skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Controversy Continues over Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
I think you're understating these adjustments. Christmas happening in the summer? School "summer break" happening during winter? These are massive changes
Cryptographic failures in RF encryption allow stealing robotic devices
There are many more open questions that we have not found the answer to -- the two blog posts [1&2] on our experience on creating a GNN based project is meant to spark a discussion and to clarify our own thinking on the topic.

We are here to continue the discussion on hn!
eg.: We are interested if someone encountered pretraining for Graphs Neural Networks?

[1] https://www.appliedexploration.com/p/graph-neural-networks-f...
[2] https://www.appliedexploration.com/p/dark-side-of-graph-neur...
And to your point, I loved Black Mirror but couldn’t get through the first episode of Severance.
Nazi-Looted Painting Returned to 101-Year-Old Dutch Woman
If the front end isn’t sending an Auth token back then the front end isn’t logged in. How do you propose making authenticated calls from the client?
The title is misleading. He didn’t pay taxes, illegally used his business accounts for personal expenses, and ignored a fine for making the devices. (By writing new software for existing parts.)
Also: "you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, for example, to make copies of, retain, transmit, reformat, display, and distribute via communication tools Your Content on the Services."

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/servicesagreement/upcoming.a...
Maybe they should introduce Chat Control-like legislation on themselves and themselves only. Servants of the people need to be transparent, no?
People need to live somewhere, and we sure haven't built up enough to allow most people to live within the city itself. Is "encouraging car culture" the new NIMBY angle? It's just the flip-side of the housing crisis. I'd live closer to work too if I could afford Woodside or whatever.
No, revoke their ability to be the registered owner of a motor vehicle
Peaks;Clocks;Land;
I'm going to guess that the purpose is to use the data to eventually build life-like, AI-generated social media influencers. The data will show what kind of faces, voices, inflections, word choice, etc. is most influential. I don't think the technology is quite there yet, but very soon it will be possible, with a little hand tweaking, to fake "cool" people — video bots. It will be used as a psy-op.
The likelihood of that data being there and the way it is used varies greatly between the two systems.

The reason you don’t see stories like this [0] in China, is because of this [1]

0: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/14/apple-refuses-barr-request-t...

1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
Not at all true. GH actions are about as simple as they can be and can be replaced by mostly any other commercial service that does the same. Also, any CI/CD tool can integrate with GH.
Its also heavily based on Delphi/C++ Builder, which evolved from Turbo Pascal.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure the manufacturer excuse is that they need a bit extra to ensure print quality; whether or not that's true, ink cartridges of this kind are just a racket.

I'm soooo glad consumer 3d printing has avoided it this far and hopefully the momentum keeps up even as the technology advances.
Using inchworming robotic arms to assemble a large space telescope
It appears she's using an iPhone -- just ask the U.S government to provide copies of those messages.
I've just as often see engineers claim code is a total loss and rewrite...without even trying to improve the existing code.

One time, the company split into two: One skeleton crew to maintain the "bad" code in production, and everyone else was allocated to the rewrite.

I was able to refactor and improve the "bad" code without much trouble. I'm pretty sure the reason it was deemed so bad was because certain engineers didn't actually try to work with it. They got offended by it quickly and gave up.

The rewrite failed btw - when I left, they were about to rewrite the rewrite (they had recently hired a new CTO).

The "bad" code brought in millions of dollars. It might still be doing so lol.

I was pretty junior in my career when this happened. It taught me that most senior engineers are posers. That generalization has only been reinforced as I've gotten more experience.
> Technically speaking, they didn’t steal anything since they claimed the American territories as Spanish.

I don't see any technical fact of the matter here. These legalistic claims may have been true in the eyes of the Spanish of the time. But the rest of us are free to reject this worldview and, thus, the claims of legality.

Spanish law may say that 1) Spanish law applied in these territories and 2) that they were allowed to take what they took. But none of us have to credit these assertions. We are free to conclude that these assertions of sovereignty were illegitimate and that Spanish law is, therefore, irrelevant.
GitHub is running a complex, planet-scale product. I think w they've crossed the threshold where doing it yourself is more likely to be reliable for some use cases.

We've been running GitLab on GKE for the past three years, no problems outside of initial migration pains.
Seems like the automotive industry is gonna be the one to have to blink here. I’m not intimately involved in the details of the industry but didn’t the automotive industry already try to pass their risk onto TSMC by cancelling contracts early on into covid and we’re already told to get to the back of the line when they wanted their chip orders again?

