skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered about this. Is there a doctor in the house who could clarify the value of having this kind of lagging indicator?

Presumably, the idea of having the musician playing is to give the doctor a heads-up in case they slice into a valuable area of the brain. But, by the time the music playing is affected, the slice would have already happened — so then, what's the point?

I agree it's a great way to harvest social media likes (which presumably helps pay the medical bills, so I suppose it's nothing to sneeze at). But it's tough to see how it'd meaningfully help a fine-grained surgery. That abstract on PubMed ^ seems to say much the same:

> ...playing music did not improve or modify surgery.
Violently agreeing.

We really need completely open source stack for the applications themselves, and few enough deps that they can run and be debugged locally. Not only that, but one shouldn't need to provision a cluster and configure certs just to run some business logic that's unrelated to infrastructure.
Isn't this a simple DMCA takedown? Lorenz's tweets are her intellectual property, she has control over where they are rehosted and IA's hands are basically tied.
Yeah this is the failing of hygiene hypothesis. Do kids raised in dirt or near animals have stronger immune responses than kids raised in a sanitized modern life? Probably. Do they have better long term outcomes in terms of overall health and longevity? Very unlikely and certainly never proven.
I'm not sure I understand the importance of these hackers being Indian as opposed as from any other region?
Just be aware that support in non-browser software is not so widespread and for something which doesn't understand the extension, it's still effectively a global CA if installed
Far point. We've read various stories on HN how people got their Firebase billing skyrocketed. One of the lessons learnt: efficient DB access.
From the kernel docs, `image-size` section, which relates to the hibernation image size.

> Reading from it returns the current image size limit, which is set to around 2/5 of the available RAM size by default.

I have successfully been hibernating a laptop after a few hours in suspend with swap allocated 50% the size of my RAM, so 8GB when I had a 16GB laptop, and 16GB now on a 32GB laptop. Never had any issues.
I wonder if there is a group of people that is even more comfortable than the "middle class" that could afford this cost.
I don't know much about your particular use case, but in my experience implementing an animation in CSS results in a smoother animation with better GL acceleration in the browser resulting in a lot less CPU/battery consumption.

So. There's that.

But otherwise I'm broadly in agreement. If you're making an online application, it pretty much requires JS. Not so much for CRUD db form apps/forums/blogs/wikis etc.
> cited an April 30, 2018 Defense Department report [PDF] that contained 156 complaints of critical deficiencies with the Cerner's Military Health System GENESIS deployment for the military.

> "There were reports that clinicians literally quit because they were terrified that they might hurt or even kill one of their patients," Rep. O'Rourke (D) said, addressing then Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs Peter O'Rourke. "The user score out of a possible 100 was 37."

Yikes.
Doesn't this also imply that if the CLI experience were able to be improved graphically enough, people who care about that sort of thing would be more open to using it?
I've spent years tuning over 100,000 AMD GPUs. Tuning them to run fast, efficient and stable, is a non-trivial science. The failure mode is to crash the entire machine. They are all snowflakes and require individual settings for each GPU and there is no software that I know of that has automated this (except my own).

I'm sure they are struggling to keep that thing running.
I remembered Reuters doing an expose on this about five years ago so I couldn't empathize at all with the opening of this Vice article.

This might actually be a better article. Shows some examples of how the bodies are set up to be blown up:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-body...

Wonder how many people would sign their bodies up for military testing if they made the distinction.

Do they ask people already in the military if they want to donate their bodies for military testing?
Eagle library import - nice (assuming it works).

Does KiCad support this feature?
> I am personally seeing lawyers to seek noscript/basic (x)html interoperability on "critical online services".

What is your personal incentive to do this beyond the ideological viewpoint of not being beholden to big tech?

For the record I’m in agreement with your stance, I’m just curious about this.
> How much of sports would remain without striving for worthless tokens and aggressivity?

