skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably depends on the specific application, but I would imagine the models/data that various devices in the field are using are probably updated as part of some periodic maintenance schedule. They don't change significantly enough or quickly enough to demand online updates that frequently, but I suppose every device manufacturer/maintainer has their own way of doing it for whatever reasons they might have.

In my own work, I've downloaded the dataset from NOAA and their tools to parse and work with this data to generate my own global 1-degree by 1-degree by 1-year "grid" for magnetic declination [0], along with some code [1] to read this data and be able to give you an estimated value for magnetic declination for any position on the globe for any time instant between 2020 and 2025. Before 2025, I will probably need to download the new data, run the tools again, and update my own dataset (to include values for 2025-2030 or whatever the case may be), but this will definitely be a manual process.

[0] https://github.com/ls4096/sailnavsim-core/blob/master/compas...

[1] https://github.com/ls4096/libproteus/blob/v0.6.2/include/pro...
Say goodbye to any semblance of performance and/or good power management, though.
UTF-8 dates back to 1992.

http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_utf8_history.html
I should think the types of direct action needed against crypto scams are pretty straightforward, but I also think site policy largely prevents me from elaborating on them here.
Yes, auto-closing an issue waiting on external feedback that hasn't happened is a great thing. Unfortunately GitHub isn't set up for that at all — there's no easy configuration to do that; instead the easy thing is to close based on inactivity without considering who the issue is waiting on.

You essentially need to have a label ("needs user feedback") that isn't applied by default, have the stale bot only act on issues with that label, and get that label cleared automatically on any comment. I don't think that last part is doable without your own custom bot.
> First, if you can’t measure conversions and tie them back to advertising, then how can you know if it’s effective?

I don't think Coca Cola needed attribution to know their ads were effective in 1900, maybe we should ask them?

> Second, if you can’t measure effectiveness how to A/B test your approach?

You can still use either time, geographical or UA-based AB testing without requiring attribution

> Finally, without labeled data how you train ML models?

Are you saying the final objective of tracking is actually to feed AGI as most data about our world as possible? That's an interesting point of view, I never thought about ML modeling as an end-goal.
The last decade has produced very few significant technological jumps in my opinion. Electric vehicles have been around for over a century and the iterations on devices has been largely targeted toward better cameras so people can take selfies to post on the ubiquitous social networks.

The mRNA technology is interesting but unproven as we are seeing with the relative ineffectiveness of the Covid vaccines.

Software technology has been largely focused on new iterations of web frameworks and languages that target the young developers du jour who think that 5 year old frameworks are old school.

Mainly, small iterations of the same stuff is what has been dominating the technology space the last decade. My guess is that we are poised for some interesting new technologies, since it has been a largely ho-hum period for the last decade.

If only the efforts could be focused more toward actually making our lives better instead of focusing only on scraping our lives and diverting our eyes for the benefit of mega tech corporations and their wannabe startups.
It depends on how that limiting will work. Ideally you still want relatively fast speeds on interstate type roads while much lower speeds on city streets. So it's not as simple as using the existing limiting feature and dropping it to 20mph (unless we want that to be the max speed everywhere). We would need a different, flexible framework.
Causal looks great -- any plans to ship an offline version?
I'm hardly the strongest guy in the world but that doesn't listen exactly seem like a very strenuous effort. Am I missing something? Hell I'd probably just keep everything Ina chest freezer in the garage or shed year round located on an external wall
Is your business part of Stripe's 'High risk businesses' category? https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses That includes services like remote technical support or telemarketing. I remember a HN user complaining who ran a service to create fake phone numbers.
Tow Charging a Tesla at 70MPH
The main thing with kids is to keep them alive
A deranged conspiracy theory, just like all the wackos that believed the NSA was spying on everyone or that COVID leaked from a medical lab
I dont have a PhD in crypography and am not sure I will do a good enough job in covering even potential mid-level vulnerabilities. I still care about privacy and so use Signal.
So then what is your solution to this?
My point is that the walled garden is the competitive advantage.

A law like this could regulate businesses out of existence.

Which websites fall under it? Only social? What about forums, etc. What if the companies just rebase to non-US jurisdictions? Even if you make this law, it's unlikely it would actually compel anyone to comply.
That's a good point. Scale changes law enforcement capabilities.
It’s an extreme example but there are actually thousands of people who would want utilities connected to remote locations. The land is cheap.
A classic from the 60s, worth watching (I'm from the 80s). Starring Patrick McGoohan. Obligatory link [1]. "Quote: The final episode, "Fall Out", received a Hugo Award nomination for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1969." This specific episode also has its own Wikipedia entry, [2].

