skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At present 512MB of RAM is notable in how ridiculously tiny it is and 2TB is still an acceptable amount of storage. Without resorting to decades obsolete software can you put a pin on exactly how much storage it would take to render that tiny amount of RAM unusable and then explain how much storage it would take to render a machine with 4GB of RAM likewise unusable so that we may demonstrate memory usage scaling with storage?
English spelling is so fucked up. Possessives normally have the apostrophe, except the possessive pronouns. Just because.
> Why not project onto an ellipsoid? (The Earth isn’t quite ellipsoidal either, but it is even closer to being an ellipsoid than a sphere.) The answer relates to the other goals stated above, namely performance and robustness. Ellipsoidal operations are still orders of magnitude slower than the corresponding operations on a sphere. Furthermore, robust geometric algorithms require the implementation of exact geometric predicates that are not subject to numerical errors. While this is fairly straightforward for planar geometry, and somewhat harder for spherical geometry, it is not known how to implement all of the necessary predicates for ellipsoidal geometry.

http://s2geometry.io/about/overview
There is no legally required disclosure anywhere about this being a paid endorsement, so we'll have to imagine that Mozilla engineers have spent their time on working to promote a Disney movie just because it's cool and it is available on Disney+.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220308222503/https://www.mozil...
Making a profit, even a large one, is not in and of itself a scam.
Linux: Falkon (KDE) or GNOME Web

Mac: Safari

Windows: Tough choice. Firefox still probably the best, despite everything.
Ok then, what's the viable alternative?
Each dollar put into building out nuclear instead of renewables + storage brings climate disaster closer. Money is fungible. You cannot spend the same dollar on both. A dollar spent on nukes yields enormously less than the same dollar spent on renewables, and the difference is only growing.
This hardly works at all so I am skeptical of the benefits it offers learners. Even using just for loops it gets tripped up and says the following code is O(n) when it isn't.

for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
for (int j = i; j < n; j++) {
}
}
Correct.

If the utility on Linux is not the exact same as Windows (or doesn't even exist, the horror!), then modifying your behavior or expectations is insane and is considered "ricing" and a complete waste of your time.
What happens when the dog dies? If a pet is giving you the only love you know, it's going to destroy you to watch it pass. I'm saying that from experience.

And we're very unlike animals too. Intelligence is unlike any other force in nature. We're the only thing that can drastically and intentionally shape the world around us, find and preserve knowledge for thousands of years. Even language itself is incredible, and nothing like what we see with animals.

You're not wrong about shallow relationships and striving for approval being a trap though. But there is an alternative to being swallowed by emptiness. It's not the most popular thing to talk about, but when people refer to "saving faith", that emptiness you describe, is what they are saved from.
> You're looking at around 1% of CO2 emissions in the US coming from natural gas used directly for cooking.

Often, a necessary part of solutions are 1% here and 1% there. There's not always big, satisfying chunks, or they aren't sufficient.
> Fast CPU transformers: https://bellard.org/libnc

And especially, from Fabrice Bellard (QEMU, FFMPEG...)

I do not know how you found it: it is not even in his site's index!

--

I see that NN-512 is a personal project of yours: congratulations! Though it seems to be a go-lang application that generates specialized C for convolutional NNs... Not a general purpose library, not for beginners.
How much did everyone using Firefox pay for the privilege of using their browser? It's ironic to me that there is so much anger over a communist China ad, while at the same time they want to benefit from the hard work of others for free. TANSTAAFL people.
On a different thread today, someone mentioned LibreWolf (https://librewolf.net/), which might be a viable browser to support (a fork of Firefox), and for macOS, there's Orion (https://browser.kagi.com/), which is built on WebKit.

