skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a reminder that the 5G project is a biometric mass surveillance project, if you were missing the context on what that might look like in practice. Source: dozens of published articles about using mm wave antenna arrays to do stuff like gait recogition and "device free localization".
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His dad works for Nintendo, if you question him, he'll make your playstation 3 catch fire.

Jokes aside, I would be interested to see if there is any "sources" to his claim, but in all likelihood there isn't and there never will be.

there is no evidence that the alphabet-boys hijacked the term "Conspiracy theorist" and used the media to change people's perception that conspiracy theorists is batshit crazy people with tinfoil hats.

How many years were you not labelled a tinfoil-hatter if you tried to describe the echelon program pre-snowden, even though he wasn't the first to leak about FIVE EYES, especially the part how the western SIGINT community circumvented the laws prohibiting domestic dragnet spying in their own respective countries?
It's more important for machine operators to be alert than most other jobs.
Show HN: YIFY Android App
From the Zig tutorial[0]:

file.writeAll("all your codebase are belong to us\n") catch unreachable;

[0] https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/
Another PG (Phil Greenspun) had this comment on Bel:

If you weren’t persuaded by the existing 100+ dialects of Lisp that have been created over the years, Bel from Paul Graham should change your mind and lure you aware from the dark and tedious arts of C and Java.

After you’ve saved bigly in development time on your next project, you can thank me!
If the docs have examples that cover your use case, which is far from certain.
The average is not the median.
I think the "first internet meme" title should go to ASCII cows. https://cruzio.com/2019/10/ascii-cows/ (I don't know what would be a cannonical source for this - this is a first googled link)

I remember viewing them and thinking that the internet is really a crazy thing.
If a surgeon needed the help of a computer to make sure that he/she didn't confuse your heart for your kidney, would you trust that surgeon to do an operation on you?
Sometime ago I stumpled upon a github repo that interested me. Due to several reasons I suspect the maintainer might be dead. I tried to verify it somehow but no luck. Might be easier if you are a Greek citizen. Suggestion? Of-course a persons death is tragic, but it is also a shame no one will start maintaining a fork while the original repo is in limbo...
>..."optical telegraph", which is a semaphore system which used a system of messages which AFAIK were not alphabetic text.

The pulses of light in an optical fiber are not alphabetic text either, but we are not talking about baseband here.
I'm pretty sure Thunderbird defaults to not load external images but I only install it every 5 years so don't quote me on it :-)
Maybe not to you, but to me (and I think others) it is quite different. And he gets people excited about science and NASA that way too.
So, I’m going to fill you in on something. My snark level is at max this morning, so forgive me a bit if you can.

The desktop app is dead. There is only the web app. Remember all those complex desktop apps that existed? They are all web apps now, and what would have been a new desktop app will become a new web app.

The only other app game in town is mobile, and people still use web app technology to build that even.

Enjoy your UIs, because they ain’t going anywhere, ever. There is no more ‘why’ in this question.
Backdoor chips found on motherboard of systems by super micro (says bloomberg)
original link: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/
You should watch the squirrel video!
Ghost on Digital Ocean
I am facing yet another day of utter sleep deprivation tomorrow... most of this is from work stress I think, and a good chunk of that is because Ive never in my life been able to force myself to really focus on something that wasn’t fun/engrossing in its own right. Luckily, programming physics is usually engrossing and fun, but when I am being closely managed, the old traits come out and sleep soon goes by the board due to stress from slow progress.
I can handle micromanagement during the “code-up-the-solver” stage, but then when I have to deal with yet another rewrite of the infrastructure code... the mind wanders to, say field theory, the weather, or hacker news.
It reminds me greatly of back in my school days. I could never really focus on the content of my studies properly — not until after being dumped out of undergrad with a lackluster gpa and no good future prospects. Only then, with nobody looking, caring, or expecting, curiosity and motivation switched on properly.

