skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, people having control over the hardware and software that rule their lives is a net increase in natural rights.
There is absolutely no natural justification for "intellectual property", since this travesty runs absolutely contrary to actual property -- physical property cannot be freely duplicated, whereas intellectual property in most cases cannot be used without being duplicated in some form -- its knowledge is generally enough to do so.
All this to enforce laws that terribly hinder free-market, while being abusively enforced by the violence of government? Something smells fishy about this argument...
Hypothetically speaking. If I were to take their (OS) code and try and sell it to someone who actually believes I am a 1337 hacker, how much trouble would I be in?
It seems like the important metric would be the kettle's power output, not the voltage. A kettle running at a lower voltage can still have the same power output (wattage).

My kettle is 1.5kW. I'd be surprised if consumer kettles ran much higher than that.

EDIT: TIL about 3kW European kettles and what I'm missing out on.
You mean those same high voltage electronics that every CRT TV from the 90's has? The same TV's that give off so many xrays they have to shield them with leaded glass?

They were pretty affordable then, and I expect that now they can be made even more cheaply if there is demand for them.
Bitcoin has not had an outage since 2013. Actually, you will find settlement time is actually much longer than instant SEPA, and other methods have 1 and 2 and 3 day transfer times too. The instant thing is an illusion granted by centralization.

But of course your are talking about banks because you are missing the point of the exercise.
Hmm, I’m seeing 500Mbps with my mesh network straight through 2 floors and a bunch of walls (everything is connected through cable to the meshed routers).
> Also, they have generally a good to excellent help desk.

I found they were good for ordinary "where do I find this function" type queries, useless for anything to do with APIs ("how does this call work") or data questions ("did you backdate this dataset").
No, it is not :D It was part of an internal hackathon. You can actually try it (there are links on the blog post)
Drain pipes on the outside are fairly common. I'm not sure about water lines though.
Enterprise WASM beans ???

And history repeats.
Viasat confirms satellite modems were wiped with AcidRain malware
Host here. This April fools day episode is an exploration of great and not so great tech April fools jokes, starting with Dang's request to flag April Fools pranks in 2014[1] and going from there through a history of tech pranks.

We cover Woz's many pranks, the April 1st RFCs and many jokes that flopped.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506793
yup. curation is the whole reason I still use travel agents
I think regular full body exercise has been preached to me my entire life.
It’s a built-in conduit to be used for future cable runs.
Eth2 puts an end to mining. The equivalent after Eth2 would be staking.
That Zone Between Area 50 and 52
Can you link to an example?

The type of standardized hotel room you describe sounds like the small rooms that are made to sleep during the night and leave during the day. Not for "living" in a foreign city.
In many parts of the world, certificates are just fancy looking paperwork that you pay for.
There are true hardware random number generators. IIRC, one example is based on a reverse biased diode. Due random quantum effects, an electron flow backwards occasionally and measuring that gives you a source of real randomness.
Converting integers to fixed-width strings faster with Neon SIMD on the Apple M1
The newer G.hn powerline stuff is pretty great. I initially tried to run an ethernet cable from an AP in my second-floor office to the router in the basement, but it had to go through what used to be an exterior wall so it ended up being impossible (without making big holes which I wasn't willing to do). I tried Ethernet over coax but never got that to work either. Then I got a pair of G.hn adapters and they've fit the bill perfectly. Absolutely rock solid (literally had more issues with the fiber to the house), good speeds, etc. Anybody scared off by older powerline standards/implementations should give the newer ones a try.
It's fun how the expertise of the person ("I know how those various systems work, and how everything is duct-taped together"), and being accustomed to things being shit with the banks, has turned against them.
> But until a government forced YouTube to not show your content to their citizens you are not being censored.

You're just plain wrong on that specificity and you threw in a pathetic ad hominem to boot.

Wikipedia:

"Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions and other controlling bodies. "

Merriam-Webster:

"to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable"

Oxford:

"to prevent part or the whole of a book, film, work of art, document, or other kind of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because it is considered to be offensive or harmful, or because it contains information that someone wishes to keep secret, often for political reasons"

To be clear, you can be censored by government, or by a corporation, perhaps your own editor, or even yourself.
There are also some iterative methods like grafting (using feature gradients):

https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume3/perkins03a/perkins03a.pd...

and gain-based selection (using the improvement of the objective), see the appendix of:

https://aclanthology.org/J96-1002.pdf

We used grafting for parser feature selection, for which it worked quite well:

https://danieldk.eu/Research/Publications/ucnlg2011.pdf
Depends whether you tried to sell a license to the software, or the copyright to the software. The later you can't do, the buyer would have a fraud case against you.

The former is fine, as long as the license is the one that the software is publicly licensed under.
And thank God(Dang?) for it.

