skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's already happened. More and more news sites are behind paywalls. A lot of the articles posted on HN are behind paywalls, and half the time I'm too lazy to try archive.is or one of the other paywall workarounds, so I end up doing without.

On the other hand, if I'm reading an aggregator like Google News, the interesting thing is that the top article for a particular sub-topic might be from the NYT or another site with a paywall, but if you look down the list you can get a similar article from a non-paywalled site. The cool thing about this is I get exposed to a bunch of random sources, and often they are local news sites.

I've looked into subscribing to some sites, but most want north of $10 per month, some in the $20-$30 per month range, and I just don't get that much value out of them to justify paying, especially when I'd end up having to pay for several of them, which would add up to several hundred dollars a month. It's still a real shame that micropayments isn't a thing; I wouldn't have an issue reading the first paragraph or two of an article, and then having to spend something like 5c to 25c to read more. I fully understand why micropayments haven't taken off, but it's a shame nonetheless.
Where do you think most HN posters live?
It is, but most systems aren't using a color managed workflow. And sRGB content on an sRGB screen looks exactly the same as on a DCI-P3 panel if you're using a color-managed workflow.

The only issue is that less than 15% of monitors today actually match the 95% sRGB, 300 nits, 8-bit panel specs which e.g. DisplayHDR 400 sets.

Just think about it, 85% of monitors can't actually display all CSS colors, and that doesn't even begin to handle issues like AdobeRGB, DCI-P3, and other WCG content.

On a true sRGB/300nits/8-bit screen #414141 on #dddddd contrast is actually fine (and meets WCAG guidelines, btw).

But if you display this same contrast on a 6-bit 150nits ~70% sRGB panel (standard cheap monitor from 2014) you won’t be able to read it under most conditions.
nice! hopefully a lot of people die because of our government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling

In this case, it is a way of saying "I lean left".
> I’ve been staying on iOS 13 to avoid the contact tracing

Huh? You know it's an opt-in feature, right?
A TPM integrated into the CPU makes sense (and I am puzzled why TPMs aren't a standard feature of all MB given the modest cost). But what about that diagram in the article with a link to the cloud? Will this thing phone home outside of the control of the OS?
This article feels all over the place. It starts with the premise of teaching you how to be productive, then says that you are what you do, then goes to talk about how and why to be nice, then several ending notes describing mindfulness.

It also says doing a something without being mindful is the same as doing nothing.

The conclusion is:

> What you pay attention to is going to be your life. It's so basic that it hits me.

But at the same time, there are tons of book that promote automation, see Atomic Habits, which makes it clear that good (automated) habits make your life easier and more productive.

So if you spend 50% of your day, doing automated tasks (going to the gym, learning to play the piano, showering, watering the plants, cleaning up your room, etc.) does this mean that you did nothing the entire time?

Also, you can both do an automate task and pay attention to it (be mindful) or think of something else (plan things, dream about stuff, get new ideas, etc.).
It really depends on how far back civilization is reset, if a collapse occurs all the way back to the stone age, it would mean game over then for at least a few hundred million years.

If the iron age, probably cans reboot if the population is kept small enough to avoid any Malthusian traps.
Not only is the exposure notification opt-in, but you also need to specifically download an app from your locality.

Upgrading to iOS 14 does not magically turn it on.
U.S. states are bleeding cash as pandemic drags on with no stimulus in sight
i don't think so... I think it will just blow up.
Over allocating is often a very useful strategy.

I wrote a fast Json parser a while ago and one of the largest optimizations was to look at the size of the file, compute the worst case of how much memory it would need, and then do one allocation and then use the memory.

Another example would be a dynamic list of values. If you use a linked list, and have 64bit pointer and a 64bit value, each link costs 16 bytes. If you have a list of say 8 values then that's 8 allocations and 16*8 = 128 bytes. If you instead allocate speculatively an array of 16 values also taking 128 bytes, and then only use 8 of the values, you only need one allocation. If the number of values you need grows beyond 16, you need to reallocate, and expensive operation, but compared to making one allocation each time a value is added its much faster. Also all values are close to each other in memory so cache coherence will be much better, and you may end up with an order of magnitude faster access. This can be true even if you do expensive operations like insert. Yes, you can improve the performance of a liked list by allocating lots of links in one allocation, but the added space of the pointers, and the out of order access will still cost you.

Obviously, when you do this you should provide functions that always allocate the right number for the user of the code so that there is no magic numbers visible to the end user....
The opportunity cost here is pretty high, but there are still ways to break in.

