skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Inertia, tech debt, a less nimble culture all add up.

Intel needs to kick off a skunk works that basically gets funded well enough to find a new way.

If they do it now, some space could get really interesting again.
Something on the order of 40% of viruses that cause "colds" are corona viruses.
Years ago there was some product, essentially a goo, that claimed to dramatically extend the life of blades. The rationale was that hair was too soft to dull a blade, and what was really dulling them was oxidation.

Don't know what became of the product, but would be interesting to know if corrosion plays a role in the chipping.
The Chinese government isn't made up of nice people by any stretch but it's vitally important to understand their position so as to avoid escalation, possibly into armed conflict in future decades.

They have every reason to view the survival of their tech sector as a vital economic security interest. Confiscating the value of their foreign tech assets without cause, or legitimate due process, will not make the Chinese change their behavior. It will only harden their position and make future conflict more likely because the US has demonstrated that it is not willing to respect the rule of law or act in good faith towards Chinese businesses.

Slow-walking into another cold war isn't in anyone's interest and the deplorable behavior of the Chinese government does not change this.
> But in journalism multiple independently verifiable sources count as a reputable source that backs a truthful story. In law, the testimony of two or more people is sufficient even without evidence (not just in the west but in almost every legal system). I and most of humanity disagree with your views of creation/origin

Second hand testimony is hearsay, if I'm not mistaken. And all firsthand witnesses to the most common faiths founders are all long dead. And few if any of them were literate.

Considering that most of their claims are either disproven (faith healing) or unfalsifiable (hell, Eden, etc) there's nothing tangible to gain and plenty for marginalized groups to lose.

No doubt you've been taught some of the mental gymnastics like confirmation bias, survivorship bias, and appeals to authority to 'prove' some personal experience or establish "the truth". In fact you suggest that because those beliefs are popular somehow they are more legitimate. Well, humans believed the world was flat for most of history. Yet I've flown around it without ever reaching the edge.

Whatever the truth it's best to hold ones views loosely. Then when a more fitting explanation appears one can accept it.
Also some percentage of Discord.
how about somebody started an MIT licensed alternative to it?
You should be able to get the size of c_ulong without any dependencies using std::mem::size_of::<std::os::raw::c_ulong>(). I usually use std::os::raw instead of the libc dependency in my own crates, even though some people consider it bad style to do so. (Working in graphics it's often the case that I don't need anything from libc except a few data types.)

Another note: The notion of a "compilation unit" in Rust is fuzzier than in C/C++, because of incremental compilation. The goal is to be able to point rustc at a crate and have rustc/cargo internally decide which parts of it should be recompiled and which can be cached. A good chunk of this is already done today—for example, rustc will internally split up single crates into multiple LLVM compilation units to get better parallelism during the codegen phase—but more can definitely be done. Basically, Rust leans more on "compiler heroics" than C/C++ traditionally has, in that the compiler effectively splits up source files automatically instead of the programmer manually doing so.
New Zealand. https://theconversation.com/100-days-without-covid-19-how-ne...

It required fast, concerted action and a populace willing to comply with significant new temporary policies.
Most poor Americans are quite fat. They are nowhere near in danger of starvation. They are just undisciplined.
Sea Monsters on Mediæval and Renaissance Maps (Lecture by Chet Van Duzer) (2013)
A day ago, "Facebook removed from Trump’s official account the post of a video clip from a Fox News interview in which he said children are “almost immune” from covid-19." (source WP)

Is this really misinformation, or a false statement, worthy of censoring a presidents speech. For one, "almost immune", is not the same as claiming "immune". So its not even like its even a false statement, anymore than saying I "almost caught" a fish, when you didn't.

The implication is that children have low infection rate.

