skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good comment, but it might be a little too cryptic.

Another attempt:

Straw man:

Phones are too slow and too dangerous to be used as a real time vehicular traffic indicator. If drivers were to text their location back to google every 10 seconds, they would have too many accidents. It isn't even possible to look up the location on google maps and then text a geocoordinate in 10 seconds. Drivers just wouldn't do this anyway because there is no incentive for them to do so. Google would have to pay drivers $2 or so for each location bulletin. That would cost billions and google would go bankrupt.
That is an interesting thought, I like it. I sense centralization is a bit like interest rates. Fluctuating decade to decade, but historically rates have been ~declining for 2,000 years.

PCs are decentralized mainframes, but phones are now PCs and all they do is ping AWS/Azure all day long now.

FWIW, I think centralization has been a net positive for humanity. I'm glad I don't grow all my own food.
I mean it is a link to an Elsevier paper. They are cancer.
Particularly ever since the New Democrats took over the party. Their whole shtick was injecting a bunch of right wing policies into the Democratic Party, under the idea that voters had shifted to the right and the only way to win was to follow them. Clinton made good on his promise to "end the welfare system as we know it". Obamacare was an unashamed rewrite of Newt Gingich and The Heritage Foundation's 1993/1994 HEART Act, all the way to the individual mandate.

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

IMO a lot of the both party's issues right now stem from the fact that Democrats have moved so far to the right that only the far right positions differentiate a Republican from a mainline Democrat opponent.
Containers, operations on streams (map, filter, etc.), optional types (although those need tagged unions, something too advanced for golang), better concurrency handling (e.g. Task types), etc.
One that already existed at some point: StumbleUpon.
Thanks! When I first grasped the idea, it really felt like one of the few FLOSS projects that could actually change the world. It has been a bit over 5 years since then, but I still believe in it.

That said, we've had a number of technical and organizational hurdles to overcome. As an entirely volunteer driven effort, which has gone lengths to avoid sacrificing core FLO values, progress is not always visible, and always seems to take longer than we'd hope.
Comma.ai could buy Automaker, Waymo is ditching “Self-Driving,”
Well, that is provably untrue.
Once again, they're volunteers doing unpaid work. They're not beholden to anyone's interests except their own.

If you don't like their decisions, you're free to criticize them, but to imply that (rightly) putting themselves above their users is a bad thing is an entirely different beast when they don't owe anything to their users.

At the end of the day, if you don't like their decisions, you're free to work towards becoming a maintainer and make your voice heard, or fork it and do whatever you want and think is right. But nobody owes you or any other user anything unless you explicitly are paying them for the time and effort.
If you did, I wonder if you would regret choosing Java over Go for other reasons. I tend to find that no matter what language I choose, there's some parts of the code that I would prefer to be able to write in a different language.
Yeah, the state of Yahoo is really strange. It's still the best free one I've found. Why I'm looking for alternatives..
Yeah, that's what the direnv script was doing. You cd and forget!™
This is not an especially a sympathetic article to either side, but I'm talking about things beyond the core remit of a newsroom. If Amazon workers strike, what happens if the WaPo Guild refuses to cross the picket line by accepting Amazon deliveries, using AWS, or run articles alongside Amazon ads?
The claim is plausible:

* https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/36411/healing-of-b...

Thankfully no one to date has been injured for a 'full test' to have been done. Blood flowing backwards has been observed:

* https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223705-low-gravity-in-...
> Sounds like you definitely appreciate the efforts of manual labor and even have some manual labor as part of your job.

Thank you. I really appreciate them. Yes, manual labor is a part of our job and we (as the group) do not whine about that. On the contrary, we like the thing TBH.

> For example, a star developer making millions with a terminally ill spouse or child would easily trade places with manual laborer if doing that made a difference in their outcome.

That's not a silly example. It's spot on. I did similar choices (not drastic as the example, and luckily not based on health issues). Rejected higher pay or prestigious titles or shiny companies to be able to stay closer to my family and people I love, to be able to live a simpler and more free life.

I'm not a money oriented person. I do this job because I like computers, I worked a lot and I was definitely lucky up to a certain extent.

However as I said, I don't keep my job as a crown or title about myself to pretend to be more precious and important than other people. We're equal on this little blue dot and everyone and everything deserve respect IMHO.
Perhaps it's time to recognize that the company simply need not exist in it's present form. If Google was required to spin off Chrome as an independent company, there would be no antitrust issue, and privacy protections Chrome made would not also include anti-privacy features designed to feed Google's ad business.

The reality is, Google needs to be broken up. Every fine they get makes that clear.
Confronting Theory and Praxis: An Interview with Bernard E. Harcourt
There are a lot of claims without any evidence in that blog post. "The RNA in a cell is the only entity which is active and carries significant bit density." is one of them.

