skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should care because their behavior is a strong negative signal that they don't care about supporting existing users and taking responsibility for code that they have written and supported in the past and because it will ultimately cost them users and contributors.

From a technical standpoint if there is existing functionality that is widely used and even if it is deprecated it should not simply be removed. Deprecation means that no new projects should make use of that functionality. Actively removing functionality without providing a path forward that supports the same features is a sign of an immature engineering culture.

Gentoo patches system pip to ensure that users don't fubar their systems. Some distros do actually know what they are doing, sometimes better than upstream. I would argue that distro python is so often broken precisely because the core solutions for python packaging are immature to say the least, and entirely deficient and poorly thought out to say the worst. This is likely largely due to the reliance on virtual environments which are the ultimate non-solution and allow the real problems to fester without a solution.
>'biological sex', which is not an arbitrary social structure.

it's still a potentially dangerous shorthand for typical normative and often simply assumed development that deviates more often than assumed, especially because we only really detect and diagnose it if it causes severe issues as "intersex".

Also, gender and gender expression are not the same. The gender expression of a stone butch is pretty masculine, but their gender is not male.

> age is not an arbitrary social structure

That's not the reason age and gender are different. Both are relevant for how we treat people, but gender, at least with our current social assumptions, is an exclusive or, while old people have already been young.
I explained it already. The reason why you don't think it has been explained is the same reason you don't understand. I said nothing about prop trading...but you don't are missing knowledge that you get taught first year in a finance course, and you were a engineer...as I said, I don't think you have any awareness about the limits of your knowledge.
And The US gets something from it as well. They get political backup from their coalition and the ability to project hard and soft power from most of these countries.

This of course leads to financial return on investment from this military expense
I see very little on LinkedIn that is outright fake. What I do see is a heavy filter put on people's experiences. But that makes sense to me - this is not a social media site - it is an online resume. Don't get fooled into thinking it is anything more or less just because they have a news feed.
I think you might misunderstand the difference between opinion and fact.
Moving your shit from AWS can be really expensive, depending on how much shit you have. If you're nice, GCP may subsidise - or even cover - the costs!
Today I learned that buoyant inflatable balloons have been around a lot longer than I thought.
You have to keep your hands on the wheel, but even then it's not really a motor control issue, the problem is attention and surprise.
I think these are just hall effect sensors and you can find Arduino compatible ones
My reading of the situation is that for 99.99% of data currently transferred by Bittorrent, v1 works just fine. And for many use cases, the ability to do something like change an already created torrent would actually be detrimental. It's not that v2 is actively bad, it's just that it's designed for a different audience than currently uses Bittorrent, and will take time for that new audience to find it.
yea agree -- and while my comment elsewhere is being downvoted to the pits, I do understand the Debian/Ubuntu python teams' sense of overwhelm; Debian/Ubuntu simply does not have enough hands to handle changing the OS dependencies on system Python, the moving library sets that are in fashion AND small changes to reset Python "not-three" to be just a tool, not a system component. So they chose to make good-enough package sets of Python binaries, which seem to please no one but work reliably.

It's clear to me that there are immature people involved due to the name calling and basically vandalism of "not-three" Python on Debian, in addition to the incredibly smart and long-term committed people that make Debian uniquely great. I wrote email to Chris Lamb directly, but how could he work harder than he did. Herded cats would do better to listen sometimes.

and while I was typing, Perl5 was updated TODAY
> I've never never seen an AZ go down, and the only region that has gone down has been us-east-1.

Doesn't the region going down mean that _all_ its AZs have gone down?
Or is my mental model of this incorrect?
Isn't Ethereum moving to Proof of Stake though?
When I was younger, often "falling" asleep felt like literally falling. I'd slam my arms down on the bed to "catch" myself, and shoot straight into a panicked awake state until my heart was ready to sleep again. I'd usually have memories just as described, weird combinations of the physical reality of my bedroom with random dream-stuff. I've also felt this on airplanes, not able to fall into any deeper level of sleep but fast-forwarding through time in a semi-aware state.

I did have some really interesting ideas, but usually without writing them down they are forgotten, so I tried that for a while. Can't say I ever thought of anything actually useful this way though, or ever thought about doing it to myself on purpose.
Hytradboi
Opera joins forces with Solana Labs to integrate Solana blockchain DApps
This fits me to a T.

I would imagine it fits most of us active on HN as well. Always an interesting set of content and usually an even more interesting set of comments.
Tried to use them for a purchase a few months ago. My situation was slightly non-standard but nothing major.

After filling out their questions I was pre-approved almost immediately. When their broker emailed me for details though, I explained my situation and rather than looking into it at all he just told me it probably wouldn't work.

