skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say start writing and don't worry about what platform to use until you have about 5,000 words. Then, choose whatever platform the cheapest host offers and paste those 5,000 words into your first post(s). If you get hung up on stuff like "should I look up static site generators," you will never develop the habit of writing, which is the only thing that matters.
If you have a good (and even differentiable) forward model, that should help significantly with the inverse problem.
Windows does out of the box. Linux and OSX can definitely be configured to even if its not built in. On mobile, you cannot configure or add OS level features the way you can with desktops - at least without jailbreaking.
Ultimately to society it doesn't.

In the same respect ISK has value to players of EVE, it does. There are so many things wrong with it that considering it a currency is flawed.
I would call my lovely Poland less and less a civilised world, but even here I can test whatever I want whenever I want in at least two big networks of private labs. I go to lab online shop, buy what I want (vit D costs ~$13), download a voucher with qr code on my phone, go to the lab and 5 mins later I can go to home. I have an account on their web app, later that day I have results and can compare it to all my previous results too, each thing with nicely visualised historical data on diagram.
> For work-home balance, I would say the balance is largely lost, but that as an overall, the experience is still improved

You say the balance is lost, but then go on to describe what I'd consider a great work-life balance.

There's never going to be complete equilibrium, but when work and life can both push and pull, then I'd describe that as balance.

Moving away from "this chunk of hours is for work" and "this chunk of hours is for not-work" to "hit a general target of X hours of work over the course of a week" but allowing that time to ebb and flow as work and life demand it seems much more balanced to me.
How the hell does it prevent spam? Spammers just bake bit.ly links into the image which I doubt have a much lower hit rate than usual spam.

Meanwhile, every time I find a new account I like and want to see what they're all about, I have to use a search engine because all of their posts just say "link in bio" for the context and additional content, but their bio link has long since changed. This is a clear dark pattern to keep people in their walled garden and I really can't see any other explanation.

(they do allow links for ads though, which are usually just spam anyways, so that reinforces this even further)
From a doctor I've heard you only need to go in the sun for about 10 minutes a day and you'll get all the vitamin D you need, but food also gives you it.
By having a crash harness in the program that dumps the call stack and relevant internal context. Coredumps are really an option of last resort.
The economic impact of subsea cables in Africa
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If only the "force" in Space Force referred to propulsion power rather than military domination. :(
AWS are offering the first ever officially supported macOS virtualisation, I would call that a milestone. Given the costs, you would only use these instances for "approved" development work only. It is aimed at larger companies where maintaining a MacBook Mini build server is relatively expensive. Such companies will be using more than one instance of a MacBook mini to have a level of redundancy in case of a failure. If they are used in earnest, such instances would have to be replaced at least every year with old instance disposed off professionally (scrambling hard drive contents, etc). Yes the instances are expensive, but there is a definitely an use case for these.
CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on U.S. Politics and Wars
Video shows a flight through an abandoned under construction building next to an exploded nuclear reactor (reactor #4 exploded while #5 and #6 were under construction)

I also have seen smoother drone videos.
> What Apple did here is create a monopoly for MacStadium

Why can't any business rent out physical Macs on a 1:1 basis on the same terms as MacStadium? It looks like they can, and if so then it's nothing favorable to MacStadium specifically: it's just not favorable to fractional renting like AWS.
I would think 16MB is quite big considering how small Linux will let you go. I used to make 17MB images with NetBSD without any effort toward reducing size.
It’s just a correlation. No need to take vitamin d.
Yes, this is a niche concern... called environment protection. The new stuff cannot be upgrade, so when amount of RAM stops to be sufficient, old computer needs to be recycled (a modern word for throwing something into waste bin together with all CO2 that was emitted when computer was produced, not to mention environmental costs of digging rare earths, etc.).

I am still able to use my Lenovo Thinkpad 510T only because I could easily replace HDD with cheap, stock Samsung EVO SSD and throw more RAM.

