skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I would say several of those examples actually do increase increase risk to others, second hand smoke, being incapacitated by drugs or alcohol can often put others at risk for a number of reasons, etc."

which is why all those things are limited by law. I can't smoke in public spaces, I can't drive drunk, etc.

They are not 'rights' as you seem to argue, and they are limited/regulated just like a million other behaviors. Wearing a mask is no different. Personally, I'd say mask regulations are the equivalent of seatbelt laws - maybe uncomfortable, or inconvenient but basically harmless.
"glorified paralleized shell-loop spewing gzipped python can get away with something like this time and time again"

That's exactly why it's good. It beat puppet, it beat chef, and saltstack fails to make inroads for the same reasons. They all make useless and difficult abstraction layers on top of what is essentially running shell scripts in loops over what's ultimately an ssh connection or a worse, proprietary version of one.

I won't defend some of the decisions Ansible has made over the years, but its simplicity is the key feature.
Realtime ray-tracing is a mix of hardware acceleration for ray intersections and de-noising. The de-noising approaches are certainly novel and not really analogous to previous methods, imho, though the accelerated bounding box hierarchies for accelerating intersections certainly appear in previous iterations.
Sharp comment. Lot of truth packed in there.
its a common enough workload that dedicated hardware for it has emerged, and software written to utilize that hardware is becoming more common place.
Wow. The M1 MacBook Air is now the thinnest, fastest, coolest-to-the-touch, and cheaper (!) laptop for most people and most applications.
Or the rust compiler sucks and is only using one core.
There are more total cases in Portland because of the population numbers. From what I recall, the per capita numbers bounce around, with rural counties going through outbreaks occasionally taking the lead. There was a church in La Grande that had a big one in late spring. Sure put the lie to the notion that it was "density" and a "city problem".
C says "Rust? Who?"
OK, then let me tell you a story - if you see the `^` and `v` in the latest release, someone requested for those and I personally found them useful and added those on first request. A week later, someone else asked for a program option to disable those.

If you think maintaining a piece of software like nnn is easy, it's not. You can't make everyone happy.
Yes, will Zen 3 give these mobile parts a 19% boost? That would be incredible if so...
This hearing is somewhat more productive than the previous ones, and I'm guessing that it's because the election is mostly over. However, there are still plenty of predictable loaded questions.
> can't stick enough memory in one

Sorely disappointed that the Mini is limited to 16GB. That alone makes it feel obsolete, because 16GB is the new 8GB with as much desktop virtualization I find myself doing.
WindTerm 1.8: A Free Professional SSH/SFTP/Shell/Telnet/Serial Client for DevOps
> I think the bigger question is what does this spell for x86-64?

Not much?

People are acting like M1 destroys x86, but as AnandTech showed in the recent benchmark, M1 is trading blows with Zen 3 in single thread performance while having much larger core and process advantage (5nm vs. 7nm) thus being actually more expensive to produce.
FFS! Incumbency is a complete non-factor in corruption. It's always the ability to increase your power, while in office.

Three countries with fairly open and competitive elections, and very high levels of corruption and high levels of incumbency:

https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/india

https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/turkey

https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/hungary

Then there are these least corrupt countries, that elect new people all the time:

https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/finland

https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/new-zealand

Oh... and let's not forget, that the study is about how efficient the governors are... not about corruption at all.
That's because we might be just seeing the low-end version of the M1 and we might see the high-end version of these chips next year or so. :)
You can look at piece of C code and immediately see how it'll be laid out by the compiler.
So in effect you're saying moderated message boards should be illegal. Why should that be the case?
It seems like Apple is capable of it—look at the bezels on a new iPhone or iPad. But it would certainly require a whole new shell, which probably takes a while for Apple to design and ramp up because of all the machining involved.
This is encouraging. An Electron competitor would be really nice.

