skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MacOS is a lot easier if you restore from a Time Machine backup. In four hours I can buy a new machine and be logged in and working like nothing happened. Done that plenty of times.

I think the biggest thing I can point to is how well Apple products work for the average person. I buy new ones every 2~3 years and keep N-1 as a spare. N-2 goes to someone who has asked me too many PC support questions.

Everyone I've given an apple laptop has eventually bought a new one. They bitched about the price, but they were ultimately willing to pay for it. My dad worked for IBM for many years and was not happy I "wasted money" on my first mac in college. Ten years later after him still saying that, I gave him a laptop. That was a few years ago and last month he bought a new M1 Air. Meanwhile, a number of the people he works with have converted to Apple laptops because they've seen how well his works.
I'm a huge fan of SLF4J. We happen to use logback with it and a custom appender that send messages over ActiveMQ. We regularly take log volumes of thousands of messages /s on modest hardware into a Graylog instance.
Yes, that's what I tried to say. I can easily try a piece of code with my own data to verify that its results are plausible. I can't do that for a paper. So if I don't have the code, I might waste a significant amount of time trying to reproduce a fake paper.
They use helium mainly because of data density. If removable platters required less precise heads, you could still use air.
It took us a long time, but overall emissions in the US are down about 10% from their peak in 2005, even when you adjust for us exporting manufacturing to elsewhere. This only brings us down to ~1996 levels, but it's a good sign. Per capita, we're back down below 1990 levels[0]. (I think this is mostly from some energy-efficiency improvements and less coal, though a lot of that has just shifted to natural gas[1].)

It's not nearly enough, and may be overwhelmed by China and India's development, but significant positive change is happening. It just took us until ~2007 to really get things moving.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2

[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Modules don't require any particular directory structure, just a go.mod at the root of your project.
The question is how many of the LSD takers invented something in relation to all the other ones who just had some fun. Is it bigger percentage than in the general population?
Based on? The second part seems logical tbh and the first part actually did happen ( 1200 employees and a decent company, so I doubt their would be lies. We're no better.com ).

Also, it is similar enough to what i heard before from a conference about covid previous year.
People move to Seattle mostly because it is great. But if you are a certain political bent Texas and Florida offer a safe haven to be so. I have a (gladly) ex-worker that is on his way to FL or Montana but all that does is add 2 seemingly nice folks to the pile of racists already there.
seasoned programmers struggle to figure out the "right" API for a single purpose, and still get it wrong. good luck figuring out the "right" API for the sum of human knowledge & our ever changing interpretations & interrelations of it.
> There's a deep and misplaced sense of entitlement here.

No there isn't.

> 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

Actually the "right time" to specify it, is literally any time she decides she's come to an adequate number, and put it in ink, at her own leisure. Again, she has the skills, she gets to makes the demands. Go make another offer to someone else instead. Not difficult to understand.

> The actual offer is not really insulting if the company didn't know she was in such a high COL area.

Again: your problem. Not my problem.
Also meaning natural immunity faster, hopefully an underwhelming hospital load.

Someone needs to check if masks and cloths over nose and face still have moderate effectiveness in densely populated areas.
You'll find you can play that game with anything people are passionate about. Global warning, the US, Trump, Obama..BLM..Cuomo, Rust
Hyperinflation after money printing is not the result of "trust going down". It's the result of increased dollars increasing aggregate demand in a system that cannot keep up with productive capacity.
That's what the germans said in the late 20s too :-)
I think the idea is that it's all of the above. Facebook is trying to create an all encompassing space that effectively replaces the internet.
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Thank you for removing the uncertainty on that! Agreed regarding the unspecific reporting. Seemed to me to be one of those areas where the author assumed you'd assume... I dislike that as it introduces the possibility of misinterpretation.

Now the next question is what is the percentage reduction in deaths for Omicron vs prior variants. It seems like more than the 29 percent reduction in hospitalisation given the first death from Omicron was reported in Britain last week right?
> There have only been 4 tornadoes in December since 1975.

In Iowa?
I could turn all blockchains off tomorrow and I guarantee nobody would notice the effect on the climate on any graphs that matter.

Oil/gas/energy loves that everyone is for some reason concentrating on crypto as if it's the biggest polluter on the planet, so they get a break in the media.
the world doesn't care. whoever finds the needle quickest, cheapest, wins.
More specifically, if there is a person in a QA role looking out for counterfeit components, and they miss such a glaringly obvious typo, they may not be paying attention to enough details. And if a language barrier is at fault, that's itself a flag that they may not have full comprehension of the specifications they are supposed to QA for. Perhaps not "stop the line" but "we need to do an audit of this component" - and that audit needs to actually be performed.
This is certainly the story told by people who own lots of property and media outlets.

