skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may shock you to hear that people that live in areas like this often have something called community. It includes things like giving neighbors rides to the hospital.
Can you point me to any studies that show masks filter airborne SARS-CoV-2 in any meaningful way? My understanding is that there are only studies of areas that had mask mandates (or not) and the assumption that such mandates (or not) actually relate to spread, but not actually studies that conclude even N95 masks filter airborne SARS-CoV-2 in any meaningful way.
Open-Sourcing Anonymous Credential Service
I think carriers can inject apps via sim card too
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyNote8/comments/71of1t/carrier...
Absolutely they can. Carriers have access to the system partition aka We do what we want (hopefully they do what makes sense). This is how bloatware is installed (the things you can't get ride of).
Eh, I'm not American and I found American football pretty straightforward, at least until you start looking at the play-calling and formations and all of that.

And you could say the same about CS, your market is probably "anyone who has played a first-person shooter"
Gas has low capital cost but relatively high fuel cost, especially outside the US. For most fusion designs (possibly excluding NIF), the fuel cost is insignificant.

Also of course we might want to consider the carbon emissions of gas plants.
Contrary to many people's expectations, the most typical profile of someone who kills themselves is a 33 to 44 year old man who presents no warning signs and leaves no note.

This is a tool that could be extremely helpful for addressing a large portion of suicides.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777349/

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/suicide-often-not-preced...

https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/cap/82375
Heroes of the Storm was a lot of fun and had a great community. IMHO, that's one of the big problems with e-sports: They're clearly at the mercy of the publisher.

Even more recently: Halo Infinite came out, was supposed to be the next best thing. A bunch of people changed games to play that, expecting a huge scene. It failed to really make an impact on the market and left a lot of players high and dry.

I think the best way (but not the most profitable way) is for companies to commit to a certain number of years with a base prize pool, and then sell team cosmetics that have a large % of the price added to the prize pool. Too many professional careers are based on streaming income, and there is very little way for a viewer to support the scene other than watching.
skepticism does that, not cynicism. They're not the same thing.
Recently I have been using it to print color printouts from Staples self service. They have an email to printer option too, but sometimes the files are too big for email, and I don't want to keep deleting them from my sent emails folders.

My car has a usb drive with my favorite music.
I totally understand the impulse, but if you can find a way to get a tech or tech-adjacent job in a fulfilling industry, you'll probably be able to have a bigger impact and sacrifice less in terms of pay and work life balance.

I spent two years working in civic tech, and I've known others who have left big tech jobs for non-profits.
The set you wanted, so IN the experimental design.
Or did the experiment include also begging people to fill out a questionnaire they had initially trashed? Many people appear to think so.
At one time DotA2 had a noob friendly stream that would explain what was going on in greater detail, but it's a hard balancing act. DotA2 allows in game spectating which actually means you can click in items to figure out what they do. It would be cool if streaming platforms had embedded item and hero information for users to be able to expand on demand.

Complexity is something that affects League and DotA2. It's hard to know what all the things on screen even mean, and why they're important.
Unfortunately it's boring as hell to watch over the long term. In a game like CS there is little setup and watching someone getting instagibbed in short engagements is no fun. But maybe the players around it can initiate some drama that keeps people talking, similar to wrestling, but then it's no longer about the game and more about the drama.
> I really feel like Esports should have been built up slowly around more first principles. Keep the overhead as low as possible in the beginning. You're just going to be losing money in the beginning so why not minimize that cost.

that was also tried. on the surface, it looks like eSports has come out of nowhere, but people have been trying to make the economics work out for decades now. the earlier attempts looked a lot more like the scrappy model you are describing.

disclaimer: this is a counterstrike-centric history bc that's what I was interested in at the time. I understand the starcraft (for example) pro scene was a bit more stable.

CPL was started in 1997, and distributed a mere $3mm in prize money between then and its 2008 demise. then there was CGS, which weirdly tried to replicate the American football TV experience. that league was notable at the time for actually paying players a salary (though only about $30k iirc). then things were mostly dormant (in terms of capital investment) until twitch took off and the game companies themselves took a more active interest in the scene, leading to the massive prize pools and tournaments you see today.

maybe we just haven't hit the right moment for esports to be economically viable, but to me it seems like something is fundamentally broken with the idea. it's telling that top twitch streamers make more money than the world's best competitive players of that game. imagine a world where ray lewis in his prime could make more money live streaming random pickup games and reading donation messages out loud. the NFL could not exist in that world.
In the embedded world it’s still a struggle to get people to use C99, maybe in 20 years for us.
Why do we need to cover the worst case with 100% renewables?

