skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's inherently evil?

Now let's take this to the extreme: What if you mined cryptocurrency by burning medicine? The more you burn, the richer you are. Clearly that's evil, as it rewards you for destroying the world.

In a perfect world you would mine cryptocurrency by making progress in peace on earth, good will towards man.

But if you can answer this: What useful resource, that's expensive to produce and has an environmental impact, do you want to incentivize destroying in order to further your greed?

Can you think of anything? Is it not by its very nature evil?

But consider even what happened under Imperial rule in India: Locals were rewarded for every dead snake they proved to the British. What happened? Obviously they started breeding snakes!

So now you have MORE snakes! You actually made the problem worse!
Their audience is me, a curious not-very-technical layman who is interested in the concepts but bored by the details!

Granted, I'm not sure how common this is.

I do worry about Gell-Mann amnesia with Quanta, but I comfort myself that usually nobody has a stake in distorting this or that number theory thingamajig or physics quandary. However... I'm sure there are academic infights and research tug-of-war to which I'm blissfully blind.
I guess you are right, in some places it might have been purely cultural.

That said I think my argument still stands if you replace "religious" with "cultural"?
When I pinch zoom on the images on my iphone it crashes my device :o
I think there are studies showing that one hot encodings are not as efficient as an embedding, so maybe you would want to reduce the dimensions before attempting the analysis.
A Corona vaccine passport is a solution to a problem that does not exist.

Thankfully there is still common sense in the US:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-gov-greg-abbott-b...
Calibre is one of those rare examples of software where the kitchen-sink approach is absolutely warranted. It's a one-stop shop for pretty much everything related to e-book management, conversion, or creation.

I spend most of my time in Calibre just managing my library or converting ebooks between formats (particularly if I'm pulling ebooks off my Kindle or Kobo to strip their DRM). When I want to test whether the conversion was successful, the built-in ebook viewer is there. It's not great, and I wouldn't use it over some dedicated programs to read an entire book, but it gets the job done.

Then there's that rare occasion in which I might actually need to edit an ebook, because the ToC is broken or I spotted an annoying typo that I feel compelled to fix. And for that, the e-book editor tool is more than capable. Again, maybe it's not ideal (I've never tried producing an e-book start-to-finish through it), but for some quick edits, it just works.

There's alot to be said for UNIX philosophy and fighting bloat, but sometimes having everything you could conceivably need for a given purpose in one well-maintained program is comforting.
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Why AI is not AI until it wonders why
Arm based devices have an early boot menu accessible by holding the "a" button. From here boot with fail-safe defaults.
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1387065619011543040

>Usually when people talk about grand things like changing "the future (business model) of computing," they're full of it. But not this time. Suhail has been working on this for 2 years. There's a good chance it's the new default infrastructure.

What is missing is 'business model' in parenthesis. Then maybe it makes some sense. This kind of managed service is definitely not for me, but it may be the future (business model) of computing.

Ultimately we get the technology we 'deserve'. General purpose computing was a short lived experiment but ultimately nerds could not convince or train enough lay people to appreciate the power it gave them. We're slowly sliding into a future where large corporations control basic access to computing. We're going to have to beg to be given permission to program our own devices. Its already happening on smartphones, tablets. PCs are next.
Kalman was a coworker of mine at my previous job, and is just an amazing, stunning hacker.
Newsbreak: A Univ of YALE study/research confirms that you'll have a better chance to get hired if you talk like a YALE professor at your job interview. Unless the job interview is working the cash register at Sonic's.
This is totally reasonable advice IMO. TSOP clips are an option and work OK, but are expensive and fiddly. Rework onto a breakout board is usually the cheapest and easiest option, whether hot air or chipquik.

Another sketchy option is deadbug to the chip in situ (using solder or microclips), or test points if you're lucky and they are provided. This can be quite questionable depending on how backfeeding power into the board via the chip's Vcc works out, but is sometimes possible.
True, but I do believe there was a natural evolution. Stadia started as a Chrome project, for example.
On the other hand, if they expected us to rent phones, I imagine they would be a lot sturdier... And probably find a second life for them, though that's happening: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/samsung-starts-offic...
This is just false. People just need a better UML IDE, and to stop thinking you need 100% UML coverage. UML is supposed to save time, if it doesn't don't do it, when it does you're wasting time to not use it. UML is still the go-to for creating State machines. I use them all the time in software and computer engineering. I've been using StarUML myself for years and it's still usable with the unregistered free version, you just have to put cards behind the UML to block out the watermark. I can't recommend StarUML enough. If enough people start buying it they'll put out more updates, it's been years since the last update. Evidence UML is not popular right now.

