skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel your excitement and wish it were true. I'm even building a game to leverage this newly supported tech. The good news is that the tech works really really well and is very performant in the browser. You can do a lot of cool stuff!

The bad news is that it's not the tech that is holding back web based game dev. It's the users. Market research and testing has shown that users dislike "just playing" a game in the browser. This is particularly true in the AAA segment that webassembly and its perf gains would best serve.

Players who play the high profile games that web assembly would allow you to make games for (think Fortnite, CS:GO, etc) all want to play games from a trusted download from a trusted store, not some random website. Please note, random is used very loosely here to mean "any store/website that isn't Apple Store, Play Store, Xbox Live, PSN, or Steam".

I foresee that we'll need some major player with a big game like Fortnite, Roblox or Mojang to spearhead using web deployed games before we'll see anything happen in this space. The existing "install to disk and play" is working just fine and game devs don't really see any reason to change that.

The other major thing is that most "slightly" big games (even smaller mobile ones) have assets in the minimum size of 4-10 GB of data. Even if you can render the game in browser, you have to download those assets. Yes, of course you can "load only what you need" but for many many games (source: my wife is a game designer and I'm a game programmer/web dev) that still entails at least 1 GB of data that would need to be loaded and is difficult to cache client side in the browser.
Yeah at first glance this service's rollout seems terrible. You are dogged all through the checkout process with dark patterns and threats that your device will cost more while doing less if you don't subscribe... why would I buy this at all then?
I'd like to mention a thought I had some time ago regarding the idea of using a byte FP format for ML training: instead of describing a byte in a sign/mantissa/exponent format, it might be advantageous to map the byte the 256 possible FP values, using a lookup table, to ideally chosen values. The curve implemented could be a sigmoid curve, for example. This would reduce quantization effects, likely not only resulting in a better convergence, but consistently so.

Maybe it would be necessary to adjust the curve to facilitate the reverse lookup, and reduce the time and silicon needed.
It takes money to make large scale changes that involve vast efforts and highly specialist careers to develop and deploy new technology into other areas? Stop the presses!
I guess we had better quit while we are ahead - only rich companies could ever afford computers and it wouldn't be fair to continue development when we could just pay millions of human calculators instead.

Seriously the mentality is wrong on every level.
Zuck is Ugly. The press won't let you forget it
In some areas, there is both, but it requires having a correctly installed automatic disconnect, that cuts you off from the grid if the grid loses power.

Many/Most home solar installations do not correctly install one, which can be dangerous to linemen.
I stand corrected, that's a useful template project. Thanks for linking!
Maybe. Depends on if you agree/disagree with the wider market on the inherent problems with BABA and more specifically the relative insecurity/danger of Chinese government intervention.

I previously held BABA. I exited at roughly break-even. Furthermore, I won't re-enter for the same reason I exited, the Chinese government can and have ruined Chinese-born companies at the flick of a pen.

I think BABA has a good business. If the Chinese government leaves it alone it would be a great investment, but the more influential BABA is the less likely that seems.

PS - Plus do the risks and gains actually balance? The risk could be as much as your entire investment, and the returns are far lower than that.
> The problem with the David Lynch version was it was so edited and short that key scenes were missing

Yet, oddly, the reviews I’m reading are saying central scenes of the portion of the book the new film covers that were included in the Lynch film have been omitted from this one.
The HI needs to be adjusted continuously during flight (every 15 minutes is a rule of thumb but more if maneuvering) anyway. Having to factor in the variation when doing so doesn't seem like a significant increase in workload, and the industry will quickly start producing aids to doing so.
Heh, I'd happily do so with ssh, assuming passwords are disabled, it's the current openssh, all other ports blocked, and only key based auth.

However I wouldn't let the random vendor webstack with cloud sync anywhere near anything I care about.
"One CPU, one vote" doesn't imply decentralization either - if you have lots of money, just buy lots of CPUs.
FCC revokes license for China Telecom Americas amid national security concerns
Go to Do not Disturb -> Details -> Hide Notifications -> Hide All.

