skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon files protest of Pentagon’s Jedi cloud award
About a year ago you people chrashed the website when I've shared with you:)
That night I've shared a side-project that I've worked on a long time, a platform with a trending tab that's based on engagement rather than likes, when I woke up the next morning I couldn't believe my eyes when I checked HN and saw the post getting so popular, and when I checked the analytics my hearth almost stopped, about 2,000 sessions in one night, I've never seen something like that until that point, and everything crashed of course :)

Got a lot of feedback that day too, about the ads and mainly the font and changes have been made.

Seeing that people were interested in the website made me keep polishing it, so I though I'd share that with you, and maybe have another look, with the servers holding up :) (hopefully) https://www.argoledo.com/
If "protecting the public" was truly the goal, why not make taxi driving as simple as getting a commercial endorsement on your license? Driving 50 people in a public bus only requires X hours in a classroom and an extra exam (or two, depending). Interestingly, the medallions were affixed the the vehicle (thus allowing anybody to use it), the total number of medallions were artificially limited and the choice parts of the city were off limits to competition. Does that really protect the public or does it just protect those who own the medallions?
The commit message title misses the point: “virgins” is quite clearly a noun in that context, but the original report was about the singular “virgin” partly in regard to “virgin” being incorrectly used as an adjective where presumably virginal would be correct.

Of course, it also happens to be a needlessly provocative word to use.

And yes, changing virgin to empty / pristine / default / unchanged may seem like political correctness gone mad, but there’s no reason to use language that sensitive people would find controversial when one does not need to.
Got any standardized methods that could be automated/scripted under a clean Windows environment and doesn't require internet access / licensing? Give me a shout - ian@anandtech.com
PinePhone preorders open up tonight for the Brave Heart edition! Less than 10 hours as of my comment post! https://www.pine64.org/
And who doesn't like non burning car on a sunny day after parking.
I use PulseSMS. Unless Google quickly allows third party apps to integrate, third party apps are all doomed.
Isn't this an anti-trust problem?
What "great products" need to go through MLM? Arguably, it's easier than ever to launch a product direct to buyers. And it's neither easy nor cheap to build a multi-level network of distributors.

None of the UK-active MLM schemes I've seen has an ethical reason for using MLM rather than legitimate sales channels.

Let's look at some. Cleaning products that are vastly more expensive (in part to fund the MLM commissions) than High Street equivalents. Questionable dietary supplements that rely on woo-woo rather than scientific backing. And of course, electricity, gas, and phone service with the added margin to pay for all those ad-emblazoned Minis and, again, MLM commissions.

Maybe it's like communism. People like to say that, on paper, it's a great idea (I disagree but that's not the point). Those same people also say that it has never been implemented properly, and so it's not the fault of the idea that it has always led to national scale human misery.

In your view, MLM could lead to ethical companies with great products etc. But the past few decades show that every time it's tried, MLM actually preys on the dreams/needs of the vulnerable, adds huge margins to mostly crap products, and the people who get suckered end up mostly losing money.

MLM is a horrible idea that leads to horrible outcomes.
That is the eventual goal.
What is this used for? I am interested in contributing
iMessage was launched in 2011. It's been 8 years and still no real solution for Android phones. RCS isn't encrypted, which is insane, and there's still massive infighting between carriers and Google. And even if RCS actually launches in the next year or so in the U.S., there's zero mention of iMessage interop (and zero interest from Apple), which means 45% of your contacts will still fall back to basic SMS/MMS. And who knows what the international situation will be like.

This realistically means the current crazy messaging situation is going to remain for the next 5 to 10 years.
> And the alternative is cargo cult "newer is better".

Of course it's a "cargo cult" when someone disagrees with you.

> On the other hand, they could progressively enhance upon a backwards compatible single 2 version. JS manages to do that just fine, as does Java...

"Just fine"... that explains why so many shops are dropping support for straight Javascript and switching to TypeScript or CoffeeScript before that. And why Javascript is littered with band-aid libraries like Underscore that are needed to turn it into an effective development language.

Likewise, Java development is slowly being superseded by Kotlin. Java is a mess, there are often 3-4 ways to do simple things and many of them are just terrible for performance.
Testing at Scale (At Stripe): Nelson Elhage
This can't be fought at every level but there are PoW schemes that focus on memory capacity, or bandwidth, etc, that are harder to optimize. It turns to problem from "tile these small functional units across silicon" into "create another high performance desktop computer."
A farm is also likely to be better about maintenance, keeping the panels clear and free of debris.
The article is basically just a list of some options. Even for the most advanced option the author writes just about temperautures in "mostly idle" setup. Anyone has a link to an article with actual measurements?
Like I said, AMD was unique on Meltdown in that their branch predictor uses a neural-net based approach that is difficult to train to follow a specific path. It affected everyone else in the industry - Intel, IBM, ARM, Oracle, everyone.
Sorry, can you explain / show an example of the log plot issue?
Is C2R (and the precursor I know of F2C) strictly speaking "without a line of C" in it?

