skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You think that their simulations were too deterministic because of their connectivity network?

Yeah, pretty much; and it's what other critics, including well-credentialed mathematical biologists, are saying too. There's a continuum of dispersion, with my perfectly-deterministic strawman at the left extreme but extending to infinity. Their power-law network adds some dispersion, but how do we know it's enough? I believe they chose that distribution because it's been shown to fit some real data (including the spread of HIV) reasonably well; but how do we know it fits the early spread of SARS-CoV-2, in the earliest lineages of the virus with unknown biology, in an unknown group of people with unknown behaviors?

I don't know how to root the phylogeny, and I'm mistrustful of anyone who claims they can based on the limited information available. Anyone who's built and attempted to validate mathematical models knows that sometimes, there's simply not enough information to confidently reach any useful conclusions. Absent validation of the approaches used here (e.g. evidence that they've successfully made predictions in the past in similar situations), I believe that's our situation here.
what are the dimensions? it looks pretty big
> We used to be able to have data driven civil conversations.

That "we" was a very exclusive club by design, and now that people outside it are trying to butt in, it is only natural that doors would be slammed in their face. The idea that the club was open to all was a fiction, told in the knowledge that only "we" had a voice to speak with anyways.
It's not unreasonable, and it's exactly how it used to work until Google started messing around with inserting ads into every aspect of the site (they very much want you to you click on the ad-laden videos you were NOT looking for). They changed the default and relegated it to be a search modifier.
I read an article a while back about the fact that researchers are having a difficult time finding new research topics to study. "Everything has already been done," they say. I say this pish-posh. This article is proof positive that we are far from reaching the bottom of the barrel. /s
where do you work that requires ethics reviews on roaches? and where is the line for where it's considered cruel or not? tbh i have 0 issues killing bugs.

do you not believe in pest control?
full backing with what exactly? You are joking right? Only powerful US army is backing it, nothing else.
Exactly - imagine when we get to the point where, regardless of your "crime", your punishment is 'augmented' by the "thing that you said in the past" AND when it starts to be able to connect to APIs of your social/whatever accounts and AI-Auto-Cancel you....

Basically digital assassination.
Yeah this has been a thing for at least 20 years.
NT had a built in messenger service that operated on named pipes. It was one of those services you disabled as soon as you could.
Thank you, we need more of this mentality. I am in charge of my computer, not some tech company product manager 1,000 miles away. If I don't command my computer to run a program, it should not run it.

If I don't think some company's messenger application should run in the background on startup, it should not run in the background on startup.
I didn't say infinite, I said unlimited.
well since the status quo is putting poison all over a house i'd prefer this if it becomes viable. pest control roomba with a laser on top? cool asf.
By contrast, Slack is 6MB of minified JavaScript across 6 requests.
Except starvation has gone down and quality of life has gone up for the large majority of the human population. Where are you coming from with "a trillion people who live in the edge of starvation"? Some assumed doomsday situation?

Not to be a buzz kill but things have been getting better.
I only follow about 20% of what he does because of my limited skill but he's certainly entertaining.
Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27043217
Last time I tried it, it didn't crash but after taking the lift and walked around the space station for a while I got bored. Apparently there's a game in there somewhere but I couldn't find it.

Apparently there is a way to actually find a ship to fly in, but they sure made it difficult to find out how to fly it.
Well, unfortunately treating hooks like they're the worst thing since the devil is just the latest (and most humorous) in a long trend wherein a new syntax is added to something, and every developer thinks "okay, the preexisting alternative is now old and bad". I've been scolded many times in code reviews for absent-mindedly making a class-based component instead of using hooks (mind you, this was a legacy codebase FULL of class-based components. Are react developers just undereducated? Considering how many developers I've seen spend MONTHS "learning hooks" I think so. (Not to mention, every single React project I've been on in the last 7 years has been me and some developer who's never used React before, but has a lot of shallow blogpost-driven opinions).
The "higher tier" ($40) is still cheaper than probably any 2 of the books direct from their publishers, even on sale/discount. The next highest tier ($30) is cheaper than most of the books singularly from their publisher and only missing out of one (very well recommended) book. I personally already had LPI, Devops for the Desperate, Absolute FreeBSD, Absolute OpenBSD, The GNU Make book and STILL picked up the bundle at the $30 tier because it's a huge value AND some of it goes to EFF which is probably the best "charity" I could support if I had to choose one.

