skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait: an economy under partial trade interdiction is bootstrapping its own domestic chip fab, and this is (a) "secret" and (b) "skirting sanctions"

If you exclude a former trade partner from access to technology having sited factories onshore which made gen #-1 capable parts, exactly how surprising is it that they attempt to bootstrap gen #1 and gen #+1 and onward?

What did anyone think would happen?

I guess I'm just complaining (shouting at the moon) about language. The report here should be factual: are they actually going to succeed, and how different is their state support to e.g. the billions of dollars pumped into TSMC to bring them onshore in the USA.
>https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-does-adnause...

>AdNauseam 'clicks' Ads by issuing an HTTP request to the URL to which they lead. In current versions the is done via an XMLHttpRequest (or AJAX request) issued in a background process. This lightweight request signals a 'click' on the server responsible for the Ad, but does so without opening any additional windows or pages on your computer. Further it allows AdNauseam to safely receive and discard the resulting response data, rather than executing it in the browser, thus preventing a range of potential security problems (ransomware, rogue Javascript or Flash code, XSS-attacks, etc.) caused by malfunctioning or malicious Ads. Although it is completely safe, AdNauseam's clicking behaviour can be de-activated in the settings panel.

Isn't this easily detectable? XHRs are easily detectable through various headers, so it's trivial to filter out the fake traffic from this with a few lines of code. I'd expect any ad network worth their salt to implement this. Failing that, thanks to ad fraud there's a whole industry of bot/ad fraud detection firms using browser fingerprinting and behavioral analysis to detect fake ad clicks. I have no doubt that an extension that's "clicking" on every ad using XHR is going to get detected and filtered. I'm very skeptical using this extension will ever achieve its policy goals of fighting against adtech or whatever. You might as well attach a "DNT: 1" header to all your requests.
If you can get some old 25 pair phone cable out of a building, it makes perfect hookup wire for use in the breadboards, and many other things.

However... solid wire tends to get brittle and break after repeated flexing, never use it for permanent connections that undergo any movement.
my starbook arrived about a year after I purchased it, and was DOA.
I've always wanted a site that--instead of telling which product was the best--told me how to look for quality in the category I'm interested in. What does good look like? What makes a good quality water hose? What are the unsung features and considerations for drying hooks? What does quality look like in jeans? Am I paying for the brand or an actual meticulous craft?

wirecutter might have been that at one point, but I find it doesn't fill that gap for me. As I've gotten older, I'd rather have a few quality things, rather than a whole bunch of good enough things that I'd throw away next year.
Incredibly, those first 100 tickets have sold. I just don't understand some people.
Oh yeah. That was always a sketchy recomendation, but it sure did make its way around. I think deduplication is remarkably seductive, but doesn't seem worth the cost for almost anyone, given how it's implemented. IIRC, btrfs has a dedup option where you can link up duplicates later, and then you don't have to hold a dedupe table of everything all the time, and don't need to collect writes to check the dedupe table, etc. But rewriting data isn't how zfs rolls, and I get that.
My snapshots are encrypted by the original computer (this is cool because the NAS can’t read them!). So I also needed to restore the encryption “wrapper key” to be able to use the backups.

Not gonna lie, it was pretty terrifying until I had my first confirmation I could decrypt the data.

Note: no bespoke backup method should be assumed functional unless you actually periodically check that you can restore data from it.
That's why I build MonsterWriter
Since 2013 there have been multiple iterations of SSD technology that increased storage density but sacrificed storage durability: https://www.howtogeek.com/444787/multi-layer-ssds-what-are-s...

This is why people are concerned about SSD endurance. An old SLC SSD's NAND would be good for many, many writes, tho the controller would often fail. Nowadays the NAND fails, but the controller is fine.
Physics and regulations. Cost of fuel is high so you want to fly for efficiency not flight hours. Going super Sonic wastes a lot of fuel, you can go a bit faster trans sonic for 10%-15 speed boost but the economics don’t pencil out.

Besides due to regulations a lot of airline design is stuck in the 60s/70s as redesign to modern standards is insanely expensive.
Macbook Air M1 > Dell XPS or whatever alternative

can't speak to other tablets but iPads get the job done. I have one of the oldest generation ipad Air that still gets updates. Got it secondhand. It does the basics well enough. I'm not sure an android tablet would even be getting that support.
One arm of Google has no idea what the other arm of Google is doing. Watch them re-enter domain registration within the next 5 years.

Just try to follow along with their chat developments if you don't believe me.
IME, the prognoses there are on the order of months, generally. Although not likely always formalized and treated with a blanket policy, you can probably get priority service in at least some circumstances.

