skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it was about getting legislation through that would make sense. If it's about getting certain individuals into positions of power, however, the opposite is true. /cynical
I left for bitwarden like many when they joined logmein. Love my current experience with it, I host it myself with linuxserver.io's docker container but also subscribe just to keep them funded. Product works great, and very easy to import your LastPass export if you are hesitant to switch everything.
I'm curious as to whether there would be a market for a new, more modern form of tape-based storage, one that incorporated ideas from modern HDD design, had a lower barrier to entry, and/or was based on open-source hardware outside of an existing proprietary ecosystem.
That's very cute but that doesn't mirror my experience with reality at all. Sysadmins are people who are hired with specific knowledge regarding maintenance and management of the infrastructure. They are expected to have operational knowledge, are not asked to design novel solutions to unforseen problems and are paid accordingly. Most sysadmins I have worked with become unpleasant when they reach the limits of their expertise not curious. Good sysadmins tend to leave the field for better paid position in engineering or get hired as SRE by large companies which is aking to moving to an engineering position because SRE work like engineer.

The idea that senior sysadmins are behind the push towards automation is amusing. The biggest shift in the field in the past two decades came from Google when they decided to solve the tension between developers and sysadmins by more or less firing their sysadmins and hiring engineers to do the job instead.
Have you checked out TensorFlow.js? May be what you're looking for...
Here's one that I personally find really interesting: Spiegel is one of the major German news magazines, and it has a small international section, where it takes the most important important, almost always long-form articles per day and translates them into English. As a result, it's both better than the German language Spiegel (which contains the usual fluff), and better than most English language publications (in curation, not sum of good content). It's EU focused, but maybe worth a gander:

https://www.spiegel.de/international/
I didn't really see anything that unreasonable. What did you find "beyond damning"?
There are high level abstractions like keras and tensorflow.js (or even higher level GUI tools). All of them are fairly accessible to people with some basic programming knowledge.

I don't get your point about JS developers not enjoying the fruits of these labors - they don't need to enjoy them because they work in a different domain. And if they're interested in playing around with deep learning, the higher level APIs are easy to pick up. I'm not sure what you're expecting to see.
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Might need a (1995) in the title, so phrases like “the middle of the last century” make more sense
"The average hourly wage for production and non-supervisory workers is up 5.8 percent over the last year. It’s up 10.3 percent if we want to go back two years."

"The increases are even larger towards the bottom end of the wage distribution. The average hourly wage for non-supervisory workers in restaurants has risen 12.4 percent over the last year and 13.5 percent over the last two years."

https://cepr.net/the-medias-war-against-biden-over-inflation...

Inflation is mostly a problem for people who are holding debt, not the bottom 90%.
No, it's definitely Microsoft's broken code. Earlier today Teams told me angrily to use Chrome, when I was in fact, using Chrome.
It Caught Me by Surprise
> There were no guns,

There were guns; several firearms charges have been filed related to the Insurrection.

> there was no centralized organization to indicate an insurrection,

A single centralized organization is not required for an insurrection; there were various organized groups with common purpose as well as participants inspired by direct calls from influential leaders without participating in a formal organization.

> the 4 people who died were all protestors,

insurrections, especially unsuccessful ones, very often experience disproportionate casualties. Even beyond disputes about which deaths count as due to Jan. 6, not sure why you’d cite this since it doesn't even support your case.

> But calling it an INSURRECTION is just

Is just factually accurate; it was a violent, unlawful collective action aimed at using force and threat of force against officials as a means of overturning the election and keeping the loser in the paramount executive position; the particular official acts it sought to intimidate people into taking were advocate by the leader it sought to retain in power and the approach of intimidation was also at his direction; it was insurrection in support of an auto-coup.

That it was, perhaps, desperately and hurriedly assembled, poorly planned and organized, and certainly ultimately unsuccessful isn't an argument that it wasn't an insurrection.
At the time I used the gift feature it was just an option within the dashboard, but checking now there is an entire page explaining it (really well done)

https://mailoji.com/gifts

And I’m a giant fan of ENS as a protocol. FYI even though there is a 3 character minimum because they use Unicode there are a few hundred emojis that are technically 3 characters allowing for registration of single character emoji ENS names. Beware though Unicode also allows Zero Width Joinder characters so there are people who add them in bad faith in attempt to sell desirable names to unsuspecting buyers that don’t get what they think they are paying for.

Edit: the link was bad, but example of legit single character emoji ENS is [pirate flag].eth you can search it directly in the ENS App
The claim "world's most productive programming language" might be accurate in that it has such a huge standard library -- sooooo many built-in functions.
> research into synthetic fuels appears to my untrained eye to be at about the Wright brothers stage

The Nazis made heavy use of synthetic fuels. They weren't zero carbon but it's basically the same process.

