skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been reading comments in this thread and i wonder what actual arguments you have against gccrs, if you have links to more detailed resources. As a Rust user, i'm happy people are working on alternative implementations so specs can get new eyes.

> implementing something that differs from "Rust" (...) I think is unethical, and given the intent, probably illegal

I don't understand this statement. One of the contributors said earlier in the thread something that sounds opposed to your interpretation:

> For inconsistencies, we have stated in our FAQ that if GCC rust does not behave the same as rustc. Then it is a bug with GCC rust.

Also, "your code is illegal" is not very much an ethics argument in my book. Digital weaponry like mass-surveillance systems are mostly legal, while harmless ThePirateBay/PopcornTime are illegal.
I'm aware some of these things have changed, but equally SQL server has likely developed since then too.

That said for #1 are you saying PG now allows query hints or just the specific example is fixed? There are a lot of cases still where the optimiser does the wrong thing and with PG you're powerless to fix it.

With #3, do you have any more information about that? I can't find any on a brief Google.
Personally I feel I got the message - bad debt bad, don’t over-extend, over consume

I still just refinanced into a 30 year mortgage and didn’t pay off the house YMMV
That requires having another publicly accessible box, or trusting ZeroTier though, doesn't it? The onion approach does not.
I actually use tailscale for exactly this reason.

NAT is the devil.

The latency of tor might be a bit too much though.
The US response is not regionally uniform especially compared to some nations eg. Israel but we're doing ok from a global perspective. Generally, i think the regional differences are a feature, not bug, of the US but obviously this isn't really advantageous in the pandemic.

We developed several vaccines and slowly but steadily vaccinated huge amounts of people (we have a bigger population and lower density than to most nations we're compared to here).

We had a few missteps like the mask mandate press and mask efficacy warnings, but otherwise got key medical info and protective equipment out across a large nation rapidly.

We rapidly transitioned to remote work, host most of the requisite infrastructure and are home to most companies that made that possible.

We mobilized early to provide health care, from testing to pop-up hospitals across cities. Sure its sad to think of hospitals being overrun and using hotels, but many nations were left with even less.

Our only big mis-step was the political nature of the virus that we bred.
Think from the beginning what will be the end: "I thought your security policy was too overbearing, so I used tor."

IT departments make their choices for reasons. The key is to help them understand your use-case, and they'll probably help you through the problem in a way that might limit collateral damage.

Source: have seen firewall bypasses (with a pre-shared key) get leveraged as a way to hack an entire university lab/department.
Care to define what you mean by "normal client"?
The problem with most of these "pet VP" projects is that there's never any clear link to the external market.

Who are they benchmarking against? What are their performance targets?

As a result, you get a team who's only deliverable is "PowerPoints that go up and to the right, compared to last week."

And the project soldiers on, because to can it and admit failure would embarrass someone. If it's the CEO, even worse.

Which is maybe explainable for a brand new technology (say, Palm with handwriting recognition), but less so when there are serious competitors out there with known performance levels.
Why are the NVMe drives on a separate island connected by extension cables? Are they thermal-constrained and have to be closer to the fans?
Your thought process is wild. I honestly cannot see where you're coming from.
I'm pretty sure there's very active logistics R&D involved for decades already and they don't need any mansplaining about network protocols.

However if it were possible to develop completely new transportation system with autonomy considered from the planning stage, that might be more efficient. Musks' gadgets don't count, their capacity is laughable.
> if I find a nice piece of software, it might just die because it doesn't have a business model, just 1-2 enthusiastic developers who may or may not suddenly burn out.

One could argue that the same risk applies for almost every piece of software, be it proprietary or free.

Vendors are killing their applications all the time.
Are you using the Win 11 beta?
I use uMatrix. It allows me to block all third party scripts by default, easily unblock them one by one if I need to, and save my changes for sites I visit often.
>the artist's PR team

Funny how someone who "no one knows who he is" has a PR team, is able to run auctions, put exhibitions in museums, send and receive money, etc...

Only a numbnut would believe those things could happen "anonymously".
This article is from 2015. It looks like this year (2021) they announced that they have removed all of the ants from Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge: https://lmtribune.com/outdoors/crazy-ant-strike-team-complet...
TIL, I can't edit or delete my comment by now. Hopefully your comment amends my misunderstanding.
> this is not it

Wouldn't both approaches produce the same result (if they ever succeed to implement the whole spec)?
That's a good example, preparing for a future which probably never comes.

