skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find myself thinking that at some point they'll be moving to an iPhone with no ports at all, and aren't bothering with USB-C because they'll have a transition to entirely wireless charging instead.
Information Asymmetry and the 1950s Nuclear Bounty
I felt the same when I upgraded my 6 to an XR. But when you actually get your hands on the phone, you quickly notice the improvements. There’s no pressure to upgrade, but when you finally do I think you’ll be happy
I suspect they are getting better speed and power consumption, and deeper integration with T2 (which functions as the controller chip). Apple is generally ahead of the curve when it comes to SSD performance in laptops, so it's unlikely that a generic SSD connector would function as well.
Weird that they cannot make business out it or sell it off to someone who can. There has to be millions of users. Is the value of it really less than zero?
That's true, games are the one area where Windows backward compatibility fails. Still much better than Linux overall though.
Nope. It says that he was shot with AK into the head after his death. It doesn't look like assassination.
On the slim bright side; The 'northwest passage' (It seems to be the Northern Sea Route) is viable and might save some fuel emissions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage
1k days after the merger: Continued X-ray emission from GW170817
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I'm just taking a guess here, lol, based on Armstrong's military rank (Lieutenant (junior grade)) and how many ranks are between him and the president (above the Admiral), based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:United_States_uniform...
Is there any open source self hosted alternatives to Google Drive that does on-demand sync instead of sync everything/selected folders?

I have more stuff in Drive than any one of my computers can actually hold.
>Have you tried them and not had results? Because there are a lot of N=1s anecdotes about it working for people, hence the large following he has.

Placebo, make-believe and self-dellusion often work, especially for the kind of people looking into a miracle cure, which is what such leaders tend to accrue...
I saw the title at the homepage, and immediately my first thought was "Well, perhaps this article is a business whitepaper and it's not as good as those hacker opsec articles by the grupq, a true expert on this topic..."

And guess who is the author here... Glad to meet you here, the grugq!
At least that they are not on reverse/opposite orbits, hopefully one of the orbits will shift after this event and the intersection would be a non-issue. If none of the orbits decay, the intersection is extremely likely to happen again, with a similar result.

Edit: I am mistaken, they are on reverse/opposite orbits, which is actually a huge problem!
In a way, yes.

I dropped my Facebook account, only interact with Twitter and mastodon from time to time and can see your point.

But the thing is, once you are in Facebook you get to see that most of the world propaganda is there and the whole platform is conditioned (and monetized, but not on your interest).

So you get to see the benefits of a platform like Facebook and the evil of facebook (the platform) being Facebook (the company).
I distinctly remember my Galaxy S4 or something introducing the "innovative" feature of waving your hand in front of the front camera to scroll web pages.
Are you talking about aux? Because Sonos Move supports plain bluetooth audio connections; I use it all the time.
CFTC Dethrones King Arthur of BitMEX
How to Attract Newbies to the Sophisticated Investment World. A UI/UX Case Study
I'd presume death to be like that anyhow given the flurry of brain activity directly during and in the nights/dreams leading up to death.
Nor do we have to throw out everything that doesn't meet some arbitrarily high standard.
Soyuz MS-17 launches on ultrafast, 3 hour journey to ISS
Article in The Register based on the reseearch paper:

Years after we detected two neutron stars crashing into each other, we're still picking up X-rays. We don't know why

https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/14/binary_star_xray/
Yeah, while I'm pretty excited at the possibilities of LiDAR in the phones, they do have pretty limited range and would in no way be suitable for a car.
I've been working with iPad Pro and I think there's a lot of possibilities for it outside of just autofocus...
Defensiveness sometimes hints that you won't be try to be qualified. It sounds more like a "I can't do this", whereas confidence sounds like you'll at least try. It's normal to expect that someone who is senior doesn't know everything.
Agreed, something I realize as I am getting older. Raw hackerrank coding skills aren't actually that useful, I now value someone with better team working skills than someone who can come up with algorithms instantly. Something that will be relevant most of the time versus something that might be useful once per year or less frequently.
https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Columbia-Home-Untold-Shuttle...

https://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Space-Shuttle-Disaster-Count...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824564.Comm_Check_

What's your agenda here that a quick google was too much effort for you, but pushing an accusation wasn't?
Realistically, with cheap masks you really can’t. I tried all the “life hacks” suggested and none of them work, some fogging inevitably happens.

