skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Books. That's how I treated it as a child, and that's how I treat it under restriction.

Tbh my imagination has taken me to cooler places than any flight or road trip.
How many paid developers will it have now, and how many did it have at Mozilla?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database
This is great news! I'm glad Servo found a place to land. Are you planning on sticking with the MPL-2.0 license, or are you also considering relicensing as well?
How about making a browser in addition to a "rendering engine for embedding in other applications", in the form of a standalone program and/or a Firefox (desktop and mobile) fork that can use Servo as well as Gecko?

You could also go for the more ambitious plan of creating a brand that can take over Mozilla as a "trusted browser maker", which seems feasible given the falling reputation of Mozilla and the technical security advantages of Servo.
You overestimate how ALU limited Cinebench is.

I managed to find an AVX vs AVX off benchmark run for Cinebench r20 [1]. Going from 128bit SSE to 256bit AVX and doubling the ALUs only results in a 10-12% increase in performance.

I assume this has to do with how each SIMD lane of calculation might need to branch independently, limiting the performance speedup from just throwing wider SIMD ALUs at it.

[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/post-your-cineben...
It's a great proposal for a product roadmap, or building a competitor but an awful proposal for legislation. Why should the government dabble in deciding how social media builds its product? You'll just crate a mat that entrenches FB and the like.

I think people VASTLY overestimate the influence of things like the FB feed on the real world. The best evidence they ever seem to have for any claimed effect is the number of people FB say saw/interacted with a post. They have a long history of inflating those numbers, yet the critics are all too happy to use them. The activity on social media that seems to actually result in real world outcomes seems to generally be the boring work of community building.

Also, how do you deal with spam or noisy posters in a "1:1 and neutrally ranked (e.g. by timestamp)" feed?
Thanks! I tried to find as many as possible, but I think I could find a couple more :)
ChowNow is exactly this: https://get.chownow.com/
We have a term in analytics for this: the late arriving fact. They create a ton of cognitive dissonance, but it's asymmetrical.

When tje late arriving fact is sales or orders shipped, it causes a ton of heartburn.

When this metric is expenditures or customer complaints, it gets a shrug. I frequently hear jokes about hoping the fact "can be as late as it wants."

It's fundamentally an exploitation of human's loss aversion bias.

When it involves public health, it feels particularly irresponsible.
The Cognitive Biases That Make Us Suck at Time Management
Am I the only one who has feels bad buying food with online delivery services but also feels an obligation to support the restaurants? Not only because the margins the companies are taking, but the guilt with how much to tip the driver (is the company providing them salary of some sort?).

However there is no other easy way to buy food without doing significant amount of research and then most of these companies are reliant on the online ordering for inbound sales anyways. It's a total cluster.

Probably a downvote here but I don't feel good making investment money on an extractive business like this - i.e. I'm not going to buy stock. Even though these services are lifelines during the pandemic, I wonder if they are a faustian bargain of sorts in the long-run understanding full well that in the short-run the alternative is to shutdown.

The sad future: I think the executives and staff will make off and the retail investors will be holding the bag as well as the shutdown restaurants and employees laid off.

The happy future: Some/most restaurants survive pandemic and ease off their online habits, stock stabilizes/investors take a hit and people go back into restaurants. Online delivery services companies market caps take a nose dive.
This is really nice work.

If you had a mechanism to subscribe for future updates, I'd do it.

Either way, this is cool stuff.
There are several rumours about a return of the 12-inch in 2021H1.
Maybe remembering the fathers that after his kid is born there is a "hell" time of mostly 3-4 months where the baby will be adapting to you and vice-versa.

Then the baby sleeps gets longer and you can have 6-8h of sleep.

New fathers: Hold tight, after 3-4 months it gets way easier.
> The leading '_' before symbols isn't just a macOS thing

it definitely is - see e.g. https://github.com/llvm-mirror/lld/blob/master/lib/ReaderWri...
It's hard to think of rich people who are doing more harm than good. Sure, you could argue that for Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and the Sackler family if you want to. But they are a tiny fraction of all rich people.

"Silently rape" is a pretty harsh thing to say.

Would you prefer we had no rich people? There are places like that.
If you watch the hearings, you'd know that both of your contentions are strawmen of what each side claims to want.
Based on information from the developer's website, it looks like they're still a university student, so probably using what is a cool and easy approach; they probably haven't learned a lot about load and scale. That Firebase bill could probably be written off as tuition :-)
Can Servo be used as an Electron replacement?
So you are suggesting we further centralising the web to avoid censorship and surveilance?
> You can't even tokenize a string without either copying or modifying

rust-lang saves the day, yet again https://www.brandonsmith.ninja/blog/favorite-rust-function
>How do you know that Google isn't supporting Postgres in any way, e.g. by supplying upstream patches, etc? The same goes for AWS, Azure, Heroku.

