skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it's open for you but not for him what's your problem?

How do I know it'll stay open for me? How am I supposed to make that determination on whether or not it even is open for me in the first place?

With a standard OSI or FSF approved license, I don't have to be a lawyer to have at least some idea of what the license entails, because their lawyers - and plenty of others - have already combed through them and put together layman-accessible descriptions of their stipulations - and further, by the very nature of their approval as "open source" or "free software" licenses, I know with reasonable certainty that even something as restrictive as the AGPLv3 will always permit me to use, modify, and redistribute that software, no matter what.

Contrast with these bespoke "source available" licenses, which are specific to certain products/companies and can change at any time. One might call it "FUD" to be skeptical of 'em, but they certainly seem to leave a lot of room for fear, uncertainty, and doubt given the legal pitfalls around, say, maintaining an independent fork.

Still, at least the software itself is transparent (i.e. it can be independently audited at any time, by anyone with the requisite knowledge, for any reason), so for most cases I would certainly pick such software over anything opaque / closed source any day. The lack of contingencies should the developers inevitably go out of business (whether from buyout or bankruptcy) still pushes me to prefer, you know, actual free and open source software.

Transparency is a dependency of trust, but it ain't the only one.
What will he get from Permutation City? It's a work of fiction, entirely supposition.
All heavily internationalized software should have error codes.
SEC charges co-founders of uBiome Inc with $60m fraud
That is precisely the misconception I was talking about. It's simply not true for modern airliners (outside of a few technical demonstrations). There was a Global businesses jet which had auto-takeoff but that's about the only one I know of in service. The reason it's not used is there are no limits on required takeoff visibility so there is no operational capibilities to be gained by auto-takeoff and you need to be able to see enough to taxi to the runway in any case.

CAT-III autoland is a thing but it's actually only used in very limited circumstances, not least because it increases runway safety margins in a way which restricts runway utilisation. Many busy international airfields don't even have a CAT-III certified runway. The aircraft won't automatically cycle through to the correct mode to land (there are a bunch of other steps required to put then autopilot into a double/triple redundant mode etc).
If you want to know more about this, you can look up "Heat Islands." This causes areas with higher albedo (Usually asphalt roads and parking lots in urban areas) to increase local temperatures, especially at night. It definitely has a measurable impact on the surrounding area.

https://www.epa.gov/heatislands#:~:text=Heat%20islands%20are....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island
Cyber security should be seen as integral to national security as an army or navy. A cyber force is as necessary in the 21st century as a space force.
This aptly describes why I do not want a smart home even as a tech professional and why I drive a generic Toyota with easily replaceable parts.
Swift on Windows in CLion
Or it just takes a variable amount of time for symptoms to show up. (Wikipedia says kuro which is a prion disease can take up to 50 years! Although maybe thats related to immunity which seems irrelavent here)
>- Eat a balanced diet

>- Cut back on processed sugar

>- Cut back on caffeine (or completely stop)

---

Not everyone processes food the same, even normally functioning bodies will have different responses to the same foods.

Absolutely you should target healthy food and I would discourage anyone from eating cheeseburgers every day, but if salad makes you feel like crap: don't eat salad.

There is no one most optimal way to eat. You need to learn and feed your body what it needs (and occasionally wants).

Your productivity will (probably) not plummet because you caved and ate a cheeseburger for lunch. Neither will productivity cave because you had a bottle of Coke.

I've been wearing a continuous glucose monitor (not diabetic, just curious) for the past few weeks and I've noted that some "healthy" meals are actually worse blood sugar wise than "bad" meals.

McD's cheeseburger: pretty steady blood sugar.

Small bowl of granola (not the shitty sugary kind): stupid huge spike.
Quora is hot garbage at this point. Is it dying? I would say yes. The original attraction of having world class people actively participate and contribute a lot seems long gone. They've incentivized posting with rewards. They also have a major spam and moderation problem which will be the long slow death into becoming yahoo answers.

Personal story, I used to spend a lot of time on there answering questions. My niche (web hosting) is awful. It's just bluehost affiliate link after some company you've never heard of self promo. It's obviously fake accounts using stock photos, fake names, networks of upvotes that are easy to detect. And yet... even after reporting many of them. It takes ages, if any action ever gets taken.

The worst experience which made me really stop using it for the most part. "Quora moderation has collapsed your answer for violating terms of service: be nice."

What was the problem?

I posted a long answer to a question asking about a fake company that clearly had spammed quora. I got 3 questions about a company I'd never heard of within 45 minutes from fake accounts using fake pictures/names. I researched the company, it doesn't legally exist. They were lying about when they were created (claiming to be 10 years old or something with a domain registered in last 2 years). There was no legal company in the state records with anything even close to their name (I actually had them reach out to me later and try to get listed on my review site and their representative even admitted they aren't legally incorporated). It was clearly spam and fraud. I posted all my evidence and reported the accounts.

