skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two didn't roll down a hill in a promotional video? I'm with you, I'm trying to figure that out as well.
> My Mastodon client has (...) no trackers

Perhaps your client hasn't, but how do you know that others don't track you through their clients (or perhaps even bots)?
For anyone with a brain this is a dumb idea.

And of course we get an unquestioning BBC article.

If you dump it in landfill or a random corn field this still holds

"We think it has to do with this nitrogen atmosphere that reduces corrosion and is cool, and people not banging things around"

But it was underwater and that made it magical! Which I honestly think it did. It's still a garbage practical idea though.
If there was that much volcanic activity we'd expect the atmosphere to be contaminated with ash wouldn't we?
Inaugural Cloud Engineering Summit
> They do though. Particles have a unique path through time and space that cannot be replicated.

That path is not encoded in the particle state. If you brought me two samples of isotopically pure carbon, one sourced from the earth, presumably there since the planet formed and another bunch synthesized in a fusion reactor and I put them into a black box that shakes, whirrs, spits out two equally sized boxes of carbon and then destroys itself you will not be able to tell whether it mixed them or passed through the original samples.
This kind of information can only be inferred from ensembles of particles and even then only under some assumptions about the underlying processes.
We only recognize fossils by radio-dating, the rock layers they're in, their mineralogy and so on. Never by things encoded in individual particles. So if you can assemble things atom by atom then with enough effort you could make a perfect forgery. And assembling things atom by atom, well, that's what this supposed teletransportation "paradox" is about.

> Hypothetically, if a gunman has you, and a clone of you in a room and is going to kill one of you, are you saying you have no preference which dies?

Assuming the copy was made moments ago and I am 100% confident that this is indeed a perfect copy (and that kind of confidence is rather hard to come by) and the outcome is that exactly one of me will die is entirely inevitable then it does not really matter which one it is. Intuition does not work in these cases because such scenarios do not occur all that often in real life. Alter the situation slightly and my preferences would start to shift.

> If these things are the same, how is it he could kill the clone in a different room and you wouldn't know?

You seem to be ignoring the point of copies diverging over time (I explicitly mentioned that in my previous post). If I were copied and then immediately thrown into a cell and then one of the copies get killed I would not be able to tell which one was the original and which one the copy. Thus the distinction is irrelevant at that moment. I would be more concerned with my redundancy getting reduced further, hitting zero means irrecoverable loss.

> Similarly, I still arrive if ships identical to the original state sank while I am en route.

Let's assume you're actually traveling inside a hotel container on a container ship. Assuming some gentle crane action while you had the container doors closed you wouldn't be sure whether they just moved around your container within the same ship or moved you onto another ship that looks identical.
You say "gatekeeping device" like it is negative. All companies I have worked for have had a system of gatekeeping that includes things like university qualifications. I don't see why this system can't be improved.

Many companies now invent their own proficiency exams. We do.

Medical graduates work in a specific setting under supervision for a period after extensive education. I don't think the conditions of their work are ideal, but many people make it through without burn out.

Although technologies are changing, there are some things that transcend technology. Concepts about like documentation, naming, decomposition, components, interfaces, concurrency, locking, algorithm efficiency, many considerations of user experience.
> Nothing controversial

ahem

> Foreign Key constraint is the king of the relational database design

Amazon does not use FK constraints and I have rarely run into systems that do (since 1996ish). Most people with big enough datasets learn not to use them. The overhead for orphaned data is far less than the consequences of using them.
CNET Sold for $500M to Red Ventures in Deal with ViacomCBS
Wonder if the data center was used for real world traffic?
I agree on the link title, this is one of the few times I wish the Mods would update/change it. It's more about how credible this witness is, IMO.
The convention on HN is to link to previous threads only when there are interesting comments there. If readers click on a link like this and don't see that, they'll be disappointed and sometimes come back and downvote the link.
ESR is a toxic person who attracts other toxic people.
> just collecting a paycheck...

If anybody thinks there aren't a lot of young people at large tech companies just collecting a paycheck, I have some bad news for them...
Warren Buffett and Ben Graham would laugh uproariously at this statement.
I’ve recently started to get back into emacs and org, via doom emacs. Will see how it goes.

How are people handling getting org files on multiple devices, with sync support etc. Dropbox?
It's pretty rare. Never have I ever met anyone who had or would sign such an agreement. Given my income bracket, I should have by now if it was merely uncommon. Then again, maybe not admitting to the agreement is part of the agreement. Insidious.
How do people access these servers off of their home network (or do they not?).

That seems like most of the value to me, hosting some service you can access from anywhere without having to use Digital Ocean.

It seems like most residential ISPs don't provide a static IP and some block port 80? I think forcing ISPs to allow home users to serve traffic via some standard method would go a long way to enabling a more decentralized web.

