skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This always bothers me specifically about music. I don't claim to have some universal say on what is good and bad music, there is tons of music out there which I think is tasteful but I simply don't like.

But like 10% of music let's say is absolute garbage, mostly top 40 stuff made from cosntructed bands with some models as front men, written by a team constructed by a label to create the most generically likeable music possible, edited to the point where it doesn't matter that the models are bad singers.

This music seems to account for about 90% of global music consumption as far as I can tell. I've been traveling around the world for many years and it get's depressing when you are in some remote jungle somewhere that feels like your finally off the beaten path and you get to some little shack restaurant / bar and they have One Direction on the radio. You can't fucking escape it. I've had times where I was on 3 continents on 3 months and you here the exact same garbage music regardless of location. It's crazy how ubiquitous it is.

And there is so much good music out there. If anything we are in a golden age in terms of volume of quality independent music being produced. And yet a vast majority of people seem to have no problem listening to the bottom of the barrel junk for a majority of the music they listen to.
So what does PoC mean here then?
seriously? It's 2021. Maybe there's something I'm missing, but it shouldn't be hard to track and aim a 30cm object at 100 m with a laser that is moving +/- 5-10 meters at a speed of 5m/s

Fog though, yeah. I get that one.
> the reality was that people completed the day's work in a few hours and didn't do much for the rest of the day.

That is not plausible. And that is not what you find where we have written texts about farmers lifestyles. And, if you look in very recent history about lifestyles in behind-the-times villages, you don't find that much slack either.

Also, pretty much all arguments about how little farmers worked I have seen ignored pretty much any work that did not involved food crops directly: making and fixing tools, beds, buildings. Making candles. Raising and spinning flax to make linen. Sewing cloth, bedsheets etc. Chopping wood. Caring about children and animals. All that had to be made at home or at least inside village. In an interview with old lady from such village, I heard her saying that making bedsheets and all that for bride took years. They started making it when girl got born.

> That 30-40 year lifespan is also a myth. High mortality brings down the average, but people's lifespan has been around 70 throughout history.

Yeah, mortality tends to bring down the lifespan average. I don't see how you can meaningfully measure lifespan while removing people who died from the pool. Women dying in childbirths, which was not exceptional at all, should lower the estimated lifespan. People dying from accidents that could be saved today too.

> As for whether people face more psychological pressure than previous generations, yeah there are plenty of people whose job it is to record and measure this stuff, and they all seem to say it has increased. This just may not fit with your boomer perspective.

These statistics don't really exists of old farmer communities. They did not had modern diagnostic criteria, all that was created much much later. We can guess from what people wrote in literature and chronicles.

As for psychological pressures, there was serfdom, slavery, impressment, wars. "Wars" meant armies stealing food from farmers, that is how armies fed themselves. There was poverty too. But of course, a lot depends on which period and which place and which social class you talk about. Nevertheless, generally, people in the past were in fact subjects to stress.
That’s brilliant! Thank you
Show HN: OTP SMS – making things a bit easier
IBM says its new quantum chip can’t be simulated by classic supercomputers
Wow, it is beautiful! [1]

In the US it might be most commonly encountered as a primary constituent of Pumpkin Spice.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Nu...
but we would have experienced different ones?

If we didn't have cacao we would have learned to get something awesome from carobs, if we didn't have bovids we might have gotten fat deers, etc

There's soooo much stuff outside the usual flavours and ingredients even today.
I ran into issues needing OffscreenCanvas [1] recently. What privacy issues would that present? We were creating real world benefit with it and had to do some major over-architecting to get around it not working.

I would like to say, Firefox doesn't support it either.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OffscreenCa...
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This is hilarious and accurate, at least fron my impression, though thankfully not experience, of talking with people who worked with a COBOL codebase at a large insurance company. At that company, they said 10 years ago that they'd replace the COBOL in 10 years, and they are still a decade away from replacing it.
A common interface with all of the required functionality exposed as interface methods. A Java person would argue that if you have a function that takes an object that can be two totally disparate things with no shared functionality then that’s a code smell.
The Demikernel Datapath OS Architecture for Microsecond-Scale Datacenter Systems
Realistically If there were detailed specifications, they were hard copy print-outs from the 80s that are probably no longer readable, and undoubtedly were thrown away in the intervening decades.

Many of these old systems rarely require changes in most modules. (As in, of the hundreds of thousands of lines in the system, many subsections just never get touched).

This means for the the parts that never get touched, there is a negative return on investment for rewriting them, so there has to be a correspondingly larger positive return on investment in the higher churn parts to make a rewrite worthwhile. Most of the times when this is studied, the return on investment from the rewrite is either tiny or net negative from this effect.

