skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you put a bunch of von Neumann machines in a room and connect them via a network cable, wouldn't that be a trivial extension of a von Neumann architecture? And isn't that sort of what a multicore system is, considering also that access to the same memory goes through a bottleneck?
No need to torture people, since they will know everything about you and what you have done at all times.
I've encountered a few apps where the QR codes are only valid for a few minutes and rotate. For your vaccine status it's probably not an issue but using QR codes to auth yourself for payments or access will probably be a no-go eventually.
Did you try skipping the root step when flashing your custom rom? I never had any problem with safetynet as long as I don't root the phone.
What are you on about? A big chunk of the article is about the bandwidth alliance, and your number for Cloudflare is not egress.

Edit: And in particular, if you are using normal cloudflare workers, not the "workers unbound" that are "intended for applications that need long execution times", then the price is $0.50 per million requests and $0 for bandwidth.
> imagine ~5x the scale

For wind turbines power is proportional to the swept area, and to the square of the diameter. Doubling the diameter quadruples the available power.

So for the same wind speed the difference between a 3MW (commonly installed today) land-based turbine and a 15MW turbine (largest offshore class today) would be a little over twice the diameter. Of course, the offshore monsters are also taller to allow greater swept area, and to take advantage of better resource at height.
Would making illegal to discount taxes a solution? It seems that businesses jump on the next tax discount according to this article.
In my heart, Perl has won a long time ago. Python is nice and all, but it's too much of a jack of all trades language, that doesn't neither suck nor shine at anything.

Also, the fact you can write a Perl script, run it everywhere and just not concern yourself with versioning and stuff is beautiful. If one of my .sh script gets over 40 lines, it becomes a .pl file, that's the rule.
The Green Martyrdom
Pro hasn’t meant Pro for like 10 years. Not sure it ever meant what HN considers a Pro, meaning a development machine. Pro also meant Professional as in Artists, Photographers, Musicians, and content creators.

They have sweet hardware so us developers always wanted then. We always were the last use case; everyone machines, content creators, and then developers.
U.S. Farmers can't find a way to ship their stuff
It's almost impossible to download the Posix standard PDF
Wonder why he hasn't looked into starting his own space program.
Is this a regional thing? I've multiple Twitter accounts, all of them with TOTP 2FA, and none of them has any information about my phone number.
> To blame this all on racism is to miss the true motivation which is safety of person and property.

I think this sentence is much closer to the mark if you say: "the true motivation which is perceived safety of person and property."

I think you are right that people seek out less density and more personal space when they feel insecure or under threat. But in the modern journalistic landscape that sensation can be quite decoupled from the reality of their actual risk of harm.
But can it count the number of birds of the same specie? Do similar birds sound different to each other and can we detect that?
Arguably what's an appropriate GPU bandwidth is largely defined by the display attached to it, primarily its resolution, color depth, and refresh rate.

But I still don't think it makes sense to physically merge the two.

Displays wear out far faster than the GPUs driving them, and just have much higher failure rates in general, being physical targets for thrown handheld controllers and what not. Doesn't seem wise to make the display so much more costly to replace by shoving the GPU within it.

But this is Apple... making this expensive to replace is kind of their M.O.
It amazes me how defensive, threatened, and snarky people get about interview questions.

When leading an interview, do you know how hard it is to tease out if someone is a creative thinker or just a bullshitter? Very hard. You come at it from multiple angles. Sometimes you need questions like this, it is part of the interviewing toolkit along with coding examples, and domain-specific challenges.

EDIT: And sometimes you just need to hire a drone that will follow orders and not think creatively: just implement the spec as-is. WHy? because tech needs all sorts of skills. You don't need (and can't manage) a team of Feynmans. It would be crazy, his ego was huge.
>You have a soda machine that has three buttons, Coke, Pepsi, and Random (Coke or Pepsi). You know that your trickster coworker has swapped all of the button labels, so none of them are correct. What's the optimal strategy for getting a Coke out of the machine?

I prefer Pepsi to Coke, so I wouldn't attempt to get a Coke. The optimal strategy is, of course, to get a crowbar, pry the machine open and take what you want.

