skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/gwasmp/ben_finegold_...

He read out a nasty email someone sent him on the stream apparently, his ban should expire shortly if it hasn't already.
Im fine with curvature analogy but why things "move"?
I'll ignore for a second the fact they refused to even acknowledge Tiananmen Square in that post, despite the fact that as was pointed out they're a US company that isn't beholden to China and they're posting in English on their US-based website.

They are actually admitting that they're going to prevent people IN CHINA from connecting to a meeting that is presumably hosted IN THE US. That doesn't make it better, it makes it WORSE. You're basically telling the world that China will dictate how you operate WOLRDWIDE not just in China.
4k monitors are still so much more expensive and have noticeable costs on laptop performance at least. When I got a macbook air with USB-C, I was initially planning on getting two 4k monitors. However, that would mean spending ~$500 to get a 27" monitor, $120 for a thunderbolt adapter than can drive both displays at their proper refresh rate, and >$200 if I wanted an adapter that can also charge the laptop.

All told, that's the total price of the laptop just in periphery. I ended up going with a $30 usb-c adapter and some ~$100 dell 1080p screens, and I'm happy as a clam.
Edit: Book is written by Andrew Grove who was a CEO of Intel

https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/d...

Best book for management.

Also, we have platform where users can create collections from their favorite articles, videos etc.

Here's 2 different collection about Leadership

https://jooseph.com/modules/91

https://jooseph.com/modules/69

I like those collections but to be honest the book is must. Collections are just easy to access
What might an online scientific paper look like in five years' time? (1997) [pdf]
Tbf, I've not directly worked in Rust so my understanding is mostly academic of a sort. The issues I'm directly aware of are primarily in boundary conditions between unsafe and borrow-checked code, which isn't entirely fair to Rust as GC-languages of course have the same boundary conditions. My impression however is that because the borrow checker is a lot of work, there's a lot more Rust libraries in the wild with unsafe code sections than strictly need to be (as compared to similar libraries in GC-languages, and especially with modern tools like Span<T> in .NET nearly shrinking GC-unsafe blocks to non-existent in modern code).
They apparently 'define it differently' to every other company, organization, and infosec professional. This sort of thing used to be called lying, but it's essentially an 'alternative fact' now:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21201234/zoom-end-to-end-...

Zoom, however, denies that it’s misleading users. The company told The Intercept, “When we use the phrase ‘End to End’ in our other literature, it is in reference to the connection being encrypted from Zoom end point to Zoom end point,” and that “content is not decrypted as it transfers across the Zoom cloud.”

Whether the paper is any different is sort of irrelevant if they're starting off from a place of bad faith. One time after another this company has 'accidents' like this, while removing CCP distinguished nonpersons from the platform. A sense of skepticism is certainly justified.
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I must not interact with big enough data to understand, but what is the point of this? I have watched/read several of the Snow product descriptions from AWS and I am still not quite sure I understand the point.

It seems like a way to sync local big data to AWS cloud storage for data that is too large to realistically transfer via the internet. So is this simply a sneakernet external harddrive because physically shipping an 8TB hard drive has better bandwidth than using the internet?

I would love it if someone could explain a couple of use cases for the Snow family of products to someone that has never had to handle 100 GB of data much less terabytes.
i got two of these for ~550. i really dont know what more you could want if you arent editing videos or photos or whatever: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Acer-KG1-28-Gaming-Monitor-4K-3840x...
Nice, I think I still have a Sony Trinitron somewhere.

I wonder if there are any market for a modern take of CRT.
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A major difference is between losing your job and keeping it, and businesses keeping their trained workforce. A lot of people work less instead of not at all. Come better days, it will be much easier to get back on track, hopefully.
Personally, my takeaways from this article are to disable font smoothing. I disabled it on my MBP and I like how the default fonts are rendered now. They appear less bright and more crisper. I haven't changed these settings on my MBP since I got it, so it's likely enabled by default. The rationale behind it makes sense in low resolution cases, but to have it enabled by default on rMBP doesn't make sense to me.

