skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes it less impressive is the barrier to entry. What's amazing about being the fastest runner in the world is that most anyone can try, so to be the single fastest runner is a feat no one else the world over can accomplish. Flying an airplane across the world, while cool, is something limited to only wealthier people. Maybe you'd be able to do it, but you just can't afford to try. Not saying there isn't anything to it, it's just that it's something that even trying for is limited to a privileged few. And not to be overly cynical-- but add in concerns about global warming and fuel waste, and well it just can feel like wealthy people entertaining themselves with wasteful activities limited to the wealthy
It sounds like he was stuck between a rock and a hard place on some level. Choosing not to try and organize or improve working conditions is also a decision; it would be a decision to stay where he was, even though there was a focused effort from multiple people to improve working conditions that he could take part in.

"Wait and see" is very tricky advice to give to someone who was working at Amazon out of a homeless shelter. How confident are you that staying homeless and not taking steps to try and improve his working conditions would have had a better outcome for him?

I am skeptical that "this had costs" is a good enough reason to say that this was a bad decision. A big part of coming out of rock bottom for people is the active decision not to stay at rock bottom, so if you don't think it was a major bad decision and you're just pointing out that it was risky... that's not a good enough criticism for me to be sympathetic to. From what I can tell, pretty much every life decision is risky when you're homeless.

There's also something of a chicken and egg problem here. Bad jobs are sustainable because they hire desperate people. If you're advocating that people who have made mistakes and ended up in desperate places shouldn't do bold things or make major life changes, then that is essentially saying that they should stay in those positions (even though I know that's not what you mean to imply). Who is going to challenge the status quo around desperate jobs if we say that the people working those jobs aren't supposed to advocate for themselves?
Bitcoin Price Falls Below $35,000 in Tandem with Stock Selloff
30 or so coronaviruses side by side.
> . Like, if your family member is murdered in your home, they'd come in and clean it up and help you fix the door since you'll be inconsolable.

Seriously, the number of people who have had to mop up their kid's blood or pick chunks of their dead loved one's brains out of carpeting is depressing to think about. If you've got money there are people who will come and do it for you, but those services aren't cheap.

Police won't even pay to repair a door they broke down in error.
https://reason.com/2010/01/26/dc-police-raid-wrong-home-city...

The property damages are bad enough, but they also don't do anything for the mental trauma they cause when they force you to stand handcuffed and naked in the middle of the room while a team of cops swarm around taking video and destroying your things, or they make your kids sit right next to the corpse of the family dog they murdered after busting in. It's beyond unacceptable how little help people get from the government even after they were directly abused by it.

Even the lawsuits which may or may not get you anything at all are expensive, time consuming, and stressful yet you somehow have to manage it while processing everything that happened to you.
Avatar robot goes to school for German boy with severe lung disease
The same argument can be applied to Linux and apply to virtually all companies having a backend?
Anything that can be written to and executed from the Internet will be a security issue. The only thing your public facing web server should be able to write to is the log file.
Speaking of War and Peace.

I speed read War and Peace for the first time in ~4 hours for the school test (I refused to read assigned literature). It went into one ear and into another.

I then re-read it while recovering from the surgery over a leisurely week and enjoyed it tremendously as I think would anyone who gives it time.

My mother told me she read just the Peace parts, while my father admitted to reading only the War parts (they are pretty much alternate chapters).
Assuming you're on Windows 10, you can add the "Undo" button to the quick access toolbar in the upper left corner of File Explorer. Then you can hover over the button to see what it's going to undo.
I like the idea of having a single high rise surrounded by park rather than a bunch of apartment buildings in the same space.
Actually, you find aromatherapy and its ilk used in healthcare.

It seems to help people relax going into surgery and improves outcomes.

Thus strengthening your argument that if it works, capitalism will exploit it.
Well Microsoft has 68 Billion less now.... ;)

but I agree with your comment, most of Silicon Valley has been Anti-American for a number of decades now. They just want to extract from America
In 2020, I had the privilege of photographing the 360 "street view" for this art show at a local museum: https://goo.gl/maps/8BLvXperH9CHHqeM7

I think some of these water color paintings are so beautiful that you might forget about the pretentious modern art ;)
Hi there. Thanks for being a loyal customer.

Yes, your "Cares Visual" Straumann software is just a branded version of our Dental Wings one. In terms of functionality there is no difference, but I think with your version you got by default access to the vast Straumann product portfolio (hundred of implant kits and materials), plus their validated (FDA approved) workflow and access to their centralized milling facilities.

> dont take advantage of a lot of the software that's available to me. I do crowns, bridges, and implants mainly.

Yes Cares Visual is very flexible and offers many different ways to do restorations. It can be daunting at times :).

> Most of the general dentists do take impressions, and send those along, which I pour in gypsum, and scan in the scanner. I do have one dentist that I do work for that uses an intraoral scanner.

