skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that time was a bit of a golden age. Pre-PC, users were at the mercy of mainframe administrators. On their desk was a terminal that gave you a view into somebody else's computer. Then IBM started a revolution - giving control to users and they changed the world for the better. It didn't last long though. In the 90's PCs started their devolution back to being little more than dumb terminals giving us a view into somebody else's computer.

Ironically enough, it was free software that powered the building of the web-based world that removed power and control from users and subjected them to the unblinking eye of pervasive surveillance.

Microsoft has given up. I'm convinced that they adopted Chromium for their browser because they see Electron or something like it as the future of application development.

Thankfully Apple seems to still believe in native applications. All the interesting indie software seems to be on the Mac. Apple is trying to make speech recognition and OCR work better on-device than off. They are investing in CPUs because Intel can't figure out how to ship anymore. They still have stores where you can touch and see the stuff they sell. It's the most human big tech company out there right now. It might be the only one.
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Presumably they have a moderation queue, moderated by a bunch of low-paid workers who are highly stressed from looking at awful images full time?
Depends...

In my country, if you get a positive PCT test, you can go places 10 days after the result and up to 6months after, then a vaccination is required (or a new positive result, or a test).

If another country has different limits (14 days after the positive test and up to 5 months after), they need a test date to calculate if you're allowed to enter or not.

As someone from a former socialist country, this really reminds me of "papers please", especially the border crossings between countries with similar numbers of infected not letting people cross.
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> bars often ask for photo ID to verify that customers are old enough to be served alcohol.

1. This is a subset of all customers so it is not as useful as all customers

2. I’ve never seen a bartender or waitress scan my photo ID or record the data on the ID; without that it isn’t highly unlikely the data is being stored.

Your comparison is just not valid.
You don't need to go 70mph to regen a Tesla. They went fast in the article in order to get the wattage up to an impressive article-worthy number. 20mph would work but more slowly.

There shouldn't be much if any shock loading because the towed vehicle will be on the brakes the whole time.

Obviously some good judgement is advised. Roads with hairpin turns or the shoulder of a major urban interstate is not the place for this.

Obviously a tow bar would be better than a rope but nobody winds up in a situation where they need to regen tow a vehicle because of an abundance of alternative good options.

I guess I was a little too generous to HN when I assumed I didn't need to include a bunch of "be reasonable about it" disclaimers in my original comment.
I use FASM (https://flatassembler.net/), and I have been learning F# for about five years, so this is very interesting to me. I am guessing it is more like NASM than MASM because of the square brackets in the animated GIF example? I am trying to figure out how I might find this useful. I am trying to do wavelet transforms in F# that I currently do in C or Julia, and this might be fun for some assembly optimizations if worth it over the C library, but I doubt it because of optimizations.
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Yes, I can understand for registering who has been vaccinated and when, it is necessary to combine these pieces of data.

The part I am worried about is, do I want to give anybody and everybody access to this information, or only a select group which is in my control.

Do I want to share my full Google/Facebook account, with password, with everybody that I show a QR-code to (for example a 'Login with Facebook' button), or do I want to be selective and only allow for 'verify and give permission to access part of profile'?

Do I want to share my full contacts list with a random app I installed from an app store, just because I started it? Or do I want to be selective and deny 'access to contacts' for a game which has no business looking through my contacts.
I went to university in September 1997. In my first week there I used the internet for the first time. It took me about an hour to decide I wanted to learn how to make my own website, to start figuring out what I needed to learn, and to fire up an editor and to write my first HTML tag. 6 months later I got my first freelance gig. I've been making web stuff ever since.

I got it right, but with hindsight it was pretty obvious it was going to be a big thing.
Yelling at robbers is a terrible idea, silent alarms are silent for a reason.
At that point, if they can get in there (or anywhere near the door), they may as well leave a bomb or equivalent explosive/incendiary device (a big enough lithium battery should do the trick). Actually accessing the equipment room isn't really necessary.
How much would I sell it for?
... says Ouija board?
700 employees seems like alot
I’m 2014 I went to the funeral of my former classmate who had died of cancer. His father, who was a semi-retired biotech scientist, had an idea for how to prime the immune system with patient-specific molecules. I didn’t have a job, so I took on a specific piece of the problem, which was a machine learning model to predict the HLA binding affinity of a candidate vaccine, given a patient’s genetic sequence. Later, a company was started and sold to BioNTech. (I was at a different job, not involved.)

Why am I telling you this? Because no boss has ever suggested a project with even remotely the impact of that one side project, or any one of several others. You will painfully regret the time you spend on somebody else’s career objectives, versus your own ideas to help people.
Have you tried running:

git push origin HEAD

In both Github and Github Enterprise, that command will create a branch with the same name on the remote.
In slovenia, clubs/restaurants/etc. are not allowed to check any vaccination/test/recovered data (you still need to be one of those, they can ask if you are, but are not allowed to verify).

