skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I think you're the ideal audience member. To become so engrossed in the movie that you notice no artifact is the goal of most moviemakers. (I've studied filmmaking for 30 years.)

The same director, Robert Zemeckis, made Cast Away. There's a scene where Tom Hanks has removed the tape from a videocassette and tied strips of it to a tree, as streamers, to tell him when the wind changes direction. The strips of tape are blowing in the wind, and slowly they start blowing over to the other side, to show that the wind has finally changed direction. (He needs to know this as part of his plan to sail away.) Anyway, the tape was all computer animation! I guess they couldn't get it to act how they wanted with real tape and some fans. So they painstakingly animated it, and I would have never known, had I not heard it on the behind-the-scenes commentary.
I don't know physics, but can't quantum phenomena be deterministic? Maybe we just haven't discovered the rules yet.
It sounds like there was a period of time where the donations just sat there before a system was developed to allow Thunderbird total control. It's somewhat understandable, at the time Thunderbird shared many resources with Firefox but if some of the donation money was used for Firefox they'd break the terms of the donations.
Constrained embedded systems cover a broad range of things up to and including your phone. There's few things I hate to see more than a flat profile from memory allocation or cache misses.

The good news is that flatbuffers[1] is a reasonable replacement for most of my use cases. In particular being able to mmap() them directly is a wonderful thing that you can't do with protobufs in addition to being very allocation sparse.

[1] https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/
It says on their site they are using Mechanical Turk:

> To do this, we take your question and use Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform to survey 50 random people.
Why didn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_AIR take off as successor to Flash? It is available for all platforms, runs ActionScript.
And/or the supply lines running from the mains to the houses (which you wouldn't be able to look at the pipes in the house and see).

But the contamination happening in the pipes, near the taps, would limit the usefulness of this sort of monitoring (you'd have to do it at each customer location).
It seems far more likely that you'd just install conduit correctly, and do cable routing in the attic.
Right. One scenario could be: escaped from the lab with a technician who visited the wet market on the way home from work, sparking the first identifiable cluster.
That was great, was this Dec 2018? I think he did Joe Rogan the next day.
Ignoring the bits about Java specifically, one thing that jumps out at me (while reading through the comments) is the distinction between use cases. It seems that the wire format puts some extra burden on the encoding side, but has the benefit of making decoding nice.

In a situation where you're using protobufs internally, you're both encoding and decoding the messages. CPU hours aren't fungible, but you're paying a small latency cost somewhere in your system between when the data is produced and when it can be consumed.

In the case of telemetry, such as with Datadog, you pretty much only encode the data. That is, if I'm a Datadog customer, I'm literally never decoding the encoded data on my own servers. That being the case, it would seem that the argument is that if encoding performance is a desirable property, protobufs add overhead that doesn't offer any meaningful tradeoff to the user ("you're using more CPU on my server and I don't see tangible benefits").

Is this an incorrect interpretation?
What exactly do you think https certs do?
ahem It’s “United Parcel Smashers”
I think this was for client/application instrumentation where they want to try to have little-to-no overhead for including the datadog agent that ships telemetry back to Datadog's service
A similar calculus was what lead me to get a private pilot’s license instead of a motorbike - general aviation fatalities are something like 90% pilot error but 60% of motorbike fatalities are NOT the fault of the rider.
Alternative title: "Famous older person talked into fronting cryptocurrency scam"
Oh wow. What edition is that?
Why are you getting off on Blockchains? In order to live legally I must document all income and pay substantial taxes. Then a disaster strikes and my government dares to claim it has no idea who so am or what is going on with my income. Maybe some tech like secure authorization, databases, blockchains, or other such might enable the government to operate in a competent manner? Sorry this idea offends you.
But the cost borne is very different. One the cost is death. The other the cost is hardship... how can you compare the two?
I think this is what we need: plugins that protect users. Allow users to vote against webpages that are too “sensational” or something.
True, but there is The Common Lisp Cookbook project to help with exactly such: http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/strings.html
Steve Jobs' first dream for Apple headquarters: Coyote Valley, San Jose (2011)
Imagine being a cop trying to do your best to treat honest citizens fairly and honestly, and show them that you are there to protect them, and need their help and cooperation to find criminals.

