skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they didn't innovate. They didn't add anything new to searches nor can I find a real differentiator in the product. It's a "privacy search engine that uses bing... but French!".

It's not federated, open-source and written in a fancy language like Rust, doesn't remunerate people in some special way (a crypto currency of some sort), doesn't have a groundbreaking browser-extension, there are no special integrations with any services, no new ways of filtering stuff (e.g a list of people who rate search results that you can subscribe to), just... there's nothing really attractive or catchy about it.

They could've taken or forked Yacy (federated, opensource search engine), dumped those millions into it and made it a serious project, but alas
Yeah, Replicache is in beta right now, and we haven't quite finished the detailed server-side documentation. Apologies .

However, there is a walkthrough of implementing the server side starting here:

https://doc.replicache.dev/guide/remote-database.

And you can find some samples here:

https://github.com/rocicorp/replidraw

https://github.com/rocicorp/replicache-sample-chat
I shit on a shingle in San Francisco
Wait, what evidence is there that the virus was spreading in August 2019? From a quick Google search, this source [0] published not long ago claims they think earliest it could possibly have been was mid-October of 2019.

[0]: https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2021-03-18-novel...
There has been no change in their product lifecycle documentation. A bunch of dumb bloggers are reposting each other after one guy found the page, decided it meant Windows 11 was imminent, and posted it.
I have a Pixel 3. It's the first phone I've truly felt I could live with beyond it's 2 year expected life because the OS is still fast and responsive, the battery still holds a charge and it lasts all day on a single charge. Being water proof definitely helps too. The phone still gets Android OS updates so I don't feel like I'm missing out on features or security. The only reason I'll be upgrading soon is the hardware buttons are failing. The volume up button gets stuck and the power button will occasionally get stuck as well putting the phone in a reboot cycle that's hard to break out of. I'm not sure if this is an issue from wear or if it got dropped on the buttons (I have kids, they're pretty gentle with devices but accidents have been known to happen). I've gotten around the issue with an app that remaps the buttons so if they get stuck held down it just doesn't do anything. The trade off is I have to use the Accessibility tools to change the volume or power off the device, but the tools are really well integrated with the OS (on the Pixel 3, at least) that it hasn't been much of an annoyance at all.

Prior devices were mostly Samsung Galaxy models, the Samsung flavor of Android was terribly slow and consistently got worse as you approached that 2 year mark. The plastic portions of the housing always managed to accumulate chips and cracks especially on the corners and even with screen protectors install the glass would manage to crack at the slightest bump or drop. The OS was already out of date before I bought it and it rarely got updates, if it did it was months after the Android OS release and usually made the device perform worse.
> the only reason not to run it is if you really, really need WSL. Even then, I think you can get it enabled if you really need to.

Indeed you can; I don't recall any difference between LTSC and non-LTSC when it comes to enabling WSL (though I haven't tried since WSL 2 came around, so maybe things changed).
Maybe they're trying to compete with Baidu.
I had an Onyx Boox 1 and it was slower than my 5-year-old iPad, the touchscreen would only register touches from the stylus they didn't provide so much as a storage strap for, and the OS was Android 6 with a custom spin so you couldn't load a lot of normal apps on it, and was abandoned and never upgraded. Total dogshit waste of €400. I gave it to my dad after a week. I hope he used it as a rifle target, but I never asked.
Not sure why the commment by echelon is flagged. I think it's a reasonable observation:

The new cold war is here. The narratives everywhere are starting to change in support of it, and I wager that the rhetoric is going to continue to escalate.

Suddenly "lab leak" isn't racist and isn't implausible.

Biden is going to go cozy up with Putin, which was at one time unthinkable.

Reddit and other social media has drastically shifted tone. Patriotic voices are upvoted, positive opinions on China downvoted.

Supply chains are moving (especially semiconductor supply chains and critical components).

One of the things I'm surprised by: Thinkpads are getting criticism. I was looking to buy a new one the other day and there was hostility in the forums over China.

On the other side of the ocean, Chinese propaganda has heated up too. Yesterday state media supposedly published an image of the G7 as The Last Supper.

Those UFO drones are probably either China or the US.

Where will we be in five years? Is this going to continue escalating into more than just words?
I use ag wrapped in a shell script interactively. Does exactly what I want with more than enough speed. Been packaged with Debian for a long time as well. Ripgrep doesn’t seem to offer any advantages although could probably find something if I had time.
When you spend 40 hours mentally preparing yourself to do a task then you are extremely productive when you actually do it. But the overall performance is still horrible.
Just like we all should be doing by now.
Why the need of new version? Just get rid of the "bad" stuff.
I don't think is going to change much in this direction.
Great comment that also gets right to the appeal of the moleskines (and GoPros). Everyone wants to be this person who is so flooded with genius insight every thought must be transcribed, or whose athletic prowess is so unmatched every minute should be recorded. Of course in reality, that's mostly not how either one works.

