skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like that’s assuming that our reaction was over done. If anything, that we still had 500 thousand dead Americans seem to suggest we should have reacted harder, faster, and possibly differently.
So how is this sharded? Or how do you load balance a customer to the correct server if there's no router?
Facebook shows off how you’ll use its neural wristbands with AR glasses
There are more neurons in your brain than stars in the galaxy, and each one of them is a chemical computer. I don't think it's so far fetched that such a system is capable of a computation as complex and nuanced as consciousness.
I certainly like the idea of traveling at 1G better than living in a rotating ring-like spaceship. (On the other hand, in my imagination I keep seeing this huge sign at the end of a journey to another galaxy that took forty years saying “Nothing to see here, move along...”)
I would also be interested in a paper titled:

Logic Gates Can Be Implemented by Wombats
Thanks for the response!

It would be great if SkyDroid indicated to the user whether they were trusting the root servers or just the server providing the DNS (with no DNSSEC), but I suppose most users wouldn't be able to make practical use of that information.

I don't know what the security assumptions of Handshake domain lookups are. Does the client have to download the whole blockchain, or is there some lightweight proof that the client can receive from one semi-trusted entity, which is immune to replay attacks?

The idea of asking 10 different DNS-over-HTTPS servers for the same result is an excellent hack, as long as there is a careful balance between availability and integrity (i.e. a couple of colluding bad servers can't stop a quorum of good servers from providing a consensus answer).
Show HN: Sedge and Bee – Attach digital content to real-world objects
There's a difference between laughing at and being outraged by. Pointing and laughing is perfectly reasonable, getting bent out of shape over imagined slights is paranoia.

Despite you using the word 'funny' I don't think you were laughing while posting that whereas the GP was.
Looking for 4-terminal MOSFETs in a deep rabbit hole, so let me safe everyone else the trouble: MIC94031, SST215, MIC94051, SST213, MIC94030, SST211. $3+ ea
Larger groups of people tend to be able to defend themselves more easily than smaller groups. There's a power differential in numbers. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it's probably based in the same sort of logic that is behind guarding against the tyranny of the majority.

It's the concept of punching up vs. punching down. Except in some cases like, Saddam Hussein's minority Sunni dictatorship over mostly-Shia Iraq, historically majority populations do better than minority ones. So they have less to lose when offended.
I wonder if Microsoft has long-term plans to move Github off of things like Unicorn/Rails/Erlang into a technology stack that would be more familiar to them.

I'm not judging the choices of technology, but I'm thinking it was easier for them to buy Github outright then try to compete with it. I assume Github still operates independently, with engineers who are familiar with this stack.
When is the SLS hop test?
Sure, that's a starting point. What is missing is who "you" is and what can be done with the modifications.

If I say
"source is available and you can make modifications, but only if you have red hair and live in Brazil", is this open source?
All of that is optional and manageable via Workspace admin console.
Yes? I mean, the sequential write speeds are fine for many video-heavy applications. You don’t want it in cold storage. Tape drives are not cheap. And neither is retrieving from tape terribly practical, either. There’s a large overhead for tape storage if you want it automatically accessible (ie a big tape jukebox). A big hard drive can store large volumes of data just a few milliseconds away, not minutes as you have to wind the tape to the right spot in a big tape jukebox... or hours or days if you have to ask someone to retrieve some tapes by hand. And can do hard drive storage for an order of magnitude lower cost than SSD.

Spinning disk is still really useful for video. Which is not shrinking any time soon.
Neocities has been doing a great job at making it easy to keep the spirit of the old web alive. They allow anyone to make whatever kind of site they want, plus make it easy to discover active sites. Try out their search functionality. They give screenshots of every page so you can find the more visually interesting or content-filled ones right away
I've put a huge emphasis on sleep in the past year, as someone who used to sleep about 4 hours a night.

I've found that giving myself a solid hour to wind down helps immensely with slowing my brain down and letting me sleep more peacefully. Sometimes I read, or listen to music, or watch youtube, or have a beer or an edible and just hang with out, or just tidy the house or something. Whatever it is, it's not work, it's not in my office, and it's not hard. I've found I've been sleeping far better because of it.

Even on nights that I work super late on some head scratcher, with a full 12-15 hours at my desk, I still give myself the hour before going to bed.
It's not quite clear from your last sentence but in any case, for German these „quotation marks“ are completely correct. For printed texts, I personally prefer the »guillemets« variant, they look more even and symmetrical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#German
Nobody’s forcing you to use Rust, you can just ignore it.
scaling side-projects
http://affordance.app
YMMV. I've installed several distros on my old laptop (2010) and never had any issues. Currently running Manjaro on it.
I am not sure what the problem there is, that is a patch that carries a non open source license, which is allowed by the original ISC license of pgbouncer.
I also recommend `pypyp` python package. You can pipe to python like,

$ seq 1 10 | pyp "sum(map(int, lines))"

55

or along with `jq` and `pup` (html parser)

$ curl https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/sites/username.wordpress.com/posts | jq -r ".posts.content" | pyp "html.unescape(x)" | pup a attr{href}
Example of critical tasks?
I’ve been asking people this question. But first some context.

