skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a lot of linux isos to download per day.

Seriously, why would you use that much data per day for? Even getting full blu-rays you wouldn't be able to watch that many.
The future is software engineers who can't code
This is infact a common feature on smaller browsers.
Thanks for buying Luna! :)

We've never taken features away and put them behind a subscription paywall, and we never intend to! So don't worry about that!

Also hardware allows us to have the upgrade pricing model you described. If we make a hardware device that's even better than the Luna you have now, you can choose to upgrade! Escaping the App Store model has been a really refreshing part of making hardware.
I agree. But I think the early adoptors mattered back in 2008.I reckon, with the dominance they now have, they are fine with some developers moving to firefox while still having time to react if they pull too many "normal" users with them. Especially since Mozilla isnt exactly peak popularity in terms of vision either.
eliza is in linux standard repositories, for example on ubuntu 20.04:

sudo apt-cache search eliza

sudo apt install -y libchatbot-eliza-perl

dpkg-query -L libchatbot-eliza-perl

/usr/share/doc/libchatbot-eliza-perl/examples/simple
> This is already what they did with "KB/MB/GB/TB."

The 'confusion' as to whether the "K" prefix meant a factor of 10^3 or 2^10 goes back decades.

In 1961 a book says "it is more usual to express the speed in bits or kilobits (1,000 bits) per second"; an IBM 1410 manual says ""The 40K core array requires 40,000 valid five-position addresses from 0,000 to 39,999." In 1962 an ACM paper referred to a "4K IBM 1401" which had 4000 characters of storage, but in 1964 Amdahl wrote a paper that had 1K meaning 1024. Academics went back and forth a bit it seems.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_binary_prefixes

For hard drives specifically, a 1974 example has Mbytes in the 10^6 sense. Further examples often have drives using the base-10 sense of the prefix (including the first 5 ¼ inch floppy), while memory chips using the base-2 sense of the prefix.

The powers-of-1024 nomenclature of kibi/mebi/etc was introduced in 1995, with IEEE mandating SI prefixes only be used for powers-of-1000 in 1997. The IEC follows suit a couple of years later.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
They did one the size of a large horse, but for the complexity and cost, it unfortunately didn’t seem to have much practical benefit over a semiautonomous 6-wheeler.
This is ridiculous. Not being able to take kids to school is already hard enough on parents. They're being forced to use their own home instead of taking them to a building their tax dollars pay for. It's already privacy evading enough that they have video cameras in their , but then they record the video and use it for BS like this. What a waste of resources.
This is why teachers unions do not want you to have a choice where you send your kid.

Because no sane adult would send a kid to a school that did this.
Another company to watch in this space is Terraformation, using reforestation to efficiently offset carbon at scale.

See:
https://medium.com/@yishan/a-massive-global-reforestation-pr...
I'm guessing we'll have that feature in the near future. iOS already "fixes" your eyes so that it appears you're looking at the camera despite looking at the screen. From there to detecting who you are looking at, and adjusting the image just for that person, seems quite feasible.
This. I’ve just gotten my pine phone and am going through all the trouble of recompiling basic software just to have a working phone that isn’t a “smartphone” and even I appreciated what apple did with mobile safari.
kB, MB, GB, etc. were genuinely ill-defined when the drive manufacturers started using them to their advantage. Those units were not standardized by SI or ISO, there was precedent for both the binary and decimal interpretations, the unambiguously binary KiB, MiB, etc. had not yet been introduced, and industry standards organizations like JEDEC and IEC were not particularly helpful in resolving the situation.

None of those mitigating/confounding factors apply to RPM, so the current lies are more blatant.

(Though it does seem somewhat relevant to point out here that a "500GB" drive usually has an accessible capacity of 500,107,862,016 bytes, implying an effective definition of 1GB=1,000,215,724 bytes, which is neither 1024^3 bytes nor 10^9, nor 10^9 rounded up to the nearest whole (binary-sized) sector. And that effective GB definition varies with drive capacity.)
Netscape Navigator 2 is 8Mb, for anyone who was wondering.
Add a vacancy tax into the mix and see what happens.

