skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...striking a harsh blow against two popular services used by more than 100 million people in the United States.

Seriously? I am so far behind on these things that they come and go before I get a chance to try them.

Though I did use WeChat a bit in between getting repeatedly locked out for supposedly being fake or something. I thought only Chinese people could stay on that one for very long.
Giant Pacific Octopus
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352440
Big Tech at the End of History
> You do not describe our "being intolerant of their intolerance of our products (content, code, and signals)", but rather our "being intolerant of their products (content, code, and signals".

Took me a few reads to understand your point of contention, but I'm pretty sure I described it accurately. Their intolerance of our products over whatever concerns they have justifies our intolerance of their products for the same.
And by telling I think you mean that over time Java has very thoughtfully evolved in a way that respects backwards compatibility, or that once a feature is in the language it'll very likely stay there for the next 25 years. Yes, innovation is very important (and happening faster than ever now with the 6-month release cadence), but a majority of the work isn't in deciding what goes in, it's deciding what stays out and if something does go in how does it satisfy both audiences of "move slow don't break" and "move faster we want features".

A good video on this process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0
I'm no expert on this and this isn't a political post although it's been politicized, please don't beat me up.

Can someone who is knowledgeable explain to me how this virus could have evolved in nature with such sensitivity to UV light? I've heard it explained that the driving belief that this virus was modified in a lab for study of SARS class viruses and escaped (not released, not as a weapon) is because it never had to adapt to sunlight. Is there a way that science could answer or prove this virus is in fact a natural mutation/evolution?
You forgot a third kind: FB employees.
I'm not sure.. the previous Trump related topic did ok (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24516345)

Also is it really very polarizing - it seems there's a rough consensus about Trump on HN?
There is little to no difference between what the article is describing, a halal certificate on some financial instruments and the Kosher or Halal stamps you see on food products at the grocery store. In this case there is a consumer demand for products labelled Halal and it is being met by a body deemed to hold legitimacy in determining compliance, how this becomes a discussion about defending the entirety of a broad concept like Sharia is perplexing.
The Billion Dollar Bootcamp
No because you always (most times?) use the chip with given software.
I don't see any issue with giving them a discount as long as you're covering costs (and future support requests). I do this fairly frequently when people reach out and ask if I have a discount for students, although generally don't do more than 30% off.
You're saying that William Binney is out of his technical depth here? The former NSA intelligence official who is the expert in intelligence analysis, and traffic analysis? Did you even watch the video?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(intelligence_o...
I've also been known to have an absurd amount of tabs across multiple browser windows. Upgrading to a new machine with quite a bit more RAM didn't help either. About once a day, I'll go through, and without looking, close all my browser windows. If I try to go through and choose which tabs to close individually, I get a hoarder mentality where I can find the use in everything. "Actually, maybe I do want to read that article about raising your own livestock", I'd think to myself knowing full well I live in a city.

Worse case scenario, I close something that will take 15 seconds to get back to when I realize I need it.
I've settled on vertical tabs, and use an extension that limits it to the number that fit on my screen without scrolling, which is around 30.

I also no longer use bookmarks. I use the browser's autocomplete of sites I've been to before, and failing that either remember the complete url or give up.

I used to do a lot of bookmarking and a lot of tabs but I found neither really added value for me. If I don't remember the site, I probably don't need to be there.

That said, I don't try to really convince others to do the same (except vertical tabs) cuz I recognize not everyone will find the same value I do in it.
> So why does JavaScript get the same treatment?

Because very frequently sites with minimal functionality have large piles of javascript. Web sites which should take milliseconds to launch take seconds instead. Some of this is ad-tech, but a lot of sites are overloaded with junk before the ad-tech gets stacked on top of it.

Look at moment.js, the most used date library on the web. It is exceptionally common for people to add a library like that to a site to add a few basic bits of date parsing. (And yes I know moment is being sunsetted).

Even if you assume these big piles of code do nothing once they are loaded, passing around and parsing big chunks of Javascript every time you launch a web page is a waste.

Though as someone else pointed out above, web pages are not a big contributor to Global warming. It's just a frustrating, time consuming waste in most cases.
Recently hit 4000, with ~2000 in a single window. One thing that I think helps is remembering that you (ostensibly) have a browser history. Rather than keeping every tab you might want to come back to, close the ones you expect to be unchanged later (or that don't currently hold a particular needed state). You can then reopen ones that float up to your consciousness (i.e., the ones that are important) as necessary. Taking this approach made culling 1000 tabs not too difficult. Of course, this would be made much easier with a robust history search function, but good luck with that.

There is also at least a Chrome extension that lets you filter and close tabs by domain (name escapes me).
The CCP priority has never been capitalism or the free market. It has always been China.

