skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that move turned me from being a more-or-less diehard WD fan (i.e. picking it as my first choice for spinning disks) to being really skeptical of it; if they're willing to cheap out on that, then for me it casts doubt on the reliability of the hardware, too (and reliability is literally my only concern, even for my own desktops and laptops; WD could sell drives at a tenth of the performance as, say, a Seagate, but if it's even a little bit more reliable - which, in my observation from a variety of different use cases, it historically has been - I'll pick it every time).

The good news is that I've basically stopped buying spinning rust, so this is more of a "well bummer" type of mood than an "oh shit I gotta scramble for a better primary vendor" mood. Even for server/NAS use I'm more likely to go for a Crucial/Kingston mix nowadays than I am for a WD/Seagate mix, both because SSDs have matured enough to be more reliable for a lot of things (less moving parts = less mechanical wear/tear and less sensitivity to vibrations¹, and with RAID a dying flash module is less of a "game over" moment - though things have gotten a lot better on this front, too) and because they perform a lot better (both in terms of speed and in terms of thermal/energy efficiency).

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¹: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
Why was this ever allowed to be a browser plugin
As I said, everyone's experience differs. I find that my desire to snack and eat junk food does not change at all depending on how much or how little exercise I get.

> Still exercise may help so many other aspects like mood, energy,sleep quality etc. (even if not in the moment but with an hour or day or two delay) which are all helpful to keep oneself on track in the kitchen.

So, in other words, my initial statement is correct: you're not going to make meaningful progress weight-loss-wise without changing your diet. If exercising makes that easier for you as a second-order effect, that's great. But that's by no means universal.
This is a great point. Cybernetic methodologies are consistently applied in most successful endeavors but for some reason people get tripped up by the ideological barriers. YCombinator itself is an error correcting cybernetic loop.
Instagram's algorithm prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women
Interesting(ish) tangent - the UK fuel economy specs used to be published at a constant 56mph & 75mph. When the Mk3 Vauxhall Cavalier was launched in the late 1980s, it had great (theoretical) fuel economy, much better than its rivals, but a couple of noticeable flat spots under acceleration. Turned out Vauxhall had leaned the fuel maps at the exact engine revs that corresponded to 56mph and 75mph in top gear...
What protesters? I attended a march in NYC this weekend and the protesters demands included shifting $1 billion of the NYPD budget to community, education, and social welfare programs, and a $500 million investment fund for black businesses. No one was screaming to get rid of all cops everywhere forever.

Are you genuinely seeking to understand, or do you hols these protesters in too much disdain to actually listen to them?
People who never had an encounter with a criminal have absolutely no idea how terrifying it is.
You can convert PDFs to epub, which would allow you to use a reader that supports text resizing/reflow and automatic bookmarking. I use the SensusAccess converter,[1] which seems to be free for personal use.

I also use the BeeLine Reader PDF extension for Chrome,[2] which helps make long documents easier to read. But I'm probably biased, since I'm the founder :)

1: https://sensusaccess.com/convert-a-file

2: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader-pdf...
> the degree to which liberals are willing to absolutely set the social fabric on fire to accommodate individuals. Like, a school in small town Iowa where everyone is Christian can’t use their public institutions that they pay for to perform one of the most fundamental functions of human societies: socializing children in the community’s religion.

I don't think liberals are actually setting the social fabric on fire to enable individualism over, in the case of your example, socializing children in the community's religion. I think liberals simply want to socialize the children in their own ideology instead of that of their parents. That's one of the things compulsory public schooling is for, in the words of the very people who put that system in place.
Going to send you a Twitter DM! I'm really into this space as well and would love to connect with like-minded individuals
My understanding is that the Taycan was seriously screwed by having its track modes, which are genuinely very inefficient, blended equally in to the test.

It's a bit of a shame to see so many Tesla fans point to its supposed inefficiency based on the EPA range. It feels like the tables have turned 180 since the Top Gear scripted test days; it was shitty when Tesla was attacked with FUD back then and it's shitty when the Taycan is today.
I've been very intrigued by Remarkable for a while. I'll hold a couple of years more, to see if 1) the company will survive, and 2) wait for the product to become more mature. It seems Remarkable 1 was a proof-of-concept, but 2 is becoming more of a very decent experience.
Yes, but they still handle Ludicrous mode on both platforms.
I would like to move from Python to Julia because Julia gives easier access to better abstractions for numerical operations. What keeps me on Python is that there is no real replacement for PyTorch.
I wrote a program which splits it in pieces and then later proceeds to send me an email daily with a chunk. this idea has been helpful
I've seen this apparently happen in a few videos but we don't know what transpired before filming. It's entirely possible that the officer and civilian met somewhere else 5 min earlier and the civilian was asked to go home.

