skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a great idea for a vape that, instead of a heating element, uses a high power laser to heat the oil. In this way there is no byproduct from the heating of the coil in the vapor.
Would twitter, fb et al ever expose a Western intelligence operation with this tone?

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Edit: In other words, is this post itself not an “information operation”?
Ah, thanks. This only works if you work fewer days per week as opposed to fewer hours per day.
> But from a bigger picture, Hong Kong is not anymore entitled to complete self-governance apart from China's oversight than California is entitled to act against the US federal government.

Except that California has "act[ed] against the US federal government" for years, regarding marijuana. As have several other states.

I do agree, however, that Hong Kong represents a far stranger situation. From a traditional Chinese perspective, it likely appears that Hong Kong was "corrupted" by years of British governance. And I can appreciate how that shows up as British occupation. Just as it did in India etc.
I would agree to the statement for languages where it's an either/or. E.g. in Javascript there are only callbacks and async/await, so we can avoid all the complexity of threads - which is great!

However in multithreaded languages it's always an AND. Once you add async/await people need to know how traditional threading as well as how async/await works. Rust will also make that very explicit. Even if you use async/await on a single thread the compiler will prevent accessing data from more than one task - even it those are running on the same thread. So you need synchronization again. With maybe the upside that this could be non-thread-safe (or !Sync in Rust terms) in order to synchronize between tasks that run on the same thread. But however also with the downside that utilizing the wrong synchronization primitives (e.g. thread-blocking ones) in async code can stall also other tasks.

Overall I think using async/await in Rust is strictly more complex. But it has its advantages in terms of performance, and being able to cancel arbitrary async operations.
For a better translation then the Google translate (i.e., [3] above), see the following Reddit comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/csj4ca/chinas_pro...
Not to stray too far from the subject, and you clearly have some valuable ability to improvise in tough engineering requirements. Where did you end up?
With the minor difference that Mcdonalds has been making $billions in profit, quarter after quarter for many decades.
i think the problem is that the current chinese government is going further and further away from what average chinese citizens would probably want, and them using misinformation to keep order

hong kong has demonstrated, with some of the largest protests in global history, that they do not want the chinese government to interfere with the autonomy that they currently have. the chinese government has responded with misinformation to sway their population so that they can continue to constrain hong kong in ways that they don’t want

the point isn’t really that the chinese government isn’t better than an alternative, it’s that it’s going in a direction further away from what it’s citizens would generally agree they want, and not allowing people the knowledge to even know it’s happening, let alone the freedom to have a discussion about alternatives
It is available on GOG with downloadable installer and that version works fine on an offline Windows 10 system. I think I've heard that the Linux support is fairly good too but I haven't used it personally.

Unfortunately, it seems like essentially all games these days have at least basic phone home telemetry, even the DRM free stuff that still works if it can't connect. The only way to avoid is to block the game from accessing the network one way or anther. That being said, not everything has RedShell level stuff, although a bunch of games did and possibly others are using similar stuff that hasn't been identified. Take Two, like most companies caught with RedShell, solemnly promised to wait a while before reintroducing something like that and to do it less obviously next time.

IMO, it is best to assume that games are hostile from a security perspective. On Linux, at the very least run them under a different user without access to any important data. For Windows I'm not sure that will help much due to the permissions they require but I don't know Windows very well.
You typically dont hit undefined behavior (maybe technically undefined by the standard), bit you typically get hit with really annoying linker errors about duplicately defined symbols. And, yeah, annoying because of cryptic error messages.

Ive usually encoutered this most when trying to implement out of line template member functions and forget to include the inline keyword.
You aren't hitting cities with nukes, you are hitting launch sites, command centers, AFBs, naval facilities, carrier battle groups, etc.

Sure, in all out war, you will hit a few major cities, but only a small percentage of the nukes will go there.

Fair point nonetheless.
Just checked that out, seems like they have sold out at the moment though. I guess they do a smaller production run so that they can guarantee their stock sells out.
A 300mm wafer at 16nm node would cost more than $6500 a piece. The power consumption would be more than 20kW if all transistors are in use simultaneously. We am designing a special reconfigurable AC-DC and DC-DC power router (inverter) to supply this huge amount of power. Our WSI design will be liquid immersively cooled.
A foreign state actor is using a platform maintained by a US-based company to spread anti-democratic propaganda that goes against the values of the US. They got blocked and called out. Sounds like a no-brainer to me, especially after the 2016 election.
iMapping (infinite zoom knowledge base that supports cloning)
Once upon a time I had a 486 laptop with such a display. I kept it long beyond its prime because it was so superior to any other laptop display on the market.

