skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've clarified that the point is that ISO is not compensating standard writers (iow, ISO does not need the money to create standards themselves), as teddyh correctly interpreted it.
On the plus side though there is a relatively small pool of actual hardware targets that they have to make it work on.
Not everyone wants what is best for you.
Reminds me of Shobaleader One https://youtu.be/VypU8zojFsY
> Why do employees at big tech names (FAANG et al.) are so often so cautious as to include this as a foreword everywhere?

This isn’t just ‘big tech’ - I work at a relatively small tech company, but I’d never want anything I say about the company to be mistaken as some sort of ‘official statement’ especially if it related to an incident that possibly had a financial impact on external parties, and could conceivably be misused in that context in the future.

I go as far as never writing private emails from my work mail for the same sort of reasons - although that is from a possibly over-abundance of caution.
Forget the GPUs, the top instance type here (g5.48xlarge) has 192 vCPUs! I'd love to get that in a compute-optimized instance type, without the GPUs.

(The largest available compute-optimized instance is currently the c6i.32xlarge at 128 vCPUs, not counting the absurd u-* family of instances that mere mortals can't get. 192 vCPUs would be a substantial upgrade; 256 would be even better.)
get lost with your spam.
Purely technical drawings and textual descriptions are not considered works here, unless you e.g wrap it in a poem. And regardless of the copyright status, actual information content itself can't be copyrighted so standards could at least in theory rewritten as a crowsourced effort.
Safari's support for webaudio has always been terrible.
This isn't wrong advice but their tone of authority seems a bit misplaced.

1. Make settings.py a package

2. Please do not put anything more than imports in __init__.py since you are adding logic downstream.

3. Use django environ https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ which gives you a defined schema of your environment needs with casting and default values when needed.

Now you keep your .env files, keep your setting overrides (settings/base.py, settings/local.py, etc) when needed AND you have defined a schema with non-string types for your environment variables.

From the readme you can see how you make a schema with a casted type and default value:

env = environ.Env(
DEBUG=(bool, False)
)
Waste companies have always done this. It happens when shared rainwater/sewage drains become overwhelmed in heavy rain and overflow into rivers.

The legislation isn't allowing something to happen that didn't happen before. There was a vote to ban it outright, which didn't pass. A watered-down (oh yeah) law was passed which allows the practice to continue but requires the water companies to work to prevent it.
Rent controlled housing is intervention that drives the rest of it up, and causes hoarding where they want to keep the old prices in a multi bedroom apartment, higher prices for others that cause long vacancies, they’re dreading building a certain amount of affordable housing from upper bureaucrats, that prescribed only one solution that doesn’t fit into the data, so the problems of intervention are being solved with the same intervention that caused it.
The original author is the company. The company doesn't get paid by ISO for making the standards, and indeed might have to pay ISO to submit the standards. ISO then pays others to view those standards. At least that's what the argument is.

The company may have employees that write the standard, that's immaterial. You're equating "Author" with "Employee" rather than "Company"
I'm amazed dash cams aren't standard but this stuff is...
yes, you cannot do this to a 3x3 grid of pixels for example.
Life... uh... life finds a way
The keyboard layout makes no difference; the yen symbol is just what ASCII 92 looks like.
fascinating. So the original ASCII was already conceptualized in terms of composed characters, that's kind of amazing. Maybe it was viewed as "saving" a bit, only having to introduce one character instead of two. Shows the importance of programming language design even that early in computing history.
No, not even close. Facebook doesn't need you to have an account to gather information on you. It's an ad network tracking what you browse everywhere on the web via cookies.
It also know who you are via your accounts with other sites and agreement to share. So if your email address is connected to your friends contacts it know you connections before you even have an account.
Who Has the Most Historical Responsibility for Climate Change?
I consider it the best chance of sending a message that might actually be heard.
Maybe "Johnson" and "& Johnson" to tell them apart?
Prefacing this with that I'm not normally a Apple fan and use Linux on Intel and AMD CPUs as my daily driver.

Apple does do incredible hardware, but their software is really crappy, from UX to reliability and being general useful. Since the M1 appeared, I've been looking at purchasing it only for the hardware, but then run something like Arch Linux on it, as that software experience is really hard to beat.

So in short, the combination of Apple hardware but Open Source/Linux software makes a lot of sense and is a pleasure to work with. The hardware Apple been producing lately been kind of shit though, so it's not until now it starts being interesting again.
The company writes the standard because it wants the standard to exist. You're making it into a business transaction between the company and the standards body, when really it's a community interaction, beneficial in their minds for both the company and the industry. The standards body is just a facilitator for the companies which are members.

