skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take your point, but I disagree.

Ignoring the news, and just expecting the "important" stuff to magically penetrate is a great way to live in wilful ignorance, and/or let people/governments/corporations get away with a lot of bad stuff that others around you have deemed insignificant.

I could probably name half a dozen things off the top of my head that would affect your opinion or behaviour towards various things in your daily life, that you aren't aware of because they aren't considered "important" enough.
And I guess if you're okay with indirectly supporting workplace sexual abuse, money laundering, unsustainable work and management abuse, the erosion of civil rights, and destruction of the environments, then sure, I guess it's not important.
It doesn't yet have the features that will make it a real competitor, but I'm working on something called https://littr.me

It is a decentralized link aggregator based on ActivityPub.

There are also a number of other projects using the same paradigm in various states of development. In my opinion, when these will come together and intercommunicate with one another then we can say they represent the competition.
The challenge comes when you have to compete with the ladder-climbers for a severely constrained stock of housing.
Apple offered free remote access to DTKs for open source developers, in cooperation with MacStadium.

Cite: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3853#issuecomment-678249...
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The price of freedom of speech is the government not censoring speech that is unpopular, cartoons of Muhammad, Westboro baptists "protests".
If we talk about their importance and longevity, Pascal deserves a spot

It ran in many places in the 70s and was quite popular at the time of Turbo Pascal.

TP compiler was created by Anders Hejlsberg, that later became chief architect of Delphi, that convinced Microsoft to hire him to work as chief architect on C# and now he's a core developer on Typescript.
Near as I can tell, Bain loaded up Guitar Center with a pile of debt, and that debt was one of the primary reasons it went into bankruptcy.

I don't really understand how leveraged buyouts are legal, and I suppose I should learn a bit.
Sure, because hot water is a known carcinogen.

We’re in the grip of anti-plastic mania, to the extent that when heavy metals are discovered in a beverage container, the focus is inevitably on microplastics.

Since we’ve no idea who manufactured these containers, and since they contain heavy metals, I’m going to suggest that they didn’t come from the likes of Starbucks.
> I think a lot of people tend to view batteries as like a power supply that has a certain capacity you consume. This isn't an accurate view.

(Sorry for the late reply...)

This isn't an accurate view... so why is battery level reported according to this paradigm? The obvious effect is to frustrate and confuse people.
Also pyped (https://pypi.org/project/Pyped/).
Yeah the challenge is a lot of fun I have to admit that.
In the case of housing the resource supply is constrained artifically by the cartel formed by local homeowners.
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>What is it using for websockets btw, Action Cable?

And that is a problem because by default Action Cable isn't scalable. You cant get it work by 100 - 200 connection and response time are very slow at 50ms+ and a lot higher at 95th percentile. AnyCable helps a lot but this is another pieces of complexity added to the system.

Not a problem for Elixir and BEAM when they are sort of built for these type of workload.

Although I am waiting for all the Fibre, Async and Ractor addition to Ruby 3 and see how they add fit in.
It's still an available
24/7 live stream even if they aren't accessing it constantly.

Further, they haven't provided any details on how they will effectively control access, the area a crime would allow access to, how long the cameras could be accessed, or how they would handle false reports. Saying they won't abuse it isn't enough.
No way.

Python turned into an abominable hot mess over the years due to lack of direction, and nobody really wants to program in JavaScipt willingly. It's something we have to put up with.

Sadly, there is no equivalent to BASIC in 2020.
Right, now that you mention it I think I knew that but had forgotten. Not sure how it affects me, if at all, though...
"Man is by nature a political animal" --Aristotle (b. 384 BC)
I'm also interested in what happens to the bag labels in hot water. I'm always using these single use tea bags and the label always falls in the cup.
> I get that these things are all because women are underrepresented in tech and surely there are challenges for women and sexism against women. However, the examples above still feel like sexism to me.

These two sentences contradict each other.

You also say "I am not all men", but, sadly, the issue with systemic biases (racism, sexism, etc), is that it's not about individuals.

You seem smart enough to be able to theorize about ways in which, as a man, you may have unknowningly benefited from systemic biases over the course of your education / career.

For one thing you don't have to worry about being sexually harassed or raped by a friend/coworker - the numbers are pretty bad.

We're supposed to be rational, work with numbers, etc - so even if we can't prove the effect of a systemic bias on an individual, our knowledge of the data and basic statistics should lead us to be able to make reasonable inferences about general cases, etc.

I guess what I'm saying is, be the bigger man, in both ways in which that phrase can be read. It's not all about you.
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You don't need to wash a coffee mug because coffee is magic.
> What’s most saddening: it’s becoming alarmingly common from job to job. It’s forced me to rethink drastically how I’m vetting companies because they do a GREAT job disguising this during interviews.

