skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's signaling something, but not virtue: criticism implies expertise. People observe the respect experts get and start imitating the behavior. Since they don't have anything actually insightful to add, they fall back on generic opposition to everything, also called cynicism.

It's cargo-culting for non-(non-?)academia. HN, the world's #1 source of smartitude, may just be its purest crystallization.
You do realize that is a win from a customer service and reputation perspective? Jetbrains listened to their customers, and amended their model. That is the kind of responsiveness I would appreciate in a vendor, especially if it's a vendor that produces tools that I enjoy using or help me make money.

Anyone who has worked on customer facing projects or tools know there is always overwhelmingly negative feedback to billing increases. What is less common is vendors being responsive to that in a way that is actually beneficial to customers. That is doubly the case when you are dealing with high quality, specialty tools that have free or open source competitors that are good enough to get by, but not great (Adobe suite vs various free and open tools, for example).
The difference, as always, lies in action. Talk is cheap (and even cheaper than ever in the age of social media).
If the choice is between that and permanent "emergency powers" for all levels of government to continue to panic and scare monger and implement things like vaccine passports, required immunizations as a condition of employment, the destruction of SMB and the demonization and hostility towards anyone that doesn't trust The Science (while shutting all discussion down about The Science because the plebs aren't smart enough to understand The Science)

Then yes yes I will take that.
I can't wait until all proprietary software becomes obsolete due to FLOSS becoming good enough for everyone. From what I see the proprietary operating systems are in decline now, whereas Linux is getting better and better all the time.
Fiveoutofnine
yes. I think it is actually an extension of the first amendment, a more admitted liberal thought.
every year more vulnerable people are added to that set as population ages, gets fatter, has more advanced coronary or metabolic disease, etc.

not trying to contradict here I think it will be less each year.

maybe governments will even start telling people their dirt and exercise choices are exacerbating this disease!
I haven't seen any "natural" hype, just articles written as a result of Facebook/Meta PR efforts.
What Is a Digital Twin?
Has anyone benchmarked Go's garbage collector lately? I like a lot of stuff about Go, but a lot of my work is in video games and real time audio, and I am extremely hesitant to use a garbage collected language for those things.
I'm not on Facebook or Twitter and know very well not to post my real name or other information if I can help it... Mainly to reduce the chance of fraud.
I would start with the fact that not much in the world is either one thing or another, so also with aphantasia I don't think you either "have it" or you don't. One might have varying degrees of it. I feel I can almost visualize a simple shape like a square, but a face is something I'm sure I cannot visualize.

Then I'd say, in my self-diagnosed experience, I can describe things I remember, maybe not in painstaking detail but I can. I'm not able to see an image of the same thing if I close my eyes and try to imagine it.

I feel like the difference is, I can recognize your face if I see it again, but if I need to recall what you look like I get a list of features written in words out of my brain, not an image.
> Cowpox is a different disease

That conferred immunity to smallpox. Which makes it about as "different" as Omicron is to Delta or COVID19.

In any case, Cowpox is case-positive proof of animal reservoirs of smallpox.
3D photo. Metaverse is near
I would bet a lot of money that these business owners are not punished and just take their insurance payout and get on with their lives.
I would host them on your website. Create a subdomain. Then post them around the web: here, Reddit, and your own socials. Attach a blog or YouTube to them if you're interested in making content. I think HN is open to your tiny projects. You will never know until you try. Also, the most you make the more attention they all get. Don't get discouraged if the first few don't get lots of attention.
The difference is a that a developer has a lot more control over what version of Deno their server-side app runs on than they do what version of a browser their client-side app runs on.
Because people are shortsighted in both directions of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Wouldn't you love to run this next generation terminal in AWS and pay monthly fee of M5.2Xlarge or some such :-)
I've been using LastPass for several years now as a paying customer and I really like it. However, I wish they would focus on their usability a bit more. The UI is a little more complicated than it needs to be and some common actions take a few too many clicks, in my opinion.

I'm hoping it spinning out into its own company again can help it move a bit faster and update their UI.
56 Million people die a year. There are vaccine's and treatments available for the Flu. The deaths aren't 0 but don't think it's something to moralize about and call a defeat.
Yeah, kindle is only for travel and for when I'm living abroad in places where I just can't get access to non-mass market paperbacks and so need to order from the e-book store
> The sweet spot would seem that it enables already trusted big brands to make their own de-facto corporate currencies. Sort of like a next generation loyalty program/gift card/airline miles program on steroids.

I don't see any problem NFTs solve that these loyalty problems don't.

> Unlike airline miles, the ledger is openly tracked and the companies can't devalue them every year like airlines do.

Are you picturing the cryptocurrency being tied to the dollar? Otherwise, Nike could make things cost more Nikecoin than dollars over time which would effectively be the thing as devaluing Nikecoin. They still control the currency because they control the economy they can be spent into.

