skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's from the unpublished preface to Animal Farm (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/06/hear-liberty/), in which Orwell warned his British readers not to be too pleased with his satire of the Soviets: https://orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/english/efp_go.

It was omitted from the novel under ironic circumstances (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Preface - "For reasons unknown, no preface was supplied, and the page numbers had to be renumbered at the last minute") and only rediscovered in 1971.

It is Chomsky's favorite Orwell piece, one he mentions all the time (e.g. https://chomsky.info/20101010_2/) and has probably done the most to popularize. https://www.google.com/search?q=chomsky+animal+farm+preface
The leak of of the "China" virus from the Wuhan lab was an outright lie just one year ago. Today it is a viable theory investigated under orders of the sitting president.

Characterstically, Facebook and other media companies didn't suffer any consequences for suppressing public discussion on this matter.

(I don't hold any view about this theory. Comment is about absurdity of the idea of claiming that something is an outright lie, and also about hypocrisy of a so-called "fact-checkers")
Article only looks at warming but plants are changing in response to eC02 especially via falling lignin (high lignin reduces flammability), Ziska is a good place to start: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.... There's surprisingly little research on eCO2 cell-level changes in plants, once CO2 went above 300ppm it ceased to be beneficial to humans.
Depends on the crime, I guess. If you face execution for murder or treason because of the data on your hard drive, life in prison is an upgrade.
What freaks me out about forensics is no one at all is doing any validation testing. And they aren't doing blind testing either.
This could result in serious personal harm if the individual(s) causing the duress sense something is up, which they almost certainly will if things start magically disappearing or locking up. You better make sure that whatever you are protecting with this is more important than your personal safety.
Ask HN: Alternative ways to monetize a Hardware startup?
HW startups can be expensive to run. I wonder if anyone has experience monetizing their hw product in a nin conventional way. Things like: consulting, selling courses etc. based on the gained knowledge. Any thoughts?
Not only that, but in SoCal, it seems there are a dearth of landscapers who are familiar with and can obtain native plants.
I hadn't thought about the infinities part. If they had the same behavior in all operations involving other numbers, then I could see how they could nonetheless be the same from a C++ type perspective, but given they behave differently, C++ certainly couldn't consider them the same.

Thanks for clearing that up!
> it prevents any form of caching. caching is very important for many use cases

> it requires to open a fresh connection with every request, to the database and elsewhere (too bad if you thought you could use redis for caching).

nutcracker, twemproxy?
Import on Trillium was a little bit of trouble for me. I had to tweak some code, possibly because of the size of my import, and utf8 stuff got mangled. But it is interesting, especially the customization model.

I'm currently on Obsidian, which has a nice plugin model and you can just manipulate the files on disk if you want to. I also like that it does MathJaX and mermaid. I went from Notion to Craft but had to bail on Craft (nice community) because it didn't handle math or code well.
It would need to be baked into the OS. With FaceID, I guess I could use eyes crossed, as a queue.
I have recently started using logseq: https://logseq.com/blog/about

I have to say I am really loving it so far. All based on Markdown or org mode format. I have a folder stored on OneDrive and it is synced across all my devices.
Ask HN: Is it worth owning a smart watch
Hello HN,

People who own smart watches is it worth it and has it improved your productivity in general.

I’m planning onto buying an apple watch probably going for SE since its cheaper and affordable.

The biggest reason I want an Apple Watch is to stay away from my phone but remain connected so I don’t miss important calls/texts
Painfully, yes, being pro-Nazi in the run up to WW2 was entirely legal:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/20/695941323...

As much as I deplore their views I don’t think they should be legally barred from expressing them. Of course MSG has every right to decline hosting the above event, but the government shouldn’t be the arbiter of who can say what when in public.
As Covid hospitalizations inc, a grter no. of Americans are deciding to get vacc
I'm more interested that the walk was before the test. I thought the point was to think while you're walking.
I think his satire is excellent. Look at how these silly licenses are simultaneously taken very serious and frankly not taken seriously at all. I think he has proven something really quite interesting, and in a pretty amusing way.
You may want to have a look at https://fairpixels.pro
Its also generally how php is deployed when not using apache, so it clearly does scale.
Masks aren't very useful at stopping viral spread and have traditionally been limited to mitigating bacterial shedding in environments where that was key, such as surgery.

Since time immemorial, a fundamental right has been warding off invaders of varying forms, armed or not. Exclusion of uninvited parties from a piece of land is one of the oldest things in Western civ.
There is something about sleep deprivation that makes me so vividly visually creative, things and image flow in my mind like they otherwise never do. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to trigger this any other way, so my only real creative moments tend to happen in the middle of the night where they aren't much use to anyone.
We took in an older dog who had worked for 10 years at a hunting lodge. He’s incredibly well trained, doesn’t need a leash, doesn’t go wild or bark his head off under any provocation, and is happy going for long walks at a slow pace with random pauses.