This will prevent notifications from popping up and also not remove any existing notifiation from the notification bar.

(I'm using Samsung; YMMV).
How smug. Do you actually think that your government, whatever that is, would just welcome someone who rightly divulged government secrets?
Right. The challenge is written incorrectly on purpose, otherwise the code isn't vulnerable. The use of volatile is a bit of a misdirection for the CTF players, since you're right that it's a common misconception that volatile acts like a barrier.

> You cannot write a single-writer, single-reader FIFO on modern processors without the use of memory barriers.

I am not sure about this. From my understanding, on x86, given the absence of compiler reordering, processor reordering should not cause a problem for a single-reader-single-writer FIFO. Normally I just use atomics but I think in this specific instance it should still be okay anyways. Obviously it will not work on ARM.

From my testing if you compile the code on x86 with clang or gcc, the resulting binary is not vulnerable.
I have a relative who went for the Bates Methods (and homeopathy among other believes) to no avail. I think she just got better identifying blurry letters. She had an eye operation now and no longer needs glasses.
Sure, but app devs can't do that because Apple won't let them.
Those are good points, however, I think that putting it in the context of 'values of the internet' is a bit too academic.

I don't think this is rhetorical or intellectual issue.

Some groups are losing power and they are scrambling, that's most of the story.

FB doesn't really have a monopoly, I think Zuck just made it easy for people to have their own 'pages' on the net, and the resulting unmitigated chaos is the result of it, and the elites don't like that.

I failed to mention as well - the government I believe is using this to push for more regulation and control. For better or for worse.

I don't see this as a hugely principled fight. I mean - in some forums it's framed that way, but not in the corridors of power.

If it were, I think the discussions would be more nuanced. For all of the yelling and hype, what I do not see are attempts to take an objective assessment of the situation, while offering a bunch of solutions with apparent tradeoffs etc..

This is a very tricky issue.
I could envision a mortuary worker having a lot of fun with this, tons of eyeballs to scan.
You also must add in the cost of propane for heating the house during the winter for 3 - 5 months.
(and a big tank)

If I was off grid, in a rural area where the winters can get severe, I would want a big diesel generator as a backup.

A lot of things can happen during a proper winter:
roads close, heavy snow, supplies can get hard to get some short periods, you can get cold front that bring the temperature down below 20C.

One of the things that sucks about diesel generators are the noise, and the pollution and the maintenance. You also have to run it for a while every now and again and make sure you test everything regularly.

He could heat the house electrically with power off the generator and that would integrate nicely with solar and wind power.

Oh you can get propane generators as well, I was not familiar with that. That would be more convenient since he already has a propane tank. Just build a bigger one.
> Autocorrect

That's probably the first thing a lifelong professional screenwriter would turn off.
Traditional MMO games have the same requirements, and it works fine. Some of them also allow starting the game while only a fraction of the asset data has been downloaded and continue downloading while the game is running.
I'm in a similar boat. I used a lot of Turbo Pascal and EDIT.COM/QBASIC.EXE (which has some similar keybindings). Joe was the natural editor to use when I started with Slackware back in the early 90s. It's really a pleasure to keep using 30 year old muscle memory.
Hey, you don't have to explain it to me. Creating a category page with "CCP Virus" and QAnon at the top is obviously a side effect of... uh... _resource_ constraint.

OK but to drop the sarcasm, I guess it is true there is a certain resource y'all lack that other people have.
Maybe that's why he can't finish the series...
Depends what part. some areas of Europe are very cheap, others very expensive.
I'm not GP, but I believe they were referring to Alibaba in particular, not US markets as a whole.
Typing on a Model M makes me want to type more and more.
I think they're saying in the extreme event of needing to do declination manually you are safe and can navigate and land the plane, not that it would be a normal occurrence. The default would be using true North and all the modern navigation equipment.
https://linuxsmartphones.com/hackers-develop-open-source-fir...
Transfer Learning: The Highest Leverage Deep Learning Skill You Can Learn
Interesting article, and the author may be correct that publicly traded bitcoin mining companies' stock price will go down. But when? I think this makes shorting these shares a huge risk.
This is hilarious if it's satire. Pretty sad if its a genuine recommendation.

