skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone didn't like the cake, and they were fine, maybe?
Congress isn't gonna pass legislation to ban the military from suggesting stupid ideas, or the executive branch from approving them, because that itself would be a stupid idea that reduces American defence readiness and suppresses worthwhile ideas as well as bad ones.

> as if some software is actually intelligent comparable to humans

How's your Go game coming along over there? (Have you ever even played? Because if you had I think you'd have more respect for the intelligence required (for a human) to succeed even moderately at the game.)

> not because something like Hal or the terminator will be created

Actually it is pretty dangerous for those reasons too.
And these toxins might bioaccumulate in the flesh of the animal that gets eaten, poisoning the carnivore even more.
From what I understood from the manual, the configuration stored by "go env -w" is per-machine (actually per-user), not per-repository. So if you checkout on a newly installed machine, and forget to do "go env -w" beforehand (from my experience, people forget even the "git config --global user.email", so it's not unlikely to forget the "go env -w"), you'll be using the defaults.
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They are often in the "very correct, but unnecessarily mildly hostile" area. I wonder if they could gain way more public support just by having someone moderate their posts for PR.
It may be a discriminatory stance, I am not certain since I am not an US citizen and haven't really dug into the details of what that law would imply.

It is not discrimination because there is not any individual being discriminated against. He did not use his position to discriminate against gay people for example.

He outright did the exact opposite and wrote that he was going to push for equality at Mozilla. I do not believe that he would discriminate anyone at Mozilla that was married to someone of the same sex.

I believe that a person can have professional courtesy.
we have been in various ways for a long time. as you stack higher and higher it gets harder to get the heat out, and its already really tough to get the heat out.

Like intel's fastest gaming processor, the 9900k, the major difference is better heat dissipation material between the die and heat spreader.

laptops and phones are mostly all thermally limited

die shrinks help with this, but only if you don't increase performance as you do it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6941231
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Here is what they said in my support panel. This event made for a fairly tense Saturday morning for my development team and I.

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Wow, this is terrifying on a whole new level. This kind of invasion isn't anything new but I shudder every time I see it detailed. However, I don't see anything about Firefox there? Should we really automatically presume that Mozilla won't be able to deal with these issues just because other companies couldn't? (Or, let's be honest, didn't bother to/had incentive not to?)
I'm not convinced on the UX of that. Developers are lazy. I think what would more than likely up happening is they explicitly set it to "auto" and modify the query to get a more performant plan. After a certain query complexity It would become exceedingly hard to start to be able to piece together plans by hand.

A bunch of performance problems aren't even solved by tweaking the query either. They're solved by changing the database structure. Adding the appropriate indexes and such. Making sure datatypes match between joined data and no implicit conversions are happening. Right-sizing columns.

No amount of specifying your own query plan will do anything to affect those kinds of issues.

In practice I find mostly it comes down to cardinality estimate issues as a very common source of problems as the database either over or under provisions enough memory for the query. If it estimates it's going to get back a lot more data than it actually does and it grants too much memory that will reduce parallelism because that memory can't be used by other queries. If it under-estimates it doesn't grant enough memory and when it gets back more rows that will fit into memory it has to write them temporarily to disk taking a massive hit in I/O performance.

How does your scheme work with figuring out how much memory the database should grant to a query when specifying a plan by hand?

What's more is plans change over time as statistics change. Leaving it up to the query optimizer means it's adaptive. Having to specify yourself means you have to know the optimizer isn't giving you the best plan at design time. There are some cases where you know that. There are some cases where you don't.

You can already specify query hints etc. I think SQL just has this covered already. I have no qualms if the query changes slightly.
> the moment things get seriously out of hand, I'm fairly certain they'll send in everything they got

I'm not so sure: they wouldn't want to be seen internationally as the 800-Lb gorilla. I suspect they'll impose sanctions and start making food and other essentials hard to obtain.
And for some reason, decade old products are very sturdy and of high quality.
Yes. We are planning to target that audience.
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Perhaps interesting: this post that implies that implementing full extension support might not be that much work: https://sammacbeth.eu/blog/2019/09/04/geckoview-extensions.h...
When you provide a general purpose donation to a charity, you're giving them a gift. You're entrusting them to do with it what they think is best. If you don't trust them to do the right thing, don't give them the money in the first place, or donate to a specific campaign if they offer such opportunities.