They allowed foreign companies in the 90s to operate in China but in partnership with the Chinese thus foreign companies were literally training their own future replacement.
Foreign companies only saw short term $€¥ signs as always. Fast forward to today and there is very little Chinese market left for foreign companies to conquer.

I find it difficult to hate the Chinese for not repeating the mistakes of the 19th century and playing it smart.
Looking forward to Epic Store on the Playstation 5.
I don't think either side is being silenced. Both sides equally like to accuse the other of:

- Ignoring "facts and logic"

- Suppressing free speech

- Being hateful

- Blindly following mainstream media

- Being agents of foreign influence
The momentum transfer is never perfect, so every tether station will need to have a propulsion system to boost it back to the base orbit. But since the tether is already in orbit, its station keeping system doesn't have to be chemical rockets. On top of momentum exchange, it can use various form of electric propulsion that are slower but much more efficient.

RE balance of incoming/outgoing boosts, that's why the article mentions the option of having the ship carry some extra fuel as payload to refuel the tether - because even with that, tethers still get you energetically and economically ahead over having the rocket fly itself all the way to destination, due to exponential nature of the rocket equation.
Try the Stack browser. Instead of tabs, you have side-by-side, side-scrollable, resizable panes. It makes it so much easier to interact with multiple sites at once.

https://getstack.app/
This is so true that at other companies it often takes a lawyer (in-house counsel) reminding product that something is legally precarious to stop it, and they still push.

For something that has no real legal ramifications, there’s no way you’re stopping it.
You are aware that something like 30 women have accused him of sexual assault, right?
Is Wikipedia wrong about Obama's 1200+ pardons vs Trump's 25? If you have a source, please correct it.

(This isn't a political statement. I liked Obama, and I don't like Trump.)
If it spread among bats, I could see sunlight not being a selective pressure on the virus. They're nocturnal animals, right?
Evening Project: Arduino based brake light controller for Electric Mountainboard
California town asked permission to thin surrounding forest before burning down
I would say it's a case of large surface area to volume ratio, inability to repair damage, and lack of selective pressure (why protect yourself from sunlight when you spend your time inside an animal?).

No great mystery.
Fuck the executive.
Really? I am so sick of people absolutely trashing Trump because of his personality. I mean yeah, his personality SUCKS, no question. He is rude, disrespectful, and a jack ass. But lets look at some facts. Obama, brought us from 2 wars/conflicts to 7. Obama, set a precedent for drone striking American citizens overseas. Obama approved fraking in the Artic. Obama started a drone war in Yemen (at the behest of the Saudi's) that has killed many innocent people. The Obama Administration used so many bombs the military RAN OUT OF FUCKING BOMBS!
Trump helped negotiate 2 peace deals in the middle east. Reduced our troops in Afghanistan, and got us out of Syria.
Let me be clear though, I am not a Trump support. Don't like the guy didn't vote for him. I have never voted for the "lesser of two evils". But if you were to force me to vote for the lesser of two evils, Trump would be the clear winner. Yeah he is loud mouth jack ass, yeah he has done some shitty things, but he has done less shitty things than Obama/Biden.
I wish we could get every major OS to work on an open standard for file transfer from device to device (locally).
The sound server itself (the link) is 100% CPU and does not use the GPU at all. One of the client application however (your description) output RGBA data generated by the GPU.
That's because credit card interchange fees are much lower in France than they are in the US. Does the French government cap interchange fees?

https://www.mastercard.co.uk/content/dam/mccom/en-gb/interch...

https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/public/mastercardcom/n...
It might, however, protect against infection by a related, worse virus. As well as it often being safer to be infected earlier in life than later on (which requires a fair amount of spread along children). There is a related hygiene hypothesis for polio, but luckily we don't have to deal with that anymore.

On the whole, eradicating the flu and colds would probably (in my opinion) be a net positive, but you have to be a bit careful with these things.
Wow. I'm surprised at how incompetent Ben Affleck is at debating, or even following a line of reasoning.
Not quite. Outside the US intelligence community, very few institutions were convinced that Iraq had WMDs.
That's also fair.

But there are laws, policies, judicial procedures regarding how the US gov. can access that data, specifically a warrant would be required for access to information. Moreover, information is accessed on the basis of some ostensible crime.

Aside from basic censorship of anything and everything, the CCP can use (and does) WeChat information for absolutely whatever purposes it chooses at any time.

If you say something about Hong Kong protests on WeChat - you will be flagged (and censored) and every one of your peers will be flagged as well. Your career, ability to move freely, future job prospects are in jeopardy, let alone the possibility of completely arbitrary imprisoned. There is no 'justice system' to speak of within that framework.

And of course, there are more basic issues of trade - there are zero foreign entities that would be able to operate in China on basic, civil terms. They all have to operate as organs of the state.

