skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What?

8ms is incredibly slow for realtime systems. A difficult target for a control system would be three orders of magnitude lower than that on a full size OS like linux.

VxWorks is being partly phased out too, last I heard wind river was pushing people towards their own linux based offering. Speaking from experience it's absolutely miserable to develop on because of the licensing model and reliance on the Eclipse IDE. If you need a low level system FreeRTOS/CMSIS is a far better option and if you want linux compatibility (frequently just the convenience of ssh and rsync) just use real time linux.
But a peanut butter does need a recipe if you want to make the same sandwich again and again. And want someone else to be able to make that same sandwich on the other side of the country. I had to deal with this with a friend who had anxiety about cooking. Choosing between 2 and 3 on the stove was an ordeal, what if the 1" cubes of beef are 0.75" instead? I am in the camp where recipes are a guide for an idea or a special occasion. Most of the time I cook whatever vegetables look good at the store and fit a rough sense of what sounds good to me.

What kind of bread? (Whole wheat, sourdough, white, shokupan, raisin, olive, berry) Presliced or do you cut your own slices and select your own the thickness? Toasted, fresh, or days old bread?
Then you have your peanut butter. Chunky, smooth, really chunky? Pure peanut butter or is a swipe of almond butter good.
And do you use jam, jelly, preserves, marmalade? What kind of fruit? Or do you prefer fresh fruit, maybe with some honey on top?

There are many options, if you want to reliably reproduce a dish you need to cook a lot and track what you cook in detail. A home cook likely doesn't have the opportunity to get to the point where they can crank out a number of dishes repeatably the way someone in a restaurant can. The scales are just wrong.

For my friend, they decided to record exactly what they did while cooking for a while. To me it seemed crazy detailed, I cook by smell and taste and feel. For them it was confirmation they'd rather pay for or otherwise eat food prepared for them.
The phenomenon he's seen is more likey the result of an overly paranoid and aggressive ant-bot algorithm. I've seen this too, but when using various devices and accidental (company machine) VPN connections.
> No service involves “nothing but data.”

May I introduce you to services such as Wikipedia.com and news.ycombinator.com?
But we'll never know, because it's taboo to see for ourselves.
The problem here is == was used in the beginning. Always use ===.
About Insulin?

Look for ways to make the patents unenforceable. If diabetics had the ability to make their own safe insulin at home that would be best. Then all they would need is an internet connection and some basic components. The closer we get to that ideal the more empowered they are.

This would actually solve a lot of price gouging for drugs.

However that's only a stop gap measure. What's happening with gating access to insulin is happening to a thousand other products in a thousand other industries right now. Start looking at alternative governance structures. Lord knows everyones got a blog and a half-assed plan to run things better at this point (since the bar is so low).

Just don't poke the bear. As cathartic as hanging 'congresscritters' would be it wont actually solve the problem.

Basically act like you don't expect anyone else to fix this problem for you because nobody is going to; especially if you voted for them.
When you schedule an event in the future like “meet me at 14:00 in cafe foo”, this means local time and it’s going to mean 14:00 local time even when the timezone changes.

If you store this in UTC and the timezone changes, you end up converting to the wrong time.

So for future events you should store local time with a location you can map to a timezone.
Instagram ads are the most obnoxious out of all social media. When looking at stories they often come up every other user. The volume alone is absurd.
Python was created February 1991, but it didn't have a boolean type until 2002 per PEP 285 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0285/>

The rationale for making bool a subset of integers is for ease of implementation and substitutability (which aids backwards compatibility)47, as explained here:

> In an ideal world, bool might be better implemented as a separate integer type that knows how to perform mixed-mode arithmetic. However, inheriting bool from int eases the implementation enormously (in part since all C code that calls PyInt_Check() will continue to work -- this returns true for subclasses of int). Also, I believe this is right in terms of substitutability: code that requires an int can be fed a bool and it will behave the same as 0 or 1.

I have some Python code where there are still a number of uses of 0 and 1 for false and true, because it was written before Python added a boolean type.
That is better described as a new patent. The product for the patent that expired is expired, and can be made by others.
> From TFA: "Since I’m a technical person, I tried to simply remove the modal in the browser Inspector. It sort of worked, but I wasn’t able to scroll any further on the page."

You need to not only remove the modal, but remove the "overflow:hidden;" in the <body> tag. After that you should be able to scroll.

I have CSS/JS injectors that do this for me already, I really fucking hate popups and scrolling impediments of any sort.
Why would disabling the comments section be good for them? Doesn’t commenting increase engagement?

Also - aren’t we in the comments section of a news site right now? Are you suggesting that HN should disable comments?
I'd look at it a different way: "Facebook" and "YouTube" aren't single products, but rather each one is a collection of something like 10-20 products that live on a single platform.

For "viral videos", Facebook and YouTube (and Reddit) absolutely directly compete in the same market.

