skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real question to me is: is the Pentagon actually taking the possibility of alien visitors seriously or are they using aliens as a cover for drones that have been able to infiltrate US airspace? It seems too easy for them to combine actual unidentified flying object sightings with sightings that the Pentagon knows are of infiltrating drones in order to create a fog around the whole situation
One of the 'toys' I remember from my Montessori experience was these long bead chains. They had all different sizes, e.g. one would be a chain of 8 segments, each containing 8 beads on a rod between the joints. The '8' chain would be blue and have an associated blue cube of beads 8x8x8. I remember the '10' chain and cube was something really to be seen.

We also had really large blocks, because someone dropped one on my head.
If they shipped with open source firmware, you would have a number of companies copying it and using in their products undercutting the original manufacturer.
The US and the West don't have teeth when it comes to IP violations in Asia.
If you take 30 seconds of white noise and look for it in 2h long generated output I expect that you can find similar 30 seconds in whole 2h.

Copyright algos are not looking at the whole video, they are searching for pieces of songs.

Because if you use 30sec of someones song you have to pay up and youtube is enforcing that.

Now if you will take another 2h video cut it into pieces and start searching for similar patterns in other 2h video I expect you will find some matching ones.
Sounds like burnout, he had mentioned that being something in his history when he did some work with my team a few years back. Burnout is real, it's also probably not glucose depletion triggered seizures, but I think his internal diagnosis says enough.

In general people need to be better aware that you do have real limits to what kind of stress levels you can handle effectively and you need to back off when you start feeling overwhelmed and not try to "push through".
Someone else got to it before I did; thank you anyway.
This is truly becoming an issue in the first world, soon the biggus dickus sketch from The Life of Brian will be censored not to offend Richards across the country
Yeah unless you disable it, all browsers should be sending a language header to a site say I want content in X language. The developer still has to handle that, but it’s generally the safest way to guess what language a user is looking for. But you still should price a way to change it in the interface.
Interesting. Do you have dreams? Do you see things in “full 3D” there? When I’m awake I can visualize things but they definitely don’t have the full dream-like quality. I suspect it’s because so much brain “bandwidth” (not the right term) is going towards other stuff.
Ruby isn't exactly a "hot" language from a hiring point of view anymore.
I don't have much backend background, but I worked with Spring before, and coming from that Ktor was a lot more fun to work with. I don't think I would use it in a huge project, as I feel there a lot of things still missing, but eventually I think it'll be great. Otherwise, Spring Boot + Kotlin is still a great combo.
Hello, It was election time in few states and all parties organized rallies not just Modi. I'm from Kerala, India.
> Distinctive characters in fiction stick with me, but not order of events: I couldn't tell you anything useful about the plot details of my favorite films and books despite revisiting them many times.

I can usually slowly work my way back through a book, maybe with a couple prompts from someone else to help me piece it back together, but only for stuff I’ve read in the past few years. Farther back and it’s gone. Character names rarely stick. I did watch the Star Wars trilogy so much as a kid that I could replay it in my head, every frame, sound effect, and line, every cut perfectly timed. Not anymore, but that part of me’s not totally broken, I guess. I think I’m not far off average on that stuff, maybe a bit below.

> Weirdly enough, these issues don't seem to apply to logical or spatial memory at all, which is probably the only reason that I'm an effective programmer.

Yep, exactly that here, too.
Inter region traffic always goes over the backbone (this includes EIP to EIP). This also includes going from EC2 to any service like S3 in another region.

Except China. China to rest of world is not via backbone.
That’s a pretty gross and ignorant perspective. Try reading a little less Paul Ryan.

Apropos to Medicare, I live a block away the president of a local hospital and healthcare network. I remember just before COVID, he drove by in his Porsche and waved, on his way to go on TV to complain about reimbursements from Medicare falling (because the quality of care in the the hospital sucks) and that state government was “killing” them by reducing an increase in Medicaid.

