skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fundamental confusion borne of the historical accident that resulted in digital computers being called "computers" instead of "switches" or "controllers" or "logics" or "coders" or "analytical engines" or "programmable data processors" or something.

Analog "computers" are a totally different kind of thing. You can't run a compiler, solve an equation, play chess, or encrypt a message on an analog computer. It's not that they do those things slower or more expensively or in more space than digital "computers"; they just can't do them at all. (Except by simulating a digital computer, of course.)

We call computers "computers" because the first ones were built to do what analog "computers" do: numerical integration of ordinary differential equations, like Modelica does. (Eventually they were faster and cheaper than analog computers at that, but it took 20 years in many cases, and even today, we use analog circuits for things like RF downconversion.) But they can also do those other things.

In theory, the relationship with quantum computers is kind of similar. Quantum computers can in theory do anything a reversible classical digital computer can do in a similar number of operations, and also some other things (though probably not, say, solve SAT in polynomial time.) And classical digital computers can simulate QC, but as with simulating a digital computer on an analog one, the simulation is so inefficient as to be infeasible in all but trivial cases.

But maybe that's backwards? Does it depend on your efficiency metric? Certainly you need quite a lot of GPUs to approach the cost of a dilution refrigerator. We'll see.
SPARC didn't exactly set the world on fire.
They will not get the funding for good terms, I know that almost for sure now.
Yeah, on a non-logged-in system I watch YT on, I watched exactly ONE gaming-related video, and now suddenly the "home" view is full of Minecraft, Roblox, whatever FPS shooters, etc... Like... I'm not suddenly absolutely obsessed with a topic because I viewed one video, guys...
"The first thing that came to mind was that most startups have the same problems. No two have exactly the same problems, but it's surprising how much the problems remain the same"

I'm out.
> Although not sure "stupid and shallow" is fair

Just being honest with my best guess, a lot of people around here are even grumpier and more rigid than me.

I feel you, it is sometimes disappointing.

If you're really curious on how your submission's fate was sealed, I suggest emailing le Dang (hn@ycombinator.com). He's extremely polite and quite pleasant, and has always been generous in answering my questions.

One tip: always search https://hn.algolia.com first. Frequently he just pastes a link to there, because he's answered the question so many times previously.
Have you seen Veritasium's analog revival video?

Some analog systems could be used as cheaper accelerators (like GPUs) for ML.
For what it's worth on October 2 2020 I was lucky enough to get a 3080 for a retail price of 699.99. (This was only possible due to using a bot for personal use since Covid may everything nuts). Adjusted for inflation this would be around $800 today. There's two more months until launch so the 4080 card is maybe 80 to 90 dollars above inflation.
Good news for Bitcoin, as long as SHA-256 remains secure forever.
The high cost, installation/electrical issues (while in use and after it is uninstalled.), annd inconvenience is part of the intended punishment.

I’ve seen people do interesting things to avoid getting interlocks installed. In that state if you owned a business an interlock must be installed in all company vehicles. People will sign over vehicles to family members. Some buy a beater car to have the interlock installed on and only start the car a couple times a month to log the minimum amount of starts required for compliance which is checked monthly for an additional fee.
Come on, you could have googled it instead of just guessing.

Eg https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/20059

> Yes - manifest v2 extensions will be supported by Brave We'll be taking steps as V2 is sunset by Chromium team (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/)

>During the deprecation period, we can keep this functionality via patch (since it's there for Enterprise). After V2 is pulled from store, we'll need to stand up our own extension store for manifest v2
Its pretty amazing being able to see skyscrapers by city. New york is a lot of fun: https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=207
I will. I just abstract it to a normal job now. And NOBODY is doing a work for free right ;)
The reason you don't get it is that taking away the functional part of onBeforeRequest() doesn't really help with privacy. Because extensions can, for example, still inject arbitrary javascript if those permissions are in the manifest.

What it really does is ensure that adblockers can't do heuristics, and instead have to rely solely on semi-static lists of urls. That's a nice outcome if you're a company that makes most of their money from ads.

There's not really a nice way to say that aloud though, so trying to make it sound it's a way of ensuring extensions honor privacy and security sounds better.
I use a VPN, for perfectly legitimate reasons (I travel a lot, and most internet services assume that your IP address also indicates your nationality, citizenship, language, bank account country, etc. Being able to change IP source country is vital).

Some VPN exit addresses have obviously been flagged as "bad" by Cloudflare and I get challenged with CAPTCHAs from some countries. It's an interesting experience, but luckily my VPN provider has enough exits that I can usually switch to one that has better reputation with Cloudflare.

