skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how is this a response to the comment below in the context of voters being educated and your initial response being that the peak was the peak was 1945-1985?

"Do you think there was a time when the majority of the population were college educated? Or realistically had access to college education?"

It seems overall the education of the population has risen, although it might not be as high quality. Also, this lower quality can lend itself to higher attainment (eg college entrance exams being more lax). Also, 1945-85 you would have higher number of people who never went to high school because 8th grade was considered sufficient when they were a child. So just through demographic change (sadly, those older people dying off) and an increase in the job market's demand for higher credentials we can see the level of education has risen over time, resulting in the most educated populace we've seen.
I saw one terrible VP be replaced by a smart and humble VP who made gradual change.

The second guy came in, worked to understand the problems, made a considered plan, sold it to the team, and gradually started rolling it out. And he was totally defeated by red tape, bureaucracy and process.

The first guy who'd come in and broken everything in one fell swoop had to convince his bosses that radical change was necessary just that one time, when he was new and there was no history. He got the green light easily.

The winning strategy for the VPs in that company was to put all their eggs in that one basket. If it worked, they came out smelling of roses. If it doesn't they go find a new gig. But playing the long game didn't work.
Indeed: signal proves that good UX and good security can coexist.

Telegram proves that to have even better UX, you need to sacrifice security (and privacy).
4chan is protected by LEO. It proactively reports illegal postings to LEO, shares logs proactively, responds quickly and is heavily moderated. Additionally most of the site isn't troublesome.

The rules are US freedom of speech which is much more liberal than Europe and hate speech definitions so the content on the adult boards is shocking to me and some may be illegal in Europe, but it's not illegal in the US.

There are worse sites but this one is the one that enters the less well informed public's consciousness ironically.
The thousands of votes required would require more than isolated cases of individual voter fraud at least. I’d say several thousand in a single state is both widespread and symptomatic. And importanly there are no indications of that.
I've implemented something similar using reagent which is a React wrapper for ClojureScript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibiK8sgwvqc

It works with stateful components too.
I am currently working on a VR IDE.

My plan is to get some code editing functionality going, add VR support, build cool stuff in it and expand functionality slowly towards a VR OS-shell (think Windows 3.1).

Eventually I want to also build some sort of network experience which will require communication with other instances.

You can follow my progress here:

https://www.awesemble.de/cgi-bin/fossil/public/vrkbnch/home

At the moment I'm cleaning up another repo with experiments and salvaging what I can before I rewrite my AST visualizer.
I believe thats correct. Because now that you say that, I remember that part of substituting it for a CRT adding a bunch of homeade brine capacitors, which were basically just glass jars wrapped in foil and some various scrap metal conductors. Less risk of injury in case of an accidental discharge, and easier to purposefully discharge when bringing everything back to ground.

At least that's I convinced myself of back then. On the other hand, in hindsight, we were pretty dumb, and still built a lot of really irresponsibly dangerous stuff.
Throughputs might be great, but latencies are still terrible in the cloud, especially when using PaaS services. I measure between 1.5 and 5.0 milliseconds out of Azure App Service, for example.

Compare with the same Azure region where VM-to-VM can easily get down to 50 microseconds, which is within spitting distance of the underlying storage latency of 20-40 microseconds for Optane SSDs.

NVDIMMs have latencies of a few hundred nanoseconds! Getting anywhere near that kind of latency to really unlock the potential would require the cloud vendors to stop wasting everyone's time with layers upon layers of network abstractions. There would have to be a fundamental rethink of how data centre networking is architected, public or private. No more deep packet inspection firewalls. No more deep buffers on switch ports. RDMA and SR-IOV as standard, not as an option. Etc...
Isn't this self-defeating? Why would they refuse a service instead of charging more? I expect to be able to buy a bike online and the shop assembles and adjusts it for me (of course for a price).
Ask HN: Best software architect conference in 2021
Hej,
I'm looking for a great sw architect conference to attend this year.
Could you recommend some?
Thank you
As I child I remember seeing back to the future so many times on VHS. And now, my kids have seen Moana dozens of times as well Princess and the Frog, Cinderella and many classics.
the back catalogue can keep the children buys for years. Especially thru COVID induced school closures with working parents needing to breath.
If they had more people willing to storm the Capitol for the election results they would have gone already.

I don't see how these extremists could benefit from act of violence on private business or citizens.

Despite the deaths, I'm glad this happened, at least we now have example of rioters on both sides.

