skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MIUI is Android though - and it passes strict Google CTS tests so it stays (reasonably) compatible with software.
Yes, if you’re willing to break the law and risk the consequences, you can get up to all sorts of stuff. Same as anything?

Like, “So, if I want to disrupt a competitor, all I have to do is hire thugs to smash all their stuff?”

Yeah, that’d do it. Good luck.
It's why I'm contemplating moving from the South West to the North East. I work remotely, so it doesn't matter much where I am. Rental costs in the North East are dramatically lower than where I am now (a location that attracts Londoners wanting a place in the country, significantly increasing house prices).
I’m afraid I don’t follow. If I have Firefox + dependencies installed, how would that help me to generate a static website that’s written in Markdown?
(Stripe cofounder.)

Ugh, apologies. Something very clearly went wrong here and we’re already investigating.

Zooming out, a few broader comments:

* Unlike most services, Stripe can easily lose very large amounts of money on individual accounts, and thousands of people try to do so every day. We are de facto running a big bug bounty/incentive program for evading our fraudulent user detection systems.

* Errors like these happen, which we hate, and we take every single false rejection that we discover seriously, knowing that there’s another founder at the other end of the line. We try to make it easy to get in touch with the humans at Stripe, me included, to maximize the number that we discover and the speed with which we get to remedy them.

* When these mistaken rejections happen, it’s usually because the business (inadvertently) clusters strongly with behavior that fraudulent users tend to engage in. Seeking to cloak spending and using virtual cards to mask activity is a common fraudulent pattern. Of course, there are very legitimate reasons to want to do this too (as this case demonstrates).

* We actually have an ongoing project to reduce the occurrence of these mistaken rejections by 90% by the end of this year. I think we’ll succeed at it. (They’re already down 50% since earlier this year.)
I'm a big fan of UFC myself.
==first year of operation on a 300 acres farm made a yearly profit of £144==

Profit in Year 1 is better than most of the startups I read about on HN.
Proceed with launch as planned and validate your market first of all.

After you have validation of customer buy-in and market acceptance, when you have time and/or funds to spend on your Stripe-alternative feature sprint, setup and integrate a 2nd payment gateway for redundancy.

(as per the commenter above whose biz was banned from Stripe for 7 days by the imperfect non-recourse ban-bot)

Maybe even choose a different gateway that is more cost effective per transaction for a subset of your global customers, and code your system to route customers payments to the preferentially lower-priced gateway for their country.

Then if one gateway bans you, it's not a showstopper and your business is not severely damaged.
Mostly due to weight, but absorbing impact is another big feature. An air filled tire can absorb a lot of minor road imperfections, a solid tire bike or roller blades can give you an idea of wat a solid tire care would be like.
Edwin, thanks for reaching out to a community post like this. Plus points to you guys.
It's incredible how long the AFA has been known about and how blatantly illegal it is, yet not subject to any significant penalties.

Law moves so freaking slow, this is about a 2013 complaint. Dealing with tech industry crooks requires faster movement than this.
Apple iPhone 13 event: start time, and how to watch the live stream
TBH I suspect you're right. I visited Gyeonbokgung palace and loved it, blissfully unaware it's a fairly recent rebuild. Did I only care that it's not original because of implied reduced scarcity? I don't know.
Unless, of course, you take speed out of the equation by folding space to transport things.
And it gets even “better”: the “association” goes three levels deep. Basically, your friends’ friends’ friends. So if Alice knows Bob, Bob also knows Charlie, and Charlie also knows Dave, the mere suspicion against Alice is enough to sweep Dave into the dragnet.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/28/ns...
There is more to immunity than antibody tests. Antibody levels typically drop after a while, but memory cells remain active.
A shame we don't have spoiler tags here, because I honestly do not want to spoil the talk for others who do take the time to watch it.