Your best bet would be to start up a small company, find a few farming operations that would be willing to try your equipment out, and then scale from there. Making 1 prototype of each flavor of machine from scratch would probably be a huge undertaking. Might be easier to use existing equipment as a starting point for prototypes. Alternatively, you could pitch a design to a few investors and go from there, but investors being what they are... It's a hard journey either way.

Also, no one says you have to turn around and sell your assets to John Deere when they inevitably detect you as a threat. The power of privately-held corporations is that you can do whatever the hell you want within the confines of law. I would strongly advocate whoever pulls this off to stay in the market and punish the shit out of the incumbents.
It's happening to me right now.
This is awesome. So it errs on the side of hiding good content that you would want to see, while YouTube's algorithm errs on the side of showing you clickbait.

I would absolutely love this as a browser add-on. My current approach to avoiding distraction on YouTube is an add-on called "Remove YouTube Recommended Videos, Comments" which does exactly what its title says it does, but leaves the actual YouTube page quite bare
House prices rise as Covid sparks rural relocation
All that effort on designing a pretty looking website, and yet virtually no effort spent on making the install instructions friendly and readable!
That's a good idea but it still doesn't protect you from spying. And you'd have to put each device on a different network to prevent them from infecting eachother. That probably also has the side effect of making them basically useless. How do you segregate your smart speaker and your smart lightbulb and your smart TV and still control them from your cell phone?
How do you see it being anti-free-speech?
The latter would be legal in several European countries.
One of the scariest things I ever read was the true story of how the British Navy discovered and then lost the knowledge of how to cure scurvy.

IIRC, they found that limes (or lemons) would prevent scurvy on long voyages; then the ships got faster AND the switched to a citrus fruit lemons (or limes) that didn't have enough vitamin C to prevent scurvy, but they didn't realize it because the faster voyages didn't allow enough time for scurvy to develop; then on some longer voyages sailors did develop scurvy despite eating the citrus fruit, so the Navy erroneously concluded that citrus fruit didn't cure scurvy after all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy#19th_century
Is this what broke http://timeline.knightlab.com/ ?
Impressive. Any chance that project will get a Cease and Desist from Nintendo? I don't know much about the history of hardware projects like that.
Yes, the Internet makes the antagonistic bubbles larger, and more angry?, I was just going to write
somehow we can't fly today like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boeing_377_sleeping_arran...
Missed this comment, but will surely do! Still quite inexperienced with it, yet this tutorial looked quite well done
I have two YouTube accounts I use, for watching in different languages.

In one language, the suggestions are pretty good. I've found plenty of new stuff that I otherwise wouldn't have.

In the other, it basically recommends a mix that is 80% videos from my subscriptions that I've already watched 10+ times and 20% new stuff that I just don't have any interest in. I wonder if there is some sort of failure mode I'm hitting.
Because if you can start a disruptive company, and the shareholders believe your claims about how disruptive it'll be, the valuation of your company will be more than John Deere can afford to buy from their own valuation based in the profits on their margins...
What is the essences of civilization anyway? I mean most of the things we need aren't energy intensive.
I wonder if it has more of a place in a post Covid world? At least some companies are interested in divesting themselves of office space and going 100% remote. A flexible office space arrangement or even just a small space that can be rented to meet with clients sounds like it could be useful.
Given that the credit for the writer/director appears to be fake per my above comment, I now think it's possible that this short ad was contracted out to Neill Blomkamp himself, given his history of notable commercial work for corporate clients.

Edit: it looks like my hypothesis is wrong. Sergei Vasilyev appears to be a real person, and the short film is not an ad, but was shared by the company you linked to in your OP.

Here's the actual link to Vasilyev's film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HZ4DnVfWYQ
The original Mechanical Turk
I didn't see the commenter arguing on behalf of outdoor dining, so that's a bit of a straw man argument. Additionally, there's a difference between people opting to participate in mutually risky behavior (eating maskless in a restaurant during a pandemic) vs. imposing their risky behavior on people not participating (maskless jogging in shared spaces where others are acting responsibly by wearing masks).
Not that I think Pluton will be a problem for Linux (as in, one that won't be present on Windows also) but AFAIK Qualcomm and Microsoft had partnered to not only run Windows on ARM, but to run x86 software on ARM Windows.
Balancing business and open source [audio]
How many users are navigating the web on a 1000 nits screen? Are there any consumer monitors reaching 1000 nits?
An ordinary 16-year-old came to dominate TikTok
So the CNBC article immediately mentions the $50 billion number, links to a source that requires a paid account to even see that $50 billion number, and then does not reference that study again.

