skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eyelixir by Grokware
Grafana and the case of the infinite serial number
Rust isn't what can bring that "magic", but a rewrite sure can.
Betting markets have various limits that protect them from being gambling sites, and you literally cannot buy any more contracts on Biden on the ones that show a 10% chance for Trump. That keeps the odds from moving. If the market was liquid, that 10% would surely fall.

Disclaimer: this was explained to me by someone that plays the betting markets, and it could all be wrong.
I switched from Chrome to FF as my daily driver, and miss being able to have multiple simultaneous instances with different proxy configs (via a --proxy-server="socks4://localhost:####" command line flag).

FF as far as I know does not have a way to do this as easily, you have to spin up different profiles and click through each one to configure it.

I still have chromium around for primarily this reason.
Sorry, was confused by "them". Yeah, he is basically the creatpr of all the big programming tutorials on snes programming. But to be such a giant he was mighty uninterested. He wanted to get into making music instead.
What I got out of that was the combination of work autonomy and email culture causes us all to work at different paces in different ways, all tied together by making random, unplanned demands of others via email as we go about doing our job. This generates a bunch of work not visible to management and the company as a whole. The author suggests looking at programming sprints as a time where we define the work to be done and just let people do it without being interrupted. I would leave it up to the programmers to respond if they're actually left alone to do their work or if they're sitting in the same amount of useless meetings as the rest of us.
I can relate to your feelings for sure.

I'm using Workflowy to brainstorm and capture ideas and Ulysses for writing. I appreciate both products for being clean and simple to use and not bloated with unnecessary features.
That’s a really good point, and is also how I see other similar apps like grammarly.

They can help highlight issues and it’s up to you to decide whether those really are issues or just personal stylistic choices.

I’m a user of both.
For some reason I found it too clunky and slow on a machine that runs other electron apps just fine. I was also looking for something simple as I was not well versed in git at the time, and it was a bit bloated for me.
I also feel like "this analysis can be misleading if you ignore election night itself in which the prediction markets were wildly wrong and had Trump's odds of winning as high as 80% while a lot of the models still thought Biden had the edge throughout the entire process."

This seems to be a topic the trolls are heavily invested in, no pun intended, judging by the downvote:comment ratio.
Chromium implements this as a feature by default. Visiting a website with an OpenSearch tag in its `head` or searching on a website without one lets you later search the website itself from the urlbar by pressing "tab". It's history-based and works very well.

https://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search
That's the point of using DoH, to avoid sending unencrypted DNS requests so your ISP can't spy or intercept those requests. If you are using unencrypted DNS from Google/Cloudflare/etc you are just adding one more party that can see your requests. If you use DoH, in theory, you are replacing who can see your requests. In practice your ISP can still know what websites you visit thanks to unencrypted SNI or if the domain you are visiting is the only one on that IP (and probably other techniques I'm not aware of). There are many more variables than just DNS requests so if you really don't want your ISP knowing what websites you visit you have no choice but to use a VPN or Tor.
You load, detect and discard it?

We’re already talking about building a search engine, might as well talk about a model to convincingly detect blogspam too.
Yes it's super slow, but many of the criticisms are missing the point. This enables browsing over SSH when you have low bandwidth. The heavy internetting is done on the remote machine (like a cloud VM for example) using blazing fast data center internet. A personal example may explain why I love this.

For several years I lived in rural Alaska where the fastest internet one could buy was $120 a month (I think) and a blazing 512 Kbps. I was a developer (working remotely) who's shop had adopted Docker, and it literally took more than 24 hours sometimes to download a docker image. By necessity I switched to having my whole development environment on a cloud VM. The Cloud VM had gigabit connection so docker downloads were blazing fast. All I needed to send across the wire was a tiny bit of text. Mosh was an absolute life saver by the way. I once flew from Anchorage to Salt Lake and had the same mosh session pick up like nothing had happened thanks to roaming abilities.

Browsing heavy (i.e. modern) websites was often very difficult too. With high latency and a lot of heavy Javascript sites requiring 10 MB or more, it was a nightmare. I occasionally went up to Eagle Alaska, where internet was even worse. The nearest cell tower was a 4 hour drive away, and the only internet was at the "library" or a crappy satellite link (that far north satellites get less useful). A tool like Browsh is a life line to people in situations like that.

In related news, when people talk about the merits of developing with just Vim vs. an IDE, I also recount the same story.
Instead of having many bots do inefficient crawling, web sites should publish their own index. Intermediate parties can combine indexes of the sites. Sites that do not provide indexes get less visitors.
That actually makes a lot of sense. I'd assumed you'd be making them every morning anyway, but it looks like you've worked out a way around that.
Apologies for the negative comment - I'd obviously brought up something you'd already thought through properly.
Best of luck with the venture.
This is a delay of taxes, but does not avoid them in the long term. To be brought back and used in America, taxes will have to be paid on the money. It defers the tax hit, but does not remove it. If Apple wants to use that money for R&D, investing in new production, expansion, or similar, those are expenses and not covered by corporate tax. If Apple wants to do buybacks or dividends, it will be subject when it's repatriated to do so.
> I'm not sure I or really anyone actually wants a 2 day battery life.

