skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran minimalist Void Linux on a crappy dual-core Celeron Chromebox with 2GB (yes, two) of memory as a workstation for a few weeks last year.

It was impractical longer term, but really, as long as I didn't open more than a couple Surf (the Suckless browser, uses the Webkit engine) windows at a time it didn't feel slower than a tricked-out Mac or a beast of a Windows machine, for everything else. Amazing what running as little JS as possible can do. I had to run Docker and VMs elsewhere since they hog memory by design, but it was entirely fine as code-editing and command line workstation. A heavy IDE for, say, Java might have been painful if I'd needed that—which is kind of crazy, because those used to run just fine on well under 1GB of memory, too.

Using Void helped a lot because a bunch of the background garbage on something like Ubuntu, which is really getting out of control, wasn't hanging around eating memory and periodically waking up to burn cycles for unclear reasons. I imagine the benefits of Haiku are similar (big fan of BeOS back in the day, thing's UI responsiveness on mediocre hardware was downright magical)
Of course, trusting JWT without verifying it first would be madness
> It is also hard to beat the performance of the STL

If you want to re-create the STL, maybe. But you can make custom data structures tailored to your task at hand instead.

For example, instead of a std::map or std::unordered_map that allocates and initializes each node separately, you could preallocate some of them in a big chunk of memory, hand them out via a bump allocator scheme, and later free them all at once. Instead of a std::sort algorithm, you could use a bucket sort if it's possible in your situation, to improve your asymptotics from O(n log n) to O(n). Etc, etc.
See the answers to the same question elsewhere, but essentially, 2021 looks to be the year where Linux-capable RISC-V is finally becoming widely available (afordably). BeagleV is the one I'm waiting for but there are plenty more: https://liliputing.com/?s=RISC-V
Ancient poop reveals ‘extinction event’ in human gut bacteria
Original wasn't AutoML, it was somewhat similar to what Kobra looks like.

https://gilberttanner.com/blog/code-free-data-science-with-m...
It mostly shows that there is no shortage of rumor generators and listeners
I suppose a lot of the fixed costs are lawyers charging $1000/hour to fill in some blanks on some Word templates?

Maybe an entrepreneur just needs to make that a web form. Fill in details and generate the same form for $10 instead of $1000.

And then some robots to print, seal up, and mail the envelopes and we're done.

I should be able to spin up a Dutch shell company like an EC2 instance. Maybe have "AWS" regions for Cayman and other places too and a Python API to spin up shell companies in arbitrary locales.
It's just a very old link from before github.io existed for Github Pages: https://github.blog/2013-04-05-new-github-pages-domain-githu...
It's also worth noting that the top 1% pay about 40% of all income taxes at the federal level, and they earn about 20% of annual income from all sources (http://hdr.undp.org/en/indicators/186106). So classifying 88% of federal revenue as paid by regular workers might be a bit misleading
The Itantium did care about memory its one of the reasons they had massive caches compared to other archs of the era.
EVs have much better longevity. Much simpler. Hybrid is the complexity of ICE plus the complexity of EV, plus the complexity of integration.
Could someone comment on how effective using a yubikey is at protecting companies? If they are good, I'm not sure why they aren't used more. I spoke to a gov computer friend and he said they would never use a yubikey.
Star’s strange path around black hole proves Einstein right – again
You're limited in how much data you can store in a cookie
Ah, sorry, I didn't realize they were quotes from the post. (You generally put quotes in quotation marks or blockquotes "> ..." to distinguish). I guess the advice applies to anyone struggling with rust coming from an OOP background :)
Or use rsa for the token signing. 3rd party keeps the private. They send you the public. You can verify all the tokens. They are the only ones that can create new ones.
How come no one complains against CC companies about this obvious sell off of our privacy ? How come they are not targeted, neither by NGO nor government agencies ?
Researchers Developed a Way to Wirelessly Charge Vehicles on the Road
Mazer?

It keeps coming to mind when I read about these things.

A low power one, given a sweet wavelength choice, would be damn tough to detect.

Just spitballing. Who knows?

Seems to me more than chance though.
>Was there anything in Danmores article that even mentioned people of color?

James Damore's point was that diversity hires make for low quality hires. People who believe that may see a PoC working in tech and automatically assume they got hired for their skin color and not skill.
PoW runs just fine on 100% renewable energy. That PoW pollutes at all is because society allows it. Nothing stops the EPA (and similar bodies across the world) from requiring exchanges in their jurisdiction to do taint analysis on newly-mined coins in order to determine whether or not they came from a "certified-green" miner, and if not, apply an extra carbon tax on them (or deny their sale outright).
> Albuterol is used to prevent and treat wheezing, difficulty breathing, chest tightness, and coughing caused by lung diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD; a group of diseases that affect the lungs and airways). Albuterol is in a class of medications called bronchodilators. It works by relaxing and opening the air passages to the lungs to make breathing easier.

