skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your printer is connected to internet these days and quite probably has backdoors ...
Not just can, they're only certifying "2.1" now or something like that.
Is that the take home after all cost, maintenance, depreciation and so on?
100% this. I have "The Art of Computer Programming" on my book shelf, and I think I had to pull it out 2-3 times over the course of _years_.

I am sure one was a reference in the golang source code. And I once wanted to check multi-way merge sorts (tournament sort).
GlazeWM_x64.exe 154 MB

microsoft gotta be microsoft, bloat everything it touches
Three square meals a day, no. Three square meals plus various snacks throughout the day is a different story.

The problem is that now, with a pandemics of obesity, we cannot just sustain status quo. We need to reverse it towards more health, less obesity. Which means that even going back to just three meals a day may not be enough.
Gene therapy and eugenics are different things. CRISPR falls under the former.
>Today it's the voice of those you disagree with

Can you give an example of someone being banned for voicing an opinion? I'm not from the US so i may not have been paying too close attention. But lies aren't opinions. The truth isn't an opinion for that matter either. Example: The earth revolves around the sun (fact), there is a 5g microchip in the vaccine (lie), the US education system is really bad because I have to give you these examples (opinion).

It is not about the topic. It is about how it is phrased. If I were to say you rank the worst, it would be a lie.

So I'm not knowledgeable enough to know if what you are saying is true. (they are censoring opinions). But it's not an opinion. It's either true or you are a liar.

>We've only just now reached a point where politicians are being targeted, which is kind of insane.

That your politicians can tell prvbable lies but that your electorate doesn't instant fire them is crazy. No accountability. Seems like a much larger problem to me. And people not distinguishing between objective and subjective matters like you will cause the US to collapse. That is my opinion though. I don't have facts, because I can't actually tell the future.
> what in the world could "USB 3.1 Gen 2" possibly mean? Versions are free, why not simply name it "USB 3.2" and make the next one 3.3?

USB 3.1 Gen 1 is the straight rebranding of USB 3.0, USB 3.1 Gen 2 is the "original" 3.1, which is 3.0 updated to a 10Gbps signalling rate (from 5), and a more efficient encoding (128/132, versus 8/10).

But wait, there's worse!

USB 3.2 Gen 1 is the same thing as USB 3.1 Gen 1

USB 3.2 Gen 2 is the same thing as USB 3.1 Gen 2

USB 3.2 Gen 1x2 is 2 lanes of Gen 1 (both G1 and G2 are single-lane), so 2x5Gbps at 8/10

USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 is 2 lanes of Gen 2, so 2x10Gbps at 128/132.

Don't ask me why you'd want to use 1x2, I've no idea, and apparently USB-IF doesn't either (they don't even recommend a marketing name for it).
I think the should really just use sha hashes of the standard document, to avoid all this version name issues.
I wonder if the Uber drivers aren't lying, so they get better ratings. Would seem logical, after all making customer feel bad might affect their rating and in future their income. So I would call the unreliable source in context...
I'm just saying that in this particular scenario there would be so many if's, what if's and buts that I think you would struggle to come up with a viable methodology, let alone a viable "conclusion".

"Lockdowns" are also inherently subjective, social and difficult to study in any sort of meaningful way. Not least because different governments implemented them differently, and different populations adhered to them differently. So you'll never really get a clean dataset - and that's assuming people tell you the truth anyway about how compliant they were with the rules.

I think a more reasonable perspective would be to wait until we know more about COVID and (especially) long-COVID. Once the world knows more about the cognitive effect of COVID, then would be the time for secondary analysis on lockdowns.

Afterall, it may well be that lockdowns were more preferable to getting infected with COVID in terms of cognitive decline. Or it may be that both "options" were more or less equal in terms of decline. But for all that we need more time to study COVID itself.
> I think in any debate or discussion you have to be quite fast on thinking.

