skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally don't agree.

Even with something like a login form. If you keep on improving it with what you learn whenever you need to re-implement it or extend its requirements you end up with at least a re-usable "architecture", and most of the times you probably end up with big chunks of code that you can use, either the JS part, or html, or back-end logic. You now have a nice show/hide password field, your html is semantic, issues that were on the first quick and dirty were ironed out a bit with every iteration.

> But the power of software lies in it's mutability (else it's better and faster in pure hardware)

This doesn't seem at all right? The power of software lies in it doing what it's supposed to do, not introducing problems that might be costly or annoy users to the point they don't use it anymore or something better comes along and not doing what you don't expect it to do. And at the same time you're saying its value comes from mutability but then saying that it's better to rewrite it?

I also think that if you can rewrite it in one afternoon, perhaps it's ok, but I doubt the things where some semblance of quality and effort matter is when whatever is the software isn't rewritable in an afternoon.

> so the vast majority of software will break due to changing requirements or dependencies

This also depends. Exhaustive testing for the sake of testing is not good, but a good test suite that exerts the overall functionality of your software is almost always good and allows for much faster iteration down the line and pays itself in a short amount of time or iteration cycles.
You can also go down the rabbit hole of using ML in animation. It's really a gamechanger.

[0] https://montreal.ubisoft.com/en/introducing-learned-motion-m...

[1] https://cascadeur.com/help/autoposing
It seems like there should be a removable gasoline or diesel generator purely for range extension. For day-to-day commutes and errands near home, leave the generator at home and save on weight. For long-distance trips, bring the generator with you.
If you're going to say someone is talking nonsense, maybe back it up with specific reasons how and why. (Not necccesarily saying he isn't, just without specifics we might as well just be calling people names)
Elon musk wasn't qualified to build a rocket company. Still pretty succesful though.
Is there any way to describe how a city works and relates to its citizens that isn't political?

I think Simcity makes a political comment, and there was literally no way for the game to avoid that.
I guess the low hanging fruit is to attach this to a power plant or some other CO2 emitting process.
Heh, someone shows up to remind me of ‘nil’ each time I say that.

Lua's ‘nil’ is not a value, it's a void in which all undefined variables swim. Specifically, if you assign nil to a table field, you can't know what fields the table has unless you have that schema beforehand.
I don’t follow this logic either. You are saying that since child porn exists elsewhere we might as well leave up the stuff we find and have the ability to do something about?
Enough time for what?

All I'm predicting is that carbon reduction will follow a path. Slow, then fast, then slow again. At that late point, exhaust capture may be mandatory... I would even say probably.
The way I work, is that the entire project is in "Ship" quality, the entire time of development; just not yet complete. Incomplete functionality means a blank screen or a button that doesn't do anything. It never means that something crashes.

My goal is zero crashes, ever; at any time during development. The same with memory leaks or severely anomalous behavior.

It's an old-fashioned way of working that results in basically zero tech debt.

I'm allergic to debt, of any kind.

The nice thing about working this way, is you get incredibly well-formed UX, and you don't have that awful "QA surprise," at the end of the project.

It also goes a lot faster than you might think, as bugs get fixed close to the time of their creation.
Agreed. The problem with this stance though is verification.

How do you verify that someone is stepping over the line and violating the rights of others.

We rely on various NGOs and media reporting for the raw data and the law courts for independent verification.

So it’s no surprise of course that these are early targets for people with malign interests.

It’s a simple litmus test. Both of those functions should be made far more independent of political control.

Easier said than done.

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Show HN: Create your own security agency
Hey there,
we launched the MVP version of our product - Camdog

https://camdog.ai/

We offer VSAAS - video surveillance as a service

Despite the fact that this model has only two drawbacks - the good-quality Internet is still not available everywhere and possible cyber threats - we are absolutely convinced that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages and many technological monsters are turning in this direction.

How we differ from existing solutions:

- we are hardware agnostics. we offer you the freedom to choose cameras. from Chinese for 10 dollars - to Axis for 4K) connect any IP camera that broadcasts the stream via rtsp / https

- we combined VMS and video analytics in one solution from the start and made the interface as easy as possible. the installation will not take more than a minute

- we store your video 24/7 and aggregate events with the possibility of instant access

We would like to receive feedback from fans of DYI solutions who can install everything themselves and love to play with new solutions.

We are also looking towards integration with Google Nest and want to add a P2P connection mode.
Therefore, it would be interesting what you would like to see in addition to your Google Nest camera, which feature is not currently in Google Aware.
Tell us. Trust us - we can react much faster and you can get something much faster than the monster can do.

We will also be very glad to meet those who have experience in sales in this market and will be able to help us in this direction.

