skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the scale. I can vouch that crowd-moderation works fine for a small forum (~ 1000 members) which I am part of. And there is no karma system. You get to report posts (3 reports mean that the post is deleted), and warn users (24-hour ban after 3 "active" warnings, and then it scales up to a permanent ban after 15 "active" warnings). Warnings become "inactive" after a month.

It also depends on the threat model. If the community is the target of an harassment campaign coordinated by external actors, then you might need additional tools, or people dedicated to the job. However, this won't necessarily solve the problem, as external actors could double-down, and moderators can lose their minds (suspicion of a troll behind every post, abuse of power, absence of control of the moderators, possible presence of a spy/agitator among the moderation team, etc.). I won't name the forum and the community, but I have a specific one in mind. It does not help that it is a source of information for gaming media, which means that it is often linked to in press articles, which attracts much attention from all kinds of people.

That being said, I get back to the subject: user-generated content on platforms (and not just forums). If the goal is to reach a large scale, then I fully agree with you.
didnt think i'd say this ever but: respect corporate sovereignty. corporations have a right to choose, to moderate the content they host as they see fit.

go do your own thing. dont be a tool about it, dont be a loser. you weak, sad governments.
I'm pretty sure I found an even older IBM pc from the 80s in Costa Rica in an auto parts store that I need to get evidence of... that one was supposedly used since 1994?
If you're doing complex data analysis in python, the actual number crunching isn't happening in python it's happening in a C extension. Using numpy or tensor flow, you're really just calling C code.
This study finds that eyeglasses for school kids with vision impairment help.

Just from the title I wondered if school kids with eyeglasses performed better than school kids without eyeglasses (and whether eyeglasses gave some self-confidence, or if vision impairment somehow made affected kids more studious, or some shit like this). I was surprised. It's not that. The actual result presented by this article seems far less surprising to me (still interesting even if my first reaction was well, duh - some studies are here to turn "well, duh"'s into actual knowledge).

I suggest changing the title to "Eyeglasses for impaired school kids boost academic performance, study finds" (and even dropping "study finds")
Spacex is the only one with enough volume right now for this technique to have good accuracy.
What language do you rewrite it in so?
We need to go deeper! Cheat Makers produce their own kernels that trick the kernel modules by intercepting everything theses modules do.
I don't know if there is even cheat software on Linux, but if there's a market, there might be a product.
> You know, I'm always astonished to which length people go to defend Apple!

The reason this is a serious problem and not equivalent to any other situation where you can get people to click an arbitrary link wasn't immediately obvious to me either. I'm glad the question was asked and answered. I'm not a diehard Apple defender, just someone who's not immersed in this phishing stuff on a daily basis. shrug
The video at the top eventually shows somebody in the bottom right corner wearing it.
“I don’t know, sounds like bull shit to me.”
When you first need glasses it can surprise you. Towards the end of my uni days I got an eye test after just assuming nothing was wrong for several months. That first set of glasses was a revelation, like entering a new HD world that I didn't know I'd slowly left.

For schoolkids it's probably even bigger. They don't even know that their eyesight might not be just like every other kid. Worth testing, I did so with my kid and she got a light prescription.
In that case the poor should rejoice. The Fed has managed to keep inflation at 2% until the pandemic. It was 4% in the 80s and 3% in the 90s.
Cheers!

I have now released v1.0.0 of the TUI. The pip command requires an option to install pre-releases and that's why it was probably installing the old 0.2.0 version.

As for the async profiles, I'd not expect the event loop own time to be on CPU, so using the -s option to collect only on-CPU samples should filter the event loop own time out.
I wonder if that's a good idea.

One could easily argue that throughout all of human evolution, recognizing and interacting with other humans was the single most important factor for survival. Accordingly, one would expect the human visual system to be highly adapted towards recognizing humans. [1]

If we want AI to safely interact with humans, then we should strive to make the AI understandable in the sense that our intuition of what it might see or do matches up with what it'll actually see or do. That's a big aspect why those Tesla crashes are so scary: No human would overlook a huge white truck sideways on the road. But an AI trained on the wrong dataset might.

Accordingly, I would have expected that datasets move more towards imitating what babies will see in their first days or weeks, because that seems to be the most promising path towards replicating human vision with AI.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/december/infants-process...
These are in an extreme minority, although this may vary from discipline to discipline. In my area you can count fully open access journals on one hand and they play no notable role yet. All top journals are closed access with expensive "open access" publication fees (ca. 3,000 USD per article). Most of them are Springer and Oxford Journals, others are Elsevier.
That is usually the case. But what have I really gained? Unless what I’m doing is inherently 3D, I’m getting a lower resolution 2D experience blocking out my actual world (including things like my water glass, keyboard, mouse, dog, papers on desk, etc) while getting my eyes blasted with artificial light with a heavy thing strapped to my head.
That's basic camping 101 shit there.

