skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are better sensors that are already deployed, they were developed in the 1970s so that submarines could navigate undersea with zero emissions by using a gravity gradient map of the seafloor, part of the Trident II system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_gradiometry#Lockheed_M...
Except that one is written in go and the other in python...
It's a shame Nextcloud works terribly with SQLite
In the article she said
> "We are trying to open a business, and because of this small but big barrier, we can't," she said.

I hoped she would consider saying: "We will go ahead and open the business despite the limitation we have, and we will continue fight for this."

Don't let the system becomes our excuse to not do something we want.
If you go on a tour of the Nevada test site, they take you to a viewing platform at the edge of the Sedan Crater, where the test of this canal-building idea took place. If you search online, you can probably find some video of the test. That was as far as it got.
Article is from December 23rd. If this were true, it seems like it would have been bigger news when it was announced?
It is appalling how the journalist doesn't understand the difference between bandwidth and latency.
Compared to Google who probably already knows who you are, this website can easily collect the mapping between your name and your IP address. Seems like an obvious doxxing vector. Whatever happened to "don't give out your real name to strangers on the internet"?
https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr/issues/2034#issuecomment-6... https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr/blob/master/scripts/zen_wo...
Is my punycode decoder broken, or shouldn't that be "kyecn-elcd16ehurf" ?
I think this is more a case of the laptop being the 21st century guitar, than any instrument being "obsoleted". The trends in popular music have followed a min-maxing of physical logistics, loudness of sound, and timbral flexibility relative to the era and setting:

The railroad preceded the rise of the large, Sousa-style marching band, which also made use of the loudest instruments of the era(brass). After electric amplication set in you got an era of radio crooners and smaller-piece popular groups, which ultimately gravitated towards the now familar guitar-keys-drums arrangements by midcentury as the nascent rock band could fit that gear on a bus and get a wide timbral variety with use of amplification and effects without relearning the instruments. The guitar in particular has a good ergonomic profile while also being amenable to amplification and effects, hence the stereotype of the "travelling guitarist" coincides with its central role in large arena rock productions where a three or four-piece plays to an audience of tens or hundreds of thousands.

The laptop fits in with the trend by being even smaller, more portable, more flexible. It fills in nearly every need for back-up, so a solo act can sound as big as desired. And it can be used in its own right as a performance instrument, though computer keyboards aren't tremendously expressive interfaces in the way guitar strings are. (For that, there is always someone selling some kind of new controller interface idea. Though they have a habit of not sticking...)
IMO Agile is the best fit for internal/in-house Enterprise SW development, not for commercial or open source SW products.

I don't think it's a good idea to use pure Agile for mission-critical SW. It should be at least partially waterfall - i.e. more formal specs and designs upfront.

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Five Worlds

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/05/06/five-worlds/
> what is the actual relationship between lower sperm count and fewer children? I mean, you have maybe 2-3 children and millions of sperm, surely they are not linearly related.

Indeed they are far from it. If you "only" ejaculate a few million, you are practically infertile. Even with reproductive assistance like IUI, the chance of conception is something like 1% at a level of 2 million sperm post wash (i.e. when they've selected the most viable sperm).
I agree that HN goes overboard with Google Reader but I can also share the sentiment.

You are right when you say that there are many alternatives to Google Reader, even better ones you could say. I am fond not just of Google Reader but also I am fond of the times of better news consumption of back then.

When Google Reader disappeared, it left some sort of hole in news consumption that got filled up with Google+, Twitter and Facebook. The media outlets became obsessed about sharing news articles in social media, fighting for "likes", "+1s" and "retweets".

Google Reader provided a simple of way of having your news centralized on a snappy service, with good UI, without any ads or "smart suggestions" and without all of your social graph embedded in there. It was the way of consuming news for people that actually wanted to be informed.

And the best part, you could actually subscribe to other's people favorite feeds. It was kind of hidden, there was no dedicated "find friends" button or anything like that, you had to go out of your way and ask to someone "Can I have the link to you RSS feed for your saved items?" in order to "add them" to Google Read. And you could actually comment on their saved items.

I miss these times, I was actually a news junky back then because of Google Reader. I was shown what I wanted to be shown with no social crap or "hot articles" thrown to my face. I slowly lost interest in consuming news after that.
Just went looking, there doesn't seem to be a great actively developed solution for a Java implementation or JNI bridge. The JDBC driver that seemed to have popularity was brought into the SQLite repo, but the documentation is lacking a bit. [1] Even .Net Core has a integrated ADO.NET bridge to SQLite [2]

There are quite a few mature embedded DB options for Java actively developed, for example Apache Derby/HSQLDB/H2. The SQLite fileformat is very portable, which is very handy and useful, the SQLite C Library is very powerful. It'd be nice for the Java community to tap into that power.

