skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also wondering about this. Maybe some "outside-the-box" ideas could achieve it. Just spitballing here:

If the street were made to be one-way instead of two-way, could it be narrower, leaving room for the sidewalk AND the ditches? Also, it isn't clear from his description, but maybe that would eliminate the need for "additional utilities improvements due to [the sidewalk and widening]".

It would inconvenience the residents on that street and motorists who pass through. But presumably that's better than bankruptcy.

Or here's an even crazier idea: Could the underground drainage be avoided if the city annexed a strip of land from the adjacent properties? That would surely piss them off, but if it were implemented city-wide, as part of a "we're all in this together" kind of campaign to revitalize the city without going bankrupt, maybe it would be more palatable. At least it might seem more "fair" if everyone loses a little land, rather than only some streets. And if owners were compensated monetarily, heck, some might even like it.
The person I was asking had brought up the death of Alberto Nisman and the investigation into the AMIA bombing in response to a statement that Israel "uses blackmail as a foreign policy tool". It seems to me like people make vague accusations against Israel without being specific about what exactly Israel allegedly did, and when challenged to be more specific they don’t respond.

I have an open mind about whether any particular allegation against Israel (or any other country) is true, but if people won't make the allegation specific it is impossible to judge.
it is evident that people don’t actually converge on singular sets of beliefs in this way. but for sake of argument let’s put that aside and suppose we actually do.

even with this, this doesn’t address the concern of actuality versus appearance.

consensus reality has been wrong in the past, and can be shown wrong again.

so how can you be so sure?
Lol, fair, but still concerning
Can you be more specific? What exactly is horrible on Windows when you've tried coding?
This title was quite hard for me to parse. I was thinking, what is Micro-front and why is it ending?
If either of these roads serve as an arterial, then the footprint of the change is quite a bit bigger and you are correct, we should consider a wider tax base reflecting the radius of the impact of the roads.

If however it's mostly a residential road, which it seems like it might be, then the scalability point being made by the other responses is probably closer to the truth.
But creating enough greenhouse capacity to feed 8 billion people would be incredibly difficult. Bottom line would be, if something causes sunlight to be largely blocked around the world for a sustained period of time, the number of people who would starve to death would likely number in the billions.
Nice...sorry for the aggressive tone, sounded like a advertisement, have fun ;)
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> This is finally the year of the Linux desktop. However, it is running on Windows as WSL.

This is finally the year of Linux on the Windows desktop!
That's quite funny sentiment: basically you are saying the only reason for some people to use Linux if they are forced to use it by some library. An operating system shouldn't rely on that, if it wants to be truly general purpose.
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Xming on Windows isn't exactly a walk in the park either -- I'd still rather use the native, proprietary build of VSCode on a proprietary OS with the SSH extension if I'm on a high-DPI screen.
Thank you for the answer, stuuuuuuuuu! I'll look into it.

...

DNS-over-HTTPS can be enabled in Firefox via Network settings, turns out.
I didn’t say it was a failure of capitalism, merely a property. Had it become necessary to do so, yes, I would have either ordered some commercial TP, or bought a bidet.

Now, if you want to talk about how we have zillions of brands of TP, but they’re all made by the same handful of companies (illusion of choice), I might argue that’s a failure mode of capitalism.

#ShitYouCantSayOnHN
I like being praised for my work, and would be annoyed if I was never congratulated for doing a good job. But if I'm often praised and never see a compensation increase, that will make me feel the praise is fake: if my work is so valuable, why am I not being compensated for it?
Throwing out a random data point: Until now, NVIDIA has been very anti-virtualization (on the consumer side), going as far as to engineer its drivers to detect in-use virtualization (Hyper-V, Xen, QEMU, etc.) and fail on purpose [1]. I'm curious to see how they now handle this scenario (given WSLv2 runs in a virtual machine). Perhaps they just commented those checks out in their 'specialized' drivers, an interesting development for enterprising individuals looking to enable consumer GPU pass-through for general purpose virtual machines and containers.

[1] https://github.com/riverar/Remove-HypervisorChecks
Yes.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/attac...
I listened to this years ago but could still remember Procopius' quote. I just looked it up and apparently the consensus at the time of recording (2013) was a meteor strike rather than a volcanic eruption. Interesting.
There's so much of this from armchair experts. Unfortunately, very few of them will ever get out there and try their hand at making deliberate decisions under limited information.

Try cross-country sailplane flying. Try investing in the stock market. Go on a long sailing trip with no one to make decisions for you. Do some competitive multiplayer gaming. Try to be your very best at an activity that requires making the best possible decision based on uncertain information, adapting as that information changes and owning your mistakes.