They then interview someone else about their independent research that only shows about $400 million in theft.
I'm not sure I understand this argument. The main difference when compiling is that you use --prefix=$output instead of --prefix=/usr (which is nicely abstracted away by build systems).

You can 'guix pack -RR ibus qutebrowser', copy the resulting binaries to any GNU/Linux system, and still expect them to work.
I think this was a flash animation about 15 years ago. I seem to remember it working much better as flash. Either way it's awesome.
Designed to ensure everyone can progress while still feeling like they/their character achieved something I guess, but yes certainly a lot of room for improvement.

I didn't play much of Skyrim, were there no optional harder puzzles/investigations?

Only briefly mentioned in the article, Return of the Obra Dinn is a must play.
Huh, so when it comes to getting a URL to sheets as CSV, going through the GUI (i.e. going into the Publish to Web dialog) is no better than just using the endpoint of `https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/KEY/export?format=csv...`, which also requires authentication if the underlying sheet is set to private.
Unmodified iOS apps running on M1 Macs report themselves as “iPad8,6”
I created this project back in 2004 together with a bunch of other illustrators. It grew out of a community where people collaborated on artwork over the internet. Happy to see it continues to gather interest. You might also enjoy http://zoomquilt2.com (2007) and http://arkadia.xyz (2015, my favourite)
Show HN: My first online course: Turn your React app into a PWA
> The disagreement is what makes things political. There isn't an inherent "political" quality sitting in things.

That's true in a sense (e.g. plate tectonics is not political), but it's false you start dealing with things that intersect with human society. For instance: anything to do with power over others, the makeup of society, or the kind of actions people are allowed, encouraged, or forbidden to do is inherently political.

> By analogy, most things in the world are apolitical until quarrelsome people with pet issues show up and make them political.

Not really, and that's just a pretty typical (political!) ad hominem argument made by people who want to maintain the status quo, whatever that is. Stated another way, you're saying the people who want change are troublemakers who should know their place.
Sin City New York nightlife never stopped. It just moved underground
Travel firm bucks trend by launching no-fly startup during lockdown
It's not the AliExpress routers that worry me (although Walmart should have negotiated for better firmware), it's all the "name brand" routers that are running a 2.6.34brcm Broadcom kernel that'll never see another firmware update.
Just because someone has an opinion counter to the Hacker News hivemind doesn't mean they are faking it.

In this case, I'd imagine this is a case where the people who have a bad experience with the YouTube suggestion algorithm have a reason to speak up but the people who are having a fine experience do not.
The USB is limiting this so much there is no need to go with NVME over SATA, IMHO.

I see the USB3 result for the "M.2 SSD" (I assume the author means SATA?) being ~30/MB but almost surely something is going wrong there. That is not a normal result for any mid-to-high level SATA SSD. Plenty of SATA M.2 SSDs can easily hit the same speeds the NVME drive is hitting (specifically when on USB3). NVME might give you some additional random r/w performance, however.

It seems like overkill to use NVME on USB 3.0 when SATA can saturate that bus just as easily. SATA M.2 drives will also run cooler. Some NVME USB controllers are notoriously hot-running
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>I'd like to see Intel make a better product and sell it based on its own merits rather than attacking the accomplishments of their competitors.

How do you market a "better" product without comparing it to the rest?
I’m so glad you found something that works.

My wife is perhaps in the early stages of this journey. What started as “bad headaches” once a week has, over the last six months, graduated into serious migraines where she can’t leave a pitch black room for most of the day. They seem to cycle intensity where they are much worse 2 weeks out of 4.

She’s on nortriptyline daily with sumatriptan taken during episodes, but which is only partially effective after the 2nd or 3rd dose and about 5 days a month basically totally ineffective.

It’s fucked up that the human body is capable of causing itself so much pain over an ailment we can’t even identify in any test or scan. It’s completely debilitating.

If it was for myself I would absolutely experiment with psilocybin or mushrooms in search of a treatment, but her personal history just isn’t conducive to anything remotely hallucinogenic without a very highly experienced guide in the best of circumstances.
Yes and the full downwards potential is more like the holocaust I think or actually larger than that
A History of “Star Wars” and Toxic Fandom, Part Two of Two
Yeah, there's just a bunch of issues today with how grids are operated.

In order for this to really work well, we need national standards for both grid operators and grid users. The reason for all of this being both unpopular and requiring big purchases is because it's pretty much a 1 off deal between the grid operator and the purchaser. It requires that they both both come into the room to make a deal.

Instead, we need something closer to the NEM in Australia. There needs to be a standard bidding mechanism for buying/selling energy on the market.

Our electric meters need to be hooked up to a grid pricing network and our appliances need to be able to talk to that network through our meters.

