skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've never used Singularity containers[0], I highly recommend checking them out. They make a very different set of tradeoffs compared to Docker, which can be a nice fit for some uses. Here's a few of my favorites:

* Images are just files. You can copy them around (or archive them) like any other file. Docker's layer system is cool but brings a lot of complexity with it.

* You can build them from Docker images (it'll even pull them directly from Dockerhub).

* Containers are immutable by default.

* No daemon. The runtime is just an executable.

* No elevated permissions needed for running.

* Easy to pipe stdin/stout through a container like any other executable.

[0]: https://github.com/hpcng/singularity
Sorry - is it because you don't analyze the queries even though you write them (and thus are responsibly for optimization) that is the issue? Or do you have the same complaints about .NETs Entity Framework?
I mean, that hasn’t been a terrible problem on macOS. Require doing a csrutil style procedure to disable code signing requirements, and that’d be enough to scare off 99 percent of people. By default, only allow App Store and Apple registered developers (or even just the App Store).
Yup. It’s kind of amazing seeing the “news” shift as the election gets closer.

A bunch of articles that indirectly support one or the other candidate all while trying their best to not look like that’s what they are doing.
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Debundling types of waste pickup results in greater inefficiency because of the high fixed costs associated with pickup (trucks, fuel, fixed cost of employing workers). This is why in most cities, pick up is only handled by one or two private firms contracted with the municipality.

That is, unless and until some groundbreaking cost lowering technology comes into existence. Given the physical reality of this work and the slim margins (it's commodities after all), that seems unlikely.

The best angle of attack for this problem from the market/technology perspective is finding ways to economically deliver goods without so much cardboard, since manufacturers and retailers have a strong incentive to reduce the cost of delivering products.
There are many types of nuclear power, with thorium salt reactors being one of the most effective possible components to an overall solution. These could be scaled up quickly. The problem is public opinion and the lack of nuanced understanding of the differences.
And if you want to put that RTL-SDR to a specific use by tracking airplanes, you should check out https://www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/
One IT Guy’s Spreadsheet-Fueled Race to Restore Voting Rights
How is this different from having a repository of queries somewhere - this is basically a query repository but not in the active language in fact.

Your queries should be hidden away from the developer - I mean obfuscation is never the goal but separation is... If your query is written inline in some business logic that section of code has poor tests and is unreliable. SQL is complex, I absolutely adore it but it's not simple - keep it isolated from the logic of your system and, if possible, use a layered architecture approach that allows the entire persistence layer to be detachable.
I think the phrase “triggered” was invented to describe this post. Maybe take a walk?
Well yeah, there's no current reason to sideload it because it's available on the store. But imagine they wanted to do something that Google wouldn't allow -- now they can do that thing and offer the app for sideloading only.

If the US ban reasons are valid and Google is forced to remove it from the store for those reasons, then sideloading TikTok would be this exact situation I'm describing.

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Let me restate it like this. Company A wants access to iOS app market. Their app does X, Y, and Z. Z is frowned upon but X and Y are pretty valuable. In a world with no rules (i.e. sideloading), they'll do X, Y, and Z and consumers will have to put up with Z. In a world with rules (i.e. App Store), they will have to omit Z even though it's good for business because that's the only way they can do business in X and Y.
IIRC Word used to have an "outline editing" mode where normal visual styles were largely ignored and replaced with a uniform set of rendering styles. Its principal feature was the ability to fold nested structures (chapters, sections, etc) and easily reorder them.
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I understand your position, but that's not what the term means. A walled garden is when one party controls the media or distribution of content on a given platform. If you make a PC game, EGS has no control at all over how you distribute it. If you then decide to sell it exclusively through them, that doesn't make them a walled garden - you had control of how your game got distributed, not them.
I think Apple's argument would be it's industry standard. Steam, Apple, Google all do this. Even the Epic store takes a cut, although much lower, but that's a case in Apple's favor (market competition).
doesn't look like it: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#installation
id be curious to hear why you chose to apply to YC vs some healthcare industry focused accelerators like Rock Health or IndieBio?
Control.

1. Get market share with free product.

2. Start charging once monopoly is achieved.

3. Profit!
This example speaks for itself (please leave a comment if your jaw drops).

> Rohit took a tentative step out of Indira Gandhi International just as a drone sliced through the space above his head, dispersing an aromatic mist. The summer night was hot, thick, and wet.
If we can't trust the government, then we need to rely on our community.

Sounds like we need communities to band together and have a group collect & deliver mail-in ballots and make sure that people in charge of counting the ballots are onboard to ensure end-to-end compliance.