The point of the talk is not the project he is launching, he is making a much deeper and more interesting point about the entire software industry. Personally I think the presentation format he uses to address the issue is highly effective, and would recommend people take the 20min (less if you speed up the video) sitting down at lunch some day to watch the video from start to finish.
> noise walls and building materials

That's why I brought up airports: noise walls work for ground level noise emission, airports and wind turbines are higher than that.

> The same noise regulations should be applied to wind farms

Good news: A newer wind turbine is usually quieter than older models. Let's upgrade existing turbines to models of the same size that produce more energy and less noise, and are vendor supported. win-win-win!

Bad news: Distance regulations don't care.

These regulations are a political hit job.
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I’m not sure why none of the popular narratives are considering that this is just demographics- the boomers are aging out of the workforce. This pushes up the cost of labor due to supply and demand. Which is a good thing, if you’re not a boomer. But it’s going to constrain gdp growth.
You're right for the 10nm (7nm) process development. They focused on shrinking the wrong parts and ended up with an inferior product. Instead of changing direction, they doubled down.
> And if you just want to pass it up the stack then there is no syntactic overhead associated with it.

"Errors are values" means that this situation is not very different from "I just want to pass the result of my sqrt function up the stack" :) By reading code of function that returns the result of computation the next pair of eyes that gonna read this code will clearly see the intent and idea behind the code. The same should be with "unhappy path" – if intent was just to pass error, without caring of annotating it or doing something with it – it should be as clear and explicit as possible.

There is another benefit of "syntactic overhead" – incentive to improve the error handling code. I.e. I may not care at the beginning about annotating error, and just use "return err", but later on I want to make error messages more useful, so the "if err != nil {\n return err }\n" structure makes it easy to annotate it. Instead, if Go code was riddled with "?"s or "!"s or whatever syntactic sugar other use, I would not be so eager to switch from "concise and short single-char" to the "bloated 3 line".

Incentives matter in coding psychology. I wish more research was done on that.

Bottom line, hiding error handling has more long term drawbacks than benefits.

PS. I virtually never use "return err" anymore. Always at least annotate the error – it helps error messages readability immensely without resorting to adding wasteful stacktraces.
This actually can be at the level of a missed optimization. A run queue with a lock-shared queue amongs all the threads scales even worse than the tokio version. Sharding the run queues and changing the notification algorithm, even while keeping locks on the sharded queues improves throughput drastically.

Tokio is an async runtime, but I don't see why being an async runtime should make it worse from a throughput perspective for a thread pool. I actually started on a Rust version [0] to test out this theory of whether async-rust was the culprit, but realized that I was being nerd-sniped [1] at this point and I should continue my Zig work instead. If you're still interested, I'm open to receiving PRs and questions on that if you want to see that in action.

It's still correct to benchmark and compare tokio here given the scheduler I was designing was mean to be used with async tasks: a bunch of concurrent and small-executing work units. I mention this in the second paragraph of "Why Build Your Own?".

The thread pool in the post is meant to be used to distribute I/O bound work. A friend of mine hooked up cross-platform I/O abstractions to the thread pool [2], benchmarked it against tokio to be have greater throughput and slightly worse tail latency under a local load [3]. The thread pool serves it's purpose and the quicksort benchmark is to show how schedulers behave under relatively concurrent work-loads. I could've used a benchmark with smaller tasks than the cpu-bound partition()/insertion_sort() but this worked as a common example.

I've already mentioned why rayon isn't a good comparison: 1. It doesn't support async root concurrency. 2. scoped() waits for tasks to complete by either blocking the OS thread or using similar inline-scheduler-loop optimizations. This risks stack overflow and isn't available as a use case in other async runtimes due to primarily being a fork-join optimization.

[0]: https://github.com/kprotty/zap/blob/blog-rust/src/thread_poo...

