skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Faster than possible" seems really appropriate here.

They built a bunch of tech debt into their processors to boost their numbers, and now they hens are coming home to roost.

What I'm wondering is how many changes this will make to their product roadmap, and to what degree it will make next generation chips look lackluster compared to what people (think they) have now.
The Danish Design Museum had an exhibition on it recently. Maybe it’s still there?

So if you want to have an excuse to go to Copenhagen, here it is!
Eh, i'm waiting for them to rewrite it in Rust.
In more detail, the old suburb requiring maintenance tries to raise taxes for it, so buyers skip it and buy in the newest suburb.
I find changing physical locations to help, like working from a different location if possible, hanging out in some different cheap country for a month and actually doing some work from there. From some reason changing physical location helps
Doesn't matter, they'll limit the amount of bandwidth you will be allowed to use under the "plan" and then charge you crazy for the overages. Which would make it damn near unusable to begin with. Hell, I read an article that ATT cap theirs at 15 gb a month plus $10 each gb you go over. I'd burn through that in 1 day, shit maybe 1 afternoon.

Hard to get excited about anything when the prune juice posse creates policies for this stuff and have no idea how a family uses or consumes data anymore....
Can't edit, but obviously the web won't die. But it is going to change a bit over the next few years still; the privacy changes are likely to be a big catalyst for a lot of change...
Please explain what this has to do with 5G. Be specific.
> I don't think China cares about my personal secrets nearly as much as the US does, but they are pretty actively engaging in state-sponsored corporate espionage.

This is only scratching the surface. Don't forget their extensive tracking and imprisonment of ethnic minorities, political "dissents", etc. Seeing how they treat their own people, I can only imagine what kind of pressure they'll be able to exert on small(relative to China) countries that gave them control of their communications systems.
The article has many errors. Gold is not a superconductor and the explanation of entanglement is wrong.
I'm planning to live a car free life soon. I'll be moving in to the city so almost everything is within walking distance and just about everything is accessable via public transport. The only thing I haven't been able work out is how I will continue to go mtn biking since bikes aren't allowed on the bus. But I just can't justify the massive expense of owning a car and a car park for one activity.
Not if we bankrupt ourselves cutting taxes for the rich first!
“Preservation” culture has run amok
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Mostly just tech related things
Don't you mean we want "(a/b) + (a%b) = a"?
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> for national security

Don't you mean planetary security?
This is interesting information, but from the perspective of a high-value urban area, even these fairly eye-watering numbers are a understatement. The capital represented both as infrastructure and forgone real estate usage (i.e. yes, we need roads, but building more roads than we need diverts incredibly valuable real estate from other purposes) is huge.

I'm always amused here in Australia when governments like to make the spending on roads and the amount raised through petrol taxes and registration fees "balance out". Uhhh, ok, you're sitting on billions of dollars worth of capital and you're patting yourselves on the back that it's "breaking even".
We use Django’s built in auth on an extensive Django site.

We have sign in with Facebook, but implemented ourselves, total of about 200 lines of code plus tests, which was worth it to us to own over having a dependency.

We have various custom additions to the auth flows which have meant the decision to stay with Django’s auth and not use complex extensions such as social-auth or all-auth have paid off enormously.

We use python social auth on internal Django based sites for simple Google SSO, but they have far fewer requirements around auth, and aren’t performance sensitive at all.
You misunderstand a bit. If I were Coca-cola, I would trust that the NSA would never ever reveal my secret recipe. But at the same time I wouldn't trust them not to read the private messages of my employees for other juicy stuff.

America cares more about corporate rights than human rights.
Or maybe how much road costs in the USA is a bit of a strawman version of how much road costs.

Come on, some remote villages in the third world have paved roads to them.
to be fair JIRA does throw the kitchen sink in at the beginning and for effective use of JIRA, your team needs to 1) pick what to use and pick what not to use, 2) commit to it, and 3) have an experienced JIRA person that knows how to turn off everything else, and also 4) pray that JIRA doesn't suddenly turn your preferred usage mode into "legacy" which you can't use in new projects moving forward.
COBOL is so easy, you will not need programmers.
Not sure how that's relevant. Given this is a discussion about company viability, you could say no one pays Google for anything.

But they do, by viewing ads. They pay with their attention. That's how they pay NBC too.
It matters when various writes to files need to be ordered, and the DB processes is keeping some of the consistency part in memory.
> In C89, division of integers involving negative operands could round upward or downward in an implementation-defined manner; the intent was to avoid incurring overhead in run-time code to check for special cases and enforce specific behavior. In Fortran, however, the result will always truncate toward zero, and the overhead seems to be acceptable to the numeric programming community. Therefore, C99 now requires similar behavior, which should facilitate porting of code from Fortran to C.

