skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use Hetzner at work and it's really competative for getting cheap VMS.

Now if only they would start offering managed K8s and enable us to switch from $US-BASED provider.
Hmm, if I am understanding correctly, it's not just about changing the runtime model of the eventloop for languages like NodeJs but also we need fundamental change in our hardware interacts with software.
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NeoFeznet asked:

> why is that? Is it the regulatory environment?

fcantournet:

> If anything it's the (insanely lax and pro-monopoly) American regulatory environment that has the biggest impact on the creation of big Cloud providers outside of the U.S.

I don't think you can say the problem there is America's lack of regulation preventing European cloud providers (which was what the question was about) from starting.

It seems like the problem there is one of the European regulations being too strict.

Stifling regulation is not a force of nature, it is a lever that can be adjusted.
> People aren't asking for authoritarian restrictions. People have been asking for common-sense coordinated and effective measures that we can all rally around (like wearing masks).

It’s hard to find persistent daylight between those two things. (For the record, I wear masks outside and in grocery stores, which are the only shops I go to. I find this at least 75% common sense.)

When it comes time though to force someone who doesn’t want to do what you find common sense, where’s the impersonal, referenced only to ground truth, line that says that’s ok under force of law, but other similar-appearing things, well those things would be authoritarian, but these things are just common sense we can all rally around? If everyone is already rallying around something, you don’t need any government force of law to make it happen. (Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.)

Apply this to guns, drugs, abortion, climate change, restaurant seating capacity during COVID, or whatever topic people tend to have their own individual “common sense” about.
> As well as the translate page button, the other great feature chrome has that I miss dearly is the highlights chrome has in the scrollbar ...

FYI, you can press the enter button to go to the next highlighted word in Find-in page.
The idea that there's some set of coordinated post-lockdown measures that will prevent the need for further lockdowns strikes me as unrealistic. Every country I'm familiar with that attempted to control the pandemic with lockdowns has had to reimpose them at least once.
>People aren't asking for authoritarian restrictions. People have been asking for common-sense coordinated and effective measures that we can all rally around (like wearing masks).

Whether you agree with it or not, how would a mask mandate not be an authoritarian restriction?
The specter of healthcare collapse has led to strict lockdowns and economic pain in many countries. If we hadn't taken many of the actions we did in the Spring, we would've seen far more deaths and calls for stronger government responses. Deaths are an important metric, but not the only one, and it's probable we could've been 2-3X higher in deaths with much more "freedom" in our daily lives.
==“[A] private company enforcing their TOS" is a disingenuous characterization of the issue. A de-facto public communication platform -- the "consumer product" in your 'technicalities' world view -- is obstructing disemination of expression.==

It is obstructing the dissemination of things that break its TOS. Should people be allowed to dox others on Twitter? People get banned for calls for violence pretty frequently.

What makes Twitter a “de-facto communication platform”? Is tiktok? Skype? Instagram? Twitter isn’t a public square, but the internet is, and this story is readily available on the internet.
You d pay even less for their 'serverbidding' servers
It depends on the organizational culture, your place within the organization, your relationships with your boss, coworkers, etc.

Sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness than to wait for permission.
China and Russia have strong control over the media, which makes their propaganda more effective.

Russia in particular is a main contributor to the misinformation abroad. This isn't just in the US, but also in many eastern european countries.

Of course, as others have stated, strong reasoning skills are not very prominent. I would like to see philosophy of argument courses taught in secondary and even primary schools. The ability to recognize basic fallacies and validate facts/premises would go a long way.
Your response underscores the importance of civic institutions that the population can trust. When government institutions cannot be trusted, conspiratorial mindsets become the norm.
Ah thanks. They compare apples and oranges since they haven't disabled runtime checking for Ada.

There are probably more options they missed for the other languages.
The source code is public.
The big unionizing fights happened in the 1930s, didn't they?
> To compare the Brazilian Government with The Nazi Period

Never did.

I compared the military coups, which Bolsonaro is rooting for, undeniably, to the military government the nazi-fascists had over Germany and Italy and then Europe.

They came to power thanks to the military support.

As every far right movement usually does.

Bolsonaro is praising and rallying for a return of the military dictatorship.

He was there, in person, endorsing it.

> my family moved from what today is Poland to Brazil, around 40s

So did thousands of former SS officials who went to live there after WW2, protected and kept hidden.

Including Joseph Mengele.

> I feel safe to wear my Kippah in Sao Paulo, but I don't feel safe to do it in Paris or Berlin (city where I studied and lived)

Are you sure?

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-as-coronavirus-r...

As much as I respect feelings, they are just feelings.

Sao Pauol has a much higher crime rate and 10 to 15 times worse homicide rate than Berlin, you might feel safer, but you are not safer.

