skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In that sense I still fail to see something else than "oppressive"

The point was that none of the factors you're mentioning are oppressive.

You can definitely make a good argument that they're undemocratic and that the people in power do their best to sabotage democracies. But that's not what oppressive means. You're just simply misusing the word. I am not aware of any one word to describe what they're doing, but I'm not a native speaker nor particularly fluent in politics. Could be there is a word for it which I just don't know, but often meaning can't be distilled to a single term and it's fine to use sentences to properly convey the issues at hand.
Golang Code Review Notes by Elttam
It's also against their ToS.
Yeah, same boat here!
What happens if I don't want to identify myself?

What happens if poverty does not allow me to carry a digital ID?

What happens if I lose my digital ID wallet or it is compromised?

Also judging by dealing with the average citizen on a daily basis, even securing an iOS device and remembering the iCloud password is beyond their level of care.
Moscow court fines companies for not localizing data storage
The ToS explicitly mentions this as being forbidden.
I’ve tried it probably a year ago for a couple of weeks. It was very unreliable and slow for me. Change in uptime status were not picked up very fast and sometimes not at all. Should I give it another try?
Am I being cynic here or is this just another attempt at total surveillance? It solves a problem that does not exist, will likely be mandatory at some point and is executed by a defense company.
>It has been many years since i tested this but unix sockets seemed slower to me than loopback TCP even

They're essentially the same... except they're not and there's a boatload of work in the middle that doesn't need to be done for unix domain sockets.

I can imagine some edge-cases however, where differences in stacks and configuration (in/out buffers vs. shared buffers, buffer sizes, packet loss vs. reliable, locking, blocking vs. non-blocking writes) may lead to more optimal scheduling under concurrent workloads. As soon as you have more than one thread doing something, there's a boatload of moving parts to consider.

But if you have everything properly tuned, unix domain sockets should win every time. If your results said something else, you probably weren't benchmarking what you thought you were benchmarking.
It really depends on country for Finland that is certainly not the way.
1 year contracts turning in perpetual ones are somewhat new standard, but this is by the landlord to protect their gains. Otherwise it is always 1 month notice from renter or 3 month in case of less than 1 year and 6 months for landlord.
Auth is actually a combination of two things: authentication and authorization. Whatever you do, please do not build either by yourself.

It's blanket statements like this that really make me rant on this subject. Lets mystify auth and tell devs to stay away from it! By the way, pay me to do it for you...

I mean by your own blanket advice, you should have never made the start-up that you did. There are no absolutes (well only for siths). Just tell people the pros and cons and what features you have. I work on apps in production, running for almost a decade, which we rolled our own auth on, and that have been maintained with a very basic level of tech-debt. I stand beside that work and guarantee it to our stake holders. What I cannot guarantee is X-company for the next ten years and if we will be able to migrate our data off their platform if they don't get funding.

Auth is not that hard. Policies are not that hard. Unix solved permissions 40+ years ago. I would argue, that if you are a small business use-case, you will probably never have to worry about these issues. If you are enterprise, you will have money to spend on it and be able to hire the talent and expertise. If you are somewhere in-between, then sure, go for some easy-use provider that gives you a form you can iframe or react component into your app or whatever. There is a market and use-case for cloud based services for user management, auth, policies, etc... I'd personally go with AWS cognito in this case, which I think is even a good cloud-native approach for enterprise. But please stop telling every dev to never build auth or policies by themselves just because you just recently did it and are now trying to monetize it.
I built my own version entirely within AWS Lambda's free tier, works well until you're into "continuously running serverless" territory - at that point any random VM would be significantly cheaper.
Hot water would need to first reach the temperature of the cold water (and overtake it) before freezing... Your explanation doesn't make sense.
Thanks for sharing this! I tried it and indeed it works quite well.

This will be much simpler/easier than gfortran+dragonegg, and removes some roadblocks preventing me from using the latest emscripten/llvm.
Greenwashing is not evidence of anything happening. It is by definition something trotted out in place of something happening.
Any hint on what technology they are going to use?
This is not the first attempt to set something like this up in the EU (in fact, the directive is some 10 years old), and it won't be the last. In the end, it will die like all the projects that come before it, because with 27 member states all having different structures, the complexity will kill it.
Who won the war on drugs? Law enforcement without actually addressing the core issue is simply hiding the symptoms
Thanks for the Discourse link. It has much more information.

Quoting here for benefit of others;

"Motivation

In general, Clang’s AST is not an appropriate representation for dataflow analysis and reasoning about control flow. On the other hand, LLVM IR is too low level — it exists at a point in which we have already lost vital language information (e.g. scope information, loop forms and type hierarchies are invisible at the LLVM level), forcing a pass writer to attempt reconstruction of the original semantics. This leads to inaccurate results and inefficient analysis - not to mention the Sisyphean maintenance work given how fast LLVM changes. Clang’s CFG is supposed to bridge this gap but isn’t ideal either: a parallel lowering path for dataflow diagnostics that (a) is discarded after analysis, (b) has lots of known problems (checkout Kristóf Uman’s great survey 31 regarding “dataflowness”) and (c) has testing coverage for CFG pieces not quite up to LLVM’s standards.

