skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably referring to the mess that happened with uBlock when he tried to step away. That's why it's called "uBlock Origin" now; the original name was taken over by someone who then developed it in ways against Gorhill's intentions.
He wants to collect more data. But current limited data shows no bias toward images from people with light skin tones.
Fun fact: As the base goes down, the number gets longer. If you think about the base as the height, you could then find the "area" of the number by multiplying the two. It turns out that the base that minimizes this area is e.

https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/10...
Just letting you know the reality that a lot of people view "stillborn" events as particularly traumatic. I'm not going to spend a lot of time arguing about this because it's a pretty simple point.

It's up to you to choose what kind of person you want to be, I don't have control over what you say.
@mechanical_fish! please come back
Well they can, they just aren't allowed to...
In 1927 col walter snetterton disappeared while trying to cross the Andes by frog. Maybe someone tried with mice?
yeah if a company wants to come in and do business, china will usually force the company (especially if it has trade secrets) to create a partnership with a local firm for production, etc
People addicted and regularly consuming alcohol, meth (smoked, snorted, or injected), street heroin, and cocaine all suffer from significantly worse side effects than people addicted to sugar.

I’ll grant you that sugar has a higher total social cost, because more people are addicted to it.
> you can see the front jack release triggers the green light in the video!

Actually, the amazing thing is that it's manually activated.

The video explains that there is one person in charge of making sure that everyone has finished and there were no problems, which then activates the green light.

In addition, there's a second person watching the lane, to check that no cars are incoming. This one even overrides the first switch if necessary.
You should check out fossil then. It offers a built in bug tracker that is part of the repo. Along with many other things such as a wiki.

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/bugtheory.wiki
I'm only 47, but I have a couple guiding principles that have been helpful so far. The first is to stay flexible. I've been a runner, hiker, bicyclist, climber, kayaker etc all my life. I've gone in and out of shape depending on what's happening in my life. The only times I've really struggled physically have been when I let my muscles get really tight. Three weeks of steady stretching has done more than anything to make me feel better physically. If I can't run for some reason, maintaining flexibility makes it much easier to pick up any of these activities again.

The second is to find some new, significant challenge in each decade of life. Learning new things keeps us humble and alive. In my twenties I focused on teaching and long-distance bicycle travel. In my thirties I moved to Alaska and began doing mountain rescue work. In my forties I wrote a book, changed careers, and learned to drive a boat on the ocean. Each of these new experiences made me feel like I was 20 again, taking me far outside my comfort zone. In future decades I hope to learn a musical instrument well, and travel internationally. I'd also like to take another long bicycle trip and live without a motor for an extended period again.

There is great joy in growing old; it's much better than the alternative. :)
I have been studying Chinese for 7 years. Many of my Chinese friends live in Los Angeles and WeChat is central in their life... Getting a job, taking orders, doing all kinds of business, paying for things. They don't know the phone numbers of their friends. Many don't speak English or their English is not very good. If it is completely cut off they will still find ways to communicate but arguably it will be more likely to create new ways for scammers to take advantage of people. I think it is possible to ban WeclChat, but there needs to be a well thought out plan.
It is pretty common, but Rust gives you a lot of tools to handle errors in-place more easily than other languages as well. I'd still consider it a significant improvement over checked exceptions in the vast majority of situations.
Haven’t they been doing that already? At least requiring companies to use data centers in country so they can siphon/spy on the data? Is that any less nefarious than a forced sale in order to operate in the country?

I’d argue at least it’s more explicit (to sell).
Video Link Building Service
That's what I assumed as well. That situation was quite a mess.
I work at a Fortune 100 company and we have this in production for our self-service analytics platform as a part of our data transformation web service. Each web request can do multiple pandas transformations, or spin up it's own DuckDB or SQLite db and execute arbitrary SQL transformations. It fits our use case like a glove and is super fast to/from Pandas.
Doh! Yes, sorry PCW. Having a dyslexic moment there.
The danger lies in letting a foreign government controll the communication of americans.

But for me as a german, I actually neither want the chinese, nor the US-government (nor the german government) to controll my communication.
Tamil. It’s a language from the south of India.

The language itself doesn’t have lot of hand gestures. I learnt classical Indian dance for many years from childhood. Subconsciously I would use my hands to punctuate when I speak in my language. It doesn’t happen when I speak English. I am limited to just the spoken word.

