skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My girlfriend is a biologist and this kind of misunderstanding is IMHO the fundamental difference between a biologist and a programmer. Biology is way fuzzier than computers and that's always the default stance.
Your last sentence kills it. Alex Jones is yet another voice. People who know he's crazy can be entertained by him. People who don't will listen anyway. He says interesting things. Frogs are gay.
Not sure what are they so worried about. Las Vegas exists in an environment totally dependent on the outside. Paying guards is trivial when you pay them out of providing another service.

If they were actually in a bunker because of nuclear fallout, just be the guy with the promises a few can believe in, and use them to keep the others in line. It's not a few guards with guns that keep prisoners the world over from revolting, it's hope.
A 'real time' OS does not mean fast. It is simply that the OS can promise an application/driver that it will get the processing time that it requests. e.g. a nuclear power station controller might use a RTOS to guarantee that the emergency shutdown process can be completed in under a certain number of seconds, regardless of whatever else is going on.

In general, being able to make these kind of promises means that the OS has to be pretty conservative about the code it allows to run, and a 'best effort' OS or some 'soft' RTOS is probably going to be faster or more efficient.

In terms of UI responsiveness, I'd bet that crappy software running on a 'hard' RTOS can still manage to feel sluggish, because the UI delays probably aren't actually in the OS itself.
Firefox has a master password that encrypts the data. I dont use it, but doesnt a Sync account also sync the passwords between instances of your browser?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-master-password-pro...

That said, can you still copy the profile to a new computer and have it autofill? Physical access to data on a hard drive is often end of game, unlike cloud only hosted stuff that streams. Im guessing you cant copy a firefox profile with lastpass or 1pass or dashlane and have the new computer start autofilling without reentering the master password?

Firefox also has Firefox Lockbox now for storing passwords in the cloud.
In the US the cost must have been in the millions. I know people who ran up several million dollar bills during cancer treatment.
With close to 8% of the male population being colorblind, it means that if they are able to support such group, they are more likely to fully tap into the market.
I'm aware that MS has been implementing all kinds of layers of abstraction when building features for VSCode, but I'm not aware (through my own ignorance) of anything else using these abstracted layers - which makes it hard to work out whether this is fluff or cool.

Has anyone used some of their abstractions elsewhere? How good are these protocols they are pumping out?
A good point, so I just looked it up. This April 1991 ad [0] shows 386 desktops with a hard drive at around $2000 in 1991 prices, and the comparable 486 models with a hard drive start at $7300.

To put that in perspective, $2000 in 1991 is $3700 in today’s dollars, and the 486 would be a staggering $13,500 today.

[0] https://books.google.com/books/about/InfoWorld.html?id=0FAEA...
How does this compare to The Other Leading Brand: the GDB Server protocol?
This is not meant for average car tanks. As you can see on their site, this is aimed at trucks and generators with large tanks: https://mypetrolpump.com/
Why so many Chinese students can’t understand the Hong Kong protests
Nothing of the sort.

We can discuss how Emacs and VSCode compare to each other (and we can discuss the advantages and disadvantages of VSCode taking the electron approach until we're blue in the face), but VSCode is definitely not trying to compete with Emacs, rather aiming for a very different user base.

However, this article isn't even about VS Code proper. It's about Debug Adapter Protocol. If DAP achieves the same adoption as LSP, this will be a huge move forward in developer tooling across all sorts of tech stacks and domains. In between LSP and DAP, just about any editor is capable of becoming a lightweight IDE for an enormous variety of languages, and this is a Good Thing for everybody.
Antifa's methodology is to use direct action, including violence and harassment. The idea that one should attempt to silence or bully people who disagree with them is fundamentally illiberal.

To say that one cannot be left-wing without supporting political violence is authoritarian ideology not espoused by all leftists.
As somebody who runs their own mail server, I think it's also just a problem of time and relative importance. The full-time job of a spammer is to spam, while I adjust my anti-spam solution only when the spam gets bad enough to prompt action in my spare time.

At this point I'd love to turn running my mail server over to a paid service that I trusted, because they could have full-time people dealing with spam proactively. But Google's free service means a lot of people no longer pay, so the market seems to be very limited.
I can't defend billionaires proposing having their employees wear shock collars, but I still think the article is unfair in 2 important ways.

1) The capitalism he decries is making the poorest people in the world much, much better off. Here's life expectancy: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-globally-..., but if that doesn't appeal to you there are lots of other L-shaped charts showing good things happening in poor places in the last 50 years. There's an argument that middle class people in wealthy places are worse off today over the last 50 years, but there is not a credible argument that poor people are.

