skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other poster already tried to inform you, but this is not unprecedented. The USA government has been claiming the existence of aliens since the 1950s! Lots of notable people have claimed to know of extraterrestrial contact, not that I believe them.
https://t.co/EuRuVazuKk

Erik Hoel in this paper offers an audacious hypothesis: Our brain, during the its evolution, has developed dreams as a way to solve over-fitting

Since we’re learning from a limited samples of data in the real world, chances of overfitting (I call it judgement) goes higher. In ML we inject randomness and noise to avoid overfitting. Hoel theory can explain why our dreams are so sparse & hallucinatory
Seamless Firmware Development with PlatformIO
McKinsey Issues a Rare Apology for Its Role in OxyContin Sales
I think, it's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880847, guys :)
I guess we're doing more with graphics, which tend to require more fiddling back and forth to make it look alright, as well as having much higher expectations about interactivity than in the past.
Partly license, partly memory footprint it seems.
Even Tenenbaum doesn't know exactly why [0].

[0]: https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
Dozens of IT vendors sounds like a security risk.
So, can we say that we hit the scalability limits of indirect democracy?
You missed Eiffel, SML, OCaml, Ada, Haskell.
GTK is thriving by all accounts. Could there be more devs on GTK itself? Yes. Are more and more applications being written in GTK? Yes. Look at Flathub and all the developers putting applications out there.
Bluffing would be very risky, if turned out the attacker really was a high school kid, or the exploit was trivial. I am inclined to believe them.
Rich countries hoarding Covid vaccines, says People's Vaccine Alliance
Yeah I’m confused. What is this substack and how did it become so prevalent so fast? Or maybe there are more substack posts on HN these days?
Police raid home of Florida Covid-19 tracker creator
I can only recommend the 'Distributed systems for fun and profit' book as a follow up to this neat visualisation.

http://book.mixu.net/distsys/
The OMS is a pretty crucial part of an e-commerce system. I’d outsource a great many other things before that.
Anyone have any idea why they chose to require 'configuration profiles' here?

There are several tools that can push configuration profiles to many macOS or iOS devices in one go [1]. It's also the kind of thing you don't want users in managed environments messing with if they don't know what they're doing.

Also, don't 'configuration profiles' require that your Mac have an associated AppleID?

I can't see why they'd be connected; being able to configure network settings isn't a "feature" related to having an Apple ID.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment-reference-macos/w...
I've heard the idea being mentioned from several sources. My guess is that unless Oracle does some kind of magic an manages to get anyone to trust them, then we'll see a new community project to replace CentOS very soon.

Either that, or Debian's user-base will grow a lot within the next few months. :)
What does not 'still there' mean though? You lost all your money? Not quite -- Dell was number 51 and went private. Then they bought EMC, and have since gone public again. I'm not sure that investors lost through these transactions, considering DELL easily has enough market cap to justify a slot on the SP500. That's just the one off the top of my head, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S&P_500_companies#Sele... has a ton of acqusitions on the list.

Also worth mentioning that market cap weighting means can be protective -- if a stock enters at the low end of the wighting spectrum, underperformance is less impactful. But also when a fraud like Enron comes along, it does commensurate damage to portfolios.
Indeed: erasure coding is easy (they have been doing it since the 60s). Your real problem is the repair problem.
Letting young people shoulder such a sum sounds just insane to be honest.
Not sleep deprived but use bed for sleep only. You working while lying down is more unusual, most people are the opposite but whatever floats your boat. For the average person it’s probably a bad idea and might weaken your body if you lie down too much. I am actually at a stand up desk a portion of the workday and I feel it has come with some positive effects, makes me more alert in the morning, my back feels better, etc
Like the sibling comment says, Open Street Map is your friend. Several options exists to host your own map service based on that data, eg https://openmaptiles.org/
The pessimistic side of me would like to point out that in this kind of future, criminals will know how to leave sufficient fake DNA at the crime scene, and random people will suddenly be thrown in jail, because some criminal deliberately used their DNA to cover their tracks...
The usual fate of every open-source MS product
> There's no user setting. On Android, I rely on the Job Scheduler service, so the most the app can be woken up is once every 15 minutes (less if the Android OS feels like it). However, there is also a BroadcastReceiver set up to receive locations when another app requests it. Lastly, a friend can request an update if it has been more than 3 minutes since the last update they've received. When they request the update, a Firebase message is sent to your phone and a service is started immediately to grab your location and send it back to your friend. The reason for all this fuzzy timing is to maximize battery energy.

Nice. I think this fits the infrequent updates scenario of the app very well.

