ecosystem.

I spoke extensively about the dangers here and now that it is coming to fruition it's even more important to understand the implications so consumers can choose wisely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5w8xbeCc2Q
That appears to be a prerecorded video.

The live stream that I can see is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1u-jlf_Olo
This. Ansible is extensible and simple and elegant. It can manage things at scale or can be used for small discrete tasks.
> there is due process and recourse for whoever was impacted by this mistake.

I wouldn't be so sure. When you're going up against the US government and the largest US corporation it's going to be an uphill battle.
I don't typically spam HN with tutorial links, but this is one of the better, concise videos for a complete beginner to the Django framework.

You probably should be familiar with another back-end web framework, as not much time is spent discussing the basics, but I imagine most people who'd be interested in something like this already are.
The amazing thing is that they are equally unpleasant to deal with as a merchant. You'd think they just favoured one side, but no, they screw both sides.
> Does anyone seriously believe TikTok is a threat to national security?

It's quite obvious since the CCP has control of it. I'd question anyone who doesn't seriously believe that the CCP is waiting for the right moment to exploit the information from TikTok and similar apps, if it isn't already.
I wouldn't say it would prove you wrong, but the StudioLogic SL88 Grand with the sound coming from Pianoteq is stunning for the money. Obviously it's not going to feel exactly like a real piano, but it is absolutely similar enough to feel way more like a real piano than anything else I've tried, and at a bit more than $1KUS, the price is unbeatable for anyone up to a very advanced level. StudioLogic is Fatar's in-house brand, so you get the key-bed of a much more expensive digital piano in a cheaper minimal housing, blowing away anything else in the same price bracket on key feel. You might have to hunt for them. They have weird arrangements as a part supplier for other brands, so for instance I found it at long & mcquade in Canada, but it was not on their websites.
That means it produces a native binary (for example, a .exe file on windows platforms), so ultimately you're aiming to run the program in a terminal. This is the normal way for OCaml to operate.

In this case the author is using Reason as an alternative syntax to OCaml. Reason resembles javascript a little more, and some people find that nicer to work with. So the idea is that you write Reason code, then translate it into OCaml code using the Reason tools, and then ultimately you compile it down to a native binary.

If instead you want to write a web-app which runs in a web browser or node.js, then you'd need to compile it to Javascript, which is what bucklescript helps you do.

Where does Rescript come in? As explained above, Reason can be used for writing either native apps or javascript apps. However, it's hard to evolve the syntax of Reason in a way which satisfies both aims. So they've now split the work -- going forward, Reason will specialize on native, and Rescript will specialize on javascript apps. Their syntax is expected to diverge from each other, in order to support those aims as best as they can.
I wrote a script to rank GitHub Actions, while there's no official ranking yet
Tough times in the UK...
That is a great point, and I have been fascinated by these, especially the penny auction sites. DealDash is clever and has a mechanic where if you bid it keeps the auction alive for 10 more seconds (which must keep user engagement sky-high). Someone does actually win something, but everyone else loses both time and money - which is the difference between this and, say, eBay.

The difference, I think, in online casino gaming is that the vast majority of players do not actually spend money at all. Only a small amount of players do, and of those only a fraction are the hardcore people mentioned in this article. Thus it's hard to show it's causing harm in court, because the companies will simply say "it's a free app, microtransactions are not mandatory", and ignore the people who are taking our second mortgages on their houses. It's a scenario where a small fraction of the consumer base spends so much money that they subsidize the free players.
This is a problem of means. We don't have infinite resources to spend. For instance Germany spent 300 billions euros on wind and solar power since 2000. They decided to stop using nuclear, and are still burning masses of coal, and are still quite far away from clean electricity.

Would they have invested 300 billions in nuclear, Germany would run on 100% CO2 neutral electricity today, with an hefty margin (arguably 200 billions would have been enough).

Then while everybody speaks about electricity, they conveniently forget that it represents only 20 to 25% of all of our energy needs. The remaining 75-80% for industry, agriculture and transports are almost 100% fossil-fueled...
Pier Collapses on Seattle Waterfront
> Unfortunately I don't have a screenshot of the ad in question

FYI I believe there is a way you can see the ads you've clicked on in the last 3 months from within Facebook settings somewhere.
Chrome books are fantastic for the supposed class of users to naive to evaluate even the most basic properties of software.

