skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the key concept is that a hit song/film/book owes as much of its success to its audience as to its creator. Returning super succesful properties to the public domain faster reflects this.

A similar argument could be made for open source software, you don't want anyone to have full control over any key element of the software ecosystem, because at a certain point theyre just milking the venefits delicered by the wider ecosystem.

Corporations may be the same.
I guess someone in SF forgot to account for bad weather in other parts of the world
The most recent version of pyinstaller has been flagged in our enterprise fireeye endpoint security default rules. What happens is that pyinstaller has a folder in the python pyinstaller library directory that has 4 exes in it that are used to produce the final exe. One is called run.exe. Fireeye quarantines / deletes these. This didn't happen on older versions. Its a pretty big issue if these are stubs that will be flagged or if they will be compiled in with the final executable such that an application deployed to users might get flagged as malicious.
why not just set alarms when user intervention is needed and forget about it?
Today's new cars are tomorrow's used cars.

...that is, provided that said new cars are built with longevity in mind instead of planned obsolescence. Targeting subsidies toward EVs that maximize user-repairability and mandating right-to-repair would hopefully encourage that.
» * It’s is under user’s control. You run it with a schedule that you want. I don’t have to run a closed source app continuously scanning my computer

A few years back, around 2016 I wanted to see how One drive syncing worked. So I set my IRC client (hexchat) to save logs on my OneDrive folder. If I remember correctly, I had hundreds of gigabytes uploaded to onedrive under a month. I think I had the default 15 GB or 25 GB storage iirc. My guess is every time someone said something in a chat, the file changed and one drive thought it was prudent to sync it with its servers immediately?

When a file changes, should we upload the entire file? Is it possible to somehow only transmit the diff and only send what has changed? Would it even make sense as most "normal" users are probably on mobile and diff has a cost in CPU and therefore battery, right? Or is CPU cheaper than WiFi for battery?

One of the features I like about Amazon.com Photos on Android is I can say only upload photos when charging.
That sounds cool! Is there some preview documentation available somewhere?
Any recommendations? I'm based in Hong Kong, so can easily buy from taobao.
Magnus Carlsen Wins Longest World Chess Championship Game of All Time
You don't need to be against EVs to be concerned about range. You can be pro EV and still be anxious that current ones won't fit your life situation. Let's not polarize unnecessarily.
The fact that these issues are so common that a YC News guideline had to be made to stop people commenting on it is interesting in itself.

If it wasn't a real issue, people would not bring it up over and over.

I wonder, is there anything constructive the YC crowd could actually do about this instead of just making a rule to not discuss it?

I mean... sigh... I get that we're all tired of it, but that's the point. We're all fed up with pop-up after pop-up, for one stupid or worthless reason or another. WE ARE THE PEOPLE writing the code to do this! Should we not stop? Form a union? So that we can summarily eject people from it if they insist on baking popups into low-level SDKs? E.g.: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/gdpr

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

So, I implore you, please don't tell people to just shut up and accept the garbage strewn all over the street.

They just want to clean their world up a little bit.
Spicetify – Command-line tool to customize Spotify client
Libucl: Universal configuration language parser library
Sha256 will be replaced, but even if it's cracked before a replacement, there are alternatives ready to be deployed with a fork. It'd be ugly but not lethal.

Changing the hashing functions, encryption, and network verification are all built into bitcoin. It's designed to be resilient, and to use consensus when adapting over time.

It'd be really stupid for people to go "oh no, someone cracked sha256 and mined a million blocks, I guess we're done with bitcoin now. Buh-bye money!"

They'll fix it in the case of a noticeable exploit. If someone were clever, they'd mine blocks surreptitiously, sufficiently spaced out over time and different networks so that it looks like normal mining. They could get a few blocks per day for maybe a couple years until the upgrades. The impact to the system would be minimal.
From someone not used to GCP Cloud Spanner and Big Query sounds like great products but the general trend seems to be to go with AWS or Azure. Maybe their solutions are good enough.

We have started to use CosmosDb and it scales enough for us.
> If you are in AWS, don't pretend that there is a real need for your applications to be deployable to multiple clouds. If AWS disappeared tomorrow, yes you would need to migrate your applications. But the probability of AWS outliving your company is high

Well, it's not about AWS shutting down at all! It's about them having complete control over your infrastructure, so they dictate the terms. This has many consequences: (1) they can raise prices and you can do absolutely nothing about it, (2) since you chose AWS with its dynamic pricing instead of flat-rate dedicated servers, each expansion (traffic, new services) is a cost for you. This means at some point you will realize you will save sick amounts of money if you switch to bare metal (as several notable companies have done). Except that at this point it's really difficult because you have to basically start from zero so the inertia basically pulls you into continuing this vicious cycle.

