skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their new versal line puts a tpu on the die with the fpga. Great for inference, especially if you want to use the fpga to quickly extract features in the fpga and infer from feature space.
Has a huge Dr. Pol fan, count me in.

Do they have high-speed internet there?
"We will use TSMC."
This is really great. Would be signing up soon.
Steampunk Venus rover ideas win NASA contest to 'explore hell' with clockwork
One (poor) solution I did was to add in the description a list of the videos in the playlists, so once a video was removed, I could just add it back.

I did that with only one YouTube playlist, so it wasn't too much work.
Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favourite for blogging? (2020 version)
Yeah, and perhaps more methods (that one's useless for me, YMMV). Its FOSS too, but author doesn't accept money bounty.
it stems from the old ages when there was more than http to the internet and `www` it was simply the web server machine, and `ftp` would go to the ftp server ...

now everything is HTTPS (or tunneled over HTTPS) so it makes little sense to specify mundane things such as the machine you want to connect to and the protocol to use... there is only one machine (the apex domain) and only one protocol
You have this on the page:
"Use this space to tell the customer how your product works and why it is different."

Which seems to be a template text?
> It's not about the quality of the Post's journalism. It's about whether Twitter should restrict it.

I agree with that.

> A newspaper with a better reputation for reporting the news than Twitter.

Twitter is a social media site that anyone can post on, it's not a news aggregation site and certainly isn't even a news generating company. Every news organization in the world could delete their Twitter account, and everyone could stop sharing links to news companies articles, and Twitter's purpose wouldn't change. Twitter doesn't hire journalists to research and write articles...
This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but climate change is probably a solvable problem with the right technology.

My personal favorite idea is a giant set of solar shades [1]. I guess for that you should be watching for starship news at something like [2].

Other examples of relevant technology would include things include like fusion, superconductors (which are really a subset of fusion ;)), co2 extraction (which only makes sense if you have excess energy), and so on.

[1] https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/we-need-spacex-bfr-not-j...

[2] https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/
On-package, not on-chip
Chimps pare down their social circle in later years – study
Efficient market hypothesis is nonsense. A lot of institutional investors are long-only. That is their mandate. All the information they may have does not change that fact.

It is unlikely that you will beat the market in the long run and if you do, it may well be down to chance, but it is possible, because the market is not perfect.

Furthermore, you can not "buy the market" in the first place. You can buy ETFs replicating stock indices, but that is not the same. If you bought the S&P you will have performed differently than if you had bought MSCI world. Ultimately, stock picking is just a less diversified version of buying an index.
A plotting library: https://github.com/Vindaar/ggplotnim
This formula breaks down when you have a kids that go to school and worse still, two separate schools. Not everyone can hop on a bike.
Google Chrome is preparing a widget with shopping ads on the new tab page?
> This is a smart move, reflecting Intel's own, with an eye to the datacenter where the FPGA is seen as having a bright future.

What in the world FPGAs have to do in a datacentre?
That's a funny stance given the context in which the material was introduced: as evidence that powerful people are racist "by their own admission". Doesn't sound like the no-big-deal definition of racism they might have thought they were confessing to.

It also suggests it's up to session-organisers to decide what justifiably humiliates a person.
I tried it and loved it but the pricing model and fact that it is hosted made me stop using it. I have nothing against either choice, they are just not right for me.

The takeout option lets you download a copy of your files at any time but they also often have sync issues, etc. As far as I can tell, they make heavy use of local browser storage which syncs to a cloud back up. People keep seeing data loss (or did when I stopped following them) when this connection fails. Is it growing pains? Yes, probably. Is it right for me when this risk can lead to data loss and not just a conflict resolution process? No.

I do wish them luck and am looking forward to the various local clones getting better (org-roam, Obsidian, etc... no shortage).
Spent €200.000 on a Failed Startup
Netscape Navigator used to automatically prefix "www" and suffix "com", and this carried through to Mozilla as "domain guessing". What you are describing is the state of the art regressing to that. (-:
> Plus I avoid anything that's associated with the word cult

A little superstitious, don't you think?
Microsoft have been using them in Bing and other projects for a while:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-cat...
> not controlled by a company that does not have its users best interests in mind

The reason VS Code is so successful is exactly because it's under control of a company which has it's users best interests in mind. It's just that the users interest are not identical with some users political interest.

A users best interest is that the tool works without pain and solves the task at hand fast. Anything else comes afterwards. And VS Code is seems to be very dedicated to make exactly this possible. They don't compromise with pointless stuff, and focus on satisfying the most customers. And this works very well so far. Better than any open source-project I've seen to be honest.
A lot of it was IMO the game softbank was playing, now that they've stopped people are just propping it up.
One reason is that you "can't" CNAME your apex domain. So redirecting foo.com to www.foo.com might give you a little more deployment flexibility. The servers hosting the redirect don't need to be super beefy like your main site so just a A/AAAA might not lose you much.