I do, because that means it could probably do 8 hours at high load.
I think we also have the right to know as I wasn't aware of such past but now I can't see the page.
Quantum mechanics maths from the bare metal
Muslim Pro users denounce tech firm after their data sold to US military
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-military-data-muslim-p...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-...
There is no one process for identifying fraud, there are many processes as the elections are run by the States, not some, "central voting authority."

That being said, in California, specifically, it's analogous to dual-factor authentication.

On your ballot, you write your signature. You have ballot checkers who look at that signature, and check it against one already on file with the State Government, from sources like a voter registration application or driver's license.

So to make a claim that, "Fraud is high enough to make a difference," - let's say, 0.1% over those ballots not already rejected to be charitable, you would have to fake a percentage of 22 million votes (assuming rounding up to 10 million).

So keep in mind, 220,000 ballots were already rejected for not being able to be verified by the State. Beyond that, the 0.1% requirement would mean that 21,780 additional ballots within the remaining 21,780,000 ballots would need to be, "fraudulent," in order to make the election, "not valid," using a charitable definition.

What is the definition of fraudulent? It doesn't mean, "I don't like this person who voted," or, "voting with malicious intent." It means - the law was broken, creating illegal interference with the process of an election. Election fraud can take place around in-person voting and absentee/mail-in voting. It can occur at different points of the election process, from registration to the tallying of ballots. Types of election fraud include [ballot stuffing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud#Ballot_stuffin...), voter registration fraud, absentee/mail-in ballot vote fraud, and using fraudulent signatures.

To support the claim, "fraud is not extremely rare," you would have to demonstrate that 21,780 ballots were illegal, by either party mind you, through any combination of the above reasons. Or, you would have to at least define how many votes need to be illegal in order to mean, "not extremely rare," and then demonstrate a case for why we passed that threshold.

I have not read any convincing arguments on this entire thread demonstrating anything convincing even in the slightest, either evidence based or even just a semblance of a rational argument explaining why it might be true. All I read on here is hand waving ignorance and raw emotions.

On the other hand, what I see election authorities in California do, is A) Maintaining a list of possible registered voters or drivers licenses tied to addresses with signatures on file. B) Cross referencing those signatures on the ballots submitted. C) Allowing observers in to observe the process at any time.
For rust, to me build time performance is not as important as runtime performance.
I know little about Cranelift, it seems to be mostly functionally equivalent to LLVM, but have a smaller footprint because of intentional design tradeoffs.

Could someone more enlightened share an overview of Cranelift's capability in handling deep learning relevant compiling tasks: gemm optimization, data flow, scheduling, GPU backend, etc?

Also, it seems Cranelift only has one IR format as the interface to the language frontend. Does it have things like MLIR to bridge diverse optimization needs of multiple different languages?
Firefox beta supports Apple silicon natively
Why, better lifetimes' control could reduce the RSS, and reduce the GC time / energy.

(Provided that the C++ version is not strictly optimal WRT resource allocation; I think it's a rather safe bet.)
Anything from pmOS edition onwards is fine.
This is a different project entirely. All your links are for a radio observatory on the farside and this is a polar light telescope.
How do Spotify Codes work?
That quirk is true on PredictIt, but currently on Betfair there is a very liquid market with millions of dollars on both sides where the implied odds are roughly 95% for Biden and 5% for Trump.

Now, betting markets do have the problem where even if the bet was a "sure thing", it might not be worth betting for a ~5% gain when you account for the risk and effort related to getting the money into and out of the betting market, and I think that partially explains why the market has settled where it is. But still, this highly liquid market had Trump a pretty strong favorite on election night as well.
Oh, Epic broke their contract and therefore I think can be seen as bad for security.

If they are willing to break their contract for money what is to stop them from harvesting my data for money?

The security feature is a part of the apple ecosystem. I bought a Mac because of that not desire of it.
Ad Hominem

(Attacking the person): This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument.
Feds Propose Even More Surveillance of Your Banking Habits
My ad-blocker prevented loading the article.

Here's an alternate source: https://asiatimes.com/2020/11/did-china-use-microwave-weapon...

India denies the claims: https://m.republicworld.com/india-news/law-and-order/fact-ch...
I am aware of caps on the amount of money an individual can risk in prediction markets, but not a cap on the total number of positions.

