skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, sure, but probably most programs we use these days are written in Javascript/DOM and gratuitously interface with remote systems. It demonstrably isn't difficult to write decent assembly that is faster than the naive RESTful APIs called by Javascript that makes our 8 core 2-5 GHz computers feel slower than a wet week. A system written entirely in assembly is probably going to be significantly faster than a modern general purpose computer, but it probably won't be running checking your work webmail any time soon.
Newly leaked video shows a UFO disappear into the water
Yeah, I've encountered some cool people running web radio stations who thought they site were bored. So I've added slugs so they can link the project directly to their station.

Later chrome started blocking non https content (which most of the stations were streaming like) so I had to remove a lot of cool stations, sadly
I agree with your characterization but don’t think that it makes him insufferable or have questionable motives. He’s authentic to himself and shows it on YouTube warts and all. Have to respect that. Take his videos as 50-75% opinion and it’s all good.
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Thanks for this, will pick through it to see if we can pick up any better practices or patterns. My 11yr old son and I playing with Love for a few weeks, learning OO, LUA, and some game engine principles.

https://github.com/ppriest/love if interested.
Long live Belarus! Congratulations to Mr Lukashenko and all belorussian people in general on capturing another traitor on CIA payroll whose goal is turning Belarus into another European banana republic like the rest of most ex-eastern block countries. Кирдык скоро вашей Америке!!!
I don't think I read anything specific on the topic. I'd simply suggest only using local time in the views. Hopefully that's possible in your use case. Be defensive in your design.
> It often gets framed that the slave states valued slaves lives as less (3/5) than free persons, but remember that the northern states that were against slavery were also against counting slaves as constitutional persons at all: they wanted 0/5s.

This actually gets the 3/5 compromise wrong worse than the view it (correctly) points to as being wrong.

The 3/5 compromise isn’t about “constitutional personhood” of slaves at all. The southern states actually wanted 5/5 (which they ended up after the war, when they replaced chattel slavery with penal slavery) and the northern states wanted 0/5 — which is how 3/5 was a “compromise” — because the issue wasn’t about how much legal personhood slaves were granted (which was zero and not being negotiated), it was about how much voting power in the federal government the people allowed to vote in slave states got as a bonus for having them in bondage. The position of the northern states was “if you keep humans in a condition where they are legally something like livestock or industrial machines, you don’t get any more extra votes for having them than you would for livestock or industrial machines.”
So what should he do to computers he spent time and money to fix and clients abandoned? Throw them into the bin?
She wasn't "kicked out"; she resigned rather than answer certain questions, as was her right.
I suspect they are following sentiment analysis on social media and also have demand details on the exchanges.

I assume that soon they will let it drop to 9k and leave it there for a few years and the start the whole thing over again, with the next round of "investors". These "Maximalists" are unintentionally helping them set a floor.
Should MS get a cut of all Xbox applications?
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Why your online assets aren’t safe: Is cloud the problem or the solution?
It’s a network supporting both a decentralized data-store with a consistent view into valuable data and an a distributed computer with consistent results. What is so hard about this?
Good points. We are both avid kite surfers so did some word magic to come up with Kiter. We also wanted to emulate the image of having a string from your kite so you can have control. A tether from the traditional spray and pray method of applications to something grounded. But being a word wasn't high on our criteria list. For example Uber and Spanx both aren't words.
Blockchain, Decentralization and Smart Contracts have had nearly a decade to prove their value and disrupt the marketplace. So far nothing but whitepapers, pipe dreams and exit scams - nothing my mother can use. What's the point? Nobody is using crypto as an alternative to fiat. Prove me wrong.
You can tell some shit's about to go down when somebody sets you up the bomb and then you get signal.
An ASIC router does something like 10 Tbps for $10K while a software router is closer to 1 Tbps for $50K; the limit is I/O and memory bandwidth, so simplifying forwarding won't increase performance. And ISPs need multi-Tbps throughput for backbones (which is where SCION would be used).
> Nor do I have any illusions to Europe, much less eastern europe being all that "free

Europe consistenly gets the highest ranking in things that test for different aspects of freedom (democracy, press, police violence, etc.)

To be clear: it's not that Europe can't do better, but if you care about 'freedom' it's a better place to be than pretty much any other region on the planet.
What about forcing the plane of the Bolivian president to land in 2013; what that justified? Lukashenko is doing what "international community" did then -- trying to catch an inconvenient person that the state cannot legally reach otherwise.

I am not claiming that such things should be left with no response. In fact, I suspect this might hasten Lukashenko's downfall (quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi), but he is just taking a page from the "western civilization" playbook. My 2c.
That's not what I was talking about. I was talking about how if your Surface has a problem with screens spontaneously cracking, will Rossmann even mention it? He won't. He knows his crowd, and he keeps quiet about criticizing his crowd's products.

