skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Confederate memorials that were actually erected reasonably after the war ended tended to be memorials to the people who died in the way.

I see no reason to take these down.

But more of the Confederate statues we now have were built long after that, and not as memorials to those who died. Most were erected around 1900-20, when Jim Crow laws were being widely enacted, and in the 1950s and 60s, when the civil rights movement was ramping up. They were built as symbols of white supremacy to send a message.

I see no reason to keep those up.

It wasn't just monuments that got built or change to oppose black civil rights. A similar thing happened with the Georgia state flag. It had long had a blue vertical stripe on the left and red/white/red horizontal stripes on the right. Then the left got what appears to be a Minuteman standing next to some columns that have banners that say "Constitution", "Justice", "Wisdom", and "Moderation". That was in 1902.

In 1906 they added "Georgia" to that and 1799, and made the design of the columns more stylized and uglier. (This also changed the way "Moderation" line wrapped, from "Moder" "ation" to "Mode" "ration", so you might mistake it for two words).

In 1920 that changed to a circular thing with "State of Georgia" and 1776 on the outside, and a simple blue and white set of columns with the Minuteman, and "Moderation" back to sensible line breaking. I think this matched or is similar to the state seal.

And then in 1956, with black people pushing harder for equal rights, Georgia replaced the right side of the flag, the part that had been three red/white/red horizontal stripes, was replaced with the Confederate battle flag. This was adopted amidst a slew of bills adopted at the same time designed to protect segregation and white supremacy. This was all in response to Brown v. Board of Education.

They partly got rid of that in 2001, going to a blue background with the columns/Minuteman seal things, and a banner below that labeled "Georgia's History", which had images of five small flags in it: the original 13 colonies flag, three Georgia flags (ending with the one with the Confederate battle flag), and the current US flag. Finally in 2003 they adopted their current flag: 3 red/white/red stripes with a blue inset in the upper left containing a circle of 13 stars around the Minuteman/Column thing, much more tastefully done than any of its past versions.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues...

https://www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confede...
But, in theory at any rate, Rosetta2 will allow you to run all that software on Apple silicon.
A 30% improvement to the 865+ starts getting close to A13 single-threaded performance, on 7nm from a year ago.

So Qualcomm won't be quite so far behind Apple, but it's still pretty significant.
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I might end up using this. I write pretty long sentences and this would be useful for me when trying to write things that are easier to read.
But then aren't you comparing apples and oranges when you call both that and the loss as heat and noise from coal as "efficiency"?
Yeah, I never even so much as set up a cloud account. You can skip it and it doesn't break anything that's not obviously cloud based.
Ask HN: YouTube daily new video email notifier
ello,
I’ve had this idea in mind to build an app that notifies you via email of when a youtube channel that you’re subscribed to puts out a new content . I’m still undecided of if the notifications will be daily or when the channel puts out new content. This idea steams from me discovering that YouTube cancelled email notifications 3 months ago .

Also , I’m sure that the YouTube api has a limit of resource to be consumed by one API key . Any ideas of how to automatically enable a new user’s api key to make the call , instead of my api key ?

I'll appreciate any feedback on this idea or suggestions for ideas I can add on to this current idea.

Thanks in advance.
heh, here's a couple links that should be useful:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/05/building-a-succ...
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/software-define...

Along with an older presentation I gave on the topic:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Q2jKVpeGkbDVdcUhrzxC...
If you currently have an intel based mbp, choose the m1 mba if you think the m1 might replace the mbp in the future (i.e. same performance in more portable form factor)

Otherwise get the ipad with keyboard & pencil if it's just a 'supplement'. Pencil provides a whole new layer of input possibilities. If you read a lot of PDF documents, ipad is also really nice.
Yeah, I'd rather use a real pharmacy to mail my pills. They have online ordering at several.
Depends. "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle

But I think the majority of cases could be covered by these two things: (1) Choose the right person; don't expect that someone will magically change after the kids are born. (2) Don't let your partner feel like a fifth wheel, or rather like a mere money machine, after the kids are born.
Solar system sized radio interferometry telescope please
I took Show HN out of the title because this seems more like reading material (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). It's very good though, so I also put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380).

