skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is a branch of US military was permitted to fly drones near the ships to 1) Test the drone swarm tech and get some practice 2) Measure reaction time & actions taken by unsuspecting military personnel
I had not seen that GMP reimplementation before, but it looks very readable. Thanks!

I used the Möller & Granlund paper for a portable implementation of 2-by-1 division [1], and on my machine (which is admittedly not exactly new) it runs much faster than the DIV instruction.

[1] https://www.hanshq.net/eprime.html#div
KPIs related to patents, academic papers, contributions to various projects and yes technologies for products. The Irish site was always aware of its isolation from the mothership and usually went above and beyond.
No use of external templates or having common subset in a binary library and then use private inheritance?
I meant it more as a suggestion than a description of how things are currently. But i did look up top shot. It's interesting that they do mainly operate through the use of special licenses to make use of the artwork.
Nah. It would radiate out heat if it got hot, especially if the back was dark. I don't think the heating would be much worse than putting something out in the midday sun on earth.
Yeah but...then I’d have to use azure.

The last time I was subjected to azure, I wanted to drive a stake through my head out of sheer frustration.

Curious to know about your experience with Cosmos though, when I last looked it was eye wateringly expensive and reports were that performance was...slow at best.
(I'm not an astronomer, my understanding is not absolute, please correct if I'm wrong) I believe our Sun is a type G, yellow dwarf. A red dwarf is usually much smaller, if considering "red dwarf" being a type M, then usually no more than 0.6 solar masses, usually much smaller, and a tiiiiny fraction of the luminosity of Sol. Brown dwarfs are not massive enough to fuse hydrogen, where red dwarfs generally are. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dwarf, above 0.25 solar masses, they should evolve into red giants, otherwise will shrink into a white dwarf once hydrogen fusion is ceased. The universe isn't old enough to have any red dwarf of 0.25 solar masses to do so, however as their lifespans are so long.
I'd guess the reason it's disabled in private browsing is because when you close the private window it's supposed to clean up the tracks of what sites you visited while doing private browsing, not that it leaks more information to the site.
I'm not necessarily talking about developed world systems. I encounter these same incentives when working with researchers in Africa and other parts of Asia. But many commenters are making this inherently Chinese:

"Is there a good analysis somewhere of pragmatism in Chinese culture?"

"I lived in China for 6 months. This fits my experience, and is remarkably similar to a story I was told by a native Chinese:
'We were taught in school about Mao, who rose to power on idealism. At first he showed us many great things that we could do, but eventually idealism led us to the great famine, and many people starved. Since then, Mao lost some power, and now in school they teach us that Mao was 2/3 right, but 1/3 wrong. And that 1/3 that was wrong was idealism. So now we practice pragmatism.'"

"In China, the concept of shame [in contrast to guilt] is widely accepted due to Confucian teachings"

"ADV China talk about this a lot. China is basically a low trust society where amoral opportunism is not only tolerated but also expected, as long its 'chabuduo' (just good enough)."

etc. etc.

It's just as silly to talk about that as it would be to talk about the inherent pragmatism of the Tanzanians.

It is, again, just people responding to very clear incentives, and the market rising to meet them.
As an end user of SaaS, I hate having to pay per license and would prefer firm wide licenses without too many contrived restrictions.

It’s super annoying when vendors try to price gouge you by restricting number of products / databases / etc.

A flat fee approach would be most reasonable to me. I don’t mind paying a bit higher but I don’t want to limit how many users I can give access to or how much of the software we can use!

The issue I think is sky high valuations are forcing many SaaS to charge very high profit margins to cover their cost of capital.
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On the Papers without Code page, however, I see only 11 submitted papers, out of which 5 have been marked as resolved: https://airtable.com/shrWz8OF3uMZ8G4cY/tbl5ZzB7ahIui1EoD

This does not seem very good data to empirically underlay the claim of 50%-75% papers being irreproducible. I don't doubt that there are (too) many of them, but having some real data before making strong claims about numbers would be more credible.
How long will that good quality last now that their number one priority will be profit for share holders? EIG has shown what happens when greed takes over hosting companies, service goes down the drain.
Wow. The Streisand Effect may need to be renamed. The comments in that thread require popcorn.

> This name was mentioned in an article on an external website that was linked in a post on r/ukpolitics. You've stated here that an automatic moderation rule was able to read this external article, see the name, and then ban the user who posted it? Is this scanning all external links posted to Reddit?

> > there was no bot. they just let the admin nuke whatever offended them.

> > > Exactly. It's complete bullshit.
In terms of full web sites, AMP isn’t that helpful.

However, it is impossible to beat AMP’s speed when doing something like loading an article from a Google search result.

