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> and dominated by the great powers granted them 55% of the land for a Jewish stat

70% of the area that was proposed for the Jewish state was used to create what is today Jordan.

The rest is creative interpretations and framings to make one of the worlds smallest countries - and the only land where Jews can feel safe - to seem like a giant agressor.
WASM couldn't be a 50-100x improvement over (optimized) JS because that would make it something like 10x faster than C. C isn't necessarily the absolute upper limit, it does have a couple of systemic flaws in terms of going absolutely the fastest (aliasing issues), but there certainly isn't that much room for improvement in it.

WASM will probably get faster, but I don't necessarily expect Rust-generated WASM or other static language-generated WASM to get that much faster. I think most of it will come from JIT'ing stuff that will mostly affect dynamic language-generated WASM. That said I do think Javascript's JIT is going to be fairly close to the limit of what you can see in WASM either, because it is implausible that you could "just" compile the JS to WASM then use the WASM optimizer to do better than the Javascript JIT. The Javascript JIT has everything the WASM optimizer would have, and more, since there would inevitably be loss in the translation.
I find most employees over estimate their importance. Everyone is replaceable especially a software developer, there are hundreds of just as good developers waiting to take your place if the salary is right. In addition if they fire you on the spot, you are the one that has to deal with that. If the developer does not have a very good emergency fund that further compounds the stress to do as you are told. Not everyone in software makes a US FAANG, SF, NYC salary.
Would be useful to see some performance metrics, and, service history.

How much produce is produced?

How much time spent cleaning, repairing, or otherwise keeping it running

What preventive maintenance is required?

i.e., other than a learning tool, if you just consider the small garden users, what's the return?
What is the “change” he was talking about here?
This is interesting to me, because I think the claim here is some combination of untrue or useless - if DDG cares about privacy there is nothing at all preventing that from changing in the future. All the same data as a Google search feeds through their platform.

But on the other hand, the claim is really accurate because using DDG breaks apart the really invasive part of Google - combining of email, search, likely video, probably phone use habits and location, etc, into one centralised blob of data.

So on the one hand DDG are being very honest here, and on the other hand very deceptive.
With opt-out from society becoming impossible now, "The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit" may be an interesting read:

https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

> For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest.
No.

My car use is about 10000 km/year. That does not mean it’s a velocity.
There's a bug where it shows the city of Troisdorf in the southern part of Netherlands, while it should actually be between Cologne and Bonn.
No, not according to the statistics. You are orders of magnitude more likely to be harmed from unnecessary diagnosis/treatment (including cost and psychological damage) than to be undiagnosed and have a worse outcome as a result. We find most things that we are capable of finding.
Besides Reddit...

thedrive.com - They post both auto, and military related news (called The War Zone). The military blog is actually quite good, and in between the trolls and loud voices there are actually some very thoughtful and sometimes very informed users who comment. I like how thorough the posts are, and the authors will also comment/reply to users.

I used to frequent autoblog.com, but ownership changed (years ago), and they nuked the comments.

electrek.co - much lower quality, but sometimes the comments are fun to read because I enjoy seeing how heated people get about electric vehicles, especially Tesla.
These small patches create some overhead for maintainers. He actually said in the follow up message that grouping them together is fine.

Please at least merge all those small fixes into a larger patchset, and with a good cover letter to explain the reason (and auto-tool to do the change if possible) for all the involved maintainers, so that all of us are on the same page.
Depends on the plant.

Leaves absorb water, too, fwiw.
And if I fill out most of the form, but some custom BS UI chunk can't play nice and borks the page... I'm done with "company", leaving the page since it never finished loading, but my email address is already saved?

Absolutely f*ing not. Not a small thing in any way. This is unethical and if I got an email from that company you can bet I'll push back.
You’re making an unwarranted assumption: that the choice is between early detection with current responses to detected cancers and no early detection at all. Optimizing the response to an early detection will give a result no worse than either of those, since the choices of what to do include doing whatever doctors did in the studies that have poor results as well as doing nothing at all.
The answers seem explained quite clearly and are simple to find by just clicking the links in the article…

“what data”,for example: https://rally.mozilla.org/privacy-policy/
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> Now we...

In this case, "we" is probably a very small group of people. For starters, it's limited to folks who hear about this in the first place. Ars Technica isn't exactly a huge news site, and, while it might be mentioned on TV news, I doubt they'll be talking about it all day long, so only a subset of their viewers would hear about it. Then, beyond that, it's limited to the subset of those who believe that the appropriate response is to not buy WD products anymore. Which isn't everyone on HN, and might not even be half of them.

