skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and some get their Western name early, while some choose it as a teenager or so. Which sometimes leads to weird choices - I met a guy called "Nose", and a girl called "Money".
Facial recognition will soon be everywhere. Are we prepared?
Last year I had to build a UI with several thousand rows in a data grid. Of course I used a table for this, since tables are for displaying tabular data! Once I got a full set of production data into it, scrolling the page absolutely crushed the browser, running at about three frames per second. I believe the issue was actually caused by a parent element with overflow: scroll-y, but switching to divs made it run smooth as butter.
Urbit ~2019.5 Roadmap
Nuclear weapons, yes. But all weapons - clearly not given all the anti sat tests we've seen.
I wish they would just offer a variant with physical function keys and a Touch Bar. They’d have plenty of room for both if they reduced the comically oversized touchpad.
http://archive.is/AnPhc
No, but it is Mozilla so HN is going to push it multiple times.
I think for most people there is a strong disincentive from acknowledging certain realities. Superficiality is practically a social expectation in the age of twitter. Human discourse occurs through a series of one-liners. The subject of privacy in the age of IoT is esoteric and difficult for the average user to grasp or implement, and is basically discouraged. Of course, there is enormous money in data collection, and insidious corruption is an evidently common human faculty. So the truth gets distorted, the field gets flooded with (mis)information, and the average user, bewildered by the complexity and opaqueness, elects to ignore it, because all his friends do.
do not forget the social cohesive elements like worship. i have strongly believed the church's biggest advantage as a social institution is due to collectively performing some unifying ritual. i think these rituals are instrumental to the social cohesion that is the congregation.
"Rovey McRoveface", coming to a planet near you soon.
Why can't they just shut it all down when they're done patching? Send out your final patch disabling networked functionality completely.

Nothing in the car should be reliant upon such services, hacking the remaining systems after this is disabled would involve physical access to the car, considering you can just as easily unscrew the pedal or cut the brake lines or what-have-you, that's probably an acceptable tradeoff.
That's clever and interesting. What happens in the case there is a vulnerability with the encryption method? Say, an exploitable backdoor or general weakness is found. Or even quantum computing comes along and makes it crackable? I guess in any scenario, since the data is not actually deleted, just theoretically being able to access it would be a big liability to have, no?
kdb is frequently described as an in-memory database, or with great emphasis on how efficiently it utilizes a ton of RAM. I've no idea how much does its performance actually drop when the amount of data goes past, say, 2x the amount of available memory, but I'm pretty sure hardly anyone can afford multiple terabytes of RAM in addition to the software license these days…
Two big wins:

1) The First Amendment protects the audience as well as the speaker.

2) The court carefully reviewed the fair use factors and concluded that "they tip sharply in Darkpilver’s favor."

And a pretty big loss:

The counsel for the Jehovah's Witnesses get the identity of the Reddit user anyway, even though the copyright claim is "far-fetched".
Facebook Open-Sources Pythia for Vision and Language Multimodal AI Models
I root for innovation, technology and electric vehicles.

But I find the CEO repulsive because he's narcissistic, dishonest and can be downright cruel to other people. This is not apparent, I came to this realization slowly, I initially felt mildly positive about him.

Also, I don't like the general cultishness and stupidity of some Tesla fans.
It isn't clear that this leads to "better" outcomes, though. The larger denominations are pretty standardized, the smaller churches with more independence are where you find more sectarianism, extremism, and even cult-like behavior.
Similar systems are used in hospitals for delivering pharmaceuticals from the main pharmacy to floors.
It's getting started soon:
https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/master/comm...

We have a very performant prototype!

One usde case I am excited about: taking the OpenTelemetry C++ SDK, and binding it to the OpenTelemetry interfaces in other languages, such as Ruby and Python.

