skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do suppose it really should say, "good, well-designed bike lanes" but as it goes, I'm just now realizing it and it is way too late to change.

The bike infrastructure I've seen in the US has been low or lacking entirely, but I really am never sure how representative it was: I lived in Indiana in small to medium sized cities. In the smaller ones, it really wasn't unsafe to just ride on the road anyway and bike lanes weren't so necessary. At least one city had a walkway/bikeway where railroad tracks used to be and lanes around the river, which made biking decently convenient.
Yeah, Pakistan is definitely safer than living in the US (/s). Something tells me the numbers in that table are self reported.
Think how this would play with, say, a BOM going into a medical device. Not only on regulatory grounds, but in terms of specific performance.
I hope Open Shell will work on Win11 too.
> It is not as if a 4-core machine can do 4 times the DB work if you only allow it.

If Thread#1 goes "lock. write. unlock", then that means Thread#2, #3, and #4 all have to wait until Thread#1 is done with the write.

Even if Thread#2/#3/#4 have the data in their CPU-cache, they have to wait for Thread#1 to be complete.

--------

If Thread#1 is writing to a __hard drive__, that means Thread#2, #3, and #4 are waiting on a hard drive read, when they could have instead been reading from L3 cache.

SQLite's model scales extremely poorly in practice. You run into all sorts of problems like this.
Kudos to the authors for linking to the NHTSA source materials. The executive summary and the initial sections are way less click-baity than the article, and yet more interesting. Figure 6 and the table above seems to indicate that the fatality gap has significantly shrunk over time due to air bags and seatbealts. And the data on xvii seems to say that "Curtain+torso" airbags might almost eliminate the gap (but the error bars are huge).
Well I would also be apprehensive about swimming in a river described as "swimmable on many days".
Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia [2017]
Thank you for all the info you shared in this thread, it is interesting.
Formally, the Disability Evaluation System. In my case, it was immediately obvious that this guy was falling apart. In about one month things went from fine, to amazingly bad. Everyone saw it, even the people that didn't want to had to admit something was up.
The available public instances [1] seem to take 5-6 seconds for search results page.

Is this to be expected with self-hosted too?

[1] https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances
I don't want to be lied to in any form by my government. I believe they can always govern by telling the truth, and if they did so they would find themselves commanding more respect from the people.

I suggest, if you are unfamiliar with his work, that you read up on Kant's categorical imperative, in particular his absolute prohibition against lying. He argues that lying, even noble lying, is bad because it dehumanises the ones being lied to. If we stop treating each other as humans with rights, needs and desires, we will find ourselves in a very bad place - history has shown us that.
I mean, we DID get Harvey.

My lay take here is that the flow of the Gulf Stream tends to bend the storms to the east as they approach the coast, so you get these curveball tracks that, unfortunately, disproportionately seem to smack Louisiana and Mississippi.

Harvey came ashore further south, and so the eastward movement caught us (though that's a gross oversimplification of Harvey's actual mechanics).
Ask HN: Looking for crypto researchers/firms for a security audit
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It was Columbus Ohio for an entire house (that allowed dogs), for a couple of weeks.
Sorry, I misunderstood your point.

Yes, Normandy was a horrific grind and taking the region was a massive and bloody undertaking. The beaches were a precursor to massive loss of life.
There must be something else going wrong with your MBP. You might want to wipe it and reset things up.

I’m running a 2014 MBP with Big Sur and it is no slower than on Catalina.
Short term housing is more ethical for temporary renters, because long term housing forms the foundation of a community by allowing more people to have access to stable shelters, neighbors, and everything else the author alluded to.
This is China, deep contacts with the CCP are expected. You can be sure that neither Musk nor Tesla has full control of the factory.
Not sure about "VI - Thou Shalt Try Doing Most Things Inside Thy Head". It justifies with something I hear often: "Because over-relying on tools and technologies can have some nasty side effects — and those include mathematical atrophy and higher math illiteracy.", but I think that's just mathematical snobbery. I think this attitude of tool allergy hurts mathematics, and scares people away from the field. Tools like SymPy make mathematics more enjoyable, at least for me, because it helps you tackle harder, more interesting problems, instead of only the toy problems its possible to solve by hand.
> There is a persistent myth that floating point is non-deterministic and therefore cannot be used for "lockstep" multiplayer games.

Indeed, on all systems I've used, FP is deterministic in the strict sense that running the same code twice on the same platform (with identical HW and SW stack) will produce the same results.

