skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Letter signing is not typical in ASL

Really? I'm not deaf, but I did take 3 semesters of ASL, and knew a lot of deaf people. In my experience, fingerspelling is incredibly common.

It isn't that people spell everything, but is very common to spell a very specific word, especially for something technical, that one of your following signs will represent. You might spell "Macbook M1", and then use the sign for computer in the rest of the conversation.

I've also found that many people that weren't born deaf, but went deaf later, or that had hearing parents that didn't really help them, often don't know ASL well. It was common for someone to not recognize a sign and the other person would spell out what it was.

A funny oddity about spelling and the deaf. You might (at least I did) think that since they spell things out far more often than we do in spoken English that they'd know how to spell well. That is generally not the case unless the person was raised by hearing people.

I knew a couple where the husband was CODA (child of a deaf adult, both parents) but could hear/speak, and the wife was deaf but was raised by hearing parents. She actually could spell well, but he couldn't, and that was very atypical.
Yes. Back to back runs were performed on identical hardware. The results varied depending on input but .net core universally outperformed mono 6.8 on Linux - in one case by 35%. This is quite encouraging since quite a bit of time (again depending on input) is spent in native code (where .NET is essentially idle).
Fair, we'll have demo links and examples to share in the future. The focus right now is to get hands-on developer feedback on ergonomics, API shape, etc.
Perfectly working technology can make society more like a soulless machine, less like a healthy living organism. It trivializes and fixates execution of important processes which should rather have the possibility to be evolved.

For example, we can make an algorithm that ranks (and decides fate of) webpages or pandemic data, or applicants for special training programs, or for higher learning - all this via ranking members via some utility function.

Take the last example of applicants. We can make that tech perfect with respect to the given utility function (IQ, expected profit from individual's life's work). But putting that perfect math decision process into universal practice, we will cause various unknown unhealthy biases to maintain or develop themselves and prevent the outsiders not captured by the utility function from getting a chance. See the movie G.A.T.T.A.C.A. for compelling depiction of society like that.

One way to prevent this dystopic stagnation via perfection is to apply the "perfect technology" less strictly and allow for some randomization. Put some humanity into practice.

We can make a technology perfect for some purpose, but we can't seem to agree on the purposes. So maybe don't put perfect technology everywhere.

"Wanna perfect technology? Be careful what you wish for".
Right, but this article is specifically talking about the SIM sending commands to the radio, not Android sending commands to the radio.

Just because something could be done or is done does not make that fact relevant.
> iss: Issuer, this claim represents the party who issued the pass, it MUST be present and its decoded value MUST be a Decentralized Identifier who’s DID Method MUST correspond to `web` which is defined by the `did:web` specification.

It's good to see this W3C specification getting some real world testing, and maybe it will eventually allow proper peer-to-peer / anonymous identity systems to become common on the web, rather than us relying on the big identity silos we have today.
Renter's/homeowner's insurance covers one's property at home or away from it. One can get a rider for particularly valuable property.

"Velosurance" is also an option for many with expensive cargo ebikes.

Ebikes are a pretty new technology with very little used market so far, but that will change quickly— I already managed to dig one up for 50% off MSRP last winter.
“Think of the children” usually only works when the idea is that children could be violently harmed by something, and thus only works when deployed in cases where freedom is being restricted. It’s not a good faith argument that can be “use your enemy’s force against them”-ed for other causes.
It’s disgusting. Looks a mishmash of greenish lines. Overtly pretentious. So very Ive.

And there’s a fucking crown in it. Yikes! Hope companies and executives who don’t have to love monarchy and colonialism, stay the fuck away from it.
If you can make this on prem, there are a bunch of DoD contracts that I've seen that are looking for this type of thing. If there's anything the DoD loves, it's documented and verifiable workflows. Years ago, I worked on a prototype for something like this for intelligence analysts. Search for contracts on "orchestration".
Pay $5 via crypto, venmo, whatever to add a similar cost barrier. Make it separate from nitro.
go eat some fruit, sit under a tree and think
> The Manhattan Bridge had 180,000 bike trips on it this June.

That's not bad at all, close to 10% of car traffic, based on old numbers.
Spy bots get away because they don't spam or do anything weird. No one is sitting there auditing users who haven't spoken much. Spam bots will end up with their account banned and phone number blacklisted.
A lot of working poor people rely on being able to do low cost maintenance themselves or bringing it to a family member or close friend with experience or a very trusted repair shop. They would never get their car serviced at the dealer given the costs. If the cost of repair is too large they sell the car for scrap and buy another bottom of market car and repeat the process. What happens for these people in the EV age, when its illegal to work on your own Tesla and everything will be serviced at a first party dealership?
Funny. But at least it's back up now.
Maybe it's regional, but where I live most apartment-dwellers have covered parking (so presumably much less than 112km/week of sun)
Time for a Critical Mass of casual cyclists. ;-)
Isn't redshift a results of the change in the observable wavelength, i.e. the photon's momentum?
Yes.

