skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what prompted this in the first place.Had the ACM done anything that was perceived as wrong?

In my view, the letter seems to be a contradictory admixture of Progressivism and Rationalism.

> Such actions have included calls for academic boycotts, attempts to get people fired, inviting mob attacks against ‘offending’ individuals

That's a Rationalist perspective, which I endorse. And, as a "rationalist", it's been my observation that it's the progressive that indulge in this kind of behaviour. The so-called "cancel culture".

> Scientific work should be judged on the basis of scientific merit

Sure, but obvious comment is obvious. Why bring it up?

> No individual should suffer harassment or attack based on their personal or political views, religion, nationality, race, gender, or sexual orientation.

Oh, here we go. The statement, whilst logical and indisputable enough in its expression, betrays a pushing of a Progressive agenda.

> Scientific discourse should be based on mutual respect

Sure dude, whatever. Do you really need to write that in a letter? And why the ACM in particular?

> In short, challenging and debating ideas is always acceptable and ought to be encouraged.

Imagine going up to Isaac Newton and saying this. I imagine he'd give you a puzzled look as if you were slightly backwards.

Are the signatories rationalists, or progressives? It's difficult to tell. My suspicion is that although it is rationalist on its surface, it is covertly progressive.

Progressivism: always pushing an agenda covertly, never speaking in plain words.

That's my take, anyway. I don't have much karma to burn.
This is to be expected, if only statistically.
well here you go:

apps are natively compiled for instruction sets eg: x86, x64, ARM64 etc.

M1 has an new instruction set. so Apps targeting (x64, x86) need to compile specially to run natively on M1 chip.

currently there are few apps which are native as the chip is new. Apple has provided rosetta emulator, which will emulate x86 apps to run on M1

strange, everyone talked rosetta emulator in every single benchmark.

NOTE: the above is my current understanding. it may be slightly or grossly incorrect in some areas
There should really be a database of such devices.
>if P(death|vaccine) < P(death|covid) then it seems really barbaric not to give it.

No, it would have to be P(death|vaccine) < P(death|covid) * P(covid) because not everyone would get covid during the pre-approval period. That's a far higher bar.

Also, let's not forget P(covid|vaccine). People would behave very differently once they had the vaccine and feel safe. So if the vaccine isn't effective, that could be catastrophic.
> You can go live on an island in Greece, or Eastern Europe, or Columbia

I think you meant Colombia :)
> Karina Marolla, a 49-year-old opponent of the law, said: “What was voted for today is the death penalty for the most innocent. Today in Argentina there’s no law giving the death penalty to rapists or murderers. So we’re feeling sad, to put it lightly.”

It's buried toward the bottom, but I'm genuinely surprised that opponents got the appearance of a fair shake in The Guardian.
Nitpicking, but we (our bodies) are what we eat, just not the brain itself

Eat crap. Become crap. Brain may still work ...but on a deformed body
One thing I have been wondering: Given that R has been near to 1 in many countries, wouldn't we need much lower immunity rates and/or vaccine efficiencies if we maintain the minimal impact measures such as public masks?

My understanding would be that 10% immunity for instance would push R down by 10%. Once we get it below 1.0, we effectively won.
What you say is crazy. I live in Paris with 12k a year, no holidays and not comfortable but it _is_ a living wage, the minimum wage actually. I can imagine needing the triple of that if I took holidays and treated myself to nice restaurants and bought fancy clothes. But that's still well below 70k. So if you are the kind of person that consider 70k very low, you are also the kind of person I would remorselessly take the money from.
How would they ruin his life lawfully, exactly? (Keep in mind this is Belgium)
Just want to point out that it only exists in the United States of America, not the rest of the Americas.
Which JVM are they using?
Btw, DragonFly runs fine under either of ESXi or Linux/KVM/Virtio.

