skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Helium was first detected in 1868 as spectral lines in the Sun which matched no known element on Earth. Hence "helium", from "helios", for the Sun.

The element was first encountered on Earth as a decay product from uranium, as you describe, in 1995, and found to match the earlier spectral line.
This is where cryptocurrencies can play a role
I entered just yesterday to Blender News[1] and was wondering why there aren't any new articles in 6 months. Even Blender Guru[2] seems to have stopped for almost a year.

Does anyone have some insight on why these two stopped/slowed down? I remember these two were amazing sources of technical posts about Blender and I loved reading and learning about it there.

[1] https://www.blender.org/category/news/

[2] https://www.blenderguru.com/
is that good? no, it's not. it's business. amazon will lobby for its market, not for my right to grow my own supply.
How is that more clear than "True: A review of available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records has not established a causal link from deaths to COVID-19 vaccines"?

Please don't say "Just to be clear" and say something agreeing with what I posted. That's actually less clear because casual readers will think you're arguing against me.
<Narrator> It was not worth $1.8B
If anyone can post, you can see all the possible opinions. On sites with moderated content, you see only one sided opinions.
Looks good for me.
I found it to be very similar to science at large - the idea that there’s a community nibbling away at the edges of the unoknown, working in collaboration (and some competition) to maximize something.
> why send the power to SG, when you can sell it to ID?

SG is wealthier and also burns quite a bit of natural gas (demand is roughly 6-8GW constantly [1]).

[1] https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/SG?wind=false&solar=fals...
Because even the hassle of being hauled into jail for someone to realize the software got it wrong can cause someone to lose their job, and since the software remains flawed it’ll keep picking them!
Yeah, presumably computers will come with a "free trial" of a Norton Suite, which, after the trial period expires:

1. will not even pretend to improve your security,

2. will nag you for credit card information to extend the service, and

3. will continue to mine cryptocurrency in the background, to be "safely" stored in Norton's cloud wallet, which Norton will periodically reap "expired" coins from.
What about vitamins? I (reluctantly) buy some vitamins from Amzn but I always wonder if they are real or just wood shavings mixed with rat droppings or whatever.
*power of compound interest + first mover advantage. If you're the first to ask a silly question that is a common stumbling block for beginners, you're bound to get a steady stream of reputation for life. There's diminishing returns for those arriving later, as low hanging fruit are depleted. For example, see https://stackoverflow.com/q/927358
> It's hard to believe that prosecutors can be like, "The computer says it's you, so you're guilty."

Why is that hard to believe? The article very explicitly and clearly quotes a lawyer who says that is pretty much exactly what is happening.

And regardless, even if there weren't a direct quote from a lawyer on this topic in the article, it still shouldn't be that hard to believe that a computer's output is going to influence the court cases at all. That's not how humans work, for one - people will include everything they 'know' about a situation when making a decision. You can't have a computer producing output and then people ignoring the output and then calling the computer system useful. If people are ignoring the output, then why have the system? And if people aren't ignoring the output, then, the (FALSE) output is being considered in decision-making of which innocent minorities are to be jailed.
Yes, I know (now). But we don't have this measurement of a "standard drink" at all. An Australian ex-coworker had to explain the term, much to my confusion. By "the standard" I simply meant what you will get if you go to a restaurant (or pub or bar) and order "one beer".
I can understand wanting to put heavy restrictions on the use of this technology, for example a rule that someone cannot be arrested based on software alone, and a rule that it can only be used to help identify individuals that are clearly committing a crime. But it seems to me to be batshit insane to ban it completely. If we have video of, say, an armed robbery, and we (only) use software to get a suspect list before we have human beings looking at mug shots, what is the alleged downside?
Oh yes, the moka pot (poured on ice) has become my preferred method for daily preparation too.

The funny thing is I've never really considered it before, since the whole process of starting up a stove and cleaning up carefully seemed like such a hassle, but I got a stainless steel model (Bialetti Venus) which is both induction-capable and soap-friendly. :)
I saw this flower in person. There was a line about a quarter block long, distanced and in masks because that's how people were doing it on Alameda. One by one, the people in the line would go up to the flower and circle it taking a video with their phone, or taking selfies with the flower. The flower itself wasn't larger than many other plants you might see, but it was monolithic, as well as rare.
What's so perplexing to me is why the pay grades for people in the military are so low. Take Michael Flynn, for example, the O-9 pay for a three star general is lower than what a senior software developer makes. Surely if we're spending $100k a pop for these random exploits it makes sense to spend more at the top of the military to make sure we're buying the right ones.

