skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is it "unfair" for public bodies to compete?

There are two halves to a business - how much value it creates for its customers (which can be roughly estimated from its revenue) and how much drain it places on society (represented by the cost of running the business). There are arguments that revenue doesn't measure the full benefit and costs don't measure the full drain. Disregard them for the moment, because this part of the thread isn't arguing about that and revenue/costs catch a lot of the value/drain.

The government can compete unfairly because they aren't constrained by costs - a government body can provide marginally better service by placing vastly more drain on the community. They have a lazy option which is (1) damaging to the community and (2) unfair because their competition can't legally force taxpayers to cover their inefficiencies. Thus it is unfair, and also bad.

As an example, the Australian government in 2008 decided to roll out fiber-to-the-premise to around 90% of Australia, an expensive undertaking that no private company would attempt in one big push. All the telecom companies cancelled their infrastructure upgrades and rollouts effective immediately and I got to spend 2 years without internet because I was moving to a newly constructed area. The telecom companies couldn't compete fairly (they couldn't justify a gold-plated rollout based on actual projected demand) so they just left the market. Access was prioritised to rebuilding existing infrastructure in swing electorates.

It is possible, but very unclear, that the Australian government offered the best option. I personally as a customer would much rather have spent less on the network and lived with a cheaper, more quickly available product. So I would rather have gone with other providers, but they had left the market because they couldn't fairly compete.
"C++ is actually one of the most difficult languages to use"

That is your opinion, and one shown time and time again is not true.
HDMI into Raspberry Pi, Wireguard, xBMC?
By renewing my contract for 6 more months.

I am a contractor, I get paid for hours spent. If I got paid by money saved I’d be a consultant. Small but important difference and wildly different business models.
You notice how I mentioned taste after price. I suspect McDonald’s prioritizes costs over taste, but that taste will factor into their final product.
>It may come as a surprise, but you basically have to bake networking into the engine

I'm not sure what you mean? Are you saying bevy's architecture isn't fitting?

Not to mention that you evidently don't _have to_ do this, seeing as how in Unity you're basically forced to work with raw sockets.
Why go socialist when freemium doesn't raise your taxes? If advertisers would pay for tattoos, we probably wouldn't have to worry about healthcare anymore.
Lucky for you GP said they were comparable, not healthier!
Please don't do political flamewar on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25023556.
The article points out that it’s slower than the 4a, which is half the price. That’s ... less than great.
These bonds do fund growth and research, though. Why do you think the companies issue bonds in the first place? Same with governments: if you think buying government bonds is such a waste of money, why don’t you blame more the government for wasting it instead?
It is fairly efficient with rabies. Aside from bats, most European wildlife is now rabies-free. But to pull this off worldwide is not realistic.
That definition is incomplete without a provision for "... and will change their mind when presented with sufficient evidence for the proposition". That is, the skepticism has to go both ways. Merely being attached to doubting the proposition is exactly denialism and exactly not skepticism.

More or less by definition it's impossible for a denialist to tell that they're not being skeptical, because they can move the goalposts on "sufficient evidence" indefinitely. This is a deep epistemological conundrum with no easy answer. But as a rule of thumb, skeptics generally include the "both ways" aspects in their definition of skepticism, while denialists focus solely on justifying their doubt.
I just want to point out that I was unable to fill out my 2021 marketplace application on healthcare.gov until I stopped blocking optimizely.com in Little Snitch.
> My claim was a response to an assertion which has now been edited, so...

This is certainly something I sometimes do, but not here. What are you talking about?
So great to see Gather on HN! I've been following Cyrus, Philip, and Kumail for a while, and been really impressed by their work.

I've tried Gather and a few of the other competitors out there - out of all of them Gather nails the UX the most. It's pretty simple, but it's also powerful. Most of the other competitors in this space have thrown together a sloppy "business" platform, but Gather just feels much more accessible, friendly, and easy to use.
I had a similar experience, for an "Amazon's Choice" recommended popular camera knock-off. The camera came with an insert saying they would give you a "free gift" if you left a four or five star review. I contacted Amazon support with images and they said they would address it. They didn't and the product still stands as "Amazon's Choice." I tried to leave a review saying the reviews were fake and got a warning (obviously seller initiated) that those types of reviews violated Amazon's policies.

Amazon clearly enables review scams.
Lessons Learned Building an Open Source MLOps Platform
I love the idea - in fact I expect all the big providers to follow you sometime - which is probably good and bad.

But I love it.
I agree McPlant is quite boring, and honestly, a little unappetizing. Although I'm happy they are (finally) offering a vegetarian burger, with all the time they waited to release one, they could have put more thought into the name.
Is it correct to say that mmWave is like 5G++?

