skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not labeling it as an East/West thing, the comment I replied to did, I replied in their context.

In practicality it's not an "East/West" thing as Eurasia is one continental mass, the colloquial distinction between Europe and Asia isn't one based on geography, but mostly politics.

That why "It's not in Europe but Asia" might be an interesting technicality, but doesn't change the geographic proximity, or how we are very much still talking about Russia.
The argument would be that if you didn’t provide that out market forces would force us into renewables more quickly.
No I despise the stifling of human freedom caused by the Chinese government.
Probably by delivering sunlight through a fiber.
The Brilliant Engineering of Mecanum Wheels (YouTube)
Ultimately what matters is the entire application, database queries and all, works. I think calling out to the DB in tests is important for ensuring the entire app works.

And tests hitting the database can be fast: https://www.brandur.org/nanoglyphs/029-path-of-madness
Wow,Latest Tweet:

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I don’t care what they say:

2021 was fucking awesome.

2022 will be even better.
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Log4shell, that's the name of the exploit.
Considering the amount of people talking about it almost seems no one know its name.
What are the chances of guessing a bitcoin private key? This is about Ethereum but it's a staggeringly large number.
Yeah knots are just nautical miles per hour
A year ago Democrat leaders in the US were saying that they would never trust a "Trump vaccine".
It's true. It wasn't mushrooms that almost killed me, but what I thought was a carrot. It was poison hemlock. You really can die out there.

It depends on the intentions of the site. If the author is advertising it as a complete guide, then I agree with you: it's incomplete as a guide. If he's advertising it as a starting point -- start with these mushrooms which have a very low risk of harm -- then it's fine in my view.
Wow. These books were, well, foundational to me. I had a blast typing those into my C64. Then at a summer camp (CTY at F&M) I thought I was so very clever for writing a version of Nim where the computer would silently pick to go first or second so that it always won. I don't know why I still remember that.

And then some summer jobs writing dBase III and FoxPro, some actual education, and here I am.

Those books absolutely set the tone and sparked that first interest.
(The event was ~1/2 century ago. And if any such details were shared with any mere student, I was not aware of it.)
How is he a strong character? The only strong characters I've ever seen were other people in the comments, and I'm surprised he hasn't disabled them years ago.
The biggest problem is that converting energy into hydrogen is extremely inefficient.
I love really niche but really useful gems like this! Could anyone recommend any others?
Or with browsh. (Btw, kind of scary the Links website is still served over http://)
Thankfully for Theranos, in a few weeks this incident will look like nothing more than a minor setback

Foot -> mouth. [0]

Holmes will still be on the cover of tech magazines.

Pretty much true

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[0] somewhat understandable before more info came out, but the support was a bit breathless and over the top verging on blind faith.
peter schiff has 600k followers despite being wrong about everything

being right and having a successful personal brand are not the same skillset.
Makes me think about all the things being currently written has certain, that have the highest magnitude of uncertainty
Uh, if human habitation on the Moon requires living inside a centrifuge, then there won't be a human colony.
Very Interesting project! esp. when compared to the swathe of junky or overly complex photogrammetry tools out there from a few years back (but mostly still polluting the app store)

I've only recently been trying out poly.cam which is probably the best example of a user friendly workflow ... but it's knowingly priced. Have you guys got a pricing model in mind? Also do you have any documentation around best practices/results, etc?

Anyway sounds like things are going to pick up again quickly with apple's new APIs. Good luck - exciting times ahead!
I thought based on how pilots were paid, longer routes were more desirable? And shorter routes would be in lower demand, since airlines don't typically pay for time spent on the ground?
I use postman to try 3rd party apis. Not all of them have swagger. Some really helpful features in Postman are history, ability to create collections and share them with teammates.
The context was nuclear weapon tests, nuclear weapons are designed and built for a purpose, they are man-made we have influence over their existence.

While the sun and hurricanes are natural phenomena that we don't really have much influence over nor were they designed for the specific purpose of giving skin cancer or killing people.
> I don’t have to have any opinion at all about the origin of COVID-19 … but I did, and I didn’t share it only because of the likelihood that I’d be called an idiot on social media.

This is a great justification for anon accounts -- both "primary anon-only" users and also fully- or semi- anon alts for people who have thoughts like this (which, in my opinion, ought to be every smart intellectual who doesn't make the Culture War their primary stomping ground).

Blaming a lack of courage is all well and good after the tides have turned, but courage is slim comfort when the eye of sauron turns on you. You will not feel much better for martyring yourself in service of the beliefs you hold with about-as-much-confidence as Scott expresses here -- and you'd be wise not to do so.

If you must put something down in writing that you know has the potential to cause political heat to fall on your shoulders, and it's not something core to your life's work, it's perfectly fine to either a) use a semi-anon alt or b) write in a circumspect manner. Preferably both.

