skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course its me that's offended by it, I don't think I was hiding it. With that said, I'm jewish, we've kind of had our own rough go of it. Good part of my family died in the holocaust and the Russian Pogroms. I had stones thrown at me as a child on 2 occasions because I was Jewish. In elementary school I had to sit outside in the open hallway rain or shine while the christian kids prayed (I'm not from America originally). I would never work for a company that singled Jews out beneficially and taught classes that said be polite to the Jews and don't discriminate against them. It means they are specifically saying I am different and that my coworkers are potentially anti-Semites. That's pretty awkward.

Desantis' stance is essentially telling teachers don't talk about Gay/Trans issues in the classroom and don't teach in such a way as to make children of a specific race feel bad or guilty for being of that race. You can argue it goes further than this and perhaps it does but that's my main takeaway and the reason for my vote. I'll still vote Biden for president though. I'm leaning towards voting Dem for federal positions and Republican on a state level.
Ask HN: Why Hasn't the Doomsday Clock Advanced?
Since January 2022 the Doomsday clock has not advanced [0]. That is before the start of the war. Over the past few months the war has escalated and threats of use of nuclear weapons have been made. Shouldn't the Doomsday Clock reflect that a nuclear conflict is now more imminent?

[0] https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/
How much do the licences cost?
Every other OS too. Embarassingly bad options everywhere.
Minutes isn't really that big a deal though, one could give it a list of prompts to round-robin through and come back in the morning to a huge collection of images to explore. It's just a different workflow.

Ironically, cpu support would be faster for me (in terms of throughput, at least) because I have on the order of a thousand zen cores put only a couple CUDA compatible GPUs with enough ram to run SD.
At this point "climate change" (based around carbon) is the biggest grift going. The gift that keeps on giving.
Please show me teaching proper permissions discipline to a company that goes from 5 to 500 employees and ret-con it to all of the older files like that random spreadsheet the former head of HR shared with legal with various employee PII on it such as SSN, Salary, Sexual Orientation, Name your most sensitive employee data etc on it that IT now sees / owns.
> 40% are > 65 and on social security (disability/retirement)...Less than half the people pay with actual money

What are you talking about? Social Security doesn't have any special program to pay for groceries, and there isn't any way for a checkout clerk to tell whether someone is collecting Social Security.
Office 365 is a frankinstien of SharePoint? I've never used Office365 but Sharepoint is awful and I'd take Workspaces over it any day
Oh man, you are in for a treat!
This is just bad reasoning. How much they spend on other items is irrelevant to whether the amount they spend on roads is sufficient. The effects of deferred maintenance take years or decades to show up. Then a bridge collapses or a road needs to be completely redone and there’s no money to fix it.

The same effect scales to other services anyway. You need more cops to cover 50 square miles than 10 square miles and if the areas is low density it’s producing less $ / square mile in taxes so they can’t afford it.
> $5 of anti-fungal medication cuts some cancer death rates in half?

I read an interesting hypothesis that many cancers can be treated by changing (perhaps unpredictable) variables in the patient's body.

We already know cancers thrive in nutrient-rich environments and that many tumors have a narrower set of survival conditions than the normal tissue around them. That's why chemo works: you start to kill the whole person and the tumor (hopefully) dies first.

So what if you just randomly messed around with the conditions of the body? Give someone a diabetes drug, change their diet, add an antifungal... we've seen random successes like this, and the unifying theory might be that the cancer was thriving because it had exactly the right conditions, and now we can change them to cause the cancer to stop thriving.
/usr/bin as input

tar czf: 18s (214MB)
tar cf: 240ms (553MB)
tar c | lz4 -c: 1s (305MB)
tar c | zstd -c: 1.6s (214MB)

TL;DR gzip is and has been for a long time obsolete as both a format and as a tool.

find | cpio: 1.2s

Bit disappointed in that last bit, honestly.
Can you share them?
Global PC shipments fell 15% YoY to 74.3M units in Q3 2022; Apple grew 40.2% YoY
I actually had a dentist tell me this recently after a clean. That the only "good" thing about calcified tartar is that is does form a barrier.

