skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, and thanks for the other long reply :)

One thing that confuses me: we were talking about "compiled code", then your answer jumps to talking about shaders. Can all OpenGL code be represented as shaders? Or is the OpenGL code needing hardware-specific compilation shaders only? When the above poster said that Mesa "compiles code from OpenGL to some target backend", were they referring to shaders already?

Said differently: if I import a C GL lib and use it to make a call to draw a triangle, is this a shader, and will Mesa do any hardware-specific compilation? Or is this compilation only happening when shaders are involved?

I guess I'm confused about what shaders exactly are, and when they are used. I think I understand them as programs able to fiddle at each frame with how stuff (surface, pixels) is rendered, but for example, geometry (putting triangles in space) is OpenGL's job even though it isn't about shaders, is it?

By the way, do you (or other passerbys) have courses recommendations to study this? (ideally interactive / tutorial-like / with exercises)
And use a $150 USB to ISA adaptor to plug it into you phone:
http://arstech.com/install/ecom-prodshow/usb2isar.html

Also, don't forget to make sure to flash each eeprom with different MAC address otherwise you will have some fun to figure out why you have 50% packet loss.
> For that matter - what is a disorder versus simply a difference in human beings?

What difference between humans isn’t disorder for others?
Your employer can mistreat you under the threat of losing your employer-provided health insurance. If everyone had government-provided health insurance, then employers would have less leverage. Government-provided health insurance can also ease the burden and risk for people starting new companies.

It also maximizes the number of people paying into the insurance pool.
Show HN: TinyBaker, a library for defining composable file-to-file transforms
Protecting Security Researchers (2018)
Does the Supabase client library store the JWTs in localstorage?

How does the auth front end work?
There's a big difference between raising honest, thoughtful points about social justice issues (even forcefully), and using those same issues (superficially) as a cudgel to marginalize your enemies and increase your own social power (and note that those things don't have to be happening at the same time).

These days I see a lot of both. I also have no idea what happened in this specific case, and at this time I wouldn't be willing to take a side.
No over dramatization - sorry if I struck a nerve with such an innocuous comment.

> What I am implying is that starvation is dramatically lower in percentage then it was in the past.

You aren't implying it. You're directly stating it. This isn't in debate, what's in debate is if, even if the percentage is better, more total suffer. Is that actually a moral good?

It's like saying "we've killed 90% of your cancer cells, but weren't able to kill all of them. The cancer will still kill you, but we killed a greater percentage of it! yay us!" It doesn't make sense in certain scenarios and is only helpful as a delta - plus, to even suggest that we have less poverty than ever in history is unsubstantiated with fact.
No, HN is for compile times and waiting in line at the COVID testing center, 30 minute meetings where the first 29 minutes are spent getting the newbies up the speed and ...
You forgot:

- stop giving me suggestions. Alternatively, don't give me the same suggestion again within a month of the last time you have it to me.
- you've got the weather, that's great. Now stop repeating the same unwanted information (the current weather) when I ask for multiple forecasts (what's the weather for tomorrow and Saturday -> the weather tomorrow is... Currently it is... There is a weekend advisory in effect...The weather Saturday is... Currently it is... There is a wind advisory...)
- let me specify what information I want when I ask for the weather; it should be trivial to get the wind speed, UV index, it whatever other item I want every time I ask for current weather or forecast, not just if it's going to be unusual.
Ask HN: What is a badly formatted public dataset that you would like to use?
There's a lot of great public data in the S1 filings that are submitted to the SEC but it's so hard to use it for any kind of development purposes.
I agree and I took your advice. I believe in building things not trying to find some investment. I mined bitcoin and bought it at $1. And I looked at Ethereum prior to their ICO.

Start a business, build a product. If you have excess cash by all means invest in crypto assets and startups.
>Many social activists were famously unpopular. Martin Luther King died with a 66% disapproval rating^[1].

