skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ultimate Fate of the Voyager Probes
We're entombing the Earth in an impenetrable shell of dead satellites
Sting, "Dressed in his Sunday best and brandishing a union jack, … waved to [The Queen Mother] as she passed in her black Rolls Royce and she looked straight at him and waved back, he remembers.

"That was when I got infected. That was when I thought: "I don't want this life: I want that one. Once I'd found a guitar to play I found a friend to help me get there," he told the Guardian.

Quoting from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10306480/Stin...
> I highly doubt that, you must be talking about non-invasive electrodes such as EEG. When the electrodes are inside the brain and thus in the cranium, they are effectively protected from outside EM activity since they're in an effective Faraday cage, so your signal has much higher fidelity.

Yeah, I am speaking through non-invasive experience, however, unless your grounding is LIGO level sensitive, sticking a 3 ft metal pole into your mouth takes some significant processing to get a good ground, especially if it comes into contact with the earth and then you change your connectivity with opening and closing your mouth.

Again, low probability, but that just looks like it's asking for problems.
Pandemic recovery will take more than soaring growth
ffmpeg is the best tool ever with the worst documentation ever.
I don't think this is relevant. It's not a new standard is a complete paradigm shift.

Some tools might need to be used slightly different, others might no longer be needed.

Because it requires change the way you think about things is why so many people have problem with getting into it.
Doug Ford the Lockdown Zar
Quote lines from shows and movies with emojis made specifically for the show.
Because not everyone thinks that Americanism or forced-Americanism is the absolute best form of government. Comparing the history of France to England should make it obvious that a monarchy often checks out of control populism.
I cannot name my supplier (very well known company) that is pushing something like this and I am already the black sheep in this area of business for being against it. As our top directors already bought the dream, we will get it.
We're creating a Dyson sphere, but for Earth! SMH.
The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats
Interesting. As I know, Stockfish [1] chess engine exploits NNUE nets optimized for CPU and regularly beats up Leela [2], which explots traditional GPU-based networks based on AlphaZero architecture.

[1] https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish

[2] https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0
And ... it's in Sub Rosa, the obscure cult-like game stuck in the 80s universe of shady business dealings: https://twitter.com/crypticsea/status/1377433014674714624

For those of you who don't know it, it's a rather obscure and in some ways delightfully refreshing game, albeit populated by unsavory players worth of the Mos Eisley cantina quote taken at its face value. It's based on two things, physics-based movement and the prisoner's dilemma split three-ways.

"Deal-making, deal-breaking, and the occasional high-speed car chase." And of course, having to walk up to a computer and type MS-DOS commands to play snake. The developer plans to make the game's computer a "full 6502 or Z80 emulation so players can write their own games."
> All things being equal the relative economic and industrial power of countries is proportional to their population.

Agreed. And this is why I said the US never had to seriously fear Japan surpassing them.
> the British monarchy does represent imperialism and colonialism

Exactly this. The institution of the monarchy is why the family is to blame.

They aren't to blame simply for who they are descended from, but they are to blame for choosing to continue to participate in the monarchy.
Churchill's death was anticipated with a codename too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hope_Not
Fair point.

Possibly "people on HN hate zoom, and then use it anyways because it's forced."
Even on a Dell XPS Developer Edition (that comes with Linux) I can't get the webcam to use the full resolution or get bluetooth audio to work reliably.

So I get where folks are coming from.
It doesn't change the way things stand today but still I think there's a marked difference between openness as a commitment and openness by lucky alignment of interests so far.
Maybe https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs ?

It's a generic deployment tool for Nix that also supports NixOS machines but can target any nix profile
Some other nice things that come from having a type system for numerical work:

- Forward mode automatic differentiation. Having a type system that allows `Dual` numbers to pass through your algorithm, simulation, or whatever means you can calculate derivatives, gradients, jacobians, and hessians efficiently (for small problems) and accurately without having to change any of your code. There are so many times where I say “hey, I wonder what the sensitivity of my simulation output to this input parameter is” and it’s really nice to be able to answer that question with one line of code.

- Unitful numbers. It’s really nice to be able to pass numbers with units through a simulation (little to no performance penalty!) to make sure everything checks out in that respect.

- Uncertainty. Both Measurements.jl and MonteCarloMeasurements.jl provide numbers that propagate (linear and nonlinear, respectively) uncertainty as the pass through calculations. Want to see how uncertainty in a parameter propagates through a calculation? Just change that one parameter to an uncertain number and let it run through your algorithm as-is and it will spit out an answer with uncertainty bounds on the other side.

These are just a few examples of the stuff I use it for in my everyday work. Having a full type system for numerical work is one of those things that seems silly before you use it, but once you do, you wonder how you got by without it before.

