skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's interesting how one finds how to be preoccupied with the plight of the poor Russians in an article literally focused on Ukrainians being forced to do things at gunpoint and how that can be blocked.
It also promoted the pad beyond the console. Many weren't sure if it was a new pad for the original Wii.
In the case of a nuclear attack we will have much bigger problems to solve than the state of the Internet.
Will Don Capone make a comeback in 2024?
We just went through a huge pandemic, a lot of people think we're on the brink of WW3, near a financial crisis, big inflation, huge mental and physical health problems.

Everyone is on edge, not just HN lol.
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IMHO QUIC is nice, but a disappointment, since it could have been so much more.

Does not handle unreliable messages, still only (multi)streaming, no direct support for multicast, 0-rtt which need a lot of stuff to be manually done TheRightWay or risk amplification attacks, the (imho) under-researched (and removed) forward error correction, and more.

I just restarted working on what I consider to be the solution to this, federated authentication and a bit more, but $50M is too far to be even a dream since I am not google.
Thanks for expressing your feelings on the matter.

Have a great day.
Anti-LGBTQ Groups Are Helping Enforce a ‘Book Ban’ Law in Florida
The mid-day meal scheme of the Indian Government is one the most extensive meal programs in schools. This meal program has impacted the education scenario in the country concerning enrolment, attendance, and completion of school education. The objective is to provide nutritious meals to children in Government and Government-aided schools to improve health and learning outcomes. Hence, more than 400 NGOs are currently implementing this scheme in their capacities. As a philanthropist working in such an organization called the Annamrita Foundation, I will share an inspiring story of a little girl hailing from a small village known as Mahul, Maharashtra, to help you understand how mid-day meals in schools are changing lives.
Sounds like another term for BS work.
I think that’s attacking the conclusion, not the assumptions. Have you put numbers on what you consider “mind-bogglingly unlikely” and done the math on that, given the distances involved?

The authors supposedly have, and I’m no expert, but I don’t find the argument completely ridiculous. The universe isn’t that old compared to its size; I think it’s plausible for two unlikely events to have happened without their causal cones having intersected yet.
Is there an equivalent insight but instead of C it is web dev and instead of Malloc it is JQuery and GC being React? In other words is there an elegant way to build a complex SPA with vanilla JS
Is it not considered a protocol violation to deliver out of order segments to the upper layer? That seems the same to me as abusing it to not require retransmits either.

Remember, middle boxes can fully adhere to the TCP standards and terminate your TCP connection and enforce ordering. If you notice that, you’re not really following the protocol, you’re just using its header format.
> not something I would want to use for music listening

The flute in particular suffers quite a lot and the triangle disappears completely!
Sorry, next time I will ask you what part of the article I should comment on before I post.
Not sure why you're downvoted, but anyone that fondly remembers the "Borland Blue" days probably agrees with you.
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Yes. Manipulating abstract symbols should be easy and natural - after all, that's what arithmetic is.
> why use 8 cameras?

At least 6 are needed to get a 360 degree view around the car, which obviously is necessary. Think of the 8 cameras as a single better sensor. It's a question of having one very good sensor then or many to fuse.
A functioning internet will be a big help though. Imagine organizing relief efforts without communication.
All the optional extensions will make writing portable code practically impossible. What is an optimization on one chip will be a crushing pessimization on another, if it runs at all.

I gather they have started to publish "profiles" that might rein in the worst of this. And the profile meant for desktop workstation use appears to have "popcount" and a few other concessions. But, unlike in the x86, ARM, or POWER worlds, where we have the notion of a generation on a timeline, nothing like that helps contain the complexity of development targets. Each extension is its own extra dimension to be used or compensated for lack of, separately.

I have not seen any chip with a popcount instruction yet, but have not checked this year.
For the survivors, the internet will be critical for rebuilding.

As long as there's electricity and as more of the internet moves into outer space, it'll work.
When lockdown started I built 1 mile / 30 minutes of walk every day into my routine, plus a few minutes' worth of core strength stuff etc twice per day, short enough not to bore me. (I worked out decades ago that I was never going to spend hours a day down the gym!) I think it helps, and it is at the lower end of widely agreed minimum exercise levels for physical health. And I skip it occasionally when I really want to.

None of this is going to be "overtraining" and/or earn me medals.
This article is glib and fluffy, while insinuating that it's better to
throw national security under the train than to challenge the tech
narrative of "necessity".

> It is no longer news to point out that a mobile phone, if hacked,
can be the ultimate tool for surveillance.

It wasn't in 2013. It's still not news that it's not news.

> We will almost certainly never know precisely what happened to Liz
Truss’s phone.

