skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best shorthand for onscreen writing is the way SwiftKey keyboard supports. Basically you swipe your finger in one continuous path between letters stopping between words. It let's one write in comparable speed to typing on a smartphone onscreen keyboard.
This is where the emerging field of research data management and digital preservation come into play.

Reproducibility and vetting research output, as well as other forms of accountability requires research data to be present and available. Hence the requirement to safeguard that data. However, a personal share hosted on institutional cloud storage isn't the best place to store research data for lack of accessibility, discoverability, etc.

McGill does offer research data management services. [1] These services are meant to guide researchers as well as cooperate with them working towards long term archival solutions and policies for safeguarding research data.

[1] https://www.mcgill.ca/drs/rdm
Finally, a community to embrace and possibly improve the UX for signing digital documents with public/private keypairs.

/s(?)
Not every instance of Propaganda or Mass Surveilance warrants a 1984 reference. Very few in relation to how often it is invoked.

Newspeak is very specifically about the idea of making some ideas impossible to express. You seem to be calling Microsoft's bullshit pretty well.

(Simlarly, panopticism is about supressing expression of ideas though the threat of surveilance and subsequent repression, and going by how much political discourse has eroded, our version of surveilance capitalism doesn't seem to limit anyone from voicing their ideas, no matter how far it strays from prior social expectations of decency)
You've got the argument wrong. I'm suggesting you don't need two, you only need one. Unconfigurable forced default.
I think his point was mostly about "writing software". As in you won't need specific software anymore and the computer/network would do what you tell it without specific "apps".
Their Desktop app is written in Qt C++[1].

[1] https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
> So the 4% figure is not the storage of only dark data, but the storage of ALL data.

Storage or ALL processing? SSDs typically need very little power to just store data. They need some power to read and write. But the lion’s share of energy use for “digitization” is compute in various forms.
I'll bite, I think this is mostly bias. Strong evidence against this is that the average IQ of a mathematics undergraduate is, like, 125 or so, compared to ~115 for the average college graduate - that is just way too sizeable a difference to be explained by chance.

Math really does seem just plain hard for a great many people. It seems to me from having done some math on the inside like it also would get harder with each point downward in IQ than at a faster rate than most other valuable things in life.
Amazon is working on a new 'Remarkable Alexa,'
It does a little more than zilch. Exercise is important. Reading is also important.

If you want to learn fast, you need a balance of both that works for you. Some people will spend months grinding hard problems on their own in a single chapter to make sure they really understand. Some people will read too fast and have to go back because they don't have solid foundations, and only thought they understood.

Reading is about as important as doing exercises. You're not going to reinvent all of math on your own. You get insights from both.
Storage of data at rest takes absolutely bugger all energy.
The About page (link top right) says “Loadership is a side project of Jingcheng Chen” and links to https://chen.works/
sure, but you dont need to understand actual set theory -- it's just notation for mostly obvious programming stuff,

R means float,
Z means int

R^2 is actually notation from linear algebra, but here it means a point is 2 floats with a measure of distance between points etc.

A lot of this could just be given in a "crib sheet" for tech people, and you'd get 80% of it straightaway.

It's years of work to understand this notation as used by the professional domains it was invented by, but it's a couple weeks for most "good, technical, software engineers" -- since they arent really using notation in much more than superficial ways.

Of course there are hard mathematical papers, etc. but they're rare in ML/AI mainstream papers; and not something most would read.

If you need to be able to read, eg., some sort of adv. statistical time series research in economic modelling, you'd already have the background to do that. If all you want is to be able to read 90% of the popular papers, the notation in them is just syntax sugar for things you could state easily in english or python
If SAS is the paragon of a company not pursuing growth at all costs, then maybe we do need to start looking at quarterly metrics. As a customer their business model sucks and they are doubling down on "either we're a solution for your whole enterprise or else."
Really, no.

I know a lot of these people personally. Heck, I theoretically share(d) an office with one. And of course the way that Self's technology made it to Java's HotSpot, which is still tons faster than any JS, was via Anamorphic and Strongtalk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot_(virtual_machine)

https://strongtalk.org

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

https://gist.github.com/landonf/9053062

But of course Smalltalk was jitted long before that, with Peter Deutsch's VM.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800017.800542

Higher performance VM/compiler technology was not enabled by Self's object model, it was necessitated by it. The system was just too slow otherwise.

Squeak was never intended as a high performance Smalltalk implementation, it had different goals. When Squeak was created, an automatically generated bytecode VM was already tons faster than the fastest high-performance Smalltalk computers the creators had worked with at PARC, in particular the Dorado. This was considered more than fast enough for what they were trying to do, in particular because the bulk multi-media processing would be done by plugins (also often generated). Making a JIT for better performance was a non-goal.

