skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WARNING: before anyone gets overenthusiastic, please observe that adopting this setup probably caused more harm to the environment than it prevented. Despite their romantic reputation, photovoltaics aren't green - they cost a lot of (usually dirty) energy and precious metals to manufacture, and are not renewable devices, so you want to make them count, i.e utilize them to a significant fraction of their potential, especially so on a grid like the Netherlands. This is not what this project is doing.

I'm absolutely sure the author means well and it sure is an interesting exercise, but this is not what transitioning towards green IT looks like. Sorry if this disappoints people's expectations, but these issues are more and more overlooked.

(Can't give you numbers rn as I'm on my phone, but you can work them out from e.g solar electricity emission factors)
Don't forget how much money is injected into the system every day by the Fed; it's basically pumping hot air into a balloon. Some modern economists view printing money as a non-issue but I don't think there is any evidence that it's unlimited.
I'd even accept a step during OS initialization, when it could ask something like: "how much do you care about various apps being able to read your clipboard?"

1. I care a lot: I want to be asked every single time whether I approve of my clipboard getting read.

2. I care a moderate amount: ask me the first time an app tries it, then stop asking me for a while.

3. I don't care: let apps do whatever they want. I'll let other people worry about my security.

(albeit phrased more diplomatically, of course)
Theory where naming association causes some real effects and real negative outcomes is not supported by science. It's just fringe linguist theory.

Of course naming is easier busywork than for example being transparent about wages etc. that have real effect.
> Then they will finally know peace.

No one's claiming that.
No, it requires a token which is one factor. Usually (but not always, as in the attack detailed in the article) obtaining that token requires 2fa.

This is behavior that I have seen with no other company.
I’m a huge Rust fan, but this is a misrepresentation of C++. You can definitely use the vast majority of modern C++ features while also integrating with a C codebase (exotic control flow such as exceptions and coroutines are definitely dangerous, though).
So you won't complain when you get fired for this comment in 20 years when I am president?

In what country were public figures ever above the law?

Pre-employment checks search for drug use and crimes, a facebook post should never be a firable or arrestable offence (outside of the 3.3k arrested in the UK).
> increasing the number of people paid to work on the Rust compiler by 10x would only mean hiring about 25 people. Compared to the size of the projects that are starting to depend on Rust, that's a rounding error.

And are you going to pay for the "rounding error" or just expecting someone to pay for millions a year for your idea?
I ended up doing $3/month for 200gb iCloud, $20/year google for 100gb and $20/year for 100gb amazon. I’ll try them all out and see which I like in a year.
AWS is one of most expensive hosting solution, I assume many of us somehow start to think that it’s a best one, in my opinion they all kinda same.
Moving to other place will require effort but can let you reduce cost to 10-20% of current one.
Some easy things that you can do with aws is to resize VMs, it will require to turn it off for a minute or so. Also can change to cheaper tire, eg t2 -> t3.
Also can change VMs from ec2 to lifhtsail
He’s looked at a few on his YouRube channel and discussed what his issues were with them. Basically, the existing ones made trade-offs he’s wasn’t super excited about, and he needs some modern chip due to HDMI and the like.
It depends a lot on the version of the game: in the last version released in arcades (Super Street Fighter II Turbo aka Super Turbo or ST), Guile is roughly in the middle. It's fairly unanimous that the top tiers in ST are Dhalsim, Claw, Boxer, and O.Sagat.
> one huge roadblock is the FCC open database of full names and addresses, past and present

That is creepy. No wonder why people shy away from HAM. Even privacy conscious geeks would just object to that!

In practice, how does it works?