Maybe the third party will gain the remaining sane people in the USA?
I suspect what is happening is that a handful of high net worth people and companies are accumulating massive hoards of cash at a loss to themselves (relative to gold, real estate...); they do it for the sole purpose of 'doing their bit' to maintain the current economic order; they're avoiding big sudden short term losses by taking on smaller but more long term continuous losses via inflation.
Law apply to everybody on the territory relevant for its jurisdiction. Regardless of whether you use public services and benefit from its administration, you are expected to obey to it. If you don’t use a private service, you don’t have obey to their term of service, and law might even grants you ability to forbid private companies to exploit data related to you in their services.

The real problem here is not some private services chose what is or what is not available in their services. The core issue is their monopolistic position on information infrastructure. To some degree, people are responsible for not using decentralizing services, and for that, shame on people. On the other hand, when people are not educated to actively defend themselves against mass manipulation, it’s no wonder they end up trapped in that kind of "free" services. Of course, any form of political power that is not based on maximizing people auto-determination will precisely want easily manipulable people.

Neither these private companies nor political parties that now fake to be outraged by censure of opinion want auto-determined people able to share anything that might look like a menace to the centralized institutions they have in their hands.
Well, Hyundai's market cap just went up $10bn on the announcement so the market seems to feel it's a win.
Youtube started removing election questioning after the safe harbor deadline in mid-December. There had not been any violence at that point.
Regardless how you feel about the sequels, they are masterpieces next to endless stream of Netflix B-rate titles.
I stopped using xterm because C-h and C-; bindings doesn't work on Emacs. I'm not sure if there's a way to configure it to make them work but I remember trying to look for such settings and gave up. It's easier to just use urxvt.
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The impossibility of infinite economic exponential growth and some alternatives
> bakeries can decide whether they can sell cakes to gay folks. What’s so hard about this ?

I had to look this up and it took a while to find the answer. There is no clear decision to say whether bakeries can reuse to sell cakes to gay people.
I wish they made this at a router level
> I understand not putting the conclusion in the title

Why?
At this stage, why don't the "deplorable" people in "fly-over country" stop food delivery to the woke coastal regions.

After all, we learned that private enterprises can choose who they do business with.
i looked at the history and it seems they just close them even when they merge them, and then merge them via their own commits. but you can see them accepting stuff in the comments of the closed pull requests
The system is working relatively well - though there can be tweaks; if Biden didn't win then we'd be in a lot more trouble. Trump in fact has allowed the swamp to be cleared as he promised, as we can see the treasonous Republican senators who allowed all of this behaviour to continue by not removing Trump - the House impeached him, then it was the Senate"s job to confirm. Trump exposed the rot, how far they're willing to go, showed us all their true colours that Trump's a wannabe tyrant and the Republican senators are happy to fall in line with that. He's also exposed the flaws in systems that allowed him and others to manipulate Americans for decades. Thankfully Biden won and I believe full out civil war can be avoided now, so long as these systems including the duopoly and mainstream media's ability to lie, to only tell one narrative; the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated as review recommended by Andrew Yang, along with his core policy proposals will adequately counter these problems.
I have followed GG's writing for over 10 years myself, actually reading his articles as opposed to twitter headlines, and I think its telling after the effort I went trhough to try to have a real conversation, that is your response.

Downvote all you want Biden lackies, it doesnt change the uncomfortable facts!
Ah yes, that. That is most definitely also a problem here.

I was very much warned by my parent not to go with strangers in a manner I later realized was completely counter effective as it implied that there was an easy way to tell which strangers were dangerous and which weren't.

I since learned that my parent would be wiser to warn me for relatives and teachers and strangers, if he were truly so concerned for my safety rather than assuaging his moral panics.

It is still however nonsensical and the chance of ill happening is considerably smaller than letting a relative babysit me.

In fact, one could argue that children are safer when they be left alone, than when they be properly babysat, because the babysitter is one of the ones who would be most likely to hurt them.
There is plenty of evidence of election fraud. Refusing to address it just makes the issue worse, leading to exactly what happened.
I recently had to decide on a client framework for a side project. Svelte looked very nice, but still a bit hobbyist. At the end I decided on Vue3, but will keep a close eye on Svelte and wish all the best for this project.
That's right, you're not supposed to, but some very wealthy people do it anwyay to prevent inflation from skyrocketing whenever the banks increase the money supply. The people who are at the front of the line for the money printers the ones who decide the money velocity and it's based on how much of the new money they decide to keep in their own pockets. They're doing it at a loss to themselves. Just to help maintain the current financial order.
Well one definition of "natural" could be that it "came from nature", and as the Schrödinger equation perfectly describes non-relativistic events in nature arguably it came from nature just as much as newtons laws of motion.

