skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A reasonable web browsing experience is no longer possible (on any browser) on machines with 8 GB of RAM or less. Horrific, but true. Either get more RAM, use something like Total Suspender to suspend inactive tabs to disk, or limit yourself to 10-15 tabs open at once (and fewer than that if you're using modern, heavy JS web applications).
I'm surprised people are now discovering Deel, Pilot, etc. The so-called "professional employer organizations" have existed for a long, long time.
LOL. Great list. Thank you. You're right about the fake bombs and Husseins. Mona Lisas is a contentious entry.

I guess fake indignation generally outperforms the authentic version too.
i've always thought the way to do this would be to combine paper based ballots with multiple counting apparatus that are operated by the competing parties and the state.

i fill out my slip and i run it through the red machine, the blue machine and the county machine. they all display a hash/sum of the total counts thus far, i verify each machine has the same thing on its display, i put my paper into the lockbox at the end and done. then when the election is over, the counts agree or they don't, and if they don't there's a big public rescanning.

of course the big threat is coercion. if one of the parties put a camera on their machine that sees me put my slip in, or they're counting ballot sequences, they can match my vote to my identity... but... since each party has representatives present to watch over their machines, they also can also check the machines of each other for those sorts of things. (ops and election watching become one and the same)

it would just be cheap document cameras and socs with open source software. totally doable, i think. you could even have like, different hardware architectures for each group if you wanted to protect against nationstate level hardware attacks.

also, i'm sure there are things in that rich literature of voting crypto that could also help with obscuring voter identity... but hey, this would be a good start.

it's not blockchain, but it takes one of the biggest ideas from cryptocurrency, i think. (double/triple entry accounting)
Since the backbone of the implementation is packed away in the library import, I felt it didn't quite show the code & variable interaction well enough.

Don't get me wrong. It is useful & concise like you mentioned. But your target audience is beginners & adopters, and it makes it no different from another framework such as Fastai (I have major gripes with them. It has a much bottled-in experience)

To be true to walkthroughs, please consider designing helper functions rather than using your framework. Admittedly it may not be as beautiful, but eventually your users will be more appreciative of the extra mile you go into making things transparent & similar to PyTorch docs.
>You're being disingenuous if you're trying to pretend that Gab and Truth Social's targeted userbase, and the political movement driving their adoption, is not the same.

I am? What makes you think that?

>The same political movement is now organizing themselves to adopt their leader's Mastodon-based social networking service, Truth Social, as the official social networking service.

Okay, but what does that have to do with accusations of hypocrisy? If marxist group #1 is complaining about getting deplatformed/supressed, and why does marxist group #2's moderation policies invalidate their concern?

>Care to point out which guidelines?

I literally quoted them.

>It's not a matter of precision, it's a matter of trying to whitewhash extremist political movements by bundling them with mainstream innocuous political groups, particularly when they have barely any ideological common ground.

Again, you're ascribing malicious intent where there isn't any. Not every commenter who mislabels that political movement is doing so as part of a conscious effort to "whitewash extremism".
Introduction to Probability for Data Science (PDF Is Free)
Now people are putting fake handles on their roll-up garage doors to make them look like a door that opens horizontally in the middle. I find it even worse than the fake shutters.
Mono developers have been part of Microsoft for some time already.

And it's unlikely that Mono will become a viable alternative, since there's a conflict of interests: Microsoft wouldn't want you running arbitrary .NET applications on Linux, they want you to buy Windows.
> 3. What does a blockchain add to (2) that no other technology does, regardless of cost?

Not defending blockchain, but this seems like an absurdly high standard. To me, the cost of a technology is definitely one factor in evaluating what is better or worse for solving a given problem.
Fixed, thanks.

You’re misrepresenting my argument.

I’m not arguing an anti-vaccine stance.

I’m arguing that forcible mandates (get it or lose your job) is a preposterous method to convince an already doubting person. Note, I’m not the person that needs convincing, I’ve already had two doses and am now actively asking when I can have a third.
Yep. Came here to say that this is a consequence of revealing too much about your private life to your co-workers.
That's a great answer, thank you :)

Stuff like vmap and grad and pmap and all the rest have been a huge boon in simplifying some of my work, so I'm glad to see it's expanding into pytorch!
GitLab team member here. We're really excited for the GitLab Operator GA [1], then new keyboard shortcut to access the Web IDE [2], and LOTS of improvements to our static code analyzers [3].

Also don't miss that two more paid features were added to the free tier of GitLab EE as part of our Registration Features Program [4].

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/10/12/open-shift-ga/

[2] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/

[3] https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/10/22/gitlab-14-4-rel...

[4] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/service_ping/index.ht...

Also big thanks to our MVP this month for adding a GREAT feature for opening remote repositories with the GitLab VSCode extension.

