skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are making some reasonable points here, even though I don't agree with all of them. You're right that I was cherry-picking the example of the UK (just as the comment I responded to was cherry-picking examples of French and Danish policies) but I think I was justified in doing so since the other comment said "all Western European nations". Perhaps the difference between "all" and "nearly all" is not worth quibbling over, but my cherry-picked example does show that it's perfectly possible for a country to have legitimate elections without voter ID, which I think is relevant here.

Your comment would probably be more convincing if you provided some citations for your claims, though. The EU average for refugee population, on the link I gave last time, is 2.3 per 1,000 people and the European average is 2.01 per, which are both twice as much as the US. I suppose it's possible that Europe is more welcoming of refugees than other immigrants, but I think your second "fact" is not self-evidently true. The only policy you might have in mind is that EU states can, in some circumstances, expel citizens from other states, despite freedom of movement[0] and the Schengen system, which doesn't have an equivalent in the US as far as I know.

Of all your claims, though, the one that I think most needs to be supported is the idea that not having a border is a mainstream position. I don't think you're saying that every inch of America's land and sea borders need to have an impenetrable physical barrier to even qualify as a border at all, so can you point to an example of an official mainstream party policy saying that there should be no limits on who can enter the country? I'm sure some people on Twitter have suggested that the US shouldn't have a border, but I don't think it has more political support as a policy than, for example, the "shoot to kill" policy suggested by Georgia state Rep. John Yates (R).[1]

[0] https://ukandeu.ac.uk/myth-busting-free-movement/

[1] https://www.laprogressive.com/georgia-lawmaker-national-guar...
> The truth is, Docker had the chance to work closely with the Kubernetes team at Google in 2014 and potentially own the entire container ecosystem in the process. “We could have had Kubernetes be a first-class Docker project under the Docker banner on GitHub. In hindsight that was a major blunder given Swarm was so late to market,” Stinemates said.

> Craig McLuckie, Kubernetes cofounder and now vice president at VMware, says he offered to donate Kubernetes to Docker, but the two sides couldn’t come to an agreement. “There was a mutual element of hubris there, from them that we didn’t understand developer experience, but the reciprocal feeling was these young upstarts really don’t understand distributed systems management,” he told InfoWorld.

The article criticizes Docker Swarm as myopic, but IMO, there were only two possibilities for Docker to move forward; either they acquired Kubernetes, which was a possibility in this telling of events, or they won with their own Docker Swarm.
200mm are 7.9 inches. Are the focal length and the diameter roughly the same?
>No, you didn't. That number is most certainly not random, there are biases in it, you just don't know there are.

Isn't that true of CSPRNGs as well, though? One of them may have some huge flaw that allows it to be predicted, we just don't know what it is yet.

(I think you basically agree with this in your last paragraph?)

More generally, when we ask for a random number, what we're usually looking for is a number uncorrelated with some other number. For example, when you're doing an experiment, the purpose of the randomization is to ensure that you're not really capturing some other effect that was setting which parameters were placed together.

That is, if you're deciding to run the control vs test case because of subtle fluctuations in the room's lighting (that you're unaware are influencing you), then you may have no effect at all, but you accidentally pick up an effect which was really due to the lighting, not to the thing you're trying to test. Using a dice roll prevents this, not because of randomization per se, but because it reliably breaks other correlations that might seep into the experiment.

To the extent that a human randomizer meets that in one particular domain, it may be good enough (not that you were saying otherwise). It's just ... you'd rather not bet on that being true in any given case.
I don't think it's about "just" or "unjust" centralization, since (nearly) everyone is opposed to "unjust" centralization and in favor of "just" centralization.

And I do not interpret "decentralization" as a abolition of hierarchies or a complete decentralization to the lowest individual level in all cases.

I interpret it as a bias towards making decisions, allocating resources, and wielding power at the lowest level where something can be effectively managed.

With respect to the US political system someone who prefers decentralization might favor abolishing agencies or laws at the federal level in cases where the states can handle those responsibilities themselves. (And similarly avoiding state-level regulation of anything that can be effectively managed at the municipal level.)
I think "to the door" might be a metaphor for going through life up to that point, but I like you literal interpretation better, like everyone in those stories specifically faces atrocities ONLY on the way to an interview. Because if you get shitbagged on a Tuesday and have the interview Wednesday, then really, it's an equal playing field.

Again, with the normal, who are you talking about? People are complex, all people, normal is your perception of others, check yourself.
A lot of vaccine hesitancy (in the US at least) is driven by refusal to acknowledge natural immunity. Ignoring it is another "noblie lie" to help drive up vaccine numbers. It's much easier to say "just get the vaccine".

However, it's a massive ethical violation if the vaccine provides no improvement over natural immunity. It's still pretty bad if it only provides minimal improvement. "Just get the vaccine" would be an ok policy if there was a 0% chance of negative effects from the vaccine, but that is not true.
I'm tired of people pretending that everyone on the planet is expendable except Americans.

