skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact that you have chronological timelines

Twitter also has chronological timelines, there’s a button on the top right.

> The fediverse is small compared to Twitter user base, but with millions of users there's plenty to explore and engage with.

…no, there isn’t. The population mainly consists of cartoon child porn artists and enthusiasts (pawoo.net), tech people (official and semi-official instances), small groups of queer people (on smaller closed instances), and that’s mainly it (from what I’ve seen). Engagement on smaller instances seems to be very low, with most toots being 0-1 likes and almost no comments posted on them.

> And there's better netiquette in general.

No, mob/clique mentality from Twitter is already there (but even more amplified by the federation aspect, since instances can ban other instances) The reason Mastodon doesn’t have that much drama is simply because there aren’t enough people there, and I predict a mass migration to Mastodon will be accompanied by the most dramatic controversies.
Which sounds great in practice, but do you know why the military uses those giant golf ball radomes? Its to hide where a satellite is pointing and thus where a satellite is in space. [1]

So another way to find out where a satellite is pointing would be to detect the transmissions its receiving or "landing" right?

So then the military wouldnt need these radomes as anyone near by could detect the overlapping footprint of the signal hitting the ground, unless its no more accurate than using something we can find in mediaportal to work out signal strength and quality. [1]

So then the ground could detect where the satellite is, which renders the use of the radomes somewhat unnecessary.

And then there is the fact Space has its own jurisdiction.

Now I do know HP were working as a Mil contractor in the 90's developing line of sight laser communication for the battlefield namely because it used the property of light to highlight eavesdropping, whether that has developed enough to be an uplink to satellites I dont know, but that is a lot harder to detect for obvious reasons and then the law would seem to be rather ineffective if light is being used to land signals sometime in the future.
Anyway off topic so no more from me on this deviation.

[1] https://media.defense.gov/2016/Sep/16/2001635620/-1/-1/0/160...
[2] https://www.team-mediaportal.com/wiki/display/MediaPortal1/S...
I do genome sequencing and this is very true. You are either all-in on cloud or do the processing completely in house. The data egress fees are more than enough to offset any benefit to a hybrid approach.

I’m more curious if there is an equivalent to S3 for on-prem. I bet not due to reliability constraints, but something like this would be nice. I can’t say there would be much benefit to using AWS Outposts for genome sequencing without an S3 local cache.
Incoming CSAM.b64 in 3, 2, 1 . . .
I think 5G will replace wifi within next 10 years. We don't need WiFi anymore
Why? Because we can that's why!
"and shipped its prisoners there"
>> Well CA should just do that then. No need even to put them in prison. Just release at the border. If they make it back to California, consider it time served and they're free to go!
Been really pleased with Julia and happy about the continued progress. Package speedups on Windows are expecially nice for me in this release.
Israel ‘cancels’ prize to mathematician – and dishonors itself
Man, if I was stuck in prison all day every day, I'd want to be on drugs, too. I can't blame the prisoners.
No you are not the only one. Seems half the comments here miss the point. It's a clever addition!
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I keep seeing violent criminals let out to repeatedly victimize my fellow community members. No jail. No prison.

I see people showing up dead who have booking photos (aka in hindsight, should have been imprisoned for their own safety). About once a month so far, but I don’t Google each case; the murders aren’t really news anymore in 2021.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/katu.com/amp/news/local/a-growi...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.koin.com/local/multnomah-co...

I know it’s tough to believe coming from a position of privilege (believe me, I used to hold similar beliefs) but there is actual serious social dysfunction in the world. There is violent crime associated with hard drug use. Meth is actually a big deal.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...

We’re seeing a massive spike in homicides so I think for some that is what is shattering the illusion of the post-90s quiet period we’re coming out of.

FWIW, I have personally been attacked by a person who was most likely experiencing meth-induced psychosis. I didn’t want to acknowledge how dangerous people can be.

Edit: and it’s not just the actual attacks being a sole problem. I can’t walk very far without having to dodge someone who is in full-blown psychosis, either screaming obscenities (if you said ‘faggot’ and ‘nigger’ sound like not nice things to say to passers by, I would agree) or violently brandishing construction materials or knives. Sometimes it is just destruction of public property, but that is less common, since they might actually be bothered if they cause too much damage in one place.