Does the FCC gets its data from Experian?
Ask HN: I will implement every suggestion, what's yours?
For fun, I started a little website https://web.dorianmarie.fr and thought it would be interesting to implement the suggestions/ideas of the Hacker News crowd, so what's your idea?
That's an interesting direction. For example for VIM users there is https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

However this direction has a few important drawbacks:

* lock-in into a specific IDE / editor and syntax; (even if all claim to use "Markdown", in fact they add "extensions" that prevent migration from one wiki to another;)

* its not exportable / editable from a browser;

And the last one is what I miss from my current setup: the ability to export (parts of) my notes on the web, and the ability to edit them when I'm on the go and don't have my laptop.
I haven't yet managed to fit inside a toothpaste tube. But you believe in the impossibility of this right? There is no absolute belief or disbelief. It is all a continuous gradation. Some things we can bring ourselves to belief in if there is sufficient cause. Not arguing for or against the original point but just your argument and condescension.
The process itself probably doesn't have to be that complicated (or at least it's well understood) but at least the timing is presumably taking tax effects into account.

Even for much much smaller amounts, donations (of various kinds) of appreciated assets can use tax law to considerable advantage.
Would be really great if downvoters can chime in on their disagreements with this. I find this perfectly reasonable.

> ironically making it even harder for newcomers to learn.

This isn't over-cynicism. Consider all the otherwise-still-working books and tutorials that would be obsolete just for this change. Some kids still get their start from dead leaves and it would just be unnecessary mental tax on them to keep in mind that "master" is now "primary" because reasons. Not to mention that whatever they might be reading might've already used "primary" for a different context.

Extremely superficial.
> Designed to protect your privacy, Mac notebooks have a camera indicator light to let you know when the camera is on.

LOL
Libertarianism itself originated in the left (with French anarchists and early socialists) - it's the right-wing or ancap version that's effectively stolen the name, at least in the US.
For a liberal/libertarian, personal freedom is the most important value. The threats to freedoms are not only government power, but also societal and market pressures. Therefore, there may be some level of redistribution and some restrictions of societal and market pressures that generally increase personal freedom. As such interventions have diminishing returns, they should be limited to low-hanging fruits.

Alternatively, one can see it as a way to distribute power to independent power structures (government, society, markets, ...) to prevent one structure dominating others. Each such structure is a threat to personal freedom, but with different manifestations and effects. And it is more manageable to have more smaller threats than less bigger ones.
Yep, and keeps it on, my housemate has Facetime open all the time and no camera cover, every time I walk by his laptop the camera light is on, defeating the point of it if it's always on?
It is forcing other people to endorse your causes. Language is an open good, with a great many ways to express things. Conventions exist because they let people communicate easily about specific things in concise ways.

The world is full of good causes, there are so many no one can probably list them all. Any person can really only care about so many, a small handful. Similarly, some causes we may actually think harmful and actively oppose. For the vast majority, sane people probably think, hmm dunno one way or the other.

By one-sidedly declaring something terms unacceptable, this is an intrusion on my right to not endorse a cause. Basically, I’m forced to stop using some terms, eg if I want to keep using GitHub etc. And I value my right to leave a cause be, neither for nor against, quite highly. Without it, the world descends into groupthink hell.

As others say, you don’t mind this cause, fine. But others may. I find it harmless but utterly pointless, though offensive to reason and history. Yet I feel an effort to shame me into supporting this cause and endorsing it.

Not to mention, at no point can I hear that this is something people of colour want (whatever that even means, it’s not like everyone who is not white thinks the same). It is patronising that a bunch of presumably white guys working in tech decide what is right and what is not, for the world and for PoC.

Not to mention that the whole debacle is essentially about a massive failure of US society, and yet the whole world is made to participate in this spectacle. Dear Americans, please fund schools for poor Black kids, do outreach programs, scholarships, internships, you know, things that will help underrepresented minorities get themselves out of poverty, before you go on an all-guns-blazing crusade to change English language. The clue is in the name, it is not American property, and certainly not the property of a bunch of unelected founders with egos inflated by VC valuations.
As an example I found the following wiki (in Rust) that is closer to what I'm searching for: https://github.com/xvxx/deadwiki
(however I don't think that one is ready for real usage).

