skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arm may lose China market after Nvidia takeover
I honestly think of him as a political actor

Is there any proof/indication of him being a political actor?

You know the game you're playing, and all.

This could be applied to any journalist who exposes powerful institutions.
My view on this is that there’d be a lot less grief being handed out over Project Moonshot if the existing solutions were being given the same level of focus on making them work. The current plan from the UK government is equivalent to a software developer responding to a bug report by rewriting the whole application - it may well work, but it’ll be massively more expensive, and come with a whole host of new unknown problems.

Right now in the UK the basic testing infrastructure is a mess, people are being told to make 500 mile round trips to get tested, and then thousands of tests are being disposed of undone because of logistical issues.

Moonshot has a budget roughly equivalent to running the entirety of the NHS for a year, I can think of much better uses for that money than a project with no clear path to success, such as massively scaling up test and trace infrastructure. But of course we’re Great Britain, and so everything must be the very best. Such as the failed attempt to implement tracing apps with a custom solution rather than building on top of the Android and iOS SDKs for the purpose.
I’m also in Japan and finding the right materials can be really tough when you’re mainly learning from US-based makers and woodworkers. The fact that space is also very limited here (no garages or lawns...) also doesn’t help with DIY stuff!
Glad to learn about cutlistoptimizer as I looked casually for something like that in the past. I’ll have to figure out how to feed it from Fusion360.

Also interesting to learn that Japanese “2x4”s are in that ratio exactly. In the US, they’re 1/2” under nominal size (so 1.5” by 3.5”). Makes it awkward to stack pieces together at times. (2 2x2s next to each other in the US are smaller than a 2x4.)
Mmh. There are external, portable usb-c monitors, which are convenient because you can plug them into any usb-c laptop. But they are „dumb“, only work in connection with a laptop. I wonder whether there is one that can act as an Android tablet when not plugged in.
I know this is going to sound trite, but this is precisely the reason I don't use mdadm

I really don't like lvm either, but in some cases its the only real way to join larger hardware arrays together (for example some arrays will not let you stripe multiple raid7s instead insisting that you have a 50drive raid 7 array. No dice.)

This is where ZFS really does shine here. The control, visibility and documentation are just wonderful. Its almost as good as reading a redbook.

For the hobbyist I don;'t see any reason why you'd really want to have an mdadm array, barring the slight edge of performance when you are running at >75% capacity.
Coronavisrus seem like complete hyperbole at this stage. 1% of deaths in the UK were from Covid yesterday.
I don't see how there can be any confusion over which country I was talking about, since Trump is the current US President.

"Deplorables" is a pejorative term used in US politics by the Democratic party to describe what HNers call "flyover country," or the country's interior. Hillary Clinton basically lost the 2016 Presidential election by using that term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_deplorables

For those unfamiliar with US politics, the Democratic party is the one that's supposed to represent that class of citizens. Instead, it's run by near-octogenarian elites who have disdain for anybody in their former political base who can't write a campaign check.

American elites and oligarchs sold out the US poor and middle class with illegal immigration and Chinese outsourcing to reduce labor costs. Of course, that meant impoverishing the lower rungs of society, resulting in the meth and oxy epidemics, and those classes voted in Trump.

If you're a US citizen and any of the above is unfamiliar to you, then you should be more engaged. Those are the seeds of the BLM and antifa protests, and the arson of our city cores is only an outward sign of the rot in American society.

The fact that the Republican Party is headed by a Trumpist, and the Democratic Party by somebody recognized as too senile to participate in a debate, sounds like ancient Roman times, but here we are.
It is absolutely not logical, I know. That's the weirdest thing. I just don't know WHY, but the whole thing is oriented against letting the user host anything AT ALL COST.
It definitely doesn't. Seems like it is trying to compensate for all the bias in the system.
> If someone incites hatred against ethnic groups on facebook you can respond and reach the readers of the original post.

