skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. CDC (I believe) was claiming that N95 masks won't help as much as other masks. Later it turned out they just didn't want to create scarcity for N95 masks because hospitals need them.

This is the most probable explanation for governments around the world saying that masks are “Absolutely useless” (literal quote) until June 2020.

It is lying-as-a-form-of-governance. It’s extremely detrimental to credibility: From that point, anything new a government said can be taken as a probable lie, since they lie as a routine operation of their job, just for practicability, because it’s easier than explaining. The common answer was “Doctors say masks are useless, why don’t you believe science.”

> I wish more people thought critically and had healthy criticism

The Covid response has killed the permission of citizen to doubt science, even though it is widely recognized that “science” had been used to make people do the opposite of what’s in their interest. You can’t both admit they told people not to wear masks at one point AND ask them to believe that they can trust the vaccine. Newspapers had to be in on the lie, social media had to prevent critical thinking for the duration of it: It’s extremely damaging to public health.

I’m surprised that individual governments didn’t even think about “Let’s not participate to a blatant lie, let’s tell people we don’t have masks and they should not buy one to let them available to hospitals, but tell them they should wear anything they have at home.” No government used the pedagogy method. They all opted for lie-as—a-policy, and-pretend-it’s-science.
No, it wouldn't be funny. Please don't do this.
Game Engines Suck.

There, I've said it. Most 'games' are in fact interactive movies, with very little game in them. That's what Game Engines enable.

I'm vote we stop calling them Game Engines and instead call them Interactive Movie Engines.

> The more complex parts of a game (collisions, physics simulation, rendering, asset management, networking, etc.) is handled by the game engine itself,

This is and always was a Bad Idea, let me bring up a very simple example for you, a racing simulator. What sets apart an arcade from a realistic car driving sim? It's not really the graphics, or "gameplay", its the physics engine.

You might argue "oh that's just knobs on the physics engine" - maybe. But the way you handle the graphics, the whole game, even, hinges on how well you have tuned that engine. I don't care how many artists or designers you have - adding doodads to a realsitic racing sim isn't going to make it more fun. And if your arcade gameplay isn't spot on, no amount of "gameplay tweaks" is going to fix your jank arcade racing game.

Game Engines don't really make for building racing sims. They make Ok FPS or world exploration templates, but you kinda want to not even care about assets in these types of games - and they are all geared at creating assets spitting, 10000 collectible doodad dumping, absolute messes.
Ya, I've thought about open-sourcing the project many times, but there doesn't seem to be much upside.
Rockstar, Remedy shake hands on new Max Payne 1+2 remaster series
My college had unlimited full access, but IIRC it only worked while you were connected to the university wifi network.
In high school I had a chemistry teacher that came from the industry. His examples and test questions were motivated by his real world experience. While this was very interesting at the same time it brought another level of complexity. One example was that we were learning about elements by mmol of substance and had to calculate how much of the input substances we needed to end up with the needed amount of end product. (My explanation might be of because this is some time ago!) Here we were not asked how many liters or kg of stuff we needed but always worked in metric tons or cubic meters. These uncommon volumes made it harder to develop an intuition about the results to quickly understand if a result was reasonable. So many of the surrounding elements that came from the real world made it harder to concentrate on the problem core.
I think all of this was after their first billion users?
A regional separatist movement is to revolution as a special military operation is to war.
What sounds amazing ? That's just handwaving
Ask HN: Do you still use Facebook.com for business anymore?
Curious question because I haven't been on Facebook.com for 5 years. Do people still use this website for business? E.g. Create a business page and actively use it? Or are most of those pages just legacy. My gut feeling is that most people use Instagram (yes, it's also Facebook) rather than Facebook.com.
Simple: it allows non-programmers to program to some extent, which is enough for many of the basic tasks.

We have it in UE, Blender, Spark AR to name a few, which are mostly used by creatives who might not have much of a programming experience, to create amazing results.
And what is wrong with that? Most of the internet is filled with poor crack pots, some of them are even here amongst us.

