skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A lot of it is just garden-variety right-wing freemarketism, with all due respect;

I have no horse in this race but can exactly the same thing can be said about your own response? Garden-variety of ineffective left-wing agenda that hasn’t worked, with all due respect, of-course.

When arguing, I recommend not using sweeping statements like this, even when you mean no harm. It is a shallow dismissal.
Yeah that's a good point. And I may be a little bit guilty of scapegoating Fauci for the official response generally. But while that full explanation was out there in March I think of Feburary as being the most confusing time when advice not to wear a mask was most prevalent. From a CDC post at the end of February: "Only healthcare professionals caring for COVID-19 patients, people who are sick with COVID-19, or in some cases people caring for patients who are sick with COVID-19 need precautions like a facemask to help limit their risk of spreading COVID-19."

If felt like we lived through four ages in as many months at the beginning of last year.
BSD Now 395: Tracing ARM’s history
The same as with every other sport: injury. You don't want to risk injury by extrapolating a faulty training method from magical thinking. In my experience, the arts and systems geared more towards full-contact spars have way, way less Ki/Qi in them.
> they would be using it quietly for themselves instead of sharing it with other people

investment banking is a real job
Agurk/ZFS-to-AWS
The thing that scares me about it is when people believe crazy things, they're more likely to believe other crazy things. This means even if most people most of the time are perfectly pleasant, they can get swept up in other stuff that gets out of hand and hurts people. If you can't persuade someone with evidence based reasoning because their position is based on 'faith' or belief in the face of contrary evidence I don't know what to do with that.

There are forms of religious people that dismiss all the 'crazy' things and just have some vague mysticism - which is probably the least harmful form, but is a little odd to me. People like to feel a part of something grand I suppose - but we already are. Existence is pretty amazing even without the human religious myths being true. Maybe one day the myths will be just a part of our collective history (as many older ones currently are).
The pro-proof-of-stake argument is that every other system is inherently already like that: For example with proof-of-work, the richest can already afford the most hardware which gets them the most earnings. But actually with proof-of-work it's even worse, because it is a non-linear relationship as to what kind of mining hardware you can afford (richer can afford exponentially more efficient hardware). So proof-of-stake is actually better, because at least it's linear.
Bounties for xhci features: scatter-gather, suspend/resume
It seems to have worked pretty well aside from the obvious radioactive fallout problem. They successfully turned a dry river bed into a lake that still exists today.
The guidance Fauci gives in this video is in line with what I read in news articles back in March 2020. I was surprised the article suggested Fauci lied to the public as a result.

I wonder why this explanation got buried. Perhaps the lesson here is that rather than blaming experts for occasionally getting things wrong, we should focus on promoting media literacy instead, so that people get accurate information they need.
But the customer will end up paying more! It's a never-ending problem!

(Increasing economic outputs by breaking all canals is the perfect example of why I'm always worried about gradient descent)
> used to justify some pretty terrific political and military policies even today

People who want to war will use any reason they can. Many have used religion, unfortunately. Mao and Hitler didn't, though.
Casmm: A Visual Model for Password/Auth Security
I particularly like this because it applies across STEM disciplines. One could easily apply this in behavioral neuroscience (my field) and get quality results. Although as both a theoretician and experimentalist I’m not sure which would hurt me more: isn’t your reinforcement learning model just a recapitulation of Pavlovian conditioning? Or isn’t your experimental design problematic because it doesn’t make use of [insert favored alternative methods of insulter]. Probably the former. Ego often gets involved with theory.
OpenBSD is surprisingly viable for most things. There's a few stacks it doesn't quite run, but it supports most of what I need to run professionally.
Did you read the article?

> The 2020 Medal of Valor winner, Edward “Nick” Macko, an ocean lifeguard specialist, earned “only” $134,144 in compensation.
"Let companies fire workers for unionizing, let them refuse to negotiate with unions"
This renders unions pretty much useless.
There is already an imbalance of power in favor of the companies.
Selfless plug: https://gist.github.com/gordol/d3f66e5fa0a53a9ccef30b7788504...

UDP hole punching is pretty straight forward.

This does it securely using SSH.
Spend a little time researching how the Catholic church used to oppose infanticide. The anti-abortion stance makes a lot more sense when put into historical context.
I find that Lazygit provides a nice UI for staging, too: You can state an entire file or just lines(!) from a file.

I wish it allowed me to stage a hunk, too. But I make do with staging all lines from that hunk. It is not a lot more effort.
I don't think Lifeguard is a low-skill job, you need to be an extremely skilled swimmer. This is only achievable by learning and training from a very young age and being a minimum gifted for it.
So the Church, an organization that sets itself up as the moral arbiter between God and man, doesn't have more of a moral responsibility than school districts across the country?

