skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked in various retail jobs. Most customers range from kind to inoffensive. The negative experiences from the exceptions stand out and occupy more headspace.

If you (general - not you) think you could improve how you treat people, please work on improving, but most people here are probably fine and have nothing to feel guilty about.
There could be, but I can’t think of anyone I know who grew up with transit who talks about how much they love car centric suburbia. I do know people who like that their kids are in greener spaces, which is related.
Historically they have always been just template files in a special directory. Perhaps this has changed recently, I don't really know about Windows 10.
lol, good to know.

Thanks for the heads up :D
Right, and the headline surely isn’t designed to make you think it’s from COVID...
Oxford study shows red processed meat linked to increased risk of heart disease
Valid solutions to the Schrodinger equation give you the wave function amplitudes in multiple places; the particles in these places can interact with each other still, even if they are 'the same particle'.

However, the wave function at different places interacts with the environment and start to shift in phase, eventually becoming unable to interfere with itself - this is called decoherence, and is a valid explanation about why and how we can't observe wave-like behaviors at large scales or in hot systems.

On the other hand, we can only postulate, based on observations, that when a particle interacts with a measurement device, the measurement device will show a single value with a probability determined by the amplitude of the particle's wave function at that point. We can postulate that the wave function collapses, or we can postulate that the device branches out into different devices in different worlds (enough such devices&worlds to achieve the probability distribution through observer selection somehow), or many other ways of formulating the Born rule. But whichever way you put it, this rule must be added to your system to predict experimental results, it does not derive from the Schrodinger equation.
The worst thing IMO it enables the regimes who are too technically inept and would never had a chance of building anything remotely as effective to successfully spy on their dissidents. It's the outsourcing of totalitarianism.
> do foreigners really think Indian people would have sat silently?

Most of my Indian relatives and family (who all live in India) find this 10x under-reporting very plausible.
WPengine is configured like that, and you can’t change it, even on their highest tiers. Their support doesn’t understand that it defeats the whole purpose of WPengine’s reseller relationship with cloudflare.
I met someone running an AirBnB in London who was in the process of revoking his US citizenship because he was being taxed by the US despite not working there or having any business there. What blew me away is that he was having to pay thousands of pounds to _revoke_ his citizenship. From an admittedly naïve standpoint that seems like a real rort.
the special thing about German works council (Betriebsrat) is that for companies above a specific size 50% of board seats go to people elected by the council. Not the owners.
I always respected Windows’ multipath convenience. It felt inclusive in a way that accessibility measures still struggle with.
> And a non-trivial amount of services won't allow you to enroll multiple Yubikeys on the same account.

For WebAuthn (and its predecessor U2F) that "non-trivial" amount seems to be precisely AWS. The specification tells them to allow multiple devices to be enrolled but they don't do it.
There is an ROI to India's space mission.

The US has homeless problems too, but doesn't stop it from spending on the space program.
The ChessBase software is very ugly and overpriced. Moreover it only works on PC. But heck, there is no better software than this :/
Sure, but macOS doesn't ship a /etc/profile that sources /etc/profile.d/*.
The threats you’ve mentioned usually come from Western governments. China is often accused, but attacks by US have actually been proven - numerous times. Same with backdoors.
> We built our own app store that is completely uncensored.

I wonder how they plan to defend that in court. With the "FreedomOS" they could at least argue that they adapted (reskinned) Android for their purpose. But outright saying they built the renamed Google Play Store combined with the (easily falsifiable) claim that they won't ban any app tells me this scheme isn't intended to last long.
> We are never told what a “Black+” person is.

The author seemed to have trouble finding this info:

> In our 2019 Diversity Annual Report, we began counting multiracial people as a member of all the racial categories they identify with. This system used in the report is called the “plus system” (indicated by the + sign) because multiracial people are “plussed in” to each racial category they identify with. To see this data using U.S. government reporting categories, view our EEO-1.
It depends on the size of the parser. As they get big and complex I would start to agree with you.
War with whom? IIRC Switzerland are traditionally neutral. Serious question.
“Deniability front” might be a bit harsh, but revolving doors between government and private sector exist all over the world. Ignoring NSO for a moment, in general they are not always malicious.

But with regards to NSO in particular, there definitely is some linkage, even if it’s not necessarily malicious. According to this Bloomberg columnist[1], (linked article has further hyperlinks to sources)

> How much of this technology is being developed in the U.S., including by U.S. government agencies, and making its way to illiberal autocrats? NSO’s founders are, according to multiple reports, thought to be alumni of Israel’s signals intelligence division, Unit 8200. And we know — including through the Edward Snowden leak — that the U.S. National Security Agency provides Israeli intelligence “controlled access to advanced U.S. technology and equipment.”

