skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have hyperphantasia but also difficulty with faces. If the person changed their hair, applied their make-up differently, is standing at an angle I haven't seen them from before, etc. it won't match the hyper-specific image my memory has of them and my brain will give me a very strong "NOT THE SAME PERSON" signal.

So ironically I share your apprehension about needing to meet and recognize someone in a restaurant, but for the opposite reason!

The comparison extends to driving as well. Instead of worrying about recognizing a building or intersection, I have the opposite problem: I have often gotten lost when something changed about the street I needed to turn down. Sometimes I can't even pin down what it is but some details are wrong and I get an extreme jamais vu telling me "THIS IS NOT IT". So I drive past and get lost, turn back looking and again my brain tells me "THIS IS NOT IT".

When by elimination I realize no this really must be the correct street, the entire rest of the trip I have this Twilight Zone kind of feeling that makes me physically ill in my stomach because nothing looks "right" anymore and consciously overriding it is something akin to forcing yourself up a ladder with vertigo.
This is what happens: you've got enough corporate clients dependent on your product; you know they can pay what you're asking and it would be even more expensive for them to invest in alternatives; you also see that alternatives will improve and take youR market in the long run, but when that happens will be already retired.

I think we've seen this happen with other tools before.
his argument went out the window when he started shilling bitcoin
Jetbrains is also just $5/mo for the one app I use, and I get a lot of functionality for that.
While yes, social media encourages identity ownership for obvious reasons, in modern forums like discord, reddit, and hn, most people use anonymous aliases like you describe. That hasn’t changed. I decided to not use social media and have no problem engaging with the world on the modern web.
This is what I was referring to with site-level bias. I've seen certain sites brag about their # of principal engineers. Ultimately sites are handed jobs based on their past performance, but this abuse of the system remains. I'm being a little naive, but that's just me, and these abuses aren't that frequent.
It’s time for “electronic gravel traps” to save F1 from itself
If only it worked at all, that'd be a great option.
And this prevents it being available in good quality. Streaming is not good quality.
What exactly are all the subsidies that go to fossil fuels? It's always assumed to be true but I just don't see it.
I have terrible handwriting and have had the idea in the past to try and relearn with a new style. Like maybe the way they teach French children in school! But when I looked online for a book on how to learn handwriting as an adult they were all for veterans who had lost their dominant hand and that was incredibly depressing. Anyone have a good resource?
Great move. Don't forget to tell your family, neighbors, coworkers etc, 'cause it must be collective lifestyle changing.
Ok. But no confirmed bombs on the capital grounds or in the capital and no confirmed connection between those bombs and the protesters?
Version control is very easy as long as you're not versioning notebooks. A `.m` file is just plain text.
I think this is a fair take when you're talking about failures of nascent designs because of unknown failure modes. But it's frustrating when there are failures from known failure modes that just had process escapes. A couple examples:

- CST-100 was sent into orbit with software mapped to valves incorrectly. There is no credible reason this shouldn't have been tested thoroughly on the ground first.

- Falcon 9 had a failure due to a tank support strut that had strength characteristics a fraction of its design spec. Good supplier quality control should have vetted the material prior to its use. (SpaceX has since added material tests).

Finding unknown causes of failures help us learn more about the science of the industry. But not catching known failure modes due to lack of process control is a different animal.
I've been rocking Pop!_OS as my daily driver for a few years now. Printer, Bluetooth, networking, everything I have thrown at it thus far, works right out if the box. I would definitely recommend you test drive the distro. Full disclosure though.. I also have a System76, so I would hope it would work.
800,000 Deaths
They should probably supplement this "expensive corporate SaaS pricing" model with a "free for personal use" option if they want to have any hope of maintaining their standing.
What I love about JAX is that it essentially just makes Python into a performant, differentiable programming language.

I'm a pretty big fan of moving away from thinking about ML/Stats/etc specifically and people should more generally embrace the idea of differentiable programming as just a way to program and solve a range of problems.

JAX means that the average python programmer just needs to understand the basics of derivatives and their use (not how to compute them, just what they are and why they're useful) and suddenly has an amazing amount of power they can add to normal code.

The real power of JAX, for me at least, is that you can write the solution to your problem, whatever that problem may be, and use derivatives and gradient descent to find an answer. Sometimes this solution might be essentially a neural network, other times the generalized linear model, but sometimes it might not fit obviously into either of these paradigms.
"This item was discontinued on June 17, 2021"
It doesn't address the primary criticisms of the bad cat, and you should really read the comments on the article you linked, as well as they meta-analyses I provided on mask effectiveness when it comes to respiratory illnesses in healthcare and community settings.

They don't work, at all, across decades of research and dozens of studies. They're not going to magically start working for COVID when they haven't worked for the flu or any other respiratory virus in the past.

