skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be surprised if Cisco went bankrupt overnight, but to me their future looks quite bleak. Every day less companies need to buy their hardware as more move to the cloud. The biggest tech companies can build their own hardware. And the hardware isn't extremely technically advanced enough to prevent commodity competitors.

So one day if the revenue begins shrinking and they double down by going into debt to expand, then yes they could be facing bankruptcy just like Nortel.
“HCI-ware (and wear)

While increasing heterogeneous and concurrent architectures will certainly impact languages and frameworks (and there is much progress there already, e.g. to leverage clouds or GPUs), I'm more interested in how things like Project Glass, LEAP motion, Emotiv, and TouchÃ© might impact programming.
Project Glass could provide pervasive access to eye-cams, voice, and HUD feedback. Something like that would be a suitable basis for pen and paper programming, or card-based programming, or various alternatives that involve laying out objects in the real world and clarifying with voice (perhaps non-speech voice).”

still no progress on this. Keyboard and mouse.

Minority Report is almost 20 years old.

i had high hopes for Project Soli:

https://atap.google.com/soli/
More than a job: the food delivery co-ops putting fairness into the gig economy
That qualification itself is kind of damning.
> What is clear to me is that to these people evolution is a BELIEF and not something they thought of

Everything you consider to be true is a belief. That's the very definition of a belief: beliefs are the things you consider to be true. So you saying that this is a belief to them carries little information.
It seems like its gotten some use lately. Isnt aws a big user of it now. Along with a handful of mid size tech companies?
You can't just pick and choose what is scientific and what isn't to try an conflate reason with religion. That is an argument in bad faith (ahem).

Further, using statements like "entirely unsettled" in reference to science is a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works. It's not "settled" like religious arguments where everybody agrees to a particular interpretation of the holy book. Science either works and we make stuff with it, or it doesn't and it gets tossed away.
Hence the need for a local DC++ community (well, ADC these days) so you can enjoy all of the speed with none of the data cap ;)
It looks cool but isn't working well, I signed up for a free trial and can't get it to export in 4k without errors.
what about toilet paper?
Who are UMG?
Intel Starts Construction of Two Arizona Computer Chip Factories
No need for electricity. Just make a grill of angled metal bars, alternatingly going into hot and cold water below.
SimulaVR (www.simulavr.com) is leaning towards using NixOS as the basis of its VR distro.

Though it's always been a huge pain to get everything set up (especially things involving graphics), once it's set up it works forever for everyone in the ecosystem.
Why didn't your mom just put it on a flash drive or something?
> The main problems that the Institute of Virology has is that the outbreak occurred in close proximity to that Institute.

The first outbreak occurred in Wuhan, but there's no proof that the first cases were in Wuhan. In fact there's genetic evidence indicating there may have been earlier cases 600 miles to the south [0], where the bats are.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...
I haven't looked at the BNF(s) for URIs lately, but I don't recall there being any recursion, so I wouldn't be surprised if the language were regular.

There was a Perl program that would take something like a BNF and barf out a gigantic regex (maybe with some maximum depth).
The Secular Therapy Project
Which people are these? Can you cite some examples?
That's not true, aggressive drivers' insurance trends upwards and careful drivers' insurance trend downwards.

I have no problem with systems like this but making it always-on and non-optional is insane...

The score isn't even geographically adjusted, they posted the formula right there. Good luck my fellow New Yorkers who have to deal with 100x the pedestrians and random obstructions the average driver has to...

Hard turning is punished so good luck if you're like me and enjoy going on curvy roads where you can easily experience .4gs of lateral force at the speed limit...

Our insurance already has ways to model this stuff in much smarter ways. People in New York pay more for insurance without insurance companies needing every single vehicle's data because driver age and historical data exist...