Ah you say, then just rewrite only the parts that tend to change a lot, and leave the other stuff as COBOL. That sounds good right? Except that generally the cross language interop code needed becomes an absolute nightmare. I've dealt with this in an near ideal enviroment, and it was still a royal pain.

This near ideal environment was: COBOL code restricted to just a subset used by the company, which was being translated to C code by the companies own compiler, which allowed for a C-compatible ABI to be defined allowing for surprisingly simple and direct C to Cobol interop. Yet even then the code code was still a royal pain, just due to how COBOL data structures differ so much from the idiomatic data structures for C or C++ code. My code was actually C# code interacting via C++/CLI with some C++ code that interacted with the the COBOL. But the interop code was still some of the worst code to touch.
English coffeehouses, French salons and the age of the enlightenment (2008) [pdf]
> My theory is that people don’t believe good taste exists because most people have bad taste

This breaks down pretty quickly outside of fine art criticism. If I put 20 people in a room and only one of them has dressed "in good taste", they'll stick out badly enough that the consensus of the group will be that the one is in "bad taste".

The problem is that "taste" is vague, depends on ephemeral context and may be subject to popular whims and ignorance.
This is a pretty gross misunderstanding of the situation. Yanukovich was very successfully playing the West and Russia off each other when he was ousted by Euromaiden protesters who specifically wanted Ukraine to turn West, which is the popular sentiment throughout most of Ukraine. The fact that NATO and Ukraine's government are now aligned is what prompted Russia to act in the first place, promoting sepratism in Crimea so that they can guarantee continued control of Sevastopol (a goal of Russian foreign policy for the past 300 years), and promoting unrest in Eastern Ukraine to make NATO hesitant to accept Ukraine's bid to join NATO. It's the exact same strategy Russia used in Georgia to stop it from joining NATO.

Of course the whole situation is complicated by the fact Ukraine's borders are a product of Soviet planners who never thought it would wind up as an independent nation, but the ethnic Russian population is small and generally not prosperous. Ironically, Ukraine would probably be better off letting the separatist regions secede, but to do so would be publicly perceived as a win for Russia and thus is not permitted.
True, albeit WebKit started as a fork of KHTML, KJS and KSVG from KDE - and KHTML was already pretty damn amazing (at the times I was using it instead of Firefox).
Yeah I get what you mean, I didn't actually mean implementing it yourself, but just going to snapdrop.net. That should doable for most people I assume.
Related to what you're after, people prepare movement before they consciously decide to act. I read about this in "The User Illusion" by Tor Nørretranders. He cites Deecke, L., Grözinger, B. & Kornhuber, H.H. Voluntary finger movement in man: Cerebral potentials and theory. Biol. Cybernetics 23, 99–119 (1976).
If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter
> But what I'm saying is that negative prices don't impact the rollout of renewables because renewables never have to pay them.

How do you know? Do you have source on that? It doesn't stand to reason that the cost of excess electricity produced by renewables should be carried by anyone else but the producers of such electricity. It's true that these overshoots wouldn't exist if coal or nuclear plants could be regulated quickly, but it's also true that if these plants didn't exist, nothing would make up for the underproduction.

> And in a market with lots of renewables and no distortions, prices won't go below zero anyway.

Alright, let's assume there's zero cost to curtailment (not true, but close enough) and that excess energy is only produced because the compensation structure works that way: You still have wasted potential energy from curtailment. Increasing the rollout strictly increases that waste. Therefore, it is reasonable to put that energy into fuel production, especially considering that the best combination of volatile renewables today is natural gas, which can be regulated quickly.
SPECTRE is a CPU vulnerability in the speculative execution that modern processors perform to create a side channel to leak data through.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by DDR5 "suffering" from SPECTRE? I believe that vulnerability is memory technology agnostic and theoretically would work if you could boot a CPU absent any memory at all, as the leaks occur through CPU caches.
I tend to use urbandictionary.com a lot if I come across an idiom or slang. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=get%20back%2...

('Get back on it' and 'Get back on top of it' can be used in the same context.

'Get' is more in the context of a verb for motion/movement/to do as opposed to acquire. Not sure if this helps.)
Telegram self messages are not E2E encrypted at all.
In general you need good climate and geography to produce large quantity of salt in salt marshes.

Then, once you have done that, transporting it from coastal areas was also a big undertaking.
An extremely impractical solution for majority of Americans who don’t want to uproot their life.

Surely we can show some empathy and demand better benefits for all. You know youre included in that pool too! I’m sure most folks on their deathbed will be glad they spent more time with their children then at their desk.
Fair enough! Then again the top-voted comment IMO invalidates the entire article's premise i.e. Bing image search works fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29151512

That is to say that Google image search is the real problem and not Pinterest.
Rowhammer is still pretty hard to exploit because typically you can't reliably flip most bits, and you can normally only flip bits that are very close in physical memory address to those you control.

