skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We will need visas if we spend more than 90 days out of 180 in the EU

That's been the case since 2014, nothing to do with Brexit.

Before Brexit:

"From 9 June 2014, all British Overseas Territories citizens (BOTCs), British Overseas citizens (BOCs), British Protected Persons (BPPs), and British Subjects (BS) will be allowed to travel visa free to the EU Schengen Area for a maximum of 90 days."

After Brexit:

"If you’re a tourist, you do not need a visa for short trips to most EU countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. You’ll be able to stay for up to 90 days in any 180-day period."
Now everyone thinks they’re geniuses too just because they can google random facts. You should talk faster than they can type just to keep having fun at their expense. Also, if you talk long enough chances are very good that you’ll find something they’re unable to easily google it. Most people are still lazy thinkers anyways.
Poker is another topic where people wildly overestimate their knowledge but can sometimes present their incorrect ideas in a reasonably coherent way that allows them to be upvoted by other people who also aren't experts. At the bottom of every HN thread about poker you'll find a couple people who actually know what they're talking about shouting into the void, "wait, that's not actually how that works..." before they give up and wander off.
and? Still total bullshit.
- Apple Keeps on releasing new M series chips, Intel falls further behind. The next iPhone also has no ports.

- Rumors about Apple AR glasses, but no release in 2021.

- GPT-4 ships, we see more trends pointing to AI generality with deep mind probably releasing another interesting paper.

- Vaccine distribution resolves covid in western countries by late summer/fall.

- Tesla ships cybertruck and full self driving beta to more users (maybe fleet wide to people who purchased FSD).

- VC 'move to Miami' rhetoric dies down and most people move back to SF bay in the short term post covid remote work.

- We see flexible remote schedules post covid, but most people still go into the office, most work still is office based (and those companies are more productive).

- Peloton continues to do well even post covid when people have gone back to normal life.

- Starlink ships and is a major telecom player, including in areas like China or the Middle East where governments try and control network access/comms. It makes good internet possible anywhere, Loon and other attempts fail to compete because their solutions are worse and less globally available.

- Bitcoin remains volatile

- Nikola dies, companies that went public via a SPAC are generally worse than companies that go public via other means.

- Post covid travel/consumer spend boom 'roaring twenties' response.

- USG institutions start to repair themselves post-trump crony damage, but congress is still largely grid-locked on legislation. Some republicans continue to refuse to accept Biden and pretend they're just doing the same thing dems did about the Russian interference/obstruction of justice in 2016 (they're not).

- Woke politics dies down a bit in Biden era, but is still an issue

- More writers go direct via Substack and newsletters siphon off the best writers. Major news outlets continue to get weaker and more partisan. Something interesting happens in this space.
I said nothing of the FDA or the US.

I'm in Canada. Health Canada not only did not require methanol to be added to sanitizers, it explicitly forbids it and forced recalls on many products that manufacturers tried to sell containing it.

> Don’t mistake your broken government as an argument against government in general.
Hm, I'm kind of confused by your perspective here. Do you only have a single thread of tasks you're doing at any given time on your machine, all of whose resources are torn down and rebuilt from scratch when needed? I use my current laptop both for work and personally, and in my personal workspaces alone, I have at least half a dozen browser windows with ~20 tabs representing research that I'm doing or a task that I'm organizing; everything from gift-buying to medical devices for a family issue to building a new workout routine for the pandemic. You can rack up tons of relevant tabs pretty quickly in these scenarios, and there's really no advantage to closing them in any well-managed environment (ie one that has non-rudimentary window management and a browser/extension that handles idle tabs with negligible ongoing resource use).