DNA certainly encodes for a significant amount of information as well. And why not proteins, there are a lot of proteins in a cell and you can also modify them in various ways. A cell has an enormous amount of state, any of it could theoretically store information like memory. There are a lot of different molecules active in a cell, in various modification states, at various locations, and all of that could encode information.

What this blog posts doesn't provide is any experimental evidence, this is a pure thought experiment. If RNA were to actually store memory, that would be great. Because determining the RNA sequences inside a cell is something we can do.
Honestly, I would. The way things are going down here in my country (Brazil) I will get infected eventually, at least by participating in challenge trials it would help other people.
Congratulations! It's a wonderful resource, and great to see it make it's way into library-form.
Thank you! It's nothing special.
WHO team visits Wuhan Institute of Virology, meets bat researcher
It's a gem, really.
"[The browser] tracks how long someone spends on a website as a measure of how useful the information is likely to be, and then can match that to an existing card to store relevant information."

This is probably a simplification of how it works, but taking this description at its word, Beam will just start assigning outsize relevance to sticky high-engagement sites like Youtube and Twitter. Hope it's more impressive than that!
Amazon Plans AI-Powered Cameras to Monitor Delivery Van Drivers
SEC Hunts for Fraud in Social-Media Posts That Drove Up GameStop
Worrisome New Coronavirus Strains Are Emerging. Why Now?
It is time to hold Twitter criminally negligent for crypto scams on its site
This is ridiculous. 3 verified accounts are scamming here

https://twitter.com/chamath/status/1357084550522830849

This is like a repeat of the July 20th twitter hack. Tons of verified accounts are being hacked everyday to promote a crypto fraud and twitter cannot do anything. This is after it has been going on like this for 3 years. A lawmaker needs to demand twitter make an effort to stop these scams. Fraud is not protected speech. Crypto fraud is a crime so why is it tolerated

Edit: 5 verified accounts have been hacked in the past 2 hours alone:

https://twitter.com/zacgrotz/with_replies

https://twitter.com/GerronJordan/with_replies

https://twitter.com/runner_ross/with_replies

https://twitter.com/samhilliard25/with_replies

https://twitter.com/WeatherLauren/with_replies

This is similar to the july hack yet no media coverage
> In local laws over here

Pet peeve: posts in a global forum that mention "here". Which one did you mean?
So, there are several components to Arrow. One of them transfers data using IPC, and naturally needs to serialize. The other uses shared memory, which eliminates the need for serde.

Sadly, the latter isn't (yet) well supported anywhere but Python and C++. If you can/do use it, though, data are just kept as as arrays in memory. Which is exactly what the CPU wants to see.
Sounds like the kind of thing I'd want, but I don't want to have a very high degree of control over how that info is shared beyond my own personal computers.
Other currencies also have the "feature" of the government/central banks being able to print money at will, devaluing the hard earned money that people worked for, and to pay for bad decisions made by the governments to take on debt.
I love curation projects.

Here's a tip if you want to get people to submit more videos. Include a "Submit Video" button in each area. When someone knows of a great video for a category, having to sign up for an account is a huge hassle and de-motivator. So just turn the onboarding upside down. Make it easy to submit a link first.

Once the link is submitted, THEN ask them to fill out the Username/password/email. At that point, they're already invested in the process, already submitted the link, and it's a lot easier to finish.
> As much as I wished I had sold some positions last February when it was clear something big was building in Asia

I did this.

> I am confident that I wouldn't have had the guts to buy back in after the crash and would have missed out on the rebound gains.

I did this too.

> In the end, I'm probably better off having held and continuing to buy every couple of weeks throughout than trying to time the market swings from COVID.

I wish I'd done this.
The few I've opened appear to cover a 60-character segment of the ASCII table from 0x20 to 0x5B in row major order with a fixed glyph size indicated in the file name.
there are genetic studies that sample ancient populations with the current population which point strongly at a continuity of the people with only minor outwards influence
I seen either this or another interview where he drives home the idea the the only way to succeed is to enjoy the learning process itself.
As we return to "browsers with an editorial opinion" market differentiation is based on that opinion. Apple has been pushing privacy really strongly to move people to the Apple ecosystem. As the "browser that won't let you be tracked or compromise your privacy" they have an opportunity to further "choke" the data/advertising streams of competitors.

It is the advantage of having a weapon that you can use that damages your competitor but not you. Chrome started out that way[1] as a way to attack Microsoft (and to some extent Firefox)

When you see things like Tim Cook saying he will "end" Facebook, you might reasonably ask, "Wait how could he possibly do that? He doesn't control the web." And you would be right, with the exception of understanding that Facebook makes its money on data extraction[2], and a lot of Facebook users are also Apple device users. So on the Apple device Apple can build a browser that lets their users access Facebook while taking away as much data as possible from Facebook. This damages Facebook revenue, forces them to invest in counter measures, and doesn't change Apple's revenue model hardly at all.

