skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need for an ABI with open-source drivers because Linux and drivers shall be open source. What matters is the API and modifications to this can be maintained by upstream. If your hardware drivers aren't open source the promises of the GPL break:

read code (trust)
modify code (fix)
redistribute (share)
redistribute modified code (improve)

When this model works you get high quality support, performance, over long time. Example:

Sandy Bridge (GPU HD3000) from Intel:

Linux OpenGL 3.3
Windows OpenGL 3.1
MacOS OpenGL 3.2 // I'm not sure!

At time of the hardware availability that didn't matter much but with modern applications and engines it does. If you use Linux and Steam you may benefit from that.

Android "Google/Linux" failed here because Google didn't pushed neither ARM nor Qualcomm. This and separately maintained modifications through manufacturers are the reason that Android devices cannot be trusted and struggle with updates. You cannot bump the Linux kernel if you don't get an updated driver. And you cannot cannot bump the Google part because of the manufacturer patches which weren't upstreamed.

Android is an example of how open-source collaboration should not be done. Even Jolla failed and use closed-source drivers, which meant the need to remain ABI compatible, which meant the cannot upgrade the kernel, which meant the cannot fix issues within BTRFS. Purism avoided that all with much hard work together with NXP! They just need to make the device smaller and cheaper. Sorry Purism. But 800 bucks are even for a nerd/developer-device expensive. Valve did a clever thing with using AMD for the Steamdeck.

Noteworthy:
Linux and GLIBC provide stable APIs and ABIs for the userspace, hopefully also Systemd. External developers and users rely on the promise of API and ABI stability.
After reading "Back Mechanic," I've had a profound shift in my understanding of -- what used to be -- my own back pain: the usual cause is muscle imbalance.

Something to the tune of: our back and torso muscles are responsible for keeping our spines (and all their structures) aligned in a healthy, mechanically-sound position. Things start to go wrong when the muscles are weak/atrophied/unbalanced, and no longer "hold" the vertebrae in their proper positions, which can lead to the disks bulging out and other mechanical issues that lead to low-intensity damage.

With this in mind, I started stretching my back, and focusing on getting into a "neutral," or healthy, posture on a day-to-day (to remove the muscle tightness caused by me unconsciously hunching, and exacerbating the problem -- after having a herniated disc). In theory, this remedies the muscles pulling my vertebrae in the "wrong" directions and intensities.

Coupled with weight training (squats, deadlifts, OHP, and bench), I believe I've managed to strengthen my back muscles, and "realigned" their efforts into the way my spine should be held up (instead of the way it was held up, due to sitting around all day).

It's gotten much better, and I don't have pain or unintended tightness anymore.

N.B. I've also relieved myself of knee pain, by focusing on the way my hips are "held" during walking. It seemed like mine were tilting too much forward (and not holding my body in place properly), so knee pain manifested (and perhaps was even the catalyst for my herniated disc). Once I straightened them out, I was able to walk pain-free.
> I've been using Lichess as a password generator, seeding it with my opening moves.

1.e4 e5 2.Ke2?
The sad fact is that so many people actually take this seriously.
> I've never seen anyone have a problem with mobile network due to wifi

that's either due to ignorance or negligence
For anyone unaware, lichess is an open source website. The source code was leaked by "ornicar" - the maker of lichess.org - and the link to the source code is their GitHub. Pretty good April fools joke!
You're right! Thanks
Where would you say that the "unbanked, relatively not prosperous people in unstable countries" stand - in the "really like and benefit from cryptocurrency" camp, or in the "never heard of and don't care about cryptocurrency" camp ?

> May you never personally experience being unbanked or otherwise financially oppressed.

Of course. But this is unrelated, unless you're making the "politician's fallacy": "We must do something (about that). This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
> I have no idea why pgp is not more common in ...

Maybe because pgp is still the same pain the butt it was back in the 90's. Nothing significant has been done to improve the user experience.