I probably have hundreds of "productive" tabs open, and that's before even getting to tabs that are serving as an "L1 cache" version of a read-it-later service. And all of this comes with extremely quick clean-up; once I buy the gift/finalize the routine/purchase the item, it's trivial to close the entire window for that task.
I think they were thinking more along the lines of a live system. Where you could change the settings of the page in real time using the filesystem interface.
Is there any design decision of Make that makes it not suitable for executing programs?
This is a bold prediction. It sounds plausible, but I would doubt the ability of the federal government to do this effectively. what constitutes "social media"?

further, shutting down websites at random or just specific domains would be wildly unpopular with all voters. I like how you're thinking, though
That's what HN is... bullshitting claims that are too expensive to disprove even with time to research.
Shipping Container Architecture
NFT art draws in a large economy
1. Commercial real estate nose dives, karaoke bars expand exponentially in the free space
2. Vaccines take a long time to roll out (~3 yrs) so international travel enacts mandatory screening - meaning giving your swab samples to nation states just to enter the country.. like how the US takes your fingerprint - privacy erosion gets worse to the point of mass protests but won’t be fixed for decades
3. Routine dr appointments where youre diagnosed with a cold or flu result in mandatory tests for mutliple viruses rather than being told to go home and take paracetamol.. this becomes a new standard test
4. eSports Go main stream
5. Startups in waste management begin weighing up ejecting junk into space
6. JavaScript developers jump on the Rust bandwagon to survive the next decade
Yeah, he's played those as well. He's also obsessed with Mario Maker 2 right now. It's amazing how good of an outlet that game is for a kid's creativity.
I helped with this project last year. It's very cool to see it taking shape
What Is Random in Random Forest Machine Learning Algorithm
>The most recent reality check I've had is this year when I finally started using Twitter. I loaded up on folks in my industry only to be blindsided with a barrage of insanity. Honestly think that 75% of the people in my feed in serious need of a wellness check. I can't imagine the damage being done to young folks observing the behavior of adults on that platform.

Twitter/Reddit are always, Always, ALWAYS wrong about everything.[1]

... and thank God for that.

As one whose political and cultural beliefs are, like yours, mostly opposite that of Twitter/Reddit's as a whole, the sites' existence (including subreddits like /r/politics, /r/news, and /r/worldnews) is gratifying and validating.

If the mass of Redditards/Twitter users agreed with my opinions I'd carefully reexamine every one of them.

As bloodraven42 wrote in response to a pretty cringe-inducing example of a Redditard (who was agreeing with an even more cringe-inducing example (http://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/urodq/british_guy_...)):

>Please note the fact that you've gotten this impression from "reading Reddit". I assure you, reading Reddit gives you about as accurate a portrayal of reality as reading North Korean "news". Did you know Kim Jong Il is literally a God?

As Anal_Justice_League added:

>So wait, your world view comes from reading Reddit?

>Do I even have to explain how catastrophically stupid that is?

And as 1foryes said in another thread (https://np.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/be2p5a/cbc_predicts_...):
>But fortunately, reddit does not represent reality. If it did, the ice caps would have melted years ago and we'd all be fighting in WW6.

[1] Except bacon
Trump will send all the pedosatanists to guantanamo
Ask HN: With MDN staff fired, is it done for?
I can't believe MDN docs are in danger of dying. If true, what is the alternative?
No, but the creator of the refrigerator is.
The blind that fits the given description is a social network / app where you can register with a company email but are otherwise anonymous, so that you can post anonymously with people from your company.

A lot of people (at least where I work) are disgruntled there. I get the feeling they joined because they were unhappy and want to vent about the company anonymously, but with people who know what they're talking about. Maybe I'm just projecting though.
Those all sound plausible! But...

1) I suspect GNU Make will be installed on any system where node code will run.

2) You don’t have to .PHONY anything that will never be a real file.

3) My bet is the Makefile will be shorter and clearer, but I am of course biased since I’m used to the syntax.
> Replacing “this algorithm is biased” with “this algorithm isn’t really optimizing what we intended it to” seems like a good step,

Why not simply: "we are biased" (that is, busybodies complaining about bias).

From GP:

> This is a thorny issue, though, as I've made some assumptions above and plenty of people will disagree with them, on various grounds.

