skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a Ben Franklin quote that I'd love to see applied to software. He was self-taught in writing and the way he got better was to develop a one person version of the 'clean room protocol', by relying on the fallibility of long term memory to separate himself from the source material. He would take an article he loved, try to write a summary of it, then put the summary and the article away. Later he would pull out the summary, and try to write an article to match, then compare his results. Put it away again, pull it out and write a new summary, then compare the summaries.

There are a number of problems with writing a new library to replace an old one that cause us to commit most of the same mistakes, or recreate the mistakes of the old old library. Chesterton's fence and Anchoring being two big examples. This makes most new code evolutionary instead of revolutionary. The first time I saw this phenomenon for what it was had to do with attempts to target the JVM with other languages. This facility has essentially been in Java since 1.2, but the initial tools for doing so looked like assemblers, and not even macroassemblers. You were writing assembly by hand, without variables or registers (since the JVM is stack based). The next two attempts to do something better were less awful, instead of good, and my interpretation is that they were trying to fix something that was broken instead of building something new. A whole generation of devs missed out on leveraging that technology, and most of the work to make the JVM a better host happened after Sun Microsystems was no more.

We get a jQuery or a usable macroassembler once a decade instead of twice a year.

We aren't going to get hardware advances like the old days (Apple's "M3" will probably not be 3x better than the M1), it would be good if we could accelerate excellence in library design. TDD hints at a way, but I think we could go farther, and I have an intuition that such efforts could spin off of code reading groups, if they existed.
Sent cards to friends in Australia from US east coast, was told they’d be there in 3 weeks if I was lucky.
Only $10-14 billion?

According to this list, worldwide agricultural output is $2-8 trillion (nominal vs. PPP) so I’d have expected way more drought induced losses even as just seasonal noise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_secto...
> It dawned on me that an Elon Musk or even a Mitch McConnell could have dealt with it with one phone call. What's the use of me?

You have done for those people what folks like Musk and McConnell did not and probably would not do for them. And you did it more efficiently than the people you helped could. Without your efforts, they'd probably still be homeless. You might be comparing your efforts to the wrong side of the scale. At least to the people you helped, you were far more important and useful than Musk or McConnell were.

It sucks that your dad usurped the recognition. There's probably more to that story that we haven't been privy to, though.

> I made a bunch of PPE last year, at my expense. My dad got a civic award for it.

If you go into consulting, this will pretty much define your life.
It wasn't apparent to me what "buying a standard" mean. I thought the OP owned the standard for a period of time as in domain name. Turns out the OP owns a printout of the standard
Venezuela's kleptocratic partner in crime: the United States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenobot

The term comes from the genus of the frog:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_clawed_frog

It joins the list of things that we argue about whether it is alive:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-life-its-vast-diversi...
You're right it doesn't. My point was only that our industry is overly hype driven and "gets the job done reliably" doesnt land you headlines or search order and that hurts investment too.
ISOcpp D2349: std::pony
The critique is premised on a fundamental aesthetic mistake. It couches itself as a dissertation committee. But Common Lisp is an industrial artifact not an academic one. It was engineered using off the shelf parts. It's development was brownfield not green. Consensus not BDFL.

The eventual standard still stands up after more than three decades because Common Lisp was designed by people using Lisp. And designed for people using Common Lisp.
The fact that machine learning or statistical methods find that the word "asian" is so highly correlated with porn that it is basically synonymous enough to be blocked is a problem.
I sort of wonder if long term, as more and more retail investors get into the market, it'll become less and less rational. A lot of people seem to treat it sort of like trading cards or a fan club, where they buy stock in a company because they like it.
OK that's a fair criticism. Then perhaps we can divide models into those that influence the system they observe (regulatory systems) versus those that only measure, or whose influence is negligible. Models that aim to influence a system do indeed need to be used to test their efficacy.
Analog didn't have an "XxY" resolution. VHS was about 3MHz of luma resolution and 400Khz of chroma, which was 240 lines - but that was interlaced, so your actual vertical resolution was 480 lines per interlaced frame (30 per second at US rates) -- but your Y (luma) signal would change far more often than your Pb and Pr signals (which gave the color by recording how far off the Y signal Blue and Red were)
Show HN: Grit – a multitree-based personal task manager
Thank you for sharing your story. Although fMRI has low resolution, it can be very useful for surgical planning in certain clinical scenarios. For example, to determine hemispheric dominance: "Although the estimated percentages are of some debate, language is the purview of the left hemisphere in approximately 95% of right-handed people and 70% of left-handed people ... At MSKCC, language lateralization mapping is most often requested in right-handed patients with left hemispheric lesions, left-handed patients with left or right hemispheric lesions, or right-handed patients with right hemispheric lesions and signs or symptoms of aphasia." [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4966674/
The approach he used didn't really make sense. I get the impression Tom is so dedicated to his old custom hackedup NN framework that he tailors the approach to what he could easily do in it.