Things look completely different when the outcome is known, when you see it on video afterwards. You need to have been in such a situation yourself to know, to have seen with your own eyes the same situation with and without the benefit of hindsight. It's startling. Just having an IQ of 120 isn't enough to appreciate this.

I would love to get the answer to whether hydroxychloroquine reduces the severity of Covid19 when given during the earliest stages of the disease. It's sad that we may now never get a good enough controlled trial that settles the question. It's a disgrace when the science is politicized to such a degree.
Modern farming is not resilient in any way. Production is centralized, mechanized and heavily reliant on outside inputs. Global trade lessens the degree to which a regional crop failure affects a population. Smaller, distributed, local farms lessen the reliance on trade but still very much rely on our gracious host to provide clean rain and sun. The only way to escape that is immense amounts of electricity for indoor farming.
I don't really know much about NetBSD. Where is a good place to jump in?
Thanks for the correction. It looks like Netflix also had at one time been paying substantial fees to Apple, and then I see articles from 2019 saying they turned off IAP, but if I look on the App Store right now I can see IAP for Netflix is listed... so I'm definitely confused about the policy.

> Spotify pays Apple a 15% fee for only about 0.5% of its paid members, according to Apple's response to Spotify's complaint about App Store fees.

So Apple gets approximately 0.075% of Spotify revenue through App Store fees.

Here's what Apple's site actually says about their Reader policy;

> 3.1.3(a) “Reader” Apps: Apps may allow a user to access previously purchased content or content subscriptions (specifically: magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video, access to professional databases, VoIP, cloud storage, and approved services such as classroom management apps), provided that you agree not to directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods are not designed to discourage use of in-app purchase.

So Reader apps don't get free IAP. It's not clear if they must offer IAP, but certainly it seems at some point both Spotify and Netflix tried to get away from it, but it seems to be back just looking live now at the App Store.

There's also some recent developments where Apple is letting Amazon / Prime Video sell/rent movies and shows by billing your Amazon account in the app now, where-as earlier this year you would have to go through the browser to make the purchase. [2]

I know that I personally only subscribe to Spotify because I listen to it on my iPhone. I've never even tried to use it on a desktop. I also subscribed to Spotify through their website, not through the App Store. I securely downloaded the Spotify app for free, from Apple servers, using an Apple SDK, and get regular automatic updates to the app using Apple's platform.

[1] - https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-fires-back-spotify-pays-fees...

[2] - https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21203630/apple-amazon-prim...
Interesting - every version I've looked at to date still creates a form of "infected list". You could try bloom filters but at risk of many false positives, at a time you really don't want false positives.

Looking at the Apple + Google spec though, this is happening - see https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...

I can't really see a way to avoid creating an "infected tokens" list, if you want a decentralised approach where the uninfected are not interacting with the protocol on an ongoing basis as well.

The UK approach (centralised) was different though, as it was based on the infected person telling the server "who" (based on the tokens) it saw, and they take the steps to notify those users by decrypting the tokens etc, and working out who needs notified.

In the decentralised apps, your phone squawks a changing "identifier", everyone stores the squawks they hear, and periodically checks their list of squawks heard to see if any are flagged on the infected list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge#...

> Red triangle – political prisoners: social democrats,communists and anarchists; rescuers of Jews; trade unionists; and Freemasons.

This really doesn't need a lot of work to tie "social democrats" and "anarchists" to Trump's political enemies.
> Yes but this would take a very long time,

I don't think this argument works in 2020.

There are dozens of fabs in China on line and coming on line.

Sure, fabs are expensive: $5B for 7nm fab, plus what, a billion more for talent? China is throwing trillions at this.

The other claim implicit in this argument is that China isn't smart enough, like there's a monopoly of fab engineers: only the smart ones live in the US and work for Intel and AMD. That is nonsense bordering on racism (chinese are too dumb to compete).

The rest of the supply chain: sort, test, packaging, assembly... is trivial by comparison. And Singapore does almost all of this for Intel due to lax environmental regulations: die are shipped from the US fabs in Oregon, Santa Clara and Arizona to Singapore for the final steps before being shipped back for sale. Guess where all of that post-manufacturing machinery comes from? Yup: China. Even the test equipment.

It's almost like most of the people on this thread don't realize china makes their own CPUs, chipsets, and motherboards that we never even see or hear about unless you go to ISSCC, HotChips, or Embedded World.

Stroll through here looking at wafer size and technology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...

EDIT: edited for snark and clarity.
In other words it is not the fault of the people who are trying to kill a molecule just because they don’t like Trump?
Looking over the article again, I'd say your right. It was the statement "The web is built around server-side rendering." that made me feel that way. As a whole you're right.

