skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don’t have to mask and shift. You can memcpy and then byte swap in a function. It will get inlined as mov/bswap.

Practically speaking, common compilers have intrinsics for bswap. The memcpy function can be thought of as an intrinsic for unaligned load/store.
But maybe you could explain the whole use case.

I doubt sometime that bought a pair of air max will pay you 60usd to say it's not authentic.

Then I guess they will copy your message to their paypal claim?

PayPal sides with buyer like 90% of the time anyway..
Are you talking about computers?
Also can we talk about lawns for a second? Your pastoral evolutionary roots called: you haven’t owned any livestock for a minute. Your lawn won’t help you eat anymore.
I'll point you here on the topic of the cluster speed https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007MNRAS.380..911S/abstra... I.e. it's not a problem.
" and the same can surely be said of Chinese"

No - if a Chinese lab/company let the virus out, it's not really comparable to America's involvement. It would be 'mostly that agency's fault', objectively speaking.

Internationally, people would see it as 'China' not the specific agency.

If we did in fact find that this is a 'Wuhan Lab' issue - it would be a seminal geopolitical event - on par with the dropping of Nuclear Weapons.

It would be a major global realignment in so many areas, even without the populism.

The issues around populism are not a 'threat' it's a 'concern'.

3 Million people have died from this, there are grieving families all around the world - there are 100's of millions unemployed - and they will be told 'It's China's fault' - what do you think is going to happen? Since we're already seeing light anti Asian sentiment around the world, what will happen when we are told that 'China' is culpable?

On the day after 9/11 the only flights out of the US allowed were those back to Saudi Arabia. G. Bush basically told the Saudi Embassy and many student nationals etc. to 'get everyone out in 24 hours' for fear of populist reprisals.

BLM protests broke out, billions in damage and several dead over a police shooting ... and that's in the US.

So I don't think it's that much of a stretch to say it would be dangerous to be Chinese in many places in the world. It's certainly not a threat, it's the reality of the world we live in. There are ethnic riots all over the world, all the time.
The planet won't benefit from this.

Agricultural overconsumption with a more efficient or open technology supply chain is still overconsumption.
How do cryptocurrencies save you from a debt based economy or inflation? Don't you still need to pay for goods and services in the same debt-based economy? How does the flavor of money change whether someone needs to go into debt? What would prevent cryptocurrency values from inflating or deflating?
It's not, trust me. Use the terraform CDK instead.
Is the author overweight? Over weight for what? For living a life of hard manual labor? Well in his 70s and still mobile and able to run a farm seems like he's doing fine. Besides ... he may have gained weight after his stroke; used to eating a farmer's meal but not moving about much.

Besides ... you've heard of studies that have shown that the calorie expenditure of hunter-gatherers, walking around all day, is about the same as couch potato Americans sitting around all day... here's the link: https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/06/13/191036200/what-...
Thanks, I added some notes to not disappoint new players.
> ”The money that rolls here is unbelievable,” she continued, “and it’s in the hands of very young people now. They have too much money — there’s no spiritual feelings, just materialism.

Says the rich old white lady complaining about how there’s too many people in the Bay Area. In an article that’s talking about just how difficult it is for many people trying to live in the area.
Every company does this. They roll new features out to trusted partners first to get feedback and then they polish it. For instance how do you think that AWS [1] can have testimonials about how great a brand new product is before it is available for public release?

Once you make an API public, you have to support it for the foreseeable future. It’s much easier to work with one or two trusted third parties.

When I was working for a small company that sold access to our APIs, we would test it internally first, then a few partners. Then make it available to all of our customers.

Even Epic admitted that it got special treatment from Apple and was able to test and recommend features before they were made public.

[1] I work at AWS. All opinions are my own….
You're right the "XY problem" is vague. But that's exactly why engineers cling to it. The concept cloaks a messy, human interaction in the guise of math & logic. It enables an answerer to dissect their questioner without bearing the cost of the questioners feelings. It inverts the power dynamic, basically.

That duplicity makes "XY" useless as an analytic tool to improve inquiries. But as a political cudgel to stop inquiries, I think "XY" can be effective. When outsiders are forced to constantly justify and explain themselves in detail, in triplicate, then the price of Q&A will eventually increase to the point where no one wants to ask.

I think a CTO who is uncomfortable with inquiries will find the "XY problem" a much needed mental gymnastic.
Closing up this thread, is Beau of the Fifth Column, giving a fairly good description of what happened on his excellent Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXjP6W_Pydg
I'd recommend The Wind's Twelve Quarters (a collection of short stories) as a good introduction to Le Guin's work. Many of those stories later sprouted into separate novels.

