skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have heard someone describe the US as being an 'attention economy' rather than 'information economy'. There is too much data being thrown at us to absorb it all.
This has led people to increasingly rely on third parties to prioritize, filter, distill, and curate these data. The disintegration of revenue models around information production and the consolidation in media publishing and search has compounded the problem. The result is an increase in hucksterism, fraud, and misinformation.
Nothing can ever be completely proved or disproved and bad ideas never disappear.
It's a new mode for humanity, which will force us to find a new equilibrium.
Where has the virus been eliminated successfully in Asia by that model? New Zealand may be the only real success story, and it's a very tiny population island.

India has seen a likely tens of millions of cases.

Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines have all seen bad outbreaks now.

Nepal is currently being buried in cases.

Case numbers are booming in Malaysia at present.

Japan has never managed to eliminate it and continues to see persistent cases, despite their relative success. The same with Singapore.

Did you mean to say that a few countries in Asia have managed to limit the virus, while the rest of Asia has entirely failed at doing so?
If it makes you feel any better I have started seeing cereal ads in my twitter feed since about last week and I don't search or talk about cereal.
There is some push for remembering your childhood with cereal going on right now.
Mark it down to coincidence.
> - They've stolen Realtek's driver signing keys.

I have been to Realtek's offices in Hsinchu many times. While the other efforts may have taken major resources I don't think getting their private keys would have been hard at all. Especially back then. IMHO the building and some people could be easily compromised and I suspect they didn't really care much about security.
It's from Reclaimer Labs:
https://www.reclaimerlabs.com/blog/2017/3/14/usb-c-easy-bake...
Yeah, there's a cool project [1] that maps out all the historic streetcar routes in SF. There used to be a LOT of them, they all got ripped out to make more room for cars. There were rail tracks on the bay bridge! Those got ripped out in 1956 apparently. Everything was converted to buses so yeah, there's still public transit but I definitely feel like something valuable was lost there. I'd also argue that much of the bay area was built for street cars (they existed after all!) and we could always put them back if there was a compelling cost/benefit to doing so.

[1] https://sfstreetcars.co
iPhones already have a UID architecture that I’m guessing could be used in conjunction with the iCloud architecture to at least provide a ‘this video/image wasn’t edited’ type of signing (with enough effort).

This would probably prevent some classes of data manipulation for legibility/bandwidth reasons, which may make it too cumbersome...
Running code in a database is basically the opposite of the software architecture covered in the article.
$100k in credits for AWS, Airtable, Notion, Stripe and 140 other SaaS tools
N = 1 blah blah, but my Dad is a West Virginian factory worker who couldn't name one current Supreme Court Justice (including the one just appointed), but he has spoken positively about Snowden for years.
> p.s. Chernobyl was and is in the Ukraine, not Russia.

My bad. When it happened, Ukraine was still part of the USSR, which was interchangeably with Russia back then.

Also, would it have been better if I had said "pure clickbait" instead of "100% pure clickbait"? Both are equivalent, although yes, 100% pure is redundant. I was excited. Why did a lone hyperbole invalidate my whole argument? Isn't that an overreaction?
Not every thing we do has to solve every problem immediately and entirely. Incremental progress is good.
Optimizing a join using LIKE by using PostgreSQL FTS instead
Can you comment on how much effort is being put into automating the board design, and how soon you think the design fee is likely to drop?
I am sceptical that you are going to find customers who are going to pay for using multiple solvers especially since they use the fortran routines on the back end and most fea solvers have been heavily verified by e.g. nafems. That said it might be a defining feature between choosing COMSOL vs. FEATool Multiphysics but I doubt it is a technical driver.
There's a spike in Xinjiang, right now (but a blip by Western standards). It's _really_ hard to eliminate it. New Zealand is still seeing the odd case here and there.
As an end-user, the fact that Wayland can't do what I need while X can is a black mark against Wayland.
To be honest, I'm not certain of the purpose of the spam.