Being unpopular is hardly the same as being abrasive and rude.
Another explanation is the address changes Google introduced. I’m not sure when, but my firstlast@gmail.com became addressable as first.last@gmail.com. Someone else originally created first.last@gmail.com and I get their emails.
Umm, just enter Dale Carnegie sales class into your search engine of choice. They are all over the world.
Wired has an informative article about this.

https://www.wired.com/story/prominent-ai-ethics-researcher-s...

Have to say that being asked to retract a paper because her manager didn't like what she had to say sounds pretty objectionable to me. Academic researchers thinking about joining Google beware.
Bob had bitch tits.
This is more about trying to soften the blow on Wall Street. I'm sure Intel had a good idea Apple's chip was going to blow the doors off their offerings.
all day on-battery real-world heavy usage without significant compromises. In fact, not just without significant compromises, but about as fast as a laptop can go.
ah yes, because as we know, executives' personalities are frequently reflected in their emails. /s What a crock
once vaccinated, you will still get covid. due to vacciation, symptoms should be less severe and easier to fight off. Yes, you can still transmit if you have it. Should be a fairly obvious question to answer.
How to Build a Tiny App/Product – The Tech Stacks and Tips I Learned
> emulating or translating apps compiled for a different architecture is necessarily going to be irritatingly slow and somewhat incompatible at best

While it wasn't as popular, Palm OS did this beautifully when going from Motorola 68k based device to ARM. Granted the executables are tiny (usually 10 to 64k in size or smaller), but the execution was flawless. In this comparison, I am not nitpicking on emulation vs translation vs JIT. Whatever it is, the 68k binary ran on ARM without a recompilation.
Yes, you've made your position clear. I'm simply asking that you acknowledge that not everyone agrees with you, instead of making sweeping statements that no matter your opinion, Timnit was "obnoxious". You have your view of the events, I'm not trying to convince you to change it. I'm simply saying that other people disagree. No need to continue to try and justify yourself.
Yes but the inflation will come in 5-7 years. Just in time to liquidate the amount of debt the government owes.

Pretty clever trick but it’s only a random accident of the financialized systems that make modern life possible. It’s like how all the pandemic chaos only increased corporate profits and government power.

It’s just endless consistent accidents that never benefit 95% of people.
But, in fact, the domestic performers are the cheaper ones. The employer still chooses the Rolling Stones more often than not, despite a substantially higher cost to employ them over a band that has never been heard of. Cost does not seem to be a consideration.

And if not music, the same holds true everywhere. There are all kinds of Americans willing to throw themselves into a job – especially a job at prestigious company like Facebook – for minimum wage, or even an unpaid position (often known as an internship). No problem at all. It is definitely not lack of Americans willing to work for almost nothing to even literally nothing. Those people are in abundance – particularly right now with higher than usual unemployment rates.
Very legit list, checked for some I know of and they were all here.
Zelle still uses ACH under the covers.
From another post today in HN, would it be possible to hook timescaledb and this together?
This works if there is no collusion between politicians, the law enforcement, cartels and criminal elements.
AMD laptops are also crushing this generation of Intel laptops. AnandTech's comparison shows that M1 vs AMD is mostly a power/performance trade-off at the moment.

Not that the M1 isn't exciting especially in the ultrabook segment.
The biggest game changer is the battery life, it's so good that feature alone will put it ahead of most of the competition.
So you can switch employer and keep the care.
How remarkably fitting for this year.
Not OP. For one thing, Selenium was not super reliable, at least for me, especially when trying to run multiple instances. Do note that I used the official docker swarm method.

When I was exploring that option, Playwright was still windows only. Super excited to see it is available on Linux and Mac.
Had you used any spellcheckers from that era?
"That's a bold claim which I would like to see substantiated with evidence."

Oh, come on!

You're telling me that if some random stranger offered to sell you a few grams of mystery powder and you have no idea what's in it -- could be fatal, could be not... you'd rather take it, roll the dice, risk your life, and play russian roulette than go to a pharmacy to take a known quantity of pure cocaine -- a quantity you know won't be lethal and would probably make you fell really good instead?

