skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That's quite different from a bachelor's degree or a master's degree; those degrees are awarded for a mastery of existing knowledge

I didn't know a BsC was a sign of mastery of a field.
Nothing so creative / complex! You can check out the source code, I didn't obfuscate it. It's just hand-picked thresholds for perlin noise, leveraging the built in noise function in p5.js
Not looking forward to seeing "bush meat preparation" turning into a red vs blue issue...
The reason we made this is because you often need to juggle multiple tools when doing anything in video. Rather then using one tool for video collection, another tool for editing, and another for sharing clips - we wanted to have one tool for everything.

I believe we are the only video collection tool that also lets users design around the collected video clips in a free-form drag-and-drop editor and share out final videos.
I ask myself this question, "Who am I trying to impress?" It's a useful question to ask oneself because once you've got enough that you don't have to worry about not having enough, trying to get more is mainly about showing off. At some point you need to accept that you've got enough unless you want the rest of your life to be a series of pissing contests with people you probably don't even admire, let alone like.
Perhaps we should make a real Bitcoin army to enforce the value like fiat haha. Neckbeards unite! Mod your drones! Just kidding of course, can't stop Bitcoin.
Are there figures available on how many Russian tanks have been destroyed by drones and how many by Javelin and NLAW?
Interesting context: WHO officials said: "the most recent surge in cases appears to have been spread among men who have sex with other men"

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/23/monkeypox-outbreak-is-primar...
Electro-chemical fires (lithium batteries) are a whole different beast compared to common fires with ICE vehicles.

The lithium battery fires basically cannot be extinguished, and it's a tremendous amount of energy.
Now this is totally unfounded, and verging on the nutty conspiracy theory side of life .. so please do feel free to cut me down; but is there a possibility that this type of unusual virus / unusual pattern of transition, could be part of a larger terrorist type plot?

The western world is currently at loggerheads with Russia. Russia has a track record of subterfuge (e.g. Salisbury poisoning in the UK).

Feels like the gay community have been the most affected, which seems odd to me. The Russian government definitely doesn't hold much love for the LGBT community.

Many of the people who have become symptomatic haven't been able to be traced to other people who've been similarly infected.

Am I nuts for thinking along these lines?
What he's describing is extremely common (having an advisor who is loosely interested or competent). But this also what research is about. As he said, this is his PhD, not his advisor's. His advisor should be able help him navigate in the academic world, making the right contacts, funding his trips to conferences or summer schools and so on... But reading stuff for a couple of years before being able to even know what you want to really work on about is part of the deal. And also, pretty much all PhDs are about grabbing low hanging fruits at the frontier of the current knowledge, very few people make significant contributions.

Some students need more supervision that others, and similarly, different advisors have different style. It's important to be aware of that when starting a PhD and make sure there's a proper match.
If you widely publicize that "code is law", and get customers due to that promise, things are not that black on white.
I think the point of the article is that understanding how seagrass captures carbon is useful and interesting.

For more relevant numbers, I did a very quick calculation (tell me if you spot a mistake).

Using these numbers [0, 1], the worlds seagrass captures ~5% of US automobile emissions per year.

Another number of interest, the amount of seagrass carbon sequestration is 2 - 4x greater than mature tropical rainforests (per hectare) [0].

Seems to me that seagrass is an organism worth understanding.

[0] https://www.thebluecarboninitiative.org/about-blue-carbon

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1120499/us-road-vehicle-...
Drones are hard to detect due to small IR signature, and they are almost invisible to radar due the use of plastics and composites. So how will these small, cheap anti-drones detect them? How will they have enough fuel and maneuverability to successfully engage them? How will they shoot bullets (I assume you're saying they'll carry machine guns or cannon.)

I think once the detection methodology is worked out for ground forces (which aren't as constrained by power/weight issues as airborne systems), we'll see directed energy weapons (probably microwave) used to effectively fry these types of low performance drones. Whether the detection problem is solved is an entirely different issue than the weapons used once detected.
Promoting clean energy isn't mutually exclusive with reducing consumption (at least in the short-term, until clean energy is both the norm and in surplus).
From 2017, this should be in the submission title
This is very promising for embedded control applications. Bootstrapping this with a simple allocator and even something as basic as FreeRTOS [1] combined with CBinding.jl [2] for portability would be game-changing for many applications, and directly compete with e.g. MathWorks' Arduino Simulink target [3]. ESP8266/32 next, once LLVM support [4] lands?

[1]: https://microcontrollerslab.com/use-freertos-arduino/

[2]: https://github.com/analytech-solutions/CBinding.jl

[3]: https://www.mathworks.com/help/supportpkg/arduino/run-on-tar...