As a result, from a business perspective, I think Apple could justify investment here in a browser that puts forward a point of view that makes it harder for Google and Facebook to make money.

[1] FWIW I worked at Google when Chrome was launched and understand that there was the 'open standards' narrative but there was also a pretty obvious 'hurts Microsoft/Apple' narrative. So the technical reasons to invest aside, my opinion is that the real reason any large enterprise invests in anything is because they have a reason to believe it will make their business stronger, more difficult to attack, more profitable, or with luck all three.

[2] I think the term 'surveillance capital' a bit too inflammatory.
Emotional smarts benefit entrepreneurs more than IQ
GME: Story of Turning $500 to $200k
> I know how to work around this

For others similarly curious, it appears setting [`$HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1`](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/2.7.7/docs/Manpage.md#...) is the magic sauce (or the perhaps more accurate link: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/2.7.7/Library/Homebrew... )
Stab in the back of Sweden ? How so? Because of lower barrier for entry that might hurt Ericsson's bottom line ?

Ericsson will still be at the forefront of EU infrastructure, they have the money to do it and will earn from that, their reputation too is already favoured in the EU over Huwawei.. Which is the whole point.

But sure.. Swexit, lets 'extrapolate' that out then, Ericsson will then be under increased tarrifs and excluded from initial EU contract proposals.

They have not forged an alliance with anyone, they are leveling the market to allow for other competitors and not have a bottleneck on suppliers.
https://arrow.apache.org/docs/js/ has existed for a while and uses typed arrays under the hood. It's a bit of a chunky dependency, but if you're at the point where that level of throughput is required bundle size is probably not a big deal.
Thank you for sharing that. That's the most dedicated domain squatter I've ever seen.
You might like Dark Matter if you haven't seen it. It is available on Netflix and, imho, has a feel that is somewhere between Firefly and The Expanse.
Bytecode verification is not a large part of compilation time for Java. For HotSpot server, verification is dwarfed by building the IR, repeatedly walking and transforming it, generating code, and register allocation. Keep in mind that HotSpot will very likely inline a ton of methods, making the compilation unit large. Many passes are at least slightly superlinear, so that makes compilation time explode.

That said, I ported C1 (the client compiler) to Java back in my Maxine VM days, about 2009. At that time on typical x86 processors it was easily hitting 1.8MB/s (of bytecode) compilation time. You can work backward to how many lines of code a second that is (and sure, you aren't paying the cost of the frontend), but yeah, that is in the ballpark for 1MLOC/s I think. And that's with an optimizing compiler with IR and regalloc!
A GameStop Ringleader's Videos Draw a Regulator's Attention
I can build the D compiler (500k lines?) Warts and all in a second in my machine - and that's code that's not particularly complicated, but not at all optimized for compile times realistically.
DodgerCMS
Are we looking at the same image? The one I clicked on in GP's message is an anime-looking person holding a sword. It doesn't look much like the picture on the Lenna wikipedia article you posted.
Ugh I read it so many times because of this. First read: bonds? Like banking bonds? Second time: oh, Barry bonds from the giants? I didn’t like him either. Third read: ohhh bonds as in brings them together.

“Losing brings sports fans together” ok that makes sense.
> DNA certainly encodes for a significant amount of information as well. And why not proteins

True!

> What this blog posts doesn't provide is any experimental evidence, this is a pure thought experiment.

Yeah, so?
Unrelated, but why is Steven wearing two watches?
What about the vaccines that made it through phase I and II trials fine, but then in phase III were found to not be very effective? That happened to GSK, Sanofi, and Merck (twice for Merck).

If vaccines were widely deployed after phase II with no proof they actually work, there would have be some that did not work that got widely used. The people that got them would they have immunity, and slack off on distancing and masking.

Once you did have a vaccine that you knew worked, there would probably be problems convincing those who got an ineffective vaccine that they need to come in again.
GameStop: When Redditors Steal from Keyser Soze
There are a few services that get full text from RSS feed items for you
This would be great news if everyone were invested in minimizing polarization and detoxing the political conflicts that we’re facing. But that’s not the case.

The biggest divide between the “parties” (which isn’t political in nature and has nothing to do with the very real and significant differences between the parties) is that one sees polarization as a tool and the other doesn’t acknowledge that.

On Twitter, this has been exceedingly shorthanded into “tan suit”. One party is so invested in conflict that they invent it by manufacturing a scandal out of a fashion choice. The other is so invested in conflict avoidance that it pathologically refuses to hold the first accountable for anything meaningful.

In other words the divide isn’t political, it’s about ambition and shrewdness. This won’t be overcome by finding common ground.