However, I didn't think everyone was out making landing pages with React and VueJS. Maybe they are.
USA is about 4% of the global population, the US government stance is not really relevant.
> I still don't see how this is going to work
> when the shared modules release breaking changes

The team I'm working on is currently working on such an application, and that problem is the one I've been worried about most. What do we do when there is a major version breaking-change upgrade of the shared design system?

If you are working within a singular repository (monorepo), you can make a singular commit that fixes all parts of your application at once, and since it is deployed in one go there will be no breakage in production.

On the other hand, if you have a shared library that affects multiple repositories, somehow everybody needs to do the PR at the same time, and somehow every deploy needs to be synchronised in order that all micro frontends are updated at the same time. How can that be done in a way which doesn't cause breakages? What if one team is slower to update than every other team? What crazy piece of infrastructure might we require for this kind of gradual distributed upgrade?

This almost certainly sounds crazy to most engineers, but at the organisation I work they build quite a lot of App Store style applications which amalgamate 100s of other applications into one gigantic application. Additionally, for some legacy reason, we are tied into using separate repositories for each line-of-business micro frontend.
There are some cases where formatters like Prettier don't have one canonical representation for an AST, in particular behavior around line breaks (multiple empty lines are allowed, a line break after an "{" opening brace in an object literal will force it to span multiple lines, etc)

But yeah, otherwise everyone could just have their own preferred formatter/settings and we could commit whatever representation is most optimal for diffing to version control (e.x. multi-line object literals, trailing commas in arrays/args, etc).

You could use something more compact like a binary AST but for compatibility with "legacy" tools that deal with text I think it would be better to use a more verbose text-based representation.
Apple apparently believes that whether that's a fair price should be up to the publisher to decide when publishing apps for Android, but it doesn't believe that the publisher should get to decide that when publishing on the App Store.
The whole issue is about choice. If what Apple is offering you is worth the 30% cut they ask for, you will pay it. If it is not, you should be free to use your own method and take care of the details like tax yourself. Cross platform things anyway have to solve this problem on their own.
AT&T requires you to use their DNS? Did you try doing DoH to bypass?
Dutch intelligence is skilled and highly respected by Five Eyes countries - I don’t think the US is going to steamroll them
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I imagine work on that problem will be ongoing long after it’s been figured out for everyone else. Definitely shouldn’t be a prerequisite to starting on the easier situations.
Off-topic:

I have developed a habit of hitting Esc when modal dialogs pop up on web pages as I'm scrolling down reading. I never want to sign up for the mailing list. The webinar. The sales pitch. Never.

But on sites hosted by Squarespace, Esc gets you into a login prompt, presumably for the site owners? Try it! Weird choice, Squarespace!
I was on H1B and moved to Toronto as a PR. If you want to start your own startup, move to Canada. It's a great option. Even if there are ways to start a startup in US, visa renewals/visa stamping are unnecessary stress.

I don't know about VC access but you shouldn't have any issue with finding talent in Toronto or Vancouver. And, there is an option to recruit remote employees too.
This is the most important thing to understand: non-Russian media loves to persist a never-ending charade that the whole of the Russian government is a direct limb of Putin and controlled wholly by him, which is quite far from true. It makes for a good narrative though, and since the Russian government is perhaps closer to that model than others, passes by readers unnoticed.

There are very much parts of the Russian political elite that will use violent and coercive means outside their official mandate to silence individuals. Roskomnadzor isn't really one of those, and is mostly limited to spewing more things onto blocklists to the chagrin of ISPs and people who actually understand the internet.

More likely Telegram is unblocked because someone higher-up finally got around to telling Roskomnadzor to fuck off and stop being a nuisance here, since its order never succeeded in actually blocking Telegram and mostly served to disrupt access to cloud service providers (breaking other, non-Telegram applications) as RKN ineffectually tried to issue block orders for entire AWS and GCP network ranges. Other parts of the government clearly didn't care much about the order (they continued to use Telegram for official business after the block), and it seems like it was either RKN attempting to flex its muscles to impress higher-ups or an unsuccessful attempt to put pressure on Telegram that the government has finally given up on.
100% this. I'm currently waiting for the ProtonMail calendar and still looking for an easy file sync solution. I tried syncthing today but it's really not that comfortable to use....
I'm not certain how this is considered to be analogous - is the assumption that other retailers would need to forward customers to 7/11 when 7/11 carries a good a client is interested in?