So using Squeak (and later OpenSmalltalk) as a comparison is just completely invalid.

The Cog VM was started around 15 years after that, by a Smalltalk VM engineer who had already worked on jitted VMs professionally.

http://www.mirandabanda.org/cogblog/microbio/

And so using the Cog VM as some sort of benchmark as the "first fast" Smalltalk implementation is completely unrelated to reality.
Ahhh, I wondered about the importance of structure prediction for a long time, ever since reading those blog posts by a PSP researcher in academia who was complaining that big pharma didn't invest in the field. He was asking "why was it Google who solved this problem and not a Pfizer or Bayer?" His posited explanation was a sort of cultural/institutional disinterest in advanced R&D, but that didn't sound very plausible compared to the other possibility that they just didn't care much about the problem to begin with.

> That won't stop pharma from investing biobucks (virtual dollars that are gated by milestones) in them.

I didn't quite follow this, could you maybe elaborate? What is a virtual dollar in this context? Do you mean they make promises of future payments if certain goals are achieved, but the dollars never become real because the goals aren't achievable?

Re: math problems. I remember looking at Exacycle and wondering about that :) but concluded it would have been self defeating, as it'd just have resulted in Google dominating the network and that'd have been seen as an attack.
The UK government as a whole operates across the big names in the public cloud as well as some on-Prem/colo.

I'd very much recommend watching https://youtube.com/watch?v=mpY1lxkikqM&pp=ygUOUmljaGFyZCB0b... from September about Gov.UK's various iterations and some of the migrations across cloud that they've had to do.

One thing about (at least UK government) is that procurement requirements means that they go to market for quotes around usage every few years. If ie Oracle Cloud was 1/10th the price, it would likely mean they'd win the deal, and so would have to migrate to Oracle for the duration of the contract, and then potentially do the same to another cloud if that was cheaper
Oh to be thus conflicted, even for a few years.
More children mean a bigger climate footprint. Also, some children will be net negative on the tax and societal side (violent criminals that will never be gainfully employed). So it's not black and white. And I at least pay more taxes than a family of 3, assuming all of them are, for example, "just" store clerks.

So, what I want to say is, assuming we follow this value of life calculation, I am more valuable than this whole family of three.
My dream is of one day being in position to borrow some 5, 10 mil, if not more from some bank, VC, whatever. And then manage to somehow.... mismanage it, burn the money. And then get away from all the troubles by filing bankruptcy!

Yes, this has ever been my wet dream growing in a country that didn't have the notion of personal default and until only recent years. Where mobs were chasing oneself if he had any debts to like... anyone. I really envy you guys burning VC capital on "dreams", while others have to solve the complex "differential equation" of markets and competition and planning, and you know managing things properly to be sustainable without external injections.

Our story is very sad, your story is a dream indeed.
Yes https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#can-i-use-firefox-sync-with-...
With a new year comes an opportunity to set goals and resolutions to improve your cloud data warehouse (CDW). For many companies, a top priority is cloud cost optimization while also boosting efficiency. There are several ways to achieve these goals in 2024 without compromising your data infrastructure or overworking your data engineers.
There is e-mail, and there is Gmail.

(By the way, there are a lot of great e-mail providers other than Google. Often even with a web UI superior to the one by Gmail.)
Thank you. I should email that contents to my ex employer. Too stupid. Do not understand anything, but "I take AI seriously"

The status quo of AI is still a Boiler Plate. Nothing more. But still cool an if one's learn the pitfalls, it's usable.
User programmable real time signal processing. It runs a fixed one instruction per cycle (but it can issue multiple operations per instruction) and the machine code is deliberatly not turing complete similar to eBPF. Loops must have a fixed number of iterations and are unrolled by the compiler. In sum that means that program runtime in cycles equals length of program in instructions (plus a couple more to clear out the pipeline) so it is trivial to guarantee that any given program meets the timing requirements of the system.
Did Google or Facebook do anything that is not "living comfortably off early success"? AFAIK they had a very poor track record in monetizing anything they built in the last ten years or so.
See also:

Shavian alphabet https://www.shavian.info/alphabet/

Which has similar goals
DeepMind is only possible because of ad money, though. The people who ensure Google has the funds to invest in such projects are a critical part of the team.

As for more projects in the pipeline, well, see the sibling post by dekhn. It's hard to know what's important to work on if you aren't actually on the front lines. DeepMind did AlphaFold because it saw a way to apply its general AI research to biotech, not because it's a biotech firm.
Then watch for changes. Or remember to do this on more than one system. Or work with a team of people all credentialed to make work related system level changes to the fleet.

