skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great, but how could it be verified that the NSA is not adding a backdoor to every one of these processors? Could anyone explain how easy it would be for them to compromise it in this manner?
RAF F-35 jet crashed into the sea ‘because plastic rain cover was left on’
Stronger/weaker refer to the value of a dollar compared to other currencies; inflation/deflation refer to the value of a dollar compared to goods and services. Neither is related to the "elite's proportion of the national currency". Again, I can only suggest reading some articles about this stuff.

> We have pro-inflation, anti-deflation economic ideology because the elite fund the economists' "research."

Suppose USD deflated; what would happen? Some people would move some money from other assets (stocks/bonds/etc) into currency and hold it for risk-free returns. What would that do? Reduce the amount of money in circulation. What does that do? Deflate the currency even more. What does that do? Incentivize even more people to move money into currency, which makes the currency deflate even more.

The whole point of a currency is that people spend it or invest it in something useful. If it's going up in value, they're incentivized not to do that, and it stops being used as a currency. This is an unambiguously bad outcome. I don't believe shadow elites are trying to convince economists of this, because they're already convinced.
One could include honesty in marketing, that seems like a pretty clear thing that this industry would need and that few providers actually do.
Does this also work for large code bases? In my experience it doesn't, but maybe my memory is just not very good :-)
There is no expectation that vaccines will produce a significant herd immunity effect. Fortunately they are pretty good at preventing deaths.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
That seems unnecessarily sarcastic. I wasn't saying just the "wires". I was trying to shed more light on what the actual problem was.
When entering stores with security cameras, I wonder how many use facial recognition tools and then how that information is being used / aggregated / sold.

It would be good to know whether facial recognition is being used before entering a business.
It seems fairly obvious that the subset of circumstances in which you become aware someone HAS ingested a drug (and is therefore intoxicated) would be more annoying than the superset of circumstances in which you merely see that someone is beginning to consume a drug.
Vaccinations are the closest thing we have to a solution.

No one has long term experience with them, so understandably no one knows how long they protect you for. That's life.

Yes, there are some (minor) risks associated with the vaccines. I too spent a day in bed. Twice. So what? Both you and I knew there's a risk of that when we got it. Still, the vaccine does what it says on the tin. So again, where's the charade?

We live in a time and place that allowed us to get a vaccine with 90%+ efficiency just a year after an incredibly infections, never before seen virus has been spotted and begun taking (many) lives. It even proved to be effective against the even more infectious variants that appeared later. And after millions around the world were literally suffocated to death by covid, both you and I got the vaccine for free (or at an affordable cost, depending on where you live). And the only side effect of the vaccine that either of us experienced is feeling sick for less than a day.

The word I'd use to describe this situation is definitely not charade.
If you view "Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox" on YouTube, you will find interesting answers. https://youtu.be/tiJVJ5QRRUE

In a scientific experiment, from the age of nine months, boys choose masculine toys, while girls choose femmine toys. Boys are more attract from inanimate systems, while girls from social interactions.

Obviously culture has an effect, every person is unique, etc., etc. So there cannot be limitation on what a person want and can do. It is only unrealistic pretending that 50% of boys and 50% of girls will have the same interests in work and life, because they are different.
Electronic timers usually use electronic switches, which can switch at the zero-crossing, and thus are far more robust to startup surges than mechanical relays (though without proper heatsinking, cannot handle as much continuous current). I once built a product with a relay and triac, the latter to handle the startup surges from a capacitive load and the former up handle the continuous 12A load. People loved it.
I paid an appalling amount of money to set myself up with Philips Hue. Their application is so rigid I can't make it do what I want. They have automation but they only allow you to turn on your lights when you come home and turn them off when you leave... I'd like some lights on when I leave thank you but their app doesn't allow for that very simple use case!
sorry if this is obvious, but how many CM4s can you plug into this board?
Yeah, the actual pew summary for that question was "Germans more likely than those in other publics to say they are satisfied while offering few specifics".

It seems like the takeaway is only two percent of Americans say vague positive things when talking about what gives them life satisfaction, with many more saying specific positive things
That's a lot of smart words, but I just paid $7 in bitcoin to top up my Egyptian sim card (wi fi in the hotels is not existent over there, so you must use mobile internet), using bitrefill and lightning. It took a few seconds to complete, I paid zero fees, I didnt have to divulge any information about myself nor to the vendor, nor to any bank or goverment. No registration, no validation, nothing. Vendor did not have to worry about my transaction being fraudulent or that it might be charged back for any reason.

As to the volatility, I topped up my payment wallet with $100 some time ago, used it to pay for many things, and now it shows a balance equivalent of $800. I welcome such volatility.

