skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
matrix synapse is missing basic administrative functions and you're left to some random scripts in contrib to attempt to manage your homeserver. apparently leaving the server to grow unbounded is an acceptable default and i hate it

this is not to mention that there is one usable client, element and its buggy on all platforms
> Normally the people who rise up the ranks are the politically astute

Don't discount Nadella's political astuteness. I think it would be more accurate to say he is not merely politically astute, but instead able to combine his skill at internal politics with customer empathy and technical intelligence.
I have a flight coming up next week and I’ve downloaded the first album in my Spotify. Thanks!
I would argue that an AI more intelligent than humanity is far more realistic than a Dyson Sphere or Time Travel - and something I would not be surprised to see within the next 100 years.

...simply because even a reasonably intelligent AI would have the ability to improve itself at a rate orders of magnitude faster than biological evolution.
Totally, children are a wonderful display of human nature and a chance to understand ourselves better, I’m feeling amazed by my interactions with a niece, 1.5 years old. She so cunning already, for example she accidentally puts a toy on a side of the bed so it falls over, I get it and she immediately starts to again put it juuuuust on the edge so it would look like she did it accidentally and it fell over. I think I finally stopped getting microgrudges towards people behavior that day :) We just like to play
TIL! That's good to know. That changes my assessment of them quite a bit.
They removed mandatory / optional in Protobuf version 3, and this rendered it useless for Confluent Kafka schema registry at our company.

I read the explanation for this change - to be more flexible about breaking changes, and while it may make sense for some cases, we could not rely on Protobuf 3 in event driven architecture with stricter requirements to data consistency. We went with Avro.
To be fair with my employers, they usually paid for my lunches or had a cafeteria, usually not free, but very affordable.

It's good to have the option, it's not what drives my decisions.

I have no problem with people that see it as a bonus, to each his own, it simply doesn't matter much to me.

But maybe SV corporate culture has gone a little bit too far on it.
I am a part time vegetarian as well. Most of the meals I make are vegetarian, some vegan, and I eat some chicken and pork. I do like a cheeseburger every now and then too. My main protein sources are beans and eggs. I eat a lot of pinto beans. Great northern/white beans are good as well. Here are some recipe ideas:

Pinto Beans:
- Chili
- Refried Beans
- Cajun Style Baked Beans
- Gumbo with pinto beans
- Tortilla soup with chicken and pinto beans
- Peas and rice (kidney beans are used, typically)

White Beans:
- Vegetable soup with white beans
- Spinach/Collards with white beans
- White bean hummus

Chick peas:
- Mushroom loaf w/ gravy using chickpea flour, oats, nuts, etc.

Tofu:
- Goes in almost any Asian cuisine (Indian, Thai, Chinese, etc...) fry it for stir fry.

For cooking meatless, I recommend using mushrooms, yeast flakes and yeast extract for adding umami flavor.
Is it the Play Store app doing this or some other service?

I'm running LineageOS 17 (android 10) + OpenGApps-Pico, am logged into a google account and have turned off as much as I can find in the settings - am curious if my phone is still sending+receiving what they describe.
What about other ARM chips?
Looks like they have taking the pages out of FB - they must be a social dilemma movie fan
How is Matrix not the solution it claims to be? What's not /actually/ decentralized about it?

Keep in mind software of this kind doesn't just [poof] appear out of nowhere...it's typically built incrementally on meager budgets.

What you seem to want is a peer-to-peer solution, which at this point in time is not something Matrix has built or claims to have built.
> and then eat fish or something similar

pescatarian
My sign in as google uses the @gmail address, which I don't have access to other than signing into google, so I wouldn't be able to get the reset email link.
Interestingly, since I use my own domains, my facebook signin is different than my gmail address. But interesting, I've never tried using a second oauth as a match to the first.
Similarly in US politics. And before we get emotional, how is it different from those examples?
I think scale might matter too. Companies are partly public goods problems. Each individual's hard work benefits the whole company. As a result they will undersupply hard work. If the company is size N, they only share 1/N of the total benefit they provide. So, the public goods problem bites harder when companies get big - even holding the level of competition in the market constant.
It's also the case that, in practice, we regulate and politicize much - maybe all - of the free market. So really, we're not having an argument about "Free market vs total centralized system", it's "how much centralization is appropriate".

So maybe we don't today need to work with the Department of Widget creation, but we need to hire lobbyists for the Senate Committee on the Widget Sector. I'm not prepared to say that informing/influencing/steak-dinnering the Senators' aides is per se better than having a nasty political fight in the Company Of The People.

