skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s no coincidence this is happening now. The seeds of Marxism were planted long before the Soviet Union died.

One of the most fascinating lectures by Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector, described 30+ years ago exactly what the long-term plans of the USSR were. It is eerie how much of it applies today: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1FElIhOh_KI
Does anyone know what is this site generated with?
Will this version let me compose text-only messages by default while still being able to switch to a HTML message when needed? You used to be able to shift-click reply to compose as text but that that stopped working in a previous update.
What are your suggestions in terms of low hanging fruits to make it fast?
In a previous life I worked in ad-tech, and I don't think it's as black and white as the OP makes it out to be. I think that's actually a Bad Thing™️ as this industry needs to profoundly change or die.

This isn't a new, unexpected thing for sell or demand side ad-tech platforms, they've seen the death of IDFA coming for a few years. The reality is that this will likely stop more 'above board' players (a good thing) but the gray area and outright malicious, scummy ad and data companies will still attempt to generate unique identifiers through things like native fingerprinting. I think Apple will also stop them incerementally, but this sadly isn't an outright victory.

I don't understand it myself, but people DO opt-in to personalised ads in pretty decent numbers, it's anecdata, but I've seen data from very large control trials (testing for exactly this scenario) where ~50% of users opt-in. The devil is in the detail with these things: what will the copy be? will alternatives be presented? how will users be able to link 'value' to what they're being asked for?
It is very much compiler specific, and also depends if modifiers like volatile are present or not.
On the 747, wouldn’t “top front” be the cockpit? Angled windows for passengers would be bottom front.
Even GitHub Pages behind Cloudflare is capable of issuing a 301.
Yes, I realize of course there's the practical/real side of this story, and there's also opinionated discontent with various Nikon/Canon updates in the past. Just this week there was some story about a Canon overheating issue where people were talking about the refreshing change of how they addressed it quickly (or something to that effect).
>Safari/iOS users will be required to pay for a ad-supported website

That's fine, just give me a convenient way to pay (and cancel) and subscription and I'll decide if the content justifies the price. If I'm not willing to pay for it, I'm probably not going to miss it. Sometimes I wonder how much copy is written as filler to wrap ads around.

>Safari/iOS users will be denied access to the website

And they'll move on to somewhere else (or fire up some temporary workaround if they really want access).
My partner used a freshly cleaned 6 for a month due to a cracked screen on their usual phone, and it was perfectly fine.
The reference to angled windows with forward view puts them at the lower deck, I think.
That is just embarrassingly petty - I've just lost a little more respect for the guy.
One reason that extending BART down the peninsula is a non-starter is the political power of the owners of hundreds of properties that you’d have to eminent-domain and knock down.

Plus the fact that the citizens (through their representatives) voted against it decades ago, so it was removed from the original plan. Given the current fuss among the citizenry over similar problems with running the nascent high-speed rail up the Caltrain corridor, I’d guess a vote today on BART would have the same outcome.
When did Medium get a “sign up” paywall?

It feels like more and more content linked on HN is paywalled, adblockwalled, or otherwise obscured these days.
You are replying to a question "Where's the extinguish?"

You managed to write 44 words without addressing that. But hey, at least you tried. Most EEE conspiracy folks usually stay silent when asked about the extinguish strategy.
Skype co-founder, angel investor Toivo Annus passes away at 48
I imagine those are at least an order of magnitude cheaper to operate/maintain. Still, pretty cool place for a dinner party.
I would take a safe Maildir implementation over subtle (or sometimes catastrophic) data loss bugs any day. The one really serious problem I have with Thunderbird is that after being stung more than once, I feel like not only do I have to keep normal backups, I also have to retain old backups indefinitely, just in case a folder was corrupted silently a long time ago and I only find out months or years later when I need to search older messages.
No, this was what was invalidated

I think you missed the point. They're arguing they don't care what the EU thinks. If some EU court invalidates some EU specific thing they didn't care about previously, they still don't care about it afterwards.

Enforcement of this law will take sometime

Like, forever? How many US firms has the EU taken to court in the USA and won, over their cookie law?

EU cannot enforce these laws on US firms, only EU firms, but even then, such things are basically never actually enforced except for political reasons. So they might try and cause trouble to Google and Facebook or Apple, because they're big sources of money. Everyone else will just ignore it or go through some compliance motions if they feel like it.

