skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically you decided to put the telephone company in charge of your garage security.

I'm sure that's a real high priority for them.

Stuff like this is why we have SIM swap attacks.
There isn’t a hill for people to climb, there’s a fortress you’re standing on top of with an assault rifle firing at them before they can say a word. The rise of this closed-off-to-discussion approach is legitimately dangerous.
They’ve also found human remains.

edit: now they aren’t sure whether it’s human remains or not. Just that it’s biological matter.
I really enjoyed running through Write Yourself A Git[0], which guides you through implementing a basic Git replacement in python.

[0]https://wyag.thb.lt/
It's a bit ironic that this evidence of past ecological crimes was unearthed by a current ecological crime: strip mining the sea floor for diamonds.
I disagree. Authority is a very common base for why you believe something. In large, we call this trust. It isn't necessarily a bad thing.

This can also lead to why a rhetorical won't work. Authority works, but only with a shared belief in the authority. Such that if your message requires a new authority to your audience, it has less of a chance of working. Zero, if there is an active lack of belief in your authority figure.

If examined with empathy, it can also let you accept someone's belief without believing it.
As someone who writes a lot of toy languages, I made this scaffolding for a LLVM-based compiler: https://github.com/finiteloop/compiler

It uses Bison and Flex for parsing and lexing unlike this post, but may be a useful starting point for those building their own toy languages.
Wendell Potter on How the Health Insurance Industry Manipulates Public Opinion
Anti-5G crazies? T-Mobile partisans?
The Pixel Qi transreflective LCD. By Mary Lou Jepsen. I recall being able to easily read websites in direct noonday sun.
Same here. I opened it on a tab and suspended it so I can read it later (along w/ 200+ other tabs there for the same reason... >smile<).
I have 13” dasung monitor. Its is an eink monitor so no light beaming from screen. I has solved the headaches I used to get after working on lcd monitor.
The nice thing about the current version is that it's just a straight-up HDMI peripheral so you don't have to worry about any security issues (Dasung's software is not exactly confidence inspiring, and I definitely would not touch any Android device shipped by them). USB-C would make it a lot more convenient for quickly plugging in though.
Was pretty common (though not consistent) for the IRA to phone ahead to warn where they'd put bombs.
Interesting things to consider.

1) I heard something about "fake reports" about gunshots. But maybe the perp shot off some guns just to get the cops to show up?

2) This woman stuck around for 15 minutes or a half hour while this thing was saying "you need to evacuate, this has a bomb"???

3) This woman recalls a male voice but the news played a female voice. This goes to show how bad our memories are!
Coupled with the evacuation warning (edit: and early morning timing), presumably Christmas was chosen because the fewest number of people would be in the building and/or out and about.

For the record, I think this attack was unjustified and Operation Opera[0] was justified, but when Israel bombed the Osirak reactor, they did it on a Sunday to minimize the number of French civilians in the building.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera
Do you know if there's an easy way to do this without running git gc? Say by just supplying a diff or something?

In particular I'm thinking of the case where there's an append-only file keeping a log, to commit the changes every so often without having to make a blob copy of the file first (which may be relatively large)?
> That is like using ankle bracelets for tracking people under quarantine, just worse.

To the extent mandatory quarantines are justifiable, this method of enforcement seems reasonable and minimally invasive given the purpose.

I don't see why it's worse than ankle bracelets.
While not wrong, this seems less than helpful. Not all of us have the equipment/context to replicate experiments.

Such that the existence of a fallacy does not equal the existence that something is false. That is itself a logical fallacy.
Power loss could have been from the blast, which destroyed underground water pipes. Or they may have turned off power to the area for safety reasons.
How did It's a Wonderful Life fall into the public domain when so many other movies of that era haven't? I often wonder how many other buried gems we're missing out on.
I mean there's an industry built on people that prefer it to LCD screens, so while it's hard to say it's objectively better I reckon we can at least conclude that there's a significant group of people that prefer it.
Could just be good planning if they knew that was procedure after an explosion.
The company owns them. There are some references here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink

Some of the earliest ones are starting to expire.
While that's true, I think two factors strongly indicate that this was targeted at the ATT building. The first observation is, of course, that the ATT building was the closest to the explosion. A direct witness to the RV broadcasting the evacuation message, who lives across the street, describes this fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8. The second observation is the evacuation message itself. How often do we hear about bombings where the bombers broadcast an evacuation message on a loudspeaker for 15 minutes prior to the explosion? Telling people to evacuate doesn't sound like the kind of thing you would do if your primary intent was to inflict loss of life.
And just in case it does happen, filosottile’s twitch seems to be https://twitch.tv/filosottile a follow might be in order
Vitamin D supplementation as a prophylactic for coronaviruses and influenza
The first is that there might be a large group of users unknown to you and I who enjoy looking at pinterest in the image results and that is who Google wants to cater to.

