skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a marketing perspective, "mold" meaning "a form used to cast an object from liquid" is a lot more appealing than "green fungus growing on bread." A mold for casting objects is also a lot closer, metaphorically speaking, to what a linker does.

I honestly thought that was the meaning the author was trying to evoke before I saw the picture on the github page.
Interesting, thanks for pointing that out. Do you also know why?
> You would be hard pressed to find a Muslim theologian (who understands Christian theology) that claims Christians and Muslims worship different gods while until today it remains controversial for Christian theologians to go on the record saying they’re one and the same.

That's kind of been the Catholic official theological position forever (popular libels, especially associated with the crusades, notwithstanding.) Islam has always been considered a heretical set of beliefs about God (and particularly so in regard to its Christological views), not a religion about a different God, and that’s pretty much an unbroken chain of theology going back to the 7th Century.
Ah I see, just added this feature to my backlog :)
To clarify, by face saving PR I mean that yes of course Facebook can take down its entire news service going forward. That wasn’t really in doubt.

What doesn’t seem to be the case is that Facebook can discriminate against content from bargaining code participants (companies that ask for money for content).

It seems likely they’ll now follow Google’s path and strike individual deals ahead of the legislation.
That's not a deal. It's a can kicked down a road.
It’s interesting they call out vinyl shower curtains but not vinyl and polyester clothing, which we wear on our bodies all day.

Even most cotton shirts and jeans tend to be a blend with synthetic plastic fibers because it stretches and breaths better.
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You're still getting paid a salary and can save that to diversify. Selling equity along the way isn't possible for everyone, but for example my employer IPO'd after 3 years and I've been liquidating at a schedule since then. I also got options ~300 employees, which is late in the startup game but early enough considering the company's success. That's a bit safer than super early stage.

Yes, some blind luck is needed to win at this game. However, the job market has been such that a solid programmer can get something lined up pretty quickly if their current job fails. I don't think the risk is as bad as people portray. Again, picture buying long term call options for a single stock with a proportion of income each year. Somewhat risky, but risk is capped and the payoff could be quite big. More diversification is almost definitely more efficient but carries less tail upside.

By "unfairness" I don't mean risk, I just mean unfairness.
I did too! It was cheaper as well.
> cars are lasting longer every year, since quality and durability keeps increasing.

This isn't true. Japanese cars don't have the same reliability they did in the 90's. You're not gonna find anything like a 2JZ engine on an affordable car these days.

VW quality seems to be on the verge of falling off a cliff as they seem to be desperate to increase profits without improving quality.

Oddly enough I would mention Korean cars for being especially reliable, but then Hyundai and Kia got hacked the other day, so...
Three character timezones like "PDT" also aren't good enough because they make it too easy to encode timestamps that don't make sense, like a British Summer Time (BST) time in December.

To be honest I think you're better off just not encoding the timezone in your main timestamp string at all and instead adding the full IANA timezone name (e.g. "Europe/London") in to a separate field. In sensible formats all the dates within a single JSON object or object will have the same timezone anyway, and to save bytes you can simply say in your spec "If absent, assume UTC".
Or mainframe OSes.
Would emulsifier roll off the tongue better?
Perhaps we should wait until the deal is negotiated before claiming it worked.

My guess is it was likely the Australian news agencies unhappy that their traffic dropped who then pressured the government to reconsider the law and restart talks with FB.
The biggest problem we have is we keep making things that we have no idea of the consequences and then to get rid of them takes a while because industry says no we can't do this, there will be too much economic damage. Same with all environmental issues, the speed of damage is much faster than the ability to control the economics created as a result. As a result unless something is shown to be immediately fatal, it's hard to prove without a doubt it's fatal and often the damage done is cumulative and distributed across the whole industry. There is no easy solution to this.
The thought experiment definitely makes me think of the parallelizability of tasks. There's definitely kinds of tasks that this setup as described wouldn't be very good at accomplishing. It would be better for accomplishing tasks where you already know how to do each individual part without much coordination and the limiting factor is just time. (Say you wanted to do detail work on every part of a large 3d world, and each of yourselves could take on a specific region of a few square meters and just worry about collaborating with their immediate neighbors.)

Though I think of this setup only as the first phase. Eventually, you could experiment with modifying your copies to be more focused on problems and to care about the outside world less, so that they don't need to be reset regularly and can instead be persistent. I think ethical concerns start becoming a worry once you're talking about copies that have meaningfully diverged from the operator, but I think there are appropriate ways to accomplish it. (If regular humans have logical if not physical parts of their brain that are dedicated to specific tasks separate from the rest of your cares, then I think in principle it's possible to mold a software agent that acts the same as just that part of your brain without it having the same moral weight as a full person. Nobody considers it a moral issue that your cerebellum is enslaved by the rest of your brain; I think you can create molded copies that have more in common with that scenario.)
Oh yeah that's a good idea! I definitely need to include the effect of sensor noise and lag. I think the sensor can do a measurement every 10 ms or something like that
>Do the people in nearby developing countries speak English?

