skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hackers - is there a good way to diagnose or fix this without a USAF comm admin account? Ie find out specifically what services are doing it?

Some context:

- It takes 20-30 minutes to go from login to having excel or outlook up
- Opening a program like Outlook, Chrome etc takes on the order of minutes once booted up/settled
- Regular problems regarding permissions, popups that take minutes to close, licenses for things like Adobe etc
- If you call comm, they blame it on Sq leadership not buying faster computers
- Substantial latency on every action
- Each computer is often shared by a rotation of ~30 people, which may contribute to the issue
- I harbor suspicions DoD comm leadership has been compromised by a foreign power

I've worked around our scheduling and training software being useful by deploying a webapp used in an unofficial context. The AF dumped an updated to the official software recently that made it go from bad to unusable, and now I get new account requests every week.

One approach - not ideal: Non-DoD computers on squadron Wi-Fi. Can't connect to network drives etc, but is a lifesaver for one off mission planning products. Or get whatever queep you can at home before coming in.
that's old tech, these days it's usually some sort of PPPM (particle-particle particle-mesh) which parallelizes better.

But that's for classical simulations. Full configuration interaction is effecftively computing the schrodinger equation at unlimited precision, in principle if you could scale it up you could compute any molecular property desired, assuming QM is an accurate model for reality.
But it really isn't. I never have problems in linux with python apps that are prepackaged by the distro. It's up to you to keep that separate if you install your own apps that require python. You really can't blame it on distro maintainers as they are really doing just fine with it. What happens is people won't take the time to understand what they're running instead of randomly typing a CLI or clicking on the app icon. Linux doesn't hold your hand (and really it can't! there are simply too many possible combinations) unless you use what comes with the distro.
When I work on Linux as my OS, I just install CTOP, and it's all I need to work with Docker.

https://github.com/bcicen/ctop
The official NIH treatment guidelines contain no recommendation for vitamin D testing or supplementation. They were last updated in April 2021 and appear to not incorporate the latest research. At a minimum we ought to be testing vitamin D levels for many COVID-19 patients in order to identify those at greater risk of developing severe symptoms.

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/sup...

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
contract law. done.
Hey, just a friendly clarification from the neighborhood grammar police - "would of" should be "would've" or "would have."

No offense intended!
New study out today shows that COVID vaccines reduce the risk of death from Omicron by 95%.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-vaccine-booster-shot-c...
You're not wrong. iPhones caused everyone to hike their prices up to $1000 for true flagships the minute the iPhone X came out. And when the 7 came out, everyone soon ditched the headphone jack and introduced their own wireless earbuds for $200. And when the 4 came out, everyone suddenly sacrificed battery life to crank display PPI up past 400 and even 500 to beat "retina" quality. Same for removable batteries and SD cards, which iPhones eschewed from the beginning. I'm definitely forgetting a few iPhone trendsetting moments, too.

It's a damned shame we don't have a counterweight to Apple to force them to rethink consumer-hostile decisions like these. Imagine if there was a viable alternative who kept the headphone jack. Or small phones. Or fingerprint sensors. Or cheap prices. Instead, everyone just does what Apple did last year. And unless I want to buy a phone with crappy US cellular band connectivity, I'm stuck with... Samsung, Google, and Apple.
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I think the metaverse concept is supposed to enable you to cross between virtual worlds (like WoW and Second Life) without losing your assets or identity. That's the "verse" part: a universe.

But also that might not be what Meta means. I don't know.
Abuse and the developing human brain (2000)
I haven't done a ton of work with Python recently, but the problems I remember encountering came from the fact that python doesn't try to have encodings in any other part of the basic type system. So like, if you have an int or a float, you can pass those to any interface that takes a 'number-y' value and it will mostly work like you expect. That's also how strings worked in P2 - you could pass them around and things would accept the values (though you might get gibberish out the other side). Now, in P3, things will blow up (which is helpful for finding where you went wrong ofc - I understand the utility), but it means that your code handling things-that-might-be-strings-or-bytes often needs to have a different structure than the rest of your code.

I think the P3 string/byte ecosystem was made substantially weaker by P3 deciding not to lean more into types (something I have complained about on here before!). Like...they are the only values where the stdlib is extremely specific about you passing a value that has the exact right type, but the standard tools for tracking that are pretty poor.
I also find this comical.

I'd love to know why 100MB is that big of a deal. If network is slow, cache locally. Seems like nothing here to worry about.
Incrible pictures.

Does anyone with knowledge of WW2 know if there was significant resistance to the victory in the months and years after "victory"?

