skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. Also, in paperwork superpowers, oftentimes the only ways to get things done are by resorting to what global consensus evaluative norms view as corruption, and a significant form proportion of what goes on frankly is corruption of corruption of the parasitical criminal kind... but there's also a great deal of routing around dysfunctional nodes in the system with legitimate intent on all sides.

Interpersonal networks and middlemen routers evolve over time into parallel tracks of shared understanding about how to achieve mundane process flows and solve problems when the official channels are broken.
You can use Garageband on iOS to make clips of music to create ringtones.
I don't know if he invented it, but I always associate that phrase with John Gruber, e.g. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/01/04/battelle-apple
That’s only 3 orders of magnitude off from today’s largest models like PaLM (5x10^11 parameters), a gap that’s narrowed by 3 orders of magnitude just since 2019.

How far away do you think we are, exactly?
Trends are changing like the wind: each year, new ways of solving tasks emerge. They are more efficient, beneficial, and favored in the market. By following these tendencies, one ensures stable business growth, as well as gains more competitive power.
Maybe it's the keyboard, Huawei phones usually had SwiftKey as the default keyboard
LinkedIn rolling out account verification using work email address
I get what you're saying. For me too everything is about developer experience, stability and business value. Rewriting to Deno will be a massive time sink with the lack of npm support and the small community compared to Node.js. Still, I applaud the effort to take JavaScript/TypeScript on V8 to the next level.
You had me in the first half, I'm not gonna lie.
> Yes, that's just a Base64 encoded version of your password in a cookie and yes, it's being sent insecurely on every request and also yes, it's not flagged as "secure" therefore it's being sent in the clear.

The domain has HSTS enabled with a duration far exceeding the cookie lifetime. A cookie not being marked Secure does not imply that the cookie "is being sent in the clear" and I'm tired of security consultants implying otherwise. Do we know whether HSTS was set in 2017? Not for sure, but I'd bet some money on it being set.
Both Obama and Biden (and Bush) delivered a couple of wars to the military industrial complex to make trillions of dollars on. If you don’t deliver wars, the media will punish you. That’s what I learned from the past 20 years of U.S. politics.
> Corporate answering like you're some kind of clueless idiot is the worst.

I regularly deal with UK banks, many of whose 2nd step auth is to send an SMS to your phone. I regularly ask for other ways of doing the 2nd step such as TOTP or even hardware. I get similar responses back that what they have is secure.

It is not secure. The banking sector's regulations consider it an acceptable 2nd step, which they conflate with being secure. So I regularly get condescending responses about it.
I think VR is fair bet with how batteries need to improve (elecrtic cars). They can work on system/algos and battery breakthrough will make it all viable some day
California quietly added 3GW of batteries in the last three years to shift mid day solar to the evening. I think part of the quietly bit is locating them at mothballed natural gas peaking plants. Advantage the power infrastructure is there and no use change permits needed.
Some of those examples are from big corps. Big corps loves ISO certifications, right? Pretty sure those things wont pass ISO 27001 audits.
Social media gossip is fuelling mass arrests in El Salvador
I do not understand the authors issue with paying bribes. You want your factory, you are willing to pay lots of money for it, and the system works with bribes.

Fine, so be it. Pay the bribes and get to work.

I once lived in such a country*. The unfairness is built in, but if you have the money, you can get whatever you need relatively quickly.

If you are trying to save money, fine. But you are willing to go to court, which is even more expensive. And all that time wasted you could have been earning revenue. So instead, pay the bribes, start the company, get workers and build clout, and have the power to make change!

* Said country has made huge strides to combat this and become legit in the past 30 years, and that has made everyone more wealthy - even those employees that can no longer collect bribes.
I'm mid way through my second decade of professional programming. I'm still well below $100k USD. But I earn way above average for NZ.
Online UX/UI Design Bootcamp
I loved the change on Macbook touchpads. It was solving a problem because the corners were very hard to press. It was very well executed.

I couldn't get use to the change on the iPhone 7 and 8 so I skipped those generations entirely.

I'm not sure about this change.
I like Markdown for self-contained one page documents with basic formatting - reddit comments, README.md etc.

For anything more it's just inadequate.
I actually don't keep a daily log. But I'd do it with Joplin, since I'm already using it for note taking.
Credit card would also be a big issue for German users, even in tech. I know a bunch of people who don't have one, as they aren't accepted in most places within Germany anyway, no idea how they make it work when travelling though. I guess for German users Paypal would be best, that seems to be the most widespread solution.
To add, certain concerns still stand since the Web crypto API is extremely limited in capabilities (Example it doesn't support secp256k1).