The only way is to get a proper N95 or N99 mask, which has padded edges that make for a proper seal. You’ll also be safer.
Provide mentally ill people with treatment for their illness. Don't throw them on the street and make it a police/crime problem.

Decriminalize drugs and provide injection facilities and treatment options.

Provide homeless people with homes.

Provide hungry people with food.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is pretty understandable.
This is great. Now he just needs to train a neural net to turn paintings into photo-realistic pictures, and then feed in the portrait paintings of the pre-photography Presidents ...
PowerVR GPUs are re-entering the desktop space
You can't USE your phone before you look at it, so the effective difference is the half second it takes for face id to unlock your phone.
Yeah, and I mean, Apple releases a new phone around this time every year, it’s hardly unpredictable.
What’s so bad about bubble tea? Never had it, but I thought it was just iced tea with some starch in.
> For sure, writing your own allocator is the last thing you reach for after all else fails.

Writing your own general purpose allocator might be the last thing, but custom allocators for well-understood limited/localized behavior is both trivial and something one should do even for simplification in many cases. Freeing an entire arena/resetting an allocation pointer is both much faster and simpler than `malloc`/`new` & `free`/`delete`.

People often misunderstand "custom allocators" to mean "making your own `jemalloc`" and it feels like your comment runs the risk of fueling that fire. Creating your own `jemalloc` is both wasteful in that `jemalloc` performs worse than even the most simple of custom allocators and a waste of your time in that general purpose allocators already exist so if you need something like that you probably can save your time for something else.
Werlau, who lived in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship, saw first-hand how international awareness of human rights atrocities helped Chile reinstate its democracy. "The Castro regime executed more people in just its first three years than the Pinochet regime killed or 'disappeared' in its entire 17 years in power," she says. "Yet Castro's victims, who number so many times more - and who include not just political opponents but entire families assassinated for trying to flee - remain unknown, ignored, or forgotten."
Literally impossible if you have a big nose.
I just want to know what it’s like

It sucks.
I was thinking about making a very simple grid based visualization. This is exactly what I was looking for!
Except for the peer reviewed paper.
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7379
Reimagining Public Buses in the Age of Uber
Now would be a good time to push one of the satellites out of the way (softly). Maybe one of those big airborne lasers [1]

Every piece of junk we put in space should be able to de-orbit on command.

[1] I know, I know the ranges are way off, but it _could_ work if something on the outside of the object would gas off and provide a propellant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
I question a lot of advice like this, and agree with you. I’d generally far rather use NSubstitute than have to write fake classes, but I can see the utility in some cases.

My honest response is this: Writing tests should be quick and painless. Maintaining fakes is more painful than maintaining substitutes. Substitutes let me interrogate side effects in great detail. I’m not concerned will performance in unit tests. Ergo, substitutes are quicker and less painful, so IMO that’s a win.

But for real though, why should anyone care about someone else’s test architecture, of all things. As long as you neither under- or over-testing, why on earth does it matter?
Thank you, I will give his blog a read!
Those are trivial. And have little effect on performance. And are hardly used in good programs.

In practice they mainly displace function pointers.
The width of this slim bright side you talk about - is it epsilon?

