skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are multiple factors that determine how well people adapt or how productive they can be at home. So this is probably why there are different views in this.

One big one is whether there are kids at home who are not able to go to school now. In that situation, parents may be splitting their time between watching their kids and helping with homework and working from home. This is going to be a significant loss in terms of productivity for many people. And also a big distraction.

Another aspect is just exactly what their job entails and what tools they are using. If they have a job that involves a lot of face-to-face meetings and do not have a very good video chat software setup or have significant issues with internet, that is going to be a big loss for them. Or maybe their chat software works fine but there is no proper way to set up the video meetings because they haven't created a Discord or Slack. So if the software or internet is not not configured or working well, that can be another issue.

A side aspect of that is if there is a manager who feels he is supposed to directly monitor and supervise (i.e. giv orders on the fly) and is used to doing so in person, but now does not have a convenient way to do so. That also can be resolved with software, simply by requiring people to be logged into a chat or something. Maybe some of the resentment is that managers are now feeling a bit of social pressure in terms of politeness to try to keep communications to be asynchronous and in writing rather than randomly interrupting people. Also what they say goes in record on written formats like chats or email etc.
I'm very sure that you're wrong. Do you have any evidence that the NSA kidnaps and tortures people?
I'd argue that the main benefits of day-to-day async programming isn't performance but actually the concurrency patterns that help you sequence your code and resource access in ways that `thread { work() }` could not.

For example, future/result combinators and `await [task1, task2.then(task3)]`.
Ah, my apologies, I had a faulty source
>God Emperor of Dune

Absolutely!! 2-6 draws a much bigger picture of the universe then just that one single story of book 1.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the pandemic and war is not on the table. Stop your fearmongering.
Not that it's anything like Emacs, but would SIM Application Toolkit be considered kind of similar? It provided almost a lowest-common-denominator user interface for apps, which could actually run in the smartphone era, although with practically no advantages over a native app.
My guess is that they lack the jurisdiction to regulate how (for example) Facebook processes images on their platform. Rather, the ordinance only applies to entities while they are within the city. So without the social media exception, it would likely be illegal for any individual within city limits to take a picture with the intent to upload it to Facebook. That would make for some interesting fallout to say the least.
There are several wrappers for Vulkan that make it easier to work with, like V-EZ. Using one of the is probably the best approach for an indie dev.
How to manage the short-term side effects. Testing for long-term ones cannot be done quickly.
It is a problem, and:

https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda
As long as the code is generating something like configs, you can write guard rail sanity check tests against the output, or apply linters, etc.
Tricky. The California Milk Processor Board spent millions of dollars to crowd-source this, and 27 years on, they are still demanding an answer.
Tests like this have been conducted on smaller scale in the past, either on Landkreis (county) level or state level. Some towns even test their fire sirens once per month. What makes this newsworthy is that it is conducted "nationwide". Beside that, it's not such a special thing.
This is the kind of whimsical thing I love to see!
I might be naive, but are you not going to get caught doing this? Because if you're secretly selling enough shares that your voting rights will have an actual impact, it seems like that'll be a fair amount of money you'd also need to transfer secretly, which is not that easy.
To be honest, the premise of the story is pretty retarded.

Control of the galaxy is determined by intergalactic space travel, and to do that, you need “The Spice”, which is the shit from these giant sand worms, that are tamed by the locals of that planet.

Then, to add further suspension of disbelief, you have a guild of these space folding specialists that uses the power of their brains to conjure up the space warp travel, because apparently a computer system couldn’t handle the complexity of the physics of space travel. The whole premise falls apart, and dwells in nonsense.

I can’t imagine what is so good about this story, except that it is some space soap opera from a lost generation trying to make its mark.
I'm far from an expert in this field but rain scatter is definitely a thing on all GHz bands. It's more of a problem (or a way of propagation depending on how you see it) with 5GHz and up. Climate and the size of the droplets also matter as the wavelength changes.

Presumably there would be forward scatter and back scatter to deal with I don't see how you could avoid that.

Furthermore, comments about beamforming and that it uses a phased array isn't surprising with regards to the application but you will still have sidelobes, even with a very tight beamwidth / high gain.