Source: C99 Rationale v5.10 sec. 6.5.5p10 (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/C99RationaleV5.10...)
I think you know the answer: you need to leave them at home if it's necessary to disconnect. If you can't disconnect with your kids and/or wife in tow, for their sake, you need to hire help or have family stay while you recharge your own batteries.
Yes, and I can't talk with other radios either, I need to talk to a provider's cell tower. I have to drop down something ancient like a VHF radio to do peer to peer communication at long range.

PS. If I'm wrong, please let me know. I'd love to hear about any developments in long range P2P wireless phones.
The price of rail is pretty good when you consider the capacity. That single rail line is replacing at least 6 lanes of highway and would get people to their destination safer and faster with less air pollution which is a major issue they are trying to tackle.
Go is a delight to work with, if you solve new problems in your own way. Not so much unfortunately solving same old problems again, ie. SOAP/XML and similar.
Gave me a good laugh, thanks for this :)

https://github.com/travisjungroth/Compromise
According to Hume, causality is a habit of mind all humans have from experiencing many situations where A always follows B. And according to Kant, causality is one the categories the mind imposes on the world of sensory impression, like space and time, to make sense of the world.

Early childhood studies should be able to answer the question as to whether humans are wired to expect causal relationships. My understanding is that all children do develop that expectation, as do animals.
Oh yeah, they certainly are using the data of their own citizens. I meant my data as a US citizen.
What do you think of them?
I think you are underestimating early humans. Friction creates heat, fire is heat...
Actually, in Excel, you can have unlimited rows by using power query.
A bit of an aside, but I took a number of philosophy courses as an undergraduate (ended up minoring in it). While my professors stayed away from stating their own opinions on politics or religion - their teaching was effectively the Socratic method of "asking questions to separate the wheat from the chaff" - one notable exception to this was libertarianism.

Libertarianism, for whatever reason, was subtly mocked in at least one class that I took, for things such as this: https://www.businessinsider.com/libertarian-peter-thiel-utop...
According to Google, they employ over 100k people. Suddenly that "pretty small fortune" is half a billion dollars.
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Except rural areas.
Are expensive roads really needed? What if we see a gradual decline in roadway expenditures in the USA, transitioning our economy to involve less driving and more work from home, deliveries via drone/efficient vehicle, promote self-sufficiency, not to mention biking, walking, trains, etc...my point is maybe we won't need/use roads as much as we do now.

One would hope so, but it seems our VMT is going up over time whilst people are locking in very expensive, long-term car purchases.
To be fair, suburbia was supported as a potential recovery effort following a nuclear war.[0] Its difficult to immediately urbanize people's lives. We agree there are accelerating maintenance costs, but suspect we don't see the same opportunity cost.

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?lookup=0&q=Disaster+and+d...
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Yes, I would agree.

His logic is that we should cater to the empty sequence case, and it would be "unnatural" to write 2 <= x <= 1, so we have to write 2 <= x < 2. That is just not an improvement. Ask somebody to write down an empty sequence, starting at 2, they'll think you're crazy. The Common Case is give the First and Last.

Option C is, to me, obviously best. How you can replace 2 .. 12 and not use 2 & 12 is beyond me. (/s Dijkstra's opinions considered harmful /s)
The relevant number here is the cost to repave, not reconstruct, which is about $330,000-$350,000 per mile for a minor arterial road in a rural or urban area.

As to how small towns afford it--you don't repave that often, and you focus efforts on what to repave. For example, Cedar Rapids, Iowa calculated it would cost $500 million over 10 years to repave everything that needs to be repaved: https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Annual-road-repaving-to-st....

Cedar Rapids has about 53,000 households, so that's about $943 per household per year. To put that into perspective, we can do a calculation. 18% of DC metro area commuters use Metrorail. If you take 18% of the 2.2 million DC metro households, that's about 400,000 households (roughly) using Metrorail. The rail capital budget is about $1 billion annually, so about $2,500 per household per year. Excluding the cost of new rail cars, its about $1,500 per household.

(Obviously this is a very back-of-the-napkin calculation, but it puts things into perspective.)

[1] https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/budget/upload/FY19-Propose... (p. 76)
My favorite is when the PM uses Slack to cancel the daily standup on a daily basis because their schedule didn't allow for it, yet have no problem with the standup interrupting your day
Well the very first attempt this guys made (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.10332.pdf#subsection.6.1) was let the model learn from scratch (open loop, large bounds feedback). An agile galloping gait emerged automatically also in my simulation (https://github.com/nicrusso7/rex-gym#galloping-gait---from-s...), even if the gait was 'noisy'
If only Notion was private (like for example Omnifocus.) I can't imagine uploading all my private data to the cloud of a "free" app.

