skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an admin of the elixir slack, i have to handle that one a lot.

It is not really realistic at all no. But mostly because the benchmark is not realistic of a production load. That said we should do better.

The main reason it is not fixed is that the few members of the community that tried to fix it had a really bad experience interacting with the repo and getting feedback of impact and simply lost interest. And we have not have people motivated enough so far because they do not really care about the benchmark.

Ofc it matters to people that are not in the community but well...

That said, yes we would never be close to Rust anyway (probably) but we could probably have a far better standard deviation than Rust. Something that tend to matter in production a lot but people forget reading benchmark is the spread of the response time vs the average one.

We should also perform better in a noisy environment like the "cloud" one.

There are hopes that the recent EEF marketing group could help find volunteers or finance someone to fix it.
I'm confused by this. They took the Switch and removed everything that made it uniquely successful to make the Switch Lite. The naming doesn't even make sense anymore. The point is that you can "switch" between TV mode and portable mode, as well as "switch" between one player with two joycons and two players with a joycon each. And it's not particularly portable either for a device that has no TV connectivity. It's bigger than the 3DS XL, which itself is pretty big, and it won't fit comfortably in a pocket, due to the bulging joysticks on one side and the bulging trigger buttons on the other.
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Nice! I had built something similar for an offline react native mobile app three years ago, then regretted I had not simply used Google Firestore. How does Flushout compare to Firestore? How do you solve access control?
If I add a certificate on Android (for example for WPA2-Enterprise), do I need to disable security.certerrors.mitm.auto_enable_enterprise_roots if I don't want those with access to the private key to be able to MITM me?
My understanding is that, while many species will happily eat mosquitoes, there's no species where mosquitoes are their primary food source.

That doesn't mean that eliminating mosquitoes would be consequence-free, of course. It could definitely cause problems for the species who lose a part of their diet, and/or the other prey they eat more of to compensate. But they're not a keystone of the ecosystem like, say, bees are.

Also, apparently all of the really dangerous, disease-carrying mosquitoes are invasive.
If you can pick up a DS850-5 it'll give you 12v @ 70A and 5v @ 4A. It'll have noisy fans that run constantly, though.

Most applications of such a power supply (like blade servers) would have a bunch of secondary SMPSes generating lower voltages from the 12v rail.
I'll be honest. With that comment I expected to find something between alt-right and neoliberal shit in your comment history.

Positively surprised.
Sure, it’s easy to remember once you know it. It’s a very common foot gun for the JS folks coming over, and can also affect how you structure your code because of it. Code that runs in parallel in JS will be sequential when naively translated.

I’m in the process of writing a blog post about this...
Fortunately, mammal populations are cyclical
Because most users won't subject themselves to the signup fee to make this revenue neutral.

It's an interesting alternative, though. Pay 5 bucks with the credit card to validate your identity if you don't want to subject yourself to captcha...
"They all do" ... my understanding is that this expressly does not happen with HomePod conversations.
It is very hard to become a billionaire without exploiting the environment in some significant way. So you'd have to become a billionaire, understand why the actions that got you there were immoral, and then be willing to risk your entire fortune if your plan succeeds (or waste it if it fails).
Maybe they don't have the VBUS circuitry setup for connecting self-powered devices in host mode.
It is spelled > astronomical < measurements, you squidface!
Another result of this culture that I wish the author would have addressed is how cars have changed how we raise our children. We are forced to keep our children inside because all our houses are surrounded by rivers of death. Why are we surprised that young kids spend all their time sedating themselves with screens? What choice have we given them?

We have designed our living spaces to be ideal for cars, not humans. It is hard to acknowledge because it has been that way all our lives but it is a trade-off we are making.
I forgot the exact details of the research as I did it in undergrad, but I guarantee my academic adviser, the PhDs at the USGS, and the people providing the grant thought of that.

There's evidence for real prediction, including reports of a ramp up EM energy a day before a quake.
The solution is probably to have the state or child-raising corporations pay people to have children instead of the current model where 1-2 parents raise a child.

Not having children at all and intentionally extinguishing humans is also a possibly optimal, albeit more radical, solution.
Maybe they figure people closer to HK are more aware of what goes on on the outside anyway, so they don't put in the effort to block?
To be honest, I think that DNS-over-HTTPS is pretty awkward. (I use DNS-over-TLS, by the way).

Also, we still have the problem with the unencrypted SNI after the name is resolved.
Because none of them care to - or more specifically because it would work squarely against their interests. These people got rich in the current system, and fixing the climate at this point would require massive economic shifts, generally at the expense of all the industries these billionaires are deeply invested in.
The panspermania hypothesis has one very large hurdle to get over: the half-life of DNA is ~500 years [0].

