skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frightening but also a little confusing. When I was in high school (fairly recent), several of my friends got into top tier ivy leagues without doing any sports.

Are these parents pushing their kids this hard because:

1. Their kids aren't academically talented enough to make it into these schools otherwise?

2. Being in a rich zip code means that there is severe bias against these kids?

3. Entrance requirements have really just gotten this extreme?

or

4. These parents are misguided and somehow locked into the sports = success mentality?
That's a fair response. I do get a bit excitable on this issue, because I consider the ability to express unpopular opinions to be one of the greatest sources of progress in history, from "what if the earth goes around the sun?" to "what if owning people is actually bad?" Yes, that means a lot of bad ideas are going to be out there, which is a price I firmly believe we should be willing to pay.

And I think the point stands that even benign-seeming regulations are going to be enforced by those in power, and are going to be particularly susceptible to selective application. For example, using hate speech or defamation laws to punish criticism of police officers: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/internet-speech/new-ha...
I don't dispute it, but could you elaborate on the painful parts?

I find the crossing in and out of JavaScript to be less than ideal. However, I don't see why WASM couldn't evolve to require less of that, ie. expose more of what you need JavaScript for today.
The XC60 is nice as well.

The only thing that I did not like much when I did the test drive with the V60 was the very light steering wheel. I then think that I read later in the manual that apparently it's possible to increase the resistance somewhere in the car's settings, but I'm not sure anymore => do you know by chance if yours has that setting?
Not quite. With Steam you can download the game files. Yes getting them to run without steam is a little trickier, but its not quite the same as stadia. That's a total loss of any form of ownership.
https://reason.com/2019/10/14/how-two-seasteaders-wound-up-m... is the only article I found after this threat.

The relevant international law is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_t...
with some borders, the 12sm, the 24sm and the 200sm range. Thailand ratified this UNCLOS.
Looks like they missed to put up a flag.
R, or Python.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR4KHfqw-oE
I’d call that necessary or the lesser of two evils, not good.
Now again but capitalise their names.
The X1 carbon is lighter than the xps 13, due to not having a metal shell. I think 14 inch screen is small enough, that's just my preference of course.
It's not the same thing and Location Sharing existed before Trusted Contacts. It's just buried deep into Google Maps, Trusted Contacts was something functionally different and targeted.
First, TCF isn't non-partisan; it's a progressive institution.

More importantly, TCF's "underfunding" metrics assume the conclusion of the debate you're having here. They're generated via correlation of expenditure to 3rd and 5th grade reading and math scores. But if your argument is that increased school funding is an inefficient or even ineffective way to increase 3rd and 5th grade reading and math scores (or, more subtly, if you think those narrow measures aren't durable through 12th grade) then the TCF study isn't really a rebuttal to that argument at all, is it?
The easiest way to waste a career is to remain oblivious of office politics and to think honest and hard work are the way to go.
I understand. It's tough. On the one hand I don't want to stick my head in the sand and disconnect from what's happening in the world, but I also need to consider my mental health. I really hope we can ratchet back the insanity some after the election.
> Well, the syntax is same

Exactly. Which is why I wrote "they adopted the syntax", not "they adopted the ideas". It would have been really wonderful had they adopted the ideas, and it would also have made their marketing slogan "Objective-C without the C" actually truthful.

> the ideas are different

Yes, and that's the problem.

> Trailing closure syntax is basically 'you can remove the parens if there are trailing closures'

Not really, no. The parens are still all there, you just move one (original trailing closure syntax) or more (new keyword trailing closure syntax) of the parameters outside the parens.

Which is horribly inconsistent just by itself. I mean, the point of the parens is that they delimit the arguments. If you have parens, then the arguments go inside the parens. Except for this one...did I say one, I meant these two special cases where the arguments do not go inside the parens.

