skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in the Kindle division and got to see a lot of the prototypes being soldered and tested.

The most interesting one to me was the version that had a metallic case with over 1,000 holes drilled into it as a esthetic design feature. This made it unmanufacturable - Foxconn had to buy thousands of additional CNC machines just to drill those little holes.

If you're interested in reading about how physical items can be made unmfg., read about all the startups that request "Apple white plastic", which requires cleaning every machine in the factory to get bright white for just your run.
μPlot v1.1 – now with log scales support
What's the best way to support the fight against this? Boycott the companies linked to the labor from these camps? Boycott all Made in China goods?
Grey matter is where knowledge is stored. White matter is where the connections are. Enhance those connections. For that, I recommend learning to juggle. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091016114055.h...
Funny about that fish. As soon as I hear "neuroscience" or "neoroplasticity" it triggers my BS detector. The former because it's used to add credibility to a lot of really fuzzy stuff and the later because it's a big fancy word for being able to learn or change.

That's not to say I automatically regard something as BS because of those words, but they increase my level of scrutiny.
Perhaps because it existed, it never had to be used. Deterrence is a feature. An ounce of prevention, as they say.
What Linux distro are you using? Couldn't find any of the util tools in Ubuntu's packages.
May be rooted in the natural world, eg. locusts, but there was a Michael Crichton (author of Jurassic Park) book titled Swarm, about a nano-drone apocalypse (fictional novel treatment of something like Bill Joy's gray goo).
I believe the accepted understanding is that a swarm operates with emergent behavior above and beyond that of its mostly ignorant constituent individual organisms, be they ants/bees/locusts/people or HFT algos.
My only hope for homomorphic encryption is that it doesn't cause a new era of invasive DRM and anti-circumvention methods.
There could be multiple factors I think, like: your language skill level, translation quality, "closeness" of languages, psychological predisposition towards your native language.

Depending on the form of the thing you are translating it can be simply impossible to translate properly (like poetry).

I'm currently reading English translation of "Black Obelisk" which I believe is written in German and it isn't any worse than Russian translation (my native language) to me.

In any case, what was originally asserted is that English is somehow worse than other languages as a "transitional" translation language for words or simple phrases, so I argued with that specific idea. Translating literary works is a subject of it's own and where the quality is much harder to measure.
Circular slide rules tend to have smaller scales which may be harder to read but being circular has a great advantage. Look at how much effort in the OP is devoted to cases where the answer would ordinarily be off the end of the scale.
Oh wow, I get that semi-regularly (couple times a year maybe) when I'm sitting with in front of my HTPC TV with my wireless keyboard. Everything feels far away, and I feel tiny and dissociated from my actions. Not subtle at all. Standing up snaps me out of it, but it feels kind of cool so usually I let it persist.

I don't think it's ever preceded any kind of headache, but I've never tried to correlate the timing with anything else. I'll have to pay more attention when it happens again.
Yet the representations are bijective, no? Doesn't it imply that (assuming a complete and consistent translator, a huge assumption I know) that any SPIR-V works as-as in WGSL?

Regardless, I appreciate your efforts. A huge disappointment that a common and shared IR could not be agreed on.
i tagged v1.1 a bit ago, with lots of goodies and new demos.

main project page: https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot
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> So thank you, Post, Pickett, K&E! And Tutor-Text as well.

I didn't even grow up in this era and I keep buying stuff from eBay purely out of fascination for old ways of doing things. These names on all kinds of things I have horded - architectural templates, drafting machine, cutting mat, compass set, lettering templates, etc.

Thanks for sharing your story!
Trump to act on Chinese software companies in coming days, Pompeo says
That sounds like several PHP developers I've worked with, who have learned to code in the post-framework era and who have therefore literally never written a vanilla PHP script, or even in some cases used standard library functions.
They needed 60 to avoid a filibuster. A filibuster would've required Republicans to obstruct the vote by speaking continuously on why Americans don't deserve healthcare. Democrats had them backed in a corner. All they had to do was propose a bill that benefited everyday Americans instead of corporate backers and they would've made the Republicans look like absolute fools for speaking endlessly against it. A filibuster only lasts as long as the opposition keeps debate open.
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> “Are you trying to tell me that people who can barely pay their bills should not be able to show support for your product if they so choose?”