Also, seems as though the structural issues need to be updated on the 'owners' of said mortages.
> This is a supremely surprising conclusion

That's why I started the paragraph with "Contrary to what you might expect".

As for Stabilizer: "Stabilizer eliminates measurement bias by comprehensively and repeatedly randomizing the placement of functions, stack frames, and heap objects in memory." Those placements can affect cycle counts and wall times a lot, but don't affect instruction counts.
Hopefully it would also be good for interopt between the two, as anything with a small enough block size could be picked up by IPLD.
Upgrades are still a good option but I didn't discuss them in the article because they aren't supported on the App Store.

One caveat with upgrades is it's difficult to maintain many version of the same app. Now with frequent hardware and OS upgrades (yearly!) it's even more expensive than ever to maintain many versions.
Colleges should offer a major in sports. It could solve some problems
I would say it has always been like this and now we are waking up to this fact. Actually dealing with issues would require a flexibility that would not go well with the rigidity of the educational system
Pinging a bug five minutes after filing it is also an ...interesting... approach.
School administration reaching into people’s homes is extremely offensive. I can’t believe people tolerate this!
Some links for folks who want to work on fixing the blob situation:

https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware
https://github.com/itszor/vc4-toolchain/issues/7
> If you give me a vector `A` and a vector `B`, and I return to you `C=A×B`, on the "syntax" level, A, B, and C look the same.

Here you go:

A = <1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0>
B = <5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0>

What exactly is A×B supposed to look like there? :)

Cross product is awful. The wedge product, on the other hand, is:

# C = <<Ax*By-Ay*Bx,Ax*Bz-Az*Bx,Ax*Bt-At*Bx,
Ay*Bz-Az*By,Ay*Bt-At*By,Az*Bt-At*Bz>>
# C = <<1*6-2*5,1*7-3*5,1*8-4*5,2*7-3*6,2*8-4*6,3*8-4*7>>
# C = <<6-10,7-15,8-20,14-18,16-24,24-28>>
C = <<-4.0,-8.0,-12.0,-4.0,-8.0,-4.0>>

Which works fine for any number of dimensions. (Assuming coordinate-lexicographic order (resonable) and that I didn't screw up the arithmetic (less so).)
Can we get safari on android? (Rhetorical question.)
"This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws."

Apparently tracking is more important than actually providing the news.
Yep, I was waiting for this. There’s a whole new world of stupid liability that we haven’t even touched on yet. Similar stuff will happen in the workplace.
Some Toshiba drives have un-disclosed SMR:

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/16/toshiba-desktop-disk-d...
Of all the Haskell programers I've met and interacted with both irl and online not one came off as "arrogant" (there is a programming language who's hardcore fans tend to be a bit more, uh, eccentric, in my experience, but im not going to name it at the time).
Thanks for the discussion, I learned about the NCS system and you seem to know a lot about this.
It’s kind of the same, actually. You can treat the individual entries as “components” in a 2^d-vector with special multiplicative structure, which essentially transforms in specific ways. These axioms of GA lay that out more clearly: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.5935.pdf (specifically axiom 6)
Those forces are giant monopolies. The best way to initiate copyright reform is probably antitrust. Once these huge conglomerates are broken up there won't be armies of lobbyists advocating insane copyright laws
There's no "may" about it: they are oversubscribed for consumers so as to get the price points down.

If anyone wants to have an unfettered pipe then call up a Tier 1/2/3 ISP and ask for a commercial connection via a single-mode fibre, and be ready to pay quite a bit for it.
Restricting framerate will still download the 100mb GIF.

Also, so many parts of websites use gifs and canvas. If you start blocking those, you'll be hiding loading spinners, menus and more. You're adding ton and ton of complexity and going at war after something pretty silly.

If a website is abusive and does shitty things, just don't use the website. After some point, it's no longer the browsers job to babysit the web. I completely agreed with autoplaying audio, but blocking video is just not worth it.
I just shared this story with a family member who's a kindergarten teacher. She said a 5-year-old in her Zoom class did the same thing – he excitedly showed a giant Nerf gun to his classmates – "Look at what I just got!" – to which she just said "That's nice sweetie, now put that away". And that was the end of it.