To me, this clearly shows the superiority of this form of money over previous forms.
> probably creating orders of magnitude more addicts

[citation needed]
ok, I'll bite. Why is it worse, I mean "insufferable"?

The whole point is not to be hunted for the horrible crime of smoking a joint. Is it any worse than drinking coffee or something? I think not but you obviously have your reservations.
https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html

Contains the canary: “To date, Apple has not received any orders for bulk data.”
Unless, it's Chinese government. In that case, Apple handle over their control over database to Guizhou-Cloud Big Data
Hah, I can't believe that Germany (of all EU countries) will likely be legalizing cannabis before the Netherlands.

This is good news, though.
But the price of bitcoin is unrelated, it seems, to any real world thing.

Pure speculation.
Direct link to the video itself: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw
Regarding Germany, as the article mentions “only 68 percent of people fully vaccinated”. That leaves a large population among which the virus can circulate. 68% is not a high enough immunity rate to fully block infections. Almost all of the people admitted to the hospital for COVID were not vaccinated.

No, you testing positive for multiple tests does not increase the number of infections. You are only one person.

Yes, if you are in a car wreck and are tested and found positive, you will be counted as an infection. The car wreck is irrelevant. What matters is the infection.

I agree that a previous, verified COVID infection maybe should be counted as offering some level of protection. You may still want to get a booster as natural immunity has not been shown to be as durable as vaccine induced immunity.

If the unvaccinated were to get a vaccine, we would be able to drop the restrictions that you and everyone dislikes. Failure to get vaccinated just drags this out longer.
Unfortunately, that's not the case in pragmatic reality.

When I say #ff0000, do I mean "sRGB red", as a TV would display in pure red phosphors back in the 1970s, or do I mean "1000K" / 700nm red (daylight is 6500K), which can only be reproduced by specialized displays?

Most people from the time before Apple made Display P3 wide color displays standard in all their products — so, most HN commenters — believe that #ff0000 just means "only red, no green or blue" — but all web browsers currently are left to invent their own answer for what #ff0000 means, and they do not all invent the same answer. Yet.

So it is with images.

In the beginning times, people made sixteen-color images for NTSC monitors, and then other people learned you could display synthetic colors that don't exist by mangling the image bitstream to the monitor, and those sixteen colors were hard-coded but varied by like +/-5% per device due to acceptable manufacturing tolerances, so they were internally consistent anyways.

And so we end up, today, trying to solve color profiles for file formats that specify colors as RGB hex values — which are, by definition, restricted to sRGB and thus wildly insufficient. But if we plan too far, we get file formats that are totally ridiculous - TIFF comes to mind - that can represent anything under the sun, at the cost of having a 1:1 mapping of "pixels" to "bytes" or worse.

You may also find the history of the EXR format relevant here, as it supports a functionally infinite amount of dynamic range in images, and there are definitely good niche use cases for it — but pragmatically, it's ridiculously overkill for normal everyday purposes. You could argue that everyone should use EXR in Lab, but then someone would suggest Oklab (since it makes better perceptual compromises) or HSLuv (what a great name), or you could try storing raw CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinates, which has been deprecated by CIE 170-2 to address serious flaws in the 1931 system.

Tying this back to engineering, there are often very good reasons for designing a processor or a byte store to be RISC or CISC, big or little endian, and we simply cannot predict what will work most pragmatically for all cases universally ahead of time, any more than the metric system was invented early enough in time to prevent miles per hour from being a unit of measure.
Maybe? The final two paragraphs:

“What the Pew survey shows isn's that Koreans are far more materialistic than their counterparts in other developed economies. It's that Korea suffers from an absence of existential purpose.

Many of its people say they have nothing to live for, and that's the country's biggest problem.”
He also created νευρόσπαστα (neurospasta) to help him around, literally traslated, nerve-tweakers (w/ nerves that spasm). That is machines whose nerves constrict and relax without thought, i.e androids.
Amazing world we live in, where a private company (Ebay) decided not to sell a book, and that's considered by the right as equivalent to book burning and an impending sign of fascism from the left. Meanwhile the right is talking about using the authority of local governments to literally burn and ban books from public institutions like schools, and that's framed as "curation", definitely not fascist or fascist adjacent at all, but also twisted to be the fault of the left as well.
> Have you followed this very thread?

indeed i am, people seem to having issues dealing with the reality of the two languages. One (golang) the problems you encounter with its GC are easily remedied using memory pools or adding compute. The other? you don't really have a choice without fighting against the language itself. or relying on improvements to the GC itself. which is precisely why java has had to spend so much effort on their GC to reduce latency while golang has been able to achieve extremely similar results with a fairly straight forward concurrent mark and sweep.