The absurdity of Apple approach is that Mac Mini with 512 GB SSD is $200 more expensive than the one with 256 GB. 256 GB for $200 is a crazy price, so Apple basically says: hey, pay us a lot, lot more, so maybe you can use our stuff a bit longer, but, in fact, we try to actively discourage you from doing this, since we want you to buy cheaper model and in two-three years you will need to buy a new fancier model.

But Tim Cook will tell you a lot how much he cares about humanity, environment and CO2 emission. Maybe he will even fly his private jet to some conference to tell people how awful is all that oil & gas & coal industry.
That article literally didn't provide any evidence of covid-19 vaccine misinformation. It just says some anti-vaxx communities exist...
The actual level of non-compliance was lower than predicted during the spring. It's gone up a lot, at least here in the UK. Unfortunately, our entire mainstream media pushed the idea that lockdown fatigue is a lie during the spring for essentially partisan political reasons and can't really back down now.
Slight tangent, but I recently realised that the built in integer type in Python and Erlang support arbitrary-precision arithmetic while the built in integer types in Go don't.

In Go each integer type has a maximum value. eg int32 has a max value of 2,147,483,647. You can still perform arbitrary-precision arithmetic in Go but it requires using the math/big library.
I worked as a contractor at X for two years and one thing that really contributes to their success is the fat dump trucks of money they have to spend on things. Astro is a super nice guy, but I worry that X gives themselves lots of credit for being master innovators when in reality their secret may be that they have a firehouse full of hundred dollar bills they can point at things and see what sticks.

Tbh I may be way off base but I was really surprised at how much money they spent on things.
This particular comment was probably downvoted because he basically just took the hottest buzzword of the last decade and inserted it with a very weak link to the topic at hand. You could copy and paste this comment to any article about any achievement and it would have the same relevance.

It is certainly not a “new way of thinking”. First of all, there is hardly any thought here. Secondly, “understanding deep learning mathematically” is a well known problem to mathematicians.

It is a comment that could have been generated by an (old, 2000s era) AI.
> Cowardly

How do you figure this? Is the US approach courageous?

> NZ had extreme advantages: an island nation with easy to control borders, a large lead time to prepare, a low population density

NZ discovered cases just days after the US. The US is also not heavily populated. It depends on the source but NZ is about 15 people per km/2 and the US is about 36 per km/2.

A comparison could be made between Hawaii and NZ, and the contrast in how things have gone is quite something.
People call themselves developers or software engineers because it sounds a bit more pretentious. However there's no shame in calling oneself a programmer just like in the olden days :)
I have been thinking the same thing since the news dropped. Apple has a pretty solid reputation for protecting iPhone users. Will they add RCS support to iMessage, even if it means protecting a competitor's users as well?

Anyway. This means moxie actually did a large part of what he set out to do. 2 billion users will use the signal protocol by default. No extra app install necessary. I have probably been the loudest "federate signal" whiner out there, but I feel rather stupid now.
Reflecting on 10 Years of Building Buffer
You cut that quote off a bit early.
I am also looking for an editor, in case you have recommendations in addition to the one in the article!
Forgot to add, for 2000 threads repeatedly doing some very short calculation (added it for fun) and sleeping 100ms in a loop: CPU consumption is around 2% (fluctuates between 1 and 2.6). RAM used 36MB. So do not know what is wrong with your system / or maybe whatever language/library being used.
> How much would you need to work if you bought a small-ish house, lived on a very strict budget, and generally kept expenditure to a minimum?

I would need a lot because I like the city life, for example. I do found idyllic to go to the countryside here in Sweden and spend quite a few weeks there for summer and winter but that's not the life I'd like to be living for years.

I enjoy being in a city for my hobbies, such as music, it's easy to find good concerts, people to mingle and chat about those hobbies. I like the human connections of cities, I enjoy meeting my friends to do something, to see an art exhibition, to make music together.

Nothing of that is possible with little money, I'd need to save a lot through decades to keep this lifestyle work-free.

I don't want a family life so that leaves me tied to having friends and spending time with them, moving to the countryside would be worse for my needs than having to work.

