skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work on mainframe, specifically on a tool for tracing large applications running on z/OS systems. I don't completely agree with the conclusion.

It's true that MF tech stack (z/OS, COBOL, CICS, DB2, ..) has many warts and is not fashionable. But I think you can write applications for it in the modern way if you want to; I think the backward-compatibility allowed IBM to focus on continually improving the stack rather than chasing latest fashion. As someone quipped, these little COBOL programs communicating in CICS MRO do resemble microservices or lambdas, and JCL/RDO is just infrastructure as code. So many of the "modern" concepts have been there for decades now, and they let you do transactions very reliably.

But I want to point out, interestingly, what gives us real headache are the modern applications that are NOT COBOL. They tend to call databases with dynamic SQL (basically the plan is created during execution), and this makes the undesired application changes quite difficult to trace. In old-fashioned COBOL applications, you compile your query plans with your application, and that makes the performance more predictable.

So I wouldn't be surprised if traceability is a big thing that COBOL and MFs have still going for it. There seems to be more middleware tooling for that, and things have been standard for many years. Unix tools seem to be more fragmented, although I have no doubts there is lot of good commercial tools. In cloud, everything seems to be even more tied to a single vendor than mainframes - I am not even sure if it's possible to run 3rd party utility on your deployment. It looks like if you really want traceability you have to do it yourself.

Overall, I think MF stack is very decent (although not so shiny on the outside) and I wish IBM would promote it more.
I think so too. And oysters, shellfish, etc.
Remember when Google employees made a big stink about Project Dragonfly (censored search for China) and got it "cancelled"? Pepperidge Farm does.

Now just wait a few days for a wild "whistleblower" to appear claiming Google coulda censored shit _even sooner_.
It's possible your comment brought the site down?
Significant point, I hope it will get upvoted to nearer the top.
One of my general beliefs is that political competition is necessary for healthy and responsive governance. Everywhere I've ever lived with single party rule has devolved into myopic and unresponsive governance. The exact details vary depending on which party had total control, but the general issues remain. A party that is competing for voters is one that produces new ideas, and tries to persuade voters that they're the best choice. A party that wins by default focuses on base service and winning primaries, which often doesn't worry as much about governing well.

Unfortunately the US will never have the level of political diversity that is the norm in parliamentary democracies because FPTP heavily favors two party rule, and the two parties will never let go of FPTP for fairly obvious reasons. So the issue is, how can we make our system more dynamic given that the best solution, a change to our elector system, is probably out of reach?
In some areas of the world, this method seems to have persisted longer. Sahel Sounds released two compilations "Music from Saharan Cellphones" of tracks that they originally discovered on such bluetooth sharing networks: https://sahelsoundscompilations.bandcamp.com/album/music-fro...

(Though I'm pretty sure that they then went back and established traditional contractual relationships with the artists before releasing the compilations).
By 'at the moment' I mean now. Because the problem is now. Scheduling a visit to an Apple Store is not a good option to deal with my frustration at that moment. Besides, I am in Europe, where the prices are higher while having far less Apple Stores (pretty sure there is none in the country where I live).
People live up to 90 nowadays. We're keeping people alive far longer than "evolutionary nature" ever intended.
Yes, why wouldn't it? The funds are locked in a 2 of 2 multisig address.
And how is it a fair market when the government subsidies give google et al a home field advantage?
> If we could build the same design over and over in a bunch of locations, with a common regulatory regime it would be much cheaper and much faster.

This not being possible is why I said making nuclear economically viable is not politically viable.
which... may be days or a week away, if there's anything remotely close to you. FWIW, I've usually been able to get something 'same day', but not always, and often it's "hey, there's a slot in 2 hours, and the next one is in 6 days".
This is inverted moderation: they're penalizing anodyne, wonkish lawyers' podcasts, while leaving up most of the nonfactual, inflammatory ragebait. This is the exact opposite of how every platform professes to moderate.

The rules-violating stuff must look very impressive for ad engagement metrics.
There are a couple problems with the "market opportunity" argument. The first is that no, there isn't a market opportunity due to network and monopolistic forces. The second is that there is a fundamental issue with the system itself, whereby both state and private establishment players eventually force any player with a large piece of the market to do things like censor certain narratives.
Briar desperately needs a library for Linux and Windows that can be used to build all sort of applications.

Discussion forums, group chat, IM, location-based messaging, email/mailing-list equivalents, blogs and offline websites and more. Not just one app.
I used to use mozrepl back in the day before FF Quantum (or a version nearby) broke it, worked great- run the browser(s) via telnet. Could run as many browsers as memory would allow.
You don't need to pay, write me on twitter DMs @_cianobacteria and I'll send some goodies your way.
When did they stop including them because they were absolutely included on both the Macs I bought a few years ago...
The current UX of notifications is terrible. After months of using it I still don't understand the mental model. A notification comes up, I hover and wait for the cross to appear and click it. But then some time later I unlock my machine or something happens and apparantly all my notifications are still there for some reason and I have to clear them again, only this time they are in groups and I have to clear multiple groups.