Cobblers. Competent forensic analysis will tell us a mountain of
information. It just might not be helpful or interesting for the
public to know who the usual suspects are with their grubby fingers
in, now allegedly helping Putin.

> Political insiders say the fear was that Russian actors had hacked
into the politician’s phone,

No that wasn't "the fear". And nobody needs wispy "political
insiders" to care about that. It's a bad show if any government
servant's phone is hacked, by anybody.

> The reality is that a mobile phone is inherently insecure, but, like
anybody else, a politician will want and indeed need to use one.

Implying that only politician's phone security matters? Or that
everybody "needs" to use one? Both are false. The only nearly true
part of the statement is that smart phones are inherently insecure.
(with decent opsec a 2G bare-bones device can be more or less secured,
- but still used as a tracking beacon and potentially a remote
microphone)

> On the other hand, it is unlikely that Truss will have been
incautious enough to share secret or top secret paperwork via her
phone.

A pointless fluff statement. The very presence of a compromised phone
in her proximity is catastrophic.

Politicians are one small group.

Lawyers, doctors, police, teachers, accountants, social workers,
therapists, soldiers, even taxi drivers... everybody who carries
"smartphone" ought to know that current technology puts them at risk
of compromising their clients or own safety, and facing professional
ruin.
This is too simplistic a critique. One species colonizing everything is perfectly compatible with the model in the broad. The complication is that we ourselves exist, are not colonized, and can look out into space and don't see any alien activity. Hanson starts from this anthropic fact and tries to reason about what we might be expected to see if a) there are "grabby" species out there, and b) we're early enough to witness the land grab. I have problems with the details of the model, but I think it's both a fruitful and interesting attempt to think about things.
> It wouldnt make sense to keep it as a feature flag forever, and once it is not a feature flag it becomes much harder to backout

They didn't struggle with removing H2 PUSH though.
Maybe he should just have opened the door before committing to buy it. He could have, he was in his right, but refused.
we are living in the Bannon/Trump timeline. They both may end up in jail but they might take comfort that they have shaped reality to their own ends
Well, what I can see in embedded area is that quite recently a lot of interesting (chinese of course) RISC-V chips have appeared at price points where ARM ones can hardly compete, especially given the never-ending chip shortage
> It's interesting that everyone (including the author) talks about UDP as a lossy protocol, but it doesn't seem that UDP drops actually occur on a routine basis anywhere.

Just to clarify, you are referring to in the datacenter right? They occur in wireless all of the time.
I think what you did is standard. But what I question is, if we can solve our problem without assuming spacetime, why do we need the abstraction called spacetime? Spacetime looks like a historical quirk that physicists feel obligated to carry.

For instance, bending of the light experiment is not done in spacetime but in space and time.
Fantastique. I'd be happy to pay for this service with an API access. We run team building events and trivia is so popular. Your service would save us hours monthly.
Also anecdotally, a friend also changed the profile photo to refer telegram and signal and I still see it now.
Reward-seeking intelligences might have innate features which prevent exponential expansion though and instead result in expansion-contraction loop. For example, for every new colony, the probability that any single colony will begin a civil war may increase. Or the probability that a supervirus will be manifested somewhere and then spread along the galactic population of that species. Basically, if the species are uniform in some manner, the more colonies they have the larger the probability that some colony will spawn an event which utilizes their uniformity to spread and destroy most of the galactic population of that species.

Obviously it's not a guarantee, but I believe it is a viable theory as to why the world described in the article may be possible.
The Readme file has a section on that:

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#how-does-adguard-...
> False match? Sorry! Please lodge a complaint for manual review.

> Nb: complaints require an account in good standing at as this is your third strike your account is now suspended.

Near enough is good enough for most people paying-for/selling the tech.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387047
If eink wasn't expensive, wikipedia books mass produced, with solar power harvesting.

It is funny though, the very basics eg. climate control, clean water, unspoiled food... More important than internet.
If I recall correctly, the COM (stands for something like "COre Memory image") file format is limited to 64k, and was intended to be loaded into the same memory location.

It dates back to CP/M days.
Possible, yes.
Easy, no.

Chinese people don't have the best reputation here,
most people think you're very smart, but people will worry about your English level/the readability of your code, culture fit, timezone differences, and of course the possibility of stealing trade secrets/hacking.

Aim for companies where you can be autonomous and which don't affect critical infrastructure(forget about financial services, health, science etc...)

Advice:

Be as fluent as possible in English

Network on linkedin or medium, invite recruiters, CTOs, other developers

Post on linkedin, put yourself out there
Can you share the group?
I said almost never not never, 64 variants is quite esoteric I'd say. The reason why I dislike codegen so much is that you fix one problem but introduce multiple new problems.

