skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. We have already vacinated most of the high risk groups and our hospitals are not at risk of capacity.

It just means that people like me who are at the end of the queue will lose six months more of our lives waiting for a vaccine (they have also paused J&J, I am assuming that one is gone too).
Since Encore supports deploying to your own cloud, it's definitely possible to integrate with existing systems you already have in place.

We're also working on expanding the set of infrastructure primitives supported, so that you get the Encore experience for doing more types of things. Things like Pub/Sub and message queues are the next things we'd like to add support for.
That's what I was curious about. Indeed the more persons the more leaks potentially, yet it seems that they took care of dilluting knowledge so nobody really knew what was for. I'd love to read about the soviet side of this story.
Wouldn't you already have access to the full WASM memory object by the time you can write an exploit that affects a WASM module?
I mean, if the person can transfer them right now for that amount in USD how is it a lie?
> They want you to treat people of colour differently

BIPOC people _are_ different. They have different experiences in America. It's not racist to acknowledge and respect this.

> to pity them, to assume they are weak

This is going way too far. No serious anti-racism activist says this.

> and that they need to be saved by some massive act of guilt

If you look at asthma rates in the Black community vs. the average, it's not guilt that motivates people to address it, it's rationality and decency. Although guilt wouldn't be wrong either!

> They aim to never let anyone forget what race they or their associates are.

...in the same way I don't forget my sex, gender, name, nationality, etc. These are core parts of one's identity.

> They put race above individual traits.

Insofar as race exists, it's absolutely an individual trait? If you're saying we should look past race into a person's merits, no anti-racist activist is saying we shouldn't. In fact, that's kind of the point. Unless you're making a weird reverse racism argument, which is hogwash.
Democracy should be more direct when it can be. A referendum with the question "do you want spam?" would quickly solve the problem.
Because the World Economic Forum cares for global competitiveness, and pro market propaganda (when it serves its controllers interests), not for democracy...
I recall reading Dijkstra saying that he preferred that the programming languages he used weren't in his native Dutch for pretty much the reason you give.

Presumably the use of Greek letters in traditional mathematics doesn't present an insurmountable barrier to non-Greek speakers.
Fantastic to see a logic programming/datalog/prolog-like from a big actor like Google. Perhaps this can make more such tools become mainstream.

Only I wish we had such a language for a more generic streaming / data processing framework, such as materialize [1].

I was very optimistic about that for some time, as the guy behind the technology, Frank McSherry, wrote some datalog tooling as well [2].

[1] https://materialize.com/

[2] https://github.com/vmware/differential-datalog
You might be interested in https://hyperpolyglot.org/
Because otherwise the savior to half of Americans would have no reason to become president, duh!
Karl Marx.
I can see an argument that poor folks have less free time - if someone worked a couple part time jobs, has kids or other family that rely on them, several hours picking up litter is a pretty big deal. Vs my 9-5 M-F job, no dependants, etc. several hours picking up litter is a bummer or inconvenience.

I think that corporal punishment proposal is batshit insane.
We need a more useful definition of AI
How the FBI was able to crack the iPhone 5C in the San Bernardino case
https://www.productionhub.com/about/frequently-asked-questio...

>"What is ProductionHUB?

ProductionHUB is a global network of local crew and vendors that serves the film and video production industry. Find and hire anything you need, whether it’s a cameraman for one day, a video editor for one month or a full-time producer. Since launching in 1999, we’ve grown beyond a simple directory into the most trusted resource for finding qualified and experienced crew, vendors and employees."

PDS: Sort of like Indeed.com -- but for the TV/Video/Film production community...

Keywords: TV Production, Video Production, Film Production, Community, Directory, Job Board, Networking, Hollywood 2.0, etc.
Wait what? Who has ever been caught from analysing the blockchain? Everyone uses local crypto exchanges to cashout/cashin and burner wallets. It's literally paying/receiving cash but with extra steps.
I remember when this happened, I was running a hedge fund. Supposedly he was doing collars (split-strike conversions) to make this money, but it just seemed implausible to me at the time, since I traded options. I figured he just punted futures, nice and easy way to sorta hug the index (I hadn't seen his "returns"), maybe Martingale it and get lucky until you're not so lucky.

But then it turned out he wasn't doing anything at all.

