skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad these "listening sessions" actually resulted in anything positive. From my experience the "listening" at these meetings rarely results in action. I was in the final stretch of my phd when the administration decided to "reorganize" my department by splitting it up so they could take part of it and combine it with two other departments into a fancy "school" that they could use as a selling point. We had multiple "listening sessions" where we explained that maybe disbanding our interdisciplinary department wasn't a good idea. Guess what happened? They did exactly what they wanted and the professors I worked with are now spread to the four winds in different departments and some have left. But they got some multimillionaire to donate some money to put his name on the new school so they got what they wanted. Luckily, I got my degree before the changes went into effect.
We have a government made of Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho clones

That's the sort of patently false misinformation being propagated through the internet and social media these days that makes it difficult for us as a society to properly assess and deal with our problems.

President Camacho believed in listening to the best experts he could lay his hands on to advise him. He was not at all anti-intellectual. He's nothing like many of the people in congress.

He was better.
> Luzzi explained to students that he didn't need IRB approval for his sensors because they weren't "monitoring people." A student countered, what was being monitored, "if not people?" Luzzi replied that he was monitoring "heat sources."

An actual human adult said that with a straight face?
Back then initial price may have had nothing to do with actual out to door price - as initial price was often set before the machines even could ship at all, let alone in quantity.
Yes but I don't see how that's in any way comparable to wanting a certified collector's item.

Validating our software as unmodified is really just digital oppression. It's a violation of our dignity as users and human beings. We have all these corporations shipping literal data harvesting and advertisement displaying malware and there's not a thing we can do about it because they have usurped control of our computers.

Who does this "validation" serve? Not us. It serves the "stakeholders". It gives them confidence that we won't be running software that harms their interests.
It was an almost cartoonishly bad plan, and the book makes clear that everyone expected to be arrested at the border. They even had a letter of protest ready to go in case the guards opened the trunk, but nobody expected it would matter (except that of course the diplomats would eventually be expelled rather than imprisoned.) The border guards were “carefully searching the other cars” but ignored the British diplomats’ vehicles except for one pass with the dogs. Which is totally consistent with KGB incompetence and a desire not to kick off a diplomatic incident, but also totally absurd given that they had received positive intelligence that Gordievsky was working for the British and had deliberately shaken his tail.
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The title makes it look like this was a dangerous conclusion when it states:

> The sporadic presence and trace quantities of COVID-19 vaccine mRNA detected in EBM suggest that breastfeeding after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination is safe, particularly beyond 48 hours after vaccination.
> IT security is pretty catastrophic (German law makes it hard to do it properly, it's much stricter than e.g. the corresponding US law)

To chime in on this, if you're in Germany and report a security vulnerability to a vendor there's a very good chance you'll get a criminal investigation, house searched, computers/phones seized for a long time etc. in return. Often in combination with a cease and desist or civil charges.

It's not a good idea to approach vendors directly with findings in general, but in Germany doing that can seriously screw your life up.

I wouldn't do security research in Germany at all. If you have talents in the area, just go to the US.
Not to a hobbyist, unfortunately, especially when Hercules does the job just as well (AFAIK, at least) and is free.

Compared to what you pay for the hardware and a support contract and the OS license, it is practically free.

But I don't understand why IBM doesn't just run z/VM on a mainframe and allows hobbyists to run their own VM with an operating system of their choice. Doesn't even have to be free! Five or ten bucks a month for one or two vCPUs and a GiB of RAM would be acceptable to me.

I get that due to the high profit margins[0], mainframes are a real cash cow for IBM, but it's sad they complete ignore the low-end market to preserve those margins.

[0] Last I heard, the mainframe divisions generates 10% of IBM's revenue, but 25% of the profits, so those margins must be juicy.
There’s also a nostalgia factor that comes in waves - many people who want to relive the glory days want exactly what they had when young - others want the hot rod they always dreamed of.
You’ve gone from maybe a dual core processor and 8gb of ram, 500gb of mechanical storage and 512kbps internet w/ a gigabit mic to a 24core processor, up to 128gb of ram, SSDs, gigabit internet to see only a 2.5x speed increase in ethernet?

Edit: to be clear I don’t expect he same rate of growth due to the lack of use at speeds upwards of 10gbe for the average user, but over a 20 year span, 10gbe should be commodity hardware.
For what cause?
The problem is getting out before things drop, and getting back in when the drop is "over":

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/10/the-psychology-of-s...

By sitting in cash you're also losing money through inflation:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-cost-of-waiting/

At the end of the day you should always be invested, and if you're worried about market undulations then you should own some bonds. And besides reducing gyrations, bonds give another advantage: a source of 'dry powder'.