It could be a coincidence that SF has an epidemic of mental issues and sky high rents.
Yeah, B2B is a wild world and this was my first time going for a ride. Ah well. You live you learn.

Speaking of which, last time this came up on HN ilfak cruised into the comments a week later, all "I can not find your nickname in our database," and I didn't see the reply until a year later. Well, the HexRays database had no problem finding my-nickname-at-gmail for the purposes of bugging me to renew, and just in case anyone thinks I'm making this up, here's the order. I also have an email with the download link and serial number -- the ones that didn't work -- and the ghosted support requests spread throughout the following year.

I'm sure this is a Hanlon's Razor thing, I just want to make sure that any naive young hackers considering the possibility of a last-time-buy on a perpetual license understand what they are getting into.

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This demo is only about million vectors. The largest I had in Faiss was embeddings of the entire Wikipedia (scale in the neighborhood of ~30 million vectors). I know people running few billion vectors in Faiss.
Funny, considering LastPass was its own company until it was acquired by LogMeIn...
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Of course the mods removed this from the frontpage. Yay censorship.
Yes. You can see them but can't access them until you pay up.
The professor is not accused of IP offenses. This is a few steps removed from that.
mostly just accuracy and r squared. i use lightning's torchmetrics.
> The thing is, vaccines were never advertised as tools to prevent infection.

A lot of people believed they were. I've spent some time arguing with people that the punishments for not taking the vaccine were too extreme, and that government-supported firing of people from their jobs was a bad idea.

It was extremely common for people to argue that the vaccine would cut down on transmission (which is basically saying infection) and end the pandemic. Without that pillar it gets quite hard to justify the discrimination against unvaccinated people in Australia. Not sure about the rest of the world but I assume there is a similar story.
No, the semweb people didn’t make that stick but cryptocurrencies don’t have much to do with the web, either. It’s a different model, tech stack, and culture and that’s what I was referring to.
Yes, you do have a horse, if you live on Earth (I am not being snarky). World's democracies are backsliding, while we are all trading monkey NFTs.
Yup. I did some tests and my SSD (and even HDD) can handily keep up with the data rate. If not, I can always add a small staging drive the size of a tape to pre-prepare the data for writing.
In 20 years Google Maps will probably show live video, at least in major cities.
Somebody can probably say the same things about ms paint, not much of an argument there.
This project is stretching my definition of DIY a bit but I would say it is interesting nevertheless.

The type of hyperspectral camera [0] that they implement is a push broom scanner [1] which works like this: the data is collected line for line of an image of the scene, e.g. by a rotating mirror that changes the view all the time. A narrow slit then selects a line out of this view. The light from that line is then passed through a dispersive element (optical grating, prism) in such a way that a spectrum is generated perpendicular to the scanned line. That means that the image generated on the sensor of the camera now has the spectrum of each pixel of the scanned line distributed over its different rows. Therefore reading out all of the sensor gives the full spectrum for that line. Since the mirror is rotating, the line is scanned over the scene and collecting the data from frame to frame eventually results in a hyperspectral cube instead of a normal image. Since the data is collected over many frames, this method is trading temporal resolution/frame rate for spectral information.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspectral_imaging#Spatial_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_broom_scanner
This is interesting and looked at the LF website to try to figure out what they do. The author seems to portray the LF as a political organisation, while to me it seems like a way for corporate donors to contribute help. I imagine most of the source code is contributed by employees of the member companies, volunteers/enthusiasts or "the community", and it is not the LFs business.

About 60% of expenditure is "Project Support" (I included Linux project support here) which seems to be all kinds of non-code help to open source projects. I see Legal, Marketing, Community management, Training, Infrastructure, Creative/Design. Here is a description from the website: https://linuxfoundation.org/projects-support-programs/ I grant you that it is vague, but I doubt there is much politics involved.

A big open source project like Kubernetes probably needs all of that help. As a project grows bigger lots of non-code issues grow in importance. I think maintainers and code contributors would like not having to spend too much time dealing with WCAG on the flashy website, checking everyone's contributor agreements, vulnerability scans, paying for CI/CD, writing articles about the project, dealing with trolls in the community and moderation in their forums.

Next is community infrastructure with 12%. No idea what that is but it might be LFX which looks neat: https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org It seems to be a project management tool.

