skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised the article did not show the difference. Here it is:

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I’ve written before about the effect of color gradients on reading, and how it goes against the findings of science that our words should be in a single color, usually black and usually on a near-white background, and usually presented in lines of a certain length. This is all a matter of tradition and style, not optimal information transfer. This standard does not work well for everyone. It’s why I thought, for a long time, that I didn’t like books. I wasn’t good at the mechanics of reading. When I found text-to-speech programs and actual audiobooks, it was like finally seeing the turtle in one of those Magic Eye posters that everyone else at the party saw hours ago.

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I’ve written before about the effect of color gradients on reading, and how it goes against the findings of science that our words should be in a single color, usually black and usually on a near-white background, and usually presented in lines of a certain length. This is all a matter of tradition and style, not optimal information transfer. This standard does not work well for everyone. It’s why I thought, for a long time, that I didn’t like books. I wasn’t good at the mechanics of reading. When I found text-to-speech programs and actual audiobooks, it was like finally seeing the turtle in one of those Magic Eye posters that everyone else at the party saw hours ago.

Personally I think the extra space does improve readability. I would advocate that the extra spacing should be handled at presentation time. Not as part of the content itself.
I think we’re more likely to see a port-less (read MagSafe only) iPhone sooner than a USB-C version. I will say the iPad Pro with USB-C was a revelation for usability though. Not to mention companies like Flir being able to create one product line.
Parent comment has a point - the appeal of JS is that it's a weakly typed, hacky language. I love duck typing. I don't use Typescript, nor would I use a JS++.

There are a good number of programming languages. Why not something like Go? I heard Go compiles to JS, but never tried it. Why is JS even used for banking, and why would converting to a JS++ be easier than adopting something else?
Even stuff sold directly by Amazon could be co-mingled with counterfeit inventory from 3rd party sellers.
Rough! Wwbrender gets better but the Servo UI wrapper needs a bunch of work to add "standard" features (eg: bookmarks, url bar)
According to the benchmarks when using the same compiler (LLVM) and the same file system (OpenZFS) FreeBSD performance is 98% of Linux performance. 2% performance penalty is a bargain in exchange for Dtrace, kqueue, pf, jails, ports, outstanding documentation, simplicity and cohesiveness of a FreeBSD system.
There's a somewhat pervasive idea that advertising and brand recognition are coercive tools that will ultimately die out, replaced by better objective information about products. I'm kind of partial to this idea myself.

But increasingly we seem a long way from achieving this. Amazon reviews have become such garbage, I've fallen back to pretty much relying on name brands as my placeholder for product quality.

There's still a lot to be said for established brands. Brands can afford widespread advertising because they have thriving businesses that generate lots of cash. Brands can get stocked in major retailers because you need decent products to make it through Walmart's buying process.

These are signals that are harder to fake, and they're kind of the best we've got right now.
Because the right to privacy is a human right and the corporation did not respect it. Yes, there are reasons which can limit the right to privacy but protecting corporate profit is not one of them.
For me two spaces in fixed-width fonts is too jarring, as the spaces themselves are significantly wider than in proportional fonts (relative to average letter width), and also the period glyph already adds horizontal space.

For proportional fonts, on the other hand, two spaces would help the layout engine to distinguish between the end of a sentence and other uses of period-followed-by-space (abbreviations, mostly).
You and I are around different people! Yes, that pile of rocks isn't too big of a deal for young and agile people, but try to imagine the 10th percentile of people walking over that. Older, not as fit. That rock pile would be a struggle.

I don't disagree that it's still far away from a human in good shape, but there are certainly a significant percentage of people who wouldn't be able to walk over that, or would slip a few times while doing it.