Meanwhile, roll forward to 2022 and there are now dozens of good quality secure document sharing platforms, all of which have full web, desktop and phone/tablet integration.
I don't think that it is. I don't think they'd include all the "seriously"'s, as well as the various details such as the PinePod running on the same chipset as the PineBuds and the scant information about the PinePod (wouldn't they make something up if it was April Fools?).
I find it concerning that most of us are contend with saying it is impossible for AGI to happen in the next decade. Too few of us are asking if we actually want AGI to happen. Given all the VC money that is going into AGI development, some of us definitely wish for it, but do all of us want it?
I wasn't applying to anything. :)
Classy joke. Kudos to the team.

On a lighter note: what better day than today to be a day of jubilation for Scala fans? :)
And that 1% is further distributed along a competency curve. Substantially less than 100% of scientists are actually good at their job.
It looks like they might be. This seems to be the relevant part of the Act:

(1) A person who uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or displays any written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting, is guilty of an offence if—

(a) he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or

(b) having regard to all the circumstances racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby.

(2) An offence under this section may be committed in a public or a private place, except that no offence is committed where the words or behaviour are used, or the written material is displayed, by a person inside a dwelling and are not heard or seen except by other persons in that or another dwelling.

--------

However, it looks as though you might get away with saying some very nasty racist things in public if you were careful with your vocabulary, tone of voice and so on.

Is there any protection for people with Tourette's or mentally ill people, I wonder?
Hotels have solved this problem. Each brand more or less offers the same quality across the US. You only need to see a few photos to know what options you have. Most of the rooms are the same design, same furniture. And its common for them to have desks and computer chairs. Consistency.

Why are you still using airbnb?
That’s IBM i, this is IBM Z
I'm a bit confused by that; I'm on Firefox and I see nothing wrong with the site at all. It loaded fine and looks fine. That's with full protection turned on and the Disconnect plugin loaded as well. Any idea what was interfering with it on your setup?
Good point, a look at the contents of the wikipedia page for dimensionality reduction makes it clear - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensionality_reduction

Dimensionality reduction:

1. Feature selection.

2. Feature projection.

2.1 PCA

So you could say that feature selection is dimensionality reduction but you can't say that PCA is feature selection.
Here's an early retro from 2009 about HN, but I don't think he dives into the technology choices much, more about community building: http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
I was like, how does the source code have 11k stars? Aahhh.
It is more like, container folks rediscovered what we were doing with app servers.
I work with ML regularly, and there is always something new to learn!

Another commenter mentioned L1 regularization, which is useful for linear regression. You wouldn't use it for all classes of problems. L1 regularization has to do with minimizing error of absolute values, instead of squared errors or similar.

I skimmed this article and thinks it's accessible: https://www.kdnuggets.com/2021/06/feature-selection-overview...

PCA is a form of dimensionality reduction, but it doesn't select features for you.
This is a rather frenetic article, bouncing all over the place. I’m not sure what the goal of the article is.

Tesla’s life is one of tragedy, I think, in his later years. It has been a while, as at one point I read through every Tesla biographical material I could find, but Tesla suffered several mental episodes throughout his life. Due to loss of research in several fires, lack of funding, lost patent income from being a poor business man, and increasingly wild predictions, he slowly descended into obscurity and wild thinking. If you see pictures of Tesla in his later years, he was increasingly emaciated from poverty.

Tesla was rather brilliant in his early years, but it is my opinion this brilliance got the better of him in his later years. As is somewhat common of minds that are somewhat contrarian but ultimately right, as people like Tesla age, they become less able to realize their big projects but still have that spark to go against the grain, leading to seemingly unhinged predictions and claims.

A lot of Tesla’s mythology came from letters in his later years, mainly from the ones he released every year on his birthday. He was once part of a socialite crowd in NYC, so it was probably tough to have been forgotten about except through these public releases every year. Briefly alluded to in the article, his relationship with the Underwoods is an important one in his life, and is a good picture of his more intimate thoughts and struggles.

