skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society recently put a 10-minute cart timer on their website, and I'm perfectly fine with that.

For those who don't know SMWS, they're basically an independent bottler under the guise of a club. Everything they bottle is cask strength, non-chill filtered and natural color, which is how I think all whisky should be.

You pay a yearly membership fee, which gives you access to regular tastings and other events, as well as access to buy bottles. Their sort of trademark thing is that they don't officially tell you which distilleries the bottles come from, so bottles are marked with a numerical code for the distillery and one for the specific cask. That means they can sometimes get casks from distilleries that are not too keen on having their name on independent bottlings, but the official reason given is that SMWS wants people to taste any given bottle free of preconceived ideas of what a whisky from any certain distillery "should" taste like. Of course, there are readily available lists mapping codes to distilleries all over the web, but the official pretense is kept up.

Coming back to the shopping cart, the 10 minute timer is there because they may only have 5 or 10 bottles of a given whisky, so adding it to your cart reserves one bottle for you, until you complete the order or the timer runs out. For limited-stock merchandise, I think that's a sensible way to ensure you don't get an annoying surprise right as you're trying to pay, and to ensure that people can't just reserve a bottle forever and never actually buy it.
Thanks for the correction! It’s difficult to write an short title that can explain easily a scientific paper, and I failed =]
Project Guideline: Enabling Those with Low Vision to Run Independently
With rumors it’s generally better to trust sources like Bloomberg, especially if they have newer information. Other rumors seem to indicate that the machines may launch but be supply-constrained.
Again defaults matter. Certainly no one can stop you from feeling aggrieved or reacting hostilely. Personally I find it harder to maintain enthusiasm when dealing with attitudes like yours.
Google announces there are over 3B active Android devices
But now you're again limited by the low efficiency of ICE, the theoretical limits imposed by the carnot cycle...
1000 ms for application/html. How far we have come...
When I'm providing support, it's for my company's application, and it really is essential in those cases.
How come Linux doesn't have this issue? Why did Microsoft had to fix TCP with the RACK-TLP RFC when both Linux and MacOS implementations did fine already?
The government doesn't need to prove a bitcoin address belongs to someone on the sanctioned list, the specific intermediaries used aren't important. Proving that you know you are paying someone on the sanction list is enough.
yeah what tools?
> This will ultimately just create a larger market for ransomware insurance.

CEO of Swiss Re to said this[1]:

> He observed that the cyber insurance market is currently worth around $5.5 billion in premium, compared to “gigantic” yearly losses that extend into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

“There’s a cyber market that’s very tiny compared to the total exposure,” he told CNBC. “It’s going to grow but only a tiny minority of cyber is actually insured.”

“And I would actually argue that overall the problem is so big it’s not insurable,” Mumenthaler continued. It’s just too big. Because there are events that can happen at the same time everywhere that are much more worrying than what you just saw.”

[1] Pipeline cyber attack not surprising, says Swiss Re https://www.reinsurancene.ws/pipeline-cyber-attack-not-surpr...
I don't like the operators' logic in elixir. There should be one for assigning variables, one for pattern matching and there is no rebinding of variables.

Something like:

//for assignment

x = 1

//for pattern matching
x == 1

Automatically translated.
Pick whatever word you prefer for whatever aspect of its multi-part nature you prefer

Idgaf
All I know is my dog sometimes yips in his sleep, and it can be fairly loud-- I will forever wonder what he's yipping at, or how that behavior could possibly be selected for. Brains are weird.
I mean, this is a great idea too - I think the key is just realistic expectations! But I do this too... I like to do it over straw, and the straw kind of protects the seedlings by retaining a bit of moisture and keeping the seeds from birds and wind.

It's awesome for growing lettuces and herbs, I find - I just thin them out as they peak out of the straw and let the biggest ones stay, while the smaller ones get eaten as I thin them or make it into a salad or something for dinner.

