skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the other thing is retirement, I'd live a much more radical existence and take business risks if I didn't have to worry about being homeless when I'm 60 if things don't work out.

Maybe these things are related because the CEO too has the same concerns.

We don't live in a society that favors innovation, we live in a society that's cutthroat.
A friend has been running online training courses for some not so trivial stuff.

A large proportion of his delegates are from Europe/US but surprisingly he also had an unexpected large number from Africa.

It seems there is a lot of non profits running code camps in Africa to help with education and a way out of poverty. Also more surprising was the courses my friend is running are not your hack a nodejs app together in 24hours but some advanced Scala and functional programming courses.

I don’t know much about Africa but if they are training up highly skilled devs and not just people writing small Python/Nodejs scripts us western countries are then all the better for them.
I've always felt that when dealing with hard real-time requirements, the real-time functionality should be offloaded to a separate dedicated processor that acts as a buffer.

As another option, it would be nice if modern OS's could dedicate cores on multi-core systems to specific real-time processes. Then the OS can still do whatever it needs, while the real-time process gets guaranteed CPU treatment.
Islam isn't a race. If you criticize Christianity, or Hinduism, or Buddhism, or yes, even Islamism, you aren't being racist.
If there were lots of voter fraud, the people arranging the fraud would have also arranged to flip a couple more Senate seats.

It's really silly to believe that Democrats were able to orchestrate a massive conspiracy to fraudulently flip votes, and do it in such a masterful way that no one has been able to find sufficient evidence to get a court case to last long enough for a trial, yet somehow forgot to do anything about the Senate.
Apparently even this is not always the case(!)

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/m1-chip-emulating-x86-b...
If you're a doctor and you claim this then those are grounds for having your license stripped and being held criminally liable if people actually take you up for advice.
Assuming this is a good faith response: Maybe and maybe not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/health/coronavirus-nasal-...

> Without a strong mucosal response, injected vaccines may be less likely to produce so-called sterilizing immunity, a phenomenon in which a pathogen is purged from the body before it’s able to infect cells, Dr. Durbin said. Vaccinated people might be protected from severe disease, but could still be infected, experience mild symptoms and occasionally pass small quantities of the germ onto others.
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She's on her second one. They suspect something auto immune buy all her symptoms are peripherally related to solid indicators. For example, most people might have IBS or chrones but she developed diverticulosis. In the ballpark but not quite right.

Edit: something in the RA realm is what they suspect but it's hard to be conclusive because she has symptoms but no markers.
This is such a weird position to take: it's so important to keep certificates fresh that you encourage people to set up an infrastructure to run internal ACME and expire certificates in just a matter of hours, but so unimportant to protect certificates, because they're "worthless outside the perimeter", that it's fine to just wait out a compromised key.

I think we're probably at an impasse.
Every online forum has moderation policies. The "law and order" brigade doesn't seem to like "order" when it is imposed on them. And if that order is to stop posting misinformation in the form of crazy conspiracy theories that encourage stochastic terrorism, or racist violence, etc then online forums are well within their rights to moderate that content.

Taibbi doesn't even talk about the biggest problem with these conspiracy videos: reinforcement bubbles. If you watch one, you will be shown more, and more and more, deep down the rabbit hole. I'm pretty sure if tech companies changed their algorithm to de-rank subsequent video suggestions of MOAR conspiracy theories, he'd again claim that they were putting their finger on the scale and that this would enrage Trump voters.

The thing is, social media is creating reinforcing but non-intersecting world view bubbles through AI suggestion mechanisms in their feeds, and unless that problem is fixed, you can't just allow an infinite amount of this shitty propaganda to be posted, because it will have damaging effects, and none of the viewers will see any counter-claims, and by the time they finally get served a counter-claim, they'll be so inside the bubble, they won't watch it. Instead, they'll go watch a reaction to it, that confirms to their existing opinion and soothes any triggering. There there now, your worldview is safe.
Hello, I'm one of the creators of Devbook. My co-founder and I are both developers and we created Devbook to solve our own problem. We realized we spend more and more time searching for information on Google or retrieving data/information from 3rd party tools.
It feels like we spend more time outside our IDE than in it. We think there should be a better way and it should be made specifically for developers to make them more productive and not less. That's why we started building Devbook - a search engine for developers.

We are starting with a very simple version 1.0 where we let you search StackOverflow and public code on GitHub. Devbook is a desktop app that works similarly to Spotlight on macOS. You hit a shortcut, a window appears and you can start typing. We built the first version with developers' productivity in mind. You can control the whole app without touching the mouse. Our goal with the first version was to minimize context switching you as a developer need to do when looking for basic information on the internet.