>forever to protect people in medical settings.

Surgical masks in medical settings are designed to protect from bacterial infections, not viral ones.
I'm not in this scene so take with a grain of salt, but I've heard that in many circles cracking your own copy of IDA was considered a rite of passage long before this particular change, and the company honestly may not care if their whole intent is to target the corporate market (a bit like how Adobe benefited greatly from Photoshop being widely pirated). Of course, the dynamic may also be changed by FOSS options becoming real competitors.
There was I think a nightingale hanging around in a copse near me for a couple of weeks last autumn. It was so amazingly clear and liquid at 3am I didn't even mind being woken up.
> All the guns being outside just indicates that it was strategy (say to overwhelm the outnumbered inside security with numbers, melee weapons, and chemical agents, while reserving firearms to deal with the potentially more numerous and better equipped relief that could be sent).

The "more numerous and better equipped relief" was sent in to clear out the rioters. And no gunfights broke out. So apparently this wasn't the strategy at all.
Disagree because:

* I primarily see this as, not a traditional website builder, but as a way to take paper journals and transform them into web journals/blogs.

* As someone who has tried all manner of tools and software for journaling (literally like tens of software apps), I've found that my brain just works best with a nice paper journal and a great pen (I highly recommend the prismacolor premier fine marker). It just works far better for me than anything else.

I'm so glad this project is at the top of HN. It is the ultimate "hacker project" of someone that scratched a personal itch, and found out other folks would be willing to pay for it.
The language is version control friendly, the notebooks are not. You explore and document using notebooks (.nb) and if your stuff get serious you should move the source code to a package (.wl or .m) which is just plain text file which is nice for version control.
The Mathematica showcase on Code Golf[1] is by far the most impressive showcase of any language I've ever seen. (Start reading from the bottom.)

[1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/44683/9570
This isn't some final strain so let's all hurry up and get it. The more people that get any variant increases the likelihood of new variants and we don't get to pick what they do. We need to stop thinking about this as a pandemic that will end and start thinking about it as an endemic disease that is never going away. Soon, you'll be getting your annual covid shot along with your flu shot. It is going to continue to kill immuno-compromised people for a very long time. Our lungs are definitely our weak spot (just look at the elderly mortality rates for pneumonia, 20-30%).
It's easy to calculate Co2/Mile for a given Car make/model.

Essentially, it's Carbon Tax.
Faiss: Facebook's open source vector search library
At some point, it seems like you have to weigh the lifetime risk of dying from COVID against the loss of life enjoyment and decide “We shouldn’t subject ourselves to another 1.25% of our lifetime of this (whatever “this” is) to lower the fatality rate from Y to X.” (If you’re lowering from 5% to 1%, that trade makes sense for even severe social restrictions. If you’re lowering it from 0.5% to 0.4%, that trade makes no sense for anything beyond the very mildest of restrictions.)
One of the issues of fast spread is that hospitalizations and deaths lag behind infections for a few weeks.

If you don't correct for it, it's easy to see "10x as many cases but few deaths" just because cases went up so quickly that deaths didn't start yet. Of course, this can be corrected for, and I'd expect a good study to do so - but I would NOT trust a typical news article to make the distinction, nor would I trust it to skip the temptation to misinterpret the study for a more interesting headline.
As a "yuppie" status symbol it has to be the least offensive I can think of. Better a fancy electric bike than some obnoxiously big SUV, or sporty-off-road thing that has never even seen grass.
We even have magic numbers!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)
It's not binary; if the virus is less infectious during incubation than during full infection, there's still selective pressure for milder symptoms.

A new variant need only replicate slightly faster to dominate (eventually).
I didn't know about the crisis on the Poland-Belarus border[0] until half way through because I wasn't paying attention to the news in Hungary (a very pro-Poland and anti-"migrant" country) and then was surprised by it when I went to Germany and randomly picked up a newspaper.

Which is only to say: in addition to the "what is relevant to whom" problem, a lot of times we are just focused on other things, and news sites are not going to find us. Not even hypothetically perfect ones that send us emails about the things we really care about, because sometimes we are going to be busy with work or family or whatever and tune out the constant stream of news alerts.

Instead we will rely, as people have for a long long time, on other folks telling us if something really important is afoot.

In a way -- counterintuitively? -- this is an argument for watching the Evening News as a sort of information-gathering ritual, just because it's harder to tune out. When I was a kid we always caught the news and the weather. One doesn't need to do that anymore, but maybe it's the better paradigm? You sit there, you chat about something else, you half-listen, but when Dennis Richmond[1] says the alien invasion is on, you're going to hear it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Belarus–European_Union_bo...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-Kt-F5CFQ

[Edit: it's debatable whether this was a "refugee" crisis so I removed that word.]
KeyPassX suggests moving to KeePassXC [1] and here is a video [2] showing some of the lesser known features of KeePassXC. I believe that Youtuber is on HN.

