skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same issue faced by other "moonshot" R&D enterprises like DeepMind. They burn tremendous amounts of cash, and as other comments have noted, the path to profit is unlikely to be a direct path through their core competency, whether that be general purpose robotics or AGI.

DeepMind's greatest commercial achievement seems to have been around optimizing energy usage in Google's datacenters, which as a standalone product would have a relatively small addressable market. The progress that BD has made is likely similar: immediately valuable to a small number of players, even if the long term winds up being something far more grand.
Why every Platform wants to be a Super App
add GPS spoofing/jamming. The non-military GPS spoofing/jamming is a usual part in the drone war in Donbass and will probably be so in any future happenings.

In the context of transponder and GPS data faking and spoofing, i think the US destroyers suddenly hitting various things few years back weren't just accidents.
Sethares and Tymoczko are the go-tos on this.

But there's a lot more to creating interesting musical structures than creating chords out of mathematical structures that are based on the harmonic series.

The more time I spend trying to understand music, the less I understand it.

That's what makes it so endlessly fascinating.
New Alzheimer’s Drug Could Cost Government as Much as It Spends on NASA
I always worry around this type of mess-of-wires setups, especially if it's in cramped space where an errant elbow can dislodge something. Shouldn't there be covers on these things?
Why would Germans want to buy foreign ETFs and why would foreign providers not want to create a domestic ETF for Germans? Trading € to $ and back isn't very logical.
I don't expect to change your mind about TUF, though I would love to talk about how Debian could adopt pieces of the TUF design where it makes sense _and_ how TUF might provide affordances to better suit Debian.

For other readers, I think it's important to point out that:

1. TUF does not require use of JSON, or any other specific format.

> Implementers of TUF may use any data format for metadata files as long as all fields in this specification are included and TUF clients are able to interpret them without ambiguity.
from https://theupdateframework.github.io/specification/v1.0.19/#...

2. The blog post you link to says that TUF does not handle key revocation. That's untrue. TUF does key revocation explicitly, by replacing the listed keys in the root (for top-level roles) and targets (for delegated roles) metadata, and implicitly through expiration times.
Why not switch to uBlock Origin, that is a widely better content blocker, and also allows you to remove (zap) the visual elements you don't want, like sidebars and such? I don't have FB, but I've had great success doing this on sites like StackOverflow.
Very neat!

The first thing I thought of was this is a yosys compatible open-source HLS. Then the readme clarifies it is not an HLS.

> Silice does not aim to be a high level synthesis language: it remains close to the hardware and lets you fully exploit FPGA architectures, with a fine grain control on how your design maps to the hardware: You remain in control of what happens at each and every clock cycle, with predictable rules for flow control, how and when execution states appear, how flip-flops map to variables, and what gets registered or not. In fact, if you chose so you can design in a way that is very similar to Verilog, while still benefiting from the "quality of life" improvements of Silice syntax.

Would be interesting if the author could explain the motivation and rationale of how it is not an HLS? Is it in the sense that the auto-generated logic is more edit-friendly for future optimization? Just because the output is not an auto-generated mess doesn't make it less of an HLS I would have thought.
Yeah, because Stadia is in such a healthy state.
> China which leads the World Heritage Committee as of now

What are you basing this on? The World Heritage Sites are run by UNESCO, and China is not on the current Executive board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO#Executive_Board

edit China is on the World Heritage Committee, but so is Australia with every member having an equal ballot.
Dependability and reliability override responsiveness
right, my point is that the Fed and central banks don't ask people why they do what they do. They just see "ah they are still hoarding dollars, make it worth less to force them to want to grow it on their own!" In negative interest rate environments, people are still willing to pay the government for the privilege of not investing in overvalued assets or random entrepreneurs.

> Interest rates drop on their own. It is only natural. Less borrowers, more lenders. Interest rates can't go up in such an environment.

I don't disagree with this without elaboration. The primary driving force of interest rates dropping are the central bank's actions, as they are the biggest whale in the market, they buy the benchmark bonds which forces those bond yields lower as these are inversely correlated. Everything priced based on those yields drops lower too. The "yields based on perceived risk" idea is completely broken right now, as nothing is properly risk adjusted, ie the chance of losing all your money is greater than the ROI for a lot of assets. Your supply and demand model works but only if you replace the market participants with the central banks being the universe sized lender.

The only thing that I would consider natural about interest rates is that risks are reduced as society progresses (in its current path). Like, the stability of human society, the lowered geopolitical risks, the larger economic unions and assets to monetize, the maturation of the market.
As Seagrass Habitats Decline, Florida Manatees Are Dying of Starvation
AWS is indeed not the kind of platform this is about. They enjoy some network effects, but have little control over them. AFAICT they're mostly winning on execution.

