skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn’t make any sense.

You’re free to write whatever you want. This is Nvidia providing interfaces to their hardware for those of us who don’t want to write them for ourselves.

It’s a gift. Take it or don’t. How in the world you can say Nvidia shouldn’t be allowed to write software for their GPUs makes no sense at all. Should the government stop them? Any developer can write anything they want - but Nvidia is obviously going to support their own hardware. How does it make any sense otherwise?

All code is “deprecated in the long term” for a long enough “long term”. That doesn’t equal useless. Your comment is nonsensical.
I'd like to take a moment to thank the author of this blog post for some of the most engaging content I've read in a long time. Thank you!
I literally addressed that concern immediately after. You misunderstand my words.
What kind of crypto accelerator would be most interesting to people?
Why do you think it has a finite lifespan?
Fauci says that he takes vitamin D supplements and that they can lessen 'your susceptibility to infection'

https://www.insider.com/fauci-takes-recommends-vitamin-d-and...
I'll be writing an article on this in the future, and you're right, the keyboard was a serious pain to build. It's one of the big reasons it took two years to bring the product to this state.
Yes, but supplement manufacturers can't make health claims.
Slow or not, it becomes cryptic to write Sconsfiles with any complexity, and it's impossible to debug.
The &gt in the first paragraph means they're quoting the article.
they didn’t feel like dealing with the users freely expressing themselves and causing fights
I am working on wisecharlie.com and mental models are really valuable.
Look into PocketChip, it's a cheap portable arm linux machine.
I am aware of that, thus why I immediately followed my statement up with this:

> And yes, I understand that often victims do not want to bring up criminal charges and I understand why. But if you haven't documented any real evidence, trying to bring up an issue 3-4 decades later is just totally absurd. These are life-destroying claims being made here. Ford (the accuser) had NO EVIDENCE

My point is, if you wait 30 years to come forward, you should have evidence. If you don’t have evidence then don’t expect someone to not be confirmed. Again this case was worse than no evidence because the “evidence” presented was mutually contradictory
Sounds immoral and possibly illegal. Good luck ever proving it to the degree necessary to enact change
This is gibberish. Do something better with your time.
One thing I'll add to this is to take care of your hearing. Some age-related hearing loss is inevitable, but you can reduce the amount of hearing loss you'll experience by minimizing your exposure to loud sounds.

How loud is too loud? A rule of thumb is that if you walk around with earbuds and can clearly hear a podcast while standing next to a busy street, it is loud enough to damage your hearing.

Hearing loss is a risk factor for dementia. As people lose their hearing it becomes harder to engage with their friends and family which speeds cognitive decline.
Unfortunately the Obama era (or maybe the coming Biden gov't) reminds me of another prominent historical liberal/social democratic gov't that came to power in a declining but powerful imperialist country with huge promises of ending war, resolving social and economic injustices, etc. but then governed weakly with poor compromises and bad leadership...

That gov't I'm thinking of would be the Weimar Republic.
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So, my own philosophy is 100% listen to them, I don’t believe in closing off my mind due to fear of “emotional harm” etc.

My point was more like, if person X really does feel that way, then sure they can retract themselves from discussion. But they should do so knowing it’s their own failing/weakness and not blame it on the other person being “toxic”.
I’m in the Pacific Northwest (from Portland, currently in Southern Oregon, moving to Bend in a few weeks). I heard the term primarily from East Coasters when I skied at Alta way-back-when. By the time I was skiing all over the place, around ‘04, it was ubiquitous everywhere I skied, at least for park skiers - Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Montana... It was the ski equivalent of n00b. I’m old now, so I’m not sure if it has had any longevity as a slang term.
Man, I'm not even that old yet - but feel old, I guess. Pushing 40.

At this point of my life, I can definitely say my outlook will change in 20 years. 20 years ago I would have thought my belief systems to be set in stone more or less. If this is true, you will miss a whole lot of personal growth. It may depend on the person but I've certainly developed a whole lot more empathy and benefit of the doubt for people I would not have had in the past. I've also learned the world is a whole lot harsher and nicer than many would report, and humanity/society is a very complex thing. 99.9% of the world wants to hug you, not hit you, is something I always try to keep in mind.

A lot of this is based on what you expose yourself to though, so I've noted it's pretty easy to "grow" in the opposite direction if you never get out of your "early 20's" bubble of high school friends, or if you get "stuck" in a such a rut early on in life too scared to make the next step.

