skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>cannot even name
nope, just didn't bother to go track it down for a comment.

but here you go, this [0][1]should have enough details and links to start you off.

You might also note that while the progressive Barack Obama had no problem pardoning Manning, he did no such thing for Snowdon. This was after the US House Intelligence Committee — not intelligence agency people, and both parties — UNANIMOUSLY voted to approve a report on Edward Snowden finding that he "did tremendous damage" to U.S. national security [2].

Perhaps you can explain how the whole airport fiasco and taking on Snowdon could have happened without Putin's direct approval - and why he'd do such a thing if it is "only" US civil rights issues at stake from Snowdon's theft.

Perhaps you can also explain how among the million+ documents Snowdon stole, only a few actually have anything to do with the headlines touting the civil liberty cause - e.g., exposing details of Israel’s killing of senior WMD proliferators in Syria [3]. Seriously, how does that improve anything in the US?

If you actually bother to look, without the hero-worshipping glasses and Qanon-level suspicion of anything related to government, you find that his massive story is a fraud.

[0] https://observer.com/2016/09/the-real-ed-snowden-is-a-patsy-...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200606111426/https://20committ...

[2] https://www.lawfareblog.com/house-intelligence-committee-rel...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20200226232346/https://www.jpost...
An interesting thought. I keep finding it amusing how I learn a bit more about the buggy and vulnerable software, via a security announcements mailing list, while not hearing unexpectedly about the software that is more secure.

One of the comments to the linked article also mentions the principal-agent problem, though not by name; an interesting and tricky one, and likely indeed can happen in a software development setting.
The output of the original Ramsey kits was about 25 mW, which was FCC-compliant. The one watt kits used a MRF557 transistor (rated for up to 1.5 watts) and were definitely illegal to operate in the U.S. without a license. They were sold in the U.S. as "export" models for overseas use only. I may be wrong, but I think this eventually got them in hot water with the FCC and led to them discontinuing the kits.
That’s not necessarily true.

Most “slowness” is not caused by CPUs performance but by network latency and differences in data scale combined with inadequate indexing or poorly chosen algorithms.

A 1MB empty database on localhost will run well on anything!

What’s needed in my experience is network simulators that can add latency, and full sized databases with real data.
May not be true itself, but it's relatable and equates to other stories many others have on first or thirdhand accounts. That's why these stories become popular

It's more about triggering some old memories and getting people to talk than about even telling the whole truth
I sympathize with the OP, the source is unreliable.

In a similar vain, a lot of US residents do not believe the numbers China is pumping out in regards to COVID-19, just another example of how the source can be unreliable.

Being homeless changes your attitude and perspective on life. It's unlikely these people can be truly honest with outsiders, especially strangers because then they don't receive any aid or help.

Personally, I can't take those interviews as a gospel of truth because I don't believe the authors.
Followed.
Space Grey
There is a behavioral component.

Is that because people who have caught it are more likely to take precautions against catching it again?

Those who were vaccinated but previously uninfected may have had a “it can’t happen to me and if it does, I’m vaccinated” attitude.

I’d expect unvaccinated people to be in the bucket with covid deniers and anti-maskers, which would have the highest base rate of COVID.
In other words, Google's policy is that the search result isn't showing the page title, it's showing Google's short description of the page. If Google thinks your page title is an adequate description it might use that, otherwise it will write its own.

(edit: and Google has enough self-importance to advise you to write your title as if it were a short description, to make their job easier)
To be fair, bit-rot is a real thing for software, because the world keeps changing. In most cases it takes effort and upkeep to keep everything working.

Annoying, for sure, but this is the reality of software and technology as the landscape continues to evolve over time.
Using the same filter, I'd say non-Boeing engineers. After the 737Max revelations, the fact that they can't figure out why their space capsule doesn't work, etc, I'd be very very concerned for any of their space craft not screwing up after the launch. All of those $numberOfMinutesOfTerror would be excruciating from a Boeing engineered anything at this point.
The real question is does this apply to the warehouse workers as well?
FWIW I'm not trying to say that SHA256 is broken by anyone. I personally believe it may never be broken. I'm merely saying it's not mathematically proven to be as robust as we assume it is, but our assumption is fine for now for all practical purposes.
Gemini really seems like throwing the baby out with the bath water. The primary gripe seems to be that they don't like javascript and modern web tracking. But in the process they lost inline links, images, video, and a bunch of other things which are useful for reading static documents.
Isn’t it just simpler to vaccinate everyone and be done with it? Instead of tracking who already had an infection etc. Just like we do for all the other vaccines we get.

I don’t understand why it’s so controversial. The upside is huge and there is literally no downside.
I think what they are suggesting is that natural immunity + vaccine is also more protective than just natural immunity
This was from 1999.

