skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Regarding who gets on the ballot - yes there are a special interests that fund their candidate. We generally get whomever has a larger budget, not who the best candidate might be. Special interests also drive the ballot measures too.

I mean, evidence suggests this is not true because of the small-donor revolution. Like I said above, there were left and right primary upsets this week, and now senior House members will probably be replaced by a socialist high school teacher and a Qanon conspiracy theorist.

Meanwhile in the presidential race, Bernie raised the most with only small donors, two billionaires outspent everyone and failed, and Biden is winning despite hardly fundraising or advertising the whole primary.

Another new case is in Seattle, where Amazon tried to spend their way into controlling the city council to get rid of a tax, but only proved they had no power and everyone hated them: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/07/jumpstart-seatt...

The less popular congresspeople who don't have as many small donors do spend too much time calling for donations, so reform is still needed, but AOC and co really do seem to not have this problem.

> This makes no sense. Just recently (2016) the Dems showed clear bias against Bernie in the leaks. The Chair resigned. The party always has a platform, a brand, an agenda and big budgets.

And in 2020 because Bernie had such a strong youth vote (even though he ran a kind of bad campaign this time), Biden moved to the left after winning and put his people on the policy team. Probably the reason he didn't win is that old people who own homes are the most reliable voters - they're the real interest behind everything in the US.

> "Who got special deals in the stimulus and why they got them. In the $2 trillion package, senators took care of their home state industries and pet projects." [2]

I read this article and idk, seems fine to me. It would be quite bad if the airlines went out of business; they have some of the largest union contracts in the US and those would not survive bankruptcy.
Dropbox customers are clearly willing to pay more than the absolute minimum possible. Dropbox is relatively expensive. So instead of not offering a service that customers want they could simply charge for bandwidth.

Also, Dropbox does support partially syncing large files, so mutability is not necessarily that big of a problem (depending on the file format I guess).
I just remove the camera entirely. Why do laptops come with them again?
This is why I use a smaller piece of normal clear tape UNDER the outer layer of tape to protect the lens from the glue.
Tyson (TSN) Bets on Robots to Fight Meat Industry Worker Shortage
If you actually pay attention, you will see opportunity everywhere at your job.

Even if it's just copying your employer.
Perhaps. The NYT is one source published daily. Facebook has millions of conversations happening among friends and loose connections happening daily about supposed conspiracy theories. I propose that the scale that results from the viral nature of this distribution dwarfs what the NYT could possibly do.
I think you should add to your list political stability, infrastructures (including basic things like stable electricity supply) and a cooperative workforce.
Indeed, and many (most?) domestic air filters include HEPA filters. I have a Phillips one[1] and it does.

[1] https://www.philips.com.au/c-p/AC1215_70/series-1000-air-pur...
Nope, that's yet another Stitch! This one is https://www.stitchdesignlab.com/
I’m wondering if a dependency common to these apps is the thing reading the clipboard.
The main reason modern manufacturing is in (mostly south) China is the ecosystem! For electronics specifically, you have a tightly woven network of suppliers, factories, part distributors, logistics companies, and lots of local expertise tying it all together, as well as lots of established relationships and processes that keep it running smoothly. A factory, however highly automated, does not run in isolation. Of course you can build that kind of ecosystem elsewhere, but that's a 3-4 decade project and requires enormous investment at high political and financial risk (which is what China did in the 80s with the SEZs).
How will be the bill secular when it is in response to the persecution of minority religions in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan? And I don't understand this fixation with Muslims. What about the followers of Bahá'í Faith who are not covered under this bill?
Ribbons (in Office, at least) change that very hierarchy depending on window width. For example, take the Home bar in Word: the "Editing" and "Style" groups collapse to buttons with submenus before the width of the window is reduced to half screen width on my computer. This affects keyboard navigation in the ribbon bar, too, of course.
Ask HN: How has your remote team stayed in touch during the Covid-19 pandemic?
Did your team adopt any new processes and/or tools?
Ask HN: How do you learn new libraries without much documentation?
At work, I have been asked to build a couple of POC's on a new Angular based framework our company purchased.

