skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on who you are. In 2007, a lot of people distrusted Microsoft and with good reason. They'd spent a lot of time extinguishing competitors. .NET Core was initially released in 2016, but Microsoft wasn't saying that .NET Core was their plan for the future. It seemed like an experiment they'd likely kill off or that it might just be a small subset of .NET.

I think saying that Microsoft started open sourcing .NET in 2007 feels a bit disingenuous. Plus, wasn't it source-available under the Microsoft Reference License? Regardless, .NET was still tied to Windows unless you wanted to use Mono (which was slow and had an uncertain future).

If you were someone who developed on Mac or Linux and deployed to Linux, you couldn't choose .NET in 2007 or 2014. Even in 2016, are you going to choose a brand-new ASP.NET Core? Microsoft announced .NET Core 1.0 at the Red Hat Summit in 2016 which isn't exactly an endorsement that the company thought it was the future of .NET. It seemed like Microsoft was trying to open up just enough to hook a company on .NET Core and then tell them "well actually, you should really upgrade to the real .NET Framework on Windows" when they ran into problems. That's not what happened, but Microsoft certainly hadn't committed to .NET Core in 2016. Their messaging was "well, Red Hat will offer support for this thing we made."

If I didn't have a Windows PC in 2015, I couldn't do .NET development (Mono aside). If I wanted to deploy to Linux in 2015, I couldn't do .NET development (Mono aside). The open source part matters to lots of people because .NET simply wasn't a choice for those who didn't want to be beholden to Windows and licensing until recently. People definitely ignored .NET because it simply wasn't an option for them.
It is sort of a euphemism like acceptable, "OK", and any manner of other descriptors that we probably shouldn't use as much as we collectively do. But in this context, they mean it's probably too much trouble to push you out the door right now given the hiring market but we're really not feeling the love.
Jesus christ. A sample size of one? What on Earth is this quackery doing on a .gov website?

Unbelievable. This is dangerous toxic bullshit.
US VC backed startup colored glasses: multiyear SaaS contracts. Some people are bootstrapping. And I thought the appeal of SaaS is pay for what you use, and pay as you grow? So now the selling point is buy in bulk?
> They seem to be saying that to do a quantum computation there is a minimum volume of space required in which to perform it which grows in relation to the number of qubits.

they say information uses up space. got it...
I sometimes wonder, do pets have a lower quality of life because pet food is ultra-processed? That does not seem to be the case with pets I have had.

And is there is a difference between pet food and ultra-processed food for humans? Is it that pet food is nutritionally complete, whereas human food often is not?
IDK if it's useless, but it's counter-intuitive to me.
Don't use AWS, so CDK is not an option
Why do they call their company “OpenAI” then? I mean what’s open about it?
Broken here (USA) as well.
This, exactly. The funny thing is that once you start reading body language (as in paying attention to it) - somehow other people pick this up, too.

The author (Joe Keohane) in the book that I mentioned in my blog post noticed this too, once you start looking - it often happens that other folks find you (first) and start talking.
When anabaptism was new, there were also many non-pacifist sects, but those eventually all failed to survive the conflicts they got into the with the wider non-anabaptist world.
>does something like that exist?

Technically: yes.

Practically: it's so expensive to launch anything, much less a cleanup-bot, that it basically isn't done outside of research. This will probably change, but costs are unavoidably high so it'll probably always be rare.

There's a decent summary of the area in this, from a quick googling: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/tech/space-junk-robot-esa-int...

For small near-station use: I'm not sure! Some uses would certainly make sense, but I would be willing to bet that the risk of it going slightly too fast and damaging something makes it undesirable. It'll probably happen eventually, but I'd be a bit surprised if it is already a thing - most that I've seen have been armed machines that "walk" around the surface by grabbing things, which is much slower and safer.
You gotta have proof before saying that. Otherwise it sounds like lefty bleeding heart conspiracy theories that turn out to have some sort of evil agenda
While I like your approach better than his by a considerable margin... I would say his approach has merits since he's a principle engineer at google(maybe hiring there) and was an engineer hiring at amazon. the problems they face would definitely have this applicability of a large volume of data needing to be worked on efficiently.
Well, the bug in this specific case (based on the article by Tavis O. linked elsewhere in comments) looks to be the regular kind -- probably an off-by-one in a microcode edge case. That is, here it's not the case that the CPU functions correctly but leaves behind traces of things that should be private in timing side channels, as was the case for Spectre.
> For me it seems to hinge on whether one is goal-oriented or process-oriented.

