skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole time I read this article, I was thinking "well, there's SOAP...". Was very surprised when I realized he was talking about something like protocol buffer. SOAP is a great way to solve the problem described in this article, but good luck creating a SOAP API in node. "What is old is new again"?
If curious see also

a thread from 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515225
>start playing random noises and telling me there's an incoming call.

Open your bluetooth settings and change the mode from HSP/HFP to A2DP mode. That incoming call issue happens in HSP mode because something has tried to access a microphone which has defaulted to your headphones mic which causes the bluetooth mode to switch.
Show HN: A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript
> But can anyone say with a straight face that, all things being equal, PHP is a “superior” programming language to Ruby? Can anyone say that Python—taken as a whole—is more suited to building a website than Ruby is?

I wish the article showed me something to try to convince me. There's lots of words, but not much content.
> Authoritarianism is bad for business

But it's also good for business when the business's owner belongs to a ruling clique or is very close to it or, at least, always cooperates with it.
Thank you for a well reasoned argument. I would love some formalism of actual useful lofted weight, vs apparent weight lofted to some stated orbit. Getting 27 tonnes to LEO but leaving 50 tonnes in unstable orbit is not 77 tonnes of useful loft, to me (fictive example)
GM is leaning heavily into electric. This is not the 90s. They are not going to scrap your car.
Can you block this stuff with a hardware firewall?
I have always disliked specieist attitudes that humans are unique in X.

Other beings can have desires, wants, likes, dislikes, personalities. If you look closely, every pigeon is unique in its gait, what it likes to eat. Even worker ants each have a different way of walking.
I strongly suspect that is the case, especially considering the logo :)
The probably not obvious at this point context is the comment I replied to was an early reply (the first one?) and is probably assuming "The issue is you are a woman and it must have been a male dominant environment -- just like here on HN where DoreenMichele is a woman in a predominantly male environment." In spite of me promptly replying to say "no, that wasn't the issue," there has been at least one other comment assuming it's about my gender -- which is why I added a link to that comment to my initial reply (in hopes of preventing ten other replies assuming it was about my gender).

Sometimes, there are no good answers.

I'm going to go try to do other things now. If other people here want to continue to make it about me that my comment in this discussion happens to have been upvoted by other people, I'm not taking responsibility for that. It was my third comment for the day on HN and the other two have been utterly and completely ignored so far.

I have no control over other people's upvotes and a really poor ability to predict which of my comments will do well on HN. I spend about half my time going "That was brilliant. Why doesn't anyone appreciate me?" and the other half going "God, why is this being upvoted so much???" and maybe one percent of my time going "Yes, this makes total sense to me how this comment is being received." (Comment not intended to be mathematically accurate nor to cover all scenarios of how I feel about HN reactions to my comments.)

0_o

Toodle doo, y'all.
its actions cause app prices to be significantly higher than they would be otherwise, if they allowed competing app stores.

I'm not so sure this is true. Historically it's far from true, but this is 2020, not 2010, so there are definitely a few examples now of companies charging more to balance out Apple's fees. That said, Apple essentially created what was decried at the time as a rush-to-zero that made mobile apps free or close to it, in turn driving down the price of many non-mobile games.

Your statement seems to take only one side into consideration, while Apple will be highlighting both sides. If Fortnite in-game currency becomes less expensive, but the average game becomes more expensive, do we win or lose?
I think the crux of the issue is how powerful and unrelenting the internet mob has become.

If there was a way to neuter this power, or better ensure the punishment enacted by the mob fits the crime, less people would advocate for denial.

As it stands, public shaming often goes way overboard.

For those interested in hearing more stories of this: https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_ronson_when_online_shaming_goe...
For all we know about physics, we still can't answer basic questions.

Much of physics is just describing how our world behaves, not what our world is.

To me, It's depressing that all the physics we know could be thrown away with one discovery.

As a lay person, it seems useless to spend too much time learning what we currently know.

It's like becoming well-read on the latest theories of copernicus only to have Isaac Newton blow the whole thing up.

It's great if you're a physicist. It opens doors to new work.

But not so great if you just want to know what it is and how does it work.
Because given the regulation has been in the works and they knew it, they probably would have to have state this precise risk in their IPO documents for fear of being sued and big investors might have balked?
There's no hard limit, but given that a single durable object is single-threaded, storing a huge amount of data in a single object may make it hard to access that data. Also, the system may be less likely to migrate huge objects to move them closer to their users. So, we recommend aiming for small, fine-grained objects, kilobytes to megabytes in size. But there's nothing fundamentally preventing an object from growing to multiple gigabytes.
Lightfoot cancel Thanksgiving DAYS after celebrating in crowded Chicago streets
Bputil: Utility to precisely modify the security settings on Apple Silicon Macs
That's great information. Thank you for sharing. I wasn't aware it was operated by the wholesaler to local bookstores, but that makes sense. It seems to be a smooth platform with a massive selection.
> I recently pointed out to a different coworker some whitespace inconsistency in a pull request in a similar fashion as I had pointed out a while back.