EDIT: BTW, these are just examples of numerical types. Sending specialized array types through a your code is also a thing. For example, if you have a `Diagonal` type matrix and you send it to an eigenvalue solve, it just pulls the elements from the diagonal without wasting any time trying to calculate anything. Or there are things like ComponentArrays.jl (full disclosure, I wrote this library), that let you pass arbitrarily deep structured information through a differential equation or optimization solver for much cleaner and more readable code than just indexing into a plain vector like you would usually have to do. And you can even put your weird numerical types inside of the weird array types and just send it on through.
And about to be incarcerated cyberpunk guys.
Don’t you think the reason why most Danes are against nonwestern immigration because they don’t want to go towards being an ethnic minority, like Swedes are in Malmö just across the bridge?
As an Irish man I will have to celebrate! I am sure all his friends at the masonic temple in hell will be happy to see him!

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>Cancel culture, as far as I understand it is mainly just the exposition of sexual predators and unapologetic racists in positions of power. DBAD, and you'll be fine. [...] You might be fringe, but it'll never get you cancelled. I guess unless you're trying to cancel a union or run for union leadership positions.

I'm talking about Brendan Eich, who got forced out of mozilla because of his donation to support proposition 8[1]. In the end the proposition received 52% yes, 48% no, so it wasn't exactly a fringe position.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8
Free products are generally supported by advertising. We are being told the W3C has “slapped down” googles attempts around FPS.

I am making the point that if google comes up with a workaround to this “slap down” - users will follow - even if you and others are yelling “it’s not W3C”. That could be modifying chrome to allow this, it could be hosting things under one domain etc
> many medicinal herbs used in traditional medicine are effective for a variety of ailments, and some have been proven scientifically. So how do we reconcile that with scientific medicine without stigmatising possibly effective remedies.

If those treatments have been studied in a scientific manner, then the reconciliation, so to speak, has already happened. But, how do we define the effectiveness of treatment? In some cases, using a placebo has shown some effect, but that's because the hypothesis about the effectiveness of a proposed treatment didn't pan out.
Primary being the army who wants soldiers to quick-fire real guns
K3s Gets Its Own Day at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon EU
Yep, I agree. I don't even think spreadsheets are that hacky. I prefer them to using JS, or any sort of coding. The visualizations Google Sheets provide are even more cleaner/visually appealing than the ones I see in most web apps too.
Where I live (not the US) most recreational drug production, sale, and consumption is legal or at least ignored. However, things like cannabis oil is illegal and not ignored. It’s ridiculous.
"Omnia mea mecum porto". If it's a part of you, you can rely on it always be there when you need it.
Link for the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional...
Not sure, I have not used Syncthing yet.
Sounds like nomad might be what you're looking for? They have good support for non-containerized workloads which ultimately just boil down to "if scheduled on this host run this process."
Unfortunately it's not as simple as that when large scale network effects are involved.
Along these same lines, you could sell sterilized stuff, like mushroom substrate.
As an American I've spoken with a number of other Americans who have worked in the UK and are shocked by how strong the notion of class still is.

Example: I know an engineer and process optimization (six sigma) expert who worked with a major US aerospace manufacturer that had operations in the UK. He observed that in the UK the management and much of engineering was from elite UK schools like Oxford and Cambridge, and that these people basically refused to mix with the regular shop floor folks. He had to drag these upper crust UK people kicking and screaming into donning proper gear and walking out onto the shop floor to look at shit. In the US he hasn't encountered nearly as much implicit classism, though there still is a little. The US has its own elite university system but he says it's nowhere near as powerful as in the UK and its strength diminishes (in the US) as you move West.

I can attest to the latter point. I have lived in Cincinnati, Boston, Asheville (NC), California, and now I'm back in Cincinnati. The further you get from "BosNyWash" (the Eastern Seaboard) the less often anyone ever asks where you went to school. In Boston it's the first question, and I got the sense there that if you didn't go to a top-ten school there was a ceiling for your career. In California I was never asked about where I went to school in eight years of working and living there. I've only rarely been asked in Cincinnati and NC and it's mostly about "where are you from?" than class distinction.

Edit: this is in-re a peer of the parent post but it wouldn't let me post it so here it is... thought it was interesting enough to copy/paste here.

A friend who went to Harvard in the USA once told me that the #1 thing he got from Harvard was "permission" to excel. "At Harvard they tell you you're the best, so you try to be the best." That stuck with me.

Search for research on social self-limitation. There have been some interesting experiments, like putting A students in a class and telling the teacher they're C students and vice versa. Hint: the students tend to conform to expectations.

This is part of why I am so skeptical of people who try to put too much weight on IQ and draw vast conclusions from it. IQ is a mushy psychometric number with a lot of variance within the same person, not a hard physical measurement like mass or distance. It's also why I am open to ideas like "internalization of oppression" and the idea that eliminating discriminatory rhetoric from society might help people who have been historically told they're inferior. When someone is told they're inferior, maybe they believe it and act accordingly?

