skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same fate as cigarettes how? Getting lawyers addicted to chasing dragons of large class action lawsuits regardless of any harm or wrongdoing actually existing? (Hello physics-illiterate cell phone cancer lawsuits.)
Used as a way for organized crime to generate profits due to exploiting disparate tax codes? Used as a cliche when they are a vastly stretched metaphor at best?

Twitter is a dumpster fire of user interface (their only remotely right features are infinite scroll and hashtags) and dynamics but calling it is trivializing literal cancer and externalized deaths because idiots make asses of themselves. The problem with society at large has always been society at large.
You may enjoy "Pure Functional Programming in Excel" by Felienne Hermans presented at GOTO 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKf8TrLUOw
Suicide data for the US is incredibly depressing. Suicide among kids aged 12-14 has doubled in the 20 years to 2018 and now outranks any kind of disease as the 2nd leading cause of death (after accidental injury). You probably don't think there are lots of 10-year-old schoolgirls hanging themselves, and that used to be incredibly rare, but now there are several of those every year. It's a dark time.
The Rise of the One Person Media Company
I don't think the majority of non-HN users share this opinion.

See:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlHnleQU9tQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsubahcOoIs
>because if someone tripped I'd be liable for this

isn't the sidewalk the city's responsibility? Also, wouldn't your homeowner's insurance cover it?

>In really small print at the bottom of the email was information telling me it was optional to do, but again I might be liable if anything happens.

Honestly the arrangement seems rent-seeking(ish) to me. At the very least it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. They're not providing any real value, just scaring people into paying with an (arguably) misleading letter.
I really wish they'd add "harmony mode" or something that would get you away from the shrill toxicity of standard Twitter. People can't help themselves but click "like" on the most extreme statements possible, so users are incentivized to make the most extreme statements to maximize likes.

The only success I've had is by starting a private list of knowingly healthy users that's aggressively curated to make it stay that way, and never looking at the home timeline.
Wow! Thanks for noticing this. It is brilliant! Now just gotta think of a project where I could use this ha!
I don’t get this? What does 10100403 mean?
I was always under the impression that the one ring—a weapon so powerful it will corrupt and destroy everything good in Middle Earth—was an obvious allegory for the Bomb.

The point of the fellowship was not to study the ring, make their own, and keep the peace in Middle Earth with a mutual assured destruction. Instead they had the fellowship take the ring back to Mordor where it would be destroyed.

Tolken does not seem to share your belief that: “mutually-assured destruction remains one of our best-available options for tenuous stability and peace”.

EDIT: And neither does the United Nations. I encourage you to read the Treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons (and subsequently ask your government to sign it if they haven’t already) and see why the presence of nuclear weapons among our nation states is a terrifying and dangerous endeavor.

https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/tpnw/
So much this. My company just got done shelling out a ton of money for some asshat to tell me that we can't use http on a dev server. <head smashes through desk>
tonymacx86 has maintained a recommended hardware list that gets regularly updated here: https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/building-a-customac-h...

Another useful guide from r/hackintosh lists hardware to avoid: https://dortania.github.io/Anti-Hackintosh-Buyers-Guide/
I love Scratch-like programming environments in principle and as an introduction to programming, but dragging blocks with the mouse is tedious. Do has anyone ever tried to design a keyboard-based input scheme that still works in this graphical environment?
A guy on reddit claiming to be ex-Intel thinks it looks like material shared with OEM’s and thus a breach of something like a motherboard manufacturer rather than Intel.
But if you've worked at Intel those should be part of your job for a majority of people and when they leave that knowledge goes to.
No, according to the article it's just for polyfills.

As far as I remember, Twitter PWA was a React app, and React comes at about 30k minified gzipped.
yeah I can see that, what if someone ends up being smart and re-using the verification procedure for a file that does have security impact, DRY right?
For most publications that time past a long time ago. There’s a limited space so even “presenting the facts” has an editorial bias when you decide which facts you are presenting.

The extreme example of this is a political news site that dedicates its entire site to posting anything that paints its opponents or their positions in a negative light. They can all be “thing happens” stories, but the filter alone gives it an angle.
It's absurd to claim that every hydroelectric dam is causing emissions from rotting trees. The land flooded by the Grand Coulee dam was not forested. The area it flooded looks pretty much like the area you can see around it today in google earth, desert scrub land.

The area flooded by the Hoover dam was not forested.

The area flooded by the Glen Canyon dam was not forested.

I could go on...
I was hoping you would link to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkgTxQm9DWM
> If Fedex & UPS were to be forced to sell off package delivery in NYC

Then the market will adjust. If you can't get packages delivered in NYC, you will have to get your goods through some other means. Maybe all of NYC is a bubble. Maybe that many people shouldn't live on a handful of tiny islands, importing their food from the mid west and their goods from China. Maybe everyone's in the wrong place.
pretty sure is multisig
The issue is not md5. The issue one wants to detect is weak hash functions used in cases where they're not appropriate. The fact that crc32 passed means that any obscure hash function would have passed too, even if it had been used in a context were it isn't appropriate.

