skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also tend to enjoy the spaces / service ... it seems like could be a bit short sighted of commercial real estate loan holders to let it shutter ... seems like a consortium of lenders with commercial real estate holdings could/should take it over and use it as a management service to try and shave their losses on all the vacant commercial office space that's gonna be everywhere ... it's not like there's really anything more valuable they can do with that space in the foreseeable future ...
Yes, an open standard that any browser could use to prove human interaction would be great. It's also impossible, of course; all attempts so far lock in specific software or hardware stacks and then pretend that bots can't use those systems, guaranteeing both false negatives and false positives.
He left a note (not published) from an article I saw Paul Graham post.
That’s the only explanation. Someone should talk to the Mechanicum about it.
I've been running Chimera for a few months now on a all-AMD PC hooked up to my living room TV, and I've been pleased. I had previously set up Windows to launch big picture mode on startup but there was always a delay where I would see the Windows desktop which shattered the whole illusion. Plus, Windows.

Chimera really boots directly into big picture and has worked flawlessly for the use case of playing Steam games. Beyond that, it falls a little flat. I thought that gamepad input for mouse control would be supported in desktop mode but as far as I can tell it's not, at least not out of the box.

There is a nifty phone client you can use to download games from the Epic Store, retro games, etc. to be added to the non-Steam games section in BPM, but I wish you could do it from the desktop. A more or less fully-featured, gamepad-controlled OS would be the holy grail.
> Do you believe kids can recover from being 6 months behind?

No, I don't believe the overwhelming majority will ever completely recover. They might recover to some degree, but that's immaterial to what was taken from them. It's irreparable. But this isn't about my beliefs, it's about science.

Just because something is possible and can happen has no bearing on the effects in aggregate.

You seem to think that optimism and wishful thinking can magically remedy the damage done to entire generation of children, and that one anecdotal data point somehow invalidates or lessens the mounting irrefutable evidence against this argument. I'm only echoing what the researchers are concluding in their papers. It cannot be overstated: I want to be completely wrong about all this. But every day more and more studies are published saying otherwise.

> It must be nice to live in a world where you judge actions with perfect vision of what science will say 3 years after the fact.

If you change a few words, this ostensibly becomes the superior orders defense. I'm not trying to equate or compare the two events, but there's a parallel between the European resistance and those that opposed the draconian school closures on principle or moral grounds. When both are void in an argument, derision is actually the most appropriate thing to do :)
In todays age sure, But just looking back at games pre monetization / MBA era, they still work. Sure there are some bugs/ glitches/ but not much that breaks the game.

You can pretty much play any game pre PS3 era still enjoy it to it's fullest.
> 1) If his models could predict useful room temperature superconductors, it seems we would have found one already.

No such models exist.
Cloudflare + Windows Always-On DDOS Protection.

Blackmirror Firewall Mini is free for 1 (one) server instance. It just works.
Honestly I'm excited by that. Seems like a big space opened up for exploration. I think over the next few years there will be several types of this composition with varying electro-magnetic properties.
The answer to the Python problem you mention is conda/mamba.
I am a very dedicated Sanders supporter, and to say he "was nearly President" in 2016 is just not true. Yes, by the end of the primary he'd gained a lot of steam, but that was the end of the primary. Sanders was in a pretty hopeless situation delegate-wise by Super Tuesday, and only briefly polled within even ten points of Clinton.

He was closer in 2020. But in 2020, Democratic primary voters got a very simple choice: double down on moderate neoliberalism, or try progressivism. Democratic primary voters made a very, very clear choice, and Biden wiped the floor with Sanders from the day it became a two-man race. Biden won nearly two-to-one in vote share and in delegates and won numerous states that were Sanders' base of support in 2016.

Is there a progressive wing in the Democratic Party? Yes. Is it a lot bigger than it was ten years ago? Yes. Is the fact that we've been right all along becoming more obvious by the day? Yes. But are progressives the majority of the party? No. Are we competitive in national primaries right now? No. We have simply not convinced half of the half of the country that votes Democratic that we are in the right.

Part of that is our serious problem with the black vote - it's very hard to win a Democratic primary without it - but it goes well beyond that. Republicans have very successfully painted us as a bunch of frothing-at-the-mouth fools who want to waste all your money sending men to leer at your daughters in locker rooms, and we need strategies to convince people otherwise. We need to play politics. What that looks like, we can debate, but we have so far failed to win the game of rhetoric even though we are, objectively, right.
Care to share where that sentiment comes from? Also, a bit ironic considering the recent n of 1 trial they approved for DMD.