Suggesting you should pirate these books because you think they're outdated is just 'splaining away being too cheap/frugal to pay for things that you want.
i mean sure the regulators don't like it but they're probably also working with the people running surveillance drones. i have no ethical problems with shooting down or disabling surveillance drones that spy on my property. the only thing stopping me from doing it is having a means where i can achieve it and not get caught/punished.
I can understand the issue with the latter (almost feels akin to the sadistic sort of things kids do in general to insects...) but just killing them as a means of pest control I'm not quite sure I can grasp what the ethical concern is.
Causation without correlation is the norm.
They have options, now - Taskmaster had its own streaming service, which is a weird flex. I love the show but skipped it because it's not worth $50 for temporary access to, though I'd gladly pay $25 for a "perpetual" license.
It’s ridiculous how much money they are leaving money on the table in the US. Taskmaster (UK) has a huge following among US teenagers, at least in my area.
I don't know if there's a clear answer to (1), but with respect to (2) I believe there is precedent that the copyright owner would have a strong case if they had reason to believe the python library author had seen their work and it played a roll in the transcription to python. You can't look at a GPL work and literally transcribe it to license launder. Companies have tried. You can implement a similar idea in a clean room, though.
But should these be done only in times of recession? Should we hold some projects in "shovel-ready" state so we can have something to quickly spend money on when the economy starts faltering? Or should the government just do these things when they need to be done?
As a PM —- you know the guy who is filling your calendar up with meetings and preventing you from doing the real work —- I love this. Please send us and others signals. Be brutal and direct.

“This meeting doesn’t have an agenda, so I won’t attend. Feel free to send me notes and highlight your ask.”

“I am happy to meet, but only for 15 minutes instead of 30.”

You don’t even need to justify it, unless that justification is intended to send a signal to the person trying to take up your time that they must do better if they want to succeed in doing so.
Facebook is vanity. It is really all about ego. People love to stroke their ego. It is hilarious to me how many will defend pride and how many somehow confuse pride with virtue, when the opposite of pride, humility, is the virtue. What made Facebook popular is the same thing that makes any vice popular, such as gambling or drinking, because pride is a vice, also known as an indulgence, and pride, ego, and vanity are definitely not virtues. Facebook (and, to similar extent, Twitter) has tricked its users into believing that vice and indulgence are virtuous, and excessive vice and excessive indulgence are most virtuous. But we all used to know that excessive vanity and excessive pride, or hubris, is counted among the seven deadly sins. Facebook is basically a mass-vehicle for sin, and sin, as a transgression of divine law, feels really great. And that is how Facebook (and Twitter) did it, by presenting opportunity to violate the First Commandment and make everyone worship themselves and think they're God, at least while they're logged-in.
+1. There is a widespread "metric fallacy" or "task fallacy" going around. Models of course optimize for metrics, so they tend to perform well on those related metrics.

Humans, however, are not simply metric optimizers. Though it's always in the interest of those corporations producing metric optimizers (i.e. models) to paint humans as such, so their models shine in comparison. They want humans to look like bad machines, so it looks like they should be automated. Not to say they shouldn't in many cases, just that there's a clear one-sidedness in all corporate PR (and funded research, especially that research which is also PR).

All this to say that yes I agree with you. And if we humans don't want our unsustainable economic growth to turn us even more into machines (as our bureaucratic creep has done quite well thus far), we should fight such rhetoric that aims to paint humans simply as machines or task-doers.
I think technically they also have to provide the source if they don't modify it. But that could probably just be having a link to the GitHub repo.
There is a middle ground between being homeless on a beach* and deciding to work 4 hours on a Saturday just to get stuff done.

My point is that the reason I can take this attitude now is that I have spent 25 years getting to the point where I am paid well and I can negotiate my time so that I don't have to work evenings and weekends.

* if I was going to be homeless, living on a Mexican beach sounds like a pretty good option.
Not sure about open source, but in general, automated transcription systems need a separate track for each different speaker. So for example, for a phone call with one person on each end, you need two separate channels (recording systems usually split them left/right on one stereo file).
Part of the difficulty of turbulent water is that it can really whip you and smash you around. It doesn’t necessarily look that violent from outside of the water, but you could be getting broken limbs and brain trauma in that kind of turbulence. The force of the water pressing you into walls and boulders is tremendous.

Loads of fatalities in turbulent water occur because the victim rapidly becomes unconscious in the water.
Sorry but no. It's limited, no Vulkan, can't compile/use kernel drivers, etc. But useable for a lot more than not. Also `docker` still works on it.
Clearly you should venture forth and swim in it to prove him wrong. Godspeed.
I don't have (or want) a Twitter account, which kind of rules me out.
A counterpoint to this is that as someone notes: Do you really need 4K on a phone?

I've always thought that just as a matter of "manners" one should attempt to use as little of a limited resource as possible - especially when using perhaps internet or worse, cellular data or radio spectrum.

