skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are using Shapeways.com to turn them into metal for us and it was the option they had. Haven't tried getting it CNC'd but thinking we might need to change the model up a bit to allow the tool to get into some of the gaps that are possible. If anyone wants to try with a CNC machine then love to know what the results are like
> Is it just a growth hack, or is there something nefarious about it?

Yes. It's a nefarious growth hack.
Actually it's sci-hub.se.
South Africa Study Shows Power of Genomic Surveillance Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
Please see the history of communist countries for how that works out. Central allocation of resources is incredibly inefficient and highly susceptible to corruption.
There is one correct answer to this: collateral. Your mortgage is secured by the value of your house, which can be repossessed and sold to recoup loan proceeds. Of course, the housing market can decline, but it provides a very real backstop to your ability to repay that loan. You might be inconvenienced to sell your house, but ultimately it can be repaid relatively easily even if you default.

Government debt on the other hand is uncollateralized and "secured" by two intangible things: tax receipts and central banks. Taxes are obviously a significant headwind for economic growth, and while necessary, should be as low as possible. So increasing taxes is not desirable. The second way is through inflation vis-a-vis Central Banks (so called debt monetization). Inflation is an implicit tax on everyone, and as we know, like taxes, too much inflation is a very bad thing.

Governments have three ways to retire their debt, and all are pretty bad:
1) they can raise taxes which impedes growth and done in the extreme can cause a recession, which then reduces taxable income in a negative feedback loop
2) they can debase their currency causing inflation so that the money they have to pay back is worth less, which is also really bad when done excessively
3) or they can either default which unlike your house, is catastrophic because there is nothing for creditors to repossess

And the above is without getting into the topics about utility: your house will provide utility for decades whereas most debt has been accumulated to fund social programs which need continuous funding, unlike your house which is funded once and amortized over decades.
Machine Learning Flashcards
Ask HN:Does anyone know any good flashcards for Machine Learning?
I was expecting something more like Gorce (https://gource.io/) that shows contributions via commits but this is rather cool nonetheless.
Wow, they rolled it out without IPv6?
> The "world" doesn't owe the "world" that amount, it's people in already tight situations owing that to people in pretty comfortable ones.

This is wrong. Most people in tight situations around the world don't even have access to banking or debt.

I imagine most of this is sovereign or corporate debt, and financialized debt, like obligations incurred by instruments such as shorts, or taken out to perform leveraged trading.
Python 3.x has a buffer overflow which may lead to remote code execution
One of the major detractors to Bitcoin et. al. That you hear about on HN is that transactions in USD has a legal recourse to recoup funds in these types of oopsie situations. Does this court decision make anyone feel more bullish about Bitcoin seeing that there isn’t always a legal recourse in USD? Does it at least temper that discussion slightly?
Q: But many Airbnb Engineers do you need to fix Airbnbs horrible website?

A: Lets make a techhub in Atlanta to evaluate this question.
These issues are everywhere if you bother to notice. My in-laws had a coffee maker with a built-in grinder. The grind function was default enabled, so if you went to brew some coffee from pre-ground beans and just turned it on, the grinder would kick on with an awful sound.

The solution they came up with was a "Grinder Off" button that lit up to indicate the grinder was turned off. It was...confusing to say the least. And as an infrequent user of this coffee maker it was all too easy to screw up. To add insult to injury, that off light turned off (i.e. enabled grinding) every time you brewed a new pot. You had to be sure to press it every time you brewed from pre-ground beans, which was always for us.
Helen Keller: why is a TikTok conspiracy theory undermining her story?
Arq 7 Released
Out of curiosity how did you get those cards? Did you manage to buy them at retail or is the economics such that the miners are willing to pay the scalper premium?
You could say this of most metros. The most glaring is Boston, which is an international hub for tech education but isn't really competitive with the cities you list, at least relative to its educational reputation.