Somehow Apple took a UX flow that was fine and made something that regularly makes me feel stupid because I don't understand what I'm supposed to do to make it behave in a way that makes sense.

Notifications are such a simple thing, but they somehow made them complex.
Yes please! I really dislike every golang function returning "foo*, error" when it really means either foo or an error.
What did you end up settling on?
I agree with the GP comment that the GOP has no right wing parallel in Europe. But your comparison with European Fascism is both innacurate and historically disrespectful.

Literally all the fascist regimes in the countries you listed were Military coups in their origin and were all fairly economically inept regimes. They also included all out media censorship, political prisoners, prisoner torture and interrogation, political assasinations, and genuine terror across civil society.
A monopoly for information retrieval? Surely not.

For online ads? Sure you can make that case.

Their business in the end is based on delivering relevant content. If there is a market for the traffic Google refuses to host, then there are probably market opportunities there.
The body's only energy store is ATP, which you can't generate from nothing
Go 1.18 will let you set the version of the “AMD64” architecture to target
My personal favorite take on this is the Dark Forest concept (probably because I just finished reading the book).

It makes sense to me that unless there were some way of ensuring mutually assured destruction, any advanced alien race would simply eliminate any sentient species they became aware of that could possibly become a threat in the future (whether that's hundreds, thousands, or millions of years).
Ah. Yes. With storage we are at least ten years behind any plausible development scenario that could keep us below 2 degrees of global warming. Still, doing it now is better than not doing it at all.

However, the technology is all there. We have it.

Electrolysed hydrogen. There is a lot of development work being done on optimising electrolysis, but it's by no means a lab experiment like carbon sequestration[1] or fusion power. Hydrogen is routinely handled at scale in ammonia production.

If we are to move away from fossil fuels for steel and cement making (and for industrial process heat), we will need to be producing quite a lot of hydrogen. So this just increases demand by a factor of two to five. Best get started on it.

However, you are right. Everyone's been focused on the electricity sector (and to a lesser extent private land transport) up till now. And within that, on production.

I don't think the "not just electricity and cars" message sunk in during COP-26. It will have to soon, though.

1. I distinguish carbon sequestration, technology to permanently lock up carbon at the same scale as our current total fossil fuel consumption, from CCS, carbon capture and storage, which is useful together with hydrogen for feedstocks for industrial chemical manufacturing. CCS is a little further along and easier to do.
Sorry to hear you're facing issues with the install! I simply presented my own experience, I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong, so I am not sure what you're disagreeing with!
"Bitcoin may now be wired back and forth between the parties on layer 2 w/o needed to be settled individually on the Bitcoin block chain."
Cooperatively update the final state would be more precise. And if one party is uncooperative then a timeout contract becomes valid. Your understanding is generally correct. Also bitcoin doesn't use the word crypto which is closely associated with scams. Bitcoin is about the 21 million coin limit so only one currency not cryptocurrencies.
what do you think about this https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/FAQ#does-b... ?
My kids are involved with wrestling and the sport is generally all about getting more people involved in anyway possible. There are rules for the deaf to allow a translator to walk around the outside of the mat to sign. There are rules for the blind that require contact be maintained throughout the match. Amputees are not unheard of and sometimes present major challenges since missing a leg might bring a seriously stronger person down a couple weight classes.

Nothing really to say about this article other than I'm happy they're able to get out there and play. I just wanted to point out a sport that seems to be doing it right at the national level, not just one instance.
Thanks for your suggestions. For my use case (tuning parameters of a financial market simulation), I'm essentially able to get good noise estimates for free by re-sampling a set of parameters multiple times.

So for example, rather than simulate an entire month in one shot, I'll simulate a day 30 times and therefore have a decent estimate of the noise for that result and be able to clearly distinguish the noise from the covariance of the Gaussian process.

The noise in these simulations can vary dramatically in parameter space (easily 10-100x), so it seems like it would be important to model.
Also compare Grosskreutz's testimony to his statements to various news networks this past week, where he repeatedly contradicted his own sworn testimony.
I suggest:
-get certifications in your area of focus (I personally am looking at AWS ones); tons of resources for certification study at your own pace

-stay working but study at night; to avoid debit and continue to increase years of experience

-Once you have the certs, then eval if you really want the degree.

-Some companies offer tuition reimbursement; taking some night classes towards a degree shows employers motivation

-maybe change jobs every 3-5 years to stay fresh or at least interview periodically other companies

Beware of burnout, you may find that the certifications gives you enough mobility. Years of experience plus certification should get you in the door to most jobs. You may hit your 40s and realize you should have spent more time with loved ones.
Danger doesn't require an active desire to exploit resources. I mean, let's be honest, if a species possesses the resources to cross interstellar space, we are not going to pose a threat to them.