[4]: https://github.com/espressif/llvm-project
An amendment seems ideal, but wouldn't a regular federal law also get the job done? They could even strengthen it like the Federal Reserve Act: "The right to amend, alter, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved."
Burg. Don't talk about the Maginot if you don't know shit about the second World War. I swear hoi4 players have more knowledge than the author.

I skimmed the comments and it seems the author was wrong about a lot. I thought the Atlantic was a better than average paper, the quality must have declined.
Even if COVID-19 did not happen, this would still get a lot of play because of the name which lends itself to sensationalism and fear. Monkeypox, flesh-eating bacteria, mad cow disease ... these are the things that get played up, while Clostridium difficile, Shigella, and other infectious diseases with obscure names mostly get a collective shrug.
The audacious science pushing the boundaries of human touch
There are a lot of steps in the chain between what we have now and the end state you're afraid of, and none of them are certain. Maybe students don't believe they can make a fat salary working on blockchain technology. Maybe they're not successful convincing schools to offer courses in blockchain tech. Maybe Facebook researchers don't get hired by universities, and maybe academic research into blockchain tech doesn't take off in a big way. Maybe the NSF doesn't see the need to start funding blockchain research.

I can't tell the future, but given the current trajectory (like the recent big crash) I see at least a decent probability that web3 goes absolutely nowhere.
> Would this take away the illusion?

I think so, yeah. It's a reminder that the image you're seeing has been modified. That act of modification is exactly what Instagram provides, but under the guise that there is no modification.

> The indicator will only serve to reduce the anxiety and depression in some folks by reminding them that what you say isn't 100% real.

I agree with you. I think that's a good thing. What I'm saying is that it would be great for everyone, but harmful for Instagram.

> I don't think Instagram wasn't to be a service of unhappiness and illusion.

No, I don't think they ever intended this to be the case. But we often have no control over how the tools we create are used. It has evolved past its original purpose into a finely-tuned machine dedicated to presenting perfection.

Instagram knows this, and they know this is where their value lies. To expect them to go against market forces and do the right thing won't yield much fruit.

> I honestly don't believe the people working at Meta have such ill intentions.

The people working at Meta and the people deciding how Meta positions its products are two very different groups (welcome to capitalism). I could go on a 10-page rant about how the complete toxicity of Facebook and Instagram are entirely profit-driven and we should abolish capitalism and yada yada. I'll spare you.

That said, we need to at least stop pretending companies are going to the right thing. Meta knows Instagram is toxic to most of their users. But this is what makes them money. I don't think they're going to change it any time soon.
> Recently, I came across a few old and new interviews of Donald Knuth

I have developed the conclusion that reading digestive summary from original source materials is ultimately ineffective for me at this stage of the life.

Unfortunately, the author did not provide links to these interviews.

For anyone who is writing a summary from other source material, please do provide references. That's one of the things I learned churning out low quality academic papers in PhD study.
That’s one of the things we’re working on at Astronomer - check out the Astronomer Registry! registry.astronomer.io
> If the post were just some HTML and CSS, it should be able to be served with very little processing power.

Actually, with caching - they are. The database is there so that the person writing the blog post doesn't need to be very technical, or maybe so that they don't need to make a special effort just to update some post.

In the end everything is about convenience.
How not? The problem with pyramid schemes, gambling, ponzi schemes, and cryptocurrencies is: they're zero-sum games (or worse). As you say, there is no mathematical way for most people to benefit from cryptocurrencies.
You always have the choice to homeschool your kids if you don't want to send them to school.
Depends on what flavor of Christianity you adhere to. I follow the Catholic mystical tradition which doesn't really focus on pie in the sky, but rather on the purpose of being, which is to become one with the divine-- a purpose which doesn't have to wait for the afterlife.
It's not just about performance. There are bugs in certain GPUs and drivers that can crash the browser or even produce fundamentally wrong results. It's not just "scale graphics quality", in some cases specific work-arounds with completely different semantics are needed.
Ponzi and pyramid schemes are illegal in many jurisdictions. It's possible to be charged with securities or commodities fraud for security-based ponzi schemes, but there are laws against such schemes outside of the securities market. E.g. https://www.azleg.gov/viewdocument/?docName=https://www.azle...
I have almost no systems programming experience, but I'm curious, how is it better than Rust?
Developing pandemic-busting vaccines in 100 days
The real question is, are they objectively safer than ICEs by a numbers standpoint? There's a reporting bias because intputmag and other media outlets do not write stories about when other cars catch fire. Such coverage is skewing people's perceptions.
He used some kind of MEV shielding thing. But I'm not sure if it went directly to miners or did something else.
> centralise this power

That's the part I take issue with. Any time power becomes centralized (including during emergency situations) it leads to loss of individual freedoms, and often increased anthropogenic (=human-caused) suffering.
> and centralise this power further by removing the need to consult and find agreement with the respective state party

This is discomforting. Genuinely curious how anyone would see this as anything more than a power grab.
Be sure to check out https://flix.dev/ and https://github.com/flix/flix/tree/master/examples for more examples.

