skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, this ignores that the USA benefits tremendously from trading with other countries, most of all with China. If this mindset was applied universally, the USA (and the world) would be worse off.

This is true, but it only works if everyone does it. If one country is the main one that safeguards trade, releases costly scientific research (and open source codebases) for nothing and plays as well as it can, but others don't (and even look down on the safeguarding country for spending so much on defence instead of bread/circuses) then it takes a massive force of goodwill on the part of that one country to keep doing it.

(I am not a US citizen/resident, to pre-empt the standard ad hominem :)
Why do you (and one other person in this thread) write "TIA" instead of "IA"?
"The file system itself isn't a file" is not a valid argument.

Otherwise I would counter "Even SQLite stores its data in files".
Aerospace charts a future without jet fuel
A CPU executes the machine instructions of your program (you might think of this as "assembly" programs, like "put a zero in register 12" or "jump to address 0xFF3392"). There have been architectures where instructions map directly onto transistors, but since System/360 (*) there's an extra level: the CPU has it's own, lower-level programming language that's used to execute the machine instructions. Finding out how a CPU actually works is interesting per se, and very valuable for competitors, but this work might also expose vulnerabilities and/or backdoors, built into the chip itself. It seems to be around 100kB of code, so there's a whole lot of opportunity...

(*) first commercial architecture I know of...
Does R2 also exposes an R2 specific interface or does it only offer the S3 compatible interface?
Lol I nominate the above to the title of most entitled and out of touch comment of the month. How is this "basic human need" if online porn didn't even exist before 1990?
This is vaporware. It's being announced by a lame duck government who want to point at something in the future and say the equivalent of 'I took steps to ... invent the internet'.

If this actually consists of anything at all it is funding for a research project without commercial demand. Just announcing "we are giving free money to the arms industry so they don't have to pay for their own R&D" doesn't play well any more so it gets spun as part of The Future.
This is in the UK?
I think the next discovery might be really big but this is read-only and only for Atom CPUs so far.
This is basically the water/diamonds question in disguise. You'll find it in any introductory economics textbook: Why does water cost nothing when we all need it, but diamonds cost a fortune when nobody needs it?
Ask HN: Is Google Maps Google's most successful social media app?
You can now follow and be followed, and there's a default feed of suggested accounts with updates from places they've been, etc.

I just got notified that a review I left 5 years ago reached a high number of views. I took a little while to (finally) explore the other tabs on the app, and it seems they've been upping the social features of Google Maps.
Which will then be bypassed using some other way, just like every DRM so far ended up being cracked.
I was surprised to see so little about Oracle Cloud on this thread. I also use their free VMs for personal stuff and for that they are amazing. For actual business needs I would never trust Oracle in the slightest but their free tier is the best among all providers I've found.

In the end I ended up signing up with a paid account for Oracle so I could host my domain's DNS on their cloud thingamajig, but it's the only paid service I use while the VMs are free. For the last months Oracle has been billing my card 0.01 EUR/month for the DNS which I find hilarious as it's probably less than their transaction fee. Also means I can file support tickets if I need to, which I think the free tier lacked.
Here is how you cook them.

You take a cedar plank and lay the carp on it. Cover it with tomato paste, cilantro, brown sugar and lemon juice. Bake at 450 for 20 minutes, or smoke until it is flaky. Remove the carp off the board and throw it away, then eat the board.
It sucks, it uses too much CPU. DRM/KMS it's MUCH better.
What whole thing? Instruction microcoding is nothing new.

Or do you mean.

- the TXE vulnerability and / or undocumented debugging mode (so microcode wouldn’t have been extracted)

- microcode encryption so the microcode would always have been completely readable

- x86

- Intel itself

?
Maybe they want to quietly move into social/gaming space on desktop? (ex: Discord)
Is there any way to make it work with adaptive refresh to play the video at exactly its native speed and adjust the display refresh rate instead? Or should that just work automatically?
> If you are designing a REST API, please don't follow this author's advice and return HTML instead of JSON. HTML takes much longer to parse and makes the API more fragile.

you're describing what a browser does.

> has dropped the unnecessarily complicated bits.

you're viewing this content from a browser.
Standard Darwinian competition wouldn't matter here - people generally finish breeding (ages <35) long before they have trouble from cholesterol (ages 40+) or other minor dietary issues.

You could consider in the same way as the explanation for altruism - that families and communities who can rely on helpful old people to raise the children perform better and out-compete families/communities without that resource.

We should also consider that any dietary pressure will have only existed for at most a few thousands of years which, in evolutionary terms, 1000 generations perhaps, is basically nothing.
For some reasons, PC and iPhones are only class of devices that allows full system reimaging. Not even most Android devices have facilitations for that.
50 years later, the truth behind American Pie
Intel's SGX was at least partially intended to implement DRM [0], and its various-ish predecessor technologies such as old-school Palladium/TPM was expected to do the same [1] (but was ultimately cancelled because of wide backlash).