Anonymity is a thin shield to hide behind, so I say "semi-anon" in support of the idea that, though the anonymity may be imperfect and the identity may be tied to your own, it can clearly be shown as a vehicle to express thoughts you are less sure of, or that you wish to distance yourself from somewhat.

I say all this will the empathy & sympathy of a fellow online writer, though with only a tiny fraction of Scott's reach...
He asked for the “blackbox that takes set of images as an input and produces a 3D model as an output.”

That black box is Object Capture API, which takes a folder of images and outputs an USDZ (or OBJ) file. Model I/O isn’t necessary.

Kudos to Apple for releasing a photogrammetry pipeline that allows web and app developers to build tools like this, with zero knowledge of 3D reconstruction required.
Building a PDP-11/70 Kit (2021)
How did you find your first few customers?
When the verdict comes out I'm riding my bike to the court house to watch the reporters on the steps ask the questions. Theranos is a fascinating story that has almost become mythological.
The black hole effect applies to visual flight, mostly the landing part. Not accelerating on a runway with runway lights and completely forgetting to look at the basic instruments.
I mean ... the article says we should care about our neighbors, food/water/energy sources, and potential financial/political instability. Seems like pretty sensible advice to me, even in the best of times.
While I don't personally find Matt Ridley's (or Alina Chan's) views on genetics or climate change to be damaging to their credibility, I think it's just as valid to mention them as it is to discuss Peter Daszak's conflict of interest.

And the study on Laos bats is clearly undergoing peer-review: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-871965/v1
You can also use the --rewrite flag to automatically patch those files. This will remove the class that leads to the vulnerability and is generally a safe change.
Interestingly the same cost analysis is not used for nuclear weaponry because it is presumed that nuclear retaliation is more important than any economic cost...the important question is if we will view climate change as that same kind of enemy and authorize nuclear energy knowing that there will be future incidents, but the price of cleanup will be worth it to avert climate disaster.
“ An imperfect project that ships is better than a perfect one that doesn't”

Very very well said.
From a military technology standpoint, throwing rocks from the moon is probably the next technological step in warfare. The way cannons ended the era of the fortress, rocks will end the nuclear status quo.
This is what the article authors mean by lab-leak arguments being unfalsifiable. No matter what evidence comes out, it can still be shoe-horned into a lab-leak theory.
China Speeds Up Moon Base Plan in Space Race Against America
There is a solver at https://github.com/jwngr/sdow, fittingly called Six Degrees of Wikipedia :)
Just because a business turns a loss doesn't mean it isn't sustainable.

Public transport is unprofitable pretty much everywhere, because the explicit transactions don't offset costs of operation. However, the cost of not operating public transit is that you end up with awful car centric cities, more respiratory disease from increased traffic, lost efficiency from congestion, higher real estate prices in walkable areas, etc.

Additionally, there's a ton of positive externalities that are not factored in when judging profitability. Effective public transport increases foot traffic, which increases economic activity.

Even if public transit was 100% free, it would still be worth running. The market is awful at evaluating long-term large scale effects, and just disregards them as "externalities". You can't blindly trust markets to build your cities.
If that is the goal, they should make it trivial to make UIs for it by others. I know there are many UIs for it, is it easy to make those or is it reverse engineering and if the latter, why? I don't know; I personally don't mind the UI.
BlackBerry phones to lose all functionality starting on January 4th
That’s just the tweet that the parent linked to.
What model car did they buy?
For everything there are naysayers, you’re right in that it isn’t helpful to point in hindsight and say “see we should have listened!” when you can find people saying things like that about literally everything.
I don't really understand why this is the case. Nukes don't defend against nukes—MAD defends against WMDs. Why do new and fancier WMDs make MAD no longer effective?
Pilot here. This is completely wrong, nobody ever gives altitude instructions above ground level. That doesn't exist in ATC terms.
While true, I find it hard to believe that moving water from one tank to another is some kind of grave threat to humanity like the article wants the reader to think. In the worst case scenario can't they just put these tanks in a big hole and pour concrete on them?
n=35 for that particular study[1], which notes that results are preliminary and doesn't include any prescriptive language like "normal lives."

The theory they advance is the people of Ramsar are demonstrating an adaptive response to large amounts of background radiation. But there's no evidence (or even theorization) that said adaptive response extends to fully mature adults.

[1]: https://sci-hub.se/10.1097/00004032-200201000-00011
> [The court ordered] that they publish an excerpt of the order on a page of their website, as well as a reference on the site’s home page that’s displayed in double the normal character size of the site.

It's there on the front page, but the headline certainly isn't double the size of the rest of their (obnoxiously large) headlines -- it's far smaller than the rest.