[1]: https://xkcd.com/356/

[2]: https://github.com/lithdew/hyperia

[3]: https://gist.github.com/kprotty/5a41e9612657de00788478a7dde4...
Good point! As it is said above, it's all just pure theory. But, let's imagine what would happen:

If somehow a "junior" member of your team seems to produce high-quality code (for "junior" standards) that require zero help from other team members, and always on time, then I guess the team would be fine with the "junior" participating minimally in meeting calls (perhaps even with the camera off... now here I'm assuming 100% remote, something I didn't explicitly said before).
Even if there is a good answer to "How do we measure it?" it might cost more to know than it does to administer a third shot.

There remains an argument (or a "rebuke," as the article puts it) that first world countries that are well placed to administer booster shots to the fully vaccinated should instead contribute to faster vaccination worldwide, even on a self-interested basis in order to reduce the cases where new variants can emerge.

But that is a tenuous argument. A simple first question unanswered in the article is: How much of the unvaccinated population lives where vaccines requiring ULT freezers can be distributed? It may be that every place well equipped to use those kinds of vaccines will do best to get their total vaccination rate as high as possible and administer booster shots to reduce breakthrough infections, so normal activity can resume. Supply chain disruption is not a trivial problem. Having safe workplaces is not a luxury.
That’s a great parody, and Adam Curtis himself agrees:

> [Brooker] I’m guessing you’ve seen the parodies, things like the Adam Curtis Bingo Card, where people are – I think affectionately – listing some of your stylistic quirks. How do you feel about those?

> [Curtis] I really like the parodies when they are good. That one called The Loving Trap I loved, because it was so sharp. It spotted that really it was the voice. It was just really well done.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ad8db/adam-curtis-charlie-b...
Exactly. Energy usage and density are major costs. Data centers throw away perfectly good hardware because at some point if you factor in density and energy usage that CPU might be worth less than zero.
That's something that always bugged me. Why does Picard get to have an entire, private vineyard to himself?
I “hide my identity” daily when I make transactions, it’s called cash, guess that’s a red flag.
Yes, it’s great to be able to just use pure WireGuard - I’m allergic to the idea of VPN providers expecting you to run their proprietary app. WireGuard has a great iOS app these days too.
What are you talking about?

Standards of living have increased the most at the bottom of society.

- Labourers used to work seven days a week (12 hour days), then six, now five times eight is standard, with some exceptions.

- Workplace safety have gone from a laughable concept to the first priority.

- 100% of Western populations can read and write. This used to be a rich-person thing

- How many poor kids have you seen lately with their faces covered in coal dust from the mines?

- There are thousands of other examples. Poor people today live longer and better in many important ways than rich people even a hundred years ago, never mind a "couple hundred years."
SAP OpenUI5
First off, the North American grasslands were a managed ecosystem. The Native American agriculture of the time looked very different from how Europeans did it, but it was still a form of agriculture.

Second, it's 90 million cattle crammed into a much, much smaller space than the bison occupied. And, unlike how it worked with the bison, it's largely supported by intensive monocultures that leave little room for native ecosystems or biodiversity. Even the pastures at my friend Dan's small family organic dairy farm are something of a disaster in the biodiversity department, compared to a proper prairie.
Fascinating! I've never heard of CHON before. I like this idea ...
TSXor: A Simple Time Series Compression Algorithm
The connection he was making was that wahhabism threatened the monarchy in the 1920s, and ever since the SA monarchy has dealt with the threat via deflection. A couple of those are the religious schools abroad in greater arabia and having their agitators release their vigor abroad in things like the afghan wars. There is a mix and struggle between warlords and taleban and aq. In the end the conflict in AF arose from SA exporting their internal conflict externally --various factions and ethnic group divisions in AF didn't help the situation. All in exchange for propping up the SA monarchy which the West contributes to as well due to the importance of energy to the world.
Oh... sorry about that. I read 2021 somehow.
New findings challenges Alzheimer’s amyloid plaque theory
If that actually worked as some people think it does, the corporate income tax rate would be 0%, there would be no labor laws, no OSHA, no EPA, and so on.
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Let's not get carried away now - shall we? :)
Personally it's definitely my fault, they get stuck under stuff or I used my phone a lot while charging.
Yes, "if". The problem is that companies don't move in lockstep with the broader economy, so it might take a year or two of food and goods increasing in price 12% before your company has managed to give you a 5% raise, which in turn requires them to raise the prices of their goods. And hopefully _their_ customers don't balk at the increased price because _they_ haven't yet been able to absorb their own set of wage increases.
+1 to Vivaldi. I use tiled tabs all the time.
I'm not 100% sure as I don't collaborate with people outside my org. I am assuming that is doable based on their doc https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/solutions/col...
But Star Trek replicators don't work through matter synthesis, they work through matter transformation. It's a variant of transporter technology; a source fuel is deconstructed and then reconstructed in the desired configuration.
9/11 had nothing to do with the fences around the Eiffel tower. Those fences were put up in 2016 because of increasing terror attacks in France.
What’s happening with respect to any class-action lawsuits against Intel for the performance-damaging Spectre / Meltdown mitigations?