Lastly I have this weird speculation that this may be a reason that psychopathic personality types often rise to great heights (if they don't end up in jail). A side effect of their antisocial nature may be that they do not self-limit. No idea how you'd test that, but I wonder about it. Same goes for some high-functioning autistic types.
Because we need myths, stories and institutions to keep alive and have everyone agree on the 'legends' we've made up in the world. https://erenow.net/common/sapiensbriefhistory/8.php
You are correct that's what it was
Please don't take HN threads into predictable flamewar. It's tedious and not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The bigger point is it's not free. Otherwise you can claim any part of a Mac is free. You're paying $999 for an OS and getting a free machine. You're paying $999 for a keyboard that has a free computer attached to it. Etc..

no, you're paying $999 for the entire bundle of features that come with your Mac. That includes the software. It's not free any more than any other part of it is free.
You seem like a pretty reasonable person so prepare to be more shocked :-) In a glog stream like this, the things on the right side are not evaluated unless verbosity is on.

VLOG(2) << expression_with_side_effect() << " LOL";
it wasn't really cool-aid - while this is amazing progress, I think it's still a pretty long way to having M1 with Linux usable as a laptop. The GPU seems like it will be a big lift without documentation or support from apple.
I wrote a language tutorial for only the language a while back, and have gotten the feedback that it has helped a lot of people - maybe it'd clear something up for you: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p
Feels like classic Innovator’s Dilemma [1]. Adobe’s incumbent bread-winning products do not allow them to internally develop less expensive alternatives that would actively erode revenue from the legacy products. So outside companies do it instead.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
Object Detection with Detectron2
I suspect big reason is that untangling the mess that is the personal/private dynasty of Windsors, the Crown, and the State is far too much more trouble than keeping the status quo. We are kinda past the times when we could have just heads roll, and lands and castles seized.
I love dogs, I also used to love weed. I had planned a trip to a far away country for the New year. I left my country of origin on a short flyover to meet with friends and catch main flight to destination. I was absolutly smashed from smoking 2 joints before getting on the plane (outside the main door of the airport). When I arrived I walked through bagage area, with no baggage to collect as it was going straight to the final destination.
I spied a dog, and made a beeline to say hello. I had fun playing with the dog and just as I was walking away I could feel this burning feeling that someone was giving me the evil eye. I turned around and followed the dogs lead to the owner, who was a fair way away, and dressed in a high-vis jacket. I continued on without thinking about it, until i started to think about it. Lets just say the next couple of hours waiting for my friends was not so pleasant. (I wasnt carrying anything, but still).
Unsafety in numbers, because in a place with hardly any cyclists nobody will develop a bike theft habit.

There is some safety in average price of bikes, if your ride is noticeably below average and still secured like the more expensive ones it will be virtually immune to theft. So in a place with more expensive bikes the threshold were theft risk begins can be much higher than in places where everybody goes cheap (because of all the thievery)
Well, yes, but you have to draw the line somewhere. A long-term diet of ramen is not healthy, but drawing up a reference basket of middle-of-the-road nutritious food and pricing it based on median market prices for statistical purposes isn't unreasonable.

And we can agree that assuming that somebody uses the library for the internet is unreasonable - a better baseline is a basic package for both at local market rates.

The goal is to assess reasonable flexibility in cashflow. If the study author is biased towards trying to prove a predetermined outcome (eg: that minimum wage in high CoL areas is livable), the results are poisoned from the get-go: good luck getting repeat business from McDonalds' if your study unearths some unpleasant truths. It's the classic case of a metric becoming a goal and ceasing to be useful as a metric.

I do think this is certainly something a national statistical agency could do in a minimally biased fashion, if done rigorously.
Seconded. Did HIIT and Crossfit stuff off and on for a while.

The main difference between being fit and not fit, when it comes to HIIT, is that you can do more burpiees or curls or whatever in the 45 second period.

It still sucks just as much, but your high-score is better.
Its possible to hate zoom without liking one of the alternatives. I know a lot of people hate zoom because they associate it without meeting burning due to this year and security issues.
Reads like dystopian fanfic.
I'm with you on this. I see no reason to respect someone simply because they may have had a significant impact on something because of his birthright.
Namecheap Joins Handshake: Decentralized DNS Is Here
I suspect that there is a sweet spot for learning and teaching programming, and it typically happens soon after a new technology emerges. There is a lot of excitement, many low-hanging fruit, and the tools tend to be easier to work with. As time goes on, there is less motivation since the excitement has diminished and there are fewer unique contributions to make. More important though, the tools become more complex since their development has to address the needs of larger projects with more specific needs.

