skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is like saying a Zip file manager should also include Epub reader since Epub is basically a zip file.

Reading a book and browsing web are fundamentally different activities and need different UX and business logic. Putting book reading capabilities to a browser makes the code base bloated in my opinion.
> I would love to have at least one 100% working epub reader on Windows...

SumatraPDF is fine to read EPUBs on Windows (also supports PDF, MOBI, FB2, CHM, XPS, DjVu) - it's free, open-source software [0][1].

[0]: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf

[1]: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html
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No, actual, real heroin is prescribed legally to some people:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/heroin-addic...

It's also used legally in the UK in paliative care for cases where it's easier to administer than morphine.
Oh cool they actually use the PSD2 in Europe
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A while ago, Google showed messages at the top of Gmail for some users "We believe state-sponsored attackers might be attempting to compromise your account or computer".

If they had send some OAuth tokens for a honeypot gmail account to the C&C server used for these attacks, they could then track the usage patterns of that token, and find all the other attacked users. Perhaps thats how they identified who was being attacked?
Purdue Pharma is related to the Sacklers, who are Jews. Is pointing out Jewish heritage anti-semitism?
Can you query the DB on disk using the regular sqlite3 cli tool?
I noticed that Disneyland was a lot cleaner than the rest of the normal USA. But the USA in general is a very dirty place. Trash piles up everywhere in larger cities and towns, roads are poorly kept, and in many places there's just this overall feeling of "dirty" and constant "mess" that I've only seen in third world countries and in Paris.
I like that Toyota hasn’t touched Tacoma/4Runner. It’s already perfect as is, no additional bells and whistles were needed other than CarPlay.
> You would've thought this is what an HR department is designed to stop, but time after time, that doesn't happen.

I have heard, regularly in my career, that HR is tasked with protecting management from employees. In that light, why should we be surprised that a function established to protect one of the power structures wouldn’t act against it?

I have been fortunate that I’ve really experienced that form of HR allegiance to management over people only once in my professional life. It was pretty egregious though, covering up regular-enough violent attacks on junior staff by a VP-level staffer.
> This is answered in the next sentence of the article: it’s “support” not “be supporting,” Microsoft.

That's not an answer to "What's wrong with this?", that's the author's preferred wording.

Both the future and simple versions are appropriate, whereas the author makes it a point to highlight their preference.

And of course here we are, poking it further.
When on earth have we had a conversation about regulating drugs?

Yes, cars should be banned. People who have sex make loud noises ... so sex should be banned.
Depending on some details, it would be perfect for storing state for a libvirt cluster management tool I'm working on. Concerns are I can read the data on disk using the regular sqlite3 cli tool, and lack of rust bindings.
> Perl6 has been under development for over a decade at this point, and this equivocating statement is the best that can be said about performance? If the "work is clear, the goals are straightforward" and Perl 6 should easily outstrip Perl 5 on performance, then by gosh they should demonstrate that.

As the other of the post in question, I refer you to this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNeu0wK92NE

It's fairly decent, but there's still a huge amount of backstory left out of it. In short: in many areas Perl 6 is pretty close to on par with most dynamic languages today. In other areas, performance is still an issue.

> If performance is a major blocker to adoption and it's as straightforward to fix as suggested - it should get done.

(Disclaimer: I'm not the one doing the work mentioned below)

It's being done, but there's a lot of work. There's compile-time analysis with constant folding, eliminating unnecessary scopes, inlining native ops, code rewriting to faster equivalents, etc. But that can only take you so far.

The run time optimizer is hard work, but that's where the good stuff is at. There's a very lightweight optimizer that builds a statistical model of the program and that's very helpful. For example, we can tell if a codepath is hot or not and that model than lets us do all sorts interesting stuff, such as realizing that a hot method is always getting called with an int, so we can skip multi-dispatch lookups, assume an int, and just have a fast guard in place.

We can inline code where appropriate. We can do more escape analysis. We can reoptimize code that's inlined at runtime. We can see an int->int and realize that we might not need to box and unbox those as objects. See also: https://jnthn.net/papers/2019-gpw-ea.pdf

In short, there's a ton of stuff to do and it's being done.
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I don't even think I would be qualified to grade essays, let alone an algorithm!
Thanks! I will try DuoLingo :)
Bizarre decision.
I've done my share of epub wrangling by hand (that is with Sigil).

Epubs are basically zipped HTML. How hard would it have been to leave basic support?

So now one has to "freeze" Edge to keep epub support.

