skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, it looks extremely interesting!

You know, it's bizarre, I recently pursued a similar approach, attempting to derive quadratic kinetic energy of an automaton controlled by a computer program (it used a circular tape to decide whether to move left or right). I set up a coarse-groaning, identifying energy with information, well, negentropy of the state of the tape, and arrived at similar results: higher energy = fewer microstates, in other words, there are fewer programs that move at the speed of light than at some slower speed. Which makes sense! There is only one tape that tells the automaton to move right at every step. Toffoli says exactly this: "A low-energy state is 'cheap' because it is 'common', there are so many ways to achieve it". Conservation of energy is exactly microscopic reversibility! What could be cleaner?

That whole approach is on the shelf for now, because I first want to develop a discrete version of contact, and thence symplectic geometry, since that will provide the mathematical formalism to express a kind of "discrete classical physics", rather than just a single toy model.

Anyway, I'm beyond grateful for this reference!
"Just as guilty" is the opposite of a defense. You're literally in a thread condemning Apple for conspiring with Google right now. Who are are you attempting to convince of what by saying that Google is "just as guilty?"
With rocket assisted projectiles (RAP), North Korea's Koksan self propelled guns have a demonstrated range of 37 miles. Note that this is based on the performance of the guns observed during the Iran-Iraq war, and it is entirely possible that further improvements to range have been made in the past 30 years.

Also, it's 35 miles from the DMZ to the center of Seoul, but Seoul is a big city. There are parts of Seoul proper less than 25 miles from the DMZ, and the metropolitan area extends much closer still. Hundreds of thousands of people in South Korea live within comfortable artillery range of North Korea.
> The British style introduces white space gaps that don't look good.

Sure they do, to me. The comma you inserted between the end of the quote and the closing quotation mark looks bad to me, because I have a strong expectation of the opposite. That esthetic feeling you have is how 'used to' manifests.

Also the US spelling of 'esthetic' is ugly to those expecting 'aesthetic'. I'm sure the British spelling looks pretentious to Americans.
After 30 years at a conservative 3% you'd end up with $2,188,278. Are you saying you wouldn't be able to find a home in that price range?
Please do not take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's an impressive project, but I'm not sure the niche is big enough. It's certainly come a long way since the last time I looked at it!

My biggest concern is that Seq sucks users into a sort of local maximum. While piping syntax is nice, and the built-in routines are handy, it's a lot less flexible than a "mainstream" programming language, simply because of the smaller community and relative paucity of libraries. BioPython[1] has been around a long long time, and I think a lot of potential users of Seq would be better suited by using a regular bioinformatics library in the language they know best.

e.g: The example of reading Fasta files in Seq:

# iterate over everything
for r in FASTA('genome.fa'):
print r.name
print r.seq

versus BioPython:

from Bio import SeqIO
for r in SeqIO.parse("genome.fa", "fasta"):
print(r.id)
print(r.seq)

It might be pretty useful as a teaching tool, but I'm skeptical of its long-term benefit to professionals. I'm not sure the ecosystem of Seq users will be large enough, y'know? Again, it's pretty impressive work, and it's come a long way. I wish the devs all the best. :)

1. https://biopython.org/
(i'm not arguing it's good, I agree with the video, just pointing out that low-level "inscalability" can be kludged indefinitely, it seems)
Interesting, see also the pol.is platform deployed in Taiwan for building consensus statements

These are probably experiments worth doing
"you are not the target audience"
> I'm constantly looking for ways to do less tedious work, through automation and such, and code review for bad code is the worst sort of tedious work.

What kind of automation or tools are you using for code review?
> As for proof, you know, propose a treatment, get approvals, run trials, analyze data. Zero people are doing that with Ivermectin.

Here's an aggregate of 63 studies, almost all of which show benefit to using Ivermectin: https://c19ivermectin.com/
I think I've had this author review my homework project for several job interviews.
Hodl and do your time? Come out of the country club prison in a few years and you have a pile of crypto that might be worth something, or nothing.
> So in theory, it's possible to just trade bitcoins off-chain (either on another blockchain or just using boring centralized tech) without necessarily incurring a corresponding increase in mining-related costs, right?

The mining-related costs are mostly unrelated to whether the bitcoins are traded on-chain or off-chain. The mining-related costs are more directly related to the price of bitcoin, or rather, how much a miner can earn with the block rewards and transaction fees. By trading bitcoin, even off-chain, you increase the demand for bitcoin, and therefore indirectly increase its price; the only difference is that by trading off-chain, the miners don't receive the transaction fees (which are currently less than 2% of the block rewards).
‘Covid-19 Hospitalizations’ Are Increasingly Misleading Measure Severe Disease
I lean conservative.

