skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like you need to edit the wikipedia page on the history of eugenics[0] because it is claiming that Plato was a proponent of eugenics and he was born over 2000 years ago which seems like a lot more than 150.

Similarly, you might want to contact Stanford so they can update the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy which is the source for the above statement.

The way you are gatekeeping people while subtly insulting them makes me thankful that you are defending everyone's rights because you are so clearly thoughtful of everyone and forgiving.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_eugenics#cite_note-...

[1] Eugenics". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University. Jul 2, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2015.
I’ve been just as happy or happier with my company provided M1 Pro 16” than I was with the much vaunted pre-touchbar 2015 15”. I can’t think of too much more that I’d want from a laptop.
> In fact, your video decoders (Youtube) [...] are all GPU code.

I believe this is false; video decoders like H.264/AVC have a significant ASIC component that cannot be expressed as general-purpose SIMT code. I think this is because the entropy coding portion (arithmetic coding, Huffman coding, etc.) needs to be decoded serially. Some stuff like macroblock-to-macroblock prediction in I-frames is serial as well. But IDCT is indeed parallelizable.
Beanie Babies, tulip bulbs, Pokémon cards, paintings, and gold have the advantage of being physically usable for something even if the sales market collapses.

NFTs tied to game items might potentially be usable as well even if they lose all collecting value.

US dollars are generally considered a currency rather than an investment or collectable, but they are useful for paying taxes in the US if nothing else.
+1

Yep. Damaged goods. Sorry Tony. If a medium article comes up as a link or a part of my search, that's a thing I won't be clicking.
FP maps perfectly to networked applications that integrate more than one machine (i.e. client/server, APIs, and larger distributed systems). networked applications arguably IS the “general case”; it’s the platform specific stuff which is getting paved over by data/function abstractions
TBH, I don't think the photos were ever going to be that much more groundbreaking to your average person, given the fact that the angular resolution of the telescope is roughly equivalent to the Hubble.

It's got a much bigger mirror, so why is this the case? Well, it's because the Webb works primarily in the longer, infrared part of the spectrum, not the visible. Resolution is related to the diameter of the mirror and the wavelength being studied - the longer the wavelength, the bigger the mirror you need to achieve the same sharpness.

But working in the infrared part of the spectrum means that Webb can look further back into the past, because the oldest light created by the earliest galaxies has redshifted out of the visible spectrum because of the expansion of the universe. So we'll be able to collect and see much older light from much younger galaxies with Webb that Hubble literally cannot detect because of this redshift.

On top of this, infrared, being a longer wavelength than visible light, allows us to see through dust clouds more readily. Notice how many more stars are visible in the Carina Nebula comparison.

Lastly, the Webb has other instruments such as a spectrograph that allows us to determine the chemical composition of distant objects (such as planets). We can point it at an exoplanet and determine, say, if it has water in its atmosphere.

In total, it means marginally better photos for the general public, but a great deal of new data for scientists that should greatly further our understanding of the universe.
It's one of the fundamental techniques that allows high end processors to run fast. If you're happy with a desktop processor that runs at the speed of decades-old processors maybe you don't need it.
Right, and a market didn't accomplish that. This did

> Julkisen vallan tehtävänä on edistää jokaisen oikeutta asuntoon ja tukea asumisen omatoimista järjestämistä.
I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but I thought I'd mention that the idea this isn't written about is incorrect. There are hundreds of papers and publicly available engineering documents about deep space transponder design.

I did a little more research and found that JWST is using the radios on its Raytheon ECLIPSE bus. There's a lot of conference papers and specs available. I haven't found any lifetime estimates yet, presumably because it's just not a concern.
Just as a backend is not a desktop application, so to will "backend piracy" differ from desktop app piracy. You can't think of them in the same terms.

Whereas a crack of a desktop app will allow users to "misuse" the app (by circumventing the license protection or other limitations), a backend can be "cracked" through scraping, botting, or creating alternative clients.

If a backend somehow limits your access to content, a skilled user can scrape that content and make it available through their own alternative backend.

If a backend somehow limits functionality, you can reverse engineer their API and build an alternative client which interacts with the API in a way not intended by its creators, and misuses it.

If a backend rate limits access to it, you can write bots to interact with the backend through multiple proxies and alt-accounts, thereby circumventing the rate limits.

I'm not advocating for any of the above techniques, any more than I advocate for cracking and software piracy. I just want to offer them as examples of how backends are not magically immune to tampering and misuse.
> By looking at the rate of homeless per 1,000 people, they found communities with the highest housing costs had some of the highest rates of homelessness

Correlation != Causation

The rest of the article is just noisy musing about this false conclusion, like

> But the point is, there are people who are addicted and mentally ill in Chicago, and Chicago has one-fifth the homelessness of Seattle and San Francisco. So what’s going on here?

