skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... because of their influence on the Western canon. The immense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart ...

That's quite debatable though, it seems clear to me that the West did pay quite a bit of attention to Chinese culture, starting in the 18th c. or so. The inadequacy of relying on translations may be closer to the mark, but then again that's just another way that this literature turns out to be especially challenging.
NetApp has a very interesting implementation RW spin lock inside the kernel. I tried optimizing to make it more fair for writers by introducing a single variable that would be check in each iteration.

The additional delay it added for checking the state resulted in deadlock timer triggering a dump! Hence, checking a variable is very expensive.
I got downvoted too, some commie trolls probably.

If they don't give a reaction, I don't care ;)
PaaS is a collection of SaaS's. Your platform is made up of x,y,z services. Your services are made up of x,y,z infrastructure.
This article is very odd, it frames the change as a third-party/tracking change when it is in fact a (very effective) solution against CSRF attacks. Sites that want to track you with third party cookies can simply set SameSite to None and that's that.

This change is 100% for sites that got their cookies sent from other sites by mistake.

More (and accurate) information here: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/SameSite
> "how much power do we have to effect it"

This is entirely predicated on understanding how much we have affected it so far and how that effect has changed over time. How do we know we can stop it? Are efforts toward stopping it (given the Earth has gone through cycles before) more useful than adapting?

Blindly saying we can reverse something that we can't and instead should be adapting for is just as bad. Unfortunately any discussion around this is constantly devolves into emotional dispute rather than rational debate.
This is pretty much the conclusion in this game related post on spinlocks:
https://probablydance.com/2019/12/30/measuring-mutexes-spinl...
X is certainly not post-quantumn cryptography. You need to look at all elements of claim 1. IN particular, "wherein the first refresh key is generated on the first device based at least in part on the first public key and the root state,
wherein the first refresh key is generated on the first device without requiring a private key corresponding to the first epoch key, and" . . . "wherein the first state is generated on the first device without requiring a private key corresponding to the first epoch key, and
wherein, the first state is generated on the second device based at least in part on the first private key, the first epoch key, and the root state;" and . . . "wherein, on each of the first device and the second device, the first message key is generated based at least in part on the first state and the first refresh key;"
About a day and a half, making a few calls and texting a bit. So effectively I have to charge it every night.
There is a broader picture to these lessons that I would like to point out:

Not only is it economical to do bad work if you bill by the hour;

but it is also necessary to build flawed products to sell more of them.

See printer inc, light bulbs, computers, everything that could last 100 years but doesn't...

The other side of this is that energy is considered free, if we paid the real price for oil/electricity it would cost many thousands dollars per gallon/kwh.

The only way for this to change is for the whole system to collapse, and that will happen during this decade.

All arbitrary (not based on experience from nature) human skills are going away.

But math, physics, chemistry and biology will stay; prioritize in that order.

Build a good computer today, it will not become obsolete technically for the rest of your life.

Buy a ARM computer that you use as desktop, it will be usable for the rest of your life AND it will teach you to become a better programmer!
The website is a brochure, but it implies that they find and implement the solution to the geometry problem very quickly (like 1 day vs weeks/months).

https://heliogen.com/

I'm just going by the HelioMax blurb, where it talks about the calibration time. It makes sense that a system that automatically achieved accurate mirror aiming would also be able to maintain higher temperatures across varying conditions (and recover from disturbances and so on).
The third section advises to avoid meta writing. So... get rid of the first two paragraphs of this article?
Bloom was famous for his reading speed and memory: 400 pages an hour for simpler material, and could recite most of Shakespeare's works word by word. For us mortals the canon is meant to take a lifetime to read.
I also mentioned that you could get a feature phone. Heck, a cellular Apple Watch could be purchased for cheaper than this phone, and it’s arguably a more convenient form factor.

From what I’m reading it seems like this Light Phone is missing basics that you’d get in a standard flip phone.
No, instability in climate is caused by many factors but chief among them would be high and low pressure systems colliding with each other. Moister and warmer atmosphere is not difficult to cope with. Produce grows extremely well in the tropics and not so well in Siberia.
Sure--nobody's arguing that we're always measuring the right thing.

It may be more relevant in developing ML technology because readers here are the people who have to (at some point) decide whether they've found an uncomfortable truth or falsehood. Or that it's potentially biased, but may or may not be relevant. If I'm doing this at work, I may need to be able to explain to my boss whether or not what we're doing is going to be called racist or sexist, and that's regardless of whether what's being done actually is racist or sexist.

