skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy to explain. They switched to the MS Azure cloud for actions.

You won't get high availability from Microsoft you are used to as from proper cloud services. Plus privacy issues. But it's cheap, in this case for free.
320, ^31%. Horrifying isn't it. Any other core gas we'd all be long dead, along with most other life.
I have seen a LOT of Qt apps and 100% of them had worse UI than your average web app.
Or, we could just ban crypto exchanges in the USA (and allied nations), watch prices tank 95%, and all of the fab capacity which is now going towards Bitcoin and Ethereum mining could be restored to proper productive use (alongside a big reduction in energy expenditure and ransomware).
Wow the audio is badly out of sync.
Network cell info https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wilysis.ce...
Recently I came up with a related idea for repeated error handling code, in the usual Python vein of introducing an abstraction to save 2-3 lines:

try:
foobar
delegate handle_stuff:
delegate handler_factory(something):
except Foo:
...
else:
...
finally
...

Where "delegate handle_stuff" means that for any exception handle_stuff is called with the exception tuple and the exception is considered handled if it returns truthy. "delegate" of course takes an expression so that you can have Proper Adult Fun Handling Exceptions.
And even in Spain itself you have three romances plus some alien language: Galician (closer to Portuguese), Catalan (French-Occitan family), Spanish (and Andalusia has it's own subdialect), plus Basque.

A Basque playing the txalaparta would look like a guy who came from a UFO for an Andalusian guy playing Flamenco with a guitar.

Ditto with a Galician with an Atlantic culture (and Celtic customs) plus a obvious bind to Portugal because 500 years ago they were the same language against a Valencian living in the sunny Mediterranean towns.
> I have known gay men who have never had sex with women, but they are very much the exception to the rule.

This isn’t at all the case these days. And anyway, it’s also quite common for straight men to have had gay experiences.

Gay sexuality remains a puzzle from a narrow evolutionary point of view. None of the theories that have been proposed is really very plausible. As a gay man it is honestly quite amusing to see all of the bizarre alleged ‘explanations’ that people come up with. Especially since these always seem to be implicitly focused on male homosexuality - not because it’s any more in need of an explanation than any other kind of sexual behavior, but because it freaks people out.

All research in this area seems to pose the basic question as follows: “Well obviously straight people exist, but what could possibly be the explanation for all these aberrant cases?”. It fails to recognize that procreation is just one function of sex. It’s like being surprised that people use their mouths for kissing as well as for eating and talking.

A equally big puzzle is all the non-procreative sex that straight people have. That one doesn't get much research attention though, because straight people aren't considered to be an aberrant case.
The OP was referring to "home-row touch-typing" as simply "touch typing", as nearly everybody does, so I didn't feel the need to clarify. I don't see how pedanticism helps here.
Fonts are 20 kb each. Even on the slowest of mobile connections, they hardly make a difference. If you're waiting 30 seconds, fonts are not the bottleneck.
Something the anti-meat people might forget is that the majority of plants by weight is going to be cellulose which is something indigestible by humans. You can feed some animals with the waste plant material (or with plants that can be grown more efficiently than human edible ones) and then eat them. The flexibility here gives you options and options are important for maximizing efficiency.
As the tundra thaws that place is predicted to be a massive agricultural production area.
I don't know if you're new to this whole technology thing but the answer a lot of the times is: things are more complicated than the simple words that can be used to describe the thing.
Don't forget re-enabling spy telemetry accidentally-on-purpose.
I wonder if the distinction of SubLists and SimpleLists makes static code analysis and syntax highlighting more viable than in Tcl where you cant distinguish between "code" and "data"...
Nice article! I used to work in this field and there is an insane amount of cool tricks you can do if you have enough signal processing available. The first (obvious) one is that, since you can switch beam direction as quickly as you can switch radio frequency (ie thousands of times per second) it is no longer necessary to give each target equal illumination time. It is for example possible to mostly focus on the missiles inbound to your vessel at mach 3 while still not losing track of all the other traffic in the area. You can't really do that with older mechanical antennas since the inertia would tear the assembly apart.