When I think of NYC, SF, Austin, Seattle, I think of cities with robust arts/culture/dining/entertainment, accessibility (public transit) and enough professional basis to allow job mobility. These things entice younger people to congregate.

There are other metros that have great education and in particular tech education (Raleigh/Durham, Pittsburgh, Chicago) but don't tend to build up tech industries.
Russia's Lost Diesel-Electric 12×12 Overlanding Train
Each Decade That Passes, Fewer People Report Knowing How to Drive Stick Shifts
> you're not endangering anyones life by using heroin unless you're causing drug-related crimes

Are you saying heroin causes people to commit crime?

> This is quite a contradiction by equavalency.

I thought he meant it similarly. We created the war on drugs from this logic, yet do not have a war on people not wearing masks.

You're right in that mask wearing is a tricky situation, and I think so is hard drug usage. He brushed that off maybe a little too quickly.

I think smoking and covid masks are a better equivalence. Second hand smoking can cause you to maybe affect others, so areas where you are allowed to smoke were restricted. I see masks in a similar fashion.
Great point. Luckily my bank interface writes out the amount in words before asking me to commit. Once while entering the amount on a mobile, I had an extra 0 by mistake. Caught it just because I had to read the amount in words before confirming.
I hope I don't open a major can of worms by my parent comment. This is based on a sample of my own personal experience of 1 Austin interview and LOTs of Atlanta interviews. As a SDE with 4 YOE, I was offered $110k ish in Austin vs barely scraping 90-100k in Atlanta. I ended up taking an offer in NYC (which was my top choice to begin with).
levels.fyi is a good resource. Those are typically Bay Area salaries so a good rule of thumb is to take the numbers reported there and knock off 10-20% for Austin.
Who the heck thinks of Oracle as safe? You can get a huge bill from them just for misconfiguring your dev environment.
From the title my first thought was "RUSTLANG!". Then I saw it was a google article and thought "well, that's not going to be rust-lang at all". I guess the answer was somewhere in between.

It would be nice if there was more meat on the article though, like what types of things to do, or how each memory error happens, etc.
Just placed a pre-order in north Georgia. Right now, tethering cellular is my best option. The local ISP is like 3Mb/s, and Hughesnet has a really low datacap.
Are these actually enforceable?
NSF-supported researchers achieve two-way communication with dreaming people
Crossplane – GitOps-Based IaC Through Kubernetes API
>I deeply failed as an ally during the unionization era at Gimlet,” he wrote. “I did not intend to stop the unionization effort, and I am very glad it succeeded … I’m not done working, but I don’t think anyone needs me taking up space right now.

This reads like a forced apology from someone who was bullied into submission by ideologues. I think language like "ally" and "taking up space" is toxic because it implies that non-minorities are forbidden from dissent and participation.
Game Stopped? (Live congressional hearing on GameStop)
FT and WSJ are both worse than NYT in this respect -- they require a phone call at a specific period of time and there is a waiting time. I'm not going to subscribe to FT and WSJ ever again. If I really need to read them, Bypass Paywalls does the job. I much prefer Guardian/Bellingcat/Wikipedia's model, which is based on donations. I donate regularly to all three.
> Are you the judge to rule whether the individual has lost his right of privacy?

I mean, there is an actual judge. This is a major legal case, and they've placed the info in the public record. The judge has in fact made a ruling.

I'm not saying it's always a perfect system, but it's definitely a very well established system in the U.S. that all court proceedings are very public. It's one of the core founding principles of the judicial branch, and it's also been a staple of American journalism for hundreds of years.

I personally think the European approach is much better on this specific issue, and that right to be forgotten laws and similar are justified.

But the reason I mentioned it in this context is that the idea that journalists naming people who are clearly notable in the context of reporting news only seems to generate a critical response when it's someone that the average HN reader identifies with.
Not sure what you’re talking about here. If someone is falling down drunk, k, get them out of the machine shop.
In many places there are safety issues to deal with. You have to be proactive to avoid an incident.

