skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like using paper to journal about my day or write about random thoughts I might have that I'd like to flesh out further through writing. A few inconveniences of writing it though is that you might want to selectively share some stuff from time-to-time, lack of ability to add media (though a portable printer kinda solves this problem), and having a limit of space, relying on indexing journals when they fill up. A lot of the caveats are solved by privately blogging, though I do miss writing instead of typing everything.

Something like this is almost a sweet spot of keeping the paper version as a "draft copy" while being able to enrich a digital version of your journal. As someone in the thread mentioned, being able to have private pages would likely encourage people to try it out for their journalling purposes. Otherwise, the project looks amazing!
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Wow, I mean not everything is positive with web 3, but why spending energy to make a site to spread negativity. We already have enough these times.
I've made some videos on Weaviate as well (Henry AI Labs) if interested:

[1] Wikipedia Vector Search Demo with Weaviate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGB8vjCuay0

[2] Vector Search through Wikidata with Weaviate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4zlvknSbGc

[3] Demonstrations of Deep Learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jbneytoKi0

[4] Weaviate's GraphQL API for Neurosymbolic Search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_2X48Tln9U

[5] Introducing the Weaviate Vector Search Engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS_2U_INpKk
That would require staffing up for the production run and then firing them when the contract was finished. There is a limited volume of sporadic work available for contractors to bid on. Increasing production capacity doesn't increase demand. At the end of the day public investment into science is always a jobs program first.
The average person is focused on problems in their own life and doesn't have time to keep track of every dollar they spend and what it supports.

When a hole was developing in the ozone layer advocates spent years trying to get people to stop buying the chemicals that were responsible, to no avail. Same with the issue of lead in gasoline and white phosphorous in matches. The solution in all those cases was to simply pass laws to stop a handful of companies from producing those products rather than try to raise awareness in millions of people.
They moved operations because California real estate is a cancer that has already metastasized. They can't be profitable while paying California cost of living wages.
Its the classic we do whatever we want and if no one screams loud enough we move on.
If they wanted to use the username they would do exactly the same.
Aw great! Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely keep that in mind!
I think you have a point, I am betting on human-to-human occupations, especially psychology, gender roles being shrunk might bring some new ideas and shake the field up.
Is there binaries I can install or do I need to compile something? I have no idea where the code is.
You need to wait up to a year for the distributions to pick up the code into their default installs. Installing bleeding edge window managers, widget toolkits and similar software yourself is more difficult than it's worth for a normal user.
I'll simply disagree.
I don't think the suggestion was to invent this from scratch, there are many OS tools designed for this. (Yarn workspaces, NX, bit, rush.. the list goes on)
> No. Covid reeinfects. There's only a short-lived immunity.

So let's Omicron, or any other mild variant spread, we'll get reinfected regularly, thus developing resistance to more malignant strains. That's how we beat flu, which, believe or not, was deadly in the past. Now we get millions of flu infections each year, but no one cares, because they are mild.
I get a flu vaccine shot every year so I expect a Covid shot at least that often. It is my understanding that the flu vaccine changes every year based on the projections of what flu will be the most common in the upcoming flu season. There are reasons to think Covid will be the same.
It looks challenging for sure, but most things that have a worth to us humans can be challenging, and if anything it's great to see a path like yours wandering through the problem space from energy sources to societal considerations. Rescue vs salvage, the way you put it, seems to be a mindset of opposition vs growth - and you chose go with the latter. As a clinically depressed person, none of what you shared seems depressing to me but rather constructive with a foundation of hope.
Grabbing someone's butt is looking for romantic partner?
> If you can't pitch it yourself, I don't see the point

I linked my own text.

Security is one benefit, and I agree that it's not so important for everyone. There are other benefits, as described. A normal VM is much less secure, because the host OS will have the Internet access and you will not benefit from hardware virtualization. It's also less convenient in my opinion. The UX of Qubes is really good.
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> after decades we're still fighting for 2% of the marketshare

I was using desktop linux for several years and recently switched back to a Mac because of the massive hardware improvements Apple made with its M1 chip.

As much as I loved Linux, it's no longer just a software UX thing. The battery life and speed of the new Macs beats any Linux machine I could have bought for a comparable price.
LOL OK this is really funny, great puns!
> Ask yourself, who is the most affected by these 2 technologies existing?

Speculators?

Seriously though, can you tell us which Web3 technologies, specifically, are disrupting existing technologies in a way that really benefits the end users instead of speculators?

> I hear you about the electricity usage, but Bitcoin Lightning will drive down the usage so much that it will become a moot point anyways.

That's not how mining works. Layer 2 networks don't reduce the energy consumption of the Layer 1 network. They still produce 1 block every 10 minutes, and they'll continue mining as long as their costs are lower than the combined block reward and transaction fees.