A quote from that article: "There are numbers here, there are no names, so you can't expect it to end like James Bond, so you have to have an allegorical ending. Now (...) what is the most evil thing on earth? Is it jealousy? Is it hate? Is it revenge? Is it the bomb? What is it? When one really searches it's only one thing, it's the evil part of oneself that one is constantly fighting until the moment of our demise. The Jekyll and Hyde if you like, but on a much larger scale." —Patrick McGoohan. Which reminds me of Sad But True by Metallica.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_Out_(The_Prisoner)
Meditating on the six dhyanas (or "janas") is a kind of single-pointed concentration. One of the side-effects is supposedly "bliss" (sukha). It's strong medicine, and if it works, it will alter your mind - that's what it's for.

I have to say I've never tried it; I was warned off it.

If you're doing it for the bliss, your motivation is wrong, and you are at risk of vanity and playing power-games with people. If that happens, you will suffer harm.

If you were asking why I think religion is not for children, well: I think tales about fairies, angels and Santa Claus are not for children. I don't think you should lie to children, nor encourage them to subscribe to superstitious beliefs. By "children", I mean anyone with underdeveloped critical faculties. I read fairy stories to my kids, at bedtime; but I didn't pretend they were true.

Some religious systems present very interesting ways of looking at the world, the mind, and morality. But it's like hard drugs; it affects your mind and your relationships, and not necessarily for the better. I think that tangling with a religious system should only be done with care, and under appropriate supervision. The matter of how to choose a suitable spiritual mentor is an unsolved problem.
At first, I thought the article was about oxidizing chips.
A Github issue for OpenZFS I was following for a year was recently closed via stale bot. I just assumed the feature was dead, however on Twitter (yesterday) they announced the feature's author was giving a talk about implementing it, so I guess it's back on!

I personally wish issues weren't auto-closed as it can give the wrong (i.e. feature is dead) impression, however I know popular OSS maintainers get a TON of issue requests and are doing a work of love.

So, thank you OSS maintainers, you the real MVP.

P.S. For those interested, the issue[1] is NVMe performance for OpenZFS[2]

[1] https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/8381

[2] https://twitter.com/OpenZFS/status/1452762896769953795
Two weeks ago an Israeli hospital was hit by ransomware:

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/hillel-yaffe-hospital-ta...

Assuming a particular attribution, it wouldn't be fantasy to assume this is payback. Or it could be anything else. For all we know, the regime has a fuel shortage and wants to cover it up with a 'cyber attack'.
You're taking a saying too literally.

People who take on task of writing such library, and develop it to the point it's a language-wide standard, usually know what they're doing (or learn on the job :)

Popularity of such library helps test it thoroughly on many platforms in various conditions, so there's a high chance the bugs will be spotted and fixed.
This should really read FAANG.

They all seem to have embraced methods and techniques that seem questionable at best.

Netflix maybe getting a bit of a pass by virtue of not truely being in the personal info game
UTf-8 in Plan9 is from 1992.
If anyone hasn't played the game Dune, it is definitely worth checking out - if only to watch a Let's Play on YouTube.

It's not really an RTS a la the more famous Dune 2, but a sort of adventure/strategy mix. The appeal, though, is just in how luscious it is. It's a bit dizzying, beautiful (remarkably so, for the era), and full of soul in a way that few games of the era were. The Adlib Gold soundtrack in particular remains an amazing work of art too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUfGyfbzl9k
I don't think they were hinting it was the US.
Not that this is a reputable source, but https://fingerprintjs.com/blog/browser-fingerprinting-techni... suggests that fingerprinting a media device requires the site to have camera permissions. Which is also what I would expect. But perhaps I’m just too hopeful
You're hindering your project because you don't want people getting upset with you. Sounds like you don't realize that, if you're acting in good faith, it's their fault they get upset, and it's nothing but harmful towards yourself to even care about something like this.

This behavior, among other things, makes skimming through existing issues far less useful to anyone not actively working on the project. Which in turn leads to much worse new issue reports.
Are there specific areas where you would expect to see greater adoption at this point on the curve? "Mainstream" adoption of a brand-new language takes time, and it's still early on the curve for Rust.

If anything, the hype-train might make it seem like it's a more mature ecosystem than it really is. The questions to ask are, what's causing the hype, and does the product deliver.
how can they kill it?
It's based on MTurk? That's even more embarrassing than reddit. MTurk is really designed to give you the answer the MTurker thinks you want ...
Show HN: A tool to send notifications on GitHub star events to Slack
Interesting read. I wonder if this is only some bandwidth optimization to throw more hardware at the problem or an actual shift in perspective, ref no NaN/Inf, instead clamps to maxval. Could this introduce artifacts/will math libs need to code around this, or will this enable some new insight?
YouTube premium removes ads. If you watch an hour or more of his videos you’ll realize he’s an extremely cautious creator and knows what he’s doing.
Roku Is Making It Easy for Advertisers to Target You While You Stream TV
Ask HN: The current state of Mesh Networking?
I'm a layman with very little knowledge about large scale and wide area mesh networking. I was hoping the good folks here at HN can explain to me what types of mesh networking exists, what problems and what successes they have. Is it possible to use a mesh network as an internet connection? Are there any large scale installations with documentation and stats? Are we forever "roughly 10 years away" from a good solution?

