skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you use a digital labbook? If so what do you use?
I am currently trying MS OneNote. Just pasting everything in. Pictures, screengrabs, thoughts parameters. But I am wondering if there is a better alternative.
GCC is straight up faster in quite a few benchmarks (it's basically neck and neck in most benchmarks, and you should try both if it matters).

GCC is also roughly even in compilation speed now https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-Fast...

LLVM is much easier to work with internally but GCC is a seriously good compiler even now.
E2EE by default is a recent change so I doubt it.
Show HN: NEOM – It’s Time to Draw the Line
Chain mail scrubbers are not very abrasive. This is because the links are rounded. As an extreme example, imagine trying to scrape off gunk with the rounded back of a spoon. I've used mine (gently!!) on teflon with no damage.
Where is an official ACLU statement?

All I've seen are second-hand statements from senior counsel.
A quick google shows that's probably not the case at all. Assuming longer cruises are more cost-efficient, here's a 180-day cruise that costs $38K, and that's assuming you share a small stateroom with another passenger. https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/3762/
Conquer Procrastination
I was reading it more like it’s a flawed argument/system. It should be regardless of what “class” you’re in, you should be able to live a happy and fulfilling life without a lot of worry. Instead, we paint it like, you have to get out of X class in order to even have the most “simple” of worries covered. (Food, housing, healthcare, etc)

And I hate to think of any “class” being superior. “Wish I was of the superior race/gender/orientation/class/etc”. To me, people see class as something you can change (true to some extent) but why even make one class seem worse than the other? It’s only because it’s sometimes possible for people to change socioeconomic classes that we critique them for being in one and accept that being in a poorer class can have hardships that we don’t like but find acceptable because “you can change it”. But... not everyone can be rich. And a lot of our system is setup to profit off of the hard work of the working poor... so without fundamental change to the entire system, there will always have to be poor people and there is no way for everyone to be lifted out and live a less worrisome life where we aren’t concerned with class.

We live in some weird ass feudalistic society now and think the peasants deserve what they get. I don’t agree.
I don't know what you mean by backbone? Loads of providers offered/offer multiple redundant tier 1 fibre connections.
The two main things are privacy and freedom. For various political discussions this year, it seems many on here believe in absolute privacy even when it's not reasonable: ie. privacy in your own home is good but that doesn't include being able to commit murder and be protected. Freedom of speech is good, but I don't think it extends to political figures being able to incite violence.

And honestly, my comment was somewhat hyperbolic, in response to a lot of the discussion that occurred last night on this topic of Amazon vs Parler. Many people were equating the violence of Wednesday with "somebody not liking us," trying to suggest that this single extreme situation is an indicator of Amazon/big tech freely making political decisions (much like this linked article) for run of the mill things.

I appreciate your polite question and your critical-thinking takes in your comment history.
Gmail Inbox Actions Missing?
Gmail used to display actions directly in the inbox, like "Check In Now" for a flight reminder or "View this Pull Request" for a GitHub email. Here is a page describing the feature: https://postmarkapp.com/guides/improve-your-transactional-emails-with-gmail-inbox-actions

I looked through my inbox and noticed that there are no inbox action buttons displayed. I didn't turn them off, so I am not sure what happened. This is in multiple accounts, devices, and browsers
So the lesson is to not throw people overboard?
> It depends on what is in those contracts.

It does in part, yes.

> I imagine FAANG has better lawyers than Parler.

That is by no means a given.
I believe he misses one important difference between left and right. The left wing kooks are not in charge. They are fringes. They speak loudly, in part because the media loves the argument, but their goals don't become platform and their leaders don't hold high level office. Bernie Sanders lost twice, and both times supporters loudly shouted that the centrist candidate chosen instead was no different from the far right opponent.

That does not condone any of the kookiness, but the difference is too stark to draw the simplistic comparison. The right wing kooks put one of their own in the very highest office, and he enjoyed vast support until it literally turned violent. Even now it's not clear to me that the support has wavered, but is merely temporarily embarrassed.

To solve QAnon in your party you need to stop encouraging them. They are not an untidy extreme who happened to have had a big day. They are part and parcel of the party at every level. They have become tired of getting only dog whistles, and are now saying the quiet parts out loud. But they've been saying the quiet parts for decades and I don't believe you when you pretend that you didn't hear it. You were told many times, but you won't hear it from me because you've been telling them for many years that I am a liar and a traitor. Ceasing to do that is the first step, and you won't fix anything else until then.
pip's download size is 47.6 kB, npm's is 579 kB.

pip's installed size is 194 kB, npm's is 3,413 kB.

All numbers are from Pop!_OS apt.
Exactly this, but you will of course be downvoted here for pointing out this truth.

