skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing this stated so clearly and prominently in an influential publication brings me hope.

I am skeptical though that many people, especially those in the position to make influential choices, especially those who have profit tied up with China, will do anything other than see it and nod.
I’m not a classically trained musician but have you tried an iPad? I use mine for guitar tabs and have found it way better than paper songbooks.
MMX these days costs extra instructions on both AMD and Intel CPUs. This has been the case since SSE and SSE2 were introduced and later AVX extensions.

There quite possibly been a point in time where certain MMX instructions run faster on some AMD CPUs and required less uOps to achieve.

https://agner.org/optimize/ This is a pretty good source for uOps and instruction cycles.
Qt Support for State Charts
Indeed. And let's not forget the Palm Treo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Treo

Was out well before the iPhone, sold Internationally, had installable 3rd party apps (proper apps, not just "web" apps that the 1st gen iPhone had).

Apple fanatics always seem to think Apple create the first smartphone as we know it.
Bypassing Reolink SSID Length Limitation
Research finds biodegradable alternatives are no better for the environment
I'd say this way of thinking is un-democratic, and deeply dangerous.
Good point but the release may not impact their license (OS and premium/business use option).
I hope they reach the goal. Amazing to see that this was a one-man-show
My only take from the article is that some people take their entertainment too seriously...

"Netflix is disregarding the smaller but powerful fandoms it's creating, where people are left crying out for show renewals"

"Last summer, 'OA' fans protested outside Netflix's Los Angeles headquarters for days, with one woman even going on a hunger strike."
Don't forget the ur-patent: There is nothing new under the sun.
> But with a great production value, paid influencers, just the right wording and messaging, you can manipulate social networks into spreading very dangerous information and actually making people believe things that can kill them.

Clearly, you’d need an arbiter that is immune to such influences. Someone who knows what’s really true and can sensor the misinformation despite its high production values. I think the interesting question is where you’d find such an oracle, and how you’d convince it to work for YouTube.
It says "claims that contradict consensus" and then gives the example of content saying the that COVID19 vaccines will cause death or infertility - is there a consensus that a vaccine will be 100% non-fatal and not have infertility as a side-effect? I have not heard of this.

I understand the obvious point that there are people screaming at the camera saying it's part of the globalist trans-dimensional vampire plot to reduce the world population, led by the regular cast of rich characters - but what's wrong with saying that? Too many people believe it? In my country people perform idol worship, why isn't that banned? Poor people donate their paltry savings to temples, mosques, churches, etc. whose corrupt trustees often enrich themselves. It's not harmless.

I also understand that to successfully beat COVID-19 we need everyone to be on board - but has anyone gamed out what happens when you censor the people who have these views? Do you think it becomes easier to convince them to vaccinate or wear a mask? I am not impressed with the competence of the decision makers at YouTube.
Species of water bear uses fluorescent ‘shield’ to survive lethal UV radiation
The science does not depend on who you ask.

As I was looking at this back in February / March there were plenty of studies dating back years or decades, looking at N95 and surgical masks and their role in preventing the spread of respiratory infections. The WHO and all western countries were claiming contrary to those studies that masks do not work and should not be worn. Then when things got more critical, EU countries did a 180 and started making masks mandatory or recommending them. Finally the WHO commissioned a meta-analysis and lo and behold in June it turned out that masks do work.

The Swedish public health agency's quite lonely in the opinion it holds now. But even so, I don't see why Sweden's or its health agency's opinion should count for anything in all of this. If anything I'd rather listen to what Taiwan, the KCDC or CCDC have to say, since they actually have some results to show besides empty words and opinions.
> because, while working for Cisco/Webex, they worked out all the bugs and now know how to write the software right?

Well they obviously weren't given room by Cisco to fix the bugs, or there wouldn't be any. Or they didn't have room to start afresh amid technical debt.

In any case, I think the developers would probably not be foolish enough to use techniques that they had used at Cisco?
The fact that rich and important people have very good security - why is this at all relevant?

Before the USSR collapsed, when was the last time a prominent Soviet politician was assassinated, a Soviet government building bombed, a prominent Soviet politician assaulted and left in the hospital?

At least 200,000 Americans and probably a lot more have died in the last eight months, most of them completely unnecessarily. Waving this away as "economic instability" shows a lack of perspective.

And over all hangs the grim spectre of the climate emergency, which we as a species are doing nothing to fix.

