skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Quanta is not written for scientists, it's written for lay people.'

This is all the more reason why Quanta should not misrepresent or exaggerate the research. You should read what I have to say above in reply to ISL 4 about the matter.

'Most American (and many British) readers use Farenheit to describe the weather and room temperatures, and given the context, it absolutely makes sense to use it in this article.'

You're not trying to tell me that Quanta wasn't hamming up the report by using Farenheit are you? Come on, pull the other one.

Next, I suppose you'll be telling me that not enforcing the use of SI units wasn't the reason for Hubble's 'blindness'. The UK is supposed to be metric but unlike Australia the conversion was stuffed up as it wasn't enforced by legalization (in Australia, hardly anyone knows what Farenheit means these days).

The fact that the US is so damn backward in this matter is a combination of factors (a) bloody-libertarian mindedness in that people can't be told even if it's for their own good (just look at the US's fiasco over masks and COVID-19 and you'll get the message); (b) industry (mainly heavy industrial/machining) pulled too many strings in Congress saying the conversion would cost too much; and, (c) the US education system is far too fractionalized to agree upon anything let alone the Metric System/SI units. Thus the US is the laughing stock of the world, as it's the only major power left officially with imperial (British) units. It's even more laughable given what took place in the US in 1776! How many more centuries does the US need?

That said, the people who write for Quanta and Quanta's editorial policy ought to be in line with the rest of the scientific world. Keeping Fahrenheit only 'absolutely makes sense' if one's still living in a time warp that should have long since gone. Sorry!
If it's pointless, then so is putting your bags through security, and by extension of some of your comments 'all airline security pointless'. You must have some amazing deep insights that the rest of the world does not.
Samatman, we've had at least a few people tell us that. But fashion earrings do also sometimes go all the way upto the ear canal. Anyway, a world that accepts the look of AirPods should be fine with "high-reaching" earrings :)
I dunno man, working at Google doesn't exactly sound like a place people go who are open to new experiences...

It's like the most risk averse move a developer could possibly make.
The importance of working clean (Inspiration from a custom furniture maker)
Any example snippets of what the connection setup looks like on the server side?

e.g. something like a docker-compose sidecar exposing an nginx container to users via boundary would really help me understand how this is supposed to be used in practice.

Looking for an example like my comparison here between argo, wireguard, tailscale, letsencrypt, caddy, and ssh ingress: https://gist.github.com/pirate/1996d3ed6c5872b1b7afded250772...
Wow, amazing. I had no idea it was so prevalent. Thanks for writing this up!
Five Eyes warns tech firms that encryption creates 'severe risks'
Python has one of the best ORMs, the best web dev framework, the best REST framework, the best numeric processing library, the best machine learning libraries, and just all around excellent libraries for any domain you could possibly imagine.

I have never thought, gee I wish I had macros. I have thought a hundred times more about multi line lambdas, and even so the number of situations where they would make my life easier bs being a source of confusion is very, very small.

It's an essentially finished language at this point. The library warts are not worth it given the amount of language machinery you'd have to invent.
First figure is a joke.

As many in the comments have pointed out about the actual situation, the two process models in the figure need to be swapped (better yet: replace ML model with the words "no rhyme or reason ad-hoc BS").

As it stands, ML, data-science, computational-science, acadamics are the worst offenders when it comes to following a sane s/w engineering model for whatever they're doing. (for crying out loud, some even refuse to use anything other than FORTRAN-77 ... !!!)

Every ML, data-science, academic team needs to hire at least one traditional s/w engineer experienced in proper modern s/w development.

And they need to take that person seriously instead of being jackasses thinking they have the PhD degrees, or are PhD candidates, and that person doesn't.
I did a prototype at Autodesk with WebVR a few years ago. Had a lot of ideas on how to continue working on it, but sadly too little time, so I just requested to open source it, in case it got the ball rolling:
https://github.com/Autodesk/sculpt-vr

Even with a barebones feature set it was fun to use, and felt very intuitive to sculpt in VR. I even added force feedback whenever you touched the material, to compensate for the lack of having something that stops your hand from getting through.
This is boilerplate which you'd also find at other companys as well. In fact, the language was almost identical to what I saw at IBM. General counsels at big companies share "best practices" at their own conferences dedicated for corporate laywers. I've been a guest speaker talking about open source issues at legal conferences where they were talking about best practices for OSS compliance; it's not an accident that many company's OSS policies are very similar.

So policies like "require annual, mandatory training for anti-harassment training", and "how to communicate with care", etc., are going to be remarkably similar across companies.
Get it out first, and then if you want to you can linearize it.
> Workplaces are a neutral environment

Oh, that’s good to know.

