skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope this post isn't against some written or unwritten rules (I know it doesn't meet the requirements of Show HN).

This is a modified version of my CPU design which was a homework assignment in one of my college classes 32 or so years ago. I originally drew the design on paper (homework), and a few years ago, I put it in Logisim. Since I don't have an FPGA board, I gave my design to Dr. Kevin Walsh, and he ran it (with his modifications (mostly cosmetic)) on his FPGA.

If you want to see the progression of this project, you can view my playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLQoKy-hD9LDG8PeMiZYN...

or just go to my channel:

http://www.youtube.com/MrMcSoftware/videos
Help! I'm stuck in a local maxima and I can't tell how to escape!
It's amazing how we went from most computers having either Norton or McAfee installed and we went through cycles where other anti-virus software such as total AV, Avast and BitDefender becoming contenders.

Now the majority of people (myself included) simply use Defender and ensure its upto date.
I don’t see why unchecked and uncontrollable deflation of a “currency” wouldn’t be sustainable.
8 decimal places are already bordering insufficient: there are real world currencies whose unit costs less than 1 satoshi. See https://www.fiatmarketcap.com/
Okay, I suppose I don't have that much crypto to worry about. I was thinking more along the lines of releasing controls to my websites I control, private repos, notebooks full of ideas, AWS keys, etc.
I'm having trouble understanding the term "log structured".
Wikipedia has an entry for it, but that seems to describe a very specific mathematical theory that flies right above my head. Is it related to that or does it mean

"This database shares characteristics with a log, in the sense of an append-mostly data structure"

?

And if I squint at, it's something like a "transaction log" or an "event sourcing" just at a different abstraction level ?
It's great... until something unexpected happens. Like your NIC doesn't have link on the ethernet cable and systemd waits for minutes without allowing you to abort waiting on the network because other units depend on it.

Or how about adding new buggy DNS code that doesn't work in common scenarios? Oh, sorry, here's another CVE because we didn't create enough test cases for the corner cases that are actually important.

Or oops, "nobody uses ntsysv", right? Or "We don't need to implement chkconfig even though we broke it".

systemd is a monolithic beast that is absorbing everything else in the system without considering that some of its decisions should be able to be disabled, and a lot of the design decisions are half baked. I don't believe in the philosophy of design its author has embraced. Progress is good, but please, stop breaking shit that has worked for decades. Anyone can write new code that partially implements a feature, but it takes real effort to responsibly migrate users from tools that worked to your new shiny half assed kitchen sink.
We can make poor people deliver fuel cells to wealthy people on demand via an app, as independent contractors to avoid dealing with the worn out old ones that are no longer able to deliver fuel cells to the wealthy at an optimal rate.
Honestly at this point in my life, I just want to stop contributing to the push for "rent for life" by tech companies. While I see the entire world just be dragged into a place where people will have no control over items they "own", I refuse to be a part of it.

A cabin in the woods is becoming more and more attractive to me every year, and I'm only 26 :(
Can anyone explain how a company could release an update of _their_ software on _their_ machine that just adds a passcode lock to the screen but the only way to get that feature is to pay them money.

I am quite confused how a lockscreen update & functionality and paid membership could fathomably be connected in code.

This seems like Peloton is doing this to try to force people into buying membership.
Hardly.

If you are calculating the bounds on a ratio, then you use the smallest denominator you have to establish the upper bound, and the largest denominator to set the lower bound. That’s reported cases and the total population respectively.

The article claims that 0.15% have died. Basic math on the published statistics say at least 0.18% have died in the US, and 0.23% in Brazild, which last I heard is still in the grip of it. Sometimes you should put down your citations and look out the window.

The argument of the article is that people fucked up and we should get to the bottom of it. That The IFR of 0.9% was too high, it’s really 1/6th of that, which sounds pretty damning. It is not an accident when you bring up that actuals are multiples of predicted. The discrepancy is your hook, and a small error does not demand action (ie, let it go).

Hooks that lie are called manipulative.

The author is claiming a factor of 6 overestimation, and by the most cynical reading of the death statistics it cannot possibly be greater than 4, and in all likelihood is more like 2. Ie, let it go, and stop attacking disaster science.
Well I believe it's a difference of redirection vs redistribution.

Say you're talking to someone who can teleport instantly across the globe. If you tell him where he can see the Mona Lisa, that's OK. If you grab the Mona Lisa and wave it in his face, that is very un-OK.

Before someone replies with the "but digital items can be copied, it's not stealing", that's the argument most piracy enabling forums and websites are able to get away with. If you host, EG, Nintendo ROMs on your website, you'll get shut down quickly. If you just save links (URL or Magnet), you might get a DMCA for a specific item maybe, but won't get shut down entirely, probably.

