skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is: who's gonna use it?

Sure, it's good to have more options but, the deploy base of browsers like Chrome are massive and IE6 only lost its position by being careless and stop evolving (and lets not forget it took years), which is something that is not happening with Chrome.

Just to make clear, this is not specifically directed to you or your project, which is a great thing to do independently of the outcome. I'm saying this more as in a general perspective as we are pretty much sitted on the state-of-the-art of browser engines and its hard to see something else taking over except for a "game reset" scenario (outside of the web).
Are Contexts a Thing? (2021)
700M drops of water weigh (.05g * 700M) which is 35,000 kg and a pea weighs more than a drop of water
I worked at a place that ran Federated Consul in 60 DC's across ~40,000 machines running consul-agent. Originally, the largest DCs had about 8,000 nodes which caused some problems that we had to work through. But I'm of the thought that you shouldn't have 8,000 of anything in a single "datacenter" without some kind of partition to reduce blast radius.
Putin thought he was on solid ground that taking over Ukraine would be simple as well. This is one of the problems of having those that report to you to be too scared to tell you the truth vs what they think you want to hear. I could see where the board/c-suite of Ubiquity are all so pissed about the situation that they cannot hear or are not being told that this lawsuit is having and will continue to have a worse negative impact than just leaving it alone.
Oh nice, will try it out with a clean camera feed probably from some WebRTC sample page.
Really fun game! There's no social incentive to share with others, or hook to return to play again, though. I learned a lot about how much thing weigh though.
>What a fun exploration of an idea! That if we're living in a universe with a creator (simulation or otherwise), even if we're blocked from knowledge of higher purposes, we might be able to pick up some hints from looking at the nature of the universe itself.

This is "Natural Theology". Here's a century's worth of lectures on it: https://www.giffordlectures.org/content/youtube-channel

and a quick precis: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-theology/

But "observe the world; back out a telos" is _really_ baked into our world-view.
HTML is somewhat human readable in a text editor, but PDF likely is not.
I just put this list in /etc/hosts. Seems to work well enough. I don’t use any apple services on my Mac. This will probably break those.

https://github.com/adversarialtools/apple-telemetry
While I'm sure this is true in some small number of cases, this smells like a way to amplify pro-cryptocurrency views without any broader consideration. I mean, you could write:

They fled Russia with little cash. Anthrax saved them.

Or something similar. Lots of things could save a few people and still have a net really bad effect on society and almost every other person.
> If everybody think hard enough, software is not needed in lots of situation

Yea, if you think hard enough, you can have communications sent by horse, instead of by electronic mail.
> For another view on how this will change things, consider the delta-V map of the Solar System [1]. As an example you need 45km/s to reach Saturn, roughly 20% of that is just spent getting to Low Earth Orbit.

Actually, it's 19km/s less than that. You want your destination to be Low Saturn Orbit, not Saturn. You've included the 19km/s that it takes to launch from Saturn to low Saturn orbit. It's even less again if you can aerobrake at Saturn.
The tricky part is that insider information leaked to outside is still a breach and still needs to be mitigated against.
Corruption definitely exists as people are periodically convicted for it, but outside of those convictions the majority of talk about it seems to be a cope for the failures of systems we create freely. This writer references a corruption conviction but then misrepresents its overturning by the supreme court as more corruption when the court unanimously just set a probably agreeable definition and allowed the case to be persued under this definition. Once you do any digging on most claims of corruption you find inconvenient constraints and facts that most people have no understanding of that take the righteousness out of the claims.

Corruption is overwhelmingly an easy scapegoat you can gesture towards and have people agree with you without much effort. If we think there's something that is corruption that isn't covered by the legal code we can agree on what that is and push for it in the legal system. If we think our executives aren't enforcing our legal code we are the ones who elect them. If the problem is that no one cares enough to make the "right" decisions then whining about elites isn't going to do anything.
https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/252510411/For...

Basically, insider used his credentials as a highly trusted resource to access internal repositories. He then anonymously blackmailed the company, threatening to go public as a "external actor" if the company didn't pay him. The company instead got the FBI involved - which Sharp was aware of because of his role at Ubiquiti. He then lied to Krebs at least once (probably twice) claiming first that a external actor had breached ubiquiti and the company was deliberately covering it up.
It's more about power. Wealthy people have more power and their corruption causes more widespread effects. Plus, uncorrupted officials don't support corrupted subordinates, so high-level corruption breeds more low-level corruption, or as they say "The fish spoils from the head".
But tech stack requirements sit right there in job descriptions. It's about matching.
It's not cynicism, sadly.

There are a ton of jobs that are tool-heavy, and the "solving problems" only applies to a small percentage of the team.

Some problems should not exist at all and only exists because of the tooling chosen.