Also, I don't really see any possible way out of this cyberarms market. There are too many degrees of freedom to really secure anything completely and I'm continually surprised that our governments allow the sale of these munitions to non-allied foreign governments. If someone puts up a $2m dollar bounty for Tesla do we just accept this even if it means physical harm?
The former of which as well
I've found it fairly easy to get high performance GPRs fitted with gpytorch; kernel design is another problem altogether. I think they take more tinkering than an equivalent neural network by way of the Gaussian process prior. In other words, we want a "smooth" function, but how smooth do we really want it?
> I built this data visualization from scratch with D3.js, and Tachyons

Looks good. Reminds me of Prezi.
>actually increasing attack vectors

That's the main-point of having a Antivirus :-)

But if one needs to check for (windows) virus's do it on the file-server/email-server level and not on the linux endpoint, use something like selinux and a host intrusion detection system instead, it's just a waste of money and power to use a antivirus...even on a good maintained windows.
While I'm not a manager I can relate to a past position where I was technical lead. I had a person on my team who was the same - friendly, enthusiastic. In conversations he would give you the impression that he's a person who knows what he's talking about. But when it came time to do the work it seemed he was interested in any distraction that would prevent him from programming. I tried to help him focus and spent a lot of time on coaching. Now I wonder if that was a waste of time.

Earlier on in my career I would read stories from tech companies that said something like "if you don't get promoted to a certain level within 2 years then you get fired." Initially I thought that was pretty harsh. Now, I understand where it comes from. If someone hasn't shown progress in 2 years, assuming proper feedback, it's doubtful that they'll ever improve much.

On the other hand, I believe there are places for average engineers. Part of the issue with this person is that they wanted to keep trying to do more complex work even though they struggled with easier tasks and it was a constant struggle to try to balance that.

I think in retrospect, had I been the person's manager, the best option would have been to restrict their work to the easy tasks. If they didn't like it then they could always leave. I now also understand why some people are "managed out". Maybe they can stay in their role but if they don't have the ability to progress then I don't think it's a manager's duty to help them beyond a certain point.
In any case, that type of attack wont disrupt the business (in the short term)
At BUILD this year Microsoft announced Azure Arc which runs on any Kubernetes cluster (including ones you spin up on AWS, GCP, or a laptop on a desk somewhere) and supports running a surprising number of Azure services already (Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, and supposedly growing). Administration can happen in the regular Azure Portal and it just looks like you are deploying to a custom datacenter region in the Portal.

It's really slick. It's also pretty obvious that many of the services they've focused on at first are some of the underlying foundations of their Low Code efforts, so I would be surprised if Power Apps and Power BI also eventually wind up on that list of Azure Arc supported.

Azure Arc seems like a really interesting "compromise" on "self-hosted" (depending of course, on which reasons you have to need "self-hosting").

(Azure also has Azure Stack which is the entirely self-hosted datacenter version too. I don't think that yet supports these Low Code tools yet either, but it's probably even closer to having the foundations for that in place.)
The trick is that police need a warrant to invade your privacy via cell phones or whatever, but they won’t need a warrant for the flawed surveillance stuff that can end up severely fucking over someone’s life/their family if the police ever decide they don’t like them for whatever reason, such as being an advocacy against police abuse ;)
Many teams has higher standard than the company bar though, the company bar is the lowest possible level anyone is allowed to be hired at not some decent average. In theory a bar raiser should ensure the candidate is better than 50% of those in similar roles, but that obviously can't be true after all these years, the bad 50% has all gotten hired via the same process.
How many ICs are actually made in the US? They're pretty mum about it. My guess is that none of them are made in the US. So the phone was assembled in the US from all kinds of parts.
Right.

(When push comes to shove, the bar raiser could overrule, but everyone would rather it not have to get to that point...)
My main complaint about this redesign is everything is about 25% bigger.

The buttons, white space between things, tab bar, etc..

I can only see about 2/3 of the bookmarks in my menu that I could before.

I don't understand why modern design focuses on so much useless space.
The problem with statements like this is - what’s obvious to us may not be obvious to them.
Where did you think the money comes from when a consumer complains to their bank about a charge on their credit card and the bank credits the consumer?

It sure as heck ain't the consumer's bank that pays for that.

Nor is it Visa or Mastercard or whichever company owns the card network the card is part of.

No, it is the merchant bank that processed the charge. To be allowed to process charges through Visa, MC, etc, the merchant bank has to agree to cover all credits the issuing bank gives when consumers successfully dispute charges if the merchant cannot cover them.

Merchants that want to accept credit cards have to get an account with a merchant bank. It acts as an interface between the merchant and the credit card system, submitting charges and collecting the payments from the issuing banks, and depositing them in the merchant's regular business bank.

