skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of an article written by Aaron Swartz: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
Author here. It's worth noting that since I wrote this post, py-spy has gained the ability to profile multiprocess python applications - and can also now show local variables in the dump command.
My very first thought - I can’t decide if I’m just being way too sensitive or if this is actually as wildly inappropriate as it seems.
No, I meant art experts. My point was that I don’t think he is all that important as an aesthetic innovator. I see you perhaps disagree but I think his legacy was in insisting on the primacy of process. I think he would tell you that himself; his process was more important than the finished image.
imagine feeling so entitled that you consider the extinction of a massive part of the ecosystem an acceptable price to allay your irrational fears.
Really?

The Infinity Fabric (current generation that evolved from hypertransport) is a cache coherent serial network that can also do PCI-e (non-cache coherently). This can be swapped on a per serial connection basis as needed.

Seems like they could rev the PCI-e side without changing the IF side. The I/O chip has separate connections for off chip, so they could use PCI-5 there and not change the connections to any of the CPU chipets.

At least it seems that way... corrections?
Could you explain why you don't care?
Likewise. I just listened to a BSD Now podcast on building the FreeBSD graphics stack.[1] They went into X and its history a bit so I had X on the brain.

But this list from OP is even more interesting! That list is a wonderful (mine?)field of rabbit holes! Bookmarked and thank you.

[1] https://www.bsdnow.tv/283
> I’ll hear about it from local interactions

Why is the medium of acquisition of news important here, seems like an irrelevant distinction. How can one be 'Ignorant of current events' if he is acquiring said current events through coworkers/locals.

This is precisely what I was referring to in my original comment. Not everyone has the privilege to leave safety of their family to random happenstance local interactions. eg: My wife's grand parents are on greencard and unenrolled themselves from one govt service based on recent news about being a public charge. Some ppl are constantly on the edge to leave it to 'local interactions'

> if it matters to my family/community/area I’ll hear about it from local interactions.

Reading only relevant news is still reading news.
Right... I have traveled all over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos by motorbike. Been in the deepest areas of nowhere, 100's of KM from anyone or anything. I had solid 4G connections everywhere except the deepest valleys, because the military has installed towers literally everywhere.
How easy you can start a REST-like API for your Redis DB (video demo is ready)
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It's relatively cheap and easy to use something like ARM TrustZone that has a public key hash set in the processor via blowing fuses on the die itself to ensure that that processor will only boot up with a firmware image that's signed by the manufacturer. If you wanted to get around it you would need to replace the processor with a virgin one and then get it to load your modified firmware.

It's completely impractical to do something like this to evade a geofence block. It would be much easier to just add a tiny microcontroller between the GPS receiver onboard and the processor that just introduces a large offset in the NMEA messages such that it would think it's hundreds of miles away from it's true location and evade the geofence that way.
Only up through pip 9; 10 and beyond refuse to install incompatible dependencies, and is why we're stuck on 9 for the moment.
it's been said enough for me to remember yeah, not killing AMD was a benefit, but keeping their head under the water too
X on Linux (Xfce) it advances by page, by shift-clicking in the gutter!

Where do I reverse this? So that it advances by page when clicking in the gutter, and it jumps to that position when shift-clicking in the gutter.
So it benefits lazy corporations and not smart corporations or astute talented individuals. Not really something beneficial to the greater society IMO.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/
Facebook’s Lasso doesn’t seem to be killing TikTok
As a developer who has relied on crash reports countless times in the past for fixing bugs and improving products, I applaud Ubiquiti for taking a principled stance and choosing what is best for most of their users.

I wish more companies would stand their ground and refusing caving to a vocal, but demonstrably toxic minority.
Not using a captcha at all?

300,000 users a month and we don't have any problems. Why do people think this is so critical? Just because TEH GOOGLE convinced us it is in order to push their product?
I only remember IE fondly from my early days of using it on OSX and Classic MacOS.

For Windows it always seemed like Netscape worked better into Firefox came along.
I’m paywalled, but already turned off by the use of the word “millennial.”

This situation isn’t unique to the millennial generation itself. I wish there were a less annoying way to express the idea of “current young adults” because “millennial” is annoying, stigmatized, and often inaccurate.

Some cultures have stronger traditions of multiple generation households and caring for elders. But also, recent lower birth rates put more of that burden on one to two children instead of many more.

Back to how our western/US system works: we are supposed to pay for assisted living with Social Security, pensions, Veterans benefits, home equity, and other retirement savings. If your parents haven’t been preparing, it is they who have made the “impossible” choice to burden you with their care.