Thanks for your comment and this great question! In my opinion, almost all of it would remain, as the true draw of sports is to push yourself to new heights, to do things you didn't think possible. My evidence for this is the intensity and dedication that goes into non-mainstream sports (such as my own, beach volleyball in the U.S.). The athletes in these areas aren't striving for fame and fortune, because there really isn't that much to be had even at the top level. They just want to be better than they were yesterday, and worse than they'll be tomorrow :)
In the same way that an F-150 Lightning is "just" an F-150 with electric motors instead of an ICE.
I haven't "cherry-picked" anything.

The Soviet Union (and now Russia) is notorious for having crap technology.

Adding Chernobyl into the mix is like adding the (outrageously high) air crash rates from the Soviet Union into the mix and claiming that it's "evidence" that flying is dangerous.

> You're simultaneously claiming that the US can somehow safely build the tall and complex structures for a nuclear plant

Yes. We can. 70 years, no accidents.

> but cannot safely install solar panels on a 2 story building

I'm saying that the fatality rate is HIGHER for solar panels. Which it is.

I think we're done here.
> https://archive.ph/YegWz

They're accusing a specific group of for hire hackers (BellTroX and CyberRoot) in Delhi.
Unfortunately yes... it looks like Nvidia have caught on to the fact that the consumer market doesn't need more VRAM ;)
Software engineers tend to follow demand, with some lagtime. Since crypto goes through these manic bull/bear cycles, demand dramatically spikes and falls. Hard to make a career change when the next bear cycle can wipe out your prospects. As crypto stabilizes, there should be a wave of immigration into web3 engineering. You can already kind of see who these engineers will be, they're often the web2 developers who just happen to be working on web3 projects (and don't know solidity)
The lawsuit alleges that they have a lot more access that any other web analytics firm and that they deanonymize and geolocate you on any web property that uses Google Analytics which enables them to fully track you.

https://casetext.com/case/brown-v-google-llc
Ford's EV F-150 Lightning Pickup Truck Sucks at Trucking, Critic Says
The idea that one side of the political discourse is engaging in "virtual signaling" and "wielding their values as weapons" is not a new one. Surprisingly enough, it is always the side that the disagrees with the author, that is totally disingenuous in the expression values, go figure.
Yeah but with investment research, as Robinhood has shown, that free data is a goldmine in and of itself.
Is their executive leadership that bad if they're gonna wriggle out of a multimillion dollar fine? Seems like another case of "too hard to unravel" and "not even gonna matter after it exits the headlines"
Starting the Server
> And doesn't have a history in the US of evacuating over 150,000 people.

Sorry, you don't get to count media hysteria as a "risk" of nuclear energy.
Yes, but the point being that having a two-colour per character restriction and box drawing with lines on one edge was common.

E.g. here's "PETSCII" [1], the Commodore character set, and as you can see there's a number of characters that provides different thickness "borders" on the left/right/top/bottom.

Here's a page with a number of "PETSCII" images using the same method to have borders in images with the other colour firmly on one side of the line [2]

As for modern usage, here's a tiny image from my personal terminal text editor, which uses the same method with unicode to get a shaded transition between the line numbers and the main display area [3].

[1] https://www.petscii.de/images/PETSCII_MODE_02.png

[2] https://oldmachinery.blogspot.com/2020/09/petscii-petscii-pe...

[3] https://imgur.com/a/LudA5nY
Not saying there aren't issues, but would you mind elaborating on some of the issues you've experienced?
... also the original article said 1%, so that's really 300 000.

the 0.2% was just the deliberate disabling. The rest were all the stuff documented here:

https://kryogenix.org/code/browser/everyonehasjs.html
If you have more write queries than a single machine can handle you're in trouble though, right?

Not defending NOSQL in any other way, but this could be a legit requirement for some apps, no?
Does the length of time it covers you matter? It would seem to me that leaving it on for shorter periods but getting more diversity by having more applications of new mud would be more effective.

