skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you believe that we should NEVER have ANY events in an auditorium ever again?

Covid is here for the rest of our lives. What you say we should do now, needs to be what you think we should do permanently. Any removals of freedom you advocate for, will not end.

I think when you frame it in that reality, most realize that we don't actually want to get rid of the freedom in the ways people push for.
Your point is completely unfair.

Sure if our goal was to mass manufacture a "cheap and reliable JWST" we could, with a lot of money, create an entire assembly line and benefit from economies of scale. And then what? What are we supposed to do with 100s of JWST? It's cool they only cost 200M$ each now, but we don't need them.

What we need after JWST is a different telescope with different technologies to answer questions that JWST cannot answer and to follow up on the discoveries from JWST.

SpaceX and Boeing are responding to a scale problem: getting as much mass as possible into space, getting as much people as possible from point A to B. You solve a scale problem with scale.

JWST is science instrument, looking for answer to specific questions, once those answer are found we will want a different instrument to answer different questions. Scale does not help.
Multiple JWSTs cannot see what a single one can't.
Note that that article is very old, July 2020, the beginning of the pandemic.

The picture since then is different than "Finland closed, Sweden open".

Pretty sure most nordic countries have kept high school and below open most of the time.
And yet they gave her that thirsty wig. I stopped watching the show with Season 2 solely based on the poor wig work.
What’s stories? Any article they’ve published about it? Is it like the WhatsApp “Status” feature? Which is more like a 24 hr tweet if I can say so.
Explaining to my parents what I do
Shard Manager: A Shard Management Framework for Geo-Distributed Applications
Yes this happens, but it is very controversial. To quote from the article I linked above:

> The question of whether the twentieth-century warming should be considered a target of model development or an emergent property is polarizing the climate modeling community, with 35% of modelers stating that twentieth-century warming was rated very important to decisive, whereas 30% would not consider it at all during development. Some view the temperature record as an independent evaluation dataset not to be used, while others view it as a valuable observational constraint on the model development. Likewise, opinions diverge as to which measures, either forcing or ECS, are legitimate means for improving the model match to observed warming. The question of developing toward the twentieth-century warming therefore is an area of vigorous debate within the community.
We were speaking about Jeremy, not Novak though.
For sure stop talking to them directly, and maybe don't even bother with a lawyer unless you're really willing to sue them for non-payment. Otherwise it's water under the bridge, write them off, spend your time and resources on acquiring new customers.
systemD considerations for UID/GIDs:

* https://systemd.io/UIDS-GIDS/
> Do you have any evidence for this?

It's the very definition of how computer models work. The modeler writes the program, determines all the inputs, determines how the logic of the program will respond to the inputs, etc. The modeler is in complete control of the model, tells it how to behave, and thus the model says only what the modeler tells it to.

> Are you implying that climate change isn't happening?

Non sequitur.
oh yeah, sounds like china can't afford a spy satellite
> Most of the world is not HN, where nuanced discussions work. Most of the world does not give a shit about climate change unless they will personally suffer in some way. So I lie. So that even if this storm or that hurricane didn’t hurt them, they will have empathy for those who did suffer from a climate-enhanced storm. Because if we wait for everyone to feel the impact in earnest, it will be far too late.

This is fascinating. I would normally have written this off as a troll like a climate denier trying to discredit one side, but you seem to be well established here and quite possibly identifiable from your about page (not that I tried or am interested in trying to troll through it, just had a quick glance).

Don't get me wrong I absolutely accept that some scientists may take a bit of license with the truth when they say a particular weather event was caused or made more likely by climate change without having gone through a full analysis of that particular event and situation. And I even accept there is corruption and dishonesty all the way from a bit of unconscious bias to much worse.

It's quite amazing to see a scientist out and admit they lie about the science in order to try to influence public opinion in the hope of effecting the social or political change they want. I really admire and appreciate your honesty here, if nothing else. Can I ask whether you act in any professional or academic capacity as a climatologist? And what are the nature of the lies? Who are they to, how are they communicated?
I bet that exactly this didn't work last time I tried. I even made sure the program didn't buffer it's stdout.
Isn’t it more like, they could be important.

Which is massively different to knowing something is important.
> Do you really need power windows?

No

> Do you really need AC?

No

> Do you really need sound insulation?

No

> Do you even need heat?

No

> I guess if the whole car falls apart around you, it's a non issue as long as it gets you where you wanna go right?

Yes, this is how the majority of people approach used car sales. They're bought for the A to B capability, not for anything else.