Numerous hospitals have reached triage of care. We now have to talk about how to conserve scarce resources. We need to pick "winners and losers". No one likes this discussion, but it must happen.

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/16/joel-valdez...

* https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21062484/signed-mec-l...

Now that we're reaching this level of crisis, hospitals are beginning to ration off care. I know the ethicists have theorized the proper ethics to this situation over the past year, but as citizens / voting members of the public, its our job to form an opinion about these ethics think-tanks, and whether or not we should support certain viewpoints or not.

Health care cannot "be a right" if we cannot afford said health care for everyone. If we cannot afford health care for everyone (literally not enough hospital beds), some mechanism needs to be used to prioritize who gets care or not. No amount of policy can squeeze blood from a stone: if we don't have enough hospital beds anymore, then we must systematically deny care in some regards. (And whatever system we choose will hopefully be fair)

Money, for all of its problems, is an effective prioritization methodology... and simple to understand. You give care to those who can afford it. People always criticize the methodology but in the absence of better choices, I'm going to default to it.

I think there's some hypotheticals saying that maybe the vaccinated should have priority (since the unvaccinated are the group who is causing the crisis, we should "punish" the unvaccinated in this regards). I think I can accept that as an answer as a higher priority.
I mean yeah, I’d love to propose a worldwide carbon tax and solve the root problem here! But that seems unlikely to happen on a short timescale, and without it we’ll see coal plants that were driven out of business by solar’s cheapness re-open now that there’s all this extra demand for energy (and solar isn’t keeping pace).

And don’t tell me what I don’t complain about ;) I’m plenty concerned with other sources of carbon emissions too.

As for the rest: I feel like another bad trope I see in these debates is the “you just don’t get it. Enjoy your irrelevance” thing. If crypto is misunderstood, then explain it. If there’s something people like me aren’t getting, help us get it. The burden of proof is on crypto-boosters to demonstrate why this is worth it and what the actual endgame here is.
If you want to be nice to the environment, damming (damning?) rivers would intuitively seem like a bad thing for wildlife.
There's a wide body of scientific evidence supporting the fact that electromagnetic forces have a significant impact at many scales throughout the solar system and cosmos. It has been observed, since at least the early 70s, that the Sun's electric field induces auroras, radiation belts [0], and convection in planetary magnetospheres [1][2]. The OP title might be a little sensational by calling this an energy crisis - but the photos of the heat bands were really interesting IMO.

I admire movements like the Electric Universe Theory [3] for spreading awareness of plasma cosmology, magnetohydrodynamics, etc. I think in the future there will be an ecosystem around solar space weather, [4] is an example of such.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/RG00...

[2] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19700002717/downloads/19...

[3] https://www.electricuniverse.info/peer-reviewed-papers/

[4] https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
It's Apple, see the Reuters report from 2019: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spyi...

Here's KARMA: https://citizenlab.ca/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphon...

Looking at CVEs, my guess for KARMA 2 is CVE-2017-8248, patched in 10.3.3. Bit of a stretch, though. Looks like whatever was patched was never really publicized.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8248
What is the problem, exactly? As a user, it's completely transparent to me.

Besides, not 100% of the drivers are upstreamed... see Nvidia for example. It just means nearly 100% of hardware works out of the box with zero fuss or configuration.

The same really cannot be said about Windows, which sometimes still requires drivers just to see hard disks during the install.
Doesn't replit have a similar feature? Where you can link to different debugging states?

Are you aware of that? If yes how is it different?
Yeah, maybe I should add, we would hang out in the hall and whiteboard our ideas, workflows before we went back into our respective cubicles/offices and started coding.

The code review was preloaded.
If you have an IoT teapot, when do you return it?
Quote tweet in English: https://mobile.twitter.com/EilishHart/status/143825250738235...
The Facebook Integrity team agrees with you, Zuck just doesn't want to give up the cash.

"Early tests showed how reducing [downstream MSI- the likelihood of creating long chains of reshares] of the algorithm for civic and health information helped reduce the proliferation of false content. Facebook made the change for those categories in the spring of 2020.
When Ms. Stepanov presented Mr. Zuckerberg with the integrity team's proposal to expand that change beyond civic and health content -- and a few countries such as Ethiopia and Myanmar where changes were already being made -- Mr. Zuckerberg said he didn't want to pursue it if it reduced user engagement, according to the documents."
I always assumed the main reason for using PDFs is, that an author/distributor can be pretty sure, that they're rendered almost exactly the same (fonts, layout) no matter with which viewer they're viewed.

