skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I avoid installers and prefer portable releases 100% of the time. Sometimes, you can extract an installer like a zip and it still works. Other times, I suffer through the install process once and then zip up the resulting folder to get my own portable for next time. I think it's crazy how even the simplest of programs today want to run installers.

I wrote more about it here: https://voussoir.net/writing/master_of_my_domain
Perhaps the design should be combined with the guard ring of Oculus controllers:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/D86jDhirxSY/maxresdefault.jpg
Thanks, it works for me. Gfortran is a traditional compiler, but LFortran is "is a modern open-source (BSD licensed) interactive Fortran compiler built on top of LLVM. It can execute user’s code interactively to allow exploratory work (much like Python, MATLAB or Julia) as well as compile to binaries with the goal to run user’s code on modern architectures such as multi-core CPUs and GPUs."

When LFortran is ready, it would be nice if you supported it too, since it is a Fortran REPL.
Increased regulations, taxes and other laws with perverse incentives
What does that have to do with a COVID passport?
Citizen just put a bounty on a homeless guy with no ID at all.
A COVID pass based bounty seems way more cumbersome than an old school WANTED poster.
GDPR fines are set among other things according to the resources of the entity that broke the rules. As a private person making a side project, you won't be liable for millions.

The most recent examples of individuals being fined have been fines around €200 [0]

[0] https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=ANSPDCP_(Romania)_-_Fine_...
People are free to follow or unfollow whoever they choose. If they want to play 'fact checker' then they will be subject to regulations.
Filtration membranes can make gas and vapor separation less energy-intensive
Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring a Principal Data Architect
I'm surprised there is no standard for this yet. Just build it into the browser like all other privacy-related requests (location, webcam etc.) are handled. If sites don't implement it, don't accept their cookies. That way I can also manage a blanket yes/no list without getting an obtrusive popup every time.
Novelty means modest infectivity, before it means severity. The author's facts aren't wrong, but could severely mislead as currently characterized by him.

We started COVID-19 in 2019 with a novel and rather incompetent (at infecting humans) confronting a novel (to the virus) host incompetent at dealing with this particular virus. For zoonotic viruses, this is a pretty standard beginning, obviously. The chances that a virus previously not encountered will be able to easily and immediately trounce human immune-defence-in-depth it has never seen is awfully small.

A precious time not to be wasted... but we in the West simply threw it away. Only when (white-like-us) Italy was hard hit did we begin to wake up.
Very quickly, soon after getting to North America if not sooner, mutations altered this picture and then over months further new strains provided considerably more transmissibility.

That much more potent second and third waves would follow should have been clear from first principles and past experience (say with Spanish Flu) but the US did almost no testing for variants, so they weren't looking for them, and the public wasn't warned properly.
One of the primary lessons of the pandemic is that an enormous amount of very basic research on virus pathogens which should and could have been done even a century ago, was never done. It wasn't sexy.

The author's argument that we likely very much underestimate the value (including epigenetics) of past exposure over decades to current immune response is welcome. The previous idea that strains weakened so as not to kill their hosts is certainly true over periods of centuries; but as late as 1946 the most frequent cause of death was still Syphilis, which was novel to Europe in the late 1400s.
How many examples of life-destroying fines do you have?
FWIW, I was very unsatisfied with my 2016 MBP USB-C ports and found them very unreliable, but am quite content with the ports on the mid 2019 MBP and the 2020 MBA (M1). So, maybe they've improved over time.
Here's a different perspective:

Really hard now to do the fake replacement battery scams

Really hard to replace battery. Period. It's a scammy tactic to make battery repairs very costly.

Fantastic duration on updates

An open system like the Sony Open Devices phone, that allows you to unlock the bootloader, is better for consumers as it allows users to even install a different mobile operating system on their phone! ( https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/ and https://jolla.com/sailfishx/ ).

iOS 13 and even iOS 12 are STILL getting updates

They are only getting security updates that plug holes that allow an iDevice to be Jailbroken. They sadly don't get updates for the default apps like Safari or Photos.

Phone is pretty durable, everything is glued down and surprisingly waterproof.

You don't need to glue things to make it durable or waterproof. It just makes repairs more difficult and that's the real endgame.

Resulting in fantastic resale and down market value

This is only partly true, especially for Intel only mac systems because you can install and run other operating systems in it. iDevices for which OS updates have been stopped also greatly devalue and don't have the same resale value.
RTNeural – Real-time neural network inferencing
The traffic cone was particularly heinous as I am damn sure they mislabeled one of the images.
I'm curious, why didn't you click on the filename after it has been selected? That initiates rename on both Finder and Explorer, as well as other applications that edit that sort of text. (Except not OpenOffice's spreadsheet tabs, grrr)
I definitely prefer a bicycle bell to getting yelled at from behind.

