skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything I can think of which we've just slapped "smart" in front of in recent years is smart because it is more interactive / capable (in a technology centric way) than the corresponding "dumb" counterpart.

Smart speakers work great as dumb speakers and (generally) have the form factor you expect from dumb speakers. They are a lot more capable than the dumb ones due to a variety of additions, one of which is a microphone that allows it to respond to voice commands.
IMO consoles are an historic thing, this days I think if you pay full price to a console then you should have all the rights to unlock it, and if Sony wants to limit me then this should only work if I did not buy the product but I have a subscription for it.

Other giant difference between smartphones and consoles is that smartphones and internet are required for a majority of people (banking, messaging/email, COVID apps, 2FA apps ) I can't tell my bank please make an app for this free OS, or my company please make a 2FA app for this free OS and the reverse the company/bank can tell us "use Android because Apple banned our app because the small bug fix update triggered someone"
Allowing anti-vaccination sentiment to proliferate on the platform is fairly unambiguously harmful to society, especially during a pandemic that may rely on a vaccine to escape. It appears to be choosing engagement, which drives clicks, page views and ad impressions over being a force for good and then dressing it up as free speech, when moderators selectively remove millions of other posts per day.

Social networks have proven themselves so powerful, it seems unlikely their ability to wreak havoc on society will remain unlegislated forever. One day social networks will be legally responsible for the content published, and we'll see an end to the laissez-faire attitude of allowing disinfo to spread unhindered.
People were accessing applications and data on remote systems and using digital distribution for software. The big differences are the available bandwidth (which does not depend upon the web) and that HTML/CSS/JS are platform independent client side languages.

That said, much of the inefficiency of the web comes down to implementation. A site like HN is efficient since it has a well defined purpose and the design reflects that purpose. Many websites have less clearly defined purposes, provide a much larger scope of functionality, of depends upon general purpose frameworks. Those are all ways to diminish performance with little perceptible benefit to the end user, a.k.a. bloat.

As for modern development, I'm not sure it is much more accessible than it was in years past. Yes, a big part of the appeal of web development in the 1990's was its accessibility. On the other hand, that was comparing mature general purpose development tools to one that had limited scope. You certainly weren't developing standalone applications in HTML/CSS/JS in the early days, and most of what was developed for online use was geared towards accessing data an less so to content creation.
I tried the same thing and it took 4 seconds on my 8 year old computer.
> this should make you more confident, not less, in the safety of a well-tested vaccine.

Indeed it should! The fact that people are about to communicate messages such as "I am worried that this vaccine caused harm" means that it is more likely that this risk of harm is being appropriately managed.

A broken fire alarm is a risk to fire safety.
> Our forecast is up!!! It gives Joe Biden a 71% chance of winning and Donald Trump a 29% chance

I think the confusing thing here is that at first glance it looks like "Joe Biden will get 71% of the votes" which is a landslide victory. If it said "there is as much chance of Joe Biden winning as rolling a 1-7 on a 10 sided dice", which means almost exactly the same thing, no one would get surprised if Trump won, because we are all familiar with dice rolls with probabilities in the 0.1-0.9 range.
Looks like a nice physics engine, but I wouldn't say it blows JS engines out of the water performance wise. They are surprisingly fast these days.

Ammo js:
http://kripken.github.io/ammo.js/examples/webgl_demo/ammo.ht...

Ammo wasm:
http://kripken.github.io/ammo.js/examples/webgl_demo/ammo.wa...

They can be faster, but it is still insane how fast JS interpreters have become. So for smaller application it might be ok to stay in JS land.
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All this is moot. Hydrino energy will make storage largely unnecessary except possibly for small handheld devices.
https://brilliantlightpower.com/news/
Also, black soldiers were significantly less than the population percentage. Even if racism is to blame, the fact is the overwhelming majority of US soldiers were white.
You should probably wait for an example where Google didn't put off writing the issue up for a year after the initial report.
Was just camping in the ozarks. FWIW, the isolated forest service road camping spot had bullet casings and broken glass. The more popular watering hole area was completely clean.
So we need an EE 4 then! EE 1 and 2 were really good and I'd prefer to play them over most games I've looked into since.

Wonder what similar / modern current RTS would be close?
Don't use Facebook but I don't want any of the social media platforms performing any censorship beyond the legally mandated type (ie pirated material illegal porn etc)
"Want the same functionality across all Browsers? Better use Js."

This is not the point. The point is some developers just include big Javascript files because they don't know what other methods and options there are.

I have seen developers include Javascript to 'fix' things across browsers but it made things worse because the `let` keyword was not supported in some browsers at that time.

So it is not about if you should use Javascript. It is about the fact a website or webapp can and should be fast. But when a developer does not know about the technical aspects we will end up with multi-megabyte pages that take 10 seconds to complete.