For a purportedly open-minded set of hackers who claim to follow their intellectual curiosity, too many people here are very closed-minded about racism.
>>They were serving coffee 40 deg F (22 deg C) hotter than the temperature needed to fry an egg

That right there is also PR spin, because it does not actually take that high of heat to "fry an egg", infact to cook eggs properly you often want lower heat or they become rubbery... Thus it is PR spin to phrase it in that manner because people associate "frying" with extreme high temps well over boiling point (212 degrees F / 100 deg C)

The coffee at McD's at the time was around 180 degrees F (82 deg C), their justification for that (right or wrong) was customers wanted to hotter coffee so it would still be hot when they arrived at the homes or offices after visiting the drive through.

Anecdotally, I know many people today that complaining about drinks from Drive through not being HOT enough, or cooling down too quickly

>>Also, at the time, McDonald's had reports of over 700 people who had been injured to various degrees by their coffee.

Over a 10 year span, over thousands of locations, and probably millions of cups of coffee sold, from a statistical standpoint that is very small rate
After seeing thousands of soldiers with machine guns in full military gear with armored vehicles protecting the Capital from Black Lives Matter, your statement sounds ridiculous.
We had a developer from Ecosia on the Raspberry Pi Livestream a few months back, if anyone is interested, along with a code along Scratch video for the kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMlaVVr0X98
I think the compromise to TOS type things is they can only be limited to a list of house rules that you can enforce with or without an agreement, kind of like booting off a rowdy customer off of the property of your retail store. Like, ‘here are the rules’ and that is about it.
They didn't touch their content, they just made a choice as a business not to allow it on their platform.

Free market capitalism's a bitch right?
In Greek it's "Halcyon days", after Halcyone (or Alcyone) the daughter of Aeolus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcyone_and_Ceyx

The phrase "halcyon days" seems to be used in English also for the warm days in the middle of winter:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/halcyon_days

I'm not sure how common this warm mid-winter period is in general but I've certainly noticed it in the 15 years I've lived in the UK and it must have been common in Greece in the past also. In recent years, also, but Greek winters in modern times tend to be very mild anyway. Nothing like in Norawy, I'm sure :)
For instance `std::ptr::offset` which is apparently a trivial wrapper around some LLVM internal: https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#getelementptr-instruction

I'm not sure as to what capacity GCC has a similar instruction but I heard that LLVM's using of signed integers here is apparently nonstandard and what lead to Rust's decisions for vectors to be limited to a certain size: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/vec-alloc.html
Show HN: Console 35 – TabFS, Regex, and Big Sur
This seems like you didn't have proper monitoring and alerting set up for your job, not sure how that is a downside of AWS.
> Rust lacks a GC so it uses its type system (namely its borrow checker) to compensate.

Ok fair enough. I guess mentally I separate the ownership/lifetime system from the type system, but I suppose it's true that borrows, mutable borrows etc. are actually part of the type system.
Distinguishing Goals from Chores
Why is it so hard to achieve our goals? Is it because we don't work hard enough? Is it because we aren't disciplined? Is it a motivation problem? I reckon it's cause most of the time they aren't....(read and find out!)
Why are there so many threads today about alternative platforms?
The only way to avoid conflict is to constantly expand and adapt for (or adapt to) new environments, otherwise competition increases.

Mobility also needs to increase to avoid conflicts which lead to physical harm.
> If anything, lots of small dependencies is more Unix-y than one big dependency.

Of course, as evidenced by much-used programs such as curl and git having 400 dependencies each and OpenSSL being shipped as separate libraries for every single crypto function.
The distinctions are that you like and agree with BLM, but hate Trump and think he is evil.
Yeah, I would rather Twitter outright ban accounts then just randomly remove tweets.

I do think a label is the best solution, especially for accounts that represent a real person or entitity and aren't anonymous.
That is no way comparable. This would be like if there was a video game where you killed politicians with machetes and then suddenly a bunch of politicians were killed in machete attacks.

At that point, you wouldn’t be able to say the video game was not a cause. This is not blaming Trump for abstract violence in general, but for specific violence that he called for actually happening.
What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not
MAGA folks looking for platforms for their "free speech".
So Parlar can bifurcate and build their own ISP/DNS.
Research-Based Methods for Learning Japanese
Show HN: BobbyFissue - Play me a chess match inside GitHub issues
Thank you for pointing out that the article explicitly states the Chinese position as "The changes were not caused by 'forced sterilization' of the Uygur population". While a tweet advocating forced sterilization might be violence, a tweet saying "We agree forced sterilization is bad, and we are not doing it" is not violence. The justification for removal must lie elsewhere.
I am reminded of an anecdote I read many years ago where a White doctor talked about delivering Black babies by forceps because he couldn't be bothered to wait around and give such children the time he gave White children to come into this world without such brutal intervention.

