skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TIL the project was started by a fellow Spaniard! Very nice write up, kudos!
I’ve put up a bunch of stories, most get no traction. However on the weekend once in a while I get a message from HN that one of my stories is pretty interesting and I should repost it. While every other service relies completely on some algorithm, it’s good to see a place like HN where people are jumping in and trying to stabilize things.
There's an old saying at Microsoft: developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers
I didn't say people say 'inherently violent' I said that is the narrative that is created and used implicitly not explicitly. It's the same as 'forced busing' as code...

And you are wrong about the 'extreme' mainstream opinion. From making certain drugs illegal on forward...it is discussed, reported, and legislated in racist ways.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121004/
[1] https://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/race-and-drug-war
...I can really keep going here...
Why is it intentionally racist to hold the perception that drug users and criminals are inherently violent?
Video game helps scientists understand Covid-19
>A small note: Germany does have a law like this. (I cannot find anything about it in English though.)

The more I know about Germany's government the more I like about it.
Any applications with image processing are usually bottlenecked by the available RAM on a system. If you're running any ML applications, it's most efficient to run models on batches of images and batch size is determined by RAM.
Show HN: Say Japanese – Android App to improve your Japanese pronunciation
Most apps focus on vocabulary, grammar, and listening.

Say Japanese is my attempt to solve this problem. It's still in its infancy. It's my first time making mobile apps, so many features are missing. Btw, I also made another app called "English Speaking" for English learners.

English Speaking
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=english.englis...

One big problem I found so far is that it's super hard for new apps to be discovered in Google Play as there tons of language learning apps. Even Say Japanese and English Speaking provide a very different set of features (focusing on the speaking aspect), it's still difficult for them to be ranked high in search results.

My original goal was to build an app that can improve my English prosody (interword level), but I found it's technically challenging. Thus, I built these two apps as the first step.

That would be awesome if you can give me some feedback. I really want to build something that can help second language learners improve their speaking.
iOS and MacOS are clearly starting to converge here, this current gen of Macs are even able to run iOS apps. I wonder if we'll ever see macs with touchscreens, or if iPads will become macs before macs become iPads
The most hilarious part about Parler is that they ban "content posted by or on behalf of terrorist organizations", which seems reasonable at face value until you realize that the admins consider "Antifa" to be a terrorist organization, and purge any content related to anti-fascism.

They also, until recently, had a zero-tolerance policy on nudity and eroticism, only compromising by forcing users who want to post NSFW content out of view entirely. This includes content related to LGBTQ+ people and sexual health.

Parler is not a "free speech" website. Parler is a safe space for right wing extremists who got tired of getting banned from traditional social media sites for posting hate, and who prefer an environment that is as hostile to minority groups as they are.
It isn't enough. Legalisation needs to happen, even for things I wouldn't touch.

It isn't just about breaking a cycle, though not shaming addiction is helpful. It isn't just addicts that do drugs: I've met folks that do cocaine twice a year, for example. Few folks are addicted to LSD, and most folks only take MDMA occasionally. There is more than one way to take heroin, and folks do use occasionally. All drugs I wouldn't take are safer if folks know they are getting, strength and purity are verified as much as possible.

Legalisation takes some strength away from cartels, which hopefully means less human trafficking.
You'd hit thermal throttling way before 8 minutes I'd guess.

A lot of my iPhone app builds are pretty quick though, < 1 minute.
Nice, I'm collecting feedback and saving them and will act based on them! Glad you find the app useful! ^_^
I used QML for a similar application because it would allow me to assemble the OpenGL scene nicely. I used libMPV to render video frames and QML could easily overlay controls and text. You could even render Chromium (QtWebEngine) on the same scene with minimal effort. I know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to dive deep into the stack of technologies, nonetheless, I got a decent app working with no bugs that customers ever ran into.

For my skill level and effort put forth, I don't know what I could have used to would have worked as well.
Ask HN: Sales Engineer Career Path
Can anyone with experience as a sales engineer share their experiences? In my head I am thinking the role is mostly talking to people about their needs, learning the technical ins and outs of a product, and working on POCs to show how it can be used. Is that what the job usually entails?
Which processes really require occupying and
allocating bigger blocks of RAM?

It's not uncommon to work with e.g. 50GB+ databases these days.

They don't always need to be in RAM, particularly with modern SSD performance, but if you're using a laptop for your day job and you work with largeish data...
I agree with this for the most part.