That being said, I am 100% sure that what you are describing also happens, but I'm not so easily convinced that this is the vast majority of the cases captured on video.

For every murder, robbery, rape, etc. that has resulted in a conviction in the USA, there have been policemen involved to arrest and apprehend the criminals. In all of these instances the police have done their jobs and protected innocent civilians from dangerous criminals.

In many other cases, police officers have apparently abused their power and used excessive force on civilians, resulting in all kinds of trauma and often death.

This latter group is either unfit to do the job properly, or has made serious mistakes, or has intentionally inflicted harm on the public.

It feels like the conversation in the USA is being exaggerated to depict all police as brutish thugs with no regard for the welfare of the communities they are sworn to protect. That ironically is the same type of bigotry that many accuse the police of displaying towards some groups.
How many charging stations does your library have?
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Would still use win2k today as far as UI and such is concerned.

Still remember the day my last w2k machine booted - an ex was on myspace and just had to have the added benefits of 'zwinky' - foggy memory, but I think it was some kind of cartoon emoji thing you could use around myspace - well it apparently came with crapware installer that also loaded some malware that killed the machine on the next upgrade.

what a terrible way to lose my favorite machine at the time.
I've been using DrawBoard PDF on a Surface Pro for my MBA (lots of readings!). It's not perfect, but it's the smoothest experience I've seen thus far, especially in regards to general zooming and panning. You can also customise your own annotation tools in a shortcut bar - very handy.

I wouldn't use it for actual note taking though. The stylus support isn't as good as OneNote (Windows 10 app version), and I haven't had any experience using it with typed notes. I use a separate OneNote notebook for long-form notes in addition to the annotated PDF itself.

Another caveat, sometimes the "text select / highlight" tool doesn't work properly because the PDF reflow has been broken somehow (i.e. you end up highlighting half a page of text when you only wanted a single line). In these instances I switch to the freehand highlight tool instead.
We have three layers of it now.

Control Panel: win 3.0 lineage

Computer Management/device manager: WinNT lineage

Settings: Win8 lineage

It's all a big mess. You want to configure your audio settings or printer? You'll find options in all three areas, all with slightly different UI controls.
Whoa. I haven't seen this game changer yet. What a cool product, I'm going to dig in and see what folks are saying.

Thanks for sharing!
How to spot police surveillance tools
Hmm.. they might want to look at Sears or Walmart.

Sears is more or less dead. Walmart is struggling to keep market share with amz. With groceries their only saving grace

If price is their long term plan with retail that is a loosing proposal. Once they dominant they might be able to sqeeze the market for a few years maybe a decade but them something else will topple them
I get your point, but you chose a really bad example. A properly underwritten insurance policy never has any theoretical upside to anyone except the insurer. Premiums should also theoretically be close to proportional to the actual risk. Your grandma's premiums would be very low, but, unless a tiger escapes somewhere near her, she'd never be able to collect. And, any reasonable policy would have specific exclusions for willingly and knowingly going somewhere that tigers are native. :P
Controlling a HP6602 Printhead
I look at this as complementary rather than replacement.
Online shopping didn't replace in-person but gave a better experience for some shopping use cases for some people. Quite a few of both, in fact.

Online shopping needed filters, context and reputation (ratings, reviews, algorithm-aided discovery, etc.). Notably most of that didn't exist for in-person shopping, so we should expect new structures for online events as well - likely ones we haven't anticipated.

May similar develop for humans at virtual events? Here are 40 people you are matched with for the next coffee break. Add a serendipitous element - here is the coffee bar area with 49 (e.g. add 9 'randoms') others - you can drop into the group of 50, and then peel off (or be peeled off) into x minute 2-4 person conversations. You tag the people you want follow-ups with (and the algorithms take note as well) before you are moved into a different subgroup. How would AR enhance all of that?

Quite busy with my startup but throwing thoughts out there for others - it is certainly a space for innovation.
Nowadays I do copy them to kindle and read there.
Thanks for article .. looking forward to seeing more code reading.
There's a neat kind of linear algebra (multilinear algebra, technically) that doesn't just deal with vectors (think vectors and planes and volumes), but it's often computationally unweildy. This is a fast library for it that competes with simple matrix code in efficiency.
Fastmail blocks loading of images by default. I have never needed to load the images to get whatever I need from the email. And if I need to I can click a button to load them if I trust the sender.
Here are a couple of examples in React:

https://github.com/projectstorm/react-diagrams (diagram library)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-database-diagram (an example using the above library)

There is a Node migration library that seems well received but as I hinted above I have always trusted Django's migration system and still use it to bang out schemas if I know the schema will change, so I can't vouch for this lib personally...

https://www.npmjs.com/package/db-migrate
For reading books in PDF, I use a Sony DPT-RP1 reader. Its e-ink display can show an entire letter-size page at once, with the original formatting. You can use a stylus to take notes or make highlights; there is no backlight or web browser.

