skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a name for this economic phenomenon where actors rather destroy goods than give it away or manage it in another, less wasteful way?
A mobility scooter works if you live close or can use transport that uses that. And also if you want one or have access to one, lots of e.g. elderly people don't use them. They're limited to where they can drive and walk an increasingly short distance.
The article uses the phrase 'It was "well-known in the intel community"' from an FBI agent to prove a North Korean connection. They aren't doubting the FBI at all in this story, it's less cheap entertainment more blatant propaganda.
>Finally, I tried and with a Magic Trackpad 2 (which should have a polling rate of ~90Hz) and with the built-in MacBook trackpad, and there were almost no changes to the WindowServer CPU usage.

I just decided to test it on my MBP, continuously moving the cursor on trackpad, WindowsServer was hovering at ~20+%, and 2-5% when it is not moving. It is not as high as an USB mouse but it is definitely problematic.

And I have noticed this for quite some time, I just never thought it was the mouse / cursor.
Any Internet-connected device is, in fact, a server, and must be seen and managed as one. This means strict control of installed services and, first and foremost, regular updates of all its software components (including firmware). If you acquire and install such a server which either can’t be updated or one which you know, realistically, won’t get any updates six months after installation, that’s asking to lose.

— Me, 2½ years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18019343
You don't seem to be able to search location by postcode :-(
Well: if fuchsia becomes the standard phone OS, the current practice of providing kernel source (to the point it can be compiled into working firmware) will end.

It doesn't prevent anyone from providing linux firmwares, but it takes away the reason they must do so.
The meme stock thing is very different than the S&P in terms of state of the market.

When denominator is M2 money supply, the stock market doesn't look bubbly at all..
You probably went during off time? It's usually more than 1 during busy time. (And it's Sukiya, not Sukiyaki)

And it's also probably not for wanting just 1 staff -- it's probably because no one want to work at those place.
> In Rust you can do it only with explicit `unsafe`; otherwise the typesystem tracks that for you.

Exactly, so I can continue this charade by creating such example.

Rust is not a magic bullet, and just like with your "proof" I can provide similar "proof" with unsafe.

Or I can provide an example in D, with has a GC and C++ like RAII, or Swift that also has a GC (ARC is a GC algorithm) and C++ like RAII as well.

I have been playing this game about explainging how to do deterministic resource management in GC enabled languages since I learned Oberon in 1995.

It is always the same pattern.

- "GC languages cannot do X"

- "Actually you can partially achieve X with Y"

- "Yeah, but ....."

So whatever.
It's a fork of Maps.me, so it's an identical successor.
"I recently learned that these vaccines have likely killed over 25,800 Americans (which I confirmed 3 different ways) and disabled at least 1,000,000 more. And we’re only halfway to the finish line. We need to PAUSE these vaccines NOW before more people are killed. "

No, this is not credible, yes, it is propaganda and misinformation.
I have found trim is not sufficient at least on Windows, we still need to rarely defragment SSDs from what I can tell.

On a Windows server we were having SSD performance issues where sequential reads were often down to 100MB/s, it was kind of confusing but we tried all sorts of ways to copy it with the same result. I eventually tested the drive with a fragmentation tool and it was really high at 80% but most importantly the problem files had so many fragments that they were tending towards 4k IO reads.

What I did was remove all the files to another drive, force trimmed the drive and gave it several hours to sort itself out and then copied them back and performance was restored to 550MB/s as would be expected.

I wrote a quick go program to test sequential read speed of all files across all the drives and I found plenty of files where performance was degraded. This was across a range of SSDs I had, SATA and NVMe from differing vendors. I suspect this is a bigger problem than most people realise, normal use absolutely can get the drive into a bad performing state and trim wont fix it. Very few people expect that the drive will degrade down to its 4K IO speed on a sequential copy but it apparently can.
is that me or as long as you get 'free' and good quality, healthcare, education, food, and home, it is kind of OK being poor?
No, there is a big difference between "this runs a fixed number of steps" and "this runs until it halts with an upper bound of 2^enormous"

"2^enormous" not actually being infinity will never matter.

"fixed number of steps" doesn't even start to resemble infinity.
But the experiments that have been done support it.

There's this set of objections to UBI based around "yes, ok, it works in the small scale, but it'll never work on a large scale".

If we did a large scale experiment, and it confirms that it works, the objections will move to "sure, OK, but it'll never work on a national level".

So let's just implement it and see if it works. If it doesn't work, we can always just go back to letting people starve.
> In tech it’s very likely someone going from 5 days to 4 days could still achieve the same amount of actual work. As other commenters have said, many tech workers don’t do productive work all the time they’re present.