I will lump together Community Tooling, Training and Events in their 20% category. Especially the Training and Events seem to also bring revenue - so students and attendees pay for that. Not sure what Tooling is exactly - could be LFX again.

Then you have the last 8% which is Corporate operations, or their own Legal, Finance, etc. departments.
Picnic gives all developers a Mac Book with M1 Pro “for shorter build time”
> That tech stack that you speak of, it needs to become deployed onto a server before the public can interface with it. Who does that?

The whole point of Web3 is that, no, it does not need to be deployed onto a server. Backends and frontends should be decoupled enough that in your given disagreement-scenario, you as the server-owner would be “forked away”. Think of the FreeNode/Libera debacle. The presence of a DAO doesn’t change anything in that sense.

> Will every pull request become an NFT?

I don’t see why any PR would need to be tokenized. There’s no need for transferable ownership (as opposed to authorship) of a PR. Or am I missing why this would be useful? (Aside: Who holds ownership of the PRs I make on GitHub.com on “your” repository today? Me, you, Microsoft, or “the community”? There are valid arguments for all of the above and it feels like a question of little practical use)

> Since when can blockchains own things?

They can’t. But they can keep track of who owns what. And smart contracts, including DAOs, can take programmed actions with the assets or informations it has acquired from others.
As the site says this demo is by no means meant as a replacement for Google, but rather to complement it. I would say Teclis is good for content discovery and learning new things outside the typical search engine filter bubble. A few examples of good queries are listed on the site.

A similar concept was shown here recently: https://search.marginalia.nu
The top 1% own 42% of the wealth. What fraction of overall taxes are paid by the top 1%? I expect it’s significantly lower than 42%.
But if virtually nobody who uses the term knows that "grandfathered in" has an unsavory past, does it really cause much harm to use that phrase?
Ok, this is mindblowing for me. When I think of a tiger I have some kind of visual sensation, but it's extremely low on information. Like maybe 12x12 or 16x16 pixels. But not sharp pixels, but fuzzy, colored shapes, or very, very simple details, like whiskers. Like in a impressionist picture. But way simpler.

Never though that this was different of anyone else.

Also, when i read this article and i tried visualising things i realised that apparently i can have this image only for about halve a second, then it's gone. Guess that different of other people aswell.

Maybe i just found out why i was so very bad in art class, despite trying.
I mean, the majority of apps I use on a regular basis support it. Chromium, Discord, Konsole, Dolphin, Mailspring, VS Code... the list goes on, and it's not just limited to QT applications. If your only holdout as a Mac user is the global menu, I think you'll be perfectly contented with what KDE offers.
Then you can try to convince the WTO to impose consequences if it really is the framework. In reality while this would work for a weaker developing country it probably won't work here.
Scientists urge creating strategic forest reserves to mitigate climate change
>NFTs are hot right now as an investment vehicle,

I'd say speculation more than investing.

The peoblem with public blockchains and related technologies is that they have been list in the middle of huge speculation markets... which brings all sorts of bullshit and scams.

That's why I like to look at hyperledger and similar technologies. If you remove the money incentives, you are left with the pure technology essence. And then you can judge it by what it is.
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> The absolute best thing for the Planet would be for every human being to do nothing at all.

The planet doesn't care what lives on it or if anything lives at all. There is no best for the planet outside of goals humans set for it.

> It's so odd that all our frantic doing is what's thrown the Planet out of balance

The planet has never been in balance. And even if we stop anthropogenic climate change something else will throw the planet out of balance again too.
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> Maybe I'm just in a pessimistic mood right now

I feel yah. I was like that too. Until I read a bunch of optimistic stuff from Stephen Pinker. I always say to give "The Better Angels of Our Nature" a try.
It's part of China Initiative targeting US academia, mostly failed in terms of exposing spies. But IMO the real goal was mccarthyism and generating fear over collaboration with PRC science going forward, in which case, working as intended.
> Most infosec peeps have trouble getting teams to prioritize of security stuff and some of the blame falls of infosec teams too for making everything sounds like a end of world scenario.

So much this. I had a security review failed because an API would respond with http 422 on invalid input. When I asked why that is a security issue I got shut down with “defense in depth”. After a longer discussion the problem was that 422 was not part of “the original http spec” but rather some ldap extension.
We hear you, anarazel. Thanks for the feedback.
I think it's a good word for 2-10 feet of sea level rise.
Sure, at least some of it is from observers: I am one of them. But... Are there any rules against that? If something's true, then is it any more or less true depending on who you are or what you do?
given that the melting of the thing could cause ocean levels to rise by up to amost a meter (or even more if it has a cascading effect on other ice masses in the area) that is actually appropriately named.
Don't miss https://github.com/dandavison/delta. I use gui diff tools much less nowadays because I can get such great diffs in the terminal.
A lot, especially in pharma. I expect if their economy was anywhere near China it would be even more.
Why in the world do you think it's hyperbole? Climate change is real. The results are everywhere.

