skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was involved with evaluating IdentiFlight units at a wind project with a history of eagle kills. The majority of the 150 sites where IFI claims IdentiFlight is being used are provisional test deployments, and probably shouldn’t be considered happy customers just yet. If anything, word is getting around in some circles that this product isn’t ready for production use as many “customers” are quietly dropping their deployments. We are in the process of dumping ours.

We really need technology like IdentiFlight, because manual (human-induced) curtailment will not scale with the global growth of wind energy. But IFI is just a bit skeezy. It became apparent to me during our evaluation period that human operators were actually role-playing as the “AI” by live monitoring the camera feeds and taking actions manually to lend the impression that the system, once left fully to its own devices, would work sensibly and with more restraint than it actually does. IFI did not disclose this, and denied doing so when tactfully asked. But the difference in the system’s behaviour during and after the evaluation period is just too big a gap for me to ignore. I also became aware that the company generated and pushed for publication several papers in lesser peer-reviewed journals that claim to compare the efficacy of these units against human observers. The tests were, as far as I’ve seen, conducted under contract with environmental consulting groups eager to confirm the company’s desired conclusion using human observers with minimal experience and training, and the papers conveniently do not attempt to address the limitations of the IdentiFlight system in practice. And that brings us to this article, which is essentially more marketing, but masquerading this time as journalism instead of science.

I believe the Germans will be quite disappointed with these units once installed.
These are just examples to make a point.

And: https://arne-mertz.de/2016/12/modern-c-features-attributes/
> What am missing?

The article isn’t about big tech or why they comply. It is about the US Government employing a proxy (wittingly or not) to violate The Constitution of The United States of America and conceal that activity.
For #2, you want an event driven scheduler that can coordinate between events.

We've built this at https://www.inngest.com. You can run functions based off of schedules or events, with things like "when this event happens, run 20 minutes after the event". Or, "run, wait for another thing to happen, then continue".

Event driven schedulers do all the regular scheduling, but with a few benefits:

- It's reactive

- You can fan-out, so one event runs many functions

- You can store all events for debugging, replay, local testing, typing, etc.

We could plumb in an event source for #1 which indicates sunrise and sunset. Heh.
And unfortunately, your best universities are not in the heartland and very few in red states. Silicon Valley has the luxury of educational centers, as well as large tech firms that can be used to seed the area with talent they create and attract. You would be hard pressed to find such a confluence of actors in the heartland.
I see lots of stuff built in subsets of the standards. JAXRS and CDI are quite nice, and there are lots of better thought out Spring alternative libraries. Also we have microprofile, Quarkus, Dropwizard, and others that make use of the same standards.
Can people in Iran SSH out to other countries? If so the folks familiar with SSH could use something like sshchat or devzat [1] see demo info, not my project This does not persist chat, but that may be a net positive in a surveillance state.

ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -b 2048 -N "" -C "devzat" -f ~/.ssh/.id_devzat
ssh -i ~/.ssh/.id_devzat some-name@devzat.hackclub.com

If DNS is blocked then edit ~/.ssh/config and append:

Host devzat devzat.hackclub.com
Hostname 150.136.142.44
Port 22
# Port 443
User some_name
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/.id_devzat
LogLevel VERBOSE

[1] - https://github.com/quackduck/devzat
Yep.

I don't think that article you linked is fair to Lerner though. Casting him as a pseudoscientific denier is a recognizable trope, but is incorrect by their own criteria:

- Published in reputable sources? Yes, well-published on this topic in journals and leading newspapers[scholar,wiki]

- Associated with a University, with related credentials? Yes, has a BS in physics from Columbia[wiki], some grad work at UMD. More importantly, he's a notable plasma physics theorist/engineer (most of his career and publications).

- Anyone else agree? Yes, he's following in Alfen's plasma cosmology[alfven]; Alfven is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who also criticized the BBT.

- Cited references? Yes, the video I linked is well-cited, e.g. the 16 failed predictions of BBT vs 1 correct. See 23m45s for citations of this claim.

- Follow the logic? Well, Lerner's video is pretty straight forward and extensively reviews the primary lit, but the space.com article is mostly a string of ad hominem, comparing him to "people who deliberately peddle anti-science narratives" and flat-Earthers, and that "the tactics employed in Lerner's article are classic misdirections used by science deniers".

Which.. is bad journalism but to me signals its own bias and likelihood he's saying something important. I'm very much looking forward to the next few years on this!

[scholar]https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=eric...

[wiki]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lerner

[alfven]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Alfv%C3%A9n,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_cosmology
I've been working on something similar as I dislike ES's JSON DSL or Kibana's interface: https://log-store.com/

It's not open source but old skool '90s-style freeware. The current single-node version will remain free forever, but the next multi-node (distributed) version will be for-pay.
> The fundamental issue is that you have independent actors that can't control what others do. Result is that sometimes software packages clash (namespace collisions, dependent libraries not in sync, incompatible licenses, etc).

