skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Know your HW.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulne...
"Both vulnerabilities exploit performance features (caching and speculative execution) common to many modern processors to leak data via a so-called side-channel attack. Happily, the Raspberry Pi isn’t susceptible to these vulnerabilities, because of the particular ARM cores that we use."
> hide sites by domain

This gives me the idea to build a search engine that only contains content from domains that have been vouched for. Basically, you'd have an upvote/downvote system for the domains, perhaps with some walls to make sure only trusted users can upvote/downvote. It seems like in practice, many people do this anyway. This could be the best of both worlds between directories and search engines.
Once when I was triple booked I logged into three Teams meetings simultaneously (laptop, iPad, iPhone) and turned up the volume to create a cacophony of chaos in my home office while I laughed maniacally to myself. Then I took a picture of the setup with my second iPad for my pandemic scrapbook.

I could only listen to two simultaneously… so I would modulate the volume.
Do I have the website for you: https://eater.net/6502

I've build the computer and simple OS/Monitor.
Having a fun group to do it with does. Come join us in #adventofcode on Libera.Chat! We also have an IRC leaderboard.
> No idea. I'd have to take a look at their accounts.

Well, then you lack a sufficient exposure to business that is required to understand what I am talking about. It's like someone who never built a brick wall arguing with a master mason and actually believing they understand the craft because they googled a few things. That's OK, most people are in your shoes. As my wife loves to say "A google search isn't a substitute for my medical degree". The same applies to understanding business. No worries.

I am not in the habit of posting comments about things I don't know anything about. I just don't do that. I have done business with people with direct experience working with and through the Vatican, either as direct customers or intermediaries. The only thing I'll say is: The Mafia are amateurs compared to some of the shit that organization has in its history. And I am only talking about the financial part of their closet.

Anyhow, here's the good part.

Ready?

You don't have to agree with me.

Done deal.

Have a great day.
> The sovereignty of the United Kingdom over its own territory and incorporated businesses, through laws created by the British parliament which derives its power from the British people, very straightforward.

And yet, the British parliament has a history of creating bad, unjust and undesirable laws (though I make no claim that they do so more frequently than other legislative bodies). This fact leaves you with three options:

- You can engage with OPs argument, which is suggesting that the laws enabling the regulator to do this are bad.

- You can choose not to engage with it, and read on.

- You can post trite observations that the UK can make laws.
Speaking of bubbles I think you're stuck in a bubble that only applies to your career choice.

I highly doubt your emergency services just get the choice to work when they feel best.
It would be nice to be able to do this based on primary key/underlying partition. But I can see how technically it’s probably easiest to implement at the table level.

Writes are priced higher, which means there’s probably a crossover point where the lower storage offsets the write cost (especially if you have to essentially write twice, once to a current table and again to this table).

Still the economics feel like they make sense in spite of the technical annoyance of needing to search two tables, likely split by a point in time, and needing to move data between tables, or write to both.

Would it be better to migrate data between tables at some point?

Or write to both at the same time, TTL expire your current table, and then in your app know when you need to search the archive table (say for something older than 6m).
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This comment implies a lack of familiarity with other jobs. If you are a doctor, for example, you have little ability to determine the way you work, unless you are exceedingly elite in your field, and even then can be deeply constrained by the institutions you are a part of.
> We haven't seen a mainstream language capable of preventing use and free and double free without GC overhead until Rust.

Sorry, that just isn’t the case. It is simple to design an allocator that can detect any double-free (by maintaining allocation metadata and checking it on free), and prevent any use-after-free (by just zeroing out the freed memory). (Doing so efficiently is another matter.) It’s not a language or GC issue at all.
You are in top 1% in RAM, top 2% in processor, and top 2% in GPU. I would not call that mid range. Hell I am running a 980Ti and its still on the top 10%.
You could argue the opposite, that Twitter is part of the open internet to some extent: unlike Facebook, it is fairly searchable with normal search engines [1] and unlike Instagram, it doesn't actively discourage linking to other websites. Long time ago, it even used to offer RSS feeds [2]. There are custom clients for it too. Apparently, Jack tried to push for decentralized social media protocols [3]. However, I would certainly agree that it is getting closer to a being yet another brick in the wall.

