skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, macOS and Windows
Interesting research question: how to build features to make sharing control less chaotic and potentially moderate abuse.

But the core experience is great. Works flawlessly even on an iPhone. Congrats!
> Yet, C is still slower afterward.

If you read the article you'll learn that in the end the author not only states there isn't any practical difference in the results that the author pulled with their ad-hoc test examples but also points out which non-performant choices were intentionally left in the last example that lead to the 40ms difference (which, again, the author states in no uncertain terms is meaningless)

I don't know how anyone can look at benchmarks of two ad-hoc tests with one of them being intentionally and openly sub-optimal and from that point automatically jump to conclusions over performance traits of a whole programming language. Crazy stuff.
Are you familiar with Tor and .onion links? A decade or so ago, someone set up onion.ws so you could add .ws to any onion link and visit onion sites without running Tor. Eth.link is the same concept, but for .eth domains.

Web3 capable browsers like Brave, etc, can access .eth domains directly. This site was for those that are still a bit behind on the web3 thing.
The "Amazon's Choice" label seems to be almost as gameable as reviews - sellers somehow have a way of creating categories it would take very little work to be #1 in, such as "Amazon's Choice for <company name> flash drive"
I bought one similar fro Ebay for curiosity but then was afraid it might contain some kind of malware on it. If stores allow products with fake specs, they would allow malicious ones as well. This is a bigger concern to me.
How, without an NVIDIA card, and how much is enough VRAM?
Fissure: The RF and Reverse Engineering Framework for Everyone
Thanks for this link. The results spreadsheet has “UHBR10 passed” in the Notes column for those that did:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ1maB_K91Aw...
> So what happens when there are hundreds++ of individuals all interested in a single domain name that will become available at a very well-defined time like this?

One of them receives it and the others do not.

First come first serve.
Doctorow still has a mortgage? (Like, and not because the interest rate is so low that he’d pay it as slow as possible? And even then, why use that as your standard of “having a lot of money”?)

I guess I overestimated the returns to fame?
Why would anyone want to prolong the death of web 3?

Seems inhumane.
I feel like your brewery examples doesn't support your thesis. In brewing we have a couple of mega breweries. There are thousands of upstart local breweries. They have trouble distributing beer because most states have enforced useless middlemen that control this, the liquor distributors. The distributors control whether the local breweries can get on supermarket shelves or into bars. The breweries can't just do this on their own in most states.

And guess who owns most of the liquor distributors. Yes, it is other mega breweries. In reality the booming beer industry would be far advanced if there wasn't the constant sequence of breweries selling out to big beer (because the monopolists limit the ability of the small breweries to grow and succeed). We need to break up the monopolists controlling the industry.
There are a few rules of thumb you can apply:

- Only a tiny minority of your beliefs have any impact on the outcome of your life. Perhaps your concept of [insert social or political policy] or [scientific topic] or [cultural idea] might have been gamed by someone at some point, but ultimately it will rarely matter whether you even hear of these concepts to begin with or not.

- Of the beliefs that remain, these often become pretty defensible through practice and results.

Put another way, there are plenty of barely-literate people who still have lead fascinating and worthwhile lives even in the modern era.
An additional tradeoff is that many safe data structures or algorithms are impossible to implement in safe rust. Doubly linked lists being the canonical example. However I feel like the juice is very much worth the squeeze and most rust developers won’t run into these limitations regularly.
The firmware hacking to fake the size isn't new in the whole fake USB drive scene, the new part of it is that it's being sold on Walmart.com . Some commenters have said it's a marketplace product, but I visited the page and I can't even spot an indicator to say so.
Fast ML in JavaScript with Bun and Flashlight
It’s always weird that we talk about the negative affects of SM but never the positives. For me personally SM has been a big positive in terms of meme culture , finding and joining communities , and learning about topics I never would have in any other case. Am I alone in this ?
I don't disagree with you.

Even so: it's possible for most of it to be "not real" or "something else"-- but still carry a terrifically high disease burden.
Video overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGHbxXXmnms
This person is from a different generation and doesn't realize that everyone else doesn't want to be writing letters. Considering the author also wants IRC to be written ilke a letter this may just be a joke.
> eth.link was last updated on:

> Thursday 25th of August 2022

The linked post is from the same day.
Ask HN: Why does Twitter API require a phone number?
I am interested in exploring Twitter API and tried to register and it says:

There was a problem completing your request
User must have a verified phone number on file prior to submitting application.

I think it is absolutely insane that Twitter want my mobile phone number for their API. I don't think other websites does this.

I am also a little disturbed that it asks:

Will you make Twitter content or derived information available to a government entity or a government affiliated entity?

