skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what you do. You'd gain 4 cores and 8 threads and also the single core performance is higher. If have some direct benchmark comparisons under https://www.pc-kombo.com/us/benchmark/apps/cpu/compare?ids%5.... The blender benchmarks do not show a big difference, but things like 7zip and AES-Encoding do, so it really depends on the workload.
What brain-bending magic tricks can teach us about the mind (2019)
You can filter by tree type on the official map (which I think shows the same data): https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/environment/parks-green...
RedisGraph: A Fresh Graph Database Based on Redis
We'll never know because we won't know how the disease would've spread without all these measures.

If we adjust for years of life lost, as opposed to just lives lost, COVID-19 may be less severe than seasonal H1N1 Influenza, which kills a lot of young people. On the other hand, COVID-19 also seems to be far more infectious.
This is awesome - I have it set up to play my synth over midi
The problem is they're not straight-up lying: they're admitting to MPs that this data will be used for "research", people will have no right to delete their own data, and that Peter Thiel's Palantir is involved and basically giving away the services for free.

Whataboutmanship isn't an excuse either, to me. Just because the government is capable of hacking our phones, getting our phone records, and sending men in black cars to watch our houses doesn't mean we should also invite them in via an app we choose to install.

Edit: I agree with you: I don't think this is a conspiracy and I don't think a centralised contact tracing app is a security concern if its used just for that.

However, I do not trust the British government at all, especially given their beyond-satire record. Don't give the state an inch: they'll take a mile.
Show HN: Copytesting Improve your website copy based on data from your audience
For Singapore, there's https://www.nparks.gov.sg/trees

I've also taken the data and built https://exploretrees.sg/
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23074312
> Is this bad? Am I misunderstanding?

It is illegal, but I do not see it being bad for consumers. If anything it seems that it could be good if it has been done legally from Nintendo instead of being a leak.
Ask HN: What set of features make a programming language advanced?
Reading the comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23077992 it seems that people have different ideas on what it means for a programming language to be "advanced".

Given that most languages are Turing complete, what really makes a language "advanced"?
I think git remote add might be helpful before pushing :-)
JS changed almost nothing about how I view languages, nor did it teach me much, outside of what several libraries have. That does not mean it was not incredibly useful to know, both monetarily, and for what it enables me to do, when necessary.
I like how you take one sentence from the guy and infer the worst.
For NYC: https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/tree-map
Actually I am gonna remove this google "download nintendo leak routefree" and you'll find what you need somewhere in the results.
I do not do recursive lookups at home. I store the DNS data I need in custom zone files. Once I have the data stored, this is faster than recursive lookups, especially with tinydns listening on localhost. djbdns works great for me year after year. I would never use MaraDNS.
Thanks for this. I find articles like this on HN tend to be full of rosy-eyed nostalgia. It's rather annoying.
I agree. Just how much sheer talent and brainpower is being wasted in the Valley, where it's being used to create web apps that fade into irrelevance 90% of the time? How much would we gain as a society if we applied all of this talent to the climate crisis, or medicine, or actual physical engineering? Software is eating the world and shitting it out.
The idea that this won't be abused is nuts after seeing what's already been done by the likes of Facebook, Zoom, Microsoft and others. Privacy is privacy. No one has the right to take that away.
The person on the other side gets the benefit of that. The airline still got $39 out of it. A more interesting scenario is what happens if both of those people paid: can the airline sell the same empty seat twice? I'm assuming it's fine because they're not selling an empty seat, they're selling seating on a seat that has an unoccupied adjacent seat.
I think that the MBP actually has the better CPU and the better thermals (the latest XPS is not that great in this regard).

Other than that, I completely agree
yea, right, their prediction for 2020 was war because of climate change...
It would be interesting to see how the Scala section would change after the release of Java 8 and especially the release of Kotlin. Java 8 introduced the bare minimum functional programming support in order for the language to be used functionally. Not to mention libraries came out like reactive streams which essentially lets you write your entire code as chained function calls inside of an error monad.

Kotlin then made functional programming a first class citizen. Java is clearly recognizable inside of Kotlin under a bunch of layers of abstraction and syntactic sugar. Once you learn Java you can learn Kotlin with minimal effort and add more language features to your toolbelt as you get more Kotlin experience -- similar to what the author says about Scala.

Kotlin is probably not as advanced as Scala, and admittedly I've never used Scala, but it does seem to be taking some of Scala's market share.
I don't know. It probably is but I never assembled an embedded machine and I hear there's a lot I could do wrong and just let the hardware fry.
> For most companies, the process is not the product.

Where do you think the product comes from? A bunch of people randomly doing whatever they want? The process absolutely impacts the product. Does SCM keep the lights on? It's the same thing, except for code.
> you'll have a larger (and more appreciative) fan base because of it.