I’ve lost track number and quality of excellent solutions I have come up with on these walks, including three provisional patents filed and a major contract saved. He’s earned increasingly indulgent treats.

Who rescued who?
Crazy how the sum of an entire nation can be just boiled down to GDP growth. It seems pretty obvious Japan works better than Nigeria or China, GDP growth rates notwithstanding. You could pick any group and make insipid critiques about their culture.
hacker news only cares about free speech when it can be used to dunk on "the left"
EMP would destroy the surveillance infrastructure. Faraday cage only shields your own electronics.

There are RF-shielded bags, wallets, and purses.

https://privacypros.io/faraday-bags/
In less than 2 decades regulations supported by car makers, insurance corporations and the government themselves will outlaw cars not fitted with such systems.
While you're at it, bring Unix into the 21st century, in which we use Unicode (UTF-8 encoding). The number of Unix utilities that badly support Unicode is, well, painful to those of us who deal with non-ASCII data all the time.
FWIW, the main Wikipedia page on Stockholm lists a “Density” of ~5200, an “Urban Density” of ~4200 and a “Metro Density” of ~400. I admittedly don’t know which is the most useful one here. Population density metrics are tricky.

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

And not to be too scold-y, but 400 people per sq km is the population density of small middle-American towns. I know Stockholm isn’t the biggest city by any means, but it’s still a national capital and a cosmopolitan old-world city; a moment of reflection tells you it’s gotta be denser than, like, Little Falls, Minnesota.
CGI is an interface for web servers to communicate with an application.

Web frameworks are libraries/helpers on the application side to help with business logic for serving requests.

You can use CGI with web frameworks (look at the ton of useful PHP/Perl/Ruby frameworks out there).

You can also build a fully competent website without CGI OR web frameworks. Modern languages now all have built-in web servers which perform a lot better so Apache/nginx etc. need to function at most as reverse proxies.

In fact even if teaching is the goal I'd argue that Apache/CGI introduce more opaque abstractions, not less. You can create a web server and request loop in any language of choice in like 10 lines and take it from there.
How is what Waymo offering anything like a souped up cruise control?

Sure it's EXTREMELY limited but that doesn't seem like an accurate description since they trust it enough to be liable for it to drive by itself or stop safely when it can't. Given the number of their cars going around SF lately I think they'll expand some soon too.
Man immigrants risk their lives on rafts and die by the thousands every year, just to have hope. Not a good life, just hope. They would be willing to work their ass of for a house and a farm.
So, genuinely curious, how can it happen that a system that's been developed over 12 years, can not deal with a common road obstruction? If something truly rare/dangerous happens I can imagine it not being able to deal. But it seems this sort of situation is not only easy to deal with, it's actually easy to predict.

Maybe not something you could predict in a product with just a couple years of time, with just a couple employees, but we're talking over a decade, and thousands of employees. Oh and in Phoenix Arizona, one of those ultra uniform grid cities the US is famous for.

What's stopping them from having their AI operate in simulations in literally every possible traffic situation? Every location a pot hole can be in, every type of traffic cone arrangement, every kind of jaywalking, every kind of vehicle approaching any kind of street from any kind of location, possible speed, reaction time, everything? How could a government approve any autonomous agent that is not tested in such a way?

My world view gets rocked a little everytime I see a headline like this. I want to believe these companies are ran by the smartest engineers on the planet, but then I read about a Tesla running into an emergency services vehicle, or a Waymo being confused about traffic cones and I can't help but wonder what the heck are they doing?
The US (supposedly?) blocked ASML from exporting its machines to China. ASML is a Dutch company.
> This is transparent to the person coersing the password from the user as the duress password will grant authentication and drop to the user's shell.

I would assume the user shouldn't understand that he was given a duress password, so is transparent the right term here?
When the very mainstream news media is under the same financial umbrella of all the defense contractors, is it no surprise we see the "undesirable political opposition, LGBTQ+ activism, women's rights activism, and historical events like the massacre of protestors" covered up or not even reported on to begin with?
I don’t know, i mean in theory i love that view. Also, if someone says something wrong, instead of silencing them, how about we just use evidence to show why they’re wrong?

But then on the other hand you have, to give a random example, someone like Andrew Wakefield - he might be bat shit crazy but he is smart enough and functional enough to gain a medical degree and become a qualified doctor, a seemingly well respected one until he went off the rails and committed fraud in his research in order to claim an autism link to mmr vaccines.

To me it seems he’s not stupid, he’s not crazy. He’s passed the same qualifications as his peers, but he is a fraud.

A fraud that has caused who knows how many child deaths, albeit indirectly.
Maybe depends on the case.

