skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not quite right.

Anything you send shows up with a grey bubble. Doesn’t matter how it’s sent.

Anything you receive by SMS shows up in a green bubble.

Anything you receive my iMessage shows up in a blue bubble. Obviously only Apple users can send iMessages, And Apple devices default to iMessage if they detect that the other user is also an iMessage user.

iMessage is end to end encrypted, supports higher quality videos and pictures, sound clips, reactions, read status, little apps (no one uses this), reactions, effects, longer messages, and probably other things that I am forgetting.

Most crucial he, EVERYONE in a chat has to be on the same protocol. Obviously this is easy when talking one on one, but it becomes a big issue when talking in a group. In a group of 100 people it only takes a single non-iPhone user to cause EVERYONE to fall back to SMS.
Self shill: I'm working on https://non.io, a reddit-meets-patreon platform that supports up to 8k video. Planning on launching in the next couple of months (just about got the stripe integration working for auto-payouts). One of my main reasons for making it was I was annoyed at YouTube lately. Would love feedback as I'm aiming to be a competitor.

You can sign in with

Username: hn@hn.com

Password: hackernews

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The site is currently in demo mode, and the db will be wiped before launch - feel free to sign in and poke around. Also it's hosted in Australia currently, so site may be a little slow for those in the US.

Source is here: https://github.com/jjcm/soci
I promise I am not a shill nor affiliated in any way, just a happy customer.

For the last year or two, I only buy physical books from ThriftBooks now.

I used to use addall.com and do the whole comparison thing with Amazon reseller/used, Abe, and all the rest, but then I discovered ThriftBooks which is always cheaper and free shipping on over $10 orders. And I believe ThriftBooks often didn’t even show up on addall.com results for many searches.

So now I skip all that business and just go directly to TB. It’s rare that they don’t have any title I want, at startlingly cheap prices usually. The site is pleasing and easy to navigate. For me there’s no reason to look for a used book anywhere else.

Used of course, but like others are saying, even the “acceptable” grade (which I now pretty much only choose to save 30 cents to a dollar or more) books seem brand new or so lightly used as to think the previous owner either never read it or only skimmed through it.

They also have a great rewards program where you will get a free book fairly often.. forgot how many books you have to buy but it’s pretty generous.. simply put, TB is awesome and I love being a customer!
Sure, but the idea of flying empty planes to maintain airport slots, while banning diesel or gas cars is giving me whiplash.
The servers that are run by the ISPs, which is what is used by the vast majority of end users in practice (usually indirectly via their router, as you've mentioned).
Describing the public DNS resolvers of Google and Cloudflare as "hostile" is textbook shit-HN-says hyperbole.
I wouldn't want to pay money to the party that created the problem in the first place.
I've heard that as a story about Westminster, which makes me suspect the whole thing is an urban legend...
That sounds hard to believe because why won't a congressman just fly private jet?
If this is true, then maybe Russian-style corruption among politicians isn't such a bad thing, because it results, at least in this case, in much less waste.
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I am a chronic pen twirler so the weight of the pen and the distribution of said weight makes a big difference to me as well. Pens that are too light feel too flippy (technical term) when you twirl them.
Evidence of large recoil velocity from a black hole merger signal
To be honest, $5 per pen is above the range where I wouldn't stress about losing one or giving them out. My opinion is, that's an expensive pen!
“Pays well” is probably relative. You can certainly find them in lower cost-of-living areas by the local standard but it’s pretty hard to find SV-type pay
The contract is what gives them the right to cancel. You can buy a flight ticket that won't be cancelled but you'd have to pay the premium required to charter the whole plane.
The non-medium.com link, for those into such things: https://github.com/erjadi/kubecraftadmin
yep, well-taken point - what are the fundamental issues you think are interesting to cover in a tweet thread instead?

The balance isn't meant to be inverse FUD but I can see how it can be - I agree on the potential for over analysis to become decision paralysis. The post is more meant to highlight gaps in a more comprehensive way, and for people to understand the issues (e.g. you can still be decisively bullish on crypto, and choose one of the adoption gaps to work on such as non-custodial wallets with social recovery.)

I think the vaccine is a much more binary situation (either you get the shot or don't, consequences are XYZ for getting and not getting it, not many other choices for the average person), whereas in this scenario the complexity I think warrants some discussion albeit maybe long-winded (you can invest in infinite types of crypto progress even if you decided you're definitely into crypto).
Podman with https://github.com/jan-g/podman_wrapper to set up sshfs to work around its lack of bind mounting.
Hey, a politician who actually does what he said he was gonna do!
Active RSS user here till Google killed Reader.

I tried using Feedly last year. Added feeds and it was HORRIBLE experience. Not Feedly but the actual feeds.

Some of them give you the title and then tell you to go to actual website to read the article.