Their comparable programs are opt-in and often can only reduce your rate (I know my old Volt would only share your score if it'd result in an insurance deduction)
Battery electric supercars outperform hybrid and ICE supercars right now. Watch it happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4orCB71BgY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jgFIobN4Gg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcepG9Twa_8
>Neuroscience has shown neurons operate digitally - on and off.

[citation needed]
> why is a university a more legitimate source of knowledge than a church

Because knowledge has to be justified in order to be knowledge. Universities produce justifications (in form of repeatable experiments, studies, proofs, etc.), churches don't.
The votes were perfectly ordinary. So is the username.

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and sticking to them? You broke them badly with this comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
People are used to addresses with work domains. The only difference I see is you don't have to tell them how to spell gmail.com.
That I hadn't known. Thanks.
Are you me? ;)

Just kidding, I am not a VP and it sounds like your starting position was worse (so you've accomplished a lot more). But the rest of it reads like something I could have written.

My suggestion: therapy. It will take more than a year because what you'll be doing is slowly undoing some habits and ways of thinking that you have built up over a lifetime. Because they are so established they will take a while to change.

What absolutely not to do: anything that starts with "kicking my own ass". My guess is you already do a lot of it. Is it working? Thought so.

What you want to do is replace shame with picking some core values for yourself and sticking to them. Why not shame? Because when you are kicking your own ass in your mind, you actually split off the motivational part of yourself and make it your enemy. No wonder there is resistance! You are probably a very nice person. There is no reason your inner voice can't be nice and motivating at the same time. Think mentor, not drill sergeant.

Finally, it helps to talk to real people about this instead of reading books. This can be a therapist or a buddy. Why people and not books? Books won't call you on your BS :) In a nice understanding manner of course.

P.S. This is all "do as I say, not as I do". I struggle with this sort of thing also. If you are anything like me, you know all the right stuff to do, fail to follow through, and then beat yourself up about it. I have also wished for an accountability coach from time to time, but they are expensive. I wonder if something similar can be accomplished in a peer to peer fashion. Email in profile if you want to try.
Yes, it's serious for _most devs_ who have code that could run on k8s: back-end devs. And _most_ devs who touch anything in FE, mobile apps, IoT, DBAs also have to touch the corresponding back-end and its associated platform tooling where k8s is a bliss compared to all the team-specific stuff we encounter in the back-end.
Now I agree that k8s is a nightmare for the infra people who run it, but honestly it is insanely comfy for the (back-end) devs who need to use it.
Code should be judged by inputs and outputs only! I hate code reviews. We end up rewriting well-structured code anyway simply because it is always easier to rewrite than to do surgery
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio – A Weird Powerful Computer
What a fair reply! Acting like by protesting intrusive always-on driver monitoring... you are automatically defending the use of credit scores to adjust rates!

No one could possibly be against both...

Not at all a straw-man argument of any sort!
The cost of the players really hurt adoption. We had a well-off neighbor who was always trying new tech and he was the only one I knew who could afford a CD player in the early days. I remember his son inviting us over to play Queen's "Another one bites the dust" and The Cars "Moving in stereo" which both sounded amazing at high volume. The son said the player cost $800 which was astounding to us teens, because you could get a decent component cassette player (with Dolby B!) or a Japanese turntable for about $150-$200 at the time.

I didn't get my own CD player for another 5 or 6 years. I hesitated because I had a very good LP collection by that point, there weren't many CDs I liked that were available, and what about digital audio tape which was constantly hinted at. I also remember Neil Young's criticism of digital sound ... he used a screen door analogy (http://archive.harpers.org/1992/07/pdf/HarpersMagazine-1992-...) which seemed reasonable. But the prices of players and CDs were dropping. I got my first CD player, a Sony Discman, for about $100 in 1990, and my first CD, a Clash double disc ("Story of the Clash"?), which was $13 or $14 at Tower Records. The prices were comparable with phonographs and cassettes, so why not?
HIV was a very different context and isn't remotely comparable to SARS2. It took many decades for HIV to spread to a consequential base of infected persons, from which it was then able to explode across the globe (due in part to the difference in travel then vs now of course). The reason it took so long to find the animal source, was because it wasn't perceived to be a critically important virus to deal with - it wasn't a priority - in the early decades due to the very low number of cases and related deaths. Depending on which origin theory you believe, it took anywhere from ~20 years to ~60 years, for HIV to go from a small number of cases to being globally threatening. SARS2 did that in a matter of months, so the priority is far different. SARS2 has killed 5+ million people in under two years, it took many decades for HIV/AIDS to do that. The US is still seeing more annualized Covid deaths than the world had total HIV/AIDS deaths annually circa 1990/1991, and that's with 64% of the US population having taken at least one vaccine dose.

