skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hope it's the bottom. Then you can "dock" your MBP without any latches. Some people might make a desk or tabletop that would allow the On the screen back would look bizarre.

Now imagine if MagSafe could also be a data channel...
I'd be willing to have a crack at this if I thought it could help (my background is in nuclear methods for materials characterisation). But I've a feeling that the difference in uptake between cancerous and normal tissue might not be large enough to make this especially useful. Fluorine-18 labelled glucose is used in PET imaging, but not for treatment as far as I'm aware. On the other hand, if a compound can be found that is more selective for the cancer in question, making it radioactive may offer a further improvement.
A DC offset, which amplitude-shift keying like this introduces, isn't so nice to your speakers. It might cause them to heat up as the offset waveform holds the magnet out in one direction.
I do love the idea of hiding data in "messy" audio, though :)
It's Paypal for terrorists.
There is a very interesting book around the metabolic route for treating cancer. It's called "Starving cancer" by Jane McLelland. It talks about using over the counter drugs and supplements that have been studied for their metabolic blocking properties for cancer, as well as changing the diet to reduce as much as possible the nutrients that cancer craves the most according to their metabolic phenotype. Most of the times it's glucose or glutamine, but the trick is to block as many metabolic pathways using the drugs so that mutation is prevented. Most of these drugs have their patents expired and are quite cheap. The author had a very aggressive form of cancer with less than 5% statistic survival rate and were able to survive and go back to NED (no evidence of disease). It's not exactly a substitute for standard therapy such as chemo, but there's many people who also went to NED just with her protocol.
I tried this back when I had cancer, and even though my survival rate was very high just on standard care, my tumor markers went way down almost to normal on the first cycle combined with Jane's protocol.
Unfortunately, the cancer industry and pharmaceutical industry won't really invest much money on clinical trials for expired patent, or even existing drugs in their portfolio. There are a couple of independent clinical trials going on, so far, with good results AFAIC.
Another very controversial, but interesting treatment for cancer that will probably never see the light is Chlorine Dioxide. And don't you dare write that on Facebook or YouTube because it'll be outright banned or deleted for "spreading misinformation". I have friends and persons I know that went to NED just on chlorine dioxide and diet. Having used it myself for many months with no negative effects, and, after chemo, I can't help but cringe every time someone tells me that it's "very toxic". Oh lord, you should have seen what chemo was like. Now, that was toxic.
> Is it just me or does it feel like in the past 5-7 years it doesn't really make that much of a difference when new CPUs come out? My laptop is a i7-4800MQ and it still feels incredibly snappy

Your CPU is a 4C/8T 47W one. Not bad for being in a laptop. My Thinkpad for example is a 2C/4T 25W one, from the 7xxxU series. Which doesn't feel snappy at all.

Your CPU would probably be handily beat by a recent 4-core or 6-core Ryzen, and it would be done so while outputting far less heat and fan noise.

From geekbench you CPU has: 780 single-core, 2784 multi-core. For a 25W Ryzen 5 4500U: 1079 single-core, 4260 multi-core.
Alienation and meta-ethics (or: is it possible you should maximize helium?)
I think that's a fair statement in isolation, and I do find Blow's grandiose and loose use of language to get in the way of his message, but I believe the point stands. The knowledge was lost and that is the part that is most relevant here. The factors that caused it, be it the the 'collapse of an empire' or just one illiterate glassblower's creation not being documented before his death (or any other of the tremendous number of reasons) are less material than the fact that we have a chaotic system where we're trying to stop entropy.

To that end, I don't think he needed to consult a historian in order to make his point any more valid, but he could probably have done with a historian proofreader to tidy up any flowery language that might detract from the overall message.
To be honest, the TouchBar was one the reasons why I still haven't upgraded my MacBook (first Retina). I bought a PC laptop to tie me over until they reverted this change.
Indeed. I get 40-50ms from Europe (not Germany).
>> they couldn’t grok the reason

B2b enterprise “feature” apps don’t understand the b2c direct to consumer perspective.
I absolutely love the touchbar, especially with the new physical escape key. Shame to see it go. Hopefully we can still get an option that has it.
Failed to install node
Failed to install pip
Failed to install ruby

I stopped reading after those lines
SmugMug is hiring a Senior Back end Engineer
ah good point, I'm not sure what I was thinking!
Because “editorializing” the title introduces biases (either knowingly or unknowingly). Was “iPhone 12” added in the submitted title just to make it more specific, or was it a nudge to bring on the Apple haters?
Anki is great and I actually use it myself for language learning and such.

Supernotes is a notecard system rather than a flashcard system (though we actually plan to allow you to have "flashcard notecards" on Supernotes, along with spaced repetition, at some point in the future).

