skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my knowledge, it was broadly rolled out, I don't use anything by old.reddit.com and it's rare, but it doesn't seem limited to a specific sub-reddit. Ads, for reddit is also bought at the reddit.com level, and each sub-reddit is a monetizable segment with unique demographics. There were reps from reddit ad sales that were telling me how excited they were with what they were working on ads/tracking pipeline several years ago, and I've seen more tracking get implemented since.
\tangent it's curious how Einstein made amazing discoveries in youth, and nothing later. Is it because he aged? Did he move too far from intuition to formalism? Or was there just nothing fundamental left to discover, that could be discovered with the data available? (aka reachable low hanging fruit)

Probably the last, since no one has topped him yet... and physics departments have shrunk over time.

OTOH, to your specific point, research has become more directed; funding is in specific areas. Einstein himself had his initial insights outside a university context. Feynmann's diagrams developed when he decided to just "play" - i.e. outside his proper research.

I like to think there is gold just a step or two off the beaten path - but have no evidence for this.
Three lessons for founders in Africa’s mobile-first economy
It's weird because programming would probably be a lot less fulfilling when you can just talk to the computer and ask it to do any imaginable tasks without having to build anything. In comparison to actually putting paint on canvas vs asking an AI to generate an image, I think programming would be much more devalued.

On the other hand, if all programming was truly able to be created instantly by an AI, the productivity of our entire species would be increased to such a great degree, that being poor would be of little concern, because everything that you would want to buy would be instantly available for a fraction of the price it is today.
> So where is the money coming from?

Municipal subsidies, private and corporate donations. I assume a municipal social worker decides who gets in and who does not. This is a really common approach in the Netherlands, which has been going on for decades for other projects. I can't remember any news articles mentioning significant problems with this approach.

This looks to me like an extended "voedselbank" which involves social work. I don't see anything truly novel or problematic with this approach.
> I don't think automated techniques are very effective (or weren't in 2016)

Aren't the things that Tenable/Rapid7/etc do when scanning the network automated testing (techniques)? They seem effective at finding stuff. Or Metasploit.
This is something I know a fair amount about--I've worked for two biotech startups focused on antimicrobials and my thesis was on bacterial genetics.

Whenever I hear "antibiotic that doesn't evoke bacterial resistance" I think, "You just haven't looked hard enough yet. The bacteria will 'find' a way."
The parent comment did not mention Lightning. USB-C, the form factor, is widespread & is becoming more common by the day.
> It’s as performant as any JVM hosted language.

Surely not true if you write it idiomatically using the standard “purely functional” collections.
True, but there's also the fact that you can be "compelled" to provide your fingerprint more easily than a passcode. The blowtorch seems a bit drastic!
Some of those are regular modern C features and definitely should be used, most importantly compound literals and designated init, since they make the code both safer and more readable (and I blame the Visual Studio compiler team for dragging their asses for 16 years to support at least a subset of C99 for those features to be 'lesser known').
Can the 'username checks out' verifier be next, please?
AFAIK we do. I personally know a morbidly obese neckbeard who works in the military. Totally not a solder material but very good in computer networking, therefore the military accommodates him.
I wonder how effective life coaching is to people in poverty. The condition seems to have a risk of just humiliating those who are poor. Do they have the scale to do this for 80 families or more, or is it more of a rush job with the usual life advice those who are rich patronizingly give to those in poverty?
> So where is the money coming from?

Donations, apparently, likely both monetary and products.

> Who decides the cutoff?

They mentioned in the article that they're not a food bank, and they don't need proof of poverty. Since they connect the "shopping" to working with one of their life coaches (I don't know how often or how long you need to talk to them), I guess that's a deterrent against random rich people getting their diapers there. Or maybe they do, because they also want to talk to someone about their life, in which case I suppose they're also the target audience.

I have no clue about the sustainability or tax exemptions. It sounds like the supermarket is a way to get more people in the community in contact with their social workers. Outreach programs aren't that rare, the combination with a supermarket is, but it doesn't strike me as that odd.
It‘s described in the README. The video has 2x2 pixel blocks that are either black or white, so each one signifies a bit. So a 1920x1080 frame encodes 518,400 bit = 64.8KB

The assumption is that video compression won’t mess up those blocks beyond recognition, so you should retain the information as long as the rendered resolution and bitrate don’t drop too low.

Maybe this could be improved by e.g. using 32 colors instead of 2, and bumping the block size to 3x3 (for safety) which should yield ca 144KB per frame.
Few of my thoughts:

1. That poster for the benefits of space exploration is quite awful. Side-ways text?

2. It's a shame, because some of the artwork is really nice, especially the one at the bottom.

3. The "what they are doing this decade" section is terribly structured and phrased. The first point is to inspire the next generation of engineers etc. The second point is somewhat DEI agenda (concept of "parastronaut") [0]. The third is...yet again about the next generation of engineers etc. The forth is a vague "we will prepare" statement.