Not everybody dreams of owning a house and settling down in peace in the middle of nowhere, with all the free time to look at trees and write about them. I love going to a secluded cabin, bringing all my music gear and staying there for weeks but it's not something to live on for years.
Wow, this is super cool, and also heart warming that they do such a nice thing! :)
Hey, this is awesome. Such a throwback!
I noticed that some of the characters aren't what I'd expect, any reason?

PRINT ASC("\") " " CHR$(92) : PRINT ASC("/") " " CHR$(47)

47 prints fine, but 92 reveals a symbol "12" in super/subscript.

Some of the others are also off, e.g. the arrow sequence revealed by
10 FOR A= 1 TO 255 STEP 1 : PRINT CHR$(A) ;: NEXT

shows down arrow suffering the same.

Thanks, can't wait to see where this goes next!
So letting the lithium flowing near the plasma?
If you're from Germany, that may work soon. The Corona Warn App may appear on F-Droid soon.
Nintendo Switch adds ability to wirelessly transfer photos/videos to smartphone
> Dravidian is just geographical classification. Map gets it wrong at least for one language. If not the entire Dravidian category.

Their genealogical tree has some other issues (like merging Austroasiatic Vietnamese and Khmer into Austronesian), but I thought the Dravidian family is relatively uncontroversial and a proto-language can be reconstructed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Dravidian_language

(NB. The script used to write a language and loanwords from other language families have no bearing on its linguistic classification.)
Cant treat them like the irish, if the island is to far away..
I hesitate to speculate, but one possibility is that for large reactors you have so much heat that you need heat exchange by liquids rather than solids or gases or non-atomic particles. My understanding is that solids are bad because electrons and phonons cannot carry as much energy as atoms. Gases are bad because they don't have enough atoms. This leaves liquids as best, which is why we so often see liquid cooling in animals and machinery.
The three main pitch headlines under "About":

> Basic human right: We at Everchat believe that Internet freedom is one of our and our users’ fundamental human rights.

> Data anonymity: We promise never to give any of your private or personally identifiable information to 3rd parties.

> No censorship: Everchat is censorless, but we reserve rights to take down any subject to criminal activity.

Given the values you communicate, what (apart from pinky promises) do you do differently to assure users that these are fulfilled? How do you avoid making yourselves a SPoF?

Is the protocol open? Can I self-host? Will sources be made available and if so under what license?
Yes, and “long enough for us to see them” actually comprises two independent factors: (1) survivorship bias, in that red ochre on rock can last a long time, and (2) “discoverability” bias, in that red ochre on rock is relatively easy to spot.
Can I natively call the Objective C API from an unsigned app or not?
And on Arm cores, you aren't obligated to provide a weak memory model. Some Arm vendors provide cores with stronger memory models, mainly TSO in Arm server land and sequential consistency for NVIDIA in-house CPUs.
Sure, here's a guide from Make Magazine:

https://makezine.com/projects/make-36-boards/nuclear-fusor/
Ask HN: How you're dealing with cheating in Work From Home settings?
I remember reading someone hiring third-parties (in low income countries) and handing his tasks while paying the person and still making a profit.
How is this being tracked in WFH nowadays?
Zettelkasten with Neuron
Thank you for your insightful comment. Do you mind going a bit more into the decode advantage?
There's a new Demo link in the sidebar now :)
Yup! In Rust specifically, I've written bbqueue, which is a bipbuffer-inspired lock-free ring buffer, intended for embedded systems and DMA usage.

https://github.com/jamesmunns/bbqueue

It uses atomics (and Rust's borrow checker) heavily to safely guarantee lock free behavior, and works pretty darn quick.
New Mysterious Monolith Appears in Romania
> Apple cares about the Mac again

I don't think Apple cares about macOS users though. It's a huge difference. The way Apple drops support for existing things easily drives people away from them.
The legal gray area where Apple specifically called out their service by name in a presentation and how great their Mac Minis would be for their usecase?
I'm not even going to bother reading what fox have to say. Do you have a good faith source?
From the article

> If we have more decoders we can chop up more instructions in parallel and thus fill up the ROB faster.

