skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think an aircraft flying 15 feet above ground is a big risk to your crops too.
Dan! Always wanted a tour of his place, I can’t even count the number of times I thought about grabbing an old projection TV to upcycle the fresnel into a solar death ray.
It doesn’t cover configuring scopes, on-behalf-of flows, getting tokens for different resources, etc. That’s half the stuff I’ve been struggling with lately (that and popup blockers when trying to avoid the redirect flow).

It’s a nice in-depth article for what it does cover though. This topic is so vast and confusing it’s no wonder security is often done poorly.
Automate that work as much as possible and richly reward those who pursue it.

One of the oddities of modern work is that the lowest paid jobs are mostly those nobody wants to do.

Sure, we're not at replicator level, but farming of many crops require far fewer people than many imagine.

Personally I find that many things that could be automated are not yet automated because humans are cheaper. Think cashier, waiter/waitress, and so on.

In white collar work land, an amazing number of jobs could be automated, but are not yet because it's cheaper to use humans. These are the people who essentially just move numbers from one computer to another with a small amount of work in between.
> Have you ever received health-care in Europe?

Have you ever received health-care in Australia, its pretty good and free.
They're rounding the numbers, so presumably it could be anywhere from 5ms to 15ms.

Some ISPs (I'm thinking of T-Mobile, but presumably they aren't the only one) centralize their CGNAT routers, whereas v6 traffic is handed off more locally since it doesn't need to be NATed. v4 traffic may need to travel further on those ISPs.
I don’t game. Pop_OS! for work, Manjaro at my own laptops (framework atm), ubuntu on servers. For me the last 3 years have been the years of linux. Used to be on macos before that, windows even before that. I’m looking forward to the linux on the phone now, hopefully will happen over the next few years.

Edit: and gnome everywhere, for some reason the simplicity/no need for customizability really chimes with me.
It is - but if you have multiple subnets on your local lan you should have local DNS or similar (or know prefix:1::1 is the router, etc).
That's funny, and a good point. Although I think the whole deathbed thing is more of a framework for figuring out what you want, now, without over-prioritizing preparing for the future
That's what I miss about college. A friend of mine at Caltech would regularly have chicken wing night at his apartment a few steps from campus. All were invited, and as his chicken wings were to die for, it would be well attended.

The owner of the apartment building, an older fellow, would also come by. He'd just sit quietly in a corner, munching on chicken wings. After a few times of this, I asked him, why are you coming here hanging out with people 30 years younger? Don't you find us boring?

He said no, no. This is fascinating! Nowhere else have I encountered people who talk about the things you guys do. I just marvel at it!
Or just use some optics to create a focal point of one 5W laser thats +/- 1-2ft.

Or 200W xD

https://youtu.be/WAI7Lu4UFi4
> the civil rights acts of 1866 and 1964

For the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (HR 7152), there were almost three times as many Democrat votes against (96) as Republican votes against (34) and 3.5 times as many Democrat (21) as Republican (6) Senators voted against it.
We currently have more grown up kids than we do adults. Between the internet, porn, video games, and dude weed lmao, the typical adult is placated and ignorant of their surrounding, existence, potential, and future.

It’s a lot easier to sit there and watch the Colbert Report deliver a sick burn than it is to care and work towards change. Online karma points are the equivalent of gambling reward spikes. It’s all gamified bullshit.
Men are more likely to die of COVID and more likely to be intubated. Should we start preferentially treating men over women? Why did they not include this advice as well?
I basically agree with this, but honestly there’s actually a big snob factor as well.

Some of the best post-age-forty conversations I’ve had came out of me asking someone, “what do you find hard in that job?”

The more hands on the better. And these things - these kinds of discussions - aren’t generally available on YouTube lectures or whatever. In person you can get people to drop the facade or the spin and just talk.
"Why are we vaccinating children against measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tetanus... etc. etc. etc."

It's the same answer.
Different people want to learn from different sides. Some prefer as you say, others prefers learning how to paint pixels first, then go from there and paint triangle structures, then add stuff like effects, maybe generate water and waves, use pixel data to create shadows, write your pixel data and shapes to GPU ram and use it to update future calls etc.

And then once you know how to draw things you start looking at how to import models to draw, instead of starting with a big complex object you learn exactly what each instruction does to the pixels. Then you use what you learned to make what the large structure you imported look like it did in blender, rather than follow a tutorial how to make it look the same you use the skills you learned when you learned the basics before. That way you learn how to create small samples to debug etc, because you did the small samples in code before you did the blender import.
Some people believe caffeine is what sparked the industrial revolution and woke us up from our groggy and inebriated state to where we are now.
Yes, that is true. There was a discussion of this issue on HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29744347
The BAYC license does not grant copyright. Note that it also doesnt say that the license that is granted is exclusive, nor does it say its irrevocable.