Sorry, but as a civilization we are fucked.
The SA forums begat the meme culture of 4chan and early Reddit, which are now the clear precursors to things like TikTok.
I don't know about astroturfing on HN, but I've seen enough patrolling here to be skeptical about any kind of “HN has strong defenses” claims.
I think the notion of CISC and RISC are practically meaningless in 2020.
Oh yes, like that exhibition in France that mentioned Ghengis Khan. Can't have that; it goes against the CCCP narrative of the history of China.
If anything can be considered the canary in the coal mine for a threat to world peace, this is it. Most people alive to day have experienced nothing but an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity. It's easy to take it for granted that progress is inevitable, and that wide scale war is a thing of the past. But the CCP's actions against the Uyghurs has shown the world what kind of leader China would be on the world stage. The CCP under the current leadership is the biggest threat to world peace that we've faced in our lifetimes.

We should all be pressing our governments to take every peaceful means we can to curtail the rise of CCP power and influence.
String manipulation and dynamic memory allocation are kind of awful in C (this coming from someone that's written a web browser in the language.)

I'm not sure javascript would be my first choice of a replacement (really scheme is pretty amazing, and more general than C even. With a tiny amount of work you can even avoid the garbage collector and get pretty much every advantage C had with a more minimalist, general, and expressive language) but it's very popular and has most "normal" things that c lacks. Arguably these aren't thins you should be doing on a "micro controller" (IMO you're generally best off sticking to state machines and avoiding dynamic memory allocation.)
I don't really see why YouTube choosing not to display stuff its algorithms (rightly or wrongly) identify as bullshit about vaccines containing microchips is more objectionable than YouTube choosing not to display stuff its algorithms (rightly or wrongly) identify as sexual content though, as it has done since the very beginning.

Yes, algorithmic flagging gets things wrong, but there's nothing new in this announcement unless one believes that antivax sentiment, unlike nudity, is something YouTube ought to be obliged to broadcast
The only use case I can think of is for large indoor shopping centres, like Westfield type things. Every so often I want to find a shop in their and have to use the digital maps they have but it would be cool if it was just in Apple Maps ready to go.
Maybe the same for a University Campus etc.

But most days I have no use for it.
Sharp Rise in Drug Overdose Deaths Seen During First Few Months of Pandemic
> Permanent (lifetime) guarantied [sic] real-time technical support (Skype, Slack, etc.)

Seems hard to guarantee something like this? Very cheap for a business, if actually guaranteed.
I like <chrono>. But I recently used the not quite yet standard "date" library. And that is super confusing in combination with <chrono>. You end up having an overlap of some functions and classes, some of which are in the date namespace, some of which are in chrono/std. And functions don't even properly error on compile when you do things wrong, but quietly misbehave. I hope this will solve itself once both arrive in compilers and both are in std:: namespace.
It slightly reminds me of the x86 instructions PUSHA/POPA.
>possibly faked or hacked emails

What makes that less credible than "anonymous sources"?
Hm, so you run Qt Widgets on Android as it is?
Bad idea. I agree with others here saying that this is not enough to change minds at this point (either direction) but I think that SM platforms are in no position to censor news content from a trusted publication.
They should focus their efforts elsewhere. All of this feels like a publicity play to help with their current situation, which is yet to be resolved.
Austrian Competition Authority's Spotify Playlist
Probably true, although in that case at least the non-German victims would have been spared so the scale of the slaughter would have been reduced.
The scientific justification we have (in the situation you describe) for our belief comes from the data, not the the consensus.

But the data is not always unambiguous. There can be, and often is, two competing theories. It is often consensus as to which one is accepted as mainstream.

I got back to my Alzheimer’s example. It’s the general consensus that the amyloid hypothesis is wrong. However, there are those that hold onto it and it’s not because they don’t grasp the data. There are still enough unknowns to firmly put it to rest.

The bacterial hypothesis is another good example. The data supported that stress and diet was the cause of stomach ulcers. That was the “scientific truth”. It was wrong.

Consensus is nothing more than “what is the best interpretation of the data based on our current understanding”. Current understanding being defined by “what do most scientists think?”.
We don't recycle styrofoam [video]
Yes, this instruction was removed in 64-bit arm for this very reason.

It has been replaced with LDP (load pair, i.e load two registers) which is not nearly as nice for software developers but made the life of the ARM designers much easier. For comparison:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.14.52/source/arch/arm64/...

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.14.52/source/arch/arm/ke...

BUT, I don't think we will see real benefits of this unless we remove aarch32 support from ARMv8.
its Tibet now
I don't understand why the "machine learning" marketing label is relevant in this discussion.

Plain old classification problems are very common in data analysis, and so is parameter identification. It could be argued that these statistical techniques are the bread and butter of science. So, what's new or noteworthy on scientists using a method to analyse data?

