skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many interesting options in there! What does the author of the post consider to be the best fit?
Taiwan aside, the Chinese are very aggressively trying to expand their sphere of influence through the South China Sea and into the Pacific. Things like them sending huge 'fishing fleets' into other territories which are allegedly armed ( 1 ) and building naval bases in the Atlantic and Pacific ( 2 ) are obvious signs of this, as well as the Chinese government turning a blind eye to large scale poaching in other countries waters. What could potentially happen is a collision on the sea which would raise tensions, or a diplomatic dispute arising if a nation decides to sink a ship full of Chinese nationals. The political posturing from both the US and the Chinese in the last few years suggest that it wouldn't be too unlikely that a difficult situation like those could become a small scale shooting war.

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56474847

2. https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/04/17/ch...
Ah yes, the "no one is forcing you" argument comes in almost every conversation where people complain about the truth of something. Almost as if they can do whatever they want and of course "no one is forcing you to use it". Also implying that you accepted the wrong doings but trying as best as you can to defend it.
Which I have the ability to choose when/if I am survieled by by leaving it at home or throwing it in a river.
Since you're not shipping JS to the browser, you don't have to use it in the first place, right?
By virtue of being rich, they get loans to further increase their wealth, and then reduce their taxes because of the interest on that wealth increase.

If people really understood how this all essentially boils down to the rich not having to pay taxes, purely by being wealthy and being given loans on it, they'd riot tomorrow.
I find conversations like this difficult. I don’t think anyone here will change your mind. If your position is that intelligence must rival a humans to be worthy of “being intelligent”, you are free to do so.

I think the bar is much lower, and intelligence is simply a measure of ability to learn. And from that perspective, a simple automaton does not learn. But insects DO learn.

http://www.womanaroundtown.com/contributed/the-worlds-smarte...
Neither of which really work that well.
> Taxation always has been, and continues to be, a burden for the servile class to bear.

How does that square with the fact that the top 50 percent pays 97% of taxes? The top 1% pays 40% of taxes.
> It's that, as PG says between the lines, for most people there is no particular excitement about work.

It's because "most people" earn money by selling their labor out of a finite 24-hour day, but PG is a Venture Capitalist whose capital works 24/7.
Well those are two separate things.

Not saying that Paul Graham is or is not a ruthless capitalist who is trying to exploit people no matter what.

But I think Paul Graham is referring to the first thing in the context of this article.
What action can we take? Switching browsers is hardly going to make G blink.

Edit: I want add, recently built my own Firefox - pulled out all the Pocket shit and tweaked the UI a bit "my way". Was actually not that hard. I'd love to see 20 forks of Firefox trying different things. Also, anyone know what happened to Librefox?
Considering the fate of the Trashcan Mac Pro, HomePod, and iMac Pro.... maybe it's OK that they didn't introduce any new hardware at WWDC this year !!

That being said, the iPhone 4, Retina MacBook Pro, and M1 were transformative - nothing was the same afterward.

(Probably not coincidentally, they also all required major software revisions!)
This why I quit my job every couple years and take a sabbatical
The easiest way to do this is to go to a small company where everyone wears multiple hats. 50 people is probably the upper limit.
It's maybe not that they don't support extension per se, just that they implement much more features and include much more feedback on mobile, so no need to let people do it themselves ?

I use less and less extensions, not even the dark mode ones now that websites are changing too (I wish HN would too)
demogoguery will be pushed instead of sane tax policies for companies like amazon or tesla.

its part of the far rights end around democratic decline.
I don't want a build process. I don't want to have to use npm, but want the option if I desire, for something like React. And when I use React, because there is unfortunately no better option, I use `"build": "npx babel --watch public/javascripts/src --out-dir public/javascripts/. --presets react-app/prod"` and that's it. I don't want create-react-app lock-in. Eject doesn't count. That's an illusion.

My favorite process right now is a git repository that can be cloned into production, requires no build process, and works out of the box, to be statically served by any HTTP server. I commit my React builds. To me, this is the modern incarnation of Sublime Text and SFTP to my shared LAMP.

Today, I use Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, with a minimal bootstrap.sh and do it on a lowendbox for under 11 USD/yr.

I use CDNs. I don't use Amazon AWS because they aren't small business friendly. Which means I still write my own bootstrap.sh provisioning scripts, and deploy VPSs by hand.

I don't want to use a JavaScript ecosystem with marketing. I would prefer that something came out and deterred all of the types of people, yes types of people that I don't want using the software I use. The type of person who thinks it's a good idea to use a technology for less than 10 years and eschews mastery and memorization.

I want to do 1 hour of work for 10,000 USD. Not 40 hours for 4,000 USD. But you cannot do that type of work grinding away never learning and building exponentially on an existing corpus of knowledge.

Less Docusaurus mentality, more man7.org.