I will be standing in line this year. Covid be damned. Though, my next fear is that there will be a shortage of ballots in left-leaning areas.
Do you save a copy of every web page you think might be useful later? I have a small archive of things I consider to be "at risk", but there are many things I enjoy that exist only on other people's servers now. I can't keep it all on my own machines forever, so the difficulty is guessing what will disappear and what won't.
Have you trying installing GNU Radio via macports? That may help.

https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/MacInstall#Prerequisite:...
"Open source" doesn't necessarily mean "practical to maintain." Can an open source organization maintaining a fork of Firefox in their free time in addition to the obligations of their regular job keep up with the hundreds of webcompat issues being filed and over 3,000 open issues on the preview version of Firefox on Android alone?

And there also is a fork of XUL-era Firefox already, called Pale Moon, which various people have declared will soon be unusable with the modern web because there aren't enough people that care about it enough to implement Web Components, to the point where the Pale Moon developers were asking websites to not implement Web Components[1]. Are the developers of those websites going to pay attention to a couple of developers maintaining their own Firefox fork that much less people use than standard Firefox? (And we're talking about Firefox, which itself has a single-digit market share.) That on top of the implications of security exploits being found in such a massive codebase faster than the development team can patch them, given how many features are being added to web standards so quickly, probably with the expectation that companies like Google or Mozilla already have the developer capacity to implement them on a set timeline. There's simply so much source code to maintain, and adding the new features that the modern web is going to require to be usable in a few years on top of maintenance takes a significant amount of effort.

The only way that a program as complicated as Firefox can continue to be improved and used by enough people to be viable is if it gets worked on by people with enough time, and I believe that's only practical if people are spending that time working on Firefox because they're salaried. Yes, that's partially because web standards are constantly expanding in scope and complexity, and I'm not really sure what we can do about the complexity creating a hard dependency on Mozilla continuing to exist because, unlike the source code of Firefox, the forces driving those standards are out of the reach of the average OSS developer.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22604070
Containers are the leaky abstractions of the devops world. Same pros and cons apply
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Airbnb is offering a sleepover at the last Blockbuster
Sure. I only hope to answer "like the passwords file".
FBI and NSA expose new Linux malware Drovorub, used by Russian state hackers
I think you're right that the UCSF public relations team is doing neither hard hitting investigative journalism nor the sort of critical pre-Phase 1 analysis that prevents wasted effort in medical device development.

I enjoyed hearing about this new approach to infection control that is its infancy regardless. I felt a little hope for a creative solution to our current crisis and I didn't have to wade through the literature on camelid antibodies to do it.

New technology has always relied on a certain underlying optimism that you can do something that's new and better against the odds (since most fail).

Would you like this better if there was a disclaimer explaining in vitro/in vivo or just the long road from basic research to wide spread deployment?
> * Images are just files. You can copy them around (or archive them) like any other file

Never heard of Singularity before, and it does look interesting. Wanted to point out though that you can create tarballs of Docker images, copy them around, and load them into a Docker instance. This is really common for air-gapped deployments.
> long time adversaries

Not very long. But, unfortunately long enough. https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/MAGAZINE-how-i...
Yes:

- Gboard

- Smart Compose

- Chrome

- Maps

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/privacy-every...
"It's not FOR you," he sniffed, nose pointed precisely at 10 o'clock.
This strongly falls under the realm of "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should" for me.

At a time when writing is being undervalued and turned into "content" grist for the mill, the last thing I want to see is writing guided by an "AI" down the same old pathways.
I'm guessing the downvotes are from people who think you are being derogatory. The phrase "fully automated luxury gay space communism" is a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/fully-automated-luxu...
If they don't, why one would call them their family?
Signature validation is not enforced 100%. Go asked those who worked with it in the pasts elections informally. You will know how bad it is.
Where I live (Poland), there are local Facebook groups (usually called "Attention, the garbage truck is on its way - $city"), where people upload photos of the things they see dumped curbside along with location data, so that other people can come there and pick stuff they could use.

I'm really happy those exists, and coupled with local "giveaway" groups, they provide opportunities to intercept reusable items both before they're thrown away, and after.
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How does that help when some places have only one polling station for 100k people? And there is a global pandemic, so we don't want 100k people congregating in the same crowded space?
Many young people don't feel secure about their own lives. Priced out of property ownership, didn't find a serious partner to make family with, don't have a rewarding job. By supporting the rioters they feel like they are attacking a common enemy (people that are better off).