That's the optimal, least expensive strategy -- assuming you have access to a crowbar.
Your thought experiment is assuming that $1T is permanently locked "in a vault", therefore it is not actually part of the monetary supply, since it can't be spent without violating your assumption.
Now let's think about ways to make sustainable communities and higher standards of living a better investment! They are valuable, we just need to be able to share some of that value with the investors who decide what to build and how.
Could SRI be used for this? [1]

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
Are we speedrunning the Google search icon game?
I mean it would make sense considering the whole olympic theme.
A "Tesla moment" might well represent adoption of an expensive gadget in a small tech bubble.
That looks weird, why would you need to test if two values are equal if you’re going to assign them to be equal anyway?
Those sell for a quarter million used, I think that's worth it barring major mechanical issues.
Re "Writing in a single language, not multiple languages": I think this contradicts your article. Your first paragraph ends with:

> You can express far more sophisticated abstractions [...] without losing any functionality.

but "support multiple languages" is definitely a functionality and a very important one, too. Did you want to say:

"You can express far more sophisticated abstractions with a type signature than you can with a protocol schema, _as long as you are willing to limit yourself to a single language and give up on resource isolation"

----

Re "Software fault isolation", I think you are simply wrong there. The SFI paper you cited is about NaCL sandbox, and with NaCL you are not going to be passing arbitrary structures to the app -- with NaCL programming (and all other call gates), you have manually serialize/deserialize messages -- and once you start writing serdes function, you might as well go full remote protocol to gain support of other languages etc..

And related to this topic, you want to clarify: are we talking about production languages which people write programs on, or are you talking about rewriting existing code in a whole new language in order to get rid of separate processes? Because if my choices are either "put it in a separate process" or "rewrite whole thing in NaCl or Java" I am not going to be choosing the latter option.
Yes, and it was exacerbated by mod_perl in Apache basically working by taking a Perl script/CGI and using eval to turn it into a sub, meaning any subs defined in that script (and not a module it included) to accidentally create closures easily, which really played havoc, and so people adopted... interesting workarounds[1], all in the name of performance.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11670454
Apparently, Pico8 encodes the compressed app data directly in the PNG pixel data. They use 2 least significant bits of each color channel to encode a single byte of data per color. The pixel count of pico8 cartridges is what creates the console's 32,800 byte size limit.

https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8PNGFileFormat
>Facebook is absolutely one of the best-positioned companies to be able to become a long-term market leader in these areas and has been investing heavily into R&D in all related categories. Although some of us dislike many ways the company operates, this still does seem like a very well thought-out and aggressive long-term mission that is worthy of being pursued, and I'm pretty excited to continue to see innovation in the more difficult areas like AI and VR here.

I agree, and I'm sure it may even end up as a great/fun experience, but I'm just concerned about what's likely to come along with it. There was a recent article linked on HN titled "even if you're paying, you're still the product", and that's pretty much how I see this going.

Facebook lost all good will years ago. It's not about the product quality, but the monetization strategies and what those entail.
In terms of usable data/electrical connections, the slot is worse. This could mean you have to use multiple clock cycles to send the same data, due to fewer direct connections.
This thread is about the distinction between zero-interest loans and high-interest loans. The parent commenter claimed that people would be less likely to internalize the need to pay zero-interest loans because there's no interest. I said that the principal is a much more dominant concern. You are _agreeing with me_, but somehow couching your comment as disagreement?

> It wasn't the interest that got me, it was the lack of money.

This is precisely my point! The same thing applies for zero-interest loans.

Your comment says "it's not a reach [that the presence of interest is what makes people conscious of their payday loans]", and then says "the presence of interest is not what makes people conscious of their payday loans". Is this completely self-contradictory, or am I missing something?
I read the print version of this book last year.

I enjoyed this book although I did find it quite slow and a bit boring at the end. I vaguely knew about some of the Greek myths but learned quite a bit from reading this book.

Stephen Frye tries to tell the stories in a structured timeline that is easy to follow and understand. At times, he tells the stories as if the characters were modern, ordinary personalities. I found these parts to be the best, and at times quite funny.

There is a reference provided at the end of the book that I found useful:
https://www.theoi.com
I think the problem is that the overwhelming majority of consumers don't care at all about, or even are aware of (because they don't care), anything being discussed here.

Tell a non-tech person that their data is being harvested by Google and Facebook, and see what they reaction is.
It hinders keyloggers, protects against password stuffing, and if enough Twitter accounts are hacked they're just sold off to the highest bidder.
Any third party app that can sync a Synchting folder on iOS (with other Synchting instances on desktop and android)?
I feel that it covers an awful lot of them. If you cap teleop driving at 20km/h or something (or maybe a dynamic cap based on your rtt), that still covers all of the parking lot scenarios, as well many sensor-failure situations, like if you needed to crawl along in the right hand lane because it's a blizzard and the radar is blind.

In any case, the Forbes article specifically addresses how they modeled these things:

"Up ahead a deer jumps into the truck’s lane and hundreds of miles away a teleoperator is asked to take control of the vehicle. But they aren’t able to in time – either the deer jumped too quickly or the teleoperator wasn’t able to get situationally aware or worse yet: the cellular connectivity isn’t good enough!

Such was the situation painted to me time after time after time as CEO of Starsky Robotics, whose remote-assisted autonomous trucks were supposed to face exactly such a scenario. And yet, it was an entirely false scenario.