But you know what would be even nicer? If bikers had the curtesy to slow down a bit when the trail / path is crowded.

I also love riding fast. I understand that crowded paths are annoying. But when I see that the path is full of people, I don't start ringing my bell, or hollering "on your left" or "attention" at the people in front of me, I just slow down. There is no curteous way to pass someone with delta V of 15km/h on a narrow path.

If I want to ride fast, I pick a time when the paths aren't crowded. I don't understand why everyone wants to race their bikes on multi use paths on a sunny afternoon at 3PM when everyone else is outside too.

Try riding eg. Saturday at 7AM and you'll have the world to yourself and you can go as fast as you like.
Expecting another smash success like the Do Not Track header.
I was at Uber during this time. Her book was stacked on tables all around the main headquarters offices, free to take.

Took a looooong time for them to disappear and I'm still not convinced more than a handful of people cared.

People didn't really like her internally. She was good friends with Travis apparently and that's about as far as the relationship to the company seemed to go.

There was once a time where employees could request a ride with her directly from the app but to be honest the prospect sounded horrifying.
The point of that is to make you click and maybe by mistake give them their consent.

We already had do-not-track in the browser, why do you think companies refuse to honour it?
To be fair this happens because there are those who are willing to hurt themselves in order to get ahead in their career. We've all had coworkers that send late emails at 2am in the morning or don't use up their vacation days because they want to appear as hard working and as loyal to the company. Many of these people have no real skill and sacrificing their free time is the only real edge they have. This is fairly common and observable at your standard big enterprise software corp. Not trying to shift the blame from companies but it does take two to tango.
The article states that EncroChat has been cracked by police. It's not anonymous.
When it's noticeably faltering on commonly used applications. Still rocking a '13 Macbook Pro, i7 and 16gb ram.
A data breach alone is not a GDPR violation as far as I know. Your data is just as at risk of being exposed no matter what. As far as I can tell the intent of GDPR is to prevent companies from selling or using your data in ways that you did not consent to. However, the bookkeeping requirements quite literally break the internet that existed where one person could run a website. As it turns out, I do not have a Data Protection Officer for my wiki I started in 2008. Does that mean I am not GDPR compliant?
I was lucky as an undergrad to attend a small lecture by Tommy Gold [1] near the end of his life, where he advocated the ideas described in his book Deep Hot Biosphere. He was often ahead of his time and unafraid to take controversial positions to get there (including the now-accepted, but once derided, phenomenon that we know today as the pulsar).

You might be right again, Tommy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold
Everything I've seen say using the no-op scheduler for very low latency devices is the way to go - particularly for nvme and optane devices.. interesting that it doesn't seem to be mentioned here, or in the linked paper?
Doesn't Yarvin still have a personal interest in the address space?

I think if they insist on not rebranding, they need to make it clearer that they disavow his political stuff, since the project sort of started as a vanity implementation of his ideas about monarchy or whatever.
Why hadn’t you heard of it before?
> How expensive is this kind of casting in Rust?

It really depends on how you're implementing it. If you're doing a clone/deepcopy-style conversion, or if you're consuming the value you're casting from. However, since most values in Rust are placed on the stack, "allocating" them is incredibly cheap. Moving them around is often also cheap, and involves just a few `mov`s from registers to registers, or stack-address to stack-address.

A very simple example: https://godbolt.org/z/WMePqMd71
The problem is that I can't possible imagine Google implementing this, as it would hurt their data hoarding
China denies three Wuhan lab researchers fell ill in November 2019
The music is fantastic and classic, but there are modern remixes with actual guitar that are even better. Doom 1 and 2 both have full soundtrack remakes that fans made (possibly, by the dusk fellow?)
> We’ve known for decades that RISC was the “right” design, but x86 was so far ahead of everyone else that switching architectures was completely infeasible

All the experts I listened or read to, they told that instruction set doesn't matter and it is the insignificant thing. The part that matters is branch and data prediction, and caching. Also, even intel transforms an instruction into RISC like microinstructions internally.

> Apple does not have to worry about backwards compatibility very much compared to a Windows-based manufacturer

Windows is literal shit in backwards compatibility too. Try to run any windows 7 or before program in windows 10 and most of the time it won't work. Also, windows can also run in ARM and unlike mac the ARM windows didn't had emulation for years.
deal with phone numbers that were validated more than 7+ months ago, if you want to avoid things like this? [1]

Can you expand on how apps handle this usecase?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27268537
Arguably they could degrade more gracefully by just starting slightly sooner when they have some resources to manage but they successfully ignored the problem until it became someone else's problem. At this point I don't know that any solution would be much better than simply running a daemon like earlyoom in practice. I'm just surprised that desktop distros ship with Firefox which absolutely can in edge cases leak gigabytes of memory but no good way to deal with misbehaving applications after memory is exhausted.
That's just the original DOOM music (first level, E1M1) on a Sound Blaster AWE32 or something similar, so it's completely accurate.
But it will be as e.g. an EU action, not a NATO action. (I have doubts they will get anyone on the west side of the Atlantic to sign on, but I hope I'm wrong.) And the EU has already been acting.

