skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post above was saying "at all to go to war with the government of the country I live and work in." US going to war somewhere is one thing. Another country going to war with the US would be something different.
I have a personal Digital Garden where I learn things in public.

Link:https://notes.rishikeshs.com
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I would say most home owners would rather not have large trees (>50 ft tall) near their house/in their yard. I mean look at suburban development, they literally clear cut the land.
we totally should look at historical events with the current “lens”. That’s the only way preventing us from regressing.

Also, slavery is alive and well today. Just because it’s not called slavery does not make it okay. We are still killing people in mass - it’s just that it’s conveniently hidden from the “civilized” world
This has a lot of issues for the user:

• their disk space is now taken up by arbitrary files they don't want and can't delete.

• some (if not a vast majority) of these files will be child pornography.
The quest to come up with a narrative for why Covid happened reminds me of the reporting when Katrina hit New Orleans. The city's vulnerability was known beforehand [0] but the inevitable disaster was greeted with shock, confusion, and a search for peripheral explanations. In the case of the pandemic, our vulnerability to zoonotic viruses and other diseases was also well-known; e.g. [1] was published in 1995. But again the reporting, as it seems to me anyway, focuses on the particular circumstances of the disaster rather than our fundamental vulnerability. There is a plentiful supply of unknown microorganisms to fuel the next global health crisis, and we need to expect and prepare for it so that next time we can prevail without great struggle.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/predicting-katrina/

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46722.The_Coming_Plague
> Quite a large number of leading Chinese paleoanthropologists have been in this camp. Take Jia Lanpo or Wu Liu as examples.

Which of Jia Lanpo's work claimed this? I couldn't google one.

Citations to Wu Liu's work would be great as well.
Again: No technological breakthrough of any kind is needed to make viable the alternatives I cited. (This must be why you repeatedly try to divert attention from those alternatives.) All that is needed is scaling up already thoroughly-understood engineering.

A GW-scale liquified air plant is now under construction in UK, after 100% successful pilot projects. Numerous underground compressed-air projects are running, successfully. Neither depends on even a single breakthrough.

Pumped hydro works, but only in certain places. Batteries work, but are expensive and compete with other uses. Alternatives cheaper than batteries are being fielded today. Until they are ready for full-scale use, NG generation is temporarily adequate. Its temporary use in no way invalidates wind-and-solar, backed by storage of a form to be determined, as a primary long-term energy source.

Multiple orders of magnitude is absolutely the norm for scale-up of mature technology, newly useful, like the examples cited. Pretending otherwise is disingenuous. Who do you imagine you are fooling?
Why would I want to relinquish control from what I share? Sounds like a liability nightmare.
Where did you get 95% from?
You expected "newsworthy" things in an article about pokemon go?
Make it Vaccine Internet Passports
> Another significant risk factor is having unachievable goals. We set extremely high standards for ourselves: with early articles, volunteer editors would often spend 50 or more hours improving articles that were submitted to Distill and bringing them up to the level of quality we aspired to. This invisible effort was comparable to the work of writing a short article of one’s own. It wasn’t sustainable, and this left us with a constant sense that we were falling short. A related issue is that we had trouble setting well-defined boundaries of what we felt we owed to authors who submitted to us.

As someone finishing a PhD, I think that doing LESS and doing it SLOWER is actually a very desirable thing for most of science. We are limited by how fast humans can wrap their heads around articles, and if we have fewer articles that are better written, that's a huge compound gain!

To the Distill team, if anyone is reading this: I don't think you should feel bad for being slow, or for doing "few" things at all. We humans to place big emphasis on superficial large numbers in the heat of the moment, but only good things withstand the test of time. I've only read a few Distill articles, but they were all really good and I can see myself coming back to most them 5-10 years from now. I don't think any other academic journal comes close in the ratio of (total goodness)/(total content). Good job Distill team for making a great thing, and summarizing the lessons learned so well in this goodbye article!

My only wish would be that you could find a way to continue to do auch good work that does not entirely rely on unpaid volunteering. In the end of the day volunteering only means some other institution bears the cost of supporting the volunteers.

For example: Could you get a Distill editor endowment to pay editors using donations throughout a non-profit fiscal sponsorship partner? Could you partner with a university, or even publisher, to support long term writing?

GOOD work takes TIME and is SLOW and we are bad at appreciating that. I hope the distill team keeps taking their time to put out good work, whatever it is they go do next!

Cheers to Distill!
That's good. I assume you mean the webkit logo test. I wonder what's different about color management on macOS such that this was hard for the other browsers to support.

