skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. We have applications that use all this clients. This framework supports the backend development of a pretty big industrial search engine, and we tend to build very large backend applications. And as a very light-weighted library, it's also used as a simple asynchronous MySQL client, or a kafka client. And the most often, an http server or client.
I agree. And I'm comparing car dealerships to Apple :)
We are working on this product in-house for 7 years now. We are an internal startup from a company that does custom computer vision and ML software.

No mturk, no tricks, a lot of work in ML and in UX as it is not a very straightforward task.
It's about this module: https://github.com/a1wong/it87

There is an old version of it in the kernel, which doesn't support newer released versions of that chip. I remember reading somewhere that the maintainer was being swamped with requests to make support for those chips too, but didn't get any help for it and it became a toxic environment to work on. So he dropped it.
Funny timing. Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales podcast had an episode about Shannon. He sounds like a fun guy to have been around.

https://timharford.com/2021/05/cautionary-tales-fritterin-aw...
For anyone who's complaining about the price, take a look at their whole offer:

https://countthings.com/en/counting-templates
It's just pure speculation. No one is in Bitcoin for Bitcoins, everyone I've ever spoken to with Bitcoin is in it to make more USD which really says it all. Arguebly anyone who's holding Bitcoin and is more concerned about the risk inflation than the risk of Elon tweeting something stupid doesn't understand the investment they've made. To me it seems like the inflation hedge arguement is little more than mental gynastics to justify their gambling.
Do they do the translation and voice synthesizing or just the mouthing?

Given the quality of Google translate, “every language” sounds like they are overselling it.
We already did much better: we never created a pandemic in the first place. You don't need to be great at dealing with plagues if you don't make them. That's the take away here, China can be as denialist as we are, but they have to fix their food hygiene (and lab security maybe?)...

(none of this excuses how shit my government, UK, have performed)
Wait, what is your problem with this? Who the hell would enroll in a scientific study to share their data and not expect their data to be used in that study?
The 8088 processor in the first IBM PC had a bug that gave me some grief.

(The code below is likely to have bugs of its own - I wrote it from memory as an illustration of the CPU bug - and thanks to 'tlb' for catching an error in my first draft. I also left out the question of what data segment the various MOV instructions use for their memory references, as it isn't relevant to this CPU bug.)

If you needed to work in a different stack from the one you were currently running on, you might do something like this:

mov saveSP, sp
mov sp, mySP
...
mov sp, saveSP

This saves the original SP (Stack Pointer) register, loads it with your private value, and then restores SP when you are done.

Suppose you wanted to switch not only to your own stack pointer but also your own stack segment. With 16-bit registers you could only address 64KB at a time, and you would need to change a segment register to access memory outside that range.

So you would save, change, and restore both the SS (Stack Segment) and SP registers:

mov saveSS, ss
mov saveSP, sp
mov ss, mySS
mov sp, mySP
...
mov ss, saveSS
mov sp, saveSP

Now imagine that an interrupt triggered in between one of the changes to SS and the matching change to SP. The interrupt code would now be running on the new stack segment but the old stack pointer, corrupting memory and crashing.

Not to worry! Intel had your back. The documentation promised that after a MOV SS or POP SS, interrupts would automatically be disabled until the next instruction (the matching MOV SP or POP SP) completed.

But they kinda forgot to implement that feature. So if you followed the docs, you would have these very rare and intermittent crash bugs.

Word got around fairly soon, and the fix was simple enough, disable interrupts yourself around the paired instructions:

mov saveSS, ss
mov saveSP, sp
cli
mov ss, mySS
mov sp, mySP
sti
...
cli
mov ss, saveSS
mov sp, saveSP
sti

This still left you unprotected against NMI (Non-Maskable Interrupt), but by the time most of us built NMI switches for our IBM PC's, we'd also upgraded to newer CPUs with this bug fixed. It was only the earliest 8088s (and perhaps 8086s) that had the bug.
There are many cases in life where, it seems, the best state is not a Nash equilibrium. Still, I don't think it's fair to say "just game it then". That's a quick race to the bottom.