[1] - https://keepassxc.org/

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Bk0HLPLzo
> What's stopping someone from reverse engineering it transparently and making a competitor?

Mostly that Ghidra is open source and no one would be willing to go through the hassle of reverse engineering IDA when Ghidra is just sitting right there...
Aw man, almost did this myself a few months ago when I was down with COVID. You make me reall want to revisit the idea! Grats on your success.
No, because there wasn't any. But go ahead and try to make that comparison, it'll be great to have your words on the record forever.
Does anyone know of a good benchmark suite for search technology?

(And how well does the technique of the article work wrt it?)
I presently work in a clean tech sector, but I have no illusions that we will be able to successfully avert a large portion of the consequences of climate change. It is, of course, important to make sacrifices and responsible choices in the present, but in my view the central interior disposition is accepting it and summoning the courage to endure.
I'm 63, literally up until 5 minutes ago I didn't realise that most people (or any people) actually see images when they imagine things, I'm quite flabbergasted, in retrospect it explains lots of things
If the supermajority of progressives SF can't create a progressive city, then it simply isn't possible.
It's funny too - there's apparently no consideration given to "maybe I don't know anyone who's died because everyone in my community is so cautious".
Is that really true? I'm guessing a big part of the cost is figuring out how to actually invent stuff needed for the project. That knowledge is now known. That cost is now 0.
I'm totally with you. I like buying Blu-Rays for especially beautiful films.
> "People love a good story. And people believe that the value of this story will only increase over time."

I mean....maybe. But there has to be a moat to create some sort of limited access to the story.

The New York Yankees are an incredible story, most famous franchise in sports and located in what people refer to as the capital of the world.

Still in order to read the next chapter of the Yankees story you need to have 100$ on the side to go to the Bronx and watch it unfold.

Same thing with NFTs, when you are buying a Yankee hat you are paying royalties to the Yankees organization and every brand would fight tooth and nails to remove from the market chinese knock offs.

NFT people have embraced the concept of knockoffs because they think that the larger the distribution the more popular something would become.

Again...maybe, but human psyche is weird, as a fan I'd become suspicious if the Yankees started allwoing everybody in for free at the Yankee stadium.

If the author doesn't give a damn about protecting their work, then what does it tell you about their own perceived quality of the aforementioned work?

Sorry if there's anybody from Boston reading, the same is true for the Red Sox...kinda.
That would be a fun use case for us to promote. Let me know when it's ready! The free plan supports as many as 1 million items, more than enough for the all MTG cards in existence. Plus you can add and filter by metadata, like card type and properties.
We know the US operates the X-37b, we do not know what it is doing.
Tapes and HDDs are magnetic. Flash and DRAM is electric. It is easier to create magnetically stable structures (magnets) than non-leaking capacitors.

Flash has a better insulator than DRAM, but it wears out with use and leaks more with higher temperature, densities, less margin with more bits per cell...
Everyone that's looking for a job can find a job (good job market / lots of openings)

..is VERY different than...

Everyone capable of working is actually working (full employment)
The Russian Novel That Foresaw–-But Underestimated–-Totalitarianism
No, what we've done is that some parts of our press have denounced shilling of snake oil that doesn't work. There's no shortage of that shilling still taking place, though.

And as for knowledge, step into a hospital, and you'll see plenty of medications being used to treat actual cases of COVID. Doctors don't just put an oxygen mask on your face, and wait for you to die. You'll find a bit more knowledge there than you will in a deraged InfoWars rant, or a Joe Rogan podcast.

Unfortunately, that knowledge doesn't have 190 million monthly listeners. [1]

[1] If the most popular podcast[2] in America is your definition of 'eradicating' discussion, it's certainly an odd one.

[2] Or, if you're looking for variety in your media, you could always tune in to AM radio. Or the biggest television news syndicate in the world.
Ask HN: Where can I share “tiny projects”?
Question inspired by the name https://tinyprojects.dev/ - is there a good community for sharing "tiny projects"? I love building small, semi-useful projects (hardware and software) and don't have a community to share with. HN seems to be more for articles and start up launches.
Archived: https://archive.ph/UudVq
Not on xorg :(
How does this GPT-3 based correction system work on unique names (last names) or on numbers or on things that can't be learned from an Internet corpus?
https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/... I can't be the only one who thinks the "proposed model" looks nothing like the capture.
Cognism – the premium supplier of spam and fake data
Cognism, a data provider in the UK is caught charging for fake data, not adhering to the GDPR and spamming people.
> a whole heck of a lot of people look the same enough to me that I have difficulty telling them apart without hearing their voices (I'm fantastic with voice ID; probably comes naturally when you have trouble with faces haha).

