skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, this is from March, which means it's not even a response to what happened at this hearing(s?) this week.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-...

and

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-...
I wish there was more (food) packaging regulation to limit the types of materials, how they are combined and how they must be reused or recycled. I try to avoid, reuse, refill, recycle but it still makes me sad how much material in my own home is discarded in ‘recycling’ but probably in reality goes straight to landfill.
Surely it's an actual currency amount, so it's not irrational. I'll accept it's unlikely to be an integer, but it should be a rational non-integer.

But, perhaps you were joking and it's an 'irrational' amount?
Either way, it seems like the whole debate is kind of misplaced. Analogue and digital systems have pros and cons, but crappy mastering will make almost every single one of them irrelevant in terms of sound quality.

Personally I think vinyl often sounds better simply because it takes a higher quality of engineering to make it work at all. It's the limitations of the medium that mean you can't just compress it halfway to buggery and crank the loudness up like you can with a CD.
ToS aren't important if they're not enforceable, which is the case with a prohibition on reverse engineering. That said, if I published something like this I'd do it under a pseudonym under a domain and a vps that I paid for using an untraceable currency. Companies are evil and even if you'll eventually win, they'll make your life miserable. Why take the chance?
The study was mentioning a decrease in world GDP, so I think my conclusion should stand (as China is part of the “world” that presumably will experience a 6% GDP decline).
UK economy grew 6.6%%20in July as gradual recovery continues
In general yes, but the Solar Roof Tile thing is still vaporware despite the demo.
lmao leave it to HN to gatekeep fear
The article was updated with new info from HPE:

"HPE does not use the same security technique that Dell is using for a BIOS hardware root of trust. HPE does not burn, fuse, or permanently store our public key into AMD processors which ship with our products. HPE uses a unique approach to authenticate our BIOS and BMC firmware: HPE fuses our hardware – or silicon – root of trust into our own BMC silicon to ensure only authenticated firmware is executed. Thus, while we implement a hardware root of trust for our BIOS and BMC firmware, the processors that ship with our servers are not locked to our platforms. (Source: HPE)"
I concede my point on HFT, you make good points about it being more about arbitrage.

>they aren't fooling anyone

I disagree on this. Maybe they don’t fool sophisticated investors that make up 80% of market money but I’ve met plenty of small investors who are duped by this very type of thing.
Is that from Appelbaum? I believe some criticism is undoubtedly correct and there might be a problem with leadership.
> In reality, you have .gov for government

Only for the US government.
Here's a getting-started post I wrote when I switched from Vim to Emacs.

https://fnune.com/2017/12/27/making-emacs-work-like-my-vim-s...

Since then, I'm back to using Vim. I'm planning to write about that, too...
I Will Build a Website
I mean… this is why we have tests, isn't it?
Slightly off-topic rant: I want this "porcelain" terminology to die, not only is it redundant (what's wrong with "user interface"?) it's not even coherently used within git.

So porcelain is supposed to be the opposite of the internal piping of the application, the user facing part. Fair enough. But then why does "git status" have a "--porcelain" option that's meant to generate an output for script consumption? Shouldn't that be --pipe?

And yes, I do know the history of why it's that way, but the point still stands, if you need to know arcane implementation details of some command and backward hacker logic to understand what the hell this "--porcelain" flag does, then it's a bad name.

Magit is a Git user interface inside Emacs.
I was paying attention to this stuff by the turn of the century and best practice back then was the same as it is now. Screen readers have come a long way, but they could handle empty alt attributes correctly back then as well. I just checked, and the HTML 4 specification has been advising people to use empty alt attributes in this situation since 1997.

https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/struct/includes.html#...
"Real laziness is doing it properly the first time."

-Instructor at a field bus training course I did sometime around 2000.
I believe that many of the capabilities that researchers are seeking in general AI are present in ordinary animals that we do not consider particularly intelligent. And I suspect that the focus on imitating higher-level human cognition has actually slowed down research in general AI.

The numerical instincts in this article are one example. Other useful abilities that would make them more general purpose, but missing from most AI systems: fast adaption, basic understanding of complex high-dimensional environments, integrating streams of information, self-maintenance, etc.
Why not? Firefox is mostly C, C++ and Rust.
> The law is less like source code and more like bytecode with the legal system working as a constantly changing interpreter. Sure, the bytecode gets updated. However, in this case, the interpreter is more often updated than the bytecode.

You just identified the difference between Civil Law and Common Law, in a way that computer scientists can fully grasp it!
CloudFront != Cloudflare
I mean you could google the guy and find the book he wrote _on running scams in NY_.
Do you allow code into your codebase that isn't obvious on a first read?
What's the fluke part exactly? It's perfectly doable, but the (risk-weighted) costs are just enormous.
"Some of Baur's ashes were buried in a Pringles can at his request."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baur
1. what does not kill me makes me stronger
2. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
3. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying. What we’re plagued by these days isn’t any blocking of communication, but pointless statements.
Next generation 5G technology changing key businesses
- How you do anything, is how you do everything.

