skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are the distributed, self-organizing people of HK prevailing against the centralized imperialistic communist state?

I think you make a good (and very underappreciated) point about the relevance of the ideas in this article to geopolitics, or how humanity ~chooses (or so we think) to organize itself.

[didericis] also makes some good points that are relevant to this perspective:

> Decentralized solutions are not saddled with the same need to appease everyone at once. You can have local solutions extremely well adapted for local situations that know more details about the context than a large company trying to deal with everyone ever could.

> 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.

The dangerous part imho when it comes to a geopolitical application is, while most of us can recognize the complexities and tradeoffs in a computer system, at least when they're pointed out to us, very few seem to be able to see similar complexities in geopolitics (a massively more complex system), even when it's pointed out. It's as if we've developed an intuition that passionately rejects the very suggestion, a behavior which in itself highlights the complexity involved.
I mean one is giving me tons of entertainment and one is opening an encrypted file on my machine and has a lot of alternatives and was already considered overpriced. If you asked me 6+ years ago if I'd pay for $370 worth of 1password for 5 years I'd laugh you out of the room.

It's a lot easier when it's a monthly fee to get that money out of me.
Wish I could use that in a Django app. Doesn't seem to be a viable python queueing library that allows using postgresql
Google’s serverless containers platform Cloud Run is now GA
I have been following this company for like 10 years now, if not more. 1Password is anything but a typical software company. When they were small, I forget the year, they emailed us (each) six licenses of 1Password as a thanksgiving gift. A small gesture, but clearly the courage to leave that much money on the table for a small startup is laudable. On the other hand, each of my friends who got it "free" wouldn't have considered any password manager (free or not). They had the uphill task of creating the market. I am sure all the recent password leaks helps a bit.

They sponsored Gophercon in 2018(?). I didn't even know they use Go.

Good luck to them and hopefully they will keep us from password disasters of the future. Now, if only I could convince everyone to use a password manager...
(I'm not really familiar with the details of J, K, or APL)

If either J or K is completely equivalent to APL, but uses words instead of symbols, then it might be possible to set up a program that replaces those words with the equivalent APL symbols.

For this to work in any text editor, it would have to be a special keyboard/input, like how Japanese is spelled out in katakana and then converted to kanji. I'm not sure how hard that would be to set up. If a vim-only solution is good enough, then this could be accomplished using the "abbreviations" feature: http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/08.ht...
anyone have a good resource for finding groups interested in studying same stuff as you? meetup.com seems fairly limited on this front in my area (DC)
This simple intro to machine learning with node.js has been one of the more popular talks I've given:
http://73rhodes.github.io/talks/MachineLearning/#/
What is the risk of exposing our health data? To me it is not so obvious, other than maybe embarrassment? Is it like how in our culture we don't like to talk about how much money we make? Why are all these things supposed to be secret in the first place?
Intel AI Summit 2019 – Chip Giant Accelerates AI at the Edge
Not faster electron apps, just more. One per core.
> I see these things failing all the time around me

You do? Where?
So the CEO was caught embezzling 243k and he blamed it on a deepfake?

Genius.
I don't give a damn about the phone itself, but if they include the old golf game from the original RAZR...I'm in.
The blue bubbles in the GIF example look exactly like iMessage on iOS, coincidence?
Can't wait for no one to use it ever
When I first heard about this years ago, I knew exactly what the scent was, because I'd noticed it on my grandfather years before. I don't think I have a particularly great sense of smell - in fact, from a childhood of secondhand smoke and oddly narrow sinus passages / allergies, I've always felt like my nose didn't really work. But, the smell of people with Parkinson's is very distinct and I've noticed it on people since. Likewise, the last time I was at my grandmother's house, I noticed very distinctly that the smell was no longer there as it was one of the few times I'd been back at her house since grandpa passed away. Parkinsons / Lewy body / Althzeimers are all fascinating yet horrifying for what they do to people and I'm thankful there are people researching and seeking remedies.
That processor solely exists as PR stunt to satisfy investors. It has a faulty GPU, lower clock speed, higher temp, and should be considered as a lab sample instead. You can take a look at Charlie's article about it[1]

[1]:https://semiaccurate.com/2018/05/29/is-intels-upcoming-10nm-...
right - and .. for the one that posted on YNews to say "yes we did it" there are of course others who do not post on YNews and did not do it.. There is nothing wrong or bad about Python 2.7, in fact, its great and works as advertised.
The better wind conditions help, but offshore wind is really expensive. Transport and install alone for a big offshore turbine can easily cost EUR 1-2M. Add to that undersea cables, higher maintenance costs (salt water, difficult access) and it is clear why onshore wind (if possible) is still the preferred choice. Nonetheless, mainly due to the up-scaling and abundance of available ocean space offshore wind has taken off in the last few years.
It's funny how the German sites tend to be so much better at this. I don't follow computerbase, but notebookcheck has some of the most thorough and consistent reviews, and they allow cross-device comparison. They cover news now, too, though I consider that a drawback since it's less focused.

