skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why are you assuming you have to use a car to solve the problem.

That's the opposite of what I'm doing.

> The problem is people want to get someplace in your city and currently it is inconvenient for them to do so.

I agree. And we already know that "add more lanes" is a very costly (especially maintenance forever. Again, see Not Just Bikes), and we already know it doesn't even help.

> If people leave your transit system for a car it is because your transit system sucks.

No, not sucks. They just have to be subjectively a better choice for the individual.

So yes, then we agree. Money should be spent on improving alternative transport, not car infrastructure.
Perhaps one of the European free software hackerspaces? Like, SV is capitalist but Berlin is socialist (grossly exaggerated). Perhaps an art collective or squat doing media art would be more accurate.

Generally with some thought, you'd see technology as, well, technology. It's not something spiritual nor negating it but a kind of layer or cloak over.
It is by far the best book (website content?) I read around compilers.

It's extremely accessible, easy to follow and digest, plus it challenges you to experiment to see how things work by adding new features or breaking existing ones; fascinating stuff!

Now...if it wasn't the Java part and was fully dedicated in C it would be awesome! :-D
Interesting. The main page loads for me but the examples pge just shows a blank canvas. iOS Chrome.
Vulnerabilities in Lantronix PremierWave 2050 could lead to RCE, file deletion
Having read a great deal from him, I just want to confirm everything said about Andrew Gallant, and I absolutely trust him too!

This blog post is a great testament to his human skills:
https://blog.burntsushi.net/foss/
I understand that you have problems reading so i repeat it for you the third time:

>>>since you cannot check the silicon...

And since you have problems using google too:

https://www.sbir.gov/node/1620879

>>A small business has already shown that a completely open source solution (to include CPU firmware, CPU Microcode, Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), BIOS boot code, power management, etc.) based on a high performance CPU is possible.

Imagine who that "small business" is?
There used to be monthly(?) threads, but I guess that got shut down because it doesn't really lead to interesting discussions?
Might I suggest (d): analysts, disgusted by the fact this crap is on top, tweaked The Feed in an attempt to disfavor that type of content then ran a simulation but saw their simulated ad revenue become lower than allowed minimum, then did (a) and went out to have lunch.
There is an inherent and not entirely unfounded bias evident in this article that external knowledge is inferior to internal knowledge. It is certainly true that reaching the point where you don't have to look something up usually means you have a deeper understanding of it and are more competent and fast using it. Quality of knowledge matters, but there are limits to how much knowledge a single person can internalize.

Quantity has a quality all it's own.

Having vast amounts of external knowledge available for rapid access offers unique capabilities. Skill at searching as well as quality of search tools can enable people to do things that would have taken far longer just a couple decades ago when any given search would have involved dead-tree books.

Perhaps we should start thinking of google and other such tools, not as poor substitutes for knowledge painstakingly internalized, but rather, an augmentation of human intelligence that grants humans rapid access to far more knowledge than any single human could possibly internalize in a lifetime. As these tools improve, this augmentation effect will become more pronounced, as will the deleterious effects of being cut off from the internet.

The blurring of lines between internal and external knowledge may also intensify with future technologies. e.g. Wetware out of a William Gibson novel lets people with data jacks install modules of mental expertise at will. Will an article like this even have meaning once people can look up a module of deeply internalized knowledge and install it in an instant?

One day, the Internet's knowledge may be indistinguishable from our own.
QMK does have mouse support so you could map each encoder to an axis for the mouse I think.

https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_pointing_device
Yes, but then they brought it back here https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18874 - apparently Apple developers fixed these issues.
For everyone mad about Metal, remember:

A. Metal came 2 years before Vulkan.

B. Microsoft does their own proprietary API with DirectX.

C. Metal is a high-level language, Vulkan is low-level. Apple wants you to use a high-level language so they have more flexibility in optimizing the low-level for you now and in the future, which Vulkan closes off more.

D. Metal runs on iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS as well, not just macOS. It's a graphics API for all Apple platforms.

E. Because of D, talent for Metal is much more likely to be found with mobile game developers than AAA studios.

F. Game engines actually support Metal - Unity, Unreal, LWJGL, the most common engines run on Metal fine. Don't use Metal as a scapegoat.
I have lot of problem with adaptater Usb <-> Sata and uas actually ... even with 'compatible' adaptaters from this page : https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi-4-usb-boot-config-gu...