I have seen this pattern repeat several times over in my life: programming personal computers with BASIC in the 1980's and web development in the late 1990's are the most obvious examples. HyperCard sort of fits in between since it was one of the more accessible GUI development tools, though it was by no means the only one.
ZDNet's headline is "Critical Zoom vulnerability triggers remote code execution without user input"
Overview of WPF and UWP Differences
>The fact that the researchers came out on the second day of the Pwn2Own event with this vulnerability does not mean they figured it out in those two days. They will have put in months of research to find the different flaws and combine them into an RCE attack.

I really appreciate the article author mentioning this. It gives hope to all beginners and shows that "overnight success" is a result of months and years of learning and research
There is a lot of crime of opportunity. Some people really do just steal one thing for fun because they can.
> Does this imply full control over hash holding/breaking for derivation authors, or is it like a single field that's basically just meant to be used for the soname?

I'm only aware for how this is done for OpenGL on NixOS, which is done by some bespoke LD_LIBRARY_PATH modifications. See: nixos/modules/hardware/opengl.nix.

There might be some nixpkgs (non-NixOS) abstractions for this that I'm not aware of, or one would have to be written (which doesn't seem too hard to do).
GPT-Neo vs. GPT-3: Are Commercialized NLP Models That Much Better?
I agree, but I think nix-env is only the tip of the iceberg with respect to bad upfront experiences. If you try to make a Go package, for example, you end up having to provide a hash. To generate the hash `vendorSha256`, you have to run `nix-prefetch`, but that program is broken on MacOS. I mentioned elsewhere that I spent a weekend working with the Nix discord to try to install VS Code with some extensions for Rust development, and we collectively couldn't figure it out (I'm not using NixOS, but just Nix the package manager). In the past I've tried to package a simple Python app thinking it would be a simple reference to a pypi package, and I ended up having to package a never-ending matrix of the most obscure C dependencies and ultimately gave up. Maybe if I were doing Haskell development I might find the Nix happy path, but for now I just have a nix shell that installs a few basic CLI utilities and that's the only way I've managed to use Nix successfully. Further, any time I have to do anything in nixpkgs, I find that everything is a slog--since there are so few imports (and because the Nix people don't believe in documentation or types or even sane file/directory organization), in order to find the "shape" of argument `foo` to the Nix package function `Bar`, I need to grep the whole nixpkgs repo for something that uses `Bar` and then figure out what it's passing in for the `foo` parameter. Often `Bar` is passed to several other functions (defined in several other files) before it's called and the thing that gets passed in for the `foo` parameter might be the return value of a function which itself is returning the result of some other function (each of which is defined in other files), etc. This results in a combinatorial explosion of inefficiently grepping around the codebase just to get the type of a symbol (something that would come for free in a statically typed language).

I'm a big believer in the Nix approach to builds, and that this approach holds a lot of potential for DevOps (especially CI/CD); however, there are so many practical problems with Nix and the community doesn't seem especially interested in fixing them. Of course, what volunteers spend their time on is there prerogative, I could volunteer my time rather than criticize, shame on me, etc but it's a loss for the broader world. Personally I would really like to see a community with the ethos of the Rust community pick up the torch and try to build something inspired by Nix, but perhaps with more pragmatic choices (e.g., instead of inventing an obscure scripting language, they might use something more familiar and thus easier on new users; rather than the chaos of nixpkgs, they might give users a type system and/or good editor tooling; rather than the difficult-to-Google "Nix" label, they might pick something a bit less overloaded; etc).
Already happened with home exercise bikes. A decade ago no one would have fathomed that millions would be buying home gym equipment with subscription models.

I tend to agree that subscription models will evolve into many more devices.
Just wondering, is anyone happy with FB ad/recommendation tools? Cause a friend in the ad business was telling that FB ad never perform and she stoped.
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The stories the Queen could tell, if only she could, from fourteen prime ministers and countless heads of state …
wouldn't that fall under "gun and knife violence"?
HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
This is such a bizarre idea, I love it. It reminds me of how Lenin still holds court and receives visitors at his Tomb on the Red Square.
Maybe....

Even though it's an incredibly effective treatment, surgeons are pretty reluctant to do DBS implants on older patients with Parkinson's Disease because of the risks of the surgery itself. That's with a pretty clear medical case too.
Anyone looking for Apache Mesos in the list of Apache Attic projects, news of its demise appears to have been greatly exaggerated: The decision to retire the project seems to have been canceled: [1]

[1] https://lists.apache.org/x/thread.html/rf0359da13d1c3baff882...
Crypto seems like a good use of carbon-based electricity
When I learned Ruby I found it to be a lot of fun. I was using C++ and C# before that. I did not enjoy Rails so much as the tech was changing too quickly and IMHO the documentation was not keeping up.