skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, my old laptop (HP nc8430 from 2006) graphic card worked perfectly up to some 3.x kernel, then it lost all sync with 3.y kernels (y > x). It was an ATI X1600. There were no more recent drivers so my take is that the kernel broke it and ATI didn't spend money to make their driver compatible with newer kernels. Actually AMD because they bought ATI in 2006. I downgraded the kernel and kept using the laptop for a while. BTW, the open source driver didn't work well.

Than I had to buy a new one in 2014. I told myself, no more ATI/AMD, let's buy one with an NVIDIA card. That card is a Quadro K1100M in a HP ZBook 15. The latest binary driver supporting that card is version 418. The newest driver is 510. Apparently the next Ubuntu 22.04 is shipping with kernel 5.15 and there is a 418 package for that kernel. I wonder what the latest compatible kernel will be. Is my laptop going to die of old age before I have to replace it because I won't be able to use its graphic card anymore? BTW, the open source driver doesn't work well. I don't check it again every year. All I remember is that I couldn't work with that the last time I tried.

On the other side, my USB scanner from the 90s still works perfectly well. Same for my mouse (I don't plugin it in every year) and any disk / pendrive I care to use.
It's not necessarily just the hardware spec and the drivers, though. I ran Linux on a Fujitsu convertible tablet/laptop circa 2010, which had a stylus that worked directly on the screen. The Wacom stylus worked great, as long as I was just using the laptop. But when I plugged in an external monitor, linux tried to apply the stylus across the entire combined screen area of the laptop screen and external screen. It was a relatively rare use-case, but wasn't an issue in Windows. I'm not blaming Linux, just wanting to point out that sometimes systematic issues are overlooked.
Phosphorus is essential to life and actually quite rare in Earth’s crust, and probably the bottleneck element to biomass on the planet. It’s a much more critical non renewable resource than oil or strategic minerals but is completely off the radar if most policy makers. Just search for “phosphorus bottleneck”, it makes for sobering reading.

The Office Chérifien des Phosphates, personal property of the King of Morocco, is the world’s largest producer. Occupying Western Sahara costs the Moroccan state more than it brings in taxes, maybe this explains why.
> Using golang cloud functions. I have a constant stream of hits, so there are always available functions.

There is no way to avoid cold starts althogether, there will always be tail latencies unless there is a generous amount of idle instances running that GCP charges for.

> under 1s. Hot request/responses are ~20ms.

Those numbers are great, I think Go plays a huge part in this. Google's Node.js firestore SDK is terrible... I've had 15 second cold starts, which is unacceptable for client-facing functions, there's a whole thread about it here [1]. GCP doesn't have a very wide range of language SDK support for those that don't want to use Go or Node.js...

> My hits are all US based

Edge compute, like Fly.io or Cloudflare Workers truly shines when you need to serve traffic close to the user around the world. Otherwise normal region-locked functions are fine. Vercel requires you to choose a single region, and it's locked to US-east for free-tier users. For us Europeans over here, SSR has to effectively cross the Atlantic ocean.

[1]: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/158014637
So do you mean a private company just decided to move to driverless rides with no required approval from any supervising government official? Is this like Boeing self-certification or even worst because they need no approvals at all?
If the headline writer wanted to precisely convey the size, they would just provide the length in km or whatever. "You can see it from space" is pretty clearly a poetic way to imply something is of the same scale as big geographic features. It's not meant as a way of concisely conveying something's size.

To be fair, your comment was basically the first thing that went through my mind too, but I tried to check my natural urge to correct such things... and now find myself giving a pedantic answer to your comment instead :)
Maybe they’re not a native speaker or don’t read much so their vocabulary is limited?
Definitly not a complete anti-pattern in distributed computing software that cares about security and for whatever reason needs to be written in C++.
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What a fail. Once they asked for the confirmation code she should have hung up and called her bank to verify if the call was legit.
What if rather than everyone needing their own, there was just a certification standard (like organic) which says the food has been scanned and confirmed to contain less than X lead/mercury/whatever?

Side note, is this what archaeologists use, to figure out the composition of a coin, etc.?
I think that the base issue is the intended target, i.e. "the Russians".

There are maybe 15-20% of Russians that are young enough, technologically capable enough, capable of reading in another language and possibly also capable of spending enough to be able to "connect" to the rest of the world and thus be able to read non-Russian sources.

Taken away a probable 5-10% that simply doesn't care at all about their government and its actions as long as they aren't touched by them directly, it remains some 70-80% which only have available state TV and newspapers.

It is this 70-80% that should be somehow reached and (counter-)informed, but I don't think there are practical ways to do so, they simply have no internet or don't use it (and even if they use it they are not allowed to access most of it outside Russia).
You want to look at what you're drawing/writing. I like pen displays better because I could never get over the disconnect of draw on tablet, everything happens on monitor. You also have to make sure that your tablet has the same aspect ratio as your monitor and for a little while I had a 16:9 tablet with a 16:10 monitor and it was juuust off and it took me a bit to figure out why. Pen displays being the display don't have that problem. Its also 1:1 which I prefer.
Both.

