skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We think it’s an interesting development and something we considered in early 2020 before I formally started. Marc also considered it over the years. We might look at it in the future but for now, we think that’s not the route for us, nor the peple using Mojeek. There’s something a bit elitist and anti-democractic about paywalling access to information. Neeva have a lot of VC money to test the idea (but are closed for now) so let’s see how they get on. Infinity search are offering it now.
Show HN: CLI Maze Generator
Loud and Clear by Spotify (information about the royalty system, etc.)
100 bucks a piece?
> dynamic language like Java

Java is a static language.
An ally who China is dreaming of re-assimilating (or taken over, depending on which side of the view you are) since its inception.

China is engaging in ever more aggressive saber rattling and the total lack of any measurable reaction to their takeover of Hong Kong only has emboldened them. Who can guarantee Taiwan won't end up the same fate?
Meanwhile traffic crashes and pedestrian deaths are up because people driving (even during the day) can't resist speeding and looking at their phones.

Also meanwhile, cars are getting super bright headlights that actually make it harder to see at night in the city (signs and windows will reflect a lot more than people, you'll be blinded by oncoming cars...)

My point being, there is no safety tradeoff being evaluated - we're getting super bright, super white LEDs because of economics (white/cool LEDs are cheaper) and a general fascination/desire to get the brightest thing possible.
The article specifically mentions that the exterior will be wrapped in some rubbery material, with the very silly name polyurethanium.
Entrepreneur Has Raised over $100M to Change How People Buy and Sell Homes
I'm pretty sure it was approved only based on testing done by AZ themselves. So there were no "independent" tests when it was approved.

As I said before, that's normal procedure for any medication, so we're arguing about the definition of "independent".

Btw the case in Italy was autopsied and found to not have any blood clots.

Edit: found a link in english for Italy

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2021/03/16/ast...
Because of the distances, there is almost no point to even sending anything like a simple probe there.

Any serious exploration would be a life-like colonization attempt already, because of the challenges.
Password managers and OSes are things that I do not want automatically updating at the whims of some remote/foreign party whom I have never met and is bound by a set of responsibilities and laws with which I am entirely unfamiliar. Network services open to the internet at large are a horse of a different color.

Ultimately, though, they could just ask. Most users probably want autoupdate, and they can opt in to that if they so desire. It's really a matter of consent, and forcing decisions down users' throats.

Most people probably don't understand or believe that they are granting these applications' vendors permanent remote access to their computer.

Honestly, I wish it were only a matter of trusting the developers. Unfortunately, it's a matter of trusting the developers, anyone from anywhere in the world who can compromise their keys/credentials, and anyone in meatspace who can coerce them to misuse those keys/credentials (such as military, police, et c). That, it turns out, is a rather large set of people, especially when you factor in the number of state level actors from every country big enough to have an intel agency sufficiently competent to own some small software house full of c# weenies running windows (the bitwarden devs).
TL;DR: for "lolz".

Actually, it's not that long and a light-hearted read. It is nice to see a bit of humor inserted into what is only a game.
Vaccines have been prioritised for the old and vulnerable so that 17 million number will likely have been given to a large number of unhealthy people.
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Don't you "well actually" me!! :-)

All classical liberals are liberals, but not all liberals are classic liberals. Ditto for social liberals. When I defined liberalism, I outlined a core platform. There are many many many movements within liberalism that all share the same core platform. They have to.

You cannot have classical liberalism in a country that's not committed to the core liberal platform. A free market just doesn't work in a world where there's no equality of the law, no liberty, and no consent of the governed. If even one of these is missing, you really can't have classic liberalism either. A regime will invariably put their fingers on the scales of commerce.

Ditto for every single other political philosophy under the liberal banner. All of these things rest upon a belief in the population of those three bedrock principles.
> BTC is actually backed by the eletricity used to power the computers that mine it.

I'm not sure what "backed" means in this context. My electric bill is "backed" by the municipality I live in.
She may have been a handful of seconds slower but watching her pass expensive sports cars in a delivery van and yelling at the Ford GT pace car to "Go faster!" was priceless.

She had a sparkling, exuberant personality and the world is a richer place for her having been in it.
Have you ever looked into Terrarium? It was created by the .NET team a long time ago to demonstrate the capabilities of .NET. You program a creature and simulate an ecosystem which consist of other peoples "creatures" which if I recall correctly were essentially just DLL's of their code.

http://terrariumapp.github.io/
Almost. In their model, civilizations can start at different times, so it possible for the boundary between civilizations to be a hyperboloid, rather than flat as is the case for voronoi diagrams.
This is the first big vaccine from AZ, so part of it is that they are just bad at the various practical bits of the process compared to the more experienced multinationals.

