skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s all this hardware for? Storing and serving tiny tweets can’t need this?

Is there something non-obvious in their service that could use a huge fraction of the hardware?
Media transcoding?

If I were them I’d try to get back up as soon as possible with 10% that hardware even if it meant e.g no access outside the US or no media transcoding at all or whatever MVP version they can create.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University In America, university holds no special branding, and American companies aren't great about respecting EU branding law. See California Champagne and Kraft Parmesan cheese. I don't think anyone attending Singularity University thinks it is a real university; their paying audience generally already has a university degree.

Singularity University is basically an overpriced executive MBA program, mostly paid for by non Americans excited to visit Silicon Valley. For people with infinite money looking for a taste of Silicon Valley and wanting to invest in cutting edge stuff here, their actual educational materials are totally acceptable.

I used to work with their current law and blockchain lecturer.
It makes me smile to hear that someone expects to read a perfect document on a perfect product which they understand perfectly; even tho the product is a preview, the document is a draft, and they only read it once.
Good. Let them put their "regime change" money into generally useful infrastructure like Signal instead of propaganda for their favorite rebel group or some other narrow political goal.
I decided to pronounce it "Yelenmen"
By this logic we should applaud developers for making applications that purposefully break compatibility layers line wine or proton because they don't want the application to run on Linux.
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> This change had a significant impact on the module ecosystem, making some popular modules unusable until maintainers adjusted the code to work with isolatedModules.

Does this mean Deno introduced a breaking change in a minor version (1.5.0)?
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This is profound. It's a horrible extension of the participation medals mentality which drags down average performance and effort expended.
I've been reading 'Worlds in Collision' by Immanuel Velikovsky - interesting book if you're drawn to comparative mythology.
What? Whatsapp's client is terrible - it not only requires a phone during signup, it requires an active connection to your phone, so if your battery is every running low - good luck with that. Additionally, it allows just 1 desktop client to be active at a time, which is just a hassle. Finally, in practice the connection to a well-charged phone is still subject to the vagaries of a phone app - it's very common for the desktop client to lose its connection temporarily, and require the user to "nudge" the phone app to wake it up.

Much as electron is ridiculously heavy, I'd pick that every single day over the joke that is the whatsapp web UI. I guess our experiences differ!
Exactly. There's no replacing email with something that's closed membership / invite-only etc. The whole point of e-mail is its your address where someone can initiate a contact, like phone number. You can choose to filter it etc. And you can choose to get attested emails which you can trust more etc. But fundamental nature is it is open for anyone to contact you. If you lose that, and build a custom new protocol, you are just building another closed wall messaging application.
There are plenty of T1 locations where you can colocate or use a companies provided solutions. They take private payments not subject to credit card companies.

Also known as "learn how to build servers".

Private businesses don't have to bake the cake. Equating gay discrimination to online opinions is not genuine. Having regulation does not mean you should regulate everything.

You're conflating private companies with government. Private companies can tell you to pound sand if you say something they don't like, that's their right same as any individual. Government cannot come after you for your speech.

Private entities doing this is very good reason why government does not at all have to be involved nor should be.

People that don't respect this explicit difference are wrong, but that does not mean the private companies actions are wrong either.

Lack of essential utilities prevents people from basic operation in society. No electricity means no water which means no sanitation, which becomes a significant public health problem that harms other people. No propane/electricity means no heat, no cooling, which can lead to you freezing in the north or dying of heat in the south.

You're not going to be severely irrepeirably harmed or have your economic freedoms restricted by not having twitter.

Social media companies are too big. Tax the rich, fund a government created version of twitter.
My pet theory is that this happens because a lot of top web developers don't really know how slow and stuttering their websites are in most machines not like their own (last-year top-of-the-line Mac models connected through perfect Wi-Fi/5G). And then it trickles down to the rest of the industry.
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The Conversation literally has a button you can click to help you copy & paste the article.
And there's attribution at the end of the Singularity Hub repost. There's nothing shady going on here.
> I would say one of the most important things they need to compete with WhatsApp is a better desktop client.

Anecdotally, most people I know didn't even know that WhatsApp Web was a thing until I set it up in their computers.

Maybe most users are fine with just their smartphones, so this makes me wonder if it's really that important to compete.

That said, as a power user I agree with your points.
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I think his point is while Subaru does mean Pleiades in Japanese (actually came from Chinese), it (the name) has nothing to do with "seven sisters".
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Yeah, it's a bit of a trend, there's more than this one song going round on tiktok
> But the author did exactly that, when they considered addition to be constant.