There are elderly people dying in other countries and perfectly healthy Americans are lining up for the vaccines and acting righteous about saving granny when the reality is they're doing it in their own self-interest.
For the HN crowd, it may be especially interesting to note that this was pretty much a software discovery.

The dataset here was DES, the Dark Energy Survey. It’s a big dataset that has been around for a few years, and probably thousands of astronomers have worked with it. But its just a huge amount of data, covering a lot of the sky.

Bernardinelli’s software discovered a blip in that big pile of data. He crunched through the dataset and got a weird answer for the size of the solar system (basically - its a bit more complicated). Almost everyone, when they get something like that, tweaks the parameters of their analysis code: “I must have the threshold for object detection set too low.” The real discovery comes from trusting the software and pursuing the question.

This is a lot like software developers and their persistence. When your production service has a mysterious error in the logs, do you shrug and say “well, probably some transient network bug, it won’t matter” or do you dig in to understand what’s going on? Both approaches are reasonable, and it takes a balance of pragmatism and curiosity to be effective.

But anyway - there is an increasing demand for applying rigorous software engineering techniques to astronomical datasets. A problem that we are facing in astronomy software today is that the datasets have gotten way too large for astronomers to just pull up images in DS9 and eyeball stuff to make sure it’s right, so they need software that is much more trustworthy and bug-free than before.

—-

Edit to add: DES data is completely public access: https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-des-project/data-access...
Whenever you’re called on to make up your mind,
and you’re hampered by not having any,
best way to solve the dilemma, you’ll find,
is simply by spinning a penny.
No—not so that chance shall decide the affair
while you’re passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
you suddenly know what you’re hoping.

https://statweb.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/thinking.p...
You're defining "successful" as not having to work.

They define it differently (just as "others" define your "working many hours" as successful.)
Cloudflare also often blocks no-JS users.

All-around a huge accessibility impediment.
> This ability to play with sound is usually relegated to DAWs, and these apps are built for musicians, not programmers. But what if programmers want to use the power, speed, and sound quality of a DAW in their code?

Well then, they could:

* use Faust or Soul

* use existing plugins in LV2, VST3 or AU formats

* write a new plugin in LV2, VST3 or AU formats

* use SuperCollider, or PureData or any of more than a dozen live-coding languages

* use VCV Rack or Reaktor or any of at least half-dozen other modular environments to build new processing pathways.

Oh wait ...

> Artists, musicians, and producers with a bit of Python knowledge can use Pedalboard to produce new creative effects that would be extremely time consuming and difficult to produce in a DAW.

So it's not actually for programmers at all, its for people "with a bit of Python knowledge".

OK, maybe I'm being a bit too sarcastic. I just get riled up by the breathless BS in the marketing copy for this sort of thing.

It's a plugin host, with the ability to add your own python code to the processing pathway. Nothing wrong with that, but there's no need to overstate its novelty or breadth.

[ EDIT: if I hadn't admitted to my own over-snarkiness, would you still have downvoted my attempt to point out other long-available approaches for the apparent use-case? ]
The way you know it is all security theater is TSA pre. I haven't taken my shoes off, my laptop out, or gone through the hands-on-your-head scanner in years, because the TSA pre-check line doesn't require any of that.

Because apparently verifying my ID before arrival at the airport makes me less of a threat.

Or maybe it's the $80 they get every few years that makes me less of a threat...
Show HN: Art by an AI – a daily prompt competition
I haven't done so for a while, but it used to be both doable and easy. Looks like this page might go in the right direction:

https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain...
Black people and conservative Republicans both have (bad) idiosyncratic reasons for rejecting the vaccines. I don’t think this data contradicts the parents point about the partisan nature of vaccine rejection.
I knew glob was short for global, but I've never been clear on how the word global applies here. Perhaps it was something like "apply this command globally to all matching files"?

As for the terse abbreviations common Unix commands, recall that much of the early work on Unix was done on very slow teletype devices such as the ASR 33. At 110 baud, brevity is a virtue.
I always wanted a Geiger counter for experiments like this.
Hi HN!

I got into AI art at the start of 2020 and I wanted to build something with it. But I couldn't decide what to do.

Fast forward to just a few months ago the VQGAN+CLIP method of generating images blew up. It had far more compelling results compared to previous methods.

I decided to use VQGAN+CLIP to make something a bit more fun and accessible relative to a collab notebook. The result is Art by an AI.

It's a daily prompt competition. You can submit your own prompts and vote on other people's submissions.

Then, at 12:00 UTC each day, the top 10 prompts are used to generate art. There's an option to buy prints of the art pieces - but only until the next batch is generated. After that they disappear.

