skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The assumption that memes, misinformation, fake news and cyber bullying are propagating at a higher rate than before and is a new problem could be reviewed.

It's probably an extension of advertising, behaviour modification and outright propaganda (including agit-prop). Previously newspapers, magazines and televisions were used. Would Facebook etc be giving rise to a new phenomena or is it an existing one in new clothes?

Hoaxes are a good subject to look at, like the dead alien hoax. How did a hoax spread before the Internet?

Assuming new things are spreading, how can we make a vaccine to protect people against hoaxes and fake news but not against advertising, manipulation, behaviour modification and necessary government propaganda?
Regarding vaccines and altruism I suggest you read up on Jonas Salk, who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines[1]

Money quote from linked article:

"News of the vaccine's success was first made public on April 12, 1955.[7] Salk was immediately hailed as a "miracle worker", and chose to not patent the vaccine or seek any profit from it in order to maximize its global distribution."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk
Good summary of problems with challenge trials for Covid:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/23/challenge-trials-live-co...
I don't think it's as clear cut as you make it sound. They've been through dozens of node transitions, some very challenging, to the point of pundits claiming it couldn't be done because physics (300nm comes to mind, turns out, masks interference came to the rescue, or something like that).

They also reinvented them selves as a CPU company, went for lower prices with the Celeron, bit the bullet on Itanium and embraced AMD's x86-64, backpedaled the Pentium 4 thermal disaster and went from Pentium 3 into the Core architecture, took the server and HPC market by assault…

Never have I seen them this lost and in denial.
For island nations, it's not as bad an idea as it might sound. For all the bullshit about connectedness, the basic physical human urge social media stimulates is for conflict.
All the other things like sentimentality, status signalling, attention seeking, are parts of the underlying addiction to conflict because in a lot of hind-brains, that sensation represents opportunity. It's a vice.

Outright bans are clumsy, but imposing a cost or bar to entry, like most societies do with alcohol and drugs, might be constructive.

I'm tired of meeting friends and family in person and listening to them spend 20mins one-way unloading all the shit they read on the internet. They're so indexed on things that aren't physically present in the moment it's like talking someone through a psychosis or reasoning with someone with schizophrenia. It's a mass hysteria machine. When I talk to some people, it's like I'm not even talking to people anymore, I'm talking to some node of the internet.
We've basically invented language cancer, nice one guys.
Gossip spread much slower.
This would be fine, but delete "fool".
Doesn’t sound like any country I know. Sounds like a silly AOC talking point.
This comment seems like a reasonable hypothesis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25184877
Well, maybe the vegans more often ride a bicycle than the other group because they care more about the environment.

EDIT: also have a look at the numbers: 65,000 people of which "nearly 2,000" were vegans, so only 3% of the sample. And they found "20 more cases per 1,000 people", so an increase by 2%. The study is likely to have an error margin of more than 3%. And the study "did not account for poor bone health or accidents".
For me I just like seeing hacks to create systems with less code and complexity than web-packing heaps of npm lib's together... I guess put more simply:

The best code, is the code you don't have to write...
That's so naive :-)))

Check out all the censorship laws in the past and even present. Content ratings, censorship committees present even today in many countries, including democratic ones.

Just for fun, check out how many pictures of Roosevelt showing him as a cripple you can find ;-)
Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels? (2016)
Whether viruses are alive or not is purely a matter of definition.

Alive in this context means that it can infect host cells and replicate.

Contrary to what the sibling posts say, that doesn't just require intact viral RNA, which by itself is not infectious, but an intact viral assembly, i.e in this case a lipid hull with various accessory proteins, such as the nucleocapsid that packs the RNA and the spike protein that binds to host cells.
Also worth mentioning, is that Russia is working on a freeze dried version: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/exclusive-russia-focuses-on-...
I don't know - imagine a chromebook, but with a custom SOC with compiler optimizations designed to improve battery life on auto-play video ad popups. Seems right up their alley /s
With Java I've seen an increasing problem with programming style in large projects because of it's kitchen sink support of so many paradigms.

In addition to code readability it also effects code reviews because many cases come done to taste and it's difficult to build any type of consensus.
parallel construction should be relabeled as perjury or something similar
Any idea how does one make those product renders? Is it standard keyshot/blender or any other software?
As a fairly new dev, this is really great information for me. Thanks for posting this.

If you don't mind me asking, roughly how much do you spend (time) on this every week? How much of that is split between development, operations and product or business development?
I'd hesitate to make it a rule because some people take them proactively, or even routinely. But yeah if someone has symptoms, or think they were exposed, that would make sense.
Well, I don't want to be rude, but a little google for "instagram report user" will quickly reveal
https://www.facebook.com/help/instagram/165828726894770

If you in "general" asking about online harassment, that's another topic. I think then everybody just misunderstood your original post (which seem to reference to Instagram specifically).
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There is also no such policy for legal asylum seekers. It’s easy to avoid.
If you work in a shitty workplace where everyone is demotivated. You have a good work ethic. In fact if they only work at 10% and you work at 100%. You're 10x those peers. You end up doing 10x the work as your peers because they do nothing.

