skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because if they did, then interop with JS would require performance-losing conversion any time a string needs to be sent from one side to the other, making Web a secondary and irrelevant target compared to native.

That's not what the web needs. The web needs WebAssembly to work flawlessly with JavaScript for maximal potential, so the web will be great and not just a performance landmine that native developers will laugh (as much) at.
Hence why it is in its current adoption state.
> Spending all the money you get is moral.

Extending this logic, I would also like to posit that jumping off a cliff is flight.
It's not about production though. Give/receive is interpersonal, one has to receive whatever you give, which makes that person have to give more than they got from you, to whom?

It's a fruitful way to live but not something you must expect of others because it's an unattainable goal.
Baltimore high schoolers perform math, reading at grade school level
Did this summary article really not give the proposed formula of the green rust?
Oh, yes, I do love hearing about "increased accountability" from the police, the most accountable group of people in our society.
shameful that his home country is doing nothing for him. imagine he was a US citizen who leaked Australia's dirty doings. he would be free after 1 month.
Isolated tribe man meets modern tribe man for the first time (1998)
> Yet somehow, many of the most successful and humanitarian societies have managed to avoid forcing a uniform "misinformation-free truth" down peoples throats through censorship of contrary opinions without collapsing in ruin.

1) Yeah... And some didn't.

2) The mis- and disinformation-spreading machinery is getting ever more effective and efficient.

3) Removing the worst of the mis- and disinformation is not the same as "forcing a uniform 'misinformation-free truth" down peoples throats through censorship".
I think the problem with people who are new is what's a 'little sore'? A person who has never lifted will have DOMs that is going to feel a lot more than a little sore after their first workout. It's completely normal, and not dangerous. In fact, a 30 minute stationary bike ride will probably clear it up.

It's actually really hard for someone to overtrain. What normally happens is people use it as an excuse to stop training.

What I tell people is that long term training is a grind - and that's a good thing. Accept that fact early on and find your own enjoyment in it however you have to. The discipline that comes to other areas in your life from accepting the training grind is a benefit many people don't even notice.
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game- Which programming language is fastest?
The point isn't really to have a believable case.

The point is to use legal system to ruin one person to scare any people from running similar actions against US government.

US is loosing more and more of its standing when it comes to "spreading" democracy. You can't go and try to preach democratic values to, say, Belarus, and then do exactly the same in your own country.

Principles aren't really principles if they are being tossed aside when they become uncomfortable.
Why was this downvoted? World War II was the largest fiscal event in USA history (before the pandemic) and it is invisible on this graph, therefore the graph has little explanatory power. Why would I be downvoted for pointing that out?
There you go again with the groundless "most," not to mention your thinly veiled bias against "activists."

>The recipient of the violence (be it property or a person) is not relevant.

The law disagrees, for decades if not centuries, and your sense of the relationship between assault and violence are misinformed, if not completely upside-down, backwards, and possibly with i's dotted with flowers.
They are in the forest, not on the streets. Makeshift or real tent, sleeping bag. I've seen a bunch of this in Espoo and Helsinki, admittedly more in the 80s and 90s than later on. (Whether this development is due to my own situation or that of the homeless people, I don't know.)
Yes, it's still a scam. The domain was not provided with the assumption that it would be taken away. Nobody starts an online business with the expectation that they're only borrowing the domain and will need to pay what essentially a ransom.

If you replace the car in my analogy with a house, it's even clearer. It's hard to change where you live for a ton of reasons. Demanding unexpected payment is a scam, because I wasn't anticipating paying under the agreement, and I'm left with little choice in the matter (lest I become homeless).

If I start a profitable business with a domain that's taken from me, I'm either forced to pay this ransom or start my business from scratch.

> It didn't have value to begin with

But your use of it created value, with the expectation that you would be able to keep that value. The deception that the value is not actually yours to keep makes it a scam. It's especially scammy, since they seemingly only do this to domains valuable enough to extract meaningful value from: they're selectively targeting valuable properties to extort.
Food supplements that alter gut bacteria could ‘cure’ malnutrition
When will we move to some kind of decentralized domains from this "always pay for rent" model?
I more frequently encounter toxic negativity on HN in subjects that devolve to anything remotely social.

* That parent isn’t setting boundaries for a child, they’re just mean.

* Isn’t that they fully acknowledged your thoughts and chose something to the contrary, they aren’t listening.

* Isn’t that they fail to shed tears when trying to understand other people, it’s that they have no empathy (this is actually sympathy, but whatever).

