skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So.

A new variant appears out of nowhere with a completely unclear evolution pathway, spreads twice as fast as Delta (despite not being related to Delta) and causes only mild symptoms - despite researchers saying that the coronavirus likely has not much evolutionary pressure to reduce lethality.

I guess "positive" conspiracy theories are less appealing, but I'm surprised there has not been any speculation yet that some "good samaritans" could have bioengineered this variant in an attempt to end the pandemic.
Oh you mean the Americans who think they have a 15-25% chance of dying from Covid if they get it? I wouldn't trust the majority to be well-informed.

https://covid19pulse.usc.edu/ (granted the numbers have been going down recently, but it still illustrates the hysteria quite well)

And I also wouldn't trust big pharma to have my best interest in mind.
Why do we link to some dude applying a HOWTO instead of the HOWTO?
Those are interesting use cases for sure. It seems like they would have more than paid for themselves. So, what critical issues (technical, usability, etc) did those AR glasses have that would explain the lack of interests in them?

Yes, please share specifics. I hope similar mistakes would be avoided time around and not delay AR adoption for another decade.
There have only been a handful of cases of myocarditis or pericarditis in mRNA vaccine recipients, generally young males. A handful. And none of them have died from it.

Remember that VAERS is pretty much the most garbage 'signal' you can possibly get when it comes to side effect reporting as there is pretty much no barrier to entry to get a 'side effect' in there - much less the requirement that you're a medical professional of any sort. It has its uses but saying someone died from the mRNA vaccine because it's in VAERS is like saying someone disappeared because of aliens. In fact, I'm sure you can find something like "turned me into an alien" in VAERS. I'd bet a beer on it.

Please get vaccinated if your doctor approves. Novavax isn't a for-sure deal, as it hasn't been peer reviewed and will be a long time until generally available if found viable.
We'll be sharing more details soon on the GitHub blog.
Yes I’ve also gotten locked out of my account for using their website
I didn't know that Dyson actually peddled Brexit. That is a massive disappointment on such a brilliant person. (I'd love to read more if you have references)
Every realtor has told me not to test for lead paint. If the house is older it has it, so if you test you have to check the box and then the new buyer will make you do something about it. If you don't test though you can remain ignorant.

Every house I've lived in has been painted a few times since lead paint was common, which covers up the problem. Getting rid of lead paint is possible, but not really affordable.
> We will rightly hold the algorithm to a much higher quality bar than existing human drivers.

Rightly? Delaying a life-saving measure when it's the #9 cause of death?

They should be deployed selectively as soon as they can make the most risk-prone situations safer than the cohort of involved human drivers. E.g. getting drunk people home. We don't have to wait until they surpass the average driver because the average driver is not necessarily the driver (heh) of deaths.

Doing anything else is leaving bodies on the table.
“…when it’s applied properly.”
Incredible... an amazing visualization. I like how you have the mine craft world in there :D
The average is probably horribly misrepresented. There are a ton of super long holders, which hold for decades, and a crazy high number of HFTs running that hold for microseconds. I bet nobody is actually close to the average, 22 seconds is extremely slow for software trading and extremely fast for a human. If you're using the holding duration as a proxy for people caring about companies, I think you are probably including a massive amount of HFT timing which it's clear isn't representing company loyalty. Also, what if an HFT buys and sells the same stock 1M times. The average time would likely be very short, but the "loyalty" could be 100%. Bad metric.
DocTR: Open-Source OCR Based on TensorFlow or PyTorch
For those looking for something similar, someone designed something called "Attika's 8880 EVO Tribute" which is on Rebrickable with some design updates and using currently available lego parts (as many of the 8880 are no longer produced), and you can either part it out or have some other party produce it using nockoff parts such as Vondado.
Should post encouraging dangerous conspiracy theories be given the same level of care as math questions?
So you believe that you have a way of changing the nature of humanity? This seems like the big claim, rather than the small one.
At this point, if it was ever going to happen, I think it would have already.
Can vouch for both apps! They're great for offline mode.
The claim cannot be supported, nor can it be refuted.

Based on your link for public facing servers [1] MS Windows has a Market share of ~22%, which Unix-like operating systems have ~78%. [2] However, there are a lot of operating systems that make up that 78%.

Breaking that down even further Linux based operating systems account for ~49% of that ~78% [3], which means Linux based operating systems have a ~38% total market share compared to Windows market share of ~22%

And again, breaking that down even further Debian has the largest market share at ~35% of all Linux based operating systems. [4] Which means Debian has a total market share of ~13%. Substantially lower than your claim.

