skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news—things which on their own merits would get the big headlines—being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that ‘it wouldn’t do’ to mention that particular fact. So far as the daily newspapers go, this is easy to understand. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was ‘not done’ to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals."

"One of the peculiar phenomena of our time is the renegade Liberal. Over and above the familiar Marxist claim that ‘bourgeois liberty’ is an illusion, there is now a widespread tendency to argue that one can only defend democracy by totalitarian methods. If one loves democracy, the argument runs, one must crush its enemies by no matter what means. And who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those who ‘objectively’ endanger it by spreading mistaken doctrines. In other words, defending democracy involves destroying all independence of thought."

"The word ancient emphasises the fact that intellectual freedom is a deep-rooted tradition without which our characteristic western culture could only doubtfully exist. From that tradition many of our intellectuals are visibly turning away. They have accepted the principle that a book should be published or suppressed, praised or damned, not on its merits but according to political expediency. And others who do not actually hold this view assent to it from sheer cowardice."

Sounds familiar? It was written during WW2:

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Now, we all know where to wash our bitcoins.
USA exports $2.8 billion to El Salvador.

El Salvador exports $2 billion to USA.

Where do they get the money to do that? By working in the US. By sending remittances through Bitcoin or conventional means.
Brit here, in my 50's. Everyone should - or ought - to receive a good general level of education at GCSEs (i.e. 14/15 year old). Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, English, etc.. You'll know a fair bit about these subjects if you study for them in school. Very few people actually "need" training beyond that; although I would of course expect my doctor to know rather more than what's in a biology GCSE.

My former boss of the department learned enough chemistry through self-study. I heard Raspberry Pi was hiring guys to work as microchip design with little prior exposure.

In my worldview, everyone gets their GCSEs and goes and gets a job. OR, they follow a trade route, and attend a technical college (in the UK meaning of the word) to learn a skill. OR, the really brainy ones take an academic route, get their A levels, then head off to university to become part of the intellectual elite. I'm thinking 5% of the population here. OR, you get your A levels and then go into a polytechnic for a highly-skilled vocational job.

Polytechnics don't really exist anymore, they've all converted to universities.

Basically, we should all just return to an educational system that we had in the 70's. It was a system that wasn't broken, but we decided to "fix" it anyway.
Thanks for your rant! It was wells stated. I did not know anything of these things in the sense of having any academic knowledge about this stuff.

I didn't know about the counting one and am not surprised by this. In a thread on another post I wrote that there is a lot of brain washing that occurs in the teaching of low level mathematics. It's easier to brain wash children in this sense than it is for adults.
Netflix said that their strategy was to become HBO faster than HBO could become Netflix.

Which to put it in the words of the author: get as good at “TV decisions” as HBO before HBO got as good at tech (making apps, good UI, good recommendations and streaming back-ends) as Netflix.

I think it makes sense. Wish the article was better at explaining how the tech-crowbar worked for sky and Netflix.
My heart has never raced when smoking, but 2 other people in my family have never liked it because it always made their hearts race.
Developer's Guide to Regression Testing
Thanks for clarifying, Proton Mail. And also, good bye. I'll be canceling my accounts today.
There was an independent variable that was controlled as stated in the abstract and I pointed out already: they selected for people that had "abusive" relationships with cannabis according to whatever standard they chose.

They firmly state the presence of a link between heart attacks and cannabis consumption without outlining whether the selected group had any other existing health or genetic issues.

Maybe the data didn't contain that information—in which case the data sounds useless for this kind of study.

How can you draw a link (read: connection) when there is no causal proof? You can draw a correlation and state that further investigation is needed to draw a link, but they state there is a link.

That's why I'm calling it weak.
They use lightning network.
Eh. Netflix gambled hard. Real hard. They thought streaming would destroy all dvd and physical mediums. That was a real gamble in 2005. That was a huge payout. Now we all have "genius" insights how it worked out - but honestly they deserve every penny. And no, they are not a tech company anymore they just produce content. Anyone can upload a video and hide it behind a paywall. Rock on netflix.
I mention this talk whenever the subject of fire in California comes up. It’s an amazing explanation of how we wound up in this situation and some reasonable ways out. The role of the Native American’s practices being abandoned is seriously under understood.
It would seem that the clarification in parent agrees:

> On desktop applications that I have worked on (I know this does not apply to all), if we did run out of memory, the better option is to just crash rather than try to recover. But of course some applications cannot do this, especially when dealing with third-party programs, such as databases (as you state). In those cases, the best you can do is empirically test how much is required and gracefully handle those cases when you do OOM (if possible). That's part of your problem, it's not an external thing. If you can control things, try to.
Domain Security 101
Then it should be either:

a) removed from everybody or

b) removed from nobody.
It's more an outcomes and operator requirement perspective: When it gets used it gets a plane safely from A to B, without crashing, and pilots are not required to have split-second reactions to it failing. It has severe limitations in what it can handle, but the usage scenario is designed to make that acceptable. (That's not to say they are foolproof or never involved in accidents, but the failure scenarios are differently)

This can't be said of Tesla Autopilots, since they are not intended to be only used in environments without physical obstacles and other traffic being kept at safe distances by ATC and warning systems. (they would be a lot safer if those environment restrictions existed, but most people would find them pretty useless then) Instead they rely on "... but you need to be always alert and react very fast to prevent a crash", which is a very different requirement on the operator. One that is fundamentally difficult, and evidently ignored by operators.
Sweeping generalizations based on personal experience aren't much better than sweeping generalizations that aren't based on personal experience.
I left Xerox May 1983 (from SDD, not PARC), and never had a Dorado (they were reputed to be so big and hot that you didn't want one in your office). You can read what it was like, with hindsight NEVER allowed to the characters, in my book [1].

This is a remarkably detailed critique of one very specific subset of the world of PARC 1984. People in the rest of PARC, and in SDD, were using Cedar, Tajo, and the Mesa Development Environment, not Smalltalk, and not on Dorados, which added up to a much, much different experience than Rob describes.

His last paragraph begins "A few years ago, PARC probably had most of the good ideas. But I don’t think they ran far enough with them, and they didn’t take in enough new ones." is spot on.

There was some point, well before 1984, where Xerox should have recognized that the rest of the world had not been standing still. Expect a series of posts soon where hindsight IS allowed and we look at what Xerox should have done.

[1] https://www.albertcory.io
I'm curious, why use an unofficial Debian build maintained by one developer[1] rather than Raspian?

Not knocking the Debian build, just wondering.

[1]: "This site is not an official Debian project. While the maintainer (Gunnar Wolf) is a Debian Developer, content herein provided should be considered unofficial. "
How do you reach that number? (CO2/block) / (transactions/block)?

I imagine these transactions are being done over the lightning network or something like that(I could be wrong on this though), in which case that calculation wouldn’t give the right answer.

In addition, I think I would evaluate the CO2 costs per transaction based on the contributions to the mining reward (because this is the part of transaction which has an influence on how much power people use to mine), which I think for bitcoin is still relatively small compared to the block reward part?
Well, there’s also the influence on the price that making transactions has.
> The mass of biologically available nitrogen, and phosphorus in the harvest is equal to the mass of nitrogen, and phosphorus removed from soil.

This is simplistic to a fault. Legumes, for example, fix nitrogen; we've known for thousands of years about crop rotation.

Runoff and erosion - processes that tend to be sped up by industrial farming techniques - cause phosphorous depletion in a way not due to the harvest itself, as well.

There are a lot of factors in soil depletion. Some are under our control, via different farming techniques, changes in density, etc.
The Hype Rorschach Test
You can now make Deepfakes Easily In Real-Time
> but if I say "Dell is a technology company and Cadbury is not," I don't think people will really object to that unless they're trying to be pedantically clever about it

Such as if you were to ask people, "which is the tech company, Apple or Ford?", most would choose Apple, choosing to call Ford, instead, a "car company".
Why do these billionaires have the civilizational 'vision' of video game designers?

These cities are visually stunning in the era the designer made them, but they age about as well as 'Disney Futureland'.

'Culture' is the fabric of any worthwhile city and it seems to be not even an afterthought of these futurists.

It looks like Dubai - which is in real life, a city-sized shopping mall, an unwalkable concrete and steel jungle with upper middle class American brands never more than an arms reach.

The only tiny bit of redeeming quality there is actually the culture of the tribes themselves - the Arabs make it interesting - everything else is ridiculous.

Oddly, even Monaco which has at least some kind of aesthetic foundation, when they built out the newer areas ... they look about as 'glamorous' and
'Mediterranean' as a Starbucks in a remote suburb of Toronto.

It's really not an abstract concept and yet when you try to discuss these terms to some people, it's as though the language doesn't even exist for some people to grasp.

It's really weird.

Some planned cities are successful in a civic sense, but almost zero planned cities are successful in the greater cultural sense.

That said 'Diversity of City Types' is always nice, and the world can't go entirely wrong with an American Dubai.