And perhaps that’s a reminder to save as much as you can.
We know exactly how to fix it: stop destroying their habitats and messing with the climate. Any other "fix" is going to be feelgood techno-fetishism.
I think "analytics" has become a no-brainer among product managers at all tech companies. It seems like no company, not even GitLab, can escape the irresistible urge by management to add analytics. Arguments against it within the company are useless, it is just so obvious to management that this is the way to go, it's what all big successful companies do. Only massive public outrage can turn the accepted wisdom of analytics around, and only sometimes.

High quality products were made for many years with no analytics, just by thoughtful design, using the product yourself, and gathering some feedback from users manually. Even without statistically representative data from some large target population, you can use your brain to figure out what goes wrong and how to make a good product.

And I think lots of products today are quite annoying because of bad decisions based on flawed analytics data. It's hard work to run a good experiment and avoid confounding correlations and plain bugs that throw off the results, and practically nobody today does the hard work. They just run the analytics, get some flawed buggy numbers, interpret them without sufficient care and thoughtfulness, and push through bad design changes. We're data-driven! We're just not looking at the road.
Having worked with Erlang for few years. I still don't understand the new hype behind it.
Ok, the Beam VM have a lot of good ideas. But I think that API of OTP and the language itself do not help to make concise and maintainable code.
And you're pretty much on your own about tooling. I really think that even if you can achieve good performance/scalability in theory, in practice your team become less productive.
I wish there was an email list/rss feed specifically for people that only want news for the gossip value. Only the really high level stuff that everyone is talking about. Written as if the reader lacks the context of having been following all the other news on the issue. If it's a story that's divisive then it breaks talking points down by sides. Just everything you need to be able to pretend like you give a shit and empathise with your in group.

I don't mean a weekly summary. They have way too much shit in them and the format doesn't make sense because every week isn't equally as interesting. Ten huge things that make you look like an idiot for not knowing about don't happen every week. One just happens every so often. Send me an email then. About that one topic. Nothing happened? Don't send anything.
No bathroom breaks and shitty benefits.
Just when I thought HP couldn’t be more stupid, they surpass all expectations; that’s so crazy.

They just sent my brother a $500 video card about eight months late after already replacing the whole computer that had a faulty video card. One hand doesn’t know what the other does in that corporation.
Even earlier than that. Check out this article about fake news in the days of George Washington:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/10...
You know what, I'm going to start using that. Let's call a spade a spade, this is exactly what Google is doing.

Make this concept popular and even the layperson will understand what Google is doing to them.
Also in the PI 3A, but needs a weird cable.
The desire for insects and spiders deserve to die is very far from any reasonable viewpoint with contrasting counter points. Unless you're saying that OP is a "reddit kid" I don't see the problem with an irrational idea like this getting downvoted
Sounds kind of manual compared to what I do now which is wrap calibredb in a script and narrow if needed via rofi.

https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

Presumably would be about as easy to do in elisp.

A call to calibredb in a library of thousands of books on ssd is only 1/3 -> 1/2 a second
These are all great stories. I wonder what everyone is doing now near the end of your careers.
> keep up with the news at all ~355 days/yr

Is that what the article is discussing though?
I am inclined to not trust the story here. Too many shady things going on. The passwords just seem like they are generated algorithmically so the whole underlying premise seems to be bs. The images can be found on a stock image site, they are asking for money and it's all done in a very shady way where the password is being generated serverside making it inherently insecure as a generator.

Seems like someone is using the imagery of a cute child to make a few extra bucks, at best.
If you do frequent admin work on a computer it's trivial to "type sudo by accident a lot", so I don't understand the spirit of the question...
Seems like most music (from the 70s on at least) is recorded multi-track and the data is out there, just not accessible to anybody. If you ever watch Rick Beato videos, he takes classic songs and isolates vocal/drum/etc. tracks all the time, I'm not sure how he has access to them: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW0NGgv1qnfzb1klL6Vw9...

But you probably don't need to bother with old recordings since there is SO MUCH music being produced via tracking software right now I feel like it should be possible to get a pretty big dataset - the difference being, of course, professional production that affects how all these things sound in the final mix.

Although... if you have enough songs with separated tracks, couldn't you just recombine tracks and adjust the settings to create a much, much broader base for training? Just a dozen songs could be shuffled around to give you a base of 10,000+ songs easily enough. That might lead to a somewhat brittle result but it would be a decent start.
demo.zotonic.com refused to connect
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If you use a value to do a calculation and it's from the future then often you end up blocking until it's available. This is how a Future works and is similar to what happens when you read from a TCP connection and the data has to be retransmitted because the network dropped the packet, so you block. If you want responsive output then you should avoid blocking or at least have a timeout and/or cancel button.