Not really. If you watch a debate show like Question Time, everything that's said is utterly predictable. Politicians have spent years trotting out the same arguments. Everything is a set piece because you know what the topic is, and you have ample time to prepare. It's actually like this in most debates, it's only thinking if you haven't been there before. If you are just smart and you run into a person with is properly prepared, you will get demolished by well tested arguments backed up with established facts.

If you get really old and your memory goes then you'll have a problem, but most of the talking head types are not that old yet, and they just give a canned response.
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Exactly the same experience in Warsaw.

There is some hidden benefit for Uber drivers in creating barriers for the passengers. Also, the platform does not allow downvotes until you get on the car.
The issue still comes in with obligation to pay. If the gym has enough info on you, they can send you to collections as some others have pointed out.
Those already exist and absolutely dwarf Twitter: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snap, etc.

Twitter’s format is fundamentally archaic.
How do I invite friends?? There is no unique URL for my profile...
There is no invite link or mechanism on the website.
I can't send a link to a post to my friends...

I think you went "live" a bit too early.
There is a pure js version here:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/ytdl-core
I already have a `q`, and frankly it's useful to me, so this piece of software will never be called `q` on any of my systems.

I suspect a lot of people have locked up all the single-letter aliases too, and I believe almost all of them would have the same position.

There's other tools for doing DNS diagnostics that are already installed on every system in the world. If I learn this one, I will have to take responsibility for maintaining the fact that I have to give it another name, and distribute that to other systems -- I won't be able to use this tool in a script, because I'll have to make sure the name is configurable for everyone else just like me.

Now I will not even give this software a chance because all of that seems so obvious to me, and the cuteness of the name such a display of fetishism (which usually detracts from quality in my experience) has me starting with an extremely low opinion and I haven't even made it to the github page yet. This software would have to be really good to overcome that. Is it?

I anticipate that being the big problem with choosing such a high-value single-letter name for something with such a narrow use-case. It just seems smarter to learn the tools that are already there. Heck, "c" can do everything and it doesn't even have the gall to do this; I think "cc" is a much better name, and whilst there are still a fair number of two-letter combinations that aren't used, I think I probably compile more C programs than do DNS diagnostics so maybe three or more letters would be better (if you buy the idea that huffman-coding your names is a good idea-- and I do)
Well if there are 20% of jobs that are interesting, the leaves 89% of us stuck no matter who discriminates against who and how we distribute them
The sagemath[1] suggests

> Whitespace before and after assignment and binary operator of the lowest priority in the expression:

The AMS style guide[2, p. 117] suggests

> Align multiline equations on operators: verbs are aligned with each
other and conjunctions are aligned with each other

I find these improves readability of my TeX files.

[1]: https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/coding_basics.htm...
[2]: https://www.ams.org/publications/authors/AMS-StyleGuide-onli...
Why is that relevant? The cost of maintaining a reasonable standard of living is what matters, not the amount listed on your paycheck (as long as the latter is >= the former).
On fixed-cost memberships, I'd love to see legislation forcing the hand to say that payments are for future services, not past, and that failure to pay means being cut off from future services until payment is made. This way these companies couldn't send you to collections since you're paid up for everything you've "consumed".
They overlap, though. Or, more precisely, gene therapy can be used as a means to achieve certain eugenic ends.

If, in 2030 or 2050, it will be possible to use CRISPR or another newer technology to edit out detrimental alleles out of someone's DNA safely, the end effect on the genetic pool of humanity is going to be very similar to the one that eugenicists tried to achieve via more primitive means.
Yes, they said that 2.0 doesn't exist anymore:

1. HDMI 2.0 no longer exists, and devices should not claim compliance to v2.0 as it is not referenced any more

2. The features of HDMI 2.0 are now a sub-set of 2.1

3. All the new capabilities and features associated with HDMI 2.1 are optional (this includes FRL, the higher bandwidths, VRR, ALLM and everything else)

4. If a device claims compliance to 2.1 then they need to also state which features the device supports so there is “no confusion” (hmmmm)

https://tftcentral.co.uk/articles/when-hdmi-2-1-isnt-hdmi-2-...
South Africa is running out of Marmite
But could either of those raise their prices by 25-50% and still keep their market share? Probably not. They are different from Uber that they are making money and have for very long time... While remaining price competitive compared to other players on market. Uber can't afford that in long run.
It would be very expensive for ISPs to implement this kind of thing.