2) I completely understand the discomfort of being around billionaires speculating about how to save themselves when everything goes to hell, but it doesn't mean they want or expect things to go to hell. Investors are trained to think about the effects of plausible worst case scenarios, separately from considering probabilities. If you have a billion dollars it may be worth spending a million dollars preparing for societal collapse, even if that's a very unlikely outcome. The sad fact is that societal collapse is normal in human history- most currency that's ever existed has become worthless, most governments that have formed no longer exist. Rich countries since 1950 are an exception to this rule, but accepting that it's possible they will collapse doesn't mean it's any more likely now than it was 50 years ago. I think a billionaire spending some time thinking about how he would handle societal collapse is reasonable, even though focusing only on their individual survival rather than how they could help society is not especially admirable.
I read your comment before reading the blog, and I was thinking "yeah, Inferno is probably better," until I started getting to images where distinguishing slight variation was clearly important. That was my "ah-ha" moment for Turbo.

Computers are already really good at dealing with large-scale details. The human eye can notice edge-case scenarios in a large dataset pretty rapidly. I'm sold on Turbo because it lets your eyes change scale on the fly. You can be looking at the large scale and rapidly focus in on particulars within a smaller band, and back out again, as needed.
Yeah, my comment was based on some old fan-made documentation and the latest live streams I've seen where he talked about it (which was a good many months ago now, but it certainly seemed like its supported)
The doctors’ and hospital administrators’ sports cars aren’t cheap either.
I'm quite confused my Tensil, is the training of the model moved to their chips, or the final model? If the former, then are the chips locked in to whatever model they were built for, e.g. this chip only trains a multi-layer perceptron with n layers? Or are the chips re-programmable or FPGAs? If the latter, don't most models run quite quickly on CPU after training anyways?
I'm your only friend
I'm not your only friend
But I'm a little glowing friend
But really I'm not actually your friend
But I am
(Blue Canary, TMBT)
I hope not to sound like a jerk or get downvoted for this, but what's the point of quoting the article without adding at least an opinion or thought?
He’s amused by ideas. I think that’s where it came from.

I’ve been listening to him for years now, most often on BART. I can’t resolve his acceptance of Alex “he’s a really nice guy” Jones, but what I have come to terms with is this: almost everyone I really know has some crazy or indefensible belief. For many it’s their family or partner relationship. Dig into that, and people are living lives premised on an externally unacceptable belief. Have any finance people in your life? I guarantee their political beliefs are hard to swallow.

Joe puts his out there. He’s not embarrassed by himself. From there, he makes more sense.

That said, he has a platform. I think he’s a net positive.
Except that is politically expedient to always under represent the costs to properly finance those future benefits (eg by making rosy expectations of growth, or pessimistic assumptions about expected lifetimes). Those invalid assumptions can remain untested long enough for the relevant senior people and politicians to retire and now it is someone else's problem. The someone else is always the following generation, as they are the one voice without a vote when these decisions are made.

So yes, it is always option 3.
I don't get why people (I mean technically minded people who are aware of privacy issues and so on) don't just use firefox. They are pretty much at feature parity (Firefox may even get the edge due to the fantastic extensions ecosystem), except one spies on you and the other doesn't. Why do people find the switch so hard?

In addition, Firefox + ublokc origin is pretty much the only option on mobile if you want to block ads, unless you want to fiddle with hosts files or pi-holes or something.
I made Firefox as the primary browser even though battery usage during conference call and some webapps is much higher than chrome on a Mac.

I do it on principle and make sure my apps work on Firefox besides chrome. Although many friends and fellow developers tell me why I spend extra efforts.

Web components created a lot of issue when trying to make them run on both Firefox and chrome. But I went ahead with it and my front end team need to put a lot of additional efforts. I don't know why it's so hard to stick to standards. Both chrome and Firefox will behave bit differently for CSS and JavaScript.

Developing a PWA which works good on both browser feels like developing native apps for Android and iOS using cross platform toolkits, which at times require a lot of additional code and testing just so that they work predictable. Still results in not so good experience.
The demo at the top doesn't work because it's expecting python 3 but the demo code is python 2.
Not good if it takes more than a year to launch an app
No true Scotsman, eh?
Very misleading b/c layman may think just b/c you're travelling from A to B, you're required/not required to have visa, which is not true, it depends on the passport you hold regardless of your origin of your trip. For example, if you are travelling from Canada to the US, the site says you don't need a visa, but in fact if you do not hold Canadian passport, you may need to apply for ESTA.
You are right and I was wrong. The ‘rainbow’ map at the matplotlib link happens to be plotted next to ‘jet’ and the lack of perceptual banding in comparison is clear. Looks like the Google author came up with a similar idea.