As always, there are a lots of exceptions and alternative interpretations though.
No, the problem is that code by poorly taught and inexperienced developers is rife. Heck it’s on display throughout the threads on this topic; for maximum irony, often as an example of “why <concept> is bad”, the author not realising this merely telegraphs their own limitations.
Article title is a bit misleading IMO, they are offering everyone Tread+ subscription for free (for 3 months) until the software feature is released to non paying members. Agree it's not the best customer experience but it doesn't really "brick" users from using the treadmill although does make it inconvenient for users that need to now sign up for Tread+
There would have to be some sort of misleading, lies, broken promises or malicious intent to cause harm.

It would be a breach of good faith if you say to the employee that shaving your beard is okay when they ask but then fire them for it because akshually paragraph 113.5 of your employee handbook prohibits beards. If you did not say anything like that, then the default conditions apply, and in an at-will employment state firing someone because you don't like their face (for example, after they have shaved) is not prohibited.

If you explicitly say every now and then "we may arbitrarily terminate you" and then actually do terminate people for arbitrary reasons (for example, fire everyone whose name starts with 'F' or employee ID ends with '13'), that's not a breach of good faith, as you're not breaking any promises, neither explicit or implied, you're doing exactly as you warned them you may do.
On the Postgres thing, this is one of my favourite example of sales: https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/comparisons/compare-fau...

It's by a former Twitter engineer. I have no idea if he's bullshitting me but he's a lot smarter at this topic than I am so I'm inclined to believe it.

It's a new thing. I generally don't have the time for new things, especially something like a database with a learning curve. But this is one of the things that caught my eye. I don't really remember how it did, but it's good sales work.
Indeed, serving is the easy part, once it's set up. Going offline when the DC goes offline can be completely acceptable.

It's the picture intake pipeline that eats most of the resources. If you only want to serve the same collection, or a collection you personally increase by 1-2 cats a day, then it's fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzLHZbBvKNQ talks of the https://developer.nvidia.com/maxine which requires GPU, so I'm assuming an RTX level GPU will be required for full motion? The demo calls an API on what appears to be a static IP which returns the end result using the algorithm.

The full paper is on https://nvlabs.github.io/face-vid2vid/main.pdf . (It only mentions GPU once, for the training set.)

I'm quite impressed by how NVIDIA Broadcast cleans up a simple webcam image already, on a 3070 GPU; the background blur will get the gap between headphone bridge and head with sharp cuts - it's impressive enough in my books to warrant such a gaming grade GPU for work purposes, if a remote worker.

I have my cam off to the side; I'm really looking forward to being able to try the angle correction!
“We” can arbitrarily print more Bitcoin or dollars. In either case you just need consensus among the correct group of people.
If the same thing happened to total USD in circulation that would be $104000000000 going up in flames. Seems like a lot.
It isn't that much different from adding a beneficiary for your online brokerage account.
it is.

"Prior to FedRAMP, the Security Control Assessor (SCA) had to visit the data center to check the “gates, guards and guns” every single time, even if that specific assessor had previously visited that data center. That is no longer necessary. The FedRAMP ATO takes care of all of that"

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/security-control-spotlight-in...
I have over 2TB's of data. While yes I can read them on linux, it it's always perfect and there are issues regarding permissions on occasion or an issue where it doesn't recognize the directory for some odd reason. No idea if it's a linux issue, the standard ntfs reader I have on my distro, or what. But, I figure if I'm going all out linux, might as well make it difficult to jump back out :)
The FDA won't let anything be released to consumers that does not pass their review of the batch record. The whole point of the BR is it's the recipe in totality of how to correctly (which includes quality) make the drug.

The whole point is to open source the batch record.
This is true of big bridges like the Golden Gate Bridge as well.
I've thought about dead man's switches as well, but with two differences:

One, I think a week is too short, as another person has already said. I'm planning a week vacation soon and want to be unplugged the entire time. Also, while rare, I can imagine a natural disaster could last longer than a week and the last thing I want to worry about is making sure I send a few emails.

Second, I'm curious why you want so many conditions to be true before the trigger? I've seen services (and I've thought of setting up a simple self-hosted option) that simply email you a link on a predefined cadence and all you have to do is click the link. In order to protect against some weird spam filtering, I'm thinking a text message or Discord message could also be sent. The odds of both breaking for a month I think is rare. Why might I also want Github commits and phone calls to be checked?
In case you or others are not aware: "amazing" and "awesome" are commonly-inferred as having positive connotations in the native-english-speaking-world, but the dictionary definitions of these words have no such connotations.

Amazing: causing great surprise or wonder; astonishing.

Awesome: extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear.