Thank you for your time.
If you're building condos, you aren't in a rural area.

In my rural area, everyone ground mounts because space is cheap. I'm a volunteer firefighter and so far none of the trainings have mentioned solar (venting roofs yes). But then, we joke that we'll arrive just in time to put out your foundation.
It's also influenced by previous answers in the same session

Killing "wrong"

Killing if it creates jobs "okay"

Killing if it creates jobs for women "wrong"

Killing if it creates jobs "wrong"
I was thinking about this the other day. Its been a long time since anything meaningful was invented.

The last thing i can think of was the internet. Maybe cell phones. There's probably a bunch of medical stuff, but I'm not well versed in that area.

I mean real inventions. Things that didn't exist. Like light bulbs, or automobiles, or steam engines, or rockets, or jet travel. It seems like the era of real invention petered out in the 1950's to 1970's.

Now things like social media and ad targeting and viral videos are somehow considered innovation. Even the one recent thing I'm impressed by - commercial space flight - is just an iteration of something that already existed.
Can concur. I submitted a couple of pull requests that fix bugs. I addressed all the issues the maintainer pointed out, and then the maintainer went silent for 2 months. Every 2 weeks I spammed the thread in order to chase away the auto-close bot.
You are of course right.

(I unfortunately don't understand much of the French language.)
Frozen food is supposed to stay below 0 F (-18 C) [1]. It will be cold outside, but it probably isn't going to stay below 0 F all day every day. For example, the average January high in Timmins, Ontario is +13 F.

1: https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/safe-food...
When their political opinions are opposite to mine
I'm sure it's relatively easy for someone experienced with programming. I wrote the program back when I was learning Swift for the first time. There's a lot of counterintuitive shapes and graphics and knowledge you need. It's not linear algebra "difficult", but it does accumulate, until you're wondering why you're spending so much time drawing rectangles over text.

I enjoyed the project, but it was definitely rife with a lot of strange behavior layered on top of each other.

And Apple Documentation is a bit of a nightmare and basically useless in most cases.
Real interest rates are the growth rate in the overall economy, which doesn't change much or at least shouldn't in the absence of a crash and recession. For a country getting much above the world economy growth rate is a short term thing that doesn't last. You hit oil (norway) Your capital stock was low (post ww2 germany & japan, pre economic liberalization of china) but you have an educated and entrepreneurial population and you can catch up fast by investing, then reinvesting in capital. Then it tails off when you get back to parity).

The world economy growth rate is set by population growth and technical progress. (Both new technology and new ways developed to use existing tech better).

>Bond interest rates already price in expected inflation.

Look at the incredible growth in the S&P500 during a pandemic with all the economic carnage going on with that vs the bond rates. Then if you still think so, bet so, but against my strongest feelings, which are obviously not any kind of investment advice. There are cashflow timing tax effects to consider there as well. Bond returns are depressed by central bank policy and some capital is forced to allocate there when its a bad deal. (Pension funds mandated to invest in bonds and nothing "risky" like equity). Look at the number of ways an investment in bonds can surprise on the downside. Look at the lack of room with interest rates where they are to surprise on the upside. Unanticipated inflation is a redistribution from lenders to borrowers (can pay it back with worthless currency while the asset it bought appreciates). It's always "unanticipated" in most of the yield curve when it hits.

20 Year US Govt Bond yield is 2.07% sayeth the search engine [1]. That's anticipating basically no inflation at any point for the next 20 years and a 2%ish economic growth rate in the economy. Seem like a reasonable assumption? Bond income (coupon payment) is taxable as you get it. Capital appreciation of equity isn't taxable until you sell it. In times of inflation that really matters and causes you to make a small fortune out of a bigger one.

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/20_year_treasury_rate
It’s a lot harder to jam (multiple) radio frequencies than it is to cut off (even physically) a smaller number of internet uplinks. And if transmissions start hopping around to different frequencies, then you have to keep actively jamming them. Cutting off internet access is (largely) a one-time only situation.
Because your own service is not an alternative if you actually need to secure-message others because of the line of work you're in, or the regime you're under. The idea that "just do it yourself" is more secure than a company that can't just be walked into and have their computers taken without it causing a huge problem for everyone from your mom to heads of state is a bit naive.
Fraunhofer testing solar powered electric truck on public roads
Yeah. Apparently:

Stealing bread if I'm poor
- It's okay

Stealing bread from a millionaire if I'm poor
- It's wrong

Stealing bread from a duck if I'm poor
- It's wrong

Stealing bread from a homeless man if I'm poor
- It's okay

Dismembering a robot
- It's wrong

Dismantling a robot
- It's okay

(I could play with this all day though - very interesting work!)
Wow, thank you so much to share this follow-up video. I watched it today. My heart goes out to him. He is trying to be emotionally naked in front of an Internet audience about serious quality of life issues for OTR truckers.

