skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool, thank you!

While you can iterate pretty quickly on an FPGA, I'd still be worried that cutting down a chip to optimize for $/perf works until it doesn't. Something off the shelf would be pretty resilient to algorithm tweaks (ad absurdum you have an Intel chip which performs black magic to run almost anything you throw at it well).

It's pretty hard to overcome the economy of scale of just buying a mass produced chip that's twice what you need but ten times cheaper because they're made in batches of a million.

I should note that my skepticism is coming from a place of "I want this to be a thing". Using the web page to design a chip is an instance of "live in the future and build what's missing" if I've ever seen one.
Isnt there a 5 Gb standard too?
This is definitely where the 10.2% of human failures are.
I’m more surprised that there is an ssh.com. And that it looks like it was put together with a bad corporate WordPress template.
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I always thought it's a fascinating idea to see if you could make something using modern metallurgy that looks identical to medieval arms and armour, but has much better properties. So kevlar is out, but how would modern steel fare? Tungsten? Titanium?
I would like to point out that the Media lab isn't all of MIT. We do some really incredible research (LIGO, Black hole imaging, poverty research, to just name a few recent achievements). Incidentally, the media lab has a reputation within MIT as a place for often impractical ideas that never pass the demo stage. That said, the way in which a number of members of the MIT community (including outside the media lab) were associated with Epstein is troubling to say the least.

[ETA: a large number of media lab projects are still really good, as the other commenter mentioned]
For those confused as to why this exists, it's about cabling. It simply isn't possible to run 10Gbase-T over most existing structured cabling. Even with new cabling the network closet is often too far away. But 2.5GbE works in many situations.

If you're doing new cabling go multimode OM4 fiber. It isn't that expensive (buy factory terminated, use MTP trunk patching) and it supports stupendous data rates.
Don't focus on what you don't know. You can follow some tutorials without knowing what every line of code does and just repeat it in places for a bit. You can add to a working app and tweak things to learn more. It takes a surprisingly small amount of knowledge of Ruby or Rails to do things once you have a working example.

Learning to use git is a second mental task but worthwhile since it lets you get back to a 'known working state' whenever you're messing around and get to a nice point, make a git commit.
Real signatures, and lots of them.
Your profile says "greybeard", "skeptic" and "computers" so probably VERY similar backgrounds. Skimming your comments now to confirm :)

Edit: Early, but see Apollo/HP, SunOS/Solaris already. Small world. Any chance of early 1990s Linux, Kermit, Windows packet drivers, KA9Q, Unicos, Mosaic, AT&T 3B2, Pyramid OSX, Usenet, UUCP, C, Perl, TCL, etc?
Funny, because that's essentially what I said above, hoping to help folks understand ;) (I didn't write the wikipedia article..)
It does not say much. 1%.

"1% of gays are pedophiles, what does it say about gays?" Is what you are saying.
It's Win+X, U, U now.
so does Yang
I've written a lot of TCP deep-packet inspection code, including parsing FTP control protocol. So I was surprised by this post by Robert Graham: https://blog.erratasec.com/2019/08/hacker-jeopardy-wrong-ans... - FTP control protocol follows the specification for Telnet.
Here’s another version that helps clarify it...

There are three doors, one has a prize and the other two are empty. You pick a door (say, Door 1). Monty then says that his assistant will move whatever is behind Door 2 (if anything) to Door 3. He then opens Door 2 to show you it is empty. Would you switch to Door 3? Of course you would.

But Monty’s assistant is lazy, so instead of moving the contents from behind one of the closed doors to the other, he just asks Monty to open the one that he knows is already empty. The result is the same.
Busting the Popular Myths about High School Exchange Programs
My “to-read” list is too long, so I haven’t actually read it, but personally I’m interested in “The Art of Bible Translation” by Robert Alter.
> Seriously, email these days isn't the greatest communication tool any more, thanks to the spammers.

Do you have any better alternatives?

> GMail does a pretty decent job of filtering, but not everyone uses it.