The discussion is about Pininterest in text searches. My only objection to Pinterest in image searches is that it's paywalled/login-walled.

But larger issue is I'd acknowledge some search results just aren't what I in particular want but I'd claim other results are actually objectively low quality and you seem to want to push things to realm of pure subjectivity, any old crap is something someone might want and who I am to deny to them that pnis enlargement pill.

I would say that the results Google returns involve a number of factor/filters. A. What's considered mainstream, what appeals to many B. What's could be more or less objectively called quality. C. SEO, What results just slip through based on the page spending a lot of time and money appearing like A or B to the algorithm (but not being that).

And Google spends a huge amount of time and money trying to keep C from being the only thing BUT that's still not enough because there's a lot of time and money spent on the other end. At the time, this tug-of-war serves as a moat keeping competitors out. Any Google competitor would have to invest similar amounts of money.

Google has, does and always will make choices about what is best and that the definition of best is up to their discretion.*

I'd love to have a decent Google competitor. But I don't think you have won many friend here by implying that Google's discretion is just arbitrary (as a number of your posts here seem to imply to me). Google won, back when they had competition, by caring a lot about the, uh, quality of their search results. Now that they've won, they're slipping into other things and moreover, the SEO trash are nipping their heels.

Which is to say you won't build Google alternatives on "democracy" but on some concept of quality people will want.
I think LNG would be more likely candidate , and doesn’t kg matter more than L here?
Also provides a fantastic balancing reserve for all the wind and solar generation in the region.

Downstream survival rates for juvenile fish are in the high 90s for all the dams on the lower Columbia. [1] Grand Coulee produces more energy than any hydro project in North America so I expect it's worth keeping around even if we have to make some modifications to improve survival rates on the upper Columbia.

[1] https://www.bpa.gov/news/pubs/FactSheets/fs-201306-Columbia-...
As I had to look it up: BEAM is the erlang virtual machine. A number of languages can be happily compiled to BEAM:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13446521
> Fallacies are your failure to apply scientific method

No, they are mostly failures to apply sound abstract logic.
Careful. The problem you describe has an easy solution that only leads to more problems.
Could somebody else download it, create an install drive and ship it to you? Or reupload the *.app file so you can resume the download? https://www.macworld.com/article/3566910/how-to-create-a-boo...
1. Consolidation of remote collab tools, more WFH days from old school companies:

I work in management consulting for a big four. So far I've seen all clients adopted MS Teams super quickly in a very standardized way during the year. They were all already with the typical Jira suite, CI/CD tools and such for development work, but non-developers are all about Teams/Outlook, no other collab tools. Never liked Slack anyways, so good. MS has gotten quick to adapt and copy features from other startups, then make an enterprise-friendly version of it that still looks like a new toy, so no FOMO anymore. Long gone are the days of the Outlook suite lagging in features compared to anything consumers were using. So far I only see Google competing well in this space, thanks to the cheap per-seat price and superior solution for some case scenarios.

2. High profile cybersecurity fiascos:

I've seen a huge growth in demand for these kind of professionals in the consulting space, and even with all big push, because of bureaucracy and the usual mediocrity regarding data handling, high profile incidents will continue for years to come. I for one, still prefer doctors that keep pen and paper files.

3. Active Noise cancelling now a staple:

I like to try chinese earphones, sometimes it's a massive deal and some brands have really perfected a signature. I do own a pair of QC35s that I use daily, but I'm more interested in what can be achieved for less and each year I'm more surprised. Now you can get in-ears with good sound, battery and ANC for about 50 bucks. I can see these being adopted as the standard or at least a trend during 2021 even in emerging markets.

4. Return to value stocks:

As more people get the vaccine and everything returns to normal, currently bargain value stocks will get a new push while tech may remain a bit flat after the bull run this year. With Biden elected, a lower dollar, China getting back to previous manufacture numbers, I'm expecting metals like copper and lithium to keep going up.

5. Intel:

If Microsoft realizes good savings in the cloud space using ARM, and Amazon/Google jump the gun too, Intel is so screwed.
Editable Collection of walking tours to watch this holiday from home
If you enjoy this mechanic, I have very fond memories of Star Control II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Control_II) which did something similar.