In the near future, we plan to add more integrations in which you can search and more features focused on improving customizability and general user experience.

The app is free right now. In the future, we will introduce a subscription plan. But we would like to always offer a free plan. Also, to fully use the app, you don't need to sign up.

Currently, we support only macOS. Happy to answer any question.
"Oh and if you tell people to dink rat poison and they do you should be held responsible for tricking people into killing them-self,"

So in your mind Google should assist people in tricking others into drinking rat poison by boosting the signal of their videos by hosting them on one of the world's most popular web sites, essentially making Google employees an accessory to murder, because the "basis of democracy" is assisting bad actors in tricking people into doing things like drinking rat poison.

That's certainly an interesting take.

In my view, you host someone's web site where they trick people into drinking rat poison, that makes you morally culpable. If you have human decency, you try to avoid doing things like that.
> Surely you agree those laws (against eavesdropping) were passed for a reason and are not arbitrary?

I'm puzzled by the question. My position on wiretapping laws is beside the point.

> People are not basing their criticisms on the violation of a contract but on the public good of the free exchange of information.

Again, this is puzzling because it doesn't seem related to the topic at hand. You asked a direct question (why is paying different?) and I gave a direct answer (because contracts).

> "By continuing to stay on the line, you agree to the end user license agreement available in full online or by mail upon request."

Doesn't cover minors, who can't consent to binding contracts, and I doubt it would be popular with customers anyway. Can you imagine having that play every time you make or receive a phone call?
I almost feel bad at the replies. They look like they were written by people whose job is to look at Twitter all day.
This is quite an impressive machine coming out of a startup. I'm surprised by all the comments that expect them to go head to head with John Deere right out of the gate. This autonomous tractor is their entrance into the foyer of this Ag space. Sure it's not the Midwest behemoth that we have working the fields here in Ohio, but give them some years to get their tech in order to produce that. Bringing products to market is an expensive endeavor in time, money and resources. Personally, I've only dealt with software so I cannot imagine something of this nature. Good work with the Monarch and I'll be watching this space to see what you turn out.
Thank you Colin! I think what spurred my comment was that I feel like I have hit a brick wall and just feel exhausted. I am not getting younger, got a wife, two kids and a demanding career as a principal engineer. I want to desperately build my own start up again and learn something new. As you said, persistence and resilience are the critical components to getting through that barrier. Like many others here I assume, it can be exhausting wanting to learn about everything :).
My suspicion is that slack has hit the wall with their core product. User growth has flattened and that's why we're seeing a pivot to random experiments in layout and UI and no meaningful new features. Video conference is barely usable, but somehow adding user icons and a command pop-up (that doesn't support all their commands) all made it out to production.

The most meaningful thing they've had recently is the cross-org shared channel thing, which is awesome when it works but still onerous to manage. That was two years ago. And it doesn't open up that many new users, it just keeps people in slack longer (good for stickiness, bad for growth).
Lynx has always been there for me. However nowadays I use 'links'. It has better usability.
Also mentioned are the emoji changes. Watching emojis evolve is a little like watching a language evolve.
Funny you should say that but perhaps that's not necessarily true.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3597949/everything-you...

https://www.imore.com/tests-show-apples-m1-emulates-x86-fast...
99% of the time a loop works just fine, because there are no measurable gains to be had from parallelism. For the 1% where performance matters, it's usually a bit more involved that simply using a map or fold, and hopefully already packaged as an off-the-shelf library. To have measurable gains from parallelism one has to be very intentional in balancing communication vs computation. Think carefully designed libraries like cuDNN.
Demoscene code in particular... especially demos in the 1K and below (sizecoding) range, which basically amount to very carefully handwritten Asm. I'd expect the x86-to-ARM translation to not do so well in that case, given that it's probably tuned toward typical compiler output.
the phosphors on a monitor designed for 60+Hz are designed to degrade quickly, at 24Hz they'll be off ~1/2 of the time

Remember that when film plays back the projector shows you the same image for most of the 1/24 of the time before switching to the next frame
It's excellent. I have the 8-core i9 16" Pro and I prefer the Air in every way for development. The keyboard is better (no touchbar), it doesn't get as hot, the battery life is better, it's faster, and it cost 1/4 as much ($999 vs about $4k). I bought the 16" in February, only 10 months ago.

What a leap.
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Because one of those things is materially rivalrous and it's important to acknowledge that. There is an explicit choice to distribute it politically, whereas something like police protection is inherently and unambiguously political.

Fwiw I don't think there's an inherent right to property.