When you consider browser engines, you can use Blink (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera), WebKit (right now, Safari and Blink only?), or Gecko (Firefox, LibreWolf, others?). I would suggest just supporting anything other than Blink if you want competition. Firefox isn't the only alternative. At least with WebKit there's someone who isn't Google who wants to make changes that won't fill their engine with ads.
It shouldn't. Users should be using a package manager to manage software. Windows fucked up users expectations by not including a sane one by default... ever. And no, Windows Store doesn't count.
>you are drawing conclusions about the labour market when there are likely very large and potentially unpredictable changes in store.

...isn't that the entire point of this particular thread? Looking at possibilities without necessary prediction?

Is there any point in history where you can't say "there are likely very large and potentially unpredictable changes in store."? Why predict anything ever then?
Blockchain. Seriously. A few non-updatable smart contracts and IPFS is about as close as we can get to "out of the reach of money" as it cannot be altered once deployed.
> It happened.

Well, before that there was another war (the Red Army vs. the Ukrainian nationalists around 1920); and Stalin killing millions of Ukrainians in the man-made famine in the early 1930; followed by the mass repressions in the late 1930s, with hundreds of thousands executed. It's never been a happy marriage, not really.
I've learned much more english through the internet and talking to people than I ever could have at school (I'm german). I'm not the best at spelling in general, but I doubt more homework would have fixed it or been worth the investment.

I'm all for learning languages at school though, it's a skill that translates really well in to life unless you learn latin.
I sure hope that none of the people that are in danger trust in the obscurity provided by in browser vpns.

If they do then it always was just a question of time for them to be found out, as just adding a webrtc session to the website makes their ip transparent again. Same with unique dns queries etc
I find it weird that Mozilla would run ads for Disney+, a DRM infested site that gives Firefox users an intentionally subpar experience.
That's part of the math problem.
Is there some example code to try?
Mike Levin is exploring a related idea that bio generated electromagnetic fields are used to guide body regeneration in worms

https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/mike-levin-on-electrifying-ins...
Official: Drone that crashed in Croatia carried a bomb
>Basically burning ship with electric cars can’t be saved.

The fire was put out and it was being towed to port when it sank in heavy seas. The battery cars may or may not have caused the fire, we just don't know.
Unauthenticated RCE in Veeam Backup and Replication
Stragegy, rpg and adventure games. But I can play anything. Thanks for the tips man.
Memory allocations, let's talk about good practices and bad practices
Webkit is still there, most things still work in it.
CDC changing the definition of the word vaccine to suit their ageneda is not simple 'misinformation'
Also, in many cases, implementation details like cache locality mean that asymptotically inferior algorithms can in practice outperform those with a lower theoretical runtime complexity.
That is a very long article that requires lots of other things to understand. But what I am confident about is that compatibility with everything is... just about the only good thing about C.

Why mess with it at all? It's portable assembly. Why are we trying to use it as more than that? Even the kernel doesn't need it or only needs tiny bits of it. See Redox OS and all the other similar projects.

Why do we still talk about ABIs? We can statically link a whole binary, and still use far less disk and ram than we do now with containers.

We have high level languages that "link" at the level of names and modules, not bits and bytes.

C works well enough for what it's used for. Rust and the others are up and coming.

Instead of saving C, why not improve Rust and JavaScript and the others?
Mozilla is a welfare company that exists so Google can point to another browser and claim they don’t have a monopoly
Perhaps one of the widely cloned Samsung Galaxy models which still had a removable battery? Seems to be around the right dimensions and intended application, in any case.
a convolutional kernel, maybe
Reducing climate impact from energy production requires both reducing it at the point of production and at the point of consumption. By switching to electric energy at the point of consumption, you reduce demand for gas, etc. The production can then be switched to something zero-impact.
It's very clearly lighthearted, unless you think that "Boy bands" and "General disdain of dodgeball" are overriding, all-consuming values of the Mozilla Foundation.
Why do you even want self collimation? Can’t it just focus the laser light with a (very) big mirror on the sending side?

(Genuine question; my physics isn’t at that level).
Parent probably means "new to me".
I don’t mean to attack by going through these points, but would like to share a different perspective.

