skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know they also surveil other forms of digital communication but it still amuses me to think about how they built a huge apparatus for tapping phones and then millennials and gen-z come along who only make calls as a last resort.
My own personal opinion is that Tailwind just looks better. Bootstrap is great for developers who want something instantly nicer than unstyled HTML, but Tailwind is more production-worthy.
Optimizing a Toy Model Using Gradient Descent and Jax
Fair enough, I never tried it.
It’s just for someone who might be inclined to give it try (like myself), the example in TFA makes a really bad case.
This comment section looks ridiculous.

If the purpose of propoganda stories is to paint the Russians as untrustworthy to the Western world (hint: that is the purpose!) then it is surely effective.
93% of DC voted Democrat in 2020, surrounding areas about 80% Democrat. Not sure why anybody would be surprised by this. The people in charge are fine with it and only promote people with similar ideology. Anybody in the FBI who might change things gets assigned to some FBI field office in the midwest and their career is over. Similar situation in the Pentagon and most other DC/Federal government institutions
The idea of "Checks and Balances" was coined by Montesquieu in his "The Spirit of the Laws" treatise, where it is justified as "balanced forces of equal leverage amongst one another having an embedded tension against each other".

The problem is, despite the Founding Fathers' near-fetishization of Montesquieu's work, and the fact that Checks and Balances are a genuinely good idea, the Founding Fathers weren't true to it. In a country of three branches (Legislative, Executive, Judiciary), it is absolutely paramount that the installment of each branch's authority is independent from the actions of another. Obviously, this didn't happen: Congress itself is THE delegate to assigning the President of the Executive - of whom decides his cabinet (which is also meant to be a Check and Balance to Congress), and Congress (and the President it chooses) not only votes on the Supreme Justices of the Judiciary - but Congress also has the power to ordain any court inferior to the Supreme Court.

This creates a system where Congress seats its utmost authorities intended to act as its checks and balances, and it doesn't work.
Did the myths drive progress, or did progress happen despite the myths?
Evolution is probably on of the the most exclusionary phenomenons that can be thought of: a race without rules to survive (and reproduce) at the expense of all others. Nature is the by-product of evolution. I would say discriminatory.
The user I was responding to indicated it was internal users though, not a public website.
What's the point of setting up a blog on medium rather then setting up a WordPress website in minutes?

Or course in short term you win with Medium and similar platforms, but long term you lose, moreover bearing risks of platform-locking
Very interesting. I'm working on on app that has "slides" users click a button to progress through. Now I'm wondering if users would prefer to "scroll" through the content instead.
Since hydrogen is more buoyant than helium, I wonder if it could be mixed with something which reduces the flame? Either in the gas or in the outer layer of a two layer balloon.

It just seems like if a substitute for party balloons is needed then exploring alternate gas mixtures might be low-hanging fruit compared to engineering lightweight yet low-cost vacuum structures.
> Most of the downturn in shipments is blamed on excess inventory shipping in prior quarters impacting current sales.

This is in line with comments from Drew Prairie (AMD’s VP of communications): [1]

> We are shipping below consumption because there is too much inventory in the channel and that partners want to carry lower levels of inventory based on the demand they are seeing

[1] https://www.pcworld.com/article/1499957/amd-is-undershipping...
Well, yeah, and the gold standard way of figuring out who would benefit from hormonal intervention is people's self-description.
As annoying as ADHD /can/ be. I am glad I have it. I do take meds to help “control it” but I also happily forgo them when I don’t need to crunch time focus on something.

There’s a lot of pros to it and most of the negatives that people run into are because the NTs have designed this world for a few certain “ types” of people and personalities and make everything else hard as fuck because it’s “wrong”.

Annoys the piss out of me.

Anyways, haven’t actually read the article yet. Just wanted to put that out there lol
Like all English statements, it depends on how you read it.

I read it as, "everyone experiences the symptoms of ADHD to some extent, including those who don't experience symptoms beyond the threshold of a disorder."

The big question is, do you see that fact as a tool for the average person to trivialize or to empathize with the ADHD experience?
Qdrant, worth checking if you are looking for open-source alternative to Pinecone. (I‘m affiliated )
https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant
Chomsky's universal grammar vs. the probabilistic model behind tools like ChatGPT or Google Translate is a pretty old debate.
You are incorrect.

Youtube-dl had a takedown because they specifically ran a circumvention in their tests. They removed the test and were restored.

Youtube-dl is still freely available.