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-19/pegasu...
Olympics Are Turning into a $20B Bust for Japan
refreshed and its gone, darn
Yes, Russia and China are openly hostile to the US and to the world order in general.
Useful algorithms that are not optimized by Jax, PyTorch, or TensorFlow
Browser as an app has its use case: Collaboration.
I will never trust third party (SaaS) completely. Period.

I don't like Figma. I use it for remote work.
And feel really uncomfortable, training some "automation" behind the scenes is always a reality. In my view for the companies this is like free petrol.
We all work for them and pay monthly and devalue our work by the hour.

Intellectual ownership. Security.
If you are professional the idea of not owning a computer is nonsense.

Its obvious that someone is getting "big VC funding" to bring browser as a replacement of computer OS. It will not work. Hopefully.

Those who don't understand the idea of freedom and personal computing didn't know the history. We live in the past. Not in the future.

Encryption and personal computing are pillars of democracy. Using one use case (collaboration) as universal reason for moving everything in the browser is not the way forward.
Smart Grid could save UK £10bn a year by 2050
The ability to search the history is so good that it seems unnecessary
This got me too!
> More people are dying on migration routes then by terrorism ~by a factor of two~ by 50%. That is, hostile border policy by western nations are causing at least many more deaths then global terrorists.

So the west is responsible for people being killed outside of the west? Why don't you blame the countries where these people are getting killed in?

And how many of the people dying on migrant routes actually qualify as refugees according to the definition used by UNHCR?

How many countries do migrants to the west pass through on average, and if it one or more, why not blame those? Why is it not the countries these people are fleeing from that hold the ultimate responsibility? And if they are indeed refugees, why are they passing through more than one country?

I am an immigrant to the west, I would love to have my family here, but I can't because they would not qualify as refugees, why do people who break the laws get favorable treatment here? Why are they entitled to me having to pay for them while my family have to struggle with violence and poverty where they live?
So what’s new? In my grad school DSP class 27 years ago, there were 3 whites and 27 Asians. This has been typical of any engineering school for over 30 years. I’d expect the same ratios in the workforce.

And the H1B? USA IEEE has been publishing these statistics for 25 years.

China has 4x the USA population, and trains engineers likely 3x per capita than the USA, what does one expect?
Exciting to see this space evolve. Looks like a formidable competitor to Mighty
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/16/huge-study-s...

> The efficacy of a drug being promoted by rightwing figures worldwide for treating Covid-19 is in serious doubt after a major study suggesting the treatment is effective against the virus was withdrawn due to “ethical concerns”.
All PDF viewers are crap in my experience. If you don't agree, you haven't used PDF enough. PDF has Javascript as a programming language, it has extensions for 3D models and a ton of other stuff (I think even sound). As a format it's almost as complex as the entire web stack.

Multiple web browsers have embedded PDF viewers because the PDF viewing experience for most people sucked so much. That's not a product decision taken lightly.

Your personal experience does not reflect that of many other browser users, it seems. Even on mobile I dread clicking a PDF link.
Was working when I submitted it. Backup http://web.archive.org/web/20210721085118/https://gpuopen.co...
Japan does sell churches as nothing more than a backdrop to get married in.
Worth pointing out that ChessBase isn't strictly a game, it's more a research tool aimed at pros and club players. That said, it is a pretty poor UI even for those purposes.
> It's getting really tiresome to see propaganda day in and day out.

Indeed.
Of course any state can go bad. It's the collective duty of the citizens to make sure that doesn't happen.

I'd be curious to know how cash helps people in china for example. Is it common to have people flee the country with bags of cash? Are there things that you can only buy with cash in order to avoid problems with authorities?

My point is: nowadays, do they need to monitor every financial transactions to be able to control everything you do? If they can know everything you do anyway, what is cash protecting you from?
> but revolving doors between government and private sector exist all over the world.

No... no they don't. It's not normal at all.
The limit is a bit annoying, but in practice cars in city traffic aren't moving much faster than this anyway[1]. During rush hours even a limited bike is faster than the cars.

[1] https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2019/19767
I know that WAY back in the 3.1/95 days there was a ShellNew folder that contained the template files, maybe it's a mix of both now?
Example:

class Fire{}
class Water {}
class Grass {}
class Ice {}

def eff(Fire f, Grass g) { 'burn' }
def eff(Fire f, Ice ice) { 'melt' }
def eff(Water w, Grass g) { 'grow' }
def eff(Water w, Ice ice) { 'freeze' }
def eff(a, b) { 'undefined' }

println eff(new Fire(), new Grass())
println eff(new Fire(), new Ice())
println eff(new Water(), new Grass())
println eff(new Water(), new Ice())

println eff(new Ice(), new Water())

Prints:

burn
melt
grow
freeze
undefined
You raise a lot of good points. I believe it is a combination of factors.
This article is somewhat misleading.