If you are going to have some of the arguments be outside the parens, why not just go all in and have all of them "outside" by just getting rid of the parens and be (a) consistent and (b) dramatically simpler and (c) readable?

> which was inspired by Objective-C, which was inspired by Smalltalk.

> I don't think Smalltalk influenced that syntax any more ...

Which is it?

Anyway, the point of the article wasn't that they consciously decided to adopt Smalltalk syntax. The point is that they bungled this so badly that they ended up adopting the very Smalltalk syntax that they initially rejected, and the reason they ended up adopting it was that they couldn't make things work reasonably any other way. Except that had they done this from the beginning, they would have not run into any of these problems.
Had the vaccine been available in august or September this year, then the Czech strategy would be best.
But vaccines are not made that fast, it looks like 18 months is realistic and locking down countries that long is just not feasible.

And the current half-life is not a good solution.
That's sadly not a viable option in Latin America due to cost. A laptop that's like generation or two old might go for $1k, maybe more.
CPUs expose a "mostly-C-abstract-machine-like" interface because this allows chip designers to change the internal workings of the processor to improve performance while maintaining compatibility with all of the existing software.

It has nothing to do with C, specifically, but with the fact that vast amounts of important software tend to be distributed in binary form. In a hypothetical world where everybody is using Gentoo, the tradeoffs would be different and CPUs would most likely expose many more micro-architectural details.
1 $30 and jack stand to replace

2 $10-50 at pull-apart/wreckers

3 $200 autozone, $100 Amazon if you feel adventurous. 60 minutes replacement with youtube tutorial playing on tablet/phone

4 meh

Its only expensive if you go to the dealer.
Employee in the same space you are referring to, though bare-metal. The wreckage owners can make by thinking of the short-term gains is baffling.
We are so behind the curve that we'll never make up for it.
Connect that to a printer and yet another reason for on-prem IT goes away.
Arch with KDE. Arch simply because of pacman and the AUR, and KDE, because I like it better than any other DE. Never really bothered with customizing i3 or some other WM.
> First, this happened despite all precautions

... in this family.
> How good this is, ie. how close the reported values get to reality, and to what extend the noise is inherent to the sensor I have no idea though, lacking a calibrated reference to compare this to. Based on suggestions found online on how to reduce the noise by hardware modifications I have to assume most of that is coming from the sensor.

One idea is to put a load of known impedance and check if the reported values matches the theoretical power consumption.
It's the slow agony of this corporate suicide - don't use any products or services, paid or free, as we eventually will shut them down as we don't have the product development and marketing skills to create viable products outside of selling your personal info to advertisers.
I learned Esperanto because it was geeky and super easy to learn, and now I use it almost every day. I've made friends all over the world via the language, and can find people wherever I am to hang out and chat with. It's awesome. In fact, 6 weeks ago I moved from the UK to Spain and so far I've spent about 80% of my time using only Esperanto, with a combination of broken English and Spanish the rest of the time. I wrote a post a while back (that did pretty well here on HN) summing up why I love the language: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18688619

Mi lernis Esperanton pro la nerdeco kaj pro tio, ke ĝi estas tre facile lernebla kaj amuza. 3 jarojn poste kaj mi uzas la lingvon ĉiutage kun amikoj de la tuta mondo. Kie ajn mi troviĝas, preskaŭ ĉiam mi povas trovi amikon (saluton!) kaj vagadi, babili, kaj nur Esperantumi kune. Fakte, antaŭ 6 semajnoj mi transloĝiĝis al hispanio kaj ĝis nun Esperanton mi uzis 80% de la tempo, kaj miksaĵon de la angla kaj mia rompita hispana krom Esperanto la ceteran. Jen artikolo, kiun mi skribis (anglalingve) por klarigi tial, kial mi tre ĝuas la lingvon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18688619
According to the Armbian (one distro to support them all:^) page, mainline kernel support is complete, although they say there still could be some network problems. From what I read on their forum, the Hardkernel Ubuntu-based image is currently more stable than the Armbian one.

https://www.armbian.com/odroid-n2/
https://forum.armbian.com/search/?q=odroid%20n2%2B&fromCSE=1

https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started/os_installation_guid...

