skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You joke, but I think this is actually true. If companies gave their developers of client-facing software slower computers the resulting software would end up being faster.
You have identified the reason my physical media players and TVs don't get connected to the internet.
"Made with passion", and
"Made with dedication"

Both don't have Unicode emoticons.

Nothing wrong with:

"Made with ♡"

Awesome thing about advice and criticism - you can decide to ignore it.

Do "Made for the ♡ of (unicorn emoticon)" if it floats your boat.

This is a common signal for "I care about my [front-end] work."
Southern Ontario has farm tiling fields with high tech gps tractors.

Lots of tech for data and tracking
"Solve the climate crisis" has moved goalposts several times in the last decade, which is why it always seems to be a few years in the future. In the 90s "stop climate change" meant staying well below 1° of warming. This ship has sailed. Until recently "stop climate change" meant staying below 1.5° (the Paris Accord), but that is basically unachievable now without heroic effort, so goalposts in Realpolitik have moved to staying below 2°, but even here essentially no government implements the necessary policy to achieve this goal.
What’s magical: it can observe, decide, and act with zero energy (or at least less energy than real-world thermodynamics requires).
Italian universities get many things wrong, but in terms of quality of graduates I reckon they used to be really good. The downside was having a high number of drop-outs (of which I am one). They've gone through umpteen "reforms" in the last few decades so I don't know how they do these days.
In Ireland (and I'd guess in most of Europe) bogs are are artificial landscapes, the result of mass deforestation and overgrazing. I don't see them as warranting any particular preservation. At least in the case of Ireland peatland preservation is just trying to preserve a very particular artefact of the agricultural revolution. Maybe it's different elsewhere... . It's about as worthy a cause to me as a golf-course preservation movement would be (ignoring the carbon-sequesterisation aspect of the argument, which I don't feel like assessing right now).

In the UK there's an lot amount of wildlife 'preservation' effort + money spent on on 'preserving' the landscape as an 18th century agricultural-industry idyll (including making sure that the actually indigenous flora+fauna doesn't get out of hand) rather than actually returning it to a more sustainable wilderness. George Monbiot has a big bit on this with his re-wilding schtick - https://www.monbiot.com/2013/05/27/a-manifesto-for-rewilding... .
yes, this reasoning does make sense. but given the human cost it should only make sense if there's a significant prior: in most of these cases there was no previous evidence whatsoever, just a new system, and boom, thieves.

I think the core point here is how imbalanced this process was: postal system builds a new accounting program that shows money is missing. these people were convicted solely on the evidence that software said so, there was no burden on them to show that the money was actually missing. I mean, hard for me to grasp how is that possible. anyone can write a program that shows something. how is this sufficient proof to send people to prison? does it not need to touch some objective reality at some point?
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ruby vuejs + vuefity + postgres + heroku
> When I fuck up when banking, I can get the bank to reverse it.

Wire transfers
For cartridge roms and pressed CDs the failure rate is much, much lower than the console and the expected life span much longer. Not to mention it's often possible to back those mediums up and play the backups or original media on another console.
JP Morgan ‘misjudged’ football fans over European Super League
The goal is make Americans equal. Singaporeans will be far ahead. In truth, they already are.
> This isn't even GDPR compliant.

Our World in Data in run by Oxford University, so outside of EU. The applicability of EU GDPR laws outside EU is a complicated topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
PayPal isn't a bank. They don't have the same obligations or protection. When a bank closes your account, they mail you a check with the balance, and that balance is insured up to $250,000. I don't know how it works in other countries, but they probably have something like the FDIC.
This started in Royal Mail and was inherited by Post Office. https://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/our-media-centre#/pressre...
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You are Ken M :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_M
Collaborative editing is one of the hardest problems in that field, I think it’s cool to show that one on the frontpage.

And the demo shows how you can customize the styling, the power of extensions and how that all can be put together in a custom way. But maybe it doesn’t communicate all that very well.

Keep in mind it’s an MIT-licensed open source project, we just launched two days ago and we didn’t even post it here.
If you read the linked story about Kevin Cooper, it sounds like he is a better human being today than when he was almost certainly wrongfully convicted. Just one data point, but at least regular prison has redemptive potential, while the lethal syringe, I think, has none.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/17/opinion/sunda...
iTunes is also a DRM-free music store. (Assuming you buy and aren’t using Apple Music.)
The tone, looseness of phrase and structure read like a high school report on the topic. The indiscriminate mixing of personal opinion and fact and poor citation make what could be a solid article an opinion piece at best.
Of course it wasn’t invented by Apple, that would be ridiculous.

It was actually invented by Goldilocks.
I didn’t buy the hype until I tested an actual M1. It exceeded the hype. It feels like when I was a kid and went from a 386SX to a Pentium at 4X the speed, except the M1 was also a quarter the power consumption.

