skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Whatever we are doing now definitley does not work; drugs are destroying millions of peoples lives already, and also contributing to lots of violence caused by the black market drug trade. We've been trying "that, but MORE of it" for a few decades, and the problems caused by drugs have gotten WORSE. So, how about something different?
On the HIV front, you might not be aware of how well that was solved, actually: there are drugs available and in regular use that prevent you from catching it (~99% effective), and in the extremely unlikely event that they do not, we have developed medications that allow you to live a normal life if you do.
Here's another: there is noticeably less residue compared to cooked meat, with equal quantities.

What kind of issues do you think would arise?
All sovereign nations reserve the right to regulate foreign goods, vessels, diplomats, currency, and peoples distinctly from their native counterparts.

Apps are truly no different.
Isn't that exactly what the fed is doing for the wealthy right now by buying up the bond market? They are creating a furious amount of money currently with no end in sight.

But if you are a smaller business you are just going to be left to rot.
Should probably append title (2019) since it's almost a year old.
Watching someone try a good VR headset for the first time is so fun. It takes mere seconds for it to “click”, without fail.
Have you checked that you've turned off any "parental controls". I believe by default, new connections come with a "family friendly" filter. And that includes VPN services, since (presumably by their logic) VPNs are the first thing a kid will download to get around this filter...
Having sqlite included in all browsers with standard bindings would have been great.
Americans don't need to try to understand the effects of mercantilism. They were subject to the same draconian economic policies by the British Empire. This is largely what prompted the American Revolution. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies#Economic_pol...
I am sad to hear this. I have been using uMatrix now for quite some time, it has always been one of the extensions I install directly after setting up a new browser (together with uBlock Origin).

If the author, Raymond Hill, ends up reading this: thank you Sir, for all the (probably unpaid!) effort you have been putting into this extension for years. It's certainly an inspiration to actively contribute to the open source community.
A quick search on TikTok shows that neither of those topics are banned on the platform, and they're not even banned from its autocomplete functionality - start typing either of them and it'll suggest it for you.
Everything will kill you, in sufficient quantities. The question is whether its use outweighs the risks, and I'd venture to say PTFE if called upon to settle accounts has done the world more good than harm.
This same approach is used in fully developed areas for things like outdoor schools for kids. Another variant in the more luxury area is boat rentals, using the heads here can result in unpleasant smells for later users even if holding tanks are pumped - you basically put a special bag with a cat litter like substance into the actual toilet, then when you hit the dock you take the bigger bag out (if more than one use).

Bottom line, less is more and leverage solutions that have demonstrated actual market traction. A lot of stuff geared towards the poor has no market in the paying world for a reason - it's crap (no pun intended).

Perhaps there is a human manure angle that gets missed with these other approaches, and they may be more resource intensive in terms of plastic?
Yeah, especially since Donald Trump has been accused of racism and fascism.
Why do you want them to change how they write their email address? Are you a bit and unable to solve their captcha? Otherwise what’s the problem?
One thing the article seems to miss: how much is "normal?" I'm aware that business closures are usually pretty high, but this article doesn't seem to provide that context. Specifically data of the same exact time period, perhaps aggregated over multiple years.
See for example the small town of Hoosick Falls, New York where PFOA poisoned the water supply.

Many sources, but here's one https://pfasproject.com/hoosick-falls-new-york/
There are a lot of 'ifs' here. Especially iffy -- the tax windfall creates its own perverse incentives. Drug abuse is bad for you, no amount game theory or legal hair-splitting will change that.
Tarsnap – cleaning up old backups
As human beings, moderators have their own preferences which exist beyond the HN guidelines, and are not meta moderated, except in the aggregate.

When a comment becomes dead, it's because some mods chose to vote it down, and fewer mods choose to revive it. The net effect is an expression of the prevailing culture.

