skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counted by whom? What benchmark follows the model you’re describing? Does any real-world compressor use dictionaries anywhere near this big?

If you can bring the complete benchmark corpus (or substantial subsets of it) “into the wilderness”, the benchmark isn’t worth running. It’s not a compressor, it’s a database with stable keys. A Library of Congress LCCN code uniquely identifies the complete text of any published book, but it doesn’t contain a compressed copy of that book.
Sorry for the uninitiated question, but is macOS on ARM only going to support virtualization of ARM OSes? Does that mean that we cannot get amd64 linux virtualization on macOS anymore?
Build yourself a weather station. Part 2. Writing code for ESP32
“We can imagine a social network market that worked more like the current phone system: a user of one social network could post and reach friends who were members of different social networks through interoperability protocols.”

How about SMTP?
What’s the solution for the safety problem of scooters, where a small obstacle can send the rider flying forwards into a broken jaw?
> the NAIL team incorporated Hamiltonian structure into neural networks

ML non-expert here. Is this the same as having an extra column of your input data that's a hamiltonian of the raw input? Or a kind of neuron that can compute a hamiltonian on an observation? Or something more complicated.

is this like a specialized 'functional region' in a biological brain? (broca's area, cerebellum)
I mostly don't mind (like 99% of redesign these days, it is pointless), but the new one makes many things harder to read:
- I don't know which menu or tab is selected (the tiny border is not obvious enough)
- The buttons don't have a state anymore, so figuring out if I am following this repository or not is difficult
- The file browser does not have a clear separation (border) for each file, nor does it have alternating background colors. That makes the navigation harder.
- I am disappointed to see that the redesign did not get rid of the useless in-page loader when I click on a link. This is annoying and breaks my normal navigation.
>> in NYC, half of serious pedestrian injuries are caused by bikes, meaning a cyclist is about 200 times more likely to seriously injure a pedestrian than a driver.

This absolutely false, but nice try.

2017 city wide stats:

Bicycles: 315 accidents involving pedestrians with 1 fatality.
Motor Vehicles: 10,561 and 106 pedestrian fatalities. Not to mention 4,397 bicycle injuries and 24 fatalities.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/bicycle-crash-data...
> I'm not really sure why they'd dig their heels in here.

I was wondering the same thing, until other HN comments mentioned both his support of Hsu and tirade against paywalls. His support of Hsu seemed to be based on a mutual respect and started off looking like support for academic freedom, but comments on that post did reveal a lot of questionable positions on Hsu’s part with no update from Scott himself.

The anti-paywall article however was much more likely to get the attention of the NYT, because he was viscerally against them and NYT is one of the big paywall sites—it’s their entire business model now and they might feel the need to push back on the criticism. Frankly, I thought Scott’s anti-paywall position wasn’t very rational or well-argued, but I didn’t really have time to follow that comment thread. But in the end, I think he might have attracted the Eye of Sauron on his relatively peaceful little kingdom.
Unfortunately, I doubt this’ll happen. The set of kids going for MS are certainly not the ones looking at GATE. Besides, having a masters in India doesn’t improve your employability locally, so the opportunity cost of doing masters is quite high unless you’re driven by need to learn more or wanting to get into teaching.
Bikes are considerably more space efficient, especially since drivers have been opting for considerably larger vehicles. The same space a single SUV requires can fit 5+ bicycles, even if they’re larger cargo bikes like the one he’s riding.
As a developer, testing out Docker image building locally is vitally important to me. I'd like to hear more from Docker about how this process is going once WWDC ends.
You can do this with a VPN as well, no bastion required.

Seems to me that the bastion approach is a bit weird at this point; no node should be directly attached to the public internet (unless you enjoy babysitting one). You usually have an LB in front of it, then perhaps a CDN+WAF (like CloudFlare) in front of that. The same can be done for SSH and even RDP.

