skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my gripe about conventional photography equipment coming from the big tech players, including new iPhones. They're processing with AI. Which means they train on a certain dataset... choose some parameters which they deem suitable, and apply this to everything.

And that's my issue: as soon as we jump in to explore some uncharted and new territory and capture and preserve it in an authentic way, we're capturing a false state. Even if raw can be captured, I fear most won’t. Consider that if you use Google photos to store your iPhone images, Google dings you for capturing raw (I remember from advertising literature some time ago that storage capacity was unlimited if you agree to have your images rescales, but limited if you choose to store them unscaled and unprocessed). What a confusing and strange pass to our posterity.
It looks like some threads were merged, so you’re likely in the same thread already.
Come mantenerle in esecuzione programmmi in SSH
Chinese scientists complete starch synthesis from CO2
GIMP is crap, the reason they make up all those excuses is because they have nothing better than it. The majority of them talking online seem to think GIMP is a superior image manipulation tool than Photoshop on a technical level despite the fact gimp cannot even simply or reliably draw a circle.
When there's sync OS APIs what's the point of async over threads? I thought async APIs use async or polling version of syscalls and not blocking ones.
If task A & B perform IO (eg, a DB call) and the alternatives are running them sequentially on one thread or running them concurrently (via async/await) on one thread, then running them concurrently can both decrease end-to-end latency and increase throughput.

> If you just synchronously run A then B, the overall time would be shorter (higher throughput) because of less context switching overhead.

There are no context switches: async/await isn't threads. The compiler generates state machines which are scheduled on a thread pool. Basically, each time an event happens (eg, database request completes or times out, or a new request arrives), that state machine is scheduled again so that it can observe that event. This doesn't involve context switching: you can have 1 thread or N threads happily working away on many concurrent tasks without needing to context switch between them.
Don't do a PhD in either US/Canada unless you were in top 1% of the class and practically slept through all advanced Math courses (e.g. Convex Optimization, Linear Programming, Karush-Kuhn-Tucker etc.) and still ended up with an A. Asking someone to do a PhD just because they are bored/not challenged enough in their work is an incredibly bad piece of advice!!! Stay away! Academia in US/Canada is mostly a lost cause today (apart from a few bright spots which are doing cutting edge AI/ML/DL or Nano Tech research). Academia in US/Canada is as much corrupt today as Catholic Church was in the middle ages!
A bunch of similar summaries around movies which have been doing the round at YouTube.

I wonder what the purpose of such summaries is - is it to define the plot section ala Wikipedia movie plots or IMDB plots or is it for really condensing knowledge into abstracts.

The latter does require a certain degree of both cognition around the domain as well creative writing to make it engaging.
I suspect that some of those places host strategically important communications facilities. Perhaps spy satellite downlink facilities, perhaps GNSS ground-segment base stations, perhaps earth stations for other communications satellites.

Oddly, those two specific islands don't. Saint Helena is specifically courting such business, but I don't see any indication that they've attracted anyway. But several other small islands are definitely fibered-up on account of their satellite facilities.
Technically true but wrong. If your oldest Facebook post is from 2015, how likely is it that you've been using the internet before 2005?! Archeologists are very smart people in their own right, some are much smarter than we are. They do consider everything that we think they haven't. Let's give some benefit of the doubt to our fellow researchers.
I find it bizarre that CNN - being a supposedly respectable media organization, displays scam like ads at the bottom of each article. "How to get rich quick", etc
Maybe if they used cell phones they could more easily connect with each other...
Alternately, people who accurately understand the technology and the environment in which it is used might be speaking up against a system which is designed to endanger those people.

Using people subject to these risks in service of MLM recruitment pitches is not a moral good.
Arstechnica took a picture of a stuffed Koopa and Goomba in low light conditions with every phone they reviewed for years and years. It was great because they could put together a gallery of images to compare directly between phones. They seem to have moved onto some Ratchet and Clank figurines for the most recent reviews however.
> Realizing that I had outgrown my role was a long, painful process. My last year was particularly rough. I saw so many points that hurt both creators and users. I wanted to destroy, rebuild, and improve everywhere I could.

That's interesting, I always thought that those feelings were a normal thing when you join a organization, and disappeared with time when you "get used to things". I would love to hear what other people think about this.
This guy is old enough to appreciate the golden age of domestic US terrorism, when we had 400+ domestic terror attacks/yr (circa 1970). It's been historically quiet since the mid 1970s[1].

[1]after the Pentagon Papers scandal forced the FBI to quit compulsive domestic surveillance and refocus on actual law enforcement

ref: https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/
Thanks for the response.

