skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody knows the answer to this.

"As in, a judge would briefly think 'nice try' and send you to federal prison. Is this a concern for rsync.net?"

I'm not sure I parse your sentence correctly, but the only actor here is the US corporation named rsync.net. It is the entity that takes these actions (or lack thereof) and it would be the object of follow-up actions/proceedings/decisions - whatever they might be.
I agree here. It feels like the popularity of git has lead us to believe that you either have to choose a clean history or the real history.

But I imagine there exists a design for a source control system where you can preserve history and also provide a clean interpretation of that history.

For example, why does rebase have to be a destructive operation?
Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution. When does it end? Or is this the new normal?
Shocked that with 3d printing available why we still lack community to design and print this stuff.
God I miss living in a country with real consumer protection.
The full report is worth reading. It's really well written, seems well researched, and despite being opinionated gives the other side of the story.
Flutter is hacking just your own app, Droidscript sounds like it could be used for anything in other apps (maybe even ad click fraud).
Fair enough but "just talk to them" is clearly worse.
Article is from January. What have we learned since then?
Split the difference with base 32? More efficient than hex, you can leave out the 4 easiest letters to confuse with digits and no upper/lower case problem.

Verbal communication is a problem with any system that uses letters. In hex for example; 3, B, C, D and E all sound very much the same.
I’m not sure I get your point? Best case you get government subsidies? What are you referring to? Worst case? I think I can think of a lot worse than ‘nothing’.
ever since Nvidia saw how much people were willing to pay for GPUs, the whole world has gone crazy and is finding ways to manufacture scarcity.
There's no doubt Apple has a lead in consumer grade chips for the moment, but I expect Apple's lead here will last for 2 or 3 years tops before intel, amd, or perhaps other arm chip oems catch up. Apple doesn't have access to special unique wonderful secrets, arcane wisdom that only the elect can learn. Relax, Apple is not going to take over the world, as we speak their competitors are working like mad to close the gap.
They have teeth, and they are the regulator.

This is basically an opening statement on their view of the world, and puts Apple and Google on notice that this is something the ACCC are interested in.

It is basically a standard way the ACCC announces what they're doing and putting industry on notice.

They did this for comparison sites that had secret sorting/recommendations that weren't in the best interest of the consumer.

They've done this for retailers who didn't abide by Australian Consumer Law on warranties and various disclaimers given in-store.

In most cases there's usually some kind of enforceable agreement reached, sometimes they go to court to enforce compliance.
Nice work!

I'd love a text field in there so I could add what I was doing in that time period. Maybe even keep track of it and get a report of time spent each day.
It's absolutely normal with RISC ISAs that use 4 byte instructions. There is plenty of room to specify three 5-bit register numbers, and it often prevents needing extra MOV instructions.

RISC-V also has instructions that are two bytes long. The assembler automatically uses a 2 byte instruction instead of the corresponding four byte instruction if it can.

Examples of available two byte instructions:

Using any of the 32 registers:

- move or add one register to another

- shift left by a constant 0..63

- add a constant -32..+31 to a register

- load or store a register within 0..63 register sizes above the stack pointer

Using only the eight "most popular" registers (s0..s1, a0..a5):

- subtract, AND, OR, XOR two registers

- AND with a constant -32..+31

- logical or arithmetic shift right by a constant 1..63

- load or store a 32 or 64 bit value at an offset of 0..31 operand widths above the address in a register.

The programmer (or even compiler) doesn't need to remember which operations and registers are supported by 2 byte instructions, the assembler just selects them automatically when possible.

Of course you can decrease your code size if you do know what can use a 2 byte instruction and organise your code to maximise it.
With lossy data compression evidently
A fairly obvious one: If you are from a culture where sex before marriage is permissible and you are a woman, men from cultures where women are expected to remain virgins until the wedding night may see you as "a loose woman."

In such cases, they may even feel entitled to have you and get very mad if you try to tell them no.

People from very conservative cultures tend to wildly misinterpret the actions of women from more liberated and empowered cultures. Her behavior may be viewed as promiscuous or as leading him on when she's doing no such thing.

Some cultures expect a man to have to pursue a woman pretty hard before she says "yes." I read one article where a man from such a culture was sort of frustrated or disappointed when his lady from another culture gave it up too easily in his view. He wasn't happy at not having to "work for it."
Another Turing complete language. The one I used compiled to unreadable c++. It was easier to see the big picture because all the models were visible. However in the end it is all syntax.
Google is an ad company. I do not understand why people would choose to use an operating system created by an ad company, designed to harvest their personal information.

