skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a perfect solution to self-hosting websites (e.g. wiki, grocy, monica) that's protected by an identity-aware proxy (e.g. Pomerium) that are expected to receive <1qps traffic.

(Most of my self-hosted web services are written in Go, I've being able to stay nginx-free thanks to Go's built-in web server.)
The author is a "she": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Tunney
Thank you for posting this. I definitely respond to the same boundaries but have not been able to articulate it until now.
> And the oceanic cycles absolutely dominate climate change.

I'm sure NASA or some other credible scientific organization must have reported on this highly intriguing idea. Link?
Its probably not quite as good as what is being described with the book shop but if you ride frequently and especially on rough mtb trails then you will probably end up going to the store once a month for replacement parts / services / clothes / new gadgets. And while you are there its common to have a chat about whats going on / new developments in public trails / etc.
Unfortunately for humanity, and to great joy among trolls and three letter agencies, IPv6 is by construction (perhaps accidentally but that doesn’t natter) an excellent way in practice to identify a device, household and therefore a person (or small liable group)

Non of the ISPs in my area are offering IPv6 prefix randomization - if I want not to be correlated, I need to switch ISPs. I am staying with IPv4 for now.
In-N-Out Billionaire Lynsi Snyder Opens Up
If you ever want to be bored out of your mind (at whatever level of detail that occurs for you), just ask someone in this field about the definitions of geoid, ellipsoid, etc. etc. and you will have hours (well, maybe minutes) of fun.
Well I have an important resource for this, the book "Hacker's Delight":

https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-2nd-Henry-Warren/dp/0...

This book will tell you how to efficiently generate condition flag values such as carry and overflow. It's easy when when you have extra bits available (such as emulating an 8 or 16 bit processor on a 32-bit processor), but less obvious when you are emulating a 32-bit processor on a 32-bit processor from a high level language.
Not always. Sometimes it's because it's too hot at night.
"My Big Fat GRSSK Wedding" was a big offender there.
Nice paper and important work.

Given that nearest-neighbor outperforms on closed book, is it reasonable to suspect the model is doing NN itself internally (which would explain the good performance on close duplicates?)

And if this is the case do you think training-time processing of data to attempt to move convert it to question/answer form data rather than raw QA would be a reasonable approach towards tackling this?
It's impressive. But there's a few things I want to see:

1. CPU performance over power consumption and heat dissipation. The A73 pushes for power efficiency, how does it perform in that arena [1]?

2. We've seen "experimental results" from hardware manufacturers before, let's see them independently verified. Those numbers could be margin-of-error [2].

3. Are those tests single or multi-core performance? If it has more cores and only just about edges ahead, that's not so impressive.

4. Does it need cooling? If not, how long can it sustain performance without throttling? That'll surely limit applications if so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A73

[2] http://3s81si1s5ygj3mzby34dq6qf-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-c...
That makes sense. Otherwise why bother conflating the programing language with the verification language.
It amazes me people think their brain works differently.

It's pretty close to believing in body/mind dualism, the only thing in neuroscience more outdated than Freud.

Your brain works within the same laws of physics as the outside world. We don't know how the brain works exactly. But once we understand it, it is unlikely to be qualitatively different from a neural network.

On the other side of the equation, the emergent behaviour of deep networks make them fundamentally different from the sort of statistics that came before. So even if the building blocks are old and boring, the larger system isn't.
Not only that, but there are active agents by the game authors working as "fellow" players that actively foment conflict to get players to buy the pay-to-win options.

The social manipulation is far more insidious than what casinos do.
It also plays havoc with screen readers! I feel sorry for any blind people scrolling down the home page at the moment.
I'm not advocating for Electron... I think either you're misunderstanding me or we're misunderstanding each other (quite possible as well).

I'm advocating for some small cross-platform cross-language API / runtime / framework (not sure what it looks like, but since most languages are targetting WASM (if this is what's making you think I'm advocating for Electron... then you missed my commentary about people making stand alone WASM runtimes) as opposed to solutions that are platform or language specific, and when I say platform specific lump in web (which means Electron too) in that bucket.

What most people want is to be able to use their own preferred language and do a UI without having to import a bunch of C or C++ libraries that will add additional overhead over their language.

Edit: Just saw the post you were referring to, it would of made more sense had you linked to it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256883

While this answers the 1 binary problem while producing a rather massive executable file larger than Electron in many cases, this still doesn't solve the problem I'm mentioning: We need a cross-platform cross-language UI solution. If you want to do away with things like Electron, you need to consider all platforms and all languages.
The key reason for ACA was to get more people insured. In fact the biggest criticism against it was that it would cost too much. No one expected overall healthcare spending to decrease.
This reminds me of reading Maya Angelou’s _I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings_ in high school.