I doubt it is as easy as moving Edge to a different folder. Probably need to mess with regedit as well.
Don't you think Gmail is exaggerating about spam?
Hello,

Spam has become a big concern in today world but in my point of view, Google is exaggerating very much with Gmail since it is almost impossible today to make an email server and have mails into Gmail inbox.

I made a email server on a VPS, all configurations are very good. IP and domains have neutral reputation. None of them are listed in any blacklist.

Spam score is good in any spam score testing tool I used. SPF, DKIM and DMARC tests all pass no matter the recipient, even Gmail. But the last is the only one to put all mails in spam box while they are not massively sent, just simple mails from person to person.

What is more confusing is even Youtube mail notifications for which I subscribed fall all in my Gmail spam folder without I marked them as so.

This situation makes hard for anyone in the need of having his own mail server, which is legitimate, to have one because Gmail has become dominant in free email service sector.

And as Google seems to delegate everything to robots, the email business is being screwed. Seems like the Gmail moto is : Every mail is spam unless robots decide otherwise.
Not trying to defend Slack or Electron here, but it's definitely not the case that native applications automatically start faster.

Otherwise splash screens wouldn't be a thing, and those existed long before Electron (for examples of very long startup times, see Visual Studio, Photoshop, Autodesk Maya, Outlook, etc... the list goes on and on). And all those applications have slow UIs and eat tons of RAM too.

The actual question is of course, why does something as simple as a chat client has to be so complex. Is a complete browser engine really necessary to embed images and videos?
> When one is underage, it is easier to get illegal drugs than legal ones.

I just don't buy this. When I was a kid it was trivial to ask somebody to buy us alcohol and cigarettes. Almost everybody I knew drank underage and at least a third of the kids smoke. Compared to this getting weed was always 'an event' and I did not get to try it until much later.
Sprinkling some AI over it won't fix those issues, I'd argue it will make them worse as people blindly accept the results.

There were some cases in the UK about a decade ago where bugs in software the Royal Mail was using led to incorrect accusations of fraud. People actually went to jail over this, it took years to resolve.
Seen from the outside, both sides of this political dialogue sound equally bigoted and ridiculous. This is sad because (as an european who doesn't want the UK to leave), the "remainer" bigotry is a relatively recent phenomenon that seems completely unnecessary, and even contrary to the cause it deems to support.
Feels good to read and hence gets upvoted, but it's just not true.

US has dished out far more severe punishments for this stuff than the Bundesnetzagentur could https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/24-defendants-sentenced-multi...

This is not about regulations, lots of these robocallers are straight up criminal operations who will not be swayed by fines.

If Germany has implemented some technical measures against robocalling I'd absolutely love to hear about them! I seriously doubt they have though.
Great video about the history of Oxycontin and the secretive Sackler family behind it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGcKURD_osM
He also said that most of the issues with writing kernels have nothing to do with choice of programming language, but instead hardware compatibility. Neither Rust nor anything else could help this.
well it used to be, but that battle seems to have been largely won on some level too, at least all involved parties now realize the value of open-source (though some may just treat it as a PR asset rather than a platform for inclusive innovation and progress).
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Has anybody run the Jepsen distributed database tests against dqlite?
Highlighting Jewish heritage when it is not relevant in this context, thus insinuating that it is relevant in this context, is anti-semitism.
When the first prototypes of Linux were released in 1991 Linus was 21-22 years old.
It is absolutely insane. By no definition does the system understand what is written.

You could ask a student to write an essay taking a firm opinion on some subject, and they could change standpoint every paragraph and there's no way these systems would know.

If I was a student I would be extremely offended at people wasting my time like this.
I think most Jews are horrified by the Sacklers.

As a Jew, I think they should be behind bars and their wealth confiscated to fund treatment programs.
(Looks at sun, closes eyes.) Yes.
Why not use Amazon SNS? They abstract away the differences between APNS and whatever Google are calling their push infrastructure these days.
Scottish court just refused to block the proroguing:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/30/boris-johns...
"What is their benefit to an employer?"

You, as a worker, are worried about a union's benefit to your employer rather than to yourself?
There's one more big distinction, rqlite's replication is command based [0] where as dqlite is/was WAL frame-based -- so basically one ships the command and the other ships WAL frames. This distinction means that non-deterministic commands (ex. `RANDOM()`) will work differently.

It looks like dqlite's documentation has changed -- for some reason frames are no longer mentioned anywhere[2]. So maybe this isn't the case any more, but this was once the biggest differentiator for me.

[0]: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/#limitations

[1]: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:p1XBgh...

[2]: https://github.com/canonical/dqlite/commit/35ea7cd56e93a36c5...
Great feedback. The points you make are good. Listed below are the reasons I chose to go with react.

