skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent my early twenties in Buddhist monasteries. What I learned at the foot of these peaceful, shockingly kind monks was that the mind is all habits spun on the flywheel of action.

"Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking & pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with sensuality, abandoning thinking imbued with renunciation, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with sensuality."

We have a choice every time a thought, a desire, a feeling comes to us. We can follow it, pursue it, foment it. Or we can see it, acknowledge it, and drop it. People will do what they want and never have I advocated we tell people they can't do with their bodies whatever they want to do with them. But we can encourage a wiser eye in our consumption.
You can currently change the background color of the app (not the PDF) in the configuration file. We don't currently have True Dark Mode but it shouldn't be too hard to implement.
You can start with K3s: https://k3s.io/

The networking part is always the most challenging. Everything between your router and your kubernetes cluster should still be routed and firewalled manually. However, if you can live with your home router firewall and a simple port mapping to your machines/cluster, then routing the traffic and setting up the cluster should be relatively painless.
I tend to use a custom PDF darkmode in Firefox for this very reason. I can't find a decent PDF viewer that supports it. (Linux)
It sounds like the author doesn't hate science (which is a nonsensical thing to hate), but academia. Those are two different things.
I don't know what specific problems you had with networking but I found using Kubespray an easy way to setup a cluster on different clouds.
10 years doesn't really mean much by itself. If I incorrectly practice guitar for 10 years, I'll have experience of practicing the guitar incorrectly, and maybe RSI/health issues from not learning correct posture, etc. There is no rule that I'll actually get "good" at guitar by practicing that way.

"that <what>'s being taught and lauded so much as a panacea"

Lauded by whom? And <what> exactly? Buddhism? Meditation? Those are very different and learning from an experienced practitioner is important.
Does your work involve research, measurement, planning, architecture, review, and instrumentation?

Are you using math to plan capacities and growth rates?

Do you push your services to 1000k+ QPS of sustained traffic to see how it handles or falls over?

Are you developing DR scenarios and training people and performing live exercises? Designing systems to fail open or closed appropriately, to gracefully handle missing dependencies, not cause a thundering herd upon restart, etc.?

Are you performing security analysis, STRIDE, etc.?

Is your data model active-active, have redundantly striped caching, and use vector clock consolidation, consensus?

This skill set is software engineering. It's not configuring a Drupal or Wordpress install.

Don't downplay it.
Some people I like to hear out. Then I'll maybe discuss the merits of the idea, meanwhile tally in my head and leave it as "well, sounds great, would probably take me about 4 months to build it. You could probably get it done in 1 month if you had $x?xx,xxx to put into it"
>The conditions that allowed Hitler to rise to power were created by the "winners" of WWI with the treaty of Versailles.

That's quite literally Nazi propaganda, although the narrative was born in the US with Keynes as Americans were oddly keen on washing the Germans of their sins, shifting the blame everywhere else and go back to business as usual.

The Treaty of Versailles was nothing particularly odious, Germany could have coped with it fine if it stuck to the terms. It didn't, it broke its economy on purpose to avoid honoring the treaty.
What is a bit missing is that being able to tell when the time is right for a certain idea, i.e. when to commit resources to it, is super valuable. This is something that also requires work, but different from executing on the idea itself.
I think you're mostly describing social stigma in your points.
A lot of times the answer is a domestic partner working at one of the Baltimore hospitals
So why didn’t the Germans put these trains all over Germany?
have you _seen_ walmart.com? their online store rivals amazon easily.
Tesla Semi electric truck is finally about to go into production
Node-RED is a completely nifty piece of software and I hate it. Mostly because it doesn't do things how I like to interact with them (Not a visual programming person). Also it gives me flashbacks to dealing with Labview.
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> the average black American has an IQ about 85

This is uncontroversially true. The controversial opinion that Raymond holds is that this implies an inherent genetic deficit in intelligence rather than simply being reflective of socioeconomics.
Agreed. I think 99% of ideas are not worth pursuing, at least in their current state. A viable idea with a real shot of going far is a lot more rare. I think vcs like to convince us they are worthless, and they execution is all that matters because they fund/enable that execution, and it makes you value their funding more

It strawmans “ideas.” 95% of programming for example is ideas and ideation and communicating those ideas, only 5% is typing. But if you define “ideas” as being what some clueless jerk with their head in the clouds thought of while on the can and then lorded over their peasant implementors, of course ideas look worthless
A design pattern to make ML projects lean
Astrophysicist Explains Gravity in 5 Levels of Difficulty
Hi HN,

I've been working on this project since 2013. It's a platform for building and playing text-based games (Multi-User Dungeons), both single-player and multi-player, on the browser. The layout is responsive to accommodate both desktop and mobile displays (including the world editor). Would love some thoughtful feedback!
I don't think most astronomers knew that there would need to be 50K more satellites for remote internet to work. Maybe if someone had told them it's not just a few extra satellites?
Working for me. No 500.
If I drive onto the ferry am I part of the crew? I’ve been told (trained) on what to do and I’m equipped (my car), so am I a crew member? No, I’m just a passenger following the crew’s direction.
Well at least with a train system there's an option to green it up medium term. Better than investments into air infrastructure, no?

