skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not something you can hide behind a "just". As streaming becomes the main source of funding for films that represents a huge change to the Hollywood and indie cinema landscape, and it'll have an impact on much more than just the film industry (end of DVD retail, massive impact on multi-entertainment venues like malls that have an attached cinema, impact on branding as there are far more streaming film and shows dilutes the pool of celebrities to endorse things, less likely to see merchandise tie-ins due to that dilution... etc).
This is often characterized as an investment, where the money Bezos paid is accessible by the company to do company things - but this seems to be private sale of shares from founders to Bezos. I don't think the company got any money out of Bezos' check - think the founders got it to their personal accounts. That would not qualify as an investment in the sense we're talking about, no?
The resources needed to maintain a Gecko-based or Blink-based browser will depend on the amount of customisation. Vivaldi/Opera/Brave are doing fine, but they make relatively shallow changes over Chromium.

I just discovered Goanna on Wikipedia, a fork of the Gecko engine, presumably with relatively thin resources. Don't know how well it compares to mainstream engines though. [0]

I suppose the short version is that the workload is a function of the goals.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goanna_(software)
It’s their risk minimisation strategy. If they call it something new, it would be perceived as a higher risk development. If they keep the existing name, it’s viewed as a mere improvement on the existing model.
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Hey Guys,

I plan to apply to YC S20 batch; the applications are now open btw! I was wondering if any YC alumni here would be willing to review my application in 2 weeks? It would mean a lot!
From slide 17 here you can see that the switch from fuelled to electric vehicles is expected to decrease particulates by 60-80% from 2000 to 2040:

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-09/documents...

This doesn’t seem like a trivial improvement. Particulates are not the only toxic component of exhaust either; electric cars should produce no NOx, CO or O3 which is a big improvement. It’s also worth noting that brake wear particulates haven’t been a target because historically exhaust-related emissions were so much larger.

If we haven’t really tried to fix it, who’s to say we can’t?
Most theaters have reserved seating now. If you show up "on time" you're gonna get ads and previews. Go 20 minutes late; if you're early, walk out and chat or go to the little arcade they always have b
Love it. Where would one be more likely to learn to understand the difference, at a library or at a movie?
The ReasonML ecosystem is evolving at a fast pace and finding adoption in the most unlikely of places (Most recently a team inside SAP for some of their front-end).

However, one of the better things about Reason for me is that it is based on OCaml, which has been a rock-solid language for more than two decades. Its pace of evolution is quite measured - for example the algebraic effects work that has been happening is based on a formal academic foundation, and the implementation is often lead by researchers who wrote the actual papers.

The biggest issue I can imagine when a company adopts Reason is availability of bindings to Javascript libraries. In practice this has not been much an issue for me - once you get grips with the way bindings are done in BuckleScript, creating a binding is just another thing to do.

The other issue is significant upfront learning cost for the Typed functional paradigm. But it is the kind of fundamental learning that pays dividend for a long time, quite unlike learning libraries or frameworks that simply keep coming and going.

I find that Reason and Elm does solve for this constant library/framework trivia-treadmill of the Javascript ecosystem admirably, helping teams achieve enough technical expertise so they can effectively create most of the building blocks they need by themselves.
This is actually an important point. It doesn't remove the need for CCS though.

I think people advocating for CCS should be careful what they ask for. Reasonable things to do would be:

a) CCS should be confined to areas where no feasible technical alternative exists (e.g. cement) and to negative emissions.

b) No support for CCS as in Enhanced Oil Recovery. This is creating more emissions than it avoids.
Tying the Knot Among Violent Protests in India
I crashed a gen 2 Ford Explorer (first production year 1995) head on at about 35-40 MPH and wouldn't be scared to drive one around today. The other driver crossed the centerline directly in front of me and I crashed into the rear of their gen 2 Ford Explorer (so a medium-large vehicle striking a medium-large vehicle).

It didn't have airbags, I was wearing the seat belt, I had a slightly sore neck for a couple months (not like bothersome sore, I noticed it when doing higher impact things).

Which isn't to say I'm opposed to updated safety features, rather that 20 years ago wasn't that bad, even without air bags.
>which is not very surprising given that only one of them is free.

It mentions this in the write up.

That said, most of the people I know have been to far more movies than they've been to the library (which is exactly 0 times). I know people who have never been to the library in their adult life. The library is an underutilized resource.
Depends if you're sleeping or not
It's not required to have DOCSIS 3.1 to have 100Mbit/s symmetry, 3.0 can provide that.
Vodafone in Spain has a mixture of HFC footprint (the widest), its own small FTTH footprint, and Telefonica (Spain's DTAG) wholesale FTTH. Prices and speeds for the three of them are the same, but if you are on an FTTH zone you get symmetric upload speeds, while on HFC zones they provide 100Mbit/s upload with all their plans (min download is also 100MBit/s).

