skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is memory managed? I'm assuming some form of garbage collection. So this can be used in any instance C or C++ can? Can it use C and C++ libraries because it runs on clang?

Sorry if these are n00b questions.
Bon seems like it could be a nice mix of the wonderful syntax of a python or ruby, and the speed of a C or C++ (or at least a compiled language)
Babies have the same interest in science as the rest of us, to be squashed or supported as required by various groups and institutions or human aspirations as might exist.
Days, ‘You Practically Need a Ph.D.’ to Figure Out Frequent-Flier Status
It has certainly been tried before, but in secret or without publicity.

He Jiankui is being fired for publicly announcing his experiment and the subsequent backlash (mostly deserved) from his peers.
Firefox doesn't deal with touchscreen and touchpad gestures very well. Take, for instance, the two-finger pinch-zoom-in gesture. Chrom(ium), Opera, Edge, Safari etc. all smoothly and instantaneously magnify the area where the mouse is. Firefox, on the other hand, reflows the entire page with each zoom (as the other browsers do when you do a ctrl +/- zoom), which is inconsistent with how we're used to interacting with touchscreen devices, in addition to being quite laggy on a reasonably modern laptop and tending to undershoot or overshoot the desired zoom level. This zoom behavior is also a lot less useful for looking at a particular item on the page, since the reflow-zoom doesn't seem to depend on mouse position on any way (so any element not at the center of the screen will no longer be visible past a certain zoom level, no matter where you put the mouse pointer when zooming in), which makes using it a lot more frustrating on smaller monitors.

The lack of smooth zoom support has been a known deficiency in FF for the last seven years (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789906) and has yet to be addressed.
Unless you have a better theory of spacetime and gravity than Einstein, it's safe to say frames of reference are a fundamental aspect of the nature of the universe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_(special_relativity...
On macbooks for me just the act of running firefox makes the CPU go crazy and the fan turn on. Multiple different years.
A lot of private donors or individuals act as patrons for labs and even individual scientists or artists. Don’t see why a leading scientist in the field would have trouble attracting this funding.
Odd they don't have the 6TB HGST on the list. Well, maybe not odd, but annoying since I'm curious about that drive's performance especially
EXRNChain
YNAB4 did it for about $50 IIRC, over 10 years that's 6% of the price.
It's an interesting position. Labor (our sorta left-wing party) are considering amendments to the bill:

>Labor’s amendments would also clarify that a “systemic weakness” is one that “would or may create a material risk that otherwise secure information would or may in the future be accessed, used, manipulated, disclosed or otherwise compromised by an unauthorised third party”. [0]

I'm not sure how this doesn't cover all exploits - there have been a few cases of vulnerabilities discovered by state agencies being leaked/disclosed [1].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/21/home-...

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/05/15/microsoft-...
Because that's what they're for. They take actions on behalf of society, because direct action by the masses on every single issue is extraordinarily inefficient.
Have you? It's "easy" to get an APM over 1,000:

Step 1: Hotkey units on 1-9

Step 2: Slam face on keyboard numpad

Holding down a hotkey to build things (even if you don't have the minerals) also increases your APM.

Lots of players (especially the pros) will spam actions in the quieter parts of the early game to keep their fingers warmed up, or to start building a unit the millisecond they have enough minerals to afford it.
Can I just buy a magnetic ring somewhere, giving all the same benefits but without the downsides of surgery? Still sense EM fields but without pain, infection risk, can still get MRIs etc.
I bet a decent chunk of the MS engineers lobbied to adopt Gecko instead of Chromium when they decided to move away from EdgeHtml. I wonder what the reasoning was for not going that route, it seems like a huge miss and a total acceptance of a browser monoculture.
MongoDB fights back, comparison with DocumentDB
> US where some positive numbers are hiding some negative stories

This is such a strange thing to say. Do you think China and the Euro Area don't have 'negative stories'. Have you heard about Greece for example? Either compare numbers or stories.
>What is the rationale behind this regulation?