I'm confronted to kernel bug : https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4490
The Energy of Tomorrow: The Promise, Failure and Possible Rebirth of Nuclear
Right as if "helping the world" is not self-serving
My personal favorite is DIY Solar Forum. I'm more into LFP batteries and solar for my RV than for my house, but here is a direct link to their DIY Powerwall subforum: https://diysolarforum.com/forums/diy-powerwalls.25/
Type-Driven Development with Idris. If you haven't delved into dependent typing before, you absolutely owe it to yourself.
Warren Buffett's first rule: don't lose money
Warren Buffett's second rule: don't forget the first rule

There is a good reason the federal government has restricted participation in private investment vehicles to accredited investors. The odds of winning the lottery on the type of business that needs to resort to crowd funding is vanishingly small. I would speculate that the majority of people drawn to these types of crowdfunding investment vehicles do not have a positive net worth or meaningful retirement savings.
> Could LGPL license limit it's growth and popularity?

Not really. A lot of people license their code as BSD in the hope that some massive company picks it up and they either get famous or a fat consulting contract. In reality what we've seen e.g. Amazon do is just copy the idea for themselves and pay their internal engineers. GPL gives you more force, you can get money out of them to remove its restrictions.
> does it reduce volatility by requiring a larger outlay to participate?

Yes. Absolutely. It also makes it less appealing to retail investors. Eg. Berkshire Hathaway A stock is 431,536.38 at time of writing. Amazon is 3,608.66, Apple is 163.27. Apple is supposedly the most popular consumer-held stock. It also makes it harder to use derivative products. eg. Options require buying/selling 100x shares, so Berkshire Hathaway would literally require millions of dollars for one option contract. That surely impacts trade volume.

> Does [fractional shares] mean that every stock becomes a penny stock- subject to unpredictable price moves as a result of cheap speculation?

Yes and no. Not all companies are available as fractions. Also, the Robinhood investor who is day trading from his phone at work is probably using fractional and driving price movements (eg. GME), but the day trading full time investor class is not using fractional shares nearly as much. A lot of more professional-focused platforms either don't allow fractions (or don't for pro users), or don't make full features available. Eg. IBKR is a common platform for Algo trading and their api doesn't allow fractional shares (but their manual GUI with app allows it).

This is likely due to technical and liquidity reasons as much as pragmatic ones. When a fractional share is available, that basically means the broker owns the shares, and gives you partial ownership. They need to basically own n+1 across their platform for all users (round up). If you're doing large trading volumes, that's impractical to keep up with on their end - especially if you quickly buy a lot and sell back.

> does it mean that every stock becomes a penny stock

Just to repeat, usually brokers only support the most popular stocks as fractional, which already have high volume. This means it may not have a huge impact on the system - but that's just speculation, i don't know if it has had an impact on the stocks like you suggest.
Maybe not quite the answer you're looking for, but I'll throw it in anyway.

- I planned on quitting my FAANG job in February 2020 to go travel the world for 9 months (midlife crisis, sabbatical, whatever you want to call it).

- COVID hit, we came back March 2020.

- Decided to take the opportunity to leave the Bay Area and try our hand at freelance / contracting for time flexibility so we could go travel again once lockdown ended and international travel became a possibility.

- We thought we might come back to the Bay Area once "it was over" and we'd travelled.

- Lockdown stretched on, borders stayed closed.

- Contracting picked up, was able to negotiate part-time hours making enough to live on.

- My partner switched careers successfully, starting a new business.

- Fast forward to now, I'm still contracting. We've put down roots in the small town we moved to. My partner's business is thriving. We're saving up for a house.

Overall life is good. We've traded the stresses of the Bay Area for a different set of stresses - it's equally difficult finding housing here, starting a new business has been hard, and figuring out what I want out of a freelance career has been a struggle as well. We've got a lot more free time, and the flexible hours have been a huge blessing.
But then they wouldn't sound "authoritative" enough. The dogma-cult that keeps its leader well-fed wouldn't survive.

I think the best authoritative-sounding counter-quip is "Best practices are best not practiced."
No, you have to be interested in something. Caring implies that you have an emotional desire for the hypothesis to be either true or false and that leads to bias. Scientific interest drives motivation.
My minimalist Alpine Linux Desktop setup for daily use
Ns.nl: in English button
Bahn.de: English what's that?
"All hail the algorithm" - SuperfastMat on Youtube

(which is a highly entertaining channel, it's good he's self-aware)
No Epstein related ones eh?
He created the public understanding that "software" means ready-to-run executables. He created the public understanding that "software" is non-repairable, non-modifiable and created (only) by wizards in corporations. He created the public understanding that software had to cost money, and specifically per-copy, per-platform, per-user licensing terms.

None of these things were accepted before Gates et al. create Microsoft. Sure, there were versions of them floating around, but they were still competing with alternative visions of how computing was going to work, and there was at least an equal chance that the more anarchic vision of things that ultimately gave rise to GNU and libre software would have won out.

Gates' letter to "hobbyists" stands out as a turning point in the history of software, and because its author ended up with an enormously powerful corporation behind him, his views of how this stuff should work became the dominant one.
React-three-fiber – a React renderer for Three.js
I think how you learned to code does sort of shape your coding.