So for example, problems with quality control made for a unnecessarily challenging analysis of trial data. Slowness in reporting details when possible complications showed up in during the trials made the US authorities really pissy and they've still not granted it permission for emergency use. And then there is their awful communications around the production issues where they spent like a month giving progressively worse and worse news to their customers about how much vaccine would actually show up.

All those very real problems make for good padding to any article about any new issue about the AZ vaccine. So because it is simply easy news to write it will get written, and this helps explain why there are so many.
Reminds me a little of the Media blitz against hydroxychloroquine early in the outbreak. I knew an out of patent treatment wasn’t going to do it when there’s so much money to be made.
Time lapse of the Griffin lunar lander model being built
I think it would depend on how those experts roll.

For infosec for example, i think if your product did "X amazing thing", then you'd definitely get a seasoned experts attention if you tweeted "hey, we built a thing that does X amazing thing, give me 5 minutes and i'll show it to you"

I think theres a part of this that means your products has to convince them in the 5 minutes they give you (or at least has to convince them to give you 5 minutes more)
Tom Hanks on the Pandemic Year: Never Play Solitaire Again
Read it a few years ago. The chapter describing an emerging consciousness through a feedback loop is something I think about every once in a while.

On a related note, currently working through 'Gödel, Escher, Bach'.
I heard a doctor comment yesterday that seems to summarize what's happening: "It's perceived as worse to actively kill someone than to kill them through inaction; the scale doesn't matter."

So even if the vaccine is responsible for these deaths, the people making the administration decisions will choose having 10x or 100x the number of people die from not getting them vaccinated quickly. So much for "science-based decision-making"...
I use a Mac, which has GarageBand installed, and Audacity is still my go-to choice for any audio editing. I just used it to split a stereo track into two mono tracks, something I'm not sure I can do in GarageBand (TBH I didn't look since I had Audacity).
I think "remotely habitable" is key. Humans can barely colonize Antartica. There's zero self sufficiency there, and there seems to be zero appetite for anybody actually settling there. At most, you get adventurers who'll spent a few years there, living off the teat of some research institution, only for them to return with some good stories. Moon or Mars are much more hostile to our physicality and sensibilities than Antartica. Mars will attract some adventurers, maybe initially some utopians. After an initial period of excitement, there will be zero appetite to actually colonize something as unlivable, boring or ugly as Mars.
UK reports five cases of rare blood clots in AstraZeneca rollout
> accidentally inhaled way too much of a cigar

While that's possible, I think your resulting illness was more likely a result of swallowing your spit, a common mistake.
Pittsburgh, PA - niche hub for AI, ML and Robotics. Slowly becoming a more general startup hub as well.
Maybe it took until 2015 because people thought it was too obvious to bother recording.
I keep reading it as 'poly-urethra-radium'
Where is there a performance benefit to increasing storage density rather than using multiple drives to increase storage? A few comments here mention the time it'll take to rebuild an array and that feels like a blocking issue, at least for me.

I suppose as things like 8k video editing come up and file sizes explode there will be use cases for this kind of density, but without read/write and throughput increasing it seems like it won't be super useful for a little bit.
They developed the shape memory part recently while developing a new wheel for the Mars rover.

From your NASA link:

“ In one particular moment of serendipity, Engineer Colin Creager and Materials Scientist Santo Padula had a conversation that completely changed the path forward.

The game changing material that dramatically advanced the development of spring tires was nickel titanium, a shape memory alloy with amazing capabilities as explained by Santo Padula.”
No, I haven't. Seems really interesting, thanks.
M1 instantly wakes my XDR display and never has a problem.
From the last paragraph of the article:

> She and her colleagues also are interested in studying the bonding and interwoven movements of people and other types of pets, particularly cats. “We’ve done a little work with cats and, so far, they blow everything out of the water in terms of being socially responsive to their owners’ behavior,” she says.
> So you have no explanation as to how the word master is linked to black slavery in the United States?

Black slaves had something called "masters".

> if you think this just involves a tiny one word change

I literally unironically believe this, and the only skin I have in this game is that "main" is shorter and more ergnomic to type.

> There's a broader cult like indoctrination happening

Yeah, it's called "qanon" and "postmodern conservatism".

> it's filling children's minds with critical race theory in schools

I'm not an alt right extremist who believes in nonsensical white supremacist conspiracy theories, so the fact that children are getting a real education is not a problem for me.
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> Compared to the risk of going unvaccinated, it's an obvious choice.

I think the insidious and repugnant effect of this line of thinking is that it subverts the body autonomy and free will that every human being should enjoy.

