skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly enough,

>use the blood of children to make immortality drugs

has actually been the topic of notable research. Though the studies I've read were with regard to growth factors and proteins in youth blood plasma. Democrat links I leave on the cutting room floor. Vanna White is the only potential candidate I have currently for an immortal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/science/young-blood-may-h...

Ambrosia was the big name startup around the time iirc.

The rest is mostly hogwash, I agree, but if you actually do a bit of digging, a tall tale sometimes has a nugget of truth. There is also a level of translation and realism required.

>In fact, illuminati exist and are alien lizard people

becomes much less insane if you filter it through the understanding information propagates with less resistance through lower reliability channels and extract the oh so much more likely meaning:

>There exists a small kernel of individuals with influence spanning far beyond what any normal person would experience or recognize, and their mentality or approach to dealing with things is so different as to be hard to understand from a casual observer's or outsider to their number's point of view.

1 and 4 my pedantism and integrity will in no way allow any reasonable entertaining of however.

I do not need your funding at this time, and do hope it isn't taken personally if occasion should find I do in the future, or we end up in the same startup. I just wished to point out that sometimes what sounds absolutely batshit insane is merely missing explicit context.
Almost certainly so. Apple has built chains of certificate trust very deep into the OS, along with apparently an assumption that this particular revocation service check is reliable & fast enough to call out to the network a lot.
> the user said the person who created Python had good taste, not that the language they created has it (somehow)

I think that saying Guido has taste implies that Python is tasteful.
Sadly, I can't update because of problems with system update.

https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
I'm pretty sure it's a bit faster too. Or for some reason I moved to it.
In the US, iOS has 52.4% of the mobile OS market[1], and Android had 47%.

In the US, Apple's App Store is responsible for the majority of mobile app sales[2], and has 3 times the revenue of Google's Play Store.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

[2] https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2020/01/in-2019...
Even that amount of fuel on-site is extreme, I'm guessing it was a pretty small Datacenter as being able to have that much fuel implies relatively low power draw. Tier 4 Datacenter spec is to be able to survive 96 hours of provider power loss.
> "No parallelism" is probably what was meant.

Which is still wrong, of course, but "no in-process (or in-single-runtime-instance) parallelism" would be correct, as would "forking inconvenient parallelism".
More accurate tweet: https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/132699029641299148...
FWIW, neovim's built-in LSP (nvim-lspconfig -- written in Lua, currently in beta) is _outstanding_ and I have already replaced coc.nvim with it in my neovim set up. Set up is super simple, there are 2 extensions to install. Configuration is simple, I think I needed maybe 8 lines added to my `init.vim`. With that I get completion and in-line diagnostics and it's very, very fast, at least with solargraph, clangd, and tsserver.
Speaking as a musician here, I align with the decentralized approach personally, and we've just uploaded our best album so far as CC-BY, using the gracious offer of the funkwhale guys to join their libre audio effort under https://open.audio/channels/wergiftfresch_music/
There's other ways for us to get paid if you insist on it. I'm sure we'll find a way. And if you don't want to pay us, well, just enjoy some positive music :)
What a fantastic page. When I was teaching (music technology) in schools, I used to use optical illusions like these (and the illustration of the blind spot, which many of the kids hadn't seen before!) to illustrate that our senses are not calibrated, scientific instruments, but that we experience the world in a somewhat different manner to reality.

After seeing things like this, the pupils were a lot more open to the idea that their hearing may not be completely accurate, and that the harmonic series in a single note (which we hear all as one tone) could be perceived by another intelligent species as a series of discrete sounds. They also got how lossy audio encoding could throw away masked sounds because our hearing can also be fooled. It was always a great moment seeing them realise that a door had opened to a new understanding of how they navigated the world, and that their assumptions were incorrect (for some of them, of course!)
Even when you have a lot of Chrome tabs open, you still mostly always see the favicon.

When it stop showing the favicons, that's when you really know you have too many tabs open.

It's a bit of a feature, really. The tabs are still completely usable, but not seeing the favicons was just annoying enough that it changed my behavior and would cause me to finally close a bunch of my open tabs.
Those 'backward' countries are hardly untouched by 'democracy' though, are they?

What does it mean that a prison is quiet? Is it that prisoners love their subservience? Or that there are well armed guards. For NZ, it is certainly slave mindedness - the belief is the goodness of government and the Queen is strong.
What is it that I said that you're trying to guess the motivations for?
Not saying that burst performance shouldn't be measured, but it shouldn't be the de-facto go-to performance measure like it is now with geekbench.
Champions of privacy, phoning home a hash of every executable your computer runs!
It's completely, totally and utterly different from browser history!

If I visit HN, browse a bunch of comment threads, and find something I want to come back to later, that's 1 tab but 20 history entries.

