skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple: I don't like the idea of "believing" in science as if it was a faith.
This approach has been reflected too often in policy decisions, during and after the pandemic, that are not objective but highly political.

Politically I am absolutely on the side of vaccines, but in my opinion this indiscriminate call to vaccinate against an endemic virus reinforces the anti-vaxxer fringes, because it's fundamentally unjustified by data in individuals outside of specific risk groups.

The science behind the Covid vaccines is all but settled, albeit solid. What's definitely settled is that the companies producing the vaccine have vast interests and lobbying power to steer these policy decisions without any actual risk justifying this large-scale post-pandemic deployment.

I wanna be free to get back to calling out the greed of big pharma without being immediately grouped with the anti-vaxxer idiots.

That said, I have previous experience with seasonal flu and it's always been highly debilitating for me, unlike Covid. That is why I will certainly get a seasonal flu vaccine, whose action and science is way more settled and tested than the Covid ones.
I guess that I've never seen a self-checkout system with reasonably good UX, then. I loathe self-checkout. At least there are still human cashiers, though, even though there are fewer of them so the lines tend to be longer.
It is literally in top menu bar.

Leading to page that says that Defond is not actually open source.
Combine the low frequency with which that must happen and the money they save by replacing a worker, and you'd think they could just write that off.
So far there has not been a confirmed Pegasus infection with lockdown mode enabled. It's certainly possible but will require more sophisticated exploits, thus increasing the price per infection.
Three Types of Documentation
Oof, I wasn't familiar with the distinction. Still, that it came out under the Atari brand at all is still notable.
It doesn't match my experience. It's easier to take a decent photo n rough conditions on the iPhone, than a camera. I have Sony a6400, Ricoh grIIIx, Fuji X100V and X-T5.
With the iPhone (and androids too) you just point and shoot. With the cameras you do have to fiddle way more or use bracketing and still edit later. The phone does bracketing for you without you even noticing. Plus, the iPhone at least (not sure about android) very easily remove people walking behind the thing you were photographing
>Personally if I was anywhere near being a possible NSO target I'd dump all my devices or at least have them fully airgapped, the only way you'll win that fight.

You still wouldn't win that fight without applying those rules to everyone you come in contact with. And even then, the absence of such data could create a pattern enough to identify parts of your life if they have enough data from people that are not around you.

Escaping surveillance from bad actors is essentially no longer a winnable fight. you can only do your best to mitigate it.
MIDI is not inherently lossy. You could encode anything in it, just as you can encode any novel as an integer.

In practice, though, transformations from audio to MIDI discard an enormous amount of important information, with the possible exception of transcriptions of performances on piano (where volume, frequency, duration and a good physical model of a piano are enough to reconstruct everything important about the signal) and similar instruments.
They have another game in development using Valve's Source 2 engine so that'd probably be the most likely option for them.
> Isn't the startup time a killer?

It depends on your programming language and how many libraries you are importing. If you use Python you can get startup times less than 200ms. Also, if your app is active, most startups won't be cold (Lambda reuses the VM a bunch of times before recycling it if it's staying active). You can also add a health check API and just poke that once a minute to keep it warm if you want (at the cost of increased invocations).

But yes, if you're doing something that requires a lot of setup, then this pattern isn't for you. But it turns out most web apps are simple enough it can be done this way, especially if you're already using a pattern where the frontend is doing a lot of the heavy lifting and your API is mostly just marshaling data from the client to the database with some security and small logic in between.
I wish I had taken it seriously and gone… actually I’m not sure.

I had a different attitude coming out of high school, I was more naive and arrogant, and probably wouldn’t have made much of it.

If I could go back now, though, I have a much clearer idea of what I would want out of it, and what I could get out of it, and how to take advantage of it, unfortunately that’s not possible anymore.
Trends don't happen in roulette. Each round is independent (assuming the equipment is properly calibrated and there isn't any cheating).

That isn't true with the economy. For example, unemployment numbers in one month are strongly correlated with the numbers in both the previous and next month. This is obvious just looking at a graph of the unemployment rate[1]. I can say with a high level of confidence that the rate for September will be in the 3.5%-4% range because it has been that way since 2022. Can you honestly look at that data and tell me it is as random as roulette?

[1] - https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-une...
That's wild! Feels similar to some of the crypto scams going around wrt stable coins.
So a huge earthquake in Morocco and a flood + dam collapse in Libya don't count? Seems like a You problem.
Putin's security allegedly bags, tags, and ships his waste back to Russia when travelling. Maybe he has the right idea.

https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-bodyguards-collect-his...
Or the French model could be sold in giant plastic brick that totally could not be removed by the end user.
If that's the case, I applaud the writer's efforts and can definitely see how working in a second language could hinder the already difficult work of trying to model your audience. As a shameful monoglot myself, I'm in no position to judge.
I think, at the very least, it makes sense to want to support Windows, Mac, and Linux. Trying to support consoles adds a massive layer of complexity regarding their stores.

"Just make a game" is fine if your game is going to be simple and can be done in a month, but there are plenty of indie games that have had only one or two developers for a couple years before even entering Early Access. A game with that kind of complexity helps a LOT to use an engine.
We all agree how important these founders are. But founders can't be in the company and working so hard forever. To me the more interesting question is what kind of structures the founders should leave to ensure good management even after the founders have left.
In finding the middle ground between these sentiments -- you'd admit it won't pass a criteria for proper arguments, right -- it feels IT has been playing a lot of bait-and-switch and sucking a lot from VC without returning much. Which might be weird thing to say here, though...
Also interesting that a new “bad guy” from the Caucasus might be the actual attacker.
CEO calls for more unemployment to give companies upper hand over workers
System32 is the default directory for cmd. Might have something to do with that.
It also provides you backup which if you value your photos you'd have anyway.....so presumably if you didn't pay it to apple you would pay it to someone else, but with worse UX and integration.

Like, there is a value in what Apple is offering. It means someone like my mum never ever has to think about storage or backing up anything, when she lost her phone she got a new one out of a box, signed in and all of her stuff was there without having to do anything. As a power user, could you achieve the same for less? Sure, but for average user the value is there.
JSON also has one nameless object literal. That literal is the payload. The assignments before are just things that can be referenced in the actual payload. Yes, its like a big comma expression. The idea is that it is a syntactically correct JavaScript expression. It's just a thought. Obviously haven't written a spec. I just came up with that idea when writing complex YAML configurations for things like docker-compose, OpenAPI specs, and Ansible. I want to reuse the same strings (credentials) in multiple places without repeating myself, I want to do string interpolation, multiline strings, bigint, comments, and something that enables something like Ansible's `!vault`. I DON'T want certain YAML features like yes/no for booleans, timestamps, cryptic |- and >-, and other weird things one usually doesn't think of. And I saw someone who is blind writing that they very much prefer curly braced syntax over indentation based syntax, because indentation is very hard to reason over for them in their head, which is the whole reason that makes me side with non-indentation based syntax now. Given those constraints I ad-hoc came up with that JavaScript subset. Haven't thought about it much, maybe there are issues I haven't thought of.
My guess is that it's not a very interesting problem because it's not particularly difficult to add spatial dimensions to arbitrary audio - after all, it is already commonly done in video games. All you have to do is manipulate the multichannel outputs with an understanding of the spatial positioning of each channel's speaker location relative to the listener and some basic trig.
There's money on the table. Basically a 3% mortgage is worth maybe 90% of what is due. When you sell, you basically give them back $100 and the lender is very happy (they just made $10!). The reverse is true when rates have historically been higher. Prepayments are path dependent.

So now you essentially have this $10 surplus by not trading in your loan worth 90%. How the buyer and seller split that is up to them. For instance the buyer could say I want an extra $10 on top of what you would have paid without the transfer or the reverse. But realistically the buyer would pay a little more for a net lower payment. Win-win.

It's very clever. The big downside is having to get a second lien to cover the remaining amount which would likely be higher rate because it'll be a second lien. And the hassle of having two mortgages.
Any idea what happened to the person who falsely accused you of theft? (Or the person who falsely claimed someone else had seen you?)
Port Raises $18M to Grow Its Popular Open Internal Developer Portal
He is literally the person outiside Ukraine who has done the most for Ukraine. Othernations couldnt buy capability that Starlink provides. And they got it for free for months. Starlink was attacked by Russians.

So its ridiculous to claim Musk is some anti-Russian element.
I've updated OP.
You're right about the math. I misread the spec

But at the same time, I don't really yield my point. 2 hours - just plug it in at night and it's done in the morning. We routinely do things where we plug in a phone for 2 hours
The way I understand it, the uninstaller program that wants to delete itself doesn't have to download the script from anywhere; it generates the script out to a file.
Do you have a source for this?

I thought (assumed) the whole point of NCAP ratings was to compare the safety of different cars.
I wonder what 3rd party certification would cost. Industries that use sensors like this frequently require annual recertification, so there are typically multiple testing houses and competitive prices.
I’m actually replicate user. I have experimented with LLAMA2 on the replicate and I have similar experience

But you are totally correct about the pricing part it can get expensive

I’m running this photo service
https://msdosimagetools.ngrok.dev/

Its doing 200+ photos every day and I’m using open source models behind the scene on replicate. My costs increasing day by day

Plus this is hosted locally
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/sep/12/unity-engine-f...

And later

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/sep/13/unity-seeks-to...

Covered on this site, but downtime makes linking to the threads hard - I'm 50/50 on whether this comment will be accepted!
Thanks for your work!

I first encountered strictyaml years ago and have used it, happily. I especially appreciate that you made clear arguments for what ought to be excluded from a configuration format itself, and how proper validation ultimately requires real code anyway.

I was always disappointed however that your project didn't amount to a formal specification (at least at the time, unsure if that's changed).

More recently I came to know and love NestedText, which seems very close to what a strictyaml spec could be/have been. I'm curious if you've engaged with that project/format, and what you think of it.
> Try to reply to what’s been said.

Try to read what's been said. When did I imply that the two are linked?

> AI has far bigger downsides than Web3, Web3 at worst is zero-sum and people voluntarily choose to engage with it.

Sure. Web3 is a nothing. At worst it will change nothing. But it is at worst. It changes nothing.

> That’s what you call useful?

AI can be abused, but that obviously doesn't mean that it isn't useful. I did not call the abuse of AI useful. Who is arguing against straw men now?

> Also, this idea that just because you say Web3 has no use cases, makes it true, regardless of evidence, is silly.

Please tell me one practical use of Web3. I did actually google it and it returned this list:

https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/tip/8-top-Web-30-use-ca...

1. Flexible and secure smart contracts - nobody really wants this; they don't want to lose all their money due to a bug with no recourse.

2. Trusted data privacy - this isn't anything concrete.

3. Highly targeted [advertising] content - erm I thought you said web3 has no downsides?

4. Automated content creation and curation - another hand wave.

5. Unique loyalty programs - ha, come on, really?

6. Increased community building - ... this list is exactly what I expected ...

7. Better omnichannel experiences - ??!?

8. Wider use of augmented reality - what has this even got to do with web3?

Please point me to a realistic use case for web3.
The man who pushes the Lindy concept contradicts himself constantly.
The theory does not stand up to rigorous analysis.
I just got a carlinkit 5.0 and initial impression is that it's working great with very little latency. Can't speak to long term reliability.
The result of inspecting such a file is usually a series of disgusted shudders, "this will do WHAT do my machine"?
> it's a different pov

The “some publications” nonsense would literally require overturning century-old radio physics. Some publications will always find everything to be carcinogenic; this is how statistics work.

In the real world, thermal radiation can’t ionise. (Cell phones may be carcinogenic due to their materials and the behaviours they induce.)
Apple’s USB-C AirPods Pro will support lossless audio with the Vision Pro
"has navigation that takes you to open source stuff" is not "claims it's open source". The title is just wrong and they have clearly fixed the thing people were complaining about last time. It's not reading between the lines, it's simply misreading.
It doesn't run actual code. The function call syntax is just for extensions like `!vault` in Ansible YAML. And yes, it is supposed to be a new JavaScript subset and JSON superset.
It isn't that the control group "improved," it's that they entirely caught up. The immediate cash did not have long-term (and we're only defining "long-term" as a few months) benefits when compared to the non-cash recipients. Further, this isn't an anomaly, it is consistent with prior work.

And again, the study ignores 85% of the homeless population, you simply cannot extrapolate these results from the highly-responsible/functional group to the wider population.

Finally, the "net societal gain" of $777 was only about 10% of the distributed cash, but ignores the cost of administering such a program and the costs of, and compensation to, the coaches and workshops (the $777 was simply based on "reduced shelter use"). Fully loaded, those costs would almost certainly exceed the modest reported savings.
Air Force plans microreactor at Alaska base pending NRC approval
You do know we have the technology for wireless data transfer already? And it has even been standardized!

You like bad products as long as they’re standards. Anything that is wrong with the bad product is handwaved away as just too hard. The true sign of the connoisseur. I suppose you’re also one of those people crying about the dear loss of their precious headphone jack.
Maybe, I’d like to see some sources that the chip is actually the same as what they use in the pro iPads.

It also could be heat related in the iPad Air, it has a thinner and lighter chassis with less metal. Thunderbolt uses a fair bit of power at 40Gb/s! Let alone say, providing 15w of power to whatever device like an external SSD.
Stick a nail in
You are of course right that it's difficult, laudable and unusual to document failures. I wouldn't want to discourage anyone from reading or writing something like this. At least in my current mental state I simply couldn't power through the text, and my intent was to be constructive so that similarly valuable works might be more accessible in the future.
'Space: 1999' documentary focusing on the iconic Eagle launches Kickstarter
I disagree with your diffusion based art assessment, and I think it’s probably colored by what most people seem to want to make with it. Just as with regular art, you need some sort of vision to go beyond what everyone else does. Prompting “pretty girl wearing sexy clothing” for the umpteenth time isn’t new.

AI art gets rid of the technical skill step but the rest is there, although you may luck in to something at random. If you’re using ControlNet on Stable Diffusion or training your own models you have a lot of control over the output as well.
What is the political incentive to hide these results? Why is now the most damning time to surface the evidence?
If you're using it in a lab, you can calibrate and verify this sort of instrument yourself most of the time. Wavelength is trivial to calibrate. Absolute amplitude not so much, but you usually don't care that much about absolute amplitude. Response flatness across the spectrum may or may not be a concern.
Intel Announces Thunderbolt 5 with 120 Gbps Bandwidth Boost
This feels like something Apple has done in the past. Essentially be silent about some transformative strategy while working very hard on that strategy and beating everybody.
It’s always like that in France, same for taxation.

First you declare it yourself, then later they may or may not inspect it themselves.

This way the government can sometimes save money by not doing inspections, in the long run cheater will always get caught.
At my supermarket the self checkout line is usually mostly young to very young shoppers with just a few items. When you watch them check out they have adapted to the idiosyncrasies of the particular machine and navigate it with few hiccups. I still prefer the in-person checkout most of the time but have also learned to avoid the usual pitfalls of the robot. Also, sometimes I'll arrive with a pocketful of change and feed that into the self-checkout, even though it takes a long time. I don't want to burden a checker with that.
IIRC the EM thing was marginal, a bigger deal was privacy (behaviours could be inferred and resold), and most of the outrage was that people feared being charged more.
I have asked that question directly.

I'm sure most VPs have multiple things that keep them up at night, so I'd expect them to pick one they could legally disclose :) .

If they do talk about something that will get them in legal trouble, well, that's a good piece of data to have about your company (they have a VP who might get in legal trouble).

And probably, if they're good, pick one that is relevant to the person they are in conversation with. So not "I'm worried about my aging father and his health" and more "I think that these zero-days are going to become more and more common", etc etc.
Similar experience here. Coming out of high school, my head just wasn't in the right place to take advantage of college on any level and it'd be another 10-15 years with all of the accompanying life experience before that'd change.

Part of this I'm sure has to do with how high school is structured (its almost total absence of practical examples for using what was being taught was a huge damper on my interest in it, for example), but there's also just so many other things on a young adult's mind competing for attention that it's no wonder many students struggle.
Malicious AI tools flourish, put pressure on lawmakers
Oh yes, and I'd like to have hex-float for easy exact floating point representation, but not if JavaScript doesn't support it because then it wouldn't be a JavaScript subset anymore.
Nysa: Solidity to Rust Transpiler
Enable Solidity code to be usable for WASM-based blockchains.
Every so often I transfer all of Wikipedia to my phone (using one of the Kiwix extracts, which are ~100gb). It takes forever (~1 hour). Until VERY recently (last few months) the Finder did not even have a progress bar for iPhone file transfers.

Personally I am very excited for this transfer to happen over USB3 in the future.
SigNoz (YC W21), open-source Datadog, is hiring product designers (remote)
People truly have gone of the deep end when it comes to Musk conspiricy nonsense.
Back in the days in parts of the Internet I've seen, though I've never joined those groups, it used to be a webapp stress testing tool called Apache JMeter. Participants(legit criminals, in hindsight!) were encouraged to download scenario files, referred to as "ammunition", through equivalents to Mega/mediafire at the time and join coordinated attacks. Nowadays I'm sure it will be scripts on GitHub, botnets of IoT appliances, and volunteered GPU farms for PoW algorithms.
I'm waiting for an editor aimed at the programmer. I really dislike unity.
CISA releases roadmap to support the open source software ecosystem
Meta: Link currently 404s
Rapid ice movement monitored under UK polar base
>Nothing's wrong there and you're just playing with semantics to not admit your misunderstanding. All hubs have an in-band control interface available that can be used by them to implement port power control, period.

You want to make it about semantics because you think that "control" means something different then what it means.
There are hubs that can't be controlled that way. Period.

./uhubctl
No compatible devices detected!
Run with -h to get usage info.

Feel free to tell me how I can get those uncontrollable hubs compatible.
We work with what we have. We don't have a lot of recordings of the physical movements of musicians; we have recordings.

Similarly, we don't have recordings of the actions of painters; we have finished paintings -- but if you're not impressed with what AI can do in the visual sphere, your standards are, to put it mildly, high.
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I don't think it's rude to point out facts. YMMV.

I have no bug to report, no axe to grind, and no file to upload anywhere. I can read Roman, Cyrillic (very poorly), Greek (rudimentarily and unreliably), and a literal handful of Kanji/Chinese.

I can't read Arabic or any Semitic script, and I am not able to judge any problems with its rendering.

If you want to investigate this apparent issue, then great! But it's not me reporting it, not my file, and it does not affect me.

You will need to talk to @torstenvl about that. Since this was about 2 weeks ago now I doubt he will notice these replies.
> Yeah, I wonder how it'll ever work, who wears borrowed clothes?

Actors. Supermodels. Celebrities.

Nobody owns a tuxedo either. The idea of renting clothes isn't that farfetched...

> get a curated wardrobe to wear and take home with you.

Kinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it? Otherwise, just don't pack any clothes and buy everything you're going to wear once you're there.