Except, it won't work. The rioters are destroying one of the last remaining pillars of the middle class - small businesses. Sure, Walmart and Amazon will be happy to take over the niche, with a private security force to replace the defunded police. But what it will mean for regular people is less meaningful jobs, more poverty, and even less security.
> Israelis firmly believed in a two state solution and offered an agreement that was signed and accepted, called Oslo

They believed in the solution very much but kept (effectively) annexing more and more land. People don't mention it, but the Israelis have a huge economic incentive in keeping things exactly as they are- the idea that "there is nobody on the other side" is an excellent excuse to grab more and more land.

I understand that this might not be the openly agreed-upon motivation for the status quo; but Israel is in an incredible conflict of interest because the reality is that the conflict benefits many of its citizens immensely.
I think SV's theory is that if you make something that potentially a billion people will use, that's worth doing even if you don't know the business model yet because when the fog of war clears you might be FAAMG
Unless something changed in the months since I have used Nix, this will not get you bit-for-bit reproducible builds. Nix builds its hash tree from the source files of your package and the hashes of its dependencies. The build output is not considered at any step of process.

I was under the impression that Nix also wants to provide bit-for-bit reproducible builds, but that that is a much longer term goal. The immediate value proposition of Nix is ensuring that your source and your dependencies' source are the same.
As always with AI-generated text, be aware that any curated demos are very likely cherry-picked.
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Correlation does not equal causation, but it correlates with it.
If you are interested in hearing an on-the-ground perspective to accompany the theory, you could do worse than watch this. NSFW language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9_qGOa9Go
> The basic premise is false.

> We were called _Conspiracy Theorists_

Depends who "we" is. If "we" is people on HN, who are tuned in and more closely associated with this stuff, then yeah. _You are not_ just some rando on the internet who follows the mainstream news, you are tech literate and actively participating in a niche technology forum.

But if "we" is more a general term then the premise isn't false and I'd argue is still relatively true today. The general public is only starting to turn away from ideas like "I don't care if Google reads my emails, what are they going to do?" And that's only because ad suggestions have gotten too good, enough that they believe that Facebook is turning on their microphones. Obviously didn't learn from Target[0]. You're clearly aware of this because of your last sentence!

You can sit with your pride telling everyone that you were right all along and not crazy, or you can further the reach to the more generalized "we." The two options are not really inclusive.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....
From what I've read, the dividends are only 10% of what you spent in the previous year, so if you've earned $150 over 4 years, that's a total spent of $1500.

In my experience, everything in REI is overpriced, sometimes greater than 25% over Amazon or even Bass Pro Shop.

So... did you actually save any money? Even with the "trial" period for products (did you actually return something 9 months later?).
If I'm a small developer, how can I process payments directly without having to pay the fee to another provider?
This actually makes me wonder... has anyone actually tried applying deep learning to fiction plots, whether book, film or TV?

I assume not, since it would presumably require a kind of manual tagging of plot elements. ("A thinks B did C. B discovers D did E. A finds out about E...")

But I can't help but wonder if automatic generation of plot, then characters, then dialog... could actually produce fairly realistic screenplays, at least. (Screenplays, being so compact, would be much easier than novels with their lengthy prose.)
This is exciting to see. In the start AIs will be used as assistants to human writers, but I imagine that in the future they'll progress to the point where they're able to write on their own with little to no human intervention. If programs can author books/screenplays/etc. for free, that's going to revolutionize the world of fiction. I don't think we need to get to the point of AGI to see bots that can hold their own against human authors.
The World’s Best Hope for Enough Covid-19 Vaccine Comes from India
Maybe these lay-offs were the least bad of two choices.
So, over here in America (Georgia) the recycling company won't pickup cardboard if it won't fit in their tiny bin; Which means by complex then pays our trash company to take the cardboard. using a dumpster that could probably last 4x as long without cardboard.

tldr; come to America, please take some cardboard.
> There is no organized money behind this

May I humbly ask where did all the millions donated to BLM go?
Scale?

A company can haul away recycling for $X as long as they get Y volume to help recoup costs.

When they can only collect Y-Z%, then $X no longer covers costs and the price goes up for the city.
There's no technical reason for iOS to not support alternative browsers from the start. It's not about technical reasons.
Really? You are really going to assert without any evidence these completely wrong points?

I can tell you straight out, from experience and data, that both of your points are completely incorrect.

1) Its 2020. The "gig economy" is REAL. Its actually a terrible situation for Uber, as competing jobs are more abdundant than ever, and new starts with fresh VC-fueled incetives are popping up left and right.

I can promise you that in nearly every market Uber operates in, the drivers are signed up on every single ridehailing competitor, every single food delivery service, every single grocery delivery service, and every single last mile delivery service.

