skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you mind linking that if you have it around somewhere? It seems quite doubtful that a seatbelt would work on someone who isn’t even tall enough for the sash to go over their torso…
I've been happy with BunnyCDN. Email and password login (and 2FA), FTP and API upload (I'm using lftp to deploy my sites from CI), pay as you go (I think the minimum is $1/month) and easy SSL. No complaints so far, but my usage is pretty basic.
I’d argue they didn’t face an existential threat. Causing the employees to stop focusing on the business.

Same thing that brought down intel.

Like intel (of the past). You can coast and the money will keep coming in. Up until it doesn’t.
I don't want to go back to NBC, CBS, ABC hegemony if that's what you're talking about.

I think Google and Apple should be regulated to allow for fair competition. Apple should be forced to meet web standards. They should be forced to allow competing app stores. They should be forced to allow right to repair. Google should be forced to allow competing search engines on their embedded Android widgets. Consumers should be allowed to strip out proprietary apps.

Facebook and Twitter and YouTube should be forced to federate and allow for interoperability. Consumers should be allowed to migrate their social graph to competing platforms (including followers, friends, etc).

Social platforms that engage in editorial commentary by injecting opinions into posts by users should lose section 230 protection, which was designed to protect free speech, not protect inhibitors of free speech and censors.

Some of big tech should be broken up, as Ma Bell was. As Standard Oil was. Data is the new oil. It's time to bust up the data brokers.
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It's easy enough to get to 5 devices, for a family. Especially given the current remote work/schooling situation. Figure 1 laptop or tablet per person (adults and kids) and 1 phone per adult. If you have two kids, that's 6 devices right there. And that's assuming none of the kids are old enough to have phones, none of the adults have separate work/personal laptops, no separate work phones for the adults, etc.
> It's your stomach, you get to pick.

That's missing the point, Ireland isn't banning subways. You are still free to go and eat there.

The point is to have some common labels that define what a substance is, and some minimum quality control.

If I go and buy milk I would hope it comes from a cow, and isn't just water with artificial coloring.
True IBM clicky keyboard. ~1995. Made in USA.
Ah, this one couldn't find my face. It kept focusing on my left ear and gave it a 5 for attractiveness. Then it couldn't find my face any longer. There was another fun one posted here months ago [1].

I wanna say I'm disappointed, but I'd be lying. I'm happy that A.I. cannot detect us black people. I'll need to do something about that left ear though.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337863
Honestly, we all know the reason there's sugar. It's cheap, it's tasty and provokes addiction so I'm pretty happy they don't get the tax cut from other denominations. These foods are not healthy anyway, so the more expensive they are, the less they are consumed.
Most of your accidents will occur while you’re close to home, because that’s where you likely will do most of your driving. It doesn’t really matter whether you get into a 30 mph collision on the boulevard next to your house or one three counties over…
Yeah, but dealing with debugging leaking resources (because memory is just one of many resources that a program will use, and GCs don't help with most of them) sucks.

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2015/10/06/neither-necessary-no...

Ownership model seems hard for people to internalize, but once learned feels very natural, leads to programs that are better structured and frees programmer from "manually managing resources".
While (I think) it has rudimentary YouTube support, it does not have an AppStore, or any sort of “ecosystem” around it that would need as much maintenance as an Android device or the APLE TVs running fully fledged tvOS these days, so I don’t think it’s an entirely fair comparison.
In the UK it doesn’t have iPlayer, which is probably the most popular VoD app after YouTube.
> With regards to the D-Wave systems in particular, are these actually faster than solving the problems with a classical approach?

Obviously the answer to that is "No".

Google just did a "Quantum supremacy" experiment with lots of fanfare and some criticism that it really wasn't (details on that are complex). Quantum supremacy is exactly the thing you're asking for: Can we do something, anything at all, with a QC that we couldn't just do on average computers?

The important thing to realize is: Google did this with a very specific problem that was suitable for their quantum computer. It wasn't something that was practically useful. They chose a problem they could solve, nothing more.
Noone has claimed to have run a quantum supremacy experiment on D-Wave.

My best guess is all their happy customers had a problem that needed to be solved, they solved it, and nobody asked if the "quantum" aspect was particularly relevant in it.
Two things.

First: It would be a good idea to note the FreeBSD port as well as the package. In the ports tree, this is x11-fonts/3270font . The path is important.

* https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x11-fonts/3270font/

Second: The FreeBSD kernel's "vt" built-in terminal emulator has its own simple font format for Unicode bitmap fonts. It's made from Unifont HEX or BDF files with the vtfontcvt tool. Unfortunately, there's no direct path from any of the output formats here to either of those, nor are they nor the "vtfont" format generated here. This prevents using this font in one obvious place: in the kernel virtual terminal devices themselves.

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vtfontcvt&sektion=...

