skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do have a point, however (as you noted) the lowest-level bits of an OS kernel are practically impossible to build (and subsequently, maintain) without precise control over the machine code; you can't even start a hobby OS kernel project without relying on assembly. It's a part of the deal; a pure-assembly kernel is more feasible than one without any. You also (as you pointed out) still have to be mindful about the C-asm boundary; the integration doesn't come free.

The story here is pretty different: integrate a new, high-level language into a 30 year old, 30mil SLOC, production code base, that billions of people rely on every day, AND actually extract some value from that work.
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Does Facebook delete unsent messages?
So I just found out that facebook added an unsend feature for messenger for all messages. It used to be for messages sent within 10 minutes, but now it's accessible to all messages sent. They do say unsent messages can be reported up to 14 days after being unsent, but do they delete after this time or does it just hang around their servers until someone inadvertently hacks them. This has previously been an issue around a year ago, where Instagram was reported to not have deleted "deleted messages and photos" from their servers for over a year.
At this point the only thing keeping me from deleting my facebook is that I want to purge everything, including messages but wondering if it's just a *wink wink we'll be deleting them not really, kind of deal. Are there any GDPR rights that let me check if they do?
It's on of those things people using Python for so long forget about: Some people try to run individual files and cd around the place. I never do that anymore. I have a test suite and breakpoints and that's it. But before you've learned those tools it feels natural to "run that file there" and then say "oh hey why doesn't it work any more?"
I was responding to the parent comment about the economies of production specifically.
> Self-hosting a good spam/phishing filter seems almost impossible in 2021

No, it's very easy to filter spam locally. You don't need huge amounts of data, just your regular email. Which makes it much better on your data.

Running my own email infrastructure for a long time, filtering spam is a non-issue.
Buy farmed kelp and shellfish. If it is profitable more people will do it.
LAX does not have a train to city center (they aim to get one done by the Olympics). It does have busses to Culver City / Santa Monica, although the busses stop fairly far from the terminal and you need to transfer to a second bus to get to the terminal. You can somewhat mitigate this with the "flyaway" bus.

So, for instance, if I was in Koreatown I'd get the subway east to downtown and get the flyaway bus to LAX. If I were in Gramercy Park, I'd have to take 3 busses. When I lived in Culver City, I could get the Culver City 6 to almost to LAX and then had to walk or use a shuttle to get to the terminal. If I was in Brentwood, I'd have to get a bus to somewhere near Culver City, take the 6, then walk or use a shuttle to get to the terminal.

I'm not really sure what you'd call "city center" for a city like LA, but no matter where you are, there is absolutely positively not convenient transit to get you from there to LAX.
There was a thread about that last month,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27549075 ("Sorted Integer Compression")
But there are many many things you cannot do living in an apartment that you can do with your own home/property. It's not simply a calculation of value in a $/sq-ft sense that people are making.
How about triple jet bridges for an A380? https://youtu.be/64JXmuYZ7pA?t=55
I don't have a problem with the way that one's set up because it's not some ridiculous pay per user per feature per month scheme like most SaaS. Paying $X per year for continual software updates without limitations on user count or features is good value and the self hosting option creates a natural limit on the scale (ie: no one's going to host 10k users on an instance).

Compare it to something like GitLab where I have the burden of maintaining it plus I still have to pay per user per month and deal with ridiculous feature tiers.

Which one is better value and less hassle for me? There's a big difference IMO.
IMO, saying "no side-loading" is as good as correct, and getting technical about it just creates confusion and muddies the waters. Unless you're paying $99 per year for a developer account, what little sideloading Apple offers is completely useless for anything but limited testing. Who wants to reinstall an app they actually use every seven days?

The semi-exception is Altstore, which is a fantastic project... but it's a major hack which sometimes breaks, and which Apple is liable to kill at any time. You also need to keep a server running on a PC or Mac on your wifi network, which isn't workable in a lot of situations.