And there is plenty of moral outrage for coverups, no matter the source.

Please. People hate the Church because it says it is one thing and is another. The media is critical of the Church because the Church has tried to make itself the authority on people's behavior, yet itself behaves in a reprehensible manner. Maybe it should just go back to being the Mafia's bank and just obliquely supporting drug cartels and human rights abuses via loans?

Your whole comment is just whataboutism. You've an opportunity to refute the assertion that the Church knowingly covered up abuse of children, and you've decided that if others have done it, it can't be that bad.
Then put your name where your mouth is instead of hiding behind anonymity. Hardly a necessity in this case.
Show HN: Label errors in benchmark ML test sets
Hi HN! One of the authors here.

We found pervasive errors in the test sets of 10 of the most commonly used benchmark ML datasets, so we made labelerrors.com where anyone can examine the data labels. We think it’s neat to browse through the errors to get an intuitive sense of what kinds of things go wrong (e.g. completely mixed-up labels, like a frog being labeled “cat”, or situations where an image contains multiple things, like a bucket full of baseballs being labeled “bucket”), so that’s why we built this errors gallery. To our surprise, there are lots of errors, even in gold standard datasets like ImageNet and MNIST.

For those who want to dig into the details, we have a blog post here: https://l7.curtisnorthcutt.com/label-errors, where we talk more about the study and the implications

Happy to answer any questions here!
The Catholic approach doesn't allow for swapping out biblical myths for other myths, which means that the Bible wasn't competing as a myth in their cannon either. If there was a form of "natural selection" operating on it, it was not operating on it as a myth. However I grant that "they thought it was true" is a vast oversimplification of the many motivations that people have had for printing copies of the Bible - which can include purely financial ones!
Thanks for the comment.

I would personally never live in Canada either. As someone who can say from experience what this culture is really like, I tend to agree with the dystopian doom scenario and that entails all of North America. Try it for yourself if you like.

You really cannot speak your mind with a female coworker in the United States. My guard is fully up because I have experienced numerous difficulties with "just being myself" that have never caused issues here. Threatening to go to HR to get one's way is something that I have experienced personally and seen multiple times with peers, and the men never win. However, this is in the context of startup/tech culture, and it is a worse problem in this area.

In relationships, they know that they can always take the children. The government/society fully supports them regardless of the circumstances. A big female content creator in the U.S., neekolul, went on twitter to trash her ex-husband despite the fact that she was tried and convicted of felony domestic violence for stabbing him during a fight, but her fellow female content creators shrugged and supported her anyway. It's the most horrible example of many, but the point is, it's real. The people who don't believe it are delusional or have an abusive partner themselves.

I'm curious. Do you have any colleagues from the UK or from southern Europe? How do you treat them? I am similarly guarded with women from these places, although not nearly as much as I felt I had to be in the United States.
Get ready for a major pay increase for nurses then. There are a lot of them. Not against it, btw. If we cannot pay everyone $300K with our taxes, who should get it first?
Cultural Christianity versus theistic Christianity in action. Anecdotal, but many, many more people had to go to church as kids than actively believe today.

The problem is that this leads to people who feel entitled to a space in the conversation (because it was part of their upbringing), but bring very little love or understanding to it.

(And I say this as someone who was raised in the Church and left it pretty early on).
The author's primary field is Applied Criticism, so this is to be expected.
Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design (2018)
People tend to participate in online communities that affirm their sense of identity. Maybe people who get really involved are those who see atheism as a more important aspect of their identity?

I was definitely turned on to atheism on the internet, but I never really stuck around those forums. I grew up in a fairly liberal Catholic church, so I didn't really relate to all the vehemence against fundamentalism. Even though I grew up in a church, I didn't even know about "young earth creationism" until I learned about it from atheists on the internet. In my science class in Catholic school, we learned all about evolution. We used the same textbooks as the public schools. I don't remember hearing anything bad about LGBT, though I'm sure people talked about it since it was the early 2000's and gay marriage was still a real widespread controversy, as incredibly dumb as that seems now.

Overall I guess my experience was very different from someone who grew up conservative protestant and found atheism. As a result I never hated religion, just didn't believe in it for a while.
Finding a exemplar of a bad response does not make the entire category "worse than useless".
No, they laid off a substantial amount of their Rust team, but the number of overall developers employed by Mozilla was quite small.

Mozilla continues to be interested in Rust even though they did that, they’re a founding sponsor of the Rust Foundation, for example, and are continuing to use Rust even though they do not employ people to work on the language itself.
It's even more pronounced in SF, and it's probably the best thing that has happened to the city in decades, minus the obvious catastrophe of the pandemic itself. A nice studio apartment in a decent neighborhood can be had now for $1500; something unthinkable a year ago. Hopefully this can help start to revitalize the city's culture into something more than a monolithic tech frat party.
Even without the hate, isn't it harmful to indoctrinate children into believing in fantasy?

