skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For performance-sensitive endpoints, Django just isn't the right tool. You can do a lot of optimizations in Django but in reality the WSGI/ASGI overhead and Django's request routing through middleware and view functions or CBVs is extremely slow. Is anyone handling 1,000 requests/second in their Django app without having to run 50 servers? The answer is no. If you're getting to the point where you're trying to figure out how to emit JSON from your database directly, then you've already lost. Django is exceptionally well suited to exactly what it was originally designed for: a content management system and "source-of-truth" for all of the business data in your application. High-velocity "user-scale" is better done in another service.
It's very different to defend one's beliefs vs. one's right to their beliefs. As Voltaire's biographer said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
is the opportunity for innovation limited by the bandwidth?

in a fiber scenario for example, different service providers could may customize various packages which include capabilities such as:

+ security
+ IoT
+ education
+ VPN
+ content

many of the above could have consumer and/or business flavors...
Yes, picking something that was useable 3 years ago to build a product released 2 years ago instead of an alternative that isn't close to being done NOW was surely a massive strategic miscalculation.
2005's Lord of War, staring Nick Cage and Jared Leto, has a great quote similar to this. I'll bungle it, because I can't find the exact line but it goes like:

"Yuri, every single person has a bullet waiting for them; trying to find them. The trick to life, Yuri? Before that bullet finds you, find a way to die."

The opening sequence to that film is also superb film-making. A set-up, a mid point, and a twist ending, all in three minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LUEiKs2UAo&feature=emb_titl...
That's so cool, it looks like an animal cracker!
> have often had higher rates of covid 19 infections than cities in the area

Several factors at play:

- people thought COVID19 was not a thing outside of cities so people were more careless in rural areas

- wearing of masks is much less in rural areas than cities

- more local communities in rural areas (religious services for example)

But if you NEED to isolate yourself it's much easier to do it in the countryside than in a city.
The way I've heard the story told it was an indifferent judge that kept ignoring letters from port officials who is the real culprit here. Is that not accurate?
What would fully funding it mean to you? Does that mean subsidizing junk mail?
you sound single. are you?
People like to claim that but I don't see that as a real reason. I honestly think Americans have just gotten used to being stepped on they just accept it.
This is a good point but I feel this is one of those things where the market forces can come into play. You can buy office on the Apple App Store, or on the MS store for 10% less. There are people that’ll go through the effort. But most won’t.
And with Google, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20807600

"Mozilla has a legal contract with Google that prevents them from using our Google Analytics data for mining or from sharing it with third parties, among other privacy-protecting provisions."
In most states there's no legal monopoly. It's just there's a high barrier to entry for new providers. This is what an unregulated market looks like
I think part of my mistake was not thinking of the thermal energy packets (phonons?) as waves in boxes, with the box being the boundary of whatever thing has the energy. Which is still weird for a gas expanding into a vacuum I guess, but works for a hot solid object or a confined gas.
Killing me. I’m going to have to try all of these. I should be mad
All the more reason to fund and support browser development, since it includes their mobile products?
You're literally describing a conspiracy theory and dubiously speculating on malicious intentions. That's my point.

I'm saying that it's a wacky conspiracy theory that Google is hiding the non-domain parts of the URL to dominate the internet, and you come back with:

What if Google leadership was conspiring in such a secret, surreptitious way that middle management and possibly even the AMP lead doesn't know what's going on? What if this is just a small part of some grand plan?!

Is the treachery of domain-only URLs so deep that even Apple didn't realize they were carrying out pieces of Google's ultimate plan?
This is part of a global 5G/Soros/Gates conspiracy to keep Australia uninhabited - I've never been bitten by anything - maybe a bee when I was 12? And I spend the majority of my time walking, hiking, surfing, sailing, camping, etc.
They are unsafe because they routinely cause weapon malfunctions. Trying to clear two rounds stacked into each other is dangerous and can cause a negligent discharge. Certain types of cartridges are even more susceptible to problems stemming from feed malfunctions, such as "Setback" in .40 S&W, which can turn your handgun into a hand grenade with no warning.

Basically, your argument seems to be, guns can be dangerous if used improperly, therefore a magazine that was modified to meet some arbitrary requirement and causes routine malfunctions isn't a problem? That's absurd.

When you examine violent gun related crime - it is simply not law abiding citizens causing the problems. It simply is not.

It's gang shootings, and murders that dominate gun violence. Two things that will not stop if you magically removed all guns. You must be realistic, otherwise you're arguing from a disingenuous position.

California - and particularly Los Angeles - has some of the most strict gun policy in the country! Yet... are responsible for most of the gun violence in the nation. How do you explain that away? Is it a bunch of law abiding citizens committing all that violence? No it is not.

