skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of late I have been pretty happy with the Foot terminal emulator - feels snappier than alacritty, is lightweight, and works.

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
The bike theft arms race is a race to the bottom: if you want your bike to loyally wait for you where you left it you need to make sure that it looks worse than its peers. A nearly broken bike that is there when you need it has far more utility than a neatly maintained one that isn't.
That this ultra simple thing to wear a mask meets such resistance really shook me up. It's a minority of people but it's a much bigger, louder, and powerful minority than I ever would have expected.

Still, I remain hopeful as to be otherwise would leave me in despair.
the increase of cats as pets seems like a possible factor, one rough estimate says the US has 3X more housecats than it did in 1970... so it certainly seems possible that we've thrown off a more natural equilibrium

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Growth-of-the-house-cat-...
the random mutation concept is close to but not exactly the situation.
there is a low frequency event that results in mix and match of large regions of sequence. This is very different from error prone replication error, or point mutation.

this occurs when a host is coinfected with two or more viral strands of differing origin. most often virus of close familial lineage do this, but that isnt exclusive.

the mechanism is molecular promiscuity during replication, there is a jump from one strand to another in proximity, thus recombining.

cocirculation is required for this to occur, high frequency of co infection is required for recombinant mutants to occur with predictive certainty.

like the gatekeeper and the keymaster, we should avoid allowing delta, and omicron to contact each other, and surveil the sequences closely.
Another one bites the dust. It's fortunate we have ghidra all though it can't compete yet on feature level. I guess the positive thing is that ghidra development will accelerate now.
Azure is the joker / clown in the cloud security pack. I'd wager they're both the most expensive and insecure.
> I don't understand this about the Dutch people. So many old, granny bikes, that are so heavy, with steel fenders, steel stands etc. So heavy, inefficient.

Cheap, reliable, low-maintenance, unattractive to thiefs. When you drop your bike at the train station you don't want it to stand out in a sea of other cheap bikes.

And with bikes generally getting priority, the weight is likely less of a concern.
> That explanation seems more reasonable to me than a few people are wired differently.

Do you think that everyone is wired the same? That would seem to be very unlikey to me. Aside from the fact that people react wildly differently to the same circumstances, consider how varied people's physical attributes are. It would be weird if we varied so much physical but were mentally all the same. Especially as a large part of mentality is almost certainly dependent on the brain, and the brain is a physical organ just like the rest of our bodies.
I think those are the exceptions that prove that it can be done, and can be viable. Totally agree that it's generally not a thing, but places like that show that all the other, similar neighborhoods are just missing out.
> Why can't tape be self-contained like HDDs?

Because that gets rid of the main advantage of tape. Which is that the tape-media has no read/write head and is therefore much much much cheaper to mass produce.

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In practice, people buy tape-libraries entirely. Like a 3U unit with 50-tape slots + a few drives to read/write to those tapes, and then hook them up to the network.

https://www.quantum.com/en/products/tape-storage/

From this perspective, you buy as many tapes as you want storage (aiming for 500TB? Buy like 40 LTO7 tapes for your library. Aiming for 1000TB? Buy 80 LTO7 tapes for your library, assuming compression of course).

From there, you just read/write to the library, and have the underlying software handle the details, like any other NAS.
I was thinking of a classic gas powered motor scooter, you frequently see those parked in streets in these cities.
This kind of exists in LTO tape drives, typically used in businesses/government due to retention requirements. They definitely aren't cheap setups though.
One weird thing about the language, which seems contrary to this "most productive language" claim, is that it seems a bit complicated to use normal version control https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/26174/what-a...
People think the virus has a strategy, like it’s playing a sport and deciding an outcome.