I'm very much from the opposite camp. I learned to code in C in vi and didn't really have anyone to ask other than the manpages and the K&R book, I'm pretty sure I didn't even use syntax highlighting.

I do think this has shaped my programming even later to where I stubbornly stick to boring but stable programming languages like C, C++ and Java, and these languages I've used for in some cases almost 25 years and where I virtually never have to look anything up. It's not like I haven't dabbled in other languages and paradigms, like python and haskell and whatever; but it's not those languages I use when I need to build something. I just don't see the value in constantly learning all this flavor-of-the-month stuff. When the dust settles, most hyped upcoming programming languages become footnotes when the history of programming is written.
This is the real problem. All meetings should be public and a matter of public record. We may need some workarounds for Defense/Sensitive issues, but standard conversations need to be disclosed.
I made more in less time. Freelancing earns you a risk premium, since no one is taking a cut.

Now I live from a website I run. I'd do it regardless of income because of the lifestyle it permits.
Hacker news has a rule about not editorializing headlines, they have to be posted as they are on the linked site.

A lot of the users this affects are most likely also familiar with tutanota's services I'd guess.
The obvious answer is that performance/watt is literally everything when talking about laptops. Most people favor laptops these days even if they (like me) leave their machines "docked" 90% of the time.

do we know for a fact that a 90w Apple GPU would
perform 4x faster if it was running at 500w

It's somewhat besides the point IMO, but don't GPU workloads tend to scale well simply by adding more compute units? This should be pretty easy to extrapolate by comparing M1 / M1 Pro / M1 Max power consumption and performance relative to the # of GPU cores.

I would certainly like to see Apple go nuts and make a true, cost-and-power-consumption-are-no-object world destroying GPU. If only as a halo product. But I wouldn't hold my breath.
Thanks so much for the feedback, and I'm glad it is working for you. Yes, I was using this in VirtualBox. I now use it on bare metal, so I may show how that differentiation is made. I made the updates to the blog post.
Having been a part of the community since a bit before 1.0, no this does not happen every 6 months.
This is what post-order society looks like.

People are doing massively parallel theft, betting that they are too many for the police to arrest. So far, it seems to be working. If it continues to work, there are only a few options:

- Businesses accept this as a price of doing business.

- Businesses close because they can't live with this as a price of doing business. Now, if it's high-end stores, that may not be a huge loss to society. But something similar is also happening to drugstores, and people actually need drugstores.

- Businesses beef up their physical security. Maybe something like outside security cameras plus electronic locks on the doors that can only be opened by the people inside.

- Businesses beef up their security by hiring guards. But there probably aren't that many people who are willing to go the rounds with intruders armed with crowbars while unarmed themselves. Sooner or later, that's going to result in looters getting shot. And when it does, that's going to result in widespread outrage, at least among some segments of society.

If you (as a society) won't provide sufficient policing to protect stores, and you won't let the stores protect themselves, then you're either going to have very expensive stores, or you aren't going to have stores. And even the very expensive stores option is facing a feedback loop: They're expensive, so more people feel justified in stealing, so the store becomes even more expensive... That's not sustainable.

So the end result will be no stores. That's a kind of post-capitalism, but I'm pretty sure it's not what most people have in mind by the term.
> 1) Not revokable (unlike compromised credentials)

Isn't that what Cancelable Biometrics e.g. [0] is about
[0] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7192838
Jamie Dimon and I don't get along. Elon? I'm sure we could have a hell of a game of Cosmic Wimpout.
Related: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

That site gets tossed around like candy and I don't think every graph they throw up is perfectly explainable by their central point, but what the invention of the 401(k) and IRA, both of which were released to the public only after the gold standard had finally been abandoned, really did was to allow wealth managers to pump completely unimaginable quantities of money into abstractions of value that are not actually related with physical wealth that materializes for Americans in the form of skills, a strong manufacturing industry, and robust supply chains. Michael Burry (Big Short guy) notes that the amount of money stored in indexes and funds tracking the S&P 500 are many orders of magnitude larger than the money that actually moves around between the shares of the S&P 500 companies themselves.
When all of my email is accessible in one place, it is very easy to use that data to generate a model of my activity. Yes, the recipients of my email probably won't protect it well, but it's distributed across multiple providers.

I know that data will likely be mined from my email at one end or the other, but I might as well not serve it up on a silver platter.
Trains could replace planes in Europe
I've read War and Peace, I get that you can model the goals of an organization as the integral of the goals of its constituents. I do embrace that complexity.

But reductionism is helpful sometimes. The integral of a complex equation can add up to an integer. Modeling planetary movements in a way that's similar to a spherical cow in a vacuum may not be perfect, but it is possible, and tells you quite a bit.