But that we should prevent it accumulating in the first place and causing tooth damage.
Causing the deaths of 40-200 thousand civilians, thousands of our own armed forces and tens of thousands returning home wounded was just the cost of working that military muscle? Sorry but that's even more f'd up than the official reason we got told.
> * find better programs and copy but never paste, as a beginner always key-in your programs

This is a surprisingly valuable tip. By manually typing in the code instead of just using copy/paste, you have the opportunity to make typing errors, causing programming problems you then have to debug. It forces you to dig into things in order to figure out what's going on and fix it.

Bonus points if you change some minor aspect of the code while you're typing it in. Change variable names, maybe genericize it a little. Something that theoretically shouldn't make any difference. The problems will be worse, forcing you to dig in even more to fix them.

I've learned so much this way over the years. YMMV, of course.
Super Mario Bros doomed video-game movies for a generation
I can't believe my article is here on HN.
Yeah, the fact that aftermarket mods are basically necessary to actually fully make use of Quest 2 is what leads to me think that this is not a fully-formed product yet.

For example Quest 2 while usable while wearing glasses, is deeply unpleasant. If you're a glasses wearer a set of prescription inserts is practically required. Likewise for comfort aftermarket straps are a must.

I get why FB isn't including these things out of the box (or has first-party consideration for it) but it overall makes the whole thing feel like a deeply unfinished product.
That's how the current compression works, I guess I don't understand what you propose.
Oh god don't even get me started on that....
Office can work in an airgapped environment, anything using Google Workspace can be compromised over the Internet. (I presume the Army is a big enough deal they could get a private network link to Google, but that still isn't an airgap.)
You pay $100/yr for the email service. The blogging part is free.
Not without changing the structure of the gzip unfortunately.
That seems like a niche market good for VR. It could be extended for general training for operating specialized systems and even in education. But what I don’t see about VR is wide adoption by the public in a similar vein to the adoption of smartphones.
Converting text to SVG is super hard. Flowing English text is easy enough, but when it comes to Unicode text, with languages such as Arabic and Indian languages, that's when it gets hard. I tried Satori, and it doesn't handle Unicode very well, particularly, combining characters.
Agreed. Without source code, this is just Yet Another Guitar Tuner App(tm) this time with Magic Rust Pixie Dust(tm) (take our word for it).

If they release source code, I'll toss them money. Until then, pass.
Whatever the case is nano-hydroxyapatite is quietly becoming available on the US market and kids can safely swallow it so they don't develop fluorosis like I did which never goes away for the rest of your life
I don't understand this sentiment at all. I have to deal with Outlook at work and it is hot garbage. I can't believe this competes with a web application from 2004. Yes, I get desktop Excel but I have never had to use any feature in it I couldn't get in Sheets (I use sheets a lot outside of work). Trust me you have it good. We do not even have Office 365, so our 'sharing' options are SharePoint. I would love to have Gmail for work.
> any sign language

so presumably not just ASL. In any case, this is probably a sorely needed service, if there are robust production pipelines for subtitling and dubbing in other written languages but not for sign languages.
> and even practiced herding (a form of agriculture)

Herding is not a form of agriculture; it is pastoralism.

Agriculture means cultivating fields.
Start with downloading SRA toolkit: https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools/wiki/02.-Installing-SRA-To...

Find some data of interest: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra?term=(%22Homo%20sapiens%22[... (This searches SRA for human genome sequences on illumina with fastq files available)

Run fasterq-dump on the SRR (listed as "Runs" in the SRA page of your choice):
fasterq-dump SRR21812682

Download a microbial genome of interest, here is the link for common yeast: https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCF/000/146/045/GCF...

