skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure. If you don't like your opinions being hidden, you just have to go build your own community of millions of people. Simple.

No less simple than someone building it for you while you reject the idea that they might have conditions on sharing it with you.

> I don't mind being downvoted. I don't care about karma points. But the HN system is one where downvoted comments are hidden, which is itself a form of censorship.

Moderating a private property isn’t censorship. It’s not. If HN or FB or whatever controlled your access to basic internet protocols sure. That would be dystopian and would be an example of censorship. You’re just failing to meet social expectations in a community you’re willingly participating in, and experiencing the consequences of that. It’s no more censorship than not being invited to someone’s birthday party.

> It is deeply ironic, for example, that my parent comment about censorship is now hidden at the bottom of the page, in light gray, because one person downvoted it.

That... isn’t how the algorithm works, and I’ve been downvoted enough to know it. You’ve likely gotten a lot of upvotes and downvotes leaving an average of -1 (which is -2 btw, you start at +1), but the volume of downvotes is much greater than average. I don’t know the precise formula but I know with certainty that one downvote doesn’t get me greyed.
Tirana – Bloodshed Avoided at Queens Birthday Party
Just noticed tonight Google won't read text messages anymore with Android Auto because it needs location and web history to do that.

Sue them all. This is stupid.
I'm speaking for your freedom, whether you accept that or not.

> especially not from one who's not even associated with SV at all and has little to stand on

Please don't gate keep tech. Not everybody lives in the valley.
Not on weibo.
My experience with renting (up until 2 years ago) was always that demand exceeded supply and so we couldn't put things like appliance energy efficiency into the must-have list.

And yeah, in quite a temperate part of Australia here... cooling is more important than heating.
Superior at what?

Meta-programming? Yes.
Object-oriented programming? Meh. CLOS is nice, but not vastly superior to anything else.
Something else? Depends on what that something is.
Wow. Couldn’t have put it better myself.
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
You're either confused or the details have changed since you looked at it 8+ years ago.
The address space for sale is 32-bit. There is also a 128-bit space that is free

https://urbit.org/blog/the-urbit-address-space/
Peer rejection in science
Thanks, though I had to zoom in like an old man to see all those details :)

If the spoken sound is the same, I assume the meaning comes from context. Are the written adornments therefore redundant? Is it much like English how we now have knight and night?
No, that’s not it: none of the code has landed yet It’s a big enough change that we’re explaining before landing.

We’re taking an approach similar to Firefox’s implementation ( https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/security/manage... ), which I helped advise on in the long ago days. It may end up using like that bool, but if you read through the commit history for how that code in Chrome works, you can see there are a lot of sharp edges.
That's 100% what I meant.
> Not to mention China investing tons of money into cryptos.

Cryptocurrencies are for the most part banned in China, it's probably one of the most difficult places on Earth to own them, have no idea how people come to conclusions like this other than just playing some blatant jingoistic angle.
11-year-old Northern California boy shot himself during online class
END THE MOTHERFUCKING LOCKDOWNS NOW!
Protein folding: Much more intricate than we thought (2017)
It wasn't 'leashed'; people were just more oblivious to it when mainstream media preferred to politely ignore it rather than tell people it was happening.
Someone claiming to know what salary you'll get before bargaining is even an option is full of shit.
They try somewhat to warn what will break in future releases. So you get a few releases of warnings and then a release of THIS WILL BREAK NEXT RELEASE and then it breaks. One thing for PHP is a huge 'customer' is the Wordpress universe and they have been good about not breaking Wordpress. But with PHP 8 that will change.

If you are on PHP4 and are moving to the 7.x series plan for some pain.

My problem is I try to find things that will work with flat files. I just spent some time moving from Mediawiki to PMwiki, because of the database nonsense in keeping that in sync with PHP and Mediawiki.

I'd love to find a CRM tool that had the flexibility shown here but would live in flat files that I may have a chance to import into something else.
One reason would be: Negotiating contract terms in good faith proves that it's not a contract of adhesion. By making the contract non-negotiable in this way, Google also risks its existing employment contracts being deemed unenforceable, having certain terms voided, or being read in the least favourable interpretation in court.

So it's in Google's interest to at least pretend to negotiate.
All queries are incrementally maintained with the property that we do work proportional to the number of records in difference at each intermediate stage of the query plan. That includes those with lateral joins; they are not an exception.

I'm not clear on your "all sorts of limitations"; you'll have to fill me in on them?
Misrepresent history?

How exactly did ‘Steve Jobs cripple the web browser’?

I’m guessing you don’t know that Apple took the open source WebKit from KDE, and continued to develop it into a world class engine in the open.

So open that Google was able to build Chrome with it. It’s still developed completely in the open now and is free to use in your platform, as most of Apple’s competitors actually do.