For adults they’re useless toys at best, and tools to extract and rent out power over individuals at worst.
But are the buses more efficient than 30 people driving separately?
Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos Embrace the Rule of Awkward Silence
MacOS isn’t perfect but it does enough things well for me to consider a MacBook a truly universal laptop
You should also look into our IEEE standard 7010 "Recommended Practice for Assessing the Impact of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems on Human Well-Being"

I was one of the authors and it might have some valuable concepts you could use.

https://standards.ieee.org/standard/7010-2020.html
Yes, but when the Play store can install whatever it wants without your knowledge....
Wave owns MIPS, about which I had no idea and googling that also returns that Wave went Chapter 11 this year.
Wargaming. I remember hearing about them making ~$100M a month couple of years ago. Soon after that they dropped financing e-sports deeming it a distraction.
It's a cultural thing, though it does seem a bit extreme in this case.
This is one of the biggest reasons why I think that HTML is still important for general application development.

HTML isn't perfect, it could be a lot better. But it goes a long way towards forcing developers to put their interface in pure text, and to do the visual layout afterwards.

I think separating content from styling has gone a long way towards improving accessibility, precisely because it makes the accessibility features less invisible. I suspect there are additional gains we could make there, and other ways that HTML could force visual interfaces to be built on top of accessible ones.
That's just not even a little bit accurate. The K1 tablet retailed at $199 - they absolutely could sell it at a price that meets a high-end smartphone price.

https://www.droid-life.com/2015/11/17/nvidia-releases-the-sh...
I'm not a fan of civil forfeiture either. Pretty clearly skirts due process and the presumption of innocence.
That was short one:

- Phosphene found

- We don't know how it could naturally occur in Venus without life

- We don't know any life that could survive in so that acidic environment (toughest microbes in earth survive 5%, Venus's atmosphere has 90%)

- We need to send a probe to test
I wonder whether the even the synthetic pianos model the second order resonant effects of key presses. Managing "colour" as my teacher would call it is an important part of performance
Some of what you suggest is being done by fire departments and companies but there are complications that make the problem more difficult than it may seem:

* We don't currently have the satellites to monitor fires at both small scale and real time. Geostationary (real time) satellites have a resolution of ~1km, and higher resolution satellites of ~10m to ~1m may only make a pass once per day.

* The FAA imposes flight restrictions around wildfires and doesn't make exceptions for research or scrappy startups, so it's tough to experiment or go to market with drone-based monitoring or firefighting.

* A lot of research has been done into fire spread prediction, including some using AI, but it's a difficult problem. Like weather forecasting it's pretty accurate on short time horizons, but over many hours and days errors compound.

* Data. High resolution fuel data is needed, which changes every season as vegetation changes, and changes every day with the weather. Quality elevation data is needed. We don't have much ground-truth data of what's going on inside a wildfire.

Finally, we have a combination of: forest fires are natural, suppressing them increases future likelihood of fire, people are building houses in fire-prone areas, climate change is increasing the frequency of fires.

We could probably do more to reduce the loss of life due to fire, but the biggest problems are social rather than technical: we need to reduce our impact on the climate, stop building houses in high-risk areas, and not get NIMBY about prescribed burns and forest management.
One more reason why adblockers are a must install for everyone especially non technical people.
Your command is cut off
Train your own neural network
You're citing data for voting while the statistic for reporters above is party identification. So you're comparing apples and oranges. This survey cites data for LGBT party identification: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/20...

> Nearly nine million LGBT adults are registered and eligible to vote in the 2020 general election. Half of registered LGBT voters (50%) are Democrats, 15% are Republicans, 22% are Independent

You're also comparing the 2014 party identification data posted above to 2018 voting data, during the midterm election under perhaps the least popular Republican President in generations. Your own source shows that in 2014, LGBT votes favored Democrats 3:1, similar to the party identification data.

Moreover, many journalists register as independent to avoid perceptions of bias even if they identify strongly with one party. I haven't see data breaking down voting by party, but during the Trump era journalists donated to Clinton by a more than 20:1 margin: https://publicintegrity.org/politics/journalists-shower-hill...
Arm was never going to be acquired by a Chinese firm - it would have been blocked.

The problem is that controlling its own destiny gives it control over all its competitors destinies too - and that's not good. I have nothing particularly against Nvidia btw - the same issue would apply for any major SoC designer buying Arm.
Wireless is really the key here. For wired VR there are actually add on programs that give you ingame hints if you twisted the cable too much in one direction so you can correct for it but for movement/fitness focused games that won't really cut it.

