skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public health is precariously close to politics in a lot of cases and it casts shade on their mundane and universally appreciated work on topics more directly related to disease.

That said, it'd kind of inevitable that they run a course like that because constantly doing good non-controversial work banks political capital and the politicians are gonna try to harness organizations like that for their own ends.
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Thanks for the tips!

(also, as you might have noticed, HN doesn't support MD proper. To get code blocks you have to indent it with four spaces)

const eps: f64 = 2.3283064365386963e-10;
const m: u64 = 6364136223846793005;
const inc: u64 = 1442695040888963407;

let state: u64 = 1;

export function random(): f64 {
let oldstate = state * 6364136223846793005 + 1442695040888963407;
state = oldstate;
const xorshifted = u32(((oldstate >>> 18) ^ oldstate) >> 27);
const out_int = rotr(xorshifted, u32(oldstate >> 59));
return eps * out_int;
}
How can you not like Octonauts?! It's so wholesome! Covers great topics about creatures that rarely get the exposure that their land-based comrades do, the characters are unique, funny, strong, and demonstrate all the qualities you would want scientists to have!

<3 Octonauts!
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The blog covering the changes is older but M85 has been stabilized yesterday.

The most compact way of seeing exhaustively the changes is to look at:
https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule

The number of added features on chromium 85 vs Firefox 80 really show the huge, increasing feature gap..
And Firefox 80 work was anterior to the lay offs!

(disclaimer: I'm aware that now Firefox has a shorter release schedules than chromium but even merging the last 2 ( and even the last 5!) releases changelogs doesn't quite close the gap.
I guess that Microsoft is behind this noticeable increase in chromium changes/improvments)
I was put off by the following sentence:

> ... 14.8 watts, or 129.65 kilowatt-hours - the metric commonly used by power companies ...

It should say 129.65 kilowatt-hours PER YEAR. Without the time, it's like saying "a car goes at 50mph or 1000 miles". It's just nonsense.
What do you mean by "first class support" here? Some quick searches doesn't give me results that goes in this sense (nothing official from the rust and/or android projects).
>What happens when I want to use my friend's computer to pay for something on Amazon but I haven't saved my card number?

You pay by logging into your bank account.
My theory is that secrecy jurisdictions, shell companies etc, are opaque to the legal system but transparent to intelligence agencies.

Under that arrangement, politicians and the very rich still get a way to retain their privacy and avoid taxes, which I assume they are very effective at lobbying for, but the risk of terrorism is minimised.
If this doesn't disrupt current markets, idk what will.
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I was hoping the YouTube link was to the He-Man Heya video instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5LpwO-An4&t=10s
I can't access the site, is this the kind of device they're talking about : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_battery ?

Do they have any serious claim to have somehow improved the density ? (it seems to not be applicable to, say, an EV.)
Medical reasons should be an exception, I think.

> If you have a full time job, how will this work?

Leaving dogs alone every day has been shown to lead to depression in said dogs. So, perhaps having a full time job might be incompatible with owning most breed of dogs?
Nonetheless, WFH might help.

Finally:

> When asked how the new laws will be enforced, especially for private dog owners, (...) they certainly wouldn’t be ringing the doorbell of every dog owner to check up on them. The law is primarily targeting those who keep their dogs outside in kennels.
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I see you, XcQ…

Clever site, tho. Gonna see how many do-workers will click.
If we had a justice system, that $10.8 billion would be recoverable, and used to try to rehabilitate the victims.

But we don't have a justice system. We have a legal system, and a financial system.
It's a RAITM attack (Rick-Astley-In-The-Middle) I think.
Gunshot wounds are overwhelmingly the leading cause of death at the hands of the American Police.

American Police are broadly authorised to use lethal force "to protect their life or the life of another innocent party", or to "prevent a suspect from escaping, but only if the officer has probable cause to think the suspect poses a dangerous threat to others" - https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/8/13/17938226/police-sho...

The American rules on the use of lethal force are similar to many other countries. For instance, in the UK guidance is "To prevent an immediate threat to life by shooting to stop the subject from carrying out their intended or threatened course of action. In most circumstances this is achieved by aiming to strike the central body mass (i.e. the torso)." - https://theconversation.com/heres-when-british-police-are-le...

So why are American Police shooting more people? Why are they afraid for theirs, and others lives? Is it really because the "System" turns them into nervous, trigger-happy bad people? Or, is the problem that that's what happens when a society is awash with guns?
He taught at UC Santa Cruz from 1972 to 2001. I wonder what his classes were like. Anyone happen to attend?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03922-x
The fact that Apple is requiring devs to add "Sign in with Apple" if the app supports any other social login is such a blatant overreach. I'm as much of a capitalist pig as the next guy but enough with the bullshit.
That sounds like a fantastic trip!