Then another cop goes into your neighborhood best, and starts threatening, intimidating, and even assaulting and falsely arresting honest citizens for filming, spectating, not producing ID, or just looking like a suspect they are after.

How easy is your job now? Those residents know who the drug dealers and actual criminals are.

Your perspective is like saying the US didn’t need Vietnamese villagers help to fight the NVA. I guess we must have won there didn’t we?

Lastly Dirty Harry, they aren’t criminals rights, they are our rights.
This is the argument made against all software stack advancements. Nothing to do with industry. But when the benefits outweigh the the hurdles, change happens. And if I was starting a new insurance company (which I've considered) I'd be doing our work in code not xls, and probably python. Having RCS, Numpy, unlimited compute, unlimited storage, all gives me an advantage over my competition. :-)

As to the memoization, that is not hard to manage in Python.
What would San Jose be like with an Apple HQ in its downtown? Or what would Coyote Valley be like if it was turned into an office park like the Edenvale Technology Park?
Thanks, I'll need to check some more because the Chrome performance tab is saying 95% idle when nothing is being selected as expected for me.

Either way, I'd be keen to add a battery saver mode because it's not the kind of game I'd want to devour battery on a mobile.
I mostly agree with what you're saying but still, the entire "success story" of AdS/CFT is based on other assumptions about quantum gravity none of which has been tested experimentally. Even black hole entropy itself is, up until now, a purely theoretical construct.

> String theory […] is nonetheless a mathematically consistent theory

I hear this claim being perpetuated a lot but I have yet to see a string theorist give a mathematically rigorous introductory lecture on string theory. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there are no mathematically precise results in the realm of string theory but I know enough about functional analysis and the issues surrounding the mathematical underpinnings of quantum field theory (or even quantum mechanics) that I'm not buying your claim and my current view is that some parts of string theory are very rigorous, whereas (most) others are not. (AdS/CFT is one such part which belongs to the latter category.) I'd love to be proven wrong, though, so please feel free to send me papers etc.
FYI your comments are showing as dead by default, time for a new account.
Is he ranting that Adobe Animate doesn't exist? Because it does and seamlessly exports HTML.

I'm pretty sure if they aren't already you could get a bundler configuration for webpack that would build a single file data uris and all.
It's not consistent. It only seems to trigger after a few site visits. (So I don't see it if using a private mode browser, Safari, or temporary containers in Firefox.) Obnoxiously, if you're configured to visit in a fresh browser/container, you have to click away the dickbars on every visit. (And they use similar html obfuscation as facebook, so the dickbar element can't be blocked with uBlock.)
Indeed. A drunk driver alone on the road isn't really a danger to anyone but himself.
I hope by 2100 that technology will exist using ML or similar to upcode digital video.
Pfft, please. The staff cuts are among the least offensive things done under the Mozilla name. Much more value was created earlier by unpaid volunteers who were rewarded by having their project hijacked by a Valley-inspired corporate mania concerned with breaking into the mobile market (with a strategy that would be generous to even refer to it as DOA). The size of staff at the time of the cuts is something that only came about because of the absurd growth of the corporation that has became the new face of Mozilla over the last 10 years. Mozilla is an incompetent, bloated organization in need of further cuts still. So it's hard to seriously consider the cuts to be either unfortunate or tragic, particularly given the obnoxious tendency of those on staff to "other" non-MoCo employees whose contributions and involvement predated the layer of corporate sleaze that has come to be emblematic of the modern day Mozilla. Should we feel sorry? The fact that we're even talking in terms of cuts and layoffs means that those affected at least got paid at some point for their role in Mozilla's descent.