[0] https://www.techspot.com/news/93006-intel-sgx-deprecation-im...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...
But shouldn't that concern go the other way? If the Chinese government is dictating content policies of TikTok, that should obviously be a concern, but I have not seen this alleged.

Granted collecting say interest data based on viewing figures would be a precursor (I suppose it's likely that TikTok could figure out if a customer leaned left or right politically). But again that's not what the complaint is about.

It's also hard to ignore that TikTok's responses are at face value reasonable (such as evaluating touch patterns to identify bots... that's obviously something they have to do given the predominance of bots on social media platforms).
Maxima and Gnuplot are the ultimate lightweight math CAS+plotter combo for legacy devices such as Atom netbooks. No need for a monster like Sagemath.
Plants send glucose down their roots to feed mycorrhizal fungi which build up soil organic matter.
You're just arguing over language to avoid addressing the question. Imagine he said "bad parent" instead of "deadbeat".

Also, per the numbers time spent caring for children has tripled since the 60s and child rearing outcomes don't seem better at the same time as women have entered the workforce. Since society didn't also invent some magic stimulants that reduce sleep requirements in that time that's a bad deal no matter how you look at it. We're wasting more time to get the same amount done.
Not all JSON is syntactically valid javascript.
If there exists a backdoor, its unlikely to be remotely accessible. But privesc for any OS running a vulnerable CPU, absolutely. This would probably look like some hidden instruction to load and execute an arbitrary ELF at the XuCode level, not a magic packet.
I can appreciate that policing reviews at scale is difficult but why does amazon need to have 10,000 options for every single thing? If you want to create a system where the only differentiator is the number of positive reviews then you are basically creating the same monster that you are also attempting to sleigh.
Yes

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19642710.speed-camera-campa...
> The point is that society has decoupled wealth creation from mineral extraction to a large degree.

Have we really though, or is the coupling just obscured to the point of near invisibility?

Take software development. In a bounded context, a solo developer’s continued output of software looks quite clearly decoupled from material inputs. They may work essentially indefinitely, producing new wealth, powered only by renewable energy.

Step out of the bubble of the thought experiment, though, to look at the software development industry more broadly, and what do we see? A vast churn of new computing equipment in pockets, offices, unseen data centers, and embedded at every possible scale in between, with layer upon layer of software abstraction that chews up most of the increases in computing power anyhow.
I just kept thinking, “Are those little screws (which don’t even look fully tightened) really going to hold that thing to the table?”

Did he mention how much thrust it produced?
I work, of course. Often the only way to get yourself in a mood to work is by working when not in the mood. Avoiding only adds misery to the misery.

Writing a novel, for example, if you wait for inspiration you can be waiting a long time. Writing will bring the inspiration, eventually
A thread investigating the source of this claim: https://twitter.com/Vortex_Egg/status/1548047874411245570
Yes, libxml2 is a widespread, thus mostly unproblematic choice. However pulling in a third party is not only about license.

With a thirdparty library you have to follow security updates (also to parts you don't need), may have build issues on some platforms you want to support (something embedded?) and so on.

If you don't need XML, but just a few xml-like tags a custom parser can be done quickly. But yes then you get to the NHI problems and what if your assumptions about XML subset were wrong ...

Personally I would lean on an XML lib (maybe libyml2, maybe qxml, maybe windows API, ... depending on context) as XML is complex, but generally adding libraries introduce their costs.
The conflict of interest is always there since almost any scientist wants to discover something and be right. That doesn't mean everyone does bad science, but it's not possible to be unbiased.

I'd say the motivation to name a phenomenon and make a mark in the science history might be much higher and more widespread then to sell a book.

Science cannot depend on scientists being unbiased about their work. It has to depend on verification, reproduction of experiments, meta analysis and so on.
> Would you take a 1080p BluRay over 4K Netflix stream? I'm legitimately curious.

oof, every single day

> I feel like we sometimes prioritize higher resolutions over overall detail.

Yes, resolution over detail (/bitrate). Netflix 4k has half the bitrate or blueray 1080p

Netflix 4k is <20mbps, blueray 1080 is up to 40mbps, bluray 4k is up to 128mbps
> I won't be surprised if even the power connection becomes a future (unintended) means of data transmission.