While someone working a reduced schedule in an office where other people are working a full schedule may be able to set a schedule that misses some of the things they consider nonproductive (and may actually be more productive/hour for doing so), I don’t think that actually is likely to scale to the whole office switching schedules. If the people in authority that think that the meetings you feel are nonproductive are essential are still in the same positions of authority, they’ll still have the same meetings at least the same share of working hours, though there is a substantial risk that some of them will instead take the same number of hours per calendar week, regardless of the reduction in working hours.
Depends on how you interpret 'fixing your vehicle'.

It will take just one case where someone 'fixed' their automatic braking system and runs over a kid or something to get this kind of 'right' repealed.
Also the name of one of the first Linux distributions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X)
Installed it and tried some bike route to a nearby place...

It wanted to route me via the normal roads (admittedly low-traffic ones, but still...)...

There seems to be no option for a "scenic route" or even a different one from the single, proposed one?
>well then everyone can be back in school for sure!

But I am not sure how it is possible if none of the vaccines are known to prevent transmission.
You originally argued Japan has low birthrate because people can’t afford it.

There are macro and microeconomic reasons , but not being able to afford to raise a child is not one of them. Most of the reasons are social.
It doesn’t have to be the same small business across all those years, right? I don’t think anyone is saying these small businesses are trying to become hundred-year firms.
Google censors YouTube in the name of protecting people from their own stupidity, meanwhile profiting from the same phenomena through AdWords.
Interesting choice of LGPL license with exception.
Without needing to "root" the "phone", the user can install primitive ftpd from f-droid. Works great.
That's a vacuous statement. No large scale experiments have been done, so it proves nothing for or against UBI.

Small-scale experiments have been quite successful though.
You see this a lot in IT companies if it works for google, Amazon and Microsoft, It will work for us while we have like a millionth their load or complexity.
My interpretation may as well be "music is a waste of time and I find it offensive that the so-called music-makers are somehow equated with webcam models via that euphemism". Besides, it's a bad euphemism because webcam models don't create content, they create emotions. They are entertainers. Hardly anyone would call a strip dancer a "content creator".

Edit. Another possible interpretation: "I love that this euphemism finally equates webcam models with writers and musicians".
"Always halts after 1024 steps or fewer" is a rather stricter constraint than "halts after BB(2^10^12) steps".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
Modulo a few hundred thousand deaths those mechanisms have the same outcome. If you're ok with that by all means, go push herd immunity through infection.
>>Except that repeated experiments have found that raising wages and improving working conditions raises productivity and efficiency.

>No large scale experiment exists for UBI.

Non sequitur.
Even if 50% of the claims listed on the site are right, it's pretty worrying. Your dismissal of everything because of one statement is rather strange. I wonder where this blind allegiance to the vaccine safety claims comes from.
Partial Sentence: Countries can increase their population through immigration without increasing domestic birth rates. Countries can decrease their domestic birth rates without decreasing immigration.

Global Sentence: Global Population = People born.

Once every country is pro immigration without being pro birth there will not be enough births to maintain the current population. The can is being kicked down the road.

The problem isn't the shrinking population though. It's the aging of the entire world. Someone has to take care of these people or they die alone with nobody to attend their funeral.

The truth is letting people die by the millions in a war tends to take care of problems like this.
So.. interesting topic. Last year I experimented with some C# + Samsung 970 Evo Plus Nvme + MessagePack (with compression) + Zfs .. to benchmark how fast I could dump objects from .net memory to disk.

The numbers involved was insane and I played with various scenarios, with/without compression (MessagePack feature), with/without typeless serializer (MessagePack feature), with/without async and then the difference between using sync vs async and forcing disk flushes. I also weighed the difference between writing 1 fat file (append only) or millions of small files. I also checked the difference between using .net streams versus using File.WriteAllBytes (C# feature, an all-in-memory operation, good for small writes, bad for bigger files or async serialization + writing). I also played with the amount of objects involved (100K, 1M, 10M, 50M).

I cannot remember all the numbers involved, but I still have the code for all of it somewhere, so maybe I can write a blogpost about it. But I do remember being utttterly stunned about how fast it actually was to freeze my application state to disk and to thaw it again (the class name was Freezer :p).

The whole reason was, I started using Zfs and read up a bit about how it works. I also have some idea about how ssd's work. I also have some idea how serialization works and writing to disk works (streams etc).. I also have a rough idea how mysql, postgres, sql server save their datafiles to disk and what kind of compromises they make. So one day I was just sitting being frustrated with my data access layers and it dawned on me to try and build my own storage engine for fun, so I started by generating millions of objects that sits in memory, which I then serialized with MessagePack using a Parallel.Foreach (C# feature) to a samsung 970 evo plus to see how fast it would be. It blew my mind and I still don't trust that code enough to use it in production but it does work. Another reason why I tried it out, was because at work we have some postgres tables with 60m+ rows that are getting slow and I'm convinced we have a bad data model + too many indexes and that 60m rows are not too much (since then we've partitioned the hell out of it in multiple ways but that is a nightmare on its own since I still think we sliced the data the wrong way, according to my intuition and where the data has natural boundaries, time will tell who was right).