That sort of terrain is also no joke if you have to traverse it for large stretches, even for athletic people. It's very similar to mildly rough mountaineering areas and that will wear you down quickly!
Every country on earth is investigating. Here is what I wrote in response to your other dead comment. Look through the sources, it's being thoroughly investigated and getting back negative results, which even if successful, wouldn't address the need for immunity:

Quickly glossing over that paper, 8,000 participants is not more than 30,000 from AstraZeneca’s recent trial. So right there, your claim about it being a larger study is gone.

Then there’s the hazard ratio. There’s a small decrease in mortality but nothing overwhelming. Loads of other studies are out there showing increases in hospitalization time, higher likelihood of requiring intubation, no decrease in viral load and of course, increased mortality. Here is a good summary of those: https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/antiviral-the...

Now I’m not saying we shouldn’t be trialing hydroxychloroquine…in fact we are! But you seem to be implying that we’re chasing after the wrong thing when in fact, we’re chasing after everything.

Long term side effects will be studied and in great detail. Unfortunately, we don’t have the luxury of time because we’re in the middle of a pandemic. Your solution requires hospitalization, ventilation and for people to continue getting infected, while infecting others because we have no immune defenses against the virus or its variants!

I’m not sure what else to say but you’re going to need a lot more than just one study to be retracted before anything you said starts to make sense.
Hey Yaro! Appreciate the support
I guess HN will have to go as well, all the misleading articles and posts on here.
I think you are very confused, and I write this in a friendly way.
What changes are needed to make Aarch64 support? Java is write it once run it everywhere, the code is generated at runtime and can fully exploit the latest arch specific extensions like AVX 512 automatically

Edit: is it because they ship a custom jdk and that the jdk is in C++?
No, it's サ

;)
We don't do politics here?
Everything to Know about TTPs
Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC
There's always the exploration-exploitation tradeoff...
I'm still pissed at Obama for not making Warren the chair of it.

She's no more qualified than any other Masshole when it comes to dutifully towing the party line[1] and but she was uniquely qualified to head the CFPB and shouldn't have been passed over for that.

[1] Which is basically all she's done in congress but as someone who was a republican until they stopped being fiscally conservative and who studied markets and fought for the little guy all her life who can blame her for being a little tepid on some of the fiscally wilder things that come out of the Bernie/AOC crowd and the jackboot-ier things that come out of the authoritarian neoliberal old guard.
Not that civilization would settle on such a thing to a degree where this would be dependable, but it would certainly help machine processing of text to understand that the two spaces indicates a new sentence, while some abbreviation with a period in it, then a space, does not represent the last word in a sentence.

I still use two spaces at the end of a sentence in text messages. Pry them from my cold dead thumbs, etc.
Nothing is trivial for a decades-old website.
A heartfelt thanks for your kind words...

Yeah the more I think about it, it's probably just a cultural thing and not a "whole humanity" thing.

As it's been discussed here, in some cultures crickets are sold as a snack on streetcorners and people grow up eating them.

And I think the whole "piss-poor people" thing might just be eating unhealthy garbage because, just maybe, the cheap high-sugar high-carb stuff releases endorphins in most humans, and they are just trying to get a small reprieve in their desperate lives.
Youtube comments are actually decent now, with a very low bar for decent at least. Also depending on the type of video/target audience of course.

That google managed to improve them so much is likely their biggest achievement I can think of in many years.
Because they take a percent off the top as the payment processor. And even if you return an item, they're not going to return that fee. When the seller fulfills the order it's even better ,amazon has almost no cost for the entire transaction. They won't care until people start ditching them in large numbers, not the trickle the dissatisfied in these comments (myself included) represent.
I do the same but I noticed it feels very weird to write like that, it feels much more staccato, as if there's a bigger pause between each sentence. Nowadays I write paragraphs normally and then split the lines afterwards.
Not entirely true. Yes, Amazon is flooded with fake reviews but I still look through them.

Photos and videos in reviews are extremely helpful.

There are also many in-depth reviews that are trustworthy.
> Do you expect the mayor and head of police of one city to take on the entire hierarchy themselves?