> The wide and easy availability of guns ostensibly destined for the hands of otherwise lawful gun owners is a big factor in what makes all this extreme violence possible

Really? One of the most commonly seized gang shooting-related firearms in California is the TEC-9, a gun that's been illegal to purchase since the 80's. No "otherwise lawful gun owner" has one - so how is your assertion possibly true?

What about all the so-called "Ghost Guns" that gang bangers are supposedly manufacturing in their homes? Is that because "otherwise lawful gun owners" own legal guns? You cannot even legally buy the serialized component of the firearm to manufacture into a complete firearm without doing so through an actual FFL (these are commonly called "80% kits" or sometimes are just the bare lower receiver of a AR-15 rifle - they are serialized and tracked by ATF and DOJ).

> Not much but hunting rifles at home, locked up safely.

You mean to say, not an AR-15 pattern rifle, or an AK-47 pattern rifle? What about a Mini-14 or Mini-30? You've probably never heard of them or seen one in person, and would probably be fine with them I would assume. They don't look like "military" rifles, right? Even though they fire the exact same cartridges as the two "scary military" rifles and can hold 5, 10, 20, 30+ rounds in their magazines too?

In any event, it seems abundantly clear you do not have much experience with these firearms and their magazines - which makes your rejection of my original comment highly suspicious, and likely completely baseless.
Let's say, beyond 42deg south.
Musk: Tesla Full Self-Driving is going to have 'quantum leap' with new rewrite
Mass Exodus of SF
Do you really believe that the biggest region is used for testing?
As long as humans exist, there will be someone that finds a way. Sabotaging the factory, reprogramming robots etc are some broad ways in which this can happen.
I just dropped my group of friends of 25 years because all they talk about is going out drinking. Even the one that just bought a house, is married, has small child and another one on the way. All they want is to hanh out drinking beers. like multiple times a week. That shit ain't normal lol. And I agree, Vegas ticks all the boxes.
An Air Force F-16 pilot will take on an AI adversary in simulated dogfight
Ask HN: What would be the 'Carbon Ftprint', btwn News ppr vs. Chrome-book?
What is the long term, holistic, carbon foot-print between printing news papers, vs, building "chrome-book-like-devices, (or tablets)?"

How would one calculate this?
I do some basic repairs myself (up to changing the chain or ball bearings) but I don't want to do anything that requires special tools or dynamometer keys or just too much time. Sometimes the shop owner tells me to buy some parts myself (I remember the rotors of the disk brakes of two new wheels.) I bring them to him and he does the repairs. Maybe he was me pay more for his time but it's OK.

Btw, the shop was flooded by customers looking for new bikes at the end of the lockdown here (Italy.) That lasted for a month with long lines at every bike shop until the warehouses run out of parts. I saw an increase of people using bicycles at least until temperature got past 30 C (86 F.)
It is a very much overdone reputation. I've lived in Aus all my life, much of it rural and I don't know a single person who has been bitten by a snake or shark let alone died. Spider - maybe but most a very shy. But again some bitten, not one died that I know of.

Compare to the USA. Cougars and bears should scare you MUCH more than anything in Australia. And rabies. We have no rabies.

Some rabies-like diseases but you would have to be extremely unlucky to get those (lyssavirus from bats for instance)
There’s a valid scenario where eg felons lose these rights. This is how large some sections of society are disenfranchised today. Not hard to imagine this kind of stuff happening with UBI as well.
> “The Full Self-Driving improvement will come as a quantum leap, because it’s a fundamental architectural rewrite, not an incremental tweak. I drive the bleeding edge alpha build in my car personally. Almost at zero interventions between home & work. Limited public release in 6 to 10 weeks.”
The SongDecoder Dubstep Challenge with Java
By "Mozilla/Servo" I meant "the Mozilla Firefox codebase along with Servo as its research testbed", not just Servo itself (which AFAIK was never intended to be a generally-shippable browser). Could have been clearer, yes.
I just had a look at the financial documents for Mozilla, and I have to say that, for an organisation that promote transparency, their financial info are quite opaque, minimally detailed, and secretive.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/fr/about/public-records/

Conveniently for them and curiously, they are only publishing the "consolidated" statements for the Moz Foundation.

But, for example, it looks like that the individual statements for the Mozilla Corp are never published or disclosed.
That is very annoying as it is the main "entity" of the organization.

There is also no details about the split of costs and revenues associated with each main projects / services products / groups that are worked on for a given year.

So, for example, no one can have a clear idea of how much money is spent on dev, marketing or administration of Firefox versus Pocket versus VPN versus charities versus fellowships, etc...