1) https://www.sqlite.org/java/file?name=doc/overview.html&ci=t...

2) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/data/sqlite...
I had no idea ClojureCLR existed. Has anyone played with it?
Launched new API version for CheetahO image compresion tool
Anyone remember the title of the book where a game developer dying of some terminal disease and releases the in game AI to the internet. It then starts it's own currency, has people invest sustainability and renewable energy, and the rest of the world just goes to hell as it takes over.

Each chapter has the current gas prices, at some point the AI buys up a bunch of dirt cheap gas sedans and weaponizes them. Invests in 3d printing, augmented reality (so people can see extra metadata and recognize other members), and identifies things it needs to further it's goals, rewards people for providing it, and basically sets up a new society to survive the crash.

Later in the book it starts bribing minimum wage workers in large corporations to help the AI out. The AI ends up owning the networks of the corporate attackers.

Pretty good book, my google fu hasn't been up to the task of finding it.
I'd say it's no longer specifically about race anymore, but about socioeconomic class overall. Especially with the ease of being able to search household income statistics for various zip codes and whatnot.

A secondary reason is also due to the increasing issues of mentally ill and drug addicted homeless. For various reasons, the simplest way to minimize interacting with the aforementioned groups is to live in a far flung suburb, where everything is spaced out, separated by highways, and not conducive to homeless people.
Between what and which place now?
Everyone has this kind of alerting set up, but that's not the point. The beauty of this solution is that it's dead simple and will never fail. Alerting can fail or be ignored.

It's the same as old VW beetles which had a reserve gas tank. When you ran out of gas you opened a valve and you could limp to a gas station. Less likely to fail versus a 1950's era gauge that is telling you you're low. Also impossible to ignore it.
> There is an adoption process [...]

This is good, but to me it's too tedious. I can't wait a month for something to happen. The solution so far has been to fire up a Pinto server and serve "home-made-patched" versions of modules, which only benefits myself, not the community.

> [...] you can also often get somewhere by just asking the current maintainer nicely by email.

What could be more intrusive than creating a pull request or git issue? An email.
>I don't know if we currently operate under the assumption of a single truth.

This is perhaps too big a topic to discuss on HN comments, but the idea that there are absolute & unchanging truths goes all the way back to Plato. The Western Civilization is founded on top of a very specific worldview that is "centered" on these absolute truths. This is the reason why a lot of traditionalists see postmodernism as the root of all evil.

>There's also a big difference between different perspectives and things that are blatantly wrong.

I don't disagree. What I'd like to focus on is not basic logic like 1 + 1 = 2, but rather the implications of these. That some people are born with XY or XX chromosomes is a fact. What we do with those facts is entirely context dependent.

>Decentralization is interesting... There are very strong economic incentives for smaller communities to grow into larger communities

Recent decentralization trends are designed to combat this exactly at the protocol level.
> On other projects that weren't started in companies from the start you see paid FOSS developers doing maintenance

How is that not development paid by companies and how exactly is that exploitation by big companies? You literally claimed it is paid by them.
Weirdly I feel like they used to switch me back to "Home" constantly but it doesn't seem to happen anymore. It only changes when I change it now.
30 dwellings per hectare comes down to 3230 ft2 (333 m2) per dwelling. That's certainly enough for a free standing house with a yard. Your neighbors wouldn't be far though, but that's basically the point.

Edit: I forgot to consider public spaces: sidewalks, roads, greens. So no, it probably can't be all free standing houses.
Check your basement!
Look into intel Devcloud. Basically you get about six months of free cloud jobs to play with, with the microarchitectural counters enables.
The actual PDF doesn't mention the word "speed" once, so I can't decipher how someone came to any such "faster than the speed of light" conclusion unless it's due to jumping to some conclusion from "quantum" and "teleportation" appearing https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum/abstract/10.1103/PRXQuan...
I also wondered if there is some catch like A knows that B knows new information faster than light, but both essentially just observed the same random phenomenon and there was no input from A reaching B.
No arguments there! It's a pretty good rule of thumb that the no-exceptions maximalist view is wrong, on almost any topic over which there's meaningful disagreement.
3.11-3.10= ???
It sounds like they need to put an array of full tensor 3d gravity gradiometers in Boulder to monitor the real time movement of mass above, below, and on the ground.

It wouldn't be that expensive, relatively speaking. ;-)
Yes everyone could go around abiding the law all the time, and we could skip the Gordon riots, the suffragettes, the battle of Cable Street etc... . I'm glad that's not the world we live in and that people have the courage to follow through with their convictions against state oppression, with violence if need be.
How about "Canadian laws require businesses to be registered in one of two of Canada's legally recognized national languages"
Well, at the current rate of decline, it could.
Just skimmed the paper and the abstract.