Just a guess.
I doubt it. It's cool but also really ugly. Imagine if you lived opposite it. Maybe if they made it out of something other than concrete it wouldn't be so bad, but history has proven again and again that bare concrete is just fundamentally an ugly material. Even if it starts ok it ages really really badly.
Yes I would say about 80% of most of the groups I've attended has been either singles or people coming without their partners. For a first workshop it often tends to be more couples but the social aspect of it naturally encourages mixing groups, especially because to do it safely you'll need one or two "spotters" that help keep you safe.
They do tell us about the rate, because the rate should be so slow as to not be perceptible.
Recruiting Software Startup Eightfold AI Reaches $1B Value
I was happy with the Enterprise results ( +116% YoY ) until I read this

>Revenue was higher year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter due to higher semi-custom product sales and increased EPYC processor sales.

Semi-Custom is definitely PS5 and Xbox.

Basically I still dont see EPYC making enough inroad in the Server Market. And this is worrying, while the Stocks, Reviews, Hype are all going to AMD. No Results so far have shown Intel is hurt or AMD is making big gains in market shares and revenue shares.

The only good part I guess is Ryzen Mobile contribution to Computing and Graphics segment.
Aren’t they already widely used as NICs? And I many places are beginning to offer them for ML workloads and such.
Probably worth looking at where the different FPGA brands were being fabbed. Xilinx is a better fit to AMD.
Who is “peter”?
I took part in this test. In April/May I had a slight cough, tight chest and got breathless when walking.
I had a very faint line indicating short term antibodies, then the second test I had no signs.

Now if I had covid is another question. Everyone has been pretty damning of the testing system. Phone up doctors or an NHS help line, it's pretty much 'You may have mild symptoms' well how about we just do some testing yeah?

I have no faith in the government stats for covid, if they're not even sending people to get tests then how on earth do they know what's really going on?
Jack Ma's Ant Group set for record $34B market debut
The digitalization is work in progress and there are some hit or miss. I'm a Spaniard that currently lives in another (richer) EU country so that gives me some contrast on what is being done well and what needs to be improved.

- Use of x.509 is nice but the installation process is tricky for non-experts (the root certificates are not trusted by your OS or browser) and yearly the root certificates need to be changed for reasons that escape my understanding. Usually root certificates should have longer lives, but somehow every year I have to update them. Are they being compromised?!?

- The government ID process is a breeze in comparison with other EU countries and quite cheap in comparison, too. The ID card is itself a smart card with your certificates (this is quite common in the EU). The newest ID card also has NFC and can be used to authenticate with government institutions with your phone, quite neat!

- FTTH penetration is quite nice, indeed. Internet prices are also reasonably low and internet packs don't have bullshit restrictions on downloads.

- One of the quirkiest/funniest examples of a digitalization miss was dealing with the notary on a recent house purchase of a family member. After everything was done we received a copy from the notary with the official documents of the property registration, which included as an annex a printed XML with the GML detailing the limits of the property. When I asked for the digital version of said XML we received a PDF with a scan of said XML. I laughed and desisted in my effort to obtain the .xml file. It shows that things are headed in the right direction but there are some hiccups when the rubber meets the road, in this case the notary or its secretary were technologically illiterate and did not receive any formation on how to handle this type of documents.
> [..] and now www is pretty much gone everywhere.

I don't think this is true. There was a time about 15 years ago when everyone fancy went without www but the pendulum has swung back completely in the meantime. Most sites nowadays redirect to the www version. Twitter is the only page I am aware of which was no-www from the very beginning and stuck to it consistently until today.
Solid work. I have seen a few proposed patches or improvements to Postgres handling of connections BUT as with other situations it always seems there's a small number of core maintainers that seem to shoot these improvements down pretty hard so they end up not going anywhere.

There's an on-going debate about whether this should be inside Postgres or handled externally (like pgBouncer and co. do). I am firmly in the camp that it ought to be handled internally.

Maybe with the pedigree of Microsoft/Citus contributing this we might finally see something change.
Can you expand on why Intel’s move was smart (what did the Altera acquisition do for them) and why FPGAs have a bright future in the datacenter?

From what little I’ve seen in this space, FPGAs have not made large inroads in the ML space or datacenters in general. This seems partly due to their inefficient nature compared to ASICS and moreover their software.

Unless AMD is planning something really ambitious (e.g., true software-based hardware reconfiguration that doesn’t require HDL knowledge) and are confident they’ve figured it out, I’m not sure what they hope to achieve here.
Yeah, I think the takedown effectively kills youtube-dl as it was. It was already a lot of work to keep it up to date, and you'd often get videos you couldn't download and had to wait for an update. The whack-a-mole updating is several full time jobs that no one wants to do: you don't get paid, and might get sued.