Well for one thing, you don't die in the winter in Seattle or SF if you're unhoused. I'm also willing to bet the homeless resources in SF and Seattle are top notch relative to Chicago.

However, the most frustrating part about this type of rhetoric is that it is completely useless. The affordable housing is not coming. We are not about to build subsidized apartments to house all the homeless in some of the most valuable real estate on earth.

When functional people get priced out of a neighborhood, they leave and go to cheaper locales. Meanwhile the prevailing mindset is that the most needy must be located in expensive city centers. This flies in the face of the behavior of a rational actor. It stands to reason, programs to help the homeless should be moved to lower cost of living areas, where the participants stand a chance of getting back on their feet and where we can afford to subsidize this process.

Of course, I also believe we need to build lots of housing in places like SF, Seattle and elsewhere, but it's just not going to be 'affordable' for the types of people that are homeless. Even with the right amount of housing, the economically less fortunate do not get to live in the most desirable areas.
if you didn't like the term smart contracts in the header image, you probably won't like it in the body either :)
Have you ever seen "you've already bought this" on Amazon? Highly tested, reduced sales. Overruled by judgement. Stayed on the site. AB test results don't mean you leave your judgement behind.
Though of course the pretty pictures really help with increasing the appetite from the public for spending on projects like this.. and capturing people's imaginations is a necessary part of the long game.
Maybe if you’re trying to run a business and need more DAU’s, not so much if you’re trying to donate software to open source and don’t want to see twenty shallow dismissals about how it’s wrong/could be better (but god forbid anyone actually submit a pull request or issue!)
To be pedantic, it doesn't require the owner to give permission. It'll get it from anyone else near enough who has it on their device. My kids give away our primary WiFi to their friends with some annoying regularity, even though I keep telling them to scan the QR code on the wall for the guest network.
The most interesting argument that I hadn't previously seen is that Musk's alleged breach of the agreement (non-disparagement, witholding consent, etc) may prevent him from terminating the deal even if Twitter has violated it (which they of course deny). Of course you have to take that with a big grain of salt given the source of the argument, but it's new to me at least.
I think there’s no need to optimize every single human interaction like we do with the machines :)

I don’t mind the little back and forth sometimes. Consequently, in this scenario the knowledge of how to use a QR code will come in handy for your guest.
spammy blogpost from a spammy company
I think the departure from realism was difficult for the audience of 1982, which was still steeped in the softer aesthetics of 1970s naturalism. Tron took many decades to have a larger influence on the overarching culture. Daft Punk, the adoption of the vaporwave aesthetic in the 2010s, and countless other art movements owe a great debt to Tron.
I don't think the parent is making a point about ownership, but rather publishing. He's saying that in 2022, if you're not competent to publish yourself, it creates doubts about what you have to say about high technology.
>> The C++ standard says a whole lot about it

Nope, it says nothing whatsoever on the subject of provenance. Periodically people make a run up and try to get this fixed. N2676 is currently in front of WG14 (ie the C standards committee) with the long term hope that if WG14 takes this fix, or something like it, WG21 (C++) could be persuaded to eventually take a similar fix - although lots of people don't like N2676 and want something else (the more vague your "something else" the more popular). If the standard had "a whole lot" to say about provenance you'd be able to quote some of it. but I suggest reading N2676 for an example of what is not yet standard

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2676.pdf

> has detailed aliasing rules and rules about which pointers are valid

Aliasing rules forbid some type punning shenanigans, but again, and I will repeat myself, that's not what's going on here.

DR260 (Defect Report number 260, about twenty years ago) asks WG14 what their standard says about such magic tricks, and their response basically says well, compilers are allowed to somehow know about provenance, so actually our Standard is correct and this is working as intended. What's working as intended? Well, whatever your compiler actually does.

What a great standard! Note that this response isn't incorporated into subsequent versions of the standard, it's just basically known in the industry, oh yeah, that's DR260, don't worry about it.

> I've been doing this stuff for a long time, going back to egcs and even before.

That's nice, but it's not terribly relevant here, except that it means you remember an era when people didn't even realise this was a problem. It still was a problem, they just didn't know it was a problem yet. And hey, you know about that experience too, because apparently you didn't know this was a problem after 2004 either.

Rust would like not to kick this can down the road for 18 years and counting, which is why Aria Beingessner's experiment is happening.
I added an alias 'll'.

alias ll='ls -Glopa'

and while I was at it

alias cls='clear && printf \\e[3J'

Yes, I grew up using MS DOS, why do you ask?
How is that lock-in? It's just a feature. It doesn't in any way lock you out of setting up WiFi the old fashioned way.
I am sure there are better presentations out there, but this conference proceedings has some great pictures of the control systems in JWST [1]

I was also able to find a high resolution picture of the spacewire interface card with its glorious space grade asic packages [2]

Sadly the SSR is not shown, I assume that it is basically a gigantic sheet of sram and a fpga.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233962152_Status_of...

