skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fastest way to compute"

This isn't necessarily true, especially considering the architecture of an FPGA. You have no control over the routing of the circuit and you're extremely restricted by the tools (which have decades of work towards synchronous circuits). More often than not, a synchronous circuit will end up being faster and more practical (there's a lot of overhead for async as well).

Another issue is that a lot of fundamental asynchronous primitives like the muller C-element and latches aren't really feasible to implement on the fpga (easily). The C-element requires a feedback loop on the LUT which is really hard to constrain properly, and the tool will fight you for doing that.

There's a cryptography paper out there comparing a synchronous and asynchronous implementation of ciphers and the conclusion was that synchronous was easier to implement and had higher throughput
I disagree. It's just another housing bubble. That should be bleeding obvious from looking at the article's FRED chart. Scarcity was not suspended from 2007-2012 when the previous bubble collapsed and brought housing prices down to settle on long-term inflation as if the previous 10 years never even happened.

Blaming NIMBYism instead of loose debt looking for a safe haven is either a well-funded political agenda or mass hysteria of bloggers getting wound up on each others' articles.
Why should you test your APIs?
Strange analysis.

You basically say that you don't care about latency/performance loss, but are surprised that people still have problems. Maybe because these persons do care?
I'm not in Berlin (Vienna) but I can confirm that in the few places outside of the bigger cities where I've encountered this phenomenon, its very common to get criticized for poor German-language skills by the townspeople, who seem to think that ones German skills should be at least on par with Germans who can speak English.

Old wounds, I guess.
Works for me on Firefox Nightly, Android and desktop versions.
These visual tools never clicked with me. There is always a point that you need to code something "manually" and then switching back and forth is just tedious (and if you are lucky that your code doesn't break the tool) to the point it makes no sense to use such a visual tool.
Maybe this is different though.
I wish it was possible to try without having to set up an account.
A12Z-based.
> I am a sucker for a wireless headset. Being able to stay on a call while I walk over to the other side of the room to grab something is a great freedom, and plugging the headset in at night is not a big deal.

Agreed. My last job had a bi monthly all hands meeting at 4pm on a Thursday, I used to just stick my headphones on and make dinner during it.
This is a very cool and playful introduction to the basics of the topic:

https://nandgame.com/
/r/politics makes a lot of sense.
I think this is a really good video. It might not apply to everything you are thinking about, and is mainly centered around the fighting game community. But I think it can say a lot about the behaviors that we all do to try and keep a community - and how limiting who is considered a part of it is a vital part in a community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8055HIDm1A
Mr Bean NFTs launched at the same time as the crypto crash: coincidence?
Its surprising how often I was already visiting a clique of sub-reddits. Even more surprising how much I was missing out on similar sub-reddits. This visualization is really a discovery tool I needed.
Or they do know more, but they're not releasing everything? The details they have published are not that useful in pinpointing a suspect - I mean, there are probably thousands of Norwegians who have a PC/laptop with Intel integrated graphics, Windows 8/10, an HP printer and who buy paper and envelopes from Clas Ohlson (a chain with over 200 stores).
My Deluge has a Wifi+SD card in it, I can mount its filesystem remotely, transfer samples and do backups over Wifi with great ease.

Deluge is a very, very fun device, very powerful and feature-rich, and far superior to the OP-1 in every single way. OP-1 is Ikea, Deluge is Henge.
> It didn't take long for the laypeople to join, start sharing typical urban myths and terrible advice, and getting -upvoted- for doing so by other newcomers

I can relate so much to this. The Facebook groups for my hobby are filled with beginner questions followed by terribly wrong advices given by other beginners who have no idea what they are talking about. It's extremely frustrating to read, but I put most of the blame on the platform and not the users.
In my experience, the old-school electronics companies believe "if you can't stick a label on it, you can't sell it". In their eyes software is a necessary evil, but it only costs money and doesn't generate any revenue. This is obviously wrong, as the products are worthless without the software and would probably sell better with better software. If they recognized the value of the software then they would probably pay their software engineers better.
to leech ~ to drain (from the animal)
to leach ~ to lose soluble constituents
For me I think it has just reduced my podcast consumption. Too much hassle now.
On Windows I like to use this: https://stevemiller.net/puretext/
Fair enough, but not sure if it was meant for general consumption or just the author.
Perl's re.pl exits on ^C too (as well as ^D). Ditto Clojure.
I worked at a pizza place Back in the Day, and this was the galaxy brain combination.
Thank you for posting this question! I've just recently been thinking about this effect in terms of how computer games were degraded as a medium by an outgroup who has no interest in games and wants to push its own agenda. What is more scary though is to observe the same process in scientific communities today, which I think may have long lasting negative consequences for all of us tomorrow and the days after that.
there's a lot of techniques used in such research which is not 'public knowledge' (even though a lot of techies might know them). Hence, information might purposfully be a bit vague, to give the idea they did not reach certain conclusions.

