skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The beauty of the web as we know it has nothing to do with its efficiency. For applications, it is, as you wrote, inferior in speed, as well as many other attributes (memory usage, CPU usage, plenty of others). That is not the point. The point is that web apps are distributed instantly to users, on demand, anywhere, extremely cheaply, with no middlemen necessary. (The web is not the only technology with these traits, but in practice it is the only widespread one.)

Back before the web was prominent, software had to be distributed via physical media, usually floppies and later CDs. This inherently limited the reach and complexity of software - physical media is expensive, especially floppies - so it required either the mailing of software by the creator(s) to users, who would have to pay a fee, or a substantial investment by a publisher, which again incurs a (larger) cost to the end user. Almost any widespread software would require a middleman (publisher) and the end user having to go to a store to purchase it.

Allowing anyone to create and distribute software in a format simple enough to be used easily by anyone has democratized this system. With more programmers who might not practice the craft professionally, and a desire for speedy development, higher-level languages and frameworks sprung up to fill the knowledge gap and enable even easier development.

That's not to say that we should not appreciate older software - as you wrote, the aesthetics ought not belie the challenge and art of software which had to fit into tight spaces, and the constraints required usually forced developers to place function over form. It's a different, not necessarily better or worse, software development paradigm, and older software can be as impressive as or even more so than newer software. But we shouldn't write off the new things either, even if they're worse in areas.

(I don't think all of it looks completely ugly, either: Windows 3.1, for example, exhibits a number of traits of modern flat design - single colors, mostly a lack of shadows, many simple icons and interface elements. Windows 1.0 even used the hamburger menu icon. What's old is new again.)
Please don't do this here. There's nothing new to say about Chinese concentration camps and political repression, so the discussions are tedious and therefore off topic. Also, the question of whether the Chinese government can be criticized here has been decided on HN for many years and is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

Edit: note the person who replied to me gets to the crux of how the Chinese government is treated with child gloves on this website.
Yeah given the size of their trial there's a good chance this is a reaction to something else rather than the vaccine.
Same deal if you tried to pay for a beer in the US using vietnamese dong.

However if you wanted to purchase "illegal" drugs online you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who will accept your USD.
Tesla's reasoning for disabling FSD on some of their buyback cars is so they can sell it for a lower price and give the user the option to one-click purchase FSD in the future without needing a service appointment.

For the private sell situation, this is close to what you might be thinking of[0]. Supposedly the story is: Tesla bought a car back, however then sold it to an auction house and enabled FSD as a "demo". The auction house mistakenly listed the features as being enabled, and when the car sold Tesla never disabled the FSD demo. When the user then privately sold the car to a new owner, the new owner performed the ownership transfer, however either a human or some automated system saw that the FSD demo was enabled and disabled it.

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-disables-autopilot-on-...
> regardless of whether or not you have an issue with ethnic cleansing

Dude seriously what the fuck?
Strawman.

defund the police and "ACAB" is far from "death to all cops"
It's very strange that your viewpoint doesn't seem to acknowledge even the concept of abortion. Especially if we're talking about something as awful as rape.
The thing is: At more hours viewing Netflix shows, there is more chance get the feel of "have seen all" and then cancel the subscription.
nailed it - same thing utterly convinced me, observing the top daily stories over time makes you clear-eyed.

it's no different than when i was 7, at the grocery store, and wouldn't stop asking my mom why tabloids were sold on the checkout lane caps if they were made up lies about conspiracies

they don't sell them on the checkout caps anymore
Hear hear. Well said.
> Then is it cool if I skip a few meetings to volunteer to help the homeless?

It depends where you work, but potentially? I work at one of the FAANGs and we can take up to 20hr/y of work hours for volunteering.
Can we stop with these convoluted systems and just do nuclear already?
That's how autoplay videos were originally implemented on mobile browsers. Implementations included GIFs, or giant JPGs of stitched video frames switched out with JS. Some even used video decoders that were transpiled to JS and there are webassembly versions now too.

It was all replaced when browsers finally implemented video tags that played in screen, but the tech still exists.
McCoy Tyner
https://archive.is/sje2O

Now with less geomancy.
Here’s a link to the letter. I almost joined FB for a ridiculous sum of money/equity and chose not to due to their participation in the proliferation of right wing/white supremicist hate speech. Two years later I am glad to have my position be vindicated by, inter alia, this letter.

https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do...
The philosophy you're arguing for is a cruel one, very much "everyone for themselves". It's a good thing most people in society don't believe in it, and do in fact think it's a good idea to help everyone out and provide some basic minimum standard of living.