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/watchtheskies/jwst_spac...
I don't care.

I'm going to continue to spell it Turkey. I'm also going to continue write Kiev.

Nothing against Ukraine or Turkey. But I feel zero need to change the way I name things in my native language.
Smart Playlists!

Back in the iTunes days, I had a smart playlist that consisted of songs that I last listened to between 6 and 7 months ago. Kind of a reminder of music that I liked, but maybe forgot about. I had several different playlists that were all dynamic and based on some combination of my listening history, download date, release date, and/or other ID3 tags.

The new Music app is stupid when it comes to playlists. You have to manually create each one.
In my experience, if it's not somewhat of a pain to sign up, I know the platform will be completely filled with spam.
The young kids all go to Insta or Tiktok for product recommendations.
It explains the rise of influencer driven fashion brands - Fabeltics, Gym Shark,No Bull.
I was hanging out with some younger nieces in Austin and they were looking for places to hang - bars, restaurants and their gateway to that discovery process was TikTok.
Yeah her accusations are only part of it theirs plenty of independent accusations on their.

Why did you need evidence anyway according to you mass rape is a standard part of war no?. So we can expect the Russian armed forces to mass rape in every war yes?.
As someone who shares your preferences, you should absolutely go for it I would say, even just for the learning experience. Many devs would metaphorically kill to work on an OS kernel team. If it turns out to not be that great after all, you’ll have no difficulty to return to Kubernetes-land ;), or rather more likely, find a different low-level oriented dev job with that Windows kernel experience.
That show is creepy for reasons unrelated to squirrels.
WebAssembly is actually very high level. You need tail call support if you want to preserve the original structure of the program (which seems to be the intention.) I think you can get around it with eg CPS but then you'd get something more like traditional assembly.
Central Bank Digital Currency: Stability and Information
I'm curious what you mean when you say it was not SCUBA?

From your link:

"Aqua-Lung[1] was the first open-circuit, self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (or "scuba") to achieve worldwide popularity and commercial success"

Was there ever a brand called SCUBA? AquaLung still exists and is still a popular choice for diving regulators.
(non expert thoughts ahead!)

> What's next? Can this effect be mitigated in the next round of design?

Yes. PCID is one example.The PCID, or Process IDentifier, lets the CPU avoid flushing the TLB on every context switch. Similar approaches could be taken to let the CPU know "this is not a situation where you need to be extra careful, you can be extra fast".

There are likely other hardware approaches that could help. I doubt we can ever get to "100% of the performance is back" because a side channel is always going to be possible if specific operations have specific effects like timing differences, but we can probably get to 99%. PCID alone drops the performance hit of kpti in half (or so).

> Also, what can be done on the software side?

memfd_protect is a cool thing that kinda helps in theory. There's probably a lot of stuff processes could do to protect themselves, in theory.

> Why is Linux so vulnerable, but not Windows?

I can only assume because Microsoft cared more to solve the problem. Windows implements a more complete mitigation than Linux, someone else can provide sources to the discussions that led to Linux's approach.
> See, you have to be able to recover your account even if you've lost every single of your electronic devices. Every one of them. Including flash drives. No data. No backups. None. Zero bytes.

Well 12-word mnemonics help here right? It's imperfect, but certainly is as good as most 2FA implementations use for account recovery.

There are alternative approaches people are trying too. For example Coinbase[1] is trying a MPC approach where you delegate two (or more?) people known to you and if they agree it can recover your account.

But this is done using secure multi-party computation so the unencrypted key is never stored - it is only decrypted by the person doing the recovery when all the other parties agree to provide their tokens.

[1] https://blog.coinbase.com/threshold-digital-signatures-1d467...
The paragraph starts by saying viewership is down across the the three major news networks. That’s not exactly across the board, but means the same thing.
I don't see the link (although, security stuff confuses me generally).
I have a paper like that. With the QR code right below it. The guest decides which they want to use.
Raspbian is shady, they silently put a microsoft repo overnight, making fleets of raspberry devices ping and give telemetry to microsoft without your consent! including installing their GPG key!

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/lbu0t1/microsoft_rep...
Company just raised millions to make tech layoffs more humane
It does take sharing out of your control, however, at least to an extent.
HDMI 2.1, DP 2.0, ECC RAM, replaceable SSDs, non-adhesive batteries, and, ideally, a cellular modem. In my case, it's likely I'll be waiting a long time.

What's your company's policy on data safety? I would hope there's something in place should your Mac's motherboard fry.
It seems as though every month or two we're seeing IoT vendors go belly up or abandon the area entirely, leaving their customers in the lurch.