Of course, I'm blissfully unaware of China's air travel developments. I'd be surprised though if they were not also huge. :D
> A flight would take longer, because of security check, getting to-from airport, waiting for luggage, etc.

Which is a plain idiocity. A train derailment, even of a non-high speed train, will make for a many times bigger bodycount than an even A380 crash.
I have made my peace with the fact that Car and Airline Lobby will not let this happen. I mean we are the richest frikin country in the world and we cannot build a decent high speed train network. Only reason is that some strong forces do not want this to happen. I hope I am wrong.

I also hear funny arguments (in my opinion) about why high speed Rails are a bad idea. Oh it's too expensive. Oh it is ok for countries like China because they have lot of people etc etc. Excuses. I thought we like choices as Americans. Right now, if I don't want to drive, my only option is to fly mostly in a shitty plane cramped up with strangers on a 4 hour flight. I would gladly trade that with a train even if that takes say an additional hour or so. Are Amtraks the best we can do America ?
We can. But it would be very inefficient. There's no point to use C at all, if you can accept that level of performance.
I see, there was a misread of my original comment. The bit about “to the extent that they exist now” is a comment on the state of current so called general purpose computers like the ones based on intel platforms. In appearance they are “general purpose” but there are various locked down subsystems that are not under the control of the user.

I never claimed they were expensive, not sure what you’re referring to there.
You may be right.

But still for the sake of discussion, I would argue that their mission required only 1 responsibility - that you be there. Even if they orbit around the Earth, modern spacecrafts are designed in such a way that crew member input is almost unnecessary. I wonder how much crew input is needed to dock on ISS in modern crafts...
Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files?
It's true that people are people, and everyone has a weird thought now and then. It's natural. That's just how people are. Everyone all over the place has ideas like this.

The New York Times goes on and on about 12 people on Facebook repeating weird ideas about vaccines being dangerous. They are Republicans so that must be condemned. Because it's not scientific.

On the other hand, water witching is new age. So they're Democrats. So it's OK for the New York Times to give a wink and a nod to the idea that these Democrats just might know more than scientists.

It inconceivable how a Republican would believe an unscientific idea about vaccines being bad.
It's natural to see how a Democrat would believe an unscientific idea about water witching being good.
What if we have engineering degrees? That change anything?

Edit: That being said, depending on who I am talking to it ranges from "I do computers" to "I am a computer programmer", and very rarely use "engineer" unless I am referring to my actual degree (BSCpE).
Americans’ Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140B
systemd? More like systemK! But seriously, are non-systemd systems not vulnerable to the FUSE portion of this? (CVE-2021-33910)
Purely Functional System Configuration Management – (Eelco Dolstra / NixOS)
> It is not quite a northern city and not quite southern either.

That's because it is in the mid-atlantic!

Baltimore reminds me of DC ~20 years ago.
A long enough, massive enough stick could theoretically be a gravimeter. You'd just have to be so impossibly perceptive (or use an interferometer) that you'd notice the difference in gravity each half of the stick experiences.

No question dowsing is pseudoscience. But it's interesting that the dowsing concept of hanging weights off a stick is quite similar to the first scientific gravimeter, which used a pendulum in the 1670s.

Also Clarke's first and second laws in action: "LaCoste's most famous invention is the ship, and aircraft-mounted gravimeter. …this invention was considered impossible until LaCoste demonstrated it." Clarke's third law is asking the black brick in your hand "Siri, what's the local gravity here?"
I wouldn't even call them negative, per se, even though you might perceive them as such.

These are things you've held deep down that are, through your heightened self-awareness, being dragged kicking and screaming to the surface.

Once the duck is out of the bottle, you can't put it back in. You have to take care of the duck. Having a support network or community certainly helps, and the meditation just shone the light on what was already there.
The underwhelming part is that it took so long.

The first private manned suborbital flight occurred in 2004 with SpaceShipOne. It is 17 years later at this point and only now do we have paying customers for sub-orbital flight.
You have to be 18 to sign up. It's like saying the military is a mechanized process turning young men into troops. Some people sign up for the military before they graduate high school, and gladly. There has to be some arbitrary age where a boys and girls become an adult, when they can and must accept responsibility.
> Um so they are insured by the FDIC?