That's an important point. Writers don't just want sales, they want readers.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/master/aut...
Just built myself a home dev server based around a R9 3900X. Paired it with 64G of RAM, a 1TB NVMe and an RTX 2060, running CentOS 8. Whole build cost me a little under $1400. It sits, headless, in the corner of my office crunching away.

I ssh in from my XPS 13 running Fedora and use X forwarding to do work on it. It's so much faster than trying to do everything on an ultrabook. Not to mention quite a bit cheaper than a high-end laptop.
I've seen several of these maps (they are available for most large German cities) and i always ask myself what the value proposition and applications for such maps are. It seems like they take large resources (e.g. manual collection of the data) to create.
I'm sure some people will take advantage of it but let's be honest. Those willing and able are a tiny fraction of their consumers.
Did somebody actually tried to use the S3 API? It seems like they are not working for me.
The closest I can think of that I've used is CouchDB..

But it's not a turnkey solution, particularly with how ACL works (read granularity is at the database level)
This is an excellent find.
Much more fun than Pokemon Go!
I know its no help to you now as you have already sent it back but if the T2 on the iMac Pro was simply uninitialized or corrupted you can put it in to DFU mode and use another mac and Apple Configurator 2 to restore the T2's firmware. https://help.apple.com/configurator/mac/2.7.1/#/apdebea5be51
I once implemented the "command pattern" in order to have undo in my app. Basically you have to ensure that you only modify your model from command objects, and never directly from UI callbacks. To ensure this, I created a decorator that walked the stack, and asserted that the call originated in a subclass of `Command`. Then I wrapped all setters on the model with this decorator. This was really helpful during development for weeding out cases where Undo didn't work correctly. In the release, you could disable the check so there would be no performance penalty.
> 'but we did not discuss that!'

I've been fighting the flip side of that coin in my team - people who make an idle comment on a phone call, and come back at you months down the line with, "This was already discussed and decided in earlier meetings."

It is possibly the most frustrating thing about my job these days, so I'm hoping as more people get used to working remotely, writing will start to take precedence.
This information was actually leaked from a subcontractor, not from Nintendo themselves. It's not clear if Nintendo ever had access to it in its entirety or even knew about it. The subcontractor company is also quite obscure, it's hard to tell how they ended up developing this stuff.
Hey 0d9eooo, with respect you have no idea what's actually happening. My wife attends one of the colleges mentioned in TFA, and at that college everything that you imagine cannot be the case, is actually the case.

> major universities doing online stuff have video production crews

Yes, but those crews don't have the bandwidth to suddenly help every professor transition to online teaching in the space of two weeks.

Also, the online versions of courses which those professionally produced videos are part of, are priced lower than the in-person courses which are currently being taught on Zoom. However at my wife’s college the price has not come down, no partial refunds are being given, no deferments are being allowed, and no transitions to part-time are being allowed.

In other words, students get to choose between leaving the course or paying the same vast amount of money for a reduced level of service.

> It's not like some zoom meeting off-the-cuff with your professor who had to switch gears on the spot along with you

No, that's precisely what it is. One week all classes were in person, then the college cancelled all classes for two weeks to transition, then all classes resumed on Zoom. Neither the professors nor the students had any more warning than that. The college did pay for a Zoom Enterprise subscription so that classes aren’t time-limited by Zoom’s free tier, but that was the extent of the help given to professors. Many professors have never used video conferencing before, or have poor WiFi. Many students have no private quiet spaces to join chats because they’re sharing accommodation in a very expensive city. There was inadequate time and no training or help for professors to adjust lesson plans or teaching resources, and library and printing facilities were closed to students.

The college’s entire response was very ad-hoc. This is perfectly understandable in the circumstances, all of us are making it up as we go along. The problem is that this institution is still charging the same sky-high tuition (six figures for a course) to students who are pouring into it their life savings, or going into lifelong debt. Meanwhile the college is delivering less value and sitting on an enormous multi-billion dollar endowment.

We’re not involved in the lawsuit, but we certainly understand where it’s coming from.
It says: "We have disabled public access to the repository."

So I guess private access is still possible.
Ask HN: What's your goto Twitter lists?
I like to broaden my twitter feed by subscribing to curated twitter lists.

A couple of lists I'm following:

Reading from @patrickc

https://twitter.com/i/lists/810352678735781888

and Crypto from @naval

https://twitter.com/i/lists/875371355570487296

What's yours?
One of the things I had a fit of laughter was after reading that Jensen used to work at AMD before!!
Huh, seems like this argument doesn't go along with the "trash is no longer your property" conclusion.

If you say the police can do it because he's a police officer [... and because of that does it mean he has better judgement?], then why have a law about warrants?
> From enthusiast perspective - it's a boon for preservation purposes.

