skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, thanks. Yeah that kind of thing is definitely above my pay grade.
If gnome desktop shipped without any icons or assets would we still consider it free software? I just don't understand how releasing only a subset of the code, or code not in its preferred editing format is "not free", but failing to release assets critical to the working of the program somehow maintains freedom. I mean you could also decompile the program which is a lot easier than recreating the art assets from scratch.

Since you've confirmed I share a different opinion, it seems Stallman has a bias toward console applications where art is not a critical component. That's the most charitable interpretation for this cognitive dissonance I can think of.
How is saying hospitals are full extraordinary? My country is going through it right now, we just had our first death from someone who could not find a hospital bed. Im sure a google search on this subject would be very easy.
China’s $2.3T Hidden Debt Is Seen Climbing Even Further
It really doesn't matter to know exactly what consciousness is.

Because high levels of intelligence and auto-drive can fully operate complexly enough to seem "conscious".

I would start a research stating exactly what would constitute a "conscious human", maybe we could find not every human on the planet is actually conscious.

Maybe most people are just looping into some psychological / environmental / sociological context, just like scripts running happily in loop, but not stepping outside its own code, at least not intentionally.

The hypoteshis of humans being complex algorithms, beside the tabu chit-chat, implies the possibility of hacking minds just we can hack programs, looking for their bugs, triggering exploits to fully manage humans into a different setup, in order to make them work towards a different goal from what they were originally intended (having being pre-programmed by the society and/or parents).
I think so. It said it had new footage found in Argentina. Just a few years old, I believe.
Lego Creator Expert 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery with Hubble Telescope
>> It is as though Latin American countries had the wrong kind of happiness before 2020, says Mr Helliwell—a happiness sustained by people’s close social connections, not by high levels of social trust.

> Why is high social trust the 'correct' kind of happiness?

The very next sentence in TFA grabbed my attention before seeing this question:

> A global poll in 2019 found that only 52% of people in Latin America and the Caribbean thought a neighbour would return a wallet; just 41% thought a cop would. That is the lowest share of any region.

If social trust is a major component to your happiness and you distrust ~50% of the community and have even less trust for the institutions said to protect society, that might be the “wrong” type / source of happiness for your given environment.
I think it's the way it's presented. We still have a sort of Newtonian "clockwork" view in primary education of astronomy.
Yes and no. In the case of true deflation, interest rates can become negative, such that money in the future has more value than money today. In that case, the value of this loan would diverge towards infinity.
There is a habitable zone on Venus in the upper atmosphere, so it's not completely out of the question.
HTTP does not solve the problem if you still want your traffic encrypted in transit.
> Also, even if the program is significantly loss making, it should be easy enough to shift to profitability; just scale down offering new contracts to people without large existing readerships.

Yeah Substack's server costs are probably fairly low, so they could also probably lay off some engineers and coast for a while before a competitor gobbled up the market.

I never understood why Medium tried to be the Netflix for words. To me it always made more sense for them to follow Vimeo's model (disclaimer – I work for Vimeo): create tools that paying customers use to help them showcase their work, tools that let them customise how it appears, and tools that let them monetise that content.
I'm saying they can attack an alien just as likely as they can a human.

For that to be true, you need some governing rule of life, not 'could easily be a widely used'.

(You'll note, I phrased my other reply in terms of us not knowing)
FYI this works flawlessly on M1 too.
> Something vaguely looks like it could be used for nefarious purposes

If it can be used for nefarious purposes, it will eventually be... so it should be considered a bug.

I'm not sure what world you live in...
You make a good point. I've often wondered why there aren't compression container formats that can do magic like handle media file compression differently (using lossless formats), but both the time to compress/decompress would be prohibitive (and, personally speaking, I'd just leave it in the smaller lossless format assuming my players will play it).
Architecture and Engineering: Doing the non-obvious
It certainly DOES appear that when lockdowns go in place in a state or country, the new cases start to go down - usually dramatically.