Push-ups are almost universal in fitness tests. They are a solid proxy for strength. Additionally, they are an exercise that is manageable enough that you can do daily and reap significant returns if you do them consistently.

What are the push-ups of programming? More specifically for me, c++.
>I am definitely attacking your arguments, which I find ignorant. Not you. I don't care, I don't know you.

You think people are so stupid that some technicality like this isn't a personal attack? Arguments can't know things therefore arguments can't be ignorant. Only people can be ignorant. You are insulting me 100 percent by calling me ignorant.

Your post is seething with personal attack.

>which ultimately boils down to the inability of language to capture transcendental experiences which every society, all over the planet for the whole of recorded history had and thought about capturing in stories that survived to these days.

Many people on HN trust material logic and science and hold my viewpoint of atheism. Talk about transcendence is not logical to them. To them and me the inability to describe trancendence indicates that it doesn't really even exist. It's just an emotion that that is the result of chemical reactions in your brain no different then what happens when someone gets a transcendental experience doing heroin or lsd. This is the opinion held by many on this site and many consider it to be far more "plausible" then your view point. They would argue that it is ridiculous to think that all religious documents are not written literally as if scholars were unable to comprehend the concept of a literal message. If you want someone to understand something you use literal messages not symbolic stories why would religious scholars not do the same? It is in fact ludicrous to believe that all religions are just some form of symbolic message as if the literal manuals we use in modern society to explain things are only a recent phenomenon.

This topic is a worthwhile debate but Your attitude is slander against the many who hold an opposing opinion.

The transgression here is that you called me and this idea held by many members of hn ignorant and you insulted your nephew and me and laughed in my face.

When you debate someone logically you must remain completely impartial. If you have to retort to personal insults I suggest you try that kind of thing in real life, see how far you can get.

I also suggest you read the rules of HN, don't presume the mods are so stupid as to not be able to see your intention. Your words are akin to: "I'm not calling you an idiot, it's just everything you do and say is idiotic and I'm laughing at it."

I believe that if you were completely confident about your views you wouldn't resort to these tactics. Some part of you knows that your beliefs stand on shaky grounds and you are again lashing out in a desperate attempt to hold on to these views.
> Aside from the religious angle, what are the biggest arguments against assisted suicide for people who aren't terminally ill?

Suicide is a permanent action for sometimes temporary circumstances. Plenty of folks who attempted suicide—because they saw no way out of their current situation—and failed are glad they ended up failing.
The biggest problem with Python typing + mypy is that it's not complete: not everything can be type annotated strictly (as in, avoiding `Any`) and correctly (as in, matching actual types passing through the code and not just whatever shuts up mypy). One example is JSON-like `dict`s, since mypy doesn't support recursive types yet[1].

[1] https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/731
I am building this iOS app that enables users to attach digital content to real-world objects. Users can snap a couple pictures of any object, mark its location and choose an attachment, like a link, a chatroom, photos or an ephemeral. Any other user can point their camera to the same object and see a list of the attachments.

The content creation and discovery are merged into a single app, users can see which nearby objects are augmented, see what their friends are doing, and can additionally interact and comment on attachments.

Please let me know what you think about it! There is an in-app chat button that connects directly to me or you can email me at ardaegeunlu@gmail.com
Projective spaces are one of the most interesting spaces in mathematics. They are fundamental in math areas such are geometry, topology and algebra but they also have applications in computer graphics and cryptography.
This model should help students visualise concepts of projective transformations and plane algebraic curves.
The main difference between the GPL and these newer licenses is that the free software definitions were written around the existing GPL.
Scientists Unlocked Kelp's Potential as a Major Biofuel Source
I have a small amount of experience with a similar process that exists in another country. It's easy enough to reason about the people in the last stages of cancer, but there are many other situations that are conceptually much murkier.

The first thing we need to make clear is that "severe, incurable, and unbearable" does not necessarily mean terminal or even physical pain. Plenty of psychiatric conditions often accompanying significant trauma are severe, incurable, and unbearable. But they're not terminal (except by suicide), and the reason they're incurable is because we know fuck all about psychic damage, and some might argue that if you've made it this far without killing yourself then it's de-facto bearable. And yet they definitely qualify unless the law specifically says that they don't, because "deemed unbearable by the patient" is not the same as definitively unbearable.

