skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't dd "disk duplication"?
One disadvantage with Starlink is the need for external antenna. With HAPS, project Loon and HAPS Mobile [1], you can use regular mobile phones and modems making it cost effective for most people. The idea would be for an operator to have terrestrial network in urban/sub urban areas and high altitude cell towers in less dense areas. This way you can use the same subscription and device.

Starlink could also be used to provide backhaul to cell towers which work with standard 3GPP protocol and provide the same service as terrestrial networks.

HAPS Mobile has got a good video (< 5 min) on what it is and their vision [2]

[1] https://www.hapsmobile.com/en/

[2] https://youtu.be/zxWODb6Uqgs

Edit:
I've no affiliation with HAPS Mobile, Softbank, Google :)
I recently found this. Works like a charm:

https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict
It's not in limbo - it was in limbo.
How does nationalizing the banks help?
Is YACC considered a command? Yet Another Compiler Compiler IIRC.
So that they can be heard denying vaccine effectiveness, though. Again, it's a practical issue. Some messages, including this one, shouldn't get Facebook-level assistance with reaching listeners.
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Attractive and somewhat lazy ideological opinion. The world is so complicated and the group most susceptible to conspiracy theories in most cases also happens to have the least access to the type of education that prioritizes critical thinking.
Because Moore's law has long stopped. Esp. for single thread performance. New laptop processors are comparable in performance to ancient Core 2 E8400.
I don't think it's fair to call that "scales quadratic". Certainly the energy stored in the total number of blocks is growing quadratic by digging deeper, but it also ignores that costs and effort grow when digging deeper. In effect, adding a block at the bottom comes with substantially higher effort than adding a block right next to it on the same level.
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Or if swap your of and if arguments, disk destroyer. :)
Add a 1 minute delay on every order and most automated trading would be gone.
And eventually your only option will be to live in a cave.
"Extract" doesn't seem to work, but the rest of this is simple and intuitive. Very nicely done. I wish I had this tool a long time ago!
Apple products are a bit special in that the integration has always been a huge part of their value.
On the bright side, Americans have prevented 90% of the 2+ million predicted deaths that were to have occurred by now had nothing been done.

That means most Americans don’t need the government to tell them what to do to make a decent outcome of things.
I grew up in Tsawwassen in the late 70's & early 80's and Pt. Roberts was nothing like today; you could buy property for next to nothing, but why would anyone want a swamp shack in the middle of nowhere? I remember a neighbour who used to ride his bike to the border, walk across the "no touch" zone and buy cheap pipe tobacco - try that today and see what happens!
Which C++? I know of classic C++ (98), then C++11 which I've used, but now there's C++14, C++17. C++20(?) which all seem to have very different features... I'm glad C++ is improving, but eh it's as tricky as HTML5/ES5 to keep up to date on.
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The symptoms you describe have happened to me, might not be the same cause but worth sharing. At a certain point I felt like it had been months since I had delivered anything of engineering value.

The underlying issue was that my priority alignment is heavily skewed towards delivering solutions to technical problems. On discussing with my leadership, while they appreciate that I'm hands on their read was my organizational experience and "oversight" for major projects was the most valued.

Knowing that really helped me to relax a bit and understand that I won't always be working late nights to deliver some sweet resiliency workflow and thats fine.

TLDR: sync with your leadership and ask what value you bring so you can align your time to their priorities. Warning, this may not be a fun conversation.
The packages would have to settle on a stable ABI. This is virtually impossible for Rust (which has no ABI stability between binaries compiled with different compiler versions).

Unfortunately this doesn’t get you much in the way of safety guarantees either, since you can’t readily run these packages in separate WASM instances; Rust, C++, C etc. all assume a shared linear memory when linking.

I’m bullish on WASM in general but I think WASM for simplifying package management or for writing executables that just need restricted filesystem access is a solution in search of a problem. Various containerization efforts have solved most of the important problems here with less runtime and toolchain overhead.
As others stated, you're welcome to your opinions, but those aren't facts.

In our household, my wife loves our Google Home's- and uses them constantly. Playing music, broadcasting messages, adding things to grocery list, and following recipes are among her main uses. I tend to use it too for playing music and the grocery list.
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One solution might be for shareholder votes to be weighted by the length of time they commit to hold the shares.
I've rewritten hot loops (decompression & texture detiling) from JavaScript into specialized AssemblyScript and seen a decent (2-3x) perf boost? I'm not sure how much of that is "running hot" in JS, since in the examples back then I was probably only doing it for ~100 textures. I can't imagine beating JS with a giant STL-using app with a clang-based toolchain, but the AOT nature helps a lot for hot loops; the kind of stuff you'd write custom asm for in a game engine.

