skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You know that Smallpox was in cows (aka: Cowpox), right?

It seems unlikely that many cows caught smallpox, given the prevalence of cowpox. Cowpox is a different disease, and was the first vaccine, after which the very concept of "vaccination" is named. Milkmaids had long been known for their immunity to smallpox. If smallpox had been in cows, milkmaids would have been known for universal smallpox exposure instead.

> I'm frankly more flabbergasted that people don't even know the history of diseases

Not a good look.
Please don't take HN threads further into hellish flamewar. The GP started it but at least that comment was partly on topic. You should have ignored the provocation at the end and either replied to the interesting, curious bits, or—if you didn't find any bits interesting or curious—not replied at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's interesting to see how Christmas and all sorts of regional solstice holidays get mixed together by various cultures across the world. Funny tangent: in Catalonia (Barcelona and the surrounding region) people set up a log with legs and a painted on face [1] and then smack it with sticks saying, essentially, "crap out candy for me!"

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%B3_de_Nadal
Do you have any kind of evidence that this is a widely held belief amongst this demographic?

You're advocating we stop reproducing as a dignified response to your perception that civilization is ending?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29550522.
It's basically the same mechanism that made Tesla succeed with early BEVs where others failed: if the 4000€ e-cargo was a Model S the trailer would be a VW Citystromer.

Another factor is that plenty of people permit themselves to go electric with a cargo bike who wouldn't dare getting seen on a regular bike with assist. "I'm not that old!". I believe that plenty of people have eventually caught themselves making up excuses why this particular ride could maybe require the load capacity (and chances are they were amused by it that's how deep the positive associations go).

And lastly, while things like https://schokofahrt.de/ would certainly be possible with trailers (I'd actually be surprised if trailers have never been part of it), it's just not part of the brand.
I kinda believe that capitalism can go in the right direction (though government action is needed) with pushes from all of us:

I chose a job specifically because it aims at reducing e-waste, and that's a real business incentive so I know I won't hit corporate walls. Turns out the job also tries to optimize electricity consumption, which is a target I don't think is very useful, but still feels like the right direction. (For reference, said job has a 10 yr old product upgraded to brand new Linux 5.15)

Except for that, the usual, ESG, eating less meat, using cars as little as possible. All of which are monetary incentives for the economy to go "in the right direction".

I also work on Android custom ROMs on my free time. I have yet to determine whether this is a net ecological positive (I buy many smartphones for that project so it has its own cost), and I have a very hard time turning it into monetary incentives.
For press releases like this, they damn well should be.
Agreed: this first release was focused on mirroring the original FEMA PDF. I would love to see the card evolve to be much more internationalized.

In fact, one of the reasons I chose to build an app around the PDF, instead of simply using PDF form fields, was to open up the possibility of rich customization. Maybe something like detecting locality preferences of the browser to customize the EWC form might be interesting.

(Also these are great suggestions, please feel free to open GH issues for them!)
I don't eat meat, and I encourage friends and family to avoid it. Livestock production is surprisingly bad for the environment. Cows are particularly bad, consuming somewhere around 25 times more calories and 4 times more protein from feed than they yield in beef.

Absolute vegetarianism is not necessary, either. Even incrementally eliminating meat in some meals will help.
Web-based metaverse platform Spatial raises $25M to enable 3D spaces on the web
But on every system that any worthy developer would consider using.
For a similar ANN/vector search capabilities, https://vespa.ai/ is a great open-source solution. Elasticsearch may offer some form of ANN too but need to double check
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. Last thing we want or need here.

The site guidelines explicitly ask you to avoid responding to flamebait with worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think most of the engineers on the project didn't either, what did Adam Steltzner, something like "It was the least worst option out of a lot of bad options".

I'm sure there's a commentary there on modern life, but sod that, this far cooler than any addage :)
Only a couple of macOS frameworks are pure Swift, most of them are actually bindings via Objective-C runtime interop.
I literally linked several meta-analyses that show it's patently true.
We've had that before (mainframes, punch cards), it's not that great.
> the aphantasic people I've spoken with say their dreams have no visual component. They don't have a visual experience when they dream. My dreams are intensely visual; I am absolutely seeing things when I dream.

I don't think my dreams have no visual component, but it's often the case that certain visual properties are just not filled in. Like someone's shirt might just not have a color in my dreams. Not grey, not transparent, and not like everything is black and white. Just that it didn't any color in particular, just didn't have that feature
Yeah I remember that in the past, maybe so 5+ years ago, I used to phrase things in a certain way to please their algorithm. This is not needed any more. Sometimes it doesn't grasp concepts and returns false results. But this has become rarer as well.
>I can vaguely describe in a sentence the gist of an article I've read, or an image, and the proper result will usually be in the first page.