Correctly decoding images tagged in any color space has worked correctly in both Firefox and Chromium for as long as I can remember on Linux. In fact, it's even working "correctly" now on Chromium+Linux, it's just that they're seemingly choosing to render everything to an intermediate color space of sRGB before rendering out to the screen.

I found a good additional test to illustrate the problem with Chrome. [1] With the first test, "How far from sRGB is your display color gamut" the bars look exactly the same in Chrome to me. [2] But they're not oversaturated (i.e. in the monitor color space), they're seemingly correct sRGB colors, as displayed in a color managed way on my screen. The ProPhoto tagged image in Chrome looks exactly like the sRGB tagged image does in Firefox. So Chrome is performing color management, it's just effectively clamping the output to the sRGB gamut.

[1] https://cameratico.com/tools/web-browser-color-management-te...

[2] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmeVGD9kWXFNyywgJZpnfwFdv3KDuEADwkiA9va...
It doesn’t seem very helpful with modern workflows..
Usually you don’t work on several separate projects, you work on one project and you switch branches depending on the feature that you are working on.
You can easily merge in your current branch the changes from another branch.
With the subprojects workflow how can you import the changes of another subproject considering that you are probably in the middle of the debugging or something else?
IMHO you cannot change the past but you can definitely shape the future. There are very few things that are worth “glorifying” once you go behind the curtain and see/know how the sausage is made
No. The building was communally owned by its residents, and they squabbled for years about allocating money for the repairs.

All economic systems begin and end with the lament "if only we had more money, we could do it right."
If you run a secure lab, you don’t accelerate the onset of a potential pandemic. If you run an insecure lab, you might accelerate the onset, which is bad.

My point is that ceasing research entirely does not rule out a future pandemic, but it certainly would harm our ability to respond to a future pandemic.
The Copilot positioning seems to have led people to pretty large expectations. "A better tab completion" is the exact positioning used by competitor TabNine and that leads to expectation-beating performance from a very useful tool thay isn't promising to fundamentally change software development.
I think this is a fantastic analysis of scientific publishing in general. In the event that the editors don't decide to start up again, I hope they might decide to create the "Distill Arxiv" described. It was a brilliant format for the featured material.

A serious concern I have about self publishing (which doesn't appear to be addressed, hopefully I didn't miss it) is bit rot and long term format accessibility. arXiv (and traditional journals more generally) provides a reliable, versioned central repository. The contents appear in a predictable format and (mostly) adhere to an accepted set of styling conventions.

Today, you can retrieve scanned PDFs of many (most?) papers from the early 1900s. Other than the lack of color photographs and more simplistic figures, they're largely the same as their more modern counterparts. (But not quite - the lack of DOIs is downright painful.) I suspect that the entirety of arXiv will still be readily available in some form 100 years from now provided society doesn't suffer a total collapse; the same can't be said of a one off website as described in the article. (Perhaps versioning it on GitHub will prove to be enough?)

Related, probably the only frustration I had will Distill was that articles had a tendency to rely on assets hosted by third parties. Those are particularly prone to disappearing unexpectedly in my experience. I fear that one off websites will make this issue significantly more common.
The article mentions using a hacked client to spoof your GPS location. You just need a computer that can run multiple android emulators.

You could probably just make raw API calls. I'm pretty sure that's how all those pokemon-mapping websites worked for the first several months of the game's release before they removed those features from the game.
Will it is pretty glorious by all standards
That's not really true. It was very true about Iraq, but almost nobody (I assume there are a couple quakers out there somewhere) was against the action in Afghanistan.

The Taliban were widely recognized as the absolute worst, and sheltering Bin Laden was just icing on the cake. This was a close to national unity as anything will ever be.
You don’t need more color channels in all of your images to support more display primaries (at least, to a basic level). You just need GPU-type hardware built into the display which can convert each small area of an image made of pixels with colors represented in a trichromatic space to the appropriate signals sent to whatever physical arrangement of varied-primary pixels to reproduce the intended color (assuming a human viewer with typical color vision).

Probably most convenient would be to start using 16-bit floating point numbers for each of 3 color channels, so that would still increase bandwidth somewhat compared to current high-end displays which use 10 or 12 bits per channel.

It would eventually cool to have spectral representations of images, but that isn’t necessary for just expanding the gamut.
> We really can not know this. We can only infer from cultures and religions in the relatively short timespan covered by written history.

That written history covers an enormous amount of ground, with records going back 6,000 years and in diverse cultures, from Sanskrit in what is now India to cuneiform to China for thousands of years, etc., and those records including older materials. Anthropologists have been studying different cultures for a long time and have plenty of evidence of what is consistent across them. Much is known about how morality develops in children. Etc.

