skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great.
In or around 2010, when I finally shed the last shackles of MS, I switched from Winamp to Audacious (w/Winamp Classic interface plugin).

20 uninterrupted years of Bento Classified and whipping the llama's ass!
The true nature of all of this can be seen quite clearly in the fundamentally xenophobic, dishonest and hateful manner with which the Leave campaign comported itself, as well as the tidal wave of racist and intolerant behaviour which accompanied the Brexit vote and stains everything to do with it.

There are solid reasons why Brexit is the darling of the resurgent neofascist movement, and it should all be seen as part of the same picture.
This is a very good post and I agree with your comments.

The book for me was partly great because of its contents and partly because I worked through every problem and realized how much it taught me. I should do a more factual write up on why it’s a great book, I’ll try to when I get some time.
And they've reversed it....

“Small businesses who stepped up to fight COVID-19 should be applauded by their government, not taxed for doing so. I’m pleased to announce we have directed FDA to cease enforcement of these arbitrary, surprise user fees. Happy New Year, distilleries, and cheers to you for helping keep us safe!” an HHS spokesman said in a statement provided to The Hill.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/532271-fda-hits-...
Elon Musk Believes That We Will Pay in Cryptocurrency on Mars
No, you're misinterpreting it - they don't claim all of the restaurants are partners, just that they have the most comprehensive network of restaurant partners.

Edit: -4 downvotes so far for highlighting a person's bad logic - good start to the New Year for critical thinking on HN; I'll assume they're projecting their anger for the topic onto me, their emotion overriding their logic.
Good, keep the sub 7 nm process out of China's military hands, they have proven to be an arrogant and expansionist mindset and enslaving millions of Uighurs, organ harvesting, other crimes.
Hah, very good ;)
Theres been games that have ported over multiple platforms. Take for example Habbo Hotel. Started off with Shockwave, then before that EOL’d they rewrote it in Flash, and now they are working on a Unity web assembly based rewrite. I think the reality is FarmVille isn't as popular as it once was. I haven’t heard of anybody playing it in years. Funny how games got people to be far more active on Facebook but their usage died down significantly over time. With how addictive those games were for some its probably for the best.
At the moment, icecream is not suitable for this as it is super sensitive to network degradation, and I ran into few compilation stalls that way.
Lol you just described credit cards.
How many apps do you have? Have you had issues with other ones? Was this app under the same account? I'm sure heuristics are used to speed up the process where possible.

It's been awhile since I've written native iOS apps, but early on in the App Store days a developer could request an expedited review. We managed to get on this list and stay there for the entire life of the app. Even the dark days of long review times, our app never took more than 24 hours.
> But isn't this typical to R&D ? that only 1 of N projects gets used for commercial purposes ?

The OP forgot to mention that one of the goals in the Horizon2020 projects is to provide incentives to create pan-european collaborations involving industrial, academic, and institutional organizations.

In short, they are aimed to bridge the gap between academia and industry, and also create synergies between multiple organizations across Europe.

For example, some programs require applicants to partner with research institutions and industrial companies of significant and arbitrary size to be able to even submit a proposal.

Thus, it's disingenuous to evaluate the success of these programs in terms of commercial products being developed out of these programs. The political goals of developing collaborations between member-states is far more important than delivering a gadget or a trinket.

Similarly, we have the Erasmus program that enable higher-education students to spend a year in a school from a member state somewhere in Europe. It's disingenuous to assume the goal of the Erasmus program is solely academic.
Not the same thing. distcc is a wrapper to a compiler that can work with any build system. Just use CC=distcc.
What about archived copies in the assorted state a federal records? If these are not also deleted, the fact that your state record has been expunged does not mean it has also been removed from Homeland Security or the US Customs... or??
No fun to get you on a no-fly list or always get delayed at the border for a secondary inspection?
The complex geometry of Islamic design
Indian Govt proposes to buy bulk subscriptions of all scientific journals
I'm disappointed this isn't literally a tool to communicate with birds, or alternatively a programming language designed for birds. Looks lovely though.
Fits my 2020 experience. At the start of 2020 this described perfectly my view of Trump. At the start of 2021 it describes perfectly my view of everyone.
agreed, but is it worse than nothing? at the moment I can only “find” something on those platforms if someone sends me a direct link
Depending on exactly what you mean by "left-pad," this may be structurally impossible.
There are some pretty nice cluster cases out there. This one that fits 7 of the SOPINE compute module[1] using their clusterboard[2] is neat:
https://www.c4labs.com/product/presale-pine64-cluster-case-p...

[1] https://www.pine64.org/sopine/

[2] https://www.pine64.org/clusterboard/
Assume that most of us haven't read that book, or even if we have that we don't recall it perfectly. What specific information in it would lead us to agree with the blanket statement "this is just plain false"?
Who's going to setup a food pickup business in 2021 without being an online business? "please fax your order and card details"?