I think when learning about Tesla, it’s important to keep these things in mind. He was as human as anyone, and thus fallible. I think it’s best to view him as a hero through the 19th century and more of a tragedy after the transition to the 20th century.

On another note, I wasn’t aware that he was intercepting Marconi’s messages, in Colorado no less. It was my recollection that he may have stumbled upon a precursor to radio astronomy, indeed intercepting radio signals from space, but obviously misinterpreting them. I’ll have to follow up on that and read back through material. (Some of Tesla’s bios can be a bit editorialized, so one has to read all of them to get a holistic view.)
> All our inner workings exposed!

Unless you really have a trade secret (such as some obscure and
unpatentable process) then Kerckhoff/Shannon's second principle
applies as well to business as to cryptography;

2. It should not require secrecy, and it should not be a problem if it
falls into enemy hands; [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle

edit: Oh Ok. Good one! :D
The goal of AGI is to build a human interface for computation.

Human level intelligence isn't.
It was a good faith edit I made before your comment was posted. No need for the snark.
Free credit monitoring.
my Wacom drawing pad was a bit of a headache for finding drivers on windows. It makes me happy to hear they're improving that, becuase the tools are great.
As far as I know that doesn't solve the problem for transitive dependencies, which can still be resolved to different versions without a lock file.
> This is not shifting the security responsibility from the firewall entirely — it's just an additional guard rail to ensure only allowed domains can be accessed. It does not mean setting proper firewall rules is no longer a concern, but just continuing WebAssembly's "deny by default" stance on accessing anything outside the sandbox.

Yes, "shifting" was a terrible choice of words on my side, sorry about that :)W hat I meant was, it gives developers more ways to manage outbound traffic -- which is both great but I wonder how the intersection of Ops and Devs handle this going forward because these things often become contention points at organizations (remember the enterprise proxies, etc.); let's see how this all plays out, but I'm glad devs now have more ways to [express and] manage these aspects of their apps.
I've only heard about external water pipes when somebody wants to rant about how bad some british houses are. Pipes on the outside, separate taps for hot and cold, carpeted bathrooms, poor insulation with drafts. I've never seen it done in reality even in houses several hundred years old, and in Michigan they would freeze as soon as winter arrives.
Rust has a really steep learning curve apparently. You might like Valheim better.
> magnetometer, accelerometer, simple GPS,

At boot time, on a server sitting in a rack beside thousands of others ... how are these going to help any? They aint moving and the RF/energy environment around them should be steady state or well within characterize-able bounds of noise.

"Random enough" is a metaphysical question when you get into it. If an RTLSDR stick and a site customized munger script can't provide enough entropy for the entire data center you've fallen into a Purity spiral and will never be happy, anyway.
Ha! I think project managers as infrastructure makes a lot of sense. Just seems like there should be ways to smooth out the process, especially with smaller teams/companies so less project management is required.
What’s your net worth? I think this is key to decide your next steps.
What is the extra danger of "root" if there is only one user/application on that system?
Try an Amiga with plenty of disk space and RAM. It took the PC world 10 or more years to catch up with the Amiga in responsiveness. Part of the reason was the Amiga OS was designed for user interaction, and the keyboard, mouse, and display got plum choice of IRQs.

The next time I would see something as snappy as the Amiga was an M1 Mac.
I notice a lot of similarity in the way articles like this discuss "the singularity" and how some preppers and survivalists discuss "when SHTF". Underlying the warning, there's a drooling sense of anticipation, as though a) they're so invested in the idea of the disaster that they hope something, anything, will happen to show that they were right all along, and b) they are so dissatisfied with the current state of the world that they want to see it break down. I don't think either one is a healthy or realistic approach to life.
Ah yes, the same reason I stopped reading slashdot in 2007.
World’s Largest Electric Cruise Ship Sets Sail in China
Cornerstone3D Is Out
https://github.com/cornerstonejs/cornerstone3D-beta
I believe you are looking for these: https://github.com/benbjohnson/postlite/blob/main/server.go#...
Lab leaks (even without GoF involved) are remarkably common events.