It sounds like someone was hell-bent on capitalizing on the "machine learning" marketing tag without paying much attention to it.
One possibility is that some economic pressure can be brought to bear by a Biden administration, perhaps in concert with other Western countries.

Edited to add: This statement is political, but the genocide against Uyghurs is political too, and if we want to hold our leaders accountable to doing something about it, we need to acknowledge facts. Trump had previously indicated he wasn't interested in letting such matters interfere with trade talks. https://www.axios.com/trump-uighur-muslims-sanctions-d4dc86f...
It's incredibly sad that the world is not doing anything about it. Even if half of the things they say are true - putting anyone in camps for sporting a beard or praying in public, forced prison labour, physical torture, separating new borns and kids from parents in camp, sending kids to brainwashing schools, sexual abuse, organ harvesting etc - it's enough to make anyone feel disgusted at this state of affairs.

But the west won't care because of the ethnicity and religions of the victims just doesn't cause as much outrage as it should because the victims aren't white or christians. I know some of you will outraged at this suggestion but even Hollywood knows this - that's why the in one of the Rambo movies, where he is in Myanmar / Burma, the victims are Christians (instead of highlighting the real victims there, the Rohingya muslims facing persecutions - another genocide that the west prefers to turn a blind eye to).
Seinfeld is definitely one I'm thinking of, under weaker creative direction that would have easily fallen into the same soap opera trap.
Those are some great ideas that dovetail together in powerful ways! Thanks you for sharing your work in progress.

In the hopes of inspiring you and others, here's a kind of messy draft of an article I haven't completely finished, but it's all about HyperLook (a user-editable desktop GUI system inspired by HyperCard and implemented in NeWS PostScript) and some components and applications I developed with it, like SimCity, a cellular automata machine, pie menus, a customizable clock editor, a customizable window manager, and "Happy Tool":

SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (nee HyperNeWS (nee GoodNeWS))

HyperLook was like HyperCard for NeWS, with PostScript graphics and scripting plus networking. Here are three unique and wacky examples that plug together to show what HyperNeWS was all about, and where we could go in the future!

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-g...
One especially sinister way of looking at this is to compare it with The Grail in Garth Ennis's Preacher comics. They control and command not only CEOs but Presidents, Prime Ministers, and organized crime, all over the world, but clandestinely. If you like satire with a touch of the supernatural, check it out (not for the faint of heart):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics)
Start with yourself. Prefer better alternatives whenever possible.

If you have the means: Start hosting. Contribute (code, tutorials, docs). Spread the word. Contribute funds to projects. Answer support questions/GH issues/forum posts from people who are having issues.

When it comes to people you know and interact with, start with the “low-hanging fruit” (individuals who have skills/interest in technology or are already agreeing about the problem).
If you haven’t heard of it, like I hadn’t: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/14/french-genghis-k...
A problem job boards have: The more jobs they add the harder it is to find one
A few months ago, I launched ProsperCircle.org remote job board. I was obsessed (and still am) with adding high-quality remote jobs and providing people with a wide selection or remote job opportunities.

However, the more jobs I added, the harder I made it for people to find the best match.

The job "discovery" process became harder.

And this is a problem for almost all job boards.

Frankly, many job boards keep the discovery process only at the category level (e.g., marketing jobs, sales jobs).

Over the last month, I set a new goal.

Not only to provide a wide selection of remote jobs but to help people easily discover those jobs.

To make the discovery process easier, I used AI.

I wanted to make the job discovery process as easy as possible.

You just set the job match criteria once and then receive the best matching jobs in your inbox.

Today, I am launching this feature on PH - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/dream-remote-job-alert

Now, you can set a remote job alert, and with the help of AI, I score each job based on your alert settings. And only the jobs that score very high on your criteria are shared with you.

Hopefully, it help job seekers.
When one compares the advice and recommendations related to SARS with those for SARS-CoV-2 it becomes obvious that the latter could only be explained by dishonesty or stupidity.
Traditionally we used to kill animals (or even people) to satisfy gods. We learn.

If you are assuming you are made of atoms and consciousness is emergent property that is not breaking any laws of physics, then.. well instead of giving up and deleting it, I'll just say you know exactly how the argument goes but if you feel simulated atoms don't cause suffering they way real ones do I'm unlikely to change your mind. I think that's 1=2 though.
>I am agreeing with refurb's comment below you. Most people calling "fake news" are trying to convince you to not watch something. Most people calling "disinformation" are trying to convince you that you should not be able to watch something.

Huh?

You state that criticism is different than censorship. I agree.

However, I don't get the connection here. Calling something "fake news" or calling it "disinformation" are both criticisms. In fact, those terms are pretty much synonymous.

Which is irrelevant to the issue.