IMO, it's closer to viable than zero-carbon concrete. We need to do both.
>> three were armed

Only one person was found with a gun on capitol grounds and not in the capitol.

So there were no known guns inside the capitol.

> Lonnie Coffman had the gun in his vehicle.

> Guy Refitt is being charged based on his son's testimony but claims he did not have it on him
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-riot...

It's literally sensationalism, inflating statistically insignificant facts in order to futher a narrative.
I think PyTorch c++ api is less mature and harder to compile into other projects. Tensorflow started with the c++ api exposed which is why the graph format is so stable and favorable to deployment in heterogeneous environments.
Like every tool and technology it's how you use it that counts.

My memories of Web 1.0 were not so fond. It was a rogue's gallery of low quality websites that lacked any sense of security and much harder to tell if something was official and legitimate. People who never used the web before were easily scammed. That's why most people stayed within the AOL walled garden. Remember most of my friends used the open web to download warez (games/apps) which was usually loaded with viruses and we were on Windows and not on MacOS/Linux yet so it was easy to get pwned.

The progression to Web 2.0 brought about social media but it also brought about web apps. We could now build really useful websites that actually helped users do things they could never do before. Even look at GitHub something we take for granted but is made possible by Web 2.0. The tech industry has built an incredible amount of utility and value using Web 2.0 that does not include social media or invasive tracking.

Social Media like Facebook is regressive because it uses Web 2.0 technology but using the walled garden paradigm that AOL used in the past. So it effectively is a misuse of the technology originally designed for the open web. Jack Dorsey mentioned that the future of social media is federated and decentralized using blockchain so efforts like Blue Sky will make Facebook and the centralized walled garden obsolete.
Covid can't just mutate to become more and more transmissible off to infinity. The likelihood of a new variant being able to out compete Omicron is lower than a variant that can out compete Delta. There's also selection pressure towards milder disease, because someone with milder disease is more likely to be out in the world spreading it than they are to be quarantined at home.

The probability of a more transmissible, more virulent strain just went down, not up. It certainly isn't zero, but "more transmissible less virulent" is exactly how viruses tend to evolve. Mutations are a dice roll and it there's no way to be sure of anything, but being a little optimistic is completely appropriate.
> Can an article really be any good if it starts off with such obvious SEO spam?

That's an interesting take. I fail to see how such mentions, in an article that compares two things and, thus, mentions both things together, are in any way SEO spam?

For example, in an article comparing apples and oranges I would expect to see a rather high number of mentions of "apples and oranges". After all, that is the topic.
I'm gonna say vinyl is a bit more than mainstream. I can buy records at Walmart. That usually means a trend is widespread.
To me it means a more immersive computing experience. For example, we mostly interface with computing devices via a flat screen or mic/speaker, the metaverse will allow development of more mainstream Human–computer interaction (HCI) technologies that changes the way we do day to day tasks on computer, like social networking, gaming, entertainment, office work etc.
>Wait times are insane unless you're a big player.

And there is the point you are missing from my original comment. As I said, you need competition for prices to stay connected to costs. The big players control something like 80-90% of the market. They have the power to monopolize the supply pushing out the smaller players while simultaneously raising prices. How else would a backlog lead to increased profits if the backlog wasn't used as an excuse to raise prices beyond the increased costs?
I completely disagree. No one is ever going to write out a url by hand on notebook paper. Even in the rare case that a url would fit on a single line, it's just needlessly cumbersome work to do. I think the project author did a great job allowing for further site customization (styles, images, etc.) without overcomplicating the hand-written portion.
Vertical mouse, good keyboard and fish oil pills, simple stretches before working. After my internship working on a MacBook all summer my fingers were in a terrible state and it took a few weeks of minimal usage to recover. Now with the techniques I mentioned above I still have mild irritation after long workdays but it’s completely bearable.

I also found the advice on here to wear long sleeves to promote blood flow and keep your hands warm, this works well.
If you are going to trust all people and their claimed motivations without thinking, you are going to set yourself as a victim.

