skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never heard that either. Can't be correct.
Personally, I don't want to see any "(2019)" until half of 2020 is gone. Another rule could be to add it for articles that are more than one year old but this article is only two months old.
I distinctly remember the nickname, "Con-did-it".
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A microcode update is a binary blob loaded to CPU on boot.

Modern Intel CPUs itself are sort of a runtime environment that has its language and program RAM. By placing said blob onto BIOS(UEFI firmware) ROM, CPU can find it, fetch it and load onto internal mini-RAM during power-up.

The structure of BIOS/firmware ROM differs among board manufacturers and it cannot reliably be altered from Windows by Microsoft(its all the same in actuality though). Thus the microcode update blob must be integrated into and installed by manufacturer or as per their instructions.

Personally I don’t care. I only care about speed. I want the latest AGESA, but I opt Meltdown patches be left off.
A friend of mine employed at a chemical company worked on a plastics recycling projects.

Even mixing single-digit percentages of recycled plastics with virgin plastics made the resulting product substandard. Think laundry baskets that break after a couple of uses.

The recovery, washing and attempt to recycle the plastic was extremely expensive, labor and resource intensive.

In the end he truthfully thought the plastic should be burned.

I personally think we should industrialize the waste management, reducing the waste to components that can be easily reused, or inert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification
It usually is impossible to fall asleep when a psychedelic is active but as soon as it wears off and all what's left is "afterglow" it usually is easy. 5-MeO-DMT comes up and wears off very quickly (much faster than LSD): 10-30 minutes for a real dose, just some minutes for a small dose. And the effect of 5-MeO-DMT is such a bliss it is natural to slide down right into a dream then (although you don't have to, you won't feel sleepy and fall asleep without a conscious intention).

As for the weed - you just need a strain adequate to what you want of it. If you want a sleep aid look for a CBD-rich and THC-low Indica strain (or just a CBD-only strain - these even are legal in many countries where normal weed isn't). There is a huge selection of weed strains that feel very different. There are strains good for work (energy and concentration), for creativity and thinking, for having fun, for sleeping and for other kinds of activities. I'm sure there is a strain that will shoot you dead-asleep instantly.
Digital media evidence stark access problems even over the course of a few years or decades.

We do have century-plus-old digital media archives -- the Hollerith card was invented for use on the 1880 US Census. Paper, punched-tape, mag-tape (I've held steel rolls, they're ... fairly massive), and numerous hard and floppy-drive formats have come ... and gone.

The advantages of ink on paper (or chisled stone or stylused clay) is that the reading itself is unmediated. That is, once a person is trained in how to read symbols, a task we're reasonably competent at accomplishing by about age 12 for 95%+ of the population, if not earlier and more, the content itself is simply readable.

Digital formats require decoding, dedicated readers, interfaces, power supplies, often device drivers and quite frequently data format decoding as well.

This is a significant issue, with considerable resources dedicated to it:

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov

https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/digital-preservation/pres...

https://www.georgetowntech.org/blogfulltext/2018/9/9/preserv...

(This discussion occurs as I'm working on updating content on the Google+ exodus and access to, or lack, content stored (or not) in the Internet Archive from that now-defunct, but still providing HTTP-200 responses, website.)
Social media websites all suffer from a phenomenon of being flooded low quality content the moment they become popular.

Reddit's content quality dropped significantly the moment they deployed their mobile app, though it had been on a downward decline for a while.

I've seen HN being discussed at length on Reddit as a better alternative for "adylts", but now we see the same slow decline here.

The important questions are...

1. How can social media sites control quality of submitters.

2. What is the next site everyone over 30 is moving to and how do we stop all these teenagers from following us? /s
This is just conspiracy mongering, you cannot engineer a virus like nCov using CRISPR alone - all CRISPR-Cas9 can do is insert point mutations/change bases, no way to use it to mereg different genomic pieces together
When promotions go bad – a look into the consequences of manufacturing miles
Or as long as the service you bought it from cares to support it.