We also have the prominent recent success stories of Swift’s SIL and Rust’s HIR and MIR. These two projects have leveraged high level IRs to improve their performance and safety. We believe CIR could provide the same improvements for C++."

> Maybe because it's not "another IR for LLVM", but an IR for Clang?

AFAIK, Clang also uses LLVM IR.
Maintenance can be done by robots. Unlike on oil platforms, there is no free air in space.
The 747 flight? Yeah, in retrospect STS-1 was lucky on so many counts. And so were at least half a dozen other shuttle flights. In one incident a missing tile on descend allowed the hot plasma to interact with the airframe. By sheer 1 in 24,300 chance that tile was covering a steel antenna, which melted. Had that been almost any other tile, it would have melted the aluminum airframe.

In my opinion, STS-1 was far more dangerous - and lucky - than even Vostok 1. Vostok 1 at least was using a rocket that had a flight history. And no shaky solids. And a proven heat shield. And though both flights had ejection seats, only one was able to launch those seats clear of the rocket exhaust.
As someone that runs an uptime monitoring service business - you run several replicas of your stack (necessary to stay up during huge outages anyway), and monitor yourself.

Monitoring from another vendor helps too.
CSS is simple? You either know too much or too little about it to reach this conclusion.
Board game inspires students to consider STEM careers
I'd say it's probably a red flag for non-pregnant folks too.
Multiple windows <3

I look at the screenshots and think "we're living in the ~future~ 1996"!
The Mozilla Common Voice dataset is awesome - however it's useful the opposite purpose - speech-to-text. This is because it is a lot of different people using a range of hardware, speaking similar phrases.

For good text-to-speech you need 1 person speaking different phrases but very consistently. Here's an example dataset from Thorsten a German open voice enthusiast: https://openslr.org/95/
Playing music from a Plex server is a major use case for me, and I have given up on Rhasspy because I couldn’t get all the pieces to work together (I have the mic array HAT and a Synology I can run recognition on). Do you have a write-up of your setup?
Isn't the idea that war is completely bad relatively new? Ancient people had gods of war, although how exactly they were regarded I'm not sure, but it seems to me there was a more balanced view of life and death, and the cycle of a society. So war was viewed as inevitable, especially since the world was so unknown and mysterious.

> competition is what drives societies to become more complex, building more hierarchical armies to fight ever-more-complex wars and organizing increasingly bureaucratic governments to manage diverse resources and growing populations.

This reminds me how the competition between the different species of humans millions of years ago engaged in a cognitive race, making more complex tools and language. The bigger brain homo-sapiens won the war it seems, but we then had to deal with our internal competition. Maybe war is some kind of continuation of the cognitive race.
> then what is $20 million/yr?

obscenely rich
Depends on your heating system surely?
I'll believe it when I see it, because right now there is no alternative. I wrote a piece of physics software recently and sympy (and indeed python in general) was so lacking in features that I had to write half of the software as mathematica packages, half of it as python. I would have implemented those functions myself but they are actually extremely non-trivial and I wouldn't be surprised if just one of the basic functions I needed had many years of R&D and thousands of lines and edge cases.

Until there is an open source software that can match the raw symbolic power combined with the huge libraries nothing can touch it for a lot of people.
Shouldn't it say after the cancellation period ends, not before? Are these people literate?
One of the original brains behind the R1000 has mentioned that the B5500 was one of the inspirations, but my personal impression is that he was talking more about the stack-based (vs. register-based) instruction set, than the memory management.
OCI free tier would be good for this sort of thing.. their free tier is pretty nuts. You can have Ampere 4 OCPU + 24G RAM + 200G block storage spread across 1-4 instances.

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
I read over this article several times, trying to understand its point. I'm still not entirely sure about it.

> Curiosities aside, what makes the Fair so special is that it is about books. Books with covers and pages have, in a society dominated by social media and other sorts of online detritus, become functionally obsolete.

This is followed by several paragraphs about expensive, cultured books, and then about her own experience with a Kindle.

Most books are not the unique artifacts she talks about, or the works of Geoffrey Hartman. They're usually paperback, usually won't get a second edition, and really are about as disposable as e-books. You can see this in a microcosm with the books that this site is interested in: go to a library's programming section and the timeless books are dwarfed by a depressingly large section of reference manuals on old versions of Java and Visual Basic.