The goal is to reduce emissions so it would be great even if we can just stop burning coal in the summer.
I can't speak to Norway's penultimate ability to find and raise shipwrecks, but in general the Nordic countries plus the Netherlands have a strong history of shipbuilding. This includes technical knowledge and know-how with all things related to ships.

In a Eurocentric point of view, the Dutch are probably the most famous for their capabilities[0].

[0] https://www.historytoday.com/archive/dutch-shipbuilding-gold...
This is the killer for me. I've never found tech work fulfilling, personally, and I never expected to. But what has burned me out is the sense of being perpetually behind because there's no finish line; infinitely marching onward without ever feeling you've accomplished something. Every morning I open the same files.

My friends outside tech often talk about the satisfaction and relief they feel after completing a big project, and the relatively peaceful lull between such projects, and it just sounds so nice. Doesn't matter whether it's a big event they planned, a tour they went on, or a structure they welded. When something is done it's done. They get to move on personally and professionally.

It used to feel like a job change would provide that sense of momentum, but even that's disappearing now that every product (at least from my designer's perspective) feels more or less identical these days.
I think the concern is not their output but the fact that Musk could one day just decide he will no longer provide rockets when $political_party is in power.
>The bucolic picture of farms as family homes combined with a flock of peaceful sheep, a family dog, and some silly chickens and a hard working sole proprietor is really hobby farming and a primarily aesthetic thing at this point.

I think the truth of your statement depends on local environment. In the area I grew up there are still small families running dairy operations. They have admitted it's getting harder to keep the farm competitive.

I agree farming has consolidated considerably since the mid 20th century. It's consolidation by design - the federal gov't has pursued policies to encourage consolidation. From a cost efficiency standpoint, it makes a lot of sense, but it has cost a lot of people their livelihoods.

The joke is, to make a million dollars in farming, start with two million.
I was lucky to get laser black white printer for $49 on Black Friday 2020. Cartridge also costs same. HP.
Not that hacky or mind-boggling, but does involve a hex editor and lots of money...

I added support for the '\ ' PostScript escaped space sequence to a custom, high-performance PDF parser.

A former employer used this to derive key figures from financial statements. Any change to the parser had to be Pareto-optimal: so if you modified the parser, it should not fail to parse any key figure that was previously possible to parse. Adding this improved reading word-wrapped text in hundreds of cases and key figures in dozens; I recall that my bosses thought it must be a mistake, and that I had to convince them by finding the right section in some Adobe PDF spec.

I wasn't an expert at the PDF format. But stumbling on a number split in two by apparently nothing, and digging up a 0x5C 0x20 '\ ' with a hex editor, I seemed to recall that PDF was built on top of PostScript, and that TeX / LaTeX syntax was somehow related to PostScript. So it struck me that what was a literal backslash in the PDF must just be an escape sequence.
Esports and sports have extremely different revenue models. The differentiator is that no one ‘owns’ traditional sport games. Anyone can make and sell a basketball, but blizzard has a monopoly on over watch. Sport leagues only indirectly make money when people play their game, but for esports it’s extremely direct and also easier to measure.

League of Legends makes multiple billions of dollars a year, not from esport receipts, but from people buying content in the game. The NFL doesn't make a dime when you play football in your backyard.
Instead of rendering server side, render client side.
If they block JS, they get nothing.
In JS script check for hostname and if it matches their hostname, don’t render anything.

Potential downsides: SEO.
This is a deep topic that I don’t feel fully qualified to speak precisely about, but the key point is that knowledge isn’t about mapping symbols to other symbols like what language models do, it’s about mapping symbols/mental representations to reality.

I think knowledge is in fact a good word for ‘sensical’ language, but the point most people like me are trying to make when talking like this is that language models can’t determine what is ‘sensical’ language.

The amazing thing about these newer models is that they seem to get remarkably close to properly understanding real world concepts just through symbol mapping on massive amounts of data, but that’s highly dependent on having being fed sensical data where that mapping of symbols to reality was already done.

I’m trying to argue that knowledge only really exists in the data feeding step, when we map symbols to reality.

What the language models do is create a map of symbols. But they mix things which are knowledge with things that are not, and cannot determine what about their output and their mapping is actually valid knowledge.

I think most of why this is has to do with the nearly endless amount of embodied physical and historical context that goes into our own sense making. A surprisingly large degree seems to be embedded in language, but there’s a lot more that is not.

