skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory that could be a scalable approach. Citizens taking command and you will eventually have more armed people on Apple campus. But I tend to agree with your argument now. People just aren't trained for it.
Even if sustained fusion were achieved, it has issues with degradation of the vessel/equipment from high speed neutrons?

LFTR scaled down to a closet, so with "mass production" you could just replace the vessel at "reasonable cost", but these fusion facilities are massive and expensive.
The thing is, you are not wrong. It is fake. It's an illusion!

And very true, covering the arrow does nothing to prevent the illusion.
It’s speculation not investing
> This algorithm relies on a legacy custom language and compiler originally designed in 1990, which unlike French wine, did not age well with time.

Gotta love the sense of humour.
I don't get it either. Great exit for Slack though, which has done nothing in terms of its stock price since IPO. Slack doesn't really have a moat, and they're slowly getting eaten up by Teams and other companies like RingCentral who also have their own chat app. Wouldn't be surprised if Zoom came out with one.
Hi, you can visit nptel.ac.in . The courses are free and being developed by Indian Institute of Technologies.

Regards.
Please support Ruffle. It's a true open source project borne out of the will to preserve a forgotten creative Internet. As opposed to previous and recent license-encumbered or commercial products.
I hate to break it to you, but you're not a temporarily embarrassed tech giant, so there is no need to think up retaliation plans for them.
Never heard of them before but went to their main site and got served the Romanian version which is so bad I think it could be used as commedy. Also loved how their front page image shows a barrier with their logo stopping some robots but the robots are facing the backside of their logo/stop sign!

Like, hire me for more!

I'm curious how can they train ML models while preserving privacy. Where does the corpus come from?
> Imagine a world without apps

As a long time Nokia N9/Meego user, that world is not hard to imagine.
I did this too. Providing contact forms for lots of websites.

In my opinion, back end filters are the solution to the problem you’re describing. Not making the genuine users jump through hoops.
Probably 30+ years of priming by conservative politicians, consultants, and their media mouthpieces spouting white aggrievance agitprop combined with the explosion of social media and a black man becoming President and nearly 8 years of pure obstruction by the Republican party to any real national governance.

Liberals on the other hand in general, but specifically those in national political power still read the NYTimes and Washington Post and listen to NPR. And while those institutions are not perfect, they are far more reality based and balanced than FoxNews and the rest of the right wing media ecosystem. Jon Stewart basically made a career of tearing into the hypocrisy and lies of FoxNews every night for over a decade and the left turned in for that.
You're just shifting the problem. Now each customer is beholden to the cleaner not accidentally unplugging the server, grid power and network issues.

Vacuum cleaners that don't require public network access is the solution.
Yea in 2009 it was worth 1$ per bitcoin and there's no reason it can't be the same in 2029.
> The last one in particular is critical. In some EU countries, you can already justify your 5th employee's complete salary having a dedicated "accountant" whose only job is to apply for government grants.

Your argument is that government grants are bad because they cause some moderate buerocratic hassle?
FYI: the hamburger menu on mobile, on my iphone doesnt work. Cool product though. Good luck.
I'd say it's very clearly written. If you don't understand how the words are being used, you might struggle to grasp it.
Their homepage is... interesting, to say the least. [0]

[0] https://rxjs-dev.firebaseapp.com/
>After 30 years, developers are still struggling to build websites efficiently.

Wrong. I could create a website very easily using FrontPage Express when I was a teenager. And today I can still build a website very easily using notepad or vim.

What's difficult is to emulate the user experience of a TV or an operating system using hypertext technologies (in the same way it's difficult to fix a car using cooking utensils).
This looks very interesting and clean. Well done!
Exactly. The vast majority of captcha usage is completely unnecessary. Just remove it. As you say I've even seen captchas for static content, which is pure nonsense.

I run several long-lived (decades) sites with mostly static content but also some dynamic pages and a commenting mechanism. Here's what I do to prevent abuse: nothing. It's fine.

If you run a massively popular site or something politically controversial then you'll be targeted for abuse. If you're specifically targeted, I don't know how much captchas will help.

For the rest of the 99.9% of sites, just stop it. You don't need it.
That's actually a really interesting philosophical question!

Formal proofs are, of course, objects in a formal system. But as anyone who's tried to express a mathematician's proof of any real complexity in Coq can attest, they're a very small subset of the sum total of human proofs.

The proofs that mathematicians have been doing for thousands of years, by contrast, aren't formal (in the strict sense). They're arguments that appeal to the human sense of deductive reason, in a phrase. And yes, formal logic is an attempt to codify and mechanize that as an object for study, but...well, like I said, it's a big philosophical or even neurological question as to how well it does that, or can do that; to what degree that's possible.
> Alacritty is the fastest terminal emulator in existence.