Once there is a standard communication protocol and pricing network, then you'll start to see neat things happen with smarter power consuming products.

For that to work, however, it needs to be setup nationally. It won't work if every single grid invents their own market or bidding standard. Ideally, this would be an international standard.
Even within the meat-heavy category, there is a world of difference between boiled chicken and crispy-fried hot dog slices. That kind of difference might account for all the negative effects of meat in the diet.
Dunno, $699 for the mini sounds rather competitive. As does $999 for a MBA. Seems about the middle of the pack for any decent desktop/laptop.
You don't need a "smart home" for this. I have a decades old thermostat that can be programmed to turn down at night.
I've got one trap as a passenger in a C2. Never again, not ever, no way no how.
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> One of our most highly requested features, Apple Watch can now unlock 1Password on any Mac with a Secure Enclave.

I'm curious how 1Password achieved this as (afaik) Apple hasn't exposed an "Unlock with Apple Watch" API to third parties.
What about the rust is making your Massey 1100 unusable?

I live in the Red River Valley, we have poor draining soils, a clay bottom, and almost no sand.
I hate ads. I don't care how visible or not they are. Ads are emotional manipulation designed to get us to open our wallets to spend on things we wouldn't otherwise buy. I refuse to subject myself to that when there is an alternative.

I fully admit that my opinion is not the only one. I'm sure there are some people whose attitude matches the one you describe. But my guess is that sentiment toward ads is declining. At the very least, publications are deciding that they can make more money off subscriptions than ads. Not sure if the revenue for ads is declining, or what.
And that it is done using an ostensibly secure/traceless/anonymous algorithm so I’m not sure why it would matter.
Yes, then upon clicking it my next thought was how to make this my Zoom background.
> Over allocating is often a very useful strategy.

It is not!

* If you know exact reasons and exact how much space need (over) allocate, then you should document the reason, and it is no long over allocating.

* If you don't know the exact reasons and only know once a while it requires additional space, then you are not solving the problem. You are kicking the can down the road, and it is likely to explode later, possibly with inappropriate timing.

* If you know exactly how much the space you need, then the over allocating is just misleading code.

Fix Your Code!

EDIT: Your comment apparently is for something else. Anyway, the headline needs some counter correction.
This broke our production app last week. The only solution was to move our CSVs off of Sheets completely.
Creating differentially private, synthetic data with Python and TensorFlow
Small doses of psilocybin are very difficult to detect. Personally I barely find it barely noticeable at 1.5g (in the dried shroom measure). Microdose levels are 1/10th of that, and often much lower.

Give someone a so-called microdose and it is unlikely that a placebo vs actual study would actually find that people could detect it.
They already said it is OS agnostic. MS 2020 is far away from MS 2010.

With regards to the auditing need, can you audit a CPU down to the silicon level today?
the linked article is comparing robbery and wage theft based only on the dollar value stolen. by definition, robbery is theft that involves (the threat of) physical violence. when I worked in restaurants, I had a boss that would routinely reach into our tip jar to pay himself back for mistakes we made. it fucking sucked, but not nearly as much as having someone threaten to end your life on the spot.
It's not a bug. It's a public API and the buffer is an input from the caller. Nothing goes wrong if the buffer is smaller than it ought to be. The doc comment is just warning the caller they might need a larger buffer than they think they do.
Demystifying Complex Workload–DRAM Interactions [pdf]
There's the "false equivalence" advocate who shows up with the same trite comment every time open source is discussed. Knew you'd be here eventually.
There is no separation of powers in China and therefore there is no rule of law. In theory the Party's congress could enforce a defacto independent judiciary, but the evidence is of course that they don't, they are the biggest theatrical production not called that.

If that wasn't enough you could trivially look up how many lawyers end up imprisoned or worse.

It's not even a bit silly to argue China has anything near a working legal system, it absolutely doesn't.
Benchmark suite containing cache filtered traces for use with Ramulator : https://github.com/CMU-SAFARI/MemBen
Will the final purchaser of the computer chip, i.e., the consumer, have r/w access to the contents of the enclave?

EDIT: s/access/r\/w & to the contents of/
I am, and many other designers are as well. With HDR monitors becoming more popular, more and more gamers are now using such monitors, too.

The distance in quality between a typical prosumer (be it gamer or designer) panel and a common cheap panel is increasing significantly.

Asus, Apple and Dell are the companies at the forefront of this change, while other companies still sell 6-bit monitors that don't even reach 70% sRGB (~85% of the current market don't have 8-bit/300 nits/95% sRGB)
FAA to Begin Environmental Review at SpaceX Texas Launch Site