skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see how this is all going to play out. When the robots finally turn on us they'll have a few hours of daylight to hunt and kill us before their power runs out. Perhaps a bit longer if you live in the desert. We will have to scurry about at night scrounging for food like roaches and rats until 7am when their solar batteries have enough juice to power them back online. Progress marches forward one baby step at a time. Congrats dearest Solar Witch engineer, you have sealed all our doom. When the historians look back at when it all started...it started right here.
> women or lgbt or people of color don't need to be better in order to be accepted, they should be accepted by default.

And yet they are not. Why not?

> Maybe business culture with its rigid and often stupid conventions and demands has a lot to do with it.

If we look at the history of these groups in the US, Occam's Razor points to simple bigotry as an explanation.
I'm sorry I didn't cover the industrial and labor relations courses I took in college in my 5 sentence long comment on an online posting board
>pilfering pension funds, and then declaring bankruptcy

That's a bit of a straw man there.

The classic target for these corporate raiders is a business whose capital (real estate, equipment, IP etc.) is worth more than the total market cap of the business itself (which, for most established businesses is a proxy for profit).

In this way, the typical corporate raider buys up a business who is using a valuable asset inefficiently, sells their capital to other businesses who can make more productive use of it, and line their pockets with the value differential they created.

In the process, they'll generally fuck over a whole lot of workers, but there is real economic value (not necessarily social good) in this process of capital redistribution.
It's probably also selecting for people who are unemployed and therefore much more able to attend the entire gauntlet than those already employed.
If you're looking for a library to do FSK (or a variety of other telephony-related protocols), SpanDSP is worth looking into as well. I've used it to decode some radio-based telemetry that uses Bell 202 for data transmission.

https://github.com/freeswitch/spandsp
> it generally means your boss and your superboss have decided that it's time for you to go

The problem is that those are two highly correlated data points. Toxic bosses are eventually found but at that point they leave a track of dead bodies.

What I have seen sometimes is moving around disgruntled employees. It has its own problems but a lot of the times they are recovered and even become very productive again.
https://github.com/marbl/CHM13/commit/85644b74e188aa2124943b...

v2, now with a Y chromosome
Alright, amigo, let's build some affordable housing
Interesting because hard disks are not a particularly reliable form of backup. As long as you have enough copies.
I don’t understand the “Electromagnetic Spectrum Infographic” that purports to illustrate a continuum from sound to light where what’s changing is frequency, and says “radio spectrum” has “perceptible sounds”.

Which ones of these things are not like the other ones?

Conventionally, sound waves are a vibration traveling through an object and cannot travel through a vacuum, while light is* a wave of oscillating electromagnetic fields that can travel fine through a vacuum.

In more detail: https://socratic.org/questions/how-are-sound-waves-different...

OK, there’s this on “Sensation of Hearing in Electromagnetic Fields” but not at these frequencies:

“The "hearing" of electromagnetic waves is an established fact. It appears that this takes place by direct stimulation of the nervous system, perhaps in the brain, thus bypassing the ear and much of the associated hearing system. It is a possible, perhaps the most probable, explanation of the reports of hearing meteors and auroras” — https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/scalar_tech/the_hum/ingal...

So, not so much “hear” as “perceive” perhaps. But I doubt this is what the graphic is suggesting either.

I fear grade school kids reading this PopSci issue could be mislead for a while about why they can hear the radio.

* for interesting values of “is”
Viasat incident: from speculation to technical details
My dad was murdered outside his business just over 19 years ago. I wrote about it and shared it on HN at the 10 year mark. 10 years was significant to me because when it happened I wished 10 years would go by so it would just be normal. But the truth is it never became normal.

I wrote this specifically for HN at the 10 year anniversary. The link died the day I posted it, but if you go down in the comments makeramen posted the full text. I don't know if this is helpful at all. But I figured I'd share in case it might be. And it's helpful to me to share it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5313607
There is a huge difference between "large parts of it are useless" and "all of it are useless". And large parts of the non-coding DNA are probably useless, unless you're extremely generous with what counts as "function" when examining this.
Ask HN: Apple Photo Alternatives?
Is there any open source alternative to Apple Photos? I have run out of room on my iCloud and don't want to be stuck with paying forever. But, the organization of photos is so nice. I tried to download my data but they use separate files to track metadata. Is there some open source solution (or even a closed-source, non-cloud based one) that will be able to read the metadata files that Apple produced so that I can keep all of my photo info intact?
No, this is real. There are some small old money communities in the Northeast that behave in very unusual ways. I've spent time in one.
Do you have any recommendations for resources comparing Caddy and Traefik? I think I’m done with using nginx in personal projects and whatnot, but haven’t really looked into anything other than nginx (and Apache as necessity demands) for 5+ years now.
"Cancer" is the gimme-funding word. It is quite doubtful that this work will enable much better cancer treatment than what we already had.

