skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also wrong to say that tools don't matter. If you say try to shove async and multiprocessing python into a system because python is boring and tools don't matter you are going to get absolutely fucked in terms of maintainability. Maybe you can afford that (and many startups can) but there's going to be a lot of survivorship bias that is sourced from non-technical things like "founder had connections" that are not reproducible across to another startup
the z-index of the menu bar should be higher than the z-index of the rest of the page.
Thank you, interesting talk! I'm curious if the technologies used for streaming video games (e.g. something like moonlight) can be used for low-latency and high-fidelity streaming of applications or desktops within containers.
Same: I believe that after a few iterations, the form can come very close to perfection (Casio watch, Thinkpad keyboard) or at least become familiar enough that we may feel sadness if we have to give it up.

Replacing the internals by better ones let you keep the objects you love, increase their features and reduces waste.
Keep in mind that this was not the completion of the contract. This was an initial evaluation of an early prototype, with nearly a decade of development time left before the final production version.
LVM does the same but at the block level.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Create_root_filesystem_snap...
If the bribe is paid as a "campaign contribution" to a politician or to a group that runs ads to get a politician elected, it is "free speech" according to SCOTUS in Citizens United v. FEC. If it is paid directly to a politician or to a politician's friend, it is illegal bribery.

It would also be perfectly legal to hire a politician or regulator who advanced your interests once he's no longer in office. There is, in fact, a revolving door between many industries and the agencies that regulate them. But you can't explicitly promise these individuals a job while they're still in office or you committed illegal bribery. A politician also can't sell a Senate appointment (as the governor of Illinois infamously tried to do after Obama was elected president) but he can give it to one of his political allies as a favor and reasonably expect that the favor will be repaid in the future.

Of course, these differences aren't particularly meaningful in reality but they're very important under the law and anybody who is stupid enough to execute their bribes the wrong way will probably be punished for bribery even though it would have been perfectly legal if they'd done it the right way.
And hence the reason why kids who grow up in urban areas, tend to have considerably lower than immunity kids raised in rural environments. Urbanism negatively affects us in a lot more ways than we're currently even aware of
It’s the lack of clarity on how they manage access control for what should be regulated data that surprises me, more than the technology achievement.
$20k is such a small amount (to bribe a politician at least). I'm constantly shocked at how small these bribes always seem to turn out. Unless the big ones are just better hidden, haha.
This was a cool example of a class of bugs that are both hard to find with no active example, and hard to prevent in complex systems. The optimization that was added many years ago for performance didn't update something that had a use case that was incompatible with not being updated in a very small number of circumstances.

It is an interesting thought experiment to consider what kind of tool or automated detection could have found this. Some type of dependency linking between variables might have shed some light, but I'm not sure that would have really highlighted this kind of issue.

Great description of both the bug and the path to the solution!
Who is it for then? The people who will lose money to those companies?
The Search for a Pill That Can Help Dogs–and Humans–Live Longer
Ie. "build surveillance tools for us".
And corrects errors from cosmic rays!
Yeah, I think a distinction needs to be made between bastardized JS laden applications and documents with embedded rich media. It’s interesting the four bullet points in the link all mention documents but HTTP hasn’t been about documents for a long time.
> For example, the claim is that lithium ion batteries are expensive at grid scale...but the cost of such batteries continues to fall

The rate at which they have been falling has been diminishing for quite some time, until this year when they are starting to rise (more than inflation).

The idea that past price movements will always continue indefinitely has zero basis in reality.

And yes li-ion batteries are way too expensive for large scale grid usage, even if they did fall at 10% yearly we would be decades away for them to be a satisfactory solution.
congrats, now MS change the f'ing name, it's mine

use the original name, it's much better:

Microsoft Bro
The annoyance features like JS can only cause us to leave a site we were already interested in.
Agree, but HTML itself doesn't have and doesn't need "transclusion" when HTML is understood to be an SGML vocabulary and SGML has all these things and more, from basic sharing of headers/footers and other markup fragments [1] to parametric macro expansion and event-based templating [2].