It’s the first time in a over a decade I’ve felt a revolutionary step forward in a chip and the only time it has ever come with less power.

Process node is a factor but I find it hard to believe it’s the only factor. I know enough about the X86 legacy tax to know that is not the case.

Apple didn’t do black magic. They just took a cleaner superior CPU architecture and made a desktop class muscular chip with it. Other ARM manufacturers could equal or exceed the M1 if they wanted. X86 has been delivered a death sentence.

IMHO the greatest threat to AMD is ARM not Intel, and vice versa.
Python is strongly typed. You mean static typing.
> I've always thought Intel's marketing was a bit confused - i7 stays the same over 10+ years

I think that is because the performance has been the same for the past 10+ years.
On iPhone it immediately asks me to use the app. And it hijacks the browser history so I can’t go back.

These characteristics mean the author is either a jerk or chooses a hosting system that’s a jerk.

Either way, I missed the content because the presentation was so offensive.
Not the same. Back in the day it was treated as a novelty. If your friend knew it'd have value then he'd have protected it better.
I'd add Lulu to that list.

https://www.lulu.com/search/?contributor=Nils+M+Holm
AFAIK those are all libraries that can be compiled in. It would be far less work than porting iTunes and they did that until iTunes died.
> the author had issues with undergoing reviews and applying requested changes.

Does this mean the author would send code for review and never actually action the change requests? Or was it more they sent patches and expectecd them to just be merged?
Veteran journalist Steve O’Hear quits TechCrunch for grocery startup
Which competitor has a touchpad that’s equal to or better than apple?
I tried this approach with Taiga.io, but it doesn't address another bonus of having slug-based ticket numbers - namespace separation is a feature which helps to keep the number of digits down, because each slug starts with its own counter.

One of the problems with flat-namespace numbers is that the numbers are so long that eyes start to glaze over them. A three-digit number is pretty easy to tell apart from another just from the "shape" (if that makes sense) of the digits, wherease this "shape" is completely obscured once the counter exceeds 4 digits.

Ideally, a system like this would just have a toggle to configure whether one wants to use a flat namespace (with or without slugs), or multiple namespaces with slugs. It's not that difficult from a technical perspective, since the primary key for the ticket will be some internal linear number anyway, and the separate namespaced slugs are just human-oriented handles.
Thank you very much for this reply.
I was considering implementing it for a program I’m writing, but in light of that it’s clearly not worth it.
Yeah. Even my small lawn tractor has a seat sensor...
Donating CPU time, is one thing unique on lichess compared to other websites. When there is a commercial website, why should i donate CPU for their CEO to put another digit on his payroll?

Considering that ML and chess engines are now only starting, how about making a hybrid model of bitcoin mining and the cpu/gpu cost of analyzing chess games? That way one percentage of the energy consumed of the mining, on bitcoin or whatever, isn't immediately thrown out of the window.

Or maybe making a hybrid model of analyzing the DNA of embryos to find defects, and bitcoin mining for the same reason. One fact not many people know is that economy in ancient Greece, was something women were doing. Men when there was something we wanted, we made wars. I foresee that there will be a digital coin like bitcoin that people will use, and that is gonna start from the women only. We, men, are not cut out like this, exchanging of goods in a peaceful manner.
Yes.

I was on a webinar yesterday and the user was presenting their cool prez running from their browser. I was able to see the url, visit it and learn about their project without having to spend time asking for a link.

The url is valuable information to me.
Everything you can do with Slate.js, you can do with tiptap, too.

Some things are even easier in tiptap, some are better supported (collaborative editing), and Slate.js is only available for React, but tiptap is framework-agnostic.

If you’re happy with Slate: That’s fine, it’s an amazing editor. For some use cases, tiptap is probably better suited, though, but that highly depends on your use case.
> I say 1MWh extracted daily

Consider a single offshore turbine in the Galloper wind farm is rated at 6 MW and this doesn't look so impressive.

> a dumb metal object

That's the thing. It isn't a dumb metal object. It requires generating gear, maintenance and protection from weather. Also consider the Ever Given is 1/4 mile long. These are big volumes you are talking about.

No matter how you look at it, wind is a tough candidate to beat when it comes to offshore power.
By “strongarms” do you mean “places the highest bid”?
> But if I need to build something that will be rock solid I need to move more slowly and carefully, and Java works well for that.

Rock solid with features like null references, AbstractFactoryFactories, extremely over-engineered class and inheritance architectures, object fetishism, etc. I know what you mean, but Java and rock solid are not something I would mention together.
Who would pay into these wallets?
Let's look beyond the hype:

- With M1, Apple has finally closed the loop and created a fully closed system that it has control over vs an x86-64 platform that is more open and gives us users more choice and control.