As I’ve written about before, safety doesn’t mean that everything always works perfectly, in fact it’s quite the opposite. To make a system safe is to intimately understand where, when, and how it will break and making sure that those failures are acceptable."

The fleet argument also confuses me; hasn't that been the Waymo/Uber pitch since forever, a centrally owned and managed fleet of autonomous vehicles for hire? Why would that be considered an especially risky direction?
Doesn't get more apples and oranges than comparing fiat currencies with hard money
That wont work. Increasing funding of a school does not improve quality. Allowing families to choose what school they go to, and as a result which school they fund, forces schools to compete on quality or go out of business. The only arguments I have heard against school choice are from teacher's unions that claim that nobody would go to their school if they had a choice. Good! That means you are failing at your job. You should go out of business.
The real artistry is convincing people that the complexity cost of soft forks are worth it.
> Why is it that perceived character flaws based on current social mores result in historical people being cancelled in our current climate?

Additionally, think of some currently-benign things you regularly do today, that will be taboo in 30 years (hint: There's no way to know). All a future canceler has to do is trawl through your history and find all the things that you did or said today that are considered offensive in 2041.
It's the most effective Trojan horse if they actually succeed in general robotics.

Currently the amount of people using Google home is tiny. But imagine if you can just say "Google, make me a sandwich" and a few moments later the robot comes along.... And the automatic cleanup etc. People would buy them instantly, giving Google all the private data of households which would have never bought any of the current "smart assistants"

I'm pretty sure that household robotics is going to be the by far most profitable field if general robotics is ever achieved, as literally all households will want one, just like a washing machine.
I feel like our definition of "pro" is different from Apple's. Apple has always marketed to professional creatives who need specialized software for content production. Developers are a completely different user-story.

The ideal machine for a programer looks absolutely nothing like the ideal machine for a digital artist.
Great, if a work phone is required by a company, let the company provide it and leave that one alone. Do you have to supply your own work computers or other equipment "required" to do the job as well, outside of contract work?
> Thanks to soaring demand in [the United States], cargo ships can charge more than seven times as much to bring a container from Asia to the U.S. as they can for the return trip. According to S&P Global Platts, that price difference has widened sharply since the pandemic.

> As a result, it's often more lucrative for shipping companies to race back to Asia with empty containers for a quick refill, rather than wait for those containers to be loaded with [U.S] exports.

> Agricultural exports are typically less valuable than what importers are bringing in.
Referring to "late-stage capitalism" sounds like sarcasm or shallow dismissal.

What does "sad" mean in this context?
Create an Offline Game for Opera GX to Never Get Bored When Your WiFi Is Out
So uhhhh, anyone want to write the recursive replacement regex that'll do that across an entire filesystem?
> It's not artistry, it's overly complex hackery to satiate some weird technological obsession.

Also known as... backwards compatibility.

>Even with a soft fork, everyone still needs to update their nodes to maintain consensus

Not really. If you decide to not upgrade your node you're not going to get kicked off the network. Your node won't be enforcing the new rules (which is bad), but you're probably not going to lose money due to herd immunity and/or game theory. Specifically, your client will blindly accept taproot transactions (without checking for them) if they make it into a block. An evil miner could possibly use this to send you fraudulent transfers, however:

1. you need to somehow amass the hashpower necessary to generate such a block. this is non-trivial given the network difficulty

2. the block would be considered invalid by the rest of the network, so you'll be forfeiting the regular block reward of ~6.25 BTC

3. other miners won't build on top of this block, so it will take forever to get to 6 confirms

4. in addition to the above, your fork will get overtaken by the legitimate chain and will be ignored

5. if it turns out that your victim did upgrade his wallet software, you just spent a bunch of resources for nothing.
What exactly do you mean by "couldn't live without a smart tv" ? I'd say most people would do fine with a regular TV, and then hooking up whatever video playing devices they choose. It's marketing that pushes them into the high-friction trap of an integrated device where they can only reduce surveillance by throwing away the whole TV.
In the real world people don't care if their CFLs burn out and get replaced with LEDs because CFLs are comparatively terrible and you can get a higher quality LED bulb for about $5.
Facebook is trying to be the CIA now apparently
I wonder if they're wrong to see it that way. Given these would "defend the area" from birds, that might actually increase fish stocks without really getting in the way of fishing in nearby waters. Also just marking some areas as off limits to fishing tends to improve fish stocks over time and benefit everyone.

I'd be very curious to see if fish are capable of learning that they can use the turbines to shelter from both humans and birds. They're not that smart, but life tends to find a way.
> The risk of covid and the vaccination are now sufficiently well understood that being anti vaxx is just nonsensical.

