skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not wrong, but if you had some of the tech from the Boston Dynamics robots, you could imagine something smart enough to either retain balance in the first place, or take a forward/backward roll to prevent a more serious injury.

The Father here has done a fantastic job, I'm sure his son is thrilled to be able to take some steps -- also the low-tech tether from above solves the falling problem for the moment which presumably lets him get on with solving other issues.

Well done Dad!
My last two workplaces had a slack channel where people are encouraged to say what they did yesterday (labeled "Y") and say what they plan to do today (labeled "T".)

I can't quite stand to do that so instead at the end of the day I write "what I did" and "what I plan to do"; that way I can write it when what I did was fresh in my head and when my head is full of next steps.

Big picture I think "individual performance" isn't the way to think about it for small teams since it is the performance of the team you want to maximize.
Was IE outdated or was it the version the laziest IT department/sysadmin kept deploying that was old?

I remember someone telling me they couldn't use anything else other than IE6 at a non-tech job years after it was deprecated and at least two major versions behind.
Asking the real questions that will upset alot of people. ;)
There is a tremendous bias in favor of Chrome in developer communities. E.g., things that aren't implemented in either Chrome or Firefox (well, it's their site) aren't even listed on MDN. (The CSS section is somewhat better on this.) Which creates this whatever-Chrome-is-doing effect…
If you like this kind of thing, I recommend Stellarium. It's FOSS, runs locally, and has a gazillion features! You're also not limited to viewing from Earth :-)
So...

I think there are two seperate things here, besides ownership of the prestige word "journalism."

One is "reporting," which involves fact-checking, corroborating source statements and such. This is, I agree, something that generally needs an organisation.

The other is investigative journalism. This can be done independently & can't be scooped, but it is an incredibly inefficient way of putting ink on paper. Investigations take weeks, months or years and not every investigation finds much worth reporting. This is incredibly important, but god only knows hows its supposed to be funded. Where it is done, its subsidized, cross subsidized, snuck in or done unpaid. This is as much an issue at NYT as it is on substack. There's no known general solution to this problem.

All that said, most of what most people read, listen to and watch is neither of these things. It's commentary and rhetoric. Those aren't bad, they're just overabundant, everywhere... not just substack. In fact, if you take a glance at politically fringe publications like Breitbart, Jacobin, Democracy Now, etc.... You will find that most of it is such content. News first published elsewhere, with new commentary. Its like this everywhere: left, right, centre, establishment, dissident, corporate, independant. If there's intelligent life on mars, I reckon their papers will be full of it too.
I cannot recommend this book enough to anyone interested in history/russia/ or good stories in general:

https://www.harvard.com/book/peter_the_great_his_life_and_wo...

Peter the Great's life is extremely interesting, and that book, while being a biography, honestly reads like an exciting novel. There are so many "game of thrones"-like moments in his life.
RSS still works fine for me. I use Feedly, but there are others.
Yikes...accusing me of something akin to racism seems harsh. I am a musician myself, and am always curious about what brings people from other disciplines to HN. Apologies if I caused any offense.
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The one not at war obviously. Being in Europe didn't save Bosnia from being a pretty awful place to be in the 90s.
Virtual contact worse than no contact for over-60s in lockdown, says study
Cars are dangerous yet they're ubiquitous. Risk vs reward I guess
I worked in a logistics operation that explored exoskeleton options deeply in 2019. Options were shockingly limited and the best products were not powered in any way - essentially just frames to bolster your body mechanically. Compare to the massive, extremely precise, and power-efficient automated storage and retrieval systems and it just seemed like stone age tech. My takeaway was that powered exoskeleton tech must be vastly more difficult to implement than I'd expected. The financial incentives are there for warehouse and logistics applications, but the tech just isn't.
Many of us are hoping for a deus ex machina. Some magnificent piece of tech (fusion e.g) that keeps giving us time of plenty indefinitely, allowing us to postpone growing up forever. Because that is what we do, when we get it.

Instead what we got, was the ability to self-surveil us (cellphone-panopticon), to entertain us without consuming to much resources (games, stream-movies, electronic communication-social sphere) and other funny mechanical limbs. We got the ability to practice birth control and we are currently working to get a hold of the worser angels of our nature, left, right and center.

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes - you get what you need..."

My only worry is that whoever is social engineering this "golden path" has not factored in the tendency to get stuck in feudalistic local optima happily ever after.

But im toasting them. This all could be so much worser..
Yeah, I think the OP was really talking about this individual case.

Eg, this guy put his kid in a device that could kill him (maybe).