Whereas if you work at a place that has good management, people are motivated to work because they are well respected and not micromanaged. Suddenly if you work 100%, so are your coworkers working 100%. You aren't 10x. So you have to work on boosting your coworkers.
This makes no sense. I do not recall the amount of RAM I had on my 486DX50 but whatever version of office it had at the time ran just fine. JavaScript was not even born by then. But when first ever versions of JavaScript were released their execution speed were molasses comparatively to native applications. I know it first hand as I was developing native and web and in browser applications since 94 even before JavaScript (I used Netscape's server push functionality for that). When Java was released and until it matured to decent enough JIT it was the same slow resource hog (again know it first hand).
Google is not really good at hardware, they tried high end phones but were not very successful. They realised that and moved to mid tier phones. More than performance they are focusing on creating a Google ecosystem where all their hardware and services integrate seamlessly.
This article has decent points but is definitely just sort of coming from the perspective of being completely unfamiliar with the Mac platform.

Worrying about the App Store taking over on the Mac is misguided. The Mac has never forced the App Store on anyone and the Mac App Store doesn’t even seem to be particularly popular.

“Emulation” (it’s not emulation) is apparently this big problem, except that early M1 Macs show faster Rosetta performance with still-better battery life in many cases.

And yes, Rosetta won’t be around forever, but we have been here before. It wasn’t a problem going from PowerPC to Intel either. If the authors at Android authority ever used a Mac they’d already know this. Anecdotal, but I can’t think of a single pre-Intel program that was lost to the Intel transition that I was using at the time. All the developers checked the box and recompiled, and the dinosaurs like Adobe eventually trudged along.

For those of us who actually used Macs back in the PowerPC days and earlier, there was no such thing as Hackintosh or Boot Camp. The fact that those are going away is essentially inconsequential, especially now that the Mac platform is vastly more popular than it was in 2006.

Why would I want to run Windows on my Mac? It’s been a shitty experience anyway, because even in Intel-land the hardware has been heavily macOS optimized including things like fan and power control. The trackpad driver on Windows was always worse, for example. And again why would you want to run Windows when you spent all this money to not run Windows? It doesn’t make sense especially since so many programs (e.g. 1Password) have their best versions on Mac.
Could you use the combination of wifi and GPS. If the device leaves wifi, check GPS in 5 minutes.
That's what the term "virtue signaling" is for. (or one of the things)
So it isn’t really about wages, it’s about kids. You chose to start a family and accept the responsibility that comes with that. It’s not forever though. When the kids move out you and your wife could sell the house and hit the road, if you wanted to.
> up to 10 million people

> Subscriptions run anywhere from $50 to $120.

Holy shit. And presumably it's all tax free.

I wonder if there is some secret underground religious Venture Capital system that we don't know about.
I agree with this completely, with one small addendum.

A large and diverse network is likely to offend more as more people come into contact with people they don't already have familiarity with, and less as they are less likely to come into contact with people they do.

Rephrased: I'm better able to tell sincerity from my dear friend Eliza when she says something, whereas those same words phrased the exact same way may cause offense when heard from a stranger at a bar.
My reaction to the first half of this article, even before getting to the denouement, was that the Shuttle "gag" was totally inappropriate but the Mercury one was hilarious. And I'm not entirely sure why. Was it because the latter involved Gene Kranz, or because flipping the video feed showed them putting in more effort?
Sure, but why? How have they become this blind and stagnant?

Their architecture has always been on the mediocre side but manufacturing has been uncontested for almost 50 years. What makes them suddenly hit a wall while everyone else plowed through?
Well there are two parts to it really.

Take a number say 123. Write it as 1 * 10^2 + 2 * 10 + 3.

In the first step we multiply parts of this expression by 20. This doesn't change the residue since 20 = 1 mod 19

1 * 10^2 + 2 * 10 + 3
1 * 10^2 + (2+3*2) * 10
1 * 10^2 + 8 * 10
(1+8*2) * 10^2
17 * 10^2

Now heres the part where we do change the residue. We note that 10 and 19 are coprime. So 17 * 10^2 is divisible by 19 if and only if 17 is. So replacing 17 * 10^2 with 17 might change residue, but wont change divisibility.
If you look at Intel's mediocre-at-best improvements over the last few years, it makes perfect sense that Apple want to move to their own silicon. They also could have moved to AMD, but they probably started thinking about this move before Ryzen happened, and given Apple already make great chips for iPads, it's no great stretch to put them in MacBooks too.

