skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I partially agree that designers love to create beautiful designs and they don't care about the products.

This is giving a false complacency to what outta be a tight intergration between design + developers with an oversight from the product owner. It is simply inexcusable. We're actively creating a culture of disregard/complacency/ignorance by not shedding light on this as a huge problem in UX/UI design.

I want more people to make noise about this.
Unfortunately, it's quite hard to use common sense at large companies. The incentives aren't there, and for every one person who "gets it" there are nine that don't - and they will be your review committee / peer reviewers / project partners.
Shows as in stock on the 15th for me. I suspect there's some bot arbitrage going on there.
I do simple 3D art (accompanying my blog posts): https://brettkromkamp.com
No, not more adapters pleeeeease....
This is an interesting thought that crypto (or at least proof of work crypto) is backed by a sunk cost of an otherwise useless task.
But let me extend that paradigm: why is (or isn't) gold also not baked by a sunk cost? What was the point of all that expensive mining and digging if not for the sole purpose to extract that shiny metal from the earth's crust?
Awesome article. I’ve a new hero to add to my list of people I’d thank a million times over for their contributions to modern tech. Thank you Sol!
I don't believe what the author is asking for exists. The answer to his question, in my opinion, is a definitive "No." Even his 286 was arguably full of components which were probably backdoored in some manner. And even if your hardware and software stack is somehow fully private, having to work with the web as we all do, almost guarantees compromise.

This is not to say our efforts at privacy are completely in vain, just that this perfect endpoint doesn't exist.
People get very bent out of shape over execs at non-profits getting paid market-rate compensation. The issue is, if someone has a choice between running a 100-person non-profit and being a VP or even CEO at a company, they might be willing to take a 50% pay cut, but they’re probably not willing to take an 80% pay cut. Now scale that to something like the Red Cross or United Way, where you’re dealing with thousands of employees and millions in donations. Or Mozilla Foundation, where people were mad that the CEO was making a few hundred thousand dollars a year in SF, where that’s the same salary a mid-level manager at a tech company pulls down.

If you want competent people to lead your nonprofit, you have to pay them.
I was about to make this exact comment almost verbatim.

Change to text, lose weird icons, and gain peace of mind.
There's a 2nd order problem, where the stake holder doesn't actually know the requirements until they see a sample implemented. "I'll know it when i see it" style. This is often the case, with bespoke software.

If the stakeholder has such a clear vision of their end result, they probably won't need you to help them implement it!
Yeah, our "north-south" infrastructure is behind and it will take about 20 years to fully resolve, sorry it impacts you Norway!

:)

Sweden has an interesting problem where we want to build more wind power, but it can only really be done in the north at scale, but then the transmission capacity down south is missing, and that's where all the consumers are!
Entering the inbox: downward arrow atop the box.
Exiting the inbox: downward arrow below the box.
When the good times are rolling corruption in the media does not reveal itself. Chomsky was writing about corruption in the US media in the 80s and pointing out the things that are plain as day now. Very few listened.

Media has always been beholden to powerful interests. Especially now when their revenue streams are drying up. Saying many don't is naive. You just don't see it, because the corruption reveals itself about what they don't print. For that to be obvious you have to be aware what they are hiding from the public.
As an editor of ISO/IEC 18181 (JPEG XL), I politely yet strongly disagree with this ISO policy of paywalling standards. It is an adoption obstacle and an incentive to use outdated drafts.

The core of the problem is that we somehow put a private Swiss company in charge of international standardization. Of course that company needs to make money _somehow_ to pay its staff. But that would better be done via government subsidies than via selling specs.

In a way, this reminds me a lot of academic publishing. It's not the publishers who write the papers, yet they get to paywall science.