So this is just a straw-man argument. Really, I haven't heard anyone saying "but Amazon can go out of business", it's just ridiculous.
I store my TODO list in a markdown file. I edit this with Vim and store this on a git repository.

I realized some month ago, that the log is provided for free by git. If I run gitk, I can access all the history of task completion.
https://www.animaapp.com (YC S18)
Yes, you would have to been pretty obscure to not be supported.
https://rclone.org/s3/
Dropbox’s Migration from AWS to Own Data Centers Five Years on (2020)
VirtualBeeb: 3D interactive BBC Micro on the web
People who say "electric cars are good enough now, the median distance driven is just 20km anyway" act as if that's a good thing.

If you use an electric car only for a commute, why not commute by bicycle or by bus? Why buy an electric car at all if you only ever drive short distances? Why not take the train if you are going long distance only four times a year?

Why even buy a new car then?
> Being shadowbanned from Twitter would kill me; I’ve put years of effort into it.

This doesn't sound like healthy engagement. When people talk this way about online video games we consider it an addiction issue that needs addressing.
If you’re talking under classical time formats only, I would disagree with you since Caruana and Magnus were at equal strengths coming in and the consecutive 12 draws proved that too.

The rapid tie-breaker was a different story however.
There is over $34 billion settled on the Visa payment network every day (averaged over 12 months), and nearly 100% of this is merchant transactions for actual things and services.
I'd say its weak point is the appalling user interface. Really hard to understand all the menus and modes and how to navigate. (Yes as a programmer I ought to pitch in to fix it)
> delivery drivers/taxis

I suspect that is an unfair comparison. Electric cars often don't make sense for high duty cycle uses, or for long distance driving around town during the time they are active. Every minute waiting for a charge is a minute the vehicle is slack and wasting the driver's time.

Overnight charging works for lower km commuters, depending on specifics of opex and capex.
I did some work in the early 1990s on a rule-based Expert System Builder funded by the EU's Esprit research programme. It was implemented in Common Lisp, hosted on Lisp machines and then Macintosh systems, and had a frame-based knowledge representation.

The approach had various problems at the time:

* what to do with a chain of reasoning if a previously asserted fact was retracted (i.e. when being questioned by the system, you realise that a previous answer was wrong)

* very brittle knowledge that doesn't transfer well outside a specific domain (the 'joke' example was a medical expert system that would diagnose rust-patches on a car as measles)

* The problem that as rule sets grew in size, domain knowledge needed to be supplemented by software engineering skills

We found it telling that none of the contributing companies continued to use the rule-based approach for very long when the EU funding dried up, and that none of them successfully commercialised it for a third party company. However, as an experienced programmer rather than an AI researcher, in at least one case, I found that the rule-based approach was a good way of getting domain experts to articulate the heuristics they used, and then embed these in a conventional application. The GUI we developed for the frame-based component was also repurposed for a very successful in-house modelling too, so the codebase wasn't a complete loss.
It sucks that AR products always inflate expectation in their videos and marketing images and over promise and under deliver.

It's very easy to make an honest video about what user will actually see, but these companies are not interested in that.

Many people believe that the functionality shown in these videos actually exist.
It's a 4-5 hour drive. Yes, you may take a break (I do), but it will be liek a half-hour break, at most, and most available chargers (if they are available, in Europe), will give you what? 10 miles extra in that time?

Add extra weight (luggage) or anything external (skis/snowboard on the roof rack), and boom, your effective range in an electric vehicle has gone down by a factor of 1.5 or more
Not the author - but I can relate - for me most depressing is the fact that most people that I will ever meet in my life will or have already choosen (or it was chooses for them by others) a random set o high level assumptions about the life, the universe and everthing and will treat them as revealed truth.

And they will never allow anyone to disect them because it will as per quote from my old friend "destroy the meaning of life".

And by all means - I sincerlly believe we should all set our own meaning for life, just never forget that every one of us is probably wrong.
I agree, I just skimmed it but the examples they used and their arguments were weak. It reads as if they haven't actually dug deep into the material they are presenting.

When they mentioned not being able to calculate double pendulum, my mind immediately jumped to concepts of computability. For instance, we know that the Halting Problem cannot be solved by a Turing machine. We (or aliens) can introduce an oracle, but that would have it's own equivalent halting problem. These are truths that have been proven.

This follows for any and all theorems. You start with a set of axioms, and then successively arrive at your proof through logical steps. Aliens might come up with new questions, new answers, etc. But that has no bearing on the validity of our mathematics.
True, but usually people asking for a lot of range are looking for arguments to dismiss EVs. It's very few people who actually need more range than what is offered today, assuming you have a charging network developed where you drive.
friendly reminder: Norway represents Europe same way Alaska is representative of USA.
check out https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io
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Where the stats for that claim?
Any info on how they work when it's not snowing?

