skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real as in has a real effect on consumers. NOT real as has being a significant predictor for quality of products.

We all know this, but we ignore it. Branding for brandings sake == lying to customers.
I didn’t get the connection before your joke, but I think it is called Elsa exactly because it is written in Go!

(This happens to me Olaf the time)
That was surprising to me, too. For me the big benefit of QuickJS is the tiny runtime size. If that isn't a factor you might as well go for V8, the performance is an order of magnitude better.
True statement, but what does that metaphor-analogy have to do with server side JavaScript runtimes? They are also not the same thing, Dragonflys are fast, but they won't run my JS either.

Our systems have absolute speeds that the client requests don't care about. They don't care if they are fast for an _x_ when that _x_ has nothing to do with the client. Minimal is a nice quality, but I don't think Elsa is fast in absolute terms or as secure as Deno.

I did an analysis in a different comment, it looks like Elsa comes in at 3500 lines of code, of which Go is less than a thousand. What this does is supply an outlet for Go programmers to contribute to a JS runtime like Deno which is mostly developed in Rust and TS. From a sociological perspective, it will be interesting to see how Elsa evolves and whether Go or TS dominate future development.

What I think is neat is that QuickJS comes in as more computationally efficient (benchmark score / executable_bytes_size). But that also makes sense, jits have to work pretty hard to extract that extra performance. One would have to do some sort of coverage analysis to compare quickjs to v8 --jitless, interpreter to interpreter. It would be interesting to track the commits in a codebase over time wrt speed for interpreters and jits across a set of languages.

# from https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html
# total score w/o regex
In [2]: 41576 / 28000
Out[2]: 1.4848571428571429

In [3]: 1138 / 620
Out[3]: 1.835483870967742

Given Fabrice Bellards other projects, I wouldn't be surprised if a JIT landed in QuickJS.
This kind of thing makes me uneasy, and is an example of why I don't enjoy the web platform for applications.

In this case, we have Firefox, which has built-in integration for DDG, as well as lots and lots of capability for querying and processing JSON. And on top of that, we are adding a command that drops to the command line to make a series of command calls to different programs for sending and extracting a search query. All to return 1 URL. It's nuts.

This topic could be a 20-page thesis.
Xen Project officially ports its hypervisor to Raspberry Pi 4
But if that's your definition of "voter suppression", then there's nothing at all wrong with it.
Afterthoughts on the Special Theory of Relativity
This is a continuation of Amazon's remove all inconvenience strategy. And it'll work.

You're waving your hand and walking through now, no more scanning, no more opening up an app, no more tinkering with your phone. By chipping away at each of these friction points, no manner how minor, their moat grows and customers will notice a difference between an Amazon retail store vs. a competitor's.
Microsoft Teams Update to Let Users Schedule Virtual Commute
Thanks for sharing. I get that as a business #2 and #3 provide marketing opportunities, but as a consumer this is part of the reason why the usefulness of search is slowly eroding. If I’m looking for something like “why[brand]” most of the time I want an independent review/opinion and not some sales copy by [brand] that has been SEO’d all the way to the top of the results.
No one said it should be limited to IT.
this made me wonder about a QuickJs wrapper for Rust https://github.com/theduke/quickjs-rs
Microsoft Obtains Exclusive License for GPT-3 AI Model
This is great, really great. I believe Google itself has made a small step, although it could do more.
There really needs to be open source tv firmware
>I'm really curious how this reached #1 here on HN

I was initially excited about the idea of a Go alternative to some existing js runtimes.
> If anyone can make one, then Google doesn't have undue control over competitors.

That's not true. They still have the power to restrict a third party store whenever they want without any immediate repercussions.

Let's say they remove all of the scary popups that Android shows when you try to install apps outside of Google Play right now. That would be a big win for competitors. But then any time in the future, Google can decide to slowly bring back those popups under the guise of "protecting users" or some other FUD.

