skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't use span on links on your web page, my mouse cursor didn't change, and it was very strange.

Maybe I'm too snobbish, but I don't trust a company with my data that doesn't know basic HTML (I would install the local version though).

Also the github links don't work (npmjs and python repositories show that it's using BSD license): https://github.com/mito/mito
Am I the only one who finds the initial email very unprofessional? Everything from the subject line, all lower case, even the closing words. I wouldn't have taken an email like that seriously or would have assumed it was a scam.
That's backward. The people who can best answer that question are the ones who have been de-platformed.
It's not necessarily a limitation of bandwidth possible at 900MHz, it's a limitation of the normal equipment deployed and inefficiencies of mesh routing.

Those 900MHz analog phones were also usually low power, low distance, analog only devices with a few number of channels. Try having dozens of those phones all in the same room and see how useful they all are at once.
Does Dr Seuss have a right to be the centerpiece of children's literature for all time? What's wrong to moving on to other books?

Why is it OK to "cancel" everything that isn't Dr Seuss?
There are hosts out there which will host you as long as you're not breaking any laws. This is actually how things should work.

Registrars won't take away your domain just because they don't like your site. Companies will delete your personal account on their platforms without even talking to you. I can't think of any case where a domain was seized without a court order.

Circumventing payment processor censorship is one of the many purposes of cryptocurrency technology. All you have to do is accept Monero as payment. The more people that do this, the more legitimate and popular and well supported it will be.
I assume you used sticks, karate kid style? :)
Although if your goal is to actually make money, offending advertisers on your own domaim isnt going to work out well for you.
That is a very narrow view. Take, for example, transgenders in women's sport. Do they have an unfair biological advantage over natural women? Are you a transphobe if you think so? Should you be cancelled and deplatformed if you think so?

With so many potentially offensible groups, and with offense definition shifting so often, are you sure that something totally ok now won't deplatform you in 5 years?
It was painfully obvious that heavy lobbying was involved... I was amazed how that problem somehow was never addressed by the opponents.
You need bigger systemic change for that. Under neoliberal capitalism the optimal theoretical end state of any (for profit) corporation is to own absolutely everything and be the last one standing. It‘s just the nature of a corporation.

Hyperbole, yes. But you get the point.

It just so happens that big tech firms have a shot of actually achieving it.
It took a lot of research to invent panchromatic film. Up until about 1940, most films had problems in being sensitive to the whole range of colors.

Most films on sale were 'orthochromatic' which signified that they weren't sensitive to red, and so you could develop them in a darkroom with a red 'safelight'. It also meant that red showed up as black on the final photo.

When I first started playing with photography in the mid 1950s, I killed several films while developing them because the books I was learning from assumed you were using 'orthochromatic' films but I was using the newer 'panchromatic' films.

I soon learned that I needed to develop my films in total darkness, but I could still use a safelight when printing those black and white negatives, because the printing paper didn't need to be panchromatic seeing that it was only working with shades of grey.
In addition, the author states that similar techniques would also work on Windows and Mac, and any platform without sandboxing... which would include most installations of X, unless there's something I'm missing.
> It's clear you didn't even pretend to read it. Or understand all the problems listed. Payments is just a part of the first article. The sequel doesn't even talk about payments.

it's clear you didn't even pretend reading my comments or understand the words i'm writing. we can be playing this game all day.

> Amount of value exchanged on bitcoin !== it's useful for payments. Actual payments (you know, for goods and services) are a very, very, very tiny fraction of exchanges.

since when you're the authority on what counts as useful and what counts as actual?

> The key feature of a new payment system is the confidence that if the goods aren’t as described you’ll get your money back

that might be the key feature in the payment system of your choice, but it's the anti-feature for people who find bitcoin valuable. finality of transactions is way more important and on top of a system with finality you can build all sorts of escrow services that offer money-back due to customer dissatisfaction and what not. without finality your payment system is worth shit.

> The government-backed banking system provides FDIC guarantees, reversibility of ACH, identity verification, audit standards, and an investigation system when things go wrong. Bitcoin, by design, has none of these things

again, all anti features. i don't want them in a system that handles my assets. thank you very much.