And then you have path loss etc, I have no idea how this would actually work - it sounds unfeasible on many fronts.
These are merely the crimes we know about for a fact. Having been caught out like this in a position of power the right thing to do is investigate him fully. It's scarcely credible that there's are the only crimes he committed in that position of power.
that's a very western centric view. in asia most people don't even use/know email except some professionals. they would be overwhelmed with those choices. also country specific would be the defaults. like japan is used to yahoo, thailand used to Line messenger (nobody uses whatsapp here) etc.
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After all the clamor about Huawei, arguing about effectively surrendering national telecom infrastructures to the PRC Army, here we are. Surrendering essential logistical infrastructure, essential internet infrastructure and the Kindle dataset (useful for political profiling) to the US Intelligence.

So, are there sanctions on the table for the US? /s
>What about 'Not in America'?

Same advice, buy a VPN if you want the services that it provides.

>Because they have 'No logs' policy? Come on, don't be naive.

Contract with a VPN that is audited and resides in a legally favorable country. I hesitate to endorse any particular company, but they're out there. Maybe privacy just isn't convenient enough for you.

>So you do agree that the Amercian VPN companies or any American company have double standards when it comes to China?

What are you talking about?

>very outsider in China installs a VPN to access content outside Great Firewall once they arrive

You are allowed to do this at their law enforcement's mercy.

> several U.S. services work without a VPN

Surveillance wouldn't work very well if it made people quit using the services and network.

> I have heard of targeted deportation/arrests at airport, but never heard of random phone seizures at Airports.

I wonder why they don't feel the need to seize phones at airports. As an aside, I recall reading that the PRC forces Uighurs to install spying apps directly to their phones. That is, all the Uighurs who aren't in "Vocational Educational Camps" and have yet to flee to America, where the supposedly oppressive American surveillance state is a breath of fresh air.
Not everyone. Just the ones who thought it was a good idea to get injected with a rushed vaccine.
Myth-busting article about radiation hardened microchips for space applications
There already is a VISA/Warning api product for this by the IATA. Pretty pricey though. https://www.iata.org/en/publications/timatic/timaticweb-trav...

Such an API might be useful to every organisation, which is in internatinoal travel or sells international travel products.
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There most definitely ARE ISM bands in Region 3.

The ITU has allocated 12 different ISM bands world wide, with some local differences.

see the "Table of Radio Spectrum Usage in New Zealand"

https://www.rsm.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/documents/pibs/ff001f...
Interesting idea. How would you power a swarm like that?
Germany wants to permit driverless cars across the country by 2022
There is a lot of room for cutting corner in manufacturing and it all translates to quality and consistency.

My brother in law has a law firm and he happen to work with two different car manufacturing brands. He was explaining how two brands choose the glue differently to build the same part of their products. While for the Chinese brand it was only important that the glue has the minimum standard to be used in their production line, the Japanese brand was very specific about which exact glue from two particular brands can be used there. Which both happen to be more expensive than similar products with same standard on paper. But Japanese would only use that particular product because they did all their quality and durability tests with that.
Emacs Lisp is slow. There has been a multi-decade effort to make Guile support ELisp, and using Guile to make Emacs more performant.

Cross platform UI, with a faster Lisp, would allow Emacs to be even more special.
> Volunteers for this trial range in age from 5

I'm sure that 5-year old has carefully considered their decision.
This seems to be a great way to tell your relatives and loved ones what a bitter, revengeful person you had been all along, who couldn't even find forgiveness in death. There is also a massive potential for abusing such a service to destroy the lives of people you hated, disliked or were jealous of during your lifetime. Just let the coffin confessor tell some made-up story during your funeral. Who would question the last confession of a dying person?
Free drugs and money!
Four, include Marc Gravell.

https://blog.marcgravell.com/
Regarding limited trading: anyone but a retail trader could trade the forward OTC rather than this illiquid thing on the exchange. We can trade our guesses for tomorrow's price (which is really the live current price) as much as we want, and it will just wash out tomorrow.

Regarding length of ownership: so I make a fund which owns an LTSE-listed stock for a longer term, and people trade my fund instead.

Ultimately, neither of those things is much use, nor even necessary. A much stronger driver for long-termism would be to derive the dividend from the last 3 years of profits; since prices are estimates of future value and future dividend, the actual value of those would be smoothed; if any action can only make a small difference to the dividend, there is much less focus on quarterly results.

A formula or at least limits on dividends (no windfalls) would reduce the interest to activist investors who might see a pot of cash and seek to liberate it.
Videoconferencing never reached a mass appeal until recently. So there wasn't enough money in it to bother with advanced features for powerusers. Don't see why they don't add it now though... I guess they're probably inundated by feature requests though.
No, now you get it all mixed up. One library will use callback functions you supply, another will use callbacks but inline them and yet another will use async/await. And you, the application developer are left somewhere in the middle.

