skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or just skip the extra complexity and have it all handled by a central authority?

Then every agency would have to trust some central authority. Maybe doable for interstate queries (with the associated federal bloat, but that's hardly anything new), but once you go international that becomes a lot harder.

> Also, who would run the blockchain?

Who runs Bitcoin? Ethereum? Cardano? Dogecoin?

> If they are the only ones who can issue tokens and they have to trust each other anyway, why does it need to be a blockchain anyway instead of some shared database?

The amount of trust required for "I'm reasonably sure this agency issued this driver's license" is far lower than the trust required for "I'm okay with this agency having control over my agency's records".

> Or if you want to keep it distributed, a peer-to-peer distributed hash table or other peer-to-peer database of ID tokens that only the DMV's have write access to.

A.k.a. a blockchain. You don't even need to restrict write access; DMVs can readily ignore transactions by non-DMV entities.

> If all the states share a blockchain, then they could just as easily share a database and web interface that you can look up.

That ain't anywhere near as easy, both politically and technically. This is already something they struggle do to, and distributed ledgers make that struggle entirely unnecessary.

> if there's a centrally mandated blockchain they should be using

There wouldn't need to be a mandate. States are perfectly capable of making agreements with one another, and could opt into a public blockchain at their leisure. CCW reciprocity is a good example of this; states have on their own come to recognize concealed carry permits issued by other states, and a blockchain would be a natural fit for recording and authenticating said permits under that dynamic.

Even assuming the need for a mandate, it's a hell of a lot easier for the federal government to say "hey, all states need to use this public blockchain per this standard" than for the federal government to roll out a whole central database that's scalable enough to handle queries nationwide and say "hey, all states need to use this central database".

> The person checking (bar staff in your example) still need a website or app that they can input the data to derive the hash (as not to leak personal data) and check the hash against the blockchain, this could just as easily work against a central or state database

Yes, and that would - again - require either:

1. a central authority that each state's agency trusts to be the record of truth, or:

2. 50 separate databases with 50 separate APIs.

A public blockchain absolves the need for either; agencies can maintain their licensing data autonomously (and, for that matter, data pertaining to those licenses; e.g. recording traffic citations, additional endorsements, etc., even for licenses issued by other agencies) without needing to deal with all that infrastructure.
Does anyone know where I can find that font?
I got to "With developers spending less than a third of their time actually writing code," and thought "what?" then read the rest of it: "developer experience includes all the other stuff: maintaining code, testing, security issues, addressing incidents, and more." and then though "oh yeah... that's about right on a good day" lol!
I guess you could say they are intolerant of all religions, but that's a stretch.

The bottom line is that all displays of religion are banned in French schools, which puts everyone on an equal footing. Even religious people should see the value of that, especially if you're part of a minority religion.

Schools are places where you learn, not practice religion. That's what places of worship are for.
I'm guessing you're running it on Ubuntu or Debian, or a derivative. The packaged .debs are sorely outdated and buggy. If you're on Ubuntu or similar, you can add a ppa[1] for the daily builds which in my experience are much more stable than the old .deb releases. If you're on another distro or OS there may be a current release for you here[2]. Or, if you'd just prefer building from source, you can get it from their github repo[3].

[1] https://launchpad.net/~pinta-maintainers/+archive/ubuntu/pin...

[2] https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/

[3] https://github.com/PintaProject
There are people out to get you, but they are mostly marketing departments.
"[Arrived] in a $1-million leather bodysuit with an anatomically-correct gold breastplate and a 15-carat-diamond nipple. 'You were just surrounded by the most interesting and intelligent people that you could find anywhere in the world,'"

Interesting juxtaposition haha.
I learnt quickly that my circa 2016 MacBook Pro 15” would do this too. Sometimes when I got it out of my satchel, most of the battery had been drained and it was far too hot to use.
The odds of the Arctic becoming ice-free, including continental ice, are really disturbing. See the reports on the probable collapse of the Greenland ice.

Whereas there are no such concern in Antarctica, only its ice shelves are threatened.
I worked with this a bit not that long ago. For cloud services, quality of Google and Azure "neural" voices are tough to beat. Interestingly I experienced significant latency for all of the Azure services regardless of region, configuration, etc. Never dug deep enough to figure out what was going on there. Also of note, Azure will let you run their implementation on a local container with the usual "contact us" stuff. Not sure of the terms and pricing on that.

For local, Mozilla TTS was best from a quality standpoint but the GPU inference support was a bit dicey and (possibly) not really supported at all.

For more complex and bespoke applications the Nvidia (I know, I know) NeMO toolkit [0] is very powerful but requires more effort than most to get up and running. However, it provides the ability to do very interesting things with additional training and all things speech.

