skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t be so naive. It took less than 3 years for dns blocking to go from csam to copyright infringement. It always was about building censorship infra. I’ve been fighting internet censorship for over a decade and it only gets worse and worse every generation of technology. I want to throw all this government spyware away. Dystopia landed a long time ago.
IME I think backhaul is just sending data to the main internet, not all backend. I thought it just meant it hauled the data back into the core network.
Seems they were influenced by YouTuber tech ingredients.

https://youtu.be/meB09jXHhRY
LeetCode Series: Rank Transform of a Matrix
An uncomfortably large percentage of our population doesn’t understand the theorem, no matter what it’s called. But sure, let’s quibble about the name.
> but it absolutely still produces lots of CO2. It is definitely not cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 95% or 99%! The important difference is that the carbon is not from fossil sources. This is vital! But CO2 is still being emitted!

Isn't the presumption here that otherwise the CO2 would have been emitted anyway when the waste decomposed in landfill? So using it as fuel doesn't emit additional CO2 beyond the energy used processing it.
Clojure and Scheme are very different languages in the Lisp family.

I see Kawa as an option if you need JVM, and you know you want Scheme.

From another direction: If the situation is that you have to be heavily integrated into a Java environment (at the library/linking level, not microservices, etc.), such as due to enterprise legacy systems, tech policy, or maybe an embedded system... but you'd get big wins by using a non-Java language with that... then I suppose your options might include Clojure, Scala, and maybe Kawa. (Maybe other options right now; one would have to look into it.)
I guess you're right. TBH I didn't expect that offering my point of view would unleash such storm of downvotes.

Clearly many people consider their phone not only a useful device, but a core part of their identity. To each his own.
The term "conspiracy theory" is used to blanket valid criticisms of government this way. While there are obviously absurd theories out there, they're used to muddy the waters. Several high profile conspiracy theories have been validated in congressional hearings etc.
6502 is just not that viable for C-like languages. Mostly because of its tiny hardcoded stack, so for C you need to either emulate the stack in software (slow) or figure out workarounds (mostly involving precious zero page.)
Coroutines are usually a language level construct (syntax sugar for a switch-case statemachine). Machine code doesn't have "coroutine support" either yet all languages with coroutine support run just fine on regular CPUs.
> Women and children were acting as suicide bombers and it was an unpopular war.

From my experience with the URSS Afgan war veterans, the problem is not when children and women are trying to hurt you. The post-war nightmares come from you deliberately hurting them in most unimaginable ways. Unimaginable even to the perpetrators after the war finishes.
This is so right. It used to be theoretically justified to charge a cost for editing, reviewing management, and printing costs of a paper journal but most paper journals have disappeared and the paper format is useless today. High tech has made these journal companies giant vampire squids poking their blood funnels into academia to suck the life out of mankind's progress!

But down the road I can see that academic research publication will become like Facebook - loaded with bullshit promoted by hypesters - wasting time and killing thousands - and no one to enforce sanity in that lunatic wilderness!

If the 19th century journals would get with a program they would become science repos with a much smaller stuff and light fees (enough to support one staff managing editor per journal) for the review process! Publishing a paper in this model should probably cost about $1000 - $2,000, about the same as it cost the last time I was in academia...
While I agree, this Planet Money episode from 2012 goes into the details of why.

The thing that jumps out to me as the dumbest is that it uses raw share price instead of market capitalization.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/02/07/146546183/why-...
I agree that in most cases it would be very difficult to do. But I can imagine some specific circumstances where it could be pulled off, possibly with some manual modifications: soft sciences like sociology (you can't imagine the amount of bs I've read during my college years), the subject matter being very different from the area your supervising prof specializes in, the topic that allows for arbitrary speculation, an underfunded university branch with profs having a more lax attitude.
That saying seems silly. Computers (i.e. Zoom) help with the problem of needing socially distanced education during Covid lockdowns.
> what stops this system from being abused for non child pornography purposes

You are changing the subject. That challenge has nothing at all to do with the OP’s false claims. They are still false.

Someone who can poison the database can indeed match non-child abuse images. The safeguard against that is that both Apple and NCMEC would need to conspire. This mechanism does not prevent such a conspiracy.

> Arguing that Apple's algorithms are fine misses the point.

Who is arguing that they are ‘fine’? I’m simply pointing out that they are not vulnerable in the way the poster claims them to be.

The images they have posted will not trigger the system.

If you want to debate the ethics of other aspects of what Apple is doing, there are plenty of threads elsewhere. This thread is about a false claim about a vulnerability in the system.

