skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "don't require consent "

That's meaningless. Usage is already a form of consent. The discrepancy is between the user and the company in what is consented. Forcing the company to provide service to the user even if the user disagrees with an upfront description of what the company requires to provide that service is a completely valid objection.

Also GDPR applies to any organization providing to citizens of the EU, not companies operating there, but that's yet another example of poor design which results in GDPR having little enforcement.
From the article:

"Both Plato and Xenophon attribute to Socrates and obviously share with him an awareness of the destructive effects of work on the worker as a citizen and a human being."

This is pretty rich since all three of these ancient Greeks were only able to live their nice lives of contemplation and philosophy because of slave labor.
Has anyone tried to overclock a M1 processor yet?
What's your threshold for how risky a disease had to be before you'd call it risking they're lives?
Just curious, can you recommend games that are pure fun gameplay?
> Oh well, I guess I will be using Macbooks for the rest of my life.

I on the other hand would never voluntarily set my foot into the walled garden. That might be suitable for some users, but for readers of HN it shouldn't be necessary. I'm happy to run Gnu/Linux even on my phone, even if that might cause occasional inconvenience with the current duopoly in that segment. Freedom is freedom after all.

Well, people seem to make different choices...
Wow, this wins the facepalm award:

"The code checks for an index of characters from 0 to 59 inclusive, rather than checking that characters at positions from 0 to 59 match," reads the report published by Synopsys."

for (int i = 0; i != sLength; i++)
{
isEqual &= (bcryptString.indexOf(i) == newBcryptString.indexOf(i));
}

In other words, the indexOf() should be at().
> RAM: 64 GB DDR4 overclocked to 3733 MHz, stress testing 24 hours stable

OP, it may be worth downclocking the RAM to 3600MHz (while tightening timings) unless you have a golden chip with >1800MHz Infinity Fabric. Decoupling IF and memory speed can cause huge latency (90ns on my 3950x).

Obviously you want a baseline and benchmark from there, but you clearly know what you are doing.
I'd love some NAS hardware that is low power and can run a few Docker containers.
Short read. Describes Jumpei Mitsui's lego sculpture of the great wave print. No pictures. I recommend https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/12/jumpei-mitsui-great-w... which has pictures and embedded video links. The value add here is in relaying that he chose solid blue and lighting rather than different colored bricks for the different shades.
Is 2021 the year of RISC-V on the desktop?
ARM, x86 and RISC-V Microprocessors Compared
I've been thinking of switching to my gmail calendar and contacts to nextcloud. But I've been wondering what you then do about contacts you email. Do you somehow keep gmail in sync with the nextcloud contacts?
In most, but not all installs, the start menu pre-installs game ads, explorer advertises for onedrive, and the lock screen advertises things on top of the pretty pictures.
I quote that book in my HN profile and so many people on HN have found it grossly offensive.

Edit: Just wanted to add that it’s an incredible book that I recommend to everybody.
I know what an unreliable narrator is. There are hints/clues within the story to show why the narrator may be unreliable. You can't say a narrator is unreliable because the fictional world does not align with the real world. That's my point.

It would be like saying bilbo baggins is an unreliable narrator in lord of the rings because magical rings don't exist in the real world. Absurd. But you could say the narrator in fight club may be unreliable since its revealed he has mental issues and the stories don't line up within the movie/book.
With all the sociological data we have now, it’s almost certain that Pascal’s wager has never been more true for those looking to lead a meaningful life.
I am obviously making an extreme reasoning there. It is just to illustrate the absurdity of the notion that unemployed people should starve because otherwise no one would work to produce food.

Society is designed in a way where non-working people are shamed and considered parasites and anomalies. If we want to transition to a non-working society, this has to change, or the fear of losing one job's to a machine will stall automation.

We have subway drivers despite the tech to automate this job has existed since the 1960s.
I like this metaphor as well. A team (or choir) full of solid if not exceptional performers can do great things if directed well.

In music at least you can usually hire additional soloists as needed and let the choral ensemble handle the ensemble parts.
On work, I never had so much trouble, like with my HP ZBook and Win10. It had already once a complete reset, but still, I have a lot of trouble. Special since the new BIOS update about a month ago, it crashes once or twice a day again.

In theorie Win10 looks nice. I tryed to upgrade one of my notebooks at home from Win7 to Win10. Privacy is one thing, but CandyCrush and things like that, was a totaly show stopper for me. I mean, I even have the Pro licences, but so much bloat ..
So since the, I'm Linux only at home. I will never upgrade to Win 10.
Oh, heck yes. Can I count the ways?

- The Start Menu shows "suggested apps" by default

- On first install/boot, the Start Menu is preloaded with about 10 sponsored apps, and many of them install automatically even if you don't click them.

