skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

It like saying that a rule with as many special cases as data points is not actually a general rule. It is just a collection of special cases that explains nothing.

More precisely, if you give a model enough parameters, you can always have it describe your data well. The question is whether it is likely to predict future data. And the answer is no.
Do you know how academic, narrow and unpractically stiff are criteria for a proof of reinfection? You need to have the viral genome sequenced TWO times, and both times it must be a slightly DIFFERENT virus. In that context "very rare" is not a useful term.
Rooting isn't as terrifying as it used to be, and it means you can do actual real backups and genuinely own your data.
I'm not sure why I see so many comments with expectations companies should provide services for free. Considering DH is hosted in AWS costs must be insane. Limits should have been imposed sooner imo. I've seen many companies pull images hundreds of times per hour with caches being cleared in between. Barely coming under Docker Hubs rate limits.
I worked for Software Etc. for a while. I remember thinking "they pay us peanuts and they expect monkeys".

This was demonstrated by the two fat binders filled with procedures for EVERYTHING that were supposed to followed to the letter.
Some people do use airplanes. Bush planes have been used for a long time to deliver things to remote places... ok, well, not oil rigs, but almost anywhere else. Some of them can take off and land in less than 100 feet. Risk of course is that a human is in it. A drone is less liability and less maintenance costs. Planes will still be used for heavier objects and human transport for some time.
Single-use/disposable plastics are just one prong of a larger culture of waste and consumption that has many limiting downsides like how we've been trained to buy tech gadgets that we can't even upgrade nor repair. Or how we are more likely to trash our pants than learn a simple life skill like how to mend a small hole. Or how less and less self-reliant we become.

That it's cheap to bury our trash in the perfect, well-maintained landfill is a tiny consolation.
Kind of a stretch but the crossover between jaded dev/tech people and EVE Online players is high:

Mostly Harmless is an old, now defunct, EVE corp. Might be someone who ran in that that might recognize him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/cd7ku3/disbanded_allia...
Of course there's a related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1189/
Good thing google is preventing everyone from being exposed to obvious malware.

This is why I got rid of my smartphone. The whole "app" thing is just a power grab. Not that I'm a huge bitchute fan but having one organization decide that most users just shouldn't watch something is super disturbing.
Maybe this satirical article should become real: "New Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'I'm Thinking Printers'" https://www.theonion.com/new-apple-ceo-tim-cook-im-thinking-....
That explains cheap hardware but doesn't explain why the software is as bad as it is. Amortized over any large hardware vendor's product line the per-unit cost of investment in the software has got to be nothing.
For HN readers who think the imgur is hyberbole, that exact scenario happened/is happening with both Biden's cognitive decline reporting and the New York Post investigative story on the Biden family payment arrangements with the CCP.

Regarding the latter, ask yourself, "What possible business value does Hunter Biden offer the CCP?" None. This is known as "CCP elite capture."
SGI's workstations offered tons of internal bandwidth that commodity PC hardware couldn't touch until the early 2000s. So for some things and during a certain era SGI didn't have meaningful competition.

However the market for workstations that start at 50k is really tiny and saturated quickly. When the PC workstations with comparable I/O performance appeared and sold for half to a quarter of what SGI wanted, SGI was doomed.
Let's say your address was

256 Main St. Apt 10, Some City, CA, USA

I usually provide my address as

256 Main St. Unit 10-BCRK, Some City, CA, USA

I generate a unique code for each entity that I am required to provide my address to.

I usually change "Apt" to "Unit" to stump the automatic address-correcting APIs that will convert "Apt 10-BCRK" to "Apt 10". I found that changing "Apt" to "Unit" usually stumps them.

The idea is that if I see another business use "BCRK" to send me junk mail, or list my address on those idiot people search sites, I will write a blog and publicly shame the first business for giving it out.

Package delivery drivers happily ignore the "BCRK" part and my packages still arrive as usual.

