skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where's my DS0 folks at? I used to tune my channel bank cards to 1004Hz at 0 db.

μ-law for the win.
This guy has a degree in "Comparative Philosophy" and thus this blog article should be viewed as such: philosophical rant
Paul Graham's blog: Curious choice of HTML for building the side panel
I was reading an essay on Paul Graham's blog[1] and the side panel[2] seemed erringly pixelated even on my MBP. I inspected the web page and found that the whole side panel is infact a gif[3] and the different links on the page are linked using the coordinates of the image.

Example for the first link:
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,67,21" href="index.html">

TBH, I did not know this is something which can be done in HTML but that got me curious on how it ended up on PG's blog given many limitations it has :)

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/
[2]: https://i.imgur.com/uo254ts.png
[3]: https://s.yimg.com/aah/paulgraham/quotes-1.gif
UChicago scientists create strange quantum ‘domain walls’ in laboratory
FreeBSD on a Laptop (2017)
> They use it because they fucking love to.

As someone who has resigned themself to using at least 2 FB products because I can't convince my contacts to switch because the ones who care can't convince their contacts to switch (and so on) I can tell you that we do not fucking love these products. We tolerate them with misgivings, the same way we feel when we put petrol in our cars or eat fast food
> The cool thing with USD payments over lightning network is that capital gains tax is not triggered.

This is a bug, not a feature, to the US government.
Will green hydrogen markets soon be flooded by cheap Chinese electrolysers?
Why are letters shaped the way they are?
Since I was curious myself to see what was out there for EDIF, I stumbled upon this -- an open-source C++ library to read/write EDIF (I haven't used the library nor do I have any affiliation with the project):

http://torc-isi.github.io/torc/index.html
maybe the managers can go to the offices alone and have meetings between each other to feel more productive
I'm just glad they're doing this properly. They wasted almost a decade on determining what everyone in the world already knew, i.e. ads in messaging products are just. not. gonna. work.

I guess that they were blinded by the margin discrepancy, like many others.
>anyone who has visited an electronics store

Great, now do rent. Healthcare. Education.

But hey at least we have iPhones with 73 cameras and cutting-edge CPUs which we use to browse instagram.
Lack of demand and plenty of acceptable replacements. Tropical fruit has a distinctive acid-sweet flavor that not everybody likes in large amounts. I would pick one avocado or a good apple or pear over a mango all the times. I would choose a Cherimola over a Mango all the times. Is a cultural thing I suppose.
Because most people don't understand what CORS is nor what it does. As I said, even the author of the article that is linked does not seem to fully understand it.
Understanding Attributes, Dicts and Slots in Python
People do this type of lookup today with Cashapp
I don't use Revolut, as I don't trust any financial company that can't make money (which is apparently a very old-fashioned view).
For sure! Lots of new features are pretty subtle. Thread collapsing was added in.. 2016 or 2017, I think. It’s relatively recent, at least when viewed from HN’s total history.
His point in Germany is that not only are you eligible for unemployment, you have to receive a severance package.

They've just pulled the rug from underneath you without it being your fault in any way.
Right! Most of EU countries have one dominant e-payments provider. Some of these national fintech startups are owned by or have links with local banks. Hard to find a product that is 100% usable in every EU nation, besides traditional US players. Once, you cross borders, you have to adapt. This Facebook initiative has the potential to unify a dislocated ecosystem and facilitate users' convenience and adoption of P2P digital payments.

Some risks that would put a halt to this? The EU regulatory bodies in Brussels. They'll find any reason(s) to put some breaks/guardrails and slow down the exponential adoption of FB Pay. Not being too pessimistic, but their mutual relation isn't in the best shape nowadays.
It's also not clear if recycling the silicon in PV cells into new PV cells is the best way to recycle it. The world also uses silicon in silicon steels and in the manufacture of silicones. As PV is further scaled up these may not be large enough markets, granted.
I've never seen this before, but this is a bit odd:

> the entire Mina blockchain is about 22KB – the size of a couple of tweets

When did we get 11,000 character tweets?

Certainly looks very interesting otherwise, hopefully it'll be used for more than speculation and money laundering.
I agree, the author doesn't seem to grasp the fact that CORS always waters down security. That is, CORS is the way of security weakening. Although the author correctly notes that only browsers respect CORS, there is no mention that this happens because CORS relaxes security built into browsers.
I would have failed college if this had come out back when I was a student.
If you think that scalping is a bad thing, which I do, then further incentivising scalping is a bad thing. If it were just a joke then sure, it's a good satire of crypto, but the site says they've scripted a contract for it and if they get interest they'll try to commercialise it.
The numbers could be made diallable directly from the web page by adding links:

<a href="tel:+1-800-444-4444">(800) 444-4444</a>

(The +1 is required.)
I had a quick look at the code to see how it worked and I feel like I'm being daft; where is line 28 getting the variable `soup` from?

https://github.com/trakBan/spongebob-cli/blob/eac7eded094a48...
I'm not sure that this is a great heuristic. Most of the financial instruments that, for example, were at the root of the 2007-9 financial crisis are relatively easy to explain (you can find innumerable articles providing explanations of what a CDO is that I believe the average person can understand quite easily).

