skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jason Wright is, of course, the same astronomer who set off the 'Alien Megastructure' theory a few years ago when KIC 8462852 (Tabby's star) was dimming.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby%27s_Star

https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2015/10/15/kic-8462852wher...
The implication being there is no alternative to preserve capital so people will continue to pump up the IPOs and other stocks?
So far I haven’t seen any evidence that this attack points to Russia beyond speculative statements.
I understand the US looks weak if it doesn’t call someone out though, as the fireye report indicates a nation state was behind this attack.
If the US blames China -> political suicide, Iran -> war, Russia -> no consequence....
We are both each others bogeymen.
Should Apple Change Supplier in Asia?
I think it’s definitely true that there's some undiscovered talent out there. But I think this article goes a bit too far in assuming that a significant number creators deserve an audience and an income that aren't getting it now, enough to create a creator middle class. I wish that was the case, but in the time I spent working in arts and entertainment I can’t support that view of the world.

Many people create art for the wrong reasons. Their goal is to be the center of attention, but they don’t have anything interesting to say, haven’t put in very much work, haven’t really considered why what they created is in the best interest of the audience, not just in the best interest of the artist.

If a platform goes too far in recommending content that isn’t very good, and taking resources away from its successful creators and redistributing them to its less successful, their viewers and talent will leave for another platform. For most of the long-tail creators, their best chance at a middle class income will be a day job off the platform, or in a job as support system for a successful creator that hires staff (crew, marketing, props, editing).
Trying to read that on a mobile device is horrible. Not sure what FC are thinking.
No, it's not. What's your comparison? Are there birds that can carry 80,000 lb of passenger + cargo weight? Condors fly like fixed-wing aircraft for 99% of their flight, hummingbirds fly more like insects. There isn't one type of bird flight.

This whole HN discussion of bird flight is a trainwreck and reflects massive gaps in understanding of aerodynamics. This is '00s "computer virus news report" level competence in this subject.
I only use OSS for my entire workflow. KDENLive is the best video editor imo but OSS video editors are still pretty bad. Shortcut is stable but it's basically iMovie circa 2011.

Audacity is great. No qualms there. Krita is the king of photoshop clones. Makes gimp look like garbage.
It talks of emulators, so these were all Android devices? An article about such an attack should be more specific.
Yes. And actually I wouldnt be surprised if their satellites actually can see through buildings (because the frequency band they use should allow that). Maybe just need to adjust the color-scale (or switch to logarithmic if it is not). I mean 10GHz SAR is capable: https://www.kurzweilai.net/seeing-through-walls-in-real-time
(of course SNR might be too low for satellite, but this is nowhere written)
I don't think it's just the stigma, to be fair. Earning lots of money through OnlyFans requires more than good looks, in the same way that earning lots of money through a tech startup requires more than just writing code. Also, people have cashed in on genetics for as long as modelling as been around, and obviously sex work is even older than that
Respectably, I don't care about "your eyes" - all people are different and that's ok. Nor I care -specifically- about DLSS, obviously technologies are always evolving, it's not that DLSS is the best ever that the concept can be. Also its implementation varies among games.

What I meant to say is that we live at a time where rendering every single pixel all the times is simply a waste of resources - that can be better spent somewhere else.

And you're still saying it's "blurry" - that's not the point. Certainly temporal reprojection will -always- be blurrier than not using it. But you're not considering what you're -gaining- by that blur. The real question is - would it be better to say, have a world with 1 million objects at 4k, a bit blurry, or a perfectly sharp image, at 2k, with 100k objects...

Temporal reprojection saves time that then can be invested in other things.

Lastly. CP2077 ALWAYS uses temporal reprojection. ALWAYS. If you disable DLSS it uses its own TAA instead. If you disable TAA (which cannot be done in the settings menu, but there are hacks to force it) is STILL USES temporal for most of its rendering before the final image.
> the barrage of chinese bots that hit anyone when advocating any approach aside from lockdown.

There are many approaches besides lockdown being pursued and advocated for: wearing masks, social distancing, vaccines, etc.

Are you saying there's a mass downvoting bot conspiracy trying to silence these topics? Show some proof.
If the fee is unavoidable (e.g., Verzion FIOS equipment) then it should be included in the advertised price. As it is, Verizon's tactics are closer to bait & switch. Adding $20 to $25 or more in proprietary equipment - with no opportunity to purchase - is shady.

Sure, I can and do choose Comcast intead. But the pricing creates a false sense of price, competition, etc.
i did so and yes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom#Epithet
The AT&T router I have has an "IP Passthrough" mode which basically does a DMZ with my downstream router, but the router receives a public IP address. The AT&T router is essentially "invisible", but it takes up so much physical space, power, costs me $10/month, and is one more link in the fragile chain between me and the Internet.

