skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go's journey here has been interesting. Early on it was possible (though rarely seen in practice) to end up with a cpu bound thread not yielding because it didn't hit yield point like I/O.

Then they added a guarantee that if your loop called a function, the scheduler would be able to make the goroutine yield. https://golang.org/doc/go1.2#preemption

This mostly worked although you could still have a CPU-bound thread not making any function calls. I also personally ran into a pathological issue where the scheduler was being invoked, but a heuristic kept the current goroutine running so others were still starved.

Finally they added true pre-emption (not yielding) in 1.14 https://golang.org/doc/go1.14#runtime it looks like it just sends signals and saves state.

Once nice thing is that if I understand the go runtime correctly, work stealing by scheduling goroutines on different threads has been a thing for a long time.
> I realized how much high-calorie ingredients you have to add to make the food taste delicious

What are these ingredients? When I'm cooking the ingredients I tend to overuse to make things taste good are garlic, ginger, chilis, and sesame oil. I suppose sesame oil is high in calories, but you don't use much of it. Deliciousness can come from lots of places!
An Open Letter to the Communications of the ACM
Daring Boomer Takes
If you're looking for a new task specific device (e.g. not one that runs Windows 10 and all its distractions) then have a look at https://remarkable.com/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24295443)
TinyPICO V2 gets USB-C
Travelling from Durango Colorado to Reserve New Mexico, Google Maps routed me to a "road" that was simply a dry stream bed, in the middle of Navajo Nation, in high desert wilderness, many miles from human habitation.

It happened gradually. First I was directed to a well maintained gravel road, then to dirt track, which forked and forked and slowly faded to nothing.

I was driving a 4x4, had an almost full tank, a load of groceries and 12 gallons of water in back, and plenty of time, so I went with it for quite a while. There are lots of long dirt tracks in this area and I kept hoping that it was still a short cut. The shortest alternate route was around 90 minutes longer.

I think most sane drivers would have bailed at the first turn off of the pavement. I waited until the stream bed sand was getting deep before turning around. For some optimistic mobility impaired person it could have been a death trap. I've adjusted my expectations of Google Maps accordingly.
> YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel

As for me it was expected.

The only question here: why Cybersecurity channel was on YouTube? As YouTube itself is a "vulnerability platform".

I guess, PeerTube is the right place for cybersecurity channels.
"Kids are harmed by daily emotional and physical abuse from other kids" is also a relatively new thing. The past was not a rosy place for everyone.
Heavy study lighting? That's very clearly CGI.

I bet you believe all the vehicles racing around in automobile TV ads are real too.
Time to regurgitate the last same statistics people have been saying for the last 20+ years
Exercise is certainly helpful once you start getting close to your ideal caloric intake. If at rest you'd burn ~2000 cal/day, and you're consuming ~2300 cal/day, then exercising for one hour, three days a week can certainly make a difference.

Most people that are actually overweight though, have a much higher surplus in their caloric intake. Strenuous exercise like running over 10km isn't possible for many of these folks... and even if it were, it certainly wouldn't be possible every day. Cutting out the 600cal breakfast sandwich in the morning or the 200cal soda every day at lunch will have a bigger impact for most folks and is a lot more feasible.
exactly! I see no excuse for YouTube not to allow this, as long as videos haven't been flagged for e.g. sexual abuse (where YouTube itself would be liable for continuing to store it.) I think the only reason they don't do it is because they don't have to and they don't care.

instituting a 30-day retention period to exporting content would be really good for users. shame we can't pass tech laws in the US.
Not the person to whom you were responding, but does it really cost that much time? If I need to be sure of where something is, like for a job interview or a time-critical meeting, I'll check as many sources as I can.

Disclaimer: I'm from New Zealand. Map data is constantly out of date here, no matter which vendor you deal with. Google, Apple, Bing, OSM, whatever. For me, double checking is no problem.
This one has a gigabit port, Orange Pi Zero is just 100 MBit/s (but adds wifi). The Orange Pi also seems to be a bit more expensive (close though).
Apple absolutely attempts to present itself as a morally/ethically superior company. See, for example, from just 7 months ago: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/31/apple-ceo-tim-cook-email-to-...

Or, re the environment, from Apple’s current website: https://www.apple.com/environment/

You can find all sorts of similar posturing on a number of topics from Apple.
When His Mother Died of Covid-19, This Artist Started Tracking Her Online Data
Culture, and the reputation it earns.

I’m no amazon apologist, but one thing I trust them to do is keep my things running as they are.
Google Docs was acquired, so I don't think so. You might be right about Calendar, because there is nothing in the world that a Googler or anyone else hates more than Oracle Calendar.

