skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of Damien Hirst's recent "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable," which was presented as a documentary film but was, in fact, mockumentary.
Any security-conscious person backs up their password manager.
You forget, we are becoming cyborgs. Computers will allow us to move much faster, work as a team, and see the future
Z-Library should block TikTock pending a Privacy Investigation.
Git is so recent comparing to Sendmail. I began using Git for my projects just a couple of years ago. I was die-hard CVS user, switching to Git was a pain for me. Now with Git I've had to employ Linux best practice - update everything once a month or so, which often leads to compatibility problems that have to be resolved. This all eats quite a lot of time, unfortunately.
I love it! Is it possible to subscribe without downloading the app? For example by visiting a special page with some confirm button?
Yes, I agree that it's important to put the absolute risk in context. The NEJM paper that started the concern about myocarditis put it this way:

> Vaccination was most strongly associated with an elevated risk of myocarditis (risk ratio, 3.24; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.55 to 12.44; risk difference, 2.7 events per 100,000 persons; 95% CI, 1.0 to 4.6)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9025013/

Giving the risk difference in terms of events per 100,000 people is useful. It's also trickier to interpret because the length of the follow-up period is important: if the vaccine changes the rate of events, then a study that observes patients for two years after vaccination will have (roughly) double the number of events of a study that follows patients for one year after vaccination. That's why people like relative risks in this setting.
Oh this is awesome. Tried it out just yet and it worked right away. Software can be so great when it's not desperately trying to sell you something.
This came to my attention via their recent AMA at reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/yp5enz/were_christ...
> Repeatedly refusing to fix this widely reported issue with non-sensical explanations

What are you referring to? An option to choose your backup location got added two years ago. It works on Android 10 and above.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/ee3d7a9a3...
Heavyweight, but Android Studio (IntelliJ would probably also work).

Supports everything I'd want with a great UI except for `git bisect` and a couple of the `gh` commands.
I have a custom written function in R that loads in .Rprofile to push messages e.g. when some script is done.
> The really bad waste (because it outmasses the rest by four orders of magnitude) is in a tailings pond that will be 'remediated' by pulling a plastic sheet over it in Namibia.

If it outmasses the others by four orders of magnitude, it means on average from each 10000 tons of dirt we extract 1 ton of Uranium, right? And we are left with 9999 tons of the original dirt. Why is that dirt so bad? If anything it has less Urnanium in it, not more. It can't be more radioactive than the thing it initially was, can it?
The entire idea of defensive patents makes a mockery of the original intention. "Patents are so fucked that the only recourse is to get your own patents so that even though you may inftringe others' patents they likely also infringe yours and would lose as much as they can gain by enforcing their purpoted exclusivity." MAD.
macOS broke git in their September update. OP likely needs to run Xcode and accept the license for it to work again
Creating a Dedicated Development Environment for Teaching
Show HN: Image outpainting and inpainting on infinite canvas
Scaling PostgresML to 1M Requests per Second
Reaper (http://reaper.fm/)
https://beta.f1mv.com/ as it's enhanced the experience for F1 for me. Built by a single dev and better than anything F1 management has released as official clients.
Agree with everything you say. I mentioned WWII because during WWII Polish elites were systematically slaughtered by both invaders (Nazi Germans and Soviet Russia) - example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligenzaktion, but also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre act of mass murdering of Polish officers who were mostly coming from Polish elites...

I have very similar thoughts about wars, I believe the mainstream narratives are only sliding on the surface of real underlying reasons behind wars.
Has a Chinese-born professor discovered a big piece to the Rieman hypothesis?
Airbnb to List Actual Prices
Why is there Chinese-born in the headline? Why is that relevant?
Apologies, the link was intended to go to the image of the hypercube + binary representation (which is much more intuitive than the images Wikipedia displays on the hypercube page), but it failed on mobile: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Snake_in...