From the article: “ Dr Robert Stickgold has shown that people who learn a skill during the day do not show significant improvement until they get 7-8 hours of good sleep[1]”

Wow, I have had that a handful of nights in the past 3 years.
macOS monitoring application launches of Firefox
Study cited in article: Association between exposure to airborne particulate matter less than 2.5 μm and human fecundity in China

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...
Dataset Auto-WEKA auto-sklearn TPOT H2O AutoML GCP-Tables AutoGluon MLJAR
-------------- ----------- -------------- ------- ------------ ------------ ----------- -------
ieee-fraud 0.119 0.349 0.119 0.322 0.172
value 0.114 0.319 0.325 0.377 0.415 0.445
walmart 0.390 0.379 0.398 0.384 0.423
transaction 0.131 0.329 0.326 0.404 0.406 0.463
porto 0.158 0.331 0.315 0.406 0.434 0.462 0.540
allstate 0.124 0.310 0.237 0.352 0.74 0.706 0.764
mercedes 0.160 0.444 0.547 0.363 0.658 0.169 0.879
otto 0.145 0.717 0.597 0.729 0.821 0.988 0.924
satisfaction 0.235 0.408 0.495 0.740 0.763 0.823 0.975
bnp-paribas 0.193 0.412 0.460 0.417 0.440 0.986 0.986
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I speculate that the eventual ideal goal to strive towards will be RAM strip-to-strip processing taking all of one module's data, feeding one layer and dumping results into the next module. The individual layers accessible for both read and write as ordinary RAM.
Show HN: Compare AutoML frameworks on 10 Tabular Kaggle competitions
I'm working on an AutoML system for tabular datasets. It is called MLJAR and is available as open-source with code on GitHub: https://github.com/mljar/mljar-supervised

I've compared my AutoML with other systems on 10 tabular datasets from Kaggle. The final result is the Percentile Rank in the Private Leaderboard (evaluated by Kaggle). The results other than MLJAR systems are from AutoGluon paper.

Dataset Auto-WEKA auto-sklearn TPOT H2O AutoML GCP-Tables AutoGluon MLJAR
-------------- ----------- -------------- ------- ------------ ------------ ----------- -------
ieee-fraud 0.119 0.349 0.119 0.322 0.172
value 0.114 0.319 0.325 0.377 0.415 0.445
walmart 0.390 0.379 0.398 0.384 0.423
transaction 0.131 0.329 0.326 0.404 0.406 0.463
porto 0.158 0.331 0.315 0.406 0.434 0.462 0.540
allstate 0.124 0.310 0.237 0.352 0.74 0.706 0.764
mercedes 0.160 0.444 0.547 0.363 0.658 0.169 0.879
otto 0.145 0.717 0.597 0.729 0.821 0.988 0.924
satisfaction 0.235 0.408 0.495 0.740 0.763 0.823 0.975
bnp-paribas 0.193 0.412 0.460 0.417 0.440 0.986 0.986

The higher the value, the better. The 1st place solution in the Kaggle competition will get Percentile Rank equal 1.0. You can see that some AutoML frameworks jump into the Top-10% of the competition (without any human help)!

I think that my AutoML system is quite advanced:

- it can generate new features with K-Means or Golden Features Search

- it has many ML algorithms available, can tune them and train (with early stopping if applicable), in selected time regime,

- can stack models in complex ensembles

- creates interpretations for ML models: SHAP plots, permutation-based importance, decision tree visualizations ...

- automatically generates documentation to Markdown or HTML (works like a dream in Jupyter notebook)

I hope that many data scientists will benefit from my AutoML system. I put a lot of effort into it.
> And I don't even see how "decideable" is a desireable property at all. So what if the type checker can infloop? It won't in practice.

I am not so optimistic after having worked with Swift, where simple arithmetic expressions and array literals can bring the compiler to its knees: https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1361596975150493700

(As noted in a reply, this particular bug has been fixed...but still.)
Part of the problem is that so many of the 'actions' people take with email are invisible to the sender: If the recipient marks you as spam, filters you to junk, blocks you as a sender or their client/provider auto-files you away somewhere, you as the sender get no indication of that. People won't click links in emails they've never opened, let alone read. 'Verification' tends to decay over time - even if I clicked that "yes, I definitely want this" link 6 months ago, it doesn't mean I haven't junked you since.