Your question about why this sometimes happens "immediately" is an interesting part of the dynamic.
It's an app for crying out loud. No one is "controlling communication of Americans" through an app.
And now we have the War on COVID.
Isn't it the same idea as with WW2 planes.

They looked at damage from planes that came back after an attack and worked on the parts that weren't damaged. The idea being that planes that got shot in these areas couldn't make it back and those were the weak points.
Except he is wrong. The Supreme Court has ruled that such lockdowns are indeed constitutional and the States have the right to enforce them unless Congress intervenes.
It's a combination of voluntary and mandatory. The question is whether the mandatory part overstepped. It's a fair question. Did it do more harm than good in some cases? Did it prevent businesses from being able to adapt to the situation? Like what some ended up doing with moving seating outside, or converting to a different model, etc. But if there's a mandate that "all X must close", you're blocking adaptations and any chance of them figuring out a way to survive.
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24142626
I think it was Trump that (somewhat callously) said about restaurants "they'll reopen, but under new ownership." In some contexts, that's not the worst thing in the world. In most contexts, these businesses owners will be carrying a whole lot of debt. The debtors, meanwhile, are pretty thoroughly insulated from financial harm.

I'm rereading David Graeber's' "Debt." While I think the "history of" part got little weak as he described more modern systems, I have to admit that his definition of money has changed the way I think.

The nonexistence of effective bankruptcy is a terrible thing, and we have a pretty shallow well of ideas to draw from unless we look beyond modern economic constructs. It may not be a bad idea (besides being radical and scary) to declare a jubilee of some sort, at least for small businesses. They're bearing the full brunt of this pandemic while their debtors are mostly doing well.

Every airline in the world is essentially bankrupt without government intervention right now. Very few will go out of business, and those that do are at least protected by limited liability. It's only small businesses that are actually liable for losses.

Ultimately, the 2008 financial crisis issues were pretty abstract. This time it's a lot more visceral, intuitive.
Gorhill has clearly stated: if you want to help, fix bugs.
He doesn't want to do this as a job, so if you want to pay someone to help instead of helping directly, then find someone who wants to be paid to fix bugs in uBO.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-...
It'd be even cooler if you didn't have to type a command and could just hover over the parts of the command in your terminal to get the relevant docs as tooltips.
Try https://www.baeldung.com/
You'll find many good resources on https://www.baeldung.com/ it regularly comes up in search results and pages appear maintained and for modern versions of libraries.
I had an interesting conversation with a Lyft driver, they were clearly from China from the knowledge/insights they shared. It was their belief that China's populations are much more densely populated, the family unit remaining - parents living with their children and their parents - because the previous generations didn't have pensions to rely on; another pressure I imagine is that I don't believe health care and other costs are covered in China?
Well, not surprising if you expect Trump to be a fairly standard if also incompetent and boorish Republican. VERY surprising if you think he's a Fascist, though - using emergencies to "temporarily" strip away freedoms is a key part of the playbook there.
Just to play devil’s advocate, I can imagine a game theoretic scenario in which revealing what we know about let’s say a deliberate cryptographic vulnerability will potentially make the other party switch to another vulnerability we don’t know, or reveal our capabilities in discovering the specific class of such vulnerabilities, therefore withholding information is advantageous. I.e they can’t go “nobody tell China, but this is the precise reason” in certain scenarios. Not saying that is necessarily the case here, but definitely a possibility.
> A lot must have happened since then.

Not really. That’s the point of Java. It’s stable.

Check the Wikipedia page on Java history to see the handful of new features then just look for tutorials on those that you need to use. Most of these features are things you can pick up as you go.
Like so many other attempted Trump executive actions, it really needs to be passed by Congress. Trump doesn't even have anyone competent in the White House telling him what he can and can't do.
More context from the parent comment of that thread:

I don't have time to work on uMatrix -- it's a project large enough that I would be able to work on it only if I wasn't working on uBO.
Yes, that what was I was thinking, particularly the Dutch example where heroin addiction is treated as a healthcare problem and addicts have long lives.