I used it under ESXi with physical disks attached as a backup server with hammer/hammer2 recently. Worked great and it was the only FS that offered effective offline dedup.
Crypto tokens will bridge the gap between AR and reality
I found it while reading one of Mark Guzdial's older blog posts on Amazon:

Using computing to teach computing (Hint: Don't use the "P" word)

A couple weeks ago, I got the chance to meet and have lunch with Jeanette Wing, Director of the NSF CISE and main proponent of Computational Thinking. I did pose her the question that I've been pushing: how can you get to computational thinking for everyone if we don't teach programming?

I actually asked this question explicitly during her talk. If computing is "automation of abstractions" (as she defines it), how can we get to the automation part without teaching programming? She pushed back. We shouldn't start computational thinking with programming. We should start with things like Tim Bell's "CS Unplugged" (http://www.csunplugged.org). She asked, you wouldn't start a 4 year old with programming, would you? After her talk, I pushed her harder: how would we get to "automation" and understanding the ability of computation to deal with complexity without ever touching the computer? She eventually agreed -- it would be hard to get to where she wants to get without programming.

Then I realized that the "p" word was getting in our way. If we want to get students to understand "automation" and complexity, we need computing. We need computing to help people to understand computing. We know that the specification of automation is programming. But the word "programming" for many people (even computer scientists) means "Java" and "C++" and complex syntax and awful error messages. The "p" word is getting in the way of agreeing that the computer is necessary for us to help students to really understand computational thinking. The interesting question, then, is how do we use computing to teach computing (whether or not we call it "programming").

-- https://web.archive.org/web/20090831063636/http://www.amazon...
To me, the killer maps app would be the ability to type a consumer product into the maps search bar and have it display on the map all businesses (likely) selling that product. There are still lots of items that are not on Amazon or that I cannot wait two days for.

Every time I try this now, I'm amazed by how bad the results are. First, I think that the simplest ML tools would be able to (say) identify which stores are grocery stores by their name, yet Google Maps is unreliable at this. Second, merchants have a big incentive to tell Google what they sell (either typically or, more ambitiously, with an up-to-date inventory API), if only Google would give them a portal to do so.
Because as a Google employee they understand what is and isn't done as a matter of privacy?

Do you have any evidence that Google spies on its own employees for the purpose of giving them privileged manual treatment when they don't ask for it?

Do you have any evidence that Google create associations between separate Google accounts to the extent of treating them as the same accountholder (asside from deleting duplicate spam accounts)?
I would love to spend several hours talking with Roger Penrose. I too think doodling with your mind on things unrelated to what you are supposed to be doing can have great results but most people fear such thinking as not useful, or simply can't their mind go that far.
Curious about the speed diff - could some give notes on that?
MacTCP Cookbook: Constructing Network-Aware Applications
If a game is on Stadia it can already be played on Linux via Stadia and a web browser. It can also be played on macOS. I thought that's where you were going with that.
We had a bunch of good ideas the world didn’t care about. For example, actual user IDs and a feedback system. We launched it as an add-on for radio station websites and learned that they were an endless source of feature requests, which we foolishly granted. Finally, it didn’t scale well because a lot of behind the scenes content moderation was necessary.

Mostly I blame myself for not validating the idea properly. If “The Mom Test” book had been around at that time I could have saved that money and a lot of strain on my marriage. I feel strongly that it is by far the most important business book to be published in the last three or four decades.
I'd suggest matrix. It may be the closest you can currently come to something self hosted where most people with reading skills can figure out how to join.
Anybody living on the Bay Area is painfully well aware that there are seriously sketchy neighborhoods. It's probably more an issue of data: there are no street-by-street crime maps for most of the world, and neither can Google feasibly collect this on their own.
Here's a working paper from the levy institute, which covers the issue http://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/can-taxes-and-bond...

Or you could simply spend some time reading the Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory?wprov=s...