Over on Reddit, couple of groan worthy "jokes". It's like a bunch of nerds with no sense of humor trying so hard to be "funny".
My first blog about learning elm
This is my first post on hacker news. I've read a lot here and want to contribute something. Maybe this post is interesting for someone. Also if you have any suggestions on how to become a better blogger, I would appreciate having some constructive critique.
I can change the volume from another floor (I tried out of curiosity), and it also controls the TV volume through the Android TV Remote. My phone doesn't have an IR emitter.
KDnuggets: Personal History and Nuggets of Experience (2021)
What do you mean? I sort by (reverse) date almost everywhere where I look at files.
DIGImend: Improving Linux support for graphics tablets
HBPF – eBPF in Hardware
The worst cases are likely from interplay with other medications or simply overheating.

However, the same is repeated in literature about plain methamphetamine, not just methylene-dioxy-methamphetamine, so I would not entirely trust the current state of science on this.
i am pretty sure radioctive decay is random, and it's not metaphysical
I do wonder about that: it was also criticized for its jarring 3D effects (arguably, some of it due to artistic choices, but clearly not all of it), to the point where it was hot-fixed while it was still shown in theaters. So it might not be the advertising you might want for Blender.

But it might also be the consequence of its flawed production process.
Revving Up Relational Databases for Scorching Native AI Performance
Although more expensive, because of rooms constellation we have, I've resorted to bridge some areas by using powerline adapters and it works surprisingly well, if you are lucky and find a socket combination where devices see each other.
I'm waiting for HN to go meta and to ban post with discussions about the funniness of April Fools. :)

While that doesn't happen, I'd be interested in getting some opinions from people here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30877005
I think VIA [1] did this on some of their mini-ITX boards with embedded CPUs. I seem to recall a contemporary review saying that they used electrical noise to implement an RNG, a fact which is corroborated [2] here:

> Nehemiah stepping 3 and higher offers an electrical noise-based random number generator (RNG) that produces good random numbers for different purposes.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_PadLock
[2] http://www.logix.cz/michal/doc/article.xp/padlock-en
Yes, absolutely :)

I agree with grayness, I just happen to draw my line fairly, for lack of better word, liberally - and specifically so that we Can, to your point, discuss ideas productively as a society - something that censorship explicitly and by definition prevents! I am a proponent of marketplace of ideas and open discussion.

To your example, I do not see German laws making denial of holocaust as even remotely effective. I believe they are in fact counter productive - I've met people who use them to confirm the notion of "Jewish conspiracy". I do not agree with these people! But I'd rather have them spew their nonsense in the open, and be able to freely tell them they're wrong, unhindered by naive and ineffective at best attempts at censorship.

(speed driving laws are not censorship in any way that I've seen the word defined. Not every law is censorship, not every action is speech/communication).
The intention of this was not to change the Time Series panel in a way that it can accommodate real time graphics rendering because it is not intended to do that. It was more about pushing the limits and figuring out performance bottlenecks
The DIGImend project aims at improving Linux support for generic graphics tablets. We work to provide kernel drivers, kernel and userspace driver fixes, accompanying development, testing and end-user tools, documentation and HOWTOs.

Generic graphics tablets include ones designed and sold by Huion, KYE, UC-Logic and Waltop, rebranded and sold by Aiptek, Genius, Monoprice, Princeton, Trust, and many others.

Essentially, any USB-connected tablets not produced by Wacom. For the latter see The Linux Wacom Project.
Magnus, is that you?
IIRC, the bloomberg terminal did have march madness and world cup pools (well, for bragging rights, not for money) built in :)
Register for your service to answer a simple poll, good april fools joke :P
MacBook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter
They do have lots of sensors that can be used... We have bad defaults and a not-very-skillful usage of said hardware. On workstations there are lots of options. In datacenters, there could be some dedicated hardware for it somewhere - and an skillful usage of said entropy being imported into each rack unit.
No, it’s because of everything. Increased specialization of our construction crews, increased oversight and regulation, increased labor costs due to improved working conditions, improved safety requirements reducing productivity, increased shipping and manufacturing time for increasingly specialized tools and building materials, reduced working hours to cause less impact to traffic and noise, increased sync points to inspect the work and ensure it’s good before moving to the next step, mechanization reducing the number of people that can work at one time because the equipment is large and expensive, increased project complexity because complex materials and construction practices are more efficient in specific ways, etc.
I sometimes wonder, who are the brave and adventurous people that choose to stay at an airbnb with 0 reviews (in a foreign country).
Ah, but is your sample still live enough to be "cryptographic grade" random? Is the hardware that measures the source and the software that reports it subject to any periodicity that you don't know about but your attackers might?

(Some) People who study this often get lost down the rabbit hole and come out thinking the universe is deterministic.
I love April 1st.

