skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really my area of expertise. Any opinions I have would be pure tribalism, which is rather meaningless, and completely off-topic. I came into a discussion about the use of language, not geopolitical relations. What was wrong with the original subject that you feel the need to change it?
Just deployed a couple of matrix homeservers and am blossoming oidc zealot, so this is nice and timely information for me. Thanks!
That's exactly what the grants in question are for

And no, there isn't more to it, the only reason we're even here is because they had to play along with Starlink's initial application that had too optimistic numbers because it's not their job to question pie in the sky numbers, but instead, to tentatively approve it until it's proven false.
> would you say that our universe's existence is necessary or contingent?

Neither. "Necessary" and "contingent" apply to properties, but existence is not a property. It's a quantifier.
iOS does have visible tabs, identical to desktop Safari. But only in landscape mode
Brilliant insight. Could you please convince my children's school that they do not need a smartphone? Because they f'ing mandate it and I have not found a way around this yet.
> Smart people will on average probably be better of financially, but that doesn't transfer directly to happiness.

eh, not exactly true: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2016976118

> But what if you identify problems you cannot solve?

then you shouldn't take it personally
I've always struggled to understand how remote development can compete with a modern laptop in terms of price to performance.

On GCP, I'd have to pay $2400/y for an 8-core machine as powerful as my M1 MacBook.

I get the portability and reproducibility arguments, but it's hard to justify that expense.
Every generation meets a generational challenge that threatens their existence: slavery, smallpox, civil war, overpopulation, pollution, etc.

To date, every generation produces inventions, vaccines, organizations to remedy and lessen the suffering caused by these challenges. Immense suffering has been caused when we didn’t have the courage and dedication to find solutions to each challenge.

Give your daughter hope that she can solve the problems she finds most compelling, and help her educate herself to the point that she has the competence to solve them.

Young people own the future of the human race, it’s only fair that we give them the strength to face it.
RDF is just an interoperability format. You aren't supposed to use it as part of your own technology stack, it just allows multiple systems to communicate seamlessly.
If you want to try your hand in a playground for the software (routing) parts, DN42[1] is essentially one.

[1] https://dn42.us/, https://dn42.eu/, https://dn42.dev/
Fun fact: It's also far more environmentally friendly in terms of how much land is required to produce it: https://ourworldindata.org/palm-oil
Bicycles are indeed the most efficient mode of transportation, but shouldn’t we be taking into account the energy cost of the entire paved system of roads needed to facilitate that rolling efficiency in the first place? Paving a road with asphalt is pretty resource intensive.
Not any more. Many a year ago, I had a Yahoo! email account and used some of their tools like Briefcase, Notepad, and Calendar. Nowadays, I occasionally read a news article but only if it's linked from somewhere else.
Most of the time when I see a heavy process at work, it's a good question to ask who does it serve?

Most of the time, the answer is that it keeps someone important entrenched in work. It's very rare that I see altruistic processes that benefit the customer.
The "Android Keyboard (AOSP)"[1] in /e/ is a fork of the LineageOS keyboard.[2] Neither of these keyboards have network access.

This is different from the keyboards that are preloaded on some Android phones, such as Gboard and Samsung Keyboard, which do connect to the internet.

[1] https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/android_packages_inputmetho...

[2] https://github.com/LineageOS/android_packages_inputmethods_L...
It's not just meetings. I spend 80% of my energy fighting internal resistance, in the form of moronic decision, moronic policies, short signtedness and incompetence. It's not even bad will or people deliberately sabotaging the business. Just frictions grinding the organisation to a quasi standstill, people taking principled approaches to cover their own ass irrespective of the consequences, or being so far remote from the ground that they have no idea of the consequences of their decisions. And in the middle of that you have some courgageous busy bees trying to make things happen despite this internal resistance. Many have given up. I am somewhere in the middle.
Not really, SFSafariViewController was a "view" only controller. The app couldn't communicate or extract data from it.
I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans @elonmusk April 25, 2022

On April 25, 2022 - Twitter's board of directors accepted Musk's buyout offer of $44 billion.
Look at the rest of the debate below the original answer, and maybe you will get an idea of what I meant.

My choice of words shouldn’t be the basis for attacking my points, especially since there’s more context in this very same thread that expands on my ideas.

Maybe instead of coming against me with an incendiary comment, make an effort to gain more insight into my views and add some value to the discussion. Again, my choice of words might be the wrong articulation of my ideas, but you just need to ask politely, and I will gladly expand and try to find better words.

