skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown

And things seem hard or tough

And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft

And you feel that you've had quite enough

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving

And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour

That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned

A sun that is the source of all our power

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see

Are moving at a million miles a day

In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour

Of the galaxy we call the 'milky way'

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars

It's a hundred thousand light years side to side

It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick

But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide

We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point

We go 'round every two hundred million years

And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions

In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding

In all of the directions it can whizz

As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know

Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure

How amazingly unlikely is your birth

And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space

'Cause it's bugger all down here on Earth

-Eric Idle
to catch the ones that were invariably missed due to optical illusions etc.
Incorrect.

All that's required for a trait to persist is that it benefits the pool.

If the pool benefits from have 1% of members being blind, then so they shall be.

We don't have to understand the benefit for it to exist either.
Looks like they worked with 1-1.5 mm balsa. sheets. You could make this into plywood. Would be interesting to test this with denser timber.
Not only is it possible, it might eventually be likely. The supply schedule assumes that transaction fees will be sufficient for security, but researchers have cast doubt on that assumption:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2016/10/21/bitcoin-is-unstable...

If some future generation of bitcoiners is faced with either increasing the reward or putting up with frequent large rollbacks, we can't really predict which they'll choose.
Hacker Changed Chemical Levels at Oldsmar Water Treatment Plant
When I use my rowing machine I do put something up on the TV which makes it more tolerable. But I'd honestly rather go outside for a walk if the weather is at all decent.
Yes; decentralization
I would say that the issue isn't really mixing CET-aware and non-CET-aware code. The issue is using non-CET-aware code with CET enabled. If you have code that plays games with mismatched CALL and RET or with rewriting the stack (which includes retpolines and possibly 32-bit PIC code), then SHSTK will make it crash. And if you have code that takes pointers to non-IBT functions, then you will crash unless you set up the legacy bitmap. But all of this is moot unless something turns CET on.

The actual semantics of when the combination of gcc, ld, and glibc will try to turn CET on are not documented, as far as I can tell.

And, to be fair, as my bug report shows, there can also be issues if something has a different ABI when compiled with and without CET enabled. This shouldn't happen, but apparently it did.
Terraria developer locked out of Google account, removes Terraria from Stadia
I wonder if it's the lack of a single founder?

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk - founders at the top who owned it.

More directly, Gabe Newell and Valve.

It might be that google started with Page/Brin and co-ownership might have weakened that a bit, and now they are not to be found.

Not that a single founder is a surefire recipe.
Some of the flak this guy is getting in his comments is pretty ridiculous.

He's the one getting stiffed by Google, but "gamers" always love playing the victim, especially when a game developer draws a line of any kind.
> This result makes it very clear that without regularity imposed by the ground truth mechanism which generates the actual data (e.g., some natural process), a neural net is unlikely to perform well on an example which deviates strongly (as defined by the kernel) from all training examples.

Is this another way of saying that neural networks are just another statistical estimation method and not a path to general artificial intelligence? Or is it saying that problems like self-driving cars are not suitable to the current state of the art for AI since we have to ensure that reality doesn't deviate from training examples? Or both?

I'd love to understand the "real life" implications of this finding better.
Over the years, I've built up a list of a dozen factories in China. My process is much slower than what you are describing, as I still need to email designs and go back and forth for clarification. I have found the price and lead time through my list to be very good, even when compared to one-man CNC shops in the US. Am I likely not a target customer for Jiga?
We've banned this account for egregiously breaking the site guidelines. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26069552 and stop creating accounts to do hellish things on HN.

Haranguing other users who show up here to discuss their work is one of the worst things anyone can possibly do here—and yes, that's what you've did: "If that's the case present your data!" — that you were not hired because of your sex and your looks? What the fuck.

We want authors show up on HN to discuss their writings. The choice between having that vs. having trolls who personally attack them is not a difficult one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Civil-Liberties Groups Ask Justice Dept. To Drop Julian Assange Case
i call it "previous" because windows and mac both have actual app stores now, even if many developers shun the app stores and still encourage people to find their software by searching for it on google.
I'm currently designing an ergonomic keyboard with capacitive switches. I was considering to manufacture the prototype myself, but this looks like an exciting alternative. Curious to see how affordable the prices are even for low units.
"It doesn't automatically increase the more people are using Bitcoin. It's entirely set by the open market of what people want to buy/sell Bitcoin for, nothing else."

