skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, most people (at least in the US) grew up around cars, so you expect a 20 year old and a 70 year old to grasp what a steering wheel is.

For that matter, the steering wheel the 20 year old is using today is very similar to the steering wheel the 70 year old used 50 years ago. Nothing in computing has been so constant.
This is a race to the bottom and why tech workers need to unionize. Soon someone could be fixing it for a measly $1 million. /s
Well I suppose that’s one interpretation but I think it misses the forest for the trees. Everything I’ve come across has discussed how it exacerbated trade imbalances due to a relatively lower proportion of Americans living abroad than citizens of other nationalities. Americans want to trade with Americans, like Chinese want to trade with Chinese. So having Americans abroad in bigger numbers helps for trade which I think would have a much bigger impact than some small reduction in labour costs locally.
>> And why would they? OpenGL is really unpleasant from a hardware manufacturer's / integrator's / OS author's perspective

That's exactly why they should keep it. Now all those CAD programs that use older OpenGL features have to figure out how to do things that are not supported by Metal. Vulkan initially forgot about this market as well and had to add some things back in.

There is Zink to handle compatibility, but that should have come from the organizations and companied deprecating OpenGL. It should probably be standard on new platforms so they can keep OpenGL at the API level.
haha amazing follow-up to Bryan's post!
Army? So, instead of paying more for labor to clear that market, the port operators get free labor?
Underwater explosion of nuclear bomb tested in the South Pacific in the 1950s
... which, I guess, means I should just look around github for "wavelet compression" and see what code pops up, since that search for good encodings will be done in any of those.

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Edit: this one seems simple enough to learn from, it's minimal, MIT licensed, audio-focused, written in Julia, and references the course material that it's based on:

https://github.com/nicholaskl97/wavelets

It, uh ... like lots of scientific code, it has a lot of single-letter variables. :D But if one was to google up a few acronyms ('DWT'), install Julia, get it to run, and then re-implement it in another language, my feeling is that you might understand wavelets pretty good, no? Or be at least be well-equipped to understand more interesting uses of wavelets?

(I'm posting this because I might use some 'shop time' doing approximately that, so I would definitely appreciate any HN comments telling me 'consider learning from $some_other_example instead, for $some_reason.')
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It's kind of weird. After all, it's not like the governor is directly responsible for the flaw. Even if his opposition could have indirectly linked his administration to the flaw, his response has certainly done far more damage to his reputation than that ever could.
No, this goes much further than that. They also want a slice of all the other bar tabs that you will run up in the future abroad.
The pricing model with GitLab is really unfortunate for certain types of companies. For our developers who really do most everything in Gitlab, it's great, but buying the same licenses for literally anyone else who might need to peek in there a couple of times a month? Hell naw.

Our spend would be much higher (probably 3-4x) if they allowed some type of reasonable mix of license levels.
Gitlab: Another Overpriced Tech Company?
WWF and BAS looking for volunteers to spot walrus from space
Open-terminal shortcut, then "killall xlock" or whatever it's called in macOS?
Look at real estate prices in the Los Angeles metro area. That's not enough.
I have a question about this, that I've never been able to find a good answer to: what happens if you unilaterally renounce US citizenship?

Consider the situation: you're a dual US / Dutch citizen. You want to avoid paying US income tax (or just to avoid filling in a form each year that results in the IRS telling you that your tax bill is $0 because the Netherlands' tax rate is higher). But the State Department's renunciation route takes 3-4 years. So you mail them a letter instead announcing that you are renouncing your citizenship, and you include your US passport with the letter. You don't send the IRS a tax return in subsequent years, and you tell all your banks that you are not a US citizen and ask them to update your details accordingly.

I assume that what happens next is that your bank has a procedure for asking the US State Department if you have renounced your citizenship, and they say "no". So the bank continues to treat you as a US citizen, with all of the reporting obligations that entails.

Your method of enforcing this would (I assume) be to file a suit against the bank in the Netherlands and seek an order to prevent them from passing any information on you to the IRS. You would effectively be asking a Dutch court to rule on whether you can unilaterally renounce US citizenship.

I have never heard of such a case (either in the Netherlands or elsewhere), so I assume this has never been attempted. I don't know if that is because there is a strong reason to suspect that it would fail.
All this reminds me of the case of Lilith Wittmann [1], who got sued by the CDU (Germany's majority-holding party) in May 2021 because she discovered a security flaw in their election campaign app "CDU connect". Data from around 100.000 visitors and 18.500 election campaign helpers was not sufficiently secured.

She used responsible disclosure to let the CDU know of this flaw, got sued in response.

After an outcry from the community the CDU apologized to her and retracted the complaint and the proceeding was suspended in the end of August 2021.