If life came from outside our planet via an asteroid or something, then it had to be a LOT of DNA that came over. More exotic theories can be concieved, but the jist is that it is really really hard for DNA to travel the stars and between planets intact.

The simplier explination is that it started here.

[0] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.201...
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There is no doubt that we are over-reliant on cars. We (Americans) spent the last century towards developing automobile infrastructure. Now with global warming, it will take many more years to undo the damage. We can agree over that.

But focusing the blame on car companies and the wealthy one-percenters is historical revisionism. It undercuts the fact that these policies were eagerly supported by lower-middle class and middle class people like my family, as well as by many working class people from the countryside. It expanded our agency. It allowed us to vacation to beaches and parks. It allowed us to visit faraway families and pursue work in faraway places. In short, it provided us physical and economic mobility.

We didn't know the damage we were doing. And even if we did know, we probably would have done the same thing. But passing the blame doesn't solve anything.
The one thing about these stories that keep coming out about the home assistants... they kind of create the impression that this is an issue specific to home speakers, and you can avoid it, by simply not buying them.

That's misleading.

Any voice command you use to operate any internet connected tech gadget, from phones to smart TV's, is potentially stored and flagged for human review.

You really have to avoid using voice commands at all, on all of your devices. Even that is probably insufficient. You probably have to go even further and actively disable voice command features on all of your devices, assuming they actually support such a setting. Otherwise here's still the possibility of an accidental recording taking a journey through the clouds, to a stranger's ears.
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What do you see as the set of differences between "LeetCode" and the coding style you prefer?
It surely wasn't intended as a suicide pact, but an interpretation that puts personal liberties on a higher pedestal than survival-grade commons could easily make it one.
The question becomes - why do you have so many extraneous staff that they start making changes for the sake of change? If it doesn't result in growth, it's time to prune those people.maybe switch to consultants instead.
Honestly cockroaches are way better feeders than crickets. Crickets are so annoying, smelly, and if you don't take the uneaten ones out of your dragon's cage they can blind them!
> 100% of the time a user would benefit from a native app

I strongly prefer single-page web apps over native apps. Web apps are constrained by my browser. Native apps get a lot more trust.
Work on your pickup lines.
> if you watch almost any animal closely for a while you see interesting traits and behaviors that make them likeable.

I used to burn leaves with a magnifying glass in the sun as a kid. Once, I hovered the infernal dot over an ant and watched his abdomen pop. I then observed, in zoomed-in horror, as the poor thing kept trying to feel its missing abdomen and then clean its own juices off its antennae. Other ants would come and inspect the dying ant and their antennae would tap each other's. The fallen ant was then carried back to the hive, and I felt so bad that I spent the afternoon clearing a path for the highway of ants.

To this day, I feel bad killing ants and will try to avoid it, like blowing them off my patio table before scrubbing it. It gets a brow-crinkle from my friends, though.
Aldous Huxley got there earlier with A Brave New World as well.

Speculative Fiction was ahead of the curve in that era.
A few online tutorials mention enabling DoH through about:config but my Firefox version doesn't have those settings.

This is what I had to do to enable DoH through Firefox preferences:

- Click the hamburger icon

- Go to preferences

- Scroll down to network settings and click settings

- Click "Enable DNS over HTTPS"

(By default, this uses Cloudflare as your DNS server, but that can be further configured if you want)
This has been fixed since forever. Reports of fixed Switches started coming in mid-2018, and around late 2018 it was generally understood it would be very unlikely to get one new and sealed and unpatched unless you were extremely lucky to find older unsold stock. I assume it's impossible now unless you go to second-hand markets.
It'd be nice if there was an easier way to do this (vs. removing a chip!). E.g., maybe a dedicated pinout and an easy way to disable the existing use (since the pins can't be shared).
I think it probably has a number of factors, none of which excuse us on a whole for allowing these diseases to earn the adjective "neglected".

But it's not hard for me to imagine that many of the people working on this would like to eliminate malaria today for reasons which are at least partially altruistic. It could be that we've reached a point where the economics, social factors and technology of the present day mean that people have identified that CRISPR provides a more efficient and effective means of relieving the issue than anything we've tried (and people have) before, and in my eyes the fact that this method would use CRISPR instead of spraying and widely-distributed pesticide-coated nets, for example, doesn't make it morally or environmentally worse in any definite way which doesn't need constant reassessment as our technology and understanding improves.

Besides all of that though, and you touched on it in your first comment, it's just not particularly valuable for us to sit and criticize ourselves for not doing better in the past when faced with new technologies which may help us start to make up for our mistakes.
I know embedded systems were not the original purpose of the Raspberry Pi, but so many people are trying to use the pi for just that. I've wanted to use Rpi for that but the SD card failure rates are high. I know the high-end ones are a lot lower, but is it reliable enough? I am not sure. I was hopping for a SD card alternative for the Rpi 4, maybe it's booting from USB 3.0 when that ships?
Thanks.

