skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Plaud.io – text-to-speech and audio forward social media
That is a great way to put the issue. I have struggled to put this into such concrete terms and now I'll be using this going forward. Thank you!
meanwhile in germany, german telekom have their connect ip lines (leased lines..., company internet..) shutdown since tuesday morning.
so a downtime of over 48 hours, besides a sla that no downtime will be longer than 8 hours and a availability of 99,9%.

what a crazy world.
Opening:

> UK-based chip designer Arm appears to no longer be in control of its joint-venture business unit, Arm China. In May, Arm fired Allen Wu, the head of Arm China, but Wu refused to acknowledge the decision and has continued overseeing operations of the business unit, according to Bloomberg.

> Arm China also reportedly won't let members of the UK parent entity onto its premises.

If ARM [Ltd/UK] revokes licensing deals with Arm China, would that prevent export? Would that matter if the internal Chinese market is big enough?
So you're saying the plot seized up and the author wasn't able to engineer a solution?
Or "Temporary Containers" which is the same as Cookie Autodelete but for all cached data instead of just cookies.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
They recommend that if you want to try what will be the defaults when they release this. The other setting is the other half of it.

If you enable only the setting you specified, you won't be able to set samesite=none on http cookies, only "secure" cookies for https-only.

If you enable the other setting, cookies will default to Lax, regardless of "secure" status for the cookie.

If you enable both, the only way to have a samesite=None (totally insecure) cookie is over https and by manually specifying None.
I mean I just opened a Twitter profile and counted 10 full seconds before the actual tweets loaded. 1-2 seconds is pretty blazing by comparison. How much faster do you need to be than the most popular social media site?
Not even the tiny little box in the right side of the address bar that says a popup was blocked? I've seen blocked pop-ups there before, but never heard of or seen Firefox block a pop-up with absolutely no feedback.
Rear ending another car or running into an obstacle because you’re flying blind is not exactly a better option.
Self Hosting Plausible
The FDA has done plenty of research on direct to consumer (DTC) advertising for drugs.[1] It's not like they just said "yeah, that's cool, go ahead".

In a report from 2015, the FDA found that there were benefits (shocking!) and drawbacks to DTC advertizing.

Positives:

- Most physicians agreed that because their patient saw a DTC ad, he or she asked thoughtful questions during the visit.

- Many physicians thought that DTC ads made their patients more involved in their health care.

- The study demonstrated that when a patient asked about a specific drug, 88 percent of the time they had the condition that the drug treated. And 80 percent of physicians believed their patients understood what condition the advertised drug treats.

- Eighty-two percent responded either "very well" or "somewhat" when asked whether they believe that their patients understand that only a doctor can decide whether a drug is right for them.

Negatives:

- 65 percent believe DTC ads confuse patients about the relative risks and benefits of prescription drugs

- Eight percent of physicians said they felt very pressured to prescribe the specific brand-name drug when asked.

[1]https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-information-consumers/impact-...
...the number of victims seams small ...

In large-scale disasters, a low initial casualty count can be quite deceptive. It often means victims simply cannot be reached, identified, or tallied. In amount of explosive material (not necessarily yield), the Beirut blast compares with the Halifax Explosion of 1917, with 1,950 dead in that incident.

Circumstances, construction, and crowd response (the burning Mont-Blanc had attracted a large shoreside crowd) differ. But beware premature assessment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
I am upvoting this because it shows how much we rely on good intentions. We expect the submitter to have verified the source, the upvoters to read and critically analyze the content and everyone else to have long attention spans to read the article. In reality, people consider title to be TLDR, commenters reply to the comment and not to the article, and people form opinions before reading.

I am actually proud that the community stood up for the ideals of trusting others (even if the trust was misplaced). I am also pleasantly surprised at how well GPT can mass produce such articles.
Personal AI project video: Anticipating user needs with GOFAI
cAn U pRoViDe SoUrcE fOr tHaT plZ?
This article should be renamed "Look at All the Strawmen I Made Up!"
Facebook is establishing itself as the social network you go to when you are tired of chasing new social networks. If you wait long enough features off that new network will come to you. This is a much bigger market than dominating a five year cohort.

Facebook has been declared dead without actually dying for so long now that it might still be alive when the retro mechanisms start kicking in.
the problem with vitamin D is there's a lot of confounders that D is a proxy for, particularly met-syn and old age, so until there's actual mechanistic descriptions for how D inhibits covid severity, i'm remaining cautiously-optimistic-bordering-on-skeptical about its curative powers.
> "If speed/performance is a feature that your customers want to pay for, they will let you know. If it's not, then your competitor will eat your lunch"

This doesn't really disagree with the argument from the piece. You could summarize this line of thinking this way: The pressures at work in the software market drive us to create slower and slower software. It seems like everyone actually agrees on that point.