If you need to track down bugs whose „lead time“ are not in seconds/minutes but hours, you‘ll need a debugger. E.g. a bug only happens after some previous long-running task is run.
And now lags behind in C++20 support, as apparently not everyone is keen to upstream whatever they are doing.

Clang concepts were implemented by one guy.

https://cppcast.com/saar-raz-clang-hacking/
Is it just me or there are A LOT of articles about how Sweden is better in doing X coming from the US and the UK recently?
What's going on here?
Frankly it seems a bit of nationalist content marketing after the 10th article I read in 3 years.
Most of the times the articles claim Sweden is doing
better X but that X could easily be applied to several other countries in Europe.
"Sweden offers free health care and education"... yeah A LOT of countries in Europe do that.
For this article too it seems the overall achievement of Sweden are shared by many other countries by somehow Sweden is being singled out.

I even googled it and found this:
https://si.se/en/annual-report-of-the-image-of-sweden-abroad...
Is there a cultural infatuation between the US/UK and Sweden? Is Sweden activally investing resources to improve their perceived image?
To anyone else confused as I was, "this project from MS does basically the same thing" is referring to monkeypatching a running executable, not having a license that forbids use of the software.
For these there's good old "perl -T" :)
That will not handle -0.0 unfortunately since 0 == -0.
The easiest way to set up such a tax is figure out how much it costs to build a building. Let's say in SF currently there is a house that sells at $1M dollars. But that house didn't cost $1M to build, it might have cost $200k in materials and labor. Once you have that number, you just keep raising the tax on that building until the new market cost is equivalent, or $200k. You now have a Land Value Tax. If the owner of the building then puts in a $200k addition, you adjust that number for $400k. If next year a technology is created such that you can make that same house for $150k, the replacement costs change and that might mean a tax raise.

If a train station is built next door, the demand would go up, which would cause taxes to go up. If nearby a bunch of housing was built, this would cause supply to raise and thus move the supply and demand curve which would cause the price to drop, and therefore taxes would lower.

What's the best thing to do with this tax money? Give it back equally to all as a dividend(similar to [0])! Thus the people who use less than the average amount of housing would actually receive money when this goes into effect.

We need to systematically identify all externalities, and tax according to the externality, and just give the money back to the population. This fixes the incentives. Figuring out where that money is going to go, fighting between political parties as to which company is going to benefit, the corrupting effect of centralization of decision making. Just give it back. Tax externalities and return as a dividend.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
dribbble.com?
Just like Java, VB and C# are getting theirs.
I'm not confused.

Also, I object to your 'sophomoric' view that racism is 'well defined' by the fact that 1.1% of the African American population is in prison etc..

The more likely reason is that African Americans commit significantly more crime, which is consistently validated by the somewhat more objective victimization surveys which correlate quite well with rates of incarceration.

We can then get into structural arguments about inequity which 'cause' said crime, but those points also have to stand up against the fact that other marginalized people (i.e. non African American PoC) are considerably less likely to commit crime, and that although poverty does correlate with crime, it's only a soft correlation, whereas the African American composition of a neighbourhood, unfortunately, has almost an absolute correlation with high crime.

That said, racism does exist, but the 'pathetic whinging' of those who somehow think that the term 'Master' really has anything to do with it, is ironically killing real hope for progress by discrediting their own Social Justice movements as virtue signalling pedantry.

How about we let Barack Obama, first African American President define what is 'racist'. We'll see some reforms in the Justice System - some of it more controversial than others, but we definitely won't be worried about the term 'Master Bedroom' or 'Master Branch', thankfully.
Apple and Google: “Our vision is that we work as if we are one company”
How can you hear them over the noise? Modern communications technology has given everyone who wants one a megaphone. I'm not sure the old calculus really applies exactly to the present circumstance.
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Trump's Border Wall Torn Apart by Arizona Monsoon Rains
> we must have some distinguishing fundamental characteristic

I think our court system does a good job of defining this already. Our court system is extremely conservative regarding the types of speech that it allows the government to punish people for.

If you disagree, you are going to have to repeal the 1st amendment, I guess.
If you're held under gunpoint, that script that wipes your entire hard drive will only make your day worse.

AFAIK if you actually get detained and questioned at airports, your drive will already get imaged before any password is even tried. You may be able to get away with this on a mobile device where this feature isn't generally expected (because who uses Linux on a smartphone in the first place).

I always wonder at what scenarios like these are supposed to be about. If saying no is not an option, pissing off your captors by giving them fake info probably isn't either.

I don't know what law enforcement would be looking for on my work drive, but if saying no is no longer an option, my encryption password isn't worth getting shot over.
And it is our job as human beings to ascertain which justifications are valid and which aren't.

You can't run away from object-level moral arguments. You just can't.