However the recommendation to reduce the resolution scaling option is a no for me. The text is wayyyy too big for me and I lose out on the screen real estate.
I don't mean to sound snarky but isn't "local storage of personal data" what off the shelf NAS devices (QNAP, Synology, WD..) have been doing for almost two decades?

Even the backup thing, last time I tried they all had some pretty simple UI built around a rsync fork
Are you dissident ? Know any ?
I'm buying a lot from third parties, even though I have Amazon Prime.

I don't mind buying books from Amazon, but there's so much counterfeit stuff on Amazon these days that I actually try to buy from either the original vendor or a third-party with a regular supply chain like Target.

I was looking for hand-soap a month ago (when the supply was scarce both online and in B&M stores). Amazon had some from 3rd party sellers but they were listed with very high markups and their authenticity was questionable. So on a whim, I visited the vendor's site (JR Watkins), added some to cart (and they were cheaper than on Amazon!), and the checkout process with Apple Pay (on what was a Shopify backend I believe) was seamless (less than 10s).

I didn't have to create an account (!) or enter my credit card number or address -- Apple Pay handled everything after I scanned my face.

I'm seeing more and more specialty vendors with Shopify store fronts these days, and the experience is so seamless that I'm much more open to buying from Shopify storefronts rather than Amazon, especially it's something of value that could end up being a counterfeit listing on Amazon.
My 5 years old iMac 5K 27" monitor is just fine, thank you. But lately I'm beginning to notice the effect of the brightness of modern displays in my eyes...
Interesting. So you can launch an EC2 instance with 8TB storage in your closet, or handbag, or under the desk at your medical facility, or whatever. I gotta say, sounds kinda fun.

Maybe would be handy for serving video content etc on a local network?

Or if you have a network of video cameras not connected to the internet, use this for daily/weekly collection of recorded content?
No, pointers are not arrays. Pointers can point to arrays and, because of the language rules, you can do pretty much anything you can do to an array through pointers, but they are definitively not arrays.
It wouldn't surprise me as recently the app tried to get me to trust an untrusted cert.
I have been using my current home PLP setup for 10 years. Dell U3011 (2560x1600) in middle and Dell 2007FP (1200x1600) on the sides. Off and on I have looked for high dpi replacements, but never found anything suitable.

At the beginning of the year, my U3011 started blanking out on me. As it became more frequent, I started shopping again. But wow, the monitor situation right now is sad. There are no high dpi monitors with enough vertical space. And since they're all at least as short as 16:9, they're unusable in portrait as well.

I ended up repairing the U3011. It's going to have to last me a while. There's just no upgrade path.
> the AWS ecosystem is not friendly to non-techies.

nor is it supposed to be. AWS is tools to build end-consumer products, not an actual end-consumer product itself.
1 Trillion = 1 million x 1 million. The scale of distribution must be astounding.

How much traffic is being generated by a single endpoint in one of these?
Great tech talk from Thibault about lichess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHP5AdRlRNY
Exactly what https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32301945-a-fine-mess argues. Note that it's not a US-only issue, France has exactly the same problem (too many obscure rules granting exemptions).

Simplification results in a more just system, and it is entirely possible to lower tax while increasing tax revenue for the state (I think Sweden did this, can't find citation ATM).
I can't imagine that becoming more popular than just a drobo style device that runs its own software. Seems ridiculous to make your local hardware dependent on the cloud. (obviously this is common for iot devices but it seems that anything like this for enterprise or prosumer doesn't usually fly.
Of all the complaints that could be lodged against PHP, performance is a weird one.
Exactly. And it's not like which video calling service one uses is a hill to die on. There are plenty of alternatives that aren't routinely bending the knee to authoritarian governments.
Blurry, pixellated text is not a coder's paradise.
AWS Snowcone pricing here: https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/pricing/
Coronavirus has robbed me of one of my favorite productivity hacks, which is coding on old Thinkpad with 4:3 ratio display, at a coffeeshop or library with Internet turned off. No distractions, no multitasking, just pure focus on a problem.