> The alternative would be to keep a foreground service running all the time, but I've had complaints that people don't like seeing the service notification there [...]

Interesting, to me the periodic "updating location" notifications are way more jarring. Especially since Android allows the user to minimize (only visible when you pull down) or even hide the notification completely.

But yes, I definitely received this complaint a lot, but for me this was a no-go as I don't want people to be able to use it as a stalker tool (e.g. install on victim's phone without their knowledge).

I want to iterate again how polished the app feels, so you definitely have yourself a new free user :)

The way it solves the permanent location sharing feature is really nice and will try it out in a bit harder conditions (mountains with degraded signal).

I don't know if I would pay for it, maybe if it would be possible to pay as a family/group.
A flagrant attempt to legitimize transphobia with flawed and biased “studies”, flagged.
Show HN: Asynchronous HTTP/HTTPS requests for non typists
if you put the initiator at the top and also add "<script>
window.stop();</script>" the page start rendering immediately.
I have the same idea but for running simple x86 linux binary in the browser. anybody interested?
DNS lookups?
Whenever I see this graph, I wonder what’s supposed to represent. Total world investment in fusion, total world government spending, only US spending, or maybe only the part of the US Department of Energy earmarked for fusion research?

It probably is the last one, considering that the enacted 2012 budget of the US DOE for Fusion Energy Sciences was $401 MM ([1], p 16).

But then, why is only the US DOE supposed to invest in fusion?

In any case, as of 2020, this budget was increased to $671 MM [2].

[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/FY13Highlights.pdf

[2] https://www.aip.org/fyi/2020/final-fy20-appropriations-doe-o...
The engineering efforts required to standardize emoji skin tone modifiers are certainly applicable to other use cases. Do you really think it's a complete waste of time?
The union of "humans" and "animals" is just "animals". Does that make a "home for humans and animals" basically the same thing as a "home for animals"?

You should know better than to draw that equivalence, dang.
Ah, well, fair enough.

It's 'we' as in 'we' rowdy Americans getting out and exercising the First Amendment, with a minority of protestors committing some property crimes along the way. A common sentiment among those who committed those property crimes was 'no one listened to us before we started burning buildings,' and in this sense I have a sympathy for their claims. I don't believe that the 2020 protests will ultimately be found to have been on the wrong side of history.

My grandfather, as an old old man, still referred to MLK as the 'bane of the south.' In his time, the civil unrest of the Civil Rights movement was an unforgivable disruption to the lives of ordinary white folks, and...well, we all know 50 years later that this was such a trivial complaint in the face of the great progress made in healing a society still dealing with the ripple effects of a most monstrous institution, which our nation firmly embraced without hesitation upon its founding. We are still grappling with the fact that when my father was a boy African Americans had to enter through the 'colored' entrance, and the song 'Strange Fruit' was disturbingly still relevant. Remember Emmett Till was lynched in 1955. That's not that long ago. The wounds are still raw.

The vast majority of protestors were peaceful, and the point of the protests was that law enforcement should no longer be able to commit violence with impunity against those without a voice.

Many, including myself, have expressed sorrow at the damage done to small businesses over the course of the civil actions. But, it's good to see a robust and healthy willingness of the citizenry to turn out in order to oppose just the kind of targeting of the little guy that our friend from the former Soviet Bloc is concerned about.
And what drove my attention to the "I don't accept systemd patches" was the need to run systemd in docker container. Which by digging a litte bit about I found it will be possible in non priviledged mode, but docker didn't want to merge it.

I don't see anything philosiphical with that, it's just plain refusal to cooperate in any way with a potential compentitor.

This was several years ago, now this is not an issue anymore, but it's still telling of the toxic corporate culture Docker had back then.
There are several dev fpga boards. I recommend the ICEBreaker board for a first go.
I got a beefy one so I got curious to see this. And here is the response I got:

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.homedepot.com/" on this server.

Reference #18.669a1702.1607500613.3482d63b

I lol'ed.
This could be a cool way to get into Rust.
I remember what processing did for my overall understanding of writing code, so this might make me familiar with Rust in the same way.
> Thanks, for all the fish, CentOS. The city of Tuttle, Oklahoma is grateful.

Oh man, I had completely forgotten about that (although I suspect most people have by now)... since reading your comment, though, I have been sitting here giggling like a little kid just thinking about it. Thank you!

--

For anyone who reads this and doesn't understand the reference to Tuttle, Oklahoma, well, go seek out the answer and prepare to be entertained, my friend!

--

UPDATE: Actually, I'll save you some trouble, since I decided to go re-read all the details again myself:

Start here, with a story from The Register that summarizes what happened: https://www.theregister.com/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/

Afterwards, you'll almost certainly want to read the entire e-mail thread yourself. Fortunately, the Internet Archive has us covered: https://web.archive.org/web/20060326091856/https://www.cento...