I'd be especially interested in an Electron-but-for-Python, along the lines of PythonWebkit: https://www.gnu.org/software/pythonwebkit/
Maybe... maybe not, it may not be efficient to make an specific processor for those machines, but with the actual performance of the M1, you just have to put 4, 8, or 16 M1 processors side by side and call it a day. The big beefy intel machines are sometimes dual processor, so it's nothing that it's not already invented.
I didn't watch it, but that's a neat idea. What's the difference between a recommendation algorithm and a moderation algorithm? I guess I don't even know how they work. Do they only surface content liked, commented, or retweeted by people you follow / friend?

One of the best things I saw relating to social media was on a HN comment a while ago. Reverse chronological content posted directly by your friends / people you follow should be considered part of the platform. Recommendations pushed in your face by an algorithm should be considered publishing.
> Linux Foundation is truly "Foundation as a Service"

That made me chuckle. If you have a reading about that, I think I would enjoy.
THIS.
I saw multiple headlines calling it a processor, which may be somewhat true but it's not a General purpose processor and certainly is not a CPU. Yes, Apple's T2 chip has an A8 in it, but they don't call it a processor.
I mean the construction can be done on low earth orbit, then the satellite telescope can do a transfer to a higher orbit. Again, forgive my ignorance :)
“HTTPS-Only Optional Mode” reads terribly and is much more subject to confusion than “HTTPS-Only Mode” was.
And it's more than just context, it's also the intent. Naturally you may have different intent in different contexts, but it doesn't end there.

For example one may chose to come across weak by using the passive voice, either to avoid responsibility, or to pay tribute to another person, or even to create a favorable background for a strong stance on a different subject.

Passive voice itself is not a problem, lack of discretion is.
The native Apple Silicon version of Photoshop is already available in beta. Most professional apps (the ones that cost real money) will be available natively within a year.
Yes. It's familiar to the majority because Twitter copied every other platform out there. It's like how every white girl loves Starbucks and Instagram selfies.
> You are not given them, they are recognized as natural rights not government granted rights

They are, in fact, government granted whether or not the theory of granting them is that the government was obligated to because of preexisting moral rights, and its quite likely that there was not universal consensus on the underlying theory among everyone involved in drafting, proposing, and ratifying them.

But more importantly, "the right to not be mandated to wear covering over some part of the body to protect either public health or public morality" is not explicitly, or given the history of such mandates and their survival against challenge, on the evidence of legal precedent implicitly a right in the Constitution. You are arguing for a novel right that goes against the well-settled understanding of the rights in the Constitution (whether Amendments 1-10 or otherwise); which is fine, most people would agree things like Loving or Brown were good decisions despite the fact that the rights involved had not previously been recognized in the form those decisions found them. But to argue for such a novel interpretation of Constitutional rights, you need more than vague handwaving at the Constitution in general, you need an argument about how the explicit text in the Constitution supports your novel interpretation.

> If someone doesn’t want to wear a mask that is their choice.

Yes, but it is not a choice that, either morally or Constitutionally, needs to be free of consequences, including restricting the scope of available activities one may engage in.

If someone chooses not to wear covering over their genitals, that's their choice, but its fairly uncontroversial that the law may restrict them from being in public places when they make that choice.

> Your choice is to avoid situations where you might be in contact with people who don’t wear masks. It’s not to force everyone into your beliefs.

I have yet to see a mask mandate that concerns itself with mandate beliefs, only actions in cases where one is exposed to other people (and, invariably in those I've seen, people who live outside of the subject's household.)

> I personally believe in wearing masks, though primarily feel the value in the typical cloth or surgical masks are keeping you from touching your face.

The value of cloth or surgical masks is in reducing the distance (and quantity at any given distance) of droplet spready from exhalation, sneezes, and coughing. They aren't as good as better masks, or social distancing, but the general recommendation (and, in many case, mandate) is for them to be worn in situations where essential activities make the recommended social distancing impossible to maintain/guarantee.
I've had mine for 4-6 weeks now. I'm not returning it, but I can't particularly recommend it - both the annotation and eReading experiences are significantly inferior to what you'd get with Onenote, Notability, or Drawboard on iPad/Surface.