The concept that your bastion is 'more secure' than your other systems needs to go away, make all of the systems that secure to begin with if you want to allow human access and shells.
Imagine some AI process reads all your comments and re-builds your digital identity on the other end. As long as it is not tied to your real identity you’re okay
AnandTech: Apple Lays Out Plans to Transition Macs from x86 to Apple SoCs
I'm actually thinking about Kotlin. What is your experience with it? Is it good?
https://imgur.com/a/NwwBiIo

I did this on a computer I don't usually use in an incognito tab.
Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
Downside is that it doubles access options when you have a mixed environment, i.e. multiple clouds and/or non-cloud servers. Other than that it's a great solution if IAM is your default user source.
It does seem odd you can’t delete your own content, but beyond that, I don’t think any of our comments are worth paying for. Comments on HN feel a bit like recorded discourse in a techie Roman Forum. No one invites you to participate but people will remember what you say
vector graphics and raster graphics aren't really comparable.
I'd prefer if it was done with the federal marshals, or some other civilian organization. Something like the way that Ruby Bridges was escorted to school during desegregation.
The actual paper is available for free download here: https://www.omidyar.com/sites/default/files/Roadmap%20for%20...

On a related note, see also this work about Amazon on the Yale Law Journal: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

Meanwhile, Google is already dealing with an antitrust lawsuit from 48 US states: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-antitrust-probe-48-u-s-s...

Regardless of one's view on the merits of all these accusations of anti-competitive behavior, it's clear that the 'political winds,' as it were, are blowing quite a bit more in a direction that goes against these three companies. It wouldn't surprise me if all three end up fighting in courts for the better part of a decade if not longer.
The BYC DOT publishes stats every year that refute this completely. About 30x as many pedesttrians are hurt by cars vs bicycles, and 100x as many killed. You would expect that same ratio to stand up to whatever the GP means by "serious injuries"
As we'd expect ISRG not only fixed the immediate problem they also accelerated plans to ensure that any similar problem would have less serious ill effects.

In particular a current Certbot (or similar software from other developers) will conclude that it should try to replace a certificate which has been revoked and not only certificates that will shortly expire. So if a similar event happened, and you missed the email, your Certbot will treat the certificates much as if they'd expired and replace them automatically.

Also if you didn't replace a revoked certificate the thing is: Online revocation is broken. Most of your users will not have noticed your certificate was revoked. Popular browsers do have an out-of-band way to enforce revocation but they didn't use it on that Let's Encrypt incident because they felt it was low risk. So maybe some people are running Internet Explorer (really?) or have explicitly turned on revocation, everybody else doesn't even see a warning page.
AFAIK you're not able to delete your stack overflow / stack exchange posts either. The site basically says anything you post is CC-BY-SA 4.0 so once you post it it's effectively available for everyone forever.

You can delete your account but your posts will not disappear. Maybe HN should add the same terms so you know your posts can't be deleted.

As for deleting your account that's annoying. My solution for at least not using an account is setting minaway to 9999999999 and the turning on noprocrast. suddenly my account is unusable.

Maybe a simple solution for HN is they could follow S.E. and when you delete your account they just change the username to user-<number>
Compressed air is much more dangerous than most other storage methods though. The failure mode tends to release stored energy very quickly.
DATV is a thing on 430. The problem is equipment. MDARC runs DVB-S, I believe. For DVB-S, you can re-purpose satellite equipment. KH6ATV is a proponent of DVB-T (which in theory should be better than DVB-S for terrestrial paths). There is one company in Taiwan that makes DVB-T transmitters and receivers that are usable in the ham bands (available in their E-Bay store), and people have done DVB-T in the ham bands with LimeSDR. BATC has done a lot of work with DVB also. Sorry to be vague, I haven't been keeping up on my reading... about 1.5 years ago I was going to try setting up for DVB-T on 430MHz and 1.2GHz, but life got in the way.