Amusingly, the laptop featured a socketed 25 MHz 486 SX. I was able to swap it out for a 486 DX2, which added an FPU and an on-package clock doubler giving me a 50 MHz processor.
A computing machine (not taking environmental factors like cosmic rays into account (though, why not?)) is deterministic, unless it interfaces with a truly random source of entropy. My physicist friend has said, there may be no randomness, only complexity.

Is all deterministic or do conscious entities have free will, or...?

The decisions made by your philosophical zombie will either be predetermined by the programming, or seeded by randomness.
The decisions made by such a machine cannot be proved to be functionally equivalent to the decisions made by a conscious entity, and belief in such is a matter of faith.

Belief in randomness itself is a matter of faith.
It’s impossible to prove that any event or measurement is truly random, and yes, there may be hidden variables- there’s no way to test.

There is no rational reason to believe that conscious behavior, consciousness, feelings, and all the activity of the mind, are functionally equivalent to a program and/or randomness.

Sounds like you are believer in the religion of materialism.
Note: I've linked to a subpage of that website as I think the video on the page gives the best idea of what the application is about
Quite a few of the keys have awkward action with excess stiction. Not great for programming (and indeed many Bloomberg programmers used other keyboards when that one was current).
Not that I know of, but if I see anything new I am going to share it.
> Well, I want it to be preserved. The world becomes a much sadder and less interesting place if we all think and behave the same.

You misunderstand. You dont want diversity. You cannot advocate for diversity when you simultaneously advocate for differences to remain the same. The world is naturally diverse because there are 7 billion people with 7 billion unique personalities. Attempting to artificially keep a dying culture alive does not cultivate diversity but rather outdated customs.
The thing that get's me about Juul is that it's basically a bunch of marketing money and visual design piled on a product that's strictly worse that the vaping options that came before it.

The biggest thing vs a regular mech mod is that it has single use proprietary cartridges that you have to throw out afterwards, vs spending less money on a bottle of vape juice that will last for way longer.
Due process and rule of law can never really exist in Asian countries. It simply is not a part of the shared history and political economy.

It is a fundamentally Western tradition, which is why it never works in non-Western countries. My father would often tell me stories of growing up in India during Indira Gandhi and how rule of law never really existed there. It is a philosophy that is fundamentally incompatible with non-Western cultures.
Woz didn't crest floppy drives or monitors, he figured out how to implement them more cheaply.
When I got the last one, I actually laughed.

It's an MBP keyboard
> Does my text only newspaper article really need all this crap? Like, it's text, with maybe one image or two. Just give me the damn text and cut out the cruft.

Petitio principii as the conclusion is a restatement of the premise.

Also it's a rant, not a formal logical argument. Go outside, pet a dog, drink a nice beer, stop wasting your time correcting modern vernacular.
> It's place is when you want a functional JVM language and would prefer not to use Clojure.

I think GP meant the place of Scala Native, where being a JVM language is irrelevant.
I agree with you. But the problem is web designer clients _demand_ all the darn garbage on their site.

I have the scars to prove it... currently dying on said hill.
That's a great blog post. But per the article, this is a RICO suit. Maybe it's not a good one, I'm not qualified to judge. But that's the complaint. And this industry has been successfully sued (by the DoJ) under RICO in the past, so it's not without precedent.
"you should buy an iPhone" is a far less objectionable message than "you should help us oppress these people over there".
Did you even read the post? It has nothing to do with JPEG.
The Family Business: An Interview with Brøderbund Software Founder Doug Carlston
I remember growing up with Encarta's 3D tours of historical sites. Those were seriously awesome.
> I sought out information about you to judge your biases. I found that you're...

I don't know how you could think that it's ok to pull a move like that on HN, but it's not ok. Specifically, checking up on and bringing in someone's personal circumstances, which they didn't choose to mention, in order to use them as ammunition an argument is not ok on HN. Please don't do that.

I'm glad that you didn't publish the details, which would have been even worse, but that also means that what you wrote there is just an insinuation.
Uhh, that's sort of a relevant "grievance" in a thread on GCP issues.
It’s amazing how well connected industries like big oil and big Ag seem to operate with impunity while the nascent bad boys are put under the investigation spotlight.

Perhaps Big Tech hasn’t hired enough lobbyists.
Tvtropes should come with a warning
So it's the Keurig + K Cup of the vape world?
This is somewhat true, but there's a lot of work done in the data link layer to provide a robust connection. TCP falls over with packet loss of less that 1%[1], so it's not really good at that, anyway.

https://www.netcraftsmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2012...
Isn’t there a claim that Juul popularized nicotine “salts” that are more satisfying than traditional vaping options for cigarette smokers?
As a brand sure, but the iPhone has been a fair replacement for many people. I mean digital camera sales have dropped 84% since 2010, but if anything people are taking far more photos now.