So Occam’s Razor makes me doubt it. ISPs do all kinds of tricks to make speed tests work well, co-locating, prioritising that path etc. But I don’t think they’ve complex profiling equipment that slows everything, then removes the slowdown when they see DNS/SNI for speedtest, then apply it again after.

Also been working for ISPs for 20+ years and never heard of it. Only exception may be in cellular with their fancy PCRF boxes, but even there I think it’s much more common to throttle one class, and not another, than to slow everything but switch the throttle on/off if you access a particular site.

If this is true you could easily game it by running speed test all the time. All you gotta do is throttle bandwidth to the speed test servers yourself somehow (so the speed test goes slow and doesn’t eat your available bandwidth.) Then you’ll be permanently in the “they’re doing speedtest give them full speed” category.
> more political science than history? The fall or the Roman Empire is a part of history, but how it’s used in political discourse has nothing to do with history, until decades from now anyway

This exact example shows how interwoven they are. Which "fall" are you referring to? The end of the western Roman empire, or the end of Byzantium hundreds of years later? Or do you mean the replacement of the republic by the empire proper, and later the decline and division? What you consider the empire and its fall, if you choose to consider it one, isn't just semantics, it's a meme that defines a history based on a political need: for the Holy Roman empire of Germanic Nation, Rome was the mantle of legitimacy from an older time, for the various post renaissance empires the fall and the subsequent "dark ages" was some darkness to push back with their own order and light, for Nazi Germany and various connaisseurs of "degeneration theory" the fall always serves as a reason why they must impose strict social and moral control...history is inevitably tied to the time and politics it is born from (acting as a lens) and the goals it served (possibly subconsciously)
> Steam engine? That's a transportation problem being attacked with technology

steam engine has been adapted to transportation, after transportation was invented, they haven't solved any social problem.

there wasn't a transportation problem, there was a problem applying the technology to transportation, for lack of better alternatives.

steam engine in cars were banned until 1920s, so cars used electric engines.

it worked (kinda) on trains

main application of steam engine still remains steam turbines for power (electricity) generation, which is a modern technological challenge by itself.

> Covid vaccines? That's a healthcare problem being attacked with technology

COVID vaccines helped an economic problem, people would have survived by avoiding contacts

they have been in fact deployed firstly and foremost in developed (AKA rich) countries (2.8 billion people around the world are still waiting to get their first shot).

modern drug manufacturing is not about society anymore and hasn't been for at least a century now.

> Anti-missile missiles? That's an international relations problem being attacked with technology.

That's a warfare problem that has always been about technology, since forever.
In my opinion the article seemed to agree with the book. So while I obviously disagree with the book, I also disagree with the book reviewer.

And regarding the comment about how he kept emotions in check, are there other reasons he might have done so? David Hume also wrote a famous history book, how did the author compare Gibbon to Hume? And did Hume have similar sex issues?

I don't want to know the answers to those questions, I am simply saying that I think the author of the book is allowing personal opinion to get in the way. Which is rather ironic, considering the topic at hand.
I think the point of the article is that the current strategy causes needless casualties on both sides?
It doesn't sound at all like the kind of thing ALEC would do.
> Also, I think that looking at history, claim that all progress was due to unreasonable men is false.

This is because the definition of 'unreasonable' is relative. For Edison, wasting thousands of hours of lightbulb experiment was quite reasonable.

