skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure if this is a consequence of Pop_OS (my current Framework-friendly distro), the Intel CPU, the heat management system, or some combination of those

The 11th-generation Intel CPU is definitely the weakest link. The highest-end CPU available in the Framework Laptop (Intel Core i7-1185G7) scores 11009 on the PassMark CPU Mark benchmark.[1] The Apple M1 in the MacBook Air scores 15109,[2] while the highest-end current-generation Ryzen that is rated at 10-25W TDP (Ryzen 7 5800U) scores 19192.[3]

The Apple (5 nm) and Ryzen (7 nm) chips also have lower power consumption and heat emissions because they are manufactured on newer processes than Intel (10 nm).

If you want to express support for Ryzen CPUs in a Framework Laptop, there's a forum thread here: https://community.frame.work/t/amd-cpus-please/316

[1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-1185G...

[2] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+M1+8+Core+320...

[3] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+5800U&i...
These things are designed to hassle legitimate customers only. Pirates are never going to pay anyway. DRM is so they can squeeze more out of paying customers.
I totally agree. The problem isn’t that I don’t want to get on the phone. The problem is that I don’t want to get on the phone for half an hour without even having a job description or a pay range. That makes the recruiter a jerk.
I’m sorry, but I like that I basically don’t have neighbors and my little girl has 15 acres to play on and explore. A lot of other people feel the same way.
I think the time on the phone metric is a big thing, especially when the recruiters were working in office. I've been in the offices of recruiters and it's very much a bullpen-type situation and there's a manager on the side somewhere who's watching and will view those not on the phone as not working.
Powered for sure, but I don't know if absolutely everything is stored via web3, like their html or whatever. I know the NFTs and metadata are[1]. Purchases, transfers, bids, offers, etc. are handled using smart contracts. User accounts are just wallet addresses, yes. I don't know how it manages access control, but besides what I assume is some sort of admin access it doesn't really need it.

If OpenSea doesn't qualify as web3, I don't know what would.

[1]: https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/opensea-decentralizes-and-per...
Telegard was pretty old in comparison at the time iirc.

There were a lot of non-commercial options but Renegade was one of the early ones to bring in a lot of the commercial features into it.
That is a great answer: because we're trying to solve users' problems.

So we need to make things complex enough to solve a user's problem, and no more. I think the difficulty we run into is that last bit.
It's not that. Like most niche AWS services, this was likely the "pet project" of a major AWS customer that wanted something like this as part of a major business agreement [0]. And then after building it for that customer, AWS also expanded offering it to anyone else who wants to use it.

0: https://blog.maxar.com/earth-intelligence/2018/sending-data-... (posted the same day Ground Station was launched in 2018)
I believe prongs are usually short enough to make it difficult to injure yourself this way unless you are really trying, but with some other long metal thing it could be really bad.
Reddit and HN aren't "centralized", they're just individual nodes on a decentralized network. By that definition the usenet groups of yore were also "centralized".
It's clear to me that these examples of trade offs assume a capitalist society without community supports.

We can't push buttons to stop natural disasters but we can push buttons to limit the deaths due to wildfire, heat, floods, freezing, electricity and natural gas outages. But doing so requires governments and communities to be proactive and to pre-build resiliency into the communities.
I now I wonder what happened to Retroshare, which had a similar approach and never catch on.
some context from a third party vcv rack developer, who has not yet left the scene.

while I agree with Aria's assessments[0], and respect Aria; their unhappiness is only focused on the founder (Andrew). I respect what Andrew has built, but unfortunately, the environment that he fostered has sprung up others that are 100x more toxic than Andrew himself on his worst days.

Unfortunately, there are others that actively attack every other developer and module in the ecosystem, constantly claiming that theirs are the only "good" modules (while claiming they've left behind rack completely). it makes for an extremely toxic environment that has driven many more away.