Here's a non-drug related one. In many places road construction companies will disallow workers from wearing headphones. This is because of the heavy machinery and you need to hear the beeps of a machine backing up. Drivers of those do not have good sight around the machinery and large trailers. Headphones on can mean not hearing a warning sound and being struck and possibly killed.

Are wearing headphones a problem? Do you want to fire someone until an accident happens?

Part of the proactive nature to this is insurance companies. If there aren't strict safety policies that are enforced than insurance companies won't cover companies. When accidents occur they have to pay out and want to avoid that.

Drug use has been proven to cause certain issues depending on the drug that can have safety impacts at work sights. This can costs lives and money.

This is why it becomes a big deal in certain fields.
Very nice.
Building a new FORTH using FORTH might have been easier; FORTH is traditionally very good at rebuilding itself. e.g. WimpForth on a PI400 recompiles its own kernel to an absolute image (executable) in 00:00:007.
FORTH week on HN is great.
The main trouble with FORTH is remembering to stop playing with FORTH and actually write the App.
This can mean many things. Examples:
- we don’t know what we’re doing yet
- we’ll be overworking you
- our funding is getting cut off
- we’re irrelevant to the corporation
- we have an open office
- we fire quickly
- we wish we didn’t work here
Even $2000 video cards are sold out

I'm speechless
Slight nitpick anecdata: one of the best utility program I ever had the pleasure to use was an AS400 terminal based program for national tax office. I don't want to oversell but it was the nicest software tool I ever used in a job period.

Those old things were so lean, so fast, so cheap, zero fancy feature, zero presentation, zero confusion. And the software used every cycle to either make you go on, or then check or even prepare fixes (think live typecheck suggestion in your IDE but for accounting input operators).

I was brutally shocked by the contrast between everything I've been fed and seen in college (that said these were the j2ee 4 days .. so peak sadness). Of course by the time I left there was some grand plan to replace it with modern html/css/js evil reincarnation that was slower, and less useful.. basically going back from your old makita impact driver to the shiny new bluetooth connected released yesterday that will fail and require the v2 before being barely useful.

tl;dr: glory to old terminal application made with skills.
No Illusions: How to Request and Receive Feedback
Another option is getting speed switches like Cherry's speed silver or Kailh's Copper/Bronze/Gold. They're the same size as normal switches and support the same keycaps, but you only need to press them halfway compared to how far down you need to press other switches to activate them. Some even have a shorter activation distance than the one you linked.
So VPN?
Deep in the heart of Texas’ collapsing power grid
INRIA is an exceptional institution and is able to hire a lot of amazing talent. They were one the earliest public research institutions that had a separate career track for developers and technical staff.

It's truly a national gem. Researchers at INRIA are responsible for scikit-learn, coq, ocaml, etc etc.
All I can say about this is "Good Luck with That".

I have never been addicted to heroine, so I cannot speak from personal experience. But I have seen its impact first-hand, thankfully, a number of times I can only count with one of my hands.

The way I explain addiction to my kids is the way it was explained to me by an addict (alcohol, Vicodin and others):

(1) There's no difference between "Psychologically Addictive" and "Physically Addictive" -- he said this in the context that he was an abuser of alcohol, every day, but was not chemically addicted to it and required no medicine to quit, but it was easily as difficult as quitting Vicodin.

(2) Addicts don't love their drugs more than their family/kids/morals -- your body uses addiction to make you eat, drink, etc -- go without those things for long enough and you will start to sacrifice things that are otherwise more important. Imagine your desire to do this particular drug is substantially stronger than your desire to eat or drink.

Having the benefit of a few decades away from childhood and been witness to some really incredible individuals' lives being flushed down the toilet, I don't believe either of those two statements to be sensationalized in any way. It's internalizing these things and understanding that the people I know who became addicts were very strong people. One was a person I counted among the "Great Men"[0] in my life (and still do).