Three years seems like a decent amount of time at least but it would be nice if they would actually open up the hardware rather than bricking perfectly good cameras or sensors.

There needs to be regulation around this kind of thing -- make it so any product that is dependent upon the cloud must have its server and device source code released to the public no less than 180 days prior to any end of life date. It may chill new entrants into the market but it will definitely be a pro-consumer move and maybe encourage more openness all around.
I wasn't aware your point about Newsmax needed to be challenged. Going to newsmax.com, of their top 20 stories 2 are about January 6th and they both seem to be the same article (that is the headline story and the ~18th are the same story). So - on the one hand, the majority of axios stories are about this and ~5% of newsmax stories are about it. What was I supposed to be challenging again?
Reminds me of the time when I was in Leipzig in late 2018 (at CCC) and I tried to sign up for CleverShuttle. Turns out they had a bug where they could not register using an American number. The app just silently fails and I was left stranded late at night. I tried to use their support line to get help...turns out its an email address and they responded to my inquiry with generic steps to try again....two days later. Luckily a friend was kind enough to give me a ride home. I don't know how Germany manages to write such a garbage app but its their prerogative to chose a lower standard of service compared to the US. I always dread some things about visiting friends in Europe and the quality of service is always one of those things.
From the previously-posted IEEE article:

68-GB solid-state drive [...] by the end of JWST’s 10-year mission life, they expect to be down to about 60 GB because of deep-space radiation and wear and tear.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32067945

https://spectrum.ieee.org/james-webb-telescope-communication...
Why would a coffee shop owner have me as a contact?
> The S-Tier strat might be to give the book away for free while somehow finding a way to command the psychological investment that people would have in a book if they had paid $30 for it.

There are authors who have had success with releasing on blogs chapter-a-month style or similar. In my opinion, if the work is good enough to catch people, it'll get engagement even if it's free, if you find an audience. Lots of authors these days also do Kickstarters and other novel fundraising techniques where they fund future work on the back of long-standing, free or nearly free work.
I was offered a full-time position in the company.

The execs were shocked I was "just a contractor". So that was pretty cool.
Why wouldn’t you take a chance, given how much you dislike what you’re going right now? What have you got to lose?
Does everyone have equal rights to marry in a conservative town?
> Why does that only come from Webb images?

Re-read comment.
Okay so how do I find out the wifi password of a network an iOS device is connected to, using that device? On android it’s easy: go to Wi-Fi settings, hit “share”, show QR code.
K8s is like 4-wheel drive. It allows one to get stuck further off the main road.
I was struck by how reactionary some of the responses to this comment are. Many people seemed to feel obliged to firmly question your preferences. Kind of odd, I don't normally notice that as much here on HN.
You can't cite his example as evidence that the news is required - his example contradicts the thesis. He was informed without needing to pay attention to the news via a friend prior to the event happening.

I get what you're trying to say though - not paying attention to your surroundings and so not knowing what is happening is potentially dangerous. The problem, of course, is that no one was arguing that being uninformed was ideal.

They were implying that the news wasn't optimal and stating outright that even without it you will be informed of the important things.

I'm assuming you understood that - maybe we are talking past each other - but if you did and you still disagree with the thrust of their points I think we'll have to agree to disagree. I find that it is an incredibly bad conflation to think paying attention to what a monetization of attention corporation thinks you should pay attention to is necessarily going to translate into being aware of your surroundings; I'm quite certain that, very very often, it not only doesn't do that, but accomplishes the opposite. The reason why I'm so certain is because of how poor the information quality is. News has perverse incentives, like being fast, rather than right. Generally you would be better off having been informed through slower channels - for example, by taking a course or reading a book or getting first hand accounts - rather than having gotten a watered down, distorted, and in many ways wrong interpretation from a non-expert optimizing for engagement.
I think you’re confusing hyperthreading (disabled on amd64 in OpenBSD) with speculation (neither disabled nor afaik disableable on amd64).
This doesn't have any provisions for upper-case representation.
When even Google serve ads that link to fake bank account sites[0], not blocking ads is a poor security practise.

[0]:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-21/scammers-using-text-m...
Or create inception type game play in doom where you don’t know how many levels deep you are from original game lol
Detecting alien life has now become reality, JWST can analyze the composition of exoplanet atmosphere. If we can detect any technosignatures, then we made the discovery of the millennia.
Again, if you count blocking traffic and refusing police directions as rioting, then yes I did.

Even if you don't, then it's not really meaningful to make this point. I mean, sure, maybe it was coincidence and maybe the protesters of the morning just teleported away as the rioting happened, but there's absolutely no reason to think that.
> There are a few reputable companies out there that validate the amount of erinacine A in a typical batch, those are the ones you want to buy from.

Which company?