This bill does not require restaurants' permission if you're not an online business, that's true, but in practice that's not really any use to avoid having to get permission.
Space Cadet for Windows that we all miss would like to have a word....
It's more like having a switch statement inside of a loop.

The variable you switch on is the next state and the case you're in is the current state.
How Perfectionism Has Made the Pandemic Worse
I'm inferring from your brackets that you're referring to public figures.

If this is what you intended then I would suggest that they are more media than "ordinary life". If anything, I feel like they further highlight the accuracy of the effect.
Seem's like though we're still stuck in the Goddard age and most of the resources go towards pursuing such techniques (with a few private orgs that have the lions share of support with public funds that even go towards such ends) of getting into LEO as if there couldn't possibly be any other way worth pursing… how long will we be stuck optimizing Goddard paperclips above all else?

It's also quite funny considering that Goddard himself had to do a lot of work alone, fight public opinion and face the lack of support from the American government, military and academia, all failing to understand the value of the rocket to study the atmosphere and near space, and for military applications, over I'm sure other public-private endeavors that had the blessing at the time (perhaps all the atomic research that provided more strategic benefits?)
See also:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/!INDEX.shor...

http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/

https://web.archive.org/web/20170504015329/http://www.linuxl...

https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=links#floppy

http://www.toms.net/rb/

http://blueflops.sourceforge.net/

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/!INDEX.shor...

The Wikipedia entry for Floppy Based Linux Distributions is rather sparse, so this is the link to Light-weight Linux Distributions. It links to the Floppy-based Linux distributions‎ page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Light-weight_Linux_di...

Multiple edits for additions. While many of the projects no longer have a dedicated web page, the distros can generally still be obtained through the Internet Archive.
It would be a crime to have an article about the DX7 and not mention one of the most famous DX7-slingers: Jens Johansson

https://youtu.be/Ry_AP13ylVk?t=1147

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocpi_saZQak&t=1390

https://youtu.be/6CJHt37ya88?t=33

Also a fellow geek. Happy to see his old page still up and running: http://www.panix.com/~jens/sect-index-brief.par
I'm a young healthy dude and have a high-deductible healthcare plan, so I absolutely care about finding low prices for things (since I don't hit my deductible). I got strep throat in 2019 and had a hell of a time comparing prices for test + antibiotics between different clinics. I usually had to physically show up at the location before they'd give me a price. Prices varied between $20 and $250!!! Hopefully this will help.
Repeat-Accumulate error correction code
I generally think this is a very good step in the right direction. The only negative that I've heard voiced by some people (here on HN) was that the penalty for non-compliance is negligible (if I remember correctly, something like a few hundred dollars; I don't remember if a few hundred dollars in all, or per day, but for a hospital both are a rounding error).

Edit: The penalty is $300/day [1]

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2019/11/15/trump-administrati...
Fighter jets, bombers, few missile systems, air defence systems, subs, and surface military ships... the list would be long.
I built something like this for one of my sites and ended up deeply regretting it when my hosting for the month hit $100 (due to bandwidth/data fees).

I now pay $5 a month with nginx on Linode/Cloudflare. If you pay for this out of your own pocket and your site doesn't make any money, consider bandwidth/data costs first.
How is this anti-tech or anti-startup? This doesn’t have anything to do with tech at all. I would welcome talking about purely technical subjects, like distributed database innovation. There’s nothing technical about impersonating a restaurant?
Government policy results in redistribution of wealth. We argue about which direction.
No, that's a great example of what I'm saying. The vaccine is payed for by states - they had a 100% guaranteed worldwide market. Whether they invested their own money (like BioNTech) or were explicitly financed by a state (like Moderna and Pfizer), the money for that research will ultimately be payed almost entirely by the state.
Actually, Stubhub is a little complicated in that, for example, sports season tickets can have conditions attached to them. Stubhub has lost a couple of court cases around that.
I wonder if there's a sweet spot of price and speed (1-4gb ram units?) where such a device would actually be competitive on performance and price.
Wait until you see what you can use your metro card for in Taipei...
Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration
The law does not set any health standards on food delivery platforms.

Restaurants will have to sign up with each delivery platform, and/or delivery platforms will have to sign up each restaurant. Either way, the net effect will be to protect the extant food delivery platforms from new competition.
That stinks, given that their technology actually made crypto viable for everyday transactions.
Do you think it is just speculation presented as fact? Or do people really believe what they are saying?