Tell the Black Plague its strategy of killing 30% of is suboptimal. Or to the species driven to extinction by a disease. “Inanimate object, that was suboptimal to your existence!”
Parking domains have been a staple of the internet since its inception.
25-35 an hour for that sort of work is absurdly low. Especially for someone who has an established emulator in their resume. Then on top of that the author had an existing job in SV so they knew about what sort of hour range they should be getting. They doubled it but then bumped out the time from 4 to 6 months of work. They still have not shipped 2 years later. Now taking pre orders, which I personally skip because of the possibility of them not ever shipping. So it would have dragged on. Then the ask for delaying the emu itself until they shipped. If they had agreed to that they would have had to sit on a release for nearly 2 years at this point. There is quite the cadre of hucksters in that area of software/hardware. Also I would posit that the task for 300-400 hours was probably under estimated by a factor of at least 3x, probably more as it was 'part time'.

I have seen this sort of thing before in the 'real' industry. You work for a hardware company and they see the software work as a 'extra' that you just bash something out and hope for the best. I have went out of my way to not work for hardware companies anymore. Many do not 'grok' software. That the hardware and software have to work together or they both fail.

This sort of story is probably better on r/choosingbeggars.
I disagree. The alternative would be simply to make an arxiv like website the only place where papers are published and include a system where other scientists can leave public comment and ratings for each paper. Then everyone can follow scientists that they trust and see what they have to say.

This would never happen because the current system is about protecting academics' jobs, lest anyone discover that a majority of the work they do is so trivial and down right silly that anyone could do it with no training.
Taking away the option of perpetual licenses is an interesting business decision. Jetbrains makes the subscription model work, but they also do give you a permanent license to older versions after 1 year of subscription (which is a great incentive to keep people renewing!)

Historically, IDA Pro's sales and licensing has always been a bit of a headache for customers. I could understand that the OPEX model makes it easier for some companies to keep renewing.

That just goes to show that I'm not their target market. Even if IDA had a pay-what-you-want option, the 10-20 I'd be willing to pay per month while using a leaked version is clearly completely negligible compared to what they normally charge.

And I'm happy to just use Ghidra instead of bothering with an IDA leak, so I suspect this announcement might simplify things for their existing corp users, but it'll probably not do a great job of expanding the home userbase.
Dear Hex Rays: I’m not switching to subscription for these prices. Signed, a paying customer with multiple licenses, and future Ghidra user.
Maybe the fact that two of the largest coal exporting states have the smallest populations and largest proportional influences in the Senate has something to do why voting isn't working. The game is rigged.
A sister team from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology also has a app called "Merlin," which can automatically identify birds by picture or sound. BirdNET feels targeted towards folks doing bioacoustics research while Merlin is focused around education and outreach. Merlin's Sound ID is fairly accurate and it can identify (recorded or live) bird calls from your phone's microphone! https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/sound-id/

Lately I've been teaching myself bird calls from custom-built Anki flashcards (I can't see well, so learning to bird by sight is less interesting to me than birding by ear). Having an easy way of "checking my work" in the wild really helps me feel confident about learning the birds in my neighborhood.
> I have however done Alexander Technique in my theatre training. It's incredible how much tension our bodies can hold without our minds being aware or conscious of it.

I find that very interesting. Can you share more? Specifically, what exercises do you suggest for letting go of such unconsciously held tension in the body? Any books or other resources you can recommend?

Thanks!
> impact at 110mph

can we get the "frontal impact == impact at sum of speed" myth die already? it's been thoroughly debunked over and over. the only way it's relevant is if there's a large weight difference between vehicles.
Yes, because 'expert' doesn't indicate any level of financial competence, and experts often undervalue themselves and get exploited.

What is the logical conclusion of your comment? Is expertise solely tied to the amount of compensation someone receives?
LastPass Becoming an Independent Company
"One example is the recently released Ca Go, featuring an electronic gearbox, a crash cushioned box, cable steering for tighter turning and folding seats with vibration absorption and adjustable headrests. With all optional extras it costs more than €10,000."