I am grateful they did it for so long though!
Build an operating system with full GUI and file system support that executes in the browser. Its what I am currently working on.
What part of the world is this?
I am waiting for Chrome to automatically “I’m feeling lucky” single word queries so we slide further into URL ambiguity…
> my conclusion is that Julia is a superior alternative to Python in all ways except one: ecosystem.

Fully agree, but with PyCall you can just use any Python package in Julia: https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl

I do that regularly when I need something from Python and it works perfectly. So, Julias ecosystem is really a superset of Pythons when it comes to libraries.
Author here. I like to look over HN during breakfast, so a surprise this morning. I appreciate folks's kind words.

Can I slide in the back story? The course I had as an undergrad was very computational. Matrix multiplication is associative because the indices combine in this way and then you distribute the a_i,j's, etc. I could follow it line-by-line but I didn't feel any real understanding.

In grad school I learned that it all makes beautiful sense. So when I started teaching, I wanted an approach that conveyed the sense. I adopted a book that is a great book, very clear and clean, but students did not understand it. They were good students, but they just were not ready. They needed more examples, and by-hand calculations, for instance.

I resolved to find a presentation that helped bring them to where they would be ready, or at any rate formed part of a deliberate effort by an undergrad program to work on maturity. I didn't find a book that worked for me, so I wrote one.

So although there are a lot of examples and a lot of computation, like the text I had as an undergrad, this development keeps trying to direct the attention of students toward the understanding that they get from higher-level ideas.

I often see online where someone asks "What is the right book for XXX?" It seems to me that often there is no one best. Often, it depends on the audience. For the students that I see, this approach accomplishes a lot, it seems to me.
Love this! Amazing stuff happening in the fintech space in India.

I remember the Axis Bank fiasco when several API consumers stopped working/accepting API requests when their servers went down. If I understand correctly, you're an API gateway that makes integrations with banks much easier. Since the traditional banking infrastructure is still pretty much "eh", how do you plan to tackle these issues? What if the source API is down when a Decentro customer sends a request? How frequently does bank maintenance that'll affect your APIs occur? Is there an SLA available?
Not to mention that the chroma subsampling gets worse and worse this way. Not just because that's an inherent problem but also because youtube is (like most video players) horrendously bad at resampling the chroma.
Word on the street is that this was a vanity project of a VP, and never resulted in performance levels that couldn't be achieved with a little bit of focused optimization of boring old CPU work (threading + SIMD).
They never ended up shipping the high end ones either.
1 and 2 were, once again, not managed by the Spanish police. 1 is an independent forum, 2 was a contractor that offered online courses to everybody who asked.

Show me an incident where the police were actually hacked. (I am not saying it has not happened, just that your proof is not proof of anything)
Experts need to control to control expections. The flu shot like 50% effenceny is a possibility, and we know anti vaxxers latch onto that with confused statistics. The flu shot is poorly effective because the flu mutates though, covid is more stable so odds are that the vaccine will be more effective, but we are still playing odds of something we don't know, so it is best to assume the worse.
Is this similar to git add -e? I have a hard time keeping diffs valid when editing.

I use git-revise a lot but it doesn't cover all my use cases. Maybe this will be useful.
On FF on Linux and Android it shows me that error message 100% of the time. Refreshing gets it to load.
Ouch! Thanks! Yeah really weird we had not realized this! Thanks a lot! Fixed it!
It’s not really a test of anything but how well commenters react to shallow dismissals. As you may have guessed, the answer is not well.
I think it's the leap from - 'I'm not a fan of the approach' to 'this is a poor textbook'. Just because they don't like the approach doesn't mean it won't be effective for other learners. Some people absolutely need examples before they can attach anything theoretical to a concept.
True! I don't worry much about backup, I do a copy once in a while of the whole folder to a different place. But those who care can automate that easily with a script and cron. When it's just plain text files, everything becomes easier :)
Looks like fun and great idea to aggregate those online experiences/activities for teams. I do have a bit of trouble to understand what you get from those activities? I watched a few of those activity movies, but it didn't explain what was going to happen? Do all members get an assignment? Is it more a presentation? A game?
Do you mean that you have a tag-cloud in Org? Is there a package for that?
If you use www.example.com and then add forum.example.com the probably external forum.example.com can't reach your cookies. If you put everything on example.com and then later add forum.example.com you have to think about security/privacy.
Grafana Labs Looks to Simplify Observability
I think this is absolutely reasonable question.