You should read about the veil of ignorance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
Well how about you don't write your comment in an insanely insensitive and inflammatory way? Your language implies that there can be rational debate about genocide? That is not de-escalating language at all.
On one end of the spectrum, they make capital available to businesses in order for them to bootstrap and expand. They pick winners and losers and make decisions that significantly alter the course of economic development.

On the other end of the spectrum, they gamble on tulips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

There's everything in-between. Factor in the universal human tendency for self-delusion, and you got tulip pushers who think they are moving the pillars of world.
of course, but I'm not quoting ACAB or defund the police.
It's just not the right layer -- it is not for corporations to effectively tax all the single employees at ~50% or so in order to subsidize people with kids.
My internal monologue when I do anything even for the first time is always as if I am “writing a guide”. Taking something apart, cooking, playing a game, etc. It doesn’t prevent me from enjoying things and I don’t think actually writing it down would be that different

I’ve thought about how I would create a game walkthrough and taking short notes or audio/video recording while thinking out loud and then expanding it at the end of the session wouldn’t be too difficult or intrusive.
Lawyering is not really the problem, I have a quite successful career. I am mostly content to just program in my spare time and programming/automating those areas of my practice where there is value. But, and it’s probably more specific to my situation, but I do almost exclusively criminal defense work and it can be tiring, I’ve been at it long enough that I could use a change of focus.
Biggest problem for me is that my areas of knowledge/interest for CS/programming is limits solely focused on low level, performance oriented domains, programming language theory And type theory. That is not the most marketable skill set, but I love doing it.
Not as bold as the claims of millions of Uyghurs being detained:

https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1287411708374454273
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This is absurd, the past 100+ days far-left/left/antifa/"blm" have been wielding immense political power by rioting, looting, burning, shooting, and antagonizing throughout multiple US cities.

The term "far-right" has no meaning when it's been applied to every human not condoning left-wing mob politics.
As much as they try to add security to this feature it inherently breaks out of the "sandbox" concept of the browser and scares me.
Bitcoin met the real world in Africa
> The mobile web as a whole has gotten faster

There are actually cases, were faster infrastructure had slowed down a system significantly. E.g., British railways (in various organisational form over the years) entertained rolling post office trains, which grabbed mail bags on the go, sorted the mail and dropped it again without any halts, since 1838. This played quite a role in the evolution of fast delivery of national news papers, up to 8 deliveries of mail per day in urban centers, etc. By the 1960s the procedure had become too dangerous for the increased speed of trains (with several firemen loosing their heads in accidents involving the scaffolds for handing over the mail bags) and the last Travelling Post Office ceased operations in 1971. Moral: by speeding up the network by a few miles per hours, mail delivery slowed down by a day.

Similarly, as mobile network speeds increased, expectations what could be done with this rose faster than the actual speed of infrastructure. Add high-res resources with previously unheard of page loads and you've established a system of ever increasing expectations and visions, which will be always bound to significantly outclass the real life capabilities of the infrastructure. As long as we stick to this paradigm, increasing network speed will always result in a slower web, due the Wirth factor involved. I'm afraid this will be even more true for any further significant speed-ups, like those promised by a fully operational 5G network. (Also, visions and concept that are apt to exploit and even challenge the capabilities of 5G will probably also pose a new challenge to any hardware on the end points, which may prove eventually financially challenging for an average user, by this introducing yet another significant gap and respective drops in average real-world performance.)
Even the "mild / moderate" reactions were pretty bad though. They sounded substantially worse than your average cold.
idk. It is already done quite successfully in many democracies, including Iceland and Estonia.

I’m guessing the vote is sealed with a key or a barcode, if a later vote arrives, a system will order a previous vote with a matching key/barcode to be destroyed. Finally on voting day, the link between any personally identifiable information is destroyed.

EDIT: Just to clarify, there should never be a time when a ballot is unsealed and a link between a barcode and a person exists in the system. A counter scans an absentee ballot before unsealing it, if the person voted in-person the scanner should reject the vote and order it to be destroyed the link could have been destroyed at any point between then and when the person showed up to the polling station. If they didn’t show up, the scanner will order the link to be destroyed, the counter will then pass this ballot on to be counted. Importantly the counter (nor any human for that matter) never has access to a link to a personally identifiable information, all the counter sees is the barcode.

EDIT 2: I don’t know if this is how counting is done in democracies that allow you to nullify a previous vote by voting again, but it is a system that could work, conjured up by a mere spectator.
Try https://www.oilprice.com :)
This is absolutely the right attitude. I’m glad to see it at the top of the HN comments on this article.
I still use Excel 3 and Word 2.

They both use GDI to print and support all the latest printers. It just works!

WineVDM is an awesome tool to keep running Win16 apps on Windows.

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

The best part is that it being 32bit means it runs fine on Windows for ARM.
You are perpetuating a nationalistic flamewar in this thread. We don't rock the boat when it comes to China or the CCP on HN. Please stop, and please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Very well said, the “both sides” stuff cannot stand.
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It makes no sense to jump from this statement

>Weak life dies out and strong life continues until it too is superseded. Evolution is a thing. Look outside and you see it everywhere.

To this

>life exists to reproduce life

You make a logical leap when you change "we generate new variations of ourselves" to "we exist to generate new variations of ourselves."

>It doesn’t mean someone who won’t or can’t have children can’t contribute to humanity in a range of ways for their lives are just as worthy. But regardless if you choose to not or can not have children, this biological imperative has not selected you and your DNA will die with you. That’s just a fact.

Exactly. So it is as meaningless and wrong as saying that the point of a falling ball is to hit the floor and bounce or that the point of the sun is to become a red giant. There is no "point", it is just a fact that will happen.
Unfortunately it depends on the state, and some states don't have electronic records of these sorts of things. There exists a whole subculture of people, some for research and some for profit motives, who stalk the dark halls of records buildings to glean that info. Other states however, I think you could probably manage that.
Link to the actual letter: https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/resignation-letter-fr...
Is calling for the public execution or extrajudicial killing of a confirmed racist hatred in your books? Because there's innumerable examples of that from the left.

How many people called for the execution of Derek Chauvin prior to confirming his guilt in a court of law?
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I wouldn’t trade this for anything. It’s incredible. It’s also a lot of work.

I would encourage you consider that the truly worthwhile things in life aren’t all easy.
You are perpetuating a nationalistic flamewar in this thread. We don't rock the boat when it comes to China or the CCP on HN, even for genocide. Please stop, and please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
With nuclear you still need storage to flatten the peaks and troughs though right?

Also this does not seem very convoluted, it's using an electric engine pretty directly. If you are actually boring straight down it seems like the failure modes are pretty okay.
That's something that is explicitly not done, unless there is a very good rationale for why it would need to be prisoners studied. The reason being, it is all but impossible for a prisoner to give a proper informed consent. There is just too large a conflict for testing to be considered voluntary, especially if there is some kind of quid pro quo. See here [0] for a list of permitted research on prisoners (45 CFR 46).

True, it has been done in the past, but there are many... many horror stories associated with the practice [1].

[0] https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&SID=83cd09e1c0...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimentation_on_prisoners
In a very real sense, the de facto transfer from single people to people with kids is just taking from the have-nots to give to the haves.
Your skepticism is well placed, but if retaliation against your family/extended family can take place, I can see why they might have chosen to stay anonymous. Regarding the links with the other organisation, if these are really responsible for regime changes, I can see why they might want to fund their activities but that doesn't prove CCP's innocence.

Though five decades back but US administration ignored the blood telegram[1] when a genocide of millions happened and they supported the regime who did it, so they definitely are not some white knights as well.

It would be hard to get hard evidence I think, there have been videos of prisoner transfers between these camps, satellite footage of these structures but CCP can always spin a different story about them.

Anyway war is something no one should indulge in unless it threatens their own sovereignty, it is not worth it.

I would say sanctions are reasonable though with the evidence we have seen, considering the other things as well which I had mentioned in my original comment.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_K...
*You choose to have children under the assumption that a once-in-several-lifetime pandemic doesn't shut down the world, take all child-care options off the plate and leave you stuck at home caring for one or more children with no support system while also trying to juggle work.

No parent "chose" the current situation, just like no one chooses to have cancer.
Ex-Fb Eng here:

Agree 100% with this. "Being bold" and "taking down content" should not be used in the same sentence. The leadership team, and many people trying to make Facebook great understand that.

If you read his goodbye message, it doesn't sound reasoned at all. What is the alternative he is proposing exactly? It's implicitly silencing voices, based on what people at Facebook think is hate.

When it comes to something so critical to society, moving fast on that is ridiculous.
Childcare was nearly shut down during a large fraction of this pandemic (with some supply for children of essential workers). Childcare is still not back at full capacity.
This is very disingenuous.

I went back and read Clinton's position, which was that the concept of the US pivoting to the Pacific Rim vis a vis trade was critical but that TPP lacked some additional measures she wanted (ex. stronger measures against currency manipulation).

