skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It loads fine for me in FF mobile.
You can theoretically run MS-DOS on any modern PC that still has legacy BIOS mode. The size of the HDD may cause problems, but if you are lucky you can use a smaller USB stick as the C drive.

Alternatively there's FreeDOS which is compatible with much larger HDDs.
That's an incredibly bad idea, you are exposing yourself to a lot more risk, than using a western cloud.

They are not in contact with our authorities, until they decide they want to. It's not like you are a Chinese factory owner making counterfeit wranglers, I doubt they would deny any kind of request from a western government about a westerner.

Your access to the service is also under risk, at any time there could be a breakdown of relations leaving you unable to pay for the service, that would have happened already, if you had chosen Russia instead of China.

Your behavior also looks suspicious to the western intelligence apparatus. Sending potentially terabytes to Chinese servers as a private individual may very well put you on their radar.

As others have noted you are setting yourself up as a prime candidate for an intelligence asset, they could at any point blackmail you to perform any action they want.

With what would they blackmail you? The terrabytes of CSAM they could at any point plant in your account. Do you think they would be above doing that, if they had anything to gain and were aware that you exist? Or do you think your Chinese provider would require a court order to give you up? Your entire bet is that they don't know that you exist.

My main point as advice to others mostly is you shouldn't put your self in the hands of your adversary.

I don't even know how you trust their software to run on your system.

PS: If you think all these are farfetched and paranoid, I will remind you that China routinely takes hostages to achieve diplomatic concessions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostage_diplomacy#China
I don't get how bluetooth can be used for anything but music listening. Latency in movies and games are unbearable.
My platonic ideal of a developer is this older, hacker-type guy, whom I’ve witnessed spending days mulling a problem without writing any code. Then one morning, he simply transferred the implementation from mind to code, completely self-documenting, with all edge cases covered.

He said something like “from my point of view, this code is perfectly written”, and it actually didn’t sound arrogant, partly because it was true.

I still have to think with my fingertips (i.e. write code before I know the solution), but his is the kind of approach I strive for.
How about a Geiger counter style interface.
Well if anything a post-scarcity system would do it.
This reminds me of react-three-fiber[1], which is built on top of Three.js.

react-three-fiber is a really nice way to build 3-d scenes on the web for those of us who aren't skilled in graphics and GPU programming.

Looks like Three.js supports WebGPU rendering now. Naively, I wonder how performance differs between UseGPU and R3F with Three's WebGPU renderer.

[1]: https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber
Hey there! Author here.

This isn't a criticism of the Pixel 6a, per se. This article is not meant to be a critique of the 6a, but rather, is using it as a tool to illustrate an overall greater point. The reason you don't understand the criticism of the 6a is because it's not supposed to be criticism.

The phone costs a lot, and a lot more than most other devices that are in a similar boat of "mid-range". It has a lot of bells and whistles that normal consumers won't necessarily care for, because it doesn't matter how great the camera is when a lot of people are just using their phones for the likes of Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. A Nothing Phone, Nord 2T etc will get 80% of the way there in the camera department after the photo is on social media, and most people won't care for the difference.

However, the primary argument of the article is not to critique the Pixel 6a. Far from it. The problem is how the reason it's considered good value is because of the US carrier market. This article is primarily taking aim at the US carrier market and not the Pixel 6a. It's just a tool being used to illustrate a point.
No it's obviously who commits the most lines of code of course! /s

Edit : Ive seen mgmt in old company do this.
Most of the stuff we pollute our inside air with is toxic for us. So we could get an easy win by stopping doing that.

Filtered ventilation and heat recovery and good insulation are a powerful combination though.
Regent: A Language for Implicit Task-Based Parallelism
it's only gotten better if you look at food access, but food access != happiness; depression is rampant because we are being forced to live against our nature. I assure you, I hate being alive in the current world, even if my stomach is full.

