skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it seems like the neural network producing the neural hash is still a standard CNN operating on the usual vector representations? And then the learned hash gets used in a downstream problem...

Or is there actually some interesting hash-based neural algorithm lurking around somewhere?
What would bees use fire for? Humans used it to create more edible food, for metallurgy, generate warmth, etc. I'm not sure if bees would need that, since honey is energy dense, they have built in weapons, and they sort of hibernate in the cold. And they don't have the ability to stoke and generate fire do they, human hands and cognition are useful fire tenders.

Maybe given millions of years of further evolution, bees or ants could become more capable in their culture?
Should make it into a browser plugin, so annoying when web sites have tables in images.
> Tech Specs

Processor: Qualcomm XR-1 SmartViewer
Resolution: 1080p per eye
Brightness: 200 nits
Weight: 130g / 0.3 lbs
Camera: 8MP RGB

Doesn't state the field-of-view.
On app tracking, both Android and iOS have to do better
https://github.com/vegarsti/extract-table
About 5 or 6 years ago, my previous job introduced ElasticSearch to our infrastructure.

Our existing codebase had a pattern where all logs for a transaction were stored in a single, big log and then that log was uploaded to a server to be stored.

We moved this large log to ElasticSearch, formatted it differently, labeled a bunch of columns, used Logstash to standardize variable names, etc.

We did this for our main services and kept those services separated as different indexes.

Each log had what user did the web request, response codes, we had detailed logging and general logging stored in 2 separate places and threw out the detailed logs after a very short while. We had fields for all common detail work.

It. Was. Perfect. Everyone could use it. Our in-house customer support team used those logs to help diagnose customer issues, our tech team used it to track issues. Our NOC used it to investigate issues.

We had tens of dashboards that were on a rotating view. We had at-a-glance server health tracking through it, all from active traffic that was being formatted and used.

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And then the next company I worked with that used ElasticSearch tried to use it in a world where each logger.info() was its own row in ElasticSearch. That just seemed like a horrible, horrible idea.

It really does seem to come down to how you use it.
No, rainwater has dissolved air and dust in it.
That's not really feasible for languages that are fully bootstrapped, where the GC is written in the language itself.

But even if you throw in the towel on that idea, GC isn't one-size-fits-all. If you built a GC that was so tunable that it covered all use cases and profiles then it would probably be as complex to tune as it would be to write your own.

And that said, there is already GC provided by the kernel. We just call that "manual memory management" and wrapping it efficiently for automatic usage is the process of designing a GC for your language runtime.
Is this going to affect the API?

I’ve been using RescueTime extensively with Chronomize [0] and I’m getting near a public release of the integration.

https://chronomize.com
It wouldn't surprise me if this leads to future versions of the Oculus being open-sourced. IIRC, Carmack was the one who really pushed for the Doom and Quake engines to be opened up.
Much appreciated, that seriously helps. I'm going to start trying to focus on myself more and getting myself right.

Thanks for the positivity!
The new RescueTime looks great!

I used to use RescueTime many years ago, until I got uncomfortable with storing all my data on their servers, and unsatisfied with the closed source nature of it all (limiting my ability to fix issues and add features I wanted).

I started building an open source replacement in 2016, was joined by a few friends, and it has gotten pretty good (people really like it!): https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch
YouTube TV Sends Ominous Email Ahead of NBC Drop-Dead Date
I don't think cars are that big of a factor, but rather how pretty much everything that could be automated has been. I live in a small town in southern Europe, and I rarely need to talk to more than four or five people in any normal week, and those conversations are usually pretty short. I can work remotely, buy necessities and pay for them without talking to anybody, do taxes, etc. I sometimes have to talk with the neighbours, plumber or my doctor, but those are pretty rare. Considering how easy it is to do everything I need with almost no interactions, I'm not surprised people are becoming more isolated.
I believe the minimum object retention time is 3 months, which killed it for our use case. I.e. create a file today, delete it today, and pay for it for 3 months.
Facebook and Google's market penetration is much higher than you might think. 81% for YouTube and 69% for Facebook is incredibly high.
Maybe only because of when I read it (when it came out), this first book was a lot more interesting to me than his second. Has anyone here read them both in quick succession?
A web browser prevents access to permissions like contacts, photos, location. I use Facebook and Instagram very rarely but always do so in a web browser for this very reason. It's not that it's "anonymous" since obviously I'm logged in with my own profile, but it helps to compartmentalize their access both in terms of overall permissions, and the timing of that access. Facebook can't push out an update that sends my location somewhere 24/7 if I don't have a Facebook tab open in my browser.
Can open source cure cancer?
Hit the nail on the head: "if it can be implemented...?"

