skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will get lost in the pile, but I've done some tests with a dumb-as-a-brick neuralnet, 5 layers of 128 nodes, reLU, and the thing shows INCREDIBLE quality. I build VST plugins as a hobby, and have done several amp and guitar effects plugins. I also build and design tube amps.

I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality I was getting, and it was simple enough to run in real-time using pytorch (well I exported the model to onnx and used a c++ lib to run it). I was on my way to making a little startup company around the idea when covid hit and priorities radically changed
If exchanges care only about order of arrival (seems sensible to me), why do they mandate an accuracy minimum on time-stamps? Why are there remote time-tamps at all?
Pandemic-induced growth in bike use for commuting is mostly at the expense of public transit ridership. People aren't trading their cars for bikes, they're trading the risk of dying from a transit-related COVID-19 superspreader event for the risk of dying in a vehicle vs. bike crash.

A mode shift towards bikes won't happen in most of the US because most of the US doesn't have viable public transit, and therefore, there's no need for Americans to switch transport modes.

I believe bike use has increased in relation to public transit ridership in greater New York, but this is absolutely the exception to the rule as NYC was (prior to COVID-19) a transit-dependent city.
I still haven't been able to get my laptop's 1660Ti to display anything else than glitch art, proprietary or nouveau.
Living in denial and refusing to accept (historical) facts because you don't happen to like them is really not healthy.

"It's one of the country's worst-kept secrets. Yet questions still surround the presence of former Nazis and war criminals in West Germany's police, secret service (BND) and politics."

https://www.dw.com/en/stasi-files-shed-light-on-west-german-...
Meanwhile people say capitalism drives innovation.

How much is nvidia single handedly holding back innovation and new discoveries?
The problem is in fact with the source file, it lists just two solar power stations but there are at least 30 in Queensland.
This is why vim has multi-character movements.

The problem here doesn't seem that different from coding over a slow network, something that's been possible for quite a while.
AMD drivers, at least on Windows, have a terrible reputation.
When I was a kid I would always hunt down and turn off CRTs left on anywhere in the house since the sound annoyed me so much. Either my hearing has gotten worse or all the CRTs are gone now... probably both.
I wish there a way to upload PDF and receive JSON which I can edit and submit again to generate PDF again. This would be very useful for our BAs.
The -march=znver2 gcc build target produces, in my tests, very poor code. I get better performance, at least on my son's 3600, by targeting haswell.

I have also recently discovered that an optimization for vanilla amd64 still in Clang, and in Gcc up to release 8, has been stripped from or disabled in gcc-9 and later. A switch statement that checks for a few small integer values used to be converted to a "bt" instruction against a bitmap, but starting in gcc-9, that becomes a big dumb jump table.
The linked articles were worth a read. Thanks for sharing
Overloading by Return Type in C++
That’s a quite shitty response
All of Europe is already connected, here where I live in Sweden I don't even remember the last power outage. Happens like maybe once a year that you wake up or get home and the microwave clock has reset.

Map of the European grid:
https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/

Synchronous grid of Continental Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...
I don’t think that’s accurate. Bin Laden’s strategy was to bait the US into protracted wars that would lead to economic stress and eventually cause the US to leave the Islamic world.

https://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/01/binladen.tape/
I suspect it’s likely to some resonance in the human body that not everyone will have an affinity for. Such that the frequency could be extremely low and it causes a cavity (like a sinus) to resonate and your ear picks it up. I don’t have any proof of that, but it’s a possibility.
Those Antarctic islands are the Balleny Islands. I took a cruise a couple of years ago from NZ to Antarctica, and we were able to land on Borradaile island [1], one of the Ballenys. I can't find my notes for the exact figure, but the historian on board said that, including us, only a few hundred people had ever set foot there. Many expeditions pass within sight of them, but landing is treacherous--IIRC, we went onshore for about an hour in the morning, and by lunch it no longer would've been possible to do so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borradaile_Island
Except unless one is an happy iPhone owner, chances are they don't have any means to scan QR codes on their phones.

Specially elderly people with their feature phones, or plain classic ones
It's a tried and tested tool in fighting disease outbreaks. What else would we do?
There is a significant difference between having a supported defined interface boundary, and a semi-stable interface that doesn't necessarily guarantee backwards comparability to prior interfaces.
Print("I am conscious"); does not equal consciousness.
I wrote about setting up SSL for Confluence on Windows: https://20-things.com/Thing?thingId=1028

Don't think anyone will ever read it, but if I ever need to do this again, I will use the article I wrote as a howto reminder.
Yeah, it uses the tethering feed, and I had to tweak some setting in CamTwist to get 1080p.