And you're going to be able to argue that it's not being manipulated by people who already own Bitcoin, who want to make it seem like there's an upward trend, which of course enriches weighted towards the earliest adopters? In fact there's multiple occurrences of evidence by researchers seeing this kind of manipulative behaviour done by just a few actors.

"For it to be a MLM, current holders of Bitcoin would have to receive Bitcoin for each new person who gets/uses Bitcoin, which is clearly not the case."

What? No, the Bitcoin they already own increases in value - that's quite the gymnastics in your logic, there's no need for an increase in actual ownership unit wise.

"Most if not all of the early holders/investors/users of Bitcoin did so because it was fun."

Hilarious, fun as in gambling fun perhaps - otherwise there's countless people talking about how much money you can make by buying into Bitcoin, along with people talking about how they're doing it for profit - and don't care if it's an MLM or gambling. You've really convinced yourself of these narratives though?

Please don't misappropriate/equate actual stocks of companies to being equivalent to crypto-assets/crypto-"currencies."

It's simply disingenuous to claim it doesn't overlay perfectly with MLM schemes. You've not proven anything. We could actually create charts to overlay the benefit/behaviours of MLM schemes with Bitcoin and it would match perfectly.

There's another way to create consensus among society, and it doesn't require tapping into greed to align the greedy or gullible - and the VC-finance industrial complex - into alignment. It's through democratically elected governments created blockchain databases so governments are forced to be transparent, among the other benefits, and then mandating through law that they are used - with proper safety measures to counter potential pitfalls - and without redistributing wealth from the latest adopters to the earliest adopters. It will be a challenge to counter the "army of HODLers" and attempt at regulatory capture that will continue to reach as far into society as it can.

I'm far from alone in this understanding I have, and I'm not financially incentivized to write all of this out either; most people who see the same as me simply aren't spending the effort to counter the "army of HODLers" who inevitably use similar gymnastics or simply the lazy downvote mechanism to suppress counter-narratives.
I always have headphones of some kind when I walk. The bone conduction ones are nice if you want to be able to hear your surroundings. I'm full weeks worth of listen time behind on my podcast collection so I love every time I get to go on a walk and catch up a bit.

Back in college we had a decent sized arboretum next to campus that I never got bored of walking through, and nearby inter urban trails as well. I was never a hiker but some of my friends were and there were lots of places to go hiking within a short drive away. Maybe the proximity to nature influences how enjoyable it is?
I'm glad NZ chose to develop the app the right way, but I certainly wouldn't expect any American government to do that.
The parent mentions systemd-resolved and you mention systemd-homed. Most distros that use systemd don't use either by default.

IIRC the required parts of systemd are pretty much init-related, service-related (as in starting/stopping services based on certain conditions), udev and journald (which can and is often defaulted to forward to syslog).

Comments like yours make it seem like resolved, homed, nspawn, machinectl, networkd, cgtop, and all of the other utilites and optional daemons are required. They seem more like konquerour in your KDE analogy as in that they are nice if you want to buy into the whole ecosystem but by no means required to use the core program (and many seem to use alternatives instead).

I'm by no means an expert on this, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
In what way would having all your transactions publicly accessible to everyone on the planet be the best way to run an illegal business?
Yes, if you constantly update your installation, which is the exact opposite of what this blog post is about. Otherwise you run a pretty good risk of your installation being hijacked, overtaken by spam bots or similar after a few years.
Setting aside how weary I am of "M$" (it's just about tied with using "sheep" to describe Apple users), what on God's green earth does Microsoft have to do with the OP's point? GitHub itself is not and was never open source. It's not like Microsoft bought it and closed off the source. Do you think using Microsoft tools demonically injects anti-FSF sentiment into your work? ("I started using VS Code, and now whenever I try to work on GPL 3 software, my keyboard becomes too hot to touch until I close the window!")

Personally, I have a different take than the OP, although I'm not sure this is really a disagreement. I would argue open data formats are more important in this context. If I write text in Markdown, it doesn't matter whether I'm using Emacs or a closed-source, proprietary commercial editor; the text isn't tied in any meaningful way to the editor. Likewise, a Git repository hosted on GitHub isn't tied in any meaningful way to GitHub. It's... a git repo.