Since when do you need a lot of excuses to stop state officials from indiscriminately murdering anyone without absolutely no consequence?
Good point. I did not know exactly how much fruit pickers make, I supposed it was not very much. According to Google, the California average is 24 k USD a year, 11.49 USD an hour.

However.

A human must rest after, say, 12 hours, but a robot can just keep going even at night, if the battery charging is swift and smart (e.g. hotswap battery). So a robot could work almost 24 h shifts instead of 12 h shifts. So we get a 2x multiplier here.

A robot can be made to work perhaps twice as fast somehow, maybe it just moves faster or has four arms or can carry more or reach higher faster or whatever. So let's add another 2x.

Now we're at 4x, a single robot doing the job of 4 workers. Now we're at ca. 46 USD an hour for the equivalent of the robot's work.

Would such a robot be hired for, say, 30 USD an hour?

Next, I'll put on an MBA hat (which I don't have) and just pull numbers ouf of thin air; GIGO warning is in effect. Real MBAs please excuse the amateur hour.

Assuming the robot rental shop can keep utilization at 80% and sell it non-stop for a month to orchards, this would be 0.8 * 30 * 24 * 30 = ca. 17000 USD a month for such a robot. Let's say they spend roughly 10% in repairs etc., that leaves about 15 k USD a month. If the robot costs 150 k USD, and it can do fruit picking for ca. 6 months in a year, the robot has paid for itself after ca. two years.

My point was that the fruit orchard pays 30 USD instead of 46 USD for the "same" job (i.e. they get 35% off labor costs).

Also, a robot rental shop in this model actually starts to make profit per robot after two years. This is not such a long time, and the robots might actually become tools like tractors or harvesters are, with similar ownership arrangements, e.g. a farm co-op owns the robots and distributes to members for cheap hourly price.

Although there were many assumptions regarding the numbers, I would not quite agree on robots taking a long time to become economical. Also, the savings at the orchard side would be seen immediately, creating robot demand on that side.

Edit: typo and formatting
They could just as easily spin it as “Now you can use the charger from your macbook, meaning only one cable!”

Or, if they want to get really wild: they can openly talk about the other usb-c devices that you might have.
Yes, the question is: who is putting this idea into people's minds?
Openings for Rapid Chess Improvement
Replying to myself because I messed up my original comment. I meant to say that accuracy is inversely proportional to your distance from Mountain View.
The extra space appears to let the sentence or thought stand on it's own. In school K-12 I was taught two spaces. College said only one.
The problem is that with short haul serial links there is a very small operating range where error correction works. Basically the difference between a working link (very low BER) and a link where even ECC is broken (high BER) is quiet small and adding ECC overhead is deemed an overall loss. These links have quite different characteristics from long-haul links that are dominated by ISI. One way to see this is to look at a waterfall plot and note how steep it is on short interconnects. There is a very small range between working fine and completely broken.
From another comment: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/retired-uw-computer-science-pr...
Which improvements caused a 2x+ productivity boost that my favored language does not have?
Apparently, protein (Syncytin-1) present in the spike of SARS-COV2 is also present in human placenta. If the vaccine produces anti-bodies for this protein, it could also lead to infertility in women.

I think the answer to this questions would be nice to have.