Some runtimes may see a performance boost by running the observability code independently from the GIL, GC, etc.
The touchbar on the 2nd gen X1 Carbons was seriously bad, but in fairness it was worse than the Macbook Pro touchbar.
Check out Toastmasters then - it helped me a lot. https://www.toastmasters.org/
I don't know if that's possible in gmail, but in protonmail you can just disable password recovery altogether, which makes your email account secure against these kinds of attacks.
The struggle is real! Compiling with debug enabled does change timing enough to hide (or surface!) race conditions.

The best way I've found to deal with this is:

1. Compile with -O2 (or for firmware, -Os) by default, and generate debug symbols in the elf file. Crank it up to -O3 only on a file-by-file basis with #pragma

2. Collect the process memory when an issue is hit

3. Debug it asynchronously using the debug symbols + the memory.

That way, the debugging & the running are decoupled and the timing is stable.
Sadly, I know some churches that are indeed like that. Fortunately, the vast majority I know are nowhere near. Please don't lump them all together.
Yeah, I wasn't really commenting on the religious discussion. More on the dismissal of the positives of volunteering. To each their own I guess. I am certainly no expert, but I can't help but feel that a lot of mental health struggles could be improved by spending more time focusing on improving someone else's life rather than looking inward too much. It is certainly only one piece of the puzzle though.
I find that having a small number of attendees isn't necessarily a problem, as long as two conditions are met:

0. There's a critical mass of people so it doesn't feel too small--say, at least 10 people, and
1. The room isn't so big that those 10 or so people are spread out with a bunch of empty chairs between them; empty chairs suck the energy right out of the room

One solution is to have dramatically fewer sessions during those "death slots," so that the few people who show up at those times aren't divided up between too many rooms.
They also include better support for NVidia drivers vs stock Ubuntu. Thats very appreciable when you have a laptop with integrated and discrete GPU.
Amazon wins the right to use .amazon
Case law on these matters is very clear. They're not going to argue. I'll admit to not ever going to court with a bank, but I had several spats with Bank of America over money in several old accounts from when they bought out Security Pacific (I became treasurer of an old mutual benefit corporation). Lawyers even got involved, but the fact is, they cannot refuse to acknowledge a duly signed contract or not obey notes they issued. That is the law, and it is very clear.
What a terrible idea. The problem which manifested as a crash before might now manifest in some number silently changing instead. And it's not like it's impossible to debug using a core dump of a "release"-compiled binary, just harder. Thousands of app developers do it every day when looking at crash reports from the field.
[ Spoiler Warning! ]

Swery necessarily spoils everything in the game! If you have even the slightest interest, I highly recommend playing the game before watching Swery talk about it's design.
I learned this fact when reading about Thant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Thant
> The Japanese don't reverse Western names, so Steve Jobs is never Jobs Steve.

Do the Japanese write Western names in the latin alphabet ("Steve Jobs"), or do they transform it into their own script based on how it sounds? If it's kept in the latin alphabet, of course they don't reverse it, the same way we wouldn't reverse it if we kept "Shinzo Abe" in Japanese script ("安倍 晋三").
The earliest I remember was by Greg Benford: something in the series that started with In the Ocean of Night (1970s). I think it was that novel, but I'm not sure; but towards the end of the one I'm thinking of, as this picture of the universe was coming together, a character thought of the nighttime sky as like the eyes of hungry predators surrounding a campfire.

(Not to say I think this theory about the Fermi paradox is a very good one.)
Digital Ad Ecosystem and the Impact of Data Privacy and Competition Policy
Yeah, in a 2D problem space, with every vehicle already reporting position back to the network!

The two dimensions being track offset (distance from start of line), and time.

This isn’t even obstacle detection. This is a) obeying the speed limit, and b) not asking two known entities to occupy the same length of track at the same time.

It does not, for example, detect a car stuck on the tracks at the next railroad crossing.
Regarding being append-only — these days, where reactive programming, immutability and FP are all in vogue, this is a feature. As for the rest, yes — K/Q are idiosyncratic, but they are simpler than it looks at first sight (and second.. and fifth). :)
> I'm not saying there are not busy people who volunteer or go to church, but I think there's a "have time and patience" factor associated with it.