> Hardly a good thing for throughput-oriented applications.

add more compute. problem solved. its extremely rare to have situations where you can't add more compute to the problem. that's the point. you can easily solve throughput issues with compute. you can't solve latency issues as easily. if your STW GC pause ends up being 30s+ you're fucked. period.

if you're GC is the source of the problem because of garbage generation, generate less garbage. in go that's generally very easy. in java its very much not.

>beat Go by a huge margin, due to its more advanced GC, see:

you mean the advantage that entirely disappears with a memory pool added in like 4 lines of code?
doesn't sound like a huge margin win to me.

I've never once asserted java's GC isn't amazing for the problem its solving. I'm asserting its completely unnecessary in golang because golang allows avoiding the garbage to begin with.

you: 'JAVA GC IS AMAZING COMPARED TO GOLANGS!'
me: 'who gives a shit in practice golang memory allocation problems are trivial to resolve'

its the in practice of dealing with reality of the two languages I care about not the self inflicted problems java forces on developers.
If there’s x% chance of addiction and the availability increases by few orders of magnitude wouldn’t it naturally follow?
People won't invest in a reserve currency, they will use it for trade. Anything people are buying and holding is by definition not a reserve currency. You are describing "treasure".
Gmail does it https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/updates-about-gove...
Saltwater Fishing – Requirements for Doing It
I commented this further down and am interested in your thoughts. One thing I’ve come to appreciate more when we talk about the “real value” being produced is that these are essentially just money games. Lots of established Wall Street firms play money games for a (very, very good) living.

I’ve come to accept more that what people on Wall Street do is real. Games are real. I don’t personally buy into the “new world currency”, “real world use case, I’m gonna own my house on a blockchain” lines of thinking. The use case is still being fleshed out but in my opinion it’s much more likely to produce lots of Citadels than lots of Amazons or Googles if that makes sense. Whereas I think that HN believes it will just go away because it’s all a scam.

For better or worse, there is huge pent up demand for money games. The average person doesn’t know it yet, but they want to own a swap on an option to buy a percent of the interest of a bond deal that they can then stake for percent ownership in an nft. It sounds insane to you and me right now. But I think they’re going to evolve to the use case of crypto, not the other way around.
Or maybe "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race."
You don't need anything discovered in the last 40 years to be able to state that lobsters are not sentient. But, Rodolfo R Llinás' "I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self" is a really great book that explores the underpinings of sentience from single neurons on up. The tldr; is that the structures which seem to be necessary (if not sufficient) for consciousness in mammals (like 30-40 Hz thalamo-cortical loops) do not and cannot exist in the structures provided by the lobster nervous system. Do lobsters have some seperate, unrelated implementation of sentience? There's no behavioral evidence to support it. They're just big insects. I think anyone claiming that 100k neurons can support sentience needs to be providing the proof, not me providing the context and evidence for why not.
I think O(log(M)) where M is the number of remembered pixels. Index them by their (R,G,B,A) quad and do a range lookup sequentially by pixel, since any valid pixels would be within the same range as earlier potential matches.
VR displays. Probably the color of the sun in linear RGB color space for rendering purpose, then converted to the display color space.
In Berlin tobacco and weed smoke is everywhere. I don't really see how legalizing weed would make it any worse. People already smoke it in bars and on the streets and Germany loves their cigarettes too...
Let's see if the government will stay alive for long enough to actually promote the law. It's the first government after-Merkel, I am really curious how things will go...
Yep and if someone wants to criticize those things, it doesn’t mean that they just hate fun.
Or US. It's already running. So default.
What if you opted in to the terms of the Chinese App Store then switch to USA.
I'm surprised by some of the things reported by zero percent of respondents to make life meaningful, particularly pets and nature. It's been reported that Koreans are obsessed with their pets and that hiking is practically a national sport. When I lived in LA, there were huge groups of Korean hikers on popular trails. I wonder if there is a language barrier in Pew's survey, if "life meaning" carries some other nuance or significance to Koreans (maybe it means "outward life" or something?).

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-economy-pets/l...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/travel/along-the-trail-of...
At one point it takes longer to implement a simple feature then it takes to rewrite the whole program, that's when you rewrite the whole program (using a sane amount of dependencies - as few as possible)
You're overlooking defi, this is the thing being revolutionized right now; you can make all the transactions you can afford to pay transaction fees for, trade hundreds of assets, swap tokenized USD for tokenized EUR, all without an intermediary.

To be candid, you are generally trusting the contracts you're interacting with to be bug free, but you are able to audit the code just as easily as anyone else, and verify that the contracts are as advertised. Unlike dealing with a bank portal, all the logic running on the blockchain is visible and verifiable.
I was also surprised but the "leaks" have been pretty consistent. Certainly not looking forward into having a 600W GPU in my tine gaming room
Recently learned this lesson.

Had 2 backups (1 SD card, 1 HDD) for my "Document" folder.