Also the important thing is (presumably) you don't care who provides the water, just that humans get the water. Suppose fresh water were not the responsibility of governments, but NGOs, and everyone were provided water. Would you still consider it necessary "right"? Before you say "governments are more stable" I don't think there is any reason to believe that a government is more capable of equitably redistributing water to people in need; you money going to water is also wrapped up in money that goes to bomb people with different skin color halfway around the world, or XYZ things you don't care for your government to do; a nonprofit is typically slightly more focused in its mission and more effective at delivering that need, at least on a cost basis.

It's hard to make that argument with police forces; private police forces would probably be a terrible idea.
Are Mahindra tractors sold in the US? I'm sure they'd have the money to compete with JD.

Mahindra is the worlds most popular tractor and any man and his dog can service them.
Read the voltage drop across a high-value resistor at room temperature. There are random fluctuations proportional to the temperature and resistor value. You can use these fluctuations to generate unifromly distributed random numbers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Nyquist_nois...
> Should you be forced to publish and host things that you think are terrible lies?

Should I be forced to pay for public schools if I don't have kids or disagree with what they are being taught? Should I be forced to pay for roads if they will be used to support activities I disapprove of? What if I passionately and sincerely disagree with what people are using the roadway access to facilitate? Should I be forced to subsidize activities that I reasonably believe are harmful to the environment? What if I can produce peer-reviewed academic evidence supporting my point of view? Should I be forced to hire a qualified individual at my company if I have an opening if I don't like their religious beliefs? What if their religious beliefs involve arranged marriage or female genital mutilation?

Hopefully the list of rhetorical questions serves the purpose of highlighting the fact that our society and our system of government already compels people to support things they oppose, including terrible lies, harm to people and the environment, and various forms of abuse. Yet we haven't chosen to abandon this form of government for anarchy. For this reason I am unmotivated by absolutist private property arguments when applied to this issue. Thank you for your excellent question as it draws attention to a central part of the issue.

> Not making a comment on the validity of their claims, just trying to understand what you are saying - a private organization should be legally compelled to spend money to host ideas that they think are harmful? How does that work in practical terms?

I don't have the answers here, I'm participating in the conversation with the aim of moving it forward. How does it work in practical terms to require that companies hire and serve people even when the owner doesn't like their religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation? In theory we write laws on the basis of balancing the values we hold dear. In practice lobbyists donate money to lawmakers for influence and lawmakers compromise with each other on things that they think are going to be practical to enforce and get them re-elected or some other form of benefit. Perhaps not in that order.
What phone are you using? My pixel starts up in under 15 seconds. Faster than the first macs I had access to (power mac).
I feel many touch interfaces are still fundamentally WIMP. You can only use one, maybe two apps at a time, but they are still windows - just tiled, not floating, and always accessed from a list, not a stack. Icons are obviously still a thing, but I think we hit the nail on the head with those as uniquely shaped pictograms are easier to parse quickly than descriptive text. Menus are often minimal, but they still exist to the extent of "ordered list of things to interact with", and the only thing I think that can really be argued we've got rid of is pointers - but from where I see it, I just think we've added nine more pointers.
Maybe the new ones have it, but most of the ones I’ve used (manufactured over last 5-15 years) don’t have it, or have a single delay setting and that’s it. This is in sorta-cheap electricity Canada.
Maybe they do?
People on HN still want to talk about the M1. It's just such an exciting product. So this will still sit on the front page for a while, despite the relatively terse source material.
A lot of people won't admit it but I'm sure it has happened to lots of them here. The thing is, some parents hate to admit that their kids have grown up. Some narcissistic parents hate to think their kids have surpassed them, and as a result they try find every single flaw on their kids' life to use as proof that that is not the case.
Wasn't minimum efficacy 50% or greater?
That's a fair point, which is why challenged ballots get marked as "challenged" and not "rejected".

It is the duty of the observers to challenge ballots.

It is the duty of the election workers to record these challenges, which wasn't happening.

The only reason her challenge should have been denied is if she was shown to be challenging ballots indiscriminately or she was preventing the election workers from doing their jobs. To my knowledge, there has not been any evidence that this was the case.

Challenger rights are detailed on page 28:
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/XI_Election_Day_Issue...