“I hope God continues to enlighten President Jair Bolsonaro because he has a Jew who is at the head of the Senate at his disadvantage, Jews are miserly. Jews are wicked and think only of their well-being.”

Said Bolsonaro's supporters when the first Jewish president of Brazilian Congress was nominated.

Have you seen supporters of Merkel or Macron write something like that?

Uncondemned?

Remember that Bolsonaro in Brazil controls the media, but he cannot hide that under his government

> And if two key elements had been missing – anti-Semitism and the use of the state apparatus, especially the police, to stifle the press and persecute political dissenters – and thus prevented us from characterizing Bolsonaro and his gang as fascists once and for all, that is no longer the case.

> 1. On its official website and its verified Twitter profile, the Brazilian Army recently honored and treated as a "martyr" Eduard Ernest Thilo Otto Maximilian von Westernhagen, a Nazi major who was decorated by Hitler and killed in Brazil by members of the Colina, a resistance group against the military dictatorship and its state terrorism.

> Bolsonaro’s Justice Minister Sérgio Moro – after being unmasked in the conspiracy against former President Lula and Brazilian democracy as a judge of Operation Lava Jato, which was denounced by The Intercept – decided to use the Federal Police to try to intimidate the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, editor of the prestigious news site, and to persecute me over a conspiracy theory.

Moro is the same man that presented testimony for interference with justice by Bolsonaro that the president from his social account called "a traitor, a Juda"

Moro was chosen by Bolsonaro himself, exactly because he handled the operation "car wash" that illegally put Lula out of the competition.

If a man who obstructed justice to stop a former President to run for re-election is saying that the current President is interfering with justice, it is probably worse than we think.
The Business of Understanding People
Technology doesn’t disrupt industries. Unhappy customers do.

The best companies don’t have access to better technology. They have a better ability to understand people.
> a Z order curve is not considered continuous

Not true. A curve is by definition continuous, and a true Z-order curve is no exception. I was asking whether the Z-order curve displayed there was a true one.

The definition of a space-filling curve is a continuous surjection from [0,1] to [0,1]^2.
I've been using PureText to do this for several years. It's a tiny app that let's you configure keys to paste the contents of the clipboard as unformatted text - I use WIN-V.

PureText works perfectly for me, so I'm curious to know how this differs, and if it has any benefits over PureText?
You're right that PBS is dependent on government funding, as would a publicly-funded browser. But look at the title of the article you yourself shared:

"PBS STATEMENT: Trump Administration Proposes Elimination of Federal Funding for 'Most Trusted' Institution"

I may have misinterpreted but I felt your previous post was making it sound like developers, and perhaps the public at large, would not trust a publicly funded browser. Again, my apologies if I misread it.

Facts - actual data, not supposition - shows otherwise. PBS is a highly-trusted institution.

It's given us Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers.

If someone thinks those things haven't been a good thing, well, then we're going to have to agree to disagree.

I think a Publicly Funded Browser on the model of PBS, also open-sourced, would be more successful than Firefox, and just as beloved as PBS.

Lastly, consider that PBS has continued to struggle on for some time now despite being dependent on funding from self-interested politicians.
The Ocean is way deeper than you think
Very recently discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24732973 (68 comments)
There are two kinds of people, people who go to meetings, and people who go to meetings and then go back to work
This is a take against all laws if you prop it up a bit more. It doesn‘t make sense. The people enacting these laws are democratically elected. „Common sense“ in this case is not arbitrary. It is the culmination of the „common senses“
if all politicians that were elected by their citizens. This is not undemocratic, it is democracy in its purest form.

At some point in dire situations, as a government, you have to save your citizens from themselves.
What's going on:

- Tesla's stock is astronomically high, garnering mainstream attention, shorters, and momentum investors that want to manipulate the media

- Tesla headlines garner massive click rates and are essentially what keeps a large number of web sites' lights on, so web sites up the dramatics on any Tesla story

- Elon Musk is polarizing, generating a lot of drama

- very big entrenched interests are very very threatened by Tesla and EV/batteries/green power, so they have an incentive to astroturf and overdramatize negative stories

- Tesla has quality issues from pushing deliveries and production too far over the quality threshold, giving plenty of fodder to the astroturfers

Seriously, look at the brigade downvoting going on in the comments on this story. It is very unusual, where comments with outright cursing and expletives are untouched, but pro-Tesla responses with linked articles are being massively downvoted.
Mozilla does not have other websites and an advertising platform tied to your browser history, and bookmarks. Firefox Sync is basically a standalone service.