My first prediction is that the Latino-American and Undocumented labour force that will do 'All Of The Work' will be at serious odds with the mostly White and Asian residents, who will be forever at odds with the social quagmire that very few African Americans will ever be able to afford to live there. Kind of like the unspoken 'Social Elephant In The Room' walking around Google campus. In Dubai, nobody cares a bit about the labourers locked into contracts with absolutely no rights, in America, it will be a thing.
Your entire post takes for given that we have to use fossil fuels for our main energy source. This simply isn’t true.

Swap the energy source, and we’re (for the most part) fine. That’s 80% of climate change. The rest is agricultural emissions from livestock (and rice?) and agricultural land use plus a bit for cement (although fully cured cement, which takes decades, actually reabsorbs the CO2 the limestone itself emitted in the calcining process).

This narrative that climate change is just due to general human activity is entirely the narrative I’m seeking to attack. It’s false. It’s mainly (80%) the CO2 and methane emitted from fossil fuel usage. Switch to wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, and you’ve basically solved the problem like we did with the ozone hole. The climate will start to heal. It really IS just a swap out like with the ozone hole. And we basically have the tech to do this. It just sometimes costs slightly more upfront. The industrialized countries can do this just fine, barely breaking a sweat. Switch the grid aggressively to solar and nuclear, require all new cars and trucks to be at least plug in hybrid and then pure electric. Switch iron reduction to hydrogen (already happening), heat pumps for heating, cement produced electrically, and we’re basically there (besides some mop up of agricultural and land use emissions from farming). We’re just not doing it. At least, not the speed we should.
I'll lead with this - people should be treated with respect regardless of their race and regardless of their IQ. People should be given equal opportunity to succeed, regardless of any differences.

> Widely report that some races don't do as well as others on standardized tests, etc.
>Blame racists, or even a whole race that does better as the cause of this.

We have widely studied and reported on reasoning for why some races do worse on tests in america, and the answer is not inherent differences in race, and it has very reasonable scientific backing. The reason is racist policies that made it harder for some groups to succeed. This is a real thing in American history. It's the same underlying reasoning why many rich coastal enclaves in liberal areas also do better on standardized tests - better access to opportunity and support.

> 3. Blame racists, or even a whole race that does better as the cause of this.

Its pretty hard to ignore the american history of racism, from slavery to redlining to KKK to modern day voting laws. And its pretty easy to connect the dots to how those MASSIVE issues affect people in 2021.
Show HN: Language-agnostic 2D graphics with print statements
THC is a vasodilator (it makes your blood vessels relax and become larger) which is thought to cause reflex tachycardia which means your heart has to beat faster in order to keep blood circulating because the "pipes" (blood vessels) have suddenly become larger. The vasodilation is also the cause of bloodshot eyes.

There is also something to said for the anxiety which high THC cannabis can cause, as well as a sort of circular anxiety due to the fast heart rate (my heart is beating fast due to reflex tachycardia, which makes me anxious and worried, which makes my heart beat even faster, etc.).
I imagine all successful companies use some kind of tech to a high degree of success. That tech may not necessarily be computer-based.
> levees will do nothing for [...] a large cat5 hurricane with storm level surges that are much higher than Ida

Of course they will. Over-topping of a levee is a MUCH LESS SEVERE outcome than a levee breach.
In El Salvador it means an obligation to accept it. Which is good for bitcoin adoption but does reduce people's freedom to refuse it
Is Dell really a tech company though? Does selling computing hardware really count as tech these days since Apple would definitely end up being a tech company under that definition - even with all the other revenue streams it has I think being one of the largest manufacturers of computing hardware would automatically qualify them.

I personally consider "tech companies" to be companies with tech I find interesting to think about - Netflix definitely qualifies under that header, Apple does too owing to producing a huge operating system, Amazon not only has AWS services on offer but they also run a storefront of a staggering scale and were pioneers in how storefronts like that were discovered... Dell - Dell might get grandfathered in as a tech company based on how they were earlyish into the market of web-based computer sales (ala "Dude you're getting a Dell" days) but now a days I assume their tech stack is a pretty ornery customized CMS like thing with a relatively simple order processing system behind it.
Yes, that's exactly what was on my mind. I'd just watched it yesterday, and the similarity struck me.

Well, that and the Pirate Code: "The Code is more what you call guidelines, than actual rules...."
The mempool is relatively empty to fees are pretty minimal at the moment. But you are mostly right about holding balances on the app on a centralized database. However they are partnered with large lightning payment providers like Strike to make bitcoin transactions over the lightning network to non-government wallets.
Another issue could be https://krpano.com/ios/bugs/ios8-webgl-video-performance/

For me, ungoogled-chromium 89 gives 60 fps, while Firefox 91 gives 14 fps on the same machine (x201-520m, Win7)
> The likely scenario is not that you haven't fully understood their constraints or requirements, it's that you're just smarter than they are.