That is what we see in Europe as well (I assume you are US based). Dentists are more conservative when it comes to switching to digital dentistry. But I think it is understandable. Having their patients safety in mind, they want to be sure before applying completely new technology.
Your dentists uses a Trios IO scanner. Since Care Visual is an open system we can deal with input from many 3rd party devices (i.e. non Straumann).

What topics would interest you? Or do you have any feedback in particular? I am happy to take this conversation elsewhere. See my email in my profile.
I had the opportunity to travel all over this country last year, and I have to say, the only places that don't fill me with deep disgust and existential dread are a) the national parks, and b) the cities with plenty of very tall skyscrapers.

The vast in-between of freeway interchanges, cookie-cutter subdivisions, strip malls, and big box stores, where the tallest thing around is the McDonalds or ExxonMobil sign, is an abomination. I will fill up at those gas stations and eat at those McDonalds on the way between places worth being, but whoo boy, if I had to live in a place like that I'd vote for demagogues too.

I'm not a principled libertarian. Ideally, the law would stipulate that people who build to your preferences are hanged for war crimes. However, I suggest that we implement a free(r) market so that we can both live in the kinds of places we want, instead of one excluding the other.
My instant-read thermometer was $20 at Target. Even so, my crotchety father-in-law is amazed how everything I grill is always “perfectly done”. He spent 50 years as a purveyor to the best Chicago steak packers.

We use that $20 instant-read for everything including baking, and it works great after 15 years.
While we're (or, ok, I'm) nerding out on this stuff, let me put a word in for the idea that this is how you should cook a pork chop too. Like, exactly like a steak; maybe the only difference is that a pork chop likes a little big of sugar with the salt you apply an hour before cooking.

Maybe take a chop to mid-rare instead of Pittsburgh blue rare, but otherwise: just like a steak. Kind of a revelation the first time you do it.
I will not start a flame war, picanha is nice.

You can add tira de asado, bife de chorizo, ojo de bife, bife angosto, matambre (also matambre a la pizza), entraña, vacio, cuadril, chorizo, morcilla, salchicha parrillera, lomo, roast beef (that is very tasty and cheap), chinchulines trenzados, riñones, tripa rellena..

you can add those to your repertory, but picanha is nice too.
People who want stuff to go fast?
Densification in big cities is a significant source of value. I'm not aware of any evidence that it's occurring at the expense of formerly thriving small towns. It's mostly the "boring" suburbs and exurbs that are losing value, but those developments have always lacked jobs and amenities. It's inherent to the model, you can't fix them without substantially changing their very nature.
That last line is enlightening.
The End of the Pandemic Is Near
> Fabs are also giant ecological disasters.

Is that still true? I thought they cut a lot of corners in the pre-Superfund era, but are watched more closely now.
There's a process in the justice system called mediation. Basically, it's a session where the plaintiff and defendant get together and have a discussion about how to resolve the conflict. It cannot, however, make binding judgements. Only a real court can do that. If the two parties disagree then it proceeds to a lawsuit.

The NRLB processes mediation for labor disputes. Its decisions aren't binding, and it's common to proceed to a lawsuit or arbitration even after the NRLB rejects someone complaint.
So then you do think that human societies can reproduce, despite appearing to say that human societies, unlike humans and ant colonies, cannot reproduce? Can you re-word your statement to clearly indicate what you believe?
You and Le Corbusier. It turns out not to work very well, because the way a building interacts with its street-level neighbors is very important, and voids make bad neighbors. Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses this, I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_in_the_park
"I loved high rise building when I was younger but today I must say that most of the cities I enjoy most are not cities with tall buildings."

That's cool. So you can move to a place that's mostly low-or mid-rise buildings and can allow others to move to a place that has skyscrapers. Lucky for you almost every city has very few skyscrapers.
>Filets absolutely can be and are dry aged. They're again just even more expensive than a dry aged strip steak.

Even as someone that has a dedicated dry aging unit, I don't know that I would recommend dry aging filet. I don't count the pellicle as waste, since I make use of all of it, but you do have to cut off a decent chunk - it's too tough to eat on the steak itself. The end result is that you just don't have a whole lot of steak left over.

You might see "dry aged" stuff for 2-3 weeks, and there's significantly less pellicle, but it's not nearly the same thing as something that goes for 60+ days.
That would be a wonderful name for Microsoft back in the day. maybe some extra letter there, but that's fine
For easy-to-setup modern networking on hardware this old, consider using a WiFi modem such as this:

https://www.tindie.com/products/theoldnet/rs232-serial-wifi-...

In short, these let you connect to WiFi using AT commands, and then "dial" IP addresses and hostnames as if they were phone numbers.
It isn’t that it’s invisible. It’s just that you didn’t get it until now.