If you look at the content of the limited financial documents, you can even have the impression that the foundation has no interest for the development of Firefox itself, and that they are just interested by it as a cash cow that generates (with the search deals) huge funds to give to whatever charities that Mozilla leaders are interested in.
How does it scale though? If want 20mbps do I just get two antennas? At which point does it max out for a single location?
Long but great article. Echoes my own track record with Rust.

I've been rewriting a project in Rust. The original is a 20+ years C project (not created by me). Rewriting it in Rust has been a delight. So many surprises, discoveries, learnings.

I've first converted the codebase using C2Rust (surprisingly efficient). The code compiles and runs correctly. While Rust has been nagging me nonstop when I try to do things the original C way, and I still have a lot of weird flags on the code, once I rewrite some piece of code in idiomatic Rust, I end up with a much better design than before. Gone are weird linked lists, crazy custom hashmaps, strings regurgitated in memory, "buffers" holding any manner of data anywhere in memory. Instead, the new code is more efficient, more understandable, and of course safer - even if more restrictive!

I've found at least two major hidden bugs on the original codebase doing so too.

Rust certainly has a learning curve. It's not C/C++ nor Java/C#/JavaScript. But I'm more and more convinced it's the right way to do things in what's currently the C/C++ space.
Facebook just had to warn that their future earnings would be impacted by iOS, so they definitely has motive.
Your example seems a lot less simple than you seem to believe. You created lots of high value interest instead of just getting some page to post links for you. In a way Google is correctly accessing real value here - you didn't cheat.
> But if you NEED to isolate yourself it’s much easier to do in the countryside than in a city.

In practice there are several flaws in that assumption. The lack of grocery deliveries is one major issue with rural isolation. Keep digging and you find several short vs long term issues. Consider, if you need a car you then need to eventually take it in for repairs etc.
The async await implementation in python and basic python threading is concurrent under IO. No conflation.
"Benign data races" have been considered harmful from a theoretical perspective for decades. But most deployed CPUs had memory semantics that made them work. Mostly.

On x86 multiprocessors, if, without taking any special measures, you set x=1 from processor 0, and processor 1 reads x shortly, but not too shortly, thereafter, it will see 1. If you try that on, say, an 80-core ARM CPU [1], CPU #53 might not see a 1 for a long time, if ever.[2] You're no longer guaranteed that cache changes propagate unasked. As we get more and more CPUs, the cost of creating the illusion that there's a single memory goes up. It's now important that compilers know what's shared so they can generate the proper fence and barrier instructions. Especially since the latest iteration of ARM has new features such as "non-temporal load and store."

What used to be a theoretical problem, or at most a problem for OS architects, has thus acquired teeth and claws that can bite ordinary applications programmers.

This is where traditional C++ mutexes start to break down. From a theoretical perspective, it's always been annoying that mutexes at the POSIX level have no tie to what they're supposed to be protecting. Hitting a mutex has to mean "flush everything". That's inefficient. Rust has the advantage that its locks own data, so the compiler knows what has to be flushed. That becomes more important as the number of CPU cores becomes very large.

I've said for years that the three issues in C/C++ are "how big is it", "who owns it", and "who locks it". C++ now at least has abstractions for all of these, although they all leak. You can still get raw pointers out to misuse, or, more likely, pass to some API for misuse.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/03/ampere-altra-is-the-first...

[2] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0024/a/the-a64-in...
> Focusing on the direct cause of the blast is a huge distraction from understanding why the 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate were stored in the middle of Beirut for 7 years.

Exactly right. However, the answer to that question may only lead to more unsettling questions. Take care of yourself, your family and your friends.
Facebook thinks it will, and issued a warning about their future revenue as a result.
That may be true. But the problem with such systems has always been that there is no guarantee that the kids of those in power are as competent as their parents. Wealth and power is inevitably squandered because talents are still distributed randomly in the population.

Now, when we get to increasing longevity, genetically engineered humans etc, that might change. But then it would also change the parameters of the equation... these future humans won’t resemble the humans of today.
TBF - this is almost what they attempted to do in the late 80s. I used to go to Fallon (when, yes top gun was actuallly trained their early on)

And this control/flight-review room was this massive theater - with a giant 6" diam ball mouse.

I loved this place.

They would put these sensor devices on the planes - whih would track all the telemetry of the mission....

Then come back to this room to review successes and mistakes.

I was only 14 years old - and this was with Civil Air Patrol - and we got to see exactly how Top Gun trained. It was amazing.

Later - my brother became a colonel in the AF - and although he was a doctor- he was a flight surgeon, and as such went on a lot of really interesting missions - I loved hearing about what he would tell me, but they were typically only like 2 to 8 sentences or so...
Really pathetic that this is downvoted. It's correct. Whether you like gun control or not, the real history is it was kicked off in the Reagan era in response to the Black Panthers' efforts to arm themselves.
> Chalmers: SKINNER! Good idea. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my vacation at Lake Titicaca. Try to make a joke out of that, Mr. Smart Guy.