At this point, we probably have well over 100 examples of this. I'm interested if there are any counter examples. Are there?

But on the same hand, there's not any controlled experiments going on. Has this actually been statistically proven?

For example, major populations centers in Florida and Texas had lockdowns for different parts of their spikes. But the states in general were much more lax. And yet, they seemed to have fared similarly to California and New York - which had much more strict local and state-wide measures.
Lockdowns work, but they have to be hard and you can't stop until you have suppressed the virus.

Victoria, Australia was a great example: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54654646

Opening up before suppression without strong contact tracing (or vaccine) just seems like the worst of both worlds: you have the horrible effects of a lockdown, and the knowledge it's just going to come back.
> tofu would also decrease soybean demand

any pointers on why?
Critiquing lockdown policy because you can’t live your “nomadic lifestyle” is selfish. Critiquing lockdown because there are better alternatives is not. You chose to frame your argument in the former.
That isn't definitive at all. My phone and desktop have the same IP due to a dedicated VPN.
Many of these fake papers are a major boon to the supplement industry.

Obscure supplements or herbal medicines are a common target for these papers. The more obscure the topic, the less likely the authors are to encounter conflicting results. So you end up with streams of papers showing that various herbal remedies or supplements show efficacy against COVID or cancer or other hot topic issues.

Supplement producers love this because it creates demand for their products. In some cases, I've been shocked to discover that the same researchers who published these papers are now marketing their own proprietary blend of those supplements. They create both the supply and the demand.
I think it is probably more accurate to say that they have "factionalism," rather than "politics." China has had a one-party system with strikingly low participation (~6% of national population) for the past seven decades.
Yeah of course would you'd need to redefine civilization as "inudstrial" civilization for my argumentn to make sense. Still, check out parent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26563017

tl;dr: we've kickstarted civilization due to our harnessing of energy. If the venusians didn't have that option they would've probably lived as cavemen and couldn't have prevented or foreseen the disaster.
Reddit is an Orwellian shitshow. When you are an IRL public figure you lose your expectation of privacy when you are engaged in public controversy that is discussed in the press.
CGNAT is more common than you'd think. The IP address alone is not a definitive indicator it's the same user.
I put this together for Macs, and have been using it on my own machine. Works very well. https://jonathanalland.com/legacy-mac-proxy.html

Only thing I can’t seem to get working is PPC support, so you’d have to run the proxy on a secondary Intel Mac.
Wow. The magnitude of global trade is insane!
Almost like a Samsung phone.

Large container ship 20 Ultra Plus 5G Fan edition
A hypothetical solution would be to stick with the DNS SD / avahi concept and use domains ending in .local.

That would have the benefit to be able to create a CA for that domain that can cross-sign your certificates in order to prevent the snakeoil workflow, which must stick to local IPv4 ranges and the fe80:: IPv6 prefix.

I've been digging through the DNS SD specifications lately (and how airplay, airprint, airscan and others work)...and I'm mindblown on how simple all things IoT could be if everything would support the DNS service discovery RFC.

In a parallel world nobody has IP problems, and nobody has problems connecting to their printers.

The way it's currently going though, I don't see any legacy firmware working in the near future due to CORS. I mean, most of the admin interfaces will break, probably, because of how they use forms to submit configs and settings.
I thought that this would talk about Chrome, but I am not surprised that it is about Safari...
I think even serious science can be problematic, at least to the extent that "generally known" means wildly different things across different subfields. During graduate rotations I encountered a few instances where something was known to be very hard to replicate, but it was basically impossible to find that information publicly. So if you didn't happen to "network" with labs that were aware of this (which could occur for a variety of reasons besides just being early career), you could end up wasting a lot of time trying to build on work that is at best very finicky, if not outright wrong.