> Sales wins because they can claim "Feature X" being sold and get their commission

That’s true even if the product is high quality from the get-go, isn’t it?

> The customer wins because they get to complain about x or y being bad, incomplete, or whatever they want to whinge about and feel like they're part of the solution

I‘ve seen contractors, big and small, fired for providing complain-worthy software, multiple times. Some (most?) customers have enough on their plate and just want working software. Take Apple as an example. Their software quality seems to have worsened considerably in the last decade, but I don’t feel this has made myself more inclined towards buying their products. Infact, I‘m frustrated and have considered switching to other tech more than once.

> Customer Support/Sales Engineering/etc wins because they get to appear to be "responsive" to the customer by quickly reorganizing ongoing work to take care of the "urgent need"

I agree, support staff actually needs bugs to occur or else they will be scaled down. What’s the business case for having a huge support team though, if shipping high quality software is an option?

> The Project Manager wins (2x!) because they can now a) do the same "response" dance for the C-levels, and b) berate the software development staff and show their authority and working under pressure skills

Why not, instead of working on authority and under-pressure skills, let PMs grow as leaders insider their team who can inspire hard work when the rubber really needs to hit the road?

> Software Development wins because they can now work on the secondary features, fixes, "skunk works" tech debt, etc. since this is now more important.

As an engineer I‘ve found it more satisfying to deliver great code instead of having old hacks thrown back at me, maybe with added time pressure because there’s data loss involved.
Makes sense.

I made a decimal time clock here https://github.com/wegry/decimal-time where I used `requestAnimationFrame`. Admittedly, it probably uses more CPU than it should.

I think I had an issue `setInterval` similar to https://stackoverflow.com/a/729943 talking about here

> In this Fiddle, you can clearly see that the timeout will fall behind, while the interval is almost all the time at almost 1 call/second (which the script is trying to do). If you change the speed variable at the top to something small like 20 (meaning it will try to run 50 times per second), the interval will never quite reach an average of 50 iterations per second.
Linux isn't even close for normal people's desktop use.

Just recently I tried and failed to simply set up a screensaver that turns my screen black (not off!) to save my display from burn-in. Eventually I just gave up. You can't do this with stock GNOME. I also tried xscreensaver (but the Debian-specific instructions in the man page are out of date) and xfce4-screensaver, both didn't work.

I've been using Debian GNU/Linux since Feb 2016 and consider myself adept but still couldn't figure this very simple task out.
More info from Croatian news sources here (English):

Remnants of Aerial Bomb Found in Drone That Crashed in Zagreb

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/politics/61114-remnants-o...

“He said that it was a Soviet-made unmanned aerial vehicle, but that it was still unclear whether it had come from the Russian or Ukrainian side.

"We will be able to say what its purpose was only after an analysis. This type of bomb was used by aircraft," he added.”
Even if this is true, I don't understand how it's material to the statement above.
>But it's not clear why Mozilla's apparent executive valuation of her is held to a separate standard

Isn't it? Mozilla is pretty widely regarded as the last defense against complete browser monopoly.

The Mozilla Foundation is a California non-profit corporation exempt from Federal income taxation under IRC 501(c)(3).
Temperature has to do with how the entropy changes with the addition of energy. It helps to use the “coldness” or “thermodynamic beta” scale, β = ΔS/ΔΕ is the coldness of a system, the thermodynamic temperature is defined as 1/(k β) where k is a conversion factor, the Boltzmann constant, to convert between units of energy and kelvins.

For most normal systems, entropy increases with an addition of energy, and they have a positive coldness. Confusingly, the lower the entropy change, the less cold or hotter we would regard it: if you bring two systems into contact, they share energy to maximize their total entropy, so something which has low coldness = low entropy change will donate a lot of energy to something with a higher coldness = higher entropy change, the smaller negative will be balanced out by a larger positive.