Yes, I agree. Where we are in disagreement is what the role of a distro is here. Distros are there to solve that stalemate in one way or another. In Code's case distro maintainers chose to mark these packages as conflicting. They could have changed namespace of one (or both) package[s].

As I have mentioned in reply to a sibling comment this is exactly the work distros are doing - solving the stalemate between upstreams.

> The approach of using containers -- however flawed it is -- gets past the stalemate of independent actors in the software landscape being incompatible with each other.

Sure, containers do try to get past the stalemate, but they try to solve a different problem - how to make conflicting dependency trees coexist. Containers can also fail to solve the stalemate. Sure, containers can isolate `/usr/bin/code` between containers, but contention on `/etc/code`, `$HOME/.code` or other static user data still has to be solved one way or another.
You wouldn't need a traffic on it because it's integrated directly into your website/app. If you have people there they will be able to see and interact with it
For your first point, that’s more or less what the Digital Market Act is and it was adopted in July. They call “platforms” “gatekeepers” but you got the idea of it. It should become enforceable by Q3 2023.
At one point maintenance for desktop workstations from some manufacturers included picking the whole unit up 3 to 5 inches or so and letting it drop onto the desk. This would in theory help reseat card-edge connectors and knock loose some of the dust gathered by static inside the unit.
Certainly with parts of it? I use JAXRS quite a lot, it's great.
> If you make a location unlivable, people won't live there in the future.

Yep

> Conversely if there's a place that people visit for vacations, people will live there in the future.

What.

The population of tropical islands, ski-resort towns, and Paris beg to differ.
There are a lot of universities with good CS programs scattered around the country. I expect if I took a list of the top 50 (or whatever) programs and put pins in a map. I expect you'd see some clusters that correspond to tech centers (Bay Area, Boston), secondary tech centers without an outsized academic presence, and some groupings of schools in areas not especially known as a tech hub.
Tech jobs != Silicon Valley
The jobs may come (_may_), but they won't be the same jobs you get in the valley. They will be the backroom, grunt jobs that companies want to make cheaper - cost centers. Profit centers will stay on the coasts.
What you are missing is that this is an extremely complex version of a drowning machine — very good read here [0].

Under the water is turbulence that just traps a person and keeps them tumbling underwater.

In addition the article points out that there are numerous rock outcroppings underwater against which an unfortunate person's head would likely get bashed, reducing or eliminating consciousness.

I also notice that the water is quite frothy and full of air bubbles. This reduces it's net density and thus reduces the buoyancy available to any objects that would otherwise float. It can be enough to sink ships [1].

So, basically, the turbulent water will pull you under, bash you hard against the rocks, give you less-than-normal buoyancy, and hold you under. It's kind of a toss-up whether you lose consciousness first from the head injuries or the lack of air, and after a few minutes of that, you're dead. Have a nice afterlife

[0] https://practical.engineering/blog/2019/3/16/drowning-machin...

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1350-bubbling-seas-ca...
Gives you a good perspective on how big google is and how much influence it potentially has.
Agreed. There’s a local area where some type of people refer to it as SV. It’s really bunch of satellite sales offices trying to hype things up.
Learn Nim in Y Minutes
It looks like the selling point is easier setup and operation. Elasticsearch is kind of a pain in the ass to take care of. Maybe they've made that better? That'd be valuable to me.
Both of those statements are true of Venice.
GDPR has been pro-big tech according to all the studies i have seen
He was a) the current president and b) politically powerful enough to trigger an attack on Congress. It's a little silly to pretend he was somehow a powerless private citizen on Jan 6. The man remains politically powerful today; see his impact on the current Republican primaries as an example.
Yes. Molecula, the company behind Pilosa, has rebranded itself to FeatureBase. It's offering both a managed cloud/serverless option and a downloadable Open Source build for implementing binary indexes. Both ARM and Intel versions are available (but not for Windows, yet). I just joined the team and am working on some interesting demos for machine learning applications.

While FeatureBase is great for doing analytics on massive data sets, it's also well suited for being used as a model's feature store, for both training and inference.

We have a Discord here, if anyone is interested: https://discord.com/invite/bSBYjDbUUb?utm_campaign=FeatureBa...
Well everyone has logs, but not everyone has user-facing search features.

I personally wouldn't recommend self-hosti gElasticSearch for logs; it's such a commodity now that it cheaper to get something like Datadog or another manage service (but do check the pricing,the last time I checked the managed logging service from Azure was very expensive for what it did).
If you don't mind the "cloud" being your LAN, and you already own Cyberpunk just download the Steam Link app.
There was a belief for a time that consumers no longer cared about privacy, that the millennial generation preferred to share everything, and harvesting data was fine because the concept of privacy was antiquated.