That's already a thing. From the same author as the TFA, PowerHammer [1] exfiltrates data using current flow fluctuations. There's also Powermitter [2] (from some researchers at Wuhan University), which is exfiltration via power supply EMF leakage.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.04014.pdf

[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8300280
How does this match with this information:

"CDC: Nearly 60% of Americans have natural COVID-19 antibodies from prior infection"

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3827106-nearly-60-of-americans...
I just recently did a similar search, “things to do in Austin” on a bored weekend, and my go-to search platform was TikTok. I liked that the content was visual and engaging and has an authentic feel, vs my expectation that the first 100 Google results would be the same Top 10 articles of the most generic tourist traps in the city. In fact, I just did the search now and that’s exactly what I got.
For some reason hwdec doesn't seem to make much difference for me in terms of power or CPU usage. Also worth mentioning is profile=gpu-hq (can just uncomment in the example config).
While I agree with most of the critics towards the article and the author (who by the way, is a friend of Peter Diamandis who also happens to run a scammy longevity clinic), (some) reasons behind the longevity of many of those centenarians have been identified: low mTOR activity and high omega 3 intake. mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) is a nutrient sensing enzyme particularly sensitive to some amino acids like Leucine found in meat and whey protein.

Rapamycin (Sirolimus), an immunosuppressive drug was found to considerably inhibit mTOR activity. Past clinical trials recently showed considerable lifespan extension in multiple animal models and will likely work in humans. It’s one of the too drugs found in the ITP trials (1). If I’m not wrong, they are even starting trials now and new ones will come soon. That’s because, as the name implies, that enzyme is part of all mammals.

Lots of people experiment with safe dose ranging from 5 to 10mg once a week and report lots of benefits, few side effects (doses aren't as high as if used by organ transplant receivers).

I’m in my 30s so I’m not willing to take any risks with those. I move, I eat a Mediterranean-ish diet, take Vitamin D3, K2 and Omega 3d and eat no sugar. But if I was past 60 I’d definitely ask my doctor.

That being said, this is not radical life extension. That would likely be possible with upcoming therapies like partial reprogramming or senolytics. But it definitely is promising and will possibly help living a longer and healthier life if repurposed for other diseases than simply immunosuppression.

(1) https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab/interventions-testing-p...
There was a time when GWM (generic window manager) was quiet popular. It had a Lisp config language (Wool).
> This seems like a terrible search experience though!

I suspect IG/TikTok users are on average terrible computer users too. It's not like growing up with smartphones teaches you anything about dealing with or evaluating information systems; you're a consumer who is fed things and your success entirely depends on a small elite to feed you correctly.
lusers truly are better off with locked-down devices. But there should be an effective escape hatch.
There was a similar situation in the UK where 'Spider Crab' was renamed 'Cornish King Crab'. As I understand, much of the 'Spider Crab' was exported to Spain but as this became less economically viable post Brexit the rebrand was aimed at encouraging domestic consumption.
Show HN: LearnAzure.app: improve Azure skills and become certified professional
This app was born out of my own needs. I prepared for Microsoft Azure certification, but usually, it was on the go. I wanted to find an app that will help me to prepare for exams via my smartphone, but I didn't find what I need in 2020. Then I decided to develop it myself and it looks like I am not alone with such a problem. Currently, Learn Azure has 50,000+ downloads for iOS and Android together and good feedback from users.

The app is absolutely free and without ads. I've added donation option only when I decided to fully dedicate myself for Learn Azure project. More about this compelled decision is here - https://learnazure.app/supportus

There are a lot of to tell about this project. Will be glad to do this in thread.
Free as Beer Domains and DNS
If it was insult, then it was well deserved. You should learn from it. Having a single deployment project of Windows OS is so narrow experiance.

Every OS has things where it shines compared to others and those where it could be better. Why cant I deploy all linux like Guix?

More then that, you need to give it time, explore the culture, find out native tools and see how cross platform tools are used. You cant judge anything without spending enough productive an play time with it.
How do you quantifiably determine the point where something has slowly faded from view?

Edit: an idea — instead of “can you still see it?”, ask “can you prove you can still see it?”.

If the disk had an arrow then statistically you could measure how many times you fail to correctly see the direction in which the arrow is pointing.

As the disk gets deeper you’ll see the failure rate increase and maybe there is either a clear spike in failures or, more likely, a point where the error rate is above 50% / guessing for that particular field scientist’s eyesight. Maybe you could even calibrate eyesight so that results from different teams match up?
Reminds me of the Penet remailer scandal[1] - which lead to chilling-effects over 'anonymous' user information being disclosed and its eventual shutdown.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer
I'll throw in Reddit into the mix. For deeper discussions about projects, it has a way better interface than Twitter, and also as a "newcomer" you have way better chances if you pick out the right communities. One other factor is probably also frequency of posting.