I am the same way. I'm also highly myopic (I got glasses at age 4). There are times I've failed to recognize old friends until they started speaking to me (they did look a little different from the last time I'd seen them).

I always assumed that not seeing very well as a little kid is part of why I sometimes have visual recognition problems, too.
Wouldn't also be HN without the misinterpretation of BrandonM's response.

Here is dang's comment about that topic/meme [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29178442
next step, self hosted paper website on a pi zero :)
send them the notebook and the pizero, make dyndns ipv6 only thing and let people selfhost

nice project!
There is quite a lot of land within the arctic circle. If it continues to warm up it will become more conductive to human settlements and agriculture. hn is a place where most people see the upsides of change, I don’t understand why so few here admit the benefits of climate change.
Namespace jail: Locking down network traffic between Kubernetes namespaces
I volunteer with Citizens' Climate Lobby, which I think is the most effective action an individual can take, probably. The best individual action is to put pressure on politicians for collective action. We have to fix the rules of the game -- right now, it's way too cheap to pollute.

One important thing we do is to call Congress regularly and express our support for a carbon fee & dividend policy, for example: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/senate/

And of course, there's lots more to volunteering with CCL if you want to get more involved.
Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
ETHGlobal 2022 Season Roadmap
Is the "Web version" running a whole Linux VM in the browser?
> Good news, selection pressure is for more-contagious and less-deadly

What selection pressure exists to make it less-deadly? It takes weeks for the virus to kill people and they are most infectious early on.
You are confused about how the rules work. You are only a "science denier" if you say that global warming will be less severe than the IPCC.
I have tabs open on my browser with materials relevant to your suggestions. I'll work through them. Thanks for the guidance.
There are lots of cool features to like here.

I'm not in the camp of Electron-haters, you just have to understand what it is and isn't. Nobody (including the author) is advertising Tabby as a lightweight terminal with high-performance GPU acceleration or anything.

And on the flipside, you get a cross-platform terminal app that supports a lot of really handy features like zmodem transfers and an easy interface for port-forwarding and session management.

On the off-chance the author is reading this comment, tmux command-mode integration would be a killer addition to Tabby. It's the one feature that keeps me on iTerm2, and by extension on MacOS. I've never seen the feature on a Windows terminal, and it's a great "this feels like magic" way to have persistent tabs/windows that survive a disconnect.
I never thought the Mars rover sky crane would work, but it did!
> I think in a properly functioning and rational health system, it would be very hard to describe this new variant as COVID. Based on the evidence and reports so far it would be more rational to describe it as a common cold virus, of the type that occur every year.

I suspect that if this omicron had emerged in 2018 at least with the symptoms and lack of severe disease that we have seen so far…it would likely have been described as a virulent common cold and may have gotten an occasional news mention, but zero public and government panic.

I think the phrase “Look for the devil and you will find him” is going to describe virology and government approach to virology for probably the next decade. This is a shame, because it seems to create and feed tyrants at almost every level of government.
Got as far as running 'lua test.lua' before crashing mobile safari.
"...or whether the mild cases are just a consequence of the virus infecting people who are partially immune"

There are not a lot of people out there still who are not partially immune at this point, due to vaccine, recovery or both. It varies by region of course, but it's certainly true in most parts of the US.
In courts they evaluate cases by each situation, so this would be treated differently than other theft, in theory.
> The "more numerous and better equipped relief" was sent in to clear out the rioters

After the insurrection had clearly failed in its overt objective of capturing and coercing the VP and members of Congress, leaving nothing to fight for. So if it had been a strategy (which I do not argue it was, again, I very much am not arguing this was a well-organized insurrection), it would have already been irrelevant.
And tape has (historically at least; I haven't check in for a few years) been faster at purely streaming loads than spinning rust. Pre SSDs, there'd be systems that streamed to tape to keep up with input data, then would offline load that into spinning rust databases to crank numbers where seeking dominated.
Yes-- and yet just about anyone in this community would roll over laughing before pointing out the obvious if someone said "Why are we devoting so much energy to computer security? We've never even been hacked"
Paying more attention to information in a peer-reviewed journal than information in a pseudonymous substack is not "cult-like faith." Of course the study could be wrong.
After checking, it was fine.
It sounds like you are quite young compared to me. They were talking about it in the late 80s while I was in high school. I remember Al Gore in the 90s was saying that Florida will be under water in 10 years or something like that. So this conversation has been going on for a long time.

> 15 years later nothing has been done about it.

That is absolutely is not true. When I moved to SoCal in the 80s, for the first six months I didn't realize there was a mountain nearby because of all the pollution and resulting haziness. You can clearly see it today because the cars have gotten a lot cleaner. This is just one anecdote.
Have you seen the charts for literally the rest of the world?

You're picking an outlier as proof that its not seasonal. Others may say it's the exception that proves the rule.