Since you now twice called my statements "patently false", without offering any evidence to your argument or even explaining them, I'd like you to provide some sources to support your claims

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“Found this comment in Apple’s open source chess engine source”
Yes but that's three persons. Unless it was assumed that the typical profile here is a pater familias with a housewife.
Most people I've talked to place too much value in the idea that a website needs to be built from scratch. You could do it, or have a team do it, but its a lot of wasted time and money, especially if your goal is to have a popular look.

You can get quality free and paid templates from a lot of sources on the web. By the time you put in your branding, image assets, and copy nobody will be able to tell by looking what temple you used. If you know html/css/js you can customize the bits that don't work for you pretty easily.
You might be interested in a couple of videos by an indie vfx group called Corridor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjCWfuvYxQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RIHnK0_NE
To the best of my knowlede, the Novavax vaccine actually does this. Instead of delivering an mRNA nanoparticle, it delivers a spike protein nanoparticle. In fact, they just started phase 3 trials: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/novavax-launches-piv...
One addition, you can sell on all stores at the same time.
Show HN: I made a starter kit for building SaaS applications
How do you conclude that from that PDF? It shows almost all of the states in the US in yellow (low mask usage). While almost all of Europe (except for the UK and Scandinavia) in blue (medium mask usage)

There's even a special call-out in the PDF about the US being such an outlier:

"US states and Canada
stand out for their low levels
of mask usage compared to
many countries in Asia
and South America. "
I mean, one can (and I will argue "should", though I appreciate many people will be angry about this) used macros to change the names to whatever they want... but this makes a lot more sense if libraries stick with full names and the contractions are house style.
The Oxford vaccine is not based on mRNA.
Totgesagte leben länger.
How do you know Wikileaks does all of these things? How do you audit wikileaks?
They are threatening to use their size and legal savvy to pressure a prosecutor to bring charges against him. At least that's how I interpret "mutually acceptable agreement with Neimod to discontinue hacking of Nintendo systems/products as opposed to pursuing a criminal referral".
The first letter of it is the character 'S'.
You're misunderstanding as you speculating. You've now shifted to "Googler has a special friendly-spying apparatus, enabled by its core technology", to "every company has the same apparatus, and low level line employees are treated the same as EVPs", which is absurd as everyone here knows.

And saying "hobo hunt" shows you obviously aren't engaging in serious conversation.
Basically like little vaccine telomeres?
Yes, what I mean is that - set aside the "glass" disc from Syylex - we don't know if both M-DISKs and archival grade DVDs suck or excel, let alone how long they actually last (readable) in the real world.

IF my last guess in comparison is correct, 100,000 hours at "normal" temperature/humidity is roughly 11 years, but it may well be that without "cooking" them at 90 C°, the duration is for both 200,000 hours (or whatever) ...

Single point anecdata, I had to dig i
Being German, I don't consider these countries part of Northern Europe. While the UN might put the UK there (but not Belgium), the way I got taught the terminology, the UK would belong to Nordwesteuropa as a sub-region of Westeuropa, whereas Nordeuropa consists of the Nordics (and maybe the Baltics).

Cf https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Grossgli...
I accidentally messed up the link while editing.
How to be hated at a University (2016)
Show HN: Realistic faces from emojis and their biases
If you want something more “hackable” (making changes on data, or use SSO), I recommend going with Abstra (https://abstra.app)
Yes. But you don't need "allowance" on Windows.
They are using a light fork with most patches improving font rendering/anti-aliasing
https://github.com/JetBrains/jdk8u
https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime
I reply only because I can’t downvote.

Satoshi is a common name in Japan. I work with a guy by that name and know several others. This says more about your own bias than it does about the title.
For now. My guess is that one of the reasons Valve has been working so hard on the Linux gaming front is the fear of this changing.
Send metrics to AWS Cloudwatch as custom Metrics.

aws cloudwatch put-metric-data
--metric-name registered_users
--namespace MySaaS
--value 241

Visualize/Filter/Add Alerts using all the builtin tools from Amazon Cloudwatch, you will need no servers and no configurations. Just run in a cron job a set of queries every 5minutes
The companies that killed Microsoft: Google and Apple, have more than replaced them.
Full disclosure, I made this tool
Wee see it time and time again, the new kid in town get older and slower because its own accumulated mass is slowing it down.