I asked our teacher (who also made us memorize the opening to beouwouf) how Angelou could remember some of the quotes. I recall the teacher’s response being something like, “this is what she remembers”

Looking at that book now in the context of this thread I found this:

>Reviewers often categorize Caged Bird as autobiographical fiction because Angelou uses thematic development and other techniques common to fiction, but the prevailing critical view characterizes it as an autobiography, a genre she attempts to critique, change, and expand.
You mean like... games themselves?

You virtually purchase them, for platforms whose core servers get turned off so the game no longer works. No physical media, no long term guarantees of operation.
No local uni with math PhD students?
Yet, it is necessary...

Is it? What would happen if we just put a padlock on the door? Then no one would have to do the hard work of reforming an inflexible organization; they could all just retire. Sure we wouldn't buy any more F-35s, but we have enough bureaucrats and politicians outside the Pentagon that we'd figure out some other way to waste money.
This is why we won't solve climate change by simply planting trees. Planting trees is good but once the land is covered in trees like it was you can't go further. You have to start actively putting carbon underground so it doesn't end up in the air again.
Cutting-edge engineering borrows nature’s innovations
homogenous societies are inherently more efficient? the reality is the beauty of America is that we are a heterogeneous one, but there are of course some downsides to that.
It's quite ironic when one company's anti-competitive behavior paradoxically results in them preventing another company from achieving total monoculture domination.
That is a feature of the content rather than the technology. The original video was a silhouette piece in black & white: https://youtu.be/G3C-VevI36s

That's also why it has so much presence in the demo scene. It loses very little fidelity when transcribed to different mediums, be it teletext, ascii [1], flip dots [2], or an oscilloscope [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT2ufnGe9Cc

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko0z3SfXpm8

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psp0JfNlzRU
Bigscreen VR is exactly what you are talking about.
First, the USA definitely had an apartheid. Though that may be backwards, since apartheid in South Africa was based in part on the social order of the US south. But segregation and Jim Crow laws were a very clear example of "apart-ness" (apartheid). There has been a steady march to dismantle that apartheid including such major events as the civil war and the civil rights movement. When Barack Obama was elected, explicit apartheid had been largely dismantled, though there persists a large amount of implicit apartheid that remains.

Obama was hardly a man with no experience. He was a constitutional law scholar, a community organizer, a civil rights attorney, state senator for Illinois, and a US senator before he became president.

This isn't radical or leftist. The US had segregation (such systems are typically known as "apartheids" in today's vernacular), which continues to have large systematic repercussions.
Pull the stick out your ass, this is America.
I agree with you, but only indirectly.
Is that why indoor LED growing lights have that purple-ish tint to them? I never knew that. I knew about the red, but never the blue. You're awesome. Thanks so much.
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It's funny how many of these terrible poems sort of work if you imagine Ad-rock and MCA from the Beastie Boys rapping them back and forth.
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I have some CJK tools, but honestly think Pleco (https://www.pleco.com/, as a sibling commenter pointed out) is the best tool available by far. You can add-on as many dictionaries as you like.

I re-launched a website today Chinese Flashcards: https://www.hskflashcards.com/ - navigate cards with swipes on mobile, hjkl and arrow keys. It's in a very early state at the moment, though

- CLI tool for looking on hanzi characters here: https://cihai-cli.git-pull.com/

I split it into library components so you can use the stuff under the hood piecemeal if you do Python:

- https://cihai.git-pull.com/: python library for accessing cjk data

- https://unihan-etl.git-pull.com/ extract data from the Unicode’s Han Unification (UNIHAN) database (https://unihan-etl.git-pull.com/unihan.html)
“One day, the virus will subside. It could be eradicated. But even then, life will not simply return to the way it was before Covid-19. Spurred on by the coronavirus crisis, architects have been rethinking the buildings we inhabit.“
I don't have a specific suggestion for learning to make CPU emulators in particular.

As thethirdone said in his comment, the official specification is the most important resource.

The actual body of the simulator is mostly going to be a lot of lookup tables. You'll probably have a struct or class that stores the state of the CPU at a specific instant in time. Your main loop will be calling a next_state() function on that object. For your sanity, I would highly suggest making your state object immutable.

I have found breaking out the ALU, instruction decoder, and control logic into separate functions is a good way to split things apart.
Absolutely. I agree. Production of remedies is just as important as non-production of non-essential industries. The fewer people there are out and about, the better off we are during this pandemic. The fact that there's been so little direct aid to people directly impacted is baffling to me. Corporations don't need money to sustain themselves. That's classical neocon supply-side thinking at work. We're in a situation where demand-side thinking and stimulus is critical.