Install an alignment tool like bwa:
https://github.com/lh3/bwa

Unzip the the genome file and create a bwa index:
gunzip GCF_000146045.2_R64_genomic.fna.gz && bwa index GCF_000146045.2_R64_genomic.fna

Align:
bwa GCF_000146045.2_R64_genomic.fna SRR21812682.fastq (or whatever the fastq files are named)

If you get any alignment results, you've "found" fungal DNA in a human sample. This is a highly simplified workflow, but covers the basic ideas. One of the papers is free and the method sections covers their workflow (it is much more complicated):

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01127-8

Useful resources:
https://www.biostars.org/
https://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/?location=bioinform...
https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/organization/ccg/research/s... (source data for this paper, cancer specific sequencing data)
> it's quite snappy after you've downloaded the 6.23mb (not 20mb!) of JS and CSS

The pbpBB page you linked downloads 330 KB. Or you can disable JavaScript (and the page still works), and it only downloads
156 KB.

Discourse sucks.
What percentage of kitchen meat cleavers and claw hammers are capable of killing someone?
It's a shame that Oracle make their products toxic because this particular one is truly fantastic.
The author spends a fair bit talking about socially awkward people wanting to lurk - invisible until they see an entry into conversation. Dude, creepy f-ing stalker! Most people would rather you sit quietly not saying anything than discover you've been listening undetected.
While I agree with your general notions on automation, I think UBI isn't necessary.

Some other alternatives include expanding the service sector, legislating human roles in workflows, and/or simply producing less humans. Not saying any of these are good ideas, but when the alternative is creating a permanent underclass that represents 90% of society, we may have to choose between least-worst options.

Personally, I look outside and see plenty of work that needs doing though, so I don't think these kinds of trade-offs really need to be made. We have entire cities that humans could be rebuilding, natural environments to restore, and call centers to man (so I can get actual customer service when I call my bank). Let's watch less TV shows and do that instead.
> Which would both be illegal and never pass an IRB.

To be fair, this is not two separate problems. Anyone who's willing to run the illegal study will not care whether they can get IRB approval.
How many $B has Microsoft made off of Excel formulas and keyboard shortcuts?

Not to say they aren't delivering value, but I work in a place where many people have only used Google Sheets their whole career. They can't imagine running a finance org any other way.
lol, fair point
No I was not.

You're being sloppy imprecise and presumptive once again. I'm noticing a pattern here. Let's see if it comes in threes.

And in case you're wondering, you're the one who set the rules of this engagement, I'm only playing by them.

We can be adults any time you want.
> Let's imagine perfect VR (the Matrix). Would it be better to play Mahjong, Poker, Blackjack, Chess, pick your favorite board game, with real pieces setting at a real table

I think your point was more about which interface is best for these games, but it made me think of something else.

I don't even play those games very often in real life, why would I be excited about playing them in VR?

In fact, more often then not, if I ever play these, it's if I'm on the bus, or taking a shit, or something like that, which means I'll exclusively play them on my phone at this point.

I really don't feel the prospect of playing these games in VR, even in perfect matrix like VR would appeal to me. If I want to be bothered to physically play these games, which I already don't, I can just physically go play them, or more conveniently play them on my phone.

I think if VR is to draw people in, it's got to bring whole new games, experiences I can only live in VR.
A person who signs regularly can do reasonably well from the "corner of the eye" because they speak / sign in groups all the time. Reading text is not anywhere near as efficient, in terms of understanding while watching other activities going on at the same time.

Also, because it isn't Signed English (which is actually a thing) there is a specific grammar to it that makes it super efficient. That's why it often looks like the signer on political broadcasts isn't telling the whole story, when in fact they might even be telling more of it than text alone could convey.

I have a number of deaf friends and acquaintances (I'm almost deaf in one ear, and HoH in the other, so I have hearing aids), and I know at least from them, that written English is not their forte. A lot of grammar, like adding "ing" to the end of verbs and gerunds, is pretty baffling to someone who hasn't grown up hearing them in speech. Since I actually can hear (just not very well), my spoken/written English is not affected.
This seems like a neat one.
https://youtu.be/6pMyhrDcMzw
I haven't seen representatives from Discourse, Flarum, Vanilla, or the like chime in yet, but as the founder of NodeBB, I want to say this is just awesome!