I'd rather be a rich dick than a poor schmuck. Pee into the wind Sir Wolfram, godspeed! Doesn't seem super different to how most grant money is awarded.
Looks nice. A pagination would make it better maybe
Is it not possible to set the lambda url has an origin in CloudFront and get WAF protection that way?

For all production workloads we typically have cloudfront in front of everything.
I know that he has a lot of credentials (and more and better than mine) but it's still read like some crackpot science blog article
“I once built a face recognition system using 350 million images.”

Did this make any of you a little queasy?
I think the implication is that empty files are considered text files.
It looks graceful from phone
They did the bulk of the Nazi killing.
Being a one-time pad makes it irrelevant if you get the key. So it’s CCA secure because you never reuse the pad. You’ve gathered no useful information, ie you’ve only gathered noise that has no use.
Where’s Tailwind coming from in this example? It doesn’t seem to be imported, and I can’t see anything about it in their playground link either: https://dash.deno.com/playground/website-in-a-single-js
K8s is a great example of what murders open source: monolithic platforms that exist unto themselves, but have some seemingly benign model allowing arbitrary "plugins" to pretend it's not really a monolith in sheep's clothing. It looks like open source and has the right license, but it ends up just mirroring corporate interests rather than those of the Commons that the open source movement was created to support.
Good luck with this venture, I think a lot of minds have contributed to progress in these fields and sharing both the labors and the fruits is important.
This sounds like it was written by a business school undergrad student who regrets not choosing a STEM major and is a subscriber to Lex Fridman, 2 minute paper, veritesium....and now they want to "disrupt" the world with AI research.
You know, it reaaally weakens your position when you try and sweep "racist, white supremecist, white nationalist organization" under the word 'controversial'. Pineapple on pizza is controversial. A UBI is controversial. White nationalism isn't, it goes with all the social mores we don't allow in public, like defecation. Or is that 'controversial' too?
Seed-inspired spinners ride the wind and monitor the atmosphere
> One time keys are used for some crucial point to point links. Embassy to foreign ministry, higher military headquarters to high command, or spy to HQ.

I am very skeptical this actually used in practice anywhere. The one-time pad is prone to side-channel attacks, since sharing the secret key(s) is such a nightmare. Putting people on planes flying around the globe with bags full of keys or having long lists of keys lying around is a security nightmare. Using an asymmetric encryption scheme is in practice a lot safer.
New Airtable is here: https://airtable.com/shrOl16tQLXq5Eswc/tblRVSv9UklbXJbod
Is there a reason these couldn't be turned more accurately on a lathe?
Never seen anyone do lathe work to make bullets, but it seems like it'd be fairly well suited, especially since silver isn't as soft as lead.
Spicy food, as we know it today, also originated in the americas. Which similarly blows my mind.
I was going to see what strace does with an empty /tmp/foo, and it fails:

> write(2, "strace: exec: Exec format error\n", 32strace: exec: Exec format error

So the empty file is not exec()able. I think it can only be invoked from a shell.

subprocess.call("/tmp/foo", shell=xxxx) demonstrates it.

I wonder if that was the case for Unix v7 that had it zero length? (...mentioned in another thread.)
EVs are more efficient at lower speed and the more frequent braking events in city driving give EVs more opportunity to recuperate energy through regenerative braking.
https://vinc.cc

This a very simple personal website where I write about the various things I care about from time to time.
It looks nice, I give it a try
There's something wrong with Algolia's search. It won't find this with the words ghost, scad or cad. "openscad" did it.
Japan’s EV industry is now at China’s mercy. Thanks to sanctions on Russia
But you wouldn’t run a single k8s cluster at that size. K8s isn’t really multi tenant.
Just to be fair, tomatoes arrived in Italy more or less 500 years ago. The concept of a unified Italy wasn’t even a thing at that time! That’s lot of time to develop it’s own “authentic” cultural use of tomatoes.
https://satyamkapoor.com

I’m now a fan of Hugo. Modified the ng theme. I still. Should put more content
How to recognize fake AI-generated images (2018)
https://coornail.net/
Pretty simple, I usually use my pictures of birds as the cover image, because I have no idea what relevant image should I attach to each article.