The average Churchgoer works full time and has a family. They don't have time for Church, they make time for it. It's all about priorities.
You're getting downvoted but in the end you're right - Star Wars is an epic fantasy with science-fiction-y things in it, hence why it doesn't follow rules about things like sound in space
Dating apps obsoleted them in some ways.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/

Be like Joel. Whenever I am in a quandary, I ask “what would Joel do?”

Though he would probably be reviewing code right now, not reading HN ;)
A long time back soundex [1] was used for matching things like names. I imagine there might be yet better algorithms these days but that one probably still solves this problem relatively well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex

EDIT: I guess there are better ones: metaphone [2] is a modern improvement on soundex.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone
Hearing starts at the 14' mark.
> I prefer closed source IDEs, they tend to be better designed with better long term vision.

Like Intellij?
Personally I use Google Authenticator. The lack of a backup is a feature not a con IMO.

Every account I have setup with TOTP I also make sure to print out the recovery codes and put them in a safe, and use them if my device is ever destroyed. When I switch phones (which for me happens maybe once every 2-3 years at most), I go through the shitty process of transferring the TOTP codes over to the new device, but it doesn't really take all that long (it took me an hour to do it for about a dozen accounts last time I did it), and I'd much rather not have any of it uploaded anywhere.

You can print out the QR code or save that somehow during setup and use that to setup TOTP codes on other devices (or the same TOTP on multiple devices), but I tend not to do that as recovery codes work just as well, and they notify you if they are used (unlike a TOTP setup QR code). I did have to store the QR code for one account that doesn't provide recovery codes, but it's overall not that much extra work.
The only 8-bit Apple that suffered from inadequate cooling was the III. An average II would never overheat. You could, of course, load your II to a limit it'd fail, but my //e was fairly loaded (320k of RAM, SSC, Grappler, Microsoft Softcard (1 MHz Z-80), AE clock, Disk II and a PAL-M board). The II+ had mostly the same configs, with 64K and a Videx 80-column card in dual-head configuration. Both ran warm-ish for about a decade before going into storage.

Both ran perfectly silent.
HN is primarily community moderated, and there are plenty of reasons why it might reasonably be flagged. That Altman tweeted it doesn't make inherently make it on topic or appropriate for HN.
I agree, I was pretty confused when dark forests went from "things hiding from predators" to "safe, separate spaces to communicate"
ok. So it's kind of informal at the moment.

Maybe in the future we'll see more hacking of libraries (people managing to deliberately sneak exploits in) and in response stronger lockdowns on important library code.
I also am very curious why this topic was flagged.

I don't see anything particularly off topic here, or obviously wrong.
Indeed. Distributed design is the intelligent way to go when it comes to mass communications systems. Too much centralization leads to many such problems
Craig Wright Who Claims to Be Bitcoin Inventor Registers Copyright for Its Code
So says Benioff (the above quote), the man with the largest building downtown. The man who wants to use the City Gov to tax other business out of SF (see Stripe, Prop C).

Yea, he wants government to further entrench his position (like Wall Street, etc). Not surprised. What we need is more capitalism, less government intrusion into things like taxation, zoning.

Look, there's a place for capitalism. There's a place for socialism.

But there's also a time to look in the mirror and realize the policies that are 'destroying the city', if you believe that narrative, are from people like Benioff (the neoleft). For decades.

And the nerve to think doubling down on these failed policies, along with more taxation to fund it, is the way out? Like paying people's rent for life via subsidized housing? Give me a break.

Make it legal to build in the city. There was some stat iirc which said it's illegal to build on 80% of the city. Change that. It's a failed government policy that makes it hard or impossible for non-tech workers to work here.