If you're trying to break up a project into work for a large team, UML makes sense. Most people are clueless of how to do Test Driven Development right. I personally start with use case scenarios, then write console tests with dummy users named after my UML actors. By writing the console test with mock JSON data, you can quickly build high quality apps. The problem is when you have to update your UML, it becomes a time sink. Really we should have IDE and AI tools to reverse annotate the UML models. And CV tools to turn drawings on backs of napkins into UML.

I have not tried PlanetUML but it looks really cool, and it's my style. Comparative to StarUML, I would argue it's probably better for your creativity to type stuff out by hand but StarUML's CAD-like interface is very good. I personally run a startup that does pen-and-paper GitHub/Markdown integrations and I'm working towards converting my I am You Language (IMUL) to PlaneUML. It's competing with other products for attention though. I think that's the end argument about UML, it competes for time resources, I need help.
I'm trying to convince people of this :) . In rural areas a car is frequently your only lifeline when power fails. It's a source of heat, power, and transport. Making that all dependant on electricity which you won't have when you need it most is a non starter
> unless Apple will also apply this to IP based geofencing

The only way Apple can prevent IP based tracking or location (or anything keyed off IP addressing) is to proxy all user traffic (iCloud VPN, if you will).
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Domestic commodities seem like a good investment near term.
But... let’s watch that image or at least keep a model of our friends falling into the black hole for 10^100 years. Forever is a long time.

If we keep watching that image the black hole eventually stops growing, the “image” never crosses the event horizon and when the universe cools down enough the event horizon starts getting smaller and hotter until we watch our friends getting roasted outside the evaporating black hole which eventually is gone and just normal matter.

The timeline of the “image” would seem to reconnect with the real article having never crossed the event horizon.

In other words it would seem if we waited long enough the image of our friends outside the event horizon would outlive the black hole and we could go say hello after it evaporated.

In other, other words, how do we see the universe outside aging as we fall into a black hole? Do we not get to watch the heat death of the universe as we approach and consequently the black hole very quickly evaporating in front of us as we fall towards it?
The only thing I have against calibre is that the scroll speed on books is really fast. It's easy to flick 20 pages forward or backward on accident. Makes me miss smooth scroll on other interfaces.
I think class is primarily dictated by three things on a superficial level, e.g ten minutes or less of a first interaction with someone:

- How you speak

- How you dress

- How physically attractive you are, specifically in regards to things like height, fitness, and angular features.

Skin color takes a backseat to these factors in the modern era
> The opportunity for competition exists

This is so deep and powerful if you really think about it. This is what we were promised. While not perfect, I applaud Apple for at least trying.
Great piece of software.
I also suspect that we don't need to look at history to see the backing proof. The SJW religion is very much what this quote is talking about and it's never been more relevant about the tyranny of the preachers of that religion as they mob anyone who disagrees.

The point is that "actual" tyrannical robbers are bad - and there's no denying that... but so are those who are worse in the name of "good".
I'll trust microsoft over any ad tech company's trackers.
Dumb terminals weren't niche, and have always been extremely accessible.
"We refuse to" might be clearest of all.
The outputs are easy to track. The issue you have is someone running an exchange over seas that won't co-operate. Also, as others have said, it isn't as if there were no online scams before 2015.
Huh, I thought that naked singularities were thought to not exist. But apparently in 2018 someone found a case where they could.

Thanks!
facebook has something like this internally (bunnylol), everyone's browser uses an internal search engine by default that parses the query into commands that can take args and often route to internal tools, etc
it's pretty neat, the open source version is called bunny1
This guy sounds like a practiced predator, he ought to be in jail.
Way to Hold a Virtual Meeting
When I read comments like this, I feel sad. Between the lines I always read a resignation to design choices that create unnecessary accidental complexity amd are an obvious step backwards compared to other version control systems, even ones that came before. Competing systems like Mercurial, Plastic or fossil are a simple proof by existence for this claim. Yet there is some snobbery/mysticism around git that makes any meaningful evolution in this space impossible.
Unfortunately the tech world somehow became hostile to rationality and everything is filled with emotion.

I remember having political discussions in the past and I can still have conversations with dissenting people over a certain age; younger people seems to have lost the capacity to discuss.

