skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site seems down but I really want to see how someone was able to fit the entirety of the US tax code into an Excel workbook.
More on XENON1T https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/science/xenon-axions-neut...
Because that's the circular path that gets you the hated "async only" programming model.

For every node.js server there are probably 100 CLI programs that get run by the way.
There is a good YouTube about this [1]: Pop a balloon and slowly let the air out. You can stretch the resulting fabric into a simple shape with no holes. The balloon therefore had -1 holes.

They then go on to talk about 2D and 3D holes and Euler Characteristic etc.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymF1bp-qrjU
I see, that makes sense. I hadn't considered the information coming from a different source than where the trades happen. I was in the mode of thinking about trade front-running where you are trying to beat orders in progress.
This only applies to "Web Activity" and "Location History" which you can also just turn off completely instead of the "auto delete every x months" option.
> That's still wrong: scheduling and synchronisation take time, especially synchronization, which has both an overhead and introduces uncertainty in when the lock will be released.

No matter your method, you need some kind of scheduling and synchronization if you want to go beyond 5 billion CPU cycles per second on a multi-user site.

> You also presented the threadedness as a cure-all solution to performance problems, which it is not. That's wrong.

No I didn't. But having more than one core in use is the only way to get over a certain threshold, no matter how good your code is.

> The problem is that threads are one of the worst ways of introducing parallelism.

Like I said, it would have been better if I was clearer that I mean completely non-parallel code. But parallelism was my point. Everything you're saying about threads in a single process vs. multiple processes is not me being wrong, because it wasn't my argument.

Or to put it another way: Yes threads in a single process are on the bad end of parallelism. But they're also the easiest. If you see a statement that code can't even do that, then that should already imply that you can't run multiple processes on the same website instance.
No way would I ever trust open source tax software not to mess things up somehow. The paid software has a big incentive to get it right.
It's important to note that the hit box for it is much larger than the visual presentation.

I'd argue that a mismatched hitbox isn't great either, but it does solve for the touchability
Facebook whistleblower to take her story before the US Senate
I thought DARPA designed the internet to survive nuclear war - no single point of failure - clearly Facebook's network breaks that rule. They need a DNS of last resort that doesn't update fast.
this is cyberpunk as hell, I love it. especially the second video. "drones in rain"
My point is that there are people who do know why they are successful, because they deliberately set out to find out why they failed and not make those mistakes again. I bet they outnumber the ones who don't by a wide margin.
Did we, really?
Maybe they were using facebook.com for communication?
Ask HN: Privacy audit for Windows 10 / 11?
I found the recent paper / article about data collection by iOS / Android very interesting ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28741262 ) and I was trying to find something similar for Windows 10 / 11.

Aside from anecdotal evidence and lots of scare-mongering / click-baity post I failed to find an actual 3rd party privacy audit / research paper that goes in-depth in a similar way (do a standard setup of Windows 10 / 11, disable any available checkbox for data collection during setup, and MITM all traffic).

Yes, I know Microsoft documents the data fields ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/required-windows-diagnostic-data-events-and-fields-2004 ), but we all know documentation trails actual code by quite a bit. The research documentation also includes URLs which are very nice if one would want to "disable" some of the "required diagnostic data" using DNS filters (AdGuard, Pi-Hole) or firewalls. Again, I know Microsoft documents the endpoints ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-windows-11-endpoints ) but the description is overly broad.

My goal is to get a general idea of how Windows compares to iOS / Android in terms of data collection as well as come up with an updated DNS filter for my home network that preserves functionality I want (Windows Update, Xbox GamePass, OneDrive and Office) while blocking functionality I don't want (gratuitous data collection).

If such a thing doesn't exist, any tips for how to go about DIY-ing would be welcome (I presume a VirtualBox installation with pcap or MITM with pre-installed certificates - I'm a software engineer with barebones network / security knowledge, so more accessible is better).
If your definition of "legit service store" is "Apple Authorized Service Provider", then yes. If your definition of "legit service store" is "high-quality repair shop, even if not Apple-authorized (because obtaining this authorization would mean they're no longer able to perform many types of repairs and must abide by a long list of other ridiculous restrictions)", then no, not all legit service stores can do this.

See https://www.rossmanngroup.com/faq

> Are you Apple certified?

> Absolutely not. Being Apple certified would tie my hands to the point where even replacing a fuse would get me in trouble. I go over that in a tongue and cheek fashion in this video in response to the idea that unauthorized repair technicians are “idiots.” Being Apple authorized would tie my hands to the point where I have to charge you $750-$1250 to replace your motherboard because of that one component!

> Doesn’t a lack of certification mean you have no idea what you’re doing, or that my repair has a chance of premature failure?