OmniFocus is more expensive but i gladly pay to prevent my data from being analyzed & sold.
yes. Because for most programmers, who are basically becoming webdevs, the internet is now a distributed system, and when you try to use old "performance" algorithms, you're going to be in a world of hurt when suddenly things are distributed and asynchronous. Advice about what algorithms have what big-O goes out the window when you're in a distributed system. Just use what works, what your framework provides, because smarter people have solved this problem, the network is your bottleneck anyways.

Just like "don't roll your own crypto" probably "don't roll your algos" is pretty sound advice for most programmers in 2020.

Yes, I know not everyone is a webdev, but the median programmer receiving advice is.
Do what you can to find happiness again. Rest is important. Lower your stress levels.

Talk to a professional before quitting your Job. HN is great but not able to tell you what to do here. A therapist can help you come up with a plan. They can help you evaluate if it's working.
> Free, or even low cost, domains are guaranteed to lead to abuse. Also, how do you individually allocate free domains to people?

You go to a government site with your electronic national ID (some countries have those) and request 2-3 domains that are free. You only get to change a free domain 1x per year or maybe longer.

Doesn't apply to all countries, but how would that be worse than what we have now? Everyone could have email and websites on their own domains, probably even hosted for free - that's decentralization/freedom.
OP is canadian but in USA, the normal amount of vacation time is 2 weeks per year.
You can rent a car for a one day trip.
Are there any sustainable road construction technologies and materials that do not rely on petrochemicals?
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I'm a bit tired of all this react and javascript mubojumbo and keen to learn more about rails. what would be the best tutorial that isn't outdated? so much things are just old...
As a postmortem, this does not inspire confidence. It's a very technical piece, but doesn't even try to take a customer's perspective.

If you want to learn from such an outage, you have to do a fault analysis that leads to parameters you can can control.

Sure, there can be faulty hardware and software, but you are the ones selecting and running and monitoring them.

If recovery takes ages, you might want to practice recovery and improve your tooling.

And so on.

Blaming ZFS and faulty hardware and old software all cries "we didn't do anything wrong", so no improvements in sight.
I think this is a relatively unfounded opinion of Swift. I can see the things you’d pick on to say that it’s languishing, but I think there are many more aspects one can point at times show it coming along very well.

Yes compared to .NET, Swift is far behind, but we have the benefit of having seen 20 years of .NET, and Microsoft have a larger user base, developer base, market for paid software tooling/IDEs, support, developer advocates, and more. I think they’re very different ecosystems and to use .NET as an example of what Swift could have been is to ignore what the Apple developer ecosystem is and is for.
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So I'm not an expert by any means

It's interesting - it's people who know a little bit who are doubtful about attribution, while those who actually know this understand it's possible to be pretty confident in many cases. It's hard to tell in this case, but the Crowdstrike report gives a lot of evidence which would persuade most in the field.

Generally speaking the best form of evidence is unique binaries which have been used in other attacks. Then you cluster attacks based on this information and other signatures. It's pretty hard to fake all of the required signatures at once, and most of the time a group doesn't really care.

It's much more robust than you seem to think - spoofing it occasionally is viable for a once-off attack, but doing the spoofing usually burns your access and methods so it's really expensive. It's not the kind of thing one burns on something like this attack or the DNC hack.

The DNC hack is a good example really - they had no idea how effective the misinformation campaign would be at the time, so why would they complicate it by trying to make it misattributable.
Mine: https://prateeksahu.com/

I have not posted anything recently. It was plain html and css previously, I moved to Jekyll this year. I am trying to post more often (3 unfinished draft). I am kind of afraid that the standard of articles won't be good. IDK
I know lots of car free people in the city who just rent a car for weekend trips. Still cheaper than owning a car.
Thanks for your work, i only have the ability to donate to a very few projects, but the Internet Archive is always one of them. Computers would be a lot more boring to me without it.
Completed the tree, but admittedly it was shorter back then.

I also did it in parallel with the Language Transfer podcast, which I've mentioned on HN before but is an amazing resource for understanding how a new language works structurally and grammatically.