Sure, it gives them more control, but they already had the ability to exercise platform control on x86. They could have disabled Boot Camp etc on the T2 chip Macs if they wanted to, it's not about the CPU.
And last time Greenpeace did a checkup of this, it seemed like it was only Fairphone and Apple that even had attempted to work on their processes to limit the environmental impact of their products. It's really hilarious, especially considering the limited user serviceability of Apple products https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/greener-electronics-2...

iPhones have actual resell value, too.

I switched to iPhone in 2012 after I got super annoyed about the poor quality of and lack of software support my HTC Desire Z was receiving. Since then, every phone I've had, has served out its full 5 or 6 year lifecycle with family members.

I generally switch iPhones every two years, and as of late, the only reason I do it is to prevent family members from ending up with garbage Androids. From iPhone 6s forward, I feel that the 'useful lifespan' of these products for someone who wants something snappy, has only increased.

Here in Finland, one can buy phones from carriers unsubsidized, but with years of interest-free installment. After two years, the market price of my old phone is pretty close to the remainder of my installment.
Yes for sure it will, but to ARM levels is almost impossible.
> I wonder if there is some secret underground religious Venture Capital system that we don't know about.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-equity-backed-ministry-...
>In the US free-speech does include hate speech.

Only in certain situations and there's established case law to this effect. "Free speech" in the US is not a blanket indemnification:

Fighting words are, as first defined by the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) in Chaplinsky v New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942), words which "by their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality."

Fighting words are a category of speech that is unprotected by the First Amendment

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fighting_words
Reminded me of the example in "Vedic mathematics" - the "ekadhikena purvena" ("one more than the previous one") sutra using which 1/19 was expanded into decimals. For 19, "one more than the previous one" is 1+1=2 so doubling and adding becomes the rule. For 29, it is 2+1=3, so tripling and adding.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vedic_Mathematics/Sutras/Ekadh...
going into Read Mode on Firefox gives me a totally different artile. Am I the only one?
Right. I had to get a Covid-19 test in October as part of groundwork for another procedure. I could've gotten a rapid test that gave results same day, or the PCR test. I got the PCR test (because more accurate) and had results back within 2 days.
> I don't know what happened to Intel.

I worked for Intel for a few years, 2005-2007. It's hard to put into words what happened to Intel. The simplest way for me to explain it is that the employees didn't take risks. A different way to explain it is that most people at the company were too career focused then focused on the actual business.

But this is how disruption happens! Major players like Intel can always see where the industry is going, at a high level, but the rules of each generation in an industry are always murky.

IMO, the "ARM" generation of PCs is a shift to vertical integration. Intel set itself up for horizontal integration, and the openness of ARM means that the lines between "Computer manufacturer and CPU manufacturer" are going to increasingly blur.

Intel's business basically treats PC manufacturers like franchises; and Intel's a culture focuses more on career, and less on risk and business. This means that they're going to increasingly have trouble adapting to the new rules that come in the "ARM" generation.
Those companies should pay the developers of those “essential” apps for the update. I’m tired of companies cheeping out and blaming everyone else when they don’t want to pay devs.
And a massive chunk of Steam library which will never be updated.
> language cancer

Verbal coronavirus. Snow Crash was rather ahead of its time on this, although derailed by the author infodumping ancient Sumeria in the middle.
I realised that the code I found most readable were always in a pipeline, regardless of language (java: `one().two().three()`, lisp: `(-> one two three)`, Elm: `one |> two |> three`, etc) and I wondered what it would be like to program in a language were pipelines were not only easy, but required.

Forth-based languages was the closest I could come to that experience, but most of those languages did not have all the niceties I've come to enjoy, like strong static typing and purity.

I also wanted a language which would work equally well on the backend as the frontend, and with wasm this seemed possible.

So those were the initial ideas behind the project.
I asked about it on a 787 Flight I had last year and crew member was nice enough to show it to me after the flight. It's very cosy. Unfortunately they have special emergency hatches that you need to be certified to operate, so unless you are certified, there is no chance of ever been able to sleep in one during flight. (I have flown first class, and given the option I would take the crew bunks for sleeping.)
the pallet idea is interesting. I bet it must be really well insulated from the noise!
Definitely not because of "

A few weeks ago, the Solomon Islands Government faced criticism over documents leaked on Facebook that showed how COVID-19 funds for economic recovery had been spent.