Merchant banks hold back some of those payments to maintain a buffer to cover their potential obligations in the case of disputed charges. How much they hold back and how long they hold it for varies depending on things like changes in your sales volume, how risky your line of business is, how often you've been getting chargebacks, and probably a ton of other factors their actuaries have identified.

PayPal doesn't look like a traditional merchant bank from the merchant point of view, but if people are able to use credit cards to buy your stuff there is a traditional merchant bank or something else with the same obligations as a traditional merchant bank somewhere in there, and that means that for a merchant using PayPal they are going to have someone holding back a reserve.

When you use a traditional merchant bank and are directly exposed to all that you know it is going to happen, and quickly realize that the whole damn credit card system is designed to make sure that if anything goes wrong anywhere in the chain it is the merchant that is going to eat it.

With these services that try to do it all in one and make it easy to accept payments, such as PayPal, it is easy to not realize that credit cards work that way and so you get surprised when PayPal won't let you take all your money out right away.
Yep..MS just had to send out a 'security update' to provide them with a few new vectors.
This type of virtue signaling is rampant in modern societies. There needs to be legislation to prevent companies from deplatforming users who aren’t doing anything illegal.

Nebulous ToSes are not laws.
> If we have video of, say, an armed robbery, and we (only) use software to get a suspect list before we have human beings looking at mug shots, what is the alleged downside?

Based on my reading of the article, the 'alleged' downside (this is very clearly real, there is no need to say alleged here!) is that minorities are being swept up in the system and wrongfully accused of crimes and then jailed.

Your suggestion is, what if we didn't jail them? Just round up the innocently identified minorities and start investigating them? That is....hardly an improvement. In fact it would seem that while it might reduce falsely accused innocent people from going to jail, it could increase the number of racist incidents where police are harassing innocent minorities. And worst of all, it could further entrench racist decision making inside police departments.

A much better suggestion in my opinion would be, test the software before deploying it so that it doesn't make racist decisions. Set the bar VERY high for this, so the software has to be really, really, really good. Otherwise don't use it.
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Yours is more space-efficient for real-world numbers.
Antivirus and stupid power-hungry Proof-of-Work in a single product. Geeez....
Even just arresting them or bringing them in for assessment is enough to put someone in a dangerous position, because cops can effectively legally execute people. So the problem is any police interaction is potentially deadly and this is giving cops another arbitrary, potentially racist tool to interact with people who are just living their lives.
Unpopular opinion: in this day and age, comment sections under blog posts and especially YouTube videos tend to turn extremely toxic so fast it doesn't make any sense to keep them open at all. I haven't seen any comment different than memes, FUD or trolling under a YouTube video in years.
Wrong. It isn't. By your logic, CMOS cameras themselves are "racist" because they have exposure defaults that make just slightly more sense for light complexions than for dark.

Or maybe you think highlight curves for TV shows must be adjusted so that lots of white things are blown out, but we can see the fine grained detail on a very dark object or person. Only then are we being antiracist!

See how this stuff makes you into a numbskull?
I thought it was generally accepted that 40-50% of all traffic was bots[1]? Though since most of them are mindlessly scanning for WP vulns calling them "AI" is probably over-generous...

1: https://www.techradar.com/news/bot-traffic-reached-a-new-hig...
James Hoffmann recommends using hot water in the moka pot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpyBYuu-wJI

I put mine (stainless steel) on my induction stove for 2, maybe 3 minutes maximum, and I've never encountered burnt coffee.
Then feel fortunate if you don't have to install also Skype and Outlook.
The compression of the top end of the ranking among active/once-active users is pretty extreme (or rather, I guess it's probably more a factor of just how many people are at the low end of the scale): I have around 1/4 your reputation but that's still good for "top 0.91% overall".

I have a similar experience though, I haven't been active for many years, and have a handful of very simple answers to common problems that still make the reputation graph pretty linear.
now assume you’re a racist pos that is also by chance enforcing the law. also assume that you’re allegedly going to use this as a pretext to investigate people that even though don’t appear on the footage sort of look like the persons in the footage (the software told you so!). now assume that based on your harassment you find something and you arrest those poor souls.

does this seem far fetched? if you haven’t experienced this you may allegedly be privileged.
Blender Guru's YouTube channel has been active this past year.
It probably is. I already posted a link to it in another comment, but to reiterate, Microsoft's CEO admitted to 'working on' hacker news specifically to sway opinions on Azure. Not much of a stretch to assume they do that for other projects, too.

To quote, "In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have made a lot of progress..."
https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-corp-msft-q1-201...
Is there a source for this? If true, this is a new low for all these "cybersecurity" firms even though I already took their claims as a pinch of salt.
If you ever want to try it again, get a stainless steel one. It cleans up just fine with soap.
> determine whether Venus had oceans

And I didn't realize NASA hasn't been there in >30 years either.
> The last thing I want to do is exploit Stack Overflow users for corporate gain, even accidentally. That's horrible.