That's a pretty bold claim to make. How exactly do you benchmark a terminal emulator?
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> Don't promise features you are not planning to build and align your prospects expectations with.

As an engineer turned sales for my own indie company (15 employees today, had 0 when I started doing sales) - I partially agree with this point.

Don't build something custom simply to win a new customer. But there are a few times I've listened to a prospect describe their need and I though, "huh, that kinda wasn't in my original vision but it could be useful to other customers/markets." I'd subsequently tell them the feature is on the roadmap and pitch a higher price than I normally would.

Sometimes they bite, sometimes they don't. But on a few occasions, they came on board, I delivered, and that feature became a popular differentiator with other prospects.
> The problem is that AWS makes you into an owner and that includes owning your career.

Firing me for correctly telling customers that their services are down is not my idea of making me an owner.
I should have a right to not disclose whether I am a human or not. Captchas invade privacy and essentially you become an unpaid content classifier.
He was probably thinking that he's the incumbent Governor in more or less a one party state and that short of murdering someone in broad daylight, his personal conduct won't impact his political career at all.

Personally I don't really care whether politicians follow their own rules on this one or not, the virus doesn't care either way, and while it would be nice to see Newsom and others get punished, it's not like if I go to my sisters house for thanksgiving the police will break the door down.
That applies to most SaaS if you think about it.
Private sector company would have to operate under the benevolent-dictator-for-life model in order to produce something with an underpinning philosophy on par with Blender's. That uncomfortable constraint alone makes it unlikely.
Stated another way, the product of a combined effort by tens of thousands of enthusiasts made over a span almost two decades would be costly to duplicate and would probably reflect a different philosophy in it's design. The company can throw money at a project to buy developer time but it isn't quality time. Look at autodesk, why improve a product when you can just buy the competitor?
> hence I've implemented to only process on frame every second

That's merely a workaround, not a fix. Next day someone will use a 8k camera on the same slow tablet. Another day someone will run your app in parallel with with some other process consuming all CPU cores.

A fix would be making so that however slow the computer is, processing frames from the camera doesn't affect GUI latency, at least not by much.

You probably gonna need multithreading for that. And if that 2010 tablet only has a single CPU core without hyperthreading, you might need to adjust the priority of that camera's thread. But it's all doable.
It's just the same process playing out on the semantic level between corporate actors.
Hadn't seen video[0]. From that view, it's not clear how the air pressure around the egg is increased. The end of the carousel appears to be where the laser flash occurs, but I see no way to raise/lower air pressure inside the compartment.
Tesla, Space-X
This matters more than one would think.

I've once worked on a system that was objectively slow. Some actions would take seconds to complete. It's not like people would refuse the use the system, it was the only way to do their jobs. The public had no choice, either.

Initially, I didn't think it was such a big deal. Yes it was a bit slow, but nothing _terrible_ and why did it matter, since there were so many other procedures that took way longer than the software step. It was a government facility, lots of red tape. Surely optimizing some of the paper processes would be more beneficial.

But we optimized it anyway. Not because the UI was slow(which we didn't even measure directly), but because it was slow for a reason - backend processes were taking time, and resources. If we could optimize, we thought, we would save resources (and also increase the runway until we had to expand again, buy hardware and the like).

First round of optimization was completed. Lots of low hanging fruits(many database-related). Testing indicated that the backend would be faster by almost an order of magnitude. Deployed.

THE SYSTEM BECAME SLOWER.

How was that possible? Maybe we had missed something. We found more bottlenecks, optimized those. Deployed again.

Everything is slow again. What's happening?!

We went to the 'field' - as in, talked to the users. Well, this is what we discovered: we saw the backend working harder - because the users were more productive! Instead of staying after the facilities were closed to the public and then catching up on whatever paperwork they were unable to enter in the system, they could process everything almost as fast as people came in. Which means that they could go home early.

What we saw as "the system being slow again" was due to bad metrics - we were watching backend load, not UI response times. Because, admittedly, that didn't bother us directly. Not until we talked to the poor souls that had to use the system. Lots of async processes got triggered and queues filled up, but it didn't really matter to the users, as long as the UI said things were submitted and they could move on.

After that, we optimized the heck out of all the UI interactions we could find.
I tried doing the same in JavaScript/JSX a small while back: https://medium.com/@bluepnume/writing-regex-in-jsx-without-r...

Building regexes programmatically does seem to take a lot of the pain out of it.
You would be far better off firing every single administrator at the colleges and devolving those duties back to the professors, themselves.

This would have a far more salutary effect on releasing funds for research.
Is anyone attempting to reverse-engineer Parler?
I was alive at the time, in the UK (not England). Everyone knew the war was not with the Argentinian people. Also Maradona became a hero in our house for defeating England[1].