So the workplaces are going to stop contributing to political parties and lobbyists, then? I can expect that any day now? That’s good to know, thanks!

Or did you perhaps mean that it’s only the workers that ought to be “neutral” and silent in their politics? Yes, that seems more likely to be what you meant.
Biochip Innovation Combines AI Nanoparticle Printing for Cancer Cell Analysis
Errantspark, yes, of course. The earrings can be made in a number of different sizes, shapes, and price points. Which is why we made our module removable: several earrings will work with the same module. We can have several different styles to appeal to different tastes.
Please take this as surprise and curiosity:

HOW IS THIS A THING??

Have you noticed any side effects? Do you have to use sterilized water? How do you do the actual flushing??
Ok, but I've never seen the media ever publicly discuss document verification in a story.

Stories about Trump's tax returns don't include any sort of explanation about verification. They wouldn't even publish the documents in order to keep the source secret.

So I don't think its reasonable to assume the lack of easy confirmation means it is necessarily fake.
Good CLTV though, and cheap on marketing. They're doing ok. If they were a company I'd buy stock in them ;)
Interesting intersection from a previous post entitled "To Survive in a Wetter World, Raise Ducks, Not Chickens"

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/ba...

HN Post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24492375
that's precisely why I think journalists and the public sector ought to put their money where their mouth is. Open web standards can be adopted today with the effect of turning any of these groups into their own Twitter. That particular genie is impossible to push back into its own bottle. They had better catch up or get left behind.

The audience will follow. Trust me, I know audiences move around. They've moved around so many times in recent history and since the conception of the Internet.
Extrapolating off the writers and directors later stuff Freaks and Geeks would have dipped sharply season 2.

It succeeded so well because it was one season. The novelty held it up.

I really liked Undeclared. It I could have seen doing a second season.
Python doesn't suffer from config language crappiness. Every single library I see is configurable through its API first, JSON a distant and optional second place.
This is a bizarre response to someone stating an opinion.
Every so often, an uber alert pops up telling me how long it will take me to go home from where I am. Usually it's at an inopportune time. Sometimes when I am showing someone my phone and then they see my home address. This has happened several times already and I should just delete this app at this point.

It is also a little strange that the app is nagging me to go home. I'm out and enjoying myself and the app is telling me to go home? As if I will look down and see that it will now take me 43 minutes to go home instead of the usual 45 and that would be the final straw that will cause me to end my night.
The instinct some people have to preserve themselves from cognitive dissonance is extremely powerful. Rather than re-examine their own beliefs, it's easier to find reasons to dismiss that which is creating the conflict.
"starting in macOS Big Sur 11 beta 6, the operating system enforces that any executable must be signed before it’s allowed to run."

This line seems clear that unsigned code is not allowed, although I don't have a Transition Kit to try it for sure.
Great idea and great start. I expect the "They don't look as good as Airpods" comments here to rank very highly in bad Show HN takes in the future.
Which is why we need reform: 230 liability protection needs to be extended only to those entities that only remove illegal content and nothing else, period.
Check out Currents.fm, it's a Patreon-style economic model built into a nice player + social UI.
He mentions that the braille can be printed on both sides, and implies the technique can be deduced from the scan, but I cannot see how it's done. (Perhaps the images are too small on my mobile device?)

Can someone shed light on how that works?
@baxter001, good point. But we don't see our earrings as an alternative to AirPods. We see them as different-occasion hearables. At parties, or meetings or any situation where AirPods would not only look incongruous but be a social faux pas as well.
I'm holding out for Opera to open source Presto. Those sick of Chrome's stranglehold come together to modernize and promote Presto Reborn.

Really though I agree. Now is far better that the darkest IE days but we're heading down a really bad path.
It hurts my soul every time I reminded that companies have no cap on how much they can 'donate' to politicians. Imagine a world where there was no money in politics.
One thing that can be verified (as at least a unique release) after looking into the NY Post article more are the pictures they released. When I reverse image search them on Google and tineye, there are no other matches. This doesn't mean that they are necessarily real (they'd have to be verified as not being fakes), but they are certainly newly released.

A couple searches: https://tineye.com/search/85ed99ec3e5397597a1100ce7d54c0bf99...
https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZiu3ByKtFe0xCIg4gz...
(The Google one weirdly searches for fun when entering this URL)
This is not true because the bank does cheat me. Has been cheating me for a decade but the police won't do anything about it. If I try to sue the Reserve Bank, the judge will dismiss my case without even hearing the evidence.