Combine that with a lack of knowledge of physical memory addresses and inability to have much control over memory layouts, and it really gets tricky to gain privileges outside a lab environment in a reasonable short time.

Remember that flipping bits at random will almost certainly kernel panic the machine before it gives you root access.

I'm sure a determined attacker could do it though.
What kind of levers do big ISPs/cloud providers want over their CPUs, other than the basic efficiency gains we all want? Isn't it risky doing any customization since you don't get commodity pricing?
The bulk of the fee goes to the landlord, not the service. FTA, states a ~$1 service fee and probably not much room to raise it. A huge money maker it is not, considering dev and infrastructure time. Unless they have a plan to sell folks' whereabouts and preferences too.

One important thing to remember, just because management doesn't plan to do it this year, doesn't mean next year's team won't.
I had the same problem with Go. For years I couldn't figure out what I was doing to offend people.
It’s an even better reason to make it compulsory. (!?)
More generic / not unique content, in a domain commonly associated with blogspam.
The quality on homeownership can be several orders of magnitude higher than renting. Every time I have owned the appliances are much better, hardware is better, etc. If you are buying from previous homeowners they often have better maintained properties since someone had to live there longer than a year.

Also moving sucks, when your landlord wants to sell you have zero say and a timeline.

Homeownership gives you way more control over your life. Control comes with responsibilities, sure.
I am not sure, if I understand correctly, but it seems it is only an issue, if I am using a VPN?

Because without a VPN, I am naturally "leaking" my IP, as this is how the internet works?
https://archive.md/WuAOc
I think lumping together all European countries like that is not really helpful: not many european countries have a median income one third of the american one, and some are even higher than the US one.

wrt duration of maternity leave, western europe is pretty much at 3-6 months, while some of the eastern countries go longer. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave)
If taste is subject to experience -- and it is unless you think someone who has only seen very little art in a very limited scope of style is as qualified to judge the quality of art as someone who has seen lots of art of many different styles -- then skill is definitely a strong factor in influencing taste.

While it is true that there are people who have a high degree of technical skill (or of talent) who have poor taste, which means that skill is not the direct cause of taste, it is an essential -- and significant element.

It's like assuming that practicing athletics does not make you better able to appreciate the achievements of other athletes.

Skill give both awareness and depth to your perception, and if you think neither of these attributes are applicable to determining quality, you lack the linguistic or cognitive ability to join the discussion.
Not GPS - the locations are derived from measuring doppler shift over a handful of messages. If you know where the spacecraft is, you can derive the location of the transmitter. On a good day you can get 100-400m accuracy. Not close to GPS, but good enough for tracking animals. I managed the North American data center for www.argos-system.org for many years.
How juvenile do you have to be to give a fuck about what people think of you wearing a backpack
not really, just heard about those. but it wouldn't really be that much different than a customized SKU for a playstation or an xbox.
It's unlikely a different die (silicon chip), so the usual number of cores and usual size of caches, and it's unlikely that AWS gets a secret x86 instruction unlockable via msr or something like that. It's probably just constants for the frequency scaling (e.g. all cores and single core turbo).

Cloudflare mentioned they use a custom Intel SKU on their blog, and they're not as big as AWS.
FWIW, the vaccine efficacy story is very muddled.

* UK shows negative VE

* US and Germany show 90-95% VE

* Medical literature shows 50% VE at six months and waning

Sadly, there is no longterm RCT in place to perform this basic, but extremely valuable measure. We have to rely on epi data, and epi data is very easy to mess up. I wonder how much of this is due to different testing regimens. Like CDC telling vaccinated people to not test unless symptoms, or UK school guidance instructing, on contact with known covid case, vaccinated people to do a PCR, but unvaccinated people to self isolate for two weeks. Plus copious doses of Simpson, as different age groups have vastly different covid outcomes and vastly different vaccination rates.
So click me and pay for me

Tell me that you'll data me

Watch me like you'll never let me down

'Cause I'm Aler-tin' on a meat-plane

Don't know when I'll be backed-up again

Oh Ops, I hate to go

https://youtu.be/SneCkM0bJq0?t=34
Discussed at the time (of the article):

The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23397560 - June 2020 (137 comments)
MemTest86 already has a rowhammer test, not sure how it compares to blacksmith but some sticks I have do fail that test and can only be mitigated by setting tREFI extremely low (while also taking a large performance hit).

Most of the higher end hynix/micron/samsung sticks I've tried do not fail at JEDEC or XMP after 7+ passes.
It's heavy, hard to recycle, and time and labor intensive to create.
1. Is that inappropriate to do?

I don't know that the site guidelines[1] specifically address this issue, but I would personally consider it inappropriate.

