skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NYT got the Snowden leaks correct just one day after the PRISM story appeared in The Guardian and WaPo. To this day, The Guardian still hasn't issued corrections for the multiple errors that Greenwald made in his articles. WaPo issued a wishy washy correction that just made it's reporting even more confusing.

This isn't mere dunking (unlike https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgrace..., which spends an entire article lambasting WaPo for mentioning an organization that was mentioned in passing in a larger article that mostly interviewed other people and organizations). How a source ends up found and jailed is news of the investigative type.
Most writes are the logs, I use log2ram [1], it reduces SD writes substantially.

[1] https://github.com/azlux/log2ram
Thanks for your feedback, and I pretty understand what you mean, I've worked with some DBA know as the "million dollars error guy". But I think that's a second step, and anyway we were maintaining the servers where those dbs were running... So we deserve some trust maybe?
>Entanglement is not mediated by a medium. If it was, it would have speed of light limitations.

This medium is that in which all energy is embedded. Two particles becoming entangled does mean they're highly correlated with each other. But what enables this correlation? I don't see this question as answered, because wave function collapse is actively disputed.

While my view of quantum entanglement is limited, I don't fully understand how entangled particles can be strongly correlated but can't transmit information FTL. Is it correct to say that two separate entangled particles are now one-and-the-same? I suppose you then get into a philosophical question of whether all parts of a system can ever observe the exact same thing at the exact same time. If this statement is false, then information must be transmitted, no?

>unknown type of matter that enables statistical correlations to exist

Matter and energy are one and the same. Why can't other types of energy exist which we don't fully understand? For example, how does dark "matter" work? We only have incomplete theories thus far, and I know of no paper that discusses physical manipulation of dark matter.

The ether as a concept existed because people didn't understand the vacuum of space. But perhaps the zero-point field is a more accurate rendition of what etherians were trying to communicate.
I joined the js13k competition and used Haxe. Here is my writeup/postmortem
I'm not sure remote first is actually cheaper when you factor in off-sites and WFH stipends. From the article:

With that in mind, we decided to have office hubs in the major cities (starting with SF, NY, SLC, and Vancouver), where employees can work whenever they want. Our office hubs will also be important for those who miss the daily physical interactions and in-person collaboration of an office.
More modern/better arm cores and common environments (starting at approx. Cortex-M3 microcontrollers, where flash instruction fetching depends on page alignment) are also pretty unpredictable. In fact, most advanced pipeline designs, no matter the ISA, have very hard-to-predict instruction timings. Couple this with dynamic frequency scaling and the instruction timings are irrelevant.
That's also the case for apps though, at least on iOS apps are sandboxed almost as well as web sites to my knowledge.
We know it happens, and will unfortunately continue to. Total noobs often don't even know where they are. However, I've come to the conclusion that it takes more energy on the expert's part to complain, rather than simply paste the URL.

I suppose the only thing that would be less effort would be to delete such questions. Perhaps a "post deleted for lack of effort (+ FAQ URL)", button. Would be highly efficient, but feels rather stern to me.
I've been using a RasPi for a Pihole for years and this is a constant peeve. No matter how many precautions it takes, it eventually dives. RasPi is neat for a lot of things but I'm not convinced it's an ideal selfhosting platform. By the time you invest in the necessary addons, you might as well have gotten a used actual server.
Nobody might care about the 3D cube but stuff like shadows under windows have a clear usability benefit. aka: knowing which window is on to of each other. Of course in a tiling WM you don’t care about that but vast majority of people don’t want to use tiling WMs.
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It's also good to know what's not to code so that you can fix it before you sell.
That's specific to the

> Raspberry Pi 2B v1.2, 3A+, 3B, Compute Module 3

Further down,

>Raspberry Pi 3B+, Compute Module 3+

> The Raspberry Pi 3B+ and Compute Module 3+ support USB mass storage boot out of the box. The steps specific to previous versions of Raspberry Pi do not have to be executed.

Then the last one,

> Raspberry Pi 4

>The Raspberry Pi 4 currently requires non-default firmware to enable USB mass storage boot: see the USB mass storage boot section of the Pi 4 Bootloader Configuration page for more information.

But overall, it's possible in some way with all these versions,

>Available on Raspberry Pi 2B v1.2, 3A+, 3B, 3B+, and 4B only.
Per capita death rates:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-mi...