I want to say it’s teenagers or highly sheltered people having an emotional moment, but these wonderful people claim otherwise. Worse, like teenagers, when comes to anything remotely social everybody is an expert, never wrong, and somehow knows all about other people real life situations.
Wrong. Anna was constantly informed by the moto of her lead. We will have to hear from others, like Longo or Brennauer if there were informed or not. But I'm pretty sure they were.
Sounds like propaganda material.
Can't upvote this enough. Also, you don't need to wait until old age to see that this is true. I am half your age and even though I thought I was "fit", chronic pain from years of sitting jobs revealed when I got to physical therapy that I had weaknesses in multiple muscles, many of which absolutely needed to be worked directly in order to reduce the pain, and my gym and calisthenics habits weren't doing it. Our peak species health as hunter/gatherers had us doing a wide variety of strength maintaining movements that physiology and rehab medicine is only just starting to understand. It's unbelievable for example how there are guys who can squat over 250 lbs. deeply but can't do a single one legged squat even near the same depth. Glad I got my wake up call before I got too old to do much about it.
I freelance fixing and maintaining legacy web apps, almost always PHP.

Anecdotally I see SQL injection vulnerabilities in about half the code I look at. It’s one type of problem among many other problems and vulnerabilities in code written by amateurs and often copy/pasted.

PHP programmers can find lots of resources online. Some of those are terrible, either very old or written by amateurs excited to show how they got something to work.

I have seen the same kind of thing with Java and Python, but the popularity of PHP means there’s a lot of junk info and examples online.

PHP has supported safe SQL and safe HTML for decades, but the programmer has to understand the problem and the solution.
That's simply not true. They are ultra conservative with block size. That doesn't mean transaction volume won't scale. It doesn't even mean block size won't go up.
> Now the ant's mama and daddy are going to be sad because they'll miss him

Perhaps you could try to acculturate your son without deliberately lying to him. The only true claim this sentence makes is that, when you step on an ant, the ant's mother exists.
Yeah, it's actually less correct, not less descriptive - I mispoke.
The clean code may still have other issues. For example [1] give away if a certain email address is registered with the site or not.

[1] https://phppot.com/php/user-registration-in-php-with-login-f...
The idea that inanimate objects have consciousness gains steam with scientists
>If you agree homelessness is an issue than the right attitude to have is to reduce it no?

Back in the mid 1980s, the Village Voice[0] ran a feature article entitled "What do homeless people want?"

The author helpfully provided an answer in the first sentence of the article: "Homes, mostly."

Given the very visible homeless population in New York City[1] at the time, and that more and more of those folks were families with children, it seemed a reasonable question to ask, with a readily available answer.

And in 2000, there was a piece in the San Jose Mercury News[2] about full-time school teachers working in the San Jose public schools who were living in homeless shelters because they couldn't afford housing on their salaries in the South Bay.

And yet, 30+ years later the problem is getting worse -- due to the lack of affordable housing stock, increasing economic insecurity and inequality, among other, lesser, issues.

So let's not continue to believe the Grimm-esque fairy tale that poor people are poor because they're lazy or stupid. And that all homeless people are drug-addicted, mentally impaired losers.

So what is it that homeless people want? Homes, mostly.

Yet our zoning and housing policies make increasing housing stock to meet demand and effectively difficult, if not impossible.

Yes, homelessness is a serious issue. And something I experienced back in those fabled 1980's. And I did have a drug (cocaine) problem while I was homeless. Then again, I didn't start using those drugs until I was already homeless. Hmmm. Correlation isn't causation, but...

[0] https://www.villagevoice.com/

[1] https://citylimits.org/2013/03/11/a-brief-history-of-homeles...

[2] https://www.mercurynews.com/
Not an expert at all but from skimming Wikipedia

“The appearance of plate tectonics on terrestrial planets is related to planetary mass, with more massive planets than Earth expected to exhibit plate tectonics. Earth may be a borderline case, owing its tectonic activity to abundant water”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics

It is just that there no objects in the solar system big enough to have plate tectonics. And we currently have no way of detecting them on exoplanets.
I hadn't realized that. Their moderately popular President is a vaccine denier and I assumed that translated to the popular in about the same way as the US (whose previous President appears to be a model for Bolsonaro).
Can we get a better understanding of the root cause and blast radius?

You say, "if someone had conversation trimming on, it could create a rare situation where a database ID was re-used in a way that could result in this behavior."

Is this someone user A or user B? Where is this database and what is it storing? Are these images previously sent or received from either A or B, or are they possibly from some thread between users C and D? How does this agree with end-to-end encryption?

How can you expect people to use your product with a bug this severe and no analysis of the impact or a statement as to who might have been affected?
Yeah but he explained, that they could not track down the bug, without having the luxory of default user tracking and metrics. So what can you do, when you have a non reproducible bug, but limited ressources(and other problems around)? You wait for the bug to show up again and then have more data to work with.
Why does it have to end badly?

Why can't money just always get funnier?