(For those of us that don't know)
It's super convenient for me to drop my phone in the phone holder when I get in my car and have it start charging, and to just take it out of the holder when I exit my car, without having to plug and unplug the phone. It's different from charging at home since when at home, I pick up and use the phone in my hand even while it's charging, so a wireless charger is less useful, while in a car the phone has to stay in the holder when I am driving, so saving the steps of having to plug and unplug makes sense.
Greetings, folks: as we know, headlines don't tell the full story, and no, spoiler alert, Go alone did not save HealthCare.gov. A lot of people pulling together and working very hard over many months did. There are very many stories about the rescue. This is but one part about how indeed, a modest but important service written in Go, yes, did help, a lot.

It is worth noting that, 7 years later, almost all of HealthCare.gov has been rebuilt, and substantial parts of it are in Go. This is in part what the company I co-founded after the rescue has been up to. (If this kind of thing -- building modern, reliable digital infrastructure for government -- seems appealing to you, [we are hiring][1].) This is a pretty interesting story in its own right.

[1]: https://adhoc.team/join/
> What's the endurance of these devices?

It says in the article.
"In the indie space, you see a lot more titles where performance is a secondary consideration"

With the added mention that the game still has to run smoothly, otherwise it's extremely annoying, no matter how great the concept.
That paper is a hoot, especially the bibliography :

> 5. Joy MP, Joy DD, Joy TP (2006) Rabies outbreak in Pokémon daycare center. Infectious Diseases 33: 377-378

> 9. Mazzetti D (2016) Fraud in exercise science journals: Do you even peer review? Archives of Broscience 112(7): 896-902.

> 11. Crichton M (2013) Origin and Defeat of the Andromeda Strain. Journal of Cryptovirology 116(6): 1360-1363.

> 18. Joy SM (2006) Pangolins do not cure cancer any other diseases. Journal of Please Stop Eating Endangered Species 21: 420-430.

and on and on and on XD
Well, there are less reasons to oppose unsubsidized, zero-margin municipal broadband, one of which is the likely scope creep and eventual subsidy. That said, I would be very interested to see it would work out.

50%+1 of the population voting for something doesn't make it good; the public overwhelmingly supports farm subsidies, and those are terrible.
>The way we treat animals is the slavery of our time, if not much worse

The woke police would like a word with you lmao...

>Just because you're more intelligent or more capable than a different kind of animal, that doesn't mean that your life is worth more than theirs

What kind of rinky dink PETA argument is this? If you have kids I hope you explain to them that in an emergency you are likely going to save the dog and not your child because "your life isn't worth more than the dog's."
Crunch time has nothing to do with the language. We're not fighting the language. We're fighting last minute requirements, design changes, etc. My favorite that always happens, a complete change to the UI. I've never been on a project were it didn't happen.
Hey no offense and no worries. I also appreciate the discussion. I understand people have different opinions or see the world different ways. I'd also like to try to understand that. I agree that's really important.

I think there is often a tendency to see the other side as somehow brainwashed or ill informed and maybe that can be fixed. But maybe it's less of that and more just different priorities.

From my perspective #1 was the removal of the neocon war machine. I don't care about stupid, nonprofessional or offensive comments that offend "nice" people (well I do but not very much). I think some people even go a step further and actually like that. I think it's a selling point to a certain crowd.

What the liberal prime minister of Canada thinks of the US, what nice people in Canada in offices engaged in upspeak and office talk think of the US is just not that important to me. Perhaps that is a personal failing but it's just not. I have other higher priorities.

What is important to me is anyone who voted for the Iraq War, anyone who was a prosecutor in our justice system, anyone that has neocon "democracy" building tendencies or agendas to change the social fabric of the country through various engineering schemes is not given the levers of government. I regard both of those efforts as harmful and doomed to fail. So that's first on my list.

There's a lot more I could say, and I will. Let me read through your post again and think. Again, appreciate the chance to express myself without the flame-baiting. I actually had to close my real HN account just after the 2016 election the hatred was so intense. It looks like one can almost admit in polite company now though :)
Yeah, we use Hasura for some endpoints and it's great for rapid development, but still has a lot of sharp (or indeed dull) edges.
> (Our own team works out of a Gather office--most of our team has actually never met each other in person)

Yikes. As someone who's worked remotely for over a decade, I can't imagine starting a company with people I've never had a beer with.
Isn't it a bit of a stretch to connect funding that eventually indirectly lead to Google, with someone who was the CEO for 10 years (not even since inception)?

Google itself is still an American company paying taxes, Schmidt hasn't been the CEO of Google for a decade, I don't see why that's related. By that logic you could also say that the US Gov also helped pay for his high school or even kindergarten maybe.

I'm not really taking a side here, but it seems like your argument is a bit too broad.
Neat. Curious: What's your stance on open-sourcing all civic infrastructure, like Healthcare.gov?
Because state sizes are massively lopsided.

Split California into 6 states and they could still each have more population than many other ones. In your system, they not have 6 times as much total power.