Back when Google did the whole "we will set the default resolution lower" thing at the beginning of the pandemic, were YouTube users en masse pissed off at the lower quality, or did they even notice? I would argue that most people would not be scrutinizing the video, especially if they were not full screened, at which point the resolution may as well be wasted.

I'm not necessarily defending paywalling the feature, but I do think there is validity into pushing users into a lower qulity funnel for reasons beyond simple greed.

On the other hand, I watch most of the videos I watch in windowed theater mode in 1440p on my 4K screen. I find that 1440p is the best quality that does not cause frequent seeking in the video to lag, and I tend to do this a lot to skip for example, sponsor segments and other "fluff” manually. I'm on fiber internet, so it's probably got something to do with either YouTube or my computer's video decode pipeline
Well, information is valuable. I think that Google has been "adding water to the vodka bottle" for quite some time, and the ultimate goal is to generate revenue for finding and providing useful, focused or curated information. Ad revenue is one the wane, and the search function is going to have to generate revenue somehow. That's my humble opinion.
It started when a Joe Biden speech video got disliked into oblivion. We're talking 2 million+ dislikes.
The computer can generate artwork for your game, but only after training on other people's artwork that they spent effort and time creating. I think auto-generating art from other people's creations and hard work is wrong personally, unless they have specifically granted that permission when sharing their work. You are basically side-stepping paying for artists by laundering their work in my eyes.

If you trained only on things that granted you permission to do so, or if you bought a bunch of art works to train on this would be really cool.

I am interested in seeing how this turns out legally. Copyright law is intended to protect humans and their intellectual property, and these "AI" or "ML" systems are not humans, so I am not so confident that generating work from other peoples is going to be legal.
After a few trips around the wheel you'd think that people would realize "hey, we rewrote our entire react app, we were good little developers, we did the right thing,.. but that path led nowhere"
Meanwhile China doesnt care and is creating super apps unencumbered
40 Year Old Virgin came out the same year as the first season of The Office, I'd imagine that helped give it an early boost too (edit: and vice versa).
I feel you here. After living with them for a couple years I started to feel crazy when I would crush the skittering ones with my bare hands in hopes of making a dent.

After trying dozens of extermination strategies I cackled when the first generation of deformed roaches started being born when using gentrol. >:)
My best device for the last 3-4 years have been Eve Chromebook with 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD - still can't find a newer Chromebook that matches it :(

That's all I wanted... something newer that runs Vulkan too in Crostini :)
I’d watch Richard Ayoade in just about anything. Travel Man was absolutely brilliant. I keep trying to find a way to watch his Crystal Maze episodes — what little I’ve seen of them has been hilarious.
Trillian before that
My other favourite tactic is block booking my own time. When I was doing more dev, I'd quite happily block 4 hours out of my calendar to do some coding, and if you're booking a meeting during that time, the world better be exploding.
You should look in to Logseq.
I don't know. LED light bulbs used to be very expensive. A market study 15 years ago would have found close to zero demand for them. Now they are affordable, they cut electricity bills and people do buy them. Technologies need to go over a certain threshold for demand to show up. The government can help with this.
Here's the thing with academia and why you do want the weekends. She was on a tenure track. Essentially that's an up or out situation. She has 7 years or so to get tenure and then she's set for life. Case in point Amy Wax from Harvard who is a tenured professor and is hugely controversial but still cannot be fired. That's the sort of job security you're aiming for. It's the only one possible - if you're not granted tenure its a massive miss and you need to begin your professional life anew.

So given that context, weekend work makes sense. It's not ideal but neither is the academic tenure track.
Probably the single best way to influence the city is to show how cyclists impact tax revenue and how making the city more friendly for bicycles will increase that revenue.

It's probably easier to make this argument on new urban areas still in the planning stage. Existing urban areas largely have they're areas where thoroughfares are built out. So you're up against reallocation of existing space away from cars and to bikes.
Mostly because I don't believe government intervention can solve poverty. If anything, governments should get out of the way and let people make money, so protesting in the streets to "do something about poverty" is actually counterproductive.

When it did any good, yes, I did my share of protesting. I even did some politics, I'm actually still a party member.
I've been wondering for a while and can't find an answer to this:

SD to USB adapters exist, but is it possible to hook up an SD-to-USB cable and have a driver present a virtual sd disk to the camera but write the video directly to your computer RAM via USB?

That would solve the problem for all dSLRs.
I Prefer Mithril over Angular and React
For more benchmarks on an rtx 2060 (6gb), the "small" model for me is roughly 10x real-time and the tiny model is 30x real-time.
Well the thing with the "Guix System" is that is uses the LinuxLibre kernel. So if the hardware you have requires proprietary bits or driver, it just isn't included. That isn't to defend Guix in anyway, but the problem doesn't seem to be Guix when you read the fine print of the distro, the problem is your hardware.

