skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain what you see as a downside of this? The data is anatomized so I assume I won't find your name in it, so how is this affecting you or your political group?

I can see a political group could be affected if they spend undeclared money or if they support a cause that don't want to admit publicly(and this is a good thing IMO, the groups should not support causes that they don't want to admit they support).
This attitude is not at all helpful for actually doing away with the prevalence of Holocaust deniers (or Sandy Hook deniers, or Moon Landing deniers, or what have you).

Facts are not negotiable, but unless you're omniscient, you have effectively no way to know whether or not someone else's claims are factual, especially when you're confronted with contradictory data sources, unless you happen to have the ability to validate or invalidate those data sources. Maybe instead of attacking the victims of incorrect data sources (thus driving them even further into the wrong by polarizing them against you), you might want to consider attacking the incorrect data sources themselves (and perhaps even their sources). Meanwhile, help those incorrect and duped people find the tools and resources to validate or invalidate those misguided beliefs.
Lego builds green credentials with switch to sustainable plastics
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You guys are spoiled. It doesn't even get in high 35 degree Celsius (95 degree Fahrenheit). I grew in a area where 35 was degree was the average temperature with lot of humidity, and we biked to our school. We didn't even have AC in most of the places. At least in USA, AC is so much more common.
Also biking early in the morning is different from doing it during the afternoon. I suppose most of the people go to the work during the morning. We did bike to school around 8-9 AM. We felt heat starting around 10 AM. So there are ways to avoid baking under the Sun, and still able to bike.
Microsoft earnings exceed $100bn on cloud services revenue
The advantage over tracks is you can lock everything and use the wheel anyway over relatively short distances. So, you trade increased complexity for a vastly better failure mode.

Yea it's bad for the car and passengers, but being able to move even 1 mile after failure is a huge advantage.
This beta includes experimental support for modules (also known as vgo)

if you're interested, there's a series of articles explaining how modules work here: https://research.swtch.com/vgo
Or those with the most convincing messages?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m absolutely against advertising, but I don’t discriminate; if you argue that political advertising is bad because it biases the voters and hinders the optimal choice, surely the same can be said about commercial ads and consumers as well.
I walk down to the hardware store, i purchase it, i walk back :|

If i want to go to the really big hardware warehouse, I catch the tram from just outside my house.

And if i need big things for some reason, I book the share-van, drive there, load it into the back, drive home, unload it, park the van, walk away.
Malta Stock Exchange is building a tokenized security exchange
Where exactly are these “cold hard facts”?
Ah, so the bicycle is just a legal term; in common speech, this would sooner be called a one person tiny car.
That's not a bicycle, it's a tricycle. I guess you've solved the problem of balancing but I don't think many bicyclists would be happy with your design.
You may not be able to lock it after you drive in dirt for some time or have any kind of failure where you lose the track.

Having tires with adjustable air pressure, or just adding extra pair of wheels (you may lift them up) to the vehicle seems like simpler idea.
Ask HN: How did you verify your saas idea
I will like to know the process by which you verified your Saas app ideas.
Five Common Misconceptions About Remote Company Culture
I am still a little bit disappointed that most transpiled languages have to provide a litte operating system to run their code including memory management and garbage collection. With this overhead webassembly can be even much slower than Javascript (downloading, compilation, simplified but slow memory management). If I remember correctly Rust adds 200kB of code to the webassembly binary. For me it was only possible to produce small binaries with emscripten C without any includes (bare metal).

The proposals look promising and might reduce this overhead somewhat. However I don't think they will manage to design
the virtual machine that is able to run all major rogramming languages efficiently. What ab0out features such as longjmp and goto in C?
I vaguely remember IR capability on PC's or laptops in the late 90's. Haven't seen anything like that since other than odd USB devices for fun/hobbyists.

What is the intended use-cases for the capability of decoding IR. Why would you want to talk with your PC in IR?

I guess it the article is a bit weird going into all this detail but there's no discussion about _WHY_ or what for?
I assume with WebAssembly you could get existing c/c++ etc libraries and recompile them and use them. Even a JS lover that wants to make desktop apps could benefit of having access at the large number of existing libraries without having to use a bridge to the native libraries.
Point taken, thanks.

