skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little further background: I found that I end up getting too focused on putting the beginning of each paragraph on the top of my screen when reading longer articles on my phone, and after a while this takes away from the experience of reading. Therefore, if the pages behaved like any other text in an ebook reading app application, such as FBReader, reading a long piece would be much more enjoyable. I hope I'm not alone with this, and someone even has a solution for it.

Edit: typos
OffscreenCanvas isn't supported by Firefox yet. Also, if a canvas is just not attached to display it can act like offscreen canvas. Drawing on it will be much faster than on screen canvas. When you are done drawing, take the image data from offscreen canvas and draw on the live canvas.
If you want to understand how the brain works this is a good intro with some realistic neuronal network models ( spoiler: these have nothing to do with “artificial neural nets” as we know them) https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Computations-Edmund-T-Rolls/dp/...
Ah, thanks for clarifying!
Nor does it actually work. If you have a synthetic "runWarm" event, you'll trigger one concurrent lambda to stay warm. This helps if your cold start time is long and your average invoke time is short but you're just levying the cold start tax to the second concurrent user.

There's no reasonable way to keep a concurrency > 1 warm with synthetic events without negatively impacting your cold start percentage for users.

Provisioned concurrency is the correct solution and I'll remind everyone here that you can put provisioned concurrency in an autoscaling group, since the comments here seem to be saying keeping 100 lambdas warm is worse than a server that can handle 100 concurrent users (DUH!)
my US-EAST-1 is throwing 504 after login credentials submitted
For the Azure Functions consumption plan this can be mitigated to an extent by just having a keep alive function run inside the same function app (set to say a 3-5 minute timer trigger).
Update: back online!
I've had plenty of flu shots and never got a VAERS handout but I got a handout for the covid shot, I'm betting VAERS saw lots of use with the covid shot that wasn't common with other vaccines, so that has to influence the numbers.

From a gov't website:

"A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given."

I guess if you see more coverups than the average person does then you'll probably form different opinions than the average person.

Also, the "freedom marches" include many Q types I'm sure, and if folks think the Q types are reasonable people, well you know...
Termscp: A feature rich terminal UI file transfer and explorer
> If they become equal or less in price than meat, they'll go from a slightly indulgent curiosity into a viable alternative

This would only be true if it weren’t significantly worse in both taste and health risk than actual meat. I think fake meat as it exists now would have to be a lot cheaper than actual meat for most people to be willing to switch to it.
We already have put cash into the equation. There are donation buttons on many repos nowadays. Should we fight against that or should we try to make better use of it?
The status page has sections for the console and those should have been red. Multiple ones even for billing, management, etc.
I'm back online at https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com!
>>Natural Immunity and Covid-19: Twenty-Nine Scientific Studies to Share with Employers, Health Officials, and Politicians

Right, more bogus anti-vax arguments.

Yes, getting infected does provide immunity.

NO, getting infected is not better than vaccinated immunity, which is less variable, and more reliable.

NO getting infected alone is especially not better than infection+vaccination, which apparently provides the most robust immunity.

I don't have the bandwidth or time to accumulate a full list, but [1] is a good start, and then follow up with the studies in the references.

I still find it astonishing the amount of effort being put in to evade a safe, effective, convenient, and free preventative step, and even seeking this kind of noise on here. Oh well, let the downvoting frenzy begin.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7032e1-H.pdf
You don't have to suffer (subjectively) bad typography. Cascading style sheets were designed with the ability to override author styles with user styles, your Web browser has settings for this.
> I skipped the alien half of a A Fire Upon the Deep (ok, skimmed) and missed nothing

You mean you still liked the book. Hard to know whether you missed something if you skipped or skimmed it. I read this over 10 years ago but the aliens are what I remember most
When you double battery production over 5 years prices go down not up. It’s a function of economies of scale.

