skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's still much slower with JavaScript. We use both in php land.
ITER is what happens when you focus on a shorter term goal and not a longer term goal.

ITER's goal is fine, except that there's no way to extend what ITER is doing to a power plant that could be economically competitive (not even competitive with fission, never mind renewables). A fusion reactor that could be competitive must take a different approach, like one involving advanced fuels. This would make ITER's goal much harder (and would likely rule out tokamaks entirely), but the long term goal easier.
Who configures and installs software on the container hosts? How do you deploy applications directly on bare metal or VMs? Those are still sometimes required or preferred for various reasons.

IMO, you can speak about the death of bare metal (which is slowly happening), but definitely not tools like Ansible. They've found their niche.
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We've been working hard as society to allow people to continue to live with chronic disease. Co-morbidities is just another way of saying 'they would have died sooner or later anyway', but for all of these cases you are looking at individuals and people that have family and dependents. In the long term all deaths are 'front-loaded'. Every person that dies of traffic, obesity, terrorism, disease, famine and so on would have eventually died anyway from some other cause. That doesn't stop us from trying to address these causes of death resulting in people living longer. We don't call those who live to an older age with diabetes 'time stealers' any more than we should call people that die early of COVID+some other factor 'front loaded'.
Not really, it's all pretty much ripe for software-based redefinition. Supply chain, electronics, production, design, assembly, inventory, testing... standard efficiency levels are low and trends toward distributed manufacturing, JIT, redundant supply chains and high mix / low volume mean software based process definition and management become critical and the days of the old ways are numbered.
Probably a reference only the British would get. Look up 'hedge porn'.
How does me making an offline private key with the username Spivak fix the problem of someone else making their own key with the name Spivak? There is still a shared namespace of user ids. And if it’s fine that two keys have the same display name then you could just do what Discord does and do Spivak#42069.

There can still only be one twitch.tv/spivak.
> It is very uncommon to automate MS-Word or Excel via COM these days. I am happy.

Yeah, but I have a few bazillion lines of .bas that I'm not afraid to dip into on occasion for purely internal reasons.
Something that's frustrating about this type of situation which is probably going to arise many more times over the next few years; time is of the essence in this type of situation, and whilst detailed research into the nature of the mutations in this variant takes time, but basic data that doesn't take much time to gather is still not being shared.

When hearing about a bunch of cases discovered to have this new variant, it would help to assess the situation if we knew data related to each case: vaccination status, age, viral load, severity, etc.

All those details must have been collected already, and would indicate exactly how much of a concern the new variant is or isn't.
We didn't this time either.
For those who are confused, “woods porn” is apparently a thing.

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_inexplicably_ubiquit...
Students Support Renaming “Black Friday”, Until They Find Out
C'mon, guys, there are genuine BF discounts. They do exist! And people do know the deal value, when they see it.

The retailers don't have to discount everything on the floor, they just need the traffic. Once in, some items could still be purchased as valued, the discounts on some items help pull the people in. And sure, the mood and expectation helps.

It is a balancing act, but marketing does not equal cheating, some [lot] manipulation there is, of course. And the crowds are willing too, now demand discounts on anything of value!
This is unlikely to be true and probably an attempt to rewrite the history based on current knowledge and hate of Trump.

The reality is, that back then, there was simply no better information than "coming from China". It wasn't based on xenophobia at all, just on common sense (that seemed to defy the Democrats / mainstream media). In beginning of March, Trump also closed borders to Europe. Xenophobic? No, Europe was having a spike (e.g. Bergamo, Italy). EU "president", Ursula von der Leyen, criticised the decision. 2 weeks later, EU closed its borders. (Ursula is another person that prefers politics to common sense.)
> Im thankful to have a job

I think you've got that backwards. Everyone is thankful for money and possessions. A job is just how you happen to get them. Would you be unhappy to be very wealthy, without a job?

> seeing the homelessness crisis in full swing is an ever present reminder of what this economy and this society can do to you if you slip up for even a second and / or have even a minor run of bad luck.

I've known a lot of homeless people. Their circumstances are overwhelmingly caused by drug addition or mental illness. Not that anyone will admit to it.

If you're willing and able to work full-time, you can manage a reasonable living. There are government and private programs to support the disabled, unemployed, keep the impoverished who don't fit those categories from starving, etc. Not to mention charities, and friends/family groups who will help most anyone who doesn't get enough support from those programs, or just had "bad luck". Mental illness and drug addition does a good job of cutting you off from all those sources of support.
You should start with some internet history. The internet was born out of the a military desire to have robust network that could function if nodes or data links went down.

In the case of the circuit switched network, imagine all the coper wires connecting New York to San Fransisco were cut. It might be possible to for residents of both cities to make calls to Chicago and Denver, but New York to San Fransisco would be impossible until the copper lines were repaired.