But you are right, its too hard to tell.
Quality of life is the only meaningful metric. China's ultimate goal is to create bounded equality. Xi himself has implied their propensity has brought the country on a path they don't want and now they're trying to revert it back.
...And this is why people should be wary of unconsolidated novelties.

That of radium drinks (and toothpaste etc.) is one of the examples some use against the idea of embracing lightly what we do not fully know.
I think the key point here, which seems sound and important regardless of what we think of his examples, is that people who want to maximize the impact of their green tech work should focus more on minimizing upfront adoption costs
I'm wondering more about accessing hardware primitives - if you spend a dozen lines marshalling unsafe code around and ultimately writing the equivalent C code in Rust, and slightly slower (perhaps the compiler optimizes anyway?), is it worth the effort?
IMHO, user databases (both CouchDB and PouchDB) are just front cache. User can mess with his data in CouchDB/PouchDB using API, so it's important to keep data in an inner database, inaccessible to user, and copy data between databases. Inner database can be a SQL database, e.g. PG with jsonb.

+--+ +-------+ +-------+ +--+
|PG+<-+->+CouchDB+<-->+PouchDB+<-->+UI|
+--+ | +-------+ +-------+ +--+
|
+->...
|
+->...

[0]: https://kroki.io/ditaa/svg/eNpTUNDW1dVWAAEgAwy0sXG0uRQUagLct...
Badly, and that's the point.

I'd like social media to be run by everyone having a social media server linked to their home network (imagine something like a Raspberry Pi), with it being totally decentralised and every user controlling their own server.

Then if the government wants to shut it down, they have to raid everyone's home.
Interesting article but it was pub'd on 10.21.2011
Riverpod, a fresh composable approach to Reactive State-management (Flutter)
Groceries in under 15 minutes: The race to build Mexico’s quickest delivery app
This is such a weird bit of research to me. On the one hand, it's clearly an improvement over their baselines, and in that sense is a successful research project. Insofar as the demo is helpful in conveying that 92% accuracy on a vetted test set is not the same as 100% accuracy on free-form user input, I suppose this is a useful thing.

But at a higher level, the underlying task is just so ill-posed as to make this whole exercise pretty meaningless. Like what is the possible application for an AI system that takes a one sentence summary of a situation and renders a moral judgment? Even if it were 100% accurate on the test set, what does that even mean? Why is matching crowdsourced moral judgments a valuable goal?

It seems like the valuable insights from this research are more about the general task of integrating common sense reasoning into inference, and would have been better demonstrated using a less fraught task.
I used to think of Alibaba as the one legitimate Chinese company. Their product seems sound to me: we'll navigate the complex world of Chinese factory for you and take a cut off the top.

But apparently, most of their growth since IPO has come from mainland sales. Which seems to go against the narrative I just stated. Their Edgar SEC filings don't break out revenue as much as I would like. [0]

So are they a scam? The very opinionated Deep Throat IPO seems to think so. [1]

[0]: https://otp.investis.com/clients/us/alibaba/SEC/sec-show.asp...

[1]: http://www.deepthroatipo.com/alibaba-december-quarter-2020-r...
Sure, but that doesn't give you the disproportional advantage bitcoin miners get with their specialized hardware. With two CPUs you get two votes. Bitcoin miners get god knows how many.
The irony of WaPo's coverage of this topic using a misleading baity headline to sell outrage clicks ...

Our legacy media corporations ought to dedicate a week of heavy coverage to a digital ad industry whistleblower and encourage everyone to install uBlock origin/Pi-hole for their digital hygiene. "It's like wearing a mask online." This would do a lot to change the incentives that encourage crap viral content.