[1]See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braveheart for background.
IIRC, there were effectively 2 companies called SCO: The first one that made an actual useful unix, and the second that was all about lawsuits. I think it was that the second company bought the first? Been too long. Anyways, that would account for it.
> I really hope this shows companies that they should...

Yes! Exactly!

> ...always host in-house rather than using some-sort of cloud service for operations of their consumer product.

What? Excuse me but what? You were so close before you swerved away from the right answer.

I hope this shows companies that your vacuum cleaner should not require an internet connection.

This is absurd.
It's underreported (or justifyably not being picked up by journalists). Capitalisn't podcast had an episode on it as well. This is the original article of the Microsoft guy:
https://promarket.org/2020/05/28/how-market-design-economist...

Promarket has more articles as well.
And when others shame, criticize, or shun you for your speech, people also consider that within the framing of censorship. The only speech which is safe from blowback is to yourself.
Yes, it's much more affordable to use a host like linode which can provide more reasonable rates.
Mexico uses asymmetric encryption for university diplomas and taxes
my guess is as good as yours - but I surmise that the Slack tech stack is backed by strong security, "forever" tracking of users with strong, formal ties to userID (think dot-mil users) .. so the value of acquiring such a thing is that you are now welded into a new security environment, with sales opportunities there.. SF also developed strong security practices from the beginning, but not the same way.. SF insulates each user from each other.. (leads are trivially stolen by the guy at the next desk in a competitive sales environment). I believe that SF addressed that in version zero.. the two components combined spell .. hm.. you could probably name it differently than I would.. I am sceptic of this future.
All the account creation friction sucks, but I'll defend the price. It's a subscription because the value you get depends on how long you use it. Making the price incremental (vs e.g. a one time $100 charge) means more people can try it and get value for a limited time, and only keep it if it continues to add value for them.

Is $100/yr too much? A b2b sales team might spend $400 getting a first meeting with a customer, and $10k more over the course of further meetings. A 1h internal meeting with 10 people might cost thousands in wages. If mmhmm makes a handful of meetings marginally more effective it will pay for itself.

If the product works but the price doesn't, you may not be the intended buyer.
This is something the EU is working on, which will hopefully get better in the future. (Hopefully including EU-wide worker protection, consumer protection and tax laws)
Perhaps Coherent was the other UNIX you were thinking of?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system)
As a side note, I found it interesting that Trump was supposed to release sealed records on the assassination, but declined at the last second: https://www.history.com/news/final-jfk-files-assassination-d...

What the hell is being hidden?
Vanguard's new website is like this :-( used to be a medium dense table easy to compare records now on my 27" 4k monitor i can see only a handfull and its scroll city :-( https://www.vanguard.com.au/personal/products/en/overview
Ex Dee
Setup a mitm with a rooted android device or something to uncover some endpoints
So? It'd be an even bigger benefit to society to make it public.

The US military accepted that climate change is a huge threat to stability across the world. They are motivated to prevent the worst of it.
George Harrison: It's been done.
Because it's human
> What people desire from technology is well documented and can be summed up with a series of buzzwords. The difficulty isn’t knowing what society wants, it is knowing the path to get there.

> What do we want from our technology?

> We want the right to change providers.

> We want the right to protect personal data.

> We want the right to verify.

> We want the right to not be tracked.

> We want the right to access.

It is well documented that this is not at all what people desire from technology. What people buy directly contradicts this.

People _could_ use PGP. They _could_ use strong passwords. They _could_ move to defederated social networks. They _could_ lobby their congressional representatives to break up Apple because their walled garden is a vertical monopoly that harms consumers.*

They could do all sorts of things, but they do not. The trade-offs are not worth it to "people".

* I don't believe this argument, but it is one.
After hearing about Maradona’s death I have been watching World Cup footage from 86. One thing that caught my attention was the company ads on the sidelines. Canon, Fujifilm, Camel, Budweiser, Coca-cola, Seiko. Phillips.

All, apart from Camel, alive and more or less relevant today.

Google will not collapse. It will become an IBM or a MS. Not the amazing super company it used to be, but still big enough to be around and influence our lives.
I get re-captcha'ed all the time from the same IP. And if I don't use Chrome, the captcha count is like 4x-5x higher just for using Firefox.
I think the reason they don’t work is because someone doesn’t just magically become a better employee over two months.
“Eat it up. Wear it out. Make it do, or do without.”

