skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do we have to name things after people to celebrate them?

This is a time-honored tradition going back centuries, if not milennia.
World Heritage Committee agrees not to place Great Barrier Reef on ‘in danger’
> you already don't get unless you were working and lost your job without being fired for cause

That condition was waived during COVID. Plenty of people are on unemployment who were not fired.

The fact is, something like 50% of unemployed workers were receiving more than their previous wage. You can argue that we should be restructuring the economy or whatever anyway, but it's incredibly dishonest to suggest the US gave out the "barest of bones". The US COVID benefits were per-capita the highest in the world, by far.
great example of monetizing your own interests/niche
On the face of it I’m not understanding the instant dismissal of the idea — what’s objectionable about this?
My understanding is that the local telco (centurylink) would just as soon not be here. It certainly seems unwilling to make the investment necessary to provide more connectivity. Some smaller communities have limited fiber (Babb, St Mary) but there is none in East Glacier and Browning.
We should all take the Lettuce Pact
>Passion is bullshit. Passion is useful in some cases, but it's not requirement to do a great job.

I strongly disagree. Maybe for other professions, sure. But to write great software requires passion. Showing up and doing the bare minimum leads to the garbage software that proliferates the world today. Not that that really matters to the individual; if you're doing what's asked of you and nothing more, then more power to you for finding a good work life balance. But you simply cannot produce top quality software without being passionate about it.
Sure, if you want to spend your time/effort on that and are able to mobilize and convince enough people to get it changed then you can do that. Im convinced there are enough good candidates that ~didn't actively participate in rooting out queer people from NASA~ [not accurate, read thread], which is kind of a low bar. Nobody (I think) is saying that everyone that gets something named after them must have been perfectly 'woke' by todays standards, but when you are naming something and you have the entirety of history to choose from, maybe don't pick James Webb.
James Webb has values that people still do today. Your summary of the issue says the opposite.
Is it a surprise that existing vendors claim that a newcomer with superior technology is competing unfairly?
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I agree. And also I actually realized a large part of the issue here might also be other background noises adding .. ahem.. noise to the samples.

Because in nature, it's almost never just one bird you hear. You hear it in the context of all the other sounds.
Denver Airport Compared to Manhattan
Looking at this photo from that page it appears that they are: https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/uavG2A3vFrVmwv6J.hug...

You can see the ports still in place after the motherboard has been removed.
e.g. Synology supports syncing to Backblaze B2 out of the box.
> >10% of mild cases reporting long COVID brain fog (without MRIs)

"Brain fog" is not a diagnosis. It has no definition. It has no test. Literally anyone could say they have it, and not be wrong.

It also overlaps substantially with "fatigue"...which we all know comes along with a lot of other common issues. Such as depression.

> Visible correlations on MRIs with large n (cited study)

The size of n doesn't matter if the thing you're reporting is not a meaningful metric. Here, we have a paper that has gone on a fishing expedition for a quasi-subjective metric with unknown levels of noise, which is widely "shown" to be associated with many common and uncommon issues across the research literature.

This is a low-quality data set. But yes, it is a larger low-quality data set.

> Lots of small-scale studies / looking at specific cases

Collections of anecdotes are not data.

> Some understanding of a relevant mechanism-of-action (see: olfactory loss)

...for a single symptom (loss of smell). But no, we don't know why that happens, and to the extent we do, the current best hypothesis has nothing to do with neurons, but rather, the scaffolding around those neurons.

> Together, that's about as strong evidence as you'd expect after 15 months.

Nonsense. We've been debating this "long covid" for more than a year now. There are apparently many sufferers. We could have easily conducted randomized, longitudinal, controlled trials. We have not.

The total evidence for "long covid" continues to be anecdotes and self-reported "symptoms", of indeterminate duration, amongst populations that are mostly self-selected for having "long covid". I believe that we'll eventually find out that some of these things are real, but right now, this is just hysteria.
3h every day sounds like you either have incredible genetics, your workouts are low effort or you're "chemically assisted".
OpenSSH SSH-Agent Shielded Private Key Extraction (x86_64 Linux)
This is great. A concerted effort to make robots be able to assemble and make more things.

This is a piece of the puzzle of building a machine of machines that can make almost anything without human intervention.

Are they hiring interns?
That's a very attractive use of blockchain. It would be great if we can have accountability and traceability for all publicly spent money. It would also be nice to be able to trace all public contracts in a similar manner.
The idea of the randomness is to calibrate your criteria against general population. I wonder if it works.
Ask HN: Good article I saw on HN but can't find?
There was a blog post within the last year or two on HN that compared a codebase to a professional kitchen. It talked about how someone inexperienced might walk into a kitchen and see superficial signs that it was dirty, but an experienced kitchen worker would know that the parts that matter were clean. There might be scuffs and scorch marks that aren't worth cleaning, while the spots that could grow bacteria or contaminate food have been kept spotless. This was used as an analogy for what really makes a codebase "clean", distinguishing the things that matter from the things that are purely aesthetic. I thought it was really insightful.