I think I read a couple months ago bout an old lady who got dragged out of her tent by a bear and killed because of improperly secured food[1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57763443
Paying double for a house? You do know that you have to pay interest? Just because the resale price of the house is bigger doesn't mean financing has become more expensive.
A quick way to have some data sent to a local listening TCP socket is simply to try to access it through your favourite browser.

If you have a socket listening on 127.0.0.1:1234 then 'browse' to http://127.0.0.1:1234 and your TCP server should receive the HTTP get request. HTTP is just an application protocol over TCP.
This is the strangest comment I have ever read on Hackernews.
> Nobel laureates wrote a separate letter encouraging the Trump administration to go ahead with its plans—which, in any event, never came to fruition.

What's the status with Biden administration?
this.. I have been doing that in products from hardware to ai models. It is effective and gives reasonable feedback.

I even gave a baiting tech talk at one of the companies about how useless unit test really are. Useless is understating it, they are often counter productive. Especially "junior" people, who try and grind the testing mindset, will come and write a little test for everything. Good luck making small inconsequential changes in the future.

If you have well written unit test (high level apis) then they become worthwhile - but once you arrive there, you have to just do one little step further to move into integration test and get good cover from failures/changes/bugs in cloud/infra provider.
I laughed while I was screaming inside.
Yes, it must be the vpn set up. Though no issues are present when warp is active.
So is this the future? Hundreds of office workers wearing for 8 hours a VR Headset in an open plan office?
Not if you are poor enough.

Moving costs money too. Suddenly, not only are you on the hood for the increased rent where you are, but now you gotta pay another months rent in addition to deposits (not everywhere charges last month's rent upfront). And it isn't just housing: You might have to pay a deposit for utilities (for example) especially if they weren't in your name previously. And then there are logistics of actually getting your stuff to the new place. You might have to leave some things behind. And over the next couple of months, you'll probably have things like connection fees for water and electricity. If you are really lucky, you'll get deposits back to help with this.

All this assumes you weren't already living in a crappy, low-rent apartment too. Sometimes, there isn't much to choose from. Enough affordable housing is only part of the issue.
Why don’t landlords just raise the rent to $10k/mo everywhere then? If everyone just pays it seems like a surefire win.
I'm not sure the fullscreen video in the page background helps to promote working with a VR headset. It's lagging, tearing and blurry. If I get dizzy by just looking at the page, how on earth would I last more than 5 minutes in a VR office without throwing up?
You don't have to freeze all transactions, just the ones being made by outsiders. Who would know, or care? Just make sure the subreddit mod is an insider, toss a few coins to any of the crypto press (who are all on the take) and you're good.
Thanks for the feedback! That is a good suggestion, I'll definitely add support for using the image URL.
You probably shouldn’t do this as much because kernel security vulnerabilities will get fixed in the meantime and your wireless router may have been breached making your local networks hostile.
> That first set of glasses was a revelation, like entering a new HD world that I didn't know I'd slowly left.

That same thing can happen even when you already have glasses. My lenses were something like 10 years old and I thought they were just fine. Until I got new glasses.
Turning Tables in Tech Startup Interviews
The Reactive Monolith – How to Move from CRUD to Event Sourcing
> But I do agree we should have made a lot more LFTR style ORNL reactors.

Its fascinating reading about all the research online into molten salt designs in the 60's wrt nuclear and its promise that just went ignored (if you take the word of people who worked on it on their blogs) because of things that sounded very much like:

> Oil has owned our military, political, and industrial landscape.

I'm just glad that the rest of the world is not limited to build out for large scale renewable systems (i.e. freaking chile has +200MW and 17.5h molten salt storage sans direct solar radiation CPVCSP plant bidding for under 4 cents/kwh in 2021 and the US has nothing, what a joke the US is for renewable despite all the past research in related fields, but good on other countries taking advantage of it).

I suspect even the sCO2 turbine research will go nowhere towards broad commercialization/utilization in the US and get broad adoption outside of it despite its applicability to nearly every system that converts heat into electricity now.

Sadly, I think nuclear will still go nowhere outside a few places as long as fears around weaponization remain (even the thorium stuff has its downsides from the protactinium -> u233 route, and i've at least seen this stuff pursed for awhile in few EM's leveraging US researchers/companies/consultants).
China panic >> Common Sense or effective policy.
In principle though. You _could_ build a nice TUI application using one of the modern TUI frameworks, that you launch from a 'normal OS' for these specific applications, and make the machines connect through some zero trust networking solution. I think the hardest part would be to get management buy-in, not anything technical.
Yes. And a potential Kessler syndrome is the least of our worries when the nuclear missiles starts to fly.

