skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a little tired of people making light of prayer. It’s an important part of religious dedication. Does it represent a lack of desire or will to do anything at all outside of the act of praying? For some, yes. But, I would argue, correct use of prayer is supplicating for help, inspiration, or expression of deep desires *in addition to all efforts that have been made by the supplicant*. The key here is action with prayer. In some cases it could be compared to getting a doctors consultation, it’s pretty useless if you don’t pair it with action.

That model may not work with all the different types of prayers that may be offered, but it is generally the case and all I’m saying is that in most cases serious prayer is only *part* of the supplicants story. Using a variation of “thoughts and prayers” as a sarcastic derision to ostensibly religious individuals such as Gov. Abbot, lumps all genuine religious devotees with those that go spewing these superficial platitudes. It’s not really fair. There are plenty of people that say “I hope you get well soon” and put just as much effort as those that use prayer to signal well wishing (sometimes it’s just a colloquialism), and they aren’t made fun of because of the secular nature of the sentiment. Why make fun of religion by making fun of one of the basic commonalities shared by most, if not all, religions?

There’s no need to lump religion with Abbot’s recent decisions. They are politically driven. He is a politician at the end if the day.

That said, I pray the Texas governor learns from his predicament and takes the delta variant and prevention procedures in general more seriously.
Looking at your passport, recording the serial number is a bit different than we’re discussing here.
If I don’t bring my SO or spouse to a team dinner, my pay is not docked. If I don’t want to answer a personal question, I can decline without fearing it will show up on my performance review or pay slip.
Games always seem impacted in odd ways by remote desktop protocols. One game might run fine, while another is just a black screen, or an uncontrollable mouse.

It makes me wonder how Things like Steam streaming and Paperspace get around the issue.
Recycling carbon is easy, we just use plants.

Soybeans are a common way of capturing carbon from the atmosphere, using solar energy, to produce diesel.
Show HN: Turn text into images with VQGAN+CLIP
> hypothetical technology that would change absolutely nothing to our ways of life and cost us nothing

AKA nuclear power.
Google meet running in a browser can share any application specific windows. Not sure if it also does the same thing though.
Hi Hacker News!

There was a recent post on Show (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28120247) for a collab notebook that allowed anyone to create AI art. We took that code and made a hosted version that makes it easy to get a video with just a query - no setup or coding experience necessary. Just click to the page and you’ll be able to create new art for free.

The generator is based off of the notebooks (https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1n_xrgKDlGQcCF6O-eL3...) written by Hillel Wayne (https://www.hillelwayne.com/) and Katherine Crowson.

You just type a query and you’ll get both an image and a video that the gan will generate. Because it’s seeded randomly each time, no two videos will ever be the same even with the same query.

Would love to get your feedback or see what you make!
That plot didn't work when the guy tried it the first time.
I guess if you assume that "small teams" are all working 100% on the one project... which isn't even slightly reasonable (hell: that isn't even reasonable for large teams). The per-user thing essentially means you are paying costs constantly for people who just need access to something as a contributor even though they are using it once a month. It is incredibly frustrating having to be like "ugh, I contracted with someone to work on some icons for my app, but now I have to pay for them to have a 'seat' on all of our project management tooling".
You mean HIV? Yeah, you can get it from fluid-to-blood contact, accidentally getting yourself with a needle, or someone trying to use a contaminated needle as a bio-weapon. Microscopic cuts under your fingernails are important, so you should wear gloves for sure.
This just seems like a microcosm of wages not keeping pace with GDP. Anyone who doesn't own equity (real estate, stocks or whatever) aren't reaping the rewards.
This is common knowledge in developing countries (and, I suspect, used to be in developed ones a few decades ago). Growing up, the usual lifecycle of a garment was wear -> rag -> trash.
> Make it prohibitively expensive to own a property but not live in it.

How does this decrease my rent? I do not want to own property because I do not want my entire wealth invested in a single asset. For me, renting is ideal and then my money goes in to a wide array of assets which provides a better safety net than expecting that house prices will always stay the same or go up in the future.

Renting also affords me the ability to move whenever I feel like upgrading or downgrading without being stuck trying to sell the previous property and paying insane taxes each time.
My experience is that LLVM can generally optimize the IR produced from clang frontend a bit better than the IR produced by myself. The advantage is small, but still exists.

