skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wanted a physical globe with real-time high-res clouds. That is my personal marker of "oh, the future has arrived"
> but most of AMD's gpu troubles come down to the windows driver being hot garbage.

That definitely needs some evidence to back it up. In my experience, most game rendering code is hot garbage that has been hammered just enough to work on the tested platforms (read: mostly nVidia).

> They opened the linux driver enough that others can do a lot of the work for them.

While there are outside contributions, most work on radeonsi (OpenGL) and the amdgpu kernel driver is done by AMD employees. The AMD Linux driver is better because it has less legacy code, can share more work with other drivers, can benefit from users who are more used to filing detailed bug reports and test development builds, and yes because users and other interested parties (Valve, Red Hat, ...) can contribute fixes for their pet issues - but it is still AMD doing most of the work.

For Vulkan on Linux with AMD graphics the most popular driver is entirely community developed. But AMD's Vulkan driver also works from what I hear.
Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat fame is not happy about this report!

'It's honestly genuinely rare I get wound up about things, but this Russia report has done the job.'

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1285517283159347201
So this cheap-but-large construction is that mostly a US thing? I recognize very little of it from Sweden.

If I were to build somtething new it would have be much better planned space than older homes, and if I buy something built in the last 10 years it would be designed to be open, bright, clever, environmentally friendly, and with expensive lasting materials. Very old homes (100+ years) have a selection bias where the worst are torn down. Homes from 1940-1980 usually have terrible planning, cheap materials and so on, simply because people were poorer and prirorities were different (closed off kitchen, narrow hallways,...).
The Drug Rehab for the World's Super Rich (2019)
I'd follow up inverting with decomposing.

Solving smaller problems in the service of the bigger one is as powerful as flipping the problem upside down.
is that you anonymous?
Love the amount of details that has gone into this. Truly is a work of passion.
I am waiting for a part-3 which should hopefully cover some of the "techy" stuff that can be built into the home.
For e.g., Ethernet cables all over? USB ports in the wall itself in addition to switches? Speaking of which, what tech stuff would you build into your homes?
Oxford Optik Paper (90 g/m²) is very good, but clearly a premium option (2.5 EUR per 50 page A4 pad). I use Midori MD journals, not sure if they even sell writing pads, which are excellent as well.

At university I mostly used cheap Brunnen paper for note-taking, not nearly as good as the Oxford, and you'd only want to write on it single-sided, but very cheap (a ten pack of 50 page pads costs the same as a single Oxford pad) and much better than some of the other cheap paper which basically seems to be photocopier paper glued together, which is awful to write on.

There are probably paper review forums or blogs or something like that that might help you find nice paper locally.

I always buy blank pads and usually use my own ruling backing paper, which has black and somewhat thicker lines than what comes with writing pads, which makes them easier to see in not-that-great lighting conditions.
This article just links to https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1285338582849208320 and adds a bit more context, if you don't want to blindly accept the Verizon GDPR wall.
Nicely wrapped-up public APIs with a pleasant presentation & small learning curve require tradeoffs. Why force your own app & website to pay those costs?
In the worst case scenario, you could consider the $1.00 a refund.
Late 2018. I got a big income bump in early 2017 and both my partner I and were able to save for a deposit by living frugally for a couple of years. I wouldn't have been able to do it alone though, I think you realistically need two incomes to buy in London.
How do you know it was a driver bug though and not a game bug that was only affecting that driver? Even if it was "fixed" by a driver bug that doesn't mean the game didn't grossly violate the D3D/OpenGL/whatever API spec and just happened to work everywhere else.
The Hawaiian bobtail squid uses an interesting camouflage strategy
Volcanoes on Venus are still active
yeah, you can tell it isn't America because nobody sprayed bullets into a crowd of innocent people, and the cops didn't murder any peaceful protesters.
Lol. Once again a brexiteer with no ideas or facts or point to make just wants to be "heard"
Bear in mind, at any meaningful volume, Stripe does IC++ too and it isn't expensive

edit: Looking at their (listed) acquiring and processing fees, Stripe appears to be cheaper

That said, I don't know how Adyen's support is, but sadly Stripe's is honestly absolutely crap. Every single support interaction I've had with them has been incredibly slow and incredibly painful.
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Ask HN: Would buy a desktop app that launches its UI as a browser tab?
I see a lot of dislike against Electron apps and I share it to some degree. I have however over the last months looked into "native" cross-platform libraries/frameworks and the choice is very limited.

I am currently wondering how open people would be to "alternative" solutions when buying a desktop app.

E.g. are there apps that just open a tab in your browser to show their UI? Do you find this acceptable or a no-go for a desktop app?

There would also be the option to launch a new browser window with certain features disabled (such as URL bar, menu, etc.).

I know that the resource consumption would probably be similar to electron. However at least the distribution packages would be smaller.

Then there is the webview[1] solution. It uses Cocoa/WebKit on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and Edge on Windows 10 as respective backends. My guess is that this would be the most accepted of the listed solutions.. what do you think?

[1]: https://github.com/webview/webview
> What kind of query would you have to write to bring down a production db?

Scans and Sorts, seen in a query plan, are relatively expensive to run in a production row store. OLAP queries (GROUP BY with aggregate functions like COUNT, SUM, and AVG) do large^/full table scans by definition. They take seconds to run while your goal in a Cloud OLTP system is thousands of requests per second. An automatic sort issued per query in an OLTP system is pathological and represents a vector for a DoS attack.

> What makes a solution like hive much better - I guess its optimized for this?

Column stores use compressed bitmap indexes that are optimized for scans over a small number of columns. Hive is SQL over Hadoop, and is inherently slow but it does offload the processing from your Production OLTP server. Hive supports the RCFile format which is partially column oriented. The ORC file format is fully column oriented, replaces RCFile format, but requires Presto (or equivalent). Hive is brownfield for existing Hadoop clusters but it has no place in a discussion about greenfield architecture other than discussing historical systems.

If you have a need for GROUP BY style analytics, a true column store like Presto, Impala, or RedShift is a necessity.

^EDIT: based on zbentley's comment
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A low-cost dev kit with low-power FPGA integrated with a quad core 64-bit RISC-V
Those are amazing pictures.

What was the outcome? Were all the vehicles able to be pulled out?
Israel approves cellphone tracking of Covid-19 carriers for rest of year
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I certainly agree that testing these integrations is unnecessarily painful, but given that both Stripe and GoCardless offer much the same facilities -- a single sandbox environment, but without comprehensive simulation of all important scenarios and with nothing useful for either automated integration testing or offline simulation at the developer's desk -- I'm not sure I'd say either is much better than the other. The only major difference I can think of is that since they simulate roughly realistic timing as well, GoCardless can also take several days to complete a test run for a new integration or bug fix, which is obviously absurd.
Can you point me at an EU marketplace where I can pick a non-smart TV with modern good display? I've been desperate to find something like that for months.
So is (ab)using the rules to try to suppress discussion.

Anyway when I see comments I often have a look at the poster's past comments.

> La1n 1 hour ago | parent | on: The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel...

>> Look at HK and ask them under which regime they would prefer to live in.

> And if you ask minorities that go to jail for years for non-violent crime, or marijuana possession they would likely say something else.
Polygon Annotation for Computer Vision: What You Need to Know
page is just blank for me...
Top Benefits of Data-Driven Test Automation
AI and grammar algorithms for brandable domain names
Why only invert? For example when designing a car, don't just consider putting the steering wheel in the front or in the back. But also consider left and right.
> I just got into it two days ago

This is the rub. I started a tiddlywiki last year, and stuck with it for several months, but now it has fallen to the wayside as too cumbersome.
Distributed City Generation with Robust-First Computing and the Moveable Feast Machine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc

>Robust-first Computing: Distributed City Generation: A rough video demo of Trent R. Small's procedural city generation dynamics in the Movable Feast Machine simulator.

Nere's a paper about how it works:

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/papers/paper_tsmall1_11_24.pd...

>Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture, by Trent Small.

>Abstract: Local routing is a problem which most of us face on a daily basis as we move around the cities we live in. This study proposes several routing methods based on road signs in a procedurally generated city which does not assume knowledge of global city structure and shows its overall efficiency in a variety of dense city environments. We show that techniques such as Intersection-Canalization allow for this method to be feasible for routing information arbitrarily on an architecture with limited resources.

More info and links about David Ackley's work on Robust First Computing and the Moveable Feast Machine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858577

>A "Moveable Feast Machine" is a "Robust First" asynchronous distributed fault tolerant cellular-automata-like computer architecture. It's similar to a Cellular Automata, but it different in several important ways, for the sake of "Robust First Computing". These differences give some insight into what CA really are, and what their limitations are.

>Cellular Automata are synchronous and deterministic, and can only modify the current cell: all cells are evaluated at once (so the evaluation order doesn't matter), so it's necessary to double buffer the "before" and "after" cells, and the rule can only change the value of the current (center) cell. Moveable Feast Machines are like asynchronous non-deterministic cellular automata with large windows that can modify adjacent cells.
Very polished!
Startup engagement at Google – from investment to free support
This seems to line up really nicely with "Jobs-to-be-Done Theory" proposed by Clayton Christensen and Co [1]. This inversion approach seems like a great technique to help move from thinking about products and think about the jobs that need doing.

[1] - Competing Against Luck - https://www.amazon.com/Competing-Against-Luck-Innovation-Cus...
I think at the beginning you won't have a client API at the beginning.

That stuff is only done at the end unless you're chargin for that at the beginning.

If you're not B2B positioned, you probably won't have a client library for a while.
Why anyone would drive a vehicle on "salt" anything let alone when there's the threat of moisture appearing from the sky is beyond me but maybe I'm just jaded because my state salts the roads.
Visual captchas too can be quite very hard these days for the same reasons, there are many other ways to verify bot or human, many of them may not allow you to remain anonymous while doing so, pretty much any 2FA method could work for example.

I would say given the choice for a number of people the accessibility is more important than loss of privacy. At least it is choice they should have instead of shutting them off the internet.
Yes, that's an apt metaphor. Magic, indeed.
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Oh, I see what you mean. There may be a market for "accessible CAPTCHA", that's audio-only.
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Quick solution could be to just add one wooden door/trap/plank per "terrace", on the floor of it, to symbolize entrance from within
Why wouldn't I want deduplication though? "You can use ZFS just fine, just turn off one of its most useful features." Really? And I'm being downvoted for it. Thanks, guys. You realize my home desktop is doubling as my storage, right? Which goes back to RAM requirements being an issue.

I hate the cargoculting on this fucking site.
Not something in your own house just yet but how about this: https://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/CP4SMP/dynamic-globe
I guess I should worry more when I park my bicycle. Yikes. Are you all in Portland, OR https://qr.ae/pNsAKy?
What I liked about this is the forecast feature of the movement of clouds/cyclones in the oceans:

For example here: https://zoom.earth/storms/douglas-2020/#layers=labels
Yeah and hosting it by yourself is slightly non-trivial as the storage requirements are in the PB range.
I agree with your first 2 points, but the thing which I can't wrap my head around is point 3. The ability to run a cable from your home to your car will always be a physical impossibility for millions of car owners.

From what I can tell the idea of battery swapping stations seems to be dead in the water. And I seem to remember that 15 miles minute of charging is where we are (numbers might be old), meaning many more visits to third party charging stations and each visit taking longer than a liquid fuel pump.

