skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the lazy:

<human>The bridge wasn't quite right. There were small sparks coming off the incomplete sections of material hanging just to the right of the traffic lights. Gary wasn't worried, however. He walked up carefully.</human><computer> "This is it, guys!"

A huge explosion rocked the bridge, and a fireball engulfed the entire bridge. "Shit! Shit!"

It seemed as though the fire was just blowing out, and the bridges were back in place. Gary was a little concerned, but it wasn't a problem at the time. At least it was under control.

He walked forward, peering over the top. "This is terrible. I'm not leaving the village tonight! How about a break for some water and a drink?"

When he looked down, the large chunk he had just taken off of the bridge was gone. As soon as he realized it was gone, he turned back to the village to check to see what had happened. Not sure what to do, he continued down the hill, heading toward the village at all times. The entire town was completely surrounded, and everyone was either inside or had</computer>

Not bad, but it's strange that it autogenerated text with multiple spaces at the end of sentences. Also, it is far more dramatic than I would have guessed.
Some no-vax downvoted you :D

Jokes aside, it's not stupid, it's just extremely dangerous.

It's unbelievable what a luxury we have nowadays! Saying NO to vaccines. Any person from the last 5000 years would have had these shots without thinking twice about it. We, on the other hand, think not about survival anymore, but about "oh, my freedom is endangered".
I'm old enough to remember Trump claiming that the economy was in shambles in 2015 and 2016 when it isn't remarkably different than it is now. Almost as though that was a big part of his message!

Bring on the gloom and doom, it's not much different than what we had from 2014 onwards.
Yes, but the core system is an Android tablet in my car. That is my point. I would imagine that it's the same across Honda's entire fleet.

I was wondering which manufacturer was going QNX instead.
I looked that up. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterBase

"Although InterBase's implementation is much more similar to the system described by Reed in his MIT dissertation than any other database that existed at the time and Starkey knew Bernstein from his previous position at the Computer Corporation of America and later at DEC, Starkey has stated that he arrived at the idea of multiversion concurrency control independently.[3] In the same comment, Starkey says:

The inspiration for multi-generational concurrency control was a database system done by Prime that supported page level snapshots. The intention of the feature was to give a reader a consistent view of the database without blocking writers. The idea intrigued me as a very useful characteristic of a database system."

Seems you're right.

Curiously, I'd assumed before starting to read about MVCC that history was done at a page level as described above, whereas it seems it's generally done at the row/tuple level
So, let's compare the automotive industry then. I might be mistaken, but I'll try my best. And yes - I totally ignore taxes, healthcare, and anything else - which might be important, so... take it with a grain of salt.

In the year 1916, Henry Ford lowered the price of the Model T to 345 USD[1]. Using an inflation calculator[2], this tranlates to roughly 8120 US-$. At the same time, Ford raised the salary to 5 US-$ per day[1]. That makes 160 US-$ per Month (calculating with 4 x 5 days). Using the same calculator as in[2], we end up with a value of 3766 US-$. So a Model T costs 2.5 months of labour for an average worker.

Fast forward 2019 - the avarage salary is maybe 40k US-$ a year for an automotive worker?[3] So, using the same reference as above, this would translate to 166 US-$ per day, and 3320 US-$ per month.

Now, what's the successor of the Model T nowadays? I don't know - so I followed the "successor" links in the Model T wiki article[4], and ended up at the Ford Fusion. Ford says, it's starting at 23.170 US-$[5]. That's 7 months worth of labour for an average worker. So, yes - compared to 1916, it's 2.5 times more expensive.

I'm surprised.

[1] https://www.fomcc.de/t.htm (German page, sorry)

[2] http://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1916?amount=345

[3] https://www1.salary.com/Automotive-salaries.html

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T

[5] https://shop.ford.com/build/fusion (I used 10005 as postal code, cause I'm not from the US)
> Because the boon economy we been experiencing is a huge positive for the person in office now and their possible re-election.

If it s why are they trailing all competitors? Why do they have a -10 to -20 point net job approval even in the same polls where they get good marks on the economy?
But it is pretty expensive, if you have many doors to protect and also those humans sometimes turn out as unreliable .. so you need to pay people to check on them, etc.

(I worked briefly in security ... well, humans are really unreliable)
Some pretty sick people that would actually wish harm and suffering on people just to win an election. There was a Duke psychiatrist on TV the other day that actually said Trump will kill more people than Mao, Stalin, and Hitler combined. A “respected” psychiatrist saying such nonsense that Trump is on course to exterminating 50+ million people! And now we have the media hyping up recession talks with wishful thinking. A former Canadian prime minister is “rooting” for the hurricane to destroy Mar a Lago in Florida just to teach Trump a lesson. What an evil person: wishing death and destruction on people because they disagree with their political views.