So I do believe there is a space in the industry where SSD's, paired with certain file systems, using certain file sizes and chunking, will completely leave sql databases in the dust, purely by the mechanism on how each of those things work together. I haven't put my code out in public yet and only told one other dev about it, mostly because it is basically sacrilege to go against the grain in our community and to say "I'm going to write my own database engine" sounds nuts even to me.
Using Zoom with OBS (virtual camera) works fine for me.
I wonder how relevant is this xkcd going to be here.

https://xkcd.com/927/
> Point is, there is nowhere near enough teachers and resources to fix these broken kids. Their broken homes are what need to be fixed.

The problem with that is if you can't fix their environment for 8 hours a day (most schools are more like 6 these days but for argument's sake), and you propose fixing their environments 24 hours a day ...

This is not going to work for those kids.

So it depends who you want to help. You want to help disadvantaged kids? This will, certainly in the short term, make it worse for them and make life better for advantaged kids.
Maybe they where forced to due to a dependency.
Is Zero Even?
It's great how open source FPGA design tools are light years ahead of the closed source behemoths from the FPGA manufacturers. (Chisel being another example)
That's true, but you can't expect these people to accept that, and we live in a democracy. This is not going to be a popular viewpoint in most places.
> Something can be overvalued without being worthless.

Nothing is worthless[1].

Everything worth something to someone at some time.

But some things will be worth much less to everyone at another time.

--

[1] that includes negative prices also, but that because of the externalities, i.e. deflation, storage costs, or pre-existing contractual obligations
This is pure bullshit, if that is what is on that site then the rest of it simply no longer deserves consideration.

There is no 'blind allegiance' here, there is simply the note that your disclaimer notwithstanding this is not a trustworthy source by any stretch of the imagination. It's anti-vaxx propaganda pure and simple. In the spirit of truth this should be flagged and removed because it isn't truthful. If you really wanted the truth then you'd be doing a study in biology with a specialization in virology, rather than to push this junk.

Check out the rest of these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=trialsitenews.com

Claims of fascism and of censorship are outrageous, assuming you even begin to use those words in their original meaning.
I made a site [digforyou] that dig the world’s ideas
As far as I'm aware, ransomware payments wouldn't be considered a bribe. They're more similar to an expense incurred due to `kidnapping for ransom`, which is deductible.

So in summary:

- Kidnapping for ransom expenses are deductible

- Bribes are not deductible

- Ransomware payments may be deductible
This is the definition of UBI (from Wikipedia):

> Universal basic income (UBI), also called unconditional basic income [...] is a sociopolitical financial transfer concept in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a legally stipulated and equal financial grant paid by the government without a means test.

Adding a means test to ensure that only some people receive the income would make it non-universal. You're describing a classic unemployment welfare system, but proponents of UBI argue that a universal income is simpler to administer and creates fewer perverse incentives.
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Well done, dude.
Aha.. don't all compilers behave the same way, with debug info?

I mean it's worthwhile to fix, but that behaviour seems so standard.
You don't need to continue charging the battery past given percentage. It just happens that by default batteries don't charge past 100%, you can tell the firmware to stop at e.g. 40% which is a perfect compromise between having a bit of backup power and considerably extending its lifespan.
Yes. Sometimes like 1 in 100 times.
Show HN: Drop-in audio & video chat for remote teams
Noor is a desktop app for drop-in audio and video chat for teams.
You can download it for macOS to try it right now with your coworkers.

-> How it started

I've worked remotely for global teams, but in our own team, we sometimes worked in our office, and most of the time from home. This resulted in realizing *how much we lose when we switch from the office*.

-> Why we need such app?

Let's imagine what you have when you work in-person:
1. You have the office environments (chats, breaks, jokes, games, coworking, helping each other quickly, coming together for lunch, etc)

2. Slack

3. Meeting room

Now when you go remote, you only have:

1. ????

2. Slack

3. Zoom

What happened to the first part? Bingo, you lost it!
And you don't even know it can be solved. We solved it. You can use it for anything, such as

1. Talking to the team, instead of just texting

2. Collaborating in any app with one click voice, video and screen share

3. Being present for your junior devs

4. Getting feedback on your work quickly (with the ability to spontaneously enable camera and see their real reactions!)

5. Unplanned meetings, natural gatherings, 1:1s, etc

6. Helping teammates instantly with their code

7. Getting together impromptu in a room to talk, play or hang out

9. Handling emergency situations elegantly when every one needs to be available

10. Non-work chats and checking on teammates

It's a whole new world.