With English, I am always anxious that I haven’t gotten my point across. So I create longer sentences and find ways draw from popular culture..Altho being updated on that is a chore by itself. Swear words seem to be universal shorthand and timeless with the English language and it gets the point across.
> but certainly not to meat

Here is a study showing that cooked meat provides significantly more energy than raw meat.

https://www.pnas.org/content/108/48/19199
Carmack, the game developer? What would possibly make you think that he's an authority on what's going on in VLSI?
What a race!
They're both really Wright's law. Theodore Wright published a paper in 1936 describing how aircraft production costs decline at a constant percentage with each doubling of production. The formal term is manufacturing learning curve.

https://ark-invest.com/wrights-law/
When all the dust settles on COVID, the arbitrary and excessive restrictions on freedom, put in place before any science said it was a necessary precaution, will have been far worse than the disease itself. The amount of lives destroyed, businesses lost, suicides and overdoses, wealth given to the super rich through money printing and government purchases of corporate debt, and all for what? Such a god damn waste.
Ask HN: Scalable Hosting for Side Project
I have a side project which sometimes get many visitors. I initially hosted it on a cheap hosting provider, but on the first surge of visitors it got hugged to death. So I quickly moved to Microsoft Azure, and since then I had no downtime. However Azure have a relatively large monthly cost for such a non-commercial project. It seems more geared towards businesses.

I wonder if there is some alternatives which the HN can recommend? I'm looking for something which can handle a surge but with a lover baseline cost.
ISPs, as a utility, should not be allowed and indeed in most places in the world aren't allowed to cut service from people unless it is necessary to maintain their operations.

The analogy breaks down here, allowing WeChat does not infringe on positive or negative liberty of much of anyone.
I can't speak for Apple, of course, but some indications of their seriousness are there.

SwiftNIO is a cross-platform asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. (https://github.com/apple/swift-nio)

Distributed Membership Protocol implementations in Swift: https://github.com/apple/swift-cluster-membership

Docker Official Image packaging for Swift: https://github.com/apple/swift-docker

Also, on official https://swift.org/download all releases and snapshots are automatically available for: Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 7, CentOS 8, Amazon Linux 2

Official Swift Server work group is a steering team that promotes the use of Swift for developing and deploying server applications: https://swift.org/server/

Swift AWS Lambda Runtime: https://github.com/swift-server/swift-aws-lambda-runtime

Official Swift 5.3 release goals have stated a major goal of "expanding the number of platforms where Swift is available and supported, notably adding support for Windows and additional Linux distributions."
(https://swift.org/blog/5-3-release-process/)
Yeah man I'm talking about really obscure websites like The New York Times which works great without any javascript enabled.

https://0x0.st/ilMO.png
The more I hear about Gore-Tex, (and PTFE and PFOA, the chemicals Gore-tex and other Teflon stuff is created from) the more I think this is one of those chemicals that we'll look back on in 50 years like we now look at leaded gasoline.

Besides being known as deadly to parrots, I think studies (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28913736/) are starting to reveal that there are risks with PTFE and PFOA that need more research.

I try not to be alarmist about chemicals and am generally in favor of scientific progress, but this chemical (similarly to PCBs) seems like one of those "wonder materials" that's great for specific applications that turns out to be terrible for life and the environment as soon as people sit down and actually look at the effects over a long period of time.
> tf.conds, tf.while_loops and the whole gather / scatter paradigm

I'm ill-informed - but isn't that exactly what lax is?
what a thing of beauty
> maximum Tweet length is indeed 280 Unicode code points, except that code points U+1100 HANGUL CHOSEONG KIYEOK upwards now count double.

Oh, that's why some carefully composed tweets don't fit — things like General Punctuation and Currency Symbols count double. I think I'm up to the Gillette5 version of Hanlon's Razor where Twitter is concerned.
Understanding the Nature of Oneness Experience in Meditators
lok what. "Anecdotal evidence" specifically described a false evidence. Just because "evidence" is part of the term doesn't mean it a valid evidence.
Can we get a resolution change option?
It can, but it is a bad idea:

1. TSMC has very low margins. Buying the company means lowering Apple margins, that are the highest on the world.

2. Lots of companies depend on TSMC, if Apple did that they will be sued for monopolistic behavior.

3. Apple benefits enormously from the cheap devices that TSMC makes for other companies, that is volume, improvement of technology that Apple can use(ARM). It is over 5x the volume in sales of Apple products.

4. It is a strategic interest company of Taiwan,Europe, China and US.Buying it is not economics,it is geopolitics.
the adjustment of these fly-bys are about independently confirming the phosphine presence, which might or might not indicate life (through unknown physical processes)
But government did not establish the precise nature of imminent "national security" threat by these apps, nor did establish that these apps violated American laws.
One of the great things about umatrix is the above mentioned multidimensionality.

Your example displays content for me just fine in my default config, because the XHR requests are to the origin. Yet it blocks useless requests for two dozen different resources on other domains.
On paid newsletters and why consistency is overrated
52 issues, 6,578 subscribers later... why I won't go paid.
TikTok are already using US datacenters, and I'm willing to bet they're part of some kind of NSA program.

