skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly! I laugh at this petition because nobody is maintaining X.org server right now or even wants to touch it. Last major release was iin 2018. It is a nightmarish cludge. Nobody is forcing anyone to upgrade their software but the rest of us want a future without X11.

It's not just the internals of X11 that are the problem, it's that the entire concept was baked in a different time. The major innovation of the X11 server was that, well, it's a server. It can be completely decoupled from the client, even physically if you use it over tcp. That was kinda nice, but then came GPUs, and direct rendering. The name of the game is now violating every single abstraction that stands between a userland app drawing directly to the display with only a GPU and a single graphics api in between. It was definitely not junior developers who rewrote the entire kernel graphics stack to move from frame buffers to direct rendering.

Computer graphics are pretty tough if you think about how many bits/s are being transferred to your 4k display at 60hz and how little latency we will tolerate. It's not like network data where we can afford to encapsulate it five times over and abstract it and forget about the contents.

Any criticism of Wayland should be with regard to what is next. Hell I'm not even convinced we need a display server, let's talk about that. I'm not going to take anyone seriously who says X11 is better, and because of a few insignificant issues like taking a damn screen cap (really? and that works fine now btw).
I can agree with that on face. I'm fine with trying things out, evaluating results, considering novel methods with history in mind and trying new things when the old ones are no longer suitable. I'm not fine with giving up on fighting racism because crt is flawed.
Trump's ban on the export to China of certain materials and substances necessary for the manufacture of semiconductors is still in effect. Maybe China is prioritizing their use for military projects? Perhaps they have also sourced them from other foundries which had them on hand, using their substantial influence?
When UC Davis was originally constructed they delayed paving until the desire paths appeared so they knew where to put them.
Interesting read. Did you measure your application latency?

It's wrong to think that CA to London is slowest. It may if you view things physically but fast POPs make it fastest route sometimes.
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Considering the sacrifice and hard work that people make to get into a top management consultancy, no one leaves due to ethical concerns. If they do, the entire world comes to know about it through self-promotion (hire me! buy my book! hear my TED talk). People rationalize morally questionable behavior in all walks of life. Management consultants aren't even the decision makers who have to pull the trigger, and it's far easier to sleep at night as an advisor than it is an operator.
You can use Gomobile for that.
Sure, and it would have been awesome if we had, BUT...this is, as I understand it, the very first case of an mRNA vaccine getting mass produced. There were literally scores of different vaccines, of a variety of technologies, being researched for this. I bet lots of vaccines were "ready" in February, the many of which did not pan out. If you had to bet on which one(s) to prep extra production for, mRNA is probably not (in February) what would have been picked.
The whatabboutism sure came quick.

Dude, you messed up the playbook. Deny first then deflect. Or were there too many sources posted and you thought the denial would look silly?

Also, put up or shut up. Find a legal case where an NBC, ABC, PBS, Washington Post, NYT, etc... reporter uses the "I only broadcast opinions so the truth doesn't matter" defense. I'm waiting.
> You won't be able to buy something like this for any sum of money, so it's free.

I don't understand this. Why won't you be able to buy something like this? Do you mean you won't be able to sell it? I suppose if the first condition is true, the second condition follows.
I make MMOs, and there are only two "large" cloud providers that have machines in central US: Google and IONOS.
Their most commonly sold car is still a very expensive car (around $40,000 after all the dust has settled).

You can buy a $20,000 car and still expect body panels to be aligned correctly.

These quality issues Tesla is having are the absolute basics for automotive manufacturing. There's no reasonable excuse here...
I don't know why you're calling it grift. According to the definition a non-profit is not conducted or maintained to make a profit. I'm guessing most of us agree that Wikipedia is an asset to society and I'm hoping the people that work there get paid well. Why would I not want more people working at Wikimedia compared to something more detrimental to society like Facebook?
I know a variety of websites that operate on the level of petabytes a month that are similar to parler (4chan), or are big hosters of files that directly infringe many peoples copyright.

Parler isn't even half bad compared to some of the hosted content on the rest of the clearnet.

The reason this is possible is because of 1. Cloudflare for media content and 2. Colocation for everything else. I don't know of an instance of a T1 or T2 data center "deplatforming" any servers that weren't directly operating illigally and had to be told it was illigal by law enforcement.

Perhaps individual companies that you contract with to get that data centers internet line, sure, but again there's plenty of companies that don't care who you are and/or like parler. I know of one in New York that offers very affordable pricing.
Looks cool. What about Swift support?
Wonder if they will ever provide an interior trim that does not have the center monitor screen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill
Heh. Sure ... really? How high were the health costs of that crises and how high were their profits during that period?