- All new devices with M1 SoC score very poorly on repairability and upgradebility vs the x86-64 platform that still allows you to repair / upgrade RAM, memory, CPU's and other parts in an affordable manner.

- And because of the above two, all M1 devices with low ram and storage, have planned obsolescence of 3-5 years built-in, along with a kill switch to totally disable the device.

Apple has a found a great fit for their business model with the ARM SoCs. Even when (not if, when) AMD and Intel bring out better processors, Apple will stick with their ARM SoCs because todays computing power has far outpaced the demand made by the common softwares used by all. And Apple can cater to the common denominators with their own OS + CPU + 8GB + 256 GB NvME quite well for maybe another decade.

I am happy there is some good tech development and competition in computer systems. But my Intel Mac Mini will be the last mac I will buy from Apple. macOS Mojave still runs fine on it. Otherwise there's always Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. That's the real advantage of the x86-64 platform that people like me will never sacrifice for closed systems like the M1 devices.
I run like 50 chrome tabs, a half dozen Intellij panes, youtube, slack, and a bunch of heavy containers at the same time, and that's just my dev machine.

My desktop is an ML container train/test machine. I also have ssh into two similar machines, and a 5 machine, 20GPU k8s cluster. I pretty much continuously have dozens of things building /running at once.

Maybe I'm an outlier though?
You can implement all of this, including reversable transactions under specific conditions, via smart contracts, without sacrificing decentralization.
“Oh no, now I’m ruined!” :-)
How is this calculated? It isn't very clear. Is this representative of individual devices or is it caused by more of the same devices?
And what role does finance play in a society where money isn't a thing?

Finance is only a drain on actual resources. Think of all the accountants that could have been out there creating things and doing useful stuff rather than playing make-believe with numbers.

That genius who invented that finance thing you like might possibly have come up with a grand unified theory thing if he had focused on something useful rather than finance.
Did no one ever ask where was the money? These people all had these huge short falls, why did no one go to find the cash?

That's financial crimes 101
You mean the centralized off chain network that's riddled with bugs and horrible UX?
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Maybe you could use examples of biology, and the human body, there are some many different processes that are understood to certain degree, many times oversimplified to be able to talk about them, and you could always dig deeper until getting into the chemistry and physics of it, it can be overwhelming if you think about it, just as an example the bacteria in your gut, digestion, all the equilibriums that need to happen so that you have a optimal health, it's not about more resources (if I'm getting you right).

And as a side note, when in conversations I notice we use abstract words to hide complexity, for example normal people say "I had a bad digestion", but if two doctors were talking they would probably get pass the digestion word and get into the details of the complexity, and maybe end up talking about the lack of encimes and questioning if there is a problem in the organ that produces them.
Meh. The M1 got laughed right out of our office. It couldn't do anything without us changing all of our code and tooling for it.

We'll see how stable the landscape looks for it in five years.
Also - more technical background: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252496560/Fujitsu-bosses...
>I'm not going to say hi to every one of the 200 strangers I see on my daily walk..

>Talking on the bus stop? What?

I don't want to suggest that your post is in bad faith, but it does seem to be willfully misinterpreting what I was describing.

Quite obviously people aren't heartily haling every total stranger they meet walking down Oxford Street in London. But in small encounters there's not only the custom to be polite and acknowledge the other people around you, there's an expectation that you'll make smalltalk, and reduce the friction of everyday city life. It shows consideration, and it's considered to be a mark of civilization.

I'm sure for shy people it could be seen as a negative, but if the bus is delayed and you and one other person are left standing at the stop for 30 more minutes, a few words grumbling about the transport service, and then the weather, are a way to soften the discomfort.

And as others have pointed-out, it has utility in everyday life: people 'noticing' each other can even save lives. In Stockholm I cannot even begin to enumerate the number of times I've stepped into a situation that others have ignored, staring straight ahead and behaving as though they're alone in the city.
Am I the only one who thinks the site was made for humor? Isn't it supposed to be funny, not serious?
I thought it was implicit that you build a jump table based on the string. That is, BM isn't just "search from the end." It includes the push down automata.
Its obvious to us 150 years later because we are very familiar with the idea that processing data needs energy, its as natural an idea to us as plugging in a phone. It wasn't so obvious in 1867.
I applaud your focus on performance. Most SaaS is garbage-slow in this area. Unfortunately, bugasura is not a replacement for my specific use case, since there's no on-prem/self-hosted option. Do you have any plans to support this deployment mode, via Docker or otherwise?
> Ads are an attack on our attention.

