skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lucid looking to go public through SPAC in $15B deal
Well, the push back was a huge part of the skepticism. It just wasn’t plausible that tech companies would lie so strongly and in such detail to protect a government investigation, especially not Apple after their famous controversies with the FBI. The follow up doesn’t claim to confirm that part of the original, and they did find tech industry people willing to go on the record about this.

Speaking for myself, I’m still not gonna just take three letter agencies at their word, but the source article shifted me from “probably false” to “probably true”.
> But even if they have it tomorrow, that's...what? Another four months for studies, one month before the FDA is able to meet to discuss an approval (you can't rush meetings!), two months to ramp up production, and five months of Distribution Hell while we argue about who should be first in line and prosecute people for distributing vaccines too quickly. So maybe by this time next year you get a vaccine against the South African strain. And by that point the virus will have just changed its password again and we'll be right back where we started.

It's highly doubtful that a full round of studies will be required to approve a new form of the COVID vaccine. We don't need that for each year's Flu vaccine, neither will we need it for each year's COVID vaccine if that proves to be necessary. Production is vastly more efficient than in past months and getting better all the time, and because vaccines can be made multivalent i.e. protecting against multiple strains and changed very quickly production should not be a significant problem in the future. Distribution is already enormously more smooth than it was a month ago and with new strains there's no reason to ramp all of that down. This article appears to be ridiculously pessimistic about future vaccine logistics.
I used to do a couple of xBase apps during 1991 - 1994.
Are you sure? 130k is fresh out of grad money in SF/Seattle (not sure about on the east coast, but presumably is similar). For reference senior is ~300-350k (this is for big tech companies)
Just imagine it's on Mars, instead.

If it seems entirely more plausible there, what does that mean?
I tried to return a MS development kit in about 2000, took it back to the vendor and said I never accepted the license and wanted a full refund.
They laughed at me.
This sure does get posted here a lot...
Could you build this on top of Agora ?
That would make it much nicer from an open-source perspective. It's one of the only services that can carry the backend audio scalably.

The product side is far more interesting...than the carrier api. Not worth spending time over that.

Other alternatives are Twilio, Daily.co, etc
SpaceX booster lost
1 Drone for navigation/eyes?

2 is 1, and 1 is none
No proof anywhere! None! Until Bloomberg has actual details, and not bland quotes as proof, I actually believe China:

"The chip was blended into the trace on a multilayered board"

“What I was told was there was an additional little component on the Supermicro motherboards that was not supposed to be there,”
Sendsquare Cooperates with Medical 4th Chain to Develop DApp
There is room for more objective criticism within a given style of pizza (or any dish really) but there’s nothing doing trying to rank the styles themselves.
Be something they don't want to die
What a person without diabetes learned from 28 days with a glucose monitor
Reentry burn goes awry at about T+6:50.
throw in file.pizza!
Surprised these kind of partnerships weren't being made a year ago around the outbreak of covid. Good move regardless
Comparing it to baby parts... when he knows that is a non-argument that holds no water.

Uncle Charlie fans need to realize that being worth 10 figures doesn't make anyone into less of a con man.
The problem with an "AI mindset" is that it tends to focus on the "magical algorithm" parts. A "Cybernetics mindset", by contrast, looks at the broader system of feedback loops. For instance, an AI mindset will look at the ethics of the Youtube recommendation algorithm for optimizing user engagement. A cybernetics mindset will additionally look at the ethics of autoplay.
Zuckerberg responds to Apple’s privacy policies: “We need to inflict pain”
Many small queries are efficient in SQLite
You know how the state department 'thinks' its diplomats are being zapped by magic sonic laser weapons in Cuba and China.

Same thing.

There's enough useful idiots within the agencies to keep this going with zero evidence.

And since no-one will get a promotion dispelling these rumours, since it'd be like supporting China/Russia, here we are.

A good run down on the 'evidence' and hows it's created here - https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/13602327536236298...
It would be better to run this backwards, and then forwards to get better perspective.

Is there any way of putting a "fog of war" in the areas we have no idea about because they were subducted out of existence?
Your reservation rate goes to 200% though (a full hot standby) instead of, say, 120% to accommodate for some nodes becoming unavailable.

If your hot standby is a$100/mo VM, it's not noticeable. If it's $5000/mo, less so.

To say nothing of scaling up and down with the load — which, of course, you only need if you are a pretty large operation.
Hate Factory: Inside Kapil Mishra’s ‘Hindu Ecosystem’
Can I invest??
The next Apple Watch is rumored to have non-invasive glucose monitoring. Expect many without diabetes to get a reality check.
How about a front page article on HN about how great cryptocurrency is? Would be a nice change of pace from the normal opinion here.
What if you write them like this?

int x = (cond)
? 5
: 1;
Ahh didn’t know that was a thing. Thanks for setting me straight.
Mumble would be a good choice to keep it entirely open source.
I haven't seen evidence of this. There are a few worrying signs that AI is becoming too politicized, but no one is campaigning to ban X researcher for their work. (Yet.)