The constructive equilibria in political systems appear to be unstable, and need active work to keep them there. The EU is in fact born out of that very realisation - its earliest seeds are in binding France and Germany in an economic union so they stop going to war with each other!
From what I understand, before Shannon showed up no one knew how to calculate the Channel Capacity of a medium and how to deal with noise in the medium.

So people just yelled louder or yelled repeatedly to get things across with better reliability. And when channel capacity was exceeded with everyone yelling too much, no one knew it had exceeded and lot of energy and time was wasted with increasing errors in the system.

Doesn't that feel like a repeat with whats happening in social media and news media these days? Or is it just different things.
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> Protocols like e-mail, Mastodon and Matrix

I must correct you here on "Protocols like Mastodon". The protocol that underlies the Fediverse is the W3C ActivityPub Recommendation [0] and making that distinction is really important. Not doing so would encourage centralization in the same ways as discussed elsewhere in this thread for Email vs. Gmail.

Mastodon is just a fediverse app that was an early adopter of ActivityPub, and managed to become quite popular. Part of this due to a better productization, and the jumpstart this gave them offering the best features first. To many newcomers Fediverse === Mastodon, but - while understandable - this is massively shortselling the interop capabilities of the protocol.

What has already happened by Mastodon dominance is that they are driving the technological direction, but not necessarily in the best possible way and to the overall benefit of the Fediverse. They have a custom client API for instance that is becoming a de-facto standard, adopted by others out of convenience.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
I had a brief look at Concourse. It looks promising but seems to be very focused on running things in containers.

That approach is great when starting out fresh, but with our 1000 existing pipelines (that mainly use Makefiles as entrypoints, which then use docker with custom tooling) it would be a pain to migrate.

Does anyone have experience running Concourse at scale? Does it also support running tasks "old-school" (without any containers)?
Before I decided to pursue my CS degree and write software for a living, I was afraid that getting stressed from university/work would make me hate programming. One of the reasons that kept me going was because I still try to find the time to make stuff like this. It reminds me how programming can be fun.
FWIW the Polish cronies seem happy with the glory and power... for now anyway. The government is corrupt, but nowhere near at the scale of Hungary.

Poor excuse, but I'll make it for the record's sake.
No, it's actually a pretty good question.

We are a custom ML & computer vision software company and about 7 years ago we got several requests in a short time period for counting items in images. We thought it was a great idea for a product and kind of started our journey as an internal startup.
You only have to search "Tesla touch screen lawsuit" to find that there have, in fact, been multiple lawsuits over problems with the touchscreen, as well as a recall of 135,000 vehicles.
The stupid but relatively safe way - it's rather difficult to discharge that capacitor with BOTH hands, and the one in disposable cameras is not that big compared to power supply caps.

You'll get a nice, painful reminder to respect electricity that'll last a few days, and not be in any actual danger.

(I also did the exact same thing as a teenager)
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>I really doubt that many of those genuine repair parts for iphones and macbooks are stolen, in the sense that somebody loaded up a pallet and took it from its manufacturer without paying. Apple doesn't manufacture most of these things, particularly the ICs and screens, and relies on a whole ecosystem of vendors and subcontractors.

Theft is much broader than that. When apple receives devices that it cannot repair anymore it will just recycle the materials and throw the rest away, there are employees that will take out functioning chips or broken circuit boards and throw them in a publicly accessible garbage container only to come back at night to take the parts out of the trash to resell them.
I don't think things like this happen deliberately. To trigger this, you need to have a custom module without that specified indicator, and then you need to boot your previous kernel and notice that the module wasn't loaded. That are a lot of steps to get there which most people won't do.