Meanwhile, he makes $30M for what should be a $200k/year civil service job, is in the middle of a massive, unnecessary hospital expansion, funded by Medicare dollars, and cut the salaries of nurses 20% to be “fair” to the employees of a small hospital they purchased with a big infusion of people debt.

Yes, old people should just go and die.
Watch out for the fastest Samsung and WD drives. You want to find TB written (TBW) rating for the drive, which is in the specs but takes a little digging usually to find.

Consumer models will often have about 300-600 TBW of life. Data Center hardware designed for continuous use will have 1000-3000 and up.

Watch out for the FASTEST drives like Evo and WD Black, faster drives (PCIe 4.0, 7GB/sec read) can have much lower endurance.
I don’t have anything new enough to support AC so I honestly don’t know. Also the most heavy use I have for wireless is streaming and that’s plenty fast on my 6 year old NUC.
Every scientist in the world would be interested in knowing this question. It would create entire fields of inquiry with lifetimes worth of questions to ask.

Being able to observe and study phenomenon that defies known physics would completely energize the field of physics.
> be euthanized by a doctor.

I wonder if suicide is just easier at this point...
So true. The author implies that “lack of seriousness” causes newspaper falsehoods and thus falls into the cognitive bias of confusing bugs with features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
I hadn't thought about that angle before. Is the public interest best served by adding friction to copyright enforcement, or by adding friction to fair use?
I mean seriously, the employees were mad at issues that didn't exist. Claiming that laughing at innocent jokes can lead to genocide is just dramatic.... it is pure nonsense.

>Same too with the other name that was primarily made fun of in that Campfire session: [another customer name]. It's a surname that follows the Nordic style of "Son of [that customer name]". And it's again funny for phonetic reasons, because it starts with [word fragment from customer name]. [That word fragment] is just a funny word!

Why is this so hard to understand? The best way to describe those employees, honestly, is they are social justice warriors, the very definition of it.

This is why we can't have nice things.
He claims P&G is selling it for a loss which I found to be less believable, would love to see if there're more information on that.
Or perhaps the concept of the 8-hour work day lends itself neither to physical nor mental well-being?
Admirable goals.
The air pollution was there even the last year. But, the situation was not this bad. Surely the air pollution is a problem, but there must me more to the current crisis which was not there last year.
I agree that in practice it's largely a ploy to get more revenue to the state.

But at the same time, the tax itself seems to follow from a first principles examination of Libertarian axioms.

Negative externalities can be seen as a violation of the Non-Aggression Principle. The role of the state in a Libertarian framework is to protect individuals from such unwanted force by enacting force onto the aggressor. An externality tax would be one practical way to achieve that, and therefore seems wholly consistent with the Libertarian view.
End of life care in the last 5 decades is nothing like the previous thousands of years. I have so far had 2 great grandparents live to 100+, 1 great grandparent to 95+, and 2 grandparents to 95+.

All of them did not want medical intervention when their time came. I lived with 2 of the above myself growing up, and one needed dialysis at 93. There was no reason to give them dialysis at that age. It’s brutal for them, the staff, the government spending all this money. Even my grandparent was bewildered at this misplaced priority in society.

I also see many families, especially in traditional ones where the children take care of the parents, spend a ton of their resources on the elderly frequently sacrificing resources that could go to their young. My parents did this, and while I understand they didn’t have a better option for various reasons, but I will not spend a ton of time and energy extending my parents’ lives if it causes me to take away from my kids’. And I wouldn’t want it for myself, obviously.

For now, I hope when the time comes that I have to rely on someone else for basic bodily functions, I will still have the energy (and willpower) to get on a boat and tie a cinderblock to my ankle and go overboard or something.
Right to repair is not about being cheap, it is about not caving in to the needs of an industry that doesn't know how to be profitable in a world without consumerism.