As a possibly better analogy... Let's say I run a Flea market and also direct sell some items to customers. I charge independent retailers a fee for setting up a booth in my market space and don't excise that same fee from my own booths. Then I go to open a booth in a local mall to help sell some of my directly vendored items and raise an exception all the way to city hall that the mall attempting to charge me for running a booth in their property is impeding the free flow of commerce and hurting the local economy - while I continue to charge booths in my market space for operating.
oh, and they have their own add on that doesn't require any access to the page contents. that's exactly what i wanted, thanks!
The point being made is that if you use Chrome or Firefox on IOS, it’s still actually the Safari engine.
You should expect that the government can compel a VPN provider to correlate traffic to subscriber information exactly the same way it does with a residential ISP.
Original Paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.05.019
I was just trying to follow the evidence presented to see if it supported the argument made, and I was unsuccessful. I am not saying the argument is false, I am just trying to follow the logical chain and I had a question about it.

Aside: am I the only one who thinks web links to twitter are hard to follow? Even the basics of who is saying what, about what, to whom? Usually I can't even tell what side of the argument someone is on when they are saying something, or whether an image or quote is something they are replying to or using as evidence to support their new claims.
Nobody will give you an antibody test? Do you live near a city?
It's 14 words specifically. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
It's not.

They are SoC (system on chip). They come loaded with peripherals, like NICs, UARTs, I2C, SPI, ADC, RTC, crypto, DSP, Ai acceleration, etc. The CPU usually takes up a small fraction of the die and isn't the selling point, the integration and IO fabric is just as important.
Hello! Author here.

First I should mention that the project is opensource, available here: https://github.com/VioletVillain/EXACT

For convenience I'll also include a basic overview here.

EXACT is an abbreviation for 'Emulating X86 iAPX CPU on NeT'.

This project was primarily done for two reasons:

In favor of RASM, which is basically a work-in-progress Game Engine written in Rust. Getting fluent in WebAssembly meant writing efficient code and eased its debugging.

Experience. an in-depth study of processor that still has alot in common with x86_64 will surely assist in writing optimized code; even though the 8086 lacked any concepts of caches (as an example).

The emulator has been thoroughly documented, except in places where doing so would have been considered extremely verbose or otherwise obivous.

All OpCodes (Even Illegal ones) have been implemented, however instructions that require physical hardware access and interrupts are not available.

This is mostly a bare-bones emulator considering that it only emulates a single 8086 without any co-processors, interrupt controllers or other Multimedia devices.

I've written a few (short) Assembly examples that can be run on the emulator too, inside the 'Examples' folder. However, EXACT supports more complicated programs as well.
That's the issue. If we can't handle the black swan events in time, we'll at least have a backup.

Granted, this doesn't cover bigger black swan events like gamma ray bursts, where the entire solar system is screwed, but it'll at least help with Earthside apocalypse.

The fact that we couldn't handle it is indeed incriminating against our abilities as a species, but as they say, perfect is the enemy of good.
Wouldn't they have to ban all political posts altogether? Otherwise the ad stuff would just move into regular accounts.
I try to be prepared as possible, at least for covid there was a little warning, I was extremely concerned late Jan. '20 and bought extra TP/paper towels/razors before everything went crazy. For a volcanic eruption there is little to no warning so having essentials on hand seems pretty important. I went to school/knew alot of Mormons and used to poke fun at them for having so much canned food(the church mentions stocking up on a years worth of food) and that doesn't seem that out of line now.
As much as I hope I never witness this, watching humanity strap a rocket to an asteroid for this purpose would probably rank #1 on the list of Most Bitchin Things Ever.
Blaming the OS for allowing people to create files with unusual characters
I hope Elon has a special pricing tier and high bandwidth limits for primarily solar-powered devices that spend most of their duty cycle airborne --that truly would be transformative as existing cell towers are typically only available near highways and commerce centers.
"Know" in the sense that we can be certain, one hundred percent, never doubt? No.

In the sense that you would have to convert the Milky Way's entire mass into a particle accelerator large enough, over the course of millions of years, to get that much energy to probe even further, ain't nobody gonna do that. You could go out even more, why not convert the Local Group? At some point you must accept that we're not going to undertake a billion year engineering project to do that and so it is irrelevant.

"More" will run out as a useful strategy eventually.

However, there are other clues, which largely live in symmetry. How do we "know" that there are three families of leptons and quarks? Even in the 1990s, there were certain cosmological-level hints that the universe would look very different if there were five; four was just barely allowable if you squinted very hard.

Don't get me wrong, you can slam together a lot of energy in one place and get funny things, but they won't be funny things that are new fundamental particles, which are governed by different symmetries, which you will see if you begin browsing the, ah, "zoo" of subatomic particles. For a particle, an anti-particle (even if it is itself), as a symmetry example.

And so you would need new symmetries to explore, which brings us back to the possible axion of the article, which was suggested by a symmetry. In general, new particles are suggested either by symmetry or in some cases, simple conservation, like the humble neutrino, which was originally a placeholder particle to say, "Where is the spin in that reaction going?"