skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also while life on the surface of Venus is extremely hostile, it's possible to build floating stations in the atmosphere because it's so much more dense than earth's. High enough in the atmosphere the pressures, temperatures, and solar radiation would be reasonable. It's harder than floating a ship on water, but easier than doing airships on earth.

I'm not sure what that gains us over just having a habitat in orbit though.

Colonizing other planets doesn't make much sense to begin with yet. We don't even colonize Antarctica, and it's a paradise compared to mars.

I'm more interested in setting up industry and habitats in earth orbit. Close enough for low latency internet, and trips measured in hours, but far enough to allow asteroid mining, 24/7 solar, manufacturing and refueling largely outside of earth's gravity well. Plus if something goes wrong you can have escape pods that return to earth. Having a strong space industry like that is also the best protection from potential asteroid impacts.
Aren't they already? Their source code leaked late last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24994746
> Thalidomide had no negative effects on non-human animals, but created notoriously deformed children in humans.

Thalidomide was never approved for treating in nausea in pregnant women in the US. It was prescribed off label, but the FDA rejected it for that purpose.

Why did the FDA reject it if animal tests didn’t show deformities?

To be clear, that’s not a rhetorical question. I’ve heard rumors the FDA wasn’t convinced thalidomide would be effective - which is very different from worries over fetal abnormalities.

Do you know the background there?
Go easy on the old guy. It sounds to me like he was completely correct, at the appropriate level of abstraction for him.

And as for cosmic rays...this may be a sensitive topic for you (or maybe you're just in a condescending mood), so I'll tread carefully, but seems simple to me.

The actual cause of the problem, given the instrumentation in place at the time of incident, is unknowable. But it might have been a subatomic particle. It absolutely definitively is, sometimes.

Metonymy might be imprecise, but it's human. I'm not sure what standard you intend to hold commenters here (or old guys with computers) to.
Yeah this was the real problem with Thalidomide. It pops up as an example of "things to consider" in DD textbooks.
Although the threat (or panacea) was always that unskilled and low skilled workers would be replaced by robots, it's looking increasingly possible that first line and middle management will be replaced by robots (really expert systems). As more organizations become metrics driven this becomes closer to reality every day.
You are not alone. I gave up after a while thinking «this is probably worth reading - too bad the publishers chose to make it so hard to read”.

This is kind of stupid.
Answers the question on GH's reasoning rather than the merits of their position.
Haskell by Example
This is the systematic problem causing our current ecological and climate crisis. That more or less the entire world economy is based on over-consumption encouraged by profit motives. Don't get stuck on diversions like using paper over plastic. The fundamental reason is the never ending search for profits.
12:00 a.m. is midnight ;)
TLDR:

Conclusion

This production on Blender was a great experience for us. We were able to integrate the application into our in-house pipeline and connect it to the other applications quite easily thanks to the strength of the Python API. In spite of some features that would need some maturity we had the confirmation that Blender is production ready and comes with tools that can really push up our way of working in terms of creativity.
Neither is GPT-3?
Far more likely this would be done by "criminals" and they dont care about the law especially the law on the other side of the globe.
I think either 50% or 100% is misleading without more information. In either case you can be left wondering where your bottleneck might be and your first guess probably is not something like more cooling.
I founded a startup before and lost everything I had, but it helped me grow faster than anything else, I think about it as an investment in my career

What I learned is that I need to have something I understand pretty good (biz side) and know how to grow, in addition to expert co-founder(s)

I thought a lot about starting something in non-tech world, but I go back and think that I must invest my knowledge in tech and work on something that I understand and can success in
So many papers casually mention their hyperparameters, neglecting to mention that those specific numbers are often necessary for performance. Something you don't realize unless you play around with their code…
They just had their IPO collecting cash from foreign investors, now it's being shut down.
There is no such thing as the "infectious nature of the GPL". Just like any other license, it has restrictions. If you violate them you are breaching copyright law.

Github contains plenty of software uploaded without any license, which, by default, means closed source. Similarly, if use significant portions of those you violate copyright law.

There is no concept of "infection" and "virality" in copyright law.
I can echo most of these. The small business I started my career with had a small staff, hired me directly out of college (I started there two weeks after I had my degree), moved all of their infrastructure into the cloud so they could scale on demand, did a lot of work with Excel, didn't use version control until they got bit my a major outage due to the owner developing in production and not having a backup, and finally implemented a staging process for changes after that.

This was all before the rise of SAAS, but I can imagine they're using more of that now.
So sue them (class action lawsuit on behalf of everybody who contributed restrictive licensed code). That's the only way this issue is going to be resolved any time soon.
It is not a derivative work if what they say about copilot is true. This is the same as a human learning to code from gpl libraries and then generating code from memory. Obviously it is less likely to be the same and is definitively not derivative.
If I were to predict the future, I'd say we will see a move away from focusing on passive measures (such as reduction in carbon emissions) to active measures pretty quickly as the passive stuff is not fast enough.