In theory, you should be able to run 780p in a 6 MHz wide channel in the 430Hz band, or even squeeze 480i down to fit a 2MHz wide channel. (The max bandwidth allowed for amateur video in the USA on 430 is 6MHz, DVB-T does have 8MHz wide formats used in some countries for broadcast.)

Contact KH6ATV if you are interested in doing some experiments. I recommend reading his notes first:
https://kh6htv.com/application-notes/

For those that haven't stopped reading already:
DVB-C -- optimized for cable.
DVB-S -- optimized for satellite path loss and fading, but not for multi-path.
DVB-T -- optimized for terrestrial paths which may suffer from significant multi-path propagation.
ATSC -- The US standard, which unfortunately was standardized earlier than the rest and is expensive to generate and has outrageously poor weak-signal performance, both of which make it a ridiculously bad choice for amateur radio.
I’ve always used Fusion, I hope they bring it to ARM. They’ll be maintaining it for Intel for years anyway, and the ESXi management features are great
The content itself might have specific signals or links to who that person is. Those cases also deserve to be covered during deletion. For the sake of being complete, even the content must be allowed to be deleted.
> In this somewhat unusual case, the problem was found and corrected in the Linux kernel through a typical bug-fix process and not handled as a security vulnerability, so no CVE was assigned.

This isn't unusual. This is actually the usual case.

The unusual thing here is actually that someone downstream noticed they were missing a fix (probably because its LTP regression test was failing, which is also unusual because most kernel fixes don't have an LTP regression test).

More commonly, no one notices and these bugs never get fixed in downstream kernels that aren't staying up to-date with LTS; and there is never a CVE, an oss-security post, a Hacker News thread, etc. But these bugs are still there.
I run a raspberry-pi based kubernetes cluster at home, and being able to run arm32 or aarch64 docker images is important.

One thing that works well is an experimental feature called Docker buildx, which allows you to build for several architectures simultaneously and upload the image to your docker repository: then when a client requests a docker image, the repository will send them one that matches their architecture.
Maybe I'm weird, but "curating your own online presence" gives me the creeps, like I'm in a room full of people all wearing rubber Richard Nixon facemasks or something.
Personally, I love that it fits perfectly in exactly half of a 15-inch Macbook Pro screen. That's always how I have GitHub open and it bugged me that it didn't fit right before.
This has just disappeared of the front page!! Wow ....
I use draw.io at https://app.diagrams.net/

It is free and online. I can draw diagrams that I used to draw with Visio but I don't have to install software and can use it from anywhere.

I can export the documents to my local machine as a master file (e.g. file type is *.drawio) or can export them as an image (e.g. JPG, PNG, etc.)

There are lots of subjects that you can turn on (also free) ranging from architecture to electronics.

I can usually find what I need or something that works well enough for my simple needs.

I can also use it kinda like a white-board in screen-sharing meetings.

Though - looking at other comments - yEd looks pretty powerful. I'll have to check it out.
Because AMD has a 4 core low power processor with multiple times the memory bandwidth and multiple times the I/O and greater performance per core at the same power draw as Apple's 2 core processor with about a tenth of the I/O and a third the memory bandwidth.
> Back to our Netflix example. As an industry leading company you want to be as transparent as possible. Your social media team goes on to tell people who hate on your recommendations that they’ll soon be able to filter out those crappy Peppa pig recommendations they’re getting because their toddler got a hold of their tablet once.

How often are new features really announced except as strategic decisions?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_action_pattern

More generally, reptiles are born with nearly all the behaviors they'll need throughout life. Why wouldn't humans be born with some?
Well said! This is why older engineers should be prized and actively recruited. When i see engineering teams staffed solely with "Young'uns" i know there are hard times ahead.