The only bad thing about the layoffs is that Mozilla leadership was shitty enough to do it during the middle of a pandemic. At this point though, keep it coming. It's been a bittersweet experience watching the tide turn against Mozilla over the last year, as the popular perception of it has only just now begun to align with how unworthy of an organization it has been for years already.
Does it get hot while connected to the 4k monitor? I have MacBook Pro 16 from work and sometimes it feels like it's doing too much work while connect to the other monitor
SARS-CoV-2 itself is not a recombinant of any sarbecoviruses detected to date, and its receptor-binding motif, important for specificity to human ACE2 receptors, appears to be an ancestral trait shared with bat viruses and not one acquired recently via recombination.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0771-4
Here's a minimal Python protobuf parser that can extract basic information in about 50 LOC.

https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/blob/master/guberna...
Many have moved on to html5.
I'm inclined to agree with you based on my political views, but in this case.... Chinese were pretty reserved about outsiders meddling in their internal affairs already before Covid, so this isn't necessarily indicative.
Honestly, because most "mind maps" convey a loosely connected set of ideas that provide information only to the author. This is not a collaborative tool.

Whiteboarding, there's a dozen existing apps, but none are like IPO worthy IMO. If you think there's something missing, I'm not sure you need a visa to pursue it (unless I suppose if you are already living somewhere on a work visa and need to continue that work).
> Why do they not consider the simple alternative, that a location that specialises in gain-of-function research of coronaviruses has the highest concentration of people who are able to DETECT novel coronaviruses with a much higher likelihood? If the virus originated in a city that has no lab specializing in these viruses, how would they ever have distinguished it from pneumonia?

SARS has a distinct clinical pathology different form ordinary pneumonia. Physician Ai Fen was the first to identify pneumonia cases in Wuhan as SARS, based on her clinical experience. This was then publicized by colleague Li Wenliang. Only later was the virus identified as distinct from previous SARS viruses by virologists.
> The development environment is not user friendly, the syntax confusing, there’s no support for unit testing – I could go on.

The vba ide is pretty good imo. Lack of unit test frameworks is valid but doesn't stop you from rolling your own.
In my opinion, focusing on replacing the technology with languages rather than tools was the issue.

I wonder if something like figma/webflow, that allowed the WYSIWYG nature of flash, combined with an <embed> or web assembly output would be a solution?
Looking at total air travel is meaningless because a huge amount is for business - I use holiday travel as an example because it is the most discretionary.

My point is that air travel (along with vehicular) was highest during this thanksgiving despite Covid being the worse during this thanksgiving and people having a good understanding of the risk. This is also shown in your link.

If people are traveling at such numbers (again thanksgiving was highest at any point between now and last March) given what we know now, there’s no way they would follow a lockdown when the effect is unknown like a hypothetical lockdown being done last February.

There’s just no evidence that Americans would’ve obeyed a lockdown at the levels necessary to stop spread.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/11/27/flights-tsa...
Where is evidence of nationally stunted creativity except dogwhistle talking points? There's no shortage of top tier Chinese designers across many fields where subjects tend to be more apolitical. In technical disciplines China is either climbing or on top of innovation / research / patent indexes normalized for quality i.e. not junk. The only thing China is stunted in is team sports. Which is perplexing, I guess too individualist.

>That requires creativity, which is dependent on free speech.

Citation needed. There's more to "entertainment" than mass media subject to rigorous censorship. Chinese entertainment is great if you don't care about politics. Great soviet artists existed under USSR. Chinese cinema tackled politics under CCP pre 90s when political discussion was less restricted. Censorship redirects where creativity goes, Chinese market likes their entertainment fine.

>original and innovative

Those aren't important priorities for military acquisition. Copy what works if it fits needs, innovate where it doesn't. China innovates on rocket force to sink US carriers, hence ahead in hypersonics. It matters because before nuclear war is conventional war. Conventional capability require to solve border disputes, become regional hegemon of a bunch of middle powers without nukes. And at minimum they need conventional capabilities to retake Taiwan.