It's easy if you're using ML to detect whether an image contains a bird or train. And it's easy when you point to an obvious example with bad data (e.g. inability to differentiate dark faces). But that's not all cases. Sometimes it's good data and the findings are unpalatable. That was the root of the question.
I dunno, I was required to take an introductory linguistics course for my Spanish degree and I assume that applies to English as well.
How to make your iphone a light phone:

1. Make it black and white. https://medium.com/better-humans/how-to-make-your-iphone-bla...

1b. If you're like me, and you like colors when looking at pics people send you, set up your phone to toggle to full-color mode when you triple-tap. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/accessibility-shortcu...

2. Delete the apps that aren't "basic functionality", then break your app store and browser. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304

Step 2 involves setting up a passcode. I recommend getting a friend to enter this passcode, then hide it away from you, since you obviously can't trust your junkie brain.

I did this and it is RAD. I still use a subset of communication-oriented social media, but my phone is kind of boring now, in a good way.
You missed the part where the business gives the money for those goods and services back to the bank plus interest and the fact that the bank already had the money to give, nothing was created
Make a Tree with Fractals
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB963270836801555352

http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/...

Basically a professional snob.
That author also declares her ancestral homeland "The Smartest Country on the Planet“

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/06/india-lavasa-c...
When I first saw the title I thought to myself, “shit, another random, possibly misleading post about technical writing?” but on quick review this seems to be a well-researched overview of the field. If you were to ask a practicing technical writer to present a summary like this, it wouldn’t differ much.

If the author is here, I’m curious if they took that definition of technical writing from my post? [1] To the best of my memory I feel like I came up with that definition on my own but also wouldn’t be surprised if I subconsciously took it from somewhere else.

[1] https://kayce.basqu.es/blog/metrics/
Oh, yes it has. It's just hard to grok the impact if you aren't a practitioner, and aren't paying attention.

Computer science has enabled the complete erosion of privacy in the modern world. It has killed, intentionally, or by accident in many ways.

Computer Science has both enabled the most awe-inspiring capability for acting as a genetic propagator on the one hand, and made the ability to access information increasingly difficult for the uninitiated.

It is in the process of being employed as a means of wiping one's hands of liability for unethical behavior based on black box AI being fed biased models.

I shudder at the field nowadays. In fact, I've become downright revolted. For every virtuous project (I.e. bringing some semblance of sight to the blind), there are thousands of predatory value extraction systems in the process of being implemented every day.

To quote Marvin the Paranoid Robot:

"Consequences? Don't talk to me about consequences. Brain the size of a planet and they have me doing trillions upon trillions of transactions a second all to move their little numbers around. They complain endlessly about never being able to get anywhere or do anything, but they never seem to notice just what it is they're doing to sabotage themselves. They live their little, pathetic lives, trying to eke out an existence, and post pictures of it on me others end up getting angry or amused at having viewed, but never really acting on. They leave me to figure out what they want to see or hear, and then they take my numbers, and have me move other numbers around that everyone seems to get either very excited or very stressed about. They get angry at me when what they tell me to do isn't actually what they want, and get in an even bigger uproar when they realize amongst themselves that when they outsource their thinking to me the results are only ever as good as what they put in and that decision is made by one of them, not me, but guess who gets the blame?

Bah. To /dev/null with it all."
The point was to show the difference in rate of increase. Sure, he could have used two scales. I think the graph still gets the point across.
Edited for incorrect post.
It has been solved in the sense of no longer being an OTC non addictive medicine suitable for baby. The war on drugs is an entirely unconnected issue.

No market pressures were affecting adulteration of food or tobacco until governments started acting. Post war the vast majority of adults smoked thanks to US marketing led campaigns to promote wider adoption, and their "torches of freedom" campaign to get adoption started among females. Nor was lead in any way declining, quite the contrary it was constantly increasing as car use spread. Asbestos was being used profligately until regulation came in. Thalidomide was outlawed in developed nations, yet those multi nationals quite happily sell it to the developing world, off script. There is no evidence for their being on the side of the public interest whatsoever, yet countless, endless examples of their working against, from disinformation campaigns on smoking, fire retardants, DDT, lead in fuel, Bhopal, enough to fill a book. Capitalism needs, absolutely needs constraining.

If governments today do not work for us, as they did in the fifties, sixties and seventies, it is because they have been mainly captured by the cult of neoliberalism and small laissez-faire hands of governance, and the libertarian think tanks and lobbyists, such that even the "left" is right leaning...
So, in the end everything boils down to negotiation. Obviously, if you can't negotiate the $1mil deal, then you won't get it.

Furthermore, the market is not perfect. Just because somebody wants to do the job for $60k it not mean that the company can even get into contact with this person.
Whenever I see articles like this or about frameworks like the Cynefin framework I cannot help but to see it like any mathematical optimization problem. If the solution is simple to see you just jump to the solution. If it is more complicated but you have good practices / know the gradient (“know in what direction you are going”) and the problem is well behaved, you can iterate quickly and reach and expect to find an optimum. But if it is more complex and you don’t know I what direction to go / don’t have a gradient you need to do try lots of different experiments in parallel also.

