skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Axions can't be perfectly dark matter, they're very weakly interacting with electrons and the EM field.

They would be the Higgs field of the strong force (Axions were initially also named a "higglet") and would be an electrically neutral scalar particle like the Higgs, and that would interact with magnetic fields by the Primakoff effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primakoff_effect
Prepare for the OpenSSL 3.x Secvuln
Can anyone knowledgeable correct / confirm my understanding of why the Lidar technique works?

The Lidar is able to penetrate (or just get in between) gaps in foliage which otherwise obscure or smooth out the features on the ground / dirt-level. So then by taking the lowest ground surface height reached in a certain patch of ground scanned (like sq. ft) you're able to "see" the actual ground?

If so, why didn't radar work previously? Too long wavelength?
Or that's like a continuous wave / average scan versus a point-by-point scan?

Thanks!
Which is for non-average Joes too :-)

That is the only place you can buy I Bonds. They aren't marketable securities you can buy and sell anywhere else.
Seems like an odd comnment - why and how?

Lidar ain't much use without an air platform .. and it will basically just give you topography; surface land shape, vegetation density and snowpack (with tweaks), etc.

If you're using an air platform and want to explore for metals .. why not go full EM and magnetic survey while you're there ...

Sure you're not an AI-bot saying silly things?
Visual Morphology of Vowels
I've been casually researching visualisations of sound for 2 years now, and recently came across another interesting discovery, and wanted to share it.

It slightly improves the way ACF images are presented, but this small improvement makes a big difference. It works best on "small sounds" that last 1-2 sec, such as vowels or sample recordings of flute, violin and so on. The sound is analysed with FFT with the sliding window of 1/4 sec that advances by 1/500 sec at a time until it covers the entire waveform. After computing FFT spectrum for each frame, a basic bandpass filter is applied to separate high and low frequencies. The result is fed to the inverse FFT, thus computing ACF, and presented in polar coordinates using a basic red-blue color scheme. The effect is that low frequencies appear red and high frequencies appear blue.

To my surprise, this basic method reveals a large variety of distinctive, yet visually appealing, shapes for vowel sounds.
> The “political” polarization is part of it. The older folks bring it with them.

So, discriminatory, ageist, prejudicial comments are allowed on HN now? Or only if it's against "older folks", I see.
Nope.

There was a provision that Musk would be on the hook for $1B if a third party (e.g. regulators) blew up the deal in a couple enumerated ways. No such option was available to Musk himself.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/05/13/elon-musk-cant-just-walk...
Does he really hate bots, or was it just something he came up with to try to get out of buying it?
Fair enough. I guess I just assumed that if the OS provided your TCP socket you'd also rely on it to provide TLS, but I'm sure I'm missing a lot of the nuance of why you'd mix and match.
So where did this come from? The readme says,

> This is the SunOS 4.1.3 SUNSRC CD-ROM

which almost sounds like it was an officially distributed archive, somehow? I mean, I can't personally think of any reason for Sun to make a CD distribution of SunOS (was it called the OS/net gate yet?) for purely internal use, although maybe I'm just missing perspective, but the https://github.com/Arquivotheca/SunOS-4.1.3/blob/413/Copyrig... looks to my very-non-lawyer eyes like all-rights-reserved and 4.1.3 was well before opensolaris, so... leak of some kind?