> Irkutsk (first CouchSurfing experience!)

If you are going to do it again, would you still use CouchSurfing? We had a great experience surfing on all of our stops from Warsaw to Vladivostok in 2013, but I'm not sure if that's still a thing, or if it is all Airbnb now. I wonder if it still has the same vibe.

Asking because I'd also love to take the Transsiberian again. Vladivostok was great, but I'd love to see Mongolia this time.
>Also, I always thought bypass capacitors an excellent way to inject malicious hardware. Everybody is practically trained to ignore them and does not expect them to do anything. Yet they have access to almost all signal lines and technically possibility to inject or disrupt signal.

Call me jaded but the fact that Bloomberg essentially made a fake report about this type of attack made me completely disinterested in this type of attack. It's just some sensationalist crap that is meant to destroy the reputation of a company. It was never about the practicality of the attack. Just replace an entire IC and be done with it.

It's easy to image an Amazon seller replacing a microcontroller with one that contains ransomware. If you try to do the same thing with a bypass capacitor then you massively increase the amount of effort needed to execute the attack. The microcontroller attack could be as simple as emulating a keyboard and opening a virus site in internet explorer.

I don't know how many people actually pay the ransom but lets say 5% of the buyers end up paying a $500 ransom. That would be $25 extra profit per mainboard. If your mainboard is $10 cheaper than the competition customers will flock to your products and you can easily scale out your operation.
Fun fact: The Cloudflare Workers FaaS platform uses WebAssembly to run the software for your non-JS function in the cloud. You can check their blog, where they have a guide for Rust[1].

The intention is likely that they use V8 isolates instead of VMs which support WebAssembly.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-wrangler-cli/

SCNR :D
Thanks for the insight and the links! Scrolling down the article I spotted this:

> There’s only one case where an optimized call from JavaScript » WebAssembly is not faster than JavaScript » JavaScript. That is when JavaScript has in-lined a function.

Combined with your remark that 64 bit arithmetic is fast, I'd say this pretty much confirms the suspicion that a lack of inlining is what makes this particular WASM function execute slower
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I don't think language has got anything to do with it. It's more about the instincts. I'm purely talking in terms of probabilities but the odds of a C# programmer coming with an enterprise background are high. As such they bring certain instincts with them which are very useful in enterprise but not useful at all in startups. At worst, those instincts might do more damage than good.

So it's more of background/instincts things than language. C# technically has nothing which makes it a bad choice for startups.
Debt is much more effective than slavery. Unless misery is your goal, you can do a much better job at extracting value from people and keep a population working for your benefit with debt. It has a way of making both sides feel like what is happening is “right” while having the same effects.
It might be more likely that WASM is used for its sandboxing qualities while providing "near-native" performance for all types of extensions (not just the aircraft computers), because new aircraft modules and extensions are often provided by third-party companies or the modding community. Traditionally, scripting languages have been used to integrate "untrusted code" (e.g. DCS World, another popular flight sim, uses Lua for its aircraft modules and also exposes a lot of other functionality through Lua scripts so that they are moddable).
Here's some 'solution' architect examples:

https://ie.linkedin.com/jobs/view/solutions-architect-lead-e...

https://ie.linkedin.com/jobs/view/associate-solutions-archit...

And a 'cloud' architect:

https://ie.linkedin.com/jobs/view/cloud-architect-at-deloitt...
When I was a kid I used to watch a TV series called SeaQuest. Pretty much the same idea, isnt it? :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQNXOscKEhY
In a world where a kpop band can get 150 million views in 24 hours I'd say visionary projects like this are a welcome addition to the internet.
I know in which niches WASM already shines, my point is that I have a different one and wish I could effectively use WASM there as well.
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Or they sell but decide the price they buy from you. It's called monopsony.

This is not the case of Apple even if the OP made clear that Apple is making some business models impractical.
Says who? You mean, "part of being human"?
How could primitive people destroy or severely damage a large modern building?
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Ahhh, I see your point. Fair. I read about the first third and assumed the rest was just as neutral.

TBH I should have looked at the author more carefully - I thought the page was like the NYU equivalent of Stanford’s online encyclopedia of Philosophy, sort of an anodyne online primer.

Thanks for pointing that out.

However based on my understanding I will say that most is the article seems pretty on point as being a description of the basics of Marx / Marxist thought.