So maybe we're looking at 1% of the general population? Their opinion isn't going to make a big enough dent in WD's revenues to justify the cost of supporting a product like this past its commercial end of life.

I think that there is a free market answer to this, but it in no way involves successfully pressuring companies like Western Digital to support discontinued products in perpetuity. It's just good old-fashioned "caveat emptor", pure and simple.

Granted, we're talking about consumer tech, so the vast majority of emptors don't have the background knowledge to be able to successfully caveat for themselves. So that approach is sort of acknowledging that a bunch of people will be screwed.

Which might be the best you can get. This is an area with no perfect solutions. More consumer product regulation might curtail events like this, but at the cost of more regulatory costs, possibly stifling innovation, and the risk that the legislative body (few of whom really understand these issues themselves) will just deliver us the latest heinously misdesigned law in a long series of heinously misdesigned law. Leaving things as they are might avoid all of that, but would guarantee that things like this keep happening more-or-less unchecked. Which kind of solution someone prefers is perhaps more a matter of political leaning than any practical consideration.
How is this news? How, in 2021, is the sad state of application security even remotely noteworthy and/or remarkable? These are consumer apps shipped by teams under a perpetual time crunch in an industry that rewards first-movers. Is anyone surprised at the result?
Again, absolutely absurd. Many cancers have no symptoms until it’s too late. Do you even understand this? At that point the choices for treatment are extremely limited.

Even breast cancer needs x-rays to detect lumps, not detect cancer. You need a subsequent biopsy to differentiate. That’s our technology right now. If we had a blood test to detect cancer, not lumps, it’s game changing.

Maybe after a generation of early detection, new outcomes will emerge if we can detect the most deadly cancers early. You’re taking old studies and applying them to new technologies and saying “it won’t work.” It’s ridiculous that you are doing this.
It's an insane margin. You still have to pay tax on that at some point too. You put your heart, soul and dollars into producing a piece of software and between the platform barons and the tax man you may not even get 50% of it, depending on where you live.
Exactly, so many "free market" arguments boil down to blaming the victim of corporate malfeasance.
But what's the latency requirements and security requirements of the domain?
> This is a luxury many researchers that work outside of these big tech companies don't have, which creates a scientific power imbalance.

The power imbalance goes far beyond science. Independent research is foundational for platform accountability. An example: when I was working on the Senate staff, before I started teaching at Princeton, a recurring challenge was the lack of rigorous independent research on platform problems. We were mostly compelled to rely on anecdotes, which made oversight and building a factual record for legislation difficult.
In an extreme case you could prove that you had your "it kills you within the year" cancer already a few years ago.
Sure in the best case. They could also fail 2 years in so you need redundancy to not lose data.
CCPA probably makes that illegal, which gives devs with a conscience a nice out: “that is wildly illegal if we do it to anyone in CA, we will have to develop it my way for them anyways, and it’s cheaper to support only one system”
EU. Absolutely non-compliant and I don't think they could have cared less.

We had to get special sign of from their senior leadership to implement the server-side tracking because it meant they could lose out on revenue if we didn't get it right.

Ironically the server-side version bypassed adblockers/tracking protections (all we did was ping back after checkout with the total order value, no user data), so it was likely that they would make more revenue given than ~50% of users have some sort of blocking in their browsers.
I can't wait to see other hackers' responses! Aside from HN, I have curated multireddits (yeah, I'll be pretty mainstream in this thread). In order to create them according to my needs, I browsed r/DepthHub; investigated the most popular and the least ones; subscribed to the ones I found the most interesting (either because of topic, or how the topic is framed) and then trimmed these copied multis to keep only the the subs that I liked.
If WASM wasn't faster than Javascript, nobody would care. They would just compile things to the "as fast as C" Javascript, and it would have been done years ago.

We need to redo all this work for WASM precisely because there is no such thing in general as "as fast as C Javascript". Javascript itself is not a suitable target for all those things. A 10x performance haircut off the top, in addition to what it costs to get to even performance that good (JITs tend to eat RAM like candy to get their performance increases on dynamic languages), just wasn't an acceptable base for the things you're talking about.
This is a tricky bit. There is a lot of interplay here between medical professionals and the general public, and not all of that is either rational or ethical. But absent symptoms non-treatment is better than treatment.

Data about unnecessary procedures is relatively plentiful, which is of course sad, whether that's driven by commercial incentives or the need for 'something to be done' is not something that I have any grip on but it certainly is problematic.
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> will turn up a lot of cancer through false positives

We will adjust. Examples: breast, cervical, prostate cancer.