Thanks!
That's exactly what I meant. Bureaucracy is a result of large administrative systems and it's hard to avoid. Civil forfeiture (among many, many other things) is the result of massive systemic corruption at high levels. The kind of corruption that shapes every fiber of society.

It's not an accident that laws don't look at the deed but rather at where the person sits in society. There's not enough room in a book, let alone a comment to show just the most obvious evidence of this. But when someone can use an "affluenza" [0] defense to kill people and get away with it, you know where that country stands.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/02/us/ethan-couch-affluenza-...
What’s your opinion on Blender?
Yet another reason to avoid IoT and so-called "smart" devices, especially since most of them have microphones and even cameras (Skype on your TV!).

The shower glee and excitement some people have for new gadgets with glaring security implications is frightening. We don't need anyone to force surveillance on us, wells gladly install it ourselves.
Show HN: Periodic Table for Twitter
how much co2 is released each year ? -> "The world emits about 43 billion tons of CO2 a year (2019)"

This article -> 50$ per ton of capture.

product = $2,15 trillion to capture the whole year emissions.

US GDP 2020 -> $20.93 trillion

Only a few plants and ~10% of GDP from a single country could solve it.

Does this mean that global warming is almost a non-issue, but merely just a game of chicken to see who will foot the bill ?
He had Ivy-league degrees in physics and economics and two billion dollars. More importantly, he wasn't the whole leadership team: the CTO was a rocket engineer and the COO had other experience.
"The plants and animals will adapt and evolve to handle the additional heat"

Evolution takes thousands of years. In that time species will go extinct, so there is no chance for them to evolve.

For a simple demonstration of how fast we are changing the climate compared to other periods when ecosystems may have been able to adapt, see https://xkcd.com/1732/
I think that the type of intellect is the issue. Why?

At the start, only highly technical types dominated the Internet. Other types existed, but were the minority.

And at the start, the Internet had more, tech only content. Sure, there were funny memes, other silly things, but cat videos didn't take up 99.99% of all non-porn traffic.

This type of personality tends to do lots of research, read a lot, where as most of the population never picks up a book, and very rarely reads. And while the Internet forces the average Joe to read, reading a headline is all they do. And can even tolerate.

(Note that UN national literary rates, are based upon what a 7th grader can read. An average one too, not a particularly bright one.)

Couple this with tiny smartphone displays, where a three paragraph news article looks like a massive wall of text...

And, no text reflow in mainline phone browsers due to agendas...

And most Internet commentators aren't even able to listen, or understand, the other side.

One of the most popular communication methods forces tiny little sentences, forcing even the highly literate to write like Captain Kirk, in halting, disjointed sentences!

Then, couple all of this with something else readers / those who enjoy learning, do? Why, they learn history! The history of why you never do this or that, or why thing $x leads to bad outcomes time and time again, which provides significant context to the world.

In short? The Internet now belongs to the masses, and that is why it changed.
Humans will use nuclear weapons eventually. They exist, so they will be used eventually. That cannot be stopped. "Monkey see, monkey do" principle. And the people in power seem to keep getting dumber so we are probably not far off.
Sometimes simplicity can be harder to achieve than complexity.
I agree, the title of the article is a bit misleading. In general, you’d still need an IDE installed on the host machine, which can then connect to a runtime on the container. With VS Code and remote containers, it’s quite easy.

Alternatively, maybe it’d be possible to have the container expose an IDE over http (possibly vscode through the browser?).
Imbaba in Cairo sounds pretty dystopian from all the coverage I can find, and the government seems to rely heavily on totalitarian policing to suppress mass uprisings there. And we're talking about an area with, apparently, something like a quarter of the population of Magnasanti.
That actually nicely illustrates the parallel between AI and compression. An 'almighty' AI would be able to reverse engineer the source code from what it sees and compress it back down to that size.

But then it might determine that the best compression would be no transmission at all, and decide to eradicate any potential viewers. Those damn pesky almighty AIs.
> death industry engaged in a giant transfer of wealth from dying people to the medical establishment

This is the problem: in US the first priority for medical care is profit.

All other aspects are not the first priority, including ethics and psychological health of the patient and the family.

Combine it with a litigation-happy society, greedy insurance companies, and a culture that treats longevity as an entitlement.

Then add the poor focus on prevention and the egregiously lax standards for food/air/water/housing health and safety.
Isn’t it much easier to build on top of a good code base?
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And meanwhile, my Highlander will be old enough to drink in a couple years, has lived everywhere from the East Coast to the Bay Area to (currently) the Great Basin, has been taken offroad on multiple occasions, has handled dozens of blizzards like a champ, and (knock on wood) is still hanging in there, even with my rather inconsistent maintenance.

