skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems pretty clear from the video that the guy's video call dropped, it wasn't cut by CNN. CNN is reporting on these criticisms of Emanuel on their website: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/24/politics/rahm-emanuel-transpo...

So if they are trying to secretly cover them up (as you seem to imply), they are doing a bad job.
> For everyday users who just want to take the kids to school, get to work and head out of town on the weekend, vehicles have been “perfectly fine” for the last decade.

Nobody needs to know (or cares) how a car works - EXCEPT professionals and enthusiasts.

> For everyday users who just want to take some holiday snaps, record their kids making a mess and maybe print a few small pics, point n shoot cameras have been “perfectly fine” for the last decade.

Nobody needs to know (or cares) how a SLR works or all of it's features - EXCEPT professionals and enthusiasts.

We can go on and on with this. I don't think it says anything about a divide, it says that our world is so sophisticated and complicated there are entire devices and areas of society that most of us use on a daily basis, but for which we have no care about how it works. That's perfectly fine.
> There can be several ways of achieving the same result in SQL, with sometimes deep performance implications

Which is also very true of regexes, especially the more feature-rich ones variants.

And the existence of variants was a large part of what I was getting at.

> it's just a syntactical transform effectively

Yes, it is tooling that helps people do things they don't understand.
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I guess my main beef is that the outcome in California is objectively bad. It only seems creditable graded on a curve against morons like South Dakota. By global standards California is doing very poorly with 100+ people dead every day, while people in Taiwan go about their normal lives.
A New Study About Color Tries to Decode ‘The Brain’s Pantone’
I feel like this is one of the great cases for a “residential” vs “commercial” model.

From a software dev perspective, I definitely understand the benefit of monthly/yearly subscriptions vs feast and famine cycles (with the hope that you can justify an upgrade to your users), but it.has.gotten.out.of.hand.

Some of your best customers start out bootstrapping and becoming experts in the cheapest (workable) solution. If you tell them they’re “too poor” for not wanting to pay your prices at the door, you just lose out.

With an excellent product, it’s even viable to have free tiers and then charge businesses $$$ (basically all past Windows software if you count piracy as free), or move to a Patreon/sponsorship model (Vue.js).

If you have to pay “cloud” costs, I get the struggle of giving it away for free, but if it’s all on-device? What’s your argument?
We use Zulip and I think it's amazing. I'm probably biased since I've been using zulip for 3 years and have always hated slack, but yes, it's a good tool.
Twitch Plays the NYT Crossword
some interesting effects on IoT

> I thought I couldn't vacuum because us-east1 was down, but it turns out that my drive filled up and dhclient couldn't write to resolv.conf and so actually it was just that DNS wasn't working -- https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1331703327692709888

> My fucking doorbell doesn't work because AWS us-east-1 is having issues
-- https://twitter.com/SJP1804/status/1331643504443928578

> Half the internet running on one company's infrastructure is a major national security issue, both with gov cloud and civilian cloud. And these are accidents..... -- https://twitter.com/r0wdy_/status/1331694152937996289

> An Amazon AWS outage is currently impacting our iRobot Home App. Please know that our team is aware and monitoring the situation and hope to get the App back online soon. Thank you for your understanding and patience. -- https://twitter.com/iRobot/status/1331667670383685635

> huge outage on many AWS Services: Kinesis is experiencing increased API errors in the US-EAST-1 Region. This is also causing issues with Amplify, API Gateway, AppStream2, AppSync, Athena, Cloudformation, Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch, Cognito, DynamoDB, IoT Services -- https://twitter.com/victorlazari/status/1331634362937438211
Oh, right.

> Isn't this already true of every multi-core chip ever designed;

Yes, I just added the explanation of what coherency is in this context as I'm not sure how common the knowledge about it is.

The thing is there are many ways how you can implement this (and related things) with a number of parameters involved which probably can be tuned to optimize for typical RC's usage of atomic operations. (Edit: Just to be clear there are constraints on the implementation imposed by it being ARM compatible.)

