skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even among very smart people, there is a incredibly powerful desire to reject over one hundred years of data and analysis and grasp for something, anything at all, other than the horrible reality that the most likely cause of sudden changes in the cause and effect photosynthesis cycles of all plants on our world is most likely caused by human-emitted hydrocarbon molecules into our atmosphere.

In other words, maybe all the water pouring into our boat was caused by something other than than the gaping hole in our hull, but the primary focus is likely going to be patching that hole before investigating possible alternative causes when a very ready explanation is right in front of us.
> PRC has no chance in hell for an amphibious landing operation in Taiwan. So this is going to take quite a while.

PRC would easily have air superiority in no time.
The title and content of the article (and therefore discussion here) do not follow what was actually asked in the poll. The question asked was, "How has the discussion of politics in sports on social media impacted your viewing habits?"

Social media was the focus of the poll, which is not mentioned in the article or comments here. The poll was clearly not asking about politics in sports, but rather discussion of politics in sports on social media.
To be honest, quantum computing is still not even at the level of ENIAC, but closer ti the level of Konrad Zuse's experiments. It has nothing much to show in practical computation yet, to say nothing of running anything remotely resembling AI.
Cosquer Cave
Sure but Amish have the right to choose to use the button or not. You should have the option to opt-out.

Or at least have that option until society says “well given how many life’s are save we need to collect this data from everyone”. But you’d get a say in that conversation as well.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Venomous Overlords!

But who could be more venomous than Cesare Borgia and the Borgia family whom reportedly had rings for poisoning (and assassinating) their enemies? Attending social functions has, in some past eras, been a wholly more perilous game than today, even with Covid.
Sounds like a case of poor incentives. It's easy to wag our fingers and say "well they shouldn't be doing that" but difficult to come up with a system of incentives that makes everyone want to do what's socially beneficial. In this case, it seems like there should be a separate organization in charge of looking for adverse events that is rewarded for finding events (instead of punished). We use some strategies like this currently when regulating the finance industry
The description of the incident in their quarterly financial statement seems to match this description. It doesn't downplay it quite as much as the email they sent customers.

> For example, in January 2021, we became aware that certain of our information technology systems hosted by a third party cloud provider were improperly accessed and certain of our source code and the credentials used to access the information technology systems themselves had been compromised. We received a threat to publicly release these materials unless we made a payment, which we have not done. As a result, it is possible that the source code and other information could be publicly disclosed or made available to our competitors. Due to the nature of the source code and the other information that we believe was improperly accessed, we at this time do not believe that any public disclosure will have a material adverse effect on our business or operations, but it is impossible to gauge the precise impact of any such disclosure. We have taken, and will continue to take, steps to remediate access controls to our information technology systems.

http://ir.ui.com/sites/default/files/2021-02/ui-10q-12-31-20...
Humans can't hear a phase difference.
I mean, a police officer in every bedroom wouldn't be great. Not saying that applies here, just thought your question was a strange hypothetical.
I really like Louis' approach to Right to Repair. He doesn't want to force manufacturers to re-design products for repairability or make their designs open source. He doesn't even want to force manufacturers to offer repair services or to supply parts. He just wants to stop manufacturers from going out of their way to screw over independent repair.

For instance, a manufacturer shouldn't be obligated to sell a part exclusively to another manufacturer in order to do business with them. Third parties should be allowed to ship used goods and parts through customs without having the seized as "counterfeits". Third parties shouldn't have to "partner" with manufacturers just to be able to buy parts. Third parties should be permitted to share technical details about a product (eg independently-developed board views or circuit diagrams).

That's what I want to see. I'd much rather see independent repair be given better legal protection than have a bunch of half-baked, hard-to-enforce regulations piled onto manufacturers who will inevitably find loopholes anyways.
Is there a market for good networking equipment? If Ubiquiti was it and it's gone, and reading this thread there are no good alternatives, then it sounds like there is an opportunity for a new company.
I recently purchased switches, wireless access points and cameras for a new home-office setup. I was looking at going full Ubiquiti because the dream machine (UDM) comes with a network video recorder (NVR) that looked quite good in comparison to Zoneminder, Shinobi and even Synology's paid product.

While researching I found-out that you must use a ui.com account to setup the UDM (the apologists call it "mandatory online registration"). While you can setup a local account and disconnect from ui.com afterwards, I was perplexed that they would choose to do this.

Their user forums had at least two flamewar threads with people pointing-out the security implications of linking your local network to a remote, internet-accessible service but zero communication from Ubiquity themselves. Fast-forward to January and we saw the disclosure of a massive breach on ui.com.

So I ditched the Ubiquiti cameras for Geovision (better bang for $), kept the switches, APs and have been running the controller in containers (https://github.com/jacobalberty/unifi-docker). Needless to say, I'm not going to upgrade from version 6.0.43, which does not include advertisement.

