skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'll prove them wrong in the next few years.

We will see :)

But, as I mentioned in my other comment, don't underestimate the physical impact of age on your body. A young body can tolerate and recover from a lot of physical self-inflicted abuse and overtraining. Take a child: starts training skiing at the age of 10, wins a gold medal at the age of 20, body starts to degrade at age 25 (joints, testosterone level,...). Try the same as an adult at the age of 30 or 40 with a body that has been already degrading for one decade. It's good that you have learned several tricks as an adult, but will your body tolerate the literal mistreatment that is necessary to go from "several tricks" or even backflips to "professional level"? A pro is not somebody who can do a complicated trick on a good day. A pro has must be able to reliably perform the trick dozens of times in a competition. This last step from 90% good to 100% perfect is the hard one.
Use something like FleshGolem to install a recent release of Vüdü with at least a 5.1 kernel.

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/installing-l...
You didn't say you want to be in charge of your life and not a burden. You said you'd rather want to be dead than a "burden" to others.

The way relationships especially with family works is that they'd usually rather have you be "a burden" than dead.

Also it is very hard not to project that attitude on other people who would be "a burden to others". It is hard for them not to think you want them dead or at least find them extremely worthless.
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> Why should I be excited about Filesystem API and the like when we can already do that on the operating system directly?

Because it's easier to update to a website than it is to release a ton of binaries ({windows, Linux, macos}x{x86,x64,arm64}) and have users download them.

Not to mention it's safer and faster for the user.
Jeff Bezos offers NASA $2bn in exchange for moon mission contract
> Element ends up with some small (10%?) marketshare alongside loads of other Matrix vendors out there doing their thing.

What is a good reason for Element to relegate itself to only 10% of its own market and allow other vendors to pick up the remaining 90%? Can you name a product or service which Element is unable or unwilling to provide that competing investment could make returns on? If you can, why not pivot into that yourself? Can you assure parties investing in Matrix that Element is a trustworthy and synergistic counter-party?
Why would anybody use Matrix after reading https://www.hackea.org/notas/matrix.html ?
Maybe telepathy/ESP is real, it’s just that we lose it soon after birth, or in early childhood, like eidetic memory. Or perhaps some people retain it longer - or some animals, hence all the mythical beasts.
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It's many orders of magnitude cheaper than replacing all your software.
It's not though, that's my point. Even in absolute terms, weight gain from growth in the first year is still more than any other time in the average person's life.
> the concept illustrated in the last figure is known as trapezoidal integration

And, as a consequence, the concept they call "time-weighted average" is just called "mean value of a function", at least in my country.

Also "hyperfunction" seems to be a terrible name. Unless we're talking about mathematics where the term has very specific meaning, how exactly is it different in programming from any ordinary function? (Possibly an aggregate function in SQL, of course.)
Certain systems were built by certain very stupid people, and not only do not hash the passwords before inserting or checking them against the database, but additionally neither use the built-in parameter quoting system nor manually quote the password when it goes into the query. Fortunately they're not quite dumb enough to allow the old " OR "" = " attack, and so make sure you don't have any SQL characters like " or ; in your password.
People with an IQ of 80 mostly can't learn algebra, and by algebra I mean solve a linear equation with one unknown. If your colleague can do fizzbuzz the person who tested them did a crap job.
Japan plans remote-controlled robotic space avatars to the ISS and beyond
The funny thing is they do this even when you're already logged into your account, where they have all sorts of data, including postal address and land line. Just not your mobile number.

Why is that? One hand not knowing what the other does, or what?

I noticed that with several other totally harmless videos over the last months.
Unless it is religious people leaving significantly more, this is not contra-argument.
Do you know if they have a mechanism for hosted servers with your own domain name yet? This feels like a big thing missing for wider enthusiast adoption.
How to show and hide a sidebar in a SwiftUI macOS app
> We could pass a law and ban new code in unsafe languages from national security threatening devices

Countries already do this. But they also put exemption clauses in the policies.

