skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They effectively rely on Chrome to do all the heavy lifting, and have to manually undo or alter any "bad" move Google makes. And of course they do nothing for the health of the web at large, since they keep users locked into the Chromium engine. Vivaldi is not even fully opensource, although I admit it is the one I keep around for testing compatibility with the Chrome world.
It's a right-click away for any user. What could be more efficient for brief firewall hops?
I've also been enjoying the Moonlander. I was hesitant about the layout, but spilling liquid on my Kinesis Edge and damaging one of the switches forced my hand. The first few weeks were slow going (I dropped from 140wpm to 50-60), but I adapted fast enough. I haven't measured in a while, but I feel like I'm fully back to speed.

I love the customizability - I started with a layout that was influenced by 3 or 4 other programming layouts I found but have made a dozen or so minor tweaks to it over the last few months into something I (mostly) love.

For coding, it's fantastic and I have no complaints (once I found a system for getting to the bracket keys that work for me, at least). For gaming, however, the tap/hold pairing just doesn't work for me. I had Alt and Esc bound to the same key and could not reliably Alt+Tab or hit Esc in a game for the life of me. I split those out earlier this week and now Esc is better, but Alt is still combined with PgDn which is problematic.....I'm probably going to give up and make it a dedicated Alt key and move PgUp/PgDn to another layer.

I have larger hands, so I wonder if I should have just got the Ergodox and had more thumb keys, but now that I'm used to the Moonlander I have no intention of switching.
The problems with MVPs in legacy replacement
I wish these companies wouldn't anthropomorphize the systems so much. I catch my mother calling Siri "her", and my wife calls Google Assistant "her" because she has it set to a feminine voice. I try to remind our small children that it's just a computer, there is no person behind it.

It's important, because I've noticed that folks who humanize these assistants start having expectations of their capabilities that far exceed their reality. If you understand the assistant to be a crappy menu system on top of a regular, ol' Google Search, you can start to use them more effectively. My father thinks yelling the same request, word for word, will get a different response from Google. You might as well have tried typing a search into the Google website, got the wrong results, and then typed in the same search in all-caps.

There's almost no continuity between commands. I wish they would not create continuity for the extremely small subset of factoid lookup commands they've manually programmed in and just leave everything to a single, unified model that is more predictable.

I use Google Assistant to check the weather, add items to the family grocery list, play music, and entertain the kids with animal sounds. That's about all it's good for. It does it pretty well. But to expect more is an exercise in frustration.
Oh, thought so :)
I remember when I got my first PC that was all mine. It was a Compaq Presario 5510 with an AMD K6-2 350Mhz. Back then there were 3D games you couldn't play without 3D acceleration, like Soldier of Fortune.

I remember my first 3D card was a hand-me-down Voodoo 2 wish required a cable that ran from the back of the Voodoo 2 card and plugged into the VGA output on your standard VGA card.
Worth noting MrLlamasc hosted the d2 dev "round table" at blizzcon this evening. Not to disagree with you in the slightest, just that it may lend him a little more credence than commenting on streams.
Same as how the San Jose light rail comes within less than a mile of San Jose airport but doesn’t actually connect to it.
Hey Rodger! The simplicity of Applejak inspired me to work on my own toy APL in the k family and I've really enjoyed it so far. Optimizing for cache coherency and linear memory layout has been the most fun I've had programming in a few years. Keep up the great work!
Hey you can document your process in markdown files files locally or you can create a github repo with that markdown file

That’s what I do and it has worked pretty well for me
You’re all a bunch of liars if you don’t include something like pornhub.com.

Lol
Typically that type of employee training in US is meant to limit sexual harassment, where a person thinks they are flirting and the co-worker on the receiving end is offended. HR would step in at that point and take action against the harasser, so i see that kind of training about being careful in socializing as a way to warn people about the consequences of their actions.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26191364
Nuplazid seems to have a pretty clear theory of what it is doing.

It's an anti-psychotic that is currently targeted at Parkinson's disease related psychosis; hallucinations and delusions are fairly common in people with Parkinson's disease.
Cool this sounds great!
what? that's ridiculous.

I've played torchlight 1 & 2, on both mac and pc. They were both high quality and very well done.

There was no evident shortcomings that required mods to fix
1. Modafinil is the opposite of a sleep aid, so the first paragraph doesn't really apply.

2. Using GHB/Alcohol/Marijuana to help you feel more rested really depends on if the person has a medical condition or not. All of these drugs will suppress REM sleep (so will your typical SSRI), which for the average person may not be a good thing. However, those with narcolepsy have a much higher rate of REM sleep, preventing their body from going into deep sleep and thus (says the hypothesis) they don't get the awakeness/alerting benefits from sleep.