This probably evokes some kind of sense of authenticity. Like some physical paper document it has exactly one appearance.
That Saddam Hussein seems like a very bad man.
We should prosecute all those who helped him come to power, and keep him there, supplying him with weapons etc.
Same with the Taliban.
I immediately started wondering if the entire article was bogus when I read that. It reads like a paragraph in an article about about chemtrails. Made me question my previous firm belief that the island in question even exists…
For me, this sounded reasonable after Snowden and especially Crypto AG. For those unaware:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...

Or more recently RSA:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-31580
Only if all of your contacts, and their contacts, and so on, also do the same.
The kernel's still monolithic, and one of the arguments in the video was core system components becoming unsustainably large. I suppose the community woes the video mentions might apply equally to BSD, although I have no personal experience with how those work in that part of the world.

If Google developing Fuchsia and (again, as postulated in the video) perhaps moving focus away from Linux is a concern, it might be worth noting that even if there are corporate backers and sponsors of FreeBSD, I don't think there are companies the size of Google, Intel or even Red Hat contributing massively to its overall development. I could be wrong, but I'm not aware of that going on.

Pretty much all of the arguments given in the video could be true for FreeBSD or other Unix systems as well, at least if they had the breadth of Linux in terms of hardware support, size and visibility of the community, and corporate connections.
The banking system finances all commercial activity, it’s essential to civilization.

BTC is not.

(DeFi is used to speculate on crypto prices with leverage, which is also not essential)
Almost. It may simplify verification, but only for people who present passport books; you don't legally get to choose which documents to accept for I-9[1]. US Passport cards are RFID-enabled, but not NFC-enabled, for example.

[1]https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/handbook-for-employers-m-2...
There are some dual-purpose systems.

E.g. ensuring New Orleans' pumps are in working condition, and a levee system is built to survive overtopping without collapsing.

The difference between a crisis and a catastrophe is how quickly mitigation kicks in after an event.
It's reduce, reuse, recycle, in that order, so inasmuch as this results in reduction of car sales, or extending the life of existing (gas-powered) cars, that's still a win in many ways.
> The point is it became that _because_ it is open source.

I still disagree. Most companies happily pay for their server OS's and support (Red Hat, SUSE, Oracle, etc), and don't even think about the open source aspects.

Maybe a long time ago it got traction from being open source, but so is all the BSD's and they aren't nearly as prevalent as Linux is. Something else has to be a factor here besides it being open source.

Perhaps you mean it became that way because open source attracted talented developers? Perhaps... although today most contributions to the kernel are from paid developers working for mega corps like Google, Amazon, IBM, etc, who do that as part of their day job.

As an aside, I love and support open source projects, I just don't think it really matters for Linux (at least anymore). Plenty of folks would happily use it if it were closed source and proprietary - it's that good today.
If the only way they know how to make their document into a PDF is an online converter and they need the document as PDF them that's what they're going to do. It really doesn't help that exporting documents as a PDF was an arcane process for a long time.
> the author of the tweet

I think I see the problem.

Why does anyone treat tweets as though they're academic papers? It's just some rando BSing.
> And finally, I became the exact thing I hated: a toxic asshat throwing his skills around like fists. I don’t do code review for the business, I just like showing the rookies their place. My skills have finally started to pay off.

Or he's just lazy.

It's way harder to build up the people you work with than tear them down. The key ingredients tp the former are patience and empathy. And those qualities are lacking in many managers.

Also, aggressive, opinionated people are often perceived as more intelligent than their more reserved peers. You'd think that the snowmen can't get snowed, but the type of person the author describes seems to be just as vulnerable to the misdirection as others.
Interesting use case / app for sure!

It worked after 2 tries on my iPhone with a Canadian passport (initially, the RFID step didn't read anything).

Interestingly, I think that you may have the rgb channels wrong during the photo extraction -- the photo was "correct" but the colors were wrong (maybe b and r are flipped?)

I tried another app [0] just to double check and it decoded the photo correctly.

I also found/read a bit of info from the Canadian government about epassports [1]. One interesting tidbit that was news to me: "For the chip [...] to be read, [...] the date of the individual’s birth, the date of expiration of the passport and the passport number must also first be provided to the reader". i.e. the RFID chip does an exchange/check first rather than spit out everything to any nearby RFID reader.

I suppose it's not feasible to brute force all of those pieces of data (passport expiration, etc.) fast enough to read passports in RFID vicinity.

[0] https://www.readid.com/demo-app

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2014/05/technical-info...
Gaza gets invaded now and then. I'm pretty confident that when the first conventional warheads land in Tokyo, it will be all out war.
Fractional opacity mixing with pure black is still not the most physically accurate shadow, because in the real world ambient light is mixed in with shadow, and also the color of the object casting shadow (and the surface the shadow is cast on) also creates color casts on a second light bounce from off-angle ambient light hitting an object, which influences shadow color in a way that's not "black on top of surface color." The algorithm for blending drop shadows doesn't take these things into account. https://willkempartschool.com/the-secret-to-painting-realist...