Edit: Apparently some people can't connect the dots here and don't see how this is relevant to Astro. So, I'll spell it out:

This is another npm project that forces me to build, forces me to use npm, and forces me to use Astro-specific (whatever that is) knowledge to build web pages. I don't want that.

All of the little details about those decisions ripple out into everything else I've just talked about. If I build, I'm probably .gitignoring my builds. So my repo out of the box is worthless. Because my repo is worthless, I can't deploy straight to my target environment. Because the author already thinks my target environment shouldn't be graced by something that works out of the box, they probably don't care about the resources of those boxes. They probably don't deploy software to VPSs at all. Maybe they use Heroku or think, "that's not my problem."

I want technologies that understand the entire scope of what I'm trying to accomplish without trying to be the entire scope of what I'm trying to accomplish.
> advertisment is immoral

Interesting opinion... have any facts to back up such an opinion? What's immoral about... spreading information about you and your business?

There are immoral ways to go about advertising, without doubt. But advertising itself is immoral?
>People have already started committing crimes using quadcoptors

I'm interesting to know what kinds of crimes people are commiting with quadcopters. Is it more of a spying/industrial espionage thing? Or stealing Amazon packages off of people's doorsteps? Arsonists?
Additionally for the UK, if you do work using a computer (which I imagine most people on HN do), your employer is legally required to pay for an eye test if you request it.

https://www.hse.gov.uk/msd/dse/eye-tests.htm
I was really happy when Gav from the Slow Mo Guys was finally able to capture the shockwave of glass breaking a couple of weeks ago. Until recently, it was impossible for them to see because it happens so dang fast.

It only took a mind-boggling 800,000 FPS!

https://youtu.be/EE7ug2okU-E
I did leave out though, that as i've realized this and practiced more with imaginative things, i have regained some of this ability. So i agree with the overall premise that visual imagination is a skill you can fain or lose due to practice or lack thereof.
Maybe the initial experimentation where we have to figure out the actual genes to tweak for these things but once that's through I think it'll be quietly everywhere.
I was able to install this fairly easily (much more so then the crap they dumped out here - https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos. Just take a look at the 200 github issues that were ignored for the most part...)

I also noticed that in my project I got a decent speedup immediately when executing my model, but I have not run any benchmarks.

But, where do you go to file bugs? Ask questions? etc. I am not a big Mac developer, so is there something I don't know?
> Because if they are allowed to write to the DOM, they can just add a script tag that loads a script from an arbitrary URL.

No they couldn't, because CSP still applies. Even if the extension itself can inject a script element as DOM node, the actual loading of the script's source would still get blocked because it's not being loaded from a trusted source.
You completely missed the point of the comment.

Google is stealing ideas and products, that they know are viable through the metrics they gather from the search data.

Then they implement those products and embed them ABOVE the search results.

Effectively killing off the competitors, who invented and build the original products.

HOW are developers free to avoid Google killing off their businesses like that?
The problem is that number was as low as $1 million a decade ago. Inheritance taxes are a political football, and the current system just blindly taxes the estate rather than the one who receives the inheritance. If the goal is fairness or distribution of resources, it makes sense to switch to system like in Ireland where each heir is taxed individually.
>In this case leaking Jeff Bezos' tax returns targeted one individual and provided no new useful information. It's exactly what we already expected about his taxes.

I think when he owns the Washington post, it becomes of the public interest.

Hell, in Norway literally everyone's salary is public information. Hasn't seemed to do them any harm either.
> Squabbling over a wealth tax is not useful. The real issue is that the super rich create these personal "foundations" that act as never-taxed income holes, and then use them as personal and political tools.

Politicians have them as well. Their foundations rarely if not ever cater to their stated mission. Instead, politicians use them as legal bribery vehicles.
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a426717.pdf

A target with a 300mm frontal diameter, capable of evading at 10g, is expected to require 6 rounds to achieve a P_hit of 0.5 at 200m range, based on the parameters of your typical Phalanx CIWS. Said Phalanx weapon system might fire a burst of 1s duration in such an engagement, which is 75 rounds.

For a missile engagement, that's a problematic number, but for a drone that's probably only moving a few dozen m/s and carrying a small payload, it's an entirely satisfactory engagement.

Phalanx is an early 1980s weapon system. The Army is going to be fielding directed-energy SHORAD systems next year, equipped with 50kW lasers.
What I mean is that the food we produce is already enough to feed everyone (yes, humans). The UN article I link starts with this:

Enough food is produced today to feed everyone on the planet, but hunger is on the rise in some parts of the world, and some 821 million people are considered to be “chronically undernourished”. What steps are being taken to ensure that everyone, worldwide, receives sufficient food?

The first sentence includes a link to the source of the claim.