(Granted, Project Gutenberg is probably as immortal as you describe. Kindle less so.)
Rear-wheel-drive cars have different electronic stability control algorithms than front-wheel-drive cars.
Interesting. I get 28 oz of fair trade organic beans from Trader Joes for $15. I then make one-off 12oz "big mug" espressos using a full packed tin of 0.25oz of ground coffee, which seems is 13.4 cents of very high quality beans. Cost of water is 0. Cost of electricity, less than 1 cent.

The most important thing I found was not to use municipal water. Bean quality is far less important than water quality. Great beans and city water is undrinkable. Lousy beans and good water is tolerable in a pinch.
Isn't there also a shortage of masks because everyone's snapping them up and hoarding them? If people who're actually ill can't get a hold of any because of that then I'd argue they aren't even doing the right thing period.
I did a search on Walmart's site for the name of the laptop, "Motile M141", and the price came up $280, so I think it has gone up.

I'd love an inexpensive AMD laptop, but I'll probably go with a Pinebook Pro. It lists at $200, and that price seems to be firm.
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Nothing that requires the labors of others is a basic human right.
Is it more important to actually stop bots or to deter kiddies by showing them captchas?
And there probably will not be any hard drives in a thousand years from now.

Books are not as flammable as all that and generally survive higher temperatures than magnetic disks can. And books are generally printed in thousands of copies so they are replicated and distributed too. They also don't suffer to the same extent from technological change. It is now rather difficult to find computers that have floppy disk drives for instance, parallel ATA is also not especially common either. In addition magnetic media is not as robust even at normal temperatures. So if you have an archive on 5 1/4 inch floppies from, say, thirty years ago and a printed copy I think that the printed copy is likely to be the only one that is now readable.

In principle you might be right but it only works if there is an archivist who maintains the archive by repeatedly copying the content to new storage systems and distributing the results.
Agreed, asking for a year tag for an event that happened late last year is like all those "see you next year" jokes on New Years' Eve.
TIL: RoHS == Reduction on Hazardous Substances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...
Code doesn't break, overheat, or wear out, so it's not something you'd expect to see in a service manual.

ASICS can (and do) break, unfortunately, and schematics continue to be helpful in diagnosing and repairing those sorts of problems. Often an elaborate recalibration process is needed after doing so, requiring all kinds of specialized equipment. As a result, both the supply and the demand for those schematics started ramping down in the 1990s.

Early on in that cycle, some major customers like Boeing continued to insist that schematics be provided, which is the only reason we have some of those documents at all.
What's Here done?

Microsoft has long made Bing imagery available for tracing, it's only recently that they have done much with data.

None of the companies have really touched "processes", because OpenStreetMap doesn't really have any formal processes.
OK. So here is the real news: Shanghai Composite index plunges 8.7% as market reopens
https://www.news10.com/news/shanghai-composite-index-plunges...

So the $174B isn't working?
Adding liquidity (aka printing money) just kicks the can down the road. Supposedly the US GDP last year was up close to 4%, but they failed to account for the 6% increase in the money supply, which means an actual 2% contraction instead which is a huge difference. In the US at least this has been ongoing since 2009. In the long run it causes more losses to the people overall while creating/propping up the upper echelons of a monetary cast system. An analogy could be getting hit on the hand with a hammer. It might be scarier to get a single hard blow but repeated medium energy blows are overall going to cause a lot more damage.
> Did anybody else, like me, suddenly have a real hankering to sit down and break out all the new HTML/CSS/JS toys and start playing? :)

Happened to me last year, with the steadily-increasing annoyance at how complicated it's gotten at work - just to see how easy/difficult it would be to put together that blog I'd been thinking about for years, without using a single frontend framework.

(That blog isn't live, it got put aside for other projects in case anyone was wondering. But yeah, particularly with grid-template-area, it's not difficult at all anymore to do whatever layout you want. Even got some limited component-y goodness with inclusion templates and direct-descendant selectors.)
The discussion I’m seeing seems to have a healthy amount of variety of opinion.