The only real disagreement seems to be how to respond to the fact. It's either, "Well shucks, that's just the way it is. At least I have auto-complete" or a feeling that, despite the pressures to just bloat and expand and slow down forever, it would be nice if we tried to combat it.
Well thanks for that recommendation. Added to my reading list
I'm in Germany, every doctor I know has a website. Maybe it varies by region?

Some have simple sites, most have marketing-sites, plenty with keyword domains.
Maybe the reason we are in this mess is because we relied too much on science, and too little on actual humanities (rhetoric, logic, and so on)? I hear about hermeneutics more and more in my circle: how to communicate trumps what is communicated.

I can see why Fauci and many top scientists fail to convince people like Trump and his supporters: he knows, but can't communicate what he knows so that information is conveyed, and not simply stated.
University of Warsaw Students Implement Apache Parquet for Scylla/Seastar
> Then I would completely break the feature out into its own app with separate branding. Hopefully I could get 10-20% of the active users of that feature to move to the new app and then grow it from there.

As we all know this strategy worked great for Foursquare.
> Here's the other thing though. Law suits are expensive.

Maybe. Depends on the state, the complaint, and the lawyer. Several states allow/force the loser to pay legal fees, to allow small-fry folks with legit complaints to fight against larger orgs with money to spend.

Lawyers may also take cases on contingency, or you may be able to find legal aid / pro-bono / reduced rates.

There are also lots of levers available via state or provincial labor boards. These will vary greatly, and may not replace a lawyer or lawsuit -- but some will.

> Law suits burn bridges (you'll never get a recommendation from an employer you've sued).

They already fired you for reasons that are "wrongful" -- the bridges are already burned. Were they going to give you a good recommendation before the lawsuit? Probably not. Maybe they didn't, and that's why there are lawyers involved.

> Law suits prevent future jobs (would you hire someone who sued a previous employer?). And wrongful termination isn't the end.

Depends on the role and hiring pool.

For roles that are harder to fill, or situations where I'm willing to take a good hard look at the candidate then maybe. Like, these are public records, and if I'm on the fence I could always just get a copy of those records. Plus there is plenty of shitty behavior on the part of employers -- no shortage of stories about it here on HN -- so I'm willing to give a qualified candidate the benefit of the doubt.

Totally agree with your point if this is for a role where I get 500-1000+ resumes -- plenty of talent out there, so why settle for someone who picked a fight?
How will you compete with tools such as Sequel Pro, SQL Workbench etc ? Also, remember that it is not just about connection strings. Lot of databases cannot be accessed over a direct connection (thankfully). You need to either ssh into it or it is part of a private network altogether.
Placebo effects can be great; they can mask underlying issues though. Also, if you actually have a vitamin D deficiency (or some other health issue), it could be good to know why. Perhaps your kidneys are having issues, for instance.
Quick Google results:

- Mayo Clinic says "Taking 60,000 international units (IU) a day of vitamin D for several months has been shown to cause toxicity."

- news-medical.net says "To prevent toxicity, tolerable upper intake levels have been fixed for vitamin D as..." 4000 for adults.

- healthline.com says "A daily vitamin D intake of 1000–4000 IU (25–100 micrograms) should be enough to ensure optimal blood levels for most people."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

https://www.news-medical.net/health/Vitamin-D-Overdose.aspx

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-much-vitamin-d-is-t...
Over here in The Netherlands as well. It’s almost as if people forgot that there are directories of medical professionals you can consult!
s/force/energy release/
Just use the 1 line jQuery:

const $ = document.querySelector.bind(document)
Isn't is possible to resolve the URL locally? It looks like it's just part of the redirect URL in the example given above
It's not really fair to compare the two that closely. Doing so misses a key aspect of Hypercard, which is how it fit holistically into the operating systems of its time. Hypercard "authors" had the ability to do many of the things their operating system could do from within the HC/HT system.

Hypertalk is also different in purpose and kind from JS. The former is easier to read than it is to write (Hypercard encouraged learning by copying / example), and was explicitly designed for everyday people. It was meant to bridge the gap between "users" and "programmers" and provide true computational media authoring.
My guess is that the employment market is a difficult market, every solution today does not solve it, and so people continue to try to build newer and better solutions.

there has to be something more fundamental or lower level that all of them are missing.
Yes I recently went through a similar use case with one of my alpha users. They wanted to run the reverse proxy and playback as docker containers spread through their environment. Will drop you an email with more info...
So the way to get kids to like Math is by forcing them to learn... proofs? Not learning how it applies to the world and solves problems, but how it can be used to impress professors who care about rigor/pedantics?