Unknown to me

>Is it that the baby is likely to be infected with HIV or is there some other reason?

With modern medicine the baby can survive birth without getting infected.
I felt like this as well when I was still using Chrome for everything (I switched when Firefox launched Quantum). For me it simply turned out that after getting used to Firefox (again) I had no problems at all with the UI. Chrome felt better before the switch because I was used to it.
Ah you’re taking me for a ride.
Make a chrome extension to click all the things for me.
> For one, Apple defends ...

It's fairly likely that's just PR. They're a US headquartered place, so would have to comply with NSL's (etc) just like every other US company.
You will lose productivity, and that is what weekends, vacations, etc. are for.
Once I learned about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon it seemed to pop up everywhere.
Show HN: Build Windows apps in seconds
Does anyone know how Adext works?
The service (https://www.adext.ai/) claims to improve ad campaigns using "machine learning" but I can't seem to figure out what their algo actually does. Seems like a play for your advertising data rather than real value add.
Instagram: We swear we're not hiding your posts
Waymo plans to open a self-driving car factory in Michigan
Gene editing research is being carried out in public universities. It's not yet at the point where edited human embryos are carried to term.
I'm not sure about this (the regulation). At least it doesn't seem to solve anything. It is fairly easy to make a drone. If you're making it then there's no registration or back door that could help with this.

The biggest concern is what if some organization (let's say ISIS) organized a drone disruption "attack". With a few thousand dollars you could disrupt TONS of airports (by keeping constant drone coverage over just a few large airports). There's only 36 class B airports (37 if you include Hawaii). You could even be smart about it and just shutting down a much smaller subset of that and you'd have HUGE disruptions. At least millions lost to the economy, if not billions, due to the inability for these airports to operate (and the loss due to passengers not being able to reach their destinations). We're talking a (bs number) lower bound of 5 drones and possibly shutting down the East coast. That's not an expensive attack. Let's even take an estimate to ball part what it would cost to shut down all class B airports in the (contiguous) US. We'll say 5 drones per airport at $1k each (upper bounding). That's still under $200k (not including operative costs). That's too cheap NOT to do. And I'm sure you can think of a million ways to extrapolate this kind of attack to make it FAR worse for not much more money.

This isn't a regulation problem. This is a technical one and it needs to be solved fast.

What needs to be figured out is some way to disable the drones. And then to automate that process for drones that violate these air spaces. I honestly can't see any other good solution.
The CHF is not pegged to the EUR, what are you talking about? The had a expensive monetary policy by using a floor against the EUR for a while that however was not a peg.

Furthermore there is no evidence at all that people are losing confidence in fiat currencies.

And I'm not sure why you trusted CHF more before, its just another fiat currency. You could by Australian, New Zealand currency, they are well managed fiat as well.
Cold turkey.

1. Quit caffeine on a Thursday and take the day off on Friday (optional).

2. Go for a hike on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. (optional but recommended)

3. Each day you need to force yourself to try and focus on programming as well. You should get something - anything - committed into the repo you're working in. Motivation and your mental state is one thing that you need to train while you're at your nadir. When you get your energy back it'll seem like you were never on caffeine in the first place.

4. On each of those days take a nap any damn time you please. Take pain killers if you must.

Come Monday you should be at about 80%-90%. Enjoy your freedom.

I've used this technique twice after trying to transition unsuccessfully a few times before. Been off it for 7ish months now. Good luck, friend.
>And without getting into the debate of what is and isn't true

Nice try, but this is missing the whole point. This is the crux of the matter and the problem with the category of "fake news", and precisely why this ontology is garbage.
Warning: SUPER EARLY ALPHA RELEASE!

Yazz is an open source framework which can be used to build Windows, Mac, or Linux apps in seconds using a drag and drop style of programming.
You should go glance at their budget.

Here's the latest annual financial statement:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/6/60/FY17-...