(edit for line breaks)
At least with printers, they currently work better on Linux than on Windows (thanks to printnightmare)
It could be norms are different but people aren't. Clearly it is an American norm to smile, but a lot of Americans complain about it. Sometime pressure to smile is interpreted as racism or sexism.

I was recently told that I only smile when I'm talking to a particular person at work. It wasn't hostile, but it did imply that I don't smile "enough" and that I haven't noticed other people smiling more.
Submitter here. You're right about the article being unrelated, but that is a mistake on my part.

Turns out HN removes ?query and #fragment from the URL. The URL I submitted was:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/amd-and-microsoft-release-fixes-for-ryzen-slowdowns-in-windows-11/?comments=1&post=40343211#comment-40343211

Sorry - I wasn't aware HN did that. I can't see any way to fix it.
If they want to keep _any_ US government business, everyone in the US needs to be vaccinated.
Was it E.T.?
I'm guessing that, especially for the earlier films, if there are a lot of outside constraints on the stories you can tell then your creative energy goes into how you are telling the story that's allowed. That's obviously an oversimplification but for many creative folks, that drive to organize the world in a new way is what constitutes their art so it has to be expressed in whatever way possible.
Given that there are sites that use fragment identifiers to encode state, and users may be including fragments mistakenly (eg. click a link in a Wikipedia page's TOC, scroll to the top, share link), figuring out what to do with some random URL submission that includes a fragment isn't straightforward.

In THEORY, when the fragment is (semantically?) significant, the site could dynamically alter the link rel="canonical" value to include the fragment such that you could check whether to keep it or not, but in practice I think that canonical links are intended for web crawler deduplication and so nearly always strip fragments off.
>(20 hours ago) ... We're seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider
the author announcement from twitter
https://twitter.com/stanley_h_chan/status/144667478689830093...
Most cheap smart TVs in North America.
happens to everyone sooner or later.
Wait, we lost it?
> where the US Constitution explicitly rejects English common law

Or another way of putting it, the U.S. Constitution codified American Common Law, which had already evolved to guarantee a right to counsel in felony cases even before the revolution. English Common Law was already heading in that direction, AFAIU (https://www.jstor.org/stable/1923146), but hadn't yet affirmed it categorically--there were still exceptions and caveats in English law at the time of the American Revolution.

In hacker terms, the Common Law is a process, not a product.

But, yeah, things are far more complex than that little slice of history, which is why I said I didn't necessarily agree with the outcome of that particular case. But it's important to distinguish what you're trying to achieve from how you're trying to achieve it. The Bill of Rights has become articles of faith, which is problematic because there are definitely ways to apply and extend it that actually subvert the underlying principles and purposes.
My health insurance is tied to my employer. I have more to risk than being disliked by building the next e-commerce platform fo r Trump Steaks.
There’s a “profiling graph executor” that records shapes and then hands them off to a fusion compiler. The profiling executor re-specializes on every new shape it sees, but stops at 20 re-specialization.

We’re working on eliminating the dependence on shape specialization right now, since it’s kind of an unfortunate limitation for some workloads.
coincidentally (but unrelated), what is this crowd's current mail hosting recommendation?

it has consistently been fastmail in the past, and i have had a great time with them over the last three years, but it's always nice to know what else is out there.

for better or worse i've also come to use fastmail for dns management (tolerable) and even for http hosting (awful, but occasionally convenient).
They make up for C's lack of namespaces. If you're not writing a compiler or OS you shouldn't be profligate with them.
It seems to me changing equilibria is precisely what allows the world to run more smoothly! Businesses coming and going, migrants moving from static societies to more prosperous ones, scientific revolutions overturning old ones, etc.

I'm not saying that change doesn't cause any local instability, but the world very frequently net improves from change when its long-term benefits outweigh its short-term costs.

It's not clear to me that several million square miles of land suddenly becoming more habitable wouldn't provide a better economic arrangement for the world 100 years from now, even when you net out the costs of people having to migrate to new areas.
Out of curiosity, is it the result of this "Ask HN": Why is YC not owning the domain Hacker News.com yet? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25375903
> Most of the interludes are not that engaging to me (whale classification chapter comes to mind),

FWIW, that is the experience of many English speakers; it's a feature, not a bug, so to speak.
the interface is clean, but it is lacking so many things. For a starter when a match is wrong there is no way to change it and when you try to manually match a movie/shows there isn't enough information on screen to make a good choice (no filename and the possible matches are all clipped).

Easiest is to run the docker command; I struggled to try to compile on Windows, which is where I keep most videos.
Fine. A strictly capitalist take on the situation: your inability to negotiate for desirable hours & wages is not the responsibility of anybody but yourself. Go work in a union if you want everybody to have the same contract.
I can’t imagine the choice of language being strongly correlated with programmer skill (it would be elitist to think so, and everybody feels best in the language they spend the most time in).