I'd expect they would, as you, know the exact model and make of the printer if it was microdots.

They can also have libraries of things printed with lots of printers to analyse the quality of print etc., and then get an estimate for example by a neural network examining artefacts. in such a case, it would never be 100% certain, but maybe 95-99% range somewhere if they do it good.

I can _imagine_ such techniques might even also get to the point where they can somewhat certainly identify other aspects of the pc like graphics cards, even though they don't know exactly how the network will draw these conclusions.
The dream of starting startup remained a dream?
Its been more than 2 3 years thinking of starting a startup but i kept thinking and thinking about what should i do, what match my skillset and interest, whats the problem that i can solve soo many questions on the row but i'm very uncertain even till now. Everyday I wakeup thinking to do something but later before bed the same thought hit again and again that i couldnt do anything. I tried to explore many things and tried to meet many people to match my interest and for ideas . Its not that i didnt came with any idea , but the ideas im caming up with does match my skillset or sometimes it may be too expensive.

bUT the struggle will be kept going until i wake up and end this dream and make a reality.
Engineers typically get paid less than developers. I used to joke back in the 90's and 00's (&still kind of do) that I'd quit and become a DBA (typically 2-3x salary).

I look around at the 6 figure web dev jobs and it honestly breaks my heart. I look at embedded and engineering roles (ones that interest me anyway) and it's rarely 6 figure. I just don't have the mental fortitude to deal with web dev monotony.

The only other time I got bad pay was game development.

So, my experience is, the more technical the job, the less you get paid (but more interesting/ demanding). Look at middle management, why do they get paid better? (Btw, I've been CTO too)
I way too stupid in both medicine and statistics to interpret this, but if the conclusion holds then my understanding is that this gives an indicator at around ~2 days after birth if a baby is at high risk for SIDS.

As a parent having sort of lived through the fear of SIDS when our kids were younger, I really hope that is true. I have no idea what can be done if there is a higher risk, I guess more intense monitoring comes to mind. I don't even know what actually causes death by SIDS, and how you would stop it.

It's a truly horrible thing however, and I hope this can help stop/prevent it for future babies' and their parents' sake. Go science!
> As a TLM with 2 decades of overall experience and currently managing a team of 7 and a family of 4 I'm finding it very difficult to find time to sustain leetcode practice for several months

That's by design; it's part of the filter.

It's been a while since I've been around them parts, but I was able to survive by going to dev meetups, meeting people doing startups, and getting to know them directly. Essentially, building an underground network of people who I could just start working with without all the tech bro posturing.

Doing it that way takes a while, it's a bit of human interaction work, and you'll learn things at the meetups you'll actually use at your job - plus having a strong network is useful in other ways.

In the end, I made some great friends and got to learn from some amazing people whom I would otherwise have no chance to even be around.

Good luck.

(I'd also be curious to see the list)
Forgot to link to the LLNLPython distribution - https://sources.debian.org/data/main/p/python-llnl/11-11.5.1... .
The failed Biosphere 2 project was one such attempt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
>According to Wikipedia [1] the dish chicken tikka masala is thought to have been invented by Bangladeshi chefs working in the UK in the 1960s. Doesn't that make it at least somewhat British?

First of all that is not a well-established origin story, but more like an urban legend. There are multiple conflicting versions of this same urban legend where multiple different restaurants claim to have invented the dish in the same way. And the restaurant chain (Moti Mahal) from one of these versions had been serving a virtually identical dish in their Delhi restaurant since the 1950s, ten years before any of these supposed origin stories. I will let you come to your own conclusions about what scope for authenticity that leaves for these stories.

>If I, as a Swedish person, move to the US and compose an awesome recipe for pizzaballs [2] where I combine Swedish meatballs with the American love for all things pizza [3] and it becomes a huge hit which is exported to the rest of the world, would that make the dish Swedish?

In your case at least you will be doing some "fusion" or "innovation" right? What exactly is the "fusion" or "innovation" in chicken tikka masala? Can anyone of sound mind actually claim that chicken tikka masala and butter chicken are two completely different dishes?

While we are making up examples on the spot, here is a more accurate one. If I start making pizzas in India and because mozzarella is hard to find here, just use processed cheese instead and may be put more chilis on top to suit Indian tastes, does the dish stop being pizza?

There has to be some reasonable limitation on how little you modify something before you get to call it a new "invention".
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Truly Understanding Quick Select [video]
R&D is more expensive, fixing errors is more expensive. It doesn't scale like software does. You want to produce 100x more product? You'll need a big organisation compared to a software company.
The combinational part of async design is built to be self-synchronous. You derive a clock signal to write computed value from the computed signal itself.