I like that you spelled Coca-Cola "coca coal" :)
Tarsnap: How Efficient Is Deduplication?
200,000 people (at least) are dead here in the US. That is not a small event that is being exaggerated by a hysterical media.
AstraZeneca, Under Fire for Vaccine Safety, Releases Trial Blueprints
From the article, it costs $1 per use. And ends with plastic bags full of (maybe sterilized) human waste being thrown in the trash. This is a solution to what exactly? A lack of Toilet as a Service products?
Nvidia buys ARM, Apple builds its own GPU, and the dance goes on.
I think the main selling points of Swift to tensorflow are:

* Speed, ML learning pipelines are often bottlenecked by the data load and transformation. TF had new mechanisms (the last I've seen was TF.data). But a language compiled to native is much more flexible in that regard.

* Type safety. Sometimes issues with the models can pop long after they have been running. The hope is that typed API's will show simple errors at compile times

* Auto differentiation built into the language. If I'm not mistaken, this is more powerful than backpropagation in TF, wich also has autodiff. The idea is that this would allow for more custom models without a performance penalty. My knowledge here is limited, since it's been over 2 years since I've implemented back propagation. I've successfully forgotten most of the things I knew about ML/DL.

I don't have any experience with R, but from what I've heard, it was known to be slow. But that might have changed or I may have misunderstood the situation.
I think it's more accurate to say the US had a temporary (1 decade) diversion from the norm of "Benign Neglect"[1] which pissed off Americans to the point they sought explicit Independence. China has a much longer cultural history of being "self contained" (and suspicious of outsiders) which was deeply reinforced in the 19th century Opium Wars, etc.

1 - http://community.weber.edu/weberreads/salutary_or_benign_neg...
Hey bbhat - glad to see you landed on your feet. :)
The current state of job interviews is terrible. Just the fact that studying for a few weeks affects their outcome should raise eyebrows everywhere.

And don't get me started on lack of job-related questions, false negatives and having to guess what interviewers want to hear
It's amazing what a bit of exercise and a head clear of problems to solve can do for you. In my experience, it's unfortunately the case(for me at least) that the harder and longer you push before you burnout scales linearly with the length of the break you'll need to take in order to recover.

I learned this lesson the hard way and ended having to take a multiple year hiatus from even looking at a text editor. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in a way a form of PTSD; for a long while, even thinking about programming elevated my heart rate. I ended up working as a bike mechanic during that time away, and the combination of a low stakes environment and working with my hands did my mental health a lot of good.
As time goes and if you ever grow, you will get more and more sources of info, on which you do not necessarily have control (from the extreme "it's managed by a vendor" or "it's public, useful reference info" to the other extreme "it's a new idea from the junior in the team").

What matters is indexing (for search) + cataloging (for structured discovery) the contents + managing access to it (because not everyone may be entitled to it, sometimes even not to its existence).

You need a portal application/website that manages at least the 2 first, and always point your people to this portal first.

It may be overkill when you're a small structure, but as you grow, and as you need to have processes for more and more things, this becomes a time- and org-saver.

Because as you grow, and with time, you will inevitably face diverse teams having different preferences as to how manage/set/reform their own documentation. You don't want to block that, you want to keep track of it.

Separating the index/catalog of the documentation from its various sources helps you keep track and manage on one hand, and helps your whole teams to keep information available to all.
When did the Supreme Court rule that?

And why the hell would Congress be able to overrule states on something like this? What torturous reading of the Commerce Clause gives Congress the power to forbid lockdowns?
This looks nice. Folks interested in this might also like https://tldr.sh. It gives a tldr version of man pages for popular commands on command line.
Two crucial differences: 1) Chinese law can be used to coerce indivudusls (including presumably tech company execs) to spy for the state. That is illegal under US law. And uf you're a Chinese student abroad, good luck saying no to the Public Security tity Office when asked to spy on other students.