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/producing-html-tutorial/producing-htm...

[2]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/templating.html

(Putting transclusion into quotes here because that term is from Ted Nelson and is possibly ill-defined in a HTML/SGML context)
I think the big difference is convenience. Car sharing as it exists requires prior planning/coordination, you can’t just grab one on a whim. That’s enough friction that a lot of people would prefer to own a car instead, especially when you consider that a huge part of the appeal of a car is agency and freedom — no need to operate on anybody else’s time tables or predefined stops, just step out and go wherever you please. The closest we have to autonomous hailing is Uber/Lyft, but that becomes prohibitively expensive, not to mention there’s places Uber drivers won’t want to pick you up from or take you to.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of public transportation )lived in Japan for a while and loved the trains) and think it should be greatly expanded, but driving in the US isn’t going away any time soon and so alongside efforts to improve public transportation, efforts should also go into autonomous driving to try to take even more cars off the road. Ideally the bulk of commuters and errandrunners would be using rail, with the second largest group using autonomous car sharing, and the last and by far smallest group still owning their cars.
To your point every creek in pittsburgh is still "shit creek" or loaded with amd in the spring. I wouldn't eat any mud - maybe some dirt up on a hill.
Other "fun" fact. I went to a B-Sides conference where one of the higher ups from the Bro Platform talked about how they had to purchase the domain from a fraternity.

Zeek is cool but I always thought Bro was a neat name for a sec product.
We're moving on from Firebase
Wikis World, a Mastodon server for wiki enthusiasts
Recently mastodon.technology announced it was shutting down at the end of the year. It's been a great home for my postings and a bunch of people I follow. My mastodon.technology handle was even printed in my college newspaper (normally reporters' Twitter handles were used).

To fill the gap, Taavi and I have launched wikis.world, a Mastodon server for wiki enthusiasts. Please reach out to one of us for an invite!
In reality here in Ontario on the major highways the legal limit is 100km/h but actual practice is 120km/h. It's rare to go below that on the actual multilane 400-series highways, and rare you'd get ticketed for going that high.
"The bill ended AT&T's obligation to provide landline phone service to all state residents"

All that for a $22,500 payment. Talk about leverage.
They also have reference data on tens of thousands of bonds, and have correctly implemented bond math and risk analytics for these issues.

As retail typically trade stocks and not bonds, retail traders miss what makes Bloomberg terminals indispensable for institutions. You cannot trade bonds without one.
‘Zero-Click’ Spyware Emerges as a Menacing Mobile Threat
It was my understanding that in those cases the immune system overreacts because it hasn't been correctly calibrated by being properly challenged.

It's not that it's too strong, it's that it lashes out at things that aren't actually threats because it's ability to recognise what is and isn't a threat is diminished
Elon Musk has gone too far. It’s time to boycott Tesla
Too Much Motivation Affects Our Decision-Making
Bloomberg is a 24k/yr private social network. That's what most if these low cost replacements don't get. There are network effects in play.
The “if I recycle, it’ll help” effect.

Their point is that such things usually don’t work. In the same way that consumer recycling doesn’t affect climate change (or other laudable goal), everyone tomorrow could email about a specific IP, and it’s a tossup whether it’ll change that one IP, let alone the others.
Its called business continuity plan and tbh most companies drop the ball in that regard.
This explains a lot about my childhood when my parents would just let me be outside all the time.

Also it reminds me of an interesting conclusion somebody had here on HN that it's weird how we insctinctively know how each thing around us would taste.

Like if I told you do you know how the door would taste if you licked it. A taste would come in your mind.

Fascinating stuff. This article is definitely going into my next week's newsletter for remote working parents (https://thursdaydigest.com/). Even though most of my subscribers are from HN.
Removing swap is something most people do in production because performance matters. It's been this way for 20 years. Was that not normal?
It's a rather odd article that misses the point completely and lacks cultural and historical understanding.