Common sense still exists. But some people are just rule-following busybodies.
I remember implementing some web proxy monitoring a while ago, and I had a whole list of sites I had to ignore because of stuff like this. HN homepage would take a handful of milliseconds to load, but some sites would routinely take 10-20 second to get to the window load. Somebody asked “but what if a user complains that cnn.com is loading too slowly?”, and we all agreed we’d just have to tell them to get in touch with CNN.
I don't see the timing comparison between FP16 and FP32. Can you point me at it if it is there.
I thought that based on the amount of lumens it produces
Yeah right, it explains a lot of things, assuming you don't ask how to make sense of this alien thing called a 'bivector' in the first place.

That's when they start telling you, that you're supposed to be an elite mathematician, well versed in the higher forms of sophistry, and if that were the case you wouldn't need to understand bivector and wedge product and what not at an intuitive level.

I'm sold.
No (Betteridge's law)
I think this in point. "[Treat] the attacker user personas with the same primacy as those of the customer user personas — [put] them on a wall in the office and [have] everyone conversant in their "needs".

Another solid piece that goes into more of the details of threat modeling: https://increment.com/security/approachable-threat-modeling/
Apparently privacy is more important to the EU than being able to see the news.
there are several dozen countries with lower populations that that.
Yes, my salary has been pro rated 80% at every job where I’ve had this arrangement - that’s always been agreed upfront. One interesting thing I noticed is that several employers were open to interviewing even after I made it clear that I can only do 4d/week, it turned off fewer companies than I thought it might. After my initial experience, I found it better to declare it up front, because there was one case where I only mentioned it at the final interview and the CEO, who literally had his pen out to write down an offer, promptly sheaved it again and said he couldn’t work with that arrangement. All of my part time roles have been in the UK, and I’ve wondered whether it’s a little easier for European employers to accommodate these arrangements (vs in the US).
It's been this way since at least 2003. My parents taught at a school for students expelled from their home-zoned schools, and some of the reasons were incredibly laughable. Zero-tolerance discipline is a plague on our society (mandatory minimums in sentencing is another example).
This would be great. The idea of “best ranked music” results in mediocre, bland music that’s mostly ranked based on the social connections of the artist. Musical culture and genres are extremely diverse and trying to rank individual pieces of music makes discovery harder.

I doubt they’ll actually do this of course. Their monetization model relies on ranking.
> autoplaying unmuted videos

autoplaying unmuted videos have been disabled on almost every browser, on desktop and on mobile, for years. This isn't unique to Safari and Apple.

This is specifically about autoplaying muted videos, which gifs and canvas can replace.
Damn. That's one grave I would dance on so hard I'd probably twist an ankle or something.
Thank you for your replies and insight, it's really appreciated.

The way I see it with SPA and tokens in JS accessible space is that you're exposing your users to the possibility of token theft and user impersonation if someone is able pull off an XSS. This is not so different than using a session cookie that is not marked as 'httponly'. What's old is new again :)

I have also heard the argument that we shouldn't worry about token theft, because it's already too late if you're XSS'd, but I don't buy into that rhetoric(not saying XSS isn't incredibly bad).

Unfortunately I work in financial services, so we can't just skate by and assume that we're so uninteresting that an adversary with advanced capabilities wouldn't look to exploit our external or internal users somehow.

One another thing we're looking into is access tokens, like having the user re-authenticate or use a stronger factor(or multiple) to get the AS to grant them a very short lived, non-refreshable token to do their sensitive operation.