From https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a607004.html
It's a front-line medicine used for the treatment of asthma and COPD. As your sibling comment notes, it's on the list, just under its generic name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salbutamol
Because the server thinks that the session is still alive. The server doesn't know that the client has "dropped" the session. If the dropped token should be somehow be found again, it still has all the authority that the original session did.
Tesla coin? It’s not that hard to fork a GitHub repo and do a search and replace
Forget it. Tax offices are chasing the big fishes so they have all the tools to catch and bother the small inexperienced ones. Also running these structure is actually very expensive and complex.
Normal citizen have only 2 possibilities: cash economy or move to place fiscally more adapted to their needs (each country favor a type of fiscal profil).
I work on an IoT device that does the most mundane of things and to think the data goes 1/2 way around the world just to turn something on with the service provided by the Chinese chip-making company who is absolutely only concerned with profit - I don't suggest they are spying - but wouldn't for a second have a problem handing over data if they were asked i.e. zero principles ...

It's just too much.

FYI one answer to all of this is some kind of 'home mesh network' that has some kind of central computing entity so that at least our IoT services work locally. One day Apple/Google may pull it off.
I would rather maintain a handwritten journal of 1s and 0s than use git LFS again
People always argue what "open source" means, but we all know damn well what it means in the colloquial sense now.

It means the source is available, and you can use it under some very permissive terms, and there is no barrier to access.

This is like how a "free" game used to mean actually free, but now free means "with IAP and ads", so now we don't have a single word to just mean "free as in beer" for games. So now I can't tell someone my hobby project is just plain free, I have to explain "no I don't mean full of bullshit, I mean free".

FWIW I agree, it's a violation of our standard idea of open source.

Tangentially, watchmaking is cool, and there are many free/open plans in various mechanical and 3D printing type communities.

Also, I feel like sharing this link which shows this guy's shop, it's not huge or complex, and makes the art of watchmaking seem approachable. Just need an old pantograph milling machine and a few other things https://watchesbysjx.com/2017/05/portrait-masahiro-kikuno-ja...
in the 1950s and later, the highest tax bracket was somewhere in the 90%s
If you could take control of all the miners, how much would it cost to rewrite the chain?

If you could take control of all the stakers, how much would it cost to rewrite the chain?

Answer this honestly and you'll see why people trust PoW much more than PoS.
Fair point, you'd need more energy to do that in Bitcoin, although I want to stress that by no means could you simply roll back months of PoS Ethereum 2.0 history at the snap of a finger.

The DAO reset was very controversial and people still talk about it years later. Prominent Ethereum devs have repeatedly stated there would not be a second one. This isn't to say it couldn't happen, but it would be a big deal and even more contentious and would lead to even more fallout than the first time, should it ever happen again. So it's not like big Eth holders can just get together and roll back the state at will.

Granted, it's still a concern any way you look at it for certain applications where you want absolute certainty over long periods of time, for example for having an immutable archive of events for future generations. Wouldn't it be great if all that electricity were used to provide a truly reliable historical record for the first time in human history? Bitcoin could be used to preserve news articles, encyclopedias and other such data. For everything else PoS chains seem a lot more practical though. We have to see the pros and cons, for most applications it makes no sense to sacrifice all the advantages good PoS implications bring for absolute long-term immutability.
I think the real thing is that Buffet knows that wiring your fortune to the IRS is a perilously stupid way to do good with your money; just statistically such a huge chunk of that will go to, say, bombing children halfway around the world, bureaucracies that spend money better than actually provide healthcare, and anti-poverty programs that are better at lining the pockets of 'social entrepreneurs' that are better at writing grants than providing services to the poor.

If you do actually believe that the federal government is the most efficient way to redistribute wealth, at least earmark it to killing the debt, which is an unethical institution (you cannot go back in time and vote against spending that your generation is forced to pay off; it's taxation without representation)

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm
Frankly if I was a billionaire and had the means to setup my own charity that I had complete visibility into so I knew exactly where every penny was spent I would do that over giving it to another foundation.
The client may decline to delete the cookie. The server can't presume that the client will do the proper thing.
Municipal hot water systems would suffer from significant heat losses in the piping between the heating plant and the houses, not to mention the huge infrastructure expense of running an extra set of hot water lines throughout a municipality.

What I was describing is more along the lines of dispatchable electric heat pump water heaters in houses. These type of water heaters are already available today, and we should be replacing every natural gas water heater with them.
You can also just use Basic auth and get an Authentication header sent with every request. You know, what auth systems should have been using all along.
Elon Musk suspends Tesla purchases with Bitcoin
Your comment was downvoted, likely due to claims with no evidence but instead a story about how you're about to be silenced. You could've just posted something to support your position instead and we'd skip all the drama in this exchange.
Google and USPS both on that ad money eh
The problem is about ATT being only triggered for _all other_ Ad networks, but _not_ for Apple's own Ad network, which is sneakily enabled by default.