Yes, there are ways to deal with anything, but less is more, this is unix afterall. I can't love having a bunch of options, in several places, that may override each other, most of which I would never use for any practical reason anyways.

Reminds me of the type of systems I abandoned in favor of linux.
Hot on the heels of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051655, today is going to turn into pining for the past google day :(

I remember everyone wanting to work for them, back in their cultural heyday...
Heavy +1, as someone often involved from the other side.

For whatever reason the VR industry has been a particularly strange stand off ground in this universe because of a certain huge player trying to get mainstream user interest to take off to make their negotiating hand with potential suppliers much stronger, but it has not worked.
Qt is definitely not dead, rather alive and kicking. I've built my latest note-taking app[1] in Qt C++ and QML and it's been one of my best decisions. What the Qt Company need to focus on is hunting bugs (there are many of those) and reduce their license fee (at least for indie developers), it's just too expensive[2].

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/

[2] https://www.qt.io/pricing
You need to take a step back and take a breather. The people of the British postal office that you deride use state of the art encryption every day for things as trivial as putting a heart on an instagram video.

They didn’t have to do anything more than sign in to their account and they got better security than the military leadership of WW2.

It’s easy to lose focus and take “dumb users” as an undefeatable entity, but that’s the lazy way out. The most significant advancement of cryptography was asymmetric crypto that explicitly meant a moron leaking the public key didn’t mean shit.
That is not a problem specific to IPNS though. Using a DHT for something like IPNS is fine. Publishing roots of large data sets is also fine(ish).

Using it to publish every tiny chunk of a large file is a horrible idea. It leads to overwhelming traffic.

If you publish a few TB of data, due to the randomness of the DHT xor metric you have to basically talk to every node on the network. Add to that the fact that establishing a tcp libp2p connection is much more heavyweight than sending a single UDP packet like in the bittorrent mainline DHT, and you are basically screwed.

In iroh we don't publish at all by default. But if you have to use a DHT, the fact that we have a single hash for arbitrary large files due to blake3 verified streaming helps a lot.

You still get verified range access.
My mother-in-law was taught shorthand in the 1960s UK and still uses it regularly. We work together in a family business and any meetings we go to she'll jot notes down using it, the amazing thing [to me anyway] is that she can read it afterwards!

It's a fantastic skill but so rare to see these days, it was mainly used by secretaries dictating notes to then type up I think. Now we are our own typists, it's largely relegated to history.
Proxy to add OAuth 2.0 authentication to email clients that don't support it
Iran Frustrates Nuclear Monitors as Its Uranium Stockpile Grows
https://archive.is/6gBXv
Isn't there a theory that writing medium effects scripts? IE the angles of Runes lended themselves well to carving. And something about left-to-right scripts was to avoid smudging.

So I wonder the writing medium Arabic was for. Roman Alphabet does lend itself reasonably well to stone work I feel.

Or is that one of those linguistic myths that doesn't play out like that.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/17/high-court-q...

Prosecutions are basically unheard of, but it’s not legal nonetheless.
I agree. I lose energy levels and general lust for life when I don't have a strong reason to leave the house.
So I looked at the original 2005 email and saw this: "Google is the opposite: it's like a giant grad-school. Half the programmers have PhD's, and everyone treats the place like a giant research playground."

Ah, that's why you have the problem now. You let the madmen take over the asylum! Sorry, guys, I know engineers love to believe that everything would be fine if engineers ran everything. It just ain't so.
He thought the credentials, which were hard coded into the app, for an mysql server, somehow accessed only his data?

That's hard to believe. Which seems like the defense understood, because they offered that the "name of the remote database" seemed like it could be related to his customer that he was contracted to.

In the end, he's going to pay 3,000 euro, and made an example of. He could have received 3 years in prison. So slightly unfair to everyone but hardly worth stretching credulity to defend.
If I could save time in a protocol

The first thing that I'd like to do

Is to save every day

'Til eternity passes away

Just to spend them with you
I have never seen any of those kinds of examples reflow incorrectly in html.
SOM stands for "Simple Object Machine". It is not a high performance implementation, nor is it intended as one.

Subhead: "A minimal Smalltalk for teaching of and research on Virtual Machines."

Key characteristics:

"clarity of implementation over absolute performance"

Straight from the SOM home page:

http://som-st.github.io
The frequency of gas smell / poison air filling my whole apartment is 100% out of control. It is absolutely mind blowing to me that with all doors closed and windows shut, the noise isn’t even the issue I have. It’s the poison that enters so quickly and hangs around for so long, and it happens so often.

The smell those things put out is vile and it hangs in the air for so long. It’s nauseating and I’ll never figure out how that became legal in the first place. Like surely if I walked around blowing gas smell into people’s apartments I’d surely be arrested. But no, apparently that’s totally legit to do. Wild.