Also, this myth that Apple storage prices are inflated needs to die. The SSD speeds are unlike PC SSD speeds on all but the most expensive PCs, and Microsoft charges more for their SSDs on the Surface line.
This is amazing. I totally see the parallel to coding little things that are 'useless'. It is a form of meditation maybe.

Working on 'useless' code is a sort of massage for the mind sometimes.
"... which was outside Ryanair's control."

No refunds for anyone...

Nothing can finish off a corporate announcement better than a Liability Avoidance and Risk Reduction statement :)
Or use the trick from Java Puzzlers (which may have borrowed it from another source):

Feel free to mail us your feedback written in pencil on a $20 bill.
I think that airplane will be considered captured by terrorists. If there's a danger of it being used as a weapon of mass destruction, it'll be blowed up to prevent more deaths. I don't think that it would be considered reasonable to blow up aircraft if it didn't present a danger to big cities.

So IMO pilot could ignore their requirements and I think that nothing would happen outside of angry transmissions. Especially if the plane was near border. But I don't think that it would be reasonable, especially in an airplane full of innocent people.
> What's their business model? A pimp for software developers?

No, but I wish someone would fill that role.

Though pimps are almost always just called "agents".
TLDR: something like FaceGAN to force artificial lip sync for a dub into the video frames

That way, you can dub videos however you like without having to rewrite your dub text to match the visible mouth movements. I like the idea, but in my opinion finding good dub speakers is the challenge, not figuring out what you want them to say.
No one is saying that fiat money is perfect. This is a logical fallacy to jump to "Fiat has issues, therefore I will only own bitcoin". That is like saying "McDonalds is unhealthy, therefore I will only eat sand"
All of my phones have had that setting in the camera app.
I don't mean chips per-se, I mean complete assemblies like iPhone displays. As far as I know, there's no "legitimate" source for those, it's all either outright stolen, counterfeit or bad/rejected parts.

> because reverse logistics (how you deal broken/returned goods) is already a huge cost center and the legislation as proposed would make it more so

How would right to repair affect that? And if it wasn't profit-motivated how do you explain the extreme efforts some manufacturers do to prevent people from repairing their own devices (like iPhone cameras being associated with the logic board and not being usable in any other phone of the same model)?
"Risk-free rate" as in "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" rather than "actually no risk".
It's just a commercial operator of the airplane. That doesn't matter much in the international aviation laws.
Could you explain this a bit more - I think I don't quite know enough about electronics to follow the criticism.

Are you saying the traces are too resistive, or not resistive enough? How would that manifest - i.e. I see working circuits on the video, but are there classes of circuits that this would not work for?
Ah ok I see, could you explain what exactly you mean by „state capture“? That the money goes to the state instead of private companies and the state is inherently wasteful etc?
Have you heard of "kiting" before? Kiter seems like a great name in this context, having job prospects predictably chasing you rather than you hopelessly chasing them.
Yes but what problem is it trying to solve? It's a solution to a non existent problem.
> While that's absurd and a rather impolite thing to do; the moral issue there small or non-existant; denying a foreign diplomatic delegation the right to enter your territory is... perfectly OK, even when your motivations are at best dubious.

I'm glad you've declared this, I was worried that there was a moral component I had to think about.
I like this direction. There is still more work needed. They should post-process the frames similar to the restyle-encoder: https://github.com/yuval-alaluf/restyle-encoder
I am a minority hated by the KKK (more than one, actually).

The condition I specified, "if they aren't causing problems at work" is important. If they come in wearing a KKK t-shirt or espousing racist views at work, of course they should be fired. But if they're respectful at work, how would I even know they had been a KKK member?

It's not about what they deserve. I'm not looking to let them off easy. It's a matter of pragmatism. If they can't get employment, the alternative is we have former (or current) white supremacists living off tax payer dollars with too much free time on their hands and no path towards deradicalization. And I think that's more dangerous to society.
This is known I think.

If you 'think' about how you 'walk across the room' - you don't do it naturally.

You don't 'win' during the 'game' - you 'win' during practice, when you are teaching your body all of the skills, and how to score like a walk across the room.

There's nothing you can do at 'game time' but to literally let your subconscious use what it's learned.

Golf is I think the game with the most subtle and minute aspects to that, and you can see the players are so keen on ritual, consistency, routine. 'Everything in it's right place' before the match and you're thinking is calm.
> Even if switching from process-based to thread-based model improved the per-connection overhead, the amount of work needed is so huge the benefit / effort ratio is so utterly awful no one is going to do it.

Then other products will emerge and overtake some of PostreSQL's marketshare in the long run. It's already happening in fact. Just like more efficient and easier to configure webservers like nginx and caddy are gaining marketshare over Apache httpd.

I love PostgreSQL and don't want to see it becoming the next Apache httpd, slowly but surely fading. Perhaps FAANGs could fund such refactor.