I mean, my iPhone can run unsandboxed sideloaded apps, because it's jailbroken. But I wouldn't say that Apple allows third-party unsandboxed apps.
This is my exact thought process for keeping my 15 year old car. Never having to worry is a type of freedom I really value that most others seem to ignore.
Indeed, this is why some around the world view Americans with the stereotype of only eating McDonald's when they get to their country. (Or British who only eat breakfasts or fish n chips etc)

It's predicable and just gets food done with. Life is an unknown quantity.
Agreed, many people simply don’t have the time to do hosting as a hobby. Me neither - I chose a family and a music hobby. But that’s not really relevant to the GP’s argument “your time is money”, though. My point is, only my working time is money. My spare time is mine to spend on whatever I like.
The word for this kind of article is "blogspam".

For anyone who finds it as worthless as I do, the original press release the article mangles is at [0] and the DOI of the paper is 10.1126/scirobotics.abh1221.

As for the work, it's one thing to say "Of course a robot is faster in a known map with perfect state information.", it's another thing to actually _build_ a working system.

Research is an incremental process and this seems to be like a meaningful step.

[0]: https://www.media.uzh.ch/en/Press-Releases/2021/Drone-Race.h...
Sure, value not costs.

> There are plenty of apartments available in cities at rents lower than the average suburban mortgage payment.

But what is the floor area? Saying people don't need McMansions is not the same as saying additional bedrooms for kids isn't nice.

> If we want revitalized cities where people want to live, we don’t just need low cost housing, we need high value housing.

It's very easy to tear down walls making bigger units. Focusing on the cost of housing is the key part. Value comes after.

Also remember that suburbs and driving is massively subsidize, even separately from the externalizes. It's not fair to expect cities to compete completely on costs without that being fixed.

Go read https://www.strongtowns.org/ for urbanism for small-scale romantics if big cities still sound "just bad".
No, your impression was right. Reading this blog post made me realize how little I know about the python import system (and I use python daily), and at the same time how little I want to learn it. It is completely unintuitive and probably one of the worst aspects of otherwise beautiful and useful language. Fortunately, sys.path hack works reliably - one can just add that one line and imports work as expected.
We are going to see major shortages in the coming months. I work in IT infrastructure and we were told by suppliers that there are going to be major delays in equipment orders due to the pandemic disrupting the supply chain. This is going to affect multiple industries for the next year or so.
The leaf is a special case with poor thermal maintenance. Even basic thermal maintenance results in much longer lifetimes for batteries, well into the 250k territory where the car is definitively old.
> This is great, except now all of the UI elements are at the top of the screen, which on modern large phones is very awkward, even with my long fingers.

I've always found it easier to reach the top of the phone than the bottom, so his sentence is spot on: Some love it, other like you hate it.
OK, fair enough. I read "production" to not just be about the production of housing in isolation, but it is ambiguous.
Everything is obvious once you know the secret.

Man, I hate this argument. A secret is a secret because it's not obvious. If something is naturally likely to be invented by the first person who happens to encounter the problem it solves, it's not a "secret."

That seems to have been what happened here. Society does not benefit from granting a government-enforced 20-year monopoly on things like this. In fact, the cost in terms of wasted energy is incalculable. Patents wall off entire areas of R&D in many instances; we literally don't know what they cost us to grant.
> the iGPU in Tiger Lake ... has AV1 codec hardware decoding

Oh neat, I wasn't aware there were any AV1 decoders in hardware yet, that was always something somebody was complaining about on HN threads (probably MPEG employees HA). Tiger lake was released late last year and AV1 was finalized in 2018; that's got to be a record turnaround time from new codec to hardware decoders in top-selling chips.
Yeah... in any conversation about how to preserve and protect our water, lawns will be the 1st thing to go. And good riddance too! They are utterly useless.
On the other hand couldn’t the government choose to use eminent domain, regulate how water can be used, or even divert the water entirely?
I can't be sure, but from various details such as the WiFi gripe my guess is this article could be 10 years old.
Don’t final inspections with payload attached by itself take more than a day? Or is that going to be a relic of the past?
Maybe at one point, but the final design did not allow rapid turnaround. Starship could actually do it the way is being designed. They have a good shot at pulling it off.
Ask HN: What Technologies Are Used for Google Doodle Champion Island Games?
https://www.google.com/doodles/doodle-champion-island-games-begin

What technologies could be used to create that JRPG game in a browser?