Starting to think some kind of capture card might be worth the investment though.
For the longest while I used this to tell my friends in high school I had a mini-superpower. Because I knew when there was a television on in the house, and somehow none of them heard it.

There is an old telly in my apartment, I turned it on to test it last week and heard the tone again, must have been like 18+ years since I last turned one of those on.

It never gave me headaches but I definitely heard (and still hear it) all the time.
Malicious Hackers Unleash Malware That Can Survive OS Reinstalls
Have enough details about TSMC contracts ever been released/leaked to know they don't do this?

I don't follow the semiconductor industry closely enough to know anything about TSMC's business practices, but these kind of contracts are far from unheard of in other sectors.
I don't know what brand of LCD you might have, but do you have an opinion on the refresh rate settings? My Samsung 4k LCD has a feature I only a few days ago realized I had jacked up to "Fastest" as soon as I got it (from its default of "Standard"). It apparently does something wonky with the backlight? (And without it I think the published refresh rate is nowhere near accurate, as that's like the maximum if you are willing to accept the ramifications of this strobing?)
Here's some more HN discussion around this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14533398

And the relevant doc in the kernel source:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
Here is a place (San Agustín sump) that takes 3 weeks
to get to from the cave entrance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_Huautla
I think that most people can learn. Why do you think you are so special?
I think that bicycle specific infrastructure actually sends the wrong message and prevents people from learning. It is a crutch, it creates a vicious circle from which people never get out, never become confident. They do not know what to do when the bike lane ends.
Maybe we need to advocate for changes to US law such that citizens maintain their expectation of privacy when sending messages through third parties. Then it would be like it used to be when law enforcement needed a warrant to obtain an individual’s communications, which is then served to that individual rather than to a third party communications provider.

Also, it seems like it’s time to remind everyone that only totalitarian governments want to read everyone’s mail all the time to look for crimes. Our bill of rights expressly forbids this. I really don’t understand why the DOJ would write a letter like this that to me, a layman, reads like it is plainly in violation of the 4th amendment.
Maybe I'm missing something, but you don't have to accept heavy-handed police-driven violence to understand that it's important for the police to be able to do their job better. Not to be more violent, but to be better policemen. If that involves using facial recognition to be able to detect threats of rioting and violence, then so be it, as long as that technology is used in accordance with laws and regulations protecting your civil liberties. Why is that wrong?
Hackers Eye Their Next Targets, from Schools to Cars
Is It Unethical to Preserve the Environment?
Building an iCal Subscription
defmt looks cool for logging but I'd think there are cases where you want to format strings somehow in order to present them to the user e.g. audio track information or whatnot.
Yeah I agree it really seemed like a wealth adventure porn but some of the moments he recorded, like when the shark chases left me speechless at the intelligence...problem solving skills in the face of dire consequences...shattered my cynicism a bit.
Fantastic. I watched this last night with my parents and we immediately wanted to know more about the decade long production history. This piece has more detail than I ever hoped for, and should probably be the basis for a production section on the (currently rather sparse) Wikipedia page [0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Octopus_Teacher
I always see "being sweaty" being mentioned here when talking about commuting via bike, why? Is it the hills? I live in a flat area and this has never been a problem for me.
Yeah how is this scalable? Are they just bleeding vc money to google/bing? If so whats the difference.
I’m actually really excited about this! I had previously bought everything for this exact project and referenced the blog post on your GitHub for setting up. Unfortunately I got stuck on the Mac issue myself. I’ll definitely be taking a look at your work.

Thanks for putting this together.
Neal Stephenson invented a humorous and not entirely serious comparison of difficulty of ground travel, measured in "Lewis and Clark Expedition Day" (LAC).

In which the relative difficulty and trouble in covering an amount of terrain is measured in units of LACs, equivalent to the theorized amount of suffering a member of the LAC expedition experienced in one day.
No, you're not missing something -- this is an area that I would say is (to use a winter weather term) "unsettled." The Immunant blog entry you pointed to is quite good, and lays out all of the existing solutions and the issues with them. Better solutions are definitely possible here, and I'm confident that we'll see them over time. Especially given the incredible obstacles that Rust has overcome with respect to low-level software (e.g., no_std, asm!), making bitfields more ergonomic seems like a very reasonable aspiration, especially considering how many others see the same problem!
So yes but also private podcast feeds are a thing. There are plenty of podcasts where you can get credentials to a private feed (maybe it’s ad free, maybe it has bonus content, etc.) by paying them money. Having podcasts that you have to pay to access entirely isn’t that weird.
What about the next one?
Internal compiler datastructures and the need to keep more things in memory?
Apparently some small percentage of couples do experience this. I don't think it's some magical "marriage made in heaven"; my theory is that some small number of people have a superhealthy relationship with their ego, and so don't need to differentiate (which is what causes the honeymoon-leaving), and if you get two of them together, they can stay in the honeymoon state indefinitely.
(I work with bcantrill)