Moreover even that is most likely only temporary, we are living inside a consumerist bubble that will soon burst (growing social unrest, ravaging pollution, probably a major war) leaving a horrible mess behind (we don't know how to endure physical discomfort anymore).
You can always add this feature but it's problematic to remove it.
Plot twist: they glued some libraries together in an afternoon and successfully replaced a system with several person-years of work in it. Actually 100x more effective dev.

Double plot twist: after the 100x dev had left for greener pastures, nobody understands the system anymore and of course the initial afternoon of coding had no time for documentation or design reviews. The system has to be re-built and this time it will be built in-house with due attention to knowledge sharing and design documentation.

Triple plot twist: Several years later someone realizes that the in-house system is overly complex and maintenance heavy, then replaces it with some glued-together open source libraries on a Friday afternoon. The cycle continues.
>This will make a fantastic piece of motivational broetry for my linkedin, they think.

Hey, that's just what I was thinking.
> Meanwhile, the prices in EU are overall higher even after sales tax included...

Regulation has its costs. Predictable.

> Cultural differences between and Europe can explain a lot better why things work different

Yep, the cultural differences that lead to even a "left" US government to be a lot more hands off than any EU government :)
Yeah I cringed reading that line.

Koenigsegg (yes, the hyper car company) made a motor the size of a briefcase that can output 355HP and weighs 30Kg. This is one random example of a company with not much experience in EVs (their Hybrid cars' motors and batteries are made by Rimac) improving on what Tesla is already doing.
I couldn't land without crashing but luckily the terrain was perfectly flat so I could just drive where I wanted to go. I did a few long distance, cross-country drives by pointing in the right direction and setting an alarm. At the prescribed time I would come back and make minor corrections before finally parking at my destination airport.
In December 2007 I bought a 50" Pioneer Elite Kuro 1080p plasma, at the time the best TV available.

I paid $5,000 ($7,100 in 2022).

It weighs 95 lbs. (with stand) but who cares since it's been sitting in the same place for 15 years.

The picture in early 2008 (after professional calibration after 4 months of use) was mind-blowingly great — and remains so 15 years later, so much so that when I take a trip every couple years to a high-end TV store like Crutchfield to see how the various bleeding-edge TVs look, they're STILL not nearly as good.

I've been ready to "upgrade" to a 4K OLED for years now but the Pioneer refuses to die or degrade.

The only thing wrong with it is that for the past 3-4 years only 1 of the 3 HDMI inputs still works so I have to manually switch it between my cable box and Apple TV.
Does it? The Pixel 6a's primary sensor has really been showing its age for a while now, and often struggles to contrast really dark spots with really bright spots. We talked a lot about that in our comparison of the Pixel 5 to the iPhone 13 Pro. It's part of why Google needed to upgrade the Pixel 6 Pro camera, and I wouldn't really say the 6a is a "top-tier" anymore. It's still really good, but there are a ton of phones that do way better nowadays.
Oh wow, this is was earlier in development than I was expecting. Literally just banging out the bits on the wire for a UDP packet without any underlying protocol support. No CSMA/CA. No ARP. No autonegotiation. Can't even receive. Just enough support to calculate the checksums and do the Manchester encoding before clocking the bits out on the wire.
Searched for "torch" (the medieval kind, not the electronic variety), and the one I had on my "super cool" site back in the day was the first result.
Dimensions of Curiosity and Curious People
> DA is better than anything that's ever been on a phone.

Do you have links to actual tests?
I always wonder about the use case for a language like this, compared to one of the many "general purpose" languages out there. Are there some domains where implicit parallelism is such a killer feature that you would sacrifice all other library compatibility and tooling to acquire it? Or is this more of a research language, intending to explore compiler techniques in language/API design under an interesting set of constraints?
Direct link to the PDF of the related research

https://www.m-rr.com/media/in-the-news/personality-journal-a...
What's a better bug-bounty reward than money?
It depends on the dependency. Linking sqlite.c doesn't bother me much as it's self contained and more likely to be correct than whatever I'm linking it into.

LLVM is pretty close to internally self contained as it DIY or vendors things in traditional C++ fashion (has optional deps on zlib and ncurses), especially if you use libc++ with it. However it is enormous and continually in flux. Building on LLVM also means picking up C++-like semantics regarding aliasing/undef/poison/freeze which are themselves somewhat in flux.

So in this case if PicoLisp emitted aarch64/x64 directly I'd consider that smaller/simpler than depending on LLVM, despite the increase in complexity in PicoLisp's own codebase from DIY'ing the machine code generation.

Fundamentally moving a load of complexity into a library can be a win but is not intrinsically cheaper than keeping it internal. You don't pay for it in gold - you move dev time and failure modes around, possibly for a net win and possibly for a net loss.
Noted! I'll be adding more engines to the list in a future update.
Gas is at risk of cut off this winter. Electric heating will be the primary source if that happens.

> In late June, after Russia reduced supplies by 60%, Berlin
triggered the second stage of its national gas emergency plan — one step away from gas rationing.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/07/18/a...
> Too bad you still can't chose what add-ons that should run in a certain container.

Using the same settings, including extensions, is why I use containers.

Creating several containers is something that I can do in under a minute. If I decided to add an extension, it applies to all containers. Creating a single profile takes several minutes. Maintenance is also a concern, since the configuration of those profiles will diverge unless I am conscientious about updating them all at the same time.

Profiles and containers serve different purposes and can be used in parallel. The main problem with Firefox lays in the difficulty in accessing profiles.
That's just a choice Google made. They can do it like Linode, they just choose not to.
If you read the last paragraph, it seems Trump learned some tricks from mister "C.B.S." and even took them to the next level.
only givers think that way. Sometimes it's not best to pass the ball but take a shot
Working as a developer inside large enterprise is increasingly intolerable by the day, made possible by tools such as crowdstrike falcon. By the time your workstation is saddled with endpoint security, DLP, zero trust networking, antivirus, etc. it barely functions. And you can get in trouble for doing anything. Installing tree from homebrew can get you flagged on some naughty list where you have to justify why you needed tree of all things.
We went through a similar event last week. Droplets shut down and account locked without warning and because of “violation of the DigitalOcean user agreement”. Luckily, it was on a sandbox environment we use for testing before taking anything to production. All we had done was set up a simple keycloak server.

The real kicker is that they refused to tell us what terms we had allegedly violated because it’s “critical to maintaining our security systems.”

And they had “just conducted a manual review” and confirmed the suspension.

Then, after escalating further and a few choice words about how much I’ve spent on their platform, sure enough they conducted another “manual review” and found no issues.

I’ve really tried to avoid moving to AWS over the years, but I’m really reconsidering.
I've been trying to work towards this. I'll sketch out a prototype and reason through it on paper sometimes before writing code. It's an interesting exercise.
I tend to take a very "iterative" process, in my coding and design.

It's kind of a "chicken and egg" thing.

I often start with what I call a "napkin sketch," implement it quickly, kick the tires, and then see what needs to change.

The results are good, but the process can look messy. It involves a lot of both "thinking," and "doing."
Perfect, Apple can sell additional device for both user groups.
And you then need to make sure that it doesn’t get jostled around enough to disconnect from the phone on your flight or train.

I’d rather just plug a cable in.
There is no problem with thinking with code by trying things out. We left the punched tape and printed result listing era, we can write and tests partial solutions to the problems we try to solve almost for free, and that's a good thing. Don't beat yourself up for doing that :).

Also, there are some limits to what one can entirely store and efficiently think about in their mind.