Also everything that has low memory, like embedded systems.

Anything that is real time cannot have a GC, because GC are unpredictable. So everything in aircraft, space, when it has time sensitive machinery...
I have a demo Spin application running on a small VPS [1] and the performance is amazing. It boggles the mind that the server is loading the WASM, instantiating a runtime, parsing markdown, applying templates, etc. all in just a few milliseconds. You can see the source for the blog [2], and the original blog engine Bartholomew [3] that it's based on.

Note this is a toy deployment, not actual content. Don't expect all the links to work or any content to be accurate or relevant :)

[1] https://spin.brian.dev/blog/2022-03-18-caddy-zero-downtime
[2] https://github.com/bketelsen/wasmblog
[3] https://github.com/fermyon/bartholomew
where do you keep the runbook? (I'm curious if it's difficult to update)
> We gonna renegotiate fishing agreements in Moroccan waters?

That would also be, "We enjoy our EU trawlers fishing in West Saharan waters, and we don't want find out what a would-be West Saharan government would say about these rights"
> Yes, I'm saying if the gui tools expect postgres, they are likely to use postgres features,

Unlikely. A lot of such tools are mainly for displaying the data that's present; they might have support for displaying e.g. GIS types but they're not going to need to write GIS data into the database, and certainly not to the point where you can't run them at all if that's not possible.
There is none. We are all just bunch of programmable monkeys outside of their original regulation loop.

AI might get to the same level (as we can already see with GPT-3, as it slowly accrues wisdom), but then it will need to get a digital notebook, a calculator and a drawing board.

The advantage it will have over us is that it won't have to sleep, eat, will reproduce at the factory production rate and most importantly, it won't have emotions that would hurt when people are shit.

It won't be coherent super intelligence for quite some time. And if it becomes one, it will be slow. About the same latency as humans on the planetary level. Maybe even slower than our ~100ms.

Till then, there will be squabbling. Prepare for a literal digital ecosystem.
I studied AI at the Batchelors level and have from time to time read up on the discoveries. I think the problem is still the same as a decade ago despite all of the sparkling discoveries made in the meantime. We can't define the problem. We can make a really broad and concise description of what it is supposed to do, but that's not the same as defining the problem. Maybe that's not as relevant as I felt it would be (I was of the opinion back then and still am that AGI is not arriving in our or our children's lifetime). Perhaps we will stumble upon it. That is at least how we arrived at our faculties. Nature tried a billion different combinations and we are the current incarnation of matter trying to figure itself out.
Yes it is. Took me a while to process the MP’s name, Shiv R M’Timbers
Borland languages and IDEs did that to me, that is the minimum bar.
I thank you very much for your comment, you summed up my thoughts pretty well.
Initially, it was later replaced by NEWP, which ClearPath MCP uses to this day.
Bloom's view on these sequences turned out to be wrong.

The sequences were accurately described in a peer-reviewed paper that the Chinese scientists in question published (well before Bloom's preprint). The raw sequence reads, which were deleted from the NIH database, added nothing. The important information (the mutations in the sequences) were already listed in the paper.

From the point of view of the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the sequences themselves were not interesting. They were from fairly late in the Wuhan outbreak, and they were only very short segments of the viral genome. The Chinese paper in question was actually a technical paper testing a new sequencing technology. The message of the paper was, "We have this new sequencing machine, and we're going to show it off using some random CoVID patient samples," not, "We've identified particularly important patient samples that will shed light on the outbreak in Wuhan."

What Andersen and Fauci objected to was Bloom's accusation that the Chinese scientists who wrote the paper were engaging in deliberate deception and were part of a cover-up. Bloom had no evidence of that, and there's nothing to indicate that the Chinese scientists' explanation is incorrect: that they meant to upload the data to a Chinese database but didn't get around to it. After all, the raw data itself wasn't that interesting, and was already accurately summarized in their paper.

In my opinion, Bloom owes his Chinese colleagues an apology. Accusing people of covering up a pandemic with no evidence is a pretty low thing to do.
A Rich Map/Reduce Functional API in Go
I also have a blog post about it and the current Go Generic's limitations https://medium.com/@pedro.costa/generics-in-go-are-we-there-...
That's the best thing about puzzle games - they age like a fine wine.

All the games above came out in the last 7 years, use modern technologies and are available on modern platforms. I'd contrast that to older puzzle games that need special compatibility tools to get running (Myst) or haven't been updated to modern resolutions or other devices like touch or controller support (e.g. Braid).
> Every time I hear about ZTA they start with this straw man of restricted internal networks. There where never a time when admins relied only on restricted physical network access or VPN.