Babies are born from a sterile environment and apparently passing through the birth canal and then immediately being placed on the mother for skin-to-skin contact, even if only for a few minutes, is sufficient to populate the microbiome. But perhaps that’s because it is a clean slate being populated.
This recent firestorm about whether or not the vaccine was studied prior to release to measure its effectiveness at transmission seems like it stemmed from a single comment in the European Union's inquiry.

Has it been determined more substantially that Pfizer and Moderna did not study transmission while the vaccines were in development?
This is obviously true, as you are stating an axiom. But what I think the grand parent is trying to say is that databases with PII can often be deanonymized by looking at the other data that isn't obviously PII.

Take for example a database over all mobile phone positions over time, this can be 'anonymized' by removing all connections from the phones to information on who owns the phones.

But it can still be trivially deanonymized by analyzing where the phones are at night and during office hours, not very many persons work in the same building and sleep in the same house.
> This discussion started with the false claim that solar needs sunny California type weather.

There was no such claim.

Again, I think we're done here.
My guess is it has to do with Reuters editorial positioning on what's going on with Ukraine and Russia. I agree though, I don't see the relevance.
This is a welcome extension of course which I'm sure will improve further but I've really been spoilt by the "live preview" editing mode for markdown available in various tools like Slack, Obsidian etc.
Yes, exactly. If your machine is starting to use swap, then it's already running away on memory that you hadn't planned for. The swap just delayed the inevitable OOM. You might as well let it OOM immediately.
I literally just posted an image from my terminal based editor where I very much cared about this:

https://imgur.com/a/LudA5nY
Twitter removed their non-JS interface but Nitter still supports it just fine.
I think that these four characters are being used:

U+2581 LOWER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK
U+2594 UPPER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK
U+258E LEFT ONE QUARTER BLOCK
U+1FB87 RIGHT ONE QUARTER BLOCK

(Sorry, no actual glyphs, HN is gobbling them.)

Notice anything different about the last one? It was added in Unicode 13 in a new block. This means very much reduced font support, and if absent, it generally means the use of a fallback font, which is very likely to mean a wider glyph, which means that the right edge of your box is displaced and probably the wrong thickness, and in some environments (though no proper terminals) anything following it will be offset too.

I use Triplicate as my monospace, and yeah, it lacks U+1FB87 RIGHT ONE QUARTER BLOCK, so this technique looks awful.

It gets a little worse when you consider line-heights. Some fonts design these things to fit line-height 1, others their default line-height, I think. The concepts are a bit fuzzy and implementations inconsistent and I don’t actually know the full details of what I’m talking about. Still worse, in browsers I don’t think the font’s proper preferred line-height (if that’s a thing?) is actually exposed, so you can’t actually get the correct result (the closest you’ll get is hard-coding the font metrics and hoping that font gets used, but that’s never guaranteed). But the end result is that you might get your box not neatly lining up in a terminal and probably won’t get it lining up in a browser, either squished more than it should be or with gaps, and in either case it’s going to be visually unbalanced in quite a disconcerting way, whereas the regular box-drawing characters are more likely to line up due to more care and even if they don’t the gaps (or maybe-visible-with-the-wrong-sort-of-antialiasing overlaps) will be balanced.

Sample (remote since HN is gobbling all these Block Elements characters): https://temp.chrismorgan.info/2022-10-16-hn-comment-33217918..., also try copying it to your terminal to see if it differs from the web layout technique.

Conclusion: stop trying to be fancy, block element support isn’t good enough and the technique’s failure modes are quite bad; just stick with box drawing characters and no clever backgrounds, because that will work much more consistently, and wastes less space too.
What does Firefox's private mode do that Chrome's doesn't?
Yep, this is a very valid point and I need to look more into this... which means rebuilding a lot of my toolchain but I think it would ultimately be worth the time investment!
Blink, gecko, and webkit are not javascript engines. Those are v8, spidermonkey, and javascriptcore respectively.
> Only one library file format for all kinds of library elements

