skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it helps that it is pretty much a Lisp for the research work that they are doing, instead of trying to cater to everyone.
I've been saying for roughly a year now that if nothing else good can come from Covid, we at the very least are dumping a ton of time and resources and research into mRNA vaccines.

I know basically nothing about virology, but I remember hearing a podcast a million years ago talking about mRNA vaccines, and I remember after it was over thinking "if this is even half as cool as it sounds to a lay person, the implications of this are huge". It appears that it's substantially more than half as cool as it sounded, and the fact that we are even having discussions about being able to wipe out malaria is mind-boggling to me (in a good way).
A debate without an agreed upon premise is a terrible setup in any context.
I concur with this completely. Rejecting p-zombies as a concept aligns you either with (3) or (4) of the toy framing above, depending on if you're materialist (consciousness emerges from physical phenomenon/doesn't exist) or non-materialist (consciousness emerges from non-physical phenomenon, and does so universally) about the follow on question.
Some of the author's complaints are legit, but they hardly constitute evidence of decline.

First, I figured out how to do Django+Tornado in a day 8 years ago and PyCharm pays for itself over and over, every day.

The rest of the arguments might deserve mention in a conversation about how the project could be improved, but it isn't clear to me that they presage Django following Visual Basic down the drain.

I'm sure the Django maintainers would entertain PRs for any clear improvements over what's in place and lacking.
and if you're a developer you can get it even earlier

https://preorder.pine64.org/
>They could careless about it.

I dont mind that, companies aren't here to save the world. Except they have been very loud and clear about how deeply they care about it.
> GM crops have significantly less genetic diversity simply as a result of how their created and sold. This isn’t a new problem, but fixing it significantly slows time to market.

The Cavendish is an excellent counterpoint actually - monocropping is not at all en exclusive GMO phenomenon. Naturally selected cultivars like the Cavendish are all identical clones.

This is very common across many different types of produce, and all without GE.

The same solutions for diversity work for cultivars as well as GMO seed.
Consider the weather. Weather exists, I think everyone can accept this. But what is weather? Is it simply an aggregate emergent property of many interacting atmospheric and geological systems? Or is it something more? How can emergent properties of even a complex system create self-organizing and self-perpetuating semi-stable phenomenon like tornadoes? What controls the weather?

Consider consciousness. Everyone can accept that it exists. But what is consciousness? Is it really just an emergent property of brain-body activity? Or is it something more? How can an emergent property of a complex system create semi-stable behaviors and self-awareness? What controls consciousness?

IMO, consciousness is just an emergent property of brain-body activity (mostly brain). More recent studies of animal behavior have shown that consciousness is not a binary -- you have it or you don't -- thing. It is a gradient. Different animals possess different levels of cognitive ability, consciousness, self-awareness, social-awareness, etc. In short, there is (again IMO) nothing special about human consciousness: I submit that any sufficiently complex trainable associative-memory neural network (like a biological brain) will possess some level of consciousness as an emergent property. Just like any sufficiently large atmospheric + geological environment will possess weather.

Thus, there is no problem to understand (or not understand).

As an aside, are humans even "fully self-aware"? How would we know if we're not? What does that even really mean?
Because they're launching on an Ariane rocket, which is a French rocket that launches from French Guiana.

As to why they chose that, I have no idea
Thanks for the feedback. We're working on some potential solutions to this and in the meantime we refund everybody who requests one.
>Gun owners are substantially more likely to die of gun violence than non-gun owners. Gun owners have a 3x higher risk of suicide.

It is disingenuous to conflate "gun violence" with suicide.

>In the event that someone does break in, gun owners are more likely to die than non-gun owners.

I've never heard of this statistic and I suspect that the relevant literature is an interpretation based on questionable assumptions. Do you have a source?

>We are so, so far away from a sane, functioning public safety system in this country it can be depressing.

Allowing responsible gun ownership is neither insane nor an indication of dysfunction. In fact if you remove a single demographic from gun violence statistics, the US becomes one of the top 5 or so safest nations, in spite of the highest rate of gun ownership in the world.
Yes exactly! The alarm goes off that says "empty the dishwasher" and my brain says "yup it's 7:15," then goes on to something else before I digest what the alarm is for.