For most people cellphones have mostly replaced watches, digital cameras, keychain flashlights, and MP3 players not because they are awesome at it but because having slightly better but largely redundant devices is not worth it. https://www.statista.com/chart/5782/digital-camera-shipments...
Obviously. However, Moore's Law held for 40+ years. We are at 16 qbits in quantum vs single silicon chips with 1.2Trillion transistors. Clearly some room for growth, especially given the $Billions in annual investment being poured into quantum.
This argument was also used during Apollo and it's a false argument. If NASA's budget (then or now) was re-appropriated to combating homelessness around the world it wouldn't even begin to make a dent. Even for US only based homelessness it wouldn't massively tip the scale. It seems this argument is best wielded by those who don't know but "feel" something's wrong.
> somewhere there is a paper from that Australian university that gives a scathing review of it

You are probably thinking of this: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/bits/Interdata/...
Firstly, gay marriage has only been legal since 2015 federally — that's a type of abuse. But even if you don't think it is, the American Revolution had some type of value even though slavery was still a part of America's history. Therefore, America still provided some value even though it was abusing its citizens.
A bunch of jerks flew planes in a building at killed ~3k people and look how we reacted? The blood of Americans as you described would result in the same reaction as WW2, full stop. It is the way we wired.

As an aside, the PLA trying to capture Taiwan will be a huge bloody mess. Any attack plan would be known as the build up would be seen by everyone. The Taiwan military is not a push over and has dug hole in every mountain. This is a pretty realistic view here - https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/25/taiwan-can-win-a-war-wi...

All of that being said, we should all work to find a solution that does not involved killing lots of people. China is still trying to find its place in the world and has a bit of a chip on its shoulder about how it was treated in the past. I have to believe there is a path in which we are all better off.
Sorry, this is kind of off topic, but why the hell is such a simple website 7MB? I instinctively dont trust companies that cant even deploy a simple website. The massive background image doesnt even look right on mobile, its scaled to fill.
When Money Is Not Enough to Motivate Your Workforce
The reload shouldnt be necessary unless there is an appropriate memory barrier, though. Seems like the compiler is being pessimistic in the examples.
At least people choose to give FB/Google their data. Carriers have no right to it.
I don't know - seems like a really good opportunity to finally kick that Google habit like I've been meaning to do ;)
This incredibly rude comment will do nothing to reduce oppression anywhere in the world, but I'm sure it made you feel better to write it, and that's all that matters, right?
That's a super clever way of hiding a message.
Lots of American culture skates very close to pedophilia. At the extreme, there's porn that's only legal because the actors are documented adults. But there are also some hugely popular actors and musicians, who leverage child-like sexuality. And then the pervasive style for girls to dress like prostitutes.

And no, I'm not a prude. I just find it amusing. And, I admit, very sexy.

Edit: If I didn't care about this account, I'd link examples. But I do, so I won't.
I wouldn't summarize what I said that way at all.
Read the complaint here: https://docdro.id/ODq2yNC

Count one is civil RICO. Make of that what you will.

Edit: Very similar to this: https://www.classaction.org/media/nessmith-v-juul-labs-et-al...
Just as in the saying about how the best code is the code you didn't write, I guess the fastest benchmark is the one that doesn't run.
If you can get that close with your phone the animal is probably scared.

I’d watch an animal ‘big brother’ show with DL generated subtitles though. Couldn’t be worse than the one with people.
Is there a source for this where I can read more?
This is the opinion of a physicist, not someone who's actually studied this in a serious way. Some issues with the statement:

- junior high school is very different for different people, even in the same city (e.g. public vs private school, having money for science camps, etc.)

- most people go through a mental plateau in their early-ish teen years, so there might not be as much opportunity to spur scientific curiosity in junior high anyway

- junior high is followed by ~10 more years of education for many people, which seems like more than long enough to undo whatever "damage" was done
ValueTask is more of an optimization for scenarios where the Future (or Task<T>) is often intended to be ready immediately (synchronously). For those cases its wasteful to first allocate a continuation on the heap, and then not to use it - because the code after the await can directly be executed.

The introduction of ValueTask allowed C# code to only perform dynamic allocations whenever the task definitely needed to be yielded - opposed to one allocation for every Task<T>. However it doesn't allow for guaranteed avoidance of allocations - like Rusts model can do.

However on the positive side removing the allocations for those cases is probably good enough since the other yields are of low-frequency (when waiting for IO). And Rust code currently requires allocations like Box<dyn Future> in order to make certain things work (like type-erasure and dynamically dispatched interfaces) that are not necessarily required in .NET in the non-yielded case.