This is not a good thing. It is easier for reuse to have separate symbol, footprint and 3d file.
So they're removing the SMS feature but adding Stories? Sounds like we know where this is gonna end up.
I had a customer, big "big" database >10TB used just internally, they paid 1000's of dollars monthly for "cloud", installed 2 redundant server's with backup's snapshot's just everything. Performance increased 5 time's, cost decreased 10 time's reliability increased 2 times (not a really reliable internet access there) the system is running now since 7 years with nearly no intervention. Cloud is not the answer to anything...but to some (workloads) it is...the right tool for the work....
Very tangentially.. In the early days of DigitalOcean, I was fortunate enough to spend time with most of the devtool CEOs, Leibert, Polvi, Hykes, Newcomb, Collison, etc etc etc. All very smart guys.

However James (and Sara!) was one of the most brilliant thinkers I came across. It's always been somewhat of a shame to me he didn't keep building firebase independently. Knowing him (shyguy), I'm not surprised he sold it to google, but I feel like we need to make more space for shy/guys/gals/*.

How many of you think Dokku is awesome? But are we doing enough to support folks like Jeff Lindsay (shyguy)?

Yeah, firebase was awesome when James was still working on it, people like him and Jeff Lindsay (@progrium) are surely brilliant thinkers.

How do we support them (shy-folk ceo)? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7844457)
Asking where consciousness/qualia come from gets you saying "You know what consciousness is". So you don't answer.

> To ask what something _is_ implies reduction

Yes, but you learn something. What is wood? Partly it's lignin. What's that? Randomly polymerised phenol-like molecules. What's phenol? A benzene ring (unsaturated carbon ring) with an OH on it. What are C, O and H? Elements. What is (eg.) carbon? An atom composed of... etc.

You can't reduce consciousness/qualia in any way so you cop out.

The AI video #5 takes some interesting quantum stuff and extrapolates it with extreme dodginess and emotive language into some semi/pseudo-scientific conjectures. My guess is you haven't even watched the vids.

> I submit to you that AI succeeds, and the empirical adequacy of those claims is abundantly linked in the description of the material you are downloading

Nope.

I've had enough here.
Monitor user stress in real-time through the selfie camera
Americans aren't getting that much taller, but they are rapidly getting fatter and fatter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States#/...

Singling out a statistically spurious reason to dismiss a major factor is weak.
Gonna be fun to see how they implement it :)
Realtime Database? No. Firestore however, scales as most GCP services do and is it's in-house built replacement.
I would think that couldn’t occur in the beginning. Most clinical trials are simply about safety and effectiveness for the individual. Transmission is a very difficult thing to study, especially in a clinical trial, and time was of the essence. I doubt it was a goal post for anyone, and we just needed something to stem risk of hospitalization and death. Vaccines did provide exactly that and still do.
Honestly curious, do you have examples or thoughts of what this might look like? What is the core primitive upon which you want to build that is zero config but highly scalable?
> The "old rules" for swap were never relevant.

They did make sense in some contexts. Specifically for laptops expected to hibernate you need to preserve the whole ram. Then you need the extra size for whatever your swap was already using. For small ram systems, 2x the memory size was a good rule of thumb.

It stopped making sense when we stopped using swap and filing memory in normal situations.
> Who said that?

The original poster.

One of the followups has pointed out that in the REAL WORLD, a major solar plant is only expected to produce about 10% of its nameplate capacity.

While nuclear plants routinely produce 90% of their nameplate capacities.
> through means that include Google Analytics, Google ‘fingerprinting’ techniques, concurrent Google applications and processes on a consumer's device, and Google's Ad Manager…

So not using Chrome. They’re arguing that Google is collecting the usual web tracking and that other Google apps a user might have collect user data.
I have a problem with the idea that if something isn't criminal, or isn't prosecutable, it is always A-OK.

