skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, 8 core QC is beaten by a mid range 6 core Intel. Might be a reasonable choice if it actually ran Linux and various other things (bsd/vmware/etc) out of the box, but since it doesn't, it looks overpriced unless you prioritize windows and battery life or want a windows/arm machine for a specific purpose.

AKA, on the general market it doesn't look particularly competitive, even when compared with these amd 5700U's which also slightly best it and are frequently found in ~$600 laptops.
> The same greybeard friend of mine who still complains on systemd happily adopted pipewire. Why? Because he saw a clear benefit in doing so and nobody forced this onto him.

I still use OpenRC + ALSA (with apulse for those programs that shit on backwards compatibility) and I too am looking at PipeWire. Beyond the not being forced aspect and actually adding something that is useful (to me), PipeWire also seems to take much more care about working with existing programs/interfaces rather then wanting to get them on the shiny new API.
that looks like an interesting machine, reasonably priced
Is it supported by the fossil fuel industry?
Sadly, the lessons that businesses learn from this is "we should have better DRM so users have no alternative" and not "we should have less user hostile business models"
It is an interesting example, but after some thought it's basically identical to the elevator example. It is so similar that I have some doubts about whether I could correctly extrapolate a principle based on those two examples.

> Why is the mean the correct representative value for counting nails, but not for minimising fines? I'm arguing that it's because when the nails are weighed together the errors are signed, but when the fines are calculated the errors are unsigned (in the same way that the distances to the elevators are unsigned).

And here, there are two points that bother me.

First, the mean is the correct representative for counting nails because that's how it's defined. A mean is just the answer to any question of the form "if all of these data points were equal to each other, what is the value they would all share?". That's the question you're asking about the weight of the nails.

Second, I find it difficult to believe in your stated explanation of why you might choose the mean over the median (or vice versa), because we've already observed that the mean minimizes the sum of squared errors, and squared errors are all unsigned. You're relying on the assumption that, in the above example, the fine (which should be minimized) is directly proportional to difference from the estimate. But that assumption doesn't appear in the explanation of why one metric or the other will minimize the fine.
Also see DaisyUI [0], a free/open source component library for Tailwind.

[0]: https://daisyui.com/
> It's the one rootless firewall that actually just works on practically any device you can think of, among a sea of broken/scammy firewalls that fail all kinds of edge cases.

You should try the one I am building (: Promise, no scams in that one: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/
I don't think there is a "true sense" of ownership - the term is contextual. You can purchase and "own" an art print, vinyl record, or book even though you don't own the intellectual property rights of that copyrighted material. In the context of blockchains - ownership means having the private key to a public address associated with a token ID.

Camp Chaos and various creative-commons NFT projects are interesting because they generate revenue on the work without having to enforce strict licensing and IP agreements. Users are not buying these tokens to claim "licensing ownership" but "blockchain ownership."
> This is as zero-sum as it gets.

Given the impact of FaceBook on political and media systems, I think that this a strongly negative sum game. Spreading "junk food news" and other lurid conspiratorial stories is a negative externality, like venting pollution.
Marriott was hacked again (by hacking BWIA Marriott's servers)
> In Stockholm there is no supply of natural gas

Oh? Isn't that what gas stoves use? And they exist in Stockholm, and is fairly common.

There are even new installs being done.
I think there’s a reason there were no human corona virus vaccines prior to covid. They hadn’t figured out how to make one that was safe and effective.

The only coronavirus vaccine that I’m aware of prior to covid was one for dogs.
The man who coined the phrase "breaking international law in a specific and limited way"
Why do people not notice our enormous, prominent, clear and contrasting banner?
Honestly I suspect that’s how the majority “use vim” these days. When I’m on the command line it’s a great lightweight editor, but trying to turn it into an IDE competitor is when the wheels start falling off fairly quickly.
Great advice. Thank you. What have you been doing to help with page layouts, if anything?
Very strongly agree. If you work in tech in general you should probably be thinking about most decisions with this kind of positive sum mindset where one person’s gain is not another’s loss. For one thing, I think it feels better, but it is also very typically true.
I'm not a fan of these new markets. We got by just fine with simple, static ads that weren't spying on everyone. It gave rise to local, niche publications that were a heck of a lot more interesting than today's one-size-fits-all social media junk.
Time for a new cycle of replacement, we are already seeing storage of data on the computer rather than on someone's server as a feature.
Be the next rockstar Europe's top unicorn, Bolt
Hey,

I'm Sri, a talent acquisition partner at Bolt, lovely to e-meet you!

How's life, and what is keeping you busy these days?