But you're absolutely right, not worrying too much and just letting your garden do its thing is great. You might not get maximum yields of tomatoes or watermelons or whatever, but it can work well and take a lot of the fussing out of the equation.
Shout out to the beautiful design of this web. The loop video of the hydra at the beginning is meaningful and super informative!
Daytime sleeping is not unheard of.
Yeah, reading my response now, it kind of did sound as if I was implying that the video game character was original "Mac".

I wanted to mention the game as a possible inspiration because of who the author of the article is, and the website. Still doesn't rule out multiple references, as you said.

Actually I wasn't aware of the songs, so TIL, thanks!
Intro to Svelte JavaScript – The Framework of the Future;)
Seems like a victory for an influence operation aimed at destroying the United States.
The performance cores seem to take maybe twice as much space as the efficiency cores, so I'm not sure the tradeoff would be worth it - the efficiency cores would need to be more than half as fast taking into account the parallelism to make the tradeoff worth it.

In a world where power and heat budgets don't matter at all you'd not have any efficiency cores, after all.
> if you're a victim of ransomware

ftfy:

if [corporation is] a [target] of ransomware

I don't feel sympathy for them the way I would a person.
>They simply take turns talking about themselves ...

This so much!

One thing about the UX of all conversational products, in stark contrast with real conversations, is that it forces you into a dynamic of "one question, one answer", "one message, one reply". I can imagine it could be pretty hard to break this paradigm, but for me it's like the equivalent of the uncanny valley in this context. No matter how good the replies are, if I'm forced into this dynamic, I just know that I'm talking to a robot.
Also here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23956715

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27166536

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23922449
> In standard backprop, the most common NN training method, the kangaroo
is blind and has to feel around on the ground to make a guess about
which way is up. A major problem with standard backprop is that the
distance the kangaroo hops is related to the steepness of the terrain.
If the kangaroo starts on a gently sloping plain instead of a mountain
side, she will take very small hops and make very slow progress. When
she finally starts to ascend a mountain, her hops get longer and more
dangerous, and she may hop off the mountain altogether. If the kangaroo
ever gets near the peak, she may jump back and forth across the peak
without ever landing on it.

The first part of this is bad. In backprop we know the gradient just fine. And no analogy has been offered for the aspect that makes backprop distinct from every other algorithm mentioned.
On the other hand, I think it should not be feasible. How many kilograms of raw materials would be required? And at what altitude? I don't think there's enough propellant on earth to lift that much stuff.
Google should do the same for blog spam pages that are laden with AdSense ads.
Biden is test driving the truck: https://twitter.com/MarioDParker/status/1394729547770339328?...

F-150 is the best selling vehicle in the US, this is massive news, and Biden’s presence shows how seriously the government is taking EVs.
God forbid Amazon bring fresh and invigorating competition into legacy industries. Whatever will the consumer do??
Many engineers get into these language conundrums by poorly stapling phrases and modifiers together.
Thank you :) I sure hope so but I don't see why not. It's kind of like uploading cd backups to google drive or dropbox. Users should only upload ROMs of games they own of course.
That still doesn't mean that not yelling should receive any sort of admiration. You don't get bonus points for doing what should be the bare minimum, regardless of what the current norms are.
There's a ton of stuff that was never on Netflix streaming. In fact, when Netflix started charging separately for streaming I dropped it and just kept the DVD rental option. It took House of Cards to get me back on.

And Amazon Prime Video is quite good. Certainly HBO stuff was never available elsewhere (except for purchase or physical rental). Yes, Disney siphoned some stuff off the other services, but again much of that wasn't available for subscription streaming pre-Disney+ (which at current pricing is actually a pretty good deal).

I really can't be bothered with piracy unless I really want to see something and just can't find it elsewhere.
What is the SEC failing to do with respect to Amazon potentially buying MGM?