Says on the website - "Your account(s) are FDIC-insured up to $250K"
A friend of mine told me a saying they have at Walmart, “you get one point for talking and nine points for doing.”

Thanks for sharing this article — I really liked it.
How does the right to send things into orbit work today? Can anyone just launch whatever they want up?
The creators would somehow be surprised when they realised we couldn't remove content from other websites.

Don't you have skin in this, too? I would expect that you would want to protect your content in much the same way a film studio protects their content when it pops up on 3rd party sites. I don't know if you're being obtuse with your wording here, but whether or not your customers realized that you can't physically remove content from others sites directly is beside the point when there are well known legal options.
It's not an uncommon salary - but its not typical as of 2021. The individuals with this compensation are typically either experienced, or educated in a remunerative field (including comp sci grads).

A society that sets the bar for home ownership at this level is going to have trouble, in an inflationary environment home ownership completely changes the savings rate for an individual as inflation eats away at the mortgage payment. By the time 30 years is up and the individual owns the home, they benefit from massively reduced housing costs into their retirement.

If instead these individuals are renting into their 30s/40s/50s they won't have the cash flow to backstop their retirement, fund college, create businesses, or other activities that result from capital accumulation.

What's worse is that a larger fraction of the eventual benefits that these individuals require will be paid into rent on properties that are likely owned by investment banks and others whose borrowing power is unconstrained.
If your design is data-driven, and the data specification in turn comes from your requirements, why would you be updating your common, standardised data format just because any particular supplier or consumer of that data changed? The dependencies appear to be the wrong way around in that situation.

If there is a material change in requirements, you update your data interchange standard accordingly, and then you still only need to adapt N+M producers and consumers to work with the updated standard.

Either way, I still don’t see how we end up back with N×M. The consumers and suppliers are still communicating via the intermediary format and not all talking directly to each other.
From my experience, scroll snapping is quite nice. On the mobile view of https://www.nytimes.com/, if you scroll down enough, you'll find an example of a scroll snapping row of opinion pieces.

It is 10x better than scroll jacking. Scroll jacking is so repulsive to see anywhere you aren't using a mouse wheel.
Actually, HN guidelines are to do the reverse:

> If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.

e.g. if this had been 'ISO announces publicly available standards' on iso.org itself, the submitter should (or if not and a popular/noticed submission, a mod would) change it to the 'Publicly available standards' that it is.
I think the future for this is online publication. On a personal blog, or a shared website.

A bit like stories such as Sherlock Holmes’ were initially published in episodically in newspapers.

Many platforms now offer subscriptions options, so it definitely could work.

That still leaves the discovery & editing issues though.

Any thoughts on that?
This is an enjoyable and worthwhile lecture by Jocelyn Bell, who discovered pulsars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-335gUOvdhA
Add Java to that list.
The publicity aspect would deter some, but it would attract others. By the time even 20 people have gone up, it won't be newsworthy, and then it will just be like buying a yacht. There are about 1.5 million people in the US worth $10 million or more, which is about where you need to be to comfortably afford this type of thing now, and another 10 million or so single digit millionaires, many of whom would take a significant hit to net worth to go up. So I think the odds that you can get > 10K takers just in the USA are pretty much 100%. If you can put 10K people up with a solid safety record, then that number would probably go up to 100K to 1 million potential customers. The economy of scale at that level would probably drop the price to where most of the upper middle class is a potential customer. So I think this can work. Safety record is the key.
Here is the "crackpot theory" that will earn me many downvotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysmic_pole_shift_hypothe...

There is a heaping pile of physical evidence that the earth's rotation changed at the same time the sun had an ELE scale micronova as recently as 12,000 years ago. The theory is that, exactly like solar maxima and minima are on a predictable cycle, these micronovas are as well, about every 12,000 years.

We found flash frozen waves, instantly frozen animals, and all other manner of things that can only be caused by a sudden drop in the earth's temperature.

The theory is that the earth and sun's magnetic fields are interlinked (they are), and pole reversals in the earth are tied to the sun. The sun micronovas at the same time, which causes half the earth to freeze and the other half to cook. At the same time, the earth's rotation flips, causing massive tsunami's. There's evidence of the massive tsunamis if you look at the continental shelves on google earth. There are fission tracks on the moon and on earth that prove a solar event, although that information is closely guarded by NASA.

It's a fun theory. I don't rule it out at all. Check out suspicious0bservers.org and select videos from the Diehold Foundation (skip the religious videos).
There was an excellent article in Harpers about this a few months ago: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/04/lost-in-thought-psycholo...