I read a study many years ago from a country that valued boy children over girls. Boys -- especially first-born boys -- were more likely to be fed their favorite foods, taken to the doctor the same day instead of "in the morning" and so forth. These were relatively small things, like delaying seeing a doctor by a few hours, and nothing anyone would likely characterize as abuse of the girls, yet the difference could be measured in terms of mortality.

Think about this: You can die of dehydration in as little as two days and you can die of lack of oxygen within minutes.

These are not stats for people of frail health or something. Anyone can die of lack of oxygen within minutes, no matter their current state of health.

Making excuses and saying "But they must have been in a weakened state to begin with or something..." amounts to denial of the racism that we all know is rampant within this country.
Some skins do, e.g. monobook: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hacker%20News&use...
Man were you right about that.
> they'd have lost my support.

The implication being that everything the EFF has done against corporate control of the internet is only good as long as their criticism doesn't extend to corporate censorship?

I hope I'm misinterpreting this.
It's sort of complicated -- there's an ideological nonprofit called the Wikimedia Foundation that hosts all the various WikiProjects and maintains the software that's used (mostly mediawiki and some associated services). When you see those banner ads on wikis for donations, that's who you're donating to.

However, the Foundation is very hands-off about the content of wikis, which tend to run on "consensus"[0] with the editing-community for that wiki. That establishes the policies for the wiki, and often influences the technical decision-making for specific wikis. Also, the Foundation writes mediawiki extensions for a bunch of non-core behavior, but the individual wiki communities take a strong hand in whether they're enabled for that wiki. It's why the WYSIWYG editing environment (VisualEditor) is so inconsistently available between wikis, for instance.

Some wiki communities have a fairly fraught relationship with the Foundation, generally if they feel like they're being pushed into things. There have been controversies about things like the Foundation banning abusive users project-wide, or Foundation employees editing wikis from their staff-affiliated accounts. It's generally very inside-baseball though, and if you're outside the community it's hard to hear about.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus
agree on every step, just not the nutty association. ufos should be a bipartisan issue not some insane vendetta trump has against the "deep state"

promising it probably wouldnt have as wide of an appeal outside of closeted posadism dreamers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_fume_fever
"Here are the classified flight characteristics of what we believe to have been a Russian hypersonic weapon test but we don't know that for certain; we're pretty sure the Chinese weren't able to capture this data but we're going to hand it over to them now at the behest of domestic conspiracy theorists."
The most basic reason is that people honestly do not believe “antifa” (convenient way to ascribe organization where there is very little, but ok) violence is an existential threat to the US. Violence over racial justice has happened before and it will happen again. And of course, people will try to use it as an excuse to delegitimize real grievances. I don’t think this country has ever seen a president whip his 74M person base into a frenzy over a completely false narrative, with the specific purpose of overthrowing democracy. A huge chunk of people losing faith in democracy will lead us down a scary path, if we’ve learned anything from history.
I think there are 3 reasons I’m doing this:

1) I believe that the chance of a stock market crash within 2 years is greater than 50/50. That’s only a guess of course.

2) the downside of losing my life savings would be far more devastating than the upside of doubling them- the risk/reward profile is extremely asymmetrical.

3) the people who can trade the news fast will get out fast in the event of a crash, and the 401k people will be left holding the bag, which means that stock market volatility is essentially a way to transfer wealth from the middle class to the super wealthy. I’m not interested in that.

To be frank I wish that 401ks didn’t exist at all and the government just increased social security payments a certain percentage every year. If the economy is growing as fast as the payments then it shouldn’t be an issue right? The fact that I am essentially forced to play poker with my retirement account is very frustrating. The whole point of saving money for retirement is to reduce risk, it’s supposed to make me feel secure not give me one more thing to worry about.

But, my wife has all her 401k in stocks, so between the two of us we’re still split 50/50, so I guess I exaggerate when I say it’s all t bills.

So that’s my thinking.
I've tried this a few times and none of the ovens I've had over the years have been successful in removing seasoning with their self-cleaning, so at this point I'm trying to find a machine shop that will be happy to bead blast it and mill the surface flat again. So far, most shops have given me quotes in the hundreds of dollars so I've been waiting until I meet someone that has the capability to just do it in their garage.

Most new cast iron cookware now has a raw surface with lots of pits and bumps from the casting process as well, which doesn't seem to get nearly as smooth and non-stick as "vintage" cookware.
It's ambiguous, but they might not have been implying it occurred after the Capitol event but rather that the idea itself has proven to be a good one especially after such events.
For people who don't know:

> Simpson's paradox, which also goes by several other names, is a phenomenon in probability and statistics, in which a trend appears in several different groups of data but disappears or reverses when these groups are combined.
Use this encoder :

https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/lenpeg.html

It allows for compression to a negative, unbounded number of octets. I guess you just have to run it in reverse ?
Thank you. I’ve been hoping for a book like this for a while.
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Strongly disagree. It will only benefit the language to have more than one quality implementation. C++ has benefited hugely by the competition between g++ and clang; both compilers have gotten much, much better. To be fair, it will take a while before the GCC Rust front end is competitive, but for some purposes it doesn't have to be, like bootstrapping.

If "progress" means "rapidly add more and more new features in each release", multiple implementations will slow things down. But that problem can be addressed with editions: at some point, if the project is a success, the gcc front end will be a feature-complete version of some Rust edition, plus enough extra features to build an older version of the Rust compiler. At that point, you have a better solution to the bootstrapping problem (how to get a Rust compiler when you only have a C compiler and you want to build everything from source and not trust some binary you download from somewhere).
What do successful people do every day that sets them apart from the rest?
If the POTUS is not using Gmail, and I'm not either, at which point does Google get to block that?
I submitted this twelve days ago and it got no traction, but it's an interesting read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25567826
Qbix: An OSS Facebook alternative, with videoconferencing,chats,events,payments
Who is 'they'? Is it still the made up future scenario? The bare basics of mmap on a file is that it maps the file into a processes memory space instead of copying it into memory.
Can you explain more what the problem is?
I lived in some of the crappiest places, never had a fancy oven. Every single one had a self cleaning option.
That’s a very nice summary. Thanks for this clarification.
Yeah I certainly agree that the complexity doesn't really go away completely, and sometimes it's much more frustrating to have to configure poorly documented services rather than just having access to the host OS.

I guess my overall point would be that two of the hardest things to do in terms of making a production-ready application are scaling and security, and Serverless pretty much obviates them. So it's not a magic wand, but it does take away some of the significant barriers to entry.
Not really, about π/4 = 79% of the times you will have a single iteration. The expected number of iterations is the geometric series with this ratio, which is smaller than 2.
Foundation. (Issac Asimov)
The practical reason is that people are extremely agitated and even if they're a fraction of the country that's still enough people for civil conflict. I think you're being a little dismissive of the fact that people are emotionally engaged and FAANG taking down parler is not only further agitating angry people but drawing more people, especially those of whom who hate and distrust "big tech", into the political divide. This isn't a knock against their decision to decouple themselves from parler, but just an observation that these actions are making people angrier than they already were. When you have two spouses who hate each others' guts and haven't been able to stand each other for years, with no improvement in sight, divorce is probably the right decision.

I think the lies and conspiracies are just a manifestation or side effect of the social and political divide. Its like imagining someone you already hate. "They're plotting against me", "they're going to get me", "they probably spilled that milk on purpose to piss me off", etc. And I think there is some substance to the hate, not to the conspiracy, but I see that our society has gotten to this point for real reasons and disagreements that can't be compromised on

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This is wrong, as someone very heavily invested in carbon skillets and iron skillets, people in the "seasoning community" (lol) literally hate this article because it spreads so much disinformation about flaxseed oil.
I’m the only gray-beard hacker I know that pronounces it ‘libe’. But bin is bin. Not sure why, really.
> For every person with a deep insight in a subject, there are fifty people who think they have a deep insight, and it is hard to tell the difference from the outside.

If it’s hard to tell the difference from the outside, how do we know which one we got?
I am a little bit bored with all of these computational geometry libraries being in C++. I would want something more abstract, with multiple possible backends.
No personalisation is a positive for me.
I think this is something that largely gets ignored in all of these discussions about deplatforming, free speech, etc. There is a baked in assumption that all people are rational and will respond to well-reasoned arguments and evidence and will eventually arrive at a reasonable and evidence-based conclusion if you just bear with them and try harder. But my experience so far has not shown this to be the case.

I’ve tried to have a calm and reasonable discourse with people who believe in things like QAnon, anti-vaccination theories, the “deep state”, GMO conspiracies, among others, and I’m a single voice among however many hundreds or thousands of others they are listening to. No amount of evidence or rational argument will sway these people because they are swimming in a sea of voices reinforcing their views.

I’m not sure if deplatforming is the right solution here but I also don’t know what the alternatives are. Should we let them keep espousing and spreading patently false information that is actually causing harm to society to a large audience and hope that people just ignore it? That doesn’t seem like a good solution, either.