I know Zero Tier, and Tailscale exist - but I don't really understand how they work (and I think they require intermediate server access anyway so might as well use Digital Ocean?).

I'd like a future where you could sell users a raspberry pi running a service they can just plug into their home switch and access it securely from anywhere.
Ditto - these are super cheap and super helpful.
> I don't understand if you are conscious why you think a copy of your consciousness that you have no access to would offer you anything, or in any way be "you."

I don’t know why you think I’m saying that it does.

I’m saying that: if this body were to die, and a backup of my brain state (made almost immediately before this body’s death) was copied in a new body or simulated on a computer, that would be no different for the entity that wakes up than it was for me to wake up from general anaesthetic having only half of the memory of the countdown the nurse walked me through before I went under.

(Or that weird time where I was right next to a CO2 cylinder when it exploded, resulting in me having a separately sized gap in my visual vs audio episodic memory).

Conversely, the me which did die would absolutely experience that death, would be scared, would try to avoid it — the me that wakes up afterwards might be glad to have missed it or might scream immediately, depending on when the death and the backup happened, but either way the death would still be real.

Killing of a copy would also mean an entity would experience death.

None of these are natural things to think about of course, so there’s no reason to expect that any of our own intuitions should even be close to correct, let alone the most comfortable ones.
JMESPath is the only viable alternative, which probably has a wider footprint than even jq as it's part of AWS CLI.
Are you me? :) I use a very similar org table to calculate my nutrition, only with separate columns for macronutrients. I don't have an update function like yours, though.

| -1 | req. | 100 | 100 | 50 |
| 3 | milk | 2.92| 4.37| 3.5|
| # | |-91.2|-86.8|-39.5|
#+TBLFM: @>$3..$5=(@<$1..@>>$1)*(@<..@>>)
Facebook is turning a blind eye to global political manipulation
Can we switch our self-hosted site to Metabase cloud?
One big issues was poor crypto performance. I managed to convince Google to turn AES-GCM on with SRTP! https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=713701...

I am sure there are other issues as well. The WebRTC implementation in Chromium is controlled by Google (they have all the commit bits). If they don't agree with your change it isn't going to land. It's a tough position to be in for other businesses and Open Source projects even.
Please don't post like this. We're trying for something a bit better here (which is in the interest of everyone participating here).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Companies will outright refuse to hire any candidates without the certifications. Programming will eventually have something similar, but the field needs to crystalize more.

I don't see this happening and sincerely hope it does not. Computers and programming are too accessible, and I think are the first thing to become so accessible. Proof of competency is related to effort, not the time you spend seeking qualifications.
Where to draw the line is a legitimate question and without it the claim that any real headway is being made is dubious. Some companies offer bussing services in the Bay for their employees so they don’t have to drive as far. If they remove those busses and their employees have to drive in is the company that much closer to carbon neutral even though now all their employees have to drive in and more carbon is in the atmosphere as a result?
> [video] stuff has just become more and more complex and more and more distant from what is actually happening in hardware

There's been a huge push recently to remove layers from graphics APIs and expose hardware more directly, in the form of Vulkan, DX12, and Metal. The problem that this has uncovered is that graphics hardware is not only very complex but quite varied, so exposing "what is actually happening in hardware" is incompatible with portability and simplicity. As a result you get APIs that are either not portable or hard to use.

> more and more processing is done by video hardware, and less and less by the CPU.

Unfortunately this will remain a reality because it comes with a 20-100x performance advantage.
Can't argue with you there, but I get the impression (from other pages on the site) the advice seems more geared to personal growth or soft-creative goals, not business/tech/software development.

* A blog or novel isn't inherently outdated in 3 years, and good ones can certainly take that long to complete.

* Any fitness regimen lasting less than 3 years is a waste of time (IMO). You don't get meaningful "credit" applied to your lifespan for doing yoga for three months.

* Taking the time to develop your relationship with your children needs years of persistence, otherwise they'll just raise themselves and not respect you.

Much of this is the same advice given to ADHD candidates. I don't know if he is one or just happened to be inspired by self-help books about the subject, but the advice does work. Breaking large tasks down into smaller ones that yield more immediate satisfaction/feedback and riding that dopamine train until it's second nature is the best way to stick to a project and avoid burnout.
Thank you for the reply! I will give your suggestions a shot and get back to you.
Spooks meeting in a pub, backstaging deals, while drinking (strong) beer of that brand.
The Lemons rule is more in spirit than enforced. Someone on the team finds a great deal on the $250 timing belt kit they need for the car, it was only $1. The seller just happens to be another team mate.