I've had trouble searching for this article. Anybody have a link or remember the title?
Yup. I usually really like NPR but I had to stop once I read that. Why'd they have to say they were a Libra? They could have just said "I was born to find balance". ugh.
UT Austin is one of the most prestigious public universities in the nation, the Texas equivalent to UC Berkeley. Texas just strictly limits how many from out of state can come (also, in state tuition is only $5000/semester, so it heavily incentives even the wealthy / those who can achieve a Harvard or, say, Pomona College admission to attend). Full disclosure: I did not attend UT Austin.

Also. as someone who grew up in Texas and now lives in California, I can tell you the UT System has more than its fair share of gaming attempts -- as such, you're ineligible for the automatic-in based on rankings if you switch schools in the last 2 years (i.e. you need to get in holistically), and those who attend private high schools also need to get in holistically (because top private schools got caught saying more than 7% of their students were in the top 7% and have non-state-standardized ranking criteria). Granted, being automatically admitted to one of the UT schools via rankings often does _not_ mean admission to UT Austin, but rather a satellite campus.

It's a decently progressive and fair system.

https://news.utexas.edu/2020/06/18/new-ranking-puts-ut-austi...
The part that wears out from cycling often is the ballast of the bulb. I imagine these smart lights are in the bulb's ballast, so sending the "off" command isn't de-energizing the ballast of the lightbulbs.

If you were doing it on a smart light switch that was feeding 120V to the ballasts I do imagine it would impart some additional wear and tear to the bulbs. I'm not sure how much additional wear and tear it would be on an LED, I know the main thing that wears out on a florescent is the starting circuit which needs to bring the energy of the bulb enough to start the arc which wears out over time.
Yeah but... if the barge base the tower is attached to isn't of the order as large on each side as the tower is tall, the first gale will capsize it.
The overwhelming majority of towns do not impose an income tax and presumably the property tax would be the same regardless of whether a "typical" or "college admissions gaming" resident lived there. The only small difference in tax income to the town would be any minuscule difference in excise taxes on vehicles or local sales tax. Do you have a larger difference in tax income to the town in mind that I'm not seeing?
The California Dream is Dying – CA is closing the door on economic opportunity
You're losing the forest for the trees. Wealthier parents most often send their children to good private schools, and their children have lots of options for college if they are talented and hard working.
Dopamine is the motivational neurochemical, the fact that mice can control their motivations is wild though, they're way smarter than we usually perceive them to be.
Sure. But this started with a comment that said "computing was different back then". Not the same thing at all.

Also, note that in 1989, Xenix and others ran quite happily on the sort of hardware you're citing, so MS-DOS is/was the actual "limiting factor".
There's a typo, it's $0.045 per GB (half of AWS, as mentioned). I got excited for a second!
No satellite has ever had to do an environmental impact study -- the FCC/FAA has a blanket waiver for everyone.

The FCC does regulate debris and re-entry hazards. Constellations like SpaceX's have much more strict rules than GEO satellites like Viasat's.
Adding to that. There used to be ~150k giraffes (recently their numbers are declining) divided amongst 4 giraffe species. So while the strategy of using a long neck to eat the high leaves is viable, it's not crazy successful. It's not "everything should get in on this".
I don't doubt that Tether is used to evade regulation and oversight. Tether, the company, certainly seems to be pretty shady. But, it isn't only used for that.

The reason tether, the coin, initially took off, was that exchanges (including 2 bit upstarts with no financial or technical chops using off the shelf software) needed a way to transfer funds between them. They could, in theory, have driven trucks of cash between each others offices without regulation, but that's not feasible. They could have transferred regular cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, but that creates an exchange risk that they can't handle. Hence Tether.

In practice, real USD were not up to this task. It's possible that "the task" itself is the problem.

If exchanges were established, bigger, more trustworthy and capable companies... they'd probably trust each other and clear transactions weekly or something.
Fair enough. By calling my comment uninteresting, have you also rendered yourself to likely be the most uninteresting person in the room, by the logic in your first paragraph? If so, who wins the title of the most uninteresting person in the room?
75-90% of what land? the federal government owns 28% of the entire land area in the US, and that land is not "zoned" for any type of private residence.
Walt Disney World in Florida is also larger than Manhattan.
First Desktop PC RISC-V Board Meets AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Thanks - that's exactly the point I was trying to make in the article.
I've told my wife that. It's not a unique idea, I'm sure many have had it. But that's not even 1% of the work in actually building it.
Crossing Mexico in a home-made 'spacecraft'
"In the second half of the 19th Century, the Mexican government partnered with British companies to build the railway line that would connect Mexico City with the Atlantic Ocean.