The result? I was punished for exposing fraud and spam on Quora. Somehow that's not nice to point out and save people from falling victim to signing up for a company that doesn't exist, posts fake reviews and generates fake interest using Quora.

For the curious: https://www.quora.com/Who-is-the-ARZ-host/answer/Kevin-Ohash...
Hi, cool release! Now that the printer is out, are you considering bringing back the "analog" film kits that were demonstrated e.g. by The Thought Emporium here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTB2ryoWIFU
Ah yes Overv, I used to frequent facepunch forums and see the interesting crap he came up with. I don't read the replacement dev forum enough :(.
not sure what your complaint is. white liberalism is almost exclusively from those who preach far left
how/why lots of sex?
Type hints are super handy when using smart IDEs like PyCharm, which will list or highlight (most of) your type errors. This alone can greatly improve confidence in your program, especially for more complex cases.

Getting that cheaply while still having types unchecked is a nice compromise between improved functionality and not changing the language majorly.
Why did nobody come up with patches for the insane gcc and clang ub optimizations yet? Make it a cmdline flag, issue a warning or such? Anyone seen such patches?
gcc at least issues a default warning on this compiler insanity.
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Lol, I was thinking along those lines... we are talking about consciousness with language... which was created by it long before we posed the question. I'm trapped trying to explain to myself how explaining to myself is even possible without language which was created by that which I'm trying to explain with language.
Not hokey at all. It's basically a Kaizen approach to your personal life. "Take small steps/actions", or something like that.

Works for me. I have to be very careful about how I expend my energy, while being aware that many things demand my effort. So everything gets broken down into pieces, and no piece is too small.

I'm getting into Lego as a hobby, and if I'm too tired I'll just do a step. It may or may not lead to more, but there it is.

I like sim racing too, so if I'm too tired to race, I'll boot up the sim and do a few practice laps. Or just one, whatever.
the thing is the CCP has been indoctrinating your youngest from the 80s. pikachu surprise face when they start touting the propaganda they were taught in their younger years.
Nitpicky, but I think "It's okay for x, not for y" when describing nascent technology is a bit shortsighted.

Who knows how this evolves and what new applications people may devise? For today, I agree: it's just art.
Every license has to start somewhere. SSPL is intended to be a practical version of the AGPL; it's not intended to be a weird Mongo-only license.
It'd have to be like the libertarian incompatibilists envision it: that free will gives everybody a capacity to, to some degree, be a first cause.

From https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-arguments...

"Free will…is the power of agents to be the ultimate creators or originators and sustainers of their own ends or purposes…when we trace the causal or explanatory chains of action back to their sources in the purposes of free agents, these causal chains must come to an end or terminate in the willings (choices, decisions, or efforts) of the agents, which cause or bring about their purposes. (Kane 1996: 4)"

That might be metaphysical, but I don't see any other way free will could operate - that is, if it exists.
A personal favourite is white Obama: https://www.theverge.com/21298762/face-depixelizer-ai-machin...
I remember once seeing a hologram of a microscope where if you put your eye in the right spot you could see the item under magnification. Would something like that be possible with this system? Another thing that comes to mind is pairing this with some kind of computational holographic camera or something using those awesome new imaging TOF range sensors. Being able to make semi-instant holographic polaroids would probably capture people's imaginations.
>Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and some of its variants, including mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE.

I thought CJD and BSE were the same thing.
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Yeah, but if this (below) is happening inside a single cell, doesn't it seem much easier to model a single worm than to model a single cell?

Inner life of a cell:
https://youtu.be/wJyUtbn0O5Y
They are attempting to describe physical reality with a single wave equation, and have constructed one with a lot of interesting properties, and their goal is to break the hamiltonian down into independent components to describe physical systems.

The system is a finite-dimensioned Hilbert space (but it's large, like, almost infinite, but being finite is an important feature according to the paper) - and each dimension can be described by an energy spectrum, it's that energy which gives rise to physical reality via fields (and the properties that emerge from those fields).

They propose basically a needle-in-the-haystack approach to finding mathematical solutions to the individual energy dimensions, I guess.
Am I the only one still using Docker Compose?
No idea, honestly. As I mentioned, I'm not an expert.
Many other languages have an unambiguous word for "libre", and can translate "libre software" directly.
I see that that has now been fixed - thanks for pointing it out.
I always found the Scary Door intros pretty great as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5oGJTUpbpA
Not only how well do you use the tool, but how useful is it to learn the tool? Once you can use it well, what else can you do with it?