Twitter and Facebook are limiting distribution of this particular piece. Which is certainly akin to censorship. However, It's Twitter and Facebook taking these actions, not "most people."

Based on the details I've read (and thanks to this post, I've read quite a few), this story doesn't really pass the smell test, and may well be "disinformation."

Will you now accuse me of advocating censorship?

What if I'd said it was "fake news" instead? Am I advocating censorship now?

Calling for censorship would be something like "Don't let anyone see that!" Or "These monsters need to be silenced!"

There's a difference.

Unfortunately, we're all wrapped so tightly because, you guessed it, Twitter and Facebook (and others) use exactly those sorts of tricks to rile us up, to boost engagement and make more advertising dollars.

Which leaves us fighting each other over which synonym is worse.

In truth, most people are kind, decent human beings who just want to have a decent life. Sure, we disagree about a few of the details concerning how to have a decent life, but we agree about many more details.

The interactions of a bunch of really small groups who want to influence us for their benefit (whether that be for political power, profit or both) are laughing all the way to the bank as we tear each other apart.

Let's not let them do that any more, as we're only hurting ourselves.
You should give Mercurial a try.

Fundamentally it is a same as git: you can push, pull, you have commits, branches, merges, etc... and branching is easy.

It is mostly a difference in philosophy. While git will leave you with lots of powerful and flexible tools, Mercurial will be much more limited out of the box, advanced features are extensions you have to enable.

The Mercurial history is also considered sacred, and everything is done do discourage you from modifying it, commands like squash and rebase are hidden behind extensions, branches are also permanently attached to commits (the equivalent of git branches exist and are called bookmarks).

There is also no staging area. Instead of "remote" branches, there is a simpler "phase" system that tell you which commits are local and which one have been pushed.

All that makes Mercurial easier to use, especially for non-developers. And in fact, most people who tried both preferred it over git, with the exception of git experts, who prefer git for its speed and flexibility.
I mean, it wasn't exactly a secret right?

I 'd like to see sites like HN become vigilant against this kind of fluff marketing content (which has been making the rounds for a loooong time) from now on, as much as they are vigilant against political content.

Any new rules?
You also made it three months and five months ago...

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sendblue.co
Looks better than the title suggests. 'Magical' is not a good word to use in the title of a scientific project
How does the immigration system violate human rights?
I don't understand what's the point of UN when these things are happening in a permanent UNSC member country. This C has been causing nuisance to their neighbors all the time. They Debt-Trap poor nations and exploit them. From Mongols to India, every neighbor has a problem, they are probably most worst neighbor you could get. Recently it was in news with yet another conflict with India[1]. This needs to stop. Entire World is Struggling to contain COVID while 600 million Chinese are on Vacation [2]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/india-says-officer-two-soldi...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/09/china-attractions-630-millio...
Yes, sure, that's the prevailing opinion probably since even before WW2 had ended. Though without attacking neighbours, the scale of Holocaust would be greatly limited, since just a small fraction of all the killed people lived within the borders of pre-war Germany.

If we look at all the (many!) genocides of 20th century, it's clear that the world is not going to respond with military intervention as long as you're executing your own 'undesirables' and not attacking your neighbours.
What about the people who infected them?
You might have grown older and more frightful. I think kids today are fine navigating misinformation that another even older generation thinks will destroy societies.
Maybe it would help if I thought all viewpoint except mine were untrue and dangerous.
In our case, they did. If you have a clustered database, they could perhaps use different nodes in the cluster. If you have read replicas, they could have separate pools of read replicas.
Yes. But this is unrelated to the question they asked.
Face Masks in the Netherlands – Why?
Personally I am loath to add extra functionality to the real system just to make testing easier. I am massively in favor of keeping the complexity in the real system down. Adding more hooks, or increasing the interface of the real system, just to make it more testable feels wrong.

This is why I'd want test to just have a lot more 'leeway' than normal code. Essentially I want heavy hooking, introspection and reflexivity but only for tests.
No big enough I find. A4 sheet music is just what I'm used to. Being able to write extra notation in (finger markings for piano or practice marks) with a pencil is just so easy. Also being able to have two sheets side by side. On an iPad you're limited to one. Sure, you could buy two, but then what if your score is 4 pages long? You have to either do split PDFs or swipe multiple times on the other one or something.

Edit: I'm sure an iPad pro might be good size and resolution wise but I couldn't justify the cost just for sheet music. Plus the multi page issue.
So when using these you would have to take your earrings off when talking to someone ?
Who gets to be the arbiter of "legitimate"?
> It's too bad there doesn't seem to be much industry support for a common, open driver system.

Isn't Internet Printing Protocol pretty much that, and supported by most printers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol