skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only render-blocking if put before the content! You can actually see this if you load up the demo[0] and reload the page. For some reason, I've made the mistake of putting the script-tag for the JS bundle _after_ the main content but _before_ the footer. The footer is also rendered on the server, but you'll see - especially if you throttle your connection - that the main app will appear instantly, but the footer ("Try without javascript :)", etc.) won't appear until the JS has finished loading.

This is why today it's common to put script-tags for external JS at the end of the body-tag.

[0]https://todo-react-redux-noscript.herokuapp.com/
I've read about the "waiting for favorable winds" in novels and non-fiction before but I've never connected it with mooring. Thanks!
I agree with the grandparent that there wouldn't be more informed use. However if the legal purveyors are allowed to market these substances in the same profit-motivated manner in which they currently move products (including dangerous and addictive existing legal products) then I agree we likely would see more use.

Since basic common sense policy that should lead to a safer and freer world is being pragmatically limited by this profit-driven system perhaps it would pay to examine that other problem as well.
It's tragic watching this play out. 4chan's /pol/ amongst many other racists love it. They don't have to do anything while everything implodes. They see Covid-19 as a nothing burger, and health experts giving these protestors a pass vindicates their belief. But if Covid-19 is not a nothing burger, then these protests will end up with many black people and other minorities sick and possibly dead. People on the alt-right have mostly avoided doing anything and are telling their side not to engage. Because as far as they are concerned, right now it's just leftists burning their own leftist cities down.
Looking at the original report it doesn't give much detail. I'm perplexed to see Iceland ranked at #22, for instance they are #24 in quarantine efficiency, strange since they have traced every infection and 57% of those that tested positive did so while in isolation (which they were put in after being traced from an infected person).

Quarantine Efficiency is rated on:

-Scale of Quarantine: Iceland has put 6% of the population in isolation based on testing and tracing

-Quarantine Timeline: Started at first positive test, plan ready since end of January

-Criminal Penalties for Violating Quarantine: Heavy, never needed to impose

-Economic Support for Quarantined Citizens: Considerable for the whole population (not just quarantined) though some have been left out

-Economic Supply Chain Freezing: None

-Travel Restrictions: Same as EU
Pro tip: OneNote supports [[WikiLink]] in most platforms. Try it.
And missiles tend to fair well in combat against manned aircraft.
> But a single bit flip and it can be complete garbage

ECC?
Why is this better than a simple screen share when needed?

I'm not seeing the utility here.
Nuance is not so important in this situation. The effect is that people have been effectively given a pass to disregard the virus, as long as they're "protesting". Look at the protests and all the riots, do you see social distancing happening? People are throwing punches out there my dude. It's chaos.
We had large BLM demonstrations yesterday here in Germany. Demonstrators did not follow Corona virus rules (compared to e.g. fridays for future). If COVID-19 spreads in those circumstances (outside, mostly with masks, but close contact + chanting), this'll have been the last of those demonstrations here.
I feel like this graph is far too general to be useful
Same stuff we heard with the early self-driving vehicle evangelists. Spoiler. It's much harder than they portrayed.
To be clear: Python does have embeddability, but it is orders of magnitude more complicated to integrate.
Soon we will need a Zettelkasten to track our Zettelkästen:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386630

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22085837

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208196

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Option 2 isn't stupid, because once you take that money you are beholden to a contract, which comes with both explicit and implicit clauses.

For example Apple would never implement ad blocking by default in Google's Search, not as long as they keep getting payed with _billions of dollars_.

And would Apple even bother to keep improving Safari if they weren't earning so much money from it? Given what happened to IExplorer back in the day, when Microsoft dropped the ball on its development after version 5, I'm not so sure.

Also Safari's content blockers are really easy to circumvent by anti-ad-blocking tech. Doesn't hold a candle to uBlock Origin, which isn't possible to implement on top of Safari. And the available content blockers are so bad many people don't even bother. Fact is Safari is a favorite for ads companies and publishers.

Yes, all browsers are funded by ads, that was the point.
In that case consider a historic example. What is more important Common Sense by Thomas Payne or the protest it directly inspired?

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Common_Sense
Social media and 24hr news
"Good enough" solutions were already in place for many years, that's why a symbol server was not a matter of urgency. Did you know about the following?

• A package manager can be configured to install the corresponding debuginfo/debugsource packages, this is literally one menu toggle. It's off by default to save disk space, as most users don't need them.

• A desktop environment crash handler (e.g. drkonqi) offers to install the missing debuginfo/debugsource packages and then produces a complete stacktrace.

• gdb shows the command for installing the missing debuginfo/debugsource packages it needs.
I think a lot of people strongly believe things without substance, sometimes based on wikipedia and interpreting stuff written by people that died centuries before problems manifested in paradigms that would have been unimaginable to them.