Also, politicians never answer my emails and I did try. I must be living on a different planet.
Any agreement with conservative principles will get you labeled as a bunch of unpleasant things.

Balanced budget, smaller government, prolife, personal responsibility, self defense, belief in God.

Express support for any of these and you will be attacked.
That's what it sounds like when you interview a normal human being at the center of something so politically sensitive and dealing with such high level corruption.

“When you’re afraid and you don’t know anything about the depth of the waters that you’re in, you want to find a lifeguard.”

Entirely reasonable sentiment to express.
I also felt more comfortable with yahoo.com than with a politicized site like NR. The intention here is simply to be accurate and neutral to the extent possible.

But it's the same article, so it doesn't make sense to pretend that it comes from a different source, besides which the HN guidelines say "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

If there's a more neutral and accurate article we can change it again.
Tesla is the only company that believes that 2d vision can solve the whole problem. Every other company uses it with LIDAR.
It may be hubris, but I simply cannot see how vision alone will be sufficient to solve self-driving.

This is especially true in heavy rains, snow and any driving condition that doesn't follow the nicest of layouts like the Bay Area. This means that occlusion will stay unsolved by definition. Even if it works out one day, my intuition is that 3D maps / LIDAR self-driving is going to be ready sooner than that, purely due to having richer data.

Also, from what I know, (very little but) Tesla isn't THE company landing top self-driving and vision talent. They seem to be going to Waymo, Uber, Apple and Nvidia instead. Additionally, while I deeply respect Andrej Karpathy, he simply doesn't have the same research credentials as some of the distinguished professors who lead the other groups.

3D self-driving labs are all building on each other's work, as the cost of GPUs and LIDAR sensors has dropped by orders of magnitude over the last decade. Cameras and sensors on the other hand remain more or less where they were 10 years ago, and Tesla is left alone to compete with everyone else.
If it was a Nigerian 419 scam I wouldn't mind it.
>History does not look kindly on governments that denied reality.

History also doesn't look kindly on governments that deprive (directly or via an intermediary party) people of free speech.

Walking the line between the two is like trying to fit a telephone pole through a keyhole.
>Your life is worse because the government is openly antagonist towards the populace it was created to serve.

What does this mean in relation to the debate about NSA spying? How is the NSA antagonizing me? What is one example of a material impact on my life?

>Even if it doesn't effect you now all you need to do is look at historical examples from other nations going down the same path. There's a reason the poem "First they came ..." exists and it's a direct counter point to the argument you're making.

This is getting into slippery slopes and hypotheticals that don't seem to motivate anyone and they are the exact arguments that are used in defense of this spying. If we demand examples of the safety this spying supposedly provides, we need examples of the freedom this spying destroys.

>Otherwise I don't know what you want here, historically the masses mostly don't do anything until they start starving...

I am looking for anything that will motivate people to political action. It doesn't need to motivate people to overthrow the government. A simple here is why you real life is worse so vote for this candidate, volunteer with organization, donate to this cause, etc.
I mean personally I feel The OA season 2 was better in many ways and I was quite excited for Season 3. If only Netflix would be required to release some basic popularity numbers :/

Many shows run too long, yes, but that feels orthogonal at best to the reasoning for Netflix cancellations. Especially as they go and do the opposite with many longer shows that they deem "worth" running into the ground.

Basically, your reasoning seems like a discussion to be had, but I simply don't think that's the conversation happening within the Netflix content team.
In existing superconductors, you break superconductivity if your magnetic field reaches a certain threshold. That limit decreases, the closer you are to the temperature limit.

So yeah, higher-temperature superconductors could either give you higher-temperature supermagnets, or same-temperature stronger magnets. The latter is being explored with relatively new materials, for smaller tokamaks, which enabled by stronger magnetic fields.
This was a shockingly dumb move. Whether or not you think these actions were politically motivated or made in good faith, it just poured liquid oxygen on the "reform section 230" fire you're seeing from both sides of the aisle - one using the censorship reason, the other using the disinformation reason.

There's no way you don't block a newspaper, and the press secretary, and prevent anyone from even private messaging the link to each other, and blocking people who share screenshots, and not invite serious scrutiny or action.

The legislative blowback is going to suck. Section 230 is an ordinary law, not a constitutional right or based on one, and that means it's exposed to all the usual political fighting.
I wonder how long it will take for the people in the wooden rooms to realize they and the wooden rooms are obsolete.
Fyi your links don't work.
Is that preposterous? The idea that "spacetime"(?) may have superconductive properties doesn't seem facially outlandish, but again I'm not a fancy scientist. He is an awarded US Navy scientist though, and these patents were specially requested by Navy brass, so I'm not inclined to think he's a scammer that slipped one by his attorneys.
Which hopefully would spell the end of Twitter, in a shocking positive twist for human civilization.
It probably depends significantly on the criticism. "sexual harassment law is bad because women don't deserve protection" probably creates a hostile work environment.