For "educational videos", YouTube competes with other platforms.

While for "tracking social acquaintances" Facebook competes with the Contacts apps by Apple and Google, as well as other messaging apps.

Really there's no such product category as a "Facebook" or a "YouTube". And Facebook's original product category -- to keep track of social contacts and post public and private social messages -- is now only a tiny part of Facebook.
As a literal answer to your question, here's how to post photos on YouTube: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7124474

But if I understand correctly, determining whether two companies are competitors is more about their markets, rather than their feature sets.

From the ruling text:

> Although the precise definition of a “Personal Social Networking Service” is disputed (as that is the market in which Facebook has its alleged monopoly), it can be summarized here as one that enables users to virtually connect with others in their network and to digitally share their views and experiences by posting about them in a shared, virtual social space.

YouTube would fit that definition.
> From TFA: "Since I’m a technical person, I tried to simply remove the modal in the browser Inspector. It sort of worked, but I wasn’t able to scroll any further on the page."
You need to not only remove the modal, but remove the "overflow:hidden;" in the <body> tag. After that you should be able to scroll.

I have CSS/JS injectors that do this for me already, I really fucking hate popups and scrolling impediments of any sort.
D'oh! Of course you're right. What I should have said: The first ordinal of cardinality 2^aleph_0 -- call it alpha -- appears on day alpha.

(But I definitely didn't mean to say that anything appears "on day aleph-1"; day numbers are ordinals.)
Libvmcu v0.8.10
Why do you think that evaluation period, where there are still humans involved tweaking the system, would ever end? The world is going to keep changing. An attendance policy that everyone agreed on suddenly isn't going to work in a pandemic, and humans will need to intervene. A rating system will need to be changed when someone finds a vulnerability in the website and spams every worker with a thousand bad reviews. It's going to constantly need changes, need constant supervision and review, there will never be a point when the humans can step away and let the algorithm run the ship. It just seems like, at the absolute best, normal human management with extra steps.
According to the CDC[0] the number is a bit lower but in the same ballpark. Do you think the CDC cannot be trusted or the medical professionals that determine cause of death?

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm
Gmail webmail too. I’ve hit « I’m not interested » to their app prompt around 500 times in a row. Will i change the 501st? No.

Then again, my ATM machine still asks me which language I want service in. It’s my hope if I choose something other than English, it calls 9-1-1, slows down the prompts and does nothing irreversible.
Reddit on desktop is still okay. The mobile version of Reddit is deliberately broken in order to force you to use the app. Many subreddits can't be viewed, you can only view the first couple of comments in each thread, the front page is hidden behind a huge nag screen,...
bcs tmpfs stores the data in your memory. The module was simply created from the need to send large data into the void, where the application writing the data also depends on a directory structure to be existant, for performance testing specially. (if you want to eliminate any underlying fs layer as performance bottleneck, it can sometimes be helpful :))
> Are there things we need to look at? Yes. But if someone doesn’t save your life then you won’t be around to argue about how they could have done it better. It’s also pretty rich to claim the numbers don’t add up and substitute numbers that don’t add up either.

Using this argument, we can justify anything that was done in the past on the basis of "well, we're here to argue it over now, so it must have been the right thing".

> Currently we list 604 thousand Americans dead from COVID, that’s 0.18% of the entire population - not the infected population. Brazil is at 0.23%, and rising fast. Worldwide it’s almost 4 million out of 181M reported cases. That’s over 2% IFR.

Regardless of the exact number, isn't it a bit disturbing to you that, per the article, "Americans also estimated that the share of COVID-19 deaths for people between 18 and 24 was 8%"? The fact that we're so misinformed can't be a good thing, can it?

For my money, it's plausible that we massively overreacted (or misreacted) to covid. The opposite is also plausible though. It's a good thing that we're having this conversation and it's mildy creepy that we haven't been able to have it until now.

Finally, there's a question that always comes up with this topic: is it permissible for public employees to lie to the public in order to get them to do the right thing (or whatever they think the right thing is)? A lot of the anger over the government's handling of covid has to do with that. It isn't unreasonable to believe (as I do) that, consequences be damned, the government is obligated to tell the truth and should not lie to get people to act a certain way.
It’s important to remember the public demand for safety.

My child’s school district went remote when I and thousands of other parents told teachers and administrators at individual schools that we were pulling our kids out regardless of their policies.

Same with work: I told my manager in the 3rd week of March I was working remotely starting the following week. So many others did the same thing that my employer closed the office and went remote. My wife’s company also voluntarily went remote the same week.

This was all before state mandated closures and lockdowns, etc. People, in huge numbers, started trying to protect themselves and their families. We had NO IDEA how this virus was going to progress, and what we would learn the hard way.

