skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah a casual google search lead straight to US/AU funded ASPI propaganda and other western MSM that tries to portray CCP dickwaving publically about poverty alleviation via Rural Labour Transfer Programs that has employed tens millions in every province in PRC as forced labour. ASPI report was follow up by Zenz from Jamestown that this is coerce labour, laundered by MSM as slave labour, used by US gov to coordinate XJ sanctions. That's how the playook works. Pieces bury context that pay is above regional income, companies are subsidized or pressured by gov to take on these workers that no one wants, which uplifts them substantially above 600M rural Chinese in informal economy stuck on 1000rmb / month that already havel language skills to and better suited to be productive workers. PRC has no shortage of excess Han labourers.

All the current "mapping projects" consistently conflate schools and other facilities with detention camps to boost the numbers because security features found in schools all over PRC somehow = concentration camp in XJ. There's a reason for resorting to commercial satellite imaging with shit spatial resolution to weave narrative, because they can't get any compelling info on ground, but even lack of access doesn't explain the sheer inability to find any compelling photo/video evidence to support their genocide/slave labour narrative in ~10 years, nowhere in PRC is that opaque. The other component of data project tracks cultural erasure, whic is fair, rapidly developing Chinese regions with high YoY GDP growth that aggressives purges everything old does that with helping hand of state coordinated sinicization efforts. But TBF cultural assimilation has alwasy been permissible toolkit of state.
Do these go through an app/wifi or do they use conventional radio?
Yes, using an OTDR [0].

These used to be big, expensive, standalone devices (I'd occasionally use one in a previous job). Nowadays, there are portable, handheld units specifically for identifying where a break has occurred and the same, basic functionality is often even built into the gear used at either end of connections (e.g., even the "enterprise" switches -- from Brocade and Cisco -- that I use at home).

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_time-domain_reflectome...
"...on its App"
I mean, of course you have to trust a party X with your browsing fingerprint if party X is involved in serving the URL you go to when clicking on the link.

What did you want—for the URL to go straight to the destination page with no redirect through an ad-network analytics provider, making your impression invisible to the network and thus unable to be costed against the advertiser? Why would any ad network even bother to participate in such a scheme? How would they make money? Prepayment for an arbitrary guess at predicted click-through count?
Thanks. Very helpful! We will work on the reflow issues and visual app ranking, etc.

Yea, the mona lisa example shows the complexity of ranking.
All other search engines (outside Google and Bing) just take ranking from those two. We're building our own but that comes with some early bugs.

If you try some coding searches you'll see how much we care about this target audience in the actual product. Not sure any other search engine has this many useful features for developers?

[1] https://code.you.com/search?q=revert+a+git+commit

[2] https://code.you.com/search?q=onnxruntime+segfault

[3] https://code.you.com/search?q=pytorch+isnan

[4] https://code.you.com/search?q=huggingface+transformers

[5] https://code.you.com/search?q=git+rebase+interactive

[6] https://code.you.com/search?q=json+validator

[7] https://code.you.com/search?q=show+hn

[8] https://code.you.com/search?q=attention+is+all+you+need

[9] https://code.you.com/search?q=pytorch+examples
I know this doesn't add much, but a small addition: The whole concept of the lost Dwemer civilization is an entire layer of depth to the fantastic world. A world which IMO is unparalleled
Sure, but you can still leverage an EDP, and use savings plans/RIS to save even more money.

I commit to 3 year flexible savings plans at about 60% of hourly peaks(change instance types) and top up to peak usage patterns - EDP is not a replacement for optimising cost per hour. The more you can pay AWS upfront, the more you'll save - (depends on your business's ability to do so)
The p values are small enough that the correlation seems likely to be real, even after lots of dredging through that dataset. I'm less sure about the causality, though. It's also possible they've just discovered that richer people (a) live longer, and (b) like organic produce. They controlled for various factors (note 1 on table 2), but none that seem like usefully strong proxies for income or wealth.
Yeah seems way easier than adding a link in the description
> If copper were going up in value compared to the other metals, you’d want to hold copper. But you can also sell all your metals for cash. You would do this when all the metals are going down in value, which means USD is the “best-performing metal” and you want to be holding it.