The software has improved since the early releases: for example, you can navigate using a table of contents, if the document has one. I use the dpt-rp1-py program to transfer files; I’ve never tried Sony’s included Digital Paper App.
Asking out of good faith here. Isn't this essentially arguing the broken window theory?

> The broken windows theory is a criminological theory that states that visible signs of crime, anti-social behavior, and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder, including serious crimes. The theory suggests that policing methods that target minor crimes such as vandalism, public drinking, and fare evasion help to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness, thereby preventing more serious crimes.

Perhaps there are two interpretations of this. 1. That it's a meaningless first step or 2. That it is a small but meaningful first step. To those who see (1), I think this is akin to heavily policing a neighborhood and arresting people for talking too loudly.
At my company due dates are used purely as motivators. Every date promised to upper management is absurdly aggressive. I'm told this is meant to instill a "sense of urgency" to motivate people. It makes new hires burn themselves out. The few who survive the pressure eventually realize it's all a show and just get used to apologizing for all their "failures."
I have att, my wife has Verizon. Can’t call each other.
Strong consistency is easier when throughput and concurrency are limited.

Zookeeper is impressive in many ways. However, unless something changed drastically in the last two years, Zookeper throughput will always limit it to configuration/metadata/control-plane rather than a primary/data-plane use cases.
Intel Ice Lake CPUs Have a System Crashing Bug
Except in Washington D.C.
If it's possible, every car maker can "optimize towards benchmark".

So is your theory that all car makers except Tesla are dumb and cannot optimize their range for EPA tests?

That they are morally superior to Tesla and will sacrifice sales by not optimizing for EPA range but some purported "real world range"?

And in what way exactly do you optimize for EPA test?

I've seen this "explanation" for superior Tesla results many times but somehow no-one actually explains how do you make a battery or electric motor or drag coefficient of the car that is optimized for EPA test but doesn't generalize to regular driving.
> If you only train it on examples of 0-9 then those are the only outputs it's going to give.

Exactly.

> 11 outputs: 0-9 and "non-digit"

IIRC, this doesn't work (or not well) because the net tries to find similarities between the various members of the set "everything except these ten specific things", but you could just require low confidence for all digits on non-digit inputs as part of the gradient descent function.

The problem is more that - if people with decision-making authority trust the AI to not be insane and evil by default - failure modes like this have to occur to you before the AI starts misbehaving in production.
It reminds me of the Zero Punctuation's style. It's probably not for everyone but it clearly has an appreciative audience.
I agree that Web Crypto has a lot to offer. I use it in my latest project.

In terms of it being easy to misuse, I think that applies to cryptography in general, but there are some gotchas lingering in javascript.

Self blog promoting. I just put this out a few days ago on this very subject. https://pritact.com/blog/posts/crypto-mistakes-part-1.html
As always, the CEO managed to keep himself at arms length and isn’t going to jail even though these suckers might.
"Manufacturers test their own vehicles—usually pre-production prototypes—and report the results to EPA. EPA reviews the results and confirms about 15%–20% of them through their own tests at the National Vehicles and Fuel Emissions Laboratory.[6]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_EPA_fuel_economy
It's interesting that you seem to be insulting your CEO, who managed to solve a customer problem with reasonable tech requirements for you and a grandiose upsold sales pitch. Seems like a win-win-win
This is a totally absurd argument.
There are plenty of Rust features I'd love to see finalized, like GAT ( HKT, sort of), generators, async trait methods, custom test frameworks, ...

But there is an area that could have a big impact on certain (mostly higher level) domains, yet doesn't seem to get much attention: better trait objects.

They are severely limited in a few aspects:

* only a single trait/vtable

* casting is only available with Any and you can't cast between different traits, requiring really awkward super-traits with manual conversion methods or hacks like mopa [1]

* object safety rules are cumbersome and prevent certain important traits like Clone to be available, leading to clone_boxed, clone_arc everywhere, or proc macro solutions like dyn-clone [2]

* ...

Doing anything more fancy with them usually feels annoying. Therefore the standard library and entire ecosystem strongly favor generics and monomorphization.

This is generally fine and has worked out well for the language, but there are plenty of use cases where more advanced trait objects could reduce code size and compile times with very small impact on performance, while also enabling some interesting new patterns.

I realize there are plenty of implementation challenges that make work in this area far from trivial in the current language, but it's frustrating to miss out on part of a toolbox.

I think Swift is an interesting comparsion. The languages are similar in quite a few aspects, but Swift often prioritizes small code size and dynamic dispatch over monomorphization. Compile times aren't that great either, though...

ps: it is briefly mentioned in the post, but switching to LLD has provided noticeable build time improvements on most of the binary crates I am working on.

