skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brian Kardell's recent post "Webrise"[1] has similar exploration of what humanity might be able to do to become responsible stewards of one it's most important common means. Less specific than this article, & spends a lot more time building context & opening the questions, but both are interested in how we maintain user-agency ongoingly, which is a powerful humanistic nigh-unto religious question to me (in a world which otherwise feels technocratically sapping of agency, a world of intensifying infernalization). This Chromium Foundation could be a candidate answer to Webrise.

To this articles point, I generally have been ok with the patronage system that Chrome gets developed under so far. But it feels like there's no one in the standards bodies room who can say no, who can keep real damage from happening when there is a crisis, which is exactly what's happening with Manifest v3, aka Web Extensions[2].

Just last night, a reply to my consternation about the situation, the stripping away of user rights & agency, prompted someone to suggest we get political, organize, change the game. This article presents some possible starting place for re-defining how we'd caretake one of humanity's greatest shared assets.

I also see a lot of hew & cry that makes me sad. I love WebPackage. The use case[3] goals are so noble & pure. But it feels like there's been a lot of outcry & people running around saying the sky is falling. And I don't get it. But I tell you- it sure feels like the sky is falling regarding MV3, regarding killing dynamic code, regarding extensions losing access to most web platform apis.

[1] https://bkardell.com/blog/Webrise.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29425379 (freshly submitted)

[2] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/72

[3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-wpack-use-cases/
Civilization: Institutions, Knowledge and the Future – Samo Burja (2018) [audio]
There goes my NVDA calls. I should have sold when it hit the ATH.
What are your on premise infrastructure costs?
Well part of the benefit is rapid development; it's mind-boggling how quickly someone can stand up a dbt project and begin to iterate on transforms. Using Python/SQL/JSON (at small/medium) scales keeps the data stack consistent and lowers the barrier to entry. No reason to prematurely optimize when your bottleneck is the modeling and not the actual data volume.
You can't have people who are not vaccinated working at a hospital. This has been known for years and has been practiced for years. Vaccinations prevent the spread of disease. Surely you aren't questioning this.
It’d be nothing strange about a road company demanding seat belts on their roads. Currently that business is run by a state monopoly, and only then do seat belt mandates become an issue to discuss.
Can you give a before/after of what the desired state would look like?
“ Are there any countries that enforce copyright as much as the US do?”

I’d say definitely yes. Most western countries are very similar in this regard.
I can't believe people still think herd immunity is possible.

Delta. Omicron.

Our technology sucks and is slow, we can't achieve R < 1 this way.
That's not a Gish Gallop, those are all relevant points. If you choose not to see that, that's on you. Because there is a profit motive, and there are secret contracts, and there are profound inequalities in global distribution.

But sure, let's "nail it down" in this hypothetical fantasy, where vaccines perfectly stop transmission and the virus is orders of magnitude more lethal:

You still don't have a right to put Pfizer's goop into people who don't want it. Clear?

And, if the vaccination perfectly prevented transmission, then people who don't take it would only be hurting themselves. Your argument falls apart completely.
Joe at The Drive has been writing a ton of Space Force propaganda articles lately.

The Defense Budget is getting debated now and this "news" really does seem aimed at Congress.

Space Force and SDA want to fund their constellation of hypersonic reentry vehicles based on the SpaceX Starlink platform [1,2,3]. It would provide instant kill capability around the world. China is the justification for this massive buildup of weapons in space.

[1] https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/space-based-missile-defense...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles (old project now rebooted with SDA)

[3] https://www.nap.edu/download/13189 (Details matching original Starlink orbits, click Download as Guest)

Even a few years ago the cost to launch all this would have been astronomical, but SpaceX has since brought costs down by 1 order of magnitude (or 2-orders with Starship). Still expensive, but within reach with a little warmongering.
Time crystals created in Google's quantum processor
Two specious arguments.

