skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really misleading. It's a bit like saying "by putting on parachutes we had statistically increased our chances of being killed in a skydiving accident."
> I have an LTE version

LTE is not one thing. It's a bunch of different radio frequency bands that are selectively used by different networks in different countries.

Because of that, cross-network phone interoperability is a consumer nightmare of technical minutia.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_frequency_bands
Now the question is which type are the other commenters, Animats and Noos?
It doesn't matter if 40% of new sales went to new gun owners or 4%. If people who were not gun owners are buying guns, then the % of people who owns guns is increased.

>The long term trend in gun ownership (both individually and by households) has been down for a long time (different data sources have different exact numbers, but the trend is consistent across them.)

Or, the number of people willing to admit owning a gun has been on the decline in a gun-hostile climate.
From my understanding, looping avx512 or avx2 mov might be faster than rep stos in many cases.
What do flash loans do that normal leverage doesn't? Am I correct in wondering whether this allows the unskilled or unlucky trader to ruin themselves a little more quickly?
I'm curious if this is an age thing? I'm in my early 40s, and I cant stand animated gifs, I find that I have to close my eyes if they are in a presentation, or move them off the page in a website like the OP.

But I see younger people making presentations at work that are littered with animations. To me it looks extremely unprofessional (both from the distraction and the usual childish nature of the images themselves), but its common enough that it's clearly within mainstream norms.
Unless the text size is too large or too small on your device. I'll take accessability over finer points of typography any day.
When new satellite services emerged previously, the FCC had a policy of requiring two competitors (DirecTV vs. Dish and XM vs. Sirius). It would be nice to continue that with Starlink vs. Kuiper but as a layman the wranglings are too obscure for me to follow. Both companies are accusing each other of the exact same things and apparently nobody in the press is qualified to have an opinion so they just teach the controversy.
The Liberal Democrats got 1/4th of the Conservatives' votes but only 1/35th of the Conservatives' seats. Heck, they got 3x as many votes as the SNP but less than a quarter of their seats. EDIT: Also, the LibDems got 50% more votes in 2019 than in each of the previous two general elections, which is a hell of a fact to twist as "did not fare well".

If your intention was to refute my argument that first-past-the-post doesn't accurately capture voters' opinions, you failed.
Freedombox: Own Private Server
Naive question from an outsider with an interest in understanding pentesting and information security (mostly out of curiosity, but also to contribute to projects with security in mind): do you think putting time into a cert like OSCP is worth it?

Not arguing about any kind of market or resume worth, but more so about the actual value provided by the path to complete that cert.
> Oh right this is the RFC from 1990. Yeah, shit has changed, this RFC needs to evolve.

Like, don't name your MX wolfsschanze. It may cause problems with cancel culture raging on.
How does uncertainty hijack our attention.
I can see why you would gloss it over as I agree, it's not something that happens more often than not. However, I do think there is a moral hazard to it in the first place, and I think you can start to see the results in the Chinese market today.

>When you stop paying your credit card, or when WeWork ends up not being worth the price tag, the government doesn't step in to cover the bill.

I would append "usually" to that. The government doesn't "usually" step in. They do sometimes. They've done it twice across major industries over the last 14 years that I can see at the federal level, and more often individually, the latter usually dependent on industry and business relationship with the government. The risk there is pretty massive each time, though, and I don't think people fully appreciate it. Even if it's more of a perception issue, it poses serious problems.

For example, there are a number of people in this thread and millions nationwide that believe when a bank messes up the government will save the bank. That's an issue because it erodes confidence in the government while putting undue confidence in the stability of the banking industry. The more this happens, the worse the potential outcomes.
Flash loan is just money that an Ethereum contract gives to a contract given in a callback function and expects the money back inside the same transaction with an interest. It's the first loan with no counterparty risk.