I’ll also throw in that I think this is the thought that should demand our attention:

> The most powerful nation in history cannot erase poverty, provide full employment, guarantee decent housing or an adequate diet or good health care to its people. Meanwhile, the rich get richer.

Don’t have to be Marxist to see that.
MVP v4, still improving – need a v5?
So what happened before the clip that justified the officer to murder Floyd by keeping his leg on his neck?
Each year I think wether should I learn OCaml or not. What is the current state of multi-thread OCaml? Is that a game changer or just a cool feature? I can't understand why OCaml doesn't have mass adoption.
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You follow instructions and then take legal action later.
There is a really cool article by buzzfeed of all places detailing Lehrer's career:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/tom-lehrer
> vs the long term pay off of less bugs in production.

It has not been proved large, long-lived Rust projects have fewer bugs than large, long-lived Python/Ruby projects.
So it turns out to open all sites in a collection, you need to tab the 3 dots next to the collection name and then choose "open all sites", which you then loose in your huge list of tabs that you had already opened to get to the "start page". Are the devs using this themselves even?
Good try, but to get women in tech (or anyone with common sense) all you have to do is to hit these targets:

- Tech is fun and helps human beings

- Pays very well

- Tech jobs offer the best life/work/family balance

- You will have nice coworkers (not nerds or weirdos)

Movies have helped set some ugly stereotypes on tech workers, if only they could make them look more glamorous as they did with laws that would be awesome.
Wow, for real? What a fucked-up thing to say.
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There was a compilation, seems to be "Collection 1953-60," that basically includes all of his stuff.
Darn, you spoiled it for me! I clicked anyways just to check :)
Predicting Bitcoin prices with BitMEX liquidations data
Basically, yeah, it isolates the interactive parts of the plane (animations, likely, as well as OBC and friends).

The WASM Runtime used is on github, https://innative.dev/
> implying that I should be guilty for what I am

No, on two levels. First, nobody cares about how you feel, guilty or otherwise. Second, it's not about what you are either. It's about what you have, i.e. wealth and relative power, and what you do. Those are things within your control, unlike anyone's race.

> Accusing me of playing an acitve part in supressing others is simply a false allegation.

You do play that active part by asserting your property rights on wealth and other rights that were taken from others and given to you rather than working distributing them. Nothing false about that.

> Both sides will have to work on how they communicate with each other to improve things.

No, one side needs to give up its power over the other.
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I'm not describing capitalism, I'm describing straight up military occupancy and subjugation of the local population. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj for example.

If you want a US perspective, then consider Cuba. Would you describe the US embargo against Cuba as capitalism? It's disingenuous for someone to say that countries have struggled because they failed to embrace markets when the US has actively interfered against governments that didn't embrace markets with sanctions and support for coups.
On PBS in the US, Mark Russell was also in a similar vein--but mostly political and IMO not as good. Doesn't seem to be readily available.
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A good deal of it is status, like being involved in the most prolific group etc. But also the way "The Scene" works is almost gamified. Groups battle each other to obtain pre-release material and then race each other to disseminate to the sites they affiliate with. If you are first you win the PRE and your releases is the only one accepted by the whole scene. It becomes addictive.

Secondly money is involved, less scrupulous sites run pay to leech servers where people pay for slots and some groups are donated hardware etc for access. Also there are connections to various forms of cyber crime from contacts you can make from being involved.
Happened to me. Not the first time a Firefox update does this either.
Here's a "critical" review on yt https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=222&v=UtVzG-77NEI
What dou you think about AppSumo deals?
> I see the Social Justice left as being in a phase like "young atheists"[2] or young gay people go through when they first embrace their identity: loud and proud and insistent that others recognize their validity.

Back when I was in college (late 90's) I remember coming across a forum post where someone else was talking about this.

The gist of it was that they knew a gay women who came out when she was in college, and after she did everything became about sexuality. According to the poster, this woman was pretty annoying to a lot of people. "How do you know person X is gay? Don't worry, they'll tell you about it".

But then he talked about how he was friends with this woman over a lifetime and eventually you could know her for years and never realize she was gay. It stopped being the most important part of her identity and just became 1 thing in a 100. She would talk about it with her closest friends but it just wasn't something she needed everyone to know.

The explanation this person gave is that when you're new to something like that, you sort of wrap yourself up in it as an identity. But then over time, as it becomes familiar, you find that there are other aspects of your identity as well, and maybe your sexuality/religion/whathaveyou isn't the most important thing to communicate to other people.

Since then, I've seen this borne out twice in my life.