So shouldn’t be base our regulation on that reality?
Is there an entity behind the code / package / library that you are using that you can hold Liable in case of ill-behaviour.
Don‘t use gcc for mission critical stuff.
Use a compiler that is backed by people who are responsible for the compilers behaviour by contract. Greenhills / Hightec Alliums Tasking Compiler. The list goes on and on.
As for chips: cooperate with the manufacturer. Specific your requirements for the chips behaviour. Get it manufactured. If it is available off the shelf and matches your spec, go on and buy off the shelf but TEST if it actually behaves like stated on the sales PowerPoint slide. If not report back to the manufacturer and get it fixed.
At the end of the article:

"Oh, I almost forgot, those are the actual buds in the header picture at the top of the page, and they are already functional. The unicorn is real too. "
Lichess is one of the most impressive OSS web apps out there. I've spent more than 240h playing blitz on there, and it doesn't have any bugs or hiccups from what I can tell.

Looking at the source code, two things strike me. First, the Scala backend code is incredibly easy to read and inviting. This is a great poster child of how you can a build simple, reliable app in that language.

Second, I'm surprised that the UI code (written in Typescript) is essentially untested. Given the high quality of the code, I was expecting the frontend code to be thoroughly covered by tests, maybe even written in Test Driven Development. But although Jest is included, there seems to be only one test file in `ui/` (and `yarn run test` doesn't seem to work currently). Is the app tested manually after every commit?
then where on Earth did you pull that definition for sic from? it's neither on Wiktionary nor in the OED

I'm sure you think you're good at a lot of things and are better than everybody else, but the facts will tell a different story

back to your hovel, Diplodocus Rex
Taking Plants Off Planet
April Fools' Is Cancelled (2014)
I think it should count since it didn't provide the C stdlib and so wasn't "really" in C even when it was. There was no printf or malloc, instead lots of MoreMasters().
Not just a core contributor, the founder and core contributor.
Nike is asking a court to 'Destroy' unauthorized NFTs–How will that work?
Supercharge your events using Mobilizon and mobilizon-reshare
Agreed, a little jarring, but the retro windows theme is neat
The Ocean Is Having Trouble Breathing
I’m a very good ROI
For anyone interested in medical imaging this should be interesting
Even if it April's 1st, they really took the effort to draw all screenshots.
One way I witnessed is that a host deleted their premise after a bad review and then relisted it.
Most new plumbing is done with plastic pipes (blue for cold, red for hot) that can be snaked and fished less destructively than metal pipes. While these don't contain lead, they may contaminate the water in unknown ways.
console.log() Everything
Also probably interesting: https://twitter.com/patch1t/status/1509767175946792966
If it is something that you want to improve then it is something that you have to put in the time and effort to practice. Some would say that confidence is an attitude (i.e. fake it till you make it) but some would say that confidence is a result of feeling comfortable in your own skin.

I think learning to feel comfortable and be okay with feeling awkward is also one way to eventually feel less awkward. The best way sometimes is to just acknowledge the awkwardness of the situation and then it will become less awkward than if it is just sitting there like the proverbial elephant in the room. It's almost like desensitizing yourself to the feeling until you become gradually less affected by it and that it doesn't bother you much at all.

If you take the time and effort to understand the situations in which you find yourself feeling socially awkward and shy, you'll be able to address the root cause of the problem and practice how you react and respond to those situations.