My overarching view on Google's evolution is that their real product is dirt-cheap computing facilities, and their products are often just a way to exploit that capacity. Part of Gmail's genesis was an abundance of underutilized hard drives. YouTube was acquired because they already had the networking in place to operate it. Inbox Smart Reply was a way to use a novel and cheap ML inference device to launch a feature that nobody else could afford. In all these cases the infrastructure existed first and the products emerged to fill them.
You don't need a firewall; you just need not to be listening on a port. And if you want to receive a file on a port, you can … start listening on it.
That fits the US foot as well...

- Native peoples destruction (robbed of heritage)

- Spying on allies (breaks international agreements)

- Lobbyists and presidential pardons (massive corruption)
That's a straw man. They're saying that hundreds of millions of Chinese people (and others around the world) have risen out of poverty because of globalism. You're only giving credit for the negative impacts of globalism, and in kind of a duplicitous manner.
I don't know why people keep bringing up the 20/80 rule as if it's some sort of cosmic law.

Suppose on some other planet with a civilization that evolved from something other than monkeys the "rule" is 100/100, meaning everyone contributes equally.

On that planet I guess you'd be arguing that there's something wrong with the world considering that the Top% of Borg Households Hold 15 times more wealth than the bottom 50%, but everything is supposed to follow the "100/100 rule."
Shalev Ben-David's Simplification of Hao Huang's Sensitivity Conjecture Proof
Crypto user received $11K in donations for $50K mistake
Is this supposed to be some kind of joke? Humans have guns too and they are far faster and better marksmen than a bipedal robot.
I have done full El Camino de Santiago twice. If you want to do a thru hike but don't know which one - do this one. It's fairly easy with lots of stops along the way. It's easy to navigate. There are many many people on the trail. But, most importantly, it'll get you mentally ready for uncertainty of being on the trail and just winging things every day. It doesn't come nearly as close to more serious thru hikes such as the Continental Divide, but it's a good way to get introduced to the world of thru hiking.
The article is about pollution: that's a cost.

Conformity over something that doesn't work: that's a cost.

Fear: that's a cost.

Not being able to relate to other human beings using our facial expressions the same way: that's a cost.

> Masks are effective at helping an infected wearer reduce spread to others. This is not exotic science

There is literally no Science to bake that up. It's literally superstition. BMJ Published research saying they're not effective:

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/5/4/e006577.full.pdf

Cambridge says they should only be used as a last resort:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

and most recent was the 6,000 person study from Denmark which came to the same conclusion: they do not work.
Fuck, that is way worse that I had heard. JFC
If Trump were actively trying to sabotage this Republican Senate and next week’s Georgia election, it’s hard to imagine how it would look different from what he did here.
Or try Stephen Wolfram's setup:

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/data/uploads/2019/02/07-...
When I was vacationing in Portugal Google Maps consistently sent us down the narrowest two-way single-lane roads that existed. Even after I explicitly picked the saner route it kept rerouting onto the steering wheel death grip roads.
3-D Secure
two things I loved about this article:

1.

> The general-purpose allocator, which can print memory leaks on program exit. This is like running in Valgrind all the time, and makes writing leak-free code part of normal development.

2. I think OP's point about comptime being TOO powerful is potentially true. It might be manageable by creating cultural "best practices", and maybe even labelling them as such. For example in zig stdlib, std.Mutex is, to my eyes, an "interface" pattern and std.Allocator is a "factory" pattern. Rules-of-thumb for when you want to use which pattern and solid examples would probably help greatly.
I made it a habit to report all missing businesses/locations on Apple Maps I find via other means. Mostly for my own convenience but also to help others/those businesses.
> Conservatives like you

I'm not a conservative. Why would you assume I am? Is that based purely on my view on one topic?
In the last few years, a number of countries have brought in sugar taxes that have in many cases caused soft drink manufacturers to push the zero calorie versions of their products, or reduce sugar in their normal ones (particularly common where there's a two-tier tax; I think about the only soft drink that's still in the top tier here is Coca Cola, but even they have been heavily pushing their Coke Zero product), or both. Will be interesting to see what impact this has.
And that's why all those countries are firmly beholden to the US, for protection.
Definitely check out shells.com!
Exactly. As a (Central) European, I've never understood how can you calculate stuff in servings. To me, a serving is completely subjective.
They're deploying AVs way (1-2 years, at least) behind their own schedules, by their own admission. Ask anyone inside of the industry (including Musk) and they'll tell you that the problem is the long march of nines I mentioned earlier.

This is also why you saw a bunch of AV startups with < 50 employees that got big initial funding rounds but folded after a couple of years - it's pretty easy to grab a few dozen grad students, slap some LIDAR on a car, encode basic road rules, and get a demo working that's compelling to investors. Once you get past that initial pitch though, you get into the weeds of trying to progress without causing regressions elsewhere.