"Just tell people that racism is bad"

Somehow this seems to make the problem worse not better, because if you're one of the outsiders you just get added to their mental list of conspirators. And if you've commented under your real name you're at risk of reprisals.

Effective debunking is hard.

Oh, and algorithmic social media makes this worse - your act of commenting on a post tends to raise its profile and cause it to be shown to more of your followers.
a more vivid example is when a single inventor is claimed by multiple national propagandas e.g. Sklodowska-Curie was a polish woman living in France who discovered radium and polonium.
Prolog Emacs, PceEmacs
I watched that movie as a teenager like 50 times!
Absolutely this - even some aggressively optimised stuff like game engines don't have insurmountable amounts of micro optimisations in them.

Also - why would Apple massively up and change uArchs? Even if they did decide to turn Apple Silicon into not-ARM, I'd wager it would look a lot more like ARM than for example, x86 does.
That's a good point. This case now _is_ the precedent that the others can build on. First step kind of.
Same. I can pretty much recite the script from memory.
You should see “The Great Hack” on Netflix. It might change your mind.
Ah, Hyperloop. Always wondered what they planned to do with the passenger safety. Say, the passenger capsule depressurizes, and the air escapes into the tunnel, that'd be nasty. Or the capsule gets stuck in the middle of the tunnel: now you have to break it out, reseal the tunnel and then remove the air out of it again (its hundred of kilometres long), that sounds pretty expensive and time-consuming. And what if it crashes into the wall instead? At the proposed speed that'd be a pretty heavy impact, would people survive it?
The power supply board outputs 12V, 5V and -5V. The 5V is about 1.5 amps, the 12 250 mA and -5 50 mA.

If you've lost the supply brick; that's strictly the AC side of things, it is just a transformer in a plastic wrapper.

The outputs of the transformer are connected to a DB-9, the pinout is:

1,6----8.5V----2,7
3--14V--CT--14V--5

Pins 8 and 9 are NC.

Keep an eye on the large capacitor on the powersupply board, they tend to go bad, look for white stuff near the caps, if you find any replace them before trying to power it all up.

You can pull fairly decent composite video off the input to the modulator (on the PSU board).

Good luck!
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The article talks about the size of the pointee in memory though, not the size of the pointer.

An 'int' is usually 4 bytes wide when compiling for 64-bit ISAs (at least I haven't seen situations yet where this isn't the case, my experience is limited to x86 and ARM though). Modern C fixes this ambiguity with sized integer types (e.g. int32_t vs int64_t).
It wasn’t a problem everywhere. It was only a problem where people used GET in an unsafe way, which was a minority of sites.

What makes Rails prominent in this was the creator of the framework blamed Google for their own bugs and told people to try to detect GWA to hide the links instead of telling people to follow the HTTP specification. People who followed his advice suffered the bug a second time, and people who ignored him and followed the HTTP specification avoided the problem.
Still the epitome of cool.
Last I saw the doubling time for infections was 1 week.
Never fear, I is here! :)
All history is supposition, to some extent. Lest men suspect your tale untrue, keep probability in view.
Library and framework maintainers will eventually stop updating previous major versions. So you manage to tread water just fine till your major version reaches EOL, then you've found yourself in the position of having to change over to a completely new API on a schedule set by the maintainer of the dependency.
The Nature paper states, near the end, that “More scientific data could swing the balance of evidence to favor one hypothesis over another.” Contrary to popular belief, that paper does not “debunk” the claim of laboratory origin but merely casts some doubt on it.

Several papers have now been written which provide more scientific data to re-evaluate this claim, and Steve Bannon did not provide the funding for all of them.
This is one of those "only winning move is not to play the game" situations; if you're marketing a product - almost any product - into a repressive regime it'll end up being associated with repressive acts.

Hence the boycott of South Africa.