Or, you know, they find a DB7 shell in a storage facility, spend the maximum amount allowed on it while also getting a bunch of "extras" they can sell at a profit, then bolt it up to the frame of an existing racecar.
Well-thought design saves time even in agile projects. Maybe it's a one day activity instead of three months of it and yet it makes a difference.
Basically each activity (or whatever we call it) is a micro waterfall.

Example from today: a developer came back from a week of vacation, listened to the stand up meeting this morning and pointed out that we misunderstood the purpose of a table he worked on time ago. Result: a few hours of last week's coding were useless and we spent a couple of hours together at redesigning the activity. The total impact should be of about one day.
Get them a raise ASAP and pay them what they're worth.
Syncing our customer user data to Zendesk without having to write our own syncing service.
What advantage does an NUC have over let's say your old laptop? They seem like they're the same price as laptops with laptop specs but are missing most critical components and are a bit smaller.
Yep, and the line terminal is closest to the opening, so if the cable is forcibly ripped out from the plug, line gets disconnected first, and earth usually last. Along with many other benefits (like an inline fuse) that I didn't mention in my post as it wasn't relevant to the posts I was replying to. :)
We've been repeating the word "bad" for the last couple of weeks here, but I don't really remember any insights on what can happen long term (and I'm asking, because I have absolutely no idea). I mean, let's suppose relationships with Qualcomm don't work out (which we all kind of suspect already). What's the alternative? Is it actually possible to create another competitive architecture at this point? Does it take 5, 10 years? Is there even a choice for some other (really big) company, that doesn't want to depend on NVIDIA?
I had a thing that was outgrowing Excel, and a bunch of people said "Airtable! Airtable! Airtable!" and holy cow do I ever now downgrade any technical rec those people give me.

Maybe I do not understand Airtable, but given its limitations I'm 100% not sure why it exists in a world that includes Google Sheets.
I was wondering the same thing, since it’s submerged I’m assuming they use seawater running through chillers to cool down the servers?
When buying (reference) books was still 'really' a thing, I always liked reading the colophon in O'Reilly published works to explain the animals, typeface(s), process used in their creation.
Do any of the major platforms really have a handle on how to deal with these challenges? I'm not excusing the lack of oversight. But most companies that grow this quickly are a complete cluster inside. Imagine having to battle well funded state actors on top of trying to build a business.

Again, not saying Facebook shouldn't be held accountable. But it's always easy from the outside looking in.
Here's a full infographic with sources [0].

I did watch this documentary, and while I don't agree with some of the conclusions or outlook, it does serve up some facts I wouldn't have looked into had I not seen it.

[0] https://www.cowspiracy.com/infographic
Advanced civilization, sure. But wouldn't a sufficiently designed spectroscopy telescope from afar have been able to detect the presence of oxygen on our exoplanet for hundreds of millions of years?
> I suppose the real lesson to be learned is to simply avoid installing native applications when you can help it.

I looked at the playstore page and it immediately raised many red flags. The app isn't by Tiktok or Bytedance.

It's like clicking on a similar looking domain link in your email.
For an Android client I just run it directly in a terminal emulator (Termux). Works well enough with the software keyboard (but a bluetooth keyboard brings real glory).
I think it’s worth being humble and admit that it is possible for ads to work on you, even if you think not.

Here are some examples:

For mass consumer products. Let’s say a smartphone. If an ad is shown every day you may not click it but now that smart phone might be in the list of brands you’d subconsciously consider.

Other ads are more direct I see a lot of start business ads that are very compelling. I ignore them or watch them out of interest in HOW the ad persuades and I can see why people would click them. They often offer a free thing that seems quite valuable to prove themselves which is a marketing tactic as old as the hills.

There are probably lots of other examples. Ads are powerful and it’s not hard to understand how they work. The human brain is a great ad blocker in general but it’s imperfect enough that the EPM of ads makes it still worthwhile and evidenced by how hard it is to pay less than a $1 a click most places.

So know your enemy! ;)
I strongly suspect this is the case, though talking about it too loudly quickly brings accusations of crankery and "sinophobia".

There are far too many coincidences and the damage has been too catastrophic for this not be investigated so that it isn't allowed to happen again.

Even if can be scientifically proven that the virus was not engineered, there is still plenty of evidence that China covered it up, silenced researchers and destroyed evidence which would have helped prepare the international community, all in the effort to save the reputation of the ruling party. The WHO played a role in this as well - they still have tweets up saying that human-to-human transmission is not possible, because they trust the Chinese scientists who told them so!