> In terms of micropayments, people enthuse that bitcoin transactions are free and instant. Actually, they take about eight minutes to clear and cost about four cents to process. <- This is now outdated. It's significantly worse now. Median confirmation time is ~10 minutes (and was as high as 25 minutes just a few months ago [1]) and transaction fees ar $13 to $30[2]

this also shows how clueless you yourself are in anything bitcoin related. confirmation time is a function of hashrate fluctuations, not some inherent property of bitcoin that gets worse with time. and the article author is obviously clueless for even claiming nonsense like "people enthuse that bitcoin transactions are free and instant", his exposure to bitcoin is probably a single drunk talk in a bar.

and btw in payment channels payments are instant and essentially free and unlike visa and other payment processors, payment channels are completely independent and dont require centralized coordination, so i can already claim with all seriousness that bitcoin is able to process unlimited number of transactions per second.

read up on the topic before arguing.

PS I personally made an on chain payment today, the fee was less than $2, which is still great considering that micropayments were never supposed to be on chain to begin with. And yeah, fees today are higher than fees last year because Bitcoin is more expensive and fees are denominated in bitcoin, duh.
> I don't see why race would affect this.

It does for lots of reasons.

> If you're poor, from a poor background, it's likely your friends are also poor, regardless of race.

If your even modestly successful and black from a poor background, it is more likely that you are the most successful person at a given network distance from people in your network than if you are equally successful and from an equally poor background but white.
This is largely an effect of past racism.

But it's also less likely that people in your network can work their way up without your help. And that's largely a product of current racism, both of the institutional and the more direct, active, personal kind. (Also past racism, too.)
> but don't waste your time volunteering at a shelter -- better work and donate your money instead.

Bad advice.

Volunteering is vital. I'm not sure why anyone would argue otherwise.
Lisps support AOT compilation since several decades, image tree shaking, and actually having a compiler in the runtime allows for tooling that most languages lack.
Side note - love the design of the comments on his website! Seriously cool
GPS jamming around Cyprus gives air traffic controllers a headache
Of course not, but I’ve seen similar concepts before. And they all list some information about the business (especially monthly income) that are very relevant.
Incidentally, I find it deeply weird that the only protocols supported by Cloudflare Spectrum below the enterprise level are SSH, RDP, and... Minecraft?!

I mean, I guess it's a compelling use case for some customers. Still, it's a weird outlier.
(Author here)

The main focus of the article is to show a worked example of how to analyze the behavior of simple programs. The circuitous path taken in the article is similar to that which you might face when analyzing your own programs. The article is only incidentally about AVX512 and summing numbers. Thus any specific technique used or even the precise runtimes measured should not be given too much weight. Forgive me, but the journey is more important than the destination.

The article is also meant to inspire others to learn and spend time deeply understanding (by looking at data that the hardware makes available) what actually happens to their code when it runs. It is too easy to lose sight of that in a professional setting, where business needs/requirements leave little time for deep analysis.
I've always had pretty good supervisors in both academia and the workplace. The worst manager I had was a guy whose only real fault was phoning it in, but he just had a baby and I didn't blame him. No one was abusive.

But I had friends who were in tougher spots. In grad school a friend of mine in the physics department was basically a slave of his advisor, needing to do IT admin work for his advisor that was unrelated to his field of study and constantly doing errands for him. There is a big difference between fields like physics where you are living off of your advisor's grants and math where you are not tied to your advisor financially at all.

In the workplace, I had a friend who had kind of a frumpy annoying manager who didn't appreciate him. But the level of professionalism was much higher than academia.
You can integrate an e-commerce in Publii with third-party tools, so I think it can actually be used by people with “commercial aspirations”.
> That's a considerable development effort and probably out of reach for youtube creators who are large enough to make a living and depend on youtube, but not large enough to justify that kind of investment.

YouTube revolves around free content - this places creators on the platform at an immediate and significant disadvantage in terms of monetising their audience. Many YouTubers who are stuck in that rut of being dependent on YouTube, despite having a fairly large audience, would likely make a lot more money if they started producing content on platforms which offer better options for monetisation (ideally, their own).

A great example of this is Twitch. Direct monetisation of the audience is a fundamental part of the culture on Twitch. The site is optimised for it. Even before the Amazon Prime subscriptions, Twitch was FAR more profitable than YouTube for creators with audiences of comparable size.
Does it? I know hospital system CEO’s get performance pay. Maybe if the numbers were sufficiently egregious and a newspaper (if a local one still exists) decided to do an expose the attorney general would intervene but I think in general some of these non profits are better modeled as perpetual partnerships run for the benefit of partners than they are as mission driven organizations.
Having access to money doesn't qualify someone to help do whatever the organization does.
This was controversial:

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That's indeed true - and why for subjective eyeball moving picture tests you should also do things like cut out a 20 second piece of a raw/y4m file, encode it with various x265 settings, and then put those 4 or 5 pieces in a VLC playlist so you can quickly compare them in series.

