skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...] would want stuff mixed at a level that was just ear-bleeding

I am Deaf. Whenever I start a Paw Patrol episode for my children I have to turn downward the sound. Even I can feel that someone cranked up the sound to 11. The table starts vibrating, the children cover their ears and the Yacker Tracker flashes red.

It's really annoying and as a Deaf person I don't know how to fix the sound level.
The mosquito looks too small compared to the ant. I guess both can vary in size, but mosquitos I've seen have been larger than ants I've seen. Here's a video with a mosquito and an ant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW_RUnjLv6c
> Welcome, traveler from the distant past

:) I salute you, dweller!

Interesting the idea of the pink noise ( https://bgr.com/tech/mercedes-pre-safe-sound-pink-noise/ ). Also since there are people with a strong phobia about air bags, given that they are reported to sometimes cause over 170dB of noise (already at 140dB there is very high chance of impairment).

This written, while I have been reliably told of extremely severe issues (mutilation post unduly explosion of airbags) after the trivial practice of bad electric cabling, I am unaware of consequences from the seat belts. So I assume the systems were developed in the years of solid engineering (as opposed to internship based development, ship-now-fix-later models etc) - though clearly there are critical vital potential areas for compromization there.

Seat belts do not constitute a kill switch feature which may trigger in a false positive of engineering related issues.

> It's 2021 now and you won't believe who were last two POTUS

I am really, really not sure I want to know now...
Implementation of seat belts, the seat belt patent and legislation of seat belt requirements are 3 separate things.
TSMC is building new plant in the US and elsewhere outside of Taiwan.

There's no guarantee that Chine will "takeover" Taiwan any time soon, the geo-politics of that are way more enormous than just chip manufacture.

Most of the development in manufacturing of chips is by the companies that supply the fab developers, the integration of those skills and components is where the different fab owners have their competitive advantages.

The "future when the US/EU can't produce our own chips" was also in the 80s when there was a push to develop memory manufacturers and back then, Japan was the evil empire that needed to be stopped.

TSMC would continue post a China takeover of Taiwan.
Live Coder Jon Gjengset Gets into the Nitty-Gritty of Rust
Flask-Dash App
Embed Plotly Dash into your Flask applications. Docker-based Flask project wrapping Plotly's Dash.
Living and working outside of your inbox
Just one more thought on hospitals: I personally know 4 German, one Dutch and one Belgian staff in intensive care. At times in the last two years, we have had a situation that has never been seen since World War II: the staff went home in the afternoon because there was nothing left to do. The hospitals were simply empty. That's not the case at the moment, of course, but it shows that the actual situation is often different from what's being spread in the media.
ARM has helped found Linaro (linaro.org) ~10 years ago to fix the problem with mainline Linux integration for all the participating SoC vendors.

You should expect the following manufacturers to have good mainline support:

https://www.linaro.org/membership/

I am sure your mileage will vary between vendors (I am pretty sure Qualcomm was NOT one of the founding members, but it's there now), but this at least signals an investment of money and resources.
Request animation frame exists specifically to avoid ‘traditional’ polling. You’re thinking more of setInterval() which is the old way of doing it. The requestAnimationFrame docs are a good read, there are lots of performance benefits.
AWS Graviton and Ampere are both based on Arm Neoverse designs.

Plus Apple M1.

Arm ISA does not need Nvidia for a ‘kick in the rear’.
I'm terrified by the fact that there are so many antivaxxers in Germany that they're showing up here too, as supposedly educated and intelligent peers. It is absolutely the fault of unvaccinated that they're unvaccinated and putting society at risk. It doesn't matter how many ICU beds and staff you have, an unvaccinated population would quickly overwhelm it simply by virtue of how incredibly long it takes to recover and how quickly new strains would develop.
> "Even principal engineers socialize their designs and thinking with colleagues, making small tweaks here and there or gaining additional confidence to move forward."

