skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might not be a whole lot faster on modern high end phones in a good coverage area, but on super cheap androids that can barely render websites its way quicker. These kinds of browsers gets alot of free speed gains from stripping advertisements out as well.
I think the REPL workflow is a huge advantage for experimentation and explorative programming. I assume you are supposed to and are able to have a file buffer open and attach your REPL to that, avoiding restarts. Is that assumption correct? In this case I cannot imagine how a compile-run workflow has any advantage for the type of work you are describing.
Instead, just don't run executables from untrusted sources.

Torrents, email, mobile apps (like that fake banking iOS app that looks like the legit one) or otherwise. The transport method doesn't matter much.
> He meets none of the modern expectations of a mega-star; he seems to have stepped out of a different universe, a distant and purer world. If he’s not yet as universally celebrated as he should be, that’s because he doesn’t like publicity, interviews or, indeed, anything extraneous to making music. His mind is phenomenally sharp and informed. He employs no gimmicks and takes no prisoners.

This is something I'd like to see not only in rare artists, top specialists of their kind, but in more or less everybody. Of course, words like "phenomenally" will be omitted if it's everywhere; but "purer world" should still remain.

I think he shows us better goals than we have today.
whew. you can only use the browser for an hour a day?
They should be able to--that doesn't mean they want to know the answer. It's very obvious they want to discriminate but not be detected doing so. They're not going to run those regressions and they aren't going to anonymize.
Non-snarky response to snarky comment:

There is corruption everywhere, of course. The sort of transaction you talk about is common but also inefficient. Many jurisdiction governments just take direct equity stakes in successful or well positioned "commercial" endeavors, often after they become successful, in addition to collecting supra-level "taxes" of various kinds.

That's not what's happening here, referring to Tish James' work against Tether as NY AG. My personal view, having both engaged with her office asking for help on one project and responding to queries from her office on another (neither related to crypto)- she's probably the best case/ideal state attorney general. Her heart and motivations are in the right place- working for the public interest- she's very politically savvy, and she's a very good chess player.

She has some resources- probably has 1000 lawyers working for her, which in law firm terms would be huge. But these are public servants with public servant salaries and budgets without much room for all of the support team and expertise infrastructure that back law firms themselves. The number of matters they are dealing with is probably in the 5-6 figures- dozens to hundreds per lawyer- and the breadth of expertise required spans the entirely of the legal system. Housing, education, finance, commerce, local to global- you name it.

In every case they have to understand the leverage they have, and use it carefully and deftly. This is what was done with tether. A relatively small settlement, but arrived at relatively quickly- has sent an extremely powerful signal. It is like striking a very precise blow with an extremely sharp axe, carving off a key part of the defensive bark on what was likely a wholly corrupt- but until then impenetrable- tree.

Watch as over time more of the bark falls, more documents leak, more complaints arise.
I have a Dygma Raise which is a ~60% keyboard and uses layers. My layer 2 is full of useful macros. I need macros even for the keyboard arrows because my Keyboard doesn't have arrows (arrows are layer2+hjkl or layer2+esdf). I also make heavy use of custom mappings in Vim and Bash aliases.

I have a macro for ctrl+shift+v on my Keyboard since it's the Evolution (Linux mail app) shortcut for moving emails. I also have macros for ctrl+alt+left and ctrl+alt+right to switch desktops more easily.

I have a vim macro "<leader>ji" that does "<esc>:e src/dir/i-always/go/to/prefix_" and "<leader>jv" that does "<esc>:e src/other/common/dir/filename_prefix_". Also "<leader>r" types "Reviewed-by: dyingkneepad <dyingkneepad@domain.invalid>".

I also sometimes think about implementing a keyboard macro that does a BnB combo in Skullgirls :). Maybe one day lol, but that's cheating and I wouldn't do it online (also I'd get screwed on whiff or block). Maybe I could use just Xautomation for that (that uses libXtest).