The reMarkable hardware is nice, but its stock software is frankly disappointing. The hackability is a "plus", but I don't want to have to resort to unsupported firmware tweaks to fix a $500 device.

Specific feedback:

* Zooming is incredibly coarse. There is no pinch zoom, only a button in the UI that jumps in intervals of 100% or more. On many of my documents it goes from slightly too small to WAY too big with no level in between

* Speaking of zooming, the pen controls overlay the document, often blocking parts of the text. There is no way to scale the document to fit in the remaining space. There's not even a way to have the button backgrounds be transparent so you could still read most of the text.

* It doesn't support in-document hyperlinks in PDF or ePub, so your table of contents and index are worthless.

* If you somehow know what page you want to jump to, that's buried two menus deep and frustrating to get to

* Search is very slow in large (100+ page) documents, and results trickle in gradually so you can never be quite sure when you're looking at the whole list. Given that one of my desired uses for the device is to carry around some PDF textbook-style references, this hurts.

* You can't change the default writing utensil, so if you don't like the grainy mid-width pencil you have to change it every single time you open a new document

* There's no pressure sensitivity in the pen

* The eraser works like a pencil eraser, not a digital one. There is no way to erase a stroke, so you'll inevitably erase more than you want to and have to redraw some of it
If you follow the DNS specs this will not a problem. If you use *.local for local domain names DoH will never be triggered

From Mozilla documentation.

"localhost" and names in the ".local" TLD will never be resolved via DOH. [1]

Lan based services are pretty common use case. Mozilla is hardly going to release this feature without considering this.

The Cloudflare / Archive.is point is esoteric debate and not a common occurence, DoH does support other providers than Cloudflare so not sure if this really a major concern

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver
Oh wow, this is huge! Ever since switching back to FF, I constantly forget what my "shorthand" shortcut is for my custom search engines.
"16GB ought to be enough for anybody."

If you think it's enough, it's probably not.
Effect of Vitamin D3 Supplementation vs. Placebo in Patients with Severe COVID19 [pdf]
Findings: In this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial involving 240 hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19, a single dose of 200,000 IU of vitamin D3 supplementation was safe and effective in increasing 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, but did not significantly reduce hospital length of stay (hazard ratio, 1.12) or any other clinically-relevant outcomes compared with placebo.
A landing page template that explains how to write persuasive web copy
I've stopped paying my credit card bills and never felt more liberated.
The NatGeo documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wzs33wvr9E , "My brilliant Brain" featuring Susan Polgar touches on some points you have made. Most people will not be able to pay the necessary price to be an elite player. I found some similarities between Susan Polgar and the fictional character in Queen's Gambit.
What basis makes this comment apply to _everyone_ ?
Skaija wouldn't really be the place for accessibility features (except for maybe provide access to color-blind filters?). It's an important feature, though, and I hope Jetpack Compose gets better at it.
Yes, it can be disabled. At least on my rM1 I've managed to disable all cloud syncing. For me it's very strange idea to put any personal notes in some cloud.

The other thing to disable is sending some stats info to their server enabled by default to my surprise. It can be disabled with terminal through ssh and I did. Can't find though the article with detailed instructions.
Anandtech is reporting 62GB/sec memcpy, and the way-faster Geekbench results are the memory-bound ones (e.g., Gaussian blur is 4x faster!)

So I think the speedups like these are largely due to memory architecture.
> It's just that no one bothered to expose it.

Almost the entire quick start guide is about using Rust. So you know, if I want to embed it, how do I do it?

If I need a view offscreen rendered to a framebuffer, how do I get it? Can I blit? If so, how? How do I pass events to the browser abstraction?

Servo talks about none of these things and leaves it up to you, but 110% emphasizes everything possible about Rust.