It claims that Facebook only has 1000 software engineers, which is comically low. Back in 2013, FB had 4000 employees (not counting contractors) and I can guarentee you that more than 1000 each were in software engineering and sales.

Also, people who think that large advertising-driven companies could survive without sales people are fooling themselves.

I think that in general, there are some interesting points here around the representation of diversity but I find it hard to take those seriously when I can catch the author in really simple factual errors.
It's perhaps worth taking the opportunity here just to note how remarkably stable western society has been in these times.

This sort of mindset could be running and destabilising society. But, really, it isn't.

It feels to me obvious why millions of people, looking at their TVs, far away from the-reality-on-the-ground would be afraid and paranoid. It's less obvious why everyone isnt.

I think this says something hopeful about how governable and mature civilisation at-this-unprecendented-scale happens to be.
That's a very confused argument. Refugees are not a problem? Your family struggle with violence and poverty, yet the West should have tighter border controls? Who's 'officially' a refugee and who isn't?

The game is called 'blamethrowing' and it accomplishes nothing.
A comment to all companies:

With current shortages, PLEASE include "pre-order" rather than just "out-of-stock." There are a lot of items where I don't mind waiting, but I WILL forget. Here, the sealed watch is available, but the dev kit comes in September.

Why do I need to set a calendar reminder for September and then (perhaps) place an order? Can't I just pay now, and you'll deliver when it's ready (or refund if it's never ready)?

That's double true for things like graphics cards and other extreme shortages.

Aside from making it easier on me, YOU can plan demand. YOU can place appropriate manufacturing orders. If you have 1000 preorders, you can order 1200 devices. Otherwise, you'll be ordering 200, and find yourself out-of-stock again (or with a glut).
> There are a few reasons why Facebook and Google software engineers are so ignored and underpaid.

It is true that per engineer, successful SV firms do make a lot of money. But it is _really_ hard for me to imagine this class of people as "ignored and underpaid." FB, Google, etc are publicly traded companies, not co-ops and, as such, are under no obligation to pay any more than they do. Don't like it the terms? Don't sign the contract. They make it sound like they make you sign a contract with a gun at your head.

> A Facebook software engineer’s average starting salary is about $150,000 a year...But outside of San Francisco, it’s probably equivalent to around $50,000 a year.

This is just stupid. A _starting_ salary of 150k? Even if the equivalence they draw to 50k/yr elsewhere is correct this is a pretty good place to start. I made 95k starting out in SV and had plenty of money to burn.

This article is not rigorous and just bad.
Yes, sounds exactly like it is here in Germany.

And in non-disaster times those voluntary organisations do like to put on gatherings and have a beer or 10... I guess you can add that to the list, too.
Polluters Desperate to Clean Up Drive Demand for Carbon Capture
Dubai is making its own fake rain to beat 122°F heat
I used to save a whole web page as HTML when I got started experiencing the early web because the page might be gone next week I had experience and afraid to lose the reference. Now a days I just use bookmarks because there's less chance the page will be gone in a few weeks. Hosting was expensive in the old days and now it's so cheap sites don't suddenly disappear anymore.
I think in metric system :D
Interesting as the pendulum swings back to thin clients. I couldn't get it to launch Chrome though, hung on "loading your stream" (app id d5f47344-16d1-4410-ba8d-8a7e7472e114).
You mean, my cloud provider isn't doing it for me?
Are there opportunistic invertebrates that might move into an infected person's lungs or sinuses that could explain reports of it working, if there are such reports?
Sounds like the UNESCO was very consistent at least. Telling Liverpool authorities long in advance that the changes would have this impact and then following up on that.

I'm not sure anyone can really be that surprised. Sounds like Liverpool made a very intentional trade off and will have to live with it.
Touch has entered the chat
Show HN: Tiny type-2 Linux hypervisor built using Linux/KVM. In in C
I've heard serving UK police officers elsewhere online say that their department's standard response to reports of hostage situations is to send one officer to drive past the premises in either an unmarked car or their personal car* to see if the report checks out.

In general, cuts to the police have made single crewing a lot more common.

*With the exception of dog handlers, British police aren't allowed to drive home in their patrol cars.
There will be an interpreter, so at least the feedback loop when developing will be fast enough.

Time to compile an optimized binary will be still slow for the foreseeable future.
"disagree, lets downvote"
Chrome's DevTools don't have a mobile UI AFAIK, so the best available option for debugging in a mobile browser is probably Liriliri's Eruda https://eruda.liriliri.io/ which is a kind of embeddable debugger that runs as part of the website you're debugging.
The advantage of a monorepo in this particular case is that it makes easy things easy: if you want to remove a parameter of a function in some library and that function has just a few callers in dependent executables, you can just do that in a single commit. Without a monorepo, you have to do the full-blown iterative rollout described in the OP even for small changes, if they cross VCS boundaries.
> Attribute all excess deaths as Covid deaths?