The history of the US farm bill and food safety is a great example of how we don't have a genuine free market in the US. I don't argue for a free market, by the way. Regulation has done a great deal of good. It's just very important to speak with care about topics, and use words that are true to the reality.
If you want turf wars, even if everything else is perfect: Create turfs. The worst period (and the only bad period) of my own company was during the time when teams working with overlapping stuff worked at different locations (at the time this was simply because we didn't have the room. Fortunately we could get back into the same site when we moved to a bigger location, but it took years to heal what the separate locations cost us).
as a developer you generally can't directly pin numbers to your contributions. A very long time, I helped a company get into a new segment of market. I have no number to give, it's just that the CEO, told me so. I'm not even sure it was smart to go there, I was just asked to transform the product to go there, and I did, but I'm not a salesman.
I've read this is a very easy way to brick your phone because the bootloader will check if the signature matches the one from the OEM.
> https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems like a gold bug website, advocating for "hard" money (e.g. gold or bitcoin). I'm pretty sure the answer they want you to find is that in 1971 the US ended convertibility of the dollar to gold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system. It's actually a pretty clever persuasive trick (ask a question designed to lead someone down a specific research path and "self-discover" your true message (a trick thats's coincidentally also used by QAnon: https://www.axios.com/qanon-video-game-cbbacb1e-969c-4f07-93...).

However, the argument of those graphs is pretty much correlation = causation. I'm not economist or historian, but I do know that a lot was going on starting in the 70s (recession followed by the rise of neoliberal economics, among others), that may offer a better causal explanation than gold.
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in an interview with TheTechChap on YouTube, they said they intend to create more Intel devices for the coming years
If there was a modding service for microwaves I would totally pay for it. So that instead of beeping, it plays some sound effects for example.

Or make it look more lik a Star Trek replicator.
It does not require rooting. It shows connnections per app, and how much data has been transferred to each of those connections.

What I tend to do is: install an app → block it before running it the first time → look at every connection attempt made (usually first through ipv4) → wait a bit more until apps attempt connection through different protocol (ipv6 or U) → block anything I don't like, including ads, analytics, etc → tell NetGuard to now allow the "legit" connections to be made and start using the app.
Yes, what are all those people copying Ferdinand Verbiest thinking...
Requirement to be a graduate of a "good" university is not a meritocracy. It's just preferring people who have a diploma, but that doesn't mean the person hired will have other qualities necessary to be effective.

Edit: I know some people with diploma who "gamed" the system, e.g. memorized queries for exam without having any understanding of SQL and passed.
Agree completely! Even the sounds on "more advanced" microwaves are worse.
No, clickbait would be: This guy used Google to login, you'll never guess what happens next!!

He wants to us the name Google to personalize the message assuming that's what a lot of people use. Do you know how I figured that out? That's what OP said was his goal. It's rude to assert otherwise without evidence.
We have a microwave at work, I used it once and it took me 5 minutes do actually make it do something. It is like someone just slapped some buttons and dials and a display on there without thought and created some twisted logic just to annoy the user.

I only ever bought two dial microwaves. Power and time, two variables, easy to understand and intuitive.

Granted, I might try the microwave Technology Connections demonstrated [0] because it sounds like it actually works.. but no chance of getting an old model where I live... or anywhere else.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0
That sounds very interesting. Has there been any update on how successful or not his ideas are in practice?
Isn't that essentially saying you don't want your search engine ranking by relevance and quality?
vk.com?
The decision of the government to build roads and communities to be planned around car-based transportation (as opposed to walking, bicycling, or public transit) is absolutely car culture
Many times now I have tried to find and share possible silver linings with respect to this pandemic. Most of which have been met with scorn and derision. This technology advance seems to be another.

Just as war, terrible as it is leads to giant leaps forward in medical technology, this pandemic has also pushed medicine forward or at the very least accelerated research.

I am not saying the benifits out weigh the costs, I'm just trying to find glimmers of hope in an otherwise dark situation.
Hmm, how long before rights holders turn their Sauron Eye towards Wikipedia ?
> Why is it not possible for GNUnet to / why doesn't GNUnet offer a high-level API that could be consumed by every-day apps and that stays stable across releases?

This isn't possible because GNUnet does not work, and AFAICT has never been in a working state. They won't find the time to build an API when they can't find the time to actually produce working software.

I have been watching the project for a decade at least and I can conclusively say that GNUnet is a waste of time for everyone involved.

As an aside, remember when the state-of-the-art GUI looked like this: https://fossies.org/linux/gnunet/doc/handbook/images/gnunet-...
People don’t keep EFs to maximize their expected net worth. They do it to keep worst case scenarios within reasonable bounds.

You argue keeping stocks is ideal for 2 (sure) and it doesn’t hurt 1 (assuming your net worth is significantly higher than what you’d keep as EF). Agreed.