Telling people they will collapse under the heat now while increasing taxes etc. for a long-term agenda will not work well in most societies...
#2 economy per capita, or in absolute numbers? I'm quite sure western nations had better economies when you adjust for each country's size.
> Most important of all is to have a lovely wife, who knows you're daft as a brush, and that life together is brilliant.

He has his priorities straight.
No. A lot of weak licenses still require attribution.
>"Aluminium oxynitride (marketed under the name ALON by Surmet Corporation[3]) is a transparent ceramic composed of aluminium, oxygen and nitrogen.

ALON is optically transparent (≥ 80%) in the near-ultraviolet, visible and midwave-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

(PDS: I'm thinking waveguide -- for that EM frequency range...)

>"It is four times as hard as fused silica glass, 85% as hard as sapphire, and nearly 115% as hard as magnesium aluminate spinel. Since it has a cubic spinel structure, it can be fabricated to transparent windows, plates, domes, rods, tubes and other forms using conventional ceramic powder processing techniques.

ALON is the hardest polycrystalline transparent ceramic available commercially.[2]"

[...]

>"ALON also appears to be radiation-resistant and resistant to damage from various acids, bases, and water.[8]"

[...]

>"It can withstand temperatures of about 2100 °C in inert atmospheres."

[...]

>"'Transparent aluminum' became a popular term after its use in the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. [15] [16]"

PDS: I found this while searching for the most recent research in Optical ALU's... Would it make a good Optical ALU? Well, we don't (as of yet!) know, but according to Wikipedia:

>"In addition to being used as a transparent armor material, ALON is used as infrared-optical windows. As such it has applications as a sensor component, speciality IR domes, windows for laser communications, and in some semiconductor-related applications.[9][10]"

PDS: Also, it might make a good material for some parts or components of future spaceships -- as alluded to in the Star Trek IV reference, above...
Studies like these will be the new norm if the gender fascists, who think that everything can be engineered, win.

We now have a "birthing biological male"!

Real life applications will follow, comrades.
Well, bullshit aside, how many of us reading this just eat meat because it makes our taste buds feel good? 100% or 99%?

That seems even worse than torture for the pursuit of knowledge.
Note that this was basically GitHub Enterprise, they just didn't minify it for one release, which is what got leaked.

You were able to get pretty much that same output from an Enterprise install.
Ask HN: Can Radiology Be Democratised?
Are there startups working to make medical imaging more accessible: by using inbuilt cameras, webcams or more sophisticated cameras hooked up to commodity computers?
There are vision acuity testing sites, but any that are going beyond?
I have acquired imaging and computer vision experience by working on various domains and am looking to apply the same to this area now. Any startups doing exciting work?
Agreed. We need ways to filter every Linux system call. Not just disallow the system calls themselves. We need the ability to apply policies to parameters and filter I/O in a transparent way.
This just reminded me of when I last didn't use git. It's been so long and really worth it.

It must have been around 2010. I was with a client and they were using SVN in the projects I worked on (and some other obscure - to me - versioning system that they literally had "build masters" for that were the only ones allowed to merge and solve conflicts for the entire company, even though they never ever worked on the code itself). I had been using git before that already for some time and couldn't fathom why anyone would not use that.

They didn't believe my raving about git. Almost needless to say that they were always complaining about merge conflicts, about not being able to do X or Y or Z or that things were slow or error prone (like branches) or that they messed up a conflict resolution upon merging and needed help because they forgot to copy their entire source tree to a different location before doing so etc.

I had zero problems like that because I simply used `git-svn`.

Why is this significant? Because I hear so many people complain about how hard a "trunk based development workflow with rebases" is. Well guess what, that's basically what git-svn is. Nobody in their right mind used SVN any other way but with a single trunk, because branches sucked so much (except for release branches and yes, if you had to bring in something from `trunk` it wasn't just a simply cherry-pick). And because of SVN being what SVN was, before committing to SVN git-svn would simply rebase my work on the current SVN trunk automagically and the issue the commit to SVN. Any conflicts could be solved locally on git and because I had to commit anyway before it could do this rebase. In those two years I had literally one conflict and it was easy to solve, while everyone around me kept having problems. Heck even the feature branches were easy for me, because it's just a different 'trunk' to rebase onto and I actually _could_ cherry pick for them :)