(I am one of the authors of Flix.)
> The biggest outbreak of monkeypox in the U.S. occurred in 2003, when health authorities found 47 confirmed and probable cases in six states — Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. “All people infected with monkeypox in this outbreak became ill after having contact with pet prairie dogs. The pets were infected after being housed near imported small mammals from Ghana. This was the first time that human monkeypox was reported outside of Africa.” During this outbreak, 28 adults and two children were given the smallpox vaccine and “no serious adverse events were reported.” Not only did this outbreak not turn into a major public-health crisis, it barely made the national news. When the New York Times wrote about it back in June 2003, the story ran on page A20.

Emphasis added, source:

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/what-you-nee...

With some exceptions the youngest people who received the smallpox vaccine in America are now 50, so it’s possible that we’ll see more monkeypox cases than previously (the smallpox vaccine provides 85% protection). We were able to eradicate smallpox completely because it has no animal reservoir, unlike monkeypox which also infects rodents and monkeys.
Kinda funny that you are being downvoted. Even the date was spot on. But you're getting the downvotes from the "oh they do these things all the time" crowd.
Actually, yes. It allows for easier unit and integration testing as well. The original complaint is that things were getting hard to read and they wished there was code for this. It seems logical to create a framework for the json configuration files so that they can be easily mocked and tested. As someone who greatly values spending time on automated testing, it seems weird to not think of it this way.

Quick google shows that others have done things like this already...

[1] https://noise.getoto.net/2021/10/14/using-jsonpath-effective...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/01/aws-step-...

[3] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/latest/dg/sfn-loc...
I missed the reference to "law" in the parent comment. I won't attempt to tackle that except to say, we humans are machines as well, and just because we are hard to predict doesn't mean we don't generally behave according to some rules. Our laws are generally informed by the cultures the judges grew up in, for example, so any court rulings will be mostly a result of that and the ethics set down by the prevailing morals. We probably won't see any "private property no longer exists" rulings coming out of the courts anytime soon.

Edit: changed example
Oh, that's much larger than I was thinking of. I was thinking somewhere on low-single-digit-km range, and probably sized to where carbon fiber + aluminum are still the best choices for the frame materials. Roughly, the size of 2 beer bottles?
Thanks. We're starting to use DBT, too. I know the forums over at DBT are pretty good, too.
> I think that Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian, would have something to say[0] about that

I mean, he’s not a rabbi or anything. It was considered somewhat less bad than murder, or possibly is only bad when Romans do it.

https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/sites/default/files/publi...

> That's like saying that Protestants didn't believe in God until recently, because they defined themselves as against Catholics who are theists.

Surely the Protestants’ idea was they’re the ones who believe in God and Catholics are idolators who worship saints?

> Do you have any example of historic Protestant teaching that approved of abortion?

They switched to being against it in the 70s, so is 68 historic?

https://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/30/my-take-when-evang... (page is somewhat broken)
You mean, haven't had a pandemic since 2020?
> Segregation was not perfectly consistent with the 14th Amendment prior to Brown v. Board, it was never consistent with it, from the time of its passage.

So if a future court overturns Brown v. Board, then it means that segregation is consistent again (and always has been)? How is this not exactly the kind of capriciousness that TFA is illustrating?
> they haven’t learned the fundamental ideas of algebra

I'd very much love to know exactly what Knuth considers the "fundamental ideas of algebra"!
Calling inconsistent beliefs a sign that they justify whatever they want is overly harsh. Rather, it has been shown [1] that people come to their beliefs by intuition, and rationalize them post-hoc. Just because a belief is intuitive and not constructed from moral axioms (meaning their beliefs appear inconsistent by their stated rationalization) does not mean it is arbitrary ("whatever they want").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Righteous_Mind
> It's also hard to understand why a fetus is to be protected but homeless children and people shouldn't be sheltered or fed.

I believe it's the distinction between active killing vs. the passive lack of support.
All these problems because people can’t be explicit and exhaustive. Amend the constitution for example if that’s what you mean, clarify, etc.
> IBAN - which is fine but definitely not as intuitive as an e-mail address or phone number.

I see how that makes sense for most people, but I have so many emails and phone numbers and change them so frequently that I find it somewhat spooky. Providers can re-assign a phone number after some time, and when I transfer money using a phone number the app does not show me the name of the recipient before making the transfer (understandably, as that would be a terrible privacy leak), so I don't feel comfortable doing it...