Edit: Looking at the copyright file again, it has a part number. Did Sun license sunos? That certainly feels like it was meant for use outside of Sun, but doesn't really explain why/how
> ideal is a distributed file system

Well, some of that is anti the way IPFS CID hashing works: every edit would result in a new CID for (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System) so your local pin of /ipfs/68106339799a6170efed62807e5c245d becomes orphaned when the next edit makes /ipfs/1ba72a5504f558ade3e784d9d349543c the most recent revision. I'm aware of /ipns but unless there was going to be an /ipns entry for every single page then it doesn't become as much of a distributed filesystem as you might think. Or, I guess put another way: it's really great for a distributed filesystem that doesn't change very often. I would expect archive.org would get more benefit from having IPFS seeds than anything on the Internet that is dynamically generated content

I was actually sad that they don't already generate torrents for all their collections (or at least it didn't appear that they do)
My foo-daemon needs some arguments and several steps to shutdown while saving its work. Like maybe kill -HUP, wait 10 seconds and then kill -9. Any suggestions that would be obvious to me without always having you for one-on-one consultation? Rare cases where saving work is not complete after 10 seconds are acceptable for my use case.
Why would you assume consciousness is a thing rather than a property of a system?

Temperature for example isn’t a substance. I am not saying consciousness couldn’t be a thing, but it just seems to be an assumption without justification.

As to arrangements of stuff being important, arrangement of individual pieces can make the difference between a watch and a pile of pieces or a person and a dead body. Many emergent properties depend on the specific arrangements of components.
Firing Vijaya is a hell of a move here. Parag had been in the CEO seat for less than a year and had no real experience, and Twitter's not such a unique company financially that the CFO is anything special, but Vijaya had been in charge of legal and policy for a decade at a company that regularly has to tangle with nation state governments, as well as navigate all the other kinds of various policy hell that is Twitter's product - that kind of unique direct experience and learned wisdom is not easily replaceable.
Does this work with jax jit?
It’s not persistent everywhere. On iOS the data is deleted after 7 days of inactivity on a website. It’s treated like a cache.

https://webkit.org/blog/12257/the-file-system-access-api-wit...

https://web.dev/storage-for-the-web/#:~:text=Starting%20in%2....
It sure is an argument for sex being a spectrum.

The word "error" is a social construct. I prefer "variation", which also is a social construct, but doesn't imply a judgment. (Of course, judgments are social constructs.)
Domain driven development
I am genuinely not interested in engaging with people who seek offensive intent in first principle. The world is too large and bountiful.
Well... by comparison the sitting president of the United States peaked at only ~89 million followers [1].

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2021/01/trump-twitter-ban-follo...
Your work is incredible, thanks for sharing! Mind boggled by the swift card design you did and posted next in the Twitter thread. Im mind boggled by how realistic the 3d effect looks using the gyroscope and tasty design.
Not that they're all 1:1 with real people but: 111 million is 1.4% of the world's population (~8B)
omg, that's awesome, lol
It seems like a way to figure out if some people are actually coding. They might be faking it or maybe doing a lot of StackOverflow copy pasta. Print out something you’ve written recently so we can talk about it. Not defending, but that’s the most likely explanation.
Meta hasn't lost 650B. The enterprise value has decreased by that much, but Meta didn't lose that much. Investors did.
I'm not sure where you got that information, but it is wrong.

They have handed out over $35 million in fines this year, with the largest being $27.25 million in 2018.
Yes, but he presumes her "overly woke" perspectives towards community and censorship were anathema to his approach to libertarian free speech and also resulted in deplatforming Trump so away she goes! Why do you need someone in charge of legal and policy if you're going to stop caring about those things wholesale?
if i understand it right, whichever Wikipedia articles users have submitted will (usually) be indexed. i don’t know that there’s an API to query the index set, or not. i submitted the Wikipedia article on The Experience Machine an hour ago, so i’m watching to see if that’s approved (it’s not instant). given that the Wikipedia article on PAL is indexed (i see it when i search “wikipedia”), i expect most Wikipedia articles are acceptable and it’s just a matter of which ones people (like you) will have submitted.
My SIL got permanently suspended for posting pitbull attack statistics. Some pitmommy group (what they called themselves) found her tweets and mass-reported her.