This is how it looks:
https://i.imgur.com/7LVLJZQ.png
I guess it's like any old heist movie:

The key is to synchronize your clocks beforehand!
I think we should place a royalty on the pipelines, not the pumps. Take 10% from everything that flows down the pipeline, and use that money to drive us into the clean energy age. Where else are we going to get the funds to fix this enormous problem?

The problem with using consumer taxes to fund these things is that the consumer has to consume the planet in order to save the planet. If I don't pay enviro-levy taxes at the cash register, my district can't afford waste removal. If I don't buy enough gasoline, we won't collect enough carbon tax to pay for these wetlands we need to build.
I remember the first time I used a specific industrial gas recreationally. I felt the arteries in my brain open up, and there was a sort of clarity that wasn't there before.

Then the benefits faded into the background, and I now don't notice the effect like I did the first few times.

I think remedial biology hacking works this way. If you're deficient in a specific area you'll notice a huge benefit right away. If you don't need a specific hack, you won't notice a benefit.

Another brain-hack that I noticed the first few times was Methylene Blue [0], a potent MAOI and general metabolism-booster. I started out with microgram-level doses, and I definitely noticed ... something.

But then it too faded into the background, and I don't notice the benefits so much anymore. I still use this one occasionally but this too doesn't have exactly the magic I'm looking for. (I use it on my dog though - she developed a tumor when my dad took care of her for a few months - he took her off all the supplements and fed her what I consider junk. He left for the summer and my dog is back on my supplement program; I think she's got her spunk back. [Edit: google scholar has some articles about methylene blue having anti-tumor activity]).

[0] Methylene blue, the cheapest cognitive enhancer: https://selfhacked.com/blog/methylene-blue-the-cheapest-cogn...

At the other end of the mind-hacking spectrum, the mainstream mental health industry takes cognitive decelerants and tells certain patients that they have a chronic condition that requires chemical lobotomization. Today these drugs are marketed by the prescription drug cartels as anti-psychotics, but originally they were known as major tranquilizers. Patients can't protest the side effects of their medications because the psychiatrist will use the complaint to claim that their patient "lacks insight" into their condition, which justifies the use of force to make them take the drugs the professional thinks they require. Psychosis is mostly a treatable metabolic problem, but patients are much more profitable to the industry by pretending they have chronic conditions.

Because the best cognitive enhancers are natural substances and safe patent-expired medications, profiteers swoop in to repackage these vitamins and other Over the Counter substances. Everyone has to figure out what they actually need on their own.

The best mind-hack I've had is certain kinds of body work, which helped me relax like nothing else. Sometimes massage/etc practitioners have the magic touch that gets my body to turn off, but they tend to not know what they did and I don't consistently get the effect. It's very frustrating.
Cleaner air is a side effect of many, but definitely not all, climate change mitigation mechanisms.

The article is about unrelated beneficial side effects of climate change mitigations, so you're essentially reiterating the articles point.
I finally understand the difference. Thank you.
Exactly. Here’s an example I encountered today: https://status.digitalocean.com/, all the content is in a div that is affected by `.layout-content.status.status-index { opacity: 0 }`. JavaScript code then sets `.style.opacity = 1` on the element to undo that.

This is a bad technique. If you really want that effect, something friendlier would be this in the head of the document:

<script>document.documentElement.className+=' js'</script>

… then prefix that earlier selector with `.js`.

Or another approach: remove the `opacity: 0` from the stylesheet, and immediately inside the element to be hidden while loading, add

<script>document.currentScript.parentNode.style.opacity=0</script>

Remember that external JS is never guaranteed to load; even on normal people’s computers, networks are not reliable and even first-party resources can fail to load, though it’s ones on a different origin that are the least reliable.
What is doubly concerning here is that the contractor was in a position to demonstrate how the system worked to the reporters. That would seem to indicate they have access to that data in a non-secured environment.

I'm not familiar with EU law around these things, but I would imagine there is some kind of whistleblower mechanism available, and a right for authorities to audit/inspect such activities?
They can't. They need to transcribe the data.
I love how their actual retraction, (https://www.ispa.org.uk/ispa-withdraws-mozilla-internet-vill...) includes a list of what "Any implementation of DoH [...] should be capable of achieving [in terms of] the expected privacy and security benefits" and then basically just lists everything Mozilla already champions.

It just makes the whole thing even more sad.
UX Testing for Code
Decide if it even can and if the answer is no then not do it.
> 100% of the time

Nothing in software engineering is absolute. And even if something were to be 100% the correct solution one day, the next it could change.
To some extent, computer-aided learning might help reduce student/teacher ratios in practice. 2 hrs independent learning to 1hr in groups 1/3 the size... for example.

