skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's likely the web itself has been shaped by the technology underpinning it. The article would seem to suggest something similar. Look at email. Now we all connect to the central email servers at Google and they handle most of everything else. Perhaps on the IPv6 internet, you would be able to buy a USB stick that handles all your emails for you. No more centralised mail, you just have a small server in your house that does it for you. The same of social media, etc. It would be feasible to offer an entire plug-and-play P2P internet in the form-factor and cost of a small HDD.

Would people want to own such a server? I don't know, but as it stands currently, only the centralised players in the internet sphere can afford to serve content. Perhaps our relationship to these companies would be different if there was no barrier to entry for competition. Perhaps our entire conception of the internet would be different without that fundamental limitation. Or perhaps nothing would change. The central model has its advantages, but I'd also like to be able to own my own website.
This is why good books on PR will always tell you to write your press release like an article, so that a lazy journalist can post it verbatim. (Have gotten this result a couple times from press releases I wrote when I was running my previous company!)
Their answer to #14 is wrong. They crossed out "m" and should've crossed out "l".
No. I want my PDP-11!
The Art of Misunderstanding and the 4 Sides Model of Communication
Just about tracks, it's Microsoft.
What 'counts' as explanation in social interaction?
I approve. I own one its great. 10/10. I don't have an HOA but I do have a party wall. The roof slope in between the homes is odd (low pitch) which makes repairs in the zone between the homes hard. If you're in the market do check that out.
enter whisper mode
LMAO that's just diabolical. Wonder what motivated them.
The concept seems great for video-based family albums. If there was a way to use ML to auto-categorize the videos into channels (rather than manually sorting them into folders), that would be amazing.
Yes. In this day and age have people not learnt the lessons from having a single point of failure in their local economy?
It's not wasteful if: the student "values" the credential but not the learning. Some people have no appetite for philosophy or the perspective of notable authors on death. He will probably learn something though.

Your characterization of an adult child does not seem fair. What makes someone an adult? If it's academic discourse, then why is it valuable?

I mean, if you're into it, more power to you. Go nuts with finally figuring out what makes a human. Just don't claim it's more virtuous than anyone else's hobby, unless you can find a reason.

To call it "wasteful" says that something of "value" is being squandered, but the value is perceived by each of us differently.
Both Canada and the US have freedom of expression and freedom of association -- it would be both illegal and immoral for them to support India's extrajudicial, extraterratorial executions of people of Sikh faith who seek a homeland free of India's Hindu religious ethnostate.

At the moment, it seems India is refusing to cooperate with Canada's probe of terroristic assassination plots apparently orchestrated by the Indian government, instead sequestering the suspects back in India and attacking Canada with righteous indignation for bringing it up. Respect for the rule of law, IMO, would mean giving information to the Canadian government as requested, and making the assassination plot suspects available for interview and possible prosecution.
In the language of "embeddings" of machine learning.
Their answer to #14 is wrong. The first part ("draw a line under the first letter after 'h'") is done correctly, with a line under "i", but the second part ("draw a line through the second letter after "j") is wrong. They should have drawn the line through "l", but they drew it through "m".

At first I thought "oh, they're just using a slightly different, but perhaps reasonable, meaning of "second letter after". But if that's the case, then they used a different meaning of "first letter after" for the first part.

#16 is also wrong: it calls for a black circle overlapping the left corner of a triangle, but they drew it overlapping the right corner.

And for #25, they wrote it out, but all of it did not fit on the line, and did not write the terminating ":" in the text, so that's technically incorrect too. (And it's debatable whether or not they were supposed to write out the text that's inside the triangle, or the "gotcha" of writing out the text in the question.)

I love that they gave up for the last two questions. I imagine most people who were forced to take that test did so too, assuming they even made it that far in the allotted time.
> Are you familiar with how large the jurisdiction claimed by the CBP is?

Yes, and I'm no fan of the so-called constitution free zones and the impositions on our rights that result from them. Thankfully, just as borders don't need to be 100% open or 100% closed, enforcement can also exist on a spectrum and to prevent border crossing most of the focus should be on the border itself and what's happening on the Mexican side (or indeed the Canadian one, but while there are problems with people entering illegal from our northern border it's at nowhere near the scale of the problem the southern border is because Canada is a more developed nation and a lot more careful about enforcing their own borders than Mexico is).

Again, there isn't low evidence for the effectiveness of cameras. They are a proven technology. It's primarily been the rest of the systems which failed (non-working camera purchased, bad contracts, bad contractors, lack of staff to respond etc). If you know of a better solution than cameras for monitoring large areas of the border for illegal crossings I'd love to hear your pitch
Generally, in the United States, you can, in fact, just record people. Legally speaking, that is, which doesn't make it a polite or cool thing to do. Necessarily.