Nowadays phones are much more powerful than ever, and can thus last much longer without becoming obsolete. Lots of people (including myself with my Galaxy S8+) are still holding on 3 years old phones, and I honestly don't see any reason to change it any time soon, given that it still works really well.

In a world devastated by the amount of waste we produce it's morally intolerable to force people to throw away what still works and serves them well.
> There's a minority of consumers who went for the cheap stuff and now want to make money off of it by pushing it beyond the stated limits.

Wasn't the GP's whole point that those limits aren't stated? Or that they are deliberately misleading, e.g. consumer internet sold as "up to 10 Gbps", but would more accurately be labeled "10 Gbps once in a blue moon".
If you can't do anything against IP violations, closed source doesn't exactly protect you from clones (the range of reverse engineering/firmware extraction services available is impressive). It'll slow them down, but also gets in the way of your legit customers.
Plugging open source text books. There are many high quality option out there that are openly licensed. Openstax is a project by Rice University that has textbooks for most gen ed courses.
openstax.org/
I'm guessing the next Weird Al has already been disillusioned with the copyright ban hammer.
I'm curious: does the WTFPL also let you appropriate a trademark? Or does it not encompass trademark rights?
It exists but not in my visual field, so not in front of me. I can imagine it in my visual field but that is distinct from it actually being there, which may not make much sense unless you do the same.
As opposed to the billion transistors we have now?
A lot of land is used for giving animals sufficient ground.

Eg. For cows, they "earn" the land with meat/milk.

Without that, the land would be reporposed ( not every country has available land in abundance) for other things. Eg. For growing crops
I very much appreciate all of the hard work that goes into striving for a consistent, beautiful UX in ElementaryOS. It feels like there is a driving vision behind all of the design and usability choices.

The move to Inter as a UI font will be a good step forward, as Open Sans has not aged well. Especially as displays are higher and higher DPI, another good step forward would be to completely disable font hinting. It's subjective, but it would seem consistent with the rest of the distro's approach to visual design.

But those are details that some like me deeply appreciate, while others don't see what the fuss is about one way or the other, for better or worse. What really matters is that I can throw ElementaryOS on my wife's or mom's laptop, and they can figure it all out no problem, without all of the terrible anti-user everything that is Windows.
That reflects, in large part (one issue out of two = half), more on the author of the article than of the memos: Apple is a business entity (and partner/adversary/both of Basecamp's), not a political party.
How many engineers does it take to make subscripting work?
Dotcom got in trouble because he was intentionally hosting infringing content, going so far as to try to hide that material from the copyright owners by making it look like he had taken it down when notified of its presence when in fact he just made the URL that the owners knew about stop working. Employees that went too far and actually took down infringing material got reprimanded.

Go dig up a copy of the indictment. It includes a bunch of internal emails from Dotcom and other running his site where they talk about all this stuff. It was basically a site whose intent and business model was hosting pirated movies. That you could also use it to host your own photos or whatever was there to try to provide cover.
it's not rare that vendors refuse to do things, then forced to follow standards. When they do, it'll be just like they are incredibly slow to come to a final decision.
TransferWise offers unlimited virtual cards now
So what? The defense relies on it serializing the instruction stream which is not necessarily true based on the semantics of the instruction (until it was retroactively documented to do so)
Honestly, the only way things will change is through grass roots abuse of the system like this. You have to force them to change.
100 errors on a Java compiler. I found programming through Runescape; private servers naturally.

I honestly didn’t understand a thing, and rather than picking up a book, I would just read tutorials on forums and copy/paste.

Eventually I realised 100 errors was due to a curly brace mismatch.

It took me a long time to actually understand what code was doing. I felt I had superpowers once I could command if statements and while loops.

I must commend the RSPS community. While it may not have been completely legal, it was a really great way to get into programming since you could see the code at work in a game you loved.