They spent about 15x on staff as they did on internet hosting. They spend almost as much on travel as they do on internet hosting.
1Blocker for iOS can block everything you mentioned and doesn’t get access to your browsing activity to do it.
How would the authors know they could write a review if they can't view the site?
> I see many in my lower-middle class city with new luxury BMW or Benz ($30-50k) vehicles, who are living in $120k condo units.

How the hell do you know the financial situation of strangers? What economic data do you have to back up this assertion that lots of people would be better off if they weren't foolishly spending your money? Or are you the local "leading authority on what shouldn't be in poor people's grocery carts"? [0]

[0]https://local.theonion.com/woman-a-leading-authority-on-what...
San Francisco and NYC have these too. SF (California) no drinks after 2am. NYC is 4am.
Anatomy of a Zone (Distributed Proof of Location on Ethereum)
I'm curious to hear what solution they are proposing for this, especially since there are at least two existing proposals in that field, in the form of OStree and casync: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree https://github.com/systemd/casync/
Wealth creation is good. But a huge chunk of the old wealth, and a big chuck of where the newly wealthy put their loot, is in the wealth appropriation game.

That tilts the table.
AKA any smartphone and tablet application.
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> It might require manufacturers to include backdoors to enable law enforcement to take control of a drone. It will be portrayed as a safety measure, perhaps even as an antiterrorism measure.

Congress is too lazy to figure out this language. They'll just opt for harsh penalties. Minimum 5 year jail terms, say.
It’s hard enough to pick out the lights of an aircraft 5 nm away in the sea of lights surrounding the NYC metro area. I highly doubt they were able to identify a drone by its lights from up to ‘several miles’ away.

Let’s assume they did though. All of the drones I’ve owned have red and green lights. Aircraft typically have red and green lights in addition to white lights facing aft and typically a red beacon and strobes. What’s so different about these lights that they’re able to distinguish them as those of a drone? Isn’t it possible it was a helicopter? A GA aircraft flying VFR? What about the red, green, white lights from a boat?

In my experience there have been many times I’ve seen something strange in the sky where my mind wants me to think it was something but in the end I really cannot be sure what it was. There’s been multiple times something has gone whizzing by at cruise or in the terminal area and for all I know it could have been a bird, a drone, a balloon, a kite, etc. Given the report was at night and it’s at an altitude that a drone shouldn’t normally be operating it seems questionable to me whether what they saw was actually a drone. With the recent media attention drones have had around airports I suspect there will be an uptick in reported sightings that likely are not drones at all.
Guess what, monetary policy about managing your personal check book. The SNB acted pretty well, one of the best in the world and the Swiss economy was much better of then most comparable countries because we could devalue when people like drove up the demand for CHF and almost pushed Switzerland in a deflation. That might be good for your check book but it would be a disaster for the economy.
I have no idea what their actual rationale is, but many STIs including HIV can be passed from mother to newborn.

With an intensive treatment regimen the risk can be made very low: https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/understanding-hiv-aids/fact-sheets/...
My self-published book: 11,000 copies, $19,000 royalties, only $3,000 profit!?
Specifically, what am I wrong about? Always interested to improve my understanding of how this complex network of data trading works.
The links I've tried have required I perform additional actions. LinkedIn was particularly bad, requiring dozens of clicks to turn off all tracking.
and basically unseated IE as the top browser

And didn't get to this spot on any kind of technical or feature merits, but essentially by relentless nagging on the Google search page to have users install it. Sure, devs/geeks etc were eager early adopters, but the bulk of users were steered this way by Google.
Per the Amazon Ad Personalize setting:

> Because your selection above is managed through HTTP cookies, if you delete these cookies or use a different browser, you will have to make this same selection again.

Sigh. So you have to turn this on on every browser on every device.

It looks like the relevant cookies are ad-pref-session and apn-privacy. Perhaps syncing these (maybe only the latter one) would be just as effective as changing the setting through Amazon's site.