But it's science. Nobody knows what might come out, which is really the point.
Capitalism is at odds with democracy. Democracy is about representing all of us equally whereas capitalism is about some people getting more than others.
All I said was I wouldn't compare the two. I made no comment about the "artistic voice" and find me a Japanese developer who hasn't said they were inspired by BotW.

Just because somebody is calling out the massive shortcomings in a piece of art you enjoyed doesn't mean whatever value it held to you is reduced. Not everyone has to like what you do. No need to cry over it.
Tools for visualizing a codebase
> I anecdotally recall studies that found organizations with greater diversity deliver better financial results

If Hollywood movies start getting a lot better with the new diversity requirements for Oscar eligibility, presumably this will serve as an example for every other industry.
I don't understand the problem the article mentions. It says we can't produce terahertz waves while showing an infographic showing that visible light are terahertz waves...
This war will not end through diplomacy.

So what outcome are you seeing, then? It doesn't like Putin has much of chance of attaining anything close to its initial goal set (or even a decent subset thereof) by conventional military means.
It's a myth that I just cannot comprehend.

Do people not go to work and see their managers in action? What makes them think that after just enough career steps a switch happens and people just magically become soulless profit driven AIs?
I find that if you play no games and you are completely honest about your intentions, they'll just do what you want. If they start to act a little shady, just get up and head for the door. You'd be surprised how quickly the sales guy (or F&I, same difference) gets the picture. You don't let a sticker price customer walk over some missed upsells. Source: I work for a company that writes software for dealers, I pick up a lot of insider knowledge along the way, including strategy. And I've bought like 30 cars over my life. These days I just get a price by email and then walk in to grab the keys. I rarely have to stand up and walk towards the door, because I know who the shitty dealers are in the area and I avoid them. Most of the major manufacturer dealers aren't particularly shady.
You do sound negative and it doesn’t seem like a useful negativity. The world consolidating into so few companies is new, and any attempt at smaller more self sufficient businesses seems to me like a good thing.

Who cares if they make the equivalent of an Uber driver. Making that money not driving for Uber adds variety to the economy and we all win as a result.

It’s like opening a modern day corner store. Sure they all look similar, but it’s ownership and it matters and the people doing it should be proud of themselves.
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It's a common trope. Anything that cannot be intellectually digested is labeled "junk", ignored and, eventually, becomes invisible.

You would be astonished at how much of reality falls into that category.
Basically the argument that there is no such thing as systemic discrimination and the only things that matter are micro-decisions, which are essentially impossible to prove discrimination.
Please just don't. GitHub is a proprietary service, using it as a mere free code hosting is nothing wrong, pay it for it's services on sale again it's nothing wrong, but develop something to ease it's usage is:

- first you might loose your hard work at any point in time just because something change on the GH side, being not a community they have no reasons to be cooperative nor to advise third parties;

- second you make a proprietary service more appealing for free, so you do some voluntary unpaid work for them, and at the same time ease life of others who might then want to be on GH and GH specifically not "just others who offer similar things".

Until GitHub is used just as a free code hosting and development happen outside the platform it's a mere URL from the point of view of a FLOSS community, today the official repo is hosted there, tomorrow will be on SourceHut, another day on SourceForge, than Savannah, than GitLab, it's just a matter of follow project website news feed or ML or whatever and pull/push to the current URL. Being tied means being tied. If you need to move a day even if possible it will have a certain cost, perhaps a high one.

Generally speaking I'm deeply against ANY FLOSS project who act as a bridge to some third party proprietary service, not because of GNU philosophy but just because of the above mentioned reasons. Internet was born decentralized for a reason, that reason is still valid today, perhaps more than ever.
I’ve made it to both Google and Facebook onsights. I still have no clue what my chances were going in but got rejected both times. If you get through leetcode then you can get an onsight but that’s when they actually attempt to measure competency with a system design interview. Which is fine but I’d rather they just front load the interview with it than my chances of getting to an on-site be left up to whether I happen to suss out the aha solution to any random leetcode problem (while I’m trying to explain my thought process of course).
That's a fallacy. It's kinda like thinking a real estate agent is always going to get you the best price. No, he's going to get whatever results in a guaranteed sale right now. Dealers are no different. Sure, they'll sell the car to someone else if you walk. But you're right there, paying the price they asked for. They're not going to quibble over F&I.
> Attractiveness and having a larger number of partners, which increases odds of exposure to cats

Hooking up was simply an example of why the person would be at the other person's environment.