I think the major reason is that TBAA optimization is only possible if you manually emit those metadata (clang does, but I didn't, due to time limitation and fear of aliasing-related bugs).

But that LLVM is designed to work best on the pattern emitted by Clang is definitely another reason. In fact, even the official documentation recommends users to emit IR in a way that looks similar to what is emitted by Clang, so you have a better chance to keep the LLVM optimizer happy.
> 2) Exposing them to nuanced reality doesn't help them. In fact, anything complicated turns them off. They want simple truths.

This entry in your list is rather hilarious with the rest of your comment. A lack of nuance throughout.
They built a list of every pre/post command that had been in actual use (by looking through the source tree for clients of that service, naturally), and then turned it into a hard-coded check list. The program would now refuse any pre/post commands unless it was one of those already known to it.

This change patched the hole

It didn't really patch the hole so much as it moved the hole to every command that was in that whitelist of commands that were ok to run as root. The author doesn't say when this was, but nowadays there are almost certainly better ways to solve this without letting these pre/post setup commands run as root.
> Presumably Wayland ...

Yes there is a wayland extension for screen sharing and also support for sharing just one application.

It provides screen sharing on KDE, Gnome and most wlroots based WMs.

Through wlroots doesn't yet (or maybe does by now) support sharing a specific window I think, but this mean it doesn't support sharing a specific window and knowing which process belongs to a window doesn't really help you there either...
My understanding is that Houston is facing different issues due to sprawl and transit. Housing is cheap if the commute is bad, but very expensive closer to the job centers.

If that’s true (I’m not from Houston!), then it does seem like zoning reform is probably not enough to solve America’s housing issues.
Right, while theoretically possible to do other things than HTTP with the curl backend the other sections do not make sense and it's purpose is HTTP. I'll stress the HTTP in the future, thanks!

What would be the benefits of using libcurl instead of shelling out? Would that work without pain on windows?
I agree with you that some neighborhoods are being left behind by growth, but what is the alternative?

Leaving aside race, Detroit needs to densify or die - nothing sustainable about supporting services in neighborhoods with one occupied house per block. Duggan has no choice but to chase downtown growth for tax revenue. It's a city with infrastructure built for millions and a population of half a mil.
(disclaimer, I work at AWS)

> Do you believe Apple are somehow resource strained?

Oh if only you knew... Yes we are very engineering constrained at those companies. Money doesn't replace the fact that there isn't enough people around who have the skills and are willing to work there at any price.

And on top of that there's the opportunity costs of having them work on this instead of something else...

When MoltenVK exists as a compatible Vulkan impl on top of Metal already, it's very hard to justify this.
Canada is especially pernicious. Right now I live in a sort of nothing town on Vancouver Island 3 hours from Victoria or Vancouver and rent is STILL unaffordable if you can even find a place. As bad as it is in the states, I feel like it’s even worse up here.

The upside is that after having lived in both places, I’d still rather hit a rough patch in Canada. The healthcare, policing, and social services are all way more friendly in Canada.
It reminds me of Minecraft.

It also makes me feel a little peaceful.
Strange false narrative here since crypt adoption continues to happen in this country with all of the business ventures poping up around the concept. From a national security standpoint something that isn't controllable centrally is an existential threat to the status quo of systems that are in place. You can't just go to the CIA or congress and say well this is decentralized but the tech is good so you should back it. The only ones that will win here with crypto and moving the needle in a capitalistic society will be the businesses who embrace it and who lobby hard enough to replace entrenched systems. Just because you make an argument for a decentralized technology doesn't mean it's fits within a centralized system. You can say this stuff until you are blue in the face. No one even knows where Bitcoin originated (meaning from what country) let along who Satoshi Nakamoto actually is. Of course that will be concerning but the subsequent crypto systems that operate within the confines of the United States can be leveraged as long as there is centralized government control. Come at me about the fact that crypto is inherently decentralized and I will always say it won't be allowed without regulation and the government getting it's piece of the pie. Stop lying to yourself and to others that this isn't the case and start working towards projects that operate withing the constructs of the U.S. govt. Let alone most every other government that has any clout in the world. You're talking about a massive shift within systems that just aren't going to budge without a complete cultural revolution on how things should be run world wide.
To add to your comment, George Bush's neoconservative faction has been defeated: they are nowhere within the Trump era Republican party. The Democrats have likewise distanced themselves from that era. But the Taliban lives on, having outlasted the shifting political winds in the US.
While we're at it, linen is more sturdy than cotton, and may actually be more comfortable in hot climates.
What is so great about this software that people put up with this kind of crap?
RISC-V Chip Delivers Quantum-Resistant Encryption
My use case for frequently using Ubuntu Linux is for 'Testing' my GUI app on it. Given there is little to no significant amount of users using or paying for my app, it brings in absolutely nothing even when you exclude paying for other costs.