EDIT: I rambled, sorry; direct answer to your question about what I’d call the property that makes these language models useful is “relatively high degree of correspondence with reality”. What I consider “knowledge” is directly obtained by something which can interact with reality/directly maps reality to some representation.
I don't speak web corporatese so I doubt I'll work in an organization like that any time soon...
Construction is frequently slapdash. A friend's wife, who works as an engineer, commented that it often seemed like the construction workers were trying to screw everything up on purpose. As-built is frequently different from the original plans, and that's before you take into account all of the change requests that happen in construction, such as the change that caused the Kansas City Hyatt disaster (oops, a single change request doubled the load on a critical beam, causing it to exceed its design strength and fail in the middle of a major party and killing a hundred people).
>We skipped the "mechanic" equivalent in the software industry and call anyone that can pass fizzbuzz, and who does work like fizzbuzz, an engineer

If I have engineer in job_title and engineering degree in informatics, then I m an engineer by your "standards/definitions"?
Eh, tech jobs are not always cushy without long hours. If you are lucky enough to find such a job, consider keeping the job and use your free time to find your missing fulfillment.
> Another correlation, in my experience, is bugs and glitches.

Most of us are slumming it with non-ECC memory I'd wager. In a very real sense, more memory usage corresponds to a larger target for a bit to get flipped by an stray cosmic particle collision.

I think the real reason why XFCE feels so stable and reliable, is that it is old. Old software that doesn't undergo frequent revolutions has a longer time to catch bugs, and doesn't introduce them at the same pace.
I don't know what people get out of repeating this on every single fusion article. It's not inventive or insightful, and it doesn't further the discussion in the slightest.
By the late 00's you were as likely to have a Zip drive for smaller (100mb) exchanges... if it weren't for the excessive licensing fees for the disks, the fate of the devices might have been a lot different. I really didn't consider thumb drives worth my time until they started getting over 256mb or so, I think it was also after USB3 was a thing, but it's a bit muddied in my memory.
True but remember most of these teams have existed for a long time before it became possible for fans to support or follow teams abroad via TV and internet. So teams in smaller markets (eg Scotland, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden) have had the chance to build a local support base without necessarily “competing” for their loyalty with those in bigger markets (eg England, Germany, Spain, Italy).

Note that I’ve put “competing” in quotes because I’m talking about fanbases and therefore money to build and develop their teams. Interestingly in the past when they did compete on the field things were much more equal. Before the explosion of TV money thumbed the scales in favour of the bigger players, it wasn’t such a huge shock for, say[0], Dundee United to beat Barcelona or IFK Gothenburg to beat Internazionale that it would today.

[0] in fact both of these results happened, in the semifinals of the 1986/87 European Cup
I don't quite follow why you're saying that, but as per my brief previous comment, I'm not saying it's a natural law, nor a game.
It’s great. The infamous HN “well actually” contrarian is left speechless.
I am trying, really! [0]

[0]: https://raphael.lullis.net/community-is-not-enough/
I'm guessing the parent might be referring to the fact that Norway is an outlier regarding government finances [0]. They can afford it.

[0] https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-financial-wealt...
I had a base-hit acquisition and probably could have turned around and done another VC- or self-funded startup. The burnout was too much. After a hiatus I opened a bike shop this year. I can't imagine going back to writing software for money again (I still do it on the side).

Every bike industry vet I've talked to feels about bikes the way I feel about software. Broken industry, yada yada. Anything can wear you down.
Sure it exists, it is called compressed air. Even better with CO2.

Close to me is the oldest one, built in 1972 and still operational today:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_Huntorf
Luckily, your snow effect is not mission-critical. So even without the versioned URL, I'd probably take the trade-offs; the snow effect might disappear, but at least I don't give some random person arbitrary remote code execution permissions on my website.

But yeah, the URL should really be versioned.
Probably not. Even large, 40'+ boats designed to operate primarily by sail can get by with 10-20HP. Motorsailers -- racing sailboats designed to go faster by leveraging both the wind and a motor -- typically aren't much more than 40HP.

What's interesting about this prop (to me, anyway) is that most of the sea-faring boats that need it the most will likely not use it because it doesn't feather or fold-away when not in use. For ocean-faring sailboats, that's critical, as the drag of trad props will cap their speeds by half a knot or so, which (over the span of a multi-week journey) might add meaningful amounts of time to a trip that you're just hoping to finish with.
Yes, specially now

The new de-facto is to have an over politicsed and heavily dishonest employer.