If stocks get "too high" you rebalance by selling off some equities and buying bonds to 'lock in' the returns. When stocks drop you rebalance again by selling off bonds and 'buying low' in equities. Bonds/diversification can really help returns:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2010/12/17/the-lost-de...

At least in Canada you can get "all-in-one" ETFs that do this rebalancing automatically:

* https://www.youngandthrifty.ca/picking-the-best-all-in-one-e...
Second this. The company I work for had countless issues with this model. Stuck keys, heat, stuck drag and drop, touchpad unclickable at top.
They arent very intersting. They are just grids of ccds, not fundimentally different than those in consumer devices. Rather than build bigger they just stack them into arrays. It is far cheaper to adjust the camera's optical design to use a larger focal plane than create a bespoke sensor with higher resolution/density.

One visual difference would be that they dont have the rgb grid filters of consumer devices, which is why all astronomical images start off as black and white.
> As for the actual facts, 32-bit RISC-V is very dense, but Thumb2 was better at some point

Seeing a graphical library being a part of the benchmark, it reminded me of the Acorn Risc Machine origins: a graphical workstation in which the processor does the bitmapping. Naturally Thumb2, as a descendant, would be strong here, and those instructions also work out for crypto.

My second point would be, as you imply, that RISCV has a mostly unused code space, which could be filled in to make it more performant. To make it comparable to thumb2 that would mean adding bit-shifting instructions, notably lacking from RISCV, like the ARM has. Your comment is spot on.

Third, at best this is a benchmark for high-end embedded systems, not what I would call embedded, a market which would be better served with a genuine operating system, if not for the power requirements that would entail.

Lastly, there's competition for their benchmark in the form of a RISC-V backed initiative, by the same name, targeting embedded, quoting:

"Dhrystone and Coremark have been the defacto standard microcontroller benchmark suites for the last thirty years, but these benchmarks no longer reflect the needs of modern embedded systems. Embench™ was explicitly designed to meet the requirements of modern connected embedded systems. The benchmarks are free, relevant, portable, and well implemented"

That benchmark puts thumb at a 7% advantage: https://youtu.be/xX0krFFvlUM?t=1200, but is comparing to a slightly extended RV32IMC.
Are you going to add a real human, a deepfake human or a stick xkcd-like graphic? (is the last option possible?)

Do you have some proof of concept video?
I’ve been a bit of a Thinkpad fanatic ever since my dad got a T42p somewhere in 2004. I have been on Thinkpads since 2006. I bought old ones on eBay and now have a collection of about 15 machines. The 700c, two butterfly keyboard 701cs, the 240 and a lot more. I’m currently on a T495s.

From my experience I can say that the “old IBM machines were reliable and well constructed” is not true. They were bulky and over time, everything breaks. Especially the heavy stuff as bulky things take so much more wear & tear. The newer machines are much thinner and lighter and still very good. At least the T and X lines. I exclusively buy Thinkpads for my team and have been very happy with them.

The only thing I really miss is the thinklight. Not super useful, but it was just so cool.

Edit: I always buy barely used machines of about 2 years old, this seems to be the most cost effective.
> there is neither a strong security mindset nor a realistic option to implement meaningful security in infrastructure that often as not is decades

Honestly, there is the opposite of a strong security mindset over here. Just a year ago, a security expert found an app of a major party leaking data of thousands of private persons - it was basically a web application without authorization. She tried to disclose this responsibly and naturally got sued due to unauthorized access to computer systems. Lilith Wittman is the person if you want to look further into it.

That's the standard here for security topics.

And if you keep digging into prosecution of cyber criminality, or at least actions of the state to increase cyber security, or at least actions to increase competency in cyber topics, it just gets worse. For example, they are looking for cyber security experts to join the police and state departments, but because they'd be working in various kinds of police jobs... they have to go through the same fitness and endurance tests as all police officers. Casual things like 12 minute runs, obstacle courses under pressure. Things IT-Nerds are good at.

I might have been interested some time ago, but currently that's just a recipe for criminal charges and disappointment.
Being the fantasy-loving creatures that we are, theater always replaces reality, sooner or later.

The costumes. The magic language. The shiny apparatus. The heroic striving. All necessary props in the drama. Ticket sales are good.
I’m the student who wrote the twitter thread. Let me know if you have any questions!
I feel bad for you having to deal with this stuff.

It is strange how they often cite religious beliefs, but if they firmly believe in "god" why are they always willing to go to such great lengths to prevent dying?

This is VERY unfortunate in Canada because these people cost the country a small fortune for no real reason. There was a story a while ago about an individual, 70+ and braindead, family fought and fought to keep him alive. I cant help but wonder if they had to pay, would they have continued to fight?
Kerbal Space Program provided glimpses of this for me. Leaving the home planet and getting into orbit after hours of trial and error, then eventually heading towards the Mun and then other planets was a sort of virtual Overview Effect. I didn't have any attachment to the home planet (and the idea of much of the game is to leave in the first place) but leaving and then looking around while enjoying the first moment in orbit/arriving at a new planet was a big 'Woah!' in my gaming life.
As a camera nerd, it's really something to behold [1].