I'm happy to use an iPhone, knowing my personal information is safe and it reduces my chances of being Harvested by Google.
Is there any fanless or near-silent hardware capable of shaping 1 gigabit? I would love to try this in my home since we've been having some trouble with zoom, Teams etc at times. Don't want a big noisy Supermicro server in my house though.
Elon Musk claims Tesla AI as ‘most advanced’ in the world
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, billionaire and the richest man in the world has reportedly claimed Tesla’s artificial intelligence (AI) as the best in the world. Musk says that his company is not just an electric car manufacturer but more of an AI robotics firm.
I strongly disagree.

You can't have functional organizations where there aren't some common values about what's important and what isn't and where discussions, even about culture, aren't aggressively prioritized.

The greatest example I've seen is in grassroots organizations run by activists with "flat" organizations. Assemblies on everything, discussions about everything, rehashing and revisiting the same points over and over again, ridiculously petty feuds, incredible amounts of energy lost and just a handful of people actually doing the real work, because it turns out that everyone would rather fight their pet internal cause unless you have strong leadership that's willing to put a sock on it to actually _do_ things.

It's clear to me that the founders have extremely strong opinions about certain topics and that's where they put their energy for change and analysis and where discussions can be had with depth. Their values lie there, and for most other things they want things to run smoothly so they can focus on their most important values. It is extremely unlikely that a challenge to those values will go smoothly unless it is absolutely paramount in importance.

Would you go to work at Apple if you're a Free Software activist? Would you work at Exxon if you're a vegan environmentalist? At some point certain accomodations are not reasonable.

Some staff have basically encountered that, effectively, they don't share all of the values that management has. They can either: live with it, quit, or try to graciously let some air in the room to reraise the conversation with cooler heads and understanding that this just might not work out.

DHH's point on certain arguments making for toxic conversation are very, very real. I've seen it in several organizations. And strong leadership means sometimes drawing lines. What others do with said lines is up to each person.

Another political and NGO analogy that I have some familiarity with: if you're a third-wave progressive feminist militant, it is _extremely_ unlikely that you would allow TERFs (trans-exclusionary feminists, ie: people who consider trans women to not be "women") into your organization, because while they may consider themselves "feminist", their value system is just too different to get meaningful consensus on extremely important topics. That's just the way it is.
To me Mighty seems DOA because the M1 properly solves the problem, and makes Mighty look like an elaborate hack. I asked Suhail what he thinks on Twitter and received no reply.

https://mobile.twitter.com/borrowcheck/status/13870721940401...
> Official contact tracing in the US is a complete dud and had negligible impact on the spread. People informing their fiends/family “hey I just got Covid you should probably test/isolate” was what practically can make a difference.

Contact tracing has worked superbly in Australia and New Zealand.

The fact that the US fucked things up completely doesn't mean that they were worthless techniques; rather than the US didn't want to stop people dying badly enough to make proper use of them.
Oral tradition put into text, so not entirely the same as grouping the writers. More like who transcribed what. Maybe the difference was who heard the story in a given pattern.
If their restrictions are so trivially circumvented... then they probably already have been.

This is the epitome of security by obscurity.
Indeed an excellent point, but there are many mitigating factors that might resolve that problem.

1. Reduced water diversion. If there were mass desalination, the places closer to the shore would have access to a substitute water supply which would reduce their need for water in your water source. This would likely result in having more of the water source available to your city.

2. Water usage. The vast majority of water people "use" is actually in the form of food. Unless your home is growing a vast quantity of crops in the dry US southwest, it is highly unlikely that you are actually depleting your water source unless it is being diverted to farming. If your city is farming, then the farms will relocate after the water supply is dried up to a place where desalinated water is more accessible. Once this occurs the newly relocated farms will be able to produce in their new location and it is likely that your city will no longer be net depleting the water source. So, food continues to be produced, but elsewhere, and your city now has water.

3. Pipelines are cheap. Pipelines are actually quite cheap based on my research. Here is a 15 year old paper which estimates the price of water pipelines to be ~$0.06/m^3 per 100 km [1]. At 1000 miles which is ~1600 km, that would only be an extra $1.00/m^3 raising your costs to $1.50/m^3 over your existing costs for both desalination and piping. For an average American that would be ~$1800/yr or ~4.2% increase in yearly expenditure.

4. Water embodiment. Again, the vast majority of water people "use" is in the form of food. That means that most of the water you "use" will likely be used on farms which will likely be wherever water is cheap. This reduces the direct costs to you. It also means that you do not actually need a very large source of pure water to support a city since most of the water being imported is "food" which is a volumetrically and price efficient means of "importing water". It is quite likely that you would need at most a modest pipeline or possibly even be able to ship the pure water some other means without being too costly.

5. Moving. If water actually becomes unavailable then your city would become inhospitable much like random wilderness and people would leave rather than die of thirst. This may be unpalatable to you or others in your city if you like where you live, but it is almost assuredly what would happen if no other solution is possible and would "resolve" the problem.

