skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox (and chrome) has had this for ages (opt-in till now), and it breaks a lot of services.

I don't think they previously would dare to enable it out of the box. But now they can just say Apple does this too...
You don't need Starship for limited constellations to cause issues with Earth based observations though. Also SpaceX isn't the only one that's going to be wanting to make a constellation.
lol. True, but not much to differentiate on that unfortunately, unless they're able to point out something fundamentally wrong with the Amazon platform.
Required if you have other THIRD PARTY logins.

If you are your own (and only) account provider you should be fine.
FACT: Tom Spark is a TorGuard shill. Affiliate #4374.
Facebook May Be Told to Censor Users' Hateful Posts Globally
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I imagine it would be the same as logging in with any other OAuth provider. I highly doubt Apple would lock people out of the ability to sign in with their Apple ID on the web, and if you can sign in on the web, you can sign in on Android.

What remains to be seen is if they'll provide an Android SDK as well.

Edit: from the developer docs "Sign In with Apple works natively on iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. And it works in any browser, which means you can deploy it on your website and in versions of your apps running on other platforms."
Everyone? No. There are legitimate economic activities in non-urban places; there's unavoidable resource extraction, there are agricultural activities, that sort of thing.

Most people? Sure. It requires re-thinking how we (Americans particularly) structure our cities, and will not be an overnight process, but what is preventing us from doing this generally? Aside from the idea that such re-thinking is impossible, anyway.
Not according to the page linked to on the SEC website:

>The SEC seeks a permanent injunction, disgorgement plus interest, and a penalty.

So they're seeking $55,000,000 USD of US investor funds, plus interest, plus a penalty.

That would bankrupt Kik and decimate the future of the project.
Intent matters in the law, and judges see right through transparent attempts to evade the spirit of agreements on a frequent basis. They aren't stupid.
lapsus linguae of the proletariat.
> once i started [cycling], my (car) driving style changed noticeably.
for example, i do a lot more shoulder checks to the right.

What I'll do is move further to the right when preparing to make a right turn in order to prevent cyclists from passing on the right. As a cyclist, I won't pass other vehicles on the right if there's a possibility that they could make a right turn, or a car from the opposite direction could make a left through a gap of stopped traffic, or a car approaching on the intersecting road on my right may not see me before pulling out.

> i'm trying to be safety conscious and always assume a driver in a dangerous spot hasn't seen me; this is impossible for suddenly opening car doors.

You can avoid opening car doors by riding at least 6 feet away from parked cars. I ignore door zine bike lanes and just ride in the center of the rightmost general purpose lane. Faster traffic can change lanes to pass me.
>I'm not even sure that it's possible to write a correct lock-free queue (of which this is a variant) in a non-garbage collected language.

I'm guessing because of the "magical free that doesn't lock" assumption in several papers?

There are some ideas in the Rust community (mostly centered around audio), most of them use garbage collection schemes that prevent either the producer or consumer thread from locking. It's tricky and easy to break.
People don't vote based on monopolies and privacy. Politicians can get away with all matter of things if they appeal to the electorate's baser instincts and prejudices.

EDIT: "Prejudices" don't necessarily mean race, religion, etc. It also could be "evil capitalist" vs "evil socialist" or "baby killing war monger" vs "peace loving hippy".

And giving more power to the government couldn't possibly lead to abuse.....
Oops, yes. Fixed.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/

Not Einstein. It's a quote from a 1981 Narcotics Anonymous pamphlet.
There seems to be demand for scripting jobs (scraping, browser automation, etc.) on Fiverr. Not sure how well that applies to PowerShell, but some sellers are making money with Python.
And I believe it's only required if you offer. "sign in with facebook" or "sign in with google" link. If everything's self-contained (ie Netflix), no issues.
It happens in Safari, but only within a certain range of window width of about 50px.
Your proposal would be a great fit for the Effective Altruism community. Climate change is an existential risk and if this organization has a 0.1% chance of working out. The utility function for that ROI versus failure would still work out I’m the favor of funding this idea.

But the problem will always be. How do we go from designs to an actual, legitimate organization that can play with nuclear materials in Dyson’s little red schoolhouse? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...

Funding will always be contingent, in the minds of most readers, the trustworthiness/robustness of a rough path that goes from a brain trust to a prototype reactor. If we can solve that, we could probably get significant funding lined up by 2024
Exactly. I had a Leroy lettering set given to me at some point. I know they were eye-wateringly expensive to buy but is a very cool thing. Super high quality manufacturing.
I think JWST is going to look a lot like the future of space telescopes. There's hard requirements that make larger satellites better for observation, principally because larger aperture == better resolution and also because the larger mirror gathers more light so we can look at dimmer objects.
10 hours out of 8,760 or 5,840 waking hours.
238 Google Play apps with 440M installs made phones nearly unusable
Getting individual Congressmen on your side is no cheaper than lawsuits by region. I fear there's no hope with the weakness of our current institutions - "reform" has been synonymous with cutting the scope and budget of regulatory agencies since Carter.
Pikus does it. I made a post about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20096907

The talk is 3.5 hours, about as long as you'd expect one to be for "writing a concurrent lockfree queue". Its an incredibly difficult topic, but I'm convinced that Pikus's implementation is actually correct.