The packet switch network that replaced the old circuit switched network used fixed manually configured routes, so the same thing could happen if the digital links connectyng New York and Sanfransico failed.

On a IP protocol network, any two connected devices should be able to communicate. Severying the links between New York and San Fransisco wouldn't cause an outage, because packates could go through Chicago.

3G Phones maintained parralel networks for voice and data. An IP network for data, and a separate (probably) non IP network for calls.

VolTE allows carriers to do away with the second network and send all voice over the data network. It is kind of like a skype app built into the dialer.

This is a bit of an oversimplification, it is possible your 3g calls were being bridged over an ip network. I hope this gives you a better understanding.
> SpaceX didn't develop ground-breaking firsts like Sputnik and the moon landings; they took something we've done for 50 years and do it more efficiently.

Efficiency gains and ground-breaking firsts aren't mutually exclusive. For example, I've personally invested in several aerospace startups, and the general public is not remotely aware — even now — of the extent to which SpaceX's efficiency gains have utterly revolutionized space access. It's no exaggeration to say they've driven a step function change in the sorts of companies it's possible to build in this industry.

Very often, ground-breaking firsts are only achieved once efficiency along some axis passes a critical threshold; I'd argue it's fair to compare fusion to SpaceX in this regard.
HN is a bit of an echo-chamber for SF/SaaS/ML/FAANG.
No. It gives a lot of credit to the original and adds to the conversation with his own experiences with this toaster (because he bought multiples and even used them as presents).

Your adjective doesn't fit here.
I see php sort of like a trusty hammer. It's a hammer. Doesn't have to be elegant. It's a hammer.

The nails are http requests and PHP is a damn good hammer.
In 2015, the city of Riccione, approximately 130 kilometres (80 miles) southeast of Bologna, allocated an €11,000 budget to pay a wage to umarells to oversee worksites in the city – counting the number of trucks in and out to ensure materials were delivered/removed according to the receipts, and guarding against theft when the site was otherwise unattended.

This is brilliant. We should do more stuff like this -- acknowledge that it adds value, slip the person a few bucks.
In the Unix philosophy, that means you have a series of tools that each deal with one of these protocols. If you do one job, do it well - and regex is a bad, if very quick, solution to structured data parsing problems.
It doesn't really say anything meaningful or consequential

The impressive aspect of that version of the equation is simply the idea that you can obtain a plain old integer (-1) using nothing but simple arithmetic operations on two random-looking transcendentals.
Yes, and it is gorgeous. I still have my 2012 MacBook Pro with this light in the front. I've upgraded to the M1 MBP, but the 2012 model still runs beautifully almost ten years later.
This already kind of existed prior to the pandemic'.

If you bought premium tickets to a show, often you would get placed into VIP list with the venue and/or artist. Venue perks included contact with a VIP manager that could help lock in seating pre-sale, occasionally get discounts, if you asked, and other perks.

It's in the venue's interest to KYC and maintain these higher value relationships. And if you don't patronize them for a period they'll stop reaching out or providing access.

'Might still exist, but my experience was prior.
He says not to buy one on Amazon, but I got mine on Amazon for $500 and it works great. Meanwhile the cheapest bike on his list is $1k.
Less oops and more "let me try this out"
I wonder how many bison there were before the last Ice Age. Before the land-bridge and before humans from Asia arrived with their slash-and-burn.
Where is the "doublethink" in pointing out the paradox in distrusting your government yet trusting everything they say about a foreign government?

You do realize that "trusted" "unbiased" media outlets like the Reuters, AP, NYT, WaPo literally have State Department/Pentagon censors filtering any material that could be deemed sensitive to "national security"?
> a) this vaccine is not highly effective at preventing the disease (especially after 6 months+)

so is having covid, some people cought it 3 times already, what do you propose?

BTW: in normal circumstances, we often have 3 doses of vaccines spread over months (for example Pentacel or Prevnar vaccines). We had first vaccine shots weeks apart, because it is a pandemic...

> b) long term effects have not yet been studied

So are long terms of covid, what do you think covid injects into your cell when it infects it?

All side effects vaccine caused also happen with covid at much higher rate.

Keep in mind that since beginning of 2020 only 15% of US population had covid (based on cases) while 70% of people got vaccinated. This means 1.5 out of 10 people you know had covid and 7 out of 10 people you know got the vaccine. Using the common argument: "you don't see people dying on the streets from the vaccine".

> c) fatality is still much lower than for diseases where vaccines are mandatory

The 2% is when hospitals are not overburdened. Also if you get to be one of the 98% you get 1 in 4 chance to get long lasting issues that could disable you.

> I'm vaccinated myself twice by I feel extremely uncomfortable to force other people to vaccinate. I don't think liberal democracies should go this path.