In the Nvidia world there's also their Riva [1] (formerly Jarvis) solution that works with Triton [2] to build out an architecture for extremely performant and high-scale speech applications with things like model management, revision control, deployment, etc.

[0] https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/riva

[2] https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-triton-inference-server
CDs didn't overtake cassettes in sales until 1991. As a tween in the early 90s, all of my music was on cassettes. By the time I could actually afford a CD player, P2P file sharing and CD burners made purchasing CDs irrelevant.

If I were a few years older, I'm sure I would have had binders full of CDs.
Religious people seem to care quite a bit about whether the bible is literally true.

Further to that, some religions also heavily use traditions that don't appear in the bible at all. Catholics, for example, are meant to believe that the sacrament literally turns water and wine into the flesh of Christ. As in, it's actual flesh and blood (Transubstantiation).

So either Jesus was a walking breadstick or Catholicism as it is currently practised is obviously wrong.

There are so many varieties of Christianity based on "those other christians are definitely wrong" that I guarantee you somebody cares about those distinctions.
The metaphor doesn't translate because programming is not an art.

The closest equivalent, I would say, would be learning the simple elegance of algorithms and data structures like quicksort or the linked list.
This post really resonates with why we created Orchest [0]

From the article: "involve two full sets of tools: one for the dev environment, and another for the prod environment"

This is what we think should change. We intend to bring dev and prod into a single cohesive environment. Initially it will be difficult to cover all types of production workloads (like the post mentioned, production is a spectrum). But what we've observed is that through container encapsulation we can create well defined production workloads that we can run on any container orchestrator while shielding the data scientists from that complexity during pipeline development _and_ deployment.

With a container first approach to DAGs it becomes trivial not just to mix library versions but even languages (e.g. feature extraction in Scala and model fitting in Python). In practice, this flexibility has resulted in a significant productivity increase because existing code "just works". No "one virtual environment to rule them all" necessary.

I like how the article does justice to the fact that there's a subtle yet important difference between mere workflow orchestrators and workflow orchestrators that take on meaningful responsibility when it comes to infrastructure. To really unburden the data scientist from having to be a full-stack unicorn you need to hide the underlying stack to the point where it's invisible. In that sense, the OS kernel analogy really works. Similarly, how many data analysts writing SQL have ever worried about database node sharding?

A big problem we see in the space is that there are still way too many leaky abstractions and data scientists end up dealing with architecture & config yet again, for many a task out of their depth. We hope to contribute to a better ecosystem, one where data scientists spend their time looking at the data, relating it to the domain, shipping value generating data pipelines/models, and communicating about results with their stakeholders. Not fighting config & infra.

[0] https://github.com/orchest/orchest
You think that doing good only because you are being watched is a good value to have? IF yes, then please, by all means, continue believing in your god if that's all that keeps you from raping and killing people.

Atheists do good because it's the right thing to do. You seem to do it because you are afraid of getting punished.
And bear in mind, TWIV is also very tightly connected to two of the principles in this story - Beric and Dasak. I say this as a long time listener - but a lot of their basic statements have been incorrect. They still insist that Delta is not more contagious or virulent then alpha. They insisted that masks were not needed at the start of the outbreak, and clearly didn't think it would be a big deal.

But I think the story is starting to become clear. EcoHealth wanted to do gain of function research. DARPA shut them down. (Can you imagine the story if DARPA hadn't and it came out? US research scientists deliberately release virus in bats to infect all of china?).

EcoHealth also has a partnership w/ WIV in china, which was also doing this type of research (which is notably dual-use - so something the Chinese government might be very interested in doing).

I've been very skeptical on the idea of a human modified virus being at the heart of covid. I think it's still far more likely that this was a escape/mutation of a virus from the Wuhan CDC which is next-door to the wet market.

But this certainly raises the specter that we (as in humanity) may have just created the biggest pandemic in a effort to figure out how to avoid a pandemic.
To go at it from a little different angle, perhaps there is benefit in doing something thats a little sci-fi on the basis that that alone might make it more exciting (and therefor actually get done!). There seems to be limited resources for it because it just isn't a high priority for people, so they don't donate their time or energy. So, maybe this addresses the cause of the fundamental restriction (desire).
I interviewed with Zack once. Whip smart and driven. Definitely has a point of view that I don't always agree with (check out his twitter: https://twitter.com/zackkanter/ ).

I think Walmart has done a ton of damage (The Walmart Effect being a great book about it: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/294987/the-wal-mart... ). But Walmart has done some good things too, in terms of material prosperity and supply chain revolutions (my understanding is that the wonder of the bar code being fully rolled out is due to Walmart).