This is proprietary code for a niche industry so the community isn't as large. I also don't have access to any experts on this software.

- A common issue I face is when I want to import a module( and know that the functionality exists) but don't know what do I call and where can I call it from

eg: import { XYZ } from '<WHERE>'

- I have tried asking questions on their private community but it's pretty dead and no one ever responds

There are some tutorial courses but it's can only take you so far. How do I get better at this framework or at least good enough to build some basic POCs?
Pretty evil so my guess is the Facebook sdk...
HEPA filters are made out of fiberglass, which is vulnerable to UV degradation.
>My iOS device has never once shown me "this website requires Chrome." I get to use the mobile web without needing Google. And Apple is the only reason why.

Let's be real though, Apple didn't enforce this to save user's the small annoyance of 'use browser X' popups. Instead it gives them full control over what web APIs are available on iOS devices, so they can avoid implementing those APIs that would impact on their App Store revenue. They have a clear financial benefit in not supporting the PWA technology that would move the 'simpler' apps off their app store and into web - where they wouldn't receive their developer license fees, a cut of paid apps and a cut of paid subscription fees (outrageous). Also, I believe it was Steve Jobs who first shared the vision of web applications on iPhone “that look exactly and behave exactly like native apps” ?

> Instead it's web developers, who are just annoyed that they have to actually respect the conventions of the platform they're building for.

Developers already get around this to some extent with cross platform tools such as React Native, Xamarin, Flutter. Native apps will always have a place, PWAs are not going to replace sufficiently complex app experiences, much like on Android or Windows.
So I don't know much about kernel development.

How many other languages apart from C are there in the kernel?
No, the filter gets heated to 250 °C to destroy trapped viral particles. The air itself won't get heated up much, its contact time with the filter is too short.
Nice write-up of a nice project!

BUT: This is clearly missing a power saving mode which displays a placeholder page with a cache expiration time set based on weather forecasts. And an 8bit song "Ain't no content when it rains" to the melody of "Ain't No Sunshine" ;)
It looks like Apples quest for even slicker devices has taken its next toll, both the MacBook retina and the original touchbar work fine with a cover.

The product line up is in a weird limbo between professional and luxury and it’s difficult to move away given the alternatives (I have Linux and Windows on my workstation, one needs a lot of attention to move beyond 95% working and the documentation just isn’t always good, the other is very annoying with ads and all sorts of stuff that is integrated and the lack of consistency) even though I miss my old thinkpad and appreciate how they think of business features like thinkshutter.
I interpreted the quotation marks as implying that it's functionally killing the virus unless you somehow blow it off the filter.
You are mixing things.

Nordic model is a way of implementing "sex work is bad and should be illegal". Whether it's implemented in the Nordic model way, or in the "let's jail sex workers!" way does not matter that much - it's still a morality based law (on the idea that sex is sinful I guess) that puts a whole class of workers to illegality.

Germany's approach is it's not. That you can have sex for money if you want to.

So if you think that sex workers shouldn't exist, of course Germany's approach "does not work".

But if you don't think that sex work is amoral, then Nordic model just oppresses an already marginalized group. For me, that is what does not work.

Fighting human trafficking and abuse is of course necessary, but doing it by hurting already vulnerable and marginalized people makes it hard to believe that you're actually interested in helping, instead of enforcing morality where sex is sinful.
I love how everyone worries about their computer camera when there is no light for the camera and facial recognition hardware on the front of your phone...
How to Write a Ray Tracer Intuitively
You use the term "ATS" above the fold (in the headline!) with no explanation as to what it is. I found this confusing and wondered why I would even want such a thing.
It's a very unconvincing argument that culture, bodies or childhood are required for intelligence. Moreover, that computers could not have any of them (or functional equivalents, if in fact they are of any functional use at all).

