skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, the power and resources that flow from the rich nation of Afghanistan.

I had dinner with the ambassador to the Taliban once at Yale, back in 2000. He said they banned TVs because there wasn't any Pashtun programming, so they were effectively just banning porn. He was accompanied by this very nice lady, Lailia Helms, who was the granddaughter of the former king of Afghanistan and married to the son of the former CIA director, Richard Helms. Weird.
Sounds right; you can’t open Windows in space.
Arguably, Skynet might count as a pandemic.
I am going to really blow his mind and run the numbers for charging $100/mo.
only 10x more a month but after a year, 1,567,549x as much revenue.
Plenty of people just use putlocker or similar sites when pirating rather than torrents. Especially where I am (Germany) since fines for torrenting are extremely common.
AI and Communism: Narratives of AI Behind the Iron Curtain
Cool project! I completely agree, it's my go to playground for tryi g out new ideas.

Mine is here: https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/progrssive
> Does a ‘physical clock’ with sufficiently accurate inter-node synchronisation and sufficiently good time resolution not meet the ‘logical clock’ definition?

No, because a logical clock is a clock that is logically guaranteed to capture (I would prefer “bound”, but “capture” is the article’s term) causality, while a physical clock may or may not happen to do so with sufficient synchronization and resolution, but this is (unless I misunderstand) impossible to verify as a necessary condition regardless of how good the clock is.
I always wanted to ask this to someone who made this choice, why build the iphone app before Android app? Also are there no good (in your view) frameworks where it will just work for both the platforms?
Just took a look at it, didnt work for me either.
Safe spaces, empathy circles at work
I remember your Show HN. It is really cool what you are doing. Good luck with this project.
I dont think this is necessarily due to 'cashless' as much as general computerization. Stuff like prices, article numbers and inventory are likely all digitized nowadays, so even if people could pay with cash I imagine they'd still be keeping closed.
Monitoring and troubleshooting serverless data analytics applications
> of all the leading developed nations on Earth, the US has a particularly corrupt government that sells itself to the highest bidder

I would contend with that. The US government is just very visible. I know HN likes to glorify European nations but we're really really good at wasting taxpayer money, too. It's just less lobbying and more knowing the right people here.
> Putting your filesystem on a ramdisk is a good idea but it's hardly innovative.

I am way late to the party, but here goes: In 2007 I started working for a company in Norway that had developed their own database, from hardware and up. It included parallell processing (a few thousand processors when I joined) and everything hosted in memory. It was fast. Boot up took a while though, since it had to load everything from disks to memory.

When I joined they were on the third iteration already, the first version went live back in 1992.

We have since retired the concept since off-the-shelf hardware caught up in terms of speed and lower cost, also it didn't scale very well.
If you truly have unordered table data, and column and row swaps give you a meaningful heatmap data, I suspect the new row and column order probably tell you A LOT. Because before, you just had random labels. Now all of a sudden, your random labels admit a meaningful order. That is a huge deal and suggests underlying structure in your labels!
Arq Backup will encrypt your data (supports a bunch of different backends Google, AWS, etc, including your own)
Duplicate.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27718529
Very interesting but would love to see an example on realistic data
Aren't they included in each other like a matrioshka doll?
any VC's in here want to invest in this guys billion dollar a year idea?
And you're clearly a Sandy Marton fan...
Mac-as-a-developer-workstation has always worked quite well for those of us that don't really care about UNIX, there are other developer platforms out there to care about.
Any (almost) software engineering concept is language agnostic.

The sooner you get this attitude the more comfortable youll be with your skills development.
Point was to show the two extremes, with news articles mostly using the passive one (which you call neutral but is far from neutral). So in practice never assigning blame to the driver no matter what, or even vaguely assigning the blame to the victim.

A good image breaking down a news article in this way: https://www.camcycle.org.uk/magazine/newsletter110/article8/

It says "the victim was struck" as if it was their fault being where they were, not "the driver struck the victim".
Within this magic rectangle, no one cannot use the word "mirror" or sarcasm.
When people who know what they're talking about say one thing, and people who don't know what they're talking about say the opposite, who are you going to listen to?

There are very good reasons why virologists think SARS-CoV-2 spilled over naturally. I've discussed some of the reasons elsewhere in this discussion (there's absolutely no evidence the WIV had this virus before the outbreak, and there's pretty good evidence they didn't, dangerous human-animal interactions outside labs are vastly more common than in labs, the first outbreak was centered on a market that housed live animals).
A Web OpenEXR you mean?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEXR
But neither does a logical clock. The implication only goes one way: if A happens before B, then the logical clock of A has to be smaller than that of B. The other way does not have to hold.
I don't know about America. But back then we had huge demonstrations every weekend in Austria trying to get attention from the US government to rethink their action.

The public, here in central Europe, was and still is mainly against the US invading countries for their own means.