I'll hold my breath.
FWIW, the Rust embedded size also lists a few production embedded users: https://www.rust-lang.org/what/embedded
Meebo was a service that did roughly the same thing as pidgin (leveraging libpurple to do so iirc). It's a shame it was turned down.
Adobe strong-armed everyone to the subscription model long before they supported web. There's no relation at all.
The very story of each of WhatsApp, Signal, etc. is a testament to why interoperability across apps matters much less than user reach and feature velocity within an app ecosystem. Most people don't actually mind using different apps for different things once their friends are there, because functionality tends to break at the edges (even creating a simple group chat becomes a pain across non-cooperative networks)
Indeed. I truly hope that PineNote takes off:
https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/
Not knowing what post-secondary school you went to it's worth saying that not all universities and colleges are equal. Don't go to a bad school. Don't go to a mediocre school even.
It is? Source please. I've heard, for availability, "before the end of the year" and "Q1 2022" for mobile Alder Lake, which is what we're talking about.
Google takes a cheeky jab at LG with new Pixel 6 ad
I had issues with my college curriculum as well, but the biggest thing college did for me was end discrimination.

Without a degree, employers had to make a snapshot judgement call on whether or not I was good enough. They didn't see me. They saw my disability. After I got a degree, it was like some sort of checkbox had magically been checked, and the man who had fixed modem drivers in his teens was suddenly good enough to hire. I will also say that there are companies to this day that will not hire someone without a college degree, and I think it's stupid.
They work just fine, you're just going to go a bit deeper then. I put a thermal sensor down an old well head in mid winter, it was -20 Celsius at the surface and a 'balmy' 12 degrees at 10 meters down. That gradient will allow you to do a lot of good stuff if you use a freeze proof working fluid for your heatpump.
Speaking of ulterior motives, the way web.dev presents itself on the surface as a general web development learning resource feels a little icky, especially since it's clearly very Chrome-focused once you dig in. It's weird to me that what is essentially content marketing for Adobe gets a blog post on this site instead of the Chrome team's blog. As others have mentioned this browser-based Photoshop works only in Chromium. I've never seen MDN push Firefox-specific content like this before.
Telegram Ad Platform
Canada also has summer.
Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power
> Lessons about automata and computability aren't exactly 'outdated' but their application to typical software work seems very indirect/abstract

I hear this or similar things often but I don't really buy it. Sure, if you are doing super high stakes things and you need to optimize the hell out of something then you might be able to pull from concepts learned in college but I've seen new grads waste so much time on pre-optimization and honestly it's just not needed for so many things. Also I've had no issues learning concepts/algorithm/etc on the fly as-needed when performance was crucial. My college experience might be different than yours but having an EE teacher rail against and regularly make fun of web development as "not real development", losing 1 point on each answer of my database exam because I didn't put a semicolon at the end, and having to write a C program from scratch (headers and all) on paper for an exam are only a few examples of what turned me off the way my college taught computer science.
That's a major hit on Ford - Hertz has long been a "Ford house" and at one time (1990s) Ford owned Hertz and they were Ford's largest customer (#2 was Hewlett-Packard).
The marvel of China's multi-generational rice terraces
Americans write articles for an American audience and don't ever acknowledge the existence of other countries.
Thousands, even hundreds of thousands, is essentially insignificant for the government of a nation of a third of a billion (as you said Musk, I’m thinking of the USA rather than Canada).
Next.js 12: Rust Compiler, Middleware, Native ESM, React Server Components
There are a few things already here or “coming soon” that will 100% let you leapfrog JS.

WASM still has no concept of garbage collection which means that by default it’s limited to a smallish number of languages that are viable. That’s changing in the not too distant future it seems as the plans for garbage collection are well underway already.

It also has no ability to do DOM manipulation meaning you end up in a scenario like the one in the article where “algorithms” end up in wasm and the UI in web components / JS.