If you're on someone else's property, they can of course set any number of rules, and trespass those who break those rules. But even there, recording people, if against the rules, is still not a crime. The crime is trespass, if this journalist we're speaking of sticks around after being trespassed off the property.
I also have an extension that I dual publish. I was surprised to see it’s getting as many downloads on OpenVSX as on the VSCode marketplace. I’m just glad it’s useful to more people for marginally no cost.
What's the right answer to "Write down on the line provided, what you read in the triangle below"? The triangle contains "Paris in the spring".
I am the Drasi engineering lead and can assure you that any Azure-centricity is purely one of historical convenience and a lag in getting more of our non-Azure-centric doc, samples, and components published.

The main current dependency is having a K8s cluster.

You can run Drasi for dev/test on k3s(https://drasi.io/how-to-guides/installation/install-on-k3s/) or kind(https://drasi.io/how-to-guides/installation/install-on-kind/) and docker desktop also works but is undocumented.

Cloud based options include AKS (we will release the instructions soon) and EKS as mentioned. When we tested on EKS, we hit some storage class issues and decided to publish this with some work-arounds instead of holding back until we do a proper fix, which we will prioritize if there is demand.

On prem K8s should also work, but we haven't put resources into testing those scenarios. We would love to engage with anybody that would be willing to try this out.

Also, in the future we are thinking about other delivery platforms, not just K8S. You will see in the code that our dependency on k8s is abstracted.

If you have any questions, the Drasi Team is most active over on our discord channel (https://aka.ms/drasidiscord) and we would love to answer your questions and help ypu get started using Drasi.
> developer tool documentation

i dont think thats what is being talked about here.
Why would they write shitty tool documentation if practically their product.

OP is talking about this

> never once did I see code documentation work out well.

They are not synonymous.

My company's external api has amazing documentation but we have shitty internal code documentation.
Yes they are.

If you were going to buy a plan from AT&T anyways at $60/month, they are willing to give you a $800 phone for “free” if they can lock you into a 2 year contract.

Buying your own phone for $800 and paying $60/month isn’t a better deal but it does give you flexibility to drop the carrier whenever you want.

Consumers can decide.

Banning a consumer option sounds anti-consumer, not pro.
> The removal of device attestation from PassKeys was a great boon for compatibility.

Did they remove attestation? The blog implies they didn't when it says: "a security key ... fail to register ... since the IDP rejected the device attestation." What they removed was a browser API that allowed the IDP to filter the available passkeys, so they could tell the user which of the available keys they would accept before they tried to enrol it.

I gather attestation is rarely used by IDP's. That makes sense - why force a low security web site like a forum to keep a list of acceptable token models. However some sites like banks and my Federal Government absolutely need guarantees on how well the secrets are managed. Without it, they will remain with their current "roll their own" solutions. Providing an API that lets their web page say "no we won't accept your North Korean made phone as an authenticator" seems perfectly reasonable to me. That would be the API that Chrome refused to implement.
Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
Reduce FPS of your game from 60 to 15, tell players it's the same cause complexity haven't changed.

But it's not even mainly about performance. The structure of the code changes with every requirement change. In a non-artificial code you're doing stuff other than calculating the result, and all the associated state and dependencies now have to be passed to 4 different loops.

While in the ugly non-modular imperative code you add 3 local variables and you're done, everything outside that innermost loop stays exactly the same.

> you’re trying to take shortcuts

Yes, that's the point. I started by admiting FP code is more elegant. But shortcuts are not inherently worse than elegance. They are just the opposite sides of a trade-off.
> if you free-fall into a black hole you can go past the event horizon

Falling "through" a hologram on the surface would be physically indistinguishable to the person falling from falling into a volume.
>Buddy, I copy pasted ng/mL from your comment.

Yes, that's the point. My comment says ng/mL, because it should say ng/mL, because that is the correct unit for blood serum level (i.e., the thing that is tested in order to determine deficiency). In your first comment, you wrote mg/dl, which is incorrect. I did not "amend" anything to IUs. IUs are the dosage unit for supplementation. It's irrelevant to my initial correction.

>Sure. That's medical advice.

It's medical advice that explicitly indicated that the sort of personal request for medical advice you propose, is not actually necessary.
Discussion 4 months ago (247 points, 124 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40723356
> It depends how you define "mass extinction."

Okay, sure. I'll define it as species going extinct at 50x or more the typical background rate. We're somewhere in the 100-1000x space. You want to define it differently and come to a different conclusion then so be it.

> why so many people are aghast at the idea that humanity isn't causing a mass extinction

I'll answer for me: it's the shock and dismay that the evidence is so abundant and multifactorial as to momentarily deprive me of hope that we'll take action on a timescale that prevents such destruction.