The largest lesson I think I've learned is that almost all my regrets have to do with inaction vs. action regardless of outcome. I highly regret many things I was too lazy/scared/talked out of doing, but even the things that turned out (at the moment) absolutely horrible that I actively participated in with my best effort I do not regret now in the least. At the worst some were learning experiences, most turned into (via completely unexpected ways) amazing experiences and opportunities. Note that this can mean almost anything - relationships, work, life experiences, travel, etc.

I guess all I can really give as 100% "for sure" advice is I have never regretted anything I've truly given 100% of my effort into. I've only regretted the moments where I've half-assed something. And this is regardless of outcomes. If I can go to my grave saying I did my best and tried to make my tiny corner of the world better - I'll be quite happy.

That and the mundane daily positive personal habits you can get into the earlier the better. You make yourself a far more attractive partner if you take basic care of yourself like doctor and dentist visits, basic daily hygiene, and at least making an attempt at eating healthy/being active. Others have covered this far more than I have, but I certainly endorse their advice. I simply wanted to point out it goes beyond your own personal health - your health is important to others in your life and for me at least it was easy to forget that for some time.

Also something I haven't seen said a lot here - surrounding yourself early with positive friends who share your values/aspirations in life is exceedingly important. I firmly believe in the "you are the average of your 5 best friends" theory.
If you can serve HTTP-Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) headers on https, you can maybe set your favicon to load via https?

It's not a redirect, but a modern browser will load everything from https after that. (Until the hsts header expires)
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Blatant discrimination, utterly immoral.
This reminds me of something I've wondered about and been irked by recently.

Audio without video works well for storytelling. Video without audio doesn't work nearly as well.

There are a few over the air TV channels I can get but not strong enough to avoid fairly frequent dropouts. A dropout causes up to a couple seconds or so of parts of the picture frozen and parts replace with assorted colored blocks, and audio to be completely lost.

It makes the program pretty much unwatchable.

If they had just allocated more bandwidth to ECC on the audio, even if that meant less on the video and so more frequent video dropouts, most of those channels would become watchable, because for most programs missing a little video doesn't make you lose the story as long as the audio is uninterrupted.
Oh look, another reactionary article on HN. Shocking that tech bros are anti feminist.
Did some googling. The US is the #2 beef exporter, and Sweden is not in the top 15. Admittedly that doesn't necessarily tell me about domestic consumption.

http://www.worldstopexports.com/top-beef-exporting-countries...

Interestingly, the #1 exporter, Australia, has historically used a mix of grazing and feed grains. But they're expecting to grow more feed grains because grazing suffers during droughts, which are increasingly common. Apparently those grains are wheat and barley; corn is definitely an American obsession. I assume that will be grown on land that could otherwise be used to grow food for humans.

https://www.beefcentral.com/lotfeeding/grain-sector-faces-ne...
Speaking about conspiracy by "pseudo-feminists and simps" doesn't lend a lot of credibility to the argument.
Do you know what Indian law is?
How about let's take the next step and ban the malicious collection of US citizens' data by _US_ companies.
Technically it is the X Window System.
:)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
I'm trying to get off! It's not easy! These apps won't run on a later version of Windows Server, they're too old! Tell my boss to give me more budget to get things done properly! :(
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Floating oil droplet contains hundreds of degenerate optical modes
This is the source that first got me curious about this: https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...

There's quite a bit of research that seem to coroborate it.

Sun can cause melanoma, but lack of sun also has negative effects albeit harder to track. Some even unrelated to vitamin D, as it seems the Sun does more than just provide us with vitamin D.

But it seems that the research on melanoma actually indicates that it is sunburn that is the prime cause. And sun exposure while under 20 is another leading cause. But after that, exposure that does not result in burn, like short term exposure doesn't seem to cause melanoma and does provide other health benefits.

I recommend a read in any case.

Not saying to go wild sun tanning, but I think if you can avoid burn (even minor ones), you're good.
I got into electronics by building simple radios. There was a Ladybird Book [1] that started with a crystal set then added extra bits to it like a transistor amplifier. It was all built using a DIY breadboard, the components were connected together using screws with countersunk washers fastened into a piece of wood. There was a whole hobby electronics scene with several magazines that provided designs to build as well as local shops or mail-order to get components.

If I were a teenager now then a FPGA development board with plenty of LEDs and ports could be good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird_Books
Wow, for 30 years I thought cursive was a fluffy, largely-useless style technique. Didn't know it had practical uses for writing faster.
Fully agree. What an amazing read :)
>...I live in Scotland. In the past 20 years we've gone from around 12% electricity from renewable to around 90%.