1. A 30c-$1 increase in the price of Coke relative to its current baseline will not break the bank.

2. Tens/hundreds of millions of slowly degrading plastic bottles in the ocean certainly do have an environmental impact.
If someone says they want to insert something into your body, "I don't wanna" is a good reason to make it not happen. Penises, babies, food, vaccines...
Sheets has been
It can try... but you're basically trying to "decompile" or "compress" code to a higher level, and that's not easy nor efficient. If something relatively simple like ADC is difficult, think of something like an entire encryption/hash round, which competing CISC processors already have dedicated instructions for. In the case that you do manage to make that work, there's still the matter of those extra instructions taking up valuable space in caches and memory bandwidth.

Hence why I don't think "RISC is the future" unlike a lot of other proponents; I think a CISC with uop-based decoding will be more scalable and performant. Even ARMs have moved a little in that direction.
Nothing is meritocratic. I think the term came into our lexicons because of a sociologist satirizing society and writing about how awful a “true” meritocracy would be.
Thanks! And agreed - it did take quite a while to come. iMessage and WhatsApp only added stickers a few years ago and maybe that's why it took a while to get into the hands of the users and pick up the trend. Now we're taking part in that too, so hopefully things accelerate much faster.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/41086/skilled-craftsman-builds...
Not anymore, as the virus is already anywhere. But there absolutely was a reason to stop potentially infected from travelling large distances and carry the infection into other regions.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Track for Dec. 22 Launch
Talking to friends in China, they've been mostly open since the initial lockdowns. Every once in a while there are hard localized lockdowns, but majority of people majority of the time is life as normal.
The okTurtles Foundation | Remote | https://okturtles.org

Group Income project – an efficient, fair, decentralized Basic Income system for small self-chosen groups: https://groupincome.org

Open roles:

- Javascript Infosec + Protocol Developer https://groupincome.org/pos-infosec/

- Lightning Network Integration Developer https://groupincome.org/pos-lightning-integration/

- Technical Writer https://groupincome.org/pos-technical-writer/

- Fundraiser / Marketer https://groupincome.org/pos-fundraiser-marketer/

- Bounties also available on some open issues: https://github.com/okTurtles/group-income-simple/issues?q=is...

Location: 100% Remote

Tech stack: Node.js, Javascript, Vue.js and a new kind of decentralized end-to-end encrypted software framework https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I381R5_joLE

Contact: See job postings for instructions. Contact hi @ okturtles.org with questions.
Btw, to prevent abovementioned government/other powerful groups intrusions into our minds, I recommend to stop consuming MSM. That's the most powerful tool of intrusion/control they have.
Or the population that it evolved in is isolated, so it never escaped back into the developed world until now. Somewhat unlikely given how interconnected the world is now, but it is Africa after all.
A positive reading is “you must be coding Swift a lot lately, I acknowledge switching languages is hard and won’t fault you for it”.

A negative reading is “you are screwing this up enough for me to comment, you need to justify why”

If it’s intended to be reassuring then phrasing it so it’s clearly not a criticism is better. If it’s intended as a criticism then phrasing it clearly is also better.

The way I can see it being a joke, as claimed, is insultingly. Like a dentist watching a trainee dentist doing a filling and saying “you must have been doing masonry work lately”. Haha but the subtext is “you’re really doing a bad job of this”.
i used to work in health care, and the website for a certain medical board stores all of its licensees' passwords in plaintext. i am no longer licensed with that board, but i can't remove any of my data. a breach seems inevitable.
>> But ultimately, the gist of their argument is this...

Funny, I thought the whole thing was bitching that RISC V has no carry flag which obviously causes multi word arithmetic to take more instructions. The obvious workaround is to use half-words and use the upper half for carry. There may be better solutions, but at twice the number of instructions this "dumb" method is better than what the author did.

Flags were removed because they cause a lot of unwanted dependencies and contention in hardware designs and they aren't even part of any high level language.