Principal engineers know that there are appropriate times to say "we did..." and appropriate times to lean heavily into saying "I specifically did..." (while crediting others for their part, of course, but as briefly as possible) and they also know which one an interview is.

"We" may not be a red flag (I appreciate a measure of humility and recognition of teamwork as well) but it must always followed up by a question about the details of what the interviewee did.
Presumably, this will also allow law enforcement to flip the kill switch too.
Virtually end all car chases. (Within say 15 - 20 years when a majority of cars will have this feature).

Either by being virtually near the car in question to transmit the signal,
or even via the internet (if supplied with a network connection)

Now this can be hacked as all things can.
Car jackings, robbery, prevent a victim from escaping.

I would prefer a car without this feature,.

Drunk driving is a major issue that is not yet dealt with in an efficient enough manner.

I would prefer that the change is to build a BAC measurer into every car.
This is a technology that we have today, it is being used and it is efficient
enough that it continues to be used.

It has some obvious weaknesses I guess someone else could blow clean for you and off you go.

This new, high-tech, detect your BAC by inspecting your driving is prone to have issues as well and more of them until the technology matures.
AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps
The author of the article is CEO of NanosVM, who makes Nanos unikernel and tooling.

It looks pretty interesting with Go, php, and nodejs support.

I tried dabbling in MirageOS in the past, and actually love OCaml as a language, but the local setup required to code, build, and deploy is too much for after working a full day.

The Ops tool and nanosvm looks much easier to use. I haven’t dug through the unikernel code to see how real it is, but it’s def. attractive efficiency after dealing w/k8 & docker stack all day.

https://github.com/nanovms
It's likely to be blocked by the UK first, then potentially the EU, then the FTC.

There are plenty of people lining up against NVidia on this.
Bullshit is not the same as "bad communicator" and is not the opposite of "clear" and "succinct". On the contrary, I would say that an expert bullshiter displays very good communication (and usually political) skills.

Bullshit is to purposely mislead or say things that actually don't convey anything, e.g. in order not to commit to anything or to leave wriggle room for later.
I agree. The article feels weird. To me the topic is complex.

Absolutely you can do it yourself, but that is also a common pitfall. The belief that something can just be built in x amount of seconds by yourself comes with several risks. Building is easy, committing to a lifecycle is hard and managing the technical debt is an important part of the job.

I'm trying not to build a house of cards.
Is an unlisted side effect of the vaccine self righteous bottom feeding?

Seriously have you donated blood this year? Or anything you all?

Being vaccinated is not a free ticket to make value judgements on everyone else's sense of compassion.
Holy shit that's a really big clover
Online bullshit detector: http://www.blablameter.com/

When ran on the abstract of this article:

Bullshit Index :0.7
This reeks. I bet you're a PR-Expert, Politician, Consultant or Scientist. If there is a message, it's unlikely it will reach anyone.
He's wrong about Linux, it's possible to link regular applications into Linux-based unikernels: https://github.com/unikernelLinux/linux
I use an M1 Air for my daily development, and under full CPU load the battery lasts about 2.5 hours, while under no load and low screen brightness it will last for 15-20 hours.
The problem highlited here is not that there are distinct compilation and dependency units, bit that they are organized in a flat namespace.

Anybody can create a crate like "aws-sdk-cloud" and have a crate that looks official but is not published by AWS (and is one character edit away from a legitimate AWS SDK crate)
Try 'risc V instructuin fusion" or "Risc V macro op fusion' Not that hard really. It is a well known subject.

I hope people could stop whining everytime they mess up a search query.
Damn those hackers (internal IT).
Well, Microsoft is contractually the ONLY founding member of their foundation, and the statutes define that the executive officer has to come from the founding member, and that every decision the foundation makes has to be approved by the executive officer. That setup gives Microsoft 100% control over the foundation.