Maybe kernel developers would get in this situation, but even then they'd probably had their system setup better for their situation (and maybe gone through that same process and thought it was part of the setup steps).
Something doesn't fully add up. Ford's $40k truck is allegedly based on a 125 kWh battery. Tesla's numbers are similar. The only cars anywhere close to such a huge battery all cost close to double.

If we look at the car models with both EV and ICE versions, the EV markup tends to be huge. Hyundai Kona EV is 23k€ more than the ICE version, for 64kWh battery. Peugeot e208 is 16k€ more, for 50kWh battery. Volvo 20k€ more, for 75kWh.

And it's not just automakers. Tesla Powerwall is $8k for 13kWh. LG battery is $7k for 9kWh. Just for the battery pack, it doesn't include installation or any other equipment necessary.

So, one of these must be true:

* Ford/Tesla are overly optimistic about the battery price trajectory and the base version(s) will be a paper launch

* the public/journalists/policy makers are overly pessimistic about the battery prices and there's a huge price drop imminent

* Ford/Tesla will sell these truck at a large loss. But why?

* Consumers are being price-gouged. But why would trucks be an exemption to this?

Also, both the truck and Ford Mustang Mach-E are huge energy hogs - where are they going to source the batteries from?
Why does the pop at the end of:

push sp
mov sp, myPrivateSP
...
pop sp

work? Isn't it popping from the private stack, while it was pushed on the regular stack?
I did the exact same thing after my camera fall on a floor and broke apart :)
> If you try to leave the US, no US official will stop you.

That is not actually true, and I am saying this as a dual citizen who is culturally American. Under 8 USC section 1185(b) it is unlawful for any Untied States Citizen to depart from or enter or attempt to depart from or enter the United States without a United States Passport. So you need an US passport to leave or enter the US even though you do not show immigration agents your passport when leaving the US. When you return you will need your US passport to be admitted.

While it is true that there is no "passport control" on exit in the US (while there is in Europe), it could be easily implemented and scaled into action by a simple law passing Congress.
Yes, according to this[0] you're right.

Anyways, the point still stands - for a company that also has/operates a search engine, the results one gets when entering a search-term on Amazon.com are comically bad - to the point i really wonder if they even try.

The results could only be worse if they won't return any results at all.

But, i suppose, it'd be bad for their bottomline if they'd only show you what you've searched for and not return hundreds of products which supposed brand-names oftentimes is alike to $BARELYRECOGNIZABLEENGLISHWORDS

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com#A9.com_search_portal
The point of the comment you're replying to is that so far there's no indication that the 500-mile-range Cybertruck will actually happen, or that it if it does happen it will happen anytime soon, given the company's history of overpromising and overpredicting on other functionality.
And there may just as well be an invisible dragon in my garage. There's no theory nor evidence that such exotic hydrogen impostors exist, so by Occam's razor we must assume that if it looks like hydrogen and quacks like hydrogen, it is indeed hydrogen.
But what you want is regulation to ensure safety, not that your only way to visit any restaurant is to use a shuttle bus that only stops at restaurants that paid protection money to the shuttle bus company.

Apple can impose standards, limit access, etc without obliging all developers to only go through their store. E.g. already now Apple has no way to guarantee what the company providing an app does with the user data.
Call me naive, but wouldn't this be a lot easier - and more low-tech, thus cheaper, to sort by size with a sieve, then weight individual size-bags, and divide by the size of one pearl?

Assuming all pearls have comparative density.
Can you estimate the total hours and currency spent on all three annually?
But isn't it the case in any programming language that impure operations only have side effects when they are executed? You might as well argue that a JavaScript program on its own is pure - it is only when it is executed by the runtime it has side effects.

You can also pass a function around without executing it in JavaScript.
Oh, good catch! I was doing this from memory, and definitely have a bug there.

Updated now, hopefully this will be a more plausible example. Let me know if you spot something else! :-)
I would argue that many NFT platforms (such as Hicetnunc.xyz[1]) have already successfully "disrupted" traditional artist marketplaces (such as Etsy, Shopify, Bandcamp, etc), despite being only popular for a short few months.