How do you handle the generated code? Do you check it into source control? If so, how do you ensure people do not touch it. Manually modified code generated code is one of the worst places to be in for maintenance. You mentioned you wanted language server support this means the generated code must not be ephemeral and continually visible to the rest of the project. When will this generated code need to be regenerated? On a schema change? How do you ensure the generated code always matches the schema?

Like I said all of these question can be answered, but it's quite a burden. In fact if I were you I would have looked into fixing the typescript compiler since the problems your ran into probably weren't fundamental.
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Human driver constantly turns head around to where he is Mos likely to hit something.
As a guy with regular myopia, I have trouble with dark themes.
They didn't specify bit depth either.

I understand all of this reads like pointless pedantry, but a) it feels good indulging in it b) certain word combinations (such as "CD quality") have meanings backed by broad consensus, please use them responsibly so readers do not have to overexert their loose interpretation muscle.

If they mean wide band, say wide band, noone will bat an eye.
> I wonder if they like a developer who comes from China?

I have worked with people from different countries in European companies, so in general people are nice and the behaviour is not "oh we like people from country X, but not from country Y"

> And do you have any advice for finding a remote job in these places?

Linkedin. The only thing that could be difficult is the timezone difference. Usually, 2 or 3 hours top is what is acceptable. Also, are you planning to work as a contractor? That would be easier. If you want to work as an employee, either the European company has to have a branch in China or the intermediary company they may use should work on China.
Ask HN: Which of the yesterday's hardware are you tinkering with?
I see lots of people enjoy collecting and tinkering with old computers.

What's your favorite, if any? Apple II, C64, ZX Spectrum, PC, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Sun Sparc, PowerPC, random Motorola 68, SGI?

I love all but since I have limited space in my home I am mostly interested in C64, Amiga and Atari.
We've been planning to move all our image storage (business SaaS) over to JPEG-XL internally, for a few reasons:

- Technically a compelling format.

- Parallel decoding.

- Progressive decoding (no need for 'placeholder images').

- Lossless better than PNG and lossy better than JPG.

- Better than AVIF in the 'high quality' end of the spectrum.

- Lossless recompression of JPEG into JXL.

- Fast enough for on-the-fly conversion to JPEG for backwards compatibility.

People from Facebook, Shopify, Adobe, Intel and other huge companies have also voiced their support and said it's on various internal roadmaps.

I hope this decision gets reverted. Seems like a huge mistake!
Seems like a bit of a stretch to say with certainty that Mars never evolved complex life 500+ million years ago.
It's not the assembly language that I feel is like dark magic, but rather having a prompt where you essentially have almost unfettered access to the system, and have basically kernel privileges as long as you understand the hardware well enough (because MS-DOS memory protection is a bit lol).

If that isn't dark magic I don't know what is.
Do copyright dates need to be updated?
To be fair, if there's a need Mozilla and Apple could inplement JXL support and then Google would very likely follow.

It doesn't have to be or should be Google to lead the adoption of something.
I hear Entity framework and code as schema I get nervous

The .Net entity framework has caused a lot of problems for clients in the past.
I am not as familiar with the new one in .net core which is now just .net again I think.

A huge mess managing deltas for the schema.

Often used by people who do not know SQL nor relational databases
that leads to enormously slow and resource intensive queries,
(that can be done really easy and fast in raw Sql, and once
you figure out how to EF is doing things)
schemas that are suboptimal

Once you start fighting EF to make it behave better you lose a
lot of the benefit of the abstraction in the first place…
I first used toggle switches to input things into a PDP-11/?? I was trying to debug back in 1982 at Rose-Hulman. I next used them to toggle things into an IMSAI earlier this year... the PDP-11 had a better feel, but in both cases it really sucks.
RCS was worse than SCCS on every axis except marketing. It was claimed to be faster but was slower. The code quality was abysmal.
JPEG-XL is a

> good, non-patent-encumbered, open image encoding standard

yet they won't be supporting it.

Whether you want to buy it or not, de-facto format on the web is JPEG and only JPEG, thanks to the historical momentum. Even webp is still expendable, because Mozilla and Microsoft hold long enough. And AVIF isn't being used anywhere, yet. So no, it isn't in other vendors' disinterest to drop support for Webp and AVIF, because JPEG would continue to be de-facto in that case.
No. People don’t want Conservatives to have a voice.
A student his Micro-SaaS built with No-Code got acquired
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What are the legal implications you're concerned about? Are there some laws explicitly outlawing or regulating speech or communication?
I don't think it's related to IQ or abstract thinking skills.

Maybe you have astonishing skills in other domains but are not suited to mathematical thinking for whatever reasons. Also, the current mathematical language is just a compromise that suits a majority, maybe you are not in it.