Possible scenario: regular assessments every 2 years starting at age 18. Establishes your personal baseline. When something changes, you'll know.

It's better to know than not know.
The author's right about everything but the date this mess started. I worked in Health IT in the early 2010s, and this sort of thing was in full swing by 2013ish. Profitability was clearly the motivation, although the patient (and the true believers employed by the healthcare organizations) were assured that their data would be private, secure, and beneficial to the quality and cost of treatment. I guess the jury's still out on quality.
That sounds like a clean way to organize multiple clients.

For some types of development, I find working on a remote server using SSH/Mosh/tmux works really well for me. I am retired now but I used to ask clients to rent a reasonably powerful VPS that we both had access to and just worked on that. I think this gave customers good control over their property (i.e., the work I did on their behalf).
The remark close to the end, that this is just further damages Huawei's already damaged reputation, especially after beginning with "I did the same at some point", hints at a personal issue rather than professional objection.

There's no professional reason to take such an unrelated jab so it feels more like this individual just found an opportunity to settle a score, or has a different problem with Huawei that's harder to support publicly.
* hn@ycombinato.com -> hn@ycombinator.com
Or, conceivably, the wrong email address. I'm sure I'm not the only person who has multiple, context-dependent email addresses that (in some cases) are email aliases I share with others, all saved with appropriate supplemental information in my browser.
Personally I stick with DDG because in the search result page there is more text about the sites. With more context it's easier for me to decide if a site will be useful or not. (And also because that horrible 'other people search' popup in Google that I always end clicking because it appears after the exact milliseconds it takes me to move the cursor to the next entry).

And in those cases where Google performs better, I have a bookmarklet in the always visible bookmarks bar to switch between both, from ddg to Google and from Google to ddg (I'm a mouse user, just one click away).

javascript:void(window.location.href = "https://" + (window.location.host == 'duckduckgo.com' ? "www.google.com/search" : "duckduckgo.com/") + "?" + window.location.href.match('q=[^&]\*')[0])
It adds a consequence to griefing/PVP. If you’re a pirate who has been to prison multiple times you really don’t want to go back… so your behavior is different.
Software architecture is great, but unified hardware architecture is where it is at.

Windows for ARM is still in preview, I believe.
> "you're really just damaging the already broken reputation."

Actually, with this email and the viral on HN, I think this quotation is true for Qu Wenruo. He/she has just damaged the already broken reputation.

Not only Huawei, but also other companies will take a look at this accident to get the learned lessons.
"It’s propaganda."

In reality there was a single class in a single school in BC that had such an assignment. Trying to broadly wash that is propaganda. Tiny, isolated case on the other side of the country. Neat.
Something similar in Irish -- orange was (and still is, among older native speakers in the Gaeltacht) flannbhuí, translating literally as 'blood red yellow'. This is actually the word used for the color on the Irish flag in their constitution.

Then English influence and learners who directly port from English came along and now oráiste, which was originally only the name of the fruit, has replaced it sadly.
Only the biggest boats can weather the storm. Big boats don't need life preservers, but the little guys do.
If so, that's not "breakeven". Breakeven is when future emissions savings from a newer better car make it worth scrapping (not just selling) a car and replacing it with a newly manufactured one.
It was always possible , however google can't be a trillion dollars corp without going as far into people lives as they have. They make more money by being more intrusive.

It is not all bad for us, android is there because google wanted to be in everyone's pocket . It is unlikely OEMs would have come together on their and setup a common platform, it would have been diffusion of platforms difficult to switch between or write code for
This validate my choice of hosting my own home file server through a standard PC instead of going the cheap route of a basic NAS.

At least I remain in control of the OS and can ensure it is patched.
Maybe you need 1 robot with wide legs?
I find it interesting that at the early part of my career, prospective employers saw my long-ish tenures at previous companies as a plus.

Now unless you are in some super-prestigious company (i.e. FAANG, etc.) it seems long tenures are considered a bad thing, a mark of stagnation.
You come in and flame other users, but then take deep offense when you get it back. Treat others with respect and in turn you'll receive it.
I don't know how you can seriously mention Freelancer without mentioning that it was completely taken out of the over-promising grip of Chris Roberts. Great game, but I despise the fact that people attribute the work of those programmers who worked to actually put the thing out (when he got his golden parachute and all they got was more crunch) to that huckster.
No, you are flat out wrong and anyone with an understanding of good health policy will understand this. Screening can lead to iatrogenics and unnecessary costs. It is not automatically a net gain, it has to PROVE that it makes patients live longer or better, just like any other intervention. And in many cases, screening policies actually make things worse for all kinds of reasons.
And it seems super similar to the old "Super Crazy Guitar Maniac Deluxe" series of games.
Its true though. 75% of my IT dept are outsourcers - or those who used to work for such companies.
I've been following them (for quite some time actually) and I admire their vision, but from what I've observed, they have run out of steam in the past few years.