War is hell. A peer level shooting war would suck hard in many painfull different ways to almost everyone. Let’s try to avoid it.
Yes it is, IIRC I've given bounties to answers from long ago just to donate points to an answer that was really good. In fact it's in part exactly for this reason, since you can pick as one of the official reasons:

"Reward existing answer. One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty." - https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/09/23/bounty-reasons-and-pos...
I wasn't being sarcastic, seems like people took it the wrong way :P Personally I would've gotten pretty bored.
First time I've seen "s12y" (sustainability) and while I'm usually averse to new buzzwords I quite like the association with "i18n" (internationalization) and "a11y" (accessibility).

Somehow feels like the trinity of responsible software ("responsible" probably isn't the right word here).
IIRC it was based on a web of trust.

Webs of trust are awesome, but call for a lot of investment from users. I think they are more viable if they are independent of any one website, so all that effort isn't flushed down the drain if the guy who owns the domain goes incommunicado.
And to give some examples, while you could maybe ignore ionization for the aerodynamics of an F22 travelling at Mach 3, you probably could not ignore them for a school bus travelling at Mach 3.
I have very little respect for the IBM PC. It was huge, heavy, loud, slow (writing characters via the BIOS had to wait for the blanking intervals on CGA or you’d get “snow”). My Apple II booted up faster, loaded programs faster and could print to the screen faster than the monitor could refresh.
A full criticism would take a book. There are such books and presentations you can find easily and the papers I linked to are a start.

I was just giving examples to show that there are flaws. The appearance of scientific rigor and trustworthiness disintegrates as you find more and more flawed studies or unsubstantiated arguments from the orthodoxy.
And NCSC
Give me a free solution to replicate a SQL database between mobile, web and server and I'm in. Something like Couch / Pouch DB but SQL.

IMHO reliable replication is one of the hardest thing to code right.
So true! In High School, we sometimes had to take turns reading out loud from textbooks of literature. I sucked at reading out loud, often reading out words that were not there or losing the line. That was embarrassing, which did not help. Turned out my vision was just not good enough to clearly see the characters when sitting with a straight back! But I never noticed it, because my vision was good enough for everyday situations. I don't remember clearly what finally triggered me to take a vision test, maybe it was for the drivers license.
yup. the plans are at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2962 and an alternative proposal at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3216
I already sent it in - they only replace it for free with 13 inch models.

There isn't any Apple Stores nearby. I think I'll take it to a repair shop
Emergent AI – Smart agents and events for games
On URL Versions: I find it odd that governments (eg Australia) that mandate QR codes to check-in to places have such complex information and detailed codes. This makes scanning the QR code more difficult due to the smaller dot size. This results in people huddling around a single point at a door for longer and closer proximity.

A little tech love such as using short URL’s with an intermediate backend that redirects to the complex site URL with a dozen query parameters would allow much lower resolution (lower version) QR codes that can be scanned faster and/or from a further distance away resulting in better health outcomes. Or at least minimise the negative health outcome from the scanning process.
> boot load of fruits in boxes

Hard to believe that the 100 gallon boot volumes of a small sedan are insufficient for a weekly fruit&veg shop - let alone the 300 gallon boot of an estate car or the 400 gallon boot that a compact car has if you take the 30 seconds to lay down the rear seats before you load it...

And being a bit older, I do remember being driven into summer holidays with a family with 3 children, luggage and an inflatable rubber boat - in a Fiat 126 (half the length, half the width, and a quarter of the weight of today's giant pick-ups and Escalades...
Nope.

The report produced an extensive list of equations for describing the data collected from the tests, and from those equations was born the Generalized Fourth Power Law. It’s a rule of thumb for comparing the amount of pavement damage caused by vehicles with different weights, in terms of axle loads:

(W1/W2)^4

In the equation, W1 is the weight of an axle on vehicle 1, which we would compare to W2, the weight of an axle on vehicle 2.

Let’s look at some numbers for comparison.

Consider a standard sedan with two axles and a total weight of 2 tons. Assuming an even distribution, each of its axles would bear the weight of 1 ton. Now consider a semitruck with eight axles and a weight of 40 tons -- each of its axles would weigh 5 tons. The relative damage done by each axle of the truck can be calculated with the following equation, and comes out to 625 times the damage done by each axel of the sedan.

(5 tons/1 ton)^4 = 625

Considering that the truck has eight axles and the sedan has two, the relative damage caused by the entire semitruck would be 625 x (8/2) -- 2,500 times that of the sedan.

- https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...
- https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2017/06/22/murphys-law-how-trucks...
- https://truecostblog.com/2009/06/02/the-hidden-trucking-indu...
There's quite a difference between "I can't perform at my full capacity" and "Go home because you can't do any work". And no doubt, unpaid leave in the midst of costly medical bills (even with insurance costs at up) seems like a poor option.