There is the climate doomsday cult that seems exactly like the Catholic Church during the Inquisition: you either accept the “truth” or you get burned at the stake. It has become just as nutso as the most persistant cults ever on earth. We are constantly being told that the world is literally ending in 12 years. Yet, unless there is some nuclear war, we all know that to be false. But still, it sells “bibles” and gets votes.

Some people really are deranged. My personal situation has been just fine under Trump. If people turned off the news and just looked at their own situation, most people would probably say they are doing pretty ok if not better than ok. People should vote on how well they are personally doing, not on how well the media tells them everyone else might be doing.

Basically, everyone needs to calm down and stop wishing death, destruction, or financial ruin on people just to get someone elected. That’s sick.
Pseudonyms should be allowed if that's what people want for themselves, but that doesn't solve the problem of people who want to use their real identity but might be targeted for harassment as a result.

Pseudonymity by expectation is akin to requiring everyone to be "in the closet", even if they feel it's important for them not to be.
Imagine something spiky hitting your face. It makes you angry. Then you see another spiky. You have empathy with your past self, and project it onto the thing. The new spiky is angry.
You're making a huge number of assumptions, both about gardening and about farming.

1. Not everyone uses those pots, and there are lots of alternatives. Many serious gardeners start from seed. Also, you provide no actual analysis of how much waste these contribute relative to vegetable farms + shipping + supermarkets, which also involves a lot of plastic.

2. Peat is terrible, and also totally unnecessary. What's needed here is regulation.

3. Expensive, perhaps. Claiming that farms use surface water is simply untrue. Try flying over the American west some time: those little circles are often the result of depleting ground water and pumping it onto the arid ground. Both gardens and farms can be far more water efficient than they currently are (personally I use salvaged mulch and drip irrigation), but farming is currently crazily unsustainable water-wise, both in terms of consumption and contamination.

It is definitely, definitely possible to garden in an environmentally positive way. Almost everything used can be reused or obtained from other sources (single use food plastic is great for seed starting), pests can be managed at a small scale without pesticides, and efficient water practices are easy. It's also easier to incorporate efficient perrenial crops at a small scale.

Also, there are second order effects to be considered in connecting people to their food systems. Nobody notices if the far away farm providing their veggies is operating responsibly, but growing their own or getting involved with urban growers lets them see the process up close and be connected to it.
It's progress built on top of an assumption of never-ending, unsustainable growth. Unfortunately for everyone else much of the world has been dragged into the rat race along with us.
"All regions of the world showed an increase in measles bar the Americas, which saw a minor decline - although the US registered its highest number of cases in 25 years."

This surprised me, I thought the US was the epicenter of the anti-vax movement? Or is it just how things appear because of the constant news topics?
Why won't spammers just spoof the verified by twilio data?
Some people also lack eyes altogether, so these systems need a fallback either way, no?
Given how recently democratic western governments have conducted eugenics programs, I would be uncomfortable with any law that enforces mandatory injections for children - even for vaccines.
In what way is it not stupid?
Thanks for the lecture but we do have regulations regarding phone calls. The laws are just being broken by citizens outside of the United States. This isn't uncommon in countries where English is the most widely spoken language.
From the article:

> Ms O'Brien said all four European nations that have lost their eradication status have "extremely high" vaccination coverage.
I'll speak from the American perspective, YMMV depending where you live: because the government can't dictate what you do with your body.

But, if you choose to send them to public schools for instance, they can impose requirements for attendance like vaccination, much like being required to pass a drivers test before using public roads.

And yes, you should get your kids vaccinated. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/09/in-the-united-states-ru...
As far as I can tell there wasn't any. Evidence of white supremacy I mean.

The "instigating event" apparently opened the floodgates of people who felt marginalized and ostracized by the react community. I couldn't really figure out who those people are, and what events/situations they were referring to.

I think it was mostly about women and misogyny after the initial blowout. Though I can't really pinpoint anything.

This is actually quite frustrating as someone looking from the outside - no one is really saying what it's about but everyone is acting as if it's a very big deal.
You buy ten more before hand and have all of them running side by side, to retake workload on any outage.

Replace raspberry pi with any local server configuration.
Vaccines never used to be mandatory because mandatory medical treatment has a very bad track record. Medical treatment requires informed consent to be ethical.

Unfortunately, there is a new viral threat - or rather, a memetic one. A meme that encourages people to immunocompromise themselves and their children. We're not so good at vaccinating against lethal memes, but perhaps this is the pandemic of the 21st century.

It's not just an internet phenomenon; the originator was Andrew Wakefield, with the help of lots of traditional sensationalist poor quality news publications.