Whoever gave the name ‘rainbow’ to their rainbow colormap?! It’s like naming a dog ‘dog’.
Does no one offer a solution that uses data from "voluntarily" monitored emails which can be self-hosted?
Yes, but not because he was a labourer. Rand was pretty hamfisted with that sort of thing, it was clearly intended to represent that he was devoting all he had to the redistributive types and that they were unable to give him anything meaningful in return.

If he'd been labouring for the people Ayn liked instead of the ones she didn't he'd have lived to a happy and ripe old age. Which is the point of the book - what determined people's fate in the story was largely how they interacted with the people who wanted redistributive policies.
And when you make healthcare a for-profit business, everyone pays more.
My dream is for a computer OS that has all the good new stuff (CPU/GPU acceleration mainly, OS level HW support) and none of the bad new stuff (bloated UI/my every mouse click being transmitted to the cloud, web app infestation).

I don't care how it's built, as long as we have above.

Bring back the Windows XP GUI (with GPU accelerated window theming and a few select other things) and I will be a happy bunny.
Nash Equilibria and Schelling Points
Ok, popular app requires elevated privileges, gets compromised, removes any remote control Apple might have to stop/cleanup the mess, and then breaks iOS

Now what? Millions of users have to wipe and restore their phones or throw them away and buy new ones because someone's app trashed the phone? That would cripple Apple
> If you don't have enough stuff, then you don't have enough stuff. No moral decision is going to change this.

Sure. Then it becomes a question of who gets the stuff. A situation where you import 50 million people's worth of food, let 10 million waste 20 million's worth of it, and let another 10 million go hungry: is that moral or sustainable?

Remember this is all being eaten by automation from the other end. If you no longer have enough human-requiring jobs that everyone can have one who is capable of working, what then?

Eisenhower:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
Open is a broad definition in almost all forms. Open Dataset often means that it is available for a wider audience. Waymo being an Alphabet sub, it makes sense that they may want it to be tied to a Google account.
The world would have almost no innovative technology if not for a period where customers tolerated "not good enough".
They have to start somewhere, I guess. I believe I saw some non-VSCode editors in the list of implementations.
What about raising taxes to pay for the pension gap? They always talk about Social Security being in some kind of crisis. Social Security is taxed at 6.2% of income for the first ~$130k of a person's income in a year. While the taxable threshold increases with inflation, we could give it a boost to better balance the books and set it to the first $400k of income.
Is that woman scanning an RFID with an iPaq?
Its fine, its a minor mistake compared to those the article is making.
Is Science Political?
As a tech founder in B2B I would go even further and say the idea nor technical implementation matters much, what's important is how well you can build relationships with your prospects, how you can sell it, and hire people to help you scale it up
I dont even think people complained about mobile articles being slow. Sure , there are many bad cases where sites autoplay videos etc. but it’s equally bad in their desktop version (where s the amp there?). A few seconds to load an article on mobile is normal, considering that reading the article will take entire minutes. The probability of needing 1-2 seconds per page applies only when someone is skimming through multiple pages for research. The possibility of doing that on mobile is small, and these are users you dont want visiting your site anyway. Imho google built a honeytrap and is going to get away with murder because, when they will be fined for this, it will be already too late.

I hope developers wake up to this reality. Since that is not going to happen, i hope they abuse amp as bad as they abused html , rendering it useless
Exactly! If Steph was 7'1", my bet is he would rely more on playing closer to the basket (like Shaq did) and would not have had a need to develop his 3-point shooting to the level that it is today. Also, how do we know that Shaq at 6'3" wouldn't have developed into a different style of pro player?
Is that 73 number an average? If so, what are you talking about?
Yeah, I think an api of that sort would quickly turn into a headache if it subtlety did code dispatch through a common interface on objects that are hardly related in reality. From a programming perspective, that kind of opaqueness is more of a mental burden than relief.

I can see a database interface being useful if you constrained the scope of what an entry is and don't allow those operations to actually modify the objects.

The extent of the scope could start at what are traditionally considered OS resources, not random blocks of texts, newsgroups, or pixels, but things that would generally be more useful to query.

Not being allowed to actually modify an entry through 'delete' presents a problem. The database and the code that is allowed to modify its state would have to be synchronized/notified on an update.