Litigation does have a preventative effect, but I only see its effects at a more macro, large-scale level, like removal of Vioxx from the market. We are lacking more effective micro, local-scale incentive mechanisms to effect change more incrementally instead of waiting for a generation of doctors to pass through, or for the nuclear blast from litigation to blunt-force change the medical landscape. Just as basic hygiene was the game changer for public health and increasing median lifespans in the past several centuries, I anticipate a smaller, basic change like checklists will in hindsight materially, beneficially alter medical cost and delivery outcomes.

Own technical fields faces similar challenges, so this is I suspect a very human gap.
I normally get that feeling when exercising on open trails as well or even indoors. It's part of exercising intensely
We have been warring before the dawn of civilization. I think it used to play a role in territorial resource usage/rights, evolutionary selection, population control and asserting your own set of morals.

I wish we all get over war, but realistically, as long as we differentiate between "good" and "bad", there will always be some source of enmity to start wars..
WebAssembly is a really interesting feature for me.

I'll be interested to find out more about interactivity with the rest of the javascript world via syscall/js.
Command-line apps with Clojure and GraalVM: 300x better startup times
Abrahams use mechanical transmission from the turbines. Some ships and trains use diesel electric drivetrains or even turbine electric but its not for weight or efficiency but controllability. My understanding hybrid electric drivetrains are around 80% efficiency, while normal mechanical drivetrains are in the mid 90's. This is why nearly all hybrid cars switch over to normal mechnical drive typically at highway speeds as it more much efficient, while in the city in stop and go the electric drive train beats it due to regeneration and stop light idling.
Despite the fact that transparency is a good thing, what will happen now ? Every time someone loose an election the will blame Facebook (or Google or anyone) ?

I understand that when the result are tight it’s important to be fully transparent, but the election looser always have an excuse (It’s FB, it was too sunny so people went picnic, etc...)

I’m speaking generally, not on this specific election. Just wondering what future elections result will be
Dozens of PC games drop tracking software after surveillance fears
Too bad there’s still that pesky trial part which comes after the indictment. You know, the part where the defendant is innocent till proven guilty and the prosecution actually needs to make a case.
They are only valid when people start paying you for them :-)

What you ask for to begin with will vary, don't build and see what happens.
Video- Text Categorization with Naive Bayes
Everyone knows this is censorship and you've overplayed your hand. Calling everyone that disagrees fake news and Nazi was a game changer for me. I've only voted for Democrats since Gore. Now I see that leftists are the real fascists. All you did was awaken a bunch of us. Censorship = you will be driven out of business. You are literally fake news.
I imagine the malware distribution situation is much more prevalent in markets where google's existence is nil. Would love to know how, if any, app is reviewed in such markets (e.g china?)
Do Great Writers Really Steal?
LOAS is how Stubby (gRPC) connections on the internal network are secured, looks a bit like mTLS and is partially being open sourced as ALTS: https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-in-transit/appl...

GFE (Google Front End) is what you connect to when you access any Google services through your browser. Think nginx or even ELB. It's a load balancing reverse proxy, as well as WAF. It's mentioned here https://cloud.google.com/security/infrastructure/design/ and probably in the SRE book. This report might be the first time Google mentions in public that there can be two levels of GFEs, but I remember at least one service using such a setup many, many years ago.
To reply to you and the parent comment. I did check a few stores that said they made custom sizes and a lot actually wouldn't go up to 7x7, although it's clear from your link that select-a-bed does.

It wasn't so much price (although the fact that selectabed asks you to call for a quote suggests they're fairly pricey), it was that once I researched mattress materials, I was pretty set on having buckling column gel as the top layer.
Open needle usage and human defecation does not need to happen in large cities. NYC doesn't seem to have the same fecal troubles as SF. Even Cleveland is cleaner from my experience as long as you ignore the burning river
Seems Apple ios is still the best for now, Android is seriously fued up with less security, gosh!
"If we maintained current monthly usage of both maps and Places (ie. location search), the cost of Google Maps would be multiple times higher than the total cost of all other infrastructure."

Well yeah. If Google Maps is the most important component in your infrastructure (seems to be, based on the rest of the article), then it'd be surprising for it to not be the most expensive.
That is incorrect; the smallest rust produced binary is ~100 bytes. Only the code you use is included; if you want an allocator, choosing a smaller one is a good idea, for example.

We are usually significantly smaller than emscripten for the same code.
The Definitive T430 Modding Guide
Stopped reading at "how many readers will want a heavyweight linear narrative about a Dead White Male?"
There isn't. I've said this a couple of times in the mailing list. It's just some people appear to think there is, but I don't believe them.