Ban exemptions (in all policies) first if you want to make progress.

But you won't like it.
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Was just fighting Safari few days ago and I completely agree.

Noticed that "vw" and "vh" CSS3 units dont work in it like they do in other browsers. Upon digging, found a medium article explaining it - but as I was in safari, the article's code snippets or images wouldn't load properly.

As much as I got a bit hyped to try using safari after WWDC - I just can't.
It's so discombobulated regarding web standards that I wonder if it can even count as a "web browser" any more than emacs can.
cooked earth?
No. Google's are aligned with the web being useful to Google. This is not the same as "the web being useful".

And these days more often than not Mozilla (which has no stakes in either apps or online advertisement) sides with Apple: https://webapicontroversy.com
You still need to sanitise the input (assume it's malicious) and make sure it doesn't already exist in your system, and check it's a valid email before you attempt to send the confirmation etc.
This article seems all about a particular implementation, not the protocol.
Be a martyr!1!!
None of you can remember the original Oreo, before the introduction of vegetable shortening. It was once much better than today.
Breaking type safety in Go: An empirical study on usage of the unsafe package
The idea is quite old, Flattr has been doing something similar for 11 years now. The UI is a bit less polished though. https://flattr.com/
For a product, it is a positive influence. For protocol - not so much.

Would you be happy if Google had the ability to unilaterally define web standards?
Gotcha, apologies for the misread. I do think it’s an interesting problem space and worthy of more resources, there are all sorts of things that weaker, more human engines _could_ be helping humans with right now beyond traditionally just helping to memorise optimal lines. I don’t think this even means things like Maia that are perhaps human level but opaque, but rather being able to fit the kinds of heuristics humans use in eval or candidate move ordering. It would be great to be able to generate lines for specific opponent weaknesses (certain endgames, pawn structures, missed tactics etc). Even using engines to find things like forced draws from certain positions is harder than it should be right now. I’d love to see more chess _tooling_ rather than more pure engine research. If and when I retire from analytics in other sports this is what I’d like to spend my idle hours on.
Update: possibly this

https://www.demogr.mpg.de/books/odense/6/09.htm
You joke, but CPUs can draw hundreds of amps.
Agreed. I‘ve even rebought some apps on the App Store just for the security and convenience.

That said, I‘m struggling with the constraints Apple puts on the business models of developers, for example when it comes to upgrade pricing. While I have a fair amount of software Mac/iOS subscriptions running (8 by my current count) there‘s definitely software I passed on because it moved to a subscription model.
What's your take on this analysis? https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp

It seems like the connection to Amdocs and their interest in collecting metadata for surveillance is a stain on the privacy-focused image.
This is true for Rust as well though.
Ah sorry, you're indeed right. Turns out it was just the .service.gov.uk domain that uses GCP and AWS - I just thought that applied to the parent domain too.

$ dig NS service.gov.uk +short

ns-cloud-e4.googledomains.com.
ns-cloud-e3.googledomains.com.
ns-cloud-e2.googledomains.com.
ns-cloud-e1.googledomains.com.
ns-831.awsdns-39.net.
ns-1983.awsdns-55.co.uk.
ns-117.awsdns-14.com.
ns-1080.awsdns-07.org.
This is where I’m getting suspicious. 30M isn’t a trivial amount of money…

@Andrew_nenakhov’s comment is on point. Normal initiatives of this kind are organized differently. This doesn’t look good regarding the future stability of the initiative.

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On top of that @sprash has mentioned some valid concerns about Matrix being a potential metadata sponge (below in the comments).