I still think instead of compare-and-branch they should have made "if" which would execute the following instruction only if true. But that's just just an opinion. I also hate the immediate constants (12 bits?) Inside the instruction. Nothing wrong with 16 32 or 64bit immediate data after the opcode.

I hope RISC 6 will come along down the road (not soon) and fix a few things. But I like the lack of flags...
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide...

You have to configure (correctly) an AWS IAM account with permissions to run actions you have to specify when budget amounts are hit. There's no simple 'Do not spend more than $X per month' setting. You have to understand AWS's auth and roles to set a limit using an action.
The Jews were not a protected class in Germany at the time either. In fact, "protected class" is an American legal term (from the Civil Rights Act of 1964, I believe?), so I don't know why you even mentioned that.
Pagerank was mostly based on inbound links. A popularity contest with some nuance is just that. Nothing is meritocratic including any Google algo.
Have you tried Caddy server? No affiliation just a happy user. It’s open source.

It may or may not be able to replace Nginx depending on your use case. For me Caddy has replaced everything I used to use Nginx for and more.

https://caddyserver.com/
But there are lots of things you can do with an ebook besides read it. One thing that started earlier than people might think is "digital humanities"; that is literary analysis by computer. You could do things like look at word usage in a text by an unknown author and compare it to word usages by known authors and try to identify the author. Or you could compare versions of a text and basically make an evolutionary tree of changes and use this to infer what the original version was like. Of course people had been doing these things by hand, but having computer readable ebooks made it possible to write programs to do them.
Unified space command into a single branch. Also gives a way for Congress to appropriate funds to the USSF with the Department of the Air Force and not deal with the USAF wanting to repurpose the funds for aircraft, which apparently has been a problem for quite a while. Space is its own unique domain and should be treated as such.
Sure, but how many vaccinated people are ending up in the ICU, compared to unvaccinated? How many are dying?

Also consider that a population of 100, and 90 of those people are vaccinated. Uf 15 vaccinated people end up in the hospital, and 5 unvaccinated people also end up in the hospital, vaccination is still clearly better for you. But people will still say "75% of the people in the hospital were vaccinated; clearly the vaccines aren't working!" Yeah, well, out of vaccinated people, only 16% ended up hospitalized, while 50% of unvaccinated people ended up hospitalized. Those are the real numbers that matter. Percent of cohort hospitalized, not percent of total hospitalized.
Vaccines by themselves won't do miracles. But vaccines combined with some reasonable level of restrictions can get us through this to the point where we've caught up with the virus to a degree that we have other means to reduce the number of serious cases.

Keep in mind that there is plenty of precedent for mandatory vaccinations, in almost every developed country and in plenty that are not young children are vaccinated against a whole raft of diseases that would otherwise cause serious problems. The only people that are exempt are those that do not want any vaccinations for religious reasons because it apparently interferes with 'gods plan'. If you want to deal with this at the same level of ignorance then that's fine with me but I personally have absolutely no problem with a mandate and I also would not have a problem with rescinding the exemption for religious purposes.
YouTube channel:

* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2kF6qdHRTM_hDYfEmzkS9w

1-2 performances posted weekly. Mostly solo works lately given getting large groups together has been hard over the little while.

Concerto for three harpsichords in D minor BWV 1063 recorded in the Before Times:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdNjyzxqmWU

Concerto for three harpsichords in C major BWV 1064:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRfcGmVH5dI

Concerto in A minor BWV 1065 (four harpsichords):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emkJ0A7IfkY

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 has a harpsichord solo at about 6m30s:

> For this recording, we were guests at the Gallery of Honour at the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam. We were invited to come and perform Bach’s unusual ‘Brandenburg' Concerto no. 5 in order to celebrate the loan of an exceptional harpsichord to the museum. For the recording, the original instrument, built by Johannes Ruckers in 1640, was played by harpsichordist Richard Egarr.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHjbRMIIhuM
I am starting to feel weird about this mentality, I.e.:

If someone is capable of attacking us, they are most likely already planning to attack us, and we must plan to attack "first". (Implied in "stand-up to China, as if US were already being put down...)

