skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hot take: to some extent, this is a good thing as it discourages relying on emergent behavior in the client, like timings, the heap, etc that may or may not differ between your machine, your player's machines, and even future hardware that does not exist right now.
The reason is hopefully https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality. Otherwise you soon get a network with all the big player’s services being „free“. This makes competition with them even more difficult.
What's wrong with YouTube Music in your opinion? I haven't tried it out much but YouTube has a really good video player and an extensive library of music videos and music in general so I'm surprised you'd say it's awful.
You know what basically flawed everything, inducing these toxic behaviours?

Just try to open any social network and navigate to Profiles of women related to coding. As an example, Instagram is full of women in tech writing delightful content but have you seen their pictures? Most of them are in sexy poses, or with full-body perspective, where more sexual recalls are involved, rather than focussing on programming/tech in general. The same happens for TikTok or Facebook.

I think all of this free sexism could have been stopped if someone started focussing really on technical aspects, independently from sexual orientation/gender/race/whatever, rather than exacerbating the narcissism.

Internet, as long as you don't expose your face, allows you to build a powerful identity, which hasn't nothing to do with personal aspect, but with competence, or at least, it was supposed to work so, until someone went out and started posted those pics.

As a reference (just a few selection):

- https://www.instagram.com/coding_unicorn/

- https://www.instagram.com/ioana.codes/

- https://www.instagram.com/tech.unicorn/
> You only have to look at the multitude of society that have survived until now to see that that kind of thought is not valid. For example, in some tribe, war is stopped when one life is lost (I believe this was Palau), or in others, wives eat the brains of their deceased husband. In some, matriarchy is the norm. Etc.

How does this invalidate the thought? It's like saying survival of the fittest isn't valid because of all the different animals that have existed.
Big discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24725039
If regulators don't get involved, they are still picking winners and losers.
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Reading a lot of these comments truly hurts, there is no reason for the amount of money you have to be tied to whether you are allowed out on bail at all. I was super happy to see this be proposed as a measure for the California Ballot and immediately gave it a yes - an assessment of danger and flight risk is a great way to start this foray into reform. Throwing down money disproportionately hurts the poor and underrepresented, keeping them in these demographics.
I don't see Spotify on that page.
The weak link was the arm, they tended to suffer from droop after a while and it was difficult to repair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5P3QDm61go
Modern high-end processors have a lot of undocumented features.
This is rather widely known, though of course not universally known. These have existed for a long time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_opcode .

And ... you know this. Checking your comment history https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... I easily found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8834863

> Intel CPUs have had undocumented features since their introduction; it's not hard to imagine their chipsets do too.

Before I did the search I thought you were one of the 10,000 (https://xkcd.com/1053/ ), surprised that others didn't share your enthusiasm. Now I don't understand your surprise.

You must surely know your comment about "the hacker spirit is not welcome here" comes across like snobbish gatekeeping, yes? At the very least, the implied lack of knowledge about undocumented features makes it seem that you aren't one to judge what the hacker spirit might be. ... which cannot be correct given your posting history.
Sweet. What percentage of this is ad and analytics networks? YouTube ads? Mobile apps love to binge on data.
There are many forms of journalism. Hunter S. Thompson with his Gonzo style violated about every norm of the craft but he was right, as he said in his obituary of Nixon

"Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful."

The problem isn't that journalists create narratives, narratives are a way to make sense of the world, we're not data absorbing automatons. The issue with the NYT is that the writers don't have any sense for good narrative.

It's all the same kind of sentimental, urban, millenial kitsch you get from people that went straight from their upper middle-class education into blogging, journalism and podcasting, and it produces the kind of tepid stuff that has come from the times over recent years.
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> If you don't have anything to put up as collateral, you don't have anything to loose by skipping bail.

That doesn't seem correct. Wouldn't that really only be the case for guilty people, whereas innocent people would turn up in order to be proven innocent - assuming (perhaps wrongly) that they'd win?
I remember being really annoyed that there was like a 20 or 50 MB limit for app downloads on the iPhone 3GS when I got it. I had unlimited 3G data, I didn't care how big the application was, just let me download it.
Dupe of yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24741627.

I wonder why the dupe detector didn't pick this up? Case sensitivity in the title? Too few points?
> even when symptom-free

It's really unfortunate that much of the spreading of Covid-19 may be people with no symptoms, who believe incorrectly that because they have no symptoms, they don't have it, can't have it, present no risk to anyone and certainly aren't spreading the virus.