For the specific context of "I can find something I've already found", yes, it's useful. I just wish there was a way to change that context to "discovery mode" where it uses a different algorithm that is oriented toward finding new information. I want to find sites in the spirit of those old-fashioned sites that are minimally styled with dense information. And not just Wikipedia or a few "trusted" sources like it used to be in earlier times, but a more well-rounded result set.
At this point it is clear you are merely regurgitating CCP propaganda. All of your claims map 1:1 to those made solely by the Chinese government, and have been refuted in outside reporting.

“Documents from 2019 reveal plans for a campaign of mass female sterilization … Xinjiang planned to subject at least 80 percent of women of childbearing age in the rural southern four minority prefectures to intrusive birth prevention surgeries (IUDs or sterilizations), with actual shares likely being much higher.”

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/future-perfect/22311356/chi...

I will not be responding further.
What were the rules yesterday and what are they today?
I buy carbon offsets for myself and family. I think they are important, if imperfect. They will improve with time.

And I spend time teaching entrepreneurship to students interested in sustainable tech.

And I keep trying to engage in the design of marine cloud brightening technology, which I view as a potential high-impact cooling tech. We need to buy time for society to transition. No support yet, but I’ll keep knocking.
Not having any kids is both easier and more impactful.
That's 300-400 hours in the mines. That doesn't account for the time you spend pondering about the problems, or studying and researching solutions. Sure, you could in theory power through 10 hour days and knock it out in a month, but that is only if you know the solution and all that has to be done is to press keys on a keyboard until the solution is built.
There's a deep and misplaced sense of entitlement here.

Some companies have money and want to complete a project, and some developers can do the work and want to be compensated. The process by which the compensation is determined involves negotiation. That is a two-sided process. In none of the presented screenshots did the author actually propose what she thought was a fair compensation for the work. She suggests $20K may work but that is the moment to say what she thinks is fair or what would have been worth her time

A lot of people who do emulator work are not based in SF. Many are in other countries where $10K stretches a lot further. The actual offer is not really insulting if the company didn't know she was in such a high COL area.

In the case of GBA emulator work, there is some sort of market. For example, MVG wrote the emulator for the Shantae re-release and there's no reason to believe others can't do the same.

If the author straight up made a counter, we could judge the reasonableness accordingly. In absence, it seems like entitlement.
Interestingly, like Christmas was, the religious aspects of Halloween were specifically de-emphasized by the dominant religious orders of the time, leading to (re?)seculrization of the holiday. The protestants weren't a big fan of venerating saints, or some of the underlying ideas of the the group of holidays (like the idea of souls resting in purgatory until those days) as those ideas were based in some of the philosophical differences they had with Catholics.

Good luck taking a feast and dress up day from the people though once you remove the religion out of a holiday.
Sanitizing inputs requires you to know what you're sanitizing against. Nobody knew about all these expressions that log4j would accept anywhere until a few weeks ago, so nobody could have sanitized them out of inputs.

Logging to a text file is nice for a toy app. For large-scale Production apps, you're gonna need log rotation to not overwhelm your disk space, transport to a centralized service for aggregation and bulk querying, and a good mechanism to append some tags about the request, service, instance etc to the log data to make it easy to query. That's not so easy without a nice logging framework.
Most of the vehicles I've seen used for this purpose in movies are Oldsmobiles and such from the 70s-- long before the latches were a requirement. Modern car trunks are also way smaller than older sedans, which don't lend themselves to human transport.

If you're ever in the trunk of a moving vehicle, do what you can to sabotage the brake lights-- the wires are usually accessible and it increases the chances of attracting police attention.
It should work on ARM with a couple of caveats:

* Stack tracing needs architecture-specific support which is currently only implemented for x86-64 and ppc64. It's not too hard to add for other architectures, so if this is a feature you need, please open a GitHub issue and I'll get around to it soon.
* 32-bit ARM doesn't support /proc/kcore, so drgn can't do live kernel debugging on 32-bit ARM. This seems to be due to historical reasons rather than any technical limitations, so I may send a patch to enable /proc/kcore for future kernel releases. AArch64 doesn't have this issue.

Userspace application debugging with drgn also has a couple of limitations mentioned in the blog post, namely the lack of breakpoints and stack tracing for live processes. Again, feel free to open issues asking for these so I know to move them up my todo list.
well, i have to admit i give the "right wing/denier" label freely to the likes of gottfried küssel, the identiären and herbert "ivermectin" kickl (yes, we've had our share of poisonings).
Agreed. But I don't hear anyone talking about making a old style COVID vaccine that prevents infection, disease or transmission. That's what's different in this case. We don't currently have what we many of us used to think of as a vaccine.
Please keep flamewar provocation out of your comments here. Your post contained some interesting stuff and also some hellish flamebait, and naturally the hellish flamebait dominated the thread.