Perhaps a cheaper solution was to incorporate pgBouncer inside PostgreSQL so it would naturally sit in front of PostreSQL in the default installation without extra configuration.
A related article was recently posted on HN:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/a-half-century-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27257448
It's not hard, it's just an easy brain-free dunk.
Vitalik is consistently one of the most interesting people to follow in the blockchain space. Even his (5+ year) old writing is quite interesting, if nothing else to see how Ethereum's research thinking has evolved over time.

A few questions re: why "Ethereum is not going further than quadratic [sharding]."

The first reason given: there's a minimum number of nodes required for shard for safety guarantees. So, a couple hundred shards, each with 1000 users seems like a limit. But I wonder: 10 years from now, if the blockchain (maybe pipe?) dreams succeed, then why do we expect 1000 * 500 = 5M nodes? This seems like it's quite small.

Especially if running a node on a phone ever becomes reasonable, or at least participating in the data availability process is possible here, then why would we not go further?

The second reason for non-super-quadratic sharding is data permanence. But here, couldn't we design different shards with different appetites for data permanence. Sure, NFTs currently are forever, but I can think of many applications where users do not give a damn about data permanence, and even some applications where users would prefer if data was just forgotten about.

In which case, what's stopping us from saying "these shards, we save. The other ones, who cares about." We would want users to opt into such guarantees, of course, but it seems reasonably possible.

Of course, let's get a good sharded blockchain before we optimize for more.

I'm excited to see how sharding research continues to involve and drives the cost per TX (economic and environmental) down. Consider me a cheerleader rooting for you all!
> I think most people are against supporting bad people just because they do something good

> I and many others don't like that Rossman is the one who is harboring this when he has moved from well-done repair videos to rants about anything that can be ranted about.

He rants on random topics that's what his audience likes to watch. And mind you, they're often quite educational and make you think. Even when he's wrong.

It's ludicrous to say he's a bad person because he rants about something other than R2R in some of his videos. It's like you cannot fathom a good person can have more than one topic he's interested in?
Extraordinary. Just got an email update on my phone, basically the biggest news drop in months. Can you imagine if someone finds definitive proof it came from a lab?
This is precisely what happened in 2017. Miners and exchanges unanimously supported increases Bitcoin's blocksize limit from 4MB to 8MB, in Segwit2x. However, users stopped them.
Because layer 2 solutions (eg. LN) are trustless. ie. it doesn't involve you depositing your coins with some third party and trusting that they don't run off with them.
Its not the Streisand effect when you are trying to very publicly establish that you will inflict harsh consequences on people doing what the target has done.
Had a pallet of military surplus capacitors, packaged as 3 big (soda can sized) caps on a blade frame and wrapped in conductive foil, plastic, then heavy paper. From the 70s and they were fine when i got them in 1997.

I wired up an unwisely huge bank out of them for some fun HV experiments. They were in a shed outside and could self charge to useful levels in the course of a windy day. Dont recall the actual numbers but it could vaporize dimes handily.
Risk assessment for COVID variant B.1.617.2 ('Indian variant') [pdf]
The Simpsons Tomacco episode comes to mind: “ugh, this is terrible... I want more!!”
Amazing! It is very helpful. Thanks for sharing
Thank you so much, I thought Qt and Electron were the two front runners for this, but just wanted to check I wasn't missing something everyone knew about.
> Not a single example that a newbie can understand.

K8S (imo) isn’t for noobs. A car factory isn’t for noobs. Ideally you would want to understand how a car is made and works, how to run an assembly line, and how to build a factory communication systems before building and running the car factory. Similarly, you should understand how docker containers works, how to run infrastructure, and how to configure system networks and dns before building and running a K8S platform.

The analogy may not be perfect… K8S is complicated but not impossibly so. Practice, working with something like Rancher, and classes will go along way to help understand it.
Hacking third-party APIs on the JVM
On January 29, 1886, Carl Benz applied for a patent for his “vehicle powered by a gas engine.” The patent – number 37435 – may be regarded as the birth certificate of the automobile. In July 1886 the newspapers reported on the first public outing of the three-wheeled Benz Patent Motor Car, model no. 1.
Building things to a certain price is always going to yield accusations of doing that to make it more breakable. But it's probably one of those cases where you can spend thousands of dollars for only 1% more reliability. Stuff that you bend open, throw in your backpack twice a day, touch for 14 hours a day, eat your meals over, etc. is going to break no matter how expensive the components are. I used to work on embedded systems and was always impressed by the quality of eval boards we got. Name brand components all over -- Coilcraft inductors, Vishay resistors, etc. They still flaked out, had bugs, broke, and required manual rework. The performance of the $10,000 reference board was the same as the $100 production units with decidedly non-name-brand components.