Dietpi also supports the N2, which is very similar to the N2+.
https://dietpi.com/
Vietnam has 3.4 times smaller population and it did great.
Likely different strategies for software development and less need to support legacy clients contributed to the line count being much lower.
I think this argument proves too much. Clearly there is speech for which you support Twitter and Facebook suppression, and there is speech for which people here do not. We generally oppose any restraints that operate in the overt service of bigotry, and some of us don't oppose private restraints on unhinged conspiracy theories.

I also strongly object to the notion that liberals somehow own this, when clearly both sides of the spectrum instrumentalize speech and its suppression when it suits them.
I don't want to read your words in your accent, I want to read them with my internal monologue.
They don't seem to know that there is a specific optical wavelength that dissociates chitin via a mechanism not dependent on heating. It seems like much shorter or less focused exposures should suffice at such a wavelength.

In particular, a mosquito whose wings are shredded does not need to be (also) killed to be eliminated as a threat to public health.
If the system doesn't work for the people then they won't want to work with the system.

Food/shelter/inequality all drive that wedge and the sooner we bring things back to a balance the sooner we can work to fix our systemic problems.
Lots wrong here:

> we have vaccine for (almost) every sickness that can put a non-immunodepressed down if the immune response is too late

The 40-60% effectiveness of annual flu shots would beg to differ. And more often it is your immune response being wildly overreactive and attacking healthy cells that causes problems, not a “late response”

> But your immune system do not "decay" if not stimulated.

Sure it does, for one that’s the whole point of booster shots; your immune response to certain pathogens can decay over time (wether acquired from vaccine or naturally).

Additionally the “Hygiene Hypothesis” suggests our world being so clean, and our immune systems not being challenged, has led to a large spike in allergies (like peanuts) as the body searches for anything to attack.

https://www.vox.com/2014/11/6/7163713/peanut-allergy-symptom...
You've got all the answers about a company in Chicago in 2005-2008 and how it should have been run.

Why didn't you jump in and help us?
Excel is a UI over a database table. With a bunch of other UI driven math/stats functions built in. It really comes down to a difference between UI driven folks and folks that are code literate.
Show HN: I co-wrote a novel with GPT-3 in 118 hours
Ask HN:Personalized vs. Generic, Anonymous Links. Which would you prefer?
Been thinking if there could be a preferable alternative to sharing generic or anonymous links, then enters https://heyy.ooo

What do you think?
I would not call 911 unless I judged that I needed either the cops or an ambulance and I'd be pretty pissed if a couple hippies in a van showed up.
and by amazing sheer coincidence the main topic, and the poster you try to argue with both talk about CARS.
Content production for e-commerce at scale
We hacked content production costs 10x and turnover 3x (to 10 days).
We were able to accomplish this:
a) by enabling not professional photographers to do the work without professional equipment
b) by automating the whole production pipeline including creative concepts at scale
Blink reflex time is quite a lot longer than 25ms.
There are already consequences to vitriol and lies which are not contingent on revoking free speech.
For sure police officer are not asked to "keep down marginalized people". But how law is designed and is currently "enforced" by police, how police is recruited trained managed (not) sanctioned... have different effects than just what a police officer perceived he is asked to do...
Ask HN: Why is the US so vulnerable to disinformation from abroad?
I’m interested in general answers to this question. It seems like China and Russia in particular have strong protections against external influence.

What is stopping the US from doing something to filter out such attacks.

I’m interested in the legal, technical and geopolitical reasons, but also whether it’s even a good idea.
Coral can only run inference, and is optimized for models using 8-bit integers (via quantization).