So, do I agree necessarily agree with GNU's official distributions having this philosophy? Not really. Firmware and drivers is probably the one area I think the GNU people should finally throw in the towel. It keeps people out of running it, or doing so with relative ease. And the battle is for the most part lost on that end. But they do essentially tell you that it is likely it won't work across a lot of hardware out of the box.

But here is the download page
[0] https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/
That mentions the Libre kernel with link to information about the Libre kernel
[1] https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/
With the following information:

"Linux, the kernel developed and distributed by Linus Torvalds et al, contains non-Free Software, i.e., software that does not respect your essential freedoms, and it induces you to install additional non-Free Software that it doesn't contain. Even after allegedly moving all firmware to a separate project as of release 4.14, Linux so-called "sources" published by Mr Torvalds still contain non-Free firmware disguised as source code.
Stux, a cute penguin. Few realize he's not Free

GNU Linux-libre is a project to maintain and publish 100% Free distributions of Linux, suitable for use in Free System Distributions, removing software that is included without source code, with obfuscated or obscured source code, under non-Free Software licenses, that do not permit you to change the software so that it does what you wish, and that induces or requires you to install additional pieces of non-Free Software."
Doesn't work in intellij
Compression also works better on higher-quality video. The compression algorithm doesn't have to try to properly recover the noise.

Also, seconded on the difference a larger sensor and better glass make for a webcam.
>"AFAIK, it is only Linux which explicitly supports the kernel system call interface.:

Could you elaborate on this? Specifically I'm not understanding what exactly is "explicit" with regards system calls on Linux compared to other OSes.
nobody is buying something that's just going to capture roaches.
Usually when people say “price gouging” they are making a moral claim — the price being charged is Wrong — not a technical claim.

So you can’t distinguish it without sharing the same morals as the speaker, and you therefore should “know it when you see it”.
You don't have to be a genius to see the facts. Just somebody who is not working very hard to not notice what is going on.

> None of the web services/app you mention block specific visitors; only accounts

So? How the situation with visitors is specifically different? Yes, they didn't want to block visitors for now, but what if they feel like it?
This particular article is most likely fake news based on rumors from "journalist Amir Tsarfati" because if they were to cut it off they would definitely do it at the passport control, not "Russian airlines sales". There are tons of non-Russian airlines flying out of the country, including half a dozen Turkish ones, Emirates, etc. They already flag people dodging debt and child support at passport control, they would do the same for the draft dodgers, but so far there have been no reports of that happening.
With GCP you can right-size the CPU and memory of the VM the GPU is attached to, unlike the fixed GPU AWS instances, so there is the potential for cost savings there.
Does this yield "clean" output, without framelines/exposure data, etcetera?
So for any of these destinations there are really two options: fly-by or orbit insertion.

Pluto obviously was a fly-by. There were several reasons for this. Distance is a big one. Also, the more distant planets are the lower their orbital velocity. More distance = longer travel time. A higher velocity can reduce the travel time but you need to speed up at launch and slow down on arrival and that requires a higher delta-V budget. That requires extra mass of fuel, which becomes a vicious circle.

Pluto is tiny and far so a fly-by was really the only option. Even then it took 10 years to get there.

Neptune is more massive, closer and heavier. All of these help but if I'm reading [1] correctly, you'd still be realistically looking at a 30 year travel time for an insertion orbit. Having instruments hibernate for that long and work on the other end is really the biggest problem.

We're entering an era of super-heavy lifters. Maybe these will meaningfully increase the practical delta-V budgets.

Inserting a probe into orbit around Uranus (let alone Neptune) seems currently impractical just given how long it would take but that doesn't make me want it any less. Even a fly-by is better than nothing.

But the delta-V for Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all roughly the same

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget
That or you were just straight up wrong and bought into the fantasy that gets played out on HN every month.

Tether was taking other end of bitcoin shorts for 5 years. Its fantastically profitable and you bought the manufactured story that they are about to collapse any moment.
One reason is that inflation has a lot of inertia, because inflationary expectations drive more inflation.

A strong labor market drives up wages. When not matched by GDP growth, those wages increase costs, which cause workers to demand higher wages to keep up with those costs, and so on.

The cycle needs to be broken even if there is short term pain for workers.
My browsers don't even have a javascript engine in the first place. It is not about security, but it's about those grotesquely and absurdely massive web engines, google financed blink/geeko and apple financed webkit (including the SDK).

Thx for the links though.
Or distract that you're writing code for a product that is lame and writing is already on the wall that it won't succeed.