1. I'm getting my feet wet with React rendering (I will be building a full react renderer in the future for another project)

2. It may be useful in the future for dynamic code editing (not sure but a possible use case)

3. Though react really shines in the render lifecycle, it does provide a nice pattern for building components. I see this project being used as a way to componentize composable code generators and snippets.
> Some big messaging apps like Signal and Line are notably missing

Line is mostly used in Japan, Signal is mostly used by nerds. So you can assume neither japanese peopel nor nerd were their primary target. Given that this is true for the vast majority of the world population I'd not call this odd.
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As someone from an EU country with no domestic caranufacturers: we don't care at all. We buy German. French, Japanese, Korean, Italian and even some US cars. Not many, see the Top Gear review of the F-150 to understand why.

My country does not have car manufacturers, but still supplies a lot of parts to car manufacturers around the world. My BMW was assembled in the US. Not in our neighboring Germany. The car manufacturing industry is much more geographically integrated than most people assume.
> to help these very real neurochemical issues...

Smart people are always quick to blame neurochemistry and easily dismiss problems at a higher level, even though there is so much evidence that chemistry is only part of the equation. Perhaps the increase in mental issues we see over the last decades is due to people thinking "it must be because of molecules", resulting in patients not making fundamental changes to their lives, and doctors continuing to "hack" the brain with drugs.
Hold the home button briefly (lower-left corner) for Siri on CarPlay. It’s actually fantastic.
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Medical opiates are legal and taken on doctor's orders, so typically 'properly'.

Somehow it didn't turn out so well. (Google 'opiate epidemic'.)
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I also learned about this.

There is a guy I met in gym who was asking me why I take protein shakes when they are so expensive.

He told me he takes some protein injected into bloodstream which is more effective and produces better results than fake optimum nutrition protein I get from Amazon.

So I asked him to show that protein, guess what, it was anabolic steroids. Sure did it produce amazing results and he thinks side effects are because Rahu in his Kundali.
The Code component would do a poor job at nesting code in a body. The point of this project is to make it easy to generate code through an AST, hence the <Code /> "catch call".
The title might suggest a poorly ranty written essay, but I was actually positively surprised and thought it was a very interesting read.

I didn't know the author before, but looked him up and he seems to be a well known author of some very influential literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb

Hope that motivates hackers here to give this blog post a read.
Many Americans are allergic to the idea of the government doing anything but managing national defense.
From the page describing the report:

"Tesla declined to furnish enough information to be included in the 2019 American-Made Index."
You should. This is equality we need, but noone is talking about. Everyone deserves the right to have their civil rights defended.
Yes, and nobody cared about whether it was released in one piece or not. And there was plenty wrong with those initial releases, especially compared to what was already out there.

Linux is now mission critical, which means the rules of 1991 no longer apply.
> Also, another thing is that they should make sure that they train their system with dark eyed people. Often the iris is very easy to identify if people with light colored eyes. In people with dark eyes, it may be more difficult.

Surely this is a concern (and presumably a solved problem) for any iris scanner, regardless of whether it tries to detect if the eye responds to stimuli.
Differing technical vocabularies, I think: I meant Parliamentary as opposed to presidential or semi-presidential (the two other main categories of Western-style democracy in political science). Americanists in particular see our insistence that Parliament is not part of government quite bizarre - they include the judicial branch too.

You're absolutely right that Parliament hasn't governed directly for a long time (arguably not since the civil war, and that was itself a highly unusual period where some questionable constitutional innovations happened). It's also the case that the question of whether the Crown can govern without constraint from Parliament has been settled in principle for centuries: it can't. The Commons has had to repeatedly assert this over the years, and it looks like they're going to do so again.
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That's an ellipse.
It wouldn't be created and run by Brendan Eich who was run out of Mozilla for the crime of (privately) voting the wrong way on a ballot initiative. That was and continues to be a bad look for Mozilla.
And it was not used anywhere. And the code was 1/1000 the size of what it is now. Today it runs business critical operations across the entire globe. It is not the same situation as in 1991.
I actually thought it was just an article that tried to again make it seem like Iran was behind the previous attacks, despite there being no evidence. The owner of one tank said that the us statement that it was Iran was full of lies and didn't match any of the facts.
Someone flung from a car won't damage you, but have a look at videos with crash test dummies, where a passenger in the back isn't wearing a seat belt. Them being flung in to the back of the driver's seat creates a huge impact.

The windshield won't be flung anywhere, but an electronic device will. Getting smashed in the face with an iPhone going 50Km/h is going to do some damage, rounded corners or not.
This is great - good work to you and/or your team
Existing languages in the Linux kernel - https://www.openhub.net/p/linux/analyses/latest/languages_su...