From the Go land we have: https://github.com/lucas-clemente/goldfish and https://github.com/cooper/quiki (the later seems more "polished").
Weird -- it appears to be missing the last 10-20 years of development in random numbers by the data science and cryptography community. They have put a lot of work into it.

If I recall correctly there are two major angles,
1. there is an instruction in modern Intel chips that samples random thermal noise.
2. there are a whole class of elliptical curve approaches that pass a bunch of
randomness tests.

And I'm just scratching the surface here.
Can you give a little context to the $75 million in savings? What was the original amount you were spending? I didn’t see this on your deck.
> They should have used a new term, not taken an existing one.

I think you're trolling, yes? First read: "what a crazy comment", second read: "hmm, might be trolling", third read: "okay, yeah, I get it now… I think". This is a dangerous game.
Yes and interestingly those slaves were White. There are a lot of shortcuts taken in the Western world right now such as amalgamation of slavery with Black people. Moreover, slavery was abolished more than 150 years ago, which mean it has been abolished for more than half the existence of the United States... that’s quite a lot of generations ago. All of these sterile polemics are created by a certain political group for their political gain, they don’t even care about the people they are using in their narrative.

As a racial and religious minority myself I would find totally laughable if a local political party were to use the persecution of people of the same religion and the killings of people of my ethnicity centuries before to justify changing the language, especially the speciality language of a narrow field.
SymPy's units module is excellent, and the best I've found in Python.[0]

[0] https://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/physics/units/index.ht...
I was just about to reply saying this, I'm a little disappointed in the author's misunderstanding of our dumpling :'(
But this same lack of efficiency allows governments to make it harder to vote. Eliminate voting locations in regions where those who vote against your party are more likely. Move voting to days that the less-powerful can't take off from their jobs. Paper votes "go missing" because there's reason to believe the box of them contained too many that those in power didn't like.

Making voting hard makes the system ripe for abuse, and that's exactly what we see happen all the time.

What we need is a system that is efficient and safe. There are cryptographic voting systems in which the government publishes the entire result; everyone can see that their own vote (only) was counted appropriately; anyone can see that the overall vote was fairly counted; empowered auditors can randomly audit to ensure all votes are real. That is far superior to the existing, corruptible system.

Edit: adding some conditions on the crypto voting systems.
What Happens After a ‘Million-Mile Battery’ Outlasts the Car?
I find it hard to believe that a democracy is unable to create a law that gives their voters a day off for voting every four years. Realistically speaking, even half a day off would suffice.
Are those people you know in the majority? The point could be made more politely while still being true.

More interestingly, steps to take in order to tell the difference?
Square acquires (and closes) Stitch Labs
I’m sorry, but you don’t seem to understand bitcoins intrinsic value proposition.

Loved the solar powered blog though ! Im looking at setting up my own now, thanks to your post.
We are much better at faces than we are at voices:

• Imagine I show you 10 photos of faces. Then I come back 15 minutes later and ask you to pick them out from a set of 20 faces.

• Imagine I play you 10 audio snippets of someone talking. Then I come back 15 minutes later and ask you to pick them out from a set of 20 audio snippets of people talking.

That said, I agree with you that primarily this technology would be useful for surveillance.

If you can zoom in on any given conversation happening at New York Penn Station, you're basically in the Bourne Identity, with all the privacy-destroying overreach that entails.
link is https://web.dorianmarie.fr but there isn't much for now
Take a look in the cost explorer

A low hanging fruit are spot instances if you can manage stateless sessions.

If you have multiple snapshots that could cost money as well
> There has to be a business model to bring them back.

Like others have said they've come back somewhat in urban areas as 'barcades,' at least until Covid-19. These kinds of businesses will be struggling for many years to come if they manage to survive at all.
Reminds me of the whole "you're holding it wrong" antenna event. Where Apple's design failed and they tried to blame it on the users.

The desired user experience is peace of mind from a physical barrier; no amount of LED bulb hidden behind the flush surface is going to solve for that.