I'm not sure I follow that description, are you really saying one buys commodities when they're rising in price and sells when they're falling? You make it sound like there's a trend one can observe .. and predict the future?

Back to real life, take a look a the copper price chart zoomed out to one year[0] It's been going up - and also down - all the time.

I'm reminded of the proverb "Nobody rings a bell at the top or the bottom of a market"...

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/HG1:COM
Didn't realize 7+ years old is "new" in tech terms.
Try an Android with LineageOS, it won't suddenly change underneath you unless you tell it to install a new version (full or point release, e.g. 18.1 -> 19). No surveillance, no planned obsolescence, no hassles. The source is there is you want to modify/build your own release. This also makes it possible to extend the life of the device even when LineageOS ceases support.
> through various political motivated decisions

Politics is how policy is determined. People have tried other ways. Sometimes they worked. For a while.

Diverting money from building out renewables (and transmission lines) to build nukes ensures, at minimum, another decade of increasing reliance on oil and gas, and then paying more for power than you would have for renewables.
Yes! YAML is great at visualizing data structures or producing small configs. The way it’s being used today in devops is terrible
"Place each on a charged, but one submerged, one not"

Unless the connector is waterproof ( i doubt it) , don't try this at home. Water is a good conductor.
Juggling by numbers: How notation revealed new tricks (2012)
Nice work!

I'm curious: did you consider hacking the Oculus binary to accept an SSL cert you made yourself, and MITM-ing it to see the traffic?

I'm sure they have it pinned and don't use the OS certs, but you could just overwrite the root cert that must exist in that binary somewhere with your own, right?
YAML is bad, but not that bad.

The problem is more with the software that uses it, and it using YAML is just a high quality proxy for the signal you want.

YAML is a bit error prone, but it's those tools that have an incredibly complex format.
Protective cover? Isn't the screen exposed in a candybar slider when closed? This is meant to be a jobsite phone so being fully closed is probably a pro.
Github repos makes for a pretty good key-value store.

It even has a full CRUD API, no need for using libgit.
It sounds like the “sheep” in question are pushing very strongly in a direction but just not one the author likes. Is letting people talk to you and your cohort anyhow more sheeplike than standing up for them?
From some quick glances at /r/MechanicalKeyboard, Akko looks to be a manufacturer (primarily for switches), while the rest are various distributors.

Funking naming/branding isn't unheard of in the MK world, considering a large amount of stuff is bought from China and rebranded.
Yep, I made an IPFS pinning service (the second one to exist, IIRC, and the first usable one), and I wish I hadn't. It's a bit of a trash fire.
Or better yet Pulumi AWS https://www.pulumi.com/docs/get-started/aws/
I like this. The last wave of Twitter users into the fediverse caused my AWS bill to go up 10 USD a month. Might have to start storing media files on youtube instead ;)
Right, and I think that strikes at the core of the issue; AWS allows you to configure things in insecure, poorly architected ways. Then they'll tell you "oh this is bad, you should fix that", as if they weren't the ones who built it to do that!

The classic example is public-read S3 buckets. My favorite-er example is actually a security guidance which reads: nothing should use the default VPC (usually phrased from the perspective of, all the SGs on the default VPC should restrict all traffic). Follow that line of logic: why did you give me a default VPC then? Well, they'd argue, it makes onboarding easier, you can just deploy all these cool resources without worrying about the complexities of the networking. Wait hold on. All of this is within their power to control, they made the networking insanely complex, they made the networking layer integral to the Cool Product, they created the idea of a default VPC, they created the security rule that says its bad, and it really paints this picture of a house of cards where no-one is in control, no one has vision, its just a bunch of heads arguing with each other about their worldview on how things should be.