Only health inspectors can do so, and they do random checks. Honestly, I don't know how this will end, because people are really fed up with this situation and all the lies from the government, and a club full of drunk people vs a few inspectors won't end well.
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I realize I was supposed to be in the past. In ‘93, when I first saw email and newsgroups, I thought the Internet would be a force for good that would allow free communication that would have to be a benefit for humanity.
Like many, I didn’t anticipate how it would also amplify our negative qualities too.

I still think it can be a benefit, but it will be a battle against our dark natures.
Yeah, gotta monetize that cockpit recorder. Wasted fodder for a crew campaign.

You could even insert ads into the recordings to reach the people who listen to the recordings after an accident!
Given the context (an essay for an IB class taken in High School), the essay is very impressive.
Is that even possible? I imagine lots of, if not the majority of what DARPA does is classified.
If you don’t care which cockpit, you could always take an intro flying lesson.
It costs around 2000 euros last time I checked.
Oh, all good then. Nothing to see here.
I think it's apt in the sense that for many, the m1 machines are meeting their needs as much as the high spec machines did.
Of course this isn’t particularly fair, as the RTX is far superior to the M1 integrated graphics, but real-world performance of the M1 is actually comparable to the Core i9 while only consuming a fraction of the power.
Anyone here with Django and Phoenix experience? Is there any reason to use Django over Phoenix now?
I mean the entire business model of the company seems to be to depart rich people from their money in obscene ways, so that move does not seem unexpected.

I generally do not understand the thought process of buying a tablet glued to a treadmill for three thousand dollars. That's like what, a decade of gym membership
Mayday, mayd 'THIS FRIDAY ON "AIR FIRE WATER MOUNTAIN RESCUE: ALASKA": "It sort of just fell from the sky!" - TUNE IN THIS FRIDAY AT 7 EASTERN'
I haven't used CDK - you recommend it over Terraform then?
Yes. It's a bad sign that it had come to this in the first place.
OMG, SVG Favicons FTW
Photo sync I use Nextcloud for. It will automatically upload my photos to my Nextcloud instance. That takes a bit of effort though, because you have to set up a Nextcloud server.
I keep hearing this over and over. I get it, some people are fairly introverted, some really enjoy WFH.

But what stopped you from distancing from people and using self-checkouts before the pandemic? If you hate people, fine, just go home straight after work, you aren't obligated to hang out with anyone. It is not like the government would fine you for coming home before 11pm, right?
Is it innovative? I've heard of it but isn't it just an iteration on the usual remote play tech? ie

Wii U, Steam Link/Remote, nVidia Play/Geforce Now etc

I can't say I've ever heard it talked about in my gaming circles.
Your travel trailer makes up for it by punching a very big hole in the air.
Its entirely possible I just wasn't in the loop. I worked for Walmart at the time, so it seemed natural to give Amazon a shot. Previously I worked at many meat grinders in finance and was familiar with that type of culture. Being on the east coast I was one of the first people I knew to leave that world for more of a general tech focus, I only really knew about the super well regarded and hated companies.
If you look at their job openings, they're looking for experience re-engineering monolithic codebases to microservices, and they mention PHP experience or willingness to learn PHP to read their legacy codebase as a plus, so it sounds like their back-end engineers have a lot on their plate. Add in two mobile apps, plus all the technical, legal, and business challenges of operating on lots of different countries, plus recommendation algorithms, abuse detection, tons of marketing stuff I'm sure, constant running to stay in place in a crowded market, hell, that's just what I can think off of the top of my head never having worked in that space.
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You've good visuals, so you just aim for the nearest cloud to reconnect.
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I think you're misunderstanding. Learning not to live according to the fears of the American Empire doesn't mean learning to be opposed to the American people or to break alliances. If anything, it should our job to lecture Americans on what is and is not appropriate fears to have.
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> Besides size and volatily (dissolution, mergers of ETF generating unfavourable tax events), most ETF by European providers are swap-based.

The older ones are swap-based, the new ones are not. iShares has the biggest offering. Lyxor and Xtrackers are often cheaper for very popular indices. Vanguard is just entering the market.

I think it is a very healthy competition and TERs are constantly going down.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178C is a good starting point to understand certification requirements, and Wind River has a lot of documentation around VxWorks, which is actually quite modern supporting Rust etc.

The issue is that even a slight overlap with other cockpit functions puts you in a much stricter regime, and thus a simple modern map rendering framework doesn’t work, because its components and dependencies have never been sufficiently dissected - you rather have a 5 second lag, terrible as it sounds from a pragmatic safety perspective, than having anything, especially your own position, misplaced only once in a billion map redraws.