Happy to answer questions!
> added a Rust dependency which in turn changed the list of supported platforms

My understanding is that `zig cc`/`zig c++` are thin wrappers around LLVM, so doesn't that just reintroduce the same problem?
They simply don't work.

The cheap VPS's absolutely do not allow you to pin the CPU to 100% usage for a significant amount of time since that messes up the provisioning. A Minecraft server will definitely pin the CPU to 100%.

What happens is that your process will be killed repeatedly.

A $5 VPS is great for simple site hosting and a small amount of CPU workload. They do not work at all for any type of game server.

>As long as you don’t go to 100% CPU usage for a long period of time, everything will be okay. DigitalOcean are doing pro active monitoring and will see if your droplet is having 100% CPU usage all the time and may limit the CPU capacity of the droplets displaying this behavior. Since each droplet shares physical hardware with other droplets, constant 100% CPU use degrades the service quality for other users on the same node.

Note that a game server will go to 100%. It will be killed.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/cpu-usage-l...
There are plenty of standalone plugin hosts, so just write a plugin (JUCE offers a perfectly fine framework and workflow for that, as do some others like DPF), load it into a standalone plugin host, done.
Based on people I know, either (1) they enjoy it and don't have anything else they'd rather do. This is common among business owners. Or (2) they also spend a lot of money and no other job is going to pay them remotely close to what they need to earn to continue spending the way they do. This is more common in industries like law and finance.
Time for a Review of Firefox 92
Love, Death, and Sheer Joy, High in the Rocky Mountains
Gorgias
> but shall not include currency or any note, draft, bill of exchange, or banker’s acceptance which has a maturity at the time of issuance of not exceeding nine months, exclusive of days of grace, or any renewal thereof the maturity of which is likewise limited.

It is not required for it to be issued by a bank for it to be exempt.
Thanks for the response. I'm excited for as many viable alternatives to C/C++ as we can get.
ilmango dropped a new chunk loader a few weeks back - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8z7q_pwjL4

Looks pretty easy to build.
> Applying a VST3® or Audio Unit plugin no longer requires launching your DAW, importing audio, and exporting it; a couple of lines of code can do it all in one command, or as part of a larger workflow.

Is also not really true. There are plenty of scriptable VST hosts, and libraries. BASS (the library) for instance has been around for ages and I've used it to host VSTs in script workflows.
> If you were to decide to write your data onto a gold ingot

Why do crypto enthusiasts feel the need to use gold as a strawman? The vast majority of non-crypto people use digital money (in local currencies), and have never touched gold in their lives. Digital money works great, and doesn’t need a blockchain.
I sometimes use a variation of this with others who are stuck: I just choose one for them. Half the time they accept it, and the other half of the time they go the other way. :)
I prefer the term 'illiberal progressives' as it does a good job of explaining their position and doesn't confuse them with 'classical liberals'.
Great to see more companies in metrics layer space, especially open-source
Those are two separate questions. If you want to comment here you need to follow the rules regardless of what other people are doing.
“Didn’t understand developer experience”

I am wondering if anyone ever actually properly used docker swarm in any proper way? Especially as a small-scale developer.
Oh no man, I'm not picking on you. This is an excellent article to explain the basics of random number generation. If you'd gotten into the weeds on it it wouldn't be as accessible.

There is important terminology in the world of all this stuff though, particularly "not all random numbers are the same" can confuse someone who then begins learning more about it.

Artistic license is good.
The author appears to me to be one of the contributors to that lesson. His posts consist exclusively of him being outraged about something or other.
Could you provide some links to more information? I was only aware of warming as a big problem. Thank you!
"It's the lack of coherent logic and the fun of gaslighting. "
That's certainly the case here, many haven't read what the law states and how its being 'enforced' again, if the law states that you can't abort after 6 weeks I would be fine with it. The problem is that its not criminal in nature to abort a living human being with a heartbeat as stated in the law. (Yes, you've read that right) its a civil case. Despite the politicians getting exactly what they want, its still a complete misrepresentation what ACTUAl pro-life advocates stand for. Surely in this polarized age some might argue the end justifies the means, but I can't accept that. why they chose to make this a civil case is obvious, they state it outright in their press release:

[https://txvalues.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Texas-Heartb...]
"Relies on civil enforcement of the law by
citizens, making it virtually impossible for a
court to strike down the law as
“unconstitutional.”"

which is exactly what happened. as is the case with civil suits, performing abortions after 6 weeks is therefore only a problem IF someone decides to sue you and has evidence. Medical information is also protected so god only knows how this piece of work is going to turn out.

I mentioned this because technically the government is NOT involved in any of this because its not a criminal case.
I just use the XKCD random number generator:

https://xkcd.com/221/
Building a Farm Stack Application – Part 3 – MongoDB Integration
I have moved from Notion to Obsidian.
A lot of FAANG programmers are people who "work to live". Even with the financial means, the freedom to do what they want isn't necessarily something they value very heavily. Instead, it's a steady 9 to 5 and they have time for family, friends, and hobbies, and they're content with that.