For most people before him, it was squarely in the unreasonable territory, and hence it took Edison for lightbulb to happen.
I think the point here is that he has some really spicy takes that one can not call balanced or objective by any measure, while not doing anything that's impressive enough to actually deserve to be taken seriously when it comes to such sweeping claims.
This may be true in some cases- lots of drivers -many of who are new immigrants-see this as the quickest way to get a job and don’t realize they have no worker protections like paid sick leave, worker’s compensation, that employees get or the tax implications of being a contractor vs employee
This was my question: what's the benefit of using `q` over `doggo`? Both are in Go, both seem to give nice colourful results. I'd appreciate having some comparison.
What is the origin of “daemon” with regards to computing? (2011)
Tract: Tiny, no-nonsense, self-contained, TensorFlow and ONNX inference
Unless you are a disk drive vendor, in which case you insist it's 10.
Google for "Photoshop alternatives". Of course you're free to disagree, but you will be disagreeing with a majority. And since the subject of your disagreement is inherently subjective, I don't see a reason to evangelize people to your opinion, not to mention the condescending tone tone with calling the mainstream opinion BS and appealing to call it out.

Blender isn't a 3D Studio Max or Houdini Clone. But it is an alternative 3D tool, just like Gimp is an alternative raster editing tool to Photoshop. I find it productive to ask both why Blender is so successful and why is GIMP still so bad.
What if everyone included "I plead the fifth" in their tax filings? Perhaps as a form of protest, or because CFAs and distributors of tax-filing software started adding it to their boilerplate?
Just Google "Stallman was right", sounds like you might be in a bit if a bubble.
Not insulting at all. I don’t expect someone hard up enough to drive Uber for minimum wage to understand how to calculate depreciation, etc.

They are focused on cash flow.
The generations start with USB 3.0.

But for bonus confusion they don't refer to connection speed. They refer to single lane speed, and a connection can have 1 or 2 lanes.

Gen 1 is 5Gbps, gen 2 is 10Gbps. Gen 2x2, sigh, is 20Gbps total. If they weren't trying to obfuscate things, those would simply be 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2.

There's also Gen 1x2 in theory, but I've never seen mention of anything using it.

And then after USB 3.2 you have USB4[sic] which adds Gen 3 and 3x2.
Kukkee's features like protected polls (to avoid impersonation), and many of our upcoming features like inviting participants through Kukkee (without having to share the link), calendar integrations, video conferencing integrations, etc., would require having a verified account since our users would need more control over their scheduling. Thank you for letting us know about the password requirements!
The reality is that the only tech all companies are hiding in plain sight is Skin Mesh Animation and Unity doesn't even implement that in a vertex shader!

They use a compute shader which means they have to send all meshes every frame.

Here Autodesk plays a huge role in bottlenecking the tool chain and that is all perfectly legal.

Monopoly by standardizing tech.

Everything else involved in making a game is much easier from scratch.

Combine that with the fact that all computers without keyboard and mouse are wasted energy and you'll quickly realize that if you only need to support Win on X86 and Linux on ARM your porting is trivial if you use OpenGL (ES) 3 which is the final GL with VAO.

Add HTTP, OpenAL and use .dae, .obj, .ttf, .wav, .tga and .zip and you're done!

Also don't use anything much beyond C and you can't fail.
Not to mention the fact that many interesting jobs that are not highly paid restricting the choices you aim for even further.
I think that in the super fast growing market you don't lose anything by making your product last longer. The demand would be larger than supply for a long time anyway. OTOH, it's good to get an edge over competition by offering a superior product.
I really like (careful, sarcasm) that about USB-C and HDMI. You have a port, you have a cable. But if you're not a Syadmin you have no idea why it does not work as you think it should.

I can't understand why they did not put some kind of capability mark for cables/ports into the spec.
"The air force really isn't interested in wasting multi thousand (or more) dollar bombs on people that don't deserve them and in a manner that just makes more people hate them and makes their job harder."