In the early 2000's Americans were lied into the Iraq war, with multiple newspapers practically begging [0] for war, and critics were the ones on the correct side of history. If that happened in 2021, would the critics be silenced, have warnings on all of their tweets, and be told that they're supporting conspiracy theories? Questioning the official narrative of power is becoming wrongthink.

Who's deciding what's wrong and right?

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2003/02/06/i...
Ah yes didn't see that at first, thanks!
Mechanically linking is heavier than fbw/electrical/fiber optic linking, and what's the point if there's no mechanical linkage to the control surfaces?

With the fbw system, the software makes the choice on how to interpret the control movement, use one or both? If one, which one?

EDIT: Maybe you mean that a mechanical linkage would provide a feedback mechanism, so that one pilot would know if the other pilot was attempting an input? I don't know if there's force feedback on Airbus flight controls.
> Once things calm down, several states are going to improve their processes.

I hope so. But the annoying thing about American federalism is that we like to do things 50 different ways, long after the experiment should have been over.
There is at least a tension between those who want to say tough controversial things and those who don't yet dare to speak out their inner feelings and insecurities.

To construct a space that can handle both is probably impossible. Tough hard arguing has it's merit and value, but often it can turn into a contest who is the most stubborn, most convinced and least principled actor in the discussion. This kind of "war with words" scares away a whole other world of speech that could never happen in it's wake.

I am not saying that we should go without one or another, but saying a space for free speech is one where you can say controversial in a rough voice is not necessarily an indicator for the value of the conversations that take place. Think about HN: how would the conversations on here work without the restraint everybody shows by staying on topic?
I have the same feeling about Samsung. I am shopping for a new phone, unfortunately I cannot find any review that would say whether call recording works on a particular phone.
That's a bit different.

You are making a decision based on services associated with the product, rather than "this one looks identical and is $2 cheaper". Which is a valid differentiator.

But in the end it's not even about that. It's about Amazon not having to go through the cost of marketing(product development, placement, market analysis, etc) to then kick someone that did all of this.
While I agree with you that photographers are hurt by having their photos copied I'm not convinced my app was a problem. I personally doubt anyone was using it to bulk download copywritten photos and somehow use those photos. I could be wrong but I believe most people that steal photos still them a few at time. Basically they're making some article, they need a related photo, they search, grab a 2 to 5 and stick them in their article. They'd do this with the browser, not my app.

My app didn't let you search by keyword, only by user. Further it didn't remove watermarks or do anything else. If photographers put their photos on flickr and they care about stealing they usually both watermark and only put relatively low-res versions there and you have to pay them for high res versions.

If flickr provided logs that showed bulk download and further some proof that even with bulk download that it was actually affecting professional photographers and not just a few geeks collecting some pictures they liked then I'd be more inclined to buy into their ban but without that I'm pretty confident the ban had no basis in reality.
On one level, yes.

On the other hand, I think things involving cryptography at scale ought to come with regulations on language

For example, look at how the word "bank" is specially regulated by most governments. I can't just call myself a bank without meeting specific guidelines or else it's not just typical fraud, it's major financial fraud coupled with putting sensitive customer data at risk.

Same here. We need specific legislation targeting these scummy businesses who use corporate ignorance as an excuse for selling a product under false pretenses of end-to-end encryption.
Where would you put a rapist, if not in a prison?
On Middle Management
I am an iOS and macOS developer and user and it doesn't look that way to me at all. (FWIW I use their hardware because IMHO it sucks less than the alternatives; I'm no special fan).

Actually this part I agree with 100%:

> It's like they're still focused on hardware development and the software is just things users want to do so let's have an app only as needed to retain users, ish.

And I assume this hardware focus is why their subscription options have been a mixture of mediocre and worthless.

But this point, while a common trope (and even with a name, "sherlocked"), I have't really seen it much in practice, especially since OS X rolled around:

> It really seems like they're happy to let someone get popular to identify the niche that needs to be filled, roll an MVP to cover it, and kick out the originators with no real excuses.

I haven't seen much evidence of this in the real world. Even in the case of the Sherlock app they made a more powerful tool and still left room for third parties. They don't make much on their own software and their MVPs really are basic.