I'm absolutely loving the fact that the HN zeitgeist has come around to embracing these no-js solutions focusing on function over form.

Every once in awhile I come across little sparks in the forum space, but they all fizzle out for one simple reason: building a forum software isn't as easy as you think it is.

For us, it took three developers a year apiece of full-time work to reach rough feature parity with our competitors, and we're still trying to innovate nearly a decade in (and add in the constant need for reducing technical debt, etc.)

For now I will say what I always say when I see new competitors in the forum space — give me a run for my money. Keep me on my toes! I appreciate the challenge, and it gives me that extra incentive to make our software the best it can be.
Android leaks connectivity check traffic
I don’t understand your comment at all. Ransomware can encrypt and encrypted virtual machine. If the host is compromised at a privilege level able to read or modify the VM, the vm is also implicitly compromised.
Maybe flight control: https://www.flightcontrol.dev/
To be clear, if you're using number of CVEs to determine whether some software is more secure than other software then you are very directly incentivizing people to not file CVEs. Your actions are directly harming the ecosystem.
It bears pointing out that all such studies that have been conducted have super questionable methodologies and therefore questionable conclusions. There is a strong publication bias for surprising conclusions like “all wine experts are frauds” and essentially no bias for publishing something mundane like “people who train explicitly for blind tasting are… actually good at blind tasting”.

My suggestion is go and participate in a blind tasting with an actual expert (a MW or Master Somm), and draw your own conclusions about whether it is a parlor trick or not.
Do you care about vertical tabs? (if not, you must not have many tabs open at once) If so, your choices are: Opera, Edge or Firefox with one of two extensions (I use Sidebery).
> using their internal access to target vulnerabilities in customer AWS setups

citation needed
O365 multiuser Excel is awful. It’s pretty trivial for someone to fubar the XLS in such a way that it’s completely unusable.

Excel is probably one of the finest pieces of software devised. But not that part.
We've been delivering on that by adding Virtru, if you want help with it, miles@sada.com
Gzip is fine for lots of tasks.

It's not the most efficient compressor, either by space or speed. But it has a million implementations that all work well together.

If you just need "good enough" compression with no fuss, gzip is still an excellent choice.
IETF standard presentation.
So Google offered the Army 250k workspaces for pennies on the dollar. Good for them. And good for the Army.

Maybe now MSFT won’t charge DoD as much for 365 again.

Sounds like a typical day in the cloud wars. Let’s see what happens when renegotiations come up for the contract.
It's extremely clear that VR will, for the next decade at least, be anything as a semi-niche entertainment format. AR will be the future, and VR will only take off when AR is ubiquitous and the AR hardware can be used to deliver VR content/experiences.

I think the premise of current consumer VR investments and experiences (Meta, ahem), are wasted money - the future will be something like a miniaturized magicleap/hololens.

Unlike the 90s, I think a lot of the required hardware precursors for success exist. The remaining "hard" precursors are display tech and interaction methods/input. When that's solved, then we will have at least the required baseline for building decent AR/VR experiences.
No that's not how it works. Many low-density areas have very few law enforcement officers, and still have low crime rates. Whereas some of the densest cities actually need more cops because the residents act out in antisocial ways.

Strong Towns just cherry picks data to support their preferred political narrative. I actually agree with some of their recommendations, but let's not be fooled into believing that they're doing high quality analysis.
> Tons of functionality you get in Excel is not there.

On the rare occasion I have to put something into Excel for some business person, it's a dump from CSV.
It absolutely should.
Sheets has had almost no updates for the last 10 years after getting to its current level of viability. I'm reminded of this 7 year old talk (You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky) where he goes over a bunch of great Excel features that still aren't in Google Sheets today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
>>And there are several Neovim distributions (LunarVim, Nvchad, etc.) that have all of the bells and whistles included.