Pretty big difference.
But the evidence being presented here says that joke doesn't make sense in this context. If it's a joke it's an ignorant one.
When you visit a Netflix content URL it automatically plays sound and moving pictures without any user interaction! Evidence of Google owning Netflix?
60mm is a preposterous amount of money for building almost any application. That’s like 600 engineer years of time in the US.
Whats the moat of their software? These things are easy to duplicate (judging by the number of competitors they already have). Also keep in mind that cloud is being fed by a massive tech bubble and free money that leads to overspending. If every big tech co (amazon, ms, google, ibm etc) becomes a cloud provider offering the same services, how do they plan to maintain high premiums?
> The court didn't find that Whitmer acted arbitrarily or capriciously, they simply ruled that she lacked the authority for the actions she took.

Specifically, it found that that emergency powers act under which she acted was an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority; the fundamental error the Court found was by the legislature, in not crafting an emergency powers law with sufficiently defined boundaries (or, alternatively, by not availing itself of the process to amend the Constitution to create broad emergency powers.)
I didn't say the project was open source. The apps are.

You are expecting too much. It's a commercial venture. There is no reason to open source servers.
I guess I see a difference because the BBC does not show ads except for itself. So ads are not sold.
This is a fantastic summary of debugger implementation!

Another great one that actually walks through writing a basic debugger is Eli Bendersky's series[1].

One nitpick:

> It could, and that would work (that the way valgrind memory debugger works), but that would be too slow. Valgrind slows the application 1000x down, GDB doesn't. That's also the way virtual machines like Qemu work.

This is usecase-dependent: running a program until you hit a breakpoint will be significantly faster with `int 3`, but running a piece of instrumentation on every instruction (or branch, or basic block, or ...) will be significantly faster with Valgrind (or another dynamic binary instrumentation framework). This is because Valgrind and other DBI tools can rewrite the instruction stream to sidecar instrumentation into the same process, versus converting every instruction (or other program feature) into a sequence of expensive system calls.

[1]: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/tag/debuggers
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This didn't spring to my mind as I'm Swedish and here it's less than a taxi and any medical costs beyond the first USD $130 per year is covered by the free health insurance.
If the app was developed on time and works, thats fine. 60 million isn't that much in the grand scheme of government contracts. In a situation like this i would want a proven vendor, and pay premium over startups.

UK has spent 11 billion on a healthcare IT system and got nothing to show for it.

https://independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/hea...
I'd also want to see a comparison on different CPU architectures.
> Ah ... now it's clear what is meant.

Is it? I can't tell if your post has a sarcastic tone or not!
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

If you read closely, it’s phrased like a suggestion, not a rule.

It uses language like “please” instead of “you shall.” It doesn’t sound like something that absolutely needs to be followed, as it is phrased.

Guidelines have a way of morphing into rigid rules and censorship enforcement mechanisms when nobody is watching. However noble they may seem, they are a slippery slope, and I’d rather not buy into it.
You are merging the reason for the funding of the project (political decision) with the motivation of the people doing the actual job (scientist). That's unfair.
Stoicism seems to be a lost thing these days when everywhere you turn people wish to play the I'm the biggest victim game.

While being stoic may not always be the healthiest way to deal with issues in life, the perpetual victim attitude is also not healthy. It's as if people have adopted the Jehovah's Witness attitude of every rejection being a persecution that they can revel in. Who can be the greatest victim.

Let us strive for balance and not the extremes.
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> That’s like 600 engineer years of time in the US.

It's a lot less than that in terms of total personnel costs ($100K is a modest salary-only for a software engineer, it's extremely low as a full cost of employment.)
>We're already doing this.

Really? Because all the video's I've seen indicate politicians of a certain political persuasion (and their family members) doing the utmost to avoid wearing masks in situations that they should have known better.

>Until when? The shutdowns were supposed to be about making sure that hospitals have time to prepare, research has time to be done, society has time to adapt. This has already taken place.

Stop building this up into a strawman. Nobody is arguing that lockdowns should last forever.

> Should a layman be expected to know what a common sense response is for a pandemic? If such knowledge were that ubiquitous, we wouldn't be seeing these kinds of issues, so calling it "common sense" serves only to insult people who don't agree with you here.

Is wearing a mask so that your drops of saliva and nasal discharge doesn't reach and infect others that hard to understand?

> Except the virus was thought to be much more deadly at first, and the efficacy of cotton masks has been and is still a controversial subject.

It isn't controversial at the very least, see my post above. It doesn't take a genius to see how a barrier that slows or blocks droplets in and out of your orifices can help to prevent the spread of respiratory disease.

> If you truly believe it is "common sense" to do things differently, you might be inclined to think there's some kind of conspiracy going on.

Nice of you to bring up "conspiracy". And here I am thinking that it was incompetence and politicisation all along.. silly me.
The name “OpenAI” is downright Orwellian in its hypocrisy. What are they even hoping to achieve at this point? They should just change the name.
Best argument for paying teachers better I’ve heard in a while!
It’s trivially easy for any non-government website to be fully compliant with the First Amendment for there is no obligation to grant someone a part of your platform or other property to enable them to speak.
This sounds like a recipe for endless consultancy firms to make lots of money out of failed IT projects.