We'll never know for sure if Apple is making the right trade-offs, because you can't buy any other machines that run OS X to compare to, but they probably are. People who just spilled coffee on their keyboard really want a laptop that weighs 3x as much to have a keyboard drainage system. The 99% of users that don't spill coffee on their keyboard but do carry their laptop to and from work twice a day probably appreciate the weight savings. (You can kind of infer whether or not Apple is making the right decisions by looking at the PC market. Not a lot of laptops with roll cages and keyboard drainage anymore. People want specs per dollar, not the ability to run their laptop over with a car. When they do run their laptop over with a car or drop it into a pool, they're sad. But if those parts were standard issue, they wouldn't be able to afford a laptop to begin with. Such is the way of the market, I suppose.)

Apple probably doesn't have any good reason to make repairing their laptops so painful for skilled professionals. As far as I can tell, even their own repair service is garbage. That is probably a conscious decision -- paying someone to write repair guides, train technicians, and maintain a fulfillment network for spare parts cuts into new computer sales, so it's spending money to lose money, which nobody will ever do. Maybe government intervention is the right answer, but it's probably a cost the market can't bear. PC manufacturers compete ruthlessly, and all the laptops are junk too. There is probably a maximum amount of money consumers will pay for a certain amount of specs, and it isn't enough to make a reliable mobile computer. The downside is that you'll never have a computer you can spill coffee on. The upside is that even someone without a lot of money can afford a personal computer. That's the tradeoff.

I use a desktop and keep it where I can't spill my coffee on it. Works well.
Apparently the comparisons aren't simple enough that people get them right, though.
Scam after scam, that's all blockchain is. Just another way to fleece the average consumer.

There has not been a single valuable use, a single product, that actually improves anyone's day / process / life / anything. I am very open to changing my stance if someone presents evidence to the contrary.
I just played through it and found the game style and design really appealing. And it also felt really well polished. Really nice music and juicy animations!

It felt like it would be thrice as fun with a bit more challenge though. A bit of balancing of the numbers. Right now I managed to beat the game without understanding my choices and without improving my technique.
> No, the Marxist prohibition on “private property” isn’t actually a prohibition on having an ownership interest in any particular kind of thing, even if it is used for profit. It is a prohibition on the relationship by which one has a claim on the produce of others labor produced through the use of particular property.

(1) So it's okay for me to sell the eggs from the chickens on my property, as it's not using others' labor?

(2) Now if everybody likes the eggs, and I start paying a neighbor to help out with the chickens because it's too much work for me alone, would the government then take my land / take me away?

(3) Assuming the answer is yes to the above, what if I decide to automate the work instead, so I can profitably produce eggs without using anyone else's labor? Am I allowed to accumulate wealth, considering no other labor is involved, or should that be taken away?
That it's not centralized?
For me, it’s been the enterprise security features that for the most part aren’t covered by the API, and have decidedly limited docs. Very frustrating.
There was a VERY public commitment to get rid of the police department.
Here are some links of the Bolivian presidents plane being grounded:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-23166146
If you can imagine the job hunt as an exciting experiment it might unlock new approaches.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Drawing_El...
I can't agree with respect to Lex Fridman, who began humbly hosting the MIT AI Podcast until he saw a payday by riding AI hype to being a techno-Joe Rogan.

Like who you want to like, but "irrefutably...sincer[e]" does not apply.
Tulsi Gabbard ran in 2019 in part on rapprochement with the NRA, so that's not a great example. Trump ran against Cruz in 2016 on universal health care, and was attacked relentlessly by the GOP field for it. See what I mean?

I think Gabbard is horrible but I'm not interested in selling you on that. Rather, I'd just like to point out that she's a complicated figure, and not a good left-right benchmark.
It would be out of character for Ryanair to do or say anything different.
You might find Matt Stoller's blog interesting: https://mattstoller.substack.com/
What a strange response. Did you respond to the wrong comment?
I see no reason to limit discussion of the consequence of what we did in Iraq to 2014, but even then, it's not nearly as positive as what you're claiming. Iraq post 2014 is now effectively a client state of Iran, something that makes life much more dangerous for broad swaths of ordinary Iraqi citizens, as well as the region in general.

I don't think it's reasonable to argue your intervention in my house fire was successful because you used your bulldozer to clean up the rubble, if you were the arsonist that set fire to it in the first place.

If you'd like a particularly poignant "fly on the wall" style look into how ordinary Iraqi people saw the invasion in 2003, and their predictions for the future, check out Iraq in Fragments. Many of their predictions have come true in the years since. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiu8cXhjpX4
Not mentioned in the bandwidth section is that residential connections in the US usually have a monthly data cap of ~1TB. Users are unlikely to tolerate a blockchain client using more than half of that. So if a full node sustains much more than 200KB/s then vanishingly few users in the US are going to run one.
Bolivia president's jet grounded in Snowden search (2013)