I'm a fan of John Stuart Mill's writing, but having a memorable book title does not make a permanently relevant tome that applies to all of history backward and forward.

My understanding of assembly (no wikipedia reference here) is that it's a form of expression (which you also kind of said yourself).

Are saying that assembly isn't good or necessary for society? Or is this entire post specifically about the OP's word choice?

In either case, are you citing J. S. Mill as a form of "proof" for your assertion?
The Doomsday Argument in Chess
I never quite understood the objection to "considered harmful." To me the very wording of the phrase is a jest; it's said with tongue firmly planted in cheek, even if what follows is quite serious, and it fully and effectively declares its intention to go poke some sacred cow in the eye. I never read it as overbearing or judgmental. I love it!
Show HN: EchoCactus – An Audio Based Forum
SPARC CPUs do functionally have an on chip stack via register windows.

Basically they have something like 256 registers set up so the output registers overlap the input registers of the next callframe. e.g.

iiirrrooo
iiirrrooo
iiirrrooo

Where i == input register, r == general purpose register, and o == output register. When code calls another function it places the first N arguments in the output registers. The called function reads arguments out of the input registers.

This results in very high call and return performance. Until you exhaust the available register windows. At which point you fault, and the kernel has to manually copy the register window stack to memory. Similarly on return you may have reached the top of the stack you fault and the kernel has to copy the windows back from memory into the register windows.

For SPARC this was apparently an ok tradeoff as the "big iron" machines of the past generally did not recurse heavily.
Ha, I knew someone will mention Links or similar as soon as I typed that.
If you fancy a modern take on this environment, RISC OS Pico is the 32-bit ARM version of BBC BASIC on top of the 32-bit ARM version of Acorn MOS:

https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Software%...

Same language, editor, commands, etc. but about 2000x faster.

Runs great on a Raspberry Pi Zero, which is $5 and accepts USB peripherals & an HDMI screen.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-zero/

The same code will work but without fighting the weird restrictions of early-1980s hardware. (Even when emulated.)
2018 FBI homicide statistics: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

514 black-on-white homicides, 234 white-on-black homicides.
> Organizing notes into hierarchies is not necessary, most of the time you just care about whether it’s a business note or personal.

...for some (most?) people. For others, like me, it simply is necessary - we have too many notes, ideas, reminders, thoughts, whatever, of too wide a variety, to use the system described by GP comment, or yours.
most one sided fights ever.
Just look at G forces.

drone could have higher max speeds, higher max acceleration.
fighter was designed ... what 20 years ago?

Cost of drone? Cost of loss of either?
total cost of ownership is vastly different.

There is real cause to be very afraid.
> Turns out the much-maligned elitism and gatekeeping of the past were actually performing (with imperfect fairness perhaps) the quality-control function they always purported to be performing.

Do you have an example? I’m getting strong “century of the self” vibes from this post.

If you’re referring to “fake news”, you should also acknowledge that the current protests across the nation would not exist at all without social media. People who want to characterize the effects as monolithically positive or negative leave me scratching my head, and I certainly don’t want to return to getting all my news via AP.
Is that fear real though? I mean there are still job listings for VBA or ColdFusion engineers if that's really your thing.

I think our problem (and my our, I mean American) is that we are too obsessed with tech. This is coming from someone who grew up obsessed with computers, and not just writing code. You can tell this is true from looking at our ads, which are always touting the shiniest newest technological marvels. Even beauty products -- they sound so sciency without actually saying anything. Tech is our dogwhistle.
The recently declassified 'UFO' sightings have been pretty thoroughly debunked as spurious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs&t=986s
Whatever happens, I bet it ends up like the Millennium Challenge. Contested, with both sides claiming victory with caveats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
Ask HN: I implemented the life I designed: perfect but I feel lost. What now?
Thanks to a mix of luck, hard work, high energy, study, drive, and self-discipline, I achieved most of the things I wanted out of life so far.
I got to a point in my life where I'm free from debt, free from mortgage, free from bosses, free from clients, and financially independent. I'm healthy, I live in one of the world most beautiful cities, loved by my family, surrounded by good friends, happily married with a kid and a dog. I travel, take pictures, hike, meditate, read.
I got the full pack. Yet I feel lost.

I'm 33 and I feel I am now wasting productive years, setting slightly more challenging goals week after week, chasing a moving target, and never actually getting it. I feel I have way too much freedom, too many choices, and feel paralyzed.

What should I do? I am not the kind of person who can keep living like this forever... I feel like I realized (most of) my dreams, but not fulfilled a real hardcore purpose/mission.

How do I find meaning? What should I spend most of my time on?