The practical solution is that most airlines by now fly with iPads, Jeppesen Flight Deck Pro but even GA stuff like ForeFlight, which is also owned by Boeing, is popular for quick lookups like taxi instructions etc.
Reminds me of a short story where managers are the first to be replaced by AI.

Don't remember the name, though.
As ByteDance is headquartered in the PRC, I imagine they have to comply with whatever the CCP asks them to do. Similar to how Facebook would have to comply with a US courts subpoena for records even if it belonged to a foreign National, but worse since it’s the Party and not an independent Judiciary making such requests.
I don't know why this is getting downvoted. The generally accepted colloquialism is 'across the pond', used by Brits to refer to America. It is possible that some of our cousins from over the pond, with whom we have a special relationship, might be left pondering over all this palaver.
Why is having to partake in your misery a good thing?

The large majority connect via smiles, laughs, hugs.
Yes but then the "total doses" field is useless :S
Are there really airlines that have both seatback screens and also charge for a small bag that can go under the seat? At least among US airlines, those two things are generally mutually exclusive.
Show HN: An App to plan personalised weekend getaways with friends from A to Z
Hi HN!

We’ve been working very hard over the past year to create the best group travel planning platform out there. COVID hasn’t made it all that easy and while we’re still far from perfect, we are now live on the stores (App Store + Google Play Store).

We are looking for all the feedback we can get to continuously improve with our 3-person team this product of ours.

Planning a trip is very simple and requires answering three simple questions, Who with, When and Where to get started. The whole planning journey was gamified and streamlined to make sure we can provide the most personalised trip for an entire group in a fun, engaging and rapid way (watch this demo video to get a better sense of the app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7MBULu7u6k)

This takes away all the pain of planning trips with friends, the endless conversations, the lack of actions or decisions and makes sure you trip gets over the finish line.

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> no need to emote in public thanks to masks

I will miss that. I liked not being told that I look angry or that I should smile sometimes.
SMBC has a comic about this - "Wacky 90s fads" https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fads

I admit that I too was once a believer...
Exactly, there's almost 100% selection bias in the cases heard by the Court. By definition, the case has already been interpreted differently by different lower courts OR there's a matter of some urgency on the national stage (election challenges being a recent example) OR something else of extreme interest.

The Court is asked to review somewhere around 7000 cases every year. Of those, they hear maybe 150.
Overall Qt is quite nice and works portably across platforms. You're right about callback hell but there's a fox for it. Personally I prefer to create a bunch of overloaded utility functions for different widgets and data types and in each utility function i use QSignalBlocker to make sure I'm not accidentally invoking any callbacks. I condiser any "raw" Qt "setXYZ" call to be a bug.
Not quite in the 90's but a bit later I was sure that when Moore's Law would stop we would see the trend move to cores. I wrote an article[1] about this change and how we should all prepare for it :-D

If I could tell my young self that as of 2021 we are not talking about kilo- or mega-cores but that my new M1 which I am very excited about is a mere 8, I would have been severely disappointed.

[1] https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/104365/Feature_The_Trans...
I agree. Seeing stuff like this take hold is both scary and tragic to me.

It feels like a genuine turning point for our way of life when the government can control your life unless you have a brand new medical procedure which, with no hyperbole, can kill healthy people at no significant risk from the disease.

I’m amazed how popular it seems to be here and the fact you have downvotes. This community like to tear companies like Facebook apart but cannot see the risks and impacts of what we are doing here?
I've been WFH for 4 years now and thoroughly enjoy it.

I enjoy isolation, I love the intensity of coding that I can get done. I'm generally more introverted.

That doesn't make the pandemic fun and rainbows. It's still been psychologically the most difficult time for me because I live in NYC. Walking the dog twice a day on ghost streets empty of any pedestrians, devoid of the hum of traffic and hearing nothing but the wails of every ambulance in the area for the better part of a month was deeply disturbing in a way I still haven't come to terms with.

Rubbing down the door knob with bleach. Double masking and surgical gloving when going to the bodega on the block for fruit. A real and valid fear of death and maiming for multiple months isn't something you just bounce back from.