I had expected these lawsuits to be significant, yet I haven’t heard much about them.
files https://github.com/Zaitsevsky/intuition
I would guess it’s a little from column a and a little from column b. First it’s easier to retain a customer esp when you do bonuses for signing up for a year, customer gets used to the VPN, forget the renewal comes round, then instead of shopping around get auto committed to another year with their current provider (Some UK ISPs would also use this tactic, auto renewing 12/18 month contracts so unless you cancelled within a certain window you were stuck with a buyout payment to swap providers, thankfully the industry got slapped down about the practice and I don’t believe any provider does this any more. Sure if you call up and get a reduced price they will tie you into a contract, but if you simply forget you get put into a rolling 30 day contract.)

Second you can get some very useful data monitoring at the network level and not keeping “user logs” for example how often are people from country X connecting to country Y to visit plane ticket sites or like Facebooks VPN to predict what the next hip new thing was so they could get in early. No need to log what each user is doing, just “look” at the network traffic patterns in and out of their servers.

Also there does seem to be fuck tons of money being thrown about when it comes to VPN (look how many YT sponsorships there are as an example)
I still have my Key2. Sending mails/WhatsApps/Slack/Messenger messages takes me half the time it takes someone on a touch-screen phone. It's the best BlackBerry I've ever had - I had an iPhone and a couple of Android phones for a while, but I just couldn't get as much stuff done. Those keyboard shortcuts - once you get used to it it's so fast. And I can touch-type on it!

These days I get people asking "what's that?" when they see my BlackBerry. Some of them then go "whoaaa, cool idea, a keyboard on a phone, I want one of those!" Others just say "do they still make those?"
Of that I agree. As discussed else thread this suggests that having a platform or sponsor is a strong contributor to a language success.
When to Outsource User Experience Design?
Perhaps I should have called out A&W's version specifically.
Yes, this is a very common practice especially for larger sites. There are even services like Rebilly and Spreedly that simplify this process.
> If Microsoft could fix their frankly horrid x86 compatibility on aarch64 device

I don't think Microsoft is the real problem there, though.

NT was developed to be portable and was working on architectures other than x86 in the beginning.

So it was interesting when I heard things about "Windows on ARM" half a decade ago--and then the Surface RT. The RT was crap, but it did have real Windows NT working on non-Intel ARM, as was the OS on their Windows Series 10 phones or whatever.

So Microsoft is already there on an OS level. It's the big software vendors that have to be corralled to switch somehow (Autodesk, Adobe, etc.) Honestly .NET overall was probably at least in part Microsoft trying to get developers on something more CPU-agnostic to reduce dependence on x86.
This seems like an issue similar to right to repair... let hackers(in the traditional sense) have their place.
>Nuclear power, in its current form is not sustainable

But Coal is?

https://www.euractiv.com/section/air-pollution/news/german-c...