How do you guarantee such systems don't fall into disuse?
https://www.infrapedia.com/app - used to be called greg's cable map.
The ship only hit the grounds on the sides where it's less deep, but the cables probably go through the middle area where it's the deepest. So there wasn't much of a chance for the ship to damage any cables.
Has anyone tried a game where each player starts with 8 queens and start by taking turns placing their queens on the board in unfilled positions, after which normal chess-rules apply?
The launch of the JWST makes me incredibly nervous. Not only has the project been so dramatically over-budget and behind schedule, it's a one of a kind on a very complicated mission profile. I pray nothing has been overlooked because I dread a scenario like how Galileo's main antenna couldn't deploy fully because of the delays from the Challenger disaster. Some grease had decayed and a tremendous amount of function as lost as a result. Fingers crossed.
I love stackoverflow, use it all the time often from generic goggle searches, and I don't even have an account, its just that useful of a site. I suspect I would probably not answer very many questions due to others simply having better answers than me.
I have a naive question.

Am I only able to get the paper free by asking the researcher (assuming all others are behind paywalls) which is being enforced by some form of legal language?

For example, say I post a link to my research paper alongside a presentation I gave associated to the work (let's say it's sitting on GitHub).

Is there typically language to prevent this?
Go back and listen to the exchanges between Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci... Fauci repeatedly lied before Congress regarding funding for this GoF research which now appears to have been the source of the virus. This shouldn't be a partisan issue... trust the science.
Why would someone want to curate their data if they want to build a good model?

Are they worried that a scientist is going to be exposed to a bad word?

Are they imposing some cultural brand of morality upon the AI?
Honest question: why even use leather in the first place? It's generally uncomfortable, and honestly feels inferior as a material to use for your car interior. Or am I missing something?
I don't know either, therefore I considered it a pretty tangential point. It feels like the choice is a bit more diverse here because there are six(+1*) parties all but guaranteed to enter parliament, so you wouldn't waste a vote if you voted for any of them.

*) seven actually, one party (CSU) only standing in Bavaria instead of the conservative party CDU.
Pedantism is trotting out the fact that yeah, you can find plenty of people still running Windows-whatever on their Gateways, or lovingly cared-for TRS that still "just works". The point is that by and large, Apple devices are built in with planned obsolescence in mind (see the lawsuit they settled a few months ago about literally this).
They didn't say E2E aren't worth it (they actually said it worked for them early on)

Their point is that it's not scalable as they think contract testing is
CyberDildo - Do you identify as a democrat?
The Earth's submarine fiber optic cable network
And he never spent them. It's the most selfless act I've witnessed in my life.
Was EcoHealth Alliance, the group referenced in the article, working in Wuhan?
> Aside from that, anyone declaring monetary value on a crypto asset should have to declare it, and if they don't, they go to actual prison for tax evasion. I'm looking forward to those people replacing weed smokers in prison - that would be effective public policy.

You're both pro legalization of weed and pro government? The war drugs is one the many fronts of the war on personal freedom.

Ironically the thing you're railing against -- being an anonymous uncensured transaction platform -- is one of the few ways weed dealers and consumers can continue to transact.

> Crypto mining that is energy intensive should be banned immediately on that basis alone.

Which is only neccessary to prevent

> Also, in a completely unregulated scenario, powerful financial interests would leverage ownership of the crypto scheme and power would even be further centralized.

PoS _is_ succeptible to this as ownership means a voting stake. PoW prevents entrenched interests from controlling it.
Almost all the bugs I’ve ever seen have been an integration or configuration issue. Race conditions are a common example of this. Even the small bugs usually involve 2-3 “units.” End to end tests and integration tests, manual or automated, are really the only way to catch these
Very cool! Quick browser note: get blank screen with Brave on iOS iPad (with shields up; does work with shields down), no problem on iPhone.
Sorry all - I recently deployed code to follow redirects and like all such internet things there are of course a lot of corner cases.

Changed back to https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A1144035+%5Bsql%5D+... now (from https://stackoverflow.com/nocaptcha?s=f29968b0-76eb-45d9-8d6...).
Many in charge seem to employed by Red Hat. Really makes you go "Hmmm...".
How many SQL questions are there in total?
Could it discourage others to participate if few top posters answer too many questions too fast?
To make that nft would take me - or my 8 year old niece - no more than 2-3 hours to craft.

Learning to mix paint like Rothko would take years.
> The iPhone isn’t intended to compete with DSLRs because it’s literally a phone that fits in your pocket.