(While I have you, would you mind adding an email address to your profile that we can contact you at? We do that sometimes when we want to invite a repost.)
rather than moralizing angrily ('fucks'), why not try to hone in on what you're worried about exactly? were you really in danger?

if you'd have focused more on the lack of distancing indoors, that might have been a legitimate concern. but masks are for show in most places, at most times, and your focus on them indicates a retreat to symbolism rather than effect. the primary appeal of masks is for quelling fear and anxiety, not preventing spread.

the one common place they would help, the private social gathering, is where they're donned the very least, because masks have strong connotations of mistrust, which is antithetical to socializing. so masks won't save us, no matter how much force is put behind them. even in countries commonly cited for high mask usage, other more primary mitigative measures are what led to propagation control, not masks. masks are marginal.

walking through a lobby/store or sitting at a table in a restaurant with your family isn't a significant risk, no matter what the other patrons are doing, as long as there's a little distance between (no, the virus is not floating around in significant concentrations to probabalistically infect you from across the room; it falls to the ground and dies quickly). the only other person you should worry about there is your server, who, out of at least "corporate necessity", will likely be wearing a mask, a decent use of masking as someone who interacts closely with lots of strangers (rather than, say, outside, where they're wasted).

this kind of moralizing is not out of a cohesive worry for others, but a divisive fear (anger is a primal reaction to fear). so why are we so fearful and anxious? deconstructing that would be a more fruitful discussion than dwelling so much on the anxiety itself.
Isn't having a whole bunch of different processor architectures at the same time kind of bad for end-users?
Very nice!! Great article!
> Airbnb manage to convince a lot of people that they are always a better deal than hotels

Strong agree. They have this in common with Amazon. They used to be cheaper but now aren't anymore, but customers don't comparison shop.
How is this a monopoly? Walmart is a competitor and they also have a pharmacy.
I started thinking about this when thinking of the United Nations. If the UN had become what it could have, we would have some sort of federal world system that could tackle things like climate change, etc. This same thing occurs at different levels. The US federal government is in the best position to enforce regulations that require collective state action, like pandemic response. If they’re not solving the problems they’re uniquely in a position to solve, then what’s the point of federal taxes?
C was one of those write once compile anywhere bits they used to tell us. Then when we actually tried it we found every CRT was different on all of the platforms. Even something as ubiquitous as printf I think I have encountered at least 8 different versions of it. At least from compiler chain to compiler chain they are usually similar in calling conventions (but not always). But try mixing a msvcrt with a glib one and you are in for some fun...

What is the nit of it is it almost works. You have a good shot at getting it to compile in a short amount of time. The rest of the work will be lots of time in ye old debugger and going over the docs for your platform. The fun part is you will find bugs that were there already, or are they just part of the platform, or were you using it wrong?
> calm, gentle, patient and sensitive. They didn’t seem like men you would go to battle with. In fact, they were the very antithesis of the warriors and athletes

IMO this really describes almost everyone, not just fathers. There's a pretty big disconnect between our cultural ideal, and reality. Half of American men are fat whether they have a kid or not.
Majority of consumer facing products collect usage analytics, otherwise they don’t know how to improve the product.
ARM actually has a defined architecture and UEFI equivalent, which would have worked wonders here.

If Apple had decided to support it, that is.
This is a fair point, but it's certainly a very peculiar - and somewhat offputting - dynamic where the bottom of the range outperforms the top end.
`In the more advanced countries, such as Thailand, this is automated.`
That seems very dystopian.
> Your Pi-hole working on other people's devices is a bad thing.

No, it isn't. Never mind the fact that that isn't how PiHole works, I'm perfectly within my right to control how my home network functions.
Laptop or desktop: likely, but even if the next Apple Watch will be faster, which I doubt, their smart speakers and headphones probably can do with a slower CPU for the next few years.
I've always wondered why something like desktop JNLP didn't happen.

Wasn’t that Marimba/Castanet?

https://www.wired.com/1996/11/es-marimba/
> I don’t recall that disk size was ever something we’ve optimized or tracked. Why is it important?

If you're targeting application developers, minimizing the system requirements (including size-on-disk) for an installed app that embeds Servo is going to matter.

I don't know how much it matters, though.
And where are those chips going to be made? The issue with Intel's dominance is it's complete dominance on the supply side as well.

You fail to realize that this isn't like 3D printing, or other low volume manufacturing. You can't just setup a 100nm Si lithography lab in your spare room and churn out RISC-V chips.

In 5 years - realistically we will have a few high performance(non-mobile) ARM chips manufactured at economic scale. Any other type of disruption would require Intel and AMD to fail and relinquish the supply side capacity... or China investing billions into new chipmaking facilities now.(it takes a few years to build that capacity)
What is your source for the claim that Amazon - PillPack employees commonly accessed prescription info "for fun?"

I worked at PillPack for over 3 years, and while I haven't been there for a while this seems like a very bold claim that is wildly inconsistent with the sort of practices I saw followed in my time there.