I think it's a generational issue, it's just that people who have been failed by the education system and by society (in the shape of psychologists' 10 parenting tips, divorces, working parents with 3 jobs, unstable families, being left out of the housing ladder), are reaching the age when they talk politics.
I'm curious, how does the restocking work out here? Is this restocking recovering from the initial drop in Asian exports from like a year ago? Have companies been working with that dent in their inventories for the last year-ish?
Rape is doing it, not insisting, I think.
In case you're seriously wondering, it's vastly preferably for a business to spend $10/month in opex instead of $360 amortized over 3 year in capex. That's why everything is going rental and outsourced, even the plants in your average fancy office are rented by the month.
Perhaps. Canadian population is concentrated in southern areas. Majority of continental US is habitable and has population density less than 10 people per square mile.
Wouldn't that encourage the big company to find more issues in apps, and then tell devs to buy consulting hours to figure out how to solve them?
Why did you switch?
People really just doesn’t care about infosec, do they?
I was shocked to learn how long it takes a photon produced at the center of the sun by a fusion event to reach earth. The layers upon layers of subatomic particles that are all interacting in these tight quarters is simply astounding.

I've heard this same theory on supernovas from a number of people in or around physics, but I always wonder how handwavy it is, whether we actually understand how that works yet, and how different (confusing) the real process is from the given one.
I have the exact same issue, still on 33. Running Ryzen 3600X and RX 480. I think it could be a kernel update, got bumped to 5.11.16 last night, don't recall any Mesa updates in the list (using update-testing repos).
> How are people still getting away with this kind of abuse? How?

Read the comments in this thread six hours from now and you'll understand.
Why would it lead to a huge number of East Asian males?
Reminds me of a line from the Sopranos...
Just run a server.
Pardon me for being rude, but this seems like a pretty naive marketing take on what they're offering. What exactly is the use case here? Employees that have hundreds of tabs open saving a couple seconds loading web pages? How much productivity is being lost there, objectively?

Once you get above 20 tabs, are you genuinely keeping track of every single one as something to return to later? Or are you just being lazy and lack the personal systems to track what's actually important or needs to be returned to later?

I've been using a 11y/o computer at home for everything--code compilation, VMs, work AND personal life--and this has never been an issue for me.

Maybe I'll give you #3, but if an employee came to me asking for this as a paid subscription, I'd shut the idea down immediately. Seems like another startup trying to fill a space that doesn't need to be occupied.
> the user interface needs some work to modernize

No, it doesn't. Eventually people learn to use it, and everyone is happy that way.
Fascinating concept and yet I find something about it really disturbing... the exact opposite of the future I'd hope for. It just sounds so inefficient. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong or something.

Also, maybe I'm just being pedantic, but exactly what is the meaning of "10x less memory"? Is that the same as "One tenth the memory"?
*WRT supported it last I checked, but that's no help in this case, as the ISP-provided locked-down router would need to support this.

(This isn't about ISP-provided locked-down routers either, though those are an abomination too IMHO. Regardless of whether the "last" ISP-controlled device is a plastic router in your home or an aggregator somewhere else, it needs to support and offer PD for you...)
I love Calibre, and I love its user interface. Maybe a little arcane, but free of modern ux nonsense.
If they can get this running on an iPad that would be incredible. The real value of Mighty isn't for users who can afford a MacBook Pro. It's to unlock the utility of a dumb terminal and provide lightning fast performance on a underpowered device. And freed from Apple's shackles they put on Mobile Safari.
There are actually a lot of theoretical applications.

Black holes are likely the most efficient form of power generation that we currently know of.

Black hole propulsion may well be the best form of interstellar starship propulsion.

Black holes may also be the ultimate computer.

If the universe continues based on it current understanding then eventually all the stars will be dead and the universe will be a dark place. The Black hole era will last trillions of time as long but may well be the golden age of civilization.

Each of these topics is a rabbit hole.
How would socialism have dealt with the first scenario? My understanding is there simply wasn't enough food to go around, and no economic system can fix that. Capitalism at least provides a profit motive to solve the problem (eventually).

The Bengal famine was a top down project specifically designed to profit. There is no "free market capitalism" in that scenario.
Insisting could mean doing it in this context. English is weird.
There are 2 competing offers to buy the company, as I know of. One from OVH founder Octave Klaba, the other from JB Kempf, of VLC fame. So no, I don't think it should go out of business - in the short term.
first, a small rant:
tbf. I dislike the title.
the real title is sexual harassment from Jon Pretty a leader of certain Scala Community standups.

because the current title actually sounds like it's the whole commnity, but the blog is about a specific guy.

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second I really do not understand, how other people can be so horrible. he basically abused her in a moment where she was really really desperate and I think such a thing is really really bad.
Makes me wonder if you could split an ipynb into an in and out file, then add /*.out to .gitignore.
> Ubooquity server requires Java 8 (Oracle version).