The AMP spec makes it possible for a search engine to preload an article safely, and as a result, the article can be shown instantly when the user clicks on it.
You also want a RTC so it keeps the time. I guess intel nuc owns this market at the moment.
That's why grandfathering is necessary. For example, you can have residential property taxes determined by most recent sale price.
I would think that in the period 1895 to 1970 the relative price of the can to wage growth means it got cheaper relative to purchasing power?
If your DB doesn't support this technique, you might be able to use this rather disgusting technique, which builds an exponentially growing tower of rows by using nested queries with JOIN's. https://stackoverflow.com/a/61169467
It's not about the bugs. It's about one person putting 16k hours time into it instead of 100 people each putting in 160hrs each (yes I know that's not how it works but something is arguably wrong if it takes 16k hours of one person's time for something like curl
> They think that while humans can’t change their sex, rigid ideas of what it is to be a man or woman are one of the things that causes some people to feel like they need to. They would say that society should accept a and encourage a broader range of expressions of femaleness and maleness than it does now.

I can’t speak for all GC people, but for me it’s more a rejection of seeing certain behaviours as gendered at all - rather than things individuals may do.

Current trans ideology makes what sex people identify as vitally important, and something that requires gate keeping by femininity. “Womanhood is for feminine people, being feminine is the most important aspect of who I am”.

The GC position, ironically, sees sex as primarily important for the purposes of reproduction - though, in the context of ongoing sexual inequality also important for social justice. “Womanhood is for female people, being female is a relatively minor aspect of who I am as a unique individual”.
I hasten to add that I sure as shit hope it's UFOs, because maybe they can do carbon capture, or fusion, or tell us if Tony Soprano dies at the end or not. I just don't think it's all that likely.
I think you can already do this using the unload event in the Page Lifecycle API and the Navigator.sendBeacon() function. It won't be reliable on mobile, though.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...
> We are all literate and numerate because of university educated teachers. That fact alone proves that university is (for better or worse) is a cornerstone of all human endeavours.

No. People were literate and numerate for millennia before universities existed. Universities are not necessary preconditions for literacy or numeracy. At least 10% of children are able to read before they start school at all because their parents taught them. The first society with near universal literacy, Puritan New England did so without any universities and their teachers were in the large majority not university educated.
i see this is from 2014 but still, this concept is as old as the written word. i discovered it on my own during my school years where i observed that when i walk and try to learn something from a book or recite/summarize what i have learnt, walking helped tremendously. especially with things i had to memorize word by word, like poems for recitals.

anyway, i am a physically active person, but only last year i have added daily walks(5km+) into my schedule. i heard somewhere that humans should walk about two hours a day in total. so i am catching up :)

listening to podcasts while walking is great learning tool. not listening to anything is also great time for thinking things through. whether it is solving problems, making plans or just philosophying about life, it's the best time to do that.

and in the context of this scamdemic, gyms have been closed for many months now so walking(and now running as the weather is warming up), this was my only physical activity to keep me sane.

lastly, it is a great tool to discover your own city and nature.
I use bash for the muscle memory but my bash profile is increasingly always including

PS1="$(hostname)=; "

because it's just nice.
I definitely agree with "no Fitnesse", sorry, FitNesse, ugh, and likewise, no Selenium.

Not so much for the slowness. In the case of FitNesse (ugh), it's the Wiki -> Java impedance mismatch, and in terms of Selenium, it's the brittleness. Move an element, watch Selenium tests generated by a QA's browser plugin break.

I rather loathe Hibernate these days (JDBI is my favourite atm), and well, Tomcat feels rather legacy. But I guess that's the advantage of 9 years of advances.

> you can use the maven structure and produce maven artifacts with your build but use a different tool (Make, sbt, buildr, ant etc)

Omg, no, sbt is far, far, far, worse. Ditto ant. Not sure if buildr is still a thing? Looks like the last release was 2017. And as for make, how would you even integrate various Maven plugins into it?
I'd imagine a long blockage has an effect on oil prices, as most oil coming from the Gulf States to Europe (and America's west coasts?) would normally travel through there.

It essentially plugs a giant oil 'pipeline'
If you're running PostgreSQL, you can use the built-in generate_series (1) function like:

SELECT id, random()
FROM generate_series(0, 1000000) g (id);

There seems to be an equivalent in SQLite: https://sqlite.org/series.html

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-srf.html
You also need to handle the event loop yourself ; otherwise you end up using a language which is sub-Crystal.
HN conveniently forgets that a $100 dollar drone has a $100 performance. Smaller range, smaller payload, worse navigation electronics. You can probably kill unprotected civilians and protected soldiers if the explosives reach the head. That's scary for civilians but for the military? It's only as bad as bullets and missiles.
It's easy to say "value based pricing" and "don't do per-seat pricing", but what are good examples when not directly tied to revenue/savings, and generalize beyond some niche domain?