2. Does HN have some kind of shadow banning? Either for users or my sites?

I am nearly 100% certain that the answer is "yes" for both. Users can be shadow-banned and sites can be black-listed.

All of that said the guidelines (or the FAQ[2], I forget) discourages making these kinds of "meta" posts as well. If you have a question about HN, you should probably just email the mods. I think it's info@ycombinator.com but dig through the guidelines / FAQ to be sure. If you email them and ask nicely and promise not to spam your own content all the time, maybe they'll agree to unblock your site (if it has indeed been blacklisted). No promises of course (I'm just a regular user here), but they seem to be reasonable people if approached in a reasonable way.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
One of my anecdata:

My team does a ton of large-scale processing (most of which is ETL), and we have TONS of servers at our disposal. We effectively throw hardware at our compute, and even then, jobs can take 5-10 hours to run. No big deal - just run the job before you call it a day and it's done when you start tomorrow morning. Or when you have daily jobs, you schedule it and it's just done whenever it's done.

I can't tell you the number of times I've looked at a job someone wrote, made a 5 LOC change in 2 minutes, and cut processing from 8 hours to 5 hours. I literally had one that went from 5 hours to 5 minutes.

These extremely simple investments save a lot of money, but it's a problem that's spread across hundreds of different jobs, and it takes so much effort to convince people that we should invest in it. A daily job that costs $1500/mo to run (based on amortized hardware costs) needs only be optimized once, and those savings are yours forever. But I've had the conversation that is effectively: my time is more costly than a measly $1500 job, so it's okay if the job is expensive.
Brainstorming some solutions.

Maybe a randomized algorithm for ECC. Every so often changes how the ECC is computed?

The region nearby where privileged information is stored could have a speed limit on multiple sequential writes?

Add blocks that are more sucetible for those attacks to do early detection. A honeypot bit.
If you can’t afford downtime and security breaches, you can’t afford to be shipping an amateur and half baked version of something that externally is backed by a bigger and more skilled team than your entire engineering org. You can potentially simplify your approach so you don’t need anything in the category.
In the late 90s I was involved in replacing a software for a financial system for a company that was written in a basic of all languages. It was complex and had almost no documentation. All knowledge of the system was in the head of the programmer of that system and he wasn't happy that his code was being replaced so he was reluctant to help.

The little document that did exist was hopelessly out of date. A lot of business was done on that software
https://www.argos-system.org
Yeah, this is a problem with high density DRAM. Fixes are possible but difficult and expensive. In the cutthroat DRAM market nobody seems willing to put in the engineering effort to develop a solution and then manufacture it. It would have to sell at a premium, in a market where it's difficult to even find ECC memory at times.

The article states that ECC isn't sufficient to solve Rowhammer, but it does make the attack harder. If you are looking for a hardware solution it is your only option currently, even if it is imperfect.
I am surprised that the word "envy" hasn't yet been banished from the academic vocabulary.
You might be joking, but memory mirroring is a thing on higher-end servers
Choosing a camera Part 3: the trade-offs of sensor size
There is always going to be some nuance. But there is a big difference between implementing your own database and implementing your own deployment script. Starting out small and adding tools to your toolbox is going to be a judgement call. But too much NIH and you spend all your time reimplementing Bigtable or Cockroachdb instead of building your product.
Ah hm. I wonder which one of our two effects is dominant. I can see that your explanation must plainly exist - it's just not part of the standard "intuitive" model taught to frisbee players.

That's a really clever fin design.

If the dominant component of rotation was due to the center of pressure being ahead of the center of mass, could you to use timing of the fin being in a "high drag" configuration to pull the time averaged center of pressure back towards to the center of mass?
F# is a really, really nice language (it's also one of the few languages that got async right with async workflows: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/concurrency-async-an...) with which you can also evade using the XAML stuff for MVU (ELM-style) UIs.

But after the Net Foundation and hot-reload drama
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28779342
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28897314
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740701/microsoft-dotne...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28972431
I can't really trust MS with anything open source anymore :(
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28968231
Even China's biggest company is looking for an exit
Yes it carries a GPS receiver and transmits to a satellite periodically. Most of the time, most of the tracker package is turned off. It only weighs 5 grams.
This is why it's good to use an Antivrus. You can check out what to look for when buying an antivirus software via https://larrybohboh.com/what-to-look-for-when-buying-antivir...
Basically it very difficult, because no one truly no one understands the whole business logic implemented in Cobol. Take life insurance. You have contracts running for decades. You just don’t want to break something. There are no tests and so on. So if you would start from scratch you would be faster. So it’s just very very expensive with a lot of downside risks and little upsides.
Either Objective C or Ruby, yes (imo). One could also make an argument for javascript being a Smalltalk-derived or inspired language.