Why is quantity alone a sign of unhealthy discourse?

Other people probably find their (differing) general comments relevant even if you don’t. Let them talk it out. Tell them why you think they are off topic or off their rockers; or don’t participate. It’s your choice.

Nothing here seems particularly “broken” however.
You might enjoy Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design - it discusses the many ways a programmer/system designer can fight rising complexity in the code base
> > Does it actually solve a problem?

> encrypted home directories?

This is something that isn't widely available on personal systems that would be supported by this change.

I should note I think the idea of systemd is valid, but I am not a fan of the implementation. (binary log files? disorganized configuration directories?)
Yeah disappointingly trite. Seems obvious on the surface, but also worthy of, dare I say, deeper analysis.
He wasn't a McDonalds employee at all.

> Jacobson was an ex-cop-turned-security guard who worked for Los Angeles-based Simon Marketing, which oversaw the contest behind the scenes.

"Oh, I work for other clients too" would've been a perfectly reasonable explanation for getting wealthy.
Your comment is still reductive. I don't put in any effort; I get away with not paying much mind to my diet, and not working out. I'm not overweight despite consuming more sugar than I should at work, and mostly consisting on milks (cow, goat, soy, coconut) and oatmeal.
Also check for memory leaks while you are at it.
Jonathan is the next nextbeard. This guy was really one of those, y'know, gëniuses.
The closest I can think of might be Mad Cow Disease.
You might want to look at the Why3 meta-solver framework. It uses an intermediate language, Why3ML, that can be run against an array of different SMT solvers, including Z3 and CVC4. If you run into something that SMT can't figure out in a reasonable time-frame, you can use Coq to manually-prove your theorems too.

Languages like SPARK and Frama C generate Why3ML as an intermediate output that then gets transformed to run against whatever solvers are available during the verification phase of development. Since the verification/proof phase is separate from compilation, you can write your code with fewer checks initially, and then add conditions as you go to prove functional correctness.

I'd be surprised if C++ is ever touted seriously as a language suited for formal verification. I think the language just has too many corners and escape hatches to be able to nail down its semantics in a way that automated provers can handle.

Having said that though, I'm pretty sure the MSVC Driver Verifier tool uses an SMT solver to try and prove the absence of certain types of errors, so who knows?
Xiaomi 10 may join Black Shark 3 to launch in online event
The company I left graduate to cofound based on my invention was scheduled to launch that day with what would have been a major media event we'd planned for months.

Here's a brief history for anyone interested: http://joshuaspodek.com/videos-invention-company-founded.

While we didn't face consequences on the scale of people in the towers, the Pentagon, who fought overseas, and first responders, it devastated us.
> If the prize "winners" came ahead with a dollar more than taxes they came out ahead.

Only if you don't count the risk of getting caught (and the lifelong stress that risk may induce even if you don't).
It has worked with glass bottles in Sweden for I know many decades, maybe a century, unsure. Unfortunately glass bottle usage is down and plastic usage is up.
Unpaywalled article directly from Berkeley: https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/01/30/boalt-hall-denamed/
Well, I think the big question is "why can't it be both?"

It seems like Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has done a lot of research on happiness and related qualities as a kind of "flow" [1]. And this entire, overall process seems reasonably close to the qualities of fractals, which are highly mathematical objects that also have a multitude of rich qualities similar to complex systems in the world[2].

I wouldn't assert that there's a full characterization of happiness as fractals or other math object available now. But it seems like something worth of research, "taking the question seriously" rather than dismissal. It seems like such dismissals often given stunted characterizations of what either happiness or math involves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal
Quest for best-in-class dev tools and platforms
Can I install these from Linux?
I'm also drawn in by it, really need to actively remind myself to step back.