But over the past few decades, Mexico's railways have fallen out of use, leaving hundreds of miles of disused track snaking across the country and cutting rural communities off from the large cities.

Artists Ivan Puig and Andres Padilla Domene decided to build a car capable of travelling on train tracks and explored the country's abandoned railway lines."
This is not a particularly strong article. Here's a much more data-backed one arguing similar points (though still with some bias): https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-arent-actually-mad-...

Issues with this particular article (addressed by above):

* It's ignoring the racial gap in SAT scores (and other standardized tests) that exists even after controlling for family income. A large part of the political narrative here (including the university backing Prop 16 which would allow it to consider race) is coming from this fact, not just the income gap in itself (Note that I don't think the university ever took the position that the tests were per se discriminatory, which the author claims).

* It's not really defining what "worst" school means; you need to be careful here as you might just be saying the tautological "students at schools with low-performing students on average on low performing". It's making the common claim these schools are underfunded, but on average, lower performing schools are receiving more money. (Example from LA - http://www.laalmanac.com/education/ed04m.php -- LAUSD, which some of the lowest ranking schools, is well over average funding - areas with top schools - e.g. Arcadia - get the least). Perhaps the author means "underfunded schools relative to what I think they should get", but that's a different statement.

* UC admission data for 2021 is out (https://ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/co...), so it's possible to start objectively assessing the impact of the policy.
> "digital pint talk"

This is a wonderful turn of phrase. Hacker News is my favorite pub.
Basically rounded down to none. While we continually underestimate our unintended impacts, I don't believe that's the case here. Even if we sourced 100% of the world's energy needs from wind it would be slowing a miniscule fraction of the total atmospheric movements. Think of the three dimensional space occupied by turbines versus the vast volume of air with no turbines.
The Insane Size of the Largest Planetary Systems
For one , you don't need to go straight to college , or attend college at all. Even before I got my BA I was making more than the Ivy League Alum in my family.

That's the first myth.

California has what's probably the best community college system in America. It was very easy for me, as a poor kid to meet ( and at times date) people from all over the world. Maybe you dropped out of high school due to just not liking it. You can still attend a community college, transfer to a UC and have a great career.

I did very poorly in highschool since I was constantly ether getting kicked out or evicted. Still I had morons in my family pressuring me to shrug it off.

If anything I'm angrier now than I was back then

I was exceptionally lucky to be able to find an affordable place to live at 19. My family is pretty horrible, all I really needed was a stable place. But that's impossible now, the same apartment that used to be $600 is now $1,300 or 1400.

For the record I've had several Asian friends who come from similar backgrounds, where there's extreme domestic violence at home and they just need a stable place to live. This is very much not a race issue, it's a 'people who don't have stable households aren't going to be able to get into top schools' issue.

If you want to fix test scores or whatever, you need to look at actually fixing the economic situation many of these kids are in.

Make it possible to afford your own place with a full time minimum wage job. At least then when a kid from a messed up family turns 18 they can move out.
Reflections on 30 years of failing to launch an indie game
hahahah supabase
> I’ve noticed that faced with a “new tab” I’ll often just hit the f key and hit enter without thinking about it

OMG I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I deactivated it over 6 months ago and I STILL have this impulse from time to time.
> "closing a windows document quits the program. It’s dumb."

It's not necessarily true; Excel holds a parent window open when you close the last spreadsheet, Paint.Net does as well, VS Code goes to a 'front page' screen, Visual Studio does, Adobe Reader does, Audacity restarts a blank file if you File -> Close what you're working on.

It's not a "Windows" thing, it's a program choice what happens.
That's also what I would say "there's no money to be made here – it would be a fun hobby project and I could learn some machine learning but that's about it"
At a routing and peering level. Once you have an announcement for your netblock out there, traffic will start to head towards it. A lot of this is due to the BGP Path Selection Algorithm.

You can try and influence how traffic arrives, by doing things like, AS prepends, but you are still going to get traffic.

The main reason for this is that the other side that is egressing to you has their own egress policy that also follows path selection. Things like localpref and weight will force my traffic to leave via a path before it considers how a network has AS padded.

As an example:
Lets say I want to egress (company A) to a downstream company (company B). If I learn routes to Company B via multiple ways: peering fabric (low cost), paid peering (medium cost), transit1 (high cost, variable quality), transit2 (low cost variable quality), I can choose which way my traffic goes, via localpref, weight etc.

Only when I view the paths equally (equal localpref, weight etc.) will I evaluate the shortest AS Path (which the receiving company has influence on).

The only way to completely not get inbound traffic via a specific link, is to remove your BGP advertisement for your netblock from that link. (some providers also let you do this selectively via BGP communities).