But for now Supernotes is meant as more of a note-taking app, so if you're in a lecture or a meeting taking notes or jotting down a recipe or a grocery list or anything else, that's what SN is great for. Active sharing is also important in the design, so you can have a shared grocery list or notes or anything else.

And with the new embedding, obviously the goal is that you can create content on Supernotes and put it in your blog or wherever else, and if you ever modify the card on SN you don't need to edit your blog post because the embed is pulling your content directly from our servers so it propagates everywhere you've shared / embedded it automagically!
Is there a way to be less centralised? So that it can't go down because a central server does?
You probably should've held back.

This is the exact type of behavior thats unwelcoming in this industry.

You don't have to type to write programs. Many people don't. It's why applications that do visual programming have opened the way for AMAZING bursts of creativity.

Everyone should be able to communicate with a computer. The more people that are the more likely it is were going to make fascinating things.

Your elitism in programming is showing. And it's not welcome.
A thought experiment if you have time for it: Let's say you take a word processor. It's a great word processor, well-designed for its purpose. But it's primarily designed for "consumer" text editing, things like resumes, school papers, and the like. And let's say you add some programmer specific functionality to it, but do it in a way that doesn't interfere with any of the consumer-first features. E.g., you make it automatically syntax highlight source code files, you make it use a more sophisticated find-and-replace when editing these files, you add a file drawer that you can toggle via two levels in the menu bar, etc...

Would you be interested in using this word processor for programming over your text editor or IDE which is designed first-and-foremost for programming? If not, what's the difference between this and the way Chrome treats developers? (I'm not being disingenuous here, I honestly don't see the difference personally.)
I'm happy to see so many people advocating Syncthing... Nothing like rolling your own!
Agreed. Pointing your DNS at an untrusted provider is asking for your connections to be hijacked.
Consider Matrix instead of Signal.
That's what happens when you take millions in VC money. They want you to generate a return.
Sure.

Give me money.
> The former is so sick of C++ he's making his own programming language,

This has happened pretty regularly for decades at this point, people hate on c++ and think they have the silver bullet approach to do things better. They spend a few years on it, and it fails to get much traction.

There is a network effect around c++, sure. But industry standards are there for reasons, and usually most of them have a core at least that is sensible. People keep coming back to c++ mostly because it works, and it turns out often if you start with a safer and cleaner language you get 80% of the way there much faster, but a lot of the 20% that's left over is performance related and you just can't get there no matter how hard you try.

So from a business point of view, the pain level of c++ (and associated costs) is somewhat known, but most other approaches trade that off against project risks people just aren't willing to take.

It's not inherently crazy, even in 2021 to start a new high performance project in c++. Obviously the exact requirements matter, but there is a subset of what it can do that we don't really have a obviously good replacement for. What would be crazy is starting a new project in it that doesn't really need any of thee things it's good at.
Honest question: what do you use it for?
>Possible toxicity of something that we deem safe could be an explanation.

Like vaccines?
You didn't read my comment. I said that most people who are killed for their actions are indeed killed in genocide or war. I know that you want to have an attitude where you are indignant that I am minimizing genocide and war, but no, I agree with you that it has been the main killer of people.

Pragmatism cannot be escaped simply by complaining that I am pedantic. Saying something is an action. Practicing a ritual is an action. Dressing a certain way is an action. Eating certain foods is an action.

Recall that your original post insinuated that most people are too selfish to choose to die for their beliefs. I am trying to explain to you that people do not choose to die for their beliefs; rather, they choose to take certain actions, and then their killers choose to kill them because of those actions. It is the selfishness of those personal actions which we are considering.

And, once we have achieved this scale, we can clearly see that killing itself is an action. It is simply another tool for achieving our selfish ends. A person can choose to selfishly kill as many people as they can reach. This suggests that our morality needs to not just account for making the choice to "die for what you believe in", but also the choice to kill for what you believe in.

Finally, let us consider the context of your original comment. The comment recounted a tale of folks who were sent to concentration camps in the USA during WW2. They claimed that the average person has no control over federal politics; you agreed and asked people to consider how they would prefer selfishly to not stick their necks out for the sake of ending the concentration camps. However, there are two grand ironies there: first, that we today claim to have entered WW2 in order to destroy concentration camps; and second, that we today have concentration camps on our southern border.

I don't know exactly what your point is, since you're not using your words well, but I think that you should take a step back and try to figure out where you're headed. I have the luxury of an elected representative who already is trying to close down the concentration camps, so I know which side I'm on.
That brings to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimsy_Were_the_Borogoves
> Why not show off more legitimate ways of playing games on it?

While emulation gets a bad rap because of rampant piracy involved with it for most people, it's the piracy that makes it illegitimate and not emulation itself. There's nothing about emulation that requires piracy - e.g. Nintendo Switch Online has NES and SNES emulation without piracy. You can also dump cartridges [1] or buy legal ROMs [2] to play on this Odroid [3].