I hope it doesn't get any worse because I do love how easy it is to maintain VLANs, firewall rules and IPS services.
> and in particular the trade partner that houses TSMC,

Why do you think the US is working with TSMC to build plants in the US and intel is building more facilities as well? It's fairly obvious nobody has any confidence in the long run that Taiwan will remain independent.
I've done the same, with the only difference being that I bought the stuff a few years back. I never enabled cloud management nor remote access though so I think I'm OK for now.

Not buying any more hardware from them though, unless things significantly change.
This isn't a counterargument, but sometimes more data isn't better data. I think lidar is super impressive in the right conditions, but debris in the air can be considered a bird even if it's a paper bag. If Waymo is having to still use CV to validate that it's a paper bag, then aren't they having to solve both problems? (Not that that is a bad thing, but it is at least two problems. I'm not certain who will achieve a working system, or if any of the players today will at all.)
I'm curious at what threshold you're seeing that kind of query planner disparity. I use postgres professionally at work and when testing a feature I'll load up a local database with 100k to 500k rows in order to simulate a production environment, normally this is more than enough to get an almost identical query planner result (after running explain (analyze, buffers) etc).

But I haven't seen cases where a 10000x slowdown occurs after deleting data, unless you're hitting data where it spills over an in-memory sort, or is no longer efficient to do a heap/sequential scan.

The hardest thing with postgres and query planning IMO is understanding what kind of index would need to be used, and ordering composite indexes accordingly. I've extensively used a sortable date/id column as the last entry in an index as postgres will end up only doing an index scan.

On the other side there are times where the indexes for a table are greater as whole then the data contained therein.

Though if you're running in the multiple billions of rows in a single table and haven't paritioned/sharded it in some way, YMMV.
nginx with GeoIP2 module does exactly same for me for years by now.
> The USA would absolutely carry on a multi-year war to regain Taiwan.

Where is the sign that USA is beefing up for such an obvious confrontation in the future? I don't see it.
That the committer hopes you believe they manage their PGP private key better than they manage their Git account security?
Sure, but typing
ic(someVariable)
is a lot faster for me than typing
print(f"{someVariable=}")
in Python3.8 or >, and still faster than typing
print(f"someVariable={someVariable}")
in Python < 3.8 (which I still need to use in some cases).

It's especially faster when I think about how often I fat-finger the '{' (and '}', when my editor doesn't insert the matching brace automagically). Of course YMMV.
Once you have an AI with a human approximate general intelligence, the ability to instantiate it thousands of times and/or run it at thousands of times 'baseline' speed to explore a problem space is going to look like a big IQ boost.
> the subject of "the biggest mafia trial Italy has seen in decades," the BBC wrote. "There are 355 alleged mobsters and corrupt officials who have been charged

This is pretty similar to the Maxi Trial from back in the 80s. [1]

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxi_Trial
The same thing happened on the other relevant post about an hour ago. Here was my recent comment on that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26642757
I store them with the product if that would make sense (in some cases it does), otherwise in a filing cabinet.
Recreating fiat in a fully decentralized system is huge. It’s indeed the driver behind DeFi. There’s no limit to what you can build with this.

Re NFT: what we’re seeing now is only the beginning. Is there hype? Sure. Is there a deeper underlying point though? You bet. NFT access control will come. But it’s not that crucial of a point as you seem to believe.
Anyone care to say what they believe should be done, or is this just another mad about things thread?

Anyone have ideas? What is the solution?
Fair warning: the rk3568/rk3566 platform is very young. You may want to be sure that upstream uboot and Linux support the board before ordering. But the hardware looks promising.
I looked into Ubiquiti years ago while trying to find a decent access point. Couldn't stand the thought of having to configure stuff "in the cloud" or running the then giant Java based controller locally.

Floundered some with random enterprise access points used off of ebay that either drew too much power or was still buggy (netgear was the worst).

Then I came across Mikrotik. Their hardware and conformance is somewhat dated, but I've never had anything run so stable. Haven't looked back and been going on 4 years now.
Do you have a source for this? Not asking out of doubt, but curiosity
Check the Openwrt table of hardware[0] for a well supported device, and you're good to go. Seriously, there is no good vendor software in this space, but the consumer hardware can actually work fine with better firmware.

Generic Linux or BSD boxes are ok as routers, but they're not the best switches since they start taking up a lot of space if you need a bunch of NICs.

[0] https://openwrt.org/toh/start
And I am going to use it, because of the pain of typing {, which half the time my fingers miss (whereas I'm pretty good at typing 'i' and 'c').
I think it's not as hard as it initially seems. Lunar calendars are based on the shape of the moon, and we can compute past phases of the moon with sufficient accuracy. So, if the record said "cherry blossoms peaked at the tenth day of the second month, year X", then the only remaining question is when the "second month" started.

