skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems hyperbolic to say that the operating system a person uses is reflective of their character.
WeChat censors Australian Prime Minister's post directed at Chinese community
Idea behind Rga is cool.
Anyway, I tried it on Mac and installed via Homebrew. The formula already says it depends on ripgrep (that's fine since I have ripgrep already installed and use it regularly). I still was surprised when I executed Rga for the first time and got an error message that 'pdftotext' was not found. Since pdftotext has been officially discontinued, I am not sure if I want to install an old version just to make Rga work on my machine. Don't think it's an good idea to rely on a project which is not maintained actively.
While I’m not convinced Urbit is a good idea, its extreme arcanity actually has a pretty solid justification: keeping out entryist parasites. It’s extremely difficult to fake Urbit expertise to Urbit insiders, so you can’t pull the parasitic move of entering a tech community with little/no relevant experience and becoming a “developer evangelist” or “industry advocate” or whatever other bullshit positions people use to subvert tech communities with entryist politics, corporate control, etc.

This was described in a pre-Urbit blog post by Yarvin. Something along the lines of “personal computing in 2020”.
Wait, how was this literal incident not highly embarrassing to the company? "Our internal security team has been known to put up unapproved messages in popups that only apply to specific partners/vendors". Doesn't even matter what the content was in that context.

When you do consider the content/context, then we need to consider that this vendor/partner (IRI) was likely offended by the implications and the relationship between Google and the vendor/partner was likely damaged.

IRI did the right thing in not publicly commenting on the issue, though, so we'll never know for sure what actual affect this incident had on that relationship.
Thanks so much! My partner both did the design work and came up with the name, so I'm sure that'll go straight to his head!

Keysmith comes with a Chrome and Firefox extension that make it better about working with the web. If you're using that extension, Keysmith will be smart about waiting in a few ways:

First, it'll wait for page loads if you're navigating between pages.

Second, it identifies elements you click on instead of just clicking at coordinates. So if you click on a Submit button, Keysmith won't try to click until it actually sees that Submit button there.

And finally, Keysmith is often able to identify when clicking on some button caused some other view to appear, so it knows to wait for that the next time when you're running the macro. This is just based on some heuristics, so it won't always work, but I'd recommend giving it a shot for your use case!
And the USSR went from a poor, agrarian society to the first spacefaring nation on Earth in less than 4 decades.
Quantum tunneling can happen when no conduction is supposed to be happening which isn't desirable.

On the other hand, when we can master the QFET, quantum tunneling gets turned into a desirable trait with huge benefits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QFET
It's also not true for some ships, depending on exactly what you're talking about.

It isn't just being forced to support its own weight by a bubble that sinks ships... it's the force applied in the direction it's applied by the explosion of the torpedo. Most hulls aren't designed to handle a sudden non uniform upward moving force in their middle accompanied by a shock wave.
Or you could just get really drunk and lose your phone. Happens all the time. The phone company will verify you called for a replacement and the bar will verify you got trashed.
Barbarism isn't some perceived discomfort (have you even been on a train?) with having to share a room with your fellow citizen for an hour or two. 35000 people dying in car accidents every year in America is barbarism. Destroying the planet so you can enjoy some "privacy and personal space" while (hopefully) attentively directing your 3000 pound death machine down the road is barbarism.
>More people live in poverty now than ever before. The overall percentage may have decreased, but the sheer number is greater.

The sheer number doesn't matter when compared to the percentage. The percentage is the real number that measures our progress and the actual number is an illusion.

100 people die of car accidents per day does that mean we ban cars? No. The sheer number is an illusion the percentage is the real deal.

>The scale is greater now than it was back then. Now, a city of millions can be obliterated in an instant. Now, we can see the effects of global warming and how it can decimate the world's food supply.

Nobody is saying these aren't threats or problems. But compared with the past these problems are looming problems that we have to deal with as a society.

A peasant in the dark ages had to deal with starvation, black death or invaders. These were actual threats in the sense that an average conversation will be like: "Last week Martha got her head chopped off by a barbarian and Bob died of starvation. "
I'm waiting for the second gen here.. I've been burned too many times on first gen stuff. Also, since I rarely leave the home these days, I'm more interested in the Apple Silicon iMac.
Would those drugs be in use by the majority of the patients that need them before that though, as they'd be in the studies etc? Whereas this vaccine needs to be given to a large percentage of the population. How are flu vaccines regulated? They change yearly, correct?
Author here. Great feedback and completely agree with your comments.

Taking a structure/organized approach to collecting, indexing, and sharing the qualitative data isn't something I covered here but absolutely essential to make sure that a research project scales. My experience has been that the first mile is where founders get the most lost.
I'm not in a position to say that something funny is going on with South Africa's lottery, but coincidences do happen.

Shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks on New York, the Pick 3 came up with 9-1-1. Math happens.
Oof my grandfather is 2000 miles away and 82. I am hoping we can visit him in 2021 safely, so he can meet his great grand child.
> The whole idea of containerization came from Google anyways, who uses it internally.

Not really. Jails and chroots are a form of containerization and have existed for a long time. Sun debuted containers (with Zones branding) as we think of them today long before Google took interest, and still years before Docker came to the forefront.

> I've seen Docker be a disaster over and over again. The fact that they have a good sales pitch only makes it worse because more people get stuck with a bad technology.

> Eliminating Docker from the equation seems to me to be an unmitigated Good Thing.

Now this I agree with, Docker is a wreck. Poor design, bad tooling, and often downright hostile to the needs of their users. Docker is the Myspace of infra tooling and the sooner they croak, the better.
From what I've understood -- it is not yet known whether having the vaccine will prevent or reduce transmission.

I believe that most experts are expecting it won't.
On powerline meters of the dish + router input AC power, yes that's correct, but that's also factoring any inefficiencies in the power supply.

The Power over Ethernet injector supplies 56V/1.6A 2x power (namely all 8 lines energized).

See: https://imgur.com/JpVZ6Uy

Output 1 is for the dish, output 2 is for the router.
Less than half of Americans know that alcohol is a carcinogen
https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/vere/c/
I'm not going to take advice on what is 'wrong' or 'correct' from a document that says "The halting problem says that it's impossible in general to even determine if a piece of code will finish without running it.", which is a gross misstatement of the halting problem.
There should be a new Law as a sibling to Godwin's Law: any time someone starts throwing out quotes from Wikipedia or, worse, comments that consist solely of a link to a Wikipedia page, constructive discussion is over.

Nothing against the parent post; I see it all the time. You just were an handy target. :)
I'm not sure why this was flagged. It's moderately tangential, but within the variance I'd expect from a HN discussion. It's substantial enough to chew on.

If it's about 'his orangeness', I don't think it's realistic to expect everyone on a forum predomenantly frequented by tech workers and west-coastals to be able to say Trump's name without spitting, and outside of that it's a fairly reasonable description current circumstances.
So you're saying that judge will ignore the separate profiles but it'll magically stop from depositioning all your phones that might contain work conversations?

That's a tall order.

Also, the title says that GOOGLE spied on someone - which is not a deposition, is it?
Also: Wake me up at 7.
I'm thinking it's got abrasive material embedded in the outside of the chain links. I kind of doubt it's diamonds, because that wouldn't work too well for steel and other ferrous metals, but it might be CBN or similar.
I'm a grown up man with a shoe size of 40 (8). Is the 2018 movie Smallfoot insensitive towards me?

I mean, I don't enjoy hearing about your suffering and I certainly don't wish it upon you, but why would you care about the name? Do you think that people somehow treat amnesia sufferers with less respect when they're exposed to the name in a context that's not explicitly serious and negative?
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Would love to see something like this for web apps
I did not mean to imply that there was a conscious effort to enable cyber-warfare when developing the SS7 protocols. What I meant was that it's so damn easy to do all of the mischievous things needed for cyber, that it sure seems like SS7 was made for that!
I'm in the middle. I have developers that work whenever they feel like it, and they email me with questions at all hours. I like to be there for them when I can (but I don't feel bad when I can't).

I've set up my email client on my phone, so that it only notifies me if one of my developers emails me. I use the VIP feature of Samsung's email client, which seems to be unique to that specific client, since I haven't been able to find another with it. I can check the email (if I can), and decide to answer right away (if I can), or just snooze the notification for later.

Everyone else can KMA after hours. Or text, if it's an emergency - but they better say what the emergency is in the text, or they may not get a reply.
The low latency is also a requirement to receive FCC subsidies related to rural broadband, e.g. see https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/h04on0/fcc_just_vot....

Have heard (IIRC in https://theamphour.com/518-satellites-and-evs-with-joris-aer...) that this could have been part of the reason for Starlink's decision to have their satellites in a lower orbit.

The subsidy angle is also of course a familiar playbook across SolarCity/Tesla/SpaceX etc.
> For example, humans are much better at learning languages compared to even simple mathematics. Even those who are "good at math" are objectively much better at languages, in terms of how much complexity they can absorb.

Is this actually the general consensus? I think this is wrong. I am mediocre at math, but I can write it, and then verify that it is correct, and then it is quite abstractable and transferrable. Conventional languages handle fuzzy input better, but they do that by allowing ambiguous parsing..

> A14: Deterministic beats heuristic.

> Heuristics make it hard to give precise safety guarantees, so you should only use them when you don't guarantee much.