Politically speaking, I tend to fall pretty narrowly on the whole "victimless crime shouldn't be criminal[1]", so my puritanical beliefs that you should "just stay as far away from that stuff as you possibly can" doesn't translate into support for the War on Drugs(tm). Personally speaking, I've watched people maintain a heroine addiction for years, Vicodin for decades. In the early days, they managed OK. They all quit because the drug became it--the single need that remained. That's what it does. People nearing this stage delude themselves into thinking it's not affecting their lives/loved ones, but I'd be curious -- with the benefit of hindsight bias -- at what point a former addict[2] would admit their drug problem was out of control.

[0] My measure is not just a man who can be counted on to do the right thing when nobody is looking, but who will do the right thing when the outcome will/might serve him poorly.

[1] A person should not be able to be convicted of a crime if the criminal and the only victim are the same person.

[2] Recovering addict is the phrase most frequently used. One acquaintance of mine (who didn't do 12-steps/rehab) corrected me and said he's "not an alcoholic anymore" or a "former alcoholic" because he quit a decade ago and has no desire/temptation to drink (whole household is extremely anti-alcohol; he couldn't hide it if he tried) and feels that claiming to have a problem he doesn't have feels too much like being a "pity whore". He wasn't chemically addicted, either. Can't please everyone, I guess.
The traffic is really fucking bad, to be honest - I've been considering moving back to metro Atlanta post-pandemic (grew up in Gwinnett County, currently up in NYC, still go back to visit 2x a year) and it's the biggest concern I have with taking a local job. It's definitely as bad as LA or Houston (and the pure sprawl seems to match the latter). I'd probably try to rely on MARTA and that's tricky to do even if you want to.

My sister now lives in Decatur and I've been looking at some of the apartments near the MARTA stations there, and they're unfortunately mostly exclusively new luxury buildings (which I am very lucky to be able to afford on my current salary, but maybe not at a local job, or an adjusted-for-relocation remote one).

Frustrating how there's so little walkable development around the MARTA stations other than Decatur's, and what there is is so expensive. Of course, I could deal with a five minute park and ride, but it's kinda the principle of the thing.
Regex Basics
Removing all the state from a machine and starting over should never be hard or complicated!

State is evil!
I'm in the market for a card for computer vision stuff, but don't have steam.
This is golden. It's spoken like a voice synth. "cut operating costs, deliver high volumes, and transfer these benefits to its customers", then "meanwhile, at the back office, ... Oracle's new Machine Learning adapter unlocks intelligence ingrained in indivudual operational patterns".
There's something to be said for this, but it also necessarily privileges the current power structure.
What's next when people encourage you to build your side project?
I showed my side idea to friends they love it and kept asking for the launch date.

I rather want to see what smart people on Hacker New think. Here is a 1 minute survey so we can decide what to do next. Thank you kind people of Hacker news.

https://forms.gle/EjWCnygNCUSGiw5RA
Asteroid mining.

Genetics.

Gravity applications, like taking a picture of a black hole for coherent control of pair production, takes some cynicism out of the sails of the modern world.

Improved education. We get better at communicating advanced concepts. Quantum physics and relativity becomes bar room talk. Pragmatism takes the place of gamesmanship and zero sum win at all cost. More forgiveness. Less provocations. A stronger focus on achievable goals and a good life.

The USA experienced something similar in the late 19th century. All that horrible fighting went away when everyone found out the rail road can make you rich.
(2016)

Has anything changed since then?
It's worth noting that in many (perhaps most?) cases of such payments "creditor" does not imply a loan, but rather debt caused by unpaid obligations for goods or services - e.g. there's a shipment of coal or iPhones and there's an invoice that's due to be paid by date X, and it gets paid on date Y.

In many cases Y<X - perhaps there's some discount or other negotiations involved, perhaps some people or companies don't leave payment to the absolute last day.

