skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is to be navigated to the correct location. Just as recently as December in Los Angeles, an address on the beach sent a skin starved date to an alleyway 10 minutes inland that she was totally cool with being in, and I had to tell her to Apple Maps likely did that, whereas Google Maps matched my much more romantic location. Could the opposite happen? I guess. Does it though?
Maybe, but we had GCP reps in-house for days when we were figuring out our cloud strategy. So I do think there's some even at G.
Not to mention: Why would you want all that shit in one application? IMs are different from E-mails.
> Anvisa says that among the vast majority of replication deficient vectors some replication-able viruses were present.

Do you have the source for this claim? Linked Anvisa slides page 6 says "todos os lotes" (all lots) had replicating virus.

I agree this is about quality control and it is extremely unlikely to affect vaccine efficacy. (If anything, it would improve vaccine efficacy.)
The Biden Administration sided with the district...

Do people honestly think these guys are less corrupt than trump? They clearly are out to prevent individualism at any level.
Made by the founder of Pebble Smartwatch.

Beeper is a product founded on top of Matrix, which is a standard for interoperable, decentralized, secure communications. Think email, but E2E encrypted and modern. One of the core features is bridges - the ability to reach out into other communication silos and bring them into Matrix. https://matrix.org/docs/guides/introduction

No affiliation, but I'm quite excited about the Matrix ecosystem. Element is a great client already.
I love working in a place where using work resources for non-work tasks is strictly forbidden. It's been years since I got an email with even a scent of politics.
Yeah, my bad for not radiation-hardening my code

https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine
Wow, this looks incredible. Has anyone done an analysis of its security/data privacy issues you might expose yourself to by using this?

I'm very skeptical of something that is basically reading data from every app I have. I'd worry that this provides a single weak point that can be compromised (obviously a bad update could just scrape all your data, but also presumably it'd open up more surface area to vulnerabilities?)

If it is secure enough to trust with my personal data, that'd be a wonderful solution to my current jumble of apps!
Thanks for the information! I am tempted to upgrade my 2018 when the next revision (M1X or M2?) Mac mini comes out to improve the display refresh rate issues.
The story of BofA starting Visa (2019)
In the late 80s and early 90s, every computer that Apple made was better than all their other machines. Even if they were making a smaller budget device like the SE or SE/30, performance increased so quickly that it would beat all the previous machines.

For one short year, in 2020, due to the ARM transition, Apple repeated that feat. It could keep on going, if for example, the refresh of the Macbook Air comes out in 2022 and beats the Pro machines that came out in 2021.
Make it 2-3 conductors per train for commuter trains in Boston. Also, MBTA employees retire with super high pensions (70-80% of salary)
> I don't think any reasonable decisionmaker would approve Lombok and not Kotlin or Scala. (But I'm aware that many large organisations end up making unreasonable decisions).

For whatever reason, it’s a lot easier for most organizations to sign off on using a specific library for an existing programming language, even one as transformative as Lombok, than to sign off on using a different programming language, even one as backwards-compatible as Kotlin. Often they are categorically different decisions in terms of management’s interest in micromanaging them: they might default-allow you to include libraries and default-disallow you to write code in a different language.

In this respect, Lombok is really handy for a very common form of unreasonable organization :)
It is interesting. I've played bad online games where the instant you generate someone kills you. I've played poker games where the board always freezes so you lose. The rape thing feels like the same thing. Bad game play and cheating.

I think you expect fighting but rarely sex in a game.
The absolute values measured are not that high luckily. In the Netherlands at New years pm10 of greater than 1000 can be observed. I believe my outdoor sensor peaked at 900 in the first minutes of 2020. Glad fireworks were banned this year
Levels.FYI for L5 (senior SWE) shows median annual at 350. Levels.FYI lags behind because they keep around old data. Principal at G is at 992k median.
It's totally feasible just against the terms of use of each platform.

Trillian used to cover this problem in the early days as well.
Asking for a financially challenged friend, what are buybacks?
Google, Facebook, and all the other datahoarders are going to be pissed that there is now a new and distributed player eating away their share from the global HDD and SSD market.
I’m not certain, but while reading I was feeling like there potentially is a relationship. It was reminding me of the algorithm where you can approximate a reciprocal square root using a single subtraction from a magic number constant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
WFH has been good for neither my health, well-being, nor productivity.
Artist faked being a billionaire to photograph New York City’s best views
The style resembles Vista but it was the least graphically polished release of KDE in my opinion.

KDE 1, 2 and 3 felt polished and detailed in their own ways. KDE 4 felt a bit like developer art.
> If they went permanent WFH they could sell/lease those spaces and probably save billions.