The problem is that we might not have a company like Epic in the future, which is very well funded, willing, and able to fight them in court. When Google starts slowly clawing back control, we'll see some people complain about it on the usual channels, but it's likely nothing will happen.
Urlcat – a tiny JavaScript library for building URLs
"We" are a tiny minority.

The vast majority of people just don't care and want the most TV for the least money.

It's a "tyranny of the majority" kind of situation. For TV manufacturers, it's not worth catering to the tiny minority of customers who think like us.
Would it surprise you to hear that there are many women in India who support for existing misogynistic aspects of traditional culture?

It's hard for people to understand how deeply woven caste-based motivations are in Indian society. At a large scale it may seem like some globally stratified layer cake. On the ground, it devolves into regional tribes.

The "caste associations" rural people associate themselves with in rural areas are loosely formed tribes of 10 thousand to 100-thousand strong members.

The perspective of many who choose to be invested in this system - which is most people living in those areas (what else are you gonna do? not support your tribe? who else is gonna have your back if there's trouble?) - is one of trying to gain status for their caste/tribe over others.

Caste rivalries are often regional, and localized.

Identifying India's current PM as not coming from one of the well-recognized "higher castes" is really meaningless. It'd be sort of like saying "yeah, this politician is unlikely to be a hardline christian dominionist, he's a 7-th day adventist, which is clearly a minority sect".
A citation would be really nice here; I’ve not seen a chart that’s put Android at less than 70% of the market share (usually it’s over 80%).
Even when the binaries are signed you'd still have to trust Tailscale they didn't modify the code before compilation, maybe putting in a simple back door. They probably don't, but you can't really know.

When you have binary reproducible builds such a thing would immediately be obvious and hell would break loose if they attempted it.
Another word for a projector.
Where did you get this idea of flying? I wondered if I had a misconception there but any source I could quickly find on the web disagrees with the "can move with six degrees of freedom" definition and uses a definition like "doesn't touch ground or sea while moving through the air" instead. (Wikipedia on "Flight" / "Ekranoplan" / "Ground-effect vehicle", Merriam Webster on the word "Flight", and search for "what is flight" if that's not enough).
I’m originally from eastern canada. They have completely eliminated local transmission. And they have truck drivers bringing in goods, including from the US.

Haven’t heard of it as a source of transmission. Truck drivers generally don’t get off their shift and then go sing karaoke.

And I live now in Quebec, which got local transmission down to almost nothing. But then they opened bars for three months. I think if they had kept them closed a month longer and told the pop “get to zero and we can have a normal winter” we could have done it. Now we’re surging again.
Amsterdam and Helsinki launch algorithm registries to bring transparency
Nope.

> Conditions of having this behavior enabled vary from one browser to another, and have evolved over time.

If you're not running based on a click event, you'll certainly fail.
> That public land was worthless at the time. Without the train nobody wanted it, the train made it valuable to the public.

To the white people, perhaps. The indigenous population probably would have rather it stayed that way.
People have been saying this for years but there is no evidence. You do need to sign your apps in most cases these days but they don’t restrict you from downloading anything you want.
Being smart is not enough
I'm asking the commenter's opinion, not about current state of XML. Still thanks for the link.
Leftists lost their control over the global (and local) narrative with the rise of social media. So, now they have to hide behind the disguise of NGO's to push their narrative because nobody trusts their news.
I've lost almost 20 lb so far. I eat between 11 am and 7 pm, and on one day a week I only eat one meal (dinner). The first month was tough, and I overate during my eating windows.

I did calorie tracking many times (sometimes successfully), but IF is so much less of a mental load. It addresses the core issue: appetite. After a month, I no longer want larger portions. I no longer want to snack after dinner.
Hate to go that way but I was thinking this. What's worse is that it is uploaded to some server somewhere instead of being kept localized.
>If your local supermarket A-Mart sold A-Cars that refused to drive into other supermarkets parking lots then yeah.

