skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The media control barons have spent the past decade building legal strategies for taking down promising services. Personally I also feel like this is the future, but only in a future where we dismantle their stranglehold on culture.

Anyone who shares content (whether a file or a byte) exposes themselves in one way or another and can be targeted. Anyone else remember the “good old days” when torrent sites stood up in the face of the law and yelled “we host nothing illegal because we host nothing!” and they were right. Then the law firms started joining the swarms to collect IP addresses of everyone that shared with them.

Now they rarely bother trying to sue IP addresses. The legal ability is still there, it just turns out it’s not worth the cost to sometimes collect a few hundred dollars from someone who can’t afford it.

When we talk about transformative tech, we have to immediately consider the “standard scenarios” because being blind to them is how most technology trips and falls. Pirating (especially live PPV events), illegal porn, utterly violent videos, information on making weapons, letting children access same and/or mixing them in with adults in unsafe and unsupervised spaces, openly anti-government statements in countries where they make people disappear, and so-on.

These things happen. And they happen faster and more intensely than most programmers can handle. The only way to keep tools like this viable is to build the tech with those in mind.
> assuming cooling is a solved problem

I’d assume that’s what most of the chonk is about, no?

> Based on the thermal and power consumption characteristics of previous chips I would not be surprised if say ~120W is the max power draw of this thing.

The Max could be brought up to 90W or so.
Unless the Max Pro is sunsetting or pausing the Max Pro, WWDC must produce the kind of GPU power to upend NVIDIA’s dominance.
USA Is the World’s Largest Oil Producer. Why Is Losing Russia’s Oil a Big Deal?
General rankings have limited use. The value of data depends on the interests of the reader, which for college 'rankings' vary widely. For example, if you are interested only in the status of your college degree among the public, then the ranking itself over time and the credibility of US News are probably most valuable, regardless of how they are calculated. But if you are interested in the status of your degree within academia then the 'peer assessment survey' seems most important. Your interests and thus the value of different data will vary by what you want to do (study? work? donate? evaluate research? hire researchers or teachers?), what field(s) you are interested in and at what level, how you learn/work, etc. For many people, the 'ranking' might rely almost completely on one department or just a few specific faculty members.

The US News & World Report's ranking system apparently depends (at least in part) on class size (8% of ranking), proportion of faculty with terminal degrees (3% of ranking), proportion of faculty who are full-time (1% of ranking), student-faculty ratio (1%), financial resources per student (10%), retention and graduation rates (35%), student debt (5%), and "'peer assessment survey' [20%] in which college presidents, provosts, and admissions deans are asked to rate other institutions."

All that data can be valuable but says little directly about the quality of education received by students or the quality of research, though the latter might be outside USN's scope. Sometimes, objectivity is a distraction because the objective data is too limited to inform us. For example, objective data about a play - number of words, etc. - doesn't tell you much about it.

In those cases, expert judgment is an excellent tool and I think USN's 'peer assessment survey' is the right approach for many purposes, but USN surveys people with narrow knowlede - administrators, including admissions officers.

I might look at Times Higher Education, which performs a 'reputation survey' that asks (IIRC) thousands of published, tenured faculty about the quality of other schools' departments in their field of expertise. These are people with expertise and significant access, though of course their understanding of the student's perspective will be limited. (Columbia rates around 10th, IIRC.)
which is fine. The goal is to make *cross-platform* Desktop GUIs that is also light weight. I think Sciter can define a subset of html|css|js and provide some syntax checker(e.g. this feature is not supported). For Desktop GUIs we don't need all those web APIs etc. Sciter is super light weight comparing to Electron and Tauri.
The future of computers is only $4 away. With Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton
> If we had an oil export tariff, then we would very quickly become oil independent.

We had an oil export ban until 2015. Lifting it is at least part of the reason oil production has increased as much as it has over the past 6 years. If you look at production graphs, oil production was already on a sharp upswing between 2010 and 2015. But it kept going between 2015 and today, even though domestic oil consumption declined over that period.

If you consider grades of oil and geographic locations (i.e. for what and whom various production areas are best suited), it might even be possible that the only reason we could be hypothetically import independent without substantially increased prices based on today's undifferentiated extraction volume is because of the export market. Without the grade and geography arbitrage provided by trade, current production might not be viable without substantially increased prices. (Though, if global prices become extreme and remain so, then at least we could limit the price increases. OTOH, it's probably just easier--and certainly quicker--to make nice with Venezuela rather than restructure our extraction and refining infrastructure.)
Yeah you can throw an external SSD on a thunderbolt connection and unless you're editing video you'll never know the difference.
I want to help the computers learn, but I cannot bring myself to watch clips of politicians. Is there a version with movie actors instead?
Even Thorium based reactors still need decades of development and billions of investments to even start commercialization and eventual scaling up. Without a guarantee of success.
> L1/2/3 are CPU caches, not SSD.