Sometimes the cops stop by, but they can’t do anything because being high on meth and making the public uncomfortable is not actually illegal and the jails won’t book anyone for anything less than murder or rape.
> If there were a way to reliably detect neutrinos in sufficient quantities they'd be ideal since you could send messages through the earth and at near light speed, I suppose.

> As opposed to how we communicate now globally?

From this interaction I thought you'd missed the point that "send messages through the earth" is something we're currently not doing. Of course you're right that the "if there were a way to reliably detect neutrinos" is doing a lot of work.
Maybe the Coronavirus was lower hanging fruit?
This is the biggest threat to Telco since they've paid billions in Spectrum. The sites that earn the most will be converted to 5G however CBRS has limitations but it's not bad.
I think we need a compiler written in excel!
> Why on Earth did the police feel it was necessary to do all this just to catch one guy?

It's because they had a good time doing it.
> most realized that someone calling your idea "stupid" doesn't mean they were calling you stupid--they would freely admit that they too occasionally offered stupid ideas.

Surprising that only one comment has highlighted what I'm about to say so far, so I'll repeat it:

This is great if you know you're in a community where you know that people say an idea is "stupid" they are being intellectually honest and not manipulative. The number of such communities out there is a rounding error near zero, and likely has always been - even within academic circles.

The reality is that there are plenty of people who will say an idea is "stupid" because they have an ulterior motive, and they thrive in places that normalize the use of such phrases in the name of intellectual honesty. This is clear when you look at the numbers: There exist very few places where you can reliably accept that calling an idea is stupid means little more than that an idea is stupid. For context, I went to an engineering program ranked higher than Caltech's equivalent department, and this technique was definitely weaponized there.

I don't doubt that Caltech is as you describe it, and it is indeed really nice to be in such an environment. However, trying to use this as a general policy elsewhere will very likely end up attracting and fostering truly toxic people.
Sure. That applies to HTTP and database transactions, too.

All else held equal, I'll take the more efficient solution. A lot of people working with DeFi and NFTs believe the same, which is why so much activity has been moving onto Solana.
They wouldn't allow voice call but yes you can do OTT apps like Signal , Whatsapp etc.
Your widgets look like they have a 1px 3D border? The Motif that I remember was much bulkier, e.g. https://i.imgur.com/aebBFsx.jpg
It required a 386sx or better with 4MB of RAM, and EGA or better graphics card.

This is quite reasonable for 1992, and the extra ram was likely needed only for the graphics. DESQView itself could run on an 8088 system and didn't even require EMS (although if you did have an EMS board, and configured the system so that the EMS board backfilled the latter 512K, it could multitask much larger programs at the same time as that enabled it to swap entire programs in/out of lower address space instantly).

I've been a low-level 8088 coding hobbyist for many years, and DESQView is still incredibly impressive to me, especially since I know what it has to do under the hood to work and be stable.
You need to update your knowledge on what "sacrifice" means, and how children are actually affected by the virus.
Do you know what its ingredient is? I’ve been looking for a nano-Hydroxypatite recently
Do you mean the Branch Davidians?
I am well aware of the "disadvantages" (to put it mildly) of hypothetical neutrino-based communications and I never suggested that they could viably replace EM-based communication
Another update: it looks like it uses Laravel's encryption API under the hood, which does indeed perform encrypt-then-MAC[1]. So this is probably not vulnerable to a padding oracle attack. But that wasn't obvious from the description, and it gave me a decent fright :-)

[1]: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/encryption#encrypting-a-value
I've given up on privacy. Cameras will be watching our every step. The only positive is it might make cops/feds more honest if they know they are being recorded at every step?
Hard disagree. For example, when doing a drug bust on a drugs kingpin the government won't bring out the bearcat. They very calmly arrange a meeting and work out a deal.
Nice gigamick.

This has a problem though, when you paste that link in a chat window (e.g. WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, ...), the app tries to get a link preview.

This has the side effect of also expiring the note.

I think it's best to implement a feature to detect whether it's a human opening the link or a bot.
Questioning the Already Questionable State of Global Demand
So it's kind of like a VLAN except it's strapped onto the 5G network of the various providers of 5G service via hotspots. Kind of like my 4G security system piggybacks on the network but isn't really callable by a regular old cell phone.
Please do. A wide portion of the Twitter audience wants crypto/NFT guys to disappear from Twitter, to the extent that they’re making blocklists and using third-party apps to filter out crypto-related posts and people. You’ll make life better for both sides.
Supreme court has upheld that some things can be banned if they are in the interest of maintaining the security of a detention facility. Inmates shouldn't be receiving books on how to make bombs for instance.
> The 1033 program requires that all equipment issued through it be used within one year of the date it is granted.