The issue isn’t only risk, rather it’s individuals deciding based on their own judgement, which may involve their own evaluation (informed or not) of risk.

The public health establishment is set on presenting the illusion that people have absolutely no choice but to take a vaccine that was rapidly developed using novel technology.

In my opinion, this is unethical. No human being should be coerced or propagandized into taking drugs or medicine of any type.

The only responsibility of government should be presenting boring information about the vaccine to be used by people to decide what they’d like to do. But it’s very clear that society at large is set on propaganda and conformity in the pursuit of technocratic policy goals.

It’s precisely this well-intentioned pursuit of end goals augmented by the certainty of science that allowed the eugenics of the 1920s. And it seems like a century later we think we’re immune to that pernicious illusion afforded by science.
I started to learn a functional language (F#) a few months ago and, to better practice, I wanted to do a fun project so I settled on a maze generator.

I still have a lot of polish to do but it's fun and cool !

One of the goal that I set to myself was that it needed to be composable, configurable and easy-to-use.

Don't hesitate to tell me what you think about it !
Not as their main work no, the very concept of b-side implies there is an a-side that has been more carefully curated.
Anti-gov peeps benefit from government COVID aid, the vaccine, public schools, etc, etc. and don't want to pay taxes...the bitcoin argument is a double standard for the rich.

Compare this with the corruption of 3rd world countries: tell this to all the migrant children at the border dying to get a chance. Americans have no idea how easy they have it, complaining and wanting more...
This same blog has a separate (but related) series of posts about pretty much this topic: he calls it The Fremen Mirage.

Here's the start of it: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...

It's pretty fascinating stuff, though it can take a while to get through.
* labeled silences!
* bugs i've never run into; fixed
* the pile of files -> a single .aup3
--> Thanks to all involved!
The race is on to strike ‘white gold’ at California’s Salton Sea
There seems to be some working medication that helps people who have gotten covid: https://vdmeta.com/ and https://ivmmeta.com/

(I'm not working in the fields of medicine, statistics or virology.)
> railcar switch dilemma

In case you tried to remember, this is generally referred to as the trolley problem.
The Future of Mod_Perl
It obviously wasn't in this game, but if a stronger player played this against me I'd interpret it as an insult to my relative skills, like offering to spot me a knight. Or calling me a patzer (true). And then I'd try to beat them anyway. If they win the insult is deserved, and maybe they should spot me a knight too in the next game.
The N9 was the first phone I know to be able to switch apps or close apps using the swipe movement.

It was really hard moving to android as I missed the swiping to navigate the OS.

Now Apple is using swiping and all the cool kids think it's cool again. But like any good hipster I can tell you I was doing it before it was cool.
FBI facing allegation that its 2018 background check of Brett Kavanaugh was fake
That is the same logical fallacy as "we can solve deepfakes with blockchain in cameras!". Authenicating the source is not synonymous with validating the truth of the content.

David Icke goes by his real name and he pushes insand bullshit. I don't know why people think real identity is a sign of truth when liars have been making careers doing so for millenia.
I think it’s just because HN isn’t really a community that has many consistent themes/cohesion. It’s very active but only on individual news items rather than across posts.

But I think if the mods could potentially put up a link for donating to something, it’d get decent traffic. I just wouldn’t expect that initiative to arise organically from the user base and get significant traction.
Not necessarily directed at the parent comment (who seems more at a loss than thinking it's a solution), but calling for laws and regulations to restrain a state that regularly ignores laws and regulations already on the books feels very lazy (slacktivism?) to me, and is all too common a trope on HN. Call me pessimistic but I really don't think that the kind of elites that will use illegal metadata to drone strike their own citizens and their children (among numerous other atrocities) will suddenly behave if we just put a few more of 'The Right Laws and Regulations'™ in this time.

The only answer to the privacy and security question is to be principled enough to do what you can to opt out even if it's difficult. Yes I get it, you don't want to alienate some percentage of your social circle/users/customers. But that attitude contributed to how we got here in the first place. You may be pleasantly surprised how many people will be willing to follow along if you ask them directly and are willing to help them do it. I thanked a friend for getting set up on matrix after I deleted all my other services and he told me "even though I still use whatsapp you have a good reason not to and you know more about this stuff than I do so I'm happy to use element to chat with you". I haven't had a friend that I made a personal appeal to turn me down yet. "I'll create your user on my server. It's nobody's but ours and it runs from my living room" goes a long way, apparently.

My personal roadmap (ymmv):

- Use tech that makes your adversaries job harder. For me this is things like no JavaScript (plain pages in general), FOSS/OSHW, walled gardens, cash/cryptonumismatics, mirror things on RSS/yggdrasil/gemini/alternate dns roots/ipfs. Self host. You get the idea.