In most pacific island, yes. In places like East Timor English it's not uncommon at all, news is also often shared via relatives who live abroad. Do you really think china doesn't have multiple news outlets written in English to promote their power abroad, just look at the South China morning Post.

>It seems far more likely to me that people in nearby developing countries will get their international news from locals who follow international news for professional reason

I'm confused why you would think that? A lot of these countries have specific phone plans which exclude Facebook data and they like a large amount of people get their news on social media.

Here's a few articles on the very subject [0][1]

[0]https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-19/pacific-media-warns-f...

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/19/facebooks-aust...
HSL and HUV would be useful for complementary colors if its hue is uniform enough. The problem is, they are not even that uniform. In some cases the complementary RGB hue can differ up to 30 degrees from the complementary CIELAB hue (which would be much closer to the true perceived hue) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hsv-hues-cf-lch-hues.png
> And, to be fair, a major part of why the US has bigger cars is that people can afford them.

What about European countries with similar median wage to the US but where most people choose small cars? I think big cars in the US is partly a cultural thing, and also partly because roads in the US are bigger. Driving a big car in most Asian cities would be a horrible experience, so I expect smaller cars to be more popular.
Australian authorities will now introduce further amendments, including a two-month mediation period before government-enforced arbitration kicks in.

Mediation which will now include empirical data from the blackout.

Going dark has meant a bad news cycle for FB but in the long run they now have data to prove it’s FB driving NewsCorp’s revenue and not the other way around.
This works on DX12. There's another more mature project, that uses CUDA/OpenCL, and has CPU-only mode too: http://www.ilgpu.net/

Frankly, unless licensing is a problem, I think ComputeSharp author should just implement a DX12-based accelerator for ILGPU.
It would be helpful if we knew eactly what these endocrine-disrupting chemicals were. As is usually the case with such reports, this article is short on specifics.

Over the years there have many reports from cleaners to plasticizers, phthalates, and various other chemicals as endocrine disruptors but no one has put a sufficient measure on the problem so that we can move foreword - put regulations in place, etc.

As the article points out, what is so problematic is that many of the chemicals that are under suspicion are ubiquitous and not easily avoided.

I consider it important that we act quickly for not only public health reasons but also the fact that we're living in an increasingly chemical-phobic society and worrying the public without solid evidence isn't helpful to anybody.

We need need more research on this urgently.

Afterthought: it is essential that we have solid evidence ASAP as billions of dollars are tied up in the plastics industry. Plastics already cause environmental problems (and I constantly curse the fact that I have to get rid of so much waste plastic) but there's no point deliberately alienating the plastics industry without good cause.
... and then complain about gig economy and its effects on income.

Free shipping often means that the person who delivers the package is paid badly.
This is very much a cultural thing. Over here, you can easily get bottled water in glass bottles. The delivery services will pick up your tray with empty bottles to be reused. That's reuse after cleaning, not recycling!
He’s either correct about your tire pressure or he’s not. You’re right about that part. That’s as far as the purely logical bit can go—then you get to economics: Should you spend the time and energy to give his claim credence? Your example is poor because tire pressure is an expertise the average person you’re likely to come into contact with likely possesses. This is not so of, say, the epidemiological issue in question.

If you picked up a member of an Amazonian tribe who had never seen a car before, are you going to worry about the tire if he claims the tire pressure is low? Well, sure, it’s easy enough to check. But what if it was $500 to check? No. I don’t think you would.
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Politicians benefit from it. I don't buy tickets or gym memberships or any of that stuff. The only place I see laundry lists of fees tacked on is in paying taxes, auto registration, and municipal services.
Or at least select meat from local sources who aren't fed soy beans. And prefer chicken over beef. Preferrably also eco-friendly meat.
For my situation an EV is MORE practical--no gas stations. In four years, only done a small handful of trips longer than 300 miles (range of car). I'd bet the most common US car trip originates from a home where the car can charge and is under 30 miles. Most US consumers who switch to EV are likely to feel it was an overall experience upgrade.

Any car is a symphony of parts with varying durability, and if anything an EV will have fewer parts. So I think for the traditional manufactures doing ICE & EV cars, we'll see the EVs last longer outside the battery. That's the nexus of the longevity worry and I'm interested in whether newer solid-state batteries for cars start to solve for overall lifespan?
That's a really wonderful anecdote, thanks for sharing! This was especially nice since I just read the Wikipedia article on double buffering so I immediately understood your work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering
As silly as it is, I don't use it strictly because the 'T' between the date and the time making them harder to read. "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.nnn" and a separate timezone field is the format for me.