I don't think Trump ever articulated a cogent policy position on TPP at all. He did have plenty of his usual free association ranting, though, like:

> "And the Obama Trans-Pacific Partnership and fast track are a bad, bad deal for American businesses, for workers, for taxpayers. It’s a huge set of handouts for a few insiders that don’t even care about our great, great America."
Not the question you asked but the Chinese company Sinopharm has started phase 3 trials of a classic inactivated virus vaccine (and Bharat Biotech is starting phase 2 trials as well in India). The difficulty will be mass-producing it, of course, but we aren't necessarily reliant on novel vaccine technologies.
The right isn't burning down buildings, the left is. The right isn't violently clashing with the police, the left is. The right is not looting, the left is. The right is not setting vehicles on fire, the left is. The right is not rioting, the left is. The right is not marching in the street as a political show of force, the left is. The right is not attacking people and businesses based on the owner's race or political leaning, the left is.

Until recently I lived in downtown Seattle. I saw all of this with my own eyes. I saw them torch the building next to mine because the owner was an "evil white capitalist". I saw them torch the Starbucks 2 blocks from my building because of the "evil capitalists". I saw them march down my street every single night forcing people out of their cars, stopping traffic, looting and vandalizing as they felt like it.

There's hundreds upon hundreds of hours of documented video evidence of your side turning to violence. It's so absurd that your side is ACTIVELY throwing away everything we've built, throwing away our justice system, turning to violence and anarchy, and you want us to just ignore that. Your side is literally turning to domestic terrorism to forcefully coerce your political ideology.

But no, me peacefully sitting at home, watching your side literally burn our country down, apparently makes me the evil one, there's nothing wrong at all with what you're doing, I need to be censored out of existence. That's real tolerant.
Question for people who understand the Phase 3 process - would the first step in an investigation of this type be to "unblind" the patient with the adverse reaction to see if they got the vaccine or a placebo?

Seems to me if the reaction wasn't caused by the vaccine there's a 50/50 chance this person received a placebo. In which case, you could instantly discount the vaccine being the cause.
It sounds harmless because it omits the incredibly complex process of developing immunity.

Your body basically is trying to do a sort of brute force/random combination of immune cells on the retrieved virus spike proteins until it comes up with the right combination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_hypermutation

This process can result in B cells that produce antibodies which stick to virus proteins but also stick to your own cells. The B cells are essentially permanent, that’s how you develop lasting immunity, that unfortunately also means you have lasting immunity on one of your own cell types — autoimmunity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune_disease
Cool! This was the absolute acme of word processing software -- it's been downhill ever since. If only it worked on Ubuntu 10.04; linux has gone downhill since then.

Word 5.5, Harvard Project Manager, and Santa Cruz Operation Unix, those were the days. I got stuff done.
> have a sick spouse or bought a new house, or are in a car accident.

This made me laugh a little because they’re such bad examples unless you’re American. Universal healthcare and sane house prices make these specifically the times you can and should slow down.
I watch them on Primevideo...
It's not right, but it's well earned. The african american community also receives a fair amount of hate from the Asian community.
Well said. It's a bit farcical that this discussion has degenerated into "I have kids for the better of society".

Let's stick to the simpler rationale that some people have kids because they love kids and/or want to pass down their genes.
A 3,200 megapixel camera, record-breaking photos at heart of future observatory
nowadays' security is that you have to manually grant permission, which for most people, esp non-technical people, they will normally just press Y, so yeah, the default sandbox protection will be gone for most people.
In the spirit of sharing related work, there was another Show HN post about 7 months ago for ESQLate, which seems similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22073037
I continue to wonder who is needing new widgets during this time. It all seems so disconnected from reality.
Good grief that's quite the response. US is responding more than any other country and you say "well they could do better"? Progress should be praised, not criticized for not doing enough.
There's a number of other potential explanations:

- There is significantly more hate speech from the far right than from the left.

- Facebook proactively removes hate speech from the left.

- More people report hate speech from the left.

- Facebook is more afraid to remove hate speech from the right, because the right has more political power in Facebook's jurisdiction and has recently summoned them for a legislative investigation into censorship of right-leaning content.

- There are more real-world consequences of hate speech from the far right (genocides, shootings, etc.) than from the left.

Despite the names, the "right" and the "left" are not mirror images of each other. They have different political views, worldviews, and moralities, and so we cannot assume that there is exactly as much hatefulness on one side as the other, and that if you see N examples of hate speech from one side, there must be exactly N equally-venomous examples from the other, and the only reason you're not listing them is that you didn't bother looking.
What's the Twitter account?