skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why shouldn't we be able to schedule a timer at sub-millisecond resolution

it's not just the API, the whole operating system need to be aware of the need to operate at such frequency, because even if the clocks are faster, the software gets interrupted all the time. what good would a nanosecond api do if an interrupt can stall the cpu for a microsecond?

hence the need for a whole class of realtime operating systems. the next question would then be, why aren't all computers using a realtime operating system? because with the relaxed time constraints we get great returns in speed and cost.
> is it more because of logistical reasons?

In the US, ACH/cheque cashing with the number on the bottom is a FTP-based legacy system. Your bank floats you the amount as a credit within a few days or a week, depending on the funding source. For example, business cheques usually "clear" faster because they are less risky.

But they haven't actually cleared yet, it's a multi day (probably weeks, tbh) situation where you have to download ACH return/error files every day and hope none contain that transaction.
I don't disagree but it seems like you're avoiding my question.
Americans Are Driving Less Than Before Pandemic, and It’s Permanent
You could buy games at Target because if you have to allow the store to be open for people to buy essential items like groceries, drugs, and hardware there is very little or no increased risk in letting them pick up other, non-essential stuff while they are there. (It might even reduce risk slightly, by decreasing the average density of customers in the store).

GameStop only sells non-essential items.
Some medical beds have a similar feature where the mattress will inflate/deflate in different areas to best match the patient's weight distribution. They'll also inflate/deflate on a cycle.

Supposedly it's good for patients that stay in bed for long periods without moving as it improves circulation, reduces back pain and prevents bed sores.
Absent business requirements, I would love to see what you think fundamental invalid states for a contract would be. Every property of a contract I can come up with seems like a business requirement.
Slightly OT, but this page has the BEST alternative for a modal newsletter pop-up I’ve ever seen. I have a personal rule that I close the tab as soon as a modal asking for my email pops up. When the cute little figure on the left _asked_ for my consent to pop-up a modal, I had to click on it because it was so cute and respectful.

This is great design that I’m sure converts as well without cheapening your brand and accosting your users.
A quick note is that by using CSS grid, margins are not collapsed. For the example in the article, the heading and the paragraph are rows, so if they have top and bottom margins, they will be further apart than normally. This can break design sometimes
Step 6: Use Qubes OS with self-destroying virtual machines to access Facebook. And Whonix of course.
> Upgraded our AWS Lightsail instance.

Use ElasticBeanStalk... nah, actually that's a terrible idea.

Edit: Use Caprover inside of an AMI on an autoscaling group on EC2 (t2.smalls if you want)... or use ECS on Fargate.
I think Linux and MacOS viruses get a special callout because they're exceptions. Similar reporting conventions are used all the time, like a terrorist attack in the middle east vs a terrorist attack in France. It's not some nefarious PR scheme, the story is just more interesting because of how unusual it is.
Is there any reason to believe that privacy concerns about smart speakers do not also apply to smart phones that are configured with a wake word? "OK Google" seems to work the same way on a speaker and a phone.

I have my iPhone set so that it takes a button press to trigger Siri, for this reason.
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which is a fair point, but I don't see density as a key success factor in the parents comments.
That would have to be done from scratch as literally none of that is open source. While it could be done, the same amount of effort spent building a better Linux desktop would be more efficiently spent if the goal was to just get a high-quality open source desktop offering.

There's also some hairiness legally about working from within the official Mac OS system outwards AFAIK.
Right! Currently there is no plan to remove shortened URL. Meaning that the service keep shortened URL indefinitely.
Who? Almost anyone who wanted to get something done without going through the red tape of working with IT. Even in a private corporation that red tape is enough to make many a things end up in excel (or for the more tech savvy, access). Government is surely even worse (better?) at having red tape so the pressure was likely stronger.
Perhaps I misunderstand, but wouldn't that only apply if you attach functions to objects? I suppose you wouldn't do that if you follow data oriented programming principles.
Why though?
If your goal is just to run zoom, you are better of with buying some used usff pc, having ability to install x86 OS and having more cpu power in similar, if not lower price point.