Regardless, it is ridiculous to compare something as critical to human comfort as heating to an accurate clock. Who the hell needs the time to be right in their car? You can afford a car but not a $5 wristwatch?
Paper: "Final Moments. I. Precursor Emission, Envelope Inflation, and Enhanced Mass Loss Preceding the Luminous Type II Supernova 2020tlf", W. V. Jacobson-Galán et al:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3f3a
When I see someone funding a 40 year old and providing indemnification, I'll believe that they have a hope of doing anything in the biomedical space.

Biomedical is NOT stuck for innovation or execution. It is stuck on indemnifcation.

For example, one doctor developed an asthma sensor for his daughter that would automatically let the school nurse know, let him know, and call 911 for an ambulance if the attack was bad enough. It works really well. Nobody will touch it with a 10 foot pole because when it doesn't work and somebody's child dies, there is an inevitable lawsuit incoming.

This is where biomedical is stuck--not engineering.
Oh, yeah! My profs'd also post the list of which TA did each (sub-)question, so that if we had questions about why we lost marks we knew who direct them to (although all grading disputes had to go to the prof, to disincentivise people from arguing with the TAs)

And with two teachers, you'd also be able to have each write half the questions, and split the grading that way.
I remember reading a while back that food waste was roughly similar between developed and undeveloped countries. The reason for the waste was different though. In developed countries it was consumers throwing out uneating food and in undeveloped countries it was due to poor storage environment before the food got to the consumer.
I guess this list is not exhaustive or they are more flexible with their major films, because of the Netflix films that I've heard of from 2021 some were shot with the Alexa Mini, which isn't on the list. One was shot partly on Betamax, partly on super 8 film.
Absolutely. Green bubbles are associated with a subpar, lower grade, poorer quality, which creates doubt and caution in the user's mind when they see it. It's like an asterisk next to the bubble with fine print attached to it.
Sam Zeloof's New IC
Other than normal CDN stuff, are REST APIs even common today? IMO everyone wants to track users, sell targeted ads etc which requires maintaining state and eventually you diverge from REST.
They have given it a 10 year lifespan. They have said that fuel is a major limiting factor and talked about a refuelling drone to extend life.

But I don't think that means it only has 10 years of fuel, and I don't think they have ever said explicitly said that. I suspect it's more like 15 years in the best case.

The fact that they aren't already planning a refuelling mission implies that it's not a critical limiting factor.
I find the 85% figure in the article rather shocking.

Is this because US people have a lot of disposable income?

Just iPhones are pricy even secondhand. Of course Android doesn't update for as long but plenty of people worldwide run unpatched devices.
Dystopian versions of this are interesting to imagine.

Suppose the whole Keurig's DRM idea is applied to automated farm equipment. Want to plant some seeds? They have to be from a given source. Want to plant a certain crop, you can't plant it unless it's treated with a given pesticide. Inline sensors detect exactly what you are dispensing.

This all works because if you want to automate the driving, you have to integrate with the dispensing of things: seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. If you don't, you need a person

Of course there is a flipside where that can be used to prevent you from using illegal pesticides, as those same in-line sensors could prevent dispensing of undesired things.
What a condescending reply.

That 10 billion was funded by taxpayers, and the assertion that at the very least there should have been a possibility of those taxpayers seeing the fruits of their money through pictures instead of some intractable telemetry is a fair one.
Don’t deploy untested code to production. The fact that it’s a dependency doesn’t excuse a proper code review.

It is ironic to me that software teams have code review processes and seem to trust each other less than random people they have never met on the internet. Every new dependency, you need to read the source. Read it completely.

Every new change in every dependency needs to be reviewed as well. I’m a big fan of forking all dependencies and using only those forks in my code. Then, do upgrades via standard rebase or pull requests on that fork.

If you have dependencies that are too large to do this with your time, you probably should avoid them in the first place.
As well as Poles and other eastern Europeans. Stalin wanted them back from Britain at the end off WW2.
I guess you've never had a reason to check what processes are doing what on your systems. I've never been comfortable with the mess you get upon opening something like top on a systemd managed OS. It isn't just the aesthetics of it... it is difficult to reason through the pages of tasks and it creates a lot of low level performance noise (preemption, task switching overhead, etc).

For example, one of my Void flavored machines is using runit: 11 tasks; but a freshly booted headless Debian using systemd: 95 tasks... and that is with a massively slimmed down, purpose built, kernel. Abstractions atop abstraction... the amount of waste in the pursuit of generality has to stop - if this silicon shortage doesn't do it nothing will.
I was addressing the specific commenter who uses Google Voice, but to use the comment prior to that:

> It's a negative signal to me if it's green, as they may be using a Google Voice number or any other fake number system.

