skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a dual US|EU (Croatian) citizen, who naturalized (by descent, via my 4 Croatian great-grandparents, even though I only needed 1) as Croatian over the US healthcare system. Because I am an European Union citizen, I can live/work/retire in the EU and EFTA countries (minus Lichtenstein--has an immigration quota), due to Freedom of Movement rights. I have 2 rare immune-mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system, plus type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin-dependent). Anyways, even though the neurological diseases are in pharmaceutical remission, I require a lot of unusual and expensive treatments to stay alive. I am an electrical engineering graduate student, who has studied healthcare systems and delivery, and I understand the logistics and the bureaucracy involved. I am also an expert on processes involving acquiring citizenship. Feel free to shoot me an email, if you want (see my profile).

Ironically, the best resource for navigating the various intricacies of various countries' health systems, globally, with respect to living a long life, is the IMHE group. You know, the group that was famous for the coronavirus projections at the beginning of the pandemic in the USA. All of their peer-reviewed publications are open access, too.

This is probably the most important research article to consult and study (although there are several others): Forecasting life expectancy, years of life lost, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 250 causes of death: reference and alternative scenarios for 2016–40 for 195 countries and territories using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016: http://www.healthdata.org/research-article/forecasting-life-...

This is an easy, but startling read: How healthy will we be in 2040?: http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/how-healthy-will-we-b...

Anyways, feel free to shoot me an email, if you want advice on this sort of stuff. I will be glad to help. I have studied this for hundreds of hours.
In Europe, a lot of people (including many essential workers) commute across a border every day to work. What do you do with them?
Yeah, most SaaS solutions have this problem. GitLab wants you to pay $80/user/mo to be able to get dependency scanning or vulnerability scanning. While Github gives you that for free. They could at least include it in their $20/user/month tier.
Yeah.. honestly a lot of philosophers when I read/hear them make me think that philosophy is just a dated precursor to science.

But people like Joshua Bach and Andy Clark show how very useful philosophy can be. Although I guess they are not technically pure philosophers because most of it is cognitive science.
I'm not 100% sure if section 230 should protect those platforms providing anonymous speech. While anonymous speech is important for free speech purposes, section 230 is about shifting the liability of the speech from the "publisher" (facebook/twitter, using air quotes as publisher isn't really accurate) to the writer. However, if these platforms are providing anonymous speech, then it makes it much more difficult to actually go after the writer.

perhaps one could argue that by providing such a speed bump in the process of figuring out who the writer is facebook/twitter are aiding and abetting said speech and hence have liability from it. And that service providers over a certain size either cannot allow anonymous speech at all, or at best have serious KYC rules with straight forward demasking.

I don't like where my thought experiment leads, but I really dont have a good answer for this.
What is the benefit for you or your customers?

My assumptions:

You may save a miniscule amount on transaction fees.

For your customers It’s just a new hoop they have to jump.

Does it worth it?
I believe it's fairly well known that not being exposed to dirty environments, animals and nature have caused a huge increase in allergies all around the world (but very much the most in the developed world).

I keep hearing that but I don't really know where that idea comes from. I am skeptical of that idea.

I don't think things are simple at all. That's part of why my desire to write on the topic hasn't really gone anywhere.
data.table is written primarily in C. But R happens to have a very good package system and a very good interface to C code.

And Matt Dowle has bled for that C code.
There's no way for you to check the claims though, you have to trust Zuck/FB.
I had some issues with Firefox memory usage quite a while ago, tweaking about:config and using the Auto Tab Discard addon made it much better. IIRC the about:config changes were changes to various cache setttings, but one of the more surprising things was that not having disk cache enables significantly reduced memory usage, no idea why, maybe Firefox's bookkeeping code for stuff cached on disk used a lot of memory for some reason. This is just what worked for me, so YMMV, it only might work for anyone else.

One of my bigger annoyances with Firefox at the moment is that it writes to the cookies.sqlite and cookies.sqlite-wal files consistently every few seconds. This writing all the time behaviour has led to Firefox being called a 'SSD killer' a few years ago when SSDs were not as durable as they are now. Every chance I have tried on the about:config settings to try and fix it hasn't worked, got rid of session restore etc, no dice. It looks like I will have to put the Firefox profile directory on a ramdisk to fix this, softlinking the password files to the HDD, because they are the only thing I care about getting written to disk straight away.
> No, it's really not. If what you were saying was true, everyone who wanted to be a financially successful artist would be.

You got it wrong. Determination does not at all equal success. It equals the possibility of success. If you dont decide to try to be an artist, you wont be an artist, garanteed. If you give up because you think its hard, then your attitude have made you fail, not some external force.

I'm not treating anyone with kids gloves, I'm sayng: Quit focusing on how the world is unfair, and try to make the changes you want to make. I am, and so have the people who made the world the way it is.
'Immune Escape' – Geert Vanden Bossche PhD and His Warning to the World
I guess I was deleting that line as you were writing.

Sorry, I don't really want to get into it. That seems like a shit show waiting to happen and all downside.
I wonder how expensive it would be to design an "affordable" space telescope which could be produced in a small series. The Falcon 9 should be able to launch a roughly hubble-sized telescope. So the launch costs would be a fraction of the shuttle costs back then. This means, more than one telescope could be launched and the telescope to be more designed to be "expendable". Which once again reduces costs a lot.

I think one driver for the enormeous cost of a lot of space missions is the amount of overdesign happening as due to the high costs, failure is not an option. Just designing for 5 years and allowing for the early failure, costs should be so low that a failure is no longer a big issue.

Also, if there is one basic platform, sending different telescopes with quite different sensor packages would be an option.
My parents will be alive for probably another 20 years. That's the kind of time horizons I'm looking at things, not the current marketing speak. If we get there within a decade, that will seem very quick to me and I'll be very happy with our progress.
Writing a seoarate path for NEON is what would be needed. It's not like there are these magical SIMD functions (intrinsics) that work across architectures.
The problem is not about free distribution of knowledge or not.

The problem is, in compensation of the people involved in doing the work.

For example if someone sponsored content 'x' and made it free to the public it would be fine to copy it around. Think govt funded research. This has its own problems. The people that commission these works and the general public may not share the same tastes.

The risks of selling to a patron and selling to a yet unknown audience are vastly different. This is why the compensation varies wildly between the two. Its possible that one game may take enormous resources and then not give back any returns resulting in a loss and another one makes massive profits.

The positive ones cover up for the failing ones. If you only look at the positive ones it's easy to be dismissive and say they are getting compensated undeservedly. In the broader picture it is the massive successes that allow for variety in the market place, it is an essential mechanism. If you cap off the upper limits of getting paid, people will be unwilling to make newer / different types of things. The market is essentially funding innovation, variety and a buffer for failures - it serves as a direction mechanism for knowing what people want.

Knowing what to make that people will buy is a very hard and expensive problem to answer. People that can answer it correctly get paid a lot of money deservedly.
No print has the same physical presence as being able to see the layering of the paint on canvas. It's not a fully 2D medium.
It'd be pretty neat to lift this up into 3d - you could probably reverse the transforms to find the camera pose for each frame, then drop it into a scene alongside the camera frustum and the topography so we can see exactly how much steering the descent stage did to hit its target and how fast it was descending at every stage.
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> If thread context switch overhead was as low as usermode context switching, there would be no use for coroutines since you could just use threads instead

Two points: a) native threads switching overhead is extremely low, probably lower than usermode Go thread overhead; b) the utility of usermode threads isn't to lower overhead.

It's a given that usermode threads introduce lots of overhead, if only because you're reimplementing the scheduling machinery that already exists in the kernel and that you're already paying the performance penalty for.

But theoretically, you could implement specially tailored scheduling algorithms specific for your app and gain an advantage there - kernel schedulers are general-purpose and can introduce latencies, starvation and other undesired special effects.

P.S. The Linux kernel also has interfaces for changing the thread scheduler algorithms. This gets you 99% of the way there - native threads + round-robin realtime thread scheduler gets you the performance benefits you want without having to rewrite schedulers and context switchers in usermode for every language runtime.
Ask HN: Who can compete with Apple and Alphabet?
These companies are involved in just about everything.

They have their own:

- smartphones
- laptops
- wearables
- smart TVs
- payment system
- operating systems
- programming languages
- AI frameworks
- database engine
- personal assistant
- smart speakers
- car infotainment system
- music/movie/book purchase/streaming
- messaging apps
- video calling apps
- browser
- maps
- chips
- emojis
- typefaces
- design language
- AR/VR platform
- self driving cars
- productivity software

What other companies can compete with them? Do they have a chance? How big is the moat?
Which one? Please post the link here.
For sure correlation between piracy and sales, but causation? I'm not convinced.

I've always been a strong proponent of, "piracy is theft" with the caveat of, "theft is bad, but there are lots of worse things". I think we should stop building justifications and just call it what it is, theft, and admit society is probably more okay with theft than we're willing to admit to one another.

Pirating content shouldn't fundamentally alter the "am I a good person?" equation, but it does sit with a negative sign next to it.
There's a very similar project, https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite which has always felt more pleasant me.
But the hexagons! Where are it's hexagons?
This again?

Click on some of the examples before commenting and upvoting.

These are not functional clones. They are just UI/front-end clones.

These serve no purpose.

Stop commenting as if they are real clones, talking about the value of clones and suggesting other clones.
Nonsense. I have been getting paid in BTC or (when BTC fees ramp up temporarily) in other coins like Ethereum and XRP for years for completely legal, non-criminal, not even grey work and know of many jobs, job forums and other compensation sources that happily pay in crypto for perfectly legal work, either by default or if you request it as your method of payment. You basically just invented a fact and casually stated it as if true.

I also should note that for work done for clients outside my country of residence, I preferred crypto payments because local exchanges allowed me to have the payment in my bank account, in local currency in minutes 24 hours a day, any day of the week, as opposed to waiting 24 hours or even days by any other non-crypto payment method
Because Whatsapp abuses contacts. I tried to send a message to someone without adding him to my contacts, but I did not find a way to do so in iOS. I had to add that number to my contacts and allow whatsapp full access to those.
That sounds like a canned response carefully prepared by a lawyer (if indeed it's repeated word-by-word which I can't check due to Spiegel's lack of privacy options). I guess the privacy invasion comes in via linking to Fb and graphs of who's-messaging-whom.

Wonder what the alternatives are? I'm no expert and might be completely wrong but my assessment re usual suspects goes like this: Telegram? No E2E! Signal? Ceased to update their self-hosting software! Matrix: not a really open protocol to begin with!

Over ten years ago, XMPP used to work just fine (and IRC before that) so I'm just wondering why we have to reinvent the wheel all the time. Messaging isn't exactly rocket science.

I won't tie my online presence to a proprietary vendor with no alternative clients and service providers since that's strictly worse than what we have today. Remember WhatsApp started like those other providers but then got acquired by Fb.

So it's SMS/MMS for me I guess.
What in the contrived double-speak? This "story" and all it represents are just gross, far right trolling.
You can reverse-engineer an App and check its logic and protocol. Whatsapp is popupar enough, so I'm sure that many people do that and if E2E were fake, they would let everyone know.
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Under Linux memory is allocated on first access to a mapped page, so actually no memory is being allocated in both cases.
Only works if the small town has good enough internet ...
> WhatsApp CEO: I am worried by another surveillance law that Germany plans to pass that could force messenger apps and email providers to actively help government agencies to smuggle malware onto the devices of their customers.

> Der Spiegel: The government says it needs this technology to read messages from terrorists at a point before they are encrypted on their phone. What’s wrong with that?

Maybe Der Spiegel is asking the question simply to elicit the interviewee's opinion. But it strikes me as very strange that a German paper aimed at a German audience would be asking why citizens need protection from government surveillance. Germans are possibly the most privacy conscious folks in the world because of a history of invasive government surveillance.
So then attempting to live in privacy by reducing tracking and data recording becomes a liability. Great.
Correct, but no one tries to claim that the brush made an art work.
Apropos of auto discard add-on, is it made by Firefox or at the very least verified by them?
TBH, I am wary of using any plugins or add-one, since they might slow down the browser.

Currently, I have only Grammarly plug-in installed.

Might I enquire what changes did you perform on about:config to speed up your browser?
Zelda will start to go wonky with what looks like 10 fps when you go to a very dense place with lots of 3D models like the 'korok forest'.
Too much ego is at stake on wanting to write cool shiny new async language runtimes and not wanting to learn how your existing kernel API's work.
Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme
Four trends are shaping Silicon Valley’s future and purpose
Uhm... did you look at them? They both use very very similar shades of blue for all of the series which makes them impossible to distinguish.

The second graph is a little better but even in that one the very similarly coloured blue lines cross each other so you have to really look closely to figure out which is which.
Can a Vegan Diet Be Healthy? A Literature Review
Congratulations and Good Luck! Curious about your tech stack choices that allowed you to cover iOS, Android and Web, with a team of one!
> readers choose their own spam filtering

That would surely simplify the problem - user chooses filter, then user is responsible. Then every social niche could have their own filters.

One thing I don't like about Google, FB and Twitter is that they don't tell us what content they have hidden from us. We should be able to know what was filtered out so we can re-rank with our own rules.

Of course that would not sit right with the web giants and politicians because they can't control anymore how our news get ranked and filtered.

If there's one outcome I wish to see from the new anti-trust push is to force them to open up the front-end and allow competing UIs and competing filters on their platforms. Why should a few people decide how information is accessed for the whole world by virtue of being the winners of a natural monopoly?
A person who is not used to a strong accent finds it difficult to understand similar to how a person not used to a dialect can find it difficult to understand the local speech. I don't think it should be considered insulting in the same way you may expect a translator.
EVs are very energy intensive, and in a location of the building that never had such high energy requirements; parking garages are one of the pieces of the building that is extremely optimized and so may be complicated or expensive to retrofit.

Building codes have had to be adjusted to accommodate, but new housing is a fraction of the total building supply in any given area, and retrofitting can be nearly four times the cost of a new installation. And these building codes usually target a <10% amount of EV spaces. Anecdotally, I work in an office building that meets these codes and is all LEED-compliant and stuff, yet demand for the limited EV spaces outstrips supply and you basically get rationed access to it on a first-come first-serve basis.
And yet the government tries to install massive surveillance laws in regularity.
The size of groups is different - it would take 2-4 times much longer to vaccinate kids and working age groups
Thanks for the comment, that's very interesting. I hadn't considered the possibility of the desktop environment needing to do disk reads, I was thinking everything was in memory already.

I suppose the solution is to figure out how to reduce or eliminate the number of disk reads after the DE initially loads, or cache everything needed in memory with a "do not evict" flag on it. Especially for the TTY, that's basically a crucial system function and keeping everything needed for it always available in memory wouldn't take much space relative to a typical desktop system.

I think at least some of the problem is the program code pages getting evicted to disk, so they have to be read back to memory too, which goes to the back of the disk queue. When I'm experiencing thrashing, even basic stuff like alt-tab to switch windows doesn't work. And I assume the window manager doesn't need to do disk reads to switch windows. Even the damn X cursor freezes!
I’m reading it and would say it’s definitely teaching me in the best way possible - to think.

Certainly about the shorter form, but mainly about WHY things are introduced when they are.

Saunders also gives the reader the chance to imagine in which direction they would take the stories.

Thanks for the nod to the audiobook.
For those, like me, who are not imperial-fluent:

65 inches is 165cm

6 foot 5 inches is 195cm

So interestingly, the difference is a foot.
Proton is already better than most native ports. I play at least half of the games in my library that do have native ports using Proton anyway, because either the native port simply doesn't work, it is less performant (common even for developers who used cross platform engines like Unity) or more buggy, or the Windows version has had content updates released that were never included in the Linux port.

Proton is also essential for all of the games that already exist and that will never be ported to Linux. Any incentive to produce native ports for future games is not a replacement because (a) not every developer will take the bait, and (b) people will always still want to play old games.

Linux purists will always seem to argue against Proton on some philosophical ground but the idea that the ecosystem was in a better place before it just seems absurd. You can now quite often play your whole Steam library on Linux, pretty seamlessly. There is just no comparison to the situation a few years ago.

As a Linux gamer, what I want is to play all the games that I want to play. What I do not want is to waste my time with platform politics. 'Dealing with' the 'hacks on hacks' is already largely irrelevant, because mostly Proton just works.
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If your customer is willing to spend BTC they own for your services, and you’re willing to exchange your services for some amount of BTC — then it’s very straightforward, zero extra hoops to jump.

Imagine now your customer is in a non-US country, and you are in another non-US country with another currency. Using USD wire transfer is jumping through hoops in this context, and might not always be fast, cheap, or possible at all with some pairs of countries.
It fits with the culture of working in VT-100 in the 21st century.
Yes but what I mean is that there will be two groups of people online. Those who seek out specialized fora outside of big social media just like they would have in 2005. Some were active then, others are too young to have been.

The other group will simply go for the easiest choice, big social media, and use that.

We had the easy choice and the hard choice back in the 90s too. Internet usually came with some provider, in Sweden it was Spray and in the US it was AOL.

You could get online and just go through their network to find anything you wanted, news, message boards, chat.

I was a young teenager and didn't even look twice at what Spray offered here in Sweden. I was curious, I looked further, deeper for more specialized places.

People haven't changed. Many of us will still do that and end up on decentralized platforms.

But at the same time we have a ton more netizens today than we did 20 years ago so the large majority will most likely just go with the easiest option.
Because they are not real boolean datatype, just strings probably.
why should a minority be "protected" just because they are a minority? The only protection offered to a minority is and should be only for abuse of said minority in the past.
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I’m not sure how much this is still the case. The government has been massively pushing mass surveillance during the last few years, all under the „terrorists“ and „child abusers“ and almost everyone outside my privacy/tech bubble is in favor of it
Looks like a cool project.

It's better to separate benchmarking results for big data technologies and small DataFrame technologies.

Spark & Dask can perform computations on terabytes of data (thousands of Parquet files in parallel). Most of the other technologies in this article can only handle small datasets.

This is especially important for join benchmarking. There are different types of cluster computing joins (broadcast vs shuffle) and they should be benchmarked separately.