I doubt a human was ever in the loop, if you get enough reports off with your head.
I'm pretty confident that the metaverse will happen. That doesn't mean that we'll all be using "Horizon Worlds" or whatever, but rather that VR and AR will become popular by 2035. The general public is insufficiently imaginative and is over-bearish because of the negative connotations of the Meta brand, but they ignore simultaneous work by Apple and Microsoft, and the fact that the rate of progress by Meta alone has been significant. I don't have any faith in the ability of the general public (not HN readers) to resist the "fun" of the metaverse once the headsets are affordable and comfortable. We should also expect that a person's first foray into it may be through work (rather than games), as things with the form factor of a Quest Pro begin to compete with high-end workstations and are mandated by employers, mirroring the adoption of the PC.
> Personally, I don't really care either way.

Perhaps you need to consider the possibility that the battle between systemd vs sysv init is not unrelated to the desire of Microsoft (and others) to lock down general purpose computers.

By giving Linux one tightly-coupled system that controls everything from the boot process to process permissions, it becomes much easier to add the missing "features" needed to implement such a lock down (and harder for distros to support "non-standard" configurations which slow the adoption of this).

This probably already sounds like a conspiracy theory, but I absolutely believe that intelligence agencies are eagerly awaiting the day they can convince governments to ban "insecure" computers from going online, where "insecure" means "not supporting Secure Boot attestations and not supporting an app blacklisting service like Gatekeeper[0]".

The existence of Linux (especially non-mainstream distros) is an impediment to a government introducing such a law right now, but if 90% of Linux users are running systemd, and users can install some future "systemd-gatekeeperd" with a couple of clicks, then no government will hear the cries of the greybeards who refuse to configure their machines this way.

Once the law is in place, the loopholes for distributing and running "unapproved" code will be slowly closed one by one, meaning fewer and fewer people will have access to apps/protocols like Tor, BitTorrent, E2EE messengers, and VPNs (unless those apps/protocols also include endpoint blacklists and do client-side scanning for illegal files).

[0] https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-explains-why-it-grabs-data-...
I like the old web. And I love the old web revival. Been digging into wiby for many hours at the point the same websites appear more than once.
In recent years we've seen what it's like when politicians stop being boring on Twitter.

There are worse things in life than polite artifice. Maintaining it is, itself, an achievement.
It is possible for actual value to be destroyed or lost to other people.

If you own an oil well and pay out a ton of employees to try a new extraction method which causes a fire - the actual value of your asset has been destroyed. And a lot of money has also been transferred from investors to employees. The embarrassment may also cause you to lose trust of other companies which hurts the value of future contracts. Some of the value you destroyed is gained by other companies since they can now sell their product for more - but the shareholder value of the well you own is lost.

I agree Facebook's value has a speculative element to it - but its pretty clear that the money has been lost because the thing of value has been partially destroyed both by itself and by competitors like Apple and TikTok which is stealing its revenue.
What's the plan to get rid of bots?
Entering your password by clicking a virtual keyboard with a mouse is anything but lovely. It's actually quite insane, when you consider the year we're in.

But also, just to be fair, the rest of the site has decent UX.
The article mentions thread explosion quite a bit. If that’s a concern, you should take a look at target dispatch queues. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/dispatch/dispatcho...
> Blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix in the early 2000's for $50,000,000.

Ah, an example of the Butterfly Effect: then we'd have a billion references to FAABG on the web instead of FAANG.
+1. When you expand a tweet it shouldn't always be the most outraged or sycophantic responses that are on top. Very hard problem, but I agree people should be able to express themselves but the algorithm shouldn't always funnel people to the poles.

I think with the current system, users start moving towards the extremes because they see the most ridiculous level of discourse of the opposite side (I think the extreme opinions of one's own side are not as influential, you filter them as not representative, but don't allow that to the majority of people you disagree with). And the tweeters are hurt by trying to compete by saying the angriest things they can think of.
> How exactly could a TPM be required for Linux?