But as an aside, the patronizing tone of this article disgusts me. I'm tired of it. They paint this black and white picture which stifles community. It divides. And it's usually someone who doesn't live here. But some drive by New Yorker (writer lives in Philadelphia) looking to hate. Has Karen Heller ever been to Lucca before it closed? Or Borderlands coffee? Doubtful. Look, Lucca was on its way out. The owner was super old and personally the product were subpar. And as someone pointed out in the Wapo comments, Michael Feno, the owner of Lucca owned the building. So the writer's being facetious as well. I'm actually a bit bummed out by Borderlands, but they could've been more.
Another Firefox Dev Edition user here; it's my daily driver. Battery life still takes a hit when compared to Safari. It's not a big deal for me because I'm usually close to a power source. If I'm out and I have to conserve energy then I'll just use Safari until I arrive home.

You can use multiple browsers. I regularly use a mix of Chromium, Firefox Dev Edition, and Safari for varying purposes.
If you'd already "learned it all" why did it require double all-nighters to complete the project while being so difficult a team member even gave up? Did they only give you 3 days to do it?
I'm an atheist and I didn't replace god with anything or anyone after I lost my faith. My thinking developed more orthogonally to the old religious hierarchy. The idea that you need to replace god with someone is locked into a mode of thinking that is entirely unnecessary and unneeded.
Compared to amazon developer docs and twillio apples can hold its own.
The comment is satire.
Amazon turned boring warehouse work into a game
This is very nice. I really like the drawings and the page animations were pleasurable. I did notice that my screen resolution seemed to cause a bit of confusion, I would sometimes get the bouncing down arrow and other times there was content below, but no bouncing arrow. This was overall great. Thanks for sharing. (btw my screen is 1440x900)
There's also a conspiracy theory going around that drinking Hydrogen Peroxide is healthy for the body. Uggghhh...

People who fail at basic chemistry and biology need to shut the hell up before people die. Its called "Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide" because you use it to clean food. Not because you can drink it.

Hydrogen Peroxide is so reactive that it will (eventually) turn into water. the H2O2... the extra "O"... will bubble away under natural conditions.

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Anyway, I should be surprised that people are literally drinking bleach. But... I'm not... because I'm still jaded from learning about the H2O2 guys. In fact, Hydrogen Peroxide was historically considered a bleach.
Apart from the other excellent suggestions here:

- check CO2 levels in your bedroom
- allergens(dust,pollen, etc) in your sleeping environment can cause breathing problems.
- Acid reflux can also cause sleep issues. I've had good results raising the head of the bed by 6 inches to reduce this.
- For daytime energy I've had very good results with supplemental potassium(500mg x 3). High daytime energy means more activity, which makes you tired, which makes falling asleep as night easier.
It's related to the premise of David Brin's Uplift series, so in one way it's the basis of multiple trilogies of books.

It's been one possible answer for as long as sci-fi has debated the Drake equation and Fermi paradox. Arguably, it is a critical part of the thesis of War of the Worlds as far back as the late 19th Century.
It is not completely different, but rather quite similar [1]. Clojure adds the concept of protocols, which it uses to abstract over cons cells (and it requires that the second element of the cell is an ISeq rather than an arbitrary object).

[1]: You can see the implementation of Clojure's cons cell here: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/clojure-1.9.0/src/jv...
For me main indicator is that 2015 MacBooks are still selling at a rather good price.
I own both a 15" Macbook Pro 2017 model with touch bar and a Dell XPS 15" 2017 model. Both have their pluses and minuses. Both needed major repairs. Dell needed logic board and screen replaced. Mac needed logic board and keyboard.

I mainly use the Mac. It's much quieter, has an amazingly vivid and bright retina display, extremely good battery life, best track pad in the industry and the best speakers on any laptop I've ever had. I like the keyboard, I even game on it. I don't get the whole dongle issue but I'm not a heavy user of peripherals. I have two USB-C port extender dongles should I ever need anything from ethernet to firewire 800. I've used them like twice in the last two years.

The Dell is fine, but I'm just not a big Windows fan. The keyboard is kinda meh, the bluetooth is poor, the screen isn't as bright or vivid and has some light bleed and the build has that cheap plastic feel about it. If it was any more reliable than the Macbook, I think I would be persuaded by the argument about the hardware, but both have had problems, both required lengthy repairs, etc. I have extended warranty on Dell and Applecare for the Mac and I needed them for both.