> And this is where we see the huge differences. The biggest baddest Intel and AMD microprocessor cores have 4 decoders, which means they can decode 4 instructions in parallel spitting out micro-ops.
> But Apple has a crazy 8 decoders. Not only that but the ROB is something like 3x larger. You can basically hold 3x as many instructions. No other mainstream chip maker has that many decoders in their CPUs.

> You see, for x86 an instruction can be anywhere from 1–15 bytes long. On a RISC chip instructions are fixed size. Why is that relevant in this case?

> Because splitting up a stream of bytes into instructions to feed into 8 different decoders in parallel becomes trivial if every instruction has the same length.
32-bit fixed size instructions, that are aligned. That allows you to have 8-wide decoders for example.

On x86, you can't really do this/didn't happen because the instructions are 1 to 15 bytes long, and you'll need to decode the prior instruction at least in part to determine where your current instr starts. (currently 4-wide decoders are available for x86 uArches)
At a first glance this sounds exciting: We use a lot of different versions of macOS and Xcode for building our apps. We have one dedicated Mac, and about 5 VMs on a second Mac that we use for building our software. Keeping everything up to date is a pain.

So if we could just rent Mac VMs that would be nice. But this is pretty much useless. You get only a single machine for a really high price.

Theoretically I could run VMWare on the rented machine, to run multiple virtual copies of macOS, but then I'd be doing all the maintenance that I don't want to do.
Thanks, I'll check out!
Hi Erik,

The app looks clean and useful. It's a no-bullshit approach to a digital free speech space. Could be useful for example in my country of choice: I live in Thailand and we have a democracy movement that faces real threats form the monarchy and government.

I read your legal docs. They are pretty clear from what I understand. What's not so clear to me are 3 things:

1. How does everchat protect me? I am in Thailand and breaking local laws like talking about the Monarchy can land me in Jail or void my Visa and Work permit.

2. I thought an Impressum is mandatory in GDPR, it looks a bit shady to me, having an app and not seeing an Impressum with a real address and company name.

3. What's everchat's buisness model, and how are you gonna make money? (If part of this includes using my personal data, I am fine with it, as long as I exactly understand how you gonna use it.)
Interesting! Is this work public somewhere perhaps?

I'm currently working on a similar technique (though with smaller blocks, currently ranging 64-1024 bytes - basically any 5 power-of-twos) for a lock-free allocator intended for real time embedded systems. I use a 32-bit word for each 1024 byte "page", and have a tree structure inside of the word (it takes 31 bits to cover 5 power-of-two ranges).

My code (which only allocs and never frees at the moment) is here:

https://github.com/jamesmunns/bitpool/
Plain spam, even your pricing section has different amounts.
It's not meaningless if you know the context. Achieving 100M degrees is actually a significant milestone for this type of device. The reactor in the UK has this planned for somewhere in the next year. I don't know SPARC's schedule, maybe it's a bit more secretive but when they achieve 100M it will be in the news as well.

And even if you don't know the context, the article says it's the first in the world to achieve 100M for 20 seconds, good luck doing that in your microwave.

And the specific temperature of 100M degrees might seem arbitrary because it's such a funny sounding amount, but it is actually the precise temperature at which the plasma theoretically starts becoming net positive.

Whether it actually was net positive will obviously be the focus of the researchers for the next weeks, and even if they find the plasma generated energy consistently (which we'd surprised about if it didn't) it still doesn't mean the reactor was net positive as a whole because of inefficiencies.

They will not have fried their expensive reactor intentionally, so if they did that will be sad news. The scale of the experiment is clearly visible from the video. It's a room sized spherical tokamak style device. I'm pretty sure the density of the plasma inside those is a given but I'm not 100% on the physics there.
The rise and fall of the Oxford School of fantasy literature
From the About page (https://everch.at/about):

> "We promise never to give any of your private or personally identifiable information to 3rd parties."