The most contentious aspect of AI seems to be whether you're trying to generate porn with it, somewhat amusingly. Almost 100% of people who are, are terrified of being found.
The question is framed something like this:

Dwight, as a reviewer of X, can you help this customer? Rene asked <the question>

So it's like it's been directed at you. So people will answer with "don't know" or "I didn't buy this" or whatever.
Posting this because as an engineer who's worked for social media companies, I have no clue how this can be possibly counteracted. Hoping for a fruitful discussion on how technology can help against the spread of misinformation.
The "diodes in parallel" thing sounds like cargo-culting and lack of knowledge beyond the basic stuff.

I wouldn't be surprised if reference circuits would have the double diode. Sad, but not surprised.
Please short $SMCI, thanks!
I used to make fun of this until I actually used one. The charging takes about an hour or two, and then the battery lasts for months. So this is not an actual issue.

The real issue is the horrible sensor and tracking. It is absolutely unusable as a mouse.
The Console and Layout api looks really simple for creating dashboards.

Another option for full-screen apps is Python Prompt Toolkit[1], which also handles keyboard and mouse input and can be used to implement editors[2].

[1] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit

[2] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/pyvim
> As military experts investigated the Pentagon breach, they determined that the malicious instructions guiding the Pentagon’s servers were hidden in the machines’ basic input-output system, or BIOS, part of any computer that tells it what to do at startup.

If concerned about this, get a computer that can run the free-opensource Libreboot firmware: https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/
Undici – an HTTP/1.1 client, written from scratch for Node.js
I feel like the quality hasnt decreased, but the amount of UI bugs I get on Microsoft's own Surface Pro is infuriating and makes me miss the days of having an always great experience with my mid 2012 MacBook Pro. Im definitely thinking about going back to a MBP next year
These were obviously impressionistic "paintings" even if they were derived from real photos. Haven't you ever been on DeviantArt or whatever? They're still pretty even if they're the artist's imagining of a landscape rather than a photographic reality.
Please consider that there is a world outside of the US. This dismissive attitude towards the rest of the world is what makes the way of living of a lot (actual billions) of people get excluded when US companies create things.
https://archive.is/KqaoI
It's not. There's all kinds of variety in the connector layouts and signalling. What's shared may be a general principle of driving these displays, but beware that to get the best results, you'll have to have a undocumneted format waveform file that differs per batch of the displays, you'll have to have a VCOM voltage that differs per panel and may or may not be written on the cable, and many other things.

I had a lot of fun when after clearing the display and writing new image to it, the old image also faded in again into existence, which is apparently something that may happen if not everything is aligned correctly. There's a lot of hidden proprietary woodoo that you'll have to uncover to drive these displays correctly. There are some displays that hide this inside some controller and give you a nice SPI interface, but for maaany displays you'll just get a raw interface to the gate/source drivers + access to 5-6 different "high" voltage sinks and similar number of clocking/control signals that you have to drive precisely too (voltage/timing-wise at low 100's of ns level of precision), and the rest is up to you.

Source: (doing a lot of reverse engineering to put mainline Linux and write a driver for some broken display PocketBooks I bought from auction site and repaired with replacement displays from China) https://linux-sunxi.org/PocketBook_Touch_Lux_3

Fun fact: vast majority of PocketBooks out there drive eInk displays by DMA driven bitbanging from a generic LCD controller, without any specialized eInk controller.
To be fair, I wasn't constraining myself to "affordable" FPGA boards. An expensive FPGA board is a one-time expense, but the license for a proprietary HDMI IP core and HDMI membership is at last an order of magnitude larger, and a recurring expense. You can get some fairly high-end FPGAs before needing the paid tier of the Xilinx tools.

As far as memory bandwidth goes for 4K, HDR10 content is about 2 GB/s, regular SDR content is 1.5 GB/s for normal 24 bit color, and if you're running SDR content with chroma subsampling (4:2:0), you're at 750 MB/s.

If we're considering the "affordable" tier of FPGA boards:

An Artix 7 can be found on boards <= $200, and the GTP channels are capable of HDMI 2.0 speeds (6 Gb/s per lane). HDMI uses an 8/10b encoding, so the gearbox setup would be 600 MHz, which is doable on the -3 and -2/-2L speed tiers. You can also use 64 bit DDR3 @ 1066 MT/s (8.5 GB/s) on -3 speed grades and 64 bit DDR3 @ 800 MT/s on -2/-2L speed grades (6.4 GB/s).