The second is "colored space" radar, where you arrange the phases and wavelengths in such a way that the same transceiver array can generate multiple beams with different frequencies in different directions, giving true parallel beamforming (not merely concurrent as in the first example).

Finally, though every textbook introducing these concepts uses transceivers arranged in a flat plane, that is not actually required. For example, the F-35 uses "conformal antennas" that are shaped like the rest of the airplane and uses a phenomenal amount of signal processing to convert the resulting signals back to "as if" the antenna had been a flat plane.

I have always wanted to experiment with these things and rectennas to power small UAVs from afar so that they never have to land, but never got around to it.
Indonesia pauses distribution of a batch of AstraZeneca vaccine
> Is there still a point to 2D maps?

Hiking away from cell towers and wifi

Historical maps

Maps that aren't owned by Google
Israel is the only country in the world bought with money. so they don't know what it means to use disproportionate force. however, they have suffered the greatest pain in the world in the past. Most of all, they should understand how great pain and death hurt.
well without atomic access your state would be wrong. there are languages that allow stuff like that, but if you do it you can still have the wrong number. i.e. in c# something like you wrote is possible but when getting multiple requests, the number might be wrong at the end.

you always have some tradeoffs because in your case when you would run it with a multi threaded js engine your variable would be as broken as the c# one.
that's why java does not allow it by default to modify a variable inside a thread that is declared outside.
The Windows NT kernel is on par if not better than the Linux kernel. Replacing it will add no benefit, all the issues described in the article are well above the kernel level.
drives -> correlates with
Hopefully this serves as a good dogfooding excecise for MS now and help them improve things.

Every time I tried azure I was disappointed. But that doesn't mean they can't fix it; I bet there are now tons of talented engineers working there. My best wishes for them to up the quality of azure. I think diversity / alternatives are a good thing.
Isn't this normal with hosted solutions?

IIRC, GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab.com are all unusable for a few hours at least once a month as far back as I can remember.

Isn't this just commonly accepted as a tradeoff for not having to manage the servers yourself?
The First Law of Cybernetics
> Do you think this would work for you?

If I find a way to selectively apply the hyperfocus to useful tasks that might work. So far, my experiments with gig-based work from places like Upwork were rather discouraging. I always worked customer-facing roles, unfortunately I never managed to learn coding beyond absolute beginner level (Python, C++) but I'm pretty good at engrossing myself chasing down rabbit holes for information.

Finding work that combined this trait with a purpose, would surely be my Ikigai[1]. Perhaps something like an Analyst position. But as a college dropout with a spotty resume like mine that's probably not going to happen.

I often also wonder if ADHDers would perhaps do well in short-term emergency response roles (IT or business).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
Audacity: Actions we propose to take on PR 835
Empathy, or rather sympathy, is easily used as a backdoor to control you.

There's a reason we have the phrase "harden your heart". Sometimes, for example when faced with a manipulative liar, the right move is to turn off your empathy, like how the fight-flight response turns off pain.
Pretty much nothing in phosh (aside of small amount of third party apps since very recently) uses GTK4 yet, and GTK3 did not use mesa at all.
Because why not? It’s recommended in Yarn 2 and I don’t see there being any downsides with Git LFS as the files stores in Git are essentially pointers.
Perhaps it's because the speeds are still going up, so that balances it out. And it does look to be about 30% cheaper compared to 2012, at least.
Cryto may end up being a huge downturn in demand if it ever gets legislated against (not that unlikely if it's share of energy usage continues to grow significantly)
It can also happen due to other phones in the tower area moving and needing more or less power, which might result in "the system" deciding to move your phone over to another tower to reduce congestion. Even if you are just sitting on the toilet.
> it is nearly oil-independent,