Step 1. Go to billing and create a monthly budget. Mine is $100.

Step 2. Create an alert: First alert is I get an email when it exceeds 80% ($80) total AWS costs.

Step 3. Create an action: I only have a single EC2 instance running a webserver that is always on. If my threshold is exceeded (say, a million people start downloading my pictures and my IO-OUT spikes), my action stops my EC2 inst via an IAM role action. Boom. Server goes offline instantly, without having to log in (like if I'm sleeping, or drunk).

Done.

Sometimes I get an alert because my usual cost is $35/mo and if a few domain renewals pop up that month, it will spike to $80. Hence the alert at $80 and action at $100 threshold.

And I can use any kind of metric: IO bandwidth from downloads, RDS bandwidth for too many queries, if I had elastic instances, limit the # based on cost. It is completely flexible. You can terminate too, but I only have one, I don't use elastic pools to dynamically allocate.

I don't get all the fuss, it is quite a simple service. Maybe it doesn't scale well for huge operations and that is the problem cuz i'm not a power user or company?
I've thought for some time that universities are going to be replaced (as centers of higher education, not job skills etc) with some new thing. Not that I think this is it, but it's nice to see new models being tried. The obvious concern is that with so much polarization this ends up being The Quilette of universities. It may be better to stand for something positive and dwell less on what's bad about the current system.

Also, this caught my eye:

> 1) every opinion will be heard and 2) every opinion must be supported by evidence

To me, having this as cannon is how you degrade into a citation / citation needed fest instead of having actual interesting philosophical discussions. I'd rather see opinions supported with reason (and good faith) as a first principle, and not pretend that all opinions are equal in a given discussion
It’s been over a decade since I ran a forum but I recall phpBB specifically being chock full of security holes, probably more so than even Wordpress. If you didn’t stay on top of keeping it up to date you’d get hit with exploit-wielding bots that would cram your little forum full of spam designed to exploit Google’s ranking algorithms.
> Can .NET deploy a static binary nowadays?

You can, as sbelskie mentioned below. In .Net 6, it's available as a Preview [1]. But it's going to ship with the main framework in 7.0 [2].

The preview works quite well. You can build self-contained, smaller executables, and shared libraries callable from say, C code.

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/blob/feature/NativeAOT/...

[2]: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/61231
> I'm saying that if the US went highly nuclear that it does not directly follow that the rest of the world would also.

I agree that it does not directly or necessarily follow. But I think it would be more likely.

> Nuclear technology exports are still a very big deal.

Sorry, I think my comment came across the exact opposite of what I meant.

When I said "we don't see it as a big deal to restrict nuclear exports", what I meant was, when we restrict the export of nuclear technology, we don't see it as an unfair imposition on other countries to deprive them of nuclear energy the same way we might see depriving them of food or natural gas. In other words, exporting nuclear technology is a big deal; depriving the rest of the world of nuclear energy is not a big deal. Sorry for the confusing phrasing.

Right now, American voters and policymakers don't think of nuclear energy as the primary power source for a modern civilization. When we have those annoying ITAR regulations that you had to follow, everybody thinks that's perfectly reasonable because nuclear technology is spooky and scary mad science that nobody actually needs anyway. That's not the same attitude we would have if we switched to wholesale nuclear energy in the 1970's.

Am I saying export laws would necessarily be less stringent in this scenario? No, but there are probabilities between 0 and 1, and you seem to be implying that since the probability is <1, it must be 0.
The Texas "rolling coal" case shows you can attempt to murder a group of cyclists and face no legal repercussions if you are in the right political climate.
Yes you can, you simply add them as project references. We have done this in production and it works quite well.

You have to be careful though because you could get runtime crashes if they try to access stuff that is not supported in .NET 6 (mostly Windows-specific libraries).

I'd recommend running this guy on the code base, it'll give you a good idea of how much a pain it will be:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/analyzers/p...
If that were the case, the "I just want to run this one Python script" article and its trick would have no basis.

The issue is that on some systems /usr/bin/python does not mean "any version of python", but specifically Python 2.

And so, in those systems, if the Python 2 package is not installed, then there is no /usr/bin/python.

They can't easily change the meaning of /usr/bin/python, because the distro users adopted to the convention and depend on unqualified python being python2, and python not being found as an indication that Python2 is not installed.
Johnny Ive pushed design deeply into "lowest common denominator" territory, to the point that I've seen a lot of features flat out cut from products simply because the UI/UX team couldn't make enough white space on the screen to hold them all. Ives did not invent "more white space is better" but he certainly embraced it and helped push out complexity at all costs in the name of usability.
Have you tried Peco [1] in the past? Seems similar. I'd be curious to hear what people's experiences are of both technologies.