Problem with distributions is as the contributions decrease they start becoming abandonware with time.

Leaving you with with vim and having to work through the configuration hell on the long term for yourself.

>>Again, Neovim gives you choices: you can configure and tweak it to your heart’s content

Trust me this is negative thing, not exactly something most programmers want. Most programmers don't enjoy configuring their IDE/Editors as a full time project together with your regular day job.
In 2016 I was asked to install some software on a WinSvr2012R2. I was forced to install it on my Win8.1 tablet first, because the 16-bit stub didn't work on x64 2012R2. After install I copied the files to the server and the software brazenly showed "XXX for Windows 95" in the Help->About. On a 2012R2 x64 server. In the year 2016.

There was (and is) a lot of shit which developers did wrong (including writing directly to C:\WINDOWS). Yet if they did stick to the basics (GDI output and so on) that worked for decades. I abandoned Corel PhotoPaint 3 (with (c) 1992) only after moving to Vista in 2008.
I'd argue that Gmail (user interface, features, and performance) is the best part of Google Workspace and competes very favorably with Outlook. Excel, on the other hand, is a league above Google Sheets when it comes to performance and advanced features, although Sheets has a few unique things too. They both have their strengths and I'm happy to have the competition to make both better.
That's OK, next year's budget will include funding for a third service to bridge them together for three times the cost.
I go on Omegle fairly often and I've seen only one penis in recent memory, I think they've done a great job cleaning the site up and I often have meaningful conversations on there.

The idea that someone would seek to monetize the service is abhorrent, I cannot think of a way trying to extract money from people that would improve the UX, nor a way that having that extracted money could then be used to improve the UX.
Oh yeah when I worked at Oracle they'd do these kinds of shakedowns even on stuff people were paying to host. This was pre OCI though, dunno if they're still doing it. Felt like something the mob would do.

Nice company you have there, shame if something were unlicensed eh?
Do you select the range and do Insert—>Table? Using an actual table is much better in Excel and the lack of this confuses me in Sheets but that’s probably just because I’m better trained in Excel.
Chat rooms, and more recently technologies like Discord and Telegram, are popular because you’re not expected to participate in the conversations that are being held. You can just lurk. There are lots of people who like to wait for an opportunity to jump in to a conversation, and traditional chat platforms facilitate that very well.

This part of the article really got my attention and I wonder if there's a better way to re-imagine the chat-lurker dynamic for VR. The author suggests opacity and free looking but I wonder if there's a better way to convey a crowd of people who are supposed to lurk. That way you get a visual representation of how many people are in a chat. What immediately comes to mind for me are:

1. theater/stadium seating

2. rap battle format(a group of people in a spontaneous circle around 2 main speakers

3. Some sort of Oxford debate(https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-re...) app so you can listen in on people with strong opinions.
I’m not sure you can extract $4 trillion over and over, year after year. Maybe once or twice. Maybe.
Have you moved to an area with a different water source than your childhood? Like switching from city water to well water, or vice versa?
The military-industrial complex [1] on full display.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military–industrial_complex
My understanding was that hardware virtualization extensions are turned off in firmware at boot time. I don't know if private entitlements or jailbreaks would be enough.
I would posit "mind-spaghettifying" instead, as a description.
I don’t understand why the new mail.mil doesn’t have an option for email only without the Office 365 apps. Seems like that would solve the cost issue.
Are you referring to the debunked Bloomberg story about magical backdoors in chips?
A better way to look at this is to recognize that geopolitics involve a multitude of political, economic, cultural, etc aspects. It's not that the US cares nothing for human rights violations, it's that we often prioritize different aspects. Caring does not imply a specific action.

Absolutely not trying to justify the relationship between the US and UAE. However, a maximalist position rarely leads to a positive change when so many parties and interests are involved.
I assume they're misunderstanding/misrepresenting the CapitalOne breach.
Redditt tier comment inbound: because The Right Team is in power in most countries