To me the bigger concern with regard to intelligent extraterrestrial life would be that it could be unintentionally dangerous even if their intentions were entirely benign. For instance, a species that exhaled a poisonous gas like cyanide or carbon monoxide would be very dangerous to individual people.

We tend to anthropomorphize alien life, believing that it would be somewhat like us. A head, a torso, limbs, breathes oxygen, same mental functioning, etc. The final reality could be far different depending on the environment it evolved in.
They didn't build the API to deal with people using it in a useful way so instead of making it useful they use limits to guard against use or over use. As a result they also prevent abusers / attackers from causing denial of service (thus busting SLAs and waking up tired engineers).
Being sad is like being depressed, but the causes are different. That’s what’s important.

And if you were diagnosed by a “nurse” as clinically depressed I would say you are probably suffering from situational depression, or sadness in other words. And Nurses shouldn’t be Diagnosing mood disorders.

That’s my point, depression is a mood disorder, sadness is not. Neither is situational depression. You don’t treat situational depression with anti-depressants.
There is no reason to believe that "Knowledge is a unified whole" and that advancements in technology would parallel advancements in morality. Human history has plenty of examples of technological superiority wiping out relatively peaceful groups.

This blog seems to spew all kinds of over-confident snippets:

"To have a maximally creative society, you have to have freedom, you have to have liberty, and therefore you will have a non-violent society."

Freedom and liberty lead inexorably to... non-violence? That is at least naive. The boundary of individual liberty is where conflict happens. If everyone has unbounded liberty you can expect unbounded conflict.

Then there is this post which does some nearly-worthless math to conclude that life is extremely rare: nav.al/existence. Maybe wrong, maybe right, but a very shallow thought.
I don't think we've met. I'm Danish. I use the US keyboard layout.
Ever since they stopped building wireless routers, Apple has forgotten Time Machine in favor of pushing iCloud backups for separate services.

But there’s still no good alternative to Apple’s old routers. I tried to buy a new router for gigabit internet last year, and the interfaces are so piss-poor and the performance so pathetic across the board that I ended up getting the last generation of Airport Extreme instead. I get 800ish down, 500ish up on wifi, so as far as I can tell I’m not missing out on anything aside from 6E, which my devices don’t support anyway.

I really hope Apple starts making routers with Apple Silicon soon. With incorporated Time Capsule backups, too. That’s the only way that they’ll stop neglecting the software.
How I make side hustles work
"Manipulating crowds at scale is what we do"

"I wouldn't even know how to manipulate just 1 person... unless I am manipulating thousands of people, its just not worth my time as a engineer at Google."

"Its not evil if it encourages people to think correctly about issues"
IMO, it goes a step further than that, though. The motivations for most of the conquistadors was wealth— in the form of gold and new trade routes.

What would an alien civilization who has built the necessary capabilities to get to us want with our resources? Especially when all of them can be mined in far greater quantities along the way.
If anything is sacrificing the well-being of poor Americans who deserve better, it is the fact that helping them is punted to government bureaucracies instead of being done by private individuals and charitable organizations who are both able and motivated to exercise much better judgment about who needs help and what help is needed than any government bureaucrat can possibly do.
Things are only better or worse than other things when comparing specific attributes. Something can be better looking, better functioning in some specific way, and so forth.

"Better" and "worse" overall are necessarily subjective assessments. Is that piece of garbage car worse than a high-end one? By some measures, yes. But if your criteria include "being the least expensive", then no, it's not.
> just about any American will agree that we spend too much on the military industrial complex

That's not my experience, Can't tell you the amount of people I've meet that have no problem with the military having a blank check.
Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than it does on TVs
The application that got Metlo into YC
I have no direct knowledge of YouTube's configuration, but my more general knowledge of how Alphabet does business suggests that high-business-value customers have company-internal guardians (in sales, advertising, or biz-dev) who are actually tasked with making sure nothing breaks on their services. I assume they do the same for high-biz-value channels, so I'd expect fewer accidents on bigger channels with more opportunity to make a mess for YT than smaller ones.
>There was some controversy in the previous year because apple tried to deprecate the firewall hooks and allow their junk passed the replacement they offered.

Funny how framing something that's true (allowing apple software to bypass firewalls) is seen as a controversy. See previous discussion on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816
> If you want to know how and why AMD motors have been chosen for so many of the pre-exascale and exascale HPC and AI systems...