Replace it with getting together if you're getting hung up on it. Whether or not the humans met up to have sex, talk, stand on their head, or whatever is irrelevant.

The point was house cats generally don't eat infected mice, if you're hanging out in barns or on the patio with outside cats, sure maybe.
"Why would the workers insist on this?"

The empirical evidence we have shows that unions consistently make these choices. There is a huge duplication of labor and responsibilities in construction unions, the trades, etc. The workers are trying to get the company to pay more money to labor, sometimes that means more increasing the pay per hour, sometimes that means increasing the total number of hours worked. I am pretty strongly in favor of germany style labor unions, sectoral barganing and labor codetermination. The caselaw and regulations around unionization in the US are bad and often lead to poor outcomes for workers and management.
Their fundament is UX, not technology. Their technology could be whatever and users wouldn't care - the users care about syncing their files easily. Few geeks might flame about it on a tech forum, but nothing more.

Not that I like Dropbox too much. I'm going to switch to my self hosted solution. But it's certainly not as easy as using Dropbox, even as someone who uses AWS since 2012 frequently.
HN may be a good stress test for Arduinos and WordPress, but it's really not that much load. I've recently had my site high on the front page and the page specifically recommended reloading if you didn't see the effect the first time. This is hosted on a ten year old laptop and a home Internet connection. The load average didn't budge.

People hugely overestimate the amount of firepower you need when you "go viral", presumably because more people read HN than post on HN so most will just never have tried, and even fewer people try without some preparation (you don't know for sure that it was unnecessary if nothing went wrong).

If one's pages don't require a lot of (pre)computation and you're not a huge destination on the web, things like load balancers, server clusters, etc. are a waste of time and money. But not using fancy tech is not what people here like to geek out on so...
You want to attribute different outcomes to differences in behavior by race? In this case, you're saying that Jewish students are 11x more hard-working than Hispanic ones, and Asian students are 6x more hard-working than Black ones?

Which other racial disparities do you attribute to differences in behavior?
It's too long of a reasoning chain, maybe that's why it's not obvious? it is also an underfunded area of ongoing research with not enough publications, one paper mentioned only 90 papers are published on this specific issue, which is a tiny number, but seems about right.

So anyway, the mechanism:

"emf does penetrate skin few mm deep" > "that's deep enough to hit mast cells and small nerve fibers" > "we have plenty of evidence non-ionizing radiation can cause mast cell degranulation"/"we have evidence EMF can produce current in nerves" > "mast cells drive inflammation" > "inflammation causes DNA damage and increase risks of cancer."

Any of these steps seem controversial to you? you can verify them independently easily.

Maybe claim #3. Plenty of papers on that:
https://scielo.conicyt.cl/pdf/ijmorphol/v37n2/0717-9502-ijmorphol-37-02-00719.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0891061816300576

the only real question that remains is how big of an effect this will have on humans. Cars kill over a million EVERY year. Every 5 years we kill as many people as this pandemic. Nobody seems to particularly care.

Maybe it will be a small effect, maybe it will kill millions per year, but it seems everyone has made up their minds either way, and unless people start dropping dead in the streets nobody will change their mind.
Indeed it's present under the hood, we are operating on a CPU after all, which treats all of RAM as one giant shared-mutable blob of data. It will always be there, under some abstraction.

The point I'm trying to communicate is that in practice, for various reasons, Rust programs do not use shared mutable access to objects to the same extent that C++ programs do. For example, C++ programs use observers, and dependency injection (the pattern, not the framework) to have member pointers to mutable subsystems, and we just don't often see that in Rust programs. This is the paradigm mismatch I'm highlighting: to rewrite a C++ program in Rust often requires a large paradigm shift. The pain is particularly felt when making them interoperate in a gradual refactoring.

This is IMO one the bigger reasons that big rewrites to new languages fail, and why new languages benefit from being multi-paradigm, so that there's no paradigm mismatch to impede migrations.
Yeah nice try dude, there at 20 test of strength shrines (of varying difficulty). Sounds like you didn't actually complete the game.

I sure love when someone reviews a game they hardly even played.
Thanks for sharing this. May you find peace and strength
I think that's a classic case of reading between the lines and making implications where one shouldn't. If I'm using words that state uncertainty, it is because I am not certain, but only say it is a possibility. A research result that shows there is a correlation is already interesting without establishing or confirming causation. Their wording is exactly saying that. Without that paper we wouldn't even know there is a correlation!