All it means that the audit is superficial and doesn't catch the error category, just famous examples within that category. That kind of superficial sanning may be worth something when unleashed on security-naive developers or even as optional input for more experienced ones. But "hard compliance rules" and "superficial scans" combine to create a lot of busywork which makes people less motivated to work with auditors instead of against them.
Is it possible to securely transfer bitcoin offline?

Like if someone hands you a thumb drive and says “this contains a key for a $1m wallet”, you don’t know if they kept a copy of the key. But is there some mechanism whereby it could be guaranteed that you have the only copy?
But extensions do follow the Unix philosophy, if you look at them at a certain angle!

- The browser does one thing it does well, which is showing (running?) web pages.

- A typical extension does one thing (like annotating screenshots, or filtering trackers, or applying custom CSS), and does it hopefully well.

- You collect the extensions you want, and safely ignore the others; they compose without a hitch.

I run Firefox, and I run the following extensions, each doing its own narrow and separate thing:

- A password manager extension to fill in credentials.

- uMatrix for filtering out unneeded parts of Web pages (more for speed than for privacy).

- Stylus for custom CSS on certain sites.

- Foxy Gestures for mouse gestures.

- Markdown Here to render Markdown pieces of input controls to HTML (works great with Gmail or Jira).

Thank goodness I don't need to depend on whatever features the browser maker had time to provide to address similar needs, if any.

I wish the browser was even more like Emacs, where you have a barebones editor (or browser) and most of the UX around is provided by extensions. I see how it's a much more complex task in the browser environment due to security considerations, though.
This misses the possibbility of common cause in some or many cases. Also, mental illness can cause immense suffering and choosing to escape that can be entirely rational depending on the circumstances especially considering acccess to health care. The reaction to mental illness socially and economically should also be considered because it can make life even worse for sufferers. If escaping a life of gauranteed pain is irrational then we're going to have to disagree on our conception of rationality here.
To be fair, emailing binaries (apart from known types such as images, PDFs, etc.) is a rare enough use case for legitimate purposes and an easy enough way of spamming malware to clueless random people that it's probably a reasonable default for gmail.

Having an option to allow them might be okay though. (I barely use gmail so I don't know if it has one or not.)
Yes, we know this has been happening for 10,000s of years. The question now is to what extent, with SARS-CoV-2, is this the case based on a number of factors. It's a fundamental concept in epidemiology that hasn't been talked about enough. That is, pre-existing ability to fight off foreign cells because they body saw something close to it before. I think the obsession with the word "novel" has played a role in the public's perception.

I'd expect geography to be a significant factor based on how viruses propagate on Earth
That would be great. But it would also be great if they just released the specs/code of the first version of iOS that worked with any older-than-5 phone.

I still run iOS 10.3 on mine, and really don't care about the latest one, probably would run very slow anyway.
You misunderstood his point.

Assuming you’re talking civilian tossed back to the Bronze Age. Whoever has access to the vault might make use of the gold in such situations, but ownership is unlikely to be tracked back to people in another city etc.

Now, if you personally want to store physical gold that’s a different bet. Though personally storing significant amounts of valuables like that has plenty of obvious downsides.
Or even digital imaging, which is a new technology forced onto an otherwise very conservative industry.

As an example, think of TSMC's upcoming 3nm process. It has a density of 300 million transistors per square millimetre. A Canon 5DS R has a 50 MPix resolution, which works out to about 60K photosites per square millimetre. That's a "budget" of 5,000 transistors per photosite!

That's more than enough to do "digital sensing". That is: accumulating photons in a digital counter instead of using an analog capacitor, allowing unlimited dynamic range. There would be no such thing as sensor saturation, allowing unlimited "electronic ND filter" effects without the colors being distorted even in a long time-lapse. It would allow "steering" of the data to nearby accumulators through an on-chip network at megahertz rates, providing near-perfect digital shake reduction without having to physically move the chip. Shake reduction could track moving objects and avoid blur even for very long hand-held exposures with cars or people in the scene, the same as what the Google Pixel does, but at a far higher quality. The motion vectors could be fed into a video compression stage, improving picture quality to above what the compressors can normally achieve by "guessing" the motion from 24fps still frames.

Etc, etc...
I am planning on cancelling our family plan too. Most of tracks that I have listened are falling victims to a "loudness war". I guess they have re-encoded all of them with new settings. Now it is much more loud on YM to the point that I cannot make it lower - it is minimum settings on each possible volume control. I value my hearing more.

Also, all these little notes that I have put on some tracks here and there will be gone.