Is there another way to register without giving a phone number? I am not from the USA and I was thinking about getting another phone number just for these things and keep my actual phone number separate.

Just out of curiosity, are there any other websites or services that does this like Twitter? Asking for a phone number and a government entity question?
https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/ens-partners-wi...

For all the technical effort put into this, one would have hoped some thought would be given to ensure appropriate custody of the eth.link DNS registration.
IME this perception is based on customers using the self service/cc versions of the service.

If what you are doing is important get a sales rep and invoice billing. This is actually tru of any service, but Google is particularly bad. You don't want to be caught up in their automated fight against fraud and abuse
It annoys me to no end that Walmart.com defaults to mostly 3rd party junk when you search. Every single time I have to adjust search settings to ‘in-store’ only, which isn’t a 1 second fix when you’re on mobile just due to network latency.

The only reason I ever buy from Walmart is when I want the product the same day and am willing to drive 10 min to my local store. If that isn’t the case, I have the entire internet of sellers to choose from and it surely isn’t going to be Walmart that I pick.
> The price however gets set by the most expensive supplier.

Because that's how the auction works, but it's misleading, it's the cheapest supplier that can deliver the final GW hour required to satisfy the projected load. Other multiparty auctions with a volume requirement work the same way.
Email spam was already a known problem when I started using email in 1998. By 2010 I had been using custom email addresses for all my contacts for an entire decade, in an effort to combat spam.
Audio books seem to cost like £25 each, but credits are £8 a month. Seems like an absolute no-brainer if what you want to do is actually listen to books? If you're accumulating credits then you shouldn't be subscribed in the first place.
My favorite is the text message that you describe, then many dozens more text messages about different topics. So then I need to either jump on converting the text to an e-mail right away or make sure I remember it and then try to find the text later.

In both cases it is extra effort and cognitive load for me because someone didn't consider the medium. So by favorite thing I mean the opposite. I really hate when other people do t give any thought to the medium/context of a message.
I'd argue nothing about the arbitrarily priced, first come first serve, domain name model is fair at all in the first place.
Translation: "I think fascism in the US has happened but I admit I don't know what it means but I have a subscription to sell you to read why I think so. Hence why I need to redefine it."

> peaceful protesters

Still continuing the lies that the media has projected onto people who cannot critically think but trust everything they say as the truth.
A decentralized service, ~propped up~ exposed by a weak single point of failure, with no organization, and a bus-factor of one is doomed to fail. If it wasn't GoDaddy, it would be something else. Just let it die.
I’m curious why they bothered to add two microSD cards, but I wonder if that somehow actually makes the hack easier? Like maybe the firmware only needs to be patched in one spot to report a fake size when running in “RAID” mode?
This is awesome. I can't think of a website I visit that would not benefit from higher density.
Well, near as I can tell Newegg isn’t much better.

It’s the ‘trying to be the curated next gen shopping experience’ but really being a digital flea market. Which, don’t ever buy furniture at those, they got the name for a reason.
Maybe GoDaddy squatting the domain themselves?
Active discussion on this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32628182
I think it's not obvious because it is out of stock, so no one is selling it. If you find an in-stock item from a third party, it's pretty straightforward.

https://imgur.com/a/tqjlPui
From everything I read online, the majority of costs are fixed -- it's building the fab, not producing each chip.

And obviously current chip shortages have nothing to do with it, nobody's including extra unlockable chips in a shortage for that chip.

If a manufacturer calculates it's more profitable to include unlockable chips, the very fact that it's more profitable means it's a more efficient allocation of resources, therefore not wasting anything. We're not running out of silicon generally speaking, and this isn't a case where there are big environmental externalities not being accounted for.
Newegg is a shitshow. Same problem.

I won’t buy from them anymore. It’s just worse Amazon.
Huge number of people dependent on service, owner incapacitated, GoDaddy able to prevent disruption to service by simply freezing current settings. Not seeing the "out of this world crazy".
"In 2017 Russia used an NSA-created zero-day..."

Ignorant tripe. The NSA might have discovered or purchased it, but they didn't create it.
That's what I came to find out! Thanks!
> Want no bump at all when typing go red.

No, black. Red has an extra high activation point and much lighter springs (marketed to gamers for quicker reactions) that often misfires when the user rests his hand on the board and doesn't take special care not to press anything. Black is the standard office class linear one of the bunch with the weight matching brown and blue.
I’m not understanding this comment. Should women not have the ability to make their own income independently? Are you advocating that feminism purpose (not motivation) was not to ensure basic rights to half our species but to provide human labor to some capital machine ?
This hasn't been true in the UK for at least a few years now
Interesting article:

"C Is Not a Low-level Language" (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479)
Common Lisp Wiki: Naming Conventions
> The hacked firmware writes new data on top of the old data and keeps the directory. It appears to be working, but when you try to access your files, there's nothing there.