Any flashes of inspiration on this?

I’m always searching for the perfect set of little questions to help uncover the real culture of a company, rather than the platitudinous corporate-buzzword answers about culture you otherwise get.
And what, pray tell, do you expect a service provider to do when this happens? Privacy advocates screamed themselves shrill like this and what happened is that the NYT went paywall. Then they screamed themselves shrill that the poor don't have access to good news.

Well...what did you think would happen?
Not to mention if you're using the cup for only water and you're the only user then you can easily get away with washing it once a week or less. Washing a water glass after every usage is extraordinarily wasteful.
Show HN: TypeScript implementation of X3DH using Libsodium
I replace the watch bands with a NATO strap and fill the casing with silicon oil.
You just mmap memory as a slice. You can grow and shrink it, flush to disk if backed by a file, etc. In code it’s just a slice. Tough part is you need to allocate, control bounds, binary encode/decode, struct align, defrag, etc. It’s hard work, but the performance is 100% worth it if performance is your main goal.
What does a lexus cost? Asking because I find it generally impossible to just lookup how much a car costs more or less, especially as someone who's never had to buy a car.
It feels like they should have put more background in the original sin that put Opera on this road.

When they used the Presto engine, that gave them a product they could sell- a unique engine they could license for embedded markets, for example. Remember the Wii ran an Opera derivative. They decided to roll out a Blink-based version (v12->15 transition) and that shot them in the foot in every possible way:

* They no longer had a product they could commercialize for licensing revenue. Why buy Blink from them instead of doing your own Chromium fork for free?

* The Blink version was so feature-poor for years that the power users that loved Opera 12 eventually moved to products like Vivaldi, which felt like it was trying to capture the same spirit. I suspect many of them abandoned Opera's portal services which could have been a revenue stream.

Ironically, I suspect the value of a (maintained) Presto engine would only have risen, especially after Chromium!Edge arrived and furthered the fear of a browser monoculture.
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And? Are you now closer to being an ownership class? Do you own shares, real estate, etc?
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Does anyone here who understands vaccines know how starting with a smaller does can improve effectiveness? It goes against my intuition.
Is the "frigging" here really necessary?
The question is VERY fair, and I don't want to undermine it. I just want to be the first to say that given the huge potential impact, "potential" is bad enough.

When dealing with probabilities there are two measures that need to be considered independently: probability and effect. Traditional statistics multiplies them into "expected utility" and works just with the aggregated value. But that's tricky, because effect is not a continuous function. Imagine a pebble falling on your head plotted based on its weight - there'll be sharp discontinuities at "hurts", "commotion" and "death".

At society's level there are also similar discontinuities. Something that may cause tens of million of cases of cancer over time should be in a separate category from a medicine that may suddenly kill a few hundred people, even though the latter has a bigger emotional impact.
Ask HN: Looking for query language for Chrome DevTools heap snapshot?
While coding in the nodejs from time to time there are memory leaks, and good tool to find those leaks is the Chrome DevTools heap memory snapshot. On the other hand finding problem requires somewhat tedious job to identify a memory leak that is from the app and not supporting library.
It would be awesome if there was an ability to do "SQL search" through those, it would be possible to "group by" instances by the same line, which would increase ability to quickly pin point where is the problem. Also it would be possible to reorganize entire structure by sizes etc.

Has anyone worked with any similar tool?
Poe's Law in action [0]. Could be helpful if you used the "/s" sarcasm mark.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
For anyone reading this, `-s` == `--build-from-source`.
yes, this was the reason for my use of plural when talking about perspective
It would be awesome if this set a correct agent when scraping the RSS.

Currently it uses NodeFetch/1.0
> Systemic sexism would imply there is an organized system to disadvantage women.

1. Women couldn't vote until the 1920s in the U.S. The 1940's in France.

2. In the U.S., the Equal Rights constitutional amendment, guaranteeing legal equality between men and women, still hasn't been fully ratified/passed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment

That's the tip of the legal iceberg.

If those aren't examples of a system, i.e., the U.S. government, granting less legal rights to women than to men, i.e., systemic sexism, then what is?
Why does it seem the default option when many Americans see something they don't know that isn't threatening them to try and shoot it?
Performance and stability of the SDcards in PIs my issue with them. I'd much rather have one of the boards with say a couple of GB built in storage, or an m2 connector.

You really can't use them in production like this
Everything you described depends 100% on the individual dealership not on the brand. It's not like Volkswagen sends a manual to their dealerships that says "be dicks to customers" and Lexus tells theirs "only hire nice people and shower customers in expensive gifts".