> At the extreme end I could see an application where Nike lets people trade Nike sneaker futures. Nike would actually store the physical Nikes in some climate controlled warehouse.

So they would store the shoes on a centralized location that they control? What problem does a decentralized system have here? Why not just have the storage warehouse keep track of who owns what and allow ownership transfer? This reminds me of the people who store their alleged decentralized currency with a centralized bank.
Not really, unfortunately. Webb will be much further from Earth than Hubble is, so as far as I'm aware a human mission to go repair it isn't really considered an option.

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/webb-l2.html
Good artists copy, great artists may steal; but they also happen to have excellent judgement in what to steal.
I had our sec team try and blanket ban base64 strings on our WAF in response to log4shell. I'm talking body, url everything.

The reasoning was we probably don't use base64. I was amazed.
I built multiple systems using vector search, one of them demoed in a search engine for non-commercial content at http://teclis.com

Running vector search (also sometimes referred to as semantic search, or a part of semantic search stack) is a trivial matter with open-source libraries like Faiss https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss

It takes 5 minutes to set up. You can search billion vectors on common hardware. For low-latency (up to couple of hundred milliseconds) use cases, it is highly unlikely that any cloud solution like this would be a better choice than something deployed on premise because of the network overhead.

(worth noting is that there are about two dozen vector search libraries, all benchmarked at http://ann-benchmarks.com/ and most of them open-source)

A much more interesting (and harder) problem is creating good vectors to begin with. This refers to the process of converting a text or an image to a multidimensional vector, usually done by a machine learning model such as BERT (for text) or ImageNet (for images).

Try entering a query like 'gpt3' or '2019' into the news search demo linked in the Google's PR:

https://matchit.magellanic-clouds.com/

The results are nonsensical. Not because the vector search didn't do its job well, but because generated vectors were suboptimal to begin with. Having good vectors is 99% of the semantic search problem.

A nice demo of what semantic search can do is Google's Talk to Books https://books.google.com/talktobooks/

This area of research s fascinating. For those who want to play with this more, an interesting end-to-end (including both vector generation and search) open-source solution is Haystack https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack
> IDA really is great for handling edge cases and obscure architecture

I find Ghidra to be much better at this, since people actually write loafers for it and you get a decompiler “for free”.
The vaccines are 90% effective against the original strain and Alpha to transmission / infection.

Efficacy dropped to 60% vs Delta, and drops again to 30% vs Omicron. Boosters seem to rise back up to 90% vs Delta and 75% vs Omicron.

That's why so many people are talking about boosters: it has a measurable impact on transmission for Omicron (and Delta).
A k-d tree is a data structure. Whether you use that for exact nearest neighbor query or approximate is up to the algorithm used. K-d trees work well for a handful of dimension beyond that it becomes quite expensive.
IMO: IDA Home was the response to Ghidra. They could’ve raised or lowered rates without this change. But, subscriptions are probably a response to… perpetual licenses. Because I can keep using my current version of IDA forever, and with updates usually slower than the speed of smell it’s pretty alluring sometimes. I mean fuck, IDA Pro hasn’t updated since like April. Not because there's no bugs or no features that could be added, it just doesn’t get that much updates in a year. This is not the worst thing and I am sure there’s a reason, but yeah it makes the value proposition of keeping the support license alive a lot weaker.

Of course Hex Rays wants people to ditch perpetual licenses. Because I can just not pay and use my current IDA and Hex Rays licenses as long as I want. And at this point, I am probably going to do exactly that, and transition to greener pastures as I am able to.

It’s not like their licensing was generous before either. Before, you had to pay separately for each decompiler, including x86 vs x64, AND for each platform you want to run IDA on, you need another full set of licenses. That fucking sucks. This new scheme may have improved some of that, but at the cost of perpetual licenses and both higher starting and renewal rates, it’s extremely difficult to see this as a win.

I wanted to like Hex Rays. The high cost was literally never an issue for me other than for accessibility reasons. The software is useful and featureful and the lack of annoying DRM was good. But this, plain ass sucks. Between IDA Home and subscriptions, it’s hard to imagine how much harder Hex Rays could spit on home users other than flat out telling them to take a hike.

And yeah, at the end of the day I’m sure a lot of thought went into this, but I hope the response doesn’t go unheeded. I am not downgrading to a subscription under any conditions.
I'm tempted to rather rudely suggest that the people who managed to get a job on a helpdesk without any qualifications and then worked their way up to an "old-school" bureaucratic security manager position might feel threatened by graduates with new fangled ideas about DevSecOps.
This is true to an extent, but I find that reddit culture seeps its way into all subs. There is a overreaching lack of seriousness.

It's my observation that the average redditor is more interested in gaining upvotes via silly class-clown behavior, than actually contributing meaningful conversation. Or interested in upvoting silly comments.