I highly recommend checking out the open-source port "The Ur-Quan Masters" - http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

Might just re-install it to spend some time slingshotting around planets for Boxing Day... :-)
It was also around 6am that the bomb went off and the ‘gun shot‘ alarm clock was 4ish
Not really, I can read a book using the light of my phone displaying a black screen at minimum brightness.

Now OLED _might_ be able to fix things, but manufacturers don't provide low brightness settings for most screens at the moment (even though anything with a LED backlight could have almost arbitrarily low brightness), so I'm not particularly optimistic.

The example from that one guy that made a fake painting by matching light levels to a white wall was pretty convincing though, so I think it can be done it just isn't for some reason.
Invariance means looking through a smaller haystack
Intentions are never ‘clear’, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t a factor.
Biden Says He Is “Unlikely” to Cancel $50k in Student Loan Debt by Exe (Cont)
Why would the USPTO not rig things in favor of US companies by underpricing the value of patents from foreign companies?
The most-efficiently-replicating strain is likely to dominate in the long-term. As such, there is essentially no evolutionary advantage to killing or harming humans outside of the goal of replicating more efficiently. (There is also no evolutionary disadvantage).

So, there are two suggestions within viral genetics:

1. Mutations which are kinder to the immune system might be able to spread relatively easier. As noted in the other comments, this is likely dependent on human behaviour and ritual around illness and death.

2. Significant mutations which spread more efficiently are perhaps more likely to knock-out genes causing harm (lost to 'evolutionary cost') than to enhance those genes.

Neither of these are completely guaranteed, but they are generally seen as likely.
It is using the fuel as a battery. Will still take more energy in than you get by burning, but it is better to do that from solar than digging it out of the ground
I don't think the virus "wants" anything at all, it's just that if the host dies fast there is no time to spread, so statistically speaking it is less likely to spread and survive.
“Before modern lighting, we used to go to sleep when night arrived, waking briefly for an hour or two in deep into the night before retiring again until the morning.”

In case this puzzled you, this is referred to as “segmented sleep”. Here is a synopsis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4763365/
Speculation at this point will get us nowhere. If there were some reason like "5g bad" or "dont kill movie theatres" (regarding HBO max release of WW1984) there would be a video from the bomber pushing their message since, otherwise, this looks like any other terror attack.
As a long term listener of TWIV (4 years, IIRC), I think the service they have done for the community is priceless, especially once Daniel Griffin started doing his clinical updates. That said, I remember when COVID first started hitting, and their reaction was initially "meh", then like everyone else, it started to dawn on them how bad this was going to be. So still take their voices with a grain of salt.

In the latest TWIV, their comment was that the things you would do to prevent COVID are the same no matter if it is a new Strain or not. That's true - but we also have to deal with a increasingly uncomfortable truth - in many places, the COVID incident and death rate are pretty much the same, despite dramatically different legal and social dictates around masking, etc. Italy, France, USA, UK, Spain, Belgium, etc are all within 10% of the total death per million population, for example.

There is a weird cycle around COVID. Everyone reports on how awful it is somewhere, people draw a over-broad conclusion about the moral or scientific failures of the continent / state / country / red state / blue state, then that wave of covid waxes in one place, and wanes is another, and the cycle repeats again.

This pattern continues despite different travel restrictions, different masking policies (way less then my state in the USA, for example), etc.

SO I think the answer is not - we couldn't change anything - but rather - what is really the science behind this - and do we truly understand what is going on?
I get that Vincent is burned out and has a knee jerk reaction, if I had to deal with all the insanity around the Hydrochloroquine crap I would be too.
Do Parler next!
Go, Crypto: https://twitch.tv/filosottile

Go: https://twitch.tv/mdempsky

Go, CockroachDB: https://twitch.tv/large__data__bank

Fuzzing, c, rust: https://twitch.tv/gamozo

Hardware stuff: https://twitch.tv/noopkat

Keyboards: https://twitch.tv/topclack

Try to do the same but finding interesting streamers seems hard.
To add another data point for you: I have had one of my websites brought down by Yandex bots before. There are also dozens of no-name bots (often SEO tools like ahrefs, semrush, etc.) that can sometimes cause troubles.

For me it was a problem of having lots of pages, and having a high cost per request (due to the type of website it was).