I'm too young, but I wonder if the thought of Microsoft not being the biggest forever in the 90s is equal to Google not being the biggest forever in 2020
Some addenda by the author himself: http://www.paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html
Boring? Come over to plan 9. We have cake, 9p and Doom. You are not alone in your disdain for what has happened to Linux. I even mentioned this the other day to a degree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570712

The big problem is simple interfaces require more effort on the users part which will never happen for a majority of users. And lets face it, people like me, you and most others here are the extreme minority in computing. We aren't afraid of $ vi /etc/config or echo killuser >/n/pcturret/ctl. But writing documentation is boring and "hard" so it never gets done. People start complaining about docs and someone comes up with the bright idea to automate vi /etc/config by replacing it with a poorly thought out contraption that needs binaries and bolted on protocols. That's exactly what dbus is and is best described as duck tape engineering.
Still a lot of countries which are not blue:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Abortion...

Which are also countries where overpopulation and destitution are most prevalent. Improving access to education, contraception, and abortion for women worldwide should be our #1 foreign aid objective. We should target this in place of food aid.
>Penrose ultimately showed that singularities are inevitable, with the implication that black holes are common in the universe.

I'm not familiar with the proof. Did he show that in the THEORY of general relativity, singularity has to exist given our observation of the universe? Or there are something more to it.

Would it be possible or plausible that singularity actually does not exist, but just that the theory of general relativity is not a correct description of space/time/matter in small scale? I am thinking in classical theory, when things were treated as point mass/charges, infinity exist in the solution of point sources.
"If you want to be happy, live two notches below your means" was a piece of advice I received at age 22 and have been doing my best to follow ever since. Applied mainly to vehicles (which can cost as much as 1/2 the value of a person's home where I live), electronic devices and things that are considered luxuries. I do not, however, apply this to basics: food, clothing and housing. This strategy requires you to turn a blind eye to what your peers spend on, though. That's not easy for most people.
Love this: Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s.
Docker for example (might have been fixed now)
> it's ….

Too. Damn. Big.
200-300 people is enough? Surprised it's that low even for a lone dev
Those are pieces of the puzzle, but boring slogans that don’t get people’s attention.

For example: https://www.mpd150.com/faq/
Paul Graham is dead too then.
Microsoft might not be the leader that it once was but they've done a very good job of reinventing themselves. It's a little unfair to call them dead.
Is there any country that defaulted and didn't suffer from hyperinflation? I can't think of any.

I've chosen to ignore the rest because everyone treats hyperinflation like a rare occurrence, under the circumstances.
Not everything. Some things, Windows Defender will erroneously and (somewhat) silently remove, causing inexplicable errors or crashes while hiding its actual errors in a notifications center. It gets really annoying sometimes after doing updates of actually desired software.
Well, it depends how do you measure positivizes. The babies that are going to be aborted, for sure don't see it as positive.
Docker works you just can’t virtualize x86 images
A long time ago a friend an I created a website to help people organize pool bets between them, for a sport event. We charged $1 / person in the pool. Made about $1,500 in total for the event.

- I paid about $400 in ads to Google: they have a much better business model than us ;)

- I competed against free offerings, and I still had clients, because I could afford ads, they could not.

- It was a very strange, happy feeling when the first customer paid us. They decided to give actual money to us, some complete strangers??? To a website that looked totally amateurish, with no design whatsoever? Felt weird.

- I would have made way more money by working at McDonalds for the same amount of time. But that was not the point.

- It did not make sense to continue after the event, not enough $$ to be made.