Same if I searched for something on Google and eventually found something I want to come back to later. Except that's 1 tab and 50 history entries.

To recover that state via history is practically impossible. It's a needle in a haystack. I've occasionally needed to do it, and it takes a long time.

(Compared with a tab, a bookmark doesn't work well either for something to come back to. Anything where there is a context, such as scroll position. Perhaps if bookmarks were better, keeping track of scroll position and allowing text to be highlighted or a note to be attached, and showing a thumbnail (scrolled to the right place), and retaining some temporal relationships between different pages. But I find bookmarks consisting of just a title and URL to be completely useless.)
>But if you plan on being a serious programmer...

Serious programmers don't say such nonsense. Serious programmers use whatever they are comfortable with. Whether it is vi or IDEA
When a Giant Mylar Balloon Was the Coolest Thing in Space
Flying Taxi – Vertiport
How much volume are you doing? That's been the biggest lever I've seen when it comes to Stripe reducing rates
I explained the point in the very next paragraph, starting "The point I make...".

Sometimes the compiler can guess what operations can be fused, if it knows what hardware the program will run on, and the vendor has revealed those details, and the compiler has incorporated all of them. But almost all programs are built for an ancient target, using a compiler version older than the actual target.

When you really care about performance of a program, you compile it yourself, if you can, and add as much "-march=", "-lto", etc. hackery as you trust, and measure what difference all the different combinations (which interact!) make, and make sure they didn't introduce bugs (which they often do).

But, as I noted, even after that there are lots of 2x effects the compiler doesn't understand. Many programs don't spend all their time in one loop, but almost all spend all their time in loops.
Why Everyone Is Obsessed with Art Nouveau, 12 Pictures
> ...the difference is in phones it was a wide open environment to exploit and the current desktop/laptop market is heavily entrenched...Now if Apple could find inroads into the server market.

These observations of yours actually go together.

The phone business was highly entrenched in 2007 with carriers having all the control (especially in North America) over a highly sclerotic system that sucked almost all the value out of any third party apps. Apple truly disrupted them all: phone mfrs, carriers, and the app environment.

Apple has an opportunity to do the same with the cloud business. They have three lines of attack, ones they've used before. 1 - a lot of cloud code is platform agnostic (in Python or js etc) so for that the switching cost will be lower 2 - they have an edge in privacy protection and, on a cost basis, their NN chips vs Nvidia who has been lucky enough to enjoy a quasi-monopoly. People will pay for this, especially when/if privacy rules start to have teeth. 3 - Since they are vertically quite integrated and build their own chips, Apple can build web hardware optimized for high performance networking, lots of NNs, etc with kernels to go with. Their cost structure is potentially a lot lower even compared to open connect folks because they already have everything set up to build lots of machines so they can be quite profitable while undercutting the Amazons of the world.

Local server machines? Not a chance. And will they do the cloud? It seems likely they will be driven to it, but given their decades of poor execution on anything but hardware it seems better than even odds that they would flub it despite putting great people on it.
Plexiglass: PyTorch toolbox for adversarial attacks and deepfake research
Plexiglass is a PyTorch toolbox for cybersecurity research and testing against adversarial attacks and deepfakes. Contributions/ feature requests are welcome!
The swedish study discussed here is what I was remembering: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/never-too-late-ex...
They note that people who began exercising late in life didn't get much benefit to mortality risk by the 5 year benefit, but by the tenth year their risk was the same as the group that had always been active.
I hope this update doesnt slow my 2014 macbook pro to a crawl. Anyone update yet?
Python (and Jupyter) in Visual Studio Code – November 2020 Release
It doesn't, the Adguard developers just chose to write their app in such a way that their main app (which is an Electron app) needs to be in the loop for everything.
#11 literally changed my life. I used to debate people online and get irrationally upset when I couldn't change their opinions. Reading that xkcd was like getting a dope slap. I still debate but I rarely let myself get upset and if I do I try to hold that in my mind.
“What if people who did not vote voted?”
Sorry, as someone who maintains and develops a web application, from my perspective Safari is the new Internet Explorer. I had to wrote so many workarounds for Safari now, it is just annoying. And you even can't write real bug reports for it! The worst was an incorrect daylight saving time handling which drove me nuts, because some users had problems with the application and some not.
>The current elites don't have the ability to suppress billions of people who were raised on freedom as the central principle of their existence.

I hope I'm not too cynical, but I think "freedom" is more of a meme than something that most people value. Whenever there are news stories about governments spying on their own citizens or restricting free speech, most people seem to just shrug and move on with their lives.
I think people don't understand the perspective here because it's being normalized by all the big players.