False claims about the vulnerabilities don’t help us to reason about what the risks actually are and detract from the moral or ethical debate.
Summary: an (islandic?) epidemiologist is disappointed that vaccines have not lead to herd immunity yet, argues that we should accept infections of the vaccinated in the hope of reaching herd immunity that way. Proposes to give booster shots to people who received the less effective Janssen (Johnson&Johnson) vaccine and to vaccinate children because no serious vaccine side effects are known for children while delta variant could be dangerous for them.

All in all it sounds more reasonable than the title initially suggested. I still wouldn't upvote it because of the misleading title.
It's not, but it can be risky for that business.

https://www.hbr.org/2020/01/why-stock-buybacks-are-dangerous...

Course, if financial incentives for the c-suite are tied to share price, that's just another example of choose the reward, choose the consequences.
Its cheap credit that drives up home prices. Historically low interest rates are driving historically high home values. We are currently in some kind of home price bubble which will change when interest rates change. Zillow and recent sales say the value of my home is up 20% in 9 months.

Last year a dozen donuts at the local family run shop was $9, this year it is $12. My daughter's specialist doctor raised the cost of an office visit by 30% this year. The cost of a burrito at my favorite spot is up 25% in two years. I could go on. I care about inflation, and it is real.
So the customer can’t just define a new domain and a new theme and start publishing content there?
It sounds like you subscribe to the increasingly popular framing of money creation, which is that the fed does not create money, the treasury does.

Much of my knowledge on the matter comes from fedguy.com.
If responsiveness has been a goal, you have made choices that position you at the "slow" end of the scale (Web-based GUI on the desktop as client tech, Python on the server, ...).

Right now, you can't trade equities, bonds, FX - and unless you can trade these core asset classes, your platform has to be classified "toy" - crypto-currencies just aren't that important, or not yet.

Personally, I tried out your platform because you said you have "trusted news"; but you don't cover agency news, only untrusted Web sites (probably via un-cached RSS-feeds, so quite slow) - no need to pull the graphical logos for each site, that's not what traders want I would argue.

Whatever you are building has to be better at something than the existing vendors (UI responsiveness, trading execution, price, feature richness, news sources, ...) to survive. Think hard about your USP!

It's hard to break into this (semi-oligopoly) space, as incumbents have spent decades innovating and/or acquiring and integrating data and functionality, but many would welcome a bit of fresh air.
The individual commits disappear if the branch or repo used in the pull request are deleted.
Uber, Lyft Prices at Records Even as Drivers Return
What index sizes are we talking about? If it's a few hundred gigs there's always the possibility of putting the entire ElasticSearch index into a ramdisk, or even just leaving lots of "free" RAM meaning the underlying OS will use it to speed up I/O transparently. Bare-metal machines with insane RAM sizes are a thing, and at massive scale could make sense.

I've had great success at a client where simply upgrading a DB to an instance with enough RAM to fit 80% of the entire data set fixed all performance problems and significantly reduced I/O "pressure" at least for reads (writes were never a problem).
I did though!! I ran migrations and makemigrations for both python AND heroku, then tried it with commit as well
So why can't peat deposits turn into coal under the right conditions? Those form all the time under certain conditions, but they can sequester a fair amount of biomass.
The chip vendors came around because the community was standing behind the ecosystem, not for any other reason. We've been through this before.
True. I missed that. The calculator at [1] gives totally different returns with dividends reinvested, though: 7.6%.

[1] https://dqydj.com/dow-jones-return-calculator/
Yes, this may be a specific example of a more widespread phenomenon. There's certain websites out there that republish articles from well-established publications (e.g., New York Times) almost word for word, except that they are rife with synonym swaps that may or may not make sense in context, presumably to escape some kind of automated copy detection. Results can be amusing. For example, the copied article said "“Drukqs” acquired a blended essential response..." where the original said "“Drukqs” received a mixed critical response...".
I am Ron Garret (f.k.a. Erann Gat), the author of the followup study mentioned in TFA. I am, frankly, amazed that this work is getting the amount of attention that it is over 20 years after it was published. I have a couple of comments about this latest critique.

> Given that the participants were recruited from internet groups, I doubt that the subjects were monitored in place, which makes me think that the Development time data collected should be taken with a giant grain of salt.

> Based on a small study like Garret’s, I find that the premise that Lisp is so great is unwarranted.

That's a fair criticism. In my defense I will say that I didn't actually claim that Lisp is great, only that it seems plausible that it might offer the development speed and runtime safety advantages of Java and the execution speed of C, and so it is worth paying some attention to it, and maybe doing further studies. I certainly believed (and continue to believe) that Lisp is great, but I certainly concede that my data didn't (and doesn't) prove it. Renato seems to agree:

> However, the data does suggest that Lisp is about as productive as the scripting languages of the day and has a speed comparable to C and C++, which is indeed a remarkable achievement.