Of course I was making sure to do as minimal memory transfer as possible, and I already use a lot of weird patterns to try to minimize GC in JS.

https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/blob/master/src/gx...

https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/blob/master/src/as...
What about things that Facebook does take down, like fraud and scams or misinformation about voting requirements? Is that problematic because it positions Facebook as an authority about those things? Should Facebook remove posts which claim an election date has been moved, or that if you reply with your bank account details you will get some free money?
Were they? The wikipedia page is full of [citation needed] around the numbers, so I'm having trouble confirming this.
I'm still waiting for tail call optimization. By not having support for it, a bunch of languages are either forced to not bother with WASM, or have to do something like trampolines and give up performance.
We require companies that list with us to adopt corporate governance that aligns their behavior and incentives to the long term.

I know that doesn’t sound super sexy but we believe this is a high-leverage point for reforms

We will have more to say on reforms that relate to reading in the future, but we don’t limit the ability of “tourists” to trade in and out of stocks as normal.
He didn't do anything as a Senator. It's one of the things he was most panned for, voting "present" all the time.
It's a testament to the hard work of the language designers and committee members that they're able to grow the language at such a rapid pace. It's exciting to think that the C++ I write in 5 years' time will probably be completely different from how I'm writing it now, due to things like meta classes, ranges, modules, concepts and reflection. Few other languages are adapting so quickly.
Here's the simplest quick answer I have regarding "is it worth it." This is just one example of independent research vetting that it is indeed promising. The math checks out.

https://www.storage-lab.com/gravity-based-storage
> So you'd like to be 'entitled to your own set of facts' about how to summarise that WHO post because I am a fallible human, correct?

It is simply not factual that that statement states "there is no risk of human->human transmission of COVID-19". It explicitly states otherwise, in fact.

> There is limited information to determine the overall risk of this reported cluster...
My family does this on state-owned park land near where they live, but it's never enough. A solution of hoping people see the error of their ways doesn't seem realistic to me.

As far as deferring to authority is concerned, there is some benefit. Hunters were the worst offenders for leaving garbage behind, but now with the state owning much of the land, hunting is no longer allowed. Now there aren't hunters leaving behind piles of trash and illegally built blinds but there are more people out enjoying nature.

Deferring to someone else isn't the solution, but it also isn't a tragedy.
> If the permissions system in place is clear and potent enough, I don't see the problem.

Maybe, but the odds of the permission system being clear and potent enough that non-technical users understand what's happening is basically zero.

> You can also ask people to simply download and install an app that can do whatever it wants.

And after 20 years we've managed to train many people that that's a red flag that crosses a security boundry, unlike this shiny new way to invite malware into your machine by accident.

> It's 2020 and we still can't build web apps that can read and write to local files. Browsers are no longer useful just for reading text.

That is... not a bug. Web apps are safer precisely because it's so hard for them to touch your "real" local system. Take that away and you erode the security model that made web apps so great in the first place.
What support will there be for high frequency trading? What is required for Direct Market Access? Will the realtime data feed be public? What is the fee schedule?
Still seems like an interesting question if you replace “think” with “inferred”, “learnt” (in the statistical sense), or any other synonym that’s in opposition to “memorized and parroted”.
The evidence is that the merged firm is worth more than the two component firms, but it's the target that reaps the gains. This suggests that acquirers tend to overpay.

See page 111 of this survey paper: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.15.2.103
Those have specific answers, why would advertisers be involved at all? That would be asking Amazon to specifically bring in middle-men they don't need to go through.

"Alexa, what's the most healthy butter" would be a better example of something advertisers might pay for.
This is a valid alternative hypothesis. The litmus test is if Zuckerberg will change his stance after the Election Day. We can only wait and see.
> But if you prevent people from selling, then you're preventing the market from holding a company accountable when its management messes up.

Is it even possible to hold management accountable for anything at all? Personally, I think executive compensation is the real culprit.

I've tried to think of ways to put a cap on compensation but I can't think of any way especially since the management of one company is on the board of another and they are all in it together. Also something I didn't know until recently: board members get paid! How is that not the dumbest thing in the world, I will never know... Personally, I think board members in public companies should get ZERO compensation, no travel allowance, no perks. They own stock, don't they? but I digress.

Is there a way to cap executive compensation to a multiplier of the lowest salary paid by the company? like 10x or 50x something? Like if the lowest pay is USD 15 per hour or USD 15 * 2000 = USD 30k then the highest executive compensation (including stock grants, bonuses etc) may not exceed USD 30k * 50 = USD 1.5M which isn't too bad.

Is it possible to codify something like this?
The LLVM IR isn't portable. e.g., you can't take the LLVM IR for one CPU or OS and use it on another CPU or OS.
"Is this organization credible?" is an opinion, that you might back up with various facts.

Right. 100% Agreed.

