skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen a 'trusted links' concept in production: imagine you have news stories (or similar) behind a paywall. You send out emails to your customers with direct story links that include a token which bypasses the paywall. Optionally, have that link log the user in a low-trust context where step-up auth is required to do e.g. account management.
Marginal energy consumption is ignorable
A man with a vision. Kudos to him
Ah! Yup, you're right - I misread then.
Cool, then yes, we’re on the same page here, I am just extremely cautious when talking about this. It is true that that stuff would indicate a larger problem, but it’s not like we haven’t discovered unexpected larger problems in the past.
We could probably use some numbers here.
I was talking about gamers in general. You moved the goalposts by making it about public figure gamers.
Exactly. You can do the legwork and come up with numbers that say "86 percent of this movement's members appear to have pure intentions" and feel good about it but ultimately it doesn't make a difference. Informal groups cannot be judged as a whole because they don't control their members. Media will always portray them in the most profitable way and it's our responsibility to make a value judgment on their central message and to hold bad actors individually responsible for their actions without bias one way or the other.
Software can be patched by hackers too, which is why you need hardware solutions for security in some cases.

How will your software solution guarantee that the code running is what you think it is?
Show HN: Starboard – Fully in-browser literate notebooks like Jupyter Notebook
That is actually a really good idea!
Except that AFP is 3 to 5 times faster on 10GigE. SMB implementation on MacOS has always been a joke, and still is. As long as you're only networking with WiFi, it's probably OK. But when you do serious video editing, AFP still reigns supreme (but apparently almost nobody knows it).

Case in point : recently, tested using a Hackintosh and a hand-built high performance NAS (100 TB), 10GigE ethernet.

Running Windows 10 on the Hackintosh, SMB protocol : ~900 MB/s read/write

Running MacOS on the same machine , SMB protocol : ~200 MB/s read/write

Running MacOS, AFP protocol : ~1 GB/s read/write.
> a 5x speedup [...] I also wonder if you'd even bother writing code to do it on the GPU in the first place

A 5x speed-up is very significant in many applications! I've spent a bunch of energy on several projects just aiming for a 2x speed-up on GPUs - battling against SIMD and other optimisations on the CPU side.

As for real-world examples: The tensforflow.js CPU back-end runs something like 10x slower than the WebGL back-end, and I've got some great mileage out of the CPU back-end in simple node.js apps that don't have a GPU attached to their server.
It's awesome that you managed to keep going. For me it was a combination of my best friend from childhood passing away, a heartbreaker and ultimately moving back home in the other side of Europe in the beginning of winter, having to look for a job, sort out a roof over my head(and a ton of other crap) and by the time that had settled and snow had gone away, I was completely out of it. Though I'm still mildly interested in it. Old habits die hard I guess...
> it looked bad for PR.

It's a shame the lengths universities will go just to make sure they look good, even if that includes rehiring problematic employees.
> Cannot believe the president has the power without legal battle to ban business activity.

I didn't think State Governor's could ban legitimate business activity until very recently either.
Unnecessary accuracy is technical incompetence.
Do companies not have any kind of onboarding process that involves pairing and training? Even if someone knows how to code every project has its own tools and conventions that fresh hires cannot be expected to know. This is really on the company for just leaving her alone for months.
Do you have a specific criticism of their work, or are you just reacting to the title?
Retailers, Beware: Shoppers Don’t Like to Be Watched Online
>> was Steve Jobs known for fabrications? ... known to say outrageous falsehoods?

Just off the top of my head... He lied to Woz about being paid to develop break out and stole money from him to go to India; He presented essentially a block of wood as the finished, functioning iPhone in 2008-ish; oh, and he denied paternity of his daughter Lisa as in "I am not the father" even after a paternity test. The last one seems pretty outrageous.

I'm not convinced he viewed himself as outright lying; He probably had seen Knuth's books and in his brain that meant he had read and understood them in their entirety.

So maybe don't be so quick to dismiss this as junk. It's a pretty innocuous example but completely inline with his behavior.
Also because you might be broadcasting some kind of ID all the time.
Well, "drown" is a strong word, but I see feces (of questionably animal origin) all the time in my US city, on the sidewalks and otherwise.

In my building we have to put trash bins out in the alley, and people always throw dog shit in those on trash day, too.
Taking a look, it looks like they want to be an identity provider as well as hocking implants. tbh it's kinda weirding me out.
Does the more complicated stuff like bank payment require a vivokey identity?
Oh you're throwing climate change into the group of "absolute truth".

Philosophy of science isn't that objectively finalized btw. The whole Vienna school which got obliterated by philosophers because it said that only valid scientific statements are those which can be empirically verified.