For objective comparisons there is of course VMAF, which is an essential tool for doing automated comparisons of videos vs their uncompressed original. One of the reasons why VMAF was created is that subjective eyeball evaluation of codecs (whether still or moving) will vary between person to person, and is very labor intensive.

But still image PNGs of frames also serve a useful purpose when dealing with lower bitrate videos, for your personal opinion comparison of blockiness, color banding, blobs of color in areas that are mostly the same color, etc.
Yes, but most people don't build their own server farms, don't have their own internet cable, so basically there is always some company in the middle that could easily cancel you.
The STM32G0 line might surprise you. It’s a Cortex M0+ and allows using SPI flash for graphics assets:

http://blog.st.com/x-nucleo-gfx01m1/
How can you so sure that your ideal is how they should live?

What I admire about the Swiss is how they live and let live - they may disagree with the neighbour, but let them be.
I don't know details. I was thinking about doing GPU passthrough myself, but whenever developers chimed in on any posts about the topic, this is essentially what they said.

Some links I remember going through:

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/device-handling-security/#pci-s...

> Additionally, Qubes restricts the config-space a VM may use to communicate with a PCI device. Only whitelisted registers are accessible. However, some devices or applications require full PCI access. In these cases, the whole config-space may be allowed. You’re potentially weakening the device isolation, especially if your system is not equipped with a VT-d Interrupt Remapping unit. This increases the VM’s ability to run a side channel attack and vulnerability to the same. See Xen PCI Passthrough: PV guests and PCI quirks and Software Attacks on Intel VT-d (page 7) for more details.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/162122/gpu-pass...
Sure, no qualms with vNM.

But how does an application of EUT decide what distribution to use? (That's where the subtlety/assumption lies)

Example situation: 1 million tosses of a fair coin, with multiplicative payoff -- wealth doubles for heads and halves for tails. Say you start with a dollar -- what payoff should you expect? Is "expected payoff" (ensemble averaging) the right calculation to model that?
It is possible to build houses cheaply in the Bay Area
This reiterates that we all need to create our own lifestyle that works for us.

Dinner should not be the largest meal of the day. It hurts our sleep as well as other bodily processes, especially if you include alcohol and sugary dessert. I understand it probably came from the want to socialize once we had that free time, but it is definitely not healthy.
Feedback about Microsoft's experiment with Rust
As far as I know experiment is going well, but would really like to hear some feedback about Rust usage in scale on production in Microsoft with numbers.
IIUC the line of thoughts is that the current compiler is too slow, and that it doesn't show on a small project. But if you imagine a big project with 100 dependencies, you'll be really slowed done. The new compiler is faster (I think there are benchmarks in the repo) and can compile debug builds without going through LLVM.
So it's ok to outlaw clothing if only 30 people wear it, or...?
I think the problem is that once you get to a certain volume of content it becomes eye wateringly expensive on Vimeo. Louis Rossmann explained this in a couple of his videos (I never bookmarked them). Even if he were to push just his repair videos (i.e. not including his opinion pieces) he'd fall into into a whole other universe of cost.
The UK government must be more careful with inflation than the US government because the pound is not a serious reserve currency used across the world as the US dollar is. That said, the UK government has borrowed significantly to pay for coronavirus relief programs.
Pyroscope – Continuous Profiling Platform
oh ok, professionals have standards

my bad !

I will elaborate and be "more thoughtful and substantive" as written in the guidelines, next time

I didn't know where to place the cursor, since the issue was inherently politic and not about technology, as the article states

But this article deserved political comments, nonetheless
Yes, these platforms primarily exist to drain revenue from the long tail of unappreciated content. I don't think that's a positive thing.
This is the same as centralized app stores where the only difference is that here you do have an alternative.
Friend said the contractor called the city, who then accused him of working without a permit. And then after that was squared told him the pipe was abandoned. The contractor said okay I'm going to cut into it with a chainsaw. At which point they sent out an inspector and all hell broke loose.

City's maps showed the pipe running in the middle of the street. But it was under a row of 12 houses.
Miller v. Dept of Corrections[0] is a good example of this type of toxic work environment.

[0] https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/miller-v-dept-correction...
It's interesting to consider generics.

Go gained some simplicity by not having generics, instead simply special-casing the two most common generic datastructures: lists and maps. But in the end, the desire for generics was too strong, and now they're adding them to the language, and losing that simplicity win.