Is it fundamentally very different from other frontend web development?
Do razor components work in vscode? Like w/ breakpoints and such?
The trade off for nice airports seems to be landing an hour by surface transportation from where you actually want to be. Some airports, like JFK in NYC, have the worst of both worlds, but given a choice I’d rather an ugly, cramped, poorly laid out airport that is close to city center.
This is standard practice in the UK too - if you're buying alcohol as a group, they'll ask for everyone's ID if any of you look too young.

But this isn't specifically written into the law, i.e. the law doesn't say "you must check the ID of everyone in the group." Rather, it's that businesses receive ENORMOUS fines if they're caught selling alcohol to underage people - so most of them have very strict internal policies to minimise the chances of a false negative.
> Well...none of them are particularly easy, compared to punching holes in your local firewall.

Yeah. You'll have to use something like Cloudflare's Argo to punch out to the world and let them route the traffic back in. That's more complex and could cost and they probably won't like it if you put your media server behind it. Lol.
Most cities have some sort of public or quasi-public (e.g. privately-operated buses) transportation.

But these can involve multiple mode changes, can be awkward with any amount of luggage, and can take a long time. I'm guessing there is some "don't need to take a taxi/Uber" option in most cities but there are definitely airports like Las Vegas and Dulles where it's not very practical. (And of course it depends on where you're going within the metro area which isn't always the financial district or whatever the official "downtown" is.)
Not to forget that nowadays plants are optimized for high yield. I’d imagine the fruit/stem biomass ratio is becoming higher.
Forget it. I only want artisanal electrons.
> While I don't necessarily advocate it, I'd say disqualifying empty buildings from insurance would do more to that end, as no bank or lender will take an uninsured asset as collateral on leverage/debt.

Unoccupied buildings generally require different insurance than occupied buildings, and it's often significantly more expensive. Although, apparently, not more expensive enough to balance the incentives to leave property empty.
It's hit or miss; I'd say ~1/3 of airports are free or free-ish (e.g., 30 minutes of access after you watch this ad), but the rest seem to have the cancer that is Boingo.
Curious why a high THC concentration == good. Isn’t that like saying whiskey is better than beer because it has a higher alcohol percentage?
The media shouldn’t cover celebrity vanity projects. Celebrities and billionaires should be given zero influence in the media.
https://sandstorm.io/ as well
Why on earth does it matter if your ID is expired?? Do you stop being the person on the ID once the expiry date is reached?
Only to observers on earth...
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I have most of that around the same distance in my neighborhood, but if I walked 3 blocks right now I would be completely soaked in sweat, and would likely have a few mosquito bites also.
I think you can do even more and pass other file handles (FDs) through the socket, in order to provide the peer access to those resources.
> Aesthetics is the reason we thought the Earth was at the center of the universe

Nope, that was hubris.
> I despise the permission-seeking society we've ended up with with you have to show ID in all kinds of places and beg for permission to exist.

If you think it's bad now, wait until they roll out vaccine passports.
I don't have a huge variety of airport experience, but after about 40 trips in the last three years it's an efficient security I value most.

In Brussels Airport there's a single security hall with a huge amount of lanes that are opened depending on demand. I've never had to wait more than a few minutes. You go to a "filling station" where the very large trays are automatically fed to the lower part of the station. Three people can put their things in trays in parallel. There's no operator at the machine, the images are checked centrally, and automatically pushed to the side when flagged. It's easy, modern and just completely frustration free.