Sort of. It's obviously illegal to distribute, and arguably using it as a reference for re-implementation in emulators or in hardware would be a derivative work, and so also illegal. This could make things harder for emulator and hardware developers who now have to screen new contributors to ensure they have not been exposed to this material. It will probably be a fantastic resource 5-10+ years down the line, when things have cooled off, but for now, it's all fairly radioactive for people and organizations that are concerned about legal action.
I think it needs to be said that Haskell is just not actually all that ergonomic for mutably banging on buffers to solve linear algebra problems. I am a partial differential equations guy, so I have tried.

In ML as in PDE, correctness ultimately springs from performance, be it processing more data or using a finer mesh. So at the end of the day impedance matching with imperative linear algebra is pretty much a must.
Are Anti-Lockdown Protests Legal?
They are the same: a search for no good reason
Say I hash your movie and my hash is modulo 16. Do you now own the number that happens to come out? How can you prove that it was your movie that generated the hash and not some other piece of data?
> "Worse is better" is a myth - it all depends of your definition of better.

Isn't that the whole point of worse is better?
Are we talking about the same snoopers charter?

From the independent's website dated 19/11/2016:

The Snooper's Charter passed into law this week – say goodbye to your privacy

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/snoopers-charter-theres...
Also from Switzerland. I never thought the lack of geographic^Wgeo-political knowledge of the average American would affect me...
For those prices my iMac Pro definitely performs better. And it's somewhat overpriced, too.

Nobody will consider an alternative platform until it becomes affordable.
I think looking at the specific numbers in that prediction misses the bigger point. The first world countries would never altruistically provide their advanced technology to the third world, and so most of the technological breakthroughs envisioned in the piece remain inaccessible to huge portions of the world's population.

> For Lanier, the most heartbreaking scenario is festering in the third world, where, he believes, the current generation of children— lacking food, lacking skills, lacking aid, lacking education— will be lost in the next techno-revolution.
> The PC emulation community could also theoretically use the data to improve their software so that it imitates the original systems perfectly. However, since the leaked documentation has been illegally obtained this would put them in murky territory.

I'd love to hear opinions about this whole thing from folks who work on emulators.
But there will be no hospitals left after for you to use.
Also I suspect behavioral science says that bad stuff happens when 1% of people are dead in a couple of months, beyond just no health providers left. e.g. involving flaming torches and pitchforks.
For a more or less static website, what’s probably the best bet, and has been the standard for many years, largely because it allows the non technical restaurant owner to easily update and make changes, is Wordpress.

In which case you’re back again in PHP land.
Does the memory managed by these functions have any special properties? The docs don't mention any, other than that these functions are used by Crypt* functions that return buffers (i.e., client sshould free returned buffers with CryptMemFree).
Apple is a for profit corporation. They are literally the exact opposite of public servants.
> However I MUST say this is from 4chan so BE CAREFUL about what you download and how you play with stuff.

The only danger in downloading something leaked on 4chan is that you run the risk of learning a little more about dolphins than you might have liked.
Visual Studio Code has a seamless SSH extension for working like this too -

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh
Realtime data access.
Speaking of Ben Warner, I see his and Dominic Cummings names are missing from the recently-disclosed list of participants in SAGE [0].

I also note that exactly 2 participants decided not to disclose their participation.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/scientific-adviso...
The obvious answer is that the majority use of Chromium and Firefox are not to circumvent copyright.
Spring Boot has most of the important parts of this. And super easy to call a library for anything else, or write 10-20 lines of code yourself.

This is all in a performant, reliable and secure compiled language (Java). Language improvements and modern frameworks have also addressed the long-winded code which used to be an issue.
Imagine using githovel.

Just host it yourself.
Everyone has different talents. Without those bloodthirsty vultures we would have a hard time allocating capital to the right projects.

My experience with straddling a bunch of different worlds is that people in technology are often just impossible to satisfy. Mad because the ping pong table doesn't have exactly the brand of ping pong balls they wanted.

IMO it comes down to that the time in front of a screen to become a great programmer is not exactly great for mental health.

You have to use the great problem solving skills you have to solve this problem for your own brain though and stop blaming the external world. There is nothing more that could be done to make you happy.
Yeah, notice that in the second screenshot there's a collapsed email that reads "We have recently detected your Google Cloud Platform project is violating our Terms of Service..." That email, which is likely an important one, is never expanded, and the article doesn't mention ToS violation at all, which certainly paints it in dubious light.
Seems to me like if you want to look cool nowadays you would use Rust not Python.