I'd love an electric car, but without a private driveway for personal infrastructure, it just doesn't make sense until the third party infrastructure is ubiquitous or there are huge gains in charge speed, or both. I see the odd one in random places: private underground car parks, KFC, odd hotel car park, but these can only cater to the enthusiast who can also charge at home. Hopefully I'll be wrong sooner rather than later.
Look at the comments. He has barely any files on that server. "Yeah, you can use ZFS with barely any RAM."

(if you don't have any files)
Doesn't do me much good with my 10TB's of data.
>What was the outcome?

Usually this kind of thing turns into lots of work with beer and shovels or someone rents a tracked skid steer (depending on the financial inclination of those involved).

In this case tow company added a 3rd wrecker to the mix since they had to get their own trucks out.
This approach can mislead people because it by design make the hypothesis that the support is infinite and that the variance is finite, which is why it ends in a thin tail distribution in the first place.

Plus as said by klodolph the choice of arbitrarily restricting your knowledge to the mean and to the variance as summary statistics will lead to the Gaussian distribution. Moreover in practice restricting arbitrarily your knowledge is a violation of probability as a model of intuition as showed by Jaynes
> there's only one syntax for the language(syntax extension and mixed-language documents aside) and it too follows a linear order

I'm of the opinion that programming languages should have two "official" representations: the usual text-based representation, and a machine-readable concrete syntax tree. The latter should be an existing format, e.g. JSON, XML, s-expressions, etc.

It should be "official" in the sense that it's standardised in the same way as the text format, language implementations (compilers/interpreters) should accept it alongside the text format, and they should have a mode which converts the text format into the machine-readable format (and optionally the other way). This is important, since lots of code 'in the wild' only makes sense after feeding it through particular preprocessors, specifically-configured build tools, sed-heavy shell scripts, etc. such that the only tool that can even parse the code correctly is the compiler/interpreter (and even that might need a bunch of tool-specific flags, env vars, config files, etc.!). This makes tooling much harder than it needs to be, and any "unofficial" workarounds will need constant work to keep up with changes to the language.

I say concrete syntax trees since we want to impose as little meaning as possible on the tokens, since that makes tooling more robust in the face of things like macros/custom syntax, new language features, incomplete or malformed code, etc.
Even if you had a deadline, you'd know all tech debt and could anticipate it beforehand.
My dad passed away late last year. He was a member of the 200 mph club, and still holds a few records he set in the 70s/80s.

Perhaps my favorite story was of the motorcycle he used to break 200mph on the saltflats. Some called it the high speed ditch witch.
It had no fairing, making drag a night insurmountable obstacle. Adding more power just meant it would start digging deeper into the salt, and leave a ditch behind it as it went.

My mom's favorite story was about the time a powerful wind blew over a portapotty, knocking it onto the door, trapping the occupant inside.
If Firefox didn't phone home for crashes and useful telemetry it would have died along time ago.
I find all these anti-Russia and China articles tiring. Not saying China and Russia aren't trying to spy and influence the US and UK, but the US and the UK are doing the same thing to them and many other countries and have a big documented history of doing so. So these relentless articles on how bad Russia and China are for doing what everybody is doing seems like they're trying to push a negative agenda on these two countries to prepare the population for a possible future more frontal conflict or war which I hope will never happen.
What Is Nintendo Playing At?
> For someone like ray dalio, the fee is nothing. But for a much smaller firm, the $25k/year for just a single unit is not insignificant. The raw historical quote data can be purchased from the exchanges and ued any way you like instead of only being restricted to the terminal. There are many firms that sell such data.

Of course. It's just that I believe that unless you are willing to pay >= $100k for a developer's salary you can't do the same as the terminal. If you have a budget for a dev then by all means get the data yourself and do your own stuff ;)

> Buffett's number one rule is not to lose money. Sometimes pithy quotes hold lot of wisdom.

I'm glad his wisdom helps you. I think it's a marketing slogan since to me it conveys no information, or no more than stating the desired outcome without giving you an idea of how to do it, which is not useful.