Ex: Analytics tools often charge utility fees along the lines of "per byte", but customers hate it because it prevents passive collection for core business functions (see: Splunk). However, when utility fee are more aligned to active use, e.g., for scaleout tools like Spark, 1:1 match on AWS spend, it seems ok, and closer to perceived value: you're using it.

Also, re:seats... in the age of SSO/2fa, doesn't the objection around seat sharing largely go away?
With luck, this will move emphasis to fast web sites, rather than web sites using a specific technology stack controlled by Alphabet.

Using the AMP libraries has never been the issue. Google hijacking the URL's has.
I have watched Manos.

I am very glad I had alcohol to go with it.
Took a massive data migration from several hours (over a day) to a few minutes (less than 10) on MongoDB with the right indices.
Makes me think of https://www.descript.com/
For that last part just give this number a call and those boys will hook you up: 800-225-5324
And at the other end of the spectrum you have 1M lines of code compiled in just 19 seconds, using latest Delphi compiler (https://blogs.embarcadero.com/delphi-10-4-2-compiler-speed-i...)
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Maybe. But often, less is more.
Yeah, I’m not a big fan either. Especially the 6,8 and 9 are super inconsistent with the other numerals.

Instead of relying so heavily on circles, which don’t appear in any of the other numerals, a three quarter circle arc would’ve worked much better. The cut could then sit between the arc and the straight edge. even the eight could have this straight edge between the two arcs, with the ends of the arcs being the respective cut.

Maybe that wasn’t striking enough for the designer, though.
Comparing compile times is done rarely. I sometimes tried to google some comparisons, but didn't find much.

For a typical 1,5 MLOC project my clean build times are sitting around 40 seconds.

I think that's pretty good, but I don't think I have a way to improve it much. Without writing a compiler from scratch I think 10 seconds are out of reach for me...
I agree. Hopefully when the Cranelift backend works it will get a lot faster, but even `cargo check` can be pretty slow, and I'm not sure if there is any way around it.

One idea I had: can crates.io generate machine independent Rust IR for all of the crates and have cargo download it? Then at least you don't need to parse/check/compile the source code of dependencies for clean builds.

Probably wouldn't work for any crates that use `build.rs` or conditional compilation anywhere though (which is probably most of them).
I read this as change sux, and I couldn't agree more.

That said I've found both C# and F# a pleasure to work with and Windows is fantastic for those languages.

I miss Linux, but I don't miss perl one little bit.
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> I noted the other day that zig has @addWithOverflow which is a step in the right direction.

This seems reasonably easy to implement in C:

#include <stdint.h>

typedef struct {
uint64_t val;
uint64_t carry;
} Result;

Result addWithOverflow(uint64_t x, uint64_t y) {
Result res = {x + y, x + y < x};
return res;
}

On GCC and Clang this does the right thing (grabs the carry flag): https://godbolt.org/z/dzP3TPGTW

I agree a dedicated intrinsic like in Zig is even better, but it is nice that modern compilers make it reasonably straightforward to get the desired code even without dedicated intrinsics.
Astronomers to the rescue!

https://xkcd.com/1294/
Interestingly, I don’t really read reddit even on my PC anymore after removing it from my phone. Like I opened it a few time, immediately got bored, and went on to do something else.
Create JDBC driver over rest APIs
Generally, my impression is that HN is not against such thing.

Nevertheless, when we are talking about Mussolini or 1926, violence and politics were mixed. There was no such thing as politics without mix of violence, because the question of "who should we be violent against" was the major political question of the time.

Moreover at that time, Mussoliny himself was source of a lot of that violence.
My concern about synthetic fuels is where the fuel comes from. In the EU around 2% of the agricultural land is used for growing biofuels. That land is going to farmed in an industrial way which is not sustainable. If we increase the use of biofuels, that % is going to increase - most likely by destroying other ecosystems to increase the total amount of agricultural land. If these synthetic fuels have a similar price point to existing fossil fuels, then that's going to delay the rollout of EVs.

What if we simply tax existing fuels fairly, taking into account the carbon and pollution they produce?

In say 20 years time, when you can get a base model EV for the same price and range as a Toyota Corolla today, pretty much everyone in the developed world will be driving EVs. Even today the fuel costs are much less than ICE vehicles, it's just the initial cost of the car that needs to come down.

The only people still buying ICE vehicles will be as you say, those who have specialized or emotional uses. If someone buys a Porsche Cayman GTS to race around the track on the weekend, they can probaby afford to pay €5/litre for fuel.
well that's a start, kudos for the probability and evidence that would shift it.

Like most people I haven't looked into any of this much before the last year so I'm far from knowledgeable here but:

.5 is a surprising number without any additional explanation because it suggests you think this is about as likely as a zoonotic origin (or at least
not specifically the result of an accident). Does that probably extend to other viral outbreaks or is it specific to something? My baseline probability would be significantly lower (although non zero because I'm not denying the possibility; the article makes the case that lab safety is a concern worldwide) based on my, admittedly limited, understanding of past outbreaks. Is it the case that you think about as many viral outbreaks were due to lab accidents as not? or maybe this is more specific to coronaviruses or this specific virus? I'm curious how you'd model this, even if informal.
You can stretch it all you want but while iPhones may have powerful CPUs that could qualify them as "computers" they're not general purpose computers, so while I could use them to write an email and book a train ticket, I can't do any school or office work on them and iPads mostly remain Netflix/youtube/redit browsing devices for the couch after the honeymoon period is over so can you really put them in the same category as "computers"?

My smart fridge also has a powerful ARM CPU and a touchscreen and a modern OS. Is it also a computer? Can I use it for productive work? Doe every wearable and IoT device qualify as a "computer"?

So sticking back to general purpose computers that are not locked in a vendor ecosystem and let you install and run whatever you want from whatever sources, Apple is less than 10%, so yeah, with ~80% marketshare Microsoft is basically a monopoly in that space.
That menu is populated by your OS, not by Firefox. Any application can implement intent ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT ( https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Inte... ) to appear in the text selection menu.
How can one get charged with raping and torturing a 10 year old and with possession of child pornography unrelated to that child and is then out on bail for two years?

When one considers the UK scandals involving children gang rapes and the police looking the other way (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...), it becomes disturbingly clear that the UK is unwilling to protect children living on its territory.
True, but you can't fight a massively distributed attack using a very small concentrated force of professional soldiers; hence the population needs to be issued with weapons and training in an emergency for civil defense.
Conventional weapons like tanks and fixed emplacements just become easy targets.
It'll be really interesting to see what DO's business strategy is.

If they try to compete with the big-3 (AWS, Azure, GCP), then they're going to fail. I really hope that there isn't external pressure to go down that route now that they're going public.

There's a very nice market right behind all that where setting up a service in early stages is really annoying. Right before it starts to be worth it to delve heavily into configurations that then become easy to manage once you've got all your scripts and workflows setup. Before, that it can be a major PITA to waste an hour because there was a trailing slash in your input field when there wasn't supposed to be one. Small details that focus on good documentation, code examples and a nice UI is easily worth an extra couple of bucks which can quickly become a couple thousand once someone gets hooked.
https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F16161793...

Wow, I think I know this one. I was on that barge or one identical to it back when I was a kid. I still remember seeing the telemetry for one of those three antennas drop out when the bomb severed the cable as it punched through the deck. There wasn't any explosives as the test was just to measure the accuracy of the bomb. Fun fact, the GPS receivers and the telemetry were all contained in a pelican case on the far side of the barge right behind where the bomb is in the image in a black wooden cabinet with a board screwed in place to keep it from falling out while towing the barge into position. When the pelican case was being loaded onto the barge was the moment it was discovered that the power switch to turn it on was on the inside of the pelican case so at the start of the test someone had to unscrew the cabinet and pull it out to open it up and turn it on.
The Chinese CH-4 perhaps? Not sure.
This system seems messed up and is ready for disruption. Lets replace gigantic container ships with a worldwide flock of drones following the sun 24/7.
I sort of assumed all of them did!
Agreed, there are also other limitations with self reporting like you can’t assess the genetic impact and the data will be messier as people misinterpret questions.
That's been the case for display resolutions for a while as well ... although most of them can probably be parsed by the regex [UWXVQ]+GA.
Did he measure how much worse the Java version is to work on? Scala infers a lot of boilerplate and wasted effort a lot faster than I can write or review it, because I'm made out of meat.
I recently did the opposite and re-enabled 1.0 and 1.1

Wrote some thoughts on why here https://blog.nyman.re/2021/02/07/usability-security.html but in short, it's several magnitudes more likely someone will want to check out my blog using a old device vs someone trying to exploit vulnerabilities in the old protocols.

Google.com still allows TLS1.0/1.1 https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=google.com&s=...
When I was still deep in the Java space, I always used hot code replace, otherwise it’s really unbearable. I also contributed a patch to hibernate to cache the compiled classes. That sometimes saved minutes per restart.
Can someone give me a specific use case for this? As "check how a query behaves on a large table" is very vague to me.

E.g. I have a table structure but not alot of rows in it, so i go use this to get alot of rows in to check how fast queries get processed?
Is this down to who has authority to approve spending, and it's easier to get approval for a larger chunk at once?

As a business owner I'm the opposite of you; I want more services to have usage-based pricing like S3.

Take your logging example. It seems fair that if I log 2x more I pay 2x more. If there's business value in that logging then it's a no-brainer.

With fixed pricing tiers I know that's when I'm at the lower usage end I'm paying over the odds, and when I'm at the upper end I have the problem you describe of not wanting to exceed my usage and move up a tier with a large price increase.
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no just a new URL. closer to how most people use the address bar