It's pretty sad to see how people who act upon their best intentions, intentions which are beneficial to the society, are hit so strongly by those who are afraid to admit that they made a mistake. Hit in such a manner, that it tears apart the daily routine in a very negative way for months.

[1] https://lilithwittmann.medium.com/
The ether of American "death by duel" is part of the more general protestant idea that suicide is an act against god, but there's no rule against finding someone/something to kill yourself with. Drink yourself to death, get yourself killed by a cop, join the army and find a place to sacrifice yourself: all are related to why duels to the death were part of our culture. To what extent that ether still effects the way we act I couldn't say, but it's definitely still around.
Is there any other reason to renounce your citizenship other than paperwork? Or taxes if you make a lot of money?
Carmack, miniGL and Carmacks position regarding OpenGL is what made it relevant in first place.

In 2011, Carmack would have gone with DirectX instead.

https://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/pc/carmack-directx-bett...

> The actual innovation in graphics has definitely been driven by Microsoft in the last ten years or so,' explained AMD's GPU worldwide developer relations manager, Richard Huddy. 'OpenGL has largely been tracking that, rather than coming up with new methods. The geometry shader, for example, which came in with Vista and DirectX 10, is wholly Microsoft's invention in the first place.'
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> 'It is really just inertia that keeps us on OpenGL at this point,' Carmack told us. He also explained that the developer has no plans to move over to Direct3D, despite its advantages.

ARB, Long Peaks failure, not defining SDKs and leaving to ecosystem to create tools on their own, making into a rite of passage that each graphics programming student needs to create their own SDK from scratch, is anything but appealing.

If ARB/Khronos would standardize networking protocols, we would have only IP, and then each developer would create their own networking stack on top of raw IP.
It's very unintuitive how it'd be cheaper to leave that many trucks sitting there instead of paying workers a bit more.

Surely whatever a driver transports is worth much more than the paycheck they get?
Is drunk driving more dangerous than being unvaccinated? Just glancing at the stats drunk driving is significantly safer than being unvaccinated
The quotes are taken directly from https://bitcoinminingcouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/...

> Based on this data it is estimated that the global
mining industry’s sustainable electricity mix had grown to approximately 56 percent, during Q2
2021, making it one of the most sustainable industries globally.

> “Despite China shutting down over 60 percent of the global Bitcoin network, the Bitcoin network experienced zero downtime, no bailouts, has registered no bankruptcies and simply adapted by redeploying its infrastructure into regions that have greater freedoms,” Mr. Feinstein said. “The network remains as strong as ever, it simply shrugs off adversity and moves forward.”

Accusing me of "fabricating" what anyone can verify for themselves in the link on the Bitcoin Mining Council website linked to above is absurd.
They can maybe use the National Guard? They've used them to administer vaccines and drive school busses in some states.
There are developers out there that look like you and me, use the same tools and speak the same (programming) languages, yet have absolutely no concept of access control.

I feel there's an enormous education/awareness gap when it comes to basic security practices and it's going to hurt all of us sooner or later by having our private information leaked, sold, abused, maybe ultimately deemed irrelevant in itself -- ie what would the world look like if all (or a significant chunk) of private information was leaked and you couldn't trust the old tokens of identity?
Can't the laws be modified to require whomever mined the mine is responsible for the cleanup? That way if they hire a fly by night company they are still on the hook. Seems like a loophole that was created on purpose.
I hadn't, but I may be trying to rig that up in an emulator later, that seems awesome!
> I consider the endless ranting by entitled FOSS users an obnoxious trend.

There is a massive difference between voicing your opinion about something in a public discussion forum and hounding the developers of a project because they don't fix bugs or implement new features on your say-so. One of those is making conversation, the other is entitlement.

> Maybe you took my question the wrong way, but (maybe just as much misguided) I took the "opinion"/"discussion" not as opinion, but for the lack of any helpful suggestion as merely a rant.

Sometimes, you can recognize that something is bad without knowing the best way to fix it.

> I was raised not to needlessly complain about free things, without considering to take things into my own hands.

Okay, so that was how you were raised and how you operate. I don't see the reply as needless complaining. It is a critique of some specific issues. It was constructive criticism, because it presented a specific set of things that could be improved upon. I happen to agree with those criticisms, even though I generally think Syncthing is a great piece of software.

> And even if you don't know how to code, suggestions and discussions are better had in an issue tracker, right? Otherwise, what's the point?

What's the point that any of us are here talking about anything?

> If one is not a user, and considers something else to be better, why voice such a strong opinion?