Yes, anyone not using Gmail is completely inundated with spam every second of every day, is a troglodyte, and how do they even survive? As the posted article shows, the best thing for everyone is to hand over all of our private information, communication, and GPS coordinates to the big tech oligopolies.
Is it not 50%?
Yup, we have 5GBASE-T too.
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That's doable. The image in my mind was the reverse: a chat program that displays email threads. Interactions in chat become mailing list replies emailed out, and replies to the CC list are displayed in the chat channel.
Intel wants back in the tablet space with its new Tremont architecture
If you're a company making your own SoCs already and want a high performance RISC-V core for a mid-range tablet or phone or an SBC equivalent to the Raspberry Pi 4 or something like that then the answer is "now".

If you're someone wanting to buy a quantity one chip from Digikey or Mouser then it'll be ... when someone decides to make and sell a retail chip. Which might well be someone making their own chip for a tablet or set-top box etc and selling the surplus production.
Yeah the KJV was and is still a very good translation, and it was very controversial in it's day. The Catholic church didn't want the Bible in a "vulgar" or common tongue or even being able to read the Bible without their approval and guidance. The Latin Vulgate existed for the learned, and those who knew Latin objected also. I think that's why they felt the need to explain why they made the translation.
Apostols Calculus was huge for me. Probably the main reason I majored in math.
Hi, of course! 3b1b and numberphile are two of my favorites too. Especially featuring Neil Sloane and prof. Tadashi Tokieda (no intent to undervalue other stars and/or Parker squares).

PBS network is also great. I watch PBS Eons and PBS Spacetime the same time I see a notification dot.

Recently added Astrum because of nice pics. melodysheep caught me with their timelapse videos. These two are in wait-and-see category atm.

Also Jay Foreman for british humour, London history and mapmen. Primer posts rarely, but was definitely worth a sub.

That’s all. I visit few more topics/channels by hand, but they are of entertainment nature (starcraft tournaments, local evening letsplays, etc), thus no sub as it would create an unwanted distraction. As of games, MkIceAndFire plays them with decent skill in no commentary, no overlay style. Btw, when you’re on a channel, you can check “channels” to see if an author likes or links to something on their own account.

Hope you like some of these!

>development channels

Sadly, it never clicked with me, despite (or because) me being full-time dev since when youtube still wasn’t a thing. It just feels either too slow or too shallow/instructional rather than deep and full of decades of wisdom. Idk, can’t force myself to watch any of these anymore.
Why should a company grow perpetually? This idea that every company's goal should be to take over the world is ridiculous. Let's trade, you work for my company and I'll work for yours. Your boss sounds like he's got a good head on his shoulders.
This is what the devs have to say:

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029#issuecomment-5...
Of what you can buy today: Kendryte K210, GigaDevice GD32V, and SiFive has FE310 and U54MC.
BuildZoom (YC W13, a better way to remodel) Is hiring a growth/marketing associate
That sounds like Rodney Dangerfield describing Jimmy Carter in the SNL "The Pepsi Syndrome" sketch:

Dr. Casey: “It means, Mrs. Carter, your husband, President Carter, has become [camera zooms in on Dr. Casey] the amazing colossal president.”

Mrs. Carter: “Well, how big is he?”

Dr. Casey: “Well, Mrs. Carter, it’s difficult to comprehend just how big he is but to give you some idea, we’ve asked comedian Rodney Dangerfield to come along today to help explain it to you. Rodney?”

[Rodney Dangerfield enters]

Rodney: “How do you do, how are you?”

Denton: “Rodney, can you please tell us, how big is the president?”

Rodney: “Oh, he’s a big guy, I’ll tell you that, he’s a big guy. I tell you, he’s so big, I saw him sitting in the George Washington Bridge dangling his feet in the water! He’s a big guy!”

Mrs. Carter: “Oh my God! Jimmy! Oh God!”

Rodney: “Oh, he’s big, I’ll tell you that, boy. He’s so big that when two girls make love to him at the same time, they never meet each other! He’s a big guy, I’ll tell you!”