Unsurprisingly it's mostly C (95.6%) with a bit of C++ (2%) and Assembly (1.6%) and tiny bits of make (0.2%), shell scripts (0.3%), Python (0.1% and Perl (0.2%). I'd guess it'd be at least half a decade before Rust cracks 1% here.
A counterpoint: my personal 2009 BMW with the "professional" navigation has aged exceptionally well having updated the maps only a couple of times. I rent cars very frequently on business trips and have yet to find any (including, annoyingly, newer BMWs) which compare in overall utility and usability unless they have CarPlay. Having said that, it's an absolute given that I will not be buying a new car without CarPlay or the future equivalent thereof.
Apple does limit functionality if you do that: https://www.gsmarena.com/ios_124_partially_blocks_nonofficia...

This argument is pointless; Tech companies claim that their hardware is changed the world and their selling point is that these devices are essential. They then turn around and create artificial scarcity, by disabling features for old devices and inflating the prices for repair, to make maintaining these devices more expensive than buying a new one.

I don't see, how as a consumer, am I supposed to support this position?
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I usually have someone driving me, but would strongly prefer to control the music. With Carplay, if I connect my phone in order to control the music I'll lose navigation if I use my phone for anything at all.

Best solution I've found so far was putting my Spotify account on my drivers phone, then I can change the music using my phone without messing up waze.
I am surprised you have never heard of Taleb before. He is quite controversial, but often deeply original and almost never boring. You should read "Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder" which imho is his best book. "Black Swan" is more well-known, but I was a slightly disappointed by it.
Slowly rewriting it to Rust does sound beneficial (I wouldn't be seeing memory leaks) but I don't think the c(++)/Rust interop is good and seamless enough for that?
That would open up the kernel to malicious contributions. It is always a good idea to know who your counterparty is.

There is good precedent to warrant such vigilance:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24165-how-nsa-weakens...

Accidents can never be ruled out but a malicious operator will have far less chance of getting away with something when detected early.
Any idea what the mechanism is behind that change?
> Runs on ARM, X86, POWER and IBM Z architectures

Odd, I'd think x64 would be the most commonly used architecture. Is this a mistake?
PRISM would have had to migrate to methods like this with the rise in e2e encryption.

I doubt they'd have written such shoddy and simple implant code though. At a minimum, they would have encrypted the data uploaded, since intelligence agencies love to steal data from other intelligence agencies, and sniffing wires I'm sure isn't unique to the USA.
Mobility scooters are designed to operate in pedestrian spaces, including indoors. Ones capable of 20mph would probably get banned from pedestrian areas, indoor operation, malls etc for the same reason you wouldn't let someone ride an electric motorbike up the corridors.
The most striking place you can notice this is at Niagara Falls in NY. The US side is dirty and tired. Walk across the footbridge to the Canadian side and its like walking into a sci-fi utopia of cleanliness.

Although, being a US citizen, I'll say that what I notice most when visiting Europe is that the graffiti seems 100x worse to my eyes in most European cities than in US cities. Italy seemed especially bad to me. It's like some child has drawn on the walls of Europe with crayons.

Another interesting point to me is Sydney, Australia. I had visited it as a child in the 80's and remembered a very grubby, dirty city. I visited again a couple years ago and found a beautiful, clean, enjoyable city.
@dang article is from 2016
I'm quite bullish on Rust. But note that it generally takes a while to find the "bad" parts of a technology, as they often are unintended consequences of "good" parts (which are clear and designed up front).
So much that I'd consider it a sign of a mature technology when the bad parts are well-understood.
Haha that is damn cute!

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There is: Amdahl's law. Given a task, the maximum speedup by parallelization is limited, and dictated by its serial component.

It's a simple model, it does not include extra workload due to synchronization or extra workload due to setup cost of nodes (personnel integration, for example). However, it largely explains why teams become less efficient as they grow.

Meetings are just one symptom.
That's actually kind of happened. One note program is no longer part of Microsoft office anymore. Instead you are suppose to use the onenote app. It's a hassle but you can install the old program and it's still much better than the app
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There is also Facebook Messenger which seems to be missing, and "Messenger Lite", made for parts of the world without good connectivity, neither of which are on the list despite being very popular.
Really? You can tell that by looking at it with the naked eye and no scientific instruments? Are such instruments 'natural'? Wherever did we get the idea of 'circle' from then?
You're characterization of these people simply as deadbeats trying to avoid responsibility is both extremely insensitive and simple minded. How deep a person can gets caught up in addiction is usually a reflection of their emotional health. They're not trying to escape responsibility, they're trying to escape being alive.