With respect to Amazon in general?
Their Java bloat was borderline for a constrained device that is a smartphone, always needed double the memory/cpu/battery than iOS alternative, it couldn't scale down to a smart watch, they are stuck and went with a partnership with SAMSUNG, what a shame

Some people are even saying they are about to fully embrace tizen with Dart & Flutter as a 1st class citizen, some are even saying they'll use it as a foundation for their next gen Android smartphones
Chrome was a new project, and didn't have to deal with the legacy of being built on top of the same source code as Netscape Navigator. I do not understand why you are trying to make this out to bash Firefox like they aren't as competent by taking ~10 years to implement multi-process browsing after Chrome. Legacy software and patterns are truly painstaking processes to iterate on.

But yes Electrolysis is the initiative that you should have referred to in the original comment.
So true. I remember how big a bummer Android keynotes were when I did lots of mobile dev. "Oh, cool, that'll be fun to use... in three or four years".
You might think Bitcoin is not a good store of value, but a lot of people disagree with you. The energy "waste" argument is just virtual signaling at this point. It has been thoroughly debunked.
Samsung has chosen Austin TX as its next 5nm EUV factory location
Starting off with new collaboration tooling integration is pretty on target for 2021!

Getting a big vibe of yesterday's "Slack Destroying American Companies"[1]. I didn't actually click through & read, which would have lead me to finding out it's Matt Taibbi having a discussion with Antonio Garcia-Martinez (who personally I am not interested in hearing from). But the title reminded me of a part of Ezra Klein interviewing Cal Newport about his new book, "A World Without Email"[2]. In the interview they spend quite a while discussing how it seems like the whole world is presently stuck with Slack, how there's so little visible mainstream competition. Cal has been engaged with this question of workflow & tech & collaboration for a number years, often from a somewhat anti- standpoint, with books such as "Deep Work" and "Digital Minimalism". Hearing two sharp minds talking about collaboration was incredibly enriching to me.

Notably, the collaboration tools shown at the beginning of IO are for explicit collaboration times. They're not marketed as always on communication devices, not a replacement for slack. But they both are about modern tech-enabled collaboration, which is an interesting topic, and one that seems like we're only just starting to really dive into. Long long long after Engelbart's Mother of All Demos (52.4 years after).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27191181

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/podcasts/ezra-klein-podca...
I don't make videos, but I'd recon that someone who makes long videos, doesn't have time to look at the result of all of the cuts.

Maybe a separate time line with just the cuts that you can fast forward through and see/hear if there's anything you still want.
New solar is cheaper than operating existing coal plants: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/10/23/its-cheaper-to-build-...

Battery storage is becoming cost competitive with natural gas peaker plants: https://www.greentechmedia.com/webinars/webinar/will-energy-...
Strictly speaking insects are not animals AFAIK
While true, this also gives jobs to millions of people, unlike crypto, which is comparatively less.
Sounds like you didn't have receive side scaling enabled; by default flows are queued to core 0 to prevent reordering. If you enable RSS, your flows will be hashed to core-specific queues.

It's inaccurate to describe traffic processing as single-threaded in the kernel.
Yeah, I don't want my manager to see what app I am running at any time. Hard no!
Meanwhile, Google's market cap has tripled during his tenure as CEO.

Maybe being flashy and showy isn't all that important after all.
The assistive technology showcases are super impressive and inspiring. Is there like a website to get an overview of these efforts?
This will work with some tomatoes, but many grown for agriculture are F1 hybrids which won't produce the same plant from its seeds. Even so, you're right about some plants being pretty easy. In cooler or temperate climates like mine, tomatoes aren't all that easy - they love heat and a decent amount of light. If you have the heat and light though, tomatoes can be like a weed.
magic internet money

btw, it is a success.