I recently saw a video via twitter that mocked using kubernetes for your blog by showing someone making a sandwich with woodworking tools.

Overkill, yeah. But if you stretch the metaphor to the way it translates in k8s, if you get good at making a sandwich in 5 minutes with the tools, you're fairly close to also stamping out dressers and end tables in 5 minutes. At the very least you can make them, which you can't say of a bread knife. And once you do it a few times you can do it with incredible speed.
So denaturing a protein generally involves interfering with the noncovalent interactions (e.g. hydrogen bonds, attractions between internal charges) that allow it to fold into the right functional shape. Often times, these proteins folded under conditions that carefully facilitated their coming out the right way, so simply removing the denaturing stimulus (e.g. allowing them to cool) won't result in a reversion to their former configuration. This is what you see, for example, in cooking, where there's a discrete change that doesn't revert.

Prions are generally much more stable and can revert back to dangerous form once denaturing conditions change back. It takes a lot more to denature them irreversibly than it does most proteins. This stability is part of what makes them so dangerous and difficult to remove.
Holding Tesla responsible could happen in a number of ways, including via the regulators. NHTSA could even force them to change or deactivate the autopilot system. I'm not talking about a lawsuit. I'm talking about interruptions to their business. That's why I used the Boeing analogy.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/documents/un...
vCJD is the human variant of BSE.
I tried one or two but decided on shUnit2 because it seemed to be the most friendly and familiar. If you have suggestions of alternatives I'd love to hear them!
Not /u/rsync, but I have one of these accounts. The snapshots are immutable (as are all ZFS snapshotss) but you have the ability to run `zfs destroy` on them, so there is a risk there. (When they're doing the snapshots for you, you don't have that ability, but then you just have a filesystem, with no access to the underlying ZFS.)

My solution to the `zfs destroy` risk is to make my backups pull-based, where rsync.net connects inbound to my production server, and rsync.net specifies the necessary commands on the production box to grab the raw encrypted streams. That eliminates the ability of an attacker that is on the production server to run arbitrary commands at rsync.net.

There is still a small risk of data destruction if an attacker gets your rsync.net credentials, but those can be protected via off-line storage and secured workstations, which works pretty well.
Why is space so hot all of a sudden? Elon??! I feel like I’m reliving my start trek childhood dreams
Timezone-converter: Whole-day timezone comparison
Black and white are probably used quite a lot, for obvious reasons. I use the other colours a lot for quick prototyping or debugging (particularly red), but I generally fine-tune the colours to something else later.
> This suggests that they did so little review as to miss a scam, and therefore that any argument of "his app wasn't ready" isn't right.

That doesn’t make sense since it would apply to any review.

It also assumes that checking for scams is equivalent to checking for functionality, which is obviously not true.

Individual reviewers may simply be provided with a set of apps to check and a set of criteria to determine whether they work or not.

Checking for scams may be a completely different process done by completely different people.

There is no logic to the claim that they must be related.
Rsync.net is amazing for Linux servers. For windows servers backups are complex and expensive. I tend to offload that to a cloud provider like Azure. Onsite I rotate hard drives. But for desktop users backblaze does everything I need.

If anyone has a recommendation for backing up Windows servers I'd love to hear it.
btw. julia implements fantastic idea in its ssh cluster manager - such a simple thing yet so powerfull; without knowing much about the language I was able to distribute some computation across all computers I had at home, really awesome. As a side note it was also so easy to drop it on GPU. I'm really impressed by julia, I'd love to use it more at work.
Either

1: Consciousness is everywhere and all.

Or

2: Consciousness is nowhere.

Who is it that is asking the question?

The answer is purely existential.

The question is childish!
> Sequent revisited this idea in the late 80's, early 90's, using Intel x86 processor arrays.

Also, there were NS3200 versions, like the Balance 8000 with six CPUs I remember at UIUC around 1986. I was floored by how effortlessly it handled having just about everyone in the CS class compiling their assignments the night before they were due. Compared to the Pyramid 90x I'd used the year before, it was like night and day.

It took a while, but that eventually percolated down to everyday PCs. It's kind of stunning that I can get 64-core CPUs these days, and even my much more modest first-generation Ryzen is no slouch.
The Role of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare
The paper itself says the dimension of the Hilbert space is e^(e^123), so very big but not infinite, countably or otherwise.

That said, I also do not remotely understand this paper. I think I at least grasp the basics of quantum theory itself modeling the very small world as a Hilbert space that collapses to a single real-valued vector upon being measured and the math checks out according to what it predicts and what we actually measure, but after reading this I cannot tell why this should have any consequences for ontology.