There was a brief window in which Twitter was allowed to spread dissent pretty freely in the Arab world. I've no idea what that looks like now.
It has a 28.8 bps modem!
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I can feel all of that. I went from a custom gaming PC, which was ok aside from having to re-install windows once every few months, then to a 2009 MBP 13" which lasted 4 years until I sold it for a ridiculous sum, then a late 2013 13" MBP which I used until 2018 until it was stolen. I then went to a 2017 non-touchbar model, which was just... fine, but had the keyboard issue, delamination, and an insanely hard to troubleshoot deep-sleep/wake from sleep issue which led to it being replaced by Apple under warranty (when I finally re-produced the issue 100% of the time) for my current 2019 MBP 13" w/ 16gb of ram.

Other than that, my impression of Thinkpads is that, while they seem a bit clunky for me, they are at least in the top tier of non-MBP laptops. Likewise, my brother just picked up a 2019 XPS 13" which has earned some praise from HN folk and seems to be pretty solid. I'd personally like a gaming rig of some kind, but if I'm realistic, I won't get that much use out of it until the rainy season.
The way I see it, space is a life-vacuum, and human nature is to abhor that, as evidenced by the long-standing goal we have of interplanetary/intergalactic settlements.

Which is to say: you’re thinking on the wrong timescale. Just wait and see. :)
A good man knows his limitations...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24478259 was flagged, which was by a respected journalist with an interest in the case. The Wikipedia article keeps getting reverted. It's really extremely hard to find or curate decent information on politically partisan subjects these days. Maybe a good area for a (positive) OSINT startup.
>Who is crab nowadays? Is he still a threat? Do we still need TLS even with WPA 3?

Yes. I take TLS and no Wlan crypto any day over the reverse.
> But isn't it dangerous? How does it know you re not preloading the "please delete everything" link?

In a perfect world no-one would be using links for actions which modify state - they should always be a POST behind a button, not a GET behind a link.

But in the real world this is probably a legitimate concern. They do have methods to mark links as non-preloadable (https://instant.page/blacklist), but anyone using it should definitely do a thorough test, not just copy and paste and hope for the best
I appreciate the author’s insight and perspective on the situation - although I am also curious to know if, for example, Vietnam has the same testing capacity as Germany? Isn’t it possible that countries on average are dealing more or less the same when it comes to the pandemic and the spread of the virus, but the testing data is what is most variable?
He’s being prosecuted for computer misuse, though.

You’re argument is that journalists and whistle blowers are above the law - but they aren’t. And that’s before you take an objective stance about JA’s good faith and personal motivations.

If you set up a “leaking” organisation, and use it to selectively embarrass certain governments and politicians while coincidentally building your brand and obtaining a measure of power, influence and money ... you better make sure you fully obey the law.
Maven Central uses that as a first-time verification (actually, it's OSSRH that requires this, technically there are other ways to publish to Maven Central).

Golang's package system depends on the current DNS records.

With maven, there are plenty of old projects that do not own the domain names for their group ID, and that doesn't cause any problems - they are well-known, established projects, and there's no reason to introduce breaking changes to everyone just because they want to go through some DNS naming changes.

Because of this, there's little reason to fear that if you publish your project today as "io.github.my-project:my-module" you may find yourself having to break all your users if github blocks your account tomorrow (or just changes their URL schema) and you move to gitlab.
By C half-assedly trying to make "* " part of the name, just so you can use "* ptr" everywhere like it is an actual variable name, you get confusions such as this.

First "foo_ptr's type is int * ", but then "The pointer has a type, too, by the way. Its type is int.".

I also refuse to agree with "An int * * 's type is int * ". :)

But I guess "the type of `* ptr` is int, the type of `ptr` is int * " would be even more confusing.
Amstrad PC1512 and PC1640 were great machines. They had some weirdness like the proprietary PU mounted in the monitor but were solid, well built and well priced, even more they looked kinda futuristic when compared to the boring 8086 clone boxes of that era.