I'm not implying the vast majority of "green-bubble numbers" are Google Voice rather than Android phones, but that there is no verification they are not Google Voice numbers.

I'm not trying to be elitist at all; there's just a verification that happens with an iPhone texting another iPhone of (1) this is a real phone number, and (2) this isn't a cheap burner flip-phone someone just bought. When interacting with strangers from the internet, that verification is important!
> Makes sense to me.

That a person alive now is expected to die in the past?

> Consider that at 91-92 years you will have exceeded the expected number of years for your cohort.

The correct method for estimating remaining life is using life expectancy at current age not life expectancy at birth, since you want to know how long one is expected to live given that they have not, in fact, died already.

At 92, life expectancy is 3.54 years for a man, 4.2 for a woman, not some negative value.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
Matrix[1] is fantasising and WhatsApp/Telegram are reality.

Signal is somewhere in the middle trying to be something that solves nobody’s messaging problem except a small set of people (journalists, whistleblowers?) where the communication is mostly like “A needs to discreetly communicate with B and they both can use Signal”, anything other than that it’s pretty useless (yes, I’ve tried it for really long and convinced many others to try it).

1. Especially all the clients. And not again Fluffy chat please. Name alone puts off most.
> That’s like the slumlord approach to property maintenance. Screen door is broken? Building Code doesn’t require it, rip the thing off!

Screen doors have an essential use during storm conditions. They are important for physical safety. What safety benefits do you rely on a clock for?

> This attitude that we should just shrug and accept bad “engineering” is just dumb

Are you really going to tell the Honda owners in your life to go buy another car because of this clock issue? Otherwise, they're just accepting bad engineering!

> If you’re making a durable product that’s going to be around for a decade or two, make it right.

The cars still drive, and those that are properly maintained drive well, better than most other brands. I ask again, who the hell buys a car for its timekeeping abilities?
> Plenty of kids start a year late sometimes on purpose by parents to give them a leg up

Don't be ridiculous. The amount of parents that do this is practically non-existent.

> Particularly for grades 8-12, in school education is vital.

I disagree. I've worked in a top 5 largest school district for over 22 years. Under normal circumstances a handful of kids graduate high school with trigonometry under their belt, some with only algebra, and some in between (its the same for science). There's plenty of wiggle room in there. Colleges already offer remedial classes for kids that need it and its unfair to the students that managed to succeed even in this environment.

> You seem very concerned about the economy.

I shouldn't have used the word economy (as that tends to translate directly to "the stock market"). I really meant its bad for labor (but good for the companies that exploit labor).

Let me re-iterate my most important point: If everyone is held back, the dropout rate will be catastrophic for years to come.
It's traveled fairly broadly on account of having been adopted into Yiddish - I picked it up as a very young child from an issue of MAD Magazine, and was somewhat surprised to find the New Englander side of my family very familiar with it and only bemused at the happenstance of hearing it from a five-year-old.
They aren't really that small when compared to apartments in cities. Often much larger actually.
Background material on Pluton:

1. Xbox Security, https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/

2. Azure Sphere (derived from Xbox) with Microsoft Linux kernel, OE/Yocto runtime and QEMU emulation of Pluton for CI/CD, https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/seay/

3. DMTF SPDM (PCI device firmware attestation to SoC/RoT), https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/plank/

Nov 2020 Intel announcement about Pluton, https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-and-microsoft-plan-to-...

> Secure platforms anchor on a hardware Root of Trust as the foundation. Given Intel’s diverse ecosystem, our vision is to offer multiple Root of Trust options that ensure isolation of resources, keys and security assets. The partnership with Microsoft to offer Pluton will further broaden the choices available to our mutual customers.

Hopefully a future Intel SoC will include an optional FPGA-based RoT where customer hardware owners can load the open-source firmware of their choice.

Edit: Pluton will be included in upcoming Arm laptops with SoCs from the Qualcomm-Nuvia (former Apple M1) team.
That would definitely make sense. Something about the wording made it seem like the increasing population specifically was responsible for the increase in food demand, but it was probably an editing oversight.
I always wonder what the ideal amount of food waste is supposed to be. Zero is a post apocalyptic hellscape.
I'll answer simply: yes.

We're always either inflating or deflating. There's so many risk factors on the horizon for a bubble pop it's ridiculous and obvious. That said, am I pulling out my 401K? No. Why? Because it's easy to see and get out of a downslide. It's extremely difficult to buy back into a market, because the recoveries are usually very swift. You'll miss it.