It sounds to me like the author was asking "can you cut me some slack?", which doesn't seem like an unreasonable question. I'm sure there's a million creative ways an employer could have tried to come up with a solution, even if it's not the most desirable... (Part time work? Delaying a review cycle? Just letting a month of work go?)

I'm an educator—and obviously school is quite different from a job—but when a student is struggling outside of class, you figure out ways to still help them learn! Telling someone to withdraw from a course is certainly a necessary and valid option, but it's far from the first thing I'd present to a student. If I were a manager, hell yes, I would try to modify someone's role or duties before just saying "don't come in".

And, yes, this is one side of the story, but if this person were toxic, they could have been fired at any time and for that reason. (I'm going to assume this person is reasonably truthful, otherwise there's nothing to discuss about a fake story, IMO.)
> Apple’s Lost Mode doesn’t currently stop users from injecting arbitrary computer code into its phone number field

Can we be precise when writing about security vulnerabilities? It's a stored XSS in the phone number field.

You can include precise technical details whilst still writing an article suitable for a broad audience.
Even now you can pretty much fire up any Unix workstation from the 90’s and, through the magic of X, work away with the beautiful design while your modern 100% style-free generic PC does the heavy lifting.
Done, thanks. Will have to read it after work.
Can the authenticated user upload a modified database file that identities him as a different user? (For example by changing a uuid or username in the data before it is sent)? That could be done in JSON format, too, so it is not specific to SQLite. Just curious if this is a possibility.
> how slowly JPEGs used to render?

It’s mind blowing we had programs specifically for viewing GIFs and JPEGs.
It depends entirely on what you do with it. joining a big room like Matrix HQ (27K users spread over 3000 servers) now takes 700MB of RAM. But smaller rooms should be pretty trivial.
> measures are taken to ensure the elections are clean and the results are satisfactory to the people.

in hong kong they seemingly indescriminately ban anyone they dont like. they indeed insure elections are "satisfactory". and- just my opinion- they suck and are weak for it.
I think this does more harm than good. If there's anything we should have learned from the replication crisis of 2014, a decent amount of "generated" or "satirical" papers scandals, and an essentially constant stream of retractions, merely being published in a prestigious journal is not a great heuristic for whether a result holds up or the methodology was sound. People who want to seriously assess a paper need to read it, no matter what. Reputation by institution may once have been valuable, but as institutions are corrupted by their incentives and names can be bought and sold as part of the shell game of business, this gets worse and worse as a way of actually assessing information. The benefit you tout is on thin ice if it exists at all, and the harm is enormous, to the point where these institutions have lost the support of the overwhelming majority of people who do the research published in them. In practical terms, most researchers already get most of their papers through sources like Sci-Hub or arXiv, or find out about them through search engines or word of mouth, only dealing with the publisher at the point where they already know what they're looking for. This argument simply has no merit
Select code_execution from * using SQLite (2019)
A bit offtrack - does anybody know how rxdb differs from PouchDB?

https://pouchdb.com
Self-Sovereign Identity and DIDs are a very fast moving train. People argue that in the early internet days there was a similar competition between new protocols(compare with DID methods) before we arrive in our todays HTTP(S)-only world. Similarly DID methods will probably consolidate to a handful within few years and DID Core is only a first step to get a minimal common denominator.
Also its questionable if Microsoft&Google and the others are fearing a rapidly evolving ecosystem that they can not jump on as fast and therefore remain sceptic in any case
Funny, had exactly the same thought! Just don't have the time to put one together but curious if any easy to put together kits are available...
I remember the same! I was amazed that my friend could read the number on the front of the bus while it was still 300 metres away. How can you read that? I asked. I just read it, why? can't you read it?

I was 14 but fortunately was not really short sighted, although I found that I was instinctively sitting closer to the blackboard (rememebr those!), maybe because I couldn't see clearly from the back of the class.

It's funny how a relatively small investment early on could help avoid a load of unemployment, crime, etc. even if there was no money, just make it a loan that you only pay back once you earn, say, $30 a year or more!
I imagine an emulator will have hot paths in tight loops in a way that web apps don't, so it makes sense that it sees the biggest benefit from jit'ing
One worry I have is with sensitive data e.g. HIPAA protected information. How do you guarantee that the data is safe at rest. Are there encryption at rest options? With online-first applications, you can just expire the sessions after x minutes and lock users out once their permissions change. How hard is it to do something like this in practice for an offline-capable web-app?
If Chinese sent aircraft carriers 20 miles of Los Angeles, I'm pretty sure USA would react very harsh.
it will not work on devices without internet