Have you heard of the oncologist that did a murder suicide on her 4 month old baby in Westchester this weekend? Not every disease has the luxury of waiting around decades for safety and efficacy fact sheets.
It sounds unethical to conduct human trials on babies when the mother could simply stop breastfeeding while taking the medication. I wonder if doctors recommend that for this or other drugs? I'd hope they inform the mother at the very least.
As a society we need to be able to move past “nice life/career/reputation you got there, would be a real shame if someone were to accuse you of racism for holding a different opinion”.
The counterargument is substantive, and you're committing fallacy of fallacies anyways.
+1 every action has an up and a down side, you have to pick the action with the most appropriate up-side and the least problematic down-side
There's plenty of social media where you can share the news, and whose content might be predominantly driven by it, e.g. Reddit and Twitter.

On the other hand, Facebook was made to be a site for connecting friends and family. Is it really made that much better for anyone other than news media companies to have the news available on Facebook? People have been complaining for years about Facebook's deterioration for its original purpose. If Facebook wants to, for example, shift to promoting more content about users' personal lives and experiences over short-term engagement-maximising ragebait, why should they be stopped? The idea of requiring Facebook to continue acting as an agent of social harm in order to shore up the profits of a few news media companies seems rather perverse.
libbitcoin isn't a company. It's an alternative C++ implementation (https://github.com/libbitcoin) to the Bitcoin Core (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin) implementation. Bitcoin Core is the one originally from Satoshi. Libbitcoin came in like 2011 or so iirc and was led by Amir Taaki. Libbitcoin is a lot less popular than Bitcoin Core, as you can see on the github stats.
Clouds take these vulns seriously, and have a lot to lose, and have deep wallets. I'd be surprised if this topic didn't come up when large purchases are discussed.

Not that there are many alternatives..
You may be wrong: https://developer.nvidia.com/rtx/ray-tracing/optix
I've seen non-tech corporations adopting Kubernetes without realizing that it's just one part of Google's infrastructure, not the entire operations side. There's an entirely separate chunk of infrastructure that provides the kind of security you mention.

K8s is a "do one thing and do it well" that does workload orchestration. Google's BeyondCorp system enforces a zero-trust policy. It's not left to each part of the infrastructure to independently implement.
Try a balaclava.
The brain is an electrochemical machine. Your brain chemistry changes when you're happy, hungry, sad, angry, bored, horny, sleeping; pretty much every human experience is mediated through brain chemistry changes.
> but you also have to admit that Cloudflare is tasked with an impossible problem

They're not tasked with anything. They choose to sell a bot detection and mitigation platform as a product, and that's a hard business to be in. If they think they can do it, great. If they can't, they shouldn't try.
Did plastic straw bans work?
I'm a long-term hobbyist Unity user, and I do not understand what I'm looking at. While I get that I'm not the intended audience, I'm coming from a "please start by explaining in clear terms why this is important, instead of assuming that if we're here, we already know" place.
> The new Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking include lists of books that might be included on the state competency exam. To give students a better chance of mastering the material, the district switched to one novel and excerpts from five to seven different books, including plays.

So the change has absolutely nothing to do with Florida's rules banning sexual materials.

This seems like someone choosing to use this unrelated change to push their political narrative.

I don't think there's much interesting or intellectually satisfying about this.
An implementation by someone not involved in the original, and not using the original code, is not usually called a rewrite. The authors of this should use more careful language.

If the same author wrote one version and then another, and only a minority of the code (if any) is shared between the two, it's a rewrite. Especially if the new thing is intended to replace the old.

If one employee at an organization produced the first version of something, and another one at the same organization produces the second, using very little of the original code, that's also rewrite. The organization is doing a rewrite, even though that second employee is writing it for the first time.

Someone not connected to the original who knows only the interfaces, or inputs and outputs, isn't doing a rewrite; they are "cloning" or "implementing" and such.
Covid was for many people a Rorschach test that let them predict or believe whatever their desired change to society, it would become permanent. But the original unknown, uncontrolled, emergency form of covid was always likely to be temporary.

Some people in service jobs thought work was over, or should be.

People said movie theaters would die. Maybe people who already didn't like theaters.

It was supposed to be the death of brick and mortar retail. Of cities.

People prone to fearing impractically theatrical methods of control by governments thought we'd be forcibly under house arrest for good, or that businesses would never be allowed to reopen. I never understood how this should benefit local governments, why they were waiting for this opportunity to force people to wear masks and collect unemployment and spend their money online instead of locally.

Many people in a community with a high percentage of introverts who work in a city with real estate that makes it too expensive to live close to their office thought that working from home would last forever.

Some things are taking longer to get back to normal than others, but we knew fairly early on that a few promising vaccines were in development. I never understood why it didn't feel likely that society would get back to its old status quo in the most fundamental ways.