It’s one of the major reasons EV ranges keep increasing the batteries are less expensive.
The best cold starts are those which aren't noticed by the user. For my blog search (which runs on Lambda), I found a nice way of achieving that [1]: as soon as a user puts the focus to the input field for the search text, this will already submit a "ping" request to Lambda. Then, when they submit the actual query itself, they will hit the already running Lambda most of the times.

And, as others said, assigning more RAM to your Lambda than it actually may need itself, will also help with cold start times, as this increases the assigned CPU shares, too.

[1] https://www.morling.dev/blog/how-i-built-a-serverless-search...
I mean, there's no question that he chose to branch out from strictly hard-core AI researchers. And I don't watch every episode, so I may have missed some of the "bad" ones, but from what I've seen, most of his interviewees are still respected / credible scientists, with a smattering of "other" mixed in here and there. In the past month or so he's had Jeffrey Shainline[1], Travis Oliphant[2], Jay McClelland[3], Douglas Lenat[4], Donald Knuth[5] and Joscha Bach[6] as guests. That's a pretty impressive group, IMO.

[1]: https://www.nist.gov/people/jeff-shainline

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Oliphant

[3]: https://stanford.edu/~jlmcc/

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Lenat

[5]: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/

[6]: http://bach.ai/
Isn't this what magnet links for torrent files have provided for years? Maybe even a decade?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme
its working now, from peru
Does anybody know if alternatives like GrapheneOS + microG mitigate these issues? Or should I just switch back to a 2005 flip phone at this point?
Canvas is one of the only web APIs that's simple enough to understand in one reading, yet flexible enough to be a real application primitive — and that's because it wasn't originally designed for the web, but was simply a lightweight wrapper around CoreGraphics for Apple's Dashboard in Mac OS X.

Maybe Apple should have provided an NSView wrapper too, with a drawRect() method to draw into a canvas, and made DOM elements part of that view tree. That would have been a much simpler API for web components than what the committees came up with.
Hey vanderZwan, we have a paper in the collection (there’s 17 brain atlas papers in this issue of Nature) on human, marmoset and mouse motor cortex (my group did the human). I think it’s cool that pretty much all the cell types could be aligned between those species, which diverged 90 million years ago.

Our full human brain cell type atlas is work in progress but hopefully we’ll post the preprint early next year.

(Edit) Direct link to the papers, which are all open access: https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/598/issues/7879
And they now show a "temporary unavailable" message:

https://i.ibb.co/Rc94RHz/Screenshot-from-2021-10-12-11-39-38...
I use GraphineOS and LineageOS without Google Play Services. They are great and are suitable replacements for Apple and Google.

- Osmand(FOSS) for maps (supports being fully offline!)

- Signal and Discord for messaging (Discord is sandboxed)

- Newpipe(FOSS) for Youtube

- F-droid(FOSS) for my FOSS appstore

- APKmirror for the few non-free apps I need

- Libretorrent(FOSS) and VLC(FOSS) for watching movies

- Firefox(FOSS) and Vanadium(FOSS) for browser

- K9 Mail(FOSS) for email

- Infinity(FOSS) for Reddit

- Secur(FOSS) for 2FA

- Taskkeeper(FOSS) for reminders

Almost everything you need is in the F-droid FOSS app repository. It all works, and it works well. You can buy a used Pixel 3a for around $80 on Ebay and have a better experience in every category than iOS, hardware and software.
Agreed. Look elsewhere, for people with shared interests. Don't tie your social circle to work. It makes it harder to leave the job and allows the company to take greater advantage of you.
Keep in mind you can run EKS in aws to get K8S in a fully managed package as well.
I think you can switch back to east-1 when you get to the service you are wanting to look at.
> Fusion ignition is the point at which a nuclear fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining. This occurs when the energy being given off by the fusion reactions heats the fuel mass more rapidly than various loss mechanisms cool it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_ignition
I also find it delicious that despite the Twitter mob's continued outrage his special is kicking ass.