My point is: There's a lot of people in this thread demanding a vague "something" be done, but it's really not clear whether there is "something" between what the EU's plan has already been for months and a hot war, other than some ill-considered immediate panic.
> Andrew Lee <rasengan> currently controls the freenode domains and is being accused of a hostile takeover. The network was sold to Andrew Lee

Doesn't it sound contradictory to be accused of a hostile takeover of something you already own?
So basically, you’re in the “No, it’s fine — this will only ever get used against bad guys!” camp. We had 9/11 here in America and the BS that followed and I don’t humor this line of thinking. (Nor humour.)
because they're not getting fined 200m for it?
Well hopefully I've given them something a little better to vote on now. And I for one am a fan of your moderation style, sorry again for making your job a little harder than it has to be.
And so you're a great target for a malicious actor since you no longer receive security updates. I guess you just proved my point.
I've been seeing some amazing skating on tiktok
Is weight distribution really helpful for anything other than handling?
National politics is a very specific topic - where I agree, depending on your outlet’s leaning (assuming a person listens to only one) you got a very different picture. In truth much of the aforementioned book takes an international look, but I think the timeframe you present is just a local version of our international information spin/silence problems. You do recall when the United States’ previous president barred certain outlets from briefings https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/media-blocke... this is probably more rare for how brazen it was rather than common
Apocalypse movies need to imagine climate solutions, too
Neat, if it gets added to nixpkgs it will be available on Replit!

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
There's no security, so everyone who has the URL can download your last file (well, not if you downloaded it, because then it will be automatically deleted on server). Why? Because sometimes you just want a quick solution for non-sensitive/personal data, rather than a super secure solution that would take 2 minutes (go to Gmail on phone, enter login, enter password, upload file, go to Gmail on computer, enter login, enter password, download the file...)*
Outside of the reasons listed:

'Because justice, moral high ground and emotions are important to people, and people elect governments'

From a meta "gain of function" POV, China has gained from the pandemic. It has kick started its economy with months of head start, while all of the BRIC and western competition have suffered through the pandemic.

China hasn't lost a single opportunity to let it be known that the superiority of their governance methods and ideology has a hand in how well they've handled the pandemic. Their main competition: US (in front) and India (much behind) have particularly suffered and been the subject of ridicule among the Chinese.

The winds of change are heralded in by emotion and perception. Being able to associate the grief of millions to a single regime is the kind of weapon that itching to be wielded. (to a lesser degree the democrats already wielded it in ousting Trump)

It can permanently damage the credibility of mainstream media organizations and social media giants. It can breed nationalism and anti-PRC sentiment. It can legitimize scepticism towards empirical science and make heterodox/conspiratorial ideas harder to dismiss. It can be used to break the break the stranglehold of elite media/universities as unquestionable source of truth.

Whether the outcomes are to our liking is secondary. The answer to the question if the issue is worth pursuing is a resounding YES !
How to Start with MiSTer
Modern real science is driven by engineering that is driven by an industry that is is driven by profit and nature. If you are reading a paper that isn't driven by that chain of incentives, then the bullshit probability shoots way up. If someone somewhere isn't reading your paper to make a widget that is sold to someone to do something useful, then you can say whatever you want.
How much could you possibly need to live a good life? Certainly not more than, say, $50 per day, right? Let’s simply cap ourselves there.

I say this to demonstrate that “ungodly” always means “more than me,” irrespective of all else. Justification through jealousy. A recipe for a lowest-common denominator society, at global scale.
No, I'm in the "prove that the thing you are claiming to happen actually happens" camp.
Run every day
Oh boy you are gonna love Andy Anderson. Check out his Powell video. He is incredibly creative in his skating and you will never see him without his helmet.

Howevee as a skater myself I would rather wear a helmet on my bicycle than on my skateboard. I skate mostly flat and do things that I can more or less control. I didn't git my head in 12+ years of akating once and I am not planning to start now.

If I would try crazier things, skate bowls or vert ramps I'd definitely reconsider : )
Even better, force them to respect something like https://globalprivacycontrol.org/

and prohibit showing an obtrusive popup.
The maximums however, are absolutely insane. Am I supposed to just hope that in the range of 0 to €20 million, it’s something I can afford?
> There was once a time where employees could request a ride with her directly from the app

You'd share an Uber with her? Or would she be driving the Uber? Sounds fascinating either way.
For confused people: it's written in author's language Hare. The language uses QBE as backend [2]. I wonder what author has against Zig (probably at least current dependence on LLVM). It reminds me of Myrddin [3], which AFAIR is connected to Suckless folks.