AMD...motors?
Making podcasts out of Project Gutenberg e-books
Ah you're right it was Blair - in that case, I blame the other Conservative party; Blairite Labour.
Thanks. This was definitely the hardest project I've worked on in my life. I fear I may have shaved a few years off my life with all of the all-nighters I pulled with this, so it's good to hear recognition for the work. :)
Cloned and built on my Mac without any issues. Everything compiled and linked without warnings. A huge plus in my opinion. Other than stating that it builds two executables, there doesn't seem to be any documentation on using it. Did I miss it?
"Freedom of speech is overrated, I don't agree with it as a general principle"... It's a minority but the people who actually say this are just promoting increased government control of citizenry. Either they are naive or that's what they want.
Not AT&T, but Cingular. Although I believe that Cingular was gone by the time the iPhone actually launched.
Having been farmed for ideas and then kicked out once, I can't imagine who would sign up for round two.
This puts so many weird and obviously unproven assumptions on other intelligence that it's hard to take seriously.

It's not obvious that morals at all are necessary for intelligence.

It's not obvious that another intelligence encountered would come from a society rather than being a single evolved entity and as such would have had any reason to develop empathy.

It's not obvious that another intelligence would see us as an earlier state of itself.

It's possible that other intelligence is so different than us that it wouldn't recognize us as being alive in the way that it is.

There are just so many unknowns that it's very difficult to reason about. If any of these statements seems suspect, keep in mind that humans held these to be true of chimpanzees just a few decades ago, and other humans a few centuries ago, and we're literally as close as it gets.
Resourcerer: Declarative react-query alternative for REST APIs
Interesting. Also in Europe? I will try this week. I often have problems and am pretty sure a new one will turn up soon.

AirDrop is a notoriously returning problem. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. I consider myself tech savvy and understand how it works, but AirDrop is often useless.
Does anyone make a small auxiliary keyboard, similar to a freestanding numpad, that can be programmed for various characters and functions? I would love to be able to setup a custom keyboard for special characters that I need repeatedly but don’t want to have to force them onto the regular keyboard.
https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/amd-cdna2-white-p...

The article points out this CDNA2 whitepaper, which has the juicy technical details.

CDNA1 is here: https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/amd-cdna-whitepap...

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CDNA2 / MI200 is a chiplet strategy with two "GCDs", each functioning as a classic GPU. These two GCDs can access each other's memory, but only at a lower 400GBps speed (page 8 whitepaper).

The actual HBM RAM is designed for 1600 GBps (article), x2 since two GCDs exist. AMD says its like 3200 GBps but in actuality, any one such block/workgroup can only get 2000 GBps (1600 GBps local RAM + 400 GBps from infinity-fabric / partner GCD). So its really a bit complicated and will likely be very workload specific.

If your data can be cloned / split efficiently, then the RAM probably will look like 3200GBps. But if you have to communicate with both parts of RAM to see all the data, you'll see a clear slowdown.
if I recall, Portugal is one of the few countries in the West that has already implemented "No Net-Neutrality" .. pay-for-service over the open Internet. I have a screenshot of pricing for "social media tier" and others.
What do you hate about Time Machine?

I've used it since 2013. Every time I've bought a new MBP, I simply use time machine to restore and my new one looks exactly like my old one. Never had an issue.

I find it far easier to use than Duplicity, Iron Mountain ConnectedBackup, or Carbonite, all of which I've used at other jobs. (All of those require fine-grained backup tweaking that requires a lot of diligence to check boxes and set policies, and then fuss with awkward dialogs when trying to recover... duplicity is so effing weird... Time Machine just works and the time scroll seems very clever compared to the other three.)

I'd be interested to hear your problem(s) with it?
Another that comes to mind is http://xkcd949.com/ ofc named after https://xkcd.com/949/
The F-150 Lightning, R1T, and Cybertruck all offer a minimum towing capacity of 10,000 pounds. The price is higher and the range is lower than their petrol equivalents, but it is false to say these EV trucks are less capable in going off-road and pulling heavy loads.
This might be happening because the same feed is available on YouTube TV, so similar content might be hit by the Content ID system meant to stop people from restreaming TV on YouTube.
Hence my previous comment you're 'replying' to: It's only arguing about how much sodium becomes really bad, which is at best peripheral to the what was discussed. What's your point?
Only for those with two hands.
fwiw, it is most definitely possible to build an sd card that can exfiltrate its own data over wifi. in fact, that was the entire point of the Eye-Fi[0] product (though not with any nefarious intent).

though granted that's still a way smaller attack surface than what would be typically granted to a usb device.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye-Fi
I'm using default python mode actually (no elpy, no lsp) and emacs python configuration is maybe 3 or 4 lines.
This reminds me of QBasic for DOS -- you have the code and the execution environment tightly integrated. (I think QBasic did have some graphics support, though?)

Thinking back on it, QBasic might have created a generation of programmers -- you would copy a working game from a friend, and then try to modify the source code to let yourself cheat.