I don't think using a throwaway to throw shade like this is the right way to handle such a serious matter, but whatever -- if you do legitimately want to address this issue let me know; I could point you to a contact at the company and/or outside of it that would take it seriously and investigate it, as this is very alarming and unacceptable (speaking also as a customer whose data is there).
How are you calculating efficiency? It's usually:

efficiency = useful work / energy input

Efficiency is not calculated relative to the best performing machine.
Intel CPUs _literally_ boot pretending to be 8088s [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_mode
People have been saying this kind of thing for years, but so far it doesn't really math out.

Having a CPU "in the cloud" is usually more expensive and slower than just using cycles on the CPU which is on your lap. The economics of this hasn't changed much over the past 10 years and I doubt it's going to change any time soon. Ultimately local computers will always have excess capacity because of the normal bursty nature of general purpose computing. It makes more sense to just upscale that local CPU than to rent a secondary CPU which imposes a bunch of network overhead.

There are definitely exceptions for things which require particularly large CPU/ GPU loads or particularly long jobs, but most developers will running local for a long time to come. CPUs like this just make it even more difficult for cloud compute to be make economic sense.
GNU has extensions to support 128bit number types [0] already, for systems that can handle it.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fint128.html
Sure, but that really seems like it will be a matter of weeks. But on the other hand I don't think VirtualBox is going to happen at all.
Now we just need emoji's for ip addresses so we can move to ipv6
That's kind of interesting. For fun I took a bunch of my hn comments and some comments and threads i've made in other forums.

Apparently I consistently write at a grade 10 level, which is ok, but I should aim for 9, I use at least two very complicated sentences and a few complicated sentences. I also tend to regularly choose words with simpler alternatives.

The information's cool and all, but i'm not really too sure what to make of it or what I should do with this information.
Why would I ask people working on embeddable web technologies how to embed their software? They should just tell me. I don't care that there's 19 people on their "technical steering committee" if not a single one of those 19 people is responsible for actual adoption.

If they don't have a getting started guide for people like me to actually embed and use the software it's a waste of my time and hypeware or vaporware depending on how you want to look at it.

18k stars and I know there aren't 18k embedders out there.
I just compiled it on i9-10900 inside of WSL, and it took 15.80s to compile. https://imgur.com/5FtPJe5
For those that say the president has no power: This is were the federal government can step up and use its emergency powers to mandate N95 mask production
It's too bad that reality doesn't really care if you have clever accounting tricks to show that "things aren't really as bad as they look!"

The only number that matters at all is global green house gas emissions. We need to get that to zero, and it has continued to go up.

Imagine you have a drinking problem and your doctor tells you you need to stop drinking alcohol or you will suffer liver failure. You can argue all day about what percentage of your drinks are alcoholic. "Doctor, I drink 3 cans of coke and only 12 G&Ts now, not 1 can of coke and 24 beers like I used to, I went from 4% of my drinks being non-alcoholic to 20%!" If your daily total alcohol consumed keep rising you have a problem.

That's the situation we're in with co2 emissions. There are many clever ways to make it look like everything is fine, but reality doesn't care. If our global CO2 emissions continue to rise we have absolutely no hope.
Another example is to light up a candle, then use a peltier element and a heatsink to generate electricity. Then use that electricity to power a led. The outcome is that you have some of the candle light, but you will have a much more light from the led.
Most statin problems caused by mysterious 'nocebo effect'
If you let COVID run rampant, you will see higher death rates. It's not much of an argument to compare the death rate while mitigating practices are in place.
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>> We already know the A-series of chips performs incredibly in short workloads. We have no information yet on how it performs under sustained workloads.

What makes you think that given sufficient cooling, it will not perform exactly the same as the M1 in the MBA but sustained? It’s not like the ARM architecture changes anything in the thermodynamics of cooling cpus compared to an x86 chip, right?

I’d wager that under load an i9 with passive cooling wouldn’t even last 30 seconds without throttling below even its base clock, if it doesn’t just shut down to prevent frying itself
> In America, any power not explicitly granted to the federal government is left to the states.

I am amused that anyone other than a small child still believes this. The 9th and 10th have been phantoms for longer than you have been alive and are of absolutely no consequence whatsoever.

Oh yeah, there is no 'if' there buddy. Biden won and will be able to enforce any public health measures available to him via executive order starting January 20th.
This is because every cloned repo stores local state. Local state is sticky, it collects garbage, and it becomes stale very quickly.

Doing something complex in git with a local repository is usually not the thing you want. What you want is to fix some garbage state you added to a local. Hence, turning it off and turning it back on, instead of pushing garbage state into the central flow.
no, the federal government exists to defend the interests of the states, and resolve disputes between them. it's not meant to be a higher level of authority.
Ah I misread that, thanks
This is still Electron, no?
It was only ever supposed to buy us time (to develop treatments, vaccines, reorganize workplaces) and avoid overwhelming the capacity of services like hospitals.