Some portion of it would end up in the search results, sure.

But I don't know if there's some secondary benefit to, say, a casino showing a link coming from my site even if my site has a robots.txt saying that the address for that link isn't to be directly indexed.

Is there such a benefit? If not then I'll just set up the robots.txt and observe whether that does indeed solve the problem. But I'd much prefer to just set up the permissions I know I want on my own running instance than spend time making inferences about the reasons bots are abusing my instance's inputs.
Because it's Microsoft FUD.
Roads are cheaper than rails, and easier to change.

Buseses on wheels are more flexible than trams or whatever on tracks, and can route around a collision.

Rails in the road are a severe hazard for cyclists and somewhat hazardous for pedestrians.
That is a recommended route, but unfortunately experience of incorporation including OPC/LLP is vastly different from Tier1 city or in Tier2/Tier3 cities even though on paper even Pvt. Ltd. company can be launched by an individual without any middlemen through MCA.
Seal up your electronics box and they'll never know. If it is not observable, it doesn't exist.

The alternative carrier boards all cost far too much, many more than the Nano itself which violates the first law of carrier boards [0]. Only the OEM carrier board is priced reasonably.

[0] A grocery bag should never cost more than the things that fit in it; a phone case should never cost more than its phone; a camera bag should never cost more than a camera; likewise, a carrier board should never cost more than what it carries.
If Stripe were to go ahead and take a few pennies off of its own cut, I'd be OK with that.
Big shot across the bow of Nvidia - the whole 30-series stock problems seem like a big miscalculation right now. Granted it’s still early as this is just announced, so no real world benchmarks, but their 3090 competitor coming in at $500 under Nvidia makes it a really tough sell - not that a lot of people have even gotten them at this point. Rumors of Nvidia making TI versions in literal months after the 30-series launch are probably true.
It wasn't possible on their website.

They provide data feeds to many third parties, who might themselves be vulnerable, hence the notification.
Mailchimp emailed us to notify us that they will be censoring our private emails
I think the idea is that if you can't view issues without logging in, then google won't index your issues (because it can't view them), so you won't get people spamming in order to get into google
> Public transit can't haul freight cross-country. Self-driving vehicles can.

Freight should be hauled cross-country on rails, not on roads.
The company has the option to stop providing their service to users who use adblock. And they have decided not to do that. If they don't have any issue I don't see why I should have any issue using adblock either.
They might make money off if it, but I believe GP was referring to github's prominence as the home of so many free software projects.
There's been a gitlab bug for almost 3 years to stop relying on recaptcha, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/45684 Debian, KDE and Gnome have never wanted to make their users run Google's nonfree javascript blob to contribute on their gitlab instance. There's been interest, Gitlab has done very little about it. Edit: other bugs about this can be found here https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/46548
If you allow new users to create user profiles with links, and those user profiles are visible to Google, spammers will create a bunch of new user accounts and fill them with spam links.

The easiest way to prevent this is to block Google from seeing user profiles by requiring login to see the profiles.
Holy cow the idiots swarm fast. That the US profited tremendously (net, gross, whatever) is a completely undisputed fact among historians:
https://www.history.com/news/slavery-profitable-southern-eco...
https://www.nhpr.org/post/without-slavery-would-us-be-leadin...
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/slavery...

Rehashing such obvious things is a waste, its like talking with climate deniers. Your refusal to accept obvious facts doesn't ever let the conversation build, y'all just cover your ears and scream.
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More wind and solar tends to decrease volatility on the short term, while increasing the diurnal and seasonal variation.