Do you have example where they actually force you to get a vaccine like George Washington forced his soldiers?

In each case you have multiple options to not get vaccinated. Almost always there's an option to get a test and if not there other possibilities.
Rider's paper includes an appendix with potential ways around his main findings. At least two aneutronic projects (HB11 Energy and LPP) appear to use methods similar to those described in Rider's appendix.
> Best case scenario, the password is written on a sticker on the device.

Yes, this is expected. The point is to prevent a population of devices being sold with admin/admin pre-programmed.
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> it seems like no one is even attempting to improve the state of native GUI development as a result.

Who do you include as “no one”? Apple for example is going full steam ahead with its native GUI frameworks.
Of course you're going to get pushback when you post grand claims, provocations, and outright flamebait like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29344580. Your own posts are generating it. That's not evidence of bias in the community, it's a reflection of what you're doing on the site.

Please stop that. It's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that keep doing it.
That Electrical Engineer sounds more like a Computer Engineer.

An Electrical Engineer might possibly say do it without a digital embedded computer, and instead just use analog components. Like add the resistance of a thermistor touching the toast plus the resistance of a control knob potentiometer to trigger a poweroff which ejects the toast.
What impresses me the most is how fast is the filling in of removed areas. This is the kind of image processing that has only been implemented in GIMP after the year 2000 and it was implemented in GIMP much before photoshop.

So, I'm really curious about the algorithm. Not only it works pretty well, it was runs extremely fast for that hardware. I wonder if it used a significantly different approach than what is used today.
Can I use Bitcoin to quickly pay for my groceries yet?
Argentina Tightens Exchange Controls to Curb Outflows of Dollars
Not on mobile...
The latest Amazon Linux and Windows AMIs are available as public SSM parameters:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/query-for-the-latest-am...

ISTR there’s also an SNS topic you can subscribe to if you want to do something automatically on new AMI release.
> First full flow staged combustion engine that actually flies

Indeed, and I'll observe that the significance of this one is often lost on more casual observers.
> So why is cost optimization a constant point of conversation with AWS if it's so easy?

Limited IO bandwidth in middle and upper management alongside difficult schedules (we covered that one already). Take 2 steps above engineer on an org chart and detail becomes invisible, the vast majority of tasks begin to resemble a teenager at a mall with their dad's credit card. Meaningful technical validation phases are almost unheard of in many organizations, and largely antithetical to agile.

> Why do outfits like Digital Ocean advertise on the notion of clear billing as a positive differentiator compared to AWS?

Because they market to folk who never take the time to model comparative costs. In any project I considered them for (3 I think, <$15k/year each), Digital Ocean was significantly more expensive than AWS. I follow my spreadsheets, the industry follows marketing.

> Nobody thinks of AWS as a security company

They're the only vendor I deal with who are on first name terms with the NSA and sell in tremendous quantities to the US government. CloudFlare on the other hand, to this day, default to MITMing SSL connections for new accounts and downgrading them to cleartext en route to the back end. It seems our perceptions differ wildly.
There should be some Rust based generic GPU programming solution that's not tied to any specific GPU. That should be able to replace CUDA and Co. in the long run.
https://www.history.com/news/smallpox-vaccine-supreme-court

Also you might not be aware of other mandates, because you received those vaccines as a kid.
Sure, they could be sold simply because the technical implementation of the token allows it. In practice though, there really is no market for them any more then there is a market for boy scout badges.
I do know this, I'm currently putting together a training course on authoring SELinux policy.

Surely the fact that 'disabling SELinux' is the top result on the subject in Google or StackOverflow will tell you that you would be in the minority of developers that like working with it and find it easy to do so.

I think there's more to it than just simply running an app without receiving an AVC complaint in auditd, you need to be able to test that the controls you put in place actually protect the application in some way, this does not come for free with audit2allow and other such generative tools.
If you forget your password to an IoT device, and the paper label on it wore off, is it now mandatory for it to be permanently bricked and instant e-waste?
> It will be boring, but most people do boring stuff all their lives.

This.
Every day you can wake up, put your feet on the ground and stand up, is a beautiful day.
I use it too, highly recommended
Mail.ru and Yandex used it, i've seen people deploy their Kotlin web apps
You need the ground line too since the body of the unit is conductive and not insulated. Without a ground, you can short live to the body and have it still function in that hazardous state; with the body grounded, that short will pass current and trip the breaker.
I believe he refers to RFC 8187.
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Duly noted. Thanks for the advice. I would love to hear more about how you plan to solve this need!
That is why DNNs will not solve the general AI problem. They do not cover the full decision space, they do not cover the true feasible region, they make huge (and unpredictably wrong) assumptions about interpolation and extrapolation.