We use https://crates.io/crates/bitfield, and some of our dependencies use https://crates.io/crates/bitflags. They're not perfect, but they get the job done.
Completely agree. I was turned off by two things when Julia started getting hyped. The first was the benchmarks they reported, which were, shall I say, carefully selected. This is a perfect example. As someone else pointed out, R has much faster ways to read csv files than what they used. The thing is, most of the time it doesn't make any difference at all. The other was the nonstop attacks on other languages, many of which represented the ignorance of the critic (not unrelated to the first point) rather than deep insight.
Good. It’s long past time to break up big tech
Gold is kind of high. I like platinum. It should rise with inflation and also rise as the economy picks up.
Fair enough. Though I imagine the ecological impact and carbon footprint is probably significant. We all live in a reasonably closed system, so the impact of every significant development touches us all.
> I'm not very aware of a 'spotify for books' that hasn't gone out of business.

How about libraries?
Is there a specific reason early settlers would decide to stay in such harsh climates? Risk/benefit of trying to wander somewhere else?

Surely they would be aware of the benefits of warmth, and perhaps know there are warmer places on Earth?
It's a matter of degree I guess. My understanding is that the kernel pretty much reserves the right to change these APIs as they feel fit, without much regard for the consequences for out-of-tree drivers, even if in practice the interface has settled and isn't in need of changing much currently.
Have you considered fully remote positions? This might bring you more opportunities outside of UK.
You're welcome!

We have a Windows working group that does far more work than I do; honestly, I mostly am just a visible person who uses Windows, more than an expert or someone who fixes a lot of big problems. I do file bugs and patch things where I can.
Are you saying C compilers are O(n)?
> chaos of the JS ecosystem arises as much from the structure of the language as it does[...]

Not really. It arises from Sturgeon's law and the matter of accessibility/popularity. The problems of "the JS ecosystem" (correctly stated: the problems with the NPM and its community) are the same problems that plagued Java 15 years ago. (On the other hand, Java at least attempted in its design to enforce good practices at the language level instead of giving everyone an empty canvas, which in the JS world has been considered to be an endorsement that one can and should go absolutely nuts.)

Related: http://mnielsen.github.io/notes/engelbart/engelbart.html#sli...
New Relic employees report unrest over work culture, CEO’s donations
0% on mine (cause I'm on Intel and Nvidia HW) and have a custom kernel config.
What is Oxide computer?

I saw the talks, but I still have zero idea of what it is they want to sell.
The size of the waste is irrelevant.
And also ~real time compilers for any user code (shaders, etc) that will be running on the GPU.
I encountered a real fun bug where a game on linux crashed and a ghost of the game remained on the monitor even after it was connected to a different computer and power cycled, it remained for days. Some really interesting cascading bugs there.
> While I can agree that a textual replacement based preprocessor is not the sexiest of things, it does have the advantage of being pretty much limitless, simple to grasp, and implement.

…and is a fundamental performance bottleneck. Why is it an overstatement? I agree it's simple and flexible, but compilation performance suffers regardless.
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This browser extension undoes this phenomenon as much as it can:

https://decentraleyes.org/
Maybe you’re already aware of it, but the book “Atlas of Remote Islands” may be of interest:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_Remote_Islands

At one time you could group Wikipedia articles in “books” that you could have printed. I had collected all the islands listed in the book mentioned above into a sort of companion:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:A_Companion_Guide_to_At...
Yes. Despite being an avid code minimalism and refactoring advocate, I have zero problems with auto generated code size, as long as the size of "the source that generated the code" is reasonable.

Here's how I count the size of the code:

So if a codebase is 1 million lines, but 900k was autogenerated using, let's say, a 10k line 'metaprogram' (which is otherwise not included in the source), the real size of the code is 100k + 10k = 110k.

Now, with the stupid vcn_* .c duplication, that I have serious problems with. But what you could do is take a diff of the two vcn_* .c files, keep those diffs as part of the source code, plus only one version of vcn_* .c file, but now add a small script that generates the remaining vcn_* .c files during the build process by using the diffs, e.g., using the patch command. Now the size of the diffs and the size of the patch script, plus the size of one vcn_* .c files, is a better measure of the size of the code.