As for free expression on the open internet, I think it is under active threat. The centralization [4] makes the job of the censors much easier. The calls for internet surveillance and censorship are ubiquitous.

[1]: e.g. https://google.com/search?q=site%3Atwitter.com+jack+open+int...

[2]: https://archive.md/IPLAx#selection-215.17-215.123

[3]: https://cointelegraph.com/news/what-does-twitters-new-decent...

[4]: e.g. https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-inter...
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> Some languages take off really fast and disappear just as fast (scala, clojure).

I don't know about Clojure but I don't think that Scala has "disappeared". The hype has subsided, certainly. I for one certainly hope that one of the best programming languages in existence doesn't disappear.
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Even heard of pkgsrc and the rest of the ports of BSD's?

Huge pain? You know near nil. Most patches are not that big.
> TLDR; Your source is very much for legalizing drugs, however it acknowledges that legalization by it self is not sufficient in ending mass incarceration.

This is the point I was trying to convey when I said, “Legalizing drugs would not reduce the prison population as much as you may assume”.
Probably not a research lab, but maybe an educational lab. Experience problems with multi-node systems and learn to work around them, but expect real application problems to be different.
As admirable as the intention is, this is a losing battle. The biggest websites in the world have enormously bloated sites, because they can, and they won't be penalized for it.

Your mom-and-pop website's rank is entirely at the discretion of Google's Core Web Vitals measurements (and other SEO KPIs), but Amazon with its dumpster fire search pages with shifting layouts as content is dynamically loaded in....will be just fine.

The biggest websites in the world (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter) try to push you to use their app whenever possible anyway. The web seems to be an incovenience for them, they certainly don't want you blocking any of the myriad scripts they have running under the hood to tally analytics, A/B testing, user sessions recording and whatever else.

If you have a personal website, as I do, chances are it's relatively lean, because we're the only ones designing it and keeping it updated. Chances are also that very few people visit it, because it's outranked by the thousand other bloated websites that will rank higher for whatever query it was that you typed.

So what's the point?
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Arch Linux.

$ pacman -Ql imagemagick | grep bin
imagemagick /usr/bin/
imagemagick /usr/bin/Magick++-config
imagemagick /usr/bin/MagickCore-config
imagemagick /usr/bin/MagickWand-config
imagemagick /usr/bin/animate
imagemagick /usr/bin/compare
....

You may also enjoy:

$ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/{display,convert}
/usr/bin/display is owned by imagemagick 7.1.0.16-1
/usr/bin/convert is owned by imagemagick 7.1.0.16-1
I have literally no idea what this website is supposed to be.
The HN title doesn't match link-to title, which is "Datameer vs SQL: A Timed Comparison".

Given the domain name "datameer.com", I'm going to guess that Datameer is faster.

I'm not watching the embedded video to find out.
I've been a software engineer for 3 decades on several teams.

this article is hokum
Well, I'm pretty sure GPM did some level of acoustic matching nonsense to optimise storage or bandwidth, because it changed a bunch of songs that I'd uploaded into a different language version of song.
Hey man. Thanks, just subscribed. Classic music experience always sucked on modern apps. This is the first one that does it right.
"If press releases are your thing, here’s ours: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/52543725/en"

- @blocks (https://twitter.com/blocks/status/1466159597194907649)
Sure, but even in your example the it doesn't take long before something hits the fan. On the other hand the trickle down theory of economics (for example) is still going.
Similar https://mlab.com/ sandbox plan
I mostly agree with you. I think it's going to take some rough years or decades before we re-architect all the things we have grown accustomed to.

https://dwheeler.com/essays/apple-goto-fail.html
> the only danger was caused by the flooding itself rather than any sort of supply shortages.

There was no danger to Vancouver. It's a port city, that could always be supplied by I-5. There was a lot of danger to Chilliwack, if Highway 1 could not be saved (Which, thankfully, did not turn out to be the case).

My parents live in Chilliwack. It was a really scary week for them, between their need for prescription medication and animal feed.
I don't like large companies using basic words for their business. They take complete control of all trademarks and screw anyone who has anything similar.