In general, I'd consider it a thin ice category for discussion inside the company in written format.
Why would Twitter enforce a Tiananmen Square-ish policy? Do they want to lose all credibility as a platform?
Barrier, a Fork of Synergy
> how bad actors have been using social media to undermine democracy

That's the propaganda some have been pushing. What was it? Russia spent $50K on facebook ads and won trump the election?

> I’m sure if this story turns out to be true, we will hear about it from more reliable media,

Like CNN or the nytimes or the washingtonpost which peddled trump-russia conspiracy for 4 years?

Lets be real here, you support this censorship because of your political bias. If facebook was censoring the other side, you'd be railing against facebook.

"he/him" lmao.
Major news outlets differ greatly on which stories the give attention to based on their biases. And their reputation depends on your personal political bias.

You're asking for evidence the emails are real but no such evidence was demanded when NYT posted findings from what they claim are Trump's financial records.

If you're a social media company, your job isn't to decide what's true or untrue or what is permissible to share or not share. It is to facilitate communication and get out of the way. Instead, we're seeing companies that control the digital public square enact severely biased policies that favor their employee's politics. That's dangerous and unacceptable.
The camera based tracking is a marvel of modern engineering. Making something seem simple is really really hard.
> because it works.

I mean yes, in the same way that drugs work.
FTP is 40 years old. I wonder if the same thing could be said about QUIC and FTP 40 years from now...
Best of luck to you! This is my impression.
Something that I would love to see some specific guidance on is TLS certificates. It seems like commonly used webservers (eg: nginx) pretty much insist on the private certificate being available effectively unencrypted to the web server process. On a traditional server that gets protected by user permissions, but inside Docker I am not sure how to achieve this. Is there a pattern people use to deploy certificates inside docker containers, or is the pattern "don't do that"?
Wealthsimple announces $114M investment led by TCV, claims $1.4B valuation
NY Post claim to have a copy of the HD (including a sex tape with Biden Jr) so they will surely spin on if it is real.
I think we need full separation of hardware and software. One company makes the hardware, others make the software. And let's not forget that it was like this for a long time (IBM+clones vs Microsoft, OS/2, Linux).
I'm hoping this isn't even sarcasm, just GPT-3
Yeah this isn't very easy to get right at the moment so there is not going to be any silver bullet here. We had to iterate on our runner a lot to get this right, but we have a lot of experience since we do this for Terraform Cloud too.

Answering your questions:

> * I assume you aren't shelling out :). Do you have any additional helper libraries on top of the Terraform code base to make it more of a a programmatically consumable API, as apposed to an end user application?

We in fact are. There are lots of security concerns you have to consider with this. We published a library to make this easier: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-exec

> * Are you still pointing at a directory with resources defined in HCL, or are the resources defined programmatically?

HCL mixed with the JSON flavor of HCL for programmatically generated stuff. Variables in JSON format also programmatically generated.

> * What are you using for state storage?

We output it to a file and handle this in an HCP microservice. We encrypt it using the customer-specific key with Vault and store it in a bucket that only the customer-specific credential has access to. If there is an RCE exploit somehow in our workflows, they can only access that customer's metadata.

> * What is the execution environment for the programmatic Terraform process? Since Terraform uses external processes for plugins, I've hit some issues with resource constraints around the max number of process sysctl's in containerized environment where I have multiple Terraform processes running in the same container.

Containers in HCP and VMs in Terraform Cloud due to increased isolation requirements. HCP has less strict requirements because the Terraform configs and inputs are more tightly controlled.
Repository Summary on Your Terminal
More info: https://github.com/o2sh/onefetch
16TB is very new, but 12TB and 14TB have been around for a couple years.

While an average NAS might have 10TB, I wouldn't even call it particularly high end to have a 6 bay NAS with 50+TB of usable space.
Medium’s New Logo (2020)– Unfinished Ellipses Logomark
Nice read.
Writing can be magic, both for the reader and the author.
If only working hard to make it clear for the reader.
It might be just me, but "struggling to get it" can lead to better explanations.

From the article:

- It just needs for the writer to work hard to make it clear
Writing is humanity’s superpower — when done well, it informs, provokes, and entertains.

- When an author takes the time to prepare a high-quality article, knowledge flows seamlessly from one mind to another.

- If you’re curious about a topic, or even confused by it, the best thing you can do is write about it.