To make it simpler to understand, apply this system to your computer. What if you couldn't install what you wanted and everything would have to go through a protected store? If the platform dislikes your app, they could just remove it from the store and no one could get it.

It adds a huge gate in front of the hardware that YOU paid for. You're essentially getting milked from both sides which is terrific for Apple, awful for the consumer.
Show HN: Privacy overkill in location-based weather forecasting
It still seems like society is throwing far too little money at this problem. It would be worth paying twice as much just to speed up the pace of global vaccination by two months.
This link says 80k/month, which matches our experience -> https://www.fool.com/the-blueprint/stripe-payments-review/
Jim Keller apparently not only worked on Ryzen but also on an arm CPU named K12 [1] until 2015. It is likely that AMD still has the blueprint for that CPU stashed away to focus on the x86 market but still have a plan b if arm becomes dominant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K12
Considering that php runtime in 2020 is quite speedy (see swoole) a WinRT binding (good lib space) is not the worst combination. Just the syntax :)
> Do you have the numbers for the "not high risk" category?

If I'm looking at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se... right, out of 15,230 coronavirus deaths in New York, 14,540 of them were people over 65 or confirmed to have underlying conditions, and only 92 of them were people under 65 and confirmed not to have underlying conditions. About 15% of their population is over 65. I'm not sure what the population base rate is for underlying conditions, though.

> Also, what about the high risk people? Do we just throw them under the bus?

No. We quarantine just them to keep them safe, and give them all free grocery delivery, etc. too.

> Also, what about spreading a new virus to billions of hosts and praying for no mutations?

I agree that's bad. I'm just saying that a lockdown that looks like it's going to last over a year is worse.
I have tried multiple times to use it, but it takes several seconds to load, vs DuckDuckgo which shows up almost instantly.
Well yeah, no shit.

It's bleeding edge new tech that other than the A12x hasn't been available for more than a few months... And I'd argue apple arm silicon is going to be a tectonic industry shift.
I also write both Go code and C#, amongst other things. I find your assertion that C# has lots of ceremony and ends up with more code than Go frankly pretty strange.

Go is well known for having laborious error handling (prompted by a lack of exceptions) and masses of boilerplate and verbosity precipitated by the lack of various other features, the most glaring of which is an absence of generics. This means implementing custom data structures is generally an exercise in copy paste, or ignoring type safety.

Things like the lack of extension methods, JSON and YAML serialisers that require explicit annotations everywhere instead of conventions, the lack of OO/polymorphism, no ternary operators, null chaining operators, etc. etc. also contribute to the verbosity.

Simplicity is good, but the lack of expressivity and the need for such boilerplate is bad. A pretty poor type system makes it worse. Go has many strengths, but I massively prefer C# for the majority of non-trivial situations.

Regarding performance, it depends heavily on what you're doing. For example, Go's allocator and GC is designed to optimise for low pause latency, whereas dotnet is optimised more for high throughput and good cache coherency. Given the extent to which most apps are stalled waiting for memory, the lack of good cache coherence in Go allocations, and the lack of a generational GC can absolutely decimate performance. DotNet is capable of allocating at 25x the speed of Go, for example.

Go read https://medium.com/servicetitan-engineering/go-vs-c-part-3-c...
Don't ask me :D I just took the info from the article.

On the other side, given I'm half Croatian, seagulls and other meat-eating birds will absolutely devour that meat in no time - they will lead other flocks of birds to the food source.
What are you trying to say? I honestly can't tell.

It sounds like you're saying that PhDs should decide what best practices are, without regard for evidence. If so, that had better be sarcasm, because it's patently absurd.

If your point was something else, could you clarify?
Check out Inkplate [1], which is an ESP32 based 6.5" E Ink display, refurbed from a kindle. It has everything to build a wall mounted screen, that can update itself over Wifi or Bluetooth with battery for weeks.

They Croatian company [2] is already working on a 10" model.

[1]https://www.crowdsupply.com/search?q=inkplate

[2]https://inkplate.io
Literally anyone can quickly get a HN story title changed if they let us know how an existing title is inaccurate. This is bog-standard moderation which we do all day every day, and it is certainly not limited to YC cos.

The intention is to have a front page with accurate and neutral titles. Call that censorship if you want to (as far as I can tell, that word is just a pejorative for editing that someone doesn't like) but it seems a bit weird to speak of "censoring" titles for being misleading.

As I said elsewhere in the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074261), if anyone can suggest a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral) we'd be happy to change it again.
Is python the worst for package management?