Ok, I agree the article is imprecise. It should say fixed width integer addition instead of simply addition since the latter can either refer to a simple ADD cpu instruction or to the much more complex '+' operator in python.

However, once you agree on this, the concept of step is clear enough: it is an ADD instruction (or LOAD+ADD+STORE if you wish, still constant time for fixed width types). Obviously, it does not mean that every occurrence of '+' in python can be computed in constant time.
It might be dangerous, but it is useful to feel righteously self-justified when about to do something that will lead people to logically deduce that you're an asshole !
Perhaps. And if so, it is charitable to those whose closed-mindedness prevents them learning something from anything and anybody.
There was nothing imperfect in what I read. It was perfectly clear what features this product considers in its scope. I just didn't agree that those feature went well together with the stated goal of replacing current email systems.
I also live in the EU, but the EU did not invented universities, and hence whichever bureaucratic definition it made up, shouldn't be used as a measure for universities outside the EU.
There is no authentication of the John Doe part of

John Doe <not.john.doe@example.com>
> I assume wherever you live, nonprofit jobs won't pay well

This is a common mistake that the US public makes.

Non-profit doesn't mean no money, it's just a tax filing code.

The heads of non-profits can make a killing, and often they start the non-profit themself to make that level of earnings possible.

An example of a well-paid non-profit CEO is Mozilla's, paid $2 million/year, up from $500,000/year around 2000.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/organizations...
I would argue that the early web had similar technical barriers. Not to gatekeep but because it was young.

I also think that setting up Nginx or Apache is only considered easy because we know how to do it.

As far as I know, nobody has written an easy blogging app for Gemini. Ironically, if someone did do this it would likely be web based because of the need for an app like experience which Gemini does not support.
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> what is the actual reason?

The reason is that many developers were already selling native Mac and native iOS versions of their apps, and who opted out of providing their iOS app in the Mac App Store — because they already had a Mac app in the Mac App Store! — and then Apple comes along and without permission undercuts the developer's own product.

Note that Apple allowing this to happen actually violates Apple's developer program agreement with third-party developers. Section 6.3 of the agreement covers iOS and iPadOS apps on Mac, while section 7.6 explicitly says No Other Distribution Authorized Under This Agreement. Apple was in breach of contract!

This is not further lockdown of the Mac, because from the beginning of iPhone in 2007, Macs never even had the ability to run iOS apps. 2007 to late 2020, no iOS apps on Mac, and nobody was crying lockdown about that. Intel Macs still can't do it. Apple wasn't violating your legal rights all those years.

There is a license agreement with the third-party developer, and unless the developer has opted in to providing the app on the Mac App Store, then distribution of the app to a non-licensed device is illegal. You are free to use licensed apps however you like, but only on licensed devices. For example, you can't copy the app you bought to an unlimited number of devices, to your friends devices, etc. It has never been true that you have unlimited use of licensed apps. You can only install a Mac App Store app on up 5 Macs, no more. That's not "OS lockdown".
That seems like a win-win for the Japanese government (and police, secret service) as well.

The rumor was NSA still was going with DEC Alpha fabs long after DECs demise.

My government has to buy American/Chinese stuff AFAIK. Housing ASML doesn't give an equal advantage, right?
We need numbers to calculate the likeliness of such scenario, but you just change the scale of the time from 100000 to let's say 30000 years.
An important point that I didn't see mentioned: Signal implements the "Sealed Sender" feature in order to encrypt metadata (as much as possible).

https://thehackernews.com/2018/10/signal-secure-messaging-me...

That's in my opinion the USP against other (actually or allegedly) E2E platforms like WhatsApp or Telegram.
But there are no incentives for current platforms to do that, not with their actual business model.
I never owned Apple products and never will, but some (most?) consumers don't care about the openness of their system and just want to be in a reliable and cozy ecosystem or walled garden if you will, of well polished products, even if it costs a lot and is mostly used for watching netflix and browsing the web which, I guess, is the majority of Apple's customer base.

For everyone else who wants full control and ownership of their hardware there's always Linux.
Following that logic.

> I want an app to do X but I don't want to learn how

Just hire someone to make it for you
I have been following this movement on YouTube. It looks fascinating.

A lot more interesting to me than the bonsai installation. I have an aesthetic and a practical concern. Practically pines (and many others) naturally have a dormant period over the winter, which is amongst the reasons why bonsai live outside. Some trees die without it. It also looks like a great environment for fungal growth!

Aesthetically this is more like seeing a person on life support than seeing them alive. Like bonsai tree in the matrix.