From an ergonomic perspective I definitely prefer .NETs easy-by-default model which is still highly optimizable up to the point of avoiding all allocations. But I understand why this wouldn't have worked for Rust and it's constraints (no GC, no classes, no runtime).
There's certainly interest on this topic from the neuroscience community. At least for mice vocalizations, the first (unsolved) problem is to find a dictionary of possible vocalizations. This is a highly non-trivial problem, mainly because it depends on having a good similarity between (noisy) vocalizations, but also because we don't have a ground truth or gold standard.

The vocalizations vary between strains, and some of them are more less clean than others in their spectrogram representations. Different strains vocalize in different frequency ranges.

Assuming that you've found a dictionary, then you'd have to learn how to map dictionary elements to behavior. Behavior labeling is done by human annotators that spend hundreds (or more) hours looking at mice behavior and learning how to identify different these. This, by nature, is a noisy process as well (and possibly biased).

Given the difficulties, the problem itself is very useful for people in neuroscience because mice only vocalize in social situations, so they see it as a window into studying social behavior of, for example, mice with autistic behavior.

Edit: grammar
That's, "Jeb!", for your information.
Additionally, the maximum level allowed in my city is 16mg per gallon, and has been since I was born. However, in the year I was born(1992) the maximum measured level per the city test was 48mg per gallon.
The information is in their profile, just one click away and you don't even have to leave HN.

Don't you think we ought to be vigilant of these biases when discussing the very matter of whether or not these biases are subverting the discussion?
> The pre-PC ones were basically SBCs running an OS provided by a certain well known CPU vendor. Original code on that side was PL/M

I am guessing that you are talking about either Intel's ISIS or RMX operating systems?
do you understand the difference between calls for violence (such as "kill all jews", "have sex with children", etc), and non violent opinion, which may include hateful, racist, sexist speech(such as "jews control media and government", "average iq of various ethnic groups differ", "men and women have different abilities", "trans women are not women", "abortion is murder",etc )?
As far as I understand in Kotlin continuations are only allocated on the heap when necessary (the suspending function can not be executed synchronously). Therefore most allocations should be avoided until blocking for IO.
Well, it's got still three months until it lands stable, maybe it's just that the time hasn't been ripe for great, understandable posts about the feature until recently.
Darn. The tiny VM I have hosting my Quassel server for always-on IRC will go from approx 20 Australian cents per month to approx $4.30 per month. That's a rather large jump.
I think the "by Linus" is a bit much. He was the founder of the project but others did a lot too. Dirk Hohndel has been the project lead for a long time already.
Yeah I've never heard this. Frankly, it gives relevant info about how willing the candidate is to endure the commute. Plus, it's polite conversation. Also, bicyclists aren't a protected class.
Yeah it's an embeddably dynamic scripting language that can be used within .NET Core / .NET Framework Apps:

https://sharpscript.net/docs/introduction

To use any library you just need to provide a script method exposing the functionality you want available in your #Script:

https://sharpscript.net/docs/methods
Police brutality, racially targeted drug operations by the CIA/FBI, and the ignoring of the AIDS crisis come to mind in the past 50 years. The civil rights act didn't magically solve everything. Those are just a few major things, plenty of others to go around.
Why is this marketing worse?

It's all mind hacks.
funny you say that, it was behaving a bit weird on FF desktop for me.
> I really, really hate to defend mobile carriers, but...

For the most part, carriers sell unlimited, then throttle heavy users. While it's not honest, they're also not upselling those users on super unlimited plans. This makes me think carriers genuinely don't have the capacity for all this video. Without an upsell path, if they had the bandwidth, there'd by no incentive to throttle.
Google uses a subset of python called Starlark for build configuring (available in Go and I think Java). Nice if you want to be able to compute things during config.

https://github.com/google/starlark-go
As someone who's worked with ads campaigns, yes that's true and entirely how I thought about it, but there are so many bad apples too, those disgusting Taboola ads as an example.
How do you know they are keeping ISIS from recruiting? By ISIS I'm sure you mean al-qaeda because ISIS is a regional terrorist army/group where al-qaeda is a global group who would recruit worldwide.
> the murder rate is literally 10x worse in the USA

I would be more likely to believe crime statistics published by the US government than the Chinese government.

> That's what they value here and it brings a type of freedom that you can't enjoy in the USA.

Well, that would be a single freedom, if those statistics are to be believed, that China apparently has that the USA doesn't. I would much rather have a greater chance of being murdered in a democratic and free society than feeling supposedly 'safer' in a country like China.
> "kopi luwak coffee" is in the same vein as "ATM machine" and "PIN number".

Same with Chai Tea.
You're right, I was mistaken. And if the function is in the same compilation unit so the compiler is able to prove that it's pure, it would also be able to prove that a non-const pointer is actually const.