But the results may change depending on:
- programming language
- libraries used and their versions
- underlying silicon
- whether SIMD is used
- FPU flags
- compiler flags (example: ffast-math affects many things behind the scenes, as does /fp:fast, including things that dramatically affect accuracy like the use of approximate reciprocal instructions)
- bugs affecting all of the above

At scale, this matrix becomes difficult to track and control. So it shouldn't be a surprise that reproducibility is an issue, and this myth persists.
It's pretty well known [0] [1] but there's a reason your local administrator/politician won't talk about it [2]

[0] https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/11/alleged-chinese...

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/19/universities-confucius-...

[2] https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2df...
Nobody's being coerced to do anything. They have the completely free choice to take the shot, or not. Either way, they must accept the consequences of their choice. This is not coercion; nobody's holding any guns to anyone's heads or holding people down and forcing the shot on them. What's being dialed up is the severity of consequences of not taking the shot.
I'd also consider the need for a possible third dimensions, which would be the quality/usability. I do not subscribe to the "pay with sweat". If that would be the case, one could arguably say that you pay for the proprietary alternatives with anti-patterns, forced reboots and update interruptions, and a lot of effort to try and make the operating system not work against you or spy on you.

Of course subjective, but I'd for example place Linux in free, open, and high quality. Similar with blender. Windows would be paid/proprietary but not that good. Etc
Bump the contrast and saturation and you'll be pretty close I reckon.
I contend that it's foolish to expect countries to not act in their own best interest. When you cut them off of technology because you're scared that they can reproduce it, you shouldn't be surprised that they actively go around your restrictions. It's the only sane move, the move that our own country took in their situation, and one aspect that led to our own economic greatness.
My father died recently in his early 80s, and I took possession of his iPhone and audited its contents. He had several active subscriptions to official-sounding apps like “Find my iPhone Pro+”, some of which charged $200+ a year. I think this is where some of those numbers come from.

There is a whole industry of knockoff apps designed to deceive the tech-illiterate, and Apple seems like they don’t give a shit - even when these apps seem to be violating Apple’s trademarks - perhaps because at the end of the day they take home 30% of that.

Aside, as long as these apps continue to operate on the app store and grift seniors, I will never buy Apple’s “this walled garden is to protect users” argument.
Linux 5.14 set to boost future enterprise application security
I agree with you both very strongly. :) I think the SoC vendors have been one of the primary obstructions in ARM availability. But I also think ARM has failed to take responsibility for ecosystem success, has let their market position rot into place.
Right, and this is the thing I find frustrating about conversations like this. Could China completely destroy Taiwan without the US or anyone else being able to do anything about it? Sure, of course. But the odds of that being their goal, or even a backed-into-the-corner endgame are so low it's not even worth considering.

China wants to govern Taiwan and its people. They certainly want to directly own Taiwan's economy. They can't do any of that if they burn it to the ground. And if they did commit an atrocity like that, they'd be signing their own death warrants on the global political stage.

While I do believe China could successfully invade and occupy Taiwan, it would be incredibly bloody and costly to do so, and I don't think they're quite to the point where they want to take that leap.
>if rampant real estate inflation averages 7.5% for the next fifty years, it will send the average house price over $10 million

Big if!
Looks like you can still buy it on Newton: https://www.newton.co/coin/buy-tether
These days it's a round plastic handle with a carved rubber bottom that pairs with a spongy red-ink filled bottom. There's a picture and an explanation at [1]. It basically functions the same way as the signature of an authorized representative of the company does in the West.

Presumably it comes out of personal seals which are a fun item to get if you're in China. I never interacted with someone who used them, but it's cool. See pictures at [2] and history at [3].

"Chop" is also frequently used instead of "seal". I assume its not onomatopoedic, but that is a fair description of the "thunk" sound produced to when the seal is quickly pounded against the document on the table.

[1] https://www.china-briefing.com/news/company-chops-in-china/

[2] https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/culture/chinese-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(East_Asia)
Maybe they need better founders.
You haven't pointed to any meta-analysis so it's a rather moot point.

If you want to play the FUD game, I'll again remind you that the sole citation you've provided is to a non-peer reviewed review in a personal newsletter.

You still haven't explained how you can interpret a paper with statement like:

> The package of measures contained in the red policy well responds to the need of quickly reducing the speed of transmission of COVID-19 and consequent hospitalizations"

as having "no clear data that showed that the red zones in Italy were effective".