However on the bright side performance.now() has a much worse resolution on most browsers, making timing attacks harder.
I have a funny story from Spain:

My father's has an orange field, so at some point he wanted to dig a well to get some water.

He went to the City Hall, got all the tricky paperwork and applied for permission to build it. Months passed by without hearing anything, and at some point he just forgot about it, assuming he'd be denied silently. There's some people in the city hall don't like him too much BTW.

Few years later an official from the government came, "I'm here to check on the well you built", to which my father was of course confused "what well? You never gave me permission to dig it!". Apparently and according to this official, the normal thing to do is that you apply for permission, then build the project and finally then you'll receive the permission eventually, so he'd assumed my father had the well built already. Since as mentioned some people were against him, he was also not gonna officially break the law and build it before getting permission.
People will leave pretty quickly if there is no moderation. People don't want to be in such places. Just check the missing popularity of Parler.
The cards keep flickering on my phone - latest iOS
> So is this all just image massaging? To try and associate Saudi Arabia with things other than the executions, human rights abuses, etc.?

Think of it as a Truman show for westerners, same as Dubai and Doha. All three want a city like that so that they appear progressive, technologically advanced, and a good place to move to with high salaries and little to no taxes (Sharia has a designated exception for non-Muslims[0] that comes in handy).

As long as they keep that image and keep Europeans and Americans happy, they can do as many human rights abuses as they want, while also allowing westerners to live there completely blind of the abuse that's literally all around them.

And because of the war and Europe looking elsewhere for more natural gas and oil, Arabian peninsula is about to get even more unfathomably rich and build even more stupid impractical structures. Qatar in particular, there's a giant natural gas reserve under the Persian Gulf between Qatar and Iran.

The only thing that surprises me is why it took so long for Saudi Arabia to build a city like that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi
Because it is very easy to write interop in python with other langs, e.g. c/cpp in which most of the underlying implementations are written
I've used my USB c phone for two years now, charge once a day and it never failed me. My lightning cable on the other hand, feels so cheap and thin like it could break at any minute and the connector is so tiny that it looks like it could snap on the slightest bend. USB c on the other hand, since it's hollow, feels way stronger to bending.
You need limited liability at larger scale and an official entity to get low interest loans, support and above the counter investor funding. These systems need new company centred reform and redesign to remove friction causing elements like OP describes to enable Indian entrepreneurship to realise its untapped potential in India as well as overseas. The amount of bureaucracy left behind by the British and the layer upon layer of mindless inefficiency added since is stifling innovation, adaptation and growth like nothing else.
For their major gripe that point 13 is a pretty weak one. Text editors can present a Markdown document any way you want, and even a WYSIWYG editor is possible if you like that.

Besides, Markdown fully supports alternate character encodings, not just ASCII (that would make Markdown really obsolete). Most people surely use UTF-8 for Markdown documents.
It's pretty incredibly that none of my USB C devices have faced such issues, have them for around 2 years now.
>> It seems like the problem is that the author has a moral objection to paying bribes

> Duh?

It's only "Duh" because you snipped the qualifier out. It's not "Duh" if you read until the end of the sentence like you normally do:

> in an area where bribery is customary

See?
I've heard from some autistic people that it helps them in some way when watching.
Very similar in most parts of the US
It's less the targeted ads and more the collection & concentration of all this personal data in a single place. There are lots of ways it can be misused if a malicious actor (or the government) gets their hands on it.

So it's not that "targeted ads" are bad by themselves, it's that they justify an industrial-scale spyware operation, which other malicious attackers could potentially co-opt to do their bidding.
Isn't it the classic Apple saying that the people don't know what they want? Not to mention the whole 1984 ad being against the Microsoft walled garden.

If anything Apple's own popularity proves that walled gardens should be dismantled at some point.
I have been working with the Annamrita foundation for the last five years, and I have seen the launch of various programs, such as Annamrita Karuna, Kit of Joy, Tithi Bhoj, Khichdi Drive, Karuna Hospital Program, and Mid-day Meals. The one that’s actively working to support underprivileged communities, which include particularly malnourished children, is the mid-day meals scheme program.
So, this is interesting so far and I'm bookmarking it for the depth of the author's historical knowledge, but saying "horizontal microcode" was the main difference that "no one talks about"...I mean I was told this was the very difference that make RISC distinct from x86 and friends (what I see now were VAX-like archs), the simpler transistor logic without the crazy micro-programs and the pipelining, I thought this was common knowledge. Is there some other context people think of when they talk about RISC that I'm unaware of?
Ask HN: Trusting Software
As I get older I see a lot of new software and services being produced. This isn't news and it's not unique, we're all experiencing that. What's interesting to me now though is my lack of willingness to adopt these new services that store my data or manage my communication. As the internet grew I loved trying new services but now as the essentials are accounted for I don't feel that same desire to adopt new technology. If anything I'm trying to pair it down to bare essential utilities. I was curious to know if anyone else saw the same behaviour in themselves?