Math is dirty. Math was created by businessmen who wanted to be monopolists. By gamblers who wanted to win, or at least to postpone the day when they would go broke. By scammers, and those who wanted defense against scammers. By people who wanted to blow up their enemies in war and who were moved by hatred and revenge. A recent mathematical construct born out of academia wants to destroy the US dollar and turn the world economy upside down. There are people trying to take over another planet with Mathematics. Others are trying to achieve geopolitical supremacy building artificial intelligence and robots armies.

Mathematics is blood. Mathematics is power.

There's a disconnect between academics and how real humans think if the modern solution to Math education is proofs.
I think it's one of the key virtues of the programmer: arrogance.

I've worked with engineers who hated frameworks. They saw them as overhead imposed by force on everything they did that didn't know or care what they actually needed. Surely it was better and simpler to compose libraries to do what they needed, as they found they needed it.

Ultimately, they failed to understand that they needed CSRF protection, security headers, input validation, any kind of meaningful authentication or authorization framework, and so on. In their arrogance, they assumed their insight into their needs complete and total.
This Atlantic article cites a study which indicates that scientists don't lose credibility when advocating for political positions: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/when-sci...

Now, this is different from what you've claimed, which is about the effect on science itself rather than the credibility of scientists to the public. But I believe the study only showed short-term effects. In my view, long-term political advocacy is likely to make people view scientists differently than they view them now.
True, but I'm not sure difficulty is as relevant if the motivation is there. You can't terraform the South Pole. Mars reopens the frontier whereas the South Pole is a dead end
And if they say no, then they're considered "not a team player", which could hurt them at review time, even though they're personally forced to carry the entire team's diversity efforts.
Build reproducibility doesn't solve the problem of "how do I know the computer I don't control is actually running the program I think it is?"

The only solutions are related to fully homomorphic encryption, which is a way of running a program on a computer you don't control where the operator of that computer cannot learn information about the work it is performing. Unfortunately, pure software approaches to FHE haven't been proven out.

It is possible to get the benefits of FHE by utilizing a software enclave, but then you have a different trust narrative that involves hardware (and attestation services). The point of remote attestation is that you can verify that a computer you don't control is running a specific binary (verified by the hash and a signing key) at a specific moment in time. The problem is that the chain of trust for the signing key traces back to the manufacturer of the enclave.

The holy grail would be some way of decentralizing the trust of the enclave OR finding a way to do purely software based FHE that was fast. I'm not holding my breath for the latter, but the former might be possible in the next decade.

In short, if you have a reproducible build but you don't have a way of verifying that binary is actually running on a remote server you don't control, the reproducibility of the build is a moot point. I sorta think the only systems where build reproducibility matters today are ones that use enclaves (but I'm willing to be disabused of this notion if people feel otherwise).
It's incredibly complex and has exceptional engineering challenges to make work.

That much cryogenic hydrogen and massive temperature differences is as the limit of engineering possibilities.
Apple and Google’s Covid-19 tracking will make full US debut in new Virginia app
> After you make a heroic temporary fix, please, ensure the permanent fix is applied later!

I've known people who would, depending on exactly how bad the failure was, outright refuse to apply temporary fixes precisely because they didn't believe that the business would fix things properly if the issue wasn't forced. And having watched how that particular company handled things, I can't say that they were wrong.
Twitter for Android Security Vulnerability
Awareness can also be an issue -- the experts can't help you if you don't tell them about your problem. And a layperson can't get help from an expert unless they know they have a problem. This can especially be a concern with medical issues that carry social stigma.
> every equation has one solution

So when you see the sun rising, cherish the moment, as it has never happened before and will never happen again.
Agreed, also I was surprised to see how much website still work while blocking all the third party scripts.
Can I ask one more question: how did you make the move? And did you have a quantitative education? I know everyone's path is different, but I'm curious how you found your current role once you decided to get out of IT proper.
> When vitamin D is produced in the body naturally via exposure to sunlight there's a huge amount of other things that occur as well

Any further reading on that? On the other hand worth supplementation you don’t get the harmful uv rays.
That’s what they said about Snapchat
One concern that I would have is that I've heard that the light from a tanning salon doesn't match the light output by the sun. Supposedly the sun has more UVB or something and there are reasons to believe it may be healthier. Do you, or anyone else, have any knowledge on this?
There is also this one, and the corresponding iOS app (which I have.) It seems to run a bit faster on my phone.

https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/
…that doesn't mean they don't. Pregnant women are routinely handcuffed while giving birth. If you want to see the peak in inhumane treatment of prisoners, go to any American prison south of the Mason–Dixon. Forced feeding, solitary confinement, executions, no foreign investigations (the US won't let the UN inspect American prisons), single-ingredient dietary plans as punishment – I've seen a lot of it working with a local prison abolitionist group for the last few years.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/24/shackled-pre...

https://www.pix11.com/news/coronavirus/rikers-inmate-with-co...

https://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/solitary-confinem...