A related example (Not directly atomic fetch add/sub and not directly coherency either) would be the way LL/SC operations are implemented. Mainly on ARM you have a parameter of how large the memory region "marked for exclusive access" (by an LL-load operation) is. This can have mayor performance implications as it directly affects how likely a conditional store fails because of accidental inference.
I fully admit, with no reservations at all, that you're getting tired of that bullshit.
> In the US, the typical citizen commits an average of a felony

Sorry but that’s just obvious BS. If it were true, you’d include examples and far more people a certain world leader doesn’t like would be “locked up”.
200€/h results in a gross yearly income of ~380k €. That should be way more than enough, even accounting for overhead costs.
This shows the circles without the inner circles:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1331542934056001536

And this with stabilized rotation:
https://twitter.com/spacecatmeowart/status/13316956817451499...

Super cool effect! This is the type of magic trick that becomes cooler as you learn more about it.
You were the tech guy. They were the biotech guys/gals.
Right. Weirdly, buying leather actually causes more cows to be eaten (because increasing the profit available causes the price of beef to decrease).
I remember the Cincin bubble gum surprises with Maradona, Van Basten, Gullit
https://colectionaruldesurprize.wordpress.com/03-cincin/

Everybody was collecting them.
What a shame he wasted such an amazing talent with drugs.

I’m a little sad that one of my childhood heroes is gone.

Hasta siempre, Diego Armando Maradona!
I played with Mmhmm during beta. It's a simpler to use OBS, from what I can tell. It's good for some laughs.

They just came out of beta and announced that it would cost $9.99/month. I was pretty shocked to see a recurring fee for such a simple app, which, from what I could tell, offers nothing new over a long establish FOSS project. It strikes me as more of a one time $10 purchase. Would really like to hear how they justify a recurring cost on this.
It drops to 25fps with not much happening on the screen, no water and no crowded area, at 1440p. This guy also mentions dropping to 30fps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ubyXiY4N2o

The comments here also say 25fps on max settings in Stormwind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIbEIhizoXY
Failed electric jet startup Zunum sues Boeing for fraud
And often scrolling with auto load, so you never really know how far you are from the bottom of the list.
Tesla’s stock price hasn’t been reasonable for a number of years now. But it is the same ol’ discussion. I’d suggest shorting Tesla but someone will then come along like clockwork with an overused quote about how the market can remain irrational...and they’d be right. Buy in, or ignore it, those are your current options on Tesla.
And that's a site without any etxernal tracking or ads. No images either.

But their horribly inconsistent UI and UX a big tell why it is this way. They simply serve you multiple versions of their website, each for different component. And together it's a giant mess.
Dunno about that, the Heroku UI seems a bit stalled in development.
Sure, I try to buy organic foods, I try to recycle, etc. But, if the incentives are aligned in the wrong way, then the overall trend of society will head the wrong way.

Which is, sure, not a reason to not try your best within the existing system. But exhortations will only get you so far. We tell people not to steal, but we also have police, burglar alarms, doors that lock, etc. because we know appeals to people's better nature is not enough.
I see, thanks.

Considering the pi needs to be powered over one USB port and the other USB port is used for data that makes two wire hanging around: ts that really better than an USB webcam then ?
> these discussions have become so tedious and predictable that there is no curiosity left in them and no learning possible

Given your experience moderating this site, do you have any thoughts / insights on how to build a platform that brings the best out of discourse while preventing the downfalls you see here?
The slide is just as, if not more invasive as recaptcha in terms of privacy, cross-site tracking and fingerprinting.
Schiehallion Experiment
> This was supposedly due to Dr. Tom Shires, the chief of surgery, popularizing the use of intravenous fluids acutely rather than blood transfusions.

I find that comment interesting since current state of the art in trauma resuscitation is transfusing relatively early, based on solid data out of the Iraq war.
Performance Improvement Plan. Basically 'this is what you need to improve if you want to keep working here.'