The actually awesome content is buried 5-6 points down, for example regarding the construction of Lunar Gateway modules, the design of Argonaut (worst spacecraft name ever?), etc.

4. Super pumped for Rosalind Franklin

[0] Although I don't view this as inherently bad (since we will eventually need to learn about how disabilities affect space exploration), I just think that there are much more important activities that need to be done right now, all on an already shoe-string budget in a recessive economy. I mean, jeez, they even admitted that it's just a PR stunt..."Demonstrate our commitment".
Companies don't need special tax exemptions to write off losses.

Typically, expenses directly reduce income without any need for a special exemption.
Controlnets are just a clever method of finetuning a network to enable additional conditioning. Nothing about it is specific to latent diffusion, so why would another approach like pixel space diffusion not work with it?

Also, I'd hold my horses with calling latent diffusion "out of date". The Imagen paper notes that the results greatly scaled with text-encoder size and the model DeepFloyd (it's a team) are working on uses T5-XXL (the unet is also a decent bit larger, but the Imagen paper claims that this should have a much smaller influence). Latent diffusion might also be able to work with text if you scale up the text encoder.

I'm very skeptical of Google's "trust me, I have the hottest model, it just goes to another school". Muse might have nice fidelity and be fast, but the example images have worse visual quality than Imagen. I definitely wouldn't be surprised if transformers took over, but I don't think it's a foregone conclusion.
Totally agree on the seemingly unnecessary overhead. Just recently I was looking into platforms for starting a blog and was overwhelmed with the choices of which none really had a complete set of offerings. Having a feature comparison table or a guide for choosing the best service/platform for individual use cases would be nice.

In the end, I chose Ghost's lowest tier. While it is limited regarding the theme choices, I've found that you can customize the free standard themes via their code injection feature[1].

[1]: https://www.shmostert.com/customize-standard-ghost-themes/ (disclaimer: the guide is from my blog)
It's a nice reminder that everybody wins when nobody loses. Life isn't a zero sum game.
Should append [2015] to the submission title. This is practically ancient news due to the rate of changes in the Linux kernel in this domain.
Don't twist my words, that's not what I said. Read again.

My point was never that Nazis killing Russian invaders is a morally good thing, but that a military brigade with a higher than normal Nazi-percentage is following orders from a jewish president and is killing other Nazi types in the form of Wagner Group.

Nazis are bad one way or another. But that they are going against their own sentiments should be food for thought for you. But I know you're not here to argue for real, so why do I bother.
I'm not expert and this was really nice and easy to read and understand. Thanks for sharing Troy.

Question:
Should we even use Cloudflare for server-server communication such as webhooks, API calls etc?
Good to hear about your family! Is this supported by macro trends?
I ultimately see space as humanity's ultimate home. Not in the Star Trek or Star Wars sense (because I don't belive FTL communication or travel is possible) but instead as a Dyson Swarm.

A Dyson Swarm is a collection of orbitals. With current technology and materials we could build O'Neil Cylinders that are 2-3 miles wide and 10-20 miles long that could house millions of people if necessary. Cover the whole thing in solar panels and fly enough of them around the Sun to capture the total solar energy output and you have an unbelievable amount of energy at your disposal and an unfathomably large amount of living area.

It's estimated humanity currently uses 10^11 Watts of power. Using all the sunlight that hits Earth would take that to 10^16 Watts. The orbitals of a Dyson Swarm take that to 10^26.

This can be built incrementally and requires no new physics of theoretical materials. It's just a truly massive engineering problem.

The most important problem we have now is reducing the cost of getting payloads into orbit. The Apollo/Shuttle era had costs of around ~$50,000/kg. Factoring in reuse, Falcon 9 may well be under $1,000/kg now. Starship may ultimately take this down to $100/kg. This needs to keep getting cheaper.

But here's my big problem with the stations we're building like the ISS and what the Europeans want to build here: they're all zero-gravity. What we should be doing is working on spin gravity stations to work out the issues and see how humans cope with that long term.

Yes, zero-gravity is useful for experiments but this isn't an either-or situation. You could have a spinning wheel attached to something not spinning for zero-gravity work environments.
Damn this is absurd. Is there not a way on Clouldflare to flag webhooks with a "if request contains this api key, let it through, block the rest"?
I'm just reading this thinking 'What if it were a human, instead of AI?'