When giving out billing address for credit card authorization, I find usually I can skip the apartment number field and the card still authorizes just fine, so I also don't need to tell online retailers the same 4-letter code that my bank has listed for my address.
(author here)

Here is a link to a conversation we had about this in the Amethyst community: https://community.amethyst.rs/t/bevy-engine-addressing-the-e...
My gut feel is that they've absolutely overcomplicated it now, justifying large DevOps teams to make sense of and maintain the whole architecture.
Even more, 62% of American electricity is from fossil fuel. Electric cars generally outsource fossil fuel burning to industrial areas where the power plants are.

Source: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Yep, they seem to be playing the victim here
Unfortunately there are several taboos on many forums, regarding discussion Covid. For ex.: Covid reinfections, lab origins of covid etc.
Workstations – A curated list of workspaces and desk setups
Author here. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about Bevy!
With wings, you have to be moving forward to stay in the air. With rotors, you can hover if the control circuitry is up to the task
> I don't understand anything in aerodynamics

Same here.

> Why then a quadcopter is the default shape for smaller drones?

Large fixed-wing planes are expensive. Piloting them requires jumping through many high-hanging and heavily regulated hoops. The most dangerous parts of the flight near the airports happen in well-known space, according to pre-defined paths known to all parties.

In many places of the airspace, pilots are guided by data from the ground. Optical from visual approach slope indicator (these weird light arrays around airports which are visible as 0-4 red circles depending on whether you’re too high or too low). Radio from beacons. Most importantly humans, the job title is “air traffic controller”.

For the scale of a conventional airplanes, accurate map data is available. GPS data+SRTM height map is accurate enough for most cases. Also, real-time weather data is pretty accurate at that scale.

None of the above applies to small drones. They’re cheap, most are piloted by amateurs and no licensing is required. They can take off and land whenever. No ground control is available. At their scale, no offline map data is available, and ground-induced wind turbulence is borderline unpredictable.

This might change in a few years.

We might get chips smart enough to reliably do right things based on the limited input data despite the unpredictable factors.

We might get sensors sensitive enough to generate much better data for these chips. E.g. if you have spatial data for 1x1x1km space around the drone, with 1mm spatial precision, and 20ms refresh rate consistent over the whole volume, today’s mobile chips will do mostly OK in good weather.

We might get good enough sensors to cover all airspace with them, and make robotic equivalent of air traffic controllers, a software that detects future collisions and tells the drones to do something about it. Or broadcast current wind conditions at 1m^3 resolution.

Least likely but still, we might get good enough actuators & power sources to combine these two. Birds do OK, many of them can hover, glide, and arbitrarily combine hovering with gliding. When you can stop flying and hover, or land almost everywhere, collision avoidance becomes way simpler. That’s one reason how birds and modern-day small drones are functional.
Huh, so did I...
Huh, I thought this might have been about Apache/httpd
Using phone numbers for verification is just stupid. I've switched phones a few times over the years and just got a new number rather than keeping my old one and i got locked out of my accounts because i didn't have access to the old number anymore. Stuff like Authy and Google Authenticator exist, I think it's time companies started using them.
Nvidia A100 is now in GA on AWS
Could become a killer app for Mac TouchBar
The key thing about a signalling mirror is that it can be useful _if someone is searching for you_ (and provided that you have clear sky above you).

PLB or satellite messengers will not only let the first responders know where you are (both by transmitting your location via satellite distress signal as well as using 121.5 MHz 'homing signal' in the case of PLBs to help first responders find your exact location), but also trigger the SAR operation rather than waiting for someone to notice you've been gone for too long.
> This is a nice benefit of Google Fi. Since swap attacks are not possible with it, as customers support agents aren't able to do sim swaps.

Are you sure that this is the case? According to https://support.google.com/fi/thread/761170 there was at least one case where support agents moved a Fi number from a locked account to a newly reopened account, without the user being able to access the locked account:

> I call Google Support and the amazing Google Support rep I spoke to (The only good one I’ve talked to so far during this whole process) stayed with me for over an hour and worked with tier 2 support in getting my Project Fi number transferred to Account 2.