Also their approach is great if you have a metal shop and lots of raw materials and components ready to go, but for their goal of helping mechanized developing countries, I think it falls flat. The first rule of pricing hardware is economy of scale wins. Being able to fabricobble a farm tractor from a Toyota pickup is way more valuable than building one from scratch using steel box beams.

I think their approach would be better served by creating an "API standard" for mechanical interfaces, like an ISO standard of sorts, so you could fabricobble your prime mover, your bucket loader, your hydraulics, from whatever you happen to have, and be able to swap out with anyone else's peripheral. Like the IDDS, but more down to Earth :) :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Docking_System_S...
May I ask what kind of small online tools are you refering to? And how are you monetising them? I'm exploring some ideas for pocket money as well..
No less than 4. Build 20 if it works for you!
Because McDonalds is a franchise business and most locations are owned by a local owner. McDonalds provides the branding and frozen food/formulaes for some profit sharing.

But hey, feel free to have a french revolution part deux.
Next steps are mRNA vaccines and gene therapy for the cancers this detects. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.
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Could you provide more detail on what makes it novel?
"A Geometric Approach to Differential Forms" by Bachman is the one that's in my Amazon shopping cart, but I'll take a look at those others as well.
notion+mailchimp+zapier. NO-CODE takes over
The committer defends his patch, and Qu responds very constructively with this list of more important work to tackle https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/21/342
Only that they are the same people who popularized the Paleolithic era name, while those who oppose it being called Israelolithic appropriated the older term
First, that's not the same technique and it's not being used for the same purpose.

Second, Hollywood doesn't care about that problem. They will take the best application of the technique, and they don't care if they have to apply a few manual touchups on the result. As long as there is one way of using the system to do the sort of thing they showed in the sample, it won't matter to them that they can't embed a full video game into the neural network itself. They only care about the happy path of the tech.

Someone's probably already starting the company now to use this in special effects, or putting someone on research in an existing company.
I've seen a few times that people released really awfully engineered applications that leaked information left and right and relied on client-side filtering to hide sensitive data.

It usually takes somebody with a bit of seniority to push these issues to the front, as the management usually only can see visible problems.
Different ten minute content.
Product idea (living in a place where the power gets turned off).

Emergency electric start gas generator with downstream battery and inverter. Keeps battery full. Generator is sized to average load not peak and doesn't run all the time.

Being a PG&E customer makes life interesting.

The other business I find interesting is water catchment systems as the water goes away. It could be that your roof is entirely sufficient to provide household needs even in a drought year.

Every year is one step forward and two steps back. The future's so bright, you gotta wear tinted safety glasses.
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amazing .....
> there are no straight lines on a farm.

The simple AB line served the agricultural guidance industry (think GPS) for many years before systems capable of handling complex curves arrived on the market.
Good luck, and I hope it goes well. I started a similar journey in February and am loving it so far, although I didn't have a set time period and am juuust starting to pick up little bits of work to ease back into things. I know experience can be hard to generalize, but for what it's worth some top things that seemed to work well for me were
1) Don't feel bad taking the first few weeks as complete 'off' time. The side project ideas can wait a bit while you relax :)
2) It's really fun working on 'inconsequential' things, especially if previously you were doing important/urgent stuff a lot. Things don't have to be monetize-able, useful or inspiring especially when you're on a break!
Again, good luck :)
Why wait until 2023 for a larger study? This is a game changing technology that should be pursued like the COVID vaccine. We should be dumping billions into this across the globe to improve its accuracy and drive costs down.
Iatrogenics is when a treatment causes more harm than benefit.
> you cant sue the worker that made the shake and gave it to you.

I mean let's be real, in the US you definitely could. Pretty much anyone can sue anyone for anything.

But between suing McDonalds, and suing the close-to-minimum-wage-employee working at McDonalds, which group do you think you would be most likely to collect from in the event you won? Not to mention the public perception of suing an individual McDonalds employee.
Some larger companies have trained psychologists to nudge people to rationalize their deeds.

You aren't just working for an ad company. You are working for the benefit of manind. You bring joy to everyone and restore justice in this world... with ads.
There is also an online version here:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/ai-playground/
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