So, unless this new foundation's statutes grant special privileges to AWS - they can't possibly exert the same level of control over it, that Microsoft has over the .NET foundation.

If those 20 founding members all have some voting and veto power, then AWS can't make unilateral decisions.

That's what my question was about - how is the foundation set up, and how much power does Amazon have over it? If the foundation is sufficiently independent from AWS, then we are golden.
I completely agree there is so much mumbling that we watch movies with subtitles turned on, most of the time!
I'm no expert but my understanding is that unfortunately there is some correlation between transmissibility and severity of disease, because one of the ways it can become more transmissible is to reproduce in your cells faster so that you shed more virus particles. This also means it takes over quicker and your immune system has less time to respond before it does lots of damage.

Whether that outweighs the randomness you describe I don't know. Maybe nobody knows for this virus?
Sorry, I'm expressing my sincere belief that there's real corruption at the upper echelons that's benefitting Intel. I can see how my terse comment would come across as flamebait, it wasn't intentional. Intel's consistently rich margins don't really make sense if we actually have a fair and competitive market.
And Linux on the desktop will defeat Windows' monopoly on the desktop.

RISC-V adoption will be driven by the capability of RISC-V and it being a competitive choice compared to ARM and others. NVIDIA acquiring ARM wouldn't spark RISC-V, it would reduce ARM adoption.

Neither is a good outcome.
I prefer using “we” but early on in my career was rejected at an interview because they thought I hadn’t done anything myself - now I mix in we and “I specifically implemented/designed/etc.”
I am often inspired by eastern philosophies such as Buddhism and Taoism, but I've not been able to grasp the whole reincarnation things.

It is certainly true that the atoms that make up your body have been transformed from the atoms around you (the food you eat, for example) into what you call "my body". And they will not remain as "your body" forever. Hell, I think the majority of cells in your body do not even carry your DNA.

Same with your habits, with many of the thoughts we think. Would you be exactly the same person if you were born in a completely different culture?

Perhaps the point in talking about reincarnation is not to figure out "how it works", but taking a holistic view beyond the perceived boundaries of "self". Much of eastern philosophy appears to be, at least to me.
I would even assume less than a decade. A music piece gets attention on release, but only few are remembered a year later. Many books sell the first edition and aren't reprinted.

While for some it is the long tail which makes it viable.
Yeah, this is the sadder "it isn't a silver bullet" part, I've found it's a lot more productive to have the same mental expectations as selling a physical print: you need to have a community of people who like, want to support and/or collect your work. This has always been the case, even before NFTs, if you don't work on your visibility, community and reach, the chances of people randomly stumbling over your work and collecting it are ... slim. This is why I never recommend anyone to go all-in on NFTs, but rather choose a platform ala hicetnunc (or its now many variants and mirrors) with very low minting fees and double down on building community rather than burning a lot of money on sales.

What has made NFTs interesting to me, who as a digital artist has to "give away" their work daily just to stay visible in social media, is that it allows for also the non-physical manifestation of the work to have "value". That is to say I don't have to go through all the complexity and expense of producing a physical print in order for the jpeg to be considered "worth collecting".

But yeah, it's not a get-rich-quick deal, it's still just as tricky as the old-school art market..
>the model automatically learned some nontrivial structure

what DL nets do inside is efficient (in many cases optimal) encoding which seems to be the same thing as analytical reduction to patterns what we do in our brain. The power of DL nets is only limited by hardware - ie. not limited at all going forward, and thus i think we, humans, will soon be left in the dust behind.
If you are worried about microagressions and subconscious biases then you are already hand-wringing about the wrong things. Being truthful, polite and hardworking are what matter, not specifically how you situate your legs on the bus or what pronouns you use in your shitty bio.
All the SoCs available from https://www.96boards.org/ should have good mainline Linux support.