Example: A friend of mine works at a company that is running their business on some clown-ish cloud infrastructure, and their SREs have to basically re-invent the wheel to work around the limitations of the cloud vendor the management has chosen (for example: no virtual machine autoscaling, in a cloud environment). Somebody at that company is certainly doing "creative work" and "solving problems" with code, but not those SREs.
I view working weekends as equal to working overtime. If I work a full week and then work into the weekend, I want more than equal PTO for the weekend time worked, or more pay than I would normally receive.

If looking at a potential employer I find out they expect weekend work and don't treat it like overtime, I assume they are bad employers and move on.
If this is the case, I am having a hard time understanding why the vast majority of media and particularly "news" channels in the United States are not being sued into oblivion then.
This article misses a ton. In addition to all the ones mentioned already what about all the early operating systems written in assembly like Apple DOS or Commodore DOS and the Pascal family of OSs like Mac OS Classic and Toro Kernel.
It depends on what you mean by "corrupt".

If "corrupt" means "willing to cheat", then obviously that is not limited to the rich. If "corrupt" means "willing to abuse power bestowed on them by society", then it is literally impossible for the poor and disenfranchised, whom society has given nothing, to be corrupt, because they cannot abuse what they do not have.

People of all social classes participate in corruption, and have to do so, to survive. It is only those who have power who can be said to be abusing power, and when we talk about corruption, we're generally talking not about all bad human behaviors, but more specifically about the corrosion of institutions and social trust that occurs when those in charge use their positions toward unjust ends.
Contactless payments was already adopted in Canada for several years by 2010 [1]. It’s not recent. Not sure why US is slow in this adoption though

[1] See first two sentences here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/new-credit-cards-pose-securi...
(From a questioning perspective) If a source happens not to be who they claimed to be, hiding for whatever reason, but the information in the story is newsworthy, credible, verifiable, and authenticated, does that mean the story should not go forward then?
>>When business decisions are made on WeChat, the longer in the past they are, the more difficult it is for other employees to scroll back and find out why they happened.

It's not ideal, but I thought that WeChat had a desktop client (similar to WhatsApp) that allows for slightly easier scrollback, search and export/copy-paste functionality within the group chats. It doesn't help across the wider WeChat platform as the article points out, but in a corporate setting with many adhoc working groups it might help one to maintain context.
True, they are solid, but don't provide a compact as well as enjoyable overview.
I mean, I could also just look up the GitHub emoji reference instead of gitmoji.
As for the Mozilla docs, they feel like a bottomless pit.
Spy in the GPU-Box: Covert and Side Channel Attacks on Multi-GPU Systems
According to my reckoning, on his kitchen scales ;)
I'm 95% sure that SpaceX refusing to accept payloads from Impulse Space in order to charge for their own orbital maneuvering vehicles would already be illegal as exclusive dealing.
> Reading stories like his makes me think I'm probably in the wrong industry because I don't enjoy coding that much and definitely have a ton of other things I'd rather do.

You're fine. Comparing yourself to Andreas Kling vis-a-vis coding is like saying you're going to stop playing the guitar because you're not Jimi Hendrix. Andreas Kling, while impressive and inspiring, is not normal.

Most people, myself included, don't want to do any one thing for 80+ hours a week. That's okay. If you enjoy working as programmer, just keep on trukin' and don't worry about what others are doing.
I've done pair programming as the senior developer often at a previous job.
It sucked.

I paired with a young woman fresh out of a boot camp, and at first I was excited to do it because it was nice to have another woman developer. Yet she was just so threatened by me or insecure about her experience, she started gossip about me. Just awful

Another time it was with a mid level middle aged man, he just had a huge ego and felt the need to question single thing I did.

Honestly the best pair programming experience I had was with a "sports bro" type. I always wonder if it was due to fact coaches are a big deal in sports.

I refuse to do pair programming these days if I can avoid it.
I don't own any of their equipment. However, the actions that Ubiquity is taking now is convincing me that I should not buy their equipment, ever.

Streisand Effect 1 - Ubiquity 0
Yup... it seems like everyone has turned on ubiquiti lately, but I wasn't totally convinced. I was holding out despite some of the irksome changes, but this move right here is a nail in the coffin for me.
Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global wheat crop
> I want to use the word "ignorant"

His dig at the end that "America doesn't want to end segregation" suggests that he's more than just ignorant here. Race hasn't been used in a segregatory way in America in 70 years. Now it's used as a wedge to push unpopular socialist policies.
What happens when the public lose confidence in academic findings?
Massively parallel was just an marketing buzzword that was used for a lot of different things. One thing to look for is wether all the compute elements run from same clock or not.

CM1/2 is SIMD machine that is mostly nothing more than FPGA turned inside out and in fact just an accelerator that cannot do anything useful standalone (control flow is mostly done in software on the frontend machine). In this regard it is somewhat similar to today's GPUs.