Lots of people bad at their jobs blame the PIP system for their failure at Amazon.
Yeah, well, they have a thing called TS2M, referred to e.g. here... https://www.reddit.com/r/epicsystems/comments/9pmsjj/ts2m_in...
Bitcoin is essentially a Ponzi scheme. The only way to make a profit is to sell an asset whose added value only exists if more people buy into it.

Nowadays many bitcoin supporters refer to it as "digital gold", but that's just not the case. Gold is a natural element with some unique phisical a chemical properties that make it both attractive (e.g. jewelry) and useful (e.g. industrial applications). So those buying gold to speculate do not necessarily have to resell to speculators to make a profit. There are countless buyers that are willing to pay the price of gold for reasons other than investing.

On the contrary, those holding bitcoins can sell only to buyers that think that prices will go up. So they can only sell to other speculators (including of course the random buyer who saw an ad for bitcoins).

So, because today there's no real exit strategy from a bitcoin investment other than reselling to other speculators, there's really no difference between bitcoin and a Ponzi scheme.

A very common counter argument is that one day bitcoin will [insert _useful_usage_case]. However, once again, this is speculative, as it's based on the idea that the current value is determined by a future uncertain event.

Also the fact that with bitcoins it is possible to buy some goods doesn't change much. The actual ability to use bitcoins to buy things or pay for services is so limited that it doesn't make any difference. And, more importantly, it is inherently less efficient than FIAT (official currencies).

Having said all of that, I'd like to add that I am very very supportive of decentralized technologies, and bitcoin has certainly helped immensely to promote decentralization, so there's that. But my point is that bitcoin is only a speculative asset.

Because I truly support decentralization, I would very much like to hear different opinions in the comments, so do let me know if there's a different perspective I could see things from. Please though don't just say that the price of bitcoin is going up and that it has been around for years. This is not proof that bitcoin isn't a ponzi scheme. Think of Enron and for how long it was around before collapsing.
Believe me that we have heard all the possible arguments against veganism including “plants feel pain too”, it’s not one or the other, livestock is fed plants, so you cause more suffering by eating them.
I've used Webcamoid[0] on Linux to do silly camera filters during a Zoom happy hour. This one looks a bit more polished, but Mac only for now.

[0] https://webcamoid.github.io/
reCAPTCHA only needs to make a determination that the user is some human, not that they are any particular human. And reCAPTCHA is usable without being logged into Google’s identity system. The profiles it builds are clearly not associated with Google’s primary identity database, and its trivial if you don’t need to preserve identity to one-way hash every piece of data that GDPR considers user-identifying at the entry point to the system and store only the hash. The EU isn’t shy about handing out billion-dollar fines to Google, so while Google can match a user to a stored profile there’s no reason to suspect that Google has a way to reverse that mapping.
Care to explain why you feel this way?
From about 2005 to 2012 i ran everything on FreeBSD, laptop, desktop and every server I had at two companies.

Eventually I moved where I did not have CTO authority (Beggars and choosers) and by 2015 I realised that I was spending more time configuring drivers and trying to get the display manger just right than actually delivering value.

What I really wanted about 2010 was a company that sold a laptop pre installed with FreeBSD that just worked - kept the drivers and everything else Shipshape and Bristol fashion . I thought then I would happily pay a annual fee for it - I guess Tim Cook has that fee now.
Creating a ticket in Jira is a pain I try to avoid. I've never seen a worse UX for something that simple. I hate it with passion, and my computer does too, always spinning up cooling fan. Then I create it, and of course the formatting us fucked up. Every single form has a different flavor. Preview shows something else to what will show after submit. You press edit and you see a completely different syntax. One couldn't make the experience so bad even if they tried.
Taurine is not essential. The body makes its own creatine and taurine.[0][1] B12 is available in a number of vegan sources[2], though vegans should generally supplement it.