(My, user-space, terminal emulator takes the same fonts. One thing that it does that the built-in kernel one does not is permit overlaying "vtfont" fonts, where a font file need only define the glyphs specific to itself, and rely upon falling back to an underlying more general font. Having HEX files is very useful for this, as one can easily remove things like duplication of GNU Unifont, which people tend to use as a filler, by manipulating HEX files.)

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/terminal-resources.htm...
You could be the worlds best expert on X but a highschool student with some basic statistics could easily invalidate the experts conclusions.

And the highschool student would be right, and the expert would be wrong.

It doesn't matter how much of an expert you are if your conclusions are wrong because you don't know statistics.

If anything, an "expert" like that is actually a complete fraud.
update: someone from DO reached out and helped to fix the problem. it was still an experience getting to this point... so big up to whoever was lurking on hn. :) all is well that ends well
> Even if we were to say, ok, this regenerative paradigm works, and let's shift to that, it is not something that can be done through policy changes.

It doesn’t even sound like a paradigm change. Being focused on making land re-usable fits perfectly in with value-extraction. Investing in something now to get more out of it later is as old as business itself.

If it doesn’t make sense financially to take a regenerative farming approach, a policy change could very easily tax the fertilizer/pesticides/etc to a point where it does make sense.

Your broader notion about changing people to view what they can contribute instead of what value they can create/extract to personally profit is orthogonal to the entire discussion of regenerative farming because people make long-term investments over short term profits quite frequently for purely selfish reasons.

Quite to the contrary of your point, many who work on farms focused on short term maximum yield are driven by the value they are contributing to the greater whole. I know people who farm because they are “feeding society”, not because it pays well. Good luck telling some corn farmer with a few thousand acres that they are just selfish and not contributing to the greater whole because they use synthetics and deplete their soil.
In ARC the containment is not under vacuum, the reactor chamber is surrounded by molten salt of fluoride and lithium, and so the neutrons produced travel into molten salt where they collide and produce tritium.

It would help to actually watch the presentations. They’ve solved a lot engineering problems from
Routine maintenance to blanket
Renewal.
> It seems like they're taking a bucketload of demographic information and then trying to control for every other possible factor that could affect fertility rates to isolate the effect of car seat laws. I'm skeptical that it's even possible to control for all of those variables. Even assuming that they perfectly model the factors they do account for, it's perfectly possible that there are more underlying factors.

This is true, but it's true for almost every observational study, and IMO too easy a dismission. You can use this reasoning to dismiss, or more likely, to cherry-pick probably 95% of all scientific results from economic/medical/social/nutricion/climate science. Just imagine the actual mechanics of setting up a proper Randomized Controlled Trial of seat belt safety!

Back to the actual study, the reasoning appearch to hinge on the variation of outcomes between 1) having a 2nd and 3rd child 2) between car and non-car owning families 3) accross different states in the US with different introduction dates between car seat laws. Of course, their might still be lurking confounders, but the presumption that this is really caused by car seat laws sounds quite convincing to me[1]. I'd say the onus on sceptics in this case is to actually propose some possible confounders that might explain variation in all of 1), 2) and 3).

[1] Disclaimer: I haven't gone through the details of the paper to see if the idea is actually well executed. This paper is likely headed for a serious economic journal, where it typically goes through at least days of labor to scrutinise the execution/details/methodology in peer review. I'm not invested enough to volunteer for that.
Yes, Medium’s censorship of the numerous well evidenced and mildly worded posts analyzing COVID information was utterly disgusting. It was predicated entirely on demanding blind faith from the public that authorities were 100% correct. Obviously the WHO’s track record during COVID was anything but correct.

The post referenced in the parent comment’s WSJ article is still censored on Medium (https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-...) but can be viewed here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20200321144004/https://medium.com...
Yeah, it's an interesting space, trying to help companies and people have less friction.

We were solving a very real and emotional problem, received a lot of press coverage. TIME magazine named us one of their "Top 10 of everything" in 2011, for example. http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288... (look at that old iOS interface :)

Each time we were covered, we got more downloads, and were able to raise some more money. I don't think the money was misplaced. It was a good bet, sometimes they just don't work out.
I would use Twilio for prototyping, then switch to something else for scale, as it gets expensive.
And noteworthy in regards to this thread: Not with a D-Wave computer.
if we run out of oil, we have much, much bigger problems.

even if you take claimed reserves with a healthy dose of skepticism -- which you should, because oil-producing nations treat those reserves as assets that they can borrow against -- if we burn all of that oil we'll be at something like 5C+ of warming.

for reference, when the planet was 4C cooler than the modern era, during the last ice age, the place you sit now was likely under 1km of ice.
Thank you for the thorough response.