I am very much a moral realist. There are correct and incorrect moral stances.
You could deliver that in a more traditional UX, but that typically means you need to deal with calendar controls etc. For mobile users, maybe they should add those same quick links to the standard site and see how users react - I bet they'd be well received.
I am really enjoy Noteplan for macOS and iOS. Works really well and it comes with Setapp :)
How ASML Builds a $150 Million EUV Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJIO7aRXUCg
I think its just that everyone on hacker news likes to pretend they have to scale to the size of google even though most people aren't even in the same ballpark.
Training is very important in duress systems.

I once worked in a place with a keypad duress code on the security system. If you prefixed your security PIN with NN-, it was the duress version of the code and would trigger a silent alarm.

This was setup long-ago, and not communicated. One night, the keypad was acting glitchy. Partially out of frustration (countdown is running), and partially to test, I ended up accidentally engaging the duress code by tapping a convenient corner number, which resulted in NNNNNNNNN-PIN.

After law enforcement had surrounded the building, a quick chat and search alongside a few officers got it all sorted.
That’s not the same claim. The practitioners who come up with the results are not operating in a scientifically sound or rigorous way. One documentary I watched about a wrongful murder conviction (a man was found to have burned down his house to kill his entire family) had a discussion of how the fire investigators would talk about “feeling the beast” and other nonsense. It is very flattering to describe this as in any way “evidence-based.”
> Sorry for the rant

don't be sorry, it makes me sad that we don't see more rants like that ;)

Also, The Gov. don't need warrants for stuff stored in the cloud if it is 6 months or older. They just have so many ways to get all of your data.
The article's (dubious, as mentioned at the end) goal is finding the most efficient way in CPU time.
A valid license does nothing to prevent supply chain attacks.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Often the core of comedy is pain. Knowing this puts the GP's joke in a darker, more grounded context.
Two thousand Covid-19 deaths per day predicted by October 2021
Who’s we? Not everyone is writing services to scale to a billion users.
I think they would be more likely to notice that you did not put up enough fight. Most people are not great actors.

Also, if you're being physically compelled to provide a passwords it seems your personal safety is already compromised.
Naively, max(a, b) would be implemented as

return a >= b ? a : b;

But if x is -0.0, you're back to the same problem that -0.0 >= +0.0 actually turns out to be true and not false, hence the return value will be -0.0.

Looking at the actual implementation[0], doubleToRawLongBits is used again here to take care of this edge case. So it would work, but a lot slower than the version given in the article.

0: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/36e2ddad4d2ef3ce27475af6...
This isn't what my comment is arguing. This is about the outbreak phase when we don't know much. I appreciate some of the points you're making but it's also not a binary choice.

As we acquire more information, policy should evolve with it. Limits on individual freedoms are blunt policy tools that should be used only when necessary, because they aren't zero cost.

I don't think we should have forever lockdowns at all. I'm in the camp of "get vaccinated and move on with your life" and that we should be more upfront about how covid-19 isn't going to be eradicated anytime soon.
Your claim that people have become intolerant of free speech is unclear. For example, speech which generates "vicious attacks" in response is still free speech. The responses are also free speech.

True threats should be reported to the police. That's not intolerance, that's just plain illegal. On the other hand if by "real threats" you mean hyperbolic threats, those are also free speech.

Free speech is not a guarantee that others must listen, or that they must listen patiently. That is not now, nor has it ever been, the definition of free speech.
That doesn't matter because Math.max() knows the difference between +0.0 and -0.0.

Try it and you'll see.
What do you mean by forced auto-spelling? You can turn that on and off in the Edit menu just like in any other macos text field.
I always go through "Vim cheatsheets" whenever they pop up because I almost always find something new. This time, it was using `*` to automatically search for the word under the cursor. That is definitely going into the daily toolbelt.

`:r` seems like one of those neat things that I never need to use enough to remember.
> Those same elderly Japanese people now form the inaka's governments.

Not impossible, but quite unlikely.
I’m making a normative claim. Obviously it does not describe reality.
"No way to go back" is surrender.

Legislation, regulation, and litigation seem the most viable paths forward.

Civil disobediance, hacking, and sabotage might also play a role.

I'm leaning increasingly toward a scorched-earth approach.
Why would this be an issue? I'm under the impression that this is fine if we're operating with the standard addition operator and the standard field that everyone is used to working under. Isn't that the definition of the inverse? I understand that in different fields you have different operators but is that relevant here?
Reverse engineering Neewer light panel's remote control
This is way too defensive.

Why can't it just be news that a woman barely got her baby out of 'the car that will save driving (as we crash into mass extinction)'?
The UK made incoming people isolate in March....2021
They didn't scrap it though?
I use CGI all the time. But I’m not trying to serve 2000 users a minute.