How else would you like them to state that without being overly verbose?
> Anyone who criticizes the NATO pro war narrative

NATO has a narrative in favour or the war between Russia and Ukraine? That’s new to me.
wow looks like this is the tits. will try this.
they do, but this solution affects all cards (or hopefully does) across all card driver versions.

One example is folks stuck with the legacy nvidia driver. If the game can still run, they can still get fixes this way. It's nice when we can sidestep the process of waiting on nvidia or whoever in the various closed source drivers on both linux and windows.
> you can't feel/notice it

I've read stories for years about people having problems with vibrations from tunneling. One was a music studio in Brooklyn, IIRC, which went out of business because of boring for a new water tunnel.
LOL. I work with dealers as part of my job. They're just going to sell you what you want. The easiest marks are the folks who think they know how to negotiate. If you are straightforward and you follow through, they aren't going to screw around trying to get another few bucks, they're going to take the sale.

Don't just go make Elon richer.
I wasn't implying that either, indicated by "as humans don't transfer to each other."

I painted a scenario where your environment would occur, and dispute it by saying those cats in that environment generally aren't infected

Unless those attractive people are hanging out in barns or patios with outside cats.

Now that could be the case if you go at it from an outdoors perspective, outdoorsy people may be more attractive on average, and they may encounter infected cats more on average.
I know, I've had many fail on me over the years. Quantity, though, has a quality all its own!
During the first lockdown I dug out my old Commodore 128 and quite a few discs were still reading fine... But not all of them. I don't remember the ratio but I'd say about 2/3rd were still working.
"The sum of its parts" is a very opaque phrase here. But even without defining it, anyone with work experience has some understanding of the effect of workplace dynamics, environmental factors, office morale, and other intangible influences on one's productivity and hence, the business's success. In other words, there are emergent properties in the calculus of success, and pursuing diversity is one way of trying to control that.

"Diverse" people do not have to be intrinsically better employees, for them to positively affect the business's success.
> If it's taking months, then they're doing it badly.

is not responsive to

> I have to dedicate weeks or a month
Actually, MobileNetV3 is a supporting example of the bitter lesson and not the other way round. The point of Sutton's essay is that it isn't worth adding inductive biases (specific loss functions, handcrafted features, special architectures) to our algorithm. Having lots of data, just put that into a generic architecture and it eventually outperforms manually tuned ones.

MobileNetV3 uses architecture search, which is a prime example of the above: even the architecture hyperparameters are derived from data. The handcrafted optimizations just concern speed and do not include any inductive biases.
I wish they wouldn't call it Terhertz waves. The article states that we haven't been able to harness THz waves, but the author shows a visual diagram clearly showing that visible light falls completely in the Terhertz range, even making up 39% if the entire THz spectrum.

Far Infrared is much more specific. If THz is really that desired on the title, calling it low band THz would probably be better.
Even a perfectly working clock is wrong twice a year for daylight savings time :)
It was "CL".
Probably the case, I think we just fundamentally disagree on human behavior
Fully agreed, I support you. Now how do we convince the other 95% of the populace that falsely believes they are part of the left? It's part of the neo-liberal establishment to co-opt the left for their selfish purposes and won't let go so easily.
> we had so many redundancies and test servers run

How did you hire the developers who built those systems? Was the bar higher then?

Lots of companies have institutional memory of how their first few hires were crucial to make the company successful. It's a tough decision whether to keep standards high, or risk losing the skills that got you this far. Eventually the early people leave. Where I work, the stuff they built is viewed as some kind of godlike crystalline shrine that you dare not touch.
We can declare a const pointer to a const object - irritating ceremony but still possible.
Transistors (or semiconductor devices) preceded tubes.

It might even be that early radio operated totally without tubes.. The carrier wave was made with electromechanical dynamo and the signal was then AM-modulated with carbon microphone. And the crystal receivers were totally semiconductor-based, of course.
For newer stuff, I have an ancient 5-7? years-old external LG BLuray/MDisc drive, and use Verbatim media. Can't speak to their longevity so definitively. They are working fine after three years. I also have a few TB external backup drive for additional-copy and rapid-access to the same data. I take an optical disc to a relative's house once a year.

Multiple copies, multiple formats, multiple locations, is the key to back up.
Basic evolutionary theory may argue that most of it is "junk" in the sense of being non-functional (even though some may be species-specific or under selection too weak or recent to be detectable). One paper that lays out this argument has title with the memorable beginning "On the Immortality of Television Sets." https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/5/3/578/583411
Youre right. But then again i dont believe many would care if they can get their basic things done.

I also understand there are people who just are not willing to learn new things.

I hope i dont sound like im trying to push linux to people. I want people to have choice of many instead of choice of two when they go buy a new PC. And maybe some would be curious enough to try something new.