Saving web pages is not illegal nor prohibited.
> C should have never ben part of Go to begin with

It’s unavoidable on most platforms. Linux is pretty much the only mainstream platform where the syscall interface is considered the stable interface between user and kernel. Other platforms (like macOS, *BSD, and Windows) consider libc (or equivalent in Win32) to be the stable interface.
Ask HN: How can I recover my hacked Facebook account?
I've had my Facebook account for about 15 years. During that time I've had different email addresses and one of them was on a domain name I let go more that 5 years ago.

I had 2fa enabled and had never had an issue with my account. I had also spent more than 10k on ads in the last year or so for my video business.

In November, someone registered that old domain name and used it to access an email account that was still on my account. Even though I had 2fa enabled and had not logged in to facebook with that email in years, they were able to get in.

They ran some ads, applied for an increase in ad spend and get my account banned for community violations.

I've done everything I can think of from filling out the forms and submitting my Drivers License to even sending them a registered overnight letter. I can not get anyone to help me recover my account.

I had some apps setup that allowed FB login for customers to my business site and then I had an app for oauth to handle streaming for customers as well. Both of those are obviously on hold as well as the facebook pages for our businesses.

Is there anything that can be done at this point or do I just write facebook off? I personally didn't use it much for social stuff, but it was pretty crucial to my career and business still.

I'm really frustrated about this and if it wasnt for the fact that so many people still use it, I would just drop it.

I created another account the other day but I had to upload my DL to verify the account for development and now that one is banned too. I thought I had everything locked down pretty tight but I guess that domain name was the fatal blow.
this reminds me of the 'leading change' performance metric some mil leaders were (are?) evaluated on. the incentive is to be seen making changes, but there isn't anything about following up to ensure the change accomplished anything.
This is what I struggle with. The most important things to me are performance and compatibility. Performance/watt means almost nothing to me if I get 80% of the performance and can only run a limited catalog.

Yes, this will change over time. Unless there's a compatibility layer that's perfect though, I don't see this whole "x86 will be dead in 5 years" argument. That's what they said almost 15 years ago.
That's not entirely true. When I was mining in Vietnam, we were not rich. We just picked a country where power was cheap and it was close to China so that we could get hardware into the country more easily and inexpensively. The Vietnam govt wasn't using the excess power and they were happy to have someone filling their datacenter spaces.
So? Lots of languages work well with VSCode that aren't TypeScript.
> For one: Japan has no natural resources. Fuel for power must be imported. Materials for solar panels (or the panels themselves) must be imported. Nuclear is by far one of the most efficient /and/ effective forms of power generation humanity currently has.

Nuclear has a much larger total material requirement than wind and about equal to solar.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262...

> For two: Fukushima was a result of human incompetence, nothing to do with the reactor itself or nuclear technology thereof. The meltdowns at Fukushima #1 could have been completely avoided had the government of the time not been a bunch of worthless fools (hint: TEPCO wanted to scuttle the reactors before they melted down).

How do you perpetually guard against human nature?

> For third: Japan needs power /today/, not tomorrow. Even assuming a transition to non-nuclear forms of power, that will not happen overnight. Using nuclear power is a concern of practical necessity.

This nuclear would come online in 15-20 years, how is that today?

> For fourth: Nuclear fearmongering is patently ridiculous. Nuclear power plants are not atomic bombs, for crying out loud. The same people who cry their hearts out about radiation proceed to fly on airliners and eat bananas. The answer to nuclear fearmongering is not shunning nuclear technology, it's to teach and bring more awareness about what nuclear technology is.

Their risks are subsidized by the governments, and it still on top of that, require enormous subsidies. This move will essentially banish Japan to become an energy starved country in the face of massive renewable build-outs.
Yes I know, that's why I said it seems controversial.
Not to mention some of the early tech having German origin (same in the West).
It’s surprisingly hard to find any research on this. The last survey I could find was articles saying the Lincoln project did a survey in 2018 showing about 50% of tech workers are Christians. Which is less than the 64% of Americans, but still much more than the global average of about 32%. But 5 years isn’t a small amount of time, and also unknown how much that number changes as you go “higher” up the rung of tech companies.
Maybe with Business Source License?

That is essentially a proprietary license that will turn the licensed work to FOSS software after a given period of time. So that everyone can use and fork the software, but the original author can also make money out of it sustainably.
It wasn’t that long ago they drilled a hole in a Soyuz, then patched it with epoxy and sent it up anyway, only for the epoxy to come out and cause a leak.
> A person who uses a calculator for everything starting from a young age just doesn't develop that skill.

But is that a reasonable fear? It's actually quite hard to use a tool without understanding it, so you won't get a lot of people reliant on calculators who don't understand calculation. I've certainly never met someone for whom it was a problem.