"The laws of Australia will trump the laws of mathematics: Turnbull"

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-laws-of-australia-will-tru...
"Meta was imo a poor direction, but it was a direction, which is better than nothing "

Facebook makes money by advertising. Apple closed the ability to track users over to 3rd party advertisers. Facebook is losing advertising money. Meta is just some ridiculous non issue. The problem is fundamental. They are losing the ability to give advertisers value. Put on all the meta head sets you want, but, FB needs to dig in and get a solution to advertiser tracking. [I am open to hire lol]
> but to deescalate you have to give both sides something to claim as victory.

So what lane mass of Russia the same size of Crimea does Ukraine get?. Or do they get nothing of value at all as their “victory”?.
> Class A players are well compensated and love working on challenges that are extreme and/or world relevant.

I wouldn't exactly call an aging social media company from the 2010s "extreme and/or world relevant."

People still dream about spaceflight. It's something you can work on that feels like it matters. Skimming ad revenue off of millions of humans collectively trolling each other 280 characters at a time just doesn't capture the imagination in quite the same way, y'know?
The people who scream about how anti-racist they are usually turn out to be the actual racists in the room.
> I think he just liked to hear himself orate.

I think his strategy had exactly the intended effect. If you had a real problem that required deep expertise, you knew to come to him.

If you didn't, you figured it out yourself, and thus grew your skills rather than having him feed you the answer.
Uh huh. Let’s say Musk writes himself a check from Tesla for an extra $100,000. He cashes it, but the next day TSLA is up. No problems there? No legal risk?

Now let’s say that instead of a check, he gifts himself $100,000 of Tesla engineering time.
It's not about supporting or tolerating views, it's about empathizing with people who reached the wrong conclusion based on positive intentions. It makes me uncomfortable to write people off when their pain is legitimate.

From what I can see, most people who support Kanye are uncomfortable with the way he said it, but support his crusade against labels and distributors. Most (not all) of the people who oppose Kanye don't give a shit about labels or distributors beyond lip service, and are themselves exploitative (like Ari Emmanuel, who IMO contributed more to antisemitism than Kanye ever could). These people are not motivated by principles of tolerance, they're just trying to bury the issue. It's easy for me to choose where to stand, and I'm perfectly comfortable with my choice.

> We can say both that Ye is wrong to be antisemitic _and_ agree that the music industry is exploitative.

I say both too. But on the chessboard, sometimes you need to move pieces you don't want to. Rhetoric which is already extremely widespread doesn't bother me much; systematic and institutional discrimination against some of the people I admire most, bothers me highly. Fixing those industries is hard enough, and I don't want to make it any harder for him by joining the mob. I'll take issue with his comments once his fight is won.
> Who's going to step up?

I don't know for sure because I can't find any information about SunOS licensing, but I think it goes something like,

Oracle has acquired Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun"), you acknowledge that in all cases where the reference is Sun, Oracle will fulfill these obligations as successor in interest to Sun.
The user count is probably going to go up.
> You completely skipped my point. Progressives have treated this topic this way because there is no compromise position.

Isn't the compromise position to tolerate everybody's own personal words and definitions? That certainly used to be the progressive position, at least up to about a decade ago.
You're only completely locked in for the first year. From year 2 through year 5, you can cash in at any time, but lose the last 3 months of interest. After that, you're free to cash in whenever without penalty, or it will be automatically cashed in after a total of 30 years.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221028091214/https://www.treas...

(I'd link to TD directly, but it looks like it's being hammered right now.)
So given you didn’t read it - the engineers were told to print out their last 30 days of changes so that musk could read it.
Then they were told to shred it a few hours later.

This had nothing to do with VCS (which they obviously use), and everything to do with musk’s ego.
There is more than one player in this space, maybe Meta won't succeed, but maybe another will. To your point, I think the biggest challenge is still in the hardware. It has improved since the 90s but is still too bulky and cumbersome, similar to the mobile phone hardware companies tried to make before the iPhone.
https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/2010...