Mrs. Carter: “Oh no! Oh Jimmy! My Jimmy!”

Rodney: “I don’t want to upset you, lady, he’s big, you know what I mean? Why, he could have an affair with the Lincoln Tunnel! I mean, he’s really high! He’s big, I’ll tell you! He’s a big guy!”

Mrs. Carter: “No! No! No!”

Denton: “Rodney, thank you very much. You can go.”

Rodney: “It’s my pleasure. He’s way up there, lady! You know what I mean?”

—Saturday Night Live, Season 4: Episode 16, “The Pepsi Syndrome” skit, Apr. 7, 1979

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ppepsi.phtml
I just looked it up, and they say backup isn't possible on iOS.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
OpenBSD and FSF don't have to pay for SMS/voice calls for user registration or a messaging infrastructure.
Awesome. Would you mind if I add a version like this to the article and acknowledge you?

Also, will anyone from Dyalog be at Code Mesh?

> One of the advantages seen in this wc function is our use of bit booleans rather than byte booleans. Packing 8 bits in a byte uses eight times less space, and can lead to drastic speed improvements: 2-8 times faster than even code which uses short ints.

I once rewrote a structured verilog compiler (when I was the sole full time employee at ChipScan.us); going from using bytes to store boolean values to packing the entire circuit's wire state into bits in a char* definitely helped a lot. Also marking that char* as restrict helped a lot, too :-)

Big wins are made of many small victories.
Compare it with Tyndale’s translation from about eighty years earlier (normalising the spelling of both), and, where they vary, Tyndale’s is normally the easier to read and understand. Tyndale intended that the ploughboy could understand the Scripture, while the KJV was “appointed to be read in Churches”.

(Most of the time they do not differ substantially, as the KJV drew most heavily from Tyndale’s translation.)

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version#Style_and_c....
I was in Vietnam last month and bbc.com is blocked by the ISPs. The article also mentions China and Iran.

BBC is publicly funded and unlikely to be banned in the UK but they provide global news coverage.
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It is famous for a reason. One should neither be shamed nor feel ashamed for not having intuition for this.
DARPA Grand Challenge was started in 2004, so it’s been 15 years of constant research to get this far. We have at least another 15 to go.
I suspect that’s our biases talking. For a recent example, tend to think of vacuum tubes as a single thing, but they had vast investments in R&D and got much better over time. And that’s for something invented in 1904.

Similarly, I suspect a huge range of technical innovation that occurred throughout medieval time gets compressed into a few simple ideas like swords or plows. However, if you’re actually using these things day in and say out, what seems to us as a minor change could have been thought of as revolutionary at the time.
The food computer idea was one that industry had working a decade before under the name growth chambers.

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/117189568344985600...
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=industrial%20growth%20...
I was replying to an email about an interview, and beginning "Please do" (not consider me for this job any further), and my (Android) phone autocompleted "the needful".

Rather interesting considering I don't think I had ever typed it.
This was mostly before BBSing was a thing, but continued into the early 80's because not everyone could afford a modem and phone bill.

The real problem was access. There really were very few computer stores. I remember driving nearly an hour to get to one of the very few computer stores in northern New Jersey (Wayne Software).

The other option was to buy software from those tiny ads in the back of the computer magazines. Those were where you really got the "hacked" stuff. Sometimes you'd see an ad for the same program on multiple pages. And even though it was hacked, you still had to pay $99 for a very basic text editor.

Even blank floppy disks were hard to come by. I remember having to get floppy disks at the famous FAO Schwartz toy store in Manhattan because it was one of the few non-office supply houses that had them. I think they cost something like $5/piece ($15 in today's money).
What would it look like to "engineer" journalism?
probably not gonna happen, paywalled links are explicitly allowed in the hn guidelines.
Yes, he does.
2. Reminds me a of a theory that Iran landed an American stealth drone by sending spoofed signals.
That is totally unreasonable, especially given the liberty at which companies and people use and misuse the word "engineer" today.
This is a weak argument, unless people have just never used desktop widget libraries and are arguing against an imagined strawman. There is not a farthings real difference between the two.
Wisconsin's Foxconn Boondoggle Is Getting Worse
With the benefit of hindsight, we know that ssh became extremely successful, so allocating it a nice port was a good choice.
Losing the ability to type a program name into the start menu and drag it onto the desktop to create a shortcut is one of the more baffling and infuriating feature regressions in Windows 10.
> Where air power equipment may become the real alternative power source is when it is combined with a wind turbine air compressor, which the Amish are beginning to use. During a good steady windy season many Amish may not need to run a regular air compressor for days at a time.