What's more, I'm leaning towards owning my own services and trying to understand how that would work in reality. Home ownership is standard and we rarely build our own homes now. Just wondering if that'll happen for essential services like email, chat, storage, etc.
Realtek WiFi Firmware and a Fully 8051-based Keylogger (2021)
Well, maybe HTC was five years too early with the U12+[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_U12%2B
Well he didn't burn 44B, twitter market value is 44B right now because someone just bought it for 44B,
I don't have a clue, tell me if you find out. I suspect that others who say "just put yourself out there" or whatever either don't know how hard it is, or they live in some kind of artist colony metropolis where everyone is on the same wavelength. I personally do a lot of things in public (gym, cafes, outdoors, shows), and I have spontaneous conversations with strangers once a month at best.
See their definition of "real" computing (the author even uses sarcastic quotes elsewhere):

>The interesting parts of CPU evolution are the three decades from 1964 with IBM's System/360 mainframe and 2007 with Apple's iPhone. The issue was a 32-bit core with memory-protection allowing isolation among different programs with virtual memory. These were real computers, from the modern perspective: real computers have at least 32-bit and an MMU (memory management unit).
> and more importantly to coerce us into accepting the need for their existence in the first place.

What do you think should take the place of the police force?

Genuine question, no judgement. I’m from a country that doesn’t have such a divisive and militarised police force so find it hard to understand this point of view.
> As someone who buys a good smartphone then hangs onto it for 5 years, can someone help me understand the need for this?

There's no need for it. However, the cost difference between the two extremes (upgrading every year vs. upgrading every 5-6 years) might be less than you think.

Last time I ran the numbers, I estimated that trading in every year for 5 years cost about $500 more than trading in once after 5 years. In other words, you pay ~$100/year to always have the newest phone.

I think that many people replace after 2-3 years because 1) that's when the warranty runs out; and 2) you don't save much vs. holding on to the phone for longer.
>To make this possible, we ported the following to WebAssembly: the Tailscale client, WireGuard®, a complete userspace network stack (from gVisor), and an SSH client.

Wow, and they're proud of it.
I mean, isn't it extraordinarily clear that he doesn't want to pay bribes and that bribes are customary. Hence... duh?
A random unvaccinated public employee _is_ in the same situation as a random unvaccinated private employee. Either they should both be allowed to go to their place of work and work, or neither of them should. No rational basis can exist for a rule that says that it is unsafe for an accountant working for the government to visit their accounting office, but that it is safe for an accountant working in the private sector to visit their office. The virus doesn’t know if you are a private employee or not; either visiting the office is safe or it is unsafe. It cannot be both.
I started the MVP of my personal project in 2020. It's still under development :D
I just measured 4.3 Mbps with Starlink I wonder if they will consider that priority tier data, as it is around the max throughput with the default hardware.
On the contrary, this is the most sensible and efficient approach to solve one of the main problems Twitter has.
> words vigorous market competition

as a famous person once said about companies "the last thing anyone wants is competition"! *

* https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-...
It may revert -- some -- but without the previous genetic diversity because what's gone is gone.

Apex predators are mostly gone over large parts of their former range. The species of trees in the forests that we had in UK/Ireland just aren't there any more. It will probably be taken over by hedge laurels. Deer have been introduced where they used to not be. Florida is going to be a hellscape of escaped pets, like the pythons. The old growth forests of the PNW aren't going to come back for 1000 years or more, if they even can at all due to the extinction of some species and the addition of invasives.
>"I do not understand the authors issue with paying bribes."
Because... Its extremely unethical and facilitates corruption?
Paying bride is a criminal offense. Paying bride abroad is also a domestic criminal offense. I do not think encouraging criminal behavior is a great idea, especially when it is also unequivocally morally wrong.
Only In San Francisco: $61,000 Tents And $350k Public Toilets (2021)
The profit margin must be very high at the prices they charge.
I have two U2F keys and too always register them both. Got an extra set coming with NFC, and I'll probably add them too. I share the same keys with my partner.