Looking back at the videos from Boston Dynamics, a ton of effort is put in to the failure mode testing. I highly doubt 1) this is dynamic, 2) failure modes were considered much.
The author's basic arguments in this post are not at all about space expansion, they are simply about how "wild" (that is, unlikely or surprising) any of the options actually are. They present a timeline where they don't believe it's that significant if the predictions they will make will happen in 100 or 100k years, since they intend to claim that this will create a civilization stable for billions of years.

I would bet that the whole series will end up being mostly meaningless, in the sense that it will be either trivial or wrong. That is, either it will continue to make trivial observations (either we live in the first ~100k years of a billion-year civilization, or such a civilization will never exist - a truism); or, they will start making obviously wrong claims, such as the AI singularity idea.

Edit: In general, talking about stability on the order of billions of years is absurd. This is literally enough time to conceive of self-conscious organisms evolving inside our bodies. It is enough times for the radioactive decay of many stable materials. Imagining that a man-made structure could be stable for this amount of time is laughable.
One of my favorite movies "Edge of Tomorrow" has dope exoskeletons, and while its a movie - thats where this is heading...

I am surprised Boston Dynamics hasnt made one! If you converted the agility of Atlas into an exoskeleton, that would be pretty interesting...
True, the capabilities & behavior of humanity will only really show when it gets "hard". If civilization & economy can hold up long enough to make massive efforts to recapture it could work. Im more realistic & think big powers will start to geoingineer to fight the symptoms while everything gets worse, but lets see & work for the best...
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I think covid deniers do make up a significant percentage of the population, and they would take this as proof of exaggeration even though it really isn't.

US has had 1M excess deaths. That's a million people more than usual. http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess...
Not sure why you're downvoted, but the $3M/year total rewards payoff is likely smaller than the corporate administrative and developer time (for review) costs. I.e. if this was a charity it would pay out less than 50 cents on the dollar.
I use it because my accountant makes me
I'm not sure why your comments were flagged. They were not only reasonable, but pretty informative to me.
More discussion, back from the data release announcement in April: http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-is-it-when-somet...

(Warning, extremely jargon heavy, particularly the comments.)
French city of Nice gains UNESCO world heritage status
SUVs are getting ridiculous. They are too wide and long for narrower UK roads and parking spaces but I keep seeing more and more, and they are getting wider.
That makes me realize I haven't had a sales call from IBM regarding "Watson" for a while now
In the days before the safety razor, not that many men shaved every day. Supposedly it was WW I that created the daily shaving habit in the US. Before that, it was common to be shaved by the barber.
Sadness. I use Google Chat at work and I absolutely hate threads there. Maybe the Discord implementation is better, but I'm not holding my breath.
What if it falls into a pushup stance? In my fitter years, I could dead drop straight into a pushup.
I've had a blog for about 6 years, with over 300 entries. I don't advertise it, and try to disallow indexing by search engines. It's "anonymous" in the sense that my name isn't on it anywhere, and it doesn't contain personal details. There's no commenting, no integration with social media. It's just for friends, and if they want to talk to me about anything I write there, they know how to reach me.

I felt the same pressure as you, but so far it's been very rewarding: turns out I don't have to get famous to enjoy blogging, which was something I wanted to test when I started it. So far so good.
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My guess is something very similar to U2Net https://github.com/xuebinqin/U-2-Net
>For our actual conscious experience though, there's some evidence that we're very noise tolerant.

I have a disorder that's very relevant to this, it's called visual snow syndrome. It's poorly understood but the current theory is that the brain has a fair amount of internal noise which is suppressed by a filtering mechanism but in some people this filtering mechanism fails, making the brain's internal noise becomes consciously perceptible. It looks like a badly tuned analogue TV for the most part with lots of static (hence the disorder's name), although other things like haloes around objects and geometric patterns appearing in textures like bricks are common too. Less fun is the permanent headache, sensory overload issues, and often a whole host of other neurological issues.

It's one of those unfortunate cases where medical professionals palmed it off for decades as patients making it up for attention. I was personally told as a teenager to "try and imagine it away" by a neurologist which of course was utterly useless advice, and I was also given antidepressants at one point which made it infinitely worse, wouldn't wish that experience on my worst enemy. Fortunately I ended up in the care of a neurologist who finally recognised what it was and gave me a formal diagnosis after doing some scans to make sure it wasn't a brain tumour or something equally unpleasant. It turns out that although nothing shows up on a normal MRI scan, if you do an fMRI scan of brains like mine you can actually see the differences that cause the brain's noise to leak into your consciousness. Weird stuff.
These are the people for whom the $600/wk covid unemployment in the US has been disastrous.

I visited my rural hometown last week, and the normally-occupied (though I wouldn't call it busy) downtown was empty. Of the 4 worthwhile restaurants, 1 was open, 2 kept narrow operating hours because of staffing problems, and the 4th was unexpectedly closed because of staffing problems that day. The prices at all the restaurants was quite out of character with the area, even accounting for the general inflation that has been pervasive this year.