I mean, I was born and raised in China, CCP does not manage to install such mentality into adult Chinese. I never see anyone who say "we have to prepare to strike first".

Is this mentality real? Or I perceived wrong?
There are a lot of products you pay for, and still are the product.
>people are refusing to get pricked by a needle

I was under the impression it was not the needle but the solution that is injected into the body through the needle that they were objecting to.

Let me know when they have a vaccine that lasts longer than 6 months and doesn't give young men heart attacks -- actually, don't, because I still won't take it because I'm just... not... afraid... of... the... virus...

By the way, when do you reckon the former Chief Scientist at the megacorp that produces the science juice that you probably had shot into your body stopped valuing science? https://www.bitchute.com/video/FPehpfdTleDo/
Yeah following that line of thought I think they are just scrambling for a piece of the budget that's "freed" now that the military doesn't have to sustain operations in Afghanistan anymore. That's what I mean with propaganda.
A Scratch solution to day 2 of Advent of Code
"which has tons of citations"
Awesome project: I love the fact that you can click grab definitions, would make learning new symbols in a field a breeze.
Question, though: is there a way to add custom definitions to symbols when you work in a field that uses symbols differently than the standard usage or symbols that have no standard usage (such as \bigoplus in latex)?
We should do the best we can do (we aren’t) but this doesn’t mean reverting to the Stone Age or mass suicide.

You don’t need to end plastics you need to use them more responsibly. You don’t need to go after meaningless high visibility targets you need to go after the big ones.

You can benefit now humans and future humans without making blind absolute actions, but you have to actually be able to understand what you are trying to accomplish and be able to make compromises based on mixed effects.

But people are dumb and the mythology that pervades society is good vs evil and people are thus rather unable to see things in any other way than good or bad. Things are complex, almost nothing is without positive qualities or consequences and whether it’sa person, a vaccine, an environmental issue, or an opinion, people need to start being able to accept that everything has risks and rewards, good sides and bad, complexities that can’t just be ignored for an absolutist option.
Yes they do. But total deaths will always be the same over x amount is time. For instance instead of a 5 year old just getting COVID and never worrying about it again we delay it so they get it when there 80 and die from it. We’ll never have a good enough vaccine. We’ll cure most cancers before this thing. Lol

History will show that the only right choice was to let this thing rip. Come to this thread in 10 - 20 years. Unless an actually deadly virus hasn’t wiped us out by the
Storing information about the pages you can't index, is also useful
The compressed encoding has good code density, but low speed.

The compressed RISC-V encoding must be compared with the ARMv8-M encoding not with the ARMv8-A.

The base 32-bit RISC-V encoding may be compared with the ARMv8-A, because only it can have comparable performance.

All the comparisons where RISC-V has better code density compare the compressed encoding with the 32-bit ARMv8-A. This is a classical example of apples-to-oranges, because the compressed encoding will never have a performance in the same league with ARMv8-A.

When the comparisons are matched, 16-bit RISC-V encoding with 16-bit ARMv8-M and 32-bit RISC-V with 32-bit ARMv8-A, RISC-V always loses in code density in both comparisons, because only the RISC-V branch instructions are frequently shorter than those of ARM, while all the other instructions are frequently longer.

There are good reasons to use RISC-V for various purposes, where either the lack of royalties or the easy customization of the instruction set are important, but claiming that it should be chosen not because it is cheaper, but because it were better, looks like the story with the sour grapes.

The value of RISC-V is not in its instruction set, because there are thousands of people who could design better ISAs in a week of work.

What is valuable about RISC-V is the set of software tools, compilers, binutils, debuggers etc. While a better ISA can be done in a week, recreating the complete software environment would need years of work.
You missed my principal question.
> So shut down the trains.