Amazon's API mandate is in fact one of the things that inspired me to write the post.
What good would Australia moving away from coal do anyone? If Aus stopped all coal activities, absolutely nothing changes about climate change.
Yeah, all this concern with scalability, portability and clean code, has created quite a dystopian software world.

A world where software can barely fit in a single machine and can only scale up. In many cases, this software doesn't even do anything that is functionally different from 10 or 20 years ago, but it still consumes many more resources.

A world where some websites still don't work properly across web browsers. Electron apps which should enable easier cross platform applications, don't (e.g. Microsoft Teams doesn't have feature or even UI parity in windows and linux).

A world where clean code destroys performance, because the time of developers must be paid for by the company, but the costs of resource wastage are externalized. And there isn't even any evidence that these practices actually help to do what they are supposed to do!
Germany has a trade surplus with the US so Germans would end up buying American stocks.
Nice, I'm getting some "2001: A Space Odyssey" movie vibes from that!
And notice how it's not leaving any marks. I heard it was coated/varnished. Can't have people thinking coal is dirty or anything crazy like that.
Nah, both exist.
Here is the source code the Swiss version for anyone interested which in theory (I have not tested it) is EU compatible.

Edit: I am able to scan the code in the OPs link with the Swiss App and I can import it however the certificate seems to be currently not accepted.

https://github.com/admin-ch/CovidCertificate-App-Android
"mitigitations=off" doesn't disable microcode mitigations like the one in this article.
Teams is really just awful. Lync/Skype for Business generally ran with 10% of the memory usage that Teams uses, and it wasn't a particularly well-written native WPF app.
Poor 12 year olds are definitely aware that they don’t live in a house, or have their own bedroom, or go on vacations like other kids at school, or go to the dentist when all the other kids have braces.

I consciously avoided sports and activities where I might break bones or get injured because I knew the family was barely making it, and I had a sibling 6 years younger that needed to be taken care of too.
That's true. you can also put .keys or .gpg on the end of a user profile to get ssh or gpg public keys respectively (also works for GitLab). I guess I've always just considered such routes to be part of the API since they're not linked in the UI
It crashed for me this morning but now it's working again. Seems like they have fixed it without a Play Store update of the app (I have automatic app updates disabled).
The world as a whole may be a much better place, but that does nothing to make someone in a rusted-put rust belt town feel any better. “There are fewer starving children in Africa” is an ineffective argument for convincing someone that their life hasn’t gotten worse.
You're right that Uber Eats is not yet a monopoly. What I meant is that it's the kind of platform that eventually turns into one, and wouldn't exist if that wasn't the goal. The phrasing is still wrong though.
Thank you - I just had a quick glance at the website and signed up (…not sure what the averages are I’ve been rating myself against, but anyhow… :) …very interesting - hoping to have a better look into it soon…
I was thinking the same thing, but I believe the door is locked which is why his operating of the handle was slightly weird
Lower supply means higher prices which increases the attractiveness of renewable energy?
If you compare the US to any European country you’ll see that really is not the case.
Does that include fact that Australia is the biggest net exporter of coal, or do the get free pass for that?
You're delusional. Get some help.
It would mean fewer stories like this one, for one thing.
Where "voters narrowly rejected a plan to levy taxes on airline tickets and car fuel to tackle climate change".

https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/2021/06/19/pol...
I had a similar problem. But I could see part of the screen. So o used a usb OTG cable with a mouse to enable BT and connect a second mouse using BT. Then I was able to enable USB debugging to use with scrcpy. Now I use the phone as a "security" cam.
Premodern life wasn't exactly better, at least from the dawn of agriculture on. Hard work tended to rest on the shoulders of those who couldn't resist being yoked.

At least in 2021 a lot of the hardest and dirtiest work was "outsourced" to machines and robots.

Edit: -1 for a comment that does not contain anything controversial as far as I can see.
Here are some other discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12563899
If Australia stopped all coal activities what would change about the reef?

Coal exports represent 3% of global CO2 emissions.

You just have a decrease in GDP for nothing in return.
Much as I don't like ticks (and I really don't), I feel we should be extraordinarily careful before deliberately eliminating any species - they're almost certainly not the sole food source of anything, but even being a significant one might cause ripple effects. Plus, for all that they cause this and other problems when they bite us, it's not impossible that some of them trigger protective immune effects in some of the animals they bite, for example.

I think the solution needs to be some combination of getting much better at permanently modulating immune responses post-exposure and finding a method to avoid this extreme response.