I have not heard about an wind/air turbine used to refill an air compressor (without electricity). Not sure how that would work, but I'm very interested in learning if anyone has background here.
I had an Orinico Gold WiFi card in my PCMCIA expansion pack for a Compaq Ipaq PDA back in the early 2000s. It was awesome!
They were good times. All the much better because we were convinced they would last.
I've worked in aviation for 8 years and also didn't understand this use of "landed". I've heard "grounded" used like this: "The maintenance issues gounded the jet," but not "landed".
Thanks to Dan and the React team - great work as always.

The most useful thing to provide with this would be a small self contained example of the absolute core of all web programming - a form that gets data, submits it to the back end, and then displays a list of records. Nothing more. Super simple. All web development knowledge derives from this start point - for me anyway.

This is what underpins all web development and when I come into a new approach like this I always aim to implement that basic display/submit/list form workflow.

It would be SO helpful if that existed as a small standlone application.

The profile stuff is in the right direction but not it.

When there is not a basic example of that exact workflow then the cognitive load instantly skyrockets because I now need to work out how to do that and even then I don't know if I got it right because it's my guess using a technology I do not understand. So much better for the technology designers to show how to do the core of all development "the new way". Ideally with a standard form and not graphql.
End-Cretaceous mass extinction saw big swings in ocean pH
> most accurate translation of the bible into English?

It's not really possible to do that. First of all many of the Hebrew words have multiple meanings, and all the meanings are intended.

So how do you translate that? Pick one for the main translation, and add notes maybe on alternate meanings? Some translations do that.

But there's more. Jews have a long history of what the words in the bible mean, but Christians don't. So when Christians translate the bible they will do so in a way that's different from what Jews do.

Now you have a complicated question to answer. Who's right? Who has the correct translation? Christians will typically go by their best understanding of the Hebrew, but Jews will use their tradition.

Next you have questions of intent. Take an idiom in English - if you translate it to another language it makes no sense. So what do you do with similar situations? Translate word for word? Try to understand that intent? How do you do that? Use the Jewish tradition on the intent? Something else?

In summary: If your translation doesn't have an associated commentary almost as long as the main text you can be pretty sure it's not going to be accurate.
This is much more prevalent in academia.

In industry you _eventually_ need to show result and earn money, it never get to that part in academia.

beginloop
People publish papers that are practically useless but can be cited by other people in the same position, which then improves their standings
endloop
https://matrix.org/
Woz is expecting to die within 5 years.
I don't think this article is trying to take the worst aspects of feminism and portray them as the best ones. It's certainly not trying to advance feminist ideals amongst Christians.

The article simply recounts a period in history when feminists defined themselves not only in opposition to patriarchy, but also to Christianity.

That association itself is not terribly novel, as Satanism is the obvious choice for rebels in a predominantly Christian society and Lucifer is literally the "light-bringer". Nonetheless, I would probably have failed to imagine it when prompted to think of feminism in the 19th century.
Please explain to me why it is different whether to switch doors after opening all but one door vs after opening all but one door?

(note: when you do this in real life, you stop talking now. let them explain it.)

When you have N>2 doors, the host will with 100% certainty open N-2 doors with goats behind them. It doesn't matter whether N is 3 or 1,000,000. After the host's hidden knowledge has reduced the problem space from N options to 2 options, the probability of getting the car is increased from 1/N to 1/2.