As long as GitHub isn't doing anything that I particularly object to -- and "oh woe, it is owned by Microsoft" is not an objection I share -- there's a pretty good case for continuing to use it. I'm taking a calculated risk that it's both unlikely to go away anytime soon and to markedly change business direction in an unfriendly way, but if it does? As long as my local copy is up to date, I can re-publish it anywhere and just, well, stop using GitHub.
The default Google experience is top notch. When it works, it works fantastically. But when you fall off that golden path for any reason, you have some of the worst experiences imaginable. I have moved everything I can off of Google except for my company's email service, and that is coming soon. You cannot trust them to provide even the smallest customer service for people who are paying hundreds of dollars per month or more. You are more likely to get better customer service from cable companies, an industry with customer service so universally reviled that South Park has an episode on it.
Maybe a naive question... But wouldn't it be great for Github to have a blog-specific type of repo? With functions similar to substack and medium.
The tone of this article is atrocious, if Glenn had a point it was completely lost when he peppered this article with snark and derision.

He clearly holds disgust for his subject, which ruins his ability to speak impartially about this topic. This is an attempted hit piece and he's not subtle about it, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised, he's never been very adept at objectivity or impartiality.

I'm honestly surprised more folks haven't seen through his shtick yet, as they saw through Taibbi's.
> Some framework is using extreme optimization tricks, so be careful

That accurately represents how I've been forced to run applications in production too, when under huge stress and we're trying to squeeze everything out of the existing hardware.

Welcome to _Hacker_ News ;)

Edit: And absolutely yes, check out the code behind it. Every benchmark has their flaws and biases so it's important to verify before making conclusions.
Is Capitalism Saving Us?
That is a very bad pitch. I'm doing computer vision all day long but I still don't know what service you offer and/or if it might help me.
Maybe I’m being idealistic, but wouldn’t a company with such a huge surface area of customers be wary of doing something like that intentionally? I couldn’t find any information about it in their Privacy Policy, besides a mention that they log basic metadata of files shared on the app.
I wonder what Telegram and Signal are hosting on? Is it one of the big cloud providers? Could they be deplatformed for harboring "terrorists" on their platforms?
So, again, I don't think I know for certain why I'd want to do this, but here's an example of different behavior with the two:

(defmacro my-not (x) `(not ,x))
(flet ((not (x) x))
(my-not 't))

In a hygienic macro system, that local definition of not will have zero impact on the execution. In an unhygienic macro system, that local definition is used instead of what the macro writer probably intended. That's a stupid, trivial example that would hopefully never be written. My best guess for wanting something like this, per my previous comment, would be a system like SCREAMER or SERIES which could make use of this local redefinition to produce a different-than-standard behavior.

How would you write a hygienic macro which would make use of the local redefinition of not without also having to pass the redefinition to the macro?
Is Substack a good option for the amateur writer trying to make a email list for free while creating valuable content ; or is it better suited for someone with a large fan following like Greenwald?
Dutch airline KLM says operated first flight with synthetic kerosene
> Smart tech companies have two paths, the management and the engineer path.

In my 25 working years, I've learned this is mostly lip service. Yes, there are ICs who make as much as a VP. But look at Amazon. There are maybe ten people in that company that are IC level making what VPs make. And thousands of VPs.

To be a VP, you have to be a really great manager. To get VP pay as an IC (ie. Distinguished Engineer), you have to be the best in the world in your field.

So yeah, it's possible to have equivalent tracks, but the reality is that you will never make as much as an IC than if you switch to the management track.
I still believe Hanlons razor applies. I've seen products that have serious performance affecting bugs caused by similar mistakes.
The vastness of the cosmos we are living in, is simply unfathomable. I'm not even sure we have the ability to really appreciate the scale here. After a certain point it becomes just numbers.
Awesome advice, sorry for your losses, thank you very much.
We've banned the account. Obviously that was egregious vandalism, if not arson.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26069552

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26069593

You have to judge this sort of thing by the entire community response cycle, though. Indignation, provocation, trolling often gets heavily upvoted—but then the rest of the community reacts appropriately and flags it. Usually that will bring it to our attention, too, in which case we can take further moderation action.
Show HN: Clerk – all of user management as-a-service, not just authentication
You also can't use it for anything you have a "pecuniary interest" in. Most agree that means any commercial transactions are not allowed (with the exception of selling radio equipment to other ham radio licensees).
I'm 99% sure there will be some human input on the final selection. Probably will be biased towards an account that's active and a little popular.
If you don't own the manufacturing then I think you are going to have a hard time. I have been very happy with an online 3D printing service in Europe, great software, fast service, and high quality prints. They do everything in house, and 3D printing plastic is the low end of their services.
Hi HN - We couldn't be more excited to launch Clerk and help developers solve all of user management.