Color me more than skeptical.

I doubt anyone would choose the russian roulette option than take a legal, regulated, pure, professionally measured and reliably labeled drug that they know won't kill them.

If a study was ever conducted on this, it would probably earn an Ig Nobel Prize.

"I highly doubt that young people who take cocaine to party will be type of people who will listen or dedicate their time to education campaigns."

This is in fact the strategy of harm reduction, and more recently of benefit enhancement. I recommend listening to interviews with Emanuel Sferios, the founder of DanceSafe (probably the most well known harm reduction organization, which does things like provide free drug testing and water at festivals).

Sferios gave a good talk, the first part of which (titled "Pleasurable Drug Use is Safer Drug Use") is here: [1] (though I recommend listening to all parts of it)

He focuses specifically on MDMA, but the harm reduction principles he talks about are applicable to all substances.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAdRIjF5aso
I have always been the type to have a natural aversion to signing anything. Except for my marriage license, I've always done it under duress. But you know what's even worse? When employers or vendors ask you to sign lengthy contracts, and express a range of emotion from concern to outrage when you insist on reading what you are signing up to!
My understanding is that this is not the first time they engaged on this type of topic, and Yann has a history of ignoring other people who brought up similar criticisms to him (at conferences, etc.)

At some point you lose the assumption of good faith, and deserve to be called out for refusing to learn.

For what it's worth, I'm well aware of who Yann is, and was at the time as well. That doesn't make him immune to being wrong. (Nor, by the way, do I see any bad faith in her initial tweet. I see exasperation, but not bad faith).
It only doesn't matter as long as your demand outstrips supply --

Read as: as long as others want access and are not fully satiated to you, your affiliates, or what you both possess
> Yahoo “was kind of this graveyard for cool companies”

Yahoo! actually decent at finding and buying Flickrs and Tumblrs. I'm not sure if they went there to die because Yahoo! didn't know how to grow them further, or because, as cool as they were, there wasn't actually that great of a business in the first place. Maybe being courted by Yahoo! should have been the sign to take the Google deal because Yahoo! being interested in you isn't a good sign.
I am surprised that NetBSD still doesn't support the Pi 4 - given NetBSD's reputation for cross-platform--ness.

And even on earlier Pi's, WiFi and bluetooth doesn't work.

I wonder what the problem is.
Many people will try to use being vaccinated as an excuse to stop wearing masks. That isn't going to go well, if they can still be spreaders.
Most have multi-billion dollar endowments and run their campuses like country clubs for the world’s elite’s kids.
High Density and Sustainability
Also: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/google-nlrb-lab...
It'd be too small to notice, and maybe impossible to measure. Emulation performance gets sucked up by MMU emulation, indirect jumps (including function return), and page-crossing jumps. Sometimes memory-mapped IO can also be abnormally bad in emulation.
Looks like she bluffed her way out of a job. I’m not sure I feel sorry for this person at all.
Soho Mission Celebrates a Quarter-Century in Space
New monolith appears out of nowhere in California, but doesn’t last for long
“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”
It was a long time ago now but I remember reading an article about a researcher who tested his gut biome every day or so and it was amazing how quickly things change depending on what you eat.
I built a homemade multitrack looper using Ableton and a custom Max4Live plugin. It works similar to a looper pedal, but (1) it gives you random access to all loops instead of just the top of the stack; and (2) it keeps every audio stream on its own channel, so you can route drums to a PA system, guitars to an amp, etc, instead of having everything go to a single output.

Here's some riffing I did on the Stairway to Heaven solo that showcases it: https://freerobby.wistia.com/medias/vcajgqerla
Imo people like her make the research environment hostile than actually moving the field forward.

People with logical mindframe leaders are required for such tasks not emotional twitter whining sjw.
> If I make the change in code, I can roll it out, test it in prod, and then slowly migrate traffic over in very standard and well defined ways.