Nearly all dealerships are run as franchises and there is no "standard" of care beyond some very basic rules. The owner of the dealership(not the manufacturer) will dictate how well the customers are treated and what kind of perks they get. You happened to find a decent Lexus dealership - maybe somewhere else there will be an equally nice Volkswagen dealership.

The thing that does matter is how quickly and easily the manufacturer approves repairs and warranty claims - in my experience Nissan was always dragging their feet, Mercedes was ok-ish, and Volvo was completely outstanding. But even then, it has little to do with "the manufacturer" and everything with their national HQ in whichever country you live in - some operate on tighter budgets so aren't as keen to approve repairs as others. In EU a good solution sometimes is to literally just drive across the border and try to get the repair done in a neighbouring country, if you aren't having luck getting the warranty claim approved.
I’m confused, so what functionality are you losing when this is sunset? Is a auto notify Lexus you had an accident super useful or more some data Lexus wanted more than anything else?

Unless I’m miss understanding something about the feature (very likely), I think there would be a lot of people that wouldn’t care and it wouldn’t hurt the resale value that much.
My own personal experience is that opinions on topics are geographical cargo cults. Upvoted by Europeans in the morning and downvoted by Americans in the afternoon or vice versa.
Correct me if I am wrong.

The 10% of revenue from Paid Subscribers comes with Youtube Music for free. So people are not really subscribing to YouTube Ad Free. They are more like like buying Youtube Music and get Ad Free Youtube as a Bonus.

Which would have been perfect if Youtube Music was actually any good, But it is not. It is even worst than Apple Music.
Not really. it’s just harder to prove it means that this is not like asbestos.

When the harmful effects of asbestos were first learned, sick and dead people showed up and then a relationship between asbestos dose and illness was subsequently established.
Lexus, like any brand nowadays, makes an upwards of dozen models in all kinds of price brackets. You need to be a little bit more specific.
Great story. While it lived with you, did it express any opinion about quartz sphinxs?
I wonder what the statistical significance is of those findings. I seems to me that they tried out various different approaches, so the sub-group that received this first-low-second-high treatment might be considerably smaller than the other groups combined leading to slightly less certainty in regards to the findings.
This only lists features - 23 pages is hardly a data sheet.
As to why there has been only papers stating potential harm, I believe that is due to the long term study cycle. When can a researcher positively conclude confirmed harm?
In humans, that could take a lifetime, maybe two.
Other animals must also be studied, but doing that can be much more difficult and resource intensive. Here thinking about marine life primarily.
Point being, everything thus far learned points to harm in the long term. Long term studies have only begun in the last 10-20years I believe, and could be that we will be waiting for further still
Part of the service is cooking your food, right?
This is the one topic where there is no xkcd but SSC always comes up instead.
The tool would need to guarantee that the data of a user opting in doesn't contain private information about his contacts which may not have done so.
Pretty nice. I love awk, but it has serious deficiencies like the lack of datetime handling and Ruby/Perl was always too fringe.

I would like to see a pip package for this sometime but also maybe some consideration for integration with other previous similar attempts or other similar projects which I just learned about today.
The key differentiator here is the storage requirements (2-8c ‘normal refrigerator’).

That’s much more accessible to developing / low GDP countries as opposed the cumbersome and expensive storage requirements of the other two.
The press release is interesting. Not the best way to present their data. Immediate conclusion of many newspapers is "oxford vaccine is less effective then...".
Kelly Blue Book and Edmunds can help you estimate. Although it's heavily affected by age and model.
I was flicking between US election coverage on CNN and Fox and the BBC UK coverage (I don't live in the US), the contrast was stark. I could actually feel my blood pressure rising when watching the US channels, as if everyone on there was slightly panicky and had just jogged up a flight of stairs. I don't think you'd see what type of tone on non-US channels unless WWIII was literally breaking out. I couldn't imagine consuming that all the time, it must be horrendous for your mental health.
The label has a slit in it so you can avoid this. Wrap the string around the cup handle (or spoon if you don't have a handle) and slot it into the slit to fasten. It will never fall into the water again.
> A number of exchanges like bitfinex are in on the scam and are just holding the tether in cold storage

But how can that be a scam if they hold the tether? It can only be a scam if someone else now has the tether and they have the real money. I'm trying to understand who is getting scammed here.

Moreover, why are they printing tether if they already have too much?
over 7 billion human population, a 90% effectiveness is what? alright? please enlighten me. does anyone know what was the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine that we did actually manage to eradicate successfully?
The semantics are a mess on a fast machine (Wat), and it doesn't expose enough invariants nor control to be useful on a small machine.

What's the point in using a language which isn't quite sure what an integer is when you can just use C. It's not that hard.