>German coal plant exposed as Europe’s single worst air polluter

There is a nice map of NO2 pollution, and just Paris is worse..the rest of france looks pretty clean.

>I'm too lazy to look up

Yeah maybe next time don't be that lazy before wrinting something?

And maybe of some interest:

https://www.electricitymap.org/map
Now the real question is, when can I order my replicator and dilithium crystals to power it?
Wouldn’t the no cloning theorem make an exact replica impossible?
> Historically Asian artists and musicians imitated master's styles. Only after you are fully mastering the previous style, you can add something little of your own.

Yet there is a huge amount of poor imitations coming from Asia... Imitations are a good way to learn, but they don't make you the master, just (maybe) some master. Imitation doesn't let you learn the reasoning behind the process that leads to the result you imitate.
> a strong indicator that the U.S. will follow the same path. British Columbia's Dr. Bonnie Henry indicated yesterday [4] that

...an even stronger indicator is that the Biden administration seems to have asked two multi-decade long FDA vaccine approval experts to resign following them authoring this report saying that the evidence didn't support the widespread use of boosters as a public health measure.
Fair enough. But I think it depends on the kind of jobs: context switching among two stressful jobs (senior role)? Impossible for me. Context switching among two stress-free jobs (junior role)? I guess I could do it.
I don't know Rust myself but, where / how are the errors actually handled? Or is this like unchecked exceptions?
Yeah. The Bluetooth implementation was stellar, RIM implemented basically everything in the Bluetooth spec. You could send and receive pretty much anything, it would just do the right thing, and it could source and sink audio streams. They even released a tool to make it act as a HID keyboard for other devices.

The camera sucked even compared to other smartphones of the time, though, and that limited its usefulness for a lot of the tasks I've done with subsequent phones.

Also it took about 6 minutes to boot up after a battery swap, which limited the usefulness of a removable battery. (Yeah you can carry a second and just swap it in, but whatever task you're doing must not be very urgent!)

Oh you were asking about email and SMS and stuff? Yeah those were great. It had really good clipboard support which was before its time, and the contacts database manager thing was just the right amount of powerful without being overly complicated.
I think that's more like it. There have been many attempts to reform math curricula over the years and you still end up with a decent percentage of (at least sometimes otherwise intelligent) students who shrug their shoulders, grit their teeth, and resign themselves to being "bad at math."

Mind you, I also think there are differences in natural aptitude and the degree to wich on connects with the subject. Speaking for myself, I mostly did well through high school math--geometry proofs less so--but mostly just got by on the more advanced math I needed for an engineering degree.

(Then I tutored a group of students in business school who basically handle high school level algebra.)
I have considered this too. The issue I have encountered is that the vast majority of potential users/customers do not have and cannot quickly obtain Monero or Bitcoin or whatever.

Most all of them have VISA cards.

Expecting customers to carefully create a wallet, an exchange account (so they can buy the crypto) and considering how difficult that can be (even for technical users) is really unreasonable. When people can use crypto as easily as they can use a credit card, then it would be an alternative.

IMPO, this problem is very similar to the PGP problem. You'll get a lot less email if you only accept PGP encrypted and signed emails. You cannot expect your customers to do that. They won't, but they will send you plaintext emails from their Gmail accounts, just as quickly as they will pay using a VISA card.
We're already there, nearly. Calories are incredibly cheap and a modest dwelling can be produced very inexpensively as well. Humans will find scarcities to focus on, or barring that, make them. (Housing cartels come to mind).

Access to healthcare remains genuinely scarce, admittedly, and Baumol's cost disease is a real problem when you need to buy someone else's time.
Go is just shitty Pascal, change my mind.

On a more serious note. I decided to read Delphi documentation recently because I’m old enough to hear a lot about it, but not quite old enough to write anything in it. It had discriminated unions. It did! I can’t imagine my life without them, I write stuff exclusively in Ocaml-like languages, so the only question that I have in my mind is “how the hell we managed to go backwards?”
It’s so weird.