About using tools you don't understand, this is easy to try. Get some film editing software or 3D rendering software (assuming you don't know this area, like me) and see where you get to. I've never been able to use a tool without understanding at least something about what it does.
Yeah, everybody upgraded their WFH office setups in the prior two years, now no one needs a new pc. We’re going to be good for a while.
Because Meteor Lake is expected to have a greater IPC than Raptor Lake, reducing the gap towards the Apple CPUs, any regression in performance can be caused only by a clock frequency during a power-limited scenario that is lower than estimated when the Meteor Lake design has started, which is the same what has happened with the Intel "10 nm" process during the Cannon Lake/Ice Lake/Tiger Lake years, until Intel eventually succeeded to tweak their manufacturing process and design rules enough to be able to obtain a better performance than with their old process.

This means that Intel 4 is still not moving forward well enough, at least not as well as they had predicted at the start of the Meteor Lake project.

Hopefully for a healthy competition, this time they will succeed much faster to tune their manufacturing process.
Why not randomly?

And that's randomly without jury strikes. There's a reason corporate and government interests have tried to keep more and more matters out of a jury trial -- the outcomes are unpredictable.

Which is exactly as it should be. If the people's will were predictable, democracy would be unnecessary.

And if a bad investigation is allowed, or a good investigation is stopped... that's a fair price to pay for, on the whole, having greater civil control.
It is not obvious to me why I should believe people were more numerate in the past.
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All good points. Thanks.

Your last statement was interesting: "the trans community is very biased towards what worked well for them personally, and refuse to consider that it doesn't work for everyone."

You could add "non" in front of trans and it would probably be true as well, no? I just happen to know a bunch of trans people who feel like the dominant culture doesn't really serve them well. I trust that they have thought through it well, and know how it impacts them more than you have.

To me this whole conflict really seems less about trans people and non trans people. It's about people that don't trust the medical establishment and those that do. There are a lot of questions all over the place if you look there, and I'm not sure where I stand there.
Star Trek Full-Scale USS Enterprise Almost Built in Las Vegas in '92
No one language does everything equally well. Haskell is probably one of the most flexible in that regard, in that you can create domain-specific langages as needed and use just about any programming model. There's even a joke monad that nicely implements C-style state, for loops, etc. You can manipulate raw pointers, if you really want to. But even most ardent Haskell zealots will tell you it's not really the right language to write hardware drivers in. (Same applies to Lisp.)

The we have history. C is 50 years old. There's been some new ideas since, but grafting many of them on to C would make C a whole other language. Like C++. C++ is built around a particular programming model (native code and C interoperability). Are we going to move to a virtual machine platform? Then why not tweak the language to work best with that and the libraries of that environment? And so Java and C#.

Inventing a language is also just a hobby for some. And sometimes they catch on. Same with small languages intended for a bespoke role but which grow beyond it.
Alignment worked far, far too effectively.
I suspect that the breakdown occurred higher up in the organization.
The TASPs ran quite well for almost 70 years, and there was a process around them.

They were originally created as a way to identify great HS students and funnel them into the Telluride House at Cornell, and for many years students regularly turned down Harvard and Yale to go do this; many of them became College Scholars, and the Telluride House had a reputation for having many of the best students on campus.

The endowment did quite well (they were early adopters of indexing and the Yale model) and they started the TASS programs. This created a different funnel of almost exclusively black students not recruited based on a standardized test score or 'elitist' credentials, and this group gradually took over the organization and co-opted the giant pot of money. This led to a schism where the 'elitists' left, and the result is the current groupthink as well as the difficulty in recruiting factota (the college students who help the HS students).
Meh to the article.

Bootstrap and tailwind aren't really trying to do the same thing.

e.g.,...

One client wanted a dashboard for certain data... we chose a bootstrap template they liked and... we were done with many aspects of the visual design. The template looked good, was appropriate for the purpose, the client was happy, and development proceeded to the parts of the site they really needed to control.

Another client wanted a custom design for an outward facing site. Designers and the customer worked together, iterated a bunch, and came up with a design they all loved... I implemented it with tailwind... straightforward for me and the client and designers loved it because it looked just like the design they worked so hard on.

It would have been possible to use tailwind on the first site, but it would have taken longer, for no benefit to the client or project.

It would have been possible to use bootstrap on the second site, but it would have taken longer (to customize) and/or would look more like bootstrap and less like the custom design in places where it just wasn't worth the effort to customize it.
No idea why your comment was flagged. Fixed that for now. I think it's good to let people know if the addon submits URL's without user-interaction. In my opinion it may be good to let people opt-in per site with a button and then have an option to revert to the current behavior if people decide they are fine with submitting this data for every site they visit.

There is no way to link or match requests to any particular user.

I think that people will disagree with this as their IP address would show up on your servers and then further tracking would depend on what other code gets added to the server. This is why some people for example disable the OCSP validators in the browser as it is yet one more place their behavior is tracked.