Is it me or are these vehicles gradually evolving into kei-cars, just from the other end of the spectrum comparing to the original?
Does it? I think you'd have a point if Analogue were a charity of grant-funded or something, but Analogue is a for-profit entity. Most people reading this post are in the business of selling their time and/or expertise for money, and it's not weird to want to maximize that value. I (like most people I think) hate the process of salary negotiations, but I always do it because of course that's just what you do. I've walked away from offers that seemed interesting because I'm not 100% about how they are handling their finances.

This isn't really selfish; I have a responsibility to me and my wife. I need to know that I won't get too burnt out, I need to know that the money I am making will sustain me comfortably, I need to know that I will have enough to pay my mortgage or my wife's school etc. If I am going to work to make someone else a profit, then I should try and maximize my own as well.
Thanks for the correction. It’s been a long time and I’m going off my memory without having refreshed it since. You are bringing back vivid memories I didn’t know I had!
Totally dishonest to compare primaries to general elections.
Personally -

1. moved to veggie diet 2 years ago

2. getting solar panels this spring

3. electric car as soon as I have the money

It's a start.
Invest in ESG funds. They vote in favor of corporate sustainability. You can do this yourself with proxy campaigns cross-referencing with NGO data, but the effort is overly burdensome. More importantly, companies know what the ESG funds are doing, and they have actual sway to be listened to. They don't have lower returns than the index funds you'd buy anyway (speculative, depends on your choices), it's a no-brainier.

Oh, and become filthy rich. That will help.
There seems to be an inverse relationship between how good a project's website looks vs how well the application runs. Probably a "here be Electron" warning sign?
Individuals run corporations and collectively we make decisions. Cars are a necessity for some, but many can find alternatives or lobby their local governments to improve alternate forms of transit.
Fun fact: the tail block contains the constant string "Nu är det slut…", Swedish for "this is the end".
Machine Learning has colonized the fast fashion industry.
That would piss off "the individual" because it would result in higher prices and hence lower consumption and hence lower quality of life.
I have no proof of it but considering the account you are arguing with is less than a day old, I wonder if its IP address wouldn't resolve to some VPN endpoint used by paid posters to bypass the Great Firewall [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
> How do you all cope with this?

I ignore it.

> Do you ignore it because it is painful?

Yep

Honestly, I am young enough that in elementary school they were already talking about global warming, we were told that it would be too late soon and that we had to do something about it.

15 years later nothing has been done about it, but then again nothing really went wrong yet, being told everyday that the world will end has the pervasive effect that it feels pointless to really try and change things. You just feel numb and wait for something to happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V have essentially perfect records. The IV had a lower-than-expected orbit on a non-payload test flight, and the V had a lower-than-expected orbit that the payload was able to fix.
I'm not an evangelist, but it's easier to load kids, and when kids are over three years old even the roomiest of trailers get cramped. In warm weather, riding on the back is really fun for the kids.

The trailer is better for foul weather, ice, and frigid cold, and really little kids. Cheaper, as you say. More of a hassle.

Neither option is bad. But I don't regret the cargo bike when I remember how excited the kids are to ride it.
Belarus jails opposition leader’s husband for 18 years
I briefly tried using it a couple of weeks ago, when there was a post here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406322) about it. I took a small notebook I had made in Colab:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1FqJomu3MAWLz_Dc2y15...

and tried converting it to Wolfram Cloud:

https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/shreevatsapublic/Published/...

Pros: The Wolfram / Mathematica language, once you learn it, is likely to be consistent and powerful. (Browse some questions on https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/)

Cons: Mostly around familiarity and ubiquity, versus a closed ecosystem. For example, it took me a long time to figure out how to put everything into the Wolfram language (imperative things are awkward to do; had to figure out how `Do` and `Module` work), there are fewer resources for learning it, etc. Can't use standard Markdown, nor TeX syntax for math[1] AFAIK. There may be an alternative way to typeset mathematics; I never got around to it. The UI is unfamiliar to me (harder to see where the cells are, deleting a cell was nontrivial to figure out).