> actual reforms

CCDI investigated/punished over 1M+ party officials, even Xi doesn't have that many enemies. But of course there was element of power consolidation, and completely justified in retrospect now that CIA confirmed (just this month) how far they've infiltrated CCP under Hu. This was suspected at time of CIA China debacle, but recent confirmation solidified that Xi was the right choice. As for actual reforms, PLAN building more tonnage in new ships per year than entire region combined. Western thinktanks analyze Chinese military modernization to death.
> Yesterday, my cofounder wrote a controversial post on this blog

But to bootstrap your project some controversial posts help right :P?
China has never banned wet markets. A wet market is just a place that sells fresh meat or vegetables. The butcher who supplies your favorite restaurant is a wet market. The fruit & veg stand where you buy organic heirloom tomatoes is a wet market. Every farmer's market is a wet market.

"Wet market" just distinguishes from "dry market" where durable goods like electronics are sold.

China never banned wet markets, which makes about as much sense as saying someone has "banned supermarkets". They banned the sale of certain items at wet markets.

(I live in Asia and shop at a wet market multiple times a week.)
"By April 1, as the compensation for drivers fully phases in, fares could increase by 50% compared to today’s prices,"
Is the water vegan?
No need for anything so corny. Just need some standardized signaling. We already have it for brake lights and turn indicators.
> I genuinely have no idea what point you are trying to make.

The point, as already stated, is that people who were official mouthpieces for Mozilla said for years that the default search engine simply wasn't up for sale to just whomever would pay for it. That it pointed to Google because Google's search engine was the best search engine for Firefox's users. Just like Google was the default search engine before Mozilla ever signed a deal. Just like Wikipedia was added to the searchbar without anyone paying to make it happen. That any royalties were icing on the cake. (See "serendipitous" in the previous comment). What's hard to understand about this or the earlier comment?
My first job was cleaning up the mess that was caused by hard coded yahoo finance urls in spreadsheets. One of them died, no one noticed and it cost the company millions of dollars in bad trades over three months.
IOW, the "leader" lets the top "coder" do all the work, including writing RFCs, tech specs, design and coding but takes all the credit.

This is an accurate description of leadership or architecture as it is practiced in this industry.

I've only seen leaders who are intellectual vampires.
Its high time for people to see that many extroverts have extreme social and separation anxiety problems, that many extroverts and the rest of society projects onto everyone else exclusively.

This is part of mental health awareness.
If your definition of success is popularity, I think it’s also possibly why HN isn’t more successful.

Emotional content draws people in and keeps them there.

Obviously the kind of people drawn in by that aren’t the desired audience of HN, especially as it doesn’t rely on ad revenue
I read the whole post, and had to do a mid-post brain state reshuffle to get out of my assumed “pump in the field” context to his ”snooping on users” context.

This for me, is because I’m playing with an ESP32 based project which uses protobufs, and I clocked into it from that mind set.

The intended use of “telemetry” was not obvious for me, until some way until reading the piece. Even the first mention of Datadog didn’t raise any suspicions to me, it was the use of Java that first had me wondering, then down around the 6th para the lightbulb went off when he said “a diagnostic agent which tells you what your application is doing” that I stopped and re oriented my brain.
People don't understand that even if the vaccine is effective, the pandemic will continue.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/health/us-coronavirus-thursda...
I love python. In investment banking I can see a usage for recurring analyses of fundraising or grabbing data from the SEC. it would be next to impossible for analyses by client.
In China too. With the foreign ministry spokespersons repeatedly making US bioweapon suggestions, believing otherwise is more political than just following the rest of weibo.

The media is more than happy to report on early detections out of China, and let suggestions that the vape lung (now linked to vit. E cutting agent) is COVID run free.