Different communities have different needs. Data scientists, or physicists, or biologists don't care about memory safety, the programming language is a tool to run a computation for a limited time (not a server). The tool should not get in the way of fast iteration and rapid prototyping which many languages do in varying amount: C with memory management, Haskell with category theory, Rust with borrow checking, C++ with being C++, ...

Basically you are criticizing data scientists for choosing to not invent a new thing every time and reusing an established ecosystem.
Realistically it's a very low number.

It's a horrible lottery to play though.
Kube-state-metrics 1.8.0 – all metrics docu
Building a Strong Brand for Nonprofit Organizations [Why and How]
A month ago you could be seated next to a stranger infected with ebola or tuberculosis. What's different about covid?
Would be pretty curly indeed!
Check out https://space-search.io/?search=ariane for an impression
Last valuation was $250M.

They've gone way beyond "lack of scientific proof" many times. Including dangerous advice like "vaginal steaming". https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
> If you consider that, statistically, the vast majority of programmers have yet to experience a dynamic language of any kind – much less Ruby – the absurdity here is sublime.

Was that really anywhere close to true in 2008? I would have thought that most developers would have known at least one of Perl, Python, Javascript, or Ruby (or Bash; not sure if he'd count that one).

Am I mistaken about the history there?
It is actually the opposite: if you let complexity creep in, you have lost.

To model complex systems you have to keep them as simple as possible.
I'd normally agree with you, but in the case of dealing with a mortgage broker who asks for stuff to be emailed/faxed and your entire concern is avoiding having your SSN end up where it shouldn't, I do believe this is rational.
Just like mp3s cannibalized the music industry. While they did get hard after the lat 90s I would consider routine grwoth year over year to be good. 17 percent in 2017 was considered a bad year
You might be missing the concept of "face" [0]. This is only bad in that it causes Nintendo to lose face, and Nintendo hates losing face. For example, examine Wikipedia; Nintendo's page about legal disputes [1] is whitewashed to reword all of Nintendo's abuses towards Free Software and the public domain as "protection" of Nintendo's "property".

Face allows Nintendo to take their holier-than-thou attitude. It is why they feel that they are allowed to both destroy the community's own work [2][3][4] and steal it for themselves [5][6]. We profess love for Mario, Zelda, Pikachu, and Metroid, and in return, they are socially empowered to abuse us.

Imagine a world where copyright were only 14 years, as in the original, or 2 years, as in my back-of-napkin estimation of how long it takes to publish something and have it fully saturate the world market. In such a world, Nintendo's back catalog would no longer have the force of law behind its monopoly; they would still publish excellent games, but they would not be able to prevent others from enjoying them. Indeed, there is not any reasonable claim to financial damages, just facial damages.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo#Intellectual_property...

[2] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/4dbf90f837296db72ca959e1...

[3] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2016/2016-12-27-N...

[4] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2017/2017-06-22-N...

[5] https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-d...

[6] https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/9as2ii/did_ninte...
Ok, but this only shows about 20 species.
nor do you get shot for ignoring takedown notices, there are in language many things such as analogy, metaphor and so forth that people generally manage to follow.

Let me rephrase the first paragraph then -

anyone can ignore anything anytime for any reason whatsoever but in some cases that can lead to a bad outcome for the person doing the ignoring.

- note: I realize github is not a person, but I will use person in my example nonetheless.

The implication of the above is that sometimes people do not ignore things they could because they fear a bad outcome.

In the example using orders and shot, by making anything an order which is very strict, and bad outcome shot which is very bad indeed it should generally have the rhetorical effect of making the implication that ignoring the thing under discussion is more risky than otherwise and so a wise or cowardly person (take your pick) may choose not to ignore it.
What about all those people who advocate gun rights? Why aren't they up on arms, either metaphorically or even literally, about this?

They are largely suburban and rural whites.
Police overreach largely impacts suburban and urban minorities. They aren't necessarily racist, they just don't see the impact.

The political right has always (at least in my 30 years of paying attention) had a strong authoritarian tilt as well.
Another random datapoint. I had covid according to a PCR test and it was pretty much a non event - slight sore throat only. I think unless you get the full can't breath thing it's very hard to tell.
I’d reach out to other hacker spaces easpecually the closest ones. Maybe they have folks commuting from your area.

Next I’d get on social media and announce. Beyond that get on google maps, etc.
I'd imagine that if you didn't know the text might be written by AI you wouldn't recognize anything strange with it at all. I glance over typos and grammatical errors all the time. And then there's the the famous "the the" phenomenon.
True Happiness
Confirmation bias. GCP has millions of customers, these are very rare instances and we only ever hear one side of the story. It's not reasonable to make a business decision based on such anecdotes.

Any other provider suspends accounts too - everyone has the same kind of abuse problem.
Very cool story. Thank you for whatever you've done to help :) (and your spelling looks perfect to me).