So I'd say a lot of this depends on the model, and possibly the make.
The reason some London Tube stations have extra doors – human hair
As the global economy shrinks, the wealthy get wealthier and the poor get poorer, proving that once you are wealthy enough, you are no longer affected by what happens in the real world, your sheer wealth becomes almost self-sustaining even in the face of economic downturn.

Not a single billionaire ever made their wealth through honest labor. It is time we crack down on these dragons, sitting on their hoards of gold.
> "So Apple did develop for and ship little endian CPUs way before the iPod."

ARM was always little-endian by default. It has a big-endian mode, too, but now days it's virtually never used.

But did Apple actually use the big endian mode in the Newton, which shipped in 1993? Google hasn't been able to give me a clear answer on this.
What do you mean my the funk? Without meaning to sound melodramatic, I’ve been depressed for so long I can cope quite well with it. The additional depressive episodes mostly come and go of their own accord
Franciscans, Codermen, Lend Me Your Screens (An Elegy for Richard Stallman)
I think you've found an interesting point here. I don't agree that this is some "slight of hand" by the author to try and convince your, but I do think you're correct that you can't draw your conclusion solely based on the one art project. I see it more as a failing of the author than a trick.

SimCity does have an ideology, and it does have something to say with how it has weighed it's measurements of citizen satisfaction, but the author seems to fail at capturing that ideology and instead just talks about how minmaxing is bad.

The rest of the article is interesting. There's plenty of people out there that don't even think about how the rules of the game frames the discussions you can have about it. It's just kind of a bad example.
The little detail that injecting CO2 into gas and oil wells can help get more gas and oil out of them is the main reason companies are investing in this tech. If the government can be persuaded to pay for the research, all the better!
> at least know (or let others know) where to look for it

I think this only works for the targeted party, which sends a pulse, which you could potentially triangulate on. The firing aircraft sends a very narrow beam of signal, so unless you have a specific setup to detect the direction of the signal, you’ll just know you were hit by an unidentified radio beam.

I’m not a radio expert though, who knows what I’m missing :)
I dont know this guy. But his idea definitly works for me. The effect lasts longer than a day so i would argue its not the sleep deprevation itself
Animation can make wave much more than emoji
Mixer and other big players tried this and failed, with tens-to-hundreds million usd spend involved.
They do have live DJ sets. Another possibility is music.
This is an alternative to Core Data. The DFlat tool generates Swift code from a FlatBuffer schema and persists objects in SQLite during runtime. Core Data objects are defined in Xcode using the Interface Builder.
If we could capture carbon by itself, we wouldn't bury it, we could make all kinds of stuff with it. The problem, approximately, is that you get energy from oxidising stuff, and have to put energy in to reduce it.

Of course, turning solar energy plus carbon dioxide into sequestered carbon and O2 is what plants do, but evidently not enough compared to human action. I do wonder whether biological (plants, algae) action, aided by genetic modification, could do more for atmospheric CO2.
I think we're describing the same effect. Our conclusions about regression to the mean are identical, and I believe the people who most want to learn are also most likely to be of a live-and-let-live persuasion, because they want to be left alone to explore information at their own discretion, and hate for the information available to them to be limited. It's basically a bargain - "I'll leave you to do what you want to do if you let me do the same".
> but who actually watches for these things

On the other hand, who is using any linux-like OS on a daily basis and upgrades major software versions when they have work to do?

I usually only do full system upgrades (including essential software like tmux, vim and such) only when I know I have spare time in case there is things breaking, as 1 out of 10 times, something will break/be deprecated/have changes somehow.
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You could say that China is (I think that's what supernova87a is implying). Many of the top people studied science and engineering.

A quick search: Xi Jinping studied chemical engineering, Li Kejiang, studied Law and Economics, Hu Jintao studied water engineering, Wen Jiabao studied geomechanics. So that's 3 out of 4 of the top leadership of the last 15 years. Before that, Jiang Zemin was an electrical engineering graduate, which means that all leaders in the last 30 years (i.e. since Deng Xiaoping) have had an engineering background.

This is probably influenced by the political environment. There is no doubt that this has an impact on policy.
$47.10 per ton smells like someone has calculated the cost of the reagents and cited that as the price...

Any estimate of this process cost would never be to 3 Sig fig.
3 USB drives in a raid setup isn’t any less redundant than 3 SATA drives in the same setup (mathematically anyway, excluding potential bus problems which don’t really seem to be much of an issue these days).

Personally I also have a node 304 based nas, but I’ve seen plenty of people with low cost Pi setups and no major issues. Plugging a few drives into a Pi is much easier if you don’t have experience with building computers, and is still a couple hundred dollars cheaper than something like that.