I don't buy that the single data point that is Human intelligence has much to say about the possible bounds or limits of general intelligence.

Computers inhabit a world. They have interactions. Seems sufficient to me. As for culture - they have enough learning material of human culture, and it's not impossible to train multiple AI intelligences at the same time to create a culture of their own. Surely at some point in history Humans developed their culture from nothing? As for childhood - attempts at AI already have training periods where they are given training data, made more plastic and develop against simple situations before moving on to more complex situations.

The (also terrible and wrong) Chinese room argument is more convincing.
The Chinese invest in African (sic) for minerals etc.
they bring in their own workers (why do they do this if
African wages are lower?).

This.

There's a most excellent documentary on the inroads the Chinese have industrially made in Africa called Empire of Dust (2011)[1] thats eminently watchable.[2][3][4]

Even going back a decade and more, the Chinese not only brought their own machinery, trucks, heavy and light equipment of all kinds down to nuts and bolts but also their own manpower for everything but the most menial of tasks for which they employed the local populace. This shows how unreliable or qualifiedly unworthy the Chinese deemed the skilled population in their host countries & how inefficient local governments were in furnishing them with basic skills.

[1]

Empire of Dust (2011)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2148945/

[2]

EMPIRE OF DUST - TRAILER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkEqI3_J4xg

[3]

Empire of Dust China in Africa Mirror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LSuZGlqL34

[4]

It's all so....tiresome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9LaHualx-s
> but also to prevent the home computer from competing with TI's minicomputer line

It used the same CPU. That's one of the reasons it has so little RAM - it only supported static RAM.
I'm Indian, and I think there's a strong case to be made that the Indian avg IQ is likely to be lower than 100. This is nurture though, not nature: a large % of Indians do not get sufficient micronutriants during childhood, and are anemic (40%~) [1], stunted (40%) [2], and much else besides.

[1] https://www.hospitalmanagement.net/comment/anemia-prevalence...

[2] https://www.indiaspend.com/38-of-indian-children-under-4-poo...
Building a Serverless App with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, ExpressJs and TypeScript
Assembler. Although there is a movement to port assembler to c.
Why do I even have to trust Apple and physics here? Why can't Apple just provide a physical lid for the camera to disable it. Why even take that chance.
Which incredibly difficult to do on scale, unless you rig the whole system. In which case voting is just a fig leave anyway.
Technological progress is many orders of magnitudes faster than evolutionary change; assuming the 'magic' of the brain is indeed in the neural circuity, hardware is expected to be powerful enough to simulate that on a timescale of O(100) years in the future instead of O(10e9).

Of course, it's not a given that simulating connected neurons with action potentials or whatever is sufficient to capture the relevant features of the brain (perhaps long-distance em interactions are relevant? quantum magic? do we need to drop to the molecular level?) - but without proof to the contrary, we'll just have to wait and see.
In Lithuania the word for 'Pelmeni' is 'Koldunai', and as Russian language is still going strong in Belarus, Pelmeni is widely used, although I don't know if it's prevalent over 'Kalduny'. Not sure were the word originated. In Russia 'Vareniki' is basically the broad term for the non-meat dumplings (with potato/quark/cherry/mushroom stuffing).
The trick is that by using the Dhondt method and gerrymandering you have to manipulate way less votes than one would actually expect. In my country of 5 million people last week 11 votes decided whether someone went into parliament and there were 11 excesss votes at one station which were then deleted and guess whose those were
The title is not very accurate, this is a thread about a discussion on this topic which will happen at the upcoming Linux Plumbers Conference in late August.
The 65816 had a segmented memory, like the 8086. That's still very masochistic.
I know it sounds fairly simple - but making sure that I hit 10,000 steps per day, I've ended up going on some really long walks around my local area and have discovered a load of interesting places.
Orwell as a flexible thinker who doesn't fit neatly into any category is a very common take, but I honestly think this is too positive. When I read 1984 for the first time I had a similar reaction to Asimov, whose review of the book I only encountered later (http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm) but resonated with me