What surprised a lot of tech execs was that when people understood how much data was collected they got creeped out and when given the option to opt-out of data collection they agreed at very high rates.

Apple's move to limit in-app tracking was genius because any lawsuit from FB or similar is counter-productive - consumers are given the option and they opt out at 99%. Suing Apple to force them to let FB track consumers would be a PR disaster.
> some fraction of big tech banned the previous US president, while he was still in office, with no such fears.

No it didn't. It tolerated all types of behavior from and around him (that wasn't tolerated from other people) until the last possible second that he could have a say about anything, then it immediately banned him to please the new regime. Trump literally assassinated an Iranian general I believe largely because that general would humiliate Trump in twitter fights, not banned. New regime? Banned.
Yup.

On my team at a previous company we just started a team Slack when the company moved to Teams. If people wanted to get in touch with us faster, they had to use Slack. If they wanted a meeting with us, we’d send them a Zoom link.

It was passive aggressive for sure, but it allowed us to not have to use Teams as much. I’m sure there are some draconian companies that will actually fire you for refusing to fall in line on this stuff, but for many reasonable people, it’s pretty difficult to fire high performing people for something this trivial.
The GDPR doesn't require that foreign law enforcement agencies should never be allowed to access personal data. There just have to be equivalent legal protections to what a EU citizen would get from their local law enforcement agencies. There are already a solid handful of countries (https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/third-countries/) where data transfer is considered secure and I don't see any reason it should be impossible to negotiate a US return to the list.
An embodiment of the power of the placebo effect.

The human mind/body is an amazing thing.
That would be a long list, given that I read a lot of books and would generally say that most of the books I've read were worth investing time in to some extent. But for what it's worth, here's a subset, cribbed from my previous HN comments:

Something Deeply Hidden - Sean Carroll

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets - Graham Farmelo

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth - Paul Hoffman

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan - Robert Kanigel

Lost in Math - Sabine Hossenfelder

The First Three Minutes - Steven Weinberg

Hyperspace - Michio Kaku

Not Even Wrong - Peter Woit

The Trouble With Physics - Lee Smolin

About Time - Paul Davies

Time Reborn - Lee Smolin

The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene

The Hidden Reality - Brian Greene

The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene

Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe - Jim Baggott

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets - Graham Farmelo

Three Roads To Quantum Gravity - Lee Smolin

Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos - Seth Lloyd

Higgs - The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle' - Jim Baggott

Analogy Making As Perception - Melanie Mitchell

Society of Mind - Marvin Minsky

Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1 - Ben Goertzel

Engineering General Intelligence, Part 2 - Ben Goertzel

The AGI Revolution - Ben Goertzel

Hackers & Painters by our very own Paul "pg" Graham

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy

The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder

Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier - Katie Hafner & John Markoff

Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology - Steven Levy

Ghost In The Wires - Kevin Mitnick

The Art of Deception - Kevin Mitnick

The Art of Intrusion - Kevin Mitnick

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

It's Not About The Bike - Lance Armstrong

Ultramarathon Man - Dean Karnazes

Charles Proteus Steinmetz: The Electrical Wizard of Schenectady - Robert Bly

Report From Engine Co 82 - Dennis Smith

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind - Al Ries, Jack Trout and Philip Kotler

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! - Al Ries and Jack Trout

Re-Positioning: Marketing in an Era of Competition, Change and Crisis by Jack Trout and Steve Rivkin

The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding - Al Ries and Laura Ries

Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition - Jack Trout and Steve Rivkin

Marketing High Technology - William H. Davidow

Marketing Warfare - Al Ries

The Discipline of Market Leaders - Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema

Crossing The Chasm - Geoffrey Moore

How to Measure Anything - Douglas Hubbard

Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hmm, not sure I'd trust this. I took a look at the shared_ptr page and didn't see it mention reference cycles or weak_ptr

https://cppbyexample.com/what_is_shared_ptr.html
"if we care about our election integrity we should investigate it "

There were many investigations and court cases and in the end nothing substantial was found.
Wasp (YC W21) is hiring eng to work on DSL for making web apps (compiler, webdev)
Wasp-lang (https://wasp-lang.dev/) | Founding Engineer | Full-Time | Remote [GMT - 5, GMT + 3]

At Wasp, we are building a compiled, stack-agnostic DSL for implementing full stack web-apps, that interops with the existing stack (React & Node.js currently). Imagine Ruby on Rails as a language and not bound to the specific stack or architecture. The compiler is implemented in Haskell.

Our team is remote, with engineers currently located both in US and Croatia.

Job link with more details: https://www.notion.so/wasp-lang/Founding-Engineer-at-Wasp-88...