"Several vaccine candidates are expected to induce the formation of humoral antibodies against spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2. Syncytin-1 (see Gallaher, B., “Response to nCoV2019 Against Backdrop of Endogenous Retroviruses” - http://virological.org/t/response-to-ncov2019- against-backdrop-of-endogenous-retroviruses/396), which is derived from human endogenous retroviruses (HERV) and is responsible for the development of a placenta in mammals and humans and is therefore an essential prerequisite for a successful pregnancy, is also found in homologous form in the spike proteins of SARS viruses. There is no indication whether antibodies against spike proteins of SARS viruses would also act like anti-Syncytin-1 antibodies. However, if this were to be the case this would then also prevent the formation of a placenta which would result in vaccinated women essentially becoming infertile. To my knowledge, Pfizer/BioNTech has yet to release any samples of written materials provided to patients, so it is unclear what, if any, information regarding (potential) fertility-specific risks caused by antibodies is included."
Seriously, what the hell? This means you can bypass the GDPR with a sentence in your ToS. It is beyond ridiculous.
Hawaii is disappearing.... Without the walls the ocean advances year by year as the volcanic peaks get eroded.
There is one fix, a seawall, Dutch style, attached below where there is wave action = just add $$
I do the same in source documentation, to limit the portion that has to be reformatted when changing something in the middle.
It was, and this is. You were right.
reed-solomon is most likely used here. It’s the tech in CDs and ECC RAM. Checksums that also have enough data for recovery.
Ah, thanks. I actually totally forgot about. Maybe I should get one now (2 years later) to help spur them on.
That makes sense, but then I think about the military. Don’t they have a massive medical force? They are not _all_ doctors and nurses (although many are) but all are highly trained and could serve here. Why not deploy them to the current battlefield?
You'd need one for the Xbox store or the MSFT store. But so far, you can sell something both through the MSFT store, with Xbox branding or not, and outside of the MSFT store.
I have a PyInstaller-compiled Qt .app that crashes on startup. Weird, because Intel Python in Intel PyCharm is actually working just fine.
We don't know how much effort it took. The searcher could very well have gone through thousands of images, following up on hundreds, before zeroing in on this one. Or not-- I'd certainly like to know more about that part of the process.
When Apple stopped supplying chargers, they also dropped the prices on chargers.

That's the kind of thing I mean: soundbite analysis of Apple's policies makes it very easy to cast them as the big baddies.
That is true, but even the most niche Linux platform is still closer to the mean of Linux platforms than Windows is.
This interview with John Collison is very timely for me. My little "holiday" project of these days is to work on a memo on corporate strategy that I intend to submit to John for review. Who knows, maybe an opportunity will arise from it.

After doing some work and some digging on Stripe (despite I knew the company quite well already), I completely agree that there's still a ton of opportunities for them to expand.

It's actually hard to select a single expansion opportunity, as there are too many to pick from. Well, as said, a nice holiday project.

p.s. if you're willing to help me with some ideas, email me ($my_hn_name at gmail) and I'll happily share the document with you, as long as you can promise to be nice and not share it elsewhere.

edit: not sure why the downvotes?
No, it's pure speculation. The only reason you still hear about it is his physics credentials.
I'm not talking about adding addresses to OSM. I'm talking about resolving features based on address. "Give me the building at address (____), because I know that's a business and I can fill in additional information."
If we can provide adequate resources to everyone without anyone doing any work, it would make sense to switch to an economy wherein we provide adequate resources to everyone without requiring them to work.

Capitalism is a very effective economic system when having goods depends on enticing people to produce them. It's not a system that sticks around once goods and services become fully decoupled from labor.
That’s good to hear? I think I was seeing issues with that on some of my chargers, maybe I need to double check the power ratings on the bricks.
Is there any evidence that works? In general Google has no liability for publishing incorrect information.
50% is effective enough for a society to squash corona, but a purely self motivated person will surely prefer the 90% version.
If anything, the last few years of politics have convinced me that objective information is more likely to die out, replaced by advertising, brand recognition, and coercive tools.
Here’s why Wirecutter can make an entire business out of credibly reviewing products
I'm assuming through their (in)famous hiring process, that they have smart/competent people around. They for sure know that this kind of thing will turn people off the platform long term.

Devil advocate: Could it be that the problem is actually quite complex due to whatever reason?
You have zero evidence you got Covid-19 again, other than your strong belief.

Despite no other documented case of reinfection being published (beyond a positive PCR, which prove DNA, not infection).

Kind of a reckless statement.
How is your hypothetical related to the facts before? The poster above was showing that more people die from Covid each day than have died from terrorism in a decade.