This is laughable. I’m an avid torrentor, but I don’t delude myself into thinking what I’m doing is good for the copyright holder.
> unifying the mindsets of all people via the same language

There is a Sapir-Whorfian assumption here that it is the language that enslaves the mind, rather than the collective minds that are constantly shaping, morphing and bending the language. To me, the prospect of cultures having to communicate with each other via such a broken mechanism as translation is far more repugnant than a linguistically unified superculture within which ideas flow unimpeded.

The more language users there are, the more capable of expression the language will become; so no, I am not particularly worried about getting stuck in a local maximum.
I typically see developers get stuck in one of the 5 stages of error handling.

Denial: There won’t be an error, no need to catch anything. If an error happens just keep running it’s fine.

Anger: Fuck this shit! Just delete this code, there’s gotta be a better way, a better library, a better language!

Bargaining: What about a graceful fall back? Or maybe some kind of user prompt, or perhaps make it a feature!?

Depression: There’s nothing we can do about it, we’ve thought of everything.

Acceptance: Crash the program.
Im sad to see invideo.us go, I was a casual user and loved the simplicity of it. But the reality is that open source goodwill projects have a cost in resources and free cannot really survive as free in the long term, whoever is maintaining the software has a life and bills.
Does the article ever actually mention what he failed at? He developed an open source game engine and... what? Did he expect people to donate to him or something? What was the monetization plan?
Fahrenheit was initially intended to have 96°F be equal to body temperature (in fact it was one of the three fixed points in the temperature scale, designed to have 64 steps between the freezing point of water at 32°F and human body temperature).

However after the introduction of Celcius, Fahrenheit was redefined slightly (with the freezing and boiling point of water being the fixed "nice" values for the scale -- to match the model used by Celcius) which resulted in human body temperature no longer having such a nice value. This also moved the 0°F value. So while technically Fahrenheit does predate Celcius and it did have a "nice" value for body temperature when invented, it was soon afterwards redefined such that arguably the value is just a conversion from Celcius.

In short, you're both correct. :D
No Satire here. The thing about the magnet in the finger is that you can not only feel metals or other magnets but with it beeing implanted near a very sensitive nerves you can feel alternating magnetic fields, for example transformers, electric powerlines etc. Thats something a magnet in my pocket cannot do. That beeing said, my magnet got rejected pretty fast and i chose not to reimplant it after that since i also had problems typing with it.

My argument for a magnet, even though it might lose magnetic power over time, compared to an RFID Chip is that the magnet implanted gives you a new sense that you cannot get without implanting it. Compared to a rfid for paying which can be replaced by a phone/watch/card without losing functionality and magnets aren't going to become obsolete by the whimps of a bank or cc provider.
Take a look at the PJON protocol that is a perfect example of a local-first networking technology, I am really amazed by the job they did on that! https://github.com/gioblu/PJON
What's wrong with hosting software locally and buying 3rd-party support for the stuff that's "not core competency"? It eliminates a single point of failure.
You do have to defend Trademarks, but only in egregious cases. According to the article you linked, you can lose a trademark if it becomes a generic term (zipper, xerox a document, etc), or you completely stop using it for multiple years.

So, there are some nuances. However, courts have repeatedly ruled you do not need to levy lawsuits at everyone that uses your trademark.

In fact, if your defense is so egregiously over-aggressive, you may be liable due to misuse of trademark.

Unfortunately, while they could do so in theory, the US has never revoked a trademark in such cases.

If they started doing that, it would put an end to SLAPP trademark suits, and a lot of lawyers would be out of work.
I definetly want to make my own country where do I signup?
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>when this organization is also going after cartoons.

It's the law that is the problem not the organization. Originally these laws where made to protect people. But over time the laws became a moral enforcement on people. For obvious reasons no politician did intervene and the people who made the law celebrated them self as the heroes who protect the most vulnerable.
The same flaw in laws are made over and over again basically every time something is made illegal that does not actually hurt or put other people in danger.
They just make whatever illegal and think its doing something good or even solves a problem. Whether its illegal images, videos, audio, books, games, substances or tools. Even descriptions on how to create "that illegal thing" are made illegal. On top of that the laws are sometimes conflicting like you are not allowed to store or transfer certain illegal data but at the same time you should hand it over to authorities. You may also not be allowed to delete it as it could be evidence of a crime. Or worse you may be the owner of something illegal that someone gifted to you. Sounds stupid but there are places where the content of your mailbox digital or not is considered your possession although anyone can drop in whatever they want. In the end such laws put people in danger rather than protecting people.
One unexpected advantage in some circumstances of a slide rule over current portable computing devices is that it does not have memory.