> Even though this is a shoot from the hip blog it does point at the fact that while globalization has seemingly made some costs cheaper for wealthy westerners

Arguably the largest benefits of globalization has been the global poor and not wealthy westerners. In some cases this has come at the expense of the western middle and working class (who are ~85th percentile globally) in specific sectors, which is why I think it is so contentious in the west.
I switched from Spotify to a YouTube premium account. I get addless YT, YT Red (never used) and YT music for almost the same price as Spotify.
>I don't know which 70s the author grew up in but I don't think a minimum wage worker had a pristine supercomputer in their pocket and a big flatscreen tv on the wall.

Yes, I know that you cannot afford housing, or decent healthcare, or access credit, that childhood poverty has increased, that you're 100K in debt for getting an education, that worker's rights are being eroded, that we've bailed out the very rich to the tune of trillions for the second time in a little over a decade... but have you considered that in the 70s you didn't have a Samsung Galaxy Pro S37+ Ultra©™? /s

I can't believe I'm reading this, it's the stereotypical "consoom" meme.
I don't agree. Once a researcher has full control of the data, they can use it
to prove anything at all. This is especially so in work like the one we discuss,
where the experiments are performed on artificial data and the researchers have
even more control on it than usual. As they say themselves, such effects are
much harder to obtain on real-world data. This hints to the fact that the effect
depends on the structure of the dataset and so it's unlikely to, well,
generalise to data that cannot be strictly controlled.

You are impressed by the fact that one particular, counter-intuitive result was
obtained, but of course there is an incentive to publish something that stands
out, rather than something less notable. There is a well-known paper by John
Ioannidis on cognitive biases in medical research:

Why most published research findings are false

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

It's not about machine learning per sé, but its observations can be applied to
any field where empirical studies are common, like machine learning.

Especially in the field of deep learning where scholarly work tends to be
primarily empirical and where understanding the behaviour of systems is impeded
by the black-box nature of deep learning models, observing something mysterious
and unexpected must be cause for suspicion and scrutiny of methodology, rather
than accepted unconditionally as an actual observation. In particular, any
hypothesis that tends towards magick, for example suggesting that a change in
quantities (data, compute, training time) yields qualitative improvements
(prediction transmogrifying into understanding, overfitting transforming into
generalisation), should be discarded with extreme prejudice.
Freecycle[0]?

[0]: https://freecycle.org
This was ultimately the reason given for the ancient Trojan war. That Zeus was upset that there were so many people in the world. That is in fact the true meaning of Odysseus’ name. the “child of anger”, given by his uncle for this very reason “too many people in the world!”
Unfortunately I've been a member of this club for 20 years :(
Isn’t it an image map? No one uses them any more I don’t think but they had their time.
The fall of Peloton’s John Foley and the stock market’s founder problem
With respect to Theranos, impossible as in it is physically impossible, because of the non-homogeneity of capillary blood. It simply doesn't matter how good your blood test is, if you are doing a quantitative test, for many types of tests you can simply not get good enough accuracy doing a finger prick test.

The crazy thing is, you don't have to consult biomedical engineers or pore over leading-edge research papers to discover this. You just need to ask almost any med tech with a modicum of experience with blood tests. They will tell you, in no uncertain terms, that Blood Does Not Work That Way.

I will never understand the lack of due diligence performed by the Theranos investors. There couldn't possibly have been any due diligence at all. It's very hard to avoid slipping into victim-blaming mode in any conversation about this company.
I never thought of doing like you said. I've tried composer in a few shared, and it's been a hit or miss.
I thought most Lisps were interpreted…
It's introduced into the global scope on line 82. Too me this seems a bit obfuscated.
The idea that not looking directly at your webcam means you aren't paying attention is deeply ignorant, but probably understandable for a laptop-class manager.

I've been kind of impressed by the inability of the verbal-only types to adjust to remote working. They refuse to read, they refuse to write, and in the absence of meetings, they just sort of wilt and pine away.
I hate to be "that guy" but I think everyone is looking at this wrong.

It's not a programming issue, a type casting issue or a CS issue.

It's a UI issue. That the point you got the date and the datetime values, there was a human being (either a user, an admin or a programmer) sitting in front of the screen and they were asked a question in some way.