SP/2 is more or less equivalent of the "Beowulf clusters" of the turn of certury and Slashdot fame, that is bunch of computers with full OS instances connected together with some reasonably fast network. But done few years before on somewhat specialized IBM hardware (And well, Myrinet of the early large Linux based clusters was kind of funky specialized hardware, with these 18pair Cat5 cables...).

CM5 is weird as it is cluster of more or less off the shelf SPARC nodes with several independent communications networks with one of the networks being capable of doing bunch of "collective communications" (reduce, broadcast...) operations in hardware. As with CM1/2 it does not run any kind of OS and is mostly managed by some set of frontend computers than do the job setup and network configuration for each new job.

And then transputer is not an concept, there was real hardware and solar system is full of things that are directly descended from that hardware. The issue with transputers as an HPC platform (even for the early 90's) is that the nodes are too small, slow and have too slow interconnect to be meaningfully usable as general purpose HPC platform because you end up using significant fraction of the potential performance for housekeeping tasks (notice that above mentioned CM1/2/5 has some out of band method for the frontend to manage the nodes and even directly access their local memory, on transputers this had to be done through the main communication network and supported by software running on the nodes themselves, which makes even booting the thing an interesting excercise in parallel programming).
That is a lot of peas. I might have some maths wrong in there I'll admit. I hacked it all together in day.
The Department of Justices indictment (https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-employee-technol...) give a fair amount of detail about what they allege happened, although it doesn't go into much details of the interaction between Krebs and the accused.
U.S. warned firms about Russia's Kaspersky software day after invasion
Because laws in the USA make it very very very difficult to hold media accountable. For good reasons - most of the time. But it has also led to the situation where media face no consequences here for their actions.The libel bar is far higher in the USA then almost any other liberal democracy.

Honestly, all I would like to see here is a correction from Krebs, that enlightens people more about the risk of insider attacks, the role that the media can play in that.
OMG I have 1Gbit/s but it is restricted only to UA-IX (traffic inside our country only), ati 100Mbit/s worldwide is really a beast which I have never seen on my connection. Claiming that 100Mbit/s is "terrible" seems like lack of understanding of what terrible provider actually is.

For me terrible was when I downloaded few gigs of my backup data having only 10KB/s throughput because I did not want to pay and second of two sources of my back-up stopped hosting my data due to some emergency.
Bloomberg is the graveyard of ideas.

The UK had a space program, put a satellite in orbit, then gave it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow
Is it his job to authenticate the source, or, to authenticate, verify and validate the information in the story?
I did about 20 questions and didn't miss one. Because most plants, animals, etc are made of water, you really just have to compare volume. I found that visualizing the order of magnitude of the volume was a pretty good strategy for estimating weight. (Water has a density of about 1000 kg/m3)
You spoke true.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/%2awere-o-
There is nothing that made me less interested in community work than the idea I was doing it for any reason other than just being helpful. I spent a lot of time doing service projects with my two brother's scout troops. I loved cleaning up trash, restoring museums, re-painting fire hydrants, removing invasive castor bean, building park benches and fire pits, and most of all was just helping people who needed a hand moving or something.

All of those things were awesome, but once it started becoming something like a fund raiser for some corrupt charity, or working on floats for the Rose Parade it became just another lame job. Doing community service for a resume strikes me as disgusting. I would hate every second. It taints the main reason I'm doing it. To feel like I'm a member of a community. Not just a cog in a machine.
Also getting antibiotics for something gets rated pretty high, even if it did worse than nothing.
Aww, thank you. My friend suggested weighdle as a name but I already had the site up!
This is even a problem in software. People ignore projects that have not had GitHub commits recently, as if code (which is math) somehow becomes less valid over time.

Yes a "dead" project can be problematic if you need it maintained and don't have the time to DIY, but sometimes something reaches a level of stability where it does not need to be constantly fixed. Something with a lot of users and few commits might be a positive indicator since it might mean there aren't a lot of bugs.
'Following several crises, quantitative social scientists now worry about the validity of methods. Such developments have political implications. There may be greatest risk to progressive ideologies, these being predicated on the notion that politicians can improve society. If scholars worry about findings, how can we be confident that policy interventions are effective?'
Yea I agree, I love redis.
I have to admit seeing this group of services was a little strange, but your comment about enterprise money seems on the nose.
The price tag is quite steep, but I really do love the idea and hope that more technology and thought is put into beekeeping. For anyone on the fence about raising bees, just do it - it was one of my favorite projects I've had the opportunity to participate in and is one of the most fascinating things to witness up close.
> The A20 gate story was something different though, it abused the numeric overflow of 16 bit addresses, not some unused bits in the middle of an address.

It wasn't even an abuse. It was a genuine attempt by the board manufacturer (IBM) to address a real backwards compatibility problem with a new CPU part. Obviously as memories grew far beyond 1M and real mode became a part of history (well, and of bootstrap code) it was a giant wart. But it solved a real problem.
> low/threshold doses... It might not be so easy for you to replicate that.