Even in subreddits where the topic of discussion is something serious, such as a forum for advice seeking, people can't help but reply to posts with jokes.

What is worse is when people are downvoted for a reply which is intelligent and serious, but is contrary to popular opinion.
Those exist already. Gift cards, store credit, Disney dollars. They must even have some working counterfeit and double spend prevention or people would have been exploiting them. All crypto coins seem to add is being issued and stored on a blockchain, but that doesn't seem necessary if there is a central authority issuing the official coin anyway.

How do companies not have the ability to devalue them? They have total pricing control over the only physical good you can buy with them.
Just because that window shifts over time doesn't mean that we need to push our boundaries for acceptable program size, nor is it an excuse not to optimize our software. This kind of mindset is how we end up with terminal emulators that take more than 500ms to launch, and how we end up with systems that take on unconscionable amounts of bloat. I use Konsole as my terminal, which is a 50kb binary. If your replacement is orders of magnitude larger than my current option, it had better brew my coffee and have bacon ready by the time I wake up every morning. Instead, all we got was a lousy authy sync.
Full acceptance. Until someone shows me that I can actually halt/reverse it, all I can do is wake up and be a good person. Part of this is my belief system; there is no universal law that states human beings, or the earth for that matter, will exist for all time. Once that is truly accepted, your entire perspective changes.
While that may be generally true I'm inclined to think that Black Mirror brought the perspective into sharp relief.
Wish there was an easy way to remove forbes.com results
> Furthermore if I ever stop paying, I will lose access to the product.

Wow, not even a perpetual fallback license?

I wasn't super thrilled when Jetbrains switched to a more subscription-based system, but being grandfathered in (so I didn't have to restart the subscriptions as if I were a new client), the heaps of existing goodwill they'd built up, made the changeover much less of an issue, and super importantly finally listening to customer and adding perpetual fallback licenses alleviated much of the fear.
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As a practitioner, I feel that oftentimes you are extending, fine tuning somebody else’s code or pre-trained models (DeepMind’s for example). This means that you should be able to work on whatever the platform this code came with. Basically, you should be able to work with JAX, TF or PyTorch with equal ease.
Not every republican was in that crowd marching for white supremacy.
Similarly, not every democrat participates in burning down churches and court buildings.
I (also German) didn't do the math and gave it the benefit of the doubt: "well, maybe in Copenhagen and Amsterdam the market is already so saturated that a momentary fashion wave of Germans catching up might nib sales slightly ahead for a short while". Apparently not!
And factor in ageism. I'm about a decade away from retirement, but I definitely don't want to be job hopping. The idea of interviewing at my age is horrifying.
it’s worth always keeping in mind that the only dichotomy that matters in political economies is that between the wealthy and powerful and everyone else, not left-right, black-white, east-west, socialist-capitalist, or anything else. it’s been this way for all of human history past and will likely be so for the rest of it too. that’s a sober position to take, not a cynical one, as some might argue. the more dynamic our political and economic engines are, the better for the general welfare (obviously at the extreme this breaks down, but we’re not in danger of that extreme any time soon, if ever).

masks provide no added protection in most common situations where they’re used, but provide much political leverage, which is why they’re popular. same with (non-sterilizing) vaccine mandates and other arbitrary public restrictions. these are political wedges, not effective public health measures. if we were worried about public health, vaccination status wouldn’t be considered at all, only infection status. we’d also be policing private behavior (family/social gatherings) much more invasively, rather than public behavior (grocery stores and restaurants).
I pinged someone more technical from our team to chime in.

In the meantime I can say moving to the dense vector + ANN search combo turns regular searches into semantic searches, which means more relevant results.

If that's the case for you, then you can use Pinecone to go further and make those results fast (<100ms), fresh (CRUD + live index updates), and filtered (apply single-stage metadata- filtering). All on a fully managed system that you can scale up/down with one API call.
I used to work at a Cyber security company but now switched jobs after. Personally I don't identify that much with the matter although I always took security seriously and developed my own approach. Still people then frame me as cyber security guy which has been particularly weird with friends who would constantly mention this and ask me about hacking. At work having no formal certifications I have limited leverage anyway but I'm often shocked how poorly security matters are being dealt with. I left my last job, so I enjoy watching from my sofa right now.
This is exactly backwards. Inflation helps debtors especially those who use debt to be leveraged into assets, who are by and large are upper middle class (housing) and the upper class by proxy with equities.

Inflation is robbing poor people and transferring their wealth to the upper class.
You mean crappy programmers strike again? This bug would not happen by properly using structs, typedefs, enums, etc to qualify data types and explicitly declare (in a human-readable way anyway) what values to return when. Just using integers as return values with no intermediate abstraction is crazy.
> Which makes it about as "different" as Omicron is to Delta or COVID19.