Of course, if you just want to buy a jetson and just looking for some reason to, that's totally fine too :-D
Similar to how companies rarely fail due to competition, ideas are rarely the sole reason for a company's success. "Stealing" an idea doesn't really happen unless someone else has the means and will to execute it.

The idea itself isn't really the hard part of building a company. Otherwise, people would be "selling" ideas, and not businesses[0]!

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
Other small, embeddable schemes that are worthy of notice:

* S9fes: https://github.com/bakul/s9fes

* Chibi: https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme

Both are just a couple of files to add to your project, and easily extended with good built-in features.

I've also had a lot of luck embedding Chicken. It's quite straightforward to do, and with the boon of being able to compile Scheme to C to include directly.
Step 1: Record yourself giving your smart devices commands.
Step 2: Schedule playback while out committing crimes.
Instant alibi!
It’s proven itself for scaling. Mostly startups don’t see the issues with SQL and don’t need to worry about it. At planet/top-Alexa-ranked-website scale though, you either use Spanner at Google, or use Cassandra at Apple, DynamoDB at Amazon, Cassandra at Instagram, parts of Facebook, Netflix, Manhattan at Twitter etc.

You keep using MySQL at Github and Slack if you want periodic downtime/degradation in service tho.
we have fallen back to discord for work today. Obviously the terms/security controls are not a great permanent solution, but it's a great fallback for real-time chat across all devices
Including scaling? I definitely remember it as being single-host/single-server.
FWIW I also get extreme motion sickness with VR. Except the Oculus (Edit: Oculus Quest). I don't know why, but that one doesn't bother me at all. I've literally used it for hours at a time with no problems.
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JWT heartbreaker, a Burp extension that finds thousands weak secrets
I am one of those drivers that on long distance drives will occasionally view a bridge in my rear view mirror and cannot recall passing under it.

Hence for me the system is insurance for the time where I am truly distracted. When I use my 3's driving feature on local roads I find I am more attentive as I am constantly looking for situations I think should confuse it but then I realize I am overthinking the situation far more often than not.

While I love to drive I do look forward to the day anyone can just hop in and ask to be taken somewhere and safely
Meanwhile in Spain 4.000 thousand employees are on Strike because of Alcoa's plant in Ourense, Lugo, Galicia
Why does Excel still have such low row limits in 2020? When they increased it from 64K, did they decide to only go to a million to promote Azure for "Big Data"?
Yes, I think it’s something like that, but as far as I can tell it’s impossible to undo this “upgrade”....
Drift Removed Prices from Their Pricing Page and Its Genius
I've actually used the wiki built into Teams, and honestly, it's crap.

I used only the web version, and it was an extremely frustrating experience. Copy and paste seldom works as expected, with text in the page/section often permanently ending up an odd size/font. Once you have more than about 10 words in a page, performance crawls practicality to a standstill, and there are multi-second pauses very frequently. Every so often it would randomly reload the page, losing anything you'd typed recently. Also, images you insert will randomly disappear at a later date. Literally cannot understand how they could release something so fatally broken.

And it doesn't support markdown, which is a total no-go for me[0]

[0] it converts "#" to level 1 and level 2 titles, but that's it. And even that only works as expected half the time
I don't know what version of MacOS you're on, but the commands in this article, even de-styled to take them out of ALL-CAPS, do not work on macOS Catalina.

`ls ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.lx` does not reveal com.apple.launchservices-anything.

`ls ~/Library/Preferences/xquaranx` does not reveal any file with quarantine in the name.

That my computer logs when it quarantines something, I don't doubt, but this article is very much out of date.