Just use transformers :)
Have we learned nothing from the AIDS crisis?

It's clear to most people, in that instance, that an ugly side of human thinking emerges around viral outbreaks and it presents itself in how we consider other human beings.

People so readily stigmatize and it's very clearly on display in this thread.

No human being without ill-intent can be blamed for a virus. Tragedy befalls humanity from time to time, this is certain; instead of pointing fingers, we should be more empathetic, not less.
While it might not have been known that SpaceX would work, it's been known since the 1960s that cost optimized launchers could be much cheaper than what was being done.
Arthur Schnitt's MCD design philosophy dates from the late 1960s.

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

One of the tragedies of the Shuttle program was that it was pursued instead of this. Simply cost optimizing and evolving the Saturn 1B could have led to something a lot like the Falcon 9 (perhaps not with the reusability, at least at first), years before SpaceX.
I have a 1050Ti and there is no combination of graphics drivers and KDE compositor settings that will let me browse the web stably with firefox and webrender.

I don't care if it's 20% slower than the GT1030 if I can browse the web in firefox under KDE with default settings! Since I replace my graphics card less often than I replace my CPU, I would pay a premium for such a device.
That's what happened then, I don't use FB.
Sure but can you honestly say this again with a straight face?
> It is in a budget desktop computer, a throw-it-in-your-bag travel computer, and a low-end laptop.

I took "budget desktop computer" to be the Mac Mini, "throw-it-in-your-bag travel computer" to be the Macbook Pro, and "a low-end laptop" to be the Macbook Air.

But I agree - the 13" is billed as a workstation and used as such by a huge portion of the tech industry, to say nothing of any others.
> But you could do SOOO much more, if programs would actually output structured data streams.

Like even treating code and data the same, and minimizing the syntax required so you're left with clean, parseable code and data. Maybe in some sort of tree, that is abstract. Where have I heard this idea before . . .

> I think it stems from the design failure to build your app around a CLI. Instead, you should build your app around an API and generate the CLI for that API.

Now this I am fully in favor of, and IMHO, it leads to much better code all around: you can then test via the API, build a GUI via the API, etc, etc, etc.
...and then what happened to Morgan Freeman?

I don't know anything about the alleged situation, but pretty sure he moved on with his life and is still wealthy and largely beloved.
I wonder if there's a standard of change somewhere that disable most/all of Apple's security/lockdown features.

As late as today I believe you can still turn off most of it.
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To get an idea of how infectious measles is, spectators were infected by an athlete at the special olympics who were sitting 30.5 meters away.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7876616/

People are so freaked out about covid that they're getting tunnel vision. There are more risks out there than just covid, and focusing only on the one risk to the exclusion of all else is likely to lead to other problems.

If you or your child do not have the 2 doses of MMR vaccine, get on that pronto. Many pharmacies can also perform the vaccination. A single dose is 93% effective, while 2 doses are 97% effective.
We aim to block attack traffic. If we fail to block an attack and you get charged for it, file a support request to ask for a credit.
This is a lot more complete than I needed it to be. Thanks :)
Every single major cloud providers builds their own chips and most have gone even further with custom ASICs for ML. I don't see any reason to believe that Apple has the organizational or technical ability to enter the cloud business successfully. I don't think they even see data center ops as a core competency and you can't go into the cloud business without expertise there. AFAIK they primarily rely on public clouds.
You don't have to hand-write your openapi.yaml. we are using quarkus, and by annotating the endpoints you get a generated openapi.yaml.

We then use this in a typescript generator to generate client code.
Sadly vue class component/property decorators have not yet really been ported
A 970 is a lot faster than a 1050ti:

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-970-vs-Nvid...
The free market economy doesn't exist. It's a fairy tale told by the news industry to the uneducated masses. Whenever you hear the news say the US has always been a champion of free trade, just know they are lying.

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

There is no such thing as "free market economy". Every economy is a protected economy. It's just a matter of degree. Go ask huwaei, iran, venezuela, zimbabwe, cuba, etc about "free market economy".

All markets are manipulated and controlled nationally/geopolitically. The price of oil isn't determined just by the "market", it's decided by the FED, subsidies, war, etc.

The only core principle shared by all nations is to lie, cheat and steal as much as possible. And things ultimately work out. The idea of governance, checks and balance, rule of law, etc are just frivilous distractions. Not to mention propaganda like "democracy" or "western values". Surely saudi arabia is a shining symbol of democracy and western "values".
> Try spending $200MM on a nonsense bill and see how much support you can actually buy.