Other comments here mention how to put the AT&T router behind a Ubiquiti gateway and proxy the authentication to it via some scripts. This reduces the reliance on the AT&T router for direct traffic, but you still need the router operational for those authentication handshakes.
Agreed. And the owners billed.
> You know this isn't true because practically every local area that suffers an outbreak follows the same curve regardless of how they implement a strategy.

That's just laughably wrong. Explain how these are the "same curve"?

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...
> That style of quotation makes it seem like I personally find orgasm noises upsetting rather than that I believe others can. Was that how you understood my original comment?

No, that was a failure of my editing skills. Sorry for that.
My first micro was a BBC, purchased all the way down in South Africa. Maybe it was not known in the USA, but computer magazines everywhere else were stuffed with BBC ads, accessories and software at the time.
Largely because the extreme end of one side already "won" the debate on those other nations, and actively suppresses and/or oppresses any dissent
These are workshop submissions (which typically implies a more lightweight review process, for more exploratory work), and it is possible the same submissions are currently in blind review for other conferences in their final form.
A question for those in the know, can I not just take the SFP plug that plugs into my AT&T gateway/routr and plug it into an EdgeRouter with a SFP port?

I thought SFP is the one doing all fiber-to-ethernet conversion, so would that work?
I would very much like to know too. I would love to get some PoE equipment.
> "...I do not remember RAM failing in an unpredictable ways."

I'm about halfway through my career and I have seen something like that happen exactly once; the erratic behavior of the machine had my team scratching our heads for a fair bit until we ran memtest86 on it after running out of ideas. So I would say that it's not impossible, just extraordinarily unlikely.

The rest of your post I entirely agree with.
Have you considered a desktop? They are much faster than laptops, who are constrained by thermal issues. It’s hard to dissipate 500W+ of heat from a laptop-sized thing, they simply don’t have enough available surface for air intakes and exhausts.

If you want a smaller one to be occasionally portable, there’s Mini-ITX. I currently use a PC I built in this case: https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-202/...
A lot of these drug overdose deaths are COVID deaths, because alcohol and drug abuse has skyrocketed as a direct result of the pandemic.

The last estimate I saw, IIRC, was that the numbers (sans deaths) have tripled in less than a year. And as a former teetotaler with relatively few mental problems who has spent the last six months playing hooky and getting drunk alone at home daily to help cope, with multiple straight friends doing the exact same thing, I'd be inclined to believe that statistic may even be a massive underestimate when you factor for people who don't have a clinical-grade problem yet.
Yes, they claim the 'laws of physics' prevent that. They should specify which law exactly. Maybe too low SNR? I know for a fact you can use radar to see through walls.
I don’t understand your comment. It seems like you think "anyone talking about the rip off cloud tools" are "exceedingly arrogant SRE types creating piss poor tooling that barely works, whining and complaining that they can’t support generalizing it, sitting in actual data centers, with a burnout mill with constant turnover on all the other teams". But apart from that, I'm sure you're a lovely person to discuss with ;) Anyway, I was just saying that senior hackers have more options than you seem to have, also that we tend to find excuses to justify our investments once we are locked in them, it's perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of.
http://archive.is/qvjxy
That view is too teleological, as if there's a "better". I could see both being advantageous, depending on conditions. The "hibernators" would have a caloric or metabolic advantage should there be harsh conditions and little need to go out and face said conditions when finding food would essentially be fruitless. But given modern conditions that's not quite as advantageous now though could be in the future should we have caloric restraints and one's presupposed to "hibernating" the metabolism to some extent.
My very first computer was a 4 bit TRS-80 pocket computer (actually made by Sharp), then moved to the 6502, the KIM-1, then 'upgraded' to a better processor with the Dragon 32, and reasonably crappy but still much better than the KIM graphics (essentially just 6 7 segment LED displays), the 6809 was so much nicer to program for. Then the BBC Micro hit general availability and the software that shipped with it was lightyears ahead of whatever else was avaialble for personal computers, and BBC Basic was actually a fairly good language to learn structured programming (can you imagine an era before functions?).

I too owe my career to the 8 bit machines that allowed me to own a proper computer.
So you feel like your circle of friends is good at picking which startups will have a financially successful exit? If true, you should be a VC and not a lowly tech worker ;)
Then pump it back down to where we found it.
For me the loss of bandwidth was more severe. I gained about 200mbps on my 1gbps connection after bypassing (~650mbps -> ~850mbps). I also had a significant decrease in latency (~10%). Note, these improvements were even with the DMZ+ passthrough enabled on their router

The router they provided also had a tendency to both get 'congested' and drop connections.