It's not a thorny issue. No one has to listen to algos. If your algo is buggy and suggests to kill rather than hire a candidate, would you?

Secondly, how is anyone's business what kind of algos I run in course of operating a privately owned company?

The thorny issue is how did we get to this situation where property rights have become so weak that busybodies of all sorts feel entitled enough to order others how they ought to use their property (that is, data and algos).
Next, a browser extension that shows your file system as browser tabs.
Isn't Ease already DoorDash for Weed?
A sort of "Chaos Monkey" for the brain.
I'm pretty sure most refrigerators are built by robots nowadays.
Oh also, sex dolls with AI GPT-3 startup and human relationships are forever changed
Reddit/Twitter/etc. are always, Always, ALWAYS wrong about everything.[1]

... and thank God for that.

As one whose political and cultural beliefs are mostly opposite that of Twitter/Reddit's as a whole, the sites' existence (including subreddits like /r/politics, /r/news, and /r/worldnews) is gratifying and validating.

If the mass of Redditards/Twitter users agreed with my opinions I'd carefully reexamine every one of them.

As bloodraven42 wrote in response to a pretty cringe-inducing example of a Redditard (who was agreeing with an even more cringe-inducing example (http://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/urodq/british_guy_...)):

>Please note the fact that you've gotten this impression from "reading Reddit". I assure you, reading Reddit gives you about as accurate a portrayal of reality as reading North Korean "news". Did you know Kim Jong Il is literally a God?

As Anal_Justice_League added:

>So wait, your world view comes from reading Reddit?

>Do I even have to explain how catastrophically stupid that is?

And as 1foryes said in another thread (https://np.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/be2p5a/cbc_predicts_...):
>But fortunately, reddit does not represent reality. If it did, the ice caps would have melted years ago and we'd all be fighting in WW6.

[1] Except bacon
A Deepness in the Sky and the related books.
> There's also this great song by John Mayer

Are you saying that “Waiting on the World to Change”
is sung from the perspective of a demoralized communist citizen, living in a state in which the government controls all information? That would be amazing if it were true, but I’m not convinced.
From a dev perspective, I see your point. Redmine was great for the reason that we documented a lot better inside tickets because it was lower friction.
You can also write down your dreams if you wake after a dream in the middle of the night. The downside is you might start waking up frequently to write down your dreams.
(Lived in UK and Ireland, and various other EU countries)

NI is now effectively separated from the rest of the UK, so will rely on Ireland a lot more for trade. For sure there will be more cooperation between the two countries, but in the last survey only 20% of NI residents favoured a united Ireland. [0] I doubt Brexit has shifted that number too much. I'd more expect NI to become an independent country, but Scotland will be first.

In terms of Ireland I think this is good for them, as it'll give them more opportunity to be more independent. At least when I was there (nearly 10 years ago, in Dublin), it felt like 'the UK but slightly different', i.e. very different from the rest of Europe. Online retailers often didn't have an IE store, but most UK retailers would ship to IE for extra shipping.

Now it will probably be the other way, IE retailers will ship to NI for a little extra. The combined markets have a population of nearly 7m people, so it's bigger than a lot of European countries.

As OP says it might be painful to begin with (for NI and IE) as they adjust to the new position. Ireland drives on the same side of the road as the UK, and uses UK plugs, so cars and consumer goods will most likely become more expensive too.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Northern...
I wonder which had more of an impact... this or the Spinning Wheel
Why would interest rates rise? They're completely manipulated. If interest rates rising would kill businesses, then they will be manipulated not to rise.
I would prefer slack to update the channels in the background rather than on demand when I click a channel to view.

This would probably be a bit more resource intensive, but I have network and CPU bandwidth to spare.
to me it is more exciting that there is a whole population that can be more productive in our society just because the rest of us use a few adjective or pronouns. that's massive leverage with very low overhead, I like it.
Not sure why this comment is at the bottom, as it's actually interesting, and the part about Mario Segale is clearly true. [1] I can't vouch for the relevance of the rest of the naming stuff and possible connection to Italian-ness, but it was neat to learn where the name Mario came from!