As always with the EU there are regulations everywhere and they don't mean anything. As you state yourself, "necessary" data can continue to move. This is the same as saying "we'll make it up as we go along".
No instance of communism started with good intentions. The starting point was the seizure of property, which is already a form of tyranny.

Imagine being declared scum because you own a business, and having almost everything taken away from you.
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There are no mutual international treaties that enforce GDPR.
Don't get me wrong, AI/ML is immensely more valuable than blockchain ever was. Not a single doubt in my mind. But in terms of exploitation for marketing purposes - it's a very similar story. That's what I'm referring to.
Sounds a lot what Google is doing with Android (open source) and Play Services (not). They made on purpose harder and harder the use the former without the latter.
I don't think that there is currently any evidence that adding consent to ad tracking will have a significant impact on "sinister and hidden" advertisement. ..and it does not seem intuitive to me either, as it's a completely new set of companies launching those dubious ad formats and strategies. It's not likely that Google will start crafting a hard to scale astro turfing API or something, just because their ad network got less profitable.

> Ads, marketing and branding are integral part of capitalism, it's never going to go away from consumption focused societies.

Just to highlight: "Capitalism" and "consumption focused societies" aren't equivalent. ..or at least not in any common definition of the term capitalism. Historic examples of self-determined non-capitalistic societal models were highly "consumption focused" as well.

I think that maybe post- or de-growth ideas are the only contemporary family of ideas I know that makes it a point not to be "consumption focused". But their ideas are, while interesting, still pretty loose on their edges.
Yep, and that issue has been open for FIVE YEARS. The related issue which promises a fix has "only" been open for two, however: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-745
Given a complex economic situation pitting the green revolution and the need to feed a billion people versus the sustainability of local ecology and scarce groundwater resources, the article offers this pithy insight:

>Given enough time, water defeats almost anything. Stone. Iron. Bone. Rivers saw through the stratigraphy of time itself. Yet patriarchy endures.

I had to read though half the article to get to this. You're all welcome.
Useful article.
Getting started with CSS must be harder these days than it was 15-20 years ago. Not only for mobile-friendliness, but also because of the coexistence of flexbox/grid/traditional layouts. I'm wondering if the standard will ever been simplified, instead of being added more and more features.
It's true that domains shouldn't be free, but it's a pity the money ends up piling up at ICANN. If I understand correctly, they have hundreds of millions of dollars just sitting around, on account of their monopoly.
Thanks!

I'm pretty serious, so I've put some money into it. And even more time.

I've got a 2x1080Ti setup I used locally back in the day, but it's really slow. I still train stuff on it, but only things I know will train successfully for a long time (eg the Melgan model).

I use rented V100 GPUs to train the speaker models. They're quick and allow me to refine the datasets and parameters much more quickly than if I was doing all of it on my own box. Colabs are great and I could probably get along with them if I wasn't running so many experiments in parallel.

I can get reasonable results in a few hours on an 8xV100. Once I hone in on a direction I like, I'll let it train for a few days. (The David Attenborough model is a result of this.)

I still have a ton of refinement to do. I'm also working on singing models, and these should be ready by the weekend.

I've thought about buying beefy GPUs at this point as I've proven to myself it's not just a temporary hobby. Cloud compute is expensive.

The models are hosted on Rust microservices (a frontend proxy that fans out into multiple model servers), and this is deployed to a Kubernetes cluster. I'm planning to add more intelligence to the proxy and individual model containers so they independently scale.
> As for the blackmail and war starting you probably couldn't do much with public tweets

Depends how tense the situation already was. A well-timed tweet could be enough to tip things over the edge if both sides were already on the edge, and I don't think we're too far away from that.
Pre-covid, some of the BA flights from London to Madrid were using heavy jets due to freight loads
> I'm a bit confused how gender presentation can be not a social construct

Gender presentation is behavior.

> but gender itself can be a social construct

Gender is socially ascribed status.

> It seems to me that gender presentation depends on gender.

Depending on the basis on which gender is acribed, it could well be the other way around.
This is all true, but the thing to note is that actual bad-faith participants are not so common. What is common is people perceiving bad faith where there is none; I'm trying to give them a way to handle that without turning conversations into disasters. :)
POP3 doesn't automatically delete the emails it fetched (with RETR). It has to emit another specific command (DELE) for this purpose.