-> How is it different from Zoom, or apps like Tandem, Around, etc?

When we started, these recent apps weren't even released. I've written in detail in https://usenoor.com/faq on how our approach is radically different (and better, because we re-thought how chats should work from the ground-up)

Oh, BTW we just launched on PH too https://www.producthunt.com/posts/noor-2

Happy to answer any questions. From remote work Qs or about our tech stack :D
Doesn't the battery controller bypass the battery once it's full and supply power directly from cable?
Direct reading effectively makes the data store an API, i.e. the API you provide is SQL SELECT over multiple tables instead of HTTP GET resource.

This pretty much freezes the database schema, the team owning it can no longer change it, because they don't know how the users use it. It also limits the possibilities to provide optimizations on the data (like caching).
> The problem with that is if you can’t fix their environment for 8 hours a day (most schools are more like 6 these days but for argument’s sake), and you propose fixing their environments 24 hours a day …

No one is saying you can’t fix it for 8 hours a day, its saying that fixing the 8 hours a day environment doesn’t address the problem because that’s not the environment that’s brokenness is causing the problems.
I have been messing with GNU Make syntax for... a while. https://gmsl.sourceforge.io/
Oh look, another barely used image format alongside WebP, Animated PNG, AVIF, JPEG2000, and a bunch of others so obscure I forgot them.

It seems image formats have ossified. Nobody cares if the images are 50% smaller because storage and network are cheap enough not to deal with the hassle of using a non-standard image format.
You don't have to use this app. If you don't want to open up these so-called attack vectors you can simply not use it.
How to Use Photoshop Super Resolution Image Enlarger
Using this feature allows you to double the size of your image and with the assistance of AI (learnings based on real image sampling data), the quality of the image will also remain considerably okay when you enlarge your image.
In fact, considering that unknown third-parties freely gather such similarity scores and correlate accounts, across different sites—by now it's a given that one's alt accounts have to adhere to different stylistic choices.

Innit?
You don't have any authority on the subject, therefore your claims of what is bullshit and what isn't can be safely ignored. You also provided no counter arguments and immediately called for flagging and removing the post - this is a tactic used by authoritarians.

How about this article by Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccines? https://trialsitenews.com/bioethics-of-experimental-covid-va...

People with your mindset have been also blindly pushing the "natural origins" hypothesis of the virus, which is now most likely false. I do not just blindly trust scientific authorities anymore.

This is essentially "left wing fascism" where the tech companies are censoring any views that oppose the ideas pushed by their party.
lossless reversible jpeg recompression seems to be a nod to the fact that jpegs aren't going anywhere.
"Open Source" is hardly a good descriptor. The license is important.
My favourite C++ footgun
Pas mal mais je connais pas trop son rôle.
Their Linux CDs proved essential in a time where bandwidth was scarce and expensive with home users on dialup and only universities having a few megabits of bandwidth.
Buffering writes is fine if you're ok with losing your data. For some applications that's acceptable, but when I'm writing to disk, it's because I want persistence. "It'll get flushed to disk at some point as long as power doesn't go out" is hardly that.
> I also have ADHD, and sharing a space for work and play has been terrible for my ability to focus.

I have ADHD, and sharing an open floor plan is much, much worse. At least at home I can organize my surroundings to encourage productivity, whereas in offices I'm stuck with what's available; and for almost all the jobs I've had, it was just terrible.
What is the Weissman score?
add your:

> Sinovac-CoronaVac is an inactivated virus vaccine and it is expected to have less protection against mutations.

And you should see why its surprising the original title is a clickbait.
This could be useful for writing lexers. Although I typically need to interleave some "decoding" with proper lexing (like decoding escape sequences in strings, universal character names in identifiers etc.), which would make it harder, when you want to do it in a single pass.
Ubi will only allow people to retire if it's a substantial amount. Can society really afford that right now?
I would not call JPEG2000 being "barely used" - it is the standard format for all digital cinema movie packages.
> (which I confirmed 3 different ways)

…but for some reason only support by citing a tweet, in which the poster first asserts that they have learned that up to that number have been killed (i.e., that it is an upper bound on the actual figure), but then says that they “bet” that it is actually a lower bound. Presumably, the cited tweet is the strongest of the three methods of verification (because why would you cite only your weaker support), which doesn’t disprove the claim (absence of evidence not being evidence of absence) but does justify dismissing it until someone can provide something that has at least the vague shape of actual evidence.
Deep Audio Steganography: spying with deep learning
How do you know it hasn't been done already? (with a more silent payload than ransomware) /s
How to Think about Pleasure