That is rather limiting in 2021.
Interestingly, Automattic (where I work) is completely text-based throughout the entire hiring process for many roles. The first interview is via Slack, the code test and trial stages are via pull requests, slack, and p2. It’s great because day-to-day work uses these async tools rather than calls. So it’s more accurate anyways.
> class bias is never addressed at all

You see this a lot in online forums, e.g. a person will blithely mock "wal-mart shoppers" or "rednecks" without rebuke and then jump down your throat with "white privilege" if they perceive the slightest possiblity of you questioning a racial bias claim.
What no code did you use?
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The only real use case I see for this is for anyone working from an under powered machine who needs to run _really_ resource heavy web apps. If your working in tech, chances are you're running with at least 16gb ram and a half decent CPU. I'm sure there's some edge cases where this _could_ be useful, but certainly not at that price point.

Can you install Chrome extensions? Does it support things like adblock? What are some concrete use cases and examples of who this is for?

The marketing talks about the ability to have more tabs open... In my experience, once you go beyond about 25 tabs (15" mbp) they basically become impossible to mentally manage.

Maybe rather than having 50+ chrome tabs open, people need to learn how to manage resources on their machines.
I take this with a similar perspective. As a complete standalone browser, I'm a bit skeptical on its adoption, as a built-in feature backed by the browser vendor (Apple/Google/Mozilla/Microsoft/etc.) to "offline this tab to the cloud" I think this gets a lot more appealing. Add billing per minute and this can be a very nice way of interacting with heavy applications through a browser.
We need VW to do this.
But Tesla isn’t going to be standing still in the next few years either. Their platform and lead in technology and integration, let alone the lack of legacy costs, provides genuine competitive advantage.
Correlation doesn't mean causation. If the cause is class bias, and you spend all your energy trying to make people more tolerant of other races, when actually they have no racist feelings whatsoever but have terrible class prejudices, then all your efforts are in vain. Trying to conflate the two things just because a correlation might exist is the problem OP is talking about.
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This. It honestly makes me so sad. It feels the vast majority (non-tech) of people just don't understand how important it is to be able to create and have control of the things you "own". Damn it's going to suck if everyone goes the way of Apple and starts to lock things down. I really hope these anti-trust suits open things back up. Whatever happened to the "Think Different" campaign in where it literally portrayed us being slaves to corporations forcing us to consume the way they wanted us to. Damn. Just so crazy. IDK why this post is putting it all in perspective, but the next decade is going to do some miles on me...

It feels like we are slowly losing power. Very slowly.
Oh yeah. The US is guilty as charged, but there's no such thing as a free country that's not capitalist, until we live in a post-scarcity society. Technologically we are many centuries away from that.
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Then any new asset type, IPO, or security also entrenches wealth inequality for the same reasons. Unfortunately that would have to happen to get away from using fiat currency.

My original comment was just saying that I think Bitcoin is the best alternative we have, not that it would necessarily succeed.
Nice if you're into downloading ebooks illegally or from the few sites that don't do ERP. I used to use it too. However since graduating college and starting to make money I didn't download anything anymore due to lack of time more than lack of funds so I don't use it anymore.
> The people who do well on the test are given the job on a probationary basis.

This sounds terrible. Not everyone can take tests well (even if they strongly understand the content), and few people can afford to accept a job that's probationary.
I'm surprised by the amount of skepticism I'm noticing here. I have been following Suhail's work on Mighty for a few months and I was very much looking forward to it.

One use case that where I think this would make my life easier is in the big-data / ML space where I'm trying to visualize large quantities of data. JS, WebGL and other supporting tools are all available today, but it's quite painful to load a graph visualization with 1M nodes and make it responsive without spending a lot of time optimizing the JS code. As a data scientist when I'm simply hacking stuff and want a quick prototype it's nearly impossible.

Graphistry [https://www.graphistry.com/] has a decent setup for graphs viz, but it didn't quite fit my needs. I've also tried JS running on a large machine (with GPU) and VNCed to it. That experience was quite poor.
It is true that MirageOS has its focus on OCaml as a type-safe language. Its libraries are implemented in OCaml.
However, even with having most parts written in C in Unikraft, we are also able to apply dead-code elimination and link-time optimizations with the compiler. In principle you should even be able to combine libraries that are written with different languages.

Regarding inspecting: The design does not exclude that you could add libraries to enable inspection and monitoring. We are even thinking that this is quite important for today deployments: Imagine an integration with Prometheus or a little embedded SSH shell.

The difference to Unix and what we want to achieve is to utilize specialization. Unix/Linux/etc. are general purpose OSes, that are very good fits for cases where you do not know beforehand which applications you are going to run on it (e.g., end-devices like desktops, smartphones). Unikraft wants to optimize the cases where you know beforehand what you are going to run on it and where you are going to run it. It is optimizing the kernel layers and optionally also the application for the use case.
Sex was had while she did not consent, she mentions in the fifth paragraph.
This is another big if true thing. It could lead to a potential dominating OS.

I would invest 1/10 of my annual savings into it, if possible. Are there any product for me to do that?