How does THAT make sense?
I've never seen centralization as such a bad thing. We need a human to fix things when they go wrong. If my bank account or my visa card get stolen, eventually there is somebody I can talk to to get this fixed. If there is an economic crisis or runaway inflation, people smarter than I am are at least going to try to mitigate it. When the shit hits the fan for unprecedented, unforeseen reasons, we can resolve that with judgment and fairness. This centralized human factor can go terribly terribly wrong, but it's no less necessary for it.
> We can't vaccinate all the bats.
It is possible. It isn't "vaccination" as we traditionally know it but there are gels that take advantage of bats' grooming behaviour. Put gels that kill virii on some bats. Other bats groom these bats and the gel(s) get(s) into these bats [0]

[0]https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_streicker_what_vaccinating_...
They could have had 0-days at the time. That would help to determine if chrome is just having a bad year due to luck (albeit i think this entire thing is BS)
The "draconian" was a reference to a different comment by parent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25038688).

Whatever your opinion is about taxes and the middle class: It's easy for the wealthy to not pay taxes - that was my whole point.
It’s like 5G part 1; It’s not really an iteration, but a subset.
Do any shops offer incentives like vouchers and perks to leave reviews and moderate other reviews? Would something like this drown out the fakes and balance out e.g. the bias that unhappy customers are much more likely to leave a review than any other? Seems an obvious thing to try but I've never seen it.

Sometimes I see people leaving reviews for the most mundane items like tin foil and vegetable oil, and wonder why they do it.
It's amazing to me how strongly people want to believe there's some magical way that rich Americans are avoiding taxes by hiding money in exotic locales.

This was possible in the past for Americans, but it doesn't make sense anymore. That's the truth. The secretive Swiss banks and numbered accounts you read about in adventure novels as a kid are all reporting on US citizens now.

It doesn't matter how much resources Eric Schmidt has, the US government has more resources and power than Eric Schmidt. Especially given he's a widely known public figure, he'd be the perfect target of any investigation.

US taxes are already extremely favorable to the rich. Do you seriously think he'd risk his freedom and reputation over something so stupid?
Another reason why that synchronous 14 day lockdown would fail to eradicate the virus: unless you are going for total solitary confinement, intra-family transmission chains would be able to sustain the virus much, much longer than those 14 days. Even a household as small as a two child nuclear family could sustain the virus quite long if each infection happens to have a fan-out of one and happens rather late in the contagiousness window.
Only time will tell. At the beginning of the pandemic the strategy was to simple hold out until a vaccine is found (Which is the strategy developed for influenza). Doing lockdowns reducing the infection rates to almost nothing or even eradicating it in some countries was seen as impossible. Yet that’s exactly what we did. I think eradication is possible.
Dont most SSDs have capacitors for this?
I have running notes that said 20M doses by end of year, so 10M people.

Oxford/Astrazeneca are the only ones who have alluded to 100M doses in 2020.

Everyone else won't get phase III results until 2021: johnson and johnson, merck, novavax, sanofi
I'm try to not sound rude, but I don't think I can. Every C++ developer with even some significant amount of experience will identify this as bad code with one eye closed. Of course this looks wrong to someone that doesn't know the language. People freak out because it crashes your program, but in the end it's just a bug and producing bugs that are not obvious to someone that doesn't use the language much is very easy with every language.

I remember people prophesizing the end of C++ because of the introduction of string_views. When writing a text editor over a couple of weeks (a lot of text manipulation) I used string_views extensively and purposely over-used them (returned them a lot or kept them for a long time), because I wanted to see how dangerous they could be and I never got a bug/crash that was related to them. Of course you have to think about what you are doing, but you should be doing that anyway.
What I am trying to say is that while it's never "free" to not write bad code, if you get used to it, you don't have to think as hard about it, as you might think.

There are way more common examples of easy ways to break your code, like storing references/pointers to elements in vectors, which then resize or capturing objects in lambdas that get destroyed before the lambda is executed and stuff like that. Even out-of-bounds access to arrays/vectors is a lot more common than that, I think personally.
There is nothing wrong with Java except the issues surrounding protecting your code from reverse engineering.
A picture is worth a thousand words (and why that's a bad thing)
Show HN: I made a value-driven job board for the gaming industry
It makes no money.
The dependency graph is why you should always prefer INDEX over OFFSET, unless you really can't avoid it:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/exc...

Every instance of OFFSET in your sheet is recalculated after each cell change. I learnt that the hard way.
I think people on this thread saying "any language would have worked" miss the point.

The solution was to find a simple, obvious to deploy and maintain and monitor piece of code, doing precisely the thing needed to solve the very specific problem they had, and nothing more.