Like as if it wasn't for the entire century. USA has ennormous, and largely unexplored oil reserves.
Vcluster – Virtual Kubernetes Clusters that run inside regular namespaces
The RVT project does a really fascinating mix of ground work and plumbing to make it useful. I like the idea of being able to turn randomized testing into verification. Having different backends for cargo-verify and the program annotations is also a nice way of unifying the various projects and still allowing for innovation to happen in a modular manner.
From what I hear a lot of game engines have horrendous bugs that is terrible for performance (like people straight up using DirectX incorrectly, not being aware of the quadrillion performance hacks that AMD/Nvidia are keenly aware of)--so what AMD and Nvidia does is they "fix" the game engine by making it more performant.

Potentially it might be better for them to contact the game dev for a collaboration or just to tell them to fix their shit, but it might a) be more annoying than to just silently patch their code b) might benefit their competitor.
if you read the article, you will know that it works anymore like a "font cache".
>> turning instead to software to handle functions that had historically been done in hardware

> That generally means doing things less efficiently. Devices will get slower and battery lifetimes shorter.

Possibly, but the point is to reduce the number of expensive integrated circuits. A classic example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Woz_Machine
The very success of Amazon is proof that the world is better with it than without it: Amazon did not take out money by force. We, the customers, have made it successful by rewarding it with our business every time it won it in our minds over its competitors. Every extra cent of Amazon profit comes from a happy customer. Happy customers == better world.

In a world full of competition and alternatives, in a world where the low price is far from being the only differentiating factor, Amazon is winning due to innovation, better customer service and choice, massive, almost infinite, choice.
*don't work anymore
The biggest innovations will come when small companies (somehow) get access to IC fabs.
I've always understood the average difference in brain mass is in the order of 15%.

> observed performance measures

I only know of higher variation in male performance. But since we can't even define intelligence beyond some coarse and hard to quantify concepts, I don't think there's a sufficiently firm conclusion to reach from small differences in average intelligence in relation to brain size or mass (which seem to only reach an r^2 of 0.1).
I imagine you never used Delphi, VB, or even Lazarus?
‘I’m seen as the fool’: the farmers putting trees back into the UK’s fields
Here's hoping that it could at least rid us of the inefficiency that is web apps, seeing as we've seen unprecedented growth in CPU power over the last decades, yet are still very much doing the same stuff, if on other people's computers.
Did anybody do the math of whether it's more cost effective to pay for all that military to ensure you get cheap silicon made in countries with cheaper labor that in the US rather than just subsidizing the production of semiconductors domestically?
Once heard Ram On in a old fashioned, wood-panelled pub in Astoria while the reason best down outside - incredibly atmospheric song.
I don't know what I do wrong (i.e. right) but these things just doesn't seem to happen to me.

Then again I use KDE Neon and only make to make software, browse the web and occasionally play CSGO.

My biggest annoyance is how everytime I boot either my Windows partition (weeks between) or KDE partition (anytime really) there's a huge stash of upgrades waiting for me.
Time to ban crypto. It's just another component of the extinction speedrun.
Scared me for a moment there, I’ve killed upwards of 40 rats during this pandemic (outside). They seem to have gone rampant with the onset of COVID.
I was amused by reports when Microsoft was in talks with Discord that one of the reasons why Microsoft wanted to buy Discord was because they wanted Discord on Azure. Like, was the grand customer acquisition strategy for Azure just acquiring the companies and then migrating over?
Yes, exactly! It's such a failure of imagination to think that the economic systems we've tried so far are the only ones available.

For me the biggest flaw in capitalism is that it tends to concentrate wealth over the long term, which in turn undermines the "wisdom of the crowd" principle market systems are based on by concentrating buying power in relatively few people.