Let me add some food for thought for you. Maybe you’re going to get suspicious too.

a) On the Matrix website, the one with the news about getting the 30M, we’re being given only two kind of information: who’s behind the leading round regarding the investments made, and what features are going to be developed due to that donation. Now, we know nothing about who’s actually giving the money, because both Protocol Labs and Metaplanet serve as proxies here. On top of that pointing the reader to the new features part seems to me like a: „forget about the money part, take a look on what we’re going to do with that, take a look on all those shiny things!!!”.

b) Both Protocol Labs and Metaplanet are kind of famous companies (proxies). The second one invested in the Boring Company for instance. It just looks so good. It’s like a miracle. Matrix is getting attention it deserves… But why on earth that happened? (take a look on (c)).

c) Protocol Labs has strange ties to World Economic Forum [1][2]. They are interested in Protocol’s work in the internet space in general. I don’t like that at all. I fundamentally don’t trust WEF and I consider whatever they „touch” cancer.

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I’m on the market for something that’s going to help me and my friends replace Signal. Matrix looks very promising, but after a careful consideration it also looks like it really might be a metadata sponge. Yeah, it’s all rumors, and establishing real information about the parties involved and their motivations isn’t possible. But a suspicion is enough. It looks almost too good...

This is how I decided to go with XMPP instead.

Good luck. Make your own informed decisions.

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[1] https://www.weforum.org/organizations/protocol-labs

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ipfs/comments/os8plh/the_world_econ...
I've been looking for detailed large format region maps with labeled locations, and ideally with time points as well for various sites and boundaries.

There is a notable lack of quality options so a potential market for you there, or if you know of a good source can you post the link here? :)
At the time of their release IE4-IE6 have been the most standard-compliant browser. IE was also the fastest at the time. Netscape was in a technological dead-end, and it took considerable time until its complete rewrite (Netscape 6/Mozilla/Firefox) stabilized and caught up. The biggest problem was MS simply dropping its development (IMHO their biggest strategic blunder of 2000s).

Back then all browsers had unstandardized behavior, there was plenty of Netscape specific and IE specific hacks. Some of them were intended as EEE, some of them were result of weak standardization or mere technical limitations of their respective architectures.
FindMyArea is a small web app that helps property renters/buyers find the perfect area to live in based on their criteria.

It only handles London for now, but soon it’ll be the rest of the UK and then other cities/countries (data permitting!).

You pop in the stuff you care about (budget, commute destinations, local amenities etc) and then with a bit of simple maths, the tool will give you a list of areas (e.g. Shoreditch or Richmond) that satisfy your requirements.

More details on how the scoring engine works here: https://findmyarea.co.uk/blog/how-findmyarea-works/

Eventually I’d like to turn FindMyArea into a tool where you can find the right area for anything.

Not just finding areas to live in, but also areas that are ripe for investment or relocating to if you’re 100% remote (or for the perfect holiday, if that’s more your thing).

Currently I’m not sure if there’s an easy way of doing this besides using GIS software/something like Tableau, which is obviously pretty inaccessible to the average user.

Anyway, that’s just a distant goal for now. Let me know what you think of this first version! (btw the design isn’t great -- I’m a data scientist, not a web developer...)
> What is a good reason for Element to relegate itself to only 10% of its own market and allow other vendors to pick up the remaining 90%?

In a healthy ecosystem, the primary implementations do not represent most of the clients and servers.

HTTP for example is healthy because there are many http servers, many http clients, they're all pretty compatible and replaceable, and none of them represent the primary implementation with its own off spec quirks that others need to take into account.
The same could be argued about Dhavari in Mumbai. Nobody is fleeing a place with an estimated 1M people in less than one square mile. People visit there too…films use it as a backdrop all the time. Must be quite glamorous. One out of every 8000 people on the planet live there.

Dhavaris bear it, so it is, by some definition, bearable.

It’s kind of a nonstarter for a discussion about livability to equate livability with a lot of folks living somewhere.
Frankly, this has me excited. I can't wait to see what new, exciting tech AMD invents to eat Intel's lunch, again.
I'm going by average weight gain from normal growth. But let's look at height instead then.

Average height at age 12: 59". At age 13: 62". 3" of growth.

At birth: 19". At one year: 29". 11" of growth.

Try matching that just by eating more.