There are also some other tips/tricks - such as adding a more specific prefix to a certain link, to attract traffic, but care needs to be made to have a fallback route in case things go wonky.
People like to shit talk NFTs a lot but for us we haven't been able to approach making money on this kind of thing outside of art niches, or joining big studios with budgets to throw at it since these came out basically. I think the first people to make money on these were probably Pixar and Lucasfilm, I've seen some pretty damn interesting old papers on the subject from around the 1980s. You can get some really cool looking renders out of these.
You can often still print those out, execute it, scan it, and email it back.

Depending on the context, it's possible to just completely ignore them (eg a non-compete that a job wants you to sign after you've already been hired).

You can also directly ask for your changes, as discussed elsewhere.

Ultimately, if someone tries to spring an unreasonable contract of adhesion on you at the last minute, the right answer is to blame them for disrupting the negotiation. Tell them it's unacceptable for them to have wasted your time, and look around for a better option.
That’s a very interesting read, thank you.

It’s a shame that the law only applied in full effect for 10 years. That’s barely enough time to fix a generation of students.
It's almost like you only get so many baseline CPU-hours. You want to overclock now? There's a price later.
> Imagine how many parent would just stick their kid into the worst school for 1-2 years to get that.

Native Texan here, not the first time I've heard this strategy.

For in state students, you really can't beat UT's cost to value ratio..people do try hard to get in.
Whether he is ignored or not depends on the thought circle of discourse and how that circle sets, or does not set, expectations based on skin color.

He’s ignored for the same reason Clarence Thomas is ignored - the juxtaposition between the color of his skin and his words.
You mean like, read the student's application and use critical thinking to evaluate whether they're a good fit for the school based on their essays and individual accomplishments? Say it ain't so!
/Maybe a standalone IoT monitoring device could be placed in forests to count each and every bird./

This is actually the 'real' research motivation behind the bird classification work: Slap a microphone to the side of a tree, pick it up in a month, and get some accurate picture of what species have been in the area.

Birds are relatively easy to observe, thanks to their vocalizations, which makes them an indicator species. We have a good idea what many species eat, so they end up telling you quite a lot about the surrounding ecosystem.

However, it turns out that the 'soundscape problem' where the microphone is just attached to a tree is a bit more difficult than identifying foreground birds only, using a device that can be pointed in the relevant direction by the user.

We've been encouraging further work on the soundscape problem by hosting the BirdCLEF and Kaggle competitions, and have been seeing steady progress. Improvements in the 'hard' soundscape problem have been driving improvements in the 'consumer' identification algorithms.

https://www.kaggle.com/c/birdclef-2021/overview

[source: I've been working with the BirdNet folks on and off for the last few years, and co-host the Kaggle competitions.]
Both the State Department and the UK High Court agreed she did.

The US and UK even changed the rule to remove diplomatic immunity from spouses of people at that base after the incident (but not retroactively), which proves she did have it at the time.
Would someone who is downvote-burying these comments care to explain their distaste? Irrespective of whether you agree with Sowell's viewpoints, they are articulate and seem germane to the conversation.
SFUSD's operating budget (excluding capital expenditure and maybe some other stuff) is $1.1bn. It normally serves 57k students. That's $17k per student per year.

Funding is not the problem.
> Where else are you going to get a brain imaging study with before and after data on thousands of people?

Why does the size of the study matter so much if the endpoint of the study is absurd, the gathering process was a fishing expedition, and the whole thing is subject to confirmation bias?

Even if you believe that these researchers are finding real signals in these MRI scans (which I don't automatically grant; even they admit that some of the "pathologies" they've identified aren't significant, and they didn't pre-declare the endpoints anyway, so you can't rely on conventional statistical significance thresholds), the fact that they know the outcome for each subject hopelessly poisons the data.

> Denial is quite a river these days.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore a truth they cannot accept.
If they're actually not following required governmental procedures*, then it seems like they may well be competing unfairly.

* - This is something that it seems the courts are well positioned to rule upon and about which I have no opinion.
It doesn't make any sense. "Unlocking", "creative", "economic"?

If you believe this BS, then good luck to you.
The scale part of the cloud is often not as exciting as it seems on paper. Yes a cloud can auto-scale 100x. But can everything else support that? Like is your DB setup to handle 100x increase in load? (Sure, use dynamo DB, but that has other restrictions).

If the cloud to bare metal price difference is 10x.. you could easily just buy bare metal = 2x your peak load, and still come out ahead..
Facebook Says ‘Death to Khamenei’ Posts Are OK for the Next Two Weeks
What's wrong with that? That'll encourage education-focused parents to move to more diverse neighborhoods. Right now parents are trying to cram into the 3-4 best school districts in any given area.
Given 2 equally smart people. The one that has the opportunity to take more AP/Honors will have more opportunity to get a higher GPA.