If delivery robots get pedestrian and cycle lanes cleared of snow faster that feels like a win-win for everyone.
While this is super neat, this and the amplify thread can't help but make me wonder:

Is everyone really this okay with their API always being 1-to-1 with their DB models?

In my experience, that kind of setup is only viable for the smaller, simpler projects and otherwise you always run into something where you'd really prefer to have a layer between you and your database.

I am currently using graphql at work and this is a very hard requirement for us. Our database schema is not translated literally into graphql(or the other way around) and this is very intentional. The whole idea of the API layer is to be able to make changes to your internals without breaking all your consumers.

This was a problem with amplify(though the least of the problems we had) and it seems to me this is also a problem here, as it is with Hasura and postgrest.
6 days ago we had a more or less same thread on HN. I'll link it down below. It has about 330 comments, so I'd assume you'll find your answer there ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29363897
Train like you fight, they say in the military.

Why not come up with a small (personal) project and let reality be your guide? If the work at hand raises a specific question, you can try to answer it immediately by searching online. Everything you'll learn this way is grounded in reality.

What's the point of training in something that you aren't going to apply anytime soon? There's no end to collecting and reading information. It's unconstrained.
markdown is not a language that can be expressed with a grammar file.
I would take a look at the specification, they have created an implementation and explained it in details.
https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#appendix-a-parsing-strateg...
I’d love if the folks downvoting would care to explain how what I’m saying is neither directly relevant nor true. I’m all ears.
You should listen to darknet diaries podcast about NSO group activities
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People living in cities don't need cars. At least, that should be the goal.
> Hardly anyone needs 600 miles and no one seems concerned that it takes an hour to add 300 km because most people charge overnight.

Yes, hardly anyone needs 600 miles, but if you can't find a place to charge overnight, boom, you wake up to 80 kilometers left in your charge, and you need to find a fast charger somewhere in the vicinity, and high chances are, it wil be occupied by other cars.

You grossly overestimate availability of chargers in Europe (or anywhere, for that matter)
Perhaps because I’ve lived in many parts of it?
This is an in vitro study. In vivo, there's a self-selection bias for non-occupational N95 use that would tilt observed difference in protection rates between N95 and surgical mask wearers.

Original study [0]

MPG press release [1]

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/49/e2110117118.full.pd...

[1] https://www.mpg.de/17916867/coronavirus-masks-risk-protectio...
that number is way off, and the money they "receive", is specifically for use with US defence contracts and deals.. Its like Disneyland giving you Disneydollars.. You can only spend them at Disneyland.. It is a way for the US military-industrial complex to stay afloat.. And it is a drop in the bucket for Israeli Defence spending, and would make little difference if they took it out.
Yeah, the Nazis did do a lot of medical experiments on "undesirable people", and so did the Japanese. While I'm strongly pro-vaccination and, working in a hospital, deeply annoyed (an understatement) by the unvaccinated people flooding the ICU, I still think a vaccine mandate is a pretty big consitutional issue. Force-medicating people is really the last resort of the impotent, and it sits really wrong with me. And considering the way things are going, it is completely possible that this could become a yearly thing, what happens if it is the foot in the door for more of these kinds of policies?
Apple mitigates baseband processor vulnerabilities by putting it behind what's essentially an IOMMU.
When Toby Young is quoted one can stop reading any further
Investing International Capital in Africa
They forgot to include a Snowbot in the convoy, rookie mistake.

https://thesnowbot.com/
Yes, but the full-range refill takes only a few minutes, and generally at a station that has room for you to refuel while a trailer is attached.

There's still a ways to go.
dcrainmaker.com for literally any sports tech.
If at the beginning, Dave Ramsey. His baby steps helped us tremendously. You really only need a few watchings to get it, and he has a great presentation style.

I'm not a Christian, so the evangelical parts were odd. But they did get the passion across in a more memorable way.
What's the infrastructure like in Norway for the car owners who live in flats? As others commented, it's not the range that is an issue( I could cross my entire country with one charge in most EVs) but rather the charging infrastructure. Also the purchasing power in more than half of Europe makes EVs prohibitively expensive.
Epistemology
250 miles without breaks is not a big challenge.

I routinely drove 400-500 kms without stopping when I toured Europe.

Once on the highway you only have to go straight, anybody can do that.

The only secret is to not make it a strict rule, if you feel like stopping, just stop.
Power data is most useful when you are training for specific zones or as check when you are going to hard/easy. Of course, this requires a ant+ power meter but these are getting cheaper these days. Probably the best upgrade is a lower end pedal based power meter.

Heart rate, again, I find more useful for training, but in some cases can indicate fatigue that you may not actually feel in the moment.
> And his comment abused no one, merely a corporation.