There are a very large number of review sites, Anandtech being one of the first, presumably all following the same sustainability formula, but despite all that effort, consistency, thoroughness, built in tools, and building on aggregated output are the exception.
Well, now you can understand it differently.
> As far as I know it is Cloud integration which enables this absolutely necessary and table-stakes functionality. Is that not true? Does e.g. Keepass provide this essential functionality without a Cloud integration of some kind?

Just store it in your regular sync solution. Syncthing works great, and I don't remember any issues with Dropbox back when I used that. I'd imagine that iCloud or SkyDrive would work fine too, for the masochistically inclined.
$1T in manufacturing not in power generation which is the more important and relevant part of the equation.
You’re probably being downvoted because of this statement, which is blatantly wrong:

> The only reason they went to the cloud is because most people were buying one copy and sharing it with multiple people.

It’s cloud-based because the majority of password management users want automatic cross-device updates without setting up their own server.
The sentence is literally correct, but misleading. A continuous 100GW might power those two states, but that's not what you get out of a 100GW wind installation. The capacity factor for wind is about 25-30%.
A friend’s dog used to catch the bee in his mouth, carefully turn it round and bite the stinger off.
WOAH amazing presentation, this is how code should be explained.

Quick validation: would you pay for good bits of code explained well by the author?
This post is pretty out of date; Que and QueueClassic moved to SKIP LOCKED at some point, over using advisory locks / lock head methods. It's much faster, but only supported in Postgres >= 9.5.
Ay, there's the rub. Oftentimes, it is discerning the difficult in a multitude of simples, hearing the zebra hoofbeats when the sound is clearly a horse. Miss the exotic and a patient could die, no repeats. It haunts a physician for the rest of their days.
You can't make money in education because public education takes the entire budget via taxes. And after that, you have no access to the customer [i.e., the parent(s) and their child(ren)]. All of that economic power and control is bottled up into school districts, and selling to them is even worse than selling to large businesses.

No matter what else you do, if you can't make substantial revenue, you can't pay engineers, and you don't have reliable profit/loss signals to guide your product development efforts. So this is the fundamental problem: anything you do with ed tech is really just a hobby, and this won't change without a massive philosophical and political shift.

Why do I think this? Well, I worked doing ed tech stuff for two years and thought, "wow, living on $55k/yr in Orange County really sucks!" That was 2014. Soon thereafter I got a real tech job (that paid roughly double what I was making before, had more serious engineers) and I've never looked back.

I'd also like to add that merely creating some new program of one sort or another won't help. The problem is that control over what happens is a political process, full of rules that you have to follow, endless meetings. The result is that you're not free to try new things, not free to iterate quickly.
Huh, the embedded images all 403 for me but work when accessed directly.

Edit: Now it's like.. 50/50?
I was curious about [5]

The link to support requests (which is a great piece of software) is here:

https://cash.app/$KennethReitz

Note: This is NOT a charitable donation, it is a gift to an individual. These are not tax deductible under US law.

Njs has a long attacking blog post saying this needs to go through PSF (huh?) and that they should be getting most of this money not the person the funds were directed towards (it's not clear how much they've actually contributed to requests over time). This supposedly also may trigger folks who have also suffered from "gaslighting".

Supporting the developer of a piece of software does not, as far as I know, require that they sign up to handle it on a charitable basis. A big todo is made about the "large" amount raised. The amounts is 33K. To be frank, this is almost zero in tech land at least in the bay area and requests is a very highly used project. I was literally expecting something like 300K or even $1M - silly kickstarter projects raise for more and deliver nothing. Requests has already delivered a lot of utility.

Just a bit of perspective from someone who wasn't familiar with this "fiasco".
The first pilot to take off and land an airplane on a ship, 1910-1911
Can the Voynich Manuscript even be translated?
And that's one of the major reasons for me to choose 1Password - native apps on macOS, iOS and Windows
Yeah, I live here. :-) You're right that most of the city is at a pretty good elevation and won't be directly affected in the sense of getting flooded.