Every human being understands it. You don't walk into a room in a strange culture and wonder, 'maybe these people think it's funny to poison each other' or 'maybe they are pure anarchists' or 'maybe they eat all their children'.

We can't have perfect knowledge of this question or anything, but to confuse that with no knowledge is absurd. For example,

> We have literally no idea.

Why is it important to you (and others) to try to push a transparent falsehood that empowers evil behavior?
As someone who uses private trackers, bear with me for a moment:

On private trackers, your download and upload is tracked. You are required to maintain a certain ratio.

Most tracker sites allow users to "donate" money to get extra ratio.

Most tracker sites allow users to request new files and pay a bounty, in uploads (i.e. ratio).

In effect, it is already a currency.

Trackers get seized from time to time, and if the entire state of a tracker is stored in a decentralised manner, then seizure is no longer a risk.

The dataset stored by a tracker, in the age of magnet links, is very small, and can be replicated amongst all nodes.

So, as someone who usually rolls my eyes at people saying "blockchain", this is actually a perfect use for blockchain technology.
It's not bonkers.

We have 20-30 years of data on cyber attacks and Cybersecurity is not that important - https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=3333611

Larger the dumps get the harder they are to exploit or do serious damage. I can hand you all my orgs data and 200 people who work with it everyday and it will still take you years to figure out what anything means.
Which vaccine is more deadly?

Reported minimum 6k deaths and double that in UK, only a minimum because the standards for incontrovertible linkage is high and fwiw Bret and co hear from physicians who claim their reports aren't being accepted.

The rates are higher in younger people than in covid deaths.

Clinical trials are halted after 1000x less death.
Yes I agree with you I guess we will see whether it will catch on or not. It just seems to me like a term made by an elite and then forced upon everyone else, rather than a term that grew in usage organically, from the bottom up. But maybe I'm wrong.
It has been scientifically proven that solar and wind can easily cover our collective need. Please stop spreading this lie.
But a pro-life woman is demanding the same amount of control over others' bodies as a pro-life man, less one. And a pro-choice man is not advocating for any control at all. Your conclusion should be that only pro-choice people should voice their opinions, not people with functional uteri.
It's possible to have been lukewarm towards Chavez, not so much because you're keen on Marxism, but because you weren't entirely sure about the opposition being genuinely pro-democratic.

I don't think you have to be particularly left-wing, let alone Marxist, to look back at history and see that fighting democratic movements because they were labeled as Communist or Marxist may not have been the right approach.

You compare Chavez to Trump. What if instead of having an election, Trump's opposition had forcibly removed him when it was clear impeachment was going nowhere? Some people would have made a sincere case for the negative consequences of that even if they opposed Trump.

>he rejects on principal the salient effects of private property rights

I think this accusation needs more support, surely Boudin constantly does things that imply private property rights.
I remember being on the top of the Eiffel Tower, and you could feel the slow swaying. It was like being on a ship. You couldn't see the swaying, you just felt constantly off balance.
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In a world without copyright employees can leave at will and continue to use all the code they wrote.
Continued security updates being somewhat important for hardware you bought has been a topic since the Internet became ubiquitous. So perhaps for two decades or so by now? That's plenty of time to upgrade regulations.
I haven't seen anything out of copilot's autocomplete that would take a senior dev more than 4 minutes to whip up. When I was a lead, things that took up the most time were logic errors that needed to be chased down and fundamental design decisions that needed to be made. I only see copilot creating more of the former and railroading the latter.
Equifax is a private company.
That stuff is automated.

What's not is managing big sums of money, turning crypto in to a more traditional currency/assets. That side of the operation probably has more people doing leg work than you'd think.
Yes is still alive in many places US included. But this comment is just stupid, everybody knows what happened in the colosseum so does everybody knows that major civilizations were build on top of genocides. North and south America, Australia are just a few recent example of the great British empire.

You don't want to consider it an historical relique? That's ok, but then don't bother to visit countries that have been aggressive since inception
Ask HN: Why is there not a good platform for browsing all events near me?
Title says it all. How come there isn't a dead simple way to browse all events and cool stuff going on in my city. I feel like I've seen a million startups try and tackle this and yet as a user, if I want this now, what choice do I have?
If the reports are being generated in sufficient detail to inform Target's decision making, they are almost certainly being reported to the police. Because I'm sure Target CCs the police on reports that are for internal consumption (they certainly claim to in the article.)
Mozilla doesn't have an incentive to add RSS since they would prefer larger Pocket adoption.
I’m really curious how this is going to go down. We have so many simultaneous problems it’s quite astonishing.