A SIM swap with Fi might be harder to accomplish than with a regular provider, but it looks like there's still the risk that someone manages to convince a support agent to move the number to a different account.
This is disgusting censorship. They will claim "Hatespeech" or something similar which is a nefarious term to try and limit free speech.
I was about to say the same thing... It is really completely amazing how wide the gap is between standard, cheap ink jet and cheap Brother laser. Seriously do yourself a favour and just switch. Your sanity will thank you.
You might want to check out adbLink[1]. It makes managing firesticks pretty simple.

1: http://jocala.com/
The wings help for covering longer distances efficiently but make hovering and vertical takeoff tricky, tail-sitters combine positive features from both types of aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail-sitter
I had a simliar idea a year ago, and did a proof of concept with some script and OBS. Glad to see it moving to reality, there's lots of rooms to grow for this idea. Got the idea after watching a coding session from some of the core golang devs.
Spotify includes loudness correction in it’s preferences. It will compare the LUFS loudness of all songs and turn down the loud ones to match -14 LUFS.

It works as expected on my phone, although I notice it is off on my desktop app, despite it being activated in my preferences. A bug.
Related:

https://getoutcome.com
we're still in the same place as the original publications: most scientists don't think that EM of rocks from that look like microbes on rocks on earth is a convincing argument. The morphological argument has held since before this rock, it wasn't added up afterwards.

There just isn't enough information here to conclude anything so it's easier to reject the hypothesis (I have to admit, it took me a while to accept the idea that there is that much mass exchange between planets in the first place!)
"Awesome Workstations" for some reason, Awesome was removed automatically from the title. Anyways, if you are a fan of Awesome Lists, you would love this.
NT 4.0 was almost similar, but a bit better, I think. At least it did not crash that often.
That’s true in principle, but it’s not a significant factor in the aggregate. Almost all US social programs are government-administered. To your example, we are behind Western Europe in the area of school choice: https://www.edchoice.org/engage/faqs/how-does-school-choice-...

Similar stories about in other areas. In Europe it is common for private companies to operate transit systems. (Stockholm’s subway is operated by the same company that operates Hong Kong’s.) In the US, nearly every large transit system is operated by government workers on the government payroll.
I think there will be a large market for plane-like drones with very malleable wings for exactly the reason you state.

The cost (in terms of both price and structural integrity) of gratuitously dynamic wings (think turning the whole wing 45 degrees to horizontal, bending the wing to 90 degrees at it's half way point) are much smaller for small aircraft.

Such gratuitously dynamic wings give more degrees of freedom for automated piloting software to work with when it comes to optimizing near vertical take-off and landing when compared to a fixed wing aircraft, while retaining fixed wing efficiency advantages during elevated flight.
Heh.

I started my tech career in a call center. Were there people there that shouldn't have had that job? Sure. Do those people deserved to be belittled by calling them monkeys? No fucking way. Show some damn respect for your fellow man.
on macOS 10.15.7 - since the thunderbird update to v78 - the folder view is lagging while scrolling. The rest of the interface is butter-smooth. Me sad :(
Guys, does it make sense to switch from C# to F#? I mean, C# adds more and more F# features each year and I think they will probably be on a par with F# in 3-4 years. By the way, native immutable records will be added to C# next week in C# 9.
First they came for Youtube Channels..

Build your own YouTube they said

Then they came for Payment Processors

Build your own Payment Processors they said

Then they came for CDN's

Build your own CDN's they said...

Then they came for core network infrastructure....

Now all that is left is to build a new internet, one free from censorship and authoritarianism..

I am sure many are celebrating this censorship
You're welcome to give it a try! There is only one active instance (unless you want to host your own?) but you can book some time on the calendar. [1][2]

[1] view: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=gsc268k1l...