I think many other participating artists would agree, if these decentralized platforms continue to be more profitable for creators than traditional options, there is no need to 'go back' to centralized fiat marketplaces.

I think the real question is whether this will continue long-term, and whether decentralized paradigms (digital ownership, DAOs, trustless execution, etc) can still hold value for the average user even if there was no high economic return.

[1] - https://restofworld.org/2021/inside-brazils-diy-nft-art-mark...
> Today I consider myself lucky to get storage with 4K sectors and I recall seeing rumors that game console SSDs would ship with far larger erase blocks.

The erase blocks on current NAND flash are already up to 16+MB, while the page sizes are typically 16kB. So even presenting the illusion of 4kB sectors requires a lot of extra background work from the SSD controller, and that's been true for generations.

Also, the NVMe Streams feature is from the 1.3 spec in 2017: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11436/nvme-13-specification-p... Like most of the more advanced NVMe features, it's targeted at enterprise or datacenter use cases and most of the initial adoption is among the hyperscale cloud providers that have the resources and incentive to optimize their IO stack from top to bottom.
I'm glad to see Ken's blog on HN. He does incredible stuff with reverse-engineering old proprietary chips, e.g. the HP nanoprocessor which he reverse-engineered from masks then wrote a disassembler for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard_Nanoprocessor
http://www.righto.com/2020/09/hp-nanoprocessor-part-ii-rever...
> Yet the anti-Nintendo sentiment in the country didn’t ultimately do much to help either of the two Ataris’ legal cases; the courts proved willing to buck that rising tide. In a landmark ruling against Tengen in March of 1991, Judge Fern Smith stated that Nintendo had the right to “exclude others” from the NES if they so chose, thus providing the legal soil on which many more walled gardens would be tilled in the years to come.

https://www.filfre.net/2016/04/generation-nintendo/

This was back in March 1991, mind you. The US courts decided that for some categories of things which compute, the manufacturer gets to control 100% of what runs on them. That makes them quite specific in my eyes.

I don't know the exact legal term, but that's what a walled garden amounts to. Yeah, you take a general computing architecture, and you lock it down by law. It doesn't need to be non-Turing complete or what have you to be "specific".
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Let me add to your overly negative take after quoting a part of the article:

"As two millennials living in an overpriced Toronto apartment, often working until burnout, we might find the time to enjoy life in a way we never could before. It’d be like winning the lottery. Our scrappy little pup would become our breadwinner."

...that I really hope they think twice before becoming parents.
By the same token, operating mission critical satcoms for the entire global shipping fleet is quite different from running a beta program for 10k customers with an uncharacteristically frank admission they're not sure whether it'll scale up to work properly in urban areas...
For the cases i bothered to look up, i was looking at a 6x increase going from Alibaba to Amazon.

(been looking at automatic soap dispensers, fwiw - after hours of research however i gathered that all are trash and didn't bother to find out if was going to get lucky)
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Name an ISP that will allow non-filtered TCP port 25 traffic for a non-business account to go through.
This entire site suffers from overselling and overdramatizing what they have massively. Gotta tone it down a little.
Or we could simply not use a blockchain for Doritos purchases. If we’re willing to do that — if we’re able to trade off “Fort Knox” security for Doritos — we can get dramatically higher speed and efficiency for those transactions, and the options we have for implementing this significantly widen. Those options also tend to be inherently safer than their on-chain counterparts, because they both operate on an abstract level, and don’t impact the majority of investment capital entrusted to the network, which tends to lie dormant unmoving in cold wallets regardless.

But if we’re only willing to put Doritos purchases on-chain for some reason because we stubbornly refuse to give up Fort Knox security, and demand a permanent record of our Doritos transactions until the heat death of the universe, we end up with a lot less decentralization, and our options for scaling narrow and become increasingly complex (e.g. sharding).