In the context of this discussion you can't make the claim that all Linux based operating systems can be lumped together as they all have varying default shells and different versions of shells, so the portability of shell scripts comes into question.

However, beyond this that's only publicly facing systems. There's no way to determine how many installs of each operating system there are in private networks.

Long story short, it's a silly thing to debate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

[2] https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/operating_system

[3] https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-unix

[4] https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux
The only reason he would be fired is because he's terrible at masking.
I guess the next step is democratizing ML.

Right now we seem to be into a kind of "mainframe phase", where running big models is super expensive.

I wonder what kind of speedup we need for ML to be truly accessible for the average developer. 50x? 100x?
11 billion is less than a single aircraft carrier, of which US has already built several. There are better things to cut funding to than a one of a kind telescope.
Germany’s new government will firmly defend encryption
You "just" created something on Wikipedia and it hasn't been removed, yet? I thought this is impossible.
>Gopher/GPT-3 are already much more accurate than the average human at technical information retrieval

I agree in the same way than 70 % of people have less 100 iq, we depend in specialist when I need to know if I have epilepsi I need a person/thing who work is be up to date, and have the less bias as possible and agregator models are quite usually miss in understand what is crital info, try to program only whit github copilot or translate a novel(they do probably better than I don't English native) but not nearly as translator, seems correct but it isn't
Introduce processing log messages in order to maintain order and not lose any messages, even a poisoned one. The faulty messages are processed as any other message (write a 'did msg x : faulted') and then go to a fault-queue.

If you have inter-dependence between messages, you need to have a message id scheme that shows the interdependence. For example, a hierarchical message order can have a .dot delimited scheme. If a poison message is a parent, the subsequent message can go to the fault-queue as well.
https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer/issue...

:)
There are people doing that as well. There are many, many people in the world, working on one project does not preclude others from working on other projects too.
Lethal Autonomous Weapon
Read what I said instead of projecting what you think I said. I did not say anything about changing human nature.
> For example, I think that it's probably good for all of us that there's not really a whole lot of dynamic dispatch happening in the Linux kernel.

Between this and the other comment where you say Linus dislikes OOP I kinda get the feeling you ought to read some Linux kernel code. Because it's practically completely object-oriented and almost everything is done through a vtable for dynamic dispatch.
Salgado’s Serra Pelada
I think most critical phases you’d want to happen when the satellite is in direct contact with the ground stations (they probably make extensive use of relay satellites to maximize windows of telemetry/payload data transmission, but here we are talking about issuing critical command sequences). Those windows are not 8 hours long. Further, it apparently takes almost 30 days to travel to the L2 Lagrange point and not all systems deploy until then.

Edit: nope, I was wrong, it’s going to deploy a whole range of systems while on the way to the L2. https://youtu.be/RzGLKQ7_KZQ
You can skip the wait and use https://sourcegraph.com/search instead.
There was a mass suspension of accounts this morning
>(presumably MPEG-LA).

MPEG 2 has been patent free since 2018 in US and 2020 worldwide. Along with AAC-LC. They are charging for license key for the usage of that specific decoder block only. i.e The IP of the actual HW decoder, not the codec itself.

MPEG 2 and VC1 is so low in complexity you are software decode it with minimal CPU resource on RPi 4.
Arima has enough research that it’s covered in the Wikipedia section[0] as well as the Chess Programming Wiki[1], which is linked in the README. I’m specifically trying to collect research on contemporary games, which are not so easily available. Chess/Go and alike games are very covered already, however imperfect information games are much rarer for eg.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Arimaa

[1]: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Arimaa
I feel like even that requires a pretty broad definition of consciousness that starts to diverge from what the term usually connotes. This strikes me as similar to the classic question of whether an ant hill could be considered conscious. In the end I guess a lot comes down to semantics/definitions.
The smart money is doing that. Well, to be fair, it's just buying additional properties rather than fleeing. A large number of mansions have been constructed in the midwest, recently. This is not a coincidence.
> in a restrictive IT environment (no internet)

I think the question is why?

Is it a real security risk or simply cargo culting?
Exactly. Very well said - in other words: C++ is NOT ORTHOGONAL, whereas C is.

C++ is also an evolving monster that everyone uses different subsets of, and many developers only know or use subsets of, either for lack of expertise or out of conviction (see how polarised the discussion of exceptions in C++ is here).