Unless they turn out to be deceitful, duplicitous, or otherwise exceptionally wasteful, second guessing and/or judging their decision making process from the outside isn't likely to be a particularly fruitful endeavour for any of the parties involved.

If you want to explicitly target a very narrow case, you need to donate explicitly to that very narrow case. There are NPOs and charities that provide this kind of explicit service[0], for narrow targeted funding where you control exactly where your money goes. If you donate to an organisation with a broader mission, you shouldn't have any specific expectations of where that money is spent.

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There are even companies that will implement this design for your own ecommerce site (https://fomo.com). Reportedly they make a lot of money, 88k a MO th at least (https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/growing-a-social-proo...).
Don't you love it when authors completely fail to expand acronyms even once?
I read that Xiaomi is making a camera of 100MP.

Source: https://www.techradar.com/in/news/xiaomi-readying-four-smart...
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I really love the way the first part of this sounds when spoken. Amazing how handy this family of languages is for sloganeering.
Long ago? That is what enabled the original Mac GUI in the 1980s. I am having trouble understanding why anyone would have shipped anything else—what was missing in the time of earlier Firefox?
it's a process, and thus far the only one that seems to work. It can't be very special (in the sense of "extraordinary") if it's what everyone who succeeds is doing.

I usually see the phrase "ways to attain knowledge" in the context on anti-scientific woo, so it makes me a bit wary. Thus far I haven't seen a single "alternative" that holds water, but I've seen some that lead people to wrong conclusions, sometimes with dire consequences.
They do, like all employees, but the employer usually pays a contribution too, by insisting that workers are 'self-employed contractors' it reduces the money being paid to the NI fund.

Contractor fees are somewhat assumed to include the rates necessary for a genuine contractor to pay the full NI amount, but Uber/Lyft relies on their 'contractors' not really being fully aware of that.
Here is what Amazon shared via my support panel after the outage.

[01:30 PM PDT] At 4:33 AM PDT one of ten data centers in one of the six Availability Zones in the US-EAST-1 Region saw a failure of utility power. Our backup generators came online immediately but began failing at around 6:00 AM PDT. This impacted 7.5% of EC2 instances and EBS volumes in the Availability Zone. Power was fully restored to the impacted data center at 7:45 AM PDT. By 10:45 AM PDT, all but 1% of instances had been recovered, and by 12:30 PM PDT only 0.5% of instances remained impaired. Since the beginning of the impact, we have been working to recover the remaining instances and volumes. A small number of remaining instances and volumes are hosted on hardware which was adversely affected by the loss of power. We continue to work to recover all affected instances and volumes and will be communicating to the remaining impacted customers via the Personal Health Dashboard. For immediate recovery, we recommend replacing any remaining affected instances or volumes if possible.
A phone can't beat the picture quality off my d7100 with a 50mm prime (no need for a 40mp full frame), but typically I don't need that level of quality. Where phones really fall down though is anything requiring zoom. Now when I go on vacation I use my phone for most snapshot like pictures and keep my zoom/ultra wide lens on the dslr. That works but I do start to wonder why I am lugging all this extra weight around for very specific picture purposes.
>It's like saying you need heavy censorship in order to have free speech. Complete bullshit.

Many philosophers of free speech and first amendment jurisprudence would argue that some restrictions on free speech for the sake of free speech could hypothetically be permitted. The law does this all the time; it restricts action in order to help guarantee the freedom of action of others. The most basic formulation of this is in the harm principle, in which it is recognized that harm should not be permitted because it interferes with others' rights.
Ah, you're right; I didn't make the connection, thanks.
Not only trying random stuff but being subject to random events -- you have to flee camp, you come back a couple of days later to find your porridge has 'grown', you leave it by the fire, get distracted, come back later and you've got some leaven 'bread'.