I understand that majority of the people making a certain viewpoint may be stupid but don't take it as the strength of your scientific statements. Even theory of evolution may need major corrections tomorrow and could even turn out to be completely false.
If you know the salt you also have a way of generating an updated table that matches the salted hashes.
While i agree, i do think there is an aspect to it that's true.

Eg, when you visit a site you, imo - agree to some degree of privacy violation with that site. Ie, it's reasonable to expect them to know your IP. It's reasonable to expect them to know your rough location. It's reasonable to expect them to know your username if you log in, and etc.

What's unreasonable is the 50 sites that cascade off of an initial visit. I may have been fine giving my IP to bobsblog.com but not Google/etc.

An interesting extension of this idea would be a hosting service or web framework that didn't just say something like "no javascript", but rather "no external connections with your information". All images, CSS, JS, etc would be loaded locally and nothing would make any remote connections from your IP.

Come to think of it, this would be a neat "contract" that sites could agree to. Like No JS, such that browser clients could enforce it and get the expected UX on those sites. /shrug, just thinking out loud i suppose.
I think there are multiple factors that will prevent the US from ever taking a united stance on it:

1) Republicans are probably louder about criticizing China but lose credibility when they don't speak up about (less severe, but still serious) issues such as police here brutalizing protesters. There also needs to be a reckoning with our own national overreaches after terrorist attacks such as the Patriot Act -- the Uighur camps were built in response to some attacks in the Xinjiang region, and I don't think Republicans have set a good example for how governments should respond to that.

2) Leftists and sympathizers who deflect with "But America..." with absolutely no sense of relative scale. This happens so much that it's a trope[1], and China is more than happy to feed this[2].

3) In higher education and tech, sheer numbers of moderately patriotic Chinese citizens mean there can never be consensus. See what happened at Warwick [3] earlier this year with a student vote about Hong Kong. CSSA is at every large university here and they know how to organize. For an example re: Uighurs, some Chinese who have been fed a steady diet of state media since birth actually consider this story fake news (blind discussion [4]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

[2] https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/868566978/in-george-floyd-pro...

[3] https://www.axios.com/hong-kong-british-university-chinese-s...

[4] https://www.teamblind.com/post/Did-you-know-about-China-and-...
Facts-Based Fictional Worldbuilding
George Hotz: “Tesla's Going to Win Level 5” Vehicle Automation
black lives matter!!!
When I read this kind of thing, I ask myself: "Is this similar to the way that the moment I start discussing something remotely technical with my wife, she looks like she gives up within about ten seconds?" I just can't finish an article like this without wanting to throw up in my mouth.

I read an article like this and the US legal system seems so completely arbitrary and full of holes to be exploited by whomever can put ideological judges (with essentially lifetime appointments) in place first.

Comparing this to technical systems, both laws and old legacy systems have "tech debt" that has accrued over long periods of time. But, with a technical system, you can remove pieces when they hinder the working of the system.

With legal systems, it seems like everything is based on precedent. Which mean decisions, good or bad, force future decisions in the same direction.

Is this a fundamental misunderstanding of the way things actually work? If not, is there any hope of fixing that trait of the US legal system, where our criminal justice system has so many flaws that impact so many people in such awful ways?
I'm optimistic that computing and the internet could recreate the economic benefits of cities. At this point though collaboration tools still have a ways to go.

The other part that really needs to improve is the random discovery that comes from being packed in with so many other people. Places like HN provide a large part of that but there needs to be more of them.
Midea has a u-shaped unit that won some awards.

The compressor and radiator are outside. A section a couple inches tall contains the pipes, wiring, and braces. The fan, blower, filter and thermostat are in the front bit. Your window panes (hopefully double glazed or better?) and a couple inches of foam provide the sound dampening. The lowest displacement model claims 47dB with the fan and compressor at full bore.
If you have some objective metric then feel free to put it forward. “I see X on on Y all the time” is completely unsubstantive. Just one instance to make your point is all I am asking.
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Multiple ergonomics guides give the guidance I mentioned. Here’s a link to a few, but I encourage you to do your own research.

At the end of the day, if you’re finding that something helps to reduce long-term fatigue then it’s probably not too bad, but don’t forget that slouching in your chair feels good however it’s terrible ergonomically - this is similar. Comfortable short term, but not always long term.

All of these recommend at or slightly below eye level:

https://www.ors.od.nih.gov/sr/dohs/Documents/Computer%20Work...

https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/computerworkstations/compon...

https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/ergonomics/office/monitor_po...

https://www.worksafe.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/...

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in...

Etc..

The search I ran in google was “monitor ergonomics gov”
So just a LocalTalk to Ethernet bridge?
Hi HN, I developed Starboard over the past months.

Cell-by-cell notebooks like Jupyter are great for prototyping, explaining and exploration, but their dependence on a Python server (with often undocumented dependencies) limits their ability to be shared and remixed. Now that browsers support dynamic imports, it has become possible to create a similar workflow entirely in the browser.