It's apparent to me that the town has been largely priced out of having local restaurants by expanded unemployment benefits. Those that remain serve dinner 4 times a week. And it's unclear to me how people who were working for low wages are better off having any clear way to serve their community.

All that to say, "not needed for anything" needs many qualifiers.
I don't think Celsius can be considered less arbitrary, and the anthropocentricity of Fahrenheit has its advantages. I would honestly be happy to give up Celsius if in exchange the US et.al. moved over to metric distances.

That then would be the foot in the door for eventual full metric conversion!
I dunno, I think it's better to just not comment on weight at all unless you're good friends. what if you're wrong and they actually gained weight since you last saw them? or what if you're right and they have an eating disorder? either way it can take the interaction in the wrong direction, and you might not know it at the time.

in general, I think appearance-based compliments are best given sparingly and when you have enough context to be confident they will be received well. with strangers/acquaintances, compliments on skills or personality traits are much safer imo.
Societies globally are expected to collapse around 2040s-2050s and I hope that'll be the wake up call that won't be too late for the very few children of today who are going to survive it.
You must ask yourself a question here: did they accomplish all of that because of the socialism, or despite it?
Already happening. Recently was used to recreate Anthony Bourdain's voice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadrunner:_A_Film_About_Antho...
I'm afraid it would end up like the Android store changelog where all you get is "Bug fixes and performance improvements". Only a small percentage of devs would actually take the time to write something useful. I guess having a standard place doesn't hurt.
This is inspiring. The cost can be brought down through use of soft and/or lightweight materials. For example, the use of textile based actuators. Good examples in link below:

https://biodesign.seas.harvard.edu/soft-exosuits

These things are not for the near term so really impressed by this story.
I work in an environment where professional compliments are super common. It feels so icky and toxic. You can tell that most of the time folks are bullshitting, which is far worse than not hearing it at all.

Obviously, compliments are great and it would be good to figure out how to deliver more genuine ones, but I think you can swing too far in the other way pretty easily.
Anyone with WeChat installed, can you help me try to sign up. This is what it says when I try to:

https://imgur.com/a/cuYsnpU
I've always wanted to make one that fits like spandex and uses things that mimic anatomical function, like nitinol wires to mimic muscle.
> Media addiction is a manifestation of something, not the root cause.

I only partly agree. I have two children. We are loving parents and provide them with a stable house, lots of food, plenty of attention. They have friends, toys, games, books, musical instruments, bikes, and a whole neighborhood to explore. We are an extremely typical middle-class household.

But left to their own devices, they will happily spend every waking hour in front a screen, watching videos or playing video games. There most certainly _is_ something incredibly mentally addicting about passive content consumption. It doesn't need a root cause, just like you don't need one with alcohol and other substance addiction.

(And because this is HN, I am obliged to point out that I'm not saying media addiction can't be triggered by some other factor. Only that a trigger is not required to cause the addiction.)
Yeah... but you're Chuck Norris so she's obviously going to say that.
Sweet, this is sick!
Cease and Desist from Facebook to Barinsta, a FOSS Instagram Client
I think reasonable people can agree that there is not a single farming experience. There are more and less successful farms based on their business model and business environment. There are also differences in people's disposition. There are hobby farms, family farms, and multinational businesses.

In my experience, the biggest concerns are crop performance and government policy. All the farmers I know in california recently recently had their lives ruined when the state eminent domained their water rights without compensation. They lost their retirement, land value, 30 years of capital investment, and their entire life's labor. It is heartbreaking and I wouldnt be surprised if some of them commit suicide.
Is the idea that it should focus on software only?
Using plastic pipes you can get at any home improvement store for the track is pretty smart. It's all very approachable; you don't need any expensive tools to build one.
These orbits aren't that far out, so the volume available to them is actually comparable to that of airspace. However, there are some massive differences. First, in airspace you can easily maneuver and change directions if problems arise. Second, while a collision in airspace is certainly a local disaster, it's limited in scope. A collision between satellites creates a giant scattering of debris with unpredictable orbits. Debris that can stay in orbit for years and years.
I imagine answer is revenue - how much of it is from Mainframe as opposed to everything else?

I suppose divestiture of GTS is attempt to do that kind of slimming.

Disclosure - I'm an IBM employee, but always on external gigs so have zero knowledge of direction or internal matters other than what I read here and on The Register... all opinions my own etc :)
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Can you tell us about your scoring function? Selecting 40M results from a dataset of ~1B and returning the top 10 based on some trivial scoring function is easy, any reasonable search system will handle that. The problem is when you have to run your scoring function on all 40M matching docs to decide which 10 are the most relevant. It's even more of a problem when your scoring function captures some of the complexities of the real word, rather than something trivial like tf/idf or bm25.
This is really nice. Congrats on the release!