The actual copyright holder for the art can absolutely sell the copyright to someone who isnt the NFT holder. That person would be free to revoke or restrict the NFT license.
The limits of empathy.

I got into a situation with a friend who I now assume has ADHD. I’d not noticed before, because our circumstances didn’t reveal it. We were just dog owners, and our dogs were friends.

Then I invited her to stay at my beach house for a week, in gratitude for her minding my dog.

While there, she initiated significant renovations, ripping up the carpet, removing the vertical blinds.

But she didn’t finish most of the tasks! 3 weeks later the curtains were only half done and the place was unrentable.

Her response? Start new projects, also incomplete.

I tried to understand through empathy, but I realised I’m not able to imagine what’s going on in her thoughts.

Maybe that’s always the way. I’m thinking empathy is only really possible when you’re sure the other person thinks the same as you.

I’d never recognised the need to calibrate this.
> Presumably the person who wrote it speaks a single language.

Presumably the person who wrote it speaks English.
Look up “seasoned funds”. Banks learned long ago that they need to trace the source of funds and confirm they’ve been in possession of the person for a long time before assuming it’s actually theirs. Otherwise people would get ultra-short loans from friends and family or even other moms and pretend it was their own.
It never took off because a) Mosquitos are small and hard targets and b) because philanthropists realized they could buy mosquito nets for billions with the funding required to develop it. If it gets developed for mosquitoes, it will be a solution for rich people for decades.
In 2021, I read 12 books and learned 30 words
Software engineering is about modeling the world. Sometimes you need more world experience than modeling techniques.

It's important from time to time to take a break and learn something new, otherwise all you'll know is how to model software and not the real world.
Ignorance + fascism tends to lead to these kind of results. The stark reality of redhat america.
This. One of the best conversations I had recently was with a guy who used to be a repo man for rent-to-buy rims.
The underlying assumption of people who make automation arguments are that those whose job got automated out of existence will somehow be able to consume the profits of those automation (and thus enjoy life, rather than to work).

This is wrong, because the automation costed capital, and the capital owners who invested in the automation are the ones capturing the benefits (mostly).

Horses whose job got automated out of existence by cars don't get to retire lavishly - they got turned into glue. And so will the people, if such an event were to happen.
I’ve never related more to an article…
It's used under the hood indeed, but among hackers (let alone an average person) it's barely known.

Until two days ago, I had heard of the term and knew it was some music format, or perhaps speech encoding, but I had no idea if it was a legacy 90s format or what.

Hence the PSA because I'm blown away by the quality difference (for speech at least, I haven't tried music but Wikipedia says that blind tests also showed better bitrate:quality ratios for music). I've always been using mp3 at ~160 for music and 64kbps for speech (or sometimes AMR in the past) but those days are over now. AAC already should have made me upgrade, but the support is less good (e.g. Android has some lag issues with certain AAC files). Opus works perfectly fine everywhere so far, does great compression on both speech and music, so now I have zero reason to ever go with anything other than MP3 anymore.
Isn't no point of living a point in itself?
There is also the argument for encouraging people to lead a healthier lifestyle. Even though it’s political suicide to tell people that they need to get in shape, two years of a push from the government would have had enough time to make a great impact on overall population health.
Really hard to know. My personal experience is that whenever I do weird shit, however, I've ended up in a better place? That is also itself a weird thing. Anyway, great comment, I just don't even know how to begin knowing the truth of this one without a personal belief based on lived experience. How would you even design an experiment to find the truth of this one?
It’s a new year. Remember to change your bedsheets
I have glorious memories of using Macromedia Fireworks at that time. I was 13 years old in 1998. I wish I had a better idea of why I loved it so much but I don’t recall what was different between it and Photoshop.
Peter Watts wrote a short story from the perspective of The Thing. It's very good, like all his work.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
How did you incorporate unknown long term effects of a covid19 infection, even if you dont die from it - in your own analysis?

Btw, the idea behind a multi stage RCT is to identify the unknown risks in a stage wise manner. The odds ratio does just that.

At this point you left scientific reasoning and logic a long way behind, and there is really no conversation to be had. 94% efficacy is actually extremely fucking impressive.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2035389

"Symptomatic Covid-19 illness was confirmed in 185 participants in the placebo group (56.5 per 1000 person-years; 95% confidence interval [CI], 48.7 to 65.3) and in 11 participants in the mRNA-1273 group (3.3 per 1000 person-years; 95% CI, 1.7 to 6.0); vaccine efficacy was 94.1% (95% CI, 89.3 to 96.8%; P<0.001)."

Your own memory reflects your unconscious bias

> it was about 5k ea of active/placebo, and on the order magnitude of about 100 cases for placebo and 50 for active treatment.
> Vaccination isn't going to eradicate SARS

Did I say it it would? Pretty sure I was talking about smallpox, as a general example how mandatory vaccinations helped in the past.