Of course, one head yells "backwards compatibility, legacy, more knobs more knobs" and because its Amazon (and Microsoft) that head gets a megaphone.

Because of this, as the OP wishes, AWS accounts are an extraordinarily useless thing to hand over to a development team. They're nothing like a Heroku or DigitalOcean account; at best, they're so complex that you need a domain expert to understand what to do, so all that ends up living in the CloudOps Org. At worst, the team will shoot themselves in the foot, and maybe take the company's bank account (or worse, customer data) with them.

Thus, the New Hotness in BigBoyTech is to build a PaaS on top of AWS. Because Amazon isn't capable of doing it! Lightsail is a joke. Lambda is probably the closest they've gotten. This PaaS asserts the security, compliance, performance, architecture, etc opinions the company wants, and dev teams can build on it.

Fine, whatever, but at some point you have to question why we're so obsessed with inefficiency that we tolerate knobs we won't use, or we'll miss turning to Secure, when alternatives do exist. Do you know what a compliance official's wet dream is? "Hey man I need somewhere to store this file in the cloud" "Use Google Drive" DONE! They bought Google Drive. Maybe tweaked a couple settings. Secure by default. AWS is nothing like that, and it can take millions in engineering to get an active AWS account to that state (let alone delegated management of multiple accounts across an org).

It's actually collective insanity that we put up with it, when the only half-reason why it is so is because JP Morgan has a COBOL service built in 1987 that can only run if its hardwired with a telephone jack directly to an ISP interchange in Ashburn, and they're too cheap to modernize it so just tax the rest of the world by abusing Amazon's "never say No to a paying customer" policy. I'm being dramatic, but that describes 98% of the knobs on AWS.
Fool me once, shame on me -- fool me twice, shame on me.

I've already been screwed once by their abandonment of Windows RT [0]. I'm not doing that again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT
I was an eng manager on Lambda for a time, and we definitely knew people were doing this, and had plans to cut it out if it ever became a problem. :D
Open Source XDP for Windows
>Yes, absolutely.

If you mean "digital currencies", then I would be inclined to agree (though it will probably take a lot longer than people think). But existing cryptocurrencies or even future ones built on blockchain and POS/POW? Extremely unlikely.
Wait - apple trees started from seed have high odds of not growing apples like those that they came from? What are the odds of such a mutation?
There’s a theory that most coal comes from a period after plants evolved lignin (the substance that makes wood woody) but before bacteria and fungi evolved the enzymes to break lignin down. Perhaps something similar will happen with plastic.
It would be great in some ways, but it would also have enormous consequences. There is so much infrastructure that would need to be prematurely replaced -- so many consumer durables which will fail years or even decades ahead of their expected shelf lives.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if we were to start concocting additives with antimicrobial properties, which would probably be even worse for the environment while also preventing the beneficial function of post-use decomposition.
I guess you can store 24 bits of data as the R,G and B components of a pixel of an "image", and store it as a lossless image...
>because MS hardware generally is pretty good

After a couple years of supporting Surface devices, I have very different views in this regard.
You might be misremembering things (a bit). Gothic 1 had the world, the oldmine, the freemine, the orcgraveyard and the orctemple (and technically also the abandonedmine and orccity but they are unused and empty) as seperate maps. So these had loading screens. Since you said JoWood's Gothic, I'm assuming you mean the 2nd one, since the first was published by ShoeBox (and I'd call it PiranhaBytes' Gothic anyway, since they were the developers).

Gothic 2 had the newworld, the oldworld, the addonworld and the dragonisland. Only in Gothic 2 are there no "dungeons" (internally indoor vs outdoor maps) so to speak, but there are some underground places which do not require loading screens.

Why I love Gothic so much is because the entire world is handcrafted. Nothing is procedurally generated, they just used their world editor (Spacer, they released it) and placed items, benches, fires, etc etc. This was also done by a much smaller team, basically it started with 2-3 german CS students wanting to make something as cool as Ultima, but of course it got bigger later on.