Essentially, the problem is solvable, but like any other change may require tradeoffs of money or lifestyle. The less change in lifestyle you want the more money it would cost, but even essentially zero lifestyle change seems quite feasible for the average American at a relatively modest cost.

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...
I wonder if it's even a false positive. Imagine some ad fraud agency is using droidscript as a means to click on ads programmatically in a completely different app (which seems possible based on the overview) - how does Google distinguish between that and any other app using the same APIs to fraudulently click ads? What if there's actual malware that uses droidscript as a vehicle to do this to unsuspecting users' phones at night?
> Personally, I think people should take a cynical view of organizations prohibiting "political" speech at work.

Aside from going down the rabbit hole of trying to define political that bogged down the other post on this...

This doesn't appear to be a ban on political speech at work. It is a "don't use the company boards / channels / resources to carry out political discussions; if you must have them, do them with your own resources and own channels of communication."

If HR has to step in and say "cool it off", then the discussion has gone too far.

In a company of a few score employees, the "Bob and Alice can't work together because they have been arguing about {topic}" is not something that is tenable. Larger orgs can move them around so that their differences don't impact the overall company. Small ones don't have that luxury.
8" = 203 mm
203 mm / 71 years = 2.86mm/year

I share your concern though, probably this just wasn't a good example.
So I'm working and committing as I go along instead of staging, I need to be super sure I only rebase and never pull or else I've made a huge mess?

I think I'll stick with staging.
From a housing aspect, the actual project is a nice, architecturally interesting piece of art. But conceptually it could be a remarkable milestone.
Has this project any relation to similar off-earth construction research?
Could the methods here be extended to lunar regolith or martian soil?
What development is still needed before this can become fully autonomous and able to build many structures before requiring service or additional additives?
> You can have third-party Android app stores. Can you say the same about Apple?

You can buy an Android Phone, and install whatever app store you want.
You better move then big guy..
Everything I have read appears to be entirely self-inflicted. Had he been working through a flesh-and-blood Dell salesperson in a meatspace storefront, at least fault could be placed at their feet. But no. Pretty well every single mistake appears to be either ignorance or incompetence, enhanced by irrational and emotional panicking.

If you are going to use a machine for cutting-edge work, it might be a valuable life skill to actually learn something about it. I mean, a formula-1 race car driver might not be able to replace any of his mechanics, but dollars to dimes he’s likely doing the majority of his own wrench-slinging on his personal vehicles.

The same goes for computing, even if you’re just a blogger or vlogger or any other kind of non-technical power user - knowing your hardware and how to maximize what goes into it can familiarize you enough to avoid OP’s issues in part, if not fully. You don’t even need to be an expert, you just need to be decently familiar with most things.
I have a 2018 Mac Mini driving two 4K displays with Display Port over USB-C cables. I previously was driving 2 x 24" 2K displays (same cables) and had no performance problems. Once I upgraded to the 4K displays I've observed very noticeable display draw performance issues. It's not enough for me to give up the 4K displays but I'm wondering if this is improved on the current M1 Mac mini?
Everyone has to start somewhere :)
Next, on Ancient Aliens: pineapples teleported to Byzantium! How did it happen? Are Neptunians responsible?

Double facepalm, Picard-style.
So help me understand this... I eat far less than 3496 liters of food every day, and only a fraction of it is water. So where are the other 3490-something liters of water? Or to put it differently, the link says "3091000 liters of water for producing 200 kilos of boneless beef". Clearly only a tiny fraction of that water is tied up in the animal at any given point. Where is the rest?

My point being: even if we all stopped eating meat because it takes too much water to produce, would this actually make a difference in the amount of water available? Or would it just change the rate at which the water is cycled from environment through plants and animals and back into the environment? And in the larger context of the water cycle, does it make any difference?

That infographic doesn't seem to touch on any of this, instead handwaving about the water being "virtual" or "hidden in the food you eat". It's not as though 3091000 liters of water just disappear, never to be seen again when those 200 kilos of beef spring into existence.
I'm assuming this is mainly aimed at laptop users, because I could pop in an extra 16gb ram for much less than paying $30-50 a month for this.
This is so true. My work kept providing latest Macs at excellent configurations and those Macs kept getting slow very fast :)

Also, Apple’s buggy releases (which is tradition now[0]) didn’t really help.

0. Apple essentially stopped fixing bugs and they just release another buggy OS in a year or so with a new name and changes that break everything.
Yes, I recall what you’re taking about as well. The article submitted was about a book in class in the US. I believe from the 80s. The classes were defined differently from their colloquial usages.