Of course there is little way of knowing how effective changing this setting is.
I suspect a reply to your comment isn't going to change your stance on whether Google is dancing around in the anti-trust/monopoly area.

Maybe you would concede that some reasonable people think they have in the past?

Like FTC investigators (albeit overruled by their bosses): http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/

Or Eric Schmidt: https://www.businessinsider.com/is-google-a-monopoly-were-in...
Don't both ways happen? Surely you don't see the world as completely black-and-white?
I hope the hardware is rigorously examined before use.
a hostile controll device would not be good.

https://www.instructables.com/id/Hacking-the-Xbox-CONTROLLER...

https://pic-microcontroller.com/hacking-the-xbox-controller/
If you seek medical authorization, you will find that no one will approve it
If you want something like that, get Brave. It's Chromium-based that has privacy and ad-blocking built-in.
Carmack has been consistent for a long time that state changes are a major source of bugs. It's true that video games might be more susceptible to this.

I think all things considered, readability should generally take a back seat to correctness. I mean, the code is readable, yay!, but the game crashes randomly...not so yay...

Also, he does offer a suggestion to help address your concern:

"Using large comment blocks inside the major function to delimit the minor functions is a good idea for quick scanning, and often enclosing it in a bare braced section to scope the local variables and allow editor collapsing of the section is useful."

Finally, note that he's only suggestion that you CONSIDER it, which was my original point. It's hard to say his suggestions are wrong, when his suggestions are merely that you consider it.
Ublock Origin (or equivalent) compatibility is a deal-breaker for me.
Funny that mostly not how they sold it to the poor countries, or even the rich countries.

That might have been what the elites believed, more political ingratiation. That of course is good for them as well.

In reality when they 'sold' this is was all about economics. And the routes of the whole thing are economic as well.
Isn't there a cost to time and convenience too? Buying a new disk takes time, as does rebuilding the RAID. And during that time you are vulnerable to another drive failure which could be disastrous if you only have one drive redundancy, especially during the very intensive rebuilding process.
I feel like this turns babies into technology. We might have version 1 where babies aren't likely to get HIV or some other malady. Next round, perhaps we'll see more height, different skin color, increased intelligence. If it's like any other product, it appears babies would be coming out of a factory and with tiers for different features you can buy based on your purchasing power. Sort of like buying an iPhone except with babies.

Commercializing children doesn't seem right, but then should the technology be held back and children be damned to suffer for the sake of keeping the status quo? Is there a just way to deal with this?
The web is young so there's lots of room for growth (and thus lots of work to be done)
it's it growing as a percentage of total population or only in absolute terms?
Rails 6.0.0 beta1, and more
Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com
Do you worry about the security implications of this? If you storing something sensitive like a private key, I mean.
Ok, testing with a different headline now to see the response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18975316
No, only the blocking API is concerned. Observational capacity will remain.
VLC can open YouTube natively. Open network stream, paste YouTube URL, click "Play"
I know plenty of people who say "Legos".

But then I am from Australia.
After this past election cycle, I was getting spam SMS from every organizer in each county I have lived in over the past 10 years. Does anyone know any master list to remove contact info? Replying “stop” to each text message wouldn’t prevent others from getting through.
The Omega Tau podcast has an excellent episode featuring Mr. Woods: http://omegataupodcast.net/83-how-apollo-flew-to-the-moon/
The capital one link did not work. I got an error saying "Not acceptable"
After a company I was working for writing Windows Mobile apps for ruggedized devices went out of business, I got a contract with one of their former customers located in another state.

I had close to $30K of devices and ancillary equipment in my home office.
I have marvelled at the quality of WPs music theory articles where I think different outlooks are well tolerated and accepted.

8 years ago I tried to fix WP philosophies entry on the concept of "Appeal to Nature" and was even joined by an experienced academic but our efforts[1] where removed by admin/users wishing to describe the topic as a kind of simple fallacious trope[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Appeal_to_nature&...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
There is no health benefit from the seven-day hormone-free interval
Ask HN: What Day/Part-time Job you had in order to fund your startup?
TypeScript Tricks: Type Guards
How about 7z? How do 7z, zip, and tar compare in terms of support for Unixy things like permissions, uid/gid, xattrs, and so on?
> I'm very curious about how this will actually work, in practice, anywhere that uses any form of source control and even a modicum of process.

A capable ;) agency wouldn't target the developers. They'd target the SysAdmin's who look after the build servers.

With agency backed er... malware added to the build servers, they'd be capable of adding on-the-fly exploit code to the shipped binaries.

Things like reproducible builds - gaining popularity among some OSS Communities for few years now - help to at least detect this.

Could be very difficult to detect for lots of situations. eg side loaded mobile apps, proprietary desktop apps, likely others too
The worst part is that by the time they were in Kindergarten, the newer models would obsolete them.

Bigger, faster, stronger, and MUCH smarter! Now 10% off!
They can't really set price of the rental market, cant they? Salaries either have to keep pace with the rents, or renters get displaced. Displacement can only be sustained so long as there are transplants take their place, who can afford the rents, and there is usually finite supply.

I've read conflicting things about gentrification. But on the "gentrification is good" side, the theory goes that areas that tend to "suffer" the most gentrification, tend to be areas that have very high levels of displacement already. They tend to be poor, lots of foreclosures or dead beat renters. In other words, gentrification doesn't necessarily increase levels of displacement. Owners in gentrified areas stand to greatly benefit from gentrification. The renters... they get displaced - but that was happening whether the area was gentrified or not.
I'm having trouble understanding how one could run into a bottleneck only after you reach Facebook or Google or levels. Surely if you have performance issues when you are running on 10,000 machines, you would also have a bottleneck when you start to outgrow your single machine.
Have you ever met someone else who had this done?

Was there an attraction?
This law was passed with support from the opposition labor party.

The stupidy here crosses the isle.
The answer is in the quotes from Batman's Wikipedia page[1] second paragraph in the linked section.

Edit: The article is apparently correct re: the origin of Burce Wayne's name.

[1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman#Creation ]
Nice writing. Using python as a 'glue' lang and nim as a 'core' lang makes a lot of sense. Will give it a try for my next project.
Aaah, the Homer Simpson position: Can't win, don't try.

Regulate what's within your jurisdiction. That's all any government can do in any circumstance. If regulation results in more friendly advertising that's less likely to have users reaching for the blockers, then those advertisers are going to be more successful, and so even those in unregulated countries will need to conform in order to compete.

That's assuming that the number of users that have already reached for the blockers are of a significant enough percentage to make a difference to website ad revenue.

Start somewhere or stay nowhere.
I think you mean 'Common currency without a common fiscal policy, who would have thunk that this was a bad idea?'.

If there is one money then by definition there can only be one monetary policy.

The issue is precisely that under different fiscal rules monetary policy effects different places in different ways.
IIRC, the complaints I've read online are along the lines of: Mozilla ran a Mr Robot ad campaign with browser integration, partnered with an ad company for some research in a seemingly-sneaky way, made their CEO resign (now the CEO of Brave) because he donated personal money to an anti-gay marriage lobby effort, forced pocket integration for ad revenue purposes, and they deprecated their extension api which broke most extensions that did not get updated.

I'm not saying anything in favour of or against these decisions, they're just what I remember reading people complain about over the last year.

edit: typo and clarification
All I have to say is that back in I worked for the Navy PEO IWS and every year they send out requests for individuals to submit concepts (i.e. needs) for warfighter capabilities for potential SBIR grants. I think it was about 2011 or so when the idea to work on changing out the common display system (CDS) with a COTS head up display and game controller (vuzix at the time, occulus hadn't really emerged yet) was proposed.

The idea was laughed off the screen.