I think this is overly broad. If you can run a heuristic and then validate the results in a way that provides a guarantee, that can often be just as good, right? You've still got the bound, you just had to wait until after the computation to get it. Sometimes you'll get a failure to validate instead, but that should be rare if the heuristic is good. Anyway, all our programs are relying on the heuristic "hardware usually works."

I mean, nobody loves heuristics, but we keep coming up with them, so that must be a sign, right?
I’ll be adding the Versabar 10000 to my Christmas wishlist
33 bits... that's all you need.
This is my mentality. Sadly it means I'm only a midlevel after 8 years. Apparently I don't have enough dedication to move up the ladder since I don't have Teams on phone and don't work 9+ hours per day.
According the the affidavit, the "witness" claims:

"I was an electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence"

Which doesn't really say a whole lot, because the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion[0] is:

"part of the United States Army's 111th Military Intelligence Brigade located at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. It consists of three companies: A-Alpha Company, B-Bravo Company, and C-Charlie Company. The battalion's mission is primarily to train Initial Entry Training Soldiers for Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) 35F - All Source Intelligence Analyst, and 35G - Geospatial Imagery Intelligence Analyst."

That group is a training battalion, not actively engaged in intelligence activities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/305th_Military_Intelligence_Ba...
That's why magic spells use this weird language - to prevent accidents.

Wonder if these AI assistants will lead to the development of a new language.

Exterminatum Horix Abracadabra (Siri, play something nice).
It seems to me that if a probability is a quantity representing a degree of belief, and it's only meaningful in relation to another quantity representing another degree of belief, in the sense that we can only say than being X% sure is being more sure than being Y% sure, if X > Y, or equally sure, if X = Y, then such quantity only has an ordinal value, which is to say the quantity itself is meaningless. For it to be meaningful it has to have an interpretation that does not always refer us to another degree of belief. It also must not refer to a "degree of plausibility" since this is just another expression for "probability", and probability is what we are trying to define.
What does that have to do with accusation that Google read the messages? From the topic?
It doesn't work this way - first, you have to prove that these micronutrients actually matter. For some, we know they do. For most, it's more likely they simply don't matter much or at all. There are tons of examples thru history, and modern, of the benefits of simple enriched foods from iodized salt to Golden rice that do not have the whatever mythical natural balance of iodine and vitamin A. There are people living entirely on food substitutes, both due to poverty/medical conditions and because they are tech hipsters. As someone mentioned there are vegetarians/vegans who do just fine without these nutrients; hard to imagine they'd do worse if they also ate a fake burger.

Your comment is a simple example of natural-is-good fallacy. For all you know those natural micro-nutrients in meat could be net harmful (there are studies that some types of meat have negative health effects, and I say it as an avid steak eater - as far as I know, they don't have a good handle on specific causes, so it could be that the fake steak won't have them and only the "natural" one does :)).
You are right. My mistake. I remembered it wrong.
Great read for any founder of a company from the early stages to beyond.
The point is that she took a company communication channel and used it for personal reasons.

That's inappropriate.
>It's how it was done in the past, people were self-sufficient when it came to food.

Everything I've read or heard says there was quite a bit of malnutrition and hunger.
I'd probably be fired if I didn't have a cell.
Reading that ought to convince most people that the project is not intended to be taken seriously.
Reading your post was very cathartic for me, so thank you for that.
I follow his work and Dr. Yamanaka's work very closely, along with several other scientists working in this area. They have made substantial progress and there are some promising side benefits that have come from their work, including nerve damage repair, which has massive potential.
The container image/runtime/distribution area is heavily standardized now via the Open Container Initiative (OCI) that was founded 5 years ago.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2015/12/open-c...
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2016/12/container-runtime-interfa...

You can see the releases and specs that are supported by all major container runtimes here: https://opencontainers.org/release-notices/overview/

For example, OpenShift ships https://cri-o.io in its kubernetes distribution as its container runtime, so this isn't really new.

Disclosure: I helped start OCI and CNCF
Started using Repl.it some years ago, then moved to Google colab - mainly because I use Python. Colab feels a lot smother, but I'll fire up Repl when tinkering with other languages.
> I did not think it was necessary to clarify that the amount of money you brought up would not build an entire nuclear power plant.

(No comment.)

> Why do people resort to disaster scare tactics if nuclear isn't at least competitive on price?

Perhaps to counter promoters who habitually resort to deception, as observed even in the august pages of HN?
Its not a development machine, but the Pinebook Pro has an all metal chassis and a great price point ($200).

Solid machine for most tasks.
It’s probably 95 watts of radio and 5 watts of compute. If we could see radio waves, that thing would look like a 95 watt spotlight.
He bought a decaf americano today. Uh oh.
Sure, but if they're not accredited, they don't have much money to invest. "Accredited" is a relatively low bar for anyone thinking about putting money into a private company. He'd need a lot more than 20 of those guys to raise $35+ million.
It's a news article. They're reporting what happened. What happened was people criticised the feature as workplace surveillance. That's an objective fact.

