skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah gotcha, thank you for locking-in on the issue. You're absolutely right that network hops introduce overhead (I was intending to wrap i/o blocking on network calls under the banner of cpu cycles, adjacent to serialization)

Like any other design decision, there's a trade-off here. (see my other comments in this tree, about how many 9's in reliability/latency you're targeting).

If you're working in an environment where sub-5ms latency to the 4th or 5th 9 is critical, inter-machine communication is not for your application, period.

Reliability, as an orthogonal concern, is one that has improved incredibly since the early aughts. The "transport" and error-handling layer of open-source RPC frameworks has improved by orders of magnitude. I'd recommend taking a long look at the experiences of companies built on gRPC.

It's much easier to build a reliable SOA-esque system today than it was even 5 years ago. It's been an area of rapid progress.
> They need to start censoring content based on the Chinese government direction. That's what Microsoft, Apple are doing.

This is overly simplistic and there are a number of additional regulations in place. For example, Netflix (even if they censor) cannot enter China without partnering with a Chinese company because they cannot get a media license [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/01/netflix-may-never-break-into-c...
Has this check for consent recently become more aggressive? I remember being able to do a couple of searches before seeing it pop up. Now I see it as soon as I open a private tab.
I'm curious, what's the significance of using radios here? What's the correlation between having a radio and supporting that interaction? It just feels weird to me to think of a majority of hardware companies going "Well, this device has a radio, so I guess we need to add power+volume down as a shutoff trigger".

Not disputing what you said is true, just curious of the origins!
>So they invented this thing which is exactly the same, but formulated with other words and so it's appropriate.

reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv
The consent prompt this article is about is for the GDPR, and that covers more than cookies. The GDPR covers cookie-less tracking methods like browser fingerprinting (or how your search history or personal details you entered are stored/processed/analyzed).

This is also why the advice of just accepting everything and then clearing cookies regularly seems wrong and dangerous to me, as you've given them consent to track you regardless of cookies and they have plenty of tools to track someone with reasonable certainty without cookies even across different devices.
> maybe more of us can apply our engineering mindsets to actual climate change problems

Any suggestions on how can you do that as an individual? You can easily create a generic software product alone, but to helping the climate change is really hard. OP asked exactly this, what can we do. So, what can we do instead of the 50th analytics platform?
Here's mine:

1. The original Macintosh, 1984 (desktop metaphor GUI for the masses)

2. Newton, 1993 (the original PDA, but not commercially successful--so "redefined the industry" is arguable)

3. The iMac, 1997 (industrial design matters for computers. You could argue SGI got there first, but PCs didn't notice until the iMac)

4. iPod/iTunes, 2001/2003 (capacitive-touch interfaces, buying music online)

5. iPhone, 2007 (too many things to list)

6. Apple Watch, 2015 (the Right Stuff to make smart watches popular)

7. FaceID, 2017 (depth-sensitive facial recognition that is actually secure)
Also 3080 is much cheaper than 2080 was at its launch.
Oh shit I forgot donkey kong country!!!
My house was destroyed by Hurricane Irma and I had to gut the interior. I found an area where, I am assuming the previous owner repaired as I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine a licenced electrician would do it, anyway the area, was an area where the romex did not reach the other side of the romex, so the person took speaker wire twisted them together, to be about the size of the romex wire and linked the two stands of romex They did not strip the plastic shielding from each strand of wire, just joined them at the ends. So I had 120 running thru basically a single strand of speaker wire.
They wouldn't be able to enforce it.
I highly recommend the book "Other Minds", a fascinating and very accessible book about the octupus and cuttlefish. They are amazing creatures.

https://www.amazon.com/Other-Minds-Octopus-Origins-Conscious...
Epic will get nothing. They were leaving anyways(their own words said it is not a sizable portion of their revenue at around 5%, I think). Apple has no obligation to help Epic make money on their platform. Now, if anyone has a claim, it could be the users of the devices themselves. They are stuck between two Titans throwing mountains at each other. In addition, the more they lose is an argument for Apple helping them make money.
Yes.

I've created a few small things in OpenSCAD. To build up a part, I haven't found a better way than just keep adding up the width of the subcomponents to get the origin of the next piece.

It is manageable for me, and I find traditional CAD programs difficult, so I'll keep using it. But I want a better way to do all this.
I made a similar tool HelloEle which allows to upload/download files with file-indexes.
You can connect it to any AWS S3 API compatabile bucket (ex: AWS buckets, BackBlaze...)

HelloEle.com https://github.com/prakis/helloele
jokes on you https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/09/chrome-86-...
Since net zero people are going to stop using Instagram from this coming out... Yes.
Are you referring to something specific?

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-...
Get a 'tab group' add on, Simple Tab Groups for Firefox. There is something similar for Chrome but I don't know off the top of my head.