Also worth noting that it’s possible to connect PCIe devices to a Pi, although I believe you need a specific model.
oneTBB is the continuation of TBB. Intel took all their OSS projects and put them under the "OneAPI" umbrella last year: https://www.oneapi.com/open-source/

MKL, etc..
It is maddening. Maybe Medium does not support code markup?
A Difficult Journey
Investing in government bonds vs investing in penny stocks: both are the same thing, as they are both an excess of confidence in predicting the future.
>> Evolution takes thousands of years

Not true. Natural selection can work its magic in a single generation.

For example, given any normal population, choose any trait and remove all individuals which have this trait from the population. The next generation will not have this trait. Specimens with the trait will become extremely rare depending on how accurate the selection process was.

It can be quite radical. For example, if a law was introduced (with death penalty) which prevented all people of normal height and above from having children. In just one generation, all humans would become much shorter.
To be honest, the layout of that site does not exactly inspire confidence.

But the team is interesting indeed.
Incidentally, there's an online SSC meetup with Jaan Tallinn as guest, _today_: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/jQQYCdtiH5d3CtrNC/jaan-tall...
> what if the majority of points of interest end up in single grid square in your example?

Geohash provides arbitrary precision, at 8 character length, we can measure difference in in the order of decameters iirc.

The edge cases are on the literal edges, where you could have two points, one at say -79.995, 35.0 and -80.001, 35.0, so the area is split at -80 and the first point has different prefix than the second even though they are very very close.
It doesn’t. It does support GitHub Gist embeds, however.
When? Here

> I might care more once laws start protecting children from those in power more than used by those in power as a ploy to dismantle privacy from ordinary people.

In response to a thread comment regarding to the said hosting provider making it purposely difficult to report such matters...
Its funny because if you think about it, 20 miles along and 4 miles down is only a 5:1 gradient rather than anything like the sheer cliff you are envisaging.

The ocean is deep but also wide. I have a chart of the Atlantic which is about 1m square. Although the Atlantic is several miles deep and the chart is only paper, the thickness of the paper is not far off scale..
Most european rail is given huge government subsidies too, though. Also flights in the EU already have to pay for emissions as part of the EU emissions trading scheme.
If you want to beat Twitch, solve the discoverability problem.

Twitch provides absolutely no discoverability to streamers. It's purely a function of big gets bigger. They have zero design or plans to help streamers connect with the viewers who are interested in them (it's not "Playing Game X"). The primary way that Twitch streamers at 100+ viewers get new ones is via Youtube Clips + Twitter!

The first company to reasonably solve this problem will capture the lower 80% of Twitch's streamers.

Weirdly, YouTube has discoverability of normal videos nailed, but not for gaming streams either. There is tremendous opportunity here.
Re: Vault, you can read Vault secrets yourself via their JWT integration.
>I still agree with you that the author made it a bit more complicated than it needs to be. Ergodicity for a stochastic process just means the joint distribution of random variables that make up the sample space is time invariant.

It's funny how you say "the author made it a bit more complicated than it needs to be" and then proceed to explain it with even more jargon ("Ergodicity for a stochastic process just means the joint distribution of random variables that make up the sample space is time invariant").
How the Giant Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Gave Rise to Modern Rainforests
after many many years of similar dread I came to this conclusion: I have been 'dead' for the past 13 billions years give or take, but then I have been incredibily lucky and won the 'consciousness lottery', that is, for a brief amount of time, just a flickering spark, I know what reality is, I experience what the Universe is, and carbon life on a still beautiful planet (hopefully we'll steer in the right direction), this to me outweights most of the fear... think how incredibly rare is conscious life, and you got super lucky to be aware of it, and yes the ride will end, but what a ride compared to a lump of carbon floating in the endless void forever. We are lucky.
The page linked by wpietri [0] [1] is worth reading. Guzey engages in a conversation with someone named Phil who did a "PhD in a circadian rhythms/sleep lab". No firm conclusions, but topics include how applicable animal models are to humans, and the difficulty of producing conclusive evidence about sleep in humans. Plenty of references, and little argument that aspects of Walker's book seem sensationalist.

[0] wpietri's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26684989

[1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/11/24/why-we-sle...
Medium doesn't support code highlighting. It kinda supports unhighlighted code blocks, but that's it.
I agree with the other poster, this does not simply work for everyone.
That's true, but then it is surely better to cut out the middle-man and just not use fossil fuels for static generation in the first place.

The energy needs which are hard to meet with renewables (aviation, other large-scale transport) are the same places where CCS is non-viable due to the efficiency hit.

The best we can do is decarbonise as quickly as possible, and live with the fallout of our failure to act this far - unless a significant use for captured CO2 is identified, atmospheric capture technology will always struggle with commercial viability.
One issue here is insider trading. Not necessarily in a breaking-the-law sense, but people who work at a startup may have a better and more up to date sense of how things are going than whoever performed the last valuation.
Unfortunately, this fills your post with GitHub ads, so it's not very attractive.