"[...]The communists, who were the best organised, won out and Orwell had to leave Spain, for he was convinced that if he did not, he would be killed From then on, to the end of his life, he carried on a private literary war with the communists, determined to win in words the battle he had lost in action.During World War II, in which he was rejected for military service, he was associated with the left wing of the British Labour party, but didn't much sympathise with their views, for even their reckless version of socialism seemed too well organised for him.He wasn't much affected, apparently, by the Nazi brand of totalitarianism, for there was no room within him except for his private war with Stalinist communism. Consequently, when Great Britain was fighting for its life against Nazism, and the Soviet Union fought as an ally in the struggle and contributed rather more than its share in lives lost and in resolute courage, Orwell wrote Animal Farm which was a satire of the Russian Revolution and what followed, picturing it in terms of a revolt of barnyard animals against human masters.[...]"

I honestly found a lot of his fiction to be representative of his personal feud with Stalinism, while most of his views of society seemed remarkably old-fashioned and conventional. I've always had the same feeling about one his admirers, Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens also was often treated like a maverick, but to me it seemed like he just rebelled in his reputation as a contrarian, with his views being more shaped by personal fights than anything else.
There was a "distribution" called "pubuntu" (aka Portable Ubuntu) that makes use of coLinux, along with an X server (probably Xming) and even PulseAudio running on the host Windows system. For a while I used it to play around with Android porting (that was around Gingerbread), compiling kernels and Android with no issues at all. Fun times.
Corruption is a common denominator whether it is a democracy or autocracy. In Democracies citizens have the ability to practice democratic rights. A fundamental right in democracy is the freedom of speech.

In India though people who protest against government policies are sent behind bars without any due process. For instance in the past yr many social activists have been sent to Jail for protesting against the CAA bill, a bill which seeks to give citizenship to people based on their religion. The activists who protested have been jailed for protesting. For instance

Safoora Zargar, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53149967 was a student who participated in the protest and was alleged of rioting and put behind bars without due process.

OR Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan https://www.thequint.com/news/india/bhim-army-chandrashekhar...
The programming model is not very flexible at the lowest level: one has to create all the software infrastructure to communicate with the GPU (which boils down to sending commands and receiving response). There are languages (like futhark, julia, or even python), which handle all that boilerplate transparently.

The main problem is, afaik, that there is not enough control about where the code will run in these languages. At some point, one will want to describe all the algorithms using a single language, and somehow describe how the workload will have to be distributed across all the processors, or at least that's what I've been thinking about for a while. Once you have that level of control, the need for a versatile CPU is less clear. Note that nowadays people seems happy with hybrid solutions where the code is scattered across several languages (eg, one for the main program and one for the shaders, or for the client side UI), so my position is maybe not very strong.

HW-wise, is it possible that integrated GPUs are the first steps toward an architecture where CPU and GPU have better interconnections (ie, larger communication bandwidth and smaller latency) to the point where SIMD becomes moot? There is also the SWAR approach, where one doesn't rely on intrinsic SIMD instructions, but instead emulate them (though it's probably not very realistic for floating point computation).

Some other ideas:

- Apple has this neural engine in their latest chips, which is basically dedicated HW for neural networks

- In the wild, people are getting more and more interested in building their custom ASICs to cut software's middle-man cost: for them, the CPU solution is not good enough

- Intel recently introduced a new matrix ops extension in their CPUs: maybe at some point they'll introduce full GPU capabilities directly baked in the CPU? I am a little worried about the resulting ISA.