"Good manufacturers" today contribute directly to the upstream kernel, and frequently through Linaro kernel trees first.
> Many employees will complain that they expect the firm to express their values, which includes holding seminars featuring “privilege walks” to reaffirm the firm’s commitment to ending white supremacy and other forms of domination.

I've heard of privilege walks for students in middle/high school where they're separated by race groups and those that are privileged are "pointed out" or walk in front of the others -- but has anyone here worked somewhere (as this article implies a focus on the workplace) where they've had to take this style of training?
The thing is, once something becomes commonplace, people build in obligations against it without thinking about it. All those layers that civilization depends upon have a cost, and as long as the cost is paid, all is good.

We're talking about the sudden loss of precision timekeeping, which could desync all sorts of things in unexpected ways. It's my understanding that precision time is required to make even the cell phone networks properly operate, and they'd fall apart without it.

If Russia were to take out GPS, the effects would be deep and expensive to correct, if we could. There's a very small, but non-zero chance it could collapse our supply chains. As time goes on, this chance grows, unless there is an active effort to keep backup systems viable. We all know how actively the US maintains infrastructure 8(
Nope not going to stop until they stop exporting cyber weapons for profit.
That's a good question, and it's a shame we can't ask him.

My personal opinion is that he wasn't trying to use the skateboard as a weapon, he was trying to use it as a shield, or to give him a bigger surface to push the gun with.

Either that or that the idea came to him too late to swing fully.

Those are both good questions though, and I don't have answers to either.
Green ammonia electrolysis breakthrough could finally kill Haber-Bosch
Quake 1 gets its first major co-op content update in 25 years
Doesn't decompression imply that there is some extra latency?
> I would prefer a car without this feature,.

So would criminals, at least those professional enough to plan ahead. So I expect pre-kill switch vehicles to be used exclusively by such criminals.
> Maybe enforcement should do their job so children don't have to try to do their job for them.

Completely agree on this one.
> but recently

Has been happening for >5 years. 2015 i7 4720HQ moddded for LGA 1150 desktop use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvXfgdyQxPQ

Before that they mass modded 771 xeons to LGA775.
Ask HN: Strategies for portable computation for non-trivial algorithms
Modern computing has several resources that are heterogenous considering the implementation language (databases, sockets, RPC protocols).

What's the "best" method to implement cross platform complex algorithms in a way that allows you to run them as close to the metal on the target language as possible?

To make the question simpler, let's expect that the input data can be expected to fit device memory (under 1 GB), the target device domain encompasses modern consumer class compute substrates - desktops, handhelds, and servers. CPU preferred but option to generate GPU shader is not a bad thing to have.

The algorithm is non-trivial in intrinsic complexity and length (hence you want to implement it only once).

What approach would cover biggest subset of the target languages

Browser-runnable*, .Net, Java, C, Cuda/Metal/Vulkan.

The trivial answer in most cases is plain old C, but there are some cases where the deployment would be easiest to do in the target language and not over FFI.

Haxe seems to be quite close to a "universal definition language". Are there better or others out there?

I recognize the problem is somewhat open ended and ill conditioned, but would enjoy discussion around the topic.
Big red flag. Yedioth is a newspaper along the lines of the NYTimes but for Israel. Nowhere near a tabloid
Or I can put the browser and the code editor on different workspaces and instantly switch between them with the press of a key.
Will this project survive the ARM transition? E.g. will we be able to run macOS for ARM on x86 when Apple pull the plug on macOS x86?
no doubt the performance is impressive. it just sounded like you thought apple developed m1 faster than the process actually took. a very minor quibble
Not payments.
We truly live in the age of Dunning-Kruger and there is no space, other than anti-vax, where the effect is more visible, than crypto and anything adjacent.
Don't forget the chimney. Ho ho ho!
cljs-math
> Companies wouldn’t even be able own subsidiaries in other countries that can legally act as employers or tax payers there.

So? That would enable local companies that occupy the same niche to do so. All these multinationals are not necessarily a good thing.