The issue with being forced to sell is that it's essentially economic warfare.
Ha, your nickname and a bit of googling gives away what you do in F1. Fascinating to bump into someone of your position on HN...

I remember seeing an online photo of your work car parked in a street, and someone said you actually drive that car in your civilian life, is that true?
> Criminalization of drugs enables corruption on a massive scale.

Criminalization of enter a noun enables corruption on a massive scale.
>Our government provides costly services for people who are incapable of taking care of themselves, and that drug creates a bigger burden on those programs.

Maybe the Gov should go after Coca Cola and Pepsi or McDonald's and Burger King. The fast food industry has caused more health issues peddling their poison than all the drug dealers in the country. An epidemic of obesity and related illnesses from type II diabetes, HBP, Heart Disease, etc have destroyed more families than all the marijuana use could ever.
When trying to understand China's commercial policies which America is supposedly retaliating against, consider that China has experienced a different mercantile history to America.

America has never been invaded by foreign gunships and forced to allow foreign merchants to import opium to addict its citizens in order to fix their own countries balance of payments problems.

Opium Wars

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

If America were to experience something like that, how might the experience change America's future commercial policies?

If Pearl Harbour and 9/11 are any guide, America might become less tolerant of foreign businesses operating in its markets.

But then, America is a complicated marketplace.

The Promotion and Marketing of OxyContin: Commercial Triumph, Public Health Tragedy

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/
We learnt this rhyme in school: “Here lies _______, meek and placid, because he added water to an acid.”

I went to an all boys school.
I am not surprised that Urtica didn't work. They prepare and taste very much like spinach.
On NVIDIA and ARM:

1. Huang was seen sitting at the wheel of a Mercedes Benz S class, which has a stupendous amount of NVIDIA silicon. That's great, but the bulk of the market is for the electronics that go into a Chevy.

NVIDIA owns the highly profitable top end, but competitors (for gfx, robot brains, ...) are so disorganized that NVIDIA should move downmarket quickly to capture that terrain even if the profit margin is less.

2. A cynical take is that of "Patronage Networks". That is if Softbank can't manage "Return of Capital" to its investors, Masayoshi Son might come to his room and find a katana to cut himself with. The $40B from ARM goes a good way to "saving his ass" and might mean Huang owes him one in the same sense that politician owes something to voters.
Comcast users are not protected from Comcast by the first amendment.
Very nice, reminds me of a quote from this very related paper:

You can have a second computer once you’ve
shown you know how to use the first one.

–Paul Barham

Scalability! But at what COST?

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/02/...

Interesting it also involves graph processing, which Bane's comment did. The point is that distributed graph processing frameworks were mostly parallelizing their own overhead, not solving the problem, which could be done on a single machine!
Because watching flawlessly automated pit stops and cars with autopilot race is not very exciting.
Looks like DuckDB doesn't seek investments. So they can afford to be defeloper-first. Not everyone can, though.
There was never an actual ban for WeChat coming. It was just so they could point to WeChat and say "See, the ban wasn't entirely to force the sale of TikTok but one of protecting national interest!"
Clearly what was required was a two year study of COVID's effects and forming a committee.
Free speech rights protect you from the government not private companies.
The vast majority of countries where healthcare is both far cheaper and more effective than in the US have government provided healthcare. Most of those countries also have affordable or free higher education. So the smoking gun would seem to point at US style capitalism and lobbyists rather than government services themselves.

"It doesn't work in the USA" is increasingly very poor evidence when it does work many other places, and often has for over a half a century.
Of course, happy to chat. If you put my username in front of @signal.bio, you can email me
If cost, purity, and consistency of supply (for the drug and all paraphernalia) wasn’t a problem it’s probably safer to consume heroin regularly than consume coca-coal regularly.

With the realities as they are coca-coal is probably safer, but because it’s cheaper, won’t have unexpected adulterants, and you won’t have to invest much time or effort in finding a new supply if your favorite vending machine breaks down.
Those are valid concerns. I also think the opposite side of that coin is worth considering. That is to say, should we allow WeChat to gain an even greater foothold on American soil or should we minimize total damage by cutting it off now instead of later?

As for me, I believe allowing WeChat to become anything like the structural institution it is in China in any part of the US would be a mistake. Imagine if Google was as controlled by and as much of a cheerleader for the US government as WeChat is for the Chinese, and the kind of threat that would pose to European sovereignty.
Ah yes, let’s criticize a once in a hundred year event which evolved in real time and affected the entire globe. Plenty of blame to go around but you can’t just have a global pandemic and expect a world which was obviously under prepared to have no collateral damage. Have some perspective.
>If I had bought them as a consumer, not as a business, I would have returned them immediately.

Why would you not send them back as a business?
There was a company that believed they had the tech to produce synthetic sapphire at the scale necessary for Apple to replace the Gorilla Glass on iPhones with synthetic sapphire.