Hugo, tranquilpeak theme, aws cloudfront.
Yes. It contains zero characters.

An empty file actually contains zero of everything in the universe.
I, too, enjoy eating meat.
That's the truth, ain't it. These algorithms didn't just poof out of nowhere. Some of them took years to figure out. But somehow, people aren't smart if they can't regurgitate the optimum solution in 20 minutes. Despite the fact, some of them already work in FANG.

Here's the truth, there are over >200 people that apply for a single FANG job. Don't believe me? Buy LinkedIn premium and find out yourself. Talk to a Fang recruiter. Leetcode is just a way to filter people down to 5. It reflects nothing on your intelligence other than willingness to be a lemming that receives >200k per annum.
Might be a bit tall order, but how about Git?
Usually moving a phone horizontally in a figure-eight pattern once or twice will give it enough data to calibrate and start working reliably.
Yeah unless it was shipped on a refrigerated ship. Impressive logistics for the time if true.
There were multiple factors, hard to know what percentage gender contributed, but I do think it played a role.
https://trendytrendytrendy.com/
One great manager I worked for taught me to appreciate the time spend / wasted by our suppliers so what I effectively was thought was:

Send a (light on volume) RFI to the top 10
Pick out minimal 3, maximum 5 and send them a RFP
Pick out minimal 2, maximum 3 for a RFQ

Every round all the suppliers had a change to ask questions that would be anonymized and answered to all.

This way we would protect and honour the resources of all parties involved.

Decent write up about RFI RFP RFQ:

https://www.cobalt.net/rfi-rfq-rfp-whats-the-difference/
Thanks so much for this! This was an exact problem my team had at a recent hackathon, and we decided to use diffusion instead. We theorised that the initial image parameter might help, but we didn't have time to test it. Documenting this was really helpful. If you have any other articles or advice on using VQGAN (or other generative models) with CLIP (or other language embeddings) I'd love to see them.
“It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.”

Watson and Crick’s one sentence paragraph towards the end of their 1.5-page paper on the structure of DNA, that explained the mechanism
of heredity and thus evolution in living things, and won them a Nobel Prize.

These guys didn’t take the opportunity to share the glory with Franklin that they should have, but they sure did render a wonderfully genteel understatement of the import of their work.
Maybe did the US only supply a few (hundreds...) pies, for some brass to drop it down before abandoning a location, for the Germans to find it and become discouraged.

It seems that in ancient times some town besieged for quite a long time was starving but did throw away munificent food, simulating neglect, in order for it to fall on the attackers, who (not eager to maintain camp for long) promptly packed up and leaved.
> simplistic housing price models

I'm pretty sure the next step here will be to build algorithms that pull in colorized 3D data of comparable resolution to what Google Maps has today. Then the algorithm should be able to classify stuff like "this is a nice garden with sunlight all evening", "this has a nice view from the living room", "this one has windows facing the neighbour's windows" etc.

I recently pulled down Google Maps data for my neighborhood into Blender (using Chrome+RenderDoc and a plugin for GMaps import). To a human, the resulting colorized 3D model is more than enough to understand most there is to know about the exterior of a property.
I made this long ago, before Dustin Brett published his and now it doesn't seem as impressive in comparison. I didn't invest heavily in this project though, it's hacky and it's over. https://desk.glitchy.website

I also have this as a way of showcasing some of my music in a futuristic style. Made with a react ui lib called "Arwes" https://glitchy.website
I don't know who these "content creators" are that flee from programming, but I have never met or even heard of one. If you mean writers and artists, then sure, but you don't want them working on your game logic anyhow. If you can understand what is going on in visual code, you can understand what is going on in text code.

I think you are trying to say the blueprints in unreal were created to "hide" programming with a nice interface, and you could be right, but I suspect the reason they exists is a lot less thought out.