We're talking 50 individual state governments here. We all know that federal, state, and local govt IT practices are basically troubled at best, disastrously shoddy at worst, the only way I would accept this idea is if it was a completely optional, user-chosen, option for an ID.

I would want at least ten years of first adopters getting their lives shafted and/or stolen and/or stalked and/or breached before I'd ever think of even using the optional service.

Yes, little trust.
Now, this is a true phase-of-the-moon bug: http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/jargon300/phaseofthemoo...
I did a CTF a while back and it was used to find the real IP of a missconfigured .onion site. I didn't actually do it as I was worried about burning a VPS provider.
It's an open question how many of the several million BTC frozen on the chain since the early days, are truly lost. The general opinion seems to be nearly all. But stories like this do make you wonder.

https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-dormant_5y-bitcoin-address...
Well mainly because telerobotics still sucks. This is a hard problem. We haven’t devoted enough effort to solve it on a practical level beyond tech demos in academia.
Apple Says 'Jelly Scrolling' on iPad Mini 6 Is Normal Behavior for LCD Screens
Putting a Moto g100 inside a keyboard case would make for a nifty portable terminal.
I’m a forty year old idiot that still just uses a web server running on a VPS. If I want publicly accesible preview I'll scp them to a temp folder on the web server. I am probably missing out on something by not using Netlify but I still haven't been able to figure out what. (Caveat, I’m the sole developer on all my projects; maybe that affects the calculus somehow)
Nice work putting together this tool. Have you seen either Spark OCR[1] from John Snow Labs or the Adobe PDF Extract API[2]? They both do a pretty good job a data extraction from tables as well.

[1] https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/spark-ocr/

[2] https://www.adobe.io/apis/documentcloud/dcsdk/pdf-extract.ht...
Many examples (maybe not exactly steganography, but same spirit) in this discussion from three weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28431716
I'm not sure, perhaps. I work in Oncology and I enjoy it indeed, it feels meaningful. Still, of all the research projects I worked on (from circulating tumor cells to Next Generation Sequencing data processing pipelines), only 1 project is actually used on the market (let's say 3 years of work of the past 11). A lot is killed. Some research becomes IP, some research becomes a paper. In a way I find corporate research to be pretty honest work, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work and it's killed. There is no pressure to publish it anyway. There is pressure though to get the FDA to approve something in the end. And for that, it really has to work and be real. We spend a lot of time on reproducing things, also research papers we base our work on. But then you need to patent your work, and that still doesn't always feel right, at least sometimes it doesn't, especially when you won't actually make a product in the end. I try to avoid that.

Some professors do pretty amazing stuff. We work with academic groups a lot, they focus on new science, we focus on IP and making products or software we can use.
Better operating telerobotics from India (well, Mexico where latency is lower) than being in a phone bank.
Tiktok doesn't work as well in the browser. I do this from time to time when someone sends me a link, but they seem to show popups after a period of time telling you to get the app. It makes it pretty hard to use casually or to search for specific content.
Reddit rule of thumb: the downvoted comments are far more likely to introduce a new idea than the upvoted ones. However, it's like comparing the likelihood of dying in a car crash instead of a plane wreck: both events are rare enough as not to be worth considering in planning your daily life.
All GC objects have GC headers prepended, from which you can lookup the class and how to scan it.

https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/master/src/heap/cppgc/heap-obj...
We already have accepted robotic vacuum cleaners. Why not simply expand on that idea with adding simple manipulators on top of them: put away the shoes, pick up socks, empty the pet litter, …
In the US, it takes 1.5 days for a 9/11s worth of people to die from covid.