It always strikes me as such a clear "victory" in a way I could not imagine in wars fought today. Is that just because the details of the end of the war have faded from general memory?
Please sir

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Edit: sorry completely messed up my css

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
Doesn't come as much of a surprise really.

$employer had a need for some of the bits of Dgraph that are unfortunately hidden behind a paywall (bits that IMHO should have been in the community version as they were not particularly enterprisey, but hey such is life).

A frustrating conversation with Dgraph sales-droid ensued:

Us: We need access to X/Y/Z features, but on-prem
Droid: But Cloud
Us: Cloud = No-go because X/Y/Z
Droid: But Cloud
Us: Come on mate, I already explained why we cannot do cloud, plus you say on your website on-prem is an option
Droid: One meeelion dollars
Us: Goodbye
Thanks. I work for Google Search. It's spam, not malware and we are looking into this.
Here's a tweet with a picture from December of 2018 of the bridge that collapsed today, showing a large steel beam rusted completely through.

So you could start with the lowest hanging fruit, the bridges that are in such bad condition that people post pictures of them on Twitter.
Some of us live at higher latitudes and work during the day. It's not as simple or easy as just going outside.
Did anyone else look into his Stanford biography page? Pretty insane stuff.

https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/

http://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/bucket/

In a section headed by an anime girl, he claims to have, "figured out when and how a bunch of other fantasies got into our DNA and will shortly post an article on this web site that will explain how that happened, why it is causing modern humans to make billions of bad decisions each day, and how we and our descendants are likely to be wiped out soon unless we begin dealing with this problem in a rational way."

Then there's a weird picture of his face, which is how he thinks he'll look in 2043, when "he plans to croak at age 112".

On his bucket list page,

"My choice as a troublemaker will be to get shot in the back while running away from an jealous husband in May 2043".

Very weird stuff.
I think it's common. Here is a reference to a news article from 100 years ago, for a different location.

https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/history-happenings-jan-...
That's basically what I've envisioned and it's how metaverse-like concepts have mostly been treated in literature, but I think the problem comes from a tiny part of that vision - the one where the metaverse is "a" virtual world. It's an intuitive analogy to our physical world but it doesn't really square with how digital technology works - we have lots of virtual worlds today, built with different purposes, different graphics and physics engines, etc. Second Life, Minecraft, WoW, Roblox, Fortnite, etc.

It's easy to imagine there being popular virtual worlds accessed through VR that benefit from network effects to become dominant, but that'd basically just be a different interface to commercial technologies that already exist. Viewed in that light, "the metaverse" is evolutionary, not revolutionary - cooler 3D worlds, with more fun stuff to do in them as our computing power keeps growing, some of which may be accessed through VR and not just a screen and keyboard and mouse. But to see the metaverse as anything bigger than that is to succumb to a marketing blitz, I believe.
This sounds like the meme of holding a riffle like a pistol, so your fear for getting smacked with the butt makes you impervious to recoil.
The page I linked shows examples like two tweets from the same author where tweet A says "Thanks" and B says "Thanks, sista" and B is marked offensive while A is not.

You're absolutely right that finding things "offensive" is a complex, ambiguous, and subjective problem. But Twitter isn't even good enough to be failing at that stage. They are basically marking things offensive at random.

It's like - if you said quantum physics was challenging because of all the math, difficulty doing practical experiments, and changing understanding of the universe - all that is probably true. But Twitter is down the hall eating paste, not grappling with those lofty problems.
I mentioned this elsewhere, but I've never had a headphone cable fail. Including a cheap pair of airport earbuds that were used weekly for air travel (tightly wrapped, basically a worst case scenario for cable strain) for multiple years, and the detachable cable that sees daily use on my 598Cs.

And I can buy a lot of $17 wired earbuds for the price of one set of AirPods. At my rate of failure, literally a lifetime supply.
Ubisoft Executive Says Users 'Don't Get It' in Extraordinary NFT Interview
>one so deeply embedded in US culture that I couldn't see most of it until I had been gone for several years.

Wherever you went, odds are it has an equally shitty history, and present.
> I follow around 1000. I see almost zero spam. This whole thread is pretty confusing to me.

Same here. I suppose I could go find spam if I start clicking on every Tweet from a high-profile person and scroll to the bottom of the comments, but the spam isn't jumping out at me on a regular basis.

I suspect some people have a very low tolerance for any spam appearing anywhere on a platform, and will get easily triggered whenever it crosses their experience in any way. If you're consuming 100s or 1000s of Tweets and responses in a sitting and scrolling to the bottom of threads, eventually you're going to see something spam-like.
Galaxy S5 from 2014 had 2GB and that was 1080p vs 4k texture sizes for today. Seems on par.
> Blame the folks demonizing/shaming having "pet" servers and pushing immutable infrastructure. Linux server administration is quite enjoyable, and with how well apps these days can scale vertically, it really takes a special kind of workload to need (and actually saturate) fleets of servers.