I assure you I've connected to more than one real-world network where the admins absolutely did rely on that.

> Why would you eliminate a split VPN though? Software has bugs, why would you expose the proxy or some app for automated scanners and exploiters on the internet? You can have both! You can have a locked building door and a locked apartment door. Of course relying on the building door is not enough but why would you eliminate it? How could that improve security?

If you put a weakly secured porch on the front of your building, it's easier for someone to take their time breaking into the main lock, and people are more likely to forget to lock the main door.

Most vulnerabilities come from either writing code in C or mixing up authorized and unauthorized users. So it's really important to have a simple and understandable authorization model. Weak security layers do more harm than good, because they make mistakes more likely.
I think there are two kinds of AGI skepticism. There's skeptics like us that think we're nowhere even close to beginning to understand how to build an AGI, but see no reason to suppose such a thing is impossible.

Then there are those who think AGI is impossible in principle.

The people I get most frustrated with are those that use the first argument - we're nowhere close to implementing an AGI - as an argument that therefore AGI is impossible. Sometimes they don't even realise or recognise that this is what they are doing.

The argument is often that "we do X and computers don't do X therefore computers can't be like us in that way". Well no computers don't do those things yet because we haven't developed AGI yet. That's not a reasonable argument that developing AGI is impossible.
This is a common argument of the anti-C++ crowd when defending C, it is either 100% of all C++ features or it doesn't count.

Yet, the fact that most kernels cannot do ISO C gets cleverly forgotten.
Here's a better idea, don't use generalized statements but rather test your data first.

If your models fits well (and doesn't overfit) after PCA, then go for it. If not, revisit.

PCA has its place, and as the other commenter said, sure, it's not a feature selection algorithm. Or you can just feature select manually.
Trains are expensive and slow and there is a limit to how long they can get. The conveyor on the other hand can be continuously loaded and you don't need to invest in storage facilities to stock phosphate for when the next train comes.
Good idea for people working for 2 years abroad for a job opportunity. It might be part of the package and the employer offloads it to your company. Imagine how productive your exec hire will be without having to deal with all that.

I imagine it coming with a concierge app so you can add or remove stuff and the push of a button.
Some more Wilder screenwriting wisdom - from Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe.

1. The audience is fickle.

2. Grab 'em by the throat and never let 'em go.

3. Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.

4. Know where you're going.

5. The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

6. If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

7. A tip from Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two plus two. They'll love you forever.

8. In doing voice-overs, be careful not to describe what the audience already sees. Add to what they're seeing.

9. The event that occurs at the second act curtain triggers the end of the movie.

10. The third act must build, build, build in tempo and action until the last event, and then—that's it. Don't hang around.
Yes, Borland gets the fame for Object Pascal, but it was actually born at Apple.
I always disappointed there wasn't a site called GiteHub.
> Also abusable are the new GDPR requests.

How? Seems to me that if they're storing (and handing over) data that allows trivial account takeover, they have a broken security process to begin with.
Ethernet is reasonable, but why not just have audio over Ethernet?

Or for that matter, USB2.0 instead of ethernet, and then you can have a hub on the monitor, a webcam, Ethernet over usb if you want, and audio return over usb?
But the other variants are gone. Virtually nobody in the US and Europe are getting infected with them, as we can see with sequencing data.
What do you mean by "dismiss AGI"? Do you dismiss the idea that we are currently on a developmental path to achieving AGI in the medium term (a lifetime or two) with current approaches, or do you dismiss the idea that AGI is possible at all?

I would agree on the former, but that in no way implies the latter.
Architects are just designers that design how the building looks - then engineers need to come and do something from those nice visualisations.
same here. solution: press 'rotate screen' button 4 times...
They know that it can be seized. Those NSTs are owned by a a legal person, a company. Legal persons only exist within law, defying a court is not something they can do.

An actual person can refuse to cooperate.

(The next question is of course what happens if some actual person who has the necessary password refuses to cooperate. Which kind of crime is that? Theft, or perhaps embezzlement? That person has something that the company owns and refuses to hand it over.)
People who say things like this should be required to read 1984 before they're allowed to post again.

People who say "I have nothing to hide" should be required to post a video of themselves going to the bathroom, along with their bank statement, and facebook/email password.
I guess ideological conformity is a good thing for stable society?

I don't think this is about "ideological conformity". No one is stopping you thinking, or saying, whatever you want at any time. The problem is when you use a platform to broadcast that message to a wider audience, especially one like Twitter that will show your posts to people who don't follow you.
I think that the covid pandemic is highly unlikely to be the result of such research. It's much more likely to be the result of research into how to prevent future pandemics and treat coronaviruses.
That's pretty clever and impressive.
The kind of person that considers Ethernet to be "outdated" tech also thinks that a single access point hidden somewhere in a basement is sufficient to cover the entire property, so no need to run Ethernet for PoE either.
I hear you! Thanks for posting your thoughts. I'm thinking this over, but it's likely some adjustments will be made.
Shopify Imagery
Every time I travel, I spend insane amounts of time browsing AirBnB to find a suitable place.