I have a different group for any 'context' I often return to (or even a dump of 'researching random thing I may one day come back to'). Then I have one window open and I switch between contexts as needed and pick up from where I left off.
VR games are great at home already. I'm not sure I understand your common logic about video games working on a screen.

Is playing real paintball more immersive and real than playing VR paintball in Rec Room? Of course it is. It's also an expensive hobby with a bunch of equipment that requires you to set aside hours of time and drive to a paintball arena.

You can't just jump from "This isn't a 100% faithful reproduction of real life activities" to "This is pointless and will never catch on."

Pong is clearly inspired by ping pong, but you wouldn't have played it in the 70's and said "Pong is not the same as ping pong, video games aren't going anywhere."

Funnily enough, ping pong is one of the more convincing VR experiences because you only need to move in a small area, and the small haptic feedback from the controller is close enough to a ball hitting the paddle. Just don't try to lean on the table, it's not there.
Scheme Request for Implementation 203: Simple Drawing Language in Style of SICP
re: 'fighting' through questioning...

Just the other day, I had a PM say "why do you question/argue so much? Just do what they say. If it's wrong, you can then say 'I told you so'".

I can not really square that circle. I spent many years earlier not questioning things up front, just rushing ahead and doing stuff, then inevitably it was 'wrong'. I've been doing this a long time now, and questioning up front saves time. It does come across as 'arguing' sometimes, I know - I've raised my voice more than once.

I wanted to turn the question around and ask "why do my questions/input/suggestions always get argued with and fought against? Can you just run with my input for a week or two, and if I'm wrong, you can say 'I told you so'?" I didn't throw that back, as I'm not sure it would have been taken well.

I had replied "you can say I told you so" thing isn't just me saying "see, I told you so", it ALSO means I'll be having to clean up the 'original' way of doing something and rebuild it the 'right' way, which puts everything behind schedule and wastes money and time.
I agree, it's a really clean codebase.
I'm not talking about shooters. I'm talking about what it looks like. The lighting, specifically.
I didn't mean to imply that theorists don't produce valuable work, or that theory does not necessarily lead to practice. The distinction I intended is that some people prefer to work off of an underlying model, while others are content so long as they get the results they desire.

For example, contrast symbolic processing with artificial neural nets. Symbolic processing has a very solid philosophical basis and it can be used to solve many meaningful problems. Some problems, however, are so complex or nuanced that there are insufficient computing resources to implement a solution based on symbolic processing. Artificial neural networks can be used to address those complex problems, yet we lack the theory (at this time) to really understand the full limits or capabilities of complex artificial neural networks.

My reference to Wolfram was about his proposal to cast everything as automata. Even though that does not seem practical for all or even most problems, it provides a certain comfort, much like lambda calculus provides. Beyond the comfort of a solid philosophical grounding, automata also give us a way to approach many problems (such as simulation) in a principled manner.

Put another way, some people like to understand first, and use that understanding to discover results. Other people want the results first, and then seek to understand based on the results they found.
To be fair, I didn't know this and learned something. So wasn't pretty clear to me. I imagine there are others.
React is not an abstraction, and to be honest the fact you are calling it that kind of makes it easy to dismiss your post here.

But you are right that it's mostly all down to how you write the code. But I'll gladly argue that it's a lot easier to write bad, inefficient UI code with vanilla JS than with React.

You don't really get to see the alternative because generally, react makes things so much easier and efficient that it opens a lot of doors and allows companies to go crazy with features and bloat. By being the beast it is, it puts a lot of power in the hands of developers, but equivalent UIs without react will most likely be 3 magnitudes worse. Keyword: equivalent.
EU have already ordered Facebook (and others) to restrict data sent from EU to US. If US started banning EU tech companies (like China are doing) then it would of course make sense for EU to do the same to US tech companies.

This is of course unlikely to happen as EU and US fairly operate in the free market.
As someone with a close family member who spent much of their life working in explicitly Christian financial instruments (as offered by many companies in the US, e.g. Thrivent) it is shocking and sad to see the responses to this, which I am certain my family member never had to deal with.
> The vast majority of the world works on handouts from rich people

Taxes are not handouts.

Ultra rich people can change tax laws to benefit them so that they can throw some money on a charity. Why do you think that is good option?

> All that matters is the standard of living

> As a data point, in 2019,

Not sure why a random blog post is data point.

> the bottom 20% of Americans enjoy a higher standard of living than their counterparts

> cultural differences

What cultural differences make Americans do more drugs and be more obese?

And yet US is behind among the developed world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequalit...
30 seconds would be easy enough to fulfill for people queuing up at lines, such as at a point of sale though. Sure, if you're standing next to someone who's infected that's probably not enough time, but combined with other measures it might reduce the spread to others.