The link above also has an example of the use of multiple shadows to create a more naturalistic feel, namely that in the real world we are accustomed to, one source of light creates multiple kinds of shadows because of reflections from clouds, objects, etc.

This is all linked to physical realism, to help carry over our expectations of what the world looks like into a (in this case) digital space.
Please don't rewrite titles like this - it's against the site guidelines.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I see 17 is potentially ripping out security manager, why? wth?

Because Security Manager — which enforces runtime access capabilities, like an OS kernel does — exists for the sake of Java applets, and Java applets have been dead for a long time. The Security Manager enables secure execution of "mobile" (i.e. untrusted, not-auditable-at-time-of-release) code — cases where the "host" and "guest" codebases are compiled separately with the "host" having no ability to introspect the "guest" during the "host's" compilation, because the "guest" doesn't exist yet.

Security Manager does not exist for the sake of fighting against your own project's dependencies. There are much simpler and more runtime-efficient solutions (like linters / static-analysis tools) for the case where the "host" can see the "guest's" code at compile time.

Security Manager doesn't exist for the sake of "plugins" (e.g. WARs, Java Agents, etc), either. Even if you don't have a plugin's source code available in your project worktree at build time, you can still validate the plugin's behavior at release time by statically analyzing its bytecode before building it into your release fatJar. Which still allows you to make much stronger guarantees than Security Manager can.
I vouched for this flagged to the point of being dead submission, so I'm going to explain why.

Despite the fact that I have reservations of some of what the article is pointing at, the underlying premise I believe is made in good faith. Genocide sneaks up on you and it starts with people talking openly about the intentional killing of others. I don't think we're anywhere close to that at the national level in the western world, but I don't think this article deserved to be flagged.
> there doesn't seem to be any updates since then

Oracle (Brian Goetz in particular) regularly gives talks and interviews and publishes updates.

There was even a link on this site a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28364500
As another example "fake news" isn't new either, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

However, I'd suggest that the new challenge isn't simply scale and omnipresence but algorithmization - modern platforms can tune and target to the level of the individual. In the past, (dis)information had to be broadcast in a far more one-size-fits-most style, perhaps segmented by broad geographic or demographic groups at best.
> the only one viable at the moment is NVIDIA's weird shim

Yeah they recently gave up on supporting older hardware on new kernels, now one of my machines is stuck on Linux 5.4 LTS.

(Nouveau can't do Audio over HDMI on that hardware.)
I don't think 'refer to existing objects' is the meaningful bit, here. You can print and sell and trade and auction baseball cards of players that don't exist, and they'll still be regulated the same way as baseball cards of players who do. (Which is to say, not at all.)

I think the meaningful bit is whether or not an NFT is a baseball card, or ownership of... Some yet to be generated value, somehow derived from a baseball card.

The latter is obviously a security, the former is, to my layman eyes, probably not.

Continuing on this train of thought, it should be worth noting that useless things (Ownership of a baseball cards) are not regulated, but useful things (Ownership of a stake in the value generated by a baseball card) are regulated.

It makes sense, in a perverse way - if someone wants to spend their money on a useless thing, that's on them. If someone wants to spend their money on a useful thing, then, well, the buyer should expect some assurance that they are not being completely lied to and swindled. (Which is why the SEC regulates securities markets, and not art auctions.)
This is an amazing mission, and I'm really looking forward to following their progress.

I am disappointed however, at casual factual errors being stated by the presenters. They produced a graphic showing that this mission will be targeting an orbit higher than the Hubble. This is correct, for Hubble's current altitude. However, the accompanying commentary then stated Inspiration4 will fly higher than any mission since Apollo. This is not correct. STS-103 [0] a servicing mission by Discovery to the Hubble in 1999, had an apogee of 609km - higher than the planned orbit for this mission.

The same casual error / re-definition of an already accepted term applies to the "all-civilian crew" line. The Ars Technica article [1] covers this point well; plenty of all non-military space flights have occurred.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-103
[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/four-private-citizen...
We definitely need to avoid replaying from the start every time we want to inspect the state at some point. This is kind of an internal detail, but we can avoid having to replay parts of the recording over and over again by using fork() to create new processes at points within the recording.

Ordering constraints between different library functions do crop up from time to time. In cases like this the recorder library uses ordered locks internally (basically emulating the synchronization which the system library has to do) to ensure that the calls execute in the expected order when replaying.
The important piece of news here is that the US and UK have apparently 'convinced' Australia to ditch the huge deal they made to acquire subs from France (and to be built in Australia).
https://archive.is/nu29v
I miss my Palm Tungsten