There's a list of contributors and what organization they're from here <https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/>. You won't see "Azure" listed but that's because it's considered part of Microsoft. Of the ones you listed, Azure is the only one that is considered a major contributor though you'll see there are companies that specialize in managed Postgres specifically.
They only need to add 2 ports to the Pro to differentiate it from the Air.
Amazon Opens Online Pharmacy
Wow, sounds pretty cool. I hope you are posting this on chess related forums.
I haven't heard about Dip before, but it's really cool to see. It seems to solve a bunch of my pain points with bare Docker Compose, so I'm eager to try it out.

It does not address my biggest issue though - setting up a Docker development environment is a considerable upfront investment that slows me down. When I start a new project, I want to jump into writing code in a complete Docker environment right away, and not spend hours or days setting up Dockerfiles, docker-composes, remote image builds, etc. Recently I have been trying to solve that with hocus [0], which is a very early stage framework for creating and managing Docker development environments.

[0] https://hocus.dev/
I haven’t been following Servo closely for the last few years (I’d looked at it during its early days). I recall that parts of it were already integrated into Firefox, but could someone state what percentage of the Firefox engine is based out of Servo and what the roadmap is for bringing Servo to a stage where it could almost replace Gecko? Does this new home for Servo (and detachment from Mozilla) still mean that Firefox would continue to aim to use it?

Tangentially, what’s the headless browser space with Firefox at the core looking like? When would it be able to provide something like Electron (possibly without being such a RAM hungry piece of software)?
> Most other languages are implemented in C

I'm not entirely sure what you mean here, but this is true for neither of the interpretations I have. Most compilers are not written in the C language (indeed, even the major C compilers are all written in C++ now!). Alternatively, most languages compile down into a bytecode language, or into native assembly, without converting into anything that is or looks like C in the process. Indeed, for languages targeting native assembly, C is an unwelcome intermediate step precisely because its semantics can be too constraining.
On the face of it, this sounds great! I hope it leads to bold new things.

It also produces an interesting coherence:

Google + MS -> Blink

Apple -> Webkit

Linux -> Servo

All the main OSs now have their own web rendering engine.

The 00s saw anti-trust against MS for this practice (ok, for the rigid way MS forced their engine onto their users)... but today the market has coalesced around the same core idea, cementing the notion that general purpose OSs need a web rendering engine.

Might this pave the way for a better cross-platform UI development? Rather than shipping Electron to every device for every app, apps might leverage the web renderer tied to the OS?

I'm just wondering out loud. I was actually hoping we'd collectively move back towards native apps with better cross-platform tools, rather than integrating web apps deeper into OSs (even tho' I'm a web developer by trade and stand to gain from this).
You just have to look at the phone community (XDA Developers, etc) to see how this will (eventually) go.

A good example were the old Asus Transformer tablets. They were a super niche device, but it still lended itself to Linux and so a small team of people managed to load Ubuntu on it.

Another are Samsung phones. They try to lock people out, but they have popular enough devices that people find a way to put LineageOS on them.

Finally, even iPhones aren't immune. Small teams of people have managed to load Android on them and get it (partially) working. More people would give them even greater functionality.

If laptop manufacturers lock things down with ARM, there will be people who work around those mitigations and install their own OS on that hardware. Tooling will be developed to make that process easier and easier for the next round of people with that device (or future devices). It'll suck up front until the community grows large enough to work around issues faster and faster.

And that's even supposing worst case scenario. I'm not fully buying the idea that you _won't_ be able to change the OS on these laptops. Microsoft has tried (and failed) to lock other OS's out of their laptops. Chromebooks are (currently) the largest market of ARM laptops and you're able to change the OS on them. Apple might be the only company even remotely able to hinder freedom on their devices.

Either way. In the war on general computing, I'm generally optimistic for the users.
Rather than a problem with GitHub, I think it's more just a problem of dominance. Git was originally designed for a work environment where people weren't on the same network, or any network at all when making code edits. At the same time, everyone wanted a copy of the history that they could change themselves to mirror their work. So we needed a tool which could be distributed, not require a regular network connection, and still enable people to share changes and view the entire history of a project.

Git was primarily adopted because it solved those issues which were important ones at the time, people discovering git needed those tools and when discovering git would naturally come across and understand the trade-offs. IE: "I can't easily undo a change once it's on someone else's machine, instead I would need to issue a new change reverting it. But that's ok, because it means I can do as I like on my machine without screwing up the history for other people and only send a patch of specific changes when I'm ready."

The issue people now face is git has become so popular, because of those initial reasons, and we're dealing with a new set of problems which git never cared about.

"Project X is in a git repository, and I want to contribute a change".

This is a fundamentally different problem to the original problems git tried to solve. We're now in this weird space where most people using git are only using it because: it's what they already know, or the project they want to work on already uses git.