If TSMC has enough demand to sell everything they make, they don’t really need to take specific client needs into account
FCC commissioner calls on Google and Apple to ban TikTok app
DayDreamer: World Models for Physical Robot Learning
It takes at least 10 years to build a latest generation nuclear power plant such as Flamanville 3 or Hinkley Point C.

According to the IPCC, we can't wait that long to reduce our emissions.
Some people with sports cars bypass for performance
In a decade or so when DALL-E 8 and GPT-10 are widely accessible, why would you steal a computer generated work when you could just generate your own? We are going to have so much stuff that intellectual property ceases to have meaning, unless it was made by a human (there will be "handmade" art in the same way as there is handmade pottery).
> I’m pro nukes (best phrasing)

On my side I would say I'm "pro" nuke a) by default (because I can't see an alternative as to how we could reasonably achieve stable renewable with current tech on a short enough timescale) and thus b) as a transition technology.

I mean, I hate the waste, the impact of a catastrophic event can be terrible, but when taking a step back it feels like peanuts compared to the global scale and very real impact of what's currently happening, and for which we need to hit the brakes, like, yesterday, and continue to do so real hard for a very long time.
Electricity from Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy: Technical and Economic Issues
Hi all,

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Jetbrains as a company is wonderful, they treat their customers well and would be a joy to be their subscriber. The only issue is, I tried few times to use their products, they are good, but I prefer vim or visual studio code that are free and give me more. Thoughtworks use them as they empower their consultants with standard toolset. I paired with those guys and it is interesting what they get from the tools, but in the end, I am more comfortable with VS and Vim and command line. Increase font size for example is not simple :).

The whole idea that you can pay a company roughly $250/yr and they take care of your development tooling needs is wonderful. I wish things change and I would be happy to pay 3yrs in advance.

To clarify, I use javascript/typescript, ruby, elixir, sometimes elm, go etc. So no Java.
I already provided links showing biologists agree that life starts at conception. It is not my fault you disagree with biologists.
Tripolar Interaction: Mongolian Steppe, Manchuria and Mainland China (2005) [pdf]
Software upgrade for 19-year-old Martian water-spotter
I don't have a citation handy but I know eating fermented foods and increased fiber have both been linked to increased gut bacteria diversity. Thus seems in line with what the GP poster found for practical advice.
Thankfully we have a statute of limitations for many legal matters
While I don't agree that it's impossible to assign concrete value, any value suffers from network effects. Gaps in people's skillsets can be made up with someone strong in a gap and another person for another gap and now you have 2 less productive people individually, but they make the group better overall.

When you replace 1 guy with 19 (as per another thread), the management is easier as there is less need for focus and more flexibility in hiring/firing, which is worth a lot.
> Then fire Von der Leyen, as she can't be scrutinized

One could presumably fire her using the same mechanism by which she was elected[0]?

Oh, wait...

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-in-the-end-it-was-a-backroom-d...
Hum... What place do you think will be more inhabitable?

Subtropical South America has one of the most moderate climates on the world.
Reminds me of the AI popstar/persona in Deus Ex 2.
The iPhone Turns 15 Today. Here’s How It Changed Us
You probably should have gotten the raise, and there are some fair and unfair reactions to you here. There isn’t enough information to judge if you’re summarizing this fairly, but maybe this is related: one thing I’ve seen happen many times over is that the first person or first few people to work on a project have a massive productivity advantage over people that come later. We could call it “10x” but it’s not measurable, it’s just very large.

The reason that first-in people are more productive is they are witness to all of the initial assumptions and initial architecture, they decide and understand how every corner of the thing works, and they understand how to refactor it quickly and change core pieces of the pipeline. By the time other people join later, there’s a whole bunch of dependencies that make it both difficult to understand the whole system and time-consuming to change - a core piece has subsystems that depend on it, and each subsystem has unit tests, etc. etc.. People who don’t have familiarity with the entirety of the system have to make small changes and tread carefully, and this is almost completely independent of the skill of the programmer.

The strongest example of this is when I built a codebase with a partner for a cloud service in a year, and then sold the company to a group of engineers that I believe are probably better than I am. It took them much longer, several years, to get to the point where they could swap out and rewrite major features. But it’s absolutely clear to me this wasn’t because I’m more productive than they are, it’s because the system complexity was high, learning what I did and why took a lot of time, my documentation was sub-par, I wasn’t around enough and able to help them understand what I did.

BTW did you try to get other programmers involved? Is it possible part of the issue was doing too much solo work and not communicating enough? Not saying this has anything to do with you, but I’ve known and managed some very highly skilled programmers that are difficult to work with despite their apparent code productivity. It just means that skill and code output are only part of the job, and high skill can’t always overcome other issues.
IMHO that's because Apple was the first to bother optimizing an ARM CPU for performance instead of battery life.