For my part, all my best ideas are incredibly simple, abstract, and writing it down is both incredibly difficult and also worthless. Sometimes I doodle to work through an issue, but that takes little more than a napkin and a crayon.

All that said I really, really love eink. I could almost buy an RM2 just to support eink development.
Interesting claim. I had to try this, and with the Xcode version that I have installed, std::sort with a simple lambda as comparison function gives about the same result with -O3 and -Os. I would not call this a disastrous, but of course opinions differ. Interestingly, qsort is significantly faster with -O3 than with -Os but of course nowhere near std::sort.
56-bit support was specced and had software support already in ~2016. 48 bits is not a hard architecture limitation. see eg https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/x86/x86_64/5level-pag...
Google’s Privacy Backpedal Shows Why It’s So Hard Not to Be Evil
Your comment is misleading.

DeNiro continued: “In the 15 years since the Tribeca Film Festival was founded, I have never asked for a film to be screened or gotten involved in the programming. However, this is very personal to me and my family and I want there to be a discussion, which is why we will be screening “Vaxxed.” I am not personally endorsing the film, nor am I anti-vaccination; I am only providing the opportunity for a conversation around the issue.”
> the bug is actually 3 bugs

I hate these ones in particular. My debugging strategy is generally like a surgeon's: do no harm. When investigating a bug I try to have as absolutely few moving parts as possible. Otherwise it's too easy to create knock-on bugs or interfere with the repro. Many times I have "fixed" a bug by changing something only to later realize that all I did was cause the repro to no longer manifest it.

My process is usually something like:

1. Come up with hypothesis for cause.

2. Fix the code according to that hypothesis.

3. Did it work? If so, done. If not undo all changes from step 2 and try again with a new hypothesis.

But when a bug is the confluence of several issues, that step 3 can make it impossible to find a fix. I hate having to make multiple speculative changes (especially when the right fix could be any of the exponential number of combinations of them). Often I end up going in circles because I realize there must be multiple different problems interacting to cause the issue.
If the gov't was a tech company, the laws that have been created are a massive amount of technical debt that has been built up over a century and rarely has anyone ever gone back to prune bad laws.

There was a commission created to discover how many LAWS there were in the U.S.

Just basic LAWS that people and institutions have to follow(because ignorance of the law is no excuse)

And after years the final conclusion from this commission was that it was impossible to know how many laws there are.

You can google that.

A ton of what governments deal with are problems THEY CREATE THEMSELVES.
I thought they where Ubuntu running on mac hardware.
Only thing missing is for them to start signing system files with a short-lived certificate, to force people to run updates every couple weeks.

Yes, I'm still bitter about my Windows Insider experience. On the one hand, it's kind of my fault - I signed up for testing the beta release. On the other hand, holy shit. I dual-boot, and I didn't log into Windows for some ~3 months, during which my Insider build expired. After that, when I finally did try booting to Windows, I was greeted with a completely bricked, unrecoverable system: core DLLs had expired certificates, and _nothing_ would start, as code signing checks failed.

(This was a Windows 10 upgraded from Windows 8, and it was past the free upgrade period, so I ended up buying a new Windows 10 license. So in the end, they've managed to make money off me with this.)
Like an Uber for hospitals?
> lose focus on dull activities

You mean like getting distracted while actively having sex by the way the light is filtering through the leaves outside my bedroom window?

How about missing half of what your spouse is saying to you because you suddenly remembered an insight you had about how relative speed and the perception of the passage of time are linked, thereby forming a universal constant connecting both?

… or maybe you mean not being able to remember anything you need while at the grocery store because instead you remembered you needed something from the auto parts store, and having to drive to the auto parts store and buy that thing because it completely fills your consciousness and makes you unable to think about what food you need for the week until you have it in your hand?

In all seriousness - whether an activity is “dull” or not has little bearing on whether I can focus on it. My focus is ephemeral, and feels like something completely out of my control most of the time. Medication gives me some ability to direct it.

I hear people talking about “not looking forward” to doing things. I can’t relate at all. I dread even the things I want to do, because I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do them.
https://archive.is/isH3s

I believe this is the reference.
Mostly agreed, but I did like the last sentence: sometimes it is easier to solve the general problem than the specific one.

That is a useful trick to keep in mind all the time. The point of course, is not to learn to solve integrals, but to learn a transferrable piece off mental jiujitsu.
For me this is OS updates or want for new features not available on my phone.