So, keeping or not keeping mails on the server is a matter of configuration in your client. I think all clients propose this choice and some will also add extra options like deleting only after a number of days since fetching.
You think the US is prepared to use nuclear weapons in a conflict involving Taiwan? Over semiconductor chips? (or are you using "nuclear option" in the rhetorical sense?) Or, given your next sentence says "if they don't..." I suppose you're only offering a non-expert sports-fan level of opinion.

Well, my opinion is that the US government, and the US public, is unwilling and has been demonstrably unable to muster any kind of support for significant military force over any issue that is complex and intangible, for the last 15 years. Name one recent strategic issue aside from Iraq/Afghanistan that the US and allies haven't backed down from (involving military force)? If it doesn't involve weapons of mass destruction, an imminent danger, or American lives being threatened, our collective attention span doesn't care to cash in our chips. And unlike oil, semiconductors don't hit big conservative wallets and their motivations.

I don't think America (in the popular sense) knows or cares what Taiwan is, to be honest. We can't even get our shit together to defend our supply of toilet paper and cloth masks. So I have strong doubts that a conflict over such a technical / intangible issue would rile up America's political will enough to convince people to go to war. And especially not with this administration's political skills.
I wish the author had gone a bit further into em vs rem. I'm reading other articles on the topic but they're simply technical explanations and I'm still not clear on what features of the page are best designed using em or rem.
100% my error - main deck for sure. We also boarded using wrong jetway - I guess there was a first entrance somewhere maybe that was different?
The point of the huge window is that you have multiple steps and the window is sized for the largest one so it doesn't resize between steps. I'm also unhappy about the extra space but the window being larger than its contents makes sense here.
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I wonder if we could train something that would automatically generate typical comments on HN threads.

- This is EEE!

- No it's not, there is no third E

- Well, back in the 90s such and such happened

- Microsoft has changed! Look at VS Code!

- Electron is slow.

- Buy a better machine.

- what about the millions who can't afford a better machine?

- Electron can be good, just code better.

- but muh privacy

- exactly, VS Code is going to take over the world with it's knowledge about your coding habits

- It's all about Azure nowadays, anyway.

- Azure has terrible customer support, we should use bare metal.
There's a king's ransom waiting for African businesses that create magic moments
that's pretty much also what I said :)
A day in the life of a C++ compiler developer
Is Java actually ahead of C#?

JVM yea, but Java itself as a lang + frameworks/libs like Spring? I don't think so.

I may be biased, but also I've seen a lot of arguing about Java vs C# (as a langs) feature-wise
How fast did the markets recover back in 2013?
As usual with tools, it’s the use instead of the instrument. Domain knowledge still has advantages against generalism, in applied and critical fields. I mean, you can’t do medicine or materials yet with AI/ML without understanding the domain?
Probably their bloom filter implementation?
How a Chrome Extension Broke My Web App
I sympathize with those who object to proprietary JS, but in my case I'm mostly annoyed at having to run code just to read static content - quite heavy code, too. When I have a lot of discourse.julialang.org pages open, my browser noticeably chugs.
We somehow got used to the idea that we can expect companies not to do this because it's not profitable for them
What you’re describing are all inadequacies in current browsers to deliver a good user-experience for native HTML features. There’s no reason why browsers can’t show upload progress/status for non-AJAX uploads, and there’s no reason for browsers to keep on having poor <select> UX. etc.

JavaScript itself is a workaround - it shouldn’t be the solution.
Or hire 2: one for all those things, another one for actually delivering technical work.

Hint: the rivalry will make it also expensive (extra meetings, defensive bullshit). But you will end up with what you wanted, at a price.
As an example, Air Austral had a [cancelled] order for A380 in an all economy configuration, which would have sat 840 people
Nothing would happend from this. China and other might raise their alarm, but nobody would raise their own weapons without proof for something really happning outside of twitter.

In the meanwhile Trump would appear after some minutes on TV, youtube, and whatever other channel they have around, proofing that he is not sending the tweets, while twitter would do their stuff.
Anybody knows a good book on CSS for ppl with a solid programming background? Every couple of years I try something and fail. Somehow the tutorial rave about the cascading on and on, and when it comes how to strategically design a good SAP working on different devices the stuff gets mute quickly.
Because it's Linux and not an entirely new thing that's getting launched today, you'd assume I'd have seen more of it before in my life?