Also, what makes you think those expectations were grounded in linearity? Waymo went from an initial project at Google in early 2009 to driving 10 complex 100 mile routes without intervention in mid 2010 - on the surface, it would have seemed they were 95% of the way there. Improvement has been sublinear for a very long time and everyone in the AV industry is aware of it.
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Westerners bring up this lack of overt government control as some kind of end-all, be-all argument. Realistically it doesn't matter, practically speaking. The bias is there regardless. Didn't stop people reporting about WMDs in Iraq, isn't stopping the flurry of misinformation about China currently, etc. The comparison is completely fair
Hey, no worries. The title is definitely not your fault. :)
blog post geared for for more general audience: https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-solves-computer...

Hao Huang's paper: http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~hhuan30/papers/sensitivity_1.pd...
> Bipedal robots aren't a great match for battlefield situations because they lack the ability to do proper decision making and are very expensive.

Depressingly accurate. Poor kids are far cheaper.
If I could find a FOSS notepad with integrated voice recognition/translation in multiple languages (English is not my mother tongue) the phone would be the perfect creativity tool for me!
Impressive rant, but you realize this ad is CGI right? The opposite of everything you're praising.

Or do you believe the cars in car ads are real too?

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/cinematographer-reveals-one-...
Oh yeah, the "Hot Sauce Paradigm" easily quantifiable, never backed up that it actually correlates to aggression in real life. From Adachi and Willoughby (2011):

"Lieberman et al. [1999] found that scores on [the hot sauce] paradigm were positively related to both trait and physical aggression scores on the Buss and Perry (1992) Aggression Questionnaire, supporting the convergent validity of the Hot Sauce Paradigm, although to date no study has measured its association with aggressive behavior outside the lab."

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2cab/940f9292928a48d57c3752...
Any place in the US with a house worth $140k or $55k must not be anywhere near numerous opportunities to earn income. When income sources become more volatile, you need to value being in an area where there are numerous people interested in buying your labor.
millenials invented cancel culture?

so they invented things like segregation? lynchings? witch-hunts?

"cancel cultute" is as old as time and oppression.

it is woefully naive to believe a generation, whom you seem to begrudge, invented it.
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The (excellent) manga The Promised Neverland uses of an owl as a symbol of protest as well. One of the main themes of the story is turning a blind eye to injustice, and indeed, one of the owl's eyes (the left eye, in this case) is black.
For me it's even worse. Here in Germany they're driving around capturing all data and taking photos but they don't update the StreetView imagery because of that huge blurring debacle back then when they launched StreetView here.
Coming soon to a public housing development or protest near you.
If the virtual slaves aren't being made wealthy from their forced labor, then who is and why should we support them?
I believe it means you can manufacture products that use them.
Why should we consider any moral stance, by any for-profit corporation, as anything other than marketing?

The real problem, as I see it, is that individuals see their relationships to corporations as anything other than transactional. Strange things happen when people adopt a company’s marketing effort into their personal identity.

Instead, we should be looking at corporations objectively and deciding whether their incentives align with our own. Keep our identities with other individuals, not with corporations and branding.
Stores don’t even bother to fix their own signage when they change their hours. You’d pretty much have to crowdsource it.
The closest examples of games where the main focus is violence for violence's sake are "Manhunt" and "Hatred". Both very controversial.
> While I do wish there were more healthy options, I can assure you that the mainstream grocery stores (Ralph's, Safeway, etc) contain many products with low or no sugar.

What struck me as weird was the sugar in products where I'd never have expected to find it in the first place. In particular bread (most non-absurdly-expensive brands seemed to have added sugar, which would not normally be the case here).

In fact, an Irish court recently ruled that Subway 'bread' wasn't actually bread at all (important for VAT purposes here); too much added sugar.

I'm sure it is _possible_ to get food that doesn't have added sugar in the US, but it does seem to be the default to add sugar in some quite weird places.

Edit: One way to regulate this, less draconian than actually banning added sugar, would be to regulate naming (for instance, banning sale of a bread-like product with added sugar as bread).
I realized recently that what I really want, even more than a new browser engine, is a browser that's highly portable to new platforms. Something like ffmpeg, or maybe Retroarch, which can be compiled for freeDOS or a PowerMac or Haiku if you'd like—sometimes with different features enabled, but always with enough to be useful. If someone developed a brand new platform, these projects would be relatively easy to get running.

Perhaps it's just my particular love of weird and new (and old) platforms, but my greatest fear isn't so much being stuck with a single engine as being struck on a small set of mainstream platforms in order to use the engine. I don't think it's a coincidence that the Switch and PlayStation 5 lack a user-exposed web browser; sure it would be a nice feature, but it's not worthwhile for Sony and Nintendo to keep up to date.

If we'd had today's web browsers in 2007, and Apple didn't already lead the Webkit project, would Steve Jobs have been able to create the iPhone, with a first-class web browser as a key selling point? A web browser is the single most essential application for modern life. What future innovations are we missing out on?
China has been hiring engineers from TSMC to make their own chips.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/China-hires-over...