Sounds like an obvious monopoly abuse to me. I hope some government (European maybe?) do something about it.
I haven’t written C professionally or hobbily in 5+ years and I can fairly quickly get accommodated in open source projects. I know that it has many valid criticisms but C is such a pleasure.
Also can confirm.

Worked to improve broadband and build a co-working space in small town. Submitted writing for a state grant. Against all odds was selected as one of the winners. They only awarded a few.

At the end of this long process after everything had been agreed to and supported and focus grouped... The group started talking about what to do with grant money.. as in like something other than broadband improvements and a co-working space.

Then I get paired with a working partner to develop the plan further. The partner upon first time meeting refuses the idea and then we have a brainstorming session about some other "neat" ideas people had. I was furious but held my tongue. Resigned next day. Life is too short to spend time with politics. I hate it.
Wake Turbulence from a Paper Airplane (2020) [video]
there are no longer any effective checks and balances against corporate power.
Could this be made into a cool emergency short messaging service during natural disasters or emergencies where connectivity may be unreliable or unavailable? Wonder how much “AirTags” payload one phone will proxy/buffer? And if/how well it works offline between phones?
Yes, buses and taxis are big adopters of it. Maybe there is something there and if we cut the cost of hydrogen enough (you know, all that extra solar power must go somewhere), it will be interesting for them too.
I’m not sure what you mean. The centralization being discussed here is out of band and thus the trust is also out of band. It’s no different than your local bar opening a tab for you, or using an escrow service for a construction contract.
I find it really bizarre that it takes hours to run whatever background process iOS has after an upgrade, especially because in Android's case this is AFAIK rebuilding the Dalvik bytecode while iOS should use a compiled language (ObjectiveC/Swift).

Does someone knows what is iOS doing at the background?
What’s his opinion of Uyghur women?

People who live in glass toruses should not cast stones.
35% Faster Than the Filesystem (2017)
Ever heard of the concept of "selling your business" ?
On what ground is it valued, at sell time, if not based on the promise of future equivalent revenues ?
This is hard, concrete, evaluated, value.
The line staff certainly can say they don't want to work with someone over past behaviors or comments. That's when it gets elevated to an HR problem because you have a large swath of people not wanting to work with someone. Your choices as an HR department are to get rid of the person no one wants to work with, or get rid of everyone who's lodged complaint. Obviously, the lower cost to the company comes from getting rid of the problem employee.

This has nothing to do with keeping your mouth shut. It has everything to do with becoming less biased, less prejudiced people, and generally being good.
For a secure site, it is never acceptable to having a non-zero window.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27135776
Yes; that is, in fact, how JWT works.

The point of JWT is that it's an ecosystem of stuff that all has built-in support for doing this. You don't have to arrange for this kind of signing "by hand"; on most services that have JWT "accept" support, there's a portal with a configuration field where you can just paste in a public key. Same as adding a line to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, but for web requests.

(Yes, all of this is just a bad imitation of TLS client certificates. But browsers have a horrible, intrusive, non-syncing UX for client certificates. If they did with client certs what they do with cookies/passwords, nobody would have bothered to invent JWTs.)
> so e.g. to move away from git-annex you can just commit the binary files directly to your git directory and then just copy them out to a separate folder whenever you go back to an old commit and re-import them.

Exactly. Here's an (anonymized) example of a git-annex symlink from one of my repos:

../../.git/annex/objects/AA/BB/SHA256-s123456--abcdf...1234/SHA256-s8968192--abcdf...1234

It's just a link to a file with a SHA256 hash in the name and path. The simplest way to reconstruct that in the future is to just check-in the whole `objects` directory into the repo, and copy/symlink it back to `.git/annex` when needed. You definitely don't need the git-annex software itself to view the data in the future.

I personally have hundreds of gigabytes of data in git-annex repos. It works great!
Do you mean Google Sheets instead of Google Docs?
Is it a significant improvement over a cellphone app like Authy? Not really. Then, sophisticated people need secure enclaves for signing, which are also ubiquitous via iPhones and not in Yubikey.
I'm in the mining space, one thing that I can tell you is that software in the mining and oil/gas space can be horribly archaic, poorly architecture and very poorly supported.

