skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fyi - this blog post is a misssell and that's why the comments are so inflammatory.

Front is a competitor to Salesforce. And much nicer/simpler. It does that by creating a shared inbox. And it creates an entire workflow around that. Even though it's a shared inbox...who gets what.

It basically makes your support@ address better. I'm super unsure on why it's even being called as "slackifying email", because that's not what it does. I'm not sure what "ephemeral conversation" means...but Front treats a support email as a ticket. So your internal teams can comment on an email and discuss what action to take,etc.
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Why does the specific think tank matter? All that naming them would do is erode their credibility which could easily be the initial apt objective anyway if the think tank is advancing potentially inconvenient policies.

The problem is the attack and reading between the lines of the report the problem is probably a mix of blackmail and trying to gain access to whatever the think-tank knows or is debating (maybe to prepare in advance should their ideas become mainstream) since these are the sorts of people who probably won't have trouble trying to prove who they are after the initial compromise.
Thanks for the summary of the current state of the art -- last I looked at this sharding/federated-chain stuff was still only research grade for bitcoin as a whole. If Ethereum is ready to productize that's amazing news.

Anything more than ~3000 tx/sec will be a game changer and maybe ethereum will finally deliver on the promise of usability as currency.
I’m confused as well. FWIW, I always disable notifications, have a filter on my email for “you missed this message” emails to go to a separate inbox, only use slack/matter most in the browser, and only open it a few times a day.

I have trained my colleagues and boss to never expect a response right away. We’re also forced to use Skype at work which is a plague because people are lazy and will call about anything and everything without thinking it through. So same thing there, I’ve disabled all sounds, filter notification emails away, set my self to busy all the time, and never answer calls when they come in except it it was agreed upon beforehand (so, like a meeting)

I try and force these incurable skypers to send an email instead: it forces them to really think their stuff through, organize it in a more structured way, and takes me two minutes to answer instead of having a 15 min call that is all over the place.

And I don’t get interrupted while trying to visualize complex things in my head.
Experimental drug reverses age-related memory and cognitive decline in mice
Had no idea this happened. Very cool to see. We use both GCS and S3.
The whole idea is to allow the rich to evade the draft without making it explicit and throwing it in people's faces like this.
Thanks -- yeah the language thing I guess is much harder to change, but I can protect from that by just sticking to relatively simple transactions, or maybe if some sort of professional review/audit agency would spring up...
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> Scouts and cavalry have had this role this for ages, but drones plus guided munitions are extra good at it.

I would add that they are not only extra good, they are also extremely cheap and thus disposable and able to be deployed in mass.
whatever man. you had a good go at me the other day. you're right I'm wrong, and HN is no longer the place for me
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Really depends I guess. I can tell you that at least for HEP, especially for the LHC experiments, software is nothing like what you describe. Parts are designed and optimized in such a way but I would imagine it it to be a gigantic effort to try and wrangle with the borrow checker for the rest of the software.
There are a few things in here that are fun to think about.

In the situation you describe, the answer is often "yes" and that's how you end up with evolution. Let's say you have a gene that makes a protein that digests glucose. And then one day, your cell messed up when replicating and accidentally made an extra copy of that gene. Well now you have an extra copy of that gene that isn't under purifying selection. It's redundant. It can mutate but as long as you have the first copy, you're ok. And eventually it mutates away from being good at digesting glucose. It can do it a little bit, but it's not great. Maybe it's 20% as effective as it originally was. But you have another gene that's still 100% effective so you don't even notice.

Now we have a protein that really doesn't do anything bad... It just doesn't do much good either. And since it isn't subject to purifying selection, every round of replication it keeps mutating. Until all of a sudden, it mutates into something that can digest lactose. Now, you have an evolutionary advantage from a protein that first had to get bad at binding glucose, before it could benefit you. But evolution has no foresight, so it didn't know. So it took getting rid of purifying selection to make it happen. But now as you come to rely on lactose, that protein will wind up back under purifying selection and become "fixed".

So now let's consider an alternative situation. You only have one gene that can digest glucose. If it mutates to be 20% effective, you will at best grow only 20% as fast as your competitors. Maybe you even die and become an evolutionary dead end. In that case, it is an extreme disadvantage to have a protein that can't do its job reliably, and organisms that don't have a malfunctioning variant will grow better and pass on their genetic material to more offspring, until you are eventually outcompeted and go extinct.