And yes, they even came with a mouse and a GUI (GEM by Digital Research).
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There are a few good asumtions about why is faster, there are just speculations since I didn't profile jq or query-json.

The feature that I think penalizes a lot jq is "def functions", the capacity of define any function that can be available during run-time.

This creates a few layers, one of the difference is the interpreter and the linker, the responsible for getting all the builtin functions and compile them have them ready to use at runtime.

The other pain point is the architecture of the operations on top of jq, since it's a stack based. In query-json it's a piped recursive operations.

Aside from the code, the OCaml stack, menhir has been proved to be really fast when creating those kind of compilers.

I will dig more into performance and try to profile both tools in order to improve mine.

Thanks
This is a scientific research paper. If you think it’s BS then I eagerly await your point-by-point refutation of the scientific evidence presented therein.
> […] downstream impact to secondary standards in metrology labs which ultimately (through transfer standards) would result in better calibrations of production systems.

What is a "transfer standard"? Can you name an example(s)?
I have. So, at least one person.
Founder here. The text editor is the living force of the modern world. We use it everyday for countless use cases. It’s our go to tool for putting words down. But I feel there’s room to improve it for the next generation of makers and builders that grew up with the cloud, collaboration and information at the tip of their fingers.

So, I built one. The goal is to be able to create apps with a familiar interface. The result is a simple text editor tool that helps you i) stay organized and productive, ii) build your own custom apps or iii) design and launch landing pages. All in one platform.

The main features include:
• Markdown editor
• Connect to your databases
• Add logic operations
• Build web pages with UI components

You can check these features demos below [1].

I’ve decided to have these fairly large set of features in the beginning but with limited functionality (e.g. we only have a handful of Components and Functions to start with). This will allow us to learn from your usage and requests and build from those.

On a more personal note, it has been an unbelievable ride. I’ve been working on this since the beginning of the pandemic. This version is still pretty rough (expect bugs… let me know when you find them) but I decided to launch sooner rather than later to get as much feedback as possible.

I know it’s a hot topic, this “no code” trend, but I actually believe software development is becoming ubiquitous and want to help shape that future.

If you think this makes sense, sign up for early access [2]. We are making Zecoda free during the early access period.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the product. Did you find it useful?

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[1] https://zecoda.com#demos

[2] https://zecoda.com/#subscribe

[-] Spread your love (or anger) at Twitter: https://twitter.com/zecodahq

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PS - This was built 100% by myself, please expect bugs. If you find any just let me know. I'd love to fix them asap.

PS 2 - We are actually pivoting Zecoda from a “design to code” tool [3] to this broader text editor. Also, happy to talk about the pivot decision.

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20624140
Sympathy I may have had for him evaporated over the years with the response to the rape allegations and the way Wikileaks ended up on the pro-Trump side of the floor.

It's Chelsea Manning who I have far more sympathy for. Somehow she's not promoted so much by Assange supporters, despite being the insider responsible for the leak and already having served in prison for it.

The Iraq war remains a moral disaster, and things have not improved on that front.
Lucky for you, but that's not really the case for everybody. For instance, I have 35GB mobile cap and 100GB home cap. While I'd love to see a faster experience while clicking links, it would be considerably wasting bandwidth if all sites implemented that. And this is just the user side: I'm not even getting into the excess load on the server side.
Well unless it gives you paranoia
Hackers is probably a big reason I got into computers as a kid in the 90's. I wish I still had that same feeling of awe and excitement about them today.
Zero Cool
and everyone in italy know that marconi stole the idea of the radio receiver from bose's coherer?
I think it depends on the person. I also prefer one monitor. I'd rather have a big monitor than several screens. Also, I never really have more than one window open at a time. I don't mind switching between windows. But some of my coworkers swear by multiple screens and one app per screen.

I think it's the same with tab management in the browser. I average 4-5 tabs open at a time, never really going above 10. But many of my friends are rolling with 80+ tabs at a time.
> Is there any proof/indication of him being a political actor?

https://apnews.com/ce9a4541f903109079900528d9f0a9e7

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-senate/s...