- Fall 7 times, stand up 8
> In the U.S., at least at the federal level, laws don’t have titles.

In Canada the legislation is often referred to via its bill number (for a given session/sitting of Parliament):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bills_C-1_and_S-1

But the laws are also organized into Acts, which are sometimes introduced whole-cloth, but more often are amended by bills:

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

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_(Canada...

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

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

This is fairly common in British-derived systems:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Statutory_law_by_legi...
Newset never-lang release is available
Newset never-lang release is available. I am looking for comments.
That is the formula everyone else is already using – you're the exception, not the rule.

> Earlier you insisted we name the device based on what it is,

Yes, on what it is. As I've said, the convention is to name something "Smart X" based on adding "smart" features and whatever the form factor is. So this is a smart speaker.

There is no precedent to call this a smart microphone, and again, there are other things with microphones that we don't call smart microphones for that reason.

The speaker is part of the device, sure. But it is also the form factor of the device, a title the mic cannot claim. There is no conflict there, just further explanation was required because you are being deliberately obtuse.
I find it human-exceptionalising when we say that non-human animals can't have a concept of number.

Why wouldn't they? In evolutionary terms, we followed the same path to get here.
Goodbye cantenna ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantenna
I sold my hardware Distressor last week because the UAD version is just as good to my ears and significantly more flexible and pleasant to work with. I feel spoiled by it!
In an ideal world, sure. But not everyone is willing to talk to a doctor, or indeed anyone.
Recycling mentioned on Hacker News always depresses me.

The way problems with it are treated as fundamentally unfixable always strikes me as against the site's ethos, yet people love pointing them out.

Recycling just gets dumped in landfill!

Ok, lets ban that.

But, actually, its more environmentally friendly to landfill it!

Are you sure? Science doesnt really agree. But anyway, can we make recycling more efficient?

No, stop trying to improve things. Recycling is bad. If it made sense the free market would already do it!
The Largest Carbon Sink You’ve Never Heard Of
> I love Pringles tubes. We reuse them all over the place around the house. Never really thought of recycling them. Seems like a terrible waste to destroy a perfectly good container just to get a ~penny’s worth of materials out of it.

Recyclers are downstream from consumers. They can’t stop consumers from throwing away their pringles cans, and until Kellogg’s starts bulk-selling Pringles in bags… people will throw cans away, there’s noly do many cans you can find a use for.

I can’t find any specific production numbers but the internet tells me Kellogg’s sells for billions in snacks and pringles are a significant fraction of that. A Pringle can is a buck or two, meaning 6 figures Pringle cans being sold every year, if not 7.
I guess this is GSM, but I heard 5G operates on some license free bands.
It was actually a different article -- about how a test is going to be carried out. Today's article is about the results.
Proverbs 27:17 - "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another."
Unfortunately some of us are in fact the more extreme examples.
> My android phone has a phone stack. The only stuff that comes in via my phone number is basically recruiter cold calls. It's a small internet device with some quaint legacy features that I rarely use.

Funny how people live in totally different bubbles. I see you are based in Berlin (I'm in Denmark) and I have no idea how it is there but here I -as a geek with very geeky friends- don't know anyone who use their phone as you describe. Sure a few calls are via Facebook with video and some messages too (though many are starting to refuse to use social media) but the overwhelming majority of use is normal old phone-calls, SMS and MMS. Inside my bubble things like you describe (internet based stuff) is where "old people" have moved and younger people are moving away from. Especially those who hate all the data mining done by Apple, Facebook, Google, etc. I don't have a single app on my phone with those capabilities you use and I'm not missing out. Of course I'm sure other very different bubbles are right next door :-)

>Operators trying to build walled gardens is a pattern that repeated itself

Apple, Facebook...
We need to focus on the second R, reuse.

I have mason jars that my grandmother and then my mother used for pickling. The only waste is the rubber ring which needs to be replaced occasionally and THAT could be recycled. Many of these bottles have been used for 80+ years now. I have a few Ball jars which my GREAT grandmother used 100+ years ago.

Beer bottles in Canada are reused dozens of times and are recyclable (brown glass) when broken or worn out.

The only containers which are infinitely recyclable are aluminum and coloured glass (nearly), but that takes energy.

Plastics are not currently infinitely recyclable as the polymer chains break down. A lot of plastic is simply not recyclable at all in most of North America [1]

We need to just force manufacturers to bear the costs of recycling their products 100%: everybody would switch to reusable and this current clam shell packaging disaster would come to a close.