Scotland has done an amazing job of decarbonizing the energy sector. That said, the important thing about electricity is that storage is very expensive so you have to export when the wind is too strong and import when there is no wind. From the "Annual Compendium of Scottish Energy Statistics 2020" Aug 2020 update available here:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/annual-compendium-of-scott...

>...For almost three quarters (74.4%) of the time in 2019, Scotland met its own demand with its domestic low carbon generation only (renewables and nuclear), down from its peak of 77.8% in 2017. This is likely to be related to outages in Hunterston nuclear power station in 2018 and 2019.
Scotland’s rapid rise in renewable electricity generation means that renewables alone met electricity demand for an estimated 42.3% of the time in 2019, rising from 0.0% as recently as 2012.

>...In recent years, imports have increased as well, rising from approximately 200 GWh in 2014 to more than 1 TWh for every year since 2016. This is possibly a consequence of the closure of the coal-fired power station at Longannet in 2016, which has meant that there has been a potential need for Scotland to have non-intermittent electricity generation available.

Obviously it is the intermittent nature of renewables that is the challenge. As the Royal Society of Edinburgh wrote in "Scotland’s Energy Future":

>...The reality of where we find ourselves, however, is that the planned closures
of both of Scotland’s remaining nuclear power stations by 2030 will see Scotland lose the source of generation for almost 43% of its electricity, going into a period where it is widely expected that demand for electricity will increase. These closures potentially coinciding with the end-of-life of the first wave of offshore wind only adds to this problem.

https://www.rse.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Energy-Rep...
My typing is much faster than my handwriting, so if I am able to type I always opt for that. Slide changes when my notes for them are unfinished are really annoying.
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Note-taking in general, whether on paper or digitally, is pretty bad at improving retention [0]. There are far better techniques for furthering that goal, if that's the target; most obviously, active recall testing & distributed practice. Practically, most people use spaced repetition software like Anki [1] for that.

[0] see table on page 45 in https://pcl.sitehost.iu.edu/rgoldsto/courses/dunloskyimprovi...

[1] https://apps.ankiweb.net/
From the abstract, here:
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.03...

Spherical resonators have a high degree of degeneracy thanks to their highest symmetry; yet, fabricating
perfect spheres is challenging because even a stem to hold the sphere breaks the symmetry. Here we fabricate
a levitating spherical resonator that is evanescently coupled to a standard optical fiber. We characterize the
resonators to exhibit an optical quality factor exceeding a billion, 10 μm radius, and sphericity to within less
than 1 Å. Using our high quality and sphericity, we experimentally lift degeneracies of orders higher than
200, which we resolve with optical finesse exceeding 10 000 000. We then present our experimentally
measured degenerate modes as well as their density of states next to our corresponding theoretical
calculation. Our contactless photonic resonator is compatible with standard telecom fiber technology,
exhibits the highest resonance enhancement as defined by (quality factor)/(mode volume), and the modes
populating our cavity show the highest order of degeneracy reported in any system ever studied.“

Levitating perfect spheres for ultra senitive high bandwidth communication and computation?
Scons is definitely slow in some scenarios. It has O(m * n) performance if a rule has m inputs and n outputs. I tdiscovered this when working with a code base that had a single rule with all .ts files as inputs, and all .js files as outputs. As the number of files we had got bigger, SCons got painfully slow. Of course we can rewrite our rules, but that shouldn’t be necessary, especially since it was quite hard to figure out why our builds got so slow.
My grandfather was an electronic engineer, he taught me how to etch PCBs.
If you have a masters and your applying for an internship at Google you’re doing it wrong.
Thanks for the enthusiasm! I happen to be up really late tonight, but I'm going to bed soon. Thank you for the support and kind words.

The accelerometer is the LSM6DS3, I'll refer you directly to the manufacturer's website: https://www.st.com/en/mems-and-sensors/lsm6ds3.html

You can find out more about how it's integrated at https://github.com/betrusted-io/betrusted-hardware/blob/mast... (note: this is a "DVT" schematic, bugs were found, they are currently being fixed, but they aren't related to the accelerometer).

The TL;DR is that the accelerometer is integrated so that it's in the "always on" untrusted domain, so to access it from the main FPGA "SoC" you have to go through the system controller FPGA ("EC" as we call it). The idea is for it to be available in power down states for anti-tamper, hence the extra layer of complication.

Talking to it requires a call to the EC via the "COM" bus (https://github.com/betrusted-io/betrusted-soc/blob/master/fw...). The EC driver itself is based on the C-native library provided by STM and translated into Rust bindings. It's a little gross: https://github.com/betrusted-io/betrusted-ec/blob/master/sw/...