Worse still, Visa does 50,000+ tps — and that’s just one credit card company. Storing every financial transaction every human in the world ever makes on a blockchain requires infeasibly large block sizes well in excess of 1GB. Meanwhile end users already struggle somewhat to keep up with 1MB blocks on consumer hardware with residential network connections.

(Bear in mind most people interested in extreme on-chain scaling like this have historically also wanted on-chain scaling to handle all forms of cash and credit transactions, plus derivatives trading, “NFTs”, “decentralized exchanges” etc etc, which would demand still more transactional capacity).

Bitcoin could conceivably only increase its block size by a factor of 10-100 before nodes become only possible to run in datacenters. Condemning nodes to forever run in datacenters — lest we forget gargantuan blocks can never be discarded by full nodes — would only allow Bitcoin to hit a measely couple thousand transactions per second at best. What’s the point of doing that at all?

(The choice was obvious to highly technical people at the time of the block size debate, but their voices were drowned out by populist appeals. Also sorry, forgot this was a thread about Ethereum.)
In my experience the weak point here is the controller/firmware. We bought a bunch of high-endurance Enterprise MLC drives (also Intel but newer) and one of them has already bricked itself, way before reaching any kind of wear worth mentioning.
You only need to look at the many people who buy trucks with large cabs and tiny beds and then never actually use the bed for anything, similar to how there are many people who buy three-row SUVs and then just use them as 'cooler' minivans.

Not everyone buys a truck for emotional reasons, of course, but there are a lot of people who buy trucks but would be better suited in every way by SUVs (except that it's not a truck), and a lot of people who buy SUVs but would be better suited in every way by minivans (except that it's a minivan).
I would never compare taking care of a dog the same of a baby
You dub it conventionally, then you have AI-assisted "mouth visual redubbing"
for me "just a feeling of ‘meh’" -> bad water

Not bad enough to make me really sick, just meh. Not feeling like doing anything, very rare headaches.
On the other hand my father let my Mom buy a few grams of gold every few months. It was a good decision in hindsight considering how much it grew over the past few decades. My Mom's gold came to rescue when my family was in financial distress.
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The idea that a company can "sell" privacy is completely fabricated by those who are collecting vast amounts of data about users.

Revenue-producing mass data collection by "tech" companies creates a "privacy" issue. Is the solution to "sell" privacy. Of course not. Data collection makes more money. That is why "tech" companies offer so many things to users for "free". There would be little or no money to be made in selling these things, relative to using them as fronts for data collection and surveillance.

Apple does not try to claim, "We make no money from collecting data on Apple customers." Instead they claim they protect customers' privacy from other companies, who also want to collect data on Apple customers.

When Apple itself stops collecting data about users, only then can I start to consider Cook's claims that the issue of privacy is so important. At present, Apple's actions do not match its statements. There is no privacy from Apple and the company has built datacanters to hold vast amounts of private data collected from customers.

These companies have certainly swooned some, judging by the comments I see on HN, into believing they must make "tradeoffs". How did we reach a point where anyone could believe that a company who is collecting vast amounts of data on users of its products is some sort of privacy crusader or privacy merchant. Anyone who cared about privacy would not be doing surveillance and data collection.

The only answer I can come up with is that these people who cannot see any alternative besides "tradeoffs" were born into a world of where companies were already engaged in dragnet data collection from the internet as a "business", and they never saw what the internet was like before this nonsense began. They honestly do not know what a reasonable level of "privacy" is because they never had it.

The idea of "paying for privacy" is no different than paying protection money to a mafia or paying ransom to a ransomware group. The solution is to stop the wrongful behaviour, not to make payments to the organisations that are engaged in it.
Why is mobilecoin a scamcoin? It seems to work well enough for Signal to integrate, which is a pretty high bar.
Thanks for explaining. My brain read "vaporwave" not "vaporware". Makes more sense now...I don't typically think of HN as a place where people love to argue about asthetics.