Also, it is (of course!) buried at the very bottom of the front page -- and since that's one of those "modern Web design" eternal-doomscroll pages, I bet 99% of visitors to the site won't even see it, because who can be bothered to scroll all the way to the bottom of those?
Putting aside anything else, the implication that 2020/2021 was bad for yuppies is a bit... selective.

If you're going to put this writer's comments in context of suffering through this time period, you really should be doing so against the backdrop of essential workers whose concerns were more about how they would continue to earn a paycheck when schools were remote and childcare unavailable, or simply had to put their own health at risk, or lost their jobs and now find themselves under a mountain of debt, past-due rent for 1.5 years, and pending evictions now that the moratorium has ended.
Managing a Blog Using Gitea
Can't recommend Little Snitch enough, been using it for 7-8 years now. Extremely useful to prevent any unencrypted connections on wifi you don't trust (which I also used to prevent unencrypted connections when I'm in countries with internet censorship) and for peace-of-mind that some random application won't try to exfil data.

Automatic switching between profiles based on connection type (wifi, different VPN servers, etc.) is cherry on the top.
Is there actually a pilot shortage, or is there a pay shortage? Most of the people I know who wanted to be pilots bounced off of the extremely low salary for a very long time. Unless someone does military and gets a lot of hours, and even then not always, they are stuck paying for their own license then making a bit above minimum wage flying between cleveland to nashville or something like that. If the airlines paid more money I think the shortage would probably disappear quickly.
Unfortunately that can vary from hospital to hospital, it also depends on how you're triaged.

If you go to SF General, yes, you're in hell. Its an extremely poorly run city hospital that is where most GSW victims go, its busy. If you go to UCSF or CPMC, you'll get world class care.
> If Denmark can have a reasonable debate on a highly contentious topic like whether to vaccinate your kids or not, why can't America?

Regulatory and media capture? Denmark corporations, unlike Germany and the USA, are not currently licensing worldwide patents for injectable mRNA biologic drugs with the potential to generate annual recurring revenue.

It might be useful if journalistic articles included an annual advertising revenue disclosure for the extended supply chain and competitors of every company mentioned in an article. Data distribution is cheap, it can be a link to a spreadsheet, perhaps blinded by an ethics watchdog, to protect marketing data.
I wonder how that came to be and retained as the received knowledge? Who was the person or organization who identified which specific market?
Thanks for the tip!

I'm making a "how-to" video now. I've yet to do the voiceover, but here are the raw slides: https://files.littlebird.com.au/take-great-shots-cXH2CM.m4v

The TL;DR is:

- Avoid thin objects
- Avoid reflective objects
- Avoid transparent objects
- Avoid objects that deform
- Hardshadows are not good, use soft lighting
- Your photos should have a crisp focus and be well lit (across the object)
- Things work best when the background has a solid colour
- Make the object take up the full frame (more data for the algorithm)
- Make sure to get shots from all sides
You're talking about a GA aircraft autopilot, modern airliners go way beyond that. I don't know about the 777 but I believe all newer Boeings are FBW. Airbus has been FBW since forever. I'm mostly familiar with the A320 but that things is pretty much impossible to stall under normal operation no matter how much you misconfigure the autopilot.
Getting backing can be hard, even if your idea is amazing. Often amazing ideas just seem to slip through the cracks. There are plenty of stories of startups that felt like giving up after 99 VC meetings, only to get funding at the 100th one and go on to success.

It's a tough slog, and it takes the founders away from doing the actual work they love, but don't give up. If your idea is good, keep ploughing onwards. I've given up way too easily in the past. It was only once I saw other companies recreate the same idea many years later and then be valued at billions of dollars that I really realized the value of the original idea and the opportunities I'd missed by not dragging myself out of bed to another fundraising meeting.
Even Buddhism has the concept of half or full enlightenment, so it would depend on where he started and what was considered "full" enlightenment in both his time and ours, so though I agree there may be some nuance in the statement, I don't agree that it would make much difference. He clearly had insights about life worth sharing and a style that counts as good (skilful) for many people.
Yes, but if all humans are on that one, then if there's a catastrophic problem there: Houston, we have a problem.
China Warns Walmart Against Removing Products Made in Xinjiang
Kurzgesagt has a video on this ("What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZJlf5rHVs
My biggest complaint is not about Spark itself, but what people make of it. I'm currently at a company (and I have seen this before in others) where we are spending millions of dollars a year to run huge Spark infrastructures for data processing that could be replaced by a couple dozen servers running well architected apps.

I think there is certain use cases/envs where Spark makes a lot of sense, but I don't think is viable for most cases/teams, specially if you don't plan to use Databricks. The vanilla developer experience is pretty rough: automation is lacking, UI is pretty bad, local dev environments (beyond "hello world" level) are hard to setup, etc; and that's not even accounting for the infrastructure deployment/management side of things.