Why? If you can take a full dose, you can take a threshold dose. Just divide the full dose up - e.g. dissolve a blotter in a 10ml dropper bottle of vodka. Then 1ml = 10% of a dose (or probably a bit less).

Maybe a bit harder for weird research chems, but if you're getting into those then hopefully you'll do the research to know how to dose correctly.

> use shrooms/peyote (harder to take low doses

Again, why? It's particularly easy to take low doses of shrooms, all you need is a scale that measures down to 0.1g, such as a coffee scale.

> you've never heard of the chemist who made LSD

However, they also didn't die. Because then we would have heard about it.
Beekeeper here -

Video didn't show many of the aspects a beekeeper has to deal with.

"Beehomes use A.I. to identify when a colony could be preparing to swarm, and automatically prevents this event by adjusting conditions. Beekeepers can rest assured that the Beehome has their colonies stay put while they focus on other responsibilities."

doesn't sell it.

Bees are livestock, not programs. They sometimes decide that it's time to move on no matter what you do.

It doesn't show how inspections are done nor how many frames or frametypes are used. It doesn't show how frame rotation is done(necessary every few years) or what happens when you have a dead out.

How would you introduce a new queen or perform splits?

I'm also not sold on their "prevention"

> How does Beehome deal with pests?
>
> The ones that are visible with the naked eye, like Varroa, are detected by the robot in real-time, and treatment is applied accordingly. Others are identified by the damage they leave, and then treatment is applied accordingly.
> Does Beehome use/apply pesticides?

> No; the robot treats for pests using a heating mechanism. The robot heats frames to a point where it harms the pests (Varroa) but does not harm the bees’ brood.

I glanced over a paper on hyperthermic and I'd have concerns regarding nurse bee viability after being subjected to that temps, even if brood are not seeing mortality.

Meanwhile, we have extremely effective treatments for varroa that show little impact on brood/bees - See Randy Oliver.

I could go on and on but

tldr; This product handwaves away almost all of the work a beekeeper does without actually showing how it performs those tasks. I'd have extremely low confidence in it until a production length video of each aspect of a beekeepers job is produced and walked through with the Beewise.
Maybe the point isn't to win but for the "chilling effect."[0]. Essentially to discourage critics of the company from raising criticism in the future for fear of lawsuit (even if ultimately just to waste legal costs/impose a burden).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
Given that global events are having an impact on energy costs, not to mention the drive to reduce emissions, could that change the balance of keeping machines on or switching them in only when needed?

Also, if russian supplies of semiconductor starting materials are off limits, that may have some bearing on hardware costs. Will we be looking at a different scenario in months/years?
The damage was not the breach - or at least it wasn't the biggest factor. The damage was the second claim that Krebs made in a later article that it was being covered up.
Don’t do green red for colorblind.
From their complaint:

>Krebs intentionally disregarded these facts

It's easy to miss something when you're not directly involved in a case, even more so when you're also not a lawyer (me) but from what I understand:

Success for Ubiquiti here requires an ability to prove not only that statements he was making (as reported to him by a disgruntled Ubiquiti employee) were false, but that Krebs knew the claims were false. Ubiquiti seems to be arguing that, "because we said these claims were false, that proves he knew they were." That's a non sequitur IMHO.
If one person you meet is an asshole, that is unfortunate.
If every person you meet is an asshole, you may be the asshole.
No worries! How did you find the "opensource.adobe.com" link? I can't hit it with google, even with aggressive searches like "site:opensource.adobe.com filetype:pdf". And I can't seem to navigate there from the main page.
On the safety/purity part

If you have the means ($100? $200) there are labs (or lab) that will test the chemical for you before you take it.
Agreed you need to have trust for it to work out.

Unfortunately, sometimes you can trust and it still doesn't work out.

It took me a long time to realize I wasn't a great fit for every job. Now I try to lean into my strengths and acknowledge my weaknesses. For instance, please never hire me for my design sense (see my personal blog at https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/ for proof of that).

It's really hard to acknowledge weaknesses, especially when employment/$$$ are at stake. But it is important to do so.
That would make commuting in northern areas very interesting.
I think that given that choice the car will choose "which is less likely to hurt my passenger" since the passenger is the (paying) client and not the pedestrian. Pedestrian infrastructure & defense will have to adapt to respond instead :).
The numbers might look small, and indeed for most cases it can be considered a wash, but in some cases, these small differences return as hours.

For example, I'm using a lot of vector, matrix and array accesses in my code. A lot of these are copied around for computation. Moving that amount of data will trigger a lot of checks in Rust, and will create a slowdown inevitably.
Yeah, I'm not on some locked-down apple device, I'd just like to run this on a regular Android.