And you can still win in any market. You just need to work harder at it sometimes.
Smoking causes cancer is true. But not everyone who smokes will get cancer and some people who don’t smoke will get cancer. Causation is hard. But we also know that particular cancers are caused by particular acts of smoking. The causal generalization is built on the observation of particulars. It might be hard but I don’t see why we wouldn’t, a priori, be able to say ‘this event was made worse by climate change because it likely affected input x’.

I generally agree with you that this isn’t easy to do, the value isn’t clear, and whether we can say such things with the evidence we have for any particular event isn’t obvious.
JW does indeed circle that Lagrange point, but it is definitely not in Earth’s shadow.

The JW orbit semi major axis (about the L2 point) is order of 500,000 km. The radius of Earth is about 6500 km. Thus, the shadow of the Earth is extremely small compared with the excursions of JW.
Public perception is always part of big budget projects like this. They are most likely releasing some outstanding "enhanced" visually interesting images
In Taiwan, unlimited 4g data plan is around 700 twd/mo (25~30 usd/mo depends on exchange rate). Double if 5g instead of 4g. Some people that don't play games even drop wired network because 300ms isn't a issue if you only watch YouTube. And from what I see. No body is using sms now. Everyone use message apps(line, fbmessanger, telegram, discord) and they also expect everyone have it even in elders.
If your car has OTA updates it almost certainly gets its time from NTP and doesn't rely on manual time configuration or wacky code written a decade ago. Furthermore, absolutely no part of the ignition system should depend on cellular connectivity to start the engine. This is a non issue in 2022 models.
Even with Bayes' theorem, if your prior is zero, you can ignore any evidence - no matter how strong - that doesn't absolutely require the hypothesis to be true.
> it's very hard to make remote attestation work in a way that gives you any meaningful guarantees (eg, simply forward the challenge on to a machine that is running the "approved" OS).

I was imagining something like that would be possible (for people with enough tech knowledge), but it's good to have it confirmed, thank you. There would presumably be a cat-and-mouse game of the "approved" OS trying to detect if it was being co-opted into such a scheme.

> They don't need to wait years for everyone to shift to new hardware that has Pluton in it.

As you say, I'm more worried about Windows 11 than Pluton, but presumably the "importance" of Pluton is part of Microsoft's excuse for not supporting non-TPM hardware any more. Once Windows 10 is out of security support (for home users at least), it will be easier for Microsoft to claim that non-TPM Windows devices are de facto insecure.
Does cellular internet go down at midnight?
But no, it doesn't look like Queen Anne's Lace. Queen Anne's lace grows in a very flat circle of small white flowers, not this dome shape made of tiny domes. Queen Anne's lace has a dark spot in the center of the disk of flowers. Queen Anne's lace does not have reddish or purplish stems. Queen Anne's lace has an incredibly distinctive smell. Do people not engage their eyeballs and brains at all?
Canon and Sony make cine cameras. Nikon makes still cameras that happen to shoot video, but not all that well - I shoot Nikon myself, but I shoot Nikon because I want the best still cameras I can get. If I cared about video at all, I'd probably have gone with Canon instead, not least because their cine and still bodies can share EF-mount lenses.
We made an interactive graph generator for UBC subjects and courses
I've texted Pixel something to Pixel something over Google Fi and it's been shit compared to iPhone. I've been almost universally an Android user for ages.

Switching to an iPhone when the 13 came out has been a top notch decision.
WWI killed a huge number of people (about 1% of world population), largely in young adulthood.

The 1918 flu epidemic killed even more (3 times as many), but not weighted as young; together it was a big hit on life expectancy.
It's saying if you set a programmatic minimum, (in adduser.conf), that you'll get errors whenever you try an upgrade in Debian or Ubuntu, so setting a programmatic minimum isn't practically possible.

So FIRST_SYSTEM_UID and LAST_SYSTEM_UID aren't usable parameters.
"Stop wearing masks, they don't work."
+1

Ran into a pathological case where a query that usually took 10-20ms would sometimes, semi-randomly, take > 15 minutes (while the corresponding PG process server-side is running at 100% CPU)

Explain showed a dramatic query plan change, which led us towards bad table statistics.
Satellite images are to drone footage what Poleroid is to 4k hdr. Both are images but that is where all practical similarity ends.
> Can you explain why it is a stupid claim?

There is only one US region cartridge and the US includes Alaska and Florida, or the high plains and Florida. The difference in humidity in these regions is massive. I would need different ink in the summer and winter in my upper Midwest state.

It doesn’t pass the smell test. Humidity probably does affect printing on some level, but that is irrelevant to the HP support person’s claim about why cartridges are region locked. They’re lying about why the region locks exist, this isn’t hard to understand.
Goldfish who can drive: why scientists taught fish to navigate
What does a better filter look like?