skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>50% of the time, the white player wins... we'll ignore... any first-move advantage for the example

Really hard to parse the meaning. ¿White wins 50% of the time if we ignore that occasions where white wins because it has the first move? But white always has the first move.
Can we not pretend that electric cars don't pollute the planet?

To be clear, I am a big fan of electric cars. But this seems to have become another one of those things that has become so polarised you're not even allowed to express healthy skepticism.
CourtBell : Looking for Non-Technical Co-founder

I'm David and I'm the technical founder of CourtBell which has a couple products. One that I'm rolling out now is a national text message reminder for court hearings (HearingReminder.com). The other, much bigger product, is a specialized tool for BI for courts.

I've done the technical work on this and I'm looking for someone to handle marketing and sales. My email is in my profile. Looking forward to talking to you!
I wrote that text, hehe. I'm not aware of any effort to fix that. It's already reasonably non-flickery thanks to other fixes, since that paragraph was written.
I added an extension to chrome that automatically adds this but unfortunately it seems to break Maps search.
Correct me, but pydroid looks like it is a native python interpreter very much like what termux has to offer.

They write in the description:

- Full-featured Terminal Emulator, with a readline support (available in pip).

- Built-in C, C++ and even Fortran compiler designed specially for Pydroid 3. It lets Pydroid 3 build any library from pip, even if it is using native code. You can also build & install dependencies from a command line.

So when SElinux comes to Android this app will be broken, too.
>It's as though the pro-lockdown side can't accept that sometimes tragedy happens and we're relatively powerless to stop it

There are multiple countries (in both northern and southern hemisphere, islands and mainlands) that have eliminated community transmission of covid. It is wrong to say we are powerless to stop it. It is indisputable that if you and your family stay home, you will not get COVID. Likewise, common sense dictates that more people will stay home if required to do so by their government.

You are trying to make the argument, absent data, that the economic and social/emotional impacts of 'stay at home' orders are worse than the economic and social/emotional impacts of uncontrolled viral infection and death.
> I'm not sure that Fish is the answer there

Well, there was no question so I’m not sure what fish is or is not the answer to.

Anyway, you cannot deny America’s obsession with Scandinavia culture, economy, and society.
I have used justpay a lot of times on mobile and I have never had the problems which the parent comment is describing.
People claim to care about climate change and the environment but moves like this only further harm the environment and cause more suffering. Instead of this drastic change, a better first step would be to force automakers to sell / provide conversion kits for any vehicle made in the last 15 years. Getting as much life out of vehicles that are still road worthy is a better option instead of pushing more waste.

In terms of the needed power, Massachusetts can't even maintain the infrastructure they already have. How is the state going to make the required upgrades to support this move? The state's only nuclear power plant was decommissioned last year and there are no plans for new ones. Solar is not really a large scale option given the latitude, lack of sunny days and the need to clear / destroy more woodlands. Wind is an option but the scale needed would make the landscape become the eyesore that Vermont / New Hampshire has become.
It seems like this should be a standard monthly post on the first of the month just like Who's Hiring & Who Wants to Be Hired.
> just exempt from taxes

That's a form of subsidy.

> Subsidies come in various forms including: direct (cash grants, interest-free loans) and indirect (tax breaks, insurance, low-interest loans, accelerated depreciation, rent rebates).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidy
According to Consumer Reports, electric cars are now cheaper on a Total Cost of Ownership basis than gas cars.

Your mileage may vary depending on what you select as a comparable and some of your assumptions, but you save a lot of money on fuel and maintenance and need to factor that in. The resale value of your vehicle is also a huge factor.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/owning-an-electric-car-...
What do you mean? You mean the used-car market? Why would that matter?
> COVID vaccines aren’t indefinitely effective

Citation?
I'm actually curious about why it makes sense to load test an entire web UI (which is what this post seems to be suggesting).

In my experience, it was enough to load test individual back end APIs to figure out load profile for each API and use that to scale your h/w and serving HTML is rarely a bottleneck. This is complicated if you have a big monolith with a diverse traffic pattern - so knowing your auth API can support up to 1k QPS on your existing h/w is not super helpful for example. There are ways to work around this, but kind of complicated to enumerate all the scenarios in a comment.

This still needs some sort of state building, but this should be a lot easier than setting up state using a UI / clicking buttons.
This cost me 20 minutes + lots of confusion when teaching a Git course to newbies some weeks ago. I switched to GitLab for the next group.
In Norway it’s dark and cold as shit half the year and no flat parts of the towns;

Perhaps in Tromsø. Oslo certainly doesn't fit that description.
A corporation criminally hacked a rival for profit and got away with a small fine.