And this is precisely the kind of culture that has been built around the go language from day one.
So, in a way, it's absolutely not surprising that go was chosen.
burrito code vs spaghetti code, which is worse?
I have thought about an eventual web version but more as a visualization tool for sharing files over the internet.

The idea was to be an offline-first app for privacy reasons, but I'll take a look at the file system support in the browser extension API, it might be a more accessible alternative.
I'm unconvinced that I'd be any worse off if, say, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas left. Again, right now, I'd like them to take me up on it. Their citizens' voting power is so much greater than mine, it is infuriating.
I'm cautiously bearish on this type of idea -- the virtualized "2D physical space."

I think it could work in virtual reality with Facebooks' emotive expressions, face tracking, etc. But if I'm in the middle of a workday, moving a little 2d character around doesn't feel very useful. But perhaps I'm wrong!

If this type of idea does actually get strong PM fit, the market size could be huge. So for VCs it seems like an interesting bet to make, even if the odds of success are low.
Thanks to McDonald's (and others) breaking all the rules and abusing immigrants, the current situation is you have to be physically inside Canada for 5 years out of 7 before you can even apply for citizenship.

And that's just to apply. The process can easily take a year or two longer. Also every day I spend outside Canada (holiday, visiting family, whatever) pushes that back.

It's a LONG process.
Those speeds look nice. 7100srMB/s and 5250 srMB/s

I ended up getting a Samsung Evo 970 plus (1TB) a while ago because it was in a sale for $85. Almost half the speed of the ones in the benchmark. Maybe I should have waited.
I persobally will continue to avoid McDonalds but think this is not a bad initiative. I’ve been eating a whole lot less meat lately and don’t miss it at all. I sometimes have veggie burgers from Trader Joe’s and they are, surprisingly, very good. I also tried veggie salamy and bologna and they are quite good as well though the heavy processing is a big turn off for me.
A sea border is used more for trade -- Australia trades nearly as much with China as Canada does with the US! This idea that islands are somehow LESS dependent on foreign trade is afactual, you can see it in the 2019 import/export figures. And people have been barred for US/Canada crossings for those reasons for months. And there's not a lot of Coronavirus coming from Canada... So really, what advantages does an island have?
I love how all the highest rated “Amazon’s Choice” items for a USB-C Hub all have Q&A feedback saying the HDMI port doesn’t work, but the reviews saying the same thing get scrubbed

How do we even find reliable dongles/hubs these days
Sounds like he wrote a seller review and posted it as a product review.
I like the idea of providing services for free, but this is false:

> The state can use its centralized negotiating power to get lower prices

Governments are notorious for getting terrible prices for what they directly pay for due to incentives and political pressures increasing restrictions and complexity.

At least a ubi keeps market forces in place for services.
Yeah, stuff like Tvheadend and MythTV have been around since forever (MythTV came about the same year as Slingbox started development). Just need a basic whitebox computer with a TV tuner/capture card to host, though last I looked into it (which was years ago to be fair) it was still a bit complicated to set up.

I always wanted to set one up back in the day but never did as I don't watch much broadcast TV. I remember a friend of mine showing me his setup and thinking it was cool as heck to be able to stream all around his house or even remotely while he was on the go. Though this predated high bandwidth cellular data so "remote" meant "on a laptop over wifi."
You know, I was wondering where the italian mob had disappeared to.. I guess we have a clue now?
I think it's a good idea (not a magic silver bullet, but considering tradeoffs, on balance better than proprietary platforms), but it's entirely up to the government folks in charge of particular projects.
If GraphQL asks one to consider the most concrete use cases possible... what is the point? I'm aware it's just an alternative to bespoke endpoints, REST or otherwise, but the problem is it promises a lot of stuff that is really hard to actually fulfil in reality. At which point, what is it actually getting you?
> Covid would be over if everybody used a properly fitted respirator.

AND gave up all human interaction. It is absurd to suggest that we should sacrifice civilisation for a virus
It's undefined behavior, so it'll literally print anything. On my system with my compiler version it'll print xyz without any optimization, but if I use -O3 optimization it prints nothing. But it could just as easily segfault or print garbage from memory.

Edit: If I move the first line into a function and return that string_view, then with optimizations it still prints nothing, but without optimizations it prints random varying garbage each time I run it, different each time.
Only enterprise class drives typically have power loss protection and even that isn't a guarantee as some in that class don't have PLP.
> The UNARY_NEGATIVE opcode pops value from the stack, negates it and pushes the result.

Why not have a top of stack register? Then all you need to put in your case statement (naively) is

tos = -tos;

thereby avoiding a pop and a push. In a virtual machine for a dynamically typed language such as Python, you'll need to handle different types, and for a statically typed language you'll need separate instructions for int and float, but in any case you avoid the pop and push. If the instruction takes more than one item from the stack, you at least have one fewer pop.

Incidentally, Burroughs mainframes were hardware stack machines and had two top of stack registers, A and B.