Of course, it doesn't mean that one should always start writing code straight away without actually thinking first, or without using pen and paper to lay down some facts and think about edge cases if necessary, for example.
It doesn't actually seem LLVM based but have an LLVM binding it uses build a self hosting compiler of the base system.
One of the great tragedies of the time beginning in the 1990s is the massive abuse of medication to solve social problems, especially in the United States.
Creative Growth Agency for AI/ML Startup
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And its probably fair to attribute the difference to better governance in the EU, so the top down approach that worked for Tesla wasn't as necessary.

Still useful to have someone targetting Silicon Valley nerds that would otherwise own a Prius and a Porsche though.
> There are around 29 million 810-by-810 meter grid cells nationwide and more than 1.4 billion rows of data for a single year. Even using the largest database instance available on Amazon Web Services, it took up to a week to run queries on the data. Often, our queries took days simply to fail. It was a long, demotivating slog.

> That’s when some colleagues told us about Google BigQuery, which is a Google Cloud services product that allows you to do SQL-style queries on very large data sets. Using BigQuery, code that once took a week to run finished in minutes.

I use BigQuery at work for all my SQL processing, but I'm usually working with data in the 100K to 1M range that take 1 to 10 seconds to process and don't have to think of costs. Does anyone have an idea of what minutes-long queries involving billions of rows would typically cost?
> I would rather render PDF with a native app either as provided by the computer or device or the built in one in Chrome or similar.

This is what PDF.js is...

> PDF.js is built into version 19+ of Firefox.

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
I think that transcript shows GPT-3 emulating the style of the Q&A answers you gave it (terse, dismissive tone; tending to reject the premise of the question asked). I don’t really see the transcript as showing that GPT-3 is actually engaged in a conversation and evaluating the sufficiency of the questions it’s receiving. (And as a language model, there really isn’t any obvious mechanism for it to be doing that.)
How do you fully stop thinking about, e.g., an algorithmic problem when eating or taking a break? I cannot pause my brain like that so the actual limit between working and not working is never clear to me.
Despite Attacks, Software Supply Chain Remains Insecure
A minimal set of composable features is by far my preference for language design, hence reading about PicoLisp. I suppose a large and complicated set of dependencies could form the foundation for a minimal language - something like building a Forth on the JVM - but somehow that feels wrong. Misapplied priors in my reasoning perhaps.
They kind of all are scams. It was how they got people's information preinternet. Usually the fine print will tell you they aren't even giving the car away. The only person I know who won one of those things was very greasey. Had his dirty hands all over a lot of local businesses giving favors getting favors etc. They let his wife film a commercial for pay too lol.
First, not everybody is the same. If you extrapolate behavior like that, you'll incorrectly label some people.

I'm not sure you fully grasped the article. Some people are Barkers like you describe, but others are waiting and wanting to be interrupted. It shows that you are interested and care.
For anyone wondering what value governments provide, it's this. Yes, ProPublica is the one who did the analysis and data viz, but the federal government used some of our income taxes to collect this dataset. This is a clear case of the value that governments can provide with your tax money, and something that almost certainly would not be provided (free of charge!) by the free market.
Mailman 2 ported to Python 3
There's this case where the webmail showed a mangled version of the Unicode character, while in the raw email it's correct. That amused me.
Ofc they don’t. Because they charge A LOT for the service. Even if the chance of the customer paying is just 30% it’s probably still a profit (it’s mostly licensing costs you pay with cloud bills, infrastructure costs are maybe 20% of it; hardware, electricity, cooling). And on the way they can charge a lot of late fees, that raises profit even more.
I am seriously confused. Whats wrong with asking if there is a lesbian github? Also I doubt asking wether there’s a HN for males with bbq bellies who want to talk space travel would get flagged as fast as this post. But i am sure the question you fantasised will.
Yeah, or applying a red filter in really problematic areas would be terrifying IMO:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0647/0254/6158/files/TPB_B...
possibly the origin of named and marketed vulnerabilities.