I understand the confusion, but please do be careful to speak about piracy when you mean to speak about piracy. Emulation is a technically interesting exercise that allows for the preservation and transformation of old video games.

[1]: https://www.retrode.org/about/

[2]: e.g. https://lesateliersphv.ca/en/extracting-roms-from-sega-mega-...

[3]: You might argue: "but few people actually do this". And you'd be right. Piracy for old game systems is just far more convenient. But that still makes piracy piracy and emulation emulation.
It certainly has been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast
You should know, then, that the cost to design, build, and operate those reactors was orders of magnitude higher than any commercial plant that would be competitive.

The problem with nuclear is primarily cost, cost, cost, and then scale, security, and waste.
Beyond that, the fact that you have to do any of this is silly. The .Net tooling used to be easy, now you’ll be able of building your entire application in python before you’re even done configuring your .Net environment.

I know I’m grossly exaggerating, but the fast movement and the lack of ease of use has been one of the primary reasons to see us slowly move toward python and powershell after nearly two decades of C#. Being a windows happy enterprise org, we still make plenty of use of the .Net family and friends of course, but not really for development.
I think UncleMeat's wife probably knows a hell of a lot more than I do about history, and contextualizing whatever horseshittery that has been propagated about the notion of the dark ages. The problem is rather than provide a link to a book or an article in refutation to Jonathan Blow or myself, UncleMeat has sort of just rattled off some history and said their wife is a history professor. Hardly what I think UncleMeat would have been satisfied as enough scholarly rigor for Jonathan Blow his talk with remotely the same framing. The retort along the lines of "but this is just a lil ole internet forum" goes out the window, when the call for rigor was made on said forum by said person.

I would suggest UncleMeat just advocate that people like Jonathan Blow take the history out entirely, and argue why this contemporary technology isn't good enough relative to our resources and skills.
>Germany isn't known for being bastion of free speech[1][2].

Germany isn't known for free speech but does have some of the strictest privacy laws in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesdatenschutzgesetz
I used to use this for a bit, but I noticed a bunch of random things were missing, like llvm.org. How weird!
You could also try running your own Handshake [1] node or SPV revolver [2] for uncensored DNS results.

[1] https://handshake.org

[2] https://GitHub.com/handshake-org/hnsd
I'm doing the same with my 2015, it really was the pinnacle of MBP design. Mine still works flawlessly, and typing on it is such a joy.
As I understand it, that's part of what makes Session an interesting fork of Signal: not only distributed/federated message relay backbone, but implements elements of Tor to hide your IP from receivers (of course if you click on a beacon link that destroys the IP hiding, but I digress).
It's not necessarily to solve problems, but open a new method of interacting with your computer.

I've loved the usefulness of it when watching media, quickly opening man pages for the command I'm running. Having a touchbar pet running around when I'm having a bad time
or the trackpad was a full 'touch' screen?
> Speculation time! I wonder if they will be able to put a magsafe wireless charging spot [...] on "top" next to the trackpad!

Apple patented that idea just recently: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/5/22215413/apple-patent-devi...
Tell us how much, on a per-KWh, the design, build, and operational costs of a Navy reactor are please.
I think you are kinda answering your own question here? the difference between Zen 2 and Zen 3 is that they are different architectures. there may not be an appreciable product difference between a mid/high bin Zen 2 part and a low/mid bin Zen 3 part. this is why we have SKUs; they take a spreadsheet worth of details and compress them into a rough total ordering of price/performance.

the point is that it's annoying to compare 4000 series parts against 5000 series parts to figure out what is the best budget AMD CPU. outside of enthusiast circles, no one cares about being on the latest architecture. they care about what is currently the best performing part within their budget.
Doubt.
Always felt like a bit of marketing to me. Nobody would buy the laptops if they said "this thing is 10x slower than a random desktop cobbled together from parts purchased on Ebay, and gets hot enough to burn your lap when you use it as a laptop", so they kind of had no choice but to add some sort of whizbang wowie zowie add-on to stand out from PC laptops (that also used the same slow and inefficient CPUs). Now that their laptops are as fast as desktops and use very little power, they can sell them on computing power alone, meaning they don't need to inflate the BOM with gizmos and gadgets. One less thing to break. Good riddance, I say.
Time for Matrix to brag about multiple home servers!
Could you try being more condescending? I can't tell if you actually work in tech yet.

We can know how and why '/usr/local/bin' came into being while still disagreeing that it makes any sense to keep using that today.

We know why '/sbin' and '/usr/bin' exist separately from '/bin', yet the distinction is completely useless today and so many systems just symlink it all together!

It is not unreasonable to suggest that just because we keep doing things a certain way means that doing it that way is the right way to do it.
Recently saw an influx of messages from signal: "* is now on Signal!"