The precise way that question was presented affected their intent. It's their intent you are asking about here. So you need to think about what they were asked and how they were asked it. If that was consistent then you can make a reasonable call here. If it's inconsistent at different times and places then the meaning of that date is different and you can't solve this in any reasonable way.
Cool. You can "watch" the Github repo with the button in the right upper place beside "star" and "fork".
This is false. See https://www.epi.org/publication/ib330-productivity-vs-compen.... Income inequality has massively increased since the end of Bretton Woods and the start of the era of neoliberalism, deregulation, financialisation, and Reagan/Thatcher. Productivity increased while median (not top!) compensation remains stagnant.
I'm not at all sure that this is true beyond some very specific products. Clothing probably fits this model (modern "fast fashion" clothing is really cheap crap that will not last) but for most other products, things are getting both cheaper and higher quality.
I never claimed that textiles were trivial women's work.
I call her a gender studies professor because most of the published work on her bio page are in reference to gender relations.
https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/departments/anthropolog...

In my opinion, there's a particular bias here that is mostly based off of inferences. The wording of the article attempts to showcase a perspective that I feel should be met with some skepticism.
You can consider CORS a relaxation on top of SOP (same-origin policy), since CORS allows you to opt-in to certain cross-site requests which are not allowed under SOP. Then again, SOP allows certain requests like 'PUT' and 'DELETE' requests back to the origin server which was not allowed before SOP, so in that sense SOP is also a relaxation.

Bit it is a good point that CORS enables more forms of cross-site requests than what is allowed under the same-origin policy. But the requests are enabled under certain confusing restrictions which is better understood if you understand the scenarios they are designed to protect against.
Taking away someone else’s best option rarely leaves that person better off (especially in the short-run)
I haven't read the blog entry, but the logic here doesn't make sense to me. If everyone gets a 5% return on their stake, the gini coefficient doesn't change at all. Probably small holders never stak and so never get any return, but these people were never going to run nodes anyway so I don't know if it matters.

Furthermore, let's say it costs $1000 to set up a PoW mining rig, compared to $1000 to buying a stake big enough to let you validate. I'm not sure it makes such a big difference in either case.
Pretty much any gadget I found interesting turned out to be sold for 5-20x price of what you could easily find on Aliexpress.
> they did it volontary [sic]

That really undersells the `static if considered paper` which has got to be the most offensive standards paper I've read.

> so there must be arguments against 'scopelesd constexpr if'

I've yet to find any. What I don't understand is: you hardly ever need to introduce a scope with Ds `static if` and in the very rare cases you do it takes all of two keystrokes, but with C++ you are completely unable to get rid of the scope.
>Additionally I really am fed up with people splitting everything in Slack into multiple lines so that I receive multiple notifications from what should have been a three to five liner.

On IRC this is called "scrolling" and depending on your relationship with the person you can ask them if someone is playing a joke by hooking their enter key up to their spacebar.

In general I think what's happening is a tell that a person doesn't act with fully-formed thoughts when they open their mouth.
Facebook Pay is literally just Messenger Pay which (later Libra co-founder) David Marcus put into place in 2015, and which approximately no bugger used.

(I mean, there are some users - including comments on this page - and they like it. But it never took off.)

They rebranded it as Facebook Pay in late 2019. Morning Brew said at the time: "If Libra is the Thanksgiving turkey you tried deep frying but caught on fire, Facebook Pay is the backup rotisserie chicken."

But it's not actually a payment system. It's just a Facebook-y front end, but the actual payments are handled by Mastercard, Visa, PayPal or your bank.

I believe Facebook Pay is part of the WhatsApp Pay trial in Brazil - though that uses the local PIX fast payment system to reach the bank/credit-card backends.

It's not clear why this is hitting HN again. But Facebook Pay is a thing that a few people use, and which basically hasn't been killed yet 'cos Facebook really wants to get into payments, somehow.
Wargamers are dedicated folks. My brother has had a nearly continuous series of plays of Third Reich, an Avalon Hill game from the same era, since the early ‘90s. Same group of guys using a special 2x magnified board he had printed and mounted on the wall over a thin sheet of metal so they can use magnetized counter holders. I think they get 3 or 4 completed games in a year meeting once a week.
Semi-related but what is the best intro to FPGAs, their pros/cons and how to program/interact with them?

I have a background in software engineering so I'm fairly comfortable with that part but looking for a sideline into FPGAs.
It’s quite surprising how little verification went into the original claim that it was a falcon 9 before the outpouring of standard anti-Elon driven outrage.
>Yeah those poor slaves queueing at Foxconn's gates to get a job assembling iphones for the evil american consumer. Because it pays a lot more than tending the rice fields like their parents.

Unironically yes? Do you claim those people are making choices of their own free will? When they have no other option? They can't even change their government for christs sake, how can it be claimed they are engaging in a "free" market?