We need open access standards, just like we need open access scientific journals.
Gosh, maybe she doesn't want to be hired by a company that prefers your version of professionalism over taking an interest in its mission.
I make various things, mostly abstract/surreal. Haven't uploaded many yet, but more to come.

https://hypertele.fi/6e2299d8eeaf1e30
Really like Slow Down, great drive, melody and textures
25 public toilets in all of San Francisco? And that's with a population density of 18,790.74/sq mi[1]

Compare that to Zurich (city proper) with 322 public toilets[2] and a population density of 12,000/sq mi[3]

I'm not surprised that people shit on the streets if they can't find a loo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco

[2] https://pee.place/en/l/Switzerland/Zurich-Canton

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich
How about these then

https://aliexpress.com/item/4000221852639.html

https://aliexpress.com/item/1005001762637137.html

https://aliexpress.com/item/4000394347886.html
To me it seems reasonable to put a stop to the unprofessional behavior that's making people feel uneasy at work.
doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2020.105971

http://chwe.net/ramseyer/ramseyer.pdf
I'm surprised to see so many people insisting that the submit button should be on the left. Next time you get a dialog box (or equivalent) on a platform that has user interface guidelines, pay close attention to the button placements. You'll find a preference for right-aligned buttons.

Windows: "Right-align commit buttons in a single row across the bottom of the dialog box, but above the footnote area. Do this even if there is a single commit button (such as OK)."

Mac: "Any buttons in the bottom right of a dialog should dismiss the dialog. An action button, which initiates the dialog’s primary action, should be farthest to the right." (Also noteworthy: "Separate destructive buttons from nondestructive buttons.")
Your problem is ignoring depreciation. Yes, you may pay more if you buy a new car today with X flashy feature, but that will have little bearing on its used price in two decades, because the flashy features depreciate at a rate far faster than the feature of the car, y'know, actually moving. In 20 years from now, if you buy a $1000 cheap beater car it will not be $600 of car and $400 of backup camera, it will be $990 of car and $10 of backup camera. The same for airbags (the US GAO estimated they added $300 to the manufacturers' costs) - a $1000 car is not $700 of car and $300 of airbags.

(Also, the rear view camera is a tiny, tiny fraction of the car's manufacturing cost. Yes, as an option it costs $xxx, but option sticker prices are nowhere the actual cost of the option.)
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> no Federal provision was made for their maintenance.

That's not quite true. The federal gas tax was created specifically to fund the construction and maintenance of roads and bridges. States add their own taxes onto this.

The problem is not that no one thought about maintenance. It's that politicians have not raised the gas tax in about 30 years. Thus, steadily shrinking the amount of real dollars available for maintenance.

It's not a lack of foresight. It's a lack of political will.
Donate to Library Genesis. It is cancelproof.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

It's also only 33TB on bittorrent. Humanity's literary heritage fits on $900 worth of hard drives. If Sci-Hub is the World Library's nonfiction section then LibGen is the fiction aisles.
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See Paul’s fine article. If you don’t trust the management at a nonprofit to do the right thing, then don’t give them your money.

One of the biggest challenges nonprofits face is donors who think they get to micromanage them because they give money. Any decent nonprofit has a development head who will politely but firmly tell donors to butt out, and hand them their check back if they don’t.
Neither ARM nor POWER did that - they had timing side channel from speculative execution (i.e. whether a branch was taken or not).

What Intel did was put all memory access auth checks to retirement, so appropriately crafted code could bypass protection bits in TLB, not just snoop elements of cache (AMD, ARM, POWER)
You're prioritizing inclusivity of beliefs over inclusivity of speakers.
Specifically to avoid infinite loops?
Oh please. Spew this BS elsewhere to people who are actually gullible enough to not see through this rhetorical regurgitation.

Human experience is not universal. Try going back in time and be a slave. Or a victim of the Nanjing rape. Tell me, with a straight face, that you can truly understand the pain and suffering those people went through. You think a royal family member can understand what it is like to be whipped and denied all manner of opportunity?

Frankly, this comment disgusts me.
I coded a sequencer to stave off covid boredom, and then made an album with it: https://theronhumiston.bandcamp.com/album/heartbeating-the-e...