The first:

While in college I befriended a guy online who eventually told me he was gay. I never personally cared so for me it was whatever. But fast forward a few months and at one point I eventually blew up on him (over chat, we were strictly online friends) because I just got so tired of him equating everything to being gay. It would be completely innocuous things that somehow indicated someone was gay or disliked gays. He went offline after that and never came back and I sometimes wonder if he liked me. For me it was just an online friend, but I do sometimes think about it. I can't remember how we met, but I think it was while I was running a kingdom in the online game of Utopia (I'm pretty sure it's still around in some form).

The second:

I have a very good friend whom I've known for over 25 years. I'm closer to this guy than my own brothers. He grew up christian and at some point in college decided he was an atheist. And he turned into the stereotypical 'angry atheist'. I used to talk to him about it and ask him why he felt the need to be an asshole to someone just because they were a theist. Over the years he's calmed down a LOT and treats theists with a lot more respect than he used to. You'd probably never know he was atheist unless you asked him specifically.

---

Anyway, I was just surprised to see this sentiment. It's one that I've kept with me for years and I very rarely ever see anyone else acknowledge it.
TorrentFreak messed up, here's the indictment for Umar Ahmad:

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.542945...
My Mom nearly died from it when she was a kid. The lifelong complications can be really debilitating even if you survive. I'll be very happy when it's declared fully eradicated everywhere.
> Their largest project is Palantir Gotham which is exclusively for government agencies (federal, state, ICE, and by Project Maven after the tech companies abandoned it due to ethics concerns!)

Did you even read their S-1? Palantir Gotham is NOT “exclusively for government agencies”. According to their own filing, it’s used by their Commercial team too. It even says so on their website.

> You’re talking primarily about Palantir Metropolis which is used by hedge funds. Not exactly some beneficial use of technology to counterweight working with ICE to separate children from their families.

If you’re going to attack them, do it honestly by accurately representing them. Palantir isn’t used just “used by hedge funds”, if you actually read their prospectus and their website, their use cases include: auto racing, automotive parts manufacturing improvement, corporate cyber security, regulatory compliance (incl GDPR), pharma/drug development, and airline route optimization.

https://www.palantir.com/solutions/

> but if you look at their customers then it’s clear that the ones paying them the most are secretive government agencies ande it’s been that way since day 1

Yeah this is conjecture, at best. Nobody disputes that Palantir works with the government, but you don’t have enough information to claim with certainty that they work only with the government, and how much of their revenue comes from the 3-letter agencies. Unless you can actually substantiate your claims, these are just unfalsifiable hunches.
Amazing. Thank you. Quora's login-wall is unbearable.
Lots of things succeed with very shallow major drivers, like a name.

“Cousteau’s grandson”, just that phrase, will grab attention around the world from people who never once saw the grandfather’s face.
> Software projects with our nation's defense and intelligence agencies, whose missions are to keep us safe, have become controversial, while companies built on advertising dollars are commonplace. For many consumer internet companies, our thoughts and inclinations, behaviors and browsing habits, are the product for sale. The slogans and marketing of many of the Valley's largest technology firms attempt to obscure this simple fact.

Yep
Nice :). Pun intended, I hope :).
I talked to people at DO, and there seems to be no current way to fully automate this process, because, as you said, the client needs to give access to create a droplet on his account.

From what they said, the only way to do that is if they create a DigitalOcean account, go to their settings and create an API token that they can share with me.

It would have been awesome if it was possible for me to send them a link with all the details needed (marketplace image to be used, cloud-init script, etc.), and when they click that link they get sent to a DO registration page, when they create the DO account they would also instantly have that droplet created for them.

As I mentioned before, I already provide a semi-automate way to deploy using cloud-init, the main drawback is that the user still has to manually copy that cloud-init script, which is not too complicated, but it's an extra step.

> provide their ssh public key
A non-techincal unforunately user has no idea what a SSH key is. Does it also work with password login?
They are just aarch64 cores like in your phone, not a "formula 1 engine". I think it's a really tough sell.

For around the same money you can buy 512 cores of modern AMD x86_64 (4 x 128 core, ~$5000 ea) AND 4 x rtx8000 gpu, 18,000 CUDA compute cores (also ~$5000 ea)
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He was a great oceanographer, engineer, filmmaker, and he opened the eyes of multiple generations on what lies in the oceans and how it's fragile and important to protect it. Isn't that worth a monument? He may have said/done/been bad things at the same time. Do we bury all bronze busts of Wagner?
There's likely also the sharing is caring aspect, millions of people really appreciate their efforts - and they're aware of that.

On the flip side some people really doesn't appreciate it, which makes it even more fun I guess (unless you get caught).
> Interested? Reach out to hey@heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

Missed an opportunity to double the silliness here