Sure, adding hate makes it far worse, but one fantasy god with a fantasy origin story and fantastical powers is one too many.
I'd go as far as Jesus being a collection of stories himself along with his teachings. There's no good evidence he even existed. None of the authors of the bible was even alive when Jesus supposedly lived. The youngest of the authors(cant remember which one) was born a couple of years AFTER Jesus supposedly was killed. Not even 1 text from any historian at the time has any mention of Jesus Christ.
Being a lifeguard in LA would be a dream job for millions of people especially if they could make $400k a year doing it!

This is low skilled labor! The only requirement is to be a strong swimmer and have basic leadership skills.

I don't think supply of willing lifeguards is a constraint here.

I'd imagine if LA county put out an ad to replace their top lifeguard and offered even $200k a year they'd receive thousands of applications from perfectly qualified people.
Reason is also the invitation to use our God-given intellect to help us come to conclusions. Otherwise we're disparaging God by disparaging that intellect.

Otherwise, yes, the other three bases of the Quadrilateral aren't "reason".
Yeah, sorry, I'm mostly lamenting that there's not a more objective overview. This whole situation is pretty tiring at this point, so it's unlikely that one will surface except as a post-mortem down the road.
- A 2% increase in panel efficiency would compensate for that. Most people say panel efficiency isn't a big factor in solar pricing anyway.

- The only near-term way to do this affordably would be on Starship, and at scale they're planning to fuel that with methane made from ambient CO2, for net-zero emissions

- The L1 point is about a million miles from Earth, so space junk is not an issue at all
>Any civilization sufficiently progressing will use more and more energy

Efficiency is still a net good. Even if you don't believe that CO2 in the atmosphere causes climate change, every form of electricity generation has negative side effects for society, including renewables.

Normally the benefits greatly outweigh the costs, but that's not true for proof-of-work systems when considered in light of the alternatives.

>Bitcoin could definitely be more energy efficient

Exactly. One way to do that would be to use something other than proof of work.

>Why are we attacking Bitcoin for using electricity instead of simply pushing for more renewable energy sources?

Because increasing the demand for electricity more than necessary increases the cost to all of us––both the direct economic cost in our electricity bills and the environmental and societal costs. This is true whether the energy is renewable or not.

>At the end of the day it seems to me that any free society that supplies energy as a service shouldn’t be dictating what individuals do with that electricity as long as they pay for it

Wasteful energy use causes problems that society as a whole has to bear. Think about what would happen if we said things like "any free society that permits land ownership should permit nuclear waste disposal on any private property." It just doesn't work out, because society as a whole ends up paying the cost.
Gen X emerging from pandemic with firmer grip on America's wallet
On the pricing page, what is "Content Ownership" and why is that only granted for enterprise customers?

https://www.plasmic.app/pricing/
> Obviously religious people remain the vast majority and being a good person or not is largely disconnected from religiousness.

Religiosity is highly inversely correlated with criminality amount Americans.[1] Religious people also donate significantly more money to charity. To a large extent religious participation does seem to make people behave more pro-socially.

It's certainly not the only way to promote ethical behavior. But even as an atheist, I'll freely admit that religion serves a pretty beneficial important role in our society. A role that we haven't really figured out how to replace with secular counterparts.

[1] http://marripedia.org/effects_of_religious_practice_on_crime...
[2] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/30/religious-p...
Also would like to mention that someone dug up one of Fauci's interviews back in March 2020 about his recommendation on masks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26623260

The CDC post is in line with Fauci's recommendation. My understanding is that the original recommendation was to avoid a shortage of masks during a critical period of the pandemic.
Not to shoot down the findings but anyone with a dog knows that other sentient creatures also dream
Air Traffic Control. It’s a matter of public safety. Strikes are not allowed.
Do they do it for PR reasons? i assume you can use drones more effectively.
I get what you're saying, but there's plenty of disagreement on what those concepts even are.

td;dr: Denominations vary wildly, and it's almost impossible to separate one's personal biases from choosing a congregation.

For example, Catholicism is very heirarchical, stating that one cannot receive salvation except through the Catholic Church. Methodism states that good acts + belief are the gateway to heaven. Lutheranism promises salvation to all that believe in Christ.

Or take the infallibility of the Bible. The Roman Catholic faith places a lot of emphasis on church doctrine, which is based on the Bible to be sure, but also a lot of church constructs. Baptists believe in a very literal interpretation of the Bible. Mainline protestants emphasize historical context and nuance. ELCA does not even claim the Bible is the literal word of God.