Whether or not it is workplace surveillance is an opinion, not an objective fact. So they report the fact that someone had that opinion, not that it is fact.

It's a good thing - it's good journalism to do this.
I think it is entirely reasonable to expect civility. If you can't mention someone's name and remain civil, you should refrain from discussing that individual on this site.
Connect Chrome developer tools to your phone:

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/remo...

edit: Firefox, too: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/about:debuggi...
Oh yea def. Used mobile devices that are most assuredly not rooted
Java :-)

Better yet, .Net.
Smart assistants need to be able to bind predefined activity to clapping. The clapper had the UX nailed.

"Alexa, ask phillips hue to turn on the living room light"

vs

clap clap
Bro, you didn't read the article and you're leaving comments so I think maybe you don't find it that baffling or worrying.
Given a choice I would rather have the manufacturing facilities. Imagine a war between country A and B, where A has all the intellectual property for making the weapons but none of the factories. B has all the factories but none of the IP. Who would win the war? Obviously B.
I'm not sure of any such list, but using containerd directly is faster, less likely to break k8s when docker adds new features, etc.

Much of this all stems from the flak infrastructure people gave docker when they made swarm part of the engine. But it comes to more than that. Docker has its own take on networking, on volumes, on service discovery, etc. If you are trying to use docker as a component of your own product, at least some of these are likely things you want to implement differently. And the same may well be true of any new features docker wants to add in the future. At which point one must ask why bother using docker directly?

containerd was quite literally created when docker decided to extract the parts of docker that projects like kubernetes might want to use. It has evolved heavily since then, but that really does capture the level at which it sits. This leaves dockerd in charge of things like swarm, docker's view on how networking should work, docker's take on service discovery, dockers view on how shares storage should work, building containers, etc.
The only thing that got me out of a recent glut was infrequent nicotine vaping. I find it works better than the gum, which tends to give me too much no matter how fast I spit it out. I've tried all sorts of supplements and nootropics in my quest to regain what I lost when I got sleep apnea a couple years ago.

Strangely enough, one thing that I find is also helping is a balaclava. I'm standing here like an idiot with a balaclava on because I find it helps me stay focused. I got it a few days ago to use when hiking. I just happened to notice while trying it on that I felt a little calmer. I used it last night while working and finally managed to get some shit done.

I'm also using spaced repetition to try to remember things. No apps or programs yet, just manual note taking and repetition.
could have been a hacker/whistleblower exposing an existing flaw in a plausibly deniable manner for his own safety

edit: wait for morse code S-O-S :)
That would be my worry. VSCode for all its faults works well and is lightweight. Make VSCode tightly integrate with github, where you never even have the code locally, and can build and test via the IDE nicely... amazing, never even have to setup the environment or pull the code down.

I am temped to apply for their SRE role, but I have a fairly cushy role as is, so probably not.
https://graymirror.substack.com/

His new writing is interesting.
> they need a TON of subscribers...

This is where I get a bit suspicious of the whole thing, as the areas where this service makes the most sense for a consumer is sparsely populated rural areas. I don't see how the economics works out.
Fungus zombifies plants and forces them to grow pseudoflowers covered in spores
This is the main issue for me. With the Oculus Quest and Tilt Brush having poor export options, I have no other choice than to use either Sketchfab - which has limited uploads - or Google Poly.

The ecosystem works when all services are kept alive, but when one falls, you are left with a useless piece of software.

This is a shame, because the expressiveness and ease-of-use of Tilt Brush is unmatched on the Quest.
> If your employer expects you to use a mobile device at work, have them pay for your phone and only use it for work purposes, assume that HR can view EVERYTHING on your phone, because they can, especially at a company like Google that has both deep mobile expertise and insane paranoia around things like IP protection and stopping whistleblowers.

This also goes for company-issued computers. I've run into more than a couple people that learned the hard way that they were being monitored through company equipment.
Mice are used because biologically they closely resemble humans...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_mouse
The invites only last a few days, so if you got it a few days ago the link may not be valid anymore.
Actually, the scale hasn't changed, either. It's just that we are more aware of the scale and complexity.

It's not really incomprehensible either, you just have to adjust your expectations toward not knowing everything well enough to predict its behavior.
I have been running vector in several k8s clusters since July. I'm doing some non-trivial transforms over several different types of sources and sinks.

The config makes this easy, but my favorite part is the fact that the CPU and MEM of the vector processes barely even registers on my metrics charts. I can't even tell you what their actual and requested resources are because I haven't bothered to look in a while.

It's one thing I never have to worry about. I could use more of those.
https://archive.is/OUSI6
Your post is entirely clickbait. Docker runtime support doesn't really matter since most people already have moved onto other runtimes like containerd/runc.