Although, maybe there's a subtle bug somewhere. And Pikus is REALLLY stretching the definition of a queue to make his implementation work. (This queue may sometimes function like a stack, but that's okay because there's no way for the end programmer to figure it out without a global lock)

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EDIT: Oh, I guess you wouldn't consider it "truly lock free", because he has a global lock in the case of the rare situation of a full queue. He uses double-checked lock pattern for that case (and causes an expensive, but temporary, global lock on the data-structure) and basically says "This situation only happens once per hour, so its probably not bad".

So Pikus's implementation is "lock free mostly", but still falls back to a global spinlock in exceptionally rare corner cases.
The belief that names are particularly important to corporate software adoption and that CockroachDB is a good name for such a purpose is probably pretty rare.
What are your circles? Is it arch vis, tv cartoons, commercials, or something? I'm trying to figure out from their reel why I haven't seen much of Octane in production. Octane does appear to be CUDA only.

Adobe Media Encoder does seem to support OpenCL and CUDA, but the GPU acceleration only looks like it works with certain transforms and filters, not with encoding. So I can see it helping 2d animators, but much less so for video editors--especially with multiple GPUs.

I feel like GPU rendering has been teased for like 10+ years now. Only within the past few years am I seeing studios upgrade their render farm in earnest to accommodate GPUs.
This is fantastic work!
Depending on the licensing cost and the effort required to integrate the project with their infrastructure, it might be cheaper for the provider to fork the last version before the relicense and support it going forward. Maintaining API/wire-protocol compatibility isn't that hard for large tech companies these licenses are trying to battle. I don't think these open source companies are not aware of the risk of forking, but they are between a rock (AWS/GCP) and a hard place (VC returns demands).
Those aircraft, as far as I know would meet certification requirements without the software adding control inputs that are opposite to what the pilots command.
I understand your position, but I think 'L0pht' is how they actually spelt it, instead of 'Lopht'.
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You can always appeal an ALJ order to federal court where it is reviewed de novo.
Most of these are mostly age-related. Reducing your body's age may reduce these problems a lot. So a completely different issue than you are addressing.
Like what?

I've had third-party cookies blocked for, as you say, ages (and I even block JavaScript, with selective exceptions), and I use everything from Discord to Amazon just fine.
I did not know about the Pathera, personally I was thinking about that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye_Aerospace_Sun_Flyer_4
You keep on stating that the their queue doesn't work but you have yet to provide any correct arguments or evidence that it doesn't work.

The only argument you provided was simply incorrect as the article is only concerned with a single reader and writer.

You are right that adding some padding might improve performance.
Dressers keep killing kids. So IKEA is finally redesigning them
I am not sure if this is a legitimate argument because you can apply the same logic to Uber and Tesla.
Sure is. I didn't mean a product that Amazon can't do, but other factors that Amazon would likely be unwilling to do or find very hard to do. For example, offering high-touch support, or having a great UI... Or being an open source champion! Lots of things that Amazon is likely incapable of doing in the near future.
It already came out upon initial investigation and most likely subpoenas:

>the company’s management predicted internally that it would run out of money in 2017. In early 2017, the company sought to pivot to a new type of business, which it financed through the sale of one trillion digital tokens. Kik sold its “Kin” tokens to the public, and at a discounted price to wealthy purchasers, raising more than $55 million from U.S. investors. The complaint alleges that Kin tokens traded recently at about half of the value that public investors paid in the offering.
> the only way to bust it is to say those "rights of way" restrictions are illegal

Or to impose compulsory sub-licensing of those wires at fair and reasonable terms defined by a government agency. Like other countries with wire monopolies are doing.
From the complaint https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2019/comp-pr2019-8... :

> Kik has agreed to jurisdiction in the United States concerning disputes relating to Kin.
When selling Kin to the general public, Kik required investors to agree that all disputes about the
purchase and use of Kin would be heard by an arbitrator or court in the United States, specifically in
the State of Delaware.