And yes, it's down here in Toronto-Hamilton metro, Canada as well.
Show HN: See Something Broken Online?
People often don't understand the implications of an elastic monetary system that is also decentralized because of the way that the Fed and member banks are structured.

There are things the Fed or the government could do to frogmarch devaluation (like, for example, encouraging banks to pay people to carry credit card balances through negative interest rate policy or encouraging no-doc/no-credit check loans of all kinds) but that is not their prerogative.
2005 called, they want their jokes about PCs back.

Dedicated touchpad areas for right clicking and scrolling haven't been a thing since Windows introduced precision drivers and gestures. IIRC even most linux DEe have the same features.
Also, if the data rate is low enough, compression will probably also remove such dc components?
I have 8 tabs open including a youtube tab, and FF is taking 0.5% CPU.

Quantum was a "quantum" leap faster than what FF had become.
Afaik, they're allowed to omit news as long as they also omit all news. They cannot simply omit Australian news and include international news. Therefore, the Australian google would not contain links to Washington Post or NYT.

This is probably to the advantage of the existing large players, since a new smaller player would find it much harder to get traction. We all know the domain name to Mr Murdoch's news websites, but we do not necessarily know the domain name to new media news websites. And we probably won't head off to NYT expecting to get decent coverage of Australian news for natural reasons.

The result is probably going to be a disaster, with fake news spreading as images on Facebook, which will be somewhat trusted since everyone knows you can't find the source in Google and you can't link to it on Facebook, so the fact that you can't confirm it doesn't mean you can call it refuted.
It's not recent clips, but SomaFM has a station "Mission Control" that plays archives from the space program over some ambient music.

https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
My favorite part of my touchbar MBP is that it uses USB-C charging. MagSafe is neat, but I don't miss the $80 proprietary charger with a cable that's fixed to the brick and will probably fail if you do anything other than leave it sitting at a desk.

Could this be talking about an iPhone 12 style magsafe with a large pad? Not sure how that would work, you'd have to set your computer on top of it to have enough contact area. Couldn't go on the back of the screen (too thick), so I'm not sure where else it would be. And can it do a high enough wattage? A thin connection like the pencil charging along the side of the computer perhaps, but I'm even more skeptical of wattage with that approach, and it'd mean yet another special cable.

It's certainly true that Apple has been on a big magnets kick lately. MagSafe for iPhones, Pencil charging on the iPad, the Magic Keyboard mounting, and the Apple Watch charger all come to mind.
New Possibilities for Plasma Theme Creators
> They are intended to provoke you or scare you about something that is mostly out of your sphere of influence.

And yet, every post about H1B visa rule changes will have hundreds of comments bemoaning the selling out of the American IT worker. There will also be much hand-wringing about the on-shoring of foreign jobs and anecdotes about how terrible it is working with Indian consultancy firms.

HN commenters want to vent as much as anyone else. They just do it on political posts that they feel affect them personally, even if it's not something they can change directly.
> Not really comfortable using Unstable/Testing channels which my have newer version.

Debian now has a backports channel with up-to-date kernels, browsers and more, and those packages will install cleanly on a Debian Stable release. You're not supposed to use Testing/Unstable packages, as installing these on Stable will give you a mixed system that's not necessarily expected to work, and might also break unpredictably upon further upgrades.
Considering that it's literally called DNS "Watch". Pass.
Ask HN: Single thread vs. Core count, which is better for home dev setup?
Hey,

I am about to build a new home dev machine, seeing crazy pricing for new generation components everywhere, I am confused if a previous generation higher core count machine would be a better for a dev machine than a newer processor with better single thread performance. Most reviews I see on Youtube discuss gaming performance and not things like having multiple VMs, docker / Kube clusters, IDEs, emulators, open at the same time.

Processors I am considering are -

AMD Ryzen 3900x (12C,24T) 540 USD
AMD Ryzen 5900x (12C,24T) 765 USD (least preferred)
AMD Ryzen 5800x (8C,16T) 560 USD
Intel i7 10850K (10C,20T) 520 USD (not GPU required)

My work primarily involves Java, Android & DevOps running etc. I usually have multiple VMs, docker containers running at the same time for testing on various OS, things like pihole, pfsense etc. I am not from the US, so this is really expensive purchase that I am hoping to use for 5-8 years.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
I'd imagine that Signal's increase in popularity is overwhelmingly due to WhatsApp's recent changes to their privacy policy rather than Parler's shutdown. More of my contacts have joined Signal in the last week than they had in the last year. I'd be surprised if any of them were ex-Parler users.

Parler was pretty much the antithesis of end to end encrypted and secure, and Signal serves a very different purpose to Parler. From what I've seen on Parler, their average user would dismiss Signal as being produced by commies and therefore evil, due to its Open Source license.
Hi all! I’m Will, the founder of More Human Internet, a non-profit organization of digital activists using web technologies to promote civility, transparency, and the greater good.

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