My work is also seen as a quick commodity to turn around, thanks to Amazon's hire-to-fire schemes

I love programming but working as a software engineer is terrible. I'm becoming a small shop owner asap
That goes both ways: for a tech company in a given "vertical", it helps if you can find developers that are at least somewhat knowledgeable in (or interested enough to learn something about) the vertical. Not doing that can lead to a lot of friction and wasted time.
He's talking about the general principle that if something only depends on composable atoms, then in order to know how that thing changes, you only need to know how those composable atoms change.

Probably a simple example is a rotation in the plane about the origin. If you know it's a rotation, then in order to know how any point in the plane is moved by this rotation, you only need to know how one point is moved.
Flag my thread sure but i believe it to be relevant to this community as he has had an outsized fanbase here due to his can do attitude and sheer force of will against long odds working on incredibly challenging engineering problems.
> pure IP blocks are easier to detect than tarpitting and returning fake/corrupted content

I recently had to employ such a strategy against some extremely aggressive card testers (criminals with lists of stolen credit cards who automate stuffing card info into a donation form to test which cards are still working). Instead of blocking their IPs, I started feeding them randomly generated false responses with a statistically accurate "success" rate. They ran tens of thousands of card tests over many days, and 99% of the data they collected was bogus. It amuses me to know that I polluted their data and wasted so much of their time and effort. Jerks.
> But is there text that a human could write that ChatGPT couldn't possibly write?

No, because ChatGPT is trained on text that humans wrote. Because what ChatGPT generates is based on what humans have wrote, it can always create the plausibility that a human might have created the text they are reading from it.
These are the best ideas, especially SEO poisoning and alternate images. If their point is to steal content and rankings then poisoning the well should discourage this in the future. I suspect their actual goal is to have a low-effort high SEO site to abuse as a watering hole for phishing attacks.

As a side note, their domain is linked in this thread so they are seeing HN in their access logs and probably reading this. It should make for an interesting arms race. Or red/blue team event.
> there was a fairly long gap between the death of PDAs and the birth of smartphones.

Only if you define the birth of smartphones as starting with Android/iPhone. Palm released their own smartphones using the same OS as their PDAs (the Treo line) prior to that, and Microsoft had Windows Mobile plus a bundle of third-party manufacturers. Plus Blackberry had been around the whole time, too.

Looking it up, it seems that Palm Tungsten TX[1] was produced in 2005, 1.5-2 years after they started producing the Treo 600[2], which was one of the first smartphones - yes, it was inferior to the iPhone in a number of ways, but having owned a Treo 680, in my mind it still qualifies as a smartphone.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_TX

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treo_600
eSport viewership numbers are untrustworthy because the games incentivize players to tune in with special in game rewards.

Also for reference the last Superbowl was watched by 100M viewers.
isn't 8AM still part of the night sleep? do you wake up super early? I would expecting something like 11AM, 3PM :D
Pay to quality of life at work ratio is more informative than nominal pay.

Tough to beat income earned by doing something with near zero chance of morbidity/mortality and bodily harm, the option to work from home, much higher demand in a much bigger market reducing volatility of at least a certain level of income, low personal liabilities, and vast opportunities for upward movement.
The low point was when someone at Apple had decided that dragging a document over a print icon to print the document was an important innovation. That’s about the time I switched to Windows for 18 years.
The solution for unknown-unknowns is to make changes gradually and try to make them reversible (reversing should be cheap) to the extent possible (e.g., rather than destroying a bridge, you close it for some years first and if some need arises, you just reopen it).

> whether there should be a small community in that location at all

This isn't particularly actionable; we can't just forcibly uproot people. Moreover, liberals (including me) and progressives usually (and rightly) advocate for the state subsidizing public services for communities that can't afford them--e.g., quality schools and libraries and so on in low-income communities, but then when it comes to rural communities, there's often an attitude that rural communities are leeching resources that rightly belong to larger areas (especially urban centers) and that their problems are their own fault (despite that most rural people were born in their environments). This seems pretty philosophically inconsistent.

By the way, I don't mean to impute this sort of attitude on the parent, by the way--his "whether there should be a community in that location at all" remark made me think of it, but I don't think he intended it as urban chauvinism.
Could you elaborate on that? What do you mean that the lasers could require more energy?

Is it that in a specific volume they got X EM energy coming in from the laser and Y thermal energy coming out, with Y>X BUT the electricity consumption of the lasers is Z>Y>X?

If so that's sort of misleading, like the plethora of claims from ITER. I hoped this was different.