I think C) Lisp is well suited to certain applications, from what I can see, web development or niche areas where exploratory programming is required. The downside of Lisp is lack of good GUI (CAPI is the best they can offer, but this is not as good as other language implementations for various reasons) and not having the backing of Apple, Microsoft, Google or Facebook, and thus lacking in APIs.

But given its dynamic development (its a real joy), its very well suited to exploratory programming.

Web Development is an undiscovered gem for Lisp. It doesn’t face the issue of GUI / lack of APIs, since you can work directly in HTML / JS / CSS for the front end, and its a serious solution that covers servers, databases and all aspects of the stack very well. Its simply amazing (this is coming from a web developer), but I shouldn’t advertise this too much - its a secret weapon!
> My honest impression is that the developers of the software are often quite in tune with the needs and pains of the users, and the sort of "your problem is not a problem" responses lacking empathy you see are largely from other users.

Perhaps you have never perused the GNOME issue tracker then.
I somewhat agree, but with the amount of money that has already been spent on failed electronic voting systems, I think "regardless of cost" is pretty accurate here.
Exactly! A game designed around permadeath will try to keep things fresh for the player, through randomized proc-gen level design or through different character classes. Or, to put it another way, imagine Super Mario World with a single life and no saves. It would count as permadeath, but it certainly wouldn't be a roguelike. Roguelikes are designed around permadeath at their core.
HN's perception of what's going in the decentralization and crypto sphere - commonly grouped under the "web3" moniker - is startlingly out of touch. There is incredible engineering going on and I know it's hard to see past the cryptobro noise, but the cypherpunk thing we all fetishized in our early years is happening _now_, not in the 80s and 90s.
Honestly, I think that my peers without kids who work crazy hours are, simply put, suckers.

I don’t expect them to pick up slack. I expect the employer to properly staff and schedule.

If they have not learned to stand up for themselves, that’s not on me. And if they choose to work extra (like I did when I was a newbie) then that’s their freedom to.
Fastmail has been my choice for some time now.
Poached chicken is also quite nice in the right place, like Hainanese chicken rice.
Vinyl is one of those things that is at the limit of human scale but still accessible - without any power you can spin a record and “hear” it by putting your ear near the needle.

Both cassettes and CDs go out of human scale and into technology.
I was mostly highlighting how LetsDeel service is not really "selling much" for hires in Serbia — I am not sure what's the value add in other countries.

There are many ways to set up in Serbia, but for something resembling actual employment (which the topic is about), you are basically prohibited from using an entreprenuership since 2020, so you can either set up a LLC or take on a huge tax burden by self-reporting taxes.
I know one recent example: Billie Eilish's record was supposed to sound bad on vinyl because it was not mastered for the format. If it happened to her, I'm sure it happens all the time.
Here people can see how Google is a sucker for your data...
Unless these are compiled binaries it should be fairly easy to spot funny-business. Surely someone out there must do diffs on version updates to see what changed. I know that I am nosey enough to see what changes people made rather than relying on change logs. Either way it would be nice if NPM devs signed their scripts. Nothing as complex as rpm/deb packages, just corresponding .asc files might be useful for the small handful of people that validate signatures. Or if public key management is a PITA and too much friction, then even a signed manifest file on a trusted origin server vs. mirrors could be super handy. The code deployment systems could curl the manifest and at least validate the checksums of the files.
I guess the police would just force your eyes open. They would be allowed to drug you in this situation too.

The police most often use this kind of power in DUI cases where they extract your blood forceably. In the terms and conditions of your driver's licences in the USA most of them say that you agree to allow the police to do this.
If the court records are public, maybe people would be interested in reading about it?
There's no technical barrier to truncating a blockchain. Just create a new genesis block and have it initialize every account balance to the balance it held at the end of the previous block chain. You could discard all the junk data as simply as that.
Well the idea originates with John Locke and other European Enlightenment thinkers...

Locke himself was English, so it's a real shame to see the state of human rights in the UK in 2021.
Create some sort of religion around your website. The modern big religions seem to have done a decent job keeping their fixtures around for the last 2000-3000 years.
If you’re explicit about it and your manager accepts it, that becomes part of the deal.

Just as other people will take 2 hour lunch breaks every day to exercice or leave early for months to go find a new home etc.

To your point, these arrangements usually go both ways, and are compensated for instance by starting earlier or bringing some work home. But it’s far from being limited to parents.
as in government, even if you have the mythical unicorn, the actual behavior of the users is what decides what is right and will push that forward.
It's the standard tool for building Bayesian statistical models, which aren't glamorously crushing SotA records on AI-like prediction tasks, but are valuable in both academia and industry.
Nowadays it feels like the kind of thing CloudFlare would launch as it’s right up their alley.