This situation is unique because of the time span. I'm sure there would be an increased sustained and consistent demand for nostalgia-focused apps. And probably for many other products I haven't considered.
Well, don't use Gmail, or use a domain that you can move to any provider and keep a backup of you're email.

If you put yourself in a place where someone can take everything from you than it's a real risk that they might.
> You could always go on a retreat — you'll have very limited options for distractions.

They would probably kick me out within 5 minutes of being there. That's what they used to do to me in classrooms when I was in my youth lol.

I'll be honest though, even if a retreat would work, that is honestly far more effort than I would be willing to spend for something that I have no idea if it's even worth the time, effort, and money.

I do appreciate the recommendation though, and since you went through the effort of replying to my request, I will at least look into as to not waste your time.
Resolver Systems came to my mind right away when I heard this news.
Baby Rudin, despite the somewhat patronizing name, is a second analysis text. There are many things that should have explanations that he expects you to already know. Swallow your pride and start with Abbott. You'll thank me later.

Now here's what I really think: I don't know your situation, but the odds are better than even that you should forget about it entirely. Doubly so if you're out of school. The bizarre math pride held by college kids (I did Math 55! I took a class with Stephen Wolfram's kid! I did all the exercises in Hartshorne! I proved X at age Y!) is real fucking stupid, coming from someone who badly wanted it. Your academic career or lack thereof will be determined about 90% by the people around you. It may piss you off, but you'll find it to be the same bitter truth I did.
It is not entirely clear to me exactly what you are trying to persuade us about, though it is quite possible that we share a number of concerns. I am not, however, going to be persuaded of that on the basis of a socioeconomic theory that ignores, and attempts to contradict, the complexity of recent history.
Near future? Its been in development for 7 years and still hasnt been accepted upstream (an upstreaming effort is in progress, though).
Elaine Pagels straight up lied about the contents of Athanasius Letter 39, turning an admonition to only use certain canonical and apocryphal texts for teaching and a warning against similarly named heretical texts (like most of those found at Nag Hammadi) into a command to destroy everything except the canon and the apocrypha. Since she was one of the early scholars to work with the Nag Hammadi library, her hiding-to-avoid-destruction theory remained influential for a long time, despite it being based on a lie. More recent scholarship tends to theorize that these texts were a burial deposit—a practice that began long before Christianity in Egypt.

The point, though, is these texts were doomed when there ceased to be a scribal community that cared about them being copied. If you suppressed the heretics in antiquity, you suppressed the transmission of heretical texts except to the extent those texts were quoted in refutations that scribal communities did care about preserving. Actual destruction of manuscripts was unnecessary at that point, although it still sometimes happened like with the works of Arius and Nestorius. At least with Constantine's condemnation of Arius, it seemed to be more of a damnatio memoriae than an a practical act in furtherance of suppressing heresy.
Yes. They chose to come to the threads and focus on the trollish, downvoted comments and then outright block every member of the mostly decent community from even reading the blog.

They may be fine people (Asahi) but I thought it was an overreaction, yes.
It's definitely a complicated system that the vast majority of people don't really interface with or understand. I don't completely blame people for not immediately understanding it, but I do get frustrated with the massive amount of misinformation which gets spread by journalists which spread FUD about it (see: TFA).

I do agree about the politicians. I'm no fan of a lot of those clowns. I'm pretty happy to see Ken Paxton finally having his crimes tried. Not everyone in Texas is a nutcase, 44% voted for an anti-gun candidate against Abbot. Imagine if the D's ran someone who never directly said they'd take away guns, they might actually win some at large state elections.

And yeah, as someone who understands what Enron did they really did California dirty. Deregulation doesn't have to look like that. Free market principles can do good things, when you actually have safe and efficient free markets. Watts are Watts, if we do it right they can be pretty dang fungible.
Probably just an honest mistake. But they should definitely look into fixing that.
Can't. Our development process requires using validated tools and we would have to validate a new version. A fix for this would not be worth the validation cost.
AdNauseun source code is forked from uBlock?
I recently discovered How We Feel so I just wanted to thank you for your work. I really enjoy using the app!

I found a small bug in the analyze tab though. If you look at e.g. weekly and select a tab that is not the left most one, then scroll down, then tap the top of the display (the universal scroll to the top feature of iOS), the content disappears.
Yes, that's the one. It's tucked away in the corner, just around the bend as you walk from terminal A to B. I couldn't say for certain if it's actually in terminal A or B, but I think it's closer to B than A.
Just wait till they get on about spoons.
I think using the cultural stigma of a "terrorist act" to make an analogy like that isn't very productive.