We can also imagine another scenario. Your glucose digesting protein mutates into something that can still bind glucose, but cant digest it. Then the glucose remains stuck to the protein, producing no energy, and becomes a waste for the cell. That is actively harmful and will likely kill the cell very quickly.

So to answer your question: it depends
In the US, "college" means narrow subject matter, and "university" means a wide variety of colleges all together on one campus.

For example, there may be a "College of Engineering" and a "College of Arts and Science" that are part of one university.

It's possible to have a stand-alone college that isn't in a university. A good example is Berklee College of Music, which is narrowly focused on music.
It doesn't capture the original questions, but good organizations use a self-hosted internal wiki for this.
Next after that is running VDIs on either a small Citrix farm on Azure or as Desktop as a Service, since AD, SSO, 2FA ,Productivity tools and user file storage is there.

After that, you already have some firewalling and VPNs in place so adding the odd server is just a step away.

Adding dedicated lines and firewalls and rules and all bella and whistles with all four big players (AMZ, IBM, MSFT, GOOG) plus 2 ISPs adds cost fast, so you typically pick 2. MSFTbis already there for O365 so yeah, they have a head start
This, and ten times.

In my part of the world people will cringe and frown if they heard I am not using WhatsApp. I can understand them, I'd probably do the same thing if I heard someone does not use email. Personally I have trouble and probably mild OCD just to check every emails in my few email accounts, imagine going through all the Whatsapp groups messages. I'd rather voluntarily go to hard labour rather than reading the WhatsApp group messages.

What we need is an email++ with asynchronous nature of email and the convenient but not the intensity of WhatsApp, if that makes sense. Google Wave probably come close but it came earlier than expected and gone as soon as it arrived. Perhaps someone can utilize CRDT/Automerge to make it even better than Wave by going local-first.
Cproc – a C11 compiler using QBE as a back end
Thank you for the correction. I had been following the news about Arecibo mostly and had not investigated NSF's total funding.
I am very sorry about that. I will make sure the website clearly states that it's only for Apple devices for now!
Spoke with a HPE friend and though I can't find it in any news stories but one of the sticking points was electricity. Texas guaranteed they'd always have power and California wouldn't do it. Are brownouts really a problem in San Jose like they are in other parts of the state?
https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis

>"A major goal of oasis is to build with

cproc, a C compiler which is much stricter about the ISO C standard than gcc or clang, and orders of magnitude smaller.

Although this is a work-in-progress effort, all core packages, and most others, build successfully with cproc."
The game binary is generally completely worthless without its associated assets, though. Nobody would really want to install Skyrim without the master esm since the assets contained therein are essential to the experience. Maybe that's not particularly useful to the discussion, but my point is you could probably fit all your most commonly used programs in a static format + all your average assets like icons or config files, and run and use them in a pretty small amount of space. The games, FLAC music collection, high quality photo library, etc can very easily be much greater a storage requirement than an application library full of static binaries.
The SEC has come out to say that BTC and ETH 1.0 are most likely not violating US securities laws. By moving to proof of stake ETH has lost that stamp of approval. In addition some people argue that POS is violating security laws. Large institutions are far less likely to adopt a cryptocurrency that might run into legal trouble down the line.

https://www.invigorlaw.com/sec-says-cryptocurrencies-bitcoin...
https://medium.com/blockchain-at-berkeley/does-proof-of-stak...
Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
Did you start with Victoria directly? Or move to it from Prometheus? Keen to hear your experiences.

We're currently running Prometheus + Thanos, and high cardinality timeseries are a real issue, which Victoria claims to be good at.
I read the article, and one could argue the opposite.

- Stanford suggests values are important, but supports the CCP by admitting their wealthy Chinese students

- saying "rise up" to protect your rights is bad, while not speaking out about the burning of American city downtowns

- anything position said about masks or "science" was also supported by the CDC at some point in time.