Interestingly, those with depression and PTSD also have increased rates of REM sleep, so there is an interesting question of causality there.
I have to ask what the hell is wrong with them - even if considering proteins as an end all you would at least consider DNA and RNA peripherally useful to look into to figure out the process of their creation and constraints.

To go with a clumsy metaphor living wheels and axle style of locomotion cannot be plausibly grown and moved by known organic structures - it would have to use it. Knowing more what can be produced would help figure out what cannot and commonalities. The reaction doesn't make any sense even for protein folding obsessived.
If Pinboard is being maintained, this is great news. I had thought it was abandoned and I have been looking for alternatives.

My biggest pain point is the lack of maintained iOS clients.
Not a peep in here, interesting...
>ABSTRACT

>We review literatures on agreeing to disagree and on the rationality of differing priors, in order to evaluate the honesty of typical disagreements. A robust result is that honest truth-seeking agents with common priors should not knowingly disagree. Typical disagreement seems explainable by a combination of random belief influences and by priors that tell each person that he reasons better than others. When criticizing others, however, people seem to uphold rationality standards that disapprove of such self favoring priors. This suggests that typical disagreements are dishonest. We conclude by briefly considering how one might try to become more honest when disagreeing.

Some notable names attached to this paper, starting with the authors: Tyler Cowan and Robin Hanson. Also mentioned: Nick Bostrom, Bryan Caplan, Arnold Kling, and Eleizer Yudkowsky. All of whom I've only become aware of well after 2004.
No, it's a nuclear reactor.
Thank you for answering my question instead of grandstanding. I had missed that crucial piece of information.
Ask HN: Could you store data in the stock market?
Was thinking about how the trading history of the stock market must be logged somewhere. Could you use this fact to store and retrieve data?
Honestly, I think this attitude makes much more sense in the present era than it did before about ten years ago. There was a time when IMHO you weren't just naive for believing that Google was sincere about its "don't be evil" mantra. The current age really is one of cynicism.

Of course, in my mind that's a completely separate question from whether or not Google is being evil in this case. As far as that goes, I honestly really don't know the answer.
Not that crazy to have a pipeline from California to Ariz/Nev.

With Ariz/Nev supply Cali with their excess solar to the desal plants.
> Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues

Sounds like textbook Structure of Scientific Revolutions?
This is an excellent example of a “weak man” argument.
I’ve learned that if your colleagues don’t like you, you’re more likely to get fired.

To minimize chance of getting fired, avoid making people dislike you, try to make people like you.
Nothing-at-stake problem is solved with slashing & inactivity leaks.
The 2021 DevOps Trend Everyone Is Missing
I played D2 regularly all through my teenage years. I think it might be one of the most exploited games ever which was half of what made it fun:

* There were a variety of ways to duplicate items online. One really popular and well known one involved spamming bone wall on a necromancer + meteor on a sorceress which would cause the server to lag to the point that your ping would exceed 1000. At that point, you could join a game with the same character, stop spamming the skill so your original character didn’t lag out, thus creating two ephemeral copies of your items. This eventually got patched

* One commonly duplicated item was called a stone ring of Jordan (SOJ). They were so commonly duplicated that blizzard added an event that if you sold ~100 to an in game merchant, everyone connected to a given server would spawn an Uber version of Diablo that dropped a unique small charm.

* Another way blizzard got rid of duplicated items was something called “rust storm” where they’d take the servers offline and go through every item in existence, deleting duplicates.

* Botting was extremely common. There are a bunch of weird quirks added to the game to try to prevent botting, though none of them worked. For example, if you spin the mouse wheel while hovering over a skill, it’ll cycle through your skills. That would immediately get you kicked from the game because the person who programmed the server thought only bots could switch skills that quickly.

* There was a feature in the game that if one person in your party got a quest, the whole party got the quest. Players regularly abuse this to “rush” level 1 characters into act 5 in the hardest difficulty so that they can expedite leveling up.

* There are ethereal items that get a 50% bonus to their core attribute (eg. Armor). If you used the cube recipe to socket the item, that 50% bonus would then get applied again. There were an entire class of items called “ebugged” that were overpowered.

* There was an event added much later for a unique large charm. Someone figured out that you could trap Mephisto in a building such that he would never path out of it, continuously trigger him to summon minions, and kill those minions to grant you massive experience with low risk of death. Thus uber leveling was born. You’d do this in a party with a fully equipped character handling the minions and could go 1-80 in like 5 minutes. This later got patched.

* There are still a small group of people who maintain items from previous patches that no longer spawn. A good google search term for this if you wanted to go down a rabbit hole is “1.08 valkyrie wing”. These are commonly duplicated and at risk of disappearing in a rust storm, so these players maintain a genealogy on forums of their items to prove they’re “legit” and not going to poof on you.

* Servers would drop you after like 30 minutes of inactivity. However, there were pathing bugs that could be exploited to make your character bounce back and forth between squares on the grid effectively preventing you from disconnecting. No mouse clicking scripts needed.