Yes, literally. But figuratively, No, because you used the C as a higher order definition language and did translation not re-implementation.

So this might (in some cases) be bug for bug compatible (a good thing?) if the bug is a logic bug, not a C boundary error or a type cast effect or something not strictly defined. It isn't an "independently implemented suite" if you wanted to e.g. use it for conformance testing to a spec.
Ford opens its order books for Mustang Mach-E electric crossover
I am waiting for the 3990X announcement before pulling the trigger on 3rd gen TR. I am already running a 2950X in my main workstation, and it's currently really hard to make an argument for even more performance... That said, I am targeting the 3970X as my next upgrade option, but AMD might be able to upsell me on the 3990X. Once the trigger has been pulled on 3rd gen, I will look at repurposing the 2950X workstation as a Jenkins build agent. We currently only have 2 vCPUs in AWS for Jenkins, so this could make a huge difference for our build process and give the old machine a really good 2nd life.

In terms of the 3990X specifically, I am most interested to see if they are going to provide additional platform capabilities. There were rumors regarding a TRX80/WRX80 platform, which seemed to imply to some tech journalists that there would be an octal channel variant of TR available early next year. It would be very hard to turn this down if it were an option.
I pay for 1Password subscription, but I set my mother up for the free version using Dropbox sync. Super simple and probably what 99% of people need anyway (1 vault).
AnandTech deep dive and review on the chip: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13405/intel-10nm-cannon-lake-...
Also the acid test is whether the drivers are qualified for unemployment benefits.
I found this article:
https://www.npr.org/2011/05/20/136473969/the-nose-knows
I tell friends and family the threat they're under by continuing to use the same password for all their accounts. They know I'm a geek so they ask me what do I do and I have them up on the free and open-source Bitwarden in a few minutes. They love it, I love helping them.

Profit is fine so long as a user always remains in control. Given 1Password's history of pulling the rug, I can't guarantee that control.
That is interesting - but can we really say with certainty this is how it always was?

Especially since there is bias added (they know of the existence of the scientist).
Wow, you're super jaded on this, do you sell queuing software for a living? Also wrong: how will this kill a business, at all?
Been a fan of those Flirc cases for a while. They do a good job and look/feel top quality.
Gitea is just incredible.
Yeah I was rather disappointed as well. Could have run the same benchmark over some length of time recording the temp at intervals to see which is the best cooling option.
Intel has announced the Cascade Lake-X i9-10980XE coming out later this month for $979. It's slightly higher in frequency,
However much I'm in favor of nuclear power, you cannot separate the political environment surrounding it, and as such if it is not politically feasible to transition over to it, then it is not sustainable.

Sustainability doesn't just live in the bubble of what's physically possible. A global population of 500 million people living in a first-world standard of living is also quite sustainable, but you're not gonna get a lot of people in favor of a depopulation movement either.
The compute modules have a different behaviour:

We're using the CM3+ on carrier boards. It's substantially better in terms of thermal performance than the CM3.
This is a hugely American point of view. For anyone who has to deal with unicode on a regular basis, the better unicode support alone is a huge improvement. That's without even looking at the advantages of Async support which offers big performance benefits for web developers—roughly 70% of Python users.
I like how ICE is just a government department under Obama but the SS under Trump.
Disclaimer: I work for a company that owns a Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller.

We spend a ridiculous amount of money testing various cases from China. In testing we found that the heat sink style[1] cases with fan work best.

Having said that, for most use cases you just need to move the hot layer of air away from the SoC, so even a low speed fan will do the trick.

[1] https://raspberry.piaustralia.com.au/collections/cases-enclo...
Two of the bullet points they list ask for help in doing this conversion:

* Replace some extern "C" includes with more idiomatic uses. Pretty straightforward find/replace-all usually does the trick.
* Pick a utility, like cat or touch, and work on translating it into safer, more idiomatic rust. There are plenty of unsafes lying around that you can tackle!
Building a Front End for a Temporal Document Store Together (Vue.js/Nuxt, D3.js)
Why not a free pony for everyone too?
I agree you may give a valid exception (I don't know the field), it may represent a large field. But I still think broadly speaking it is uncommon, but I don't have data to back it up.
Oh no, it seems to just be c2rust. I wish they actually meant "written" as in "written" and not as in "compiled".
For someone who already knows how to program or for a complete beginner?
I just feel like we're in different worlds.

> try my best to match the build environment of the developer and compile from source

This is analogous to someone releasing a Windows executable without the correct DLLs or whatever. The developer hasn't given you what you need to install it.