But that's not what epic's doing? You can install EGS and steam side by side. Since there's virtually no lock-in, it's closer to "two supermarkets you can drive to" than "whatever app store you have preloaded on your phone".
Furthermore, if you stipulate hand-offs will sometimes be needed, you now can't use the car for many of the use cases that proponents want because you need a competent adult driver to take over.

And, yes, people imagine scenarios like remote drivers taking over. That seems a very difficult problem--especially if the situation is such that the autopilot is confused.
Then don't buy a TV.
This. You could run frotz/xzip far before DOSBox existed.
My job does not require materials as such. Should I work for free for the good of mankind? How would I be able to obtain sustenance and shelter?
Please read the article :)
Even simpler, if you just "know" SQL and can form a sentence, there are companies that will pay you 100k+ a year (source: I worked at one).
As someone in these shoes, coming from experience, it is a pain. Where it could just be stripe/whatever single payment system you choose, it now has to be an abstraction at best. The abstractions aren't perfect--they limit you to only using the common features across all payment systems you have to support. It absolutely creates a poor user experience for customers.

Want to prorate upgrades? Well google play doesn't offer that. Want to allow switching from monthly to annually? Does Apple offer that? Want to issue a partial refund? Want to credit an account? Etc.

It goes further, a customer emails and asks "how do I cancel?". Instead of having easy instructions for them, it's now a switch block for all the different IAP solutions. If that customer forgets how they signed up, now they need to dig through all the IAP steps for cancelling.

And it's not just Google Play and Apple. There's web, Windows store, amazon app store, android, ios, chrome payments (deprecated), something for linux, etc.

While revenuecat seems decent for Google/Apple, it doesn't touch any of the others.

I'm not saying it's not possible. All I'm saying is it's a whole lot of extra work just to allow the largest companies in the world to scalp 30% from an indie dev, and force a poor experience down users throats.
That applies for brands that are sold across multiple stores, but what about store brands? I can't get kirkland signature products outside of costco.
For those who use piHole or other network wide ad blocking, I've compiled a list of servers to block: https://factory-reset.com/wiki/Samsung_Telemetry_Servers
Great! So in the future, chances are, I'll brick my laptop or have a permanent message on POST if I replace their Wi-Fi card with a better one or if I replace the screen at home.
I've come to understand that I'm a downtown living, college educated, hipster. Wanting to change my own oil and do my own repair I found a garage that charges $140/day to rent a bay and tools. Can't exactly be a shade tree mechanic at the dog park.
The best method I've found to increase positive engagement is actually to just have a fake 'x' such that clicking it just triggers the ad. I've noticed this more frequently on the web nowadays, and based on the click through rates, the target demographic is absolutely _obsessed_ over this feature.
As I said, hard to disprove but seems unlikely. Backblaze says 76.7% chance these SMART attributes will be bad on a failed disk. [1] More importantly, I said I'm using RAID-1, so a single bad disk shouldn't be a problem.

Another poster suggested this happens with AFP, which would likely mean a macOS defect. I'm using AFP. I think I'll switch to SMB...

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-har...
> If it's an EU company doing such data extraction, they would be swiftly punished for it. Same I presume for the US.

I love your optimism. Will a random company be punished? Probably, will a powerful company or more importantly a government agency be meaningfully punished and forced to desist? Never in a million years.
Maybe jig would be a better description. They are more focused on the workpiece and the outcome, a part may have multiple steps that it undergoes and a jig assists in its production.
I can see how this reduced drag on solid parts, but does it not also operate as an engine? The laser energy is projected forwards to hit molecules of air out in front of the aircraft. Those molecules are heated and so expand (the shockwave) but are they also not accelerated forwards? Yes, the laser is effectively pushing the air out of the way, but is that energy more or less than the energy needed to push the air away using mechanical force? Ie is putting energy into the laser more efficient than simply using that energy to increase the power of the engines?