You don't necessarily have to be rendering a 4K stream from RAM to want a 4K output. You could be generating the higher resolution content on demand and not be putting that much pressure on the memory. Think tiled graphics, or native resolution overlays over an upscaled input stream.
That's what I thought as well.
Possibly also correlated with the time of day.
Temperature and other possible factors vary over the course of the day and cats tend to be active at certain hours of the day.
As a stupid example: some update service is set to check for updates between 5pm and 6pm. A bug in the update check causes crashes. The cat expects dinner at 5pm.
How does autoplay work without AI?
I searched for more on this and found a great article with photos: https://cornerofthecabinet.com/2015/10/05/what-are-the-true-...
It just means it is barely usable, it is not "fake". It DOES NOT say it has "imploded" or "vaporized".
the question really is whether buying brand name goods vs consumables is a bigger market.

amazon might be OK with people going to a different place for brand name goods but continue to buy low cost, no-brand goods from amazon if that market is much larger.
Join the discord and hit them with some questions. I'm sure they'll be happy to answer you.
COVID lockdown has been a major boon to doom & gloom media, whether on social media or from major news outlets. This coincided with the terrible Trump attempt to undermine the election, which culminated with rioters sacking the US Capitol building. Add the usual winter doldrums and you have a recipe for social media addicts feeling convinced that the world is ending.

I've watched several friends descend into serious mental health crises because they replaced their pre-COVID activities with endless doomscrolling.
That's because no one uses the nuc in your basement.
I can't figure out how latency matters when you're listening to prerecorded music. You hear the whole song from start to finish without interruption, yes? Why does it matter if that whole uninterrupted song is heard 2 seconds later than when it was sent from the streaming device? Oh... you're watching the music video at the same time?
Many of us consider it better, though, and don’t need to deal with other OS’s. Hence why the keys are that way.

Why should macOS curtail to what the rest do?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/show
"A lot" of the data wasn't sourced from Open Elections. Derek's claim is not true. As far as I know one user used Open Elections data for a portion of their total contributions (and attributed it in their PR).

"Many" of the contributors (myself included) used primary sources for their data.

The one contributor that used OE data cited it and it was a small portion of their overall contributions.
I have caused two different computers to reboot on two different occasions due to touching the chassis and causing a (somewhat painful) static discharge. There were no other issues with the computers before or after. It's not surprising that they don't like momentary voltage surges going through their ground.
We have been in a global pandemic for one year now. Meanwhile, nothing has really shifted in terms of market value of world-class engineers. If a pandemic isn't enough to cause the "bubble" to burst, any reasonable person would struggle to say that doom and gloom is impending. Software is still eating the world (arguably even moreso as of late).

If companies are fighting for remote talent by showering them with the same kind of compensation packages as they would have gotten in San Francisco and New York, how is that the logical conclusion that can be drawn? Almost all of the remote engineers I know have successfully negotiated keeping their same salary (despite all of this hubbub about lower salaries elsewhere). Where is all of this hidden world-class engineering talent? I'm from the Midwest and could count on fingers how many people from my hometown even knew what C++ was. Out of all of those fortunate people, only one of them still lives there.

Can you imagine any American company contending with the Chinese government for hiring remote workers (let alone risking infosec -- the other top article on HN today is about a Chinese company breeching a US competitor)?

Can you imagine any IIT-caliber engineer wanting to work remote instead of move to the US? My Indian-American colleagues have described the abject starvation and poverty at home to me. I've also seen it myself first hand while traveling.

South Korean engineers have close-knit online communities for moving to the US for work in Silicon Valley (there's even a Korean government agency to facilitate this).

Pockets of talented engineers have also existed in Poland, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine as well (look at the IOI rankings), but timezones make these remote workers hardly manageable. My previous company was almost entirely staffed from Eastern European immigrants who happily packed their bags and booked one way plane tickets to SFO. Those people have been through multiple periods of history aptly described as none other than sheer hell, with the literal climate to boot (I.e. hath frozen over).

Outside of these countries, you're no longer hiring the best of the best. Talent is still scarce, and nations that have the government, culture, population, and resources to foster it are numbered. If I had to guess, every single person I worked with while I was at FAANG had a 150+ IQ (top 0.1%ile). Many had PhDs (we called them "research scientists") or Ivy League caliber degrees.
Whoops: source for the quote here.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/breaking-news/2021/02/07/elon-...
Everyone has different priorities.

I've never found the Magic Mouse uncomfortable to use. I generally use a trackpad anyway. I value that it's portable, looks nice, and works great with OS X. To each their own.
The dreaded iOS Safari WebRTC audio. I never had much luck with the volume always changing. Best thing I came up with was declaring a new Audio Context, that seemed to fix it 50% of the time
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Some ML algorithms certainly can fall within the category of a narrow AI, as they perform exceptionally well on tasks in a narrow band of functionality.
3. Amazing customer support.