The biggest flaw I see in the model is if there's no significant determination of qualifications for whether a particular doctor should be allowed to approve the request (e.g. some might demand that the doctors be trained in appropriate specialties and have detailed knowledge of your history and situation), or whether you can ask 100 doctors who say no until you find 2 who say yes. I've seen firsthand that systems which don't mandate strict selection criteria create additional strife.

I think that fundamentally one has to decide whether a person gets to just say "I want to die" one day and forget that there are doctors involved. Because believe me there are many scenarios that basically feel that way to friends and family. Many people with trauma are extremely suicidal but also scared of the process. Do we establish a structure that makes it easy to get help dying or do we want to instead mandate state resources for helping them stay alive? For a lot of people the answer is not so clear _even_ when people want to be ok with letting people make their own choices.

[edit: sorry for using british slang, drive-by commenter. "fuck all" does indeed mean "nothing"]
I’m inclined to agree. Even on a normal sized monitor I almost never fullscreen my browser.
Astronomy is a curious example since history is often taught along with the science, at least at the introductory level. This history is typically involves the development of ideas rather than the development of telescopes since it is important to convey that it is a science and our understanding of the universe evolves with time. I suspect that something similar would be beneficial in computer science and engineering, particularly to dispel this notion that computation (may it be mechanical or human) predates the history of computers or to give some perspective on what is happening in the industry today.
I'm not sure how to articulate it, but I feel like this article minimizes the violence, carnage, and beastly suffering inherently connected to organized criminality in its zeal to make a point about corruption and venality in our politics and economy. Maybe there are CEOs that behaved more savagely than the writer's bookie grandfather, but how many CEOs are there in the US that behave more savagely than El Chapo or Pablo Escobar? How many companies in the US are there that execute people by burning tires on them or force students to fight to the death for amusement before they are buried in shallow graves? There's something distasteful about papering over the immense human misery caused even today by organized crime to make a trite comparison to the decay in America's public institutions. While certainly not ideal, I would certainly prefer to live in a state controlled by Mitch McConnell or Jeff Bezos than one controlled by John Gotti or Whitey Bulger and the comparison being made, that those groups are not that much different from another, I find extremely repugnant.
Your left and right visual fields are united in one "space". Classical computation cannot achieve such unity. Digital computation concerns discrete parts changing in discrete steps, which is not like a field at all.
Disney, 3M and ARM are on the website.
And how many actually tried?

Last spring the US was like "Hey, travel from Italy is all good, let's not worry about it" at the time when severe travel restrictions might have been effective.

I'll grant that people wouldn't put up with them for long, but reasonable measures employed before the infection base gets big can have an enormous impact on the total number of people that get infected.
It's more like paying a lot of money for a mp3 recording of a rare vinyl record.
She Came to the US to Study with Only $300 – Now She’s a NASA Director
I really appreciate the information and would love more information on your architecture in particular. Also definitely love your information on your personal process and flow. Some of it seems interesting to adopt and some of it seems bad for me but I could see why you do it, some I do in similar ways but a bit differently. e.g. I use git and online services to make sure that any of my computers are completely replaceable and that I can pick up work at any moment from any one.

I can't agree more with the "no firewalls" approach to things, though I prefer to call it "host based" firewalls as it scares people less! I'm glad you've had no compliance/audit pushback on that, I architect things similarly and have had success pushing back on the requirement as well.

I'm very surprised by the l2 switches and actually choosing to run completely unmanaged switches. I assume you're running all 10G or more? Maybe i'm overthinking the complexity of your network but I would be lost without snmp counters on my switches and running switches+networking in fully l3 mode has some great isolation benefits, especially if you want full switch-level redundancy.

Do you have some more details on your data architecture? I'm very curious how do you do data direction/redundancy/sharding and balancing customer data across servers. I'm not trying to pry for things you consider secret but I think you have a very similar architectural mindset and I'm curious how you solve these things.
My favorite working hours, of all time, are 11pm-7am. I get more done in that 8-hour stretch than any other.

There's less local news. There's nobody to call or text. There are no deliveries. Slack is quiet. My email is quiet. Our repos are quiet. The dev logs are quiet. My family is asleep so I know they're good. If I need a minute to think, I can sit on my front porch and not worry about being distracted.

Now that I have a young kid, it's really hard (and generally selfish) to work those hours. I miss it.
Huh? No. Give it a rest. The United States hospital system didn’t get inundated because the target demo visited it.

Hysteria got everyone going to the hospital. That’s it. You know how I’m sure? Because it’s the same phenomenon that got everyone to stock up on toilet paper.

It was the fucking FLU. What a shame.

Anyone that disagrees with this better fucking provide the Covid numbers in comparison to previous year flu numbers.
I don't think DMCA bans music player apps.
I don't think they will do anything to change the existing arguments –

Religious - life is sacred, suicide is a sin etc.