[1] https://apps.npr.org/plastics-recycling/
https://debian.community/

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Being healthy is underrated.
Hmm, yes. But then again, same difference "Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network".
The story seems to echo a bit of why Gopher did not become the WWW (with the added protocol scalability issues that tcp/ip catered for) - basically, Gopher developers set a prohibitive pricing model (I think it was U of Minn)
This is sorely needed IMO.
It sickens me how little it seems to matter to people in our mainstream discourse whether or not Assange is treated as a human being. After he was removed from the Ecuadorian embassy, and officials said he had behaved erratically there and smeared feces on the walls, etc., the public reaction was along the lines of, “Wow, what a weirdo loser”—rather than, “Oh God, what have we done to this person?” It speaks poorly of our society.
Or: "Do it, do it well, do it better".
naval is the mononym for Naval Ravikant, a well known investor
> They can't afford to spend time to get _super deep_ technically

Maybe you're just extremely lucky.

I'm already happy if I get a recruiter mail where the buzzwords aren't even used in a nonsensical way, e.g. just from two sentences I know the person hasn't ever written a single line of code or worked in a project using any of the 10 buzzword technologies.

Made up examples "using exciting database technology like mysql and mqtt", using "programming languages like SQL and XML"
Exactly, I thought that I missed them, but turns out they did not even go off at all.
Case in point: China has built and put into production several EPR-design reactors while the projects started earlier in Europe are still lingering.
Seems like that. Generally speaking a soft criminal will go down fast - either being caught because he didn't get rid of that witness or being whacked by some psychopath. But if you are ruthless and amass as much money and power as you can as fast as possible by any means necessary then you have a good chance of buying yourself out of any trouble you find yourself in. Also people will be more afraid of you and help you rewrite history - so you end up as some nobleman if you're lucky.
I would say it's more like driving a race car but - provided you use one of the many configurations or frameworks ala Spacemacs/Doom out there - having the gears automated by the car's system.

An experienced racer would be much better off with driving in manual, but for a beginner or someone never expecting to push the car to its limits the automated gears are plenty good enough.
IMHO, it will be a nightmare for debuggers.
Apple is migrating a system level codebase from C to Rust
I imagine that a knighted professor at Imperial can comfortably access a mortgage in London, so I doubt this applied to Martin Hairer.

But, post-graduates in London (if they have no other source of support) do tend to have a difficult lifestyle. Not recommended.
People don’t care because he’s “a bad guy”.

That’s where we’ve got to.

Trouble is people aren’t brought up with an understanding of how things should be in a fair and just society. They’re brought up with some mucky mixed up perception that the world is some mashup of Hollywood and what the media says.

There’s no moral compass for society any more.

My personal take is he’s some sort of weird Russian asset and he’s a net negative for our way of life but I still think he deserves the full protection of the law at every single stage. He shouldn’t be sold out and abandoned by society.

It sounds twee but my mother brought me up to care about other people, the less well off and to care about what’s right and justice for all. I think “we’ll theres an awful lot of people in this world who didn’t have my mother. What did they learn?”
Then just roll your own Atmega328p boards. That’s how evaluation boards work and Arduino is basically an EVB.
Many jazz musicians (including myself) would say that it's a ridiculous, gross misrepresentation of what playing in a Jazz band is about. For me it's infuriating to watch! I could go on for a long rant now, but I'd rather let an actual jazz drummer speak: https://youtu.be/7GfegGYzD1E?t=238
yeah kinda

I guess the first cause of creativity is a 'what if' not an 'it surely will'
> One possibility is that touring musicians lose touch with ordinary life, and therefore no longer create anything that people can relate to.

Reminds me of an article I read about R.E.M. around the turn of the millennium. The journalist notes that the band members (now all multi-millionaires) now spent their time moving from one posh luxury hotel or perfectly air-conditioned space to another around the world, living in an international cosmopolitan bubble even when not touring. This seemed the very antithesis of the struggle and feeling of local community from which several great rock subgenres had emerged, and it was no surprise that R.E.M.'s work had become bland.
Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google
Latest on the hearing appears to be this (posted yesterday):

> Julian Assange's extradition hearing at the Old Bailey today will not be going ahead because the husband of one of the US lawyers has come down with Covid-like symptoms.

> Once he gets the result of a test the judge will determine how best to proceed.

https://twitter.com/CourtNewsUK/status/1303981123383500801
Correlations Constrained by Composite Measurements
I've always thought of it as "it's easier to make a working thing fast that it is to make a fast thing work" - which I'm sure I picked up somewhere....
Maybe they can progressively make Pringles cans bigger so you can store your old cans inside your new cans.
Add Watermarks to Your Cloudflare Stream Video Uploads
Funny, I always took it to mean that you’re in a room by yourself.
Don Quixote: "To attain to eminence in letters costs a man time, watching, hunger, nakedness, headaches, indigestions, and other things of the sort."
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would never have gotten away with what they did now due to the internet. I know many former Microsoft employees, Bill was famous for grilling people. “That was the stupidest idea in the history of Microsoft” was a common phrase.