But your comment is a perfect example of the web3 hype: Proponents are convinced that every current problem is basically solved, we just need to wait for the solution to actually arrive and then everyone will see.
I hate this web3 bs as much as the next guy

But, this seems more a list of people doing stupid shit with blockchain-y things, and not an argument against it as a whole. That doesn't distinguish blockchain that much from other technologies (e.g. consider WWW during the hype of dot-com bubble).

I pretty much believe its all absolute bullshit, but picking some egregious examples, while amusing, doesn't really show that.
> Bill believes that the biggest opportunity to improve Linux touchpads is to adapt their acceleration curve to better match the profile of a macOS touchpad. How do you feel about the acceleration and precision that your Linux touchpad offers?

Is this work only going to be for touchpads? I personally hate the X11 curves with mice and vastly prefer Apple’s. It seems to be hard coded last I checked and not easily modifiable (there are two parameters now but it’s still a very different curve). If trackpad curves also benefited mice (particularly those of us who use Apple’s Magic Mouse on Linux), that’d be amazing!

Thank you for your efforts to improve these ergonomics — it’s thankless and hard work but benefits many.
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> I hear you about the electricity usage, but Bitcoin Lightning will drive down the usage so much that it will become a moot point anyways.

This is wrong. ~98% of the incentive that miners get comes from mining new Bitcoin, not transaction fees. That is unaffected by LN, and if LN is widely adopted, will likely even go up (because it is denominated in Bitcoin and LN adoption may drive the price up).
Oddities in labels are a typical sign of a counterfeit. Yes, it's possible to counterfeit labels with good quality, but often it doesn't happen.

If someone manages to do a good job of replicating the labels, hopefully they did a good job of replicating everything else.

On the other hand, if QA didn't notice the label is misspelled, what other problems did they miss (some of which may be obvious to them if they look, but not obvious to me even)
This is supported by PyTorch as well with nn.LazyLinear: https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.nn.LazyLinea....
FYI PyTorch now supports "same" padding for convolutions with stride=1; see the docs here: https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.nn.Conv2d.ht...

The stride>1 case has been a bit more controversial within TensorFlow, and there is ongoing discussion on the correct way to implement it within PyTorch on the issue: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/3867
In software it would be like if you found evidence that one of your trusted developers had outsourced their own job to an unknown person in India, who was controlling their home office desktop PC by some sort of remote desktop tool and adding code/making commits on their behalf.
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Ha, it was available and I was about to snag it but held back. Someone else grabbed it now. I hope they do amazing things with it.
> better software I have to pay for, not crappy free stuff

Free software is not about price, it's about freedom. It can (and should!) be paid for.
Or if the virus gets irrelevant.

One doesn't exclude the other. People don't see an end with natural evolution, so the vaccine was/is the main focus for a long time.
"In the end, the most important connection between the Metaverse and the physical world will be you: right now you are in the Metaverse, reading this Article; perhaps you will linger on Twitter or get started with your remote work. And then you’ll stand up from your computer, or take off your headset, eat dinner and tuck in your kids, aware that their bifurcated future will be fundamentally different from your unitary past."

How is this different than me in 2001 using ICQ to chat with my friends/classmates about life/schoolwork, using Yahoo to read news, using forums to consume content and learn new things, and going out to dinner with my family/girlfriend IRL?

How is any of this actually a new paradigm?
Same with IBM, very confusing
Yeah, I hear you loud and clear on a lot of those points. I think the most important think honestly is the fact that most PhDs use PyTorch in academia, so industry will inevitably shift to tailor to this growing supply if possible. Of course, Coral/TFLite are really useful, so a balance will be found, but it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
People who do not work in hardware seriously underestimate how often counterfeit components enter the supply chain. Even trustworthy distributors like digikey and mouser have had regular cases of their supplies becoming contaminated. It is just way too easy to do and rarely discovered as long as you mix them with enough legitimate components to avoid suspicion. Unless you're unlucky and they happen to reach someone with an affinity for chip photography, the worst case is they'll just think a few components were DOA or out of spec.

It mostly affects low complexity components that are easy to clone so a BMC would be unlikely, but even that is not safe as sometimes used components de-soldered from other products make it back into the supply chain too.
Web 2.0 was a hokey name, but at least it was a new approach to building web apps, built on the techniques and technology that preceded it. Web 3 is ... not that.
> most democratic type of currency/money/property in the world, how can you argue against that?