We're a social species, period. We're not Solarians. We don't want to become the society from Wall-E.
I dropped out before vector calculus and differential equations but i'm confident they have literally nothing to do with making money in software development. in fact I would wager money that the more math you take during your computer science education the less money you make. say goodbye to startups. say hello to academia and top ramen
Injectable omega-3 halts progression of dangerous arterial plaques
>This isn’t true - note how similar vulnerabilities have occurred on ARM, POWER, etc.

I understand you're trying to argue against my main point, which is:

>ISA complexity breeds microarchitecture bugs.

And definitely stands.

From there I have no idea how you derived that bugs are impossible under a simple ISA, which is implied in your statement.

As an added note: ARM in particular isn't simple. It's simpler than x86, but that's a low bar to meet.

>even if you weren’t wrong, it would be off-topic

We will have to agree to disagree on this.
The issue with applying any of this is going to be the longevity of the materials in use, in my opinion. Fission is hard enough on the containment in terms of wear and tear, fusion will have even more challenges. We are still permanently 20 years away from fusion in my opinion, lol.
What was the incremental taxation rate that should have been assessed throughout the industrial revolution to price in then-present and then-future externalities?
People always underestimate how much time physical science takes and how small normal steps are.

my favorite xkcd: https://xkcd.com/683/
> The problem is, with jobs that do not require more than a driver's license and the ability to read names you are a fungible cog in the giant machinery of Amazon.

Right. Where I am, Amazon was running ads that literally said: "Need a job? Pass a background check? Apply today, start tomorrow, no interview required."
> Now I just hope they don't institute some dumb program where it only talks to Apple devices or some crap.

The behavior will be the same as it is on iPads, which have had USB-C for 5 years.
Most managers aren’t really insightful in their leadership. They’re turning a formulaic crank, doing what books tell them to do, and being rewarded by other managers and promoted because managers decide who gets promoted. They form a cargo cult of HBS case study vomit, with no actual management ability. They don’t understand people or how they work, they don’t innovate and figure out how to make effective teams from a collection of individuals. They create policies to form individuals to conform to an idealized worker, write performance plans when they fail to be something they’re not, and wonder why people who are smart enough to go to a top school and graduate with honors and pass the rigorous interview can’t “perform” according to their metrics that are at best proxies for that idealized worker that doesn’t exist. A good manager learns the human dynamics and assembles a team like a puzzle, focusing on the delivery of results over the methods and let the team organize as they organize best, watching for pathological edges and correcting the teams dynamic towards health. They help individuals exaggerate their strengths and find peers to compensate their weaknesses.

The first manager can’t handle remote work because there’s no formula to follow. They’re lost. They’re the boss and don’t like being lost, so they force everyone to conform. It’s all they know how to do, and their cargo cult cheers them.

The second manager is unique but let’s people work the way they work best. In office, at home, hybrid. They figure out ways to smooth the rough edges, and get things to be smooth. People love this manager. They get amazing things done. HBS studies are written about their techniques, and eventually the cargo cult adjusts. But before then the cargo cult of other managers and the management hierarchy absolutely loathes this manager. They don’t speak the cargo cult language. They don’t conform. They seem to be successful, but when they explain their method it doesn’t make sense and doesn’t follow what HBS says. It can’t be right.
These vulnerabilities have a lot less to do with cloud providers, and a lot to do with networked computers in general. It's not unreasonable to expect this exploit to be done via web browser, as was demonstrated with prior speculative execution exploits.

Fundamentally, the only reason we need speculative execution is that we haven't updated our software to be more concurrent (reflecting how chips have kept pace with Moore's law for 15+ years), we still program as if we're in the 1970s.

This may turn into a great opportunity to force a rebuild a lot of ancient code.

For more information: C is not a Low Level Language https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
AMD has the same problem (Inception). Predictive instruction pipelining makes timing and context separation harder. Even if you are on s390x or M1 it's not like you are safe either. This is a whole field of study.

In my mind the better mitigation is to put control over trusted code back to the user and to do that you have to add less-performant cores onto the die and force the operator to elevate (or not) to SMT.

Right now it's an all-or-nothing proposition for the whole board. I would like to think that you can take your untrusted code and stick it on the less-performy cores with the safer instruction pipelining scheme so an actual physical barrier exists.

If that was in the chip architecture, then it's up to OS vendors to surface it in a way that developers understand, and then down to the operator to decide upon configuration.

You are never going to get a perfect-solve from the chipmakers on this where the consumer has to do nothing.
I realized that it might sound like that my points were changed after the fact. I want to make sure that the current replication efforts didn't affect my confidence of these points at all, because the research group has indeed predicted most difficulties in current replications including this (e.g. they thought searching for SC in single crystals hindered the research). The fact that Chair was a sort of madman makes it harder to talk about their intents, and my articles were written to highlight those aspects better.
> Many companies (that I'd wager you wouldn't take issue with) exist due to the contracts they have with a single government organization.