TMSC is planning to build a fab factory in the US.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyshih/2020/05/15/tsmcs-anno...
We have an epidemic of overweight people. We can worry about misleading BMI stats when we have an epidemic of bodybuilders who worry they might actually be overweight.
Rails 6.1 allows default_scope to be run on all queries
Do people like comments on blogs? I can't find the links right now but I've found a couple of people talking about how they used to have comments on their blog and decided to get rid of it since they would occasionally become a curation/moderation nightmare.
What is there around to replace string theory with? I predict that if there ever is a viable alternative available with even 0.001% more evidence supporting it, strings will vanish in a day. Presently all other approaches to quantum gravity are in a less developed state and make even fewer predictions.
Those are mostly staged. In reality all they find is spiders and bits of cardboard boxes.
In the context of the discussion, Springfield was portrayed as being near the ocean, mountains, museums, aquariums, and many other amenities that you won't find in places with sub $100k houses.
yeah, that's the way it is justified, repaying debts to society.
Interesting idea but extra confusing layout. I'm still not totally sure what it is or does, even after reading.. It seems just a collection of random notes, which isn't that interesting to be honest. Perhaps a few accounts showing some interesting content could help us realize your vision.
Wouldn't it be better to use an adverb here?
In all my years of using Google Maps, I have never seen any message like "we cannot recommend a route for the destination you have selected". Considering that human lives are at stake, the product owners should be more generous to acknowledge their lack of knowledge rather than cobbling together a route using outdated information.

It is completely conceivable for an app to say: "we don't know, please use a different app" -- it's just pure greed for user engagement that prevents owners from doing this.

Similar life-and-death situations have happened in the past with Google Maps users in Middle East.
> why does Apple reinvent it anyway?

Because Apple learnt a long time ago that something essential needs to be in their hands; third parties let Apple down.

Google let Apple down by refusing to allow Apple to craft vector-based maps, only allowing Apple to download bitmaps. Thus Apple Maps.

Intel let Apple down by failing to predict where the market was moving since about 2012 or so, with the Core processors not gaining much in terms of performance and somehow managing to guzzle more energy. Thus Apple Silicon.

Plenty of other examples where Apple realised they can't offer the whole package until they own all the components. The formula is "<Company> didn't do <Thing> and it impacted Apple's offerings. Thus <Apple Thing>".
I agree “forced work” or slavery should be stopped. But go and visit these factories in China... the people are their voluntarily... because their alternative is worse than those conditions.

Like I said economies develop, China should improve its workers rights laws, and slowly it has and will.

We should avoid and remove slavery. Agree.

But using developing countries as an example of why developed countries should be more protectionist at exactly the point in time where the US tried that and lost out on almost every front is insane and disconnected from reality
Any store that uses a rewards, loyalty card or phone number when you checkout does the same. I'm not sure why Amazon is the bad guy when grocery stores have been distributing private brands of mainstream products and shopper loyalty has been used to optimize revenue streams. Amazon does it on a bigger scale, not sure the scale makes it right or wrong though.
Why can't you actively cool the CPU? It has its own fan.
> Winter tires, once you've seen / touched them, are visibly different: different tread, way softer rubber, etc.

Exactly, tires are the single most important element of winter driving. If you live in a place with mild winters all season tires can get you far, but if you get a lot of snow or ice seasonal tires are critical.

Cold tires are slick tires that will slide all over hell and back, the tread on winter tires is designed to better move slush and snow out of the way so the contact patch can hopefully reach the road surface; while the softer rubber heats easier so it can get to a nice 'grippy' temperature and grab hold of the road even in conditions where the wet and cold are trying to sap heat from it.

During the warmer months these winter tires will be less effective because they have smaller contact patches (due to more/deeper grooves in the tread to drive moisture away), and will actually get hotter than desired (softer rubber) causing a loss of grip as the rubber will want to start shearing off instead.

Everyone needs to remember no matter what fancy engine, electronics, etc. your car has - your tires are the only thing that actually touches the ground. Acceleration, braking and turning are all highly depending on their ability to grip the ground (and withstand the forces being placed on them) - so make sure you have the right ones and don't put off replacing ones that are nearing the end of their life.
I would really recommend doing an organized hike like Fjällräven Classic. You have to do everything yourself and carry all your stuff, but there are checkpoints with volunteers, marshals that you can join to get a good pace, loads of friendly people and so on. You also get to refill your food at checkpoints, and they make sure people know where to find water.

I have done Fjällräven Classic in Sweden two times and Hong Kong once and love it.
That and I'd think vaccination rates depends not only on how easy a country's population can afford such, but also, and perhaps more so, the level of anxiety (both, fear of severe COVID-19 as well as side effects of vaccine).
A Nation's economy divided: Breadlines vs. Bread makers