Heartbleed is older (2014).
Python Decorators: a brief intro with usage examples
Hello there! I am Mukul and would like to share an android application which I recently built to ease the lengthy process of opening WhatsApp chat for a number that is not on our contacts.

I know you might be thinking that there are many alternatives available, what's unique in this?

The uniqueness of this app is that it provides you with option to open WhatsApp chat of any number from anywhere, making the process more handy and accessible. User can achieve this by just long pressing the contact number on dial-pad, browser or anywhere possible and click on "Chat Opener" from the options, this will open the WhatsApp chat for that contact number.
-refer play store screenshots for reference.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mukul.what...
There is a rough start here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32548441
> when you 'ventilate' the house, you are taking the stinky stuffy polluted indoor air and putting it into the environment

This is some different level of ecological concern. People over here straight out burn furniture, rubber, and plastic in their heating units, burn outdoors their green garden waste during autumn, remove faulty catalytic converters and adblue-bulshit from their cars. With adblue removed one can literally smell the brilliance of German automotive engineering. If we're into tightening the regulations, we should start with controlling the home heating units and measuring car exhaust gasses.
Mine -- EE3 -- came without a cap but still works! I've been storing it in a case that blacks it out, but this is something that's good to know regardless.
Hmmm, the featured example "star wars" returns lots of stars in lots of varieties (twinkling night sky, rotating, David's etc. etc.), but nothing related to the movie franchise. I tried "Simpsons" (inspired by the Itchy & Scratchy GIF), that was a lot more successful...
Just a note about the Greek terminal form of sigma: when dealing with Greek numerals, ςʹ (the final form of sigma) is 6 while σʹ (the non-final form of sigma) is 200; they need to be differentiated whatever the font engine decides to render.
I've heard stories of people eating ants and locusts. I don't remember stories of people eating cockroaches. Is someone proposing to eat cockroaches?

> You know what other cultures also do...beheadings

You mean like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn#Death_and_burial or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots#Execution or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine
This is the sort of extremist attitude that alienates the general population from all environmental measures.

Like banning plastic straws while the cups are still plastic, it enrages even many with a moderate amount of goodwill.

I agree we need to treat this seriously and invest a lot of time and effort, but if we don't address first the biggest issues (factories, automobiles), why force me to recycle the exhaust from my cigarette lighter?
Unfortunately it's hardly a modern thing.
Electric car-shaped vehicles are a rounding error comapared to sales of all other types of electric vehicles.

Putting rechargeable batteries into a car form-factor is like strapping a jetpack to a horse. Not the transportation mode of the future.
Please don't give people ideas..
a touch screen that's not up to automotive grade and cheap... it's anything but excessive; maybe only in the screen size.

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39065/tesla-claims-failing-tou...
>If how HN is is what's keeping women out

How is HN keeping women out?

Every comment I've seen in the decade I've been on HN dismissing a woman solely because of the gender has been either downvoted to oblivion, flagged, or even deleted by the mod team.
How Many Fossils to Go an Inch? (Ft. Robert Krulwich) [video]
Wish it had a way to kick off a pod after a certificate is issued, that way I could automate applying the issued certificates to the devices where they'll be used.

(Yeah I currently do this with a cron job so it's not _so_ bad)...
In that case, I better use the website and avoid the app altogether.
Does it work on Macs?
That’s awesome customer service! Thanks for sharing.
I think GP might mean what sort of data throughput would be achievable, but that's also trivially 10Mbps with suitably trivial data, and sending easier than non->/dev/null rx.

Really more a question of what you try to make it do with the link, but it would be fun to see it do some very basic routing/firewalli g for example.
Anybody know their problems with the terms at HackerOne? I admit I don't know HackerOne's term exactly and I'm not that good at reading legalese.
Short fun little piece with pictures.

Edit: now I remember what it reminds me of—stock photo books. Where the most graphic and interesting photos are buildings and garages or toys and this has nothing to do with anything that’s a Non-Stop server. LOL or Service and Support packages…