I'm not sure how you measure "intent", but I think there's fairly strong evidence that smartphone cameras have harmed the DSRL market. Sales are about half of what they were in 2008. This isn't just people moving to mirrorless either. Sales of all camera formats are down. Smartphones basically killed the market for compact cameras, whose sales today are down about 90% in the same timeframe.
I wonder about the software to run such a phone: wouldn't it need to be somewhat minimal and not offer feature upgrades -- only security fixes -- over the life of the phone? Otherwise I would think this phone would suffer the same fate as any five year old Android or iPhone: the bloat of new features overwhelms the old phone's hardware and you're left with a disappointing or frustrating experience. That said, I love the goals of this project and hope it succeeds. And if it can run Graphene OS I'll pre-order one now!
I think that's a great question. I have always preferred a good cloth seat to leather. I suppose leather is easier to clean, but I can't think of any other meaningful advantages.
That simply not true at all

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult/causes.html#:~:text=People...
It's a city. It's congested.

Here's a fun (?) fact: the FAA explicitly refuses to define the term "congested." In one case, they actually claimed that an area with one person was congested. Not sure if that held up on appeal. In any event, they've stated their desire to retain "enforcement flexibility" which, to me, is kinda BS. I've flown over a lot of areas where it wasn't obvious whether it counted as congested or not, and that 500' made a difference. (Next to a mountain, for example.)

This area, though, is definitely congested.
Use System.Threading.Channels.

BoundedChannelFullMode.DropNewest, DropOldest, DropWrite, Wait specifies the behavior to use when writing to a bounded channel that is already full
US, Germany, Russia, Brazil, China, India, etc.

The truth is that giving convicted prisoners opportunities to work is probably a big net positive. I'm sure plenty of them would work for pennies rather than rot in a cell.

The root of the problem is if there is injustice in sentencing or coercive work conditions. Not the work itself. But that requires far more investigation to establish than pearl-clutching about the universal practice of "forced labor".

But if there is a legit criminal behind bars, I would like to hear reasons why they shouldn't be able to work in a highly controlled, safe workplace.
This is actually how archeologists estimate their ranges for human habitation in an area, just with math instead of guesses. This paper isn't about that (try timing papers like [1] instead), it's about the actual radioisotope boundary dates for an actual site.

Part of the problem these LGM dates keep running into is that it's not obvious how people got here in the first place. After about 48kya, the ice free corridors close up and the ice sheets encompass most of the coastal islands as well until about 22kya when humans can get to Alaska again and 18kya when humans can easily get down the coastal routes. What would have been possible in the middle is very much still in the ??? grey area.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2491-6
the ecosystem from 12 years ago is radically different from what it is now. Heck, it's radically different from what it was just 2 or 3 years ago.

And well, it benefits (smart) ordinary people. That is, those who have invested or are investing. Smart money is here - and small investors are here too. And I'm saying purposefully "investing" as opposed to "trading". The former doesn't require any technical skills.

As for "ordinary people" not versed into technologies doing what their government is telling them to do (bans, warnings, hackers, criminals, murderers, ...), well... I'm feeling sorry for them, but crypto cannot just replace local country currencies without government consent. Now think again: who is to blame?
> if we consume the fuel byproduct, presumably we just end up with co2 in the atmosphere?

If it replaces some amount of fossil fuel, it could still be useful. I'm guessing the efficiency isn't great, though.
Guides on how to build a bomb with household materials get to stay up though.
you mean as in: just touching the key activates it?
Those coins have never moved in all these years. You would think that Satoshi would want to spend and enjoy some of his riches right?
To me this points towards Satoshi likely being dead (e.g. him being Hal Finney).

Also, AFAIK those were mined because Satoshi was the first miner, not because he purposefully kept it private in order to get the most for himself before anyone else could participate.
I can hardly think of a situation where I'd want no end to end test.

I think one misconception is that there has to be a single end to end test. Really what you want is a variety of end to end tests examining the functionality of different parts of the system. But the system under test is still the whole system, not the units. These partial end to end tests can still be quick to run, as long as you keep system startup time down.

For example, I work on a system that builds text indexes on an underlying database management system. We take an input mutation with logical changes and then use that to determine what additional index updates are required. This all happens automatically when our users write.

There are two ways to test this. The old way was that we instantiated the top level class that did the changes and manually constructed mutations that look like user mutations. Then we examined the mutations produced by our top level class.

I recently converted this test to use the public write and read apis of the database to instead write data to a test instance and then check that the index contents was as expected. The public api is more stable than our private one and is resilient to internal refactorings. It's also more amenable to ad hoc queries of the type you generally do in tests. And it ends up not being much slower, since our test for various sad reasons still had to start the database engine even though it was mostly unused.

All in all, I was able to make the test faster (3 minutes -> 1.5 minutes) and less brittle, while using less code and getting more coverage of what we actually care about. I think wins like this are commonly available when moving from unit to end to end testing, as long as you keep system startup time down.
Impressive achievement. But for fun, as a skeptic, let's assume he outsourced some of the work, and then serves as an editor. How would we know the difference between this, and him answering the questions himself?