A friend tells me they have a friend who insists on hanging out because "I can't have it, I don't have any symptoms".
The defining characteristics of distributed systems are random failure and unreliable communication. So yes. Sounds pretty Kafkaesque to me. (Or Byzantine.) Distributed consensus in particular strikes me as a problem quite worthy of The Castle or The Trial.
Bullet-Issues: Tasks That Kill
Sometimes you need to work with pre-written libraries. The Rust compiler is unable to reason about anything on the other side of the FFI boundary.
If only the fabled philosopher king would arise again. Maybe that's you!
>You have two Scandinavian countries on opposite ends of the spectrum

The three Scandinavian countries are not really on opposite ends.
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The docs look super well organized indeed. Great job!
In most of the world, the caller used to pay (or maybe still pays in some places?) extra for calling a mobile number. This is easy to arrange and clear to the caller since mobile numbers are in a separate area code range. As I understand, in the US mobile numbers use the same area codes as fixed numbers, so this isn't possible. Receiving a call on a fixed number in the US is still free, I suppose?
with a postscript: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=314246332
> likely will never again

That's a pessimistic view of the future.
>for angular resolution lost to the human eye anyway?

Personal experience tells me that the resolution difference between 4k and lower resolutions (for the same size screens) are Very Noticeable on my 27 monitors. (I have one 4k and one 1440p.) Text is noticeably easier to read on the higher resolution monitor. I think this is primarily because we sit much closer to monitors than to TVs. (I don't think I can tell when my TV plays 4k vs 1080p, as I sit about eight feet away.)

If I had a 30" monitor with 8k resolution, I would probably not be able to tell a difference, unless I went looking very closely to it, so I don't think I'd spend the money on that. However, at 40" or 42", I suspect one would notice it at the distances one normally sits from a computer monitor. At that point, my reason for not buying it would be that I can't afford it. ;)
Daddy's little tax deduction... er... side project.

Also, doing a view source it's funny that "minimal CSS" is sort of like my "minimal python", which includes at least 10 lines of magic preamble devoted to import and argparse that I sprinkle in every script I write.
My main problem with it is limited software support. Xmonad isn't available and as far as I can tell what support exists for screen recording and screenshots is half-baked at best. I haven't seen anywhere near enough problems with X11 to make switching window managers worth it, and the screen recording thing would be a massive pain to work around.
>>So sleep is a luxury.

>>My typical work week is about 50-60hrs.

>>I'm not single, not young, now north of 40+. I'm just a doer.

You are at least 2 decades late to having kids. But that's ok, better late than never.

But I'd absolutely recommend partitioning some part of your 60 hour work week and late night Googling, and allocating it to exercise, sleep and relationship. Stuff like heart attacks, brain diseases and divorces tend to wipe out gains made over 30 years.

At the end, any amount of hyper productivity makes sense only if its beneficial and sticks to us in some way, like on the longer run.

I've been delaying learning ML for a while now, it doesn't seem to matter, basically delaying doing lots of things without payoff many of which will be irrelevant in 5 years. I can't say the same for exercise though.
It's a good thing that with EU's "Roam Like at Home" people from Finland can go transfer those 17GB/month in any other EU country, but people from Romania saw the introduction of "national" SIM cards which leave you literally stranded (no signal) when crossing the border. Better roaming for me but not for thee.
Ah, how humans try to find reason even in the most absurd situation:

> According to it, the course of history has been arranged by God’s reason, to preserve goodness and eliminate wickedness.

> When evil people apparently prosper, there is a divine purpose to it – perhaps to help them repent, perhaps to use the harm they inflict on others as punishments for those who deserve it, or as a trial to make the good even better.

When evil people apparently prosper, there is a divine purpose to it

Really?
It’s a little more to it than that... I think you are severely understating the necessity of “speeding up the process.” IP concerns aside, an internal scan chain may still not give you features such as practical monitor mode debugging with any useful level performance. The point is, debugging in general is better served by dedicated hardware, at that point putting it on the jtag bus vs any other serial bus is more a basic pragmatic issue.
> Do they also charge you to receive phone calls haha?

Yes, that's how ridiculous the US and Canada systems are
You know the Nazis had side projects that they made the Jews do.

(Please get the reference or this just sounds weird out of context)
spamgourmet.com has been around for years (two decades at this point I think?) and does give you disposable emails without the need to configure anything about the alias before using it.
If they try to make it so that Google employees can't commit to the chromium repo, they're going to run into 1st amendment issues real quick.
> The issue with the NYT is that the writers don't have any sense for good narrative.

Might you be slightly exaggerating?
>Cell service is excellent throughout Finland.

Sure, but I have 2/4 bars on both of my SIM cards in a ground floor apartment. It's pretty common considering how insulated the walls are. This is why the biggest speed tuneup you can do to your 4G router is running an antenna out of the window.
[I don't think it's right that people are flagging my comment]

If you don't see that this problem is particularly unfair and concentrated in poor black neighborhoods, you are truly allowing your idealism blind you to reality.

