skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quickly want to point out that we've recently seen a surge in uniswap/bancor based "liquidity pools" (all projects copying each other). The main idea here is that you can lock up your crypto in a smart contract - which is considered "secure" as to no one can steal it (audited code by reputable companies and such). If true the risk is very small with things like impermanent loss, which doesn't apply to all pools.

The idea here is that your money is provided liquidity and you'll get paid a portion of the fees as well as some new token which can have a very high value (for a fleeting moment).

This is important to realize when looking at the crazy marketing around these projects, if it's based on uniswap you can reasonably sure your principal won't get stolen - regardless of the scammy and weird marketing.
Isn't the freemium model an extension of the software trials models?
Despite what is claimed about AnyView, this has for the most part been proven wrong. AnyView is just as fast, if not faster.

https://nalexn.github.io/anyview-vs-group/

In fact, Apple themselves use AnyView internally for many of their controller presentations (such as sheets and pushed controllers).
Capitalism 2.0: The case for government-funded civic tech
The short answer is that the supposed “long-term impacts” aren’t really real. I recommend reading the literature on SARS-CoV-1, the “original SARS”, which spreads less easily but is far more severe. A normal SARS-1 case is like a severe SARS-2 (“covid”) case.

With SARS-1, there can be lingering fatigue and minor cognitive deficits for a few months post infection, but radiological abnormalities of the lungs, etc clear away within months and are certainly gone at the 1 year mark.

The evidence in SARS-2 is incredibly weak and especially for those who are asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic the chance of lasting harm is essentially zero. Remember that the real damage occurs from the immune response, so if you have no symptoms you cannot have damage. The notion being promulgated of having totally asymptomatic COVID-19 and then randomly showing organ damage (heart, lungs etc) is absurd.

Finally for mathematical purposes we need to consider long-term damage - which again just doesn’t really happen - as not as bad as a death. So we can still work it into the math just fine, whether you want to call it a tenth of a death or half or whatever.

—-

Oh finally, quick point that vaccines are not without risk either. Go read the data on the Moderna trials. Or the history of rushed-out vaccines that caused paralysis (it was either for swine flu or avian flu, I forget which)
Amazon contributing their changes (if they even do any) but taking the majority of hosting income doesn't fix the business model for the company making the software.

Linux has an entirely different scenario for the economics around it, so from the "does this work financially" perspective the comparison isn't all that helpful.
From a technical and privacy standpoint, is there a huge difference to the Apple U1 device network - with the limited amount of information that’s been made public?

I’m coming from a position of limited knowledge on both platforms, so curious.
Color of Water
Any way to set pre-amp to avoid clipping or is there built-in headroom / automatic gain adjust so that that is taken care of by default?
I don't think I treat them any differently in my reader. They are part of the set of "symbol characters". I do special case + and - prefixed integers, though.
BPF in GCC
Of course - any specific q's on the Estonian one? It's run by a bunch of former colleagues and I was around for a bit of the early planning/discussion. Happy to share what I can
Ask HN: Whatever happened to Netscape 4.0/5.0 code?
I remember reading that back in the day, Mozilla/4.0 code was open-sourced, and they were working on improvements to it before it was killed. There was a development version with page reflow and a few other things.

Whatever happened to that? Does anyone know? Has it already succumbed to bit-rot, or is there still a copy out there somewhere?

I've become a bit of Web historian last couple of years, and I've always been a huge fan of Netscape. I'd love to get a chance to play around with it.
For many reasons.

Maybe you have agreed to more restrictive terms than the license for use of the company's software in another agreement that supersede the license grant.

Maybe you knew things about the anticipated development of this open-source project beyond what is currently released and licensed openly, and non-disclosure would complicate your contributions.

Maybe you are subject to a non-compete, and this could fall afoul of some of the provisions.

Maybe the employer could make a claim that he was involved in the license selection, and advocated for the MIT license in bad faith so that he could personally benefit.

Maybe it could be tortious interference, depending upon the individual facts involved.

This is why you should talk to a lawyer.
I'm not a parent but all practices described in the article infuriate me as well. I'm not sure why should I try to deduce if the next app I will install uses any of them -- and you don't even need to lock down APIs to prevent this.

All you need is a simple 'complain' function in App Store that will trigger a review by human with following expulsion of offending app (and probably the developer account too).
The constitution is written to enjoin the government from infringing on certain rights.

To say that it describes the rights we have is a fundamental misunderstanding. It even says as much, in the 9th amendment:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

I mean, you could at least try to argue more clearly, and not trip over something so obvious.
I would suppose that dehumanizing effects are intended and are in fact necessary in a system where someone decides that someone else will be killed.
> I’m getting old.

I think you hit the nail on the head with this observation:

> Instead, what we have is a culture of very shallow and information-light “articles”, that seems to me more like SEO bot posts trolling for clicks, rather than written for developers, by developers.