Ok, so mandating work from home and closing down public parks is too heavy-handed but shutting down all public transport is fine?
Finally someone who gets it. Credit monitoring/reporting services are a straight up fraudulent scam to get more of your personal information. I feel sorry for the suckers who actually pay for such things.
Many of these really should be default integrations into the DE, quickly pairing with a Bluetooth device, and the Audio Device selector specifically are tremendously useful in MacOS and Windows.
Guide to model training: Part 4 – Ditching datetime
The fine should be $100 per user and go directly to the user. Some companies would just pay it but most would take this more seriously.
I'm also picturing something like selling anti-anti-satellite defense systems to US military allies to keep money flowing to military contractors.
It's standard practice - every producer or engineer worth his/her salt will some some version of this. Many engineers keep cheap boomboxes or crappy speakers in the control room for exactly this purpose.
All World Sports Netflix Free IPTV Channels M3U M3U8 Playlist Daily 3-12-2021
Great if you don’t need better hardware. But they’ll never be able to make an APU like AMD.
Unless such signs carry force of law where you live (I don't know of any such jurisdiction), always record conversations that take place in public settings.
Who says they're not looking at Google or Amazon? From https://fortune.com/2020/02/11/ftc-antitrust-probe-google-fa... :

"U.S. technology giants face a new wave of scrutiny from antitrust officials, as the Federal Trade Commission demanded information about their acquisitions of startups that may have eliminated emerging competitors. The FTC issued orders to Alphabet’s Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon.com and Microsoft for information on the terms and purposes of transactions they closed from the beginning of 2010 through 2019, the agency said Tuesday."
> Attaching a solution to a cryptocurrency comes off as just wanting to sell tokens, not sell the solution.

well yeah it's not ideal, yet the holochain foundation does all their work in the open and have to fund their development somehow (https://github.com/holochain/holochain). better doing an ethical ico-like crowdsourcing (based on a unit of computing power, like Airbnb but for processing power) than strapping into the chains of Venture Capital.

most important though is that the main framework created by the Holochain team is fully open source (linked above). so using the Holo host system is optional. it is meant as a way to enable easy onboarding of new users for new Holochain apps. Holo's distributed web of nodes help non-technical users use Holochain apps without being technically literate enough. so Holo users like my mom will be comfortable using Holochain apps that look like client-server apps, until we as a society transition to fully p2p apps, and the ecosystem as a whole matures to a point where we no longer need this 'bridge'.

also cool is that, inspired by LETS and similar systems, the holochain framework allows easy deployment of mutual credit currencies [1]. imo the most exciting implementation of this is the Resources Events Agents (REA) accounting by http://mikorizal.org led by, amongst others, two retired software engineers. you can check out their project http://valueflo.ws. there is another project not building on Holochain, but using the Valueflo.ws ontology/vocabulary called bonfire: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire_valueflows (main website: https://bonfirenetworks.org/)

anyways, before dismissing this project because of preconceived notions about the cryptocurrencies (which i agree are 99.999999% shitcoins), please read through their awesome developer docs: https://developer.holochain.org/

think of Holochain like a Ruby on Rails framework, but for distributed applications instead of client-server: https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applicati...

[1] https://medium.com/holochain/beyond-blockchain-simple-scalab...
They show that the current vaccines lose efficacy after about 6 months (unboosted). The grim calculation remains the same.

Tragically, those most vulnerable were vaccinated first, so lost immunity just as vaccination programs were completed and we opened up.
So a booster shot would make me feel even worse. I wasn’t gonna take a booster anyway. My heart hurt like hell after both shots. Both times exactly after the same amount of days.
Nvidia is building ARM supercomputers. The only other company that has shown interest in ARM supercomputer chips is Fujitsu. The ARM ISA has mostly been left to mobile chips, low-powered computer kits, and experimental desktop computing (StrongARM,XScale, etc.) decades since its inception. If ARM, inc. or Softbank were interested in high-powered chips, either of these companies would have done it by now. But they haven't. Nvidia is the kick in the rear needed to push the ARM instruction set further.