That is about as far from ‘crippling the web’ as any company in history has ever been.

As for saying that evolution in computing is slower because of how locked down things are, that seems like a view that is hard to understand.

If you can’t see how fast things have moved in software over the past 5 years and then over the past 10, I think you just aren’t looking hard enough.

Smartphone hardware design may have plateaued, but that’s just superficial.

And in any case, a government standard isn’t going to make anything any less locked down.

It will be just as locked down as it is now, more expensive to develop for, and the possibility of an open alternative emerging will be harder than ever, if not impossible.
I understand. I'm just incredibly angry and tired at the ongoing attacks to our freedom. It's not something I can hold in.
The usual classification is to call it a 会意字 because its structure is popularly given various semantic-based explanations.
I don’t think the memory manager can claim that much credit.

IIRC, the typical way to access high memory was through DPMI, a protected mode extension. The “unreal mode” used by Ultima VII offered the same flat memory access, but without the slight performance overhead of running the CPU in actual protected mode.

Considering that literally every other high-performance game of the era (e.g. Doom) used protected mode, I’m inclined to think U7 would have been just fine. Maybe the unreal mode made a slight difference on an older 386, but was it worth the configuration headache of having everyone edit their CONFIG.SYS? Probably not.
Not at all - I'm saying it's an option. In the US right now you surrender a lot of rights on devices you use to produce to transmit employer information (depending on contracts) but that employer right has been upheld. You should never work on a personal device and if you do there are very real costs associated with it.
If you'd like running a pub well, thank you for being that person. Seriously I'm glad some people want to do it.

Me, I remember the first time I was sure I didn't want to do that. I met a lady running a bar/restaurant/hub. It was clear her life was the place. It was open nights so she was there every night. It had lots of events. No more free nights for her, going out with friends, dancing, dinning etc. Her nights, while she did get to greet people, were mostly running around the place putting out fires. I'm not dissing that life at all. If she enjoys it that's great. It's not for me in the same way I'm sure staring at a computer screen is not for her.
This is my understanding too, though Boeing hasn't really come out and said it definitively. Specifically:

> MCAS was devised to fulfill an airworthiness certification condition in 14 CFR 25.173 and 14 CFR 25.175. In high angle-of-attack (AoA) flight configuration, it is required that stick force/g (the stick force necessary to produce (hold) an incremental normal acceleration of 1g) and stick movement/g (ditto mutatis mutandis) must increase (or at least not decrease) with an increase in AoA (thanks to Clive Leyman for this formulation). I understand that in flight test, in which “wind-up turns” were conducted (a turn with increasing angle of bank; an increasing angle of bank means ceteris paribus increasing AoA), this condition was not fulfilled.

-- https://abnormaldistribution.org/index.php/2019/04/30/ieee-s...
Ask HN: Which tech companies are still committed to working from office ?
I have seen numerous articles and blog posts about all the tech companies that have transitioned or are transitioning to remote only. Are there any tech companies that are still committed to primarily being an office culture ? Reason I am asking is that I personally dislike remote work, so curious whether the pool of in person office opportunities are going to dramatically decline
Most real cross-country freight (say, from west coast ports to Chicago or other major hub cities) goes by intermodal rail already. There are of course some odd lots that go by truck but most over-the-road trucking is already medium/short range today.
Or just break it and any other law you feel like. If they come for you, grab your rifle.

We've had 28 years where the people in power get to do whatever they like with no consequences. Ordinary people might as well have a turn.
I don't play.

The point was, the people I talk to who do, don't understand probability. Nothing else matters until they understand probability.
Once you are implementing your own allocator you need to worry about fragmentation under many operations, which would be the majority of the complexity.
>What do you suppose happens when, for example, Saudi Arabia can no longer feed itself? It just peacefully and gently starves to death?

Saudi Arabia has a sovereign wealth fund with trillions of dollars. The obvious answer is that they'll build a ton of renewables and build a ton of [hydroponic/aquaponic/aeroponic/etc] farms to make food locally.

Indoor farming is expensive but very water-efficient, which suits Saudi Arabia as their water comes from expensive desalination plants.
I guess I’ll use the lame saying
‘Bar is closing, you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here’ as to what will solve it.

I get people have underpinnings of nature that enflame instincts. That’s great, but you know, when it impacts people’s lives - it needs to find another place to party.

I hope that makes sense. Hitler ad-reductio incoming. Hey, Germany, I get your bullshit pulled you out of the depths of WW1, but look, your nonsense is killing millions of people.

Just find another abstract gutter for your nonsense, find another means of self fulfillment, please, and don’t hurt anyone.