P.S. I couldn't figure out how to consistently include asterisks above, so I substituted 'x'
To be wildly pedantic, pessimistic rendering would then be immediately showing an error, only to later clear the error away if the request is successful.
You are right, I missed that, apologies and thanks.
I have a 6th sense with candidates..or how to take bad decissions in recruitment
> Facebook Messenger has the best UX paradigm for this I've seen

FYI, Signal has used this paradigm for quite some time (I'm not sure which software predates the other on this feature), it's two checkmarks which remind me of the old "open Apple, closed Apple" keyboard keys - message bubble is shown with two open checkmarks right away, a single closed checkmark means the server has received, the second closed checkmark means the other end has received (assuming read receipts are enabled, Signal allows them to be turned off for privacy reasons).
The same way as everything else: On its own through the laws of nature.
We made Veer earplugs for work in a noisy office while everyone worked from home
The way I heard it, it was an Excel problem: They had a CSV file that had more than 1 million lines, and Excel dropped the lines beyond 1 million.

I can imagine an automated process that appended to the CSV and then Excel saving back to that same file with the lines stripped.

I hope we can all agree that this is not the way Excel or any other software should behave, whether the user is incompetent or not.
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> better driver monitoring because it’s currently one of the biggest weaknesses of Tesla’s Autopilot

Isn’t the biggest weakest all the edge cases that the AI has troubles making decisions on?
Obviously, one should comply with direct orders given by a cop. But this culture of hyper-submission to avoid being summarily shot has to end. The details of your proactive responses indicate fear, and the citizenry should not fear the police in a free society. If a cop cannot handle the stress of aggressing on ordinary citizens while remaining calm and purely defensive, they need to find a new job.
Yes, not sure when they started doing that, but even 386 of the very early nineties had a memory test part of POST. I suspect it started when PC clones came with empty memory slots the users could populate themselves, i.e. the memory configuration wasn't otherwise known in advance.

That memory test was however most basic and shouldn't take too long. It was generally insufficient to determine whether memory was reliable.
I wouldn't blame Excel for having a row limit that's too low for this sort of data.

But if, as the article suggests, loading a CSV file with too many into Excel leads to it silently dropping data, I absolutely would blame it.
My dad (who is 79 but still working) proudly mentioned that he spent 11 hours putting together some charts in Excel for his client. Probably something that could be done in an hour or so with an online tool.
You're assuming that the city had to pay for the roads entirely themselves, which of course they didn't. My intent was not to explain how Lafayette paid for their roads, it was only to say that the $32B replacement figure was plausible.
Guys do you need silence to concentrate?
Great Hashing Can (More Than) Double Application Performance
I think you'd be shocked by how many of our financial and social institutions rely on emailing Excel spreadsheets to one another.
I find it really frustrating when project runners refuse to acknowledge shortcomings. I'm not always expecting them to solve it, but I'd at least like an acknowledgement that the issue I'm facing is valid. Pretending it's just me or that the obviously worse alternative is okay gets annoying.

One example is ReasonML's async story:

Q: What's BuckleScript's async story?

A: If you're not interfacing with any library that uses promises, you can simply use callbacks. Everyone gets them and they're performant. If you need to bind to a JS library that uses promises, or communicate with such library, you can use BS's Js.Promise.

IMO that's a less than ideal response. I'd prefer a more honest response like:

A: Unfortunately, we do not offer an async/await equivalent currently. BuckleScript has a Js.Promise type for using Promises. We understand that this is not ideal, and are working on other options.

Look—it's okay that they don't have the feature. Nobody's perfect. But they shouldn't pretend that callbacks are an acceptable replacement because they're "performant".
> basic tracking protection

Which does not help at all: https://panopticlick.eff.org.
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Not only has it not been rejected, there is strong evidence that the lockdowns were, in fact, largely useless.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-failed-experiment-of-covid-...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...
you don't, you never tell anyone your idea or launch it, take it to the grave and keep it a huge secret like all the other amazing imaginary founders who did that. ;)
Alternatively...