I think you've guessed why I'm reaching out to you already – the team Bolt is looking for a Web Engineer to join our team at the Estonian office

What would you do?
As a web engineer, you are responsible for maintaining, developing, and applying the best performance, accessibility, and security principles to web applications and pages at Bolt. You will also be designing and coding Bolt's growing frontend systems, proactively fixing bugs and technical issues, shaping our product development roadmap, and enhancing performance and speed-related aspects of the pages. You will be coding mostly in React, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and SCSS. Besides web analytics, testing, and reporting tools, you will be at the forefront of making sure that the most efficient and convenient experience is delivered to our visitors.

Who are we again?
Bolt is a recent unicorn and one of the fastest-growing mobility startups in the world, revolutionising how 100M riders move in 45 countries across Europe and Africa at €7B valuations. With that being said, you will be required to relocate to Tallinn, Estonia, where the HQ is based.

With an engineering team still below 500, formed by top talents from Google, Uber, Amazon, Facebook, or Microsoft to name a few, it's small enough for every individual to have a big impact on its future and also benefit from a sky-rocketing equity package and top salaries!

If this sounds exciting, I'll be glad to discuss it in more detail over a short introductory Hangouts Call next week. Feel free to pick out some time slots for it using my GoodTime link. https://a.goodtime.io/w/bolt0/sri.kannan/video-call

Have a wonderful day!

Greetings from Tallinn!
Best regards,

Srishakti Kannan|Tech Recruiter|LinkedIn
EU lawmakers demand that abortion be included in Charter of Fundamental Rights
If the codebase isn’t a total mess, one should be able to guess which components or code paths have to deal with a given truth by virtue of their purpose/function. Then one can investigate the code paths in question to find out where exactly the existing code is dealing with the respective thing.

It should be an automatic thought when implementing some logic to think about which other parts of the system need to be consistent with that logic, and then try to couple them in a way that will prevent them from inadvertently diverging and becoming inconsistent in the future.

In terms of software design, a more general way to think about this is that stuff that (necessarily) changes together (is strongly coupled) should be placed together (have high cohesion).
Virgin Galactic Selects Boeing Subsidiary Aurora to Build New Motherships
People use it for production. It is thought for internal use but you can also make it external.

So we have used it for about 1.5 years for semi critical stuff.

To be honest we had some reliability issue and one where actually wrong requests have been send to the DB. (They fixed it quickly but that left a scar).

So I wouldn't feel comfortable using it for super critical things. But it is absolutely perfect for building MVPs.
I wonder how well it performs on Rust code, which is probably different in terms of patterns from C++ code. They mention the Fuchsia project but they seem to have focused on its C++ components. There is actually more Rust inside Fuchsia now than C++ [0].

I also wonder how this would look like for mainlining. Should the LLVM project depend on tensorflow now? IIRC tensorflow itself depends on LLVM so to avoid circular dependencies, does there have to be a ML-free version of LLVM that tensorflow depends on, which is then used by the proper LLVM? Or can inference be converted into simple C like it was for lpcnet? Lastly, there is the general question of integration of ML models into open source projects. Say it is merged and the old manual heuristic is deleted. What if Google one day decides they don't want to maintain the component any more? Can LLVM maintainers do any refactors of the code around it? Unless Google also shares their training infrastructure, LLVM maintainers can't re-train the model on the post-refactor data.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/k9r3s4/fuchsia_lines_...
Is it less emitting once you account for leaky wells and infrastructure?
>De-nuclearization of other European countries is a long-held goal of the German environmentalist movement and the Green party

which was funded by Russia behind the scenes, along with anti-fracking and any other alternatives to Russian fossil fuel exports.

>“I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations - environmental organisations working against shale gas - to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas.”

this was the former head of NATO in 2014, all of this has been known for a long time but nothing was done to prevent it

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/19/russia-s...
I love this site. I've listened to the first 50 playlists about a dozen times each. It's perfect, I couldn't ask for better playlists.
So, with a movie, who is the "creator"? The studio? But those folks are the source of the problem with their licensing deals. The director? The screen writer? Camera crews? Actors? Props?

It's easier with books, or music (with different degrees of truth, a single singer-songwriter would be a lot easier to pay directly than a symphonic orchestra...), but involved products are not easy to finance individually - or pay individually - that's the exact reason right-management studios exist to begin with.
Ah no NPM! Vanilla JS with no
build step. This is very interesting. Thanks.
Thailand's Long-Term Resident Program
Think about how that’s worked out in the desktop security or VPN markets: there’s a long history of outright scams, a bunch of companies which made their software worse (crammed with ads, etc.) or left their users less secure over time, and the remaining products are for most people completely interchangeable.

The average person has no meaningful way to distinguish between any those. They all claim to be great, auditing is expensive and difficult, and most people are going to get recommendations from people they incorrectly think are experts (shoutout to the websites I had to migrate/secure after someone’s “tech guy” picked GoDaddy for the bikini pictures). Even enterprise security software tends to be long on snake oil despite theoretically more knowledgeable buyers & budgets for auditing.

