skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's currently around 80 people dying from COVID-19 per day here in NYC, and the highest death rates have been from food service workers. 80 is way too high (it's over 10X what it was late summer), and I'm not going to do anything to potentially contribute to that. And Cuomo the nursing home reaper doesn't exactly have the moral high ground here in saying what is and isn't safe.

I'm going to go back to my normal life once I've been vaccinated. At this rate there's only a couple more months to go. I've already made it 11 months, I can do a couple more.
That's an amazing video. I was surprised by how many steps it took to make a crystal. Also noteworthy is how many different tests and checks they did on each crystal.

The technology is an interesting mixture of sophisticated and primitive. On the one hand, they had X-ray machines to determine the crystal alignment, and lots of specialized mechanical and electronic machinery. On the other hand, people were spooning abrasive out of a pot with a dinner spoon. Everything was very manual and labor-intensive, with no automation. An interesting mix of highly-skilled precision labor and low-skill tasks.
I must have misunderstood your concept of proto-adult, apologies.
startyourownisp.com

Pretty much contains most of the resources you need
The Remote Hacker Probe
Why are there so many different languages that are almost the same except for one or two attributes? Why not make one language that can do everything?

If you can make one language strongly typed, and one weakly typed, then you should be able to build one language which can do either/or, depending on a compiler flag. Then you simply decide before you start writing your code whether you want to write it weakly typed or strongly typed, and pass the correct compiler option.

Take that same idea, but add in every language's quirks, and just enable/disable them. Then we wouldn't need to constantly reinvent languages, because we'd have one that can do everything.

Otherwise we're going to keep re-writing the same damn thing for hundreds of years, and that just seems like such a pointless waste of effort.
I wouldn't like the police to rootkit my PC if that's what you're asking.
> Yes, that is human nature if we look at anthropological studies. We punish it which creates a disincentive.

Only in some case, in other case, we justify it by naming it something else, like taxes, prison/capital punishment, national interest.
So, blizzard tries to team up with Metallica to garner publicity after some fairly terrible publicity only to have Metallica's stream removed from the most popular game streaming service currently existing due to DMCA and now it's gotten them both negative publicity.

I feel like there's some irony buried in there somewhere...
BTW, Linus switched to Git 2005. BitKeeper didn't give up and turn to open source until 2016. So we had a 10 year run after Git showed up where people still paid us.

It was good run, not many software companies get an 18 year run. I'm fine with it, would have liked to do more for my people.

Though, when we were shutting things down and I was bumming that I had not gotten retirement money for all of my people, one of them said something like "Dude, are you kidding me? My best friend barely knows his kids, he is out the door by 7am to fight Houston traffic and not home until close to 7pm. My commute is from my bedroom to my office down the hall. I've got to help my wife with the kids, I see the kids all day every day, my life is infinitely better than my friend's life and you gave that to me. You're fine."

I'm a wimp, I teared up a bit, that was the nicest thing he ever said to me. It's not just about money.
a true patriot would do anything for the Motherland - "A KGB rectal concealment capsule" https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2021/feb/10/relics...

The starting price looks to be $400 or $450. A total opposite to glorious missile cars and laser watches of Bond. A kind of illustration of a typical contrast between reality of a given profession and it's portrayal in movies, etc.
As far as "malware" is concerned, there's no reason to trust an app over a pkg. Either one is going to get you. But there are legit companies that definitely "overpackage" their software. For example, Microsoft distributes Edge for Mac with a pkg installer, even though Edge is based on Chromium, and Google just distributes Chrome as a drag and drop app in a dmg. But you can extract the Edge app out of the pkg and just install that, skipping whatever junk Microsoft decides to do in their installer scripts.