(This is actually part of the reason so many of my generation learned to hate America for their actions in a early age)
I've migrated to git for my personal projects, mainly because magit (emacs frontend for git) is awesome.

But fossil is a pleasure to work with, especially on Windows, because a) it comes as a single executable that one can just copy to another machine, and b) it does not require ssh or anything else to be installed.

The web interface is amazing, especially considering the size of the executable file.
They not gone, rather replaced by user space solutions, improving overall OS stability.
Bin Laden was in Pakistan. The 9/11 attacks were carried out by Saudis, partially trained in the US.

The blatantly false narrative about Al Qaeda should have died years ago.

The US has invaded Iraq and Afghanistan because this was in the interests of Israel (to control the countries bordering Iran), and US foreign affairs are largely influenced, if not straight up controlled, by israelis and/or jews (to the point that US soldiers in Iraq were simply called "the jews" by the population, according to Thomas Friedman).

The idea that Afghanistan was going to adopt democracy and western liberalism is so absurd on its face that I won't even discuss it.
Jordan (head of SNB) is not going to let cash go and even kept the CHF 1000 bill under EU pressure. Thank God.

What urks me is the obvious "never let a crisis go to waste" where we have visa etc marketing that cash might spread Corona.

Yes, I've put CHF 200 in coop register before. Funny, they don't care but if I scan a tiny bottle of alcohol I need to wait for someone to approve it...
Minutes Hacks
So you are implying that the information about bad behaviour should not be released because there was no act upon it?
IMO, a big issue is conflating monitoring with management.

Management is always going to have access, so maybe you should not enable remote management access of everything to a centralized system? Make it lean and secure, possibly segmented, dual-factor, use HSM etc.

Monitoring - there is no good reason why it should have access to anything. Make it ingest only (use firewalls and reasonable protocols), and you've cut out most of the "monitoring and management" vulnerabilities.
Is systemd still a bad word? (2017)
But that doesn't disqualify the option of the kid not really enjoying it as much as you would expect from a GM. How many other sports players have we seen where it is evident how much talent they got, but don't really work because they care about other things more. Latest example could be NBA's Ben Simmons who everyone touts as a very talented and gifted guy, but he just doesn't seem to work on his skillset in the summer like other players do. And it really hit him these playoffs.

Another example could be Britney Spears. She was on top of the world in the 2000s but it all seems like it was mostly her father's command. Not that I think she dislikes making music, I think she dislikes the things she has done as a pop star as a whole, but she was forced to by a parent (to the point where she has no control over her body)
vxworks claimed that title. Unfortunately, Linux never was the "only OS with an installed base covering several planets".

And if you never heard of vxworks or QNX, that's the point. They just work and that's the point.
These blood sports were a political show of force as much as entertainment for the people. Showing the world that you could afford to sacrifice, or risk, the lives of expensive, highly trained slaves for entertainment tells would be adversaries a lot about your resources and relentlessness.
Thanks ... I was expecting to submit this and be taken to the existing submission and discussion. The fact that it didn't happen caught me by surprise.
That's what China is doing: they invest in infrastructure in many countries, and this solves significantly more problems and ties countries to China more deeply than the current vicious circle that Western countries employ: give out large grants and credits to largely corrupt governments, that money gets mostly stolen, give more money (and also more money to cover the interest rates from previous credits), repeat.
In my opinion the BitTorrent network, along with the DHT network, holds so much untapped potential. It’s a sea of constantly-changing data.

The data is so much more easily shareable compared to HTTP because all you need is a computer and an network connection. No need for a public IP address.

Where are the Googles or the Yahoos that harvest this data and make it easily accessible? If these companies made fortunes off the data that we put on HTTP sites (along with all the hurdles that populating a site with data comes with) then imagine how much more potential there is in the BitTorrent market where one can for instance very easily share any kind of info (albeit they must be online at first).

Sure now the network is populated by illegal movies and such. But if we populate it with blogs, recipe sites, documentations, videos, etc. a new kind of web can reborn that is more under our control.
> purely because they exposed corruption in your favorite political party.

Purely because both parties needed some way of turning the people against Wikileaks.

TFTFY.

People act like it was just “randomly people decided he wasn’t sympathetic” all the while we had the government ov the most powerful nation doing everything in their power both legal and illegal to undermine him. It’s not accidental that you feel like Assange and “might be a bad character” it’s be design and the people behind it must have so much worse stories hidden away than the ones we already know of to go to this much trouble to kill freedom of information.
Seems to me like Lisp was the OG "bloat language" (cf. Python, Ruby, ... today).
How about we just throw it all into the sea? After all, that is pretty much what we are doing with our fossil emission (which contain plenty of radioactive elements, btw): belch them into the atmosphere without a care in the world since the air will dilute them enough so the effects are spread over huge areas.