Finally, thank bubblethink (with an extra Internet point, of course) for reminding us all of this incident!
CEOs complain about short term investors measuring results in quarters, and here you are giving them a month.
Got a link? ;) Actuaries hate him!
G2 Grid for No-Code Development Platforms
I haven't been a YHOO shareholder since I left the company in 2011, but I saw a fair amount of discussion in former employee groups.

IIRC, as part of the merger with Verizon, the Alibaba and Yahoo Japan holdings were spun out into a separate holding company (Altaba?) which was publically traded. A YHOO stockholder would get some amount of Altaba stock, and whatever the Verizon part was (I don't remember if that was Verizon stock, cash, a choice, whatever); probably no fractional shares.

As the holdings were sold, there were large cash dividends, with holdbacks for taxes and contigencies. As the contigencies timed out, smaller dividends happened, and I think Altaba formally wound down with a final dividend earlier this year.
Well, presumably you mean LGPL system libraries like glibc etc., but yes, I understand that is roughly the idea.

I think they came up with GPL + classpath exception instead of adopting LGPL because LGPL has all this language about static vs. dynamic linking etc. that is rooted in the C world and not how Java does things.
Thanks for the encouragement! There is so much more I want to explore :)
The coronavirus is not entirely novel. Researchers report people who had a case of SARS-CoV-1 have t-cells that recognize SARS-CoV-2.

By the time the COVID-19 was recognized as a distinct virus, it was already too late to do anything about it, except to start distributing Vitamin D and other useful nutrient to the vulnerable.

> There is enough money in the developed world to help with the problem

Money is a useful fiction, nothing more. Money allows people to trade their time. Telling large numbers of people they can’t do anything with their time destroys exponentially more wealth than it protects.
Very nice response from the community and Docker team to taunts of "Docker's legacy" etc
Windows Defender does cover the easy 80% of the market on that platform.

But modern malware is so far beyond traditional anti-virus programs that we have to start talking about entire new schools of thought on what constitutes a program, and what is desirable or not.

If you look at the AV Comparatives reviews, some programs have traditionally done well in the anti-virus space, like Kaspersky, Avast, etc.... But these days, I think we have to ask ourselves if we are willing to trust a Russian company to perform anti-virus scanning on our systems, or if that “cure” is worse than the disease.

So far, the one program I’ve seen that has done well in the comparisons and is also relatively light weight in impact on your systems resources, is Malware Bytes. And it seems to work well on Windows as well as macOS. So, I continue to recommend and use it on all my systems that I control.

But that still only covers a small part of the much broader field of undesirable programs, despite the name of the package. You have to include other tools as well, like outbound network firewalls for data loss protection, programs that monitor in real-time for activities that look like file encryption, etc.....

On macOS, I look to programs from https://obdev.at/products/index.html and https://www.objective-see.com/products.html to help with these additional areas of security concern.

And I do my backups, both local and remote.
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If R-squared is 10% (and p-value is 0.01), does it mean the correlation is 10% better than random?
Cloud Run is basically Custom Resource on top of Kubernetes API. The yaml definition is pretty much the same - https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/deploying#yaml

What you mean is probably without vanilla k8s
This looks like another one of nyt’s tirade against tech
They may indeed not be more trigger happy now than before but more evidence came to light now so the perception is that they are more trigger happy when in reality they WERE ALREADY trigger happy.

Im aware that there are professional law enforcement personnel but overall the institution failed to clean up its bad apples. Oh no, not only that but actively defends them.
If you control DHCP and know the MAC address of those embedded devices, you can serve them a non-existing gateway so that they simply won't have a path outside of your home network.

Of course, that assumes IPv4, whereas with IPv6 and SLAAC I believe the only way is to firewall them out.
You want to tackle monopoly power? Find a way to make purchasing accept other vendors.
Excel in windows is still possible, it'll just be on either an rdp server locally or on AWS.
The implication is rather that we’ve grown much more inept when it comes to getting things done.
This happens to me on HN very often. I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist but I sometimes feel we are all in a big machine-learning experiment :)
Fusion is not a uranium based energy technology.
This could have been more mobile friendly.
Single sign on etc: usually there's a resource that everyone in the company needs to use. Besides, email is a major infection vector.
The page loaded fairly fast in my case, but my laptop sounds like it's about to take off. An excellent example on how a web site should _not_ be built. :D
I haven't worked with EKS; I've mainly worked with Azure's AKS, but the principals are largely the same.