Language Warning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRN3d5S_MTk
Brainstorming isn't for problem-solving, especially when problems are small and well defined. Communication overhead destroys the efficiency.

I've participated in several team programming competitions. The way every team worked was - everybody read all tasks, quickly decide who works on what, and then we work solo on one problem each in parallel, when somebody finishes (s)he can help others who are stuck or take on another tasks. Talking about the problem all the way was way too slow and didn't much helped.

But problem-solving isn't the only creative thinking people do. When creating a story for table-top RPGs brainstorming works great.
The reputation of open source is already trashed. Companies like Amazon abused what started as a passion for many people, and that passion is now costing them their wellbeing so they're revolting.

The real open source belongs inside the GPL bubble, where you are legally obligated to share back, and it was battle tested when closed platforms like iOS gained traction.

Did people help pressure Apple to make licenses like GPL viable in their walled garden? Or did people dissed GPL-ed software because they couldn't use it in the Apple ecosystem? The moment we conceded with "LGPL with linking exception" marked the loss of the iOS battle.

Remember that GNU exists because Stallman couldn't ahem install a printer. And guess what? People avoid the distros with ONLY FOSS components because "it's impractical". If a distro becomes popular is because it includes a collection of proprietary drivers.

Our convenience is what made open source what it is today. And you know what? I accept my fault in the great scheme of things.

I was burned by people profiting with work I made for free while I was struggling to survive during the 2008 crisis. I am already familiar with the feeling of betrayal by the people who was supposed to support my work. Open Source was not for me.
Measure your results with a valid SaaS for project managers:
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You think stealing is OK if you don't like the person?
Yes, that's what I wrote. Health infrastructure does not exist in a vacuum and between non-vaccinated having to shop at a regular grocery store and people literally dying because we don't have beds in hospital I'll take the lesser evil.

FWIW I agree that after 2 years of the pandemic I see it as a failure of leadership.

> Basic rights(buying food) are violated for some

Let's not resort to hyperbole here. They can shop at Loblaws/Provigo/IGA/Metro/Maxi/Traditions like most people. They don't have a right to shop at Walmart.
For a while it was todo-apps, now it's markdown editors.
Source? That might mean we’re approaching herd immunity and critical mass for vaccinated people in the population, which would be fantastic.
This Twitter thread is just a pain to read.

Sure, Apple is charging a lot for their platform. It raises anti-trust issues as a duopoly.

The irony here is that the Fanhouse business model itself is exactly what Apple is doing on the App Store, the only difference is that they’re not a monopoly/duopoly power. By that I mean: why would anyone give Fanhouse a 10% cut when credit card transactions only cost 2-3%? Oh, right, so you can get on the platform…sound familiar?

This thread has a taste of hyperbole. It’s overly dramatic.

OnlyFans operates without an iOS app for this very reason. Fanhouse says “fuck Apple” but then does business with them anyway by implementing the surcharge.

If I were an investor I’d probably be having a word with the CEO about publicly hurling insults toward the “store” that’s selling my product.

Also, she’s misrepresenting the Netflix situation. Netflix has to abide by the same rules but she’s saying they get special deals. No, their app says “you can’t sign up for Netflix in the app” for this very reason. Spotify has a free tier and doesn’t handle subscriptions through iOS. Google goes the Fanhouse route and adds a surcharge to iOS-based subscriptions. Prime Video is browse-only last I checked.

I have a hard time sympathizing for a business owner who got $30M+ in a funding round. She can talk about her past life of food stamps all day, but she’s part of the ownership class, just not on Apple’s level of ownership. It feels a little insulting for the situation to be framed as a struggle of the working class.

That feels a lot like marketing: stirring up controversy so that people know who Fanhouse is. It’s a lot cheaper than running ads, isn’t it?
Common in movies, before home media or even broadcast was A Thing, and in some other places. I don't think that's the explanation.
I hear you, though Google Maps still seems terrible with unprotected lefts in LA. Just yesterday, it directed me to make one one onto a six-lane road.
Exactly, "you've been a nurse for 30 years, you're 60yrs old, you tested positive for COVID and you still have symptoms, but if you don't come back into work after 5 days (without pay) you'll also face punishment when you return". Of course, if a patient get's COVID while under your care (and symptomatic) and chooses to sue you, "you're on your own babe!". Also, "it is mandatory that you get vaccinated/boosted, but also come into work the next day or you won't be paid and it will count as one of 4 unscheduled days off per year before termination".

And people wonder why nurses are pissed off?
> I've been researching robo-advisors quite a bit recently.

"The Robo Report" [1] has detailed quarterly robo reports on performance, features, comparisons etc

[1] https://www.backendbenchmarking.com/
Nice work! I spent some time playing with this today and used it to build a solver algorithm. It's a greedy search through the possible combinations that prioritizes words based on letter frequency and uses the hints provided to whittle down the search space.