If more people would just ignore the Twitterati we'd all be a lot better off.
rehashing old news that no 3rd party independent facility can verify since NIF is the only site in the world with such a device . . . .
So sick of seeing lazy journalists lumping the “razor” style electric scooters that you can fold up and carry with one hand with the “Vespa” types like the Revel scooters that literally weigh 10 times as much and can travel 2-3 times faster. Last year when that actress was killed she was hit by a motorcycle that happened to have an electric motor but all the news media showed stock video footage of Bird-type scooters anytime they covered the story.

Also missing here is how many New York pedestrians are killed each year by cars.
Inertial confinement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion
The thing is, CRC is the "cheap" trick.

The "expensive" trick is to go full Reed Solomon error correction if you really care about data (aka: RAID5, RAID6, etc. etc.)... which is built up from the same theory as CRCs except more comprehensive at errors (fulfilling error correction as well).

> If you want to decide which is the acceptable error detection length, the best way would be to make a simulation, with random data of the expected length to which various random errors having the expected number should be applied. Then you can test the alternative error detection codes to see whether they detect the errors or not.

If that error is uniformly random, then a 128-bit sum is optimal and no different than 128-bit hash.

The reason we have this debate at all, is because different groups of people make different assumptions about the distribution of errors.

EDIT: I think it is reasonable to assume that burst-errors would occur on a storage medium: perhaps per-sector (Hard Drive) or per-block (SSD). Reed Solomon when applied to RAID assumes that an entire hard drive fails all at once and all together, for example.

As such: the key when discussing checksums / error detection / error correction is figuring out exactly how errors occur, and what to do about them (aka: detect vs correct).

The more modern schools of thought are to force errors to look as random as possible (hash and LDPC), while older schools of thought are to analyze the nature of errors and focus on them (CRC and Reed Solomon)
> Plus the natural instinct to resist whenever pushed.

And there it is..you are still an adolescent who never fully matured emotionally. Glad we could get to the root of it.
Facebook whistleblower behind major leak is going to testify in Europe
>I'm saying that more people have died from Covid after being vaccinated than have died from Covid after having gained natural immunity. Meaning they survived the first infection, got infected again, and then died from that second infection.

Can you cite nay sources for that conclusion?
Not following what your point is here? I'm not promoting metrics. I'm just saying we should allow lifting up the whole software supply chain for donation driven projects.
Perhaps look into Developer Advocacy. You get generate a lot of educational material, interact with your potential customers(developers) "socially" and who knows make vital connections?
People already listed:

- security against backdoors

- validating build environment

- reproducing bugs

But there's more:

- legal liabilities: many bad build systems pull trees of dependencies from the Internet during the build. How can you prove that no license breaching occurred in any of the dependencies? Debian explicitly verifies licensing in each package.

- prevent pulling dependencies from deleted (or hijacked!) repositories on the Internet

- reproduce performance improvements: non reproducible builds can often lead to non reproducible performance. Even things like the length of the local hostname can leak into a binary and affect memory alignment.
That wasn't working 5 minutes ago. us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com is back online now! I think we're in the clear.
Maybe the problem with posting this instead of the original project is akin to posting a homebrew formula github repo instead of the actual tool. However many projects now use github as a way to have canonical paths to stuff so here we are. You need to host the wrappers somewhere right?
I have never understood this meme of "without oil we'll return to pre-industrial society", it seems like a pretty self serving narrative created by the oil and gas industry.

In reality human history is littered with energy crises. At various times and places society has faced risks due to insufficient energy. Before the industrial revolution, deforestation represented a risk in some places, as did over-whaling for oil. Rather than just returning to slave labor to power everything, we found new energy sources and kept developing new technology. In the past this involved coal and eventually oil, but going forward this could easily be renewables or nuclear. Pretending that the lack of oil exploitation means the end of industrial society is a very myopic view of human society and technology production.
In chemistry at least, there's a lot of PhD's and they might take until 28-30 to get out of school particularly if p-docs are involved. 23 is like a 2nd-year grad student or non-chemist software specialist in this universe (or, occasionally, both).
Sounds a lot like BitTorrent.
It takes a certain culture and way of working for staff to be able to safely experiment with new technologies or new product ideas. I prefer to build teams where learning and experimentation are aligned with business objectives.