The responses seem ok, in that light. I'd expect a human employee to respond in a similar way.
Is Artificial Light Poisoning the Planet?
> We still make immense progress, but in very detaily branches often

That's what the idea is. Once someone has figured out the basics eg energy conservation, relativity, etc, what's the next guy going to do? Put a small wrinkle on it at best. So the detaily thing is actually not immense progress, it's some small modification or application to a niche area.
To concur, there was a fascinating TED talk[0] from Chris Hadfield about having to complete an extra-vehicular operation having gone blind in both eyes, as an unexpected consequence of the anti-fog mixture that was in use.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo62S0ulqhA
I have 3 distinct pieces of ID. Both my ID card and my passport should theoretically be usable to verify my identity online. We also have a digital only[0] tool at our disposal. It’s insane to me that we still don’t have a reliable way to verify an identity online.

[0] https://www.spid.gov.it/en/
If originalists have succeeded in anything (besides their takeover of the judicial branch of the US), it's convincing me of the same - the constitution as it was written is inadequate to govern an industrial society in the 20th century and beyond. Pragmatic people somehow made it work for a time, but that no longer seems feasible.
> alse note-leading, inaccurate spelling of accidentals and rough harmony (too many thirds, bad spacing).

Can someone translate this into informed English, please. Specially curious about the "spelling" bit (assuming it is not referring to annotations on printed score).
That's virology, a completely different discipline.

Virions lack mitochondria, cell walls, organelles, and an ability to reproduce on their own.

There is no "broad-spectrum" antiviral because of the many more functional configurations that don't share much of a template, so they are freer to mutate more wildly.

The best bet is to rapidly identify emergent vectors and characterize their DNA or RNA to develop mRNA vaccines as with COVID-19.

There will be no universal "cure" to the (un)common cold, only systems for developing and deploying vaccines faster.
With Vodafone you can swap fewer minutes for more data. It's fairly sensible with even the 10-20€ plans.

Besides, it's important to remember that not everyone is a tech worker. One man's penny pinching is another's necessity.
and I'm sure there are many of such build working in the space industry.. on the ground, where they can be most useful right now
> ... all the inefficient and menial tasks programmers do, will be gone so that we can focus on the programs that ChatGPT cannot write for us

But all the inefficient and menial tasks are like 80% of all tasks. That means most software jobs will actually disappear! :|
Why would you need the MITM part? Just use Tor, VPN or a forwarding proxy to tunnel all your traffic through an IP you can't be connected with.
Tell: AWS Denied Production Access to SES
I held back my app from launching bcz AWS SES was in sandbox and now they denied production access

Since they denied without providing any reason I am wondering what could be the reason & what is the secret to please them?

Now i got to find an alternative email provider for sending transcation emails.

PS: New account & had domain verified too
> Companies don't need special tax exemptions to write off losses

There are places where selling certain product types below cost isn't OK, Wal-Mart got into trouble for this in Germany:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-sep-09-fi-18061...
One could do side-channel sliding window hand shakes with audio, to improve download performance. :-)
How do you know that hey are useful only on the ground? It's not like people with disabilities are different species, maybe you want to have a physicist who specialised in something onboard and they had a car crash and lost an arm?
As someone who also tries to run his own mail server, this makes me laugh ;)
> Running your own blog in 2023 is still needlessly complicated, especially if you have any kind of taste.

Aside from taste being subjective, most of the tools mentioned are customizable. That is, you can tweak the markup and CSS to your own taste.

The post starts being concerned about aesthetics but then finishes with:

"Having the right tool certainly helps, but at the end of the day, what matters is what you write there. Focus more on the content and just ensure the process of writing and posting is simple enough."

Finally, time is money. Spending an added hour (or two) with a build process (or whatever) isn't savings at all. If Goal #1 is to publish then anything that gets in the way should be avoided.

There are some solid points made, but the argument is inconsistent.
Show HN: You don't need to fetch with request url in JavaScript
If you want to connect with Flightgear you can use their relatively undocumented websocket interface...
> So, what does the current ferment about Rust tell us?
That the industry is ready to accept that programmers take
a more disciplined approach by embracing strong data typing
enhanced with program annotations.

I have a question. Who asked for this? Like who exactly raised their hand and said yes, I want a systems programming language that won't let me compile syntactically and semantically correct programs because they don't follow an arbitrary ownership model?
I thought podman did the same?
In theory, C++20 has designated init, but it has so many restrictions compared to C99 that it is pretty much useless for real world code.
I am not able to understand how

int (*ap3)[900000] = malloc(sizeof *ap3);

is nicer than

int *a = malloc(900000 * sizeof *a);

Notice that, in the former case, the array elements must be accessed as (*ap3)[i] whereas in the latter case the usual method a[i] is fine.
I appreciate your feedback. Thank you. I don’t think our app takes away anything, parents are welcome to use the app together with children, making it an experience for everyone involved. I come from a broken family myself and never had anyone to tell me stories. My mom never really had the time, being busy struggling to provide for me and my brother. What we’ve built, I would’ve loved to have back in the days. Our app has already proven to work wonders for parents from our circles, we truly think more people will love it.
although this comment doesn't add anything to the conversation, i find the downvote a bit harsh. I think anybody experience this surprise of seeing someone else have the exact same idea as ours at some point.