The reason "You haven't loaded images for n months" is used as a signal is that there's a cost in sending unwanted email to people, and there's often no other way to know if you're wanted or not.
That’s part of the fun of emojis. It’s also a counterpoint to the original post. There is a lot of information in a pictorial emoji, so much so that it can be bent and reimagined to many contexts.
true but you don't need median here:

if you produce 1 hammer, 1000 nails. average thing produced is not 50% chance hammer, 50% nail, it should be weighted.
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Zero Defects
Text is not the oldest - nor easiest to use -, text is a heavy abstraction born somewhat recently in human history.

The oldest and easiest is the visual in 3D, then comes the visual in 2D.

Those exist since we have eyes.

Our brain have dedicated and sizeable infrastructure for that. Children can communicate in 3D (gestures, posture, expressions, objects) and in 2D drawings before learning textural communication with great effort.

Text is more regular and reliable in certain contexts (not always, sometimes a pictogram or others are better), when the circumstances are proper for that.

Text has its uses, just like all the other forms, not being paramount, not at all!

(I'd also argue about that we could read old texts. Sometimes yes, but sometimes we cannot read present ones neither if the cultural and knowledge background is inadequate. Which is just aggravated by the ages)
The clickable url to GitHub repo of MLJAR AutoML: https://github.com/mljar/mljar-supervised
My interpretation is that rather he was somewhat interested in it, saw that it lead to lifestyle he wanted and thus he made himself do the work for several years. There's no doubt that Paul is a conscientious person and also somewhat interested in painting, so it worked out for a while. Also, notice though how often he went into multi-year "distractions" from painting - the computers were calling him all this time. Ultimately, when there were no more distraction and all the time in the world to paint, he quit within 6 months.
1 in 6 Pfizer doses were wasted
I've had some experiences with SAP integration into microservices landscapes and every line of the song is something that happened at some point or another.
> Because graphical programming are just textual programming languages which are just overly complex (xml)

i don't think that's fair. i mean, on a computer, you have to serialize everything into sequences of bytes. you could also encode images into XML:

<pixel r="255" g="80" b="110" />
<pixel r="11" g="0" b="203" />
...

but i wouldn't say that makes them "textual".
looks cozy. i'd live in there. :)
> I suppose "art" is meant as "technique" here. Modern large productions are so standardized today it is not an uncommon feeling one is watching the same movie ever end ever.

Art and technique aren't mutually exclusive - and the process of storytelling is both an art and requires you to fit the bounds of storytelling, just as a painting class might teach you line drawing techniques but still counts as art.

The other thing to note is that you are listening to the same story over and over. This is the concept of the Joseph Campbell monomyth. All modern screenwriting is mostly based on the Campbell Hero's Journey, which argues that all great stories and myths are, at their core, the same. You generally follow a protagonist who moves from a place of comfort and is thrust into a new situation, where they need to overcome some sort of challenge which involves the protagonist needing to change as a person to overcome (i.e. metamorphosis). There are exceptions to this structure, like sometimes there isn't even a protagonist, but this is the general structure across the ages.

Storytelling is usually seen as playing within the structure, rather than inventing a new structure. Usually writers who don't embrace structure end up naturally writing in the same structure inadvertently anyway, because the theory is that this reaches the core of what a story is.
It has been a day or two, right? (Former Minnesotan, now living in Hong Kong, so slightly out of it, but familiar with -20F/-30C and occasionally -40F/-40C.)

I think enough air circulation to avoid your breath causing mildew everywhere will mean without a ton of thermal mass, your house is going to get within a few degrees of the daily high within a day or two.
Ever wondered why drones only work in small?
>"I am such a victim, there is nothing I can do, everybody else is at fault"

How about "We should organize ourselves to ensure that everyone's necessities are provided for through democratic processes"?

There is no reason to accept this status quo.

OK, your account was created 13 hours ago and you're already at -19.
And indeed, (2019).