I was able to make the purchase through another mortgage broker a few weeks later so I don't think my situation was actually all that complicated, it seemed like their broker just couldn't be bothered.

As a bonus they sold my info to a real estate broker who continued to harass me for weeks even after I told them to stop contacting me.
I feel like this is only helpful if one has the resources to pursue the ideas. Otherwise it could be depressing.
Does this mitigate any aspect of DDOS?
I thought Handshake looked nice, but it turned out to be just more crypto and coins.
Why would you need to wait when there's already running code you can use? It isn't as if the world's developers are sitting on their hands waiting for IETF to mint a new RFC before implementing.

And if nobody knows the requirements for the "metaverse" yet, then it would be too early to conclude what is needed, right?

UPDATE: turns out Facebook is heavily involved in quic and HTTP 3 already so it is likely they will go that route: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/10/21/networking-traffic/how...
It doesn't surprise me that it's this particular scenario, I've seen a lot of Youtube videos of them going way over the center line on turns in this kind of road (2 lane rural with 55 mph) even in broad daylight
Just writing death threat for the president online is a crime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Buddhi

No other concrete step is needed.
tax advisor for tech people to cut through IRS crap
I was annoyed with how complex taxes were with multiple income streams + ISOs + crypto + owning a property etc... and unhappy with my CPA. Trying to see if any interest in the above: one holistic view of all streams of income paired with CPA to review everything and ask questions to. Curious if anyone else thinks this would be helpful or has critique for the concept. Thanks!

https://avail.tax
Again...you are acting as if the people being hired are...what? Not humans with free will?
Even US Navy is migrating to Rust? ;-)
> 'biological sex', which is not an arbitrary social structure

‘Biological sex’, the two-valued function of the multidimensional space of observed physical characteristics, is an arbitrary social structure, and one which has evolved over time.
What you’re looking for is Roon.
The link looks interesting. Thanks. Maybe Lewis Carrol's quote about words could be applied to identity as well:

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that's all.”

Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass
Me in a position of power,

Poor schmuck who's desperate

Me showing pity on the schmuck

Schmuck uses the opportunity

Me showing LinkedIn how great I'm
TL;DR:

- only targets windows

- only uses USB drives

The rest of the article dives into windows highly specific exploits and therefore lacks in generality.
China uses quantum satellite to protect power grid against attacks
Sure, but by the time the introduced these licenses, people stopped caring about Delphi.

IIRC Borland never did that, and that's why it's no longer a household name.
Tbh I wasn't really making a point, I just thought it was a funny association
I wonder if other changes, not just sleep, but quick changes to environment can create this effect as well.

Your description regarding the feeling you had walking your dogs is very similar to something which happened to me once just as I was leaving work, as I was walking out of my office.

As I walked out the door, everything felt very crisp, my mind felt lighter, and it was as if my senses were working at 200%. At that time I believe I experienced that same "clarity regarding anything I examined in my mind" you described. I thought about several things and knew in that moment exactly what needed to be done in each of them, with what felt like more than absolute certainty. It only lasted a few minutes, and had left by the time I returned home.

It's never happened again. When I think back on that day, I can almost feel it, like I'm grasping at that sense of clarity, but it always remains out of reach.
> implying, you know, that they aren't experts

The interview is with the CEO of BioNTech, not an impartial individual regardless of his qualifications.

Of course this alone doesn't mean anything.

Though we can attempt to create meaning by applying context, from Dec 2020:

> Moderna's chief medical officer, Tal Zaks, said last month that he believed it was likely the vaccine would prevent transmission but warned that there was not yet "sufficient evidence" of it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-says-no-evidence-coronav...

A quote that is technically correct, but at the time was highly suggestive, and eventually proved to be way off base.

So here we are again, taking quotes from "experts".
It's high enough that the people building it say it's not safe to take your hands off the wheel or your eyes off the road.
HN should support this. When most of software engineers turn 40, they'll see a sudden loss of interest from hiring managers. Imagine you could claim you're 25 when you're 50, and if HRs make noise about this nonsense, you'll just label them agists, oldphobes and very bad small minded people in general. Repurpose the woke movement for your needs.
I've been buying arylic https://www.arylic.com/ devices to see if i like them. You build them into your hardware, so more flexible than most. You are stuck with their system though, it can be controlled via homeassistant (or so it is claimed, I haven't tried that ) but you can't connect it to your computer via network which would be nice as I have a good audio interface already (for xlr microphones) and just want to extend that on.

There are diy solutions, but I don't have time to play anymore, I just want it to work. I also want it to look finished, not like a rats nest of wires.
If my kid told me they wanted to be a twitch streamer I would advise them against investing a significant amount of time and effort building a business with a single gatekeeper.