13 years on, I’m yet to find a project I’m passionate about to the point of constantly thinking about it, and working on it whenever possible.
Where is a full time job 32 hours? We work 40 hours in most of the world, that is 25% more.
Hey thanks for reply.

From the changelog:

>Implemented a new 802.11n Tx rate adaptation algorithm ("RA") for iwm(4), iwn(4), and athn(4). Fixed association problems with the ipw(4) and iwi(4) drivers.

>Fixed automatic selection of the 11a/b/g/n/ac operating mode when the interface is running as an access point.

I start dd right now ;)
I experienced something like this in my early twenties. It was very scary. I was fully incapacitated for two weeks where I couldn't do anything or make decisions, even play games, and I couldn't touch code for months.

I pushed myself too hard with too little sleep and that was combined with pressure from family.

There was a feeling in my mind of something snapping and it was like throwing a switch. One minute I was tired but still myself, the next I was incapacitated, delusional, paranoid, unable to sleep or relax or focus.
coffee, tea I used to drink a bit but not much compared to some and not anymore.

Never smoked or did any other recreational drugs.
I just started using MuseScore 3.6 and I've gotta say it is surprisingly usable for an open source project. There are some annoyances, like drag-and-drop scrolling the page instead of selecting notes, but overall it becomes intuitive quite quickly. So, if that is your work, then congratulations so far! Looking forward to version 4.
That's interesting, I always assumed Eduourd was named for 'let's appease the Anglo-Saxons' reasons, not for pious ones.

Of course, it's all pretty pedantic, given we are talking about names in Old English and Old French, and an Old French name is as removed from a modern French one as it is from an Old English one, so naming these figures with their modern equivalents for the modern reader makes sense too.

I just like reminding myself these early English monarchs were not, in fact, English, and would not be, and would not consider themselves as such, for a while. It also emphasizes how much of a relatively unimportant adjunct of their French lands the Angevins considered England.
It's on Wikipedia (away from pc) on the meltdown article
If someone points a gun at you, I doubt you would consider whether or not they owned it before evaluating if their actions were hostile.
Does the extent matter that much? Assuming YouTube did nothing to take down copyrighted content, is that better or worse compared to lying about taking down ?
If this was a youtube channel takedown people would be mad at Google, but good to see at least here HN is blaming the bad actors like they should - ie. the copyright laws and its abusers.
I’d like to see such discussion/analysis in context of objective baseline of an individual eliciting sustenance out of raw nature, such as John Plant’s “Primitive Technology” series - hard work for mundane results, the base starting point and ongoing alternative to whatever studies address.

There seems an axiomatic assumption that “post scarcity economy” really is a thing, that a viable alternative to any system is a life of perfunctory “work” and relative leisure. Reality is: the natural starting point is eking sustenance out of dirt & growth, and all systems are an attempt to better that productivity/efficiency.

Without establishing that objective baseline, discussion of worker productivity is enticing but unproductive.
Is the alpha stable? can i opted in and out easily like the reddit beta?

tildes.net and some firefox extention (for reddit) implements it this way.

It can still be problematic, if i go to a thread with 100 comments and read it, come back and there are another 100 comments i might not want to read them all in one sit (e.g. because it is late at night).

It's interesting that all these "modern" platforms still don't have some of the usability benefits of email (while having their own benefits ofcourse) , I also wonder if this is part of the reason the linux kernal still uses email for communication.
wise.com is innovating at a super fast pace.
They are just incredible and blew everyone else out of the water.
I doubt any license that doesn't explicitly address trademarks would be found to cover them, but I'm not a license lawyer.
Its really not that petty. An employee was claiming that it is GENOCIDAL!!! to participate in making fun of a _name_... yet they did it too. Something something stones and glass houses no? It is hypocritical and they are mad DHH exposed it.

