skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was watching a guy on YouTube the other day talking about a computer he was building. He made reference to how he was keeping some component simple (the memory interface, I believe), which would compromise performance, but he wasn't worried about it because the 68000 he was using in it was so fast.

My first thought was "yeah, that makes sense" but my second was "what could it possibly mean when we talk about a 68000 being 'fast' in 2021?!"

It really made me think about how an attribute like "fastness" can get endowed and then still stick 40 years later, almost as though it were describing some spiritual attribute that transcends the fact that a modern $0.25 microcontroller is many times more performant.
what a shitty title...

correction: "PostgreSQL needs to be updated to comply with New macOS Big Sur security API"
Both UNIX and Windows used it for their operating system APIs.

If you wanted to play in those ecosystems, you had to learn C at the beginning. People wanted to play in those ecosystems. :)
This is a really cool software! I had a great time engaging with my friends. Giving myself a funny nickname and avatar always give me a chuckle.
I don't have any evidence to back this up, but in my recollection, that is the case. But it's hard to even compare e-commerce now to back before Amazon, when the web was much more niche and a lot of dark patterns weren't even technically possible yet.

It would be interesting to see where e-commerce would be today if a company as dominant as Amazon never came about. My hypothesis is that people would have more trust in a random shopping site they click on when Googling a product they want to buy, but it's impossible to test that.
Indeed. This and dropping SDcards (so built in flash burn out sooner) contributes to electronic waste just as much as bloated websites and apps.
Google QUIC-ly left privacy behind in its quest for a speedier internet
No, the kafala makes it indentured servitude, as was done in the US hundreds of years ago to pay for the expansive one-way trip.

Migrant workers generally benefitted from it, which is why it never ran short of volunteers.

Slavery does not benefit workers, which is why it requires physical capture and subjugation.
Could you rephrase the fourth paragraph?
GM announcing this means they have secured their battery supply. Likely they feel there's a scramble for supply coming and they didn't want to be left behind. They also must have looked at the future of the technology and like what they see.

To secure supply they would have had to make a major deal with China, where most of the world's lithium gets processed. GM also sells more cars in China than the US (though less revenue). That also likely factored in the decision since China has announced aggressive EV targets. Given GM's integrated global production they would lose advantages of scale by having a split lineup of EVs and ICEs.
If the QA cycle is too long the developer gets out of the zone in that area - two days isn’t bad but some places you won’t get review or reports for weeks after submitting code.
At medium time scales the only important factor is battery cost; year to year product decisions probably don't have much impact on R&D spending there.

Later: I wonder to what extent electric vehicles are already part of the plan to meet the CA deal. I've looked for a minute and not found anything informative.
> There is nothing special about being short more than 100%

The actual value was 113% from S3, but other sources had different values so I rounded down. While there is nothing magic about 113% or 100% or any other number, it is a measure of the difficulty of covering the entirety of the short interest: Higher numbers are more likely to result in a short squeeze, since those covering will likely have a higher bid to attract the attention of longs.
Yeah, that's pretty amazing. Very Wolfenstein-esque. I don't think I could deal with the sound effects for very long, but you can always turn the volume down and put on some music instead to enjoy the 3D graphics.
> everybody can guarantee themselves shelter, food, warmth without any other human involved.

I was also going to mention that this is actively prevented by modern society. In practice, you cannot forge these things by yourself, as you will soon be stopped by private landownership.
Musk + SpaceX = clicks = ad revenue
If you're a tinkerer, I'd seriously recommend using something like ACC (Advanced Charging Controller). It'll automatically cut your charge off at ~80% and slow the charging if it's heating up too much. Should greatly extend the service life of your battery. You can pretty much just install with Magisk and forget it. Perhaps it's too late for your current phone/battery but maybe on the next one.

https://github.com/VR-25/acc

Pair with something like AccuBattery for visibility into battery capacity over time.
Yes, please and thank you (email in profile)! I have fond memories of using my ZX Spectrum 48K. I still have it in working condition, just need to find a PAL to NTSC converter.
I started reading thinking that uniwidth is the new politically-correct term for monospace :)

But, I agree with the author - it's a great concept to be emphasized especially for tabular displays! Does it work for other languages, e.g. Indian languages with complex ligatures? Also, the following is a major pain point in the correct display of Indian languages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_joiner
My OnePlus 3 is still alive and kicking as a perfectly capable testing device.
Fantastic piece of software. Your peer-to-peer features are excellent innovations regarding privacy. The audio-distance feature is also amazing. Key little details are what make a software like this great.
Where does the wealth from such labor go?
Case in point: one of the fonts mentioned, recursive, has been on HN before (with 108 comments), but I only found one comment that explicitly talks about this property, and it doesn't do so by name. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23934409
> If a company start optimizing on diversity metrics instead of on ability, then they’ll be crushed by market forces from companies who optimize on ability.