Because people make conversation and have opinions. Are you familiar with socializing? It's okay to not like something. It's okay to not like _parts_ of something.
These were just a fun little Easter egg that made us smile. Typing the right code displayed memorable quotes collected from various folks at Cinematronics in the hectic time we were developing Space Cadet. Maybe I can find some time to check with the folks that they are ok with it, I can put together a commit that comments who said them. I don't recall who said all of them, but I'm sure David and Kevin can fill in my gaps.
There was a more deeply hidden Easter egg that shows the credits as well. Code to trigger that is not in this repo, though.
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Skipgram data structures, which underly any common semantic characterization ML processes, include a "Boltzmann distribution regression" step. So they'll follow Fermi-Dirac distribution forms. This has been common understanding for many years: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...
Gotcha, the site didn't do a great job explaining it but the AppStore did. The website doesn't mention the concept of a Recovery Team at all, or at least I couldn't find it under the "How It Works" section or the home page. The idea is you add another one of your devices and/or trusted individuals that you can contact to recover an account. My advice would be to update the website material to convey the same information as the AppStore description as the AppStore description does a much better job of explaining the selling point of how it works and why you would use it.

I'm completely outside of the target audience for this (as I trust absolutely nobody but myself and lack a 2nd device for recovery) but I can recognize that there is a target audience. Best of luck!
Show HN: OtterTune – Automated Database Tuning Service for RDS MySQL/Postgres
Yo. OtterTune is a database optimization service. It uses machine learning to automatically tune your MySQL and Postgres configuration (i.e., RDS parameter groups) to improve performance and reduce costs. It does this by only looking at your database's runtime metrics (e.g., INNODB_METRICS, pg_stat_database, CloudWatch). We don't need to examine sensitive queries or user tables. We spun this project out of my research group at Carnegie Mellon University in 2020.

This week we've announced that OtterTune is now available to the public. We are offering everyone a starter account to try it out on their Postgres RDS or MySQL RDS databases (all versions, AWS US AZs only). We have seen OtterTune achieve 2-4x performance improvements and 50% cost reductions for these databases compared to using Amazon's default RDS configuration.

I am happy to answer any questions that you may have about how OtterTune works here.

-- Andy

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Apparently (per a comment in the article) Parkins was a member of a group called the Archimedeans and "Archimedes" is a composite character representing questions asked or points raised by his fellow Archimedeans.
With delays, but.. yes, Samsung has chosen Austin as it's location for a 3nm chip plant, and 2nm chips coming after 2025 [0].

The truth is that Bitcoin was actually one of the few Industries that was spurring on chip manufacturing in the US, Butterfly labs was one of the few that could challenge Bitman in the early day but had to give it up due to increasing regulatory red-tape and an ever greater monopoly in Schenzen.

As both a former SCM and a Bitcoiner I think that the US had to go through the shock doctrine before it realized it was playing Russian Roulette with it's Supply Chain, and it's Value Chain for decades as every CEO and exec with an MBA from an Ivy League decided to gut the manufacturing Industry.

This allowed for Amazon's rise in dominance, and has pretty much disrupted the traditional fulfillment, and distribution system and made it entirely it's own: every business I've interviewed for since COVID now follows freight, air routes that were optimized by Amazon.

It's personally appalling that a company that makes nothing has been able to supplant SC and Logistics to this degree, but it's firther proof that Big Tech [Software] has in fact eaten the World.

As for the low pay, I think what also needs to be noted is how damaging it is to do warehouse work, working injured is the norm not the exception, couple that with many weeks without breaks and swing shifts (now also the norm, not the exception due to all of these delays) no amount of money is enough to get me back. I had an interview in Supply Chain Management that was teasing high 5 figures, to low 6 figures but was very upfront that I'd have to commit to 70+ hour work weeks, swing shifts, and 40-50 days without a day off.

You can rise fast if you're competent, and even faster if you have a background in tech but the truth is I'm over that phase in my Life and SCM as a job is never ending so I decided to just focus on the Software side of things and focus on using ML and AI in Logistics and Supply Chain and went back to school for a degree in CompSci after a career in fintech and a short-stint at IBM where I was trying to resolve this issue within the Ag/Food Industry;s logistics and Supply Chain without much success.

It's sad we had so much interest from Megacorps and IBm could have been a leader in this space, instead it has been broken up and remains a shell of it's former self that played a critical role in the Apollo Missions.

0: https://www.gizchina.com/2021/10/07/samsung-delayed-the-impl...
One model that counter-intuitively may work is the Open Source model. For example, I'm the CEO of the D Language Foundation. I take no salary from it. Sometimes I'll get a paid gig for things like training or a special project.

Most contributors are in the same situation.

We do have corporate contributors. Their help enables us to have a staff of paid people, and defrays other costs like cloud fees.

The web site has some affiliate Amazon ads for programming books and D swag, and we acknowledge our sponsors, but we don't have paid advertisers.

The software we make does not present any ads or do any telemetry of any sort.

And yet it all works, and has been for 20 years now. Simply because we like what we do for its own sake.

Consider that for anyone wanting to start such a thing for local news, the barriers to entry are really, really low.
Show HN: Neat – GitHub notifications in your menu bar
Hi HN, I’m Sarim and currently building Neat (https://neat.run/) - our goal is to provide the most simple user experience for web notifications on your desktop, starting with GitHub notifications.

We launched on Product Hunt today (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/neat-97cd97b9-a2ce-416a-9e2c-97508fa5f840).

Neat has been a work in progress for a couple of months now. We’ve built other products in the past (https://neat.fyi/), all in the data/knowledge management space focusing on needs of the workplace. With our current product, we hope to improve the notification management workflow by allowing users to receive, process, and act on web notifications from one spot.

A bit about the team. We’re a group of non-software engineers and self-taught developers. We’ve come a long way in terms of the quality of the products we’d like to be building.

Neat, today, is far from perfect but my guess is that a lot of the folks here would appreciate something like this and we’d love to shape the product with your feedback. Happy to answer any questions in the comments below. Neat is free to download today.
> have large amounts of testosterone

Why does everyone only focus on the hormones as the major difference between men and women? Men and women's skeletal structure differ in a significant way. Men are larger generally and hence have larger lungs. All of these differences add up.
They buy failing businesses and try to stabilize them, just like iHeartRadio is going around and buying local radio stations. These are dead-end businesses that would have failed anyways.
To be fair this is a new development and in response to geopolitical instability in Asia more than US cost advantage.
Substitute whistleblower for reporter and yes, nearly all politicians will use the criminal justice system to silence their critics.

Was Obama a fascist? I have no desire to engage in whataboutism, they all show their true colors when they're in power and shown corrupt or incompetent.
What has really bothered me about Gitlab is that everytime Github copies a feature, there's a testy blog post about "we did it first!" when Gitlab as a business is a copy of Github.
I wonder if the page in question is cached in the internet archive.
Actually, it is normal for there to be dilution in each funding round, including an IPO.
The Twitter algorithm seems to be finely tuned to promote comments which fit the desired ideological narrative while demoting anything which goes against it. This often leads to strange situations where some mundane "conservative" post is followed by a page full of critical "progressive" posts, each of which has only a few "likes". After wading though a page or 2 of such finally posts which are more in agreement with the original comment show up. Those comments tend to have far higher "like" counts which seems to indicate people, well, like those comments better than they do the "progressive" ones.

In itself there is something to be said for confronting people with different opinions and as such the algorithm could serve a function if it showed this behaviour across the political spectrum. This, however, is not the case - "progressive" posts are followed first by pages and pages of "progressive" comments in support of the post. Only after wading through those posts do the first critical comments appear.

This behaviour is not entirely consistent but it does occur more often than not, especially in situations where there is a sufficient number of "progressive" comments to fill the first page or 2.

In short, Twitter is heavily biased towards "progressive" comments/commenters - I assume the algorithm looks both at the content of the comment as well as at the commenters comment history to decide whether to promote or demote specific comments. As such is is not a usable platform for open discussion, not even for those who support those "progressive" causes - unless they consider an echo chamber a suitable location for such discussions. This leaves aside the fact that the message format used on Twitter makes it nigh impossible to express nuance, the whole thing is made for online shouting matches.
This comment is not to argue with your interpretation of the data. We've both made up our minds, fair enough. The purpose here is point out the risk-management calculation involved.

Science qua science can give humans all kinds of (nearly) objective information about viruses and vaccines.

A risk-management calculation is not science: that kind of decision comes down to factors such as one's own risk tolerance and projection of the risks involved and many other subjective factors, including trust. For a reasonably well-informed Covid vaccine decision, you have to weigh factors such as your personal risk from Covid and compare that to somewhat known short term potential vaccine injuries/side-effects, and unknown long-term vaccine issues.

Whether you or I personally think a vaccine is a good or bad thing for a healthy ~40 year old to take is irrelevant. If you feel safer with it, you are certainly free to take it. The point I'd like to make is that many 40 year olds can reasonably look at Covid death rates for their age group, and compare it to the known short term problems, as well as weigh the likelihood of long-term issues, and come to a sane and reasonable decision to not want to rush and take it.

For me, my big issue with the vaccines is fertility. We found out after a few years that Thalidomide caused birth-defects, as just one example in the history of medicine. Personally speaking, I think rushing to mass-inject all children with this (as some people want) is the worst risk-management decision in the history of humanity.