[1]: https://github.com/peco/peco
They're really working on reducing the compiled (app + framework) size in order to make the WASM target in browsers more viable for Blazor.
Or to be really pedantic, 'is currently assigned a particular' phone number.

Since you can change phone number without changing SIM (I don't know if it's global, but in the UK you just text a certain number for a transfer 'PAC' code) and clone them.
Presumably mobile compatibility was the issue, no? Everybody nowadays wants to do everything on their phone.

Also, didn't vBulletin have a lot of spam and security issues? It's kind of like WordPress in that using it is nice but managing it is hell.
I totally get all the frustration over phone number verification but it simply is the easiest and most effective method. It's really hard and expensive to get more phone numbers while every other method is easy to get unlimited accounts. Almost every country has phone numbers tied to ID as well so you can report the worst of users to local police.
>a stranger trying to joke with me comes across as rude

This is such a miserable perspective.

Yes, in theory, humour varies significantly amongst different groups. But if we're in the elevator together and I mistakenly press the Door Open instead of Door Close and I jokingly apologize for the delay and that we'll be taking off shortly, the idea of you being offended or "creeped out" by such a harmless joke is ridiculous to me.
Is Epic semiconductors a scam?
Not the person you are replying to, but I would think that in this day that the answer to that question for most people would be "because it's Facebook". Giving more data over to their walled garden is probably not palatable for most people, regardless of the network effect.
You just need to read peoples experiences of Pinterest in this thread. My search results are better without images from Pinterest showing up.
But who needs sum types when you have the visitor pattern :troll_face:

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2018/06/25/visitor-as-a-sum-type/
I don't understand why backwards time travel is even a thing.

This is how I've thought of it:

Assume you have a clock with two atoms A and B some distance apart which interact somehow with mechanism C using waves, fields or whatever, which move at light speed. This interaction between A and B happens at some rate. You test the clock at rest using your arbitrary reference clock, a pendulum swinging at some rate. You observe one interaction in the clock once every swing update rate. (Let's call this 1 Hz)

Now, send the clock to travel at light speed and have a magic camera to see 4k live stream of what happens. The clock behaviour would appear to slow down. The interaction between the atoms becomes slower, because C has to travel a longer distance to transport effect from A to B and vice versa. Therefore, C travelling from A to B will take a longer time (i.e. more swings of your reference clock).

Here there was no time dimension, just rate of change in something you're observing, using some arbitrary duration (pendulum swing) as a reference "clock".

So, I don't understand how one could travel backwards in an observed rate of change? How would that even work?
What’s Really Behind the Great Resignation
You're correct, that's why I posted it. Who are you addressing in your comment? Thanks.
Does vBulletin have a way yet to jump to the first new reply in a thread?
Where bike infrastructure is lacking, it is easier to integrate with urban car traffic on an ebike because you can travel at closer to urban car speeds and start/stop more quickly.

Car-oriented areas are also designed with less respect to topography than older areas designed around pedestrians, and electric propulsion makes biking up grades easier.
Fed Warns of Peril in Run-Up of Risky Asset Prices, Stablecoins
I wonder what the batteries are going to be like in the used market. afaik this is the first part to see significant wear and also probably the most expensive part on the bike. Every few years I price out ebike kit builds to see if prices have come down and battery costs have remained pretty high. At least with a regular bike you can buy it in whatever neglected condition short of a compromised frame and pay not much at all at your local bike shop to tune it up into a great bike.
i waited a full minute before right-click -> open image in new tab, and it still opens the thumbnail-sized image instead of the original. i tried the side-column as well and got the same result.

EDIT: strange, i tried the same process again on the same image and this time it worked! i guess it really is a cache-related issue
Why is it that these garbage Bitcoin blogposts that read like they were written by GPT and contain no insightful information shoot right up to the front page? Is Velotio expecting that someone reading this would come away with a positive impression of their company?
Off-topic, but I once used a Shopify framework called Batman.js. https://batmanjs.org/. Somewhat Ember-ish, but more coffeescript oriented. I'm a bit sad that the github repo doesn't even exist anymore :(

It never really gained traction but I'm curious if anyone else remembers.
> It has always been a frustration that the current working directory metadata isn't saved along with history entries, so you can never really reconstruct what was run.