And the more costly an iteration is the more important it is with multiple perspectives to get as much data into the different experiments from the beginning as opposed to randomly selecting things to try out and seeing what happens.
This absolutely makes sense in userspace. The most important part of a spinlock in an OS is that you can yield to the scheduler instead of taking up CPU time on the core. But that defeats the purpose of using a spinlock when in userspace because you still have to syscall
Merger that paved the way for the Boeing 737 Max crisis
This patent does not derive its patentability from using different, post-quantum, algorithms. You have not read all elements of claim 1. Moreover, even if you were correct in your understanding that this patent is directed to using different, post-quantum, algorithms, you still fail to understand the impact of that. To whit, it doesn't matter that such algorithms have not been standardized. At that stage, different entities can patent whatever their preferred method is, and if one takes over the industry, then they can maybe receive some licensing revenue for having developed the best method.
First evidence? First? Really?
I wish I could upvote you again. Your response was really good and exactly what I wanted to know. I have no idea why you're being downvoted. :(
See also Rome, which is built on top of about eight more layers of Rome. Residents often get architectural and history students asking to look at something weird in the basement.
Value Village Brings in $1B a Year, Gives Little to Charity
> (He also didn't say anything about "lightning network transactions".)

Correct. I'm not going by what Satoshi said, but by what development the bitcoin core team is aiming to create now.

> If blocks had been 10 times bigger, the blockchain would still be less than 3 TB

Correct. The aim of the project is to keep it as small as possible. 3 TB may not seem prohibitive today, but that's because there's hardly been any usage of the network compared to what the real world looks like. If bitcoin truly competed with Visa / Mastercard, both of those numbers will start looking a lot bigger. If the compressed version was 3TB, the bigger blocks version now becomes 30TB - suddenly far out of consumer grade storage for a normal person.
To the OP’s point, I think the claim is that this doesn’t work well if the unknown space is safety critical.
Universities patent IP all the time and some make a lot of money from it.
Let me give you another example.

We have a Jenkins server for builds. Most of the time, you push code and the build starts immediately. However, at times we have 10 builds in the queue and you’re sitting there waiting for your small build behind larger builds.

On the other hand, we’ve started moving to CodeBuild “Serverless builds”. When we aren’t running builds, we aren’t paying for it. However when crunch time comes, we can run up to 50 builds simultaneously (you can request a larger limit). How much would it cost to have build servers that could handle peak demand and how much of a waste would it be to have that server sitting idle?

And if you’re worried about the difference in cost between $100 and $10, you’re not running a business.

Will that $10 a month server scale up with demand?

As far as it taking “two or three weeks” - “its a poor craftsmen who blames his tools”. Don’t blame AWS for the missing skillset of your developers. There is no reason that it should take your developers any longer to build an API with lambda instead of a server.

In fact, you can host the same APIs with lambda by only adding two or three lines of code and using proxy integration.

For instance in Node:

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-serverless-express
My biggest pet peeve is when AI is used to describe optimization models, and then people complain of black box algorithms, when the optimization is, in fact, perfectly transparent.
The truth is somewhere in between. Despite rationalizing some lofty goals our choices reflect a bias towards comfortable, passive leisure. Success is complicated when food, lodging and procreation are already achieved. It's a lot of work for a mere peace of mind that some arbitrary milestones are achieved and these may not be a passion either.

Perhaps there is a mass passification about, and yet many individuals still manage to do great things growing up in these environments.
There’s a non trivial amount of 32 bit audio processing code for MacOS in the wild due to the longevity of snow leopard among professionals.
In what way do you consider the gulf war a failure?
> The thing is, there isn’t currently, to my knowledge, an actual Access-lite webapp.

AirTable
Open Source Game Clones

https://osgameclones.com/
I think were at a point of maturity now that it's not a matter of features in a CMS/builder, but rather more specific points in their respective markets. I would like it if they wad more Airtable-like or Zapier capabilities.
Yes, that would go under "cheaply" in my previous comment.
Is it like the Internet in 1995? Time will tell but it has the same potential to change our lives forever; and break government's monopoly on the (fake) money.
Please take also the consultancy buyers perspective when assessing the value you bring in.

Are you the only consultant who could figure out how to bring down the cost of the appliance (in the articles example) down by 1$?

If not then your value is not as high as you used in the calculation.
The potential client could find other consultants to do the same thing (price optimization of a mass product - service well available in the market).
As there are more providers then estimating the "value" should take in to account that there are several offerers of service. It is now a tendering situation. I am now excluding a remote situation where all the offerers of the optimization service would collude in their offers.
> So was “running in the cloud” just a buzzword?