Of course this is a short-term workaround. There's still a need to refactor the code properly.
More info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
The author of the article linked in the top-level comment mentioned seawater extraction:

"as uranium is extracted, the uranium concentration of seawater decreases, so that greater and greater quantities of water are needed to be processed in order to extract the same amount of uranium. Abbott calculates that the volume of seawater that would need to be processed would become economically impractical in much less than 30 years."
Reminds me of René-Levasseur Island in Canada. It is a nearly circular island within a lake that's not much bigger than itself. And it, in turn, contains lakes, with islands within them.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ren%C3%A9-Levasseur+Island...
I started writing and didn't finish a chat bot one time that meats the criteria. (Actually 2 chat bots)

The formula is this: 1) The 2 bots have a scripted conversation. 2) When a human tries to participate (read: interrupts) they have a conversation like "Bot1: who is this guy? Do you know him? Bot2: NO". Then they happily continue their chat completely ignoring the human unless he types their username. Then it goes "What do you want?" and "Could you please stop highlighting me" etc
The thing that really stood out for me watching it last night was the depth of the storytelling. Making sure to create the back-story first (why he spent a year visiting his Octopus Teacher) and then the gradual reveal of the arc of the story over the rest of the film. The effectiveness of the interviews as well where the interviewer was never seen or heard from. It had the feel of a vlog, and you could imagine that he did it all himself. Then in this piece, you see just how much effort and work went into making this an effective story.

There were so many other ways this story could have turned out - I'm happy that it turned out this way!
I’m curious, can you hear electronics? I can hear a CRT TV from almost 100ft away (the TV being muted, of course) and can tell you when it’s off and on without seeing it (it used to be a fun party trick back in the day). I can also hear capacitors in general if I try (but I just tune it out or I would go insane).

Those “how old is your hearing” sites peg me at 14 though I’m actually double the age and then some.
Yet, the people who want bike specific infrastructure are perfectly happy with bike lanes that require that car drivers see you and react in 20ms when you suddenly cross their path. Instead of being in front of them with plenty of time, like you would if you were using the same road. For example, in Madrid there is such a white painted bike next to an intersection between the regular road and a bike path. The cyclist riding the bike path was killed when he crossed the road. Such a road design is just criminal: https://elpais.com/ccaa/2017/08/28/madrid/1503932795_982370....
The military does similar, measuring distance in days required for a footsoldier with a pack. A mountain forest in winter? Snow many meters deep with trees only a meter apart? Low visibility? Wind? Uphill? A platoon might move less than a single kilometer per day.
Same. I like this lamp for it.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XC5KNB6/
> Switzerland is almost unique in only adopting laws to reduce the number of bad actors (very strict immigration system)

Strict? 25% of Switzerland’s population is foreign-born[1], and they are in the Schengen area, so no passport needed to cross the borders. I’ve cycled through at least three, none of which were even marked.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Switzerland#/...
Story from Germany. In the last 2 months I have been getting weekly something like 1-2 calls in the beginning and now, this week almost 10 calls from all kinds of numbers from various german numbers. Looking into them (online, people reporting these calls, all are ads and all kind of bullsh*t).

I don't share my number, it was quite private, I never got these calls, maybe I had 5 calls in 5 YEARS, now I get more than that in one day. Why is this, I think? A lot of restaurants use lists and then just pass them to guests at the tables or make them visible for everyone writing on them. Recently there are places that offer QR codes and individual forms, and it gets better, but having these lists visible, anyone that is at the restaurant can just take a picture of the whole list.

I could say that I entered a different name some time ago and I got a spam call asking "Is this different name?", but that would be illegal and I would get a fine. :)
We will be selling servers.

Here's a thread from last time this came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23979042
That viewpoint is adorably naïve. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View pretty clearly falls into three categories: government projects, genuinely innovative ideas from the private sector that failed, and the people who ripped off those ideas and made a killing. There is very little overlap between the last two categories.
Is that because they stand out, or because people more inclined to break driving laws like red cars?
It is very raw indeed. What service are you using to check the availability? Any api that you recommend?
I assume you’ve used brute force to generate all those domains. Can you expand a little?
This particular thought thread is about more translation units, not larger translation units. I can't see why those would not mostly scale linearly.
US does plenty of such tactics. See, for example, recent leaks that came out about a massive propaganda campaign to support opposition groups in Syria.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/23/syria-leaks-uk-contractor...
With 60s era NASA budgets, adjusted for inflation you might be able to invent a cannon and projectile which could reach such places much sooner.
Thanks. I didn't want bitflags, this was just basically for an enumeration of channels/parameters e.g Foo=0, Bar=1, Baz=2. Ideally I'd like one that was numbered automatically and also offered a way of enumerating the possible values at runtime. I can't remember why I went back to constants in that case.

Another struggle I remember was just getting the max defined value. Again the Rust type is pretty Opaque because it hides the all-powerful discriminated union type. I love the Rust enum type, but I wish Rust also had a first-class dumb enum type, with all the C/C# niceties (bitflags, runtime enumeration, selection of backing field). This seems like quite a different from what the rust enum is.
The compiler isn't in the kernel though. That's in the user space half.