In this way, the database is a front-end to the OS.
> Sexism of low expectations

> “It’s tricky, because in the world we live in now, people would think I was being sexist if I just gave out overall awards and didn’t have female-specific awards,”

Ironically, it seems that the race organizer had first set out not to have gender-specific awards at all, but they chose to add the female-specific award to avoid accusations of them marginalizing women's achievements (and being labelled "sexist").
Can you elaborate? What kind of use case are you considering?
I had a little bit of the same problem and while I think the third party Software like fleet should work (Never really had enough time to try it out at work) I wrote a small ansible module to integrate osqueryi.
LSP at least is implemented by lots of languages as well as lots of editors. There are long tables on the website: https://langserver.org/

Adoption wise, I'd say it's a success. As for how good the protocol is, I'd personally have preferred something binary instead of json.
that explains communion
It's likely a teaser for his new book - don't have access to the whole article, but see:
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/19/714600205/einsteins-unfinishe...
as an alternative.
In numerous parts of the country, there is limited cross-transfer capacity (pipelines, etc.), and worse, formulation requirements and regulations which make fuel for one region unacceptable in others.

Because of flammability, petrol itself is generally not hauled long distances, but is instead refined locally and trucked to service stations. There are some petrol pipelines and marine transports, but those tend to be more problematic than unrefined crude.
Steve Jobs said in his keynote of the very first iPhone, Apple have put a full-featured operating system on it, rather than a baby OS.
It depends on the use case.

I find Inferno/Viridis perfectly good for representing one-dimensional gradients. They're easier to glance at then a single hue and show contrast between min/max better. Greyscale and single hue can also make it hard to notice small variations.

I can see Turbo being useful for heatmaps where you want to notice differences rather than variation between hot and cold.

In general though I would say that choice of colormap is subjective and there isn't a general rule for when to use which colormap. I usually plot the same image in multiple colormaps and choose the one which helps me the most for that usecase. Another person may choose differently.
My only use for chrome is to interact with the google web apps that don’t work well in firefox or safari. Otherwise it wouldn’t be installed.

IMO Google softly requires you to use chrome because their tools, in my experience, are unstable in other browsers (I’m looking at you meet)

The cynic in me is doubtful that this is entirely by accident.
I kinda agree. I just don't see the value in 90% of those ideas even if they are well executed. Maybe I'm getting old too but it seems most of these propositions are based on the premise of making something attractive and getting funding from VCs wanting to diversify their investments and play the lottery.

The lowest hanging fruit in tech has already been taken years ago and the human needs haven't changed that much. We need to communicate, we need to listen to music, we need to move around, etc.
That is exactly an engineering problem. "Launching" an average Joe into space might be exactly what we need.

And about resources: resources required to produce 1GB hard drive 30 years ago are incomparable to the ones required for 1TB 20 years later.

One can definitely see how regular "touring" of space in the near future can consume only a tiny fraction of resources required to launch a single satellite into space today.
I had assumed the restriction was more widespread but it seems to be (mostly) a UK thing for some reason. (Though France as well I see.) I hadn't really looked into it because I almost always have a card with me in the US--given how many places don't take Apple Pay--and most of my European travel is UK.

ADDED: Apple's support page mostly says "Your mileage may vary." I haven't tried to do larger purchases more than once or twice when they didn't work because I don't want to be the guy holding up the line fiddling with payment options. I don't know if I got unlucky or if it's the norm.
> Is there a way to disable this multiple-pass approach to get a slightly larger image that is generated faster?

Use png_set_filter() with PNG_NO_FILTERS.

> This one makes it look nearly equivalent to zlib

I don't know how squash is set up, but decompression performance depends on which library created the DEFLATE stream (see https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/issues/326#issuecomment-4...).
Here's a different source that shows no such drop. These stats are highly dependent on how/where one measures. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
> I found the mobile app to be very disappointing. The UI is absolutely atrocious, to the point of being unusable, unfortunately

Just to provide another anecdote, I have been pleasantly impressed by the (Android) mobile app. I wonder if there are significant UI/UX differences between iOS and Android apps? I don't log my dives through the mobile app which may be where the experience disparity lies. But having a quick reference before a dive of what weight I used on the last fresh water dive or what has been my air consumption at this depth in the past is pretty handy.

As for the desktop apps I've used both the Linux AppImage and the MacOS versions and find them both pretty nice to use. The fact that the dive log data is stored locally in XML makes manual tweaks super easy, for example copying over a subset of dives from a watch dive comp to my main intergrated's dive log file after a vacation.
Actually, they are not making a cross platform GUI. They're simply supporting in NET Core what they have done so far in NET Framework - but only if you build for Windows.
> I ended up switching to Safari, to discover that it's just not quite as good an experience as Firefox or Chrome.

IMO, I find it to be just the opposite--neither Firefox nor Chrome are as good an experience as Safari.

Maybe the difference is that when a particular site does not work in a given browser, I don't blame the browser, I blame the website.