For every bullshit cancellation like Mercedes Lackey, there is a "bullshit cancellation" of terrible people like Kanye West, Donald Trump, Alex Jones, Mel Gibson, etc. etc.
"screaming at the top of my lungs", and "from the bottom of my heart". Seems two idioms were mixed up here.
Would you care about the colour bleeding, that was solved by using other characters?
I'd argue for Option 3, which is to try to understand the workloads placed on the original system and then design the new system based on this. I think having 2K independent database servers would not normally be optimal for 2M users, but it is possible.
> I see women taller than me way more often than that would suggest

How often do you see women not wearing any shoes? Unless you have a beach lifestyle it can't be that often?
I get your point, but I'm assuming it's more about the fact that it's relatively cheap labour and difficult to investigate.
the 90% / 10% image was not a real world stat, it's supposed to be an illustration... but not well worded I'll grant you that.

What you are doing is the same type of work that I would put in the "pro user" bucket like ML. Actually I do the same thing with the same cards to render synthetic dataset for my ML pipeline, including using UE :)
Base load is simply the total electrical generation that must be running year round. It is a very simple concept, not a myth.
I would because I want my atoms scattered, not interred in a hole or a jar
What I mean is mobile push notification.
Once I felt tempted to replace FCM with nats.io, turned out there were several cases need to handled. Oh well, back to FCM. At least, it's free.
At Beam AI, we make mobile SDKs for apps that enable them to monitor user stress through the selfie camera in real-time. Apps use this stress data to evaluate how their content and services are impacting user stress.

Our technology extracts the user’s pulse wave by analyzing subtle color variations across the skin regions of the user’s face. The user’s pulse is then used to determine stress, heart rate, and heart rate variability. To determine stress, we analyze the variability of the user's heartbeats according to the Baevsky Stress Index which has been shown to provide an accurate quantitative measure of physiological stress. Our technology is 2x more accurate than competing methods and 6x faster to run on mobile devices.
What does “intended according to the technology” even mean? Just because software is built to scale up, doesn't mean that using it at a smaller scale goes against its intention.

Marketing copy aside, it's not as if the technical docs discourage people from using it for non-scale use cases.
Related:

Org-Mode for Visual Studio Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16198369 - Jan 2018 (124 comments)
I don't get what problem that image shows. (I'm design-blind.)
I don't think it's that clear. For instance different incognito windows, opened separately, share everything among them. This was not at all clear to me, though I suppose at least for tabs in the same window it makes sense.
42 image batch size is scaled to the input layer of my DNN, otherwise yes :)
Absolutely love the design.
iOS SDK readily available @ https://github.com/beamai/BeamAISDK-iOS
Doesn't incognito mode predate Private Browsing in Firefox? Also, what's the distinction? The Firefox documentation doesn't make their feature seem particularly different:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/common-myths-about-priv...

> Myth 1: Private Browsing makes you anonymous on the Internet

> Reality: Private Browsing does not mask your identity or activity online.
You are a new employee at the code factory. The job listing said that you’d get to do all sorts of fancy machine learning applications but it turns out you’re needed to fix old legacy code that doesn’t work anymore! You re-run the code against the test cases laid out by the last guy who worked on this legacy code and it’s outputting the error.
Disk cache for one.

Disk cache is really flexible at the OS level. Look up 'vmtouch' on Linux and play with some recently used files, you'd be surprised how many are in memory. If you don't have swap and only have 'X' amount of RAM free the program will still load and run fine, it'll just do so in a way that more directly thrashes the disk. If you add some swap the OS will page out some other memory that's not being used giving 'X+Y' RAM free for disk caching that the OS will use.

In fact this usage of free memory as disk cache is so ingrained that memory used this way doesn't even appear allocated. OSes are pretty much all designed to use whatever free RAM is available as disk cache. The disk cache shrinks if that RAM is actually needed.

Effectively a great way to think of swap is that your OS is always swapping, even without a swapfile! If you read a file there's swapping of that file into memory, it's even done using the standard memory paging that swap files do. Without a swap file you still have swapping but you've just removed the ability for the OS to write out memory that it thinks is less relevant than the files you're currently trying to read. Which is almost always a loss.
Who / what company added you to do that? How did they get convinced you could do that job?