What process do you use to evaluate how well risks are understood by experts?
I wish we could make these fad diets go away but there are just so many people who are willing to buy in this nonsense because they lost 10 lbs. Most of the time those people lose that weight cause they were on a regimented diet that contained less calories than normal, not cause the diet "works." My parents are currently all in on Keto right now and it's annoying. They constantly tout it's health benefits all while still being overweight. My dad spends more time watching how to do the Keto diet or eat Keto foods than he does exercising.

If anything, all I've learned is people want an answer/solution to their problem that they can point to. They don't want to say "I live a mundane life regimented by self control." People are quick to jump on religious bandwagons, whether political or fad diets. They just want to be a part of a snake oil esoteric movement because "everything I've bought into can't possibly be fake! Look, this doctor said so! Sure he was paid to promote product X, but why would he lie!" These end up being the same people that turn a blind eye when hearing about a priest that rapes kids.
‘Superbug’ fungus spread in two Dallas-area hospitals, health officials say
My takeaway as a daily user of OCI and an AWS / GCP customer:

Oracle cloud has proven to be refreshingly nice and easy to work with and develop + manage services on.

AWS is fine but can be costly and has technical baggage.

The cluster mess that is GCP is by far the most frustrating. For starters, the UI is indefensibly terrible.

Curious to know what specific complaints or grievances about OCI folks have.

Disclaimer: I currently work at Oracle, but don't speak on behalf of the company in any capacity. This is all my personal opinion and honest experience. YMMV and that's okay!

p.s. The OCI "free-forever" VMs are pretty generous-

2x instances with 1GB ram, much higher network and compute performance compared to GCP free-tier.
The search results counter is 12,385...is that really all (or "nearly all") of what Vid.me had for content? I mean I know it failed at dethroning Youtube, but 12,000+ videos is barely anything.
The best cities I've visited in America have been planned, ironically. New York City follows century-old grids. Savannah maintains park squares first laid out in the early 18th century. Washington DC was designed and built from nothing. Perhaps these don't match the definition of Euro-style central planning however.
>whatever happened to Libra? Portal? (Or Building 8 in general.) Did you know that Facebook built its own drone (Aquila) that was abandoned in 2018? M? Parse? Wirehog?

Agree with your point - to a limit. Some of facebook experiements flopped but not all. Also, unlike Google, fb mostly marketed them as experiements.

Replying mostly for sharing purposes since not all of these products' histories are common knowledge. Not to one-up anyone...

> Libra
Government Blocking. Seemed interesting, especially in a crypto world. Unclear if world needs more crypto projects. Some economists suggested the "basket of currency" approach at scale would just be an arbitrage opportunity for someone to drain the bank-of-facebook. I'm guessing this project existed partially as a vanity project or honeypot for hiring.

> Portal?
Still sold, still developed (uses alexa and amzn develops alexa-for-portal work still), still used. IMO it was good tech no one trusted (understandably).

> Or Building 8 in general
IIRC they have build a few internal products for fb and probably a lot of learning that goes into oculus/portal/etc.

> M
I think this was never GA and only a test trial? Would've been cool but again, because fb it couldn't be trusted.

> Parse?
Open sourced and available, but obviously mostly unused. FB doesn't really have a b2b sales team for this sort of product so it wasn't sustainable since it was not really invest-more-effort quality. I think it was a huge missed opportunity for fb to enter the data center race against aws/gcs/azure. If fb built a benign cash cow, maybe they'd taper down their scummy social network ambitions. Or at least the value extraction. AWS cash seems to fund cool amzn loss leaders (alexa, etc). I think the same thing applies to wit.ai and other AI products they buy - if they could commercialize them into an "AWS for AI" product suite maybe they'd find a new profit center. They have world class ML work already, so seems a good place to do this.

> Wirehog
I never heard of this one so i googled it [1]. Apparently it was a legal risk to continue at the time (ha!). Very similar to napster. Makes sense that a startup business (< 2 yo) would kill a controversial product. Ironic now that they seem to be above caring about legal risks.

[1]
https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/26/wirehog/
>My opinion (with no real evidence)

Here is some actual evidence.

> Across mobile devices and computers, GlobalWebIndex reports that we now spend an average of 2 hours and 24 minutes per person, per day using social media [1] (in the US, it is 2:03)

[1] https://wearesocial.com/blog/2020/01/digital-2020-3-8-billio...
> That's interesting that you're familiar with how it scales to different cores; I've never played around with the core parameters that much.

It's simply the combinatorial explosion: it's easier to find a surprising and good program in ten lines with pointers limited to a max value of 800, than with hundred lines and a pointer max value of 8000.
It's possible to know what a Fermi problem is and still think that they're bad interview questions.