It's not supposed to be a money-making opportunity.
+1 My love for Winamp classic is bottomless. I would love to love IPFS as much. And information should be free. If your art can be consumed digitally, deal with that. I'm willing to let go of all the (supposedly) great art for the greater aesthetic of free culture. NFTs are noise but be my guest.
Have you considered a career change? I'm sure there are jobs that don't require JavaScript.
> I don't understand apple why don't they provide docs so thousands of Dev don't waste time reversing their api.

It's exactly because they don't want thousands of Devs wasting time at all. Why reimplement something that already works well as a computing platform?

There is no good reason why they would want to do this. But it's not like they're blocking everything and locking it down. They just haven't published docs etc - which can carry a significant maintenance cost.
The author's most starred repo:

https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat
Formal Education Is Dead
OP here.

You can use whatever you want in settings.py. It's "why" that matters.

Yeah, you can boil it down to "use env", but do people know why it's usually the best approach? In my experience, many don't, hence the blog post.

I mean, if it were obvious and accepted truth, Django would be doing this by default already.
We just released a rewrite of an (web)app today so lot’s of support calls and mails. Really unfortunate timing, hah
Mammals will probably get somewhat of an easier ride through the Thames since at least they're not getting their oxygen through the water.
The implementation isn't symmetric, it'll work if you compare `b == a`. Apparently[0] it's something to do with avoiding code bloat.

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/e4c23daeb461ac02413eb...
I understand why people use it but as a recipient I really hate voice messages. Here in Spain they are becoming more common too.

The problem is as the article mentions. Difficulty searching back, not being able to use Google translate (I'm still learning Spanish), and the time it takes to listen to them. Sending a voice message is faster than typing for the sender but much slower than reading for the recipient which makes it especially annoying in group chats where you end up forcing this extra time on all participants. For this reason I don't think it's very social.

And then there's the issue of listening to them in public, having to dig around for headphones if you don't want to bother your surroundings.

So in general if someone audio messages me I just ignore it until they type their message.

In most languages swipe typing is not a lot slower than talking anyway. And if people really want to talk they can use speech recognition.

I run all my chats through my own matrix server (with bridges) and I was actually thinking of making something that automatically tries to transcribe them. The problem though is that I speak 3 languages :)
Great! Now benchmark it with all compiler X architectures supported by glibc.
Sure. But most visitors want to go to the city center. They probably aren’t that interested in visiting your house.
"Sane" lol have you ever used it?

It's only sane if you use it raw (i.e. ESM in, UMD out), but add plugins and suddenly you have a slower and less capable webpack with lengthy config.

I'm generally a fan of Rich’s tools but they only look good on the surface generally. Svelte itself changed face 3 times already, with each iteration completely incompatible with the old one.

Be ready for Svelte 4 I guess.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/biodiversity-indicato...

>'The UK is one of the most depleted countries in the world in terms of biodiversity. The Natural History Museum has calculated an index of biodiversity intactness. Using this measure of the health of our natural environment, we rank 189th in the world, and we are bottom of the G7 countries. In the past 10 years, 41% of our bird species have decreased and 15% of our wildlife is threatened with extinction.

>'The dreadful state of our nature is at least in part a result of living in a densely populated country in which nearly three-quarters of our land is used for farming or the built environment. We have simply squeezed nature out of its home.'

>Lord Krebs, zoologist and Member of the House of Lords, in the debate on the Environment Bill, 10 June 2021

It's great that the Thames is improving, and the recent stuff about the wild bees is amazing, but these stories lack the wider context.
IPFS is content-addressed, so as long as you have the ID of the thing you want to download, you'll be able to download and verify that download from any node. So as long as you can connect to one node that has your content, you'll be able to download it.

Of course, nothing is 100% censorship resistant, but content-addressing helps a lot.
> with all its amazing architectures. SPARC, Alpha, MIPS, PA-RISC, PowerPC

And here's the thing, mostly they weren't amazing. They were just expensive and not popular. But some things like SPARC were just headache-inducing

https://atiqcs.wordpress.com/2016/11/15/sparc-register-windo...
What does this submission have to do with NFTs?
Indeed! I was working with false assumptions, thanks for correcting them.
The community writ large is already using django-environ to solve the problems you faced.

https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ
Safari's support for anything that Apple doesn't seem to use on their own web properties, is really crap. WebRTC and WebSockets also been lagging behind for a long time and when they catch up, they tend to have very buggy implementations.
The SI system is a interesting one because it is actually not just free, but released under a CC license.

https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/
I needed to advance a track to make it work, and the tracks are in reverse order. (Firefox)

Still, impressive :)
Author could have gotten vaccinated at least 9 times instead of writing this article.
Amazing – I can't get vaccinated due to heart disease and I'm a second class citizen. I can go through a bunch of painful work arounds but at the end of the day my life is a lot more difficult because of a heart problem.