I think there is a solid argument that this space is not a naturally well-functioning market and is probably better with a few regulated players, similar to how we decided that the patent medicine market wasn’t good (and, yes, the regulatory failures are an important cautionary point!). People are literally staking their lives on something which has to be better than some SEO-d rathole.
A big chunk of UK pubs are owned by global private equity shops. No surprise that with PE consolidation comes so-called synergies-- might explain why pub numbers are dwindling.
Unfortunately the issue of lacking a single point of truth is exacerbated the more people who work on a project. I believe the issue in spreading around logic comes from not knowing the original intention, and asking the original authors is, IMO, the best way to fix something or add new features.
Obviously knowing the original authors is not always possible, so I try to follow existing patterns.
I'm no thermodynamicist, so I can only take you at your word about the power loss. But still:

* Suppose you can effectively and consistently get 40% of the energy you put into this kind of battery.

* Suppose you can make enough sand batteries to cover your overall power consumption (this is a big ask, but for the sake of discussion let's assume we can achieve this).

* Suppose that you have an energy source that's non-uniform across the day. For simplicity suppose that it produces 2N MegaWatts for 12 hours and 0 MegaWatts for 12 hours, i.e. N MegaWatts on average.

* Assume that electric power consumption, not including the batteries, is uniform across day and night (It isn't; it would actually be lower when power is generated if we're talking about solar).

* suppose we want a uniform power source when considering the batteries.

------

Now, let delta be the fraction of our power output which we divert towards batteries, which are only charging during the 12 hours in which that is possible. Solving for uniformity,

fraction not diverted to batteries = fraction recovered from batteries
(1 - delta) = 40% \* delta
1 = 1.4 \* delta
delta = 1/1.4 = 5/7 ~= 0.7143
1-delta ~= 0.285

So, you get a power source that's uniform over the entire day at 0.285 * 2N = 0.55 * N MegaWatt, i.e. over half of your average power output of the unstable source.

That's not great, but it's pretty damn good!
I have nothing against installing firmware cracks/torrenting replacements. I'm just stating that games on physical media are the only thing that it's relatively safe to pay Sony for.
I got to visit a big, expensive datacenter once; Pinkerton guards who were actually on the ball and caught me taking pictures, RFID access cards and logged door openings and all the trimmings. That was the front door.

Then we went round the back door, which was opened directly from the DC floor. Propped open with a rock. One of the site admins was donating a bunch of hardware: we hauled like 3 carts out that door over the course of a couple hours and filled up my pickup truck. Security never noticed; we'd anticipated some fuss but it never materialized. If I'd had a bigger truck and more hands we coulda had our pick of anything in the building.
Search does not work with Firefox (blank page), tried 63.0.3, 78.11.0esr, 89.0.
Does work with 91.11.0esr
Now I'm curious which one you are talking about :D

I was talking about this one: https://bit.ly/3uvMGst

Yes, Planescape Torment is amazing, but at the same time, the whole "it was you all along" is clear from the beginning of the game, the game doesn't try to mislead you in any way.
Does anyone have a full bios manual (and/or the bios unlock sequence to get to the hidden menu's)? While this is shipped with Linux, I'm not sure I trust the slimbook people to have put a lot of work into assuring, particularly that it doesn't drain an unnecessarily amount of battery in standby and/or that it hibernates properly.
“It is simply not viable for us to pay entry-level engineers on large hardware teams that kind of money.”

Then they will go to CS fields. It's not all about money but if a person is interested in two things and one pays higher, guess where they'll go?
Generally we've described this sort of research as "review resistant", rather than being secure in some classical sense. How Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies actually work is often eagerly explained but completely unfathomable on closer inspection. Concerns raised are fixed with additional complexity repeatedly until the reviewer grows weary of attempting to piece it together. Consequently there's sufficient conflicting descriptions that I don't think anybody has any hope of successfully understanding the system as a whole, much less being able to come to conclusions about its security.
Actually a tool by the author of the book:

https://objective-see.org/products/knockknock.html

Recommend all of the tools that Patrick has created:

https://objective-see.org/tools.html
Depends on the domain.

The analogy I'm making doesn't especially apply to compilers, which have human defined defaults in the first place.

What I've found is that it's important to not run the ML model then use its output as the default state. Have a human, heuristic choice as the default state.
One article advocating against unnecessary abstractions that I really appreciate and highly recommend is Dan Abramov's: https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/
> It may be closer to a stock option or share in an organization or idea.

It has nothing in common with either of those. It is am ownable token with some data, usually a URL, attached

It it doesn't give you any sort of ownership of the underlying work unless actual legal contracts, licenses, etc, exist to grant those rights to the holder. It absolutely is nothing at all like owning a stock option, share or idea.

So a NTF would not have allowed you to do anything here. Sony would still be required to remove movies from the URLs your NTFs point to and you would be the proud owner of worthless NFTs.