I am not saying that to belittle the author. This is more an observation of how programming seems to have gone from understanding both yourself and what you are doing to shopping bits and pieces and then gluing them together.
Skyscrapers are not just inefficient for their own sake. They harm the city.

Businesses that would otherwise be scattered around the city giving their employees a chance to live near them are concentrated in a small region core.

Its a traffic double whammy. No one lives near and they have to drive to the same small footprint.

Its far better to have mix use six-eight story buildings.
Orchestration engines can give you a lot of leverage if you run a managed solution because all you're doing there is deciding on the size you need and providing a credit card number. This is absolutely a great way of your DevOps to the next level with little effort.

If you're going DIY, however, then you're not doing yourself any favours by starting out with an orchestration engine.

In the case of Nomad you'll also need Consul for it to be truly useful. That means six EC2 Instances (for example) for a truly production trade system - 3x for Nomad, 3x for Consul. Of course you also need mTLS as well - may as well throw Vault into the mix too, then... that's another three EC2 Instances to support that cluster... 9x EC2 Instances into the DIY solution and all you have is an orchestration engine and you've not even started on the workers yet. That cost so far is USD$30,416.04 for the reference architecture for all nine nodes: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/reference-archi...

On the other hand if you keep it simple and just work with AMIs you bake your self when you need to release something new, you need two EC2 Instances. The cost of the compute resources for this for 12 months: UDSD$330.

There's no raft consensus which needs three nodes to be stable (but a single AZ failure can result in split brain, so really you need five AZs), no new technologies to understand, no new vendor to work with or pay capital to, nothing more to support.

These things - these orchestration engines - have their place, and that place is outside of 99.9% of businesses (large or small.)

As for moving away from Nomad: too expensive and too complex. I ran Consul, Nomad and Vault on the same master instances (which is a risk and against best practice) without mTLS (just TLS) and it took a week to get it all running. None of that includes monitoring, backups, auto-scaling, etc.

I believe the work involved with going DIY on the orchestration front is not worth the benefits in the short to medium term. In the long term you'll likely outgrow your own simpler solution and at which point you'll likely have the capital to switch to a managed service anyway /shrug

It's all relative, after all.
Well played, friend. My counter-troll was deflected.

I'm less interested in how Argentina cooks steaks than I am in how they cut them. South American beef butchery is super interesting. I'm in Chicago, and there are a couple butchers here that are really into Brazilian and Argentine cuts.

We don't really burn our steaks here, but one very fair knock on American steaks is that they are super boring. Ribeye strip ribeye ribeye filet ribeye "sirloin". Bleh.
Same for SoCal, I have fuzzy memories of flipping through boxes of shareware 3.5"/5" floppies and all sorts of with various hardware pieces.
> ...In other words, you can’t microcode update a CPU to add or substantially change capabilities...

> ... vulnerabilities such as Meltdown and Spectre, which were partially mitigated through a microcode update ...

Of these two snippets, only one can be true. Either opaque microcode updates can substantially change how a system performs, or they can't. These mitigations are major changes to how the processor works.

This post looks to me like a fairly typical "doesn't quite get what they mean by freedom" take, of which there are many (which is cool, freedom isn't everyone's cup of tea). The FSF has been quite consistent that if there is a choice to be made, the user should have a practical way of making that choice. If the manufacturer can change how a CPU works with a microcode update, the user should be able to as well.

The FSF has a clear role here. Their job is to say "this software is free, this software is not". People constantly call on them to compromise on that role in the name of security/convenience/helpfulness/strategic adoption concerns/the impractical nature of their stance. The FSF should and does ignore those people. They are a (slightly quirky, yes) moral lighthouse more than an adoption friendly technical project. This microcode is not free software and someone should be pointing that out and complaining about it. If the FSF isn't taking a stand against non-free microcode, who will?
I'm not usually a grammar guy but this one bugs me: the singular of maxima is maximum. "A local maximum," "twelve local maxima."

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Who else is supposed to know how chemicals are supposed to be handled?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW39zufHfsuGgpLviKh297Q/vid...

Extremely good. :)
Since they created their own JSONish DDL, why not build atop of DBML? (https://www.dbml.org/)
Better Desires
It follows from your comment that we should have anonymous authors in addition to anonymous reviewers. Can a researcher establish a provable track record of doing quality work while remaining anonymous?
It sounds like parody of roaring twenties. It’s probably a pun on the decade.
As someone who has been using WordPress since 2006, my brain exploded when I saw this.

WordPress has always been an absolute mess. The basic architecture was insane even in the early 2000s. There is no effective sandbox for plugins or themes, and you can't really make serious use of WordPress without those.

Nowadays, there are so many better applications that accomplish the same thing, and they aren't stuck on a half-baked database schema from 2003, they can be version-controlled, multiple people can work on them at the same time...