Unless you have an alternative explanation, it's a fairly reasonable assumption. In fact it's arguably more reliable in aggregate than trying to positively identify the cause of death for each victim, given the magnitude of the number. That wouldn't work for smaller effects though.
Sorry. Too many experiences to really buy the logic "it can be done, it has not been done, hence contradiction". Indeed e.g. the proof of Fermat's theorem (Wikipedia: After 358 years of effort by mathematicians, the first successful proof was released in 1994 by Andrew Wiles, and formally published in 1995; it was described as a "stunning advance" in the citation for Wiles's Abel Prize award in 2016.)
would be a contradiction of that logic. (Indeed, I am very confident that mathematics is a much more developed a mature field then IT).

The only time such an argument had been yielded and has some value is in my (not so, I guess) humble opinion when I think Fermi used the argument that if there was a lower energy level of water there surely would have been an animal by now that used this extra energy by converting water to this state (although I cannot find a link to this quite so quickly, so perhaps the argument was slightly different).
>> As a species we are more than capable (as evidenced by the OP!) of building a variety of modes of transport that are better in most every way (utility, externalities, price) to cars.

As a species, yes, but -and I know this sounds hokey- we are not in control of the automobile industry. Market forces are -and we don't control those, either. Like so many mythical creators, we have lost control of our creation and it's not destroying us.

What's worse, we have now raised multiple generations of humans who know no other way of being and for whom any alternative is unthinkable, or ridiculous. "What, I'll go around the city pedalling my little three-wheel bike? That's stupid!".

Alternatives will have to be a lot better than automobiles to be able to replace them: be much cheaper, much more comfortable, much more convenient. Is there anything like that on the horizon?
In India, you have the opposition party and then lots of regional parties which are in power in state governments. These parties would never sit silent if the numbers were like this, since they could have used it politically, or people from all parties should be in on the game, which I can't believe.
It could be some neighboring state gets ideas... last time it happened was not even that far back.
When I had access to surveying equipment (a Trimble R10 with RTK and sub-centimeter(!) accuracy, basically delivering ground truth), I tested the accuracy of Google Maps: in the region where I tested it, the projection of the aerial image was off by more than 2 meters!!

Fortunately, the author points this out in the article.
Even more insidious: They can distribute something that is similar enough to the original file, but is still a fake. Movies with the climax cut out, books where the plot is changed, games where you cannot win.

Enough downloaders get the file, skim it to make sure they have a viable one, and then keep it in a folder for later consumption.
If it passes the scan test they would be likely to get a bunch more seeders. This is one of the reasons torrent sites have comments.
Syria is in a civil war, with Russia and Iran assisting the Assad government and various other nations including the US having intervened at various points.

South Sudan's civil war ended last year.

Venezuela is not at war but is being embargoed by the US while facing an economic crisis.

I have no idea what Honduras is supposed to be doing except that it's overrun with crime.

Belarus is facing civil unrests and political upheaval.

I'm not sure what you're referring to with your claim of "several" of them being in the middle of "actual wars". The US is in the middle of several actual wars and military actions outside war in foreign territories (mostly drone strikes). The comment you responded to clearly stated:

> No these countries do not conduct terrorist activities or war crimes on foreign soil like the US does.

The US does both of these things. As do several of its allies. We just tend to not to think of these things this way because we're "the good guys". Let's not forget Guantanamo (which despite Obama's promises still exists) and that US prisons routinely use "solitary confinement" which is considered torture by the UN.
Troposphere (Rocket Family)
There is a strong history of volunteer disaster relief organisations in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, from local Red Cross, Alpine and Automobile Clubs to voluntary fire brigades. Interesting and a bit different than the us def of NGO, that sometimes leads to misunderstandings...
What are the motives you are implying?
> it did used to be illegal for non-whites to emigrate to the USA

You must be mistaken. It's well known that the USA was conceived as a "melting pot nation", a nation of immigrants, and those agitating for the opposite are rightly rebuked as un-American. Diversity is our strength, e pluribus unum, etc.

That is simply not compatible with ever having had white-only immigration laws, let alone so recently that it would still affect the age-structure.
> Refugees are not a problem?

Not a problem for what?

> Your family struggle with violence and poverty, yet the West should have tighter border controls?

What does my family's living conditions have to do with the west's border control policy?

> Who's 'officially' a refugee and who isn't?

I do not define this and you can find the definition used by various authorities readily available on the internet.

The country where I reside uses UNHRC definitions and does not consider applications of people who are not already in the country. But as far as I know, struggling with violence and poverty is generally not enough to qualify for refugee status.
Exactly, I don’t understand what is so difficult to get here.