Why did you omit the reference to "file system"?

Are we supposed to ignore the fact that a linker's main job is reading object files and write the output to a file?

I find this sort of argument particularly comical given a very old school technique to speed up compilation is to use a RAM drive to store the build's output.
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> SOMEONE would have a US-flagged ship running oil up and down the coastline

A US flagged ship means following US regulations, too. Can't pay slave wages, can't have an awful safety record, etc. Increases the cost of shipping.
Big Pixel update lets you type to talk during phone calls
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30608022
On the subject of hearing loss, can I plug my idea again that all devices should have a "constantly gradually decrease volume" option? It's way to easy to turn up a device for a temporary reason and then an hour later you realize the sound has been way too loud for a long time.

I would rather push a button to turn up the volume twice an hour than realize I've been damaging my hearing for the last hour for something I'm barely paying attention too. Especially for music, if I notice the volume decreasing, I can turn it up, and if I don't notice, then just let a fade to nothing since I'm not paying attention apparently.
> N=3, 2017-2021. No invasion of Ukraine

False; Russian forces were continuously involved in Ukraine (even outside of Crimea) in the Donbas war, with no significant, even transitorily successful, ceasefire until late 2020.

> Since Russia/Putin has attacked its western neighbors during three of the last four US president's terms, it appears Trump constrained Putin's expansionism,

Since in fact that happened in four of the four last presidential terms, that doesn't work even if you ignore that the logic here is simply very weak correlation even if the premises were correct.
Likely a joke, but I'm sure Apple events are barely a blip in the ocean of other Internet traffic.
For the TLDR people:

“ In each previous section, what was at issue was a discrepancy between two figures, both obtained from data provided by Columbia. Regarding class sizes, the information provided to U.S. News conflicts with the information in the Directory of Classes. Regarding terminal degrees, the information provided to U.S. News conflicts with the information in the Columbia College Bulletin. Regarding full-time faculty, the information provided to U.S. News conflicts with the information provided to the Department of Education. And so on.”

The big conclusions are that Columbia seems to be providing inaccurate data, and that one of the outcomes of chasing rankings are that transfer students end up as second class students, at least at Columbia.

I think it’s a data driven case of how elite universities can perpetuate a system of reduced social mobility. For Columbia, the objectively more poor transfer students support the more wealthy non-transfer students, and the graduation rate shows that disparity.
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Where is the Qi wireless charging mouse and mouse pad from Apple; mouse always charged.
> namely that the measurment problem is solved by decoherence

I think "solved" is too strong. The Wallace paper you reference, for example, does not claim that decoherence solves the measurement problem. His claim is only the more modest one that understanding decoherence helps to clarify what the measurement problem actually is.
The only thing worse than a strict process is a quickly changing process. Because then people will be forced to keep track of the changes and it becomes even more difficult to become compliant. Ideal process would include the feedback from day 1 and iterate either based on demand or at fixed intervals placed as far as possible.
My biggest issue with storing data inside the browser is the lack of tools to set up filter rules for clearing or explicitly not clearing website-specific application data.

Looking at Chrome's Inspector, Application Storage has "Local Storage", "Session Storage", "IndexedDB", "WebSQL" and "Cookies".

If I decide to clear all this stored data stored for all the pages with one button press in the settings, how can I be sure I'm excluding something important? Or if I install a new extension which helps me manage privacy, how can I be sure that it won't delete all this data because I forgot to add a site to its whitelist?
> Regular users are generally safe: the laws dont punish downloaders, only uploaders.

Are you sure about that. The downloader is the one making the copy. The uploader is merely inducing the creation of said copy.

Yes, it's easier/more efficient to go after the uploader, but that doesn't immunize the downloader.

> Don't forget that the admins can be in different countries, making their legal pursuit a nightmare.

The US govt does multi-country activity all the time.
> Haven't the past weeks revised everyone's opinion on that point?

No.
You must have a lot of trouble buying anything, since I assume you apply your principles consistently? Clothing manufactured in countries that overlook child labor, chemicals / metals in your electronic devices coming from dictatorships, oil in your car coming from environmentally devastated areas?
I vent by dancing and swearing in the basement with the music blasting. No harm done and I feel better in the end ;)
From a non-paywalled source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/08/politics/senate-vote-postal-s...
Does Python/Django have working dependency management yet? It doesn’t as of 3 months ago.
Do you mean the AW2721D from 2020? If so, I was looking to purchase one myself.

How color accurate is the screen?
How well does it handle HDR?
Does it ever get blurry?
If you've ever tried run Linux, either bare or VM, did it handle dpi correctly?
Bugs in Hello World
They're genuinely pretty great when your hands are busy, or you want to do something relatively far away.