I guess this is just an art installation though, but I hope they don't kill the tree.
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Agreed. And not only that, in my case at least the Signal desktop app is randomly missing messages (and 100% of the images). I tried reinstalling it multiple times to no avail (Ubuntu).
I'd really love to see more 3rd party alternatives.
Since when is 7 important though? The species didn't have much of a math up until 5000-10000 years ago.
My one experiment in setting up a natural ecosystem in a small aquarium went horribly wrong, with organic sediment floating all around in the tank.

Natural freshwater aquariums that are setup properly look beautiful compared to the majority of aquariums for freshwater that are just gravel, but setup and water changes take much more planning, access to materials, and talent than I found that I have.
Most ISPs are using carrier grade NAT (CGNAT), so most users are sharing IPs with other customers.
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that is obvious. But how does it change big O? (why any manual implementation would have a better big O compared to existing arithmetics implementation in CPython?)
I'd even accept life. I don't necessarily agree, but I can see the argument that someone should have the exclusive right to profit from their work for the rest of their life. Maybe even add a few years as a grace period to give the estate time to adjust business practices in response to a sudden death.

But why we need to add another 70 years is a mystery to me. How does that encourage creativity and innovation?
> Not sure when you had your experience, but they improved on e2ee a lot

As I said last fall, so maybe October 2020.

I got the impression that the big improvement happened early 2020 and maybe the Web client I used first did not support it.

But if they say that the system has been running since 2014 and the improvement that makes it usable came in 2020 I would not yet call it a mature and proven system.

> you should never see "unable to decrypt message" warnings

Warning is an understatement here :) I could not at all decrypt the new messages other people were sending me and I had to communicate with them by an independent channel. One of them was an experienced Matrix evangelist running his own servers and he could not solve the problem and not tell what I might have done wrong.
Comments from the Conversation article also contain a link to download the paper from the author: https://www.dropbox.com/s/np0n4v72bdl37gr/sevensisters.pdf?d...
Really interesting read. I used to work for gov in the UK as a Data Scientist doing similar work to understand impact of policy/production of statistics.

My team was given the freedom to explore and implement improvements as we saw fit which lead to some interesting work.

The disadvantage of it being not for profit is that things could nice at a glacial pace, particularly the acquisition of data.
fascinating - but I can't make out those three stars in a row (the guys sitting in the boat) from the constellation depicted below. Neither for 2020 nor 100'000 BCE. Also not from Stellarium. Weird.
So it's a fork? Is there any need for new terminology?
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This is the greatest reason to switch to Deno. NPM is, in most cases, a dumpster fire. If you need 1000+ dependencies to write a couple lines of code you have failed and I want nothing to do with you, your team, or any of your code.
Even if you're tech savvy. I've been phished. I was only saved by 2 factor and luck.

https://blog.greggman.com/blog/getting-phished/
Interfaces absolutely express a type of polymorphism: any concrete type that satisfies the interface can be used in its place. What makes you think otherwise?

> Essentially, what I am claiming is the Golang is a bad language for metaprogramming

That's definitely true, and an explicit choice. Thank goodness!
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Dangerous pigments is old news to painters, and artists in general. Check out the book Artist Beware (Michael McCann). Pigments I used, and still use when I can get them, are the Cadmiums (red, yellow), flake white (lead oxide) and Naples yellow. All very poisonous.

A great influence on me as an artist, and a good friend, died prematurely almost certainly as a result of his exposure to dangerous materials. In his case, asbestos.
So far very impressed with Deno. Oak is cool too.

No Intl support and no http2 have been a drain this year but those seem to be coming soon as they are on the Q1 2021 roadmap.

The import/module system is great. Can all tooling convening on including extensions in imports (looking at you TypeScript)
twitter and reddit are full of this
For password reset?
This is exactly what I started using in my new open source project (not announced yet) and the experience has been amazing. I was wary about it in the beginning but it quickly became clear that this is the easiest and probably the fastest way to get this job done. The community and tooling has come far ahead.
I tried andOTP again now, and I figured out why it was locking for me.

I usually switch apps by clicking on the icon on the home screen, rather than the task switcher.

When I launch it from the home screen it always re-locks.
I am very sure Pratchett is well known even in Sweden. What are the reviews for Romeo and Juliet? And again - not knowing Pratchett doesn't say that one isn't literate. The statement is "most genuinely literate people will know Pratchett". Stop being so defensive for nothing, nobody is attacking your intellect here...
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Well that is a good idea. But it has a problem: dev and ux capacity. When you try to make 20 different than you split your force into 20 different projects. Apple and Microsoft do not have this problem and will therefore always lead the pack.
Isn't indium used everywhere in solder as a less toxic replacement for lead?
read the whole thing. KYC only dropped for ERC 20 transactions , which uniswap already does and is not the same as a cross-chain transaction. The abiltiy to exchange erc 20 tokens is native to Ethereum.
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Avoiding the obvious argument that theft is a poor choice of word for this case, I'd like to question whether we actually treat intellectual and traditional property as similarly as IP proponents like to claim.