The Gray Code image is a lot more 'practical' from an engineering perspective, but I don't feel it's of the same quality: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Gray_cod...
> 1. Bigger animals have larger cells, so the number of cells does not scale linearly with the mass of the animal.

Where is this coming from? If I google "do larger animals have larger cells", it says the opposite.
SaaS tools we use to build our SaaS
Debirdify: Check if the people you’re following on Twitter are on Mastodon
> worked in a Subway sandwich shop

FTA:

In Kentucky, he became involved with a group interested in Chinese democracy. Its slogan was “Freedom, Democracy, Rule of Law, and Pluralism.” A member of the group, a chemist in a lab, opened a Subway franchise as a means of raising money. “Since Tom was a genius at numbers,” another member of the group told me, “he was invited to help him.” Zhang kept the books.

Quite a different feel to that characterization.
Meta platforms plans large-scale layoffs
AMC is working with Zoom to turn some theaters into giant meeting rooms
Note: The following isn’t intended to be bragging or anything, I’m just making the case for this profession in a place where the role is routinely diminished, so I’m going to make a good case.

Well first of all the front page of HN with tons of companies laying off massive amount of their workforce is one reason. Professors have insane job security.

Another reason is that professors only have to work 8 months of the year. Quoted figures for professor salaries are for 9 month contracts. Your quoted figures are too low by 2-3x. Only the smallest no-name colleges pay $60k, and there’s no point in being an adjunct in cs with so many instructor openings at top schools.

To make up the difference in salary, I’ve established my own consulting firm and I do tech consulting. So I have the best of both worlds: stable salaried employment and I’m my own boss.

Speaking of being my own boss, I really don’t have one. The chair isn’t really a supervisor, and while I have accountability, how I teach and what I do day to day is determined by me.

Work life balance is really nice. Some days I’ll go in at 11:00 and be done by 4. Today I won’t be going in at all and I’ll work from home for 30 minutes and be done for today.

The rest of the time I spend on “research”, which is just my open source passion project. Most hackers are trying to figure out how to work on their own open source project full time, this is how I’ve done it.

Before being a professor it was impossible to get people to contribute. Now I have dozens of students who make contributions, and every year there is a fresh group who wants to get involved.

Also I’ve got access to alternative funding sources not available to people who aren’t professors. Yes, you may have a 400k salary at FAANG, but I’ve got a $4M government grant that I use as fun money to buy my own hardware for my own flights of fancy. Literally whatever I want to do, not what some FAANG CEO like Musk or Zuckerberg wants me to do.

Anyway, I like it, and I’ll never these kinds of job perks are hard to put a price on.
Yes, they had a bit of momentum behind Windows Phone 7 and they threw it all away with the breaking change for Windows Phone 8. And that was it for that platform.
Please use FIO, that way of doing benchmark is hard to get right

here is example config https://github.com/XANi/toolbox/blob/master/benchmark/io/con...
Why would you take a land locked city such as Mumbai for an example? How about Hyderabad or Chennai?
Thank you! This is fantastic
You can create an index based on expressions so you can index fields inside JSON data with sqlite.
Razor sharp analysis; the left and the right are both involved in similar policies around "cancellation". As an example, the right wing has expressed disdain and called for a reduction of powers of the FBI[1] in the same way the left has expressed theirs for the police[2].

[1] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-republicans-will-com...

[2] https://time.com/5849495/black-lives-matter-defund-police-de...
A systematic review of worldwide causal evidence on digital media and democracy
If Ubuntu had it, Debian has it too, at least in the “testing” (rolling release) distribution.

And Debian recently decided to allow non-free firmware in their official installation images, so the latest hardware should also be supported.
3 on eBay listed as Open Box. Great deal it seems. ;)
Not in any factual universe. Those systems will see close to a decade of support - more than long enough for the usable service life of the hardware in many cases and certainly not out of line with the competition. The difference is just that you are expected to update the OS multiple times over that period.
Researchers find that education intervention doesn't live up to its promise
Twitter Bans Users with Millions of Followers for Making Fun of Elon Musk
Or you might be experiencing the Dunning-Kruger effect, I don't know.
I don’t think they had Masters degrees in the Middle Ages, but I somewhat understand the point you’re very awkwardly trying to make.