In controlled environments with well-known responses they can probably work (not sure why not go with traditional control approaches though), but really don’t see DNN working outside that.
> and that they think no one should trust the Rust core team

I don’t remember reading anything suggesting this, could you point out where you read this?
Aye, but in the broader landscape, they're a bit player. The average person's exposure to Apple GUIs will be on their phones.
> Alcohol let our ancestors survive.

Only true in dense cities and perhaps onboard seafaring vessels. Most of humanity could find unpolluted sources of water.

You could also say that, without the crutch that was small beer, humanity might have been motivated to learn and implement water treatment/purification techniques and proper sanitation systems centuries earlier.
> no one is even attempting to improve the state of native GUI development as a result

SwiftUI, React Native, Flutter disagree with you
wow, okay, that's surprising for sure!
Battery backup UPS and the search for the perfect smart plug
It isn't rare to have teams consist exclusively of Umarells. Usually this is the result of evaporative cooling.
Not on Apple platforms.
The article links a "gtk and qt trend at Stackoverflow". Adding swiftui and uikit to that trend: http://sotagtrends.com/?tags=gtk+qt+swiftui+uikit&relative=t...
A VPN also usually let's you bypass restriction on firewalls, especially with Wireguard protocol that is fairly new and it's over UDP.

Especially in shared Wi-Fi networks that means usually better performance, and less problems with rejected connections to whatever service, or certain type of traffic not permitted, DNS requests that are redirected, and so on.

I don't usually use VPN for privacy, since these days you have HTTPS that protects the communication, but they are super useful if you want to use a network that is not yours without issues.

Beside that these days we may not have a file server, but we have a ton more of devices that we want to access when we are not in our network, without relying on a cloud (and thus giving away our privacy): IP cameras are the perfect example, I don't want the video stream to pass trought the cloud, I can connect in VPN to my home network and access the video stream. Beside that there are a ton of "smart" devices inside your home these days.
> That's quite a different claim to "it permanently reduces your body's ability to learn how to counter different parts of other versions of COVID".

Here the argument is that, when the antibodies “learned” from the vaccine have a low, but not nil, effectiveness, then the immune system of a vaccinated person would continue producing only the same antibodies. A person with natural immunity would instead be able to modulate the immune response and use the most effective among the many antibodies that they can produce.

> This is a very different argument that natural infection gives more effective immunity than vaccination, and the empirical evidence does not seem to agree.

There is some evidence that natural immunity lasts longer, although it is not settled yet.
Nice move. Any will/energy to self-host instead of using sr.ht?
https://man.sr.ht/packages.md lists Alpine Linux and Arch Linux as best distributions for Sourcehut, there's also Debian though the maintainer wants help https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3C2021062220010... ,
and NixOS, but the services part still needs more PR reviews: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/133984 (full disclosure, I'm the author of this PR)
> Were they for sale to the general public?

The MI25 wasn't targeted at the general public, but it wasn't hard to buy one. And the customer products using that same die, Vega 56 and 64, were sold quite a bit.

What affected the community severely might be the combination of both GFX8 and gfx900 going away, leaving only MI50 (Vega20, also used in Radeon VII consumer variant) and no support (only unofficial enablement) for the later customer products. Because those went GFX10/Navi.
Great now I'm terrified by how utterly screwed the world will be when another Carrington Event happens.
I once used a little netbook at a conference in Germany on a crowded wi-fi connection to edit using Emacs within a terminal SSH connection to a desktop in the western U.S.

It held up surprisingly well. The Emacs terminal display system dates from the days of low-baud terminal sessions and so decouples screen updates from the editing input. I.e., it's smart enough not to try to fully update the screen on every keystroke when the terminal connection is slow -- not unlike dropping video frames to keep up. So you can type ahead with some lag and know that it will bring the screen up-to-date as efficiently as possible whenever it can.
If you continue to post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments, and otherwise break HN's rules, we're going to end up having to ban you. You've been doing it a lot, and it's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Richard Feynman did just this and described it at least in his great autobiography, “Surely you must be joking, Mr. Feynman!”
It was written in 2019. He even mentions that at a few points.

> Today in 2019...

> Now, in the year 2019...

> Up to now (2019)...
> On the other hand, if fish doesn't work to your liking out of the box, and for many people it does not, there's no "messing with it" that's possible. You are forced to give up and use something else. Your reason to choose fish is only a good reason if you already agree with every minute choice the developers made and refuse to let you adjust.

Which part of fish makes this impossible? You can tweak the startup, the completions, the key bindings, the prompt, and so on.
The canonical link:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/12/14/lets-stop-talking-...
Does that mean the people who got vaccinated won't benefit from a new vaccine, but unvaccinated people can?
> Hearing new kinds of music that is noticeably not meant for human listeners, e.g., if it is not based on an analysis of human music.

Modem sounds.