How are you running Python on the client? Is it Pyodide or something else?

I see from comments below that you also created juno.sh which also looks great. May I ask what your users have been using it for primarily? Is it for learning or for doing? The reason I ask is that I'm wondering if the hardware limitations of an iOS device have been limiting for folks "doing" vs. "learning"? Sometimes I find even my 64GB TR1950X rig here with an NVIDIA RTX2080 limiting :)
Reminds me of matrix as well
I wonder if this is very cultural? I live in Denver and have never seen (or don’t remember) any awkwardness or creepiness around a compliment. I’m not super attractive but perhaps a more casual culture makes compliments have less implications?
Show HN: Rootless Containers/Pods that run systemd, Docker, and even Kubernetes
Hi HN, this is Cesar and Rodny, developers of an open-source container runtime called Sysbox, and co-founders of a startup called Nestybox (YC S20).

We launched on HN almost a year ago and got excellent feedback then (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24084758).

Happy to say that over the past year, Sysbox has continued to gain traction, particularly for securing containers in production, CI/CD, and containerized dev environments.

We wanted to announce an important new feature: integration between Sysbox and Kubernetes.

As a quick refresher, Sysbox is a "runc" that enhances containers in two key ways:

1) Hardens container isolation (Linux user-namespace on all containers, partial procfs & sysfs virtualization, initial mount locking, and more).

2) Enables containers to run not just microservices, but also system software such as systemd, Docker, K8s, K3s, and more. This enables containers to replace slower/less-efficient VMs in many scenarios.

Prior to Sysbox this required insecure privileged containers, custom images, and special host mounts, or specialized tools like LXD, KinD and Minikube. With Sysbox, the container runtime sets up the container such that it can run the software securely and seamlessly, increasing security and reducing complexity.

Up to recently Sysbox only worked under Docker, but the latest release (v0.4.0) now works under Kubernetes too.

This means you can use Kubernetes to orchestrate pods that are rootless (i.e., root in the container maps to an unprivileged user on the host) and can run not just microservices, but full "VM-like" environments.

For example, you can create a pod that acts as a well isolated dev environment and inside of it run systemd, your favorite editor, plus Docker. Or create several pods that together form another K8s cluster for testing. Or run the K8s.io KinD inside a pod to create an entire K8s cluster inside one pod. Many interesting and powerful combinations are possible.

Sysbox has taken 2-years of very hard work, as it pushes the limits of OS virtualization (uid-shifting, syscall trapping, procfs virtualization, etc.) It was forked from the OCI runc in 2019, so we stand on the shoulders of the developers of that excellent project.

Would love to hear your feedback, if you think this new feature is useful, and for which use-cases. Would also encourage you to try it, we think you'll find it useful.

Thanks!
- Cesar & Rodny

Sysbox: https://github.com/nestybox/sysbox
Nestybox: https://www.nestybox.com/
Suppose it's like saying a painting should really be credited to the paint and brushes since they did all the work of creating the piece.
I didn't even remotely try to look up the real number (I did look up the child mortality, but didn't exactly vet the source).

Consider it hyperbole if it helps, but whatever the exact number, a whole lot of people living on farms were either dying as children or living in bondage, neither of which is a situation I would consider doing perfectly fine without mental breakdowns or help from Harvard Business Review. Even for the rest of the people, I somewhat doubt having most of your children die or being a slave driver was particularly great for mental health, either. Someone downstream also mentioned Native Americans driving down the proportion of slaves. Sure, but I also don't think having all your land gradually taken and your civilization hunted to extinction was great for mental health.

Whatever the exact numbers were in an era where we barely even tried to measure stuff like this, I believe this writer's rosy view of antebellum American life is badly out of touch.
He's concerned that his views may become controversial in future. Someone with published centre-right views in Cambodia in 1965 would have felt fairly safe. Fifteen years later they would have been dead.

(Ah! I notice you've edited it. It's worth pointing out that 'Political Correctness' was originally a term to describe the 'correct' behaviour of people in totalitarian states.)
I suspect that a pattern of not disclosing that statistics that are implied to be factual are actually to some degree ~estimates contributed to the extreme level of polarization over "facts" and "the science", as well as the increasing distrust of the media. Sure, most people don't consider these things too logically, but then if those distributing the facts can't be bothered either, how shall we accurately assign blame for the final outcome?
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corrected this. i meant quitting porn has helped many such people overcome ED.
Decades back in my country, majority of farmers didn't own farms. They had to work in someone else's field for pay.
If all writing is from a present understanding, how could it hurt reader trust to acknowledge that explicitly?