This is only true if the company has a real product that customers pay for. If the company is based on "growth and engagement" then there is no real product and their survival merely depends on investor goodwill for which PR and virtue-signalling is important (this is the main reason companies boast about D&I so much).
Wasn't there an article here recently about some site that was supposedly telling you how many other people were looking at the same item, and a look a the javascript showed that it was basically a (small) random number generated on page load?
This is a tragedy. Hyperpop is an amazing genre and SOPHIE will be missed. Ever since I heard Hard and Lemonade I knew that there was something special going on.
55mpg steady state for a gas engine must require some pretty ridiculous engineering.

I can see 55mpg in a plug-in hybrid as long as the battery has charge to assist. But by the time you’re getting 55mpg out of a gas engine without any battery assist, I would imagine it’s a pretty utilitarian driving experience.

Certainly an EV driving experience versus a 55mpg ICE is going to be absolutely no comparison.
A few years ago, Oneplus service replaced the battery in my phone for a very low fee. It was done quickly and totally worth it.
What about "whataboutism"? It's not listed. Is me asking that question an example of whataboutism?

Joking aside, whataboutism is a "logical fallacy" that I see commonly invoked here on HN, most often when the topic is political in nature.

It seems like many people want to assert their opponents questions are whataboutism so that they do not have to consider the broader context of the issue, which almost always would invalidate the narrow, one sided, siloed analysis which they are desperately clinging to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Defense
This is the issue for me too. You can’t interact with your regular files via WSL, so you can’t use imagemagick to convert an image on your desktop folder, or subl to open a file in Sublime. You can sometimes find the folder via File Explorer but Windows will corrupt your files if you change them there.

There’s other things that annoy me like typing latency, apt taking forever to run, an awful terminal emulator with basically no customization, copy and paste often just does not work. It’s really so frustrating.
Kids are introduced to media of their generation by their friends. No matter what you do, you can't do that, because you are not their peer.

In order for then to be out of touch from their generation, you would also had to isolate them from peers basically. Other then that, influencing media they use and hobbies they have is just run off mill parenting most parents engage in at least to some extend.
Couldn't you just watermark all photos before showing them to workers? Probably wouldn't stand to sophisticated attacks but would guard against theft from "low-skilled" employees...
Do these people get to stay in and become citizens of the host country after the term of their contract is up? I've never heard of that happening.
Each fossil fuel car taken off the road means less pollution.
The only thing that remains is tires, which shed tons of toxic chemicals on the road on any car.
You should step back and read the chapter of an intro to logic textbook where the topic of validity vs soundness is discussed. It’s easy to use these terms in a way that expresses your intent.

One nice thing about doing so is that an understanding of validity vs soundness, necessity vs sufficiency, and the truth tables themselves is all you need to understand all the formal fallacies.

All you need to understand about the informal fallacies is, if someone appears to need to discuss informal fallacies, what they really need is a hug. Or a kick in the pants.
> For example, using "appeal to authority", it is logically true that just because a group of Fields Medalists think your proof is wrong, does not necessarily mean that your proof is wrong. But in practice, there is a very high chance you are in the wrong.

The proof is wrong not because the status of those Field Medalists but instead because of the content of their argument. That's all that the appeal to authority is saying.

I'd agree that it's a mistake to relate the existence of a logical fallacies to the probability of a statement being correct. Instead, it only gives information about whether the reasoning of the statement is on solid ground.
> Facebook (24%) and Google (32%) compete pretty intensely for mobile ad spend. While we don’t know how much Facebook uses Google ads, that theory isn’t particularly satisfying because they compete so intensely.

And yet...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-faceboo...
The first place Facebook opened an AI research centre was Paris.

They certainly didn't pick it for the food ;)

I think if you look at where the researchers are, Europe does really well. As per usual though, this is poorly commercialised.
FWIW, this is how the market works more or less.

There is a fixed amount that is deposited into a varaiety of accounts, let's say the total is T and individual accounts are T_i.

There are also consistent monthly inflows into a variety of T_i's that are dwarfed by T. These mostly go into scheduled investments (ETFs, etc). Call these TM_i.

The majority of T is invested and not traded. The total amount available for short term trades is T_t which is perhaps (in my estimation) 20% of T. That's still a large amount. Howver, this 20% sets the price. Everything happens at the margins.

Trading is the act of taking from one T_i into another T_i. That's it.

That's the job of clearinghouses. Each broker has to settle up at some point but also has to have collateral deposited in order to make sure that they can settle up. This collateral fluctuates depending on volatility.