I believe that too is going to change at some point.

As for where things stand RIGHT now in 2021 if you want to skip JS I would say it probably depends a lot on what you want to build. I think for a lot of B2B enterprisey apps that mostly run on Desktop devices Flutter is already a viable option there and generally a much nicer experience.

The performance / accessibility right now isn’t at a level where it would make sense for a bunch of other options but as I mentioned elsewhere in this thread it is barely out of beta by a couple of months. It’s improving a lot at a pretty rapid pace and is built upon solid tech choices and open standards. I think it has a decent future ahead of it.
Players Have a Ton of Complaints About Nintendo Switch Online’s N64 Games
Q up there made a Freudian slip :-)
For all you know your Signal contacts are using a CLI client and then forwarding the messages through SMS to their feature phones :^)
It makes my flesh crawl to see college reduced purely to ROI, but at least they're honest that that's what they're doing.

I just hope people at least consider all of the other "outputs" of going to college when reading something like this. The ROI analysis is good data, it answers an important question. But there are many, many other important questions worth answering. (And most of them aren't quantifiable, so it's not like you could do a study on them if you wanted to.)

College can be an awful experience for some people even if they end up making good money. And it can be an excellent life experience for people who end up making dirt. I got lucky -- I had a great experience, I learned a lot of important non-academic things, I broke out of my shell, and it's pretty directly responsible for a large portion of my earnings. (And yes, the numbers for my university and major from the study match my current income and age quite well.)

But now I have a kid in high school, and I'm facing all the questions about what futures to keep open and what ones to sacrifice in the service of others. College is much more expensive now. My family was dirt poor and so I had massive financial aid; any financial aid my kid gets will have to be merit-based. Degree inflation has sucked away a lot of the value of having a degree. I can afford to support a less secure (low-risk) path through life if I think it would be better for my kid as a human being. These are not easy questions to be facing.
Posts can get killed for various reasons, such as software filters or accounts being banned.

Shadowbanning is reserved for new accounts that show signs of being either serial trolls or spammers. If an account has an established history, we tell them we're banning them and say why (e.g. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Of course, a comment being [dead] doesn't always mean it's a bad comment. The software can make mistakes, and banned users sometimes post good things. That's why we have vouching: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch. It lets users rescue [dead] comments that shouldn't be dead.

When a banned account posts a good comment, it doesn't mean they shouldn't be banned. People get banned for the worst things they post, not the best—just as you go to jail for the bad things you do, not the good ones (in a just world, at least). Slowing down in a school zone doesn't mean you get to rob a bank. But if a banned account has truly mended its ways and is following the site guidelines, we're usually happy to unban it.

Why do we do all this? Because we're trying to be a specific kind of website, something quite different than internet default. HN is a site for thoughtful, respectful, curious conversation. I don't know if you've noticed, but the unmoderated anonymous internet doesn't lead to that. Therefore we have to do some things. You can think of it as expending energy to counteract entropy. That involves curation or moderation or, if you like, censorship—pick whatever word expresses how you feel, but the point is that there's no way to achieve the mandate of the forum without various interventions.

If you think you know a way for HN to achieve its goals while intervening less, I'd love to hear about it—it's not as if we want to have to expend all this energy. What we want is an internet forum that remains intellectually interesting and doesn't burn itself to a crisp. That's a hard thing to achieve. Usually people who make grand complaints about censorship, etc., on HN, aren't grappling with the hard problems. They have the luxury of ignoring them; we don't. Usually they also have the habit of indulging themselves in whatever destructive behaviors they feel like, demanding that there not be any consequences, and then complaining loudly (in the name of freedom!) when there are.

By the way, comments like "don't trust closed source software" (if that's all it has to say) are generic, and therefore boring and tedious, and therefore we don't lose anything if they're [dead]. You might want to find a better example. I don't think it's disgraceful to try to optimize for signal/noise ratio—that's a value with broad support in this community.