I'm not sure this is a bad thing! The heartless, disposable nature of the industry keeps the books I do want to read affordable. The author with her large collection of e-books actually is an outlier, with e-books only making up 20-30% of book publishing in the US. This share has been static over the past few years. Books only are a relic of a past age in her own mind.
What? More 8-Bit Microcontrollers?
Again, I'm guessing that pregnancy is probably a health condition where everything is under stress, and drinking toxin laced tap water doesn't help.

But lots of people do live there, and from albeit biased observation, they seem happy enough just drinking beer and wine (and maybe bottled water).
> This is common wisdom but I wonder how true it is

Anyone ignoring the effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is missing a big part of the picture IMHO. That's the main driver behind higher food and fuel prices (there's shortages of them in some places, which drives prices up and worries markets even in places which aren't impacted - e.g. Indonesia banned the export of palm oil due to rising oils prices at home due to the lack of sunflower and similar oils normally exported from Ukraine and Russia). Then add in the supply chain issues due to the pandemic and the war (a big chunk of the world's heavy duty air cargo aircraft are out of commission), and why are people focusing only on the money supply?
That's some good feedback thanks!

The other option is to jump on https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/ and use the "Hear my voices" tool. There are three drop-downs:
- language
- model
- speaker
It only steers you to proprietary licences when you want to use other people's code without sharing with others the benefits that you got by using open source software.

Use others to gain an advantage, then pull up the ladder after you.

I'm not surprised that large corporations want to have their cake, eat it and not pay for it but it's not a compelling argument for people producing opensource software
Covid: One Big Sigh
Stand up right in the middle, walk to the entrance, demand my money back if it sucked to bad. Turns out, there is a too low for quality and a too much to riddle a product with exploitive "features" - people have a right to walk out on that and demand their money back from the scammers.
It's not a) or b), it's both a and b - you ask the seller to send it right now, knowing that you are forgoing your right to return it within 14 days.
Probably for the same reasons that Rust has MIR [0] and Zig has ZIR [1], LLVM IR may be too lowlevel and awkward to do some language-specific analysis passes.

As I understand it, those language-specific IRs are closer to the language, why LLVM IR is closer to a cross-platform assembly dialect (or at least doesn't preserve much information from the original language).

[0] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html

[1] https://mitchellh.com/zig/astgen#what-does-zir-look-like
If you give healthcare to all, but the economic burden is too much for your weak economy to support, then your people might be worse off than they would be living in a strong economy but having to buy their own healthcare.
The SEC has no responsibility to save them from their own dumb trades
More like "Scratch can generate some C code"
From my experience, I'd say it's negligible compared to number of hours saved by git.
I'm guessing more like a/multiple "recently privatized" ex-national telecommunications provider (ie blue chip company with the state as majority stakeholder). You know, "plausible deniability" and stuff…

Edit: I stand corrected, with Thales writing this article, we can expect conglomorates such as Thales or Siemens to build this as well (corporations that due to their long standing national prominence are de-facto state-entities, although not de-jure).
gccgo still uses split stacks, I believe. And AFAIU you can compile C code using -fsplit-stacks, as well.
German here: Startled by your use of the word "Gangwahlschalter" (I had never heard the word before) I did a quick google search and apparently there is a German Dictionary company that actually tracks use of words and its synonyms. A query to their database confirmed my intuition that "Schalthebel" would be the word people would use. (src: https://www.dwds.de/r/plot/?view=1&corpus=zeitungenxl&norm=d...)
I hope you're right on this
The hot water has less dissolved gasses. In some cases it has less chlorine. I put water in a glass pitcher in the fridge because it tastes better after sitting at a lower pressure and off gassing. I agree that the water enters the ice maker at room temperature, but it may not be a bad idea regardless.
Sun Microsystems stated:
"The network is the computer"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer

Sun was right.
Samsung starts 3nm chip production to lure new customers [competition with TMSC]
How does R compare to Mathematica for data science ?
>Can I ask why it makes you so upset?

Because I browse HN by 'Newest'[0] and every single day, if there's a somewhat 'newsworthy' story, I see it resubmitted over and over and over again. Sometimes [as in this case] I continue to see it resubmitted multiple times a day for several days.

It's annoying because it adds to the general noise-to-signal radio on the site [which is bad enough these days, with all the spam and junk that gets posted continually] and because it could so easily be avoided by just taking a few seconds to check if a story has already been submitted, before submitting it yourself to try and win some internet points.

I just can't fathom how, when one of these big tech stories, which is absolutely nailed-on targeted at the HN demographic comes around, someone can be so fucking thick as to decide to share it, several days after it originally broke, seemingly without the notion crossing their vacant skull that someone else might have already done so [or several someones!].

But, of course, in true HN fashion; rather than condemn the people who are ruining the site by filling it with junk submissions, you all downvote the person who has the temerity to express his irritation.