An EF is for
3. Maximize long-term net worth in x th percentile of outcomes (where x < 10)

EDIT: “ you must really be against investing on margin while having an EF”. Yep.
Buttons are nice because they're easy to wipe down, but dials are great for quickly selecting any duration.
The flavors that are missing are the umami flavors. I notice this in some vegetarian cooking. I utilize mushrooms, yeast flakes and yeast extract to add the missing umami. Tomatoes and other vegetables when appropriate. I don't adhere strictly to cultural norms, I just want my food to taste delicious when I eat it.
The real solution is a least privilege hardened operating system that limits the damage both in terms of malicious effects and data exfiltration/ surveillance. Exposing permissions to users is also a hard UI/UX problem.

Code signing and OCSP and such are band aids to cover the fact that our OSes have deeply inadequate security models. They all date back to the days when the net was far less hostile or in some cases before WANs were a common thing.

Web browsers run code from everywhere and do a decent but not perfect job of this. It’s possible.
Ask HN: What front-end framework are you using to quickly prototype websites?
I'm looking to prototype a web product, but I don't want to (yet) get overly invested in web design and development.

Is there a responsive front-end framework that has standard UI components that I can throw together, maybe connect to some simple backend DB queries and launch without too much custom development?
That may be true. But Apple themselves started us down the path of zero trust. This is what I was promised - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZmeZyDGkQ0

This isn't what Apple is doing. If we're to take Apple's words that the govt agencies aren't 100% trustable just because they have a trustable setup today, why should we trust Apple just because they seem to be the good guys today?
Evan’s iron grip of how users should use the language and how they should write the code killed Elm.
See what Lidar can do on the iPhone 12 Pro with this 3D-scanning app
Intel CEO on them losing the iPhone CPU deal:

> "We ended up not winning it or passing on it, depending on how you want to view it. And the world would have been a lot different if we'd done it"

No, it wouldn't. Maybe the iPhone would have been delayed 1-2 years. But they surely didn't have the capability to make this CPU properly, as all of their attempts in this field in the coming years demonstrated.
You could make it the sound of a doorbell. That way, the dog's barking will let you know when it's finished.
It's not clear that "new techniques" would actually add anything. History's been around a long time, and it's not as though Gibbon's any less definitive today than he was in 1800.
They are really going to shit themselves when they learn the technical details of what is being uploaded. Hint: Google Location Services's "telemetry" is just that: extremely detailed logs of location information that though "anonymized" absolutely obliterates privacy and will in itself be a major scandal.
As a computer architecture learning process, I suggest building a microprogrammed, single-cycle processor using digital building blocks without an HDL and without library blocks. Then, refactor it to be pipelined (which demands branch stall logic). Next, add branch prediction. Then, refactor in an HDL. Finally, superscalar, VLIW, and/or unified scheduler.

Choosing MICMAC or MMIX would be good macrolanguage target to start with. Remember, the microprogramming ops can be much simpler and VLIW-style.

The microprogram will be a ROM block that runs the decoding and execution of the actual processor's ISA. It's helpful to write a microprogram assembly language and compiler to make maintenance easier.
I remember trying to make a C compiler for SNES almost 15 years ago. The expert on the SNES architecure who I was working with was 14 years old.
If you don't mind hacking around and a bit of Jank, you can get the Lineage GSI working on the UniHertz Titan.

Still Android, but you keep the HW Kepboard and the batterylife and build on it is insane. Not nearly as clean as stock or the Key2, but much more freedom respecting.
> ???

Exactly. This is the problem with the country. Half the crazies believe one set of conspiracies is the truth and the other half believe in another set of conspiracies.

> .org is not a government domain.

Right, I said they were special interests funded by the wealthy.

> maybe if they and other tech companies had done this earlier we wouldn't have gotten into this trump + coronavirus mess

Right... And in a few years, the other half of the crazies will be talking about the biden mess.

Half the morons the last 4 years, Trump stole the election. Half the morons now, Biden stole the election. Figure it out.

That anyone would defend any mainstream media after the last 4 years is being intentionally blind. Right or left.
You can attach images as documents in whatsapp in which case it would just send the image unaltered.
refers to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimp_My_Ride
Vending machines have been ubiquitous since my first tech job in the 90s.

I am from Italy so they even looked a big novelty back then.

I'm not blaming people who appreciate it, I consider my job my professional endeavour and as I pretend the best from myself, I pretend it from my employer.

Which means that they have to provide me the tools and the means to do it at my best.

I used to be a smoker, I wouldn't have considered it a bonus if my employer paid for my cigarettes.