Oh, and you can't use 'await' in the main thread of your JS, you can only use it from within another async function, so when you need it most - for instance during application start-up - it isn't available.
South Korea launches antitrust investigation into Google for Android dominance
East India Company - been the case for a long time.
Karabiner Available for macOS Big Sur
Tekezo [released a new build](https://twitter.com/tekezo/status/1303725699061092352) for [Karabiner Elements](https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements) that works on latest macOS.

It's super powerful tool to rebind keybindings especially when combined with [Goku compiler](https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo) that transforms few lines of edn into 1,000s lines of JSON.

My config in JSON is more than 30,000 lines but in edn is [just 800 lines](https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/dotfiles/blob/master/karabiner/karabiner.edn).
> It’s technically possible today to wear a mic and record everything you hear and say for your entire life, but no one does that, and most people would find anyone that did very weird.

I suspect that is largely due to technical limitations. Devices only recently became small enough, and battery life would still be a limiting factor for (say) your phone meaning you would need to carry a second device. Then there's the issue with placement - modern microphones still don't seem to work when obstructed by (for example) your pocket.

Contrast this with the (hypothetical) option to record everything using your phone, without meaningfully impacting its battery life, while it was still in your pocket. I think most people would actually opt to do that, even if it was technically illegal in their jurisdiction. There's just not really any downside and a whole bunch of potential upsides from the perspective of an individual.
It's not a strawman since it is exactly that which is stated by many influential leftist writers.
the new AOT compiler seems promising though and has a good chance of actually making it into the release.
Main source of latency is not the last mile in regards to mobile networks. So yes, the rest of the internet doesn't care, as those routes are not going to change just because you now have 5G.
It's an unproven claim only reported on a website known for bullshit, but sure.
I don't understand why this site even needs a JWT. Couldn't they just use a typical cookie-based login flow?
I feel a bit the same about other similar hazards. Cities built on flood plains that regularly get washed away. Cities built on volcanic hotspots with regular serious earthquakes. Cities, as you say, in the shadow of active volcanoes. But people always seem to think "it won't happen again."
Or perhaps Apple realized that GIF is a very poor format which only advantage is that it can auto play animations in browsers, which is not a scenario that Preview is useful for, so they tried pushing people to better formats and left GIF as a hidden option if you really want it.
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"Imagine my shock"
Any idea what the cut at minute 39 may have contained?
> ... Rectennas at receive and not some other antenna tech?

A Rectenna is just a dipole with a rectifier at the feed point.

They could be in a phased array (of dipoles), or in the center of a parabolic reflector.

There is no possible way to increase on efficiency in a passive antenna.
I’d like to emphasise the author’s point about not making excessive use of auto playing sounds, from the perspective of a partially deaf person. Background noise / music is jamming that makes it hard to hear the important sounds, such as speech from TTS. Do you really need that stock audio on your instructional YouTube video?
Are you sure about the “1.0” in the title? The descriptive text you wrote says you got “2.0”.

1.0 would surprise me, 2.0 is because, as others said, “/” was changed to do ‘normal’ division, with “//” a new operator for integer division (flooring the result)
Excellent! Thanks!

This got me browsing online for the font balls for these things. Dangerous; my nerd space is overdue for purge as it is.

But have at it:
https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/102974032
Sure that sounds nice, but what to do with user uploaded images? I cannot describe them with words since they can be whatever.

Is "user uploaded photo" good enough for example? The best would of course be to analyze the contents of the photo but that is simply not realistic for the stuff I work on.
You'd be surprised to hear STK is still in use even today by big mobile operators. Some even go as far as to launch campaigns to install STK applets on millions of devices and customers have no idea this is happening in the background.
Yes... but it's not that slow. In practice, emacs works at least as fast as I can think most of the time. This is the most important thing for me. It's the reason why I originally switched to git from svn (Linus also specifically mentions this as a design choice for git). In this day with electron and editors like VSCode I wouldn't call emacs particularly slow.
I disagree that they should try setting up these things manually. Provided the automated installation is good enough, it's easier to pick apart a ready-made install to find out how it works, than to deal with the learning curve of learning how to troubleshoot the pieces that don't quite work together yet and learning their role in the overall stack.

I would have never gotten into email self-hosting if someone hadn't done the hard work of creating an all-in-one solution, because it would have taken more time than I would be willing to invest.
I can think of a few UI styles Emacs doesn't support (to my knowledge) – line mode terminals, block mode terminals (such as IBM 3270 and 5250), and HTML.