Filming the screen, means that in order to fake it, you have to setup something that routes youtube.com to your own fake version of youtube, before filming. To me, that sounds much harder than say "this file was downloaded from here on that date"
The Dutch are pretty much doing mass testing by analysing virus particles in sewage waste water.

This gives you city level resolution of the virus spread and prevalence but I assume it relies on the assumption that the majority of infected people will also have detectable GI virus concentrations.
That story made me angry. There’s no way they could have known precisely what would happen when they executed that hack; software has bugs (the whole point of these exercises) and complex interactions between systems cause all sorts of weird behavior.
Im skeptical as well. The primary reason IMO is the software. How do you easily reconfigure your FPGA to efficiently run whatever computationally intensive and/or specialized algorithm you have?
What a beautiful example of a bad faith argument
Even if everything is HTTPS as you claim (spoiler, it is not, there's still plenty of other protocols in use today) subdomains are still relevant information used in SNI to serve virtualhosts.

There is no reason that imposes www.example.net to serve the same content as example.net. Whether or not it does is left to decide by the website operator.
To answer that question: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/5a6729bcaa62d382.png

From wireshark capture of `openssl s_client localhost:443`

2kb can add up if done often enough. And this is a fairly ideal case. I just have two simple certs using secp384r1.

If certificate chain is longer and when the certs use RSA, it will consume more bandwidth.
How would OCEN impact you?
Correct. It requires companies no not be treated as publishers.

However if the companies themselves behave as publishers, yet avoid that designation bybhiding behind a regulation intended to protect Non-Publishers...

Then clesrly they are going against the spirit of the law and the law should be updated so there are consequences, particularly if they enjoy network effect monopolies.

This is very simple to do. Any company using 230, that is publicly listed, has more than 1B in revenue or 100M of users should inmediately lose section 230 protection. Full stop.

Any infotech company of size becomes very attractive for political influence, and should be closely watched for potential violation of campaing finance laws among other things.
There should be no scare quotes around can’t. CNAMEs on the apex don’t exist because CNAMEs are not allowed to coexist with other record types, and you can’t have an apex without NS records or SOA records or whatever else it may be.

You can have a wacky DNS server that allows you to do weird things like ‘alias’ records, but those are sidestepping the DNS RFC: They’re answering with A records, but in a dynamic fashion.
China launches crackdown on mobile web browsers, decries 'chaos' of information
> you wouldn't like your phone's memory to be fully accessible with just a USB cable

Use cryptographic authentication then, with a password/key provided to you when you buy the phone?
> Either a single company, perhaps Bloglines, shall gain such marketshare that it can force a de facto resolution of the ambiguities pertaining to the 2.0 format, or companies will eventually abandon RSS in favor of Atom. Atom, after all, gives companies a chance to start over fresh and do everything right. Of these two possibilities, the latter seems more likely.

Both formats lost as far as public mainstream syndication is concerned :(. (Who won ? Twitter, facebook and silos).
How is "one physics simulation should cover it" relevant?
Be bored. Explore what being bored really is. Let that guide you and motivate you

In other words take the time to find out what interests you, not us.
It is mad and being UK born and bred I sort of took it for granted.

In my head I had a mental picture that London was level with NY. Until one time when I was reading a discussion on here about farming and someone called the UK "the far north" and said that we are further north than all of the continental USA. Mind blown.
This is nice, patterns over libraries.

I would question the choice to use ES5, as it makes it significantly more complicated to handle dependencies between modules in a scalable way. I understand the point of avoiding a build step, but if the code can run in modern clients without it I don’t think it breaks the spirit of the project to use a bundler to support certain older browsers. It’s a lot like using polyfills when needed.
I remember I tried this one some months ago and was driven of by the obscure and pointless design for their note-managment. But otherwise it seemed like a very active and dedicated projects. And their Server Migration-plan is a promising future. So let's see how it will unfold next years...
And the only person who died was a 89 year old woman on chemotherapy:

> Here, we report a case of a reinfection, in an 89-year old Dutch woman, suffering from Waldenström’s acroglobulinemia, treated with B-cell-depleting therapy

Of course people without a functioning immune system can get reinfected. But those aren't the kind of reinfections that are relevant when we have to consider policy/mitigation. And with close to a billion people having been infected and there being only a handful of cases of reinfection it's pretty obvious that covid immunity is strong and long-lasting.
Winff? https://winff.org/html_new/
Which means Oracle lives on, and this is the darkest timeline.
that is just matter of opinion. The quality of developer has gone down in the years. That's all I'm saying. To provoke a knee-jerk reaction is expected.
This has been happening for at least a year for me in Firefox. 100% of the time. It's rather odd.
You can avoid the NYT paywall by literally just hitting the Stop button in Chrome after the page has displayed but the paywall JS is still loading/rendering. It works 100% of the time for me.
What's wrong with blogging?