That is entirely predictable internet dynamics, which is why the site guidelines explicitly ask everyone to avoid it here. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Although I guess once it's in orbit, and major problems could be sorted out over the following years with manned repair missions, like they did with hubble
>> This indicates how much is built in before any learning, a useful data point.

Animals have a heck of a lot of background knowledge like that. Statistical machine learning algorithms can't incorporate background knowledge [edit: not easily] and have to learn everything end-to-end. Hence why they remain dumb as bricks, compared to even simple animals (like insects, which are "simple" only compared to mammals, say).
It’s because people are investing the Government’s cash into the assets, such as stocks, instead of buying the products as they were “supposed” to do. Instead of buying a new iPhone, they buy Apple stock directly. This will cause stocks to do well, while underlying companies are not reporting good profits.
> Have you seen the charts for literally the rest of the world?

I just did. There are no discernable spikes coinciding with cold weather for India, Brazil, the UK or Russia.
Beware of Go. Google may use it to do the "Embrace Extend Extinguish" move. It might be type safe, but not ideologically safe.

This is on top of Go being an unstable, immature language.
Seconding, check the focus-visible especially on the textarea/selects.
Have you compared the performance and generated binary size of C vs. Go on WebAssembly?
Yeah true, that's also a bit annoying in PyTorch compared to TF. I remember reading on the PyTorch forums that this was a bit hard to implement for some reason, but I can't recall any details if there were any.
Note that this article is careful to never say that this "vector search" technology powers the classic Google Search. This sort of automated classification space is probably part of Google's general search algorithm, but it's probably a very small part. Youtube recommendations (based on description + thumbnail + potentially video content?) and Google Image Search are the two in-practice examples that it focuses on.
That is not the first time I see one of your stories and it always brings me a smile to see your new ideas and how implement them.

It also amazes me how some countries make it so easy to open a business. Doing so in Brazil would be a legal nightmare. Your projects are super inspiring and I always have a mind to leave my job and start doing the same. I should probably move to the US or Canada first, otherwise it might not be possible for me.
Is there any reason to believe that having a large number of previously infected individuals is unique to South Africa?
hackaday?
lots of content there people don't consider hacks - just a place to post a project.
I think it's better to consider some kind of "casualty rate" that includes long COVID, rather than just the "fatality rate". At the moment it's possible some people may never fully recover full function after contracting COVID even though they survive.
Those are 3.5"
If you consider the human to be part of that hardware, it's over 4x the distance that a human has ever travelled. There would still be a lot of technical problems to be figured out.
Without letting my jimmies be rustled, my post contained about as much content as GP's. It also contained two usages of "pork pies". And this comment contains one. Happy holidays, and good luck.
I thought k-d trees were useless in high-dimentional case. So, it must be something else.
Long ago, when I got my first paycheck, I "went legit" and bought licenses for TextMate, Sublime, and IDA. Long story short, HexRays took my $1000 and never gave me a working version of their software. Bastards. I'm so glad there is an alternative now.

To this very day, whenever I'm stuck slogging through the build or debug process of a Ghidra plugin that has a more mature alternative in the IDA universe, I occasionally let a tiny bit of that resentment bubble to the surface to propel me across the finish line.
It says “founded”. Their terms of service point to Analogue Enterprises Limited, registered in HK.

Founded is a typical weasel word because people tend to be more trusting of american companies.
I wonder if more and more people will rather be in the Metaverse like Ready Player One, so that real estate and real world prices will crash. I am looking forward for it.

After that, maybe I'll buy an Island and create my own country and invite all of my family members that are now scattered in different countries, and build my own kingdom, in the real world, my own rules, my own philosophies.

ah.., a man can dream...
I don't know a lot about FPGAs, but I guess I just assumed that they're like basically everything else in tech where they get cheaper and better as time goes on. If that's correct then I don't see why we couldn't have a GameCube or Xbox clone system eventually.

I think this might be more important as time goes on as well. Getting cycle-accurate emulation of anything more complex than the Dreamcast I think will become pretty prohibitive to do in-software. I suspect something like CEN64 might end up being the last cycle-accurate emulator out there (though I would absolutely love to be wrong on that). The advantages of FPGAs would make themselves substantially more apparent at that point than the Gameboy or NES.
you should really read the comments on the article you linked

Even if I disagree with TC on something, I still think he's pretty much intellectually honest, i.e., is not beholden to one political agenda or another simply because it matches his world view or completely unaware of competing data. And he often does a good job in striking a balance on ideology & practicality (State Capacity Libertarianism comes to mind)

However the comments section on MR are often a hot mess of cherry picking or misinformation parroted back by people trying emulate TC's style without anything approaching his intellectual rigor.
178 things!
I was hoping it was a forum with automatic stylometric obfuscation / anti-word-fingerprinting.

