skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Farmers are not the sort of people who encounter a minor difficulty then think "welp, I'm just gonna destroy my produce, that seems like the best option". If that is what they are doing then there are some mighty impediments in their path.

I agree for the most part, especially with what's happening now. On the flip side, there are times when farmers do destroy produce to manage supply and stabilize prices.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/michigan-farmers-destroy-c...

It kinda sucks for consumers, but if supply swings can bring down prices too far, they're exposed to significant financial risk.
No, I understand. I just think that your comparison with _node.js_ when there are a bunch of confounding variables is nonsense. Get rid of those and then we can look at why "nodejs will beat flask in this same exact benchmark".
Someone told me a few months ago to search Google images for 'white family' vs 'black family'.

And the results were remarkable. White families turn out to be a lot more colored then black families are white.

Regardless the reasons I don't like people or programs messing with my search results. Does Google consider me a bigot and tries to change my view of the world? Will this prove to other people I must be racist because search results are personalized? Or is Google racist for being better at recognizing black than whites?

Maybe some insiders can explain?
Exactly. Currently the statement Google makes about imperialists and white overlordship is that we probably meant imperialism and white overlordship. :-D

https://www.google.com/search?q=imperialists+and+white+overl...
Journalists of the past basically started the Spanish–American War
This is no bug, this is intentional. Google the names of UK's PMs, from Johnson, May, Cameron going all the way. Only one PM does not get their photo displayed on the page with search results. Not because it failed to load/whatever, the page layout simply does not contain the photo in the place where it is for all others.
Building a command line tool to generate number sequences
Fired scientist builds coronavirus site showing far more cases than state
> There is a cultural tradition in the relevant communities of not talking to the police,

A direct consequence of the long history of police racism, abuse,and complicity of the police in abuse originating outside of the police.

So fixing the police is key to both sides of the problem.
It may not always matter or be distinguishable, but don't lose sight of the fact that there is a difference between having opinions, and having partisan opinions.

I think one of the things ailing us is that cynical partisans have been quite successful at pulling ever-growing amounts of our lives into this gravity well. Dry, straight, factual news has its place--but it also leaves a narrative-vacuum that partisans will happily fill.
The ArcGis site: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/7572b118dc3c48d885d...
> Programming Erlang by Joe Armstrong is a really book and lots of credit goes to the book for making it enjoyable.

Oh man I was really enjoying learning Erlang from this book, but put it down a while back after getting lost on some part.. I need to get back into it.
Core Graphics is generally slower than Cairo/Pixman.
Show HN: Hyperdimensional computing and its role in AI
Yes, there's been a lot of influence in both directions. The approaches have a lot in common, but also have significant differences. I plan to write up a description of the Pathfinder compute work soonish.
Simple tune that leads the loop with a simple melody

https://music-grid.surge.sh/#4-0-4-0-64-0-288-0-2-3740-0-260...
It's much better than before, but it's still surprisingly difficult to buy a cheap (good) FPGA board. For example, the cheapest ECP5 on digikey (FPGA's go for a lot less than list if you're buying more than a few) is about $10 yet the cheapest proper development board is a lot more.

The FPGA manufacturers like the margins, fine, but I'm surprised people who make boards like this one but for other things don't just chuck an FPGA on them (for some definition of "just")
Chromium basically ships with a usable, “de-Googled” browser in tree doesn’t it? WebKit has what you might call a demo. Look up MiniBrowser to see what I mean. It’s a web view and three buttons, basically.
It seems fair.

If a group of supposedly "peaceful, law-abiding protesters" is going to make the revolting moral equivalence of corrupt cops to properly behaved cops, they shouldn't complain when they themselves are considered equivalent to the worst among their group.
Do you have any examples of high-quality qualitative reporting? I can somewhat see your point but it seems endemic and hardly specific to this post, to Matt Taibbi, or journalism/punditry in any given time and place.
This! There's a Korean grocery store chain around here (Zion) that brings in all kinds of produce and the majority of it is significantly less than anywhere else local. Some of it is near it's expiration date, so due diligence is required, but at other times I think stuff is incredibly affordable because it's in season and there's a ton of supply. I've seen prices for some things hit ten cents a pound.
Having seen the realtime-rendered Horizon Forbidden West trailer, justifying Chrome's ‘smooth’ animations this way is like stepping into a parallel world.

I can't even scroll Twitter without stutter on my hefty gaming laptop, my browser (the whole thing! not just the tab!) often freezes for 10+ seconds when first rendering a page, and toggling Reddit's sidebar takes half a second.