Sure, that's fair.

> In any case, Cowpox is case-positive proof of animal reservoirs of smallpox.

Huh? No, it isn't.
Yes exactly. Or they just don't trust the employee, either ethically (they'll slack off) or technically (they are doing it wrong, that's why it takes long). Or worse they are of the "they need to be challenged, keep 'em out of the comfort zone" mentality.
The Case for Buyer Enablement
I recently bought a SecureCRT license from Van Dyke (https://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/) and I'm very happy :)

(their deb install is 13MB, and it's native code using the QT ui framework)
I've seen this exactly. Someone at my former company was a Principal engineer but when they left to go to Netflix they were then just a Sr. Engineer. They definitely were not Principal engineer material so think it was all to appease the pay-band gods.
I worked on radars. We used Ada. The knock on it is that its slow, and didn't have a huge ecosystem. but 20 years later at least slow is not really much of a problem. You kinda got used to the fact if the software compiled it probably would run. It had some neat features (like constraining values, eg this variable will be between 0 and 10. Of course you'd have to deal with things when you ended up outside that range.. ). Really quite reliable.

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/stro...

They tested a lot (some of the testing was delivered with the software even, to run anytime...).
I would love to see a video where one of the engineers on the project talked about what would be different if Webb was started today. Materials, software, processes, everything!
Bad articles just get forgotten at the bottom after few hours.
This attitude is exactly why Wirth's law is a thing - software is getting slower, faster than hardware is getting faster. That is not in all metrics, of course, but in some - like typically in response latency to user inputs.

This slowness costs users so many hairs pulled out. Programmers who think that "this is acceptable" lack the awareness that they haven't even tested the software under only slightly unusual conditions which is when everything is already crawling to a halt.

When that "bundle" is 1000MB while technically there is no reason it should be more than ~1MB, many operations that you might want to do as a developer / trying-outer of the bundle take 1000x longer (no shit). Not unlikely, in some cases that even applies to runtime performance.

Why in the world would you accept that when it takes only a little discipline to get it down to a "reasonable" overhead of say, 10x???
Maybe you have like a combination of both.

Start with balance bike, once they got that put them on a small bike with training wheels (force them to not focus on balance but pedaling), once they’re pedaling well, put them back on the balance bike for like a week and then take the training wheels off and try that.

3 of my kids got pedaling no problem, one got balancing super quick, but has a hard time pedaling still.
All 100% correct, and in my mind 100% irrelevant. Author was the sole source of seemingly unpressured estimate; it was up to them to give an inclusive realistic estimate and quote they felt confident about.

They gave an estimate, company made an offer; they asked for more, company doubled. They decided it still wasn't worth it. Awesome. Nobody was forced to do business together. Why are we still trying to make excuses as if there was some pressure to do un/underpaid work? I did not see it in the very polite and understanding screenshots. Am I missing something that's causing this outrage? why is this even a thing we're talking about is still my personal question in this thread :D

Edit: You know what; I re-read to see if I'm missing something, and indeed I did: though author insists, multiple times, in bold letters, that company mandated six months, based on screenshots, company in fact relented and agreed to one month difference. Which author themselves indicate was far less than normal between-releases period.

1: https://endrift.com/resources/post-assets/analogue-12.png

Nope, I'm out, I have no rage to spare at this particular "injustice".
I know Mathematica as the go-to tool for mathmaticians and theoretical physicists trying to work their way through proofs. HPC doesn't come into that game (performance isn't an issue), and frankly I didn't even know it could! Nobody used it for any heavy computational work.
Excellent idea thank you. I added this to https://github.com/wilrnh/emergencywalletcards.com/issues/1. Even if something like this cannot be included directly on the EWC, maybe a bunch of QR codes linking to stuff like this might be useful on the back.
GitLab acquires open source observability distribution Opstrace
wonder who owns the updated model?
Yes. Due to the decay heat of fission byproducts, a nuclear reactor remains very hot immediately after being shut down. Active cooling is usually necessary for quite some time (weeks or even months). In normal operations, when spent fuel is removed from a reactor, it is stored in pools for many years to cool down (both thermally and radioactively).
I have my Ubuntu 18.04 looking like MacOS. The only thing limiting it from really feeling like a Mac is the touchpad.

You can see it here: https://ibb.co/H7khM7h

A good guide for starting out is here: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-macos-theme-on-ubuntu...
Halloween. November 1 is All Saints Day (Catholic Holiday). Saint comes from Latin. The Germanic version is Holy One. So Nov 1 could be All Holy Ones Day. The evening before All Holy One’s Day is Holy Evening or Holy Eve or Hallowed Eve or Halloweve or Halloween. Just like Christmas Eve is the evening before Christmas.

I think we are all familiar with how commercialized Holy Evening has become. Candy and Slutty Nuns anyone? LOL