We don’t have to placate every human instinct and constantly romanticize every aspect of the human struggle. Life is absolutely requires empathy and stability.
This conversation can serve no purpose any more.
If you can push and run an executable, you can theoretically root a phone or laptop whenever you need to. It doesn't even need to be root, a background process accessing the right things can be enough. It's not rootkit right now, but rootkit later.
The burden of proof in a court case doesn't require any science. Roundup is used in large quantities by farmers, but the rates of cancer are different only for reasons that are already explained by known causes. in expected amounts.
The reason it is indeed left dimensionless is that in formulas it is impossible to keep track of the dimension of an implied factor that is equal to 1. In d = t, therefore, distance and time are actually measured in the same units (usually of time).
The 737 MAX is aerodynamically stable. MCAS is primarily concerned with making the forces one needs to apply on the stick at high angles of attack comparable to earlier generations of 737.

An interesting question is going to be as to what happens elsewhere in the world; I'd be intrigued to see if Boeing ends up certifying the 737 MAX with MCAS as an optional feature with additional difference training required, as some things mentioned suggest that it's not implausible that this will happen.
So it’s NOT 42?
To add to this, there are numerous very large scale project already underway to use existing hydro capacity as pumped hydro storage.

Eg, Bath County Pump Storage is a 3GW plant[1] although ironically it is often filled using nuclear power because the hydro station can adapt better to rapid changes in demand.

In the US there is 22GW total pump hydro storage already (compared to say 98GW total nuclear power capacity).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...
> No, there's a very noticeable drop in social mobility as well in mid-July according to: https://covid19.apple.com/mobility

That is when stage 3 of the lockdown started and everyone had to work from home, the next big decline was when stage 4 started and more people had to work from home or not at all. This did have a larger effect as the source I posted indicated. This reduced the reproduction rate to about 1.1 and plateaued at that level, weeks later masks were introduced bringing it under 1.

> Yet you are arguing that masks - in isolation - are so good that it's a no-brainer to mandate them?

I'm arguing no such thing, the source I posted indicated that masks would at best slow down the spread of the virus without other measures. That doesn't mean they don't work.

> Also, if you introduce a mask mandate, people will obviously change their behaviour, they won't just go on and live their lives exactly as before, but with a mask on. Therefore, mask mandates might reduce the spread not because of the masks themselves, but because they cause people to behave differently.

This is irrelevant. It doesn't matter how they work, as long as they work. The only question that needs to be answered is "do masks reduce the spread of this virus?" Directly or indirectly doesn't matter.

Factors like this are a great indication of why real world data trumps controlled studies though, you wouldn't see these effects in controlled studies.

Unfortunately I'll have to leave the conversation here because the anti-masker and anti-data crowd on HN have down voted enough to rate limit me.
Once upon a time, the American consensus was also generally comfortable with destroying neighborhoods wholesale to build freeways and other infrastructure in the name of progress. Now it takes forever or never for fear of triggering a voter uprising. But, these rules came from a place: there are vast swaths of major cities that have been destroyed. Some are not a meaningful loss and others came at the cost of people who lacked the funding and support to effectively pushback. Why Dodger Stadium is in Chavez Ravine is a sad story and is part of the reason why there's a literal school buried under the parking lot.

China doesn't care. You do what you're told. If you complain too much, you disappear; if the project has an atrocious safety record, they are not reported and no such records exist (or blame a low-level official); if an entire neighborhood was destroyed without compensation, shut up and deal with it. You can get what you want, just how many bodies are you willing to bury to get it?
FWIW, I don't see any pilots or aviation experts saying this. I think it's actually still poorly designed -- I don't think they added a third AoA sensor and used a quorum on them, as Airbus does given their own link of AoA to an automatic flight control.
> "Unless a corporation is doing something illegal, you have no right to tell them what to do and what to make"

Exactly, legislation and legality is how we tell them what to do.

> Your demands to have the government coerce them into creating open APIs would be just as outrageous in this scenario.

I didn't demand govt-forced open APIs? Where did you come up with that? However right-to-repair and other freedoms and ownership over the hardware you purchase, especially when it's so critical to your life and centrally controlled, is worthwhile to pursue.

> "giving the government this much power is shortsighted at best"

Either the corporation or the government has the power. The challenge is finding the right balance, because neither should have complete authority.
The network effect is the problem here. There's no Linux app that lets me connect to my network of friends and family using the Facetime protocol, which they are all on. Oh I can video chat, for sure, with the nobody else I know who is willing to migrate to a new chat software.
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-receives-application-c...
Note the date, December 1.

I don't know why they got it later, just they did.
Scientists figured out the seed for our reality. Neat.
So, middle-income Americans are just like the average human being, just luckier in having a few more bucks in their paycheck?
I only use Windows for gaming, or old .NET Framework projects. But man Windows 10 is SOOOOOOO much more visually appealing than any other version of windows to date. And better visually than most linux distros.