Yes I agree, a Masters in literature doesn’t teach you much about the ‘real world’, but if you don’t think there are plenty of CS and engineering students with the exact same type of perspective, you need to expand your social circles.

If you find yourself agreeing with everything your friends say, I’d actually say it’s you who needs to find friends with different educational backgrounds than your own.
The three ‘norths’ combine over Great Britain for the first time in history
The Acorn image editor for macOS by Gus Mueller is shockingly polished for a one-person project. I use it all the time. In my few times interacting with him through support he’s been really kind as well.

https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
Hey there. In Android, is there a requirement or any kind of dependency on Google Play Services? Also, do notifications work when the Ntfy app is in the background? Do I need to disable battery optimizations for it?

Thanks!
"Default" choices embed knowledge and wisdom in the selection process. The reason defaults tend to exist is to appeal as an easy, reliable, safe choice, probabilistically speaking ignoring any specific contextual circumstance.

We like defaults with the option to deviate because humans tend to be more alike than we are different and are aware of this fact. Given a lack of knowledge and information around a choice, we gravitate to what we think are our peers choices. We also tend to realize while we're very alike, we do have differences from others and while small, it's important to be able to exercise and customize around those differences. Context may become important, we may grow wiser to make a more informed decision for ourselves and so on. This is why we like the option.

Until I'm knowledgable, show me what others choose, give me expert informed knowledge, or have someone knowledgable interpret the context for me but don't constrain me to these because I will grow, I will eventually understand these things, and I will want the freedom to deviate as needed. Maybe I won't need to deviate, but I don't know that yet.
Falling in love is often or even usually an example of that, and has the result of increasing fertility, giving the credulous a fitness advantage. A tribe with more credulous warriors may have a military advantage by being more cohesive and easier to lead.
The literature I've seen has also discussed the omega6-3 ratio, which I personally use flax oil to balance so I would agree that is probably an important factor.

However none of what you've posted here says "polyunsaturated fats are bad". The statement I responded to is a gross mischaracterization which lacks the nuance that PUFAs are important for the diet, but the amount we consume them in is what's important.

I keep seeing people shouting about how PUFAs are all bad, but that's actually entirely wrong when the statement is taken at face value
Russia, China and Islamic State Jump on Musk’s Twitter Bandwagon
Do you see AI decreasing your workload? When you look for prior art would something like gpt-3 be useful?
You're really just dogmatic making assertions. I don't really see much backing these assertions up. Making them more firmly isn't making your case more convincing.

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Let me make a silly argument. Let's say you write a program in rust, a sort of elaborate turing tape that interprets C++ code and evaluates it as a C++ program according to all standards and rules. To the end user it is indistinguishable from a C++ interpreter, but between the C++ code and the system is a layer of rust.

According to standard rustacean dogma, this program will simultaneously be guaranteed to be memory safe because it is rust, and inevitably have memory corruption bugs because it is C++. This is surely a contradiction. It cannot both be incorrect and correct at the same time.
The obvious answer is in plain sight but the author's ideology makes him blind to it.

Musk is a new billionaire. Virtually none of this wealth has converted to tangible usable wealth. It mostly sits in the floating number of tesla's stock price.

If Tesla fails, he loses practically everything. Tesla practically can't fail anymore by itself. But more importantly, he has global sprawl. Factories in China and USA. He is incentivized around not having anything cause the failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_American_Civil_War

This is the primary threat which concerns him. His intention with Twitter is to prevent this from happening.
It’s not but the source is the South China Post and the professor is now at UC Santa Barbara.