And of course, the noise is unbearable as well. All for what?! Ugggghhhh.
>unless it's for the pay

Luckily, that's the only reason I do anything at all!
What a bullshit response.
Bacteriophages are highly specific to different strains, even inside the same organism. So essentially you would need to determine to a high level what specific phage will work on the organism the patient has. This wasn’t really possible until recently (tbh I don’t know if it’s possible now but we’ve got cheap genetics so probably).

You’d also need to have a fat library of phages sitting in reserve. So that’s a logistics issue. It’s also a bit unclear how they would work with systemic infections - it’s going to be antigenic injected into the bloodstream, most of my understanding of them is for topical applications which parallels the old eastern bloc experience - that’s still incredibly useful
I host my own email server, and I want to tell that with a static IP with reverse dns, spf, dkim and dmarc I had zero issue delivering mails. It might sound complicated, but it is not that hard.
Makes sense, perhaps this isn’t a device for traditional audio/video media consumption.

Is this a reason to call it dumb though? Note that when Jobs presented an ipod in 2001, people also reacted this way[1].

[1]: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.5...
> Communism is the "free association of producers."

This sounds very hand-wavy. Why isn't capitalism this?
The transitive hull of the deps
Ah okay, this is obvious now, ty
I believe that emissions figure includes the power consumed during the manufacturing and shipping of the storage devices too.
What I meant was, that no country would treat Russian minorities any way different than other ethnicities. Russia weaponizing those people makes less favorable legislation necessary.

Sure, but the Russian Empire in its various forms transplanted those Russian people because they were loyal and could be put into positions of power. If you compare their treatment to that of the German minorities after WW2 they got a very good deal.
> instead the real explanation is differences in the professional culture of each clinic

A cultural aspect is that some practitioners believe the line between ASD and 'not-ASD' is in a different place. In my view, the pathologized label of ASD only really belongs to people that need support (even then I find the 'disorder' label problematic), but a broader autistic label belongs to anyone affected by autistic traits. The distinction of how many traits is the minimum for a autistic label is somewhat arbitrary, and whether someone cares to identify as autistic in light of these traits is outside the purview of the clinic.
Note that Google has a very complicated process to migrate an IMAP/SMTP app to OAuth. There is a long list of requirements to register an OAuth client for these protocols: https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-p...
> I got a $90K bonus that year

That's why they liked google.
I agree.

Taking an average view isn't useful at all, apart from maybe insinuating more people carry out jobs that are suitable for remote working.
No. theres a reason why humans have always had routines that are agreed upon by society. We are social creatures. We are not made to be individualistic islands with all the responsibility to perfectly dial in our mental health ourselves.
So your only argument is to cherrypick some comments from the comment history of the person you're arguing with? Ad hominem..?
Ditto. I complain about it constantly and get patronisingly managed. Everyone I know hates it. Some departments -- like physics -- manage "around" it quite well. Others, with less technological users, have flat-out stated that "it is the way it is" and, well, get on with it.

Computers were originally built to serve the needs of academics. Now academics are told to serve the needs of (American) computers.
Infections love sugar.
There might be some stretches of imagination there, but the base is solid - cuneiform writing was definitely formed by the medium (pressing a cut reed into clay).
I use Fastmail for 5+ years now. Initially I feared that the experience would be worse than Gmail (with regards to the Web UI, to spam filtering, etc). It is not. It really is much better!
Yeah I know there's a bunch of them that think neurotypicals would benefit from an empathectomy; not my favourite sort of people. But I won't start.
I agree, but why would Google adopt it when they have their own proprietary protocol with similar functionality? Companies love anything that makes them more "sticky", whether it's good for the user or not.
As long as homes don’t have high quality symmetric ipv6 fiber connections not hidden behind CGNAT, the cloud is here to stay.

Ideally, you would be able to buy a ready to go NAS and set up your own cloud at home in a few easy steps.
It’s not often that you see short fiction on HN, but I’m really grateful that this made it today. Be sure to read through to the Author’s Note if you skim the story, since it contexualises some of the rougher scenes.

The author wrote this to exorcise some of their own demons, but the story is also a…useful prophylactic against those demons in its own right. This brightened my day, or at least infused it with some much-needed philosophy.
Taking "post open source" seriously as a statement about copyright law (2013)
I think the real e-waste is buying a new phone so often that your house is flooded with old chargers.
Thank you! This was my concern as well.
After seeing all the fakery from how AI models handle programming (being "very good" at tasks where it turns out it was just trained on the problem in the first place), I do wonder if AlphaFold is likewise a red herring.

How many of the AlphaFold protein folding predictions have been actually verified by a lab? And are any of those actually new proteins or just tiny variations on things in the training set?