A big market for grid batteries then becomes "frequency stabilisation services": they are paid not for actual turnover, but for being there and able to respond to demand within an AC cycle.
The example cases from Asia are: Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Thailand.
'Who the hell elected you?' U.S. Senate tech hearing becomes political tussle
That sounds like the modern JavaScript toolchain. During development, run a linter to make sure you're not using error-prone or outdated functionality, run a type checker to make sure you're passing sane data around, but when running in the browser, don't blow up in the user's face.
pair programming!
The problem isn't scraping, it's spam.
We do use them, it is called browser nowadays.
Why don't these compositor developers just get together and standardize?
A search engine not based on ads. Count me in!
On a "what's reasonable" level, or on a "gets you called in by a minister or MP to be yelled at" level?
"By then, Netscape management had decided that a scripting language had to have a syntax similar to Java’s."

I wonder how their reasoning went. I find it generally confusing, if two different languages have similar syntax (why did Java have to look a bit like C?). I guess, I need a visual hint reminding me of the expected semantic.

Anyhow, even if the original JavaScript (perhaps "ScriptingScheme" or "WebScheme"?) would have more resembled Scheme, I doubt it would have used S-expr for long. Over the years I developed the needed parenthesis-blindness, but can't imagine most Web developers having that patience.
This is not true, they publish the code at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab.

If you want to use premium features, you do have to pay to unlock them, and depending on your deployment you would need to get the gitlab-ee image instead of the gitlab-ce one.
Based on my understanding, the license change was "the straw that broke the camel's back." There were already murmurs of a fork due to disagreements among XFree86 developers, but the license change was the final push that led to distributions choosing not to adopt XFree86 4.4, the first version with the new license.
I think more likely is to actually have too much abstraction.
Can't recommend the node sendmail package enough[1]. Easier to set up then any service and fast.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/sendmail
This is a quick little project I've spent the past few days working on. This page lets you study and observe the functions from Swift Algorithms[0] in real time.

The HTML/CSS was generated using HyperSwift[1] and the DOM control/manipulation is done with SwiftWASM[2].

That is to say, this is very close to being written 100% in Swift.

[0] https://github.com/apple/swift-algorithms
[1] https://github.com/johngarrett/hyperSwift
[2] http://swiftwasm.org
Why is this any different from recording a TV broadcast? It seems to me that the same reasoning which made that legal (and there was a fight to do so!) should also allow anyone to record anything that is sent to them on their personal device.
> Before Snowden they would call you "paranoid"

No. They'd call you a "conspiracy theorist". By "they", I mean the news/media would call you a "conspiracy theorist".
This is what worries me a little about widespread mask use. It will start selecting strains that spread more through aerosols, touch, or are easier to contract.
That's a dangerous path to tread, I would never compromise my cognitive abilities with technology, technology is an aid when I need it and I know when not to need it and try to use my God given brain. Suggest you start using your brain or risk loosing it, specially when you can't even remember what to search on Google.
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Well, this is about nice code to look at, not avoiding delaying the ship date.

Moreover, here's approximately how I'd write that TGA loading function:

1. Write a function to load just a header.
2. Unit test the function with a header.
3. Write a function to do the RLE decoding.
4. Unit test the function with some data.
5. etc.
6. Start assembling the pieces.
7. Unit test the whole thing.

Meanwhile, you tried to write it all in one monolithic function, and so now you're testing the whole thing (hopefully with a unit test) and you're staring at the debugger (or worse, some printf output) wondering what little mistake you made. Maybe if you're brilliant, like Carmack, you beat me to the finish line. But most of us are mere mortals.
Counterintuitively it seems that "make it up with volume" is winning; rather than all sorts of different battery designs (with associated fixed costs of manufacture), they're just going to turn out a billion 18650 cells.
Trying to do utilitarian math around pain caused by existence gets weird though because non-birth also precludes the possibility of joy and happiness so isn't it 'immoral' to not have as many kids as possible by the same lost/prevented potential logic?
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I don't want to sound pedantic but this comment makes you look extremely ignorant and unaware of this space and its solutions, use cases, etc. Basically you sound completely oblivious of what's going on here.

If today was the first day that you saw GitLab, perhaps you don't have the domain knowledge to make any of this claims. Nothing you said here makes sense. The Git as a prefix in the name is just a technicality, the same way I could create an operating system called YeahOS and everyone would understand that OS is a suffix that blends into the branding.