However, this approach doesn't work for everyone or for every business. There are many successful risk-averse businesses staffed by folks working ticket queues.

In the end, it's about the culture. An autodidact will struggle in a ticket mill. A ticket puncher will struggle in a skunkworks.
The CPU is a peripheral ;-)

(See Slide 5): https://papers.put.as/papers/firmware/2014/2014-10_Breakpoin...
Funny how this story gets posted after soon after Dr Sabine Hossenfelder's debunking and deflate the fusion power hype - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY

with a genuine Hans Gruber accent :)
Also the some teeth are getting drawn in front of the lips and the pupils are not round. I think the not-round pupils make the eyes point two different directions, kinda unsettling.

https://nvlabs-fi-cdn.nvidia.com/stylegan3/images/stylegan3-...

https://nvlabs-fi-cdn.nvidia.com/stylegan3/images/stylegan3-...
...which begs the question: shouldn't those be built independently as shared libraries to avoid rebuilding the world?
Slightly off topic:

I love tinkering with Medium URLs

Here's four URls that all work

https://kgizdov.medium.com/the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50ea...

https://kgizdov.medium.com/@the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50e...

https://kgizdov.medium.com/@@the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50...

https://kgizdov.medium.com/@@@the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e5...

They exclude the `@` for some reason
Not your keys not your account.
I agree that if you're solo you can definitely break away from these spaces. But I think it's hard to do that with group travel, because those spaces are attractive to a lot of people who are digital nomads for exactly the reasons I don't like those spaces. Somewhat ironically, if you spend most of your time nomading in more major cities, it makes it easier to escape the typical because the city is large enough you can just avoid it, but when what you coined as "bro-mads" invade smaller spaces it's much harder to escape, just by virtue of being a foreigner you will likely encounter them at some point.

FWIW, I found that the digital nomads I got along the best with were continental European. I pretty much can't stand Americans, the British, and Australians when I'm traveling (even though I'm American myself). For some reason most Americans, British, and Australians go into every experience by comparing it to where they come from and judging it by that standard and expecting so much and in ways I find disrespectful. Also, it's shocking how loud and obnoxious and how obsessed with "partying" those demographics are. I'm not a teetotaler, but if all you do is spend every waking moment getting plastered in a night club, how does one location really differ from another? If you just want to spend your life being shithoused, you can do that at home without invading other spaces with your destructive energy. Part of my experiences might have been because digital nomads from those countries skew young (early 20s), most of the Europeans I met were older (30+).

At any rate, I invested myself into the experience, and I loved solo travel but group experiences really soured me on the "digital nomad lifestyle" and the sort of people who see themselves that way. And for my own ego issue, I think partly I was annoyed by being judged on the basis of how others behave rather than how I behave. Nonetheless, I found the experience rewarding and met lots of amazing people I've kept in touch with and I hope left each place I visited enriched by my presence rather than diminished by it.
What ? You mean Zuckerberg's "hit squad" has not taken her out yet ? Amazing . . .
Netflix suspends three employees who crashed an execute meeting
Definitely on this boat. CalyxOS feels like it strikes a good balance between security/privacy and practical usability--the locked bootloader and app-specific firewall options are a huge plus, while MicroG ensures that I can still use every app I used to with the old Pixel-specific OS without ceding all of my data to Google Play Services.

Invariably people bring up the signature spoofing needed for MicroG as some huge security hole, but from what I've seen it's really a non-issue--CalyxOS has tight restrictions to specifically allow only MicroG to use this, it's disabled for any other app.
I'm not a fan of this post as it seems to be pointing the blame at the wrong thing: the problem isn't the shiny new thing, it's the environment that allowed the situation to develop: people working in isolation, key decisions being made by individuals in private, lack of oversight.