The harm done by ships travelling the northwest passge might outweigh any emission savings (there - not in total). Carbon dioxide emissions are a rather non-localized problem while soot, spilled oil, invasive species, noise pollution and you name it, are very localized problems.
That is sometimes true, and sometimes not.
I'm at 47°N and anecdotally, I did ~30-40 minutes walks in the midday sun this summer, with either face/hands/arms or additionally also legs exposed. At the end of summer I measured at 26mcg/l, which is barely above the "deficient" threshold of 20mcg/l and still well below the often recommended target of 50mcg/l. So I doubt that "face and hands alone" will give you "sufficient vitamin D for the whole year". Note that I was also taking 2000 IU per day in winter/spring, which I stopped taking in summer. Now after the bloodtest I've resumed the supplement for fall and upped it to 4000 IU + added Vitamin K2.
If placebo works as well as many prescription drugs, why is it looked down upon so much?
By that time, Gagarin was a colonel.
That is because he got it from the Buddhist Tummo techniques.

>It has similarities to Tibetan Tummo meditation and pranayama, both of which employ breathing techniques.[25]

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

I won’t say he appropriated it, because he is quite open about it and adapted it, but it did not originate with him.
Free higher ed and healthcare? That's pretty bog standard centrist/moderate these days in Europe.
hahaha lets spam one bot with 1000s of fake resumes :D
I nearly upgraded my S9 to a Pixel 5. My S9 has a cracked screen and my GPS UI is visibly burnt into the screen. Since my stand-alone camera fell apart, it's the only camera I have, and it's not good.

Even then, the upgrade doesn't solve a 600€ problem. This expense has an abysmal Euro to pleasure ratio. It costs about the same to ride a motorcycle for a week in the Atlas mountains. I cancelled my preorder. I think I can wait a year or two still.

When you have some spare money, it's easy to start shopping for ways to spend it. It's good to remind yourself that you sold hours of your life to earn that money.
I suppose our experiences differ. I've tried using Pocket at night on an amoled screen and with dark mode, but because it's real black with bright white text I can't tolerate it for long. Would prefer a dark grey with white text, or even a navy blue with light yellow
Not Wim Hof, but during the pandemic I've switched from swimming indoors to outside in a local lake which is a open water swimming spot managed by the council. I switched in the height of the northern summer - so no need for a wetsuit when I started, water was up to 26degC. As the weather has worsened though, the water temperature has gradually declined and I've just kept swimming. Down thorugh 22, 20, 18, 16 and on to 13.8 the other day.

I'm finally going to put my wetsuit on, as the other day was VERY intense, but the benefits of being in cold water are incredible. I am an absolute convert. The high is comparable to certain A class drugs, it's the best thing I've done in years, and you get to stay fit as well.
Disclaimer: I am one of the Peergos devs.

Yes, you should check out Peergos - https://peergos.org. Self-hosting details are on our GitHub page - https://github.com/Peergos/Peergos
considering that many mine sweeper boards come down to luck (ex: you're left with a 2x2 unopened area where you know 2 of the cells are mines, could be either of the north/south pairs. this would just be that many times over.
Vitamin D is generated by exposure to sunlight, what is controversial / unscientific about that?
Hahahaha apologies for the reddit-like comment but I laughed so hard.. when scrolling (for a while) on the "1 million dots" portion of the page (big portion), after the loooooong image the author writes "Sorry. A million dots is a lot of dots."

I was once in Copernic Science Centre (Warsaw, Poland), and they had some cylinders with tiny plastic spheres (imagine 1-2mm diameter each sphere). One of the cylinders was supposed to have 100k? 1m? spheres (or some similarly crazy number) and only 1 red sphere, and I remember I was rotating that cylinder for a couple of minutes (it is not tightly packed to the spheres can move around) and eventually I saw the red sphere.

Ps: on the URL of the parent.. I could not find the red dot.. I gave up after a couple of minutes. I will though try the following (later tonight). Save the image, take it to Photoshop, pick the "black color", use that to erase all the similarly colored (black) dots, and the red one will remain behind for me to easily spot.
Yes it's not huge difference so not a deal-breaker but the slight difference is detectable.
It's absolutely disgusting how privacy and the right to repair are being mixed together.