Edit: added a comma because it would’ve driven me nuts not to. Also to add a reasonable disclaimer that I’m not philosophically a member of either party, but I caucus/coalition with the one I obviously perceive to not be fundamentally bellicose.

Edit 2: well since it needed clarification, I consider the Republican Party to be the bellicose one and the Democratic Party to be the spineless one.
n is still the simplest node version manager I've come across [0]. Maybe worth checking out if you're looking for an alternative.

I also use the companion n-install [1] utility to get setup very quickly.

[0] https://github.com/tj/n

[1] https://github.com/mklement0/n-install
I wonder if Caro, were he starting today, would write about someone like Zuckerberg: an individual who has accumulated and exercises immense power but who, like Moses, has little accountability.
I thought `pip freeze > requirements.txt` would give you a list of all dependecies, even indirect ones. Am I missing something?
I wonder how it would work out if that happens. There are more to the law than linking fees, such as user data sharing and advanced notification of algorithm changes. In my opinion Microsoft probably cares less about those issues than Google.
Arrow is definitely one of the top 10 new things I'm most
excited about in the data science space, but not sure I'd
call it the most important thing. ;)

It is pretty awesome, however, particularly for folks like
me that are often hopping between Python/R/Javascript. I've
definitely got in on the roadmap for all my data science
libraries.

Btw, Arquero from that UW lab looks really neat as well, and
is supporting Arrow out of the gate
(https://github.com/uwdata/arquero).
But people don't have freedom to vote as they'd like. Voting in a two party system is reduced to a "which is worse" question. If you're fiscally and socially liberal but feel very strongly about preventing abortion you might end up holding your nose while voting for the R candidate.
I didn't know how much i needed this
A lot of Caro’s responses are included, almost verbatim, in his more recent book “On Power”: https://www.amazon.com/On-Power-Robert-A-Caro-audiobook/dp/B...

Definitely recommend the audiobook if you haven’t heard it already. Caro’s got a thick Brooklyn accent and a manner of speaking that’s really compelling.
Thunderbird supports RSS...and NNTP.
See also the forbes post...quite different title and more telling I would say.

GameStop: When Redditors Steal From Keyser Soze

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ricedelman/2021/02/03/gamestop-...
The article points out that while far from being widely accepted, this theory is getting a new look because of some experimental evidence that supports it.

> I don't think there's any real doubt that memory is

> stored in neurons, this is really a fringe theory.

All theories are fringe theories at first, that's where they start (as hypothesis before there's any experimental evidence or mathematical proofs).

I would agree that there is little doubt that memory is stored in neurons. However, that does not exclude some memory being stored elsewhere. It's generally accepted that the brain stores memories first in short term memory, and then after a time some of those memories are stored in long term memory, with the memories chosen according to some criteria.

I could see RNA memory as a third stage of memory storage. Memories that the brain views as high impact to the species according to some criteria might get copied from long term memory into RNA memory to be passed on to future generations, accessible only by subconscious.
The technology is pretty standard. I can't imagine that there's any tech-driven bottleneck to development, but rather, issues surrounding licensing, IP transfer, liability, etc (in other words: legal concerns).

Once those are resolved, there's still a fixed amount of time that it takes to convert existing production facilities to some new purpose that you can't really eliminate (the old saying about 9 women having a baby in 1 month applies here...)

Basically, it's the sort of thing HN readers don't like to hear: the complexities of the real world create obstacles that are difficult to surmount with technology alone. If I had to guess, even if you got approval to have N partners manufacture the vaccine today, it would still take a few months to ramp those partners up to capacity.
While using a scale to measure divide on particular issues such as open vs closed borders is interesting, the part about “disliking” opposing partisans seems to be an inappropriate way to measure political distance.

For example a Black Democrat voter probably thinks Republican voters don’t like her because she’s Black, not because she’s a Democrat.

Regardless this shows there’s room for compromise on certain hard policy issues, but soft issues (i.e. the culture wars) requires more nuanced study.
NCSA Mosaic was the predecessor to Netscape and Mozilla, and I think was the first browser to offer inline images. I remember going to Interop in 1993 and everyone was blown away by the demo of Mosaic and its inline images showing O'Reilly's GNN (Global Network Navigator) site. Somewhere, I might still have an advertising card the O'Reilly folks were handing out about it. You can see more here (and yes, bizarrely, wood-cut-look icons were a big design fashion trend for a period in the early '90s. Sun's TOPS used them extensively, too...) https://www.oreilly.com/gnn/

That said, there were several earlier browsers that could opened image tags in another window or app - Viola, Cello, etc. (Even Lynx, which still exists for some bizarre reason...)

As hard as it will be for the younger crowd to believe, at that time every new web site on the Internet got posted to the NCSA "What's New" page, so people would know what all's out there!