In that deal, Apple loaned the manufacturer the money needed to buy the necessary production equipment, however the manufacturer was unable to get the process to work at scale.

>Apple announced a new factory in Arizona where its supplier, GT Advanced Technologies, would be loaned $578 million to produce huge synthetic sapphire crystals

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/3/18528920/sec-charges-apple...
I’m not an expert, yet… But my habit has become: anytime you spend the time and effort to put any conduit in the ground… Put four more in.

I have never been anything but happy and relieved that I have done this.

Pipe is cheap. Digging is not.

Edit: Do not put drinking water lines and sewage lines in the same trench.
Great analogy, but analogies can be deceptive, because while the snail can coexist with the tiger, for every two animals that coexist hundreds still have to fail the natural selection process.

We like to view the world through an idealistic narrow lens of an analogy but the truth is often far more complex.

I would go further to say that analogies and quotations are dangerous and deceptive. These quotations don't actually offer any new information. You usually only like analogy because you already agree with it, no new information or insights are being offered other than the comparison that is part of the analogy itself.
I was tested and told I was gifted at 11. (IQ152) I had hippy parents who let me do anything. I left home at 15. I retired at 35 to pursue my life's work of being in service of tearing down and re-imagining the Global West pro-slavery democracy. Currently working in The Undercommons (Moten/Harney).
Good thing that the government has to prove our guilt instead of we having to prove our innocence.
He must not be aware that Google, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Whatsapp, Netflix & hundreds more are completely banned in China.
Substitution Processes (1962)
Dennards law held until the approximately linear relations that made it work ended. Delay stopped being entirely gage, and more importantly, voltage couldn’t drop forever, due to material limits and intrinsic silicon limits.
Building nested JSON objects with Postgres
Free speech concerns on an app built by a nation where people have no rights that bans people for bringing up the Tiananmen Square massacre and Uyghur genocide, unreal.
> "For me, without knowing Ada and Rust, Ada is way much easier to understand."

If you don't know Ada then you don't /know/ that you understand it, you're assuming you do - and if you do that's because it looks like languages you already know. And if that's what you're saying is good about it, then what you're saying is "things I know are good". You're seeing "Ada looks familiar" and saying "Ada has good design" as if those are the same thing. You only need to look at some beginner programming discussions to see that block-structured, scoped, procedural, looped, branched, etc. features are not things people are born understanding - that you know them already and Ada has them is convenient for you.

> "What the code does is not hidden behind symbols, for example."

I looked at the Wikipedia page, it has equals, colon-equals, slash-equals, greater-than, less-than, apostrophe, parentheses, ampersand, double-quotes, equals-greater-than which seems to be an arrow not a comparison, double-dots, and of course "when" "is" "protected" etc. they're as much symbols as they are words.

> "Ada and Rust, Ada is way much easier to understand"

I'll quote Erik Naggum from an old comp.lang.lisp(?) comment: "When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.".
All of those have distinctly different effects and, in the case of ADHD, all work subpar with worse side effects. The reason why people get so fucked up on meth is BECAUSE it's so safe that you can smoke half a gram w/o a problem. Also, meth is the easiest to manufacture out of all of the above. Will give you that meth is the most addictive.
> A teenager I am close with

What? Close how?

> would like to become a computer engineer.

Get good grades and go to college?

These "ASK HN" posts are starting to feel so artificial and forced.
> consumers

Consumers take out loans, that's a fact. Interest rates are lower, that's also a fact. Therefore, the money is making it to consumers.

If the Fed is able to expand the monetary supply without inflation, then that is a good thing (again) and the Fed should continue doing so until inflation does move.
Stop scrambling and just auto prep your meetings
Why not ask the kids?
I think the difference is that the term "Dead" is used in a lot of different contexts. E.g. Battery is dead. Stillborn is not, and it mainly associated used in one very traumatic context.
It hardly seems like this is what is happening, though.
Many notable or even vital software projects are literally maintained by one person, sometimes even in companies. I am certain that most users don’t “get” this about software. And from experience, most users don’t contribute anything at all, not even the most basic bug reports. They do however complain.

The best way to “mourn” a lost software project is to ask yourself what you will do to maintain the software ecosystem. How many things do you use for free? How many things have bugs you never bothered to tell anyone about? Has each of you contributed something (even a short E-mail thank-you) to some software project?
Added a calendar reminder to check my round boys every week. Thanks mate.
Their usage of wechat is more likely a liability than a benefit. It gives a foreign adversary visibility into their activities in US. How can they become activist or work for change if their government is monitoring everything they say?

Do the Hong Kong protest crackdown not scare anyone else?

Now they have an excuse. It won’t look suspicious if they communicate to each other on channels that can’t be monitored by their oppressive government.