You get to see, first hand, how much people can be UNCREATIVE in creative/marketing/PR departments.
I appreciate that, even though it's a joke, they went for a look that would've potentially been achievable on the platform, rather than just "spectrifying" some existing 3D screenshots.
"It is a big issue when you talk about something and defend it strongly with no clue."

Well, I have been to the western sahara and informed myself on the topic over the years so maybe I am not totally clueless, but rather have an unbiased view, as I have no ties with either side? But sure, I do not claim to be an expert, or what the best solution is. But I really do not see your government going for a fair solution, but rather cement the "facts on the ground".
Someone told me Google is Evil today and I almost believed him! Can't fool me.
The amount of BS, overgeneralisation and lack of credible evidence in such articles is so overwhelming that it all sounds more like 60s science fiction rather than actual thing happening.

In fact the man-machine interfaces and the expand of humans through human-mind-controLLED machines is much more here, so I’d rather expect Transformers than AGI to wave a hammer anytime soon…

A self-driving car is not intelligence, and not general. Nor is some algebraic structure that can produce values denoting similarity of something to something.
The problems you mentioned are not related to PCs or systems with motherboards like you are thinking. Every not-too-ancient PC CPU has been able to gather sufficient entropy just from cycle timing jitter. The problem is with old, simple embedded systems (and actually just emulations of said systems).
I'm a little confused about your statement that waterfowl don't fly.

As far a why a Cornell scientist didn't know about bird penises, it's because the vast majority of bird species don't have them. If she didn't do much work with Anserids, it wouldn't be surprising at all that she hadn't encountered them.
I think you could think of PCA as a feature selection candidate when the prediction target is unknown or random?
Here’s the thing: while the doubled-class ”.foo.foo” trick increases specifity over a single class, it doesn’t completely override selector specificity like !important does: you can still override anything set by ”.foo.foo” with a more specific selector like ”div.foo” or even ”.quux .foo” without having to use the duplicate classname everywhere.
The closest to a real and official demake by a company itself is probably ROM City Rampage, a version of Retro City Rampage for the NES. Here's a video going through the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvx4xXhZMrU
Jokes are banned? Meanwhile lichees is #1 post
Yes, her work is quite interesting and that podcast is awesome.
Better link (includes full transcript): https://corecursive.com/april-fools-is-cancelled/

(as of this writing, the link points to podcasts.google.com instead of CoRecursive's official website)
What I would definitely suggest on top of this list is: https://www.hammerspoon.org/ for extensive keyboard + functionality customization.
It is useful when writing multi-theme, multi-color-palette design systems, for example to override colors in a specific component on a specific part of the site but only in a specific theme.
Cyclemoid – a new activation function inspired by cyclical learning rates
> what they expect to gain from NATO membership that will offset the disadvantage of enmity with Russia

The difference between Belarus and Ukraine, on one hand, and Latvia, on the other, seems to be quite clear: an absence of Russian troops, tanks and missiles. NATO membership brings with it the combined U.S. and European nuclear umbrella.

More pointedly, avoiding enmity with Russia is of dubious value when it enforced its friendship at sword point.
In the 2000s, Slashdot had it down to an artform, where they would also inject real but outlandish stories into a stream of fakes. Made for a fun day of speculating on which were gaffs and which were real, and all would be revealed on April 2.
I've enjoyed reading their thoughtful guidelines for common forms and pages. On the whole, it all seems like good advice that can be applied to any website. They also talk about the pain points and potential research areas. Here's one example https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/gender-or-sex/
Having used some of those secure document sharing services, I don't feel very confident in them. They seem more like a checkbox getting ticked off for the sake of offloading some liability. pgp is a real dinosaur and a nightmare to set up, but for sharing legal docs digitally, I can't think of a better tool.
> Every time I travel, I spend insane amounts of time browsing AirBnB to find a suitable place.

I absolutely dread having to go through the airbnb search. Just a better (lag-free) interface would already go a long way. The map is just awful. A neater way to search through listings would be nice.

Maybe something like nitter (for twitter), but for airbnb.
I mean, you kind of have to squeeze them a little to see the genitalia. I guess you could have a human hold the bird over the camera or something to sex it, but it's just as easy to teach that human to tell the difference themselves.

I don't really see how machine learning would improve this process
Very coo! I think the most useful use case would be managing remote SQLite dbs using existing database GUI tools.
One question - does it support custom collations? That might prevent us from using it if it doesn't...
> an American shill for RT

This is absurd. His RT content was in the same vein as his books, and his work published while at The New York Times. His work is consistent with his principles, regardless of the medium, or the source of funding.
PCs are not where problems with entropy generally are a large issue. For starters, many CPUs have inbuild hardware entropy sources (although not everybody trusts them)
Some documentation, but when the guy who wrote the hardware is down the hall from the guy writing the documentation it typically isn't very good, saving a lot of effort
I assume you mean:

> He suggested that perhaps the male was responding to female preference—wink-wink, nudge-nudge—but hadn’t bothered to actually examine the female.