Another problem with ISO is the specs aren't freely available, so people will generally guess or refer to old versions, drafts, or RFCs (like RFC 3339)
Or donations* —- like seemingly every other platform does

* to those who have enabled the feature
Two months ago, Los Angeles was apparently going into a second lockdown -- this is what the news outlets were reporting. If you went to the beach on any day of the week, however, you would have seen throngs of unmasked people milling about together.
Spending the entire final paragraph on Amtrak was pretty absurd .
Sam Hill.
End of discussion
From all this, Microsoft stance was the worst: using the power of Big Government to attack competition. Shameful.
Why so pessimist? One plastic a day keeps the vasectomy away
I mean yeah, but the books from 1957 so I'm not sure if thats completely necessary :P
>> It seems far more likely to me that people in nearby developing countries will get their international news from locals who follow international news for professional reasons

> I'm confused why you would think that?

Simple; it's true everywhere. Most people do not care about international news; they do not ever seek it out.
A lot of people are using Facebook as their newsfeed, so I think it's not quite honest to claim that Facebook is not gaining anything from sharing news stories.

Facebook would be a lot less compelling without news.

People used to browse headlines on newspaper sites, then Facebook came and aggregated all the headlines, and "stole" all the visitors of the news sites.

Reporting on stories is a lot of effort (especially local stories where you can't just copy paste some press release), and Facebook wants to put the headlines on their website for free. Publishers should be happy about the exposure!

I understand that publishers are pissed. They are doing the work, but Facebook makes money from the content, and all they get in exchange is a small percentage of people who view a post actually click through to read the full story.
So we're now at a point where Big Tech can overtly strong-arm a nation into changing legislation proposed by their democratically elected government.

Facebook didn't bat an eye before blocking the pages of food banks and emergency service providers in the middle of a pandemic for an entire county, all in service of avoiding a drop in their advertising revenue [1]. That should tell you a lot.

You might not like the proposed laws but Facebook's reckless conduct is indefensible.

If you compare this to Facebook's history in Myanmar, you will find that they have no issue with subsidising the spread of their platform while it is being used to incite a literal genocide [2]. But they draw the line and take swift action when their profits are endangered.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-australia-news-ban-...
[2] https://www.wired.com/story/how-facebooks-rise-fueled-chaos-...
So far it seems like only press statements have been released.

ABC is reporting some small tweaks to the law (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-23/facebook-reverses-new...)

1. Introduction of a good faith mediation period prior to compulsory arbitration
2. Introduction of a clause requiring the treasurer to consider existing deals before applying the code.

Basically it seems like FB have agreed to pay media companies but with a stronger hand in negotiations.
So the train moved under its own power on the asphalt? The train cannot steer, right? So they had to get the direction just right when moving it onto the street from the train tracks... impressive!
You could test whether all of the characters in a SIMD (256 or 512 bits, so 32 or 64 UTF-8 chars) register are in 7-bit range and just use simple logical operations for lower or upper casing them in a few cycles.

If not, then use a slow path with lookups.
> E.g., many companies did exactly that in the previous two decades by trying to do everything in Java when a higher level language would have served them better.

Can you give us some real-world examples that you've seen?
The job market is ultra competitive for junior-intermediate devs. And there's not a lot of opportunities for them to make money b/w grinding leetcode, sending out resumes, and competing for contracts on upwork in a race to the bottom.

I’m not convinced that digging out a new, lower, bottom is the right solution to this issue.

If you were truly stuck on a problem at work, wouldn’t you be willing to spend $2 or even $5 per minute to solve it? That could be the difference between your service paying sweatshop wages versus actually providing a viable option for underemployed devs.
The only thing that annoys me is that some of the articles in Facebook news are behind a paywall
Fun fact: an ex workmate who once worked at rare told me why perfect dark required the extra memory cart: The maps were apparently compiled into the game as part of the code by the lead dev.
It’s being promoted as a means to end the restrictions because it’s the only plausible mechanism by which we can do so. The alternatives are all pretty terrible, involving restrictions, disability, hardship, and death on a societal scale.

All of life the is the management of risk; the plan is to take the abnormally high risks of the virus and turn them into the very low risks from the vaccines. No regulatory body would ever approve SARS-CoV-2 for human use in this context, because of its appalling side effects and high risk of mortality.

Nobody in the west is being forced to take a vaccine, it must be a personal choice. It cannot be a free choice though, because people are mortal and they live in a society that has been transformed by a pandemic. The choice people make has consequences, and it’s right that we discuss them.

Vaccination against COVID-19 is not just some random act being promoted by people who are keen on needles. It’s literally plans A, B, and C for returning civic life to something resembling normality in a short period of time.
Or carpet.
> Facebook would be a lot less compelling without news.

Yet everyone complains here (me included) that Facebook should go back to its roots, and offer news about your friends only
Yes, but you don’t have that many network round trips.
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There's a big difference in the amount of leakage from the plastics when it's cold vs when it's heated - so a good step is to put whatever you're heating on a plate before you put it in the microwave (or oven, or…), rather than heating it in the plastic it came in.
That movie is terribly depressing, and terribly good.
Tell HN Firefox/Mozilla developers: Please redesign the bookmark manager
I have been spending the last few minutes trying to figure out where the bookmark manager is in Firefox. On Chrome, it's as simple as right-clicking any bookmark on the toolbar and selecting the bookmark manager. In Firefox, however, you are several clicks away from the bookmark manager (given that you finally find it). It's not located in the (long and unnecessarily hierarchical) Libraries menu. And when you finally find it, it opens in a new window.

This is obviously something that could be easily fixed if there were more testing and UI feedback at Mozilla.

Please fix this.

Also, please redesign the context menu. It's unnecessarily crowded.
Another classic example is Apache's memory pool. In Apache, you allocate memory from memory pools associated with the current request or connection. Memory pools are freed as a whole when a request or a connection is complete. mold's memory management scheme is not very different from that if you think the entire linker as a single "session" which uses a single memory pool.
Couple of options:

(a) I used to live in Malaysia where tap water wasn't drinkable as-is, but filtering and boiling made it drinkable and tasted just fine. Hot water dispensers are pretty standard to have in most Asian homes; just put the water through a filtering pitcher before pouring into the hot water dispenser.

(b) Subscribe to those 5-gallon big blue bottles and a dispenser. They get actually reused instead of downcycled.
I'm mostly on board with your formulation, but I'd tweak it some. I'd say the thesis is:

1. Battery electric vehicles are the inevitable future, so you can invest now (when it's possibly too early) or invest later (when it will definitely be more expensive). So far, the market seems to be on board with investing now.

2. Established automakers are ripe for disruption in the classic sense, not because they're too slow or too bureaucratic, but due to their opportunity costs. They make money now selling ICE vehicles and lose money when they try to sell electric vehicles. It feels like the Apple II to Mac transition but they don't have a Steve Jobs at the helm to force the issue.

3. Therefore, electric vehicle manufacturers are the smart bet for the long haul.

And, for what it's worth, as an EV owner, I'm absolutely on board with this thesis. Infrastructure changes will come fast once demand is there.
By the data, it IS true, though. Cars—especially the engines—are lasting longer because we're just better at making them. Reliability by manufacturer varies of course. Since the engines are lasting longer, our durability problems now turn to the interiors, which currently can't be updated or refreshed the way say a kitchen can. Would like to see that change.
I would look at utility and patrol boats, like RHIBs, for your motor application. I bet it would fit very well together.
You might be right.

> Now Swan, an epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, has written a book, “Count Down,” that will be published on Tuesday and sounds a warning bell.

And it's a book that just happens to be coming out this week. In the opinion column.
By the way I'd love to chat about what kind of data collection you're doing on Cygnus-X1. I've been building a platform for data collection, visualization, and sharing from experimental hardware (https://www.telemetryjet.com/).

Do you mind if I send you an email? Based on Cygnus and the Baja telemetry tool you have public on your Github I'd be really interested in getting your feedback about the project. It might be something that you'd find useful on your projects :)
One thing I miss about Germany is S.Pellegrino in glass bottles. Since I moved to Belgium it has been incredibly hard to come by glass-bottled water.
I'm not sure what you mean by

> the ReMarkable is even more Closed than my MobiScribe, fail.

The ReMarkable is comparatively very hackable and open, see for example https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable/. It doesn't have a backlight though, that's true.
This site assumes that for a designer complementary colors are defined as pairwise opposites on the RGB wheel. This is a common mistake.

Complementary colors have two properties:

1: Mixed together physically or optically, they produce a neutral. For this the RGB pair sets are the most truthful.

2. Incorporated into the same design, they present as 'perceptually opposite'. For this the RYB pair sets are the most truthful.

1. Is easy to prove (Muncell for physical mixing or Maxwell for optical mixing). 2 is not yet proven, but my own work certainly supports it (*informal tests on large groups of art students).

The genealogy of RYB complementary colors goes back to before Leonardo DaVinci's, who defined these pair sets as retto contrario (literally ‘exactly opposite’).

http://www.treatiseonpainting.org/cocoon/leonardo/chap_one/v...