> No. To be an Apple certified warranty repair center, to the point that repairs are 100% officially covered under an Apple warranty, the service center must buy their parts from Apple. This gives Apple bargaining power in setting prices of parts, which results in unnecessarily expensive repairs. In order to make a profit, a repair shop must set a very high price for any given service. I am sure some of you who have been to Tekserve have heard “your machine is in warranty, so it will be $600.”
Was talking about this with a friend today, and I think this incident highlights why I sometimes get really depressed about my career and technology.

I'm a Gen X-er, and I started my career in the late 90s. Before that I was a ham radio operator in junior high and HS (back when they had Morse code tests!). I remember the heady euphoria around the Internet then, and the vision of "tech utopia" was certainly the dominant one: the Internet would bring a "democratization of information" where anyone with a computer could connect to the Internet, publish a website, and communicate with people across the world. Really cool new services came online frequently. I still remember the first time I used Google, and at the time I was blown away by how good it was ("like magic!" I said) because the results were so much better than other search engines of the time.

But these days, the older I get the more and more I feel like tech is having a negative impact on both society at large and me personally. In the 90s we all thought the Internet would lead to a decentralization of power, but literally the exact opposite happened. Sure, telcos sucked, but there were tons of them spread across all corners of the globe. Now there is 1 single megacorp that a sizable portion of humanity depends on for phone/text communication.

It just makes me sad. Sure, there are pluses to tech I'm ignoring here, but I just think that how reality turned out so 180 from the expectations of the late 90s is what really hurts.
Drink to be an adult, like on TV. Soon you're on the other side and take away your children's chance at life. They get to live their lives when they're 60.

I wonder who's behind this? Not like world adversaries laugh when we die horribly.

Life stress? Other drunks and drug addicts. Life is easy when you are on your own.

Drunks and junkies remove merit from success. Our brilliant prodigies, our industrial illegal immigrants, just people who got a chance at life, to move where they want, to do what they want. Forget being left behind. Your first step to success is to be left alone. You got that chance. No one else did. And look at what you do with it.

Lost lives to drunkenness are really tragic. Tragic in the sense that it depopulates generations down the line. The people you see on TV now, all smiles and success promoted because now they are taking over. What makes them think what happened to me won't happen to them? The curse is they will soon become a burden. They will spoil their children. Their abilities fade. What they did turns out doesn't work. They live long enough to see themselves in a generation down the line condemned, a husk hallowed out from the selfish abusive terror they unleashed on the world.
> What is relevant is that the App Store is a natural monopoly within the iOS ecosystem.

That's very much not a natural monopoly, but a constraint that is forced onto the ecosystem by Apple. There is no technical reason for it existing, but it exists by design.
I think it's the same with supply chains.
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/pitdesi/status/144511881265993318...
I think the point of breaking down Facebook into smaller entities is to reduce centralization of operations, and thus the impact of single-point failures. The same conclusion should be made of a giant state-owned company.
Curently reading https://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Final-Richard-H-Thaler/dp/01431... as a result of listening to that podcast. who thought behavioural economics would be a fun to read?
The question isn't is it okay. The question is: is it $137mm okay.
Oh dang, you're right. You'd have to give it the key your browser is using to decrypt the file. Aaaand that's beyond what I can do.
Proving it did exist would be awesome too. Using it as a tool to study inflation, he mentions some of that at the end
This predates Solaris. SAF came from AT&T and was replaced by SMF eventually. This is essentially an ancient systemd-like protest lol
LeBron James reportedly works harder than anyone else. That's certainly a factor in him being more successful than the others.
Far easier to make a system resilient to bombing than a bad configuration update
Related: The German musical collective of the same name, Popol Vuh[1], who in my eyes is notably known for being behind the soundtrack of Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God, are particularly great. For instance, listen to this lovely piece entitled “Song of the Earth”: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YjJSHogjsFw

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popol_Vuh_(band)
The modern incarnations (appending server and port numbers) to /dev/tcp in Solaris doesn't work.

No matter. Very curious as to why ftp doesn't work, I think I have missed something on the Debian side of things to enable old school ftp clients. You can log in, but even setting the system to PASV does nothing. 500 Port Rejected is the error you get.
How often are you replacing your PSU? Every time Intel changes socket?
yeah, outside of a tech job people still heavily rely on phone calls to get their jobs done.
Sales, HR, field services, etc all call people directly since a text message could be missed for hours. And a lot of stuff is still based on legacy systems (manually inputing info or hand writing records)
Select a file in Finder. Open the Inspector panel for that file ("Get Info" in the context menu, or Cmd-I). If necessary, expand the "Open With" section. Observe the presence of a "Change All..." button.