Would we care?
Don’t think about it or read about it or take friends’ advice or the advice of random assholes on the Internet (me included). Do something (anything!) that you think might make you happy. Take action—literally any action—then reflect on whether that made you feel better or worse, then repeat.

Plans, programs, therapists, tips are all good, but even better is You. Your situation, your body, your needs, desires, habits. No one knows that better than you and your body.

Plan -> motivation -> action sucks, especially for an already burnt out mind and body. You can have the BEST plan and the BEST motivation, but your mind and body won’t be fooled—or at least not for long—and they (you) will let you down. Then your mind and brain will feel shitty because obviously THEY (YOU!) are to blame, because this was THE PERFECT PLAN because 1,000 people said it worked for them, complete with testimonials and pictures!

Action -> celebration -> reflection -> repeat is better because you don’t need motivation or a plan to get started. Just do it/something/anything! Way to go, killer!! How do you feel?! Do you want to do that again? Great! Next action is…

Your first action might be buying a party-sized bag of Doritos, a pint of ice cream, and a box of wine, and staying up until 4 AM rewatching Game of Thrones season 1. Or your first action might be getting up at 5 AM for a 30 minute run. Or taking an afternoon siesta. Or buying a pair of roller skates or asking a friend to play tennis with you after work or asking to take a neighbor’s dog to the dog park or taking the stairs at work or parking in the farthest available parking spot or signing up for a charity 5k…. Each of these things has probably worked for 10k people and not worked for 50k. What will work for you? I don’t know and no one here does either. And neither do YOU right now, because if you did, you wouldn’t be asking the Internet for help! But if you try something that sounds awesome and are honest with yourself about how it went and are willing to try it or something else again, you’ll get there in time.
> "Correctness" is subjective and unprovable.

Can you clarify how literally you mean that?

Because a statement like "1+1=3" objectively incorrect, given the usual conventions about what I would mean with that equation.
How? What's to stop the AI (and/or humans in the loop) from spreading falsehoods?
Secret Hearing Focuses on Hidden Microphones at Guantánamo Prison
Might not be especially hard to use them as collateral for a loan, though. Live like a king and then eventually sell them, repaying the loan from the (now rather generous) proceeds.
I'm hopeful that people on the violent fringe never do figure out how to connect with each other or we're going to end up with far more serious and coordinated attacks.
Women Aren’t Promoted Because Managers Underestimate Their Potential
Tests are never 100%, customers will always find issues. They made the choice to allow slightly more bugs to production than before, not to go from never having bugs in production to having some.
Maybe affordable mental health services aren't widely available in Michigan.

I know they aren't here in southern states and our loudest news seems to be a constant reminder of that.
Yes you can. Buy REIT ETFs. It's investing in real estate but with high liquidity and very low minimum investment.
Burning calories isn’t what leads to muscular physique, looking at any marathon runner is proof of that.
Just over a year ago, at least two textile and fiber watchdogs faced scrutiny for their links to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), a quasi-military organization that the U.S. government sanctioned in 2020 due to its role in operating mass internment camps and using forced labor in cotton fields.

https://www.axios.com/global-textile-watchdogs-struggled-in-...
By that logic all pens and pencils ought to be banned because they can be used to create "naughty content."
Your opinion is duly noted, my opinion is that your opinion has little bearing on what the price of BTC will be if the purchasing power of a dollar drops quickly. My prediction is that demand for it will surge and so the price will go up somewhat inversely. I'll note that you're not taking the counter position, just stating why that would be a "very bad idea" for people to demand it. I'm guessing you've been saying the same thing as the price has gone up to $50k. At some point you'll either be proven right in a massive collapse or will have to capitulate that the market is not irrational. What is your threshold? (Year/price threshold where you'd capitulate.) If you're on your death bed and BTC is worth $1M, will you change your mind, or just presume you didn't live long enough to see yourself proven right?
In hindsight, I was making a joke that seeing the value of an NFT has convinced me to make NFT's - and that this is the very cycle which has made NFT's valuable.

I was not actually implying that I would literally start making NFT's right now.

I did however forget that jokes and humor were against Hackernews rules, and for that I thank you kind sir for the reminder.
Most people don't think of CNN that way. Are you just inferring "respectable" because they operate a news channel that's included in basic tv subscription packages?
This is strictly about the headline, not the article. Lawmakers should, indeed, be required to put all their holdings into a blind trust for the duration of their service, at least.

"Many believe" is the sort of garbage phrase that "journalists" and their headline writers use nowadays. It's purely a way of laundering your personal beliefs. Who are these "many"? Just the friends of the journalist?