So, "Amazing" is not incompatible with "Despicable". It's like a magnitude without a direction (whereas "despicable" is magnitude and direction).
Bad-faith trolls demanding “why did you downvote me” get at most list of their sins and references to improve. Read it, don’t read it, up to you, but I don’t spoonfeed sealions. Reading books is the best inoculation against being suckered by Barnum statements like “no one really agrees on what <concept> is” or “no-one says <thing readily found in books>”.

Further reading: Refactoring (Fowler), Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns (Beck).
What's My Claim Worth? – Legal advice, more human
You should always watch youtube in private mode so you don't get pigeonholed.
Aha. I wonder what that costs each time it triggers.
So I like removing myself from data brokers as a side hobby. In general they seem to be pretty quick to do so. However, OpenCorporates lists my name & home address, and absolutely refuses to remove it, as I'm self-employed and I have a corporate registration with my state. I eventually contacted the CEO directly and he said 'no, we won't remove you, go away'. They're based in the UK. Any general thoughts on them?
Gotta be in it to win it. Often hard work is how you get in a place for good luck to pay off.
It's chilling but it's not censorship. You're not prevented from speaking, you just choose not too.

Extremely famous people have changed the world through their speech and died for it. They should not have died but they were also explicitly not censored.

You're just arguing over the meaning of words. I agree with you that threats of violence over speech is awful. And thankfully it is against the law, as it should be.

But that's also the most extreme -- we're mostly arguing about people who don't feel like they should have to answer for their speech rather than being violently threatened.
And this is why public protests are good for governments. They channel a lot of energy into a few precise issues, away from broad structural changes.
Hi! Co-creator of Optery here.

Regarding our pricing. It is true that most of the opt out submissions and removals happen up front. If someone wanted to go this route, I'd recommend keeping the subscription active for a minimum of 3 months, and then cancelling the subscription. Some data brokers process opt out removals within 24 hours, but others take several weeks to comply. Also, the majority of data brokers honor opt out requests on the first try, but others require retries or follow ups over several weeks. In our experience, it can take up to 2 - 3 months of effort for the longtail to disappear.

The other consideration is that data brokers are inconsistent in how long they will honor an opt out. The California Consumer Privacy Act (the most strict privacy law in the U.S.) actually permits data brokers to stop honoring an opt out request after 1 year. Some data brokers honor opt outs indefinitely, but others require annual effort to ensure your name and personal info stays removed.

Like antivirus, the landscape is very dynamic. New data brokers come online regularly, data broker databases are constantly being updated and refreshed (sometimes overwriting prior opt out request flags), and we (Optery) are continually expanding our list of data brokers we cover for each paid subscription plan tier. So if you want a service that's continually scanning for your profiles and opting you out on an ongoing basis when new results turn up, that would be a good reason to keep a subscription active on an ongoing basis. But you are free to cancel, or delete your account entirely at any time!

Regarding your second point. We are not a data broker. We do not sell data. We do not publish data. We do not have any financial relationship with any data broker. We are not affiliated with any data broker. There are some opt out services out there that have financial partnerships and affiliations with data brokers – Optery is not one of them. We only submit to data brokers the minimum amount of information necessary for them to locate your profile, and then remove it, which, in the majority of cases is: First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, City, State, and an email address. Note that we never share our customers private email address with any third party, including the data brokers we submit opt outs to.
Sounds like the perfect place to fake your own death ;)
>Banning conspiracy theories is such a slippery slope.

And not moderating them is a slippery slope to facilitating violent extremism, and to anti-science activists leading an otherwise-developed country to top the chart in pandemic deaths.

There's no perfect solution, only compromises which have to be made.
1. GP is arguing that even assuming that the entire USA had been infected (ie, using the largest possible denominator), there were enough deaths for the IFR to exceed 0.15%.

2. 0.15% is not "the current best estimate", but an estimate by John P. A. Ioannidis who has published some remarkable sophistry at the beginning of the pandemic, which was (while not technically wrong) absurdly misleading IMHO.

I'd say best estimates for the IFR now a) acknowledge that it depends enormously on age (looks like a pretty exponential relationship), thus on the age structure of a country/state, and b) put it, for the US, say, between 0.2% and >1%.
Somehow Charles M. Schulz managed to perfectly capture the feeling of following a pinterest link from a search result, half a century before pinterest existed.
Haskell and, IIRC, Rust allow you to declare that a certain data type conforms to some interface, and describe how, by listing / adding the functions with necessary signatures.

This allows to have the upsides of structural polymorphism without losing static checks.

Go, OTOH, goes all the way structural.
It's pretty good evidence that there's no consensus that favors structurally irreversible transactions. But again, if you do, there's a Coin for that!
Hard work is easy if every step between you and the goal is obvious and definite. You can just autopilot your way to success.