If nothing else, I have a foolish hope that this pandemic will force us to reexamine our way of life and alter it to be more community-centric and relax our competitiveness. There's no reason life has to move at the speed it does. There's no reason the workweek needs to be 40 hours. There's no reason parents can't spend more time with their children and all people can have more leisure and unstructured playtime.

And finally, I 100% agree. I have little faith in most corporations that are doing things that shouldn't be scarce goods - such as medical care and pharmaceuticals. Relying on them to deliver us through this disaster is foolish. Their incentive is _not_ on getting us through this. It's on delivering shareholder value and right now, they're delivering all kinds of value since they're in higher demand. We should view it as a failing when private industry is our only hope of deliverance from a disaster.
Don't speak Russian but this was awesome to watch. I guess like driving a bicycle, you don't forget how to fly a plane.
Like I said, this is why you want all of the above. Digital contact tracing can do that.
Why is the president making vaccine decisions? I thought he was the commander and chief of the armed forces?
Out of curiosity I compress a 3 hour lecture one time to 70 MB and was totally surprised by how watchable it still was. It got me wondering, out of that 10 GB ultra uber HD XXL video there is about 50 MB that you must have, 100-200 MB of data that would be really useful but the rest quickly drops to "nice to have but not at all necessary". (my numbers are mostly imaginary)

I strongly think that packaging and delivery methods should be specifically designed for the goods being shipped. (Sand is not glass)

Poor TV and radio signals use to gradually degrade the picture and audio. Even with partial reception you could still figure out useful things like if your city was going to get bombed.

Today on p2p you get a multi GB blob of data with which you cant do anything until you got all of it. Streaming will only give you the beginning which could be worse than not watching something.

But if we take say 100 fold and do 70 GB of reads for a 700 MB video... (I guess a few more numbers here and below)

From the 80's to 90's memory went up from 16 kb to 1 MB. From 90's - 2000 from 1 MB to 512 MB. From 2000 to 2010: 512 MB to 48 GB. 2020, 128 GB? (rather disappointing compared to the previous jump) Is 512 GB a reasonable guess for 2030? I don't think we will see the 32 000 fold increase from 1980-2000 but 2 or 4 times seems reasonable? 70 GB of reads wouldn't be such a big deal.

Monitors will grow of course but houses are getting smaller. We can do all 4 walls, then the ceiling and even the floor, increase frame rate and resolution but it has to stop eventually. (haha)
I am looking forward to more details on this.

I also think that allowing the user to track the changes made to this algorithm along with some metrics ( like how much time user spent on topics, time wasted etc) would provide a helpful feedback loop.
Nice tool! At least now I know the egress IP of my Lightsail/EC2 instance running WireGuard has zero history when it comes to torrent traffic.

I always switch from my personal to a commercial VPN if I need to do anything that could be construed as questionable, or whenever I need both privacy as well as anonymity.
Taking Care of Ego and Selfishness
As a guess, perhaps the unfiltered light that gets through goes through a phase change from being reflected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_phase_change
like this?

const a = new Uint8Array([0xFE])

const b = new Uint8Array([0x02])

a[0] = a[0] + b[0]
As a long time (97) user of Python who completed a couple katas in Ruby, Ruby has _regular_ magic, as in it is predictable. Python magic is adhoc.
:) This very link is used in the article where it is linked with the text "Zeus Hammers"
A vote on a question used to only get half as many points as a vote on an answer, 5 vs. 10. They changed that recently, don't remember why - now it's 10 for each.
Hang on, so if you shine a white light through a blue filter, the light on the other side looks blue. And the filter itself still looks blue on both sides. But then, where did the non-blue component of the light go?
That’s kind of a sweeping generalization for the few examples here and not exactly applying the scientific method, don’t you think?

I hope you notice that I’m purposefully not using legal jargon because I genuinely want an honest communication where we understand each other. Jargon is not a sign of intelligence but rather of hiding.

And I hope we get lots more, because I’d really like to see the nature of the problem. Not to dismiss anyone here, but remember we haven’t looked at any of the patent claims and actual references, and unless I’m missing something, no one’s stated having expertise in the patent field.

When large company A licenses its 2000 patents to large company B for $470 million, and thrown in the mix are other rights, license and non-competes, that doesn’t make the news because the deal is confidential. I’ve done a lot of these, and I’m not bragging here because a lot of others on here have too, but it’s a plain fact that you wouldn’t know about these unless if you were a cxo at one of those companies or their lawyers. But you definitely would see reports about a no-name patent troll suing a startup. The bogeyman is spotted by your local tech reporter/blogger, emboldened by the fact that everyone thinks like her/him and won’t question the various biases and misinformation.

Also consider that today the distinction between hardware and software is really arbitrary. It’s more about the type of instructions being implemented. Anything implemented on software can be embedded into firmware and the like. Can you imagine how arbitrary and nonsensical would be a patent system that says you can’t protect software, but if you burn it into a chip you can protect it? That's the definition of a bad law.