I trust Microsoft not to be literal malware, but I don't trust Microsoft to avoid doing stupid unnecessary crap to your Mac.
This depends on the meaning of "24" in "24/7/365"

Kids spent a lot of time outside with their peers, and with extended families, neighbors, and even alone. Maybe not 9 hours per day (time kids spend in school (and "afternoon care" in my country) with both parents working 8 hours/day), but still a considerable amount of time, when they didnt help with the chores.

It might be anecdotal, but only recently I have seen the trend of parents filling up every minute of their kids schedules with after school activities, burning out their children at a very young age.
https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-...

Remember this one?
This is why you'll need a trusted custodian (with real estate) ie the district/county clerk, with like a "god" token or something that allows them to make any changes necessary in their jurisdiction, including retroactively assigning a new custodian.

All of what I'm discussing has real world precedent, the only difference would be using DApps for simplicity, security, transparency, and thrift.

Ever wondered what a notary was for?
That's not what I'm saying at all.

I'm saying that the people who, most likely, matter the the most to you, have already made their judgment of you, and that's based on what can't be hidden by an anonymous username.
Revenue neutral carbon tax. With a slowly increasing price.

They did it in British Columbia.

I’m a big fan of this approach, which is actually bipartisan-ly designed.

https://clcouncil.org/

Check the video in that link.
> Murder is generally unacceptable, ...

Yet, we give Nobel prizes to murderers.
most of types of dollar transactions are reverse-able. stealing bitcoin is like someone getting mugged and cash stolen (not credit cards and such).
> The hardware has capabilities, and Nvidia is artificially limiting them

But that is not taking anything away form you.

If you buy something, knowing what software is on that thing, you are getting what you were sold.

You were told that this would be the software on this device, and you bought it anyway.

Just don't buy something if you don't like what that product is. You were told what software is on that device!
I think you’re on track.
I found this article to be a great analysis of the electric consumption as it relates to the price of BTC. https://www.ofnumbers.com/2021/02/14/bitcoin-and-other-pow-c...
This works for the classic ice-cream cone shape to induce stable dynamics too.

[0]https://imgur.com/a/F5TshLR
I guess I'm still with you almost 100 percent then :)
What are you listening to on there? I never have any idea what to do with the app
Sure, that the author is an expert does not mean that she is infallible, or there's nothing to discuss. That's not what this sub-thread is about. This thread is about some sort of insinuation that this is born out of some sort of weird attempt at Swift to use Rust to gain prominence, or something.
CouchDB request are easy with this module
ARRL Handbook is great, but I would suggest picking it up after someone has their license. Personally, I found it really frustrating to have a gigantic book full of interesting things that I wasn’t legally allowed to do - it was a much better book after I had my license :)
> This isn't a bug, this is an explicit decision they made. It caused a bit of a stir at the time, but they went through with the change anyways.

> Personally for me it was the last straw, and I've since moved to Firefox.

Your security currently suffers if you choose Firefox over a Chromium variant.

This feels as shitty for me to write as it will to read.
HAM is still a very necessary tool for keeping in contact in the mountains and such. When I was younger I did some SCCA rally events. Those events would be impossible without the volunteer HAM operators that show up and set up temporary relays on a couple of the biggest foothills in the race area. Cell coverage is just too spotty, and satcom stuff is just too expensive. My understanding is that search and rescue uses the same approach for the same reasons.
That does seem like the ideal solution, but sadly a mechanical rocker switch would cost some number of pennies more to implement, hence they haven't.

I have a hot water stand-by boiler in my kitchen a $15 outlet switch because the darn thing didn't come with a simple power button. Hardly anything these days does. All of which is to say, the ideal design often conflicts with the consumer's other expressed preference of "lowest price possible, it doesn't matter how many corners are cut and how quickly it dies".
> makes them unusable

Such hyperbole.
Folks interested in this kind of work should check out an upcoming ICLR paper, "LowKey: Leveraging Adversarial Attacks to Protect Social Media Users from Facial Recognition", from Tom Goldstein's group at Maryland.