Hard work is hard if you are not sure whether the work performed contributes to progress or not.
only a relatively small percentage of the UK network is electrified using a third rail (it is essentially a deprecated technology)

regardless, level crossings work perfectly well: they simply have a gap in the electrified rail over the crossing (and the train is longer than the gap)

if you look closely here you can see it: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Ash...
No, it is the question because countries with public health systems often don’t pay for the latest generation of drugs, since they don’t feel the extra cost is worth the benefit.
Is it possible to have a uniformly applied standard for content as diverse as YouTube's? We can't even find a consistent standard to identify pornography, much less all of the other content YouTube wants off its platform
Even if free and clear that cabin will have property taxes, a.k.a. rent for life.
And possibly creates new ones
Considering that pof.com used to run on a single server and handled more dating traffic than all of its competitors combined, you can go pretty damn far for peanuts.
I use this:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
Count me among them. I've been WFH for many years now, and partial WFH before that, and am definitely not going back.

That said, one thing I haven't seen mention of in favor of on-site work is regarding skills development. I've personally benefitted greatly from deep team integration early in my career, learning much of the practice of software engineering and applied research. It's easy to imagine that not happening as well or at all if I had been pure remote straight out of college. I've also worked on teams that included less skilled/experienced members that have had a very frustrating work experience due to for some reason having missed out on that learning by deep integration and osmosis.
Can you please un-flag my comment about dietary animal fat? Someone keeps on flagging my posts about the nutritional value of meat even though it doesn’t even come close to breaking guidelines.
Unless they then do the most minimal amount of research and realize that unlike any other store of wealth, they can redundantly back it up in multiple locations.

You can even split up your key in an M of N format so that a) no single compromised location causes loss, and b) some number of storage locations can be lost without losing your key.

Can you do that with gold? Land? Art? Cash? Bonds? Stocks? All of these rely on either securing a single location where the wealth is stored and moving to another place is either expensive, risky, or necessarily impossible (land/buildings), and/or they rely on trusting some custodian to preserve your claim on that wealth.
YouTube without censorship would turn into PornHub in about as long as it takes to upload a new video.
If I say hard-fork enough, maybe I sound like I know about crypto things.

You don't know what it takes to do a fork of bitcoin. Many have tried, none have succeeded.
In general I agree, but also, it's complicated. There are some problems that just need to be ignored, to stew in whatever it is that goes on in your neuronal soup while you're doing other things, until it's good and tender and done. Turning the direct heat of your attention on it doesn't help. The more interesting problems tend to be that way - the problems where you've got a feeling, an intuition, an itch, and you're not even sure where to begin. (It also happened to me a lot 5-10 years post college, when physics topics that hadn't fully clicked finally did - even though I wasn't consciously thinking about it).

That said, yeah, just putting your ass in the chair, staying proximate to the problem, is a job well done, and worth doing. It's just not everything.
4chan is moderated to death. worse than twitter. probably also full of feds. good luck posting from tor, VPNs, datacenter proxies, open proxies, etc. good luck posting more than a few times, creating new topics, etc. /biz/ will not display your posts if they don't like your isp or IP even if not using a proxy. Not that I have much desire to anyway. Tried it a few times. nOt impressed.

4chan sucks because it is too moderated in everything but the speech.

I would prefer just having rules about what speech is allowed or not and then give users full capability to use the site. Twitter does this pretty well.
okay well s/week/month/ or s/week/quarter/
Adjust it to something reasonable.
The correct Common Lisp "macro" is

(declaim (inline double))

(defun double (x) (+ x x))
> This article is a complete mess in this section.

Not only in this section, but overall.
I tried to report a bug to Intuit about QuickBooks online the other day. 45 minutes later, the person answering the phone at the other end was finally able to give me a ticket number. I don't understand why it has become so hard to give feedback to developers to improve their product. I like it when people report bugs that give me a better understanding of how my software is being used -- am I really in the minority here?
> You're not prevented from speaking, you just choose not too.

That a weird definition of censorship.

Imagine if someone were to say "You aren't being censored. The government is just threatened to kill you, for your speech, after you say it. You can say whatever you want, and it won't be stopped. You will just suffer consequences (such as when the government kills you), afterwords for your speech. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences!"

I think that basically everyone would call the situation that I just described, as censorship.

The situation of government death squads, killing people for their speech, is probably the most clear example of censorship that I could think of, even if they do it, after the fact.

I am not sure what could possibly even qualify as censorship, if the example I gave doesn't count.

So I am not sure why you are basically saying that violent threats, that discourage speech, are not an example of censorship.
Yeah, it's incredible complex to figure out. (/s)

People on this site continually underestimate the ability of users.
infact "we" can just seitch to any other infinite coins cause again, theres barely anything but grandfsther clauses tying bitcoin to any realworld value