[1] https://github.com/chris-morgan/mopa
[2] https://github.com/dtolnay/dyn-clone
I have a Surface which I found the best tablet as it was bigger than most.

In the end I gave up buying ebooks and went back to regular books. If there is a pdf I have to read I'll do on my workstation.
> And as your point stands, you are ok with shutting and account based on child porn (Assuming in this context it was legal), but would you be also for someone being banned documenting Police brutality in the BLM protests?

No, and that's exactly the point I'm trying to make. Perhaps I'm doing a bad job of it.

> Both are(in hypothetical) sense legal, so the only thing we have here is your own morality doing that judgement. And different cultures/religions will have different views on all that, thus I believe as long as it is legal, private companies should never have the right to censor 3rd party speech if they provide a platform for that speech.

And that's where I think you and I fundamentally differ in our beliefs. I think, absent a law either way, companies may -- and perhaps should -- feel free to exercise their own judgment about what they're comfortable broadcasting from their platform.

And again, why is "the law" so revered here? The law (at least in the US) is filled with racist and racist-enabling garbage. Why do we hold it as some final word on morality? I don't think we should. Changing the law takes time, effort, and money. Companies refusing to broadcast certain types of speech can be a part of activism and lobbying in order to change laws. And if ultimately the will of society is that this refusal is wrong, there are remedies (legal and economic) for that, too.

I believe I do understand your point of view; I just don't agree with it.
Great idea! Would love to see a pricing model implemented as this is something I can see paying for.
one page at a time
The original image is still available

https://www.evangelion.co.jp/neon_genesis.html
Can we have the title changed to "Generics and Compile Time in Rust"? The way it's written know, I thought for sure it would be about compile-time programming using generics.
No, it's totally true:

https://steinberg.help/dorico/v1/en/dorico/topics/engrave_mo...

Here's a quick sample I just whipped up with the IETF logo.

https://i.imgur.com/KON2dOm.png

Note how it's imported and used as true vector data - even when zoomed way in everything stays crisp - nothing is rasterized.
I'm pretty sure it's just a mistake because Adams wasn't careful.
Regarding point 1, I’m not super familiar with the flash IDE, but I would guess that the closest thing we have today are fantasy consoles like PICO-8 or TIC-80. Thinking about it, Scratch (scratch.mit.edu) also kind of fulfills the niche. Flash was obviously way more powerful, though.

If anyone knows anything current similar to the flash IDE, I’d be curious to hear about it.
GITS is an immensely deep philosophical tour de force, an emergent masterpiece of synthesis.

I enjoyed the analysis even though it feels incomplete without examination of the ambient music (you could write a thesis just on that alone).
That’s really neat! Could you provide some resources on this topic for learning more?
"How about you tell me how much change you are expecting" and then add to check.
How America’s Hospitals Survived the First Wave of the Coronavirus
Well the pitch is certainly good. I'll look into it, thanks!
Ask HN: What's primary difference between programming and proving math theorems?
I see the same mindset applied when programming and trying to proving a math problem, it's gathering enough input to deliver a step by step algorithm from problem to solution. In case of programming, the solution is runnable by machine. So what's the difference in mindset between the two here ?
I agree that fines are not ideal, and I think these are interesting discussions we need to be having to think of better solutions, but I also want to be clear that fines are several orders of magnitude better than jailing people (and I think it goes without saying, even more orders of magnitude better than summary execution).

I do think there's potential for more mandated community service as a response to antisocial behavior. Structure it so people don't have to miss work.

A very large amount of the crimes we prosecute people for are either drug crimes or crimes because of poverty/economic inequality, and these are best addressed with public health and investment.

Even some of the remaining economic crimes - like selling untaxed cigarettes (what Eric Garner was killed for) if they still happen probably don't need public enforcement. Give those that pay the taxes standing to sue those who don't pay the taxes. If those who are paying it aren't bothered enough to pay for enforcement, I don't see why others should be.

Most of what we do in the name of policing is deal with problems that we'd be better off preventing or dealing with by someone other than a man with a gun. This is the low hanging fruit we should pursue immediately, and when we see what's left the opportunities and alternatives for further improvement should become clearer.
> first, modern CPUs have invested a lot of silicon into branch prediction, so if a function pointer has been called recently it will likely be predicted correctly the next time and called quickly

Huh, TIL. Branch prediction is normally about predicting which branch an `if` would take. But apparently this applies to indirect jumps as well: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26240197/1082652
Dude I see hilariously absurd ideas for AI implementation in both the film and podcast worlds. There is definitely potential - such as transcriptions - but people are way overselling the efficacy and trying to “disrupt” with AI in ways no industry professional is asking for.
Solve self driving? How bout market prediction and just play the market forever. Why would you risk failure when you can just do nothing and make trillions?
Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions Next Year