What do you mean by "inefficiecies" at the end of your second paragraph?
> I understand that there are significant security issues with browser extensions

Sure, there are significant security issues. Since when is that a reason to disable a user-originated threat vector? As long as the user in question is informed and alerted to the potential security risks shouldn't it be within the user's purview to decide what to allow and what not?

Even if this line of argument cannot be said for every purpose - and I understand there is a potential for abuse and misinformation about misrepresenting any specific extension - but for instance say Tampermonkey, which the user needs to first download from the webstore then the user needs to also download the script, can't there be sufficient warning that what the user is doing is potentially harmful? Or a requirement from the webstore that Tampermonkey somehow also alert users before loading any remote scripts?

If a user decides to downright download malware we let them (Given, Chrome would block it but you can override that manually) why wouldn't the user be allowed to override these risks (i.e. you can enable it only in development mode etc. with a requirement that such extensions provide sufficient warnings etc.)
Thinking on it more the other problem is there is lasers deal no kinetic force thus a shell with reflective shielding might prove impervious to a pure light defense
Thresholds + only collateralized loans?
> Scientists have spend enormous amount of time and effort studying animal communication and behavior and it mostly contradicts what you believe.

Source? Plus how does the amount of time spent studying something matter? What if they're studying the wrong things or making faulty assumptions? Scientist spent an enormous amount of time studying humorism and blood-letting even as recent as 150 years ago..
The LLwN catalogue of good subbed French content does list an Astrix movie, perhaps that one does have good subs?

https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/catalogue.html#langu...
I skipped the tensorflow-deps and the tensorflow-macos dependencies since it was trying to downgrade a bunch of stuff:

$ pip install -U tensorflow-macos --no-deps

That seemed to work for me at least.
Hi, PDL core dev here. Feel free to ask me anything about it.

The last release wasn't in February, it was just last week! <https://metacpan.org/release/ETJ/PDL-2.050>.

I agree with many of the commenters here that Python has a lot of great libraries and is a major player for scientific computing these days. I also code in Python from time to time, but I prefer the OO modelling and language flexibility features of Perl.

Speaking for myself and not the other PDL devs, I don't think this is an issue for Perl-using scientists as Perl can actually call Python code quite easily using Inline::Python. In the future I will be working on interoperability between the two better specifically for NumPy / Pandas. This is also the path being taken by Julia and R.
Can not relate. If you have a good mic, decent internet, and your friends use Discord (or any other app that uses Opus), call quality is infinitely better than landline.
Also Redash which I find to be more powerful: https://redash.io/
Why? All you really care is whether the boom is big enough, and that you can deliver it on target. The latter was a big reason for optimising bomb construction, but you can just as well optimise your launchers - which leads to missiles like R-36, where the main difference between it and a space launcher is replacing the payload. Yes, early USA ICBMs also serve as base for space launches, but unlike R-36 were much less storable (except for Titan, iirc) and less powerful.
Sure, until you print something more complex than a simple word doc and you end up with a page covered 100% in black toner. Or you have the nerve to print a week calendar out of Microsoft outlook on your Mac and the printer simply spits out a postscript error.

(Lexmark color laser printer using AirPrint on macOS and iOS; installing Lexmark’s drivers fixes the problem)

So in other words, it works until… well it doesn’t
You can specify alternative style sheets and even get some standard browser UI:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Alternative...

I’ve implemented that two ways: having JavaScript pop the alternative attribute off for all but the desired style sheet or simply using a top-level class to modify the relatively few things we were customizing. Back in the day, I used SCSS but CSS Variables have matured to the point where you can do an awful lot that way, too.
Yet another decision that uses safety and security concerns as a cover for corporate concerns.
Bare Metal / Containers / VM
It's all about managing your dependency chain, and how much variation of environment you're willing to accept. You don't need to feel like a dinosaur if what you're doing is principled and reasonable.

There's no one size fits all.
No one is forcing you to use an electrical company. You could always power your house with a bicycle generator. Therefore, electrical companies shouldn't be regulated as public utilities.
This is mediocracy and a bad strategy
Sure but why not take the best of both worlds? Make a ai analyze your wrist fracture and also a radiologist analyze it. If the results don’t agree then you need to re-analyze.

That would even drive down the possibility of malpractice.
> I don't get how so many people are political on a site largely concerning itself with employment.

Because employment, like almost everything else in life, is political[0].

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/politics (see definition 5 a, especially)
If we're talking about devices with megaton or hundred-kiloton yields, accuracy isn't super important. And simpler, unminiaturized weapons are probably going to be bomber-dropped anyway.
Shame they didn't have this earlier in the pandemic, but better late than never!

Remember how Steve Jobs promised at WWDC 2010 that FaceTime would be an "open industry standard?"

It sounded like we'd have a standard for video calls across all phones.