I have a feeling people who don’t get the vaccine are going to end up in camps. I know that’s already true in some countries.

I think we all feel it, frankly. Left, right, center... it’s coming to a head and we all have a feeling of impending doom.

It’s really quite interesting (I’m not religious) how close this follows with revelations. The numbers to purchase food, the rounding up of people, the pandemic, etc.

I personally have hope, I’m not sure how the trials are going to shake out. But I’m confident the feudal lords are less competent and over confident than they realize.

We’ve been in a feudalist system really since WWI in the US (longer globally) and progressively so through the 1960s when it took hold globally. At this point, they’re correct, they need a global reset, because the games over. The mask is off, now it’s a race to see who can recognize the truth.

Those in power are losing control. We shall see if they can keep it and / or if they resort to violence to do so.
> I also don't think it would lead to a curious, constructive conversation. There is probably nothing OP could offer which would change what the experience of 8 years in RH engineering showed me.

To me, the intentional insistence that you want to and will remain ignorant undermines the credibility of the rest of the comment. Who knows what else have you shut your mind to and thus overlooked at RH.
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> But slippery slope arguments are rhetorical slights of hand. In the realm of public policy, you can usually stop a slippery slope any time you want.

Literally all my life experience would seem to disagree.

Like take CRT which everyone is mad about now. I told people about it when I was in middle school and the same people against it today didn't believe me then

Anyway, I'm not some kind of policy wonk. I'm not a politician.

I'm just a guy and it seems to me the slippery slope is real. Maybe others don't see it because we've already hit bottom
"I'm going to write my own mail server. I was making notes on that even as we were setting up this call. That's a big problem, and that's at least as difficult if not more difficult than writing a database engine, but I don't want to be beholden to Gmail. I don't want them controlling my destiny. I don't want them controlling the record of all of my conversations. I want to control that myself, and so I'm going to go through a lot of pain and a lot of work and a lot of effort to come up with some solution that I can control myself. I can go out and lease a virtual machine out there in the cloud and run it myself and not depend on a third party to control my email."
The short answer is: every NVMe is different, some may be better at burst speeds, some may be better at sustained writes, some for endurance, and of course there's the question of value.

If you make me pick:

• I have nearly zero money to spend: MX500 2.5" or BX500.

• Value: Kingston A2000

• Balanced: WD SN750

• Endurance / professional scratch disk use: Samsung 970 Pro (NOT 980 Pro! Tlc instead of MLC), or Gigabyte Aorus, or Corsair MP600

These are consumer NVMes for desktop pc/workstation usage. If you're building servers, you probably want to consider server-grade hardware.
> But giving the keys to the castle to some mid-tier company is just a recipe for disaster

It sucks, because I know my company is quite small but we take security extremely seriously (we have 9 people, 4 are security engineers, and the other 5 have varying degrees of experience in security). I think people might worry that, because of our size, we won't be as secure as a larger company. But the irony is that larger companies are often far less secure than us, because we've done shit right from day 1.

There's just not a lot of ways to prove it. Compliance is meaningless. You could get a pentest report, but it really comes down to who's doing the pentest, and so if your pentest becomes a public doc the incentive is to have them go easy on you - not to mention that lots of reports contain "findings" that are nonsense but a casual reader might misunderstand.

We plan to give talks and blog about how companies at our stage can do things that would make companies 100x our size jealous, because that's kinda the only thing we can do to really explain that it's possible.

I think it's totally criminal that companies ask for RCE on all of your devices and then push out some closed source C++ app that's probably parsing all sorts of random shit, reading poorly authorized commands from some C2, etc.
This was not true when I played the game at least. I know people who have placed Pokemon in remote gyms and had them stay up for almost a whole year before being taken.

I stopped about a year ago fwiw.
One point is to look at the far last (2 thousands years ago) and one point is to see the recent and contemporary history.

We have countries like the US that have been bullying and fighting wars around the world since the end of the world war two, yet we're here to discuss how many gladiator and lions were killed two thousands years ago

As always you can't feel how smelly is your breath but you're easy to spot a small dot in someone's eye
It is.
You don’t choose the requirements, your customers choose them like the customers in a restaurant choose a dish from the menu.
The analogy seems pretty broken, it doesn’t really make sense for several reasons that are written in the other comments.
What is the point of it being there if people can’t see it?
Mutable torrents can be used for distributing a tracker’s metadata corpus using BitTorrent:

http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12257065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17306106

https://static.usenix.org/events/woot10/tech/full_papers/Wol...