Not long ago there was a massive r/space thread with thousands of top comments about govt funding + puns and hidden down the bottom after clicking "more" was a JPL engineer who worked directly on the project linked with incredibly insightful commentary on the inner workings of the satellite. These things should be valued more and not hidden from the world.
Well if you have admin permissions, you should be allowed to do anything.
100% this. My favourite FPS of all time is Quake rail warz. So fast and agile!
Today is 36th birthday of Elizabeth Holmes, the fraudster and Theranos founder
Why not just build a complete Linux replacement, since the kernel is also C?

I'm not really that concerned about C so I won't be able to fund the efforts, but I'm sure once you have a bootable operating system that works with existing software that people will be willing to donate to you on Patreon.
It's surprising that a secretion developed as an evolutionary advantage to keep predators away would be enjoyable.
Knuth: A Potpourri of Puzzles (Ps File)
> People today aren't any more or less sophisticated than the people of thousands of years ago, and them no more than the people thousands of years before them.

Well, yes and no. We certainly know a lot more than people knew back then. We know vastly more about the cosmos, we know about atoms, we know about evolution, we know much about the brain.

We also face very different challenges than people millennia ago - we have weapons of mass destruction, more obesity than famine (in developed countries), social media, and so on.

Thus, I'd say only a small part of philosophy is still applicable and valuable today. (For example, Seneca was a Stoic, and Stoicism had much to say about physics and logic, which is pretty obsolete now, I'd say.)

There's a potential fallacy there, like thinking that old music was better, when what we still hear today is just the very best of old music.
The countryside was always backwards. That said, I have family near Ryki and it was poor there but definitely not trash filled. Just poor and in a state of disrepair but that's different from being filled with trash.
Can’t beat 20th century HP test equipment. The pinnacle of quality.

I have an 8566B at home. These things are built like tanks, and were made to operate in high temperature environments. We had about 10 of them at work, and the only things that would fail (slowly) are the CRT supplies. I’ll get the LCD retrofit when that happens.
> Internet Explorer, which had no tabs support. In an era of frequent pop-ups, your desktop ended being a mess.

This is how I remember it: Firefox didn't block popups on its own, but they were constrained to another tab instead of a new window, which alone was a huge bonus.
Myspace scored big on self expression and eventually that's what's killed it.

What's missing from the so called social medias is genuineness, when you have your own website you don't usually post crap there (well some ppl do shit where they eat but that's an exception).
I built a dating app with over 60% female users. How to reach more males?
Hi all,

I made a dating app for remote workers. Didn't spend any money on ads. We have 60% female users. Biggest segment is 25-29 year olds.

Stats: https://cl.ly/6d13336870a4

Any idea how to get more guys? I need to balance our ratio.

Thank you,
Okay, that is just hilarious.
Yeah, and you also run the risk of breaking something important: your neighbor’s circuit breaker, or a nearby hospital pager system, for example.

Power tools require care; you could know how to use them without the license, but if you do know how the license is $15 and an easy evening test.
This is like an argument that we need epidemics like plagues once in a while to shake out the weaklings. It turns out that epidemics are neither effective and also they take out strong as well as weak just like recession kills many good longer-term startups.

On a broader view, the amount of cash that governments like US and China able to infuse in the system at moment's notice is unparalleled. The big 5 tech alone harbors cash of $0.5T and capable to weather any storms. If you think of US or China as one organism, they have achieved enough of collective wealth and enough cash just sloshing around that any new recession can be absorbed away.
> Most of Linux isn't reviewed by security experts either

Where are you getting your information from?
I remember making a page that when browsed to, would pop up an all-black full-screen "chromeless window" and start slowly typing green text Matrix-style. Very neat trick in those early-teens years...
I never got into the original XCOM games of the super clunky UI. I know they were good games but I personally can't play them.
That's a great idea. It would be really nice if the first direction when leaving your house was something like "Head to hwy 401 and go East".
Ask HN: Automated download of specific people’s Instagram stories upon upload
How do I automatically download Instagram stories of specific users as soon as they are uploaded?