There are plenty of arguments in favour of allowing teams to use shiny new tech. Done responsibly, it can help with engagement, job satisfaction, retention, and recruitment.
I haven't yet seen an upper limit with a Zoom seminar (you just have to coordinate with them in advance for large events) but there may indeed be one.

It would be interesting to see the actual numbers that end up attending it live.

And you can always record the zoom and put it up on something like YouTube, Rumble, Bitchute, etc. afterwards. Pretty hard to cancel ALL of those services.
Thats all fine, but we're talking about white nationalists...they're not exactly nuanced about culture. To white nationalists, whiteness is all that matters, and if we just kicked out all of the non-white people, we could participate in this enthocentric utopian fantasy that they have. Nevermind the fact that almost every ethnostate that has ever existed has had civil wars and irreconcilable differences. Hell, our own country is the result of some members of a homogenous ethnostate moving to get away from that state, and ultimately waging war against it.
High Salary Leads to Burnout. Unobvious Career Trap No One Is Talking About
A developer with low salary and monotonous work is likely to end up burned out, it’s obvious. Yet what about overpaid workers with no relevant skills or experience? In fact, it’s much more dangerous: euphoria from big money turns into boredom from boring tasks and jealousy towards peers in other companies who are involved in cool projects and challenging goals. Yet one can hardly give up all that money for this adrenaline. Where’s the exit? - read in our blog post.
What might have happened is they were open while you started checkout and then closed after. I’ve had this happen many times. They need to handle this better in the UI.
Looks like its back
This is correct. iOS snapshots the app as soon as it's moved into the background, and that snapshot is what you see. When you bring up the switcher, the foreground app isn't backgrounded yet — that only happens if you go to the home screen or actually switch apps.
Keep in mind the bandwidth is pretty limited. Even a single page view takes a fair amount of data these days.

However, signed packets do not violate the HAM rules, and is pretty common. People controlling systems (like repeaters) can ssh to them, with encryption disabled (there are patches), but still using signatures to avoid worries about packet modifications.

js8call for instance can do "mesh" networking, but the bandwidth is a few 10s of bytes per minute. But you can send messages through multiple hops to allow things like getting messages through to people you can't directly contact.
As long as people keep giving them money this will keep going on.
TS has been around long enough that it suffers from the 'obsolete tutorial' problem (one I first observed learning C++): many of the utility types didn't exist when many of the popular tutorials were first written.
This is resolved now
Consider it lucky Magpie is using Rust. Imagine if instead rewrite it in JS with they new shinny frameworks...
Very interesting! I've just moved into a consulting role and am discovering that it is very much like this. If you don't mind me asking, may I ask for some general advice?

Would like to know if there are there any people / resources that helped you out in this role? Or even any general guidance you could give someone just starting out? Also - out of interest - what is it you do now?
The problem of having no capital to build a team yet needing a team to raise
Hearty congratulations. I am very happy for her.

I am more familiar with her older work on ranking and boosting. I do not have any technical commentary to add, just a personal anecdote that she is one of the nicest, warmest person that I have met. I wish her well with utmost sincerity.
The article talked about the brain because the researchers talked about the brain and they aren't modest about what they say they discovered. Blame the scien(ce/tists) not the journalist if the conclusion is disagreeable.

> Douglas Hofstadter asserts that human thought entirely depends on analogy. In describing analogy, he says, “we build concepts by putting several concepts together and putting a membrane around them, and kind of miraculously these [interior] concepts disappear." Hofstadter also noticed that analogy could be achieved using the Ising model.

> In one study, a human brain was scanned and compared to the 2D Ising model — it found that at the Ising model’s critical point, the two systems were indistinguishable from each other in all relevant statistical properties.