Wow, do you have a citation for that?
I don't think that's right.

1) I think an architecture change -- any architecture change -- is expensive. Intel and AMD dumped many billions of dollars into R&D around existing architectures, and an asynchronous one starts without a lot of that benefit.

2) There's a ton of stuff -- chipsets, RAM, software, etc. -- built up around synchronous. The engineering cost go up astronomically.

3) That's not to mention baseline engineering costs.

Async won't give a 2x boost to performance. I would guess it'd be 10%, maybe even 30%. That's not nearly enough to justify the investment.

Ivan Sutherlands' work certainly won't compete with teams 10+x times that size and investment.
Acquiring endless regulatory approvals.
What stops them from using codes in any other form of communication? This rationale fails the most basic sniff test.
reminds me of that Seinfield episode "The Library" where Jerry receives a $50,000 fine due to an overdue book for a nickel a day for 20 years.
I think if they destroy a door, and it's justified, the city should be obligated to pay. If it's found to be unjustified, the officer's malpractice insurance should pay.

Also, I think officer's should be required to carry malpractice insurance (similar to doctor's), and qualified immunity should be thrown out. This would give insurers a strong incentive to drive-out the cops that are prone to committing assault, battery, and unnecessary property damage. I guarantee you an insurer with a profit motive isn't going to just ignore 13 use of force complaints against an officer.

Such a scheme would also make it harder for bad officers to move a city or state and continue abusing the public elsewhere. Their insurance premiums would remain too high.
I’d love this. My meniscus exploded at one point and was surprised to find out ligaments are treatable but meniscus replacement most often means a new knee.
- Kafka couldn't cope up if there are hundreds or few thousands topics. High CPU load, longer startup times...

- Even empty Kafka topic consumes 20MB of on-disk storage (that's 20GB for 1000 topics)

- Inevitable coupling of non-partitioned topic to a particular Kafka broker limiting the storage scale

- Tiered storage was not available previously in Kafka (is it now available in open source version?)

- Native Multi Tenant support with Authentication / Authorization support not available in Kafka (essential for customer based thousands of namespaces and topics)
As someone who has had to face casual racism like this a lot due to being Indian, please take these casually racist tropes somewhere else. It's not okay.
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NEC engineer explains how to turn off backlight on a notebook (1992)
This reminds me of ycombinator. Exploit young people into entering a lottery where the only winner is the diversified investor.
Might be also a case of locations being considered far away enough from established effective flight paths
I think the prison system in the U.S. tells a lot about humanity and how democracy is (not) implemented. First of all, removing someone's access and right to speech and voting, is degenerative to the society. We send people to prison to punish them and punish our future as a society, and not acting rationally and in the original meaning of the Greek word "to punish" (τιμωρώ) which (approximately) meant to help.

What do you teach a prisoner by paying them 25cents or less for honest work...???
Stricter coronavirus testing being weighed for all travelers to U.S.
Yeah but you just need to think about what we look like and how we came about and look at the combination of things that helped (distance to the star, liquid water bombardment, moon regulation, Jupiter protection, time) to feel it's very unlikely there isn't just one other planet with these and at least cockroaches: that's enough to say we're not alone.

And finding these alien cockroaches even if it take millions of years of travel, would still change everything. To see another life, you imagine ? We need to try. I know they re trying to build telescope with enough resolution to see seasonal color changes in tree leaves from here, that would be really cool.
If all you have is a hammer - everything looks like a nail.
what prep did you use?