We could fix this with much more aggressive progressive taxation and still have a system that is fundementally market based and looks nothing like a planned economy.
Web development, even single page apps, and progressive web apps, can be simple if you skip the web frameworks which solve non-problems and complicate things. The most difficult problem in web development is to make the user interface (UX) work on everything from smart-watches to 40 inch 4k monitors. CSS solves this problem, but it's not an easy problem by itself. The second most difficult thing in web development is automated testing across the stack, testing both back-end and front-end, with different user devices. It's complicated and time consuming to write the code that test every function automatically. Third most difficult thing in web development is optimizations, the browser dev tools doesn't say much about what is going on internally in the JavaScript engine.
> I assume this is one of the many things Google is doing with their fleet of Streetview cars.

...and Google services-enabled Android smartphones.

Source: I have used a single access points in many locations across the country in a relatively short period of time. When there's no GPS fix, Google always thinks I'm where I just was. (And there are no Streetview cars in some of these locations.)
Hmm.. Why use a DB for a multiplayer game?
Banning the unbanable. How did that work out for the US War on drugs?

Crypto is here to stay, stop fighting it. Instead try to fix its issues.
But those are two separate actions:

- Signal transmits a code (exploit) and keeps it in its cache, the code is dormant, nothing is being damaged here, it could stay like this forever, no harm.

- Cellebrite transmits Signal's files and cache, including the exploit, and gets hacked by reading it with their scanner.

The key is that the first action is harmless, and the second action is performed by Cellebrite, so can't blame Signal for it. I don't think these two actions can be consider as one.

And the main difference from the malware scenario is that this Signal code is not meant for reading, it is inaccessible and harmless for anyone except the Cellebrite hackers. The exploit is activated by unauthorized use, unlike the malware.
Nobody here is talking about vectors of integers. From the first post, this is all assuming that the objects in the vector are "big".

A modern CPU has 200Gb/s of bandwidth. If the objects in your array are 200 Gb in size each, then swapping the position of two elements in a vector is going to take O(seconds) at memcpy speeds, while doing this with a linked list is going to take ~1 * 10^(-11) seconds.

That's a performance difference of 11 orders of magnitude...

You can make the objects in the array smaller (e.g. 200Mb each instead of 200Gb each) and your two-element swap would still be 10^8 times faster with a doubly linked list.

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In the parallel threads, people seem to just be arguing that a vector is always faster than a list, without understanding "why" this is the case, and making claims about "what the hardware does" without doing basic rule-of-thumb calculations to verify their claims.
>And in contrast, he invokes the worst thing he can think of: hurting someone's livelihood.

>Livelehood: a means of supporting one's existence, especially financially or vocationally

Just a small thing.
My wife works as an AWS/Azure consultant, and she mentions that in our area it's much more common for the non-technical management to push Azure than it is for technology to choose it. Sounds quite IBM-ish/Oracle-ish.
Maemo 5 was (mostly) based on GTK2, and GTK3 so far was never running on such underpowered hardware, so you're most likely seeing plenty of bottlenecks that nobody really looked into optimizing because they weren't bottlenecking anything on hardware the devs used. It's even much snappier on the Librem 5 (which has almost three times as fast RAM as the PinePhone) without any changes whatsoever.

Also, it does take about 3-4 seconds to open the settings app on my Nokia N900 as well - it just makes it seem like it opens instantly with a splash screen that mimics the open app :)
Here are the Companies Presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 27th Demo Day
I don't find it horrifying. Not that long ago, CO2 ppm was twice what it is today. Before that, it was twice that. If we could travel through time, we could drop you in that world and you'd be fine, other than the fact that the world would be an incredibly dense jungle. History shows that we're not particularly close to any dangerously high amount of CO2; we were much closer to a dangerous low amount, since plant respiration fails at around 150 ppm, which would probably mean the extinction of most if not all life on the planet. That's for certain; on the other hand, nobody's able to point to anything particularly bad happening at 400 ppm; the earth has already endured far higher amounts with no problem. Being worried about CO2 is a tenet of a modern religious faith.
FPGAs offer unlimited parallelism.
I was able to create an original OS like GUI, including file system interaction, using vanilla JS (TypeScript) in about two weeks. I am still using it. The actual GUI is just a couple files each comprising about a dozen functions, nothing really complicated.
That's great! (Although redux enthusiasts I've met tend to disagree with that philosophy).
First, why would you want empathy to disappear?