You want to call your band "new kids on the block" or your game "blocks"? Sorry there is a trademark on block and it's "too similar" to what we do. You don't agree? Go ahead sue us, oh BTW we have more money than you...
>it's hard to convince programmers to pay for anything

Offtopic but I'm curious why this is the case? Is the Free Software movement responsible for this mindset?
I don't think the exact URL is the problem, it is the fact that it is so easy to include dependencies from external repository that is the problem.

In Rust every non-trivial library pulls in 10s or even 100s of dependencies.

I don't think anyone can expect that all of these libraries are of good quality but how would one even try to verify that? And you have to verify it every time you update your project.

Then there is the issue of licencing - how to verify that I am not using some library in violation of its licence and what happens if the licence changes down the road and I don't notice it because I am implicitly using 500 dependencies due to my 3 main libraries?

Rust and Go have solved memory safety compared to C and C++ but have introduced dependency hell of yet unknown proportions.

Python and other dynamically typed languages are in a league of their own in that on top of the dependency hell they also do not provide compiler checks that would allow user to see the problem before the exact conditions occur at runtime.
They are good for scripting but people keep pumping out full applications and to be honest there is not much difference between giant Python application, giant maze of Excel VBA and giant Node.js heap of code. Of those, Excel VBA is most likely to work for 5 years and across 5 versions of the product yet it is also the most likely one to receive the most negative comments.
Interesting… thinly veiled play on blockchain? With Jack’s recent leave of twitter, I think it’s clear this is his new vision for the future.

With Facebook’s recent re-org to Meta, is this spurring a new wave of companies re-branding to be seen as relevant by associating with future technologies?
Most (all?) of the commenters here seemed to miss the entire point of this feature:

"Create custom prompts

We provide a few preset prompts to get you started: three that explain what a particular block of code does, and another that generates example code for calling a function.

You can customize the prompt and stop sequence of a query in order to come up with new applications that use Codex to interpret code. Creating these can feel like more of an art than a science! Small changes in the formulation of the prompt and stop sequence can produce very different results. The three different “explain” examples showcase strategies that tend to produce useful responses from the model, but this is uncharted territory! We’re excited to see what you use this for."

This isn't for explaining code. That's just an example. This lets us create custom prompts for the OpenAI API using the codex model.
My point was nobody knows better, there is no data at all. If you gather a group of people and the majority of them bet the Superbowl will be won by 14 points, that does not make that outcome any more likely.

The commentor I replied to shouldn't be making statements that the new variant is less severe just because a bunch of people placed bets that it was.
Which languages support operators as first-class citizens?
Is this a blank page for anyone else?
It's hard to do that when you have to drop your phone at the counter and whoever gets it is not the actual person fixing it
I don’t think Xamarin Native supports SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose? The thing about the new declarations UIs is they lend themselves really well to something like Xamarin Native. I wish Xamarin would support them.
The Chaos in Our Hands
I tried to convert those units but all I got was an imagemagick error
I’d recommend going to the gym quite honestly. Working from home doesn’t mean you’re trapped in your home. Right now I go for a 45 minute walk every day, make sure I have some errands to run at lunchtime so I get out and moving then, and then go to physio three times a week which is split between stationary biking and gym machines for an hour or so. Before that I was in the pool every morning swimming laps. A change of scenery and other people around does wonders. I’d also listen to the people talking about diet. Being alone it’s easy to slip into bad habits.

I think most health guidelines recommend at least 30 minutes of walking at a good pace a day. That’s seven days a week and is an easy place to start. Like someone else here I listen to audiobooks and podcasts.
It loads after a long, long time. It will transfer upwards of 10mb of who-knows-what before displaying a useless morphing cube and zero information.
I'm in my late 30s and nostalgic listening have taken up most of my listening time. turning into my dad basically. zero regrets though.
Somewhat niche, but in the electronic music genre (house, techno, trance etc.) albums and single tracks are a rare thing. People mostly listen and consume DJ livesets/-mixes, and using filenames & folders to organize is basically the way to go. It is very difficult to come up with any sane metadata system, let alone that all music players are unable to cope with that kind of music collection. Public metadata databases like Musicbrainz etc. are not a thing there, and sets are usually not commercially sold - so all metadata would also have to be manually entered.