Also, if you’re embarrassed to respond, then why did you?
Please read the Hacker News guidelines if you forgot about them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why can't it be a job you care about 4 days per week?
You don't "need" peering but it offloads your upstream (transit) links, which are generally much more expensive. In the old days, I worked for couple ISPs and we typically had 3 or 4 upstreams (generally UUNet, Sprint, MCI...) This was back when a T1 was still considered fast.
I hardly see how you can define in a RDBMS that a resource that both have an engine and four wheels should be seen as a car.
Without going into a nightmare of unbearable SQL...
Did you ever approached them?
It seems that other than a few power hungry appliances (oven, kettle, washing machine, heat pump, water heater, gaming PC) the rest are low-power digital devices that need up to about 200W (PS5 gaming console peak reported usage, even large TVs use much less than that).

I would love to see a comprehensive study of a home that would be designed and built around the concept of using two energy sources: AC and 48V DC, backed by battery storage and power grid in case of smaller installations or northern climate.

Would it make sense to do that on a large scale? Having smaller, energy efficient house should limit the need for long copper cables, we would also exclude all those AC-DC converters from today's devices - leaving us with something similar to a USB-C PD (working in the range 5-48V, which of course still is a converter but could be a standardized DC-DC one).

If I am correct then the main advantages would also include not running solar inverter all the time but only when there is a need for a lot of power (where it should be much more efficient) thus also extending its lifespan.

Having said that I do not have enough knowledge to judge whether possible gains would warrant going into this direction for future home installations. I would very much appreciate all comments and maybe some further reading material.
I am not the person you were responding to, but I picked (at random) the Australian hate speech laws to look up and they do not seem to be about language that is threatening, and are more about protected classes:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_Australi...
Is it possible to use a Dell contact smart card reader for web 2FA? Preferably in some way that it can be cloned if they lose their card.

We’ve got contact readers in all the laptops, and our door systems can read them too, but not sure how to deploy them for websites and such.

You want to implement security for even the least technical role (ie reception), but you also don’t want to give everyone a keychain full of dongles or install half a dozen computer plugins.
This observation begs the questions:

Is this the only such ladder?

And why is it that economic growth seems to be the only ladder recognised in the economic mainstream for poverty alleviation?

The latter question is one that's addressed often in the writing and talks of Herman Daly, one example I've recently come across being a 2020 Thanksgiving edition of the CASSE podcast, which discusses Daly's work and academic heritage:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-steady-stater-7232427...

A more useful framing of the question might be to assume that degrowth is a given, whether you believe this or not, and proceed from there with a discussion of concerns.

The obvious advantage of growth over degrowth, or even steady-state economics, is that a larger pie allows portion sizes to increase (at least in theory --- actual history shows that both growth and absolute shrinkage have occurred, see particularly the introduction to Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms which notes that the richest and poorest people who've ever lived are alive now), without reallocation.

But wealth and livelihood allocation are social functions and constructs. A philosophy of commmon weal rather than personal gain might address this. It can be found in unexpected places, including Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, several times.
The constitution is quite clear that the constitution is not immutable. On the contrary, the constitution describes processes by which the constitution may be changed.
I love how they call out Starlink's $600 equipment cost but completely gloss over many a small-town fiber company that will charge $200 easy for an install (or more), and completely ignores ViaSat's $10/month equipment lease (or $300 prepaid but you don't own it) and Hughes $15/mo lease and $99 setup or $450 upfront payment for their dish.
... like all the other speech recognition projects that you might want to compare the LOC against.
Always choose 1 innocent person imprisoned? I guess you meant the "former" not the "latter" :-)

Interesting with the hashes. Seems impossible to detect such "poisoning of the hashes" i wonder if anyone with access could ... Submit a hash of a profile photo of someone, to cause him/hey troubles?
"X in N lines of code" is usually used for compressing an algorithm down to its bare essentials. "Ray tracing in 100 lines of code". In that case, it's disingenuous to have 100 lines of glue code that calls into pov-ray. If I compile 284 lines of code, I expect a few kb executable (including libraries that aren't language-libraries like libc). This hasn't really simplified the speech-recognition algorithm, it still requires large amounts of training data and time, and still does the speech recognition by solving a large matrix with Tensorflow. It's not interesting to me that you can hook up Tensorflow in a few lines of code; I know Tensorflow can solve the problem. However, I would be interested in 284 lines of code that replace Tensorflow, which is what the title suggested to me. A better title would be to focus on how the model and/or the handling of the data produces better results, because that's what this code seems to be about.
The problem with Android based "alternatives" is Googles licensing. The licensing agreements for Googles apps require that Google gets to decide which android forks device manufacturers are allowed to sell if they don't want to be completely cut of from Googles ecosystem. So if you actually plan to use it for anything bigger you wont even be able to find a manufacturer willing to touch it, even Amazon had problems getting the Kindle produced. Any attempt to de google Android will be stuck as a niche product for enthusiasts.
Being accessible has nothing to do with being popular.