You are allowed to bring a calculator to ham radio license exams in the US, but you have to clear its memory (both data and program memory for programmable calculators) first. If the examiners aren't sure you have done so, they are supposed to disallow the calculator.

Unlike many other standardized tests, there is no specific list of what calculators are allowed. I brought my HP-15C, but wasn't sure that the examiners would be familiar with it and so wasn't sure I'd be able to convince them that I had cleared it.

I also brought a slide rule. That way if the examiners disallowed my HP-15C I'd still be covered.

They did allow the HP-15C, and it turned out that even though I took all three exams (Technician, General, and Extra) that day, I only actually used the calculator once. The questions are all multiple choice, and there was only one where a quick mental approximation wasn't enough to identify the right answer.
I guess people would ask YOU where to sign up.
Thanks, I was wondering why that reading that link was like stabbing myself in the eyeballs :) Reader View is a great tip!
I've been trying to figure out how to use my grandfathers Dietzgen Maniphase Multiplex Decimal Trigtype Log Log rule. I found the manual on this site! Very cool!
Here's a list of Netflix blog posts about AWS.

https://netflixtechblog.com/tagged/aws
Who funds these guys?
The principals appear to be mostly from southwest Asia: https://cgpolicy.org/experts/our-people/
My point is that if you are using JS as a wrapper for a big black box of gpu computations that are close to the metal then you are not really using JS in any meaningful sense and can wrap anything else that has a much better library ecosystem and performance qualities for anything that you’re not just getting the gpu to crank out in a server context (which is implied by nodejs).

There’s the speed of generating inputs, the speed of transforming and passing data at the input/output boundaries, and the ability to conveniently and performantly work with data in memory natively (i.e. while not outsourcing the computations elsewhere) that matters here. Is JS a great choice for any of these things? Most importantly, the last thing? This library isn’t using ArrayBuffers for setting up all data or working on the data in JS so even if they work great for performance it seems totally irrelevant and let’s be honest, if it were working with ArrayBuffers directly you would be so far away from usual JS and any convenience JS offers, you might as well not be writing JS.https://www.bloggerzune.com/2020/05/follow-my-blog-with-blog...
Would you please elaborate on how you believe this might happen? I can't see how this would enable a "stronger" DRM scheme, as the video/audio/whatever would still have to be decrypted.
From what I vaguely understand, the goal here is to reduce jerkiness if you render faster than you tick your physics. But then I always thought that beyond stability, the other main reason to make your physics time step independent from rendering is so that you can tick physics more often than you draw.

(Thinking about it now, I suppose this trick lets you update physics less frequently than drawing while faking fluid movement, and free up CPU time for other tasks.)
I recall shaving one or two bytes off one of the cell messages shaved something like $7MM off the monthly AT&T bill...
I stand corrected then. Thanks for clarifying. I remember lots of talk about that back then and I was not aware of the details.
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Since GARMIN is a publicly traded company, couldn’t an investor demand to know if the money was paid, and if they don’t get an answer, they could go to the SEC? Could they sue?
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I’m curious if the average company even bothers planning/testing their ability to recover from a ransom ware attack wo paying.

Like do they even bother planning for that or are they unaware of the risk or did they decide it’s more cost effective to purely rely on prevention and plan to pay any ransom.

I feel like there should be a regulation, where if they pay the ransom then they get a penalty of 2-5x the ransom charged.
> Leftists and sympathizers who deflect with "But America..." with absolutely no sense of relative scale.

Are you sure? I looked into the prison population in the US and it's on par with the number of Uyghurs in these camps. And that's absolute numbers, not per capita.
Well I'm also super concerned that he has expressed dictatorial aspirations. But as of right now the constitution holds.
Isn't the whole point of pseudocode that it's a language-agnostic description of an algorithm? Pseudocode written in the 1970s still stands up -- imagine if a COBOL block had been in its place.
This is a case study in why people get discouraged from contributing to open source. When I maintained a linux driver, I absolutely dreaded dealing with the netdev mailing list. I used to delegate that to linux fanatics in the company when I could.
>I wish the US could lead on this with moral authority, but in order to credibly do so I think it will have to reckon with its own actions

How does that work? Is there a global arbiter of moral authority? Is there an international court that can say "you now have moral authority; go forth and use it wisely"? Why can't China just say, no matter what..."no, we don't think you have moral authority"? Sincerely or not. Why wouldn't the Chinese government think it is the authority?