Also, I would say that the disease would still be a bigger problem than the terrorism even in your scenario. Unknown diseases have unknown effects, and generally scale exponentially. Terrorism is not going to see an exponential explosion.
Your rhetoric is part of the problem. You want me to absolve right wing extremists for some reason. It is absurd, and it's absurdity is part of its mechanism of spread. Your inquiring rhetoric is trying to minimize it as absurdity when the ineffectiveness isn't even the point.
Sorry if I was unclear. The code signing requirement to bypass the ritual means Windows is more of a walled garden than Linux.
What a depressing world you must live in. In reality, the news is pretty good: Freedom has expanded dramatically. Freedom was expanding in China until Xi took over, with many working and planning for democracy. A local downturn isn't at all 'inevitable'; we can easily turn it around.

Freedom has expanded dramatically in the U.S. too. Minorities such as Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Irish, Italians, Germans (once reviled!) and more are now unquestioned members of society. Women went from an oppressed majority to full members of the workplace, expanding participation in government, etc. Few would dream now of suggesting women shouldn't work - something that was a norm a couple of generations ago. LGTBQ+ people's rights have expanded: They can marry, they don't lose their jobs over it, they can serve openly in the military and in government.

African-Americans enjoy far more rights: Obama was elected, as was Kamala Harris. Education has expanded; discrimination is socially unacceptable - no politician would survive using certain language. Law enforcement abuse of African-Americans is widely seen as a problem. Even Republicans voted to remove Confederate names from military bases.

We still have a long way to go, including for African-Americans, women in the workplace, LGBTQ+, Muslims, and more. But to suggest oppression is inevitable is just ignorant; it denies the facts. One wonders why some people seem to want it to be true?
Investigators analyzing a new signal from Space
Researchers got a misterious signal from a nearby Start, Proxima Centauri, that they are now analyzing, it could be an Alien life near to Earth?
I'm a jazz musician--it's interesting stuff, there is a whole area of research dedicated to this type of work.

Jazz chord progressions are pretty simple ultimately when expressed in compressed form, but tend to have actual semantics behind them be pretty communicative so I doubt this will cover absolutely everything except the popular works.

You can generate something very close using a formal grammar but you get stuck in the same position as the logicians in Chomsky's time. I've had some really great thoughts about ML approaches, however, with some sort of seq-to-seq approach.
The very initial idea in libertarian circles was to abolish literally all welfare.

The problem is once you start looking into leaving safety nets, bureaucracy is no longer reduced and budget savings no longer happen. Then you need to find a ton fo extra €€€€ to fund UBI. Suddenly „yay no nanny state“ becomes „yay more taxes“...
You're right about the skipped iCloud path — it's been too long since I've done that without automation (we use separate work iCloud accounts so it normally never comes up).

It doesn't really change the point, though, because this isn't a bypass or flaw in the encryption system but a gap in the initial setup flow. It's an important audit point and definitely good to surface for your customers but it's not exactly a surprise that if you don't enable storage encryption, you don't have encrypted storage. I know that there's a long history of attention-seeking blog posts from companies selling products but you're trying to make a reputation as an honest security company and I think that marketing is a key component of that.
Actually it's super-easy to believe, barely an inconvenience.

Wikipedia tells me 3,000 Japanese soldiers died in the Battle of Midway. [1]

If I gloss over the fact that they were soldiers and not civilians, and ignore the injuries, in terms of one-day death toll, it's the same as 9/11. Sure, the Japanese military was the aggressor in WWII, but it seems rude to mention 3,000 human deaths for a cheap "take that!"

I mean, the Confederates sure don't like it when we remind them that they lost the American Civil war. They were in the wrong, but they're still real sensitive about losing. In polite company I wouldn't mention it. [2]

As an optional fun fact, Midway Games was probably using the same allegory when they picked their name. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_midway

[2] The Internet, of course, not being polite.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Games