Largely inspired by 60s/70s minimalism, played on synths, dulcimer, guitar, sampler, drum machine, etc.
You need to come up with it in the first place. That is certainly a skill. Go through with it. Another skill. And if the result is pleasant to look at, yes then you were successful.
The original paper http://chwe.net/ramseyer/ramseyer.pdf
Use your own custom email address. This thing keeps coming in every few weeks/months.One of the best thing that anyone can do to his online life is to make use of own email addresses. Say you use GSuite to host your custom email address and one fine day google decides to ban you for whatsoever reason, you will be able to switch to any competing service in a flick of few MX records in not more than 5 mins. Ofcourse you have to ensure that you take regular backup of your email accounts.
Hayabusa2 Capsule Analysis
I'm not sure where this line of thought is headed. I once had to work with the Hela cell line, coating it in alginate polysaccharide. I thought to myself,"How can I test if the functioning of the cells have been altered by the coating?" A little book research convinced me that any tests would be useless, as a cancer cell has basically shut down all functions except those required for growth. So I just worked on trying to improve the coating, and continued staring through the micrscope at the somewhat terrifying malignant growth.

As regards, climate studies. Where have we heard the term "peak" something-or-other before. Ah yes, "peak oil". Well that didn't happen: we found more oil, we substituted gas, ... "Peak CO2": I nearly choked on my morning biscuit. Please tell China and India and Africa to stop developing and remain underdeveloped. Come on man, are you on drugs? Maybe, when a few billion have been displaced from their homes and invaded our comfortable lifestyles, we all might decide to stop driving and generating power with coal, oil and gas.

I remember the time at uni 20 years when the power failed. The cafeteria went dark, the fridges didn't work, the heated food display cabinets didn't function, the cash registers were useless and the cashiers had to write down amounts with pen and paper. When our grandchildren have to make the hard decision to drastically reduce power consumption in a last ditch effort to reduce CO2, they will be turning off the switches in fully-automated societies. Will societies cope with that scenario?
It's pretty easy. Just get better at recursion, until you're good at recursion, then stop.
Linux Gamers Make Up ~2% of Valve's Steam Users (2013)
Euh, could be. There are other manufacturers of computers out there, in the USD market "laptops" are retailing at e.g. Walmart, Amazon for 200-300$.

1G+ has been the traditional price to break into "worthwhile" computing, "worthwhile" here usually meaning computing you get a choice on how to configure.

To give a bit of context, a "pay-day loan", typically something targeted at the majority of lower-working class folk who struggle to make it from rent check to rent check, goes for normally ~300-600$.

For a "lower-middle class" individual making ballpark 60-80k and making housing or rent payments, the norm in even lower cost cities is 1-2k. We aren't talking addl. living expenses, but already someone has to deal with the un-pleasantries of extreme poverty (gangs, illegal activities, never-ending debt and the prison pipeline) in the lower classes, and in the "middle" classes they are facing potentially tanking credit scores, getting behind on rent by a month (most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck), just to have a shot at getting one of these laptops.

Goodness help anyone in so called "3rd-world" countries.
The original is actually more correct it seems.

IMO they are clearly betting (parts of) the farm on this as can be seen by the (often) ridiculous results many of us have witnessed in both search results quality and ad matching quality.
ERR_TIMED_OUT needs some CDN in front of that blog.
So where do I go as a dev that sucks at frontend and doesn't want to make unnecessary mistakes like that?
You can make the phone 5 times thicker though, I remember the late 90s and it was still carried everywhere
Your comment was a littany of attempts at character assassination largely unrelated to the work in question. The idea that Russian gulags were "just a prison" is a ridiculous characterization that no historian would agree with. They were prisons for political prisoners, who were there warehoused there to keep them from speaking out against the regime, and they were put there without due process of law. The idea that that is even remotely comparable to the American judicial system is just completely ahistorical Stalinist apologism.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7HBjefGK5TCRXMYSA
Round pixelation concept (Not new, already seen)
As others mentioned, this algorithm isn’t matrix multiplication.