To whom? Everybody is moving to work from home.
> Wouldn’t it be nice if all software was “mission critical”

Nope. There are times for nice, strong houses; and there are times for chicken coops made out of duct tape, rusty steel wire and bent nails. As long as they keep chickens in, it is all fine.

It is up to management to decide what kind of structure are they going to build.

That said, there are disturbingly many cases when people don't pay attention to security, and then there are personal data leaks. The handling of personal data should be regulated, verified, and there should be severe consequences for leaks caused by negligence.

As for the rest -- let people do whatever they want. No backups? sure. 'SELECT *' on index.php? you are paying for the servers, go ahead.
So this is a study about political diversity where it's specifically relevant to the organization's work. In this case, Wikipedia. I'll admit that political diversity is necessary when the "product" is unbiased articles written on politically controversial topics. But how would this affect how a software company develops products, how a car manufacturer develops cars, etc, where political diversity is not relevant?
Lebanon has such talented people. It starts with the immensely talented politicians who robbed the country blind for 30 years through financial engineering and fraudulent schemes. On the other end of the spectrum you have standup guys like this engineer. I hope the latter kind will prevail.
Why, whenever Japan is mentioned, invariably the phrase “the west” is dropped in a context that seems to make it synonymous with “the U.S.A.” or “Anglo-Saxons” at best.

You will find that there are few “western” countries that are similarly interested in “p.c. talk” as the U.S.A. is. — that is very much a condition commonly associated with the U.S.A. culture war.
Autovectorization is annoying and hard to work with because it's unpredictable. It also fights you if you manually vectorize - you can write a SIMD loop and scalar trailer loop, and then it'll autovectorize the trailer.

If instead you wrote in an infinite-length vector language and the compiler scalarized it for you, I think that could work better.
(fyi! that quote is actually attributed to Upton Sinclair)
Use precast concrete as plastic is flammable.
Liberty does not mean freedom. Actually, the positive freedom you want for would come at cost of the negative liberties of other individuals.

And an iPhone being your property does not change the properties of the iPhone you bought. You can tinker with it as much as your ability allows you to, but if you are not happy with the limitations of the device than you should not have bought that device.
Speaking of learning from other countries, the US should learn from Europe that high speed rail tends to replace cheap rail which serves wealthy customers while locking out others. The current plan to move forward with rail should tap into experience while avoiding groupthink.
Why not? It's likely because the platforms were all much simpler then. Vendor-specific features like stickers, end-to-end encryption, video attachments, reactions make it difficult to support a subset which is going to satisfy regular users.
People who don’t close tabs because they unconsciously don’t want to lose their search history.

At the end of the day your search history should be fed into a personal search engine which digests the data and figures out which pages were most useful to you (maybe by helpful browser buttons)…and uploads that into some open database. This can then be the basis for a new type of search engine.

It could be implemented trivially on something like Mighty, since everyones browsers run in the same datacenter.
Luna 16 had no rendezvous in lunar orbit, while Change'e 5 had the sample return capsule rendezvous with the Orbiter, like the Appolo missions.
I might be misremembering, but I’m pretty sure there was a short time when “Twitter Client” was to iOS dev tutorials what ToDo apps were to JS framework tutorials.
It's not the specifics, it's the trend. The iMacs got thinner, sure, but the aggregate shows it is no longer their priority. The iPad Pro got thicker in the same event that unveiled the thinner iMacs. The iPhones have gotten thicker in recent years. My 2020 Macbook Air is still 2.8 pounds when ultralight PCs weigh only 2 pounds.
Is your washroom breeding bolsheviks?
Empire of Pain – The Story of the Sacklers and OxyContin
This isnt true. She died in 1913.
You make a good case, but you do have to admit that Narendra Modi is also a solid contender for shittiest handling of COVID. Just letting the Kumbh Mela go ahead this year earns him a spot near the top.
> instead firing midcourse correction burns with the LEM descent stage while attached to the CSM.

The descent stage was left on the moon so that would have been the LM ascent stage. They had 2 separate motors for descent and ascent.

But indeed Apollo 13 was very different. I think on normal missions they only brought the LM back along for TEI so as not to litter the surface with crashed LMs.
1. Exponential growth.

2. Started with around 120 PByte. Seven weeks later and it'll be already a decimal order of magnitude bigger.

0.1 percent isn't minuscule.
It helps because they can also do the initial screening round with basically the entire graduating CS class in-person at the university.
India is catching up
Yes, but hard to find productions of many of his plays, unless you are in a major city in the West, with dedicated Shakespeare companies. For many people reading remains the only option.
The bullies at the top are getting worried that people are standing up to them.
Japanese business culture is quite inefficient and stuck on archaic social protocol observance, but many modern technological advancements are quite efficient.

Conversely, German culture is known for it's irrational clinging to cash opposed to electronic payment, obviously Corona is making it reconsider a bit.

In Germany, there is a large line where products are manually scanned, paid for in cash, return calculated, and handed back, and before this cash had to be acquired from the a.t.m.; only slightly to the west in the Netherlands, products are chipped and all automatically scanned when passing through a gate, and paying is quickly done with a no contact card.
I worked at Accenture for two and a half years up until the start of this year in an Asian country.

While I've met some incredible, brilliant people working in the firm who are close friends to this day, there's always a cult-like mindset prevalent in people in the consulting industry that makes it different from working anywhere else. The stories of fancy dinners, corporate events, massive benefits are all true, to a certain extent.

Working primarily with an energy company that is deeply entrenched in older technologies and ways of working, I believe the reason consulting companies are portrayed as the anti-thesis of technological advancement is simply because buy-in from senior management from companies like the one I've worked for is difficult. These folks (including their CTO/CIO) are so far away from the working-level and tech that consultants resort to cheap tricks like catchy barely-sensical-jargon/Ivy League graduate profiles/borderline lies to help them land deals.
The Midwest region (centered on Chicago) is very much within viable HSR range--as I point out in a nearby comment, it actually contains larger cities within the same general distance as the French TGV network.

Texas triangle would also be a viable region.

As my sibling comment points out, southeast US is marginally viable.

The Pacific Northwest (Portland-Vancouver) is also on the margin of viability.

The other parts of the northeast--Boston-Toronto and NYC-Montreal--are very definitely viable HSR routes. You might find some more strap-on routes to the main Northeast Corridor that I haven't included (Scranton, maybe?), simply because the NEC is such a phenomenally powerful generator of traffic.

Connecting the Midwest to the Northeast and the Southeast may also be viable, but again it's somewhat more marginal because the big city in the Midwest is on the wrong side of the region.
How much of it is currently utilized?
I love email, had a Blackberry and that thing was just great.

Today, I have everything I can go to email. If I could get it all, I would.

I do not need or want lots of silos. I do want one store, some rules, and for it to operate off line and async.

Replacing email will take a lot. There was email before http. I have seen nothing even close to the simple utility, robustness of email, never mind anything that looks to endure like email has.

I have almost all email I have ever received. Amazing. And it just works. The better search is, the better it works. There are tons of emails to myself too. I know I can search them and read what past me suspected present me needs to know and that all weaves right in.

I wish more things worked as well and like email does.

RSS is one of those things, BTW.

USENET is another one, but well out of favor. Fact is, someone could spiff USENET up and it could very easily come back.

Async, threaded discussion is amazing. Make inline media a little easier, and... yeah.

Problem is none of those high utility things are sexy.

Maybe there should be a floor that just works well. Maybe we are not all that well served by all these attempts to disrupt and own people through what are important interactions.

Big conflict of interest there, if you ask me. It matters now, is lean, mean, near universally used.

Ok, so what is there really to disrupt?

Not much.

And that is why I love email. Unlike just about every other thing I have loved, it will be there, and I will not have to think about it much. It is awful nice to have something be that way.

Nice enough for me to think long and hard about putting it at any kind of risk.
I wish you were right. Unfortunately, it's already too late for that.
Feels like a marketing campaign
I believe that in the US, racism itself is highly segregated and compartmentalized. You have academia where Asian people are discriminated against, law enforcement where black people are discriminated against. You have the ultra-woke collective culture that drives tech companies that are 80% white/Asian male to have all-hands meetings where they jerk themselves off about how great they think women and minorities are. It creates an atmosphere where absolutely everybody feels like they're discriminated against.
There is one good reason: if most of your team works at the office, and you're working from home, it's difficult to make sure that you're not left out of discussions.
That's only one of them. Sweden instead seems to be good at running clothing and furniture brands.
> Are there binary tricks worth knowing about to quickly calculate reciprocals?

Yes! You can calculate an approximate reciprocal with a single subtraction and some type-casting or bit manipulation.

The accuracy isn’t great (relative error of up to ~5%), but it might be good enough for many applications. The method is famous for being used to normalize 3d vectors in Quake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

This same method for calculating 1/x^2 can also be used to calculate 1/x by using a different magic constant and skipping the shift-right by one bit.
Facts every web dev should know
Doesn't Gmail still proxy images so that this kind of tracking doesn't work? Or do they have a way around this?
There are a couple of (small, obviously academic/experimental) vertical axis wind turbines near me which both have helical blades. I wonder what the tradeoffs for that design are?

Here's a picture (not mine) one of them: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicephotog/25044930672/
Yea I almost spent a bunch of time but after a few screens I thought about saving. I noticed “unsaved” and clicked in. Alas, a premium feature! Felt sad there’s not at least a freemium version you can save, and clicked out.

What’s the point of a “free” financial planning tool that needs 20 min of input that you can’t save? Too much friction! At least give me a fully featured trial, or can track 1 goal, etc
Thanks for linking that. I did not know the Engineer Guy had a website. His youtube videos are superb. I need more of them, and more often. I was going to comment that I think he is the Carl Sagan of engineering because he explains things with such clarity, and then I noticed on his website that he actually recently received the Carl Sagan award.

I highly recommend that everyone checkout his videos.
And will you have problems if your dishwasher finds your fridge an annoying jerk?
I think it's really a lot simpler. Most fantasy RPGs have combat and death simply because there is a conflict where there is no mediating authority. This is kind of central to the genre. So, "murdering" NPCs is a very small diagonal step from killing them in combat. It does not stand out.

Rape, on other hand, could hardly serve any acceptable in-game purpose (or real life purpose for that matter). Its purpose is to terrorize and psychologically maim -- something you never need to do to an NPC. An ally who rapes someone in-game is not furthering the quest, and moreover is doing something that is well outside the bounds of typical PC behavior.
You don't have to check the schedule for a good transit system because it comes so often it's always there. On the other hand, you have to find parking everywhere you drive a car, which is very expensive to provision. Plus someone can break into it and steal all the stuff you're carting everywhere.
For floating point math is this why I see "/2" written as "*0.5" all the time, and is that really necessary and can't compilers figure that out?
Wait a minute, are you suggesting the communist party should not be called out for it's brutality in the first sentence, or that's somehow biased?

You do realize that a majority of the reason China's population is declining is because of the one child policy, right? Do you think that communist instituted policy is brutal?

Look, I'm all for fairness in reporting, but you have to call a spade a spade at some point, don't you?
I can't find many authoritative sources, but it stands to reason that in a mostly agrarian society, there'd be fewer people who could write, would have access to good writing materials, specifically materials with longevity, and get those materials into hermetically sealed environments that would ensure their integrity for a couple of millennia.
That's true... but so does the presumption that the world can be divided up into races based on the superiority of certain races over other races. And that expands beyond expressing political opinions. When management is labeling your entire being and your whole family as inferior, it sucks to even be at work.

Edit: I don't mean to oversimplify, it's not just an issue of casual racism, for some things it's life and death -- when the company lobbies for loopholes in the law and then dumps toxic waste that overflows into your backyard, would a fear someone felt to avoid expressing a political view in support of that loophole override the fear someone else might have for their kids getting cancer?
> are there really "fewer racists than ever" now?

Yeah, probably. If you don't believe this you are probably not as aware as you could be of just how incredibly racist the world was a single generation ago. (Some would say it's still racist, sure, not the point here).

> Anti-white racism has been on the rise the last few years.

a little bit of it, but not really a fair comparison given the many-orders-of-magnitudes of difference. if it seems like it is comparable you are dealing with a very skewed version of reality.

> that progressive dogma now fuels racism more than it suppresses it

agree that the reactionary movements are in response to progressivism and so could sort have been said to have been 'caused' by it. But I think it's important to keep in mind that big, vocal 'thought movements' are exactly what changes in acceptability look like on the inside. I imagine that it's not really possible to go from (a very racist state) to (a less racist state) without a big reactionary clash in the middle. Better to let it get worse for a while so everything can play out, than not have the fight at all and let things stay bad.
Too hard to display their ads if people access their content via API. I am not going to be surprised at all if reddit soon announces features leaving the API or completely getting rid of it.
Sounds like a potential privacy & security risk, especially if the app can send messages too.
Adults are obviously better at lying than kids are, due to having more experience.
In books, I really struggle to get through scenes where people are tortured and sometimes have to abandon stories because of it, whereas I have very little trouble with characters dying. I don’t think this is unusual.
Ditto! I came across this site some time ago trying to find a place where I could buy a Frostbite (nee Minnesota 447) apple. My aunt has a tree and its apples make a hell of a cider. Turns out that he really likes this particular variety. [0]

I don't think it is rare for a university to have these kinds of breeding programs and put patents on the result. The one near me does that with cherries.

[0] https://adamapples.blogspot.com/2017/11/frostbite-vs-wickson...
If you have a source for that impression, I'd be very interested to see it.

> gamers prefer to play games

most of the money being made in mobile gaming is coming from people who would not self-identify as "gamers". If you're just considered about where "gamers" want to game, then sure. But that's excluding a massive (and the fastest-growing) segment of the video games industry.
I used to use this extensively and now no more. Sad.
Making Yeast Produce Spider Silk – Genetic Engineering Project