The difficult part is all the crap in the toolchains not the code itself.
The link you shared - from the Post-Millenial - is troubling.

First, when reading it, to me, the language from the BLM site the article discussed did not line up w/what the article was accusing it of.

Second, the very beginning of the Wikipedia page about The Post-Millenial says this (and cites decent-looking sources for each point):

"The Post Millennial is a conservative Canadian online news magazine started in 2017. It publishes national and local news and has a large amount of opinion content. It has been criticized for releasing misinformation and articles written by fake personas,[1] for having unknowingly employed an editor with ties to white supremacist-platforming and pro-Kremlin media outlets,[2] and for opaque funding and political connections.[3][4]"

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

IMHO that invalidates your critique.

Simply put, Black Lives Matter, or BLM, is fundamentally about racist police violence and systemic racism in the justice system. That's at the core of it.

IMHO most critiques such as the one you raise seem to mainly be an attempt to obfuscate that simple fact.
Zig and Nim both have excellent cross compiling support out of the box.

Zig extends that excellent support to its embedded LLVM C compiler - it’s probably the easiest way to cross compile C across operating system boundaries these days.
> You have the right to shoot a gun, but if you murder someone while shooting it, you're criminally liable.

Well, someone I am tangentially acquainted with got drunk a while back and fired a gun into some houses.

Turns out shooting into a house is a separate crime regardless of whether you hit anyone, which I am fine with.
"they couldn't run the numbers, so for safety margins, they just overengineered."

That was definitely the case in the Ancient World and may be the reason why some Roman buildings are still standing.

(Roman concrete was awesome, BTW. Rebar is a major source of eventual concrete failure and Romans did not use any. On the other hand, they used volcanic ash in their concrete. Some Roman concrete piers are still standing, 2000 years of waves beating on them made them harder!)
That headline is not quite correct. From the article:

> Phase 3 interim analysis including 131 Covid-19 cases indicates that the vaccine is [on average] 70.4% effective when combining data from two dosing regimens ... In the two different dose regimens vaccine efficacy was 90% in one and 62% in the other

And to be clear, it's not just one dose vs two:

> tests on two different dose regimens showing that the vaccine was 90% effective if administered at a half dose and then at a full dose, or 62% effective if administered in two full doses.

So "Oxford vaccine is up to 90% effective", perhaps?
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My 2012 Nissan LEAF had a similar problem because it has a 2G modem in the telematics unit. They sent out a flyer offering to update it (replace the unit) for $200 or so. I passed because I didn’t use the telematics services much.
I see. And these traders are responsible for the increased demand of tether?
People keep wondering why and how he kept his optimism.

Can you imagine how much worse his last 30 years would have been without it?
Bottled tap water is an insane industry. Tax it at a dollar a bottle.
Why not link the original article instead of this spamfest?

https://www.hackster.io/hfor62/training-wild-birds-to-trade-...
> Techies are less suspectible to feelings (they are deaf in some sense)

I'd argue "deaf to feelings" actually means more susceptible, just unconsciously so, and to different feelings.
Is "easy to calculate" a necessary property? Is it ok to use a "hard to calculate" metric as a target?
The critical section is typically very small, usually just modifying a single variable. Interrupts can't happen faster than the CPU frequency anyway, so you won't miss much.
Maybe things like healthcare, childcare and houses were much cheaper back then, so the engineers did not demand high salaries?
Buying legal marijuana is the same as participating in any combined market. There are significant groups of people who buy both illegal and legal just because of previous connections or the inconvenience (driving across state lines to get the legal hookup). So if you buy legally, you are causing competition for the legal supply which can cause just enough shortage to push demand onto the illegal market.

Until people refuse to smoke illegal marijuana en mass, the markets are effectively the same.

> hope you support drug legalization, otherwise this attitude is massively hypocritical.

This is completely orthogonal to legalization. As long as the cartels still get it into the country at a competitive price to local growers (legal or illegal), the cartels are being supported.
True. The reason is that voting and downvoting semantic is perceived differently, and people’s ego. The easiest, although imperfect, solution I think would be that downvoting costs you some karma (both the downvotee and the downvoter).
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> Yes, I know--offering obvious expository answers to obviously rhetorical questions is how discussions work around here. ;)

That's not the point. It's okay to pose rhetorical questions, and it's okay to address a specific user with genuine questions. It is not okay, however, to ask a specific user rhetorical, leading questions, because that makes it seem like you want to "win" this discussion.
Out of curiosityare you offended by the word frigging or would you rather they just curse?
Why not just use C++ and not sacrifice any performance at all? You say async so it might not be applicable, but C++ has a standard memory model you can rely on for consistency.