I'm going to check out the fusionauth blog for a bit more inspiration, if you're interested in continuing this discussion I would be interested in carrying it on.
You can guarantee absolute privacy by blocking the visitor entirely! Problem solved.
The recording industry is screwing over users and artists alike. What purpose does it serve beyond a profit sucking middleman? With the advent of the internet, recording companies are pointless. You can release your music on a personal website with a few hours of work. There's no longer a need for any distribution on radio, vinyl, CD's. The original purpose of these companies is gone, they exists solely to reap rewards from our crazy copyright laws
Wonderful, isn't it? Wish my jurisdiction adopted their policy on this.
Out of curiosity, what language(s) are you working with?
I’m not a parent but I have adhd and working from home is extremely hard for me, much harder than I want to admit. I just can’t concentrate at home and always end up distracted and doing something else.

I can’t for the sake of it focus on work in my apartment.
It was good design to decouple the transfer protocol from the search protocol, to allow different technologies to be explored, but in practice people ended up relying on the "good enough" solution of using the web for search.

Setting the precedent that media companies can seize domain names and force ISPs to block access to search engines if they don't like some of the search results (while ruining the lives of the people running those search engines) is arguably a high price to pay for this improved search service.
Does it handle blocking autoplaying gifs and canvas? If not, it's not really solving the problem then.
Listening to Hearts of Space as a child was my first experience with "experimental" music - definitely formative.

You can still listen to it online: https://v4.hos.com/home
While China is very far behind in terms of chip manufacturing technology, the US government has essentially showed China that if they don't have it themselves, they'll be sanctioned at whenever and whatever.
Not only that but they called child welfare on the parents:

“ The teacher notified the school principal who suspended Isaiah for five days and called the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office to conduct a welfare check on the boy without calling his parents first.”

We’ll probably see push back from parents as they become aware of the state of education.

This pandemic is going to expose a lot of the education system to parents.

The hope would be the education system learn from this hybrid of state education + home schooling experiment and also for parents to get more involved and have a say —but likely there would be tremendous pushback from unions who would not want that.
After scanning through the linked gist, it looks like the author was trying to discuss your objections in good faith but you kept on trying to provoke him.

That kind of behavior is borderline toxic, and I hope it's not representative of the Haskell community.
Although a toy gun, doesn't the second amendment also apply to children? I don't remember seeing an age restriction in the constitution. Also the "gun" was at home and not taken on school property.
How so? It's not only that it doesn't work, but that it is actively making the web worse.
> Google could have de-ranked sites with hostile behavior a decade ago and we wouldn't be dealing with any of this stuff.

They already block what they consider to be 'bad' ads on websites. This is just them giving up because there's no strategic value in making a user-focused browser.

chrome://settings/content/ads
Step-by-Step Guide for Integrating Huawei Computer Graphics Kit
The anchoring is different --

Consumer: Pay $ZZZ/mo for internet, used to $1/yr apps, etc

Business: No idea what the internet bill is, doesn't see corp credit card bill, and for purchases for some level of value, used to do initial procurement flows for $100+/mo, a bit more or $1K/mo, pretty real for $10K+/mo (ex: ROI calc), ... but approval flow for < $100/mo is a "hey-o mgr, this site look alright to you?"
I don’t think we’ve worked with anyone in Canada in our team, however it’s a huge company With multiple DS teams, and some may be open to this. Feel free to send a CV and I can forward to the appropriate hiring partner.
> not dependent on gas stations

Gas stations are much easier to find than electric plugs that are near your destination and available for a few hours.

Electric cars are still very impractical if you intend to travel more than 300 kilometres from your home. A five minute pit stop is easier to organise than a full charge outside of a metropolitan area.
Batteries are designed to be degraded so it's good start to get repair rights.
Ugh. Tell me about it. Workplaces are full of this bullshit.

Ergonomics training - CYA for lawsuits due to repeated motions, they want to make sure you signed off on the training. It has nothing to do with your well-being.

Diversity and Inclusion - I fucking hate this. It has not much to do with getting people of various backgrounds but CYA against discrimination lawsuits.