Trusting only the work of specific authors may not be a bad strategy, albeit quite conservative. But trusting work because of the journal or the university it came from is way more likely to yield misses IMO. Not saying there isn't a correlation, just that there's still plenty of bad science going on at supposedly top institutions. And I've lost count of how many times a supposedly big result published in Nature or Science just quietly drops off the face of the earth. No rebuttal or retraction, but 10 years go by and nobody in another lab does any real followup on a seemingly cool result? I find that quite sketchy.

Biology papers are especially bad at not releasing raw data or detailed methodology, so in some cases it's not possible for even a very educated person to evaluate the quality of the work from reading the paper. There's definitely some trust that goes into it, probably too much given how oversubscribed/hypercompetitive that field is.
I lived in China for 6 months. This fits my experience, and is remarkably similar to a story I was told by a native Chinese:

"We were taught in school about Mao, who rose to power on idealism. At first he showed us many great things that we could do, but eventually idealism led us to the great famine, and many people starved. Since then, Mao lost some power, and now in school they teach us that Mao was 2/3 right, but 1/3 wrong. And that 1/3 that was wrong was idealism. So now we practice pragmatism."
>> Sites might use IP address information to guess that the sessions are correlated. But they can do that whether or not the connection remains open. [emphasis added]

Responding to OP's "whether or not the connection remains open". IFF it remains open, then it's no longer a matter of correlating.
Thanks for the book recommendation
That was my immediate impression as to what was going on. This guy doesn't know about service workers...
Exponential spread means small mistakes in containment are difficult to distinguish from an endemic infection - except in the time dimension.

You can see the difference pretty clearly looking at the time series.

But as soon as you open up again infections go up unless you have suppressed the virus completely. Countries that took it seriously did this.
No everyone knows the high yield Argentinian debt is trash. The investment managers and traders buying it today think they're smart enough to offload it to some sucker before the next default. Or they expect to move on to another job before that and just don't care about what happens long term.
I'd encourage people to also read Niels Möller and Torbjörn Granlund's division paper: https://gmplib.org/~tege/division-paper.pdf

It offers a modification to Knuth's algorithm D which avoids all hardware division by utilizing an approximate reciprocal. The 3-by-2 division is particularly interesting as it allows you to skip the quotient loop (D3). It's a nice little optimization that I've spent some time tinkering with in my own code. This technique is notably used in GMP and other arbitrary precision integer libraries.
Sure it does. Successful YC companies have become the gatekeepers of the internet.
> In fact, closing the connection the instant the user clicks 'X' would actually give the site more information.

How so?
No. 10%, first, is short of 100%. It's short of the 15% required in Iowa, not known for its environmental policy. It's a subsidy to corn producers that doesn't significantly affect oil producers. An actual carbon reduction method would be phasing out oil entirely.
Definite shot against Michigan. It’s fine, I suppose. Glad to never return however. Enjoy the cigar!
Understasnding JSON Schema
This list is biased, its missing Azure products like Azure Data Explorer, of which AWS/GCP has no alternative (afaik).
Hi,

I commented on the original post but I suppose it got buried [1].

This product looks great, just wondering what kind of computing power is available to teachers for the interactive coding examples. Can it handle machine learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow) for example?

Congrats (again) to the founder on the launch.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26557174
> Do you honestly, honestly believe that Americans or Europeans at any level would have been able to transition to and adhere to such strict restrictions?

Australia adhered to much stronger restrictions. See https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54654646
Ah yes, the little-known software copyright slave trade.
Yup this is what I use too. :10,15.Gbrowse will open the current file selected from line 10 to 15
Sure, but why risk it. If you're really paranoid about browsing anonymously then use Tor.
I'm don't think "keeping the connection open" has the consequences or effects the author thinks it has.

(edit: the other comments here overwhelmingly agree with me. How did this get so many upvotes to get on the front page I wonder?)
Why would that not be possible in America? When the leader of the country during the pandemic was explicitly antimask? You can’t rewrite history with “logic.”
Here's the solution I've been using on my phone for a long while now: Permanently put Google into desktop mode on my phone.