If Central Banks guarantee to always pay more for bonds than what the Federal Government sold them for - what difference does it make if the interest rate is 0% or -5%? It's still some fixed, semi-guaranteed return.

Inequality doesn't seem to be a major talking point in any major economy despite the fact that we surpassed The Belle Epoch peak a couple years ago.

The masses don't seem concerned that inequality is sky rocketing. Almost everywhere >50% of people own homes -> A lot of them on a lot of leverage. Why should they care if Jeff Bezos is making >$70Bn a year on paper - when they're also making more on paper than they do working their jobs?

Until the homeownership rate starts to plummet - I don't see why >50% will ever care. And if the homeowership rate does plummet - why can't the government just Federally back negative-percent-down, interest-only loans to increase homeownership and inflate housing prices more (both of these exist already in other countries)?

Things can always get funnier.

You know what's not going to happen... The government just sit back and watch 80% of the world's wealth disappear.
> PMI is pushing the IQOS, a cigarette device that heats tobacco to deliver nicotine without the smoke and tar that cause diseases including cancer.

It's not clear how much safer heated tobacco products (such as IQOS) are than traditional cigarettes. Most studies are sponsored by the tobacco industry.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S07618...

> Of the 100 papers published in 2008–2018, 75 have authors affiliated or linked to TI [tobacco industry]. Emissions contain gases, droplets and solid particles, so are smokes. The main products are: THS2.2 (Iqos®) which heats mini-cigarettes at 340 °C, the THP1.0 (Glo®) which heats at 240 °C sticks delivering about half as much nicotine, Ploom® which uses reconstituted tobacco microcapsules heated at 180 °C. Under the experimental conditions, there is a reduction of toxic emissions and biological effects, but the expected risk reduction is not demonstrated. Symptoms related to passive smoking are described. The 4 epidemiological articles report that heated tobacco is used in 10 to 45% of cases by non-smokers and demonstrate the effectiveness of TI promotion campaigns. Thus, the THS2.2 is more a gateway to smoking (20%) than an exit door (11%); moreover, it is not expected risk reduction among the 69% who are mixed users.
"These results are striking in contrast to the increasingly cynical outlooks we see on sites like Reddit and even HN. It seems like every comment section is full of negative comments about how terrible everything is or how terrible it's going to be soon. Results like this are a good reminder to log off and go interact with the real world for a more grounded perpsective."

Agreed, 100%. It's amazing how HN, Reddit and other places select so strongly for the pessimism of the intellect, but quickly shoot down the optimism of the will. Without the latter (informed by the former, sure), civilization would never have advanced this far.

Sure, we need realism. And knowledge of what will go wrong. But find the positive -- otherwise, it's more like a withdrawal of people's energy.

Thankfully, like you mentioned, the real world, away from these artificial rectangles, is often way more empowering. :)
Anyone who has more than 20 direct reports isn't managing them properly. I'd say 15 is already on the high side.

I'd be very surprised if a CEO at any large company has more than 50 direct reports.
American has lost the trade war with China
> Very few people will voluntarily perform shitty, low-status jobs unless you motivate them

Is that a bad thing?

One might wonder if our society is all about motivating people to do things they don't want. How many of our modern conveniences could theoretically be traded away in return for a 15 hour work week? Instead we have saddle young adults with student loads, the cost of housing has been inflated by greedy investors, having a car is just about mandatory, a century of very materialistic consumer culture, regulatory penalties for being poor, etc. I'm shocked that people don't question more of this stuff.

(Speaking of motivating people, governors of many states recently cut unemployment benefits to get people back to those low status jobs, instead of giving them more money. Funny how many people objected to those handouts but are fine with all the tax breaks that investors get on empty properties.)
In large commercial applications ammonia is still commonly used.

Getting this crazy crap out of our homes and stuff is indeed a big step forward, though
Tough choice. We could fill our foods with tasteless indigestible plastic so that we can gorge ourselves on processed foods and not get fat, or we could eat a healthy diet. I’m split.
From the article:
"China is laying siege to the USA by slowing down production and delivery of goods. It doesn't take much to hang up US production, just one missing item can do it. So much stuff is sourced through China they can affect all supply chains. Semiconductors are just the canary--because the chains are so long and complex, and specialized materials are required, etc. But it is happening everywhere."
25 Years of Video Calls
One number could help reveal how infectious a Covid-19 patient is
The question to me is: do the mechanics really do glorify or merely only depict the violence? And then also, do they give the players some value by giving them an understanding of the subject matter? I’ve personally spent some time playing the “Distant Plain”, a high complexity controversial depiction of asymmetrical warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq. Having played this with a group of actual war vets, the events in this game gave some good ideas on why this conflict worked the way it did. This was one of the most valuable board gaming experiences in my life, and it went far beyond “winning” and “losing”.