The conceptual idea of a value that continuously changes is nice for animation or maybe video (though that's both discrete and lossy), but seems messier when your knowledge is limited to an unknown selection of discrete data points from that timeline, arriving with an unknown amount of lag? Maybe you could talk about that mathematically, but it seems like it's going to be rather abstract and messy.
In what way is not providing a heads-up that this was being introduced and refusing to add an opt-out a “principled stand” for the benefit of their users?
The comment you replied to observed that it is possible to use a firearm to shoot down a drone. It did not "advocate" for using firearms.
a caterpillar
I think what's usually involved in seeding someyhing like this is the noise in timing, not the actual characters entered.
Because beginner programmers need to know all this?
That won't do much if the drone has a pre-programmed GPS route to follow?
Not only beautiful, they are worth to study: the knowledge of spider's silk gave us better materials, spiders can fly with the electrostatic fields, Portia spider has a unique 3D-dimensional thinking of usually more complex creatures. And more secrets to discover in the future, I think.
They changed so you can't login locally?

I still do. But I haven't updated the app in a while since they changed the EULA.
What tooling are you talking about?
How do I get your email address? Maybe PM it to me on twitter: https://twitter.com/senpai_Iuigi
Why is this upvoted so high, this is purely a scam, and the passwords are not generated in the client.
yep. i knew in our field the F & P could only mean functional programming. but the R eluded my acronym decrypting skills. glad to find someone found what it meant. i almost thought it was "recursive"...

can we agree to stop using these meaningless acronyms?!
I searched for Xwindow way too long
>- tooling? I'm not sure what you mean here.

He means linters, debuggers, refactoring libs, and other such things...
Its a shame to see another seemingly benevolent and forward thinking company start betraying the customer base they have built up. This company seems to have started a large strategic shift in the past couple years and it's probably just a matter of time until all the hardware I've bought from them has to be thrown out.
Too many negative experiences.
Unless I’m missing something, RFC7710 doesn’t offer anything to address this “tiered” captive portal scenario; it just provides a less vendor-dependent protocol for the captive portal checks that are already being performed by the OS.
youtube has a few engineers and makers, far from precise but still inspiring
I had the same reaction. "The adhesive I've been using for years is snake oil?"
> There is no on/off switch but there also are no penalties for blocking Internet access to the device, dropping traffic to this host, and/or blocking it via DNS.

Sigh. More junk that requires micro-management.
Thoreau: "Read not the Times; read the Eternities. Conventionalities are at length as bad as impurities. Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are effaced each morning, or rather rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth."

When important truths can be partial truths, then -- as with the posted article -- we can be bold in their statement.
This coincides with my own impressions: WC article and recommendation quality has nosedived in service of affiliate links and margin-seeking. The "self-care" articles in particular seem a very transparent excuse to push a basket of sort-of irrelevant items that Wirecutter would very much like you to buy today.
There were computers with punch cards and programs during WW2? I thought the first programmable computer was ENIAC (post-war)
I know it’s anecdotal but driving long trips in the summer usually ends with a splattered windshield of bugs. Nowadays not so much.
"Instead, the front page is largely a treatise on how Puppy Linux isn’t actually a “distribution” per se, and a technical description of what does and doesn’t count as a true Linux distribution."

I think the above quote from the article is why Puppy was used.

Why is the front page for Puppy full of technical nit-picking about terminology? Why isn't it focused on getting the user to productivity faster and easier.

Or maybe to follow on to your point, why doesn't the Puppy home page clarify that install to disk isn't a goal. That info on the home page would have certainly helped the author more than the definition of a distribution.
Today’s lesson is about the proposed State of Sequoyah
Google suggests 150K minimum for a cell tower. Another search suggests that a Starlink satellite costs one million dollars, based on the assumption of a Falcon 9 launch and does not include any improvement in costs.

So, it's an order of magnitude increase in costs if we assume that a cell tower have the same capabilities and do the same thing as a starlink satellite, which it does not, since a cell tower is just a structure you can lease to host equipment on.

I wonder how much is the capital expenditure is for infrastructure spending versus the number of cell towers?

According to google, there are 307,626 towers in the United States. Another source gave me 55.71 billion expenditure for calendar year 2018 which also includes maintenance. Divide the expenditure by towers gives me 181,096 USD spent per tower.

So, 350,000 dollars versus 1,000,000 dollars. Hmm.
I sit on both coin sides of loving technology and loving the natural environment.

We have to decide what we want, and what is important to us. We're only just at the beginning of our civilisation's development. We, the AI, and/or the AI we'll be connected to will be able to recreate and terraform, to bio-engineer species, environments and food however we want.