It is not easy to predict the future of a software application. In Louisiana they were building levees to withstand a once in 100 years flood or something like that. Based on historical weather reports they are able to estimate how high and strong the levees would need to be. But with software it is hard to see how we could estimate what kinds of requirement-changes might be needed during the next 100 years for any application.
GLTF, especially the binary format, is specifically design for transmission over the web. Wavefront is uncompressed text, Collada is even worse because it's extremely verbose XML. I don't know a lot about USDZ, but what I do know is that it's overkill for the web (graphics features that are mostly too costly to do in WebGL, additional scene description data like audio tracks, etc), while also lacking specific features that GLTF has that are aimed at the web, like streaming, progressive download of texture data.
Reading that on HN, where anti-crypto sentiment is generally very strong, is really ironic.
On the front lines, here’s what the seven stages of severe Covid-19 look like
Part of the point is to generate non-criminal usage of Tor to legitimize it.
There are cosmetic filter lists that filter out most of that stuff, e.g. Fanboy’s Annoyances.
Well, if apple wants to make the experience nicer for their users they can lower the cut which they take.

It doesn't even need to be the same or lower than competition. Since there are so many apps already integrated (and even in future their API might be easier or more likely to be used by app users) and nobody wants to go through the friction of adding new ones they can still be slightly more expensive and retain majority of the market share.

But if they won't then I guess you will know it never really was about protecting the user or whatever, just a cash grab from walled garden.
Please don't pick the most irritating detail in an article and then copy it into the thread to complain about it. This leads to significantly lower-quality discussion, especially when the detail is off topic.

HN threads are sensitive to initial conditions, so this is particularly important when there aren't many comments yet.

One thing we're working on learning as a community is how to respond to the interesting parts of an article or situation and leave superficial provocations alone. Not easy, but important for curious conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also circumventing this sort of thing in many orgs is a first class ticket to finding a new job. Friend of mine did that, they walked him to the curb with his cardboard box that day. His sin? Turned off virus scanning because it was taking 4 hours to do a 20 min build.
Close enough, announced yesterday: https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/2bebd933495c...
-money transfer and storage for the structurally unbanked.

Anonymous crypto wallets cannot be banned and to "taint" any bitcoin that has passed through anonymous wallets would mean every single bitcoin would be tainted. It would be like trying to ban euros used for drug trade; if it were done all euros would seize to circulate.
I believe there are many iOS apps that have never seen the light of day simply because it wasn't at all possible to make them compliant with the "review guidelines".
>"no one knows who he is"

Except that's not been the case. There have always been some people who know who Banksy is.
A number of US states did not ratify some constitutional amendments and they still entered in effect. Minimum requirement is two-thirds of the states not unanimity.

I meant "political" in the sense of "it's a gesture designed to cause some political effect or to be used in the future for political negotiations" - maybe not the best word but couldn't think of a better one when writing that.
Apple does not have a fab, correct?
Interesting use of a security tool
It's a harder problem that. Secrecy in courts is a tool often used by totalitarian dictatorships, a blanket objection to that sort of thing may actually do more good than harm. In a practical sense I totally agree with omitting addresses specifically but I also understand the skepticism of any reduction of transparency in the courts.
> ...the right approach of training NNs while having a human behind the wheel.

Can someone please help me across a conceptual bridge here?

Is there some work I'm not familiar with that shows humans use the biologically-equivalent NNs used by Tesla to accomplish L5-grade driving? I'm not talking about doing it quickly, I'm at this point interested in Tesla or anyone else for that matter demonstrating doing it at all, at any speed. It can be at an agonizingly-slow 0.25 km/hour and that would be fine.

I'm having trouble bridging between L5-the-destination and NNs-are-definitely-the-way-to-get-there. This sounds an awful lot like saying NNs-are-the-Moravec's-Paradox-solution, and I'm not sure I've read conclusively how that can be true. I can accept it as a hypothesis, but other than actually trying it out like Tesla is doing, I haven't read why it is such a strong conjecture.

It sounds from articles like [1] and [2] Tesla is only just now starting to really get into applying NNs more broadly to the problem space, and the prior years were mostly focusing on more conventional machine vision techniques and getting clean data for NNs to ingest. But I've yet to read a convincing explanation for how ML will functionally solve even the subset of Moravec's Paradox needed to accomplish L5. I grant that it will solve a facsimile of the paradox, but I feel it is arguable if it will be a reasonable facsimile. That sounds an awful lot like, "we'll brute force throw enough training data at it to reach 'reasonable facsimile' level", and I'm cautious when I hear of brute forcing as a strategy for arriving at R&D results.

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/466239/tesla-migrating-to-neural-...

[2] https://electrek.co/2021/02/08/tesla-looks-hire-data-labeler...
Thanks! We've changed the URL to that from https://www.audubon.org/magazine/july-august-2015/one-remote....

Edit: changed back since people made reasonable objections.
Interesting how the author avoided sex and intimacy in his "list of common universal needs".
I think you have to bear in mind the original motivation behind the journal which was to enable a platform for researchers being suppressed and cancelled by woke academia for daring to shine a light in areas they've declared off limit.