Another measure of naturalness is "simplicity", and the Schrödinger equation is a fairly simple expression.

You might argue that it's results don't feel very intuitive, and therefore it is not natural. But then I why you think its intuitive that levers work.
Some messages include information I need to go back and refer to. eg a recent example for me was a relative sent me dimensions for a piece of furniture they were getting rid of and offered to me so I needed to check if it fit in the space I was thinking of. I couldn't check when they sent me the message so I needed to go back and check later.
20 years ago people criticized it will be used inwards at some point. You should start to listen to these people.

This kind of terrorism is mostly caused by people that wrote these bills and it slowly becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. It is not due to some post on Twitter. Just a very old stupidity rehashed...
I play games with my friends and girlfriend sometimes, I host a TS3 server to talk to each other for several reasons -

1) Voice data stays with us, not yet again some other company
2) The TS Client is slim, lightweight and uses little resources while the Discord client is absolutely horrid, sluggish and quite the memory hog
3) TS has far superior voice quality (subjectively) and latency (due to the server being close)
Also, in the 70s, you have a bitmap font of max 256 characters of equal size. Nowadays displaying text requires font selection, text shaping (incl. kerning), glyph selection, text layouting (incl. line wrapping), glyph pre-rendering, and a final assembly step to get the composite image of all glyphs.

Want to skip font selection? No emojis for you.

Want to skip glyph selection? No ligatures or Arabic or Devanagari text for you.

Want to skip text layouting? No Right-to-Left support for you.

There is a whole crapton of legitimate complexity in the font rendering stack because we don't want to have the constraints of the 70s anymore (only 256 glyphs, fixed font size, monospace font only).

(Sidenote: For those of you who think "I'm fine with monospace fonts in my terminal", I am using a monospace font as well. But "monospace font" only means that all ASCII glyphs are equal-sized, which is a tiny minority of all glyphs a Unicode font supports. I have grown a very strong opinion regarding this topic since I started to learn Japanese and hence want to be able to deal with CJK characters.)
Simon Rattle to Leave London Symphony Orchestra in 2023
Have you heard of healthcare as a human right? It's something that China believes. Meanwhile the US is perfectly fine with "caring" for someone while in the hospital, then stabbing them in the back with a huge bill later.
webm supports animations.
This was nothing to be glad about, no matter what side you are on.
Signal doesn't make any money.
That's... strange. Whats even the point of being on GitHub in this case, why not just distribute a source tarball with each release?
in 2020 US AG[1] floated the idea of buying shares in Nokia or Ericsson to be able to have a say in this space (talking about "controlling the means of production" lol). For natsec this isn't enough which seems to be also the conclusion of DoD.

Having worked in this space, a company bidding here will not be able to do this without spending billions on implementing and being part of the non-military commercial market (and paying commercial rates for engineers to build it). It took commercial vendors nearly a decade to build 5G and the only reason they were so "fast" was because they had already experienced engineers on their payroll who understood the basics of 3G/4G.

if they accept bids it would be more realistic to just focus on a MIL spec equivalent documents of 3GPP specs and then have the Nokia or Ericsson sites in the US build it for them. Even they do this there is still the "Outsourced elephant in the room":

"5G: The outsourced elephant in the room" https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/5g-elephant-in-the-room/

If they're really serious about natsec the only way forward would be a complete isolation for the military network.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/1aa61918-48fc-11ea-aeb3-955839e06...
This allows you to block the connections per-app, and before they happen for the first time.
Because BTC can't be created out of thin air limitlessly, I'd say it's much more "stable" in that regard.
The chart below shows how out of control the money supply has gotten in 2020. It's inevitable before this mass printing of money translates to big inflation in the economy.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1
Not impossible, just can't be done by vaccination alone. The remaining required percentage of the population would have to get immunity from getting sick.

This is what I was getting at in the grandparent post. 50% -> 60% and 85% -> 95% might both seem like they protect 10% more of the population, but the qualitative effect on the spread of the pandemic and be quite different. 60% might be enough to get herd immunity (with masks and social distancing), while 50% is not. Both 85% and 95% are definitely enough to get herd immunity, so to some extent that added protection matters less.
To me it's unfathomable to have such a device around. I even feel uncomfortable with my neighbor having one (which I _hear him talking to).

I assume it's like reading the side effects of medication and think they are other people's problems somehow. How do people trade core privacy for setting the alarm or getting the weather report by voice command. I don't respect them. Same with off the shelf IP cameras in one's bedroom. Hello?