Inlining, tailcall, hot/cold: None of these are issues. They don't change the fact that memory passed to gc() will be freed. Worst case scenario is the can gets kicked down the road, which is relatively easy to predict. See https://gist.github.com/jart/5aba7fc72c7b6781dadd5949c289a0b... So long as you're not using this technique to unlock mutexes, you'll be fine.

Developers who are required to use CFI need to reach out to their policymakers for authorization to modify return addresses before using the gc() macro. Folks required to use MSVC can use the existence of the gc() macro as compelling evidence for their bosses on the benefits of switching to GCC or Clang.

I'll take you on your word on IPA. I've added a comment to the Gist making sure folks who use it are aware. Thanks for the awesome info on ARM. That's good to know. Also I believe the code is fast.

I like the gc() macro because it can be used in expressions. I find __attribute__((__cleanup__)) unpleasant since it has strong opinions about how variables and cleanup functions need to be declared.
Drive less, train more, stop buying huge SUVs, improve traffic laws…there’s a lot we could be doing.
Baremetal programming on the tinyAVR 0 micro-controllers
4 words: Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (LIFTR)
IIRC, what they claimed is that there was no statistically significant evidence that car seats for children over two (i.e. not infants) saved lives.

I recall when I was young (before car seat laws), the car had shorter seat belts in the back. Almost as though they expected children to sit there . . .
yikes! I seems to think I only have 20 years left to live.
I'm only in my mid 40's
It looks like they're trying to guess at your life expectancy through your country, which they're guessing at using your IP address, which they can only get at if you agreed to the terms and conditions
What do you think about the argument that in wine there is just one ingredient, still no real wine connoisseur would claim that there is narrow spectrum of wines.
Same for beer, there are countless varieties of hops, malts and yeasts and by combining them and using different temperatures, brew durations and a multitude of other parameters you could still achieve a wide variety of different flavours that one could probably never try all of them in a lifetime.

I my view the "Reinheitsgebot" as it is called is just a way to ensure that this is a basic product where everybody knows what's inside, so more of a quality standard than a taste standard.
That's my point, but extended: I feel like walking into any hotel chain (including different product tiers and luxury brands) gives effectively the same experience.

Don't get me wrong, there's a benefit to consistency of product (especially when you travel Su-F for consulting).

But that benefit, parent company consolidation, and economies of scale drive a net result of overwhelming homogeneity.
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"you're not really invested in your community."

Even if I accept this conclusion without questioning, not being invested in your community is perfectly OK. Some people are not particularly 'communal' by nature, some hold views very different from the local standard etc.

Imagine that you are a pacifist in a community that holds militaristic views and they seep into the local school system.
Yes, agree. I think RAII is one of the greatest inventions in programming ever and basically only C++ has it. Note that it is not just about managing memory but any kind of resource like files and so on. I once made an HtmlElement class that would write the opening tag in its constructor and the closing tag in its destructor.
It does not matter if Sweden is the outlier - it is the other Nordic countries that instated (and maintain!) emergency measures regarding travel. I don't know how anyone could claim that changed behaviour is the mark of stability.

I also think that the EU cooperation failed by closing borders and keeping them closed. That, however, comes as less of a surprise to me.
Like the article says, it's just a C program.

So you can compile with -g and use a debugger like GDB to step through it, set breakpoints, probe memory and registers, etc.
On the other hand, the risk of a collision on city streets is much higher than on a highway.
> Unless you are working for yourself, you're not really "extracting capital" from yourself.

You are selling programming as a service to a company. That’s extracting capital in the same way that the company will when they sell a SaaS or even directly resell your programming.
a lot of people commenting who actually didn’t watch the presentations and making sweeping bad takes nuclear power in general which are really just criticisms of PWRs (pressurized water reactors)
Can I just buy a t-shirt and plant a tree by doing so?

I have only little time these days but I like the design and would like to add to the good cause behind it.
https://www.stroustrup.com/arm.html
Booster seats aren’t really that bad, to be honest. Plus they can often serve as extra cupholders, although it may not advisable to utilize them as such if the two moving cupholders right next to them aren’t being careful.
They set up the incentive structure, they're responsible for the effects
Works great, thank you!
>Take a look around this planet and oppression done in the name of religious superstition

I've sure you've heard the argument, but last century over a hundred million people were killed by atheist movements (Maoism, Stalinism), way more than were killed by any religion. And this century the most repressive governments (China, North Korea) are atheist too.

Religious people are also happier, statistically speaking (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/31/are-religio...). So it can't be all bad if it's raising happier people.
Joe Rogan is infamous for inviting white supremacists onto his show.
I often use exactly that comparison when describing block terminals to people - you send a page encoded in rather dense markup, and you can use that to implement forms where only user input is returned.
I call bullshit. Do not mislead. The 110 items per second is the wrong metric and you know it. You only need to review all items, not all transactions.
I can not believe you did not know this.
And you keep ignoring the fact that users can not report items as counterfeit. That is a change that can be made in one sprint (form workflow + localisation).
Without proper data on what is counterfeit your legion of ML people will do nothing.