We need better privacy but that is a separate topic.
Thanks for the context. I was trying to figure what was noteworthy about an article saying we should think ahead which I kind of assumed we did anyway. Though I think "most dangerously stupid thing I've ever heard" is maybe an exaggeration. The US govt effectively banning coronavirus testing back in Feb kind of sticks out in my mind as outstanding on that front (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...)
So - put them into Scrooge McDuck's vault?
> No biologist is going to be called a bigot for saying that biological sex is a thing

The fact that this article was flagged proves you wrong.

> However, in non-academic contexts this statement is used by bigots as a dog-whistle.

A dogwhistle for what exactly? please explain.
They might destroy your cache lines though.
Yes it will not stay in the orbit.
And overall the orbital velocity will be significantly lower.

However debris ejected sideways will have significant velocity, orbital or sometimes even higher and that's the real risk here.
I tried to distill down the basics a few years ago in a 1 page article: https://testing.googleblog.com/2013/06/testing-on-toilet-fak...

The example is a little contrived, but the whole article fits on one sheet of paper and does yield a better test than mocks would.

Testing against the real system is always better than testing against a fake. That should be your first preference, and if you can modify the system to make testing against it easier, that's even better. Sometimes you can't, and if your interaction is complicated and the parts that you care about are simple, a fake can get you good confidence that your part works. Mocks just feel like writing the code again -- in your code, you write "call a function with an argument, then call another function with an argument" and in the tests you write "pass if a function is called with an argument, and again with an argument". It can be the right thing at the right time, but it's usually writing a test to make some automated linter shut up. And that's a complete waste of time.
I imagine the tidal forces would not just feel like you're being stretched, but it would also feel like you're hanging upside-down. And this would be independent of whether your head is pointing towards the black hole or away from it; basically your feet and head are trying to "fall" away from each other.
Ping of Death Redux
There are COVID-free parts around the world that are not New Zealand?
Show HN: A Facial Recognition API
Huge contrast, natural light only and focus on a fast moving subject, yeah definitively tricky (as for the artistic interest of the picture that's another story).

The weirdness probably comes from the post treatment. But still impressive for a smartphone. The result (almost) look like something you could expect from RAW post treatment of a reflex camera take.

Don't know if I'll go for the iPhone 12 Pro or a refurbished iPhone 11 Pro but for my amateur usage my mind is set. I wont replace my 10 years old reflex with a new one. Theses are "good enough" in most use cases and fit in my pocket.
I've worked with two major (well, relatively) microservices architectures and honestly it made things many times more complicated and expensive than they should have.

In the one, I came in after a year and a half and they still had nothing to show for other than some marketing (this was fairly straightforward e-commerce). They tried to bolt Java applications together using Amazon Kinesis (which isn't intended as a service bus) and we quickly ran into issues because the stock / inventory service was separate from the order processing service, so any incoming order would have to do a weird round trip to confirm stock before it could confirm the order to the end-user. To name but one example.

The other was for a shipping company, where every 'model' (users, addresses, shipments, etc) was put in its own microservice. That one started out with NodeJS services before - for some reason, probably political / hiring related) migrating to Scala, only adding to the complexity of what, in essence, was a CRUD application where the heavy lifting was still being done in the legacy back-end / mainframe systems.

I don't get it. Glad I'm working on a project right now where I have full control over things, it's also a CRUD project but I can build it as a straight monolith.

One other anecdote I have is where we built a serverless application. It too was e-commerce, but the heavy lifting was done by as-a-services; we used Commercetools as e-commerce back-end as as service, Contentful as CMS-as-a-service, Adyen for payment processing, and we used a heap (about 30) 'serverless' functions deployed in Netlify as the glue. Seemed to work all right, better than the microservices attempt (because the individual functions didn't have to talk to one another; they responded to either user / client requests, or events generated from one of the services doing the heavy lifting).