I don't understand why someone would release fake products like this. If you're going to sell a fake product, wouldn't you be better off sending like a functioning 0.5TB HDD, or sending a literal brick? Why would you send a fake product that causes data loss?
Not sure on exact products but I'd probably trust B&H [1] over Amazon and Newegg for something like this - if you're worried about getting fake products etc.

In my experience they run a great store. I also don't think they have the kind of third-party seller BS that Amazon and Walmart do.

[1] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/
"two 512MB Flash drives"

https://nitter.net/RayRedacted/status/1563021492157579264?re...
Global warming. There is a German entomologist who thinks this is the most likely explanation (or the largest contributor). Iirc the insect population declines everywhere. Also in woodland where roundup is not applied.
I'd recommend reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41795733-range if only to see why being a generalist is another option. You should feel free to allow yourself the flexibility to switch your interests as you change throughout your life.
Good guide :)

Brings back memories of horror and achievement from my PFY-Geeks-Days while "chanting" smb.conf files and clicking on Network Neighbourhood (hoping against all hope) ! #goodtimes :)
The reading of that phrase is "if something seems to good to be true, then it isn't [true]".

It seems unhelpful that both "it is" and "it isn't" can be used to convey "it's not as good as it appears", though.
Hammer and Tickle (2006)
There are hundreds of these on Amazon. Amazon could have some person spend a few hours a day nuking the clearly fraudulent products, but they dgaf and do not.
Which comes first, x/2 < x or x < 2x ?

I think mathematical statements don't have causes but constraints. Could be that the universe is somehow constrained to exist because of some incredibly abstract truth.
Intel fanboys whine about Apple/Intel CPU comparisons, here is their answer.

The takeaway from the story: connecting a bunch of shitty chiplets together makes a shitty SoC. Except this time, Intel paid TSMC a buttload of money to make their shitty design.
First, have you asked yourself why you want to be an expert in many things? If it is just to know things, then it doesn't matter; just keep learning until you can't anymore. If it is to apply the knowledge to something, then you can use that fact to determine how much utility over time the knowledge of each thing would have, and focus on the greatest first.
I use the hard drive category on pcpartpicker.com, sorted by price per GB. You can then filter by seller and total size if you have other constraints.

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#sort=...

Also be sure to check external drives. Sometimes it's cheaper to buy one of those and then discard the enclosure.

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/external-hard-drive/#sort=...
eth.link isn't a decentralized service. this is like mistaking archive.org for the internet. ens is still humming along
How to create a blog using Hugo and GitHub Pages
IMO running a managed runtime like .NET inside a container isn't done as a security measure (like sandboxing) - instead it's done for uniformity and ease of deployment to the infinite number of cloud services/hosting providers that understand containers. Making it easy to make containers for .NET applications means that it's easy to go to any hosting model of your choice, instead of waiting for $NEXT_BIG_CLOUD to provide .NET-runtime runners for their bespoke service.
FWIW, the Odin compiler seems to be written in C++. Are there any plans to make it self hosted?
This guy (or girl, who am I to say) gets it.
Actually, both are correct. But leaves has a second meaning which makes it ambiguous.

If the point of communication is to enhance clarity and avoid ambiguity then leafs is obviously the smarter choice.

https://procopytips.com/leafs-or-leaves/
Countries Where Garmin InReach Devices May Be Regulated, Prohibited or Embargoed
Author there, that is something, I thought about covering but it is a larger topic that probably needs its own article. It is not merely about the advantage of the latin alphabet, but also about the screw press which was not known in China, which feeds into a much larger and quite interesting story. Another aspect is metallurgy. Gutenberg was a goldsmith. There is also an interesting story about gold smiths and metal working in general was not as prevalent in China despite the fact that China actually had large scale steel production before Europeans.

Metal working is an important part of the story of the printing press, because metal types was an important invention. Metal types existed in China to some degree but they did not get made in the revolutionary way Gutenberg made them.
You specifically brought up Alpha Go dismissing the conventional wisdom on how Go should be played. Many of the things we thought we knew about the game turned out to be wrong and the game as a whole was turned on its head.

None of that applies to music. Nobody who studies this stuff seriously is under any sort of illusion that 12-TET is the "right" way to play music. I know a fair few professional musicians, and I've "talked shop" with as many of them as I could, and the deficiencies of 12-TET recurringly come up. There is nothing here to "dismiss".

Don't get me wrong: The idea of computationally-optimised tuning sounds really interesting, and the discussion of what we should be optimising for would itself be fascinating to follow. It's just that people are already doing that sort of thing manually today, so there's no big "oh no we're doing it wrong" dismissal of the status quo waiting at the end.
> I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough

> If you are this kind, how do you decide which things to work on?