I was just reading some of George Orwell's letters from the 1940s, and it's amazing to read his observations of the politics in Britain without the benefit of hindsight. Germany certainly didn't recognize Britain's moral authority to criticize them, in the context of their crumbling empire. I can't remember where I read an anecdote, but supposedly a Brit in one of their colonies was explaining to a draftee why the war was worth fighting, and they said something like "Each country should be ruled by its own people; Britons should rule Britain; Germans should rule Germany; but Germany has been upsetting the normal order of things..." And the African draftee went (it was implied) hmmm...
> The obvious use case is AAA games running in your browser

Er, no? Why would an AAA game, which typically wants every ounce of performance and control it can get, ever jump onto a web platform and lose all of that? And in exchange get... nothing at all? And since modern consoles are the same architecture & ISAs as gaming PCs are, why would they want to figure out a WASM backend with lagging hardware support & high overhead when 100% of their users are x86-64 with the entirely same set of SIMD features? And do they just not run an anti-cheat or DRM system? Good luck with that sales pitch.

It's not like you'll ever be able to click a link and just start playing a AAA game locally in your browser, either, you need to pull several gigs of assets first. And go through a login/paywall unless we're only talking F2P games which are almost never AAA games.

This use case comes up a lot, but if (and that's a big if) it happens, AAA games will be the last thing to switch, not the first. More plausible first users would be things like CAD & 3D modelling applications, which need high performance but also don't have 80GB+ installs.
Of course it’s rooted in the natural world. Even technical language is analogy and metaphor to natural phenomenon.

Any reputable scientist will tell you just that.

Using swarm in the context science fiction bugs is indirection.

It could be conceptualized otherwise but in writing at large it’s almost always used as an analogy to animal behavior (like a swarm of $natural_being).

I believe what you believe the accepted understanding is is just your opinion. It’s not my understanding of it at all.
There is a third option: Let someone else host it. Having only one supplier is a monopoly. But if many companies compete about serving customers, you can choose the company with the best service, or if you prefer - the lowest prices.
It's not even close to playing without touching the bar.
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> This is not an arbitrary decision made in a vacuum. There’s an ongoing judicial inquiry, and the accounts suspended were linked to persons of interest. They’re currently being investigated for crimes in both civil and penal spheres.

Except that this "judicial inquiry" is anything but lawful. The offended side (the supreme court) is also the inquirer and the judge. There is nothing in the law that allows this, and the constitution plainly prohibits it. They are abusing their power and are censoring activists, journalists and politicians, plain and simple.

> (which the accused parties have access to)

Even the OAB (brazilian akin to advocates' guild) recognized this wasn't the case for at leas two weeks. And when the accused were given access to formal accusation, they only had access to a small chapter of it.
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I guess I'm old enough to remember 2019, when Elon Musk raised the specter of the company running out of cash if they didn't engage in massive cost cutting [1,2]. Or even 2018, when Tesla's stock price crashed because Musk was joking about bankruptcy [3].

But leaving recent history aside: the fact of the matter is that Tesla is now valued at 136% the market capitalization of Toyota, an organization that currently ships about 50x more vehicles each year than Tesla does.

The only possible way for Tesla to achieve earnings from car sales that justify this stock price* (on a reasonable time scale) is to build out their manufacturing capabilities at an unimaginable scale and pace. The amount of capital that this will require is vastly higher than anything Tesla has raised before. And since the period we're discussing is long enough that we can't predict global market conditions, Tesla may find themselves doing this remarkable build-out during a period where capital isn't easy or inexpensive to come by.

* I'm assuming here that the market cap of Tesla reflects some realistic theory about future earnings, and isn't just a massive and unjustified bubble. Which it probably is.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629166/elon-musk-tesla-...
[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-may-avert-bankruptcy-bu...
[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-shares-sink-as-musk-jokes...