"We need to store some data for a virus"
"Where does the data come from?"
"Every hospital sends us an excel sheet"
"Well, let's merge all of it into a bigger sheet and display it or export it"
Best I've seen was a woman with a laptop open, between her and her steering wheel. (Morning commute on I-90 in MA.) I honked at her enough to shame her into putting it away at least while I was near her.
By all means take protective measures when interacting with American police, but by no means should this expectation of submission be considered normal in a developed country. Not should it be assumed to offer much protection; US police are sufficiently trigger-happy that they'll kill people even for following their commands.

American police kill 35 people per ten million population; in Canada that figure is 9.7. In Europe, the UK, Australia, NZ, and Japan, that figure is under 4.[0] The problem with American policing is the police, not the fact that too many Americans 'lunge' for cell phones during police stops.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
I especially appreciate how the end solution was presented fairly early in the tutorial after the stage had been set. I find it helpful to see the code representing "where we're going" instead of holding out until the very end to arrive there.
Cuomo Won’t Approve Closing of Businesses in 9 Hard-Hit NYC Areas
We changed the URL from https://www.cozyit.com/french-bar-owners-arrested-for-offeri..., which appears to have been outright plagiarism. We've banned that site as well.
The target audience of this tool consists of application developers that want to create new applications that require their end users to author graph like structures. They can use this tool and avoid re-implementing basic interactive features like drag & drop, panel management, zooming, undo/redo, etc. Examples of such applications within AWS would be AWS IoT events & AWS IoT Things graph (existing customers), AWS Step functions, AWS Cloudformation (not using the library as of now). Examples of such applications outside AWS would be: https://www.stackery.io/, https://www.voiceflow.com/, https://parabola.io/, etc.
It depends on your frame of reference. If the message succeeds then there will be a window (all else equal and no funny business in the networking, around 1/2 round trip time) where the UI displays the message as spinning when it has in fact been successfully sent. If your frame of reference is not whether the message has been successfully sent but whether you know for certain that it has been successfully sent then I think you'd be right to call it "realistic rendering", but from the message's frame of reference "pessimistic" isn't a bad choice of words.
Wait, what? That really surprises me. I am using CUDA 11 on NixOS unstable (which is a rolling release) without any issues at all. Or is that on Aarch64?
> In practice, these particular examples are at least 99.9999% sure to do the right thing in all versions of Rust ever

I’m pretty sure that declaring both `Item` and `SecureVec` as `#[repr(transparent)]` would cover that last 0.0001% chance: it protects against the extra fields becoming non-zero-size by accident and forces the binary representation to be identical to the first field.

At that point, he’s transmuting between things with the same representation; all that’s left to verify is semantics.
> The Once and Future Earth by JB MacKinnon.

The title is actually "The Once and Future World". I find it fascinating that the two similar titles create very different expectations in my mind. Maybe it's just my own cognitive associations, but 'world' makes me think of wider implications (eg social, political, environmental) while 'earth' seems more scientific (eg natural processes). Someone might say "look at the world around you" but not "look at the earth around you." In French, 'tout le monde' translates literally to "all the world" but is used to mean 'everybody' -- and specifically, humans.
I actually created an email address just for the purpose of creating a facebook account with it. Never shared it with anyone, never really used it for anything other than facebook.

They got me still.
> There are studies that school districts that dropped sports have better academic outcomes: [link]

I don't see such a study described in that article. After not finding it, I searched for "study", "studies", and "research", and still didn't. Can you perhaps quote a key sentence from the bit you're thinking of?