They argue they will be able to have symmetry on 1Gbit on HFC when they complete their DOCSIS 3.1 rollout, but that has been going on for years with no news. Ironically their own FTTH footprint is pretty small so they end up, in most cases, providing better upload speeds when reselling Telefonica infrastructure than with their own.
Already failed. Sorry.
Here is a non-trivial production web application (a learning management system) that runs Rails on the back-end, GraphQL for network communication, and Reason on the front-end: https://github.com/svdotCO/pupilfirst
I’d read more into the libraries are more popular than the popular opinion would think rather than knocking the movies.
> And we had a cleaner come in once a week.

This is crucial.
While this is very cool, I'm not sure I like the name howler, as it collides with howler.js which is a library for audio. People should be a but more creative with names.
The interesting question is why did not happened before. This would suggest that big felines are retreating (and that coyotes trive in urban areas of course)

The golden jackal in the same way is returning to its old domains in Europa, for some reason is a global trend. Maybe control of distemper has triggered something, or maybe climate is more accurate now for they.
It's a bit disturbing that all major search engines show results for the company Apple before the fruit apple. Not even talking about ads. A search for "apple" comes up with a tech company, not the food. Seems a bit perverse especially for searches performed by those too young to have known a time when apple the fruit had a stronger association with the name than Apple the corporation.
It's absolutely true that this is injust and indefensible. Still, the torture has stopped.
The interesting question is not what you do once a catastrophe has happened (program has reached invalid state) but how to avoid it in the first place. Exceptions are better than undefined behavior in coping with the former, but they still don't help you with the latter. The idea to “make invalid states unrepresentable” would give you an actual shot at this.
CCS is absolutely going to be necessary. So is nuclear.

What is the renewable alternative for the cement, steel, shipping, and aviation industries?

Environmentalists need to get out of their own way and stop treating good as the enemy of perfect. Some progress is better than no progress. All technologies and approaches will be required.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Peters_Glen/status/11948866002552...
Vorys and Pattern (iServe) give a pretty good explanation of why a manufacturer would want to control prices on Amazon.

https://blog.pattern.com/my-retail-partners-are-mad-at-me

iServe and Vorys also are fairly effective at working with manufacturers to get the desired price levels.

Consider the example of Spectra Baby, one of the largest suppliers of breast pumps in the United States. Spectra Baby is involved with both Vorys and Pattern (iServe). For example, their website states that if a breast pump was purchased on Amazon, they will only honor the warranty if iServe was the seller.

According to a popular price tracking application, there were seven offers on Amazon for Spectra’s popular S1 model pump in January of 2018. The selling price was $160. As late as May 2, Amazon itself was selling this product for $169. By the end of May of 2018, however, there was only one seller remaining and the price was $200. Although there have been some one-off sales by “unauthorized” sellers, the Amazon price for the S1 pump has remained remarkably consistent at $199.99 since 2018. Fortunately for buyers of this now $200 breast pump, iServe is "glad" to “provide invoices for insurance purposes". You can check out the price history yourself with the Keepa chrome extension.

A lot of big brands are involved with this.
New Boeing 777X Completes Successful First Flight
Hi,

Thank you for these pointers. I read through the article and I couldn't find the distinction that you made. Maybe I missed it. Could you please help me see where it appears ?
It's far from comprehensive, but here are a handful of operating system projects that have caught my eye:

[1] MezzanoOS, an OS written in Common Lisp (https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano)

[2] SerenityOS, a Unix-like OS (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/). The primary author has a youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling/)

[3] RedoxOS, a microkernel OS written in Rust (https://www.redox-os.org/)

[4] Nebulet, a microkernel based on webassembly (https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet)

[5] It was never released by Microsoft, but Midori OS had some fascinating ideas like software isolated processes, asynchronous message passing and object capabilities. Nice write-up about the project by Joe Duffy here http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/
If you consider the C specification beautiful it can only be because anything ugly is simply left unspecified. Large parts are simply missing. It only seems straightforward because so many of the weird architectures and platforms have failed and we're left with 32/64 Intel/Arm as the only ones most authors consider.

The C spec allows one's complement arithmetic, but how many programs would break horribly on such a machine?
From the same article I quoted: "What Jeff got was the same deal that Jason and I had: His share of the yearly profits."
What are the symptoms of the new coronavirus and how deadly is it?
I don't know if Americans are going to the library more, or shunning movie theaters because of price increases and Hollywood's creative bankruptcy and a lack of decent films.
There's a whole class of people who practically live in libraries, which makes your example very realistic.
Yes, he could, if he were able to make it to any of those countries...
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For steel, it's hydrogen direct reduction.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965261...
That's a very western-centric view of things. I'm assuming trying to draw parallels from happened when the US tried alcohol prohibition, which failed partially due to government greed. These things can be effective in other cultures, especially when people believe in the cause (e.g. see how quickly and efficiently alcohol consumption practically ceased overnight in Islamic history).
Unless it has good FFI support for C...
It's an outrageous click bait title loosely based on the results a single survey. It deserves to be dismissed.
You ignored the "in general" part on purpose, right?
Now that I have children, the library is a regular weekly stop.