While my posting cadence of "something interesting" every few months works well for Reddit, that's not something that gets people to follow and engage with you on Twitter.
Physics is a model for us to estimate and in some way explain phenomena we see in the universe, it isn't the way that the universe itself produces phenomena
Wouldn't there the small matter of a few meters of concrete attenuating any signals coming from a nuclear facility?
Thanks, didn't know these are pretty hardcore protection. Just curious maybe these protection layers and protetion-protection layers may introduce more vectors for attackers?
MinIO is a fantastic tech and they seemed to be really patient to resolve this issue (waiting 3 years before doing actions). I'll continue to use them and recommend them everywhere I work. They really deserve respect... And to be paid for their hard work.
Yes indeed. Two out of those three countries have never invaded outside countries, whether for freedom, WMD or some other crap excuse. One of them is actually a functioning democracy. On the other hand a citizen of a country that has invaded almost a dozen sovereign nations, conducted almost an equal number of proxy wars and even used nuclear weapons twice, thinks we are scary. And lumps Russia, China and India all into one ill defined category of "scary regimes"...

All this ignoring for the moment the general Western enterprise of erstwhile colonialism and current economic neocolonialism that makes the destruction wrought upon developing nations by direct war/attacks pale in comparison.
Collection of Code for Flipper Zero
So after analysis from the community and experts we will finally get rid of the whole backdoor-conspiracy bandwagon? Or will they just move on to another aspect or even simply wave it off as an orchestrated and constructed fake? I mean those people come up with a lot weirder things to advocate for their beliefs.
> Plus or minus what?

That's what the probability density specifies.

> But I don't know of any measurements that can't be represented by integer multiples of a unit for all practical purposes.

You can always discretize any real number, but why would you? I don't see how integers are easier to deal with than real numbers. Calculus can be viewed as the limit in which you discretize numbers infinitely finely. Once you know how things work in that limit, it's generally easier to use calculus than to work with discretized quantities. One example: summations are often more difficult than integrals, and one way of approximating sums is to turn them into integrals.

From my perspective, calculus is a basic part of mathematics that everyone should be expected to learn in school. In the US, calculus is often viewed as some sort of intimidating subject that only extremely clever people can grasp, and then only in late high-school or in university, but in East Asia, it's taught to children as a matter of course.
I don’t understand how the market dynamics work here. As a software engineer, I feel like the market is flooded with workers, and that it is an easy job. I have no idea how we’ve managed to sustain these salaries for so long. At some point, I keep expecting a correction in salaries simply due to supply / demand.

I also keep thinking, surely other industries will start paying more and treating folks better, so they can attract top talent, but nope!

Why is this?
My bet as someone who has traveler to Sardinia often is that this is much less about meat consumption and rather more about stressors like lifestyle, quality of air, water etc.

Even if the people ate meat there at the same proportion as a modern city dweller did: no hormones, probably orders of magnitude less toxins, traces of pharmaceuticals etc.

A lifestyle that doesn't know many sources of anxiety or stress and includes daily physical activity (walking instead of driving for a start) and an air quality opposite that of any big city just remove a lot of sources of what mostly kills people that could live longer otherwise.

Heart disease, cancer, stroke and (possibly) Alzheimer's disease.

The Mediterranean diet also means you can strike diabetes off the list.
Exactly this.

In uni I got offered internships as part of the course, to write my Master's thesis.

An engineering firm in Aerospace offered me a job doing something with airplanes. Pretty interesting, but paid £12K/yr, which really isn't much money, even for a student.

I kept my mouth shut (uni wanted us to take whatever came) and got offered a job at a major chip manufacturer, but in marketing. Also interesting, £15K/yr. I took it and learned a bunch about that business.

I went to visit a friend in London who'd gotten an internship working at an investment bank. £38K/yr.

What do you suppose I applied to when I graduated? It wasn't engineering or marketing.

As things happened, I'm still an engineer. I just make algorithms to move money around, and that's also got nerd value, since there's interesting problems in financial trading as well. I've literally has days where I made more money for myself than I would have gotten in a whole year at either of the other careers. I also ran into people who'd dumped those careers to work in finance, because the incentive is so strong (colleague directly told me he saw his boss's payslip, then decided to leave).
If we can account for every phenomenon that occurs within the scales that we can observe then we can probably claim that physics is complete. Unfortunately it seems that even that might be impossible
I have tried TikTok and honestly it's perfect to find cool places to eat at or even when visiting a new city.
>I'll have to try TikTok I guess

do because you will be very surprised at how good it is
Most people are doing RPC-on-HTTP and call it REST, probably for the better in many ways.

I personally believe that the Verb/Noun/Resource part of rest is perfectly avoidable, while I believe that including URLs/URLs fragment/URLs-like object in responses is good.

HTTP is a very complex message passing transport layer, API should separately use the platform (HTTP caches/proxies/verbs/headers) and its main messaging feature (URL + body); so just set the right headers and verbs (GET/POST are enough) and pipe JSON/whatever around

(obviously this is for APIs, websites need to use the WWW/HTTP/HTML platform, not just the HTTP platform)
I'm in Europe, so I'm writing this as someone who likes our governments protecting people from American (and Chinese) companies. Very happy to be a big happy family again if things improve.