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks...
> they are allowed to sell any clean-room designed x86 hardware

Uuuuh, presumably the case was about patents, right? I don't see how cleanroom-ing is fine with regard to patents.
Exactly! I wanted to contact him
It uses adjectives and descriptions that suffocate the reader.

Completely separate from the subject matter, that kind of writing style treats the reader as an idiot.
I believe it’s a reference to the 8-fold path, and I thought it was quite creative: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path
I watched this movie several times as a kid - in 1998 for the first time.

Many scenes were always kind of silly, but they still managed to embed this idea in my head that doing stuff with computers could be considered "cool".
Spain looking to tax services like WhatsApp as phone carriers
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Exactly I didn't claim to be faster in all the cases, since there's no feature parity and I won't make it that way.

For the set of operations that I implement it it's faster, that's true.
Another good example of why two monitors are useful is to have on one your favourite confenerence program with all the nice videos from your colleagues, and on the main one the page/board whatever you are discussing about.
I.e. a Confluence page with collaborative editing on one monitor and Zoom/Teams on the second one.
Though why are this hearing public so we can judge for ourselves.
A document providing some information is http://litcave.rudi.ir/neatcc.pdf. There isn't a link in the repo but it can be found on author's site (which is on the repo). Interestingly (a) it is an optimizing compiler, (b) each compilation phase gets its own source file.
No doubt all paid for by Bannon's Chinese billionaire yacht friend Guo Wengui that is wanted by Beijing for corruption and now wants "asylum" in the US.

Since the Chinese govt don't bother with gulags in Siberia for corruption charges , they rather shoot you in the back of the head.

I can't really blame the guy.
> In the same way font anti-aliasing is becoming obsolete with DPIs higher than we can perceive

Screens might exceed acuity of most users but not hyperacuity. Even on a 400ppi phone screen at typical viewing distances it is possible to tell whether a slanted line is anti-aliased or not. Font anti-aliasing is not becoming obsolete any time soon.
No source is unbiased, but rather than making an ad hominem attack, could you instead address the facts, describe in what way you think it unbiased and your evidence for that.
Yes, jq is written in C. Where LISP comes from?
Quicklink prefetches links as they arrive in the viewport. Instant.page prefetches them when you hover over them.
Thanks, next time if you paste the list somewhere else you can add query-json :P
Netlify was down
This is fresh college grads, and it’s literally a “you have things to do? Are you stuck at all?” The checkins reduce in proportion to the positive check on things.

People don’t understand the massive amount of time new hires can spend stuck (be it HR, software license issues, unfamiliarity with the process, etc).
> their ability to buy up anything that even begins to compete with them...

There is a key difference being being able to afford to buy anything, and actually being able to buy anything. The competing founders need to be willing to sell. If a competitor arises that is mission-driven, Facebook cannot buy them.
Lets say you did. You launch it, people are excited, they start using it.

But stuff will evolve, people will want to innovate. So they make new hardware, and they make new libraries because lets face it, chances you get everything right the first time is slim to none.

And after a few years you're back to having backwards compatibility issues, and some years after that you're starting to feel the mismatch between hardware and software again etc.

As for cheaper, consider this. You can get an ATX motherboard with lots of functionality most people won't use, for like $50 or so. In low quantities just the PCB alone, just empty tracks with no components would be much more than that.
Those cross licenses are the only reason why this laptop isn't running on Itanium, without them there wouldn't exist AMD64.
> Pointers in C are a much higher level abstraction.

Not really; almost all programmers treat them as addresses and almost all compilers represent them that way. Regardless of what the standard actually says. Leading to surprises when this doesn't hold true, and awkwardnesses of the 16-bit x86 "near/far" pointers.

I mean, that's the only reason that "array[index]" and "index[array]" are interchangeable; you don't see that in other languages.
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