I think that until there are enforced community standards, it will just get worse, and drive more talented developers away. I know that I don't bother participating in the Facebook groups, reddit, discord, or the "official" rack forum because of these people.

so, for those who have emailed and asked why my modules aren't yet ported: they have been lower priority compared to other things, given the extremely toxic people in the community who make it really frustrating to build anything, since there will be immediate attacks for anything new by extremely toxic individuals.

[0] https://aria.dog/barks/why-i-will-never-create-modules-for-v...
Check your local craigslist listings. I bought a lightly used LG Ultrafine 5k in 2019 for $600 in SF.
right but the bands are not far apart, and the comment I originally replied to seemed to imply that there was significance that it was in the near space category rather than deep space. like it enabled something or was important in some unmentioned way. it was the whole (unspoken) point of the comment and I'm not "in the know" enough to already know the unspoken part. I'm asking what the unspoken part is.
Actually C&C generals is still available on the Origin store, but only as part of a package
They're generally very into enforcing the FCC rules, and calling the feds is one mechanism for doing that.
This appears to be a thesis paper for a law degree.
I don't think there's anything wrong with more complex tooling, as long as the deliverable is simple.... I use a static site generator (11ty in my case, but there's hundreds just like it) and, even though my node_modules is 81M, it produces clean html free of unnecessary js or css. Just like a modern digital artist might use photoshop/illustrator to create a static jpeg.

Of course, you also have things like gatsby/gridsome which are supposedly also "static site generators" but also ship ridiculous amounts of js to do ridiculous things like "hydrate" the client-side to a full spa.
Agree, it is infuriating.

> Is this article written to send to a court or some legislative body? Is it maybe the moral equivalent of an amicus brief? Is this "merely" detailed research that might be cited by someone else in such an argument?

This looks like a student's thesis.

The author, also, appears to be in agreement with you and is hoping to push information to help cause a stand:

From the conclusion:

> These restrictions illustrate a
disturbing trend with major consequences for current and future
technologies. Ultimately, the FDA’s decision to act as gatekeeper,
limiting consumers’ access to their medical information, is premised on
an impermissible value judgment that significantly restricts individual
autonomy.
I've gotten shocked by touching the prongs of a power cord probably a dozen times. It's not lethal. It just gives you a good zap.
Sure, and most of those people raised their own food and had a wife that could raise the children and cook all day. You could essentially live off of farming just what you needed, with maybe a little extra for spending money. That doesn’t work now unless you outlaw everything more advanced than a horse as farming equipment.
On the other hand, it does prevent snake oil sales from screwing over people who aren’t as savvy as you might be. I worked in medical devices and for the most part the regulations are good, if a bit overzealous at times. Personally, I think several changes could be made to make medical devices both safe and effective, and also available to those who want to tinker and test out things on their own.
These are cool, but most all of this happened after I had transitioned over to DSL, so it doesn't really tickle my nostalgia. The quintessential modem sounds to me will always be V.32, V.32bis, and TPEP.
People work somewhere to make money... shocker! Unless you're some sort of non-profit or a real pioneer in a certain field (SpaceX?), your employees will be there mostly for the paycheck. People aren't interested in making a meaningful contribution if they're building a rehashed CRUD app for the 15th time.
Make it easy to validate your short URLs
I made a big point of saying this over and over during a previous job search and people still ignored what I said and called. They'd even acknowledge that I asked them not to call at the beginning of the call.
In the US reaching 56k was not possible. Sending at 56k required transmit levels above those allowed by the FCC. The maximum in the US over a perfect line was 53.3k. During that era I had a dedicated dual channel 128k ISDN connect at home provided by my work but while traveling I would occasionally get a 53.3k connection but 48k was more normal.
Who cares if they're more personal. Phone calls are more intrusive than e-mail unless they're pre-scheduled.
300 baud modems used frequency shift keying, meaning they generated two different sounds for 0 and 1 bits. The sound frequencies were high enough that the receiving modem didn't need a full 1/300 of a second to decide if it was getting a 0 or a 1.
Based on that, if you had a good phone connection it was possible to reconfigure the UARTs on both ends to operate at 450 baud instead of 300. This gave you a 50% increase in speed!
Most effective way to keep the heat in the sauna which is relevant over there.
great, now we need to add a license checker CI step...
Survivorship bias. ;)
It's a shame that Usenet did not persist. There's nothing stopping anyone from using NNTP to create a new separate "forum" that is not connected to "Usenet".