Unfortunately, given the relative scarcity of these ticks and the newness of the condition, I would anticipate very little funding directly going toward finding a solution for it unless some ultrarich person takes it on as a cause du jour, or it comes "for free" with some other discoveries about immune modulation.
How can I scrape places from Google Maps?
Teams is the bane of my existence. My fully specced 2019 MBP can't handle a Teams call without slowing down the whole system. I have to join calls using Chrome instead. I don't understand how a company like Microsoft can make such terrible software.
12 years on, does she still have reactions if she eats beef? Does she (or maybe did she) have any reactions to other mammal proteins (milk, pork, etc)?
While currency hedging is cheap in a 0% rate world, hedged ETFs tend to have higher fees. Paying ~0.5% on forex on both ends is better than paying 0.25%/year more over long holding periods. There's also much less choice when it comes to hedged ETFs.

The other thing is, you want to diversify geographically to protect you against weakness in your home economy, and when that happens the strength of your home currency tends to fall off. Hedging your currency risk is exactly what you don't want in that scenario.
Thanks for your comment. I completely agree, and we are working on it. If you have any suggestions for documentation/tutorials/tooling you would like to see, I'd be happy to add them to the list.

We are actively working to improve reference implementation, to make it easier to maintain (easier to read code, type annotations, generally more Pythonic, cleaner design) and use (cleaner documented API, easier to plug in your own implementation of things a content update system might already have an opinionated implementation of -- i.e. the network communication stack).

We hope to build more tools on top of the cleaned up reference implementation once it is feature complete.

For the specification itself, we recently switched to publishing a rich HTML document with cross-linking, syntax highlighting, ToC, etc. https://theupdateframework.github.io/specification/latest/ and added a new section covering some of the repository operations https://theupdateframework.github.io/specification/v1.0.19/#...
I’m glad you were here to say it before I had to say the G-word. Somehow, GG was the inane internet drama that never ended. Looking back, I wonder if there was something specific to GG that made it stick or if it simply was the one that happened to stick, but some permanent drama was inevitable.
If you read or see too much of what's already been done first, you might just end up feeling starting from scratch is boring, because it isn't as interesting as the more advanced stuff other people had already done

This is pretty much my feeling in every side project idea I've thought up :D
Summary and critical evaluation of research in remote viewing (1979) [pdf]
What were the ways of dealing them?

Why were they not using the fertile soil if they had dealt with the pigs?

>You're not even solving the right problem.

What is the right problem then?

The NGO's and others alway have an option not to accept Mackenzie's money so I dont know why you are complaining?
it is missing a "mouth"/grabber.
Technically, you always have the choice to convert the latter into the former.
Note for some reasons this document is missing the first 166 pages. Unclear if redacted or omitted.

edit: oops, part 1 is here: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00791R0001004...

;p ;) xx
Also, acidification makes them weaker and grow more slowly.
> They have one huge cash cow that funds the entire company

Office, windows, Azure/development, Xbox/gaming are all integrated and cash cows.
That’s what many are saying about climate change.

“If we reduce our emissions, nothing changes”.

That’s basically the comment many Americans make in the Wall Street Journal almost daily.
Max Roser on building the best source of Covid-19 data at Our World in Data
Probably just want attention.
We really really should think about building new (with technology from 2000's and not 1960) Nuclear Power-plants.
Google Faces EU Antitrust Probe of Alleged Ad-Tech Abuses
Ok so how?
Indian Govt Proposed New Rules to Restrict E-Commerce Platforms
True. So western countries that have extremely high per capita numbers need to reduce their emissions by consuming less and supporting renewable tech research.

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$line$data$fi...
Just gonna drop this here... https://youtu.be/zybgpvd3ExE
(How they test the alarms in Switzerland)
NASA – Interior Landscape Plants for Indoor Air Pollution Abatement (1989) [pdf]
One minute of silence for all the Moringa saplings that I have killed in its pots. Easy came, easy go, like true rebels do.
Also note that HTTP had it since early days.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/If...

And Apache and other web servers support it out of the box.

If your use case allows it consider ditching Redis and rather static cache your generated HTML/json files on the file system while serving. And let Apache serve from there as long as those cached files exist. You get all these features for free.
> Hard-boiled Wonderland

Reading this several times (and I will again) gives me the feeling that I am alive, in the most distinct, poetic way without too much sadness nor too much happiness. This book does something very special. I'm so glad it exists.
Code cannot decide when to yield because it doesn't know how many NPCs I am running in one frame. Maybe I need 10, maybe 2 longer and 8 just quickly for long running/low complexity jobs. If the limit is reached in the middle of "if" statement, e.g.

if x < sin(5) + cos(20) then y = 5;

If "x" and "sin(5)" was evaluated but not "cos(20)" then it should just remember VM state and continue next time. I did this in JS and it worked great for distributing NPC load between frames (https://twitter.com/dusan_halicky/status/1173924435923001344) and it didn't required any understanding of the code (I didn't need to carefully check when I need to stop execution), just VM snapshot and continue next frame.
Rails 7 deprecates Enumerable#sum and Array#sum
Do you include the cost of manufacturing in your calculations? There is a point where newer and more efficient is better, but in general it’s better to hold on devices for longer.
The silent browser updates that break things are so much fun. Earlier this year Chrome pushed a change that throttled JS timers severely on inactive tabs, and everything that used SignalR over websockets broke.
Really interesting. I like the choice of leaving the final judgment about immunity outside the code - i.e. to have the client verify that the doses are sufficient and happened in a suitable time window.