A person doing the exact same thing would be heading to prison.

Seems like the same crime has a very different outcome when a corporation commits it.
Currently my most commonly used tool in Termux is youtube-dl from pip. Please point to how you can install it via these other Java based shells or language REPLs. Termux provides a lot more functionality than an interpreter.
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Depends on your level of {experience, intended engagement, patience for pedantics, intended outcomes}.

I've found that 3Blue1Brown (youtube) gives a great starting point for many topics. Provided you actively participate in them, the videos will build up some intuition so you know what questions to ask (and why they're worth asking).

The author usually links to followup resources so you know where to go next. I've found his resources a bit hit-or-miss, but they give me enough to know if I want to continue exploring. If I do, I usually check out a good textbook (I refer to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617825 often).
And a fourth time on a per-article basis if you, as an individual, non-academic taxpayer, would like you read the very research your taxes have funded.
>In the US roads are mostly maintained by taxes on gas. I would think taxing tires might be a decent replacement, but I haven't seen much conversation on the issue.

Most of the conversation seems to be around taxing mileage or putting up toll roads which IMO are both crap solutions.

Taxing mileage is, is highly regressive because less wealthy people drive tons more (they live farther out from the economic centers and more frequently justify driving farther to access goods more cheaply). However, less wealthy people do not shape public policy in the kinds of states that tend to be willing to try these things out so we'll likely wind up with mileage taxes that result in people in the expensive cities and inner ring suburbs paying the least and they will be able to justify it by pointing out that the less wealthy who live in city apartments and use public transit (which is generally how the more wealthy want the less wealthy to live) pay even less.

Taxing tires is a great idea because it's a naturally progressive tax though still loosely tied to overall use. The poors on their rock hard economy all seasons will pay less than the wealthy on their super sticky and soft summers and winters. Also tire cost scales well with weight of vehicle and the heaviest vehicles do the most damage to roads. That said, I can see a lot of bad 2nd order effects (that fuel tax is mostly immune to) if we start taxing tires so I am highly apprehensive. It would be a great time to own an alignment shop though.

IMO the best solution is to just accept that good transit infrastructure is in everyone's interest and fund roads directly with general tax revenue the same way we fund subways, municipal water/sewer, parks and almost every other piece of infrastructure. The net good of the marginal cost of use being so low that pretty much anyone can use as much as they want with no cost other than opportunity cost has immense benefits to society.
> That extra data is used in a linear scan, but is mostly wasted when doing random access

You are shifting goalposts. What the parent poster said is that a linear scan will read more memory than a binary search, therefore it will cause more churn in the cache (assuming same cache policies, which I don't know is a safe assumption), therefore linear scan may actually be less cache friendly - given that you're not interested in the data in any other way besides for the scan - by way of putting other parts of the program whose data was pushed out of the cache at a disadvantage.

Implied was also that linear scan might actually result in a slower program, even if the scan itself might be faster than a binary search.

What you replied is "The CPU will load less cache data with linear searches", which I assume to be false, although I will be happy to learn that it's actually the case (for example because the CPU has a clever cache eviction policy, executing linear scans by streaming in memory into a small part of the cache instead of thrashing the whole cache).

Let's say we have an array of 200 4-byte ints. Let's do a linear array scan and on average will touch 100 of them (or about 7 cache lines). Now let's say we have each integer in its own linked node in a BST in a totally random memory location. We can expect to need about 7 steps as well (2^8 = 256 > 200), which is 7 cache lines. So about 200 is already a lower bound where BST is more efficient in terms of visited cache lines, even for a pessimistic inefficient data structure like this 4-byte integer example.
First there is plenty of evidence on the marriage thing with the most well documented being marriage subsidies and propaganda, the Wikipedia link was for context and the quote. Anyway, a 60% drop in births isn’t part of a wider national trend, this is extremely targeted.
Out of curiosity, are these friends running Android or iOS devices?
Signal puts your safety first because of the organization behind it.

Telegram will continue to expose its most sensitive users over novel features while they try to capitalize on use of the Signal protocol. The profit motivation predicted this.

Don't trust Telegram.
Pretty cool!

What are the tradeoffs of running virtualized x86 in the browser via WASM relative to a traditional VM (e.g. Virtual Box) or VM-like container runtime like Firecracker [0]? I would expect to get improved portability (it's a webpage) at the cost of some performance and security.

The ShowHN link is for the REPL demo, the actual homepage for the CheerpX x86 to WASM virtualizer is here [1]

Minor bug: when you load a new REPL, the loading log fills the screen and continues below the fold without auto-scolling to keep up with new output. You have to manually scroll past a list of all the component modules to see the new REPL.

[0] https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

[1] https://leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpx.html
> I also had this habit of moving my cursor keys up/down/left/right in rapid/slow movements while I was thinking deeply on a problem.

the human HDD activity light
What? It's illegal under the DMCA to do the shit that Pinterest/9gag/ifunny/etc. does, it's just that no one has the legal recource (i.e. lots of money) to do anything about it, save the massive rent-seeking entities like the RIAA. All the uploads of music albums by random users still exist on YouTube, but any ad revenue goes straight to the copyright holders.
> IC cars are heavily taxed. A Tesla in Norway costs slightly more than in the US

This is a form of subsidy (namely a tax break). Tesla also benefits from subsidies in the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidy
You just need to modify the rule a little bit.

"If you transact with these blacklisted wallets, your wallet also automatically becomes blacklisted, and if we find you then you go to jail. As an exception - if you receive any amount of BTC from a blacklisted walled, you have 7 days to send the same amount (or greater) to [this government wallet] and that will erase all your legal liability and make your wallet whitelisted again. We can even automate the process for you if you trust us enough to give us your wallet keys. Alternatively, register email/phone numbers with us and we'll notify you when your wallet is blacklisted, and tell you how much BTC you should pay us"
On what basis do you say that? Stocks could potentially involve you losing everything, and the "reward" of cutting the number of necessary doses in half is that we could potentially reach herd immunity much faster.

Bear in mind that the expectation is only about 1.9 billion doses total will be produced in 2021 - so we are talking about the difference between maybe 1/3 or 1/2 of the first world being immunized, and hitting herd immunity this year.

I'm not saying we should, the FDA is probably correct that we should follow the dosing schedule we know works rather than throwing away a whole year of vaccination efforts, but it's obviously desirable.

(it's unfair but I'm sure that most of the doses are going to end up in the US, Europe, and other western-aligned countries first, then China and Southeast Asia, and the developing world is going to get the shit end of the stick, the developed world is going to hit herd immunity long before let's say India or Africa.)
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While I agree the current situation does hinder some general purpose computing use cases on Android, it is still possible to run any code you want. If they can develop easier methods for developers to design around the restrictions then that might be a fine solution.

> I think the way "Developer Mode" on Android is implemented is pretty good.

Assuming you meant Chrome OS here, I disagree. Developer mode sucks because it forces you to forego almost all system security and it makes it trivial to compromise your data. There needs to be a middle ground, not just dev mode.

In my opinion there's a similar situation happening with SIP on Mac OS -- it's too drastic to disable, but there's in many cases not enough control to leave it enabled.

Nobody should need to enable dev mode or disable SIP just to run their favorite apps.
I worked out that based on energy prices and my 12,000 miles per year, I would save about £500-700 per year in fuel in an average EV. Important to remember the 14k difference is based on entry level range and there’s still the issues that charging presents
At least one actual human has plead guilty: "The charges against Ticketmaster come 26 months after Zeeshan Zaidi, the former head of Ticketmaster’s artist services division, pled guilty in a related case to conspiring to hack the rival company and engage in wired [sic] fraud."

He appears to be awaiting sentencing.
Honestly, I think it's a deflection from calling it the UK variant. Calling it the Chinese virus or the South African virus can be perceived as having racist overtones and could also imply that the disease was caused by being simply being Chinese or South African. This could offend someone of said origin, offend someone on behalf of people of those origins, or not offend someone at all. Your next question is probably, "Why was it okay to call the 1918 pandemic the Spanish Flu?" I imagine that in the present day, it wouldn't be okay. We now live in the age of social media, where the opinions and feelings of a small vociferous population can be misconstrued as those of the majority. A no-win scenario then ensues i.e. a culture war. Those who are offended will undoubtedly express their opinions and attempt to publicly shame those who insist on using the name. Those who believe their free speech is threatened or simply wish to agitate the opposition will spitefully continue to use the disputed name. These arguments distract from the real problem at hand: a pandemic.
> When Google used to show organic results front and center and made advertising conspicuous, this was reasonable. Now that there is a pile of undifferentiated advertising on top of organic results, it's borderline fraud.

One of the things I would like the antitrust investigations to dig into is Google's decision to make ads look more like search results, after a long-held principled stance of clear differentiation between the two.

IIRC, Google never did comment publicly on that particular design change.

I'm sure any internal discussions on the topic will be fascinating reading.
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Consider buying VOLKSWAGEN group stock instead of TESLA stock... There are electric volkswagens everywhere, and their lineup of electric cars is amazing.

Just saw the new ID4, its a super cool car: https://www.volkswagen.nl/modellen/id4

It looks way better in real life than on the site.
With Tesla... These tesla model 3s are everywhere in the Netherlands, and they are a bit minimal in design and expensive.. A bit boring to be honest. But thats good, electrify the world!
Everything Coming in 2021 (Known So Far) – Microsoft Flight Simulator
Is it Possible to use this to put some Linux binary on a website? Is there a source/tutorial?
Seemed like he was doing that before he ‘dissapeared’, no?

Also what does Ma have a monopoly on?

Just because a company is big and successful doesn’t mean it has a monopoly.
What terribly worded and confusing as fuck title.

In case anyone was wondering, who, specifically went out of business:

> Court documents didn’t identify the rival company, but Variety reported it was Songkick, which in 2017 filed a lawsuit accusing Ticketmaster of hacking its database. A few months later, Songkick went out of business.
How to marry a delightful UI language with a delightful smart contract platform
This seems similar to Prototype Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_theory) in Linguistics / Cog Sci — if you ask a person to name a profession, for instance, there are a small number of "prototype examples" that people tend to pick (Teacher, Doctor, Lawyer). For the example of the New York City question, "Information booth" at Grand Central is a prototype "meeting point in NYC" (I would imagine that the observation deck of the Empire State Building is as well). And "noon" is a prototype example of a time to meet.
Arbitrum seems to be based on optimistic rollups. See the Optimistic rollups vs ZK rollups section in Vitalik's write-up.
Good luck hiding an effective backdoor in an FPGA. The attacker (the FPGA fab) has no idea of how it's going to be programmed.
Using JavaScript to Implement the Same Stateful Program in Both OOP and FP
Unless someone is specifically bragging about it in a "how hasn't anyone else done it", I always see these as a coding exercise.

I watched a video of a "cabin anyone can afford and build" recently. It's 120 sq ft. He isn't saying "Why isn't everyone building their house for $2000?". It's a project to show that things people consider too complex can actually be achievable from the ground-ish up.
Whoo-hoo! Set up a free wi-fi node outside of a tech conference (perhaps with cheap pastries for conference goers), routed through a proxy in Iran. Don't need to decode https or anything - assuming you can proxy https through Iran.

Then watch as bunches of companies are blocked from GitHub.

If the Iranian government wanted to have fun with US laws, they could totally set this up. And it wouldn't even be illegal.
Which advantages does Advanced Protection give you in particular so that you have enabled it? It seems that things like hardware 2fA should work without it as well? Genuinely curious.
> with everyone [..]

Hmm, "everyone"?

Q: What proportion of Bitcoin holders are actually using as an approximate alternative to fiat currency (regularly purchasing real life stuff using Bitcoin) vs holding and hoping to get rich?
The headline doesn't seem misleading. I would also argue that the government giving out incentives for electric cars makes Norway "some kind of progressive utopia" as it is a republic and I assume it is in someway what the people want.
How is protesting particular laws wrong? What else can people do? The problem is they seem to protest enforcement of a law rather than the law itself.
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Researchers make their own enzyme pathway to get CO₂ out of the air
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How are all those people who walk around the city going to get there? Norwegians live in quite scattered communities and even though we have better public transport that some other countries it really isn't convenient to time your visit to the nearest town and shopping centre to coincide with the bus timetable. For me a trip to the centre of the nearest town (Drammen, Norway) means a forty minute bus ride and the buses run once per hour, not too bad if all I want to do is go to a café or buy a small bag of shopping. If I need to visit one of the shopping centres nearer the edge of town it will take and hour and twenty minutes and two buses. Now imagine doing that with children as well while it is raining during the twenty minutes that you have to wait for the second bus.

I'm not arguing against pedestrian friendly towns, in fact Drammen is very pedestrian friendly, just that it is really not enough to make a town pedestrian friendly, not here anyway, you also need a massive expansion in public transport. You need more routes, more frequent buses, you need overlapping routes so that people do not have to change buses too often.
> The US government has unlimited time and will around these things

So why are Lauri Love and Gary McKinnon still free after the same extradition denial years ago?
It really depends on what you're trying to test. You can hit the backend to prove stability of those elements, but you can't hit the backend to show what the user will experience while using your website.
If the article is to be believed this does not include hybrids. The first sentence reads in part "... where the sale of electric cars has overtaken those powered by petrol, diesel and hybrid engines ... " (my emphasis)