This clause means that if someone is paid for their goods or services, the debtor can't come back afterwards and say "ahhh, this was a mistake, give us back our money, we weren't delinquent and still had 20 days to pay it, we intended to use that cash for other things like payroll and we pinky-swear that we won't go insolvent during that time" - if you got paid, you got paid, period.
Please add support for viewing past years.
> I don’t think hybrid or non-textual methods have really been given their due or worked on so much,

The problem is that they really have. Visual thinkers in academia have been aggressively pursuing this in CS PhDs and research since the 80s or even 70s.

The results haven't been great. Visual programming works well for some limited cases. Rational Rose, which produces code from UML diagrams, came out in 1994 and has been in continuous development since, has not taken over the world.

The big problem is high information density. With text you can go through it in a linear fashion, even if it's very long. Diagrams tend to hit a breaking point where they're too complex to take in. There's no clear place to start. Then suddenly they are worthless.
Should this be news? After every generational rollout, reasonable people would assume that major telecommunications hardware companies continue researching and developing technologies for the subsequent generation.
Why is it so hard to find companies that you give an STL file, choose material, tweak some settings, pay and give address? First thing I see on shapeways is get a quote, which means I have to go into a sales funnel by signing up and waste time instead of actually printing a 3d model.
Probably the usual aerospace stack: C/C++ and Ada doing the heavy lifting. Since memory is no longer a (significant) space constraint in 2021, I suspect other high level languages are also used for the non-critical parts of the system.
> we factually are stuck with the duopoly

We are only stuck if nobody thinks it’s worth creating an alternative. The ‘duopoly’ has only existed for around 5 years so far. It’s bizarre to consider regulating such a short lived phenomenon instead of encouraging new entrants, particularly when there are so many deep pocketed companies that want a piece of the market.

We’re not talking about a random video game company. We’re talking about Epic, a multi-billion dollar transnational enterprise that could easily afford to invest the time and money Apple and Google did to build their platforms.

Epic is vastly more profitable now than Apple was when they developed the iPhone. Let’s not deceive anyone that they are some small games company.

If you want to guarantee that we continue with the duopoly, the best way to do that is to take away the incentive for companies that could compete, to actually do so, by giving them a piece of the duopoly’s revenue stream.
> There's a middle ground between our terrible war on drugs and the naive "make it all legal and experiment with heroin!"

I wholeheartedly agree. a couple google searches showed buying alcohol for a minor was a $1000 fine, but heroin possession for personal use is $20000 and a year in jail.

I think there's room to scale back the penalties and still be a deterrent. I think there's room to scale up addiction recovery.

Hell, keep the horrible penalties, but waive them if the accused, with counseling and whatever other support makes sense, can stay clean for a year.

So much of the system is about papering over problems rather than fixing the root cause.
There's also UBSAN though ;)

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/3jxfeq

(of course a compile-time error would be better than a runtime error)
That sounds the same to my ear. At least the way I pronounce both words. c-awe-ck and b-awe-ttom.
Also, tor does a good job too.
The article mentions ~70% of users of any drug are not addicts, and surely you know somebody who is both responsible and drinks alcohol.
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Thats a really good point. Boston, Chicago, and Pittsburg meet the research university criteria. Perhaps a tech center needs temperate weather (hard to convince a new grad to move to Pittsburg vs moving to Austin of Bay Area)? In that case, Atlanta has the weather going for it.
Oh and the other great sin: left aligned numbers!
This Wikipedia page explains the meaning of the "Pigs and Chickens" meeting standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig

"Outrage bait" is an editorial comment.
Heh, I was asking earlier about what Dapr was because I was wondering how it might work on Fly. :)
The median won't tell you the difference between 20% chance of making $1k and $1M.
Couldn't they have used short names or pseudonyms? Those who want to trace and verify can always contact the paper for actual details
I am not an economist, but as an engineer 356% doesn't mean much without knowing what the breaking point is. What is the upper limit on the debt/GDP ratio? What system parameters would go into calculating such a limit? Is this a situation where we won't know the limit until it breaks because the system is too complex?