Office safety - I can’t bring my own coffee machine because I might just cause a “trip hazard”. Hmm... I see another CYA against workplace injury lawsuits.
Does anyone in the US actually get the “up to” even plugging directly into the ISP provided modem at off peak times?
It's simple: it is an abject failure as a currency. It is fairly successful as a security for the purpose of speculation. If you aren't a financial speculator, you really don't need to pay attention to it.
The things that help most for dealing with motion sickness on planes are having a good perspective view of land and being the one flying the plane. Those don't work so well for commercial air travel, so G forces are kept pretty modest and directed down and there aren't sudden movements. Sensitive people do better around the center, but otherwise, people mostly do OK on planes, even at a slight angle or backwards. This isn't "Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey."
Billboard Announces New Chart Rules: No More Merch and Ticket Bundles
This kind of crap is why I hate shopping for computer hardware.
Nice to meet other P/T tech dads-of-three, we’re a rare breed! Have sent you an email to say hi. : )
I think the answer to most of these questions is, let the market decide. E.g. consider this: congestion during peak hours is bad now, but there is currently no penalty on an ISP for being slow. However if billing was based on bytes moved, for an ISP to underserve during times of demand means lost revenue. Thus ISPs would be incentivized to provide the best service.
I'm not sure how owning a bike qualifies you as "the tech elite"
Can it be solved with IPFS-based trackers?
Really? My gaming rig is over 7 years old now. While it was pretty decent for it's time, it's definitely due an upgrade.

But I was still able to run D:E @ 1440p and get a respectable framerate with decent visual quality.

Compared to most other games, I think it's extremely well optimised.
Why not allow users to specify that they do not want any site with autoplay videos (in any shape) to show up in their top results? Alternatively - when Google shows a search result, indicate if the website has autoplay videos, this way I can avoid clicking it.
The first quote dates to the 1960s before decoherence was understood.
There are over 2 billion MAU on Google Maps...so for Google, yes its only...

It wasn't sustainable
Personally, I used to be able to listen to a large portion of the top 50 on Spotify without skipping too many. As of late last year, though, I've found that the top 10 are almost exclusively songs made popular on TikTok. I can't stand to listen to these songs, not because I necessarily dislike the songs (or TikTok for that matter), but because there are 15-30s sections of the song that I have heard dozens of times, posted on TikTok as a part of some new trend. As soon as I hear one of these parts, I instinctively skip, because I'm generally listening to Spotify to chill out, and hearing something that is so tightly associated with a social network really works against my "chill".
"In a seminal 2004 essay in Wired titled "The Long Tail," journalist Chris Anderson argued that digital culture would help niche music, books, and movies thrive. With fewer gatekeepers and more avenues to find likeminded fans, people would be more likely to indulge their true interests, rather than just accept what was offered by the mainstream."

Nice idea, there is some truth to it based on what we've seen so far, but we can also see how the corporations that control "what was offered by the mainstream" are now controlling (financing) the gatekeepers of the web and/or personal computing device (for lack of a better term). The new gatekeepers have become entrenched thanks to centralisation, lock-in and using the system itself as the world's most powerful hype machine, or "network effects".

The entertainment industry has gatekeepers, so too does the web (perhaps even the wider internet) and the personal computing device.

If and when things get tight for the gatekeeper business, they (web gatekeepers) will also control the so-called "long tail". What we are seeing is that it is not the "gatekeeperless" distribution channel many might imagine, as YouTube deletes a seemingly non-commercial video and arguments ensue over rights to "free speech".

The tentacles of these gatekeepers keep reaching out further. No "long tail" seems to be safe from their influence and ultimately their control.
Unfortunately, that helps exactly zilch. Brave, along with all other Blink/Chromium based browsers and frameworks, further entrenches Chrome as the platform.

Either use Firefox on Android or give up. For desktop, you have at least Firefox, Otter Browser, and Epiphany as options.
Except the alternatives can be blocked.
According to the blog, BitTorrent v2 now tightens the possible block size to power of 2. But does that still allow for the blocks to be variably sized and created by, for example, a rolling hash-based chunker, like Buzzhash or Rabin?

I'm asking, because this would allow for sharing of big files across swarms, even though the files might be slightly different.
Ad blocking.
> It's really easy for programmers to get lost in how cool some code or technology is and lose sight of how the rest of the world views it.

Story of my fucking life.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research