If this sounds interesting, please reach out founders [at] wasp-lang [dot] com.
Replacing LLVM for Rust: Cranelift based back end for rustc
This project seems like a really big deal as it makes Rust truly a bootstrapped language, since the other backends mrustc and LLVM are both written in C++. With all the interest in Rust on HN I was surprised it hadn't been submitted before.
ES is a real memory hog. You either need to spin up some real beefy servers or it will regularly crash.

If they can provide an stable drop in replacement for ES, this would really be game changer and offer massive value.
Well, unless you like running in rain you'd have to feed it weather info too.

On other side it would allow it to be fancy, like rescheduling it earlier if rain is close to the sunset
Probably not much - but bear in mind that there's so much Java out there that there are bound to be a few backwaters doing weird things as well as a huge pile of legacy code that will benefit from the update (probably not as big as the pile of legacy code that will never get enough love to get updated!)

I haven't personally seen any green field Java EE code in the last 10 years or so!

Edit: Since I got downvoted for this (I would have thought) innocuous observation, I'll add the clarifying observation that Java is thriving. I'm specifically talking about Java EE, and Java EE as a platform at that, not as one-of-many libraries supporting the various other platforms.
This is the same copy-pasta posted to every submission about big tech censorship.

> The irony is that this is being posted in a heavily moderated forum.

Unless you’re implying that the U.S. government is involved in moderating legal speech on this forum - I do believe you are missing the point.
TBF I have been playing to Dota for seven years, and I've never spent 1 cent for it.
>Forums weren't replaced by discord. Forums were replaced by Reddit.

From my experience there's a split, more "generalist" forums did get "replaced" by reddit, by subs such as technology, games, news, etc. More "in-depth" forums where you expected to see the same guys working on something or having matches together etc I've seen being almost always replaced by discord:fighting games forums(even for games with good MM), dev/security/cracking forums, really anything that isn't "mass appeal".
Quite different, by try "porting" NES games to a modern CPU, for example using zero page instead of just doing operations between registers that more modern CPUs allow unlike the 6502. Different programs from different times were made with different assumptions. It's much easier to emulate (and they games will actually run correctly).
... wasn't the case about Android app bundling, not user data?
Interesting idea.

Something to dig into more might be the developing PLG software space. This idea is not dissimilar to PLG in general, though I think most PLG cases are for larger implementations. PLG covers a lot more but might be worth diving into a bit.

PLG, Product Led Growth, is similar to your implementation in that you are trying to observe how users, not buyers, are utilizing your software so you can sell/expand to them.
There's many "lightweight alternatives" to Elasticsearch (see this thread, which lists at least two already).

Alternative doesn't always mean they are API compatible, it's an alternative and not a drop-in replacement. My question was about how comparable it is apart from the API compatibility.
It would be interesting to see how does it perform on restarting when used with large amount of data.
This is the same reasoning that Roman Catholics use to justify priests that know Latin and have a Ph.D. in Philosophy (specializing in Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas). "Theology is actually difficult in ways that are probably irreducible."

My only point is that science didn't destroy religion. It just changed the titles of the priests (scientists), the priesthood (peer reviewed journals), and the holy books (Principia, etc.). The same claims to special knowledge and authority remain intact.
That is very cool. Could one then persist binaries built against such a container with something like `guix pack`? That would be absolutely killer. (Not reproducible at all, but an awesome escape hatch for building software in a traditional way, ad-hoc and imperative, on GuixSD. Could be really nice when packaging an odd piece of software feels overwhelming.)

Either way, that's pretty exciting and I hope it can be merged soon!
Maybe it's just me, but I feel nearly all of Taleb's books should be blog posts instead of full length books. I first read Black Swan a long while back, and two things popped out at me. 1) The author comes across quite snobby and high-handed in his writing (which has translated over time on his Twitter as well for those who follow him on there) and 2) The essence of the book was distillable into a much smaller novella.

Picked up Antifragile and Fooled By Randomness over time just to see if the hype is worth it, but none of the books honestly bowled me over or presented anything enlightening or explored ideas not explored in a better manner elsewhere. I feel like Taleb falls into the same fallacy he preaches about in his books to a large extent. But then again, given his popularity, maybe it's just my opinion.
>We need ~~priests~~ scientists who speak ~~Latin~~ mathematics to interpret what truth really is because none of the rest of us have been trained

No, we don't. Most people don't really need to know advanced physics. It's not like the knowledge will save you from eternal suffering, it's just interesting to some even if they have a shitty grasp on it all.

We need educated teachers to train engineers so they can use the "truth" to develop new technology.
https://archive.ph/rB7oD
I guess in practice this doesn't come up often. but it's a powerful testament to your confidence in ChromeOS' security. You are implying that you don't feel the same way about a Linux user guest login. But why? What additional security measures are present in ChromeOS that are missing from popular Linux distros?

I don't doubt the features are there, I'm genuinely curious what they are.