skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about US 20 years from now. Those in corporate America who think they are 'winning' today by selling out Western knowhow to China and failing to cultivate an indigenous STEM workforce are in for a big surprise when the high value add industries fade away into China, just like basic industry did. They may still run the local subsidiary of Huawei under Chinese upper management pushing overpriced Chinese surveillances to the US market, but the profits will belong to the victors and head straight to China.
Interactive Cellular Landscapes
That's because people with generational wealth are more able to explore their options. It's almost like having money makes you capable of living up to potential or something.

*eta: some of them still turn out rotten.
Or £49,673,410 GBP as of today
To be honest, I have zero experience programming with Zig. But I imagine programming with Zig would lead to more literal style and fewer, simpler abstractions (no IoC, no frameworks). That might be beneficial for certain kinds of focused-scope projects.
Except when the name of what you look for doesn't match your mental model (yep, I'm in the group of people who think software should adapt to human and not the other way around)

Example : I want to change the encoding of a file when I load it... Good luck figuring that out without resorting to reading the documentation.
Construction and civil engineering (in the USA) is still done in feet and inches. All construction materials are sold this way. It would just introduce error to try to plan a building in metric dimensions.
The arithmetic doesn’t work though - that was my point.
Microsoft offered $12 billion. They set the floor, and now Discord is trying to raise it. Nothing about this makes sense, unless Discord plans to offer premium bots they control or something along those lines.

A real-world example I base this on: Twitter started squeezing developers after the IPO in ways that only make sense for a company that wants to control the experience for monetization purposes. They were desperate to justify their stock to investors. Discord might be on the same track.
People don't teach philosophy for money, they teach it because someone has to.
I really think there should be a ban on these gain of function research labs. It’s fine to research current strains and potential medications, but that’s where the line should be drawn.
So... "if only people weren't so busy wanking and fantasizing about sex they'd get out of the house and have a revolution."

Ridiculous.
Sure, but it would more likely be a reader for the keys you hand to someone on the SD card.

Unlikely though - the physical representation of crypto has been tried several times, but trust and key ownership is hard.
Wow, we have basically the same story. My first programming project I build without a tutorial was a discord bot using discord.py and now I'm working as a swe intern. Grateful for this community and sad to see it deteriorating
So how do we prevent this? Not everyone can cryptographically verify software updates, like I can't expect my mom to do that, and that is assuming you can reliably determine which key to use for verification in the first place, and that you trust whoever owns that key, and that this signer properly checked all commits or trusts the people that did.

Perhaps a start would be not to keep more than, say, a fifth of your cryptocurrency in a single place if you have many millions' worth?
Maybe your ancestry per se is not so important, but your genotypes can reveal predisposition towards vitamin deficiencies.

For example, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5801754/

> Overall, the data analyzed suggests that ethnic-specific associations are involved in the genetic determination of vitamin B12 concentrations.

Disclaimer: I am a biology dilettante
Relatively easy to find, given that the name is quite distinctive. E.g., https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02727.... That article doesn't seem to be conclusive.

I, however, doubt the value of bibliotherapy. I don't see how it would work.
Not necessarily, there are plenty of bills that cant be paid with credit cards - the credit cards themselves for example.
USSR officially congratulated USA on the moon landings, for example. People rarely talk about things like that, sadly.
One of them actually sold AFTER the Miami collapse. I would think that after seeing the hubris fail elsewhere it would make people second guess a huge purchase like that. It was probably a long escrow and figured they should just close anyway - it won't happen to me, not in this leaning tower in a quake prone area.
Open links in new tabs to avoid this "problem" entirely.

Right click or long press the back button to go back more than one step at a time.

If you still have issues complain to your browser vendor, not HN or slashdot.
It might be harder than it seems, Google is incredibly AIcist. I hit their threshold manually sometimes (it's like a dozen or so queries per minute) :D
If I recall correctly the issue was something like electrum permitted any full bitcoin node to broadcast any message and a nefarious node (since anybody can run a node anonymously) broadcast a message to users to update their electrum client to a trojan client. Just goes to show that "security" is amatuerish in much of the bitcoin community. Bitcoin may be cryptographically secure but how people use it often is not.

On top of all this around the same time I was trying to access some small amount of bitcoin in an older electrum wallet. It was no longer supported so I would have been forced to upgrade while there was this trojan variant going around.