He said after celebrating 10 years posting on a site that’s an ad for a VC fund...
It is almost difficult to describe someone who hasn’t seen it how powerful tides in the UK can be. Where I live the tidal range is over 12m from low to high tide and flows like a massive fast-moving river at peak times. It can easily overpower small boats and drag them out to sea. The amount of energy moving through the waterway is staggering.
What Is Godel's Theorem?
May I introduce you to the $5 wrench method?

https://xkcd.com/538/
Test it for what exactly? All ultrabook keyboards are garbage, but they shouldn't out-right fail. "Testing" one isn't going to tell me if it will fail, it's just going to feel as crappy as the other keyboards.

If a product fails within the first 10% of expected lifespan I'm no longer interested in that product. If it fails _AND_ the manufacturer refuses to take responsibility until months of bad press and class action lawsuits then I'd have to be insane to trust them with another device.
For the one that can't stand the cognitive overhead of regex like me, verbal regex is a major improvement:
https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JavaVerbalExpressions
It's pretty much what it says on the tin- a tab search function. Useful for navigating if you have a bunch of tabs. I don't use Chrome much, and even on my main browser I rarely have a bunch of tabs open so I don't care much for it.
> It's very much a case of assumed infallibility of "scientific evidence," which in this case were computer records.

I wonder if any of the prosecuted were in Scotland?

In Scots Law there's a fundamental rule of Corroboration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corroboration_in_Scots_law

There must be two source of independent evidence for someone to be convicted of a crime. I'll be interested to see (if there's genuinely no corroborating evidence beyond the computer records) how many prosecutions went ahead north of the border.
> An (IMO) Interesting question is how to reduce the risks of things like this happening.

I look forward to finding out if this was a “fraud system gone wrong” or a more basic ledger system failing to do sums correctly.

Partially addressing your question though, if you were to insert the words “AI” and “bias” into the sentence we as an industry are starting to figure this out. The certification and testing processes you mentioned are there in cases where a team’s mature enough to have both a data and model lifecycle worked out. You see words like MLOps trying to describe how to do that effectively in production.

For example, my work has both a design approach (in both the product design touchy/feely sense and software architecture sense) that includes questions and practices that will help to reason through data needed to address a problem, what can go wrong with that, and how things look when it goes wrong. The last bit is the most interesting one to me. In terms of practical engineering, inference results generally should have some sense of lineage - of data, model, and training services which explain how you got to a given answer, including what inputs were considered or ignored.

An interesting side topic with this is that poor implementations can result in inexcusable differences that affect downstream systems. For example, if a particular model has predicted something like “this transaction is suspected to be fraud” it better be consistent from run to run, and the input data better be consistent over time. If either of those changed - explaining that to the consumers of the data is essential to them understanding that either the model changed, the data changed, or both.
https://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/librarian_statement_01.h...

There is an explicit exemption for:

"Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access."

AKA old console roms. https://archive.org has piles now unchallenged for years as a result.
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It's the old form vs content debate. The average movie goer probably won't purchase a ticket and sit through hours of Andy Warhol's "Empire" or Christian Marclay's Clocks. In same the way they would go see the Coen Brothers' Scarface re-make.

Film as Art is often considered under Auteur Theory. The entire body of work is investigated. To glean a unique vision specific to the director.

One of the more popular retrospectives at MoMA pre-lockdown was the films of Mae West. Depression era escapism for the audiences of those days. But nearly a century later, they have a very different impact.

In 500 years, Super Mario Bros may be more important than Hamlet. As a society, we are on the cusp of playing games directly with our minds (via Neuralink). It's not a question of the immersion or interactivity these simulations will have. But in how they advance our understanding of our humanity.

I know it all sounds a bit snobby and elitist. But looking at some games that attempted to transcend. Bjork's Biophilia for instance. Or the CD-ROMs of Theresa Duncan. I can't help but feel the pinnacle has not been achieved yet. And is still very much up for grabs ;)
In Sweden, there was until just recently, 21 regional indendepent police, plus a national investigative unit. (And the secret police and the military police.)

Now the 21 regional police have been merged into one national police.
Just as an aside.

Commenting in just haiku

Makes you stop and think.

---Honestly, commenting in haiku form really makes you stop and consider what you want to write. Maybe I'll try this with all of my comments from now on.
The poll says that 40% of beginning med students believe black people have thicker skin, not that they feel no pain. I honestly have no idea if the skin thickness thing is true but it's completely plausible. I have to believe one ethnic group or another has different thickness skin. And it doesn't imply no pain. Pain doesn't even come from the outside in half the time. And the lower rate of pain medication could easily be explained by socioeconomic factors more easily than belief in a myth.

The article may have a grain of truth but it's not a good argument.
> When I fuck up when banking, I can get the bank to reverse it.

No, you're comparing dissimilar things. Cryptocurrency is cash (with the benefit of not having to be close to someone for a transfer), and you can't "roll back" the giving of cash to someone (except compel them to give it back with the help of a court).

If you want to compare a bank to something, you need to compare it to another custodial/off-chain solution.
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