Regardless of the truth value, of "almost immune", removing the post, also robs people of valuable information, like for example, if Trump is leaning to have schools open in September.
Please provide the doi.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right

By suing Google for discrimination against white conservative men, Damore fits this fairly well. That, and the alt-right podcasts he went on.
https://www.porschefremont.com/porsche-dynamic-light-system/
That's exactly the opposite of a specific recent incident. :)
Show HN: I'm building a cool Tower Defense game to be released soon
Is that all it takes to get you on board with a ban?
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

From the guidelines

Downvoting because you disagree has also been acceptable on this site, since basically forever https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
I'm in the northwest suburbs and about 20 minutes away from O'Hare.
I mean, man pages are searchable, immediately accessible, usually callable by the same name as the binary, somewhat standard in their formatting, and frequently exhaustive in at least the interface of the program. It's about 10x easier to `man someprogram` than it is to open a browser and google for some random answer in a lot of cases. What flag is it again? How do I format that string again?

Man pages are part of what I love about the unixy CLI experience. That is, in my opinion, a far cry from a hostile document like a ToS that is asking you to consent to things after going out of their way to be impenetrable and opaque.

The man pages are just trying to help you! Love them.
there is n8n.io have you checked it?
This isn't about what is, but what should be. What makes Facebook different from FedEx that it should censor messages between willing participants?

Also, I note that you didn't list MasterCard, which has been known to cut perfectly legal businesses loose... and that's a very small industry. You have what? Visa/MasterCard, AMEX and Discover, pretty much.
State of the Art in Automated Machine Learning
Why wouldn’t you eat all you can when you’re not sure you’ll continue to eat?
Micro transactions in Tencent’s games? Who knows.

Tencent owns 40% of Epic Games, which owns Fortnite and the Epic Games store. This might be a symbolic move more then anything, because unless they intend to be rigorous about Tencent’s connections with all these companies (e.g Can’t buy anything on Epic’s store, or make micro transactions in games from companies owned by Tencent), they really are not stopping anything.

Your purchases through Epic or Riot (League of Legends, Valorant) are not seen as ‘direct’ transactions with Tencent.

Basically it’s exactly the kind of grandstanding Trump would partake in.
JavaScript Dev Bookmarks
> strange dance around nightly ("we never break things…except in nightly, which we know you are using for your project because we gated all the features behind it")

Creating a beta channel or getting more of those features released in stable requires money or time.
You should definitely film that. I bet there are thousands of people that would watch a "firefly vs spider" death match on youtube.
I've done automated diff-based migrations before using SQLDelta. It caused me a lot of trouble and I think it's a bad approach.

These diff tools just don't have the information they need to solve the data problems that are the actual hard part of schema migrations.

Simple example: I want to concatenate these two text columns into one.

I do think SQLDelta and similar tools can still be useful after doing the real migration using incremental scripts. You can use them to check for problems, and to fix up easy things like views and stored procedures.
The "abilities" mention in there is pretty tantalizing, since as far as I can tell, "ability" isn't actually mentioned anywhere else. The memo instead prefers mentions of a few personality-type differences that are less controversial, combined with some "maybes" about how these differences benignly explain the gender imbalances at the company. Biological IQ difference gets only a passing mention as "science denial by The Left." One wonders about the other kinds of "biological" differences that were edited out before the document was posted.

The preceding post overstates how strong the memo was in its rhetoric, but the whole thing is kind of a mess: it simultaneously argues that women are worse at negotiating salaries and raises and also that there is also no pay gap for equal work, it allows as how diversity might be important, but only for those "soft" UX-adjacent roles like design and testing (which are not really "tech" as opposed to software engineering), posits alternative "solutions" based around catering to its identified inherent differences for women but also undercuts each one, and just generally veers off onto wild tangents like the spending of taxpayer money, "violent leftist protests at universities," the superiority of capitalism over communism, and more.
Anyone doing OS development is still on nightly last I checked but aside from that stable has the features most people need.
What a bizarre and interesting turn. I'd give a lot to be able to sit in on the meetings between TikTok and Microsoft right now.