Where might one find such a market that presently shows a 10% Trump chance? It would be interesting to see what the trading volume looks like.
haha that is the domain I meant. if you were able to aggregate and search across the different sites, I'm certain that would succeed. particularly since they let you link to the videos at specific timestamps now.
a couple of months ago I would have said to check out national Parks. now it might not be the right weather for a lot of them. I hit glacier and Yellowstone in the same 9 day trip. there was plenty of space to social distance, Park rangers took the problem seriously, beautiful sights

today, I would probably suggest books. fantasy or history from the cultural locations you want to visit
Is it not though?

Compiling shit and running tests is what you do when you're working on a software project in Rust. If suddenly your workflow is twice as fast, it's noticeable and this is the only thing that tweet claimed imo.
Spent a lot of time/money this election cycle betting on the spread between Predictit and 538. I did act more conservatively by only making a bet when it made sense given all 3 versions of 538s' model.

ROI around 12% (not including 5% withdrawl fee). Expect it to go a few points higher given that called elections are still trading at 90c, but PredictIt won't close due to ongoing litigation.
Worth mentioning is the insane and disruptive technology making TSMC's 5nm possible. ASML and it's suppliers have built a machine[1] that has a sci-fi feel to it. It took decades to get it all right, from the continous laser source to the projection optics for the extreme ultraviolet light[2]. This allowed photolithography to jump from 193nm light to 13.5nm, very close to x-rays.
The CO2 laser powering the EUV light source is made by Trumpf[3].

Edit:More hands-on video from Engadget about EUV at Intels Oregon facility[4]

[1]https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems/twi...
[2]https://youtu.be/f0gMdGrVteI
[3]https://www.trumpf.com/en_US/solutions/applications/euv-lith...
[4]https://youtu.be/oIiqVrKDtLc
I think you're perfectly able to understand what I meant there: anything other than research purpose in an isolated environment e.g. sandbox.
There is no reason they couldn't have done this without DoH being an available standard. Remember, DoH is just an ordinary HTTPS request. Anyone can hide almost anything in that, including their own homemade DNS.
I just spoke to them. Wankers. They are basing it on the projected results, and are waiting for recounts. I asked what would happen if another recount was ordered in another state while the market was still in play, and they said "We'll take it into consideration" So basically, its going to come down to a judgement call by BetFair. They will pretty much be able to call it however they want, as they get to decide which states are still in play.
I have no problem with using Slack or Hangouts or Discord or some other chat solution while at work. I also tend to use discord/steam for throw-away conversation with friends.

At no point did I appeal to authority or history in my argument above, so drop the shit around

> "Lo it was handed down to us by Postel the Wise, and none shall tamper with His choices."

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If you think Chat apps are winning, let me know when you can buy an item online without an account linked to an Email. I'd love to see an example.
The official numbers we get from the newspapers/state media point to 80% occupation.

https://icumonitoring.ch/
> Apple want control, but they're not stupid enough to completely lock down the development machines for their entire ecosystem.

There isn't much people can do about that though? You basically have to run their OS to develop apps for Apple products, and people who don't develop apps for Apple products don't use Mac's anyway. Just make a laptop appstore with everything you need to develop Apple products and they could force all programs to go on it and they would lose almost no users of their laptops.
The Microsoft Pluton Processor
Thanks for that buzzkill. I guess the lesson is if you can't do everything Google does, don't even try.
This is really great - thanks for sharing!
It's certainly more than just templates, but it's also not the whole hairy c++ - it's C + templates, RAII, and namespaces.

It's less template metaprogramming and just templates to generate efficient code - stuff used to be done by abusing the proprocessor can now be handled by a (slightly) more elegant templating engine rather than a string pasting engine.

Classes are used for resource management/RAII, like we have a AQUIRE_MUTEX_IN_SCOPE() macro which will release mutex when scope is exited, this is supremely useful and generalized to many resources.

Lastly namespaces are huge. In big C codebases you have to be super pendantic about naming modules and APIs consistently because otherwise it becomes a nightmare.

C++ does get in the way still sometimes, like when you want to do something slightly dirty for perf reasons, say aliasing between structs. You first write it in a way that makes sense, basically how you would write it in C, but it's UB in C++, so you rewrite it with virtual calls or memcpys such that the compiler should be smart enough to arrive at the same result as C would have with the straightforward implementation. This works great until it doesn't, your last option is to try to solve it with templates, and that hole is very deep.
Mars to buy Kind bars maker to push into healthy snacks market
This is the video channel of Frederic Schuller.

In the videos on this channel, Mr Schuller rebuilds the entire math stack from basically set theory axioms all the way to the full blown math arsenal required to understand modern quantum mechanics.

If you are more mathematically-minded when you try to understand physics, you are very likely going to enjoy these lectures: they are clear, systematic, disciplined and very well structured.