I don't think anyone credible has said that lockdowns were going to put the genie back in the bottle. It is only one component of a complete response.

They _have_ argued that a complete response might permit more economic normalcy somewhat sooner, and that appears to be bearing out.
Sorry, not trying to tell you or other people who've read the books. That was intended as a "yes, and" to emphasize your point.
Amazon didn't get to where it is by being idiots. They will enforce the rules when they know they need to enforce the rules.
> Please cite me where the power to enact a requirement to wear masks is explicitly granted to the federal government.

Depends on the nature of the mandate. A simple hard mandate (everyone must wear masks in public or be subject individually to federal sanction) may not be authorized, but that's not the only shape of mask mandate possible.

A requirement that a state adopt and show adequate enforcement of control measures deemed necessary by the federal government, including (if deemed necessary) a mask mandate with given parameters or be subject to additional restrictions on interstate trade and travel to restrict the spread of disease to other states is absolutely not only within the scope of the Constitutional power of the federal government under the Commerce Clause, but also within statutory powers already granted to the executive branch under that Constitutional power, in the Public Health Services Act and elsewhere.
True, there's almost certainly a whitespace normalisation pass at one point as well, likely during / around the processing of what little makup HN has.
That looks pretty slick...

I dont know how much having a nice UI helps with understanding / training but it sure makes it nicer to work with and helps in demonstrating concepts.
Depends on what problem you are trying to solve. If you are trying to make COVID19 go extinct then yes, lockdowns aren't sufficient. If you are trying to avoid overwhelming health care resources (so they are available to dying patients of all kinds) then it can help as it reduces the hospitalization rate.
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Guillemets are used in many languages like «this», but 'euro-style' is a bit of a misnomer. They are used all over the world, and in many European languages different pairs are used, such as guillemets the »other« way around, and „this” matching pair.
On the other hand, how long was GMail in beta? 10 years? And that's from a company with unlimited funds...
But earth would still be radiating out heat, would it? If so, where would the energy come from to maintain that temperature?
Your description of Taiwan's response is wrong.

As outlined in [2] I linked to above, Taiwan permitted the docking of the Diamond Princess [1] and allowed passengers to disembark in Keelung (near Taipei), on 31 January, before the ship left for Japan. The ship was subsequently found to have numerous confirmed infections onboard. In reaction, Taiwan's government published the 50 locations where the cruise ship travelers may have visited and asked around 600k citizens who may have been in contact with the tour group to conduct symptom monitoring and self-quarantine if necessary. So at least in the beginning of the pandemic, Taiwan was not closing the doors. Today, Taiwan has essentially the same 14-days entry quarantine as most countries. Another important difference is that Taiwan takes quarantine very seriously and monitored those sent into quarantine via mobile phone location tracking. That too is outlined in [2]. Police will talk to you if mobile phone movements indicate that 14 day quarantine is violated. In contrast, quarantine is de facto voluntary in many European countries.

There is no good reason as far as I can see, why other countries don't adopt similar policies.

I must admit, I am not pleased that I am loosing 1 year of my life because the countries that I live in are not adopting best practises. Indeed, are mostly not even aware of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Princess_(ship)

[2] C. Y. Wang, C. Y. Ng, R. H. Brook, Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan: Big Data Analytics, New Technology, and Proactive Testing, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689
Note that the comparison is also compiling to ARM vs compiling to Intel, so its partly to do with the simplicity of the compilation process between the two architectures.

https://twitter.com/rikarends/status/1328762958118346753
VCS exist to make it possible to organize and track changes to project source code. Convenience of the user is a secondary goal to clear organization and code management.

A VCS shouldn't be unnecessarily difficult to use, but the fact that this conversation around Git's UX is endlessly rehashed is proof that version control is a hard problem.

If there was an easy and obvious 10x improvement over Git it would have replaced Git by now. Or to put it differently, when someone makes an easy 10x improvement over Git, it will see widespread adoption.
Windows arm is not real windows. It's not a substitute. Apple might command it's developers like a herd, moving them to whatever fancy new thing they make but windows is much more fragmented with 20+ years of backwards compatibility and tons of unmaintained software that won't be magically ported.
Why would this be necessary? Assume you have 4 requests coming in concurrently, AWS would just route to 4 different lambdas. Otherwise why even go down this route?
It seems to me that the one difference that is just stark, between the US and all of those cultures, is that they already had a system wherein it was acceptable (or even encouraged) to wear a face mask.

Is it that? Is it that simple? Those are honest questions.
Hello Unknown_apostle,

Thanks for looking at the articles!

The most up to date analysis of paraconsistent logic starts on page 11 of the following article:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021