I mean seriously, making fun of names leads to genocide? How dramatic.
But euthanasia should not be allowed on a whim. For terminal diseases or other suffering it is more than warranted, but for folks who are going through a depressive episode and want to end their life, they may take a rash decision that they’d regret later. For you, I hope you’re not going to go through too much suffering and will be able to enjoy some quality moments before you leave us.
As long as they're properly filled out, they have to be acted on if the provider wants to keep their safe harbour status.
Microcode != Using micro-ops.

Microcode has been around for half a century at least, much longer than micro-ops.
The easiest way of adding env variables to Node.js
> That probably had something to do with living in China in the past and having developed immunity against SARS.

Only about 8000 persons have been recorded to come down with SARS. Were you one of them with a diagnosed case of SARS (10% fatality rate)? The vast majority of residents in China would have no exposure to SARS.
So wages should be linked to the number of people in the household? Workers with more kids should earn more by law?

We do this is Europe, we pay something called 'kid allowance'. In some places people make 10 kids for the allowance, ignore them or mistreat them and live on that money.
Hey, thanks for the PR, love that!

The wasteful SOA query is a result of our internal code flow. You can reduce wasteful queries a bit with the new `consistent-backends` setting, but the SOA query will remain.

We (no longer) have a knob to disable metadata, but there's a cache that should also remember your empty response (the default value for `domain-metadata-cache-ttl` is 60 seconds).

If you have a SOA for example.com, pdns will never return REFUSED for anything inside example.com. The zone is there, so an answer must be present - either a name with records, a name with no records for that type, or the name does not exist. (The distinction between the latter two is why you mostly see ANY queries instead of the type the client asked for).

As far as I can tell, you should never be returning 'false' to anything, as that indicates failure, which is different than 'I know I do not have what you are asking for'. Think of it like this: your SQL database does not go 'oh no' when it has zero rows for you; it just gives you zero rows. A pdns remote backend should behave the same. If you return 'empty' for those lookups into domains you have nothing for, instead of false, I expect REFUSED will come out instead of SERVFAIL.

(And, if I'm correct in the previous paragraph, your PR is correct too :-) )
You could add lights there as well, maybe with RGB leds or something so that you can also play around with the color of the light.

Just happened to remember that it was briefly mentioned in recent interview of Risto Miikkulainen by Lex Fridman that while they had been playing with evolutionary algorithms to optimize plant growth, they noticed some (might have been basil) did not really need dark time at all.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY_LEa9xQtg (sorry, can't remember the exact time when this was discussed).
For those in the Safari browser - the video is .webm so you will need Firefox/Chrome to view.

Here is the direct path: https://video.fosdem.org/2021/D.radio/fsr_pysdr_guide_to_sdr...
Linux Hypervisor Setup (Libvirt/QEMU/KVM)
Big fan of your channel.

You mention in the video that the next steps will involve interviewing users and developers to find out more about the software usability and potential issues / fixes. Could you make this whole process and the results public, such that other OSS can benefit from this kind of usability analysis?

There are indeed many resources out there about this sort of process, but I think it would be great to see an expert long-form explaining how they take the interview results and convert them into actionable goals in order to improve the user experience.
Bitcoin has tremendous value. Not as a currency or financial processing network. Those are pipe dreams. But in bringing the power of cryptographic and blockchain technologies to prominence.
I stand by my words.
UVA Engineering Comp. Scientists Discover New Vulnerability Affecting Computers
Just like y2k!
[dupe - ignore] Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political
In fairness, that's not a technical solution.
I believe that much of our fundamentalism about maximising lifespan is fueled by fear of a swing in the opposite direction. The slippery slope from "it's ok to not always maximise" to "people routinely get shamed into agreeing to euthanasia" and beyond isn't just imaginative.

But I believe that it's one of those slippery slopes where we need to make up our minds about where we want to be and learn to stand there, despite the slickness and the angle. Because there is no easy ground anywhere near, we could keep human cell cultures that once were a person metabolizing for decades if we really wanted (and if it was done at scale it would make life hell for the actually living).