skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The meat, especially the final paragraph I’ve quoted here:

“Although the orangutans did not make sharp stone tools initially, three individuals spontaneously engaged in lithic percussion, and sharp stone pieces were produced under later experimental conditions. Furthermore, when provided with a human-made sharp stone, one orangutan spontaneously used it as a cutting tool.

Contrary to previous experiments, social demonstrations did not considerably improve the stone tool making and using abilities of orangutans.

Our study is the first to systematically investigate the stone tool making and using abilities of untrained, unenculturated orangutans showing that two proposed pre-requisites for the emergence of early lithic technologies–lithic percussion and the recognition of sharp-edged stones as cutting tools–are present in this species.”
> a CouchDB like DB with native support for a CRDT toolkit such as Yjs or Automerge would be awesome, when syncing mirrors you would be able to just exchange the document state vectors - the changes to it - rather than the whole document

syncedstore -> https://syncedstore.org/docs/sync-providers#y-indexeddb-for-...
That's why I'm in favour of something simple like a carbon tax to sort this out.

No need for any politicized discussions about lifestyles that way.

(If other countries don't follow suit with the carbon tax, just do adjustments at the border like what countries do for VAT. That'll automatically also do the right thing for the other countries that do also have a carbon tax.)
Many ways to deal with this.

1) fake wallets (give them a key to some coins but not all)
2) multisig - someone else has to provide the other half of the key or what you can give them is worthless
etc
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A few thoughts: yes, UEFI is a large attack surface. Secure Boot mitigates a lot of that - if it's turned on, the vast majority of UEFI functionality is only accessible to signed binaries. If you're running untrustworthy code in your boot environment then it's already in a position to just overwrite the firmware, there's no memory protection here. But UEFI doesn't entirely go away after the OS boots, there's some number of runtime services left that the OS depends on. http://blog.frizk.net/2017/01/attacking-uefi-and-linux.html is a demonstration that if you're able to modify those then you can compromise the OS. There's also, of course, all the code in SMM which can just do whatever and may have been audited but possibly hasn't been.

But honestly overall BIOS was a bigger concern than UEFI. It's easy to forget, but a lot of the BIOS hooks are still available at runtime - https://github.com/mqudsi/lrmi is an interface that lets you call them from Linux. It's reasonable to worry about the attack surface exposed by UEFI runtime services, but BIOS software interrupts are frankly even weirder. The reason we largely didn't worry about them is that you normally have to be root to call them, which is also the case for UEFI runtime services and most SMM interfaces. And SMM definitely predates UEFI, so getting away from UEFI complexity wouldn't save us there.

And there's been plenty of meaningful security work done in the UEFI space lately. There's support for proper IOMMU setup so that you can boot off Thunderbolt without any Thunderbolt device just being able to DMA all over your firmware. The NX bit is supported. There's support for stack canaries. There are best practices for SMM behaviour. https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%20Firmwa... covers a bunch of this.

If we were designing firmware for maximum security then I don't think anyone would argue we'd come up with UEFI. That doesn't mean that we should be nostalgic about BIOS, which was a smaller attack surface but provided no meaningful security.
That is what I always do, HDMI is great for that.
That is just the key access problem. You can’t beat a time locked multisig out of a guy.
There are systems to protect key materials against violence. It’s kinda an old art in the military.

You can break into a multi-keyed vault of gold given enough time. You will not break multisig ECDSA with all the computers on earth.
So the West is to blame for Putin’s irrationality now? What kind of a double-standard is that? How can we possibly negotiate rationally with a madman? Should we have just given him anything he said he wanted? Of course not.

It was never about NATO, that was just a fig leaf to people with terminal “both sides” mentality. This has always been sold to Russia has returning to its rightful place as a glorious empire. That’s Putin’s personal motivations as well and he was damn clear about it in his invasion-eve speech.

This is about liberal democracy versus ruthless authoritarianism, and if you repeat Kremlin talking points, you’ve chosen the side of ruthless authoritarianism. Russia faked evidence and used it as pretext for their invasion. This is a war of aggression based on misinformation.
Thanks for the heads up. Right now I can't seem to replicate the bug, but I'll look into it.
Toughest stance like one of their state premiers having a UFWD operative as a staffer and refusing to fire her even after she was exposed and found to spread conspiracy theories on social media about covid originating in the US and being spread by the American military? The guy who made a secret deal with the Chinese government while in Beijing that he doesn't want to tell the Australian people about: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/andrews-governme...

Sounds tough.
So, all non-EU states are poor? And Greeces and Italy are a classic examples of nations making it big under EU cover. GUY, come on.
> I love it and it's sad it didn't take in other areas.

It did take for a long time in other areas. (Long = approximately the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.) But visits to malls across the US have been declining for some time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_apocalypse (Not mall-specific.)
Looks like that's Alder, the champion from Pokémon Black and White: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Alder
I agree entirely. I think https://github.com/webrpc/webrpc looks promising.
Totally agree.