You carry milk in a gourd, the end of the journey and it's separated, you try to make the same again but go too far end up with butter ...
Turning a handheld smartphone into a fluorescence microscope
Here the original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-019-0187-1
> As others have noted, and as I implied in my comment, there is in fact existing literature that captures the particular ideas and tradeoffs in this implementation - Tiered Vectors. I believe the author has a duty to cite that up front and prominently in the spirit of honest academic discourse.

What "academic discourse"? This is a datastructure implementation with some documentation in a Github repo, not a submission to a scientific journal. You're insinuating a level of rigor that is completely unwarranted.

Just lean back, relax, and accept that you overreacted a bit in your original post. It's not the end of the world to admit that.
At a glance all I see is that it's missing a bunch of media keys and is $350 instead of $15.

But ignoring price, what improvements will I see vs my existing keyboard? At a non-competitive level, the human level is likely dictating how many WPM I can type. At 80 WPM, upgrading to this keyboard won't turn me into a 120 WPM typist. Maybe I'll gain a few WPM but that's not the bottleneck for delivering code on time.

Also how is your recommended keyboard different than a run of a mill $50 mechanical keyboard that I've tried in the past?
most of people have jobs like she mentions, but they need money badly to live, so they have no choice than to accept it.
Ask HN: Are there companies out there building innovative, new newsfeeds?
The Facebook Newsfeed is now widely acknowledged as 'past it', but I haven't seen much in the way of bold innovation in the area of newsfeeds.
There's the Smartnews app, but I used it and found it to be pretty standard, like Google News or Apple News. It's been successful, but I still would say it's vastly inferior to Hackernews's user-based ranking.

Toutiao is a Chinese company that's worth billions, but that appears to predominantly an app for pushing clickbait.

Is anyone out there trying to redesign the fundamentals of newsfeeds: ranking, filtering, social, information vs. misinformation?
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C90 is partly to blame is here. It rejects sensible code due to limitations of hardware and compilers older than Linux itself.

I find it hard to believe that a decades old compiler with an actual compile-in-one-pass limitation would produce something useful from the current kernel source. It's affecting the the entire kernel development just so that someone somewhere with an abandonware compiler doesn't get a shock of updating it once every 30 years.
> Casinos are private properties, they can kick you out for any reason without having to justify themselves.

I find this surprising. Aren't there any rules about having to serve everyone equally? Like non-discriminatory rules? A Casino could unilaterally bar entry to all people from a certain ethnicity and they wouldn't have to justify themselves? Is this true for all businesses?

It's really fishy that Casinos can say you can come play here unless you win.
How hard can it be to _not_ insert 30 events from mails that are clearly in the spam folder already?

This issue is baffling to me. If Gmail knows it's spam why on earth are they inserted. Also why inserting 50 events over 4 days suspicious in the first place i don't know.

A "post mortem" would be interesting - why hasn't this been resolved in a couple of days if the solution is that simple and it affects thousands of users over many months?
I don't know actually. I had not thought of about places with constant rain. Anyway does it work? If you spray your roof on a super hot day does it feel any better indoors?
I think you left out an absolutely huge question that dwarfs all of those in importance.

What other good can I do with my dollars?

That donating to Mozilla wont make it worse is such a low bar when there are kids that need malaria nets or deworming or whatnot.

If you think about the opportunity cost of donating to an organisation thats doing some things you think are really important as well as some things that you think are only kinda sorta important, when there are organisations that focus 100% on things you think are really important, then that should clear things up for you.
do you have data about this?
I wouldn't want to claim that strongly that they won't remove it if I were Mozilla - for all they know, Chrome might still come up with a proper alternative that satisfies the use cases of all blocking extensions, but also performs better. Obviously Firefox would then transition as well.
In the US, where Mozulla Foundation is organized, the organization often does not have a legal obligation to honor an unsolicited restriction. Mozilla would first have to solicit donations specifically for Firefox before a donor should reasonably expect donated funds to be used solely for Firefox.
I could point to a capitalist society where customers demand and expect safety and are part of the process that brings forth regulations. I'm sorry I didn't imply we live in a pure capitalist society.
I am not sure where you are going with that. C++ is largely popular and enduring for the same reasons as Java: institutionalization (taught in school).
I used to work for a Startup considered by many as tech company. Our devs cared a lot about code quality, visited meetups, engaged in the community etc. devs usually stayed for at least 3-5 yrs.