Or $1B on a 3 month primary campaign: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bloomberg-spe...
Except in the real world, the “getting ready” from day one isn't just R&D but also propaganda. You counter the propaganda so it doesn't soften the ground for waste of public funds.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-scien...

The US has been extremely behind other countries but even the CDC has finally acknowledged the benefits
Plausible a la NSA, yeah?

I presume this setup wasn't public knowledge.
Yeah it makes no sense for the operator to manually regulate charging. We don't do that with any other rechargeable device. Oh gotta unplug my phone it's at 90%!
Or just shut off your internet connection.
Jennifer Rubin is not a progressive. She's a prominent (anti-Trump) conservative columnist, hired by the Washington Post as balance/provocation. Her blog is even called 'Right Turn'.
That BIOS level requires the operating system to execute certain ACPI table as a Windows executable.
Oh no!! I wanted to take my kids there. :(

This is very sad. I hope Paul Allen's estate (which I think his sister runs) helps out.
It seemed interesting to me that deno combines V8 and rust.

It might be interesting (and not yet as complicated as with node) to make a spidermonkey version of deno.
> Yes, of course, because no European nation provides these. What an idiotic article.

The finding is that average consumption for the bottom 20% of US households exceeds average consumption for the bottom 100% of e.g. Spanish households.

This is a comparison that automatically includes welfare benefits provided on both sides. What do you think is getting left out?
It’s not only at MIT, all the world reports infections like this.
In the number of daily cases we don’t know how many are new cases and how many are already in quarantine
Except... isn't this a couple of million LoC? Doesn't the mere act of finding malicious things in it require some serious time and effort not likely to be accomplished by individuals?
One issue with the hyperloop that nobody seems to talk about is safety. How do you handle ruptures in the tube? How do you evacuate? and What do you do if your pod loses pressure? This isn't like a 737 where you can give people oxygen while you drop to 10,000 feet when you lose pressure. That only works because at 35,000 ft the pressure is still high enough that you can breathe a higher concentration of oxygen for a short period of time, and not get hypoxia or decompression sickness.

Sure, you can add safety re-pressurization valves and escape hatches, but all of those seals are points of failure that need to be inspected and maintained across the entire length of the tube.
Why do people trust signal isn't it as black box as everything else? Or did they add reproduceable builds already?
Interesting. Thought I remember something similar for digital ocean to start container ...
> Big was the whole point

Big was political. It was a requirement added because SLS could provide it, not because it was needed. It was there to stop the order-of-magnitude cheaper per pound smaller launchers from being proposed instead.

Part of all this was strong arm twisting from the politicians involved to stop all work on in-space propellant transfer and propellant depots (because with them, you might as well launch lots of smaller cheaper launchers to carry up the propellant.)
I wonder if it would have been easier back in 1848 when the communist manifesto was created than today. Consistently meeting people’s basic needs for food, clean water, and shelter would have been a step up for most of the world back then where today the standard of living for most people is dramatically past that point.

Both China and Russia experienced a famine shortly after becoming communist, so at least initially it seems to make things worse.
Still, it requires RNA fragment synthesis, and DNA sequencing. Those seem like regulate-able technologies, right?

And this is by Vivek Wadhwa, is he considered a serious analyst of such subjects ?

Edit: this is the opinion of an expert in bioweapons, about DIY bioweapons :

"“If you take risk as a factor of likelihood of impact, the most likely attacks will come from low-powered actors, but have a minimal impact and be based on traditional approaches, existing pathogens, and well characterized risks and threats,” Millett explains. DIY genome editors, for example, may be great in number but are likely unable to produce a biological agent capable of causing widespread harm."

https://futureoflife.org/2018/10/12/genome-editing-and-the-f...
Background should have 100% been included in article to frame it. This is a piece by someone who only puts forward that they are Uber drive. The explicit omission of her other current work roles wasn't by accident.

Propaganda comes from both sides of an issue.

Does the article mention how long she has been a gig worker for? Because her bio would suggest she has potentially multiple income streams and also has had full time positions which I'm sure have equivalents in the area she resides in now.

The bio at https://www.netrootsnation.org/profile/cherri-murphy/ just mentions:

> Minister Cherri Murphy is currently the Founder of Speak Life Ministries and a Doctoral student at the Graduate Theological Union/Berkeley Theology in Berkeley. Her focus is on liturgical direct actions, specifically how participants combine public worship, art and ritual protests to intimately engage and invoke social change for those who have historically been de-centered. She is also a member and a licensed Spiritual Practitioner at Heart and Soul Center of Light, in Oakland California.
I'm still using A-Frame as my primary webxr project framework of choice but appreciate seeing these babylon updates. Gets me excited to try a small project on there soon.
This is exactly why I use GraphQL for my APIs:

1. All inputs and outputs are strongly typed, and the framework validates the types before my code touches it

2. Can easily generate Typescript types from my GraphQL typedefs.

3. Types can evolve easily to maintain backwards compatibility with existing clients withOUT requiring explicit versions (if so desired).
SOAP has a high serialization overhead and doesn't support schema evolution.
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A lot of Apple fans say this, but I find many components in Apple products in general to be of average to poor build quality. Keyboards, display hinges, CPU/GPU cooling, weak display bezel/frames, weak outer-frames on their phones, laptop case creaking, etc. Heck they have yet to figure out how to design cables that don't fray. I'm sure there are some nice aspects to owning a mac too, otherwise nobody would purchase them. But I have yet to find anything that they've done w.r.t good build quality. I do admit they have a very good handle on making their products look pretty. So there's that..
"Code ghetto" is actually a term I've heard bandied about before, usually used to denigrate an ecosystem someone doesn't like, but in this case I think it's wholly appropriate terminology[0], and I don't think the offense taken at it is justified.

[0] This comes up top of Google for me: https://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/12/software-ghettos-a-f... and I feel that it conveys the meaning, even if you disagree with the particular ecosystems being denigrated.
This doesn't sound all too dissimilar to what happened to Tik Tok.

2020-06-21: A Trump rally in Tulsa is reportedly trolled by people on Tik Tok.

2020-08-06: Executive order issued banning Tik Tok in November unless it can be sold to American stakeholders.

2020-09-14: Oracle is reportedly in the lead to acquire Tik Tok.

2020-11-12: Department of Commerce puts stay on the executive order.

There's a lot of talk about national security issues and whatnot, but the timing between Trump losing face and Tik Tok almost being acquired by American interests is just too convenient to ignore.

The stability of contract law is essential to a well functioning market and the actions of this administration are just plain gross.
"Code ghetto" is actually a term I've heard bandied about before, usually used to denigrate an ecosystem someone doesn't like, but in this case I think it's wholly appropriate terminology[0], and I don't think the offense taken at it is justified.

[0] This comes up top of Google for me: https://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/12/software-ghettos-a-f...

I feel that "code ghetto" conveys the myopic POV of the article perfectly.
I write Ruby every day and I still love it. I can pick up most languages and frequently use others like Rust or Elixir, but I _love_ Ruby. It's plenty fast for most tasks and it's fantastic if you want to write small scripts.

I went through the same stages as many people of trying out the new hotness, but I always come back to Ruby. Most recently I had a need to write a bunch of different Prometheus exporters for my home dashboard. I tried ~n languages, and most of the popular exporters are written in Go. But it was so, so easy to just write them in Ruby.

Lots of people focus so heavily on performance of the interpreter but it's honestly fast enough for most tasks. And there's a lot you can do to improve your code before you hit the limits of the interpreter. My job is at least 50% working on awkward performance issues at GitLab and I still learn new things all the time. And I have fun doing it.

Ruby is still so much fun. Thank you to everyone who has made it what it is.
REDGPU SDK now costs $99, removes tech support
Because people who create stuff use Macs, Macs are the only thing in existence that's functional?!

You sure about that logic?

Related, any one know of any brilliant engineers who deeply understand what they're using that use/love apple products?
NVIDIA doesn't make small GPUs very often. The 1050 uses a die that's 135mm^2, and the smallest GeForce die they've introduced since then seems to be 200mm^2. That 135mm^2 may be old, but it's still current within NVIDIA's product lineup, having been rebranded/re-released earlier this year.
In the case of Infinity Fabric: high speed I/O links generally consume gobs of power just to wiggle the pins, long before any control plane gets involved.

In this case, it's high speed differential signaling, and that's going to have a /lot/ of active power. There's a lot of C*dv/dt going on there!
yeah, the nest of connected lines metaphor doesn't seem to work unless you have a very simple model. I keep thinking there must be some other spacial metaphor that would be as powerful as code but engage more parts of the brain, but I haven't found it yet.
Central planning might appear as a "good idea", until your linear programming model has to deal with factors of production that are counted in small quantities (eg. highly specialized machinery), at which point the so called "tragedy of the integers" degenerates any model you throw at the problem.

As it turns out, the "economy" is a distributed intelligence, in which only individual actors know what's best for themselves, who react according to all sorts of information, and the overall effect of their interactions is codified in the prices of products and services. Trying to replace that with a "central brain" inevitably leads to severe misallocation of resources.
> If I let my mind wander for just a minute the thoughts come flooding in.

I have something vaguely similar with OCD - needing constant stimulation to draw myself away from intrusive thoughts and compulsions. I've found that occasionally deliberately just letting it happen, initially just for a couple of minutes and building up to 10-15 minutes or so, has been extremely useful in gaining some kind of control over them rather than just being overwhelmed. I don't know if something similar would be helpful with depression, but it may be worth considering.
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