So yes: It's a subjective statement. However it's not like just being an introvert made the pandemic a walk in the park. Don't mistake your experience as speaking for all introverts.
I’m not sure if comparing introverted life to a pandemic where people’s friends and families are dying alone in a hospital is a good comparison.
It’s not and Biden Admins inaction on following through with the previous admins threat is quite a significant action that’s just not getting the press it deserves.
Agree. I’ve suffered levels of abuse far too many times simply because someone misread my facial expressions professionally/personally. My school bullies would examine my expressions intimately and the “lessons” they instilled on me through my basic desire to not give them something to read stand to this day. Having a simple block over my face has been downright comforting. And frankly I’m not missing the everyday exposures to allergens nor anything else in the air.
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Only if you write every bit of code and trust every person involved in the entire value chain
This is what I don't understand either... vaccines work, health systems in most eu countries are pretty empty of covid patients now, anyone who wants a vaccine can get one... but we're still requiring people from countries with 99positive/100k to show vaccination proof to enter a country with 98positive/100k.

We have the vacciness, anyone can get one for free, just open up, and let the antivaxxers risk it if they want.
It’s like a Ferrari owner buying a Hyundai and saying they save a lot on their gas bill.

Why did they own the Ferrari if they weren’t using its power in the first place?
Imagine Facebook sending any app that would have 'Login with Facebook' functionality, your full profile, including your plaintext password.

Would you trust every and all third-party applications with this 'Login with Facebook' functionality, to not look at your plaintext password? Or would you rather have Facebook not send your password in the first place?
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> who were in electronic have switched to software.

No educated person in the late 90s could have anticipated how Foxconn would obviate "electronics."
I have never read a comic book. Maybe I should start. Is there one you would suggest?
If it's made domestically, it costs less to move it around and get it to customers.

Harder to deliver to customers = more expensive

Easier to deliver to customers = less expensive

So, short of price gouging or labor shortages, no, it would make things cheaper in the long run (and people would have more money to buy things because they have jobs).

Edit: one addendum is raw material costs. If we don't have a ready domestic supply of some mineral or other raw material, then that could/would bump prices (because we're still stuck in the imports trap).
> If instead of a total ban imposed on these companies, the US imposed incredibly tough rules tailored for them but that applied to "all" foreigners that made it impossible for these companies to operate, the end result would be the same

Or TikTok would change their business to operate within the limits of the new regulation, which is something that cannot happen with an outright ban. A good compromise is to do like the EU with GDPR and not ban companies directly but still require them to comply with local privacy laws if they want to access the market. Foreign companies that don't want to do it can simply block European users (effectively self-censoring themselves).
Turns out they're being outdone by nVidia's GeForce now anyway.
I was thinking this would be like home security cameras and how fun it would be to yell at home thieves all day. What a depressing reality it's just berating your own convenience store staff for taking a soda.
At every level of education I was required to show evidence of vaccination to attend. This has been normal for many decades, and as far as I'm concerned makes complete sense. It's unclear to me what's dystopic about public health requirements. Society imposes on individuals many constraints, and gives us back many benefits in return.

Perhaps people care, but simply disagree with your threshold for what's an appropriate societal imposition. I certainly do.
Not sure I agree with the real estate conclusion in this market. I think there is a lot of uncertainty on how real estate values will change post-COVID as how we use places for shopping, working, and travel change (or dont)
What does her diet look like now? Has her health improved with a meat less diet?I worry if I get this I won't be able to eat much at all, already have celiac disease and lactose intolerance.
I think it's the growth in data that when combined with accidentally bad algos suddenly start to drag down the perf.
Yes, in rare cases that might happen but in general that sounds like a trope. In fact, I've heard stories of people being denied entry and also getting vaccinated on arrival in a back room at the airport, which is as dodgy as it sounds.

Do you speak from experience?
There are tons of easy ways to build cross-platform apps, and have been for a long time. Extreme, very free-form customization of GUI elements so it looks & behaves exactly the way your marketing, branding, & web-design folks want down to the pixel on every platform, is what was hard before Electron. If you just wanted to deliver a GUI applications cross-platform, full stop, that's not something you couldn't do before, fairly easily, especially if Electron's performance and integration with its host platform is considered acceptable for what you're doing.
our regional TWC didn't offer it, and our local spectrum doesn't offer it for residential. I can get it for our office now, and might, but my own desire to experiment/learn isn't there, and no one else in the office here is asking for it right now.
I'd like my OS being deterministic, thank you.

> You're just trying your hardest to hate.

Manipulative much? I don't hate you (well, so far), you aren't being attacked, I'm just noting what a few informed people here don't like about your video. No, they aren't trolls. And, yes, everyone has different level of tolerance to exaggerations, of course.
I downloaded and installed the first “browser” (what a weird name) to see what the hype about “hypertext” (sounds sci-fi!) was all about.

It was a page of text where some words were underlined and blue. And if you clicked on a blue word, it would jump you to a new page before you were even finished reading the first page!

I remember thinking how dumb that was and must be for people with short attention spans. Uninstall and move on. This WWW thing is going nowhere…
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Maintaining and operating the plane are two separate jobs.