Similar pitch -- use a small adversarial perturbation to trick a classifier -- but LowKey is targeted at industry-grade black-box facial recognition systems, and also takes into account the "human perceptibility" of the perturbation used. Manages to fool both Amazon Rekognition and the Azure face recognition systems almost always.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07922
When it's mentioned at all, Sally Ride is sometimes called the second-ever woman in space (e.g., https://www.businessinsider.com/sally-ride-first-american-wo...). She wasn't; she was the third, and 20 years after the first.
I think the idea is that the AI doesn't have access to the original. That being said, I'm not sure what would stop such AIs from being _trained_ on images that have been attacked.
Texans consistently vote for politicians who protect the rights of corporations over the rights of people and who are against most types of regulation. So your 70 year old neighbor should ask them why she doesn't have heat, not a random stranger on the internet.
> Do you have any knowledge of the culture from the beginning of the world wide web?

Yeah, it consisted of people with mental faculties that far exceed the minimum requirements of today's internet.
It really depends on what you're building. For controlled environments that's fine, but unfortunately I'm not building for controlled environments, and tend to do quite extreme things with parts. I need them to be subjectable to force and reasonable amounts of heat. There is no way around it in my applications.

Point is PETG works, sometimes I need to go to CF-Nylon, I'm just looking for something that's as good mechanically and can be recyclable. I wonder if the plastics in the article would work.
Cambridge moonflower: Wait over for 'UK's first' bloom
Not until about ten minutes ago, it wasn't, no. But it was still missing. Or if it was flagged, it didn't show the [flagged] in the title or anywhere else.
No, I didn't bring up that one example to support the general claim that murder is part of human nature. I brought it up to debunk the notion that only a very small proportion would necessarily engage in these activities in the absence of a state. For that purpose, all I needed was a single counter-example.

If instead you want evidence for the more general claim, you can look at some of the studies I've referred to in this thread (e.g. the one about London or Croatia), or just look up anthropological surveys of hunter gatherer societies that show murder rates 50x higher on average.
Hemispheres have definitely been printed back-to-back before.
Different companies, different industries, different rules.

Researchers can publish anything they like as long as it's uncontroversial. Google sponsors tons of work for which there is no oversight.

But if you're going to directly make the company look bad, then yes, it's delusional.

It's one thing to protect whistle blowers, it's another thing to make bad public statements. The previously fired researcher wanted to demonstrate how training AI was energy intensive and that was a problem, though in the grand scheme it may not be i.e. it's not as though model training is a primary source of energy draw. Google wanted to review the work and asked her to include more recent information about how Google had actually improved energy consumption process given the old data set from the research.

That's perfectly reasonable. Corporate HQ asks the researcher to include more recent data which doesn't make the company look so bad? On a scale of 1-10 in terms of interference that's a 1 or 2. I suggest the vast majority of researchers would be fine with that, and consider it ethical.

Juul probably hires scientists more along the lines of cigarette companies wanting to provide science to show that cigarette smoking is not harmful. That's another thing altogether.
Pfizer seeks to store vaccine at higher temperatures, easing logistics
Feedback: a single domain for throwaways will be blocked in a day if it ever gets traaction
Not being able to quickly and easily whipe the machine when something goes wrong means it's practically unusable: There will always be accumulated state and it's much harder to safely get rid of.
Can't wait to read about Inception V4 being trained on adversarial.io for better noise resistance :)
Microsoft breaks the ABI all the time, this is why there is usually several MSVCrt.dll versions installed.

Visual Studio 2017 - 2019 were the first time they ever bothered with it, plus it is planned that VS vNext will break it again.

This not counting the other C++ compilers on Windows with their own standard libraries, like C++ Builder and Intel C++.