Would it be cynical to wonder who benefits from such credulity? b^)

Actually the most vocal seldom benefit from their "optimism". Sometimes they are hired by those who do benefit, so they get a sort of indirect benefit.
Thing of the 'whole browser' as basically a GUI framework these days.
Merriam-Webster, the Orwellian dictionary which changed the definition of "sexual preference" just after Amy Coney Barrett used it in her SCOTUS appointment hearings? [1][2]

[1] Snopes: Did Merriam-Webster Update Its Entry on ‘Sexual Preference’ After Barrett Hearing? https://archive.ph/dFEIk

[2] Of course, they say only changed it merely "after" she used it, not "because" of it. But come on...
I see the confusion now. I wrote caller-saved when I meant callee-saved. In general you don’t need to preserve callee-saved registers if you don’t use them during normal control flow but in the “sync” case you always have to save callee-saved registers on task switch. In the Async case, you simple return to the executor.
You are correct, HAVING is essentially syntax sugar. But to be fair, I'm glad it exists.
Yes you are completely right. I didn't know everyone would expect the pricing on the website. I quickly created a page and released it right here: https://preflight.com/pricing
This was technical issue.
Windows 9 had issue that a lot of software had checks if this is windows 95/98 by comparing only windows 9 part, this caused in testing that some software was throwing errors on windows 9, that you need something like windows xp
I'm not arguing in bad faith. I'm stating that it's not unreasonable to want to disassociate from a person who is actively supporting a movement/platform/party that actively works to harm/negatively affect them, especially when it's at a legislative level.

EDIT: Also, to be clear, my original comment was intended for the stat presented that people are saying they wouldn't date someone that voted Republican. I think it's even less unreasonable to not romantically pursue a stranger with political incompatibilities
The issue now is that business believe that price elasticity is less because of the shortages and are therefore raising the prices beyond what the increases caused by the shortages. There was an article recently, and I'll see if I can dig it up saying that some important part of this inflation is actually price gouging and we are likely to see record profits from some of these businesses.
> I mostly disagree. In my experience, papers are difficult to read because they are as concise as possible, striving to refer to previous work for anything that's not original, and only elaborating on original things. This is done to make them as quick as possible to read by experts, which is pretty important given the immense volume of papers that appear in many fields.

This is consistent with what I said: Papers are difficult to read by choice. Yes, they strive to make it as concise as possible, which translates to making them harder to read.

Where I would disagree is the claim that it is done to make it as quick as possible to read by experts. In my field, the experts would skim papers quickly to get an idea, but if they then honed in on a paper to actually extract the meat of it so they can use it in their own work, it would take a lot of time, and was a pain.

I've heard from math professors that it takes about a day to read and digest one page of a journal article in their field.

Also disagree on it merely being a matter of consulting references. My work was theoretical/computational. It was common to see the final equations without any derivation, and many experts would not be able to reproduce it. There are lots of tricks that go into the derivation, but they are not provided under the pretext that any expert should be able to solve the equations and derive them.

And in the day of digital media, it's quite trivial to write a paper the way you suggest, and then put all the extra details in appendices. I guarantee that they will be read by most people who want to read the paper in detail, as opposed to merely skimming it.
They need a website for the modern age. Oh, it finally loaded.
Everyone has had the chance to get vaccinated by this point. Unless I'm missing something.
Yeah I think we can learn what society thinks is acceptable risk just by looking at death counts over the last two years. They've pretty much leveled out. So as the virus mutates into less (or more) harmful variations, we'll see the world react less (or more) strictly, but overall death count will remain stable.
In my understanding, facial recognition is more about measuring distances between “landmarks”, such as eye-to-eye, nose-to-eyes, eyes-to-ears, etc.

Style transfer mostly changes the texture of strokes/fill, so it shouldn’t affect face recognition much.
No, and I think they should have made two of them.
That works, but the necessary radius is larger than anything we have in space right now.

The vestibular system would be so confused you'd quickly develop motion sickness. Kids with low-viscosity fluid find the Scrambler at the carnival fun, adults can have fun for a while...but nobody I know of falls asleep on it.

Here's a cool page discussing appropriate radii and spin velocities for artificial gravity:

https://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/

TLDR: A space habitat with artificial gravity should have the rotating section on a cable or truss at a radius on the order of 100m or more!
Real-world implementations of mathematics always have limitations and the question is when to model them mathematically. In particular, do you model them in the type system and make all your function types that much more complicated? It makes most functions incompatible without glue code.

The most obvious one is integer overflow where a common solution is "don't model it and hope it doesn't happen." Switching to bignums moves the issue to performance where large inputs can cause the program to hang or run out of memory.

Performance and memory usage are never modelled in the type system, which implies that functions with vastly different performance are interchangeable. But we rely on this to be able to improve performance; it's actually better unspecified.

Cracking down on side effects means that in some languages you need to change function signatures to add a log statement, or you can't easily swap in a remote procedure call for a local one. Checked exceptions in Java are an example of how fine-grained tracking of effects helps you paint yourself in a corner where there is rampant cheating out of necessity.

I sometimes wonder if maybe languages like Rust should have every function implicitly return a Result, just so you can report an error later if you need to. Everything is partial, or if not, maybe someday it will be?