You are either willfully misleading in order to defend your employer or you drank too much kool-aid and are unable to escape the reality dispersion field.
Work adds an artificial limit to the number of times the subway is used. The point is, if you go out once a day using the subway, it’s costs you more if you can’t bare the upfront cost.
Not the OP, but I would be happy with teachers earning twice as much IF it went hand to hand with removing the worst teachers from the system. Unions will fight that with tooth and claw.

It is my experience that the worst 2-3 per cent of people can ruin entire institutions if left unchecked.
Running on GH Enterprise at work, we also have the "Contact Sales" instead of being able to set it up. So it's very unclear for now.
I think you're missing the far more obvious disaster scenario that the population keeps doubling. How are you going to reduce emissions by 80% if we have 15 billion people?
Basically, C++'91.
Oh, right, please get rid of mattermost and replace it with matrix/gitter
> Just because you got a CAPTCHA on a CF site doesn't necessarily mean considered you a bot.

What else it thinks I am?
but surely that is already accounted for in another budget line right ? if you are just dividing total kwh of a country by households it does not make any sense as it would also count military stuff, etc.
Where do you sell these audio plugins and for what daw
If you could only blow up page 7 and map out the characters.

https://archive.org/download/bitsavers_univactermTS20SingleS...
Don’t forget former employees.
Your personal anecdote would be, more or less, consistent with their findings...

"there are no significant differences in birth rates when a woman has two children where just one requires a carseat."

That said, I don't think this is anything more than a correlation; not even a strong correlation (requiring many caveats, controls, and cofactors), and to me that effect size seems nominal.
This, I dont mind the animation, as long as it is silky smooth, 60Fps with little CPU usage, i.e it wouldn't warm up my iPad or iPhone or my MacBook Air.

I have yet to see any web page scrolling animation that is smooth doesn't cause Jank. And it is very bad experience. I remember the Trash Can Mac Pro website had that website design , and I cant imagine any Pro actually like that. ( And the current AirPod website as well )

These low frame rate animation actually cause me headache and making me throw up.
I doubt it. If I had to guess, the majority of people on
Hacker News probably have at least one child.
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compared to an 029?
D and Rust are the only languages that have since adopted the destructor.
> 21.5 mpg

this is more than 11L/100 - I don't know anyone who has a car that consumes that much.
You're not the only one. I had the exact same thoughts.
I like Topre's switch (actually it's non-contact switch so its feeling is comes from rubber dome) than mechanical but there's no split keyboard available. I wish they or other manufacturers make it.
That is called having an opinion. It is not as if people homeschool for shits and giggles. Homeschooling costs a lot of time and energy, it would be easier not to do it.
I wrote a response to this article, Lea was kind enough to respond to it by the way: https://medium.com/swlh/the-failed-criticism-of-web-componen...
Why would I eat and not drink?
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>If the affluent were forced to use the public school system you could be damn sure it would have unbelievable funding either through taxes or really successful brownie sales.

It doesn't work this way. Affluent people congregate together and push up the price of housing in a commmunity to drive out "undesirables", then the "undesirables" all end up living in a poor part of town, with shitty schools. But now it's even harder for the "undesirables" to get a good education for their kids, as renting/buying a house in the affluent communities is even more expensive than private school would be.
how do you brand and market yourself as a consultant? that is probably a different skillset and a project on its own
Package your electron app for macOS, Windows and Linux like a boss
BMI was way off but the metric itself is such a crude generalization so this is probably excusable.
I'd be happy with a transcript. Much faster to read than listen.
Objective C also has destructors.
Good luck trying to make your Rust code actually slow with random `clone` here and there. You really have to find something huge, or in a tightest loop to even notice a difference. And most applications are IO bound on some DB connection anyway.

But it's a good advice. For some reason people tend to forget that copying stuff is super cheap, and most lifetime issues can be entirely avoided with a `.clone()`.
Sadly they wrap around in 133 years. Maybe Segment don't plan on still existing in 2153? Also, base62 really should give way to base58 for any identifier that an ops person might have to type in a hurry.

Thus the quest for the perfect identifier continues.

NB: generating many unique IDs per millisecond for a long period may be a hallmark of a large distributed system, but even a small application may want this for a brief time e.g. importing bulk customer data.
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It's pretty arguable to claim that C++ is the only language with RAII.

C# has "using", Java has try-with-resources, Python has the "with", etc. - all of which support RAII patterns.
Are we in the year yet where Marc Andreessen joining a board is seen as a negative thing for bro culture problems? Not yet?
How did linking to the diff cause spam?
Obvious that person had great culture-fit. /s