So they should have known. And maybe they did, thinking that if they tried to register with the SEC their fundraise would not be allowed and the company would almost certainly declare bankruptcy; but that if they did not register, even after the DAO report, they'd at least have a chance of sneaking through, and if they were caught, they might avoid personal liability. Many people disobey the law out of desperation, and if nobody goes to jail, then disobedience becomes even more likely for those in such a situation.
That the company won't say that it's hand-curated, with the observations that the article makes, seems to suggest that automation is being used to some degree. Which wasn't obvious to me as a customer.
That's only an issue if there are multiple producers. That code works fine when there's a single producer, since nothing else will modify the "write" value between the load and the store. Given that this is in Rust, it's easy to encapsulate this data structure in a way that makes the compiler enforce this invariant.
Consumer Surveillance Enters Its Bargaining Phase
Have you never noticed the airframe itself flexing? When I look down the aisle from a back row seat on a turbulent flight I can see some pretty big oscillations in the fuselage. Still, it is not uncomfortable, mostly because the frequency is pretty low.
Government doesn't serve the populace - they serve geography. A person living in California has far less national voting power than someone living in Rhode Island or Middle America since each state has two Senators regardless of their size and the Electoral College favors smaller states. Congressional districts even for representatives mean you have more voting power if you're in rural areas than if you live in major cities.

Middle America and the Bible Belt don't vote based on tech issues.....
Same. I enabled mine about two-three weeks ago. Nothing has been broken for me.
> "and it breaks a lot of services."

I can't say that's been my experience. It breaks some stuff, but far less than I was expecting it too. (Ditto for disabling javascript entirely with uMatrix..) Talking up the downside like this has the effect of making people hesitate to try it for themselves. I wish I'd started years earlier, but everyone was talking about how much of a hassle it is. It's not a hassle. Most of the time I don't notice anything going wrong.
For someone who has better insight into this --> What is the expected path towards legalization of marijuana (from a bureaucratic point of view?)
It's the argument that the car makers lost when it was determined you're not restricted to only their mechanics when it comes time for a warranty claim.

Ford can't restrict you to only Ford parts and Ford service mechanics and Ford Gas and Ford toll roads just because you bought a Ford.
It is nice to see that CockroachDB's team keep their original vision of creating a long term open source "commons" of their database.

What I don't totally understand when I take my developer's hat is why the split between "enterprise" features under CCL and core features under APL/BSL is kept. Without the "enterprise" features, CRDB does not feel like beeing totally open source and open source users are sort of second-zone users.

Are open-source fans supposed to write clean-room implementations of the features (would it even make sense in the licencing model CRDB uses) ?

It would also be nice to have a licencing clause where a change of ownership of CockRoach Labs or the bailout of the company would trigger a licence change for the enterprise features (maybe even after N years).

But as I said congrats on the product and all the best in your commercial endeavour ! may this licence change open new cloud opportunities !
The Opioid Crisis Is Killing Trees Too
Those things remind me of when I'm at a home hardware store.

They'll have a sale on say multi bit screwdrivers on the end cap. It will look like a fancy screwdriver that is on sale with lots of features and bits.

Inevitably if I by these ... they suck and are actually expensive for the quality and often have "features" that get in the way (some sort of fancy grip, more bits).

If I go down the isle I'll find for far less a simple multi bit screwdriver that is both cheaper, and higher quality.

Accordingly I never trust these signs / actually avoid them as the same rule apply to cooking tools and so many other things.
Great article!

Reminds me of a discussion with Guido van Rossum about adding Go's goroutines to Python:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/python-tulip/BO3KPIgQ_x4/d...
Why would this undermine their efforts? It seems totally reasonable to say "You can't just sell a hosted version of this yourself". Anyone who was planning to use Cockroach still can, it even seems that you could be a CockroachDB shop that provides consulting services, so long as you don't manage and host it.
Theoretically this could be possible now with existing cryotos by making small wallets for micro transactions. The chat app would just need to link your blockchain address to make it easily copy and paste-able
Not sure how non-profits work in USA but in UK whilst charities can't give profits they can give massive wages/bonuses to people through payroll. You can start a charity, take donations, pay yourself a huge bonus and then declare the charity insolvent -- "no profit made, all available funds used for charitable purposes".
What does it mean (officially) for an app to be approved? You seem to have your own interpretation.
It would open up ways to get money into and out of your chat app with less friction.
Ask HN: What countries are safe for web scraping?
If I wanted to start a site that scrapes listing data from another site. And provides analytics, market intelligence. The source site has TOS that disallows scraping. And they have shutdown another scraping site previously. The source site is not big and I’m providing value and aligned with their mission but seems they don’t care.

I want to host it in a country that is outside of their jurisdiction just to be safe from cease and desist/getting sued.

Anyone know favorable countries for web scraping? Or what other methods I can take to protect?
Gating the app store is not anti-competitive, because it doesn't harm any other app store. In fact, it could be argued that it helps other app stores since it restricts the number of products available on Apple's store. In theory, and in practice, a consumer would have access to far more product on other app stores than they would have on Apple's App store. So the other app stores have the advantage there. That coupled with the fact that the other app stores also happen to have the dominant market share position...

well, you can kind of see where a supreme court justice might be a little skeptical.