Is there a script written that does that? I don’t even want to bother to see if anyone from the list of specific persons has uploaded or not, since I am preoccupied all day.

Once I return home, I just wanna open the “Stories” folder and check all the new stories in the “Person XYZ” folder name.

How can I achieve this?
Reflections on Software Performance
fix the performance issues of APFS on magnetic hard drives,

Better yet, stop shipping iMacs with magnetic hard drives. This is 2020.
I have to say, this stuff is really cool. Maybe one day we’ll get good enough at shifting atoms around so that custom computing substrates can be built much faster and cheaper.
Just publicize it: the substantial majority of dating apps have more males than females so your results are strange.
On the morning of September 11, I stepped onto the stage at a trade show to launch my new product. Over the course of the presentation, a buzz developed, and people started standing up and leaving. By the end of my speech, the trade show had been cancelled and everyone was going home. Needless to say, the product was not successful.
It's strange because this is an ad :)
Super Bowl ads have become more about brand values than the brands themselves
This is most likely spam
Here's a page putting it into perspective against other recent outbreaks: https://ncov.r6.no/

On day 23: Swine Flu: 27 deaths 8541 infected, SARS: 119 deaths 2160 infected, Coronavirus: 361 deaths 16768

It's not quite 12 monkeys territory but it does have the potential to kill a lot of people worldwide.
Link rings were great because often it stayed on topic, if you visited an aquarium blog you would usually encounter other aquarium sites.
Radio is very decentralized. I wonder if that could be a nice avenue for modernizing the hobby.
Ask HN: Generate All Permutations of a Passphrase?
I cannot remember the exact typing of my old laptop's passphrase. It is encrypted, after an hour of random typing I got the passphrase once and am now stuck on my Linux Mint 17 or 18 login screen, faced with the same passphrase.

It's something like this:

SimplePhraseOfMine with the possibility of upper/lowercase and s=5 o=0 e=3

I've tried writing all variations by hand, but that is tedious and I've not gotten it. I tried messing around with Crunch wordlist generator, but that doesn't seem to do exactly what I need (keep that phrase intact).

Is there a program to do this?
I grew up under this commie system in a rural Polish village in the 1970's.

While my American peers had TV, cars, and supermarkets, I had no running water, no sewer service, intermittent electricity, and no fancy technology like refrigerators. We farmed wheat, beets, potatoes for sale, and raised animals for our own use. Without running water, you're using a well, which is terrible in the winter, particularly if it's cold, the same goes for going to the bathroom in outhouses. Sitting on a cold wooden seat in -20C is really awful. When we did get water from the well, we had to boil it for a while to kill the germs, so having water to drink was a production. When it came time to take a bath, you'd boil well water to warm it up, and make a warm bath. Everyone used the same water since it took so long. Kids washed first, then women, then men.

yes, we certainly produced zero waste. All the crops were canned and stored in the pantry, all the meat was cured and stored to dry, and whatever was perishable was canned, pickled or preserved in some way (remember, no fridge).

It's a freaking hard way to live. When we fled to the US eventually, it was like coming to a different world, life was simply so much better that it's hard to compare.

So, when I see stories like this, I really hope that zero-waste doesn't happen for the reasons of poverty. It's positively awful for the people living it. It's also very dirty. People who are poor have no extra funds to get rid of unsalvageable waste other than to bury or burn it, and the number of tires, old boots, or chemicals that got burned in the stove was ridiculous. Living in a cold country, with coal and wood being the most plentiful heat sources also made for some lousy air, and I grew up in the Podlasie Voivodeship, which was cleaner than most because it was completely unindustrialized.

Whatever the communists got right was by accident.
How would you compare iboga to datura (stramonium?)
I stuck 01005 caps between BGA balls on a Spartan 3, but that was in attempt to solve an EMI issue, rather than a specific design goal.
The URL goes to statistics on usage--not a dating site.