He mentioned the intensity was simply too high. It's an "all or nothing" job. Honestly, when I first posted, I wasn't aware how griding the job is. I'm glad I watched this follow-up video.

What if trucking companies offered to allow two truckers to split the schedule? Then, it is up the pair to work it out. I feel the same about people who quit their office careers early for emotional labour -- family care. Many of them could easy return to their old role in 50% capacity, and split with another person. I know it could be done, but management has no interest.
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2021) review: a bigger and better book
You can run Synapse on a cheapo VPS for <$5/month; it doesn't exactly require much.
I think their point is you only need compiler barriers not actual barrier instructions on x86. volatile in practice has been the de facto way to get the effect of a compiler memory barrier for a long time even though it's not the best way to do it nowadays. The original purpose of it is literally preventing the compiler from getting rid of loads and stores and reordering them which is exactly what is needed when implementing a lockless FIFO. As long as all the stores and loads (including the actual FIFO payload) are volatile, it will work (volatile loads and stores are guaranteed to not be reordered with each other). After that the x86 guarantees about not reordering are very strong. Really the best argument against volatile for this kind of thing is actually the opposite of your point, volatile is too strong. It prevents more reordering than you actually want. Acquire/release semantics are less strong and give the compiler more flexibility.
If we can also get Slack in there ...
Why do you need to “check them” in the first place though?

And yes, I can understand that for some people the inability to easily transfer and collect those conversations is a problem, but for many people (imo probably more people) the ephemeral nature of these messages is a feature, not a problem to be solved. At least that’s why I use Signal over Messenger, for example.
Eating more than one chicken at a sitting is probably a bit much. :)
Another place it's meaningful to use `volatile` is in benchmarking and testing: to either ensure that a block of code is run despite not having any side effects, or to ensure that a block of code that should not be run is still compiled and emitted to binary.

But yes, `volatile` for what should be atomics is a clear code smell. I made quite a loud noise when I read "the code quality looks excellent" in the article.
That was a great game. “Atomics!”
Good point; it would be interesting to calculate how many atoms per second disintegrate in, say, one gram of the "relatively stable" U-238 - my guess is, quite a few!
Let's say that my grandmother lived in times where the radiation was too much "mainstream":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fun-and-uranium-for-the-whole-fami...

and they was really close to create a world you can see in Fallout, the game:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
What about "creamy Dutch potato"? :)
Does that mean Photoshop is finally going to be supported on Linux?
> Why would FB sending messages that are sent encrypted (not e2e) and stored on US servers allow China to read messages?

Not parent, but I think the idea is that if BigCo does business in CountryA , then CountryA's government invariably forces BigCo to spy on their users who are residents.

Obviously compromising the user's device is a workaround open to governments but hard to achieve in bulk.
Markets are always either overly optimistic or pessimistic. Looks like max pessimism to me now
but not to me, and that's all that matters. (just expanding the idea) those consequences are not my problem as I did not build up a business model whose core depends on a 3rd party existing.

This is my key point. Someone created a business that in order for it to be relevant requires a 3rd party to do something in their favor. There's never a guarantee that will remain in effect. Not building a contigency plan because you've never done a proper what-if session is just absolutely bonkers. I get the forest through the trees aspect of the people building the thing, but this is exactly the type of thing the C suite and board members are supposed to be thinking about. All eggs in one basket has been a corporate no-no for a long long time (at least for the smart ones). Don't put your entire C suite on the same flight type of stuff.
Smartphone camera tech finds new life as automotive Lidar rival
Comparisons with 19th and 20th century events are tricky since the scales are vastly different. Without industrialized agriculture and modern healthcare, today's population would be difficult to feed and keep healthy.
"Roads in the US are too straight and too wide to force drivers to be more deliberate in how they drive."

I guess it depends. Most pedestrians are in cities or towns. The roads there may be straight, but not necessarily wide.

I'm also not sure how a road being straight and wide is a negative. Making them more narrow and winding is arguably less safe. Even if people reduce their speed, you present new issues of reduced line of sight, decreasing available reaction time. You also have reduced performance (braking on a turn vs straight).

Many areas do have some speed bumps. Mostly these are residential or near crosswalks.
I've seen your project! Congrats, it is very nice.
I stopped fiddling with transports because signald doesn't compile/run on freebsd (some of the java libs behind it rely on native libs which have problems compiling), and for now I've put it aside.
> I don't think we should be the ones that make the decision

Is Admiral Poindexter a preferable decision-maker?

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