The key phrase is "host's hidden knowledge". Once the host starts opening the wrong doors, the fundamental nature of the problem is changed from being an independent probability problem to a dependent probability one.
There is also the matter of scale however: if you could grow your users, maybe you could secure more funding/donors long term as well
It’s amusing and curious that while they shun modern tech they acquiesce to compressed air, which is fine, but it leaks. Can they not make some sort of semi-universal mechanical driveshaft powered via pedal power? Either use a kind of bike mechanism or like antique sewing machines and have a flexible driveshaft (like a plumbers flexible snake/auger that has a coupling that’d fit into lots of applications and devices.

Sure it’s rubegoldbergian, but I mean they’re working with compressed air already.
Important Lessons I Got from ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck’
No need to talk about ignoring Universes or rewinding simulations, that just sounds confusing to most people.

Enough to say that if Monty opens the winning door then he apologizes, closes it, and his helpers place the car to a new random place and they try again from the start.

Or say, ignorant Monty may open the winning door accidentally, but here I have a stack of DVDs of all lucky episodes where Monty got a goat. When binge watching these videos, would you expect to see switchers win at a higher rate?

Answer to both: it becomes 50-50 if Monty was ignorant, even if we post hoc filter out those cases where he got it right.

Bonus philosophical question: you don't know whether Monty knew the car's location. He may say he does, or he may say he doesn't but you don't trust him. Or maybe he says "phew, how lucky to be a goat, I actually had a short amnesia an bluffed it". How can such a murky thing whether a human knows something or not impact the very, financially real world, even when all outward appearances are equal: I saw with my eyes that Monty opened a goat door with his hands. Yes it might have been an accident/luck but what is the precise definition of luck anyway? How can it have an influence whether his brain contained this information, given that he ended up opening this goat door anyway. How can counterfactual Universes influence ours? I have my own answers but it's an interesting thing to ponder.
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Man, that reply in particular left the biggest impact on me. The fact that this c-level exec is making decisions like this in such a ham-fisted way would scare me away if I were a customer. There are a chain of repercussions as a result of this.
If could be very relevant for journalists in general. I wonder if they just use burner phones in conjunction with it
From the Quanta article:

"But instead of concluding that BERT could apparently imbue neural networks with near-Aristotelian reasoning skills, they suspected a simpler explanation: that BERT was picking up on superficial patterns in the way the warrants were phrased. Indeed, after re-analyzing their training data, the authors found ample evidence of these so-called spurious cues. For example, simply choosing a warrant with the word “not” in it led to correct answers 61% of the time. After these patterns were scrubbed from the data, BERT’s score dropped from 77 to 53 — equivalent to random guessing."
And I think you stumbled upon the crux of the problem. I think we have a hard time grasping the fact that Monty not just picks one of the other two doors, but also specifically guarantees that it won't be the winning door.

Without that guarantee, it makes no difference.

Additionally, there are not many situations in real life that would replicate the conditions of that guarantee. So our "intuition" is simply geared towards situations where an actor can't read our thoughts (door pre-selection) before we act them out, and in such a scenario, pre-selecting/switching selection of doors doesn't matter.
Hello, looks interesting! I am a currently user of basecamp, could you tell me why I might want to switch? (Other than price, I don’t really care about price I care about the right tool). Cheers!
I know this is meant as an empty joke, but... there's a particular type of article I enjoy, where in order to describe concept X, the author applies it in some unusual (and perhaps absurd) context, being very careful to keep all the usual logic of X intact.

I would greatly enjoy reading an article explaining libel law with the bible as an example. (Particularly as someone who's never read the bible very carefully -- I could learn about both!) I know, for instance, that (at least in some jurisdictions) if a claim is so absurd that it's obviously false, so that any reasonable reader would assume it's meant as hyperbole, then you can't be liable for it. Would that apply to the horrid things claimed of Nebuchadnezzar? There's some nasty stuff written about Saul, but then, he's a public figure. I think the author of the bible can't be sued for that unless it was written with "actual malice", right?

If there are any theologians-turned-libel-lawyers reading this... please!