Overall a very, very positive experience. I helped with my programming skills, and gave me confidence that people would buy something that works, even if ugly and unknown people.
Great app and good idea! Are you planning to make any money from it? If yes, what will be your revenue model?
Dead talk lives longer?
Systemd doesn't feel more sane. To give a silly example: the other day I upgraded a Fedora box, and suddenly DNS wasn't resolving short names (foo, instead of foo.example.com). This is something that has worked Just Fine for 25 years, run an upgrade, and bam, it stops working. I wasted a lot of time figuring out that systemd was to blame in the first place, after all, why the hell would systemd be involved in resolving DNS? Well, apaprently systemd-resolved is now a thing. And as is the case with anything systemd related, configuration is a PITA.

Maybe I'm just getting old and change is starting to grate on me. But systemd does feel like everything-and-the-kitchen-sink.

As for SELinux, sure, you can turn it off. At which point it's useless. The pain begins when you actually want to use it and existing policies aren't enough. It is hugely complex. Tooling (like ausearch and audit2allow) is, erhm, not very good. Want to allow something non standard? Better be prepared to spend a couple of hours. Don't forget to turn your new policy into a module file. And then compile that into a pp file, which is another kind of module? And then don't forget to install that file. I remember administering Windows NT and 2K boxen and really hating how its policies worked, well, SELinux now makes me feel the same.

Both of these tools make a lot assumptions about how things should be done, and they're pushing these assumptions onto the user, whether or not they agree.

And hey, I get it, these are complex domains, and we should be very happy that people are giving us Free (both sense) Software in the first place. But boy, if I could pay €100 to have a sensible operating system, I would. Just not €100 per machine -_-
How are stadia games packaged and shipped? Would it be possible for anyone to build a linux box to match the stadia hardware/drivers, and thereby make them run a stadia game?

If that's the case, then perhaps that's the way to go for anyone who wants to build a Linux AAA-gaming box.
It may have “little to no value” for some, but to others, perhaps many, there is plenty of value. Why else would famous fashion designers and the entire fashion industry be worth so much?

It’s easy to overlook the value but from a basic and utilitarian perspective, the value begins with the quality of materials and the cuts of the fabric. This is not necessarily trivial and takes someone who is skilled with the trade to understand and pioneer. It’s equivalent to a highly skilled carpenter who makes high quality and special furniture. And eventually new techniques, cuts and fabrics will make it to the mainstream.

If this sounds far fetched, some high end fashion (read: ~$150-300 for a sweater) is all about the quality of fabric and the attention to detail in the fit. These items will usually feel better, fit better and last longer. You could think of it as the difference in quality and experience between a Mercedes-Benz and a Toyota. Sure MB probably has much higher markup, but the base cost represents much greater substance as well.

Then there is novelty and this doesn’t necessarily have much to do with the clothes you would wear daily. Fashion designers are artists and the runway shows are often about novel displays in colour, shape and fabric. That’s kind of like a show. People who buy these clothes are making a statement and the markup is very much a reflection of the scarcity of these items. Like a limited edition watch or a very very expensive charity dinner with someone famous.
I suppose they were probably to preoccupied with killing and imprisoning people of color
I am divided into this one. For one, most people are less afraid of Microsoft now than before, which makes his assertion true.

On the flipside, the demise of Slack as an independent company and the slowness of Google cloud-wise shows that Microsoft is not "dead" in his definition.
Driving transformation with the use of open source software/licensing
> It's a little unfair to call them dead.

At least start to read the article.

> They still make a lot of money—so does IBM, for that matter. But they're not dangerous

It's not "unfair" to not match your definition. The author is making the case about a particular definition of a predatory force in software, at large.

There's perhaps an argument that they are dangerous in a way we haven't yet seen, due to their involvement with the US military and the corruption inherent in that terrible choice.
Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
I took a look at [1], seems to require bringing your own training set, and hosting one with a huge set of random Internet images would presumably be prohibitively expensive.