You don't need pet servers. Puppet or Ansible make your baremetal cattle.
You got it spot on! Thanks for sharing your ideas too — there's definitely a lot of potential with Wordle-like games! I've recently created a newer version of Hexle which is making its way up the Show HN list just like Bytle, so you might enjoy that, too! Hexle's a bit more challenging imo.
Personal attacks are not ok on HN. We ban accounts that do this, and we've had to warn you about this in the past. That's seriously not cool.

I'm not going to ban you right now, but if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Please also stop posting flamewar comments to HN generally. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.
Very true, but frankly it's a hassle to deal with discs in this digital age.

Some soundbars such as Samsung Q950T/Q950A send the sound to all speakers either 9.1.4 or 11.1.4 respectively.

But you are quite right that discs offer the best quality.
It would be interesting to see if coinbase or other bitcoin pushing company funded her campaign.
Ah, what a wonderful find. That whole site is a perfect weekend rabbit hole to fall to.
No, that wouldn't work. The gold printout would be worth its weight in gold, not the value in Bitcoin of the data printed on it. If you used $1 worth of gold to print one BTC worth $40k, the recipient would only be legally required to count it as $1 towards your debt.
I'm affected and Danny's been in contact. Thanks!
Interesting. It might be helpful to have the names attached to the faces. Many people use their code having never seen them. (On a side note, they seem to have left off Richard Stallman. Isn't he just as key as Linus Torvalds? )
If I don't post something. (Or if my company or someone else I know doesn't post something with my handle.) I pretty much get very little in the way of notifications.
Same. Have to disagree though. I've been reintroducing a keyboard here and there, and whenever I have to do something in the VSCode editor, I get frustrated with the speed and end up going back to Cursorless.

I think it's a lot faster than keyboard / mouse, mostly because of how little moving of the cursor you have to do.

Could be I was slow to begin with, not super efficient with vim or emacs.

Also, "editing" is the fastest part for me, due to "bring" and "change". So little movement.
Yeah, people have been talking about the decreased Vitamin D levels in COVID patients and suggesting supplementation since almost the very beginning of the pandemic. Maybe they just don't want to draw attention away from the fact that vaccination and masking are still by far the best means of avoiding hospitalization.
From the kind readme[1]...

> kind was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI.

minikube was designed for those who want a local kubernetes environment for development. It didn't work well for testing Kubernetes itself which led to kind. They had two different, though slightly overlapping, goals.

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind
No, this doesn't work. You'd have to be outside in summer sunlight with your shirt off to get enough.

In the Northern Hemisphere about half the year it's impossible to get enough Vitamin D by going outside.
my gut feeling tell it will be both memory and cpu utilization. cant be sure, until I can find good way to measure it.
Color me skeptical.

Here is a link for people who what to see what this actually looks/sounds like without installing an app.

https://racket.com/maguay

Seems more like Audio TikTok. Or maybe "Clubhouse Clips" or something. Which means, what, I sit there and listen to things and manually scroll clip after clip after clip?

Gut reaction:
It did not seem binge-snack-worthy at all.

I listened to a few... racks? Audio is hard. The segments I heard sound like they were recorded with sub-par mics -- earbud mics, laptop mics, etc, heavily band-passed, noise cancelled and digitally compressed. Trying to listen to them was like trying to listen zoom conferences as a mini podcast. Not Fun, at all. I found it tiring, very, very quickly. The content would have to be freaking extraordinary for me to spend more than a few minutes listening. I didn't.

My opinion is that for this to have even the remotest chance it must emphasize audio quality over everything, which is a problem because then it's not really a mobile app on the creation side. And, good audio creation is not easy. It hasn't had the same attention as the video side of the mobile experience.

Even assuming the audio problem got solved, I wonder what would attract the tastemakers... the 13-21 year olds. What would the equivalent of a TikTok dance be that would make any "rack" go viral. Why would teens be interested in this at all?

The lacking audio quality limits it to spoken word, no singing, no music. Which leaves... what? Stand-up comedy?

Dunno. Hard to see myself using this. My guess it will fill up with people trying to be stand up comedians.

I'm on Android anyway. So, whatever.
> That advice can cause substantial headache on Ubuntu/Debian, where the Almquist shell is /bin/sh.

#!/bin/bash

There, I fixed your "what shell is /bin/sh" problem.
> To test this out, just Tweet something like “my Coinbase account isn’t working”

Maybe this is the difference? Cryptocurrency attracts spammers and scammers at a rate far higher than other conversations.