Edit: this is more controversial than I was expecting .. I don't normally ask for explanations of downvotes, and I know it's frowned upon, and normally when I get downvoted I know exactly which audience I'm offending and why. But I don't understand it here.
That's how I view it. It’s not a matter of it not making sense or being a "Duh of course you should vaccinate" which is how I feel about it, it’s a matter of giving that type of authority to the state. Once you do that, the precedent has been set.
"'The Americas' is lower, USA is higher" is perfectly consistent with the US being the epicenter of the anti-vax movement, no?
Maybe Idiocracy was right about the whole "It's got electrolytes!" meme, except swap out electrolytes for neural networks.
Basically all supported iPhone models (5s through X inclusive) were not just vulnerable but actively exploited for over 2 years (September 2016 through January 2019) until the vulnerabilities were fixed in iOS 12.1.4. The attack was through the web browser, you didn't need to install any additional any additional apps to get hacked, visiting the attacker's website was enough. This is as bad as it sounds.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...
I am skeptical that the "React community" is a hotbed of white supremacy.

It seems wildly inappropriate to have a talk titled "White supremacy Capitalist Patriarchy" at a software conference. Is there a way to criticize that without being called a white supremacist?

edit - here's the talk that led to this controversy (I got the title wrong): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQq_gZiZ-jg

You be the judge. My understanding is that implicit bias tests are controversial among experts [0]. I also think that the talk is extraordinarily inappropriate (given the venue) and I'm not surprised that there was backlash.

As always, the line between "criticism" and "harassment" is blurry. But, again, is there a way to criticize that talk without being labeled a harasser or being accused of "minimizing white supremacy"?

[0] https://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/07-08/psychometric
Have a home garden, don't really use much of 1) or 2), and we get enough rain throughout most of the growing season that usage of 3) is pretty light - on the order of "we water the garden for 1-2 minutes once every 2 weeks or so, and it's fine". (I don't have precise figures to attach to these.)

(More on 1) - we do use Jiffy planters for some things, which we then rinse after transplanting and reuse the next season. However, we mostly sow directly outside.)

There are a few things missing from this comparison, though!

First and foremost: impact of shipping. Once you ship zucchinis from Mexico to your local grocer / supermarket, there's a lot more embodied carbon than in a zucchini you pulled from your front step.

Second: mechanization. AFAIK, most home gardening is a pretty manual process. Not so for industrial-scale farming, which involves tractors and tillers and spraying planes and giant irrigators and so on. While there is a bit of "amortization at scale", those all add to the total lifecycle resources necessary to grow something. (Not to mention that all that equipment has to be built somewhere from materials extracted somewhere else, and the ongoing maintenance cost / burden of this equipment is decidedly higher than for our push mower or pruning shears.)

Finally: land use. Most farmland was (either recently or historically) cleared from forests, which are also giant CO2 sinks. The most prominent example today is probably heavy deforestation in the Amazon, mostly for agricultural and meat production. Now, of course our home garden sits on previously cleared land, but we're not clearing any more of it - in fact, we have trees, bushes, ground cover, etc. in parts of our garden space, meaning that we're taking what was underutilized urban land and converting it to a CO2 sink.

I'd love to see a scientific lifecycle analysis of gardening vs. agriculture, along with guidelines for "environmentally responsible gardening" - but I'd be very surprised if the analysis didn't come out heavily in favour of local small-scale gardening.
Sorry I'm too stupid for this one.

Who wrote (or said) something about what or which person? Was the indicated talk the target here? Was the person giving the talk the target here? Who was attacked and why?

On the surface that just seemed that the majority of the people contributing to some project (in this case React) are white people which presumably ends up in joining together and dismissing opinions coming from people associated with other groups. Was this the case? Where is the evidence for that? Is / was the discussion completely unrelated to this? Really - I don't get at it all. Maybe a language barrier.

Don't get me wrong - if something like that occurred then a CoC / actions from the project leads must follow, but I just don't see it. Maybe the article is not clear about it.

Thanks for helping me out on this one!
> Why is it legal not to vaccinate your child? Seems stupid.

Why do you feel you have the right to tell me what to do with my body? My body, my choice!
The cutoff isnt at injections here. Its way past that somewhere between vaccine and poison.
From reading the article, is the issue a React conference presenter showed a slide with "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy", and people tweeting about that negatively are seen as evidence of white supremacists, etc in the community?..
So fucking tired of the nazism argument. Nobody cares about nazis anymore, nobody would even remember them if we weren't bombarded by American propaganda all day.
The math on pesticides shouldn't be too hard. Take the amount of pesticides sold to residential consumers and device by the total acreage for home gardens, which should be some percentage of all residential land. Commercial farms certainly do use lots of chemicals, but per-acre I suspect that many lawns use more. While they may get numerically fewer treatments, a commercial operator spreads the stuff very thinly. (And one can debate whether the chlorine in municipal water supplies should count.)
In 2019, just beneath the surface of every last "rather innocuous activity" lies a whole raft of things to feel bad about and someone to let you know about it.