If only that were true, they wouldn't wage all of the senseless wars that the US has fought since WW2.
The mac binary is named `cytopia-osx`, but interestingly the latest OS X (Catalina) is unable to run it. Cytopia actually requires OS 11 or higher.
52% of parents regularly give kids a dietary supplement
Don't misuse the word "chemical", you're using it like a Gwyneth Paltrow follower is using it. Oxygen is a chemical element, should we get rid of that in our lives too?
Every line of code has a maintenance overhead and it is quite likely you are in a minority at this point. Eventually, as with all things legacy, the effort outweighs the gain.
Counterpoint of one, my dad's in in his 70s, and seems sharp as ever.

Last summer, he took upon a project of building a protocol converter between a GPS device and some kind of sailing computer in his sailboat. I politely listened to many details, which I immediately forgot, but there was a Rasperry Pi and some protocols on serial buses and making sense of binary logs. His system works and is in use.

Either he was really, really fucking smart 25 years ago, or there was no steep decline so far. I'm betting it's the latter.
The issue is not a cable thing. I have experienced the same behaviour on both a 2020 intel MBA and a 2021 M1 Pro; a 10GB/s rated Samsung T5 SSD only connects to either Mac at 5GB/s, despite being rated for 10GB/s. The same SSD (and cables) connects to Linux & Windows boxen at 10GB/s.

Equally, a Crucial X8 SSD rated for the same 10GB/s connects to both Macs at its rated speed.

This behavious has persisted across OS updates since Big Sur.

My current thinking is that there's some undocumented quirks in place in MacOS that scales speeds down with certain USB controllers.
> How about by using different ports?

That would just be worse: the port being backwards compatible is a feature, being able to plug a 5Gbps device into a 20G-capable-port is a good thing, so is being able to plug a self-powered device into a PD-capable port.

The issue is the difficulty of matching the cable with the device (and port) to ensure the upper bounds match. Obviously you could get the highest-rated cables but there are tradeoffs in length and flexibility, using a 2x2 PD 3.1 cable to plug in a keyboard is just a waste of money and simply results in lower convenience (as the 2x2 PD 3.1 cable will be shorter and more rigid than a USB 2.0 low-power cable).

That could be an argument for "different ports" being backwards-compatible "poka-yoke" (mistake-proofing) ports, but historically these have had really shitty design (e.g. m.2 tabs are plain misdesigned) and they would have required significantly increasing the size of the plugs to make room for the hardware features.
The issue here is that you're ignoring completely how Twitter was built, and how things like Twitter get built.

It's very easy now to say that everyone should get a say in what is done with Twitter, but back when Twitter was first launched what most people thought was that Twitter was stupid and would never get off the ground. I mean, who'd want a service where you can write only an amount of characters so short you can say nothing of substance?

It was people like Dorsey who bit the bullet and actually built the thing, which only later was proven to have potential. Never mind that people could be right - Twitter could be a stupid idea and it could have blown up in the founders' faces. It would be very good in that case that we didn't have a "truly public form of ownership" in that case - then it would have failed without damaging anyone but the founders.

But you can't get that protection to society without the flipside. If everyone gets protected from the blow-ups, then you need to make the people who create the ideas that seem very stupid but actually work out in a huge way be rewarded proportionately to how much everyone was wrong about the idea. Which is, thankfully, how it works.

The idea that Twitter should be "truly public" because the content there is user-generated ignores that there would be no Twitter and none of that user-generated content in the first place without a small group of people taking the risk to build something everyone considered "stupid". The idea that people who take that risk should have the fruits of their risk-taking taken from them for their success just means that such risks would not be taken.

Socialization - such as what you propose - is the flip side of corporate bailouts, and just as wrong: Bailouts make society liable for a business's failure while making the business the sole beneficiary of its own success, while socialization punishes the founders for succeeding while making them the sole holders of liability for failing.
I was a research scientist in my other life. And while overall the job was challenging and very interesting 90% of it was still boring and mentally repetitive things. Granted being board behind one's desk and board while working 9 to 5 on a conveyor are two completely different scales of boring. I was once cutting trees and shrubs using nothing but axe for 3 month as my summer job.
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