One of the studies that was investigating the use of hydroxychloroquine came up with an interesting statistic that had nothing to do with HCQ: They found that individuals with no PPE interacting at less than 6' from someone infected with SARS-CoV-2 had about a 15% chance of contracting it after 10 minutes of exposure. I'd imagine UV would reduce this even further.

This study was covered in Dr. Seheult's update 81[1] video. It's a bit ironic, because the study showed a failure of HCQ, but I'm not completely sure I'd suggest the study itself failed since there's valuable insight that came as a consequence of it!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5w7FiDJe1g&t=2m32s
Dirt doesn't generally contain human cold & flu viruses & bacteria.
As an engineer I see the value in these projects, but as a user my biggest gripe with FF is the lack of proper multilingual spellchecking.

This has been on their Bugzilla for 20 years:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69687
Z80, the 8-bit Number Cruncher (2011)
I have nothing against it, and it being a single person project.

But the fact remains, it's far behind Unity, Unreal and Godot.
You are not an American and yet you are here, telling us what is accurate and important when assessing the words, actions and policies of the POTUS? And using his own campaign site as fact???

Wow. I cant even begin to unwind your skewed propaganda with actual facts but no that none of those things you cited are factually correct. Not one.

What country do you call home? Curious how you fall for propaganda without question or research. Where are you? And why do you think you have any place in this conversation?
No, you only face this in the unsafe code; the rest of your code is still safe.
That's an interesting point. "Free" as in beer means that we will rely, and grow dependent, upon them. If they had not been giving us fish, we would have learned to fish.

Is there a word for this?
You showed your agenda too soon!

These are all tactics, PG&E had no strategy other than decide by committee so they couldn't be responsible for the resulting deaths and losses.

There are so many folks trying to slip their agendas into the remedies in this discussion. All of those are literal smoke screens for the greed driven structure of PG&E.

PG&E didn't start doing meaningful shutdown on lines until after the Camp fire.
>Thug is historically a racist dog whistle

Really? I'm a native English speaker, albeit not American, and I've never heard thug implied to have racist connotations. The original word comes from a Hindi word for criminal, which was also used for a violent cult: "Devotees of the goddess Kali, the Thugs waylaid and strangled their victims, usually travellers, in a ritually prescribed manner. They were suppressed by the British in the 1830s."

>I had trouble caring though, because the only places that happened in are the ones where soldier cops got insanely abusive with peaceful protesters.

How does the police being abusive make it okay for the rioters to burn down random buildings?
+1 AirDrop is pretty cool but proprietary.

Android Beam looked promising but Google killed it for something proprietary. Samsung had an updated version that used WiFi Direct, but I don't know if it was open.

It seems that something that was somewhat plugable would be very useful.

- NFC or bluetooth for setup.
- Bluetooth, Wifi Direct or Internet for transfer.

Mesh networking would be cool as well but I don't think it is actually needed for the MVP.
I think the docs are much better than they used to be. Just my personal experience, but I found Actix Web very easy to get started with for my job. There's also a Gitter chat room where people are pretty responsive.
It's probably an A/B test to see how many people will take this shit or how they can tweak it to coerce more people into accepting.

I've started just copying the URL and closing the tab, opening new one, pasting the URL, etc in a loop until I get a page without this crap. This works but sometimes requires a dozen of tries. It does a great job of encouraging me to stay on DDG and not even bother checking Google results.

In the long term I'm waiting for a EU privacy regulator to look into this (as this is not compliant with the GDPR, for reasons I explained in another comment here) or for an alternative frontend to be built (like a self-hosted Startpage).
You should give rocket a try! The developer ergonomics are a lot better. Assuming this is you learning about rust.

Because performance-wise rocket is slower. But they're working on adding async support, after which they should be showing a lot better numbers.
Hey this is just the beta so all the resources aren't there just yet and to be fair, I'm not claiming anything about resources for 6 languages just yet. The platform states that you can practice the coding problems on the platform in 6 languages as of now.
I tend to disagree. I won an Occulus Go at a meetup and almost gave it away- I didn't realize what I had won and just assumed it was some kind of upgraded google cardboard.

I was really surprised and delighted at how cool it was. It felt raw and fresh- almost like when I first got on the internet, there was just a whole new world to explore, and different types of content and games- some were cool, some were not, but were at least interesting in their mechanics. Especially during covid, I found it super neat that I could watch a basketball game in a "section" of a stadium and chat with those around me, and similarly watch a band perform.

The biggest drawback is that the form factor isn't all that comfortable, and battery life is an issue, but I think there is a tremendous amount of potential in terms of experiences.
That seems like a total lie by Harris. “Everyone”? The incident’s reactions are divided. Sam Harris is one of those people who has a huge [internet] rabid following. A following who love jumping on things and blowing things out of proportion while holding up their guy as amazing. Maher to a lesser extent.