The reason we haven't tracked SARS2 back to a starting animal source, is likely because there isn't one in that it didn't spread directly from an animal to humans without modification (they sampled it from bats, then they modified the virus, from which it was able to more easily infect humans); and if there were one, China aggressively blocked all efforts to discover the origins there (including destroying vital early data about the virus), which is beyond incriminating.
> studying the bible made me less religious, not more.

Yep, same here.
> Look at the intolerance and hypocrisy in France, one of the most secular states. A girl is not allowed to go to school with the Muslim head scarf. This is worse than the Taliban.

Tolerance of intolerance is a difficult topic, of course. Should France tolerate intolerance?

> France allows insulting the Prophet (pbuh), but you'll get to jail for insulting the president.

The Prophet is dead but the French president is alive. Even if you have laws promoting a mutually polite society, they don't apply to the dead (any more than for example property rights do -- the dead can't own things either).
There was a particular Windows Update, after which my Surface Pro started doing this more and more, and it eventually fried the battery to the point of not being able to charge enough to even get the data off. I loved that thing, but I didn't get another Surface.
Oh wow, I’ve seen that video and couldn’t find any information about it!
In Australia/UK these are both typically not a problem because the lender pays the broker not you and you don’t use a buyer agent you just do it yourself.
I mean, you're responding to an example of "science" that doesn't work and we make stuff with it.
yes it does, they just removed an extra day before that, here is a link: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4800223
Are you implying anything?
I would also suggest:

- Road Hog [road vehicles + trams, it's from the same author as Iron Horse and FIRS],

- U&Bridges [like in the name, rail/road bridges],

- U&RaTT [road/tram tracks with speed limits],

- U&ReMM2 [rail tracks with speed limits],

- Av9.8 Aircraft Set [planes, etc.],

- CHIPS Station Set 2.0 [very nice station set which has stations with waiting cargo animations]

If you want some updates for graphics in default OpenGFX, then I suggest adding:
- OpenGFX+ Landscape [removes grid from the map, modifies snow line, enables snow in temperate climate],

- OpenGFX Trees [like in the name, replaces trees and adds trees at the roadside in the cities],

- Stolen Trees [yes, they were stolen at some point, adds very nice trees to the game]

- HEQS [heavy equipment road vehicles, is also good road vehicle set, I'm not sure if it works with all FIRS' cargo].

Also, author of the Iron Horse, FIRS and Road Hog is making a new mod with the ships, you can track the progress here: https://grf.farm/unsinkable-sam/preview-15/index.html. Also of his mods' changelogs, updates could be found here:
https://www.grf.farm/
relax your expectations. the dao is silent.
These days I often find myself going to eBay for when I need the best price on a commodity item. You can't easily find a 50 pack of CR2032 batteries on Amazon, on eBay it's easy.

I think what ruined Amazon was 1 day shipping - they prioritize high margin, high volume products which inevitably means you're getting lower than average quality for a higher than average price, but free 1 day shipping is addicting and people just keep buying.
With Svelte my static sites are automatically pre-rendered and shipped as pre-compiled HTML. Loads instantly and optionally hydrates with JS in place. No extra effort needed.
Show HN: LIV is a webmail front-end for your personal email server
Oh, this is simply the tip of the iceberg. Most people have absolutely no idea how compromised the information system is.