There's some more older stuff on their website [2]; the test images from 2020 were a whopping 31694x31646.
They have interactive zoomable images for those here [3].

[1] https://twitter.com/VRubinObs/status/1577050134218694656

[2] https://gallery.lsst.org/bp/#/folder/2334394/

[3] https://www.slac.stanford.edu/~tonyj/osd/public/
This discussion makes a good point about how surveillance is deployed into society, first targeting prisoners and refugees, then low-level wage workers. For example, I wonder how these grad students would react if they were subjected to the Amazon warehouse surveillance system:

> "...how the distance assistant works: green circles surround workers if they maintain six feet of distance. If workers get too close to each other, the circles light up red."

> "...Drivers for Amazon, many of whom are third-party contractors driving Amazon vans, learned earlier this year that their vans would start to feature a four-part camera with biometric feedback indicators."

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-amazon-monitors-employee...
The opposite of extremism is not centrism. It's something that aggravates me to no end in these discussion (not saying it for you but in general), it is possible to be partisan, have nuanced views on the left and/or the right, and to recognize the current parties don't represent the interests of their constituents.

If both parties are aligned on both ends of an axis of issues which are mostly irrelevant to people's daily lives, the answer is not to go to the center of this axis, it's to go orthogonal.
It's the last one. It's just very poorly drafted legislation that hasn't been thought through. this is our one party rule in action. With no meaningful opposition, laws are not scrutinized and unintended consequences never considered.
> By sitting in cash you're also losing money through inflation:

Also by sitting in Stocks, you not only lost 20% this year, but also 9% due to inflation for a total loss of ~30%+.

Cash is cash. It gets the job done. I'm not saying go 100% cash btw, but it has its place in this time of uncertainty. You cannot buy the dip if you're 100% invested, you have to be holding cash.

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I suggest holding 10% cash and rebalancing as needed. As the market goes up, you naturally sell stocks for more cash. As the market goes down, you naturally sell cash to buy more stock. This stabilizes the portfolio significantly.
They say "Americans“ but then they only talk about and show statistics for men. Wonder why that is.
The parts we released are the parts you'd need to host your app on other typical cloud hosting services in a typical way (e.g. using kubernetes), which should address lock-in concerns.

The parts we did not release are the parts that would only really be useful for building your own hosting service to compete with Cloudflare. These parts would not be particularly useful to someone who merely wants to run their own code -- in fact, they'd be excessively difficult to operate for that use case. This is on par with other services, e.g. my understanding is Deno Deploy has not released this part of their code either.
I use multi factor authentication wherever it is available. I use authy for maintaining my two factor codes. I enable multi factor authentication in gmail, so when I login on my office laptop, I need to allow it from the gmail app on my mobile phone.
How does it work without using cookies?
> So even in hardware, it made sense to reserve a special register for the stack pointer.

I think it was mostly a question of cleanup / clarity of the interface: on ARM32, using R13/SP as a GPR could lead to odd behaviours and was a bit of a portability concern, to say nothing of R15 (PC/IP, which was only a GPR in name IIRC as some instructions excluded it and it had divergent side-effects).

Also unlike every other GPR, R13 (and R14) was banked on all privileged modes (R0-R7 were shared across mode, and R7-R12 were banked in FIQ).

Moving SP and PC to dedicated non-GPR makes the instruction set easier to work with (and allowed register 31 to pull double duty as a virtual reference to SP and ZR depending on instruction, and thus ARM to finally have a zero register).
>Everyone knows that you are the leader and you set the tone.

This sounds more like a presumption taken on by an arrogant person. It's certainly not a given, as you suggest here.
Agreed. The title of this article could have been, "Top EVERYTHING on Amazon are a Scam." I started buying a lot from Amazon way back when they mostly sold books and CDs. Was a Prime Member for years after that became a thing. But I canceled about a year ago. It's basically AliExpress, which is fine for certain things, but most of my shopping is now done elsewhere. Especially electronics of any sort.
Government always turns into an authoritarian system when it is around long enough, and all major world governments are working toward a single Earth government. They will probably achieve it in the next 500 years if the trend of governmental consolidation continues as it has for the last thousand.
The telescope collects light over large area. The camera records the image.
To the Bitcoin game. He only started showing interest in Bitcoin when it was well into the multi billion$ market cap.
The answer is yes. Definitely yes. When you're the leader, it's not just about you and how you feel. It's about everyone. It's about fully understanding the gravity of the enterprise you're all pursuing and how the experience might affect participants in different ways.