Though not enforced by the Hyperwordle clone, the script plays the game on "hard" mode by default where all letter hints must be included in subsequent guesses. Ironically, this constraint made the algorithm more efficient, easy mode tends to take longer and fail more frequently!

Anyone have a better algo yet? https://github.com/rgkimball/wordlebot
My simple M1 mpb 16gb seems to work for almost 2 hours when hammering the cpu. Haven’t timed it actually but I find it astonishing compared to the Dell mess I’ve had to deal with before.
also mobile plans are cheap in Switzerland. You can get a plan including unlimited calls throughout most of Europe+Canada+US (incl. roaming) plus unlimited 5G in Switzerland plus 40GB of data roaming throughout Europe (not only EU)+Canada+US for 35-45 CHF/month. These are sales that happen 3-4 times a year, e.g. via qoqa.ch or on wingo.ch. I have two of those from two different providers.

Regular prices for such plans are CHF 100-130, which I also do not find overly expensive compared to US.
Some replies to that tweet are super strange. I have no idea what is going on there.
I've been thinking a lot about how much easier this could have been using orbital assembly (crewed or robotic). So, so many human years must have been spent designing and testing deployment mechanisms that simply had to function the first time.

In 2019, NASA's Astrophysics Division finished up two years assessing the feasibility of assembling a large-aperture observatory in-space. The In-Space Astronomical Telescope (iSAT) Assembly Design Study [1] concluded that In-Space Assembly (ISA) is the only option for building observatories with aperture diameters over 15 m and would still likely be strongly beneficial for smaller ones like the JWST (6.5 m aperture diameter). Efforts like Northrop Grumman’s successful Mission Extension Vehicles, the upcoming DARPA RSGS and NASA OSAM-1 missions, and the usage of Canadarm2 to install instruments with standardized interfaces on the outside of the ISS all demonstrate the increasing maturity of robotic servicing and assembly. The iSAT study describes a telescope composed of modules with standardized interfaces, launched with a spacecraft bus that has attached Canadarm2-like robotic arms that can assemble and deploy modules delivered by space tug from multiple launches. The benefits over launching monolithic spacecraft with hundreds of single points of failure (cough JWST cough) are clear: the mission won’t be limited by a single launch vehicle’s lift ability or fairing size; the same inchworming robotic arm that does initial ISA can later perform repairs and upgrades, either with freshly delivered replacement modules or by debugging malfunctioning parts (see Mars Insight); the final deployed structure doesn’t need to be designed to handle harsh launch conditions; and, design and development will be faster without needing to design and test super reliable deployment mechanisms—if a part fails during orbital checkout, launch a replacement. The primary challenge is designing hardware that today’s limited-dexterity robotics can manipulate, and figuring out supervised autonomy with fallback telerobotics for bringing humans into the loop when needed. There are definitely challenges, but this feels like the right approach. If you could do it near a crewed station for infrequent debugging EVAs, even better. After it's assembled, raise the orbit to L2 with solar electric propulsion.

[1] https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/technology/in-space-assembl...

I'll be writing about this more in Orbital Index (https://orbitalindex.com) sometime soon.
Nobody mentions France because France is not as desirable as you think.
Terrible weather, constantly gloomy, grumpy people, awful food (especially baguettes!), almost no artistic history. I honestly believe that the only ones who like France are french people.
Lost a lot of respect for Zeynep after reading that. The argument boils down to unvaxxed have more hospitalization, some unvaxxed also have prior infection, therefore prior infection isn't effective.
There is no data in her post that those with prior infection are the ones being hospitalized.
Meanwhile, there is real data elsewhere on this topic.
You are kidding, right?

Granted, a very cynical view of the educational system is most Western countries is that it is a glorified time-waster for kids to be busy while parents work. But even that was lost during the pandemic. Most schools basically have given up on getting students to learn anything this past year. Lockdowns have acted as prolonged stunt on children's socialization opportunities. Anxiety levels for teenagers are through the roof.

The effects of these two years on younger kids will be profound and long-lasting. They are paying a lot more than their share of risk. And saying "they are not dying" is not a consolation because - unlike with the Plague - kids are basically zero-risk compared with other age groups.

> At least they had internet and other niceties

Are you serious? The last thing you should want for kids is for them to become dependent on something like the Internet. Such a comment is almost offensive to a parent that does not want to see their kids turning into mindless, socially-inept drones like the average HN-commenter.
I'm happy to see the stdin -> spyql -> stdout model. Plain text is great :)

Columnar storage and processing could give you some performance benefits. SPyQL seems like it could potentially work with column text format, which a couple students and I developed last year. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ctf/vignettes/overvi...
The terrestrial planet finder or any other optical telescope would have been much more revolutionary for fascinating humans with unbelievably pretty pictures
We're working on it. https://soundmind.co :)
https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code/blob/master/...
> determined by ability, not racial/gender quotas

Yeah, I have no dog in this fight.