Also, COVID and SARS are two different diseases, caused by different Coronaviridae.

Vaccination makes COVID less likely to spread through the population, and can prevent a severe course of the illness.
It's in FAQ, so yes.
Nothing another layer of abstraction can't solve.
Lifelong struggle my friend. But you are young so start good habits now.

//Body

Find things you like to do and do it. Every day. Mix it up. Have fun. Running, lifting, rec or social adult sports leagues, if you are into that thing. If you are having fun you will keep up with it.

// Mind

Read and then read some more. Again, do what you enjoy doing. Don’t feel like you have to do something or that if you bounce off something it hadn’t been worthwhile. Just designate X amount of time per day for yourself. Doesn’t have to be a lot.

If you work full time and then do side projects you will inevitably burn out. Hell, if you just work full time you will inevitably burn out. It happens to everyone. Burn out is a signal to mix things up.
huh, you'd think that the last few years would have sufficiently chastened the kind of people who reflexively characterize things as "conspiracy theories"... :)
I have started to find a perverse pleasure in reading bad books. At least this is why I tell myself when I am wringing reading out of something awful I've bought.

"Oh my god, they're not going to do predictable thing __X__ are they? Bwahaha"

"Hahahaha, this dialog is completely unbelievable"

"Welp, that unwinds all the interesting things happening in that character's arc."

A couple things that laughter can't even redeem:

- Incessant deus ex machina. The prose can be good, the dialog believable, the world interesting, and the characters likable... but if all the problems just get waved away in some random unpredictable way, that's infuriating.

- Even worse: when a POV character has an ace up their sleeve the entire time that could have been played at any point to avoid all the conflict, and the only reason why we're in suspense is that POV character didn't share that with us.
Should be, it’s the weekend, change your bedsheets.
Despite the implication of "stream", unlike Fedora Rawhide "stream" is versioned. So "Stream 8" will die too, now "Stream 9" is out.
Kind of a weird New Years fever dream tangent. Bear with me:

Say we have a scene to render and a frame can be rendered in 10ms given the chosen game engine or graphics API or whatnot. There is a hypothetical optimum code for rendering that scene that can do it in less time. And the delta between those times is the price you pay for API abstractions, human abstractions (eg. maintainable code vs clever code), and other things.

Is this a concept with known terminology?

I was thinking tonight, “my hardware is running this game at 45FPS and I know that it could hypothetically be WAY faster if we put a ton of money and brilliant engineering behind it.”

And that got me thinking about how you would go about measuring efficiency loss or waste. We’ve all experienced it: two comparable games running at vastly different performances given the difference various technical and business choices made.

Furthermore, I’ve been very curious about why there isn’t a tool that can provide a concrete answer to, “what part of my PC is bottlenecking performance?” I’ve been playing a game that’s running slow and noticed GPU is never above 80% and CPU is pegged at 100% so I shuffled my computer hardware to essentially upgrade my CPU by a lot. Didn’t have any effect.
Here is how some of it worked. Some reasonably smart people build a system that works well enough to make progress, but then it has problems (like, world ending problems requiring constant care). These problems manifest in requiring the attention of really smart people under a decent manager to go forth and bring the system under control.

This was what I experienced having re-architected the real-time system not once, but twice. That's right, I redesigned the system twice for a variety of reasons.

The first time was to handle even more scale and reliability, and I talked about it here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon17americas/program/p...

That approach worked well, but wow, did it become unwieldy as the new features, massive scale, and much better reliability resulted in more use-cases. We stuff so much into until it became a problem.

That problem required solving, and that was the basis for BladeRunner: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477132.3483572

So, to answer your question, the research generally manifests from a need. Sometimes it is accidental, but it is often driven by some kind of essential need. In FB's case, it is improving reliability, massive scale, and driving engineering pain down.

Edit: to add onto the XKCD, there is a tower of babel effect for many things. An area that interests me is protocol design for streams since we are very much in the dark ages.
For everyone in streaming side except for Apple everyone got the memo. (Outside of iOS), most non-Apple streaming services uses Opus if it's sensible (Dolby for surround sounds because patents and FLAC for lossless audio).
If you're U.S. based and plan to live in Penang, Malaysia, that is going to be quite rough if/when the children want an American education. Many would kill for u.s. citizenship because of quality of living, medical support, and a court system that is mostly workable if you have money. Of course, I'm assuming based on lack of information. I hope it works for you.
Imagine someone sends you a Numbers file, but you're on a Linux box with nothing installed except Python.
There certainly is luck involved in choosing a hobby which turns into a lucrative skill. And privilege involved when that hobby is programming which involves having sufficient access to fairly expensive machines.