The TSA does not seem very effective [1], and terrorism via plane hasn't killed very many people since 9/11. Cockpits are re-inforced, passengers will fight back. It's hard to highjack a plane.

Abolishing the TSA in airports and slightly increasing vaccination requirements would be a net win/win for life and liberty.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-...
They can only locate transmitters, not devices receiving their signals for precise positioning. This methodology is very similar to how precise point positioning works with GPS (where the carrier phase is used in concert with timing messages for higher precision).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precise_Point_Positioning
Domain Driven Disaster (2019)
> In France, my limited understanding, is that the police do not generally investigate but the investigation comes under a judge. They will use the police to gather evidence and interview people but the pressure for a result is on the judge and not the police. The judge should ensure that laws are followed because they are part of the judiciary.

Police investigations in common law countries have judicial oversight, but it seems like a feature rather than a bug to separate judges from investigators. If the judge is in charge of the investigation, who's going to stop the judge from issuing unreasonable search warrants?
Blogging helped a lot. Really detailed, high value blogs. I was on the front page of HN many times because of the blogs.
Placebos aren't curative. It's well known that they can affect a subject's perception of how their condition is progressing, and this may have physical consequences: e.g. a reduction in psychological stress leading to reduced blood pressure, etc. But the placebo won't affect the underlying condition. They don't make the brain somehow cure the body.

Quote:

"Placebos won't lower your cholesterol or shrink a tumor. Instead, placebos work on symptoms modulated by the brain, like the perception of pain. "Placebos may make you feel better, but they will not cure you,"... "They have been shown to be most effective for conditions like pain management, stress-related insomnia, and cancer treatment side effects like fatigue and nausea."

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-th...
The nearest was Advogato; it didn't have an abuse problem, but it did end up as a ghost town. https://web.archive.org/web/20170715120119/http://advogato.o...
This is a typical old world vs new world vulnerability. Old tools have lots of hacker features that are often not a good idea anymore in this (century's) world. See also cryptographic agility and such.

The Unix philosophy of combining small, specialised tools into a larger whole to accomplish a task is an important concept that really shouldn't be forgotten, but at the same time one should remember not all tools are meant to withstand malicious input from a hostile internet, in particular those that predate the explosion of the internet.
That would be a great writeup. If someone tracked them down and figure out why they failed, how many were bought out, etc.

I'm sure there are a lot of lessons to learn in there.
Mainly efficient usage of cloud hardware right now, with some software optimizations. Looking at more cost-effective hardware is on our roadmap too.
JavaScript is an awful language, we all can agree on that, right? But it has reached universal adoption, it's widespread from in-app scripts, through embedded devices, back-end services and front-end.

I have the same opinion on Go - it's awful, it fails to deliver its promises, but it became popular because it was "a google thing".

Google itself supports go internally, but it is nowhere near being ubiquitous or even recommended - I think that tells you something about it too.
Flowistry helps you understand Rust programs with program analysis
The problem is (and why market driven or markets as a major component countries do tend to do better over the long run, near as we can tell), is that there IS no 'starting point', and downstream/upstream is often oversimplifying.