The needed change is legal, not technical. We need laws that protect consumers.
High DPI on something like a phone screen makes sense since it is often used so close to the face - but are people really getting this close to their computer displays?

For a 1080p 14" screen, and a person with 20:20 vision, you would need to be closer than 50cm to the screen to be able to discern any visual differences. Hackernews has lots of people who like to claim they can tell the difference, but the science of visual acuity is against them and they never back up these claims with studies or experiments.

Given a blind A/B test at a normal desk viewing distance, I'm doubtful any of these people would be able to pick out the difference between 1080p and 4k on a screen so small.
> Just look at the Chinese academic system to see what happens to science when people are given free reign to plagiarise.

Can you explain what this means? It's a pretty broad statement.
As for the source of randomness, they mention it briefly in the appendix:

> RANDAO: the random number generation scheme used to select block proposers, sort validators into committees, etc

Spec and implementation: https://github.com/randao/randao
everyone talking about HiDPI, but everyone seems to miss display brightness. Standard displays are 200 - 300 nits, woefully inadequate if you are going to use it on the balcony, terrace or even near a big window. Very limiting if you open a laptop and it's unreadable.

For the first time I splashed out on a premium 4K monitor 32", and at 600 nits you forget the word glare - there is no glare if the screen is brighter than the sun.
Show HN: RSS Feed Discovery Engine
Proprietary feed readers don't reveal their discovery algorithms.

This is a FOSS solution to that problem.

Also has an api:

https://discovery.thirdplace.no/api?q=https://drewdevault.co...
I've been imagining a similar concept, but using linting rules to create an optimized file tree with a SQL API to manipulate and query the data programmatically. You could even use a traditional text editor to manage the data.
Your site is broken for crosspromote - things are too wide for the viewport leading to things being clipped and so unreadable (at least on mobile).
That sounds a lot like a "immortality project", as described by Becker in The Denial of Death [1].

[1] https://ernestbecker.org/about-becker/beckers-synthesis/#:~:....
Yeah well, I forgot to connect the vpn to download a movie, a single mistake that costed me almost 1k euro here in Germany, not sure how to proceed.
Having said that, I still use a 1080p display for work and watching video

So my tiny iPad has like twice as many pixels as my big screen.
In my mind a fitting analogy to building software is like designing and building a machine or a physical tool in mechanical engineering: like a CNC machine, a laser cutter with an optical system for processing etc.

There are no rules in designing a machine except for: These are the requirements. First drafts will be analyzed and iterated on by simulation and prototyping (e.g. for mechanical resonances, thermal deformation) - an inexperienced engineering team will have to do a lot of testing and prototyping and failing, while a team who has some experience in building a machine in a specific domain will know what to look out for and what can be compromised on.

There are best practices but I feel they are always domain-specific (e.g. everyone wants to put their precise machine on a big block of mass to isolate it from the environment on a machine in a shop floor, while the best-practice for a similar application working on a plane is totally different).
Heres my understanding of it: committee assignment is random, as in baked into the protocol, similar to how a validator is selected for a block (i.e. randomly).

While only one validator creates the block, others create attestations which I understand as duplicate work done to check the chosen validators produced block.

If an entire country goes down, those validators fall out of the active set and assuming some majority is still active they'll produce and verify blocks.

Incorrect state is rejected by the majority, and the minority is punished (slashing their stake).

Full disclosure, I'm not an expert - just an enthusiast interested in these protocols. Would love for someone more knowledgeable to correct my mistakes. I'm also not arguing for or against anything here.
I can not really tell pixels apart with 1920 by 1080 resolution on a 14 or 15.6 inch monitor as often seen on laptops.
For reference. I am using a 24 inch monitor (8 to 10-ish more inches) with 1920 by 1080 and I am not to upset about that.
I can't see governments allowing PoW to continue to exist in our current climate (in all senses). How would Bitcoin ever move over to PoS like this? Would it just be a Bitcoin hard fork?
I sometimes use term "mid-level engineer syndrome", for "too many levels of abstraction in the codebase". It is very common in my experience. And untangling it's usually harder then extracting common stuff from "dumb" code.
I usually don't DRY things up until three repetitions. And in test code - try to not DRY at all, copypaste is a friend of readable and mantainable specs.
There's nothing hard to understand. I'm simply wondering whether these use cases ("crossing a border and need to convince the security thug that you do in fact own all those movies") are really so pressing AND don't depend on other problems being solved first.
I tried using a 4K IPS display for usual programming tasks, but the usual fonts become so painfully tiny that it's just unbearable (and I have almost perfect vision). Combining a normal old display with modern 4K also creates lots of problems. For example, I drag windows and tool boxes a lot between desktops when working with code or in 3D.
The perfect resolution for my old-school self is now a WQHD 2560*1440. Not in any "hi-dpi" sense.