To the extent Chrome's anything can be deemed ‘smooth’, it's because computers are fast, not because they made some clever space-time trade-off.
That's not insider trading when the startup buys back stock and has more information than the employee has. It might be something else but it isn't insider trading. Now if the CEO was buying the stock rather the startup, that would be insider trading.

Insider trading is an individual crime.

https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...
> denial of service attack

300k requests / day is a little over 3 per second. That's not much.
Where's the datepicker?
Since JS contributes the most to browsers’ memory usage, and a lot of people are compiling to JS from a typed language these days, it would be great to have a browser that makes a clean break and implements, say, a sandboxed version of Swift.

You could even have Swift DSLs for type-safe markup and styles (I’ve actually been experimenting with building a Swift -> CSS DSL using simple protocols, enums, and structs) and, while we’re at it, introduce more sane defaults and cut some of the cruft that has accumulated over the years (do we really need HTML colspan attributes and CSS float when we can use a flexbox model?)
I will admit that the original comment came off as more judgey than I would have liked. And I completely agree that the firing being so public was not a good thing.
I’m not sure how it could be “proven” false. This is always the problem with accusations of conspiracy. A particular man is accused of being involved in a conspiracy. There is no way to prove you weren’t at a secret meeting in a secret location at some time. You can’t prove non existence of a pee tape. There always could be a pee tape.

You could provide evidence that the information was fabricated, but it probably wasn’t. That doesn’t mean it’s entirely accurate. The FBI doesn’t seem to think it is that credible, but I’m really not sure how much that is worth.
off-topic: dark mode makes me physically ill. is there a way in css to disable it for this page (i've unsuccessfully tried some obvious things with color and background, but i'm a backend dev and my FE/css is out of date)
Easy to be impervious to one mob when you have an equal but opposite mob to support you.
> implementing mandatory masks is one such regulation to prevent covid infections

Again, we don't know that.

"Doing something, anything" is not better than doing nothing.
You specifically responded to a claim that there were relatively few assembler bugs due to it be a relatively small body of code. So in that context, I would like you to show that the handful you've highlighted is "a lot" against the backdrop of bugs in non-assembly code.

My semi-informed (but not quantified) opinion is that you are broadly wrong and that there are not a lot of assembler bugs relative to C/C++ bugs.
You don't know that. For all you know, some kind of knowledge graph tag propagated too far. There is zero evidence of it being intentional.

You really think they'd just erase the photos of UK PMs? Please. If there was some kind of conspiracy there, don't you think hiding the information too (vs linking directly to the pages that have it) would be a more effective strategy?

I know it's fun to jump on Google as the dictator erasing history here, but have you really thought this position through? Especially when one of Google's big industries is education, and kids are going to write papers about WW2, and various British PMs?
Scraping public data is not illegal in the US.

> I'm always surprised by the level of ignorance

Such as the ignorance displayed in your comment?
Part of the evolution of norms is a change in what’s acceptable and what isn’t. The N word was considered acceptable in print but isn’t anymore, even if the argument is being made by publicly racist politician. We agree as a society on what is considered offensive and not and that changes with time. Deplatforming people who refuse to adhere to that change is part of the evolution of society.

The racist politician will ultimately find a racist platform which would gladly accept their views. This would make it pretty clear to the public that the politician is racist, wouldn’t it?
This seems contradictory to me.

Most people aren't doing CPU-bound work and there's no point parallelising your application... but people are buying 32-core processors? Why do you think they're doing that?

I'm just a normal developer and I am very frequently CPU-bound in my work, and I see many other people in other fields also CPU-bound. I'd absolutely love to have a massive Xeon in my laptop. I think it'd have a genuine impact on my productivity.
It seems as though quarantine/lockdown has been seized as a good opportunity to finally tackle a project or two.

I know three people who are working on something music-related off the top of my head, and and countless more working on something a little more lively than an every day weekend project.

It doesn’t have to be music of course, but I think there is a lot of overlap in the hacker<—>musician Venn diagram, as alluded to above.
The argument is that the word for "huh" in all languages can be traced to some common ancestor language. "eh" and "huh" are very similar phonetically, and could readily evolve from one to the other or from some common ancestor that's neither).
Request: Super Mario theme
No, it's pretty clear from the full context of the comment you are replying to that it is expressing a relative measure[1]:

> Unsafe is not a problem in my experience. The same way a kernel might have some part written in asm (for freebsd it's like 1% I believe) your rust code will have 1% of Unsafe code. Might be more depending on what you are doing. However the same way few bugs happen in the asm code of a kernel, your unsafe will not have many bugs.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23510862
People who use the network also participate in the network themselves.
After writing my post, I thought again about directing my arguments at you specifically. It was maybe too personal and assumptive. I think I got too defensive.