But yeah, most services also hand you a set of recovery codes which serve as backup when hardware should fail. I've not actually have any hardware crap out on me yet though.

I trust it far more than easily socially engineered "secret" questions or a phone 2F.
Is it common for a company to spend money on share buybacks for equity comp? Most equity agreements I’ve been offered said the board intended to authorize a fresh batch of shares for it.
Mostly everyone else seems to define the bitness of CPUs by their capacity to add numbers in one go, not by the address space they can address. What "everyone" calls 8bit computers could address 64kb of address space, not 256 bytes. Everyone can call a table a chair, but it doesn't make communication easier.
ahhh, f = financial?

top investor class?
I disagree. If I was a trustworthy employee at Twitter, I would be glad to finally have all those ideologists be found and removed.
"the best camera is the one you have with you"

Or for beginner film makers. "Start with the camera you already have" (i.e. your phone)
Wizards of the Coast needs to do this for Magic cards, especially with all of the new releases that have new types of foils
Values and ethics can change very quickly, and can do so in response to material conditions. See for instance Germany's values and ethics 80 years ago vs now, and take note of the difference in material conditions.
Mostly by joining groups of people in social activities.

E.g. Going to the gym, doing some sports, attending meetups & conferences

You could also just go to a bar, it would work too but it'd be more difficult generally. Shyness also doesn't make it happen in a bar.

Some important factors to form friendships are: spending often time together, overcoming challenges together and having common interests. So look for activities that involve these factors. As you can now see, sports are good at this.
In every company there will be a few who just can't grasp Markdown, but they can't grasp any markup language, and struggle in WYSIWYG editors (like Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, or Google Docs) too (usually not grasping the concept of the document outline created by applying header styles correctly).

The best option there is to simply help them and correct their output (again and again); there is no technological silver bullet to solve it.

Newlines in Markdown are pretty weirdly implemented, certainly! The canonical markup seems to be to make paragraphs by having two newlines (which all tools do), and to have an actual newline within a paragraph by ending the preceding sentence with two spaces and a newline. I'd love it if all tools did that, but an argument raised on the issue tracker of one of these (CodiMD) was that moving to the correct behaviour would break many existing documents where people had gotten used to lines breaking at the presence of just a single newline.
I assume building a manufacturing on agricultural land will be hard, what about government designated "manufacturing / SEZ (special economic)" zones?
Thanks for this excellent explanation. I had questions, but they were answered by a closer reading of your explanation.

I recently did some work where, interestingly enough, this did not apply. I was doing linear algebra modulo 2 (i.e. binary entries, adding is xor, multiplication is and). In order to have any kind of memory (throughput) efficiency, you want to pack your matrix entries into bits of integers so a single 64 int can represent 64 entries.

This packing (when done row-wise or column-wise) gives a very quick primitive for computing inner products. <a, b> is just (in pseudo-code)

sum(popcnt(a[i] & b[i]) for i in range len(a)) % 2

Hence in matrix multiplication over binary matrix you very much do want the l.h.s. to be row-major and the r.h.s. to be column major. And, in general, you very much want to read and write matrices in a contiguous manner. Because otherwise, depending on alignment, you are accessing 8, 32, or 64 bits of memory per single bit entry of matrix your are reading or writing.

I wonder if a similar very fast scalar product primitive for floats (or ints?) could work. If not, I imagine that is due to FMA having some inherent efficiencies that cannot be gained by a very quick accumulation step. One of the beauties in the binary case is the popcnt instruction doing a 64-input accumulation very quickly.
That too, say, 3-state modulation. Ethernet uses extra degree of freedom to increase entropy, but it can decrease entropy too, create a fake bias and approximate desired statistics. As a bonus stretch the key the second time and use it as a running bias for the modulation.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24106545 (with a few comments from the author as well).

The author had added a correction to the post (12th August 2020) stating that this was a mistake, and that the actual procedure was much less cumbersome:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200812093618/https://superr.in...

> It has been bought to my attention that there was a mistake by an entry level employee.

> So the Revenue Department itself was supposed to get all the NOCs required by going to all those offices, but an entry level employee forgot to add my file to the list of NA’s to be done.

> [...] But PLEASE UNDERSTAND that “it was a mistake” in filing by an Entry Level Employee and normally this procedure takes less than 2 months and all the heavy lifting is done by the Revenue Department, Collector Office.

Tweet from the author about the correction: https://twitter.com/mrohanshah/status/1293170591441104902

But the correction was removed after a while, so maybe a bit of clarification will help.