Someone in a high ranks of Google should take a clue, and once and for all say "stop it" with this "old bad, new good" madness. I have had quite a confidence loss in Google as a brand after Google Reader's demise, and nothing so far has improved it. Pixel 4 discontinued after 9 months?

Their brand lost so much confidence, that this is now to the point that at couple of different meetings over new tech directions, one of the common points brought against GCP and Go was that "This tech is from Google. We don't know if we can put a 10 years plan based on these technologies, given the Google's graveyard expansion rate".
What VCs Can't Say
What Makes Up a CPU?
Please, millions.

The roads are already there, electric cars are quiet, road trains are even more efficient.

I am no fan of American city design, having half encircled Davis CA on foot, having found the suddenly-terminating sidewalks in Salt Lake City, and having walked the really boring route from San Jose railway station to the hotel in the top left corner of the Apple Maps icon.

(NYC is surprisingly pedestrian friendly though).
Yes, topology in physics has some very exciting uses. My project actually studies topological quantum error correction!
Also agree, sql it's like javascript, it's almost on all projects I worked last 20 years.. (Django it's just another tool, and implementation detail).
If the framers of the constitution had intended for the federal government to have unlimited regulatory authority, they wouldn't have referred to Interstate Commerce. They would've just said: the federal government can do whatever it wants.

Redefining "interstate" is a mistake that one would hope that at least libertarian conservatives (who deliberately avoid expansionary scope creep without limit) would oppose.
AV1 comes out on top of all of the comparisons to my eye. Seems to be half a step above JPEGXL, i.e. small AV1 is almost as good as medium JPEGXL
I think there's a big difference between selling chemical secrets to a hostile government and this torrent. Namely, that no one is selling this information, it's available to anyone who can grab a magnet file.
// We use MD5 to check if config files are changed. This is not used anywhere else.
typedef DigestMD5 ConfigFileHasher;
Worked in commercial real estate before the last crash and have a few friends working at big mall companies. Have seen some really cool plans to turn a whole mall into residential with the interior being common areas and parks etc. Some really neat concepts.
Headed for? It has been that way for decades if not centuries or millenia! (Eastern Roman Empire sports politics say hi.) There aren't exaxtly many self proclaimed communists hanging out at Bubba's BBQ Bar and Grill - with demographics always comes politics implicitly.

Worrying about it is the same undue hysteria as thinking Citizen's United means that Pepsi and Coke support is more significant than any voter issues because they have large ad spends.
I’d assume it isn’t and just not talk about it loudly.
I don't see how it becomes a runaway train, esp. w/ the congressional gridlock we have now.

There's no statesmanship, no concern for the people of America, just the top 1%, so they'll probably come out okay.

They won't starve or be on bread-lines. Everyone else though will suffer tremendously.

If all recurring payments just froze...for 1 year. If we locked down like Europe. We'd have had a better time. Now it's a shitfest just waiting. I'm certain some people who are wealthy/powerful see it for what it is, and also already have plans on how to become even richer/more powerful as a result.
Maybe the news should be “dropping support for a bunch of browsers is only going to save you a few insignificant kB”.
My pet hate:

- use the mouse to select precisely the part of the word/URL/string you want for Ctrl-C purposes

- it autocorrects your selection to the whole word including a CrLf if it is nearby.

Aaargh!
Which services do you use to speak to your users?
I'm looking for some services that would make this whole process easier.

I've stumbled upon Instabug which has some pretty cool features where you can post an in-app survey, follow up with in app chats etc. I'd imagine this would have a much better conversion rate than just emailing. But its crazy expensive for an indie dev.

Are there any services dedicated to this problem that's friendly to indie devs?
You are quite naive. These people don't have to sell their stocks in order to finance something like building a house. They get massive loans using their stocks at collateral.
Interesting, in the three years I've been around I've seen little discussion of it. The main people I was aware of who cared about low-latency were robotics people and they mostly found that the techniques for manually managing memory allowed them to avoid the GC and get the latency they needed quite easily.

One complaint I will say I've heard though is that while these people find they can get the allocation behavior they want (i.e. none), some of them would like semantic guarentees that they will not hit allocations, rather than needing to test and make sure their code doesn't start hitting the GC if they switch Julia versions. Someday we might be able to provide such guarantees, but for now GC behavior is just an implementation detail that can change across minor versions.

I can sympathize with those who find that uncomfortable for sure, but in practice, Julia versions have been consistently better at getting more automatic stack allocations, not less, so it hasn't really been a problem.
Antiviruses will quarantine compiler output...
WebSockets in Django 3.1
Or even if you ditch the SQL database entirely and use Elasticsearch or some weird custom back-end.
It doesn't seem to be doing too well on log(1+x). It does correctly identify that the Taylor expansion is more accurate for small x (although in my opinion it switches back to log(1+x) a bit too soon for positive x), however it doesn't seem to take into account the essential singularity at x=-1 and keeps using the Taylor series for negative values all the way up to x=-1 leading to horrendous accuracy.
Accountability is not a bad thing and anyone who wields the power of the state needs to be easily identified by journalists, etc.
A company I know of uses modified laptops across multiple locations and each one has a shard of the key.