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About the `position: sticky`: it is not smart to promise a client a pixel perfect experience across all browsers (unless they want or need to and will pay the extra price). In the case of a sticky header you can support all modern browsers with two lines of CSS (`position` and `top`). The other 6% won't have a sticky header but still a perfectly working website. So imho you did not caught a mistake but a real world example.
Is there even a point of voting rights if one person hold the majority?
The consortium has AMD, Intel, and Microsoft listed as contributors, so even if they didn't initially create the thing, they had a hand in it. The executable format used for UEFI is PE, which is telling.
Yes, the redefinition of 'enemy combatant' happened under Bush if I recall correctly, but I think nobody is disputing that Obama really intensified the drone war, a trajectory that Trump seems happy to continue[0][2][3]. This is not a partisan issue because both parties are very comfortable blowing up 10 civilians to kill one terrorist.

[0]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/obama-drones-trump-kill...
[1]: https://theintercept.com/2019/10/02/trump-impeachment-civili...
[3]: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/tr...
See that is a fact check; if someone were to state "The 1976 swine flu vaccine was unsafe", that's a fact. If someone has the belief "The Covid-19 vaccine has not been tested adequately", that too is a fact - and the manufacturers have issued a joint statement saying they would not risk releasing an unsafe vaccine either.

But the fearmongering? The "Vaccines cause autism" claim (which is massively insulting, for one because it implies that people would rather have their kids be dead than autistic)? The misinformation about the contents and risks of vaccines? That needs to be tackled. Those are non-factual or disproportionate claims that are putting millions at risk.

My girlfriend initially made the conscious decision not to have her son vaccinated (for various reasons not related to the current anti-vax trend) but had to have it done later on because so many others refused to vaccinate their kids. She wanted to rely on herd immunity but the anti-vaxxers made that unlikely.
> my spending five minutes to answer their question might save them an hour of troubleshooting

It's definitely situational, but there's also a "teach a man to fish" effect playing out in some cases.

If it's somebody on my team who will continue to deal with the same class of issues, I'd prefer they "waste" an hour debugging. Chances are I did at some point in the past, and that's why I can answer in 5 minutes.
That's why you don't respond immediately. My policy is that if it's super important they'll either come by my office or they'll call me directly.

Anything else, and it gets looked at during specific times of the day. Once everyone is aware of this policy, they know that emailing me won't get an immediate response, and they accept that.
"Equal justice under the law" unfortunately cannot coexist with "The law must serve justice".
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> will likely be the de facto standard if/when the majority of projects and tutorials use it.

Why would you think that? To me it sounds like a completely unbased opinion and goes agains everything that I read in the v3 documentation or in numerous discussions.

> Possibly the biggest change is our new Composition API, which is entirely additive- the previous Options API will continue to be supported, as the Composition API is an advanced feature.

https://v3.vuejs.org/guide/migration/introduction.html

The Composition API is the last item in the API reference, the Options API is positioned much more prominently.

https://v3.vuejs.org/api/options-data.html

In the Guide, the Options API has its own section while the Composition API is nested within the "Advanced Guides" section.

https://v3.vuejs.org/guide/introduction.html
Machine learning tools increase power of hypothesis testing
Plus it lowers the quality of the fact checking. How useful is it to have a political post fact checked by an ideological fellow traveler?
Exactly. I started college in 2001 and while more pricey than it had been, I was able to secure loans at like 0% during school and then like 4% after. I’m not aware of the numbers for other years, but this seemed fair.

Then the loans were sold and came out at like 16%. This was painful. Not sure how that happened.
If you need money over the long term and you don't want to relinquish control, we have a thing called the bond market. Borrow for 5, 10, 30, heck, even 99 years and your interest is tax deductible! (Borrowing longer than 99 years the IRS may want to talk to you. Your bonds start to look like preferred stock.)

Wait -- the bond market won't lend to you cause they don't trust your ability to generate that return for the next 20 years? Go to the junk bond market -- they'll lend to you. In fact here's an idea go to the junk bonk market, and borrow money to take your company private -- out of the hands of those grubby short term shareholders.
> A broken fire alarm is a risk to fire safety.

So is one that issues false alarms every 5 minutes, which is generally a better analogy for anti-vaxxers.
We talk about children here, you just cannot simply decide to put them aside for a while. What hobby is more important to justify that you need to do it at a specific time ? You just invented this constraint to try to prove a point, but it really sounds like you just want to rant. Do you have children ? It's already exhausting to take care of them in normal times, but I can guarantee that when you don't know when they can go back to children care or school, and you have to work on top of that, it becomes really difficult. If you had to take care of one of your relatives, I would not think twice about trying to be more flexible for you to do so.
> I talk to people almost every day in a completely uncensored environment who have nothing but the purest hatred and mockery for all liberal or leftist people and liberal or leftist ideologies.