Hope that helps.
This guy is working on a modular hardware linux tablet:

https://hackaday.io/project/164845-dlt-one-a-damn-linux-tabl...
How do you know it was godaddy?
That talks about countries contributing relative to each other NOT relative to natural. Please point to the number. It's not there because it doesn't exist because we don't know.

And let me put it like this. If you know the number send it to the nobel committee and you would be getting one.
Thank you for your comment, appreciate it
This is from a month ago, if you patched your DCs in August you are good.
> Tell my boss to give me more budget to get things done properly

How much would someone get for getting this done?
I work remotely, where most of my team doesn't (well, didn't before Covid). I took the habit of initiating conversations with new employees, remotely or whenever I visit the office. It doesn't take much but it's worth it. It brings more trust and ease up future relations. Surprisingly, I've noticed some people can be isolated from their colleagues even when sharing the same office.
No, Xorg (or at least the component of Xorg I think you're thinking about) is the server -- specifically, the display server.

Clients -- the individual applications you run -- connect to the display server to draw themselves. (so, e.g., xeyes, xlogo, Firefox, etc. are the clients).
Glad he's finally willing to admit it. I hope the factcheckers stop calling it fake news soon. I wonder how many people died because it wasn't taken more seriously sooner.
Ever since the GTP-3 blog posts came out, every single article I read now makes me wonder- am I being fooled again into thinking a article was written by a human? Thanks u/adolos haha
Ask HN: Any C network engineer/programmers in 2020?
An unpopular choice for general purpose streaming: Steam Link.

You can install the Steam Link on a smart TV and your computer (including Linux), switch the Steam window and stream whatever you want to stream.
I'm not sure what your point is. One doesn't need to overturn Roe outright to overturn Roe in practice for many americans. If there are no abortion providers in your state, and your state bans telemedicine medication abortion, you can't get an abortion. That roe still protects Californians isn't relevant to you in mississippi or georgia or nebraska.

And that really, truly, only takes a 6-3 majority. If Barrett replaced Ginsburg in July, the ruling would have gone the other way. And consternation states well continue to violate the law in an effort to get it changed.
You are missing the point. You are assuming all their assumptions are correct and apparently as the only person in the world you know how much human made emissions contribute to the total CO2 levels. As I wrote in another post. Write the Nobel Price committee if you know and you will be famous.

Edit:

"This is a complex problem, and our study is at the beginning. It's not just a matter of predicting global (outdoor) CO2 levels," he said. "It's going from the global background emissions, to concentrations in the urban environment, to the indoor concentrations, and finally the resulting human impact. We need even broader, interdisciplinary teams of researchers to explore this: investigating each step in our own silos will not be enough."

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200421/Atmospheric-CO2-l...

If this is what you call certainty we have different standards of what is required to call something scientifically proven.
No. We've got a threadful of arguments here in which you simply refuse to engage. You don't get to superciliously demand Socratic satisfaction, wave around your list of logical fallacies and mumble oracularly about koans and enlightenment. You have to make an argument otherwise what you're doing is simply rude preening. It's fine if you have nothing to say. You don't get to (at least, publicly) pretend you've actually said anything and that it's everyone else who has to meet your precise terms of discussion. Sorry.
A certain Don Hopkins has written about this:

"We have tried to avoid paragraph-length footnotes in this book, but X has defeated us by switching the meaning of client and server. In all other client/server relationships, the server is the remote machine that runs the application (i.e., the server provides services, such as database service or computational service). For some perverse reason that's better left to the imagination, X insists on calling the program running on the remote machine "the client." "

From:

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...
It's the standard pattern where someone comes along and says "hey, we made this thing which does X pretty well for a good price". Then someone else comes along and say "we wanted to use it for Y, but it's not good at that, therefore the thing itself is bad, and it's creators should have focused on making it good at Y instead".
If you believe the research, the slower speed of handwriting is a feature not a problem.
This refers to a vulnerability that was patched in August; any systems that are still unpatched are over a month behind. In general, most security patches (for any software that's in use) are urgent; once a patch is out, some adversaries are going to reverse-engineer the patch to find out what the bug was, and mass-exploit targets that haven't patched. Any server which is that far out of date on its patches is either in need of a sysadmin, or has a sysadmin who's being negligent. There is no excuse.
This is already a problem in classrooms etc, and shows itself by tiredness and headaches. As I understand it, this will only push harder towards better ventilation.
Wikipedia has a handy list of X Minus One episodes based on stories by famous writers [1], and a list of all the episodes [2]. These might come in handy since the Archive.org listing just lists the episode titles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Minus_One#Episodes_based_on_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X_Minus_One_episodes