It's not particularly discoverable, but I think that's mainly because Apple's own UI designers have all but forgotten the NeXTSTEP UI heritage, so doing a Cmd-I on things is not as useful a habit as it once was.
Throwaway for obvious reasons, but you could say pretty much anything you want to me for that kind of paycheck. Too bad there's nothing you could say to a white guy that would let me cash in like that.
Do you not trust any opensource software and prefer only paid software to build your systems?
In my experience of developing Custom ChatBOT, X = business model or internal process which contain logic or work flow.

For short, X = logic.
Its all over twitter today AG Merrick Garland Instructed FBI to Mobilize Against Parents Who Oppose Critical Race Theory, Covid Mandates in Public Schools.

I can see how Google might play a helpful to find these deplorables by their search history. So government can send them for re-education. Before they disrupt any meetings. Pre crime style.
> I don't care at all if this or that terminal uses a bit more RAM or is a few milliseconds faster

Did you watch the video? The performance difference is huge! 0.7 seconds vs 3.5 minutes.
I don't know why you are so hung up on the "strings attached" part. It doesn't matter how many conditions the government imposes if no one is held accountable for actually achieving them.
>Efficiency cores

Alder Lake 2022.
Pretty much everyday I get 5+ spam calls, almost all from numbers with area codes in Texas (no idea why). The calls start at 7:30am.

My number is in the federal do not call list. I used to manually block every single number from spam calls, but now I gave up.

I’ll just never answer a call unless it’s from a known number and I’m expecting it. Otherwise I’ll just return it later if it’s important enough.

My guess is that phone network operators don’t care because they haven’t figured out a way to make money blocking these calls.

At the same time, the same carriers are going out of their way to block text messages from businesses that legitimately use services like Twilio to communicate with their users/customers. Why? Because the alternative for these businesses is to pay about $3k setup fee + $3k/quarter to get a shortcode for the privilege of texting the carriers customers - the same customers the carriers don’t care about protecting from spam phone calls.
These spammers often spoof the phone numbers of people with the same 3 digit prefix as you in hopes that you’ll be more likely to pick up. I even get calls from people saying they got a missed call from me when I never called them. People shouldn’t be able to spoof outgoing phone numbers. It’s messed up.
This happens the day after the whistleblower's 60 Minutes interview? Maybe another rogue (whistleblower is surprised Facebook is a for profit business focused on profit .. not saying good or bad given how big facebook is but really how do you police the world and what side do you take in all the madness/negative parts that make up humanity thus facebook) Facebook employee took it offline ... any chance of that?
These massed drone formations, what frequencies are they using? Are these just consumer drones or are they set to a regulated part of the spectrum? These massed formations are very noisy. If they are using consumer frequencies I imagine anyone in a nearby penthouse might want to jam them.
Certainly not in the opinion of the Dr's or insurance companies, who didn't think he should be or needed to be in a dedicated nursing home.

So perhaps you're jumping to conclusions?

Near as I could tell, the only difficult cases they felt should be in nursing homes were those that were violent, non-compliant with direction, prone to escape (not in this sense which is a 'hey, I want to do x', but will listen if you catch him), but the type that will actively try to bypass security measures, or unable to care for themselves in major ways (like lock in syndrome, inability to follow directions, inability to recognize basic environmental factors, etc.).

Are there potentially easier cases where they are 100% fully functional, yet in nursing homes? Maybe I guess, but I didn't run across any when I was visiting them later. All had some significant cognitive issues that made them very difficult to care for in some major way. But then, this is in California where it is extremely expensive for nursing home care ($3-5k/mo last I remember).
The real problem here is that Intuit and other companies lobby millions to maintain their status quo. The right thing to do would be to put every single dollar spent on these corporations into a government program that develops this kind of software or even does the taxes for you (this already exists in many countries in the EU.) Instead, in the US, you pay for Turbotax, they make a profit out if it, and then they use part of the money to lobby and keep the tax code and system rigged for their own benefit. I don't know if open source software is the solution here -- and as far as I know, the tax forms change every year, so it will be forever playing catch-up -- but it seems to be missing the point entirely.
> So like the multi-billionaire CEO who's only in that position because he works 80hr/wk and never turns it off...

I do not believe this narrative that is only confirmed by billionaires themselves. They mostly rely on the work in others for their success, why working more hours would even have an impact?
Another person who knows "Slowlaris" - I thought it was maybe just my ex-colleague. Turns out it's in the jargon file!

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/Slowlaris.html
Basically every person is curious. They might not be curious about the same thing as you, but they people are curious about something. If you think that their interests are bland or boring then that is just you lacking in curiosity for what they are interested in so you don't notice it. Also most likely they will think that you are bland or boring as well since you aren't curious about the same things they are.

What this article means is that you should be curious about things relating to work so you can have a good career instead of getting left behind. Sounds boring to me, I'd rather people have a wide range of curiosities, diversity is more interesting.
Besides being fun and quirky, it is actually useful for their sysadmins as well as sysadmins at other orgs.