Still waiting for that, but this is a step in the right direction!
I get your point, but it doesn't look like this project would be ignored for some time, though it also makes some sense to market some features of the language with some demos, UI, GL and even an OS to show its capabilities.

And if you ask me, it's very impressive that an OS can be written in V as well.
Isn't AirPrint just IPP with some extra proprietary metadata and a set of requirements about accepting certain set of PDF features?
> Like a lot of Family-owned European companies (Ikea comes to mind as well), it's a thinly veiled employment opportunity for the heirs that does very little actual charity. The family is heavily involved in board selection, & it's really just an elaborate tax scheme.

I wonder if the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has the same criticisms?
You’re missing out on a gigantic speed boost. If you haven’t checked lately check again, most of the big libraries have been recompiled over the last few months (tensorflow excluded apparently).
Kinda silly to use Rosetta when the whole point of this is native support for TensorFlow on M1.
> I wonder what made them take this path?

Perhaps noticing that everyone was using Zoom during the pandemic?

Remember originally Steve Jobs promised that FaceTime would be an "open standard." For some reason Apple backed off on that.
real time collab is a figment of coders. real business processes are async in nature. what people really want is a easy way to open someone elses work, review it or add to it, and move on without all the emailing, chatting, while important, tend to be wlso a aync need thats note mvp to the process
It's funny how we are going from one orthodoxy to another, from "separate logic from presentation at all cost" to "inline all css directly in your HTML tags".

It reminds me the era when devs were chastised for using tables for layout, and using floats was deemed the right way to do things, when both techniques were essentially just hacks with both their strengths and weaknesses (overflow:hidden anyone?), but somehow the entire dev community was gazlit into believing that "tables" for layout were bad. Tables weren't bad, CSS wasn't just good enough, otherwise Flexbox or Grid would not be needed.

Flexbox considerably simplified CSS layout. The people who never had to use a single float attribute in their style declaration cannot fathom that.

CSS, the way it was designed, has been terrible for a long time and a thorn in the side of generations of web developers, but nobody want to acknowledge that. IF there is one thing the web failed at, it's absolutely CSS, from its syntax to the way it works in conjunction with HTML And Javascript.
On the one hand it seems Google is unstoppable. Google can do everything. But I think iPhone showed an alternative path. Now most people are actually using apps (not Google) on mobile for different functionalities. I guess this is the argument that Google has been making but I buy that. My guess is 20 years from now Android, YouTube, Google Maps, etc. would be more valuable for Google than search.
I am making this comment in this good faith striving not to be dismissive. The alternative proposals here look a lot like when a freshman colleague of mine decided that Go error handling is broken and wrote a custom mechanism using `panic` and `recover` that was near impossible to read and maintain.

Truth is that the canonical way of handling errors in Go, despite looking unsightly to people from other language ecosystems and seeming cumbersome to use, actually works well in practice.

The fact that when used along with a linter that enforces error handling, I never have to worry if a certain function I'm using can `throw` and not having to wonder whether that has been handled in a try-catch provides a lot of cognitive relief.

I say this as someone who loves other languages like Rust as well. The fact that there is a canonical mechanism that everyone uses which you don't need to second guess, or jerry rig your own is a great net benefit. In Rust, it's the union Result type, in Go it's every function returning error. I would not advocate for one trying to shoehorn the other's mechanism into its own ecosystem.
> It's possible in that case we could employ another form of corporate execution: Nationalization. Perhaps in a short-term form where the government oversaw the process of spinning down the business gradually.

Actually, that might be a good middle ground, as long as there were still provisions to try to claw back any severance to execs. I'm not sure I trust all civil servants to be quite tenacious enough when it doesn't affect their own prospects.

There would also have to be provisions that required it be defunct within a certain time frame. Otherwise I'd be afraid it would be repurposed as a tool to nationalize companies without closure that avoided the discussion and vote as to whether that's a good idea by using possibly fabricated charges. That's a powerful tool to have with bad incentives in place if the government can gain from taking over the companies.
So what you're suggesting is instead flying in a giant predictable parabolic flight pattern, just dropping the drone in front of the actual targets and let the big cannon do the work? Friendly-fire/own-goal for the win.
Yes, if the money was higher, then it is entrapment. E.g. 100k for a secret.
The question is “did the police agent catch a crime or cause a crime to happen” of course where it becomes entrapment is a grey area.
This is not true.

We've run fdb in production for several years at this point. We have dramatically scaled production clusters up and down.
Police in 16 countries have arrested hundreds following a sting
Thank you.

The first time I did 'import tensorflow', the
import line ran for a long time and then complained about
flatbuffers being missing.

Then I ran several commands to install flatbuffers - all of which
I could have sworn claimed it was already there, but then I tried
the import again and it worked.

'import numpy' works too so the env feels complete enough.

My python binaries are coming from ~/miniforge3/bin

So all is well now, thx.
Living up to your username eh?