> Anyway, if you really want to conserve nature, you should be positive.

No, I (and you) should be active. I don't have to plaster a smile on my face as the ocean warms because "some" conservation efforts have succeeded, for now, while we're still under 2 degrees warming. But I volunteer frequently, I financially support the causes I believe in, I canvass for issues and candidates that give a shit about this, and I call my representatives when I've got a specific policy or concern even if that I feel is mostly theater.

> ranting

Look, if someone is "ranting" about this topic while making no material change to their lives to help then fine. But this is an emotional topic for people, it gets to true passions, and ranting (anger) is one way people process grief. I used to watch monarchs by the thousands - this season I saw maybe 15. I'm grieving their loss, and will be for many years to come as the reminder of their decline seasonally returns. Maybe they'll rebound, but I wouldn't count on it.

Maybe people need to rant a bit to get to a more productive place. But patronizing people with "well just stop complaining, dummy!" is as good as telling Hacker News commenters to stop fixating on the potential promise of open source software.
> surface implies an interior, otherwise it's a just a point

Space-time is not Euclidean geometry under GR.
I don't know about punishment being the norm, but I'd like to see an agency (perhaps a better-funded and more independent analog of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection) that is competent and efficient enough to legitimately earn a lot of deference. That is, they could issue a quasi-C&D "here's a handy step-by-step guide to avoid doing this the hard way (you dumbass)" letter and have any competent lawyer's default reaction be something like "they're almost certainly right and you'd be an idiot to fight this" instead of "here's how we can fight this".

Of course, that implies a system that places the interests of citizens at least on par with the interests of capital (and can conceive of those as distinct concepts in the first place), which is clearly communist crazy-talk.
Vote Tory 2029! They’ll fix it this time around, they promises.
Admittedly, my phone (Pixel 3a) is a piece of crap. I just checked it on my Thinkpad on a gigabit connection. It still took about 10 seconds of that spinning circle to render the page content.
How Your Brain Processes Zero (It's Not 'Nothing')
Actually: Paris in the the spring

'the' comes twice
Not infinite if we take into the account that we have a physical car. Speed many but not infinite steps.

Everything is infinite if we think this way.
Possibly. I didn't catch too many of the details, but he did demonstrate the sound and it was noticeable. The two frets were just a few mm apart, and a bass gamba has a fairly long scale length, comparable to a cello.
The discovery happened because the amateur historian suffered a sudden loss of hearing and took leave from his job to go browse the archives in Dublin. A special Christmas supplement to the regular newspaper from 1890 and he decided to just browse it for fun ?

Serendipitous.
This profiler was mentioned in the context of rewriting js tools in faster languages here:

https://lobste.rs/s/ytjc8x/why_i_m_skeptical_rewriting_javas...

The rewrite discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41898603
Rayon abstracts away the parallelism for you. Yes Parallelism is easier in compiled languages with a concept of threads but your example doesn't do that much justice.

Someone could write "rayon" for webworkers.
It doesn't have answers for the last two and I think the number 16 is wrong (the circle is encircling the right corner). Also 25 doesn't fit on the line.

Would be interested to see what share of population would get all of those correct (if it's even possible). I for one wouldn't.

Sadistic stuff.
Yeah, just like the supermarket club cards are good for shoppers.

A similar psychological thing is going on in both cases I feel - some minority will manage to emerge winners due to a mixture of persistence, intelligence, luck, greed, etc. And the majority will get squeezed, or else how would such large percentages of marketing budgets continue to be pumped into club card and subscription schemes.
Even if that's true it's still a less accurate headline.

The rule is about unlocking, not deals.

The carriers say this is bad for consumers.

Both those can be true and the current headline captures that.
Finding vulnerabilities is exactly what red teams should be doing.

The data speaks for itself: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240246/aircraft-hijacki...

For paywall purposes: https://imgur.com/a/4txjjyF

Seems effective to me.
I wish there was a standardized way to let folks who run a website such as this one know how much a casual passer-by viewer enjoys the byproduct of their work.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch#History_of_pit...

Perfect pitch means that someone can identify pitches accurately

“Accurately” is doing some psuedo-scientific hand waving. That hand waving what I find interesting.

Pitch is continuous and not discreet. There’s nothing wrong with tonal harmony as a system of making music. Its elevation to an ideology is anthropologically interesting…e.g. the “perfect” in “perfect pitch.”
On a tangent here, but...

> The ACM canceled its involvement for excellent reasons which are worth reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815071233/http://www.acm.or...