> I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that /e/ should rebrand itself

Unreasonable, it is not. It is just vapid bike shedding. It is the kind of discussion topic that I would expect from corporate MBA types and useless hacks who never built anything in their lives, not something worthy of so many comments here.
It's closer to calling Rocky Linux an alternative to RHEL.
> We can use old electronics as a paper weight (“and more!”) if we want to but people don’t normally promote that.

The reason for this is that people don't usually buy paperweights that are indistinguishable from, say, an old and discarded mobile phone.

They do, on the other hand, often buy things like hand towels or dish rags that are indistinguishable from home-made ones that are just old clothes torn up.
That's because we all have the equivalent of a TV-set on our office desks.

And Zuck is part of the problem here.
I thought it might be referencing an upside down G.
TikTok has had some serious issues with censorship, and is way more directly political than some of the other companies you've named. Like, if you care about this stuff, please be careful of who you try to hold up as a good example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_on_TikTok#Political...
Actually, TV was severely limited as were video games. We were told to go outside and not come back until it was getting dark.
The hard part is when you're interesting in some things they say, but not others.
the blog domain is called scapegoat.dev after all
This is all very abstract, so you can't really see the stupidity behind it. You can say "economic growth is out of control, we need to reduce GDP by 50% and get comfortable with it" and many people will applaud. But if you say things like "We are growing too much food, we need to reduce the amount of food grown worldwide by 50%", people will realize the much more morbid consequences of your ignorant prescription - mass starvation by millions of people. Of course then you start talking about managed, equitable degrowth in just developed countries, but then you realize that a lot of the economic activity in developed countries plugs into farming in developing countries (natural gas for ammonia for fertilizer) and you realize you can't escape. And then maybe you realize you should have just sat on your couch and shut up, which is what most people with these sorts of opinions should do.
Degrowth is a euphemism for recession. That's literally what it is: receding economic activity. Degrowth proponents are among the most counterproductive advocates of climate policy, and are a huge source of ammunition for a opponents that try to claim that climate action is just anti-capitalism in disguise. Increases energy usage is not necessarily necessary for increased economic growth. Higher efficiency and less energy intensive lines of business provide growth with the same or even less energy use. Furthermore, increased energy use is only a problem if that energy comes from environmentally damaging sources. Building energy sources other than fossil fuels allows for growing energy use with less environmental impact.
> I became more aware of the concerns and troubles of indigenous peoples

What a weirdly condescending comment.
That would leave out the fact that those 284 lines contain the new decoder based on our paper which leads to the relative 16% reduction in word error rate.

Also, it's 3 characters too long to be a valid HN title.

And lastly, this does contain the parameters for a new AI model which is based on my research, so it's not all "glue logic" ;)
Bicycles don’t need that, and it wasn’t made for them, so I don’t know why you’d charge “road cost” to the bicycle ledger when they’re such a distant second (at best) citizen on most roadways anyway.
Deception at Scale: How Malware Abuses Trust
I, too, greatly respect the scrappy-ness of this individual. Kudos to him for sticking it to Comcast. That said, I'm not wild about the notion of dropping $30K of our collective money on running fiber to a single home out in the country.
I think this was the case in past but rapidly changed. As networks are get upgraded to newer cellular standards like LTE, 5G the data becomes pretty much standard.
The simple answer to this is to make point-to-point dark fiber a regulated monopoly, just like electricity.

It's illegal for me to start my own electric distribution company within the footprint of my power company. It's also illegal for them to deny me service, or to expand vertically into anything other than electrical local distribution.

It would be so easy to do the same thing for dark fiber. Hold an auction, whoever wins gets to buy all the dark fiber that crosses property lines within the territory. In exchange, they have to divest ownership of any business that isn't dark fiber, and must lease point-to-point wavelengths on a fixed and published price schedule to any willing buyer.

The electrical companies would be happy to do this. Mine already does, but only for certain areas where they had to run their own fiber anyways (basically along the major highways). They would be happy to expand to every doorstep if they were guaranteed a regulated monopoly just like they have for electrical lines. That would be a big enough market to allow their fiber department to split off from the electrical utility and become a standalone dark fiber utility. They don't want to be an ISP (they had the chance to become one and turned it down). They're just really good at hanging ADSS on poles and want to do a lot of that.
Let me guess- the management that ultimately nuked the project paraded it around to get promoted before moving to another org and doing the same thing?
I was hired by a BIG company to help their data governance, and a pragmatic semantic web is giving pretty interesting results.
Just to add some hotness/trollness to the discussion, Neo4J was a mind opener for many people [both technical and non-technical]
> I'd trade most (though maybe not all) of the great meals I've ever had for the guarantee I'd never go hungry.