A full TPU v2/v3 can train models and use 16/32 bit floats. They also have a Google-specific (?) 16-bit floating point type with reduced precision.
Most studios wouldn't consider changing from C or C++, but the only other realistic options as of 2020 are D and Rust.
Surely the same could be said for your argument though where you're taking it to an authoritarian extreme?

The opposite of free speech isn't regulated speech for everyone like a distopian future. It could be as simple as requirements for more transparency in certain types of speech like political ads and what qualifies as news versus opinion.

One of the major points of the article is that the spirit of free speech has been corrupted because it has allowed it to be coopted by political and corporate parties that can drown out the voices of the people with no trail back to who's presenting the version of reality to you.

We can regulate categories of media separately of individual rights. Many countries do this successfully without being authoritarian regimes
There are many companies where a person clicks on some phishing link and ends up infecting the entire company with a wormable ransomware.

I have not heard of this ever happening with macOS or Linux.
The Sad Story of Mozilla Keeps Getting Sadder
FWIW I've used glow for a while as more or less a dumb, colorful markdown pager and had no idea this functionality was there, and I am very sure glow was not phoning home because of how I run little snitch.
> With variable length instructions one must decode a previous one to figure out where the next one will start.

People said the same thing about text encodings. Then UTF-8 came along. Has anyone applied the same idea to instruction encoding?
Awesome, thanks! I didn't realize that the newer EIO cards were so backward compatible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...

"The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Judge Jackson's rulings against Microsoft. This was partly because the appellate court had adopted a "drastically altered scope of liability" under which the remedies could be taken, and also partly due to the embargoed interviews Judge Jackson had given to the news media while he was still hearing the case, in violation of the Code of Conduct for US Judges.[24] Judge Jackson did not attend the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing, in which the appeals court judges accused him of unethical conduct and determined he should have recused himself from the case"
That has nothing to do with islands or not. Just lack of political will to enforce.

In Vietnam, when there was a new outbreak in Da Nang, the whole city was isolated from the rest of the country. Flights grounded. Roads closed, with checkpoints. Trains stopped. This lasted for several weeks until it was clear that situation was under control.

Some Canadian provinces had setup measures to prevent unnecessary travel.
What a load of nonsense...

1) Neither iOS, nor "the web" are new platforms.

2) Not only you can program with C++ on iOS, it's heavily used in certain kinds of applications.

3) Why would anyone single out a specific language and claim that it's a problem that you can't use it to build websites with it? This applies to all languages with one exception. Or it did, because now there's WebASM, which makes this argument even more bizarre.

4) C++ had and has first-class support on Windows.
It's closer than 2000.
Apparently cases didn’t exist back when the same design was on the iPhone 4/5?!
Poverty was also a major factor for a lot of us. Entertainment is a basic human necessity, and video games were so compelling to me as a child. When you have days where your mom has sleep for dinner so you don't, it's tough to find any money to spend on entertainment. I can see how it might seem like a better investment to chip in $10 to a cracker who will then release multiple games.

We were fortunate to benefit from a program meant to help get lower income families access to computers and the internet, in the early 2000's, so piracy opened up entertainment options far more diverse than the TV channels we could get over the air. On top of games, I remember burning music CD's for my friends and family. Hell, I remember long hours fiddling with the concept of transcoding and burning VCD's (basically a DVD, but on a CD) for my family to watch.
It also added Rust as a dependency https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/jbzorm/valves_proton_...
Exactly my thoughts too. I love the look and build of the Dell's but the Lenovos, while ugly, are so tough and so easy and cheap to repair. I buy all ThinkPads these days (most recently the T580 and T490, both of which are amazing and run Fedora like a dream, out of the box).
Update: I looked it up. According to Wikipedia, Obesity linked to "100,000–400,000 deaths in the United States per year" or at 10m a life 10-40 Trillion Dollars a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States
>the sails can be retracted to 195 feet in order to clear bridges

Ruh-roh.