2) US law, however evilly applied, requires a modicum of specificity and a fig leaf of justification. China law has no such need and can appropriate at scale to its bureaucratic desire (e.g, all IP addresses in Washington, D.C.)
That's a miscomprehension of what happened with uBlock. The problem with uBlock was that gorhill legally gave away the trademark to a spammer.
Also never been considered as gifted for my relatively normal IQ. However for a brief period during my teenage years, I suddenly became the top rank student in my school for an unknown reason that I still cannot comprehend. It was such an experience, as I was a normal student before that. I thought I was a genius who could ace any subject. I managed to enter top university with early admission for my good grades.

Too bad, I became 'normal' after that, discovered that a lot of people were smarter than me. It was a humbling experience of not being special anymore.

Nevertheless, I am still grateful for that brief experience. I have much more self confidence of my ability to solve any problem since then. Eventually I managed to subtitute my 'giftedness' with hard work.
The mechanism of the Highway 3 landslide in Taiwan – The Landslide Blog (2010)
What a sovereign nation, as an abstract entity, can do, is distinct from what its executive leader can do.

The only time they happen to coincide is, by definition, in the case of autocracy.
Perhaps OP wasn't making a normative statement but rather speculating on how the past could materially affect the present?
OMG could you please stop quoting this bullshit .It's on the same level as Dulles plan of CIA fame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulles%27_Plan
Funny yeah that one and Futhark (also by thorsson) are 2 of the 3 rune books I’ve read.
Indefinitely such that it’s a new normal? No. Such is not constitutional.

Edit to respond to downvotes: Nor was it constitutional to institute sweeping metadata collection as a new normal in response to an emergency situation. Nor is it constitutional to make encryption illegal as the new normal because of an emergency. Etc.
No. Gorhill is protecting it from seizure. But someone can fork it.
This will easily lose on appeal.
Harmonizing Real-Time on Edge Platforms
[Edit: Parent commenter has now reworded their comment to remove confusion]

Huh? OP wasn't a rando who just 'studied' for a few weeks and passed. He has been working in Tech for 7+ years [1].

If anything the moral of this story is it doesn't matter that you have a 7 year experience, you still have to do fucking Leetcode for 2 months if you want to get a new job.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/bharathpbhat/
Seems like the sibling comment also by leafboi shows that HN automatically makes dead, accounts with negative karma.
Zinit: Flexible and fast Zshell plugin manager
I was wondering how long it would take HN to propose a pedantic counter-point to that comment.

Thanks!
It is a web site, but it seems they have a "sites" plan for 5$ a month. Looks great, thanks!
I went to one of these stores in Seattle on a weekday afternoon with a couple friends. It was literally packed with people. We tried breaking the system by leaving items in random places and exchanging them between us. It still charged me accurately for a couple bottled waters, a sandwich, and some other snacks.
No, merely that we can't get enough fat and protein to build brains from fruit.
the founder of 'peloton' is an epitome of this, becoming a billionaire over the course of the pandemic.

https://www.businessinsider.com/peloton-founder-ceo-john-fol...
I understand the sentimentality of your argument but fail to see the logic. So because China was treated badly by other countries 150 years ago they should ban our apps while we shouldnt ban theirs?
Brain2Word: Decoding Brain Activity for Language Generation
Thanks for this resource, I've been thinking that software engineers tend to falsely look at people as "meat computers" but wasn't aware of that philosophical branch. I can now research this school of thought easier.
The Opium Wars happened long before Pearl Harbour, yet America is happy to do business with the Japanese. Actually the Opium Wars is often referenced more by Western commentators than the Chinese, for whom the event is simply history and irrelevant to modern events.
Runelore and Futhark, both by thorsson. Other being “runes and the origins of writing” by benoist.
The war of 1812 was fought because Great Britain had spent a decade boarding US ships to impress US sailors into their navy, controlling US trade, and funding Native American attacks on US settlers.
It seems like they'll be making more consumer focused GPUs/ML chips to me. I think Apple Silicon is exciting, but I imagine for serious work you'll still need an external enclosure and a dedicated GPU from AMD.