I don't care about Rust, I care about embedding web technologies. So how do I do it? They don't explain.

The front page prioritizes these things, in this order:

* How to use Rust
* How to contribute to Servo
* Servo's blog
* How Servo is governed
* How to donate to Servo
* Contacting those involved with Servo
* Downloading Servo

None of those things point me in the direction of how to embed it.

Maybe they should spent more time catering to the people they claim to be providing the software for and less to the Rust crowd.
I am more baffled by the idea that someone would buy it
Do you want to learn how to write? Listen to this Jordan B. Peterson podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jordan-b-peterson-...
> the unintended consequences of drastic policies are economic hardship, creating a new generation of homelessness, drug and alcohol addiction, and deaths of despair.

None of these things are inevitable. For example China arguably implemented some extremely drastic policies and they are doing just fine now. New Zealand did the same. In the United States we are just doing an incredibly bad job at this.

Too many people talk about controlling the virus and protecting the economy as if they are polar opposites but the aren't. A month or two of drastic lockdowns early on would have saved the years of slow bleeding we are currently facing.
Well, just to provide a positive opinion, isn't it nice that a company puts baseline good hardware in their consumer grade product that more people can afford, and gives the option for add on better features? (I mean, with the acknowledgement that baseline = relatively expensive with Apple)

Rather than dumbing down / intentionally hobbling a product so they can sell it for cheaper or segment the market and extract maximum profits.
The US Pharma market is full of "found $20 bills" that just shouldn't exist if markets were as efficient as people wishcast they would be. I'd love for someone to rationalize PBMs in the same manner they rationalize every other horrible inefficiency in US health care.
I don't extend personal sympathy to people worth over even a few million dollars -- if they don't like their jobs they can just retire -- but, in the abstract, the social media firms have bitten off far more than they can chew.

The kinds of problems social media has exposed are problems that society isn't able to deal with and the people who were just looking for a quick buck, without needing to do much work, are caught in the middle of it. Corporate structures were never intended to regulate the speech of billions of people in thousands of legal jurisdictions, but that's exactly the situation Facebook is now in.

I don't know if there is a good solution to the problems of social media short of simply outlawing it.
This is an interesting argument, and it's hard to say anything without data, which would be hard to measure imo.

As a counter, my intuition is that masks also remind people of the risks and actually encourage safe behavior. I feel this in myself, a greater awareness of the pandemic, a nudge towards being more careful. Extending your analogy, it's as if the seatbelt reminded people that there are some pretty grisly accidents out there, and maybe they should take it easy.

Both effects probably exist, not sure what wins out, and how much it matters.
thought this wasn't possible.
Pastwatch: A Distributed Version Control System
Noticed my Nests were down earlier. They are back up now.

As far as working "fine" offline, I have another gripe about my Nest thermostats: Why is the sample rate on the temperature so damn slow? One of my zones is a small (~500 sq/ft) room and the HVAC can move the temperature there rather quickly. What always happens is the heat/cool usually stays on well beyond the desired set point. This is because the device does not sample the temperature often enough. If the mode is set to heat & cool, the heat and AC will both oscillate on and off forever unless the min and max are more than 5 degrees apart. It's not a matter of the Nest sensor lagging because of its heat capacity because I have tried a heat gun and freeze spray to observe the sample rate. It really sucks.
> Since I made the move I never wax nostalgic for the "Good Ole Days" of fighting for hours to get Wifi working properly.

I can assure you that you didn't have to do that for quite some time and it's not that which people are looking for.

- Am looking for a system that lets me run any damn thing I want without pipups, blocks, firewalls, warnings, requiring signed binaries etc.

I am looking to run and develop for the same environment I end up deploying on.

- I want a system that has native docker support, systemd and makes updating the whole system or installing pretty much anything as easy as one terminal command.

- It's important for me to trust my system; where I know no single entity has more power over the machine than myself and no secret upgrades I didn't desire are going to be pushed my way.