And every five years, even more complexity gets added, making the C++ story a modern PL/1-like story.

For many decades, there were also substantial differences in compiler maturity, forcing many to rely on subsets artificially.
I believe HN already has had that for a long time with a minority persistently about GMail being "too powerful" and "ruining their business". If people actually want to talk to you and stop receiving an email they will send a message to you.
This similar to another case where Dyson was arguing that some standard for performance verification are unfair to their product (https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60... )

They usually use as reference their own test methodology, which is overall a bit pointless. Either make it a standard, or adhere to one.
>Your interpretation of the study is wrong (and probably shows your internal bias in this matter).

They claim to be comparing efficacy of natural immunity to that of vaccination, but they're not. They're not really "measuring" prior natural immunity at all, but just assuming it's there.

How's that misinterpreted?

That's not even close to "not a perfect study".

Yet it's being presented, like here, as evidence against the efficacy of natural immunity, which is something it's not, and as being applicable to the general public, when the sample population is self-selected to be only the sickest of the sick (2 hospital visits in a year).
Yes, it reminded me a lot of when I first started in computing. Today we are so abstracted from the horsepower that produces our experiences, to the extent that most Software Engineers don't actually know how their code works. Not saying that is a bad thing, not saying that it is mandatory, it's just an art and science that is eroding rapidly.

I started as an 8yr old, reading computer magazines, and initially coding in BASIC in 1K of RAM. I into Z80 Assembler and Machine Code at 10yrs - learning primitives like NMI's, Display DMA and Sound IO by hand with pencil, paper, and lots of reboot-causing mistakes. It was bruteforce, but still very influential in my understanding of a then-modern computer system.

Z80 was a simple-enough chip instruction set that I still remember most the mnemonics today, and many of the architectural principals are still valid even after so much time.
>I asked my pediatrician for blood lead test and they wouldn't do it as they said it's unnecessary

Ask to get that refusal in writing. I bet they'll change their mind.
The Past, Present, and Future of Energy: A Conversation with Jason Crawford
Define "accessible". Very modest hardware (sub $100 and certainly sub $1000) can train random forests very quickly. This is going to be close to SOTA on basically any classification task.
>Accuracy is improving rapidly though

It's asymptotic and it will never achieve 1:1 accuracy. The natural world doesn't have a measurable resolution, and this is apparent in written language, as we're seeing others detail in other comments, as well as it is in more relatable fields like sound. There will always be a difference between what your ears hear and 192kHz/24bit (and higher) digitized audio and/or video. That difference will always be a source of...mistakes.
But they are allowed by the regulators.
Who cares? They can just topple them again, every time one company grows too powerful. Just like mowing my lawn: I don’t complain that if I mow the grass, it’ll come back. I just mow it every time it grows too high.

It’s all part of the churn, and the government has abdicated their role of monopoly lawnmower.
There's always going to be people who don't care about/ take pride in/find meaning in their work. That's a totally legitimate way to approach it, but it's sort of an orthogonal discussion to the one we're having.

It's also pretty weird to "hate" that others have managed to find meaning in their work, and discuss the manner in which they do so. I don't get much enjoyment out of cars, but if I noticed that I _hated_ it when others talked about cars and insisted that they treat them only as generic conveyances, I'd probably want to do some self-reflection around my emotional state.
I have 10 different git + github instances across my org. (~50k strong workforce, pre github repos, m&a etc).
Does this cs offer aggregated searches across all those distributed repos?
The only Latin Americans from Latin America Ive ever known who are resentful of Spain are white, unemployed socialists who studied Marxism. And I like to think I’ve met enough of them.

Spain is fascinating. The “pop” image of her is seriously wrong (and this is widely known to historians).
Hopefully the timing of this article isn't because of the new German governments pro-cryptography stance.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/data-protection/interview/g...
At least one so-called "grey area" involves teenagers wearing revealing outfits or posing in potentially sexual ways. As far as I understand it most police forces do not waste their time with such imagery, even though it may technically be illegal, because there is just so much unambiguous child abuse imagery to deal with -- teenage girls taking pictures of themselves is a lot less alarming than a 40 year old filming himself abusing a 3 year old.
I made a music player that pulls data or organization purposes from Spotify but uses hidden videos from YouTube to play the actual music, bypassing the licensing issues:

https://minotaur.fm
This article is very misleading. Pinball has gone through many eras, and it is true that Addams Family in 1992 was the high water mark, but there's an equivalent peak in late 70s for the EM (Electromechanical, think gas-station price cylinders scoreboard). The article mostly talks about the SS era (Solid State, think 7-segment display scoreboard) which dipped a bit from the late 70s but ended in the late 80s early 90s. Addams Family itself is roughly a dividing line to the DMD era (Dot-Matrix Display), which many players consider the golden era of pinball where game design also became more precise and more "flow" was added to the game as well as more sophisticated modes and rules. Williams created many of the most beloved games during this period through steadily declining sales which did hit a wall and they tried to generate new excitement with their "Pinball 2000" form factor where there was a screen inset under the glass instead of a DMD. They only released a couple of these games and they basically killed the company they were so bad. However after that, Stern remained, and the 2000s were kind of a wilderness era where they sort of picked up the torch of the DMD era, and developed their own modern style. Sales were not high during this time, but they were surviving. This was the state of the world in 2009 when the article was written, so it's understandable they didn't know what was coming. In the early 2010s there started a resurgence of pinball both with hobbyists and competitive play. Stern found a new stride with a series of games with deeper rules and more strategic play with layers of much more complexity and stacking of multipliers such that top players can achieve scores that would take hours or even days of grinding (eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdIArp3BW2g). Over the last 5-6 years they've switched to full video displays, and a culmination of deeper rules and more creative and dense playfield layouts being created by luminary new designers such as Keith Elwin (the Michael Jordan of competitive pinball). I'm not sure if sales have reached Addams Family level yet as I don't think Stern publishes units sold, but I'm sure they are within spitting distance. Additionally several new companies (Jersey Jack, Spooky, Pinball Brothers, etc) have emerged designing and manufacturing new machines, none of them the market power of Stern, but they are bringing a lot of interesting new ideas and super fun games in their own right.

There's never been a better time for pinball.
As a fun exercise add erosion into the picture as a memory mechanism. Then just imagine a river flowing, rocks tumbling, birds chirping...
> Because the Spaniards were, by far, the most benign European imperialists.

Laughs in Pizzaro
> the most benign European imperialists.

"most benign" does not equal "least worse".

sure, they didn't violiently decimate the native populations, salmonella took care of that on its own.

And instead of violently killing the remaining natives they raped and enslaved them (as compared to just murdered them). That is not benign in any way, shape, or form.
For those complaining about the spending: some countries spent TRILLIONS on war and and nation building. It's developments like these we should be focusing our energy and intelect.
Wasn't aware Handsontable had migrated from an open-source to a purely commercial license, with exceptions, as described in the linked article: https://handsontable.com/blog/articles/2019/3/handsontable-d...

But I'm glad they still allow some free license exceptions for other open-source projects, students, etc and also this part of their announcement:

> That is why we are excited to announce that we will be giving 1% of our monthly net profit back to open source creators.
Epic vs. Apple ruling put on hold after appeals court grants a stay
Majestic is the first one that comes to mind.
It could be like Flash: everyone agrees it’s awful, nobody wants to lose it on their device… but if Apple cuts off a large enough share of the market, it could be enough to cut down Facebook forever.
Is 10 years a hard max (like does it crash into the moon or something?) or is it just a projected max timeframe?

I wonder that mostly because we've managed to use a lot of our other space equipment well past their their mission lengths. I'd be interested if JWST is possibly the same.
Yup, somehow you need to get people to own your problems for you or at least attention on your problems. You can rent it by paying people (wages). You can sell it by making it seem important to them (Tesla has no marketing department or budget for instance).

Or you can share it by having partners or shareholders.
Call center software provider Genesys raises $580M
Managers are afraid of remote because it is more work for them.

Sucks for them, the 37% will soon become 95% because remote work is self-amplifying: the 60% office is not a good place to work
'Tesla as the World’s Biggest Robot Company:' Elon Musk
How WireGuard made it into Linux
sounds like you should have enforced your moral copyright for credit. Being denied recognition as the creator of a work is a offence and the circumstances look like a judge would direct a jury to apply statutory punitive damages, making it a relatively straightforward no win no fee case to take. IANArealL just had the role as a general partner with unlimited liability for 23 years in a computational advertising company.
Uncharitable? Read his follow up that starts with:

"A lot of sysadmins:

1. Aren't "very intelligent"."

A spade is a spade.
With $11B why can't we funnel all that money into _fusion_ research? Feels like a bigger payoff than anything this could bring :/