I generally take good care of devices. My Pixel 2XL (bought on the day it became available) still looks like new and cleaned up has not a single scratch and could easily pretend to be new if somebody didn't know better.

I have upgraded to Pixel 2XL from my previous phone to get Bluetooth 5 which at the time I wanted to use for some of my designs (I do hobby electronics).
When a company, that has been playing a dirty game for decades making a monopoly of their software while collecting billions++ in licenses, people tend to expect some standards; and rightfully so.
I expect that if an SSID is not associated with a stable location, it's not even stored in the db because it doesn't serve the purpose of being a landmark (or stores it but with "hotspot," based on some heuristic, and therefore unreliable for location mapping).
Most grocery stores that offer their own delivery services do so for much cheaper than Instacart: they charge normal prices for items, and put all the delivery costs in the delivery fee where it belongs. For example, using Kroger's delivery service instead of InstaCart can be nearly 50% cheaper even before customer-card discounts because (a) Kroger charges the same price for items as you would pay in-store (and will offer sales prices if available), (b) Kroger generally charges a fixed fee for delivery, and (c) uses employees in locations where delivery is offered. The caveat is that most grocery stores have smaller delivery radiuses than Instacart.

Edit: Kroger owns a lot of chains; some of the chains might mark up prices on delivery items a bit, but the stores I have used do not.
Well, my laptop is currently monitoring the wifi frames my neighbors' devices are transmitting, and I never asked their permission. Their devices are doing the same to mine and they never asked my permission. Your phone is monitoring all wifi frames being transmitted around you, regardless of what network those other wifi stations are connected to. That is part of the wifi standard -- stations try to avoid interfering with each other, and necessissarily monitor each other's transmission without anyone asking for any permission.

Do you want to live in a world where wifi requires permission? Trying tracking down all the people in your area who are using wifi -- I have literally hundreds of wifi stations around me, operated by dozens of different people, and I have no idea who they are or how to contact them. The next time you turn on your laptop, before connecting to a wifi network (by which point you have already recorded transmissions from other wifi networks in the area), try making sure you have everyone's permission -- after all, you would not want to benefit (by being able to use wifi and not having to carry an ethernet cable around) from your device monitoring another person's network if they did not say it was OK!

Most wifi is operated in the unlicensed band, which is meant to be permissionless. That makes it convenient and suitable for consumer applications, and it also means that you have NO right to complain that Google and Microsoft dared to record your wifi beacons without asking your permission.
It seems yes there is a reason if you need integrals. From TFA: "You can also try having Wolfram Alpha compute it, and it will time out. We will need to be more creative."
"E Ink is easier on the eyes than OLED and iPads and the like."

This is a popular anecdotal claim, but as far as I know there is zero research to solidly back it. There is research showing there's little difference, however. One example:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22762257/
You should look into an alternative then. Linux is quite beginner friendly these days and with Wine you can emulate pretty much any Windows application if that's what's holding you back from switching. If not then MacOS is the way to go. If you really want to go "back" then you should have a look at ReactOS which is a sort of an open-source Windows clone.

I can't comment on recent Windows-related event as XP was the last version of Windows that I used and even back then I wasn't happy about all the "spyware" that came with it. I can only imagine it's gotten worse since then.
No, probably not. They have an entire team on it, and has an official Google blog post: https://developers.googleblog.com/2021/06/our-latest-updates...
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They found covid-19 Antibodies in Italian blood samples from September 2019.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33176598/

PCR tests on Spanish sewer water found positive samples even earlier in 2019. I think the earliest so far French case was in early December 2019. I hope lots more studies are proceeding.
PyTorch 1.9
> Just 39% of Americans could pay for a $1,000 emergency expense

> * Fewer than 4 in 10 people have enough savings to pay for an unexpected $1,000 expense in cash.

> * The rest would have to borrow, use a credit card or take out a personal loan.

> * While the pandemic has set back emergency savings, many people are optimistic their finances will improve in 2021.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/just-39percent-of-americans-...

But sure, many of those could take on debt to do it, as the summary says, true.

Medical debt is a leading cause of bankruptcy in the US. (No, I'm not saying $1500 alone is going to cause a bankruptcy.)
New emergencies generally offer more low hanging fruit.

I am doubtful that ~50M split into 260 grants would have any measurable impact on climate change. Just as this didn’t have any large wins. Arguably rather than research leveraging that into solar panels or other infrastructure would be a better use of funds.