The monster AI is really great. Various monsters also behave in packs, i.e. you can lure Scavengers away one by one, but Snappers all attack you if one attacks you, even if they didn't see you. They also each have a distinct fighting style (more relevant in Gothic 2 than in Gothic 1), so you can learn patterns and theoretically beat the biggest monsters with terrible gear.

I can only recommend it as well if you like these type of older RPGs.
I consider that as something that would need to be abstracted away from individual contributors who aren't part of the infrastructure team(s) and baked into any self-service solution. These are the things that slow teams down and we want sorted before they even think about spinning up a new app.
Just curious why? Stamina test?

I definitely respect that level of effort, and I used to work that way. These days, though, I reserve sleepless hacking sessions for last-resort emergencies; I’m really not at my best, things take longer, and I make mistakes. Sounds like you did accomplish something, though.
Well, sometimes, other times foo is a module and foo.bar() calls a function bar with no arguments.
Not going to reply other than to say characterizing my comment as nonsense is unfairly dismissive.

Be a kind interlocutor if you want dispassionate, reasoned engagement.
That does happen, but this is trees in a big hole - not that easy to damage just by visiting.
A few very important things to note here:

1) This is a paper in mice. Mice are not humans.

2) Half of the experiments are in a mouse that is engineered to express the ACE2 receptor. Samples from this kind of mouse show clear signs of infection, as you would expect (ACE2 is the receptor to which SARS-CoV2 is known to bind, and is not known to be expressed on neurons).

3) Mice that are not engineered to express ACE2 show much lower signs of infection. In fact, I can't see a negative control in the figures, so I don't know if these are real at all (caveat: I haven't read this fully, so maybe there's some argument why they didn't need to do this. My specific critique is that the immuno-staining for samples from wild-type mice look like they could be spurious. Amplification of mRNA from tissue samples is also prone to false-positives.)

Also the title is blatantly editorialized, and should be changed to the title of the paper (which clearly mentions that this is not a human study):

SARS-CoV-2 Infects Peripheral and Central Neurons of Mice Before Viremia, Facilitated by Neuropilin-1
I am convinced that AWS is intentionally obtuse in order to promote job security for engineers and thus be the preferred platform
Or make a ton of mistakes and scramble to recover from them...
Since he's made a ready-to-use software, yeah Google will probably ban this quite quickly...
Seems that Digital Ocean comes up quite a bit on HN; Linode does from time to time... who else is in this market segment?
No. We don't need more authoritarian dystopia.
> On the contrary, investors and managers will be very impressed by that.

No, they won't. You're free to propose any definitions of "productivity" you like, but this particular proposal doesn't remotely match what anyone will ever be talking about in discussions about productivity in the economy.
If you look at the context, it's obvious that this thread is about disproving the claim that in the West the pressure from the society on the government works better than in China, and not about "making it sound like China is actually ok".

So, in USA there are literally entire law chapters designed to eliminate specific racial group (and hippies, that's what delegalisation of drugs was about). Yet you don't consider this a genocide. Ever wondered why?
It's a union of them and people who know that their personal experience is not always representative of general experience.
I feel the same way! I also feel like the LaTeX crap on top of Plain TeX is crap and it fills me with rage when I try to find info about TeX and always get back something assuming LaTeX.

Your stuff looks cool, I will take a look!
You are absoultely right -- p. 20 "Favor object composition over inheritance", right in the introduction.

I guess my memory was wrong (or I was hanging around the wrong crowd in the 90's.)
How will you prevent youtube from re-encoding the video and data getting thrashed?
sounds like 99% of academic papers
How much liquidity entered the financial markets since 2020....?
apparently e-mail is not much reliable for storing/keeping files. there have been cases where an old email with an attachment would not load correctly because the servers just erased the attachment file.
> FP is about doing algebra to derive programs

I don’t think I can agree. Clojure is a functional programming language, but is far from doing any algebra.
It's one of those problems that resolves itself.