Source code is for the compiler to read and comments for the humans to read so that they understand the constraints, reasons, etc that things were done they were. In my younger days, I tended to write "self-documenting code" which basically didn't. I lost count of the number of times code written a few months prior made no sense to me and I had to painstakingly re-read and understand the source code. That's how I learned to use comments as the breadcrumbs to follow months / years down the track.

If you write throwaway code, then no need to bother with the comments. Make sure you do throw away such code.
> Coastline could be the answer to all of those. Ships are housing and have their own self-contained infrastructure. Fishing and transport are a few major economic activities of significant value.

You're going to be hard pressed to construct an economy around any of those without an international agreement defining you as the sovereign entity.

Otherwise, why would I, the captain of a Mexican ship, pay taxes to Coffee Caye?

Because Belize tells me to? Well, then we've just found out who has sovereignty.
I was a TA too, though not for a course that large. I guess my feeling is that complainers should just be noted and ignored.
In the Good Old Bad Old Days...

The South African Rand Note had the words, "I promise to pay the bearer, on demand at Pretoria, one Rand" and had the facsimile of the signature of the Governor of the Reserve Bank at the time.

I don't know of anybody who made the trip to exchange one. But by the time I could read that and understand it... you wouldn't of got much gold!
I wonder if the difference is that on Reddit, you can’t see who it was that downvoted you.
How astonishingly racist. And how astonishingly uncurious.

If you find this reaction shocking and you sincerely want to find more understanding of the Middle East, your ancestors or peers almost certainly have also been colonized, or have neighbors who have. This reaction to colonized people is so banal you should be able to find troves of understanding if you bother to look.

Edit: I expect this to continue to be downvoted, because I know the way things go here. But honestly every one of you downvoting me who think it’s a reasonable thing to say ‘they don't think like you do, their, I don't know how to put it, "value metric" is different from yours’… take a moment and think about that.
The thought has crossed my mind that the answer is, it is impossible to have a long-term gold-backed system (or any other commodity), for all the various reasons that doesn't work, and it's impossible to have a long-term system not based on gold or some other set of commodities, because it is impossible for a government to be given the power to print arbitrarily without eventually using it, unto the death of that currency.

There is no guarantee that there is a long-term stable monetary system, after all. They may form a bistable pair together. Proponents of either state can easily read history as vindicating their claims that one or the other is superior, because look at how often the other failed, but I submit that if history vindicates anything at all it may actually be this position.
Ha, that's just a generic nemesis character. But, there are other characters based on real people (and inside jokes with them), like the girl who speaks of the mayo in the sample freezer or, weirdly, the guy with the killer robots :)
Protect from what? What is your threat model and why do you think full disk encryption doesn't cover it?
Someone is missing the point. Its not supposed to be fun, or even usable. Its purpose is to collect "investment" and shut down.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/justin-trudeau-s-fool...

He doesn't see the problem.
I used to be against smart TVs, but after I found out that Samsung TV Plus streams Clubbing.TV for free 24/7, along with 5 other music video channels, I've stopped my paid cable TV service and am now happy to be the product.
Oh my, I didn't actually know that lol.
You stated a claim without any trace of a supporting argument, let alone any evidence. You can choose to not believe this if you wish. However this is far beyond your wishes. ;-)
Could you elaborate on those flaws? Your info might not be current on the state of the art. It seems to work almost flawlessly in my opinion.
Why does NATO exist again?
Just wondering... (really interested, not being snarky!) I see this opinion with family members and other people who aren't in tech/computers (the majority of people). I figured it was because they don't know how impressive data science has become.

But you most likely do know: so what would it actually take to make you care about what they are doing over your wifi?

Transmit every remote control button push? Send hashes of audio keywords recorded from you talking and use that to recommend shows/products? Raw lidar data? Raw audio/video recording of you/your house?

Is there potentially a line they could cross, or is data just data, and therefore equally fair game?
C# has tuples that are stack allocated
...posted on a site that was developed on a Lisp dialect.
I found this - https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/jp-koning/golds-official-p.... The whole article is worth a read, this is the important bit -