If you asked someone else, "I want to automatically turn characters into 'more uppercase' or 'more lowercase' versions, and it has to involve neural networks; what do?", they would say something like "Easy enough! dump character maps into a standard StyleGAN2-ADA, train for a few days, then find the latent direction corresponding to uppercasing & lowercasing, and edit whatever font you please." (People have been generating fonts with RNNs or GANs for ages.) You could do this over a week or so, the tooling has gotten pretty easy to use.

And if you asked someone on the cutting-edge, they'd suggesting using OA CLIP through Aleph/BigSleep/etc to automatically edit images using a text input prompt of "a lowercase letter" or "an uppercase letter", or one of the hybrids like StyleCLIP https://github.com/orpatashnik/StyleCLIP . This approach might take all of an hour or two (but results probably would be worse).
> Change the policy. Labor is a commodity because we as a society have decided to make it so. If we want to change it, there are lots of options available: More stringent labor laws. Higher minimum wage. Stronger unions. UBI.

What about the other side of some of these things, UBI in particular? How do you account for inflation and higher costs for goods?

Example (and I know it's overly simplified): minimum wage goes up to $20/hour. People have more buying power, so they buy more (demand increases). Costs of goods go up. Buying power is reduced. Another call to increase minimum wage is issued. Cycle repeats.

How do you reconcile these very real consequences? Can we really say that the benefits outweigh them?

Answer is: they may very well have more benefits, but we can't know without doing them - and the consequences of getting it wrong could be permanently damaging.
Getting your goat is part of the prank.
Go is a great programming language
Hi HN!

Principal Mapper is a tool + library for analyzing and securing your AWS IAM configuration. It generates a model of your account and/or organization and uses it to give you a better idea of the effective permissions of your IAM Users and Roles. It has privilege escalation detection built-in and is hopefully written in a way that will let you extend it for your use-cases.

This v1.1.0 update covers more types of policies (resource policies, permission boundaries, session policies, SCPs), supports AWS Organizations, enables cross-account checks, and more!

https://github.com/nccgroup/PMapper

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Happy to answer any questions you have here!
Modern store bought tomatoes have been bred for size and firmness. Firmness in particular reduces losses during mechanical harvesting and shipping. Since 1968, the date of wide-spread use of mechanical harvesters, this has resulted in varieties that are not as flavorful. It is probably this mechanization of tomato farming and not global warming that has made flavorful tomatoes harder to obtain.

From [1]:

> Within five years [from 1963], 99.9 percent of the industry was using the mechanical harvesters, and most farmers were planting the comparatively tasteless hybrid tomatoes built to withstand them.

[1] https://civileats.com/2015/07/15/from-ketchup-to-california-...
use k8s
blockchain tech is definitely the future. /s
Then I think a community driven approach would be a good place to find potential users for feedback.

https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fire/

https://www.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/

Also facebook.

Not to mention there are a ton of bloggers. Start emailing bloggers in this space and explain why your app is better than the rest.
It depends so much on which native tools you use. Which is good and bad. Good that all three OS are good enough not to be the deciding issue, and bad that we haven't really solved portable native software well.
Absolutely.

I just have a slightly hard time believing the Supreme Court when it throws up its tidy hands and says, "Well, this is a problem for the legislature", knowing full well that the legislature won't.

Especially what it's done along partisan lines, though it isn't the case with this one. The Supreme Court is dominated by fans of the status quo, who then set the rules to further encourage the status quo.

It's very hard not to read it as "Everything is fine with me, and if it's not fine with you, go get the House and the Senate and the President to agree with you (snicker). Then come back and I'll have a look at it."
The performance problems of HTTP servers are architectural, not usually about things like instructions per cycle. For example common topics are whether accepting connections will tend to starve serving established connections, whether events are distributed optimally among threads or CPUs, how the server behaves if a client sends one byte per frame, very slowly, or if the client receives the response very slowly, whether the process will run out of memory if a number of events happen suddenly, etc. A web server that's actually equipped to survive as a public service will be much, much longer than 2500 lines of code.
Also on the minus side: human cognition is impaired by higher CO2 levels.