Everything interacts with everything else in a way far to complex to fully understand for any one person or organization. The most we can do is pick something and try to set it, and let the other knock on effects work themselves out (which markets help with), and then when THOSE cause undesirable problems, rinse and repeat.
Reasons to Buy Uni (Uniswap) in 2021
This is striking: "The average knowledge worker spends 2-3 hours a day in focused work activities on their computer"
ImmuniWeb launches a free cloud security test
> From time to time when I was a kid my parents and relatives used to take me to places where one could cuddle them and I can tell you they're not very cuddly at all

+1. Would not cuddle. Australia's minister of tourism one famously proclaimed that the koala is "flea-ridden, it piddles on you, it stinks and it scratches."[4]

Fun Fact: The eucalyptus that Koalas eat is a narcotic and the Koalas spend most of their lives in a drugged out stuppor[2]. Baby Koalas eat their mother's feces[1]. They sleep 18 hours a day. They have a strong musky odor. They also suffer from Chlamydia[3] and many parasites. They are nature's hippies.

More seriously, all of these are evolved traits. E.g. the feces is eaten to acquire the microbes necessary to breakdown the Eucalyptus leaf. The 18 hours of sleeping is because those leaves don't have a lot of caloric content. Rather than being an evolutionary dead end in the traditional sense, their biggest problem is loss of habitat, road accidents, and encounters with dogs. I prefer the world with koalas rather than the world without, but would not cuddle or touch them them.

[1] https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/controversial-science-heal...

[2] https://adventuressetravels.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/drug-ad...

[3] https://www.livescience.com/62517-how-koalas-get-chlamydia.h...

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/05/22/f...
Oh cool! Don't worry - we don't have any plans to change the API right now (other than potentially adding to it in the future).
When scanning the stack, you interpret every word as a potential pointer. Then, you ask your GCs allocator "is this pointer's address in one of your pages?". If it isn't, you're done. If it is, then you check if it's the pointer to the start of an object (there's a bitmap of "is object start" for each word on the page). If this passes too, then you effectively reinterpret cast it to a "GC object" base class which is shared for all GC objects, and call the virtual "trace" function from there.
It triggers bans of your netblocks for bad behavior. 5 minutes to generate hundreds of complaints.
That's what concerns me. It wouldn't be unreasonable or impossible for this to happen. The physical IDs have a ton of security features to them. And that's actually not even required. It's NFC based tap, someone will find a way to exploit and spoof a valid ID.
The flip side of the coin is that a high-speed system that has stops at all the struggling towns along the way ceases to be high-speed, no matter the maximum track velocity.
OmniOS r151038, bhyve now supports virtio-9p
> Bugs based on a time calculations can often show themselves later when view through a longer lens and scope of time...sometimes WAY longer than you'd expect.

When I worked for BBN in '97-'98, someone from outside the company as I recall came to talk to a room of engineers about the wide variety of calendar-related behaviors in various UNIX systems that were expected to cause problems for Y2K.

It was a very, very long list, often subtle issues, and I recall the concern in the room about the number of old systems in use by the DoD and others.

Anyway, no real point to this other than date handling is one of the hardest things to get right in computing, ranking right behind testing for the correct behavior.
Spain has security checks at their major stations for high speed trains including to go to France, but France does not
"The combination of voltage and conductivity" is ... current, no?
You can hardcode a rule for this specific bypass. Or you just retrain the neural net, and it learns that presence of these symbols = bad very quickly, and you spent less time writing and testing a custom solution.
Hacker news needs a redesign, the UI is horrible by basic accessibility standards: Very small click targets, horrible mobile experience, too small font size.
I wonder how many of those are just MUDs (text-mode dungeon games) where it was common to use telnet.
Not all magnets are radioactive though? Right?
Free speech protections don’t apply when you’re breaking the law.
Why not both? Design smart houses with special rooms for the robots.

Automated kitchen - place a bunch of ingredients regularly or right before ordering a meal, pick up freshly made food of your choice (or what's possible).

Automated laundry - dump dirty clothes, pick them up washed, dried and ironed (probably the hardest part heh).

Automated garage with charging/fill up, maintenance checks, washing?

Will need a lot more space, so it would be only for the rich, at least at first. A common automated kitchen for an apartment complex might be possible.

And better make them very reliable or maintenance can be a nightmare.
> The county of Santa Clara, which owns the airport, is closing it because it is an uneconomical waste of a huge amount of phenomenally valuable land, and it is only 5 miles from a real airport. It serves no legitimate purpose in the society and economy of the Bay Area.