Any way what the lesson should be is when writing security critical software do it right the first time, don't force users to upgrade frequently, don't allow messages from anybody to be broadcast to users, don't break existing secure installations forcing users to upgrade unnecessarily. Keep it simple and secure. KISS.
I was able to click on the link, and click back to return to these comments, in both FF and Chrome. What behavior are you seeing that's different?
I only use fundamental-mode.

Why? do you use emacs for programming (besides elisp)?
Weird metaphors, since the entire phrase is "One bad apple spoils the bunch." Bad apples affect good ones with ethylene, just like bad apples amongst humans corrupt people through their interactions with them.
Usually I see this in the form of bonuses, especially ones that will basically always trigger

Every place I worked bonuses are decided according to a strict formula based on the performance of an entire departments and even the company as a whole. There is no way to reward an individual or even a project group with a bonus unless the whole larger office also hit their targets.
>MacOS handles security on a partition level rather than on a system chip level

Really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_T2

>>Controllers for microphones, camera, ambient light sensors and Touch ID, decoupling the main operating system's access to those.
> There is nothing stop these workers from sharing their content/speech.

So how do you share things legally on the internet without involving a private business who can stop you?
This seemed true back in 2004 when it was originally posted, but since then Facebook and YouTube have both pursued real name policies (at one point or other) but that doesn't seem to have fixed it. Eg Anti-vaxxers have little qualms on having their names attached to their opinions.

If online discourse is to evolve, merely linking to an irrelevant post from 16 years ago, being presented as gospel, would make for a good case study on why it hasn't evolved.
This is pretty obviously a bad idea. Credit agencies already have all the relevant information, whether you take out loans or credit cards and whether you pay them on time.

Anything else is at best correlation, which as we know is not the same as causation.
There should be some kind of institution that you can trust to hold your currency for you. Oh well, maybe one day!
They capture the means of production through force, does that not make them rich, relatively?
Privacy, Ads and Confusion
I believe this label is less likely to apply to an older programmer if instead of grumbling they were willing or able to clearly communicate problems and consequences of “new” solutions. They would be labeled “old wizards” instead :)
> However, I increasingly question why I should care about my ancestry and what it says about me.

I don’t personally care, but scholarships care, the government cares, boards care, universities care, employers care, etc and I otherwise look white but am really only half, so the few times I have been asked about it, the tests have been quite valuable.
Charitably, it could be nice for prototyping

I'm going to assume you already know this shouldn't be done in production

If you wanted something like this in production, then yes you could probably use modules and skip bundling these days, but skipping bundling != skipping transpiling. Instead, transpile your separate source modules into separate ES modules and ship those.
The situation you describe where you don't have to surrender payment information to individual merchants already occurs on the open Internet: payment processors like Shop Pay, PayPal, and Apple/Google Pay are often offered on all kinds of merchant websites. PayPal implemented this idea of a centralized subscription manager long before the App Store even existed!

If Apple was not the sole payment provider on the App Store, that same open Internet-like situation would emerge where these payment processors would compete with each other on features, convenience, and merchant fees.

Instead, we're left with Apple's App Store payment monopoly where they charge up to 30% just for payment processing while the industry-standard rate in the rest of the payment world is more like 2.5%.

Apple's rationale for this huge fee is that the App Store isn't just a payment processor, it's like a "retailer" or a "storefront" – therefore, a larger cut of the sales is entirely justified, and in their mind reasonable. You'd thank your lucky stars if Walmart ever agreed to give you 70% of the retail price to sell your toaster on their shelves.

I think that rationale falls apart when you're talking about the App Store as the only way to install applications on an operating system that's part of a duopoly of general purpose computing that's a near-necessity for modern living with no serious alternative (which is the major distinction between the Apple App Store and other closed software ecosystems like game consoles).

To me, you're overstating the inconvenience of the off-App Store experience. For one thing, important things like your water bill or rent payment don't go through Apple's App Store payment processing system in the first place, so I don't see how allowing the kind of subscriptions offered on the App Store to lapse is any sort of problem.

You don't have to run around and update payment in 10 places, you can just let them expire on their own and these subscription services will just contact you asking to turn the money spigot back on.

For example, my YouTube Premium subscription's payment method failed recently and they just emailed me to tell me about it. They didn't even cut off service. In other words, it wasn't hard, it wasn't painful.