Based on this exchange so far, I have precisely zero faith that you can wade through the misinformation on ivermectin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation#Iverme... - or understand the relevant research literature - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_drug_repurposing_rese... .

To quote you - "everybody on the internet is an expert and reads one study, selectively quotes something without even understanding full implications and thinks that they have proven everything. No, that's not a game I am playing here."
I think the article's thesis is a false and misleading dichotomy.

It's absolutely true that a low friction developer experience is necessary for a database product to be successful. But this in no way implies that database internals are being commoditized or relegated to minor importance.

Snowflake is a particularly bad example as taking a clean sheet and novel approach to internals is the very fulcrum that creates the easy developer experience.

Admittedly it's been a while since I looked at vitess, but my recollection is that it's cross shard functionality is so limited as to make claiming internals no longer matter a bit dubious.

The reason there's only a handful of spanner style systems is exactly because the internals both matter and are quite daunting to get right.
FWIW, I've been an investor through three market meltdowns:

- .COM bubble

- Subprime mortgage crisis

- COVID

All three were nervewracking, but I held. In one case, I lost 101% on an Internet stock (CMTN for those who enjoy gloating). Total investments dropped 40% in the subprime crisis. COVID happened so fast, in both directions, that I really coudn't decide what to do.

In each case, not selling was the right thing to do. Yes, I could have done far better by selling early in the event and the buying at the bottom. But timing is not what investing is about.

This algorithm, if it's correct, can make a great deal of profit for the users: "major buying opportunity coming", at least until it's well known, at which point it might simply become a self-fulfiling prophecy.
Wasn't morality about consequences or motives of actions and not arbitrary quantities of cash?
A big moat stopped Hitler from attempting a land invasion of Great Britain despite having conquered most of Europe.
"Security researcher receives $1M bug bounty for saving company from $350M bug" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28331827 (Security researcher is https://samczsun.com/)
Turning point for China, yes. The turning point for the USA was as late as the Reagan administration dismantling the country for profit, though the seeds were planted earlier.
That is why I mentioned the "worst case".

You are describing the best case. Where everything is in a cache close enough to the CPU that it is not impacted by the other CPUs data access.
High end restaurants absolutely do those! They track customers looking for whales, and track various random gifts and upgrades. "Monsieur? The maitre d' says he put the corner table aside for you. Please enjoy a small bisque while you wait, our compliments. And I believe it is your wife's birthday, perhaps the pianist can play her favorite song?"
They didn't bother cleaning it up for that long because the stench down-river from Brussels went into a flemish area and when they did finally succumb to pressure from the flemish side to cleanup the stench of this river they mismanaged the effort and the project was late and had a minor corruption scandal.

Calling these prejudices "old" is a stretch, it's only in 2016 they saw that fishes could survive in the river.
> failover happens automatically, totally managed by your hosting provider.

I see you've never used Mongo Atlas.
I see your point but in reality the callee did already make the decision by using Task/TPL. As a language C# leaves the continuation functionality to the specific awaitable implementation. It seems like the natural place to make a different choice.

I do agree that I do not want to see it, though.
It's a thing in the US too. Just formed a C-Corp and power to create a seal that serves as the company's official signature is one of the parts that needs to be figured out in bylaws. You can specify that the current Chairman or CEO's signature counts as a seal, but you legally need some seal entity so that .gov knows what's legally binding. We elected to have an actual seal just for the kitsch value of it. Why make a company if you can't have a little fun with it?
Quality measures are generally well-defined by external authorities, so questions like "what defines uncontrolled" are generally answered. Even when providers personally disagree with this (I worked with a provider who didn't believe in pre-diabetes), they still acknowledge that health care organizations are being judged on these measures, and that the measures are not just arbitrarily defined. How you improve your quality measures becomes where the question turns.

Your comment about epidemiology/EDA/etc really hit the nail on the head. If you sit in on population health meetings at your average hospital/clinic system, you'll see that many people really don't get this. Further, people often conflate their needs/desires with that of others-- so, the data-driven administrator is quick to say "we just need doctors to be able to slice and dice their data, and then we'll have better quality scores." But they're talking about what their needs are, and it's completely not what the doctors actually need (well, and from monitoring usage of dashboards for those types, I'd argue it's also not what they need either, but that's a different issue). And, the reason I keep saying "slice and dice" is because I've heard that phrase used by every vendor I've evaluated, and in practically every strategy meeting regarding population health at multiple institutions.