Seen no claim of ftl communication

This is bs
You can't control the data being transmitted. The analogous process in the macro-world is:

I take a red ball and a green ball and put them into identical looking boxes. I hand one to you and send you to Mars. Then I open my box and see a red ball. I instantly know that you have a green ball in your box, even though it would take 20 minutes for light to travel between Mars and Earth.

The difference is that in the quantum world, each ball is in a superposition of red and green. Once I open my box and collapse the superposition to red, your ball is green, and I know information about your ball that we didn't know when we were together (since at the time we were together, the balls were in superposition).
Was it balloon timbered with plywood walls? I've seen those popping up quickly, and they look very flammable, with thin support frames and walls, and a high surface area to volume ratio.

The wooden building in this article looks different, with much thicker wooden posts and flooring. The article said a test structure lasted four hours at 1000C temperature flames.
Totally understand your frustration. We started with macOS, then delivered Windows in around 3 months (just launched) and will tackle Linux next but granted that it is a ton of work given our deep integration into operating systems and we want to get it right.
Open Collective team member here. You're so right! We have been able to form partnerships with many big tech companies and grantmaking foundations, and it really opens up possibilities for projects to access them. Since we collectively represent so many projects we can use that scale to open doors, and on a practical level once we're in their supplier systems and have gone through their due diligence processes once, future funding is much easier.
>I wouldn’t be surprised if these are the same people who complain, “Why does Microsoft spend all its effort on making Windows ‘look cool’?

A few years later they released Vista. Stones and glass houses.
Yep. I love Go, but I am certain it would not be half as popular as it is were it not for those simple statically linked executables that can be deployed anywhere quickly.
HyperVaporWare

Proto Vaporware?
If anything the 'made up problem' here is that a bureaucracy is effectively stamping out a culture or part of a culture from engaging in business, due to a legibility problem in a computer system.

Think about how profoundly strange this is. An entire traditional human way of expression is closed off to a people because the administrators of the city cannot handle to input a bunch of characters into a machine.

I'm truly fascinated that people seem to think the sane response to this is to defer to the word processor
"bizz" as an [nonstandard] abbreviation of "business" is nowhere in the original article. Why is it in the HN summary?
I like the idea that a group of scientists got tired of warning people about climate change and being ignored so they just figured it would be easier to say "pollution will make your dick smaller"
We... several different constitutions. The current one is called the Fifth Republic. The Third Republic ended when Germany took over the country, and the Fourth Republic was kind of an abortive mess. It was more akin to the US taking a mulligan after the Articles of Confederation.

The Third Republic had actually lasted quite a while. There was definitely a mess before that: monarchy, revolution that created a republic that turned into an empire, then a monarchy again, then a republic again, then the nephew of the original emperor being declared emperor... the 19th century was not a good time to be French. (And I'm leaving out some revolutions and constitutions that didn't go anywhere.)

But after that they really had settled down, until an outside force blew it all up. The 19th century wasn't really all that solid anywhere in Europe. Germany and Italy didn't do any better.
This will give a creepy feeling to many security experts, but here's my two cents:

The only issue with this scheme is that any device that trusts your "internal CA" can be MITM'd as easily as someone can use/abuse your "get a signed HTTPS cert" functionality.

Assuming your LAN is truly not connected to the internet in any form or way, it seems like the benefits outweigh the risks --- no connection to the internet, fewer chances to MITM to begin with...

As an additional security measure, you could use a PKIX name contraint [?] to restrict your CA to be trusted only for *.myinternal.lan, so even if your internal CA issued a cert for mail.google.com, it would be rejected by the cert chain verification. ([?]: not entirely sure this works everywhere)

Alternatively, if this is a limited internet scenario, and not a truly no uplink whatsoever, maybe you could get a wildcard LetsEncrypt cert, and share that across your IOT devices.
Isn't the solution to this to just mandate that a single person cannot inherit more than $100 million for their entire lifetime? Sure, you can keep your wealth, but you will have to split it among your family.
I have a feeling the conclusion in the article are a bit sensational. In my laymen understanding quantum teleportation is great for sharing secrets fast (you can't send specific data, but you can ensure that whatever random data I just generated is the exact inverse of what you have). This is still great for key exchanges I assume, but I don't think faster than light transfer of information is violated here. Here is the paper in any case https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum/abstract/10.1103/PRXQuan...
Linux has this built in...

By default, only root can use the last 5% of disk space.

That means you can fire up a root shell and know you have a buffer of free space to resolve the issue.
I have a tenuous grasp of the subject matter at best. But my first reaction to the headline "NASA Quantum-Teleported Data Faster Than the Speed of Light" was, "No they didn't". My reading of the abstract is that this is an incremental improvement, maybe only duplication of previous experiments and doesn't practically transmit information faster than the photons themselves. I would be delighted if someone knowledgeable could correct me though.