I was trying to replace my GRUB MBR bootloader for REFind's EFI so I could dualboot on a new laptop (and swap-in my old one's SSD without having to reinsall the whole system: Arch). Unfortunately, the boot partition was too small, and needed to be re-sized from 512MB to 1GB. Foolishly, and in a rush, I thought using gparted to change the partition boundaries (shrink the root partition by 512MB from the beginning, and stretch the boot partition to 1GB from the end) was the answer.

I completely forgot that EXT4 has a superblock at the beginning, so now it was gone, and the root partition was completely unmountable -- and fsck was of no use.

So I scramble to find my backups (to decide whether or not I should figure out how to fix this), and realize that tiny little SD card was missing, and my HDD backup was completely unmountable.

Truly, a major fuck-up.

Thankfully, I didn't write anything to the boot partition, so throwing a Hail Mary and simply resizing the partitions back to their exact original sizes (thankfully x2 my TTS history was useful), allowed the root drive to mount without a hitch.

I was close to losing all of my KeepPassXC passwords and private keys due to shear idiocy.

In the end, I set up "cloud" backups (second storage media type, and long and far away), switched to Debian, and continued on my merry way.
Thanks for the recommendation! I've been on the lookout for a good monochrome theme, this looks great to me w/ boxes off
I solved this problem in 2017 when they changed things around a bit.

CMD /c vcvarsall.bat x64 && set

Then dump the VC specific environment variables in a file and you are good.

I implemented this in tundra a very nice and fast build system. It's in Lua... you can look at it here https://github.com/deplinenoise/tundra/blob/master/scripts/t...
Mr. president, raise tariffs and publicly shame companies!
care to share any sources? or did you just make this up?
What are some interesting startups in Austin area?
Schools, parks and transit are not static and new ones can be built. Those all fall under "development".
Long function names are often self-documenting in terms of what they're supposed to do, even if not the how. What's more clear?

find_windows_kit_root_with_key

find_kit
With a well managed fiat, money supply growth tracks the growth of economic activity. In a Ponzi scheme... It is otherwise.
To me, there is obviously a tension between the right of individuals to take calculated risks and the responsibility of the society to protect its members from harm. I don't think it's reasonable to say that individuals have an absolute right to take any risks they please, irrespective of the wishes of their society, because the society will end up bailing them out when the outcomes of their risky behavior get bad enough. Mountain-claimbing is actually a great example: if you get yourself caught in a ravine, there are crews of highly trained, well-equipped rangers who will fly in and spend enormous sums of money, as well as put their own lives in danger, to save your life. All this despite the fact that the risk was taken without consulting them at all. Because of this, mountain rangers have every right to mark certain dangerous trails closed to the public. It is a reasonable infringement on personal liberty, given that they're on the hook for other people's risky decisions.
Ok so how would this work in any other way?

Should _every_ S3 action have a `if will_incur_charges() and should_not_incur_charges(): raise Exception()` statement in it's critical path? No, of course not. Everyone get's slower for nobodies benefit. It has to be delayed.

But then you run into an issue: what if you end up costing AWS 100$ before the budget action kicks in. Should you not pay that? Why not?
This sounds like a distraction to cover actual issues right now.
Not really sure why this is downvoted.

We now know for a fact that comprehensive population vaccination is not sufficient to reduce the R0-value of the infection below 1, so the "protect others" rationalization is entirely invalid.

Restricting freedom of movement and association on the basis of a mandatory medical treatment that does NOT sterilize the population of something that has long been endemic is purely an authoritarian power play, with a dash of virtue signaling thrown in.

Don't get me wrong, it will definitely help YOU and YOUR own mortality risk, but the population protection argument is a ship that has long since sunk. Any advocacy for mandates at this point is motivated by pure fascistic tyranny, and nothing else.
I think in your case there is an incredibly specific and practical way to solve this problem.

Books and online courses.

You already have great hands on skills. If you have the attention span for it you can improve your overall model of the system by reading books like Designing Data Intensive Applications. A good place to start for a reading list would be https://teachyourselfcs.com/.

When you have an aptitude for something there are sort of two natural directions you can go. It's possible to settle into a sort of "expert beginner" stage where you stop at a local maximum. The other option is to take the leverage that you already have and lever up again, hard. Those obscure and really useful programming tricks that you like, read some books on those too. See if you can find a conference talk where someone describes one. You probably know everything they're going to say anyway...except maybe one more trick that you can glean from that talk.

This is the path to Mastery.

You can also dig into some of the more academic content on youtube like MIT's algorithm courses stuff like that. But really I'd recommend just scratching your own itch.

In a lot of cases the answer to imposter's syndrome is "hey yeah, we all get it. Perfectly normal." In this instance though I suspect doing some reading will go a long way towards making you more comfortable.