I wonder if FB will come over the top with a bid.
You are correct that Maven is one of the first package registries to use a principled approach toward namespacing.

I didn't mention it because -- and this may be rude to Maven -- I consider Maven's coordinates syntax to be closer to "primitive Go" than it's own distinct thing. If software hosted on `example.com/foo/bar` has the package name `com.example.foo/bar` then it's introducing ambiguity without much benefit.
Ironically the left has gone so mentally insane they are also cannibalising centre left now, but I think this list is ok -

https://twitter.com/SoOppressed/status/1282404649522343936

I think you are being disingenuous perhaps, unless I don't understand your context.

Wormgate was for instance about a scientist insulting a roundworm, and because a worm is small it really means they are insulting minorities.

They are not fired, yet.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/worm-joke-causes-science-twitt...
My former project manager used to take every Friday off, probably because they couldn't pay him the right salary and he got things done fast anyway. Maybe try somewhere you're overqualified for. A lot of places would rather hire a cheap senior than a couple of juniors, and they'll be less suspicious of you offering to take a low salary.

I've freelanced at 3 days/week but it's too little for me IMO. I really liked taking Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays off. Many groceries restock on Friday, Saturday evenings, or Monday so those were good times to find fresh food. I could also extend that to a 4 day weekend if I wanted a quick vacation.
Eh, TikTok could set up some proxies on non-China non-US controlled shared infrastructure, and with modern https the US network carriers wouldn't be able to tell if the traffic was to them or someone else. The degree in invasiveness needed to enforce this policy via ISPs (prohibiting effective encryption) would probably end up violating the first amendment.
What is the trade reason why these apps are being banned?
> The same way that someone would say, "I'm not saying all black men are criminals, but on average, they go to prison more."

This is unfortunate but also true. Which is exactly what Damore might say about the distribution of this or that attribute among women being shifted from that of men. I don't see the point of lining up a true statement with Damore's when I believe you are claiming his statement is false.

I also don't see what makes the wording "weak." There's nothing weak about trying to describe something in a nuanced way. And it's perfectly possible to be pro-diversity while also claiming what Damore has claimed, in the same way that it's possible to support BLM while also believing that more black people go to prison (your example).

> He claims that it's not all women, just distributed averages (so the typical woman) on a whole.

Please just say this next time. This is the hypothesis that Damore actually backed, and if it turned out to be true it wouldn't prove anything about any individual woman. It wouldn't even prove anything about any select subset of women, insofar as that subset was not selected randomly. It's positively tame compared to the claim that so many are quick to mis-attribute to Damore: "All women are less capable of X, Y, or Z"
At the end of the day, you need enough people to care. But plenty are happy with finishing the work, or absolving all the messiness of real world and focus on the engineering work, which is simply more pleasant (and fits to their liking). Work is hard enough, why adding extra stress unless the company is doing something obviously illegal?
I could barely muster a 4 hour day, lol. I don't know how you could get more done with a 10 hour day.
I'd argue HN is worse than Reddit, at least there are more diverse views there instead of a bunch of boomer neckbeards jerking each other off here.
Pretty cool. For RISC-V experts out there, can someone explain to me the purpose of the proxy kernel? I can't seem to wrap my head around it. Why not just run a normal kernel (e.g. Linux) on top of the emulator? What advantages/disadvantages does the proxy kernel have?
>No, you're conflating higher-order functions with closures

Well, if you are actually doing the real hardcore FP™, and not just the lame pretentious PF, then yes higher-order functions will indeed very much make heavy use of closures. Did you miss the part where I gave haskell as an example? And note that I didn't say that closures and higher-order functions are the same thing.

> Higher-order functions that use closures make use of closures. Higher-order functions that don't use closures do not

How are these tautologies even an argument? This does not say anything meaningful, like saying wet water is wet. Don't worry, I'm not even trying to keep a straight face while reading what all you have said so far.