In other words, rather than use the laser to expand air in front of the craft, would it be more efficient to use the laser to expand air in the engine to increase thrust?
I do not take anything on trust.
> as well as on the law makers' side of things.

Anything you're allowed to share?
New Sony Xperia 10 ii phone came for us with ads in the notification area, stemming from some pre-installed news app. Not to mention Spotify, Facebook, etc being preinstalled. Easy fux but really disappointing, next phone will be Fairphone or Swift phone so I don't support these big corps anymore.
> "into to Kubernetes"

That could be a movie about absurdity and meaninglessness of life...
The rate is irrelevant to the question of Epic vs Apple. In their case, Apple had terms already in place which Epic agreed to in order to develop on their platform. Epic then decided to try to defy those same terms by challenging them in court. The judge pointed out that's not how T&Cs work.

If Microsoft introduces wiOS (Or OS W?) in which you can only run applications you install through an app store, then users and developers will decide whether that's an experience they want and if it is, then an ecosystem will develop around it just as happened with Apple. If not, it will just be an expensive lesson for Microsoft while everyone remains on their preferred OS.

If it turns out all major OSes lock their users into app stores and there remains a significant market for users who don't want that experience, the market will be primed for another OS competitor to take that share.
There are a ton of dark patterns in web design about this.

- same color background

- in the wrong corner (users expect the "X" in the upper right hand corner). I've seen the "X" in the wrong corner and some other icon in the right hand corner. People reflexive will click in the upper right hand corner and open the ad by mistake

- I've seen where you have to click on text instead of the "X", clicking on the "X" just opens the ad

- Also very small, 1-2 pixel "X" so literally one pixel off and you've opened the ad

- I don't remember what company did this, but they would pop the ad and after three seconds, it would reload, all but a few pixels higher so when you're in the process of closing the window, it would reload and then you'd open the ad by mistake because the "X" is in the wrong place now.

I've seen a lot more devious stuff but the sad thing is, I have decent vision. How do these dark patterns affect people who have impaired vision or other issues with their vision? How infuriating it is it for them to deal with this BS? I can't imagine.
> Anyone who describes the Energiewende nuclear draw down as having caused coal consumption to rise is propagating misinformation.

Anyone who does that would be factually correct, as proven by your own numbers. And this accusation is especially ironic coming from someone who made a factually incorrect statement.

> there may be some small, tightly qualified way in which the statement can be twisted to be true

It was true for several years and for several TWh. It's not at all fair to call that "twisted and tightly qualified".

If you don't think so, note that from 2010 until now, the length of time in which coal use was elevated is about the same as the length of time where it decreased. So if my statement is twisted and tightly qualified, then so is your statement that coal use has been reduced by 35%. Not to mention your initial claim that it's been cut in half.

> the impression that is conveyed is one that is in conflict with the facts.

Since you insist, I'll amend my statement: getting out of nuclear forced an increase in coal use for several years.

But the main point remains untouched. From a climate standpoint, Germany would've been strictly better off with nuclear.
Just FYI the remote app is baked into iOS. Whenever there's text input on the AppleTV the iPhone will show a notification in the drawer that can be used for text input. It's very convenient and works well.
> Do you actually save 5% (assuming PS is 30%) by developing for the Apple ecosystem?

Probably not - assuming you're being smart and targeting multiple platforms, you're still going to be using Unreal/Unity. And even if you're only targeting the Mac, Unreal/Unity bring a lot more than rendering to the table, so you're probably still using either of them, all with a commercial license.

And unless you're doing distribution yourself, anywhere you put your game will take a percentage, pretty much all around 30%. Some places like itch.io let you define how much they take, but no one really uses itch.io for anything bigger than an indie game.
There are a ton of subsidies at play behind these numbers. Cars and planes get the massive subsidies of non-taxed externalities due to carbon emissions and air pollution, for instance.

There's a lack of long-term policy here: do we want to be in a society in 20-30 years that's still using personal cars to do that journey, when a high speed rail would be much more efficient and pleasant? If a true high speed rail were enabled, that 400 mile trip might take 3 hours instead of 6-8 for other modes of transit, and it would incur less negative externalities to boot.