There’s probably more but this is getting long
Except that NoSQL has been around for decades. It just went by a different name in the 1960s.
That’s awesome, I’m gonna play with it over the weekend. Thanks!
Even easier to put a backdoor on the newer miner boards.
Even after all these years, I recall the clicking... my fingers would get tired from all the clicking.
Perfectly described! People forget or don't know that there are many different architecture across monolithic systems, or that there are something in between monolith and microservice.
Rooted boxes on residential IPs make great proxies for this. And they are cheap.
India's Parler I hear.
Curious as well. And skeptical.

So far every example I ever saw of a conservative complaining about their freedoms and speech being limited, they either don't disclose the full story, or when they do, I never end up agreeing that any valid right of theirs was violated or infringed. Instead it's always just crying about having to be even the most basic level of civilized.

And I'm very much in the Bill Maher camp when it comes to liberal counter-productive hyper righteousness and intolerance. And I'm a leftie who disagrees with the left on guns. Try being that guy at parties.

Yet somehow I don't feel beaten into submission and into hiding my opinions for survival, even the unpopular ones. There must be some mysterious other ingredient involved with these poor hobbled heros. What could it possibly be?
She tried to bypass internal review. She knew that internal review was part of the process. She auhored a paper under the Google banner, not making note of her colleagues' work which combat the bias she was decrying. Then she submitted it for internal review the day of the submission deadline. After internal review was done and suggestions to improve were made (valuable time from your peers!) the paper was already accepted by external reviewers. She was then miffed having to update or retract the paper.

Jeff Dean is an absolute saint and ally for the cause. For sure he has better people skills than Gebru. Jeff was over his head with the Twitter mob, which would mess with anyone, no matter how famous.

Google fired Gebru not for retaliation, or for critical science, or for being Black, or for advocating diversity, or for Dean having bad people skills. She was fired for being insufferable.

Only astroturfing Ive seen is from activists claiming racism or Jeff Dean autism / white privilege.
It looks pretty good, but seems to me that each of the elements look a little too distinct from each other in this hi res version. There needs to be a little bit of fog or something to make it more cohesive.
Thanks for the insight.

Is it difficult to fingerprint a sound bite? Have people repeat it several times and again for each user that wants to use the custom wake word?
That no-talent assclown!
This isn't a bug, this is an explicit decision they made. It caused a bit of a stir at the time, but they went through with the change anyways.

Personally for me it was the last straw, and I've since moved to Firefox.
> coordinated groups of Wasm envs

too much overhead. The way that zap gets so fast as in the video is by decreasing overhead, minimizing coordination, and by allocating on the stack instead of the heap for all allocations related to context switching. One could imagine a BEAM system where you create a custom allocator where FIRST you get allocations on the stack for the first X register refs, then later it reaches out to the heap. This would be blazingly fast for the 99% use case in elixir.

You're also generally going to have a hard time figuring out how to do this in rust, as I don't think it's so easy to mix stack and heap allocations into a single interface for rust.
The system tables are incredibly helpful for optimizing ClickHouse performance. The system.columns table gives exact compression ratios for every column and system.parts shows similar stats for table parts. It's possible to tune schema very effectively without a lot of deep knowledge of how codecs and table partitioning work internally.
Use firefox
Or Vivaldi (not Opera because commies are interested in what you are saying :)
Or Brave
Or Edge
Or Safari...

choices are endless.
Because you don’t run your own apps on your phone, it’s some developer’s app on a phone paid by you
I personally just use tails. Takes a few minutes to boot into and I love it. Then again I don't really use TOR all that much these days but anyone who needs maximum security (journalists and the such) is likely using something like tails.
Zig is probably closest to C for the target audience.

Although I wouldn't mind if Pascal or Ada swings back to mainstream's attention.
This is super cool! I definitely could have used this when I found a photo of a split keyboard on aliexpress and it turned out to be the redox manuform. Relatedly, this site is missing the redox manuform
To make Chrome stop doing this, go to "Settings" > "Sync & Google Services", then switch off "Allow Chrome Sign-In".
I've heard Path of Exile suggested plenty of times, and personally I just couldn't get into it.

Notably back when Diablo III was still fresh, lots of people suggested PoE. To me, D3 felt more of an arcade-like game that I can quickly jump into and have fun, whereas PoE is more of an efficiency and numbers game. Like it's fun, but I just don't have that sense of being "powerful". I gradually progressed up until Act 5 in PoE (before they added Acts beyond that) and never really felt like I was all that powerful. There were some challenges here and there, but most things just died in some boring manner.

However with Diablo II as I recall, that's pretty much the same ordeal up until a certain point.

I may re-visit PoE at some point this year before D2:R to see if or how things have changed.
Not disagreeing with anything you say..
But you can make things that satisfies you, and doesn't require external validation/utility.