I never claimed to be smarter. I just understand some things that I noticed a lot of people in the industry don't understand.

My understanding is not even that great.

But still, this is just one example that I keep running into over and over and over:

People opting for a complicated infrastructure setup because that's what they think you should do.

No one showed them how to make a stable reliable website that just runs on a single machine and handle thousands of concurrent connections.

It's not hard. It's just that they've never seen it and assume it's basically impossible.

There are areas about computing that I feel the same way about. For example, before Casey Muratori demoed his refterm implementation, I had no idea that it was possible to render a terminal at thousands of frames per second. I just assumed such a feat was technically impossible. Partly because no one has done it. But then he did it, and I was blown away.

> Take that order of magnitude cheaper, single VPS server solution you're proposing and build something with it. Sounds like you'd make a lot of money.

Building something and making money out of it are not the same thing. But thanks for the advice. I'm in the process of trying. I know for sure I can build the thing, but I don't know if it will make any money. We will see.

> People who don't do / build explaining to the people who do how easy, simple, better their solutions would be.

I do and have done.

This kind of advice is exactly the kind of thing I know how to do because I have done it in the past using my trivial setup of a single process running on a cheap VPS. And I have also seen other teams struggle to get some feature nearly half-working on a complicated infrastructure setup with AWS and all the other buzzwords: Kibana, Elastic Search, Dynamo DB, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes ... what else? I can't even keep track of all this stuff that everyone keeps talking about even though hardly anyone needs at all.

I've seen 4 or 5 companies try to build their service using this kind of setup, with the proposed advantange of "horizontal" and "auto" scaling. And you know what? They ALL struggled with poor performance, ALL THE TIME. It's really sad.
I got a few new sativa vapes recently and was hitting them both pretty hard. I got smacked with a really disturbing heart issue that felt like it was being severely over worked. It was so bad I was on my front porch in n the dark resolved to dying. I didn't in now what was going to happen.

I'll admit that I'm a lightweight but I had to stop with the "turpine pens." Now I just smoke dry herb because I know how to regulate it and it never presented any issues like I experienced.

In the run up to that I did experience heart issues (racing/skipping?) but it was no where near that episode. I have noticed that sugar greatly exasperates the heart issues for me.
Success in traversing double NAT with anything depends a lot on the NATs. If one of them is symmetric, you're pretty much SOL.
He isn't a lone wolf or something though. Critical Theory covers not only race (as in this case) but gender, sexuality, disability and fat studies, and all types of "social justice" scholarship. They all come from Postcolonial Theory (essentially deconstructing Western thought and Western Liberalism) which has had a massive influence on all of these as they have adapted them.

From bell hooks and Kimberle Crenshaw (intersectionality) into leading theories on feminist and racial thought - this is the progressive and academic left. It is the leading thought in every elite university. And you can't run away from it and say "us silent majority progressives...." - a progressive is either this or they aren't progressive by today's standard. It is a social force that is trying to get inside of everything it can, from unrelated academic scholarship (look at what's in modern STEM curricula) as well as corporate America and now elite high schools.

My advice is to choose Liberalism without identity politics and reject this school of thought as illiberal, totalitarian, and harmful.

(For what it's worth, the entire scholarship of critical theory isn't all awful. There's good things in there and the identification of many societal problems is probably right. However, it isn't unique to them and their solutions for these problems are awful and regressive.)
He absolutely can voice his opinions, but he's also responsible for them.

Is there some social more I missed that says forcing 13 year old rape victims to carry children to term is acceptable behavior but not buy videogames from the shitheads who support this policy crosses a line?

Why should I support people who are trying to push their religious beliefs on me? Why should I support people who want to regulate what others can do with their own body?
The author tries to figure out bravely some of LLVM IR concepts and get some of them right and some wrong (like mem2reg purpose). While I do not want to discurage this sort of exploration learning I want to point out that what he is clearly lacking is some CS fundamentals. Perhaps taking some compiler construction classes from here https://www.classcentral.com/search?q=compiler could made learning LLVM easier.

I also second a good point about LLVM examples and documentation being heavy on C/C++ API. I was also generating IR code from other language and found this C/C++ API focus annoying.
They use layer 2 lightning network.
Gotta love the rsync.net marketing.
Good company, best support I have ever had with any internet firm. Can only recommend their product if it fits your use case.
Every HN science article is commenters dismissing the results of the study.