[2] add: send an invitation to
gsc268k1lu78lbvfbhphdr0cs4@group.calendar.google.com
Last time I looked at Azure IoT Hub for anything I was baffled by the way their system used MQTT but didn't provide general-purpose MQTT access. Frankly they're not a great example of a company understanding how these devices are supposed to work.
> not some strawman who eats too many Doritos

Hold on a second, 42.4% obesity in the US must play into the danger of COVID to the US population. That's a very weird dismissal that doesn't really make sense.
Could it be the same person? https://steamcommunity.com/id/n0s0ck
He has a comment on https://steamcommunity.com/app/464350/discussions/0/35165980...
Google shouldn’t have an obligation to host your apps or associate their brand with yours. The Android OS permits sideloading apps which Google doesn’t vet. Also BitChute is choosing not to show the attached image, thus concealing the full story from the public.
I'm surprised and disappointed LineageOS disables it as well. Do they block apps with the word "torrent" in them as well?
Filed bankruptcy? No problem. Just make the credit companies forget about it!

After moving from the US to the EU, I've thought about trying to use that right on my credit history in the US. I don't think it would work, but it would be entertaining if they even responded.
There is no incentive to improve printers now simply because it is clear that they are on their way out. I haven't printed anything in years, and don't think I ever will again.
> Mort finished his motion to dismiss with a claim that the TCPA only applies to telemarketing harassment, not good-ole-fashioned harassment harassment.

Ah, the good old-fashioned "I wasn't taking advantage of him, I was just being an asshole for being an asshole's sake!" defense. How refreshing.
This was my use case, unfortunately I never figured out how to get my keyboard to accept CapsLock as a Ctrl key. Any suggestions??!
That is the whole point of information asymmetry in negotiation. The party with more information has an advantage. All salary discussions are negotiations.
The intent of fisking in this context isn't based on the notion of trying to present an argument of arguable validity as wrong.

The intent is to expose an utterly fallacious argument for what it is. Impeaching a witness, as it were (though this can also be more concisely achieved generally). Where there is in fact no common ground or intent to establish such by the counterparty, common ground cannot be found.

Keep in mind that the extremity of this practice is precisely why I suggest practicing it rarely.
Who the hell flagged this? Even if bitchute is an irredeemable dumpster of hate speech this is kind of serious. This is part of the end of personal computers being a tool that extends yourself and the beginning of them being an ankle bracelet that corporations yank you back into line with.
cool idea, but no support for linux?
Th better questions is "Why do we still have printers"
Mostly Harmless is also a difficulty level... I wouldn't dig too deeply into the name so much as the choice.
The software can only be explained by attempting to sell printers to, well, idiots. Looks pretty, doesn't work worth a crap.

HP, please, just give me an 'enterprise' driver and nothing else, that's all I need.
Coinbase’s Culture Memo: Not Good, Not Bad, but I Reject ‘Mission-Focused’ Fram
There are. But it only takes one mistake and you're caught. I think most of the guys that do this for a living probably live in countries like Russia where the government doesn't cooperate with US authorities and they are basically free to do whatever they want as long as it doesn't screw over their home country.
Do you really believe that computing comes cheap and is unrelated to climate change? I find that line of thinking extremely naive.

No I believe something more subtle than that: that the same raw materials that make a computer of speed X can be used to make a computer of speed 1000X with the input of better design. So we have economic growth there purely through intellect with no correlation to raw materials consumed.
video is too small to read and I don't see how to enlarge
dont u ever lost a video or needed to use it offline to watch in a tv or other places with bad wifi?
Yeah, but we knew X-Rays were dangerous even then. We just thought it was ok in small doses (scientists were regularly burning themselves with X-Rays in the 19th century even).

Correct me if I’m wrong, but mainstream science doesn’t really follow the same pattern of “bad for you but ok on small doses” (historically the most dangerous viewpoint to have) for mm-waves.
And yet, go try to find out an age for the origin of life on Earth. You'll find that ALL of the evidence is faint morphological features in rocks from Australia. It's the gold standard for one field, but circumstantial in another?
And the person responsible for that fuck-up ran for government on the basis of her business expertise.
> The Cypress e2e tests on our build server sometimes fail for no discernible reason.