This time I'd like to start really pouring my soul into something that can provide meaning to my life, without rushing into the next app/side project/hustle/startup to temporarily calm my curiosity.

help?
Have you ever tried to embed a python interpreter?

Lua is both easier to embed and allows you to have a strict interface. Look up the history of bastion/rexec in Python - with python there's no possibility of controlling untrusted code.
This resonates so hard it hurts. And yet, part of the problem here lies in the very tempting framing. "God machine" implies something that can do everything you can but better. That's very far cry from the truth. In reality we have two kinds of computation in the world now. One is slow, flexible, resilient, easily bored. The other is fast, rigid, literal-minded, mindlessly focused. When I put it like that it becomes easier to accept why things are hard. To make programming easy is to help slow, flexible computations create fast, rigid, literal-minded computations. That's an unsolved research problem.

However, there is one easy problem being alluded to in the article: keeping software working over time. It's frustrating to me when I hear about somebody building a program for themselves that suffers bitrot a couple of years later. The reason is the tower of dependencies we tend to program atop. All we have to do there is stop digging the hole deeper. Shameless plug: http://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200607.pdf
> The virus has not mapped neatly onto American political narratives, either. While some questions remain about their accounting, Georgia and Florida—where leaders opened up early and residents seemed relatively defiant of public-health advice—have seen relatively flat numbers, while California, which took a more conservative approach, has seen cases grow. The state most poised for major trouble seems to be Arizona, where the outbreak is spreading very quickly. Not only is the state (which lifted its stay-at-home order on May 16) setting new records for positive tests and people in the hospital, but the percentage of tests that are coming back positive is also growing. So much for warm weather and sunshine alone stamping out viral transmission, as some had hoped: Phoenix saw only a single day’s high under 90 degrees during May. The state’s age demographics also haven’t played an obvious role: The state is slightly younger than the U.S. as a whole.

This may be the most striking thing at the moment. The pandemic isn't evenly distributed in the US. Several factors compound the problem, including:

1. the time between the enactment of policy and the consequences varies

2. there may be an underlying seasonal component that's modulating stats in certain states

3. states show varying degrees of commitment to complete, accurate reporting of test results and rigor

4. positivity rates (# positive results vs # of tests) are rarely, if ever reported so it's nearly impossible to assign weight to increases or decreases in cases/fatalities

Throw this all together and you get one big, fat mess. It's nearly impossible to figure out exactly what's happening with respect to viral spread or why. National-level efforts to track or contain the spread are weak at best.

We should all hope that point (2) is not a major factor in this. If it is, a bigger, badder sequel of the early spring, starting around fall seems inevitable.
Lua is a little confusing language for me because you need to throw out most of the things you know because it has its own way of doing things, it is not necessarily a bad thing but it is confusing. Luckily, it is a very small language so it wouldn't take that long to grasp it all. The most confusing thing was the fact that (almost) everything seems like a hashtable.
Stop off! Drop a bunch "microservices" into the same network without any access control and you don't have a physical barrier at all! In fact, it becomes even harder to have a clue as to what's interfacing with what unless you can observe your inter process traffic.
The GergoPlex is Pi (the film) themed too, and I went full cyberpunk/Pi with it a couple weeks ago,

https://i.redd.it/l8lafyi9lvy41.jpg
If it's like early AI logic, fly as high as possible, say 40km which turns out is a higher flight ceiling than the attacker in many instances. But the key was the missiles had a ceiling hight of say 20 km, though if launched at 40km, they would still work upon targets flying upwards and the AI logic wouldn't think of them as a threat as those missiles don't work above 20km. Though that means they can climb to that height. Also means if they fire a missile, it won't climb to hit you. Great tactic using the limitations of the missiles to your advantage.

Things like that will be were a pilot will have an early edge, pushing those limits by fully understanding the mechanics of those limits and how they play out. Be that pushing a sonic boom shockwave to effect a small pursing drone. Those for unmanned autonomous system will be the achilles heal in much the same way early Chess AI was able to be beaten by humans thru not doing the obvious most logical move.

But if they want to tune AI for autonomous system, then doing a FTP simulator game, running the NPC drones on a server will get you lots of unique free testing and tuning of that AI done. Be much cheaper and we get a cool game to play.
Seems to me the issue of overflows corrupting return addresses could be avoided if the stack just grew upwards instead of downwards. Wouldn't prevent data corruption from overflows, but then neither would what you're suggesting...
Part of the problem is the 10 years. It takes ten years to innovate and prove it.

Starlink started in 2015 and probably will change how the internet works.

Lime started in 2017, this may work.
I doubt slow recharge is even an issue since they can just pop in a new charged battery pack and put the depleted one on a charger. With swappable battery packs a drone can be relaunched within minutes.
You are not your code.
Do you happen to know if AWSv4 with S3 also computes & compares the SHA256 of the payload/object or does it just use the specified x-amz-content-sha256 header's value?