I suspect there are just some very talented engineers at Epic who really like visual programming and wanted to explore how powerful they can be. I think what they have created is amazing. Watching the flow of execution and the debugging really blows me away.
Reminds me of Clarkson's Farm. Very interesting for those who have never been to a modern farm.
I have a friend who worked as a principal developer on an EDA product from Synopsys. It was amusing how he converted all of the product and product acquisitions into TCL and whatever compiled language + a c lib so he could invoke the feature from TCL.
In Spanish and Portuguese "espond" means to answer. Perhaps it's a bit of cynical differentiation signalling.

If so, you'll certainly never hear their gratitude for pointing out the error so it can be corrected.

If not... hey, perhaps you will. Good luck.
https://siliconvict.com

I was a homeless, convicted felon turned financially independent retired early via Silicon Valley. I mostly write about goofy business lessons and my failures.
The counter argument is that it's simply better nutrition increasing height and you can have better nutrition even without a lot of animal product (especially in 2022). It's not intrinsic to meat and animal fat.
I've got some golang projects I've maintained for very nearly a decade now for the oldest one, which I deliberately wrote to keep to the stdlib and a few small dependencies. All of these are either web facing or consuming. They definitely still compile today. Nine years feels like a pretty sweet benchmark for me.

The biggest thing to have to deal with really was the mod system. I think that fucked a few dependency-heavy projects out there which you're going to have a hard time compiling today, yet which hilariously still get recommended as if the github issues page isn't full of confused people.

That said I love static site generation when I don't need anything special, but Hugo definitely has that bloated rotten whale smell to it for me after reading other's experiences with it. SSG is like some shit I've done with shell scripts even. It's just at its most basic, slapping html together, with maybe some templating.
From what you said about his current skill set:

He should try to learn at least one mainstream full-scale programming language (Python would probably be the best bet). My guess is that he would be better off doing data or workflow oriented stuff than webby stuff (given how insane and trendy and for want of a better term, "skinny-pants" frontend technology has become these days. In any case ever churning and always chasing the latest shiny).

He should also try to "ping" as many modern tools as he can (docker, npm, CI/CD, etc) even if they aren't part of his preferred toolchain. And be sure he knows how to put together a simple hand-coded website + REST API together from scratch, or something close to it. ust to show he's flexible and unafraid and to destroy the idea that he's trapped in some kind of 1982 mindset.

There are a lot of places (particularly in government, social services, etc) that just need someone to do their CRUD stuff and not complain that they aren't pulling down a FAANG salary or a getting fancy title to brag about or the enjoying the luxury of being able to use latest shiny every day.

He just need to keep looking, and be persistent.
BookStack looks interesting, but certainly one massive advantage Retype has is just installation. I can have Retype installed, my website built, and running in a browser in a 10 seconds.

With Retype, your content source are simple Markdown `.md` text files. BookStack stores your data in a database, and in order to host a website you need a PHP webserver, Maria DB, etc.

A Retype generated website can be hosted for free using GitHub Pages. The retype.com website is hosted on GitHub Pages, see https://github.com/retypeapp/retype.

Hope this helps.
https://hardi.design

I've had some form of personal site for more than 15 years now, usually with a hand-coded theme. It's unremarkable technically, but as a UX designer, it certainly gives me more confidence that I know how the web works.

Made with Saber (Vue.js) using Vercel.
It likes to lower the training loss, you could say this is what made it what it is.
You need a fb page for Google Seo at least for a trusted link and your business phone and address.
What are some ML data annotation tools that guide you towards those data points where the model gets confused? I hear Prodigy does this. Any others?
https://romainpenchenat.com

Vanilla JS and 3D css for a unique experience :)
I think it's a good thing to have a small percentage of scientists working on whacky theories, one of them might turn out to be true.
Your can buy O’Reilly DRM-free PDF and ePUB ebooks from eBooks [dot] com. I love the amount and variety of content of O”Reilly platform but the web application is pretty mediocre and the mobile apps are buggy as hell.
This is sophistry.
Nim is compiled, and websites written with Jester compile to a single binary. You can even slurp() in HTML file as strings. Very fast.
> being productive and teaching myself

You can learn Kafka, Map Reduce, Elixir, DynamoDB and shiny new JS framework X like Meteor or whatever, or you can just go deeper on the fundamentals and the traditional tech you already know (learning SQL to a deeper level, becoming really good in Java/.NET/PHP/vanilla JS etc etc).