Not surprising that their fanbases and communities loyal to them are going to jump on this far more than necessary. It doesn’t matter if Affleck didn’t do a horrible job in that scene, the reaction wasn’t going to be that much different from Harris’ fans.
I use this extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...

I also use this one:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookiebro/

And when we are on it:

https://bitbucket.org/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-c...
They can't, and that's the whole point. The security comes from the sandbox, not from the review process.
I've wondered this, too. If they lived long enough after the new generation is born, they might've developed language or some other communication system.
Sending you much love.

You're more than the salary, bonuses, and gifts. Please try to take to heart the good suggestions in this thread (putting your salary in context of lesser-paid workers in other industries, volunteering).

Best wishes, and take good care.
US megacorps are not de jure organs of the state in the same way as the Chinese megacorps. That is, it is seen as more acceptable to have corporate dominance of society than it is to have government-directed and controlled corporate dominance of society.

The two systems are not the same, ideologically and in function and methods. It's fair to think they are equally evil, of course.
At my job we use Actix Web for a server deployed in prod. We never use Nightly, I don't think Actix Web depends on any nightly features. All stable :)
Scale makes a difference here. Kosher food isn't in large enough demand in the US to transform the entire agricultural industry, so non-adherents still have real choice.

A closer example might be the MPAA (US film rating group). It's a voluntary certification, but it's become a de facto requirement such that the small, opaque, non-government group shapes the level of violence (high) and nudity (low) in all TV and films.
When I am working on a project, e.g. researching a laptop purchase, I will open a new window to act as a container for all those research-related tabs, then when I am done the entire window can be closed.

Vivaldi has a notion of tab-within-tabs, but the UI is very subtle and the tabs^2 very small and fiddly to reach with a mouse, thereby violating Fitt's Law.
Well, you need a rotor and a stator. Alternators work by transferring energy to the stator, which is extracted as an electrical current thanks to it being held in place.

You cannot really "hold" something in place (barring an external propulsion system that costs energy), so while you could extract some energy at first due to inertia, you will slow the orbiter down and barely collect more (if any) than you needed to put it there in the first place.

An alternative but close system was described in Stephen Baxter's Sapce (Manifold series), with (IIRC) superconducting loops around Io, to collect energy from Jupiter's magnetic field, technically extracting energy from Io's momentum.
> Time to see for myself if this is the computing future or an evolutionary dead end.

There's a third possibility - VR is finally here and consumer market is what it is. It's not going to take over the world but it isn't going away either.
One sided "transparency" for the purpose of manipulating an election is an affront to democracy.
Well, what else do you suggest doing with companies literally damaging humanity? eg Facebook (easily qualifies), Google (somewhat)
Look, only our own corporate overlords should be able to exploit that type of information. /s
Pretty much. They suddenly took it down for 'maintenance'. The relaunch was delayed. Mozilla released a statement on laying off 250 employees. That's when I figured it wouldn't come back online again.
Yes because 'leading by example' worked so well for Democracy in China and Hong Kong
The 2% use for IT is insignificant in contrast to the 28% used for transport which is the most significant.

If you truly want meaningful betterment you need metrics to focus your time and effort where it will have the most impact. If you spend all your time focusing on the most insignificant thing you can make massive progress in that thing and no progress toward meaningful betterment.

Focus is very important.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis....
The downvotes on this are interesting - this is not a settled matter?
I actually wrote a sentence going into this issue when I was first typing out my comment, but I decided it was too tangential and didn't add anything to my point, so I deleted it.

Can't please everybody!
I've used all 4 and can support the sentiment. Though Phoenix (more the elixir ecosystem) is lacking the community critical mass to compete against the other 3...for now
Yes. Have you ever used one of those face swap filters that turns you into a funny character that mimics your facial expressions?

Well, how does it know?

A mirth-filled squint of the eyes, dilation of pupils at something unexpected, a tightening of the mouth signalling ennui, the movements that accompany a brief nasal exhalation at something on the nose to your taste in humor... all add to something.

You're not as implacable as you think.
Absolute crap
AFAIK Actix always worked on stable Rust.

I have a hobby project[0] running on Actix. A few days ago I updated from 2.* to 3.* and apart from one minor bug in a middleware (which seems to be fixed by now), everything worked without problems.

As for the ergonomics: I used Rocket about 2 years ago and it felt more ergonomic at the time but Actix has come a long way. I think it still hasn't reached the level of Rocket, but it's getting there.

[0]: https://hitsofcode.com
I have yet to see any serious, respectable theory under which Apple's App Store rules would be illegal AT ALL. People keep yammering about "monopoly," but they have no such thing. Closed platforms with rules for participation are utterly normal and utterly legal.

(What's really amazing is the arguments I see -- presumably from either very young or very ill-informed people -- that this is "just like" Microsoft in the 90s.)