But the government doesn't tell those companies "you cannot work for anyone but us." The government doesn't tell those companies "your employees must work these hours" (it may say "we require coverage for X period of time").

And so on.
There is no bigotry in the post and the references to monasteries are not even disparaging.
> What other impacts do the magnetic poles have?

Animal migration | navigation and sheilding from cosmic gamma rays and high energy solar flux.

On that last point for humans an instantanous reversal is not the big issue, it would be the transition from one state to the next that could conceivably see long (ish) periods either unprotected from high energy cosmic rays and|or some areas enduring concentrated gamma rays focused in by changing magnetic field lines.

> Seems like navigation equipment and anything else that relies on polar north should already be baking this in.

Have been for a century at least (in a rough fashion), the World Magnetic Model (WMM) and the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) date back to the 1960s or so and have their parameters updated on a five year epoch to provide a detailed fine resolution surface field model with local vecotors and rates of change.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/world-magnetic-model

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/international-geomagnetic...
Tony Story.. that movie got two thumbs up.

"Tony Story" has you laughing straight out of the gate. Billed as an action-comedy, it's the ultimate clash of the titans between machismo and mirth.

The film follows our hero, Tony, a middle-aged man who wakes up one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a small plastic action figure. The plot thickens as he learns he's the star of a beloved, but sadly discontinued, line of 90s toys.

Tony is forced to navigate the wild world of suburban backyards, dodging ferocious pet chihuahuas and the sticky hands of sugar-fueled toddlers. His quest for a return to normality is as hilarious as it is heartwarming.

The brilliant use of slapstick humor, a dash of existential dread, and a sprinkling of well-timed puns are skillfully mixed into a cocktail of laughs. The film's standout moment involves Tony, a malfunctioning Roomba, and a perplexed cat, in a scene that will leave you in stitches.

The voice acting is second to none, with Tony's gruff, action-hero voice (think Clint Eastwood meets Optimus Prime) contrasting hilariously with his miniature plastic form. The supporting cast of misfit toys, including a neurotic yo-yo and a sassy Barbie doll, add to the hilarity.

"Tony Story" is a wild roller coaster of laughter that reminds us all not to take life too seriously. As Tony himself puts it, "I may be small, but my problems sure aren't!" This film truly delivers a unique blend of comedy and action that will leave you chuckling long after the credits roll.
So what did you see that finally convinced you?
Ask HN: Anybody feeling like the more you learn the unhappier you are?
I feel like this is what’s going on with me and most of my peers.

Information overload is a thing even if you filter out the stupid politics or the stuff that is purely distributed as a means of propaganda .

If you remove politics and culture wars you buy yourself some time, but as you get in the nitty gritty of the actual fields of interest and learn about all the cool stuff that is happening, the enthusiasm of discovery is replaced by the unhappiness of knowing that your odds of being involved in the cool stuff that happens at the frontier are basically zero.

Further even if you make peace with not being at the frontier, it will be years if not decades before the discoveries that are made at the frontier have a significant impact on your life as a citizen/consumer.

All the above is so depressing that I wonder if it wouldn’t be more
efficient to just avoiding learning anything, turn one’s curiosity all the way to zero and just hangout , sure enough when the advances in a field becomes material to one’s life then the result will be seen regardless of one marginal person having taken interest beforehand
what a bizarre takeaway from this article
It’s illegal to terminate employees for attempting to unionize.

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/di...
This isn't really meant for current Unity users to use for additional features. This is to bring people into Unity who normally use 3dsMax, Houdini, After-effects, etc when making films and digital art.

From the sign-up page, this also doesn't seem to be a general access sort of thing. They want early adopters who already know a lot about this field of technology in order to give feedback and detailed bug reports.
> You'll see less spam in website comments.

The "give up your freedom to prevent crime" argument isn't new or compelling. I'd rather keep what little privacy I have and put up with spammers.

As for captchas and logins, I'm not sure that'll change much. Websites still want to spam us so they'll keep asking for our email addresses, and companies still have AI to train so they still have to force us to identify buses and crosswalks. I also don't care for the idea of participating in a protection racket. "Just give us all your data and we'll stop annoying you by demanding it" isn't much better than "just pay us and we'll stop trashing your property"
I would call deferring to the API design of the 1970s pathological humility. Like, humans and code are literally forced to use the same API. LOL.
I love hacker news. I did really appreciate getting a serious answer.
There’s literally nothing that won’t be politicized, as the last few years have amply demonstrated.