In contrast, there was a company that almost did the same business as we did. But, they were what people would have called a sales company, not a tech company. Decisions were based on sale opportunities, only. No one gave a shit about code quality, devs didn’t stay long and often were frustrated when they applied at our company.

Which one was more successful? Unfortunately they were... we were often slowed down by discussions about code quality, ways of working, ethics and disrespect for revenue driven decisions.

Maybe it was just an exception? But since then I have become skeptical when I hear about “tech” companies. I feel we nerds need to be value driven, too, and not die in beauty.
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"Diversity" in tech means "we should have programmers with skin colour X or genital configuration Y". But I don't care about people's skin colour or genitals.

It turns out people are diverse anyway and that's why not everyone end up in tech.
I'll agree that the job is not fun, but it's still a decent job overall I think. I have definitely been miserable at many points, on the other hand. The real problem is that a lot of other jobs seem worse, not that coding is so great. I definitely do not have any sort of passion for it, that left long ago. Just a job.
Your first and last sentences seem to contradict.
I think overall it looks nice and Ai is a magical box for some people which is quite mesmerising.

Also product hunt is recommended a lot for submitting, there are tons of small startups checks product hunt daily.
It's the lenses that matter. DLSR bodies have been really good for awhile.
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I agree with this.
It might not be that he feels contemptuously about eliminating discrimination but rather than that he's unhappy with the way diversity campaigns are run.

Sometimes it seems to me that whereas in the past we had Churches in a privileged position, telling us how to behave, that we now have NGOs doing the same thing.

For example there was just last week a report in the UK about how employees in oxfam shops had sign NDAs in settlements so that the organisation would not get negative publicity for not practicing as they preach.
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For people to learn to cook poisonous plants safely, a lot of other people must have died from food poisoning. So why did they eat bad stuff? Well, if you're hungry enough, you'll eat anything. And people frequently got very hungry in history. The clever part is where somebody remembers who died or got ill and passes on the information.
I just carry an old Ricoh GRD III when I do carry a camera. It has great ergonomics and the image isn't deformed at the ends. Otherwise I just put up with my phone camera than nerver seems to do what I want. The GRD was perhaps my best investment into camera gear.
But what if you want to only support software development and not social development?

I think this is the crux of this thread of discussion.
Judging by a lot of comments regarding this article I find it funny that we can have HTML and CSS in our JavaScript but we can’t have SQL in our code.
These days, dedicated cameras are like supercars.

There is no question that they beat the pants off a Toyota Corolla.[1] But most us us just want to drop our kids off at school and pick up groceries.

And you know what? A Corolla is actually a pretty good car. And nobody[2] really cares about their daily driver’s 0-60 time or whether it set a new record at Nürburgring.

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[1] Substitute your favourite boring daily driver.

[2] To paraphrase Joel Spolsky, by “nobody,” we mean “Fewer than 10,000,000 people.”
Is it your argument that he should only be paid his salary if he passes a litmus test? Or should he be paid his salary for the work he agreed to perform in exchange for it? In any case, I don't know that firing him was about his opinion (I hope not), but about the distraction the press coverage caused. I found it unfortunate nonetheless, even as a gay activist.
Tianamen square and the surroundings are safe and peaceful, for decades now indeed.
They regulate bitcoin, but don't take all anonymity.
Electricity moves itself. You apply power on one end and it flows down the line at about the speed of light. There is literally nothing (other than superconductors) with lower marginal cost per joule transmitted than wire.

Wires never blow a tire, head gasket, or transmission - and in fact they cannot even crash into and kill people on the highway. They're just long pieces of copper or steel tied to a tower. How convenient!

If you instead compare the fixed costs, as you seem wont to do, you'll find that HV (500 kV) transmission lines and towers capable of carrying several gigawatts [1] continuously have substantially lower initial and lifetime costs per Joule-kilometre than oil pipelines, rail, trucks, tankers, or anything else that has to move oil. [2]

[1] https://www.power-technology.com/features/featurethe-worlds-...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/04/26/pick-your...