Maybe with time it will become easier, but overall, I expect to continue to use Jupyter / Colab notebooks when they work well enough, and try Wolfram Cloud again when I want something really nontrivial that sympy / Sage / etc can't do cleanly… which is probably unlikely, as the Python ecosystem continues to close the gap.

([1]: Aside: Did you know that MathML came into existence, with impetus from Wolfram, to make it harder to use TeX/LaTeX syntax for math on the web? See https://www.mathmlcentral.com/history.html#:~:text=To%20head... )
I question your numbers because New Shepard doesn't use carbon based fuel at all.

It's replacement, New Glenn, is the problem here.
Organizing my life so that I can enjoy these last few years of relative calm and safety before shit hits the fan forevermore
I keep reading about how there are ~350 single points of failure once Webb is successfully launched. Can someone with expertise and chime in about why the telescope wasn't designed with more built-in deployment redundancies? It would seem to be good engineering practice to ensure that there are back-up systems, etc.
Body Integrity Dysphoria
While we’re on paper, I have a Field Notes “Expedition” special edition. [0] It has waterproof paper which is ‘fun’ but actually pretty useless as ink doesn’t really hold.

So I had it for years and it went unused. And then I used a pencil! (Mitsubishi 9850 HB, thanks for asking.) [1] Oh and it is the most fun in the world! It’s like writing on a pat of butter with the tail of a fox. It’s the smoothest thing you’ve ever felt.

Now it lives in the kitchen and I record meat temperatures and whisky cocktail ratios and it is my favourite book.

That is all.

[0]: https://fieldnotesbrand.com/products/expedition

[1]: https://pencilly.com.au/product/mitsubishi-9850-hb/
Interestingly, I heard a podcast or read a book not long ago (I'd guess John McWhorter, but don't quote me on that) that touched on this, and the author attributed this simplification from the Indo-European norm of heavy grammatical gender to the fact that both Persian and English achieved their modern forms largely as languages learned by adults - the Vikings mixing with Saxons, the various subjects of the Persian Empire - and thus they tended to simplify endings.
> using a language model on top of character level OCR

But if you know you're going to use a language model after the OCR, then you don't OCR to a single character, but rather to a distribution of character similarity (e.g. the 90% least similar or clipping at a certain similarity threshold). Then the language model should have more to work with (although TBH its work becomes more complicated).
> So FWIW, the way I would describe how I "see" things in my mind is exactly how I'd describe remembering images. I'm not sure if that means I have aphantasia or not.

I think if you aphantasia, then you wouldn't be able to remember images at all.
I will preface with the statement that my knowledge may be slightly out of date as I don't keep up on every nuanced change.

I use PyTorch and TensorFlow, and the article is spot-on in regard to "mystery operations that take a long time" with no real rhyme or reason behind them with regard to TensorFlow. That said, on the whole, I skew more towards TensorFlow because it is generally easier to reason about the graph and how it connects. I also find the models that are available to usually be more refined, robust and useful straight out of the box.

With PyTorch I am usually fighting a slew of version incompatibilities in the API between even more point releases. The models often feel more slap-dash thrown together, research like projects or toy projects, and whilst the article points out the number of papers that use PyTorch far exceeds those that use TensorFlow, and the number of models for PyTorch dwarfs that of TensorFlow, there isn't a lot of quality in the quantity. "90% of everything is crap." Theodore Sturgeon. And that goes double for PyTorch models. A lot of the models, and even some datasets, just feel like throwaway projects that someone put up online.

If you are on macOS or Linux and using Python, PyTorch works fine, but don't step outside of that boundary. PyTorch and TensorFlow work with other operating systems, and other languages besides Python, but working with anything but Python when using PyTorch is a painful process fraught with pain. And yes, I expect someone to drop in and say "but what about this C++ framework?" or "I use language X with PyTorch every day and it works fine for me!" But again, the point stands, anything but Python with PyTorch is painful. The support of other languages for TensorFlow is far richer and far better.