Your problem is with the developer of that software.

Again, YMMV, I reckon we just use different things. I've literally never had this problem for over ten years now.
You've not provided anything - that's the problem. You posted an assertion and not backed it with anything substantial. Try to start with that.
If this started with BusyBox translated from C to Rust, is this code also under the GPL, as is BusyBox?

I don't see any LICENSE or COPYING files in the repo.
CBD products in general are quite expensive, for example CBD extracts are similarly priced to their THC counterparts. I assume this is in large part due to marijuana prohibition laws. Prices will hopefully come down as those laws are relaxed around the country and more players enter the market.
I've always been interested in busybox and other similar tool sets - I even wrote a very simple set of coreutils clones at one point; but I've never really understood the use case. I like Rust & I like using modern tools when there's a benefit. But whatever coreutils Apple ship or come with a reasonable Linux distro seem to work 99% of the time for my work. Simpler & smaller I get for restricted embedded, I'm sure I've used them doing embedded work with small ARM boards & a custom tiny Linux - but the payoffs have never seemed too enticing.
> How do you define just fine? It's taken us many years to migrate EMCA versions only to have multiple incompatible runtimes.

ECMAScript versions are forward-compatible. Any valid ECMAScript 3 code is also valid 5.1, 2015, 2016, etc.

I'm not sure what migration you're talking about. If you mean using new language features before your runtime targets support them, that's kinda on you. Even so, the ecosystem has tons of robust solutions for supporting legacy interpreters. Most notably, Babel does a wonderful job of transpiling to lower language-version targets.
I am watching right now a conference [1] on youtube precisely on the comparison of hypothetical 100% wind vs 100% nuclear.

Basically it explains that wind has a typical average utilisation of about 20% vs 70% for full nuclear. A turbine lasts about 20-30y vs 60 for a nuclear reactor. In addition, wind is producing the electricity at the edge of the network, and you loose the diversification effect of having a network (the example he gave is that in France the total potential consumption of all usage of electricity is 4-5x the total installed supply, because not all machines are switched on at the same time, but if you produce your electricity locally you must size it to the potential local need). In addition you have to stock more between seasons for wind than nuclear. So even though the cost per kW built of wind is roughly half or a third of nuclear, the overall cost is 10-20x higher than nuclear.

[1] (in french) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4teA8ciuRU
This is just a temporary blip. Long-term demand for lithium is going to explode, and so of course will production. That is because demand for both ev's and storage is going up rapidly over the long term. The smart investors with deep pockets are going to get very rich. And let us not forget that commodity mineral prices often fluctuate.

As for the current drop in ev sales in China, from what I understand that is because there are at present 486 ev producers there (no, I'm not kidding) and the government cut subsidies to weed out the vast majority that will never be competitive. Once that happens the government will no doubt go back to promoting sales.
Yep, I think the census next year is going to hit some states hard, losing both residents, federal funds and seats. United Van Lines did a study and NJ was the top moved out state.

Not sure how you can compete with Florida though, when your state has high taxes and it's cold. If they make infomercials for both Florida and NJ or even OH... Obviously Florida would be the better choice. Warmer, less taxes, friendlier to businesses, world class cities, the top theme parks in the world, if you want to go on a cruise not that far from a port... and plus residents get discounts on theme parks even cruises. Then from my impression of places like NJ or NY people always seem in a hurry and sometimes even rude. While it seems like people from FL are more relaxed and happier.

Plus since things are less industrial and more tech or done remotely it's easy to get up and leave than before. Got a hedge fund? Relocate to FL and then fire anyone that doesn't want to move with you. Miami sounds more appealing than Wall St. to some of the change makers, plus with the wealth tax idea that's being pushed and other stuff, what's the incentive to stay when you can vote with your feet? Plus it's not like New York is it's own country, so citizens there have 49 other choices they can move to.

There was a recycling plant that had trouble getting approved in Los Angeles, even 10 years later. They relocated to Arizona and got approved in a single day. I think more people and companies should do that. Let these states lose out and fail, the states that make things better and easier will win. There CEO had much more patience than I'd have if things were moving that slow. Uhaul trucks leaving California cost more than heading back to California. So I think people are getting sick of states, and cities especially when they quit listening to people. California lessen the punishment for stealing, so more stores are being stolen from too sadly. Also they are tough on truck drivers, so some drivers rather just avoid California completely.
Nice anecdote. There's a shitload of salesmen selling snake oil in security, but they're mostly selling it to idiots and people who think security is a box you tick and not a continual process.
If that’s what you meant then saying ‘Meltdown and Spectre affected literally everyone in the industry’ was literally false. Perhaps you could say almost everyone else in the industry in the future.