[0] https://veganhealth.org/taurine-and-carnitine/

[1] see "Creatine for Vegans" https://www.fitbod.me/blog/natural-food-sources-creatine

[2] https://www.freshnlean.com/blog/vegan-b12-sources/
Google's AI taps into the minds of the great poets
Not just any lobbyist, but a fossil fuel lobbyist.

He even dragged the CEO and a SVP of the California Medical Association to the dinner.

Along with his veto of SB-127 (2019), Newsom’s just killing people left and right through casual neglect.
I saw him live in Foxboro MA in the 1994 world cup match vs Greece (before he was disqualified for drug use). The crowd reaction to him was amazing. Every time he ran near the section I was in the crowd would go crazy just because he was close, even if the ball was far away. It was an amazing experience.
Google search interest in Ethereum hits highest point since February 2018
Most likely, Performance Improvement Plan
I still think the main cabin should be possible to eject and then parachute to the ground... seems more likely to work than land with no engines.
Three major areas - Device Drivers, Virtualization, and Network Filtering

It's not so much fat as it is feature support and what's enabled by default. Most people want the "default" configuration to work out of the box on whatever computer they have. E.g. If you take a look at "x86_64_defconfig", nearly every Ethernet card that Linux supports is enabled. Odds are you only have one of those in your (desktop) system. However, unless you shopped around for specific NICs, odds are you don't own two systems that use the same ethernet driver.

For those of us who want to only compile the support for exactly what we use, it is still possible to compile the kernel small enough to boot off of a 1.44 MiB floppy with a minimal initial ramdisk, assuming the system you want to use it on is old. Modern systems require so much more code to use the hardware in them, and as Linux has become the single most used operating system kernel on the planet, the amount of code for device drivers has grown astronomically.

The kernel contains a minimal configuration called "tinyconfig" which turns off literally anything that be while retaining a functioning kernel. A tinyconfig kernel + TTY support compiles to about 500 KiB. Enabling all of the drivers to support hardware via the BIOS (AT style disk control, floppy, display out, etc.), and ELF support will yield a kernel of ~790 KiB, a little more than half of your 1.44 MiB floppy. Assuming you can fit useful userspace tools in the remaining space, you could still load from a floppy.
9th and 10th edition are still Thompson and Ritchie. What is his beef with last true unix?
Why not just run the Flash plugin in a sandbox?
PIP : Performance Improvement Plan

I assume this to mean that it is an element of an individual's PIP, a formal process to set guides for getting someone to commit to a higher level of achievement.
They do exist! https://getbodo.com/
A tiny implementation of RSA in Python.
Ok. However the posts in this thread were asking how the M1 Macs could use less RAM than Intel Macs, not if they were more optimized. The GP started with:

>This quote doesn’t really cover why M1 macs are more efficient with less ram than intel macs? You’ve got a memory budget, it’s likely broadly the same on both platforms
Anti-captcha: Pay people to solve captchas
Yeah, the cascading failure of all the other services is a deep architectural issue.

Having lots of services that do one thing and one thing well makes a lot of sense. Breaking them out into separate components brings a level of visibility into the system. And it's AWS's whole business model.

But it does mean that, fundamentally, service X is available when and only when (WAOW?) services A, B, C, etc. are all available. Its uptime is no greater than min(uptime(A), uptime(B), etc)

I'm trying to rework the authentication for our application and integrate it with our parent company's systems. As we talk to other teams, I see all these architecture diagrams where the solution to every problem is Yet Another Service, to where you're running a real rube goldberg machine.
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> On the contrary, there's a growing mountain of research revealing that plants can communicate, issue warnings about diseases and bug infestations.

The TV show Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed this "Mycelium Network" on Season 3/Episode 7, "The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth," that aired Nov. 17th. It was quite fascinating. It starts about the 5 minute mark.

https://www.fox.com/watch/78c4500e6b3b7bf2d9b9832ae23f79c7/
>> Once you start using Salesforce, do all of your leads get stuck in the platform, or can you export them and do your own analytics queries? How deep is their lock-in?