Wake up, child.
> Failed as in the vaccines, that were being advertised as being 95% effective with no talk of any boosters only 6 months ago, no longer provide any protection at all.

It's disappointing to see complete lies like this on HN. Vaccines have been, and remain, incredibly effective in preventing hospitalization/death, even without a booster (although everyone should also get their booster).
It's obviously an extraneous distraction that has zero to do with the topic. We don't need a cryptocurrency flamewar, god help us, on top of this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've found that there's a weird internal psychology I have with any news relating to Webb. I'm just as excited and hopeful as everyone else. But somehow the whole story underscores the perils of singular hope. It also seems to underscore the inherent issues with massive, carefully planned, "vertically" scaled science projects a la 20th century NASA. I've carved out a little nook in my psyche to cope with the outcome that something goes wrong during the Webb's incredibly complicated launch process and all those years of effort come to nothing.

It's also made me wonder if there's a way for humanity to pivot to more "horizontally" scaled science. I'm imagining a kind of science conducted by aggregating the data collected by many cheap, easily produced instruments instead of a few incredibly fragile, extremely difficult to build contraptions. I have an intuition that we'll increasingly run up against practical limitations in undertaking ever more complex projects of this kind in the coming years.
I completely agree. If someone uses GNOME and says OSX isn't configuration friendly, the critique is very hypocritical, enough to be dismissed. If you say that and use almost any other DE (I love KDE) sure. Someone saying the overcooked steak is disgusting while eating a burnt piece of toast is hard to take serious, they are constantly breaking addons and plugins, its like they don't want any 3rd party support, not unlike the often critiqued apple desktop.
Perhaps. But keep in mind, the world isn't suffering equally.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-heal...
0ver is parody, right?
A changing climate doesn't mean an unlivable earth.

Unfortunately this isn't true - certain parts of the earth (perhaps affecting as many as 1B people) will in fact become unlivable, as we approach warming scenarios above 1.5 degrees.
I assume that when people close their eyes and see an apple, there’s an entire spectrum of how richly present that Apple is. Some, like me, vaguely see a colourless “idea” of an apple while others might even see colour and detail or more.

If this is accurate, it makes me wonder two things:

1. Is there even a unique condition of not seeing the apple or are you just very far off to one end of the spectrum ? (Perhaps this isn’t an important distinction)

2. Are the people who can very richly see an apple more likely to be artistically inclined?
Some part of modern consumption however is not really making lives any more enjoyable at all, for instance all the low quality clothes and items sold in large quantities to fill some internal void for people for a short while.

If there was for instance a carbon tax on the raw materials and transport then I’m fairly sure the price difference between high quality and low quality items would become minimal so people would start buying more sensibly for the planet because our systems would make it more sensible for them individually.
If you're vaccinated and become infected, you will have less of a viral load, and thus will spread less viral particles to others. The duration of infection will also be much shorter, thus lessening the time you can spread the infection to others. The vaccine also prevents some, but not all, infections in the first place.

You're also less likely to take up a hospital bed that someone who is more vulnerable than you needs.
Wow, that's a much better continuous success rate than I would've guessed on either account.
> I've heard that but then why do people say we need to get vaccinated to protect the most vulnerable members of society if the vaccine isn't actually slowing the spread and doesn't prevent infection?

Why are you (and others) thinking that since vaccines aren't 100% effective it doesn't help protecting other people ?

What kind of dissonance cognitive gets you there ?

Why are you blind to the fact that a vaccine that mostly works still help reducing infections and why do you equate that to "vaccines don't work to protect others (since some vaccinated people can still infect others) so I shouldn't get vaccinated" ?

How come you are working from a yes/no, full-or-nothing angle ?

A glass of water won't 100% quench your thirst when you haven't drunk in a long time so you won't take it ?
Something called “web” should use web technologies and culture? This feels like if the Git developers had tried to call it Web 3 — irrespective of the merits of the tool, it’s weird to present your business as the successor to a community you’re not part of.
Certain documents must be signed by an officer of the company. So many become vice presidents, to have that ability.

Then other people of the same rank become vice presidents.

At one bank anyone at director level (manager of managers) was a VP, for example.
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