Outside of the Hainish Cycle The Lathe of Heaven is also worth checking out.
For me, the blank space around this kind of article is the most interesting part. When you profile a handful of people, the defining feature of the piece is journalistic discretion. Which of the several million Bay Area residents do they choose to speak with? Of those, which end up published in the final piece? The degrees of freedom are such that a piece like this can tell almost any story the author wants to tell. The individual experiences and visual representation of the subjects are still true in a literal sense, but the narrative arc is wholly constructed by the author. A painter is constrained by the physical properties of paint and canvas, but the selection of materials and subject are discretionary. Articles like this are closer to art than anything else.
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What, blaming Russia doesn't bring the same satisfaction anymore?
Not to mention that points near the edge are 50% less likely to be picked (or 75% less likely if they're near a corner).

You can fix this by looping the space around once you reach the edge but good luck expressing that in SQL.

You could also fix it by putting them on a sphere I think, though picking a random point on a sphere is exactly the easiest thing to do.
Small business near me never seem to have online catalogues or stock levels.

Hunting for a specific product (for example a washing line) might involve walking into 3 different shops and guessing which shop might sell what you need. When you arrive in the shop, they always arrange aisles differently so unless you have 20 minutes to hunt you might not find it either.

Whereas online it's a simple search and click "buy now". It's probably cheaper too.

Bricks and mortar shops need to do a lot of work on the shopping experience before they're competitive. The only time bricks and mortar shops win are when I need something right now or groceries.
Unless I missed something, the shutdown wasn’t caused directly by the attack, but in response to. It’s a subtle but important distinction.
This is just speculation for fun, but OK, I will bite.

You have a compressed gas, so, low entropy, then it starts expanding. The area where it started expanding has less possible states that the area around, but just because the area around is bigger, nothing to do with the relative position itself.

If the number of states are associated to gravity somehow, then gravity will be bigger the further you go from the center.

Because we are brainstorming in creative mode, I will add a bonus: if the number of possible states increase gravity, maybe, the older the universe gets, the bigger is that influence all around, accelerating its expansion.

I suppose that I will get my Nobel any day now ;-)
CDC acknowledges the virus is an airborne threat
Oh boy. I'd reply back with Leisure Suit Larry on iOS, just to poke fun at the puritan rhetoric.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/leisure-suit-larry-reloaded/id...
Some of the assertively self-valorising SV VC types should respond by funding a lengthy feature article about the food-truck workers and cleaning staff working in and around the NYT building. It can be the second-time-farce recurrence of the Peloponnesian War.
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So I infer you are talking about large scale simulations of many galaxies/a region much greater than single galaxy, right?

If so, do these kinds of simulations with 10 parameter model predict galactical rotation curves in agreement with observation?

Or do we need more detailed model of dark matter distribution for the rotation curves?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_barn
In Kazakhstan
This headline is particularly egregious as the whole point is that it is opt-in, not opt-out, so the headline should read that 96% of users did nothing, which is a lot less newsworthy but certainly more accurate.
Amazing until you need persistence.
The meltdown at Basecamp shows even small tech firms are sociopathic
Apple has never really enforced App Store rules consistently.
Children likely to be pleading guilty when innocent. The study says diffe (cont)
Absolutely, it's better to have a ransomware attack against the workstations instead of a more developed attack that blew the pipeline up.
Good to know.

I tried "the left hand of darkness" and didn't like it. Somehow it read more like mediocre fantasy than scifi.
The 16 outgrew lawn dart once it got out of the prototype phase, and given the need for the computers that kept the bloody thing stable to stay operating in the event of engine out (and loss of alternator/prime mover for any pumps, plus any damage to control surface actuators by an uncontained turbine blade etc) it's not a surprise it had issues in the early days. It was still a damn good machine for what it did, and a good part of that from it's inherent instability once FBW invariants were violated.

The 14 reguired a higher degree of maintenance due to the consequences of the swing-wing mechanism, but that mechanism also enabled uncompromised performance in both flight regimes it was desired to be performant in. It didn't pretend that you could make a machine that can be a VSTOL, and a carrier aircraft at the same time. The radar systems were superb. The electronics were lackluster. I'm aware of issues with the quality of fire indicator lights though.

The 15 I hear surprisingly little complaint about actually. It just kinda is, and is given endless shit because it can't land or take-off from a boat.
If only someone could profit off bubbles while at the same time deflating them...
Grain appears to be based on a lot of similar type theory (based on the article). Maybe it will be easier to learn than Rust, maybe not. Maybe there will be fewer tools available and that in and of itself will make it harder to work with.