Also important to note though: while FAANG pays well, it doesn't pay so well that you can consistently retire at 35 unless you pay very close attention to your wealth management.

If I had financial independence, I'd try to become a teacher. Unfortunately, even fully vested, I'm a good ways out from financial independence.
Don't forget that it also costs money.

Nothing like a government-sponsored system to make life visibly better for those who can afford it. And - since it siphons line-space and machines - harder for everybody else.

Sometimes I think that pre-check, toll-roads, and their ilk will take us all to the guillotine if we keep it up long enough.
The idea that ‘men’ is a universal stand-in for people is no different than saying White is the universal stand-in for people.
You're not most people. I'll work 40 or 50 hours a week then spend another 30 on side projects happily! That's 80 hours just working on "stuff". No TikTok. So it really depends. Elon Musk famously claimed he worked 100 hours a week.
> Dumb people

How did we get to the point where we have to act like other humans are mentally inferior/incapable just for experiencing reality in their own unique way if it differs from our own?

e: me irl https://i.imgur.com/is5pp8k.gif
The only one I've used is https://github.com/zxing/zxing, but it was a long time ago. Seemed to work ok for DataMatrix.
The only true answer is that out there are 8 billion people waking up every day.

And all they do is seeking social relevance, and by doing so they are inadvertedly diluting your own social relevance.

There is not a mechanism which allows you to stop working and freeze your social relevance in place as some sort of videogame checkpoint type manner.

You stop working and your relevance is eroded away...hell you could keep the amount of work constant or even increase it and your relevance would be eroded away if you are in a sector or a country which is not performing well.

The biggest lie that those at the top of the social pyramid have ever managed to pass onto the rest of us is that "it ain't a zero sum game"

Well, matter of fact it is.
Yes, it is much more precise to state that they must be replicating in order to mutate. I've edited my comment to reflect this, Thanks :)

If RNA is damaged and changed and the virus particle is destroyed or for some reason never replicates, I don't count that as mutating, but then again what do I know.
They could easily phase it out. They already have. There is already a rule that an airport can hire a private security company as long as it's approved by the TSA. They could make a small rule change that allows the private security to make their own rules, or just make some of the rules optional, like shoes off.

So we'd still have TSA agents in some places, but for example SFO already opts out of TSA agents. If they could opt out of the shoes off rule they probably would. At that point you've effectively eliminated the TSA without making a big deal about it.
I am not a lawyer but I think it would be legally difficult to make it illegal to record what people say and do in public spaces. That was a right that the entire Western media depended on long before the Internet was invented.

The crux may be whether websites that require you to login to use them, like Facebook, are considered public or not. But anything you say or do in Facebook that you don’t restrict to being viewable only by 1st degree friends is probably considered public.
Not sure if this transpired in the writing, but my interpretation of RIIR, partially informed by the chat with JT [0], is that this is a sentiment that I guess is there in some people, but that it was never something officially sanctioned.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ny7Qrsbd8&t=5391s
If you want to enjoy working 70 hours a week, you have to enjoy doing what you consider "work".

If "working" to an executive means attending parties, trade shows, and numerous business events, that 70 hours could be a lot of fun, and totally worth it. I can think of a few roles I'd like in the future that would have me working that much and I'd be all-in for it. There are hard parts, certainly, but as you described, you have control over it.

However, if you are sitting at a desk laboring in front of a screen for 70 hours every week because your boss (who works as described in the previous paragraph) thinks that's what defines work ethic, then you're going to get burned out and alienated from your friends and family because all of your emotional energy is being sapped out of you by your employer. You don't have control. Your job isn't exciting and dynamic. There is a limited amount of it that you can tolerate before it starts to harm you.

If the ultra-high-earning executive types enjoy their life-encompassing careers, let them have it. If I have the opportunity at a career like that I might take it myself.

But if you're laboring to meet an end (and yes, most software engineers should be thought of as laborers), you need work/life balance otherwise you're just being exploited by people who don't care if they bring you misery in the process of delivering a product.
That sounds a lot like what https://www.random.org/ does to create random numbers.
Do you have the data to back that up? /s
Do you have reader mode, which is available on many browsers?
Microsoft acquires WASM-powered video creation startup Climpchamp
> Rumor has it they were talking to Kia at some point. That does not instill a lot of confidence.

Apple will talk to, and partner with anyone in the industry to learn the ropes and eventually stab them in the back/go it alone. The Moto Rokr/iTunes phone didn't instill a lot of confidence either, but it's how Apple learned to navigate the mobile industry, and identify talent to poach, all the while secretly working on the iPhone.
The discrepancy is likely due to to the vaccine not being approved for children yet; the 40% figure is misleading