I'm not sure how familiar you are with AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, or Docker in general and I don't know of a guide that encompasses all these technologies.

My best advice would be:

1) Get a little toy Docker container running locally with a http server that responds with "Hello world"

2) Try and deploy it to as a pod to a local Kubernetes cluster (Docker desktop has one built in or you can try deploying Minikube if you're feeling adventurous)

3) Add an ingress and service to your cluster, so you can access your server from a browser

4) Expand your cluster by installing something like Postgres on it and have your toy app query it and print out a query result in response to requests

5) Try passing your toy app the password to login to Postgres as a Kubernetes Secret via an environmental variable

6) Start exploring EKS specific deployment documentation such as the links below.

7) Start learning about helm

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/create-clus...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/sample-depl...

https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/eks (Once your comfortable with everything else)
I'd be interested as well, would appreciate an email
I’m in the same situation, and I recently had started to plan on upgrading a small HPC cluster from CentOS 7. Before today, I had planned on CentOS 8.

Now? “¯\_(ツ)_/¯“ Probably Debian.

I’ve always used CentOS for clusters, but part of the reason for that is that there are some research packages that support RPM installation, but not deb. At least this gas historically been the case.

If a large amount (maybe even a majority) of users have to switch away from CentOS and RPM packaging, I think we’ll see an acceleration away from RPM as a default option.

So, in that way, I think we do matter, but just not on the balance sheet.
Why is that a mark of a shit company exactly? Because we should continue allowing a threat model that continues to plague essential services like hospitals with "ransomware", the fact that such a threat is allowed to continue suggests we need to take a hard look at how much we should take highly customisable computers for granted in work situations.
Ecommerce is exploding across Asia, across populations where not only do most people not have credit/debit cards, but they may not have bank accounts either. Various forms of electronic money and good old cash on delivery are bridging the gap quite rapidly.
IGIT – make Git CLI great at last
> Value investing is, by general definitions, shorting growth. You are investing in today while intentionally ignoring tomorrow.

Well, Wikipedia [0] seems to disagree.

>Value investing is an investment paradigm that involves buying securities that appear underpriced by some form of fundamental analysis.

By this logic investing into stocks with verifiable growth is the way to go. Apple is basically the poster child of value investing. It's a company that is making lots of money and keeps growing because it releases new profitable products year by year.

For some reason there is this belief that "value investing" = "boomer doesn't know stocks can grow". Yeah, one obviously has to think that those who engage in value investing are stupid, otherwise one would have to acknowledge that the stocks one is investing in have zero reason to grow as fast as they did, except that everyone else is also blindly buying them (which is dangerous circular reasoning and causes bubbles that pop once we run out of people who refuse to open their eyes).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_investing
> it gave away its new product for no or low cost to existing clients, and bundled it with existing product lines. In a society with functional antitrust laws, such activity would be illegal. But alas.

I find this statement highly suspect. What kind of world do we want to live in where regulators delineate product areas.

I see Microsoft integrating Teams into their productivity product bundle as feature; not a bug. Otherwise, we run the risk of creating separate product areas and none of them working well together — it’a going to be a minor pain in the butt to email <user@outlook.com> with the pdf tchalla@ shared on Slack; deal with formatted paste/copy & whatever else issues.

I mean, products being integrated is the whole MO of companies like Apple, Tesla and literally every other company making physical things. Sure, you can sacrifice the integration for other features like breadth of choice, specialized user needs etc, but proposing regulations to keep them distinct and separate?! That modesty sound right, imho
With "media server" I generally meant: "device hooked up to the speaker and AV receiver for video playback, couch surfing, perhaps the occasional game (mostly via emulators).

Yeah, adding the microphone and camera is going beyond that, but it's convenient to use the computer already hooked to the TV instead of, you know, hooking up yet another one. Also, how does Airplay give me access to the camera mounted on top of the TV (an old phone, BTW)? Also, how is that relevant for my comment at all? :-)
Self-hosted open source GStreamer based video streaming platform
Three steps to a paperless home office
I personally don't have strong opinions on a solution, because I think it is a very hard problem. A lot of people that listen to music don't have any interest in discovering new music, or finding music that is a distinct match for their unique personality. They're just happy to listen to what is shoved in front of them. But if you change your approach away from what is good for each listener, and more toward what is good for a healthy culture, then maybe that starts suggesting some paths. I'd personally like it to be more of a combination of aggressively introducing people to new music, making hard not to rank/react to music, and heavily rewarding artists of new music that yield positive response. I also think there should be a form of progressive redistribution of the power law. Just because there's a power low doesn't mean the slope can't be flattened a bit.
How does a tool like scrivener compare?