Link to the actual paper.
https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum/abstract/10.1103/PRXQuan...
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Ofrecemos una gran gama de reproducciones de Youtube de todos los tipos, real, natural, de mercado, referidos, así como vendemos: me gusta, comentarios, favoritos, y subscriptores.
I'm assuming parent is asking for evidence around the "shrinking" part of the claim
yeah, it's hard to navigate SLS. Manufacturers know people will not buy when it's on the ingredient list and will use alternative names (I've seen like 10 alternate names)

I also used ecos, that disappeared from costco. There was a detergent from all (all fresh clean essentials sulfate-free), but that became hard to get. I now use a detergent called puracy.
I mean, he just flubbed it and asked for a retake. Happens all the time. By the way, he's dead. You can quit kissing his ass.
As many others here have eloquently identified, this is a made up problem.

But it does serve a purpose. To make "strawmen" real. When someone needs to rage against the "non-sensical, ultra-sensitive left", this is the sort of stuff they can Google to make their point.

CBC gets to make money from clicks, but also serves those in power by helping to distract away from actual socialist critiques of the present federal "leftist" government. This isn't just some "never ascribe to nefarious reasons what could be better explained by stupidity" thing. It happens too damn often.
Stories like this and my own past memories make me so happy to work somewhere big.
Is that true for all logfiles? I still have plenty of daemons (by default) writing directly to some file in /var/log eg EXIM, Apache, and the like. Also plenty of system stuff still write to files in that directory. And yes this is a machine that uses systemd.
Ah, now confirmed...exists in Windows 3.1, fixed in 3.11

You can try Windows 3.1 here: https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.10/

And, indeed, 2.11 - 2.1 = 0.00

But, if you then add 1.0, you get 1.01. So the right value is there somewhere.
> People have said RMS is against 4 groups of people: women, trans, minorities, and children. They then cherry picked some data to make their case. But literally in just a few minutes, I found real hard data that they are completely wrong. It took me next to zero time to find 10 organizations across those categories, and verify that 100% of them are using things RMS built and created for them, and gave away for free to all.

What are "things RMS built and created for them?" This is an incredibly vague phrase that could be as tenuous as "Children Rights Male Survivor's website runs on a SERVER, and that server uses LINUX, therefore they owe it all to RMS!"
This won't work with ZFS, as it may be impossible to delete a file on ZFS when disk is full. The equivalent in ZFS is to create an empty dataset with reserved space.
For everyone saying "This isn't a real solution!" I'd like to explain why I think you're wrong.

1) It's not intended to be a Real Solution(tm). It's intended to buy the admin some time to solve the Real Issue.

2) Having a failsafe on standby such as this will save an admin's butt when it's 2am and PagerDuty won't shut up, and you're just awake enough to apply a temp fix and work on it in the morning.

3) Because "FIX IT NOW OR ELSE" is a thing. Okay, sure. Null the file and then fill it with 7GB. Problem solved, for now. Everybody is happy and now I can work on the Real Problem: Bob won't stop hoarding spam.

That is all.
Seems like a good example how private property and therefore capitalism can be seen as the same as a tragedy of the commons.
This if often claimed but there seems to be no evidence for it. If anything, all efforts to change humans using social techniques have failed. Take gay conversion therapy, for instance. It just doesn't work. There is no evidence for it. We just can't mold ourselves using social pressure -- because it's really down to biology.
Why I Quit My Job as a Software Engineer to Join the Mafia
It's the same as old VW beetles which had a reserve gas tank. When you ran out of gas you opened a valve and you could limp to a gas station

In scuba diving there used to be "J-valves". When you had 50 bar left in the tank they would cut out. Then you would pull to reenable your air and return to the surface. Unsurprisingly they are no longer popular.
Thank you! Edited to fix.
Doesn't mention CUDA. Only Intel Embree or whatever. Seems like an odd choice.

Wish it had support for Nvidia because the API looks very powerful.
just to clarify - our machine is unsupervised, so it learns the normal for any application, and identifies log sequences that are novel for that application. We then turn around and feed it to GPT-3, which indeed tries to match on existing data sets in the public domain. So while the problem indeed has been documented by someone else in the world, it is still novel for that particular application.
Open Collective team member here. This particular initiative is aimed at funding from major sponsors. Our platform also has crowdfunding functionality so projects can fundraise from individuals, too.

Almost all the corporate funding we facilitate is no strings attached, meaning the project creators and maintainers stay in the driver's seat when it comes to prioritisation. Some projects opt to make other commitments to funders but that's totally up to the project.
> even deletions can fail or take forever

> in a moment of full-disk crisis I can simply delete it and buy myself some critical time to debug and fix the problem

Uhh...
Unless your lambda was written in Go.
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