(obviously, yes, it's easier for a small thing to grow than a large thing. But it's still crazy fast. Imagine being 50% taller in a year)
Sledge with lawsuits and company that knowingly buys uncertified software.

Like the FAA does.

Never, ever going to happen in enterprise and consumer software.
Xiaomi Reveals
> because Element is probably one of the worst matrix clients in terms of UX

I'm genuinely curious why? I use it on desktop and mobile, and I haven't found it lacking in anything?
I've heard this said before, but I don't get it
HN is just beyond me sometimes. No reasons for flagging this whatsoever.

Why not ask dang?
It's actually not priced in. Price is almost as low as it was before Pat came on as CEO. Subsidies from the US ($50B for the industry) and EU ($20B likely, not confirmed yet) were announced months later.

Intel's selling at something like 12x earnings. The fab business is another devision in the company, not an alternative to selling chips.

With their yearly cadence, if they deliver, they will take back the share they've lost and then some.

Their designs are still superior to AMD, they have just been slower to finish them and roll them out. With improved execution and vertical integration, they should be beating competitors on performance, efficiency and price.

If they stick to their new product road map, they should be taking back market share from AMD in full by 2023.
Are your HTTPD logs adequately secured? Are their security measures audited monthly, in keeping with established industry best practices? Do you have comments enabled on your blog? What's your policy for expunging blog posts about people exercising their right to erasure? How did this defamatory comment spam get past your comment filter? Did you know your open-source image thumbnailing software is being used on an illegal pornography site? Why didn't your legal office respond within 8 hours when you were notified of a privacy invasion on your blog last Saturday?
That's reversed in Europe. Using credit is what implies financial responsibility. On that subject I've seen American financial devices, such as cashback and so on, slowly sip in on this side of the Atlantic and I find it worrying.
Rocketchat also has the open spec.

On 'loads of completely independent implementations': how can those independent developers stop Element from pushing some hypothetical changes to the protocol you would want to introduce against their wishes?
The obvious answer is that it would be jack-of-all-trading, and others would focus on one area, do it better, perceived to be better, or just differently.
What he is referencing is what I call “artificial complexity”, a way for making solving problems ludicrously wasteful in man-hours. This is primarily accomplished via limiting remixes of known technology - think for example of how easy it is to add types to Lisp and yet it took decades to be attempted publicly.

It is the job of human intelligence to cause ‘discontention’ - discontent and contention. I like to think of how it as how you can make powerful gears almost seize if you understand their weaknesses properly.
One of the more challenging issues I face when walking in the UK, Scotland especially, is knowing the type of surface.

Often something appears passable on Ordinance Survey and OSM maps, but once you actually get there you find it's a bog, marsh or other type of terrain impassable with walking boots. Sometimes it's terrain that would be passable if dry, but when wet becomes too slippery (e.g. lots of very small but steep dirt mounds) or filled with streams.

Are you aware of a good solution to this?
Sad. I wonder if Allwinner A200 will ever be released or is even being worked on...
Personal website - what if someone takes over your server and does malicious stuff?

Are you going to put up with accountability that you might have misconfigured something and it allowed attackers to scam people or serve porn?

You are perfectly sure that you are going to keep your small site updated all the time and you won't forget about it?

Because that is where it is going - it is not just code that can be vulnerable - but also combination of different software, combination of configurations. If you install 2 applications they might interact in a way that makes your system vulnerable.

Software is infinitely complex we can cut down complexity but then anything that is useful and complex will cost a lot more.
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> Or calling any trade in crypto "shady". This one shows his true colors. A huge amount of people just deposit dollars on a KYC exchange, then buy and sell whatever crypto they fancy.

> None of this is shady. It's fully legal, taxes are paid, it's like stocks. Yet according to him, any trade in crypto is shady.