Afaik, GIs much rather prefer to use the scope, and would only use pillcam if everything but the small intestine hasn't been ruled out.
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Exactly. When someone "matters" they tail them and then "stop them for a tail light out" or find some other pretext to whisk them off the street. Shock and awe shit is for keeping the plebes in line.
octopuses and their relatives—the cephalopods—practice a type of genetic alteration called RNA editing that’s very rare in the rest of the animal kingdom. They use it to fine-tune the information encoded by their genes without altering the genes themselves. And they do so extensively, to a far greater degree than any other animal group.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/octopuse...
reproducibility in social sciences is usually a function of a)insurmountable costs of recruiting participants, b)complexity of the questions, and c) lack of standardization of humans. Sure social scientists would like to have N=1 billion, but they'd be lucky to get funding for 1,000.
I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to say. On the one hand it sounds like you're suggesting that I'm suggesting that YC making money off of HN might jeopardize some good faith. Why would it? What good faith are we talking about? YC is a business, and HN is a part of that business. I don't think that's a controversial statement...? If it is a community, it's the community YC owns and operates. The website's URL is a subdomain of YC, it's run and paid for by YC... even if HN existed for some altruistic purpose, if you asked YC if they would be happy to sever it from YC and put it completely in the hands of the community, I think we can safely assume the answer. And founders defend their companies and investments here, that shouldn't be a controversial statement either. Why wouldn't they?
You're using stupidly insulting low numbers to make a point that isn't valid. There's not like, no, cards. There's just not a lot.

Your other point about gamers not needing good/fast cards (in a follow up post) is also not super interesting to me, since all cards are at super-inflated values. Even old/used cards. For a long time RX580's were around $200. Not a blisteringly fast flagship even in it's day (spring 2017). Now they're $400. Just getting started with a basic card costs what a console does, and that's messed up. Obviously messed up.

There is for sure a supply issue here, absolutely. But with gpu miners and scalpers savaging the market, I think it's reckless beyond belief to pretend that we should just let this ride out, that we shouldn't try to help this market stay healthy.

I just cannot believe what protest there is against doing a basic good deed, trying to fight pernicious forces off. What makes you feel so strongly this way?
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I'm really excited about Julia 1.8 and diffractor:
https://github.com/JuliaDiff/Diffractor.jl

Keno Fisher did a presentation in a discussion moderated by Simon Peyton Jones here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQnSRfseu0c

Also combined with enzyme which can differentiate through static paths at the llvm bitcode level:
https://enzyme.mit.edu/

I wonder what this will enable at the frontier of what is computationally tractable in the combo of physics + ml.
I've been lurking on HN for about the last 8 years or so but only a few years ago made an account and I sparsely comment. Only a couple of weeks ago was my account considered worthy of being able to vote down. Meanwhile I've seen users essentially "game" their comment karma to high amounts within a few weeks.

I don't really agree with the idea that this place is an echo chamber, but I do sort of see it as similar to an IT meetup. You generally don't go to an IT focused meetup and start talking about abortion, religion, etc. and nobody would be surprised if you were kindly asked to leave the venue if you insisted on soap-boxing. If someone came and carted you off in a black van for speaking in a public place about your feelings on abortion I'd expect there to be a lot of push back from the public.
We're a ways away from 1.8rc1, but we probably will have a feature freeze for 1.8 soonish (next month or so). Hopefully, 1.8 takes less time to release than 1.7 did.
Anyone who can get into YC can easily find a well-paying job elsewhere, which is not true for a teenage dropout whose only skill is basketball
even if banned legally, the amounts of illegal surveillance will be mindboggling.

It'll only keep shrinking, until it is the size of dust particles, just another order of magnitude.

How do you prevent dust-cameras from being around? a pre-emptive EMP pulse lol?
I don't care much about hostile attacks. I just lost a few weeks until I debugged my computer was crashing due to a failing wifi card. I care about that sort of thing. That's totally fixable.
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I was talking about Nix in particular, but yes, if you’re an enormous and highly lucrative tech company you can pay a team of engineers to build your own reproducible build tool. If the same team is very talented they can probably even get Bazel working. ;) But I don’t think any large orgs at all use Nix, presumably because it doesn’t scale beyond a small number of (enthusiastic) developers.
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I once came across a shelf of old books that belong to the administartion of German local district (Landkreis), dating from the Napoleonic occupation until quite recently. Among them were editions of laws from the time of the Third Reich. It was interesting to see where the pencil marks were: the regulations how to proof your "Aryan" decent and the implications of different degrees of "Aryanness".
That is little consolation in the court of public opinion, where FBI management and the Justice Department have demonstrated willingness and capability to hold mob court and manipulate public opinion outside the formal legal system. They will SWAT you themselves if they like, on live TV.
We've done such release highlights for the last 3 releases, and certainly hope to continue!

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The article keeps saying "camera", but we only see the lens. How big is the sensor and cabling?
Private prisons are terrible but they're a tiny minority. Governments run the vast majority of prisons and also are responsible for outsourcing to private prisons.