The question is, will it be worth it to adopt grain instead of a more mainstream language like Rust or AssemblyScript?
Yes. Better sampling in my other comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27088101
Ugh. To anyone contemplating using Amplify I would say:

Rolling your own UI components and straight up using the amazon-cognito-identity-js library and wrapping the bits you need in promises, is far far far less of a headache than using Amplify, unless being tied to Webpack and dealing with disgracefully lazy types is your idea of fun.
That is not a new thought.

Chomsky was talking about this some 15 years ago.
It's a sure-to-lose lawsuit launched in the hopes of motivating a Congress strongly influenced by an anti-tech, anti-corporate progressive insurgency in the ruling party and, oh yeah, a global pandemic. I appreciate Epic's position, and would support it if it had been litigated through the legislature. But as it is, it's a flagrant waste of our courts' time, a public resource.
The hot tub bikini thing pretty strictly confirms to the twitch terms of service.

If not necessarily the "spirit" ... but at the end of the day, these women are right. They're literally not hurting anyone.

IMO the best solution other than ignore it is probably to split out a new category called hot tub chat or something.

These women have every right to earn a living. There's obviously a market and audience for it. If the behaviour is considered harmful, perhaps to the female twitch audience who don't want to see sexualized images of other women, or don't want to struggle with body image by comparing themselves to other women, it would be perfectly reasonable to split hot-tub out into its own category.

What isn't fair, and what is probably pretty mysoginistic is to outright prevent these women from earning a living.
Born 83 here, I count myself as generation y, though some would say I'm an older millennial (afaic, a US term imported by the BBC et al)
It's not that good at that, either.
They may have some value working, but it may be very little.

Feed the birds. A 5 minute job.
Hour later they come back. You HAVE to go check because much of the time it’s screwed up and needs to be redone. Would never hire this person at minimum wage.

High minimum wage eliminates many people from consideration.
Maybe I’m not being clear. I’m talking about _etiquette_. Not licenses or laws.
They invest in making clinic decision support software to make research accessible
to doctors, etc (it’s practically also making decisions for them at times).

Source - have attended an Elsevier CDSS Sales presentation for HCPs
But you can't live inside stocks. House is not just investment.
> Then after a long enough timeline, we'll win, and legal code will be executable.

Awesome, I was looking forward to Kafka running on EC2 instances.
Trash journal (Advances in Microbiology) published trash science.

All journals from Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) have CRIStin rank 0 (non-academic).
It's best not to ask. I'm starting to believe that these people are exhibiting cult-like behavior at this point.
The rest might be laundered somehow.
>8. Epic tried to convince Nintendo to sell on Epic Store (lol)

This didn't happen, Epic specifically said they were NOT in talks with nintendo
That's for reasons of disallowing VMs or any kind of program interpreter, officially.

In reality it suppresses web apps from gaining capabilities of native apps, like notifications.
Seeing that Epic admitted they also got early access to APIs and beta features to test the Unreal engine, they can’t actually argue the point.

It also came out in testimony that Epic asked for special deals with Apple.
Personally I would much prefer this, especially as a PR, than nitpicking about default (and configurable) colors like in the linked issue. Even as a native English speaker, I frequently make typos, and I’ll often wind up with weird phrasing or grammar due to consecutive rounds of editing things out.
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I think the answer to those questions has been answered more eloquently elsewhere. They are good questions, and have complex and nuanced answers. I wish you luck
in your quest.
I'm not primarily a Java developer and this use of "blocking" is very confusing to me. Outside of the Java world whether something is blocking or asynchronous is a property of the API, and usually obvious from the method signature (e.g. if it returns a future or accepts a callback it's asynchronous; if it has a timeout it's blocking, etc.). For example Go unary gRPC is certainly "blocking" as far as any code a user writes cares - both the server start/stop and the individual calls are completely synchronous on their goroutines. And this is also how the term is used in the Java gRPC documentation.

Instead here it seems to mean something more like "is capable of deadlocking if a thread pool is exhausted" or therefore roughly equivalent to "not lock-free". Is that correct? (But then the comments about `volatile` confuse me more - can you deadlock a thread with purely `volatile` access if your platform doesn't natively support it? That seems like a large failing of the JVM.)
You could say that. Most discussions outside science lans and courts of laws are about opinions, not objective facts.
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Camera app should ask too.
Anyone read a short 133 pages book of her's 'Very Far Away from Anywhere Else'? Heard that it's good.
15-20 years and science still hasn't solved the publishing problem. Shameful, or a sign of times
And this is why it's hard for newcomers to switch to open access journals. Because they cannot easily afford not to have well known journals in their publication list when applying for positions. Because the people in charge probably don't fully understand the applicant's research, but they think they get a good sense of quality by the names of the journals
I think "most" is way too broad. I don't think I have one program on my system that is like that. I find this is typically found when a company with no internal dev uses a lowest bidder to offshore software.