You are very privileged that you can work from your bedroom and get a nice salary while living in a low cost of living area. Don't forget that, when you talk about how sweet those assembly line jobs are.
> There is huge value in being able to just turn around and ask somebody about something that's got you stumped. Or to get feedback

That's called interruptions. When I am coding this is the last thing I want, to have someone next to me bugging me with their random thoughts, or asking for a coffee.
Absolutely yes, if you want to minimize downside to yourself
So does sikulix, via tesseract, out of the box.
In the UK (and I believe all of Europe), the system is indeed based on bank account numbers and sort codes, but popular banking apps like Monzo will do WhatsApp-style contact lists, where banking details of your phone contacts are synced and you can just pick them from the list (note: account number are not considered secret sensitive information). Banking apps will usually save someone’s details for future usage.
While this is an overview of different ways to emulate a 68k or PPC-based Mac, the author spends most of the article complaining about developers not developing software the way he wants it or not providing a shrink-wrapped Windows executable. "The problem here is that I'm running Windows", as the author notes himself.

Tough luck, I guess...
There's also EFM/2BASE-TL which was a sort of IEEE rebadge of the ITU DSL standards with the OAM layer replaced with Ethernet OAM. I never quite figured out if there was any point to it beyond NIH.
Form Posts are limited to few content types, and application/json is not one of them. I have however found some CSRFs against POST endpoints that did not care that the request was text/plain
Stop Writing Runbooks
Availability shows Afghanistan. How did they get approval for that? Does it mean mums on Facebook can now financially support Taliban and other groups?
May I enquire when this was, and for what applications?
I'm interested in using HTTP/3 for bi-directional communication.

Anyone with more experience on this care to weigh in?

I know there's WebSockets but that's typically implemented over HTTP/1.1 with durable TCP connections.

Let's say I wanted to do near real time (lowest possible latency preferably) synchronization in a server/client architecture, can HTTP/3 make sense here?
> I don't know which 70s the author grew up in but I don't think a minimum wage worker had a pristine supercomputer in their pocket and a big flatscreen tv on the wall.

But they might have had available healthcare, education, pension and ability to afford a place to live. You could say losing all those for tvs (that are just ad delivery mechanisms people have been duped into paying for) and smartphones (that are mostly ad delivery mechanisms people have been duped into paying for) is a good trade, but a lot of people seems to disagree.
Providing legal assistance is different from them fighting hard for you.
I love the look of this, but I've been burned by going all in on exciting projects before (rethink, merb,...) It might be a good idea to add some more info on the team behind, if they have funding to continue etc. MagicStack and uvloop are really worth connecting the dots with.
> Sparse operations still don’t have good support in any of the generic SIMD instructions (avx2/512, Neon), or in GPU…

This is incorrect.

For GPUs: Nvidia A100 (launched in 2020) has sparse matrix multiplication support for inference.

For CPUs: Check out SLIDE from 2019: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.03129.pdf
> It’s a tradeoff: With RISC-V you get innovation, you can create new extensions, but you lost software compatibility. And more importantly, you lose the guarantee of software compatibility,” he said. Arm’s founders made “that a key tenet, and that will serve us well going forward. I’m confident of that.”

How long does it take until we have server-side Ubuntu Linux and staple applications like PostgreSQL humming nicely on RISC-V? It does not matter if RISC-V has less ported software today, as long as there is clear roadmap when this advantage of ARM will be gone.
Apart from the misunderstanding that CORS protects you, you are describing two scenarios.

I don't really understand the first one or why you think SOP should protect you in that case. Could you restate that problem?

The second one is a CSRF issue, as noted by another user.

The third thing you describe is not people who disable CORS but actually use CORS to the max (usally things like Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *), because they don't understand what it does. It's a huge problem...
I was quick to say that a date equals a datetime at 0 hours and 0 minutes, but after reading and thinkiong about it, I agree that the question is wrong, but a little rephrasing can probably help solve the problem at hand:

- Does this datetime equal this date? No, no it doesn't and never will.

- Does this datetime fall on this date? Yes, it might.

- Is this date, the date of this datetime? Yes, it might be.
It's part of how the Associated Press operates; it's why you can read about a big Missouri news story in a newspaper in California (or wherever) without the Los Angeles Times (or whoever) needing to send their own journalist to Missouri to cover it. (And likewise, a newspaper in Missouri can cover the big local news out of California even if they don't have the budget to fly their own journalists across the country on a regular basis.)

>As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press
Why shouldn't we? If we start by assuming that happiness naturally tends to some constant level, then the obvious thing to do is use something other than happiness not make decisions. Material outcomes are easy to coordinate around.
There's a relevant Dutch saying here, "high trees catch a lot of wind"