It will be interesting to see if Sweden's marathon approach beats the sprinters.
Everything you say is correct, but I was just addressing the statement that "it can't be avoided".
(Just speculating)

- there are issues with using water for heat exchange and that affecting flora/fauna. maybe the impact can be spread out more at the bottom of the ocean than for on shore locations

- pumping water all the way on to land and back out can take a lot of energy (water is heavy)

- coastal land is generally expensive, certainly more than seafloor which is free(?)

- coastal land is subject to storm surge in a way that deep seafloor is not
It’s not rare, it’s common. Especially in the world of social media where people can leave reviews, etc.
Which hasn't kept them from building 64-bit cores with everything including AVX-512..

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/3099/centaur-unveils-its-new-...

IIRC you watch the "Rise of the Centaur" documentary they talk about the Intel lawsuit, and the corresponding counter suit that they won. Which makes the whole thing sound like MAD.

More interesting there is https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/zhaoxin/kaixian
What do you think about the UK G plug?
As an FYI, your Terms and Conditions page mentions the non-existing domain clouddraw.live
If you look at a temperature graph all would become clear. It's not like the data they had was fake or misrepresented, it's just that the trend is noisy and became clearer later. Now that it is clear, it makes no sense to say "we could still be wrong". It's like a stock market graph; you don't know if a few days ago was the peak, but in a year you do. Or in case of climate, 30-40 years.
I think only allowing the advert to be targeted at the level that the campaign is being run in is reasonable.

i.e. if you are campaigning for Governor of NY, you can target New York state, but you can't target Manhattan, or Long Island, or men over 50, or people who liked the NRA.
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I don't get that text-only thing either. They give me the choice between ads, cookies, tracking vs text-only; they present it like text-only is the worse option, only for losers, while I very much prefer the text-only version thank you very much. Doesn't look very good maybe, but I don't care and Firefox's reader mode clears that right up.

But then they, as you say, the article I was looking for doesn't seem to be there!? Why do they even ask??
The same way countless business, government, and philanthropic leaders were all duped by Theranos.

Group think and greed are powerful drugs for those unable to perform their own critical thinking/research.
I use a $15/year vps for this. Acts as a bastion to all the servers I connect to.
But the author does not elaborate on the "objectively bad" statement explicitly, leaving it to the reader to discern what makes Emacs Lisp bad. And I think "worse" makes less sense, because it is not being directly contrasted against any other language. The author simply takes it for granted that readers will agree Emacs Lisp is "bad" and leaves it at that, which I think is unfortunate.

Your example wrt. JS's two null types doesn't exactly generalize. What are Emacs Lisp's "sharp edges", as you say? What does it prevent people from doing? In what way could it be made more ergonomic? I would argue that its long-term proven stability is an indicator that the language does not have sharp edges; at least, not ones which discourage its use significantly. When you go into discussions about programming languages, you can't throw a stone without hearing somebody bemoan Javascript or PHP, but I never hear Emacs Lisp being brought up (and people who do bring up Lisp are often just upset about the abundance of parentheses, it seems).

I dunno, it just strikes me as the author acting as though this is a given assumption, and I don't quite see it. I'm not saying they're wrong (because, of course, the entire article is an opinion piece and the author is entitled to their opinion), but rather that I just wish this claim had gotten a bit more justification.
Saw the other comments here, didn't find a good place either. Got inspired by the discussion here to write a quick Figma plugin to take JSON input and generate elements based on it. Using it together with the instances is amazing, very quick to prototype stuff.

But, hosting the output was more tricky. PDF export ended up 140MB. PNG ended up 10MB but poor quality. SVG is perfect! But only found one service to host it, and seems even this SVG is too large for them to handle! (50MB)

So, anywhere I can host big SVGs? Then I could publish the quick hack I made to get the title, programming language + description from the projects list and into something you can quickly scan over.

Edit: Aha, found one host that was OK with the file size of a bigger PNG (image is 16806x9984, keep in mind) https://de.catbox.moe/espesr.png Also keep in mind, I'm not a designer, so it is what it is.

Will try to upload the SVG that is a bit more friendly on the data and performance. Edit2: SVG version https://de.catbox.moe/qppy6t.svg
Tiktok is giving away $3K in ad credit per customer? And the regular price isn't massively overpriced?
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood the referent of "you" then. :)
I don't know the numbers but I imagine it skews heavily towards Civil. I was a mechanical engineer and the only reason I would have needed one was because I basically designed ships (from a regulatory perspective).

I'm sure there are people at places like Boeing, GM, and so forth who have PEs but I imagine it's a fairly small minority. It definitely isn't like passing the bar if you're a lawyer. I know someone who runs a fairly large systems engineering group in aerospace and they don't have one.