Even within a company I am very sceptical of narrative. The root cause of something can be quite different to what is presented, which can be different to what people believe privately. We are all biased after all.
The mine owners were not at all pleased with this arrangement, as they were well aware that they ended up paying much more than the cost of building the engine. I believe this business model only lasted as long as Boulton and Watt could enforce their monopoly on engine construction through patents (principally on the separate condenser.)

As for the 21st century, you may have noticed an enthusiasm for burdening simple products with subscriptions.
Hell people who buy games literally say “I have no regret buying this sooner” I say it myself all the time!
> ... rather than enabling it for considerable periods of time.

The $3 million example from China was operational for over 2 years.

> The articles point out the value of the electricity stolen but not the gained profit.

Sure. Random internet source says average Chinese industrial electricity is $0.084/kWh. So that's approx. 36 million kWh total, or average 1.4 million kWh/month (1.4 GWh/mo) during their operation.

> E.g., what percentage of BTC was mined with stolen electricity based on the cases we've found so far?

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/ for Mar 2017 through May 2019 estimates global BTC energy consumption at 10 TWh/yr (830 GWh/mo) minimum to 73 TWh/yr (6,100 GWh/mo) maximum. Absolute lower bounds are 3.4 TWh/yr-60TWh/yr (280-5000 GWh/mo).

So, making some hand-wavy assumptions that they did not scale their operation over time, or reduce mining if prices fell, and that their ASICs were approximately as good as everyone else's, they were anywhere from 0.2%-0.5% (early 2017) to 0.02-0.03% (2018 peak) of global BTC energy consumption.

Per https://www.blockchain.com/charts/total-bitcoins the number of BTC in circulation rose from 16.193M to 17.728M (= ~1.535M) coins during that time. Just as rough bounds, 0.02% would be 307 coins and 0.5% would be 7675 coins.

https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin price in Mar 2017 was ~$1200 USD, peaking in 2018 at $19,000, and $8,700 in May 2019. I don't have a weighted average for that period, but I'd approximate the average price over the period as roughly $5k. So: our extreme low estimate of 307 coins, sold immediately on mining, yields revenue of $1.5 million (on $3mil stolen electricity). On the high end, $38 million in revenue. Probably they made something in between.

> If only a vanishingly small amount of BTC was mined with stolen electricity

That is just the one operation, which got caught. It doesn't include any other illegal operations which got caught, and it does not include illegal operations which have not been caught. 0.5% is small, but significant. 0.02% is maybe less so.

This estimate of percent-BTC-produced-with-unpaid-electricity doesn't include legal operations that went bankrupt and will not be able to pay what they owe to the local utility. (There was a lot of this after the 2018 boom-crash.)

> then the rest of the argument kind of falls apart.

I don't really agree. The incentives here are all terrible and will encourage more of this going forward, especially with BTC prices astronomical again.

(1) Burn as much electricity as possible. This is just bad for society and the world.

(2) Acquire electricity as cheaply as possible. In the absence of theft, this encourages consuming electricity in locales that do not price carbon production externalities into electricity costs. Obviously, theft makes electricity even less expensive.

(3) Maaaybe you can take your stolen profits and run, because BTC is pseudonymous and freshly mined coins aren't connected to real world identities. This encourages illegal operations.

Thanks for reading :-).
Gell-Mann would be more famous if anyone could remember his name... :P
The New Covid-19 Strain and the Need for Speed
That's a good concern, but I think we can happily ignore it.

The DOM represents the tree structure derived from the markup by the browser, so dealing with malformed markup wouldn't be the problem of this extension, it'd be the problem of the browser it's integrating in to.
No. States are simply clients, buyers of the end-product. Investors included VCs and states. But the Tech was built by the startups.
B2 spirit costs more than its weight in gold, clocking in at close to a billion
I'd like to see the costs/invoice from each doctor you see or service billed for in the Canadian system as well.
CD-i
These are some pretty cool examples, though a little too nitty gritty to communicate the practical importance of state machines. The truth is, state machines are so fundamental that programmers are not even aware that they are using them. Many, if not most, computer programs can be seen as state machines. In fact, programming can quite literally be seen as state machine creation and management. Programming languages are tools for creating complex state machines without having to manually wire them together.

For example, take the following factorial function in Python:

def factorial(n):
result = 1
while n > 1:
result *= n
n -= 1

return result

Here is a TLA+ spec for the same algorithm, along with the corresponding state diagram for calculating factorial(5): https://gist.github.com/amw-zero/c604f4dfd2d98e0d77fffe602c6.... This is a simple example, but the state diagram illustrates an important point that the while loop doesn't: the algorithm is completely linear, meaning it simply builds upon previous states. Even though there is branching in the code, there is no branching in the state diagram.