Watching Gates’ building his legacy has been interesting, I always wondered what happened to the “real Bill” I heard about from my network who worked for him directly. I think it is an interesting move for him to be honest about it due to this book.

I suspect that Gates has been able to run interference on accounts of what he used to be like: Mean.

Despite that, he has made a lot of his employees very rich. If you were anywhere near Gates during this period you would have counted yourself lucky to be getting reamed and counting your stock options over multiple stock splits. I would take the 1985 - 1998 Microsoft stock options please.

I think the changing realities of the internet and laws protecting diverse workforce’s from harassment might be a genuine future risk to his legacy. I have been surprised at how little coverage there has been.

If Gates and Jobs engaged in their former behavior in a modern work environment they would definitely get sued. Not “possibly” or “potentially” -> it would be a successful lawsuit, maybe a class action and they would lose.

If they did what they did anywhere near women or minorities it would stand a good chance of getting labeled some form of illegal harassment or discrimination under current law.

I am not saying they necessarily are racist or sexist, but any type of behavior like this towards women or minorities in general would be an extremely high risk activity.
Yeah, but they ran into the most basic and expected issues and that's where it gets embarrassing. Lets take the App as an example

The App has the following requirements in order to work

- You need the App installed (iOS/Android only, not feature
phones)

- You need an active internet connection (given the bad mobile coverage, that's not a given)

- You need to have your location services on if you're traveling

Using cell broadcasts, which were designed for such an exact scenario, reduces the requirements to

- Have a phone that supports cell broadcasts

Don't get me wrong, the NINA app is fine when it comes to more local alarms such as fire hazards or other accidents, but its really not suitable for a nationwide alarm.
> There is no reason for a compiler to limit itself to the system ABI for completely internal functions.

As far as I understand it, this limitation is also the only thing preventing tail-call elimination in C/C++. Tail-recursive functions are essentially the same as 'while' loops (execute some instructions then conditionally go back to the start); they just have different scope and calling conventions. In particular, 'while' loops are always inline and can't be referenced from other functions, but tail-recursive functions can. Hence compilers can apply more aggressive optimisations to 'while' loops, e.g. re-using the same stack frame and iterating with a conditional jump.

However, as you say, functions-as-subroutines don't necessarily need to coincide with functions-as-interface. Tail-recursive functions which are only used internally can also be optimised to re-use the same stack frame and iterate with a conditional jump. If such functions are also exposed in the interface, it's pretty trivial to expose a dummy entry point which invokes the optimised version (if we want to); although cross-unit tail calls wouldn't be eliminated in that case.

Of course, this is more useful than just writing 'while' loops in a different style (although I personally prefer recursion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11150346 ), since tail calls don't have to be recursive: we can split our code up into modular, composable, self-contained functions without having to worry about stack usage (or code bloat caused by inlining into multiple locations).
Bury it until it makes sense to mine it
For me the trend of labels releasing vinyl-only limited edition feels quite elitist, i.e. if you’re somehow not ‘in the know’ than you don’t get to enjoy the music. I prefer labels offering the choice between a limited edition vinyl and an unlimited edition digital download. That way the people that care about owning and spinning the rare object still get that experience and those who discover the record two months later can still buy the digital version and experience it.

It happens all the time that I discover music on Bandcamp, and since I’m not a super connoisseur it has been released for some time and the vinyl has long since sold out, but I can buy the digital version and enjoy it and spin it at parties and thus share the experience.
“They did not know it was impossible so they did it”

― Mark Twain
For finding and deleting dead code anyone can get up and running by using something called tombstones, marking pieces of code as dead and then logging their invocations to see if they are really being used and if yes then how so.

It is much more powerful than simple static analysis and is setup as a continuous destruction platform alongside continuous integration.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29UXzfQWOhQ for more on this idea.
Instead of "live within your means", "live within your needs".
The impossible costs a little more
NASA is looking for private companies to help mine the moon
That’s where the first R comes in. Only buy as many Pringles cans as you can reuse. People don’t want to do that either, though, because Pringles are addictive. That may be the root problem.

There’s no way they’ll sell Pringles in bags though; they’re way too delicate for anything but a purpose-built rigid container.
You’re just wired a certain way. I can work on a 16 bar segment of a song for days and love it more each time I play it. The good ones never get old. Music affects me like an addictive drug.