- These sponsored apps have a tendency to reinstall themselves _even after you just uninstalled them_ if you haven't rebooted your computer at least once or twice after first boot up.

- Microsoft Edge ads appear in the Taskbar at times, Action Center at times, and sometimes when you are changing the default browser to Chrome, and sometimes even after Chrome is default.

- Windows Explorer occasionally advertises OneDrive.

- Most built-in Windows Apps like Weather, News, and Sports contain lots of built-in ads.

- The Mail app comes with an "Upgrade to Office 365" button always visible.

- Cortana occasionally pops up by itself to ask if you want to use it. And there are ads in her search results and "suggested apps" from her for you.

- The default Lock Screen, "Windows Spotlight," occasionally advertises games, Microsoft's latest political agenda, or Bing when your computer is Locked.

- Office 365, on new installs or accounts, has links to _every web app_ on the Start Menu by default.

- When adding a user, Microsoft will hide the ability to create a Local account not linked to a Microsoft account under, like, 3 pages of advertising for why Microsoft accounts are awesome.

- The new Settings app has a new header that is in A-B testing right now, which (among other things) has a big obvious link _in the Settings app_ to Bing/Microsoft Rewards.

- Microsoft Edge has, by default, the entirety of MSN as your New Tab page and your Homepage. Plenty of ads on that, and worse, they serve ads from Taboola and Outbrain. Those types of ads with "You won't believe what celebrity XYZ..." or "Take this 2 minute quiz to learn..." kind of junk. (In fact, all of the built-in Windows apps seem to serve Taboola/Outbrain. You just want to check the Weather!)

- If you are not signed into OneDrive, OneDrive will inform you of this fact _every single time_ you log in with a giant error message.

- If you are not signed into Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams will inform you of this fact _every single time_ you log in with an Office 365 Sign-in dialog. It frequently fights with OneDrive to see who can make you sign in first.

- The operating system will sometimes randomly pop up with messages from "Windows Tips." While (theoretically) making the experience nicer for new users, the actual Tips app is pretty barebones and really motivates people to click a button to "Learn More"... using Bing search.

- If you want to use Google as default search engine on Microsoft Edge instead of Bing, that is a.) extremely nested deep in the UI and hard to find, and b.) if you do manage to find it, there's a three-section ad explaining the "benefits of Bing."

And there's still stuff I'm forgetting.
Because your space on the die is not infinite? More ASICs - less general purpose cores. Unless you expect die size to grow more and more.
It would indeed give the title a sinister tone, but it wouldn't describe the article at all! These workers are in fact getting the vaccine, not some fake pantomime!
Wow, I really like what qrpixel did! Do you know of any alternative tools (that are still around) that work the same way?
Yes just like all the "anonymous sources" commonly cited in the news.
If the compromise was inserted during the build process, then one countermeasure could have been reproducible builds. Reproducible builds require the source code, but they can verify whether or not the build matches the claimed source code. That would work even after it was signed.
Ah ok. I do see almost all of these things, except for the game ads.
What you’re disagreeing with is also how every single nation functions. By all means, people can disagree with the specifics of how different governments function, but what you’re describing is something common to every polity. Even despotates claim to rule by a theoretical consent of the oppressed.
Similar https://pymt.online
Graphics and sound were good, the gameplay for most of the games I got I found kinda meh.
Maybe you skipped the section "What is the benefit of sticking with Risc-V"?

> But for a coprocessor you don’t want or need this large instruction-set. You want an eco-system of tools that have been built around the idea of a minimal fixed base instruction-set with extensions.

Essentially: the modular nature of Risc-V and tooling/ecosystem built around it, with first class extension support.

ARM is closed, too complex and not friendly to extensions, while custom ISAs mandate a huge amount of extra work.

I only dabble in this field, but I see the ecosystem rapidly maturing. The open nature also leads to a general propensity to open source designs and tooling, lowering the barrier to entry and reducing cost.
The workers are essential, but there’s not enough vaccines to go around, so some people will get placebos to keep them working.
This has nothing to do with immutable physical characteristics and such comparisons only highlight how silly the argument is.

Consent is a voluntary action. Usage itself is a form of consent. However a user disagreeing with what the company requires to provide that service but still being entitled to and actively using that service is not workable. User can decide to stop using a service entirely though, if they don't agree with the requirements.
It won’t happen. People (aka businesses) want something that just works for the person doing data entry or scheduling calendars and expects the code rguy (even if a top 3 in the world by value by valuation) to suck it up to bare bottom IT policy.

My opinions are my own. But the things one sees coming from them, they make things up to justify their continued existence.
If you want a computer with maximum general purpose power, you can buy a Threadripper today. For the rest of us who use laptops, we want energy efficiency without throttling the machine to death. Special purpose cores are a great alternative to heavy throttling of a general purpose machine.
UK Police is a private company and they can do whate... oh wait.
Rebooting a 15 year-old game written in D – Part 1 Compiling
Properly scaling a site is more than just clicking a button. Your architecture needs to have been built from the ground up in a way that actually can scale horizontally, for starters.
> > Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world

> Many people enjoy their work immensely.