Those of you who browse by the 'normal' front page, do me a favour: spend a couple of days browsing HN by 'Newest' and then come back and tell me how that went for you.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
I agree wholeheartedly with this. In fact, if Mathematica were open source, I feel it may even encroach upon machine learning applications.

Since finishing up in university, I have sorely missed my free access to a fast and ergonomic symbolic equation solver. Sympy is an unsatisfactory substitute.
You are absolutely right :-) I think, that this is a relict, since I personally use an alias for mkdir:

alias mkdir='mkdir -p'

Thank you
Yeah... I know the tactic and you want me to go for a hunt of some comment somewhere. Otherwise it's a dismissal.

I'll just use common sense and say that all the evident effort that is put into Desktop environments and user applications is not just to keep their (tiny) user base happy or to be used less.
It's based on [eIDAS](https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/2019...)
This is complete hogwash.

Most companies are fine with BSD/MIT software with absolutely no support. Your argument holds absolutely no water compared to what they actually want which is to take other people's work and close it up for profit.

If they want a license to close it up, they can pay for it.
I think the cult you are referring to is Heaven's Gate: https://www.heavensgate.com/
In Australia, take it to the ACCC. If the machine says no, then the ACCC goes to the machine’s owner and scares the living daylights out of them.
Yeah, same here!
> Yes, space is for us nearly infinity, but getting very far takes a lot of energy.

It takes a lot less once you're in orbit, and...

> But it's several miles down.

There are many thousands or even millions of miles to cover in order to encounter a body in even Earth's orbit, let alone every other body we might explore.

> On the moon or Mars, there will be a pile of frozen dead bodies right there, fully visible.

Have you seriously never heard of cremation? Or burial?
The entire address space (64 address bits, addressing bits, so "only" 61 bit addresses for bytes, but also 3 "kind" bits, separating code/data/control etc.) were available at all times.

The crucial point is that the RAM wasn't laid out as a linear array, but as a page-cache.

In a flat memory space, to allocate a single page far away from all others, you will need four additional pages (the fifth level is always present) for the page-tables, and four memory accesses to look them up before you get to the data.

In the R1000, you present the address you want on the bus, the memory board (think: DIMM) looks that address up in its tag-ram to see if it is present, completes the transaction or generates a memory fault, all in one single memory cycle, always taking the same time.
It solves on problem for me. Since the introduction of Apple Pay I hate taking my wallet anywhere and 95% of the time I don’t. But my ID and driver’s license is in there and it’s needed sometimes. This gets me closer to the goal.

Let’s say, travelling to a different country without a wallet would be amazing to me.
If Consumers Victoria will not handle the case, talk to your local state MP.
Literal title: Samsung Elec starts 3-nanometre chip production to lure new foundry customers

> Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday [30 Jun 2020] it has begun mass producing chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology, the first to do so globally, as it seeks new clients [...] Compared with conventional 5-nanometre chips... first-gen 3-nanometre process can reduce power consumption by up to 45 per cent, improve performance by 23 per cent, and reduce area by 16 per cent

> [Meanwhile] TSMC is planning 2-nanometre volume production in 2025

> Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) ... controls about 54 per cent of the global market for contract production of chips, used by firms such as Apple and Qualcomm which don't have their own semiconductor facilities. // Samsung, a distant second with a 16.3 per cent market share (according to data provider TrendForce¹), announced a 171 trillion won ($132 billion) investment plan last year to overtake TSMC as the world's top logic chipmaker by 2030 [...] Samsung is the market leader in memory chips, but it had been outspent by frontrunner TSMC in the more diverse foundry business, making it difficult to compete

> Samsung's compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of capital spending between 2017 and 2023, which measures how quickly a company is increasing its investment, is estimated at 7.9 per cent, versus TSMC's estimated 30.4 per cent, according to Mirae Asset Securities

> Samsung's efforts to compete with the industry leader have also been hampered by less-than-expected yields of older chips during the past year or so, analysts said. The company said in March that its operations have shown a gradual improvement

¹I presume it's trendforce.one, https://trendforce.one/about/
It does solve a problem that exists. In fact the use cases are listed in the article: filing tax reports, opening/accessing bank accounts, etc. Basically the stuff where in the offline world you would've needed to show your ID.

However, many (all?) EU members already have developed their own national system. So this tries to unionize those systems so dealing with other member nations becomes easier. Today I often have to mail a bunch of documents if I want to prove my business ownership to foreign companies.
1) TikTok is a powerful platform, but for privacy is the least offender amongst all social apps because of its nature. It doesn't have personal information from your and your social circle.

2) Didn't US just take Huawei out not only from its market, but also forced its allies to do the same? There is nothing about fairness in the marketplace, just different interests.

US wants to kill its competitor, I am fine with it. It is expected to happen, just our nature.
I would expect most freezers to detect the heat and run their chillers and fans more?