This jumped out at me from the first para there:

" ... also stating its opposition to licensing software engineers, on the grounds that licensing is premature ... "

I wonder what ACM's current thinking on licensing software engineers is almost 25 years further on?
> My comment says ng/mL

It still says "blood levels below 10 mg/dl" [1]!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41906361
They mention autvacuum_vacuum_scale_factor, and its default value, but give no hint if they tried to change that. Obviously I have no access to their database, but one of piece of advice for ages has been, in situations similar to theirs where a lot of dead tuples accumulate and autovacuum is having trouble finishing, to lower this value so autovacuum runs much more often, so each run has less to do and less gets blocked.
Besides the silly, but inevitable HN complaints about the format of the webpage presentation, (great presentation btw)

The fundamental challenges these experiments (and others) surface is a deep challenge to the traditional narratives of Materialism or 'Physicalism' as our understanding of what existence is. In essence science and human knowledge has lept forward technologigcally over the past 400 and esp the past 100 years because we started assuming the world was physical in nature, material and metaphysically, ie that it reduced to fundamentally physical things we could quantify and measure.

Yet, the older I get the more inclined I am to believe in some form of Idealism.. Not only in Idealism but I'm leaning towards the belief that some kind of fundamental universal Consciousness is the only fundamental property or baseline to the universe or to existence.

Time and Space is not fundamental. Locality isnt true.
It's been nearly a decade now, but we shared a machine with 128 newish physical cores, a terabyte of RAM, and a lot of fast disk. Anyone with a big job just coordinated with the 1-2 other people who might need it at that level and left 10% of the RAM and disk for everyone else (OS scheduling handled the CPU sharing, though we rarely had real conflicts).

It's firmly in "not a laptop" scale, and for anything that fit it was much faster than all the modern cloud garbage.

The other lab I was in around that time just collected machines indefinitely and allocated subsets of them for a few months at a time (the usual amount of time a heavily optimized program would take to finish in that field) to any Ph.D. with a reasonable project. They all used the same in-house software for job management and whatnot, with nice abstractions (as nice as you can get in C) for distributed half-sparse half-dense half-whatever linear algebra. You again only had to share between a few people, and a few hundred decent machines per person was solidly better than whatever you could do in the cloud for the same grant money.
Dark matter's effect is only needed because there are other factors that are presupposed. If you set the age of the universe at 13.787 Billion years old (oh wait, now they think it's 27.3 Billion now), then the large scale structures we see in the universe make no sense.

So to my point, we are not "seeing" dark matter anywhere at all... What we have is a failure mode in our current models to explain the phenomena we see. And to fix it they plug in magic invisible heavy stuff. Literately a chunk of math to balance equations in the rotations of galaxies.
Ahem. We are discussing items which have been hidden. A hidden item which users of the archive cannot access is not being copied. It’s just sitting there on a drive. Occasionally an automated process comes along and computes its hash to make sure there hasn’t been any bitrot. There’s no warehouse of undistributed copies of the thing that a court can order the Archive to destroy.
Whenever there's any positive news on masking, there's always online pushback under some theory or another. I'm not saying GP here is necessarily guilty of anything, of course.
Really impressive work, thanks for sharing. The video, that is -- the astronomy is indistinguishable from magic and thus way beyond the reach of words like "impressive", obviously. I do find it a little funny that physics is in such a jam that "look at more stuff" is an important next step, but godspeed nonetheless.

ETA: For those who love space but are similarly OOTL on the specifics of modern missions: this is from a telescope launched to the L2 point (next to Webb!) last July, and is currently a bit over 1/6th of the way through it's expected lifetime.

Details here: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid... and obv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_%28spacecraft%29

In comparison to Webb, it's focused on ~visible light surveys of the medium to far range, whereas Webb was built for ~infrared investigations of very distant objects. It was budgeted around 1/4th the cost of Webb (and ended up being ~1/20th due to Webb's costs running from $1B to $10B...) See https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com/other-missions/euclid/euc...

If you're looking for a new wallpaper, it would be hard to beat this 8000x8000 pic it took of the Perseus galaxy cluster, casually depicting 100,000 galaxies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_%28spacecraft%29#/media... The discoverer of galaxies, Kant, would literally weep. We're lucky to live when we do!
more broadly , the difference between reacting and responding to a stimulus
Yeah I love the paternalistic “it’s for your own safety” arguments.

> Why did my payment not go through?

> Why was my comment removed?

> Why is my binary flagged as malware?

> Why did my app fail review?

> Why is my 10yo account suspended?

The answer of yesteryear was “we’d love to tell you but then we’d help the bad guys”. The answer today is “we don’t even know because we replaced the human moderators with a black box AI”.
The people at the BBC have failed the Turing test.
It's equally hilarious and sobering travelling to the US as European, turning on a TV and finding more advertising than programming.
On 15, shouldn't the dot be above the O?
That's diabolical. But it's not certain if even that's correct. Depends on how the comma should be interpreted.