I did find Duolingo valuable, but purely for vocab.
These attacked occurred in 2018 and 2019.
If that's a problem, don't "discuss" it. Just Do!
Thereby doubling the cost next time repaving is needed. Oh well, just double the lanes each time the road wears out. In a few generations the problem will go away.
With property lines being about 100 feet apart, that comes to 100 houses. It's just $15,000 per house. The road should last 50 years without heavy truck traffic, making it $3000 per year per house.
How cute. I tried your suggestion once. What I got was an overengineered, poorly documented delivery that matched the spec about 50%. Oh, it was also a year late.
Sorry, but processes are there for a reason, and the reason is, broadly, that getting an average team of engineers to deliver on time, according to spec and without diving all the way down every overoptimization / navelgazing / random interest / flamewar / framework flavor of the day rabbithole there is is otherwise impossible. With process it becomes at least a tiny bit more akin to herding cats instead of just watching them run amok every which way.
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That actually sounds like a really good idea for camping trips and such.
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Can't you use a personal mobile device with a 4G connection to access a knowledge database outside the firewall, without moving any data across your employers network? As long as the data you wish to read/write is not sensitive in itself, and it's mostly just plaintext notes that you can read/write from any device, I don't see the issue with that.
> How do small towns afford to maintain their roads?

They make developers build them on the developer's dime, and then the roads don't need maintenance for a decade.

As long as your suburb keeps growing, the pain of maintaining decade-old roads can be offset by the increase in your tax base.

Once your suburb stops growing, you find yourself a mile down crap creek with no shovel.
I've already printed and assembled one, the creator posted 2 videos in his thingiverse repo https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3445283
I suppose that we could also state that solving with a totally unimodular matrix also absolves us from going through the trouble of going through branch and bound, but that's a pretty niche case.

I guess I react strongly whenever I hear this kind of sentiment because the result of rounding the continuous solution can be arbitrarily bad, but now we have a false sense of confidence that we did some kind of optimization, when we really didn't. My experience has been that rounding continuous solutions to integer gives some pretty interesting and incredibly bad solutions.

For posterity's sake, Wolsey has a good example of how things can go poorly in the introduction of the book Integer Programming:

max 1 x1 + 0.64 x2
st 50 x1 + 31 x2 <= 250
3 x1 - 2 x2 >= -4
x1, x2 >=0
x1, x2 integer

The linear programming solution is (376/193,950/193), which is approximately (1.9482,4.9223). The integer optimal solution is (5,0), which is far away.

I'll also contend that the integer programming solvers nowadays are really good. If we can get away with rounding the solution, then the the solver will find the solution in only a few iterations because it often does precisely that in order to go through the branch, bound, and cut algorithm. The difference is that a good solver can get a certificate of optimality when it finds the solution, so that we know we're right.
@thedance, wasn't aware of this paper thanks for passing on. Had a quick read, we are interested in a different layer of the stack than the paper focused on, the JVM and higher (app code). I suspect they had to address various issues we had to tackle as well.
You ever touch a hot stove/ iron/ oven as a kid? Do you still do that?
Imagine getting a phone call like, "Can we send our license specialist to your premises and conduct an audit of your code?

I really wouldn't expect that from an organization from Qt, however I /would/ expect a call like:

"Hey, congratulations on your launch! We noticed someone from your org downloaded source from us about 18 months ago. Mind if we discuss your licensing plans?"
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Makes sense to me ... I just cant get over how people are being labelled cranks for voicing what are pretty common sense concerns. I guess in the public mindset wireless network != critical infrastructure.
I never really store data on my local machines anymore. All of my data is either hosted only on, or backed up to, my storage server. I think the selling point of ceph is that every server in my apartment can be part of my storage cluster and data I really want to avoid loosing can be persisted across all of them.

For me latency isn't really a large issue. I read and write everything locally on my SSD-backed desktop/laptop and then sync my files to my storage node via git or rsync or something. For me data integrity and availability are important.
Other than Wine, you can run any virtualisation system (qemu, VirtualBox, VMWare, Xen, ...) which will effectively give you a Windows (or other) OS running within your Linux system.

It won't have direct local OS access, but files and networking can be shared through most emulation systems, generally as SMB/CFS shares.
That’s not that expensive, as long as it’s a planned expense.

An acre of land which is large for a town is 43,560 square feet or 208’ x 208’ though you can get significantly narrower along a road. A mile is 5280’ so ballpark that’s 25 per side or 50 properties = 4,800$ per property every say 20 years or 240$ per year.
Those numbers are inline with my development where we maintain .9 miles of private road with HOA dues; the quotes we've received all orbit around $250-300k for the last several years. Yes we have hard winters.

What we don't have is frequent heavy vehicles at speed. The state actually bans certain types of commercial vehicles on specific roads in the spring when road beds are soft.

The figures cited in this story seem high. Or maybe they're normal in Illinois or some other state where costs are extraordinary. Their not in line with what I see.
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I’d like to hear more about this. How do you see this coming about?
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Until I found Gab, the Facebook was left without the alternative. I still have my Facebook and my Facebook page, and I tamper with Developers console there, but the actual social side of it died for me a long time ago.
For some reason I find the Gab to be exactly what and where I want to be."

...so you're comfortable with being on a site that was founded by extreme right-wingers after Twitter kicked them off for being hatemongers? Well, have fun then.