Zig gained simplicity by not having generics, but instead giving you comp-time evaluation, which can do everything generics can do and more (e.g., replaces need for preprocessor, need for minilanguage for build variants).

I do think both languages have similar philosophies and feel, though Zig is much lower level, and seems to have more of a focus on "get things exactly right" vs. maybe more of a "eh, good enough / hacky" approach from Go.

I wonder what a language that tried to combine this focus on smallness/orthogonality with a borrow checker would look like. (Would it even be possible?)
Is it not more of an expression of how the general public of (native) Europeans want to keep their country for their people and culture
It's much harder if you have actual humans on the other side.
I agree with you.

My main reason for not bringing up the internal complications of the UDHR was to not add confusion, but you are completely right about how some of these rights can conflict.

You are equally right about the "arbitrary" part. However, when it comes to today's trade in personal profiles and governments scooping up everything they can get their hands on (legalized or not), I very strongly believe that all of it rather clearly fits the classification of "arbitrary".

I will even agree with that I picked an (extreme) side. But maybe not because I can't see nuance or because I ignore (at least not in private) what conflicts with my position.

It's more about being sick and tired of listening for decades to blatant privacy abusers arrogantly (and incorrectly) claiming that what they do is legal .. and how we just all should accept this new reality. It sure didn't help to see governments either buying that bullshit or simply not deal with it because of how it could harm their own (surveillance) interests.

Considering the now obvious rampant abuse and how far I believe we have veered off from how all this probably should have developed (in an ideal world), I'm convinced that the time for being nice and nuanced about all this has long passed.

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
― Benito Mussolini

Note: such a merger does not have to be overtly voluntary. It can also be a government seemingly dictating corporations or corporations covertly running a government. It's all about the two somehow joining forces (even if only because of shared interests and possibly still for different reasons), especially when against the interests of most citizens.
Universities are literally the sole specific institutional exception in the essay:

> There are a couple exceptions to this principle. One is when the nonprofit is an umbrella organization. It's reasonable to make a restricted donation to a university, for example, because a university is only nominally a single nonprofit.

The article doesn't say what to do when donating to a university or college. So, when donating to a university, do also donate in a relatively unrestricted way. But donate to:

1. a department (in small amounts),

2. a scholarship fund (in medium amounts),

3. an endowed professorship for a specific department/discipline (in large amounts), or

4. some important component of the physical plant (in "Gates/Allen" amounts).

Not to the university as a whole.

At least that's what I've witness as being effective.

Oh, and if you donate to scholarships, make sure the university/college plays ball. If they won't at least match 4% of the principle, just set up the scholarship an independent thing and let the kid choose where they go. Why donate a student scholarship to a specific school whose value is literally just the sustainable withdrawal rate? What's the point of that? Certainly not to help a student. Your donation will turn into a chair on the deck to be rearranged. But lots of donors get suckered into doing this.
Well, maybe my parent comment was too harsh. Leaving his reasons aside, the kid knew what he was doing, because he kept doing it for three years, he knew he would be found out eventually. I completely agree that the adults failed him, both in school and in his house. the mom blaming someone else and painting her son as a victim just makes everything worse.
I'm not sure how that's relevant to the question of reselling stuff?
That's not the best example. Every attempt to shut it down just made it spread further.
Research you don't like is still research.
you couldn't openly and clearly critique/satirize the whole System nor the Party nor the Leader (with all 3 being basically equivalent). You were allowed (and to some degree and in some shape encouraged) to critique and have a laugh at supposedly small and separate defects/impurities on the shining body of the System, the defects which were still present as supposedly exceptions and not the rule ("otdelnye nedostatki") thus your work would supposedly be improving the System instead of weakening it. The great talent of some of those writers, directors, actors, etc. was to show those supposedly small separate defects in the formally allowed way while really making it a deep and profound satire of the whole System.

The approach of course isn't unique to USSR, it has been the forced choice of artists through the history of ideological oppression in human civilization, and giving the rise of ideological intolerance everywhere today i expect to see again that approach more and more.
I’m a bit sad the referendum passed as the law was creating a regulated environment were anyone could start an ID provider and other providers would be forced to interoperate. Basically it mandated a distributed protocol. The alternative to my dream of having a cooperative of my choice handling my metadata seems will be to have the state know everything about me. Let’s see how it will play out. Maybe we will put some privacy by design concepts in the implementation.

On the plus side all the lobbyist that were involved in this story have been recalled to order.
GP was probably referring to some part of 8chan, not 4chan.