For example, I miss a "good table" option on AirBnB.

I have to manually discard over 90% of the listings after looking at the images because there is no table suitable for work. That is so time-consuming.

It's not that I want to work at home all the time, but still I need a proper table to put my laptop on. A proper chair and a monitor would be golden of course.

And there are a bunch of additional things I do manually too. For example reading the reviews. Meanwhile, I am pretty good at predicting the quality of a place by reading the reviews. The stars are somewhat of an indication. But not reliable at all. I had really bad stays at places that got 100 reviews and an average of 4.7 stars. Hosts have too much influence on this metric.

Here are two examples of positive signals that help me find nice places:

1) How long the reviews are.

Hosts can remove bad reviews. And they can manipulate their guests into writing 5-star reviews. But they cannot really manipulate them to write long, enthusiastic reviews with many details.

2) How many of the reviews say "I have stayed at many AirBnBs and this one was one of the best".

This is something I usually write when I particularly liked a place. And it turned out a good signal to find nice places.

I often wonder if one could build a business by creating a site that lists a small subset of AirBnBs that are manually vetted like this. I already wrote my own web based tool to organize and sort AirBnBs that I am interested in. So it would not be a lot of work to make these lists public.
That’s extremely good stuff, but hopefully it’s obvious from my previous comment that keypress latency isn’t really what I was talking about testing. With some good software and a modern USB 3 keyboard you can engineer a program that on a windows 11 pc puts a character on the screen at some respectable time multiple (sigh) of an Apple II, but how much unavoidable UI and other OS slowness would a user have to navigate through just to start up such a program? (and do we really think hardware performance is the limiting factor there, or poor software engineering and design?)
The speed to complete operations is different than the feeling of snappiness, i.e. there is less latency in classic Finder even if the file copy takes longer. Sure there are valid reasons like a lot more animations nowadays and sometimes network latency (any web app), but that doesn't change the fact it's more sluggish.
That's why it's a problem to be solved. Humanity depends on it actually. You think it's unsolvable? Maybe.
Leaving aside the question of currency stability and this minor war bit, it seems that Europeans buying oil/gas in rubles is equivalent to buying the stuff in dollars. There are two middlemen: one that takes your currency and sells you dollars, and the other that takes dollars and sells you the oil/gas. Each gets a cut and the source of dollars has its currency supported.

In a “fair” market, the price of these two commodities are set by the market. The price of oil is somewhat/mostly out of the suppliers control. However, the creator of the currency has (far?) more control of its price for at least a short while. Greater profits while it lasts.
(one of the Spin authors here.)

This is so cool!
The Spin documentation website (https://spin.fermyon.dev) is also served by Spin itself, running on a Nomad cluster, with the same blogging engine mentioned here.

We're really looking forward to improving the rolling deployments, but it's really great seeing something like this live!
UK train service ScotRail goes back into public ownership after privatisation
assert(unbundle(bundle(airbnb)) == airbnb)
Using common laptops to detect gravitational waves
Thanks, I've been checking on project layouts, and I have mine definitely wrong / weird. Which is probably why I've made life difficult for myself.
NOS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOS_(software)

http://www.nostalgiccomputing.org/index.html
In which way my post spread some falsehood about Putin?
I tested NT 3 something on a DEC workstation on Alpha CPU, at a trade show in the early 90s.

Already then, it didn't seem like dragging things around would eat a significant amount of CPU. I started a bunch of AVI videos playing at the same time, while dragging windows around, and everything was smooth.
That's like prosecuting for saying wrong stuff out in a street because someone may have heard our and friends' chat.
I find it an interesting branch out from the original concept/submission of this in Feb 2021 as a "Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26258773)

Good luck - It is about time that Bloomberg Terminal had someone trying to eat their lunch.
Yes, I get the disconnect feeling argument, but I'm not sure if it is a learning curve thing or a something more fundamental for professionals in specific fields.

As for the ratio, that's configurable in both Wacom and the tablet I'm using (but, yes, when not set to match it can give that uncanny valley feeling about my own hand)
I take this to the next level, and never even call any banks or providers. I just walk in and deal with them in person. Probably takes more time and effort, but is totally worth it IMHO.
Please no. Get the government and their violence out. No one has an inalienable right to APIs and such. You have the right to buy what you want. If the market is not serving you, then look in the mirror and pick your priorities.
Lapsus$ leaked Linus’s latest kernel code.
Some vendors might also be bundling spyware with their drivers. In that case, releasing hardware info would take the (unjust) power over the users away from them.