I think "wink-wink nudge-nudge" is an unfair characterisation of someone's motivation to dissect duck genitals. It's a statement about evolutionary pressure, not a bawdy joke.
Got immediately nuked (but it's here for those interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30877087 )

I do think it would be nice with a meta-post listing the various tech-related ones people find, though.
Literally 1984
> Hold $KEY in text fields to get pop-up menu of given character with diacritic markings

Well this explains the odd behaviour of vim keybindings on VSCode on a Mac. I hold `l` to move right and instead I just see a strange pipe-ish character pop up.
On the one hand, sure, I'm one of those scientists. On the other hand, we're still considered a subfield whose work isn't always considered entirely relevant to the rest of the field, because we're measured by the yardstick of task-specific performance on benchmark datasets. I just reviewed a paper yesterday that was powerful and general, but wasn't really trying to hit SOTA on any one test task its architecture could perform. It was trying for generality. This likely got it dinged by the other reviewers.
I suppose you’re very fortunate, but I wouldn’t generalize anything from your experience. Just like I wouldn’t generalize from mine.

I’ve worked with programmers from Scandinavian university degrees and some sucked. Not sure how they passed, but the degree was 15 years old and this was the early 00s.
There are such sensors, listening to thermal noise, right inside most CPUs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND It's a question of trust. Do you trust that Intel (or whoever builds the physical RNG) didn't build a backdoor, a secret predictability?
Maybe it's safer to build your own.. or combine several sources (like linux kernel does).
I wonder if it has to do with any underlying 3rd-party components. Otherwise, yeah, makes no sense.

It might be worth clarifying that Wacom is not taking that approach. But their statement there suggests that the underlying reason for lack of hardware support in Linux is the OpenSource nature of the software.
Well, does it keep the styles with the components, or does it expect devs to create a separate folder for shared styles? If there are lots of shared styles, that equates to having two sets of components: one React, the other CSS.
This is exactly how I feel about it too. "The singularity" has always sounded like a meaningless phrase to me. AI has seen a lot of interesting progress lately, but nothing remotely as fundamental like it would lead to any kind of superhuman AI. In fact, I think the 20 years before that has seen more fundamental progress than the past 20 year. Most AI today is mostly advanced statistics. I don't think we're any closer to any sort of independent reasoning in a computer.

Back when I studied AI in the 1990s, I felt like Strong AI was a red herring, and the real value of AI is not in replacing humans, but assisting them.
The singularity assumes that a human-level intelligence can build a better-than-human-level intelligence. That fundamental assumption is the difference between breathlessly talking about how fast the singularity is coming and dismissing AGI altogether. If we can build a computer than I’d smarter than we are, then I think we can assume that intelligence can compound. But until that happens, we won’t even know it’s possible.
Read about Dr. Sarno
Markets by themselves tend to explore only spaces where large parts of the population take them. Because of limited information, most of us often prefer clear short term benefits over long term uncertain and often unclear benefits. Legislation is a good tool to, at least temporarely, force markets to explore parts of the state space they are extremely unlikely to explore by themselves.
This article is written by Ted Widmer. Ted was a guitarist/vocalist for the Upper Crust, my favorite Boston AC/DC-influenced fops. And a White House speechwriter!
The documentation is not the burden as much as the requirement, or at least expectation, to adhere to the published specs once they are published. By not releasing any info they are not burdened with having to stay consistent on driver details from one product or version to the next.
If you're going to do anything on this, the worst day on the internet -- International Heavily-Signposted-Tiresome-Geek-Humour Day -- do it with this amount of whimsy, love and care.

I'd play this in a heartbeat.
gov.uk is the best, consistent, and usable government portals I have ever used. Kudos to GDS on their work and transparency.
Part of the interview process is to find positive outliers. I don’t want average people. I want great people.
It seems to me he's doing some kind of combinatorial enumeration and using biases to find related patterns in Math and Physics in some kind of iterative bottom up approach?
Did the water quality certification miss something in Flint? Certification means trust. Someone breaking that trust can have life long implcations for large groups of people. Giviing the individual power is better.
Most kids don't go and become scientists – why on earth would saying that specifically about farm kids be biased? Also, isn't farming an occupation where it's more common to inherit it from your parents than for other occupations?

Also, why would not becoming scientists equal to being stupid? Kind of biased, hmm?
The question reduces to one of incentives. Scams are extremely easy to initiate, cheap to scale, and once they're sniffed out, extremely easy to replicate with a small variation in location/product/approach. In other words, they're like good software.

So...what might curtail the proliferation of scams (besides cruel and unusual punishments)? Decentralization? More factors of authentication?