I learned the one lesson I think everyone just has to keep in mind with git: Commit before you do anything else and you won't ever loose work (save bugs in git or you doing stupid low level stuff). You can always just reset back to your commit and redo the botched attempt to resolve conflicts and this time around it should be easier with the knowledge you gained in the first try. That's also why I never use git-stash to move stuff around. There's no commit to go back to if you accidentally did a `git stash pop` instead of `git stash apply`. Heck there was even this one guy who got some rebasing and squashing so wrong that he force pushed a completely different branch onto his branch. "Lost" all of his week's work. He was so so happy when he learned how to find the commit hash for the 'lost work' and that all branches are in git are labels for those commit hashes and we magically brought it all back by reattaching this label to the right commit and force pushing again.
It's Vox, so English and journalistic ability aren't going to be near the top of the list of job qualifications.
Munich is very expensive so you get appropriate money. Rural areas pull down the average a lot.

As a software engineer (not architect, senior, team lead or whatever) your salary is at the very top.
It beats shoveling shit in Saskatchewan or dealing with any customer in a retail shop (remember those?).
good way to put it, I like how you phrased it
Just say companies are counted as general social media after some % user penetration. Facebook with over 2 billion users is obviously a general social media site and should therefore have similar restrictions on what they can restrict as state governments, they can't be about some special topic with that many users. State governments do have the power to remove harassment and porn from public areas, so it could continue as is minus the political stuff.

HN with almost no users can continue as is.
My daughter likes to play around in Blender and is getting decent at it. Her issue with YouTube tutorials is that a lot of them are for older versions of Blender and they are different enough that the workflow has changed.
"Though unprecedented, I predict this situation is also temporary."

Funny enough, the situation was not temporary, the change in trend was real and sustained.
In absolute numbers. But planning economies becomes so much more difficult at scale, though if we looked at the communist country with the highest per capita economy we would still see numbers that are middle of the pack.
Or you could just block it connecting to the internet with an application firewall…
There may not be locks on the planes, but I was surprised to see at the russian space museum in Moscow that Soyuz spacecraft do have ignition keys.
It's an interesting article that explores the arguments about whether the virus is engineered, and brings up some interesting talking points.

For me whether the virus was engineered or not is partially irrelevant.

I believe the more important thing is to look into whether the virus escaped from the WIV.

Scientists working on viruses in a BSL-2 environment should be the main scandal IMHO.

The virus doesn't even have to come from lab experiments it could come from someone just handling source material improperly in a store room.

The longer this issue goes un-addressed, the more likely it will be to allow similar mistakes to be repeated.
So long as a monopolistic centrally planned company acts on a free market do you consider your point unchallenged, or does the fact that the free markets tend to become dominated by large centrally planned corporations cause some tension?
> What can we do to enable many individuals to act as one intelligent entity?

Do you want intelligence (critical reasoning) or group conformance? It sounds like you want both when those are actually opposing forces.
My (least) favorite example of a complicated minor feature is method overloading. This seems like it's a small feature, it isn't heavily used or discussed, but it had huge implementation implications in the JVM language I used to work on:

- it makes parameter-position based inference harder

- it makes generics harder

- it ends up bleeding into bytecode, since methods can't be uniquely identified by just a name

I would say that 15-20% of the total compiler complexity arose from this one, seemingly minor language feature. All the more unfortunate that there are other, better language features that can handle the problems that method overloading addresses, but we had to be compatible w/ Java.

In this case, it is the interaction of the minor feature with other features that is the killer.
Yeah, I guarantee United Healthcare getting to deny paying for these is not going to stop the homeless person from making these calls. It's just going to stick the hospital with the bill, most likely.
I find the definition of idempotencyvalue in the grammar surprising: it looks like RFC 7230 quoted-string, but is actually just anything except for control characters, whitespace (!) and quotes, surrounded by quotes.

Then I remember that the ETag header does the same thing since RFC 7232, where it used to use quoted-string with its escaping behaviour in RFC 2616. (And so they recommend avoiding backslashes because some recipients may mangle it.)

Anyone have any idea why they’ve gone this way (ETag and Idempotency-Key), rather than using quoted-string?

I will also note that people are already using a header named Idempotency-Key without quotes, e.g. https://stripe.com/docs/api/idempotent_requests. ETag has the “W/” indicator which requires some sort of disambiguation, but at least at this time I don’t feel Idempotency-Key needs quoting.
I've read that reporting of ECC events is not supported on consumer Ryzen. It's not a complete solution and since unregistered ECC is being used, how can you even be sure the memory controller is doing any error correction at all?

Someone would need to induce memory errors and publish their results. I'd love to read it.