Corporations are people too you know.
Depends on the EV and the conditions of course but you can charge quite a lot during half an hour. Probably more than half a the range. It may actually be faster to do two shorter breaks with the current technology.
It’s actually an Estonian startup: Starship Technologies. Engineering teams are in Estonia and Finland. You’d think they are familiar with snow there. :)

“Starship Technologies is an Estonian company developing small self-driving robotic delivery vehicles. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with engineering operations in Tallinn, Estonia, and a satellite team in Helsinki, Finland. Starship also has offices in London, UK, Germany, Washington, DC and Mountain View, California.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Technologies
Again, what has changed since 1998 in 3D Studio Max's UI?
How did you end up in such an unlucky situation?
Ameca – The Future Face of Robotics
In my experience this dismissive attitude you're talking about used to be much more common 5 years ago than it is now. Many people today want to go electric but are concerned about their own use case, and their expressions of range anxiety are personal concerns, not points of virtue. The way to ease them into it is to be a good role model, not to debated them on absolute terms. The paradigm has changed for the better.
> Where Python fails is dependency management and packaging, much like this xkcd portrays: https://xkcd.com/1987/

Python packaging has its problems. But other languages are confusing if you have 5 or more overlapping versions from 4 sources too.

> Why couldn't we have statically compiled Python?

We have RPython and Cython.
Are you sure it would be that bad? Social Media is a horrible addiction.

Look at me, dead account and I'm still posting here.

Why not make a new account? Because I realized this is all worthless shit.

Whether anyone sees my comment or not, it doesn't fucking matter, it's just people puking their thoughts on a screen.

Which is exactly what I'm doing right now, it's a fucked up compulsion and addiction I've developed over a decade.

I was happier in 2005 when all I had was a few niche forums where we actually worked on shit together.

These general discussions are garbage.
Don't know what the 'right' tool is. i think it is easier to code up stuff in Python, as compared to golang. I am much more productive in Python, the language is more expressive, imho.

An alternative would be to write in Perl5, perl is pretty much fixed, these days (if you insist on not using containers)

Try to compile your go tools in year, or two. If think that you will be hard pressed to find the dependent library versions. Packaging is not the strongest part of go. A version in your package translates to a tag in the referenced git repository, now sometimes people do funny things with their repositories, and older tags disappear.

Python and Perl5 are better, at packaging. At least you have all of the older library versions on https://pypi.org/ I think, that the decentralized approach to packaging (as used in golang) is far from optimal.

Maybe this is all due to the fact, that google is using a mono repository, internally for their own code. So that they are not eating their own 'dog food'.

Sorry for ranting, judgements like 'right tools' really get me going..
Probably lack of talent. Low-power, small-scale chips require more complicated manufacturing processes.
I wonder if this will hit power tools too. They have high watt needs and SiC might play here.
Someone should end their misery.
It’s also a bit odd to consider remote working the paragon of virtue when of course the vast majority of jobs simply can’t be done from home.

So it’s a bit of a pickle to claim working in an office is equivalent to killing others, when we all accept buying products that clearly weren’t made by people that were working from home. Are we casually supporting these people killing each other, just so we can buy a hamburger?
Langdale also has a state machine simd idea that can be used for the full csv transition table:
https://branchfree.org/2018/05/25/say-hello-to-my-little-fri...

I implemented this at some point (the "noisy" version, in Langdale's words) and got a csv tokenizer that spent about 1.5 cycles per byte.
As far as I understand, the natural progression to growing forest easily breaks once the forest is gone. Large swaths of land around the Mediterranean are now desert but used to be forest, until they were cut down. Erosion and other factors than stop new forests from growing. In these cases you need to kickstart the process by sending the correct starter.
Also popular for some unfortunate reasons as well, it is becoming the exfil and sync tool of choice for ransomware operators.

context : first hand experience in IR
I was thinking about trying that. Does she have recommendations for resources on how to get into that?
The evidence presented in this video isn't anywhere near enough to confirm that this is actually true, yet you're already offering up speculative explanations about google's intentions as if it's all a foregone conclusion and you know exactly why. I think that's a little weird.
So Bitcoin manages to compete with Visa in terms of amount of value settled while being decentralized, permissionless and uncensorable. That's pretty cool.

Also I just checked the median transaction amount on Bitcoin and it's something about $200. So it's reasonable to assume that at least half of all transactions are actual purchases of things and services.
Are there European universities that don't require a masters degree to start a phd?
Well, yes, but EasyEffects is a pipewire based thing. I didn't want to mess with my audio setup much, so I'm using PulseEffects, from this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mikhailnov/+archive/ubuntu/pulseeffec...
There's just something about trading where you think you need to have it to hand all the time. Plus there are issues that you don't know how to code the alarm for, ie you want to know that something is up but it's not specific why you think you need to do something.
When I download my input data I have it print out the number of lines in the process. I find this to be quite helpful, in general.