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, am I right? Unless people in government want to have you murdered for standing up against corruption, or for being an activist. Very, very deeply disturbing, actually.
Maybe because the actual use of ZeroMQ varies a lot. Some brokerless-daisy-chain, some brokerless-mesh, some paired with brokers of different types (Zookeeper, RabbitMQ, others), and so on. So a comparison would be hard.
Even without all the speculation the 'I believe it is a lab leak' vs 'I believe it is natural' debate is severely misguided.

Natural origin is only incompatible with lab-made, but not at all incompatible with lab leak. Lab-made an lab leak are two very different things, yet even scientific papers interpret evidence against one of those as evidence against the other.

It is indeed good that more data is being collected, because the sad fact is that there are currently far too few actual facts and evidence to make any reasonable deduction of what happened and how best to prevent it from happening again.
I'm not convinced it's materially different. At scale it looks similar to large agile organizations of today.
First thing I told my kids when they were old enough to start communicating with friends over the internet: don't use your real name, don't tell anyone your last name, don't tell anyone your address.

It's probably time to reiterate this...
I come to add my old timer agreement here. This does tend to lead to a lot of NIMBY ism - walled gardens of code that only I (or my team) know how to use. But then sometimes we grumpily admit that someone else's solution (either OSS or elsewhere in the org) is actually better and we use that. if we make that decision based on our experience of trying and failing to beat them. Repeat this and what you end up with is a shared core of libraries that have been agreed to be the best by informed electorate.

Surely the best outcome.
If you're open to new tools, the latest version of the Logfile Navigator (lnav) supports remote hosts over ssh:

https://lnav.org/2021/05/03/tailing-remote-files.html

The main advantages of lnav over multitail is that it collates log files by time and does syntax highlighting. There are many other features as well -- https://lnav.org/features
This kind of gets into philosophy, but I think that ownership of ideas is just an indefensible principle in the first place, which is why people generally only justify IP with rose-tinted ideas about its intended practical effects. Here are some major reasons I think it doesn't make sense:

1. We understand that ideas build on each other. It has always worked this way, and it is overwhelmingly the way humans get things done. Every scientific discovery stands on the shoulders of giants. Every story or song is influenced by ones that came before it. Creativity is valuable, but to define the entirety of a creative endeavor as undeniably the effort of a single person is insane. Because creativity builds on other creativity, any legal concept that tries to parcel out unique contributions of individuals or groups and impose a tariff on them is likely to stifle innovation, because any time it actually comes to matter, it can only create an unnatural block on a creative effort

2. Most people who have worked in a creative field understand that a concept or idea is seldom of much value, and must be executed in some way to be meaningful. Various concepts of intellectual property even try to capture this, e.g. by granting rights over performances or recordings specifically. The best arguments I've heard for "intellectual property" abstractly are as an interim solution for allowing collaborations to produce economic value for the person who didn't control the distribution, but this essentially can't function if we treat these rights as "property", because property entails the right to transfer this property, creating a mechanism to effectively void these rights.

3. Attribution is a valuable ethical principle, and giving people due credit for their ideas is an important part of creative endeavors from science to music, but property rights are simply not the correct framework to legislate this with. False claims of attribution can be fraud or sometimes defamation, and attribution can be proven by the well-understood mechanism of demonstrable prior art. Proof of prior art is more technologically feasible to ensure in an era where we have cryptographic signatures to uniquely prove authenticity and the ability to easily publish something with a timestamp to an archive
Ascribing qualities of being well structured or spaghetti code to programs as tiny as ~40 bits seems an exercise in futility.

However, we can prove some precise results if we assume for instance that the number of well structured n-bit programs is at most c^n for some constant c<2.

In that case no busy beaver beyond a certain fixed size can be well structured, as that would allow for compressibility.