(And my understanding is that the software engineering PE exam has been phased out because basically no one was taking it.)
Do you know if any of those can execute armhf/32 bit binaries?

My current toolchain (xojo) can only compile for 32bit so I've not been able to contribute software to the ecosystem.
I was wondering if those would require an ED of some sort in line of sight.
I'm quite sad repl.it is used in schools, as its accessibility for the blind is almost nonexistent, or at least it was when I last checked it a few months ago.

They have enough lock in with the collaboration and sharing features that just using a different tool might be difficult.

This is plain old discrimination against disabled students. Don't do it.
I agree that physically modeled synthesis could easily push audio processing requirements far beyond CPU limits and require hardware acceleration similar to graphics. But I disagree that it's a chicken and egg problem. It's a cost/benefit tradeoff and the cost of realtime physically modelled synthesis is higher than its benefit for most applications. Mostly because the alternative of just mixing prerecorded samples works so well, psychoacoustically. (Though I think VR may be the point where this starts to break down; I'd love to try a physically modeled drum set in VR.)

I also doubt that specialized audio hardware could provide a large benefit over a GPU for physically modeled synthesis. Ultimately what you need is FLOPS and GPUs these days are pretty much FLOPS maximizing machines with a few fixed function bits bolted on the side. Swapping the graphics fixed function bits for audio fixed function bits is not going to make a huge difference. Certainly nothing like the difference between CPU and GPU.
Yup, after watching this I figured that we are going to eventually see a law which prevents behavior management of humans through code, all reccomendation and tailoring algorithms will be put into a central transparent repository with public access and study of its impact.
As a documentary film, I bailed after the first few interviews. The novelty of peeking inside internet giants was lost on me. Just felt like awkward confessions of some of my peers with ethical second-thoughts.

I also feel like one method was singled out amongst others: the facebook algorithm. Which exploits its proprietary model of the links between individual humans to boost signal. I don't use the product myself. But I have to ask, to those who do use it regularly, how can any of jaron lanier's darkest predictions come as any surprise?

If you are in the mood for a free doc feature that will utterly blow your mind, I can sincerely give a high rec to The Real Story of Paris Hilton. It's actually a real life horror movie that I found to have a similar energy to Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue. But non fiction ;)

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The algorithms are motivated by ad impressions. Solution: seek out newspapers that are funded by subscriptions, not ads, the ones with stiffest paywalls. These would be Financial Times and WSJ. Chomsky called the FT "the only newspaper that tells the truth" because the readership and authors are aligned in their goal to make money from the news.
I was wondering if those would require an ED of some sort in line of sight. I know that permanently wired things like HVAC or Water heaters do, but I've never read up on that sort of connector.
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I don't think there is any working evidence that Facebook has helped changing minds to elect a world leader. For all the blame Trump gets, Obama was the first leader to use FB for wider reach, and Twitter as well.

Mike Bloomberg spent like some 100Mn+ on FB ADs but still couldn't convince even a 1% of voters in the primary.

Blaming FB has become like very strawman, and indirectly insiuates that voters are stupid and gullible, which is never ever the case. This technique was used by Labour in UK as well, but turns out people just didn't like Labour at all, and blaming FB just backfired.
I don't think that's so clear because historically we've never been in a situation where the average age of the population moves towards 40-50, or already is there in some countries. The median age in the US in 1900 was 23.

If the oldest members of the population constitute a majority, and you're living in a democracy, cultural change is pretty hard to achieve.

Here in Germany, where we have one of the oldest populations on the planet, politics consists essentially of one issue, social services and pensions.
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For starters, you'd secure those NM cables within 8 inches of exiting those plastic boxes, or you'd secure them to the box with a clamp and secure them within 12 inches of the box exit.

After the author began the article by whining about the previous owner's outlet wiring, I expected better attention to detail.
Next step is an executive order to ban One+ for being Chinese.

Does Apple seriously have a trademark on the shape of the human ear?

It's doubly ironic because Apple's trademark traditionally has been a circle shape for products that definitely should not be circles (mouse, earlier earbuds, office buildings).
Guess the question then becomes, do you need transcoding on the device streaming?
I believe Tre is meant for Europe and Two is meant for the US. I suppose the American one is larger
Tor hidden service. Simple to configure, just works.
For sure, I think you can mitigate it, but I would take that as being different from avoidance (simply because there are other languages / runtimes where there is clear actual avoidance). Regardless I think we have enough details in the conversation at this point to understand what each other is saying. :)
I'm guessing it was some kind of failed humor response to Paul Ford's thread about his 8-year old vandalizing a wiki page.

https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/1298350509221388291
There is no profit in supporting the blind.
IIRC, both of those are undefined.
Thanks! We've hardwired a few things like the age label, but are trying to keep it general enough for other uses.
> "follow me on this website I built with these separate login credentials"

That does seem to be one of the biggest hurdles stopping migrations from inferior platforms to superior ones. (The other main hurdle being network effects / the lack of interoperability).