It is not the Trump legal team's responsibility to prove that this woman (and the others like her) was impartial. Their only obligation is to provide a "preponderance of evidence" that supports their case. Given the large number of affidavits that their team has provided of a similar nature, it seems reasonable that the case should be allowed to be heard in a manner that takes both sides seriously.
Not just the weather - the money part too. Especially that.
> Apple has demonstrated far too large of a performance and power efficiency savings to not try

I wonder how much of an improvement you could get by having TSMC make a high-end 5nm x86 SoC.
There's an interesting talk [0] from Bobby Powers on how to make a malloc() and free() that perform compaction, to be able to release memory back to the operating system more frequently (and improve cache hit rates, etc.). But this isn't standard at all yet.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1UBJbfR-H0
An x86 instruction can decode into many more uops than an ARM instruction.

It could be more accurate to say the M1 can process twice as many half as complex instructions as x86.
>There are apparently some DNA sequencer machines that only interface with older macs.

I used to work in a Human Genome Project lab. Two of the 1990s workhorse DNA sequencing machines, the Applied Biosystems models 373 & 377, connected to Mac machines of similar vintage (my recollection is we had a lot of Power Mac 7100s, or at least machines in the 7xxx form factor).

IIRC the sequencing instrument had an interface to plug into the LocalTalk port on the Mac, but I might be wrong on this, it's been 20+ years. And the software needed the classic MacOS.

The ABI 373 and 377 are so old and obsolete at this point that you might find one in your local science museum. I know my city's science museum has a display with an ABI 373 from my old lab.

ABI's successor Sanger sequencing machines, models 3700 (1998) and 3730 (2003), had Windows-based companion computers and connected to the instrument via Ethernet port, so you didn't have as much lock-in to super old hardware.
That's actually the icon I intended to show! :) It's an icon of a ticket that gets printed in restaurant kitchens.
I can't help wondering if Biden shouldn't take these lunatics up on their offer. The US armed forces would probably follow his orders and be able to win Civil War 2.0 in very little time, with probably less than 1000 Americans losing their lives (so a lower body count than that attributable to Trump's mishandling of Covid).

A line needs to be drawn between people who support the peaceful transition of power, and those that support violence and armed intimidation of civilian election officials. If Biden doesn't settle that during his first term, he risks 2020 being the last free election that the country has.
Sure, it's easy. Count how many lines of code they write per day. Likewise, aeronautical engineering productivity can be measured by counting kilograms of mass added per day.

The real underperformers go negative.
I have been toying with this idea for far longer than I'd ever care to admit. It works very well.

Preemption is evil in a multicore world. Still necessary in spots, but evil nonetheless.
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I didn't say there weren't any use cases. Of course there are use cases.

I'm not even taking a side here in this thread (although I have advocated against functors/monads in the past). I'm saying that your comment is missing the point of folks who are skeptical of things like functors and monads.
It's a very good argument to support 1950's style anti-monopoly legislation, and as someone who defends platforms' rights to have some degree of moderation it follows that we should have as many platforms as needed to satisfy demand.
> no assessment of whether masks could decrease disease transmission from mask wearers to others.

Still need a source. I wasn't asking for a source on if they protect the wearer, I was asking for a source for "whether mask actually help with the pandemic"
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN and especially please don't be a jerk to others, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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They do, but sometimes you have to debug in an environment where an IDE is not available, and even remote attach can be problematic sometimes.

And then, sometimes, you need to debug the debugger...
Immediately. And recently begun idly wondering if people are going to be jumping the queue. (and how they might do so...)
I don't have to support it, I'm acknowledging that YouTube is allowed to do it. Framing it as being "against our rights" is fruitless. The article author claims that this will inflame tensions, but that's unlikely.
Any ideas for a domain name? You know what they say about naming things... :)

Just made the links clickable!
Doesn't the added efficiency in plowing mean more carbon release from the soil (thus offseting any gains from not using diesel)?
Far better solution IMHO built after industry discussion of "lava wall" years ago: https://bit.ly/3naYEBP Of course, by now we got hardware rng RPi, TrueRNG, security enclave rng - largely a solved problem on most of practical systems. just setup right, seed right and use `/dev/urandom`
Ah. The biggest difference between ?/: and if/else is that ?/: is an expression (returns a value) and if/else are statements (a step/command/declaration/etc). You can build statements on top of CEL (lots do), but the core Common Expression Language (CEL) doesn't actually have them.

Note that python uses if/else for the ternary expression form as well: `a = b if c else d`

Though personally, I like to have the condition in the front, instead of in the middle.
...and don’t get me started on freezer-below units. Who wants a system where relatively warm fridge air sits right above the cold freezer?
> Should I be forced to pay for public schools if I don't have kids or disagree with what they are being taught?

Yes you should. An informed populace is the basis of democracy. If you choose to continue living in a democracy, you have to help pay for its upkeep.
Start up or large corporate I see that same behavior in certain technology segments. The difference is more a factor of leadership than size or establishment.
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