If you sell me an antique chair, I'm free to upcycle it, transform it into something new, and sell it on. I'm free to examine it and build an exact replica. I can give my chair to whomever I want and let any number of strangers sit on it. Such is the nature of property.

If you sell me a song, I must keep it in your proprietary system, leave the DRM intact, and definitely never even think about remixing it and selling my derived works.

IP is not property, it's a distinct beast of its own. It can't be "stolen" in the traditional sense, and it seems it can't really be bought or sold either.
It might have started at $99 but it's much higher now. I think the last time I used it it was $299 but that was at least 2 decades ago. Fortunately it was their bug.
Yes. Please take a look at grpc-gateway. You write your specs as proto files and then get handlers and middlewares to implement the endpoints.
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Thanks for this. I actually considered buying the bfg edition a while back so I could relive a bit of my childhood. Glad I didn't now as they seem to have ruined a lot that was good about Doom 3.

Also, whenever I have done that with games it actually ruins the memory. In my memory N64 games looked lifelike. Doom 3 looked like a Pixar movie. I happened to see Goldeneye running on a CRT TV at some hipster gathering and couldn't believe how bad it looked. I wish I hadn't seen it.
I think it could very much find its place repurposed within a capitalist context to describe the behaviour of big tech companies.
It’s back up for me.
I agree with you but I think Snowden could have gone a different route. Probably to the same effect, with less damage to his own life.

Most things that are classified are in the morale grey area.
The lightbulb moment for me was simply creating these sequences without putting much thought into them beyond that. It may have ended up a little messy but then I found that my creativity in coming up with new ideas lit up. That became super useful even if I were breaking any other "rules."

A lot of people seem to get caught up in LARPing by following strict rules before they see this usefulness and that rational approach holds back the creativity. It's like getting so caught up in the process of how to have sex that you never figure out how to actually enjoy it.

And yes, the card system would require these rules to make it work because otherwise you might not be able to find anything.

Another issue is that people get carried away with some of the better software for using this system and they end up creating their own rigid system. For example, the power in RoamResearch for me is the most basic features it shipped with. But it could also be a sort of "no-code" platform which people use to "no-code" themselves into a corner. I feel like you should have one "database" in Roam which you use only for this purpose and largely without structure. Make a mess and resist temptation to make it super organized. The more you get caught up in structure, the less you're thinking about exploring your ideas.
I'd say that the days of Sherpas being completely invisible have passed. There is now something of a noble savage mystique around them, unhelpful in its own way. You get brownie points for virtue signalling about your gratitude to Sherpas today. They often get to keep gear that their clients no longer need after their trip, for example. Hopefully their status continues to rise.

What is somewhat sadder is the fate of the porters on which almost every expedition and trek, except the purest of pure self-supported alpine expeditions, still relies. These are poor people who are typically from the lowlands, acting as sole breadwinners for their families, doing difficult, dangerous manual labor at high altitude without beneficial genetic adaptations or decent clothing. There are some good small charities trying to improve their conditions, for example https://www.canepal.org.uk/
You might get some bargains on ebay for sure.

But straight up it would make no sense for a non professional workload. You could get a AMD 5500 XT 4GB GDDR6 (WX2100 is 2GB GDDR5) for a similar ball park in price with 5x the bandwidth and a lot more graphical horse power for a gaming workload. And if heat is the concern it would be trivial to underclock and undervolt to get it quite chilly.

You may have some special situation and have got a great deal but for the most part they should be of little interest to standard consumers.
Full disclosure: we're building a protocol for better decentralised markets, which is not susceptible to this kind of exploitation [1].

The thing where the “market” smart contract will just take the money and blindly trade at ever more ridiculous prices (because it’s just two pools of assets and a dumb formula) is crazy. I don’t expect it to last too long in the wild (at least at any scale, obviously some smart contracts that exist now will technically be around forever) or make it into many real world uses of the tech.

Well functioning markets have protection against extreme price moves, including flash crashes, whether caused by flash loans or other algorithms.

It might even turn out that good decentralised markets end up being resistant to atomically chaining trading transactions with other actions generally.

[1] An example of this in action can be seen here: https://twitter.com/RudolphTamlyn/status/1349719025933291520
Do all employees know about honeypots or just a select few?
Does it happen for all types of tasks? Any reason you can think of?