The rest of the Brussels Airport experience is a little different depending on which gates you're at (Schengen or non-Schengen) but still usually quite good in my opinion.
Yes! Lol
No, that's just fluff. Occam's Razor is all there is to it.
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Well, he is in a pretty big hole when it comes to negative effects on humanity so I hope he starts this “good for mankind” soon.
Yes, that’s part of what I mean by value as opposed to cost.
I bet a lot of these statements were made in the same spirit with which we've all gone through someone else's years-old code: "What the heck is this even trying to do? Who wrote this stuff?" We say that, even though we know full well that we've written stuff just as bad, and that there's a script we wrote and are dreading someday having to maintain. It's a long way from that to "libel" and "defamation", the accusations the originator of squashfs was throwing around. I'd say that he was far more out of line than the new toolset's author.
> and why should everything be about quality of life? It is an important point, but not the only one.

Because quality of life gets everybody on board. This sort of expeditions are paid for with the money of people who don't agree with the spending.

These people are generally talked some sense into when they disagree with military spending, or infrastructure spending or entitlements spending. The theme is always "even if you don't benefit from it yourself, people around you do and so over time will you!"

A leftist version of trickle down, I call it trickle up or trickle laterally. I can see the point in having a discussion.

The talk doesn't even happen with space, it seems like if you are for containing space spending you hate America or something
> Americans haven’t figured out how to behave on an escalator. If you’re not in a hurry, stand on the right and enjoy the ride, allowing those of us with a flight to catch to walk on the left.

OMG so much this. Maddening how oblivious Americans are to the basic tenets of getting along in a society. Not surprisingly, the same selfish, oblivious people behave the same way while driving their cars.
> what type of arguments do they plan to use to convince Mexico, Gabon, Nigeria, Russia to reduce production of gas and oil?

They cannot convince anyone to reduce production. And you don't fight climate change reducing production. What needs to be reduced is consumption, and Norway doing just like that.
Yes, but they’d have to cut big checks to the existing rights holders.
Multiple jetbridges is a thing. I've boarded a 787 in LHR over a secondary jetbridge (the first was for business class only).

> Some airports with international gates have two or even three bridges for larger aircraft with multiple entrances. In theory, this allows for faster disembarking of larger aircraft, though it is quite common, especially on aircraft such as Boeing 747s and Boeing 777s, to use one bridge for only passengers in first class and/or business class, while the other bridge is for the use of passengers in economy class. In some designs, the second jet bridge would even extend over the aircraft wing, being suspended from an overhead structure. This was, for example, originally adopted for most wide body gates at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The Airbus A380 is unique in that both of its two passenger decks have outside access doors and so using loading bridges for each deck is possible, having the advantage of faster aircraft loading (in parallel).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_bridge#Advantages
Indeed. The vast majority of computing environments are covered by existing rustc support. However, people in weird retrocomputing environments are more or less existentially threatened by Rust.

In my personal experience (since I wanted to see how big of a problem this is), I looked into bringing up Rust as a cross-compiler for Mac OS 9. This requires a compiler that can emit PowerPC machine code, as well as a toolchain that can handle XCOFF objects and classic Mac OS's strange resource formats (if you ever wondered why Win32 has resources, that's why). Retro68k provides such a toolchain (albeit GCC based), and I wrote a rustc target file to make it spit out XCOFF objects in PowerPC format.

Then I got hit with a bunch of llvm assertions about unimplemented functionality in it's XCOFF generator and gave up.

Less anecdotally, the ArcaOS people (responsible for trying to keep IBM's freakshow fork of Windows and DOS alive) and TenFourFox both have abandoned attempts to maintain Firefox forks for OS/2 and old Mac OS X (respectively), specifically because of the Quantum update making Rust a requirement to build Firefox.