But the most useful of all, by far: alias s='cd ..'
Very interesting; I wonder if the reported viewership dropoff is because the numbers come from cable viewership numbers only, drop in interest in the Olympics in general, or what this article is talking about regarding making it so hard to actually watch.

For myself, the only reason I was reminded the Olympics were a thing was because of articles like this.
VPN to the UK and watch BBC coverage?

I'll admit that I don't know if that works or not, I'm in the UK so I'm spoiled by wall-to-wall BBC coverage.
Is the Society 5.0 also funded by vision fund?
In practice, indexing is the least of anyone's problems. I switch between 0- and 1-indexed languages a lot and it's never an issue, I don't even have to think about it.
This is awesome. We have been using BLAKE3 in Wasmer for more than a year [1] and has been working great for us.

We were trying to find a hash function for WebAssembly files that is crypto-safe. The only alternatives that were fast enough (>1Gbps) were not crypto-safe (ahash, murmur, crc32), so BLAKE3 was the obvious choice to not sacrifice on speed while getting a cryptographic hash function.

[1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/1140
Blue Origin will, at its own cost, contribute the development and launch of a pathfinder mission to low-Earth orbit of the lunar descent element to further retire development and schedule risks.

Is this Blue Origin saying they'll catch up to where SpaceX is already without charging NASA for it? How is that even part of the mission?
My suspicion is that Kia/Hyundai's current marketing position is about capturing new car purchasers, not differentiating brands.

Your average consumer will only drive a few cars before buying one, 3-5 maybe? So if you can own two of those slots with cars that are practically the same but somewhat different, you increase the chances that a consumer will buy one of your products because they are less likely to look at competitor's products.

Curious what others think on this. Seems like a smart business strategy.
Eh, there was nothing really for him to do in the Chess world. At that time period there wasn't really professional chess like there is today, he could have made a living gambling at it essentially but he would have considered that wasting his life.
> But it sounds like you're trying to put moderation and misinformation campaigns in the same category?

Moderation is necessary and great for a healthy online community. Abuse of moderation is a tool used by misinformation campaigns. The parent comment clarified the difference with abuse being when moderators take down legitimate, non-hostile comments because they disagree with the point being made.

I think right now we're seeing more cases of moderation abuse on various forums because the consequences are so unpredictable. YouTube videos, tweets, Facebook posts get flagged at really inconsistent rates.. there was an excellent post highlighting this a few months ago in regards to Twitter[1]. This is a mark of tyranny, where you have vague rules that are selectively enforced so your populus doesn't know the limits of what's ok and they censor themselves. In this case it's Twitter/Facebook/YouTube being the tyrants, but they're acting this way because they themselves are afraid of what laws might hit them from our unpredictable government.

[1] https://inteoryx.com/htmls/TwitterOffensive.html
The long hours are largely for saving face in front of the team. Nobody leaves before the boss leaves, with full trickle down effect. So if the director is working until 9pm that means his managers are there until 9pm and then the staff is sitting at their desks looking busy-ish until 9pm, regardless of utility. Anybody who leaves early is not "giving their best" to the success of the team.
I have never seen an app developer berate a customer for saying that ads are disgusting, but that changed today. From one of the review's replies"

"You, instead of Puffin, are disgusting. You are OK to pay for the phone. You are OK to pay for the mobile data. You are NOT willing to pay for the app that you use extensively. You need to fix yourself for not being disgusting."

Image link with reviewer's name blocked out: https://i.imgur.com/gxmEmLu.png
Ask HN: Pandemic Predictions and Surprises a Year On
What predictions did you make at the start of the pandemic that became true? Or appear on track to happen? Which of your predictions were wrong?

Also, what surprises didn't you expect that happened in your country or globally as a result of the pandemic?

Prediction: I thought that people might re-evaluate travelling by air as a result of the pandemic. Not only because of the spread of the virus at lightning speed, but that it might make us pause to consider the consequences of flying and climate change.

I was wrong.