And I live in one with the same feelings for the right! We're like brothers, I guess?

> They applaud the killing and beating and gassing of BLM protesters. Yes, "the left" has places where they mock the right unreasonably too, and they fire somebody sometimes for a stupid misunderstanding or for being too offensive, or they ban somebody from a web site for a not-good-enough reason - it's stupid and awful, but there is simply no comparison.

To be clear, I shared an institutional response from just about the most credible type of institution you might find on the left -- a university. This is not an individual response. Individual words are far, far worse. I'm not sure how you've gone from there to claiming the worst the left does is to "ban somebody from a web site."

Really? Are you willfully blind? You really need to tune into Fox News more. You're seeing the bad stuff on the right, and not the bad stuff on the left. For a lot of the stuff, they show real videos, so you know it's not fake! It might be rare -- in a country with 300 million people, just about anything happens somewhere -- but it's not fake.

> Each time somebody dies, the people "on their side" will hold it up alone as evidence of how evil the enemy is.

That's exactly what happens. Fox News cherry picks. You'll get the nights' selection of Worst Stuff on the Left.

The left goes back and cherry-picks too. The number Fox News constantly runs is that in 2018, a total of 18 unarmed black men were killed by police. We can quibble about statistical methods, but far more of the problems come from police brutality and from the extreme biases in our justice system end-to-end (The New Jim Crow is an excellent book) than the isolated police shooting. A lot of the stuff you see on smaller more left-leaning media designed to drive outrage (and especially the stuff that spreads virally on Facebook) is just fake too.

And you can be sure that Fox News careful takes apart the most fake news on the left, in the same way the left takes apart the most fake news on the right, so (rightfully) neither side believes the other.

And by the end of it, we live in a polarized nation with two very different perceptions of reality.
I would agree with you, except that LLVM IR isn’t platform independent. For all of Wasm’s warts it’s the best supported low level cross platform IR we have.
No they shouldn't.

All computing devices should be free and open.

Stallman was right.

The world is trending toward a corporate-owned hellhole.
I think the author simply wanted to call attention to his clever shade. But calling it a microphone doesn't even make sense and shouldn't be scary (a normal "dumb" microphone can't snoop on you). Plus, my car includes a microphone and I've never heard the car called a microphone.
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These load in about 1 second for me and everything is almost instant and fluid on firefox 80. The firefox process running them uses 284MB of memory.
No worries. Here is a good resource that talks about the levelized costs of gravity storage. It's estimated to be much cheaper than Li-ion battery storage on large scales.

https://www.storage-lab.com/gravity-based-storage
yes, i was climbing a couple days ago and some teenagers started stacking rocks right in the middle of the trail head for exiting the climbing area. i don't understand why stacking rocks is something anyone cares about.
Webassembly is not designed to replace javascript. It works along side it.
I went to a small college town and there were some amazing wildlife areas that were not well traveled. Some were actual parks, but with poor signage and little parking. Others were private land with neighbors who were alright with people traveling in so long as we kept off the grass when parking.

I went back recently and those private areas were now public parks, the public parks had full parking lots, there were signs about dangerous cliffs everywhere, and it all felt very .. different. It was no longer exploring the frontier. I wrote about it a few years ago:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/perspective/exploration...
I'd be interested to know what the 'aha' was when learning Express (and how you find it compared to Django)?
Yes, sorry I explained it incorrectly. That is the right explanation.
Genuinely curious: what do you mean with respect to "R's non-standard evaluation" and its relationship to DSLs?
Thanks in advance.
Let me know if you dabble with the RC cars!

We were thinking of using an RC car for part of this experience, but figured we'd leave that R&D project for another day.

Our main concern was designing/modifying the car (and its play space) in such a way where it doesn't get stuck. One of our goals was to make this an experience that can be managed and reset remotely by our team, so we wanted to avoid manual intervention as much as possible.
Yep, we've had exactly this issue with the web portal on one of our applications. A customer used some 'quick and dirty' convenience tool that used web scraping to invoke the portal application pages, and wrapped that up with part of their admin workflow.
When the pages changed, even slightly, it broke their admin tool.
We had said not to do this, but the workflow/web-scraping tool was surely quicker and cheaper to implement than custom API development within that organisation.
> but it seems very disingenuous to say that it's a crime that you can't afford to buy a home

It's also very disingenuous to misrepresent other people's statements like this. Literally no one is saying it's a crime.
Read the sentence in context: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj45kx/amazon-wants-alexa...

The sentence in question comes eight (8) paragraphs in, and reads: "While it’s natural to be chiefly concerned about privacy when your apartment comes with an Amazon microphone pre-installed, we should also be critical about where the data extracted from us ends up."