It's gardening. It's fine. If gardening (gardening!) is now something that should be "approached with caution" then we've jumped the shark as a civilization.
pseudonym != anonymity

It's like a stage name, a face, a persona, for a specific purpose. Under that persona one should keep focused on the topic, within the guidelines, etc. but outside they could be their own person.

Simple example: if the current trend continues, soon listening to certain music will become a problem. If someone listens to nordic black metal in their free time, outside of work communities, including online ones, so be it, because it has nothing to do with work communities.

This would require communities to respect and realize the need for this.
Because people do not like to be treated like cattle? Parents want to have some control over how to raise their children, even if sometimes it leads to adverse effects.
If your body comes close to me and can infect me with something then I have the right.
I use React and I lift weights (badly), yet this particular drama went by me. The article doesn't clarify matters much, can anyone try to tl;dr the situation in an objective way?

I mean, I just read apologies from people I respect (Ken Wheeler and Dan Abramov) but I'm not sure what they did wrong and the article doesn't really say.
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Your comment does not make any sense, what's the link between Nazi eugenics programs and vaccination campaigns?
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Yeah I don’t know. I thought people in the US were/are abusing the religious exemption option (which states are rescinding). How are European patents skirting immunization requirements?
I read somewhere that the percentage of THC now is almost 10X what it used to be in the 70s.
I fully agree. I also did not see any evidence. Very confused about this whole thing now...
1.5% does sound significant, but does WD save 100% of those 1.5% by doing it in-house?

Furthermore, those 1.5% covered more than just the CPU (peripherals, buss technologies, patents, manufacturing know-how).

I'm not saying WD is wrong, but I think they are overestimating how much they can save. This is probably just to get a better deal from arm.
I can write a long list of reasons why Electron is bad for performance.

Having read this blog post though, I can see none of those reasons apply to Slack.

The kind of performance optimizations that they're calling "a radically reimagined desktop client architecture," are actually basic engineering practices that apply equally to all development platforms.

> Using a CDN-cached HTML file, a persisted Redux store, and a Service Worker, we were able to boot a stripped-down version of the client in less than a second

None of these are specific to the browser or Electron. For example:

> a CDN-cached HTML file

Assuming the HTML file simply points to the styles and the scripts (i.e. no content-related markup), I am surprised that they weren't already caching it on the client and the server. Without caching the HTML file, upon boot, everything has to wait until a meaningful chunk of that file is loaded.

What happens in a regular native setup is that what functions as that minimal HTML file is already bundled into the app's package and is always read from disk.

> a persisted Redux store

There is nothing radical about this. Storing part of the application state on disk and re-hydrating upon reload is standard practice. And again, not specific to the browser or Electron. On iOS (and I'm sure on Android), models can be decorated with a persist/re-hydration mechanism. In fact, having this redux-style single-source-of-truth state object makes it even easier to serialize the state to disk and read it back.

In fact, not a single optimization mentioned in the article is specific to the browser or Electron. Slack is not slow because of Electron. Slack is slow because of Slack. They could've written it in assembly, and without these basic optimizations, it wouldn't have run much faster.

ps. I'm not trying to bash on the engineering team though. I'm certain they had other priorities, being a hyper growth startup and all. I cannot say that I would've done differently under those same constraints.
The only types in the Rust standard library that do reference counting are `Rc` and `Arc` (which are both implemented in Rust).

Borrow checking is done statically.
Anonymity also avoids unproductive and abusive viewpoint and history shaming.

What political party I belong to (or don't), or what position I hold on a controversial issue will almost never have any bearing on how well I can accomplish a programming task.
I use this all the time with my gf, I drive, she looks up a restaurant or something, opens maps to navigate to it and connects it to the car.

And after that she becomes annoyed she can't play Pokemon go or whatever game anymore :p
I wonder how convertible the Escudo was at the time?

Some of his co-conspirators did successfully flee. The book epilogue interviewed them decades later.
Exactly. The whole scheme relied on everybody, even his accomplices, truly thinking that they were dealing with an official.
Note that most of RISC-V chips arise in China. As seen in the fight between Trump and Huawei (ARM almost ended contract with Huawei) I think RISC-V becoming a great possible alternative to ARM for Chinese companies.
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Not very well known? It was even the subject of a TV series some years ago!

https://arquivos.rtp.pt/programas/alves-dos-reis/