Chipsets are removed. Disabling all USB / bluetooth / ethernet / sound / etc. I dont recall the exact details but apparently there is a market for devices like this.
Ah you must be young...
Think about a cognizant response rather than assuming ignorance, which seems to be a common theme with HN posters.
Announcing TypeScript 4.0 RC
You don't have to worry about bank runs if you're not a fractional reserve bank. People were right to not trust banks, banks were fraudsters, loaning out money that wasn't theirs, then when people caught wind of it, the system collapsed.

The real laws should have been 'banks shall not loan out money from a depositor's account' and the problem would have been resolved. Investors could have loaned out money. Insurance could have protected against bank robberies, similar to how any kind of insurance works against theft today.
Mesosphere isn't even mentioned on the GitHub readme, but it does appear to be a component of Atmosphere.
Sometimes it feels like the culture of American policing and criminal justice is so broken that we just need to start over from scratch.
Thanks for taking the time to explain the change, it looks like you're correct.
> rather it's about the specification of the function

That “function” compiles into a single CPU instruction. The OP is perfectly aware of that, that’s why really_inline is there.

> on beating popcnt using AVX2 instructions

It’s easy to do with pshufb when you have many values on input. I have wrote about it years before that article, see there: https://github.com/Const-me/LookupTables#test-results

> I'd bet that the approach used here was tested and found to be faster on Haswell

I'd bet it’s an error.

> if you noticed that the page you linked is Haswell specific

I did. Was disappointed though, I expected to find something newer than Haswell from 2013, like Zen 2 or Skylake. When doing micro-optimizations like that, the exact micro-architecture matters.
Not being American, things like that always confused me. But now I kind of look like america like a Russian doll, it's a bunch of tiny countries, inside slightly bigger countries, inside even bigger countries all contained within one country populated by individuals who look at themselves as a country.

And from the bottom up, each country believes they're the ruler of their country and don't like to be told by the countries higher up the totem what to do.

To be honest though, i've always felt like the world would work a lot better if power were structured from the bottom up. Local areas have the highest priority in decisions regarding their area then each level up has less and less power and is focused more on the overall organizing of everything between these smaller areas and the rest of the world.

The way it works in many places right now is backwards, especially in large countries. It ends up that decisions are made about areas hundreds or thousands of km away from the people affected by those decisions.
Intel went open source today.
Pretty good read! But I don't like how the author tries to characterize generic ORM's like Django's as "Portability at all costs". I don't think the point is that you can switch DB's a few years down the road if you choose. He's right, nobody does that. Ever :) The advantage is that you can start a new project with whatever DB you already have, or are comfortable with. So, if you want to begin a new Django project, you aren't locked into using MySql, or Postgres, or what-have-you. It is true you sacrifice being able to leverage the full gamut of features a particular engine might offer, but that is a compromise you make with any ORM right? Or, if the limitations are to much to bear, just don't use Django ORM, it's not required, it's just the path of least resistance.
Someone else already replied to your first paragraph, so I'll reply to your second:

The safe TSA papers from 2000-2001 were the papers that showed that SSA was practical in a JIT environment. The fact that this approach was adopted less than 5 years after those papers come out suggest that compiler authors are in fact reading research papers.

Rearchitecting a production JIT to use a different IR for theoretical gains when nobody's demonstrated those gains on a toy JIT is high risk and demonstrating those gains on a toy JIT is research, not development.
No I'm saying that if you mutate related models and didn't wrap them on a transaction it can leave you (if something fails) on an inconsistent dB state.. this is something it can't happen on sqla
Or somebody who's been COVID'd out of corporate life and wants a clean start. Sounds viable to me.
I'm missing something here. What kind of mice have an environment of 30-32 degrees C in the wild? House mice live at the same temperature as people - they might be able to be warmer in their nest, but presumably so can lab mice, without making the room warmer. Are lab mice sourced from some species that is from a hot country?

Regardless of the temperature the mice prefer, obviously it would be a good idea to record the temperature the experiment was conducted at.
Yep! My original team wasn’t quite high enough to be top 9. We merged with another team a member was friends with.
Loving the first three changes:

- Variadic Tuple Types

- Labeled Tuple Elements

- Class Property Inference from Constructors

I've been playing with the beta for a pet project for a while and it's been great.
>The "Report Abuse" button probably goes straight to an unmonitored spam folder

That seems generous, I just assumed you were filling out a form that just deleted itself when you clicked send.