Requests like "I just pushed a change and didn't really want to" don't make much sense and don't matter much in the original use cases. Now many git projects use centralised hosting and a lot of people don't really care about git, just getting their work done, we now have this UX issue. The UX issue isn't a result of poor design or implementation in git, it's due to the motivations of users being fundamentally different now.

Sure you could argue that git should change or be easier, but then it would stop serving the original purpose. If people want a centralised source control with the ability to easily retract changes and have branches be the same across all nodes then really they just don't need what Git sets out to solve.

The issue is git is now dominant, and that forces people to use it even if they don't have the problems that git is really attempting to solve. That means they're stuck in a place of using a tool so they can collaborate, without getting any of the benefits of it. That's enough to drive anyone insane! It's like pushing a boat across land to get to another village when a boat is really to get to another continent, but no one makes cars because everyone's already boats.

We don't need "better" UX for git, we just need people to know about all the options, and part of that may include encouraging some people to choose more centralised options when it's a better fit for them.
I'm not a conservative, but I suspect the answer would be along the lines of:

1. "Actually you under-estimate the number of conservatives in tech, they just keep quiet about it because conservative opinions are being oppressed"

2. "For example, a great many twitter posts by Donald Trump have been flagged as false or inciting violence. This shows tech companies won't let you say the things half the population thinks!"

3. "Larry Ellison and Elon Musk love Trump's policies!"

4. "Tech workers often support conservative policies like freedom, opposing government waste and avoiding needless over-regulation. Many tech companies like Uber embody conservative ideals, as do Silicon Valley voters through Prop 13 and Prop 22"

5. "Tech workers often oppose liberal policies like rent control, mandatory hiring diversity, and inheritance taxes on multi-million-dollar homes"

6. "Claims the party is anti-intellectual and anti-science are fake news, how could so many republicans run successful campaigns if they weren't smart? Anyone who seems stupid is actually a genius making a 2000-IQ five-dimensional-chess move. Sadly a lot of tech workers have fallen for the lies of the fake news media."
Wouldn't the surplus of selling relatively few machines that cost a minimum of 5,999 US$ justify continuing its development?

Not a burn, they're clearly great, well built computers, but Apple obviously adds a lot of profit to all their machines, Mac Pro included.
“Dark chemistry”: building blocks of life can form even without stars or planets
They just recently released their toolchain for the reMarkable 2 https://github.com/reMarkable/linux/issues/7
The toolchain for the rM1 has been out for a long time. Since it's just a linux device, there is a ton of existing documentation on how to work with it.
Interesting! I’ve never used Uber Eats and friends do say “let’s just Doordash something”. Popularity around here seems to be Doordash > Caviar (acquired by Doordash) > GrubHub. My area of reference is SF & Oakland, California.
Isn't it true that the far side is darker? The near side will be illuminated either by the sun directly or by light bouncing off the earth. The far side is also, of course, intermittently illuminated by the sun. But when it isn't, wouldn't it be much darker?
SaaS Link Building: 5 Big Strong Strategies
> But don't you think this would come off as a lot less impressive if Anandtech had included all of the old rivals from 1-4 years ago that still rank above the M1?

Not really. Why would you compare against old rivals instead of the current market? They had 1660 Ti's on the charts, too, which both obliterated the M1 & are not at all the high-end of discreet mobile GPUs.

The "discreet rival" was because the M1 was competing favorably against the discreet 1650 & 560(X). As in, entry-level discreet GPUs make increasingly less sense (they already weren't making much sense with Intel's new Xe and AMD's Vega 8 & 11 integrated, but more nails in that coffin with the M1)
is there anyway to directly transfer files to the tablet without using their cloud services?
If you are running firefox, there is a little icon at the right side of the url bar "reader mode?" that fixes it.

Though did anyone else notice the little "sun" slider at the top of the page for the spotlight in html? Useless but fun.
History of Steam Heat and Pandemics
GitHub, PyPi, NPM, etc are all great options for hosting dynamic content from a fixed location which looks benign to scanning.

For non-tech companies, replace with any relatively popular wiki.

The goal is “make a connection over HTTPS or other normal-looking protocol, to a destination that is both justifiability relevant for normal user traffic and allows the attacker to seed the next-step”. And it turns out there are lots of sites that fit that bill.
Time should be a signed int with enough bits to go backward from the epoch at t=0 to the big bang at t=negative whatever.
The latest K&R edition is from 1988, C has changed quite a lot since then... especially with C99 which almost feels like a new and much friendlier language because of the new initialization features (compound literals and designated init).
Trying to use WIN10 as developer is made considerably more tedious due to these interruptions from advertisements or "recommendations" to switch from Coke (Chrome) to Pepsi (Edge).