FWIW, my study was a throwaway side-project conducted on the spur of the moment in my spare time. It was intended more to get people's attention and make the case that Lisp ought to be considered alongside Java as an alternative to C than to be a rigorous scientific case for Lisp's superiority over Java. At the time, Lisp was quite a bit more mature than Java, and indeed one could have argued (and indeed could argue today) that Java was an inferior re-invention of many of the ideas that Lisp had pioneered, with automatic memory management being at the top of that list. I was frustrated that Java was getting all the attention because it was the shiny new thing and Lisp was being ignored because at the time Java actually sucked pretty badly. (IMHO it sucks pretty badly today too, but that is now a much harder case to make.)

In any case, what astonishes me most is that AFAICT no one has ever done a follow-up to either of these studies that was better designed and used more rigorous methods. Instead, people just seem to keep citing these papers again and again as if squeezing these turnips harder might yield something worthwhile now that could not be extracted from them when they were first published.

This is a very fertile field for further research. Someone should cultivate it.
I'm stunned why this comment is downvoted. It's exactly what's happening in US relationship with China.
I know this is never going to happen: Introduce wealth taxes on bank deposits and land ownership. It would help every nation on earth to achieve prosperity. If for some strange political reason you cannot do that, then issue perpetual government bonds because that is the only thing left to do.

By the way. QE has literally no impact on an economy by definition. It's entirely psychological. I don't know why central banks keep doing it. There isn't any private demand left over for credit at current interest rates. Central bank reserves are counted as part of the money supply but their velocity is 0 for practical purposes. You can't withdraw them and you can't use them to purchase goods. The only thing they do is let banks lend out more money which counts for nothing if interest rates are too high.

>This is what happens when a central bank keeps on preventing moderate recessions necessary for correcting a nation’s economic failures.

No such thing is necessary (enduring recessions for no reason). Also, USA is suffering from having the worlds reserve currency and Europe is suffering from having an incomplete euro.
Best computer ever.
Would it not be adequate to supply a minimal implementation of canvas and develop with a UI framework that draws to canvas?

Or perhaps something like React Native, with WASM standing in for the JS runtime?
Assume you've decided to do larger scale layoffs. What would you prefer the announcement to look like?
It’s not really specific to Tokyo or even Japan but true for most major Asian cities that 7-11 convenience stores actually have decent food (hot, savoury, decent tasting).

Taking a step back the reason in my opinion is that the standards for hot, good tasting foods is in general higher in Asian cultures compared to many other western countries. Munching on a cold sandwich just isn’t traditionally seen as a proper meal in Asia.
I think he is saying although you already stopped, the book might still be valuable.
Landfilling organic waste leads to methane forming during decomposition, which is a substantially more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
You're reading the pure-python version of operator.py. You get the builtin versions of the same functions - not the python functions when you use it - see the import of _operator further down the file.

Also verify the type info on the object here:

In [1]: import operator
In [5]: operator.add??
Signature: operator.add(a, b, /)
Docstring: Same as a + b.
Type: builtin_function_or_method
Meh. Close to a century ago Germany and later the Soviets and DDR had a similar mindset.
This is a category error. The article is only about the subset of low quality papers generated by automatic translation.
IIRC V8 generates bytecode from the AST and compiles that bytecode
Can Culture Degenerate?
Esperanto probably inspired Orwell on this

Nope. Simple English did.

During WWII, Orwell had a job with the British Ministry of Information.
Part of his job was translating news broadcasts into Basic English, an 850-word vocabulary, for broadcast to the British colonies. (India, Hong Kong, etc.) He discovered that translating speeches into Basic English was a political act. All the ambiguity had to be hammered out. Basic English cannot express much ambiguity.

That's the genesis of Newspeak.[1]

Orwell himself wrote "Politics and the English Language."[2] He gives rules for writing. They are brutal.

- (i) Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

- (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.

- (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

- (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

- (v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

- (vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything barbarous.

Orwell's entire essay is worth reading, both as a style guide, and to help recognize when political writing is pulling your chain.

Minor parts of 1984 are autobiographical, based on that period. "Minitrue" is obviously the Ministry of Information. "Big Brother" is modeled after some manager known there as "BB". The rather depressing canteen scene is reportedly from the Ministry of Information's employee cafeteria.

(From "Orwell, the Lost Writings", which can be obtained from Amazon.)

[1] https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/engl-246-fall2011/2011/...

[2] https://www.public-library.uk/ebooks/72/30.pdf
check out the Russell 3000 Index - that might be better
I give 40% raises for this reason. So stupid to let your best people walk out the door. Just shower them with cash!
Whether users care or not is a straw man.