That is false. It is a "relief" airport precisely because it is close to SJC. That allows slower traffic to land in RHRV instead of SJC. It is a real airport. Has two runways, air traffic control and what have you. What's the threshold for a 'real airport'?

There's a lot of "phenomenally valuable" land nearby with only dirt and maybe trees growing on it. There are parks and wilderness areas. Should we turn them into businesses and houses just because real state values are up?
Use In Cognito mode (or equivalent).
This is a central tenet of the Lean Startup by Eric Ries and the Startup Owners Manual by Steve Blank et al.

Lean Startup is the faster read but if I recall correctly Steve Blank was Ries' mentor/inspiration.
This is the first time I've heard this from someone besides me :) I am involved with an effort to plant arbors to shade homes in low income areas of my city so that residents can afford the A/C costs. A typical home we work on has no central HVAC and has 3 or 4 window units running non-stop 6+ months of the year (Texas). Vines are fast growing and shade makes a huge impact!
The Economics Debate, again and again by Dani Rodrik (2017)
Wow, I'm flabbergasted.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/9/17/1018
Are you serious? Nobody's talking about illegal content. It's all just content that is inconvenient to some establishment figure or other.
An important detail - this was a third party app, NOT an official government one. So, people were essentially uploading their PII to some guy's server and hoping for the best.

This is what we all feared, and hoped wouldn't happen. But here it is.
Here's the GitHub repo: https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server
You can also make your own with sodium rhodonizate (which you can get at many chemical supply companies)
Hey, at least they're not requiring a chip implant.

Of course the phone OS people are going to do this. Judging from a few years of Live PD, every single person getting pulled over never ever has a valid ID, but always always has a cell phone that they clutch like their life depended on it.

Anything in the article is just a detail that is being hashed out.
They mean a lot of ISPs and VPS providers will flag & terminate your account for launching port scans so it is difficult to find somewhere to run such a scan at any kind of speed.
It's a win-win play for them. Gain a small piece of developer goodwill by opening up an obsolete headset they don't care about anyways, like open sourcing a dead project. We will hope they will do the same for the Quest, but they'll only ever do it for obsolete models.
A week ago, I noticed that Element Desktop was starting to hide "rooms in spaces" from my home screen, which now only contains rooms not in a space.

I really don't like how Element Android has you separately pick which space to view (in the sidebar), and whether to look at DMs or rooms (in the bottom bar). Now I often end up picking the KDE space, but only showing DMs, which results in an empty view (because I've only joined KDE-related chats, not KDE-related DMs).

I think I'd prefer a list of spaces where I can set rules for what goes where. For example, I want to create a space called "Contacts", where I first manually pin my "self-room" for note-taking and test messages to the top, then ask Element to add all DMs I'm in, ordered by "most recent" or manual order. Then I want a space called KDE where I place specific KDE-related rooms inside. Then have a space called "Rooms" with the leftover non-KDE rooms.

In the process, I'd remove the Android client's bottom DM/room selector (unsure what to do with the notification tab), replace it with 2 "default spaces" in the left sidebar (one for DMs and the other for rooms, but with user-customizable rules), and let user-created spaces coexist alongside the two default spaces.

The end result would work something like a hybrid of Telegram's automatic rules, Discord's single DM namespace followed by a server list, and Matrix's current spaces system. Unfortunately, it seems Element has officially released the Spaces feature, ignoring (or not even seeing) my feedback a week ago in the Matrix HQ room. I don't know if they're still accepting changes to how spaces operate.
I'm pressing 'X' to doubt, right now:

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/nation...

edit: Maybe I should have said Great Plains, which overlaps, but is not precisely the same as, the Midwest.
Out of the four big provinces, two (BC and Quebec) have released their vaccine passport app and QR code system and the other two (Alberta and Ontario) are still in the process of rolling one out.