Air gapped speech recognition and FOSS, or this should never, ever become a thing.
Aham, so, why don't they break Oracle, if licenses are such an evil? I admire your patriotism, but the rest of us are not bound by it. At least I think that the nice thing about liberal democracy is that it is easy for one to defend it when they are also the one who has entitled themselves to define what it is.

TBH, I'm okay with open 5G and even more, I'm just pointing that the sudden desire of the US government to create it is not from the purity of their hearts. The bad thing will be if they try to shape the openness in such a way that it will favoritize the US companies and hinder anyone else.
No, not at all. NAT means Network (and port) Address Translation. If you don't change the contents of packets, it's not NAT.
Saturating modern SSDs is not that hard, if datastream is constant. Write performance usually degrades rapidly after couple of hours/days, once caches are filled and fragmentation grows.

But I totally agree modern SSDs will cause shift in computer and software architecture. Dealing with async disk IO is very frustrating.
I’m with you. I can’t remember the time I last looked back more than a couple days.
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To a non-us citizen and somebody who believes in free speech, this whole debacle looks like the parties behind who own our social media trying to stop in anyway the possibility that, maybe, just maybe, there might have been something fishy going on in the voting process.

You may have noticed that our president recently exhorted a gang of insurgents to break into the seat of the country's legislative branch and attempt to stop the process of counting the votes from the individual states that elected his rival.

While this insurrection was unsuccessful, several people were killed. The president's own party is unwilling to take action against him, and the opposition party is not yet empowered to do so.

You may also have noticed that the social media companies had previously taken little or no action against the president until this happened.

You may, not unreasonably, assume that the two events are connected.

This isn't censorship of unpopular views, it's an immune response against malicious lies.
I'm glad I can wear my employer's clothing in public. If I was going out.
Many of the claims you hear about in western media haven't been verified from outside sources. Obviously the US wants its citizens to believe that life here is sooo much better.
Sadly paying through the nose for a Thunderbolt hub doesn't guarantee a good experience, it still sucks in a number of ways.
There are a few areas which are harder to use like backups.

I suspect one of the most difficult to address is getting it to successfully evade the random vendor-built aggressive battery saving settings in Android. WhatsApp is usually whitelisted from those so "just works". If you don't do similar things for Signal, it will stop picking messages up/notifying you after a day or two of inactivity.
And.. why would solving the problem on server level instead of client level be favorable?

This is just another point for TS, frankly
I'd love it if we held our businessmen and bankers to the same standards as in China.
Until the US implements proportional representation, any third party is always going to have an inconsequential amount of votes.
Signal got $50M from Brian Acton.
Is there a reason you believe Bitcoin has value, aside from "other people believe it has value"?
You know, that by doing that, you are trading short term gain for long term pain?

Dmix for alsa was buggy, because just like PA, it didn't know about quirks of the hardware out in the field. And it stayed buggy, because nobody used it in return. Yes, PA was forced on users, but in the result the quirks were found, implemented and today, we all are better off. I didn't have any problem with PA since 2012 or so, but quite enjoyed the features it brought to the desktop.
Now if something similar can be done for iOS, that would be great...
what was the thing that was rejected?
CBDays
> To a non-us citizen and somebody who believes in free speech, this whole debacle looks like the parties behind who own our social media trying to stop in anyway the possibility that, maybe, just maybe, there might have been something fishy going on in the voting process.

What non-US citizens tend to miss is that the distributed nature of American elections makes that extraordinarily unlikely. Elections are managed almost entirely at the state and local level in the US.

For example, Georgia's win was certified and defended by a Republican Governor and Secretary of State. Their results come from the county level, of which there are over three thousand in the US, many of which are heavily Republican, and each of which is responsible for its own election setup, count, and verification.

You'd have to convince tens if not hundreds of thousands of election officials and volunteers to participate and cover it up.
According to this Wired article [0] from last year, the number of Signal users aren't public, but they've had "more than 10 million downloads on Android" and another 40% on iOS. Lets say 20 million downloads in total. Of course there's more now, but we don't know what kind of costs they have now, and I couldn't be bothered looking for more recent figures.

Telegram has close to 500 million active users each month. So of course Signal is not using as much money. The same Wired article mentions that Signal recently had gone from 3 to 20 full time employees, that adds a lot of cost as well.

My point is that I don't think Telegram have spent lavishly or focused on big profits, so it's unreasonable to assume that Signal will be able to do what Telegram does for much less money, so they will also need a new monetization eventually.

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-featu...