I think the job market has room for both; and to me the second path is more enjoyable and sustainable but to each his own.
Shares similarities with a few sites out there, but mines at https://rajatkulkarni.dev/

Source at https://github.com/rajatkulkarni95/rk-minimal
Become a software engineer and solve problems in the areas you are interested in.
Same URL, de-amped - https://lastappetite.com/pancakes-at-fandango/
OpenAI is not the only AI shop. If they didn't make DALL-E someone else would, and control its release as they see fit.
Can someone please clarify for me what is the implication if Covid is airborne?

Does it mean that masks and social distancing were actually useful? Or the opposite?
So... ignore the cpuid bit indicating the instruction is present and look at manufacturer string, which is exactly what intel is being lambasted for here.
ASP.NET Core is pretty minimal in ceremony nowadays. You can easily do single file web development.

https://github.com/dodyg/practical-aspnetcore/blob/net6.0/pr...
Learning Python would be the best and easiest way to go. Could go into data science visulaization jobs or go into backend api's using Flask
Who gives a shit, honestly? It's not like they can do anything about it:

- Democracy was never really a thing for Russians

- Even if it was a thing, there is no viable opposition, as trying to run against Putin comes with all sorts of benefits, like prison time, polonium or bullets in the head

- Putin's thugs are so deeply entrenched (and well paid) it's impossible to even protest

So all-in-all, 'the Russians' can say or do whatever, it's not like it matters.
>Super interesting how /r/coronavirus and 4chan were more accurate in their conclusions about Covid.

Yeah, I mean, who would have thought that the globohomo cabal was behind it all along... oh you mean that they were more accurate on the 10% non crazy stuff they say?
What's the definition of "fail"? For example, I had a business that closed because profit dried up, but overall it earned pretty good coin for me, while it worked. I wouldn't say it was a "fail".
> We don't know if that's the same person who stole them.

...or even that they were stolen. They could have been taken out legitimately and the paperwork was messed up in some way. The person who borrowed them may have died.
It’s about damn time. I’m the only one I know who prefers these over the “authentic”, small shit tacos. They’re so unfilling, and I miss the crunch.

There’s a Mexican grocery store in San Francisco that sells these big crispy tacos. Now those are good (and seemingly authentic)!
A simple portfolio site but all made of 3D blocks that bounce around a lot.

http://plackett.co.uk

Made while learning a-frame, which is awesome and worth trying out if you like making 3D web stuff really easily.

https://aframe.io/docs/1.3.0/introduction/developing-with-th...
I dislike 'scrolljacking' too. On desktop I was able to read this very comfortably by pressing space to trigger a page down movement.
On the other hand, gradually increasing the complexity and level of detail (including distraction with irrelevant details and like taking away your intuition crutches) is a great way to start learning to apply your knowledge in a more sophisticated way.
$7, but yeah it’s good.
I'm pretty sure the largest factor to consider is the buying power of people in the city. Just look at the Seattle market, where houses often goo for +30% of asking. The houses are definitely not magic compared to other similar cities nearby.
My blog: https://serhack.me
Spring Framework RCE (CVE-2022-22965) NMAP (NSE) Checker (Non-Intrusive)
hahahahaha. I needed this today!
every time i read his writing, i think of this scene from Zoolander: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0brvXcCPbzM
News for the Future of BeeWare
You can still continue to use it free for cloud logins, you just lose access to mail/drive/calendar.

https://support.google.com/cloudidentity/answer/7319251
I would say trade crypto responsibly.

https://twitter.com/TradeCastOne
Is he a genius or a crackpot? Yes.