And they will be constantly looking at where the best bang for buck is. CONSTANTLY.

2) Uber's ridehailing business is profitable in the US. Go check their publicly available investor data.

Uber does have a finnicky relationship with "the law" for sure, in multiple countries. That is completely true. However at some times "the law" is protecting a service that is not in the best interest of the consumer, as has been with most over-protective taxi regulations.
to me corporate speak is empty platitudes trying to bury the lede, whereas lying is lying (and both are dishonest)
The article omits some major influential JS projects over the years that folks have already pointed out (Backbone, Coffeescript, Underscore -- and I'd add Require.js, as a commonplace early AMD loader before ES modules were a thing).

And then it also lists 2 projects that, frankly, I've never heard of (and I try to keep pace) and speaks of them in suspiciously-glowing terms, speculating about them being significant in the future.

Fine, you can't always know today what will have had the biggest impact in 5 years, but the result is that this reads like a really bad "puff piece" ad for those two projects.

It's like when you see blog posts from some SaaS company about "best practices for <industry>", and the first few tips are either obvious or wrong, and the last few tips are "buy our product!"
100% renewable capacity is where Denmark sits right now, so it can be used as an small example. In good conditions they can operate exclusively on wind.

It actually a bit above 100% to the point where the price can go into negative during optimal conditions. This has put a damper on the enthusiasm for further expanding beyond 100%.

By my estimates, with land wind parks operating on an average ~30% capacity per year and ocean wind parks at around 60%, the average during a year is about half the energy grid generated from renewable and the rest from fossil fuels.

Going beyond that is going to be hard.
Hey there, Sudowrite cofounder here.

Just as clarification, this example is human written text (I wrote it!)

When you click "Open Wormhole", you'll see the output from Sudowrite offering different directions you could go from this start.
Well "OpenAI" is itself a bait-and-switch of a name (nothing open about it). So, it fits.
I would start by being better at building goodwill than Mozilla has been in the last few years, and ceasing the bait/switch strategy for funding that torpedoed Canonical.

It is very, very okay that ubiquitous and greatly loved projects do one or two things well.
> Even at an 8-10 person party it never takes us more than 10 minutes to do all the dishes including pots etc.

Wow, you're much faster than I. It takes me probably 10 minutes just to load the dishwasher for a party that big.
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> If it’s deleted from the App Store it will still be on their phones.

But you won’t be able to update any more (unless that is via side-channel? I don’t know how mobile games work), which, for a multiplayer game, is as good as deleting it.
Not everything is about Israel. Israel isn't the source of the suffering of Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt or the rest of the dirt poor surrounding dictatorships. The Palestinians today mainly suffer at the hands of other Palestinians. Focusing on Israel lacks perspective.
It's not logical, it doesn't matter if the source code is javascript or not, if it compiles down to js or wasm it is definitionally equivalent to "js churn" because it represents an additional option in the js tooling landscape that a developer has the option of choosing from, rust is no different from typescript or purescript or babel or elm or any of the other variety of options available for producing web applications.

If you're suggesting otherwise, you'd have to explain what exactly is bad about churn in general and why those negative properties somehow dissipate based on the source language. Using your logic if every tool in the existing js landscape compiled down to wasm somehow "churn" would be a non-issue, but if that's the case then "churn" must mean something different than what is regularly complained about on every js technology thread on this forum.
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Really like this bestofjs.org site! Kudos to the creator(s)!
Note that "drovorub" isn't even a Russian word, "drovosek" is. It means "woodcutter".
This is where I'm at as well. I'm not crazy about Nuclear, but when I sat down and did a hard look at a lot of alternatives, there isn't really anything that can provide power that dramatically, at least not without some sort of magic leap forward in battery technology.
The amount is tied to the browser market share. Google also pays Apple for making them the default search. However Apple is able to command a lot more due its mobile market share for browsers.
If this was Microsoft Windows I am sure you would have your pitchforks ready. Just rephrase your statement with Windows and you'd see the absurd of your statement.
there are a number of possibles...
quality/perceived quality
brigade bots
grumpy users
3 year old account with low post count possibly botted.

these are just possibles but it sometimes takes time and trial to develop a rapport with the HN
For some historical context, human urine and faeces/night soil have been sold privately in several societies (one episode of "no such thing as a fish" covers tenant's rights to same in... I want to say 19th century Japan. One was your property, the other the landlord's).

There doesn't really seem to be a problem here. The public sector is for things we agree collectivity benefit us, but can't be properly monetised.