Reductively, companies pursue profit, in the same way that people pursue money. It's not all-consuming, but if you want to model behavior, that's probably the place to start.
They did not actually perform benchmark for ClickHouse, just copy-pasted the results from some old article: https://altinity.com/blog/clickhouse-nails-cost-efficiency-c...
What exactly was the role of this team? how exactly it came into being?
I suspect that we are starting to see the reaction against the CoC entryists in open source projects.
>In that article it says Amazon helped draft Virginia's privacy bill. So I guess they are making exactly the effort you talked about?

They are not. What you just highlighted is a privacy bill in the state of Virginia. That is not at the federal level.

>Seems totally reasonable to me.

That's fair, for you. For many others, giving "tech companies exemptions to collect and analyze smart-speaker recordings without customer consent" is unsettling, as is the fact that those customers would be "prevented ... from suing companies over privacy violations."

>Amazon already lets you get a copy of your data and you can request for it to be deleted. And from having worked there (note: I no longer work there and don't have a dog in this fight), I know how the org ties its own hands and makes things difficult for itself, just to protect customer data and their right for that data to be deleted forever.

In your initial comment, you said that, "The lengths that they go to for preserving consumer privacy actually seemed absurd to [you]". Yet the only reason Amazon lets you get a copy of your data and allows you to request it to be deleted is, per the same Reuters article, because the state of California forced their hand on that issue. The article states:

>Under a 2018 California law that passed despite Amazon’s opposition, consumers can access the personal data that technology companies keep on them. After losing that state battle, Amazon last year started allowing all U.S. consumers to access their data.

>Amazon tried but failed to derail the 2018 California law, the first of its kind in the United States, that allowed consumers to request the personal data companies stored on them. The 2018 Amazon document reviewing executive goals discussed plans to oppose the measure, noting concern about its “right to know” provisions for consumers. The 2018 public-policy update said of the proposal: “We strongly prefer no regulation, but if regulation becomes inevitable, we will seek amendment language to narrow any new requirements to the greatest extent possible.”

>The law’s passage was considered a major failure internally, a former Amazon public-policy employee said. An Amazon legal-strategy document written after the bill became law called the measure emblematic of “troubling regulatory and legislative trends” that “caught us by surprise.”

So really, the only reason they "make things difficult for [themselves], just to protect customer data and their right for that data to be deleted forever" is because they're now legally required to. If they truly went to "absurd" lengths to protect consumer privacy, this obvious option should've been something they offered to consumers beforehand and not something that "caught [them] by surprise", which is a phrase taken from an actual internal Amazon document. Instead, they fought against it and consider the fact that they had to give consumers this option to be a "major failure".
And if you ever have a problem with them, you _still_ won't hear from them.
Despite north america being much more hospitable, plenty of people died in north american colonies. Will modern humans be willing to pay that price?
Sometimes I code without the internet (on vacation, on trains and planes, etc) and it's not too hard.

The major difficulties are indeed around the things you mention, but one solution for that is having a few large projects open in another IDE window so you can search for functions, idioms, algorithms, patterns.

I guess I got used to it because I started coding professionally before Stack Overflow. There was Expert Sex Change, but it sucked, so I avoided it like the plague. It was mostly C#, so the combination of Static Typing + Intelisense also helped me not needing internet. Before C# I coded in Perl, so seeing other people's code wouldn't help anyway ;)
This made me chuckle. And reminded me of https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world...
> What format is it expecting? Do you have the endpoints correct? Is the security scoping accurate? Oh, it didn’t work? Time to embark on a microservices distributed systems murder mystery where the victim is another tiny piece of your soul, because getting coherent logs out of a CloudFront –> API Gateway –> Lambda configuration is CRAP.

I'm trying to figure out what this means because my experience has been the opposite. I find the logs to be generally very code, AWS X-Ray gives you good visibility into the whole process. And you can use third party telemetry / tracing providers too.

Also AWS Cloudwatch is actually pretty powerful for monitoring and supports custom metrics and alarms. It's not the most powerful log system in the world but it is pretty painless to use.

Also, Lambda are just short functions written in the language of your choice (of which there are many) or in a container. What exactly about that is not portable? If I write node.js code it is trivial to run in another environment that runs node.js.

I'm no an AWS super-fan but I feel this article is a rant (and one written without knowing all the actual capabilities of AWS) and not fact based.

I personally use Lambda a lot. The operations effort is near nonexistent saving me countless hours. As I said, I actually like cloudwatch. And economically, if my microservice is unused it uses zero resources and scales up near instantly.

Edit: to add to that, it sounds like the author's real issue is with microservices not serverless.
I'm less mad about Metal existing, and more mad about Apple deprecating/abandoning OpenGL. There was no good reason for that, especially for a company with their resources.
Oh, man. The feeling of those 6 binders arriving at the office with this year's edition.
The OCR on the Supernote is offline. This is something very convenient for me.