To some extent, as a business owner or CRO, you want the data to be stuck in Salesforce. The price of Salesforce is small compared to the cost of salespeople maintaining their own relationships directly with clients -- and then potentially walking away.
Overhead is typically 40-50% for this kind of corporation. So not really enough.

However the calculation has nothing to do with what guessing a reasonable hourly rate.

The issue is whether someone with the expertise to do this would benefit the company and their own career more doing something other than a tech support role.
CheerpX looks very cool, and I think it could be useful beyond just Flash. It could help keep alive niche commercial software that has been left behind by platform changes. For example, there's an old speech synthesizer, ETI-Eloquence, that some blind people love. It was developed in the late 90s to early 2000s, acquired (a few times, ultimately by Nuance), and now seems to be basically dead. There was an Android version, but that had to be discontinued due to the recent requirement that native code on Android must be 64-bit. CheerpX, combined with a non-browser-based wasm runtime, could revive it!
If it can comfort you, there are software which are a lot more worse than Jira (check out HP ALM :-) )
Probably not, but they're also in a strong position on self-driving, solar and batteries.
I mean the DoD and a defense contractor, but yes, I’m serious.
Actually it does diagrams, sequence and flowchart.
Sadly, the app has gotten more or less no development for at least 4 years and the developer has stopped responding to bug reports for at least a year. It's abandonware at this point.
> I'm not sure I understand your point.

When people talk about C performance, they mean the performance of the code written in C and (ultimately) compiled to machine language. Very seldom they mean the speed of compilation (though they sometimes do, in which case they almost always explicitly mention "compilation").

When people talk about Typescript performance, they either mean Javascript performance or, more likely, the speed with which Typescript type-checks their code; the latter doesn't happen in run time. That's what the original commenter meant when they said "you cannot run Typescript". It's also what TFA means by "performant".
Judging by the downvotes (despite answering the question truthfully), I see it's not a good way to present ourselves, and frankly we don't have to make that claim. It's hard to estimate the real percentage, our customers are happy but measuring what is no longer there is tricky in the real world.

I will change the wording on the website and remove the percentage.
strtok_r() destructively modifies its input so wrapping it works against this library's objective of using const ponters. It is easy enough to reimplement, though, and I've done this for similar sub-string pointer objects that work without NUL termination.
The main reasons to buy Apple x86 machines for any OS developer was that Apple has to keep their number of hardware variants to a minimum and you can run compatibility (and truly same hardware performance) tests against any OS as OsX was the only one locked to it's hardware. The same might be true for Arm if there are adequate GPL drivers to not exclude Linux/Android, etc.
How much capital does the high stock price give to Tesla? Making cars is capital intensive. Is the valuation self fulfilling - does the extremely high valuation give them capital to help them get closer to the valuation?
> You didn't talk publicly about assisting in Trauma Room One until you appeared in the 1993 book JFK: Breaking the Silence. How come?

> Because I was afraid. There were so many people who were associated with the assassination who had died, sometimes by questionable means.

Could have something to do with the speech from April 27, 1961:

> For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.

I will do my best to expose them. I am not an American, but I am against communists and fascists as Americans were back then. Stay vigilant! Vote with your ideals.
For what it's worth, I think a lot of people put misplaced blame on Jira for their own broken process.

Jira is a tractor trailer. It's big, it's powerful, it's a bit slow to get moving, but (1) it can carry just about anything (2) once it gets moving, it tends to stay moving. There's a lot of value in having a "do it all" project management system.

That being said, there's also value in alternatives that are more tailored towards specific needs.
I can't imagine AM would be representative of most dating sites. OkCupid has claimed that their user base had a roughly even gender split, depending on city and age group. This is immaterial though. Take a group of 100 men and 100 women, and 80 of the women will go for 20 of the men, making it seem imbalanced when it's not.