Also a related discussion from today, Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26162513
From yesterday Show HN: Jam, an Open Source Clubhouse (w/ WebRTC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26131123
This gave me a remarkably good suggestion. I will certainly be looking into more of the gnod products (https://www.gnod.com/)
The regulators here in Norway has gained momentum and have this year already fined as many as they did in all of 2020.
There are absolutely countless iron fireplaces here in Norway, they been the most popular installations for decades.

The modern ones with afterburn contour are also quite efficient in energy output per unit fuel burned.
For everything you need a use case. You list those where antigen tests don't fit - but it does not mean they are trash.
I feel like if its clear the maintainer has dropped off the internet, forking and dropping an issue "Something is up with XYZ, lets work in this forked repo until its clear whats going on" is fine. If they come back you can still offer to shut down your fork/help them transfer added content/...
Why do you think protective equipment is required in some professions? Is it because workers don't know their job?

Anyway, explicit static typing

1. detects errors at compile time

2. provides documentation

3. makes programs run faster.
> it's perhaps because the LPG tank is usually outside with a rather large surface area, so if -40 degree days are rare, insulating the tanks and providing a heater might not be very cost-effective vs. having multiple fuel jets in your burner for multiple viscosity fuels.

It's more or less a one-time cost and you might want the simplicity. Tradeoffs rather than it being inevitable.

And multiple fuel jets aren't enough. If you can't depend on the propane, then you need a lot of backup fuel.

> small burner... next to your tank of highly flammable gas with lots of no-smoking signs around.

You have fire that's not very far anyway. It's not hard for an expert to design something that's safe, since you don't need all that much heat.

> Though, I would guess in colder climates, if you really wanted to use LPG, you could put an electric fuel pump in your tank (so it doesn't rely on vapour pressure to feed) and have a burner that pre-warms the fuel and includes a small electric heater for starting.

If you prefer keeping the tank design the same, that sounds fine. A tiny pump would take barely any power, so a cheap solid-state generator attached to the burner could run it and charge your phone too. You don't even need a battery to get things going; a 1 pound tank could be warmed by hand if everything else goes wrong.
For those who, like me, needed to click on the article to understand what the "email industry" is: the author refers to the email marketing industry. This isn't a problem with email, but with email marketing.
“
But what I’ve also seen is that if you are using a managed Kubernetes service, your users and permissions handling is perhaps tied not to Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC) features, but rather, to cloud-specific offerings. Like AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Great service, but ties you to the AWS platform.
“

- precisely why Kubernetes as a proxy for “if we build on K8s, we can easily move across clouds” from an infrastructure point of view is not true. If you develop your application for K8S, then yeah, by all means good for you. But, don’t say your reason for taking on the complexity of Kubernetes as a platform is the ability to become multi-cloud easily.
Graphical programming languages are fairly popular for “scripting” and signal processing in various domains like visual effects, sound design, game dev, etc.

Sure you wouldn’t want to implement the underlying systems in them, but I do think they have their place and are often undervalued by developers.
I did the same. Until I had a retinal vein occlusion caused by undetected high blood pressure. This caused a blind spot in my left eye's central visual field that lasted for weeks. I could not easily read using that eye alone. If it had been a retinal artery occlusion I'd have a permanent blind spot.

Moral - some basic health checks can save a lot of grief.
> But give it time, and years later most if not all restaurants and customers have accepted the new situation, offering an overall better experience for everybody involved. And I think that's what will eventually happen with the cookie law now that the GDPR has made more obvious and annoying the whole process.

I really hope that, but right now, I'm not optimistic. With smoking and restaurants, even if the tobacco industry was involved to some extent, it was not singlehandedly funding the whole restaurant business. The main business model of restaurants - people pay to have great food, drinks and a good time in general - is independent of smoking. In contrast, a large part of the modern web seems to be built on ads and tracking as its very foundation.
The medium of your reply contradicts the content.
>...tracking pixels and tracking links...

I consider the fact that email clients can ever be in a mode where such things can work quietly in the background the actual problem here. A program should never leak information in a way that is out of the control of that user. Perhaps we could try applying the GDPR to the creators of such clients.
I didn't set an alarm for 3 years after struggling with getting a regular sleeping schedule my whole adult life.