> It would make it impossible for governments to own minority stakes in local subsidiaries of global corporations to veto some things.

Only if you believe that those local subsidiaries should exist in the first place and that need not be the case.

> It would make it impossible to impose capital requirements on subsidiaries of big financial institutions.

There would be no such subsidiaries.

> It would be impossible for larger competitors to rescue failing peers and keep them operating as a going concern.

These could be structured as asset sales. And a whole lot of trickery that causes these peers to fail would go out the window.

You are making the mistake of looking at the glass 'half empty', when in fact the better way to look at it is what we would get for it in return. Capitalism, but with a much more direct link between UBO and the companies they have a hand in, far less opportunity for nation state level wealth to end up concentrated with a very small number of people and less opportunity for companies to play shell games with their income.

Capitalism, like money is a great invention. But like everything else when taken to extremes it is a net negative, in moderation it could well be uniformly good. But the whole externalization game needs to stop or it will harm us greatly.
And urine tests only test for a by product of the intoxicant with a half life of days to weeks, so are pretty useless.
It's related to the lunar phases, not a purely mathmatical division.
Importing Stripe reports to QuickBooks without an accountant
"No ethnographic studies have shown that any present or past society has used barter without any other medium of exchange or measurement, and anthropologists have found no evidence that money emerged from barter. They instead found that gift-giving (credit extended on a personal basis with an inter-personal balance maintained over the long term) was the most usual means of exchange of goods and services. Nevertheless, economists since the times of Adam Smith (1723–1790) often inaccurately imagined pre-modern societies as examples to use the inefficiency of barter to explain the emergence of money, of "the" economy, and hence of the discipline of economics itself."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barter
Blockchain Scalability
That's easy. Pandemrix caused brain damage in teenagers and it took five years+lawsuits for the authorities to finally admit it and pay compensation. Obviously, nothing was learned. That was for swine flu which was also subject to a mass hysteria at the time.

Imagine the horrific consequences if Pandemrix had been mandated!
Most shares are held by companies: either pension fund, to create your ETFs, mutual funds, or holding for you in normal broker account, or financial institutions, to provide liquidity, to put to work the pension fund huge inventory (most hedge fund short-selling is done with pension funds' dormant inventory using an investment bank middle-man), or by companies needing to store money somewhere other than cash.

I don't know many individual directly handling shares with the exchange and the settlement. How do you avoid the enormous volume of trading that happen due to retirement account reuse for shorting ? Would you forbid that too, removing the incentive for company to be honest because nobody can short anymore ?
It is not totally unreasonable but there is a component of blind blame to it. It will become a discussion after the pandemic and I don't think this will be too beneficial for our public health care system and health insurance.
> Once you have a system that monitors your driving proficiency ... Insurers

It's already working like that. Some insurance companies sell you products including a physical "monitor" (GPS based, I believe) that will evaluate your driving: the price of insurance will differ.
> We missed our chance to contain it early on, thanks to those that tried to spare the economy at the cost of 'a few lives'

Illusion of control. The chance was never there. Even countries who are way more suitable for isolation like australia didn't manage to keep the virus out. Attributing that to "those that tried to spare the economy" is just another toxic blame game.
It is not possible for 2 competing companies to have a monopoly. Perhaps you suspect some sort of collusion between them? Seems unlikely given the kicking Intel have had the past few years.
Apartments are probably harder than houses, fewer points of entry pretty much ensure that. But I've lived in apartments as well and in fact a few years ago in Bucharest I had to do something quite similar and that worked just fine as well. It all depends on how much you know about how stuff is put together to be able to spot the weak points in a structure. But a properly designed and implemented security layer for an apartment would be hard or even impossible to crack without damage. The devil is in the details though and compared to a thief, if it is your own place you have a lot of motivation not to damage it and a lot of time.
Yes my point is, when you do improve one (transimissibility) you probably did not improve the other one (or even got worse at it).