But if the Embarcadero floods that's billions of dollars worth of damage right there. Same for China Basin / Mission Bay area around Mission Creek. That's got a baseball stadium, the major train depot for the city (CalTrain terminus), and a bunch of new multi-story condos and UC Mission Bay they just finished. It's going to suck if that area gets flooded, the sidewalks around the new condos are already cracking due to subsidence. ( https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/sidewalk-sinking-missio... )
I recently called Chase and got some message like "your voice may be recorded for verification purposes" or something to that extent. Creeped me out and I don't recall ever opting into that specifically, so I'm guessing it is an opt out buried in some agreement.
There are dramatic memory and startup time improvements. Much less so for CPU once everything is up and running.
I intend the app to be another option for how to get things done. I've been using it the last few months to manage building the app itself, and being a remote worker, it's freed me up to be a lot more mobile in where/how I do that work.

One of the most important next things we can build are more controls in when/how you can be reached (e.g. setting working hours).
I am not American. And the meaning of the English language does not change with your culture, which, I might add, does not get transmitted in writing. I am responding to your words only. Eat concrete is crass and violent. You can hand wave all you want. Try conversing without ad hominem labels and insinuations.
Aren’t all your examples things that happened at the same time or basically because of one shift? The switch to being a SaaS? So that’s just one time really. The events may be spread out a bit, but it’s really just one event to me.
Because the right to your private medical issues is at stake. And that ignores the predatory insurance industry and other discriminatory practices as an aside.
I think for some people having the receiver as an explicit parameter of methods rather than references through a special syntactic variable bothers some people and makes it look to them like a procedural language playing OO, though I personally think it's the most clear representation of what every class-based OO language actually does operationally, since methods are attached to a class and take a reference to the instance on which they are invoked.
My housemate is not careful with their digital privacy so their devices are all unambiguously theirs and the profile assembled by advertisers is likely cohesive across platforms.

Two days ago they said they've been getting a lot more ads about prescription vaginal creams lately. This wasn't happening a week ago. There is reason to expect that someone with access to their medical history would segment them as a likely target for such ads. The topic hasn't come up in their life recently so it would have had to have been from medical records.

To be perfectly clear: this probably wouldn't be happening if Google was telling the truth about not using the data for ads.

It's time to stop believing ad networks when they say they're "not going to use this data for ads" and "are doing everything they can to keep the data safe".

Singular anecdatum, I know, but if we find enough examples of similar occurrences we may be able to build a strong case that they're simply lying about the security of our data in their hands.
I am finally running a Ryzen 1700 + dual GPU system so I could get rid of dual-booting:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700

Mainboard: GA-AX370-Gaming K5 (Bios: F25)

GPU (Host): Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970

GPU (Guest): Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060

OS (Host): Arch Linux

OS (Guest): Win 10

As said it appears to me IOMMU grouping depends a lot on the board used. For mine it looks like all the chipset external PCIes are in one group and the CPU PCIes (basically the 16x for GPUs) are in two seperat groups.
So I run two GPUs on 8x on each slot now. I was also able to pass through an USB 3.0 on-board controller as it was also in it's own group.

But there is the ACS patch so you are able to pass through single devices which are in a physical IOMMU group (not only cpu lanes). I don't have personal exp with it tho.

Warning: There are issues with the latest Ryzen gen and bios updates and they break vifo.
> you don't need that full 560kb library

In fact, most web applications only need this 200-line library:
https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder

React started out as a simple library, but it is getting more and more complicated (see concurrent mode). 90% of applications don't benefit from React's complexity. This tiny lib has the same templating technology as React, but none of the complexity.
Many freelancers are specifically choosing not to take a job, especially when it comes to professional driving which has always existed as a full-time job if you wanted to work that way.

I don't see any reason to limit people's freedom if they choose to go independent and create their own conditions. The better option would be, as you say, provide the social safety net with healthcare and tax support that isn't tied to employment so they aren't greatly disadvantaged when it comes to benefits.
I think one can overestimate how much care goes into background details like this. I recall there's a scene where an airship flies by, plastered in Japanese advertisements, and a fan figured out that the Japanese text was simply random headlines snipped from a women's magazine.

Fake edit: it was a 1981 issue of "Josei Jishin" magazine. Here's the link (JP):

https://ameblo.jp/allbr/entry-10038560072.html
I personally really like the self keyword after spending some time reading code in Java where `this` is optional. Having to reference self makes it more clear where data is coming from and makes navigating an unfamiliar code base much easier. I'm a fan of forcing devs to acknowledge when they are accessing or manipulating mutable object state.

Separate from that, I think that would be a much bigger breaking change than you think. __setattr__ and __setattribute__ means that self.y doesn't necessarily refer to a traditional attribute so without self you could end up with either:

1. `x = y` where the expression `y` executes code

or

2. `x = y` where `x = ???` and `x = self.y` where `x = self.__setattr__('y')`.

That said, I do think the language could use something to reduce the size of __init__() since

self.arg1 = arg1

self.arg2 = arg2

self.arg3 = arg3

...

can get pretty verbose
> Dealing with smells was so hard that brains evolved to deal with the problem, and then it was just evolution asking the question "what else can we do with this giant block of computational power -- what about ... memory? vision? hearing?"