Even if it were, as the article mentions, we don’t even know what the optimal (in terms of basic operations on numbers) algorithm for multiplying matrices is. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassen_algorithm for a starting point.

(“Optimal in time” is a different problem. For fixed-size matrices, as often used in computer graphics, that may be known, but even then, there’s the effect of caching, time needed to move data to and from the GPU, etc)

Also, Strassen multiplication and its improvements have a “somewhat reduced numerical stability, and the algorithm also requires significantly more memory compared to the naive algorithm” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_stability)

This algorithm may have some of the same problems.

Being random, it likely also will have varying running times. That can be bad for GPUs if they are used to generate real-time graphics.

In total, I don’t see GPU manufacturers being worried about this. They already live with the worry that somebody will discover an O(n²) matrix multiplication algorithm that’s implementable in hardware and more efficient for small n, and I don’t think they lose sleep over that.
Just to be clear, you think politicians who own stock would (should?) have opposed this bill, except they knew that it would increase the value of their portfolio?

This was a bill with huge bipartisan support (only 34% of Americans opposed it[1]) and a near-consensus among economics on the left and right that it would boost the economy. Why would you want politicians to fight it?

And in the sense that owning stocks at all is a bet on the economy improving, shouldn't you want politicians to want the economy to improve?

"Let's give unemployed people money" is just so far from an evil, self-serving plot that I don't know what to make of your comment. What is the conspiracy here?

1. https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthp...
I honestly wasn't expecting to see an article on hacker news discussing the Alcoa mine in Pinjarra!
This is inaccurate. Any encryption that cryptographers will accept will be semantically secure at a minimum (which FHE is). Briefly, to quote Gentry's paper which first showed the existence of FHE: this means given a ciphertext c that encrypts either m0 or m1, it is hard for an adversary to decide which, even if it is allowed to choose m0 and m1.

This rules out deterministic encryption, which is not sufficient for the reasons you mention (and is why, for example, you shouldn't use textbook RSA).

Also it's actually easier to prove that FHE applications are secure than it is to prove a lot of other things. FHE is designed around commonly used hardness assumptions, such as the Learning With Errors problem. As long as you're encrypting your information correctly there's really nothing Intel can do to leak your information short of disproving open conjectures in computer science. At the very least, they probably won't fumble their way into doing so
It's of another scale,but Belgium (especially Flanders) has the same problem. The political party that was in power for a long time favourited rural areas (because that's where the voters were). I guess the same applies to the US with the Republican party?
Trained Peregrine Falcon: Hold my beer.
Feeding flamewar is not ok, regardless of the provocation.

It always feels like the other person started it anyhow; that's the recipe for a downward spiral.
Of course you don’t.
"Surely you're joking mr Feynman" is the same, but there it is celebrated. So I think if it's ok depends on if you have the same level of admiration for the writer as the writer does for himself.
- D3 + K MK-7

- Calcium citrate

- Magnesium glycinate

- Zinc picolinate

- Multivitamin (gender specific)

- B complex (B12, B9, B7, B6, B5, B3, B2, B1, C)

- Fiber

For men, it's further important to cut simple carbs (sugar and HFCS), fried food, high PUFA nuts (walnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, pine nuts, flaxseed, chia seeds, sesame seeds/tahini, pecans), soy, mint, black licorice, high PUFA veg oils. Also eat a few pistachios, cashews, and sprouted roasted pumpkins seeds (pepitas) daily because only cashews have low PUFAs. Any metabolic, endocrine, weight disorders, and lack of physical conditioning need to be treated too.
How Toyota thrives when the chips are down
Sure, but think as much as you want you can't necessarily understand 100% what someone is experiencing.
Almost every state I know of with a state lottery passed it under the proviso that the profits would fund “education”. Almost every state then proceeded to gut the education budget and replace it with lottery funds.
The Portland Loo [1] is neither automated nor millions of dollars. They're $96,000 each, and 16 have been installed, for a total of $1.5 million. So either you're talking about something else or your information is incorrect.