Last, they have remote access to the provided router and do automatic, remote updates, which I am opposed to. I suspect they have other features they can abuse remotely. I want to control all my own hardware.
Hygieostatic Bat Roost
Not quite: you're correct about seasonality but seasonality is an issue to begin with because people are spending more time inside, in closed air systems. (Other factors as well). But that still requires people to mix about with each other. Things like eating in fully enclosed "outdoor" tents instead of true outdoor settings, family get togethers like Thanksgiving, etc. If people weren't going out & seeing each other, the virus wouldn't just appear in closed social networks.

You're also ignoring the Summer spike that occured as precautions were relaxed, at the same time that it gradually began making its way off of the coasts and into land-locked states, especially those that were generally skeptical of taking precautions to begin with, so decreases & spikes are not solely attributable to seasonal factors.
Yes and no.

While it doesn't effect Comcast directly, it does change perceptions and forces in the market. That is, the market can now bear, and Comcast is taking advantage of that. Or so it seems.
I thought VHS only had around 240 lines unless you used SuperVHS
Show HN: Thought Experiences – Semantic brain stimulation
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The 11" Macbook Air solved the laptop form factor.

Thin, light, very portable, USB ports on each side, headphone jack and an external monitor port (in this case, thunderbolt).

Could there be some refinements to my 2015 MBA ? Certainly - the two type-A USB ports could remain type A but be upgraded to USB3 ... you could add a USB-C port on each side in place of the magsafe and lightning ports and gain the ability to charge on either side.

But that's it. Great job, apple - you solved this form factor.

However, for reasons other than functionality or user-experience, Apple continues to fiddle and fuddle and muck around with laptops - making them weird and unwieldy in the best case, and totally unusable in the worst cases. In the case of USB ports exclusively on one side of the laptop, the only response can be merciless ridicule.

We need to actually coin a word to describe "company solved their use-case wonderfully and can't resist fiddling around with it for reasons that don't align with their user-base*.

"Special Edition-ed"[1] comes to mind ...

[1] https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Trilogy_Speci...
Why “3 or 4 years ago”? HTML5 video has been around since at least 2007 and has been virtually unchanged since (except new formats and DRM)
It was my comment and I’d like to reply to that specific point, elaborating my initial comment: a true balance sheet is beyond the purely financial. It covers natural capital and social capital too. It’s only the narrow contemporary understanding of balance sheet that means that so many costs (and gains) are hidden to us and therefore ignored. Part of society’s problem is the phoney baloney system of financial accounting that leaves so much unaccounted for. To refine my initial point: there will be many horrific costs to this mess. Some poor sod will end up paying the cost. If owners think they can escape full liability, they will continue to take risks because they can privatize the profit and socialize the costs.
Agreed with all your points
Improved copy. But still, a copy.

That said, the degree to which the CoCo used software where other computers used hardware was very impressive and allowed for some pretty neat modifications without even touching a soldering iron. Oh, and the Dragon 32 actually had 64K of RAM which you could unlock entirely from software (it took a buddy of mine a couple of months to figure out how to keep the computer running when enabling that upper 32K after I figured out that it had the extra memory).
What makes you believe your experience is generalizable to other situations?
I wish KDE and Gnome efforts were consolidated - that would have sped up the progress of the Linux desktop, but what can you do. I personally prefer KDE.

Stuff like switch to Wayland takes decades because of this split.
What a coincidence, currently replaying Lode Runner: The Legend Returns. I am too young to have played the original in its time and have nostalgia for it, so I kindly disagree with the author and find The Legend Returns far more enjoyable.
Elizabeth Holmes Wants Boies Schiller Documents Kept Secret
Prime Minister. In canada a Premier is the head of a province (ontario, alberta etc).
There's some really terrible python code out there these days. It's on its way to becoming the next node. I know this reality will anger people but I'm sorry, I'm just a messenger here.
How much of an advantage does that really represent?

They are ahead of the field, their chargers are faster, but there's already thousands of other places with relatively high power chargers that can likely be upgraded as demand materializes (at a minimum, the competition is not starting from 0).
I'm not sure if you take work/life balance into respect.

You can have all the money of the world, but if you're only enjoying it at >60 years it's too late.
Key Takeaways from “The Almanack of Naval Ravikant”
just finished this book & wanted to distill some of my key takeaways into a blog post. rather than take notes or highlight, I brain dumped this morning on some of the concepts that stuck out...
If you think litter is bad in the US, just come visit the Philippines or any other developing-world country. This is not whataboutism, I'm saying that it's exponentially worse here having lived in both countries. That said, I'm also not making any excuses for the States. I know all too well how much garbage is thrown out of windows onto the side of the road. We need to do everything we can to clean up our environment and set an example for the rest of the world.
Does Maori have a script?
It's not just pleasure. It's intimacy, bonding hormone levels rising, etc. Why is it pleasurable? Because of evolution. Sex is complicated.

https://xkcd.com/592/

People thought that after the pill, sex will become simple and uncomplicated, just have orgies for fun all the time. But it's not happening on a large scale even in the very liberal societies. There was a brief moment with the hippies, but it didn't last long. Yes there is hookup culture, but it's far from uncomplicated. It's not everyone can easily participate in and has its own little games.