It is certainly true what the article points out. But then most games are about depicting or enacting violent power fantasies. I think we’re way past the point where anyone believes that this is “a bad thing”.

What would be interesting would be a deeper, more involved academic analysis taking the game mechanics into account and how “overt” the colonialism and the violence is.
You don't have use that much lighter weights. You can do a 5x5 and superset it with burpees or opposing muscles. I'm on a pull-up kick where I want to do 500 pull-ups over the course of a single workout. So in between sets of my regular workouts, I do pull ups. HIIT basically happens as a side effect...
It's not at all selective. This should have been "all they worked on" from the moment they got several confirmations, not from the moment people beat them over the head with data. If they couldn't fix it they should have pulled the app.

This is a company that aggressively markets itself to people needing privacy, and mistakes can ruin lives. And before you say it, they have tens of millions of dollars in funding.
Ah, right. "Trusted" in the modern dystopian sense that I physically own the thing but it's controlled by someone else.
> And if your problem is that you just don't like acronyms, you probably picked the wrong industry.

Once upon a time, I worked for a company that bought a lot of IBM's 8656-1RY, which was later renamed to "x-series $whatever", according to some obscure scheme made up by marketing. Fortunately, the Japanese site was not yet updated, so I could get firmware updates through them. Some weeks later, an IBM representative showed up, he did not even try to sell us anything after complimenting us on finishing some setup work for 10% of the effort he would have billed us. "Any questions?" "Yes, what's with the naming scheme?" He smiled, pulled out a mouse-pad "the evolution of the x-series". "Yes, marketing-BS, but that's the only documentation on the renaming we've got".

Summa summarum: Criticizing some intrinsics does not automatically put you in "the wrong industry", maybe you just have seen enough to call BS BS when you see it.
> mostly I've seen, in person, butterflies in flight - they rarely alight on a plant close enough to inspect in detail and in flight they do appear to flap like a book opening and closing

My father grows milkweed to support a population of monarchs. They also flap their wings open and closed while resting.
Sure, let's see how throwing some NaNs into the mix works out!
The app accidentally attached seemingly random media to messages. The other end has no control over what images they receive when. There was no hack or remote control at play, just a bug.
1) Chernobyl was not a natural disaster.

2) Coverup is the standard playbook under Communism to maintain credibility.

Stop being a useful idiot.
Ah yes! The fact that workers find this shite meaningless is further proof that it's true. Of course all those things are encompassed by alienation. Alienation encompasses everything, because it doesn't mean anything. Thinking back on teenage me on may day. What an embarrassment. I'm done.
There’s nuance in almost everything. When writing or speaking you have to generalize, or you’ll just end up rambling.

So when someone says something, you can almost always say they’re being too general and point out some obscure exception. It’s better to just take every statement and implicitly “… in most cases”.
Given Signal's raison d'être, I would think nearly their entire team is the "security team".

I'm not being entirely facetious either - security is the USP of the product, I really would expect security knowledge and a feeling of responsibility for the product's security to be pervasive throughout the whole team.
The standard of polish that users expect has gone up a lot. The Front end is what users actually interact with, to them it might as well be your entire stack
Users are not entitled to a guarantee that this will never happen again, because Signal is free and open source software provided free of charge and without warranty.

The Android app is GPL licensed. The license clearly states:

> For the developers' and authors' protection, the GPL clearly explains that there is no warranty for this free software.

If you feel let down by open source software, you have many options available to you to make that software more reliable.
Not really invisible, they're just not in your social circle. In other social circles, people (I've spoken to such people, it's not a made up example), claim that well-paying or non-horrible jobs don't exist, as they've never met anyone who has such job.
Maybe tangential but I have had the sense for the past ten years that something is wrong with human cognition.

When I look at the popular ideas on all sides of the political spectrum, the trend seems to have been toward ideas that are not only more one dimensional and extreme but more irrational and incoherent. I regularly come across online comments that are borderline word salad, a blathering incoherent mess of the sort that would in the past have immediately led to questions about schizophrenia.

It doesn’t seem to be a specific idea so much as a decline in the lucidity and coherence of cognition itself. The ideas are inane, but I can’t imagine such inane ideas taking hold to such an extent in earlier eras.

I have only two hypotheses that seem like they make sense: gamified social media and CO2 concentration impacting metabolism. I lean strongly toward the former because around 2010 is when algorithmic timelines started to be introduced and it was right around then that I remember a tangible sense of sharp decline. I had to include the latter for completeness, but I hope not as the latter would be far scarier.

Social media companies are the tobacco companies and opiate dealers of the information age. The more I see of them the more I am convinced they are an objective evil and create net negative value. The algorithmic weighting of content for engagement seems to be the real problem, but it’s at the heart of their business model now.