While I agree that more teachers per student is highly effective, it's also expensive... and will unavoidably end up becoming cost-limited below the ideal level.

As a total side note, I wonder what other, potentially healthy changes can be made if personalized learning can be made to work well.

For example, I suspect that homogeneous age classes are not ideal. Spending half your life in a room with 40 other 10 year olds isn't something that happens outside of modern school systems. It's somewhat unatural. Maybe mixed-age classes can become possible again.
I wanna know who the UX people are on Youtube. I never understand what is the point of half the changes and have started to dislike the mobile app enough to actively avoid browsing for videos

Doesn't help that the recommender algorithm seems to surface completely random 8 year old videos in the "recommended" feed now
Your comments are what makes HN super-awesome! Thank you.

Any tips for mosquitoes when you can’t rely on spiders (or geckos) alone?
There are no frames of reference where photons reverse direction. If everything is spherically symmetric, a photon emitted from any point in spacetime is either (1) already heading outward and escapes or (2) already heading inward and is consumed. Within the event horizon, only trajectories of type (2) exist. The picture of a photon struggling outward to escape and then reversing direction under gravity is incorrect.
We Don't Know How to Compute (Gerald Jay Sussman at Strangeloop 2011)
I wonder if Pi 4 supports UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol). This may need everything from the VLI VL805-06 USB controller to the firmware to the driver to support it. A preliminary DDG search suggests that the controller probably supports it.

My understanding is that, if UASP is supported, you can squeeze even more performance out of a SSD, and it will even properly support the TRIM command because then the SSD is no longer just a dumb USB mass storage device.
Serious question: how do people think the ML models for Home, Alexa, Siri, etc are trained, if not with human labeling?
Treating degrees as only being useful if they teach a direct marketable skill is a shame, I think, but with how expensive it is now I understand why there’s a push towards it.
Your phone has more sensors on it than these devices and most people have their phones on them 24/7. And most phones have the same voice-controlled features too. Why people are concerned about narrow scoped voice-devices more than their phone is a curious thing. Is it because it talks back to you that makes it more apparent?
Good, let ads adapt. Then the adblockers adapt once more. And so on, and so forth. If ads were delivered by the same source/domain (ie. it wasn't outsoured to an ad network who also do profiling) people would have less issues with them.
I pay a bug guy to come out and spray around my house quarterly. It helps, especially with the ants. Pretty much a required service in Florida.
Mozilla's DoH and ESNI are absolute killer features. Now you can visit thepiratebay.org in the UK without any issues.
Yes you can do client-side validation. You're constrained to the pattern fields and the browser implementation, but it's enough to block most invalid submissions.
I don't even know why laptops have cameras. Do you really need to see someone for a conversation? Mine's permanently taped.
Oh wow, that definitely looks terrible. I totally understand not liking MacOS due to that. Thankfully it's much less pronounced on high DPI screens? I've never owned a low DPI macbook so I've never really encountered it before.
The straw ban might be "small beans", but I can't think of a reasonable argument that it's counterproductive. Let's refocus: you sound hostile to any perceived threats to profit, which are unfortunately some of the most direct paths to reducing our impact on the Earth.
We're open sourcing GROQ: A query language for JSON documents
The problem is that we're quickly running out of things that:

1. can be done by humans most of the time

2. cannot be done by machines most of the time

3. fit into the workflow of a web form

Point 3 is the interesting bit: You cannot build a captcha that tests dexterity, emotional intelligence or creative problem solving but is still accessible to a large internet audience.
The person is probably a temp/vendor from a consulting company (think accenture or cognizant), who should've signed the same NDA agreements as anyone working on that stuff.
Catching use-after-move C++ bugs with Clang's consumed annotations
There are lot's of other options than taking out massive loans. Community College for two years then transferring to a state school is still fairly affordable and won't impact the vast majority of individuals in post-college job searches/careers.

It's just a lot less fun than going to a Big 10 school or the big name school.
And not to be anywhere near anyone else's listening devices.

Isn't there a law in some US states that there needs to be consent before recording someone? How does this fit in and who would be held responsible, the owner of the listening device or the company behind it?
>That's super sad because it also excludes all the handycapped people.

That’s not how accessibility works. Requiring JavaScript does not change how accessible your site is to persons with disabilities.

What does hurt is making sites that are difficult to navigate by keyboard, without proper accessibility hints, and actually it’s quite easy to do that without JavaScript.
I guess I should have said "When I was at IBM, the academy released a report, etc." No air quotes, required; I was there. I was on the open source community of practice core team at the time.
Yep, that makes perfect sense. I've had good experiences contributing, but it can be tough...

It's also 100% true that benchmarks are not representative of production loads. Sadly, it's also 100% true that programmers make decisions based on benchmarks that aren't representative of production loads. It's a real catch-22 situation.