I find the formulas on the page quite easy to read and to "sense" (I also have a background in cryptography, which helps a lot). I like these expressions, because they are very simple to manipulate, which helps understanding them better, and also to infer more results. However, because I "sense" them, I can always dig down every symbols and know what's behind (eg. the scalar multiplication, k.G, I know it is actually like doing the sum of G+G k times, which in turns results in more operations in the particular field or group that G belongs to, etc).

If you study electricity where complex numbers are used a lot for instance, the i symbol becomes very tangible. It is more than a symbol, but a real object with well defined properties, and that you can describe in multiple ways. If you start to learn all these properties and multiple ways, you will understand it better, until it becomes very familiar. Also, you have to understand that i is just not a fancy object, it is actually an object mathematicians created because some operations didn't have results in the set of real (in particular not all polynomial equations had roots). So we extended the set of real with a bigger set (the set of complex, which is actually a two-dimensional set), where these problem disappeared. Later, mathematicians and physicists start to use complex numbers a lot because they could describe many useful properties in a very compact way.
> None of which really seems to make any difference in a world of near-limitless bandwith.

Does to me - I have more than a terabyte of field-recorded FLACs that I'd like to put up on the net for people to listen to or download.

Compressing them to q1 OGG (and I'm not sure that's good enough quality for some of them) only gets that down to about 20-25% of the size (eg 200408_0403.flac at 540M goes down to 128M) - even if I host them on S3 or B2, it's still going to be costing me a not inconsiderable sum if people actively listen or download.

If this can get them down to 5-10% with usable quality, that makes life a lot easier (but obviously would depend on browser support, etc.)
"Lights of Zetar" - first episode I ever saw; don't think I was even a teenager. (Didn't always get to stay up that late.) Scared the heck out of me...

Not sure if it was really that great. Maybe because it was so dark outside that night? But yeah, wonderful memories.
Just like humans, more intelligent jays have greater self-control
Am I the only one who finds it sad when people flagellate themselves before bringing up the topic of C programming?
I hope I don't survive the nuclear war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
You're free to comment on whatever you want, same as we're free to comment on whatever you chose.
Breath of the Wild ran poorly on both platforms on release. Which surprised me, and undermined the power of the Switch.

That said the Switch remains underpowered compared to contemporary game consoles.
All the examples he gave can go both ways. Hindsight is 20/20

> They’d be better served by addressing the cultural or skill-gaps culminating in the reliability problems instead of trying to solve it themselves

We might end up with things like adding type safety to a dynamic language, relational operation to a document based database

> Founders feel trapped by slog of meeting financial projections, and want to reorganize company efforts towards increased innovation without connecting dots to how it will meet the financial projections.

If not, we might end up like kodak, missing the digital imaging era.

> They’d be better served by holding their managers accountable or empowering their People team

Or we are increasing our management overhead instead of getting things done.

All I'm saying is, we really can't tell. There more experience we have, the more likely we can tell. But never as surely as hindsight. Be open, self-aware, humble, and keep learning is the best we can do.
Haha right after Louis leaves. Love it.
> some Bolsonaro followers had been videotaped

I have videos of Lula followers doing similar stuff too. I have videos of drug traffickers executing Bolsonaro supporters and campaigners in their territories and celebrating Lula's victory with assault rifle gunfire. I have videos of PT supporters invading private property and sacking a store.

This looks pretty bad for both sides to be honest.

> Could you list some things that are better in Brazil after Bolsonaro and are fully attributable to him?

I don't even support this guy, I voted for someone else in the first round of elections. I just can't believe this country put Lula back in power.
A move in the right direction. Social networks should never be monetized with ads.
> At some point, if someone buys a ps5 or xbox for power only. Then they just get a pc, those consoles takes years to design. By the time they're released, it's already outdated

I don't think that's really true. Hardware moves slowly enough nowadays that really good hardware from a couple of years ago is still very competitive with today's hardware. And if you tried to build a PC with comparable specs to, say xbox series x, you'd be paying a very substantially larger amount because MS have economies of scale and a strong negotiating position.
Starting from quantum mechanics, the Lagrangian describes the phase change per unit of time. For most evolutions of a system, similar evolutions have very different phases and cancel out. But when the Lagrangian is stationary (derivative 0), they interfere constructively. The stationary point is often a minimum, but it could also be a maximum or saddle point.
This. Mastodon is a federation in name only. If the protocol is not the policy then you really don't have a federation at all, rhetoric notwithstanding. I note that this is not a problem particular to Mastodon/The Fediverse, though, as its the exact problem that led to people forking their own networks off of FidoNet.
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Not being able to solve them, especially fizzbuzz, does not really help either though

I think if someone is good at such problems then it means they at least know their data structures and have good problem solving skill. Both are good qualities for a programmer.