Enthusiasm and Energy needs to be controlled and directed by Experience and Good sense.
Water is wet, study finds.
This both absurd....and seems more natural than most browser experiences...
Good reason to get a Gotek floppy emulator and work with copies instead. With the open source FlashFloppy software, they work great, and are pretty cheap.
I think RSS is a better fit.
Acer Nitro 5
>> unlike pushbikes, ebikes are nearly silent.

So an ebike is typically a regular bike PLUS an electric motor. Not sure how that can be quieter than just the regular bike. You can definitely hear whirl of the electric motor as well.

>> Plenty of dogs, and people, are hit by ebikes

Last year only 9 of the total reported bicycle-pedestrian acidents in NYC were with e-bikes.
I agree that we wont have an understanding about the vaccine risk until it is developed, and would add that we wont have a good understanding until many years after it is developed.

I don't feel that you answered my questions directly, but if I understand correctly, it appears that you would hypothetically favor compulsory vaccination of children for the greater good, even if the personal risk outweighs the benefit.

I wholeheartedly disagree, as I do with the draft. Similarly, I 'think the right not to be punched, is analogous to forcing someone else to vaccinate for your benefit.

As a society, we get to decide what impositions we impose on individual liberty. Where would you draw this line?

I draw the line at criminal charges for failure to vaccinate.
Cyberpunk 2077 Ditunda Lagi Hingga November 2020
Same. Over the years I've become obsessed with becoming financially independent, so that I can work on what I think is important and don't have to explain it to others. In the process, I've completely lost interests in achieving any success in the day job, which is the polar opposite of myself 10 years ago. Everything at work just feels so pointless now. I feel really bad but just can't help it.
How portable was the Windows VM you were using before you uninstalled it?
Both Parallels and Apple are refusing to answer this question. I suspect the answer is "only x86-32 bit virtualization works, but we're cracking the whip on our devs to make x86-64 bit work too"

Honestly though, I have no clue, I just know it's odd they're being so cagey.

My question is how good is the GPU emulation? That can really make or break GUI stuff.
I think I got what he tells because that summarizes pretty well the challenge I face to sell my core product.

It's a "private youtube".

Obviously not pioneer nor innovative, but we don't follow those many gurus who advocates for building fast growing startups and not getting yourself into the not-scalable consultingware trap (things operate a little different in developing economies with risk-averse investors, but that's another story).

Anyway, it's been a bit tough to get into the market since the clients who take the value of such product as obvious already have their providers; and the other ones who have similar scenarios but never considered such solution often ask why in the hell they'd pay for a private youtube when google already gives them a full featured one, for free.
I think those scenarios the user should contact HN and ask for removal.

It's difficult because even if someone wrote something they regret, they probably also have things they wrote which prompted really good discussion.
Fusion and Workstation are important ancillary products for VMWare - they are regularly used as remote admin tools for VMWare server deployments and for building images that go off to live on both on-prem and public cloud environments (they are making a big push into getting you to run VMWare on AWS/Azure/etc. right now).

No chance they aren’t already deep into work on porting VMWare Fusion over as a result.

EDIT: they are - but I guess it will only support aarch64 guests.

https://twitter.com/mikeroysoft/status/1275483550985318400?s...
It's still on the HN homepage: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/abou...
All those stories about PayPal holding money. The stories will continue but with crypto. No thanks.
Most people don't even know what an architecture or ISA is ;-) But in terms of usefulness people will want to be able to execute their tasks and if a program that they use doesn't work (be it because it doesn't have an AArch64 version or anything else) they will not find that very useful.

I think you were mostly pointing at Windows's ARM failure so far, which is fair -- a lot of applications simply won't run unless they make an ARM specific version or have a binary that happens to be compatible with the Windows built in x86 emulator
Show HN: Facemush – Realtime chat on the web with Chrome/Firefox extension
I'm curious about the adoption of Apple Silicon at Autodesk. I would hope they'd be onboard with recompiling their flagship products.