Or Linux/Windows :(. Losing Nvidia/CUDA kind of killed ML on macOS overnight.
Agreed. If you can't negotiate where you at, then start the negotiations somewhere else.
I don't know for sure but Moore's Law was part of a certain expectation that was set for the industry and the market. For better or worse, this expectation tended to force various decisions that kept advances close to the predicted line.
I see, interesting! Yeah statically checking this would be way more awesome still
Ya, I felt truly stupid once I realized Gore-Tex is Teflon. REI is gonna need a makeover once this catches on.

Since learning about micro plastics from fabrics polluting our waterways, I'm keen to find alternatives.

I had an Australian style rain coat (dense weave, regularly reapply wax) as a kid. I couldn't find anything comparable locally.

Meanwhile, I got one of those fisherman jackets. I sweat so much, the only benefit I get is wind protection.
For restaurants specifically, not great:

The Restaurant Brokers’ study, the only one to make a distinction between chain and independent restaurants, concluded that up to 90 percent of independent establishments close during the first year, and the remaining restaurants will have an average five-year life span.

https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/average-life-span-restaur...

I'm not finding breakouts for other categories yet, but for all new businesses, broken out by year, pre-Covid:

- First year: 21.5%

- Second year: 30%

- Fifth year: 50%

- 10th year: 70%

https://www.national.biz/2019-small-business-failure-rate-st...
As if any developer couldn't be coerced to insert malicious backdoors into builds for App Stores. Or any update channel really, even DVDs and carrier pigeons.

Literally all software, the whole concept of binary distribution is "RCE" by this definition.

The only difference is that custom auto updates and the web make it much easier to roll out a backdoor in a targeted way rather than en masse.. Is it a huge difference? Meh.
With what we're learning about Trump's response - including re-writing CDC guidelines, no organized Federal response, and an outward positioning of COVID as "it'll go away on it's own" while saying privately that it was deadly, I think it's safe to say that a significant amount of unnecessary deaths are caused by Trump's actions or lack of action. Can't claim them all certainly, but that's politics.
He shelved uMatrix so he can focus on uBlock Origin (not uBlock, which was swindled by a scammer).
It's hard to win a game of chess when half your pieces are playing against you.
Newly created account claims something without proof and comments asking for such seem to be getting buried.
By sitting the iPad in the mysterious gunk that lies at the bottom of a kid's backpack. After stewing for a few weeks in exotic biological material the internals can begin to break down.

The cases are sealed, but they're still permeable to stuff you wouldn't let near your computer because you have a slight respect for technology.

I found fungus growing inside more than one iPad case, usually directly in the boards.
Hmm. His rig stretches the fabrics he's testing, when they're not meant to be stretched aggressively like that in normal use.
This has been discussed many times and it's not a good idea - it adds friction to the discussion, more than anything else. The threads would be full of pointless meta.

The fundamental problem is that getting downvoted feels kinda bad - nobody ever asks for explanatory notes on upvotes. It's reasonable to wonder whether getting downvoted feels, say, too bad too soon and if there are UI ways to address that. But it's worth remembering that for downvoting to actually work, it has to feel at least somewhat bad. It's going to feel somewhat bad with or without notes from others about why they thought you ought to feel a little bit bad.
PFOA I can understand, but PTFE?

Sure, it's toxic to parrots, if you burn the material and it decomposes. But how many materials aren't? Most plastic will produce highly toxic products when burned.

PTFE is produced from tetra-fluoroethylene, which is a gas, doesn't get into water supplies.

And PTFE is very non-toxic. That's why we use it in medical implants.
This looks more like retaliation, because China bans american companies all the time, for much less and for much more despotic reasons.