I wish you the best of luck :)
Maybe it is and humans are just cheaper?
Purity spiral

True that. I hadn't considered servers sitting in datacentres. Makes me wonder how AWS/Azure/Google manage randomness.
> Go find somewhere else to distribute it

When all of the major distribution systems exclude anyone that is not aligned toward accepted narratives, this becomes less and less feasible. And so the question remains "Are we a more informed and better society because of this censorship?"
This is explicitly accounted for, as per the README:

> Many Postgres clients also inspect the pg_catalog to determine system information so Postlite mirrors this catalog by using an attached in-memory database with virtual tables.
> giving up a paycheck that's 10x what a lot of people would be grateful for.

Make that 15x. I wish I was born in the US and not in Europe. Then again, I'm happy I'm born in western Europe and not in India (when it comes to earning opportunity).
https://lichess.org/blog/YkYNyREAAB8Amiit/hackers-leak-liche...
How does it compare to https://www.cloudron.io or https://caprover.com/ ?
What will programmers eat if their software is given away
Discord Transparency Reports
Ask HN: What interesting data you have found using a web scraper?
It didn’t mention one by name, but Rust hasn’t been subject to any widely publicized supply chain attacks. They do, however, mention left-pad by name. I think it can be implied that they really did just mean npm.
A big success. I am impressed by the quality of UK go websites.
In the West factual disinformation is less. Most Russians think Putin did not invade Ukraine. More, he tells them that the leadership is Nazi while Zelensky is Israeli that suffered from the Naxis. There is truth and there is subjective views. I want to address the truth and mostly in oppressed countries that media doesn't work.
Sometimes we have a major break through which is not just another small step-by-step improvement. I would say that a singularity in AI means a major break through e.g. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). GPT-3 is a big step forward, but it's not an AGI and therefore not a singularity (major break through). But of course many small step-by-step improvements are required for a major break through, it doesn't drop out of thin air.
A lot of the fonts on the themes don't seem to render properly for me (chrome on macos), they show up as quite pixelated and hard to read.

The Frisa Lank theme is pretty cheery though, gives the site a different / fresh and playful feel without feeling like a different site.
That’s like saying that in a stacked model every layer is feature selection. That doesn’t really make sense. Feature selection is about which input data is used, not about how it is transformed during the whole prediction procedure.
It really bothers me my Brother laser printer only has wifi as a network connection.
This is a problem that can be solved with existing solutions like MFA. Provide a one time use code with each “emergency search warrant” to sign off on it. The company can then verify this one time use code, invalidate it, and provide the necessary information. Any further requests using that same code will get denied and the LEO account will be flagged for review.

Still scary that information is given to LEOs without a proper warrant. I think in these emergency cases should notify the individual(s) their information is accessed/requested via quasi-legal channels. This would allow users to take proactive measures as well.
I'm curious what Finns perceive they have lost by their neutral stance toward Russia and NATO, and what they expect to gain from NATO membership that will offset the disadvantage of enmity with Russia. It's not clear from my U.S. vantage point.
Damn. I forgot it's April 1st. First i thought Edge has scaling problems, then i tought it's a new milestone in web design.
Automation tool adds support for Turing-complete YAML
https://www.mandiant.com

Sometimes they're called auditors. Or "formal audits" because people think if they call something "formal" it's somehow different from not being "formal".
Would be nice if they'd get around to developing a standardised calendar-based date picker component for, say, appointment booking at some point.

Feels like a huge gap in their offerings.
Construction time is dominated by staging materials (shipping, delivery, and movement of those materials around on site and into place), and sync points. Houses will sit for weeks waiting on a chain of specialists to get time to finish some critical piece.

In larger projects, there are generally larger staging issues (less footprint to put materials relative to the amount and size of materials), and there are many more specialists involved (including inspectors), increasing the frequency and delays of sync points. The materials for large projects are also much larger now. The Empire State Building exterior was built of bricks, layer by layer. The exterior of most modern buildings are giant panes of glass, requiring cranes and such to move them into place.

I think examining the sync points and staging requirements could shed some light on why construction projects are taking so much longer nowadays.