The CCP ensures compliance of it's authoritarian policies by having units within private organizations specifically for that purpose. Have a read [1]. It's not a 'conspiracy' it's just how they operate.

There's no way on earth we can allow those types of organizations to operate freely here.

So yes - just as TT and WeChat are banned or changed hands, there should be more action to at least have more transparency on who, what and how the US can access information from FB etc..

This is right at the core of the issue of the globalization of information and it has to be addressed, there's no way around it.

[1] https://thediplomat.com/2019/12/politics-in-the-boardroom-th...
I never understood how folks end up with 20+ (100+ !?) tabs just hanging around ALL the time. For me it's so much visual noise.

I can see it happening when you're in the midst of research or troubleshooting. But when I'm done or have solved my issue I'll note in my PR where i found solutions or add the useful pages to my bookmark service (raindrop). Then close all the tabs!
They discuss this in the article:

“ And of course, none of these deltaV savings are for ‘free’. Accelerating payloads means the tether will slow down. If it slows down too much, it will de-orbit itself. The momentum lost with each catch-and-release operation must be recovered either by absorbing momentum from payloads being slowed down, or by using its own propulsion system.

A major advantage of an orbital tether is that you do not have to immediately recover that momentum - it gives time for slower but more efficient propulsion systems like a solar-electric thruster to gradually accelerate the tether. A chemical propulsion system limited to 450s of Isp is not needed as the acceleration can be done over time with something that has thousands of seconds of Isp. The propellant needed to run the tether’s engines is greatly reduced. Even more interesting is the possibility of propellantless propulsion, such as electrodynamic tethers that push off the magnetic fields around a planet.”
Well we are still talking about few million rays per second. Without filtering you will end up with too much noise and blobs. Raytracing without noise filters is even for prerendered scenes unpractical and too expensive.
> I think the real concern is that social networks can be used for mass political opinion manipulation

Again, the concern is not that that is happening, but that it's happening by people not under control of the US elite. The hyper-partisan news organisations of the US engage in "opinion manipulation" just fine, as does Facebook.
No the concern is they aren't subject to the laws of our land, and thus can get away with it. No one can hold China accountable, or at least none of our leaders have shown they will. Case in point: China continues to remain relatively unscathed from committing genocide against the Uighurs.
Hypothesis 3: Rogue actor, a la James Bond style.
Dude, the moment you realize whose side neo-Nazis are on, you really don’t want that argument.
I don't care about Apple or epic, I own products from neither. But the regulators are looking at apples 30% cut now.
> So your strategy is to dismiss "mainstream corporate-backed news" and instead watch comedians on Youtube? Hard to take that seriously.

Another symptom of the illness that ails us. It's the job of comedians to make us laugh, not to tell the truth. If a lie is funny enough, some comedians will tell it for that reason alone.

>> Kind of like a modern day court jester who can tell the truth

Responding to the GP: I think that's a misunderstanding of the myth of court jesters. It wasn't that they were the only ones that could tell the truth, it was that they were the only ones that could hint at uncomfortable truths to the king if they wrapped it up in enough humor. Other people could tell the truth amongst themselves, but they had to flatter the king because of his power.
There's a reason why the TikTok ban isn't fully implemented until November 12th.
Link to (paywalled?) article:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.08.022
Even if you do, it will kill navigation flyouts and similar if done naively.
Iron, How Did They Make It? Part I, Mining
Yes, code generation tools are very relevant and useful.
Obviously they can't generate everything but they can help a lot.
With tools like Telosys or JHipster you can save many days of workload, especially at the beginning of the project with their bootstraping features.
Here's an alternative to AirDrop! https://github.com/spieglt/FlyingCarpet Linux, Mac, and Windows, requires no network, just two laptops with wireless cards.
I remember doing the math of how much energy a phone uses per year, and thought I got it wrong, since it was so little.

And it's similar with computers, as you've stated (especially with Laptops that are already pretty energy efficient).

I'm not sure what we can do as web professionals honestly, but as technologists in general, maybe more of us can apply our engineering mindsets to actual climate change problems instead of building a 50th ad analytics platform.
You need to start trying to change your employers/clients mind on this - show them what the cost is by having 5MB uncompressed images and massive blocking JavaScript.

"look you having to pay $xxxxxxx in PPC" because that low cost design agency messed up a site redesign.
You can get most of the documents for popular cases from RECAP (mentioned in this story). RECAP has a browser extension that harvests documents when people pay for them with their own PACER accounts, and reposts them to their service [0]. A federal judge rejected the State of Washington's motion for a temporary restraining order (in a lawsuit regarding CHAZ). I was interested in the filings, so I used my PACER account to download them. Then I checked RECAP, and found they were there already.

I don't think PACER requires a credit card -- my account is set up to bill me if I incur more charges than the complimentary $30/quarter.