Of course, we're not so lucky and most state spaces are not linear. Here's the spec and diagram for a user interface that I was building a while back: https://gist.github.com/amw-zero/4dc16cbf8e578d9be9e68b0a85c.... There was a subtle state-based bug where a user had to perform a special sequence of events to experience it. The code seemed simple, but looking at the state diagram directly showed what the bug was immediately.

This was in a React app, and doing this exercise made me realize that React apps trivially translate to state machines as well. Whenever you call `setState` or the corresponding `setHookValue` function when using hooks, you are defining a state transition. The set of all state variables determines the full state space of the application, and bugs arise when we forget to consider that fact within some of our transition functions.

Long story short, you don't need to use a state machine design pattern such as Xstate to actually have a state machine. In fact, unless you are doing some very weird things, your application most likely already is a state machine under it all, but that's only because a state machine is a very simple, general concept that has tons of applications.
he’s not alive.
I kind of understand: I started reading in 2011 and didn't register until years later, mostly because I'd just click the links that looked interesting. Theres really no reason to register unless you feel like commenting IMO, which probably accounts for the apparent lack of upvotes.
So someone could publish a version of 1984 that had certain characters completely expunged from the text, and others added.
F that! Last night I wanted w bottle of alcohol for new years celebration. I already had a few drinks so I didn't want to drive. Unfortunately no delivery service had an agreement with any local liquor stores.

As long as a delivery service doesn't pose as the store itself, there should be no issues. The laws in this country are a out of control.
Somehow Android phones exist in China, and somehow most of them allow you to install arbitrary apps. Apple chooses to build a platform amenable to censorship.
Indeed. More on that here if your interested

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25466561
Not a successor but I found a seller that is still selling them:

aliexpress.com/item/33051763438.html
The incumbents spent a lot of investor money to get where they are today.

DoorDash, for example, started in San Francisco with something like 75 restaurants. That feels doable even with this bill. Today DoorDash is worth something like $15 billion. If you actually have a better idea and can execute, you will find investors.
We used it for several massive C++ apps ~2012 and yes it was much faster than our local machines, although our machines at the time weren't state of the art but also weren't bad either. We had a pretty amazing on-prem lab full of Blades that we used for distcc, so I'm sure that helped deliver the lightning.

One thing people always overlook though with distcc is that while you compile remote, you always link local. That was the bulk of our build time and wasn't the fault of distcc. Object files would come at lightning speed (compared to pure local build) but linking was still non-trivial.

These days I'd bet a modern AMD would beat distcc in our situation due to latency times.
Hello, I'm the one who has implemented channels for V, so I'll try to answer these questions:

1. "Heavy" is a vague term and I think that it is even used polemically here. Every channel implementation needs methods to avoid race conditions and I think Go uses what is needed for reliable operation, but not more (even when there is a "mutex" in their code it's not a real OS-mutex - Go's channel implementation is actually very efficient). V's implementation uses mostly atomics and sometimes spin-locks.

2. There are no "nil-channels" in V, but a channel can be closed. As in Go, just sending to a closed channel causes a panic - that's a design decision. The point is: not to panic requires some kind of error handling. In a language like C++ this can be done by throwing an exception (which has to be caught elsewhere). But neither Go nor V have exception (that is also a design decision). In V a failure due to a closed channel can be trapped using `or` (https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#syntax-an...) on the receiving side or by using `select` (https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#channel-s...) on the sending side or the receiving side.

3. Closing an already closed channel should not cause any panic.
My billing statements always include the insurance portion and the patient portion. Could be a Michigan law. The bills also include the billed price and the covered price (so the portion that they 'negotiate' is also on there).

It would be big news if the amounts they said they paid weren't actual payments.
This comment is something I have wondered:

> It's clear that the variant is more dominant (1.2x) in children aged 0-9 yrs and 0-19 yrs. There could be many reasons for this - including transmission dynamics - due to high levels of unmitigated transmission in schools during lockdown - which has favoured the variant.

In keeping schools open, I wonder if we have inadvertently nudged natural selection to reward a strain that spreads more effectively in children
I keep thinking about what you said, because I think I have accepted that out of the two, I would rather live under US regime the CCP's. More importantly, it is now clear that China follows US steps in ensuring a level of cultural hegemony enjoyed by US for some time. Although, they seem to apply it more deliberately. I am not convinced that is good for a world in general. That path they chose is the path Russian communists would have loved to have taken if they had the tools China now has ( and yes, we provided those tools ).

US, despite certain misgivings, seems to have been a net good for the world ( not completely unlike Roman empire ). I am not certain China is, but have yet to see how it all plays out. Now, there are circles in US, that absolutely love China and the power the government wields there ( something along the lines of 'if only we could have US and China-like control, we would be all set' mindset ).

In short, I agree with you, we, as a species, should have a really hard discussion over what comes next. In a lot of ways, this is a turning point. I am not sure, we are ready to have that discussion.