Advanced methods (like blue/green deploys) are invented by people with high-traffic requirements and slowly filter down to everyone else until they are normal practice. 15 years ago server configurations were ordinarily painstakingly handcrafted and somewhat unique.

We can reimagine those techniques around a database without too much difficulty.

> You can have a bunch of servers, you really only can have one database. This means the database should be very sensitive to changes because it's a single point of failure. I don't like modifying or changing single points of failure without very good and well tested reasons.

This is a strong argument; I agree that very good reasons are required. I have seen scenarios where the reasons are IMO quite good, but agree this isn't a widely-applicable technique.

> Could you version your procs and have the new version of the code call the new procs? Sure, but now you have to manage deployment of both a service, and the database, and have to handle rollover and/or A/B for both. If my logic is in there service, I only have to worry about rolling back the service.

It has become common to have (and version/rollback/etc) each of web-frontend, web-backend code, web-backend engine, database schema, database engine.

Cutting that back to web-frontend, database http plugin, database schema & database engine is IMO a plausible win some of the time.

I've been noodling around for awhile with the concept of a precompiler for stored procedures which alters their names to include a hash of their code.

This would give you a safe way to seat multiple versions alongside one another.

* The frontend build process would pull in the hashes so it knew which version to call
* A cron-job could delete the old ones once they're (manually marked?) no longer in use - this would be the most hairy bit since it's got to be 100% sure it's not in use anymore.

Rolling back then constitutes putting the old version of the frontend live so it'll refer to the previous stored procedures.
Technically, Plaid doesn't have access in a sanctioned way. You pretty much guaranteed violate any electronic banking ToS by sharing credentials with a third party.
The analogy I like to use is shoes. We wear shoes and walk in muddy patches. Your feet are fine. But wherever you go, you shed the mud.

Now imagine the mud is the virus. Shoes are antibodies (vaccine).

Not an exact comparison, but helps explain.
Odd that the article didn't mention that the Groupon model wasn't actually sustainable because most of its growth was from desperate merchants and desperate customers coming out of a recession, and most of the customers didn't become repeat buyers. It made for a great shopping trend, but it wasn't going to survive.
Large numbers are unintuitive. If we’re conservative and add only 1 millisecond of latency for the 3 AZ replication, on 410 million records that is about 4 and a half days of time if the client is not doing any batching.
AMD has experimented with ARM in the past and is selling some ARM 64 chips. such as the Opteron A1100 series chips. However, purchase interest has seemed limited. So AMD definitely has been working on ARM. They may dedicate more resources now that it's a bit of buzz because Apple. Theses chips definitely could use an update. However, like I said in the past interest seemed limited, but these chips definitely could use an update.
And nothing’s as precious as a hole in the ground.
NASA to pay company $1 to collect moon rocks
Does the time during which you are contagious change if you are vaccinated?
Hieroglyph, a research tool to easily view a YouTube video's transcript
15.8 vs 14.8 for last year across Japan and the US as a whole (respectively). I have a feeling this year the US' rate will be considerably higher.
I'd like to read this article but the text/background colour combo is headache inducing after a few minutes.. anyone else ?
feels like slashdot 20yr ago. Someone make a "hot grits" joke.

Seriously who cares that whoever assembled a publication intended for the public for the foundation did so using a normal professional process and toolkit? Put another way, if they showed spiritual purity and produced something nice with TeX etc would that make the news the report contains any better? How about 7bit ASCII?
They really were. Here's a version of that video that includes Lorinda Cherry writing a talking calculator by piping together 3 unix commands.