Mix all this with the fact that (at least in my experience) DE and DS are not know for writing robust/defensive code, and you get systems that break very often.
> In an engineering focused organization if recruiters are reaching out for a position this high up...

How high up is this? What's a director in FANG-land? In some places, a manager of managers is a director - which isn't very high, and can be closer to the ICs than to the CEO on the org chart.
Face masks and vaccines will be the new seatbelts and DUI laws at the rate we're going. I predict that certain activities like flying on an airline, going to public school, or working at a job with close quarters will one day require proof of vaccination and/or masking up to participate. Omicron won't be the last variant, and there is no guarantee that a future variant won't come along that is just as virulent but far more deadly.
It's worth noting this is from May 2021 and Roku had already patched the vulnerabilities before this article went public.
Curiosity Is Better Than Knowledge
It's actually only 141 apparently: https://pastebin.com/Aiu9dQKH
You're not wrong (althought we do use ModelIO a lot).

I just saw that you're from https://www.aboundlabs.com and metascan.ai Your scans look great! So how does your black box work?
This is amazing. In all the ways.
The author should appear on Dancing with the Stars, because the article was some Fred Astaire level dancing, managing to avoid mentioning that the company handled nearly a million test results and a "significant number" of them were bullshit - and that Holmes spent years lying to regulators, investors, and reporters.

Think about how many people's medical care was affected by her. Even if 10% of the results were wrong, that's 100,000 results.

Nature does a decent job of summing up the mess: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05149-2
For whatever it's worth, I came across this incredible piece in going through some of the older HN stories on Theranos[0][1], which make for absolutely mesmerizing reading now -- and a vivid reminder that HN is an important historic record!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951019
Portabello seem to be more dangerous than the general public realizes, though Paul Stamets doesn’t want to go into detail. Some suspect this type of mushroom is highly carcinogenic. Either way, cooking the portobellos at high temperatures should make them safe for consumpion.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=6246&v=mPqWstVnRjQ
DF probably still comes out ahead, but SS13 exposes way more systems to the player. If you get a good group there is NO comparison.
Backups should be able to be merged with data on the phone. The use case is I want to travel overseas but I don't want various border control entities to make copies of my phone contents, so I back it up and reset the phone to factory defaults. Then I go on my trip and take pictures and receive texts and etc. When I get home I should be able to merge the pre-trip backup and the during trip stuff into a single set of contents on my phone.
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"And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel."

[1]https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/Bruces%27_Philosophers_S...
Yep, and apparently there's money in the old scuttled ships from before 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
China had to slaughter and dispose of millions of pigs up to november 2019. There were stories of drones being used to infect pig farms through the summer to drive up pork prices. Odds are that this was covered up so much that when it hit the breaking point, people blamed the lab, even though wuhan is down stream from farm lands.
Very cool, reminds me a bit of the photogrammetry software Autodesk has. Always thought it could be more "consumerized" so that a series of photos can easily be made into 3D models.

This was also a nice throwback for me to some drone photographs I've taken a while back at Berkeley stitched together into a 3d model: https://twitter.com/zuhayeer/status/933752635726880768?s=20
I believe it's a reference to the US's missing nuclear weapons: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-us-has-lost-six-nu...
Started on an older monitor, moved it to my newer one and found it easier. Was able to score a 0.

Too many variables to be taking this test on non-controlled equipment
I can expect that if a sufficiently high body count or death rate is reached (now or in a future variant), certain high-risk activities will require proof of recent vaccination to participate in. See also: seatbelts, child-specific seats, etc. Why should I, a responsible member of the public, be forced to put up with other people's needlessly risky behavior when it directly affects me and mine?
It would be nice to do a few things with these classic and influential games (isn't the original BASIC version of The Oregon Trail in there?):

- Update them with the minimal changes required to run on a modern-ish Microsoft(style) BASIC.

- Rewrite them in a modern beginner-friendly(ish) language like Python. (This seems to be what the author wants to do.)

- Create (hopefully) easy-to-understand JavaScript versions that can be run in a web browser.

- Create an compatible BASIC interpreter that can run them as-is in a web browser.

- Create modern-ish versions of the games with pixel graphics where appropriate.

- Create some new, simple but interesting and fun, modern-style games in a modern language/environment, to serve a similar purpose for current generations of computing enthusiasts and people who haven't discovered the fun of simple programming.
Not just that, but the long history of lab leaks (with e.g. smallpox and SARS) that indicates lab leaks are not an unusual occurrence.

I too think the evidence in this particular virus comes down on the side of a natural origin, but the a priori denial of the possibility (and need for investigation) of a lab leak early in the pandemic was really unjustified. In fairness, the right wing demands to sanction (or even attack) China certainly didn't help things.
Mass transit becomes much more useful if all that waiting could be reduced.

Especially when a transfer or two is needed.