Anyway, I am not an HW engineer, nor a very good software one. I only have a limited view of the difficulties in writing good, CPU or GPU efficient code. My first post was prompted by remembering the first "large scale" multicores CPUs 15 years ago (specifically the Ultrasparc T1) which wheren't SIMD heavy. The direction naturally shifted as progress was made on SIMD to try to compete with GPUs, when it seems to me that originally CPUs and GPUs were complementary.

I tend to support modular solutions, but I don't know how costly that would be in term of efficiency at the HW level.
Good points. We see our churn being pretty high as one might predict.

This year we starting selling the software directly to universities (https://www.rezi.io/resume-management-system)once this picks up a bit more - we plan on making Rezi completely free for job seekers. But reviews are solid, I'm baised, but I think this is the best resume software in the world.
Mail voting is totally normal in Germany. And secret. Just because one country didn't solve it, doesn't mean it is an unsolved problem.
Why would you expect this to be used for pronunciation? That’s exactly where it wouldn’t make sense. But it would be much better for semantic understanding by non-Japanese speakers, or titles and such like my example in another comment.
Call with David Ungar (2015) [video]
iPad Pro.
The minimal mean minimal to other heating alternatives not being insignificant.
Air flowing through a hot item will be warmed significantly, this is how electric heaters work!
Depends how you define "in the kernel". In terms of what is compiled into the kernel image, it's C plus small pieces of assembler (both inline and in separate files). This proposal (if it ever happens) would be about adding Rust to that. If you mean the tree used to build the kernel, you could say it includes shell script, Makefiles, the Kconfig descriptions, and more. If you mean all the bits you need to have a very minimally working system which boots, you'd want to include all the languages used for the necessary userspace tools like the init system and udev (although the vast majority of that is also C and shell scripts).
Things like this make me want to design an Apple IV...

Sadly, the IIgs was not really an upgrade to the II line, but rather a 65816-based "MacAmiga ST" with an Apple IIe inside, screaming to come out.

And we all know the III would have been a good computer, if it weren't designed by the marketing team.
I'm a bit uninformed as well. Obviously it must use assembly in some places, it has makefiles for building and some scripts in perl. Here's what a cloc clone has to say.

tokei
===============================================================================
Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
===============================================================================
ASN.1 11 484 343 33 108
Assembly 3 2751 2450 0 301
GNU Style Assembly 1296 370153 270691 56418 43044
Autoconf 6 347 303 20 24
Automake 3 31 23 3 5
BASH 54 1991 1438 321 232
C 28971 19846129 14634535 2351170 2860424
C Header 21110 6056898 4465297 1010398 581203
C++ 8 2313 2016 68 229
C++ Header 2 125 59 55 11
CSS 1 137 80 29 28
Device Tree 3351 900862 735380 54238 111244
Gherkin (Cucumber) 1 252 174 50 28
Happy 9 5750 5061 0 689
HEX 1 86 86 0 0
INI 1 7 3 3 1
JSON 328 174872 174872 0 0
LD Script 15 412 317 48 47
Makefile 2587 64666 43896 10957 9813
Module-Definition 2 124 109 0 15
Perl 53 40583 31126 3931 5526
Python 118 36932 29072 2980 4880
ReStructuredText 2621 548840 417105 0 131735
Ruby 1 29 25 0 4
Shell 556 85666 59725 10972 14969
SVG 59 39038 37555 1405 78
Plain Text 3230 239573 0 197373 42200
Unreal Script 5 716 446 162 108
Vim script 1 42 33 6 3
XSL 15 300 183 78 39
YAML 921 91167 72962 3985 14220
===============================================================================
Total 65340 28511276 20985365 3704703 3821208
===============================================================================
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Academic papers related to fuzzing, binary analysis and exploit dev
Taleb is not a stoic, but his works provide a great framework for dealing with uncertainty: for example, the whole concept of antifragility... benefiting from misfortunes... seems like core stoic concept, isn't it?

Regarding his behavior. I think he just enjoys being human. After all, if he was ruled by emotions he'd not survive the trader job.