That motivated me to build Starboard Notebook, a tool I wished existed. It's:

* Run entirely in the browser, there is no server or setup, it's all static files.

* Web-native, so no widget system is necessary. There is nearly no magic, it's all web tech (HTML, CSS, JS).

* Stores as a plaintext file, it will play nicely with version control systems.

* Hackable: the sandbox that your code gets run in contains the editor itself, so you can metaprogram the editor itself (e.g. adding support for other languages such as Python through WASM).

* Open source (https://github.com/gzuidhof/starboard-notebook).

You can import any code that targets the browser directly (e.g. puts stuff on the window object), or that has exports in ES module format.

I'm happy to answer any questions!
A Physicist’s Physicist Ponders the Nature of Reality (2017)
It’s not unstable or ambiguous at all.

-abcdefg.txt

In your hypothetical -b takes an argument which means it consumes all the characters following it. Anything following b is never interpreted as a flag. There is no danger of -c changing the parsing. Even if b takes an optional argument it still consumes all characters following it.
> That's a naive take. It's like saying roads enabled accidents and thus must be demolished.

No, it's like saying that roads which are found to be repeatedly causing accidents should be fixed in order to allow everyone to drive safely. Which is what happens in real life.

And you seemed to have turned a blind eye to the fact that ISPs have been for decades complying with court orders to remove access to illegal content hosted and made available by them. You don't need to resort to convoluted apples-to-oranges comparisons to understand the problem and it's solution.
This line of thinking is absurd.

Where are the US's death and labor camps? Global IP theft apparatus? Religious persecutions? Actual territorial expansion?

Oh, but we have a leader that says mean things. Totally on par with China.
Those are not actually compliant with the regulation - it explicitly forbids annoying/confusing/forced consent prompts.

There is a problem with the lack of enforcement, but the regulation itself is sane.
"full of pedants who like to spend days at a time reinventing economics from initial coin offerings when the topic is about bolstering worker efficiency through company metrics, but keep absolute silence as soon as the topic gets too technical like code optimization or sensible object models"
GPT-3 vs. Human Brain – Lex Fridman
Brazilian here. Our law is incompatible with the Internet as we know it.

Below is a brief excerpt from our 1989 Constitution, translated by myself:

Art. 5º Todos são iguais perante a lei, sem distinção de qualquer natureza, garantindo-se aos brasileiros e aos estrangeiros residentes no País a inviolabilidade do direito à vida, à liberdade, à igualdade, à segurança e à propriedade, nos termos seguintes:

(All men are equal by the law, without any distinction, guaranteed to Brazilians and foreigners living on the Country the inviolable right to life, freedom, equality, safety, property, on the following terms:)

(...)

IV - é livre a manifestação do pensamento, sendo vedado o anonimato;

(The freedom of speech/thinking is allowed, but anonymity is not)

(...)
Then, so far as I can see, it's not even a un-interesting take, since you can easily detect WebGL support before running GPU.js. Perhaps this was difficult to do with OpenCL in 2010, but it's a non-issue here.
Let's assume that the company has more cash that it can spend now, that its free cash flow grows faster than capex + opex. Then, if an equity raise is "incredibly cheap for shareholders", that would mean shareholders consider the stock price to be higher than what they expect in the future, i.e many would be selling and the stock price would come down. I don't assume the stock market to be rational but this thesis does not hold much, as the company can easily raise debt now, at a much cheaper price for shareholders than equity. Let's wait and see.
I don't think this is inherent to English, or any other language (perhaps in more specific cases when there is no word with the similar meaning).

I think in general we pack a concept in a word and lose some information this way, so when you want to be precise with what you are saying you have to bring your definitions with you. Essentially with translation you take a concept and "pack" it in a word, then look for an equivalent packing in different language, then unpack. Naturally, this process is prone to losing information.
"GITenberg is an exploration of how Project Gutenberg might work if all the Gutenberg texts were on Github, so that tools like version control, continuous integration, and pull-request workflow could be employed."

https://ebookfoundation.org/
these dont have any standard precedent for application in terms of tech and tech related fields , where geographic boundaries do not apply. china has had a free ride now i guess it has to pay , also the same could be said about china banning free speech and tech companies from other countries , i guess you will have no problem with that.
> The content is illegal in Brazil only for now.

There is no such thing as "only for now". Either it violates the law, or it doesn't. The court deemed that it breaks the law, thus the law should not continue to be broken. Hence the ruling.

> The ruling explicitly tells facebook to take down content worldwide.

The court determined that Facebook hosts content that violates the law. Therefore Facebook should remove the offending content. That's it.
I don’t understand why we don’t have a vertical AC unit. I think they are just too used to making them square. Might have something to do with constructing the radiator. Or habit.
I think you guys are missing the point of this Twitter thread.