I am developing an open-source fitness game for the Quest [1] (and other headsets but mainly for the Quest) and being able to just strap on your headset basically anywhere and go at it (don't even need controllers since it uses hand tracking) is such a nice way to play that it balances the lack of visual fidelity quite a lot (it helps that the game is not pretty to look at in the first place ;) )

[1] https://vrworkout.at
huh, wierd - I saw this post in Aug and can't understand how I missed that. Thanks for pointing that out - it does indeed discuss it.
Hint: you can do live jq query preview for any jq-like command using fzf. It looks like this for jql, an alternative I've created (you can find it in a neighboring comment):

echo '' | fzf --print-query --preview-window wrap --preview 'cat test.json | jql {q}'
One feature idea: it could be used to generate a Kubernetes configuration files. A visual configuration and management tool. I have worked with multiple clients (as a consultant) who would have used K8S if setting it up/configuring on the cloud was easier.

I was exploring it myself, but don't have time to pursue it now.
I'm not at all suggesting that the Great Filter is a real thing. I consider the other main solutions of the Fermi Paradox (Alien life being too alien, Simulation Hypothesis, Dark Forest, Zoo and other) just as intriguing!

Great Filter is neat because it bundles many different solutions together into one class. Any solution saying that civilizations in the Milky Way are incredibly rare is basically a variation on Great Filter.

>why should we assume anything about our ability to determine life beyond our Solar System?

It isn't farfetched to assume that sufficiently expansionist/numerous Kardashev type 2+ civilizations should be easier to detect from Earth than bacteria on Venus.
You're saying that riding the train of being a very solid generalist doesn't work past a certain age?

It may not be exciting, but don't you think there are lots of 45-55 year old Java backend engineers that get paid pretty decently? (140k-200k)
It seems fair to attribute ambitions to the country where they are physically made, because that’s the country regulating those emissions. If you don’t, you’re incentivizing a country to have lax emissions regulations by letting their choices impact someone else’s accounting.
Royal Astronomical Society live press briefing re phosphine on Venus
I think it's highly likely that the shipping manifest said Apple AirPods on it in an attempt to avoid importation tariffs.

This stupid business of implementing tariffs and then giving specific companies exemptions is not exactly fair, but its also not the fault of CBP.
The ‘supply crisis’ in Canada’s housing market isn’t backed up by the evidence
A Mac laptop can run Linux, MacOS, and Windows. A future laptop will likely be able to also run iOS apps. If you are going to declare a universal laptop, it's hard to beat a Mac.
Big Picture Science's new episode is about this. They interviewed the researchers who made the discovery

https://radio.seti.org/episodes/life-on-venus
Lots of solutions are free. And the fact of the matter is that this was not presented as an ad initially. It was disingenuously presented.
I'm not sure I agree there's less deplatforming risk. It's structurally harder to be completely excluded from the network, since each instance has its own banlist, but that won't be of much comfort if you're banned from the instance with all your friends in it.
There is a massive difference between bombing conducted by a country and bombing conducted by another country using the country's weapons.
This is not a productive comment and does not add to the conversation. If you have information to add, please add it.
Ha! 35 years ago we were being told that eggs are Satan's death nuggets and even one a week might be too much.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.
Xfce 4.16: First Look at the New Features and Improvements
Is there life floating in the clouds of Venus?
I completely agree that the great filter theory is a bit circular in its logic on that premise: Imagine the evidence the average HN reader would need to accept that an extraterrestrial civilization existed. Now contrast that with the portion of human history when we've had the ability to produce evidence like that. It seems a bit reckless to assume that ANY AND EVERY high-tech alien civilization would produce conclusive evidence on a scale such that any civilization like modern humanity around any given star would be able to detect it.

I also wanted to point out that life on Venus would not even necessarily move the great filter. It is possible, though not experimentally proven, that lifeforms could survive a cataclysmic ejection from one planet after an asteroid impact and float to another planet in the same system. In other words, the life on Venus may have come from Earth or vice-versa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia#Lithopanspermia
Not the author, but I recently started down the FPGA rabbit hole myself.

I started with HDLBits [0], which has a bunch of problems that you solve by writing verilog that is then run in a simulator. It starts with simple gates and such, and then builds up from there.

I also purchased a dev board from NANDLand [1] and have been going through the tutorials written for their board. A lot of code is provided for you in the tutorials, but I've been reimplementing it all from scratch as part of the learning process. The later tutorials cover things like UART send/receive and simple VGA.

I'm not affiliated with either site, but have found both to be helpful. Good luck!