Others has a virtually non-existent summary.

During RSS's heydays I remember being able to just see the summary and click on it and read the article right there and then. Now these feeds try to push you back to the website hard. Making RSS feeds feel like a broken tool. With the content there mostly an after thought.

I think sites killed off RSS feeds.
You are partly wrong. Graphical models are orthogonal to DL.

We are starting to learn how to mix both. E.g HMM + DL = Deep Markov model. It has the advantages of both, structure and large numbers of parameters.

Some SOTA NLP models follow this approach.
I won't attempt to justify adtech or startups (I work for/on neither, and couldn't care less about them), but: comparing them to cryptocurrency feels like setting a low bar.

The former have all kinds of socially negative incentives; the latter is designed to maximize negative social and environmental outcomes as part of one of two explicitly reactionary worldviews (conspiratorial fiat/economic doomerism for PoW and neofeudalism for PoS).
Kazakhstan president confirms takeover of Almaty airport
Yeah, I worked at Android in google at that time and he probably thought “I wish we could use kotlin”. It was still pretty rude to laugh though, had to be aware many candidates would already be nervous and would find it offensive.
AMD's PSP is pretty much the same thing.

In the past few years AMD has started including a BIOS option to disable it. However, I have never seen a convincing explanation of how exactly that option works. The only thing I know is that Linux complains about it at boot on my B450M (from 2019):

Aug 30 23:52:07 kobold kernel: [ 4.811829] ccp 0000:07:00.1: ccp: unable to access the device: you might be running a broken BIOS.
Aug 30 23:52:07 kobold kernel: [ 4.811831] ccp 0000:07:00.1: psp: unable to access the device: you might be running a broken BIOS.

Intel includes no such option, but on the other hand there is stuff like https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/. In the absense of any detailed information about how AMD'S PSP disable option actually works, I guess I would trust this a little more. However it requires getting your hands dirty, attaching a programmer directly to the chip (on the motherboard), and is not without risk.
It's truly frightening how many people cannot see this. It feels like so many people have spent zero time around people of the opposite side of the political spectrum from their self.

Particularly, how can so many people criticize article after article and news story after news story for being inaccurate or misleading, then turn around and believe every word against they read for their party or against their opposing party?
I want to pile up: Why is it that bandwidth today is so expensive for things like video? Is there some kind of a good-ol-boys network of companies that are preventing from making bandwidth so cheap its not worth metering? What does the future hold?

I am asking this because YouTube seems to have a massive monopoly both on technology as well as content/audience/network-effects. Even if you can get all the people of Youtube to shift over, you still need to solve the problem of bandwidth and the costs associated with that.
I switched to SSH certificates on all my personal machines nearly four years ago. Compared to plain keys, there are three main differences I’ve noticed in practice.

First, I started giving certificates expiration dates, so a compromised key would only be valid for a short time even if I were unable to revoke it manually right away. It provides some confidence that my keys weren’t exfiltrated once and subsequently used behind my back for years and years.

Second, when generating a new client keypair, I only have to copy the public key to my certificate signing machine (one copy) rather than every host I plan to log into (many copies). This more than makes up for the minor certificate configuration necessary on new clients.

Third, host authenticity warnings are now a thing of the past. Since I switched to certificates, they only appear when something’s actually misconfigured, never simply because I connected to a new host. As a result, I’ve lost the habit of blindly accepting the fingerprint (and in fact I’ve now turned on strict host key checking in the config file so accepting it isn’t possible). Of course, you don’t need certificates for that… if you’re diligent at checking fingerprints. I tried to be, but sometimes I fell short. Not anymore.
Thank you! This is also a great response! Now I'm wondering how they measure magnetic fields. But of course I'm sure there's about a million youtube videos explaining that.

>Magnetic fields tend to slow the gas collapsing, so finding that the fields were lower than expected decreases the expected time of collapse.

I think this part might be backwards, wouldn't it increase the expected time of collapse, which is to say stars may form faster than thought?

(edit: no, I'm just tired and wrong, yet again...)
I had to have a PCR test document to enter the US, but the vaccine was enough to return to the EU.
I have PoA for my father, and am the executor of his trust once he passes- in the hypothetical scenario where he had a github presence (he doesn't) would a death certificate plus copies of the trust, PoA, etc be sufficient for me to gain successor status if he never named me?

Could I gain it with only PoA (for property and/or medical)?
> iMessage. Teenagers are pretty social and try hard to fit in. Teens may feel more "cool" and "in" to use the same type of device, and iMessage also cements that.

It was the same thing with MSN Messenger (when Millennials were teenagers) and with BBM was well.

In certain locales the same thing is true with WhatsApp.
That's so rude. I'm sure you can contact Apple support so that they won't do it to others.
Yes it's a twitter thread, sorry. Fortunately it's not a very long one.