Anyway, I appreciate that you read what I wrote and chose to keep in the conversation.
patio11 has a good collection of "working in Japan" anecdotes on HN also that match my experience there.
Just because its in the ToS doesn't mean its enforceable. That line is not enforceable in the US.
Linux + VS Code + Docker Compose + PHP in container + source mounted

OS:
Pop_OS, Regolith, Manjaro, Ubuntu

Invest time in learning Linux basis, you will be positively surprised.
Given the history of "antifa" as a movement, I would argue that against them being radicalized even so in recent times.
What I do think is that antifa has become more relevant because of the rise of radical right wing in social media as a bogeyman.
I’m a bit confused, since the section you emphasized appears to prove Taibbi’s point: Cotton called for force against “lawbreakers”, not “protestors”. You can argue that the troops would in practice end up attacking both groups, but that’s a separate question from “did Cotton suggest deploying troops to attack protestors?”

If Cotton explicitly stated that all protestors were in violation of the law, then I stand corrected, but otherwise I’m not convinced this is as cut and dry as you make it seem.

I want to take this opportunity to make an important point: I could easily have accused you of disinformation for promoting what appears to me to be an illegitimate “spin” on Cotton’s column. But I didn’t because I know you’re just trying to call it like you see it. What I want you to understand is that this is what everyone is doing, Matt Taibbi included. We’re all trying to interpret things as best as we can. Sometimes those interpretations don’t line up, but that doesn’t mean everyone who disagrees with you is purposefully spreading disinformation. (Maybe some are, but I believe most people are trying to be accurate.)
Note that the encoders are slower largely because it's not hardware-accelerated yet.

We can reasonably assume that will change, as basically every major player in the CPU/GPU spaces[1] has signed on to back this. Even Apple is a member.

[1] the exceptions are mostly downstream ARM vendors - notably, Qualcomm
> we're all on board with the idea of intellectual property actually being a thing now

Admittedly I was being a bit facetious about that.
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In the US this question is fairly settled.

The U.S. Copyright Office has already declared that if it's generated by a machine, without any creative input or intervention from a human author, then the work is NOT eligible for copyright at all.

They believe that "The copyright law only protects “the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative powers of the mind.” Trade-Mark Cases, 100 U.S. 82, 94 (1879). Because copyright law is limited to “original intellectual conceptions of the author,” the Office will refuse to register a claim if it determines that a human being did not create the work. Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, 111 U.S. 53, 58 (1884). ... the Copyright Act protects “original works of authorship.” 17 U.S.C. § 102(a) (emphasis added). To qualify as a work of “authorship” a work must be created by a human being. See Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co., 111 U.S. at 58. Works that do not satisfy this requirement are not copyrightable. The Office will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants.... Similarly, the Office will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author."

I'm quoting chapter 300 here: <https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-... of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices here <https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/>. The compendium is the "governing administrative manual for registrations and recordations issued by the U.S. Copyright Office." In short, for the US, this is an extremely authoritative source.

A future US court ruling or law change could change this, of course, but I sure wouldn't bet on it. The US Copyright Office has lawyers who specialize in this area, have clearly stated their position, and they are citing specific laws and court cases to justify their position. Also, in most cases you can't go forward with a copyright claim without registration (though you can register after-the-fact); if the US Copyright Office won't allow registration, you'll have a really challenging time even starting a court case.

I'm sure there are edge cases and complications. But the essence is only "unsettled" if you don't look for the existing rulings. A Google search will find actual answers from credible, authoritative sources. Sure, courts and Congress could change it, but it'd require a significant change.

While this information is specific to the U.S., copyright is similar enough in other jurisdictions that there's a decent chance that other jurisdictions would come to the same conclusion. European law in particular has a number of similarities in this area; I'd love to hear from those with more background in other jurisdictions.

Disclaimers: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
If that is the standard, political parties will just start claiming that all their opinions are factual (as happens in practice, coincidentally).

If we had an algorithm to sort fact from fiction then that would be fine, but we don't. Our method for sorting fact and fiction is to ask an expert. Experts are not reliable in political situations because there are experts who are willing to believe anything for money.

Particularly for economic questions where it is likely that the experts have a financial stake in one political outcome.
Not to worry. They still have pictures of Hitler and Stalin. Those guys must've been the good guys since their pictures are still on google.
On the large scale, wealth reliably collects progressively higher percentages of return the higher the base capital.
I made a little RPG-y tune.

https://music-grid.surge.sh/#8-130-0-516-256-136-64-32-16-8-...
Former hero of mainstream journalism no longer fits in with mainstream journalism so of course it’s destroying itself.

Perhaps Matt Taibbi is used to being a visibly elite journalist who isn’t on board with a new status quo that won’t benefit him the same.