True, there has been a lot of activity that was no worse than gambling. Let's tally up everything that's come out of the space, good and bad, and ask where it comes out on net. Somewhere in region of "a giant casino with a mad electricity bill on an island with no cops, teeming with scumbags who busy themselves with fleecing the innocent suckers in there desparate to come away with one of the lambos on stage". Yes, you pay tax on your winnings when you get back to the mainland.

> Or, the claim that the 800 billion market cap of Bitcoin is solely based on Tether. That's an absurd statement.

"800 billion market cap of Bitcoin" is already an absurd statement.
Windows on ARM laptops existed long before the M1 and they didn't catch on. It's Apple that is late to the party.
Steps to a Successful MVP App
Building an app is not hard. Building a successful one can very well be. This article is all about doing the right thing when building MVP.
Burglars are in and out in a matter of minutes. There's no way they're standing there taking photographs. Like I said, they want money (and easily hocked valuables). No street criminal is interested in your Google Account login.

Australian here. When my house was broken into Police forensics came that afternoon and fingerprint dusted all points of entry and lifted prints. Do they not do this in your jurisdiction? I have just realised DNA is probably poor shorthand for that.
> What makes matrix a protocol is that absolutely anyone can implement it, and anyone can get involved in the process to improve the spec.

What makes matrix a product is that nobody can tell Element what to do, and people who can get involved in the process of improving the specs would have to accept any changes brought to them by the people who truly own it.
That article has false info.

It is still possible to use Mobile Safari to add App Icon:
https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/PWA#ios-safari

And that app icon does open PWA app full screen.

I'm maintainer of Wekan https://wekan.github.io , Wekan also works as PWA app.

For best mobile experience, enable drag handles:

https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/3755

There has been fixes to HTML/CSS/JS so Wekan also works well on Safari.

Apple M1 with Safari has fastest Javascript execution.

Safari works well enough for me.
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> Thanks to their walled garden the only available web browser on iOS is Safari, and since no developer can afford to ignore iOS as a platform they have no choice but to deal with it.

As the sole developer and maintainer of a Javascript library for working with the <canvas> element, most of the problems I encounter when working on the code are to do with things which work fine in every other browser, but die in flames on Safari.

I'm getting to the stage where dropping support of the Safari browser (and thus all iOS browsers) is something I consider on an ever-more serious basis. One of these days I'm gonna add a big banner message to the library's website stating: "If you need your canvas to work on Safari/iOS, try coding it using [list of competing canvas libraries, with links]."
CAP Theorem Explained
I never understood why people seem to not get this fact, I don't know if it's intellectual laziness, a poor attempt at deflecting the blame or a way to cope. We're using them to manufacture all our shit and complain they pollute, no shit....

"My country doesn't pollute so I won't take any blame, it's all China's fault" said unironically while 90% of the gadgets around them are made in China
We built a low-friction discussion forum for our price comparison site (yes, NIH syndrome). It's still used for feedback 21 years later, though e-mails, feedback buttons on the website were added too.

In general, most B2C product feedback probably exposes UI/UX weaknesses rather than desirable features and adding more features instead of making the existing ones work smoother and faster is usually not appropriate.
To me, the North African (Western Arabic) forms look intermediate between those from the Gwalior temple and those used by Fibonacci. The Eastern Arabic forms don't. Fibonacci traveled back and forth to Algeria with his father in his childhood, where he studied mathematics. Although he credited the Indians with the method of calculating with place-value numerals, he never traveled to India, but he traveled extensively to North Africa.
yea, similar to their northern neighbor of Corsica, they can be a little bit more nationalist and defensive, understandable for islanders, and overall very pacifists
I think it is less relevant to Winning Ticket Hypothesis (in my opinion, the most important paper on deep learning theory in the last 5 years), but about architectures that work to some extend with random weights.

See "Weight Agnostic Neural Networks" (https://weightagnostic.github.io/):

> Inspired by precocial species in biology, we set out to search for neural net architectures that can already (sort of) perform various tasks even when they use random weight values.
Open source @ http://GitHub.com/agoblinking/theia.games