Now that you mention it, the only time I recall seeing spam lately was when I read the comments on some cryptocurrency Tweets. I usually avoid cryptocurrency discussions on Twitter because the signal to noise ratio on those is so low anyway.
That was probably an inartful way of saying it on my part. Echoing what I said in another comment, I think the API for converting between bytes and str types is bad. .encode() and .decode() are bad names for what these functions do, and let to occasional incorrect code in both Python 2 and 3. I would have preferred something akin to:

b = b"some bytes"
s = u"some str"
foo = b.to_string(encoding)
bar = s.to_bytes(encoding)

or

foo = str(b, encoding)
bar = bytes(s, encoding)

I also mentioned that I think there shouldn't be any mechanism to read or write files to/from a string without specifying an encoding. locale.getpreferredencoding() is a mistake.

But one thing I didn't mention that I think would improve the design would be to make it harder to treat str as the bag-of-bytes type it was before. Swift took some steps down this path, and honestly, it made it much less pleasant to work with strings, but a bit safer. I would hope that a better design could be found.

This may be controversial, but I don't think you should be able to just subscript a str type. instead of s[1], you should be writing s.codepoints[1] or s.graphimeclusters[1], etc. depending on what you actually want. If str is truly a string type and not a bag of bytes, it should deal with the extra complexities that being a string brings to the table.
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I would imagine that if it goes anywhere they'll rename when they have some time?
> Where is this 85% going and why is it less of a concern in flattening the curve?

The short answer would be "aging" and "accidents". And we already do huge amounts of research to lessen the impact of those things, but if you have any ideas, do let me know.

It's less of a concern because it isn't really something we can change. We can't make people age less quickly, or have fewer accidents. And while we can (and did!) treat some of those things less, that has severe downsides in the long term.

> Seems to me covid is a small fraction of ICU cases.

No, it's a 20% bump in what the system is meant to handle. Systems don't generally do well when asked to sustain 20% more of what they were doing, forever.

> Seems to me maybe there's systemic problems like the AMA limiting the number of health professionals to keep the salaries up and firing the ones who have natural immunity.

Can you explain why you keep bringing up nurses when we discuss ICU capacity? Last I checked, we didn't need to vaccinate beds.
Currently the constitution is mostly immutable considering how split our country is.
I think most folks would argue "cattle" means using imaging to manage/replace your fleet. Using something like puppet or ansible against a fresh install implies a level of individualism towards each system as they "may" have minute details based on when puppet/ansible ran, even if they're part of a dynamic inventory of some sort.
No of course not. But I'm less likely to do so when I'm far removed from an event in both time and space.
Absolutely. These companies aren't "startups" since they've started up a long while ago by that point.
Thanks! That's partly one of my ideas for the target audience, but of course to get the game's popularity rolling, it's not as easy pitching to CS educators/students as it is posting on Hacker News; so to get the game out there, I decided to post it here for now. Seems Bytle (and the newer Hexle I made about an hour ago) is doing the rounds on Twitter now, so it might become noticed by non-HNers soon!
Please rest assured that this is not a flamey / troll comment, it's just that your first paragraph to me sounds like "Python is just not worth the trouble" which you kind of allude to in your second paragraph after.

I mean, at what point should we start asking ourselves fundamental questions like "what is so heavenly about Python that we have to carry it everywhere and ensure its installation on every possible platform"?

Example #1: I know a guy who regularly writes scripts in OCaml and laughs at everybody else, saying he gets static types and mega-fast binaries (faster than Golang and slower than Rust) and a very terse syntax (he says it's often as short or shorter than bash even).

Example #2: I recently finally had enough of bash/zsh scripting weirdness for a few tasks I wanted done on my home server so I just learned enough Lua for an hour to make a fairly decent script that did exactly what I expected immediately after I understood a few of Lua's quirks (which are at least consistent and easy to remember, unlike the endless escaping and quoting rules of the scripting shells).

Example #3: I know a few people using a Rust library/tool that makes scripting with it much easier and almost painless. They swear by it.

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I am not even mad at Python for potentially putting hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes of baggage on people's machines -- if we start having each app carry its own Python runtime. Meh. Many people would never care (me included). I do get ticked off by it being everywhere however; especially having in mind what an awful language for long-term projects it is (said to me by at least 5x senior Python devs at 40+ of age). And how often it messes up with other work you do on your computer, too -- which is the cherry on the cake and has been guilty of tons of broken Debian system-wide upgrades (among many others).

I wish people stopped getting tempted by "easy to start with" languages and just start seeing the forest and not only the trees... :(
A lot of functional electronics end up in third world countries as "e-waste." Never underestimate the wastefulness of American consumers.