That is a luxury of hobbies. Most people are income-driven.
This is a great point. I would claim that it would be a bad choice to initiate the update (it's a manual process, requiring intent) when you're in these conditions. But, a less tech savvy person may not understand that updates can be risky, and give it a shot at a remote charging station.
At 80 I would be more worried about the tumors than elevated cholesterol / fats
It's one thing for a video to just be in portrait, but another for a video to be in portrait letterboxed to widescreen..
Which usually objects can't fully exploit, because the heat they radiate away is absorbed by their immediate surroundings, which radiate part of it back towards them. You can "cheat" that by radiating away heat in a spectrum that isn't absorbed by anything, removing it from the area.
If you're looking for non-project experience, I find Project Euler[1][2] to be a low stakes way of (re)learning a language.

Advent of Code[3] is also coming up in about two weeks. It's another low-stakes way of engaging with a language.

1. https://projecteuler.net/

2. betrayed by "project", but it's just solving math problems with your language

3. https://adventofcode.com/
TBF, the A-pillar problem is not exclusive to big trucks.

I drive a small BMW 2 series (M240i, not the M235i-based-on-mini-abomination).

I have seen entire civilizations disappear in my A-pillar. I need to look around it like an owl moves its head.
On some global-market cars that had previously very low hoods, yes. But it's not why US market SUVs have high hoods.
"either make your language statically typed or dynamically typed (preferably statically typed, but that's a different topic), as gradual typing just doesn't make sense for new languages."

Is that because of type inference?
Which obviously won't rescue you from the negative consequences of everyone around you choosing to pump combusted fossil fuels into the air you breathe. All the same costs and none of the benefits: what a pitch!
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In the usa we live in a largely lawless society I don't know who is gonna enforce something like that when we barely go after armed teen carjackers.
Yes, Laurent was nice enough to add this feature. I'm curious to see the difference in performance this will have over the workaround that I used.
So anything serious will require designing a training program, probably with involvement of pedagogists.

Nice thing about code is, it doesn't let you get away with not knowing exactly what you want. You can still get things wrong, but you can't be vague. Regular coding doesn't give you programs that pause halfway through execution and exclaim in surprise, "oh I though we were doing that other thing", or "why didn't you tell me before?".
Interesting. So what I am looking for is probably an even more scaled down version? Or something that runs in the cloud with an api to upload my local measurements.
Electic minivan costs over 100k, while tesla model y around 40…
Square roots in general have periodic patterns. Which isn't too surprising, something like z = a/(b+cz) is pretty much a quadratic equation after all.

But phi is indeed especially interesting because of what its sequence implies for rational approximations of phi.
im pretty sure that is part of local cross-walk codes nationwide, but the pedestrian entitlement is extreme here.

I find it to be boorish.
Yep, the new Reddit interface responds with the IP block message while old.reddit.com still works for me. This is both with and without a VPN.

EDIT: It looks like it's back. I definitely want to read the postmortem for this.
I haven't made a vscode extension, but I don't agree that neovim extensions are created with any great difficulty. The lua API is easy to use and well documented. There is a huge ecosystem of neovim extensions precisely because it is so easy to get started.
working again for me
They'd take a fee from vendors.
This to me is a perfect example of selling snake oil. The cherry on top is the TED talk-style mannerisms and thoughtful pauses. Makes it all seem a bit less snake oil-y.
Installing my own open source pancreas
Most likely wind. However this thread was from Friday and the ground was constantly shaking that day. I was there and there were rather large earthquakes like every 10-20 minutes (and smaller earthquakes every 20-30 seconds) between 16:00 and 23:00 (when I evacuated). It is highly likely that the poster in this thread was actually seeing earthquakes.
One thing about the algorithms is if you don't train them, they sure do reveal a lot about you to yourself
The ModR/M and SIB prefixes are probably the most common prefixes in instructions. They are so common that assemblers elide their existence when you read code. REX is in the same boat: so common that it's usually elided. The VEX prefix is also really common (all of the V* AVX instructions, like VMOVDQ), and then the LOCK prefix (all atomics).

After all of those, REP is not that uncommon of a prefix to run into, although many people prefer SIMD memcpy/memset to REP MOVSB/REP STOSB. It is slightly unusual.
What about industry? Do you want megabuildings like they have in Taiwan, where the company owns the whole building with grocery stores, laundry, apartments, and a factory all in the same building?

How's the air quality in cities where they do that?
> If I want more clean air and you want more rocket launches, and we're both willing to work to get what we want, then whether we get it is less about how much value we capture and more about how aligned our work is with our goals and who in particular values the outputs of that work such that they're willing to support our endeavors.