This is 4 years old now, but does produce some interesting results.

https://hardwarecanucks.com/cpu-motherboard/ecc-memory-amds-...
I meant clade not phylum. Sleepy?
Your statement is, to be frank, non-sensical. The protocol itself isn't broken, at least for previous Yeti instances, certificate data are correctly parsed and rejected.* In this instance, it seems that the data is verified already pre-signing BUT was flipped mid-signing. This isn't the fault of how CT was designed but rather a hardware failure that requires correction there. (Or at least that's the likely explanation, it could be a software bug° but it will be a very consistent and obvious behaviour if it is indeed a software bug.)

On the issue of subsequent invalidation of all submitted certificates, this is prevented by submitting to at least 3 different entities (as of now, there's a discussion whether if this should be increased), so if a log is subsequently found to be corrupted, the operator can send a "operator error" signal to the browser, and any tampered logs are blacklisted from browsers. (Note that all operators of CT lists are members of CA/B forum, at least as of 2020. In standardisation phase, some individuals have operated their own servers but this is no longer true.)

* Note that if the cert details are nonsensical but technically valid, it is still accepted by design, because all pre-certificates are countersigned by the intermediate signer (which the CT log operator checks from known roots). If the intermediate is compromised, then the correct response is obviously a revocation and possibly distrust.

° At least the human-induced variety, you could say that this incident is technically a software bug that occurred due to a hardware fault.
“It does not
matter if the operation is called only once, or 10s of times over.
The result SHOULD be the same.”

The result MUST be the same.
I'm not sure money going to the Saudi regime is a good thing compared to it going to the Dakotas...
Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it
Well, if you are self-employed maybe. Or for your own personal home machines, sure. But most employers with IT departments wouldn't be too happy if you had a "nonstandard" OS on your work machine because they wouldn't know how to secure it. Heck, many of them don't even allow Macs.
There's not a single respectable historian that would support your revisionism. Only the type of reactionary orgs that you always link to.
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Does anybody have stats on the average or media profit for SMBs with software developers per country? I'm willing to bet the differences across countries have something to do with that.

Most other countries (and economic unions like the EU) don't have a homogeneous market, which is mostly due to language and history, as well as infrastructure. Companies in the US can optimally target ~300M clients in the US alone with a digital, English offering. that number just rises if you're willing to go to other English-speaking countries.
If you were to compare that to a company in say Poland, Thailand or Argentina, either your product won't reach most people because the infrastructure simply isn't there, and the market can be quite small too.

Some countries are also notoriously difficult to start a business in due to worker's rights or burdensome procedures.

Other regions in the world couldn't do/haven't done enough to provide a stable, slightly homogeneous market, due to old rivalries, foreign influences (Afghanistan, Venezuela, Chile, Egypt, Jordan, Kenya, Iran, Iraq, etc.) or just straight up negligence and arrogance.
What is Twitter ? isn't that the Hate promoting platform ? Its been nearly three years I threw it under the bus and my life improved substantially.
GPL'ed code ≠ public data
Much like the difference in land use with or without cars is not simply roads and parkings, but also the horizontal development of cities rather than vertical, the land use involved by planes is not simply the airstrips. Among others, it is also all the land developed specifically for vacation in remote places. If you look at [1] for instance, this area would simply not be developed if planes were not a thing.

[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/@21.1715988,-86.8077681,1041m/da...
It's not just the question of paying. There are so many movies, series, etc, especially dubbed ones, that only exist in closed, offline archives, and licensing prevents them from being digitalised at all.
I think another important analogy is that you couldn't do this same operation with a human. In my eyes a human and an ML algorithm are both "agents". An ML algorithm is a computerized actor on a system but they are still able to do something novel based on previous inputs. If we take these two scenarios:

1. A hypothetical employer asks an employee to find a really fast algorithm to find an inverse square root. The employee has a perfect memory and can regurgitate fast inverse square root from Quake 2.

2. A hypothetical employer asks an employee to find a really fast algorithm to find an inverse square root. The employee uses this ML algorithm to generate the code which essentially regurgitates the only previously seen inverse square root function it was trained on.

At some point in time in the future id Software sees this is happening at our hypothetical company and sues. In neither situation is the "actor" held accountable since the "actor" was employed by the company which allowed for practices that enabled this infringement to take place.

I think an important legal question is: Do we consider a ML algorithm being trained on data the same as a human reading prior art for an innovation?
I would happily go to Urgent Care for more things (and have gone enough times, used to basically be my PCP back in the day), but there are certain things that if I go there they just say "We don't have the ability to do these tests, go to ER".

So now I paid an extra $100-150 just to be told to go to ER anyway. I don't go to Urgent Care for those things anymore (heart attack scares that end up being heartburn with heart attack symptoms, for example).

There's also the issue that most Urgent Cares around here aren't 24/7, so if it happens late at night (like after 9pm), ER is all you got.
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Oddly enough, tech debt is an asset to the people who are paid to maintain it.