YouTube Premium is a great example because it's a product that costs 30% more if you decide to pay for it through the App Store. I can't see how the convenience of centralized payment is worth a 30% price hike for any service. My 5 minutes of inconvenience every time my credit card numbers change/expire (once every 2-5 years maybe?) saved me $65 annualized.
If you are okay with working yourself to death and are in a nitch and in-demand market you could make that consulting.
Now that artificial is intelligent can it be unintelligent thonk
The Commodore/Amiga meetings at my local mall every Sunday afternoon in the 80s are the most entertaining and instructive time I can remember from my youth. Quite literally changed my life looking back on them!
Ask HN: What tools you use to stay up to date with new trends?
Just curious what kind of tools or strategies help to be early adopters of things like facebook, bitcoin...etc
The Guardian probably means "accountable to the general public", or whichever faction they favour right now.
I don't get it.

My mental model is this:

In 2019, all the fabs combined made $X chips per year, and projected a growth of $delta_X for the next year.

By the end of 2020, $X + $delta_X is significantly less than the actual demand.

There are only three possible expectations:

1. The fabs made less than $X + $delta_X chips

2. There has been an explosive growth in sales of existing electronic devices exceeding $delta_X that either surprised the OEMs or that OEMs failed to communicate to the chip fabs by booking extra capacity in advance.

3. All fabs are not equally equipped to handle fab demand. If an OEM changes to a different fab vendor:

3.a. Some other OEM was denied capacity at the new vendor

3.b. The capacity that was opened up at the old vendor isn't usable by the OEM that got dropped by the new vendor

Has anyone done a deep dive and done the math to see how much capacity shortage was due to #1 and #2?

Apple famously moved a huge amount of their chips from Intel to TSMC when they made the m1 Mac. Intel has traditionally only used their fabs to make their own chips - so the OEMs that got dropped at TSMC couldn't just take their business to Intel to rebalance the available fab capacity.

Does the amount of m1 macs made/sold help explain the difference that #1 and #2 can not explain?

Is there another equally interesting story in the chip fab business that would explain this shortage?
Weren’t magnesium frames widely used in laptops recently?
What happened to "Cellar door"? :-)
And it’s very unlikely to change things for those still stuck there anyway. I can’t think of an upside to being honest in an exit interview.
Elon musk’s greatest weakness that I see is that his behavior (e.g. his bullshit tweets about Bitcoin) drives women up the wall which would not be healthy for a consumer-oriented retailer. (He’s the opposite of, say, Benjamin Disreali.)

Musk’s strength, when it comes to SpaceX, is that he takes it absolutely seriously. (Bezos took AMZN seriously, but Blue Origin's main business seems to be suing the government.)

The alternate scenario I see is that Bezos died in 2005 or 2010, they did a CEO search was successful, and the firm did OK without him. Or perhaps AMZN had such a great flywheel that it would have taken legendarily stupendous incompetence to stop it. (E.g. opening lots of brick and mortar stores)
Specifically for Belgium there is the CKP, which keeps track of all loans, including how timely they are paid, and which credit providers have to consult before granting any loan or line of credit.

https://www.nbb.be/nl/kredietcentrales/centrale-voor-krediet...

They also keep a black list of people who should be denied credit.
What is anyone's expertise on a web forum? If he claimed any, what weight would that add when almost everyone here is anonymous?
Zero-shot means it can generalize to things it's never seen before.

You don't need to train CLIP on any examples of "The stacks from Ready Player One drawn by MC Escher" to have it do a pretty good job of being able to judge which outputs of a GAN more closely resemble that concept[1].

Saying this isn't "zero-shot" because CLIP has been trained on a corpus (the Internet) that had some info about the setting of the movie Ready Player One and the artist MC Escher isn't a particularly useful interpretation. By the same reasoning, humans aren't capable of "zero-shot" classification either because they have prior knowledge of real-world concepts.

The model does object tracking well whether you feed it fish, or playing cards, or sperm because the generalized feature vector it extracts represent all the possible properties. It "knows" (and uses) properties like "facing right", "profile view", "blue sheen", "foggy", etc. to make its determination of which instances are which.

[1] https://twitter.com/braddwyer/status/1430576141572657162
I can also restart my phone or buy a new one to avoid this problem entirely. I guess I’ll do that.
Back in my day, we read books for free pizza. I don't know if they accomplished what they wanted or exactly what it was that they were trying to accomplish. I read quite a bit of non-fiction but very little fiction, with the exception of when I am traveling.

Learning whether it's done through hands on experience, reading or watching/listening is a good thing.
If you like that, you should definitely go to the Dayton Ohio AF museum where they have a Valkyrie. You can’t go inside it, unfortunately.
Le Figaro is notoriously bad at sorting facts from right-wing rumors. That squatter theme is a recurrent subject to scare their typical landlord readership. Find primary sources for that.
Author here. I have regenerated the graphs to use the square root of the count as the radius to keep the area constant, as others have suggested. I appreciate the feedback.
Clearly it's a case of "we'll have to see".