> I don't think there is even a purpose to higher-order functions without closures.

Heh, I did qualify my statement with "I don't think" since I didn't really give that much though on that one.

But okay, I admit that statement is dumb and invalid since the usual map, filter, reduce functions are good examples where higher-order functions is not a closure. But more often than not, you really do need to use closures to do anything beyond simple cases like map(array, x => x*x).

My overall point still holds. I'm still in a very good position to challenge your dogmatic beliefs that: heavy-usage of closures is pseudofunctional and unfunctional.
> Under the hood, Confidential Computing environments keep data encrypted in memory, and elsewhere outside the CPU. Data is decrypted within the CPU boundary by memory controllers using embedded hardware keys that a cloud provider does not have access to.

I don’t know how much that buys you. If the threat model is that the cloud provider cannot be trusted, can’t the cloud provider just run your software on a machine that did not encrypt memory. After all they control the machines and schedule what code runs on the machines. How could you even detect an attack like that?

EDIT:

Unless you are using some theoretically secure system such as fully homomorphic encryption, if the organization that physically controls the machine your code runs on wants to compromise you, they can.
Review of the book the lecture was based upon was submitted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6315205 in 2013 with some scanned TL;DR images in a blog post.
I really appreciate your comment, I think I will add your log line idea to my project at work!

I also wanted to disable lazy fetching of foreign keys, and I wrote something for it, then decided it was too risky to use in production (monkey patching) so I ended up just running nplusone [0] locally and fixed the issues it detected. Really would like Django to add this feature so it can be enforced properly though!

[0] - https://github.com/jmcarp/nplusone
That don't abide by Chinese law. There's a reason Bing and Skype are still allowed in China. The US government has no proof of TikTok or WeChat violating any US laws that other American companies haven't.
Are you saying this because chemical bonds are largely due to electromagnetic force? That is true as far as I am aware. Although it does seem like a peculiar way to say it: "Our biological processes are mediated by photons". But maybe that is just me.

Regardless, it still is incorrect to say we are simply an arrangement of photons. The matter making up our body is composed of atoms, which are composed of electrons, quarks, and gluons (fundamental particles in the standard model).
I've been also posting GIFs on each update, if you don't want to watch the video.

https://twitter.com/victorqribeiro/status/129158940021278720...

But on the video I talk about the level generator
Always on eInk display (kindle?) + react website
Dad, husband, designer, dev, and productivity nerd here. I bet someone in the HN community has figured this out.

THE GOAL:
A system of tasks that is slightly smart to help with my family chores.

THE MPV:
Post its around the house that are rewritten daily or weekly.
Is great, but is high friction, ideally the v1 hooks up to our digitals tools.

V1 IDEAS:

1. mounted eink display. Mounted to the wall. Maybe we charge once in a while or permanently plugged. Locations:
- Bathroom: hooks to calendar events in the morning, plus task list. At night tasks to do before bed.
- Kitchen: food plan for the day
- Hallway: departure checklist

2. Always on? ideally the content is always visible, b/c of eink it doesn't blast your eyes or attracts the attention of a toddler. Less good but ok, you have to unlock to show the website.

3. What's on the display: it just uses a browser (eg. Kindle's experimental browser) to show a url. The content should always be up to date.

4. React? Ideally I can hack with react b/c it's fast, simple and I'm experienced.

5. Ideally it's an interactive display. Apart from consuming info, being able to press button and take actions would be awesome.

What I've learnt so far:
- I've tried Nicholas Jitkoff's hack for older kindles: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1efF6TXezl_2qaeZ6pHMScXSmOJ4cs2WRLA-s90eySSA/preview But the described steps no longer work with latest version of jailbroken kindles
- looked into other eink displays but nothing looks very promising.