Apart from a few marquee apps in the photo/video space they don't really have a big app effort as far as I can tell from outside. I don't know how good those apps are either.
On the chip itself the only difference is probably binning
Yes, but they only replaced the lowest-end 13 inch pro at this point, and are still selling the higher-end Intels. The performance versions will follow next year.
You can’t charge from either side if there are only ports on one side, which, if I understand the design and Gp’s comment correctly, is the case for the ARM macs. Which would be those GP meant as “this generation”.
Not throwing things away. X86 will continue to exist for sure. It’s just if ARM is popular to developers, the barrier that sometimes your code don’t run on ARM will eventually be removed. After the barrier is removed, some advantages of ARM will shine, such as more energy efficient, more cores(so when you buy a cloud server you are more likely to have dedicated cores, instead of vcores).
>It's, more or less, impossible for them to do worse than $0.

Alas, that is not at all true. I once sat through a presentation by a VC on how bad things can go, and they can possibly go much, much further south than $0. Lawsuits, crimes, and total time suck for years are some of the things that can go negative.
That's when playing backwards-compatible games (PS4 games on PS5, and Xbox / 360 / One games on Xbox Series X) as Microsoft spent more time optimizing their console to play old games. PS5 loads next-gen titles significantly faster than the Xbox Series X due to the 2.5x faster SSD.
Chrome (~1-4Gb), Slack with quite a few orgs (~2Gb), Discord again with quite a few orgs (~1Gb), Docker for local dev work (~1-8Gb), Gopls (golang's language server) (~1Gb per open vscode).

Running out of RAM is not my main problem, continuously swapping is as has a performance hit across the whole system for some reason.

As with many things, it's not a NEED, it's more that having to care about what I have open at any given moment gets annoying.
I remember as an election judge in IIRC 2000, while in high school, having to enforce the electioneering thing against someone in the facility. Some things never change.

I also came away from it thinking "Oh goodness it is amazing democracy survives, but kinda cool that it survives in an extremely participatory matter."

Edited: Would have been for the primary, not the general, so I was still in high school, and the youngest judge by 50 years or so for our polling place.
Is it, actually? I mean, yes of course its 45MB difference, but does this matter? We are not talking about applications downloaded to a browser (webapp) or to a mobile phone. In a time where I download >50GB+ games on Steam and deploy from CI/CD server or docker registries to my servers, is a size of 50MB or 100MB really a showstopper?

Don't get me wrong, I totally love 4k and 64k demos and am always fascinated what could be packed into such small binaries, but in my professional life I think developer productivity, code quality and tooling is way more important than filesize. This is of course different if you are a webdev that ships .js, or an App developer publishing to Appstores.
Thanks, sounds promising.
Companies that mine data from users will often mislead users when it comes to privacy.

e.g.: "You have control over your data"... no, you don't.
For anyone wondering, the .NET 2.0 dependency gives this really widespread compatibility on Windows.

It will run on Server 2003 R2 through Windows 7 without the need to install any framework beyond what comes out of the box in the OS. i.e. Just copy the EXE and run it.

And 2.0 is the last version of the framework still installable on Windows 98.

Unfortunately Windows 8 and 10 would need you to install the 3.5 framework (which supports running 2.0 apps... yeah, I know, confusing).

I used to write all my little command line utilities in this version (with a theoretical exception if there was a really pressing need for new language features, but that didn't tend to occur for those kind of utilities).

Of course not as lightweight as a Russinovich or Sofer style single-EXE done in C or whatever, but if you're using NET Framework it's not a bad choice of version.
Of course, but some people seem to be reacting as if that's what's happening, and knowing which sites problems occurred on would be useful for a browser vendor to know.
Pro has one extra GPU core as well.
Author here. Thank you. I haven't made the repo for this doc public, but the LaTeX setup is based on an older document of mine here: https://github.com/0xdabbad00/research/tree/master/emet_unco...
In one of my jobs I ended up in a position where at the end of it I hated going to work. So I stayed up late, so the dreaded work would still be a sleep away. So I was getting more and more upset about my position, fueled not just by being between a rock and a hard place, but also by this voluntary sleep deprivation. Human mind is weird, well, at least mine is.
Compute Express Link CXL 2.0 Specification Released the Big One
> (especially without active cooling)

It seems likely the higher end of the performance curves are only attainable on the systems with active cooling. Or at least only sustainable with active cooling. So the MacBook Air would still realize the efficiency gains, but never the peak performance on that chart.
> I never liked Ballmer, and really never liked the win APIs

actually WinRT is really good. unfortunatly they are barely widespread and probably are not that much used.