For other websites, it is not necessarily about the volume of traffic from bots, but the risk of web scrapers getting their proprietary data. They're fine with Google scraping their info because that's where their traffic comes from. They're not okay with some random bot scraping them because it could be taking their content and republishing it, or scraping user profile data, or using it for some nefarious/competitive purpose.
I am with you on this one. Pull existing by default is one of the numerous aberration of git. It is just an alias for fetch/merge or fetch/rebase anyway. It doesn't even work the same way for everyone as you can configure what it does.

It's up there with stashes (which actually are just temporary commits ahead of the head anyway) and staging as things which shouldn't be there by default.

Git really likes making things complicated for newcomers.
I would avoid any text, but LLVM has mature bindings in ocaml and Haskell, for example. The textual representation isn't stable IIRC, and it adds a step in between you and your already lumbering backend.

Ultimately the C++ API isn't too difficult to use but LLVM mandates a fairly hardcore level of C++ knowledge to play with it's internals.

Quick Tip: if you're thinking "Holy shit how do I get from [complicated] all the way down to IR instructions" lower the big thing to a something simpler so you can reuse the code to generate IR from that - for example, a foreach loop is expressible as a for loop under the hood, now you only have to be compile for loops. This would usually be done in the AST itself.
This technique by John Perry (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Stanford) actually makes sense:

http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

The idea is that we'd rather be doing something else. For example, currently, I am postponing grading. So I don't mind doing a peer review of a paper. When that's the thing that's due, I'd rather be doing something else, and so on. You get work done by rearranging stuff :)
The moon is a harsh mistress;
Speculation about AI, and how we would react and use the AI
In the UK I've only ever encountered diesel fuelled generators with tanks usually long enough to run the DC for hours if not days. Easy to see in hindsight, but I guess I'm slightly surprised at the use of generators running off mains gas for this very reason. Does anyone know how common this is in the USA?

Liveleak actually has some security camera footage with audio of the recording: https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=aZhBY_1608918884
Frame buffer
That would fit of the "after-the-fact hires of already famous people" I mentioned though -- not people becoming famous for what they did at Google.
Looks like somebody didn't like Wonder Woman 1984.

I think folks on social media are overthinking the motive. A lot of people (most?) hate telecoms and big tech companies (including their employees and contractors) and someone decided to stick it to one. There are so many reasons for this, some logical and valid and some conspiratorial nonsense. In the end, it all boils down to the fact that living under the watch of these massive and all-powerful conglomerates makes many, many people deeply unhappy.

The country is a powder keg of armed, angry, diseased, lonely people and unfortunately, something like this was likely to happen sooner rather than later. It's very sad.
In the Mediterranean area, olive oil was used for light. Wood was used for heat or cooking.
If they're technically capable to make something this sophisticated, surely they'd know that all the 5G conspiracy theories are technically bunk?

Although there are 2 variants of 5G weirdoism: the "cancer waves!" one and the "it gives us Covid!" one. The latter is easier to debunk...
Some of the images from the NYT article for those that are paywalled. https://imgur.com/a/Hi9Rzi7
He's still around (saw him post a picture of a few board games he got for Christmas today, actually), just not really making board game videos now. Not that he needs to. Back then he was pretty much the only one, now there's got to be at least 100 Youtube channels doing it. But I still find myself going back to his videos when I'm looking at games that are old enough he covered them, though.
Google has been rewarding a lot of the top sites that have the highest trust and authority lately. Pinterest being one of them.

This has been going on for a while now.
Iirc telecommunications are common targets in coups and war. Combined with the professional manner in which it was done I'm thinking more Russia/China/Trump-won-loyalists and less 5g nutjob.
To piss off color blind people! :P
The point of patents is that the invention should be described, and patents are publicly accessible. This is what allows you to discuss infringements in a regular court.
The lethality of a virus is inversely proportional to its transmissibility. In other words, a virus won't spread very far if it kills its host.
i think this has less to do with "concentrating on humans" vs machines and more to do with "business requirements" that are ever-changing which causes insufficient time to work on optimization and siplification... all we get are piles of code upon piles of code...

the other side of that is in the web, the tech stack was not at all designed for what we are trying to make it do...

add those two things together, add a dash of network latency for all the loaded resources, and you easily get what we have today...
> This woman stuck around for 15 minutes or a half hour while this thing was saying "you need to evacuate, this has a bomb"???

Watching a video, the audio was so surreal I had to ask myself how I would respond if I heard that without any clue where it was coming from.

Hopefully I never find out, but I guess now I'm a bit more mentally prepared to not linger.
Wow, TIL!
I believe the major fdm patents were filed decades ago and little was done until recently when they expired.