Traveling to space isn't the same as canyon rafting or bungee jumping. It's not just "exciting", it elicits a wide range of profound experiences and deep emotions. And all of them are just as valid and should be affirmed. If you are organizing and leading people into space, you have to be fully aware as well as humble.

Over the past decades, Bezos spend mountains of energy expounding the importance of space travel, including its philosophical aspects. Bezos response to Shatner makes all of that questionable. It leaves one speculating whether or not he sees commercial space travel as anything else then another thrill ride that might add to the profit margins of his companies.

Maybe he did have a deeper discussion in private. But given Bezos' public image and demeanour, I wouldn't assume he fully understood the importance of that moment before the camera's in hindsight.
Throwing shade at a tech company, even though the whole thing has been proven untrue, is now worthy of being "put on trial"?
That move alone should be disqualifying for any public office

Google should now refuse to index the site for the reason that he's unqualified, not the reason that his own website told indexing robots to go away.
As long as you don’t sell you haven’t lost. Could recover in the next 2-3 years. Stock market is a risky investment. Own it and move on. Take responsibility for it and don’t feel bad. Brush it off as a loss. It is what it is - you took a risk at the end of the day.
> I have about 5-6 years of experience with Flask websites and a few months of experience in Django.

Use what you know best. Hell, do it in Django so if the startup fails you'll have more chances to land a django job (for some reason they always require django specifically).

> However the code is cleaner since I don't need to have dozens of endpoints.

You can have clean code with Flask too. I don't see why "dozen of endpoints" though.
These are guided by specific drones (Orlan?) that Russia is running low on.
You’re insinuating a cause here, but I honestly don’t know what you think it is.
Not really how it works in Canada.
I have a corncob 300 watt LED (not 300 watt equivalent mind you) and it works decently well for me in the winter. But I don’t think I have SAD, just want to have daylight during working hours.
I stand corrected. Thank you for your applied wisdom. My only disagreement is your use of the qualifier "many".
Your post makes no sense.

Given this is posted on a Canadian site, and discusses Ontario....

Hospitals don't "make money" in Canada, they are all owned and funded by the government.
You'd think they'd be pro-death and look forward to meeting them again in whatever afterlife they believe in. Or does faith falter in the face of the fragility of life?
it's the dirty little secret in my programming library but these have small, digestible chunks that I can read or do in 5 to 10 minutes at a time and then walk away and do something else (or do more, if my brain is firing right that day).

I never used to need to study this way when I was younger, but things change now that I'm older and I've adapted =)
"Work ethic" oh, like working unpaid overtime, pushing hard on the weekend so the boss can have that report 8am Monday morning? Working with lack of resources/protection equipment etc?

Sounds like a lack of ethic by the employer instead
As always, some people hate the graphical layout, but if you want to read the discussion on Twitter, I find that there is no method that compares with it.

Here's the Twitter discussion:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/1578145220369084416.svg

Zoom out and see the shape of the entire conversation, scroll around to see the individual comments, click on a box to go to the original tweet.

The original submission here is to the discussion on Mastodon, though there have been no replies there yet.
Nearly all politicians do this, example Hochul declaring she doesn’t need numbers or data to back her gun control proposals: https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/ny-gov-hochul-i...
Weather apps seem like a good UI playground. Lots of different types of widget, and if you change the UI it's not a big deal. Changing the UI for something more complex that people had to learn and now have to relearrn, in software that people work with (rather than just getting info from), tends to be really negative for users. Much less the case for a weather app I think than a calculator.
We over-medicalize life too.
Health care wise Canada already heading down the drain. Trying to save few people should be the least of your worries in this department. Our fucking "servants" are doing stellar job.
> If you don't see a difference between a war where soldiers that rape and pillage are criminals in their own country

All of those are claims that are made by the very ones who lied 8 years about nonexistent WMDs.

Moreover, the Ukrainian minister who made those lies up was fired by the Ukrainian government because even the govt. found it way too extreme. She is now busy backstabbing her former employers by saying that "They made me lie that way"...
The extension simply gets your public HN username and uses that to uniquely identify you. So there is no need to store any cookies.
Elon seems to be a peacenik, I am surprised.

I suggest Nobel Peace Prize for Elon Musk.
Owning a house a the sine qua non of middle class life was a) a historical anomaly and b) a big mistake.

We can’t fix the cost of housing because so many people own houses. If 10% of people owned their own homes and the rest were owned by corporate landlords we would not have politicians climbing all over each other to make sure that homes values are a one way bet.
I believe it's in military logistics, specifically in the non-tracked land vehicle (trucks) department for the US Army in the 1990's and 2000's. At least that's based on what I've read of him and his personal history that he has talked about online. I'm not sure about his specific unit though as I don't have his resume.