There is a story about one district that dropped football (not all sports), under severe budgetary pressure. Seems like the right choice. I should add some context that may not be obvious outside the US: that district is a small town in Texas, and Texas and especially its small towns are where high-school football is a really especially big deal. (My dad grew up in a small town in Texas.) In the rest of the country it's generally not so extreme as it was in that town.
In my org excel might have been the start, the intent being to move over to a DB once someone got it stood up. Then nobody would stand up the DB - because not urgent, we have the excel for now. The DB would be completely forgotten, and 3 years down the road everybody would be wondering wtf we have this huge excel file for. Then we would have six weeks of meetings to discuss the file until something else comes up and we forget it for another 3 years.
Why not just get out of SpaceX's way? It's pretty obvious where the vast majority of the action is: Boca Chica, TX and Hawthorne, CA. It is not Huntsville, AL!

I'm not putting down anyone's work at JPL (I know several people that work there and do good things, in fact). NASA generally, however, definitely got captured by the large defense contractors that rode it for all the pork they could get for decades. This is essentially due to the strenuous efforts from such people as Senator Richard Shelby, the Republican from Alabama. (Ever walk past his local office in the Huntsville "International" Airport, and wonder why he doesn't actually live in Alabama, and why few locals even bother to take notice of this fact?)

And yes, I have lived within driving distance of both Huntsville and Hawthorne, recently. I remember hearing about the layoffs in Huntsville, as the father at the table next to me was explaining that it was dad's last day of work. I felt for them :(

My point here is that space is too important to keep throwing good money after bad. Let's just cut the crap and get out of the way of the proven winner here.
Who's suggesting 5000 as the upper limit? That is an outlier.

The point is the Laureates have collaborators who they believe contributed equally, and according to internationally agreed-upon scientific standards, acknowledgement should be given to these scientists. The Nobel Prize is contributing to this "Great Man" theory of history, when in reality every "Great Man" has numerous collaborators who only get illuminated in the sub-paragraphs of the plethora of writing about these figures.
I've never gotten a bag of M&Ms out of my iPhone.
FB app, and several merchants run .swf and java applets that request MAC locally and upload it. Also enumerate WebRTC for lan

FB used to also websocket portscan your localhost + LAN on login from a fbsbx.com domain that also attempted to load native code/windows media player playlists/SWF/Java/Shockwave
Or, alternatively, does it show how Honda's (and Nissan's) parent companies are out of touch with the American buyer? American buyers don't hate energy efficiency -- look at the comparative success of Toyota hybrids in the US. Most of the tech that Nissan and Honda of Japan developed for energy efficiency wasn't engineered for powering the types of vehicles that Americans want to buy. The same goes for Mitsubishi too. Americans aren't going to spend ~$40,000 for a minimalistic sub-compact or microcar.
To be frank, I have no idea. It would be folly for me to guess. Still, the notion of intelligent design explaining the awesome complexity of life by waiving it away with an additional, spontaneous and inexplicable divine entity of essentially infinite complexity just occurring out of nowhere makes even less sense to me personally than the spontaneous existence of a "basic" "unguided" universe with the potential for cumulative selection to cause complex life independently of a guiding hand. Intelligent design postulates that a divine entity spontaneously existed and all complexity is the result of that entity, whereas evolution explains complexity via long term cumulative selection. I struggle to rationalize the spontaneous complexity that intelligent design must justify.
And the little heart on the right smiles more the further you scroll.
Even though I do not drink alcohol, I loved seeing Alcohol vending machines in Japan. A couple of hotels we stayed at had alcohol vending machines and I thought it was so awesome we were in a society where the trust level was so high that you could leave alcohol vending machines out in a public space and it did not cause trouble.

In America, that vending machine would last a couple of hours at most.
Even with Racket, Shen, etc.?
This is brilliant and it's the best example of MVP that I have seen.
Your general point IMO is sound, but orderly markets tend to have the almost magical property of making incentives legible. Non-market systems hide incentives under opaque covers and increase the potential for catastrophic failure.

This doesn't mean that free unregulated markets are a solution to everything. But they're a great first step on a road of progressive [in a technical sense, not the commonly associated political sense of the word] refinement.
You seem to assume the government used a modern version of Excel