I thought C and C++ might have similar issues since there's no unified package management there either.
Really? The first release of pip was in 2011 [1] and the earliest release of Conda I can find is 1.1.0 in Nov. 2012 [2], and the first public commit (into an empty repo) was a month earlier [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_(package_manager)

[2] https://github.com/conda/conda/tags?after=1.3.0

[3] https://github.com/conda/conda/commit/c9aea053d8619e1754b24b...
> Much as I hate it, docker solves this. Failing that poetry or if you must venv. (if you're being "clever" statically compile everything and ship the whole environment, including the interpreter) its packaging is a joy compared to node. Even better, enforce standard environments, which stops all of this. One version of everything. you want to change it? best upgrade it for everyone else.

No, docker doesn't solve the fact that some packages just won't play nicely together. NPM actually does this better than the python ecosystem too since it will still work with different versions of the same dependency. You get larger bundle sizes but that's better than the alternative of it just flat not working.
What state/region and specific timeframe do you have in mind? Weren't lockdowns instituted in most places before recorded deaths got really high?
Also, see a lot of blank screens within apps for 20-30 seconds. For example Dropbox or Chrome. Than content within UI loads.
I've been really interested in uhtml recently.
When I first signed up with Stripe years ago, it was a breath of fresh air. Stripe did one thing exceedingly well, at an understandable price and took minutes to integrate with.

I could sell Stripe to my developer friends (and did, a lot!) in a single sentence: "You can add credit card charging to your site in about 15 minutes for 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction." I can't do that anymore. Stripe is no longer a single-sentence sell.

Stripe still does good work. But the air is getting murkier. I'll point to some objective changes, but mostly Stripe is just starting to feel different.

- Several years ago, when I saw announcements that Stripe started supporting ACH payments (and later international payments), I thought, "Great! This is Stripe! I'll just be able to flick a switch and turn those on." Not so. I understand that it's complicated from their end. It's just not the same "Stripe is so easy" experience. "Stripe is supposed to abstract away the complexity, not expose it to me."

- The pricing page is a big sign of the added complexity. There used to just be one or two numbers on that page [1]. Compare that with the current pricing page [2]

My suggestion to you, pc: Start a little company within Stripe to disrupt Stripe (i.e. re-simplify) in the same way Stripe disrupted the industry 10 years ago. Or keep getting bigger and become just as complex as the things Stripe replaced.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20111216054911/https://stripe.co...

[2] https://stripe.com/pricing#pricing-details
I'm paraphrasing here, but "we think it will work, but the only problem is we don't know how much dynamite to use" strikes me as the statement of a man who was offered a job that he would, under no circumstances, say no to, including the particular circumstance where he has no idea how to do that job. Can't say I would behave much differently in that situation, though.
> Software developers also don't have much choice. There are two platforms that control all the market share. They have to accept the rules given to them or leave the industry (one they helped create).

To put this in perspective consider these stats.

In the US, iOS has 52.4% of the mobile OS market[1], and Android has 47%.

In the US, Apple's App Store is responsible for the majority of mobile app sales[2], and has 3 times the revenue of Google's Play Store.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

[2] https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2020/01/in-2019...
Big Sur update has taken down developer.apple.com (along with the hash checker OCSP service). I will try again tomorrow.
If you read the original "plenty of room at the bottom" feynman specifically argues against chemistry.

http://www.nanoparticles.org/pdf/Feynman.pdf
Maybe it's just me but the idea that my computer lets Apple (+ any LE organizations) surveil my app launches seems so much scarier than any malware.
Or start a regular Linux VM and run Docker inside instead of using the wrapper.
The latest Safari breaks many of the WebGL demos on Shadertoy where Chrome has zero issues. I haven't investigated the reason but that could affect more than just games. TensorflowJS relies on WebGL backend for heavy model weight lifting (lots of puns)
This is all nice and fine and I agree that it's become a very capable browser in many regards, but its lack of support for uBlock Origin is a complete deal breaker for me.
I hopped on the Vim train about 2-3 years ago and haven't looked back. That said, I do use VSCode with Vim key bindings more than anything. It doesn't have everything Vim does, but it does have Tim Pope's almighty surround plugin, out-of-the-box. https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

ys2w) will put brackets around the next 2 words. That is a beautiful thing.
This is horrible. How can launching apps be depending on a cloud service being available...
It's a good thing that I didn't imply they were being artificially inflated, then.

Someone stated that vehicular accidents are not being reported as COVID-19; I found a counterpoint. And I do not doubt that it is one of many. That is all.

It's science. Questioning the easy numbers is what you're supposed to do. You tear and kick at something that is "known" until you get sick of it and move on to something else. Similarly, we have just oodles of confounding factors for our statistics here and we should be acutely aware of it at every step. This is not a thing that rests.
What better way is there to improve balance than to get stronger? Isn't that what improving balance is: Strengthening the musculoskeletal system to support yourself?

This is why the focus on cardio related exercise for the elderly has always confused me. I'd like to see this study done with a basic strength training program instead.