Didn't think it looked like it would fit under the Houston Ship Channel bridge last month.

>Wind Power Breezes Back into Shipping with New RoRo Concept
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24458271
The article literally starts out by pointing out that the left brainstormed ideas for what to do if Trump contests the results of the election, and that the right reacted to this brainstorming by arguing it's part of a broader pattern.

There is no way to disentangle the left vs right dynamic in the free speech discussion right now, which is probably why this always gets so heated. People are constantly trying to remove this dynamic because flat out stating one side is "for censorship" while the other isn't rubs up against much of the recent history surrounding free speech and it makes people feel really uncomfortable.
I would have thought the 1918 flu must have done. Eventually people stopped dying of it, and it's not because there was a vaccine.
All of your analysis falls apart at one crucial point: all of the data we have are for Covid19 IFR given the massive lockdowns and dedicated hospital infrastructure.

If you look at regions that were ineffective in handling the spread and had their hospital capacity overwhelmed, mortality jumps through the roof - I think it was higher than 10% in Lombardia before the lockdowns. And remember that hospitals can't work at anywhere close to 100% ICU occupancy for extended periods of time, so if the high inflow persists, mortality is likely to increase much more.

The vast difference between Covid19 and influenza is anyway plain to see if you look at ICU rates, even with all the lockdowns.

So even though your analysis sounds convincing at first read, it is a very bad interpretation of the data. The reality is that Covid19 is a much worse disease than Influenza, and that drastic measures are required to keep it under control (barely).
Yeah, most pumps are AC and this was DC so I didn't have a off the shelf solution.

With a PLC, analog input for the pressure sensor and SSR to drive the PWM it was fairly straightforward to put together. Hardest part was getting the PID tuning right but even that only took a bit of time.
There's a better explanation here, though I still don't understand "34-bit unsigned second counter right shifted two bits" and "(((2^34-1) + (2^31-1)) & ~3)":

https://lwn.net/Articles/829314/
The $63 N2+ has the latest "C" rev of the S922X, which is a dual 2.4GHz A73 + 4x A53 and a "MP6" variety of bifrost GPU, a G51. The C4 has the newer S9005X3, which has 4x 2GHz A55 cores and a smaller G31 bifrost gpu. Those A55's, while improved over the A53's, are going to be sigificantly outmatched by the A73 cores on the N2+.

The H2+ has an Intel J4115 Atom celeron running 2.3GHz all-core, which I expect would trounce these ARM chips. It's also $120.

Alas there hasn't been any update to the excellent Exynos5422 that started HardKernel's/Odroid's ascent as the XU4. Lovely 2GHz Cortex 4x A15 4x A7 with (2x! wow! thanks!) USB3 root hosts and on-package RAM: really an amazing chip way ahead of it's time. These days it's way outgunned but this chip really lead the way for SBCs with it's bigger cores for the time, USB3, and on-package RAM (which we really need to see a comeback on).

Worth noting that the A73 on the N2/N2+ and RPi4 are from ARM Artemis, which hails from 2016. Maybe some year SBC won't all be running half decade old architectures, but at least we're at the point where half a decade ago we were doing something right. ;) Still, one can't help but imagine what a wonder it would be if an chip & SBC were to launch with an ARM X1 chip available.
I heard it was very eurocentric. Are there more global alternatives?
That's some odd gatekeeping there. By "pro" do you mean professional? As in makes money playing games? Sure, you're probably right but I'm not sure how !pro == casual.
I'm thinking more along the lines of covering yourself or your immediate area in a collection of randomly flashing IR LEDs. It's not about blending in, it's about defeating current CCD cameras. Obviously it is just going to attract attention to you when 'sensor fusion' becomes more prevalent. It's for when you want to appear as a glowing ball of light on a surveillance feed and not have your face or gait captured.
Yeah, the Latitudes are basically XPS but aimed at business rather than consumer. I always go with Latitudes.