You get my point.
There's something wonky with that font, it's coming out blurred for me at 16px (default). Same for other sizes I manipulate it to.
Why the lol for Alpert? (I have all of Alpert's records!)
over in zigland in private we're saying that one of the endgoals of zig should be to reimplement the BEAM. One of the most active users of zig is doing some really neat things with task-stealing, allocation-free, lock-free schedulers that are a lot like the BEAM's techniques, except super performant: (watch this for till the benchmarks demos ~ finishing 1h:17min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaF6-5BmX2I&t=1h9m)
That’s great to hear. Checking that page, I see that the sections for iOS is empty. Doing a quick search shows some iOS/Apple specific issues. Any idea if the CardDAV (and now CalDAV) implementations work with Contacts on Apple devices?
thanks for the disclosure!!! nobody cares.
Bing search answers the same questions. (Copied the first line of first result with text.) I think Bing's winning the reality contest.

>>what year did tom hanks land on the moon

>I n the movie Apollo 13 (1995), Tom Hanks (and some others) was wearing the Omega Speedmaster.

>>what rocket launched the statue of liberty into the ocean

> Once fully assembled, NASA said the SLS rocket will stand taller than the Statue of Liberty

>>which apollo 13 astronaut exploded

>Two days into the Apollo 13 mission in April 1970, an oxygen tank exploded.

>>when did canada become part of the united states

>America invades Canada, 1775. The invitation was officially made on March 1, 1781,

>>when did the simpsons first learn to control fire

>It's a not-so-merry Christmas for the Simpsons. Mr. Burns plans to cut Christmas bonuses,
Thank you!

Twine[0] lets you make branching stories and those games usually show the choices as hyperlinks. The ones I’ve played are more like Choose Your Own Adventure books than Zork, though.

I’m no expert but every IF game with a map and objects I’ve played has been text-input-and-parser-based. In this game, I tried to design something that would maintain most of the degrees of freedom to explore and act on items without requiring typed commands. This technique removes some of the guesswork required for parser-based games — sometimes that guesswork is part of the puzzles and personality of a game but it’s also often frustrating and intimidating.

If others have seen a tap/log game like this, I’d love to check it out!

[0] https://twinery.org/
This is what their Promotions tab intends to do.
When you assume 8 hours a day straight work 10.000 hours means 3.42 years including weekends. I'll claim that's impossible (not to say inhumane) to do with a child.
I didn’t say the implied social contract wasn’t a thing in the mind of the open side of the web.

I’m saying it’s not reasonable to complain about people breaking an implied social contract that they never agreed to.

If I tell you that when I wrote this comment I had in mind an implied social contract that you wouldn’t disagree with me you’d just reply ‘lol no thanks I don’t want to’. I can have as many implied social contracts in my head as I want. What are they worth if you don’t feel the same way? Nothing.
>Later, in 1975 we decided to do something about a more formal computer kit given the success of MITS and others with kit products. So in addition to my education product duties I took on the job of defining a product line with the help of Heath Manager of Design Engineering Chas Gilmore. With minimal in-house computer expertise, we decided to try to buy a design and “kit” it. We tried with Apple and were rudely turned down by a young Steve Jobs.

>So we decided to make our own.

>As for software we tried to get CP/M from Gary Kildall but he said no. We tried to get Microsoft BASIC but we decided against it. Bill Gates visited Heath and said we could use it for an outrageous per license cost. He was arrogant and discourteous and our president at the time Dave Nurse kicked him out. We ended up hiring our first real programmer who wrote both an OS and a version of BASIC.

>We launched the computer line in 1977. It was an instant success despite the competition from the Apple II and TRS-80 which also launched that year. Within a year we were making $40 million annually with computers putting Heath Company well over the $100 million revenue mark. We followed up with floppy drives for the H8 and an all-in-one computer called the H89, a terminal and floppy in a box using a Z80. It too was a huge success.

From a 2013 article by Frenzel, who worked with Gilmore at Heath to launch their personal computer kit.

https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/communications...
Thank you, I was going to ask the same question, what is Front? :)
I believe the point of SulfurHexaFluri's final sentence is that it is cost prohibitive for Apple to dedicate a bunch of employees to search for bugs in order to fix them all. That is, it's cost-effective to find 1 bug, but not to find all of them. The sentence could have been worded better.
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We have different definitions of what amounts to R&D expenses. Just look at the regular stuff like the tooling for a new case - we have lots of that, and that stuff is expensive. Mouses, keyboard, displays - nothing stood still. It's normal and a positive thing that the field became more stable after a while, like that all the alternative processor architectures vanished. Until now of course.