That said:

- There's a clear risk.

- Taking measures against the risk would be highly advisable.

- Monitoring the aftereffects, over several months at least, is going to be necessary to draw conclusions.

I'd also like to see a compilation of Covid (or other epidemics) and the interrelationship with other widespread disasters or disturbances. The situation in Afghanistan would be one such case, where there's a sudden breakdown of what limited order did previously exist. Wildfire evacuations in the Pacific Northwest of the US & Canada would be another. There's the long slow emergency of homelessness in California (about 100,000 individuals on any given day, not sure how many are long-term or not).
This is the M1, which does not quite work like the T2 does.

The partition-level system means that you could have a Full Security MacOS install (with Secure Boot equivalent, System Integrity Protection, AMFI, etc. turned on), a Permissive Security MacOS install (no Secure Boot, SIP, or other measures, or some on and some off), and a Linux install all dual-booting on the same system.

Unlike other architectures, there's no "this chip is in full security mode or no security mode," like unlocking the bootloader on Android, where the entire system is secure or insecure. On the M1, you can just have OS installs with different security.
If you have a good understanding of how to hack YouTube (or other social sites) that seems plausible. Some list video channels appear to have crossed that mark (I bet a well trained GAN or GPT-3 could easily reproduce content of that quality—it’s not about talent of any sort). Though actually doing that could be considered unethical, as it would be contributing to the wire heading of children (who else watches list videos?) to an algorithm obsessed with watch time optimization.
I have regenerated the graphs to use the square root of the count as the radius to keep the area constant, as others have suggested. I appreciate the feedback.
Asking is meaningless if nobody answers.
I have no idea, but this makes me think of something I forget the word for.

It's when you have a reason for doing or not doing something, and you assume you're the only one, but really, everybody else has the same reason.

As a result, everybody is passive and doesn't act like they would if they knew everyone agreed.

It's the opposite of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect

Ah, this is it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance

The nice thing about a "false consensus", of course, is that someone who believes in it can tell others they are victims of "pluralistic ignorance" and once enough people are brainwashed, it's a true consensus!
Germany is like a proto-US.

Ignore the media spin, it's the most capitalist country in Europe, where unequal contracts rule supreme and you get fines and prison time for nearly anything.

I'm surprised the socialist policies stuck around, although there's still time to get rid of them.
I’m guessing you’ve ublock origin or similar on those browsers thats mitigating it. It’s broken on safari (iOS).
They spoke with great clarity and enunciation for sure. No filler words. I suspect, it also has to do with how audio was recorded, processed and mastered. It’s got that warm fidelity as if it went through a low pass filter.
>What would stop said Nazi government from forcing you to take the test anyway?

The fact that testing everybody is difficult both politically and logistically.
I'm a fan of airships too and have been for decades, still I think I have to agree with your points. That said, some people obviously don't including those with money to chuck at the problem. What do you say to this report?

https://interestingengineering.com/ufo-russian-cargo-airship

With lifting and speed specifications like that it'd be a game-changer if they ever pulled it off. It seems to me if its high proposed speed were ever attained in practice then it'd also be useful for passenger services for continental-sized distances (say 1000 to 2000 miles) where its potentially quick embarking/disembarking would be advantageous over normal air travel.

(I bookmarked this url some months ago, I think I may have even gotten it from a HN story.)
“As We May Link” (2021)
It is a fashion industry, and so it follows that when everyone has wooden tables you need to sell them a reason to stay in business, repairing wooden tables isn't enough.
From the official Hacker News Guidelines:

"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting."

UPDATE: Right now 43% of the comments on this story are about the site's back-button behavior.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not as much "subjective" as it is "context dependent".

Take two people with similar experience on the language and idioms you use, and they will very likely agree on what code is easy or hard to understand.
I'd just do a chargeback and never use that service again.
Please watch this video. It neatly shows why should you treat small and less rigorous studies with suspicion, even if there are many giving some results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q
I good start would be to write security critical software right the first time and not require frequent updates if at all. Every time an update happens it imposes a time cost and security risk on users. No other engineering discipline has the concept of updates to an in use product. When Toyota sells you a car if it has a "bug" in a control arm that results in it breaking and you losing control on the highway there is no software update. There is an NHTSA investigation and a recall.