For a while now, content's been created as a means to improve SEO, and it's really obvious when an article was written just so it contains the right mashup of keywords and that it's padded to just the right length.
Didnt it become firefox via Gecko
You're missing a couple key points here. The constitution treats all people as embued with human rights. If they're on American soil, they've got rights. So sure, tearing up the constitution is hotly contested. Right now, ICE is shitting all over the constitution and I don't like that one bit.

Second, many detainees are asylum seekers. The us has policies and processes by which people can lawfully seek asylum in the US. And they're being subject to inhumane treatments that we don't even tolerate in prisons.
They could gasp play with other things like legos or drawing/construction. My twin girls in gradeschool love building stuff, roleplay and make believe.

Honestly that’s what I used to do as a kid when stuck indoors (which is more prevalent these days)
gcc -O3 vectorizes. https://github.com/keur/prettyeq/blob/master/build_tests.sh
Nobody gets fired for buying AWS.
Yep. You can make friends with crows, and they will remember you for a very long time. If you get shiny things, then you're the crow's meow. Bones maybe just "meh."

https://youtu.be/dg3ApNJct6Q

https://youtu.be/0fiAoqwsc9g

https://youtu.be/HWXe7Js6GnI

https://youtu.be/VOmRNeYZVfE

Furthermore, crows can be sneaky. A murder of them hanging out behind my mechanic's goaded the dork of the group into stealing a bag sunflower seeds on top of a rolling toolbox 30 ft / 10 m on the other side of the shop from the roll-up doors. It had to figure-out how to sneak-in, hop up on the toolbox, and sneak-out without being detected like a bloody ninja. The group of them had a sunflower seed party in the alley and one mechanic wondered where his snack went to. And there were 3 people in the shop at the time! xD
Is there a possibility of human-crow co-evolution? I really can't think of any other reason the crow would give gifts.
>If a person is really compassionate, they will not eat any animals.

I had the opportunity to live in an impoverished area of the Phillipines for several years- I met many kinds of people, some of whom were the most compassionate and selfless individuals I've ever known. After seeing the meals of dogs and cats they need to eat to survive because they can't afford any other lifestyle, I can say with no reservations at all that it's absolutely ludicrous to assert that compassion and carnivorism are mutually exclusive. Your sweeping generalization is wrong, my friend; perhaps you should try to empathize with the people you deride.
The Managers Path is a good book. It gives guidance through all career stages.
A different way of abusing Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472)
Although part of a bigger stack, this can be used independently for postgresql

https://docs.subzero.cloud/managing-migrations/

Internally it uses sqitch and apgdiff.

The process is almost exactly like the one you described for your tool.
Amazon's Ring device and how they work with police raises a lot of questions about what these devices will report, to whom, and etc:

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/10/8/20903536/amazon-ring-do...

Makes you wonder that even if you choose not to share with police, if your amazon devices will help someone else's device do so...
> they were never doing stand ups to begin with

that's true, but it just turns the question into the one of "is it possible to do real standups?". My experience is that I've never managed to do real standups. It's just not possible to relay complex information about what you're doing in 1 minute. You either do it so superficially it's worthless or you it in depth and it takes longer than a standup should.
I also did a quick search. Apparently the CDC required the CDPHE to report the total number of people who died while having COVID-19, which the department did. Then they switched to reporting the number of deaths caused by COVID-19, AND the number of deaths of people who had COVID-19. That caused confusion which led to the threat of criminal charges.

https://koanewsradio.iheart.com/content/2020-05-15-gov-polis...

> Won't hear about this in the news!

Huh? I found lots of news articles about it.
Great article! Glad to have that misconception cleared up.
No, but we’ve considered open sourcing it, so we might do it one day.
Yes, if you’re worried about it using (from the article) 80kbps of your bandwidth.

Otherwise no.
Google Voice was down for me earlier, as well as a couple unresponsive Compute engines (despite not showing problematic on this list).
> Why is reducing suffering ethical?

Deep question. Seems like it's usually more of a postulate of ethics than a logical conclusion. Treat others as you'd like to be treated, for example.

If you're looking for a scientific answer, it's probably that empathy makes you suffer when you see it in others. And empathy is instinctive behavior that presumably evolved for the good of the species. Though evolution might be "selfish" in its own way, preferring to protect some species which are useful to us in other ways while eating others.
I do wonder which part of my premise readers find unrealistic?