And I will preface this with, "my knowledge may be out of date" but I've also noticed the type of models and project code available for TensorFlow and PyTorch diverge wildly once you get outside of the toy projects. If you are doing computer vision, especially with video and people, and you are not working on the most simplest of pose analysis, TensorFlow offers a lot more options of stuff straight out of the box. PyTorch has some good projects and models, but they are mostly of the Mickey Mouse hobby stuff, or an abstract research project that isn't very robust or immediately deployable.

I use TensorFlow in my day-to-day job. All that said, I like PyTorch for its quirkiness, its rapid prototyping, its popularity, and the fact that so many people are trying out a lot of different things, even if they don't work particularly well. I use PyTorch in almost all of my personal research projects.

I expect in the future for PyTorch to get more stable and more deployable and have better tools, if it can move slightly away from the "research tool" phase it is currently in. I expect Google to do the usual Google-Fuck-Up and completely change TF for the worse, break compatibility (TF1 to TF2) or just abandon the project entirely and move on to the next new shiny.
I just looked it up. [edit](An average rocket)[1] emits 300T of CO2 on the round-trip. That's the same as a 777 flying from NYC to LHR round-trip. Except there have been 18 Blue Origin launches and there's 85,000 annual round trips from NYC to LHR alone.

It's certainly inefficient and not individually good for the planet, but it's a pricy luxury few can afford, and one that can be easily managed via carbon tax.

Refusing to address the 85,000 annual round-trips on just the NYC-LHR corridor because one rich guy ran 18 launches with the same carbon footprint, I mean, I'm sure he's flown his private jet over the Atlantic more than 18 times.

Remember, per person, the Blue Origin launch produces as much CO2 as 85 Bitcoin transactions.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/19/billionaires...
I have hyperphantasia. It's like having a CAD program inside my mind, and I can design entire physical devices, machines, or structures and later when I build them the 3D arrangement of the parts works out just as well in the physical world as my mental model indicated. I can also plan out algorithms for generating or slicing 3D triangle meshes in my mind, and when I write out the algorithm it works on the computer just as I thought it would.

I think "positive" demonstration of such abilities would be difficult to pin on the difference between individuals being just a "failure of language to compare experience." HOWEVER - I share your skepticism on the lack of demonstrability of the "negative" side of that equation in subjective experience. Let me explain:

I don't feel I have an inner monologue. Subjectively my mental process feels entirely nonverbal. Without other people around and a need to communicate with them, I only think in pictures and pure concepts. I can pull up a voice in my imagination, but it's much more like replaying a tape recorded message (complete with whatever environmental noise) than a narrative associated in some special way with my train of thought.

So I can understand aphantasia by analogy to how I myself once thought "the voice in your head" was a figure of speech. (And I did and still do think the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is BULLshit.) But I should also be skeptical as to whether my conscious experience is actually totally nonverbal, or if I am just discounting things that are actually there or describe it differently.
I totally agree with all comments in favor of the European way. I just have to add something:

> The supermarkets in the city centre are smaller

Then maybe they are not actually supermarkets, instead small markets or grocery stores?
In the first half of 2019, foreign companies won 68% of their cases in the Beijing IP court.[0] Foreign companies are much more often plaintiffs than defendants, though the balance is supposedly shifting (Chinese companies are becoming more assertive about their own IP rights).

An example: John Deere has won judgments against a bunch of Chinese companies that used similar names to it.[1]

0. https://www.ccpit-patent.com.cn/node/11255

1. https://www.kwm.com/en/cn/knowledge/insights/final-judgment-...
It's SEO for the OP site. The parent comment is saying the words TF and PyTorch are repeated exhaustively, I think sometimes senselessly, throughout the entire article. It doesn't mean the content is not of value.