I do have natural immunity from prior infection, however, nobody cares.
I do the same, just with Evernote. Either writing a summary of what I learned in a note and adding a link to the source, or clipping the whole page. I can probably write a couple of techincal books from all these notes.
HN is down pretty frequently, but I think it shows custom error page served from Cloudflare.
> EDIT: By 'same hardware' I mean 'hardware with comparable / equivalent performance

Where are you finding laptops with comparable displays at half the price?
Precisely in the way my stream of consciousness brought me there. Some seem to think it's a rescue for artists in the digital sphere.
There is an algorithm to rotate an image by any angle (not just multiple of 90), and without adding, duplicating or deleting pixels, using three shear operations (which only move rows/columns along one orthogonal axis).

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~fricke/projects/israel/paeth/r...
Step 1: Measure you current uptime. That is your baseline SLO, to not make things worse.

Step 2: Evaluate how much money you would earn by increasing uptime, and evaluate how much the processes required to do that would cost. Incrementally raise SLO levels as long as you benefit from it.
https://archive.md/tPTpZ
You might want to logoff the internet until you come down from whatever it is that made you go up in the first place.
Agreed, but who will better take advantage of the CPI's architecture to utilize those gains, the same people making the hardware and native OS, or a Linux distro? Just because a CPU can do something does not mean every OS / kernel is going to use it.

What I was getting at is if you want Linux, you can get a good Lenovo or Dell for about $1000-1200 that would seem / feel compararble to a $2000 macbook.
how about counting “I dislike this” comments on every video.
and maybe a dislike button to post same thing as a comment to video. Its better to keep dislike count data with the video itself than scattered around different youtube dislike apps/addons/plugins
where else in the country has victorian sewers built for a population density of 6825 per square kilometre vs 18457 people per square kilometre today?
In fairness, vaping marijuana and specifically vaping "the lower end of pure sativa" is not at all representative of the wider cannabis smoking public. In places where it's illegal in particular, you're stuck with whatever variant is currently in circulation with your local dealer and those are almost invariably high strength hybrids - because those are just more economical in a black market economy where the cash crop has ideally as little of a footprint as possible.

I hate it personally because I turn into an abject moron when I'm totally stoned - which is hard to avoid when your options are so limited. If I had a choice, I would probably go for a low strength sativa as well and maybe the occasional indica when I'm suffering from pain.
More likely someone actually will. A blameless postmortem will be written, and the people that will fix the bug or systems issue will have something to work on with high visibility and high impact, which tends to translate in good performance ratings.

(Googler, opinions are my own)
>"Early in the pandemic, for example, Apple and Google refused to adapt their operating systems to host contact tracing apps developed by public health authorities and supported by elected officials."

Their linked source actually says the two companies "refused to open their technology to governments pushing for centralized data storage, a strategy they considered vulnerable to state snooping."

https://www.politico.eu/article/google-apple-coronavirus-app...
Better to keep house lizards instead of spiders for pest control. House Lizards don't muck up the place.
For censorship resistance there needs to be incentivised replication such that the number of nodes in the p2p storage network (providing the data set or chunks of it) is very large and therefore “take down” becomes intractable. Also, clients need to retrieve data from/as peers in the p2p network rather than through gateways.
One party actually has advanced workers’ rights in recent decades.
Attach an LG Ultrafine 5K and you can fry an egg on your €3,300 laptop and use the white noise from the fan to sleep well.
How does any social change come about then (e.g. equal rights, abortion laws) if you're saying common individuals have little influence?

- Why would politicians push for policies to e.g. reduce meat eating and flying when they know individuals don't feel strongly about this?

- Where did the recent growth in plant based meat alternatives in shops and fast food places come from if not from individuals signalling what they want over the years?

- Do companies not making products based on what they think consumers want and will buy? E.g. plant based meat, electric cars, reduced plastic packaging.

- Are the views and behaviours of people in a social circle not influenced by their peers? E.g. don't some people give up meat because some of their friends opened their eyes to this issue?