Then after a bit of time one realize zeitgeist is a super powerful thing and accepts the idea that "having a great idea" isn't something that exceptional nor valuable. Implementing the idea is.
That make me think about Textual python library. And in my teen years I used TheDraw app for ascii/ansi art and animations for my RemoteAccess BBS.
That's an excellent question.

The draft text above is for a new treaty, so in theory every country signing the treaty would be agreeing to enforce the provisions, since they would have spent 2021-2024 negotiating for the treaty to meet their goals. In theory, each country would enact national legislation to enforce the terms of the treaty. The WHO INB website has videos of the meetings, where you can see the health ministers of every country participating in the process.

More problematic are the proposed WHO amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations, which are to be voted upon in May 2023, need only a majority to pass, and allegedly will not require national legislation/debate by the 196 countries which have implemented IHR. The report of the review committee includes their reaction to the removal of IHR text on human rights, along with other concerns, https://apps.who.int/gb/wgihr/pdf_files/wgihr2/A_WGIHR2_5-en...

> The Committee strongly recommends the retention of the existing text "full respect for the dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons” as an overarching principle in the first paragraph, and notes that the concepts of human rights, dignity and fundamental freedoms are clearly defined within the framework of treaties to which many of the States Parties to the Regulations have adhered.

While enforcement is yet unknown, contracts usually have consequences.
I don't know if sound analysis (as in no false negatives or also precise as in no false positives) is just slow or if it depends on the language constructs and the amount of flow sensitive mutable state that is being tracked.

Do you have any references on why that would be slow? That's of interest to me :)

Also, perhaps is there a distinction to be made between data flow and control flow sensitivity?

Seems like these kinds of analyses are increasingly added to languages for nullability tracking so it might not necessarily be that slow. Especially if the type system is of help so that the analysis can be incremental, per compilation unit.
Look into Squeak/Smalltalk. It is an operating system/desktop/IDE with self contained compiler.
The roadmap [1] is uninspiring. Its goals are to maintain access to LEO, "enable" lunar exploration (not actually explore it) and "prepare the horizon goal of Europe being part of the first human mission to Mars." What?

I'm reminded of Holst's complaints about Arianespace [2]. Because Europe is actually planning cool stuff in space, e.g. the lunar gateway described on this page. But its bureaucracy seems unwilling to focus on a small set of ambitious goals versus sort of doing everything everywhere.

[1] https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/HRE/Terrae_Novae_2030+str...

[2] https://illdefinedspace.substack.com/p/arianespace-the-only-...
Regarding the DOOM Eternal Soundtrack, no reasonable person should have every believed the original story as claimed by Stratton in the first place. Unfortunately, taken as a whole gamers are a toxically childish and entitled community and it was all too easy to weaponize them against Gordon.
Yes, it is not for IAM policies
I commit every 2 minutes
One could always put

alias which='command -v'

in their .bashrc or wherever they keep their aliases.
It was USSR, there was no concept of a housewife.

Labour participation was about equal for men and women (i.e. excluded students and pensioners).
> Another striking thing about Maigret is how much he relies on the police force around him.

That's because he is a "commissaire", a superintendant, for most of the books.

Maigret is in a lot of way the reverse of a hard boiled detective. He is if not happy at least content in his career as a civil servant and bureaucrat. He is perfectly adept at navigating his hierarchy and knowns his place. Maigret serves a system he respects and values, fully aware of his prejudices which he sees a necessary wall between the honest people and the miscreants. He is very much upper middle class, what the French would call petit bourgeois, a happily married catholic who likes order and long meals.

The article rightfully points that these novels have a reactionary surface but try to find a redeeming feature in how they describe society in its totality. I would be less generous.
Sorry if you took it personally or you think this is a rant. This is clearly not the case, I can repeat it, PM have a lot of value, but there is one specific area that we shouldn't give them control over.

It doesnt mean they are bad PM or good PM, innovation requires just fundamentally opposed skills to the standard product management ones that we see in books.
>> customer

As we all know from agile it's impossible for a customer to know what they want and it's the programmers job to talk to them to figure it out anyway

>> market

As Heynren Grufford said: the market can want a faster horse for longer than you can be where the puck will be

So they focus on what they think they can control.
This boils down to 'Cloudflare did something' and without the Enterprise plan you'd never be able to pull the data required to diagnose the problem. Oh also, Cloudflare knows they did something but plays the blame game until you get to someone that openly acknowledges that they know something is broken.

I've said it before and I'll say it again--Cloudflare is not making the Internet safer, its just making it less open. I know that is not the overwhelming sentiment of HN and me complaining about it isn't going to change anyones mind.