As to being lucky, I have no idea what their internal process is or what they considered. But luck seems like an odd way to talk about such things.
> I’d argue centralized solutions are only as stable as the problem is uniform. If the problem differs even slightly between actors looking for solutions, those actors are either settling for a less than perfect fit when adopting a centralized solution, or the centralized solution is complex enough to handle those differences. As differences increase, the tradeoffs become unacceptable and/or the complexity becomes too much to handle, and the centralized solution falls apart.

100%

I've been thinking of how this applies to our world today. For example, it is in Google's interest to train us to only use a subset of queries and words so their centralized solution can work (same with YouTube and any recommendation engine probably).

Predicting or prodding you towards certain items (ads), pages, suggestions and the like - intentionally or not - only serve to reinforce a society of increased uniformity and thus, increased desirability of the centralized system.

Newsfeeds suffer the same problem as does even autocomplete I think.

It scares me about our future sometimes because products will slowly become more hostile to you the less you fit into a centralized model of their ideal consumer
Thanks for posting this. I am deploying a few Pis in a hot environment and am now looking into the cooling issue.
You could just buy a CPU for a third or fourth of the price if you want to just browse. You don't need a $750 16-core CPU. You can buy a $200 9600KF or a $240 3600x or something even cheaper. For anything multi-core the 3950X blows the 9900k out of the water, and for 1440p gaming the 3950x trades blows with the 9900k. If you want 1080p gaming, or web-browsing, this is not the CPU for you. That said, even for 1080p gaming and single-threaded benchmarks the 3950 is usually within a few percent of the 9900K.
www.anandtech.com/Bench for real world benchmark data
The only thing I'm resenting at the moment is people like you wasting my time with responses specifically designed to provoke flame posting. You still haven't answered my question, and I'm not going to bother responding until you do - just why is it that are you in this thread?
https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1038/19368

It looks more like several billion, not several trillion.
Things I wish I understood before starting an agency
I guess the risk seems more real if it's a question of "does it share human values". Which is possibly not a one in a million chance it doesn't - it could be a 50/50 chance or worse.
I did read the article before posting. They don’t actually explain why they opted to not use an R-tree except to say that they think this organizational structure makes sense intuitively. Unfortunately, intuition here is wrong, and the link I posted specifically benchmarks their solution and shows that if they had done even basic benchmarking they would have seen this.

Now there might be a valid argument for this approach if the geofences are changing constantly and reindexing the R-trees would take too long, but in the end they synchronize everything anyways, and the R-tree could easily be generated on another node, serialized and then unserialized asynchronously before swapping to an updated tree.
I see „millions“ on the scale, so maybe you meant billions?
Yes, I know what a heatsink is and how to google for heatsinks for a RPi. TYVM.
> And for users, it does not really matter if they have to visit router admin page to set up NAT port forwarding or open up the port in firewall.

It matters when port forwarding is impossible because the user lacks a unique IPv4 address. Earth has 7 billion people and 4 billion IPv4 addresses, so carrier grade NAT is inevitable.
At the core of it, MLM is a legitimate business strategy to get a relatively unknown product distributed through a network effect.

I create a meal replacement smoothie. Some friends want to try it, so I hook them up. Then friends-of-friends ask about this smoothie that isn't available, so I let them sell the product to other people in exchange for a cut. I quickly realize that I don't have the capital for to materials. Product is moving too fast, so I ask them to pay up front for some of the materials.

The problem is that this benign relationship that helps both of us can be easily made predatory.
Everyone's situation is different, but I wouldn't be so quick to assume yours is reflective of most.

I take home 20k/30k, etr of 35%.

Everything else seems pretty far under average, or in the case of rent, unrealistic. My prices are reflective of a high tax/cost of living city in the northeast.

Just rent on a studio within a thirty minute drive averages $1k, only including trash, snow.

Add $100 for basic cable internet.

Double that car cost, 150 almost covers gas and insurance. Doesn't include paid parking. Some jobs and Some parts of the area can get public transport to workfor them, I can't.

$60 is pretty low for a decent cell phone plan. Be more like 120 in reality.

health cares an extra $800/mo (after insurance pays) if I were to follow my health care providers reccomendations.
If you run a shop, you can't decline service to democrats, even if disagree with them. You can't discriminate, that's the law. I don't see how is it radically different from running a hosting company.
> none of them talk about why we should do anything

Isn't it self-evident that melting the ice caps and acidifying and killing the oceans might not be good for us collectively?

As for why nobody is doing anything, it's because we have a culture of kicking the can down the road for tough problems, and this is no different.

And lastly, the current President of the United States* is a climate denier and actively working to destroy and destabilize all efforts to address it. And this president* currently has the support of ~40% of eligible voters. Go figure.
Thanks for making this, I've been using it to help me send emails, push notifications etc. to 20-30k users in a Django project :)
Just about every modern language has a well established R-tree library...