I wouldn't be surprised if they're all shut down now, due to Covid, but prior to that, they've always been open when I tried them.

The other public toilets in Portland, that I'm aware of, are in the parks. They're typically in heavy brick buildings. I could see those costing millions in aggregate, but they also seem likely fairly standard "build it to last" park construction. They're not automated either. As relatively large brick buildings, I would expect them to be expensive.

Regarding the point of the article—I much prefer toilets in the US to toilets in Europe. I remember trying to find a toilet at a mall in Norway and being out of luck due to not having the appropriate coin in the local currency. That's not something that would happen in the US. (Although, when I finally got in, it was quite nice.)

Another pay toilet, at a train station, was worse than disgusting. I don't know who got my coin, but that was the only deposit I made... I couldn't stand to enter the place.

In general, I'm much more confident in my ability to find a spot to do my business in the US than in Europe. Maybe because I expect to be able to swan into any coffee shop, gas station, or fast food chain (as you mentioned) and use the facilities. Although I'll admit that the bathrooms in Europe do tend to be nicer, on average, and I particularly appreciate the floor-to-ceiling dividers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Loo

Edit: Apparently, only 15 Portland Loos have been installed in Portland, and the city has received $362,323 in royalty payments for the design, for a net outlay of just over $1 million.
That's the general feel I get talking to older Westerner europeans. Be it 80s or 90s or 00s or nowadays... Life is good as usual, but relatively it feels worse because you're no longer that rich compared to others. And working class experience seems to be declining due to offshoring etc.

Meanwhile in Eastern europe is as you describe Asia. My parents live tremendously better than their parents. I live better than my parents. And I'm positive my kid will live better than I do. After that... Fingers crossed I'll see the trend going strong. And that's in pretty much any socioeconomic class. While wealth gap is growing since Soviet era, the poor are living better than Soviet era elite. Both in terms of necessities and leisure.
Interesting, I was aware of IBM's work in this field and certainly an area they have been a bit more focused upon:

https://www.ibm.com/security/services/homomorphic-encryption
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/06/ibm-releases-full...
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/12/fhe-progress-mile...

So the whole aspect of IBM not being involved does seem (too me at least, curious.
It’s also been noted that basically all great mathematicians are excellent at basic maths (memorized timetables) and can remember many numbers and can calculate in head quickly —— even though technically shouldn’t be necessary for proofs
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As far as I know the fees don't even pay for most of that stuff. Committee members have to pay to be part of a committee, usually paid by their employer. The time actually spent developing the standard is on the members' employers' payroll as well.
UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews
This is why I firmly believe that ALL law - every single piece of it should be written as a formal model with code so that assertions can be tested to see if something is illegal or not.
The problem is that all these standards apply to large and small devices, and to software as well.

I was once tangentially involved with an app that was basically a weight tracker. It was supposed to be a simple, reliable solutions for doctors to prescribe their patients, that allowed doctors to export data, and did not have annoying ads.

Since doctors were supposed to prescribe the app, it had to be certified as a medical device. It was fortunately a self-certification process.

But still the certification process was 10x more expensive than just the app development.

The problem is that not every medical "startup" has multiple full time employees and millions in funding. Some are just a single doctor with a simple idea, and for them a few thousand dollar here and a few thousand dollar there quickly add up. The standards aren't their only expense.
> Will I ever have a computer that I own?

Maybe yes, but why? Why do you want it?

As long as you remain a human being, there will always be things you'd prefer be otherwise if you just wait a while. If we take that as an axiom, we can stop trying to react to every discontent with thoughts of wanting the world to be different. Once you accept that things are the way they are and there ain't a thing to do about most of 'em, maybe that's better than owning a computer you own. I dunno, works for me :)