I miss it.
>And for what? What percentage saving do you expect to see?

I would expect roughly 10% to 15% revenue cut, far more favourable terms, less bullying, less paternalistic content restrictions and above all the option to say no to any individual app store that makes egregious demands.

They have us by the throat. One mistake and you're out. You can be banned for life without recourse. Your career may be over, your skills worthless.

This is completely unacceptable.
Congratulations. You all missed the point entirely.
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MacBooks never left 16:10, thank god...
I'm a USA-ian in Canada. Married a local, been here a while, work remotely for a US company.

> Canadian wages are considerably lower than the US for 'talent' so generally, people prefer to go to the US.

Easily a difference 40% or more. The CAD is about 27% weaker than the US Dollar, and even after accounting for currency differences the salaries are still lower in an absolute sense. Taxes are also much higher and ramp up much quicker, too, meaning there is less of an incentive to pay you big $$$ since you're going to be losing a much higher % compared to places without state income tax, like WA or TX.

If you spend time on reddit, head over to r/cscareerquestions, and you'll see a ton of "Canadian trying to go to SanFran" type posts. It's not hard to do -- the NAFTA TN visa still works -- and the FAANGM salaries in places like SV, DC, NYC, Seattle, etc. blow most Canadian salaries out of the water.

> On the high end - Canada imports doctors, software folks to do CRUD, ane engineers that never get to do engineering. One specialization is teaching and research for University, some number of profs are brought in.

Literally 5/8 of the apartments in my building are these people, lol (myself included). Imported Uni professors from India, a couple from S. Africa doing medical stuff, and a few foreign IT guy types.

> But mostly - it's people with education who will never get to use it, and a lot of people to work in retail, coffee shops and Long Term Care homes.

I disagree with the former, but the latter part is true -- Canada imports a lot of TFWs to work at Tim Hortons or nursing homes.
Seconded. Jerry makes thorough yet cosy and approachable content.

Edit: he also covers engines which I find pretty interesting, a lot of Leela but my favourite so far is this game with AlphaZero and Stockfish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m5oXlZ_e_A
Ted Jensen's tutorial helped me a lot back in the day: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/readings/pointers.pdf
I actually think it's not so unfriendly. I have a stock trader friend who keeps all of his transaction records in S3 buckets, and he's not a 'techie'.

It's akin to having an understanding in file system - just that it's in the cloud this time. I'm sure a lot of non-techie understand enough about file systems to work what they needed it to do. And the same goes for the cloud.
Is it really though?
don't forget those insignificant little 'Unix' and 'Plan9'/'Inferno' things...
This must be where all the traded-in Kindle screens are going. I was surprised Amazon was willing to pay me $25 for my 7-year-old Kindle, but I guess it's cheaper than manufacturing new eInk displays.

Maybe I'm a germophobe, but isn't it kind of gross that this thing is shipped in no container and then put on your desk?
I was hoping that as a non-native speaker I might have missed some point of nuance somewhere.
Yeah some of the old ones from the 90s would render the ring in a separate frame so you could keep your place in the ring while navigating each page.
There are many. Advertising is a hundreds of $B, tens of thousands of companies ecosystem. Thousands of subniches. I worked at AppNexus, now Xandr, which was a platform for thousands of B2B companies, both buy- and sell-side. OpenX is another big platform. Verizon. Note that there are pipes between all of the big players, so that everyone sees a lot of everyone else's inventory.

ZH is such an ideal ad property: lots of content, high rate of production, very targeted and wealthy audience- if ZH hadn't previously been doing direct deals (which are so much more lucrative for the publisher) then they are just failing at capitalism. Being dropped by Google may turn out to be a blessing.

Google is an enormous player, to be sure, but Ads are not Search. Completely different business and dynamics. And ZH is still available for search.

Cheers.
As search continues to get more user hostile, I hope to see webrings make a comeback.
But who are the attackers, and why? What is the motivation / objective?