Leave me alone to do my work for @#$% sake!
Brain Scientists Explore the How of When
Run by Steve Bannon, of all people!
>I'd expect NVIDIA to join the ARM CPU race, too.

Nvidia has been making ARM SoCs since 2008. They have been used in cars, tablets, phones, and entertainment systems.

What do you think powers the Nintendo Switch?
I never understand downvotes in this situation. Like are you mad someone is calling out typos? I mean I'm not surprised, I got downvotes for the literally the same thing [0] a few days ago when anandtech published another article full of typos... I like their reporting but the typos and the multi-page nonsense is a huge turnoff.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25052892
You are spot on.
The one other thing I cannot take anymore with Airbnb is the hosts making it sound like they make us a favor to stay at their place.

It feels like every other booking ends up with an email like "this is our childhood/lovely/whatever reason place, we are very picky about who we accept and we except you to treat it as your home, can you confirm you would do that?".
Every single time I roll my eyes. It's not like I'm paying them more than a hotel for the privilege of staying there.
Mercurial shows that it's possible to hide much of that complexity behind a user interface that only exposes as much of that complexity as necessary.

Git's--and Mercurial's--secret sauce is the directed acyclic graph of commits.

Everything else is window dressing. It's complicated if you're used to a linear sequence of commits, but it's not too hard once you grasp the tree structure.

All operations are operations that manipulate (or share) the DAG, so it now becomes a matter of mapping how you want to manipulate the DAG onto the command set the tool gives you.

Git's toolset was designed by a dozen madmen that didn't talk to each other, so it's a loosely connected set of tools with conflicting syntax and meaning. Mercurial's toolset was designed to be used, so if you know the right terminology, you can easily figure out what command to write. Want to commit something? It's probably hg commit. Want to rebase? It's probably hg rebase. Etc.

Git exposes unnecessary complexity. But it won the DVCS popularity contest, so we're stuck with it. I wish something else had won. Oh well...
Can I make Findpi even faster?
Funny, I spent the past hour on a chat with Nest trying to fix an issue with my thermostat being too dim to see, they had me factory reset it, and then it couldn’t get set back up. Spent an hour chasing that down, to finally have him say Nest is experiencing issues.

Then I come here and see this, life is funny.
> It is clear from monthly data that from march to may there was excess mortality. From june to september the mortality was lower than previous years.

If you have a data set that clearly shows this, I would welcome a conversation about it. The data I have seen from the Financial Times site does not support this, but again, I'm more than happy to look at other data that backs this up.
What's the connection to Linux?
Awesome! I've been tire kicking their nightlys. I was thinking about building a "browser" but really mean just wrapping an engine. With the shakeup at M I was nervous that Servo would die, it's got a lot of promise. This is great news. Now, thoughts on a UI framework for Rust?
If their motivations were to do their real jobs, they would do their real jobs regardless of the cameras. The presence of the cameras reveals that they prefer posturing to doing their jobs, but that does not imply that doing their jobs is the priority immediately below posturing. If the cameras were gone, do you think they would ask real questions, or would they start doing things far worse than posturing in front of the public?
> There is a growing pressure to require your companies to do something similar, and publish the algorithms and metrics you use to keep people on your services longer.

Growing pressure from who? I've occasionally seen these suggestions within niche tech communities, but I've never heard a layperson suggest something remotely similar to this. I'm also unsure how useful it would be. How detailed would such disclosures be? Even if they list "We use this machine learning algorithm", that algorithm description seems like it would be largely meaningless without the training data (which I don't think you could convince them to publish at all).

> Do you believe your products are addictive?

What company CEO _wouldn't_ say yes to this? It feels, to me at least, like a fluff question that you already know the answer to and won't yield any interesting insight into the company or how the CEO thinks about the product.

> What does it mean to you for something to be true? Could you give an example of something that you find to be uncontroversially true?

I think this is a much better question, although I worry that it might yield itself to some "gotcha" moments from Senators. For example, if one of the CEOs were to say "The sky is blue", I think you might get a lot of Senators saying "Well what if it's raining". That might not be the best example, but just something off the top of my head.

I agree that it might be hard to come up with a unequivocal definition of what is and is not true, as that's ultimately a complicated philosophical question, but I think we can approximate truth by relying on a variety of sources who we know will do their due-diligence on research and are examining the full context of issues.
There should be a video available soon that you can follow along with soon. I'll make sure this comment is replied to with a link when it's up.
Best of both of worlds is:

- active cooling

- lack of a touchbar
Hey, Veedrac. You're probably bored with that by now, but I did reply to your last message- I just didn't see it in time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063580
the message sender can then send the remove payroll message to the PayrollDepartment

Employee fired: "immediately"
PayrollDepartment remove: "billy"
That's not particularly interesting, that's how evolution works.
M1 Benchmarks and Experience – MacBook Pro, Air, Mac Mini