Anyway, I don't want to defend all of Zack's positions (trust me, I don't) but I still find his analysis provocative.
You don't want pasta in your code, and there's more than spaghetti code, like lasagna code, ravioli code, etc.

https://wiki.c2.com/?PastaCode
> The benefits of the research (extremely minor) don't seem to justify the risk.

There's an entire industry that literally harvests tons of bat guano for fertilizer that's shipped around the world and preventative research carried out by a few scientists is where you draw the line?

Bats fill several important ecological niches globally and based on hendra virus outbreaks in Australia alone, it's clear that interacting with them in the wild is inevitable. Pretending they don't exist is only going to leave us unprepared and defenseless.
The subject of the article (Ryan Lackey) is also a fairly well-known user here (HavenCo/Sealand, etc.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rdl
Funny how others opting into a beta could now cause bodily injury to completely unsuspecting bystanders.
> Would you consider revising this opinion if I showed you it was based on incorrect information?

Maybe! Let's see how much of it I agree with, first:

> Avoiding flatpak sadly will not fix it

Werks on my machine. All the apps I use (even the GTK4 ones) adopt my system theme perfectly fine as long as I'm not using Snaps/Flatpaks/containerized distribution.

> The first is what flatpak apps will do because they want to work on any distro regardless if the user has a broken theme

They don't need to do this to prevent breakage. GTK has always had fallback stylesheets for this exact purpose, Flatpak has decided to circumvent them because of the Gnome foundation's wheel-spinning "don't theme our app" movement. There's quite literally nothing stopping the Flatpak devs from referring to your systems default stylesheet for all UI draws.

> This should be really easy to fix, all you have to do is white list the d-bus path for it.

That's more work than I have to do on every other version of every package I use

> You should consider reporting that as a bug to the flatpak packager also.

Wait, so now they have two packages to maintain? One being the true binary copy of their application, and the other being a sandboxed version that is apparently more likely to break? That alone is enough to disqualify Flatpak, because it's really just "another competing standard" a-la XKCD.

> Huh? The config files are just stored in ~/.var/app/.

Ah yes, the classic UNIX config directory '~/.var/app/', a directory that never existed until Flatpak came along and decided it was somehow the new standard. Great stuff!
I don't understand the distinction you're making in this particular case. Clockwork and circuits have very similar abilities.
In terms of range of applications available though Snaps far outnumber Flatpaks. Probably because on terms of installs Ubuntu far out numbers every other Linux distro.
I think there's been destructible walls and such in Battlefield games for a while

Nothing as spectacular as Red Faction. I had totally forgotten about this game. The second one didn't even make a big deal out of blowing walls up
Neil Young is a musical genius and I don’t claim to know a thousandth of what he does about music. However, I contend that I know a whole lot more than he does about sound, because every time he’s ever opined about the physics of sound recording, it’s clear that he refuses to learn about it. Like so many self-labeled audiophiles, he “knows” how things work and won’t let anyone tell him differently.
That's a good quote. There is this false assumption that people naturally want to optimize for physical health at all cost. Even of that was possible, it's obvious from people's behavior that it's not the case. But somehow the threat of negative health consequences is still a powerful rhetorical device to convince others to do what you say. We need to be more open about the fact that health an longevity are not people's only goals, and that nobody looking only through the narrow lens of physical health should be telling us what to do.

Somehow I find it ironic that this comes from Marx who I associate with suppressing the individual for collective "good". I assume that's because i don't understand him very well.
You can't, I was just talking about tailing multiple files in Tmux splits.
They should simply develop the app for the PinePhone
Also this

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03217-0
I don't think it can function, and I think trade secrets are frankly quite weak. In practice, trade secrets don't usually stand up to sophisticated reverse-engineering efforts, and patents frequently and consistently fail to disclose implementation details that are important to how something works.

As for art and media, the DMCA had a real problem to solve: The business models of the massive distribution conglomerates that had arisen when publishing and copying information was expensive were infeasible in the face of digital computers that could copy any information with high fidelity and distribute it over the internet. This business model should have collapsed in the face of this technology. The market would have been forced to adjust to some new model, e.g. crowdfunding (as has, again, already happened in even relatively large endeavors considered "independent" because they are not backed by a massive conglomerate). Instead, the market's status quo was prioritized. What needed to happen was for the market to equillibrate to the new reality of these technologies, and it's insane to view the "piracy" fights of the 90s as anything other than that process. DRM controls were, as a technology, a zero-sum game played by distributors against consumers, and some of them should - by any reasonable interpretation of laws against malicious access to a device owned by someone else - be illegal. Criminalization of circumventing DRM is a horrible monster of a law that puts a heavy criminal thumb on the scale in this conflict, prevented the market from equilibrating in favor of consumers or even new players trying new business models in any way, and cemented the dominance of existing players by fiat, giving them the backing of a police state to effectively enforce their business models as law
"making stuff with it" is not the entirety of the scientific method. I suspect you know this. What you are arguing here is nonsense. Science isn't perfect and doesn't claim to be, so pointing out some corner case and saying "here, this bit is wrong" can't be used to dismiss the entire scientific method.