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/obituaries/mario-segale-d...
I tried Googling to find this blog post. Did you mean to write Yarden Shafir? If yes, maybe it was this blog post? https://windows-internals.com/printdemon-cve-2020-1048/

I also found another hint about their findings in this PDF written by Yarden's co-researcher Alex Ionescu: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/woot20_slides_ionescu.pd.... One of the slides specifically mentions the use of fuzzing tools to find these issues.

If there are other, better links I don't know about, please kindly share. :)
It’s not dying. In fact, they just released a new version.
The DX7 is also the reason people flooded the market with all their classic analog synthesizer. These days, while a DX7 is about $800 Australian, an OG Jupiter 8 will set you back $30K AUD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics#Second_Law
It's my favourite. I really mastered the motion controls, to the point that BotW felt like a big step backward in being able to get Link to do what I wanted him to. And I managed to tune out Fi.

I think if I hadn't been able to do either one of those, I would have gotten really frustrated though.
BABIES! So many COVID-induced lockdown babies! I've had so many people, many who were either done with having children, and those who weren't planning to for a while yet, announce their pregnancies.

Wonder if there are any companies I can invest in to cash in on this?
https://www.quaxio.com/pure_css_digital_clock.css
> Well, until the Yiga clan in BotW

Gerudo Valley, OoT
Since many people are also complaining about Jira UI, I've been working on a CLI app during the holidays in a hope to speed up my Jira workflow to some extent: https://bit.ly/38P12bv
Timnit Gebru’s Exit from Google Exposes a Crisis in AI
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw

In the end I think we underestimate the insanity of “normal“ people. What is considered normal is a pretty subjective question and prone to change.
Modding games on the PC, with the developer's blessing, was pretty common for a decade or two before Halo came out.
Now they reinvented credit cards. Cryptocurrencies are really speedrunning financial history.
Because the choice will be interest rates or inflation
To be fair I’m not sure the economists know either, and some of them have even admitted to that.

I’m in bed and on my phone and too lazy to search for an exact link, but for a quick example I can give you the international government-bond market which the theory said that its price should have not ever fallen below zero. At some point in 2019 I think bonds worth $17 trillion (40% of the market if I’m not mistaken) were priced below that zero threshold.
I completely agree with you that Arduino is incomplete with out the actual hardware. Especially given that Arduino and Arduino clones are incredibly cheap these days. This is more of a fun project which I hope would be useful in specific scenarios.
grandparent comment is saying that you _have_ to be able to apply the data and training techniques to a use case. what you're describing is the nocode fantasy where non-developers will be able to name complex apps, but applied to ml
> let's say someone is born into extreme poverty, and through decades of hard work becomes wealthy enough

That seems more luck than hard work to me. Just read the paper.

Even if that was possible. Do you want in a world where people with merit call the shots or a world in which people that cheated their way to wealth or simply inherited wealth call the shots?

Money can be transferred, gained through stealing and luck which all does not require merit. It is not a good proxy for merit.
An ideal square or saw wave contains infinitely high frequencies because of the discontinuities.

When you represent an ideal square or saw wave as a series of digital values you are effectively sampling it at a much lower sampling rate than the infinite rate required for a perfectly sharp square wave. This introduces aliasing is why a naive implementation of a square or saw wave will sound terrible.

There are a whole bunch of techniques you can use to solve this problem without excessive CPU usage but they are non-trivial.
I think the TR-808 is the only one that might qualify.

Although there are loads of synthesizers that were extremely influential in the industry and are immediately recognizable to hardcore synth fans (M1, D-50, Prophet 5, TB-303, Minimoog etc), I doubt there are many that the average listener would consider to be "distinctive".