HNers may be especially interested in https://vijayvarma392.github.io/binaryBHexp/ (from the second tweet).

Link to the paper also in second tweet: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01302

Finally, I'd like to highlight: "There are many implications for large kicks, in fields ranging from black hole formation to tests of general relativity. For example, kicked black holes can even get ejected from their host galaxies! This would limit the formation of heavy black holes through repeated mergers".
I've flown quite a bit in the past year - while there's been more cancellations than pre-pandemic, the last few weeks are outliers.

"Capitalism" can't produce new staff instantly at any price when staff are in industries that require substantial training/testing prior to being allowed to work after hiring (or after any long furlough/hiatus of not working, even if they remained officially employed).

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Anyway, you've got a perfect storm of issues.

Airlines have depleted crews from cutting too deeply in the early pandemic. Training/retraining large numbers of people takes lots of time, only so many people are actually qualified to teach or test them.

Airlines were already running what staff they have with as minimal spare capacity as they could get away with to meet demand that's come roaring back far faster than expected, especially for the holiday season. The US is currently running ~83% of 2019 passenger loads (12/20-1/4 passenger count in 2019/20 - 36.6m, 2021/22 - 30.7m), per the TSA checkpoint numbers.

And then....you have a new COVID wave that's leading to substantial portions of the workforce coming down with it and being unable to work for at least a week during their absolute highest load period.

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Are the airlines entirely "not at fault"? No. They cut too deeply in the early pandemic. And they've been too greedy chasing $$$ for renewed demand and added too many flights too quickly, cutting their spare capacity for issues that could crop up to nothing...and now they have.

But the severity of this COVID wave is significantly worse (in terms of # of people infected at once, not referring to illness severity) and pretty much every area of the workforce (that's actually in-person) is having similar issues. Many public schools in the US are basically just functioning as babysitters this week if they're open because they have too many teachers and students out to actually run classes normally.
Not exactly in the same industry, but I worked in a genomics startup that was subject to various aspects of HIPAA and CLIA compliance. In our case this led us to implement ISO 27001/27002 and eventually FedRAMP. The answer is: consultants. There are people who make it their full-time job to keep up with the regulations and advise companies on how to comply with them. This is a good place to start when you are too small to have dedicated compliance staff, or too new to understand how to hire good ones. If you have advisors or board members who are experienced in the space, they should be able to connect you with good people. If you /don't/ have advisors or board members who have been through the process successfully with other companies, that seems like a bit of a red flag tbh and a gap you'll want to fill.
I have been on a plane flying coach with a senator sitting directly behind me.
Slots for the next month? People book flights months in advance.
How is everybody having Apple replace batteries on their old devices?

Walked in and tried to get the battery on my first gen iPad Air replaced. The guy said the model is flagged as 'vintage' in the system and he can't replace it.

Vintage...
According to the GitHub Deceased User Policy linked from the page yes.
A housemate recently suggested a similar pen:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006IFJN/

They replaced all my other favorite pens, my handwriting looks good, so little effort, it's a miracle
Contracting COVID19: long. investigation of impact of Beliefs and knowledge
I didn't mean it as a question. What I meant was that blockchains can be Turing complete and git doesn't have that level of sophistication as a system.
Author here, thank you for pointing this out! I was a LISP beginner when I wrote this, I'll certainly update this.
I overlooked that, thanks
20 tons is still a respectable amount of yayo.
While I share his sentiments, I don't think his approach is going to convince anyone to get vaccinated. He seems to be playing politics by forcing his opponents to take the far less popular anti-vax side before upcoming elections. It's sad to see politicians abuse a public health crisis like this to win political battles at the expense of the wellbeing of their people. Sad, but not really surprising.
Lightning around the North Pole increased dramatically in 2021
Who said anything about flipping out? Let's see here... why it was you, in the very comment I replied to:

> I understand why people asked to mask up in some cases flip out
I would argue that it was already a window dressing under Stalin; more so than afterwards, in fact, given that it was fairly common for high-level party functionaries and other important figures to have e.g. domestic servants.

Then again, if we take pure Marxism, a socialist revolution was supposed to be impossible in Russia anyway, simply because proletariat was not the majority of the population. Lenin and co had to do a lot of handwaving to explain that away, and one could reasonably claim that the result deviated sufficiently from what Marx had in mind that it shouldn't really be lumped together.
Actually that's even better, you can automatically filter out shallow people ;)
I believe so. https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-decease...

You'd be next of kin & an authorized individual.
maybe in general, but for this case specifically there was a national weather service advisory that travel could be dangerous that night (I live in the DMV; there’s currently another advisory for tomorrow night).