It's as effective as saying "People also do bad things for ideological reasons", simply stating as fact that violating copyright is bad ignoring any of the nuance that was provided.
Why would that be "pretty cool"?
I mean, isn't that what I have always done to begin with? For example, when reading a book, I can sometimes read a whole page without actually internalizing anything my eyes pretended to skim across. (My body can mimic the actions of reading, but my mind is somewhere else, if that makes things more clear).

I have always done this with things like reading, conversations, work, etc.. When distracted I have to refocus myself on whatever I was supposed to be focusing on. Is that some kind of quasi-mediation still or something else?
>My wife has pockets on about 10% of her clothes

Your wife's clothing choices are just that: her choices.

> The world's a big place and you have to learn to share it with other people.

Yes, it is, and one of the things you're supposed to learn is not to engage in public behaviors that annoy other people, just for your personal convenience.
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You bet. We're all just getting our arms around this technology and the pricing, so it helps to type it out myself, ha!
Maybe they're running the same core epistemic engine as you: what seems to be true is true!
+1. I just discovered this, and it's happily eliminated at least half my use case for Excel, and does a better job at it too. That is, visualize CSV files without messing with the data.
Are you willing to share your script? I'd like to compare it to mine to see if I've missed anything. Thanks!
Well, you can do anything as long as you're not caught but the only exception that I'm aware of is if you must drive a vehicle as a part of your job, then it can have regular plates.
> providing a core library way of wrapping with stacktraces would be a very useful next step

What eventually became the standard library error wrapping proposal evolved from the work done on the Upspin project. It did include stacktraces, and believed like you that it would be useful to have them. But analysis of the data showed that nobody ever really used them in practice and, for that reason, was removed from the final proposal.

> particularly given the most popular package doing that previously is now unmaintained.

Lacking wide appeal doesn't mean there isn't a niche need, of course. However, with the standard library accepting a standard for error wrapping, which this package you speak of has been updated to be compatible with, what further maintenance would be needed, exactly? It would be more concerning if it wasn't considered finished by now. It seems the solution for niche needs is right there.
The current chat models will attempt to help you do that. Might be sufficient?
doesn't this dependency hell still exist, but just in the cloud?
This is true. The net effect is you can be denied coverage.

They don't explain this to you when you get the check.
I wasn’t talking about whether you were right or wrong. I was calling you out for being a dick and not contributing constructively to the discussion.

You’re talking past people, not taking the time to understand what they’re saying, and then being dismissive when they reply.
"They do zero efforts to help the public understand anything."

To be fair, with complex diseases, the experts don't even understand them fully...

Trying to explain something super complex with incomplete knowledge to most humans, who often don't have even a basic understanding of how biological systems work, seems like a bad idea...
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Not related to the topic on hand but I’ve felt my google fu diminish significantly over the past years. Not sure if it’s me or my google intuition just not matching the current algorithms
What situation are you in where you need to have a loud phone in public places?

Unless you're an emergency physician or something, I can't actually think of one.

Also: you're grossly mistaken if you think the whole world annoys other people with their phones.
Awk programming language 2nd edition
I don't think it was this, but this looks interesting
I had some ram fail in my laptop and that killed my btrfs filesystem. Though btrfs restore was able to recover almost everything eventually (which is good because my last backup was a few weeks before since I had been traveling). Decided to go back to boring old ext4.
I don't really understand what stops this from happening locally?
Doctors are, in my experience, very good at justifying preventative checks they thought of and very poor at justifying ones you thought of.

In both cases, they're correct - since no intervention is risk free, even if you have a 0% false positive rate in the sense of "I found a mass in your arm", for example, you might still have a worse outcome rate if the rate of "mass in your arm causes harm" is lower than "complications from removing mass in your arm".

That's not to say that their suggestions are right and yours are wrong, just that they're right about the reasoning but tend to dismiss concerns that they didn't think of and justify ones they did, and we need a more complicated basis for justifying this than "I think".
Intel Labs experimented with many low power cores vs. fewer, faster high power cores back around 2009-2010.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/experimental-intel-chip-could-...

Programmability is always the biggest issue, and that's not really a chicken-and-egg problem because decades of research have gone into writing compilers and languages for massively parallel machines -- it's just hard, some would say intractable (and local memories tend to make programmability issues worse.) There are niche or embarrasingly-parallel problems that will run great. But it's hard to sell hardware that will solve only some of your problems well. And GPUs have taken over for many of those very regular problems as well.
What does bcachefs do better than BTRFS or ZFS?
Going off how people treat cars, the majority would do this the practice is ever allowed on a wide scale (to facilitate commercial services that assist them for a small fee).