If you have an idea about how I can make this open-source without people easily copying it, I'd be more than happy to know.

This is called code obfuscation and if Mozilla are reviewing addons they should flag it. I do not believe there is a way to accomplish what you are describing without making the addon and service proprietary and paywalled. I would not expect that to be adopted as there have been other addons in the past that have tried to enable site comments. They usually do not last long as the comment system gets abused by spammers, scammers, grifters, etc... I suspect this system would need a small army of moderators if the goal is to have a per-site-comment-system. There should also be a flagging system in the addon to report the aforementioned items.
I participated in Maciej's Antarctic trip crowdfunding, and got way more than my money's worth from his writings, simply some of the best on the web, bar none. Check out his amazing series on Yemen (just before the civil war erupted, but the uneasiness was clearly there). And the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel is pure comedic genius, as is Argentina on Two Steaks a Day.
I have a 2019 16" MBP and love the speakers. I regularly use them for music listening, Netflix and Youtube.
That's why you have limited terms of service and randomly turn over membership.
Equip all public officials and bureaucrats with camera vests, and livestream their duty hours. Immediately fire anyone who's gear malfunctions, nullify their pensions.

Make public office publicly accountable.
I think you've got a good point there. It would be good to come together at a table and discuss such things on an eye to eye level, between entities. Obviously not always possible for natural persons to all come together. Announcing things well ahead of time can go a long way, rather than suddenly dropping support from one day to the next.

What I would proprose then is, that companies should state their minimum security requirements to work with any other entity somewhere publicly available, so that it will not be something ad-hoc invented for some entity.

I have seen companies trying to treat smaller ones like some kind of supplicant entity, that one can push around and ask about interna, that could easily lead to the bigger company building a copy of the smaller company in a few months, since they got much more workforce to put to it, if they really wanted. Asking for things like "architecture diagrams". I am quite sure, that big companies will laugh you out of the room, if you asked them to provide same for their architecture.
I don’t see the fry cook at McDonalds as doing the same thing as Julia Child.

Uber drivers are on average considerably less familiar with their cities than taxi drivers, at least in cities like London that still have meaningful standards.

Likewise hauling a double-wide to a plot isn’t the same activity as building a house.

It appears to me that your argument either fails or is rhetorical hyperbole when comparing like for like. For example, I have no doubt that a cabinet maker today using advanced power tools could make a cabinet of at least equal quality as a master using hand tools in considerably less time and even with a lower skill level. But that power tool using cabinet maker still wouldn’t be remotely close to a four hour novice.
I’ve worked in tech companies that had Christian “diversity groups”. Not a lot of software engineers in those, from my experience, but they are decently sized.
My laptop (Lenovo legion 7) has a vapor chamber cooling system is shared by the CPU and GPU, so when you're only using the CPU it will have the full cooling power of the laptop.

If you prefer you can disable the dGPU too.
QMK is not great, honestly, IMO. It’s very constrained in what it can do, especially without having to recompile, and a lot of it depends on your keyboard.
> excluding ARM

These figures exclude ARM CPUs, another possibility is that lots of people are switching/buying ARM devices.
Apple upgrades the desktop version of Safari for two versions behind the current OS. It’s iOS that’s tied to the browser.
Sounds like Idiocracy and The Machine Stops had a lovechild.
When discussing the fossil record it's astonishing that no one ever mentions the possibility that an advanced species would intentionally remove all geological and archaeological traces of its existence. Why would they do that, you ask? Well, quite possibly for similar reasons homo sapiens is currently doing the same thing! The environmentalist ideology holds that we must return the planet to a pre-industrial state, as much as possible, and to leave as few non-degradable artifacts as possible. The movement would achieve success precisely when there is no evidence left that humans ever existed.
Well, in Iran and South Asia, gender correction is supported due to homophobia (if I am sexually attracted to a man, maybe I should become a woman instead).

Hijras/Transgender are still relegated to an inferior status and it is still treated as a "mental illness" in Iran legally speaking.

But, then again, if you are a closeted gay man in a very traditionalist household in a conservative town and from a lower class background, you could either remain closeted your whole life, openly come out and get lynched, or choose to transition and then "only" get shunned and stigmatized.
It seems to me the problem is if your situation goes off the rails things can go way worse.
A revenue stream that could only flow again if Putin were kicked out. Hard to imagine who might want a giant price on Putin’s head taken out.
Agreed, I'm waiting for the verdict to come back on Framework or some Linux OEMs before I upgrade my T460s. The product line isn't headed in a formidable direction, but I'm glad that there have been other manufacturers eying the space.
The ship's core directive is to keep humanity safe. The ship is on the verge of sentience, but not quite there.