My only real issue with this workaround is image search where I have to turn my phone sideways to see the images.
I think it's more likely to relate to "mindless" activities than anything else. I experience something similar when driving a familiar route or when doing stationary monotonous activities such as washing dishes. But driving somewhere novel puts all my attention back to driving.
In 1971, the US ended the convertibility of the dollar into gold and shifted the dollar to be fiat money. Many dollar-based metrics have a similar change of slope around 1971:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
In this context, "legitimacy" is mostly "value from popularity". This becomes clear in the collectables market. Beanie Babies are not particularly good dolls, but through marketing, they became "collectable".

Collectable plates used to be a thing, back when people had large cabinets with glass-fronted doors for displaying dinnerware. You can still get them on eBay. "Lot of 3 Vintage Lena Liu Country Accents Numbered Bradford Exchange 1995 Plates Pre-Owned $24.99"[1] Zero bids. There's a vast amount of stuff like that. Nobody makes much money off of it other than the manufacturers. Even they don't do that well. Warner Bros. once bought the Franklin Mint, around the time they bought AOL and Time. That didn't work out well.

That's what the NFT proponents are trying to replicate - mass-market collectables. With an additional "fear of missing out" component. The high-dollar one-offs are promotional items for a projected flood of bulk collectables. (If they're even real. Those hyped multi-million dollar items, if they sell at all, do not seem to be closing as legitimate arms-length transactions where real money changes hands. See the Beeple fiasco.)

As a store of value, NFTs are terrible. None of this stuff is very liquid. Too many different items, and no market price. You have to put the thing up for sale and wait. Wait too long, and nobody cares. This Three Stooges collectable plate [2] can be yours very cheaply. The shipping and handling is more than the price, so the transaction cost is more than it's worth.

At least NFTs don't have high storage costs.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-3-Vintage-Lena-Liu-Country-A...

[2] https://www.ebay.com/itm/Three-Stooges-Pop-Art-The-Franklin-...
If you don't believe the policy is legitimate, then, it's altruistic. (Because you're justly defying tyranny) There is no objectively good determination here.
I actually think its kind of useful for privacy, as it stops the page from monitoring exactly how long I really had it open, at least, through that avenue.
You now know exactly the moment that they left your site. (It’s not much more information, granted.)
Cant you just say "the waves"? Calling it "her" once is fine, but four times is creepy.
Because it would tell them exactly when the user clicked the "x" -- the exact point the connection was closed -- which the current behavior does not do, as it's probably not predictable (sanely or possibly at all) exactly when the 'x' was clicked based on when the connection was closed.

Not that that's particularly useful info. But technically it's more info revealed.
What does 148 over 2300 papers means exactly ?
Tengential but I am always curious what software these huge logistics company use to manage their business. From my outsider's perspective, it seems like a best-in-class-software enabled company would have a massive advantage over the rest.

Interested to hear if anyone has insights about this
At least with windows and openvpn, TCP connections that are already established prior to the VPN connection being turned on, continue to use the original adapter (rather than the VPN adapter). IIRC on linux the connection either gets reset or hung.
Very interesting. I know that most of the things I do are ego driven, but it’s so ingrained in society It’s tough to let go of.

For meditation I worry your teacher or the type may have been a bad fit. Meditation teachers I follow encourage looking for joy and savoring the sweet feelings of being in the moment. It feels comparable to enjoying a beautiful sunset.
They'll know exactly when we stopped interacting with their website.

Imagine a phone system that didn't make an audible noise when the other person on the line hung up. At some point you realize that they've chosen to stop listening and you've been talking into to the void, but you don't know for how long.
In a geology class we learned what very few people realize, that Earth's landscape is constantly changing. Only on a scale humans generally can't perceive.
Multiple US Navy destroyers swarmed by mysterious 'drones' off California coast
It's weird to say 'her' once and then switch pronouns. But I hear you. You're picturing me with a peg leg. :)
Haha, congrats for taking the leap!