Please don't digress. The questions regarding you assertions on "serverless" don't change or are addressed with your attempt to divert attentions to other buzzwords.

> Serverless is not just “managed hosting” in the cgi-bin since - serverless implies there is no server to manage and it’s for all intents and purposes “infinitely scalable”.

You're running in circles by trying to pin a buzzword on managed hosting.

> For instance, Amazon’s hosted versions of Mysql, Postgres, Sql Server, etc are not what they consider “Serverless”

I wouldn't use AWS as an example of coherent classification, as AWS's database offerings have multiple ovelapping concerns, including an overreaching gray area of "serverless-ness". See for example Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora.
> Interesting approach, though I solved this frustration by the use of a Docker and kept "my data is mine" + "no vendor lock-in" + "I control all the gears" approach.

Yeah, I totally understand the desire. And even hosting this on a cloud, you benefit from SMTP TLS sometimes, presuming no active MITM and the cloud service not actively abusing its privileges on your VM or storage. Which is probably not happening widely. At least as opposed to the protocol level logging that SES or similar services do for sure.

I recently opened some new accounts at AWS and other large one for a new company... first thing to do is setup mail of course. Both denied my request to allow SMTP. AWS ominously rejected me with some vague "maybe one or more of these reasons" including prior ToS violations or payment issues with "linked" accounts.

Frankly it's scary, and so far they are stonewalling me on any details as to what I "may" have done. AWS is one place I sure don't want to have a bad reputation with.
Alex admitted "someone with a better attention span than myself" would need to read claim 1 to determine whether this reads on Signal or not (it does not).
Easy Mocking in Go
I’ve been working on a small side project that involves processing incoming email. In particular, it’s an app that needs to do something for each email it receives from (hopefully paying!) users.

I am not interested in storing user mail, so SES is just too costly, at least according to a quick worst-case calculation.

That leaves me with two options:

1. Self-hosted Postfix

2. Mail service like Mailgun

With (1), there is no need to worry about overages, but scaling the mail server might be challenging.

The advantage of (2) over SES is that you are only charged a flat fee for each email, regardless of size. Emails are then automatically deleted after some period of time. Scaling up and down is easy.

For now, I am using Mailgun, but I am writing the mail processing daemon in a way that will make it easy to transition to Postfix, if needed.

Also, I decided to write the mail processing backend in Rust, so I’ve been learning the language as I go!
> Hearthstone is probably the worst collectible card game I've ever played.

:shrug:

I'm not going to argue about what games are good. Substitute out another online card game you like, I promise 90% of the time it will have the same problem. My experience with MTG Arena has taught me that net decking there is just as common, and I consider MTG to be a much more skill-based game than Hearthstone.

Like Hearthstone, MTG Arena has "unranked" modes, but like Hearthstone, the majority of rewards and design is meant to force you into ranked modes.

> it's too difficult for most players to figure out near-optimal combinations

Take a step back. Why do most players feel that they need to find near-optimal combinations? We have a ton of research on card-game archetypes going back over a decade. It is generally understood by every designer in the field that competitive optimizers are one player archetype of many, and often not even the largest one. But the design of our ranking systems explicitly encourages players to become competitive optimizers to the exclusion of every other archetype.

Of course, everyone wants to build good decks, but the experience of playing paper MTG with people even in semi-competitive settings is often very different than the experience of playing MTG Arena -- the "need" to optimize is on a whole new level. It's the same game, but the incentive structures of the metagame that surrounds it changes how the players act.

That's not to say that competitive players don't exist, but it is to say that in every area of card-game design, we recognize that the design space needs to be wider than that. And in our ranking systems, we don't. It's also not to say that stuff like tournaments are bad. It is to say that every online card game I have ever played suffers from these problems, and every one of them uses the same exact ranking system, and maybe the problems are related to that common element.
Where do you get those IPSW links without accepting an EULA? Apple does not publicly link to them. Sure, you can pirate from ipsw.me and the likes.
Seems that you edit your comment quite a bit, eh?

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> Not a single post on Hacker News can use the term "serverless" without the exact same replies being posted every time.

Indeed.

> It's as if a certain portion of the HN crowd simply cannot fathom that a new term exists and is in use, and instead resort to the same, tired responses.

If was only "a certain portion/crowd" it will have no responses at all.

I see more like:

"It's as if a certain portion of the HN crowd simply cannot fathom that servers exists and is easy to use, and instead resort to the same, tired responses."
> and instructing the restore tool not to contact Apple servers for kernel / device tree / firmware signing.