WordPress is one of the worst widely used pieces of software on the web. It is a catastrophe.
Unfortunately, this will not be open source:

https://github.com/swc-project/swc/issues/571#issuecomment-7...
I think the ideology of the FSF is a perfectly fine one. It's the hardware vendors that insist on binary blobs that are the problem here.

Nobody produces truly free consumer hardware and nobody has produced any for years now. Everything is hidden away because of fears of patent lawsuits and other people copying this One Neat Trick when initializing the devices.

Intel would lose very little if it published the source code for the blobs loaded into their processors, because the signature requirements prevent anyone else from developing their own microcode, yet it still encrypts and obfuscates the compiled code. The same is true for most chip and UEFI suppliers.

I hope riscv will soon take off in a way that foregoes all of these blobs, though I highly doubt it since modern hardware is encumbered by patents and secrets. It's a sad reality that free, libre computers do not exist and blaming the FSF for having high standards is the wrong approach.
Board of Advisors:

https://www.fairforall.org/about/board-of-advisors/

Quite an overlap with the U of Austin crowd:

https://www.uaustin.org/board-of-advisors
https://www.uaustin.org/founding-trustees
Now we just need an integrated admin panel and templating engine and we'll have reinvented Django.
Yes, transparency enables people learn about things they don't like and take action to stop them.

That these people hold disagreeable or even wrong opinions doesn't make it not transparency
Check out https://utteranc.es/
cute, though I kind of expected this to go a little farther with the theme tbh
Here's a copy that has been OCRed by ABBYY. https://f000.backblazeb2.com/file/m-various/bell-labs-direct...
I work at AT&T Labs, one of Bell's heritor institutions, and we still do work that intersects with switches & telephony hardware
What features are the main considerations?
cxx is a huge improvement over manually writing bindings in C (with the inherent limitations imposed by C’s lack of expressiveness). At the same time, you still have to write a cxx::bridge to specify every boundary between Rust and C++ code, and the clients of on either side need to code against some generated code, not a simple .rs or .h file. It’s a huge improvement, but it’s still a lot more developer effort and boilerplate to use a C++ class from a Rust file than it would be to use that same C++ class from another C++ file.

cxx also can only handle a subset of the interfaces expressive in C++. If you haven’t written the interface with the specific goal of making it usable via cxx, it’s pretty likely you’ll have issues wrapping it with cxx.
https://getpublii.com/ comes to mind too.
I'm not aware of any evidence that it's occurring at the expense of formerly thriving small towns.

Well I am. And I think such trends do a great deal of harm to the American social fabric.
In which case, all the better a reason to engage in good faith discussion, so as to identify those academic failings that create such movements and help address them decisively and appropriately
Widex Compass Software
Looking for a compass software for widex. Anyone knows where I can find the download? Thanks
If you are talking about the lost economic opportunity then you truly need to weigh that against the lives lost and ones that were saved and provide a very rigorous justification why you are ok sacrificing human lives for that particular cause.
> Its a traffic double whammy. No one lives near and they have to drive to the same small footprint.

These seem like nearly ideal conditions for good mass transit. The reason why businesses like to congregate in the city core is that this creates wealth for the businesses and their employees via agglomeration - I think this dynamic should not be ignored, even though it might not be immediately visible.
ThriveThemes still hasn't released a disclosure on an attack from March 2021.[0] This seems to be par for the course among theme developers.

0. https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/03/recently-patched-vuln...
Now that you can afford to, why not buy some time for yourself instead of stuff?
Agreed. You are making the case for why marriage should be a private contract and not a government-sanctioned institution.
It matches mine: A general chemistry lab where we were tasked to grow crystals and attempt to write formal reports of our scientific experiences. If experiences didn't match with current expected outcomes, we still recorded our observational data and tried hypothesizing on conditions of reason for divergent results.
That is awesome! How cool is that.

OMG, that is so cool! :D

I want to put my browser in an XP frame to make it look retro.
Holy shit what did I just read? I think it was justification for marital rape, but… what?
I think that building kits is about the equivalent to software tutorials. They might help with technique a bit but it’s a very passive way of learning and leads to the same kind of “tutorial hell” when you start your own projects.

For the more active form of learning, it’s the exact kind of just diving in that you’re worried about. Maybe, instead of worrying about breaking things though, order extra parts so you have spares to pop. That’s risk management but in the opposite direction you’re leaning towards.
We detached this subthread, which turned into a flamewar, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039749.

All: please don't perpetuate flamewars. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. When it starts happening, the most important thing is not to feed it. All this is in the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I am surprised that this article did not mention the truest economic limit: the fact that the new tallest buildings in the world are often mostly empty. It took until the 1950s for the Empire State building to turn a profit. The Sears Tower's incredible volume was meant for an expanding Sears that never happened. It's a consistent pattern.
Yes, that’s correct. But the situation is actually much simpler as it is just about the kids.