React running in a headless instance of chrome is a webapp, plain and simple.
BioNTech Plans to Address Infectious Diseases on the African Continent
Yeah, I installed tor-browser later and checked the link
More potent but shorter lasting, by a lot. Once CO2 is in the atmosphere you are stuck with it for centuries.
Do you find it ironic? That's pretty much the only thing that matters because irony is colloquial. Every textbook definition of "irony" that I can find includes a human observer in judgement of the situation - the universe has no intrinsic concept of irony, only humans with expectations and a sense of humor do.
NASA solved a $100M vibration problem cheaply by strobing the display
Watch the Burn: EIP-1559 Real-Time Visualization
Is there any Excel like tool for bigdata?
I tried to search such tool but what I found was most data analytics tools.
The Speyside malts are pretty underrated in my opinion. Equally, Bells and Famous Grouse, _are_ the purest expression of what Scotch is, and in fact not that easy to get hold of outside of Scotland as we scots might presume.
The world--and especially the tech world--is such now, that I never know if a word is misspelled or if the spelling is intentional and has a meaning I have not yet learned. Or learnd.
There’s a meme about the United States that though we are often portrayed as fat and stupid, we do seem to win a large number of international science and sports prizes in absolute terms. This table is a good reminder that a lot of the US’ strength comes from its large population and its relative performance is not as impressive as Netherlands or Canada on many measures.
Snaprecovery: Recover old Snaps that have “disappeared” from Snapchat
We are already building US equities support and scheduled to be released in Q1 2022. Yes the current news feed is not suitable for professional traders. As soon we get to offer US equities, we have plans to provide agency news.

I am very curious to know as you tried the app, how do you see it as slow.
Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance
I honestly think reduce is way more confusing to read than comprehensions or even just a plain for loop, even as someone who has done a lot of functional programming.
Build Simple Image to Text App Using EasyOCR and Streamlit
A few pieces of feedback, just to add some context to my statements, I day trade stocks. I also trade crypto using quantower.

1. The features have silly drawing images that mean nothing. You write a bunch of stuff and don't even showcase the actual product with screenshots. You do in the help/documentation area, carry that over to the features page.

2. The video doesn't work.

3. None of the important information I look for in a application is there, take https://www.quantower.com for example, a competitor. Their website is full of screenshots of the actual application and details I need. For example it is not obvious if that is a list of all supported brokers or some? How fast is the order execution, is it instant is there a delay? Where does the data come from, the broker, a separate data feed like DX Feed? Do you support multiple connections (can I connect to coinbase and binance, etc)?

But my biggest complaint is the application seems extremely simple, what benefit does using this over the other 50 different crypto desktop trading applications? Why would I pay you $39 over Quantower which has WAY more features and is free? Or Altrady which is $17? Or Coinigy which is free? Or TradingView? Or Medved Trader? Or or etc et etc?

I am all for new applications to enter the trading space, but I personally would never even look twice at your application, or download a demo, and I am your target market.
How do transistors work? Like a flush toilet
I tried that but it wouldn’t load for me
Yep, you're missing this part:

> However, through anaerobic digestion – where bacteria break down organic matter, producing biogas – the distillery can also use the liquid waste from the process to make fuel and eventually recycle all of its waste products this way.

Basically, they have solid waste which was and is going to be used for cattle feed, and they have liquid waste which they're now converting to bio-gas by feeding it to bacteria.
If I understand correctly, the consequence is that, Electron being a wrapper around a fully capable browser engine, Electron users are free to use WASM modules so long as they expose a JS interface to interact with Electron's API where neccessary but until WASM gets DOM bindings I presume that Electron itself won't use WASM to implement internal behavior.
An interesting question! Here is my impression after reading this article on irony:

It is ironic to write an article with the aim of preserving the meaningfulness of the term nihilism.

It is not ironic to embed a link to that article within an article about irony.
1.8 children per Muslim and 1.53 per Christian, wow that is extremely low by almost any standard, especially for the middle east
A side effect of 1929 was the popularity of the Nazis. They went from low single digit support to 35-43 range levels of support in two years, in part due to the huge unemployment and disaffection.

The ripple effects of seemingly disconnected events thoughout history never cease to amaze me. It makes me more aware how damaging seemingly once-off things can be (act of terrorism, discriminatory or unfair policies, economic hardship) due to the spiralling effect that can happen.
`methodcaller` (https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/6a6bcf16370beff2e0d1a...) is just syntax sugar around `getattr` + a function call which is just syntax sugar + default implementation of `__getattr__` which is basically exactly what it looks like your lua example is (I'm not that familiar with lua).

Actually, I didn't even know about `methodcaller` till I read this blogpost, so I would have implemented your example in python as: `getattr(table, string)(...)`.
> Edit: keep bringing those freethinker(tm) downvotes

Sauce. Goose.

Edit: Maybe you should start your own tech news site. Or if that's too hard, why don't you apply to work at YC and work your way up to a position where you control the moderation for this site?

Once again: Sauce. Goose.