And that implies that a fact like "On 5 January 2020, the WHO said '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.' " is based on an opinion like "The WHO's web administration team is credible and would not have misleadingly changed the content of a web page"

Unless you start comparing that fact with other facts as reported the internet archive or a checksum in your database...which also has credibility questions.

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I'm just saying "Sadly, there is no way to escape using human judgement somewhere." I suspect we agree on most relevant object-level questions about vaccines and COVID-19.

I realise I sound pedantic. In normal times, I just round 0.9999999999999999999 up to 1 and go on with my life.
Wine sort of supports DPMI so might work already if you are lucky?
> cat
> Catenate

TIL the words concatenate and catenate exist, although they seem to have almost the same exact meaning
Suppose there’s a highly-detailed molecular dynamics simulation of every atom in your brain: every ion channel in every neuron, any neurotransmitters wafting about, and whatever other mechanisms might be relevant (ephaptic coupling?) for good measure.

This would be frightfully expensive to build and run (BlueBrain blew billions on a very stripped down version)l Nevertheless, it’s not obvious to me that this MD model wouldn’t “think” in the same way you do.
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Yes its an interesting gambit. This puts it at very competitive price point and could pick up a lot of buyers.

It has the same CPU but less RAM and GPU cores. I guess they're assuming they can lower the frame buffer size, shade less pixels, and save ram (and maybe even disk?) by never loading the highest resolution mip level.
I don’t think it’s that either. I think it’s about Facebook’s algorithm massively amplifying certain voices.
I don't disagree with you about the role of the Fed.

But from a practical, tangible, rubber-meets-the-road, this-is-how-they-do-it point of view when the Fed buys something, it pays for it by writing a new number in my Fed account. That new number is money.
Absolutely. It feels like we're finally almost back to the level of functionality browsers had in 2010 with Flash/Java Applets.
this is exactly what I've noticed happening a lot more in the past 2 years.

I've shown up to unmarked campsites where people had clearly abandoned 80% of their new walmart gear, so much I physically couldn't carry it all out to trash.

finding a good drive up camp spot in the southeast is basically impossible unless you go in the middle of the week, especially if you wanna keep it 100% legal (no private land). Our few national forests and their few roads stay busy, always have.
I mean this is an excellent point. There was a reason they built semiconductor facilities where Silicon Valley now is, and why all the housing is so drab. It was not a highly desirable place to live back then. At today’s prices, my parents couldn’t have afforded to live in the drab DC suburb where I grew up. But there were almost no jobs paying six figures in the area back then, nothing like today.
Yep. If you're going to pay the cost in complexity and compile times, you might as well get some run-time performance.
Ah, didn't realize it wasn't portable.
I'm struggling to understand what you are saying here. Can you... sort of... unpack your point rather than indirectly alluding to it? (I'm an ex-biologist and read the Times article and don't see it as misinformation. It is almost entirely factual and lays out all the critical information an educated reader would need to understand the current situation).
What if the cost of the monthly interest on your mortgage for that $500k house was less than your rent?
I agree with you that society should support them. But not the companies.

I think the companies should provide benefits uniformly for all its employees, but the government should provide the extra benefits for adverse situations, such as these for parents.

I think Sweden has a similar model (?), where parents have sick days for their children where the government pays your salary when you take these days off to take care of them. I believe it's called VAB.
Well, I'll be! This really is a sad development IMO.
The trouble is that Facebook’s algorithm by definition does shape the speech that people see on Facebook.
I'm not affiliated, but have used helium and have found it to be intuitive and work quite well.
Guess she should have used a disposable Revolut card then
I think that as long as there are people "above you", be it in net wealth, income, cost for their houses or what, you'll always be tempted to think you are "normal" or rather on the low-end.

At least I notice that I sometimes think that way when I wonder why people do not buy something they like or sth. like that.
Ah, we're conspiracy theorizing now.

There is substantial contemporary reporting of the WHO's statements from January, and the Internet Archive has it snapshotted on Jan 9. http://archive.is/jZByM
"The choice to have kids isn't like the choice to work out or get good at Starcraft. It's a choice which benefits all of society."

If a person choose to spend time on themselves then that is a choice which also benefits all of society.

"Even if everybody only worked 20 hours a week, people with children would still need concessions that people without children don't."

I have my doubts. The concessions that people need to balance life and work looks all very similar. A lot of the concessions that people with children seem identical to the concession that many people without children also need, those being flexibility in the job and hours spent doing work. If we include debilitating health conditions, does it matter for the job if a person need flex time to balance the condition or if they do so in order to setup the teaching platform to their kids?

What concessions are we talking about that is not some kind of flexibility or time off, and which only a parent could benefit from?
Hello everyone,

Founder here. I worked today entirely on the product site. It had fallen behind and was out of sync with the actual product. Would love to have your feedback. In particular if you could answer these two questions:

- Do you understand what dwata is?