It is unethical for physicians to be assisting in suicide or making decisions about who should live.

People (especially the elderly) can be coerced into it, even if they are of sound mind.

The healthcare industry & government will be incentivized to push people into this vs. spending money for treatment.

(These aren't my own opinions FYI)
Wow, that's a lot of hours.

A sincere 'thank you' for curl.
“8% effective in over 65s” from the German press, “quasi-ineffective in over 65s” from Macron, and “I’m not going to take it because I’m 67” from Merkel, all sound like there is some politics involved to be.

The Norwegian cases don’t make any sense statistically. If they were correct, we would have seen 100s of cases in the UK by now.
Sure, like any business it's a bad idea to rely on only one or two big customers.

I think people don't give readers enough credit. They
can tell if you start compromise your coverage for an advertiser. And you'll never be able to recruit and retain quality journalists if they get even a whiff that they won't be editorially independent.
Creative Commons licenses aren’t recommend for software[1], but you can use the Zero-Clause BSD License[2] to satisfy the same goals as CC0.

[1] https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

[2] https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD
I don't think that's an unreasonable phrase. "Hire slow, fire fast" is a well known strategy.
This sounds like "if A and B can't agree on a definition, terms are meaningless, so we need to use A's definition." Why not use B's definition?

The purists saying "open source is a narrow thing" only distract conversations about licensing. Word meanings drift over time. We manage. Talk about issues instead of gatekeeping terms.
I was with you until you ended your anti-generalisation with a great generalisation: “always comes from anglosphere”
You may mean repeater hub.
"Open source" and "free software" have always been mostly interchangeable and have since their inception not simply meant "source available".

The people trying to redefine anything are those ignorant of the history here.
There are always going to be some things that people believe we shouldn't be able to decide, even for ourselves. Someone else on the thread posted about consensual cannibalism -- most people would consider that over their line. A lot of it comes down to whether you believe we (as gotsa said) "fully own ourselves" or not.

Note that religious believers don't "mix" God in their arguments, they're just speaking from their perspective. They believe that God is just there, that he made and guides everything. What you call "mixing God in" we might call "practising what we preach". It's maybe a bit like asking a Native American to stop "mixing their tribal culture into everything". That's just who they are.
Alex from Papercups here :)

My guess is partially what vardaro mentioned (to hedge their bets), and partially because the space is really, really "wide" (not sure if that's the right word) in the sense that products like this could go in a million different directions... for example: email marketing, CRM, session reply, chatbots, etc. etc.

That's to say, even though Papercups and Chatwoot seem pretty similar at the moment, I wouldn't be surprised if that changes quite a bit in a year or so!

(Also it's no secret that YC invests in a ton of similar companies :P e.g. our batch alone had at least three video conferencing companies iirc.)
Another case where using immutable data by default would have prevented any shenanigans.
It also shows the highly entangled relationship between state and complexity.
(in this case, the env object)

Immutable data forces you to design your system in a different way and remove layers of complexity.
You're selectively quoting. The important part wasn't that the FSF claims that those licenses are "GPL-Compatible," which nobody disputes; the important part was that the FSF claims that those licenses are "Free Software Licenses." Do you dispute that?

Elsewhere in this thread you imply that you believe that the GPL is not an Open Source license. Can you clarify that, too? Because, again, it sounds like you're using terms that don't match what the Free Software and Open Source communities mean by those terms. (In particular, GNU would disagree with this claim - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-open-overlap.en.html - as would the OSI, of course.) So you should define them.
ssh+tmux? or mosh+tmux for a laggy link?
Lots of reasons. You need energy to store the information. You wouldn't be gaining anything, only losing efficiency. The quantum level is the "lowest" level of existence, there's nothing "lower" to use to simulate it. Furthermore, "random" is a critical concept in QM, and one can never achieve true random with a TM. What's the digital algorithm to generate a truly random number?

Edit: in a way simulating a crab with a bunch of crabs would be kind of like simulating energy dynamics/QM with energy
Of course you're conscious. It's simply a label attached to the phenomena going on in your head. Denying you are conscious is about as substantive as people with certain psychiatric disorders saying they aren't real.

>If we can think of something that is not objectively measurable what suggests that it exists objectively as opposed to it being a subjective opinion?

That you prefer chocolate ice cream isn't objective. But that you have a preference for chocolate ice cream is objective. The content of the conscious percept isn't necessarily real, but the fact that you are having what we call a 'conscious percept' certainly is real. Just because it is happening in your head, why should it not be real?
It wouldn't be a black mirror episode unless these militants were able to record the memory of each of the animals before they were slaughtered, record that into the prions to have people experience the entire lifetime of an animal raised for slaughter with every bite... before succumbing to vCJD, of course.