You didn't counter the statement. Even if work is the source of most misery, that says nothing about people who enjoy their work.
Synapse is essentially invisible on a $5/mo digitalocean VM, in my experience. I don't have too many people on it, but I've run my own server for about a year and a half now and I've had no issues whatsoever. Throw it on a VM if you have one lying around, and if not you can always spin up a new one and use it for any other services you want to host in the future.
Die size is limited but package size can get pretty large without causing problems can't it?

It obviously doesn't need to be infinite.
I realize that now..I had to keep with HN title word limit. I didn’t want to make up my own headline.
Quotation marks mean... quotation. I don't know why everyone thinks they mark something as not true these days?
Machine Learning with Android 11: What’s new
The page won't load if www.googleapis.com is blocked.
True. I made an assumption that the app is built that way. Of course, if te app architecture inherently unscalable, no amount of computing power or private servers is going to help.
More than twice as many young adults died of Covid in 2020 than died of car crashes (or any other one cause, including the former top one, opioids). Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774445
In a way, yes.

Sifive is actually shipping the first RISC-V desktop form-factor motherboard early next year.
What's so good about the original print?
Scientists have detected a radio emission from distant exoplanet for first time
Teaching your Models to play fair
VS is much better today but it's still a 32-bit process that's limited to < 4GB of addressable memory. Jetbrains has been on a multiyear journey (documented with fantastic blog posts) to move Resharper out-of-process but there's still overhead in maintaining separate systems working on the same project space.

Rider bypasses all of the process limitations and syncing overhead by using the Resharper/C# logic exclusively, and is much faster and more responsive as a result.

Also VS has been slowly copying Resharper features but is still far behind. I mostly use VS today for heavy debugging where it still excels.
I've done a variety of meditation techniques and certainly appreciate the benefits they may offer.

One thing I'd say is that it's not always the techniques that feel the hardest that actually offer the most benefits. I believe Buddha's term "middle way" referred to a way that was in the middle between extreme privation/altered consciousness and the ordinary world. I think those interested in meditation techniques should consider this.

And in terms of long term silent retreats, I had an old friend who's schizophrenic symptoms were intensified by retreats of that sort and meditation in general isn't a thing that's riskless - I recall the possibility of serious reactions to meditation and intensive meditation in particular has been documented in a number of articles.

Which relates to claims about "All problems"
I love privacy policies that say stuff like

"We collect your date of birth, for example to remind you of your birthday!"

(also to murder you Logan, when you turn 25)
Work is survival. I don't just mean this as a matter of subsistence. If we develop AGI and no one ever works again, at some point the robots who are smarter than us will realize they don't need us.
Huh... is it really so hard to set up your desk so your back is to a blank wall? Or put one of those accordion-folding partitions (which look like cubicle walls) behind you?

I dunno, I'm sure background blur is a cute trick, but given how easy the low-tech alternatives are I'm surprised it would rise to the level of "must-have" feature.
There has to be three streams. Housing those who need to get a job/reskill/can’t work. Another for medical intervention. And the third is rehab for addiction issues. This would be the largest group.

I want to share more re problem statement/solution strategy..but a little busy now. I hope to revisit this at some other time. I just have to find it for a quick cut and paste from where I had written earlier. Cheers.
Varuous co-processers have been usually hamstrung in development time, stable APIs, SDKs and developer support. They basically never had the issue of chio yield.

Even video transcoding by the GPU and SIMD instructions in CPUs, that have been around for decades, remain poorly supported by most programming languages.
> You’d have to pay engineers to build the same systems provided by serverless if you want smooth deployments and high availability. Also, imagine if you wanted to start operations outside of the continental United States. You’d need to find a data center provider, buy machines, pay someone to install them (and hope they do it correctly), and then, when ever you have a technical problem, you need to email the datacenter team to have someone plug in a KVM with 5 seconds of lag so your engineers can debug, and then you have to pay admins to constantly maintain the servers, and consistently pay for their rack space even if they aren’t being fully utilized. None of this is a problem on a fully managed serverless platform.

What are you even talking about dude? You don't have to build a rack in a colo to run a non-Serverless app. There's this thing called The Cloud now, and Virtual Machines, and other fancy new technologies from 15 years ago.

"Serverless" as in Lambda is a joke. "Serverless" as in Fargate is legitimately great at lowering ops overhead. But "zero operational overhead" is absolute bullshit. Even Lambda has operational overhead.

Serverless is just the abstraction of a function into a compute unit. There's like 20 other things you need for a functioning product, many of which literally cannot be replaced by Serverless-anything. And the severe limitations of many Serverless technologies make it very unwieldy to use.