It's one of the fundamental components building our social fabric.

Why does pleasure have to be earned? I'm not sure I subscribe to that, I probably need a few decades more of contemplation and experience to answer such a thing. I'm just saying that there is such a template in many people's moralities. I think it's kind of silly, because the universe doesn't care, it's not a vending machine to put in hard work and get rewards. It's way more random and unpredictable than that. Sometimes something easy gives you lots of reward, and toiling away in the wrong way leaves you with nothing. But on the whole, on a large scale, on a population level, at the expectation, you cannot get something out of nothing, it seems. It's not a law of physics or anything. It may also seem pseudo-religious. But overall it seems to be the strategy that people adopt who achieve things. That you need to put in effort to reap rewards. Otherwise all kinds of things can happen, like hedonic adaptation, setting your baseline at a different place, inflation of the value of things etc.
> I tend to also forget the answer after a few months

You can add comments to the end of tricky commands with the # character. Then at a later date you can search for commands using the contents of those comments, using something like C-r.
Maybe in some places, but the international treaties allow even commercial trade of certified antiques. And moving a sample for scientific purposes like here is likely allowed anyways if properly certified. The article explicitly references the export permit.
Some searching suggests this is a problem that dates back to the original Mac release in 2013, some users were getting this error and the devs couldn't reproduce it on their Mac so they just disabled signatures altogether to fix it; presumably Macs have become more strict about requiring a signature since then.
I see this as pretty much the exact opposite. Previously the employer valued the employee at, say, $100. They also valued having that employee physically on-site at $100 for all that “open collaboration” crap we’ve heard for years. That means the employee makes $200 because they’re spending $100 more to accommodate the employer’s onsite desire and they wouldn’t work for a net of $0.

Now the employer has realized (because they were finally forced to actually invest in it) that having that employee onsite wasn’t providing them the extra $100 in value they thought it was.

It has nothing to do with the employee’s intrinsic value changing - if anything it is reinforcing that it hasn’t. It has to do with employers having finally realized that for decades they were putting an absurd amount of value behind having employees onsite ($100 extra for the employee, $200 extra for offices, $200 extra for food and other perks, etc.) without actually receiving the tangible benefits they thought they were.

The shorter way to say this: cost of living is a factor. They now realize spending all that extra money to have people onsite isn’t worth it - either employees are at least as productive (valuable) remotely or are at worst only minorly less productive (valuable) remotely, so it’s not worth the premium they were paying to have them nearby.
Good for you, it's been tried but so far without success. Maybe you're the exception but I highly doubt that. Arrogance on my part, for sure, but the record on my end speaks for itself (170+ companies looked at to date) and you are an AC.
Well, it's your right to be a pessimist... I tend to think that the current hardware specialized for fast, parallelized linear algebra is at least as good as the wheels available at the start of the industrial revolution, though. We have learning algorithms that can match human/animal performance in a wide - but still constrained - set of tasks, which previous non-learned algorithms hadn't been able to crack. It's a start!

At some point you have to strike rocks to make fire, because the butane lighter hasn't been invented yet. You make do with what's available, and progressively get better at it. I tend to think that we're a couple-few perspective shifts away from getting it 'right,' and that the hardware side likely barely matters. But, I'm an optimist.
Did you even read what I said? I said local outbreaks all follow the same spread curve.

When aggregated at the country level you're looking at many separate outbreaks superimposed, hence the wide curves.
Here’s another algorithm screwup:
https://www.who.int/news/item/14-12-2020-who-information-not...

Oh, wait, no more need for false PCR tests, we have vaccines now. Forget testing, they’re wrong anyway, everyone get in line for a dose of nothing.

The good news appearing in media recently are the high percentage of people all over the world against being vaccinated, it means the human reason algorithm is still top notch.
We don’t know why the universe appears to be expanding faster than it should
Do you ask the same thing about waitressing and front of house retail work? Forced to put on a smile, be submissive and obedient and make a pretend connection to the customer purely to ease a transaction and get a larger tip? Does that have an impact on relationships with people?
My take is the definition of the word "government". What you are describing isn't a government, you are describing a state.
This may go beyond the arts, as it appears everyone wants to strike it rich and quick. I did not get the same sense when I started my working career 30 years ago. Most of us just wanted to do some interesting work. Now, getting rich seems to dominate thinking.

You hear different views of the cause of this, but may see increasing inequality as a cause. I'm convinced extreme financialization from money debasement is the primary undiagnosed issue.