Now, whether any of those UI styles are actually worth supporting is a completely different question. But it is not quite as universal in support of different UIs as this email claims.

(You can technically write line mode applications in Emacs Lisp, try `emacs -batch -l dunnet` for an example. But most Emacs functionality is not available in line mode, the core text editing functionality certainly isn't. There is also a HTTP server available for Emacs [1], so you could use it to implement a HTML-based user interface, but once again the vast majority of Emacs functions are not available over HTTP)

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HttpServer
As a non Emacs user, is the speed of Emacs Lisp a frustration in typical day to day usage?
> Basically, it lets you control what people see when they Google search your name

I feel like this is such an overlooked reason for not only having a personal site, but having a LinkedIn, Github, Twitter etc. (even if you don't use them). If you work for yourself in any capacity it helps to try control your search page results.
that's of course not perfect, but you can give users the option to provide their own description. (Twitter does it, altough they've sadly hidden it well, so only some niche bubbles do it)
Germany is testing public hazard alerting(now)
This is some wack logic. If I murdered you and stole your car, would you mind if I got away with the crime? What's that, you'd be upset? Doesn't matter, you're dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZPZGq3Zy8

1984 version looks better, even in the side-by-side trailer.
I'll just watch that one again.
You could fix the means and the ratio of standard deviations, then binary search on the sum of standard deviations.
Ask any child (and most adults) and they will confirm the truth: McDonald's is actually a local optimum of fast-food deliciousness. It may not be healthy, but it's definitely tasty (though I say that as someone who has not eaten there in many years, I am certain that their standards have not fallen, simply because they basically invented fast food standardization.) Like most great fast food, it simply presses all of the buttons of salty, sweet, tangy, greasy/creamy, and savory, and usually incorporates contrasting textures and temperatures (note hot fries + burger vs. cold soda or frozen shake/soft serve.)

McDonald's food is bad in the same way that Coke is bad: it's made by a giant corporation, it's highly processed and contains questionable additives, it's readily available and heavily advertised, and consuming a lot of it will make you overweight and very unhealthy (see Super Size Me.) On the other hand, you can actually lose weight and potentially improve your lab numbers if you eat a low-calorie McDonald's diet (see The McDonald's Diet.)
There's some new development going on that compiles Emacs Lisp to native code with GCC and it is a real performance improvement. I've been using it on an unstable Emacs build for the past few weeks and I can feel the difference—noticeably snappier and more satisfying.

It's not 100% ready for day-to-day use yet—the deferred compilation logic seems to be recompiling more often than it has to—but I've been quite happy with it so far, and it will make a substantial improvement for Emacs users once it's stable and rolled out. Hoping it can be released with Emacs 28 or 29 at the latest :).
Thank you. I completely forgot about 1.

I realize, with abit of shame, urwid is thousands of times more popular than my own pip-chill tool.
First acknowledge that C is outdated, support a polyglot environment for GPGPU programming, including IDE and debuggers with ability to single step shaders, conditional breakpoint and everything else that one has come to expect from modern CPU programming.

Khronos did the first part with Khronos and SYSCL, but only after taking a beating from CUDA, so the ecosystem never cared, and OpenCL 1.2 became 3.0.

Vulkan Compute is even worse than OpenCL in what concerns existing tooling.
I think the IDE's are highly overrated. Some may provide good product specific documentation, autocomplete, flashing and debugging. But most of the times they are highly opinionated programs with their own quirks and annoyances you need to work around to get your code running on a chip. I would be sad to have to turn down a good chip because it has a bad IDE.

I much more prefer good support for opensource framework's like platformio[0]. This way it hardly matters which specific chip I'm using, my workflow is mostly the same. And I can use the same editor, tools and methods I already use for developing all my other code without having to learn the quirks of new tools.

[0] https://platformio.org/boards
You can in most browsers: https://www.fastmail.com/help/send/openemaillinks.html
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Or as the kids say "that escalated quickly!"

No surprised it didn't really go anywhere, but an excellent resource if you have the time.
Great, Facebook pipes everything directly into the US intelligence agencies. Its not just Chinese tech firms that have ties to the military.
I think of it the other way around: Thanks to javascript being single-threaded, we now have async/await keywords strewn throughout the software ecosystem where they provide no benefit.
It should be easy to detect. You usually don't mix different alphabets in a single word.
I'm German and literally just heard the siren and was like, wtf? Then I check hn and here we go! ha.