Here are some the topics touched on:

- predicate logic
- set theory axioms
- topology
- manifolds
- differential geometry
- lie groups & algebras, representation theory
- measure theory
etc ...

The only thing missing is the problem sheets :(
Here is one: https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3698
At Facebook we had Dead Code Society which requires one to submit a big red diff to join. It comes with a t-shirt.
Because when I first built it, it was only a site I botched together really quickly for a handful of icons I made. And I haven't had the time to re-make it, which is what I'm doing right now.
Simple Framework for Digital Well-Being
Input is way smaller than output, so memory performance considerations there probably don't even register in the larger scale of things. (having to write the decompressed frame to RAM and read it again to scan it out to display)

Say 4-8kiB per frame on input leads to 4MiB frame on output.
That's my point - there are multiple perspectives on everything that it will be impossible to come up with a curriculum that makes everyone happy.

Teaching people to read means they can read what they choose to read. That should be the point.
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I made the same choice, but I am rethinking it. I run Linux on my desktop and would love to control my iPad from the desktop, using it as a second screen or a drawing pad. Apple makes this uncessarly hard.
> ... these numbers are lightyears ahead of the early days where a day of standby was pretty good.

That doesn't seem right.

I still use my original iPad (v1) for reading and note taking quite often, if not daily.

That lasts for 6-8 hours of reading without needing a recharge. If I don't feel like reading for days/weeks there's no chance the battery has gone flat, as it lasts weeks (at least) in idle mode.

Pretty sure the battery life has degraded significantly over time too, and is about 1/2 what it was when new.
yeah, you can filter just the tasks. i use it for the same goal purpose that your product aims to achieve, i believe. one benefit is that taskpaper supports extensibility, custom css, and if you wanted a feature like yours, you can just build upon it easily (which is what I've done). I build your tool but to work with taskpaper.

If i didn't use taskpaper, I think your tool would be nice, so you're onto something here.
That's interesting, but also kind of underwhelming. I mean, if you understand the concept, why doesn't it provide:

a) A paragraph-level analysis to account of sentence length variety

b) A document-level analysis of the same type

c) Suggestions for where sentence length needs to be varied, for example where long sentences should be broken, and so on.

There's a LOT of books with guidelines to improve writing, but it seems like 99% of the tools are only brushing the surface at best.
Ask HN: HELP Got accused of hacking by my older non-tech-savvy coworkers
Hi fellow Hs,

Obviously this is a throwaway account. I recently joined a company as a tech sales person, but the team I joined is made up of mostly salespersons in their 60s. They are really not experienced with working with computers at all. So while I was doing training, I had shared my screen with them on a conference call, but previously, unrelated to the training I had done Inspect Element on the website so that I can make the website more user friendly for me and to save on time with the clicking, I had however not done any changes to it yet. Mind you, the website is a thirdparty cloud based SaaS dialing system that we use, we dont own the platform, nor we are anyhow affiliated with them. So when I shared my screen they started asking questions about the code that was showing on my screen. Coincidentally just at that moment, the system crashed, and then the coworkers started blaming me that I hacked the system. They called the IT guy, which said that due to end user agreements I should not be doing any edits to the website, and that the correlation is "disconcerning". I dont think anybody understood what he meant by that, and he had an urgent call to respond to so he hopped out of the call. The system started working again, but they continued saying that I hacked the system and that the IT guy confirmed it. Then the work hours finished so they said that they will discuss this in the morning tomorrow. What do I do now?!? I mean its a big corp, and the sales team is mostly 60+ people, with the managers being younger in their 30s or 40s. I tried to explain to them what Inspect Element is but they werent having it. I kinda understand that I shouldnt really be working for this company anymore, but I dont wanna end up losing my job or getting lawsuits or something. I told them that if I could hack the servers I would already be working for the Israeli Government instead of being in tech sales hahaha. I just couldnt stop laughing throughout this whole ordeal.
Our species also prospered from long-term planning and sacrifice.
> As far as I'm aware these definitions apply to police officers

They do, the problem is qualified immunity rules out most civil liability in practice, and relying on criminal prosecution has problems because of the relationship between prosecutors and law enforcement.
Yeah I’m equally confused on the downvotes for completely reasonable posts here.
Fixing the issue is easy, even if brutal. Close everything that can be closed.

As the weather turned colder people started staying indoors and the conditions for transmitting the disease turned more favorable. (Eg restaurants, etc.)

Plus after a critical mass regular (intuitive) precautions are not enough. Eg in France restaurants allowed people to dine if they looked okay, and had a mask on while waiting for a table, and while not actually eating.

Clearly this was too lax. (aug 31 https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Masks-in-Paris-r... )
But the situation with authoritative domains hasn't changed much, and what "platforms" tend to be strong for answering questions? As in 1998, there are a few very good places for getting answers to certain kinds of questions. They are not facebook or twitter, ever.