- technology is getting more powerful and smaller

- large companies can be hacked

- leaked data is easily available on the net

- smart glasses will become more common

- apps can be made to facially id people using leaked data

Are any of those statements outlandish?
"Every SQLite database is a universe unto itself"
There is a Unicode symbol for divorce, but only Samsung has implemented an emoji for it.

https://emojipedia.org/divorce-symbol/
That seems to be mostly it, though I've found there's a little bit more to it. Namely, not presenting your raw unfiltered thoughts and opinions as much but presenting them through more of a "party line" filter.
Search ads require transactional writes. But actually, as far as I remember big outages at Google in the past have been things like "someone pushed the wrong router config" and not "our database got overloaded". Maybe search is just more conservative?
Totally understand where you’re coming from. Excalidraw is a great standalone whiteboard tool, which is why we forked it to start off our project. This includes some new features that we felt made the experience better for our use cases. For example:

- Slack app integration to make it easier to start whiteboarding sessions

- Adding the ability to save and load drawings with Google Drive

- Symbols that we commonly use (e.g., databases, clouds, tables)

- Removing features unnecessary to our use case (sloppy drawing mode, opacity, background colour customizability, etc.)

We're not monetizing this app—we wanted to share a tailored version of it that we found useful ourselves, and hope that you may find it useful too.

We’re open to any other concerns/questions as well.
Not by hand, but the FFT I wrote for the spectral analyzer is compiled with -ffast-math and gcc vectorizes it (verified with objdump). Same thing with the functions that change the filter parameters.
There's a difference (a significant one) between vaccines carrying some risk and a vaccine being as harmful as infection.

We don't have that information about a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine yet, but you are just hand-waving here, it's likely enough that one of the many vaccine candidates will be less harmful than a course of infection (In general, vaccines are safe enough that we use lots of them…).

You also aren't working long term damage "into the math", you are doing just what I was getting at, dismissing it.
You've met a few unions? It's not really feeling like you have any specific domain knowledge here, given how sparse and off-kilter all of your replies have been. If you have actual counter-examples of other unions that operate differently in that space, then just name them.
Right, for sure.

I'm not really in favor of single namespaces at this point. It's been wonderful having DNS as a reliable universal naming system, but if we're talking about trying to move to a more distributed model, I'm more interested in loosening the strings & exploring the space beyond a single namespace. Not just decentralized, as the article talks about, but also distributed. Embrace strong cryptographic identity, cryptographic names first, & leave human naming for additional layers, probably around web-of-trust models.

To me, trying to recreate DNS but with arbitrary distributed blockchain systems to allocate power instead of arbitrary icann registries doesn't seem that advantageous. I do like the idea of censorship resistance, of really owning a name, but the cost & viability of claiming & winning names via out Proof-of-Work'ing folks or buying currency seems daunting to me. The hurdles here scare me. And having one single namespace that can never expand & grow, where the good keeps getting carved out, by early players: that scarcity is unappealing. Single namespaces are consistent & that's powerful, but the digital is capable of so much less scarcity, albeit we humans only have limited experience trying to harness & direct such unlimited digital abandons.

There's plenty of good, interesting, valuable work on single namespaces that we can do, & this is probably a good, interesting, & valuable contribution (albeit one that leaves me with a lot of questions about participation & how the system functions). Restricting ourselves to the scarcity of a single namespace seems both sensible & practical, like a straightforward route towards adoptability, towards a more likely to be impactful protocol. But I do hope some of the wilder, less restrained options for how we do naming get a chance, are a part of our broader experiments in naming.
I'm an avid cloud gamer. I used GeForce NOW at first, but it had limited game selection.

I use Shadow now and it is much better. I have full control over the PC/VM, and install whatever I want from anywhere. I'm also super impressed with the latency - I can play multiplayer competitive games no problem.

I'm on a Mac so cloud gaming makes sense for me. I was going to build a PC but the cost was too high. Much cheaper to just pay ~$15/month.

This sounds like an ad, so to get back on topic -- if Amazon's Luna doesn't let you install whatever you want, it wont be able to compete.
The OP is lamenting that western countries got to enjoy the fruits of their emissions. The cost, however, is externalized.

Now that developing nations have started to get richer, western nations cannot say that they ought to now make a sacrifice and stop consuming meat, because doing so _is_ hypocrisy.
I can't really comment on that, except to say that the way it works is a much easier problem than how gmail works.
I've lied, and will continue to lie, on every "360 feedback" form I've been required to fill out. Mostly because I've seen the backend of the 360 feedback system and know it's not truly anon.

In my general opinion, negative feedback is very helpful for personal development. Most people will also have some resentment towards the bearer of negative feedback.

It's not my job to make my manager a better person if it means I miss out on a cushy pay bump next review.
The other downside of TPUs is that they are ridiculously overpriced for all workloads, they are basically GCP snake oil, and on a cost benefit basis there is not a single use case where it’s rational to choose TPUs, not even over other options hosted in GCP.
Modern hookah is soaked in glycerin which produces the majority of the vapor, while the tobacco is ideally vaporized instead of combusted as well (although usually it's a combination of burning and vaporization). So if done properly arguably better than a cig. The real issue with hookah is the chemicals and co2 released from the coals imo.
Pros­e­cu­tion of Orga­nized Elec­tion Fraud in Mail-In Bal­lot­ing
I'm not a fan of those DSLs either. We use liquibase with plain old SQL...we write in the dialect of the database. No rollbacks either - always forward.