Each lunar month is 29 or 30 days long, so if we miscalculate the month then the error will be also 29/30 days, back or forth. However, the graph in the article shows that almost all dates fall in (modern calendar) April.

So, if the blossoms peaked at 4/20 and we miscalculate by one month, we'll arrive at 3/21 or 3/22, which is too early to be likely. Ditto in the other direction. So, even in the worst case, we can safely assume that most of the dates shown are correct (or maybe one day off, due to disagreement over when the new moon started).

In addition, if they were meticulous enough to record cherry blossoms, I'd assume that the Japanese Imperial court would have written how many months were in each year ...
It's all the little needling ways that get to me. For example, Google Maps works fine with GPS. However, if you drag the map view so it isn't centered on you and tap the "center" button, you get a pop-up begging you to let Google scan for access points even when your wifi is turned off. Hit no and hit the center button again and it works normally.

Fucking why, Google? It's irrelevant to the function I'm trying to use. Not only that but you already have my answer, which is no. Maybe I don't want to be your personal 24/7 wardriver. Maybe I don't want you running my battery down for no reason. Maybe I'm somewhere I'm not allowed to emit 2.4GHz signals and your scanning could get me in trouble with my job or even the law.
You’ll reconsider once you see Twitter transitioning to such a model to circumvent regulation while still trying to capture value.
I didn't have any trouble. Safari on macOS.

TLDR; National parks administration has been degraded severely under Obama and then Trump and at this point it's a mess mostly designed to make money from industry at the expense of preservation.
If this is being flagged, it's likely because it's against the submission guidelines. It's hard to see how this gratifies intellectual curiosity, and it's a political topic without an interesting new phenomenon.
That would've been hilarious. And also uneventful. North Korea wouldn't start flinging nukes over a Tweet.
The Kaiser piece is pretty clear -- AZ got an exclusive deal.

Here's Bill Gates on his reasoning for pushing the exclusivity deal. Basically he claims to be the authority on which factories/companies are "capable" and which ones are not.

https://youtu.be/Grv1RJkdyqI?t=564

With that in mind, it's sadly ironic that they ended up going with a company that hasn't been able to convince people that their shot is safe and effective.

As I understand it the Serum Institute of India got access through a partnership with AZ, not through a partnership with Oxford directly.

https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2021...

This issue is a little touchy for me because lots of vaccine manufacturers passed over our country (Canada) for manufacturing, because the capacity was "too small for them"

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/every-covid-vaccine-m...

Despite the fact that we apparently had a facility to manufacture millions of doses by the end of 2020.

https://theconversation.com/the-roots-of-canadas-covid-19-va...

And now we're doing really poorly in the vaccination effort. So yes, I wonder how it could have gone if AZ didn't gatekeep access (and bungle the public relations/comms front).

Interestingly, the company that apparently could have manufactured vaccines in Canada has a recent legal conflict with Bill Gates.

https://globalnews.ca/news/5035009/gates-foundation-sues-can...

Given that Bill Gates had a confirmed influence on the decision of Oxford to license exclusively to AZ, who's to say he didn't push AZ to not manufacture at this facility? It's not a far-fetched thing to imagine, given the "vetting" role he claimed in the YT clip I linked.

We'll probably never know, because this backroom exercise of power is not accountable to the general public, though it has serious implications for all of us.

(edited to lump together several comments)
You base this on one doctor though. I have enough life experience to know that some doctors are better at their jobs than others. Maybe that's on the individual. Maybe some medical schools are better than others. I don't know what the explanation is. But I don't think you can extrapolate to "US doctors" in the plural.
> which means higher prices of good and services

Only if automation never happens. Clearly that ain't the case, per this very comment section and the topic thereof.

Indeed, automation's going to continue anyway, because as automation costs fall they'll eventually undercut labor costs - even those artifically suppressed through coercive means, as is currently the case in any (capitalist or otherwise) society lacking a socioeconomic safety net like UBI. So sooner or later something like UBI is necessary either way (that, or making people do pointless busy work, which is both paternalistic and grossly inefficient).
> There's no free lunch. Every significant enhancement comes with a corresponding disadvantage. Otherwise millions of years of evolution would have produced something better already.

And yet the nerve to my retina is still installed backwards.
That nonce value could be ±\0 or 5,621,964,321e100; though for well-designed cryptographic hash functions it's far less likely that - at maximum difficulty - a low nonce value will result in a hash collision.
Because he's an ass and self-aggrandizer.
This depends what you mean by "scaling". Postgres can easily handle 10s of Terabytes on a single server (though this is dependent upon your use case), but when it comes to multiple host sharded databases at the moment MySQL has some more mature options like Vitess [1], where your options in Postgres are things like Citus [2] which just recently open sourced their shard mover, but still have the HA and replication feature behind expensive enterprise pricing.