Laptops fail. My PC motherboard with ultra durable components also failed after two years. Heat and dust and micro-imperfections in silicon will do their thing. Sure, Apple made some questionable design choices. It's still a great machine.
Ask HN: Real world, large scale edge-computing
Do you have examples of large scale real world edge-computing setups? For example more than 1,000 edges, and an edge that actually does computation and is managed over a public or private cloud. Would be curious to either get see case-studies, white-papers or in general hear experiences.
I have to agree. I've noticed that churches remain really essential to some places, especially smaller isolated communities. From my experience, I think the appeal comes from:

1.) Gives people an excuse to dress nicely in public (good for self-esteem if you're into that sort of thing)

2.) Free meals (often delicious and home-cooked), potentially before and after

3.) Singing music together is fun and it doesn't matter if you're bad at it

4.) The preacher will tell the congregation if someone is sick or had a bad thing happen, and then some of the other people will typically express their care to the person and maybe visit them and bring them food.

5.) The preacher typically will tell at least one corny joke or do some weird dramatic thing to get your attention and make a point. It's like weird theater at some places.

And of course, organizing volunteer things is pretty solid too.

On the less positive side, some people like to use church to show-off and find things to gossip about. So while that behavior may make some feel less lonely, probably causes others to be repulsed away.
That begs the question, what distinguishes actual technical debt from short-lived assets?
It’s also somewhat telling that transhumanism and Singularitarianism, some of the more prominent post-religion religions, are about building magical sky fairies. In the face of the second law of thermodynamics, even purveyors of secular scientism seek to escape oblivion by inventing Asimov’s AC.
I've had a 13" MBP with Touch Bar since December 2016 and have had keys that felt weird, keys that repeated, keys that didn't work unless you pressed really hard, and keys that didn't work no matter how hard you pressed them.

I've had the top case replaced for free two times under warranty, and the extended 4-year warranty does make me slighty less worried. The battery is also replaced as part of the top case which is a pretty nice bonus.

Though it is still a major inconvenience to be without my main computer for a week while it's being repaired.
It's frustrating that we've come to a point where websites can track users by knowing how they set up their browser to render pages. Such information should have no way nor reason to ever be transmitted back from the client to the server in the first place.
In the books. It's just the author's theory for the Fermi Paradox. And it's a compelling and terrifying theory.
MMS (Chlorine dioxide) is indisputably and unambiguously a bleach. This is not up for debate without rejecting the whole of chemistry.

Just like the Clorox you would be at a store, it has the same abilities to whiten, and is used in industry regularly to bleach wood, amongst other things.
I think it should be worth it to us to subsidize mail in some manner that doesn't involve tons of paper waste. Anyways ,there are much better ways for the post service to save money, chief among which is the closure of unneeded stand alone physical locations like Canada has done. Up in Canada most post office locations are embedded in a different retail location (like a 7/11 or Shoppers (basically CVS))
Hash Levels
In the U.S. it's strict creationism that's the biggest anti-science aspect of many of the protestant religions. Snopes monkey trial was so divisive that very few people I have met in Georgia are aware that intelligent design is a thing. Each of these people more or less accepts that their church doesn't believe in Dinosaurs.
Every time I get "Error establishing a database connection", it's a WordPress server. The worst part is that there's usually hardly any interactivity on these sites, they could have just as easily been statically served.
I would be so wildly impressed if this was any better in continuous workloads than the next model down, or even a couple models down. There's no way in hell there's enough thermal headroom for that CPU to fire on all cylinders for more than 30 seconds or so.
Apple tries to make me a fan of them
That's horrible. 2200 was a hazing and a half but Leahy was such an effective instructor and I don't regret learning the material at all. Building our own pipeline processors was such a fun, if taxing, experience.
They also recently had an internal bounty program that gave workers promotions/bonuses for any internal trade secrets/inventions they could acquire from western technology companies. That’s the spirit!