And I really don't know what this 'ads everywhere' crap people keep talking about.
CapJS – A live code editor for capturing video
Interesting! How much are you able to stick with the wiki for an install, are there any parts that require more specific, possibly a bit non-trivial to acquire, knowledge (as in, not available on the wiki)?
That is not necessarily true. Section 230 is a protective shield against certain types of lawsuits, but it’s absence does not guarantee the opposite.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent
Wow thanks for pointing me to that line of code. I see those names everywhere, e.g. on Netlify
Perhaps you are not good at just one thing, perhaps you need to find a focus area where the three topics in which you are interested are combined. Robotics springs to mind.

I too feel inspired by talented people, and stand in awe of experts. Through feedback from others, I found that I was rather good in an area I would never have expected earlier, namely managing people and later building teams and running projects/companies. Perhaps your true talent lies elsewhere as well?
Two of my co-workers migrated completely to Firefox in the last month. I don't expect Firefox to regain it's market share, probably ever, but I can't stand Chrome, it's ads, it's backer. DDG extension installed.
Thrift and gRPC can "push" until the cows come home (streaming). Use the correct tool for the job. HTTP is for hypertext documents, not APIs or RPC.
That makes no sense. Having more competition does not mean that anything will be less secure.

Like in real life, you could absolutely choose to always go to the one expensive shop you trust rather than a cheap one in a dodgy street.

Wishing for the shop you like to have and use the power to remove the other ones from existence has nothing to do with your own security.
- reduced changes of uncontrollably flying into the ground at users' request
To be clear, you are against other workers benefiting from something if you yourself don't benefit?
At least insofar as the US is concerned (and note many other regulating bodies are writing their own ADs, certifying the aircraft themselves), the FAA AD is https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf..., where the actual changes operators are required to make start on page 45.
You are probably looking for the videos on coursera [1].

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer
The crashes wouldn't have happened with a better implementation of the same design.
My feelings during every GDPR training.
Make what illegal?
> It’s not actually anti-consumer to create products that people want.

Big tobacco.

And that's a great analogy. And just like tobacco might be something the consumer wants, it's bad for the broader system.

Apple is creating negative externalities that ripple across our industry, all the while bringing smiles to consumers that don't know about the cost.
FAANG are notable primarily for employing very few people relative to revenue.

This may change in the case of Amazon with its fulfilment centres, but see above comments re: Manna.
Good point, I hadn't considered that. Seems pretty plausible.
Why havn't they been good guardians ?
My Alexa logs are 10% brief clips of Geordi Laforge making demands.
It's usually stated when you browse flights, but obviously planes can be substituted before you fly. You can take your chances.

The best plan would be to avoid airlines that own the plane, but that will be impractical for most. Even then you might be re-routed onto another airline or third party plane.
Not that much. It's really no different than setting up other servers. You can also rent services instead of maintaining a FT position.

IT has been commoditized, it's not a special domain of expensive and rare experts anymore.
“Used”
You can self-host your wallet. No one is forbidding that. You just need to share KYC information to exchanges when you withdraw to self-hosted wallet. This seems very reasonable to me.
You write to a quorum of nodes and you read from a quorum of nodes. Latest is determined by a clock. Let's say you wrote to 2 out of 3 nodes, and read from 2 out of 3 nodes, one of those 2 you read from is going to have the latest data. This is how consistency works in Cassandra e.g.

There are other models, for example by using a consensus protocol.
Says the same scientists who cannot explain why we yawn when we see other people yawning...
Yes it's required.
We kind of do, we just pretend to work the other 25. Or fill it with garbage, like pointless meetings, etc. My ideal job would be ~20 hours/week.
in mission critical systems, build from scratches are rarely the case because any hiccups are disastrous.

It's why banks still run on mainframes despite trying (quite desperately) to get away from that.
Sometimes the best decisions are the simplest.
... which is why I doubt SS7 access is “trivially easy” if methods are closely guarded and easy to burn.

Thanks for the link.
Work of Saudi scientists in the field of medicine –| Electronic skin
What do you mean by professional here? My guess is some mix of emotional detachment, serious tone and use of the right jargon and vocabulary?
I came across 2A in 2000 as a freshman in high school getting interested in web design and it was absolute magic. It was hugely influential on my excitement about the web and by extension my decision to do the work I do now. If I think about it, I can still hear the music loop from v2 in my head.
I’m always happy to find homages to the Simpsons in random places :)

Go Isotopes!
> Your link says that at best we could double our current hydro generation capacity

No, it says "that without building a single new dam" [hydro could roughly double its existing capacity in the US].

I'll assume you just misread that, but in any case that's pretty different to building new dams, or utilising tech like mines, or at-sea pumped storage.