But the trouble is not with the radioactive elements from the earth making it to the surface. Our current problem is with CO2 and its atmospheric accumulation. So instead of being scared of bogeyman like "waste leaking into the ground water" your only nightmare should be this:

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Because that is on the whole planet and your future climate will affect every corner of the globe making whole continents uninhabitable, not just a few exclusion zones.
I find it curious that this line of thinking has only recently cropped up. Assange and by extension WikiLeaks has literally never claimed that they weren't partisans. Their whole mission statement is basically leaking things when they would make the biggest impact, and they've pretty much always done their big info dumps at opportune times when they would make the biggest noise. Should they have waited on the emails until after the election? Why? Why does it matter who or what Assange sides with, if the things he releases are 100% true?

I don't remember seeing these same criticisms back in 2010 during the cable leaks, curious that this is only an issue now, after the light is being shined on the democrats rather than the republicans for a change...
Peer-review doesn't mean much. You will have best luck following centralized authorities.

Here is finding from one study that was peer-reviewed and got published in a journal "Vaccines" (impact factor: 4.4):

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/7/693/htm

> For three deaths prevented by vaccination we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination. Conclusions: This lack of clear benefit should cause governments to rethink their vaccination policy.

The study is now retracted, but for one such outrageously wrong study there are probably 10 more that do not receive so much scrutiny.

There is nothing that can be done if you do not trust authorities, besides spending time on getting into the weeds.

But if you trust authorities, then according to American CDC:

> CDC recommends everyone 12 years and older should get a COVID-19 vaccination to help protect against COVID-19.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommend...

And according to WHO:

> Children and adolescents tend to have milder disease compared to adults, so unless they are part of a group at higher risk of severe COVID-19, it is less urgent to vaccinate them than older people, those with chronic health conditions and health workers.

> More evidence is needed on the use of the different COVID-19 vaccines in children to be able to make general recommendations on vaccinating children against COVID-19.

> WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) has concluded that the Pfizer/BionTech vaccine is suitable for use by people aged 12 years and above. Children aged between 12 and 15 who are at high risk may be offered this vaccine alongside other priority groups for vaccination. Vaccine trials for children are ongoing and WHO will update its recommendations when the evidence or epidemiological situation warrants a change in policy.

> It's important for children to continue to have the recommended childhood vaccines.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
The happens-before relation that they use in this article (and in the whole field) does take this into account. It’s only defined in terms of local events (i.e on the same node) and the time when messages are sent/received between nodes.

A perfectly synchronized physical clock totally works here.
The value that is extracted is not from the "rich" Afghanis, but from American taxpayers, in the trillions to the military industrial complex.
Mostly, they're neglecting training their employees to keep the business running when the software is down.
I think a counter argument could be that kids that young still don't know that much about the world and it's going to be a very hard thing to motivate yourself to become better at such a young age when you are already ahead of so many of your (offline) peers. Of course, this is offset by the internet, a bit, but it still seems a valid point to me.

How do you teach someone hard work and work ethic? I don't think many kids are willingly going to run themselves into the ground trying to become the best. Looking at my past, I kind of regret not being pushed further by my parents. I'm not some top achiever or anything like that, but I was good enough in the things I did (amongst the peers in my smallish town) that I could get away with the "I'm already better than X/Y, get off my back!"
I don't know what Mozilla is up to. I always was a big promoter of Firefox, but in many recent updates I see more UI bling and deteriorating functionality or buginess. On Linux I'm waiting for an update so Firefox doesn't freeze my entire OS when opening a new tab, and on Android recently the address bar and back-button started to malfunction, and for a long time the tab navigation is really bad. I hope they add RSS functionality, but most of all I hope they fix things so Firefox can continue to be the browser I love and recommend to others.
Logical Fallacies – Definition and Fallacy Examples
Challenge with that video is it takes a very industrial approach to green deserts - mono cultures for trees, massive desalination plants to provide water etc

Some of the original ideas for greening deserts are permaculture based (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohI6vnWZmk) which are a way more sustainable approach but won't bring around carbon reduction fast enough.
Seeing this makes me want to try out fossil now.
Those are two sides of the same coin.

It isn't pure coincidence that "square millimeters" and "square polygon" share the word "square".
It looks to me like the main difference is that with Git you can't have multiple worktrees on the same branch. Apropos of your comment "Note: this working directory now not a tip of trunk anymore…", to Git being on the tip of a branch is a thing of note, so it doesn't ever want to accidentally invalidate another worktree's notes about being on the tip of a branch.

In Git, that'd be:

$ cd ~/work/fossils/projx.git

$ git worktree add ~/work/project_x master # add a worktree with the 'master' branch checked out

$ cd ~/work/project_x

(Edit, edit, edit)

$ git commit -m 'descriptive msg'

(Get an idea, but for whatever reason do not want to disturb this directory)

$ git worktree add ~/work/radical_idea -b cool_idea # add a worktree with a new 'cool_idea' branch

$ cd ~/work/radical_idea

(Edit, edit, edit)

$ git commit -m "cool idea"

(Test..)