[0] https://hdlbits.01xz.net/wiki/Main_Page

[1] https://www.nandland.com/
Here's the research paper (full paper, open access)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4
Great work -- thanks for sharing the results!
Don’t you have to produce the heavier stuff when you produce the lighter stuff in a column? It’s my understanding that when you separate crude you end up with proportions you don’t have a lot of control over.
> The latest Office doesn't even install on Windows 7, nor 32-bit hardware.

When people talk about Windows backwards compatibility they're mostly referring to running on apps on a new OS, not new apps running an old OS. I bet you could get very old versions Microsoft Office running on Windows 10. I've run Visual Studio 6.0 on a Win10 machine no problem. And yeah linux nowadays has a lot of drivers included with the kernel (I've bene shocked at some of the supported hardware) but vendor provided drivers of often super outdated. I have a decent chance trusting old driver binaries to run on windows. On Linux you likely have to be a driver developer yourself to just to get some vendor's driver source for an old 2.X kernel to compile, let alone run.
One could say the same of mainstream media.
I've seen between 2-3x as being papers co2 footprint but that excludes landuse changes. Transportation is a small amount of either's footprint.

Your comment about paper not breaking down in an anaerobic environment is incorrect. Like other organic material such as food scraps it gets broken down by bacteria and if there's no oxygen anaerobic ones which will produce methane.
ESO: Possible marker of life spotted on Venus
Calling everything that uses the Linux kernel Linux is like calling macOS, iPadOS, and iOS Darwin, Darwin, and Darwin. Sadly the Linux Foundation is a massive collective of cloud corporations (headed by a macOS using executive director) that a small organization fighting for end-user rights like the FSF can’t compete with as long as people are sheep enough to type the 5 letter Linux and complain that the 3 letter GNU is too long.
No job, no visa, no health insurance.. and barred from flying home to Australia
Just about nothing new wrt content.

I remember I kept thinking how naive, imaginationless and without knowledge of history these people must be if they genuinely never thought critically about what they were doing – if no one ever saw any potential for abuse.

That, and the fact that they kept pushing unfounded conclusions, like correlation between diagnosed mental issues and appearence of social media allegedly pointing to a causative relationship; alleging that this thing is so "new" and "different" from any other tool that has played on weaknesses inherent in the human mind that we just can't deal with it, etc.

I tend to think proper education, including critical thinking skills (including logic and cognitive biases), critique of media, etc., as well as defining privacy clearer as a human right (including explicitly stating that data subjects own data about themselves) and enforcing this hard will solve many problems.
>I do admire the way the port maintainers train up their replacements and/or add others with commit access

Yes absolutely, and it's no question that packaging is really hard work, i wanna thank everyone that works on my most beloved system, ESPECIALLY the packagers.
> CBP acts like they are the first line in a war

Taped to the wall on the Sault Ste. Marie crossing CBP station:

"We Are The First Line Of Defense"
Hi author here! Thanks for sharing my blog! It is currently still a draft, I'll repost it when it is finished :-)
Anyone have recommendations for making networking diagrams, specifically AWS VPC diagrams that show things like private/public subnets, security groups, load balancers, autoscaling groups, etc.

I tried a bunch of tools a few months ago, and none of the purpose-built diagraming tools worked well in creating that sort of visualization.
Panspermia could work via both planets moving through nebulae and space dust that contained biological compounds, it doesn't have to be direct seeding from one planet to the other because they're both moving through millions of miles of spatial debris and rocks and dust as the milky way moves.
I think this is a better idea than naming winter storms, the comparison we seem to have settled on.

The first criterion is coherence: a hurricane has a (somewhat) well-defined magnitude while frontal systems have different intensity in different places, highly subject to geography. A heat wave is more well-defined than a front but less than a hurricane.

However, the more important thing to know is that extreme heat is already the deadliest form of weather event in the United States and will likely get worse in the coming years. Being able to put a name to the phenomenon that killed your grandmother has a powerful psychological effect. See:

https://weather.com/safety/news/2019-09-17-top-cause-weather...
CBP in this case isn't looking out for his best interest, they're looking out for the consumer's best interest. Counterfeit goods? Well, now the whole thing is suspect. It makes sense to me.
In which case the price of offsets spike, and actually reducing emissions become a more attractive option.

It aint perfect, but still seems to be in the right direction towards getting to where we need to go.
Being an Android user, I looked for the developer's name, saw "Develop App" and thought it was a category and I was just mistaken about where on the page the developer's name was supposed to be. This was all instinctive, I didn't sit down to think about it, though.

It doesn't help that the developer name and category have the exact same visual style, I guess.