When I target the same software to the macOS crowd, (which I also frequently use); they seem to be willing to pay for the software. I'm certainly not going to bother with 'free support' to users who haven't paid.

So the one that makes me the most money in my use case is macOS with the added bonus of how easy it is to support and target 100% of all supported macOS users consistently. Everything 'just works' and there is no need to play around with system files for it to work well. For development experience, the top comment says it all [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28206816
As we all should. WTF is wrong with us?
Yeah, CI is a good use case. Even autoscaling I kinda feel like you need to be a lot faster to make a huge difference tbh though.

And yeah, Firecracker is pretty sick, but it's also something you can just use yourself on ec2 metal instances, and then you get full control over the kernel and networking too, which is neat.
Another part might be the people who play the lottery a lot are more prone to win than those who play rarely. Those who play the lottery a lot are probably not the most financially/mathematically savvy to start with, so if they win, they’re not likely to suddenly turn into Mr Money Mustache.
Disinformation is a legitimate problem, and it's causing more harm than you realize. My step-father has gone from a middle of the road Republican to being objectively disconnected from reality.

Before vaccines were available, he refused to quarantine himself to see his granddaughters even though they have existing respiratory issues. He regularly fights with my sister on the phone, mocking her for wearing a mask and social distancing and "hiding in a corner" instead of going to a birthday party on one side of the family. She has been in and out of hospitals since she was a toddler. I remember him back then, doing what a good parent does, tearing out carpets, making sure she got her breathing treatments, and checking on her through the night.

Today he claims 600,000 people have not died. He has taken up the past time of walking in to businesses that require masks without one to fight for his "freedom." The kicker is that he has been hospitalized before for asthma related issues, twice in the year before pandemic hit. Thankfully one of his doctors convinced him to get the vaccine.

I am concerned about what he thinks and does, which is why I won't allow him to see my daughter anymore. She's too young for a vaccine, and he still belittles me when we talk on the phone for believing the news about the delta variant.

Before the election, he told me, it was to smear Trump, and that if Biden won, all of the COVID news would disappear. Now the delta variant is a conspiracy to smear Republican governors. The constant stream of disinformation that he consumes is endangering his life, and if I'd let him, it would endanger the lives of my infant daughter, myself, my wife, my sisters and nieces... it's fucking heartbreaking.

Intellectualize and rationalize if you want to. But the capital was stormed on the day Congress was certifying the election. There are people dying of COVID at this very moment who don't believe it is a real disease. Disinformation is real, it is dangerous, and we need to pay attention.
The dirt is pretty expensive. In many areas just a block of dirt will sell for $1-2M. While a nice apartment in the same area sells for $600,000 AUD.
I honestly wonder who can use these applications these days?

Large companies have stopped giving administrator access years ago. The vendor could corrupt their way into some middle manager all they want, they have zero power over procurement and IT, users won't get administrator access to use the app.

If the app is really unusable, which it is, that must be preventing a whole lot of sales.
Metal pollution: If it’s in the air – & our iPhones – it’ll end up in our bones
IMO, the eeath creation happens almost by definition from increased efficiency of resource allocation in the society: Thebl free market forces drive more efficient allocation of scarce resources, so the weath is created in a sense, that there is the least amount of waste compared with other alternatives.
Interesting to see the different takes. I think the comment you replied to was being tongue in cheek with the essential point that the (I agree horrible) interventions by Ford were at least attempting to be constructive. What we see today is something very different, and in my view much closer to "power for power's sake" control that I think you're associating with facism.
This has been common place in vegas for a while now, Usually between 30-50 USD to check in early.
Note that parent said working in conflict areas, not necessarily fighting. I can imagine various jobs where this form factor might be useful. Clearing rubble for instance, or dealing with mines or other explosives. Each individual task might be better handled by something purpose-built, but a humanoid robot could be more versatile.
Wouldn't it be easier to just run it in a browser?
This is exactly how it works. You can't host the fonts locally.
The central theme of my comment was "it has become subtler". I...don't see a conflict between this and your statements?