But since Usenet lost its popularity there's very little NNTP client software available now.

A shame.
How would you discourage car use? Taxes?
Ironically, it seems to have parsed the challenge out from an article about the dangers of such a challenge: https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-national/watch-out-parentst....
Same, and used to grab electric fences as a challenge as a dumb kid.

Fact is, both can and do kill people, usually their heart.

So while it -probably- won't kill a kid, Amazon should treat this as a stop the world emergency IMO.
> the code looks so different to the point where a programmer with not a lot of experience with Python might think those are different languages altogether

Some of us actually prefer the "old" style of Python. Type annotations are too "Java-ish" for me, I hate source code that declares a function with signature takes more than half of the screen space, I hate making http requests with three layers of nested `async with`. If you are into static typing or RAII why not choose a real deal language instead.
The one that sticks in my memory the most was a bunch of issues with Qt-based apps in particular where UI would scale in 1x, 2x, 3x steps, but font size would scale with the fractional size specified.

Led to some pretty broken looking UI.
> That's an implementation issue.

Right, but like I said, I'm not a purist about this, I just think that maybe SPAs should only be rolled out if the implementation actually works.

To circle back around to Google Maps, this is an app that had working links, and the introduction of more Javascript made them worse. So I'm not saying get rid of all Javascript, I'm saying that if you swap out `<a>` tags and it results in broken browser functionality, that's a scenario where just using native tags would result in a better experience.

Twitter/Youtube/Maps are choosing to go down this route even though the implementation is worse. If they didn't have implementation bugs and navigation didn't break on sites like Youtube, and I could copy and paste links from Google Maps, and I didn't have laggy text input on Twitter -- well, then I wouldn't be complaining about any of this.

It's not really about Javascript being bad, but we can both agree that if a company tries to rewrite a website as an SPA and it results in a more buggy experience, then they should hold off on that and they shouldn't just plow forward with the implementation anyway. That has nothing to do with SPAs in general being evil, but even the act of saying "a Javascript-heavy SPA solution should only be pushed if the experience is better than the normal one" feels like I'm saying something revolutionary, and I don't really get what would be controversial about this opinion. Only push a Javascript heavy solution if your solution works, if it results in more breakage than the site had before that solution, then the engineers are moving in the wrong direction.

I don't know if this is a controversial thing to say, but I would say, "only push an SPA if you don't have a bunch of implementation issues". And I think that's where sites like Youtube and Twitter are falling over, in those cases their implementations are either broken because of tracking or just complexity, or something -- but it would have been better for them specifically to have not turned their sites into SPAs, because they can't seem to get rid of the implementation issues and their older sites didn't have as many showstopping bugs or performance issues.

I agree with you that sometimes this kind of partial updating can result in great, quick apps. But in practice, Nitter is faster Twitter is for reading tweets. So if I go to Twitter and I'm not signed in, and I'm just reading Tweets, that's an experience that Nitter is just flat-out better at providing in a more performant way. So it's not that all SPAs are evil or that they should always be avoided, but clearly in Twitter's case the introduction of an SPA didn't make the site faster or better, the low-JS solution ends up outperforming it on multiple key metrics.
> quirks.cpp

this is also why video card drivers are so huge; the fixes to games made at the driver level. this kind of thing happens a lot.
DRM is doing what it is supposed to, and that is to stop common theft.

It's a lock on a door. 99% people can get past the lock if they really wanted to, but it takes time, effort, there are consequences.

If there is no lock, then 99% of people would just 'walk right through' the door.