Hmm, interesting. If I remember correctly, Stephen Jay Gould argued something similar about the human brain, except it wasn't about smell, it was about walking upright. He argued -- or quoted people who argued this -- that it's likely human intelligence arose as a side-effect from the brain structures needed for an upright stance.

Quoting from Wikipedia [1]:

"Gould was a champion of biological constraints, internal limitations upon developmental pathways, as well as other non-selectionist forces in evolution. Rather than direct adaptations, he considered many higher functions of the human brain to be the unintended side consequence of natural selection."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould
Right. So that was one time they did a shift. And they slowly phased out the one time product which was a strategy they were employing from day one. They didn’t pull rug out from under customers more than once then.
Is this basically an Android-only version of iMessages?
Move Notifications from React Native Firebase into its own paid/licensed library
After a few seasons of Expanse, I couldn't stop mixing Belter Creole. It's so fantastically interwoven into their culture. I absolutely love how it's much more relatable and easier to pick up than something like Dothraki or Valyrian, which may as well have been Parseltongue for me.

My only wish is that fictional worlds use more Urdu/Hindi phrases, but I'm sure bilingual person whishes their favorite world used both their languages. Although Belter Creole does use some familiar Urdu words, they're often paired with completely unfamiliar words. For example, setara mali or little star (literally "star little") uses the Urdu word sitara for star, but pairs it with—what I think is—the Polish word for small.
I made/make no claim about the relative moral merits of capitalism or a hierarchal society at all. However you only need to look closely at your stated claim to see why Conway's Law is relevant here: your claim about "technology" rely on our concept of money / funding staying the same. Given that our concept of money has been evolving non-stop over the past centuries it seems unlikely that it won't further evolve.

I'm not saying that your claim is wrong, rather the opposite I believe it's holds true in the present. Computer Information Systems are reliant on larger economic forces. In many cases centralized systems are not better on a purely technical basis, but rather are better at attracting capital. However there are undoubtably systems of human organization and resource management that would change the fundamentals assumptions behind this.
Self lets you do really cool things though. For instance, you can monkey-patch with `def override_method(arg_that_will_get_self, *args): pass; Class.method = override_method` after Class is defined. Python lets you have all the dynamism of Ruby without letting you go too crazy with DSLs - which is the perfect balance IMO.
The gaming market is in some ways on the trailing edge of technology. While they're often one of the first to embrace new hardware, they're very slow to adopt changes in software or architecture because the engines that drive most of that are few and tend to evolve slowly. Until Unreal Engine, Unity, or one of the other major game engines fully embrace an architecture that allows developers to easily saturate multiple cores, most games are still going to be bottlenecked by single core performance. On the other hand, it should be blatantly obvious to anyone even remotely connected with development that full multi-core utilization is the only way to keep improving performance going forward, so sooner or later the game engine developers are going to need to fully embrace that.
Then you should know that sometimes the best person is not available. If you want to fix bugs in LLVM then I'm sure you will be welcomed.
Official blog posts:

* 1Password: https://blog.1password.com/accel-partnership/

* Accel: https://www.accel.com/interests/OurSeriesAIn1Password
installed capacity equals power. That amount of power either is or isn't enough to power the states of California and New Jersey. The "for a year" part makes no sense in this context.
To be honest, I think they might find after it's turned on that the limitation to the Google Messages app (which is not the default on Samsung devices and hence represents very little in terms of market share) doesn't move the needle at all and makes very little difference. Certainly, the impact of turning it on on the UK market seems to have been zero.

If Google follows through by enabling it system wide in future OS versions that might change a little, but Android being as it is that will take a long, long time, and the carriers probably suspect their own RCS implementations will have worked before then, or Whatsapp will just take over the US too and RCS will be dead.
Nice tips!
Warte bis die Bullen weg sind!
New features vs SMS. Don't require customers to use silo'd apps (although I guess you could consider RCS a silo in itself)
The main thread is overworked and underpaid [video]
Crud, I would have totally blindly trusted Sophos on this.
It isn't though. Thats how we talk about installed power capacity. The capacity factor is important but seperate. Nobody says we installed a 2.5 MW* wind turbine accounting for capacity factor. They say we installed a 10 MW wind turbine. It is assumed, especially given this publications audience, that the power factor is a seprate point. The person I replied to said that the sentance was so wrong it was "cringy" which is not true.
It get's an ok amount according to the global PV potential map [0], better than a lot of Wester Europe but not as much as much of the US. And like most cities there's a lot of space that aren't just sky scrapers.

[0] https://globalsolaratlas.info/map?c=36.137875,125.705566,6