To take your examples concretely – sure, you won't see your pay docked, but you may find that the teammate who does bring their spouse along and participates in the bullshit rituals gets consistent pay rises that you don't.

Or at least, this used to happen routinely prior to the pandemic making it impractical to conduct such affairs unnecessarily blending work and life. Yet another reason why a lot of management is itching to "get back to the office".
It's not the only place where this terminology confuses people. Another one is "register-based virtual machine", in the context of interpreters. In that case the registers belong to the VM and are actually stored in stack memory, not on actual CPU registers. However, people get that confused all the time!
Not particularly relevant, but every time I read this blog I get the impression it is more LARPing rather than actual software engineering. Or maybe 2nd/3rd hand stories. Or maybe I just happen to have worked in various places that have their shit together a little more than the bloggers employer.
Does the mini brain think or feel? Very horror movie like to think about
> since it depends more on the actual device behavior than the behavior documented in the datasheet.

That doesn't sound true at all tbh. I would imagine a huge amount of code is just generalized data structures and algorithms. I doubt many CVEs (<1%) rely on an accurate model of the underlying hardware.
Even then it doesn’t feel like a great example since it’s not obvious to me that stirring should be a continuous function. E.g. if I put half the glass into a container and then pour the container back into the glass, that is definitely a discontinuous operation!
As murders surge, Democrats find a new message: Fund the police
It's not going to be a one-shot vaccine. The least I would think have even the possibility of working is six initial shots (not all the same) given on a very strict schedule, followed by a booster every six months. I would not be surprised if it was twice that for something that actually worked.
I can't remember which but one of the R books had a paragraph about cutting down run time from a day to a few hours by setting up a Hadoop cluster ... Then the author said, something along the lines of "of course, it would take about 15 minutes using Perl."

It's a matter of using the right tool for the job. Too many people are too excited about implementing something "big" instead of getting the bits from over here to over there.
Probably non-technical managers making technical decisions. They run off or fire anyone who has a clue (seen as obstructionists). After that, it's to hell in a hand basket.
You have not provided nearly enough info for someone to help you. I looked at your other submission about the VPN and that is similarly incomprehensible to me.

Questions:

Presuming this is windows because it's ASP?

is the VPN you are using called Sophos?
https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KB-000034498?la...

Is there no source control like SVN or git? Is the source code only on the box you are connected to?

Can you zip the source code on the server and upload it somewhere else then download it on your local machine? This might be expressly forbidden by the company you are contracting for.

Is the client for this contract completely clueless about technology and this system was written by a different set of contractors?

Is there anyone else locally who has more knowledge about this specific system you could ask?
Or up until last year, you could have been fired based exclusively off the gender of your SO.

Things aren't universally better and they aren't getting better quick enough for most of our liking, but let's not ignore that improvements have been made.
Could you recommend a text/paper/blog article which develops tensor theory from an algebraic setting?
This article is about the study. If you want the article to be about "rent-seeking of the urban upper-classes" then you would need to do a study for that.
Trees seem like a good way to offset carbon but it's looking like it was just hope rather than reality.

I wonder if farming large grasses like bamboo, cutting it and burying it underground would help offset carbon long term. Another alternative is to replace bamboo with most plastic products would at least that will reduce the use of petroleum.
Yep, coyotes are not pack hunters in the way that wolves are.

Interestingly, the coyotes in the US East are apparently hybrid "coywolves". They are larger than western coyotes, but still not big enough to take down an adult deer, and they still do not hunt in packs.

If you have a large area to cover, Tick Tubes(tm) can get expensive. You can make your own pretty easily for about 1/20th of the price: toilet paper rolls, cotton balls, and Permethrin diluted to ~3%.
Extremely true in Houston (and the rest of Texas). Property taxes are big and can change dramatically year to year.
I have no idea about your personal position, but the GPs point is that it's more subtle and you're not refuting that. There is not a box on your pay about these things (or any other form of orthodoxy, I'm not necessarily suggesting those examples are the main problem), but that in no way means they dont relate to your career trajectory. Sorry for the double negatives