I heard Rust did merge in a GCC backend, which might help some of these retrocomputing projects... but there are platforms out there where the primary (or only) development environment is a proprietary C compiler. (e.g. Classzilla uses Metroworks to provide old Mozilla on Mac OS 9) I'm starting to wonder if some kind of "Rust to C" backend might be useful for these cases...

Linux also can't abandon hardware support for some of these weird environments, either. So until and unless Rust-with-GCC can compile on every environment Linux does, we aren't going to see anything more than Rust drivers.
Since we’re part of reality and products of reality, we are most definitely not independently objective.

On the other hand, some our aesthetics could be founded in an adaptive sense for reality.
Also in the Tycho Brahe system Earth is at the center of the solar system but it is equivalent to the Copernican one, you can just change the coordinates.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tychonic_system
Yeah, I guess I was just having a fit of "Gear Acquisition Syndrome".

I barely drive at all, and paying $3,000 - $6,000 to trade my perfectly-good ICE for a PHEV of the same model year is basically just buying myself a toy I'll hardly use.

Maybe I'll get lucky and move to a walkable town where I don't need a car, before the ICE starts to die on me.
I don't use Sidequest myself, but you can install any APK you acquire yourself, so it should work. All of the system features are the same, so hand tracking, Link, etc should all work.

No, I don't have any links. Everything that is out there is almost universally written for Unity and I don't do Unity anymore.
Think the general point is the degree of deadly automation here.

Apparently drones + grenades are already a big feature of the battleground between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Supposedly they have to do that for safety deposit boxes too, but as recent events have shown in LA, that doesn't stop them from seizing everything including those boxes and then opening them up to take inventory. A judge objects, but it's too late. Now people are having to prove that they own whatever was in those boxes to get back their stuff back, and if they can't -- everything is gone.
I don't know about the US, but so-called "test purchases" are an extremely well-known practice in the UK and it's not the least bit controversial to suggest they happen - and everyone knows it if they've ever worked on a bar. I know someone who lost his job for failing to ask for ID when the customer was a test purchase.
Canadians with large scale cannabis cultivation experience have made serious investments in Colombia.
While we’re on the topic, I’d also recommend guys wear yoga leggings on planes. There is a reason you see so many women do so. They keep you legs warm enough and don’t get bunched up like jeans or slacks do. Just get some lululemon align leggings and maybe some basketball shorts to wear over if you are feeling modest and make sitting for 12 hours a little less uncomfortable.
I would think worse. The underlying driver of the social posturing and inter-clique battling by adolescent girls is trying to be more visible/popular with boys.
A good reason for the risk-averse to avoid rooftop solar and leave the analysis to power companies who have a huge stake in building their PV plants correctly and cheaply.
so - places where you can get away stealing electricity are going to have an edge.

kinda like china with bitcoin mining...
I agree, but not just on land value. If you adjust the base rate for the land by how wide the plot is on the street you end up with a MUCH more walkable city. It's like a more efficient sorting algorithm, because once you get to the store you need you can just walk right in and find everything you need. Right, like imagine how stupid it is for us to be walking by squares. We have to walk across 25% of the perimeter of every building we go by. If they're thin rectangles then you only walk by, say 5% until you get to the store you need.
1632 by Eric Flint - Very interesting alternative history, which really gets you thinking about what it takes to run civilization. It's a series, and 1632 is the first book.
I didn't closely check for "is it CPU+GPU or CPU only" when I looked at Activity Monitor yesterday. I could, but I suspect that isn't a stable answer year-over-year yet.
Actually yes, in 2019 it made a profit of 890.5 billion KRW, or about 770M USD, which was a 15-year profitable streak since 2004 [1]. (It lost money in 2020, but that's hardly surprising ...)

To be fair, it's one of the few airports in Korea that's actually making money. After Incheon, Korea built many vanity project airports and most of them are bleeding money.

[1] https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20200109105300004 (article in Korean)