I'll definitely check out airtags, thanks!
I think that you can "sell" catching criminals to Russians, but I don't think the population will accept the social credit system.
personally, i'd prefer a sexually arousing answer to Google and Facebook.
It probably cuts down on the number of citizens who wish to enter from covid land.
I'd say flask-admin is decent, but I don't think its as good as Django Admin.

https://flask-admin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
That reminds me of a quip by Rachael in an episode of Friends when her and Ross [Ph.D] are at the hospital - "Now remember Ross, there are real doctors here"
Now imagine that but on a cold, dark rainy day. Putting on AR glasses makes it look like your house is on a beach with the most beautiful morning sunlight view, except there's a company logo on the sun and the company slogan is floating on the sea surface.
https://github.com/raminmh/liquid_time_constant_networks
> It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: BSD is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers
This comment is amazing. Thank you.
Who does the unloading of the sheet rock from the device in the future?
Yep. They says in their home page, that they have '58322 paid users'. And the licenses go from 49 to 175$ or more.

I'd say that can pay for a proper developer or a security audit every once in a while.
Keeping the cost down presumably
C++/CLI comes to mind, as means to merge .NET and C++ worlds together.
The Tunnel (1935 film)
After many years of remote working and being mostly "always on", I have recently started a somewhat strict 9 - 3 working day. No weekends.

Definetely more productive now, but maybe is due to greater focus and discipline on my part.
If someone insults a scientist these days because of his/her support of unpopular measures, is by definition a terrorist or a criminal. This is the textbook definition of fascism.
This was my response exactly. The article is a list of nits, not major issues, and most are not about the framework itself, but rather things like tooling conveniences.

I'm surprised someone finds room to criticize the Django docs. It's got the best docs of any web framework I've used in the past decade. It's great to be able to find everything you need easily in one place and not have to go searching for Stack Overflow answers or blog posts just to solve common problems.
Are Technical Certifications That Important to Have? An Informed Opinion
The water alert will also mention that you would be better hydrated if you bought ElectroX, the electrolyte drink for serious thinkers. The to-do list will include an item to check out the latest release of Banging Cans, your favorite band. By allowing you to see your friend and his surroundings, you are implicitly allowing through images of the products that are visible, and therefore they will be added to your cloud targeted ad profile.

Not to mention what you won't see. When you drive by protesters about a topic that makes you uncomfortable, your SuperFlow2030 app will blur out the words and images on their signs so they don't disturb you.

The latest safety feature will use facial recognition to highlight anyone you don't know or is not typically in an area, so you can keep an eye on them. Coincidentally, a high percentage of those highlighted people will have a different skin color from you, which deep down in the weights of its classification model is still being used as a handy heuristic even though the developers tried to specifically exclude it.

I, too, wonder what life would be like. Sadly, I don't have to wonder too much, because it appears that it would be like it is now, only more so.
If you're thinking about leaving your job, while it may not be time to leave, it's definitely time to test the market and brush up on interviewing. If you're working remote, it is trivial to interview from home during lunch and other breaks.
The best model for your community is free and open source.

Your current model of opt-in subscriptions makes it clear you're looking for the best model for your bank account
Yeah they do - notion allows you to organise notes hierarchically, as trees or in databases (like a table where each row is its own page), and roam allows you to network your notes into a graph. Notion is probably better in your case, roam is more designed for building knowledge graphs when researching.
>By your logic citizenship should then be granted to anyone deciding to go live in another country. Either that or country should prevent immigrants from moving there.

Of course it makes sense for countries to restrict who they want to come in, and no I don't think my logic dictates that citizenship should be granted to anyone just because they want to come in.

I'm describing people who have "rejected" being a citizen of a country by virtue of leaving, living in another place and working for the economy and community outside of the nation who they were a citizen of before.

I'm saying that being a citizen has value and so it should come with a cost, or it should be given up (or taken away). And that this shouldn't be very controversial. Certainly if you left an organization and worked for someone else you wouldn't be considered part of the old company? Or if you were on a sports team and left to another, same thing. It is up to each organization to determine the standards by which they assess granting membership.... leaving the org is certainly an legitimate criteria for revoking it.

>The evil free individual, how dared she abandon the nation state?

In and of itself I don't think it's that big of a deal, what I'm saying is, from the perspective of the home nation and its people... the citizens who didn't leave, why would it make any sense for them to cater to the people that left? To worry about their every whim and desire? They left. A nation and its people are those who are there and working to contribute to it and make it stronger. This is such common sense I don't understand the mindset who would think otherwise.

The crux of the argument here comes down to this: OF COURSE from the perspective of individuals moving all over the world, they want absolute freedom, to do whatever they want, to go wherever they want, to have all the rights and priviliges of all the places they can possibly get with no costs. But this has nothing to do with what is best and desirable for a nation itself. What is best for the nation as a whole, including the people that actually live there, doesn't always match up with what people roaming all over the world want. And so the interests of people actually living in a place are no less valid nor do they matter less (I think they matter more, actually) than the interests of people that don't live in a place.
Thanks for the feedback - this is due to screen size on Android and we're current working on fixing issues impacting smaller screen sizes at the moment.
Not sure if I missed something, why did this have to be shipped across the ocean to a spaceport in French Guinea? Would it have been less of a logistical challenge to launch this out of Vandenberg in CA?
antitrust enforcement is fair pillow talk in my house
I think that's a good insight, not least in that a model like that incentivizes real utility in the product. Granted, it could also incentivize dark-pattern stickiness, but there's still the seed of something worth considering here.

Granted IAP isn't that flexible, or not to my knowledge, at least. But Stripe is right there, too.
> But one of the reasons I don't like talking about religion on HN is that I've found a computer science centric way of thinking about some sub branches of philosophy and theology is a dead end. We're used to dealing with such pedantry and strict logic that I find we over use them in places where they're not nearly as useful as they seem.

And not just that. I feel that many of the habits of thinking that lead to success in software engineering actually have pretty limited applicability, but too many software engineer internet commenters parochially assume those habits are superior and universally applicable. It's hard for me to articulate though, because I have those same habits and it's hard to see outside one's limitations.
Privacy Taxonomy – An Open Source draft for describing privacy in any techstack
> The speed difference for an individual page load might not be that much for a properly optimized site, but the overall resource usage will be much lower.

Is that what you believe or do you have benchmark results?
Rust async can truly be zero-cost
For starters, it would be a great first step to see the scientific community come out and denounce any and all gain-of-function research as immoral, unethical, irresponsible, and incredibly dangerous. After stating this publicly and repeatedly, then ADHERE to this position and REFUSE to be part of any efforts to conduct such research.
I like this idea. I created a similar script for myself that extends this idea more into the CI/CD realm.

Basically if you have tutorials that need code screenshots it's nice to avoid much / most manual copy/paste/screen capture etc.

So my script takes a filename and line numbers and outputs a syntax highlighted screenshot of that portion of text.

Why arn't I linking to the script? Well the obvious next step is to extend the above to tie into git such that for minor changes you don't have to think about the line numbers and it just does the right thing. But I never got that working :)
As bad as this is, this is not 'the textbook definition of fascism'

Can we please use words that mean things instead of just calling all things the same thing
Am from the UK; can confirm that arse = butt ≠ ass (aka donkey)
JWST isn’t likely the most complex thing launched in space, just the most complex thing that is unclassified.
It was released 4 years after the vive - I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Oof, even worse than I noted. So median (and that includes established mid and late career aerospace engineers too) is $118k all in?

That’s roughly half of the initial comp for an entry level software engineer at any of the SV firms, and most folks will be making much more than that at said SV firms within a couple years.

Being able to get a team of 4-5 experienced and credentialed aerospace engineers for the comp of a single ‘senior’ (mid-level somewhat competent but not amazing) software engineer sounds dirt cheap to me?
This makes absolutely no sense and I assume little thought went in to it. From the very start, the Pioneer 1 satellite, NASA has used rockets developed and operated by other entities.

A major, if not the principle, reason for NASA to exist is space science, not rocket science. Their satellites, research stations, etc are seriously important work. The rockets are definitely important, but primarily as a way to enable the space research.

This is like saying an airline isn't a true airline because they don't design their own planes. It just doesn't make any sense.
the definition of economic growth so screwed up, by that very definition earth quakes are great. They also spur economic growth. When everything gets destroyed people have to buy new stuff. Inflation only cause top 20% or so invest in assets and people who can't, 80% unfortunately can't be part of that growth and just lose on all fronts.
Do tell, what is that one “single demographic” which is allowed to be removed from counting in the US, friend?
Asking "how is consciousness quantized?" definitely would put you in (4) and is favored by Chalmers I believe. The idea that consciousness can somehow be "aggregated" by sufficiently complex or anti-entropic systems lends itself to this view.
Open Source Slack Alternative
This is a good idea but we do also have limitations from the App/Play Store - definitely something we'd been keen to explore though. In the meantime, we've refunded everybody who has requested one.
We tried for multiple years to make Nomad work because it's simple. We're already enterprise customers of Hashicorp, too. We love Hashicorp! Nomad is a great scheduler and the UI is wonderful, but there is no story around network security. Example: You have postgres running on dedicated metal, and you want to restrict which nomad services have access to postgres. Consul Connect allows you to enforce access policies, but these work more like haproxy with automated service discovery. There is no batteries-included way to prevent traffic from leaving your container (or identify which container the traffic is originating from). You can use a custom CNI plugin to give each container an IP address from a unique subnet per service (and restrict traffic at your firewall/ selectively add subnets to iptabels on your postgres server), but now we're adding bespoke complexity. We brought this problem up to the Hashicorp internal teams over many calls, but ultimately they said we'd need to pay for a 3rd party overseas consultant to advise us on implementation. They weren't sure what to do. K8s is certainly more complex out the gate, but you don't feel like you're the first person in the world to implement.

That said, I think Nomad is a few years away from being something truly amazing. If they can solve the network security problem (beyond optimistic documentation), I think it'll be amazing. For now, it's just a good scheduler.
Not exactly. See my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28871907

It's not that valve co-developed the rift, its that CV1 was exactly the steam sight headset with the CV tracking system and new fresnel lenses.

Valve employees convinced whoever made decisions over there to just give the tech over to oculus without a license or contract, and then those employees jumped ship to facebook/oculus in one of the most egregious unethical backstabs in recent tech memory.

Carmack couldn't convince his employer to give away the work he did, so he just took it with him and somehow was involved in a 'clean room' reimplementation of work he did for someone else. It's part of a pattern of unethical behaviour for the big names in oculus.

I wouldn't give them a penny.
I'm not sure I'd use blame here - that's like blaming the inventors of the Internet for teen suicide because of Facebook...

If you're going to blame someone/something (in addition to the very consumers who demand this):

> Stores took advantage of it because it meant they could carry more inventory without worrying about rotting.
I don't think you have avoided it completely. Advertising is everywhere you look. Even in Netflix you still see brands in TV shows.
This has been my biggest pain point - world+dog shares their helm charts, but blog posts or git*.com repos with non-trivial cluster recipes are rare.

f.e. We're exploring cortexmetrics currently, and spinning the full stack version up on k8s (openshift) was straightforward. Porting all that spaghetti onto nomad would be a huge job, though part of the frustration is knowing someone, tucked away on a private network, has already done this.
The newsletter signup is the modern version of "please bookmark this site". Another thing people don't really do anymore.

It's really sad too, because these sites know that you clicked on them from a sea of similar looking results, and this signup form is the only way you're likely to even remember their existence.
Yep, Firefox android is impossible to use if you do anything non-trivial and has so many quirks. It's been over a year since the rewrite so I don't know what they're doing.
Your downvotes show why this problem will never be solved. Getting rid of guns is not going to solve violent people.
I for one, am fully on board with this movement!

Economic structures need to change and the "Proletariat" need to have their grievances addressed. For too long have they been "played" by the top 1%. Inequality has only grown and things have gotten worse for the "Working Man/Woman".

I sincerely hope, the "Industry Leaders" reform their Business Practices so that the "American Dream" (i.e. Work Hard and you will get a Fair Shake at Prosperity) can again be turned into Reality.
Put yourself in the shoes of that police officer. What would you have advised?
Chic Ways to Rock Ankara Pants and Exude Class and Style
I was about ot make this comment. Multirotors do not seem to auto-rotate.
Every New York Times Front Page Since 1852 [video]
....diverse....vibrant, diverse...

So they are going from 1 wizard to 0 wizards and calling that diverse? Looks like they are decreasing the amount of diversity to me.
I don't think this question is answerable so abstractly. It really depends what you're trying to build and what the technical constraints are.

There are so many architectures, API approaches, frameworks, and languages these days. Almost any one could be argued as being better or worse off of different criteria.

Also Django being batteries included makes most comparisons very apples to oranges. Even comparing a basic CRUD web app / API in Django + DRF to Flask means pulling in like a dozen packages to help vs just the one with Django.

In the world of Python web frameworks specifically, FastAPI is really nice these days for a lot of REST API type use cases.
It's purely offline software that reaches out to the cloud solely to spy on me and/or make me log in. There are no online features I need or want from it.

What authentication do I need or want on a local device that is software specific?
How my ivermectin research led to Twitter death threats
I imagine the willingness to get tested would also be a lot higher if the result of a positive test was a reasonably quick antiviral treatment instead of weeks of quarantine.

Sure, there will always be sceptics, but for large parts of people, organisations and governments having less perverse incentives might improve things a lot.
Local Testing a Serverless API (API Gateway and Lambda)
Most people assets are some cash in bank, even when house it's a primary residence, meaning it can appreciate all it can it won't improve their life because to utilize it they will have to sell it and then buy one around the same price, nullfying ROI from primary house. People with loans sure benefit but only if they have assets and their salary keeps up with inflation. Usually both of these condition aren't true.
> So basically, it does send your URLs to Google

No, it downloads hashes from Google, and checks the URL locally against those.

See https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-...