95% of my usage is in the kitchen, and I think both amazon and google are hugely under-valuing that space.

My ideal voice assistant would be something like the Fire TV cube (streaming shows along with voice control) where the thing is able to show timers/recipes/unit-conversions picture-in-picture while the show is playing, as I ask.

Frankly - Amazon acted like a chicken with its head cut off with the Fire TV cube, it should be exactly what I wanted, but the device is almost laughably bad at basically everything it should excel at, and I still hate them a little for it.
Around then, '98 I think, I remember benchmarking the first computer I bought for myself, a Pentium II @ 350 MHz, and being floored to learn that I had just bought a desktop supercomputer! It was in the same ballpark as a single processor Cray Y-MP. I'm pretty sure some Cray Y-MPs hadn't even been retired yet at the time. From about $2.5 million to $2500 in about 10 years, for comparable hardware.
Taiwan’s pandemic vice-president – from lab bench to public office and back
Wow! Thanks. Reading through it and it makes a lot of sense. I had no idea such a thing existed till now.
It's about detection: "to ensure Ukraine can detect and report outbreaks caused by dangerous pathogens"
Not only are they apparently lying to US News, they appear to be running a scheme of enrolling an unusually high amount of transfer students (who are not counted in the US News graduation rates) for the purpose of soaking them for tuition revenue.

Per the article, transfers get much less financial aid than non-transfers at Columbia and also have much lower graduation rates, which is the opposite of what is seen at other schools with large transfer populations like in the UC system.

Prof. Thaddeus is very courageous for bringing these facts to light, and/or has a deep love for his university that he feels is being corrupted by their pursuit of a higher ranking.
The AMD parts are already running close to max. You can squeeze a few percent more out of them, overclocking like in the old days is out of the question.
Western nations cut ties with Russian science, as some projects remain neutral
I wish your company success.

Feedback from a privacy conscious person - I would not use such a service because their is nothing stopping you becoming a aggregator of data brokers. Now you have additional information such as my IP and payment information, which can connect all data into one giant profile.
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Your body doesn't heal from lead exposure, it gets stuck in there until you die.
The site and search eventually work, but the torrents themselves do not download and do not appear to have all necessary magnet information in the links. So the downloads just hang there in the torrent client.
So wake up and smell the Javascript...
Seems to me the original SQLite database storage format was text, more or less CSV, or am I mis-remembering?
browserrecon – advanced web browser fingerprinting (2008)
...that and the lack of any real competition

Nothing focusses the mind like a real competitor.
> The most geopolitically stable supplier of heavy and super heavy crude oil is just north of our border. Canada. The pipeline that was meant to bring their crude, the keystone pipeline was cancelled after its permits were revoked.

You act as if that was the only pipeline from Canada. There are several others. Here's a start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enbridge_Pipeline_System

The US' energy needs don't rise and fall on the approval of one single pipeline project.
I published a new introductory SQL tutorial last week, which I hope to keep improving and expanding over time. Would very much appreciate any feedback on what I've got so far!

https://datasette.io/tutorials/learn-sql
No need to develop a new browser, you can easily configure yours to disable GPU rendering. If you like things to be slow and inefficient. Personally I'm never buying any display under 1440p 120 Hz again and I prefer to run workloads where they're efficient, so I'll continue to use GPUs for graphics.
It's a risk management thing. If the company folds or has bad times, it would suck to lose both your job and a significant part of your investments. For that reason, you should not treat your company stock as more special, more safe, or more profitable – making your company's stock a significant part of portfolio just because you're working for them. On the contrary, it's more risky for you because you're working for them.
Two major reasons I use SQLite are the built in full text search https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html and fuzzy matching https://www.sqlite.org/spellfix1.html these are two things you often want to do with your data frames but other solutions are usually pretty slow whereas SQLite is fast.

Other reasons: every language can use a SQLite db, you can add indexes, you can add multiple tables in one file, you can store large amounts of data on disk, it has built in json queries, there’s a great ecosystem of SQLite libraries, support for it is built into python.
I work at ToolJet(https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet), an open source low code framework for building applications and it's a fully remote. You can check out open roles.
When you're job is going well, you don't need the stock. If you need the stock it's probably because your job is ending (hopefully in a happy retirement, but regardless you'll lose your visibility).

If a diversified portfolio goes to $0.00 it's going to be a disaster on such a scale that money won't matter anyway. That's my thinking, anyway.
It it relevant in the context that people keep celebrating M1 as if Apple would take over the whole computing world.
When my household moved last year two of the adults fell for this scam with change of address. For the record USPS will change your address for free in person or for $1 online (using a credit card cuts down on fraud and they have to charge something to actually use the CC). Well two people fell for bullshit Google ads and paid $85 each. One got her money back. The other did not. I am sure Google will fix it any day now.
If they were actually listening, they would have a more affordable, configurable Mac Pro like the old refrigerator models. I don’t care about compactness for a desktop model. I also don’t like components being soldered like it was an appliance instead of a computer.