In context, no other word makes as much sense, and the request would make the article worse.
Tophatting in React Native
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> Decades of evidence shows that the median merger destroys shareholder value for the acquiring company.

As an investor, I care more about the total (sum of average) returns of mergers, not the median. Just like in venture capital (where the median investment is clearly negative), the total return matters and is driven by the large returns on success.

I'd still be happy to invest in Berkshire Hathaway in 1955 even if you told me that their median merger over the next 60 years would be value destroying (so long as the average would turn out the way it has).
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Epistemology is harder than that.

If a government body declares that there is no risk of human->human transmission of COVID-19, am I not entitled to evaluate other evidence and conclude that this statement of fact is incorrect?

> Based on the preliminary information from the Chinese investigation team, no evidence of significant human-to-human transmission and no health care worker infections have been reported.

https://www.who.int/csr/don/05-january-2020-pneumonia-of-unk...
> Houses can’t be arbitrarily changed. Cars have governors. Scissors shouldn’t be run with.

None of these regulations are decided by the company that manufactured the device, they are all decided democratically by an elected state.

How about...

Houses can't have arbitrary appliances installed that weren't made by someone approved by the house-builder

Cars can't fill up gas from a stand not paying 30% by the car manufacturer

Scissors can't cut paper sold by someone unaffiliated by the scissor manufacturer.

Sounds reasonable to me!

> If you don’t mind breaking the warranty, please jailbreak your iPhone and install whatever apps you’d prefer.

No, Apple wanted jailbreaking to be "go to jail" illegal, not just voiding your warranty.
Fascinating, never knew the biff one.
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How in the heck are butter suggestions going to be a personalized ad? That’s the same as “amazons choice”, or super market branded butter. Same for the shoes, that’s even more not-an-ad, as you’ve specifically requested a make/model. Personalized ads work by getting you to buy something you’ve been considering or getting you to consider something you haven’t heard about, in both of these cases they aren’t doing that.
I mean, by that logic, the US government allowing anti-vaccination sentiment to proliferate without legal/policy action (read: the First Amendment), is also "unambiguously harmful to society".

Except, the issue is way more nuanced than that. The reason this expression is enshrined as a protection in US jurisdiction is because we decide that free expression trumps every other social need — with the narrow exceptions as laid out in Brandenburg v Ohio (imminent lawless action).

To the extent that this is undesirable, if the political will to amend the Constitution is absent, then you'd also have a hard time convincing people that Facebook should not exercise the same principle.
They do matter, completely. Has the data from national security programs ever been used for non-national security purposes (ie in public policing for instance)? It is rare if not unheard of in most western countries. Conversely, it is used all the time for censorship and policing in China.

These checks and balances declared the metadata programs unconstitutional.

https://www.cnet.com/news/appeals-court-finds-nsas-bulk-phon...

Is the system perfect? Not even close, but it does strive to minimize abuse. Plenty of countries here in the EU have national security programs that operate in a similar fashion. The goal shouldn’t be no data collection, it should strive to minimize abuse and keep collection limited to that national security concerns. None of that is true of the programs in China.
Positive Covid tests in no-lockdown Sweden hit lowest rate since pandemic began
SARS-CoV-2 and A/H1N1 aren't even in the same phylum. It would be silly to expect them to have precisely the same effect. Besides, when people gush about "herd immunity" they don't usually include the caveat "of course it's going to kill fifty million people first!"
The thing I dislike about PHP these days is composer. It turned it to Java and I certainly had my Java days. OOP is great but I feel like a ES7 like module system or even Rust’s module system would be better suited in most cases. So I agree with most of what you said, bad programmers make bad code no matter what and most moved on to Golang.
This thread is about Mark Zuckerberg specifically saying how they will police certain content. How is that hands off?
This argument positions corporate policy as some kind of inalienable right. It is not. There are things called laws that, in a democratic society, let us have a say in what the supermarket around the corner decides to sell.
This is the appeal of Phoenix LiveView for me. Server rendering was already incredibly fast with Phoenix, but the ability to forgo the majority of JS with LiveView bypasses all of these framework complications.
Share loans are a really simple way to align incentives. Execs get shares loaned with interest at market value, and can’t sell faster than the loan repayment schedule of 20% per year after the end of tenure. Some other rules apply like dividends can’t be paid from a negative value loan. Sure, option incentive packages try to approximate this, but they can’t legally capture the downside like a loan can.
I'd be very surprised if even one in a thousand ATV campers had a legitimate physical disability (being a lazy fatass doesn't count, and I can say that because I'm a lazy fatass. If I can walk a few miles, so can they.)
Only in the sense that one day he might not.
its like the eternal september. it has always been happening. I wonder if prehistoric man was like "man, do you remember when it was just us and the mammoths but now the mammoths dont even come here anymore because grog is always splashing in the water with his family."