The combinational part also synthesized as monotone function without ringing - voltages there never go down after they went up during compute, and they never go down and then up and then down again when computation is reset.

This means that timing guarantees can be local, related only to parts next to concrete registers.

Usually, asynchronously designed chips work in the first batch. They also often work being underpowered, when power voltage is slightly lower than switching voltage - because switching voltage is set for typical transistor to work at the speed needed. Asynch designs usually are much less speed-dependent and can work being "officially underpowered".
Where exactly is now your problem with IDE's for webs?
This was a cool read. Never realised headsets also used visual cues rather than just accelerometers/gyros and you could get better performance out of them with room design. [Pictures down the bottom]

> The number of patterns is not chosen by chance: the Oculus Quest positioning system works through cameras on the headsets, and contrasting unique patterns are necessary for their correct operation. Empirically, we came to the current patterns and lighting on the point to get the most stable tracking.

It's sad how many good businesses got upended by the pandemic while others floated through untouched. Good luck with it all going forward.
This would've been much more useful in the era of spreadsheets-online Eve (2003 - 2012) it's been so ridiculously dumbed down since then that I don't really see any added benefit to having Excel integration
It's Norwegian police, though, so they might be held to higher standards of accountability.
We built a fully regional cloud architecture on AWS
Pizza fruit of choice here is the banana.
Stories like this and tales from EVE are absolutely captivating to me.
Based off my experiences with my iPad, I'd really like an iPhone, but whether its for reasons of practicality or just principle at this point I refuse to cave to "just use a dongle" or any of that. The few times I've used wireless audio its presented me with a load of problems (having to charge something Im not used to having to charge, connectivity issues, poor audio quality, you know the drill) with the only upside being I can move further away from the thing that fits in my pocket.

I'm willing to use the equivalent of a dongle with my PC (audio interface), but obviously thats a very different use case. I'm just glad laptops haven't decided to take the "brave" action yet.
> I don't think Finland had much better options

The Norwegians were occupied — for some time, but regained their independence. The Swedes stayed neutral. Why do you think aligning with Germany (and losing territories as a result) was the best option?
According to the linked paper, the UK would require 3 million hectares to provide sufficient calories (assuming everyone ate nothing but barley stew). It also points out that, at least in 1975, that's more or less what happened - the UK grew enough barely in that year, using 3.6m hectares, to "feed" its population (at least, in terms of calories needed).

So - it's already true! We grow all the barley we need to sustain ourselves, and the rest is given over to other produce that provides the other nutrients we need, as well as some luxury. Yay vegan sustainability!
Pay has never been correlated to the difficulty of the job. It's simply how much money you can generate for the business. Software is but one part of an embedded system. Whereas it is the whole part of a pure software product.
Sorry, but this is absolutely false. The US was not the only country to receive immigrants during the two Italian diasporas [1], and so you are not the only country to develop a taste for Italian cuisine.

Australian pizza descends directly from the Italian style. We do have the American style as well, but it's a minority preference. Our pizza usually looks like this [2]. It's also notable that Starbucks failed to make a dent here [3], because our coffee culture is truer to its Italian roots than yours.

Given the circumstances in which this happened here, it stretches credulity to imagine that the preferences for pizza across Western Europe, South America, and Africa have been filtered through American preferences when Italians have been there making pizza for just as long. Please check your exceptionalism, thanks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_diaspora#Statistics

[2] https://www.idealista.it/en/news/lifestyle-italy/2019/06/10/...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/20/starbucks-australia-coffee-f...
Cloudflare is moving at the speed of light and with the openness of fresh air.
> You're just wrong. This isn't even just a "you might have a different opinion". The absolute best science we have, the entirety of realms of research, is "well, it's probably placebo and maybe it's kind of an expensive placebo". The most scientific answer you can give is "we should do more studies and ask more questions", and it's part of why the medical industry has shifted from "Don't do acupuncture" to "Well, it probably won't do much for you, but sure if you like it, that seems fine".

No. That's junk science. There's no different opinion here. It's very clear from many many studies of acupuncture it does nothing. This kind of attitude sells people on something that does not work.

> The most scientific answer you can give is "we should do more studies and ask more questions"

Absolutely not! I am a scientist. That's a total dumpsterfire of an answer. This is how people end up with people taking crazy COVID "treatments", because we "need more study". As a community we have studied this trash extensively now. It is junk. That's it.

If acupuncture was a drug, it would be so widely discredited you couldn't get $1 to do a study. Actually, you couldn't even run a study on it because your local ethics board would think the potential harm for benefit ratio would not be good. The only reason people keep studying this is because dishonest people sell other people on acupuncture as a treatment, so it's a neverending cycle. As long as people keep wanting to engage with this junk, the scientific community needs to keep studying it, we keep finding it's total trash, but then people like you say "Oh look, people are studying it, therefore there is merit". There is no merit.