I used my PACER account to file in the Court of Appeals. It was very convenient, much easier than mailing a big envelope to their filing clerk. Attorneys are required to file in the federal courts electronically with text-searchable PDFs. Pro Se (without an attorney) filers have to ask the district court for permission to file electronically, but the Court of Appeals didn't have that bar to filing electronically.

tl/dr: if you're going to file Pro-Se in federal court (bankruptcy/civil/etc), get a PACER account and sign up for electronic notification of filings.

[0] https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/ and https://free.law/
This is my go-to for workshopping potential domain names.
To me the most interesting part is this: https://www.blech-lang.org/docs/user-manual/moc/

From what I understood, Blech's solution for concurrent data access is this:
1. Writes are queued during 'reactions' and applied in-between 'reactions', last write wins.
2. Static analysis ensures, that there is only one writer for each global variable in so-called 'fork-join scope', I guess it's a scope of code that can be executed during one 'reaction'.

This is conceptually somewhat similar to MVCC, but only one writer is allowed.
This is a national security issue and I doubt it will change under a Democratic administration. We do not want Chinese control of our payments, nor do we want the amount of surveillance that implies being in the hands of any foreign government... let alone an increasingly totalitarian one with camps, slave labor, and many other alarming human rights abuses.

Think Russian election meddling was bad in 2016? It was amateur hour, basically just memes and bots and on the level of what a determined 4chan mob can accomplish. China armed with deep social graph data could completely own an election. They are better financed and smarter.

There is a ton of naïveté on display here.
Trump Is Wrong About TikTok. China’s Plans Are Much More Sinister
If Assange was a Russian asset who helped Trump win the election, then when Trump offered him a pardon to announce someone non-Russian as the source, he would accept the offer immediately. Assange's options in that case would be: rot miserably in jail, risk dying, hurt mother Russia and Trump - or - say a couple of words, save himself, Russia and increase Trumps re-election chances, and go back out into the world doing more amazing conspiracy-spy-stuff for Russia with a big fat paycheck.

Conclusion: Assange is not a Russian asset.
I'm not convinced. The compiler can emit different byte-code. The proposal includes adding a compiler-aware phase to processing type "hints" (here now, actual static types).

If you type code "xs: List[Int]" and try to change xs[4], the compiler (phase) would have to reject your code.

This isn't "removing features" as typing is optional. And as long as a lists in "successfully compiled python program" express the same API, it doesnt matter that their implementations differ.
I'm 100% sure they have their own self interest in mind.

But if it was solely that they could easily have negotiated a fee cut and left everyone else in the lurch.

Or perhaps they tried and this was the next step.

Either way we all stand to gain from google and apple stores being forced to play by the same rules everyone else has to abide by.
I have yet to meet a single "follower" who can articulate the policy actions of this POTUS in any way shape or form. They instead talk about ideals and feelings... Not a single one can cite any policy and the facts and figures that come with these changes and moves. So yes. They are by motivated by hatred and bigotry and worse, ignorance.

Regardless, one can support the policies of the GOP and not the man. And that is the problem here. People supporting the man in spite of the facts.

So who is blind in that scenario? Those who cite facts or those who stick to their guns regardless?
If you look at those, there's a significant difference in the _sort_ of pardons given, though. Most of the Obama ones seem to be retroactive pardons of mostly rather severe sentences, for random people (note how none of the names are links). This is essentially the traditional use of the power; random person appeals, says their sentence was unjust, his majesty/mr president/the committee agrees and issues a retroactive pardon.

Most of Trump's appear to be pardons of notable people, often aligned with Trump, currently serving their sentence, and in the case of Stone actually convicted for activity relating to Trump. There are a few more traditional cases (eg Jack Johnson), but all in all they're two very different lists, showing a very different use of the power.

To be clear, I'm of the opinion that both are bad and that the power should be restricted to a judicial committee or similar, as elsewhere, but I do think these two cases are _different_.
Mostly about startups really, with a big lean on technology. On occasion, there are political discussions but they tend to be heavily monitored to stop them becoming too bad.
Blech is sheet metal. It can be painted or bare, the term does not convey that aspect.
Most real world systems would be practically impossible to even write a formal specification for, much less actually prove that the system follows it correctly.
I like that the author mentioned “goal-oriented”. Perhaps intent is another way to phrase it. There are few websites we visit with intent, and others are for just “browsing”.

I’ve been working on Amna as a way to help with intent driven work. Instead of opening a frenzy of tabs, it makes you write what you’re working on first, and then provides you a browser or multiple browsers to help you. It’s cool because when you have to get back to something, you just click on a task, and everything comes back. E.g right now I’m working on editing a website and sending out a newsletter, those are two completely separate items, and when looked at individually, they only have like 4 tabs each.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23780781&ref=producthun...