If not for crypto two companies would have a global monopoly on online transactions and able to banish you from global economy on a whim
If you’re on recent Windows system, you should have pktmon [1] available. I believe it’s the „netsh trace” successor and has much nicer command line. And you no longer need an external tool to convert the trace to .npcap format.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/t...
QC for optimization and other hard search problems is an interesting area for deeper exploration. It's possible that quantum optimizers could be exponentially faster than existing optimization techniques by evaluating multiple minima simultaneously.

Throwing AI on the research campus does help focus what researchers will do there - e.g. research algorithms which can plausibly improve training, inference, and generalization of neural networks/ML models. Rather than researching other more "practical" QC applications such as cryptography.
You say this as if a disgruntled employee can't compromise the security of literally any system at all.

Remember Snowden didn't hack the CIA. He just worked there. And has a user/pass.
And in apple world, add a usbc->lightening cable and it's exactly the same. This whole dongle complaint has reached comic level proportions.
I guess most WebGL development currently happens in Safari, because Safari is switching from their own WebGL implementation to ANGLE. Other then that, AFAIK there is no "WebGL 2.1" or "WebGL 3" planned.
Maybe try wine? Seriously, it might be very low effort to get the binary to run on wine.
Ask HN: What is the number one benefit of building in public?
That's interesting it's different in Japan.

But I'm precisely pushing back on the dichotomy you're presenting -- it's not an either/or choice about a screen vs hearts and minds, or sharing with friends vs. with the person next to you.

You can have both -- you can have all of it. Record a couple of minutes, share with friends, and make friends next to you as well the entire rest of the concert and have those memories. Plus, you can multitask. Even if I'm filming a quick bit of a song, I'm sure as heck enjoying the music and experience too! It's not like I stop listening or looking. :)
Funny, I’m currently working on a project where I’m fetching post data from a Wordpress backend with a few GQL queries via the WPGraphQL plug-in and `@urql/svelte` to populate a static SSG’d frontend. While developing locally, I copied and pasted the JSON response into a local file in the repo to develop against. I was thinking this would be nice to automate.

If I’m understanding correctly, it seems like this tool more or less automates that process?

Can it send a GQL query?
Container Tabs are completely orthogonal. A site loaded in a tab which is contained in this way cannot access your global cookie jar, for example. If you visit a site with a Facebook Like button on it, then Facebook will not receive the same cookie from you that it would have received if you had loaded the site in a non–contained tab. This is true whether or not the site has been given it’s own process to live in. The converse is also still true; non–contained sites still have access to your global cookie jar even if they’re isolated in their own process.

Putting sites in their own process mitigates against Spectre–like attacks, but it doesn’t do anything for higher–level problems like third–party cookies.
Robert Smith to Join Columbia Journalism School
I used to live near there, and it reminds me that the further you get away from LA the more general "where you're from" becomes. At some point if someone asks where you live you say "LA" even if you're hundreds of miles from there, as it's the reference point they'll know.
Pick whatever word you prefer for whatever aspect of its multi-part nature you prefer

Some of the board members come from the member banks
PG, if you asked him, might describe himself as defending people who do real work from a larger culture that all too often prioritizes serving the status quo over accomplishing the goals that the status quo was established to accomplish. One example of that would be SpaceX doing the launch vehicle design work that the NASA/Boeing/Big Government Contractor complex was established to do. At the same time, SpaceX works its people extremely hard and is lead by a billionaire with abnormally unsophisticated PR. So there you have cultural and business forces set against a new company that has nothing going for it except the fact that it actually does stuff. Actually doing stuff is a surprisingly small advantage in a world that is interested in so many other qualities.
well then you may be missing out on some great deals. when I was searching for an apartment to rent I found a great place, but I wanted some time to think about it. the landlord said that they won't hold it for me and that they were showing it to someone else the next day. I chose to take apartment and I am really glad that I chose it.
How is that different from how Shiba Inu token works? Genuinely curious
Bitcoin already uses a very high percentage of the total energy that the global financial services industry does, and it moves a very small amount of money around to show for it. If the bitcoin network were to move quadrillions of dollars per year, it would probably have to use more energy than we are capable of producing.