Is there an economically positive criminal activity that involves DDoSing an AWS-hosted UDP service (probably video calls... probably like Zoom)?
More than 5 years ago, I bought two 24" 4k monitors from Dell (UP2414Q), with a PPI of ~180 (and sitting over a foot away), they give me a retina experience with my desktop. They were an early product from Dell, so despite great picture quality, they are buggy and have large bezels.

This week, one of them failed. While looking for a replacement, I was expecting the range of 24" "retina" displays to have improved somewhat. Surprisingly, it seems the opposite has happened. Dell no longer make an Ultrasharp range 24" monitor with 4k, everything is now 27".

Although they do make a 'P' series equivalent, it's an old model released around the same time as my original ones, with similar bugs and early hardware (no 4k 60hz HDMI)

27" is sadly too large for me to fit two side-by-side on my desk (and even if they would fit, 27" is too large for my liking).

Now I'm left struggling to find a replacement, I may have to live with downgrading to something like 120 PPI with a 2k (1440p) 25" display.

It's sad that retina really hasn't caught on much in the desktop monitor space, we should really have 3k as a standard resolution for smaller desktop monitors.
The benefit of a 3840x1600 screen over two monitors with lower resolution is that 3840/2 = 1920 and 3840/3 = 1280. Those are horizontal resolutions for 1080p and 720p respectively. The fact that these are standard resolutions means basically every app works as designed regardless of whether you have 2 or 3 windows side by side. This isn't true for ultrawides with resolutions like 3440x1440 that don't divide cleanly into other standard resolutions.

The default software that comes with the Dell mentioned above handles everything. If I want to simulate two 1080p monitors, I just do the standards Windows drag to the side of the screen. If I want to simulate three 720p monitors I can press shift while dragging and that tells the Dell software to take over. It is more versatile than having individual monitors.
I don't get this one, but for the larger Snow products, yeah, it's for transferring data too large to realistically sending over the internet.
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> I probably never would have done it that way, I would probably use an interface type instead

I think when you're all in the same package and accessing unexported fields you know about, this is much clearer than an interface. I often add unexported mutually exclusive fields that local code has advanced knowledge about to prevent unnecessary over-abstraction.
> The "libertarian" states

Which states are those exactly?
Interesting at the very least for retrieval of backups from S3 Deep Glacier. Because the Glacier retrieval fees with bulk transfer are only 0.003 (yes 0.3 cent, not 3 cent) per GB. The thing that kills the backup use-case is $ 0.09 per GB bandwidth costs to the internet. The Snowcone brings that down to $ ~0.037 + shipping if you use the full 8TB per device.

And that includes a $ 0.03 bandwidth fee from S3 tot Snowcone that I guess they're going to reduce over time since it's all on their internal network.
Why does my Kindle app work, then? Last I checked, I couldn't buy new Kindle books on my iPhone at all
The anti-generics folks in the Go community are pretty prevalent still--meanwhile the Go community frequently lauds Go's strong type system. I suppose it's possible that these aren't the same people, but it seems more likely to me that many Go users don't know the difference between strong types and static types, and think that all static types are strong types.

Without generics, Go does not have a strong type system. It has a type system that verifies just enough to force you to work around it to do things that require generics, meaning that you don't get the benefits of verification because you've worked around it. You get the development speed of a statically-typed language with the type guarantees of a weakly-typed language: the worst of both worlds.
Regarding the "120Hz dance", which sure is ridiculous, the author could probably give the nice little tool "SwitchResX" a try. I adore that piece of software because it allowed me to force my MacBook to properly supply my Dell U2711, which is a 2560x1440 display, with an actual 2560x1440x60Hz signal over HDMI (which was important to me because I needed the DP port for something else).

That older monitor has some kind of firmware bug or maybe it's a wrong profile in MacOS or whatever, which makes it advertise a maximum of 2560x1440x30Hz or 1920x1080x60Hz to the Mac when connected via HDMI (DP works fine out-of-the-box), effectively preventing me from choosing native resolution at maximum refresh rate. I haven't been able to make MacOS override this limitation in any way using the common OS-native tricks, but SwitchResX can somehow force any custom resolution and refresh rate to be used, and the monitor is apparently able to deal with it just fine, so I've been running this setup for years now with no complaints whatsoever.