Aaaah. What a world...
I want them to go to trial. I think it’s incredibly unseemly that we as a society bring down the hammer on individual drug dealers, but let corporate ones wash the blood off their hands with shareholder money.

Each one of these people deserves a pair of steel bracelets and their day in court in front of a jury of their peers.
Many of these minimum wage workers used to be blue collar workers making more than minimum wage and solidly middle-class. Then, en-masse their jobs got exchange-rate arbitraged (outsourced) to slave labor overseas making pennies an hour.

Keep in mind only 30% of the US population has a college degree, much less a graduate degree. More and more of that 70% are falling out of the middle class and struggling to survive.
If all you need to do is to worry about bad luck, you don't really need a service. They should buy multiple SD cards, and keep mailing it to themselves. As photos/videos can wait for a while, the envelopes don't even need to be opened until the friend returns from the trip.

As whether it makes to mail SD cards -- it entirely depends on the country. Some countries have great internet, so you can just upload the photos. Some countries have bad postal service, so the mail can get lost easily.

Either way, if going mail route, make sure to encrypt the cards, and send multiple ones, in case some get lost.
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Is it opensource? How do I modify the search engine?
"But now I manage servers all over the world, and it's impossible to see them physically, even the ones that are hosted nearby."

Did you know that we have "drive up" access ?

If your account is in San Diego, you can just drive up to the datacenter and connect to our Ubiquiti LR AP. No Internet required.

We had it deployed in Denver as well but we moved datacenters a few years ago and are in a tall high rise[1] with difficult access to ground level or roof for antennae ...

[1] The "Gas and Electric" building which is the big carrier hotel in Denver ...
What would stop parents from taking the money from their kids?
Ultimately there has to be a source of truth somewhere, and geographically scaling a DB is difficult (CAP theorem and all that). Running your code at the edge doesn't help much if it still has to talk to a database far away to actually produce a response.
I'd imagine that there are companies that buy these vehicles from salvage or auction and rehab them for sale in other countries.
Yeah, _localize_ has always meant to adapt something to its location, when I've seen it used. _Locate_ means to determine the location.

Edit to add:
But I can see how in a specialized field, where methods for locating an object are frequently discussed, using localization over location would be useful for describing the process of finding something, since location is also a noun referring to the place itself.
Writing something in English is just easier that writing code that compiles and works. You can't bullshit a compiler, but you definitely can put a lot of bullshit into a Word document without anyone noticing (thus making your job a lot easier). That's why coding is harder, more demanding, requires more intelligence and work ethic. Hell, I've known pretty smart coders who lacked the work ethic and they quickly switched to scrum master or analyst roles. They're making less, but as one of them openly admitted, they barely do anything compared to the coders.
One other thing to think about is that once you leave private practice, you’re probably never going to be allowed back. I only know one attorney that went in-house and went back to private practice successfully, and that was because the firm she worked for prior to going in-house wooed her back and she is still “part time GC” for the client.

I’d also avoid the private equity targets. I’ve been working under private equity through two separate acquisitions of family owned companies, and the cultures do not mesh well. Private equity will always win.
The broader point is this: readers of such comments will extrapolate exactly in the manner dictated by the language used. Language matters, word choice matters, and it is incumbent upon civil participants in society to avoid drawing rhetorical lines like "local/not-local" and reducing forms of street-level interaction to "aggression." In my experience, those who speak in this and similar manners are forming narratives to reframe the event to re-orient culpability. Obviously that works better when you dehumanize someone who isn't there to defend themselves.
That’s a cat relocator then, to be precise.
I have noticed a lot of random hate against Haskell devs specifically, see https://twitter.com/catachresthetic/status/13106325659556044... for another example.
We (not the author of the article) use this provider in Finland: https://creanova.org/
> signal is not censorship resistant by itself. And we should criticise them for that because it was a warning delivered in a timely manner and never heeded.

I don’t believe Signal ever claimed to be censorship resistant to begin with. I just looked at their description on the App Store and nothing there mentions bypassing censorship.

Signal in fact did used to be censorship resistant before they were prevented from using domain fronting by third parties outside of their control.

Now the Iranian people need help and Signal has made it extremely easy for anyone who visits sites like this to kick in and provide that help. It’s likely proxies are a stopgap solution but that’s okay. Iranians are having their messages blocked now and Signal has managed to release a working fix rapidly.
Why aren't these people in jail?
Those 'precision EUV mirrors' achieve a reflectance of about 70% i.e. they aborb ~30% of the EUV light that reaches them. :)

More seriously, those mirrors are special because they use bragg reflectors to handle 13.5nm light. They're not special for their precision, nor their reflectance.