If it wasn’t for Mac OS, and the fact that the alternatives suck more; I would have been gone last generation.
Don't agree.

First, she is 'pissed off' and that's a separate issue from blame.

Second, while we can't fathom the attribution entirely - Russians are fully aware that these sanctions hit when Putin launched a war/incursion. Irrespective of 'blame' the causality is their own.

Every day Russians are complicit - propaganda or not - and they need to be made aware and isolated from everything except information.
I have an egg timer I just turn the dial on. Replacing it with a billion transistors scratches a non-existent itch for me.

What I want is an assistant that will handle all my bookkeeping for me. Right now, I have to log in to the account, then download all the statements for the last tax year. Evidently, no bank has such an option. Nope. You gotta do it month by month, click, download, save, back, back, click, download, save, back, back, until you scream.

Then ya gotta download the transactions for the last year in a format that quicken can use. You can download transactions for last week, last month, last 12 months. No option for "last tax year". So you have to manually enter 1/1/2021, then 12/31/2021, then confirm, then download, then save, then do it all over again for the CVS version.

Then you gotta poke around looking for the tax documents.

Then I gotta get the transactions for a credit card I canceled 6 months ago. But since I canceled it, I can't download the transactions.

It must be only me that has these problems. Why is that? Does nobody else need to pay taxes?

No, I doan need no help setting a $%^&# egg timer :-) Maybe if I become bedridden I'll need help flipping a light switch. Until then, nope.
Buying M1 chips from Apple isn't happening.
Hearing is a process that extends from your ear all the way through your brain. The hard line you think exists between “hear” and “familiarity” or “ear training” doesn’t exist. The last few years I’ve been spending around Vietnamese, and while I still speak relatively little of it, I’ve been able to slowly adjust to be able to separate out sounds and words that previously sounded like one big mess.
be a man, do right thing! (or woman)
Is there some sort of equivalent for division?
The interesting thing here is how little difference DRAM access speed makes.

AMD is probably getting 70GB/s while the M1's on chiplet DRAM is 3 to 6x the speed.
There Will Be No Landscape After the Battle
Algae with three sexes that mate in pairs identified in Japanese river (2021)
If you have free time to read and post on hn, you may be benefiting from the status quo.
I think it depends on the nature of the task and on the experience of your pair.

If the task is more mundane, you get someone to think about corner cases and other consequences while you code, or vice versa. This is a great way to onboard beginners, as you constantly show not only your code but your process and tools.

If the task is more exploratory, a second person might still be helpful, specially if it is someone with more experience; they can provide real time feedback on your ideas and it might be valuable.

For me, it is not just about getting the work done, it is about knowledge diffusion and code quality - I can't remember now and didn't search again, but there is some data gathered on IBM that shows that, while pair programming doesn't deliver code faster, it usually deliver code with less bugs.

> I'd imagine that pair programming would devolve into a weird social game where winning strategies are either to do minimal work while one party does everything or a situation where one party does 90% of the work while demotivating their counter party. In fact - both of these strategies could be paired together!

This doesn't seem to be a problem inherent to pair programming; you'd need management or someone else to deal with those people in any scenario.
> To be fair that $2000 also gets you +32GB RAM, +512GB storage, and +10 CPU cores.

Even though it's not an apples to apples comparison, keep in mind that a 1x32GB DIMM sells for less than 150$, and you can buy 1TB SSDs for less than 100$.
Unless your unused resources cost you nothing, leaving a ton of "slack" or "head room" is inefficient because it's expensive.

To use your car analogy, it's like buying a car when you need transportation 1 day a year. That's inefficient because that resource is unused 99% of the time. Far smarter to get an Uber for one that day.
Even Chinese are aware or not when they are making progress.

Xi's #1 fear is that the economy slows down because he can paper over everything so long as people's lives are improving. The moment that stops he's done.

We're not made aware but there are 'protests' of sort all over China all the time. People get pissed off over corruption etc..

People aren't completely dumb, the propaganda only has so much effect.

As people see their lives turning down, they know what's what.
Mr FreeRAM
Where was this supposed "bravery" from Centurylink when China occupied over the last few years Hong Kong? Not that such a decision would have been effective even then, or even undesirable by Xi. But I'm curious what it would take for CenturyLink to disconnect Xi.
Once you've learnt basic SQL, I found https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2021/homework1/ to be a nice little way of consolidating the basic concepts.