At the same time, I am pretty sure that banks are loth to re-assign an account number, and if they do so, have processes in place that are adequate to the significance of that (as opposed to telco providers, who presumably did not intend for their phone numbers to serve as an identifier for money transfers...)
In a way, but in Linux block devices can still be accessed as block devices, while in FreeBSD (since around 1999) they can't - there's no caching at that level anymore; raw devices (which Linux got a few years before that) are the only kind of devices. (If you do "ls -al /dev", you'll still see block devices, but it's maintained only to pretend to userspace, just like major/minor numbers.)

Tapes aren't block devices at all - that's why you can't mount them :-)
Me too! I've been listening to Digitalis on-and-off since before it was announced on the front page.
We could call it the "Seinfeld Regulations" - regulations about something supposedly worth nothing now warrant the spending of something supposedly worth something to enable potentially violent enforcement.
If it understands a plotter pen-based language like HPGL, I consider it a plotter even if the actual print mechanism is an inkjet.

I say this as someone with a Draftmaster II in the spare bedroom...
Ebola was big in the 90's, even made a best-selling book and film about it (with Dustin Hoffman) but it only impacted certain African nations, and for decades. I feel the same way as you, and my gut tells me it is a little of both: an actual scary virus that probably won't explode COVID-like, but media hype worthy because every new outbreak of something awful has always been good sensationalism. I look at articles from science sources versus USA Today-like sources for my own opinion.
And she is right. The price of Euro or USD or RMB (or whatever Fiat currency represent their people) can never be 0. This is in stark contrast with crypto that can definitely go to 0 with double precision accuracy.
I like what Tesla is doing but got suckered into test driving a Mercedes 13 years ago and it’s all I’ve bought since. That said..

This really looks like a corolla. I’ve heard the critique before of the interiors but wow. Beyond that, they have to roll the windows down every time you open the door to prevent damage to the seals? That seems insane? I’d get used to it but I’m surprised this isn’t pointed out more often as kind of absurd engineering.
> This isn't a hack, it was straight arbitrage.

Yeah, but tradfi has this problem too: sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between straight up trading, and spoofing/otherwise manipulating the market. Maybe the moral of the story is this, that free markets are a myth, and crypto is just making this even more clear.
Once you can do something practical and useful with it.
I'm addressing the suggestion that an abortion isn't private when other people observe that a woman is no longer pregnant.

> Nor is abortion necessarily private [...] or one could be visibly pregnant and then get an abortion.

You wouldn't know that person had an abortion unless they told you. But then you might as well simply say "An abortion isn't private if the woman tells everyone she had one", which is the same as "one could declare one is going to have one" so I think that's not what was meant.
Thanks for the link, that's really cool! The editor part starts at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybs5FR-uUNI&t=1006s, and I have to say it confirms my theory :)
We operate a (small?) Airflow instance with ~20 DAGs but, one of those dags has ~1k tasks. It runs on k8s/aws setup with a MySQL backing it.

We package all the code in 1-2 different Docker images and then create the DAG. We've faced many issues (logs out of order, missing, random race conditions, random task failures, etc.)

But what annoys me the most is that for that 1 big DAG, the UI is completely useless, tree view has insane dupplication, graph view is super slow and hard to navigate through and answering basic questions like, what exactly failed and what nodes are around it are not easy.
> The end, either heaven or hell (or purgatory), is everything to Christianity in the US

Yes, unfortunately this is the case in the dominant US expression of Christianity, Evangelicalism. But I think it's changing in some quarters. I've heard several sermons lately about how "eternal life" starts right here on earth. Check out The Bible Project's video on the meaning of Eternal Life [1]

I think The Bible Project is kind of on the vanguard of this movement within Evangelicalism (I think they're still theologically Evangelical, but maybe they'd shy away from using the term now since it's become loaded with political baggage), I wouldn't necessarily call it "progressive" but it's looking deeply into biblical interpretation and subtly calling out the predominate Evangelical interpretations.

Also, Check out NT Wright's "Surprised by Hope". He's coming from an Anglican perspective with an eschatology that predates the Evangelical "Left Behind" narrative.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCOycIMyJZM
Or a globalist conspiracy to distract and divide people, while allowing more power to be centralized?

Are there mid terms this year?
The same post got 12 upvotes so I'll call it even...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31455056

HN works in mysterious ways, so I just upvoted you. =)
I can say that I know of communities (and am part of one) of Christians in the US who view the journey here and now as vital. If you're interested, consider the book 'We Make the Road by Walking', McLaren, or the BEMA Discipleship podcast, being sure to start with episode 0.
In general, American food includes more than burgers and fried things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cuisine
> What about database systems which have to deal with time dilation due to running on spacecraft that travel through space at different velocities?

I think they already handle this case by accident, because distributed clocks are unreliable and inconsistent anyways.