I think I understand the basic desire physicists have to include an ontology in their theories. Old-school billiard ball physics and even general relativity have very obvious and intuitive analogies to basic geometric objects we can envision. We definitely get a map with the math and at least a clear allusion to the territory by reifying these geometric analogies. With quantum physics, nothing at all comes out as some clear candidate for a territory. So this guy is just going galaxy brain and proposing maybe there is no territory at all and the most ontologically basic thing from which all observable phenomena we actually experience arises is just the math itself.

I don't really see a justification in the paper, but that's kind of the nature of philosophy. At the most fundamental level, nothing can be justified.
I'm sure Intellij is very nice with refactors that just push code around. Renaming or extracting a method in an automated way should obviously maintain working state.

But I'm not religious about TDD. I might try different ways to modularize the same code or sketch out several different interfaces or service stubs. This is not something that you can automate.

And when I'm done laying out the major pieces, the problems view in Eclipse helps me climb out of the sea of red that I've created by pointing out where I need to wire up methods together, or think more about type signatures, or whatever.

Tangentially, this is why we chose Dagger over Guice for dependency injection in Java. Dagger generates the wiring code at compile time, so you get all the niceties of static type checking in plain view, right away.
I’m pretty sure it was in a backhanded way. I would upload a video and keep it private. Then you could wait and see if any part got flagged. If it didn’t then you could publish.
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There's a lot of high minded philosophizing in the piece including the notion that not having children is some kind of subconscious death wish of liberal modernity, but I want to propose a much simpler answer, what if people have fewer children simply because they want to, with no deep sinister ideological underpinning?

It's not like people in impoverished nations have half a dozen children because of some deep intrinsic philosophical vitality, they have that many children because family is both social security and primary source of labour. In 'liberal' societies, but more accurately to say is developed societies (because the trend is the same in Japan and China etc), investing more resources in fewer kids is what pays off, and all material reasons aside grants more freedom to women in particular.

The whole tone of discussions about low birth rates always contains this implicit assumption that there's anything wrong with it. My spouse and I also don't want kids, and it's not because we're doing coke every weekend and can't wait to die, it's because we never felt like we wanted kids, and only in recent times do people actually have the kind of liberty to live that way.
The OSI should have picked their own term that they could have trademarked, not an existing simply descriptive term, then we wouldn't have this problem.
I don't think that's it, since women aren't also required to get married to have children anymore either. It also doesn't account for childless couples, or the lower rate of having children even among those who have children as you go up the socio-economic ladder.
If it isn't side effect free then it probably doesn't parallelize very well, even if it has sufficient mutexes etc to be threadsafe.
"Virus in the area" is not binary, on or off. It's always about rates and doses. Everyone is not infected instantly.

Germany provides a useful testbed for the impact of mask usage, because the mask mandates have been decided on local regional levels (federal state or city) at different times. From these different times of mask mandates and different progression of epidemic in the areas that are otherwise comparable, we can see that mask usage has a clear impact.

As said, it doesn't stop the epidemic alone, but it helps to contain it. To beat it, we need immunity through vaccines.

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/51/32293
Thanks! Yes, because these are true laser-recorded holograms the fringe pattern is quite high frequency. But the design of the 3D Hologram Printer greatly minimizes the issues and you don't need separate vibration isolation equipment.
Apple Warns Chinese Companies Not to Circumvent App Tracking Transparency Rules
Hi Corry, I’ve worked with Bonfire in the past. You guys have a great product and excellent customer service/success!

I don’t want to out my prior employer, but just wanted you to know we thought the pricing was very good. Maybe it’s different for other gov entities, but we were definitely open to paying more.
Why would they need nework-level redundancy? This is a backup service, and should not have production load on it at any time. I'd rather see a system with a dumb switch and the risk of a 3-4 hour outage if it fails than a smart switch that can then be cracked. (Even then, 3-4 hours is a stretch, as all the remote hands has to do to replace a failed switch is put in any other dumb switch.)
Unfortunately the word "free" has a dual meaning between "with no/few limitations" and "zero cost". Sometimes, people use the latter definition - using context clues to determine which version of the word is in use is needed similar to other English words with dual meanings.
I don't see any information regarding it, but I'm guessing this was a weekend project implementing similar ML as the skip intro button on Plex, Netflix, etc
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Is this not a universal thing!?
Yes, "why" is a great question to ask, because ISTM Alphabet benefits from being able to blame an essentially unappealable process while it curates content uploaded to its platform by creators. I'm a rancher, and like Alphabet I prefer not to get in extended arguments with my livestock.

If blame for the excesses of curation couldn't be offloaded to third parties, creators could form a class for enterprising attorneys.

Sure, it's also good to have a ready defense against litigious record companies, but large firms don't have to have just one reason for doing things in particular ways. It is easy to imagine an alternative to the "ContentID" system that would be less capricious and would still make record companies happy.