The performance per watt in ARM exceeded x86 since long ago, but most manufacturers used that feat to create mobile CPUs instead of cranking up the power to see if it catches up to high performance x86
Von der Leyen's cabinet is a pile of corruption and criminals. It's insane how many people in high EU roles are only there because they failed in local politics, or got caught in some scandal.

How do they say, "die EU nicht den Leyen überlassen".
Closest I could find is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_physical_unclonable_f...
Relevent The Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/please-like-me-1848674003
Tesla reportedly laid off about 200 workers in its Autopilot division
Yes, much more than from 28 to 22 or 16. 40nm+ are planar transistors, and below are FinFETs
Brazil, Argentina, India, South Africa and Mexico have been operating nuclear power plants for decades, with no major events.

They are fewer than the US, USSR and Japan, but they are very capable of operating advanced technology. Advanced technology, specially the most recent and in this case, safer, is held from these countries for reasons has little to do with fear of a significant chunk being uninhabitable for hundreds of years.

Quite on the contrary, if fear of a big chunk of the countries being uninhabitable had anything to do in this matter, rich nations would be financing nuclear power plants to the poor to prevent sea level rise.
I worked on the mess of make file and C dependencies created on Emacs in Sun Microsystems back in the day. You can make a mess with any tooling.

It was impossible to navigate and I spent most of my time constructing complex regexes for grep just to follow the flow. In an IDE I can right click an element to find usages/dependencies, etc. Some of them are just highlighted.
> The much bigger problem with nuclear energy is that humanity has not yet figured out how to handle the waste on the short term.

I agree with you. The ~250,000 tons of nuclear waste we have is a problem. However, we're even less well equipped to handle the ~50,000,000,000 tons of greenhouse gas waste we are generating per year today.
> Who's doing the collecting often matters much more than what is actually collected

Correct, therefore far more attention ought be put to domestic corporate and government spying on the public because they have got a far stronger leverage over the public's mind than foreign companies whom do not

Also, wouldn't it just be funny if Meta had some internal deals to acquire Tiktoks data? Lastly, if memory serves Tiktok makes use of Oracle (approved US gov contractor) to handle US data, so this is already under scrutiny [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-tiktok-nears-de...

So it might seem that the powers that be, wants us to be attentive regarding this deal
The responses seem to fall along the lines of 'it can't deliver a lot of warheads', but I think it's more for the scenario of delivering a single nuke clandestinely. Some terrorists in Absurdistan are trying to make a bomb but they accidentally blow themselves up? Too bad so sad.
>Brains just don't work that way. Why not find a way to make use of that?

If that were true this means that anything you try and do is futile because you will always revert to a hardcoded state, basicaly meaning that you are a full robot.

I have experienced permanent changes through understanding/seeing my own mental patterns.

So yes, the brain can be brought under consious control, but one needs to see it's patterns: once you see a pattern it dissolves, freeing you from the thought.

But to truly see a pattern "in your bones" aka have an "euroka moment" can be quite difficult at times. Intellectualizing/philosophising is a dead end. It must be an instinctive realization, not an intellectual one.

So it's not that you bring the brain under consious control through action: it's via negativa:

You regain control by removing the random/conflincting thoughts.
Didn’t they also say they want nothing to do with him?
LibreOffice is still my default office application for making spreadsheets and other documents I don't need to share or edit in collaboration. This allows it to be used on many datasets that didn't fit in the previous versions and this is amazing.
Though this creates a bit of a problem if you're no longer having wars.
That is a bad assumption. Superiors can make the call on urgency, but don't know the tradeoff involved. They will always ask for more and need to be presented the costs.
Hey, you may like my Just a Calendar: https://cal.sharats.me

Months are laid out in clean no-nonsense way, and it's a very lightweight app. You can click on dates to mark them to get some bearings while planning things on a Calendar, kinda like pointing a pen at a date. Drag to mark multiple dates too!

No logins, no extra engagement features, and nothing much.

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30851174
Good.

Urban apartment dwellers LARPing as ranchers and cattlemen are one of the most asinine and embarrassing aspects of 21st century America.

We used to have a term for individuals like this: all hat, no cattle …

… imagine being so childish and shameless as to ignore that moniker.
> Climate change increases the frequency of previously rare events.