That sounds like another problem of allocation of inherently scarce resources. Do you mean that weĺl just focus more on getting those resources, since other goods will be "post-scarcity" and therefore they won't be as much of a focus?
> 2. We can't even take care of Earth. I'm no expert but I have to believe it would be far cheaper and easier to solve Earth's problems.

This is a popular view but I think it is wrong. Yes, we have problems on Earth. But if you compare Earth today, in terms of "carrying capacity for human beings", or "utils generated per day" or some other metric you like, vs pre-human Earth, I don't think it's a close contest.

The few early humans were hungry, naked and vulnerable to all manner of dangers. Now there are billions of us, and most live in relative safety, comfort and material luxury. If we can do for Mars what we did for Earth, that will be the best thing that has ever happened to Mars.
The glass panels lean against the side of the house. It was built in the 80s and wasn't all that well implemented.
At what point do they rebrand crappy WD drives as HGST?

They already have a reputation of obfuscating information (SMR vs. CMR)
> as an author of some not very popular packages, what do I do?

Depends. Do you want your software to be used by users? For me as a user, software that is not in distribution repository almost does not exist. It is too much hassle to install, manage and uninstall it compared to installing software from Linux distribution. If i really, really need it, i will make exception, but that are individual cases.
Geo Metro was my first car, I still have fond memories of the freedom it afforded me.
It was 2016 when you count official releases, open sourcing .NET to MIT started in 2014 including huge parts of the .NET Framework.

It is soon 10 years. With 14 years of closed source before. But honestly, it is not .NET which is the problem maker, it is Visual Studio on Windows. Because that is the thing which cost and the thing which only runs on Windows. I hope they fix it in favor of VS Code (which looks good right now).

But I agree. It takes time.
I've randomly picked three to watch with my gf because one of her friends kept saying they were all master pieces. Castle in the sky, spirited away and Howl's moving castle

I did not really enjoy a single one of them, castle in the sky was the best but it didn't make me want to watch the rest of his filmography.
I also got it, but when I did a hard refresh two minutes ago it worked again.
Apparently pointing out that society discriminates against certain people is “stoking racial divides”. Or pointing out that society is biased in favor of others is “creating an aggrieved class”.

The thing is, the divide has always been there. Pretty sure slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, gerrymandering, etc… created that racial divide. Pretty sure institutional and societal sexism, homophobia, and various other biases that have been left unchecked created that aggrieved class.

People who point that out and try to organize around fixing those biases aren’t making victims. The victims were already there. They are trying to empower those people and change society so it victimizes people less.

Also, during all this organization, class consciousness is clearly pushed and communicated. To say there are no class issues in the west cause everyone is rich, apparently, is absurd. The reason people don’t talk about class is because everything in western society works to make people ignorant of class issues.
Purely a guess on my part: concrete or asphalt will be destroyed by frost heave[1] and be difficult to patch well, while pavers will endure it better and are easier to restore.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_heaving
The last time I considered Apple Silicon I discovered that there were a few compatibility issues. I can't recall which softwares specifically, but it put me off "for a generation or two" and I ended up buying a Framework instead.

What is the compatibility story at this point?
Appreciate the detailed response! Definitely seems like we've come a long way from when i heard about people using Kinect cameras, and look forward to all future advancements that you will contribute!
If you live in a country where local, short-term rain / shower forecast is essential (like [1] [2]), it's funny to see how incredibly bad radar forecast is.

There are really convenient apps that show an animated map with radar data of rain, historical data + prediction (typically).

The prediction is always completely bonkers.

You can eyeball it better.

No wonder "AI" can improve that. Even linear extrapolation is better.

Yes, local rain prediction is a different thing from global forecasting.

[1] https://www.buienradar.nl
[2] https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/service-und-publikationen/...
everything was probably made of solid titanium
Have you ever lived somewhere where you can walk to get lunch for example?

I really detest having to get into my car and drive 15 minutes each way (30 minutes round trip) to do any errand.
but this could mean that if black holes are spherical, then it's also possible to compute in them???
...our validation pipeline produced an interesting assertion...

What is a validation pipeline?
More important than being open source was the fact that it was Windows only for the first 15-ish years of its existence.

Mono never got traction within the startup culture. In part, because it operated in a legal grey area for many years regarding MS patents for web (or web adjacent) technologies like ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
This "77%" is nothing new, just the latest, most up-to-date price quote on their terms.

IMHO the real percentage is more like 200% more.