After more than a year of lockdown for many countries, people are itching to fly again. The pent-up urge to resume flights seems overwhelming (climate be damned!). I think demand will be particularly strong in Western Europe which has been spoilt for years by cheap flights that often cost less than a train ticket.

Prediction: More car travel in order to avoid crowded buses or trains. I'm not sure if this has happened or not. So, I'll mark this predication as 'outcome unknown'.

Unpleasant surprise: Housing bubble - this is UK-specific. With so much uncertainty over the economy I expected a cautious, subdued housing market. Instead the opposite has happened. A temporary housing tax exemption ('stamp duty') from the government has sent house prices skyrocketing. There may also be pressure on housing from people looking to moving to new areas as a result of more remote work. As always, more demand than supply means housing prices just continue to rise.

So, what were your pandemic predictions and surprises?
I dont think it matters to people who really use tether. If you cant buy usd due to capital controls, usdt is your other accissible option. As such its seemed to retain its user's opinion that it continues to track the dollar, even when its not backed directly and or backed insufficiently by other assets. Its a tool that has value, beyond its intrinsic value.
LOL @ "they'll have to settle [for pre-owned]" - yeah, I'm sure the folks that just picked up a literal million bucks worth of new cars are just DYING INSIDE at the thought of not being able to buy more.
It is a real shame that nuclear power is an effective energy producer and yet it will always be burdened with public reluctance due to meltdowns caused by preventable mismanagement (Chernobyl) or poor long term planning (Japan is earthquake/tsunami prone so the Fukushima reactor should have been in a safer location or had better fortification for said disasters). That danger is why nuclear power plants needs to always be planned and maintained with the utmost care.
No. I suspect if it was in a region people lived in and we weren't using it for research purposes, we may have had to pay, though I doubt it would cost anywhere near that order of magnitude in Greenland...
This sounds awful. I have terrible handwriting, and handwriting skills are entirely non-essential in my line of work. People would be tossing my resume because it's hard to read, even though it has no bearing on my ability to do the work I'm applying for.
I guess I just don't know what the US govt should do. The following may be totally off so please correct it if it is, however my understanding is that's it kinda like this:

US govt: We believe Assange committed a serious crime agains the US. We want him to come here for trial.

Assange: No, I don't want to go there for trial.

US govt: We want you to come for trial.

Assange: I don't want to come for trial.

What is the US govt supposed to do, say OK and just not let him come for trial? I mean, perhaps one could argue that the US has no legal jurisdiction outside of its geography and/or that extraditions, even of Americans who commit crimes in the US and flee, should be illegal. I dunno. Maybe the torture is that he was being held before being formally charged. I must be missing something because the above seems like how most governments would try to respond to someone who won't come for trial.
Not that software performance on M1 devices is much of a concern (poorly optimized apps tend to run amazingly well thanks to brute force speed) but if Chrome can benchmark better than Safari on it why couldn't other software?
In this very thread they are regurgitating talking points from fox punditry.
By far the easiest option is to use your VPN to watch the Olympics on the CBC.
He did; he never played chess competitively past his 20's and was a lawyer until he died.
> Removing a car lane for a bicycle lane doesn’t decrease the number of lanes (may even increase it if a car lane is replaced by two bicycle lanes).

It reduces the number of lanes for cars which increases congestion for drivers.

> If the bicycle lane gets used by former car drivers, car density may even go down, and congestion with it

This is wishful thinking. Everywhere you see a bus lane or a bike lane, it's underutilized. And that's true even when it's carrying all of the existing bicycle traffic that would have been there regardless.

Because the reason people don't ride bicycles isn't a lack of bike lanes. It's because they're traveling a longer distance than can covered in a reasonable amount of time on a bicycle.

> (but that likely will induce demand)

Induced demand is a farce. Congestion suppresses demand. If you relieve congestion in some way, the demand is no longer suppressed. But if we take as a given that we want to relieve congestion in some way, that's the amount of demand we have to deal with regardless of how we relieve the congestion.