And why would you want an example of a CLI app? That's the whole problem with Linux - you take some of the biggest software distributions for it and even they'll have you change some secret ascii file somewhere on the disk for it to work properly, while on windows you just click a few 'Next' buttons and you're done installing (before people start talking about package managers and how easy it is in comparison to Windows, I know about that, but they're honestly not foolproof). If Linux wants to get popular among masses (rather than a bunch of proud geeks who feel that the ones who use a GUI are all dumb people), it would have to be better at that front. Just updating a graphics card driver is so much pain on it - it would randomly not work, or it wouldn't update all symbolic links that you have to waste a day in finding, or always something like that).

Instead, you should give examples of the best looking GUI applications for it. Our company has a flagship product on both Linux and Windows and we use Qt for the UI. Exact same cross-platform code produces relatively ugly looking UI on Linux. In almost all discussions people start blaming both users and developers alike as if it's their problem.
Those numbers seem awfully pessimistic for NAND and too optimistic for DRAM. 1ms is what you get from a fast HDD. SATA SSDs usually manage 100µs and NVMe usually has 10µs or less latency (as low as 2.8µs). DDR4-3600 usually has around 10ns CAS latency which only measures the time needed to read data from a DRAM cell but doesn't consider how much time it takes for that data to travel to a CPU. Before a CPU looks up data it has to first check the L1, L2, L3 caches which can take 30ns and then another 20ns for the memory controller to process the DRAM request. So it's 60ns (10+30+20) for a main memory access.

The difference between 10µs and 60ns is merely a factor of 167 not 1 million.

The only take away I have from your comment is that you somehow confused DRAM with the L1 cache and SSDs with HDDs. That's the only way one could possibly arrive at your numbers.

I have used rounded numbers for illustrative purposes. They might be off by 30% or more but they are within the right order of magnitude.
It depends how close to war the belligerents are before such tweets.

Could a Trump tweet (real or fake) cause a pivotal escalation in a series or escalations leading to war? I think probably yes.
This is content marketing done right. I really don't mind that this article is there to promote the book when it actually offers some value to the reader (I actually learned a new thing, nth-child and nth-of-type)
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Microsoft already tried, very hard even. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroogled
Problem is nobody likes Microsoft, its not sexy. Just look at all the dislikes under those videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI1ominSL_c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63u-RG-31B0
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This dude is a drainer no cap ! Look at his profile picture on twitter its bladee yooo i cant belive this. DG for life man !
According to family folk lore, during WWII when they had double summer time, my grandmother managed to put the clocks 2 hours forwards instead of 2 hours back. So woke up in the small hours and turned on radio to BBC and heard German (they transmitted to Germany as propaganda, and during night used channels normally broadcasting in English). Immediately wakes whole household - "we've been invaded - the Germans have taken over the BBC"!
Another side of this that I've seen is people with PhDs in applied mathematics on a research team where a PhD is a hard requirement, spending all of their time passing dataframes around and convincing the sales team that the bar charts in the product are in fact correct.
Superhuman. It's the only software I use at work that I pay for myself because it makes dealing with email so much less painful. To the point that it's actually almost enjoyable clearing out my inbox. The ability to do absolutely everything from the keyboard and being so responsive really makes a huge difference.
Interesting reasoning. Few days ago when there was yet another GH outage I read in a comment here that it seems that larger companies get more slack for mistakes b/c of the idea that a large company must surely provide an as solid as possible product while if a smaller company fails people come around asking "why didn't you go with [large company] instead of this [small company]?".

Also I observe it with Linux vs Windows. If you promote Linux and then something itches people are quick to express "this wouldn't have happened with Windows". While if Windows causes problems people will easily accept it as caused by higher powers.

I wonder if there is a name for this David vs Goliath syndrome.
It was collision with the game Vector (a parkour game), as well as being a bit too geeky and not mainstream enough.
> increases market efficiency

This is manifestly false. An efficient market based on rational consumers doesn't require advertising. Advertising serves to skew consumer opinion away from rational behavior (in the economic sense of maximizing utility divided by price), so in fact it can be argued that it will always make the market LESS efficient.

An ideal consumer would browse the market and read non-paid reviews, and choose the product they need. No use for advertising.

An ad-converted consumer will see advertising, and think that the advertised product is necessary even if it isn't, or think it's better than the competition even if isn't.
A browser extention to block all but what is needed for the site to work.
seems better than clicking temporarily allow all every day.
Ultrablack fish absorb over 99.9% of incident light to disappear in deepest seas
Just use flexbox (and grid if you need to control both dimensions at once). You can ignore all of the old ways of doing layout. Flexbox is supported back to IE11.