For most people not dealing with the multiple terabyte database size, Postgres is what I would definitely recommend. But once you get above that, then there are no easy answers and you would need to look at what YouTube did with Vitess [3]

[1] https://vitess.io/

[2] https://www.citusdata.com/

[3] https://vitess.io/docs/overview/history/
And the mandatory password for the account will be permanently locked to “00000000”.
SoftBank owns ARM, with a pending sale to Nvidia. I doubt owning the Acorn trademarks and back catalog has any effect on that relationship.
He could have also mentioned that floor(cap-height + x-height + descender) also equals 32, but isn’t the answer either. And probably a few other arbitrary arithmetic combinations would work as well.

But it seems it me it’d be much more efficient to just explain the real answer instead of telling you all the ways you could misinterpret it... which is exactly what he goes on to do.
Which “git account”? Signing means you don’t need to depend on the git mirrors security to ensure you know who made a commit.
I bought this USB-C extension cable, and learned that it only works for USB debugging on Android when the Pixel's stock cable is plugged in the "correct" way. There's even a little label on the end of the extension cord telling you to reverse the connection if it doesn't work. /facepalm

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B071DMMW4J
I’d be happy about typing the liquid volume into a keypad and just having that much water come out.
I just got my first serving of icecream, thanks to the post here. And I'm a convert.

One question: in most cases, I get an output like
`ic| tmp.py:9 in nonesuch() at 03:23:52.479`
What is the "at 03:23:52.479", and how do I turn it off? Looks like it's some sort of timer function, but I don't see it in the readme. Python3.7 on Linux.
I think the most notable part of this claim is why wasn't this message deleted right away, and why were they drawing attention to it by saying "please disregard"? It's a purposeful streisand effect tactic
My 2015 is fine, fwiw... on firefox.
I've been considering my options to replace the Unifi controller if things get much worse and OPNsense + some terraform magic sounds like a great option.

What do you use to synchronise the APs and switch configuration? I'm talking things like SSIDs, VLANs, DHCP options etc.
Have you looked at DANOS?

I have an ER4 which works for now but plan to go down the custom route once the ER4 is unable to push packets quickly enough. My hope is that VyOS/DANOS is sufficiently stable by then to run as a VM on say a Odroid H2+ replacement (or something similar)
I recommend PC Engines if you want something with a bit more support:

https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

They’re small passively cooled embedded x86 machines. They haven’t made the jump to 10GBit, and their newest model (the apu2) is getting pretty old. However, they have very long production timeframes (many years) for each board config, which leads to stability over time.
Just because he’s a classic “Angry New York Guy” and therefore is an ass, doesn’t make him wrong.
I suggest changing the title to "Crowdfunding a Direct Ballot Initiative for Right to Repair". The current title is probably not very attention-grabbing because it makes it sound like the video is just about Louis Rossmann's personal plans for the next couple years. If you don't know who Louis is, you'd probably overlook it without a second thought.
Frankly your dismissal of people's legitimate concerns with the language as just uneducated griping by fools is one of the reasons I and so many others avoid it and its community like the plague.

I don't know what it is about go, but for some reason it seems impossible to have reasoned—if passionate—disagreement about the language. Any criticisms are hand-waved away as just ranting. Everyone who actually uses it knows that none of these things are real problems. And... what are those real problems, anyway? Can't think of any!

I love Rust, but I'm more than happy to dive into its warts and agree with legitimate complaints and concerns. Hell, I love Ruby too and that language is full of questionable decisions. Not only are language designers imperfect, but there's no such thing as a perfect language anyway. Great decisions have downsides, and there's no sense in acting like those downsides don't exist.

Why is it that gophers never seem to be willing to admit that their language—like all others—has warts, bad tradeoffs, good tradeoffs with uncomfortable but acceptable downsides, and flat-out mistakes? To any criticism, the response is the same: "you don't understand the design", "go's simplicity is its strength", "I've never needed that feature", etc. Hell, the inventor of `nil` calls it his billion-dollar mistake and someone is in this wider discussion arguing that nil pointer dereferences aren't that big a deal.

Where on earth are the gophers that will stand up and say, "Yeah, <X> part of golang sucks. I'd change <Y, Z> if I could. But I still really think it hits the right balance overall." Instead, it's all just regurgitation of the same Kool-Aid.
Mass incarceration in concentration camps is not a political issue, it's a human rights issue.
I'm not saying all those people are lying or false-flagging, I'm saying there exist quite a few other parties that perhaps don't care much about harassment but would like to see his ideas suppressed, and might find this convenient and play it up.

What I absolutely will not do is presume guilt based on what might be something of a metaphorical lynch mob. I expect and require something that looks like due process, and so I'm continuing to watch how this public conversation goes.
So, in other words, you don’t know either.