Also, I did get a downvote for expressing an opinion! Only a few more and I'll be out of this platform ;)
I remember reading it was a deer trail from long before humans arrived. Dilophosaurus trail before that, probably.
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Product Discovery Process: 3 Question Categories to Follow
Keeping NetBSD up-to-date with pkg_comp 2.0
I don't understand where Stripe is showing as being cheaper?

Adyen for example for Mastercard:
€0,10 + Interchange++ (average total 0.90% - 1.10%)

Stripe advertised in Europe for Mastercard:
€0,25 + 1.4% of transaction.
The difference is of degree, not kind.

To put another way, if the leaders of a modern mob had the power to execute their targets the way Danton or Robespierre did, who is confident that they would not let the guillotine blade fall?
Mostly things against Russia. Only one thing that was particularly interesting that, unlike US, EU never did an investigation on possible influence of Russia in their 2016 referendum/Brexit even though they were aware of it.

> We have not been provided with any post-referendum assessment of Russian
attempts at interference, *.53 This situation is in stark contrast to the US handling of
allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, where an intelligence
community assessment54 was produced within two months of the vote, with an unclassified
summary being made public. Whilst the issues at stake in the EU referendum campaign are
less clear-cut, it is nonetheless the Committee’s view that the UK Intelligence Community
should produce an analogous assessment of potential Russian interference in the EU
referendum and that an unclassified summary of it be published
> large organizations

Interestingly Amazon just finished a multi-year effort to migrate off MediaWiki internally to comply with an infosec mandate that PHP is banned company wide.
They are very much a problem still, I've punctured a tire recently (the expansive puncture-resistant one). That's after several punctures last year (but that was on a regular old tires, that's why I switched). Before you ask - it's not a problem with the wheel or anything, I've had it checked.

I've never had a flat tire in the countryside trips, though. It's always on broken glass some jerks throw at bike lanes in bigger cities.

Also probably the fact I'm overweight is a factor.

BTW when I was about 7 I had a small bike with full-rubber tires. It was great, I wonder why it's not done for full-size bikes. It wasn't THAT much heavier.
I read this, and then went and read the article, and was expecting it to be hating on Elisp, but in fact the article defends it; FWIW, Elisp is generally hated, and that is one of the first (unfortunate) things I think of when I hear it come up in a conversation, so given that this author does not seem to agree I don't see anything wrong with this statement.
TikTok Is Spyware for the Chinese Regime, Cyber Experts Warn
Sounds like it'd be risky. Either it's small enough that it might come out while someone is drinking, posing a potential choking hazard, or it's big enough that people would need to open the can. Want to bet on what the accident rate would be for kids trying to cut open a can?
Not sure I'd be happy to find something floating inside a can...

Plus how do you get it out? The opening of the can is pretty sharp, could be dangerous especially with children
Funny a few years ago I thought that Failure Oriented Design could be a nice starting point. Think about all the failures/errors, the remaining space will then be a safe playground.
This is absolutely correct, and also shame on me for forgetting Imperial which is usually in the top ten as well.
This is because the Russian interference report was published about an hour ago, its a relevant conversation today.

If you can find evidence of the UK messing about with Russian or Chinese elections (if you can call them elections) We can get some Anti-GB articles going.
You are describing either 1) an Electron app; 2) A website; 3) A shortcut
Cryptocurrency gets a bad rap here (most of it rightfully so), but one thing is for sure, once you use it you realize how broken digital payment infrastructure is. With crypto, I can trivially send any amount of money very cheaply across any sort of borders. Also, accepting crypto as a merchant is extremely easy even to roll your own custom solution.
Really cool site and good tips.
It's not publicly listed, but from experience, their IC++ costs are decent
As I python dev I feel kinda the opposite: rust is surprisingly pretty with the exception of massive overuse of shift key to the point where I'd consider it a health hazard.

The only other low-level language that is pretty that I found is nim.