- Help others do the same. Cultivate a community. Make topical group chats/forums/pages. Mirror the content of things you would like to see.

- Make your employers do the same, and be willing to say no to things that are counter productive to that goal.

- Regularly make your friends/coworkers/boss confront the idea that they do have something to hide. Ask them to hand you their phone and tell you their password, ask for naked pictures of them/their family, ask them to install a parental control app that gives you their location/microphone/browsing history/etc, ask if you can put some cameras in their house/bedroom/bathroom (bonus points if you bring a camera over).

- Obviously tailor the above to the situation and remind them that they do in fact want privacy. Don't ask a co-worker for naked pictures what is wrong with you?

- People are wrongfully arrested on a regular basis based on minimal evidence. Amplify their stories.

- Rotate usernames regularly.

Anyway that's what I do. It hasn't been nearly as rough of an experience as I thought it would be. Thanks for hearing me out. Welcome to the panopticon, friends.
the soopar geniuses at facebook clearly know better! /s

(in truth, because pytorch serialised models can include python code for jit scripts, it's nonobvious what a good way to store python code is -- but torch has recently moved to a zipfile impl as of 1.6: https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.save.html)

>I'd have expected people to be using something like hdf5 for this.

Amusingly, matlab was way ahead of the pack here; matfiles have been hdf5 since r2006b, back when we just called it "matlab 7.3".
Show HN: Vib, the easiest way to bundle and sign iOS binaries via command line
It happens with automation running as root too even with sudo. Some automation will always have to run as root. Bad characters, unset variables, lack of tests in the script, lack of testing of the automation, lack of chaos testing. The most common clobbering of data I have seen was not so much even copy/pasting, but rather a lack of

set -u
set -e
set -o pipefail
set -o posix

in scripts used by automation. There is shorthand for this that I am intentionally leaving out. Every shell script used in automation should at least have set -u to avoid running if variables are unset. An entertaining example was:

rm -Rf ${MYSQL_HOME}/bin

There are a couple problems with that line, but in this case they did not source their environment file correctly and wiped /bin on many servers.
Exactly! That experience but on top of any website.
That's an odd sample to use unless you have some sort of agenda. The 40 out of 17MM is much more statistically significant.
This is really cool, I also think your Google Docs VS Code integration is really strong
Trolley problem with a needle and some dice
I think the point is that the US is so big that you don't to reach the neighbors
While it's easy to attribute that to the artists, seeing those pictures it seems they got the (thankless?) task to give the EGA pictures a new coat of paint. Sounds more like factory line work to me than 'artistic vision'.
Some of the EGA graphics stand out more, but I think the VGA graphics do exactly what they are meant to do: more colourful pictures to show off your new video card in all their gradient glory ;)
Cool! Check out the textbook “Probabilistic Robotics” for great explanations of the Kalman filter zoo. Bayes Filtering, Kalman Filtering, EKF, UKF, Particle Filter, etc.
>> If you had children and one of them died as a result of a vaccine, you would not say is a small population affected.

This is just a smart way of saying "Won't someone think of the children?" It's not genuine for you to speak of general-population statistical percentages in one sentence then evoke the emotional response from someone's specific loved-one in the next.

>> There are other vaccines that can be used

We need to get needles in arms NOW to save the most lives; any delay or alternative approach is actively killing people.
This is explained in my comment.
If they're a leftist, then they're interested in devolving power to the people. Hitler at one point ran on a leftist platform, his party was called a socialist one after all.

His, tactics, however, were those of fascist demagoguery.

Fascists can use whatever political posture they want or switch around their posture to suit them, because what they derive power and influence is, isn't adherence to any creed. This is what makes them so dangerous.
Ask HN: How does Google save passwords securely?
I'm having an argument with a colleague about password managers and we got hung up on if Google's Password Manager can be as safe as a dedicated online one like 1Password or LastPass. In particular, can a disgruntled Google Employee look at my passwords?
I'm fairly certain that with another service where I'm the only one with the password to my vault, an employee theoretically shouldn't be able to get a password. Has Google published anything about how they store password vaults?
This would have stronger endorsement value, if the style was toned down from "Nitrokey press release" to "Arch Linux announcement".

I have never used Nitrokey products. I want to believe that the Arch team vetted them before agreeing to use their mailing list for advertising.

But the vibe here could equally be "Coca-cola coupons for Arch team members" -- i.e. "The corp contacted us with a product marketing agenda, and offered us something in exchange for advertising".

I don't mean to be cynical. I'm trying to help. :-/