However, if you want to keep an older license without upgrading, I think Rosetta 2 is going to attempt to translate to ARM and cache that translation, which should provide reasonable execution speed. Surely, though, when it has to fall back to emulation, performance is gonna feel pretty bad. That's my expectation.
Ring species are an interesting case to consider, in which A and B can interbreed, and B and C can interbreed, but A and C cannot. Gene transfer between A and C remains possible, but indirect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
I'm very gatekeepy about only wanting competent developers working on my code.
False equivalence fallacy. NPR isn't comparable to rcreader, which has a circulation of 19,700; NPR gets 52 million impressions per month.
I’m very interested in building an anonymous social n/w or community where you share what you’re currently working on/solving —- while being careful not to disclose confidential stuff. There’s so much interesting discussion that can happen around it.
How can we build an app to read ewallet transaction
Hi I am looking for a way to build app that can be connected to ewallet apps to get their transaction history in android. Is there any way to do it? I am using it to control my own cashflow for free and get a project in android. I am thinking of using android notification listener, but it doesn't work.
>nothing can motivate hours of sleuthing like Internet rage

Is that your motivation, to produce "Internet rage"?
https://music.apple.com/us/album/bach-goldberg-variations-bw...

I tend to be very disappointed by the majority of piano transcriptions of Bach’s keyboard works, which is understandable since the piano and harpsichord are so very different. Outside of Gould’s, who played much like a harpsichord, the above album is the most moving and fascinating piano transcription of Goldberg that I have heard. There are several parts of interpretation that would normally make me yell “heresy”, but Ji-Yong’s interpretations really bring the piece out in a way fully fit for piano. Check it out!
The only practice listed in the paper that could be construed as anti-competitive is acquiring other “social networks.” However, it’s a stretch to consider every website that a user can use a competitor to Facebook. It’s not like Facebook acquired a MySpace or anything.

But why are acquisitions anti-competitive? Nothing forces the competitor to sell. Acquisitions prove people can compete.

It’s a contradiction to say the network effect protects Facebook but at the same time say they had to buy Instagram because they were successfully competing despite the network effect. Facebook’s network effect didn’t stop Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, etc.
Ten years ago one of the most prolific and valuable participants of lesswrong.com used a script to delete all his writings from the site. A few days or weeks later, he reconsidered and gave the site permission to restore them, explaining that he was angry when he ran the script, but as you might expect if you've spent time adminning a computer, no one wanted to spend the considerable technical effort required to effect a restoration. Since then I have experienced non-negligible amounts of pain after following one of my bookmarks or a search-engine hit only to end up at a stub that was one of his former posts or comments.

>you should be upset that this platform/network is . . . not allowing you the rights and benefits to delete and control your own content.

I would be upset if a significant fraction of the more than 558 bookmarks into news.ycombinator.com I have accumulated over the past 10 years stopped working because of a change in HN that caused a large increase in the rate of deletion of old comments. In particular, I worry about users who would use a script to mass-delete all of their comments here. (I arrived at the figure of 558 by actual counting: in a directory containing only bookmarks manually created by me, I grepped for "news.ycombinator.com" and for an abbreviation for HN that I use when I'm too lazy to copy and paste the url.)

The fact that it is hard or impossible for a prolific contributor to mass-delete his contributions is a significant part of the reason I chose spend as much of time as I have reading here -- and searching here: with Google Search becoming increasingly useless, an increasing fraction of my searches are searches of HN using Algolia.

I am of course okay with the site's starting displaying a strongly worded warning on the sign-up page.

ADDED. 13.3% of my searches of the internet since the start of this year have been searches of HN using Algolia. One painfully precise detail: I am counting only those of my searches that originated (in code I wrote) in Emacs, but that is the majority of my searches, and I have no reason to believe that they materially differ from the rest of the searches (which originated by my typing into the location bar of my browser).
A bit more stronger than that. Have a [deleted] user tag. Deleting all comments too would be nice but I get that it messes up the comment system.