Without DRM systems (including the legal framework) then the instant 'Spiderman' was released, it would be on S3 for the world to share for free. (Which some would like, others not so much, but there definitely wouldn't be another Spiderman).

So if you really want to try, take some risks, ask around, you can get it for free, but most people won't bother so they just pay.

" streaming services still haven't matched this experience. "

I don't know what you mean: people can flick on their TV's and stream whatever Disney or Netflix and that's that. I can't even recall the last time Netflix didn't work for me.

If you mean to say you can 'torrent anything you want' - well - yes, but that's another issue.
Except for the first one these all seem like a good reason for leaving, why would you hold that against someone?
Maybe, but it's not easy at all unlike getting a vaccine. Otherwise we wouldn't be seeing a global epidemic of obesity. One has to eat less for a very long amount of time.
You can’t really compare HyperNeRFs to Plenoxels because the former does so much more.

Vanilla NeRF has just under half a million weights (if we ignore the coarse network), although more recent work has shown comparable results with only four layers. To compare apples-to-apples, we should probably also apply the (hand-tuned) TVD regularization used in plenoxels.

Plenoxels store 28 parameters per grid point, so at a 256^3 grid size this would be just under half a billion parameters. You don’t know which voxels you can prune at the outset (btw, DNNs can be pruned as well), but for real scenes they show sparsity reaching ~5% after 12.8k iterations. For a real 360 deg scene, because the voxelized volume is quite bounded, you also need to consider the 64 layer multi-sphere image required to capture the background. Basically, you need a fairly large GPU card to train plenoxels on any kind of real scene.

The option to make this space-compute tradeoff is still useful.
I've routinely seen edge cases where geo IP databases are just wrong, even from providers like Google and others.

My home would routinely show up as from a country a thousand miles away. Friends down the street would show up several states over. Customers I know which were a state over would appear from a different country. The databases are usually right, but they're still often wrong. Often enough to cause frustrations.
In Europe we don’t kindly ask for your extra money. We just tax it. Takes the moral dilemmas out of the equation.
I used to hate that screeching noise so much I cut the wire to the internal speaker of my first modem (1200 baud)

For subsequent modems (speed upgrades) I had learned the about Hayes AT command set and init script would mute the internal speaker for peace of mind.

Personally for me, this modem noise is as bad as fingernails screeching down a blackboard!
I read this as something related to the engineering culture of Brazilian people.

Just to clarify to other reading this, it’s about a particular group of Brazilians that used to work at SoundCloud and the referred post made claims about them being protagonists in some sort of divisive infighting.
One can only imagine the strange wonderful world we might inhabit if steampunk/clockwork tech became the dominant player in all industries.
The person who the drink is being poured for is saying that it's too much and it's about to spill. The person pouring the drink wants to continue pouring out of generosity. "o-to-to" (sort of like "oops") and "maa maa" ("no no" / "doesn't matter") are normal things for the respective parties to say in this situation. It just won't go on for that long, or be done every time with those exact words like a ritual, which is the joke.
The workhorse behind this script is pdfsandwich

http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/

which itself uses the OCR engine Tesseract. Unfortunately, Tesseract is not quite accurate even for nicely aligned, printed computer texts. When I was working on an OCR problem within my firm, I was surprised to find that it was not a solved problem, and there are still public and for-profit efforts to improve the state of the art.
Ummm, I think 274K on 200% is definitely fine? I just use it as 1080p with better text rendering and graphic. I don't even use it at 150% because that at a 50 ~ 60 viewing distance isn't really a pleasure experience. Did you place the monitor very close to your eyes?
Your newsserver could go down or block you and yet you could go to some other newsserver and have access to the network. If Reddit or HN block you, you aren't chatting on those platforms again with those names.
That is right, along with Airbnb
Ask HN: Is This Parenting or Scrum?
As my partner and I raise our nearly 1 year old child we are constantly looking for her to reach milestones. The prescribed advice from our doctor as well as reasonable online resources has us tracking development in stints that seem to go about a month each. And it is stressful, not unlike pressure of software development. My partner, who is not a software engineer, finds the process almost overwhelming. As we are getting near the release of version 1.0 (her first birthday) I have to wonder: is this right? Frankly it is not what I was expecting nor would wish for. I do not want to raise a daughter like a scrum project. It seems that child development ought to be paced more naturally.
There is no such thing as a perfect alignment of incentives but there is such a thing as 'no alignment of incentives' and it's better for parties to know that straight up.
Probably a good idea, yeah.
We had a bank of dial-ins to the college back in the 90's. I loved the old US Robotics equipment.