It is if you use fish shell.
What the Heck Happened to the BMJ?
Is there a product that lets you effortlessly build a forum? Can’t think of one off the top of my head but I’m sure there’s one out there.
It’s not only not a misunderstanding of the twin paradox, but is correct and verified by experiment.
One learns to walk differently in San Francisco, to avoid stepping in **it.**

And of course if you walk without rhythm, it won't attract the worm.
Here is a far better article, by one of the founding members, than the editorialized article (and title) above: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-08/niall-...
This one time a guy did like 35mph on a road for like 2 miles. I was ready to be annoyed when I saw him turning and accelerating, but that’s the speed I usually do, so they just kept up. Guy hit 40 at a couple points and legit could have gotten a speeding ticket.
However, in general, a lot of cyclists in my area are extra aggressive and it creates conflict and the general sentiment is one of annoyance at them hijacking this one relatively busy road. But it’s also motorists not knowing how to pass them properly and share the road. We just need bike lanes on this road. Everyone just wants to get where they are going and the perception is cyclists are out there doing it for fun (most of them are just doing it for exercise on this road, not commuting).
can the 'tiktok scenius' react in real time and just instantly spread a new signal for the next person, don't underestimate how powerful that network is, has the highest quality interaction I have witnessed. more jokes than HN too
He means when you stop building reactors, you lose the tribal knowledge to build reactors. No different than when folks try to reproduce WWII vehicles and discover the plans don’t actually reflect the real build process because things were adapted on the fly and never written down because everyone “just knew”. Oh that weld? We actually need plates and bolts to reinforce it due to stress cracks in the field.
It's also not required by discord. Discord doesn't even require that you have an account. They leave it up to "server" admins. You can pick options from allowing guests, allowing only accounts, and requiring only phone number verified accounts.
While I personally prefer JSX-based tools, I’d be remiss not to mention Marko[1], a component framework developed by eBay. It has (and has had for years) everything mentioned above the fold (s/React Server Components/automatic partial hydration/) other than, of course, any built in Shopify functionality.

1: https://markojs.com/
It has no USB ports ... no ports of any kind. He is being courageous.
I'm skeptical door-to-door self-driving will happen for the general case in the foreseeable future. But, if it does, certainly. An hour "being driven" to go into town for the evening is pretty tolerable compared to driving yourself (and even more so driving yourself back)--and would probably change the tradeoffs for a lot of people.
Ask HN: What are some ideas for how to best use idle compute time?
I have a small lab at home that I put together to learn and develop Kubernetes skills. While this is still the primary use, the compute time is mostly idle. What are some ideas for how best to use this idle compute time?

Even better if it results in some passive income. One idea I had is to use the 4 nodes to mine bitcoin. Supposedly, you can use CPU as well as GPU to mine but I'm still investigating.
Weird that some of the people who complain the loudest about free speech on college campuses are also the same people who complain loudly about critical race theory being taught in schools. It is almost like these people were never "committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse" and were instead committed to a specific worldview that is being phased out of education in the US.
As a former kryptonite lock and bike owner, it works until it doesn't.
So 90% number is not supported. If primary occupants of the ICU are immunocompromised people, why the fuck are governments not prioritizing _them_ and instead wasting vaccine doses on young people and children who, if healthy, are not at risk at all? Even though Germany has done relatively well compared to other countries, the response still seems to make zero sense there. Blanket mandate is not needed. Raw vaccination rates are utterly meaningless without seeing details wrt age and comorbidities, or figuing out who ends up in the ICU, and targeting those kinds of people for vaccination. Why, 2 years in, such obvious things are so hard for the governments to figure out? Is it because most people in the government are lawyers and not engineers?
it looks to be ~/.<dotfile> not ./.<dotfile> so i wouldn't worry there
Here is a zsh function (added to ~/.zshrc) I made for use with https://github.com/larkery/zsh-histdb to get the same effect, but only showing commands whose exit_status is 0:

jog() {
sqlite3 $HOME/.histdb/zsh-history.db "
SELECT
replace(commands.argv, '
', '
')
FROM commands
JOIN history ON history.command_id = commands.id
JOIN places ON history.place_id = places.id
WHERE history.exit_status = 0
AND dir = '${PWD}'
AND places.host = '${HOST}'
AND commands.argv != 'jog'
AND commands.argv NOT LIKE 'z %'
AND commands.argv NOT LIKE 'cd %'
AND commands.argv != '..'
ORDER BY start_time DESC
LIMIT 10
"
}
I'm sorry, what?! All private keys are sensitve.

Please be more spesific.
so, i haven't had this with python, but i have a webserver i manage right now where there are 3 versions of php installed, and `php` as a command returns command not found. This came about when the default version was uninstalled as insecure, but was intentionally not fixed because nothing broke (since fpm managed all of this anyways) and cronjobs were already using the versioned command names and having it error ensures thought is being done into the php version the code runs.

So I do wonder how many distros (and manual install workflows) for python could cause this to happen if python2 got uninstalled from a system that had both, where python get removed, rather then updated to point to python3.
Fantastic idea, will be adopting this.
I suspect you’re right. It just doesn’t exist.

Discord and Slack both fulfill interesting niches, but everything else is composed of chewing gum and tape.

The closest thing is Reddit, but it’s not great because subreddit names can be taken over and it’s hard to topple moderators that refuse to give up power.