Banning apps could be anti-competitive, if the app can in no way be made available through other app stores. That is to say, if you can run the app, without restriction, on an android phone, from an android app store, you're gonna have a hard time convincing a judge or jury that Apple is engaging in anti-competitive practices.

Firstly, it can be demonstrated in court that your app is available to a larger number of handsets than is Apple's app. (You'd not believe how devastating a download and install demonstration is to a lack of market access argument in open court.) Secondly, there is no mechanism by which Apple is able to use its own App store, to squash the presence of apps on other App stores. That's the sort of mechanism that you'd need under current law. (That mechanism doesn't even have to be Apple's App Store by the way. It could be any mechanism that Apple is using to keep apps off of other app stores. Provided that Apple is the only competitor able to use that mechanism.)

This is all a good example actually of why I've been a big proponent of changing the laws first, and then going after the tech firms. But it seems there is no stomach for that out there right now. Now if we had changed the laws, we might have had a more clear attack vector. We could have said that Apple, is acting as a market participant in its own marketplace. (Not currently illegal under current law.)

There are definitely ways being a market participant, in what is effectively your own market, can be anti-competitive. Problem is, the entire economy has been polluted with companies engaging in this practice over the past 40 or 50 years. I suspect this is part of the reason there is no stomach for cracking down on the practice with new laws. You'd have everyone from Costco and Walgreens, to AMC theaters and Clothing retailers trying to restructure themselves. (Think about it. I create some new wiz bang dog food in my garage that I think is the next big thing in pet food. I try to get it into Costco but they say no. Was that anti-competitive in support of their own brand of dog food? or did my dog food genuinely fall short of their quality guidelines? Or maybe they just made a retailing decision that they have too many dog foods on offer?)

So I can see where new laws might create kind of a mess in the short to medium term, but I really think they are needed right now.
There's probably a disconnect in expectations. The researchers are probably publishing the code more as a document, to say, hey, this is how we did this. It sounds like you have expectations that the code is part of an ongoing project. But ongoing projects require maintenance, and the researchers have likely moved on to new things.
I understand what you mean and totally agree with you, I just feel the need to remind (not to you) the term free software, as many things are open source but not free software [1]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Even with that strategy you need N messages.

With 64 bits per clock component you can record a billion events per second (literally) for a very long time (as in billions of seconds) before needing to coordinate a clock reset. With 20,000 nodes and a MTU of 1250 bytes you'd only need 128 packets with a traditional vector clock -- contrast this to the (minimum) of 20,000 packets with the Bloom clock. That effect on the network is definitely significant.

Issues like dynamic node membership are interesting, but in practice many useful distributed algorithms that use vector clocks have to carefully control membership anyway. Membership changes are probably rarer than the events tracked by vector clocks. Having a special case for membership in most circumstances treats the network better than sending N messages per event.

EDIT: in other words, suppose you encode each of the N components of the vector clock with E bits. Suppose each packet can contain P bits. As long as (E/P) < 1, the number of messages sent in the system is lower with vector clocks.
> [...] I'm not even sure that it's possible to write a correct lock-free queue (of which this is a variant) in a non-garbage collected language without some pretty substantial trade-offs regarding memory management.

There's no dynamic memory allocation going on in this particular lock-free queue, so I don't see how your concern is relevant here?
Yeah, that's pretty much exactly it. Every "lock-free queue without garbage collection" I've seen is either broken, relying on hidden locks (most commonly in free), or implementing garbage collection while calling it something else.
> MIMIC THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
SIGNS THAT ARE CARVED USING A ROUTER BIT

That's trivial though; you use a path with a circular pen, a most rudimentary thing in 2D graphics.
You get what you pay for. If you want to pay absolute bottom-dollar prices, you're going to get absolute bottom-dollar service. If you want to pay more you can and will get more services. I've hung out at an on-board bar on a 777 in the last year on a flight from Australia to the US, but the ticket cost over $8k USD round-trip.

It's possible to have a private shower and bedroom onboard an A380 flight, but you will pay dearly for the privilege.

There's room in the market for both extremes as well as in the middle. I doubt you'll get a buffet service on a round trip ticket that costs <$500 (trans-oceanic, at least) as it likely is not economical to offer that. That being said, there are airlines that are offering improved options even in Economy cabins... they just charge for it. An example is Air New Zealand's "Economy Skycouch" https://www.airnewzealand.com/economy-skycouch

So with the possibility that this design could save on fuel costs, maybe airlines will be able to sell upgraded experiences at prices that are today bare-bones. Time will tell.
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It's a moot point if where you live does not allow anybody but a single exclusive provider for internet, which is nearly every apartment in the US.