I use a modem sound file for my wake up sound. It gets you out of bed mighty quickly.
I have the same problem. I got a the Neo G9 which can do 240hz but if I want 10-bit HDR it’s limited to 60hz on both my 2019 MBP and Geforce 1080 PC because neither supports HDMI 2.1 or DSC. Windows can do 8-bit + dithering at 120hz which is actually fine but still feels like a silly limitation.
Why should it be illegal? That's like saying it should be illegal for google to tell you methods when you search how to kill yourself. Not all results to queries need to be safe for kids to do.

Edit: Replying via an edit. There are many viral challenges that are dangerous. If you are searching for popular challenges it makes sense for these popular, but dangerous ones to be included.
We also don't really get how anaesthesia works. Like, the local pain interactions? All good. The general loss of consciousness? Nope.
> On the other hand, it does prevent snake oil sales from screwing over people who aren’t as savvy as you might be.

I don’t think you’re taking this on as your own but I’ve lost all empathy for that position. We have other mechanisms to remedy fraudulent or substantively anti-social behavior.

I was actually in the same boat as the previous commenter but my daughter has Type 1 diabetes so hardware scarcity wasn’t the limiting factor. Actually nothing was. I was able to monitor my blood glucose level continuously for a month and it answered my questions. I’ll likely do it again in a few months.
Depends on where you live - are you European? Over there wall sockets are deeply recessed, but they aren't really in North America. This would be pretty easy to do I think.
That's why having TMJD (popping, clicking, dysfunction of the jaw) sucks so much. Surgeons don't like to mess with the jaw at all unless it's a last resort because it's not very well understood. Some of us have had it for years and the only "treatment" we can get is hot water bottles and painkillers. Hopefully this discovery will change things.
It is a bit moribund but there are some newsgroups that are alive. It's full of spam, trolls, and obnoxious contrarians, but you can post about whatever you'd like, receive replies for whomever, and never have to deal with upvote politics or comment pile-ons.

One newsgroup I recommend is `comp.sys.raspberry-pi`. It has a pretty high SNR and is quite active, especially in comparison to some other groups on Usenet.
Very basic geometry problem, in which I discover that a 32-inch display with a pixel density of 218 pixels/inch (to match Apple displays) requires 6108 x 3436 pixels.

An 8k display would be 40 inches.

h = 32,
218 = p / x,
c = 16/9 y,
x = h cos(t),
y = h sin(t),
h^2 = x^2 + y^2,
90 = t + s,
x > 0, y > 0, h > 0
Sure if it only happened to me once, but it's happened to me plenty of times.
It's just an easily misremembered movie quote. When everybody remembered "Play it again, Sam," being a line from Casablanca, instead of the less pithy actual line, nobody posited that the world had changed around them. It's always struck me as an extremely self-focused view of the world to prefer the explanation that the entire universe has been changed, rather than to believe that you made the same easy-to-make mistake that millions of other people did too.
I'd keep my Google home even if its only feature was "ok google find my phone". Timers and controlling music without having to move my hands can be incredibly useful. Everything else is hit-and-miss
Bit unprovoked wouldn't you say?

I don't see a lot of "fans" of specific cloud services. They are each flawed in different ways.

Microsoft gets bashed in the context of open source. In the context of running a cloud, I've only ever seen them praised for actually hiring customer support staff.
An interesting and often overlooked exposition by Dijkstra on notation: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/E...

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1300.PDF