Do you think that devs from FAANG, MS, Adobe, open-source projects, etc really have no idea what they are programming? Unless software dev is like an iceberg where there is much much more unseen than seen???
...which is why these sorts of attacks almost never occur and are always so resource intensive that no criminal would ever think of doing so for ransom?
This should be done by the Food and Agriculture Organization that belongs to the UN. But well, you can't ask much to the United Bureaucrats Organization
"Copying is our superpower"
I’m not sure how much control it really creates... it seems more like a recipe for slipping milestones
As a very minor counterpoint: I like C because frankly it’s fun. I wouldn’t start a web browser or maybe even an operating system in it today, but as a language for messing around I find it rewarding. I also think it is incredibly instructive in a lot of ways. I am not a C++ developer but ANSI C has a special place in my heart.

Also, I will say that when it comes to programming Arduinos and ESP8266/ESP32 chips, I still find that C is my go to despite things like Alia, MicroPython, etc. I think it’s possible that once Zig supports those devices fully that I might move over. But in the meantime I guess I’ll keep minding my off by one errors.
For what it's worth, you're disagreeing with Dr. Shi herself here:

> We have done bat virus surveillance in Hubei Province for many years, but have not found that bats in Wuhan or even the wider Hubei Province carry any coronaviruses that are closely related to SARS-CoV-2. I don't think the spillover from bats to humans occurred in Wuhan or in Hubei Province.

https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/Shi%20Zhengli...

Anyways, the point isn't that a natural zoonotic jump in Wuhan is perfectly impossible. Even if we assumed (wrongly, at least if you believe Dr. Shi) that natural zoonosis was equally probable in any city in China, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan is still evidence in favor of a lab accident. To a good first approximation, the WIV does 100% of the research on novel SARS-like viruses in China, so an outbreak due to a lab accident would probably emerge there. So whatever your Bayesian prior was for natural vs. lab accident, its emergence in Wuhan should update that by a factor of ~100 (i.e., the population of China divided by the population of Wuhan).

And I'm not sure why you think farmed animals are likely intermediate hosts? China has been sampling extensively, and while it's not necessarily easy to find the intermediate host (e.g., for Ebola), that should be far easier in a factory farm than in the wilderness. So why haven't they found that?

Finally, I don't think anyone brought up weapons here except you? That seems like a deliberate conflation, introducing outlandish theories for which no evidence exists ("SARS-CoV-2 was designed as a bioweapon") to discredit the more likely theory actually being discussed ("SARS-CoV-2 originated from a lab accident during internationally-funded basic research").
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SciHub is missing an opportunity by not providing a platform for researchers to self organize and run the peer review process directly on SciHub (or a new sister domain safe from interference). That would give them immediate legitimacy.
Interesting. I’ve read the first two books, and had the opposite experience.
Yes it’s hard to tell without looking at the Java options. But especially since it’s a single cpu benchmark, it’s likely something blocked for a period of time.
Interesting but you're not answering any of the relevant questions. Without government, how are laws made, and how are they enforced? Answering these questions would give us an idea of the "societal order" that you are trying to create.
That really isn't true unless you greatly shrink the definition of browser.

For 99.99% of people the browser is not the renderer, it is the skin and all that comes with it (synced history, bookmarks, adblocking etc etc).
Thanks for the remark.

There already was a link on the github readme to give credit to the original hatetris (MIT licensed).

In addition I have added some link to qtnm hatetris on the play page, too.
If I give you the choice between a bullet through the head or a slap in the face, it'd be ridiculous for me to claim that you were free not to choose the slap in the face.

Sure, it's not the publishers themselves that are de facto forcing researchers to publish with them, but they do make use of the fact that they're being put in a position of being a rent-seeker, and they lobby a lot to keep it that way.

Of course, the question is not "who's to blame?", but "how to change this"? And indeed, the publishers aren't too relevant to that question - it's the incentive structures that should change.

(Disclosure: I contribute to https://plaudit.pub, which aims to change these incentive structures.)
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Marco Arment - a one man development shop, albeit well known, was able to work with the iOS team to get better audio support for the Apple Watch. It’s not just big developers.

Have you noticed that when every big tech company announces a new product they already have testimonials about how well the product works?
The world is vast and strange Hera, but no vaster or stranger than our minds are. - The Tombs of Atuan

I've always felt that quote summed up what Ursula Le Guin had to say.
"96% of users still oblivious to software configuration options"