> Apple can add what they want - and leave out what they don't need. Not just in the CPU but ANYWHERE in the system now.

Yeah. The "courage" headphone jack company can now make even more decisions I will disagree with and create unupgradeable systems that are unrepairable. Can't even change the ram in those things, pure throwaway garbage. Apple is the very last company I want to be in a decision making position over my desktop system. This is not a positive development.

And yes, they have thunderbolt, but you can't run GPUs with those ports. How useful.

> Otherwise why bother with Apple Silicon? If you can't have such a stark difference that detractors will just look silly, then why bother?

Money. And being able to release new systems when they are able to, not when Intel gets something out of the door for once. Which is a plus on its own, they won't and do not need to be radically different.
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I mean, you have a knife and you have a can. You need to open said can... You _will_ use the damned knife.

Less of a problem nowadays, since it seems most cans have pull tabs. But the metal of the cans is usually far more malleable than the knife, and if you have a work knife, it isn't unreasonable to do so.
This is a result on mice and as far as I know, attempts to reproduce similar findings in humans have failed. So there it is to be seen if in this case it will give similar results in humans. The mouse models that are being used, often genetically engineerd to have a certain deposition for cognitive decline, might not suffer from the same type of decline that we see in humans. The drug thus might simply be a treatment for the type of genetic disorder that the mouse model has and not have any effect of the decline see in humans.
> Vitalik Buterin came up with a solution for the nothing-at-stake problem

Is that a link to an article from a peer reviewed academic journal?

> There are several PoS networks out there such as Cosmos, Tezos, etc, holding more than a billion dollars. If there was an issue, someone would have hacked them by now.

I'll give you a hint: "slashing" is not a thing that sustains security of these networks.
Thanks for your kind words! I think the book has a good chance to successfully guiding you the process of writing a fully-featured raytracer, not just a basic one :)
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Nope, it transmitted and received. The range was limited to about Jupiter because the dish would move over the effective horizon before the signals returned.

Pretty incredible!
You’ve got it backwards. Their main business is aws.
If you want consistency, you have to pay for it with latency, since the system has to do work in the background to ensure that the data you read is really the latest.

If you care more about latency than consistency you have an 'eventually consistent' system, where a write will eventually propagate, but a read might get stale data.
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This is awesome, thanks. I was planning to experiment with bare metal programming on x86 but, that'll be my entry point.
Oh, so this is why the images I uploaded from my chat app sometimes just didn’t show up from certain locations.

Glad it’s solved now :)
>"As just one example, a recent microprocessor design using

RISC-V has a clock speed of 5 gigahertz,

well above a recent, top-of-the-line Intel Xeon server chip, E7, running at 3.2 gigahertz.

Yet the novel RISC-V chip burns just 1 watt of power at 1.1 volts, less than one percent of the power

burned by the Intel Xeon.

[...]

"It's kind of amazing," said David Patterson, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who helped create RISC-V, in an interview with ZDNet, describing his impression of a demo he was given of the chip recently. "I think IBM mainframes have a 5-gigahertz product that's liquid-cooled, and takes 100 watts" to run.

"I've also heard some impressive numbers around people doing

FPGAs, around 600 megahertz,"

said Patterson, referring to re-programmable chips. "For a soft core, that seems pretty fast."

[...]

Because of the simplicity of the instruction set of RISC-V, Micro Magic was able to have its chip produced using a standard silicon wafer with no special tweaking. That makes it possible to use what is called a shuttle run, where the chip is grouped together in the manufacturing process with other people's chips, on the same wafer. That can be vastly cheaper because the wafer's cost is shared among so many parties."
Today, as computers are beginning to perform legal discovery, making medical diagnoses and even evaluating creative work such as music and screenplays. In other words, they are learning many of the same things that people do, except they do not get tired or sick, never ask for a raise and when they get too old to function effectively, their hardware can be replaced.

This of course, presents a dilemma. How can organizations empower their people at the same time they outsourcing their jobs to algorithms and microchips?

The answer is this: Effective professionals, rather than focusing on building skills to recognize patterns and take action, will need to focus on designing the curricula, to direct which patterns computers should focus on learning and to what ends their actions should serve.