“And that is probably why the U.S.’s statutory price of gold stays fixed at a decades-old level of $42.22. The consensus that independent central banking is a good thing (because it keeps a lid on inflation) dictates that the Fed have plenty of ammo. If the official gold price stays at $42.22, the Fed can lay claim to the full 261,498,927 ounces held by the Treasury. If the price is increased, the Fed gets only a sliver of that, the Treasury laying claim to the rest. And with fewer resources, the Fed’s has less control over the purchasing power of currency.”
They are going out of the business of making masks. Isn't that a good thing?
It seems like a good learning experience to get an answer wrong because you didn't succeed in interpreting the question. Nobody takes pains to describe things in minute detail in real life.
Nice work with this. I was wondering, are all computations other than convolution performed on the FPGA as well - such as pooling, padding, inter-layer quantization operations (rescaling & offset additions)? If not, does the FPGA offload unsupported operations to the host before continuing?
Does the FPGA need to transfer intermediate layer IO data back and forth between the host during GEMM if the data become too large to fit on the FPGA SRAM?
Thanks
I think a virtual dpad would be a bit better than touch to move for mobile
If you have all the computers in the world, you can just create a dominate fork of the blockchain and own all the coins
Can’t edit now but for context: at the time I wrote this comment, there were only three paragraphs in the article and those were the only substantive parts of it. It’s still a short article, but not what was published when I shared that reaction.
Damn straight.

As a final anecdote: our kids had a full-time gym teacher. They were supposed to have “gym” lessons three times a week.

For the entirety of covid, their “lesson” was a single powerpoint slide with the words “go play” on it.

That was the entirety of the work that needed to be done by the gym teacher for a year - post that one slide to google classroom at the appropriate times.
Spanish is the official language of 20 countries and Puerto Rico, i'm sure google can help you find thousands of companies acros the globe.
Yeah, most of this is untrue, you're read too much CNN
Ditto Thailand, and in Bangkok a few of them are really beautiful.
The pitch video is pretty heavily oriented towards investors - much of it was dedicated to their current grants and collaborative partners, and implies they're still developing the process. I can imagine they're working on CO2 sequestration first since customers would sign up for that just for greenwashing purposes, and they'll try to do nitrogen fixation afterwards to make it genuinely sustainable. I doubt most people even realize there's a problem with the whole CO2->protein concept.

They do show a diagram where an electrolyzer is used to generate H2 and that's pumped directly into the fermentation vessel. Maybe they're engineering the yeast or whatever they're using to metabolize H2 and also gave them a nitrogenase. Is this even feasible?
I can always deny internet via MAC address, but a modern panel that just turns on instantly and works is the stuff of dreams.
> In October 2020, Snowden received permanent residency in Russia

In theory I think he's also eligible for Russian citizenship, so he could be issued a Russian passport (to replace his cancelled American one). That would allow him to travel to another country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US.

It's perhaps an interesting question to ask which country someone should move to if they want to avoid extradition to the US but also speak out on global conflicts and human rights issues. Possibly it would be simplest for him to move across the border to Georgia (which has visa-free travel with Russia, for up to a year), but that might not be the ideal location to criticise Putin from.

Another alternative would be to move to Indonesia (visa-free for 30 days), which is a G20 country[0] that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US[1] (others being China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia). I'm not sure whether the Indonesian government would feel comfortable granting him refugee status, but it might be relatively uncontroversial at this stage to grant him permanent residency.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:G20_map.png

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/United_S...
I think mid-tier TVs are just a higher volume product with thinner margins compared to mid-tier monitors. The average american loves their 4K TV, but would never upgrade from the 1080p 60hz monitor they stole from work.

If you get quotes from chinese sellers on panelook, you'll find that monitor panels+drivers are cheaper than TVs with the same specs, even at 1pc pricing.
It's not advantageous to do this as an individual under the current tax code. I'd still rather take the perks than pay 35% of it as marginal tax.

What I want is a revision to the tax code that stops making the benefits a tax-efficient vehicle.
A smart person with experience in C++, Java or anything similar could be pushing Go commits in a week. They’d effectively be fluent after a month of immersion.
Lenovo’s superfish was my favorite example of that
A Sketch of the Biggest Idea in Software Architecture
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Love it! Besides moving, can I perform any kind of action? That book on the church by the bottom right was asking to get grabbed/read but I couldn't find a way to interact with it.

Also, I'd suggest making the bounding box of the player a bit smaller than the player itself, I keep slamming into everything when it's clear I should be able to move through, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQKXU7iSWUU
> Why can't the US government mandate hospitals need to purchase a percentage of their supplies from US manufacturers in order to receive medicaid/Medicare.

Trade agreements most likely.

I would not be surprised if that sort of preferential treatment would count as a subsidy and be actionable under NAFTA (whatever it's called now).
> Rather, technology has slowly but surely rendered the storage of dead trees as obsolete in all but a few circumstances.

It is my understanding that libraries serve as much more than storage places, but as community hubs. For example for many people the library is the primary place to use computers and access the internet.
You can buy them, commercial displays, but they are... quite expensive.
It looks like an archaic reason, https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/jp-koning/golds-official-p...

tldr; the Fed owns gold certificates which give it a claim on a $11 billion worth of gold held by the US Treasury. They don't have a claim on a number of ounces of gold, so the US hasn't changed the convertibility value of gold certificates of $42.22 set in 1973 so that the Fed's claim on an absolute mass of gold remains unchanged.