Plus, individual congregations within a denomination might have differences in emphasis, sociopolitical leanings, etc. It's important to know that "The Church" is in many cases, and especially for Protestant denominations, made up of congregations from the bottom up, and reflects the aggregate of its membership.
By the way, SSH has real VPN option (-w option)
Amazon's scorched-earth PR strategy
How this is being reported annoys me. I read the abstract of the paper. I do not believe the scientists studying this take such a surprised perspective, but are studying extremely technical specifics. I get the need to push the paper out to get some clicks but science journalism needs to be better.

"May dream!" Sheesh. I don't have a dog anymore, but I've had a couple that clearly dream. I have several cats that also clearly dream. I suspect my leopard geckos dream because they definitely take a lot of naps. I'm all for this type of study and it appears to be rigorous and interesting. I also believe cephalopods have complex social, spatial, and possibly symbolic dreams like humans have that cats and dogs may not have. But if it sleeps, it dreams.

The idea that humans are so far from animals that we can't allow them complex lives full of the same wonder that we allow ourselves is a stupid separation that inhibits understanding and reporting that doesn't equate animal and human consciousness is a stepping stone to determining which humans are human, which historically has worked out poorly.

A human exclusive understanding of consciousness is a great way to never be able to talk to our resident or extra-planetary dream having compatriots. The article isn't explicitly surprised, but it really is worded like a feigned surprise when it could be framed in a less annoying way.

Maybe I just need a nap.
I believe it's a very poorly written description in the newer GitHub App permission system. My understanding it describes something akin to "can act on your behalf, but only in the scope of what other permissions are being requested" but it's overall very unclear wording.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26485844
I know, but the concern about Christianity is that it is a majority religion in the West, with strong political power. This has to be focus at least where I live.
The article doesn't say that OSI was created before TCP/IP. It says that X.25 was created before TCP/IP, and that OSI is an abstraction of that particular design (and thus doesn't map neatly to the IP stack).
Well, this is a supply delay in hundreds of equally sized or larger ships. This is a delay in a majority of the global shipping industry of at LEAST a week, and shipping scheduling will be thrown off for months by this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/mf705...

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/meopv9/s...

That is a LOT of cargo that's suddenly going to arrive 2 or 3 times later than expected. Huge economic impact. I really don't understand why people on HN are pushing so hard against the idea that this is just an economic blip.

Is there anyone involved in the industry that can chime in?
YouTube video by Cheif Makoi pointed out that the Master of the ship is responsible for any issue caused by the ship, even if commanded by a pilot.

https://youtu.be/ltdHRdtEHE4

Obviously I am not a legal expert
That's silly. If we want to look at it in a purely utilitarian view, you could spend $8M per year and spend that on doctors and nurses, or EMT.

Swimming is a calculated risk. While I appreciate what life guards do, that doesn't necessarily mean that they are more important that other jobs that save lives. You can avoid drowning by simply choosing not to go swimming. If we really want to base things on cost-benefit analysis, someone with some actuary knowledge could probably make a more efficient investment here.
Yes I totally understand, and I don't think you've detracted from the others at all. The more resources are available, and the more accessible they are for different learners and different styles of learning, the better.
Wow. People here still criticising the solutions the engineers on the scene used?
I don't have much experience with stunnel, but I have used sshuttle and SSH SOCKS proxy/ tunneling, SSHFS and other tricks quite a bit also for work. I have done SSH over Tor as a hidden service but I haven't played with obfsproxy just yet. Some people made tunnels (including SSH) over DNS, which can be handy as well. This is probably just enough to check HN, read email and SSH/ Mosh to somewhere to fix something when travelling or so.
If you understand SSH (e.g. by reading the book by Michael W Lucas: SSH Mastery: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ssh) you will probably come up with your own tricks. I have written some of my tricks down in this OrgPage: https://www.orgpad.com/s/UHUor4 there are screenshots for Linux and Windows for some things related to SSHFS, SOCKS Proxy and more. From time to time, I update it to reflect new tricks.

One of the newest tricks I haven't written down just yet is tunnelling a TCP port of a different machine than what you connect to over SSH. This is good for connecting to that Windows XP machine you have no control over (since it probably controls some industrial machine) but that you have to provide access to to certain people e.g. for maintenance of the industrial machine. This works reliably for e.g. tunnelling VNC, RDP and even Samba/CIFS for the occasional file transfer (e.g. a new executable file of some industrial control software). If you have no means to do a proper VPN, SSH is installed pretty much everywhere on current OSes (even current Windows 10 ships with an SSH client).
Agreed. NYC is still a desirable place to live, maybe even more so with Open Streets and expanded outdoor dining. I suspect that what will happen is people who only lived in NYC for work will be able to move where they want, and will be replaced by people who had previously been priced out. Both groups (and the city) will be better off for it. Tax revenues worry me, though.
I find your example is more strongly of the corruption of fundamentalism on the person rather than of compartmentalization.