And I found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26351913

The line about Bezos is in the linked article.
seriously though, i legitimately believe this. prices for stuff has gotten way out of hand and i am seriously scaling back expectations of speed and searching for a lot of used/second hand stuff.
I really like this take, but on a weird philosophical way I gotta disagree. The surface of the earth has by a long shot the most difficult physics in the universe we know about.

Try to imagine a model that predicts the things going on there.

At least the neutron star probably has some scale at which it starts to looks homogeneous.

This, btw, is a pretty good marketing strategy for condensed matter physics (and indeed, biology and chemistry [1]):

"The most interesting physics in the universe takes place on the surface of earth."

[1] Biology and Chemistry are literally subdisciplines of physics so large we call them different names. And they're subdisciplines which are only so large because the surface the earth exists. Without the surface of the earth as part of the universe, as far as we know biology wouldn't exist, and chemistry would probably still be nothing more than a medium-sized subdiscipline of physics.
Ad fraud will just fix their errors if Google provides any information about how it detected the ad fraud. They're fine with some false positives if it means 99%+ of ad fraud is squashed.
Been lurking on hn for a year now, finally made an account because I can give some value with a comment

Youtube content creators can choose where to put the ads themselves. You will come across many videos with only the first ad or the ads set sparely in the video, some even put the ads in breaks.
You can also chose to let YouTube put the ads but that’s also a one and done, one setting per video. I can confirm though that YouTube, on the automated setting, put way more ads in the past year or two than before.
Lot's of discussion here about how congestion might help US industry. I think that's backwards, high shipping rates seem to be a sign that more things are being imported from oversees instead of created locally than normal. This seems like a bad thing

> He noted that January trans-Pacific imports were up 10% versus 2019 (comparisons to 2020 numbers are skewed by COVID) and 13.5% in February, then jumped 51% in March. “So, we’re now at 1.5 times pre-pandemic levels.”
Theres no reason why existing materials couldn't be use to handle that issue. WRBs, siding, stucco, etc.

You could say the same thing for houses now, which are built out of wood...
I expect a paper to at least facially address potential confounding aspects, which the paper does, just not this (to me obvious) one.

The issue as I see it is that this supposes there's a selective group of people setting an arbitrary agenda, whereas the reality is closer to the idea that the majority of Americans are expressing this point of view and these specific politicians are repeating it.

They're committing the very sin they're trying to study, dividing the point of view into a class-based one, by claiming it's the "elites" holding the viewpoint, and not the people themselves.

I would scrub the word "elite" from the paper, it creates needless tension and isn't accurate (or at the very least, define the term specifically). Additionally, I'd directly address the idea that these results could be confounded by latent racism, and I'd probably do that by introducing the concept in the introduction, and refer back to it in the conclusion.

In other words, "Future research should investigate the causal mechanisms behind this." is not enough. Maybe end with this, but do more.
This seems like a stretch. Everything else in the basket is clearly a fruit. A pine cone isn’t a fruit. A pineapple is. It looks like a pineapple in a basket of fruit.
I watched a Jordan Peterson video on Dr. Oz's official channel, and I got an ad every 3 - 4 minutes. What do you make of that evidence (given I'm not lying)? None of the comments acknowledged it.
>I'm happy to use an iPhone, knowing my personal information is safe and it reduces my chances of being Harvested by Google

LOL. Instead of bowing down to one master, you chose to bow down to the other?
> education

I.e. something that does matter.

I notice with wry amusement that my own speech patterns vary depending on who I'm talking to. For an obvious example, using simpler words and a higher pitch when talking to very young children. But I use different vocabularies when talking to different groups of adults, too. This is all quite unconscious. I bet we all do this.
Its interesting that they talk about the "App Stores" and not the operating systems. If our phones could run open operating systems we would have no problem with the app stores.
Foundry-to-tower
But Ensign Rock likes to eat it.
Who is your manure guy
Sortof, but I'll bet you heard of MIT in a good way before, while this is the only time you have heard of the UMN. Thus they are tainted different
I’m curious, What work does contractor do ?
President Lyndon Johnson said

>If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

It does not just apply to dynamics between white and non white people, it applies to all people, even within tribes of the same skin color, and probably even other tribal species.
Are nvmes noticeable over say a sata ssd
Scrolling through the list... I love the personality to this page with the visual design; don't see that too often these days.

Tempted to make a page (I suppose my hand-coded html homepage at https://www.kradeelav.com would fit, as well as various zine and illustration projects).

My only big question is a lack of understanding 'which makers' are acceptable here. Those who play with code? those who play with paper? those who play with a combination of both and with the infinity other mediums that exist?
I hope full support for audiobooks (single file, folder of mp3, ...zip?...) someday goes in that kitchen sink.