I was merely pointing out, that the case for diversity as championed by Biden (or his cabinet/loudest supporters) contradicts his choice to push for a candidate that would lead to over-representation of a certain community in the Supreme Court.
Internal politics is the usual root cause. For example hardware may come from the CFO's budget or IT may want fewer configs for their own convenience.

It doesn't make sense to save 0.2-1.0% of the fully loaded cost of a developer. Just making them happy and reducing churn by a tiny amount would more than pay for itself.
"Hubble has been operating for ~30 years now."

Right, and the GPS constellation has been active for almost thirty years too. I think the GP is probably right that it would be great if the risk associated with a single mega launch/deployment could be spread over a fleet, but ultimately it does no good if you can't use that configuration to get the observations you want, hence the question. It has less to do with it being a "software solution" and more just whether it would actually practically work.

To their point, though, lots of ground-based radio telescopes are now also arrays of many dishes [1], so it's not at all hard to imagine that a similar configuration could be of value in space.

[1]: https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/vla/
2012 checking in.
https://amd-osx.com/
> There could be a switch to "expert mode" or whatever.

That would require building 2 completely different apps that work completely differently.

There is no CSS, no resources that are loaded in, all the structure and style and everything is generated as it's needed so that the server does not need to parse and create pages that end up using and spending a lot of resources when under load. This way the server only gives the JSON data out and the website parses and generates everything.

Can't do that without Javascript, just like an Android or iOS app can't work without using a front end language to generate the view that you interact with.
Have one too, got it at £27 with delivery, very nice hardware (especially with the custom miyoocfw firmware installed). If a device like this, with perhaps slightly larger screen & wifi, was integrated with keyboard (like the rpi 400) one would have killer device for nerd-working/gaming on the go.
Or the beings in that star system build up a Dyson Sphere around it causing it to change drastically from our vantage point.
Yeah, that's a bit broad, but citizens who still work towards doing useful things through public policy deserve some recognition, here.
Logseq is cool. Do give Zim a try if you can, it’s been around for a while and is one of the more thoughtfully designed OSS GUI applications. Python and GTK impose limitations on the flexibility of extensions in general but it’s pretty fast and easy to extend otherwise. In terms of WYSIWYG I still don’t see anything much better on Linux.

The main reason I don’t use it today is my mobile and tablet experience is much better with Craft, which feels similar to Zim in its WYSIWYG mode (but more like Notion). However, I can run Zim fine on an older raspberry pi, which I can’t do with Craft and wouldn’t bother to try with Obsidian. My cloud-hosted Craft notes aren’t gonna survive after decades of supply chain crises and global turmoil, but my Zim notes and the application will probably outlast me with even a half baked plan.
Could pivot into cyber-security? This could be bug bounties or pen-testing. Basically knowing how software is built gives you a massive advantage here.

I imagine your pay would go down as you start, but you're going to have to accept that for any change in career.
Immunoglobulin A versus Immunoglobulin G, we still don't know how to stimulate a response (outside of exposure to a virus) to create Immunoglobulin A, which protects our upper respiratory tract.

This is the technological limits of what vaccines are capable of. Vaccination limits the damage, ensuring a much lower likelihood of catching a 1 to 3 day cold affecting only my upper respiratory tracts rather than risking the lungs and the rest of my body on a potentially multi-week infection.

The longer the infection, the more likely pneumonia or another co-infection will injure or kill you.
You overestimate how much managers and employers browse social media. Especially non-tech organization, they may not even know what Reddit is.

And no, this isn't a unique experience, given how many people here alone chimed in on similar automation strategies in non-tech situations. It can be weird if you're in tech and you're managing billion line codebases, but you'd be surprised how much a non-tech company would value a 100 line automation script you whip up in a week. The only risk in that relationship is your skills growing stale for if/when you need to change jobs
Imagine if your CLI tools did this.
How could you feel old about something that jus... 10 years?!
Ah, you know, this is as much humanity's success as global warming is its failure. We built a world that can make both these things.
It’s totally possible. Aside from a stint “embedded” on an implementation team to launch a critical product, I’ve been doing exclusively exploration, architecture, devops, and documentation for the last two years or so.
Paxlovid is (1) authorized for

> the treatment of mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in adults and pediatric patients with positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 testing, and who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including hospitalization or death

It's not that everyone with a Covid infection will get the drug. That number should be far lower than 3.7% of the population, most of which will either be asymptomatic or likely won't require hospitalization due to low risk. I wonder what that means for your calculation.

(1) https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
yeah, I think the solution is to give $$ incentives for vaccination and not try to shame people, because shamed people often just double-down on their resistance.
Useful Wall Street Journal article on this point: https://archive.is/3i800.