Obviously, none of this is helping the internet be a better place from my point of view. I get that it's part of the ongoing fight against bots and spam, but it always feels so arbitrary. IP addresses are interchangeable, folks - they say nothing about the nature of the request. Or rather, for a large majority they do, but there's us minority that don't obey those rules and resent getting caught up in it.
the notion of commonality exists in the head of the observer because it's a useful fiction. (even 'the horse' itself is). But that is a subjective form of existence, what Jakob von Uexküll called one's "Umwelt" (the world as it presents itself to you). There's no reason to believe it precedes matter, or that triangles exist in a world without anyone to conceive of them.

edit: there's a great talk by Daniel Dennett on the topic that luckily still is up on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20161125135644/https://www.youtu...
https://github.com/yattee/yattee

This may be in your interests if you have an Apple TV.

I think it supports iPad, as well.
Add another 1 to your army. We all know how Typelevel Scala ended.
The index is just the first step according to news articles:

> Once the index has been created, the next step is to develop search applications.

> The team at TU Graz will be particularly active here in the CoDiS Lab and will work on the conception and user-centric aspects of the search applications. This includes, for example, research into new search paradigms that enable searchers to have a say in how the search takes place. The idea is that there are different search algorithms or that you can influence the behavior of the search algorithms. For example, you could search specifically for scientific documents or for documents with arguments, include search terms that have already been used, or include documents from the intranet in the search.

https://www.krone.at/2791083
Alright well fair enough. Looks like that’s only been supported since Fx 70 released somewhere in 2019. So maybe don’t do that depending on what you intend to block. But then again it’s been 3 years also.

In general though the whole tone of parent of “I am owed access to someone else’s computer system on my and my terms alone” just doesn’t jive with me. It’s also not remotely comparable to Cloudflare’s approach of sitting in the middle snd then appropriating end-user compute resources without their consent to fuel their business.
Request-scoped DI (as seen in ASP.NET MVC) is great on the backend for servicing requests. You can ask for e.g. a class representing the current user information to be injected anywhere, or to keep track of request-associated state like opentelemetry spans, or a transaction, etc. The alternative is to pass the user information class or transaction to all other services, which can be annoying

Its rarely seen in the ecosystem as a solution, unfortunately (everyone is passing all arguments all the time), but its one of the rare places where this is still useful. I've had bad experience with the alternative (continuation local storage) and its not nearly as elegant.
There was a bit of a resurgence of CW during the pandemic. I know a few people who took to learning it during that time. Will it continue? I don’t know but there seems to be more CW traffic than SSB some days. So it’s certainly not dying.
Amazon really, really likes to recommend me a wide variety of shower curtains after buying one, 4 years ago.

Give it a rest already.
If you actually subscribe to channels you like when logged in, you'll get much better recommendations. I have over a 100. (And no, all of the recommendations aren't from my subscribed channels, it's a mix of them which have newer videos and similar videos to my subscriptions.)
GeForce RTX 4090, RTX 4080 GPU Roundup
I'm a 3 hr plane ride from my parents. I have a sibling who lives in my city too but I see them only once every few months or so.

I have a largeish family so I've always felt more comfortable away from family because it allows me to redefine myself without so much baggage from the past.
Regulations? You mean the same mechanism ISPs, food companies, "sin taxable" companies, etc use to capture entire segments of the market and price fix their way to a billion dollar profit? Or the regulations that nearly sank Tesla in the cradle that existed for no reason other than politicians are as corrupt, if not more, than the worst CEOs?

99.9% of the time regulation is unnecessary. Over-regulation is a huge problem and one that only an actual theoretical free market could address. I see people on HN complaining about last mile politics often. Yet people seem hard pressed to look to the free market for a solution. I'd rather deal with a corrupt CEO whose power will end when their life does, rather than a politician whose power will continue for centuries until someone with a few more brain folds steps in and stops it.
> a northbound pickup truck, which was occupied by an adult driver and seven passengers, ranging in age from 6 to 15 years old

(Additional information about the crash indicates that only 5 of the 8 passengers in the pickup were restrained)

So eight people were crammed into a pickup, 3 weren't wearing seatbelts.
Did you Block or just report?
There has been lots of studies done on Mid-Life Crisis; assuming it is Real it seems to involve Genetic, Biological, Psychological and Social factors. So you have to consider each one in turn, interpret it in your specific context and then take action.

Here are some resources that you may find helpful:

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midlife_crisis

2) https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02206-x

3) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/the-rea...

4) https://openthemagazine.com/science/the-genetic-origins-of-a...

5) https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/am-i-having-a-midlif...

6) There is a tradition of "mind training" in Tibetan Buddhism called Lojong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojong) which you may want to study, learn from and put into practice. These are basically a set of practical advice/sayings/aphorisms/proverbs/etc. which teach you how to develop/modify your attitudes and perceptions towards life/other people/yourself in general. It was developed in the context of Buddhist practice but you can easily transfer the principles outside of it. A good starting point is the book Essential Mind Training: Tibetan Wisdom for Daily Life translated by Thupten Jinpa.
https://archive.ph/cBRhl
I've been using a cron job to watch/download my watch later playlist so I can view the videos on plex at a later time: https://github.com/nburns/utilities/blob/master/youtube.fish...