The worry was that given the obscene run, brokers would not be able to settle up.

IBKR did the right thing to keep a catastrophic problem from developing.

Of course, shorting 130% of a stocks float is a problem that needs to be resolved as well as this is the root cause. If it were just 20-30% then this would never have happened.

So where was IBKR when people were shorting 130% of stocks?

Your guess is as good as mine but my guess is that _their_ risk management, which is very good, handled this reasonably well in their little bubble and they could have potentially been punished by the actions of other people and decided that this was not a risk they were willing to take.

Tough thing to resolve but by talking about it, I think it can be resolved well.

Root cause: somehow, you can short more than the float.
> the portrayal was indeed offensive

You seem to have missed that part of your own quote. They're not saying the idea was racist, they're saying the implementation was racist. No doubt is was portraying the natives as wild savages which is indeed racist.
I had the same experience but with Firefox on Android
I think a big distinction that retail traders need to come to terms with is that, while yes, technically you can make reasonably good sums of money with various trading strategies of various risk profiles, as one person, so many of them are just not worth the trouble.

If your passion is this sort of thing, by all means, go ahead.

But it's like running a homelab. Yes, you can get pretty decent "savings" (vs running in AWS/DO) but I can guarantee you, you will end up in the basement replugging ethernet cables trying to figure out which one is the bad one while your family and relatives are waiting upstairs, fairly bemused, for you to fix "the internet".

It's possible, but as a person with a life, unless it's your passion, I'd recommend just not. Do the financial equivalent of paying DigitalOcean 5 dollars a month: buy sp500 etfs and sit on them.
The 8-bit vs 10-bit aspect is entirely unrelated to the HDR vs SDR aspect.

10-bit is just added precision in your numbers, and ought to be interpreted as adding more decimal places (makes more sense when you imagine the values going from 0-1 instead of 0-255).

HDR is indicated as a bit somewhere in metadata to tell the downstream components how to interpret the pixel values.

To be extra pedantic, HDR is a bit to indicate how to interpret the brightness (luma) channel. There will be other bits for signaling how to interpret the color channels.

Often these things are all done together, which is generally referred to as HDR10.
What percentage of the migrant labourers are slaves? The article seems to site examples of abuse (no doubt existing and still horrible), but seems to extrapolate them into the norm.

I'm skeptical that it is the majority of cases since migrants send a huge amount of remittances to their home countries and a lot of people depend on this labor. In the article it was mentioned that a builder gets paid $28k per year which is still great for the majority of the world.

This is one article on the dependence of some areas of India to remittances from the Gulf states:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/forex-and-remittanc...
I'm dating one
Isn’t this just a generic rant about so-called SJWs etc. etc.? I can assure you that US universities aren’t defunding or closing their math departments in order to add more humanities courses about hot social issues. You may not like what some professors choose to teach, but a quick glance at the numbers will show you that, if anything, everyone else is being sacrificed on the altar of STEM, not vice versa.

Your second paragraph is about schools, not universities, and I can’t see how it’s at all relevant to this discussion.
> leisure, varsity sports and regular events on the currently hot social justice topics

This seems like a smear of people who care about social justice by implication. Why do you suppose they are not interested in education and research?
This will hit the PC Music scene hard. SOPHIE was one the main artists that helped put PC Music on the map. RIP
Maybe.

But if you always discount such events as coincidences, you risk remaining blind to emerging patterns.
I haven't been in any companies where diversity & inclusion has been a noticeable problem. However I've been at many companies that will try to find problems even where there are none to the point where the whole thing becomes an obvious virtue-signalling exercise rather than addressing any D&I issues.
Just to say, there are two sides to this problem. The UK govt had spent two or three decades before it brought in fees attempting to get universities to reduce costs...this was unsuccessful. The idea was: we can do literally nothing about this problem, so students will pay for it (and btw, the debt is a fairly soft one), and hopefully universities will cut back when students get angry at them...which has basically happened after the wave of Chinese money started running out a few years ago (and has now gone completely). Universities are digging their own graves, and hopefully something better will come out of it.

This issue is, btw, basically identical to the one for council funding. It is a very tricky area with no easy answers but, funnily enough, always ends up with the same solution (council funding in the UK is basically regressive, like university funding because there is literally no way to pressure these institutions to be responsible without user paying).
This article is a review of a six-part series by filmmaker Adam Curtis that will air on BBC starting Feb 11th. Synopsis:

> This new series of films tells the story of how we got to the strange days we are now experiencing. And why both those in power - and we - find it so difficult to move on.