Accepting any currency that's not a stablecoin, gives power (not just purchasing power) over you to those who bought it really cheap without doing as much labour or as much spending as much capital as the late ones. Bitcoin has been more of a security - like a startup's shares - benefiting early investors at the expense of late ones. It's the opposite of "democratic".
Is there some sort of developer cabal that I'm not aware of that makes naming decisions in the software space? Where exactly do you want developers to be "consulted" for this?
Ask HN: Is anyone using a Capability Based OS?
Does anyone here use a capability based OS? What have your experiences been? I hold out hope that they offer a way out from the cybersecurity quagmire. I need to find one I can use as a daily driver.

A handy list - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_operating_system
Indeed. We are not far from where security bugs would be 'alternate features' catering to specific set of users.
the book “what the dormouse said” is an amazing retelling of this era detailing who tripped when and what they went on to invent

IIRC photolithography and CPU architecture came out of this subculture, berkeley and harvard both had sanctioned LSD experimentation that grad students were happy to participate in, in the “center for advanced studies”

it’s been a few years since I read it so my memory is hazy
File was slower by at least 10 times slower (it was ~10 years ago).

Second thing, for example it didn’t work with compound objects. Especially for things like word embedded in excel, etc. Similar for XML-based types, zip-based, …

Plus rules aren’t very flexible - I’d used lisp-like language to describe detection patterns - that made it quite flexible in describing complex detection logic.
OK, I guess now the work is getting it into the magic bytes databases! :)
Write your own linter.
This is something I've pondered many times. It seems inevitable that at some point in the future, plastic will rot and decay as it is consumed by bacteria, the same way wood rots today. The implications of this are far reaching.
I think Covid handling is an example where the public has extensive access to the raw facts; it's quite surprising just how much data is available to the public. I can get time series of covid cases, hospitalisations, vaccination rates, by area and by age... It's really surprising how much info we have.
Gravity definitely plays a role in convection, which is the main form of dispersion. The air one exhales has different composition — more CO2, more water — which means it has different buoyancy. Usually, this means the parcel of air rises here on Earth, but falling of your face is fine too. No gravity means no convection. Without wind to cause turbulence, mixing is really slow, leaving molecular diffusion as the only process. Remember, that’s random, and CO2 will still accumulate near the point source with a Gaussian distribution.
This looks old, is it the same? It looks like its only for wayland too, uhhh fuck... I didn't know if it was merged already or I need to edit a config, or uhh maybe is it a kernel flag? I love linux, this sounds like normie stuff to the usual user buts its probably very alien to anyone who never used it.
I can relate. I'll also get songs viscerally stuck in my head that will play nonstop for several days straight. And not only music, I'll occasionally get stuck images as well, pictures that will sit in my peripheral thoughts for days.
You can age the meats to make them more expensive: https://straitsresearch.com/blog/dry-aged-beef-what-makes-it...

You could say it's like st(e)aking your meatcoins.
electricity usage... the answer is always blah blah blah WILL or GOING TO. when?
I don't understand this study. Why not compare the hospitalization/fatality rates between _current_ omicron/delta infections between similar cohorts?

Comparing to an earlier wave is hopelessly confounded on prior infections in the intervening time and similarly, on the most susceptible having already been killed off.

Maybe they did what I'm suggesting and its mostly just bad reporting?

edit from the summary :-/ :

Vaccine effectiveness:

The two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination provides 70% protection against severe complications of COVID-19 requiring hospitalisation, and 33% protection against COVID-19 infection, during the current Omicron wave.

Reinfection risk: For individuals who have had COVID-19 previously, the risk of reinfection with Omicron is significantly higher, relative to prior variants.

Severity: The risk of hospital admission among adults diagnosed with COVID-19 is 29% lower for the Omicron variant infection compared to infections involving the D614G mutation in South Africa’s first wave in mid-2020, after adjusting for vaccination status

Children: Despite very low absolute incidence, preliminary data suggests that children have a 20% higher risk of hospital admission in Omicron-led fourth wave in South Africa, relative to the D614G-led first wave.
Woah, this solves the acceleration problem? I want to try it!! Thank you!
Rabies only has animal reservoirs, it isn't spread person-to-person. And it appears that the localities that have eradicated rabies have done so by dropping animal baits with oral vaccines.

So... small, mostly deforested island countries may have a good chance against animal-borne viruses that have inexpensive edible vaccines.

The wealthiest country in the world hasn't managed to eradicate rabies. Covid isn't going to end this way.
When they are saying this is less severe - is that based on ~20% of the country having Covid or ~80%?

There are these estimates that ~80% of SA had Covid.

If so - previous variants were 1/4th as severe - since 3/4ths of the cases went undetected... Right?
I could be wrong, but I feel SpaceX has mastered how to add pizazz to such videos :-)
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yep. endless fun at parties!