Whatever else the factors in deciding what gets through, countering politically motivated censorship of research by the usual suspects who've appointed themselves Guardians of The Truth will play a significant part.
Does the trackpad usability steeply decline when you switch from ChromeOS to, say, Ubuntu?
I agree, I love vintage cookware. My favorite pans are a bunch of All-Clad LTD's I assembled from Ebay over the years. I use them for omelettes and french toast. Super thick aluminum clad with a stainless cooking surface, made sometime in the 1980s. They're as tough as cast iron, but they heat way more evenly, they're much lighter, and you don't have to worry about hurting the seasoning.

With cast iron, you can easily destroy the seasoning by overheating the pan, or if your mother who doesn't know how to care for cast iron puts it in the dishwasher. I put my All-Clads in the sink and scrub them with a steel tuffy. They're probably the most indestructable tools I own.
NFTs started to make sense to me after I watched this video about modern art: the $150000 banana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so8sB25IL4o

There's really not much to NFTs. Everything is in the name. Non Fungible Token. They can have value because they can be linked to an owner (unlike the air, or the moon) and are non fungible (unlike a grain of sand). Some do have value because people think they can make a profit selling them to someone else.

It's very similar to modern art.

It's just an old idea that blockchain guys have been reusing, for lack of better application for their platforms. To me, the excitment around such a silly concepts says a lot about the state of blockchain applications...
> Employees are compensated on the work they provide during work hours.

Industry-average compensation is primarily a function of supply and demand. Remote work increases labor supply and decreases costs of labor. Both of these factors will cause compensation to go down. How employers justify pay decreases is largely besides the point, imo.
This is an extremely important piece of information. It made me sad at first, because I'd expect that smart people (that includes dang & pg, not only the users) are harder to game. Nevertheless, when you take into account almost limitless resources Microsoft has, it's no wonder they managed to influence the discussion here. Specifically, HN is the main place where I hear the voices that MS completely changed, that they have nothing to do with their misbehavior from the 90s - which seems a bit naïve at least.

In any case, it's good to remember that whenever any MS-related topic comes up.
You know how they say money only has value because people want it?

It's like that, except nobody wants it.
You can also just render a complete OS in a canvas using wasm. Heck, why use the browser at all, just let them download a custom binary...

You see where this is going right?
> and people need time to sort out payment

Or their removal of Docker
Fedora, PopOS, Manjaro/Archlinux, NixOS, etc.

Manjaro/Archlinux as really good about not having anything 'extra' which helps reduce the cognitive load even if they require more command line skills. i.e I'd rather have to know 10 complicated things than 10,000 easy things.

Ubuntu is just constantly doing their own thing and is really bloated. Like Snap does the same thing as Flatpak but is Ubuntu specific (at least by usage) which pretty much defeats the point of having portable packages.
> if rust as a language cannot deal with multiple compilers (ecosystem doesn't allow it as you described by your crates.io)

Why would that not be the case? crates.io is just a code repository like any other. You don't need crates.io to write/use Rust code, and crates.io has no specific requirement for a certain compiler.

It just so happens that currently only the main implementation of Rust language (rustc) can compile all of crates.io repository, but this could change in the future.
True, but I'd never have fritzed with the settings in the first place if Mozilla had allowed me to easily keep things as they were / customise things.
> Funny how someone who "no one knows who he is" has a PR team, is able to run auctions, put exhibitions in museums, send and receive money, etc...

Isn't having a PR team exactly how he manages that? He has agents to do it for him instead of doing it himself, preserving his anonymity.
The video is no longer available at the original link

https://web.archive.org/web/20210311055900/https://www.youtu...
> Only a numbnut would believe those things can happen "anonymously".

I think you might be taking it too literally... Obviously some people know who he is... It's within the general public and media that he has remained anonymous...

It's weird insulting people when you're not correct about what they believe.
It's more complicated than that, of course, though the point is taken:

- the US was equally well founded by irish and scots debtors who couldn't get shipped off to australia because we hadn't found that yet.

- ... or west africans in chains.

- ... or money-grubbing mercantilist businessmen who had to be legally compelled to farm things that weren't tobacco after the first lot all starved to death by failing to plant food.

- or by deists and quakers and catholics (who especially represent what passes for religious tolerance in the colonies, c.f. Maryland in particular)

Puritans, of course, also came from the UK (some by way of the mainland when they got kicked out for being too uptight)

I think a difference is: Cromwell lost, and the UK kept their Tories rather longer than we kept ours (and many subsequently left for Nova Scotia and the like), so the fallback position that wasn't puritanism in the UK was an explicitly theocratic state religion that had to be a denomination of compromise because everyone knew perfectly well what happened when it wasn't. (this motivation had a different effect in the US: IMO it almost completely explains the establishment clause)
Why didn't he just put makeup ?
It has to be. I've seen so many people making huge sums of money selling NFTs for machine-generated "art". What value does this provide to anyone? Who is buying this? What are they getting out of it? This entire thing feels like a practical joke to me.
> The irony is that when you're riding next to traffic, a helmet offers little protection against being hit by a car.