I'd personally shy away from describing this issue in terms of a recommender, since that has a pretty connotation in the ML world, and it doesn't really line up well (e.g., there's not a well-defined objective function or a clear feedback loop to train a recommendation system on). However, getting away from that specific concept, I think it's reasonable to say that there are needs for multiple distinct but ideally-related systems in the population health world: one for analysis to be used by quality and data people, and one specifically for the clinicians doing the work.
“They are extremely careful about your concern” requires that we trust both their intentions and their competence, which should not be assumed.

“None of the researchers care about you” - strawman, no one said that or thinks that, and it’s irrelevant.

“Everyone involved promises not to identify anyone” - see response to first point.

I think the other points are valid though.
ansible-console is a treasure! I wish I saw that article years ago...
Yeah, I’m aware of that. I still don’t think it adds much to the complexity of unique_pet though.

It’s certainly less complicated than its ancestor auto_ptr.
I disagree to the threat on the American mainland. A Chinese assault on Taiwan would have to be an all out invasion against a standing army of 170,000[1]. Plus I count about 6 million citizens of capable fighting age, Taiwanese batteries at the ocean[2], plus the eyes-in-the-sky of Japan, Australia, America, India, and quite possibly Vietnam. To invade you would need at least a million, possibly more. If the USA etc. saw that kind of preparation and launch, all hell would break loose. China doesn't have to just worry about a street by street battle for Taiwan, while the media rains holy hell in High Definition TV. Not many will just sit by, and it won't be a quick victory, nor do I expect India and Vietnam to not take a shot or two at a Chinese frigate.

All that to say, that's a lot of money, death, destruction, and for what? China is a capitalist country now, and they really like the money flowing in. An invasion of Taiwan could disrupt the spigot and cause another Tiananmen Square.

1] https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/taiwan/#mil...

2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/10/26/to-thwart-i...
I'm on linux... Is there some document on how I can tell if i'm getting ipv6, a description of what i'm seeing or what to expect, and what I can do with it that is cool?
It’s especially infuriating because it seems like that’s an easy problem to solve. It’s unreasonable to allow subscriptions above $50 a year. And if developers do insist on a higher price, then Apple could audit them.
They have it: https://ramblemaps.com/san-francisco-bay-area-map
> Database internals will eventually just not matter

Of course you need to know the internals of your database. If you've ever come across a project where the team treated a key/value, or document database as a relational one (probably because the query syntax looks similar), then you will know just how important database internals are.
does JavaScript really have the level of access to abuse these kinds of vulnerabilities?
Good to see that the economist has gone full click bait. Is an ad hominem really the best title they could muster?
> That's not what's happening in Xinjiang. Nobody claims that.

There are claims of genocide, including ones made the The US Secretary of State and UK parliament. They are not outliers with these claims.

There are reports of rape, gang rape, torture, forced sterilisation, forced abortion and forced contraception.

People are missing and relatives can’t find them after the Chinese state took them.

Prison cities for their race have been built and are being expanded.

It isn’t ovens and gas, but it’s a lot more than ‘just’ an attack on their culture.

Searching “Uyghur Genocide” returns no shortage of hits and disturbing stories of vicious abuse.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55723522

https://theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/22/uk-mps-declare-chi...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
The "Surviving Tomorrow" logo in the upper left of the About bar (below the Medium logo) is tiny. What could possibly be the point of even including that if it's barely readable? Terrible design and UX.
This is simpler than what gp is asking for, they want the ability to dynamically change which columns are requested too, so change it to "foo, bar, baz", but still do so with reasonable safety.
Not sure if that's an apples to apples comparison. Generally speaking a widget library should be able to provide and interface for taking the keyboard input. It doesn't need to interface with the OS for this. The caller does and uses for example an IME or the native OS API to receive the os level input. I have in fact written widget libraries this way. Just wondering if I didn't hit some ude case that would require the widget to rely on some input system directly.
Things will get really ugly once you codify special classes citizens and other US persons. It won't happen even though conservative congresspeople have been pushing for it for decades.
One could also make an argument that the fall of the USSR began a period of complacency. Terms like “the end of history” [0] come to mind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...
If one has acquired immunity then the risk of taking the vaccine is entirely unnecessary.
That's a common misconception. The definition adopted by the UN in the 1940s, states:

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

* Killing members of the group;

* Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

* Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

* Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

* Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Right. It's never made sense to break down a traditional form into the super-clunky 5/7/5 rule.

That said, I'm still surprised Haiku, the company, does not seem to employ any haiku.