The issue is that most phone manufacturers don't allow owners to do this, and most that do, do pull shenanigans that make it unpredictable and difficult.

Poorer people would absolutely choose to pay 25 dollars to extend their phone's life (replace battery + reflash to a supported firmware/os) vs buying another 200 dollar phone.

I'm hoping the EU (and the rest of the world) steps up and does what the US should have done a long while ago.
Volunteering with FIRST (I volunteer with FRC) can be a surprisingly fulfilling experience on its own! You still get the excitement of watching the competition, while getting the chance to mentor and support the brilliant young students making their way thru the program.

Many regions also have lots of regular returning volunteers, making the volunteer camaraderie even better than what I experienced while on a team.
Is your argument that Musk isn't most directly responsible for the state of the Tesla brand? Were you familiar with the brand prior to Musk's acquisition?
I thought this was the most significant excerpt in the article.

> Now, as the research matures into controlled studies and meta-analyses, meditation is losing a bit of its luster. It’s beginning to look more like just another decently effective medical intervention. A 2021 systematic review of 44 meta-analyses found that mindfulness was mostly on par with cognitive behavioral therapy or antidepressants in terms of treatment effects (mindfulness was superior in a few categories, however, including treating depression and substance abuse).
> I used this for a while.
Why did you stop using it?
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As a casual r/motorcycles browser: it's now common knowledge (there, at least) that you absolutely need a vibration damper if you're mounting your phone.
We already do that. We think you may get cancer or dementia, we deny you insurance converge and proceed to drain you of opportunity
Violating copyright doesn't actively harm the copyright holder. Clicking on ads consumes actual real world resources of the ad network (which is passed on to the advertiser). This is basically stochastic terrorisim on a small scale.
I had an attorney create for me: medical directive, power of attorney, trust document. The medical directive was notarized plus two non-family witnesses. Now I clone and tweak the trust document for each new asset like car or bank trust account. Other than optional husband+wife ceremony at a church, I am curious what else is needed or useful.
no, this wasn't it. It was mentioned in the HN comments section about a week ago. The book was from 2017
If you've never had the chance to visit an FIRST competition, I strongly suggest you visit an FRC competition (FTC's bigger brother) this spring in March/April.

The field is as large as a basketball court, and the gameplay is energetic and exciting! I was a student on an FRC team in high school, but the program itself was interesting enough on its own to keep me involved post-graduation. I'm now approaching 9 years of volunteering, with no signs of slowing down. It's a fantastic experience.
A lot of nefarious, brutal and unethical behaviour that is completely normalised in today's world will be considered terrorist or otherwise in the future. It is still ideological no matter how horrible we think it is.
I've been using urbackup for years. It does disk image-based backups and/or file-based backups. Disk image-based backups are incremental at the block level, and file-based backups are incremental at the file level (so if a single byte of the file has changed, the entire file gets backed up). It uses the Volume Shadow Copy mechanism that the sibling comment mentioned to get atomicity and avoid file locking issues.
> odd you'd want to deprive yourself from excercising mind

Rest is part of exercise
Of all the SQL flavors/derivatives, I like PRQL the most: https://prql-lang.org/

Previous HN discussion from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36866861
Knowing you will have something incurable has only downsides. You will dread the time ahead of you instead of enjoying your present time.
Wonderful post! I've written a couple of packager manager like things over the years. Although they've all been internal-only which gives some flexibility.

> I like the idea of allowing both project and global scope

Yikes! Hard no from me. Globals are pure evil. Avoid like the plague. Environment variables too. Kill them all with fire.

> what if the user wants to reinstall the packages on another machine or CI server? That’s where the lockfile comes in

I've typically bypassed the need for a lockfile by simply checking in the dependencies. Dependencies belong in version control! That's a rant for another day.

Treating the packages folder as source of truth is basically the equivalent I think?

> I understand that dropping dependencies altogether may not be something you are ready to accept.

Nice. A corollary to this is that if all your packages are internal then you can simply disallow dependency graphs that want different versions of the same package. Simply bump and fix-up all version number dependencies for all packages.

The basically means "all packages play nicely on latest version". Which when all the packages live in a monorepo is perfectly plausible. Totally doesn't work for public package managers, but that's a different story.
Two reasonable options here:

* Artifical sales for perceived competing demand, or (may favourite)

* Train wreck fetishists.

I can easily imagine gonzo journalists in search of material for a faux Glastonbury version of Ballard's Crash.
Dark matter can do anything we need it to do.
The important question tends to be what happens when things go wrong, such as losing a database and restoring it from backup.

Your database and the credit card company's are separate, so they may retain a record even if you lost the data.