I wouldn’t — and there’s been times I was quite hungry while homeless.

Moreover, your fear doesn’t give you the right to impose that choice on me.
Algorithm-puzzle computer science interviews are hard to prep for. They take a long time to learn. Then, most of the time, when people get hired for engineering roles that use them for interviewing - you find that you spend exactly 0% of your time working on those kinds of problems. Kind of a rug pull.

Lots of people are busy. They don't want to spend time prepping for puzzles they will never solve in their job. They feel like they are qualified for the job, and have great work experience in many cases (let's leave jr devs out of this), but feel like they are being asked to jump through completely unnecessary hoops.

Meanwhile, someone who does have a lot of time on their hands (young, single, no kids, more energy) preps for the tests, and gets paid more money than someone who is older, who has more responsibilities, and who frankly needs the money more.

It feels unfair, in the same way that it feels unfair when rich people get away with crimes poorer people wouldn't.

Well, the rich people used the legal system you say - they paid for attorneys. You could do the same thing, if you had the money.

Well, you don't have the money. And in the case of this analogy, you don't have the time to prep for random CS problems. You don't have the energy, because after work and family obligations - you just want to sleep. Or work out. Or do anything but write and think about code.

To be clear - if you are young, single and have lots of time on your hands - I have no sympathy for you. If you want to work in FAANG, fuck it, grind leetcode. You don't have any responsibilities.

But for those older professionals, with work experience and a track record of success - you shouldn't need to prove competence to write software at a FAANG company. It should come from track record, recommendations, open-source work and other artifacts of your career besides a thirty minute whiteboard session. Depending on the day, the time of day, what food you ate, how much water you drank, you might be absolute trash at coding. And it would be a mistake to sum up someones competency in such a small sample size.

When they interview lawyers, they don't ask them to perform a mock trial. Surgeons aren't asked to 'get their hands dirty' during an interview. Mechanical engineers don't get asked to whip up a CAD diagram in 30 minutes for a part (or maybe they do, what the hell do I know).

Small sample sizes are misleading, large sample sizes (open source work audit, multiple references, perhaps a paid take home project for one of your open source packages) give a much better understanding of a persons skillset than a 30 minute exercise in stress management.
> React
How come that FB is inventing the most sophisticated, cutting-edge web technologies, but at the same time their core products (Facebook app, Messenger & Instagram) are an absolute mess both in terms of performance and usability, not to mention a ton of bugs that haven't been fixed for years?
Right, throw the baby out with the bathwater. "The only to avoid having laws be abused is to stop having laws".

Listen, I don't like censorship as much as the next guy. But in the real world, lists and platforms without some sort of moderation become of cesspool of the worst that society has to offer.
> If terrorism was being stopped, would you even know it?

Yes, because the feds brag about it nonstop on the rare occasions they actually nab somebody.
> USAians

we call ourselves Americans.
I want one. Now. It has that TRON vibe I’ve been wanting since I was a kid.

First thing I’d do is throw up a Master Control Program prompt up on that screen. Would be awesome if it was a touchscreen…
Everything we can observe in this universe has a cause and effect. The first cause is God.
> what would be the way that you would know that it is working?

Probably a decrease in successful terrorism attempts or an increase in thwarted terrorism attempts (with neither being attributed to something else instead). I don't think there's any value to this question though, since it can be used to justify literally anything. If a policy needs to prove its own value, then it should be constructed in a way that allows its value to be tracked.
In the early 1990s, we used to break out of Macintosh's AtEase at our middle school by writing a two line MacBasic program which launched Finder. We would then bring games on floppies. Everything old is new again!
Multiple companies have been caught using information for ads that they said they wouldn't, and Twitter have already proven that they're not trust worthy
You can do that, except now you've moved the bulk of the work from the GPU to the CPU -- triangulation is tricky to parallelize. And GPUs are best at rendering large triangles -- small triangles are much trickier since you risk overdraw issues.

Also, typical GPU triangle antialiasing like MSAAx16 only gives you 16 sample levels, which is far from the quality we want out of fonts and 2D shapes. We don't have textures inside the triangles in 2D like we do in 3D, so the quality of the silhouette matters far more.

That said, this is what Direct2D does for everything except text.
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> Btw things like isis are a direct consequence of actions taken by the English colonialists when they created artificial boundaries

The Turks were the ones that conquered all those completely unrelated people in the first place. The British inherited their problem after World War I. But go on, I love this game of “brown people can’t have moral agency.”