This was a bit of an insight for me, because I'd been through investor meetings, and they ask a lot of things. Mostly the wrong things, but they do ask things that you need to actually have had a fund to answer, like "who does your audits". So I was pretty amazed when it turned out he got away with some DIY audit (through a friend?) or something like that.

One thing that did seem to happen immediately was that investors seemed to play it safe. Not great for little funds. I think a lot of them were spooked by some quite big names getting scammed.
In that situation, the inability to eat it or shoot something with it is probably going to make gold/silver pretty close to worthless as well until society re-exists.

Even if the US government ceases to exist, the features of non reproducibility built into cash dollars (watermarks, intaglio printing) would still exist although they won't be as ultimately durable into the future as an element. At least you can also use them as fire starters.
If it ends up cutting into my primary use of my phone (Discord is my primary chat service), I will switch away.
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Games made to take advantage of hardware innovations that were then built upon. Nintendo has had a direct hand in the implementation of new (or newly low-cost) technologies that have then gone on to serve as the basis for more widespread innovations. Ex. They placed a cheap infrared camera in their Wiimote to enable controller tracking (which means that that tech got into the hands of millions of users). An engineering student reversed this, using that camera to track LEDs placed on a pair of glasses to achieve cheap headtracking.(1) This was then used as the basis for the tech in Microsoft's Kinect(2), which served as the basis for the tracking technologies we see in modern XR setups. That's just one example of many.

1: https://youtu.be/Jd3-eiid-Uw

2: https://www.wired.com/2011/05/johnny-lee-kinect-hacking/
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Really, you're going back to WWII and the Anglo-Soviet invasion? Why not go back to the 19th and The Great Game?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game

> Both the US and the UK have manipulated power in Iran in the past multiple times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

I'll tell you a secret; it wasn't just the US and the UK but several other powers. And not just in Iran but all over the world. There was this little thing called the Cold War as a backdrop, from your own link:

"The British soldiers withdrew from Iran after the end of the war. However, under Stalin, the Soviet Union partly remained by sponsoring two "People's Democratic Republics" within Iran's borders."

> Even the Ayatollahs themselves are in power now because we thought regime change is necessary in Iran, hence we did aid their revolution.

So? What do you imagine this magical aid was? There was quite a lot going on in that part of the world at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Iranian_hostag...

I don't know who we is supposed to be, but if you mean the US, certainly it had interests and influence it tried to wield. Very unsuccessfully. Quite an interesting unsavory story to be sure, but scratch beneath the surface and you'll find a quite complicated one as well - it isn't black and white at all.

Iran never had democracy, it is cursed with oil as you point out and geography plays a role as well, as does religion, welcome to how the world actually works.

However Iran ended up with Ayatollahs, one could only ever so gently suggest that perhaps Iranians themselves had some agency and responsibility in this matter, or how North Korea ended up with the Kim dynasty - hardly a reason to be an apologist for these dangerous repressive regimes.
My hope is that the space junk problem becomes so severe that it forces all humans to realize there's no point to pursuing schemes of colonizing other planets, or even our own planet's orbital reaches, until we learn to better manage the industrial processes that take us there. Like a safety mechanism that ensures species who pollute excessively remain trapped on their own spheres and don't go spewing their shit all over the cosmos.
Why come you don't have a tatoo?
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Definitely agree. It's kind of hilarious when you see the same room in two different pictures, taken from different angles. The aspect ratio of the furniture looks completely different.

There's also a trend of photoshopping furniture into an image, which I cannot stand. The entire point of photographing a room with furniture is to give a sense of the scale in it. That simply doesn't happen with photoshopped furniture, because the relative size is determined by the scaling of the images, rather than the actual size of the room/furniture. The photoshopped images should be viewed with extreme suspicion, and only the barest hair's breadth away from false advertising.
How to (finally) find a productivity system that works for you
> You could take 10 M1 chips (40+40 cores, with around 30TFLOPS of GPU) put them into a server

Not really, part of why the ARM chips are so good is that the memory bandwidth is so fast. With 40+40 cores you're going to have at least NUMA to contend with, which always hampers multithreaded performance.
Joins show up in the tutorial.
They're just making the point that it's not hard to Google for things, so someone must need Google defining to need their advice.
> The act of fasting, i.e. calorie restrictions, is good for you. It confers actual health benefits.

I'm not going to argue that (though I do question the overall efficacy of fasting aside from caloric restriction, but regardless, that's beside the point), but I am arguing that not what the intent was originally for - it's a side effect that can help, but wasn't considered.

> To a degree yes. Until the virus evolves to just break down parts of plastic. Given enough time virus will do whatever it needs to survive.

Sure, but until that time condoms work just fine. I feel like that's a huge leap for what an STI can do. Otherwise we also have to worry it could go airborne and spread without doing anything given that bacteria (which is what Syphilis is) can do that as well but that seems equally unlikely. In fact it has had a reason to develop airborne transmission capabilities for millennia longer than it has had reason to fight latex.
My guess is that recommendation is meant to combat building a tolerance.
I kinda like this a lot. Raw SQL in the examples. And generated and consumable api services. I will surely play with this later.
Anyone can upload a video to their website and make it viewable to all. The hosting is not the issue. You could use dropbox, box, etc for easy video hosting and sharing.

It's the discovery piece that cannot be replicated. If hosting happened outside moderation can move to automatic with a user/ml flag with manual approve process that follows.
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On the contrary, a psychiatrists primary role is to prescribe psychoactive medication.
It's disheartening that in the 2000s, people used to regularly talk about creating decentralized systems to prevent megacorporations and governments from being able to censor the internet, now the tech community that used to deplore such tactics actively supports mass AI censorship on entire host of topics where the only version of the truth that is allowed to stand is #thenarrative.
WebAssembly IS strongly typed, and that property DOES help it to generate machine code right away. Heck, even its if statements and loops have types associated with them, and those types can help compilation from a stack machine to a register machine. The article even mentions a concrete reason later down, that deopts because a type passed to a function changed can't happen in webassembly like it can in JIT compiled JS.

And indeed, this article does seem to be worth my time.
> But my research indicates that Demovracy does truly have a shoddy track record at spurring development.

First step is to stop referring to "democratic republics" as "Democracies" with a capital D. That's a popular misuse of the term that rulers love to abuse. It's fair to call it newspeak.

Voting every 5 years for 1 entity to rule a whole country does not make a government democratic. It's merely an escape hatch, a stopgap to tyrannical rulers. It prevents the worst, but doesn't prevent the typical government cronyism.
Idk why there isn't an iOS API for parental controls that can block NSFW content. Apps can see "is NSFW allowed, yes/no" and make decisions based on that. Blanket bans are almost always dumb.
Options trades make it less conspicuous.

Waiting to execute would only make the transaction in question more valuable and the ill-perceived gains worse.
> If I don't trust a private organisation, I can use another one, set up my own, or supply them with pseudo-true information and rotate between providers periodically.

This is not really an answer to the question since in this situation you can do that here too, this app from the govt is t the only solution, there are many Speedtest options out there. Your argument seems to be about govt monopolies on services which is I guess a straw man?
Pretty sure the EU paid around the same price as the US
And Sweden has the worst infection and death rates per capita compared to all of Scandinavia:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1113834/cumulative-coron...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14034948209802...

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/sweden
Of course it was worth a dollar before it went to facebook, the problem was they didn't plan how they were going to charge people.

They only charged some users, not everyone, because they couldn't figure out how to do it.. and who got charged was relatively random.

Those that did get charged could just complain and the subscription fee would just go away.

Value is one thing, but only charging a fraction of your customer base at what seemingly felt like random was never going to gain public acceptance.

I don't even think they even had a plan for how to deal with poorer nations in Africa where the app is exremely popular.
"And the problem is now poised to get much worse because of the rise of satellite “mega constellations” requiring thousands of spacecraft, such as SpaceX’s Starlink..

..It takes an Iridium-Cosmos-type collision to get everyone’s attention. That’s what it boils down to.... And we’re overdue for something like that to happen."

Perhaps the former is gentler, more statistical an alternative to the latter. Everybody be so cataclysmic these days.
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IBM have basically hollowed out their team, so I'd say it's IBM ditching the market more than anything... our centre would not now consider POWER even though we currently have nodes.
Your point is orthogonal to the stagnation issue. Yes, Japan is still a wonderful place to live, the best in the world I’d personally say. But it is most certainly stagnating. There’s enough momentum, cultural advantage, and existing wealth to continue to carry it forward for quite a while, but the energy and ambition is gone. That’s what GP was describing and that’s what the Yamauchi family is targeting.

I also love the gesture, but it obviously won’t do much on the grand scale. Not even the massive 2011 disaster was enough to light the fire again.
> one has to wonder if an ultra liberal attitude towards sex

I've moved from an area with a liberal attitude towards sex, to an area with a more Christian attitude towards sex, which extends to political decision-making around sexual health.

The main difference for me is... it is now extremely difficult to access appropriate testing for STDs, it is more difficult to access appropriate treatment in a timely or private manner, and it is more difficult to access preventative measures (this extends also to condoms).

None of this is a benefit.
Every big blocker said the same thing about SegWit.
Looks pretty cool! Couple of questions:

- Is there a story behind the name?

- Out of curiosity, does “Encore Cloud” also run on AWS?

- I think a lot of developers have a mentality of “rather write boilerplate than be tied to a platform not endorsed by $bigCompany”. Do you have a strategy to mitigate this?
Maybe we could have that if the uploader is responsible, not the platform.

Maybe we could have the uploader host their own content, and do away with hosting platforms and their gatekeeping altogether?

I can see little reason today that well-established technologies and individual hosting arrangements couldn't offer similar value to whatever YouTube or some other centralised hosting service offers.

We are talking about the World Wide Web. Linking to other people's content is literally the central feature of the real platform here. For a long time, we did just fine with community-operated facilities and everyone linking to other sources of interesting content to help discoverability. We still do, really, but now the links and other community engagement tend to be locked up in places like different YouTube tabs for each channel, not the sidebar of someone's personal website. Of course, these days we also have entire sites (HN among them) built around sharing links to content that might be interesting to like-minded people. So I don't buy the usual arguments about centralised content hosting being the only way interesting content can gain exposure.

Numerous individual content creators make demos or livestream games or present tutorials with decent-to-excellent presentation values. They often use specialist software to do it. I therefore don't buy arguments about the technical difficulty of self-hosting either. There could be hosting packages offered by ISPs or other hosting services on a common carrier basis if individuals didn't want to set up all the infrastructure themselves, and those who were good/popular enough to make it more of a regular income would still have the ability to do so but now on their own terms.

Even at today's prices, you could serve tens of thousands of videos directly for less than a lot of people are paying for their ISP or mobile/cell phone plan each month. And of course, we know lots about how to efficiently serve interesting content via P2P networks that could be a big amplifier for popular content producers who were happy to share without wanting to monetise or otherwise collect large numbers of viewers on their own site for some reason. The available capacity and prices are surely only going to improve as the technology improves. So that's cost taken care of in most or all cases too.

So, if individuals hosting their own content is technically and economically feasible, and if individual creators and community groups facilitating content discovery is a viable culture along with all the other interactions they tend to have anyway, I struggle to see why the likes of YouTube are so valuable or irreplaceable in our society today. Obviously if YT disappeared overnight there would be a gap tomorrow, but we've been adapting and filling gaps and finding better ways to do things on the Internet since some time in the last millennium, and I see no reason to think we wouldn't do so again.
If you are executing a scam why on earth would you pick the market that is one tenth the size?
Nature created Bitcoin.

There's absolutely no reason why humans can't create a store of value with superior qualities vs gold.

Humans are of nature. Everything we do is of nature accordingly. There is no separating humanity from nature, we are contained within it and we were created by it.

Nature = that which exists, all encompassing, no exceptions. It's not a technicality, it's the fact of what nature actually is (versus what some people like to pretend it is: fantasy pristineness, perfection, devoid of humans).
FWIW I get almost no spam on my email at all these days. I use disposable addresses (via Yahoo) for all stores and aggressively filter emails from listservs and stores, but after that I get next to no spam. What spam I do get is picked up nearly perfectly by Gmail's spam filter. Agreed about phone spam though, it's pretty terrible.
I remember from my times at the university that the TI Voyage 200 (and probably TI89, too) had the option to program in different languages. I tried the Spanish version, but apart from being an interesting exercise, I didn't see much use in programming in Spanish. Furthermore, if I remember correctly, if you wrote a program in Spanish, then it would not run after you set the language back to English... so not so good if you wanted to interchange code.
"They call me either Uncle Bernie or Mr. Madoff. I can't walk anywhere without someone shouting their greetings and encouragement, to keep my spirit up. It's really quite sweet, how concerned everyone was about my well being, including the staff... It's much safer here than walking the streets of New York."