I'm all for individuals making informed decisions in the short term, while government and society should be taking long-term steps to promote the health of the commons as well.
XML did many things right and a few big things wrong. It's a tragedy there isn't a single imple, standardized way to define an array through xml as there is through json. The lack of schema validation in json is equally baffling.

A hack for JSON comments

{
"//": "Comment1",
...
"//": "Comment2"
}
No. I don't use the "TV" app though, so that may be the difference.

Unless you mean trailers for whatever the cursor is on, inside of an app like Netflix? If so, some of those can be disabled, but I actually like them—they're "ads" for content that I already have access to but may not have known about otherwise.
VMware Acquires Saltstack
Oh there will be an outcry of angry developers the magnitude of which has never been seen before but I also think that MS should be legally allowed to do it.
Well, try to buy a high end non-smart TV. Near impossible
You can disable ads but the checkbox is deeply buried in the support menu page. Also the preference is reset every time Samsung update the T&C (more or less once a month). I added 6 Samsung domains to my Pi-Hole blacklist [1], domains that are queried dozens of times a day.

[1] https://gist.github.com/zaerl/e3c24a9c21e5c15138e92a43ccd534...
I'm waiting for fake palm gloves. I'm sure such things already exist for finger prints.
samsung (and most brands) sell specific model for hospitality, those have hotel mode, so i doubt you can configure it on domestic ones.
Json-schema.org
UPSs are never really cheap, since when converting AC to DC to AC you lose a significant amount of power efficiency for your equipment. The funny part is the server PSU then converts back to DC power yet again. My understanding is that well optimized data centers distribute conditioned, battery backed DC power directly to devices to avoid those double conversion losses.
Wait, there’s competition between retail channels? Great, I’m looking forward to getting the next major AAA game for a discount at Target due to this so-called competition with Wallmart.

Just kidding. It’ll be $59.99 at both stores. There is, practically speaking, no competition in the retail space either.
So you are right, you have to know a bunch of other things to put it in perspective, but its mainly a guide first to how sensitive your surveillance system is for cases and then if all else stays stable (testing rates) it is a guide to disease activity. I am working on COVID-19 in Australia and monitoring stats like this. You can look at total cases and total deaths to understand the sensitivity of your surveillance system for cases and then look at positivity. If you have a high case to death ratio (setting aside clinical performance/or adjusting for clinical performance), you have an indication of sensitivity, but you also know that if you are testing adequately, i.e. testing all the mild cases then the % positivity should be low. In Australia we would be very concerned with a 3% positivity, suggests not enough testing is happening. Over the last 2 weeks our % positivity in NSW has been 0.002% and 0.009%. I know WHO recommends that % positivity should be less then 5% but that is a very low bar for low income countries. High income countries should be able to keep it well below 1%.
Wow that’s quite a negative review haha. But also some positives from the foreign reviews.

Well....I guess it’s probably not actively destructive then, I guess the sinuses can deal with it. I’m going to look into this, thanks!

So in your case I guess you’re just diluting the honey in water to a certain degree. But the raw honey was uncomfortable as the reviews suggest.

If you’d like to talk more about mrsa/nasal stuff btw, my email is in my profile.
Interesting. For all the valid criticism of the Chinese court system, that is still faster than the case I linked in the US.

Not sure what that shows...
> Scale and market power are what makes a monopolist, by definition.

Very true. Worth noting here also is that (US) antitrust law isn't designed to break up 100% of all monopolies.
> That's extremely unlikely -- it would have been prosecuted previously otherwise.

This sounds like the legal equivalent of the joke about the two economists who find a $20 bill on the ground. One asks "Is that a $20 bill?" The other says, "Couldn't be. If it was, someone would have picked it up by now", and they move on.
Sceptre TVs. They sell dumb 4K TVs.