Taiwan is a province of China and China is currently split between the PRC on the mainland and the ROC in Taiwan.

The aim is to reunify China and that aim is shared by a portion of the population in Taiwan as well (except that they don't want the communists in power...)

TSMC and the Taiwanese semiconductors industry are a way for Taiwan to survive and up the ante but they are not the point.
That’s correct.

This SuperUser answer explains it as well: https://superuser.com/a/1633143
Are you trying to say that bribery is common in US politics? I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but no, bribery is not common nor is it legal. People like to meme about lobbyists and PACs and all that. And, while it may be true that the system might need tweaks, all of that money is required to be reported through the FEC in the case of campaign contributions, or via D-2 forms in the case of lobbying.

The problem with under-the-table bribes is that you can't "follow the money" so to speak.
The Daily Mail online has been branching out into the US for a while, hence covering things in language catering for an American audience.

Temperature measurement in the UK is measured in Celcius, Fahrenheit is not a thing here.
In fact Bloomberg initially started as a bond calculator.
for mariadb :

0) make sure the the database data volume is on lvm or zfs

in a sql prompt:

1) BACKUP STAGE START; BACKUP STAGE BLOCK_COMMIT;
2) \! the shell command to take the snapshot
3) BACKUP STAGE END;

you can now mount your snapshot, copy it offsite and delete it. The restore procedure is left as an exercise!
Maybe they are so low risk it's a better business model to accept a large number of small bribes rather than a few large ones
Well that was short and quite interesting, I’m looking forward to their follow up posts.
Hmm I'm not convinced that Silicon Valley is so strong as before.
The bigger question is why now? I thought swap partitions were down to almost nothing about ten years ago, because the overhead was too high?

I guess NVMe gave it a second wind?
Lol. Fastest browsing ever. Crazy to think that in 2022, we're being advised that sites should work without JavaScript. The percentage of people (actual, real live people) who turn off JS when browsing is probably <1%
“ was it encrypted XML in JSON? Does it matter which?”

I’m sure there were meetings where it was discussed at length and the stupidest idea prevailed, because other peoples’ failures are more useful than shared successes in such an environment. And probably for “security reasons.”
Choking Off China’s Access to the Future of AI
Don't be disingenuous, Elon is getting shit for trying to undermine the actions and goals of the state department.

A charitable interpretation of his actions is that he's occasionally unable to contain his narcissistic traits, a less charitable interpretation is that he's looking for leverage to get his dick out of the hornet's nest that is the Twitter deal, and the least charitable option is that Russia is applying some leverage to force his hand. No matter the reason there's a good chance he'll end up regretting that (to the extent he's able to feel things like regret anyway).
No, it's only in infants. If a child old enough to walk around is exposed to polio for the first time (no vaccination or exposure as an infant), they'll have no protection and have a serious risk of being crippled. The sanitary conditions in which infants were kept in the decades preceding polio vaccination prevented them from being exposed to polio during their short window of protection, and as soon as they left the crib they were at serious risk.

It's specifically the sanitation of the living condition of infants that had the effect, not the general sanitation level of society. Polio was still circulating through the population outside during this time period, but infants were shielded from it during their short window of protection.
> The author wasn’t necessarily talking about jobs either, they were also talking about losing friends and suffering social stigma in local social spheres, which your comment doesn’t even remotely address.

I don't address it because "cancellation" is normally understood as losing professional and financial opportunities due to personal opinions and actions, whereas losing friends due to personal opinions and actions is not really worth noting as a phenomenon. Friendship is inherently personal.

> Claiming that Twitter (and by extension other social media) has no power is to be willfully blind to what’s happening.