But what makes you sound particularly ignorant it's calling GitLab a clone of Github. They are both git platforms, that's it. By that metric BitBucket, Gitea, Gogs, CodeCommit, Phabricator, etc., are all clones of GitHub.

If anything, recent GitHub functionalities like GitHub Actions are a clone of mature GitLab functionality like GitLab's CI.
Media Watchdogs Aren’t Supposed to Guard Biden
Performance is better than I expected, especially for 300w and while not verified externally, it looks like AMD is finally competetive with the top end. If they can get the required share of TSMC volume, then Nvidia may feel a bit of pain since Samsung seems unable to meet the demand.
see sibling comment for specific detials.

From a explanatory pov: I suspect you're thinking that the mutable text state should be "core" but it's actually not, it's part of the "shell". Think about a RESTful frontend providing UI to a (mutable) database holding the state, the database conceptually is the "core" of the program, but in parlance of the architectures discussed here it would be in the "shell".

It is a bit confusing, unfortunately, and it's one of the things I dislike about this classification scheme.
Yes, the missing scope is the problem!
CR does reach out to manufacturers. They even give some of the feedback the manufacturers gave back to them in the article:

"In response to requests for comment, GM said the system on its Buick Encore GX offers an “impressive amount” of standard active safety features that have been proved to reduce crashes. Mazda responded that its system was not designed or intended to center the vehicle in a lane and that the automaker doesn’t believe its vehicles are equipped with technology that meets the criteria CR is using in its evaluation. "
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It's what I want for #2, but it has the unfortunate side-effect of restricting visibility for my main public repo. My #1 goal above is for people to be able to clone from my main repo without logging in.
Cyberattacks target international conference attendees
At $50/kwh you could battery back up a large house for ~48 hours for about $5000.
Surprised they were able to catch up to Nvidia's latest cards after foregoing high-end for a while. "Catch-up" seems to be AMD's forte lately.

But we'll need to wait for real world testing to see how accurate these claims are.
I'm an energy investor (primarily focused on renewables), and I couldn't disagree more. I could go on an on with examples of how government intervention has created busts across the renewables space for the past 20 years, and has thrown down the drain billions of tax payer money. I'd like to keep governments out of something that works without them.
Because if you want to slice to the end you can just ask for the source's length which is free in most languages (it's not in C or in list-based languages), whereas the "result length" version is either going to have to be computed from the collection length or it's a constraint. In the latter case especially it's annoying to have to do weird computations on the basis of length in order to clamp your existing constraint in case the result would already fit.
I'm sure it will get better over time (assuming the blocks are algorithmically placed), but this example board does not inspire much confidence:

https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/custom_pages/9/2/5/alc-block...

I assumed there would be some "person behind the curtain" to this, as well (design checking, touching up connections, making the board look a bit nicer).
Book Suggestion that goes into this problem and offers solutions, I'm listening to the audio version right now: "Think for Yourself" - https://www.amazon.com/Think-Yourself-Restoring-Artificial-I...
Millions in 3 years could mean less than 5 engineers. Don’t startups typically put more ambition into their bets?
That's not "the web".
Is it "Colon Blow"?
Can the native widgets be used instead of the Canvas widgets in the browser hosted view?

The definition of layout is nice, but handling state changes is still imperative. Is there a way to have values update without having to explicitly respond to signals?
Interestingly, this can be seen as an extension of the same principle; in a given person's life, there are impossibly many events going on all the time, each of which is providing some benefit, or negative result, and you could if you choose, try to look for specific memories of achievements or failures in order to benchmark your life's progress, falling back onto them and recalling these specific moments.

The obvious problem with such events is that they may not be representative, and so like a gambler remembering the last few wins, you could keep trying to solve a problem.