It still doesn't quite make sense to me, because if the official value matched the market value, the Fed would still have the same claim to their book value of gold. It makes me think that something else is going on that's intentionally obscured.
I wonder how this article will read if someone just decides to kill Putin. The article is very pessimistic. To be fair, this hasn’t worked in Iran or North Korea.

But those are small nations. The fate of Russia over the next few years could easily determine the next hundred of geopolitics.
Too amazing!
Looks like an API versioning scheme for TVs manufactured during that fiscal year, if I were to speculate (FY2020 = Fiscal Year 2020). Remember that most TVs probably never get updated. Maybe they stopped because the API stabilized or they have mandatory auto-updates.
How do you even define “entropy” of a program? It’s a byte stream where each byte is important.
You have a great point. Who is funding the building new nuclear plants these days? I imagine it is mostly governments or government backed utilities.

I would absolutely never invest in a nuclear project but I sure am glad they are there to keep the lights on when the weather doesn’t cooperate for wind and solar.

A mix of different sources is the key to a robust grid, and nuclear is a great part of that mix.

As a side note on British Columbia site C 1000 MW a hydro dam is currently looking like it will cost 16 billion and take about 10 years to build, those numbers could easily be for a nuclear plant.
New UK legislation set to make digital identities more trustworthy and secure
Don’t expect any change I would say. It’s tragic and sad but odds are beyond low.
> it's impossible to have a long-term system not based on gold or some other set of commodities, because it is impossible for a government to be given the power to print arbitrarily without eventually using it, unto the death of that currency.

And this is why the US government isn't directly involved in the process, nor is it given the power to print money arbitrarily. Money is "printed" via a combination of loans and fractional reserve banking, and banks are incentivized to figure out the optimal interest rate to both produce the most amount of money for themselves while keeping a stable currency.
It's good we agree on the main point.

But since we are at it: loans create deposits only in some narrow technical sense, but not in practice.

You are right than in the logical second when a bank makes a loan, they just create a pair of accounting entries out of thin air. One entry in your checking account, and one entry to record the loan.

I hope you agree that most people don't take out loan to let the money just sit in their account: they spent it.

For simplicity, let's assume the common case that the people the debtor spends their money at, don't have an account with our bank.

Our bank loses reserves, when people spend deposits. It doesn't matter whether they spend via withdrawing as cash first or whether they make a bank transfer.

A bank can not operate with negative reserves.

They get more reserves by either accepting deposits or by borrowing them.

Does this make sense to you? If not, where am I going wrong? and why do you think banks accept deposits in the first place or issue bonds in their name etc?

(For simplicity, let's assume no (positive) legal minimum reserve requirements. But also let's assume that banks need a positive level of reserves to operate; eg to pay out withdrawals and net-settle interbank transfers.

If you want to challenge those assumptions, we can do that, too. But please say so explicitly. Thanks!)
Trump T-Shirts->Covid Masks->???
We need more websites designed just like Craigslist. Simple, fast and functional.
I don't know if Cuba signed a treaty with the USSR to have nukes stationed on the island, but you're right that there was hypocrisy in putting US nukes in Turkey but forbidding USSR nukes in Cuba.

Fortunately that was resolved amicably without the US invading Cuba. (Ironically, the Bay of Pigs Invasion occurred the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis).
because no surgeons, lab techs, or workers need masks when there isn’t a pandemic on.

N95 respirators get used for all sorts of stuff. I use them so i don’t breathe in sintered brake pad dust when i work on my car, for example.
What you describe is true; but petrol costs still limit driving. If driving was cheaper in Germany, more driving would happen. Especially more faster driving.
> If it had, it would have pulled Chinese citizens in Ukraine much earlier.

Sounds dubious that they would risk a partnership leak like that for a few people
Do you have a guide for doing that? I have Edgerouters, and something never set quite well with shunting all the DNS traffic for my network over to a Pi. I do love the adblocking though that it provides.

EDIT: did some research after asking like a responsible requester of such information and found https://github.com/britannic/blacklist . Looks promising :) I’d be interested if you settled on another solution.
The absurd 2nd century space opera you’ll never read
Who wants to invest in a plant that will take at least ten years

This points out one of the sad flaws of the human race and ultimately, it's probably the one that will lead to our downfall.

We're absolute crap at thinking long-term.

Look at you, talking about ten years as if it's eons. You're not wrong, of course! Capital doesn't like to invest in projects ten+ years before ROI.

But ten years is not a long time. We should be thinking about many, many things at least ten years in the future. Hell, forget ten years. We should be plotting our energy strategy with an eye to the next hundreds of years.

Of course, we won't, because we're humans and we really struggle to think past next week. And those of us in democracies have designed a system that literally punishes politicians for thinking beyond the next election cycle.