You can extrapolate this to an infinite temperature, this would be an object with β = 0 or zero coldness, it can take or lose energy without changing its entropy at all. An example is an assembly of electron spins in a magnetic field, when 50% of them are aligned with and 50% are aligned against the magnetic field: this is the most entropic that the spin system could possibly be, so there is no way to increase it and to first order changes in energy do not decrease it. It has zero coldness or infinite temperature.

Add a little bit of energy and it is in the state where it actively wants to lose energy, putting more energy into the system requires aligning more of the spins along the magnetic field. This is a negative coldness, which is also regarded as a negative temperature by this T =1/(k β) formula.
I wonder how handsome you would have to be to play a model playing yourself.

This is a great story. I'm wondering if any of them had techie friends that set them up.

"I'm going to interview Walter Bright!"

"Oh yeah? You know that's not a real person, right?"

I think I would do that if I ever got the chance. "You think the guy who created Linux is named Linus? Really? Well, okay I guess"
One thing to note is that the Greek works likely could not have survived medieval Europe if they had left Constantinople a lot earlier. There were two great advantages to renaissance scholars:

1. The works were still in their original Greek (rather than translations into Latin done long ago, or the translations from Greek to Arabic (and then to Latin) that came in through moorish Spain).

2. Religious attitudes allowed the works to be studied close to their original form. Early Christians were basically of the opinion that if a book disagreed with the bible it was heresy and should be destroyed, and if it agreed with the bible it was unnecessary and could be destroyed. That was less the case in the eastern side of the church and of course a big exaggeration too: there were old Latin translations of eg Plato however they had been quite bastardised to conform with Christian theology (I understand Aristotle was a little less bastardised as early Christian theology was itself quite Aristotelian). By the renaissance less bastardisation was required (if translating to Latin rather than the vernacular).

Without being transferred so late to the west, the works may never have made it to modern times in such a complete form.
One of the biggest bummers is how much the Internet has mostly collapsed to TCP and of that a very large share is http/https. UDP is still going strong for a handful of important applications. But if it's not one of those two -- good luck getting end-to-end transit.
Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract PART 3
>Browser share down to 3.45% and they only live off their Google Money for the default search engine.

For others wondering, that figure is across all platforms. For Desktop, they're around 7.5% and for mobile it's 0.5%.
What's the advantage of:

t = TemplateBuilder()
.withFoo(foo)
.withBar(bar)
.excludeBaz()
.build()

over:

t = Template(foo=foo, bar=bar, baz=none)
It feels like this is what Elon Musk should have invested into.
I agree. This is another reason to stop trying to make it happen, when it wasn't a happy marriage in the first place.
That's what I said and did, put BLE temperature monitor inside with silica gels packed. Power fridge from TPLINK HS110 (smart power switch) and automate it using HASS.
It’s a cryptoscam though.
Its about how _much_ information you give your boss. And when. When the power balance is even, the flow of information can be, too. But given the relationship of employment, it can never be. So its still on the employers/the powerful.

If you give it away for free, theyre not going to voluntarily pay you.
What exactly is your complaint?
Something related to medical degrees?
Driving the Lower 48 States in 124 Hours
Well there was also The Holy Roman Empire (Translatio imperii) following the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire and currently the See of Rome where the Pope holds title as bishop of Rome as just 1 of a handful of absolute monarchs recognized under international law.
Except it's just another blink repackage. I think the really important thing is web standards, which means supporting gecko or webkit.
Ask HN: As you get older, do you see programming as merely a means to an end?
That is, you become more interested in what your app does rather than the programming involved to get it to do that?
Yeah, we're pretty close to the point where as much time has passed since pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors were invented as there was between their invention and the invention of the steam turbine.
Hmm, doesn't seem to work properly. Spits out a "Syntax error" for

for (let i = 0; i < N*N; i++) {}
To be fair, more often than not, Russia was on the receiving end of invasions. Even when they invaded others, it was often in response to being invaded first.