Give it 10 years and it may morph into something more like a monolith whose functions become "Serverless", like a Beowulf cluster where forks are executed on remote nodes and there's some ugly glue to tie it all together. That seems a lot more seamless and useful than trying to architect 100 tiny pieces together with crappy custom integrations everywhere.
Being paved opens them up to more types of use, like normal strollers.
Why do people ascribe broader ARM implications to the M1? Apple uses the ARM instruction set to make an amazing CPU. It could probably make one with the x86 set too. It doesn’t mean everyone else making ARM processors will suddenly get much better. Not to mention that Apple’s very similar A series has already been around for years.
A Synology unit can do all that, will be more reliable, and will outperform the Pi at similar price points when accounting for storage needs. Not to mention I would trust the Synology unit WAY more than a Pi.
In America it's common for the vulnerable and the old to work in order to fund their continued existence. For example, the article describes a 68-year-old hospital custodian who caught coronavirus and died.
I read it is 50cm because it is the legal (not technical) limit.
Chiplets help you hack around the problem, but you still have the chiplets themselves following the rule
Cool site and idea. I guess they’ve run out of decent domain names, though, huh?
How to cook a medieval feast: recipes from the Middle Ages
> Here's what's on nytimes.come right now:

What's your point? You could make the same argument on every propaganda outlet. Do the same thing for fox news, xinhua, al jazeera, rt, etc.

It's naive to think that propaganda necessarily means lies. It's half-truths, excessive coverage, ignoring of topics, etc.

> The happy medium is: know when a newspaper was in a position to know the truth and trust them if they were, or if the article explains its evidentiary basis in convincing detail.

No. That's the childish naive view. You should know that every newspaper is an agenda driven propaganda organization serving the interests of the elites ( after all it is the elites who created these newspapers ) and judge accordingly. No newspaper is deserving of trust or should be trusted because their primarly goal is to deceive. Anyone who trusts a newspaper or a politician is a moron at this point. Just take everything they say with a grain of salt and move on.

Certainly the last thing one should do is worship the NY Times which many here sadly do. But then again old people are their target demographic. Easily scared and insecure.
Sourcing Elephant Ivory from a Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Shipwreck
Engineer finds the masks that offer the best protection from Covid-19
> I feel I can separate the sense of my being from my thoughts some times.

This is key. Too much importance to thinking and thoughts otherwise all around. See even during "meditation" we tend to talk about "watching thoughts" like they are something special worth that attention.
The meat of the story wasn’t even this guy’s account. I think it was then finding a cache of administrative documents from somewhere in Iraq and having a deep look into ISIS government, its operations etc.
That depends. I'm fine with using Ryzen 9 with 12 cores without the need to go to a Threadripper. I doubt it would work in a laptop well. It does need a good cooler.
CGI is in vogue again - I am so happy!
* The Settings app currently advertises "Rewards: Sign In" on two of the three Windows machines I have access to

* After every version update I'm prompted to finish setting up my account by converting my local sign in to a Microsoft account. The wizard itself only gives options to go through with it or be reminded in 3 days. Disabling it is a checkbox in notifications settings page "Suggest ways I can finish setting up the device to get the most out of windows". This to me feels like deliberate disguising of the true purpose of this setting
I could happily sit in a room alone for days. That's the problem. My internal world is so rich and alluring that it distracts me from reality. I easily spend half of my waking hours staring off into space while daydreaming.
Ah yes the classic Quack.exe[1].

[1] https://techreport.com/review/3089/how-atis-drivers-optimize...
Worth noting that the ISA is more than a set of instructions it’s also a semantics for those instructions. For example the concurrent semantics of ARM processors permits a much larger array of optimizations on the per thread level which is good for performance.
I'm concerned that we'll see antigenic drift of SARS-CoV-2 (thread)
This makes sense. I've been playing the game on PC (thankfully very few bugs compared to everybody else it seems) and loving it. The difference? I avoided reading or watching anything about the game prior to release. So on fresh eyes, I just think it's a good, fun game that has the average number of bugs.
We are in agreement; I was saying that the fact 4000 of them got solved does not mean that the remaining 1000 don't matter or aren't worth thinking or talking about, or aren't serious problems.
> I don't consider preparation to be necessary because if the food is free, I can wash the potatoes myself or even make my own bread.

Who provides the water? who provides the rest of the inputs for bread?

There are a lot of things that need to be done to provide a basic standard of living, even if 1% of the society are slaves who labor in the fields for the benefit of the other 99%.
They can't make an x86 one because Intel holds the rights on it and only AMD has a license to do this (there is a history here).

Also I wouldn't be surprised if one actually could not build anything like M1 (at that power usage) w/ x86.... Intel certainly hasn't been able to.