For some reason maybe you don't want to talk about race, despite the entire matter being centered around "Black Lives Matter".
Nothing at all wrong with a good compliment (I thought it was well-written as well), but worth knowing that you can click the "n hours ago" link to get to the comment page, which has a "favorite" option, where you can collect a private library of favorite HN posts.
Even using a number like $500 billion or $1 trillion or more ...

- TEPCO expects to spend 40 or more years on the cleanup

- 250,000 residents were displaced for years

- the Japanese army and political structure were stressed by this, and will be for generations

- one could go on endlessly. It was preventable by having a qualified facility auditor spend a couple days looking at the backup generators, common with any data center audit.
I'm wondering at which point it would make sense to split the driver into multiple device family drivers instead of lumping it all together into a mess of unmaintainable abstractions.
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Are you a guru? Because you sound exactly like a guru. Check out my tweets to see if you might be a guru.
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So I'd like to know which companies support this -- and do not support this.

I know some companies are famously leave-water-at-home-we-drink-koolaid-here cough! (apple) cough!
> You'd expect journalists to give you facts, instead their focus is on creating emotion through narrative, while rooting for their story, downplaying inconvenient facts.

Factual news looks like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events. People don't want to read that, and journalists must to some degree write what people want to read. It's quite the dilemma.
The Unity example code is laughably bad.

But don't use dependency injection. Unity's Scene/Prefab load/instantiation is already a form of DI. Using another causes issues with juggling multiple lifecycles.

You also lose the ability for Unity to prefetch assets because Unity can't inspect the dependency graph if it's not done through the asset system. Instead you hit situations where you're loading several objects and running DI code over several frames when unity could have loaded everything at once.
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The article mentions Thailand's plan to invite long-stay tourists willing to go through a 14-day quarantine on arrival. It was supposed to start this week, but was pushed back at last minute, officially because the arrangements were not ready but quite probably because they couldn't actually find enough interest. (In addition to the quarantine, you can only arrive by dedicated chartered aircraft!?)

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/thailand-foreign-t...
I'm not using this language because the syntax is really heavy and definitely not my cup of tea. I'm puzzled by the ambitions to market this language for the embedded world. The embedded world is full of electronics engineers that are writing code as part of their job. If experienced developers are finding this language overwhelming, how are you going to convince the electronics guys to adopt it instead of using plain old C? Also in this world all major HALs and SDKs are written in C. The toolchains usually are very fixed, since doing embedded systems is hard...
Can anyone make out or find the lyrics for this? I've listened to it over and over. I've asked someone else if they can make it out. I've done searches. I'd like to understand what it came up with. Thanks
In the article CJ Chivers is mentioned and his style is just facts. I followed his blog when it was active. He has been in every warzone and he tracks munitions to its place of origin, which tells an interesting (and sometimes troubling) story of the weaponstrade (which I feel is woefully underreported about)
Should we also talk about all the learning platforms created by Jews or Catholics?

Or have we learned some sort of lesson yet?

A disappointing article.

Their examples claims of biased learning materials are garbage.

You'll always find crap in 12 years of materials. Online learning has always sucked. The 'turban' is a rag is an ignorant stretch.

Pure religious hate.
When applied for house arrest, ankle monitors are pretty expensive, with the expense borne by the person being monitored https://www.propublica.org/article/digital-jail-how-electron...

Unless a different payment scheme were implemented for a cash bond alternative, poor defendants would still likely end up in jail due to inability to pay for their ankle monitors.
A lot of people noticed and I thought the gave a reasonable counter argument as to why this was not the case.
>You may be missing the point of the comparison, which is this: to compare the performance of the de facto standard CSV parsers of each system when used the way that a typical user would use them, i.e. to parse a CSV file into a data frame.

Well, in Python typically one would use pandas "to parse a CSV file into a data frame", not the standard csv parser (which doesn't deal with data frames anyway), no?
This is an excellent overview. Thanks for sharing!
Can I ask about the performance of the library?
At where I live, trading water is forbidden. We rent appartments and we must not have any profit on the water. Usually, the consumption is separated per person, but sometimes that is not possible (when there are stores, for instance).

For an odd reason, however, flat rate is acceptable, so you can charge tenants a fixed monthly fee and make an actual profit out of it. Sure, there's a risk you set the flat rate price wrong.
Can't follow the logic there. If I don't jump in the middle of a horse race am I still picking a winner?
We don't actually get unlimited EU data here. DNA offers 7–15 GB a month (unlimited in the Nordics and the Baltics), Elisa 13–30 GB a month (unlimited in the Nordics and the Baltics) and Telia 4–25 GB a month.
Mid-drive bikes will go through them quicker than hub-drive. Mine will last about 1250 miles with a 250W Bosch CX motor. If I run it unrestricted then it's even worse.