It was this way even before the price of energy skyrocketed in the early 1970's.

People in their all-electric homes didn't care about the cost multiple when it was only a few dollars difference every month.

The underlying physics are hard to argue against, it simply takes about 3 times as much natural gas to generate the electricity to heat one home, compared to using gas heat burned directly for the same amount of indoor heating.

So you pay about 3 times as much for the same amount of electric heat as you do gas and that ratio has been holding steady for many decades.

I also expect the differential to be maintained even after power plants are further decoupled from natural gas fuel supplies themselves.
Of course, they conservatively added the most idiotic way of formatting dates as strings (while knowing other methods exist). And, while the whole bunch of other languages would call a method string.startsWith("a"), they use hasPrefix. This language is a mix of half-baked concepts and utter trolling. If I have to learn a lang with an awkward syntax, I'd prefer Rust, Julia, Erlang, Elixir or Haskell. Go is no-go. It's not even widely used at Google, its creator. So no, thanks.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Cinemas
> sometimes people need a sort of "permission" to engage, your events fulfilled that.

Yes! I will read the book :-)
How about each public video is accessible but not in the algorithm scroll structure?
Why not? Bad/deadly drugs, particularly due to cross contamination, are a public health crisis. Making sure a drug isn't going to have fentanyl in it is no more an endorsement than making sure a beer doesn't have bleach in it
Presumably if the technology is good, there is some competitive advantage in retaining sole control over it, or licensing it out.
If you have background in Rails, maybe doing a project using Django would be a good start.
Maybe it's just dirty coal plants and the nearby streets, but rain seems to be the main reason why our windows get dirty.

You could add a lotus-effect coating, but given that window cleaners are still in business I assume that is quite expensive at scale.
> Most people probably want a drug policy that leads to a) fewer dead people and b) fewer addicts and c) reduced crime.

It's entirely unclear if full legalisation full will have that effect. Maybe it will, or maybe it will have disastrous effects. It's going to be one hell of an experiment.

You casually dismiss people as "clutching pearls", but that's far too easy, especially when a number of limited experiments have made things worse rather than better. "If we move in this direction it first gets worse and then gets better" is possible, but is going to need a (much) deeper analysis to be convincing.

But no one really knows what will happen. We can guess, but that's all they are: guesses.
Graph neural networks are deep learning models that trained on graph data.
Ask HN: Why does Facebook not have a way to report a scammer?
In the facebook report options there is no way to report a scammer, you can report fake account, fake name. However if you report a scammer using a fake photo and name you get a response that the account does not violate community guidelines. Meanwhile that account continues to get new victims.
In the article by Tavis O. linked elsewhere in comments, he suggests disabling the FSRM CPU feature only as an expensive workaround to be taken only if the microcode can't be updated for some reason. That suggests to me that he, at least, expects the update to do better.
Markets have been glorified in the modern political discourse, at least in the West. It's one of the core tenets of neoliberalism: markets for everything. Side note: markets actually have nothing to do with capitalism. If you think they do, you don't know what capitalism is.

All of this stems from the idea that independent actors will create an "efficient" market to reach a price equilibrium in the most Econ 101 way possible with an awful lot of hand waving. This ignores the desire and ability for actors to put their thumbs on the scales.

Markets exist to extract wealth from participants to support the current economic order. This is done through lobbying, rent-seeking, putting up barriers (or enclosures if you prefer), restricting competition, using market power to crush competitors and reaching a monopoly or oligopoly to maximize wealth extraction.
Show HN: Visualizing public transport performance in New Zealand
I've been tracking public transport data in NZ for a couple of years now, and have now built a site for its display. Public transport is quite a contentious issue here; what's better than to inform decisions with data?

I’m posting this to ask some switched on people what the best step going forward for would be for this project. If someone was building a similar site for your city, what would you want to see?

https://github.com/allister-grange/missinglink
I can't speak highly enough of Miguel Grinberg's work with Python/Flask (https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial...) and the community he's created around it, for both beginners and advanced folks.

Racing through his mega tutorial was a great refresher for me on the fundamentals, and it's easy to plug in computer vision & related libraries/extensions/packages.
From an outsider perspective, it looks like a siege that's escalating. Apparently now setting attack dogs on prisoners in dead ends cells. (context: from what I read the prisoner refused to be handcuffed and insulted a guard, resulting in [1] @ approx 30 sec.) Apparently this is getting rather common in US incarceration though.

[1] https://www.insider.com/how-dogs-are-trained-to-attack-us-pr...
I wonder how much sooner than google did intel employees found this issue