This is what makes the TR-808 special, I think, even though there are lots of other drum machines that can make the same sounds. It's become a part of the standard lexicon of hip-hop, R&B and electronic music. I imagine a fair amount of casual pop music fans know that when someone says an 808 beat is about to drop, they're gonna get that booming bass drum and typewriter snare, maybe a cowbell.

I'm not sure the DX7 ever had the same widespread name recognition, even back in its heyday. And outside of synths, I don't think the average person connects specific guitar models to distinct sounds either, even if they know the names in the abstract. The 808 might be unique in this. Then again, rock music fans might never even have heard of it?
Why doesn't the one-time museum visit serve the purpose? Are Nintendo employees disbelieving that the company is serious about that balance between legacy and future?

How much do the Amazon custom doors cost?
A lot of the best commercial softsynths now support all kinds of audio-rate modulations everywhere in the signal chain. I guess they must just be throwing CPU power at it and oversampling the crap out of everything.
In the old days you had to wind it and to set it. This one you don’t have to wind, only to set. That’s pretty good in my book!
"Hammond Organs are distinct and popular, but nowhere near as ubiquitous as the DX7."

Dude...

There were about 200,000 DX7s manufactured.

There were about 2 million Hammond Organs manufactured.
I think it comes down to this question: should people interacting with a model have the right to know how that model behaves in ways that are socially relevant? In the parole example, should parolees have access to the knowledge that the model predicts different recidivism rates for different races and by how much?

In the business world, the answer is reached by answering the question "How would our reputation change if the public had access to this information?" The end result is that AI ethicists are hired for optics and subsequently have no real capacity to publish this information.

Is this similar to how we interact with food? Is the 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act a good or bad analogy to use? How similar is this to a food company hiring a food inspector and then firing them when they discover that peanut might have contaminated some other products? I guess if people don't know they won't complain too much.
Jello 1-2-3 sounds pretty good, after Googling it.
actually yes, every month I pay my rent by mailing a check. Also, what is the acronym 'GP' ?
You're only reading half of my comment. The other half points out that people who don't care about the law have had access to high-level Microsoft source code for as long as there has been an Internet. Microsoft's trees circulate just like everyone else's.
Happy new year to everyone except those who complain incessantly about "the orange site" on twitter. :)
Everyone in the world is crazy except for me and thee, and I'm not to sure about thee - one of my Dad's favourite sayings.
Having hundreds or thousands open tabs also confuses me and always seems like a mess to me.

The way i work: I mostly work on a one thing at a time. For that i can have probably at max 40 tabs open. Once it gets past some threshold(i don't recognize or remember what's in them) i tend to start to close the obsolete ones. If there is something i find useful i bookmark it. If there is something i think i would like to read in future i also bookmark it. Once the work is done i close all the tabs. In general i like my tabs closed, it brings peace to my mind.
Objects exploding outward into a vacuum can be spherical.

Stellar explosions happen all the time in many corners of the universe.

As material from a stellar explosion expands outward and impacts gases in the neighborhood, radio waves are emitted from the molecules energetically impacting each other.

Naturally, the shape of the region from which such radio frequency emissions would originate would correspond to the spherical shape of the explosion.

I don't know why this is being written up as something mysterious. OK, maybe I do know why. Clickbait. Any time you can make astronomy look like there may be a hint of aliens, it's tantalizing and leads to clicks. I don't blame the scientists for this… it's the news headline writers.

Unfortunately working in favor of the clickbait is the fact that certainly scientists won't say that the above simple explanation is definitively what is happening, because it hasn't been tested yet. But you can bet they are looking into simple possibilities like this. And no aliens or Dyson spheres are required.
Hmmmm...there's a whole article on that blog about 'why you should have a blog' which to me reminds me of 'flatting the curve' medium post which was written by a 'marketing manager'....
Remote as a hybrid approach will be accepted norm. Remote work for few weeks a year will be accepted norm. Remote medicine will co exist will inperson visits. Remote education will co-exist will in person school.