Theres another script that deletes watched videos from the specific youtube plex library every night.

It works great as long as you remember to remove the videos from your watched later playlist before watching them on plex. (Have yet to find out a simple way to automate playlist removal)
I've always tried to use monorepos to avoid different repos getting out of date and to avoid managing which versions work with which versions.

Updating dependencies is harder with a monorepo but for that I've tried to have as many unit and e2e tests as possible to try and make it a case of bump the version and assume no test failures means it worked (of course I do manual testing but if the tests worked it's likely that any problems will be small).
I think they already did. It took me so much mental energy. Even though I kind of expected this situation to happen a few weeks ago already.
The interesting thing is that is some ways this is a return to pre-modern era of lossy information transmission between the generations. Every story is re-molded by the re-teller. Languages change and thus the contextual interpretations. Even something a seemingly static as a book gets slowly modified as scribes rewrite scrolls over centuries.
In some other companies I've seen (not my own), step 1 is "Designate the scapegoat".

:-)
The link doesn’t say much. We’ll have to just wait and see if they are serious about, say, calls of violence against apostasy.
If you stick to a few useful types like `Option` and `Either`/`TaskEither` you can get a lot of value out of it when writing server side code, particularly when combined with `io-ts` for safely parsing data.

If you go all in and use every utility it provides to write super succint FP code, it can get pretty unreadable.
His argument is that by buying a miner card, you're validating strategy of miners, which are considered "bad actors" by gamers and environmentalists. If you intentionally decline buying a miner card, you're helping to make miner activity less profitable, thus doing the "right thing".
I've got one to recycle.
The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth
You don't need uMatrix to block all third party cookies, in both Firefox and Chromium that is a build in option.

And I don't think that option is as good as IDCAC (or Consent-O-Matic [0]) + CookieAutoDelete. With those two add-ons even first party cookies are deleted, while you don't need to close banners all the time.

[0] https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
I emailed Tim O’Reilly in ~2001 and suggested they release PDF versions of their “Pocket Guide” reference books. I wanted to be able to have all of my pocket guides on my Sharp Zaurus (Linux handheld with keyboard, color screen, and Wi-Fi).

He went for it and offered me PDF copies of every Pocket Guide as a thank you.
The source for the $22m amount in Wikipedia [1] actually gives that amount as just the licensing cost, which fits the $20-25m figure given in the game's Wikipedia article, from a few other sources. It appears that the Wikipedia list is assuming there were actually no development costs that were significant compared to the licensing.

[1]: https://www.avclub.com/howard-scott-warshaw-1798208406
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(vi...
The Cost of Partial Automation
For me it recommends exactly what I watch - I've never seen any recommendation for stuff I don't watch.

The trouble seems to be it can't seem to find anything new. So if anything, I'd want it to branch out a bit and find semi-related stuff, but it doesn't.

You're not the first person to complain about YouTube recommendations, and I don't know why my experience is so different than yours.
About 20% of the time the station cameras don't even work. I find it simultaneously mind boggling that there hasn't already been a full in-car surveillance rollout and that this is what they are spending MTA money for in 2022.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the best selling game of 2007 and sold over 16M copies.

All the future games were just derivatives of what was a fairly genre-defining game.

The game’s campaign is generally regarded as the best the series ever had. It moved away from the very popular world war or sci-fi games that dominated while striking close to home for the post-9/11 generations of gamers who were impacted by the ramped-up wars going on in the Middle East.

The multiplayer for the rest of the series was especially derivative of cod4 as it has basically been a few extra weapons and exorbitant “win more” kill streaks.
It's relevant where the resources come from. If a city depends on importing from nearby or distant fields (as well as distant mines and factories), what happens if the people who live in those places do not want their land exploited for the benefit of city dwellers? That is why civilization is based on violence: https://derrickjensen.org/endgame/premises/
What are the benefits from this?

I'm not trying to be dismissive, it's just my feeling from working on search.marginalia.nu is that nearly every aspect of search benefits from locality, not only is the full crawl-set instrumental in determining both domain rankings and relevance signals on a term-level such as anchor tag keywords; but the way an inverted index is typically set up is extremely disk cache friendly where the access pattern for checking the first document warms up the cache for the other queries, but that discount obviously only exists when it's the same cache.
Thanks. I should really dedicate a weekend to setting something like that up on all my devices. I'm willing to put up with bad recommendations if I know they don't get a cent out of my views.