In retrospect, it’s beneficial to a certain point of view to reframe what happened as some sort of top-down authoritarian dystopia. But the reality at the time was bottom-up and we should not forget that.
Really? I still occasionally visit a handful of subs, almost exclusively through android chrome. I'll certainly never download an app to do it though.
I saw a pirate site trying to use it as a DMCA resistant CDN for movies. It was a disaster.

Their idea, I think, was that if their site got taken down, they could easily pop back up at another address so long as the big heavy movies were safe and they just needed to make a copy of the HTML site.

So long as the movies were pinned by more than one IPFS server, they would remain available at their IPFS hash, even if one server was subject to a takedown.

The site could then link to the hashes via a public gateway and use an embedded player to play the movies all in simple static html. Very light to copy around.

1. It turns out that the public gateways were not actually willing to handle that amount of traffic for free. Over a few months they got blocked by all the good gateways. They could have set up their own gateway at this point but the following happened so the project died for other reasons.

2. I think the admin was hoping people would pin (seed) the popular files on IPFS and share the server load. This never ended up happening, so in the end there was just one server 'hiding behind' IPFS, burning through bandwidth. It ran out of bandwidth and the (college kid?) trying to run it ran out of money.

3. IPFS isn't designed for anonymity. When they got enough traction, they got a letter and shut down.

This is why ipfs probably isn't the right platform for libgen really.
I think that it can work. IMO ActiveRecord is a perfect use of inheritance. You get tons of useful functionality out of the box, you don't have to worry about what that code looks like, and it's easy to extend or modify it. But often when I see co-workers come up with their own hierarchies, it saves maybe a couple of lines of code and makes it 5x more difficult to read, since you're jumping between parent and child classes and trying to keep track of the order of execution.
Wow, this is really helpful. Thank you!
There is: uBlacklist[1]. I've been searching for the exact same thing to get rid of Indian tutorial scamsites, bad GitHub and StackOverflow clones and, of course, Pinterest results :) Can recommend.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
Relevance of Apple leaks has gone down. Nobody gives a fuck what the next iPhone is going to look like.

Right. What number are they on now, anyway?
Everything sent to /dev/null can eventually be retrieved from /dev/random, given sufficient time.
Likewise in the Middle Ages you were always free to go off into the forest and fend for yourself.
They are absolutely in competition, Facebook video content is massive and there is a ton of video content accessible only via Facebook. If there is any doubt, jump on Facebook and start scrolling through their video section.
You're right, it's most likely too low. IHME did a study and revised their estimate upward, and are saying that there have been an estimated 926,000 Covid-19 deaths in the US as of today[1].

[1]: https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america
Lots of questions in this thread asking the obvious-yet-difficult question of "in what market / in what sense does FB have a monopoly?"

I think Ben Thompson has the analysis right here.

High-level summary: https://stratechery.com/2019/tech-and-antitrust/

Facebook-specific analysis: https://stratechery.com/2017/why-facebook-shouldnt-be-allowe...

With the key bit of analysis being (from the latter):

> Facebook, for its part, had, for better or worse, transitioned to a public app that not only handled symmetric relationships, but, at least according to perception, asymmetric broadcast as well; that, though, left an opening for an app like Snapchat. Thus Facebook’s acquisition drive: the company had already secured Instagram, giving it a position in asymmetric ephemeral broadcast apps; Snapchat rebuffed advances, so the company soon moved on to WhatsApp.

> The importance of these two acquisitions cannot be overstated: Facebook has always been secure in its dominance of permanent social relationships, a position that has given the company a dominant position in digital advertising. However, while everyone may need a permanent place on the Internet (all of those teenagers people say Facebook needs to reach have Facebook accounts), the ultimate currency is attention, and much like real life, it is ephemeral conversation that dominates. Facebook, by virtue of early decisions around privacy and significant bad press about the dangers of revealing too much, was locked out of this sphere, so it bought in.

So if we segment the markets along the lines that consumers tend to intuitively percieve, FB has monopoly over public symmetric (personal) social networking. That seems like a coherent market segment definition to me. Though of course that's a lot of qualifiers so I could easily see someone objecting that they are arbitrary/post-hoc.

As a separate point, perhaps someone with legal expertise can comment on this one - I'm curious why the FTC's complaint relied on establishing a monopoly; the Sherman Act doesn't actually require establishing a monopoly; anticompetitive conduct that attempts to establish a harmful monopoly is also illegal (e.g. see https://www.justice.gov/atr/competition-and-monopoly-single-...). It seems obvious to me that FB's acquisitions were primarily intended to acquire a monopoly (if they didn't already have one), indeed Zuckerberg explicitly stated that he was trying to prevent a competitor from emerging in the emails that were in these court cases.
I would probably have most nodes on some kind of overlay network contained within a jurisdiction/extradition area, with fewer and more structured interconnections across hostile national borders. I don’t think it’s reasonable to make every small business with an email or web server for its local customers and partners, have to defend against large and well funded criminals operating in broad daylight from Russia.
Global bunker C fuel use is dealt with here.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sci...

It is a large factor due to high sulfur 27,000 ppm
> I am guessing the US has worse outcomes for the poor, but I am guessing that for the top ~40% of wealth the American health system gets good results (but just very fuckling expensively?)

Yeah, pretty much. But guess which there are more of, poor people or rich? And knowing that, what does it mean for total or average outcome?
Marked as "Can't reproduce" :) e.g. I can browse the cat pictures just fine
This might be conflating two issues. Gas taxes aren't really about reducing GHG, they're about funding infrastructure. So the CAFE standards actually hurt infrastructure investment.

I'm not saying taxes can't be dual purpose, but we need to be cognizant of the primary intent and also to understand the blowback of policies, like how EPA fuel economy standards can affect other systems.
Totally disagree. No system of rules could ever handle all the obscure edge-cases that humans can. Just look to all the Google account automated-flagging issues that pop up on HN, for reference.

What could maybe work is an automated system for the "easy 90%", paired with an appeals system well-staffed by human beings. But that isn't Amazon's plan (or Google's, etc), because that 10% will cost much more than the first 90%, so it's easier for them to just write it off as a loss. And at their scale, that margin of error translates to thousands of potentially-ruined lives.
If you implement lazy image loading yourself in JS you will see that the implementation actually makes a big difference in how noticeable it is. The browser does a good job with it. Of course your internet connection can limit you, but it just won't do so on regular broadband connections for sound image sizes.

You can always construct a theoretical case where it does not work great. But on those pages and connections loading all the images in advance will usually also lead to a bad experience.
"digg themselves their own grave" ;)
That's bullshit. China landing a rover on Mars is a huge accomplishment even if it isn't as advanced as what NASA has.

Do you think the editors of CNN/Fox/whatever saw this story and decided not to run with it just because the rover's power system is outdated?
The CPU minimums seem to be some collusion with hardware makers. The 8th gen is really 6th gen Skylake with some tweaks as is the 9th and even 10th gen. I think the line being drawn at DDR4 as the minimum requirement would actually make sense.
It’s controversial in the same way that the round-earth theory is controversial.
Are there any examples of real world attacks happened because of those mitigations turned off?
Ask HN: What to look for when selling enterprise tech to public schools?
I'm working with a company that has historically worked well in the enterprise space but is exploring creating a vertical in the public school space. They are not EdTech, but more backend/IT infrastructure. We're doing some market research about procurement processes, RFPs, MSPs, etc so figured I'd ask here.

Have you built non-EdTech software and sold it to public schools? If so, any insights welcome!
>> Routers will accept a "shut up" request

> I like this idea but couldn't this system be abused by a malicious man in the middle to much more easily hinder connectivity to a targeted system? The man in the middle can fake the validation too...

I think of it more as a "I'm just ignoring these, you mine as well stop sending them" request. After all, a man-in-the-middle can already just drop the packets.
> high-quality stablecoins

Until the next financial crisis maybe?
She set herself on fire in 2018 after 5 years of harassment over something she did in 2013
Didn't slashdot solve this like 20 years ago? Have moderation keys (+1 insightful, -1 redundant but maybe retooled to your audience/domain) and let the users moderate and have 2nd (even more trusted users) and 3rd level moderation (site owner) to moderate those moderations.

It's like bureaucracy for moderation.
You can try this extension. It was forked from a project once maintained and abandoned by Google themselves.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-bloc...
Aggregation and distribution are virtues of large communities, not small ones.
The sophistication of Facebok's business is what allows the creation and distribution of content. I agree that if Facebook, Snap, Pinterest, Reddit, Nextdoor, Twitter etc, didn't exist, small communities would fill that void...
But they would do through a fragmented and siloed user experience that is hardly discoverable for the majority of the connected world.

This is the equivalent of running a taxi business vs running an airline. Sure, a taxi can fulfill several transportation needs but it could never replace what an airline does.
Often in Amazon’s case it’s not about the policy as written it’s about trying to break the law.

Laying people off is very expensive. However, constantly fire people at random and you can quickly grow and shrink your workforce for free!
Make your concerns known to the `decision makers' in your society, repeatedly, until they accept that you want action.
> That usually comes from founders unwilling to work inside the legal framework to find a solution.

I appreciate your engagement, but this statement feels like it proves my point. In the US, startups have simple, standard, procedures for creating option pools for future employees. I had my own failed startup in the US, and never had to give a thought to how to structure equity compensation.
They could have had a design rule that all network endpoints must work with 32/64/128 bit IPs.

This could perhaps have been implemented in VLSI back in the 80s in such a manner that 32-bit IPs ran at full speed, 64-bit at half speed and 128-bit at quarter speed.