It’s an attempt to draw the attention of their audience.
Not the most convincing example as it exploits the mix of very low search depth (visit counts) as well as differences in the rules (as well as the fact that training the program to not be vulnerable to exploiting the rules would be just a huge waste of time while it would be quite easy to just add a special case if needed).

That being said we know NN based game playing programs have tactical weaknesses - by that I mean they are weak in recognizing forced long sequence of moves. In the beginning it was about a simple ladder in pattern when it comes to Leela and simple 3-4 moves combinations an amateur chess player could see in Lc0 (while both were already much stronger than humans overall). To this day Lc0 has tactical blind spots a competent human could see, mainly when it comes to spotting perpetual check. Those are common and you run into them all the time when using Lc0 for analysis (that's why you always need to double check with Stockfish as Lc0 could have missed a relatively simple forced draw).

I think it would be more productive to go to project's Discord and ask "hey I am a researcher working on weaknesses of current NN based game playing programs, can someone point some known issues/weaknesses in current programs?". You will get a long list, no need to waste time to find (very artificial in this case) scenarios.
For TimeMachine backups, the file system problem can be alleviated. A possible destination is a Linux/* based Samba server that accesses, e.g., a ZFS or ext4 file system.
Note that the article is about the meaning of "undefined" in CPU instruction documentation, claiming it's rarely or never unpredictable. Nothing to do with the "nasal demons" of C or C++.

(Though comments at the bottom do point out that some of them are situations like a floating bus, where you really do get unpredictable results.)
This is really great! I have plenty of uses for this.

Here's a quick fish function for being able to call this from a shell like `alt my message`

function alt
curl -d "\"$argv\"" ntfy.sh/<my topic>
end
Incorrect, if you did what I actually said, which mimics what copilot does.
When I was making my IoT washing machine sensor, I used Blynk.io to push notifications to my phone but of course that service became commercialised and is no longer free. I could not find any nice easy to use alternative except for Telegram which is what I use now. This service looks exactly like what I would need and I appreciate the promise to keep it open source.
Borges and his men in that strange city...
What I would like to see more of, is a good faith response that directly addresses the concerns of the article.

Unfortunately, as it stands, your response is simply arguing that articles bringing attention to a particular issue are not worthy because they don't bring up a solution, and dismisses the concerns as "petulant", which does convey your frustration but not what the article misses out on in its quality of arguments.
A few years ago, I needed faster SQLite interop than Microsoft.Data.Sqlite, and ended up writing my own: https://github.com/zmj/sqlite-fast

The ergonomics could be better, but this enabled query execution to avoid heap allocations and reflection.
Just don’t
I wish you could just plug a drive into a computer and not worry about which filesystem it's using

Or at least be able to download drivers for the file system you need.

I think the Amiga had that ability. You could just plug in a library for the file system and read whatever disk you wanted to.
Much of Polish involvement in WW2 was extremely heroic and intelligent but not well-known. Turing's great achievement was to build on the knowledge shared by Polish mathematicians, to break the more sophisticated wartime Enigma codes, which no one could yet decipher.
> I believe Apple is not using any ARM cores of any kind.

That is normal for an “architecture” license, Qualcomm can do the same, they don’t have to use ARM’s cores they can build their own.
Fantastic idea with the different topics
Look upon our works, ye mighty, and despair!
Elon Musk Tells Twitter Followers to Vote for a Republican Congress
ExFAT works for removable drives, and you probably don’t need OS drives to have the same filesystem.
Would be interesting to see what GitHub Copilot makes of this.
Interesting. It could be politically motivated. Banning knowledge in pirated texts could be moral dilemma indeed.
You’re not forced to do either. Everyone knows their approach to support. If it’s not for you pick something else.
> is there any objective measurement that 1 vs 2 spaces actually makes a difference.

One (small) study said that two spaces increases reading speed by about 3% [0] [1] [2]; I couldn't find any indication whether scanning and skimming speeds were studied.