And bitcoin cannot offer insurance, or retirement and estate planning, it cannot take my company public or help me raise money on the bond market. It cannot facilitate a repo transaction on my real estate portfolio, and it cannot offer me a mortgage to purchase a home.
Meh, the outrage crowd in Hacker News is ridiculous. Any level of effort to make a company more inclusive as criticized as the company being 'too woke'. Meanwhile, Google's market cap has exploded in recent years.

Lots of people too scared of 'cancel culture' (read: being caught and having to pay the consequences) around here.
I'm cofounder of Lux and one of the engineers. Happy to answer any questions.
That is the true goal. China sits back and laughs.
That is not going to happen, though.
Understood thanks.
Is the suite that you use to manage these tests available on a git repo by chance?

I really like how transparent you've made: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sGKmbnW74u9r1GOzAQcI...

And I wanted to run something similar but for our own network of sites. (If so you can reach me on my email in profile). Have about 400 sites to access.
This is why I've turned down a couple recruiters for Google. It's just not worth it anymore for me.
> For many countries such thing could never be enforced

so it follows that if a country bans ransoms payments criminals will just ingnore that country and focus on the next easiest target, putting pressure on every country to follow the example and ban it too.

I think this will be very effective at stopping the most sofisticated targeted attacks but won't have much effect on indiscriminate "viral" attacks because those attack indiscriminately and wrecking targets from banned countries at least would serve as detterrant for victims in countries that can.
I feel you're not alone, it's just that - rightly or wrongly - they seem to genuinely optimize for "Max sales I can squeeze in TODAY/RIGHT NOW", rather than "Max sales I can squeeze in overall". I mean, their whole incentive structure operates this way - neither salesperson nor their boss get commission or bonus on sales that happen at some other point in the future when you may or may not be there, and may or may not be the one to make it. This happens on macro/corporate level too - quarterly sales / revenue targets, future be damned.
Really? Google drive sync has been hot garbage for me. Before that program came everything was fine and dandy, but drive sync constantly stumbles over it's own feet, restarts and fails to up- and download files. I'm longing back to Rsync or even FTP after trying to use google drive to move data.
Wondering the the main benefit to building in public is. Is it getting customers directly from Twitter? Is it getting write-ups and building links for SEO?

Does it only work with certain types of businesses? Wondering if it would be a turn off for B2B startups since it would show how small a business is (one man show) and hurt trust.
551.47 miles
> The bottom-line is that if you're a victim of ransomware, the government joins the hacker, both of them kicking you while you're down and demanding money.

The rationale for outlawing ransom payments is that it eliminates the incentive for ransomware attacks.

The real question is whether "no-concessions" policies reduce the incidence of ransomware attacks. The answer to that question isn't obvious. However, conditional on no-concessions working in the case of ransomware, "kicking corps while they're down" is not a relevant consideration. The cooperate-cooperate quadrant of the game has higher expected value than the defect quadrants, so you force cooperation by whatever means necessary, even if that means some actors don't get the best possible outcome from their own perspective.

NB: there's some evidence that no-concessions policies don't work particularly well in the case of kidnapping [1]... I'd take care extending this finding to ransomware gangs. If you read the whole PDF, it'll become clear why this behavior is interesting but might not transfer to today's ransomware gangs. That said, when crafting policy on ransomware attacks, it's worth keeping in mind that ransomware attackers may or may not be of the homo economicus species. At the very least as an assumption that you start with but are open to dropping as new evidence prevents itself.

[1] https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE20...
Hydrogen Energy Library Directory
Didn't Nvidia try this on some different cards recently? And wasn't it only about a week before there was a patch that undid what Nvidia had done?
It would be more interesting to see this indexed against each country's respective population
The captcha experience was awful but the search was perfect.
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Is the methodology they're using outdated? Or perhaps their approach seems naive? Or are you saying something else?