We all agree that Emacs should provide sensible defaults, the disagreement is what that sensible defaults consist of.
Fascinating reading, but does anybody else find it incredibly depressing? Everything we've seen, every place we loved, everything we've produced, every bit of our history, literature, arts, every smallest trace of our passage in the universe, and every living being, species, descendant or distant cousin, is going to be pulverized, baked, incinerated and atomized. Not even too far from now, in geological terms- much before the universe has stopped producing new stars and planets and new life.
Another Cmder lover here. Although when the Windows 10 "Sets" UI comes out and default Powershell/conhost has tabs built in, it may be time to just stick with that. We'll see...
REST can practically never die - it's just describes how most of the internet works: HTTP + links.

Maybe people will stop using REST APIs, but REST will still be a thing as long as HTTP is.

GraphQL seems like it can solve some pain points of REST once you start using REST APIs at a massive scale. REST improves on SOAP in even the tiniest of cases.
Wow! This blew my mind. I have grown very used to using cmd, but have not thought of using the F keys before (do not know why). Behavior seemed strange at first, but after a quick DDG search found this StackOverflow question [0] and that led to this documentation [1]. This is a huge area of functionality which I don't think most people know about.

I will be using F7 a lot in the future.

As an aside, maintaining backwards compatibility (this is DOS era stuff) is why IMO it would be very hard to update core windows utilities, but maintaining backwards compatibility (and similar decisions) is why IMO Windows is as popular as it is.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1641948/f-n-shortcuts-in...

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/i...
The False Tale of Amazon's Industry-Conquering Juggernaut
The problem is that apps want access to my entire filesystem, otherwise they break. So a solution is to make them think they have access, while in reality they only have access to the sandbox filesystem (containing just the files I want to manipulate with that app).
Totally the other way around for me. Perl fits my brain. Python I can't comprehend.
That shows the larger problem with Android. An app shouldn’t need access to your file system to send a photo. It should bring up a system provided photo picker and once the user chooses a set of files, the OS should give it a read only access to the file.

If a photo management app needs access to your photos, you should be able to give it access to your photo library.
When you have a service that’s ten times cheaper than the best service, people start to raise eyebrows. They perceive it to be much worse. It isn’t always true, but it’s not uncommon either. I doubt companies are going to race to the bottom.
I'm also excited to see where this leads.

From the release notes:

> Go programs currently compile to one WebAssembly module that includes the Go runtime for goroutine scheduling, garbage collection, maps, etc. As a result, the resulting size is at minimum around 2 MB, or 500 KB compressed.

The minimum size is a bit unfortunate, but after all it is still just experimental.
I completely agree that these are important things to discuss. I just wish OP had left out the 'majority of cases' statement, because it doesn't really add much to his (valuable) point and hits a nerve with many people.
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> the concept of ‘fake news’ etc very effectively delegitimising the concept of a reliable resource for information.

I'd say the mainstream media and their talking-head opinion-pieces masquerading as news did as much if not more to hurt their image. This would be a much less pernicious problem in a world of genuine, balanced reporting.
> Why not turn it around, spend most of the research money and brain time on things that benefit everyone (in the US, and worldwide)

I think this is a quirk of the US political system where military spending is the only public spending that is acceptable to both parties in the duopoly. Hence the only stable source of public funding for research is probably in the military sector.
What kind of maintenance do you propose is going to prevent people from micturating and defecating into the water?
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Run – easy, fast, OOP programming language, compiled to C
github.com/josuemnb/Run
What about emacs -q ? Does the same issue still happen? If it doesn't, that sounds like a different package is locking up your emacs.
The difference between raster tiles and vector tiles is that in raster tiles the rendering (conversion to actual images) is done on your server (either when each tile is loaded for the first time or you may initialize a bunch of zoom levels for your area yourself; this may take hours to days depending on your area size) while for vector tiles you just send the descriptions/shapes and the inages are created on the client side. It is expected that the client performance won't be as good as with raster tiles and slow clients like mobile phones will struggle while trying to render the images.

One interesting idea would be to have both raster and vector tiles; then in your client side code you could detect if the client is a mobile device or a desktop pc (I am not sure if you can detect more things about how speedy the device would be) and serve the corresponding tileset (ie the vector tileset if the device is desktop or the raster one if it is mobile). This way you will definitely decrease the load on your server and most clients won't have performance problems!