People were saying this about hurricanes after Katrina. Then we went about a decade with far fewer hurricanes than normal, and, indeed, named hurricanes in 2010s were 2/3 the count in the 1990s. It's too nuanced of a point to be used with the public.
The union can file a grievance with the government, but it can takes years to go through all the processes. She can't sue on her own.
reminds me of trying to compete with imessage or facetime today
Article also says that more people will die from extreme temps, not just high temps. It also says that climate change makes heat waves and cold fronts more extreme.

Hotter on average does not mean hotter everywhere or hotter all the time.
Ask HN: Fully Functional Xilinx Vivado on Arch Linux?
Currently I have a separate Ubuntu partition just for Vivado and it would be really convenient if I could use it with my main distro, Arch Linux.

I think that installing it directly on Arch would not be very wise from a stability point of view (and it requires some intervention to even install anyway), so I tried creating a systemd-nspawn container with Ubuntu in it. I could launch the Vivado GUI and generate a bitstream for a project easily this way (thank you, ArchWiki), but the hardware server would not recognize the board plugged in via USB. This was a few months ago but now I want to use Vivado again and a lot.

Ideally I would like some advice on getting Vivado to properly interact with hardware from inside the container, if possible, but any advice on how people deal with Vivado's tight OS requirements (besides sucking it up) would be appreciated.
I think it's mostly men replying in these comments but as a woman: Yes, women do not have sex for purely physical reasons when they have affairs. They form emotional attachments after sex whereas men often do not.

If they are able to access sex thanks to contraceptive technology, then the cost of marrying is very high.

Are you saying that women shouldn't be having sex like men? Are you saying its not okay for women to be promiscuous?
8 High performance CoreTex cores and 2 low performance CoreMex cores
incoherent.

> Motivation can make doing a task deeply fulfilling

no, motivation is the belief that prior to a task the result will be worth it. task are fulfilling when you get what you expected.

somehow discipline can create a habit, and a habit will catch you when you are stressed out. this makes no sense. what is the answer to the question, "why am i doing this?" it can't be "because i always do it, its a habit"

> Instead of waiting for motivation

who has ever said, "wait to be motivated." The only advice I've every actually heard about motivation that makes sense is that, a lack of motivation is an indicator you are doing something wrong. its not a reason to "push through" whatever that means.
That's the tragedy of software development. Nobody wants to do work that isn't super visible (usually in the form of new features). Simplicity and robustness are not appreciated nor rewarded.
Hindsight is 20-20; but I suspect that they anticipated that a Microsoft acquisition would give them a much better career, and product longevity, than the other buyers.

Example: I was a lead for Syncplicity's desktop client. Many of the pieces of our product were better than the initial versions of OneDrive. Yet, the reality was that most of our customers used us to edit Office documents. Today, Office integrates with OneDrive much better than we could. (Microsoft made changes in Windows and Office to support OneDrive, we would have needed a much larger team in order to do the same.)

In the case of Powerpoint, it plays a lot more nicely with other Office products, (and also plays nicely with OneDrive.) That wouldn't have happened if someone else bought it. Most likely, because Microsoft had so much money, they could have made their own presentation package that was "good enough" and eventually market forces would favor it due to the smoothness of their product line.

Obviously, for me, it would have worked out better if Microsoft bought us and turned us into OneDrive! It would have also worked out better for me if Google bought us and turned us into the Desktop portion of Google Drive!
James Webb Space Telescope scientists prepare for first operational images
It makes about as much sense as both taking automotive fatalities seriously and being against seat belts.
Analog isn't just RF; PHYs for weird protocols is a giant component of the space, as well as power monitoring/management. The changes in how voltage/resistance/capacitance/etc work at each node for a given layout is the heavy lift.

Additionally, you very, very rarely have the antenna on chip, and the analog bits even for RF are more signal conditioning that isn't typically modeled like waveguides, but instead more like those old analog plug board computers, simply integrated onto a chip.
Jan. 6 hearings deliver new template for digital-era dramatics
Has the US Gov utilized data from private companies to aid in the targeting and internment of their own citizens ? https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/09/china-big-data-program-t...
haha, I think this is a good point where headlines are opposite of reality: "Ruby is dead", "Cobol is alive", etc
backlog sounds like "not today" bucket but in reality backlog is "never" bucket

Agile is great in theory, expects perfectly functional rational organisations without an internal political tug of war. Which us why agile almost never works well in practice in BigCos.
Breeder reactors turn U238 into various isotopes of plutonium, but there are other kinds of nuclear waste, both in terms of isotopes of spent fuel and normal materials that have been contaminated.
Not saying you're wrong, but it's not the case where I work. Essentially 100% of our backend is written in Go. We only use Java for Android.
Show HN: Brevity 500 – Short games to help you become a powerful writer
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