And seems appropriate if FastMail is having DDoS issues.
How is your SEO? I can't find you on Google!! (/s)
This isn't terribly surprising when you realise that all science fiction is social/cultural commentary.
I agree. At one company my team had a new manager start and one of the first things he said to us was "if you have to work overtime I'm not doing my job properly". That attitude should be more widespread in my opinion.
YouTube is particularly addictive and damaging to children. There is very little content protection over whatever AI bullshit YouTube does.

My kids never cried for Netflix, Hulu, or Disney+, but when I banned YouTube they CRIED.
Bella DePaulo Ph.D. has been writing about this for at least 14 years now [0]. This article is actually a good summary of her thesis and perspective which is simply society is biased against single people. Her book titles include Singleism, Alone, Singled Out, and Single with Attitude.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ABella+DePaul...
I stopped this the day I had to try an emulate a DOS environment to run a simple game.
Up to a point, yes. We still have a couple of Windows 7 machines in use, partly due to having some expensive application software locked to them.

But as time passed and more of the ecosystem moved on, the limitations really started to show. As software developers, Windows 7 would now be very limited in terms of running modern tools and the latest versions of major programming languages and Linux or Mac are much better platforms today unless you're developing specifically for the Microsoft ecosystem.
Well at least they're popular enough to be targeted for ransoms or by nation states who want to shut down dissidents.
News organisations form a consortium to release new Facebook Docs on Monday
It's funny that there is a set of people who think we can't survive +2 degrees of heat but can easily be an interplanetary species surviving in Mars.
I mean why not just do that all weekend too?
I have also wondered about this a lot. If you think at a parallel - what are the websites around today that I can imagine also surviving 500 years? - the best I can come up with would be to host on an open platform with a well-established indexer; so ultimately hosting on GitHub Pages with regular caching by Archive.org's Wayback Machine
I remember back in the 80s when my BBC Micro would miss a bit it would just beep and tell you to "Rewind tape", which meant, go back about 10 seconds. And then it would figure it out from there.
The former was not sending pallets of cash to our adversaries.

Agreed that asset forfeiture should be illegal.
Hugops
Does anybody know what they actually do? I see them mentioned all the time but I don’t get it. Is it just flight information or do they do pricing analysis and other stuff
I definitely don't think it is a waste of time. I found it really fascinating to find out how a PC boots up from zero and how a very basic kernel is coded.
Project-oriented web design training video with PHP and MySQL
Well put

But given that we are all flawed and easily manipulated (on the macro) I think you might minimizing the roles these tools play when they are designed to exploit our flaws.
If you are not under arrest then all you have to do is ask to leave. When this is somehow confusing you are free to request an attorney at any time.
>Strong is not the same thing as absolute

"strong" is a modifier for "moral and ethical principles and values", not for "consistent and uncompromising adherence". If you swore to support and defend the constitution, and then subsequently violated it to torture terrorists, I doubt you'd be called a man of integrity. This applies even if your other "strong ethical values" is "protecting the american people", or that you think that "terrorists are really bad people so they totally deserve it".

>One of my strong ethical values is that neo-nazis and fascists should be deplatformed to the greatest extent possible.

I have a feeling that's not the ethical value that OP was talking about, nor was it the ethical value f-droid founders had in mind when creating it.
This is creating a black hole of buy-side pressure for any and all carbon offsets that they work with(see their documentation for which). Broadening the carbon offset market is a good thing.
I've been using https://purelymail.com/ for a few months now and found them to be excellent
I love vinyl vs. whatever threads. Rationality flies out the window and everyone spontaneously grows golden ears, except they can’t hear pops and hisses with them.
History really does repeat itself. It won't be long before Cloudflare provides email, a search engine, cloud hosting, DNS, etc. and before you know it, we have another Google!

I would much prefer multiple smaller companies that do one thing well, than a monolith that, even assuming they did everything well, has complete control over our digital lives.
I'm thinking of trying to stand up my own server on my own domain and see if I can get a good deliverability established.

It may not have better uptime than Fastmail or Gmail but it's also very unlikely to ever come under focused attack.

There's a certain resiliency in having a lot of small entities doing the same thing, compared to a handful of gargantuan ones that can take down huge user populations in an instant.
https://www.migadu.com for sure. I tried both Protonmail and fastmail and Migadu is def the my favorite
Do you remember 3 weeks to 'flatten the curve'? And its not over yet but we're 18 months in!

The virus, the treatment are transformational. They are the catalysts to technocratic governance.
And it's a requirement, or highly preferred in a lot of US jurisdictions as well.