If they wanted to be a famous personality, I would insist they start building a profile on every platform.
Wouldn't you then be processing images on multiple CDN nodes, instead of just doing it once and serving from multiple CDN nodes?
A real job is one where a boss can arbitrarily fire you so that you learn to respect your elders and anybody who doesn't have a real job is bypassing the critical societal conditioning step and should be shamed.

-some old fucks. probably
So -- ctrl-f "Dash" only produces four results and it's hidden away in the bottom of the page. It's false to claim that even 20% of the post mortem is addressing the failure of the dashboard.

The problem is that the dashboard requires VP approval to be updated. Which is broken. The dashboard should be automatic. The dashboard should update before even a single member of the AWS team knows there's something wrong.
Per the paper it's not quite real time (15 fps), and they suggest converting to a different representation (PlenOctrees) for real time.

But yes, it's far more realistic than your simple mesh-and-texture; the video shows it handles reflections and transparency. When NeRF came out (~2020?) it was a major step forward in light field quality and this technique appears to maintain that quality.
Riding it to get around the city, compared to NYC, is also twice as fast. I think that's due to the general layout with the counter-rotating trains acting as a circular hub-spoke design allowing riders to move around the city more efficiently. Imagine being able to go from Rosevelt/74th in Queens (La Guardia Airport) to Times Square in under 30 mins ... Barajas (Madrid Airport) to Plaza del Sol takes about 25-30 mins, including 2 transfers (about $6 including airport surcharge). The last time I took JFK to Penn Plaza (34th st/midtown) on the A-train was 2+ hours; riding the LIRR it was about 30 mins and $20 dollars off-peak.
How do you feel about Mitsuo Iso ?
Don't hold your breath, a lot of these projects are done at what we consumers would consider low rez.
> One of the interesting possibilities for the Fermi Paradox is the fact that we've wiped out the readily accessible deposits of iron, coal, oil, etc. A second go at the industrial revolution would be much harder, if we regressed that far.

It’s odd to me that we don’t see this specific point discussed all that much. Sure, it comes up here and there now and then, but I think it deserves an extended discussion. My understanding, based on what I’ve read about this implication, is that we as a human species only get one chance to evolve beyond the gravity well of our planet. If we fuck this up, and by all accounts it looks like we are, we will be condemned to extinction on Earth.
Quantum Experiments at Space Scale
I am guessing that [1] pointed to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTyX_EJQOIU

I don't see the reference.
As for other cold areas in the contiguous united states. You have Peter Sinks, near Bear Lake, Utah. In which a sinkhole half of a mile in diameter has no outlet valley, is at 8,164 feet and in a dry climate.

Which has the second coldest temperature recorded in the lower 48 of -69.3F on Feb 1, 1985. [1]

https://climate.usu.edu/PeterSinks/index.php
Let’s experiment then, and go for a couple years where all advertising is banned. Then we can regroup and decide if our needs are still being met without ads.
Anywhere on Earth in One Hour
Automated theorem proving + neural language models + reinforcement learning.

I think most people seriously underestimate how powerful modern proof assistants like Lean [1] are for building things like provably correct software and chips, as well as verifying math research. But fully formalizing anything big leads to a proliferation of small annoying lemmas -- not "difficult" to prove per se, just annoying and time-wasting. I'm working on a neural theorem prover that aims to solve these lemmas fully automatically.

[1] https://leanprover.github.io/
Worlds Collide. I did not expect to see something from crimethinc on Hacker News. Any other xvx tech people please say hello.
I work in digital advertising. I manage several billion impressions a year in ads spend and over $15M a year. I think it's easy for engineers to undervalue the importance of advertising. Without marketing, many many well-engineered products would never be discovered. This is why marketing is considered a core function of business. It speeds up the integration of new products and technologies into the general society. It seems like you're lumping all advertising for all products into the same category. It's more likely you just don't like seeing ads for products you don't like. And this is the goal of contemporary digital ads: To only show products to users who are likely to purchase them.

Human beings have ideas that organize themselves into formal groupings that need to be formally promoted in order to sustain the cost of the business. Products need to rapidly scale. And marketing/advertising makes that possible. Hating advertising is like hating the dollar for being necessary to exchange value in society.

We need advertising to make the products you engineer viable business ideas. Without advertising, 99.9% of good product will never be discovered.
Yes. Nanite is very clever. A mesh representation that can be shown at a huge range of levels of detail is what makes it go. Much of the work is moved to asset preprocessing. The actual rendering is simplified. There are about as many triangles being drawn as there are pixels, regardless of scene complexity. If a triangle is bigger than a pixel, it's time to zoom in to a higher LOD for that part of the mesh. If a triangle is much smaller than a pixel, a higher LOD can be used. This is a reduction from O(N) to O(1). So draw time is constant regardless of scene complexity.