It may save you from head trauma as a result of a car hitting you, either from your head hitting the pavement or the car.
I mean even if the art is one person the numerous legally registered companies such as, BANKSY LIMITED, THE ART OF BANKSY LONDON LIMITED, etc. are corporations with directors that you can easily look up. The listed directors almost certainly aren't Banksy.

Banksy is literally a company with marketing, accounts, PR, and management. They are constantly looking for the next viral opportunity and they are big on branding.
> Should all monthly reports for this project start with a paragraph introducing the project itself?

Why not? A lot of projects do it. You also don't have to include that introduction in your RSS feeds, for the most avid readers, but it's very useful for newcomers.
I don’t see how there was anything holistic about HyperCard. It wasn’t really much different from Visual Basic except for the Card and Link metaphor, which was good for creating scaffolding without having to start coding first. Database builders like FileMaker or multimedia tools like Macromedia director, and Flash, are in the same family of tool. Even PowerPoint. There was certainly nothing specially integrated about it. It was just a tool.

The card metaphor was a good way to build quick interactive presentations, and that was better for a lot of tasks than breaking out a code editor, but that’s all it was.

AppleScript is a ridiculously awkward programming language, coupled with a cumbersome way for apps to publish an API, along with some simple coordination primitives.

You could imagine a great programming language and a simple mechanism for apps to expose their functionality, but this was not it.

> but more of the "spirit" of the thing.

Right. My point is that there is nothing these old technologies do that isn’t done way better today.

The spirit, I agree, is lost.

> Regular users as authors is one part of that.

I agree with this too.

> Today all of computing seems geared towards users as consumers.

Except for the giant stack of programming languages, creative tools, etc, all of which are vastly more end user programmable than anything from the HyperCard or even smalltalk era.

Think about blender, Pythonista, gnuradio, Swift playgrounds. Programmability is everywhere.

> To me the reasons for this are obvious.

That’s where we differ. I think there are enough people who want this thing that if it was that easy we’d have it by now.

We can argue that it’s not in Apple’s interest to make this thing (although I think that’s false, and they are trying as hard any one to make programming more accessible). Even if that were true, it doesn’t explain why things are no better on Linux.

The spirit of these things is some kind of ubiquitous and powerful and yet progressively accessible programmability and composability of the entire system.

That just isn’t something that they actually offered, even though they gestured towards it. It turns out to be a hard problem.
I've tried it but it doesn't tick the boxes I want:

- runs in a browser so my wife and I can use it collaboratively for both personal finance and a dual member LLC we have for real estate

- allows me to see a rolled up balance sheet and income statement with our personal finance and the two LLCs (the dual member one mentioned above plus another I use(d) for consulting).

- supports the sort of unique daily budgeting system I've used via a spreadsheet for the last 10 years

- uses a plain-text format (like hledger, beancount, etc)

- lets me do another project in Elixir/Phoenix
I think at a certain point in your career you often get hired because things are messed up. That isn't bad, that is why they are ready to pay for experience and skill.
A first introduction to Laplace Transform
Thanks for posting this, as usual newsletters by knowledgeable insiders are far more informative than the New York Times.
Even highly technical people promoting NFTs don’t seem to understand what they really are (or decide to lie or obfuscate the truth) and seem to attribute them some mythical properties that makes no sense. I’m personally convinced it’s mostly used to launder money.
It's confusing for me too

product page says it requires paid Argo (smart routing) subscription https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/products/tunnel/

the blog page says its free https://blog.cloudflare.com/tunnel-for-everyone/

and actually you can install and run it quite easily

brew uninstall cloudflare/cloudflare/cloudflared
cloudflared login
cloudflared tunnel

this will launch a tunnel with a random subdomain listening to http://localhost:8080
I can 'recreate' any scale by starting from one memorized note (middle C), but for the life of me I can't seem to reliably detect intervals or in some conditions even whether one note is higher or lower than another, let alone identify pitch of any random note. So identification without some kind of extra mechanism is magic to me. For instance, when re-creating some tune whistling it is effortless, to do the same on the piano takes a lot of fiddling and much more time. I hope to be able to develop that skill because it would be very useful.

There are some interesting websites for this:

https://tonedear.com/ear-training/intervals

https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/ear-interval
Heh, most of these use cases I solved by having a personal jumphost in a cabinet in a datacenter. But this is very clever! I like the idea of using Tor because you'll get much better tests.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28365335.