Not disappointed - this is even cooler, and the "avoiding photos because of consumption" is a vibe I jive with a lot. I've always thought AOL was ahead of its time with avatars - with profile pictures just being filters nowadays (neural -powered ones, even), the thought is ever more prescient.
Not arguing for this approach, mind you, just that it is a low-cost approach, so I am surprised nobody has attempted it yet. I would be curious what you know about it or the researchers that leads you to be doubtful of the approach.
You don't have to go far for Silicon Valley rates to be insane.

I'm in Canada. Experienced developer salary under 100k CAD is the norm. Consultant rates of $100CAD/hr are not unusual.

And then there's the rest of the world.

I have no beef with author for rejecting an offer that didn't make sense to them.

I am however disappointed for eagerness to ascribe malevolence and disrespect, and demonize a company whose side, balance sheet, and options we don't understand even remotely. I've read the screenshoted messages and they all seemed polite & understanding; no pressure, no offense. They made an offer and it didn't work out, life goes on for all involved - unless, and this is my personal daily fear, an internet mob decides some offense was committed. I expect and hope for more from HN.
The proposed model and the photograph were made independently by different people by the way.

Solar panels aren't included at all in the proposed model. These are the protrusions towards the bottom left and top right on the photograph. The part at the "upper left" end of the satellite might just be a lid or a sunshade on the opening of the telescope. Beside that the tapering shape of the main structure looks similar, imo. Keep in mind that there is a wide variety of possible shapes for satellites. For that, the proposed shape doesn't look that bad, imo.
But no one is complaining about discord or Reddit, it's all about Facebook and Twitter.

Discord and Reddit are just modern incarnations of USENET and forums.
>And if we accidentally make the planet nicer for everyone by cleaning up

This is for sure happening. The huge push to electric cars for example is because we must get off oil. Not because of climate change but rather practicality. We have ~50 years of oil left. Today people are driving around in 20 year old rust buckets. Those people aren't buying EVs until they have had a good time depreciating. So we're decades from true adoption. Long before that we are going to have oil prices skyrocket due to scarcity. Iran is talking nuclear deals because they ran out of oil. Or at least oil they can access.

More importantly, even russia and china are siding with the usa and eu saying iran is the one in need and needs to change. It's hard to predict what is about to come about their nuclear talks. Afterall, Iran is basically in an economic depression right now. Their inflation is trucking around 50% annual. Their prime lending rate is ~18%. This is what happens post-oil if you haven't moved your economy off of oil.

>and having the rich spread the wealth and caring about others....

Are they not? The rich effectively pay for the government. The net-benefits to the non-rich are greater than they pay in taxes. The rich are who pay for everything and are spreading their wealth.

>oh wait, this is driven from countries with a lower value on human life so I guess this explains it....

The poor person in those undeveloped parts of the world arent even driving 20 year old rust buckets. They are operating with like 2 cycle motors that barely function. The sooner we move away from oil, the less likely there's a huge economic fall out for others later.
Mati says in his profile that he knows he is fertile
So this got me trying out various things for dictation and transcription, as that would mean I wouldn't have to type quite as much.

I tried using Windows Speech Recognition, and it's unfortunately seems to be pretty garbage. Tons of mistakes I had to manually correct, couldn't say too much at all without it being so garbled I didn't remember what I really said to correct it manually.

But then I found out about built-in Apple Dictation on Macbook, which sends it to Siri, and I tried reading some old journal entries, and it's actually pretty darn good! I might be able to get through transcribing my other notes using it with minimal corrections. Just need to make sure you state punctuation, or else it doesn't really put any into it.

Still didn't seem that great for programming code though. Would be cool if I could find something decent for that.
The same selection pressure that applies to every other disease. Symptoms make you less likely to spread. Fatalities make you much less likely to spread. Most of the diseases you carry are completely asymptomatic.

This is why island populations all get sick when a ship comes in.
Is there a straightforward way to move models/pipelines created in JAX to EdgeTPU (TFLite)?
You mean sponsorblock?
Neither Dell nor HPE manufactures switches (the former never has, the latter hasn't for the past few years). So, these are all sourced from an OEM like Edgecore.

And, someone at that OEM ordered a bunch of misspelled stickers. Easy mistake to make, if the latin alphabet is literally foreign to you.

And if you think that sticker is bad? Wait until you see the actual firmware, oh boy... (I had some fun Edgecore LACP bugs take down an pretty sizable network. Things got slightly better once they moved to Linux-based firmware, but never to the point that their kit was, like, entirely reliable...)