I have spent time in China and found the disregard for public safety, and more generally the disregard for the value of human life, to be absolutely shocking. (As an example, when I was there, they opened the bullet train from Shanghai to Beijing. In the opening weeks, there was a disastrous collision, knocking a whole train off of a bridge and killing everybody on board. It was, quite literally, covered up: they simply covered the destroyed train with dirt, not even removing the bodies. Train service resumed shortly after [0]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision
Also, for an on-site employee, the company would need to add the cost of office space, equipment, IT support services, etc.
Sounds perfect for us. We have some questions on that issue. Let's make it happen!
Algorithmic manipulation happens on platforms outside of social media, it's just slower.

Anyway algorithmic manipulation isn't limited to just facebook, the data that enables it is generated on many other platforms.
ZDAG: A JSON++ compressor (talk video)
The system within would have to operate at a (considerably) higher temperature, since there's a temperature gradient involved and the place where the barnacles are is the coolest part of the whole structure.
What a relief! No more worries about the ARM buyout. Just use HTML 5 and you can build your own chips.
A strangely written paper, with some strong statements, underlining and bold sections. I'm not sure I buy their premise that the origin of the virus is censored in peer reviewed journals, and certainly it doesn't look like they tried too hard to get this accepted.
In simplest terms, the AMD & Intel perpetual license goes all the way back to the early 80s and Intel has tried to legally harangue their way out of it ever since, with limited success.
I think repl.it is great for prototyping...

aka hacking on an app, like people who read Hacker News might do.
We have basically zero data to tell us whether this outcome is "unlikely" or not. It could very easily turn out that this outcome is overwhelmingly likely.
I'm using synchronization via Nextcloud. It's nice, because of webdav, but Dropbox is as nice as this, because Orgzly supports both of them
WebRTC is going to be better for most users (IMO). WebRTC provides congestion control so video stays real-time. It works pretty well with very little effort.

Some companies have decided to roll their own, https://webrtchacks.com/zoom-avoids-using-webrtc/ is a cool read.
I also think that the end of the so called Moore Law will create the necessary incentives to build better software.
It's definitely popular but “only viable alternative” is a bit strong: that's only if you need compatibility with particular tools which support only one of the two formats. There's no reason why anyone who doesn't like those tools couldn't create a different syntax to scratch whatever particular itch they have.
If you want to see where Google search results really point to, you can right click it and then hover over it to get the real destination... it's been like this for 15+ years (google changes the destination on-click).
Ah, this is a classic "RGB overlay", as pioneered by Matrox for the workstation market, which doesn't really mean much, and I assume is fully emulated on a modern chip. Nothing like a modern overlay pipe like you see in the CRTCs on mobile chips.
Won't matter if your main computer does the decoding, and for the price of one good computer that can stream to all devices including crappy ones versus all good ones and a cheap NAS to host, which would you choose?
Who are these “people” who keep referring to “we”?
Dyndns or similar.
We're working on a tool to make loading image datasets in PyTorch less difficult
PyTorch’s default dataloader tends to get annoying, especially when we deal with custom datasets/conditional dataset loading. For a project we were working on we had to load a number of large datasets that weren’t structured the way the ImageFolder DataLoader expects, so we modified it to allow the user to specify whatever structure they want. It’s been a cool experiment so far, but we’re contemplating taking it on as a long-term open source project, and I was wondering if this problem is as common as we feel it would be? Would love to hear what people think, the code is at https://github.com/BinItAI/BetterLoader, if you want to check it out
Yes. I like asdf because most projects are multilanguage nowadays, usually something + Node. Asdf also manages databases so I don't have to keep track of docker containers for multiple versions of postgresql or mysql.
Minimum Viable Air Quality Monitoring
Shorting doesn't have to involve unlimited risk, put contracts are defined limited risk and serve the same purpose.
There's probably an internal heat exchanger that they pump seawater through. This article says they pump seawater through heat exchangers on each rack (and presumably shows the piping):

https://news.microsoft.com/features/under-the-sea-microsoft-...
It seems to be a normal engineering process: first make it work, then look for those high-level things that you are ready to break in order to gain performance through optimization and micro-optimization.
The main difference as far as I'm aware is that it's wireless and doesn't require a computer. It seems there are a few others have already hit the wireless mark. Not needing a computer is a big deal, but doesn't affect me personally (I only use it at home; I still want wireless though).
Back when the news broke originally about these camps disappearing thousands of children at a time, separating families, and the rampant sexual abuse, we got to have the fun conversation of, "is it really a concentration camp?" I'm terrified at what deflection will be made in this instance, but we can unfortunately expect the deflection.
It is, but it's also sample size of 1. So yes, it indicates something but the confidence interval is really wide. Still, like you point out it's not meaningless as some people do try to argue.
Something that often gets overlooked is how much better older people are than younger people at getting information from others. That is a critical and time-saving skill in software development.
Giants like Airbnb have resources to write fast and responsive apps. But it is still slow. There is no point to worry about 16ms latency, if web app refreshes 6x times just to load couple of images.