The process of creating and using the files is prohibitively unusable and so many better solutions exist that YT doesn't need to worry about it
Yes, but the number of people who need to be worried about aligning their writes and such is pretty small; certainly not "every" programmer. The author gets into the weeds about certain things application level programmers almost never need to know or concern themselves about. He really doesn't understand what's useful information and what isn't.

If you're programming at enterprise scale, this sort of stuff is the responsibility of architect-level programmers and senior systems engineers.

Even most linux sysadmins know all about block alignment (well, if they predate most of the various tools figuring out block size/alignment stuff for you.) It's nothing new - RAID arrays work best when properly aligned, for example.
Refreshing the OneNote App on Windows
Right.

It's a very complex system with complex trade offs. But, and this is crucial, not so complicated that the issues cannot be understood by an adult with high school education.

As it is, there is very poor understanding among adults in the rich world of where their food comes from, how it is grown or reared, what food/fertiliser it is given, what chemicals it is treated with and how much, how it is processed, how it is packaged, the margins along the way, and the power dynamics along the chain

Even educated adults can be shockingly uninformed, witness Gweneth Paltrow style fantasies about imagined health benefits of organic food, or on the flip side, total ignorance about the quantity of chemicals that go into the production of conventional food.

The increased frailty of our food chains and environment means that collectively we need to get educated, realise the high environmental and health cost of chemically intensive farming and start exploring alternatives.
And not with this dumb "organic good, chemical bad" mentality but properly evaluating the trade-offs in each system

It's hard to envisage a world where we feed 8, 10, 12 billion people without some chemical input, but it's certainly a good idea to try at least move in that direction
Is there a PaaS out there that enables some guardrails? An example would be "we only want to use Fargate, don't manually provision EC2" and that option just doesn't show up as something you can self-serve.
My biggest impediment to downsizing my cell phone: maps and navigation. In my vehicle I need to have at least a moderately sized screen in order to navigate safely. And the device needs to have mobile internet access.

How do folks who are downsizing their cell phones work around this? Do you use a non-phone GPS in your car? Do you keep a larger cell phone around for "when you need it"?
IBM is helping these schools build up their ransomware defenses
What you can do in these times is to work in, or interview 'line' jobs vs 'staff' jobs.
Jobs that actively bring in revenue are rarely at risk, even in economic downturns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff_and_line
Had me excited thinking for it to not be an android phone.

I miss the days when companies made their own operating systems for their phones, with their own OS/Firmware. Using your friends phone which had a completly different set of features really made the expirence fun. Every year I would get a new phone for xmas and it was a whole new expirence.

Every phone was different but now when a new phone is released, it's just a new rectangle with X camera's we don't even need. All running the same bloated OS with less privacy and restrictions on customisability to boot.
It's great for writing papers. I can crack open vim rattle off an essay throw in some \par s and some \cite{sho0ngle} s, and then let all the typesetting, citation management, and whatnot get handled by the compiler.

For STEM classes, the LaTeX defaults are perfect, and I can insert tables and images and such that can be in flux over the course of writing the report, importing then from external scripts that part of my data analysis.

LaTeX only gets hairy when you start trying to fight it. If you want some that looks exactly as you imagine it, you're going to be fighting an uphill battle trying to specify exactly what you want, and constantly re-compiling. If instead, you just care about a clean, consistent, and presentable end product, then LaTeX gets you there with minimal fuss.
Tether, or rather Finex is a famous MM. Don't worry too much about their "other investments", they are up a lot no matter BTC price.

Tip of the iceberg https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/wallet/Bitfinex-coldwallet

Also, you're going with the assumption they shall be able to redeem 100%. Crash happens, like we have seen, but everyone cashing out their USDT is not a scenario going to happen. Or if you want to account for this scenario, then you can as well assume that crypto is going to disappear, and that would not happen without a cataclysmic event in the stock market either. Probably we will be back to the stone age at this point, and will have other things to worry about