There is always COM/WinRT if I want an OOP ABI that doesn't break as easily.
We treat those we're closest to the worst on a day to day basis. I'm constantly amazed at the casual politeness and optimistic interpretation my wife lends to complete strangers, but looks at me sideways every time I suggest anything.
Lamport is giving a talk at my workplace on Monday about 21st century proofs, happy to add this question to the Q&A and let you know his answer, I’m interested in this too.
Yes, but GC is usually seen as the major .NET performance concern not AOT vs. JIT, which may be faster in some instances.
Poll: It's 2021. What are your favorite programming languages?
What are your favorite programming languages?

Below are the most popular languages. If your favorite isn't below select other and comment what it is below.

Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it alive.
Lisp (any except Clojure and Scheme)
Raku
Bash/Zsh
Concurnas
Flow JS
Abap
PL/I
English (GPT-3)
P#
Pike
Q#
SPARK
Eta Haskell
Microsoft Excel (now Turing-Complete)
Wren
This is great advice for any SaaS company. We scaled to ~80 engineers and >1,000 customers on an almost entirely monolithic app running JARs on EC2 instances with a single Postgres database. Keep it simple & focus on delivering product features that create customer value.
Those were some of the most memorable sections for me. I never really thought about the other side of monomorphizing. It made it really obvious where "zero-cost abstractions" start to fall short.
In regards to css, take a look at tailwind css. I've found it to be pretty nice to use and very straightforward.

Great site, very simple and useful!
That makes a lot of sense. On the other hand, that also suggests that if the price of bitcoin were to rise rapidly, mining costs would take some time to catch up, no? The connection between mining costs and price is an economic one (that can be in temporary disequilibrium), right?
How? By looking at the codebase I'm working with right now, that's how.
Agreed. If you print a dinosaur skull out of ABS, I wonder if the cast would survive longer than a real fossil.
Article is about destroying the planet itself, as in, making it cease to be as a planet, not merely destroying all life.
> whatever the hell a "Sooner" is

The US decided to sell the land in most of Oklahoma (the parts that weren't Indian territory, in any case) by land rushes. You would line up at the county border, a starting gun would be fired, and the first person to claim a plot of land would get it. Sooners are the people who were in the county before the starting gun was fired, letting them (illegally) claim the land before anyone who was honest and started at the starting line.

(Side note: my great-great grandfather was in one of the Oklahoma land rushes, but lost the land he wanted to a Sooner.)
The idea of mages as essentially just transforming an energy. The fact that there are raw unstructured skills like shaping that influence your ability to perform structured magic, and can be used to build out new forms (in the same way that fundamentals play into real-life disciplines like music and artisanal work).

The structure of living beings having mind/soul/body and how these are formed to protect against certain kinds of magic (soul-killing for example). The way the major branches of magic essentially map to specific transforms on mana.

It's not axiomatic or anything, but the way magic is structured in the MoL universe feels like it would lend itself nicely to axiomisation in something like a systemic game.
I like it, more ways to prove "work" without wasting CPU/GPU cycles doing literally useless math. This, I think, is the way forward with cryptocurrency.

They mention Filecoin and Storj in the writeup, but they don't go into a detailed comparison. How does this differ from those platforms? And how do they plan to overcome the initial hurdle of "getting enough people to use it that the token itself becomes desirable"?
@CyberRabbi

Given the way most modern software is made, refering to the makers as "software engineers" is a bit of an exaggeration. If you could visualize the average software project, a Rube Goldberg machine consisting of cogs, wheels, relays and bricks-and-pipes, all held together with duct tape.
This interests me. What kind of programming do you do?

Emotion is very important to me as a programmer. Often my emotions know when something isn't right before my "rational" mind does, hinting that it's time to slow down and dig deeper. I've found a number of bugs this way over the years.

In fact, my team has long recorded our emotional state with every commit, with a numerical score: "h:1" through "h:5" at the end of each commit message. If you pair on the commit, the lowest individual score prevails. Anything other than a five is a sign that something deserves a little reflection. (Threes or lower are quite rare, happily.) We always said we were going to use these as metrics for defect analysis, but our defect rate is already pretty low. I suspect the main value is just that short pause for reflection before we commit.
Why were they so valuable?