Conversely, you could try to remember conclusions, and a few simple procedures, while also passively using a diary or data entry system, such that you have a general feel of "how things have been going lately", without any specific examples, and then occasionally rerun your procedure, taking stock of recent events from recorded data, and update your abstract value.

Then there's the hybrid approach; working on a dataset, find a few specific data points that most properly represent the diversity of your current experience, then remember those, the general feeling associated with them, and your procedure for updating them.

That way you use your emotional episodic memory, but tie it to things that are verified by more careful reflective analysis.
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They claim to have a competitor for the 3090 at a price 30% lower (500$ less).

Impressive claim.
hmm. 16 GB VRAM vs 3070 8 GB... looks better for fitting TF models in memory
The fact that there is an implementation of X on Mac speaks to the power of this system, IMO.

However, regarding remote setups, is X forwarding significantly superior to using something like VNC? I've never done a side-by-side myself, but most of what I've read indicates that VNC is usually faster.

As a semi-experiment, a few months ago I decided to try running Firefox in a Linux VM, and render it in XQuartz on my Mac host. The experience was not pleasant, to say the least. And that's what I'd think to be the best-case-scenario for latency. Hard for me to imagine using it over WAN.
But that could be related to international travelling, or simply community transmission of asymptomatic cases, and China protocol might be to test everyone from that city and apply localized quarantines.

I doubt they will let it go much further than Xinjiang.
It's worth noting this is not the first time that X has become abandonware.

It's not even the second time.

This is the third time X development has been abandoned. And yet, millions of us use X11 every day.

Don't hold your breath for Wayland to replace X11.
Pretty sure the three main factors that decreases your ability to retain information is:

* Lack of sleep
* Stress
* Age

Usually all three hit at once, as our career peaks in intensity around our late 30s, while also having kids.
It’s an operating system itself but it’s only job is to allow you to run virtual machines.

It has a web gui allowing you to vnc* and interact with the virtual machines using only your browser, or you can install apps on your PC for a better experience.

You can limit the resources that each VM has, only a portion of the RAM, only some of the CPU threads etc.

It has a free version, but IIRC the free version limits you to 8 CPU threads per VM.

You can also pass through hardware to an individual VM, .e.g. a whole graphics card and a USB keyboard/mouse. This means that if you were looking at the monitor and using the keyboard/mouse then you wouldn’t be able to tell it’s a VM. If you had two of each peripheral, you could run two local machines from a single tower.

I think Linus did something similar with unraid (same idea) and ran 8 (?) gaming VMs from a single tower using 8 GPUs, 8 monitors etc.

Note that nvidia doesn’t like you using GPUs in VMs and actively fights against it in the drivers but there are workarounds.

*not actually vnc, something propriety.
I spent the last month studying LevelDB's codebase without much knowledge of C++. Learnt a lot during the process.
1) CouchDB

2) Self-managed

3) Don't have any complaints

4) CouchDB

5) So far I've not needed, nor made any plans to scale up. But CouchDB is designed to make it easy to setup a cluster of DBs and has tools built-in to help setup and manage them.

6) The DB is running on a $20 per month DigitalOcean VPS.

Why CouchDB? - There are a lot of reasons I chose CouchDB. Here are a few:

1. CouchDB was designed from the ground up to by used as a back end for web apps and for managing "documents". My apps are document creation and management apps.

2. CouchDB stores data in the JSON format which makes it easy to use in a client side app written in Javascript.

3. PouchDB.js makes it easy to work with CouchDB.

4. CouchDB provides my users an easy way to run my apps "Offline-first" and "Local-first" and the local app's performance is near native app speeds.

5. CouchDB and PouchDB.js provide "Live Sync" functionality that insure users always have the latest version of their documents.

6. The CouchDB dev team is top notch and community support is too.
I misread si.com in the title as si.edu, the Smithsonian. I had no idea that Sports Illustrated would have any interest in Scrabble.
The efficiency of the cotton gin and other processes led to an increase in slavery! It may be in hindsight, but at the time it was a money printer for the south.