First step:

- You need to be an expert in prioritisation!
I'm not reading through all that. If you have a single link that lays out your case put it here.

Your claim was A laptop exists, yes, but it doesn't mean it's Hunter's or has his information.

NYT discusses authenticated Hunter Biden emails from the laptop.

Unless you're claiming that someone secreted authentic emails onto an inauthentic laptop?

Honestly, this thread is less about the laptop than about government institutions suppressing the story.

But, advancing claims with which you already agree is easy. If you want to be the Master of the Laptop, falsify each of the claims in this article. [The National Tragedy of Hunter Biden's Laptop - Tablet Magazine](https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-nationa...)
Because it increases the length of time between your fake product being sold and the return claims/consumers calling shenanigans get you kicked off of the platform. If they opened the box and see a brick, or plug it in and only see half a terabyte of capacity, they will immediately start a return.

Unless you are the rare type who thoroughly tests all storage you buy before you use it, it is likely you would be backing up data to this and be blissfully unaware of what it is doing until much later, and even then it's likely you'll think of the drive as defective, rather than intentionally sold as fraudulent.
I wonder are there tools to visualize a particular area of interest. Could be used to identify duplicate results (not a bad thing), useless results, or contradicting results (possible fraud, error or even ground breaking). When I read too deeply in almost any area I lose the forest for the trees, authors are great at rigorously describing in english what they are doing but it overflows my stack. I wish there was a way to map it semi-permanently so I could say aha yes this result looks like this on my map of the domain. Does such a general tool exist?
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/after-choosing-to-keep-t... if you don't want to wrestle with ft's paywall.
> My thought is, if you peel back the first layer of music theory, you discover a chaotic, lawless world.

That's because some people think the theory comes first, and the music is based on it. But music is just art, like any other art. The rules are soft and broken and hardly gospel. And music theory is an attempt to have some way to communicate about music using ordinary language. It isn't math, it isn't science, it's just some basic terminology and observations, none of which have much to do with the actual artistic act of making music.
But morally you can't impose unreasonably large costs on person A in order to give to person B. There are a lot of benefits to the customers of contract killers, but we don't allow it for good reasons.
I'm not sure about Godaddy, but on Gandi you can definitely pay to extend someone else's domain name.

https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/renew/how_to_renew.ht...
This is almost impossible to control. The amount of staffing and expertise needed to do this at scale across all product styles and segments is just impossible to maintain. There are no laws or any repercussions at all to allowing fake items on their stores, so Amazon and Walmart will not do anything about them. Problem is if someone does the right thing and weeds out all the scams from their site they will not have enough products and because of economies of scale they can’t offer the price Amazon or Walmart can offer. So essentially these scam items are giving them market pricing power. It’s almost impossible to beat, and I am sure that is why Walmart jumped into the game themselves.
> owner incapacitated

Owner deliberately created a bus factor issue and decided to violate sanctions against North Korea.
Don't forget the irony that the decentralized web is now effectively owned by Godaddy, the horrible corrupt company that largely inspired web 3.0 in the first place.
This is why Gandi.net policy to let anyone renew domain name is amazing.
I wouldn't generalize from it - certainly not into some simple rule. And I'm a bit confused because I banned you but not immigrantheart or krapp, and my memory doesn't go back 3 days. Most likely I saw your post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32593415 in some other context (for example reviewing a list of flagged posts) and didn't realize it was from this thread.

It doesn't feel fair to ban you from this thread after posting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32598207, so I'm going to unban you (even though that comment was about immigrantheart and not you).

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not posting things like "lay off the adderall dumbass" in the future, we'd appreciate it.

As for the question you were curious about: when two accounts are breaking the site guidelines badly in a spat, it's much easier to ban both accounts - people instinctively react like "well, I might not agree with him but at least he's being fair". If we only ban one account and leave the other unbanned even though they were breaking the site guidelines just as badly, the bar for community acceptance is much higher, because people instinctively feel like it's unfair and we're taking a side—even if there really is a good reason and it has nothing to do with taking a side.

I use the word "instinctively" on purpose because we all have these reactions, including small children, and of course they've been observed in other primates. It's a strong force and much easier to go with it than to fight it.

It does not follow that there's some sort of general rule about never banning just one account in an argument (we still do that often enough), and I would hope that if anyone tried to exploit the above as some sort of loophole, we'd eventually catch that and ban them for it.

One other thing to realize is that we mostly ban accounts for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines, and most accounts that do that have a tendency to keep doing it. So if we don't ban them in one context, there will likely be another bannable offense soon enough—and if not, that's great anyhow and we don't need to ben them. We only ban accounts because of their expected future behavior.