>"Everchat is censorless, but we reserve rights to take down any subject to criminal activity."

How will you reconcile privacy with the "Basic human right of Internet freedom" and takedown requests from authoritarian governments against dissidents who break local speech laws?

How will you handle NSFW posts?

According to the Terms & Conditions (https://everch.at/legal), Everchat JSA is governed by the laws of Slovakia, but I am not familiar with Slovakian free speech laws and liability for platforms.
Migrating from poetry 1.0.10 to 1.1.x has unfortunately been major pain for us. Some of our dependencies do not yet fully support PEP517, which means we're stuck on 1.0.10 for now (e.g. mypy, which had a fix merged but not yet released, see https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/3094).

The poetry lock file also seems to get ignored for git dependencies. Say I depend on package Foo, on branch Bar, as a git dependency. At install time I get revision 1, which gets added to the lock file. Now let's say the head of branch Bar moves to revision 2. If I re-run poetry install, I now get revision 2, even though revision 1 is still mentioned in the lock file. The solution is simple: depend on revisions / tags, rather than on branches (and this sounds like good practice anyway), but it is surprising behavior.
The M1 is the first go at it and it's been relegated to all of the lowest tier machines, which creative professionals were probably not buying anyways. There's already rumors of a 12-core "M1X" 16-inch MacBook Pros with double the amount of high-performance cores.
Mac OS BigSur Sucks
windows97 is easier on eyes than new Mac OS BigSur.

Open ActivityMonitor and see it for yourself
Functional Programming Tips for Python
I don't think Zuck has been a techie for a loooong time
Unilever to Trial Four-Day Working Week in New Zealand
Not sure of practical applications with super-cheap sizeable flash storage available everywhere, but it's nice to know you can still build a bootable Linux system entirely from scratch using simple instructions with latest kernels.

I might just give it a try for shits and giggles; I remember trying "Linux From Scratch" a decade or so ago and it took hours / days to get to a "bootable" state.
>> Intel is still on 14nm

Why do people keep saying that? There's a variety of 10nm processors from Intel on the market.
“Hell of a laptop”’s M1 MacBook Air review
I didn't understand any of the maths, but the pictures sure were pretty.
I wonder how productive Sah would be if he hadn't encountered Sawhney. In my experience, there's something almost mystical about finding a highly compatible partner-in-crime.

While I recognize that we (broadly) like to idolize particularly effective individuals, I feel we risk essentially dishonouring the dynamic when we focus so intently and exclusively on just one member of this kind of deeply collaborative union.
> but half of us go to low paid jobs that are not somehow more human than what he depicted

And half of us go to high paid jobs that are not somehow more human than what he depicted.

Beware the cultural, subconscious lie that "more money means you're happier". Plenty of low-paid people are happier at their jobs than plenty of millionaires.
Do you have some evidence of this?
People have the strangest ideas of what “net neutrality” implies. This has nothing to do with it.
I have two personal websites. My main problem is that it is very hard to share them. Half of the subreddits don't accept links thanks to spammers. I don't use other social media... They are not the typical Hacker News link.

Generally speaking, thanks to spammer linking has become impossible outside of social media platforms.
Forgive my ignorance, but aren't cryogenics and plasma temps at complete odds to function in near proximity?
I'd like to do more blogging myself, sometimes, but I feel like I don't have much to talk about, AND a crippling sense of impostor syndrome; if confronted with questions like "why", I'd start to seriously doubt myself.

I mean I've got plenty to talk about but I can't get consistent. For now I'll stick to shitposting on HN I guess.
Ditch Nuclear and Save $860M with Grid Flexibility, U.K. Told
Impressed me too, when I was a teen. On a second reading as an adult, I thought: the book starts off great, but becomes a bit boring at the end, or full of clichés.
Of course there were itanic-targetting compilers, they worked, just not well enough to deliver on marketing promise (edit: and what the hardware was theoretically capable of).
I guess there's a lesson in there about using 2nd hand anecdotes from 30-40 years ago and applying it to current day cultures!