Not horrible enough to stand in the way of $1.8 Bn, though.
Thank you for your elaborate answer. Now please provide it for Firefox.

And Postgresql. And Flask. Now I am using aiohttp here. SQLAlchemy please. Pytest. Sorry, now in the Rust world. Get me some MDN for Javascript. w3.org for CSS3 spec, pleaaaseee!

You see where this is going? Python.org was an example to illustrate a point.
Unfortunately, the absolutist nature of the criminal justice system means it does not do a good job of integrating nuance.

Take for examples:

How unimpeachable police testimony is.

How hard it is to overturn a conviction.

How hard it is to dislodge forensic techniques that are known to be bunk.

I could go on. Probably the best correlate we have to this is the rejection of the polygraph and boy in retrospect are we just lucky about that. If King County manages to be the first in such an action against facial recognition they may be worthy of a great deal of praise.
Oh man, this could have been my case... I have sometimes accidentally up or down voted links or comments (switching hands to hold the phone, for example).

Now that I think about it, one of the last things I had upvoted was a comment that advocated for peace between the Israeli and Palestinian sides.

I wanted to reply, but I thought that my opinion would not be taken seriously if I used my alt account, so I switched to my real account to write a thoughtful comment.

I started writing it, then I saved it as a draft and decided to go to sleep and think things over so I wouldn't write something offensive, then I tried posting (on the 'RIF' app) and it kept failing to post. That's when, after logging in online, I realized I had been permanently banned.
In my experience, if you ask the company recruiter what to expect, they will generally tell you and even tell you about the interviewers (if known).

The need to get vacancies filled.
I remember ExpertsExchange. What a PITA. SO is a better ExpertsExchange in the same way a car is a better horse. Not showing me the fucking answer would probably be #1 usability issue for a site I visited to "show me a fucking answer".
Please read the full post. The issue is inaccuracy and scale.
On the NES or SNES and any console with a dpad like those (which was patented by nintendo so until that expired there were other designed), it's actually just physically impossible. The directions are on a physical rocker that can't be pressed in two parallel directions at once.

Though if the controller pcb is really worn down by the rocker's center nub, it can start to become possible, and then there really is nothing stopping you. It's not uncommon for really well-loved controllers to end up like this.

It's definitely a letter-of-the-law thing where you could claim "but it's an original controller!" but no speedrun leaderboard is gonna let you get away with it.

Also I don't think emulators do a neutral input if you press both, that would be quite weird (and unlike how it happens with a real controller when you move from one to the other). Instead I think they prioritize the first input.
pupillometry correlates with bloody everything.
I'm in the top 3%, joined in 2010, it's mostly all from questions though. I only posted 8 answers, vs 83 questions.
When I joined I remember allot of the issues I came across has no answers, so I guess with the years to come lots of others had the same issues/questions. At the time I thought it was just me, everyone else seems to know so much. Guess we all start at the bottom at some point.
Erm how would that be fraud? It's certainly unethical to the software's users, but seems to fit the spirit of a private bug bounty. Apart from the ethics, what would legally trip you up is later "disclosing" that bug as a public bugfix, which is presumably against Zerodium's terms.
> Based on my reading of the article, the 'alleged' downside (this is very clearly real, there is no need to say alleged here!) is that minorities are being swept up in the system and wrongfully accused of crimes and then jailed.

Then is it really fair to call it facial recognition if it doesn't work? Or to say "we are banning this until it is more reliable" or something like that?
I'm happy to see NASA plan missions to Venus, but also kind of sad that these two are a basic orbiter and a drop pod. I know how much more difficult it would be, but I was hoping for an airship.
Ask HN: What do you do when a customer wants an estimated delivery date?
I keep shooting myself in the foot and making too short delivery estimates on freelance work. I tend to constantly put pressure on myself and end up working overtime, often without pay, because I "feel bad" if I take it slow.

How do you handle these situations?
It would be just another flavour of C#
I think it also helps that espresso tends to cost around €1 a shot.
Also, those selling 0days are not the one's using them in the wild... out or principal. One can sell a 0day and float away on a silver cloud never to be seen again, but use it in an active campaign and they'll come after you hard.
As a hypothetical, there's a non-zero chance that an alien wouldn't even have the concept of an announcement. Language, psychology, and consciousness are all things we take for granted.
This is awesome! I really wonder if GPs will see an uptick in usage in the future, I've seen a lot of interest in them lately.

Also, thanks for including the source so they can be seen in the browser dev tools, don't know if that gets done enough with interactive visualizations like this.