Of course Twitter has the power to spread information, and misinformation. But what people do with that information or misinformation is an entirely different matter. It ought to go without saying that one shouldn't uncritically believe everything one reads on Twitter.
How is the line between lobbying and bribery argued in court? There seems to be a large grey area between the two. This seems like lobbying to me. A corporation gives money to a politician (or party) in return for favourable legislation yet this particular incident is deemed illegal. Does the flow of money have to be more transparent to the public for it to be legal?
But what is the effeciency of such a system?
Pre-commit hooks can't be automatically set up on the client side. If they could, this would mean that any repo you clone could run arbitrary code on your machine.

It can be as simple as a script you have to run once, but it can't be automatic. Which also means you can't really trust contributors to do it, even if they're well-meaning some will forget.
At least he is not trying to build a 100 mile long linear city in the middle of the desert.
Yes, "calibrating" is the word that also just jumped into my mind. That would have been a much better fit than "boosting".
The main problem is my little VM powered by CentOS or Amazon Linux 2 (which is based upon Fedora Linux) runs out of memory when I run "yum update". I have 1 core CPU with 512MB ram. The BaseOS repo from RHEL and co is just too big. It requires a minimum of 3 GB RAM. So work around is to add swap to AWS EC2/Lightsail instance. I believe there is a dnf bug open in RHN, but no progress was made so far https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2040170 Adding a 4/8GB swap space file solved my problem with the `yum update`. That is just one example. There are many users with few resources.
> Offshore wind has a capacity factor of 60% that's the same as nuclear

FWIW, units 1 and 2 at the Finnish Olkiluoto NPP posted a capacity factor of 92,8% for the year 2021.
Nope, definitely used the IPv6 address. I might try again sometime soon.
$23M is a parking ticket for AT&T, subverting democracy might warrant a little more pinch maybe?
It seems reasonable that a university would take a moment to share their methods and findings so that others who might consider doing the same thing can benefit from the experience of others.
How do you know what task to evaluate?

And what if this was not a saxophone player, but a tennis player? Or both?
If the drill is medical grade and extremely fast, you might not feel any vibrations at all, almost like a laser. Should feel like a scrape more than anything.
I also considered removing myself from the donor list after reading about live vivisection a while back. But, I looked up how to remove oneself as a donor and couldn’t find any information.

Also, I renewed my license recently and did not mark that I wanted to be a donor, and it stated that I was one on my new license nonetheless.

I am still undecided on the subject because I would like to donate organs to people in need when the time comes, so it doesn’t bother me too much.
I can’t even read this garbage website on mobile, over 30% of my screen is just ads.

Is this the future of mobile?
Hence the serializing of individual parts on the iPhones nowadays. If you take your iPhone to a store that sources stolen parts, the phone will flag it.

It obviously doesn't stop the supply chain of stolen parts but it makes it so legitimate consumers will ask questions and legitimate stores will be less likely to buy stolen phones for parts.
There is an interesting thread about effects on the ground in China: New rules around "US persons" are driving an "industry-wide decapitation."

https://twitter.com/jordanschnyc/status/1580889341265469440
> Yes, but Robbie Coltrane wasn't socially outcast.

Degrees on the same scale

> Replaced "bullied" with "criticized".

Criticized publicly and unfairly, I'll stick with bullied.

> The President of the United States is routinely and vehemently criticized. Hated by millions of people. And yet, he is not socially outcast. Nor is he bullied.

I am sure he suffers from any amount of bullying and criticism he's receiving that he knows about.
In Denmark Erlang is probably more know for his logarithm tables since those were used for many years in the schools before calculators became normal
1st world problems. In quite a number of countries from Argentina to Turkey to Venezuela, a terrible economic situation and declining living conditions are leading to visible weight loss
This is an incredibly reductive take. Campaign contributions are carefully monitored. So you can't, like, buy yourself a house in Martha's Vineyard with campaign contributions. In fact, it's illegal for a politician to even be in contact with a super PAC (even though they may be campaigning for them). There have been many lawsuits that have settled this.