In the end it’s a real gamble. One or more of those 4,000 applications was likely a great use of funds, but finding and funding it is hard especially if you’re trying to keep overhead low. Up the amount to say 1B/year and the tradeoffs become even harder between research and action.
Of course there is. It's vital to check your calculations in some way or another, and cross checking with other humans that know what they're doing ought to yield the correct answer eventually. I suppose this is mostly useful if you find nobody that knows how to use library X, and everyone uses Y, so the only other practical option to cross check are other humans.
The poll question isn't useless because it lacks context, it lacks context specifically because it is a loaded question. The question is operating by design. This hand waving about 'uncomfortable talking about' and 'long tails' is all designed as cover for bad faith arguments about the concept of free speech.

This entire effort is a bald faced exercise in laundering right wing ideology as uncriticizable, and speech by those outside of the right as some form of 'not speech' when it is critical of the ideas.

Being uncomfortable talking about something is not prima facia evidence you are being silenced, it is only evidence that you are being silent. You aren't entitled, and have no right, to be comfortable when you share controversial ideas. This is why there isn't a difference between your 1 and 2. 2 does not suggest suppression. 2 could just as easily suggest growth of a society or a cultural characteristic that someone from the US misunderstands.
Can you tell me more about your experience with selection, use, and pitfalls of treadmill desks?
Sorta Agree... BUT

If you are going to you should strategically work (some ) weekends or extra hours in the way a baseball player puts extra reps in at the cages on their own time or the flutist rehearses to make first chair.

This applies to anyone though. Perhaps more so for young people because they are more likely to be new in their field.

Just working 90 hours week after week for the merit badge won't get you anywhere.

Strategically learning additional skills or uber prepping for a presentation or building a rock solid business case will. These are typically achieved in extra hours. Sorry but it is true.

Now, it might not be for everyone. If you find the right life/work/career balance at your current trajectory then no one is forcing you to do these things. Showing strategic initiative however is one of if not the number one way to push your own advancement.
> they had to do to make something that would work for a movie

Here's an article that includes a picture of what they thought it would really look like: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26966-interstellars-t...

I think that would have worked perfectly fine. Maybe throw in some more stuff circling it further out.
> When taxpayers fund research, the fruits of the research should be available for all.

How is this statement consistent with academics starting start-ups?
"but I revisited a lot of assumptions about the nature of software and reality before getting to that point."

I encountered some bugs that felt like this (software only though), where I did not found the all explaining logical solution and ended up rewriting that part.

But I saved the whole state of the project and data in a zipped file and keep them locked away - so one day, when I feel like madness (and maybe have better tools avaiable) I will jump into it, either to proof my own stupidity - or the existence of dark magic, poltergeister and demons.
If you are after flexibility I'd suggest no css framework. Maximum flexibility.
I’m not sure how requiring a car (because you need to drive to work) is equivalent to owning the latest hot gadget or having food delivered to you on demand.
This part of the global message kind of paints a specific picture for me

> It's a new genesis for a new era. Thank you for using freenode, and Hello World, from the future. freenode is IRC. freenode is FOSS. freenode is freedom.

Here's my theory. Dude's got some sort of "spectacle complex". You know that feeling when you leave a movie theatre after watching something like "I, Robot" and you have that kind of inspired feeling that you need to revolutionize the world through robots or whatever? In a normal person it lasts about as long as it takes to walk out of the movie theatre, then you're reminded you're back in real life.

It's kind of like this vision of creating something great, a new hope, futurism fetish sort of thing. It's the kind of "visionaries" that always talk about how they're going to revolutionize something without having any clear steps for how to get there or even a clear idea of what the "problem" is.

It's meant purely as sensationalism, and as an appeal to some weird emotion that I still don't really have words for.

Anyway he wants to be the leader in this grandiose movement to... something, I don't even think he knows what. Almost as though he's doing people a favor by doing this.

Completely misguided, and I doubt he'll learn anything from it. Clearly he lives in his own world in his head.
It will be bad and invasive.
It took me some time but I have a good workflow for debugging hangs/deadlocks/etc. If you know what part of the code produces it, you iterate over it indefinitely in a debugger until it hangs, then once you notice the iteration has stopped you “step in” to the debugger. Then you run another script that dumps the current trace back for each existing thread. That should be enough to detect the lock normally.

The big problem is if you don’t know how to reproduce the issue in a debugger for some reason.
Unpopular opinion, but when I was young, I avoided drugs because of the legal consequences. I understood that trying drugs once or twice wouldn’t get me addicted, it wouldn’t impact my health, because when I was young, health wasn’t a big concern. The main concern with acquiring or taking drugs was the severe legal consequences I’d face. Years in jail, whether it was true or not was the deterrent.
People Who Reinvented the Notebook at Netflix Are Back to Reinvent the Notebook
Whole OS will be running in the cloud so users will get updates as fast as possible and have no way of disabling extra features.