From an article: "When the double-space was present, their eyes fixated less on the break between sentences and they moved to the next one more quickly. Ultimately, it seemed it was a bit easier for their brains to make sense of when sentences were more clearly broken up." [3]

> the simplicity and clarity of the wording is objectively far more important [than] any style guide. ... this is something the legal profession is generally very bad at with the amount of legal jargon found in most documents produced in the profession.

Agreed! I teach advanced contract drafting to third-year law students; I stress two principal rules: (A) Short, Single-Subject Paragraphs — don't be a L.O.A.D. [Lazy Or Arrogant Drafter] [4], and (B) BLUF - Bottom Line Up Front [5]. Following those two rules will produce the biggest bang for the buck in terms of improved readability.

[0] https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758/s13414-018-1527-6?sha...

[1]
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/two-spac...

[2] https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-space-period-sentence...

[3] https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/scientists-two-spaces-...

[4] https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/Notes-on-Contract-Draftin...

[5] https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/Notes-on-Contract-Draftin...
Because granite isn't water soluble. Because you've taken rocks that were safely underground with heavy metals safely locked in stable oxides, released all the accumulated radon, and poured 1000 tons of sulfuric acid on it to extract 10 tons of Uranium which you will use 1 ton of for fuel.

The toxic slurry is then left in a poorly maintained pond which leaks into farm land where all the other poisonous elements (some of which are also radioactive) bioaccumulate into food.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spi...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/amaravati/uranium-t...

In ISL they just let the toxic sulfuric acid slurry soak into the ground water and objections of hydrology engineers pointing out that most of the ISL mines don't meet the very specific conditions that keep it contained are met with 'it attenuates' with no further discussion or scientific evidence.

This is in addition to the decomissioning and other low level or non-radioactive waste which is more than the solar panels even if they aren't recycled.

Nuclear is not clean. It just puts the filth elsewhere. Similarly solar and wind aren't clean, but they are significantly better over all and are rapidly improving. This is why step one is reduction.

A very cheap drop in replacement for a coal boiler would be a good thing, but it's not a panacea and it's not an alternative to renewable energy -- merely a step towards it. MSRs or LFTRs might be, but there's no indication they're achievable, and the mining involved for current liquid salt concepts is even worse (beryllium). Plus the odds the 7 or so nuclear countries would let anyone else have plutonium breeding capability are effectively nil, so it's not a global solution anyway.
Your local pedant feels compelled to share that this is a paraphrase of a quote from JWZ on regular expressions, which in turn credits back to a quote from someone named D Tilbrook on awk

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10997140
> they do seem to be able to go further with the architecture licence than others

No, they literally do things mere architecture license holders are not allowed to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29798744

> but most of what they do is just normal architecture licensee stuff.

Bespoke ISA extensions is not “normal architecture licensee stuff” and Apple literally does that.
Same here. I am psyched to see DMA mentioned on HN so more folks will be exposed to it.
exFAT is fine in a pinch, but it's the only filesystem I've ever truly FUBAR'd by pulling a drive without ejecting. So long as you always safely remove and let the OS sync all the buffers it's probably okay.

For data you really care about, it's probably best to use the HFS driver for Linux or the EXT4 driver for Mac, depending on which OS you use more, and where performance is more important.
Very nice quote.

I also like to think that intelligence is everywhere, but the persistent pursuit of truth is difficult. Zhang embodies a man determined to work on his particular pursuit.

I hope I can be as persistent over time.
World faces ‘terminal’ loss of Arctic sea ice during summers, report warns
Summary

"The dramatic vanishing of polar ice sheets will cause catastrophic sea level rise that will threaten cities"
It's a disaster...
https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/its-a-disaster-6mil-ec...

(Warning: the sound effect is super loud)
> all you have is some cool stories and obscure knowledge

As if obscure knowledge is worthless. Trading the opportunity to make money for obscure knowledge is the whole value proposition of a Ph.D.! If one doesn’t value obscure knowledge, yeah, a Ph.D. Might be a bad value proposition for that individual.