> I don’t think they get paid for ad impressions. Shop owners want people to enter their shop and buy things, not drive past it.

If you're stuck at a stoplight at an intersection with a gas station, a pizzeria and a toy store and you need gas, food and a birthday gift for your nephew, you stop and buy those things. If you drive past that street on the new highway, you buy gas at a different gas station, order pizza from a different pizzeria and buy the toy on Amazon.

They're not the seller of advertising, they're the advertiser not wanting to lose the impressions they're currently getting without paying for them.
What a bizarre business and marketing strategy. The free level is meant to attract paid subscribers. It is understandable to put reasonable limitations, but insulting the users it hopes to attract leaves a bad taste. Even for the "non-abusers". It looks like their business has reached desperation level, because a deep bitterness is showing in their acid comments.
Wondering what the growth rate is today and what we have that is similar to this growth rate in other industries
I had subscribed to by NY Times and WSJ. I felt that reading high quality articles that has a little bit of left and right bias would be the way to go. I tend to avoid editorials, as those are often sensationalized.

I've since unsubscribed from NY Times based on how I saw them treat Andrew Yang in the mayoral race. Every little thing he did was sensationalized and take down articles were written. The nail in the coffin was their final piece, when he conceded, and on "analyzing" his campaign it was essentially a final take down article.

The overtly negative items from other candidates were ignored (i.e. Eric Adam's tax evasion, and his plans of implementing 300 students per teacher to save money)
I can’t find it. What is it in response to?

(Remember when linking to specific content on a webpage wasn’t such a nightmare?)
The first Project Gutenberg text, the declaration of independence, was typed in all caps into a mainframe in 1971. I wonder if it ever got stored as punch cards?

They talk about how they initially chose short texts because even ASCII texts outstripped early storage mediums at first.
I've played NBA players a few times. I was a quite good YMCA level player. What you can't imagine is just how fast they are. But what most people really don't see on TV is how strong they are. My brother blocked a European pro player's shot at the rim and above the rim. That guy just brought his other hand up and dunked it through.

Scalabrine closer to LeBron James than the likes of me are to him? He's a lot closer. But I considered it an absolute privilege to be on the court with these guys. Fact is, they were actually really nice. I got a compliment on my rebounding. The second time I walked into the gym when this NBA player I'd played against was there, he came over and said hi. He came over to say hi.
Thanks for the article, I learned something new!
Bruce Perens – Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Crystal and Lucky
Everyone I know sans maybe one person has cable/satellite. So I don't know what future you're living in.

The problem to me is they aren't showing replays that I feel a lot of people want to see on air, so you can't watch at a bar/restaurant. This to me is the major problem with sports on streaming. People like to watch at bars, but bars often don't have streaming devices on hand or a staff that wants to deal with it.
The most scarce resource isn’t time or money. It’s your attention
I think Julia has a pretty good path forward since it is often faster than C++ (especially once you consider language interop overhead), and it is much more pleasant to write than c++. Since Julia and most of the packages are written in Julia (for the most part), Julia makes it really easy for users to become developers. Python and R have much bigger barriers to entry since users will usually hit a binary blob, which makes it much harder to interact with library implimentations.
Hash Map/Set keys is a common one, for example.
They are trying to short change SpaceX to get future contracts with NASA. I guess they can take the loss, which is huge, for their long term prospects.
Ding ding ding, and that is a signifier of "upper class."
Free work for the richest company in the world so that their overpriced locked in unrepairable computers can run an open source OS and divert revenue from competitors that natively support linux.

I don't believe I've seen work that advocates against itself harder than this. Competitors that actually care about linux support should be the ones worked towards, and the ones that should receive your money.
One of my favorite aspects of the b3sum utility is that it has a --no-names flag:

$ echo hi | b3sum --no-names
0b8b60248fad7ac6dfac221b7e01a8b91c772421a15b387dd1fb2d6a94aee438
There are plenty of smart people and high tech companies in Europe though, so there's no reason to take the job insecurity and parental leave hit for that alone.