Look at how the Russian empire formed: it was Moscow re-taking all the Kyivan Rus lands that were conquered by Muslim invaders. Or all the European countries that attacked/invaded Russian lands: Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Poland-Lithuania and I'm probably forgetting some.

So yes, it's fairly apt to say that, more often than not, Russia was defending its own lands.

The fact that Russia is wrong today doesn't mean that it hasn't been wronged many, many times before. A parallel is that many abusers were once abused themselves (and yes the cycle needs to end).

Also, Ukraine's unfortunate history: they were the part of Rus/Russian lands that almost always were passed back and forth. The name "Ukraine" itself suggests that...
So what happens if I stick my hand in a negative temperature state of matter?
> Every once in a while, something comes along that we can totally get behind.

Like DRM’d media.
Thoughts on Chowhound’s Demise from Founder
She's disparaged for giving herself a significant raise at the same time as laying off a bunch of people. And Firefox has continued to lose market share since then.
i stepped on a bee once and only once in my life and it was on the gravelly bank of a river. you know how it's hard to swat a fly? bees aren't trying to get stepped on, abd they're watching more closely than you.
If I could pay for it, I would.
> the general MBA hate on HN amuses

Like other communities, sadly, HN is egocentric, thinking what they do is important and that everything else - humanities, social sciences, arts, management, government, etc. - is a waste. The world should be run by hackers, of course. I would guess MBA News is similar.
Was assassinated.
Wouldn't you trust a doctor, even if they make mistakes, when you are sick?
My understanding is that Baker is the CEO of the Mozilla corporation, presumably because 501(c)(3)s are subject to additional IRS scrutiny when their compensation is not deemed "reasonable."[1]

Whether or not Mozilla is the "last defense" is immaterial to how much she's paid, as is our Peeping Tom evaluations. If the Mozilla board thinks she's worth that much, then she's worth that much. If you have reasons to doubt their stewardship in ways that would run afoul of the IRS, you should report them.

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
Future times are tricky. Some weekly meetings are 24 hours * 7 days apart. Some are at the same time in (fixed) LocationA, 7 days later; some in (fixed) LocationB. Some in whatever location the organizer is (maybe a personal reminder rather than a meeting with others).

It would be a lot easier if locations changing offsets to other locations was a lot less frequent.
You have been able to for a very long time, quite possibly for all of its existence: https://donate.mozilla.org/
Yeah, might’ve been a coincidence
> Temperature can become infinitely high, and you can still add heat, at which point it becomes infinitely low. You can carry on adding heat, and the temperature will get back to absolute 0.

Perhaps the correct measure is not temperature, but inverse temperature (i.e. 1/T)?
Although it is a very interesting paper, and I am by no means qualified to even understand half of it, while reading up representational drift I was much more convinced by another (and a bit more recent) paper portraying the phenomenon as a way for the brain to switch up the physical layout of the firing neurons in a redundant population without altering the output. All that possibly for biological reasons (ie dead neurons or perhaps repairs). Saying information is stored in electrical fields just doesn't sit right with me. I have a hard time imagining them being more robust than spikes, or really usable inside the brain because of the physics involved.
https://brave.com/

"Brave is one of the safest browsers on the market today."
Honest question: what impact did you see when you switched from not blocking China + Russia to blocking them? What type of attacks are you seeing primarily?

Failed login attempts / brute force attempts seem like the cost of doing business in public. I assume that if my servers are accessible from 1 or more public addresses, they WILL be subject to brute force attempts. I also assume that by making my passwords sufficiently randomized, the probability of these attacks having any effect is infinitesimal.

To me, blocking an IP because it tried to log in to your servers seems purely like a fear response with no rational basis (or at least a poor understanding of probability / stats). By extension, blocking a range of IPs because of some arbitrarily elevated frequency of login attempts seems equally silly.

Now for DOS attacks, temporary IP blocks make perfect sense.
On what scientific or factual analysis do you base those claims about MBAs?
Yes, because it's much easier to turn that off. Just click the gear in the corner of the new tab page.