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/force-feeding-pris...
Agree.

In critical infrastructure, it's often essential to provide customers with a single fix. If you can't reproduce the build that they have, then you can't do that.
I actually had my first nightmare in a long time a few weeks ago. I woke my girlfriend up due to moving in my sleep. Trouble is it's not very scientific because although I don't think I've had a nightmare in a while, I'm not sure because I don't record them.
The recent JAMA only says that Vitamin D does not help with depression. On the other hand, it seems to be useful in preventing respiratory infections, see the following for a review of randomized studies https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i6583 .
I doubt it exploded at full efficiency.
Wow that could be a game changer. I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about that.
Not sure what this shows evidence of.

I'd say its fairly ubiquitous that startups have bad code that get rewritten upon scaling demands.
I don't know if this should really be considered a "research paper" even.
Are you saying you have no diversity in your friends? They’re all technical and they all have the same privacy view as you?
> 'cease to exist'

Game-Theory anyone: A balancing act for um the chance to dominate ?
I thought MH coverage was one of the essential services under Obamacare?
So Sweden is right? If so will all these pundits and journalists come back with an apologetic mea culpa?

If it’s never going away we have to start behaving like it and not continue lockdowns and SIPs and so on.

Masks, hygiene, distancing, stay home when sick, etc. but get people back in a groove. People cannot remain cooped up like livestock in a pen.
To my understanding an approximate algorithm is one that technically solves a different problem. I don't think the approximate algorithms themselves form a complexity class because it's not sufficiently well defined how close an approximation is for an arbitrary problem. So it doesn't really make sense to ask if approximate algorithms are included in RP.

Although I suppose you could consider RP to be an approximate algorithm for a decision problem, although it doesn't guarantee it's close it just guarantees it's right at least x% of the time.
The counter-argument is that there is no value in doing scientific research if you don't use the results to influence human choices.
This reads like a negligible anecdote
> It's called national security.

it's called retaliation. Can you explain to me how a social media platform mostly used by teenagers relates to military clashes on a contested border?

And Ukraine isn't exactly the best example. The country is a political and economic basketcase with a lower per capita income than Iraq, and one of the reasons is that for eons terrible policy making has been justified by vaguely pointing at Russia.

You really can't just say the words 'national security' like some magical incantation. There better be an actual evidence-backed reason for clamping down on economic activity. Especially if the group you're clamping down on actually is one of your biggest trading partners, which happens to be the case for both US-China and Ukraine-Russia.
Qutebrowser with a Firefox backend would be nice.
I can't remember seeing any cc_test target at Google that ran with realistic release optimizations (AutoFDO/SamplePGO+LTO) and even if they did it's still not the release binary because it links in the test case and the test main function.
I don't have 8GB RAM to dedicate just to Twitter.
You kind of made my point by quoting straight from Google public relations. Was the strikingly similar schematic verified independently by journalists? Did it come up at trial?
2Msqft is c.430m x 430m for a square floorplan. Ping resolution is 1us (microsecond). Speed of electrical signal in cooper is about 0.8c. Gives a max resolution of ~240m by my reckoning. If there are variances in the switch+network delay it seems like you're going to struggle to even say which side of the building it is.

Good job they found it!
Programmers are motivated by Laziness and Hubris to various degrees. Arrogance is a side effect of success (within a limited domain).
These sorts of metrics are interesting to investors at a quarterly timescale.

Understanding these phenomena is easier when you think of it solely in terms of the bottom line.
The main problem of those bubbles to me is that they break the UI.
Sticking to your own UI gets more engagement as the article pointed out.
Just a small correction, AOT and JIT caches like AppCDS were already available in commercial JVMs like J/Rockit or IBM WebSphere Real Time, as two examples from a couple of possible ones.

What is happening now is that the free beer Java users are also getting those features on the package.
sorry writing while eating lunch earlier so no doubt could be phrased better :)

What I was trying to get at was that there are lots of "optional extras" that seem to get loaded up front at the moment that would be better if they were progressively loaded.

I think you see that a lot with SPAs in a way that you didn't when JS was used to 'progressively enhance' sites rather than for all interactions.

I don't think it's a problem of SPAs by definition — you could engineer an SPA to progressively load what's needed, and make the first load very slimline & then only load additional features while idle or on request, which is why I think GMail is a bad example. For example, I've just tried logging into Gmail in a fresh Firefox window (no cache) that I set to throttle to a "regular 3G" connection speed in the browser. It took literally 30s to load (with one email in the inbox).
If Microsoft acquires TikTok how would they go about vetting all of the code to remove any potentially malicious components?
To me WeChat has more in common with the old AOL or Yahoo web portals in a 2020 wrapping.