Well at least it will in 2036, when IPv6 goes mainstream.
Most of the award is punitive damages, and it’ll (edit: probably) be California law under which they’re dramatically reduced by the judge.
I did not get it from the article: did he run Solaris x86 or he emulated SPARC under QEMU?
Nobody thinks the Chinese will bomb the fabs. The speculation is that Taiwan or an ally would bomb them if China capturing them is otherwise inevitable.
Hi Dmitry,

I am cofounder of ZIR AI (https://zir-ai.com/). I researched neural information retrieval at Google, before starting ZIR in 2020. (Note: Vespa, who appear in your article, reference some of my work in [1])

To give you some historical perspective, embedding based retrieval on large text corpora became viable only after the introduction of transformers in 2017. Google Talk to Books (https://books.google.com/talktobooks/) is the first such system I'm aware of --- I designed the neural network that powers that system.

It's tricky to compare with BM25 on extremely large datasets (like the BioASQ challenge), because the ground truth is collected using keyword search, hence a chicken-and-egg problem.

However, it's been shown in recent research (post 2018) that neural retrieval can outperform BM25, as measured by mean average precision (MAP), by large margins in the following cases:

1. On natural language queries (e.g. longer than 5 words; spoken queries, etc.)
2. On queries, where the seeker doesn't know the answer in advance (information seeking, rather than reference lookup).
3. When searching user generated content.
4. On smaller corpora (non-web) sized.

As a side note, our platform might fit well into your comparisons, although we provide a more comprehensive solution for text indexing, specifically. I consider platforms like Amazon Kendra and Microsoft Semantic Search to be stronger contenders in our space.

[1] https://docs.vespa.ai/en/semantic-qa-retrieval.html
> higher performance on every task

Even just one task: bringing up a child to be a well-adjusted, productive adult.
What portion of those churches and temples actually support pastor Sisti's views and her efforts with Hugh and Susan Bennett? Sounds like it's just 3 people.
https://www.techjuice.pk/country-blocked-youtube-globally/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/major-bgp-lea...
Hi odentech, I applied last month but never got a reply. I assume I got rejected but it would be nice to have an email at least for record keeping.
Having used the automatic package install feature for a few months already, I'm pretty sure we made the right decision. If you type `using x`, chances are you actually want to use it. Also, since 1.6 has added parallel precompilation, there aren't many packages that take that long. For reference DifferentialEquations currently adds in about 2 minutes.
This includes your searches, which you can see at https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity.
I don't reload often, but when I do, I do it rapidly and in anger.

-some tester I know
The excel1040 site is/was just a redirect to https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home
There are a bunch of different models but they mostly come down to the regulatory agency (IE: the PUC) creating a pot of money for utilities that is paid out when they reach energy reduction goals.

You can learn more by looking into Demand Response programs and Demand Management programs around the country.
When a JavaScript WeakMap() Came in Handy
> An example in NLP world is BERT-like NNs, that allow you to embed your text into a dense vector representation.

I might say transformer-based NNs instead. The problem with cross-attentional models like BERT is that they won't scale to large datasets. They are more often used in reranking results within an IR pipeline. However, even for that use they require distillation.
Such a strange thing to make, a highly transmissible airborne quickly mutating virus as a bioweapon?

It's far too unpredictable as a weapon, bordering on insanity. How could it ever be used as a weapon?

At least anthrax spores settle down and can be decominated. no such option with coronaviruses.
Yes well lets have this outage again in that flavour in say... 11 months?
>Maybe the intent is to have it down more often?

It would have been a well put snarky tweet if that were the intent.

>I think you’re assuming these empty moralizing statements aren’t just made for the clicks…

I am guilty of not immediately considering people who write these things as attention seeking virtue signaling consensus wanting idiots; I may as well be the idiot failing to understand what they're saying.
The US government provides this online for free. Only the edgiest of edge cases aren't supported. You can e-file your federal return with this regardless of how much money you make. You still have to do the calculations yourself. But you don't have to use paper.

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
The only reason I use Windows is to play games. So I don't mind any BS microsoft throws at me, because it is just ignored
“Negligent homicide” is hyperbole. The medication itself is safe, safer than paracetamol / acetaminophen. If you are saying it gave too many people false hope and they died from Covid, isn’t that the problem everywhere else without false hope? Are deaths in Australia “better” than deaths in Brazil because Ozzies didn’t attempt the same treatment?

Does ivermectin not function extremely well as a protease inhibitor? It probably doesn’t work anything for Covid, but it scientifically can prevent some viral binding despite that not being it’s primary function.

So making an educated guess wrong is one thing, having people abuse pills is another, and killing people unintentionally through criminal actions is another still.

Be rationale and reasonable. Because going overboard on accusations isn’t helping anyone nor adding to any scientific discussion.