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/continued-CO2-emissions-wil...
Exactly this is best example of reverse racism.
Still is, really.
Anyone pushing a univariate theory of virology, sociology, and economics in the context of a globalized economy of 8 billion people is pushing simpleton pseudoscience
This is why computers used to have that cup holder that would slide out and give you a place to put it.

When you weren't using it you could even put a music CD in it and it would play music right through your computer speakers!
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Biology is going to have its technological leap forward when we start to use cells and whole organisms as the machines they are.

Cells are no different than the stored programs concept that kicked off modern computing. They're machines that encode and run themselves. They manufacture useful resources: insulin, antibodies, heart tissue, etc. The same applies at the organismal level.

Once we get into regenerative cloning, we'll have an unlimited supply of blood for transfusions, organs for those needing transplants, and a research test bed that is orders of magnitude better than the methods we use today.

What I'm getting at is that we'll eventually create monoclonal brainless humans. Turn off brain development or surgically remove the brain during early development. Without a brain, these thoughtless bodies are not persons and are 100% ethical resources to use for the betterment of mankind. We'd be growing plant versions of higher level human tissues, and that unlocks so much new potential.

You'd probably birth them in chimeric pig uteruses until something wholly artificial is developed. You keep alive artificially through mechanical innervation and "life support". This requires a lot of research and development, but we're not that far off.

Different lines could be developed for studying certain cancers. When you can reproduce cancer and study it repeatedly at the organismal level, you can develop novel strategies for detection and clearance. We could make so much more progress.

The "transplant" lines would lack HLA markers that cause tissue rejection, making their tissues safe for transplant into anyone. Nobody would need to take life-altering immunosuppressants ever again.

We could probably start replacing thymuses and other tissues that deplete over time, potentially regenerating youth in humans and extending lifespan dramatically.

Biology is an evolved machine. We should start treating it as such. Then we'll truly be advanced.
Has anyone here ever consider buying or have bought an ISO standard? Which one?
Thanks! It may be cooler than it sounds, there's lots of annoying paperwork and red tape, then hours of backbreaking manual labor to actually put the explosives in the ground.

On the other hand, you get to make things explode.
Actually, “single external reference” might be wrong here. Using multiple pulsars might give us a better fix for our position +time solution across large distances.
Long Covid is real. I had a mild case back in August, but it took around 5 months to feel 'normal' again. Lots of inexplicable things: Minor heart palpitations, feeling of 'heaviness' behind my breastbone. When I exercised, even moderately like running a half mile, I would feel strangely exhausted for many hours later. All of this has gone away now, but I can easily see how someone who is hospitalized could have a relapse, either by overdoing it because they think they should be fully recovered, or through some other mysterious after-effect. Personally I believe it is caused by an immune system that is on 'high alert' after being attacked in every organ for multiple weeks (this is how Covid feels). It is logical to me that it might take multiple months for an immune system to gain back its equilibrium. Just guesses, I am not a doctor.
It also helped that they banned reporting on covid deaths and dissapeared activists who were trying to do so on Github. Not pleasant, but it worked.
It's interesting because moving "fast" is very relative to the circumstances you're currently in. If you have an army of engineers, it's very easy to move fast (sometimes, depending on the organization) but moving fast for an individual is objectively slow in comparison.
I can't find anything in Google to confirm "Microsoft Coffee" except for this site, discussion of it on Reddit 13 hours ago.

Its choice not to display any information older than the attention span of a cracked out chipmunk is one of the main reasons I stopped using Google.
Yes, that's why C has undefined behavior. Absolutely
Shusha Programming Language
I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB
I launched it a couple of years ago to show my kids what I did as a kid. I had forgotten pretty much every bit of Pascal (and I actually wrote Object Pascal at the end of the 90s!) But all that writeln stuff has left my brain.
How do you look at it then?
> Typically, fMRI is used for initial planning

No, it is not. In my experience it is at best rarely used for planning, i.e. typically planning is done without fMRI. It will probably have DWI but maybe not tensor information (although that is growing).

Awake cortical mapping and/or task based references are very typical (near 1/2 of procedures, iirc). fMRI is not.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea or anything. I have a pretty good understanding of all the tradeoffs for fMRI but I'm not arguing for or against it. I'm reacting to the claim that is commonly deployed in clinical (not research) practice, which just doesn't match my (fairly extensive) experience.

So the articles claims of "transforming medicine" are aspirational.

source: Have worked directly in this market (clinical), hashed this out with many neurosurgeons,seen the procedures, etc. See also MR tech comment in this thread, in my experience very typical.
Tesla Doubles Deliveries
I wrote filed [0], another single file HTTP server. It's very fast !