Second, how do you know who this person was long ago? Perhaps you are misjudging someone, and for what?

Third, someone who is not attracted to you deserves to suffer?

What a disconcerting worldview!
I hate to say this, but: Think of the children!

Seriously. American kids can start to learn to program at age 6. Non-English-speaking kids can do so once they're old enough to know English.

Who do you think will have the edge?

Plus, there's a ton of coding in all fields. Learning english to be a programmer is perhaps fine, but to be able to analyze data in seemingly EVERY field of endeavor? Or automate basic routine tasks?

The language issue is an issue, and one worth solving.
I wonder why there hasn't been a Raspberry Pi with Windows on ARM yet, or at least something similar. This could kickstart the Windows on ARM ecosystem, so more SW would be available when the laptops/tablets come out. It would probably increase the sales of Rpi by a lot as well.
We build an Electron app for MacOS regularly. We run these builds on Github’s MacOS VMs.

The internet fails to connect when running yarn install about 3 out of every 5 times.

We’ve gotten multiple refunds for this issue, but it’s still a complete mess. Unfortunately we’ve built much of our process around GH Actions... if not I’m sure we would be on CircleCI or TravisCI already. We’ve also considered switching to self-hosted runners.
>One of my mentors at the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley never said “no” to one of my ideas

This is key to mentorship and building an actual team. Junior Engineers need help in building their Self-Confidence and grow into Leadership positions and this is the way to do it.

Note that asking you to come up with ideas and entertaining them does not automatically mean accepting it.
JavaScript does not have a monopoly in web browsers. Microsoft supported vbScript and Google made a better and faster JavaScript (Dart) which also ran natively in the browser. But neither didn't take off. You can still "compile" for the browser though, the funny thing is that a lot if not most of the code running on the most popular web sites has gone through at least one compile step. So people don't actually program in JavaScript, it has become more of a compilation target.
It could be interesting to track the uptime of such cloud services. Two decades ago, companies prided themselves with 4 or 5 nines (99.99% uptime). Not anymore. Worse is better won yet again ;-)

Companies and programmers should be aware what they get into when they build such dependencies. Distributed git is a thing, but distributed CI/CD that you could also run locally isn't (yet?).
As far as I understood, this is an open issue and Daszak still has to respond: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/cong...
Seems like a just so story. E.g. why did that happen instead of say making woman fertile for longer? Why is the sterotype that youth is very attractive in woman, but the same sterotype doesn't apply to the same extent in men? Seems like there are a lot of other possibilities that that justification could argue for.

Sure, its possible or even likely that evolution has something to do with it, but i think you need a more compelling evidence than that to be convincing.
For me, this is a bug of the OS or the browser. On my OS, Noto Sans is the default sans-serif font and Noto Mono the default monospace font and they pair impeccably. Whatever font you are telling my browser to use will probably be worse for me (at least because of the loading time, and because it is actually hard to match the readability of Noto in my opinion).

It's unfortunate Courier New is both so badly different from the regular fonts (and so bad at all, by the way) and also the default on Windows.
For me, knowing that a contract will be followed regardless of the wishes of any party involved is very valuable. Knowing that an asset will remain scarce, its issuance predictable, and that I can store it securely at extremely low cost, is very valuable.
Nothing, because web applications are by definition html css js. Though canvas-based solutions can circumvent the layouting problem, but at the price of reinventing everything in a non-standard way.
They're unexplored for a reason. Fracking is immensely damaging to the ecosystem.

Additionally, the US won't ever need to touch these again if it manages to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.