Most spices have medicinal effects and help kill germs. Even if you don't use that to treat your own health, it de facto acts as a food preservative.

Spices, salt and fermenting were a big deal before we had refrigeration, canning, etc. Famine used to be really common and recipe books often had recipes for combining whatever things were likely still in the cellar at the end of winter when everything was running out, like apples with cabbage.

These were subsistence cultures. Making food stores spoil slower was literally a matter of life and death.

(Edited for clarity.)
It's too much clicks away, it's should be a matter of one click
And you are forced to run multiple processes with OS IPC, as means for application extensions, which uses a lot of more CPU resources to get going.
I love how you can almost see a lynx in the attacking noise. I'd be interested to know if that's my brain spotting a pattern that isn't there, or if that's genuinely just the mechanism for the disruption.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692
In my opinion, let num = 10 is not bullshit free, num = 10 is.
I created a new consulting business for improving relevance of site search results for say e-commerce, etc. At the time my company did a mix of big data and search consulting.

I took about half my hours to write a book (Relevant Search) along with 20 of my own. I created a tool Quepid (http://quepid.com) to help optimize relevance for Solr and Elasticsearch. Along with colleagues, I started a conference: Haystack (http://haystackconf.com) focused on the domain. I also made an open source plugin for integrating machine learning capabilities into Elasticsearch, and got Wikimedia to partner building it out further.

All that fed the sales funnel for the services I was building out somewhat separate from the companies main business. As the demand picked up, we matured the products we offered in that market.

Eventually the companies focus completely changed to what we were doing and away from the old model.

I will say, while the company would probably try to support anyone doing this, ongoing support depended on results and momentum. I was lucky to have some success, so got to keep building after early proof of market interest.
If you're doing that, then quit. It's not worth it and you'll regret having done this. You'll find another job. Hell, you'll find another job as a programmer. Don't do this to yourself, nor to us.
Some of the China's biggest cities already have many similarly 'over-designed' bookstores in which people went there mostly for touring/sightseeing purpose than buying actual books (since it is easier and cheaper to buy online or read e-books).

I am also wondering what is the future of offline bookstore in general.
>plant-based

What they're based from isn't the problem, it's chemicals added to the base, such as chlorine compounds, that is the problem.
Challenge: Frame the sun. It took me about a dozen tries.
As I recall, this refund provision has been a part of every Democratic proposal on the matter put forward so far.
imagine I have a bitcoin account and my bank lends me to trade against the bitcoin as collateral.

if the account is a true bitcoin account I borrow btc and owe a greater amount of btc to settle.

it's not unreasonable for my bank to expect me to close my trading profits into my bitcoin account.

that's just two regular bitcoin demanding and regular transactions creating more demand
That's great advice, never occurred to me despite knowing about folder actions. Thanks!
The longer I am in this profession (and it's been over 20 years) the less I see my peers as "dicks and idiots" but more as victims of the same broken game. I work with very smart people, to be honest. It's the technology and the employers and the culture of development that's the problem.

Retiring sounds good right about now.
? Oil being used to make plastics was never a problem.

Oil is not evil. It's the Co2 bit that's a problem.

The problem you missed was at least to some extent recycling: we can't reuse the material at all, and while theoretically burning is practical, we still don't separate everything and burning still leaves a byproduct that has to be buried.

I suggest the alternative is going to have to be something that truly disintegrates, i.e. more organic.
> Chernobyl's dead zone isn't by any means devoid of life.

Is that because of immigration or is it actually capable of sustaining (multi-cellular) life?
Semi-related: I don't know about this image in particular, but many images taken off-Earth have their white balance adjusted so they look the way they would under Earth lighting. I'm aware this is done frequently for images from Mars, where the images are adjusted so Geologists can compare Martian rock colors to those of their Earth experience.