C# api docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/?view=winrt-19041
They can be onlined or offlined at any time,

To offline a core:

echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/online

To online a core:

echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/online

Where cpuN is 0-4. Keep in mind there's always one core you cannot disable to process interrupts.
Also no 10G networking option. The combination of those feature exclusions makes it a dud for me; I don't want to have a $150 TB3 adapter hanging off the back, not when previous gen had it built in.
you forgot:

- retina display

- actually good keyboard

- the ability to upgrade storage
Wait, wasn't MCAS used to fix two completely different flying issues, and weren't the changes introduced in the MCAS software twice, for two different points in the flight? Wasn't at least one crash caused by MCAS activation in the phase of the flight that was not even described in most of MCAS explanations initially (which reflected the decision behind the initial introduction of MCAS, not the later modifications)?

Therefore I believe the interpretation that MCAS "just augments" is too simplified from what it really was supposed to do. And the current "fixes" as they are implemented (still as to keep the "water not wet" there) could still leave plane as not behaving as it should, neither with MCAS active, nor when it is not active when it was supposed to be.
Both using an Nvidia 2070S
Not even theoretically possible, as far as I can tell. If iO is protecting your decryption key, then any indistinguishable circuit would also include your decryption key in some form.

I'm having trouble thinking of cases where iO gives you any actual guarantees that matter, because of this property.
They probably beat AMD/Intel on perf/power efficiency, which is why it makes sense for MBA and 13" MBP.

The smaller machines are also likely held back by cooling solutions, so if you have Intel beat on power efficiency in a tiny form factor, you can boost your clock speed too.
React Concepts for Beginners
> Your solution to inmates having crappy lives is to impose even more arbitrary restrictions on them?

What about the other prisoners and guards who don't smoke having smoke imposed on their lungs? Isn't that ridiculous? I'm suggesting we make this fairer, by not forcing inmates to breathe poisonous fumes in addition to serving their sentences. What makes prisons special compared to every other indoor public space (in most western countries) where it is banned - why are they exempt?
As a Canadian, 10 YEARS for a non-violent property crime??? What.
Easy to predict something that's already happening. :)

https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tutorial

It's a good thing, I think! Compared to loading new unmanaged C code into the kernel, BPF is a really nice way to add functionality to Linux.
I think the value was the $3.7M mentioned, not $500k.
Yes, poll people who invest in YC start-ups if they'd be willing to invest in start-ups that improve upon HackerNews forums.

That should generate a few million.

Then hire somebody with a proven track record to oversee proposals for additions to existing HackerNews.

In other words, get money, then crowdsource ideas, then pay people to implement ideas with most votes, then provide beta tests, then provide HackerNews add-ons for a small fee that would cover the expenses. Run it as a non-profit.

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Has this been tried before? Is this the first time you hear of such a proposal?

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I'll throw in two more ideas - make any action taken by a moderator public, with blanked out content that is flagrantly illegal (links to child pornography)

Make it possible to dispute any moderator action for a fee, in other words move from a dictatorship to a democracy.

HackerNews need not be a dictatorship where what moderators think is good, is what's going to be enforced upon the rest.

There can be thousands of HackerNews that are filtered, sorted and moderated differently, based on people's preferences. This would be trivially made possible by asking people who'd be interested in such a service, to pay a small monthly fee.

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Trivial change - please make it possible to block specific users based on name/how long they've been registered on site for X-number of days. For example if I see someone routinely making comments I am not interested in, who does it benefit for me to continue reading their input? It only causes tension, it's like having to live with people you are fundamentally opposed to with no recourse other than leaving (no longer reading the comments section)

I predict this feature alone would decrease tensions among regular readers significantly, making your job easier.
Every rewrite yields better results, even if you'd have rewritten your code in (modern) C# again.
>2015 Macbook Pro Retina 13"

How long will OS updates be distributed for it?
They do not have any hardware combination which can actually support even modest GPU intensive training sadly, so much touting running models instead of training.
Running 3-4 Windows 10 VMs is not a standart Macbook (at least not for 13" macbook) workload.
I would argue that the "stealing" does not happen at the time of download; after all the photos are free to view on Flickr as many times as you want, and your browser needs to 'download' them in order to show them to you. Saving a copy to your own hard drive for offline viewing does not fundamentally change that interaction.

It is only when you re-publish the photos that it becomes theft of intellectual property.
IDE + VMs + office + slack + zoom etc
But it's right there in the name: 13" MacBook Pro
The 13” MacBook Pro doesn’t have a discrete gpu. They’re all using the integrated gpu of the M1 chip. We have idea how well it’ll perform in real world benchmarks yet.