Citizens United is problematic not because "money is free speech" (which, frankly, it is, as we live in a capitalist society) but rather because corporations (specifically when donating to Super PACs) have no caps on donation sizes. Fun fact: that money is not taxable income, by the way. So they can (in a roundabout way) essentially fill a friendly politician's coffers "for free."
>Why do people think they can "play with new technologies" at work, which is wasting not only company money, but other people's time as well?

This has been a thing for as long as humans have been working. It's because through experimentation you may discover something that increases productivity.

The guy who strapped a combustion engine to a field plow was probably playing with new technologies at work. And it no doubt cost a lot of money. But now the world is better off because of it.

Yeah, engines are more complex than horses. But productivity skyrocketed. These trade-offs are made every single day, every single year for as long as we've existed.
I have been worked for an ISP in the past.
Most of the abuse reports was automatic generated copyright infringements for users using P2Ps and we ignore them at all.
Another big number of abuse reports come from "the internet police": pedantic users that complaint about receiving a port scanner or a malformed HTTP request on their servers. We barely ignore them too.

In any other cases, we care about it. Anyway, at least in Italy, ISP cannot do too much and responsabilitiy is up to the final user.
Time Travel's “Bootstrap Paradox” Could Explain Destiny
This reminds me of this great interview. Gives insight into how the US (even though seems divided and on the downturn) is still a powerhouse and has geniuses playing global chess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwK_XLFOm_I

Pasting this 'cause he did mention the chips a few times.
Any swap issues I had, I just added a scratch monkey.
I just tried this out. Amazing. The swap file compresses nicely.
two machines, 4GB and a 16Gb.
Neograd – A deep learning framework created from scratch using Python and NumPy
Hey everyone!

I released v0.0.2 of neograd, a deep learning framework created from scratch using Python and NumPy, with automatic differentiation capabilities. I’d taken for granted that I understood how convolutions work. Just implement a sliding window, perform element-wise multiplication, take its sum, sounds so simple right? Add to that - accounting for the running time of the algorithm, backward pass to get its gradients and convolutions over volumes, this turned out to be an excruciating undertaking.

This release includes:
- Gradient checking to check the correctness of gradients that are calculated by autograd
- Optimization algorithms like Momentum, RMSProp, and Adam
- 2D, 3D Convolution and 2D, 3D Pooling layers for Convolutional Neural Networks
- Save trained models, weights to disk and load them whenever required
- Add checkpoints while training the model
- Documentation hosted at https://neograd.readthedocs.io

Checkout the GitHub repo - https://github.com/pranftw/neograd

Explore the new features on Google Colab - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1D4JgBwKgnNQ8Q5DpninB6rdFUidRbjwM?usp=sharing
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/184916aB5alIyM_xCa0qWnZAL35fDa43L?usp=sharing
Cant praise Openscad enough. You dont have to learn anything, except maybe to use your brain.

If somebody could integrate Openscad into Blender better it would be just swell. Now the Openscad export produces just huge raw blob of faces, the defining structure is lost.
MLIR as Hardware Compiler Infrastructure [pdf]
IANAL, this is probably way off, but at a basic level...

Lobbying = "Hi, I'm a representative for [large donor]. I'd like to speak with you about how they feel about an upcoming piece of legislation, carefully using my words so that I'm just pushing our position on the issue and hoping you'll 'see our side' and vote in our favor, even though you and I both know what I really mean here."

Bribery: "I will give you $[amount] if you vote [this way]."
I was thinking of using it as a way to force focus, and not care if anything happens to it. Lugging around a mbp 16-inch is a bit heavy sometimes.
> Even in the best case, when you cut down a tree, burn it, and plant a replacement you've still released a bunch of carbon into the atmosphere. So carbon in the atmosphere will be raised for 20-50 years.

Global warming is a global, long term issue.

Focusing on a single tree is pretty much the canonical opposite of the wrong perspective to bring to it.

For the replanting side to work, growing fuel trees needs to be profitable. When it is, capitalists will replant out of greed, and the system will hum along by itself.