One thing that is nice from liquibase is that you get a nice cli that let's you do some fun stuff like update the database directly and then auto-generate a diff (your example above). See https://docs.liquibase.com/commands/home.html
Formal Verification of Legacy Code (2016)
Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound
Tinfoil theory:

This was a test of their kill-switch.
Search ads is a completely different system than search. They don't share tech stacks or reporting chains.
You haven't really given me any math to dismiss. But simply put, I believe the risks of locking down until a vaccine outpace the risks of allowing SARS-CoV-2 to spread normally in the general population (not in high-risk categories).

Your position also implicitly relies on the notion that SARS-2 isn't spreading right now, but it is, so by the time we get a vaccine we will have a lot of exposure. Data from NY and Sweden implies somewhere around 20% seroprevalence is when we hit herd immunity.

Since you haven't given me much to work on, and I don't feel like digging into the vaccine side, let me give you some research on long-term damage:

["Follow-up Chest CT findings from discharged patients with severe COVID-19: an 83-day observational study"](https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-27359/v1) - First Submitted May 4, Published online May 12

> Radiological abnormalities in patients of severe COVID-19 could be completely absorbed with no residual lung injury in more than two months’ follow-up.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1440-1843... (SARS-1 pathology)

> Preliminary evidence suggests that these lung function abnormalities will improve over time

and here's just one effect of lockdown: loneliness.

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/110/15/5797.full.pdf

> mortality was higher among more socially isolated and more lonely participants. However, after adjusting statistically for demographic factors and baseline health, social isolation remained significantly associated with mortality (hazard ratio 1.26, 95% confidence interval, 1.08–1.48 for the top quintile of isolation), but loneliness did not (haz-ard ratio 0.92, 95% confidence interval, 0.78–1.09). The association of social isolation with mortality was unchanged when loneliness was included in the model.
Two reasons for these shallow, high-level-walk-through type of articles that I've seen are to pad a resume or to pad a promotion packet.
I think you missed the point which probably means that I expressed it poorly.

He has to guess which country he will be more at risk in. He can't /know/ any more than you or I can know.

He has the right to make his best guess and potentially be wrong about it because he has everything at stake. If you or I or anyone else thinks he has made the wrong guess. Fine. But acknowledge that he has the right to make the best guess he can and had rather more at stake with that guess than a mere opinion.

What has changed utterly is the formerly bogus claim that he need not worry because the US were not pursuing him. The people who claimed that, of which there were very, very many had nothing at stake and were completely, totally and utterly wrong. I haven't seen anyone acknowledge "Yeah I thought he was making excuses but it turns out he was right when he said the US were after him and I was wrong about that one thing at least."

Easy to say anything at all when there are no consequences to us. We should acknowledge it. Indeed from a different angle we should cherish it and protect it.
Not a single legit innovative technology company coming from Germany, a country which literally brain drains post-Communist and Mediterranean part of the European Union. Wirecard, Rocket Internet. What a miserable failure and waste of human potential.
If you are interested in the computer science in general I highly recommend:

1. Structure and Interpretation
of Computer Programs (available for free, e.g. here http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/index.xhtml

2. https://computationbook.com/

Also, I haven't read it yet, but this book has been praised here a lot recently:
https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...
I've tried both Nvidia GeForce Now and Stadia, and Stadia has been a much better experience. GeForce Now takes a few minutes to launch, and it's really wonky to tweak your mouse settings to make your mouse speed match what you're used to on your own computer. I also experienced terrible input lag on GeForce Now even on 600mbps wired internet and after turning on all of their recommended settings.

Stadia has felt pretty magical, I just open chrome and go, I don't notice any input lag, and I also have the option to grab my controller and play on a TV. It has a few hiccups every now and then, but nothing bad at all. It feels like the future.
Maybe not time to switch, but it shows the value in distributing your services across different providers.

Bit annoying to have your email, documents, cloud services, analytics, and video conferencing all go out at the same time, especially when everyone is working from home.

I was supposed to have a Meet call with someone from the UK this morning, I couldn't join the call and they couldn't email me (I could still email them though, as I don't use G Suite for my email).
Any CLI planned?
The 9th amendment is saying "just because we said we have rights X and Y explicitly, doesn't mean that we don't have Z just because we didn't say it". That's what it's saying.

All I'm saying is the bill of rights describes rights that the government cannot infringe upon (with the exceptions established via judicial precedent, for example guns can be taken away from violent felons, etc)

I never said that the Constitution was an exhaustive list of our rights so your snarky dismissal doesn't strike me as fair.