In any case, the clients will get faster as the time passes so after some years vector tiles would probably be the norm because they have the huge advantage that it is very easy to style them on-the-fly in any way you like (while, to style raster images you need to re-create them all from scratch).
WhatsApp now limits how many times a message can be forwarded
Very interesting. I learned a lot.

The author mentions "re-re-re-implementing" command line history as a disadvantage of using shells in a dumb terminal emulator.

But, with respect, I think he's wrong about that. Command line history is a valuable productivity enhancer, and tying the details of its operation to the terminal rather than the shell restricts functionality and flexibility. For example, witness the differences between git bash (mingw) and cmd on Windows.

Inbuilt OS stuff should be as simple as possible. It doesn't have to be precisely /dev/tty - like, but it should be simple. Partly to avoid bloat, and partly because it's much less flexible than userland stuff.

Even when RAM was worth twice its weight in gold, various UNIX shells weren't heavy. Now? not worth worrying about.

I admit I came up as a UNIX user so I favor sh-like history. But still, Windows terminal history just isn't as good. (I wish it didn't deduplicate repeated commands and lose them when they're edited.)
> It was not a totalitarian state.

It most definitely was, without any doubt. However, it was achieved not by physical force like in most other cases, but by management of ideological education and control of all aspects of life, carefully choosing what will be allowed and how. This control was very subtle and by necessity needed to be carefully adapted with time, but without it the country would have fallen apart much sooner than it actually did, with catastrophic consequences.

Everything you write is exactly the result of this information control, and is what things seemed like at the surface.
I don't think that's the solution because apps may easily "bribe" the user into giving the app more access than it strictly needs. The bribing goes like: "sorry, but if you don't give me full access, then you can't use me". Simple, but very effective in most cases.

A better solution (imho) is to make the app think it has access, while in reality its access is limited to a sandbox.
Run – easy, fast, OOP programming language, compiled to C
Strive to survive: Designing for immersive experiences
Yugoslavia massively propped itself up economically by allowing its citizens to work in Western countries and effectively siphoned wealth home. Some 700.000 worked in West Germany alone[0]. It would have collapsed much earlier without piggybacking post-WWII Western economies...

"By 1988 emigrant remittances to Yugoslavia totaled over $4.5 billion (USD), and by 1989 remittances were $6.2 billion (USD), which amounted to over 19% of the world's total. A large portion of those remittances came from Yugoslav professional and skilled workers employed by Yugoslav engineering and construction firms with contracts abroad, including large infrastructure projects in the Middle East, Africa and Europe."[1]

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/yugoslav-guest-workers-torn-between-ge...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Socialist_Feder...
It's very clear you think money is the primary shaper of societies, but this simply isn't true. There are multiple forms of social capital which can be equally, if not more so, disruptive, than pure economics.

A political ideology is only as strong as the society that enforces it. That includes the economic framework and all its superstituous nuances defining
feedback loops of behavior being accepted dogmatically as the backbone of a society.

If it aligns with your values, literally, of course it's going to be something you see as true, because questioning it would be too challenging to manage. But there are plenty of intelligent people out there who can afford to question it, and it doesn't imply a breakdown in society. It can imply progress. But only if you want to see things that way.

That honestly depends on whether you can hit the middle understanding that your philosophy on societies and all the fears that are attached as a consequence of an economic loop you believe you have control over are actually true. Lots of people don't have control over it. They aren't stupid or lacking in skill. Assuming they are is flawed. Assuming you aren't being taken advantage of because you've been indoctrinated into believing the economy is the strongest principle defining a society is additionally, flawed.

These things actually matter when the economy is the only thing guiding a society and there is a literal breakdown of morality, ethics, values, belief systems coming from the head. They influence behavior, which influences beliefs, which influences awareness, which influences actions. All of this propagates across all the smaller 'heads' of a society when those are the rules that define and enforce ideologies. That is a breakdown in society and it happens because people have nothing besides finances to hold onto to tell them about their own self. Who wants to feel like a bag of money and then just die? Who actually wants that to be a life?

There is no problem with a hierarchy. Not every person has the experience to know how to lead and not every person has the desire to own that responsibility. There is a BIG BIG BIG problem with it when it sends the wrong message.
Their (money-making) genius is also the redesign with every new version. Now that the X has a notch, some people with iPhone 7's will think "Oh, that person's iPhone has a notch, mine doesn't, I feel inferior."...