skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those sneakers are awesome, but:

46 requests

70.30 MB

Finish: 41.33 s (fiber) / 6.15 min (in Firefox Regular 3G emulator but I quit when the bar was 60%, so is like 10 minutes)

I get that those 3D sneakers have good textures, several polygons and all that, but it can be lighter than 70MB right?

Also an UX improvement can be apply progressive load, show the text instantly and put a spinner in the shoes, now I got a long progress bar to see all the elements of the page.

Nice to play with the shoes!
Eh every similar platform, such as Gab, was "deplatformed" so it feels like they should have seen it coming.
I disagree. The world would be bereft of many of its greatest intellects without the fruits of passivity.

Yes there are plenty of situations in which it is better to act, but I firmly believe the ancients were right that leisure is prerequisite to deep, radically novel thought.
Given my current position, I suppose not - but I’ve been in a union and my partner has never not been in a union. I have other family members in unions. It’s a topic I’m close to and very interested in. I see no reason I can’t weigh in on it.
Another very happy Feedbin user here. I've subscribed for several years.

I recently moved all my YouTube subscriptions to Feedbin. World of difference. I see what I ask for, and nothing more.

Same with Twitter. I quit the platform more than a year ago, but there are just a few accounts that I actually want to keep track of. Feedbin does it seamlessly.
If you enjoyed this, you'll likely enjoy Ethan Iverson's discussions of Evans:

https://ethaniverson.com/2020/04/08/riffs-second-set/
https://ethaniverson.com/reds-bells/
Unfortunately that only works when there's no guarantee of freedoms by the government. No free country was able to do a lockdown that strictly and effectively.

We do pay a price for those freedoms sometimes in times of crises - but there's no doubt which system we'd rather live under.
Sounds similar to RescueTime from many years ago, though that could slow down a computer, so I abandoned it pretty quickly.
The author’s point is that shrinking can take a very long time, and that’s what you should consider turning it off. In my experience this is also true.

They’re saying that sometimes it’s better to just see the error in full and try and figure it out.
And then some other guy will object to your use of 'precise' or 'exact'. Just read the definition and move on.
What he said at the beginning is true for so many things...

* management. My current manager refuses to understand actual technical challenges that we're dealing with. Instead he is just trying to figure out how the team can organize itself, and work with other teams, and scale itself, and collaborate, and track work, etc. I think we are making a lot of wrong decisions at the moment due to this stubbornness to understand the actual types of problems we're trying to solve, and from there understand how we can organize work to better serve us and allow us to make progress.

* research. There can be a lot of bike shedding, or drive-by feedback, on complicated projects. Rarely people want to actually dig into one part of the problem, and really understand it. Most engineers think that it any problem is easy to solve. Yet when they have to solve it, they get lost. Research is about taking it one step at a time, understanding everything that's in front of you before going to the next page. It's only when you accept that you are going to have to invest time into this, and take it slowly, that you start making real progress, and start getting a real understanding of the whole problem.
Things like Trump saying "Be Peaceful" and also telling rioters to "Go Home" cause him to be banned and impeached. Just imagine what stretches they take to say a normal Parler user is inciting violence.
Because it's not really about free speech, it's about money and influence.
I'm not understanding what you mean about *env. I use rbenv and I'm a maintainer of crenv for Crystal, I never have any issues with how they are implemented.

Can you be more specific? Maybe something's broken.
That’s a lot of buzzwords you got there
It's the other shit that Google pushes via their search monopoly that's the problem, not just the search monopoly itself.
I think we have more leisure in modern times than ancient times - you're probably romanticizing the past here. But apart from that I don't see what leisure has to do with being passive - I think you're conflating things that aren't actually tied together.
Proper planning would have been what, coloing hundreds of servers worth millions of dollars as a DR plan? And having no guarantee that the colo provider wouldn't also deplatform them?
It seems like there are going to be a lot of mRNA vaccines?
Do you really see the BLM marches (even the small minority that turned violent) as equivalent to what happened at the Capitol? Some obvious differences:

- There were no politicians or their cronies calling for "trial by combat" or similar.

- There was no one showing up with a gallows.

- There was no intent to disrupt a democratic procedure.

- Where violence occurred, it was quickly and unequivocally condemned across the board.

- Destruction of property is not the same as threatening physical harm to people (and no, before you go there, engaging with riot police is not the same as advancing on a chamber of mostly-elderly, unarmed politicians).
Russia only really has a problem with speech when it’s against them. People slagging the US is fine by them.
> I still have yet to hear a compelling argument for this not being a pretty transparent pump and dump by some whales, institutional investors, or some mix of the two

WSB was a relatively small sub up until the last month or so, and the rise in the price of GME didn't start until news sources started painting WSB as the creator of this "pump and dump", so I don't think this was initially created on WSB

> There is a mature market for reddit accounts and reddit upvotes. It would actually be really strange if there had already not been at least one major instance of institutions or other sophisticated actors using social media to move prices for an options payday.

Yeah, you're right, but people on reddit tend to be quite aware that new accounts with sufficient (100+) karma to post are readily available to buy, so they tend to be quite suspicious of these type of accounts (especially since the posting history is generally public) and usually call them out in the comments and/or get banned by moderators.

> Whats the argument that this isn't the case right now?

Putting aside their colourful language, there's a surprising amount of good due diligence (DD on the subreddit) done by its members. The idea is that given the number of stocks shorted is over 100% (As of Jan 1st it was ~121%, down from ~130%), the hedge funds will eventually have to buy back the shares, and that will cause a price spike. Yeah, the price of the stock has gone down, but if you check the sale volume in the last 2-3 days, you can see that it is no where close to the amount of shares that people have bought in the last month and a half or so. What this means is that even though the price is low, the number of people willing to sell at that price is still relatively small, so as soon as hegde funds are forced to buy back their shorted share the price will rise quickly because the number of people willing to sell shares at that price is low.
This is AMAZING, what a fantastic project!
RMarkdown uses pandoc too, and it's on version 2.6, while Jupyter Book is pre-1.0.
Social media like Parler and Twitter are largely fueled by notoriety and attention though, so I don't think decentralized anonymity is a good fit for the audience.
Pickle is the Python module that (de)serializes Python objects to some sort of binary format. Failure to pickle means the object couldn’t be serialized — the most common instance is probably trying to pass a lambda to a multiprocessing worker, because they don’t have names (you should use a def or functions.partial instead).
I get that it might feel a little unfair but it's probably just bad luck/timing. My sincere advice for your own sake: don't worry about it, content aggregation rankings are fickle. Try not to get invested in those capricious judgements.

If I may speculate a bit: HN has a different ranking algorithm to reddit, but I suspect they both share similarities in the way they are influenced by early upvotes which build momentum towards a top ranking. If your post was unlucky and missed a bunch of people who would have been interested at the time, then it'll probably fade away.
> This is basically an ad hominem argument. There is no room to discuss Sandbox on its merits with this stance.

I respectfully disagree and defend the position you're replying to. I take issue with your provocation because I fear that asserting too much focus on a still-frame snapshot without looking at the full motion, that seems misguided. Politics constitute the motion around any spec snapshot.

Focussing only on the technical merit of the proposal without also prioritizing the living, moving context around it, that's advocating a sort of blindness imho
> And then, who gets to run those servers? Even if it’s not Google, it’s probably not just anyone, right? Does that lead to a situation where there’s some authority or group of authorities that decides whether you or your startup gets to track users? And would you suppose it would be free for anyone to join this list of approved advertisers? Or might there be a fee, or some conditions to apply?

This is how DNS, the IP address system, and the gTLD/ccTLD registrar list works, and it works just fine.
Marriage is not that easily reversible. You lose 50% of your assets in the process (+legal fees, alimony, and maybe child support - can be more like 70% with ongoing costs), have to deal with all of the fallout and stigma in your family and social circles.

That's not saying you can't course correct - but the cost is very high compared to most things.
Or-- and this is a big or-- the inventions did lead to operable devices and/or craft that we don't fully understand nor have a good grasp on using. So it might be real, but essentially useless. I find that idea much more disappointing than it being totally false.
Sure these things are annoying and it usually doesnt make business sense to roll your own, but its not exactly impossible either.

Need slack? Install an irc server (i assume this is for internal use). Need email, install sendmail and thunderbid, need a 2fa provider? TOTP is literally five lines of code.

Yes its all annoying, yes it will be rough around the edges, yes it will slow velocity, but no, missing them will not make your business intractable.
BBC fined £28,000 for contempt after broadcasting clip of court hearing on Teams
However, given the predictable circumstances they might be in , they should at least expect every cloud provider to pull the plug at them, and should have gone the route of self-hosting. Instead, they have created a social media website out of Wordpress (out of all things), that performs ridiculously slow and eats up all of their maintenance budget, on AWS. It’s baffling how the right populists cannot find or hire any competent engineers; heck, on the leftist side people do far better with much less money (for example, look at Extinction Rebellion, where they manage to self-host their entire communications system: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11008-server_infrastructure_for_...)
I mean, you can say you have the fastest Fiat, no doubt someone will point out that Fiats on average are all slow next to a Ferrari. The you can just point out that we are just talking about Fiats, not Ferraries. But that doesn’t change the fact that the having the fastest Fiat is not that impressive given that Ferraries are an order of magnitude faster then Fiats.
> So you think it is value added to society for a person to be able to murder someone?

I have never claimed any such thing.

> Imposing a punishment is PRIMARILY a preventative action.

Punishing murderer A can certainly deter potential murderer B. But punishing murderer A obviously can't change the fact that murderer A committed a murder. And it might not deter potential murderer C, who either thinks they can escape punishment or has what they think is such a good reason to murder that they don't care about the punishment. So if your goal is to prevent all murders, punishment doesn't achieve that goal.

If your goal is simply to decrease the number of murders, then punishment can do that, yes. But you seem to be taking the position that just decreasing the number is not enough; that only preventing all murders is acceptable.

> How is it tyranny to curb a person's ability to murder?

It's not tyranny to put a murderer on trial and imprison them if they are found guilty. (This assumes that the trial is fair, which in our society is often not the case. But I don't want to go off on another tangent.)

It is tyranny to force a person who has not murdered anyone to go through some kind of brain surgery which is claimed to remove their propensity to murder. Which is what you appear to be proposing.
Kids, yeah, definitely irreversible.

Marriage - I don't think it's highly reversible, see my sibling comment.
AB5 versus Prop 22 is not a binary choice. It is possible to work on compromises between the two and not everyone who voted for one would inherently be against the other and vice versa.

Also in the legislative world there is a huge difference between 61-16 and what would be a 68-9 requirement to meet a 7/8 cutoff. The goal for these cutoffs should be to make it difficult to achieve, not practically impossible.
This is a big risk for cloud native applications sure they have the benefit of built-in fault tolerance and replication with many of their services, but good luck moving quickly to another provider when they shut you off.
Yeah, I'm aware of the of the advance purchases. And I wouldn't say I'm arguing for them to be "even larger", as I'm saying that 5x larger would be a good starting point.

For the less expensive vaccines it doesn't make any sense at all that they ordered 100 million doses instead of 300 million. For the mRNA vaccines I have a lot of questions about how hard they tried to identify potential bottlenecks in say, July (but I don't think there is much information available to decide in either direction.).
Thanks, I'm open to it, but I have no experience with that. Any pointers on where to get started with that?
> One of the most important invariants that we have to maintain is that there is only 1 container running per repl at any given time.

Perhaps when a host is preempted, instead of killing containers at all, you could just add an iptables rule to black-hole all network traffic for the host. Then they are as good as dead (and the host will be forcibly killed soon anyways).
Their actual servers are self-hosted, IIRC, so if Cloudflare pulls the plug it'd just be a loss of their CDN and DDOS protections. It'd suck for them, but aside from maybe some downtime while they switch over DNS records they should be more or less alright.
Three is not an anime.
Sure, if you want to be pedantic. However the specific 7/8 number was unprecedentedly high compared to numbers used in previous propositions to the extent that it probably shouldn't have even been included in a honest piece of legislation.
Of course it isn't good. This is HN, and we want the web advertising industry to go away. However, that's not going to be the outcome. Antitrust scrutiny in this case means making it more fair to third party advertisers...the people who will be hit most by third party cookie disabling. As much as we want to hate on Google, articles like this won't make them move toward more privacy.
CDPR urges 'Cyberpunk 2077' players to avoid using mods for now
Of course Bernie wouldn't call on his supporters to storm the capital. But then again neither did Trump. That didn't stop some of them from doing it however.
It's more like 200-300 servers which would take months even to buy, let alone actually installing them.
Yeah considering it doesn't work on windows, the more general tool nix, which has good integration with direnv works very well.
It was not included in this announcement, but Shippable (purchased by JFrog in Feb. 2019) is being shut down as well.
> our societies need tools that can survive popular histrionics. Getting owned by some sanctimonious prick at Amazon is not pro level play.

Seems like banning communities that led directly to an insurrection in congress should be one of those tools, no? I mean, that part was a bit more than just "histrionics" by "sanctimonious pricks".

I know you won't buy this because of the environment that we find ourselves in, but I assure you that those of us on the left care JUST AS MUCH about civil liberties and free speech as you do. We do. I swear it.

We just don't think that forum moderation is really that much an infringement on them (I mean, you're posting this on a heavily moderated forum right now). And we're less willing to forgive or excuse the spillovers from speech into action that we've seen.

No one who posted on Parler should be denied a voice on other forums. They just need to do so in places where they can't get away with calling for real violence.
Please stop getting hung up on the term "free will" as an excuse to avoid answering my actual question.

You proposed a perfectly clear scenario, and I proposed a perfectly clear second scenario. In scenario A, causal processes in your brain determine that you eat vanilla yogurt. In scenario B, causal processes in your brain determine that you want to eat vanilla yogurt, but causal processes in my brain determine that I force you to eat plain yogurt instead.

I see an important difference between these two scenarios: the first allows your brain processes to determine what kind of yogurt you eat; the second does not, it has my brain processes determining what kind of yogurt you eat.

Do you think that difference is important? Yes or no.
> Ars Technica's main feed, with truncated article previews, currently has 470k subscribers on Feedly

But how many of them are actually using their feed? You reminded me that I signed up for a Feedly account years ago right after Google shut down their RSS product. I just checked and indeed I am subscribed to Ars, among a dozen other feeds.
Guess I'll have to explain.

The Occam's Razor for the 1st lady wearing a much cheaper jacket than she would normally be caught dead in, that says "I don't really care", while boarding a flight to do a photo op with detained (caged) children cruelly and very controversially ripped away from their parents while seeking a better life for their family is:

Are you ready?

She doesn't really care about those children.
A block-chain deed database would be completely useless.

The deeds that matter are the ones stored by the people who will send around men with guns to kick you out if your name isn't on the deed that they have.
Democratic primary voters were leaning a few points towards Bernie. Then the DNC gave Hillary - and not Bernie - the debate questions in advance. The superdelegates - delegates that didn't come from primaries - also tilted strongly for Hillary. So no, I don't think it's completely ahistorical. It's at least somewhat ahistorical to say that Democratic voters picked HRC over Bernie in 2016. The DNC picked Hillary. The voters? Bernie had the edge, at least before the tilted debate.
Fair enough, I'll respond there.
Bad analogy. It's more like, the company that controls the light bulb market, also controls most of the light fixture market, and decides to push for a new type of socket that they control the IP for.

Except in the real world, unlike this analogy, they can magically change the socket of their own light bulbs and fixtures over the air at any time.
Isn't parler's primary userbase a phone app (i.e. client software)?
Arrow had it selling points as non-serde. But I am wondering how does it achieve no-serde with Python? By allocating PyObject cleverly with a network packet buffer?

If I convert an Arrow int8 array to normal python list of int's, will this involve copying?
Oracle's more correctly buddy buddy with the US government, so obviously they ain't inclined to be welcoming of people who tried to interfere with said government.
Bleh, there’s enough efficiency porn out there already. There is such a thing as balance and it’s important. To me the society we live in that’s all about optimization and the management of the world/life as some technical apparatus or system is quite empty and I think a big reason a lot of people who are extremely “successful” sometimes grapple with severe depression and dissatisfaction in spite of all their material success.

George Bataille had a theory that excess and pointless expenditure was actually integral to the well being of human societies (his explanation for why ancient societies participated in practices that were, from an economic standpoint, totally wasteful, such as extreme rituals of extravagance, sacrifice, etc.) humans need a release valve, and I think “wasted energy”, debauchery, etc. is precisely this mechanism—even in minor ways.

> 80% of every proof is garbage - it’s a series of mindless algebra, and doing the obvious thing. When my goal is to learn, I want to find that 20% that is insightful, the steps that I would struggle to come up with myself

Right, once we do something long enough, it’s easy to take all the bits that are the foundation for what we’re doing for granted—but not everything is about returns, there is such a thing as discipline, rigor, the traditions of the art—and while the steps are tedious, they subtly reinforce core tenants when you encounter them, and that’s important.
I do love the irony every variant is named based on the location, which people should understand has been a long standing tradition/pattern. Yet if anyone says the wuhan virus or china virus people freak and call you a racist. I had someone just yesterday try to argue with me about this, and I don't call it the china/wuhan virus it is just COVID to me but we both heard someone say it. But they were saying how racist it was to call it the wuhan/china virus but literally in the next sentence discussed the UK and South African variant and how they hope the SA variant stays there (of course probably too late on that one). And yet they couldn't see my point that they were talking out both sides of their mouth.

Just kinda made me laugh and shows how people use emotion and depends on what others tell them to think instead of logic and thinking for themselves.
The FAQ [1] and this SO answer [2] explain it better than I can, but basically yes. However, the (de)serialization overhead is probably better than most alternative formats you could save to.

[1] https://arrow.apache.org/faq/
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56472727/difference-betw...
whether they actively think about it or not, the disincentives are there and should be addressed
Depends how you define unmodified. There's clearly a redirect for https there.

Anyway, a previous webmaster of this site replied another time it was posted here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709016 if anyone's curious.
Compressed Oops in the Hotspot JVM
I find it amusing that the answer to "how can I help test" is "that people test the -rc releases when I announce them, and let me know if they work or not for their systems/workloads/tests/whatever". No smoke tests, no automated tools, no suggested workloads, no fuzzing, just "fool around and report back". There probably are lots of kernel testing tools around, but you wouldn't learn that from the linked article.
How to Create a Visually Stunning Resume in Minutes
Extreme Extreme Proofs I: The Irrationality of √2 [pdf]
I'll bite: why is this nearly impossible to achieve?

It may be nearly impossible to prove to you, but what makes it impossible, or even particularly difficult, to achieve if the company is interested in doing it?
Hell and Other Peoples' Computers
The schism between Martians and Belters has begun.