I think "rose colored glasses" may not be the expression you were looking for. The person you are replying to is not ignoring inequity, they are acknowledging it. Sure people will always live better lives than others, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't work towards a more fair world.

Recognizing that the playing field isn't level, and that outcomes aren't controlled only by the amount of hard work you put in makes it easier to push towards a better world.
People say this every year...
I have heard this before as well. Viruses and colds can live in the throat for weeks or months, people are constantly collecting them. When said person gets rundown, the immune system can't contain them, and they produce a cold or sickness.
Same journey here. Mac vs Linux is like living in a hotel vs living at home. On Mac, everything is designed but you can't bring your own furniture. On Linux, you have to do the dishes but there is no external agenda. It's simply yours.

Where I have ended up after the above 25 years is Debian + i3wm. Rock solid, a good fit for my daily work (mostly coding web apps), minimalistic and very productive through keyboard shortcuts. Can highly recommend.
One way to increase the number of conversations like this is to say yes to other people’s line of thought. I learned about “yes, and” in an improv class. Have fun with the idea, build it, explore it… try not to shoot it down or debate it. It’s fun to hang out with people who riff on an idea.
For example, when buying a house you need to transfer the title into your name. The title is stored as a public ledger that can currently be requested by anyone. There is also other public metadata about houses that are public like the purchased price.

This is a very good example of a government service that will be disrupted by blockchain. The US, Canada, UK versions are relatively good today. However, maybe El Salvador[0] needs a better way to manage its titles and hiring a software consultanting firm to build that would be “too expensive” (not including the variability in the final product - i.e. it could cost a lot and still suck) for it to be worthwhile.

Even for the service in the US there are still middlemen needed and it’s relatively clear that security is not a strong suit of corporate America let alone the revolving door of government contractors. In the long run it’s just cheaper to use the open source blockchain code built with first class security in mind. The standardized and public interface of a blockchain also lets other companies extend the services without the extra red tape, e.g. it would be nice to get notifications of my neighborhood housing getting sold, etc. But this is really a bonus and up in the air, the killer app is really for developing countries.

[0] not to pick on El Salvador I don’t know the quality of their services. I’m only using them because of the BitCoin stuff.
Not in distant future our night skies would be perpetually filled with such lights, so much so that we will not be able to make out the stars and planets ..I am giving it 50 years ..
It’s literally the dumbest line of logic and my barely literate neighbor justifies his antivax status with the same theory. “What do the doctors who have declined the vaccine know that I don’t”

Even though over 99% of practicing doctors and something like 99.9% of hospitalists are vaccinated, they hold up that 1/1,000 as some sort of “truthsayer”.

If 999 experts in a field told you they trusted something and 1/1,000 said they didn’t —- you’d have to be an absolute fool to blindly follow the 1 and I'm a bit surprised how common this argument is on HN.
I’m one of those fools who took a few years off before college, after college, and decided to up and move to a faraway country while I was young.

It’s very likely I’d have more money if I went straight to work while I was younger instead of goofing off. I could probably have paychecks twice as big as I do now.

But you know what? My worst days in the place I live now are better than my best days in my home country. My money goes farther here. I feel like the things I do actually matter now. I had time to develop personal skills and I feel like a better person for it.

Want to pursue money and prioritize your last 5 years of life (and ignore the very real possibility you’ll die or become disabled before then)? That’s fine. But you’re not going to be a failure if you forgo that unless you’re defining success as purely moving up a massive corporate ladder.
There really isn't much logging of old growth Canadian forests any more. Most timber production is from trees specifically farmed to be cut down. Complaining about consuming too much wood is like complaining about eating too much wheat.
Graphics Programming needs to be restructured.

There’s a lot of focus on API driven learning. Vulkan, D3D12, 11, etc.

Wrong approach.

Learn fundamentals of what the hardware is capable of. For each feature, write down a few ideas of how you could use it by itself. Write down a few ideas of how you could combine it with other features. Think of “I want to do X. What features can allow me to do that?” The APIs, although they are not easily interchangeable, use the same hardware and can often do the same things with a bit of effort.
how do i install macos on my laptop and desktop?
Assuming you mean the distinction between moons in general and the Earth's Moon (Luna), if I wrote "neil armstrong was the first human to walk on the moon" would you think I meant anything other than Neil Armstrong walking on The Moon?

Meaning doesn't go when the case changes in anything like the way meaning goes when the letters change. "neil armstrong was the first human to walk on the roof" is a very different sentence, you can't get anything like that difference with just case changes. If I spoke it, you wouldn't be able to tell if I spoke the correct case or not. Would you want school children searching for "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" and Google says "no results" because they used a lowercase m in mankind? Would you want a TV quiz show asking "What is Europa?" and a contenstant answers "a moon of jupiter" and the host asks "do you mean moon with a capital m or lowercase m?" before they decide whether the answer is correct?