I had no idea, but schizophrenic breaks and other psychological symptoms are not uncommon at meditation retreats, and staff are often untrained on how to deal with it.

Sorry this happened to you OP, and I hope you're able to get effective help.
Still not fixed in the mainline kernel, it seems.
Sure, I guess I'm imagining a thick enough coating where it looks like a very dark featureless surface under a transparent layer, which I think would look pretty cool. But that's not really clear coat so much as it is epoxy.
Forgive me if anyone has said as much, but something that directly stands out to me about all of the comments heretofore mentioned is that they are treating a state of consciousness in a formalist way, as if the mind exists independent of the body. The brain's activities and the things the mind experiences are very much situated in the realm of bodily states. One state that is very common amongst people who follow certain paths is malnutrition.

I am not necessarily going to try to start a flame war over which diet or whatever could cause which set of nutrient deficiencies, but I think its a salient point that he has self professed clinical symptoms (like convulsing muscles) and never sought medical help, only seeking more help from the same overly formal realm of rules.

Additionally, the author mentions following all these buddhist frameworks, but in Theravada at least, part of the eight fold path is not drinking or doing drugs, yet he says he would drink and do drugs when he didn't get the jolt he wanted from the practice. Alcohol and drugs, while not necessarily inherently bad, are great at depleting the body of essential things like vitamins, minerals, and neurotransmitters needed for proper brain functioning.

The only real treatment he gives to this is saying, "no preexisting conditions." Of course, I hope I don't have to explain that just because you haven't been diagnosed with a deficiency of some kind, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I also find his later comment that another practitioner had "no preexisting conditions except anxiety," to be particularly problematic. Anxiety is a preexisting condition, which lends some probability that his evaluation of preexisting conditions could be overly lax, and his consistent search for confirmation bias that Buddhism would solve his medical/biological problems could cause him to downplay actual preexisting conditions.

Anyway, I agree with many of the other people that dark nights, etc are well known phenomena, so I don't want to downplay any of that. I just wanted to add to the conversation that nutrition is very important, and if you fuck that up, you can get really fucked up psychologically due to dysfunctional parts.
> 1000 ideas are as valuable as a shipped product

that earns money.
But the ‘real’ universe need not have the same physics and energy constraints that this simulated one does. The limits we observe need not apply.

My guess is that the hypothesis is false but unfalsifiable.
This is the same argument DHH makes in a very similar post aptly titled "There's no room for The Idea Guy":

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2188-theres-no-room-for-the-i...

I don't disagree, in fact it was one of my favorite posts due how relatable it is to the many convos I've had with non-technical friends and acquantainces. They mean well, and share their app idea as if it is the next Facebook, and the thing standing between us and some mega yachts is a coder (me) to simply "whip it up".
A chunk of it certainly was, before the Germans got the boot. And the Nazi party was popular with a lot of factions in Eastern Europe, including in Hungary.
Some other existing public natural language APIs might not utilize the latest state-of-the-art NLP technologies (Transformer based architectures) so their accuracies might be bad. In addition, you cannot expect very high accuracy from ready NLP API for your special data. That is why with Lingoes.ai you have two options:

1. Use the provided ready NLP model API if you don't have a labelled dataset to train your own model

2. You can upload your own custom dataset to train your own NLP model and API finetuned for your special data. By using this feature, you can get NLP API for your data with accuracy over 90%. This helps especially with low-resource obscure languages.
Local root escalation is very common vulnerability. It's almost pointless to expect that attacker will not be able to escalate his privileges given enough time, if he got user account access. One weak layer of defense at most.
I've never seen learning a new language as a huge barrier. I've learned new languages on the job several times, and I'm probably not as smart as a large portion of Linux's contributors (especially the ones who would be reviewing pull requests). I think they can work it out.
gdrew686 at gmail dot com

Thanks so much. Its awesome to know there is a site that cares enough about their models to provide support for therapy.
Portable between what?
I think the general point still stands. The evidence was no secured either.
Really clean launch! I think this was the first time a reusable rocket was landed with humans onboard? It must’ve fell 100k feet at the end in less than a minute which must’ve been nuts.
20 yeas from founding to a suborbital demo flight, 15 years of development for the rocket itself. New Shephard will never make orbit, it's a dead end.

New Glenn would be great if it existed. As it stands it's likely to be eclipsed by Starship. B.O. are going to have to change into a whole new gear if they want to compete. I have far more confidence in rocketlab scaling upwards from electron than in Blue Origin scaling anywhere.
I don't see any warnings for this narrowing parameter conversion.

#include "stddef.h"

short foo(short a) { return a % 42; }

size_t bar(void) {
size_t sz = ~0UL;
return foo(sz);
}

https://godbolt.org/z/3ec9v8Pa4