The front chain ring needs replacing with the chain although I think that is a quirk of the Bosch CX. I can get away with reversing it to extend the life.

I haven't needed to replace the cassette yet.

This is on a well maintained bike, I don't see any difference between summer and winter riding.
Don't rely on race conditions and your code will run similarly on device and in editor.

I agree that you can't easily use editor performance profiles though; there's far too much editor noise.
Just adding types doesn't give you that much extra performance in cython (2-3x at most in most cases in my experience) if you want 10x+ speed up you generally have to rewrite your code in a more 'cythonic' way.
It is in the US: "Throughout our nation's history, foreign-born men and women have come to the United States, taken the Oath of Allegiance to become naturalized citizens, and contributed greatly to their new communities and country. The Oath of Allegiance has led to American citizenship for more than 220 years."

https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/th...

Now I haven't looked into many other countries, but at least in the EU I know that there's many proxies for loyalty when applying for citizenship. And many countries do not accept dual citizenship, which should make things clear for you hopefully.
If this surprises you, you’re going to be shocked about Gutenberg, Columbus, and Benjamin Franklin.
Search for “amdgpu ring gfx timeout”. There seem to be a whole class of bugs that have been open for years which not only haven’t been fixed, but there isn’t even any clear indication of what the root cause(s) is/are.
We can say that it's generated from the "hardware schematics". AMD hardware isn't an opensource hardware.
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It's also about using the language/tool in ways that it should be used, was designed to be used.

Elixir is great at what it does, but I wouldn't use it for building a CLI tool or something like that.
I went to Svalbard in the dead of winter. Very fun experience, not seeing the sun for a week straight.

The downside of Svalbard though is that it's very difficult to randomly explore on your own. There aren't any roads outside the settlements, and you need a rifle and a snowmobile and government registration to go anywhere outside it. Snowmobiles can be bought but are almost impossible to rent; rifles can be rented but if you don't have skills you can't expect to suddenly have them when faced with a polar bear in a life-threatening situation. There is zero infrastructure outside the settlements so it's not a joke.

So ultimately I was mostly confined to the town of Longyearbyen and vinicity but it was fun anyway. I managed to get to Bjorndalen and a couple of other nearby places via some locals who I found on Facebook, but that's about as far as I was able to get.

Don't expect the same level of exploration freedom you could get by, say, renting a car in Canada or whatever.

The thing I found most fascinating about Longyearbyen, ironically, is how normal life was there at a town so close to the north pole. People had gigabit internet access, a couple of bars, and a supermarket. Nothing was out of the ordinary, really, except for the lack of the sun.
I can only second that. People would say that Python is a lot slower than Rust and I would agree, but the slowest software I've seen in my life is the one that never gets released ;)
A chain checker will tell you when it needs replacing:

https://www.parktool.com/product/chain-wear-indicator-cc-3-2
Of course my suggestion does nothing to solve the 'first party fake' problem, but that's kind of an unsolvable problem when taken in full generality, because it essentially amounts to 'how do you prove X is not lying". You don't; this is where reputation/trust comes into the equation.
There are two separate problems that'd need solving to handle bitfields:

1) Having uN and possibly iN types, for general-purpose use.

2) Placing such types at specific offsets within a struct.

C only handles the second of those: you can have an N-bit type, but when you extract it it comes out as the wider type you constrain it from. So, `unsigned field:5;` will get read as an `unsigned`, not a `u5`.

Rust could handle both, if appropriate sized types exist. (Const generics might be nice here, to parameterize on the type width.) (1) alone won't solve the problem, without some way to define how those types are packed into the struct.
Yes, the USD is currently the foremost reserve currency. See eg https://marketcap.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WRCurren...
No.. PaaS is definitely not Passé
Citizenship has been diluted in recent decades, but it's not just pretense. And while the US has a rather puzzling loophole around birth and citizenship, that doesn't apply AFAIK in the EU: a child born to foreign parents will have to apply for citizenship just like anyone else. Asylum seekers likewise.

Dual citizenship's typically only allowed in the EU when the other country is also an EU country. Some countries do not even allow that. There's even a citizenship test which is administrated.
I have to believe there's a block of people out there who just assume "nigh-instantaneous compile time" is a bit of a bigfoot.

Or maybe they assume that, if you have that, why wouldn't you make the jump to writing a REPL, since the hard part is done...

Just making some guesses.
What a fucking cunt we have here.
No display made in at least in late 90-s would emit X-Rays.