"oh, your phone has siri? watch this: hey siri! what's the distance between the earth and the sun divided by the population of new zealand?"
I don't think about the visual representation of equations. I think about the equations, not in any specific representation, but as what they are. I think my mental abilities are roughly average, including my ability to picture things when reading books, but I have noticed that people with extremely good imaginations don't often have a mental slot for "equations," as they actually are, but only for images of written expressions that represent equations.

It's probably all the same in the end. After all, the only paper shortage that our world seems to be prone to is the persistent and reoccurring problem with toilet tissue. It's funny how all the different ways of doing the same thing average out in the end, but I suppose that's evolutionary inevitable - if one way of going about it was better than any other, we'd all be descendant from someone who had those genes.
Not every bug creates a failure, so there's not necessarily a need to be completely bug-free. The point is to focus efforts on the bugs that can cause failure and design mitigations for them. If your system has a billion potential software failure modes, my hope is that a project manager will say the software is too complex and needs to be redesigned. I think this is where some in the software crowd get it wrong in their understanding of how software reliability in safety-critical applications is performed. There are a lot of project managers who deliberately avoid using software as a mitigation because of the complexity issue (see the 737Max use of software as a mitigation for a good example of where this practice can go wrong).

So take the software example from above on CST-100. The valve mapping error should have been a known failure mode ("We command valve A and it doesn't respond." or "We command valve X and valve A responds"). Those failures are very straightforward to test for with simulations on the ground, yet somehow those errors made it into a flight configuration. Arguably, the software timer issue on that flight falls into a similar category, but the mitigations there are a bit more complex.
That is not the model. A fine-tuned model is data accessed via the API. It is not “content generated for your end-users”.
> people have lived for basically all of history in circumstances much worse than they're likely to encounter.

I see people make this claim all the time, but it is blatantly false.

The XKCD earth temperature timeline is a good, quick example [0].

Even better is this plot of Temperature of the Planet Earth [1]. Make sure to take a second to look at the spike at the end.

We're facing temperatures in the next 100 years that this planet has not seen for millions, happening at a pace that may have never occurred before.

People have never seen anything close to what we are facing in the near term, and absolutely nothing like what awaits for us in 100 years.

0. https://xkcd.com/1732/

1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Al...
If you're interested in more discussions along this road, then Bahcall's `Loonshots` is a good read. Lots of anecdotes, little science, great stories. Overall I found it fascinating. I found myself nodding along to most of the goodread's reviews, if you find yourself on the fence.

On-topic, I think its a natural evolution for organizations to stagnate and calcify unless there is a fundamental recreation. Lots of things could be cherry-picked here for anecdata (Roman Republic, Roman Empire, General Electric, <insert fortune 100 company here>)

I don't think that's bad. You wouldn't want an innovative person being your line cook at a restaurant -- you want the innovative person to be the chef. We also don't want the laws governing the countries we live in to violently change. Systemic, evolutionary, progress is good.

The challenge is figuring out a balance and what to do to prevent the organization from calcifying (becoming product lines on life support), prevent it from throwing away what makes the organization good (chasing the next big thing), and continue to let the organization innovate and thrive (stay relevant) without being eaten.
The support for "third party integrations" seems like the exact opposite of anything I'd ever want in a password management app.
Laptop kernel driver issue. Newest 5.17 doesn't 5.16 does on my laptop, but most laptops I have had that flawlessly function.
They lost me at the dangers of ultrasonic humidifiers.
AMI is a firmware company so you'd check the hash of the BMC flash contents.
Judging from her comments on the "colonial past" and "indigenous expertise", she'd be "speaking out" about other "social justice" issues even if harassment hadn't happened.
When people think something is bad and keep encountering other people saying it is good, they respond. There's no reason why anyone should get "involved in the space" before expressing their opinion.
Perhaps, but given there's doesn't seem to be a clear difference between Scotland and England, that leads to questions like

1) Were people in Scotland (with higher masking) being less cautious in other areas (washing hands, staying further away, etc)

2) Was the weather worse in Scotland, leading to more closed windows

3) Are people in Scotland more likely to be tested and thus more cases caught

The problem I have is that

The Scientific method comes out with great studies (wearing masks, all things being equal, reduces transmission)

That leads to a prediction (enforcing masks reduces cases figures)

That prediction doesn't hold out (Scottish cases figures)

So we need to revisit the prediction,

1) Does a mask mandate increase mask usage (anecdotally it appears so, but I only went to Glasgow and Manchester in October)

2) Does increased mask usage lead to other behaviours which would increase risk

3) Does increased mask usage lead to more awareness in testing

4) Do anti mask people go round licking door handles to try to spread covid to prove their points

These are perfectly valid questions, yet you can't ask them, because half the responses will be some idiotic cultish anti-mask covid denier, and the others will be some cultish mask worshiper
WTF does the green button do? I still don't know.