IT IS ORDERED that respondent... establish and implement, and thereafter maintain, a comprehensive information security program that is reasonably designed to protect the security, privacy, confidentiality, and integrity of nonpublic consumer information.
The fight club reference is to internal information and decision making processes, it doesn’t imply that the company is the only thing that can decide to do a recall.
A fairer statement in my opinion would be 'dropped in value' or 'decreased in value by' rather than 'lost'.

But hey this is journalism where you need to draw clicks and 'lost' probably hits home more
Sun licensed SunOS and Solaris source to pretty much anyone who asked (and wanted to pay for it)

All of the proprietary unix vendors would sell source licenses to a greater or lesser extent. There's IRIX and AIX source trees out there if you go looking, licensed for university use back in the day.
I expect mainly an integration of some annoying monetization schemes and, of course, dogecoins. Moderation is a cursed issue and an influx of toxic content/users from Parler/GAB/Truth will only aggravate it.
It really fascinates me how many conceptual areas the idea of portals appears, and it often entails this idea of a breakaway society, a way of life separate from the mainstream.
Telecom groups used to be money grabber at all costs assholes in Europe. And it is only recently that consumers took power over them, by having competition with a reel free market, voting with their money.

I understand Telco giants would like to kill the net neutrality to be able to extort again huge margins from customers but we should do whatever is needed to prevent that, and not go back in a situation like US.

Customer are paying for network data. If the infrastructure to serve that to their customers really costs more, they can easily just increase their price. The problem for them is that, without a price setting monopoly, there is a real competition and so customers are paying the fair price for their data usage, and so you can't extract high margins from them. No Telco can expect to have apple like margins because they don't have anymore a monopoly or an exclusive control on any part of the business. That is a very good thing!
i didn't say it was a bastion of communication for human connection, i said it (the internet) represents "a change in the fabric of how humans communicate and organize."

the number of edges per node in the walk in the woods with friends graph is much smaller than the number of edges per node in the social media universe, with twitter being a crazy power law distribution.
Christos Papadimitriou, one of the most cited computer scientists, said Bill Gates was the smartest student he’d ever met.
> He just doesn't make the the impression of an adult person.

No, obviously not. Ramping up his car company from roughly nothing to major global presence, kickstarting the world on electric traffic, and setting up private space rocketeering on the side. Oh, and becoming the supposedly richest person on the planet in the process. How insufferably childish of him.
Project looks great. I have been following IPFS from a distance for a while now but it still seems like it’s not really ready to use for much. I was investigating tech that would allow you to build a decentralised, censorship resistant forum but it seemed extremely difficult to run a real website in IPFS.

What use cases do you think work well today and are there any prominent projects doing anything real with the tech?
Ghostwatch
That's a very abstract and subjective concept of damage. What are you proposing exactly?
> everybody jumping from the bridge should be a strong indicator of what to do.

Technologically speaking, though, everybody jumped on the 3d TV bandwagon. Where is it today?
Twitter hot takes, IMHO, are not news

That said, maybe we don't train models on living artists or watermarked images, ok? It just splashes it with turds and vomit, IMHO. Like what happened to Cleverbot. Gunked up with trolls and idiots, and technically non-consensual too. Maybe we stop, eh? So tasteless.

This one example? Fine. Guy's dead, it's a dedication. Whatever.
The market doesn’t know shit. XR is the obvious future, and just because investors don’t understand that doesn’t mean it’s not gonna happen.
I think you hugely over-estimate the importance of “developer APIs” to the number of bots on twitter.

You’re never going to really fully defeat browser automation or HTTP request playback with automatically generated payloads. No one technically needs an API if a web interface exists to automate something. It’s easier with an official API sure, but not super hard without.

Indeed, a truly malicious bot farm would avoid the API altogether and just fake web client requests to look as much like the real thing as possible. Anyone can capture the HTTP messages with just a computer and an open source MITM proxy to decrypt and inspect the SSL message contents for recreating in a bot script or application.