You'd have to be in a niche where there's only a few teams world wide that are any good, and the US one is the one that's hiring.
When I went to register my apartment in Musashino, a woman went and found a physical folder, thumped what looked to be 10+ pounds of paper onto the desk between us, and then proceeded to find my apartment. It was found 10+ minutes later.

I was both amazed at the organization and horrified at the inefficiency.
It doesn't matter, they'd try to pronounce it correctly.

This whole thing is a strange strawman regarding your belief that other cultures pronounce things however that spelling would be pronounced in their country, but there's simply no citation for that.

You brought up the pronunciation of "gnocchi." I have heard French people pronounce it while speaking French (I have travelled in France a lot). They pronounce it as the Italians do, while speaking French.

How did they learn that? If a French kid saw the word spelled out the first time, and hadn't been taught Italian, they'd have no idea what to do with that "ch." (The "gn" would have been less confusing.)

Yet they did pronounce it correctly, because, like most words, the word would generally have been learned orally. And if some French school kid started saying "gno-shi," his peers would have corrected them.
Wheels up: Accessible cockpit for Flight Simulator takes wing
The Better Business Bureau can help sometimes. You can also submit complaints to your state's, or the company's home state's, Attorney General. Some services also require state licensing, so contacting the state or federal licensing agency can help (eg for doctors, lawyers, finance, etc).
Rarely. Most news isn't "breaking" on TV, even if they do they refer to the online story. So that's where stories are corrected, because that's the official record.
I also lived in Japan in the mid 90's. I was a kid so of course my memory is probably pretty skewed and I have no idea about grownup things like ATMs, but I remember the tech being absolutely amazing. All the game consoles were Japanese (nintendo, sega, playstation) and often got releases first before the US. The arcades were incredible, I remember playing arcade versions of essentially DDR and guitar hero/rockband like 5 years before they caught on in the US. Cell phones also seemed to be a few years ahead of the US (back when flip phones were the rage and smaller was better). Complex vending machines were pretty common, e.g. making things like multi-step hot coffee drinks, I think it was probably a full 15 years later that I first saw one of these in the US.

It's fascinating and also kind of sad to me how much less relevant Japan today seems to be as far as consumer tech goes.

Looking back, I also think a big part of it was Tokyo as a city just being on a totally different scale than anything else I had experienced. In the 90's I don't think there was anywhere in the US remotely similar to a place like Shinjuku. Now days I think parts of midtown Manhattan or perhaps in other ways the Vegas strip might have a little bit of a similar energy, but I had never been to either of those as a child, and back then they were much different than they are today anyway.

The ease of getting around by fast, reliable trains (and especially bullet trains) also seemed super futuristic to me back then. Of course that part is still pretty far ahead of the US to this day.
I don't think it matters why; the fact is that it's a popular "functional" language that doesn't support (full) TCO.
To do data science there kinda is; it’s python, Julia, R, c++ or a bunch of not well supported languages

Nowadays I’m doing my ML in rust which has been pretty nice, but the borrow checker does bite you a bit and there’s not much of a community.

Julia seems really promising, the community just gets their head in the sand a bit
I don't think that's so convincing, actually. When I learned programming, Python was _just_ replacing Perl as the "common language" in bioinformatics. Until then, there were lots of people who claimed Perl would essentially never be dethroned because it had become the standard.

The issue is that while _some_ users only experience the surface level of packages like PyTorch, Numpy, SciPy, Pandas, and so on, people who actually have to develop these packages must work with the C++ and C underneath. To the developers, the problem of Python's performance is front and center, and a real issue they face every day.

So, the developer folks will make the switch first, as they realize it's much nicer to develop Julia packages in Julia than it is to develop Python packages in C. Over time, this will mean the development power switches to Julia - and as soon as these developers have build tools as good or better than existing tools, the majority of users will slowly migrate, too.
I know many people with cable, but only 1 with a rotary phone.