> The films trace different forces across the world that have led to now, not just in the West, but in China and Russia as well. It covers a wide range - including the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, the history of China, opium and opiods, the history of Artificial Intelligence, melancholy over the loss of empire and, love and power. And explores whether modern culture, despite its radicalism, is really just part of the new system of power.

https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2021/cgyoomh
It depends on your interpretation, since there isn't a single actor involved. If you think everyone who buys into it knows what's going on (that it's a pump, and that the last people in are going to be the bagholders), then I'd argue it's not really a scam because there isn't deception going on (IANAL, THIS ISN'T LEGAL ADVICE). On the other hand, the posts I've seen definitely are not mentioning the risk aspect, and are advertising it as a get-rich-quick scheme. In that sense it's a scam.
in fact, a few yers ago already.
I've had really good results with SMA Sunny Island.

It acts as "the grid". It's connected to batteries, and gives you a 230/120V network. Then, you had a normal solar inverter. It'll recharge the batteries when the inverter gives power, and power your equipment when it does not.

Big plus is that if someday the grid arrives at your home, you can simply take it away and you won't have to touch your solar panels.
People I know do not deal with this type of stuff. Maybe it is AI progress, maybe it is handled somewhere else.

But for $35k/year you would find here many people with great english and university education. And life skills to handle this, for example former police officer.
He touched on JSON parsers in a previous post about fast_double_parser: "People who write fast parsers tend to roll their own number parsers (e.g., RapidJSON, sajson), and so we did. However, we sacrifice some standard compliance." (The "we" in this context refers to simdjson.)

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/03/10/fast-float-parsing-in-prac...

He followed up in a comment: "RapidJSON has at least two fast-parsing mode. The fast mode, which I think is what you refer to, is indeed quite fast, but it can be off by one ULP, so it is not standard compliant."

The Github README for this new project says, "The fast_float library provides a performance similar to that of the fast_double_parser library."

https://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float

However, the benchmarks show a significant improvement relative to those in the fast_double_parser README:

https://github.com/lemire/fast_double_parser

I tried to run the benchmarks, but my CMake is apparently too old, and Homebrew barfed all over the living room rug when I tried to update it.
It’s pretty bad when an obvious comment like this is downvoting on HN. It’s a fact, it’s basic economics but also just how the world works.

If you want mods to earn more create a social network and pay them more.
What are you on about? adding a word in front another word doses not mean you can just reduce it back donw to the original word. These are not fractions.

The word synthetic has a defined meaning: made by a chemical synthesis; especially to imitate a natural product.
I think the current mindset of american universities is commodification of the concept of higher education.
Teaching, scholastic tradition and enlightment values are sidelined by values like customer satisfaction, marketing, and money making optimization.
It totally depends on how do you write your search query:

If you write "teen movie about vampires" or something equally vague, Google is king.

If you write a direct quote or the exact error message, without typos, DDG gives better results. I can also put sentences in quotes to force an exact match. DDG is just an older school search engine, so old school tricks work better.
The Reddit GME short squeeze game plan (143 days old)
Yep, this is my point, not that it's necessarily WSB's fault that a bunch of regular people are jumping on a bandwagon and going to get screwed, just that it is happening and is bad. I think it is more the fault of mainstream news editors and Elon Musk than of WSB regulars.
What is your policy surrounding your push notifications for your apps in the stores, when those notifications are originating from end servers on which people are saying things that you don't like?
Black Lives Matter Movement Nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
A thought experiment that has a surprising amount of predictive power is to view the universities as a system of single-party rule on the scale of the CCP, where they vie for power internally among themselves, and use the real economy to fund their effective system of sinecures.

Viewed this way, it is purging principled and quantitative thinkers because they can't keep them on as a risk for where the party is going. Straight out of sci-fi, but sometimes experiments can be illuminating.
>If this is actually what is happening, the only solution as far as I see it, is to extend the First Amendment to social media.

The first amendment works now by having clear boundaries between private and public spaces. Public spaces have clear first amendment protections. I can hold a sign on a publicly owned sidewalk (well, public right of way) begging for money or praising 'bong hits for Jesus'. But private spaces do not. I can't do the same thing on your living room. This allows folks to exercise their freedom of association, which is a pretty big part of the first amendment.

Where and how do you draw the line between public and private spaces then in an online context? Should the government be required to host unmoderated and uncensored discussion boards? And how do you keep the unregulated public spaces useful when such spaces are easily overrun by trolls and spammers?
I choose to follow Dr. King's plan, because I believe he was the greatest sociopolitical and moral leader America has ever seen, and had far more wisdom and experience than me.

You have no standing to deny me that.

Especially since you have pledged your allegiance to the plans of Big Tech overlords like Mark Zuckerberg who profit greatly from the engagement metrics of hate.
In this case, just let me purchase the fucking credentials without having to follow curriculum at their speed or pay for any of the things that won't benefit me anymore