It's also like the keyboard keys. User experience has taken a back seat to Apple's product design goals as they pertain to their bottom line. Products users love are expensive to build and maintain, so Apple won't make them. When you can't grow profits selling more devices, you start to cut corners on the ones you _are_ selling.
> I think you're trolling, yes?

No, I'm not trolling.

I don't think the OSI should have taken an existing generic industry term and tried to trademark it and give it a new definition. I think that was a real ethical mistake and it was also a strategic mistake.

I think it would have been better for everyone if they called it OpenFoo (TM) software, or something like that that they came up with themselves and they could legally protect.

Now they're reduced to just trying to complain when people don't look at things their way.
To a point at least, HM type inference is decidable, but type inference in haskell with certain extensions or in agda (at least with certain pragmas) is not.

The possibility of a diverging type-level function would require the type inference algorithm to solve the halting problem.

(As I understand it at least, been a while since I got into the details)
> There's an agreement on not using firearms in conflicts and that has held up for some 60 years.

This is the first time I heard about this and a quick search confirms it's true. Amazing!
Laughs in Californian
A data engineer’s guide to semantic modelling
That is considered best practices in the transport world. Most people pay, so assume everyone did, remove the slow checks that ensure everyone paid and randomly check to ensure people do.

Gates focr people to pay, but they slow the whole system down and you want your transportation system to feel as good as or better than driving.
Oh my God, the hurricane kick. I can hear it too...
The “Scientist as Hero” Narrative
I know what happened to FirefoxOS. But the Mozilla that was willing to invest in a web app first mobile OS and all the web capabilities needed to make that great seems to be completely gone.

Now they seem to have given up on the promise of the web as an app delivery platform and have aligned with Apple on a pro-privacy stance that seems based more on posturing than safely providing capabilities.
This mechanism leaped to my mind as well as a pretty common (and simple) design pattern for this particular problem.
Centrifugal melt spinning for manufacture of N95 filtering facepiece respirators
why do password managers need to _read_ the clipboard? It seems they would only need to _write_ to it.
They have argued this but they have also cautioned that redistribution is quite economically costly, so it is important that it be limited and not incur too much undue burden. That's why both of them have endorsed something quite NIT- or UBI-like. Often, many of a more socialist or leftist bent don't quite understand these points, even though they clearly think of redistribution as core to their political stance.
Also worth noting that the ring itself is not designed by Oura but by another company: https://haltian.com/reference/oura-ring/

Further, even though Oura is a private company, its financial information is public (as is any Finnish company's): https://www.finder.fi/Tuotekehitys+tutkimus-+ja+suunnittelup...
If we consider carbon CapEx - Falcon 9 is 500,000 kg of fuel. For that amount of fuel you could lay down a trans-atlantic cable. Then conside that sattelites still need to be serviced by large base-stations across the globe linked by optic fiver.

Then consider that a single cable lasts much longer than sattelites do in orbit and carries more data.

Then conder the fact that radio transmission across almost a thousand kiloneters is a lot more power intensive than optical transmission.

Satellite internet is cool, but energy efficiency is not one of it's features.
The kernel isn't hurting for developers though.

I don't see how a different programming language would help improve the ratio of maintainers vs developers.
How this compares to pi-top laptop [1]? Both products seem a bit overpriced to me (I'm sure there are reasons). But I think for children, a 100$ (or 100€) laptop will be a best-seller product. Even I would buy one to have a distraction-free device.

[1] https://www.pi-top.com/products/pi-top-3
Yeah, please just use mobile websites instead of apps whereever possible.
This article is a bit rough around the edges, and they really should make it clear when they mean "pseudorandom" vs "random", especially when one goal of the article is ostensibly to explain pseudorandomness to laymen!