Also no manual work was ever needed after display disconnect/reconnect or MacOS reboot. I had problems once after a MacOS update, which required a SwitchResX update for it to be working again, but other than that I'm in love with this nifty low-level tool.
How can you reset to a new canvas?

E: Answered - type "Reset"
I think in C++ for example you can't even pass a floating number to the bitwise not operator.
This is nice! I want a homelab for my data, but I like AWS. It'd be cool to run my own personal database on this, and only run pg_backup to S3. RDS is too expensive for personal projects, but I'm not sure if free Heroku dynos and such aren't enough for raw data processing. So yeah, I guess if AWS had tiny RDS with primary node as Snowcone, I'd buy one. Otherwise I might buy one later and install my own database on it.

Not sure where AWS is going with this, but I'd like to see AWS offer a tiny version of AWS Outposts, where you can get any kind of AWS service in a box.
This goes beyond ripple20, but TCP/IP is like an old friend that has become a meth addict in their old age.

There are a lot of good memories, but trust as of late is non-existent for good reason.

The first nerd(s) to go TCP/IP'less will truely be living on a native 21st century infrastructure (without the baggage/exploitation/vulnerabilities of 20th century protocols).

Going TCP/IP'less is better than inbox-zero.. By far.
I followed a recipe a few times and had decent success using store-bought as a starter. It ends up taking a long time, cost about the same to make as buying a 32oz tub and yielded about the same volume so I just buy it. Fun and easy project to do yourself, but for me it isn't something I took enough interest in to keep doing regularly.
> I also wonder what makes Google unique here?

Maybe because they are the creator of the most popular browser and the creator of a giant network of websites and services aimed at tracking you for their own profit.

> Is it the browser? Firefox has an equivalent mode.

I let you figure out which of the things above Firefox is not

> Is it the web app? Virtually every single web app sets cookies even when you are in incognito mode.
>Also, apple had TN screens forever when the similarly priced competition had higher res IPS screens.

As far as I am aware Apple only used TN screen for their MacBook Air. They were also the first to push Retina / Hi PPI Display on Consumer PC.
Some of my colleagues love a vertical monitor for writing and reading documents.
Alternatively, just make your text bigger?

I use 120% zoom on a 1080p monitor and it looks great.

Paying $900 so you can squint at tiny text a bit better seems silly to me...
> Wait, what? Why?! Who cares my value is wonky, why is my program giving an error? Just obtain the wonky value! (is what I thought when I first did it)

Program on an MCU sometime, no memory protection. Feel free to tap dance all around RAM. It is rather liberating!

Really though, pointers are IMHO easy to understand, they are the address of an actual physical location in the real world. If you have a good enough microscope, or a large enough RAM chip, it would be possible to find the literal physical location that a pointer is referencing.

Pointers are the ultimate un abstraction. They represent something real!
Yeah, that was the whole idea behind the "surfing" metaphor. Nobody surfs anymore, they just get an endless feed of algorithmic intellectual junk food.
$60 + $6 per day after 5 days. It adds up, examples at bottom: https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/pricing/
I am in firm agreement here. I'd hope that it would fall to Ethereum network since that's the infrastructure it provides. The ecosystem is growing with tools like Metamask that makes it adoptable, failing some serious gaffe things might swing that way. There's a way to go though, to making information security transparent -- how a communal cloud would maintain availability of your data, but the costs to have a modern datacenter cloud provider store a fingernail of data are a bit out of line.
Disappointed not to see a dead-tree version.
Programming's dirtiest little secret (2008)
I have no opinion on the necessity of this product (sucks that 100Gbps networks are still confined to datacenters), but did they reuse a backlight Kindle display for the screen that becomes the shipping label? That's neat, I love it when people take advantage of things other parts of their company did.