It's like the saying "If you can get your ship into orbit, you're halfway to anywhere.", i.e. "If we had a single sign-on system that worked across the whole of the web, users would be halfway towards all the best sites."
Part of the reason that I didn't know is that while it was unfolding, the state told news reporters not to cover it in detail - the implication was the everybody had died, and that it was not to be discussed any further. I had not looked at the case since. It is fortunate that more people were not harmed, given how many people were on the train.

Truth is hard to come by in China.
They speculate that the removed oxygen (replaced with nitrogen) and no humans banging stuff (by accident I assume), plays a role
As Matt Levine likes to say, "Insider trading isn't about fairness, it's about theft".

Insider trading isn't about making the markets fair and giving the same information to all investors. It's about stopping people from trading on information they don't own - i.e. with information owned by the company itself.

If I fly a helicopter and see oil levels in BP's oil tanks, I can trade on that information just fine, even if I mighjt be the only person with that info. If BP calls me up and tells me what their oil levels are in the same tanks, I can't trade on that information, because it was obtained from the company.
> have determined that an RDBMS will generate too much overhead

I think the read/write overhead is mostly a function of schema design, rather than an intrinsic property of an RDBMS. Denormalized schemas have similar performance profiles to document-oriented storage.

Moreover, mainstream SQL databases like Postgres are getting better and better at indexing jsonb fields, indexing time series data with BRIN, rudimentary full-text search, offering a one-size-fits-all storage system that may not be the best at everything, but will be good enough to support a growing business to its next funding round.
Ime devices with a proper CPU and SSD such as Intel NUC and Beelink are the MV solution to run server software without constant headaches due to slowness, limited memory and flash wearout. Ymmv of course. The Pi4 with 8G is getting close.
I think it's wonderful news that Arm is joining the ranks of giant American tech oligopolies. This is a win for freedom and increases prosperity for all.

/s
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I finally had a chance to watch this last night. I found it quite slow, but that might just be because my brain is trained to consume social media.

I also think they spent too long discussing how the apps are designed to be addictive, and not enough time discussing what I feel is the real problem, accountability for disseminating false or misleading information. (Which is a much harder problem I'll admit.)

But anyhow, I wanted to ask the Hacker News crowd, where are the social media apps designed for people first?

I'd like to see an app where you can post one status update a day, and read the status updates of my friends once a day. Post in the evening, then read about my friends in the morning. Perhaps make a comment or two, then not think, or hear, from the app again for the rest of the day.

No links to the internet, no news articles. Your status update is what "you" did that day. Also, no public posts, anything you post is visible only to your friends and family.

If nothing exists, perhaps I'll make it.
When will Europe realise that there is no second place when it comes to a market - the larger player will always eventually end up owning everything.

I can not put into words how furious I am at the UK's Conservative party for not protecting our last great tech company.

Europe has been fooled into the USA's ultra free market system (which works brilliantly for the US but is terrible for everybody else). As such American tech companies have brought EVERYTHING and eventually moth balled them.

Take Renderware it was the leading game engine of the PS2 era consoles, brought by EA and mothballed. Nokia is another great example brought by Microsoft and mothballed.
Imagination Technologies was slightly different in that it wasn't bought but Apple essentially mothballed them. Now ARM will undoubtedly be the next via an intermediate buyout.

You look across Europe and there is nothing. Deepmind could have been a great European tech company - it just needed the right investment.
> What happens to my compensation if I move? Brex pays by geographic market, so we will ultimately adjust an employee’s Total Compensation Value (TCV) if they relocate to where pay rates are different. However, for current Brex employees who relocate before Sep 1, 2021, Brex will not make any compensation adjustments until Sep 1, 2024 to help each of us manage through the unusual circumstances associated with COVID-19. Standard relocation compensation adjustments will apply immediately for all employees who start at Brex after Sep 1, 2020.

There are many different thoughts around the "right way" to do compensation adjustments in a remote-first world, but 4 years feels like way to long to have to deal with an SF->local pay discrepancy existing within teams.

If someone was to join Brex in 2022, it would feel very weird to learn that their peer on the same team, in the same geographic region, is still getting their SF based comp package, but hasn't lived there in 2 years.