I'm lucky for the most part in that my company is very cutting edge and running latest windows and pushing software devs/vendors to stay as up to date as us. But support for "new" tech like Yubikey authentication is very slow to encroach in these industries.
Yeah I know Yubikey isn't new in the holistic sense. but its a lot "newer" than a lot of the tech in these industries.
If the mail gets back to the sender, which is a big IF... the companies have no process to handle it. Why would they? You were advertised to; mission accomplished.
> I also wonder if sometime in the next 6-12 months we'll hear that Tesla is looking to accept Dogecoin due to it being more environmentally responsible

I mean his tweet right before this announcement was a poll asking just that, if Tesla should accept Dogecoin. So yeah. The guy is a clown.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392030108274159619
JWTs are great! You get to use your customer’s machine to store a lot of information about them and the session in a form they can actually read in most cases, and your don’t have to do a bunch of lookups each time they connect.

Sure, you have to keep a revocation list, but you do anyway, for the same reasons.

If you use short lived sessions with refresh tokens you get the Goldilocks scenario where a valid user stays logged in even when they are away for a long time, and you give them control over logging out instantly on all devices and access to the data you’re using about them.
Chris Voss method is much better than BATNA
I don't think it'll become the normal way. If anything, the opposite is true, people making Electron apps to get to access the power of web development, instead of making native apps.

It's definitely not easy, it requires you to re-implement everything from scratch. It only makes sense in cases where performance is paramount. I could imagine applications being migrated to the web doing it though, like Photoshop an the like.

But I absolutely don't see normal web development migrating over, it's just way too much pain for little value. Development, debugging, testing, etc. Everything becomes much harder.
Very cool! Watch from 3:20 for the results
If intel get on a smaller node that would benefit these wide registers energy wise. Like early AVX2 also would downclock, and run hotter. Its one of the reasons the VZEROUPPER instruction exists so the hardware can power down the upper half of these registers when not in use. If recall AVX2 on amd was basical just running 128bit hardware twice till Zen 2.

As the nodes get denser i am sure AVX512 will perform better power and heat wise.

As for AMD adding support I am sure they will just for compatibility reason.
> If you've ever had to fight with an app framework

... it usually means it’s the wrong tool for the job.

I have to ask, why not a native app? Once you start bypassing every browser feature anyway, what’s the point of using a browser?
I've always liked the simplicity of git-fat [0]:

* Initial setup includes git filter rules so that "git add" automatically uses get-fat for matching files (no need to remember to invoke git-fat when adding/changing files).

* It works by rsync'ing to/from the remote. The setup for this is in a single ".gitfat" file, separate from the filter rules.

* You do need to run "git fat push" and "git fat pull"; this can probably be automated with hooks.

So just offhand without even trying to think about the "right" way to do what you want, the committed ".gitfat" could be to a read-only remote, then you can swap it with your own un-committed file for a push that has an rsync-writeable remote.

Also, the whole thing is a single 628-line python file, so worst case it would be easy to tweak it to read something like ".gitfat-push" and not have to manually swap it.

[0] https://github.com/jedbrown/git-fat
If I had the opportunity I always thought it would be fun to learn and then modify the Linux kernel so that file lookups to ~/.* get redirected to ~/config/.* and I could finally have a clean home directory.
From reading these comments, it seems I'm in the minority but I really like CM and I consider myself to be a fan of good typography. There's no accounting for taste...
> induce symptoms that to the patient present to a doctor would be an easy tick box and pill prescription

Schizophrenia is far more severe than "faint voices in the night". One of the requirements is that the symptoms cause significant impairment to normal function.

Additionally, general physicians are not qualified to diagnose or treat schizophrenia.

Mental illnesses aren't causal labels to be thrown around.
I don't think you read the article, because even Amazon isn't saying that. They're saying that one particular union organizer is no longer an Amazon employee, and using that to sow distrust about all of them.
No, under ideal friction the reduced traction is cancelled out by the reduced mass that needs decelerating, so that braking distance remains constant.

But actually, braking distance vs mass is more like a bathtub curve. With very little weight (talking toy cars here) it's hard to grip a surface, meanwhile very large masses like trucks have huge amounts of kinetic energy to disperse through their contact patches, leading rubber to melt, which reduces its stickiness beyond a certain point. Trucks end up with longer braking distances in practice.
> in the aggregate Apple does do more for privacy than Facebook

Then you are extremely naive.

Apple takes away from you as much private data as it can. It's just very bad at exploiting it, primarily because the company already earns so much money, it's not even incentivized in recognizing the benefit of data mining.

But with iPhones sells diminishing every year, the situation is changing. Growth must come from services.

Apple will continue to slurp away your private data.
Apple will invest more into this resource, and make more and more use of it, including for the targeted Ads that used to be "so evil" when they came from another Ad network, but hey, if it's Apple, it's different.
Just throwing this out there, maybe on massive platforms like this the better approach would be

- let users flag posts

- more than X flags = autohide

- original authors can object to the autohide

- objections are reviewed by staff

That would limit the content reviewers have to see to stuff that people (a) declare authorship for, and (b) claim is acceptable.

Presumably anything posting anything horrible wouldn't choose to have their posts seen by a critical authoritative audience.