Anyway if I had to do ALL of those again (and if I actually had a say in it, lol) I'd just write them as plain old Java monoliths.

The reason that's not being considered an option much is because it's boring, and highly paid software engineers don't want to do boring stuff. Second reason is that if you have boring code, you get mediocre developers. That's why in some projects I've seen them push for Scala instead of plain Java (which would've done just fine), because if you pick Scala you weed out a good 95% or so percentile of developers - that is, the reasoning being that one already has to be a good developer to start to comprehend Scala.

Of course, it backfired because these developers are so 'good' that they're also stubborn and will do things their own way, which may not be the same way as other devs. That may have just been my limited experience though, IDK.
It's being looked down by the same people that tend to believe in miracle cures. One has to make his own reality true in order to cope with society and scrutiny. Placebo is required in trials for new medicine actually, far from being looked down upon.
Delphi and Visual Basic. Creating applications by dragging some buttons onto a grid, and double-clicking to add code to them, was such a better developer experience than what we have now. Sadly such tools didn't translate to the complexities of the web...
It's terrible that a lot of investors are now being told to diversify their portfolio. Diversification is the root of all evil and creates hidden oligopolies.
If the same investors own shares of all major corporations, then it creates a strong incentive for those corporations to collaborate with each other instead of competing.
This is probably why we ended up with companies like Google and Apple making employee non-poaching agreements with each other - There is enough shareholder overlap between the two companies that these illegal agreements benefit the majority shareholders of both companies.
I have nodules in my thyroid and as part of the treatment, 3 different doctors prescribed 10,000 IU per day to get the D3 level at 80 ng/ml. For the past 5 years the nodules are stable.
Kubernetes, microservices, distributed systems, SPA apps. Getting a development environment to reproduce bugs takes up so much of my time these days (a fair bit is because of our crappy system, but there also a lot of inherent complexity in the system because of the architecture choices listed above). We get the promise of scaling, but most places making these choices don't actually need it.
I've used Apple phones for the last ~10 years but I have held back on AirPods as I've read a few reports from people whos AirPods have lasted ~18 months before the (non-replaceable, because Apple) battery begins to heavily degrade.
Great list! IIRC, "mare" (for a bad time) is just a contraction of "nightmare".
Is that a clicker game?

Edit: just played it a bit.. nice.. need to keep the balance on stock, unsold inventory, etc..
> “Disruption is a theodicy of hypercapitalism”

It does seem that securing VC funding is the new divine right of kings. Anything is permissible if the marketplace wills it.
Cameroon’s tax platform suffered a cyberattack
> And how do other languages get away with it?

General purpose allocators are (basically) never the best for speed, fragmentation, and so on. They can at most be good enough. Basic knowledge about how your memory is going to be used that'll inform the use of a few simple custom allocators is likely to give you several times the performance that you'd see with a general purpose allocator. In the best case you'll literally reset an allocation pointer once per loop and just overwrite memory that you know isn't used anymore, for example, making allocation a write into an already existing buffer and "free" the resetting of the pointer. This has nothing to do with platforms, but rather is just basic removal of dumb code that shouldn't be running. There's zero reason a an actual `free`/`delete` should be used in those cases and using it is likely to slow down that loop considerably.

> And how do other languages get away with it?

Much like general purpose allocators are never the best, there is zero evidence to suggest that garbage collection is ever the optimal choice; it can only ever be good enough. There's also a lot of lore around garbage collectors being magic and doing lots of great things for you to ensure less fragmentation and nice cache locality but people are usually just amazed at how it's "not that bad" in the end.

There's no silver bullet: Garbage collectors and general purpose allocators aren't magic pieces of code written by developers who can conjure up the best code for every use case. Like most general code they're "not bad" at everything but not actually very good at anything. Running less code for your allocation and eliminating things based on your knowledge of how things are going to be used is always going to be better.