While I'm not a fan of how the Ethereum project and ETH token is managed, Solidity programming language brought real financancial innovations in trustless contracts.
> It is likely that the efficiency can be improved a lot

What makes you think that? I thought internal combustion engine efficiency is widely believed to have hit its reasonable limits?
I once almost got fired because my computer was called aphrodite, the CTO had to demo my webapp, and he couldn’t spell it correctly.
Tesla Semi gets closer to production with these major design changes
My home town and my cohort. AMA.
It should also be noted that phone surveys bias women. How many husbands hide their guns from their wife? I know my dad did.
So you're complaning about EPUB not supporting math notation, turns out

a) EPUB supports Math notations

b) you don't even have EPUB files where it's an issue.
Artichoke Ruby’s Architecture.md
Speaking of Icons, I love that they spent considerable time to optimze those[1], including their own vector format so that they can store it in the metadata of the file, so that displaying large folders with unique files would be speedy.

[1]: https://medium.com/@probonopd/my-sixth-day-with-haiku-under-...
Wrong sub thread?
That’s unverified and coming from the SpaceX guy. I’m not sure it says it all.
My aunt fortunately lives in a retirement community so they are doing the vaccine rollout.

She is still using a modern Nokia phone 3300 lookalike only for making calls , we had to downgrade her from a smartphone because she found Android (notifications) and playstore software updates too confusing.
Do you have a source for this?

It was my understanding that the majority of American households owned at least one firearm.

Edit: I found this [1], but the numbers seem a bit questionable. Even if you take them at face value, 44% doesn't seem to qualify as a vocal minority.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/264932/percentage-americans-own...
The feeds provided by hnrss.org are great. I came here via the RSS feed.

I don't see the problem with not having comments inline. It's just the same as using the website. If I'm interested enough to read the comments I click through.
Humans and AI, soon
I think the idea is that the one opening the kimono is doing so to reveal everything that is beneath it, so they are, in fact, "naked under there"
yeah same here, HN can downvote us all they want but they certainly will no longer be getting my money. I will redirect that funds to other non-profits where I know they will be frugal with my money.
I found this interesting insight in the comment section of an article about threat modeling, it may be worth considering:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26055379
And? You said it was wrong that Saddam had WMD. That was incorrect.
Can you read the hacker news guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hypocrisy is a moral issue. It plays into the principle of fairness that even animals have. If that isn’t morality, then almost nothing is.

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

Also, it is right to call it like it is. Telling the truth as you see it is the right thing to do. Not telling the truth is not right.
Because I might be shamed, yeah. I definitely can't rule out that I'm being over-averse and it wouldn't be a big deal.
> grab what's available

This isn't a fair characterization. In order to have knowledge of something, you need more than theory: you need to validate your idea with observed experience. The first person to actually achieve something, demonstrated by an existence proof, can in most cases be said to have gone through both steps.

The second part of this is that individual rights guarantees that innovators are free to achieve ("the sky's the limit" is out of date"). Innovators do this for their own benefit, as they should. As a side effect, the rest of us also benefit enormously! There are a lot of people in rural areas stuck with incredibly poor internet service, via HughesNet or DSL, and Starlink is a massive boon to us. It's amazing to pull 150 Mbps on the side of a mountain or on the open ocean...

Why is it just that Bezos take a backseat here? Without the pioneering achievements from SpaceX, Bezos wouldn't have the certainty that such a network is even possible. Over the past two decades, many, many ventures have gone bankrupt trying to achieve what SpaceX has done.

SpaceX has earned its success, and Bezos shouldn't be allowed to run to the government to kneecap his competitor.
Ashby's Law and Managing Software Entropy
each person has to pay a quarter to start a game
I’m not the one that brought up that lowest priced Model 3.
Skinks can be fairly small, like a few inches. Used to like watching them as a kid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skink
Recovering a pull request after accidentally deleting the source branch
I wonder if the Wikipedia community generally supports the Wikimedia foundation (if WMF does a generally good job), or if they'd like it replaced.
Hyperoptimizing for code size can be counterproductive. If you pack several branches or branch targets into the same cache line, the CPU might lose its ability to predict them. Making your code bigger (inserting NOP to align branch targets, for example) will often be worth the tradeoff in pure size.
Hi Team,
I am a frontend developer with 2+yrs of experience and I am interested to work as a frontend developer. You can reach me out at khyati.bardolia@gmail.com.
It's not really "the left", as most actual leftists I know also own guns. The problem is that the NRA basically took the side of school shooters, so now being a gun owner in liberal-left circles puts you on the side of the people who support school shootings.
How is Amazon planning to launch their satellites? Using Blue Origin?
Forbidden toothpaste.
>Art and entertainment are useful work, yes, obviously.

why?
> this doesn't sound remotely accurate.

It is accurate.

> The whole point of a bank is that they're loaning customers with other customers' money.

This is mythology. When you "buy" a house your signature is worth the value of the house because you're obligated to pay much more than that AND/OR return the house. The bank "buys" the contract but since there is zero risk for them they don't have to bring anything to the table. They push a button and the seller gets 500 k.

But something else happens at the same time. There is now a new document in circulation that is worth 500 k AND that 500 k in the sellers account. Both didn't exist the day before.

It would be even better if the house was worth 600 k. The moment the hard working buyer can pay 600 we should raise the housing prices. Prices will chase your income because there is to much to gain.

The way I see it homeless people are the most valuable assets in the economy. They make truly convincing advertisement. If you can't pay the market rate, that guy over there, that could be you!

Imagine the disaster if we would not just build but create a housing surplus. The details are a bit to elaborate to get into but we have plenty of tools, materials and idle hands to make homes that are both crazy cheap and fantastic to live in. Even just relaxing the permission to build (or lack thereof) could potentially ruin the big money creation scheme.

I live in NL, we have houses 500 years old. A 300 euro per hour "professional" "expert" must value the home.... but they dont know anything. I know what the cracks in the wall mean. I know the meaning of the white and black mold spots. I know which structural parts have to be replaced. I know exactly how hard it is to modernize the building and hide all the tubing in the walls. I can tell what is quality plumbing or wiring and what is not. Non of these things play any role in valuing the home. Solar panels, nice new carpet or wooden floors, a fresh paint job, square meters. Those are important. You know, like selling a used car. It doesn't matter if the roof leaks as long as you cant see it.

If there was any interest in establishing the real value of the building they would be doing it. All they care about is how it looks. It has to be just good enough for the client to drive the old clunker out of sight. For me, there is no reason to think other parts of this industry are based on sound logic after they fool themselves like that.
If the transaction doesn't immediately (within the same block) result in enough profit to pay back the loan with interest, the loan is canceled altogether, i.e. basically it doesn't even happen. Then you only pay some gas fees for executing the smart contracts up to that point (which can be a few hundred bucks nowadays, I must say).
QA Test Run Dashboard
Hi All,

Some friends and I are working on a software startup called ObsidianQA. We are trying to validate the problem the app solves.

ObsidanQA is a test run dashboard that gives dev/qa teams better visibility into their applications quality. All of us work at software companies and realized the QA/Dev teams each had an internal built tool for viewing test runs. They were all very rough but the teams found them useful. This is why we decided to build a software tool that makes this quick and easy to setup for any team.

The app is free to use if you want to give it a try. Any feedback is highly appreciated.

https://www.obsidianqa.com/
Interesting subject but not a very good article.
No, it’s not just your young age. Old people like me can’t stand them, either.
> Now that most things are virtual and easily created/destroyed there's no good reason _not_ to name functionally.

Uh, my servers with at least 256G of RAM and a raid60 of more drives than you have virtual machines can't easily be moved around.

> If you are dealing with assets in a physical environment then obviously the above doesn't apply.

Yes, baremetal, the only way to guarantee performance!
I have never before seen something like that tool by which his monitors can go higher.

The brand isn't mentioned in the article, the name of the tool isn't mentioned.

Had to zoom in and try and guess the name from, there. Apparently "Versa Desk"
It probably won’t be transcripts of meetings, but could include summaries of nra’s discussions with bankers or its business models.

Some of their biggest creditors were ad agencies, so that will be interesting.
Don't Intel now recommend 'implementing memcpy using Enhanced REP MOVSB and STOSB might not reach the same level of throughput as using 256-bit or 128-bit AVX alternatives'?
Starting in the 1980s anti-gun groups pivoted from trying to ban handguns to a top-down approach. Start with bans on big scary weapons AKA "assault weapons", which aren't as common, then move on to handgun bans. Ironically, their push to ban "assault weapons" has only made them more popular with the general public.
Voice control has recently improved to Barely Useful, but still certainly Not Usable.

I now listen to audiobooks, podcasts for ~2 hours daily, while walking my dog. If there's a way to control apps, navigate options, perform useful dictation, I haven't found it. I can barely get Siri to reliably start and stop audio playback.

I'm now curious how blind people manage these things. Also, I dimly recall Marvin Minsky or Donald Norman or Alan Kay... writing about early experiments with conversational user interfaces. It really seems to me that we have to go back to the basics, to start over with new assumptions. (I still have the books, I might be able to relocate those notions.)

To wrap up, much as it's clear my Apple Watch (w/ AirPods) has the potential to replace my iPhone, and my clear desire for that to happen, today it's not on the horizon.

Oh, here's my gratuitous geek cred: We were trying to use voice control in early 90s. For stuff like AutoCAD. While some of my users liked it, one even excelled with it, most didn't. So I've been waiting for this for a long time.
Huh. Do you mean me personally? I figure it was clear from memo my post that trust in them has taken a hit. I’m not quite as certain there was a deliberate intent to mislead as some but I can’t rule it out to a degree.
This is a common rhetorical technique in politics.

There are a lot of policies that sound good at first glance but are basically useless or harmful on closer inspection.

For example, there are two categories that dominate firearms deaths in the US. The first is gang violence; in this case background checks would have no real effect because gangs have the means to acquire firearms outside of legal channels. The second is suicides; in this case background checks do very little because the purchaser would generally pass the background check.

So you have a policy that sounds good, but doesn't make a real dent in the problem and costs a lot in fees and inconvenience on innocent people.

But it polls well so it's a rhetorically effective attack, because the opponents who have actually done the cost benefit analysis have to register their opposition to a "popular" proposal.
Like every other state, there is a stark divide in the culture and politics of the major metropolitan areas and everywhere else. San Francisco vs parts of rural Northern California are an even starker example of that than what you would see between Austin or San Antonio and rural Texas.
The fear was the product would not advance.
Maybe try thinking of vi as a programming language (for interacting with text) rather than a text editor. It's really a Human Programming Interface (HPA not API?) which you can run in the line editor of your shell (readline), or in emacs, tmux, even firefox, but of course it works best in vi/vim/nvim.

Learning the vi language makes me think about interacting with computers in a new way.
Yes, and I was thinking about its eyes.

The human eyeball has diameter roughly equal to the entire length of this lizard, making its volume 10,000X larger than the lizard's eyeball.

OTOH, with a pupil that small, visual depth of field must be large. So perhaps the nano-chameleon doesn't need to do much in the way of focussing.

Small wonder they took so long to discover :-p
> (added in 2017 I think)

Indeed: committed in September 2017, released in v7.6 in October 2017.
Depends on what you mean by "stream". The non-cellular apple watch can play offline content over bluetooth without a phone (I do this every single day). Only the cellular version can stream online content without a phone or wifi nearby.
Author here, I wanted to mention that this tweet thread about Johnson and Johnson's vaccine(https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1355180859993718784) is what kind of inspired the article.
Fiat Chrysler plans to mass produce flying cars by 2023
But the sub-thread was about immigration policies, not about refugee policies. It is perfectly consistent to have simultaneously lax immigration policy and harsh refugee policy (or vice versa).
How the US Legalized Corruption
Nice! I usually do creatures for more appliance-type devices and wizards for servers. But it is somewhat of an arbitrary division.
Best naming scheme I ever saw was at Harbinger in the late nineties. They used the periodic system. The last octet of the IP address corresponded to the atomic number, and you could use the full element name, or the abbreviation. So carbon.harbinger.com was x.x.x.6 and c.harbinger.com was a CNAME to carbon. oxygen or o was .8 etcetera.
A Kent Braeburn in season is pure joy. Your description of the remaining months, primarily imported, is spot on.
Typical Bezos tactics of trying to fuck the competition. Only this time, he has a formidable opponent and is going to crash and burn.
Maybe, but my sense as an outsider was that Starlink was moving at a snail's pace and was essentially PR vaporware prior to these firings. Granted, there's a lot of engineering going on behind the scenes, but the timing is perhaps suggestive...

Look at the timeline:

Jan 2015 -- announce plans

Jan 2017 -- Starlink trademarked

Feb 2018 - test flight of two satellites

May 2019 - Launch 60 of the v0.9 model

June 2019 - fire 7 people

Oct 2019 - this article

Nov 2019 - Launch 60 of the v1.0 model

7 Jan 2020 - 60 satellites launched

29 Jan 2020 - 60 satellites launched

17 Feb 2020 - 60 satellites launched

18 Mar 2020 - 60 satellites launched

22 Apr 2020 - 60 satellites launched

04 Jun 2020 - 60 satellites launched

etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
IMO, this is the way to go. With the advances in TLS, I have done expts where you can use HTTP headers and server logs as "email" or short message service like Twitter. The "website" can be nothing but some plain text, or even just a 404. Heck, you can even skip a secure backend web server like djb's httpd and just use haproxy alone with option httpclose and no server directive. You can return the headers sent to the sender to simulate "posting'.

The US is now feeling the effects of having single websites with millions of pages. It was a stupid idea and is damaging to society. Super high scalability should only be for government websites and the like.
I do this for a number of hosts simultaneously with macos and map them specifically in my .ssh/config:

Host mac-a
...
LocalForward 5903 localhost:5900

Host mac-b
...
LocalForward 5904 localhost:5900

then I open the directory /System/Library/CoreServices in the Finder and drag Screen Sharing.app to the dock.

to remote into machine mac-b, in a terminal window:

ssh mac-b

The first time, click on "screen sharing" in the dock, and in the connect dialog enter localhost:5904

After that, you can right-click on screen-sharing in the dock - even when it's not running - and you will see a context menu item for "mac-b 5904.vncloc"

By the way, mac to mac screen sharing is very well done (will they axe it next?)

- it is very fast

- the keyboard stuff just works

- you can copy/paste even rich text between the local and remote macs

- you can drag and drop files from the remote desktop to the local one
Not necessarily. I knew people from different families who were divorced, but rationalized that my parents were different and more committed, and so still just accepted it as an axiom that families stay together (except when they don’t).

While obviously not that consistent, as a kid I perfectly accepted that logic. If I try to place myself in that same mindset, I think I’d find the definition of “marriage is together until further notice” far more concerning than knowing some divorced parents.
Good article about the transition from devices to services. In the near future, we'll engage the services and the devices will be invisible. It's a matter of time to diminish the tech (beige PC → phone → watch → headphones → ?) and solve the UI problems.
A bit of a late reply, but Python 3.7 is supported now! :)
To back that up, I know a great many left-leaning gun owners in LA that would never join the NRA as a matter of principle (due to its extreme positions), including members of law enforcement, retired military personnel, and regular joes who just like guns and things that go boom.
A First Look at Gitlab’s New Pipeline Editor
Correct. "Universal background checks" just sounds good to people. Problem is many supporters think we don't have background checks at all.
Flash loans have to be repaid in the same block/transaction.