In case anybody wonders about the (legal) sourcing, in most parts of Europe it is still perfectly legal to record radio stations, locally download from Youtube/Soundcloud etc. and even share/copy with close friends and family. And the market for livemixes is huge in the youtube era, see productions from Cercle, Boiler Room etc.
This is a perfect illustration of why I chuckle when people claim to be able to "ban guns".

He is projecting a 3/8" (.375 caliber) round steel projectile at ~3x the maximum velocity limit for an unrestricted air rifle in Canada.

Using a crank and some hefty rubber bands.
And like super 'calming'? anyone else feel that just poking about
I put my personal collection on Dropbox and use an app (iOS) called TuneBox that presents it as a streaming music player
Well that's odd. I clicked on the 'Crap Ses Gorge' link to learn more about the place and... it's a Strava segment?
I read some research that when watching sports the avid spectators at times feel like they are actually playing the game. So, for a small amount of time they feel like they can score and play like the professionals. In some ways they become one with the players in their minds. I suspect that's why we hear things like, "we won", "we scored", "we beat them." When in reality the fans had little to do with the action and the game.

There's also the simple entertainment of the game. The game can be thought of as a story that has a beginning, middle and an end that can be happy, exciting or just plain boring. It can also be tragic if things don't go according to the fan's expectations.

I think all of this carries over to why people like to watch streaming games.
Boy, he sure complained a lot! The idea that reading for pure entertainment is a bad thing seems hilariously misguided to me.
Good lord.

Pity the poor person out there trying to understand what is going on / what is block.xyz.

At least we are told nothing will change with TBD54566975 (?).

https://twitter.com/tbd54566975?lang=en

The bitcoin world is crazy.
1. It was inevitable, as Fauci announced at today's press conference and other health advisors have been saying since Omicron was first announced.

2. Odds are high that the variant has, or will, arrive shortly at other major US travel hubs: NYC, Chicago, LA, Atlanta, Miami, etc. Viruses are the ultimate jet-setters. Detection and monitoring will have to be in place.

3. It's very early to be drawing concrete solutions, but the case that omicron will prove more transmissible but less severe than earlier variants has some strong points. Clearly we need to see what data emerge on this.

4. Whilst parasitic diseases often evolve to lower overall severity with time, that evolution can take a long time, and there are some other unfortunate possibilities, including long-term, only partially-debilitating, though still often fatal (especially if untreated) forms. Tuberculosis, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS come to mind.

5. Evolution is not teleological. It doesn't have goals. There are, however, favoured forms.

What's been sound advice throughout the pandemic remains sound: get vaccinated if at all possible, boost if you've been vaccinated, minimise social contacts, mask up, and wash your hands. Encourage others to do likewise. See that your local and national institutions are well-supported, and that testing and monitoring are effective.

Globally, ensuring minimum levels of vaccination for the maximum number of people will likely help.

Another NPR story addresses why ensuring treatment access for HIV/AIDS and immunocompromised persons is critically important. This may have been the path through which the Omicron variant emerged.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/12/01/1055803...
> I'd never hire a full time employee who can work remotely. I'd employ a contractor who has to itemize their invoice.

That's a knee-jerk reaction that you probably already know has some serious problems ;)

People who are working 40 hours a week have no capacity to take on some important task with no notice unless they go past 40 hours a week. Which generally doesn't cost any extra money.

Hiring a contractor to work 40 hours per week is going to get really expensive really fast when you need them to suddenly ramp up beyond 40 hours on no notice. If you can even get them to do it!

If you're any kind of normal modern business, this is going to eat all your cost savings and probably even cause you to unnecessarily miss a lot of deadlines.
AFAIK the issue with messaging isn't that the core app itself is written in an unsafe language , but that many components it interacts with are unsafe. E.g file format parsers using standard libraries to do it.

Granted those should also be rewritten in safer languages but often they're massive undertakings