You'll probably be interested to hear that Cypress are... uhm... addressing this by adding "flaky test detection" and some amount of automatic retrying in v5.

We use Cypress at work, we have flaky test problems, but I'm not convinced much of it is actually Cypress's fault. As others have mentioned, writing front-end code to be testable by E2E is not necessarily straightforward, and when you're trying to add tests to a big existing codebase I think you kinda have to accept some flakiness and retrying.

What I've been wondering about recently though is: if you construct applications in a certain way do you still need real E2E tests? For example, React is declarative, and with a state-management system like Redux shouldn't you be able to get the same kind of assurance that E2E gets you without needing an actual browser? Maybe things like animations, visibility etc are where that comes unstuck?
I’ve never found one that works as well as the one included with Winamp in the late 90s. Or have I just become fussier since then?
Why the quad set up over the classic single rotor seen in helicopters?
No one said employees are commodities or fungible. That doesn't mean that a negotiation doesn't happen.
Modern Stone Age Tools
Is there some kind of template to make such a 1990's website https://buckysgasstationsucks.com/ with it's bizarro little animations and clipart? It's so very anachronistic (yet strangely readable I must add). I don't think I've seen anything like it since ages past.
With time will come cost concerns, and it’ll end up back on prem, maybe using Kubernetes, maybe not.
Yeah soda is foul, though there's quite a bit of it around. PET is also used for plain seltzer water (which accounts for the majority of bottles I go through.) I guess PET is favored for pressurized drinks?
It should be good, he's the editor in chief :-)
You probably will if you need to RMA anything in the US. Just had to RMA to Lenovo and Amazon recently and both required me to print out a shipping label.
Three People Claim to Have Understood Vitalik-PG Twitter Messages
I run the News Sniffer[1] project which has to parse BBC News pages and I knew about this rollout a few weeks ago when the HTML all changed format completely and my parsers broke.

As a side note, the new HTML is way more complicated and much harder to parse than before - I know the aim isn't to help parsing for content, but I was still saddened to see how it's ended up (a bit of a mess imo - hard to distinguish actual article content from other things).

If anyone knows a reliable and public way to access the content before the "web rendering" layer, that'd be very handy!

[1] https://www.newssniffer.co.uk
For things that take a known amount of time and/or provide updates on progress ("X out of Y items processed"), I'll often include a progress bar with some gem or npm module.

If you don't know how long something is going to take and it emits no intermediate steps, a progress bar won't be useful since it'll go from zero to 100% in one go. One trick I had success with is running the activity like `./myscript; send_push_message "task complete!". The send_push_message in my case pushes to a custom app I wrote some time ago but it could be as simple as sending an email.
The UPS store (where I drop off return packages) prints them for free.
If you want to do something other than Instagram then don't buy devices that run "mobile" OSes.
Quick question as I'm giving this a spin (thanks!!). How do I go about installing an ssh client? Or is that only available in the testflight version?
With time will come cost concerns

Especially as cancellations of TV licenses gather steam.

This is a classic example of the iron law of bureaucracy, that work expands to meet the number of people to do it.
The Decentralized Internet of the Future
I hope people do not use this to document their code for others. I code for a living and I cannot see screens or watch videos. Maybe to keep a diary, sure, but nothing can beat written text in terms of accessibility.
I've been using Mint for years but its desktop environment is somewhat lacking - I have one 1080 and one 4K monitor and it's impossible to have Chrome windows on both with a reasonable font size. I wish they hadn't discontinued KDE version.
Is there any evidence for Joe Biden's cognitive decline besides Trump saying it? Donald Trump says a lot of things and has admitted he'll lie when he thinks it helps him.

Is the New York Post story the Hunter Biden laptop story? I've seen plenty of reporting on it and the details seem pretty sketchy.
> forcing the monopoly

Which of the many printer manufacturers has a monopoly?