Oh, wait. That already happens over here!
Space filling curves have some super important applications for indexing and information retrieval. I recently stumbled on an fascinating library called Uzaygezen for multidimensional Hilbert space filling curves. Extremely high quality code and documentation:

https://github.com/aioaneid/uzaygezen

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2008/08/uzaygezen-multi-di...
"Could you imagine the Federalist / Anti-Federalist debate playing out today? It's unthinkable."

Given the federal government has usurped much of the states' powers through activist judges and ignoring the constitutional amendment process to comply with the 10th amendment, it would probably result in secession efforts or bloodshed rather than debate.
Applying a vastly simplified model, every job has a salary range possible:

From the company's side: At most the amount of money you make the company, and at most the cost of hiring a replacement who could do the same job equally well.

From your side: At least the second-best job offer you've received.

Raising productivity is often a prerequisite for raising salaries - but you also need a tough hiring market, if you want the business to give the money to the workers instead of the bosses, investors or customers.
Agreed that we need voting reform in the US, badly.

It's also unlikely to ever happen, because the only ones with the power to do it are the ones that would be displaced.
Ask HN: Grants for open-source hardware product?
Does anyone have any knowledge of any grants or funds available for developing an open-source hardware+ software product?
It doesn't have nothing to show - lots of stuff did get usefully upgraded (thankfully) although of course nowhere near 11 billion's worth.

It's the public sector commissioning the private sector in matters that it often doesn't understand. This will fail far more often than it will succeed.
Are all legal restrictions on what clothes you should wear in public authoritarian to you? Many of them exist to make sure you don't die (eg. food prep/serving sanitation, medical practice) of preventable causes.

If "authoritarian" includes every rule that affects how we interact with each other in public you've pretty much gone into nihilistic territory it seems to me.
Good question. It's nice that we're finally starting to measure computation energy costs.
The difference is the price, no?

If I get paid 100 for playing a concert on one day, but 120 another day, did I get more productive? Either way I produced the same number of concerts, but got 20% more payment.

Measured in concerts my productivity was the same. Measured in other goods it went up.
I don't think Elon Musk is working that hard. He is a CEO. His work includes having a lunch with a business partner in a fancy restaurant, or listening to his direct reports while scrolling Twitter.

It's still work and very important and impactful work, but it's not that physically or mentally exhausting. You can do 15 hours of this kind of work. But you can't fix software bugs for 15 hours every day.
Is a prohibition of setting your neighbours house on fire an authoritarian restriction?

How about a mandate to clear the pavement/sidewalk in front of your house of snow so that pedestrians don't fall and break their hip?

Having laws doesn't mean you're being oppressed.
I also get a flickery mess, on Linux + Firefox 81 with Haswell Intel Graphics. I suspect that there is some sort of uninitialised buffer/variable somewhere, and different drivers handle it differently.
There have been many suits about many measures in the US. My selection of Whitmer was meant as a single illustrative example, and not necessarily meant to embody all possible civic vices; if you simply wish to clarify that Whitmer was not ruled "arbitrary and capricious" then that clarification provides people with additional factual information which is well and good.

On the other hand, you can go next door to Ohio and find a ruling using that language in Rock House Fitness et al v. Amy Acton and Lake County General Health District. I decline to enumerate further suits at this time; I need to stop somewhere or I'll be here all day and it won't do anyone any good.
If you ever are in Sicily you must go visit the MUSIF (The museum of functioning computers) it's in a beautiful small town near Siracusa. They have a very nice collection of working computers in an old building.It's a treat ! check it out https://museo.freaknet.org/it/
A legislative path to an interoperable internet
BTW, this is pumping the same video file through the network - not just a single file.
I don't measure latency, but this is not a deep pipeline so it's easy to calculate.
If only this could be cloned into a more accessible instance (as is original).
There are some rather archaic behaviors of the versions of these tools that come by default on MasOSX.

For instance, on a mac the 'sed' command doesn't understand the difference between space and tab

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40311339/using-sed-on-ma...
how can companies grow without ending up being aquired by large US companies?

it’s a very hard to solve this problem, considering the current climate when there are a lot of multi billion (and trillion) dollars companies.
Building web forms with PowerShell Universal
The media engagement index is based on a user's past activity on a site, but Chrome has a special list of "preloaded" sites that are allowed to autoplay video even without any prior media engagement.

The preloaded list is in the source code (https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/master/chrome/brow...) but it's encoded as a finite state automaton that makes it a bit difficult to enumerate the list of whitelisted domains.