FYI S3 Object Lock requires Content-MD5 header.
5 Plain clothed police officers break into your house and execute your wife or daughter in their bed, then say it was a mistake and walk away scott-free (no charges)...

Would you stay quiet and wait for the covid threat to die down before protesting or taking action?
Yes, do you have links to said movements or reporters of said movements? Where are you getting this information?
Sounds like someone just made a huge pile of cash by selling magic computer codes to the government. Your tax dollars at work.
In my experience, ownership of services is usually defined to ensure that in the engineering organization it's clear who will react as the first responder when there are security patches, production incidents to deal with and also when there are questions about the service's inner workings. It's especially required when the documentation of the services is sparse which is likely to happen when the change rate in the team is high.

In more mature engineering organizations, you would define a set of maintainers for the service, who will define the contribution mechanisms and guidelines, so that anyone can make changes to the code. This is further enabled by common patterns and service structures, especially when there is a template to follow. Strict assumed "ownership" creates anti-patterns where each team will define their favourite tech stack or set of libraries making it difficult for others to contribute and decreasing the possible leverage effects in the team.
Most people don't even know who Fred Hampton was. Even people who lived through the civil rights movement don't recall his name. My own parents downplay the violence of the 70s in favor of the rhetoric du jour that they're fed from mainstream media, and they lived in DC from 1972 until late in 1980 (and, all things considered, they are leftists, not liberals, which makes it even more astonishing to me). It's quite astounding just how fragile our memories are and how easily we can be (emotionally) manipulated.

"Days of Rage" by Bryan Burrough is a good read on the subject (political violence in the late 60s and 70s). There's a good blog / semi-book review that I link people to when they seem intent on learning more of the history (which I originally got from a comment on HN during the 2016 election cycle) [0].

[0]: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/
You know what the French do with un-irradiated ground beef?

They mix in a raw egg and some other spices and eat it raw. It’s called steak tartare (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare), and it’s pretty good. It helps when you have sane agricultural practices (except for that time they spread prions to people—ooops—and I still can’t donate blood in the US because I was in Europe at that time) and a culture of gastronomie.
That sounds interesting, how do you do that?
An O becomes a T

Are you using a point cloud or gesture recognition based on some math and not ML? I've used these and have notices similar difficulty. Looking at migrating to Google Draw Now / Doodle TF model.
If you are starting from scratch (again), you can make good monolith too, since you already know a lot about the problem you are solving.
Some info here: (About Paraffin Wax Technology)

https://www.sulasindustries.com/technology/

My guess is low/proven tech result in high reliability. Wax contract cycle return panel to face East for the next day
Not my link. But it feels like you’re intentionally misunderstanding what fascism is to try to make a point. Yes, the green new deal is a mobilization of society to a single end. Is anyone attempting to use “dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition” to do it? No. Nobody is.

Tigers are animals with stripes. Zebras are animals with stripes. A zebra is not a tiger. The green new deal could be part of a fascist movement, but it’s not.
> Even though I generally prefer reading to watching, I've found in the past few years that YouTube is better for reviews[..]

My pet theory why YouTube is better is that there is no incentive to make videos longer. Blog post end up bloated and thin on real information because it is considered good SEO and apparently Google really tends to rank longer articles higher. Same is true for tech books, which are often bloated because the author has to reach their target page count.

YouTube videos seem to be mostly as long as they need to be to tell the story they want to tell. This is not universally true for video content though. If you look at online learning platforms, like Udemy for example, you can find many courses that spread an hour worth of content over typically five or six hours. My fear is that Google will someday decide to make the length of a video a ranking factor and we will have the same bloated videos on YouTube too.

> Most paid reviews seem to say so (unlike written blogs), and you can judge their bias appropriately.

Producing decent video content is much more elaborate and expensive than written reviews. My suspicion is that on YouTube paid reviews are even more common than on blogs and the norm is just not to mention it. Doesn't mean they are useless of course, just as you wrote "judge their bias appropriately".
The problem starts with government. No one in leadership among any of the parties has shown any real concern for debt and have been loading up one debt for decades. The only politically acceptable solution to that debt is to slowly inflate it away. Any other solution will be divisive. So the government loads up on debt and inflates it away, keeping interest rates lower for longer than they should. Then it filters down to corporations and individuals. Interest rates are low and debt requirements are lax, and if you aren’t willing to take on debt, you will be outbid by someone who is.

I expect deflation in the near term, and tremendous inflation in the long term.
Copied my wallets and removed Brave off all my devices. It only lasted a couple weeks, lol.