That will make things easier when the desired immunity definition changes (i.e. require three vaccinations), and also allows medical staff to make their own judgments.
I agree you don't know me, but I use SMS in Europe. Precisely because I can use it on a phone with no bigbrother-FAANG installed.
Thanks for the link! It is amazing to see a government app talk about reproducible builds and the importance of it!
IBM / Red Hat cut CentOS 8's lifecycle by 8 years, with one year warning.

Of course that's the free version, but still.
I will recommend that you go through Universities course pages on courses related to Operating Systems, Systems Programming, Computer Networks & Distributed Systems. Many of them have links to programming assignments and projects, try implementing those.

Advantages:

1. Problem will be well defined for you.

2. Better to implement eventual consistency between 3 nodes, distributed file system or single user database than trying to figure a bug in a large open source codebase.

You may find following links helpful in finding some of such courses:

https://github.com/Developer-Y/cs-video-courses

https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses
How to Build Customizable Web UI for Machine Learning with Streamlit and DVC
How does burning less coal do "absolutely nothing about climate change"? If you state something like that you have to at least give a convincing argument.
I would have thought this could be sold as protecting the livelihoods of the people that rely on tourism. It's not as if tourists will come to visit the former Great Barrier Reef when it's dead and gone. No one wants to go on holiday to feel sad and depressed that the world destroyed a natural wonder.
I, for one, salute my new dog-shaped robot overlords.
I'm somewhat disappointed it contains personal data. I wonder how long until third party validation apps come out that exfiltrate this to the highest bidder. Yes of course GDPR should protect you from the business purposely doing it, but I'm more thinking of the app doing it without knowledge.
This applies to school education in general. We learn a lot but never get to use it so we do the natural human thing, we forget about it.
> Even editing simple text documents has become painfully slow on my 2013 Macbook Pro.

I just installed Linux Mint on my 2013 MacBook Air, and now it's fast enough that you wouldn't know it's an old computer. Really amazing, it seems like Mac OS in particular is just super resource heavy. I realize Linux pretty much defeats the purpose of owning a Mac, but I'm just glad not to have to throw out an old computer that has seen me through my entire career shift into programming so far.
SV culture, and in general 'computer culture' is not what it once was. It used to be hobbyist and somewhat idealistic (for an example, read the 'hacker manifesto'). Now most of it is about careers, money, building a CV, self-promotion, politics - all the things that the original culture was not.

Once a safe refuge, it has now become perhaps worse than the very things people were seeking refuge from.
Assess the DARPA funding as a portfolio.
Do the verification apps do an online validation? If yes then where is there any PII in there at all, and if no then why isn’t it signed?…
How does [2] evidence “climate denying”. They just want to protect rural jobs.

Australia is not a leader. They represent a tiny fraction of CO2 emissions and it doesn’t make sense to tank the economy if the big emitters like China don’t actually take action.
Yancoal, like Australia, is owned by China.
Without personal data you cannot verify that the code belongs to the person showing it.
Yes, coal is one of the biggest CO2 problems globally, and it has been for decades. Unfortunately, globally we are increasing its usage, well, because more people still need electricity

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions#/me...
I don't, mostly because the manufacturers are far disconnected from the needs of the end users of computing -- they mostly serve big businesses. So the machines end up manufactured anyway.

On this lane of thought, I'd say better to buy a laptop today (that's much greener than everything before it) that you can hold on to for 10+ years than holding on to another that has long passed its expiration date. But I am aware that this is not always a popular opinion.
Most reefs culture its own food. Other eat alive animals. They typically discard any sand, faeces, algae or garbage pushing it away towards the periphery of the oral disc.
I wanted an easy way to automatically deploy Docker Compose apps so I made one
Why the iPhone Won [video]
You have to design roads for certain speeds. Higher speed doesn't lead to more accidents, it leads to worse accidents. Road design decides how frequent those accidents are.

People ignore the sign if the sign doesn't match the road design.
We can, but do we really? I am fully behind your idea but sadly the whole "let's move to renewables" thing just takes so damn long. :(
What difference would eliminating entire coal industry have on anything though?
> Please stop blaming India and China without much research.

When sea levels rise and poor Indians who live near the sea are affected, is the Indian govt going to help them or will the rich countries need to step in like they did during Covid?

You can talk about per capita all you want but in the end who is going to support the affected Indians?
Why would you include India and not the EU? They are obviously a bigger player as a bloc in terms of emissions.