- There's no telemetry in my ideal system, certainly not at the system level and patched out at the app level where possible.

- I want a system that is open, configurable, respects the four freedoms and is community ran.

macOS cannot give me this, no matter how "fundamentally BSD" it is. I value the freedom that free software gives that no closed-source BSD ever could.
Huh, this was the reason why my laptop was freezing every time. I thought it was the fact that my laptop got too old and so I wiped my laptop and installed Arch.
> I don't know what the subject of that sentence would be in an active construction.

Wouldn't that just be "Now we engage in a great civil war, [...]"?
> You're acting as if your perception of moral right and wrong

These are not moral argument, lol. These are legal arguments.

The arguments are, that according to the sherman anti-trust law, what matters is market power. Thats it. That is a legal argument. It has nothing to do with morals.

> The DOJ will need to make a legal case against Apple

Yes, they have to make a legal argument. And the legal things that matter, in an anti-trust case, is market power.

> But saying that Sony isn't an antitrust case

I already told you why this is the case. it is because Apple has way more market power than Sony does. That is a legal argument, not a moral arugment.

But even if we want to say that the same precedent should apply to the playstation or the XBox, well I'm actually ok with that.

A world where anyone could make games for these consoles, doesn't sound to bad too me.

> Apple sells a minority of smartphones worldwide and hovers around 50% in the US

I think that it is pretty clear, that Apple has quite a lot of market power. This is a legal argument, not a moral one. Market power is relevant to anti-trust.

> on the fact that MS was a software maker, forcing hardware makers into illegal contracts.

So then you unironically believe that if Microsoft created every computer in the world, at a hardware level, and owned this multi trillion dollar hardware business entirely, that they would have been allowed to engage in anti-competitive practices? Really?

I understands that microsoft got in trouble for anti-competitive practices in the hardware market. But that does not change that fact that if they owned the entire multi-trillion dollar hardware market, that they absolutely would have been also hit by anti-trust law.

In fact, they would have been hit even harder if they also owned all computer hardware in the world, and were engaging in anti-competitive actions.
The problem is, there is no “how it’s done” to point to. All of the east asian countries did radically different things.

Taiwan slammed it’s borders shut before cases got into the country, and hasn’t done much else. Korea adopted large-scale contact tracing and isolation interventions. China uses authoritarian rule to lock people up when they have it. Japan hasn’t tested much at all, kept offices and restaurants open, and never even came close to “stopping“ the virus. And yet, even there, the fatality level isn’t nearly what we’re seeing in the west.

It isn’t unreasonable to hypothesize that something else is going on.
I think he's joking as in the early Microsoft/Bill Gates statement about memory.
Guess we'll see (maybe) in December (Snapdragon 875 will be announced December 1st at Qualcomms Digital Summit) - or a bit later, but the 875, now also on 5nm, supposedly will be quite a bump. Leaked (supposed) benchmarks show 30%+ improvement, which would be A14 territory.

I also have my doubts, but would be great for the market. (New Exynos 2100 supposedly also being up there.)
Little funny side story: I met Marten Mickos, then CEO of MySQL, a year or two after the Sun acquisition.

He evidently did some due diligence on who I was (AWS Tech Evangelist back then), and told me that he saw some of my emails in a PostgreSQL-related mailing list. I was so impressed! I told him I saw a bright future for PostgreSQL, especially after Sun's acquisition of MySQL (which I saw as a negative for the community).

Anyway, back on topic.

I keep thinking that PostgreSQL has a great opportunity ahead: in this decade, I would bet on the rise of an Oracle-like company (hopefully, less "evil" than Oracle), based on PostgreSQL. Possibly a company that will eventually go public.

Why? Because the tech is great, the community around it is great, and because we're in need of databases more than ever. (I could rant and get lost in a much longer explanation, but I want to spare you this time :D).

Do you see it this way? Any other viewpoints?