Thanks for reading so far! Any thought/comment will be deeply appreciated.
My bad. I thought they owned more than half of the whole market.
"Free speech means congress isn’t allowed to silence the media." - Exactly but Facebook the platform can but they choose not to because it's convenient for them regardless of whether someone spreads misinformation or maligns another person.
Without wanting to sound disrespectful to those affected 5-8% is pretty good for a care home.
This is the stone I am currently using, 8k(3 micron) diamond. Made by sprinkling diamond dust on a steel block while electroplating the steel with nickel. The nickel holds the diamonds on pretty firmly so it lasts a long time if you do not abuse it. Cost about $80
https://www.sharpeningsupplies.com/8-Extra-Extra-Fine-Diamon...

In the past I have used fiber optic polishing film, it works and cost around $1 a sheet. It must be stuck to a very flat surface like a glass table or your bathroom mirror. You want something in the range of 1-10 micron.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/114106443536
For those of us not in the know, from whom were they borrowed?
What they say to the press and what the EO order say are two different things.
ArcGIS has a formidable feature-set to clone and users will want them all. I believe that's their moat?
The worst part is that anti-vaxxers would be able to say, "See??? I was right!!!! You're all idiots!!!!!!"
That day when no wants to put any effort into anything will be a fun day in the history of mankind.
I like the idea but haven't been able to make it work in practice. Diffing produces migrations that just can't be run on big production DBs and it just doesn't work properly if you're using schema based partitioning or have partitioning which depends on the inserted data.
Because the fear is clearly not based on reality given the extra 60 pounds most have. Nowhere are Americans starving in any meaningful numbers.

Sure they might not always know a week in advance what they are going to eat, but they could cut their food spending by 1/3 and it would average out.
> Secondly, if you accept physical differences exist but refuse to accept mental difference exist.

If you're arguing about mental abilities, you should site studies about mental abilities. Yes, the mind is physical, but it's much more malleable than the musculo-skeletal system, so analogies break down quickly.

> There are barely any white players in the NBA, is that the result of racism or more due to biological factors?

Likely a combination of both biological and social factors.

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm not saying you're right. I'm saying your arguments need improvement.
If I wrote a long memo about how there are too many immigrants in America, and afterwards accepted an interview request from VDare, people would be right to wonder whether my private views were a little more racist than the memo let on.
> It's silly to think we're going to have a safe vaccine on the market any time soon. It'd probably be safer to give everyone coronavirus common cold viruses if it can build an immunity.

I'd say that there's a 70% chance that there's millions of doses available for North America by late January of a >50% efficacy vaccine with a high production rate from that point.

There are so many different vaccine efforts now, and so many of them producing at risk. Some will work. It's just a question of how high the efficacy is and the duration of protection.

> ..and Immune Enhancement Syndrome one of the serious consequences of the SARS1 and MERS vaccines that never made it past their trials.

A lot of us were worried about antibody dependent enhancement. But we've had basically no evidence that this is a significant concern: successful treatment with convalescent plasma, successful challenge tests with vaccines in animal models, successful monoclonal antibody therapies in animal tests, etc, all point the other way.

> Sure millions of people got the vaccine and were fine, but 3,000 people developed Guillain-Barre syndrome.

And this wasn't a good trade, because the vaccine probably saved a lot fewer than 3,000 lives. But at this point, you'd save a whole lot of lives even with a vaccine that bad. (And we're not going quite that quick that time around and we have somewhat better tools to prevent bad outcomes).

> I do not understand why we're trusting the man who gave us Windows 95 to lead the Gates/Gavi alliance responsible for giving us a "safe" vaccine in less than a year.

??? Now you've gone completely off the rails. Gavi's primary role is as a purchaser of vaccines and not in development. The couple dozen vaccine development efforts worldwide are what we can expect to yield a vaccine.
Considering 'the arguments therin' to be scientific is considering the memo to be scientific, which it's not.

When they're not conservative opinion pieces, they're cherry picked articles, even going to far as to misrepresent the data they support.