We've only been to one or two movies in the past year. There's enough on Prime, Netflix, and Disney+ to be honest.
I did not see any links to any official government documents on that page. Indeed, I saw very little attribution for many claims. The article is fraught with cultural bias against China, and additionally, I noticed multiple misleading remarks.

Starting from the title. The “TV show” the article refers to was actually just an internet video post. Additionally, this was a one-off event from 2016, and it caused outrage and she was forced to publicly apologize[1]. In many places, the Zerohedge author implies it is a current event, stating:

> The video shows the woman breaking apart the corpse of a boiled bat, dipping its wing in sauce and eating it.

> Meanwhile, the scale of the coronavirus outbreak continues to escalate.

This is clearly misleading. Additionally, the description of the bat’s “corpse” is reminiscent of PETA writing about meat farms. I suspect this writing style only appears when the author is projecting a bias.

Next, the first photo featuring a girl holding a bat has a Chinese caption. Below this Chinese caption is an English caption, somewhat loosely implying a translation. This English caption mentions eating bats as a commonplace event in China. Not only is this fact itself debatable, but it does not translate any part of the Chinese caption, which roughly says “As the Coronavirus news spreads, the news about bats containing lots of viruses is once again garnering attention.”

Next, there is a lengthy Chinese tweet quoted. The English of the article does not reference the content of this tweet a single time, instead appearing to imply that it supports whatever claims he is making and assuming the reader will not understand the tweet. The tweet itself says that, loosely, research has found that bats could be the source of the coronavirus and this older bat eating video is once again making the social media rounds, prompting another public apology from the woman in the video. The article says, directly preceding the quote:
> The woman featured in the clip took to social media to profusely apologize for her role in encouraging the consumption of bats and encouraged everyone to start washing their hands more.

Indeed tangential, but not related.

Essentially every claim in the article is unsourced and largely unsubstantiated, and it paints the Chinese in a very negative light, with many heavily prejudiced and vulgar portrayals of China and Chinese food. So, in this case, yes this article is invalid.

On top of all of this, you took the invalid claim that a tv show featured a bat being eaten and turned it into “bats are eaten on tv, commonly”. This is disingenuous on your part, on top of an already disingenuous source.

[1] remember when Ozzy ate a bat’s head on stage?
That doesn't depend on BIOS, it depends on the standard "frame buffer" address for CGA/EGA/VGA graphics cards (I'm not 100% sure they all use the same address, those three and Hercules were the standard back in the day, and it seems my memory has started dropping nearly-useless information from 30 years ago, not a bad idea).

I quote-unquote frame buffer because it's text mode, one byte for the ASCII code (extended to 256 characters in configurable and often confusing and incompatible ways, MS had "codepages" and ISO has the equivalent Latin-1 through Latin-14 or so), and one byte for the attribute.

Many modern cards used to keep the basic VGA compatibility upon boot, until you switch them into more sophisticated modes. I'm not sure if they still do these days. QEMU, which is the actual target for the minimal demo kernel above, pretty sure supports it.

BIOS used INT 10h for video operations, from mode setting to printing characters, code that calls INT 10h is actually relying on BIOS. IIRC next to nobody used it except for mode setting, you could much more easily and flexibly write the right bytes yourself (with a little bit more work for compatibility). Plus you could use DOS INT 21h to actually print output strings with a bit more of a concept of a terminal.
You should always be job hunting to some extent or other. You should take other offers if they are more appealing to you than your current job. You should not take other offers if they are not more appealing than your current job. You should have an offer in hand before you quit.

This is true regardless of if your tech lead is an idiot or a genius although you should include that as one of the criteria by which you evaluate other offers.

You should also calm down about this and not take it personally. You're using your skills and talents to put food on the table. Your tech lead is using his. His manager is using his. They're not out to personally screw you. You do get credit. It's called money and it arrives in your bank account every two weeks or so. If you don't think the credit is proportional to what you bring to the table see the start of this comment.
From the linked article:

". I should also note that since the cable operators' infrastructure was built around sending the same TV signals to all houses, they basically just run one cable to your neighborhood, and then use passive splitters and dumb amplifiers to split that one cable to all the houses in your neighborhood. So you don't have a dedicated coax cable directly from your house to their headend equipment, so they can't change the frequency split on a house-by-house basis."
There is very little we don't know about what happened there. And it stopped happening

Good luck getting remotely as much from China or Russia...
That could certainly be true if Universities were 40 years old.
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Is this the same AP that reported "thousands" of Iraqis demonstrated the other day? (There were actually a million people, according to Iraq's own government.)
35% of all websites run Wordpress. A lot of those sites run pre-made templates which often heavily use jQuery scripts to show pop-ups, sliders, tooltips, what have you... Accessing the width/height of an element is pretty standard in those scripts. That's not at all limited only to advanced apps.