$ git switch master # whoops, can't do this
fatal: 'master' is already checked out at '~/work/project_x'

$ # let's just do the merge in the other worktree, since we're about to switch anyway

$ cd ~/work/project_x

$ git worktree remove ~/work/radical_idea # or: rm -rf ~/work/radical_idea && git worktree prune

$ git merge cool_idea

(Continue hacking…)
The idea that this was partisan because it hurt the Democratic party is bizarre.

Releasing information will hurt either side without discrimination. You can’t applaud it when it hurts republicans and boo it when it hurts democrats and still claim you support releasing the truth to the public.
Ok, that's a good point, the word 'capture' might have been the issue, I would have said that the logical clock idea guarantees causal order then. I guess that is what the article is saying.
For Lamport Clocks the implication is only one way. But for Vector Clocks it is both ways.
Where does "being bad at your job" stop and "negligence" begin?

Some jobs come with certain responsibilities. Of course we need to have some leeway for e.g. doctors making honest mistakes – they're only human after all – but at some point that stops.
Personally not a huge fan of the question “do you see yourself doing this 10 years from now”. The only thing stopping your imagination is answering this question with a binary no.
> It is probably doomed to "Live fast, die young" but it is still amazing.

It's doomed to "Dare great things", as per the JPL motto. Like many JPL projects, they are willing to take great risks that may offer great rewards. Probably the last NASA institution with this mindset.
> that's probably a sign that the stock market is massively overvaluing everything

No it's not. The performance of stocks was always only weakly linked to actual company performance.

There are countless examples of companies that are hardly profitable and not even a tenth the size of their competition, but are valued at twice the price of some of their competitors. It's mostly made-up prices created entirely on hype that often make less sense than the soccer trading card market.
If not Roman times, then how about Nazi times, now approaching a century ago? Where do you draw the line?
I think you "ambivalent" rather than "ambiguous".

I agree that there is no reason to judge the past with their "moral lens". Of course the people in ancient Rome (in total) thought it was okay to kill people in the Coliseum - they were the ones doing it and watching it.
The catchy rhyme being "warheads on foreheads".
Eye of the beholder topics don't generalize. If your CFO and Finance team is doing things like laying off all the information security people since they thought Axa would pay the ransom gangs, then state the name of the company. Otherwise it's just venting handwavy frustration about people whose job requires taking risk mitigation seriously.
Annotated implementation of neural network knowledge distillation
This is the most important point in this discussion. If we find out for certain this virus came from a lab leak or not, it wouldn't much change the probability it could have.

I'd estimate most people can agree the probability of a lab leak of a dangerous virus in any given decade is between 1-20%. Is this acceptable or can we greatly reduce it with policy?
Given that paying the ransom only outs yourself as a potential repeated target who pays, it was a wise decision

Source: https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252502519/Repeat-...
It's working on an iPhone with iOS 14 with Edge and Safari (both of course using the same rendering engine on iOS)

But does not seem to work on Edge on Windows 10 with a built in Dell XPS display.
Here is the link to it:

https://www.vuemastery.com/courses/vue3-deep-dive-with-evan-...

Sorry but it is locked as it's part of the paid course :(
Beautifully executed.
Tick-Based Hypothesis for the Evolutionary Divergence of Humans and Chimpanzees
Is it not because they are still building the cases? Also that guy tried to overturn the election in late December so could he as well not be a agent provocateur? Trying to rile up members of the republican party against the newly elected president.
Not even a bit. I am hearing this "Python domination threatened by Julia" thing for the last 4-5 years (others have been hearing it since much earlier). Nothing changed.

I never got paid for writing Julia, nobody I know that used Python ever switched to Julia.

Only some niche research groups uses Julia in some universities.

Nowhere that I personally know off uses Julia in industry.

And I see no reason to use it either. I use PyTorch, fastai, and sklearn for work and play. Analysts uses R (and Excel at a previous work). Julia has no usable library to be used for practical, dependable tasks. Last time I checked, the pre-compile times for even the simplest functions were painstakingly high.

I have started to dabble with Jax/Flax, and the PyTorch XLA library. Amazong things happening in the TPU space. And it all uses Python.

A research group (in Astronomy) switched to Julia, but they used FORTRAN and MATLAB.

I don't see Python's domination threatened by Julia in any way.

Python, however faces competition from Go in network programming, and Rust for CLI programming.
For Elon Musk, Everything Is a Side Project
> The gang was blamed by the FBI for a hack in May that paralysed operations at JBS - the world's largest meat supplier.

Who is the bad actor here?