See: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Simpsons/Season_10#The_Old...
No worries, just making sure you don't dismiss it as "something wrong with you." Entirely plausible you could be this way and just not realize it is notable.
No one ever claimed hostile work environment. Where'd you get that?

The L.A. Times published the CA state database of political donations >= $100 in size, activists searched it for known names. That was in 2012.
That curve ain't flattening
Ask HN: Describe your first internet experience you remember
I'm 42, so I was in high schools when the WWW came into my life. I used to devour Popular Mechanics magazine, and one issued noted the magazine had a website. My school library had an internet connection. The next day I rushed to school when the doors were unlocked and bolted to the library. A solo PC sat on a writing desk amidst rose collored carpet and brown wood bookshelves, next to a tall indoor plan (no idea what make and model - it was beige). The PC was magically already booted, as expected (librarians := unsung heros). I somehow identified the internet browser - maybe AOL. I connected (errr.bong.bong... etc.). I typed in the address char-by-char and pressed enter, then in a flash of blazing glory... nothing. I tried again... nothing. Then, I decided to wait and allow things to process, and low and behold a solid scarlet square appears in the upper left corner. I waited with baited breath for, what I would come to learn would be called, for the web page to load. Sadly, that never happened. Despite skipping "homeroom" (ask your North American Scum friends), I could not miss first period and had to break the stand-off. Alas, my first call accross the internet was left painfully unasnwered. I held a grudge for a while, but we eventually madr up.
But of course, remember that you need cell service for that to work.
Good luck Rust Retards. Rewrite gone wrong. Downvote as you wish. Propaganda Machine would die. Don't dare to replace C++ but you might well replace ugly C
> I'm astonished by the incompetence that's usually going hand in hand with the corruption

I think it follows naturally.

If you replace objective standards of quality with favoritism, bribery, theft, and fraud, then of course you'll attract incompetents like moths to a flame.
Greenland Ice Sheet has melted to the point of no return
> that there is an infinite number of atoms and of kinds of atoms

Well, that bit is wrong. Especially if you take the fundamental constituents of what are now called atoms: 6 quarks, 6 antiquarks, 6 leptons (counting neutrinos), 6 antileptons, 5 gauge bosons, 1 scalar boson. Only 30, possibly + whatever dark matter and dark energy are.
If somebody is toxic enough that you'd criticize them in an obituary, you should not allow them to keep working for your organization. It's really that simple.
Many places along the entire east coast would match.
And Tasmania.

BTW while checking that latitude (southern half of Tasmania), I found this interesting website.

https://birrraus.com/

"(Better Internet for Rural, Regional and Remote Australia)"
Yeah it's mine i lost it in there.
Exactly. Not just felons. It's not hard to imagine people labelled as "terrorists" or "trouble makers" being excluded.
"I declare today the resignation of this government. May God protect Lebanon," Diab said in a televised statement.
“This disaster is the result of chronic corruption. The corruption network is bigger than the state.”

These last 2 sentences accurately describe the failed narco state of Mexico, whose cartels are devastating our country, it's time to declare a real war and clean up the mess below our border . . . .
Can someone explain the “heat wave”-like distortion that the camera briefly experiences well before the blast wave seems to reach the building. How could an atmospheric effect make it to the camera at two different speeds?

Not to be callous to the incredible tragedy at play, but I simply find this video to be mesmerizing in its quality and potency.

In America we’re born and raised on countless explosions in pop culture whether it’s a Hollywood or gaming. They’re to the point of being so utterly mundane that it’s rare for Hollywood to wow an audience with a mere explosion anymore (though I could certainly name some memorable ones from over the years). We all now think we know what they look like in urban environments, and have for the last 30 years of high quality special effects. But. This video is real. And the details and nuances at play have simply never been depicted in film or tv before. To see the physics at play is simply mind boggling to me. I’d love to read a frame by frame account by a true expert of this 4K video.
This is why I've switched to Chromium Edge on Macos and Windows 10.

With Edge, I'm under no illusions with regard to what I'm getting myself into.
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It has been my messenger of choice for about 6 of these 7 years and watching its evolution has been pretty cool.

It's grown to be a much wider social platform now than it used to be, but it hasn't distracted from personal chats much. That's pretty amazing! It hasn't even been destroyed by commercial interests yet and my feeling says that Durov will approach commercialization carefully, which gives me hope.
Another good reason not to let kids back on campus!

This was a complicated story. But the real issue is a third-party can bring up an issue that happened years ago--even if the primary person involved was ok with it--just because you did or said something they didn't like. This retaliatory complaining should never be allowed or encouraged. If you don't report something immediately, you shouldn't be able to bring it up years later.