I wrote it because I was hosting containers (using LXC) on a laptop which only had mass storage available via a USB 1.1 (12mbps) connected drive. I was serving video streams out to the various Roku devices in my house from this container, but other webservers would do things very slowly (such as opening the file to serve out, which would require doing a lot of slow I/O) causing periodic interruptions. filed doesn't do those things.

It also supports Range requests (required to meaningfully serve media), and a few other things. If you want a static HTTP server, filed can work out quite well.

[0] https://filed.rkeene.org/fossil/artifact/d39c0feefb3f9113?ln
That's pretty awful. I hadn't researched that aspect of Tesla and now I really would have to. It makes their high driving ranges less impressive.

I've also been researching the latest generation Leaf. I have a 2013 Leaf that is extremely reliable, has no build quality issues worth mentioning, and has only lost about 15% range in 7 years. Of course it lacks fast charge so the battery has not been stressed much, and it hasn't been kept in a really hot climate. Leafs have passively cooled batteries so I would avoid them somewhere that gets really hot for more than a small part of the year.

The latest generation Leaf has less sticker range than the Tesla model 3 but if the Tesla degrades like that the two are a closer comparison. The Leaf is much more affordable. Also doesn't have self-drive but I don't trust Tesla's self-drive yet. Latest generation Leaf has some basic "cruise control assist" I think which is about all I'd trust with today's state of the art.

I bought my 2013 Leaf used and see some 2019-2020 62kWh Leaf models used right now. Used Leaf has been a decent buy for a while.
It's true that going to the trouble of costumes and video editing is at least some effort. However yesterday had more than its fair share of very low effort Photoshops and year after year, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

To the original question, the alleged original prank still outweighs any contemporary green screen antics: producing multiple physical fake boxes, distributing them across town in multiple stores, and getting local news to pick up on it. That's a lot of work.
I was going to say... EDTA is also suspected to be the primary active ingredient in Evapo-Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf3ma1XFt9Y
In the earlier days of the internet Russian/mail-order brides seemed far more visible than asian porn/fetishes to me.

I wonder when the tides shifted and what was responsible for it. Now if you search "russian" the results are dominated by politics.
Coinbase is the only exchange I know off that still supports sending coins to a private wallet in WA and NY. Localbitcoins and Kraken stopped supporting that, and RobinHood never did. It's a shame.
Exactly that. I bet most people looking for "redhead" aren't after makeup or hair care advice.
But during the summer there’s actually quite much more sunlight in the north than closer to the equator. The growing season might be shorter, but it has potential to be very productive.
That mostly applies to the developed world. Countries like mine won’t be able to afford the necessary changes, and we’re set to keep growing.
GNU Linux-libre 4.16-gnu: -ESTRBNYX (2018)
Has fraud been practically nonexistant? Perhaps. But I think "Trust but verify" applies here.

(No, there is no real trust where you feel the need to verify, but that is the point.)
darkhttpd and things like `python -m SimpleHTTPServer` only support static content, so you can't run a chat server on them.

A lot depends on your context. I haven't benchmarked darkhttpd, but it's probably significantly better than my httpdito (linked above), which can spew out 1.8 gigabits per second and at least 20000 requests per second on my 8-year-old 4-core 2.3-GHz amd64 laptop. An event-driven server like darkhttpd would be a much better basis for adding Comet functionality like chat—that's why, at KnowNow in 02000, we contracted Robert Thau to move our Comet functionality from Apache with Perl CGI (IIRC ≈64 concurrent connections and ≈64 chat messages per second on a 1GHz server with 1GiB of RAM) to his select()-driven thttpd (≈8192). This work, now mostly of archaeological interest, has been open-sourced as mod_pubsub, which also includes a compatible select()-driven Python server I wrote the next year. It was also able to handle thousands of messages per second and thousands of concurrent clients.

There are at least four axes to your problem:

- How many concurrent connections do you mean when you say "a small chat server"? This could be anywhere from 2 to 2048.

- How many messages per second is it processing? This could be anywhere from 128 per connection (for something like Mumble) to 1/2048 per connection (if almost all clients are idle almost all the time).

- How big are these messages on average? This could be anywhere from 64 bytes to 64 mebibytes.

- What kind of hardware are you running it on? This could be anything from a 1MHz Commodore PET with an 8-bit 6502 and 16KiB of RAM to a 3.7GHz 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X with 256GiB of RAM. (I don't think anyone's written a chat server on Contiki, but it would be easy to do. It just wouldn't scale to very high loads.)

So, the answer to your question may vary by a factor of about 2⁷³, 22 decimal orders of magnitude. Can you give more detail on what you're thinking about?