People are sick of yesterday’s politics and looking to remake things. The media is always going on about it’s important role in our political system. It needs a good kick in the ass.

Post post modernism has us deconstructing post modernism. No more believing we’re just detached observers living on rails. We aren’t feeling obligated to saying grandpa and grandma and are searching for a new normal from bottom up, as too many are facing existential entropy given the status quo.

Taibbi is ‘fraid that what was familiar is no more. Good. That means journalism is being disrupted in a real way. It’s not if it’s just feeling normal to the old experts.

Our social institutions may really be changing.
You put "extreme left" in quotes as if there isn't such a thing and its simply a way to malign mainstream liberals. Once again this is the kind of tribalism I'm talking about. All or nothing. Purity tests.

There are leftists in the US to whom equality and dignity are the foundations of their belief system. However, that doesn't represent the whole of leftism in the US and it certainly doesn't represent the foundation of actual leftist extremism in America.

To clarify, I don't think most people that fall on the left half of the political spectrum in the United States are extremists. I think that due to their fanaticism and tendency to be more vocal, the extremists have a voice disproportionate to their actual size.

That doesn't mean they don't matter. It just means they don't represent as many people on the left as one would perceive them to based on social media and mainstream media.

I'm not a leftist extremist. I'm a socially liberal moderate that likes the general idea of free market competition but understands that completely unregulated markets are probably just as toxic and doomed to fail as attempts to form completely planned economies. Prudent regulation can minimize predatory and exploitative behavior.

I think there is a balance to be struck between people having individual freedoms and the ability of the government to take measures to prevent groups of people from making it impossible for marginalized groups of people to live enjoyable lives in the US.

My search for that balance is founded on a desire for equality and dignity. For example, I don't think a city or state full of racists/homophobes should be able to use States' rights protections to establish bubbles where its impossible for certain minorities to comfortably exist.

However, I believe that we are often really quick to take knee jerk reactions and pass legislation that may have unintended consequences when it comes to preserving everyone's freedom, equality, and dignity.

You may choose to ignore them, but there are vocal voices in the progressive movement that are racist and sexist and are more interested in establishing a society that revolves around revenge against white people. Some of them are nobodies, but some of them are influential people in places of power in various industries.

Leftist extremism exists. There are people advocating for violence against white people and men in general on Twitter for a daily basis. Reporting these people usually gets ignored.

I'm opposed to leftist extremism and conservative extremism. People that advocate for violence and who advocate for a new type of inequality are assholes, regardless of how many of their unrelated political opinions I might share with them.

I do, however, believe that the US has more work to do in regards to how it treats many different minority groups. I also believe that white privilege exists. I don't think every white person faces a life-changing situation where they benefit from it, but it happens. In my case I'm not sure how much of an impact it had, but it probably had an impact.
No, Google's scraping is opt-out only, which they offer to be friendly.

Google does not need anyone's permission to scrape publicly accessible data, and they are not required to follow any opt-out requests.
Anyone know how the "fastest" claim stacks up against SVT-AV1?
https://music-grid.surge.sh/#0-2385-0-1192-64-2688-0-64-32-1...

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Money > ethics in your worldview? This is compounding the issue and creating a toxic incentive.
Yes, but not everyone that went was drafted. Obviously, I make an exception for draftees. Poor people got fucked over the most. Still don't deserve a holiday though, let alone two, especially when dodging was an option.
Apple's shift to ARM Mac from Intel at WWDC will define a decade of computing
I am not really talking about the present day, though I agree with the other comments that a lot of modern features help. Think back to the era of Lisp machines. Memory safety, macros, OO... all in the 80s!

We ignored the lessons and paid the price. People, to this day, still look at you weird when you say "I think you could write a game in a garbage collected language" and don't bat an eye when you say "C is dangerous, but I was very careful."

I think what killed us is that computers are expensive (and performance directly translates to the number of computers you need to buy) and security holes are free. Of course you're going to optimize for speed; optimizing for safety can save you at most zero dollars. That's just engineering.
https://music-grid.surge.sh/#0-0-0-1024-512-0-64-0-2560-2304...
Does SQLLite have a more text-friendly storage format? This would enable Text editors to do edits/modifications, which is critical to debugging and testing and learning. Savefiles don't need the same ongoing access optimizations, or size optimizations for wire protocols, so a less efficient format that is text editor friendly would help this cause.

Also, does SQLLite have libraries in the native code for the major languages to read and write to them? XML (ugh), JSON, and YAML have managed to get decent implementations in almost all major languages.
Of course its unnecessary. The point is that you can do it in the cloud, instead of on a laptop at starbucks...