Yes, the kindle itself is mediocre at best. Technically it’s got lot of issues, and I personally still prefer a physical book over it any day. But...

The thread was about being inspired. You can be inspired even while working on something that ultimately isn’t great. You can be inspired working with someone who has the reputation of not being the best boss. You can be inspired when you want to.

So while working on this mediocre device, which is pretty much the only way to consume books digitally, this guy loved every minute.

To me, that’s the lesson here.
Same here - I was ready to defend them on the naming theme, just like one of the other commenters here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022888 ) for many reasons, including the part where I am all for some inclusive profanity to liven the life a bit.

Then I talked with a friend who, among other things, was one of the developers at AdopteUnMec, and he gave me some direct links to both code and some other stuff done by the devs just on the AUM module, including api log test involving username Nazification.

Unfortunate, as I was really interested in the whole thing because wrapping websites in API to do some offline stuff had been on my mind recently, and this would have been at least a nice check of deduced website behaviours for my project :/
See the 18 proven ways on how to make 10 dollars a day online (2020)? https://vilesolid.com/how-to-make-10-dollars-a-day/
I’ve always thought that quote itself was curiously absolute. ‘Only’, Yoda?
Seems like a nice way of teaching them a lesson without being completely harsh. The thing the kid here doesn't understand, they get caught for pirating again by another organization, that set of lawyers now have documentation that they didn't learn their lesson from their last tango. They will pursue full damages and collect since any public apology will be meaningless.

And yea, there are settlements like this. For one, to hold certain IP rights, you have to defend them, even if you dont want to. Because if you dont, someone else can use that as a case you're not protecting your IP, thus party 2 can go around and sell it without legal recourse. This was a slap on the wrist that actually makes me like the UFC even more now.
This is one advantage of the customary (English language non-metric) units: the common ones are full of rational factors (1/2, 2/3 etc) — it’s pretty easy to adjust a recipe to the number of people.
Ask HN: Career success in a small town, remote working
Given four shifts in society:
1) StarLink (high speed, lower cost, anywhere broadband)
2) Corona virus company changes to accept remote working
3) Perceived higher quality of life in smaller towns
4) Affordable/low cost housing in these areas (1Euro homes with towns inviting people to come and renovate decrepit buildings)

What does HN think will happen to small villages/towns/hamlets as young professionals move away from cities as they have good career prospects being remote?

Secondly, how will these professionals/craftspeople/creators network effectively if they are not in a city?
Will we see a rise in:
- curated/selective networking opportunities at retreat style conferences
- online opportunities to meet up, meet random people in your field and adjacent

This has been bugging me for a while and would love some input!
My favorite was the guy who would come into work, put his jacket on his chair, and then... go to his other full time job. He'd return in the evening to get his stuff and make it look like he'd been working long hours. He got away with it for almost a month.
straight from /pol/ it seems :(
It's not really a hack is it? More like a fix or an optimization. I was excited for a second cause I have a single hose portable AC and I've been thinking about "hacking" it with an intake hose.

However, the more I use the thing the more I realize that there's nothing wrong with it. Since the rest of the house isn't air conditioned there are open windows and fans throughout. Air is more likely to be drawn in from the rest of the house than through the cracks to the outdoors. Might be an issue in a sealed studio apt, but in our leaky shoebox of a ranch style home, it's hardly the biggest inefficiency.
Some fun tidbits:

Every Kindle had a unique phone number.

By the time your Kindle shipped to you, it knew who its owner was, and had already logged you in and downloaded all your books.

Any time we wanted to push updates to them, we'd SMS it (IIRC) and the Kindle would connect back to figure out what needs doing.

Original Kindles had an (awful) web browser (and didn't charge for data). It was not bad at Google maps
Assuming the US average includes drunk drivers, sleepy drivers, inexperienced drivers, speeding drivers, etc, etc. and under hugely varying environmental conditions.
Not in germany :)
Google does a pretty decent job for me in Dutch; Duckduckgo and Bing are awful to the point of being useless. Don't agree with your hypothesis either, results are bad even for short simple sentences with common non-combined nouns.

They aren't that common in Dutch anyway unless they have evolved into a more or less standalone noun. Dutch nor English people really think of a flamethrower as a thrower of flames, it's just another noun.
One that seems rather important but missing is NIC receive coalesce. The feature delays frames to reduce the number of interrupts, thus increasing latency. Usually you want to turn this down as far as possible, but don’t set it to “1” because many NICs interpret that setting to mean “use black-box adaptive algorithm” and you don’t want that either.

It’s also quite helpful to run your Rx soft interrupts on the core that’s receiving the packet, but flow steering isn’t mentioned.
>You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.

Unfortunately the title is all that's available.
Are you serious? That place is more of a mental ward than a proper subreddit.