[1] https://harelang.org/

[2] https://c9x.me/compile/

[3] https://myrlang.org/

[4] https://suckless.org/
Here is one, I'm sure there's more: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.15.440089v4

I don't remember where I read it or why exactly they did it, but I read this is already used to be able to test whether your antibodies come from natural infection or vaccination.
I kinda hate this engineer, he didn't push hard enough, he let the professional bar be crossed, there was seemingly no business value in the whole project either. It would be refreshing if the devs just didn't take this, those that quit after should have quit during the project instead.

I think there's a saying that goes: "you get what you're willing to tolerate".

This is often the reason why employees get screwed over, they're willing to tolerate far too much, for far too little reasons.

Covering up bad management and planning is not something engineers should tolerate. You should say, no sorry, you missed the deadline to fund us and have engineering start early enough, that's that, you screwed up your planning, you failed at being a good manager. We're not going to cover for your screw up.

Edit: Specifically, I don't personally hate them, but I hate that it played out this way, and I know it's a difficult position to be in and it's difficult to get out of, it just makes me mad, and I don't know what solutions there are.. maybe to fight to change the norm back to hourly employment, or have contracts with a per-week maximum hour cap that if breached warrants bonus pay on top of salaried employment.
I don't know of any system that works like this currently, but it seems like you are asking if you can switch branches, do the work, then your "dry-run" is a pull request complete with all files changes which you can approve manually.
I don’t know about this one, but last time the people were random. I have no doubt that their faces were closer to an “ideal” demographic makeup (according to some marketing people) than the reality, but it is not obvious looking just at one picture.
You are ignoring the vast statistical improbability of the first outbreak occurring at the one wet market that happens to be within 10 miles of the ONLY two coronavirus research labs in mainland China out of THOUSANDS of other wet markets across the country. Correlation is not causation but I think it’s fairly obvious that the chances of that occurring coincidentally in the context are some pretty steep odds.
So much this, I'd actually rather opt-in if that meant the cookie popup would go away once and for all.
Agree. Starting with .clone() is very useful for beginners, in my opinion. It gives people a chance to learn what ownership is gradually.
Or you can pair a controller.
I’m not claiming something happened — do you understand how chilling effects work? The threat of potentially massive fines with very little legal bounds for not following regulations that individuals basically can’t follow means that people who want to follow the rules but aren’t big enough don’t play anymore.
Against Modern Browsers
Why? The browser has access to it at all times, and you can still ask for it anywhere. So Google (via Chrome) isn't losing anything.

In fact, everyone else (including Google via analytics) is probably get more data; make it so that in the same way the browser form fills address and phone number and things automatically based on past fills, have a standard API in the browser to handle that. Now users just have to click "okay" to share all that data, rather than enter it in.
Being completely plaintext makes it unacceptable for many use cases in the modern world. It's also a touch more complicated than it needs to be for the standard use case. Binary vs. ASCII transfer mode (and ASCII is the default most of the time even though it only very rarely makes sense). Plus the whole passive vs. active mode thing. Too many footguns and no security rule it out.
Might sound strange but yes, me@<my-last-name>.al is being clever. You found a nice short clean email by buying a domain from Albania and setting up a me@ address. That's clever.

Think about it this way: either you can get some big brand .com email with no special username and never have an issue, or you can flail around 5% of the time and yell at the clouds.

Should everyone accept your email? Of course! I'm just saying you live in real life, and in real life people suck at building email forms. The problems you run into are on you.
Yeah I had this thought after posting my previous comment. I have cable and DSL now in the suburbs of Los Angeles because the cable is so flakey - switching to Starlink may be a good alternative to the maxed out 75Mbps DSL line as a backup.
Google owns up to 10% of SpaceX [1].

Honest question, could that have had any bearing on the decision to award this cloud partnership, or is Google’s part-ownership inconsequential here?

Note - I couldn’t track down a precise ownership figure, but along with Fidelity they invested $1bn back in 2015.

[1] https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/te...
This perspective ignores the power dynamics. The tangoing duo are not equal partners, the company has the power to exert pressure on the employee to burn themselves out, and in fact did in this story.
Square to Offer Checking, Savings Accounts
In addition to what everyone else here points out, you can also set an arbitrarily long code, to make that probability as low as you want; you're looking for the `-c` option.
Have the CAPCHA require properly constructing a nonlinear programming problem to solve an optimization problem, where the requirements are not expressed in terms of the NLP and the human has to design it.

Which would have the side effect of putting the bot makers to work on useful and hard problems to solve.
Did you also disable iCloud, Find My network, App Store updates etc.

What data are you claiming Apple is sending ?
iMac M1 24“ Teardown
So no one's life has ever been ruined by the GDPR? But you're still sure that this will happen? What is this based on?
Note upthread about the security track record, though.