Setting that aside, the major problem with your proposal is that laser still have significant bream spreading. So the mirrors would need to be large enough to encompass a spread beam at every step, which adds weight and volume for both the mirror and the tracking mechanism. The tracking mechanism is particularly problematic because moving mass on a satellite affect the attitude, so you either need precision counterweights to null it out, or large reaction wheels.

Using MEMS mirrors instead would solve some of the mass issues, but MEMS mirrors have very limited tracking (typically limited to a single axis) which would probably render them impractical.

Far, far easier to just send and receive the signal at every step.
Another commenter upward [1] linked an archive of an older nomenclature (though not from the same time I was checking—I was just looking at Intel Ark) which details the more exotic suffixes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26024579
Then the government should take care that minimum wage is high enough that people can afford healthy food.
I'm still not seeing a reason why mis-aligned body panels ever left the factory. New process or not... some person bolted it on incorrectly, then allowed it to go out to the customer.

Are we to believe Tesla has zero QC? How do things like this occur? These are all solved problems companies like VW figured out decades and decades ago... Tesla is just insisting on figuring them out on their own all over again.
Yeah looks it is.
https://9to5google.com/2021/02/04/the-great-suspender-extens...
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Amazon is testing automation for picking, stowing and palletizing but none of them are humanoid. They still have human workers to do the jobs that require manual dexterity and "wetware AI," which both reduces the cost of the automation and reduces the value of human labor.

Win win for Amazon, lose for the employees.
My first day in SF downtown was "oh cool, here is a bunch of free parking spots along the street" when I got to Tenderloin. I didn't see any crime but at the same time I started to avoid this neighborhood since then.
If you're making a simile it's good to pick something everyone has heard of.

I'm honestly not sure I've ever donated money to RC. UNHCR, yes, RC I don't think so.
It's not limited to links. I know text, links, email addresses, contact info work... probably other things as well, I just haven't tried.
I think what bugs me the most is the common assumption that we just need better modeling tools to make a lot of the messy lab work go away. Everyone who raises this idea seems to think it's original and revolutionary and a no-brainer, but there's at least 40 years of bitter experience in biotech and pharma development saying otherwise. Even genuinely impressive feats like AlphaFold get inflated wildly in importance (and used to retroactively bash experimentalists for all the time they wasted by not listening to software people). Actually speeding up the entire process of biomedical research requires improvements across the board in many different fields, and it's not something that is magically going to be solved by computer science wizardry alone.
What is the point of doing forall T but not forall A and B?
I think the summer protests have displaced the movement against the neoliberal doctrine rather than aiding the movement.
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I understand the compassion behind your point, but to play devils advocate: doesn’t every bank that holds mortgages and every landlord assume this very thing?

Fall behind far enough and your debt takes priority over staying in your home. Hell, even the government will kick you out if you fall behind far enough on property taxes
Sure there were, in Europe during the heyday of CP/M, MS-DOS, Mac OS (until MPW and PowerPlant).
Mother Nature only cares about energy efficiency and evolutionary fitness. If that means every variable has to be global, so be it. She is not coding with understandability in mind.
I think things work best when we make investments in a good future even if we wouldn't enjoy the fruits. I would also be jealous but I would not let myself rob others of benefits out of spite. I still don't know if it would be a good idea...
I'd not disagree with that. My point, which seemed to fall flat, is that Republicans used their majority power to prop up mismanaged companies instead of letting the "free market" do what it does best, destroy bad businesses with nary a whimper from their party about the shortsighted management mismanaging these critical companies.
I seem to find a lot of people on HN who aren't just in it for the money.

Mind you, they wouldn't do this for free, and the money certainly helps. A lot. But it's not enough.
Thank you. It's heartwarming to read about successes like this.

Immediate recalling John Gilmore (GNU/EFF/etc.) in 1993:

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
Nah, he grabbed something in a seat and left.
FTA:

Word usage is a social phenomenon. If people feel the word “involution” expresses their anxieties, it’s on us (scholars) to listen carefully and then work out what’s going on. It’s not our job to tell people they can’t use certain words.

An ironic quote, given the nature of this publication:

Sixth Tone is an online magazine owned by the Shanghai United Media Group, a state media company controlled by the Shanghai committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Tone
The moat is a few things, but most relevant to this conversation is manufacturing consistent quality vehicles at scale. Tesla has spent a ton of time trying to solve that, but people look past it because Tesla builds cars people want that aren’t being built by the legacy automotive industry. Weird, people want an electric car that doesn’t look like a dork-mobile who could have guessed. These companies are being dragged kicking and screaming into the future, and the best retort is inconsistent panel gaps.
Huge need for this and very few good solutions out there.
It looks as though they do indeed have such a fund:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/15/wikipedia...
> every single one reimplements everything from scratch

Still not sure where you're getting this idea that everything has to be done over from scratch. Code sharing is code sharing; the only new thing that fundamentally has to be written is the mapping to a particular public interface, but that had to be done anyway because no previous interface was generic enough to be used by all possible editors.

As an example: the original RLS mostly just uses Rust's existing compiler internals. It doesn't perform super well, because rustc is optimized for full-build usecases and not interactive/partial usecases. But it didn't have to be written in a clean-room environment just because it's exposing a new API to the outside world.
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And that someone they lent it to is a well known bad guy.
Why do users need your permission to run a node?
paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82220-5
The big difference, of course, is that petroleum doesn't explode or combust when rained on. Aside from sparks or ignition sources, it can sit in a bucket or puddle and be happy staying put.
Many people, or Americans at least, that don't have any savings are not going to experience 'massive financial damage' from buying a few GME shares and seeing them drop in value. It might sting for a bit, but so does getting a tattoo (which is a bigger waste of money.)
These assumptions are hilarious. I do indeed have a child, a toddler, and seeing how segregated things are here in the bay area has made me even more supportive of affirmative action. His daycare is basically all Asian and white, and the best schools in the county are also disproportionately Asian and white.

Yeah, my son might have to join more clubs and get better grades to get into a great school--though there are plenty of outstanding schools that don't demand a > 4.0 GPA.

But I will never have to sit down with my son and explain that the police may shoot and kill him for no reason at all. When he calls 911 for help, he doesn't have to worry that the people who respond will treat him like a perpetrator instead of a victim. If he becomes a software engineer or any other white collar worker, no one will assume he is not qualified due to his race.

There are so many ways my son is at an advantage for being mixed Asian and white. The fact that he may have to settle for a top 10% school instead of a top 1% school is a small price to pay to help make up for past and ongoing injustice and exploitation of Black, Latinx and American Indian folks.
Heavy metal poisoning would explain a lot of social issues.

Maybe I’m just old and grumpy, but it seems to me that we have an excessive number of people who are violent, and waaaay too many who are dull-witted and susceptible to the most inane sales pitches, political shysterism, and religious lunacy. Eating lead and cadmium to excess during infancy could well be the cause.
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Please don't post flamewar comments to HN. We're trying to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> a lame attempt to construe a discussion participant’s level of cognition

...only if you conflate "do not" with "cannot" in order to further your victimization narrative.

> many communities

Weasel words like "many" with no follow-up providing evidence are useless here.
Hah, nice try, but no. Arguing that something is a liability if it fell into the wrong hands does not mean it is worthless or worth less than zero. It simply means it is worth protecting.
Still no support for monthly, quarterly, or yearly aggregations. This is useless software at every company I've worked at; every business person wants statistics grouped into monthly, quarterly, and/or yearly buckets. "Last 30 days" is useless; I need each month in its own bucket (eg. January being 2021-01-01 00:00:00 to 2020-01-31 23:59:59).
I consider use of the word "whiteness" a sign of anti-white racism, because it is used to denigrate any field in which whites predominate. The subtitle of the article is not encouraging: "Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient Greece and Rome off their pedestal — even if that means destroying their discipline."

Btw I am a brown-skinned person who appreciates the work of Aristotle, especially Nicomachean Ethics.
As investing fads go, at least "it's got a high short interest, maybe it will short squeeze" has the advantage that all you can lose is what you put in. So many investing fads use some kind of leverage -- and I'm sure sooner or later people will be trying to squeeze shorts on margin.

The squeeze is a specific circumstance that lets a few people profit substantially at the expense of somebody caught with their pants down. But as you say, most shorts happen for a reason, and represent somebody's honest judgment about the real value of a stock. They may be wrong, but anybody learning only the lesson that a heavily shorted stock necessarily represents a chance to make a lot of money fast is probably going to learn a very hard lesson.
The applications I work on do several database calls for single user HTTP request. Shouldn't the application server be as close as possible to the database, rather than to the user? I struggle to think of an example where your model is useful, unless your application has no database.
You gave specific numbers, I want to see how those numbers were obtained. If you'd left out the numbers, or left out the part about the general population I'd not have asked for sources. So, yes, please do provide citations.
Have you used or considered nix before? I’m looking into both right now and wonder what the advantage of asdf is, as nix seems to be the more robust option.
If big companies started facing consequences for their actions our economy would fall apart.