As an aside, using a source of random numbers to generate other random objects is quite an interesting problem! For converting from one probability distribution to another, we have classical methods like rejection/importance sampling, and modern deep learning makes constant use of the "reparameterization trick" [1,2]. Looking beyond just numbers, here's a neat trick for generating a random orthogonal matrix:

A = np.random(n,n)
Q,_ = np.qr(A)

With a small correction [3], we can guarantee that our samples have uniform distribution (Haar measure) on the space of all orthogonal matrices:

def haar_measure(n):
# naive method
Z = randn(n,n) + 1j*randn(n,n) / np.sqrt(2);
Q,R = np.linalg.qr(Z);
# correction
d = np.diag(R);
PH = np.diag(d) / np.absolute(d);
return Q @ PH;

For more, read about random matrix theory! As an exercise for the reader, how would you generate: a random symmetric matrix? a random skew-symmetric matrix? a random positive-definite matrix? a random hamiltonian path in a fixed graph?

[1]: http://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2018/04/29/reparameterizati...

[2]: https://timvieira.github.io/blog/post/2014/07/31/gumbel-max-...

[3]: http://www.ams.org/notices/200705/fea-mezzadri-web.pdf
I'll put tape over the camera. Apple can't reasonably provide guarantees about the camera. I have reasonable doubt they can't provide privacy around that camera with the current designs.

This is true even if the indicator light only powers on when the camera is on. That is not enough guarantee.

This is also true even if the indicator stays on for several seconds after the camera was in use. I might not notice that indicator so there is no guarantee from that either.

Even with hardware keys, encryption and everything else, none of it beats a cover over the camera. A sliding or moving physical cover always wins. That is the guarantee. But Apple will not allow or tolerate that. Because they emphasize design over function.

So, close your device with a cover over the camera with a thin piece of tape. Its up to Apple to make that possible without damage.

Any other answer is interesting but not a guarantee. There is always some caveat to the suggestions. But an actual sliding or otherwise physical cover always wins.

Perhaps we might even address the microphone issue...
Markets are reactionary and thus too slow.
Crypto trader talks about the craziness of 2017
Firn – static-site generator for org-mode files (Clojure)
Don’t use GPUs at inference (serving) time unless you prove that you need to.

The only consistent case when I’ve found it’s needed (across a variety of NLP & computer vision services that have latency requirements under 50 milliseconds) is for certain very deep RNNs, especially for long input sequence lengths and large vocabulary embeddings.

I’ve never found any need for it with deep, huge CNNs for image processing.

Also consider a queue system if utilization is a problem switching from GPU. Create batch endpoints that accept small batches, like 8-64 instances, and put a queue system in front to mediate collating and uncollating batch calls from the stream of all incoming requests (this is good for GPU services too).
AWS likely has a retention department that can give you discounts or credits to make you stay. Ask for credits and use the extra time to set up your own hardware.
This is what i like to see - using actually energy efficient systems for energy efficiency!
Why? If you have fire service and you neighbors house starts on fire they go ask if your neighbor wants the fire out now at much greater cost. If not they watch it burn until it shows signs of spreading to your house at which point they put it out and sue for much more because they failed to contain their fire.
It is quite a comprehensive list. But for Chinese varieties, it missed Har Gow (Pronounced as Ha Gau in Cantonese or Xia Jiao in Mandarin) - Shrimp and bamboo shoots with wrapper made from Wheat starch), it is key Dim Sum dish from Cantonese cuisine, it looks like Jiaozi but different in both how the wrapper is made and the ingredients. Jiaozi is available only in North China, but Har Gow is only available in Cantonese cuisine. If you want to know if a Cantonese restaurant is good or bad, taste and inspect their Har Gow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har_gow
That might be true for drivers.

Outside the kernel, I don't think it's going to be true for Android or Windows.
Imposter syndrome or job security? I've seen both.
But then it can be proven, and therefore directly purchased.
>>It will be about 7,000 years before the comet returns, "so I wouldn't suggest waiting for the next pass," said the telescope's deputy principal investigator Joe Masiero of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Couldn't make it past this pessimistic comment ;)