Best decision.
> They named it AI because buzzword and marketing bullshit...

They named it AI because it massively boosts embarrassingly parallel workloads. You can think of Processing In Memory as rendering the mapPartitions() operation free in Spark's MapReduce ML workloads.

Some algorithms like DNA sequencing have a tradeoff between map and reduce [1]: you spend more time generating higher quality matches between the short sequences (map), before sending them for global matching (reduce). And PIM lets you exploit that.

For an order of magnitude: the average Intel has about 60GB/s of RAM bandwidth per socket. 256 GB of UPMEM's RAM let you have 2.5TB/s of local bandwidth to a computation unit (to 2560 'dumb' cores @400Mhz) [2].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346703874_Variant_C...

[2] https://www.upmem.com/technology/
I'm very sure thunderbird defaults to blocking external images (but there is button to download if you want), because I'm using it daily exactly for this reason. I also have my mail server from small local provider and it has several web mail clients available, each one of them is setup to not download external images.
> That is how those languages describe themselves and it’s what they look like

Neither Red [1] nor Rebol [2] actually does that; the Rebol family of languages tends to describe itself as paradigm-neutral or multi-paradigm, but historically stays close to imperative constructs and lacks mainstream FP support (e.g. Red doesn't have closures, currying, and tail-call optimization). If you really look at a generic Rebol code it will look like an Algol 60 ocean with occasional DSL islands floating around.

Each time I ask what "functional imperative" buzzword actually means no one can give me a straight answer. If it means "building imperative constructs on top of recursive functions via macros" [3], then it describes something totally remote from Rebol. Care to elaborate?

[1]: https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html

[2]: http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-1.html

[3]: https://bitwalker.org/posts/2018-03-18-functional-imperative...
Built-in zsh behaviour in fact, oh-my-zsh just enables some extremely useful non-default options.

With a compinit call the directory substring expansion will work. And, with auto_pushd enabled cd fiddles with the directory stack.

The ....... behaviour is interesting because it uses a global alias(alias -g) which is an awesome feature for text expansion anywhere in a line, unlike standard aliases which only expand where commands should be given. It means, for example, you can do `readlink -f ......` and it would perform `readlink ../../../../../..`. Aliases on zsh are very powerful indeed.

I'm writing this text in the hope it drives at least one person to burn an afternoon on the amazing(but huge) zsh documentation, because the entire thing is full of gems.
When actually inside vim Tim Pope's excellent vim-projectionist has a wonderfully useful feature for flipping between various related files(:h projectionist-alternate). The whole plugin is really cool, it makes it so simple to configure project specific working environments with it.

https://github.com/tpope/vim-projectionist
That name is not easy to remember. A shorter more frequent word would be better.
Yeah, I should write up how it works. There's a README but it was written as an initial plan of attack and the results didn't always reflect the original plan.
Some kids with additional needs find it very distracting seeing their own face on a video call. I heard from some parents who resort to putting a post it note on the screen to hide so I added a little feature to blur then turn off the video preview to help - https://www.gameswithgran.com/images/blur-local-video.gif
For shell scripts that are longer then a handful lines, python is the better alternative IMHO, especially if the scripts need to work across Windows, Linux and macOS.

Windows has some nice tricks to connect the UI to the cmdline. For instance you can type "cmd" or "powershell" in the breadcrumbs-bar of an Explorer window, and it opens a terminal at that filesystem location (and the other way around, "start ." on the command line opens an Explorer window in the current directory.

Historically, pure command line workflows are somewhat rare on Windows though.
Not sure if it counts as "industry" but FORTH-based Open Firmware is still used as a bootloader for some PowerPC machines. You can try this out under qemu:

$ qemu-system-ppc64
VNC server running on ::1:5900

$ vncviewer :0

Ready!
0 > 1 2 3 * + .
7 ok
0 > WORDS
(gigantic list of built-in words ...)
> Instead, all email clients I’ve ever seen default the other way.

What E-Mail clients are those? Both I use (Outlook for work, Fastmail privately) do exactly that, and neither of those are small. The only one I know that’s different is GMail, but well, Google and Privacy.