Watch the SIGGRAPH video to get the feelings of: that's impossible - oh, I kind of see how that works - one pixel triangles? - how do they get that mesh representation set up right? - oh, graph theory - that data format has to be a pain to generate with all those constraints - they're rendering mostly in the CPU? - that's all that needs to be done at render time? - GPUs need to be redesigned to be a better match to this - how to stream this stuff? - that compression scheme is clever.
Something that happened a few times to me during this transitional state is “hearing” (more like hallucinating) music that I was singing in my mind while still awake. Except much clearer and vivid than ever before. I think that since the ordinary hearing function was just shutting itself off, the conscious brain could experience only its memory of the song and did it intensely so.

It lasted a couple of seconds only, while I was extremely tired, but it was an amazing experience.

It’s such a fascinating topic and yet it’s remarkable how little we still know about sleep, consciousness, dreams, etc.
> It's not ruthless -- it's business.

Targeting all employees of a smaller company to destroy them is considered unfair business practice in some countries (legitimately IMHO). It's similar than selling at loss until your smaller competitor is out of business.
Doesn't look like (this) implementation has been updated much recently, but there is one available at least:

https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/v95u.htm

Additional info/context here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_(programming_language)
Icon is a fantastic programming language. It's... a lot like jq, actually, though both are independently developed, and Stephen Dolan never knew about Icon when he wrote jq.

The primary characteristic of both is that they have pervasive backtracking. The primary difference is that jq is built around a concept of immutable, copy-on-write data types. Well, the syntax is also radically different, but that's less interesting to me.

Anyways, I'm very fond of Icon, and I miss writing code in it. It really feels like a language that could have been a much better Python or Perl N. There was an effort to make it so called Unicon, but it never really took off.
Ask HN: What JS framework/library would you use for lightweight frontend work
I am soon starting a project where I am in need of a JavaScript framework to do pretty much only very lightweight frontend work with. I have looked around at things like react, angular, vue, svelte, ember and so on but all of them seem pretty hefty for the purpose. I could use vanilla JS but I am in the mood for testing something new. The other parts of the tech stack are going to be node/express, some css framework like tailwind or bulma and sqlite. Basically to be as "portable" as possible.

Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.
A service that makes 100 users a millionaire is a low number? And by the way, there is no way to know how much people are really making because they not only get money through Twitch but also through tip systems, merchandise, promotion, sponsors and other revenue generating activities.
There used to be a compiler (to C) and an interpreter available, but the compiler was dropped eventually.
true. The snapdroid app can also stream audio to the phone.
> When going to sleep, my mind is wandering. But at one point it drifts from real world thoughts to completely abstract concepts and wild imagination that sometimes makes no sense. It’s almost like a hallucination.

I can trigger this in myself consistently. Usually, it's either by pushing myself to stay awake for too long on too little sleep or waking up after a full days work and only sleeping a few (2-4) hours.

I try not to, I find it terrifying tbh.
‘Brits driven out by angry locals (again) after wandering into territory thats not theirs’
ah, that explains a lot....
The actual representation is using voxels to index a spherical harmonic coding of scene detail (I think), and that includes transparency so the novel view synthesis accretes light along the ray length. This lets it represent transparency and other lighting effects that aren't possible with simple photogrammetry.
Yelp and Groupon battle over non-compete law in Seattle
Is the rest correct?

That is to say, there is an incentive for higher overall insurance spend, because it allows for higher admin fees (including profit)
Not just the car, they are dropping an additional 10k to be specifically part of the test.
> They are your average Joe

I think you're blurring some lines. I don't imagine Ben Levin (a friend of the much more famous Adam Neely) is a millionaire, and I certainly don't imagine either of them are anywhere on the same level as someone like MrBeast, who actually employs a crew much like a TV show might.

It certainly is as easy as ever to get started, but I think this idea that anyone can just pick up an iphone camera and become a millionaire is a bit disingenuous. As the article alludes, it does take effort, sacrifice and probably a healthy dose of luck to get somewhere in the industry, especially with how crowded it has become.
China's New Aircraft Is Based on a Rejected NASA Design
http://bitgrid.blogspot.com

The idea is dead simple, 4 bit input, 4 bit output lookup tables clocked in alternative phases, like a chess board, as a general purpose computing fabric.
> [This article] had to go deep into a branch of theoretical math to find a place where ML could make a demonstrable impact

I have no opinion on this paper, but that is generally how cutting-edge research works. First, choose an impactful unsolved problem you have the highest chance of solving. Then, use the new learnings to ascend higher mountains.