My salary has to be good enough to pay for that.
the old riot.im mobile clients does have the feature to tell you which of your contacts are already on matrix. the feature was said to be "coming" to the new client but not yet. not sure what's the real plan for it.
Quality, the same "AI" recommends me irrelevant videos, cant recognise me as a human if i log in from any browser other than chrome, and that issues takedowns randomly for users. The ine that spams, pinterest like shit site quality on front page. Yeah, no, I dont want it to decide.
The more perceptive ones at Google have realized that and quit in mass over the past few years. Since Sundar and the rest of the McKinsey gang took over, it has been just death to Google by a thousand cuts.
You’re exaggerating, and then falling into the same traps you are accusing him of.

A lot to people are claiming Apple is a malevolent entity. In context, it is reasonable for him to rebut that.

I agree with you about his use of loaded terms, and the dismissiveness.

The straw man you cite isn’t a straw man. It is a solid argument. https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5706

The lie of omission you assert isn’t a lie.

No group of distro maintainers has solved the problem Apple is solving. The author used the word ‘feasible’. This is currently true, but doesn’t need to remain so. The fact that you are technically literate enough to know about distro maintainers, and trust them does not mean it is feasible for everyone to do so.

“He really doesn’t just sound like an Apple apologist; he is one.”

If that isn’t a loaded term, I don’t know what is.
Looking at that video all i can think is there's a reason no one makes a microwave like that anymore. They suck. No one wants a 3 level deep option to specify 'Reheat - Potato'.

Yes you can make a microwave that cooks certain foods to perfection but it turns out that you can also get very close by smashing a +30second button or spinning a dial. You don't even have to read a manual.
They discovered that most of the DRAM soft errors were due to alpha particles from the ceramic packaging. Changing the packaging solved most of the problem.

There are still bit flips due to cosmic rays but the rate is low enough that most people don't care. ECC memory can be used if errors are a problem.

More details on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error#Alpha_particles_fro...
Here’s one source that says the difference is significant, to put it mildly. Do you have a better source you can cite?

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?166027-Harvard-Unive...

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?240444-University-of...

Edit: Actually the third state school I looked up is not far off! https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?236948-University-of...
I guess we should not clone a product, but its okay to clone the idea.

I used vk.com a lot in the past and in terms of UI it was much more convenient for me than Facebook.

Same ideas, different implementations.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:

First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
How many breakthroughs have been lost because they were outside the mainstream?
> Obviously I still own the car.

Do you still own the car if it'll just turn off the engines when attempt to drive into a sketchy neighbourhood?

Let's assume the car manufacturer knows the city/town's crime rates well and they have your best intentions in mind. They want you to be safe.

Do you still own the car?
Right, but zen 4 is a year away. If Apple is a year ahead then that’s a lot (even if it is because they are able to use 5nm node fab capacity first)
Watching Apple and Google both adopt dark mode recently was entertaining, Google is still trying to support dark mode across their product suite: Windows Mobile supported dark mode across the entire platform and suggested app developers do as well since the WP7 days.

And then of course, you have both Google flirting with Android apps on Chromebooks, and the new M1 Macs being able to run iOS apps, when Universal Windows Apps were a thing over five years ago.

They've all had this a little while, but Microsoft was ahead of the game on being able to allow/deny individual permissions to given apps before either Apple or Google was as well.

I mean, Microsoft didn't have the market capture, but their platform was technologically in 2015 where their competitors are in 2020.
You can include wealthy nations in that list of entities. It's not just the leaders but also the individual workers.

This is not a slam against people from wealthy nations. I am one of them. I just think it's a danger to be aware of.
These days big tech seems to be focused on hiding certain information from users, herding them into a certain echo-chamber.

No thanks, I'd rather think for myself.
At 50km/h electric foiling boat uses comparable power per mile to an electric car (well something like 2-3x). See Candella’s boats videos.
The exact number is irrelevant, the fact that there is a number is relevant. That means the developer not only understood the business requirements but also measured the impact afterwards. That's a very valuable skill in many companies that use metrics to make decisions.

In fact it doesn't even matter if the number was utter BS and unscientific in measurement. So are probably 80% of metrics in companies that are metrics driven. But the manager running the team still needs a metric to meet their goals and this developer shows that they can deliver that.
Apart from cache, anandtech notes https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

What really defines Apple’s Firestorm CPU core from other designs in the industry is just the sheer width of the microarchitecture.

"Width" enables greater parallel execution of instructions.
https://datafetcher.io/

Python + Pandas would be my choice to develop something.
Flying into Kai Tak was a fantastic experience, especially at night. Looking into the buildings rushing past each side and watching them get relatively higher as the plane descended made it really weird. Plus the last few seconds when all you could see was water outside made it feel like you were about to land on the sea, followed by the sudden bump, thump of ground contact.