Growing up in a poor (and large) family, we lived by those words and I’ve carried the mentality into adulthood. Of course there’s always a trade-off, but everyone should have the change to experience the joy of bringing something “broken” back to life.
In case other case people are wondering about the license:

https://www.nordier.com/v7x86/files/COPYRIGHT

Tl;dr: all bsd-ish.
Are you referring to https://github.com/oriansj/stage0? This stage0 gets you a basic C compiler. An impressive achievement for sure. I don’t see how it really solves anything though.

More generally each language would need it’s own path from this basic assembler to a compiler implementing that language in C which doesn’t necessarily exist. While initial versions of the Rust compiler were written in C, more recent versions are self hosted and rely on the previous version. This goes for projects like LLVM too since it requires a c++14 compiler to start with.

A better approach is to figure out how to cross compile stage0 and how to make sure the cross compilation step can be trusted. Going the approach of trying to build a “trusted” path from source is noble but IMO ultimately futile.

This is what I mean when I say this as an unsolved problem. It may be getting better but there are fundamental unsolved challenges to this exploration and very little guarantee the task can be accomplished in the first place (ie no mathematical theory that might present a path to follow rather than just trying to accomplish it through sheer effort). Some small part of the problem might get solved but that’s very different from saying that any package will be verifiable in this way.
2/3 of these Perosnal Information Management tools were featured on a recent "my desktop" set up from noted command-line user Hund[1]. Bunch of other great console tools here too, if folks are interested.

Makes me think a bit of one of the original-ganger XML namespaces, pim/space[2]. Spaces for your personal information management. There are very old threads for this, going way back.

I'd say Atom Publishing Protocol came close. We think of Atom as an RSS competitor, but it was part of a broader general information organization & manipulation effort with Atom Publishing Protocol, which included more about ways to manage & append & write information, into feeds, which existed in collections, across workspaces[3].

Tim Berners-Lee is still hard at work, trying to distill out a useful, general means of wrangling one's & other's information. The team seems to have just released Inrupt, their implementation of the Solid specifications for linked data[4]. Which is helping power some of the latest BBC & NHS & NatWest (a bank) systems[5].

Personally I think Personal Information Management is a wonderful white whale for folks to chase. We can land it, & it will make a huge difference to all if we do. As for where we are now, I rather enjoy the JSON-LD & SOLID & Linked-Data world, think there are great specs there, for building better general systems atop, and hope we can start to rebalance some of the questions of control over computing & data with these more general systems.

[1] https://hunden.linuxkompis.se/2020/11/13/my-desktop-november...

[2] https://www.w3.org/ns/pim/space

[3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023#section-8.1

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25211816

[5] https://money.yahoo.com/nhs-data-creator-sir-tim-110816726.h...
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You do paint a picture.
The N770-900 series was even better in some regards. The hardware keyboard found in some models, and the stock Linux userland offered a fantastic experience.
Using nothing but nano.
I wouldn't say it's 'clear' but you're right that it's at least ambiguous.

For a less ambiguous case, look at how CNN and MSNBC treated the Bernie campaign/movement. Calling them "MSM" doesn't mean that one is a reactionary, it just means that one is outside of their set of approved viewpoints in any direction.
Having used clubhouse extensively, I'd say the absolute opposite. It's missing basic features, reporting is a joke and while the trelloesque usability is nice that's the only thing really going for it. It's also more expensive than Jira, which is completely bananas.
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I am unsuccessful and trying to be at peace with it
This just feels like moving the goalposts, though. Bitcoin has been pushed as this revolutionary thing that's going to fundamentally change currency and payments for everyday people. It hasn't. It likely won't. Maybe some other blockchain-based currency will at some point, but I'm skeptical of that claim.

Beyond that, Bitcoin as a simple store of value is an incredibly risky proposition. Someone upthread posted a link to an article claiming that Bitcoin has been the best performing asset over the last 10 years, but that ignores the gut-wrenching volatility it's gone through.

And even if you stretch to suggest that Bitcoin has been a good investment, a good investment vehicle is generally not a great currency. If I had a $100 bill that, a week later, was worth $50, I'd be pissed. If another week later it was worth $200, I'd be pleased, but would feel very uncomfortable thinking I can rely on that "currency" to continue to pay my bills over the long term.

I'm not saying Bitcoin has failed or that it's useless in general, but as a generic currency replacement I'd say it's pretty weak and unreliable, mainly only suitable for use by people at the margins, people who often can't bear the risk that Bitcoin foists upon them.
bangladeshi click farms[0] are cheaper to use to bypass captcha than renting residential proxies to solve PoW. Also image captcha cannot scale automatally in difficulty (as an incident response) but PoW can (see how bitcoin adjusts with the miners)

[0] https://2captcha.com/
Yeah, and Oswald shot perfect shots with a super old WW2 rifle in less than 10s while he was an average shooter at best based on what we know from him in the army. There's enough evidence at this stage to support several shooters despite what the History books claim.