Some tangents from this classic story: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/02/slow_tuesday_night/

March 2021 review of Lafferty, https://archive.is/dXNBp

> A select few actually have read Lafferty, a secret society of loonies whose names you probably do recognize. Neil Gaiman. Ursula Le Guin. Samuel Delany. Other sci-fi writers, in other words. R. A. Lafferty has always been, then, a sci-fi writer’s sci-fi writer—a blurry, far-out position to find oneself in. When comedians hang out, they famously have to commit acts of borderline criminality, usually involving nudity and great heights, to get each other to bust up. So just think what absurdities a sci-fi writer has to conjure forth to gobsmack his fellow sci-fi writers—sci-fi writers who actually are, by much wider consensus, some of the best in the world. The descriptor they tend to resort to, as if by no other choice, is sui generis, dusty old Latin for “one of a kind.” It’s probably the most common phrase associated with Lafferty ..
So, Golang and V8 both use this algorithm when you choose to use an arbitrary-precision integer type. In Python (and Ruby?), all integers are arbitrary-precision - do those languages also use this algorithm for division?
Is there a lib like this for text augmentation? to build something like grammarly or textio.
I don't think Google's fabled AI could even work out costs in any cloud service.
Maybe I'm missing something about the MalwareTech story, but I don't think it's surprising people celebrate him. When I read some large feature on him (I'm sorry, I don't remember where) my impression was that he had royally screwed up as a young person, but that he was trying to turn his life around and did a serious good deed for the internet as a whole with his contribution to the wannacry thing. Many people make mistakes at any phase of life, and it's not surprising to me that people might celebrate people who try to move past that and do good.

edit: I believe [0] was the feature I read.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hack...
> Convincingly faking photos was, until recently, pretty damn hard.

Stalin did it nearly 100 years ago.
Not if a resurfacing event destroyed that evidence.
There's a gulf between the "I don't want companies tracking me" use case of the OP and the "If I get caught spying I'll be executed" use case that Tor addresses.
Yes, let’s agree not to demonize the country committing genocide against uighurs or they might throw us in camps next.
Flu case numbers are way down. I wouldn't be so sure that flu cases are down
We have already seen 1 great water body lose to human hubris : L̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶B̶a̶i̶k̶a̶l̶ (edit: Aral Sea).

Aral Sea volume (1960) - 1000 cubicKm

Lake Erie volume - 500 cubicKm

So yeah, If L̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶B̶a̶i̶k̶a̶l̶ (edit:Aral Sea) can go down, so can the great lakes.
It might also be thought of as a natural consequence, i.e. evolution at work.
Here's an HNer who knows that gendered pronouns exist for many inanimate nouns, and thinks that it's okay.

edit: Just to make sure I'm understood, I mean to say "I think it's okay", not to mock the OP who used the pronouns. More directly and non-sarcastically: "Using 'her' for bodies of water is not wrong".
Dude come on... we don’t do a lot of livestock up here. It’s all corn and beans. It’s definitely fertilizer and pesticides, no doubt about it.
“vaguely looks like it could” and “can” are not the same.
Important (IMO) to note: All employees attempted to unionize, not just editorial.

This quote from earlier in the article:

> The move comes less than one month after all Medium employees—including the editorial unit—attempted to unionize and lost by one vote. Employees at the company say that journalists who work at Medium’s nine publications were not the initial driving force behind the union, but were some of the most vocal supporters of it. The news media industry (including VICE) is highly unionized; the tech industry is not.
"is that extra 25 cents going to be more valuable than the goodwill and foot traffic generated by a combo that's stuck to its price point for nearly 35 years?"

Goodwill? Goodwill? Who thinks like that any more? If you know of any, tell me, I'm begging to shop there.