I suppose until such time that we can do that, we do need to take the natural environment very seriously. I am increasingly concerned about climate change, but also human health. I also care about animals. We're only one of many, and I don't care how more 'evolved' I am than another species.
Push on through the hand-wavey bit at the beginning and there's some treatment of your question. haven't finished it yet but it's a good read so far...
These days, many couples don't dine in the same table due to work (overtime, odd working hours in gig economy, night shift), and when they do, they're busy with their phone.

I'm pretty sure it's not a good thing, but hey at least they won't feel the pain of dining alone /sarcasm.
I would've liked it if they had included scrollbars outside of the common GUI toolkits. For example the type of scrollbar that can be found in editors like Sublime Text or VSCode, which is basically a long thumbnail of the document.
Ask HN: Fun things to do in the Bay Area as someone new to the area?
I'm here for work for a week and I'm staying in a nice Airbnb in Menlo Park about 5 minutes away from my company's office! After the redeye yesterday I worked all day and then I slept for like 10 hours and then today just relaxed during the day and went to Oak + Violet and had some great food.

Pretty broad topic but if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears!

I am thinking of going to SF tomorrow and exploring a bit.
Patterson also worked on TPUv1 (iirc) and that wasn't so hot.
Take a look at Kinto https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto/
The idea of leaving my SO alone like this is terrifying, but all the preparation in the world can't stop chance - I can only control so much. Life can be cruel sometimes
FYI The term "stems" to refer to the individual tracks of a piece of recorded music is a lot older than NI's format. I love NI, but I'm annoyed that they chose to appropriate the industry standard term as a proprietary product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_mixing_and_mastering
Disappointing; I just wired my home with Ubiquiti equipment, and now it looks like I may have to tear it all out.

Has anyone recently set up a custom home router, switch, and/or WiFi AP? Any tutorials or examples you could recommend?
No mention of Spectre / Meltdown?

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3247868/spectre-and-meltdo...
i agree. academia needs to make this knowledge available to the public. who knows what a genius out there who doesn't have access to this knowledge can do with it? maybe we will be far ahead of where we are now, but i am just dreaming now...
Easy to fix for whom? How do you fix the trust issue?

What to do when they add this to their other products, such as routers?
Interesting. How do you visualise/perceive in your mind the routes you remember? Do you struggle with visualising other things? Routes I remember certainly have many mental visual clues like prominent landmarks/layouts.

Going back to a city I haven't been in for a few years, when things have changed, I find harder to navigate even when I roughly know the layout. I need to relearn some visual cues.
Ask HN: Is there a way to parse the the Up/Down Vote data for my comments?
I know we're really not supposed to whine about down voting etc. And this is not me whining but rather me asking about something interesting that has occurred with one of my recent comments. I wrote what is probably a very partisan comment recently,(Sorry) and have noticed several swings of +3 and -3 votes on my comment. It really doesn't bother me the + or - but I was interested in finding out how many people actually clicked either the + or - . Is it possible to measure what I would call the "Impact" of my comment, EG. number of Votes? Maybe I'm asking for something that this site was not designed to do, or falls beyond the intention of the point system, but I figured I would ask anyways. Thanks :)
The dude is deliberately misquoting my "As far as the article goes there is a bit about her contribution which is over inflated to, "reshaped maths"." He leaves off the 'to, "reshaped maths" at the end, changing the meaning entirely.

He's trolling hard.
SpaceX want to make it. Incumbent ISPs don't, that's the difference.
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Little girls asked me to wear something sparkly for a talk I gave at NASA
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Thanks for replying. I was hoping for a more in depth explanation though. Insects are such a varied species. Just strikes me as odd that you would hate all insects. Without knowing more, it seems like you may hate cows because you had a rat in your house once...

Oh well.
> ... make a connected USB storage device that offers some sort of additional sync services for the data stored on it (maybe over wifi?)

There used to be a KS funded case built around a Pi and an HDD that would act as an external storage when plugged to a USB port and would work as Kodi based media player once booted and connected to an HDMI port.

If anybody knows if this can be done DIY style with minimal cable mess I am all ear :).

edit: ah ! https://geekworm.com/blogs/raspberry-pi/how-to-add-extra-sto...
Half of the camera should be on your smartphone. Lens, sensor, power, some buffer and some hardware gimmicks may stay on the camera, rest should be moved to smartphone. Whole UI, image processing, nn processing, storage, editing, basically all of software and computing power necessary should all be on smartphone.

From the point of view of the camera user, smartphone should be detachable lcd viewfinder. Or from the point of smartphone user, camera should be beefy detachable lens and flash you can put on a tripod nearby when composing the shot. People want better lenses and lightning for their smartphones. If they are wireless it's even better.