So busy beavers, by virtue of being incompressible, cannot have much structure.
[European] Commission proposes a common charger for electronic devices
Found a program I wrote in 1981 and decided to bring it back to life
And we were clocks a few centuries ago. I wonder if there is a name for the bias of thinking our modern abstractions are the right ones.
> All other viruses from animals were found very soon after an outbreak.

It usually takes several years.
GM did something just like this years ago and in fact looking around they expanded it into an entire insurance program with specific discounts for their vehicles:

https://www.onstarinsurance.com/

OnStar equipped vehicles generate a safety score, but your score will only be shared with the insurance company if it was high enough to earn a deduction.

And since it's an opt-in program, the lack of a score provided doesn't give them a datapoint either.
...as long as you are not sensitive to delays. Not sound, not video, not games.
Why Experts Are Worried About AIs Becoming Addicts
I’m not a Windows user anymore but could this potentially help? I came across it on my Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/1441894003822120960?s=21
They have a provenance problem. If you're okay with cheap plastic that may work acceptably for a while, it's great. But if you have a specific product or brand in mind, it's not a good choice.

Real-world example: I have a device with sensitive optics, and the manufacturer recommends a specific brand of lens wipes to clean them. The wipes can be found in some stores, but the manufacturer directs customers to Amazon to buy them.

That was good advice 5 years ago, but now the recommended Amazon listing is full of reviews saying that people received dry expired wipes, often loose in generic packaging.

I won't risk an expensive lens by using a possibly-expired cleaning product that has been comingled with counterfeits. So I buy the wipes from local pharmacies or camera shops, even if it means an extra trip.

These days, I have the same view for food, cosmetics, fire risks like chargers and batteries, etc. Today, there aren't many things that I do feel comfortable buying from "the everything store".
Selling exemptions is a thing.
it's sarcasm sorry not being clear

LRU is good but before that becomes the problem, there is the problem of requiring 2 steps when all the user is thinking about is "back to the previous document", or "let me select one of the documents". No one gives a shit about apps
> Conscious beings flourishing is the goal, whether they be human or AI.

Would you still say that if said "conscious beings" were in a desperate struggle with humanity for scarce resources required to survive?
> People worldwide would love to make pharmaceuticals more affordable for example

well, the purpose of the patent is to both reward/incentivize and allow the original inventor a monopoly for a period of time to earn back time risk and the development costs, and that monopoly is going to come with higher prices.

it's the point of a patent, you can't very well say that patents undermine the ability to undermine them: it's nonsensical!

I'm not defending patents nor saying we need them, I'm simply saying you can't say "patents don't work because they do what they were designed to"
Pretending that everything you state is true (a seemingly unsubstantiated conclusion), why does it matter?

If a lab did in fact accidentally leak the virus, what more can we gain at this point? Isn’t the cat out of the bag? We all agree that gain of function research is a bad idea. What’s so interesting about this beside some rather bland historical footnote?
>I believe that if Intellectual Property ever served a legitimate purpose, it has now run its course and needs to be dismantled.

I understand that this is HN and not Congress, but I would also hope that any Government body that is seriously considering this would do a thorough review before passing laws to this effect.

We read articles all the time about patent trolls abusing Texan courthouses to hold real engineers to ransom, and innovation being blocked by patent holders successfully arguing that an obvious innovation was non-obvious (e.g. RED's patent on compressed RAW data), but I don't think many people here would be familiar with the day-to-day, mundane aspects of IP law which probably, for the most part, works fairly well.
Ah good catch! We just launched 4k exports so theres still a couple bumps. Fixed this. Had to extend the timeout in our gunicorn server
Does it matter that they're on the same subway line? Do all people only travel on one subway line each and never change trains?
I highly suggest trying JGR patch pack (https://github.com/JGRennison/OpenTTD-patches#readme) if you're more advanced OpenTTD player, it has many great features not available in vanilla OpenTTD.

You wouldn't want to go back to vanilla after playing with them.