I’ve never tried to take an Uber through a storm, does anyone know if they give drivers and prospective riders a warning like “hey did you know your route takes you through a snow storm on the highway”? I think that would be a reasonable expectation, and probably reasonable to expect prospective riders not to book rides through snowstorms…
How important is it to learn DNN/NN from scratch? I have several years of experience working in the tech industry and I am learning DNN for applying it in my domain. Also for hobby side projects.

I did the ML Coursera course by Andrew Ng a few years ago. I liked the material but I felt the course focused a little too much on the details and not enough on actual application.

Would learning DNN from a book like
1. https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-pytorch or
2. https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-python-seco...

Be a better approach for someone looking to learn concepts and application rather than the detailed mathematics behind it?

If yes, which of these two books (or alternative) would you recommend ?
Photopea is excellent. thank you sincerely.

Regards oftentimes forgotten Linux user
That's completely besides the point.

No, that is not all what I meant, and at this point I don't really understand how I can make it clearer.

The 4% increase in prices leading to a 15% minimum wage is a FACTUAL DATAPOINT. It is EMPIRICAL REALITY. No theorem, model, or anything, can change that, because that's what ACTUALLY HAPPENED.

It's not theoretical. After all was said and done, prices were increased by 4%, and wages were increased to 15$/hour.

It's completely useless to talk about elasticity, and try to estimate it, in this context. You are trying to apply a model, to reality, and arguing that the model is correct, but reality is not correct.
After recent update I see License Upgrade Required (2021)
I'll accept the logistics management part of Prime and AWS as obviously major achievements, but Alexa, Prime Video and Go?

Alexa is a spy machine that makes already easy tasks marginally easier, and every so often tells a child exactly how to electrocute themselves.

Prime Video is a 2nd or even 3rd rate video service in my experience.

And having moved to Seattle recently, I tried out Amazon Go a couple times and it just sucks? The selection is super tiny and honestly, I just prefer a self checkout with tap payments. I found myself constantly worrying if their camera system would correctly ring me up.
I don't suppose you recall any details that might help us find the story?

If true this would make me happier than anything else I learned in probably the past 2 years.
He did a string of movies for Netflix. The one I watched was good.
I have been using multiple Signal groups with different sides of the family for a few years now. Honestly, I have yet to run into any problems and few of the groups have roughly 25-100 new messages per day.
They’re covered by insurance…try being a visitor to the US then an antigen test will cost you $150+.
All your question marks makes brain hurt.

This study is not establishing a new treatment protocol by any means. It’s also a tiny number of people.

This study raises the question maybe we should design bigger trials to investigate treating long COVID with blood thinners.
By charging a tax upon fossil fuel use it discourages the use of fossil fuels. It uses the market to control pollution and companies would be forced to consider the full environmental cost of their actions due to it impacting the price.
Unique Visitors 358.45k, Total Requests 22.13M, Total Data Served 3 TB
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Yep, we recently moved from DigiCert to LE and someone was alarmed at the certificate transparency logs, until we scrolled down the page to reveal the same logs from DigiCert.

Wildcards hide it somewhat, but DigiCert charges per subdomain now, and every user thinks they need their own subdomain for some reason. So LE it is.
I think it’s a prisoner’s dilemma:

- tolerate your own extremists, so your own moderates can win and crush the other side’s moderates and extremists

With the optimal payoff being

- band together with their moderates and crush both your and their extremists

The players are

- Moderate L: BLM, unions

- Extreme L: anarchists, communists, third worldists, Russian/Chinese intelligence

- Moderate R: anti government, pro constitution

- Extreme R: neo-fascists, white supremacists, Russian/Chinese intelligence
> Microsoft already used Pluton to secure Xbox Ones and Azure Sphere microcontrollers against attacks that involve people with physical access opening device cases and performing hardware hacks that bypass security protections. Such hacks are usually carried out by device owners who want to run unauthorized games or programs for cheating.

So this chip is, as seems to be more and more common these days, designed to keep your computer secure from you, rather than to keep you secure.
> "async fn" is even misleading since the function itself returns synchronously (and immediately): it's the returned value where the async-ness lies.

You've got the causality backwards- it's the async-ness that causes it to return immediately. Async is primarily about the execution model of the entire function, and the return type is only changed in service of that model.

The course of the design discussions started without async or await, using library-based Future combinators. Async was introduced as a way to desugar control flow and move knowledge of Futures into the compiler for borrow checking reasons, not out of any intention to mimic C#.
Similar logic is used to toggle on/off GC write barriers in JS jitcode.
Depends on which one.

The iPhone 6 lost support in 2020 or 2021.

The original iPhone SE (the little one from 2016) is equivalent to a 6s (both use A9) and it’s widely expected that Apple will drop support this year.

However the newer/bigger iPhone SE that was released in 2020 has the same chip as the iPhone 11, the A13. It should still be good for many years.