Sort yourself out, Google.
Same. We had a "keep your disk" policy with both HP and Dell. Newer managers and directors hated it because they saw the price-tag and did not understand the incredible value it brought to the sales team when discussing security and privacy. We gained significant confidence from large prospects and customers when they learned we physically shredded disks and logged each serial number. This was in addition to the customer data being encrypted at-rest.
WSJ piece on McCourt : https://archive.ph/m796c

Project Liberty: https://www.projectliberty.io/

Edit and fixed typo: MeWe: https://mewe.com/

Their finance model is clearly specified in the faq as "freemium". Seems pretty cool.
uMatrix has been unmaintained for 2 years and has known vulnerabilities[1]. Time to move to another extension.

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2021/07/15/umatrix-has-an-unfixed-vul...
I'm not surprised by this. I gave up on the YouTube Home page, etc. years ago and I only look at the Subscriptions page. I've just found new channels to subscribe to through word of mouth over the years and I have more than enough content to choose from.
Backend doesn't need to deal with animations, styling, browser support, responsiveness, etc.
I just want the real agile back.

The nice thing about a deadline is the tech illiterate understand them just as well as the people building it do. You can check in and have stand ups about the deadline all you want. You can even track work in tickets. Just no pointing. Ever.
paying customers and popular open source repos can go well beyond 5GB. GHEC customers have a 5GB limit per file in git-lfs.
What they're really saying is, "I can't build it with GCC", but that would sound too evangelical. Why they need GCC is another question.

Note to whoever I've angered: Please, don't reply with your reasoning why you need GCC. I don't care about your reasoning and that GCC unlike LLVM supports this platform that only used on calculators made by defunct company and sold whole 3 of them.
This might be okay in isolation, but eventually as the entire team of engineers start to underdeliver, the team and company does get affected in terms of feature rollouts / velocity, and it's difficult to recover from it. People won't want to suddenly correct / do more work even if it's crucial, and they can point to their previous underestimated commitments and say that is a full week's worth of work. YMMV as with anything, but not knowing a team's true velocity does affect planning and sales.
Unfortunately Tiktok is the only platform that nails it for me. It regularly manages to find old hobbies or interests back into the rotation,

Youtube’s recommendations are just matching my most recent searches while occasionally throwing in Nazi crap I never asked for.
You’re likely duplicating a lot of business logic between the frontend and backend. You can do it, but if you forgot to update one implementation, it could get ugly fast.
Dota 2 added a (paid) “avoid player” option, where the matchmaker will not match them with you no matter what. It's definitely possible.

https://win.gg/news/dota-2-avoid-player-feature-improved-as-...
I've got a Model 102 which is pretty much the same computer, only manufactured later. I mostly used it as a terminal for UHF amateur packet radio (9600bps FSK) back before there were any turnkey solutions for that.

Rumor has it that the Model 100 contained the very last Microsoft product in which Bill Gates wrote any code.
The trick to improving YouTube recommendations is to regularly prune uninteresting videos and channels. Eventually this should start surfacing videos you're more likely to find interesting.

I've actually hit the end of my recommendation stream on the mobile app after marking dozens of videos with Not Interested. Once this happens it starts recommending videos you've already watched or older videos from creators you've been watching lately.

Personally, I'd love it if you could curate the recommendation system a bit more. I'm never interested in rewatching stuff I've already seen. And the recency bias for recommendations means you're always getting more if what you've recently consumed. I'd like it if more older interests were mixed in. Finally, I'd love to be able to blacklist certain topics and games entirely.

There's so much missed potential with YouTube recommendations.

Some might say that you can still use search, but that has been crippled to include unrelated recommendations after one page of results. Not only that, I want YouTube to help me discover new content. When the recommendation system works and it shows me new kinds of interesting stuff, it's superb. TikTok is eating YouTube's lunch in this regard.

Edit: forgot to mention this. On mobile if you do a recommendation refresh it'll show a New to You filter which you can use to explore more diverse recommendations. I don't know why it's hidden in this manner.
Watching 'Spirited Away' again, and again
Which is actually quite a good way to find youtube channels! I find them through twitter, 4ch, and friends.
obviously there was no time to discuss this with a committee.

Could HN's implementation, ARC, be considered a racket scheme if postings were termed volleys of text
I didn't realize that digitization of all historical works was the goal of unicode. There's plenty of space for everything. And only a few fonts out there aim for complete coverage, like noto.

I just don't have the personal fortitude to attempt something so grandiose. Seems like a fool's errand.

Also, keep in mind there's not just one multiocular O. There's a bunch with varying numbers of eyes.
There's no IP protection for ideas for stories. Regardless, almost no fiction shop is going to agree to print a book on spec, just off a story pitch. Write the book first. Then you already have protection, in the form of copyright (which is automatic and doesn't require registration).
FYI this extension recognizes pop-ups and automatically fills them out based on your preferences. Currently open sourced

https://consentomatic.au.dk/
I don't know what you're trying to say - the ads you're running into are explicitly working to bypass your adblocking?