Living in "Servicewüste" Germany I would still buy from amazon, even without the first two points that you mentioned. Because customer support... isn't a thing here. On top of that there's things like higher prices, and more expensive and slower shipping usually slower by up to a week, not by a day or two.

Amazon's customer support goes way and beyond to help you out, I've had hundreds of euros worth of stuff sent to me again right away, no questions asked - because I called them and said that the official delivery information saying that it's been delivered to me personally an hour ago is not true, and I don't have the items.

That all being said, I do wish amazon would take care of fake reviews, and mixed inventory from different sellers.
> It's simply resulted in everyone adapting to 5 = slightly above average, 4.9 = average, 4.8 = run away screaming.

Just out of curiosity from someone who doesn't use Uber, is this an exaggeration or meant pretty much literally? (Not with regard to running away screaming... but is 4.8 genuinely a terrible score?)
I also had the same thought, also the projection leads to strange stretching and I can’t tell what’s geologic and what’s distortion.
You could use '== None' instead, but it's generally recommended to use 'is None' (supposedly this is slightly faster). I don't think I've ever encountered anything else relying on 'is'. IMO the 'is' keyword was a poor language decision, given how rarely it's ever used.
Also, maybe of interest...

> prompt_toolkit 3.0 is completely type annotated and uses asyncio natively.

The rich source is also type annotated and very clean and readable.
That’s an interesting idea. Instead of treating the supplier as an enemy bring them on to your side with an offer of “if this part fails less than 1% of the time we’ll pay you $X more per part”

Right now the only incentive they have is to give you a part that just barely won’t break for the absolute cheapest amount.

As a side benefit this would weed out the bad suppliers and the good ones will seek you out.
Cat probably has a bad case of fleas. Local bug density goes through the roof -> System crashes.

Give the cat a flea bath, run your debugger, and say 7 Halt, don't Catch Fire's.

You owe the oracle a tube of Advantage.
This is one reason why I build my own desktop. Not do I not have to worry about paying for an OS I don't want, but I can make sure all the components work well with that OS.

Unfortunately laptops are a whole other problem. Sure there are a few laptops that you can get with Linux pre-installed. And a few more you can get without an OS installed, but the options are pretty limited. And building your own laptop from parts is a lot more difficult.
So did Lemmings 3, which DMA made.
Yeah, I'm confused by all the posts acting like the objections were just that Bloomberg's first story didn't provide any evidence. It was quite a bit worse than that; they included some very obviously faked evidence and a lot of utter nonsense. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be "based on a true story" but even if every single one of their claims turns out to have been a distorted retelling of something real then I'll still stand by my opinion that it was terrible reporting.
I think what you want it wasm. You just need to wait for a simple language which compiles to it - or learn rust.
Have you ever used it for a project? Did it help you save time or debugging?
I have definitely seen issues where an unterminated reset line was susceptible to causing reboots from static electricity charges from people, chairs, etc. several feet away. Not even discharges, just charged objects moving around.

Perhaps the line to the reset jumper on the motherboard is not connected or is not grounded correctly and is acting as an antenna.

Issues like this usually involve 2-3 underlying issues. For example, #1, the cat, #2 faulty motherboard design without protection on the reset line, #3 bad wiring. Or something like that.

I'd get rid of the computer, or get rid of the cat. Depending on which one is a bigger problem.
I've been messing around with some code that uses:

#define TERN(c, a, b) c ? a : b

I'm not a fan of ternaries, but that macro makes it kind of more ligible.
HTML gets little respect as a programming language because it's easy. But used properly, it's extremely powerful. Used improperly, as it almost invariably is due to the very little curriculum focus on it, it is slow and stupid. I used CSS Grid to create a mini-Domain Specific Language for Periodic Table of Web APIs.

HTML is a document format. It defines the CONTENT of a webpage. That it has an API or is usually styled is secondary. The semantic tags– as used here, as used to STORE DATA here– are what make it possible to build a kanban solution so easily.

HTML is also a data format. It can be styled through the use of CSS.
I don't care much about the flight, just about getting over the jetlag at the destination.

What worked for me: power through the first day on the ground.
Go to sleep when the clock says you should, NOT when your body does -- you'll get tired at some weird time, but don't nap. Run around, do caffeine, or whatever, but just power through it.

I got over jetlag from USA/Australia in about 30 hours this way.
Not actively raising now, but would love to chat! josh [at] noyalabs.com
As an Indian, India isn't exactly a cheap manufacturing destination. The reasons to move to India for a country like US are more political than economical.

The US perceives China as an ideologically incompatible competition at a political level and wants to work with India. That's pretty much it.
Perhaps keto can kill me at 75, I kind of feel like that is slightly better than stroking out from T2 diabetes at 55.