https://youtu.be/XvDZLjaCJuw?t=828
Currently I just offer people to support me on Patreon or through donations. I might have ads in the future (for non-supporters) if a company whose product I actually use comes to me about it. My only goal right now is to be getting more than I pay per month on mailchimp/hosting, which is about $55. Ultimately I hope that if people find value in the work I'm doing, they'll help support it. If not, oh well. I'm enjoying curating, writing, and connecting with subscribers, and that's enough for me at this point.
Windows Mobile/phones actually had UEFI bootloaders with Windows Boot Manager [1]. For some Windows mobile devices, people have managed to unlock the bootloaders and load other EFI applications.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/br...
Arecibo isn't FAST
Sue yourself and have your lawyer send Google a letter demanding your data as evidence.
ARM is already pretty viable for servers. At least viable enough that most of the major cloud providers have arm64 based instances available.
It's not necessarily revolutionary, but it's not just a small evolutionary step. But either way it's just pedantic.
Seems like typical SJW behavior. Hopefully more companies will stand up to these far leftists and kick them out.
Where is "Jesusland"? (I'm from a small, deep blue, Acela corridor state that the current President-elect hails from, so pardon me for not knowing where this place is located).
They basically guarantee the funds to the merchant and reduce the likelihood that the cash won’t be there. The other side of the coin is providing insurance against fraudulent charges. This only really matters where physical goods are exchanged.
Let me assure you that whining on Twitter and bring a sjw while smearing everyone they don't agree with as racist is not the best way to reduce the bias.

Really she is saying dehumanizing?? That the typical woke cry.

I know plenty of poc of Southasian descent who have no such problem because they behave professionally unlike these people.
> It seems like this implicitly assumes that everyone switching to Apple silicon is a possibility.

Apple has flipped the tables. They went from being way behind the pack in terms of price/ performance pile in the 90s and 00s to the point where Apple's base MacBook Air is now competitive in terms of performance with laptops that cost twice as much.

I suspect they will absolutely pick up share. I also expect AMD will gain some share here as OEMs look to compete with Apple's offerings and Intel has come up short.

Also, by losing Apple, Intel is also losing one of their most profitable customers. While Apple isn't Intel's biggest customer in terms of units shipped, Apple tended to buy Intel's higher end CPUs which other OEMs avoided.

Everyone isn't switching to Apple, but the competitive scene is changing a lot and it doesn't favor Intel.
If Linux can be made to run on M1 bare metal, I expect it will. And computing history shows us Linux can be made to run on anything ;)
AVX-512 causes just as much if not more throttling in my experience? In what case are you finding that AVX-512 runs at lower voltages than AVX2?
Prepare to be angry. It was beautiful; no doubt about that. However, it did a horrible job translating the source material to the big screen.
I would expect once you get your vaccination this to be a non-issue. Like any other viruses that I'm vaccinated against, if I catch it my immune system would destroy it before I become a source myself. I mean isn't that the whole purpose of a vaccine?

Also I do understand that is only 90% efficacy, which means if I am among the unlucky 10% then I'll become infected and become both a spreader and most likely develop the disease.
If the vaccine is only useful for reducing COVID severity and doesn't help prevent spread, then I see no reason why it should be required for anyone for whom an infection is unlikely to result in hospitalization, i.e. anyone outside the well known high risk groups.
I'm only pessimistic in the sense that current offerings only work when devices with microphones (and sometimes cameras too) are inside your home and always listening/watching.

The technology itself is great. If I could have an agent like Alexa that was fully under my control and only connected to the Internet to execute my instructions (rather than to recognize/record my speech/activities) and all other processing was done locally, I'd be all over it.

But since that's not the case, I don't want that technology anywhere near me. Which is why I love doing stuff like this[0].

I hope you had a good day too.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1807/
What the fuck was going on in 1921? That’s three months after they firebombed Tulsa.
Sadly there is no multi-region Cognito. Would love to hear if anyone has a strategy for that.
I just want to take a moment and point out that Apple’s built in spell checker does not offer suggestions on the simplest errors

I frequently copy and paste a word into Google just to get the correction auto suggested and auto searched for, whereas Apple operating systems will know it is spelled wrong as an unrecognized word but offer no suggestions
AMD has been selling the (64 bit Arm) Opteron A1100 series for a while now. It honestly, needs updated as it's starting to get a little old. However, overall interest in these chips was not as high as hoped.