It feels like you're saying there's no point doing anything about anything. Changes like this aren't going to happen overnight either but that doesn't mean it's futile.
They also get data from apps compiled with the FB libs. No account needed.
Main article link made a lot more sense to me, having never heard of it (or ATHF) before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic
If you read the twitter thread, there is a lot of details on "macs are locked down" posted by OP and others below this comment: https://twitter.com/_Thaodan/status/1458581955688206340
Is a hosts file network level? It didn't stop me unfortunately.
I don't see why this is getting flagged.
> The original comment still makes sense: none of the fees paid to access the final document go to the original authors.

And? If the authors didn't think they got any benefits—or rather, the companies employing the authors and paying them—didn't think they got any benefit, then they wouldn't make the work on ISO standards part of their job.

Just because the benefit is non-financial does no mean there is not benefit.

People have recognized that having common standards is a general benefit to society. For a history of this see Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting Since 1880 by Craig Murphy and JoAnne Yates (ISBN 9781421440033):

* https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/engineering-rules

ISO has bills and overhead to cover, just like anyone else. Just because some of its work is covered by 'donated' effort doesn't mean all of it can.

(I wouldn't object to having ISO standards being freely available, it's just that I can see some reasons for why they are not.)
Yeh but then the brilliant "infinite monkeys" doesn't work on the pricing page [https://sheetmonkey.io/pricing.html].

I mean, maybe infinite donkeys would do excellent Shakespeare too...
Data Exchange Podcast (Episode 101): Mars Lan and Pardhu Gunnam of Metaphor Data
the article points out that the only way your repo will get attention if theres nobody else in the problem space, or your lib is much simpler then the other tools, so i think it can be both efficient in terms of description and mildly attractive visually. Also i think "fanciful" is a bit misleading here. Sure they recommend an icon, and/or an animation. i dont think thats necessarily overkill for some projects
glibc has hand crafted assembler implementations of memcpy (often specialized for specific size ranges) for many architectures.
The next step from this is the django-configurations package. While it's not perfect, it does help when settings get very complex.

We've got a Django site that we run in production for different partners. We've got 560 settings, and then dev/test/prod configs for each partner, plus we vary the list of INSTALLED_APPS per partner. django-configurations is pretty nice for making this all manageable, and mypy helps to make sure everything is consistent.
I've been using https://mmm.page to build small sketch-like websites really fast. For example, I used it for a small performance festival in May. Every day I would make photos, videos, and then upload it on the website. I wouldn’t be able to produce a site of different design each day by coding manually or with any other service that I know, there just wouldn't be time left for that:

https://mmm.page/offtrack

https://mmm.page/offtrack.two

https://mmm.page/offtrack.three

Paper Website looks fun because I would be crafting the website by hand. I have the feeling, however, that something is lost when a very minimalist blog is created as a result. A minimalist blog could be built with any kind of software. A paper notebook offers much more freedom - in sketching, in using colors, in relating ideas to each other, in writing big and small, in integrating text in sketches. Can't there be a way of preserving the dirtiness, the sketch character of a notebook, while still recognizing text as text?

I also suspect that in using it, I will start writing _for the machine_ in the notebook, instead of _for me_. In the sense of writing carefully, with clean lines and big letters, in order to make it easier for the machine to do its work. This change in how my writing flows could also change how the content of my writing flows. Similar to how I am speaking differently to Siri and other voice assistants than I am to humans: more attentive to pronunciation and trying to be precise in formulations. There is very little poetry in speaking to voice assistants. Could the same happen when writing for OCR?
DNI, Avril Haines, basically says, “It's aliens.”
Dear Nullsoft, i have a problem,i can't drag winamp outside the browser window
Since this Chrome extension is written in Javascript your best bet might be something along the following:

1. Learn the basics of Javascript in the browser. The web is full with tutorials.

2. Choose one of the cross-platform mobile development frameworks that use Javascript (e.g. Ionic, Capacitor, NativeScript, React Native, Cordova, etc.).

3. Learn the basics of your framework of choice. Each one of them is extensively documented and most documentations guide you through the basics.

4. Design your WebToEpub app (How shall it look? How shall it be used?)

5. Build it with the framework of your choice and port the program logic over from the extension.

This is only a high-level route to your goal and not the only one but probably the simplest one for a novice.

Having a particular itch to scratch is the best motivator for learning how to program because you have a concrete goal in front of you. You have chosen a relatively feasible one, so with the right discipline it is perfectly possible even for a novice.

Good luck!
> And here's the thing, mostly they weren't amazing. They were just expensive and not popular.

I agree with this part, but the sparc register windows are completely reasonable and obvious.
New Senate Proposal Seeks “Anomaly Surveillance Resolution Office” for UAP intel