But there are languages where any field access can be replaced with an arbitrary function call and that seems bad, so it's probably impractical.
A small C++ wrapper for the native C ODBC API
This reductionist logic can be applied to anything (i.e. is meaningless).

This is actually a bit of a fun exercise!

What do programmers even do?

1. Client tells them what they want solved.

2. Stack overflow has code examples for these problems.

3. IDE tells you what will compile, what wont, even highlights stuff for you (programmer just copy/pastes).

4. Compiler makes the program, and warns you if it doesn't work. If it doesn't work, go back to step 2.

Programmers don't do anything.

See how dumb that sounds when you skip over a bunch of the minutiae? Or when only looking at a single event? Or generalize to the point of nothingness?
- It's not my fault: check
- I'm busy: check
- Making money: check

At some point we need to stop the coddling. Sink or swim people.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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What do you envision that would help JavaScript devs take advantage of ML? There is tensorflow.js. Are you thinking completely different ‘building blocks’ that provide higher level apis like fast.ai geared towards frontend devs or something else?
I've been there as well (modulo cloud brand to which we moved). I understand this reason for moving to cloud but it makes me sad.

It worked like this - you had to fill a form to request a VM. After a few emails (and days because time zones), you got a few years old RHEL VM without root access, but also without any real support from the ops organization. They tried to provide the generic cloud experience with VMs and failed.
> deputizing waitresses to be vaccination police

Oh god, I fled post-the_donald reddit to avoid trite drivel like this. Please don't.
> so they also won't be able to perform any manned post-launch repair missions like they did with Hubble.

In terms of hardware that's readily or soon to be available, it is technically possible. Starship, if it gets off the ground, is the obvious choice. Orion could do it, but it would mean dumping another two billion into JWST.

If it really came down to it, Falcon Heavy launched with a Crew Dragon sitting on top of it could probably reach it, although it might need an additional kick stage (I haven't done the maths), and it would need to be crew rated first (and SpaceX don't currently have an interest in doing that).
EVs are cleaner in more ways than just the exhaust too. They produce much less noise pollution for one. Another advantage is that because EVs can use regenerative breaking they wear through much less brake pad material each year, and brake dust is a huge issue in city air quality, especially since brakes are still manufactured using asbestos.
Show HN: Command line OCR on the Mac, beta open now!
Don’t Christmas and Easter both take quite a bit from pagan traditions? I don’t think the secular side is a modern invention; they’ve been mixed for a long time

Of course, the commercial side is a modern invention. But I see that as a separate phenomenon
I think in reality, COVID fatigue has set in, and thats the issue.
Yep and this approach also allows languages like Julia and Elixir to compile their expressions into valid compute graphs that target JAX/XLA. That polyglot capability opens up cutting edge machine learning into quite a bit more ecosystems with another level of capabilities in distribution and fault tolerance as is the case with Elixir + Nx.
I was putting on two N95s until someone said three was three times as effective so I started wearing three, then one day I did the math myself and don’tcha know, 95% of 95% of 95% is 86%! So I’m back to one mask now, underneath my motorcycle helmet.
Random mutations cause random changes to "strategy", and viruses with "strategies" that cause them to spread faster become more common
BootLPT/86
I listened to all of you and put a page on the website: https://preflight.com/pricing
CVE-2021-45046: Apache Log4j2 2.16.0 is out
Because the materials that go into production are located in Asia. It's the second, third, fourth order dependencies that are challenging.

Relocating would mean both building up entire verticals from raw material and all stages of processing, but also everything adjacent - labor force with expertise, transportation and distribution, etc. This is happening in various parts of the world for various industries, but it's slow and capital intensive.
If Python is a "batteries included" language, then Wolfram Language might be a "nuclear reactor included" language. Its functionality covers a broad range of domains, and keeps growing. The principle behind much of it is "maximum automation", so you have so-called "hyperfunctions" to, for example, build a classifier using machine learning. You just give it the example data, and it'll by default pick the method, etc. for you and perform the training. You can still go in and control the options if needed.

The language itself has its quirks, like any 30 year old language would, but you can do a lot with a little if you know what you're doing. It's similar to Lisp in that way.

The downside is that once you need to go beyond the "standard library" things are a lot more sparse, but they've been working to make it easier to get 3rd party functionality.

It's the kind of language that if it was free 15 years ago would probably be all over the place today.
.. because some real decision makers can detect idiotic nonsense?
Wikipedia says the company is in Seattle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogue_(company)
> I don't think that it is misleading. The severity of a disease is relative to the current situation.

I think it is misleading. AIDS is much more survivable in "the current situation" because of various drug advances we made in the past few decades. Does that mean 2021 AIDS is "less severe" than 90s AIDS? I guess you could claim it's technically less severe, but the wording definitely suggests it's something about the virus, rather than the environment.