If you want to argue in that fashion, I'd like to point out to you that praying doesn't always work, so all religions must therefore be bunk.
That’s a bit too extreme to me (and already covered by unit tests). Code reviews are good mostly for asking questions, not dictating changes.
> "The same exact tool" as you refer to it has a very high learning curve and includes for just one example its own functional programming language.

So does Emacs and Vim, good luck arguing against those.
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Presumably that happens in production as well, and the test can determine that the system does the proper thing when that happens?
Matrix share metadata by default. Count them out.

And they have no desire to switch from their Python based server.
> And so... you'd rather just badmouth him on HN instead?

Where's the badmouthing? His reactionary politics are a critical part of the personal brand that he uses to advance his (again, incredibly mundane and well-trodden) content.

And guess what: I agree that it's inappropriate for HN. All things being equal, I'd prefer not to spend even the limited time I've spent today thinking about this. But for as long as reactionaries continue to use HN to launder their reputations, I'll continue to be the annoying commenter who points them out. I'm sorry if you think that's inappropriate.
She’s “implying” something alright
"Quickly skimming through the Wired piece, am I weird for not being that uncomfortable with companies like Coinbase "

can not "you" verify said "correctness"?

-j
another media induced round of panic buying
I think Minecraft changed the definition a little. Before Minecraft, a voxel was just a 3d pixel. Imagine drawing a single pixel using on paint, a voxel engine does that in a 3d space.

A Minecraft voxel is much more complicated than a pixel in 3d. It has textures, the shape/graphics changes depending on what angle you see it from and can even have animations.

I guess the term has evolved now but I find naming Minecraft as a voxel game mostly as a marketing gimmick. No one calls 8x8 block of a NES background tile a pixel
Cars can typically stop quite a bit faster than they can accelerate. This is especially true for two wheel drive cars because two wheel drive cars still have four wheel brakes.

To brake as fast as the traction limit on the tires, which is what you get from disc brakes, you would need four wheel drive and then bigger than normal electric motors and everything else to be able to absorb that much power that fast.

And then the battery would get really hot, especially if it was small.
I’m getting really tired of this “big tech” word soup. It comes with a lot of presupposed negative connotation, despite nothing in this article being “big tech’s” doing (instead it’s “big government”).

I know I’m largely shouting into a void here but I wish we could bring back some neutrality to news, reduce the editing-choice of extraneous emotion, and actually look at things with some balance and gray instead of reducing everything down to some kind of political rhetoric.
Just like with IP traffic, companies terminate calls through multiple providers. While bandwidth might be the primary termination provider for 911 for a company, the calls can be routed through others. That backup route, however, may not have locale information so the call might have to be taken initially at a national call center so the locale can be determined, after which it is properly forwarded to the local 911 center. Not ideal since it can add precious time to getting help, but at least the call can get through.
Very interesting stuff. The article itself doesn't make any claims about the origins of the pandemic, however, that's just the Nature News spin. For example:

"Regarding the spike, we identied a breakpoint at the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 RBD, resulting in a downstream fragment composed of the RBD, the furin cleavage site, and ending in the N-terminal region of S2. Despite the absence of the furin site in these novel bat sarbecoviruses, phylogenetic reconstruction of this fragment, key for the virus tropism and host spectrum, revealed that Laotian R. malayanus BANAL-52, R. pusillus BANAL-103, and R. marshalli BANAL-236 coronaviruses are the closest ancestors of SARS-CoV-2 known to date."

Basically, the human furin cleavage site that allows for human cell infection is lacking in these newly discovered viruses. Speculation that the site was introduced into a progenitor bat coronavirus deliberately as part of gain-of-function research is still valid, i.e. the question remains open.
Please explain the benefits in detail
Add another decade for outside the US.
> How is voluntarily wearing the head scarf "intolerance".

"Voluntarily", sure.

> So what? It's still within my "Freedom of Speech" to say whatever I want, as long as it does not directly incite violence.

Whatever the court says to be within your rights is the thing that is within your rights. It's the courts that interpret law. Are you a court? Specifically, if you're in France, are you a French court?
arent they building servers in Go and Rust ?
https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/conduit
https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite
Enlighten me on surprisingly difficult? Topics are a pretty well known feature. The key difference between nats and rabbitmq is that nats disconnects a consumer if it is not fast enough which is the key differentiator for nats.
For the longest time I thought the deal with voxels is that they are 3d objects in 3d space.

I need to do some reading.