Ruth Liloqula, the head of the anti-corruption group Transparency Solomon Islands, said she believed such leaks were the real reason behind the ban, which she said was "an indication that our Government is becoming very authoritarian".
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Nah, I've been a cheap overseas help for years. We paid for this with our $2-12/hour salaries, not the spoiled open source brats with trust funds.
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Please just don't make the mistake that most people I come into contact with make and lump vegans and vegetarians into the same category. Completely different.
> it was like the bird was telling me that it considered our house its home too

I volunteer at a raptor conservation site where most of the birds are free-flown every few days. It is extremely rare for a bird not to come back 'home' of its own accord. There is one bald eagle (fitted with telemetry) who sometimes flies a couple of miles away and then waits to be collected and driven back in a van. The storks literally walk back along a path from one of the displays to their own aviary.

Being fed by the keepers is obviously a factor in them coming back, but it is also worth bearing in mind that for some birds (e.g. a Peregrin falcon) a hunting flight is an extremely energy-intensive activity, a bit like a cheetah sprinting after a gazelle. Such birds in the wild might spend a lot of time perched in a tree waiting for an easy kill, rather than flying just because they can.

Coming back to crows, one respect in which they seem to cognitively outperform dogs is that they understand traffic and vehicles. Crows eating roadkill will hop out of the way when a vehicle passes, and then hop right back when the road is clear again.
Benchmarks that try to replicate reality actually shows the opposite, PHP web stack beats NodeJS web stack.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=...

It is certainly true that NodeJS has become much faster as your synthetic benchmarks shows, however we have to measure our programs in the context of intended use, as previous poster suggested.

NodeJS wins against PHP when NodeJS does not make an external database call, like in the two test suites JSON serialization and Plaintext, but as soon as you throw in MySQL database PHP wins.

What does this tells us? That V8, the implementation of the JavaScript, is faster than the Zend engine, the implementation of PHP, but the event based NodeJS platform is not faster than the PHP(Apache/Nginx) platform.

NodeJS performance has evolved massively thanks to V8 R&D, as you already mentioned, Zend Engine has also gained a lot performance but of course not comparable to V8 for obvious reasons, the prior is a Google based project, the latter is a volunteer community based project. However the PHP stack also consist of a web server, and they has also evolved massively the past 20 years, Nginx is relatively new on the scene with an event based asynchronous architecture and Apache has evolved with a new PHP module.

I think your personal attacks against muglug, regardless if he was right or wrong, is not appropriate for this forum, especially when you yourself is not entirely up to date.

Edit: typo
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That's sad to see a open source project closing down like this :(
Can an Algorithm Prevent Suicide?
Books were routinely banned in the UK until the 1960s; this basically ended with the Lady Chatterly trial at which the ridiculousness became apparent.
Interesting that the Java VM installs signal handlers for SEGV, rather than checking for null pointers: https://www.ateam-oracle.com/why-am-i-seeing-sigsegv-when-i-...
This actually isn't new -- POWER processors have this exact same hardware support for emulating x86. It was even present until (the unreleased) POWER10.

POWER chips up to and including 9 support "SAO", Strong Access Ordering mode. It is mentioned in exactly one sentence in the CPU manual: "The POWER9 core supports the SAO mode defined in Power ISA."

This feature appears to solely have existed for QuickTransit's translation software, as POWER has a weaker memory model than x86.

Linux briefly mentions this in the man (2) page for mprotect, stating:

PROT_SAO (since Linux 2.6.26)
The memory should have strong access ordering. This feature
is specific to the PowerPC architecture (version 2.06 of the
architecture specification adds the SAO CPU feature, and it is
available on POWER 7 or PowerPC A2, for example).
If the Twitter API is down, then you'll have blank spots on your page where there are supposed to be tweets.

If Netlify goes down, you won't be able to publish, but your statically rendered site should still load just fine unless you are using it to make dynamic queries on the fly (which is, I think not generally done for Gatsby, but very possible to do)
I recently picked up a Motorola LapDock from eBay. It was originally used as a keyboard, trackpad, and screen in a laptop format for the Atrix smartphone, but with some converter cables, you can plug into any machine with HDMI and USB and use it exactly as you describe. It's finicky, but works well enough to be useful. Total cost for the LapDock and cables was under $100.
Hi there! Voice search can of course be done by using something like Amazon Transcribe or Google Speech to Text. The problem however is that they just turn speech into text and that's not the best way to leverage voice in search.

With these tools there's a bit jarring experience with waiting for the results and then either you have to submit the search query automatically and trust that there was no mistakes with the speech recognition or you have to click enter after making sure it was understood correctly (editing wrongly recognized utterances especially on mobile is very frustrating)

While these are small details, they make the experience a lot worse.

Our tool (yes, we have a technology that can be used here) combines speech recognition and natural language understanding in a novel way and in fully streaming fashion. It enables search experiences like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI68NT8D1m8 where the UI is updated as the user speaks. This makes it easy for the user to correct themselves by using voice and it encourages them to go on with the voice experience if there's no errors.

Our tech is applicable to web very well: works on all platforms and we have client libraries for React and JavaScript for easy integration.