I'm just saying that simply blocking or limiting that part of the DOM API is probably not a practical solution.
In most cases I will. Pulling a blob out of a row is a lot faster than opening an additional file handle. There aren't really any downsides to this either unless you are running table scans. SQLite does support indexes (even full-text) and they do work miracles so do use them when necessary.

I would go so far as to argue that SQLite could be used to store all of the assets for any large piece of software (I.e. a AAA game). This would probably wind up faster and more reliable than most alternative solutions out there today.
> What is the renewable alternative for the cement, steel, shipping, and aviation industries?

For steel the possibilities are hydrogen or electrolysis, both are being tested by some companies. You need the political will to price emissions to make it profitable though.

For everything fuel-based synthetic power-to-x-based fuels are a (costly, but CCS isn't cheap either) alternative.

Cement is the biggest "we don't really have any good alternative, at least not any time soon"-issue.

I agree that there's a role for CCS to play, but I think it's not helping that its advocates have played the "we need CCS for X"-cards a bit more often than justifiable.
Ask HN: What are ways to build vocabulary?
I want to improve my effective business English speaking skills. What are the fastest ways to improve and build vocabulary?
Makes me wonder how the "Paradox of Choice" works in this situation since the customer is already committed to purchasing. Does this lead to more-than-usual consumption (cf. the usual shying away from purchase in a Choice paradox scenario)
I work for a company where intellectual humility is a core value. It is expected of all of us to be curious and also accepting of being wrong sometimes. I'm in tech, and compared to other places I've worked, there are significantly fewer of the stereotypical pretentious nerd types that are tough to get along with.

Strong opinions, loosely held, is a mantra I use.
I would expect geostationary satellites to last pretty long, after all their orbit should have close to zero atmospheric drag and barely any tidal forces.
I live in a side street about 100 yards from a major avenue in my city. You can see on our front porch the impact of particulates... it’s covered in gross sticky dust once we do our spring cleaning.
The volcano did the frying, and the result was trapped into bubbles of rock where it could not come into contact with CO2 from the air.

Although most of it is not directly as oxides but some form of silicates. (This forces the use of lots of water in the process -- you can go from CaO -> CaCO3 without much water, but to dissolve silicates you need the CO2 dissolved in water.)
This claim is invalid. See my response here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22151968
People with engineering mindsets were in urban (non-farm) areas. One has to be introduced to the problem first to then ponder and think of a solution. Solutions do not exist in vacuums. That is why interaction and “socialization” with problems is so important to inventions, innovations and ultimately progress.
Are you asking how to sell the business (as opposed to how to sell subscriptions to customers)?
Which is the most evil tech company of 2020? Why?
Yes, by many orders of magnitude, to capture not just all existing emissions but the emissions that results from burning of all the fossil fuels on the planet.
>how do you back up a file
Should we conclude about libraries or about hollywood output ?
>keep the user's key stored in plaintext

Nope.
They're also claiming it was a "no-control stake", so not quite the same deal.

That kind of investment opportunity that says "if you trust us buy shares in our future, but you just get to come along for the ride and get X% of profits" seems different enough from VC investing to have its own name, don't know if it already has one.
Or perhaps it has not succeeded yet.
Sounds like it's going to take up a bunch more space on motherboards for sata ports, as each sata port (say 6 for example) would need either it's own power cable port coming from the motherboard, or some form of breakout cable from a (likely) single connector.
In defense of the coffin, I'd say this is not so much about a bug, but about reverse engineering real world effects of undefined behavior (as caused by a bug in software).
The file system it is stored on does.
Others have covered the physical aspects of the Trapper Keeper. But one thing not to be overlooked was there were the usual basic colors but also wild designs: Lisa Frank, Transformers, all sorts of ways to express individuality and identity which matters to kids who don't get many chances for that.

They were also more expensive than regular binders and the rings weren't lined up with regular folders, so being in the Trapper Keeper ecosystem was a class symbol in my school.
Of course cable companies don’t mind turning the internet into a consumer/producer model as well.
Lazy-Seq Generator in Clojure
Now if only we’d fund libraries that way.
The people who buy planes, are they not informed enough to notice the difference?
Not to be confused with Swedish lion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_of_Gripsholm_Castle
What is the reference to cement supposed to indicate here?