- Do you feel you'd know someone who would need it?

Basically I am looking for clarity of product and audience. Thanks for your time and help, means a lot. Cheers!

Sumit
Yes. No issues with Webpacker as Vue is officially supported. In fact my quite old project is now augmented with Vue to make several micro-SPAs in interactive parts. Layout HTMLs are served the standard way with Haml. To get things faster I sometimes render data JSON objects in HTML page script tags to get rid of initial fetch - works nicely.
iPhone 6s was first sold on September 25, 2015.
It's possible for this to reduce steps / make the exploit process easier, and to do so without the "download this file and run it" step that should trigger a red flag to people.
iPad, child mode, turn off every other app from Facetime and Siri, and turn off the app store: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304#allow-apps
None of that matches reality, but it makes for some fun speculative fiction.
Pretty sure Airbnb owns the trademark on "Airbnb" so you can't use it this way. You might be able to get away with comparing your service to Airbnb in the context of a "testimonial" or something, but almost certainly not in a tag line.
R some very lispy meta-programming features. Very briefly, if I'm a function (go with me here) `foo <- function(x,y){whatever}`,and someone calls me, `foo(bar,baz)` I get to know that `baz` is "bound" to `y`. The caller doesn't even have to have a `baz` in scope; substituting `y` for `baz` is done lazily, if the function never asks for the actual value of `y`, there's no problem. You can read more about this here http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Computing-on-the-language.html
I can't fathom this perspective. Who looks around themselves, seeing the amazing, world-altering scale of human population and says to themselves "You know what this place needs? More of me!"?
This is a good example of an accounting trick that should not be allowed by an exchange-listed company. It’s simply a trick to make a loss not count against earnings. It’s not even shown as a liability like a self-loan would. In M&A situations it’s usually shown as an asset. The point being that you can’t trust the earnings number and you can’t trust the balance sheet asst value, so you really don’t know anything about a stock. I’m surprised that no analyst firm has published a common GAAP-based valuation. Perhaps because it’s impossible, but that underlies the problem for small investors.
Of course the immediate parent meant GitHub. It is the grand-parent comment that conflated the two:

> one central point of failure on github?

>> Not really, since everybody who cloned a repo has a full copy of everything.

(everything != Git repo)
I'm not. Is it because Amazon is using it as a privacy-invading microphone and doesn't want that to be well known, or is it that it just doesn't want to reduce usage due to unfounded privacy concerns?
>Actually all microphones can "speak".

Counterexample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone
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How do you convert power to methane?
Just looked. Very cool! Thanks for linking. Also, cool idea with the name. The lightest of the noble gasses.
Methinks that if you think that the best use of your time in "understanding what is going on" and fighting the battle against "inflammatory false content" is to watch it, cite it in conversation, and talk to people who watch it- it's your life and choice, but, forgive me: citing it is a mistake, because it is a false reflection of reality (on a personal level, an important distinction from the aggregate medium is the message level), and, trying to combat it by talking to people is like talking to an addict. Fox and other content providers are there because people want it. There is demand and dependence. You can get a reasonable conversation from one part of someone's brain that is disconnected from actual behavior, because the other is hungering for the hit.

Best wishes to you.
I was easily 100 miles from any notable population center, and I figured I would have my pick of any number of dispersed camping sites along the upper river. But when I arrived on a Tuesday afternoon [...] Every wide spot in the road was occupied

I learned recently that some portion of these people are actually living in dispersed camping areas full-time, my guess being to avoid paying rent. The level of destruction I have observed, as well as the difficulty of finding sites even in remote locations in the middle of the week suddenly made a lot more sense.
On my Ubuntu laptop, egrep is just a script that calls grep with -E. Did egrep absorb grep? Is the old grep still commonly installed with any distributions?

EDIT: and fgrep also is a script that calls grep, with the F argument.
Just an FYI, Algonquin is the third largest Provincial Park in Ontario. The largest is Polar Bear (3x larger than Algonquin), but it is only reachable by air and you need special permission to visit. Wabakimi is also a bit larger than Algonquin and has road and rail access.
Drawing a few boxes with webgl has nothing to do with a graphics card. This is about webasm which is single core performance.
Really nice looking site and an interesting concept. Unfortunately I wouldn't be able to trust a stranger with my stuff.

Good luck though!
I've seen this approach backfire a bit too. Rather than having to scrape web content, my work is reduced to pulling out my favorite sandboxed JS interpreter bindings, running the snippet, and extracting the rich object they just created with exactly the data I wanted. You only need a headless browser if there's a meaningful interplay between the JS and the rest of the site.
That's sounds better
That's going to happen anyway but now the Fed will have no power over ameliorating any of it.