We left the realm of rationality long ago, when the government did a tribalism on behalf of all of us.

(Nationalism is a hell of a drug. The govt still funds crackpots to argue against Chinese people originating in africa, to call greco-roman and egyptian history faked, and don't even get me started on their insistence on 5k years.)
I wonder what the problem is with standarizing companywide around python@3.x, numpy@1.1x and pandas@1.x. At this point these can all be considered mature and why on earth would an org, which is not developing these packages, nor heavily consuming outside code (because they didn't with excel either in a sensible way?) decide to jump on the "but we need rrrrrollling release"-fad bandwagon?
Because it's the default
They don't sell? Eh? Says who? The article offers no backup for this claim. It's just plain wrong.

Have we already forgotten how when HumbleBundle first launched, Linux accounted for 20% of its sales? (then worth only a 1% "marketshare"). The other 20% being mac (4% marketshare) and 60% windows.
Caveat Emptor.

1. This isn't the product of researchers. It's the product of an algorithm that also happens to be a product that is being advertised.

From the "About Rootclaim" page:

"Proven probabilistic inference models – The model breaks down highly complex issues into small questions that are each answerable by humans, and then uses these answers to reach mathematically indisputable conclusions.

Openly crowdsourced evidence and claims – Anyone can impact an analysis by contributing evidence, rational explanations, past examples and statistics. Unlike polling or voting, a strong claim by one person can beat many widely supported weaker claims."

2. Reputable researchers publish before going to the media. Would this analysis pass peer review?

3. The company is a startup, and is looking for press.

4. Like many conspiracy theories, this claim is not easily falsifiable. No matter how transparent the Wuhan Institute of Virology tries to be, as an institution associated with the Chinese government, accusations of a coverup will be nearly impossible to conclusively refute. International trust in anything related to the Chinese government is currently very low.
This should be a great opportunity to test whether at this point we're all so conditioned to rely on these services, will we be willing to pay more? If the answer is yes this suggests that these services can start raising prices and start taking home more profit across the board
It's been a couple years since I've used it, and I didn't feel it was a comparable alternative. It's decent for about 80% of spreadsheet users, but the keyboard shortcuts were lacking and it was missing some functions that I rely on.

For keyboard shortcuts, most Excel power users don't use the mouse, so while it sound trivial, it's really hard to feel productive when you have to hunt around for the right button to click.

From an enterprise perspective, Excel is so entrenched it would be a 5-10 year effort to port existing spreadsheets to sheets. Practically speaking, most companies wouldn't see the benefit.
Byford Dolphin Exposive Decompression Accident
It’s at least a pretty common take. I think it’s the idea that we all get so many years. A 25-year-old and an 85-year-old both getting terminal cancers tends to be looked at very differently. Maybe by them, too.

Or look at it in a probabilistic sense. I think the actuarial table puts an 85-year-old at having about 5 years left on average. For a 25-year-old it’s more like 55. So a loss of one causes a loss of much more human life.
Confirmation bias combined with the fact that unhappy people are more likely to leave “reviews”[a] (like here). I’ve never had an issue with Amazon that they haven’t resolved, and it may seem like I’m a minority, but Amazon is the size they are today because, for ever 1 fsck-up, there’s 99 others who didn’t have problems.[b]

[a]: Complaints. Reviews. Etc.

[b]: Not excusing their bad behavior. Just stating the reality.
The big challenge here is when is someone "Working" and when are they idle. A big part of gig economy profits revolves around not paying drivers for idle time between gigs.

The flip side of this is a lot of drivers want flexibility in hours. It's a tricky problem because the gig companies don't set driver hours. As these laws take effect, it's likely flexibility in shifts will decrease.
https://0x.co/TRKFVR
Superconductor-based technology, obviously
never even think about how their services will inevitably be used against others.

Or they know how it will be abused and want to charge for filtering the abusers.

That's the yelp way.