> and it's part of why the medical industry has shifted from "Don't do acupuncture" to "Well, it probably won't do much for you, but sure if you like it, that seems fine".

The medical industry cannot police snake oil salesmen. This is a well known problem. People get all sorts of insane treatments. From having your back violently adjusted by chiropractors (another junk science where people die) to having the crap beaten out of them with stainless steel rods (something called the "Graston technique"; I have seen the outcome of this, it can be horrific).

A central concept in medicine is that the patient gets to lead the charge. And attitudes like yours are exactly why so many people get caught up in this pseudoscience junk. To immense detriment to their health.
The point of the "GNU" flags is that they're an unforeseen exploit of the system. The technology in Discworld is intentionally convoluted and whimsical because it is a fantasy setting with humerous overtones (while also using that setting to deliver biting commentary on real-world issues at times, I suppose "a little bit of sugar helps the medicine go down"). The fact the flags spell out GNU is also an obvious tribute to the free software movement (as is arguably the hacker subculture of clacks operators that builds around the clacks in the novel).

Yes, if the Internet worked on the clacks protocol, it wouldn't work in real life. But neither would cameras if they relied on small creatures living in them and painting the photographs very quickly. It's not even that Discworld is horribly naive, it's more that it served as a whitewashed canvas to allow him to create narratives by introducing elements of the real world individually and give the reader the opportunity to draw parallels from that.

The clacks "GNU" hack is a perfect example of the kind of things you'd see in the early Internet days before commercial websites were really a thing. Remember that for a long time there was a dream of the "semantic web" which turned out to be similarly exploitable and fell apart when commercial interests became relevant (giving birth to what we now call SEO).

The X-Clacks-Overhead header is clearly not intended to behave like the clacks in the story. Nobody is naive enough to believe that this protocol would work (just as the semantic web didn't). It's entirely a tribute, a form for fans to (at least temporarily) "immortalize" someone who had a great influence on them. And unlike the twenty different analytics and ad scripts you now find on many websites it not only wastes hardly any space but also doesn't meaningfully inconveniece users (not any more than forgetting to turn of the server and x-powered-by headers at least).
Cybersecurity Authorities Warn of Increase of Attacks Targeting MSPs
> OpenAI's CLIP model already embeds images and text into the same embedding space.

Not really. Embeddings from images occupy a different region of the space than embeddings from text. A picture of cat and the text "cat" do not resolve to the same embedding.

This is why DALL-E has a model learning to translate CLIP text embeddings into CLIP image embeddings before decoding the embedding.
An observer at infinity won't see anything cross the horizon, though, by the very definition of what a horizon is.
India is likely to be the world’s fastest-growing big economy this year
Livebook v0.6: Automate and learn with smart cells (Elixir code notebook)
Embedded is not any different from virtually any other area of software development, outside of certain hot pockets of Web app development.
Good, and I'll keep avoiding phones that ditch the audio jack.

And let me be clear - the 3.5mm jack is far from being the perfect way of transmitting and sending audio. It's a vestige from an analog world where you have to take impedence and resistance of the load into account, and I don't use it much myself.

But the use-case where you have to stream music from your phone and you have just a humble set of speakers, an amplifier or some old headphones isn't that uncommon - especially for musicians like me: what happens when you're in a studio with your band, you want to play an mp3 on your phone, but you have no way of plugging your phone to the mixer or the amp?

Pretending that such use-cases don't exist, and force all the users to figure out an alternative, is an act of sheer arrogance on the producers' side. And such arrogance isn't even justified by the claim of water resistance: it's technically possible today to have an audio jack port AND be waterproof.
No no, friend, you just need to buy this additional $35 accessory. Problem solved!

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HLJV2ZM/B/belkin-35-mm-au...
I think the determining factor is what the community's ultimate goal is. I would say that scale improves communities where cohesion or 'quality' can be relaxed in favour of expanding the base of people helping in that goal.

An example that comes to mind is the physics community. I hear a lot of criticisms in recent times about physics around the shortcomings of string theory, particle physics, and even some criticism towards newer areas like quantum computing and topological materials. In this instance, criticism actually improves the community because it necessitates the community to review and defend its beliefs. For most physicists, the rigor and empiricism of the community is extremely desirable, and so the extra conflict is accepted.

In short, I am sort of asking you to be more precise. What does it mean, to you, for a community to 'decline'?
Having been here 11 years now, IMHO HN is 90% as good as it was in 2011.

Reddit has lasted pretty well too because of it's ability to shard out bigger communities into ever smaller communities, but the larger subreddits are a bit creaky.