Have an example:
About 8 years ago I was told two oracle dbs were behaving differently, despite "containing the same data and code"

I'm a biochemist, I can't code for shit, but fuelled by the logic that "there must be a difference" and google, I knocked out a block of PL/SQL that would generate hashes on schema, data, and packages.

At the time I just ran it against the two schemas, it showed me two tables were different and boom problem solved.

Over the subsequent years I've bumped into people with a problem that maybe my script could help debug - but the pride I felt each time was incredible. It's maybe fixed three issues, but something I did right so many years ago still being useful today, feels great.
Do you have any specific recommendations from Garmin? They seem pretty good, but I have no idea which one to choose.
>What? Did I miss a memo or something?

Yes, there was never some contract that we all signed or some thing some majority of us formally voted that says "we're not supposed to call it a blacklist/whitelist anymore.

Just what some random groups decided and enforced at their own domains (companies, orgs, etc.).

It's also based on an American preoccupation with race issues, seeing everything through it's own guilt-ridden history, concerns not relevant to other parts of the world (where code is written and English is also spoken, as first or second language for IT).

The connotations of black/white s terms have nothing to do with slavery or blacks, the term blacklist was first used (recorded) in an English theater play, as the list of the enemies of the kind (black alluding to shady, dark motives, etc, not to skin color), and its common colloquial use in the 20th century was also not about blacks or had anything to do with slavery: it was the list where employees put union members, strikers, etc not to hire.

It's better for people in the US to concentrate on fixing actual racial issues (from incarceration rates and cop shootings, to school funding, redlining and loan access) than to play with words to pat itself in the back.

People all over the world have used black/white to certain things (sometimes the inverse too, e.g. in some asian cultures white is associated with death), and it has nothing to do with the US practicing slavery, seggregation, and racism to blacks.

We use those terms with some connotations for centuries before blacks were sold as slaves to pick your cotton, even at times when slaves where whites working for other whites (as in Ancient Persia, Greece, the Roman Empire, feudal times, and so on).
Safari is huge. Doing Chrome only is suicide. Thankfully, cross browser compatibility is much easier these days, specially if you don’t use flex or grid.
$25 is not enough to prove anything. Statistical significance is important.
By the way larger blocks don't take longer to hash - only the fixed size header is used for PoW.

Yeah, I forgot about merkle trees or something like that. So, do I get it right, there is no problem in increasing a block size? Just start to sign up to 50MB every 10 minutes in 2022 and that’s it?

However larger or more blocks do require more bandwidth and storage to process.

But isn’t amount of data depend on tx count? No matter how big chunks you split them into, it’s the same bytes per minute in the end. Why hard limit at all?
Not very safe either, since then you impose an american preoccupation based on their history and modern politics to the rest of the world...
I don't think there's mutual exclusivity there. The individual can be blamed while also realising that their actions are a result of circumstances/physics/cosmic forces.

If a hurricane (individual) kills a person, it's accurate and fair to blame the hurricane (individual), while simultaneously realising that it's just the laws of physics unfolding and not erroneously attributing a god of the gaps type of agency. Likewise, it's accurate to say that someone who died by a hurricane (individual) is a victim, and that the hurricane (individual) is culpable for the death.

Retributive justice (and certainly other types of justice) can still be argued for even in the absence of free will, under a utilitarian perspective. The absence of free will doesn't imply the absence of utility/qualia/etc.

Families won't accept this of course, because our brains are designed to see agency, seek revenge, monitor debts to see who is not reciprocating, etc, these are just more adaptive heuristics which help us to perceive our social reality in a way that maximises fitness.
That's weird, it sounds incredibly safe to me. I've never been in a machine shop that would be safe enough for blind people to work. OTOH, my mom was responsible for keeping factories safe for the workers who hadn't lost their hearing yet...
I’m not separating blame from the perpetrators of crimes. I think they should be held accountable. Just because the bug in your program didn’t choose to be faulty, doesn’t mean it isn’t to blame for problem. Similarly, Perpetrators of crimes are a problem. The fact that there are additional factors to blame shouldn’t absolve them. Bad inputs can make a bad person. When a drunk driver kills a pedestrian , is both the drivers fault and cosmic chance. The driver could drove the same road drunk 100 times and the pedestrian could have walked the same road 100 times. The fact that chance is involved doesn’t absolve the driver.
That’s exactly my point. It’s not the billionaires who own most of the wealth, but the top 10% which includes people making over $200k per year. There are LOTS of those folks. That’s where the bill of the wealth is.
The why call it “Medicare for all” if it’s not Medicare?

Is this like “defund the police” where we aren’t trying I actually defund them?
Why are all the comments here about Trump, Twitter and miscellaneous debris instead of the actual article?
> why does Google do nothing about it?

I think you know.