It's been quite a journey to reach this point, with over a year of iteration on the developer experience before we found something developers love. Using Clerk will enable you to spend more time on your application, and less time worrying about the ever-growing list of user management concerns.

Our team is listening in this thread and we're happy to answer any questions.
That's like saying a restaurant can't choose not to serve a billion people even though it only has enough capacity to seat and make food for 20: if you can't provide legitimate service for everyone, you need to not allow more people. The core problem here is that users keep signing up for Google services without being informed correctly ahead of time why that's idiotic, and the only fix for this is going to be regulatory: either Google needs to change how they handle banning people (there should be some law that if they accepted responsibility to store someone else's data that they have some minimum retention time for it letting you access it or something), come up with a working appeals process (and ensure that they have enough employees to handle the expected appeal load before either signing up new accounts or banning old ones), or they need to be forced to have a giant sticker on the box with a skull and crossbones on it which says that the moral equivalent of the surgeon general needs you to be informed of the serious risks that are associated with using this ridiculous service offering.
From the outside, if a society fires their best reporters because they use a "forbidden word" it is already over the edge. Everything else that will probably follow (reeducation camps, etc.) is barely driven by momentum. In the end, there will be a revolution. Given the fervor of the zealots, it will probably be a violent one.
Perhaps this would work better as a wiki/crowdsourced data site - I'd love to be able to help correct the errors I find
The "moat" is public adoption, because public adoption is going to be the strongest driver of eventual price stability. No other cryptocurrency has as much public media momentum and institutional buy-in.

Momentum being, Square and Paypal bought into Bitcoin, so other institutions bought into Bitcoin, and so Tesla is going to buy Bitcoin, and because Tesla bought Bitcoin, others are going to buy bitcoin. Why? Because each successive buy-in indicates more trust in the cryptocurrency, backed by the financial inertia of large companies.

Of course, down the line, if all cryptocurrencies become more stable, then there could be changes to other currencies with more attractive features. But by that point, it would have gained so much inertia and momentum that it will likely continue being the de-facto cryptocurrency, with other cryptocurrencies having their value underpinned to BTC similar to the way we currently value BTC in terms of USD.
What are biomarkers and why I keep tracking them
If you read the source code, it’s fair to say that while you can use the frameworks and implementations at the top to build your own systems, they would likely perform slower than these benchmarks as you add more features to them. Now, you might not need to add features, and that’s fair, but then you should compare implementations equally and that’s impossible when not every benchmark is written with identical algorithms and implementation code, for, well, obvious reasons.

It’s worth looking at low level HTTP, socket and concurrency management if you want faster performance, but that’s not really a language-exclusive feature at that point. And the more realistic you make the benchmark — the more communication between microservices, for example - the more your application architecture, deployment hardware, kernel and network tuning, and so on can play a role.

I am reminded of http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/10/14/lag/ for example, as something really low level you probably don’t need to worry about… until you do. http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/05/07/serv/ also. The same is true of most of the performance optimization at the top. Really fast? Yes. Useful? Depends on the rest of your code. Are you writing haproxy? How much does your app really need to do? Read the benchmark source code and get inspired, maybe.

My conclusions for the moment: Switch to Go if low memory usage and high performance is as critical to you as post-1.0 stability. Go is generally stable these days ;-) Otherwise if instability can be tolerated but you want high performance, use one of these newer web server techniques and write a web server in unmanaged C++ that has very minimal functionality with language bindings. Just-js can serve as an example. Heck, the PHP benchmarks show that if you use PHP to write your own HTTP server you can still achieve high performance. That tells me the advantage here goes to web servers that literally “do less” rather than picking a language as faster over another language… especially when most (all?) languages can interface with C or C++ to do the HTTP layer at high performance while writing your code in whatever language you choose…
So when you post the Times, you are posting the bien pensant view. Literally, unequivocally, and for all time, you are posting the NPC instruction manual for right think on any particular issue.
I've evaluated Netlify for my blog at https://jdsalaro.com and I'd advise against that unless you're missing a CMS on your static site generator. Other than that I personally felt it didn't bring much to the table. I do admit that their CMS is slick, but it wasn't really a feature I needed.

Of course I'm not sure what other people are using them for, but in my case GitLab/GitHub covered all my bases pretty well since I wasn't looking for a pelican/hugo CMS and you still host somewhere else (not Netlify).
I think people have more of an issue with the rampant criminal financial sector than with banking itself. The problem is that banking has intermingled more and more in the last 30-40 years with finance, not sure if it's been overall positive for people's wellbeing.