But that’s different than say software for implementing a business process. In my view, and I may be wrong, that’s why you’ll see the CY folks make a distinction between patents for rockets versus for an online store.
I thought mozilla irc was shut down?
So, what does a journaling FS helps in a power loss? You just restart backup anyway. What’s the concern there?
Something else to mention - the pipeline of attracting smart students from all over the world (especially China and India), educating them, giving them green cards and having them continue researching at US universities or working for US companies is basically done. It might not be immediately apparent, but we are going to see a significant change in high-skilled labor availability and output in America over the next decade.
Some of the core of Tesla's fundamental advantages are their lead in integration of battery technology.

Their battery tech is "good", but that could disappear at any moment with the theoretical advantages of solid state / lithium metal batteries over what is used now.

Their software lead isn't that great however (aside from whatever state their self-driving is in ), that's pretty straightforward software and integration and UI, and really underlines how functionally stupid the incumbent ICE companies are that "over the air update" is magical technology to them.

So Tesla's lead is substantive in the moment, but still very much tenuous.

Many other ICE companies could vertically integrate to match. Every new platform by a company, and EVs generally demand a fundamentally new platform, would be an opportunity to match a great deal of Tesla's vertical integration.

But the mainline ICE makers have been so slow and so stody and so stupid and so corrupt for sooooo long, and that runs far deeper than just the C-suite in their management hierarchies, that they will probably still be asleep at the switch for ten years, despite the fact that nothing besides organizational malaise stops them from changing course.
There are a few sides to the story, you are viewing this as a software developer, as you mentioned. You need to put on a different hat, and then decide it patents are valuable, where, and why. As much as there are horribly abused software patents, I assume the same of other patents types as well.

A patent is intended to protect an invention. In most cases, that means the intention is for the benefit of a business, even though the patent itself is awarded to individuals.

If you ask me as a software engineer, how I feel about patents, I'll say I don't like them. I don't like having to be concerned that the way I implement a certain feature could be limited because somebody else came to the same or similar solution as I did.

As a business owner, ask me how I feel about patents, and now the line gets a bit blurrier. I don't like that somebody can sue me for a product I created and am selling, but I do like that I can protect something I created from being nocked off and copied.

We're currently building a sleep-tech hardware product (it's pretty cool https://soundmind.co) and in an industrial design meeting, it was suggested that we get our hands on a similar product in the market so we can reverse engineer it. Me and my co-founder both hated that idea. We already have a unique take on the market, and our own method of doing things which we feel is a better way. But apparently, there are many people who think it is just fine to take a product, figure out how to copy it, and do that and try to sell it.

This can happen in software or in hardware. Why should it be any different from one to the other?

Now the other challenge comes in when you have examples like the x-plane given by @taf2 in the comments, or Amazon's one-click patent. These should have been obvious to the patent office that the inventions either already existed or were obvious, and should not have been given protection in the first place.

I hope you are able to disrupt the current state of patents for software as it could be valuable if handled properly. But I wouldn't go around asking software engineers what they would like in a patent protection service, you need to speak to business owners.
I see. Ok, well at least it's not some tech app service trying to charge on the front end and make money off the back too.
"Tunney has described Occupy Wall Street as a far-left movement.[13] Her former comrades have described her as a technocratic fascist.[14]"

Wow, although I'm not familiar with her, this wiki article seems a bit melodramatic
The Covid App in New Zealand doesn't use the bluetooth apple/google method. Rather, it is based on QR codes that are printed and posted by every business.

I was initially pretty disappointed in this approach, but I have changed my mind, and now agree with Cory Doctorow, and the New Zealand method.

The app just keeps a (local, temporary) diary of when/where you check in. That's pretty much it. If you talk to a contact tracer, you can send them your diary as a way to augment other sources of information: Your memory, your bank statements, your transit card info, etc.

I was disappointed with the app because I thought there was no way it would be effective as a complete contact tracing solution. I now understand that of course _no_ app could do that. Better to have something modest that fits nicely into a wider strategy.
Long-long time ago I was posting about this on Meta: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/166952/old-timers-l...
Not the parent you're responding to but the answer I see is that in the modern understanding of geopolitics (like 19th century and onwards), "fairness" and "values" aren't considerations at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik
you can do this with google search autocomplete, and it's especially effective on corporate WiFi at revealing co-workers search interests

"Why is my..." "when do we..." "how to ask..."
"How do I..." "how to tell if i got" "divorce attorneys <city>"

While this post may seem unsubstantial at best, my point is to never search for anything personal while connected to a shared wifi network - even if you're doing it from the privacy of your own device.
Quotes from Moral Mazes (2019)
http://archive.is/7RvTS